***The first name of Eric Deggens has been corrected. Please keep in mind that both of the pop culture writers quoted below do not in any way have it in for Bristol Palin, daughter of dreaded Sarah, personally. Because that
November 18, 2010 Dear Dad, Though I talk to you every day, a lot has gone on since I last wrote. http://www.redstate.com/joeconnor/2010/01/22/dad-35-after-your-murder-you-are-part-of-change-we-really-can-believe-in/ http://www.redstate.com/joeconnor/2009/03/20/dear-dad/ The good news is the American people have stepped up, becoming tea fueled activists. The Tea party
As the Obama administration doubles down on its effort to force the U.S. Senate to rubber-stamp the New START Treaty during the lame duck session, its bid took two more body blows today: First, ten senators-elect led by Roy Blunt
The past 48 hours have yielded some dramatic setbacks for President Obama in his drive to force the lame-duck Senate to rubber-stamp the New START arms control treaty with Russia. Yet, despite clear signals that this will not – and
One of the great things about America is people are free to make as much money as they can, as long as its made honestly. Sometimes though, there is a trend in income growth that makes one wonder if there
For weeks, leaders of the Lebanese-based terrorist group Hizballah have been waging an international extortion campaign. Blood will flow, they promise, if a United Nations tribunal indicts any of its members in connection with the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese
Obama Medicare Head Bringing UK Rationing Board to US? Medicare Head Donald Berwick will in love with wealth redistribution and Britains National Health Service. Sens. Pat Roberts (Kan.), Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.) joined forces on the Senate
Dr. Donald Berwick, a leading proponent of rationing of medical care in the United States and a supporter of the British health care system, is prepared to testify before Congress for the first time since he recess appointment to head
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) announces he has been re-elected as Senate majority leader by his Democratic colleagues.
Texas Senator Dan Patrick has just filed Senate Bill 126, which would require law enforcement officials to check legal documentation of lawfully stopped individuals. Other states will likely follow suit. Let me confess how this immigration business is especially poignant
Much has been written about the House GOP Leadership’s plan to ban earmarks for two years. The praise they have received from conservatives is justified, because it seems, at least for the time being, that their proposed moratorium doesn’t have
As the Obama administration becomes increasingly desperate to get its New START Treaty ratified, it has enlisted the help of assorted people thought to be influential with a handful of Republican Senators who will determine whether this accord is rammed
Senate Republicans think you are stupid. Leaders in the Senate Republican Caucus are opposing a measure by Tea Party Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina to ban earmarks for two years. The elites are angry. Senate Republican Leaders have led
Both former President Bush and now President Obama have committed to the United States to escalating the war in Afghanistan in an attempt to defeat the Taliban and bring some sense of stability to that country. Afghanistan is but one
This week, the Senate GOP will have a showdown on Sen. Jim DeMint’s proposal to ban earmarks for two years. Senate GOP Leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell, who apparently missed entirely the point of the elections two weeks ago, is trying
Despite widespread conservative outrage over Rep. Spencer Bachus’ (R-AL) attack on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement, and despite Bachus’ long history of support for bigger government, GOP Congressional leaders — in their FIRST action since the election —
In the wake of a Big Government exclusive report featuring audio of CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA-TV staffers seemingly plotting potentially damaging scenarios for Alaska Republican Joe Miller’s Senate campaign, the station has been forced to cancel two evening news broadcasts,
In the wake of a Big Government exclusive report featuring audio of CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA-TV staffers seemingly plotting potentially damaging scenarios for Alaska Republican Joe Miller’s Senate campaign, the station has been forced to cancel two evening news broadcasts,
No one seems to know who launched what appears to have been a ballistic missile – and by one account “a big missile” at that – from a point some thirty-five miles off the California coast on Monday evening. About
There have been encouraging developments in the status of the follow on START treaty that the President negotiated earlier this year. The lame duck session of Congress is the administration’s last chance to push the world towards a United States
Conservative Republicans nationwide made a resounding comeback last Tuesday night, recapturing the majority in the U.S. House by picking up more than 60 seats – the biggest gains since 1948! In addition to the historic night in the House, Republicans
After first receiving a tip from a reader regarding a warning issued against the Alaska Public Employee Supervisers Union for their improperly campaigning against Senate candidate Joe Miller, a call to Robert Pearson of Alaska’s Department of Administration produced a
In the wake of the Election Day conservative tsunami, rather than expressing gratitude that limited government conservatives and the Tea Party movement restored the GOP to majority status in the House of Representatives, establishment Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus lashed out
Thomas Paine in his Dissertation on First Principles of Government, published on December 23, 1791, wrote, “He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a
One of Obama’s moves early on that gave me some hope he was not a complete muppet on foreign policy, was keeping Gates on as Sec Def. That hope changed into disgust as it became apparent that all the Obama
