h/t Michael Graham I guess John McCormack didn’t slip and fall after all. Of course, none of this is surprising, this is the modus operandi of the left and always has been. Just last year we saw Kenneth Gladney assaulted by SEIU members. Later, we found out that Gladney’s brother Keith was fired under suspicious [...]
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Kansas’s next Senator, Todd Tiahrt (who I still think needs to buy an extra vowel for his last name from Vanna White) has a very interesting column at Human Events today. It’s well worth considering. Washington is full of hyperbolism. We often talk about something being the best, the worst, or the most scandalous. Some [...]
When Harry Reid passed a government-run health care bill two weeks ago, he believed the long battle was done. He was wrong. After months of speaking out against a government takeover of health care — via phone calls, letters, town halls, protests and online activism — the American people will not quietly accept this fate. [...]
It’s worth recalling, as the Massachusetts Senate election approaches, that Martha Coakley is not just some bland Democratic machine apparatchik. She’s a bland Democratic machine apparatchik with a long record as a prosecutor that includes some very ugly things. Exhibit A is the notorious case, familiar to readers of the Wall Street Journal over the [...]
1. If Scott Brown pulls very close to Coakley or wins on Tuesday, does that not kill the stupid little argument Obama has been trotting out that the Democrats need to pass health care deform to rally the Democratic base? I mean, if health care hangs in the balance by this one campaign, you’d think [...]
h/t: Jim Geraghty And if that parody ad didn’t bring a smile to your face, maybe this will. Coakley’s internal polling is showing her with only a 2 point lead, which, as Moe pointed out to me, means she is losing. Good Times. Aaron B. Gardner Tweet This Post
I just love waking up to headlines like these: ‘Majority Would Vote Against Obama’: A year into his tenure, a majority of Americans would already vote against Pres. Obama if the ‘12 elections were held today, according to a new survey. I know, I know…I shouldn’t be surprised by this. I AM entertained though. Just [...]
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H/T America’s Blog, from Sam Stien at the Huffington Post: “It could well be” a recipe for disaster in 2010, [AFL-CIO president Richard] Trumka told a group of reporters. “I just came back from southern California. I was in five or six places out there… it is amazing the number of people that come up [...]
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“Charging people $500.00 plus the costs of travel and lodging to go to a “National Tea Party Convention” run by a for profit group no one has ever heard of sounds as credible as an email from Nigeria promising me a million bucks” I swore I was going to keep my mouth shut on this, [...]
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The Scott Brown campaign is aiming for $500K: they’ve gotten $488,724.25 $493,754.84 $499,219 (stop that!) as of 3:56 PM EST. No cavalry’s coming for this one, folks: we’re it. …OK, they blew through over ten grand raised to hit over $500K in the five minutes that it took me to port this over from my personal [...]
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Galley Slaves: Brief Political Aside A very good and accurate point. Tweet This Post
February 2, 2010 is the Illinois Republican Primary. Less than one month away. Patrick Hughes is running an upstart campaign against the would be Republican nominee, Mark Kirk. Patrick Hughes is as far right as Kirk is as far left. Patrick Hughes aims to harness the conservatives and tea party activists in Illinois who feel [...]
Problems, or P to the sixth power, is what Speaker Pelosi faces. She tells her caucus on a conference call not to believe reports that she has decided that the House will OK all the major positions of the Senate (read: cave to the Senate) — but in order to defeat the Senate position, she [...]
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By now most of you have seen Harry Reid’s reported remarks, from a book on the 2008 election, enthusing that Barack Obama could be a successful presidential candidate because he was “light-skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.” The real story here is the Left’s hypocrisy: Reid has committed a [...]
Had Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) not put a hold on the nomination of Erroll Southers to be the head of TSA, he might have been confirmed by the Senate without any serious digging into his background. We know, for example, that the White House now admits it did not vet Mr. Southers. In fact, were [...]
We in the conservative movement are not shy to criticize members of Republican leadership – and by implication (or occasionally, directly) their staff. But those of us who have worked on Capitol Hill know precisely how hard it is to find good staff, how hard those good staff members work, and how important they can [...]
Jed Babbin has the top story at Human Events today. Soon upon us will be the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s inauguration. It’s time to ask, are we safer or in more danger than we were a year ago? By every objective measure — what we know about Islamic terrorism, its intentions and capabilities [...]
I know I am not the only one who has said we’re playing with idiocy in Barack Obama’s efforts to try terrorists in civilian courts. Check out this news. A federal judge has tossed out most of the government’s evidence against a terrorism detainee on grounds his confessions were coerced, allegedly by U.S. forces, before [...]
RedState Morning Briefing For January 11, 2010 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Where are they now? 2. Democrats To African Americans: Your Degree Of *Blackness* Determines Our Fortune 3. New York Democrats: Trying KSM in NYC is Kind of Risky 4. Unemployment still at 10%. 5. Dem [...]
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Many of us on the right have been eagerly awaiting Tucker Carlson’s new project, the Daily Caller. It’s finally live. Check it out here. Welcome to the fight, guys. Consider this an open thread. Tweet This Post
I’m stuck writing this on a borrowed Mac laptop running Safari, of all things – and yes, this qualifies as ’stuck’ – so let me let haystack do the actual analysis of Harry Reid’s some-of-my-best-friends-have-Negro-voices attitudes. I just want to note this: the President’s immediate acceptance of Reid’s sorry-for-offending ‘apology’ just goes to show. The [...]
Strom Thurmond was an unapologetic segregationist. He unsuccessfully ran for President once, but for some reason South Carolina saw his talents as a Politician to be sufficiently satisfactory to put him in office as their Governor for 4 years, and in the US Senate for 48 years (both as a Democrat AND a Republican)…this, DESPITE [...]
The left is discussing the breaking news that the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate plan on using a “Ping Pong” strategy to pass Obamacare. This strategy avoids a conference committee and allows the liberal leaders to put themselves behind closed doors, in secret, to write an update to Obamacare. Yet again, the elites in [...]
RedState Morning Briefing For January 5, 2010 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. I’ll be on Sean Hannity’s Great American Panel tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET. 1. 9/11 Didn’t Happen: The Obama Administration Tries to Prove George Bush Was Wrong 2. Barack Obama: A President That Wasn’t 3. Asia [...]
I was ambivalent on my Colbert Report performance, but that the left has gone insane over it suggests it went well. One leftist twittered that being in HD gave her a better view of where to put the bullet in my head. Ah, feel the love. Consider this an open thread. Tweet This Post
“This isn’t prosecuting a war. This is playing Law & Order. We have a President who really does believe all the world is a stage and he is a Screen Actors Guild member.” There was no terrorist attack on 9/11. It was the fruition of a criminal enterprise. That, at least, is Barack Obama’s working [...]
This is via That’s My Congress, which is about to become very confused about why it’s getting traffic from a VRWC site. Here’s the list: Lois Capps Michael Capuano Ben Cardin Diana DeGette Eliot Engel Barney Frank Alan Grayson Carolyn McCarthy Bill Pascrell Adam Schiff Allyson Schwartz Heath Shuler …and they have two things in [...]
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I have been working with Joshua Treviño as an editor at Malaysia Matters (a site dedicated to tracking news and events in Malaysia from an American perspective). In this role, I have learned a great deal about the importance of Asia economically and strategically. Building on that, I have an article at the Huffington Post [...]
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Hillary Clinton once said, during her run for President against her current boss, that the Presidency was no place for on the job training. She said she would be ready to lead from day one and that she would know what to do when that 3 am call came to the White House. Whether or [...]
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Great piece by Jed Babbin over at Human Events today. It would be satisfying — and manifestly just — for President Obama to fire Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. She abjures the “politics of fear,” and prefers the term “man-caused disasters” to the word “terrorism.” And it was her risible reaction to the failed Christmas [...]
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“Conservatives have a perfect opportunity to shift an existing Republican seat to the right. They should seize the opportunity and defeat Bob Bennett.” Poor wittle conservatives. Nobody wistens to the poor wittle conservatives. The Senate Minority Leader talks like a conservative, but behind closed doors he does everything he can to shut down conservative small [...]
Micah Sifry wrote a follow-up to his post on the withering of Obama Organizing for America, and it’s just as interesting as the first one was. More practically useful, in its way: anybody involved with building/maintaining a local Tea Party group, or other local conservative/libertarian/Republican grassroots organization should read it. But – again – there’s [...]
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Remember 2000? Bush spent a good bit more in resources in California than any sane person thought prudent. He lost California. Republicans have, for a long time, been losing California. Ahnuld (writing it this way so I don’t have to look up the proper spelling of his last name) has largely been a fluke. He [...]
RedState Morning Briefing For January 4, 2010 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. I hope you had a happy new year. Just on a personal note, I’ll be on the Colbert Report on Comedy Central tonight at 11:30 p.m. ET. It should be interesting. 1. WH in full CYA/BDS [...]
You remember Tom Kean, don’t you? He’s the former chairman of the 9/11 Commission — that same commission whose policies in its massive report Barack Obama guaranteed to implement. Obama has not. In fact, one of the chief priorities of the 9/11 commission was the ability to effectively cross reference people on terrorist watch lists [...]
A few days ago Sissy Willis asked a very interesting question: Will Sarah Palin endorse Scott Brown? I’ve been thinking about it a bit; and while I can see the arguments both pro and con, I think that it’s time that Sarah Palin did. You have to speculate to accumulate, after all. So let’s light [...]
Take it away, James Delingpole: …I am so glad to report that Michael Mann – creator of the incredible Hockey Stick curve and one of the scientists most heavily implicated in the Climategate scandal – is about to get a very nasty shock. When he turns up to work on Monday, he’ll find that all [...]
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“This is extremely important because it comports with Barack Obama’s world view in ways harmful to American sovereignty. ” Okay, okay. I know a lot of you know about this already. For about a week I have been getting emails about Barack Obama surrendering American sovereignty to Interpol, the international criminal police force under the [...]
Earlier today while checking up on teh twitter, I saw this tweet from Caleb Howe at 10:49 am Eastern: Naturally I clicked the link to see just what Caleb was sharing. Upon doing so, in my Chrome browser, I was met with this: [Click image for larger view] Why would Google be marking BigGovernment.com as [...]
From the diaries by Erick. This is MASTERFUL. Colorado is a beautiful and diverse state with a rich and vibrant history. The landscape varies from the corn fields on the Eastern Plains to the Rocky Mountains which boast 50 fourteeners (mountains over 14,000 ft. elevation), to the lush green Western Slope. It was from the [...]
