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Obama: The Man WIthout a Plan reprise
2012-01-30 01:18:00 Writing about the president’s State of the Union address last week, Mark Steyn quipped that “the Union’s state ? its unprecedented world-record brokeness ? was not even mentioned”: If, as I was, you happened to be stuck at Gate 27 at one of the many U.S. airports laboring under the misapprehension that pumping CNN at ... More About: Media Bias , Obama
Newt?s appeal & the state of the Republican race
2012-01-29 18:00:00 As I’m in New Orleans now for meetings, I won’t have as much time to blog as I would like. I would very much like to write a more thoughtful piece on my former boss, but did hit the big points in my prior post. Look, given questions about Mitt Romney’s commitment to conservatism, I ... More About: Republican , Race , State
Newt?s ?Grandiosity?
2012-01-28 00:54:00 Although my co-blogger voted for Newt Gingrich for President in the recent South Carolina primary, I would only vote for the former Speaker were he the Republican nominee running against the failed incumbent. I expect I will have more to say about his candidacy in due time — about a testiness similar to that of ...
UK Muslims Convicted for Distributing Pamphlets Advocating Murder of Gays
2012-01-27 23:14:00 Religion of Peace Alert! (via @BillyHallowell) A disturbing trial came to a close this week in London, England, after three men were convicted of distributing pamphlets that called for gays and lesbians to be murdered. The hateful fliers were disturbing at best. One of them, titled, ?Death Penalty?,? showed a mannequin that was hanging from a noose and said ... More About: Murder , Muslims , Gays , Religion of Peace
GOProud understands that liberty is America?s animating ideal
2012-01-27 00:58:00 Our friends at GOProud get the nature of Ron Paul’s appeal. In his critique of the president’s State of the Union address, Christopher R. Barron, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist for the group offered a nice synopsis of what kind of leader libertarian Republicans want: The America n people ? gay and straight ? deserve a President ... More About: Freedom , Liberty
It behooves GOP to understand nature of Ron Paul?s appeal
2012-01-27 00:45:00 If the eventual Republican nominee succeeds in making clear the libertarian nature of Reaganite conservatism — and runs on that platform, he could do as well among young voters as the Gipper did in the 1980s. Bear in mind that twenty somethings today as in the Reagan era seem to have a thing for septuagenarians ... More About: Freedom , Nature , Ron Paul , Paul
So AOL thinks Fidel Castro?s views on GOP are newsworthy?
2012-01-26 16:45:00 Caught this last night on their home page: UPDATE: It’s not just AOL; NYT quotes “retired Cuban leader” Castro . What is it with liberal journalists who quote this tyrant as if he is some wise old man? (Could he be his views of the GOP correspond with their own?) More About: Views , Media Bias , Fidel Castro
If taxing the rich is so important to President Obama . . .
2012-01-26 06:48:00 . . . why didn’t he submit legislation to the 111th Congress when the Democrats had a majority in the House and a super-duper majority int he Senate (filibuster-proof for six months)? And why aren’t our friends in the legacy media asking him about this oversight? Question came to mind as I was reading Rush’s ... More About: President , Rich , Random Thoughts , Media Bias
Barack Milhous Obama
2012-01-26 06:30:00 “Can you imagine,” Hugh Hewitt asks, “if George Bush had told Karl Rove to get Howard Dean nominated and to spend millions to do so?” The blogger cites a story in the Orlando Sentinel which would have gotten national attention had the incumbent’s much maligned predecessor done just that: The Democrats are targeting Mitt Romney as ... More About: Media Bias , Barack , Obama
Paula Deen: Bringing GayPatriot Readers Together
2012-01-26 00:27:00 Before I drove cross country in 2010, I had never heard of Southern cooking diva Paula Deen, but I credit her for the harmony of our readers’ dinner in Atlanta that spring. You see, when we gathered in that august town, I was concerned; one of our critics (with whom I have corresponded at least ... More About: Travel , Readers , Divas
Obama: leading from behind on reform
2012-01-25 23:05:00 Maybe it’s just that he’s waiting for others to craft the reforms so he can see how people react before signing on to anything. This way, he accrues the benefit of supporting a popular reform without the political risk of backing a proposal which might alienate his base. I endorsed Jon Huntsman for President, in ... More About: Reform , Leadership , Obama
My Tweet Of The Day
2012-01-25 21:21:00 Conservative pundits/politicians who claim to know what’s best for We, The People are no less heinous than the liberal ones. You can surmise who I’m referring to. Hint: More than one person. -Bruce (GayPatriot)
SOTU: Obama dodges big issues
2012-01-25 18:48:00 Like Mickey Kaus, I didn’t watch the president’s campaign speech State of the Union last night and am finding the text actual quite “boring” with standard Obama tropes repeated so often, you’d think his speechwriters merely cut and paste passages from previous addresses into this one, adding a few references to events of the past ... More About: Issues
Red Tails: This is why they make movies
2012-01-25 09:09:00 I did not watch the State of the Union last night. Instead of hearing a speech by a man of little accomplishment and great acclaim, I went to see a movie about men of great accomplishment and little acclaim, Red Tails, about the Tuskegee Airmen and their valor in World War II. All I can ... More About: Movies , Military , Pop Culture , Make
SOTU: Obama?s last chance to change tone
2012-01-24 19:18:00 Four years ago, Barack Obama ran for the presidency promising a new era of hope and change. He would bring us together with a new kind of politics that transcended partisan differences. Since starting working in the Oval Office, however, he has adopted a much different tone. When a Republican Senator challenged the Democratic ... More About: Change , Chance
The Do-Nothing Democratic Senate: 1,000 Days Without a Budget
2012-01-24 18:30:00 President Obama, reports Dwvin Dwyer this morning on ABCNews, “has spent the past three months railing against a ‘do-nothing Congress ,” and tonight he has the opportunity to deliver his message face to face.” As the Democrat demagogues a legislature that won’t rubberstamp his priorities, he will certainly obscure one fact: Congress is not a ... More About: Democratic , Senate , Budget , Days
So, making silly arguments is now a form of ?bullying??
2012-01-24 04:08:00 Sunlight, I’ve always believed, is the best disinfectant. We should not hinder people from voicing their opinions, no matter how hateful because only when they voice them can we counter them. Today, in her inimitable style, Amy Alkon, an Angelena diva who quips that if she “were any more gay-friendly,” she’d “have a girlfriend instead ... More About: Bullying , Free Speech , Silly
7 of 10 worst American cities to find a job in California
2012-01-24 03:54:00 “Of the 10 metropolitan areas with the toughest job situations, seven are in California “, reports Danielle Kurtzleben in U.S.News & World Report Wonder if this is related to the flight of business from the Golden State. Hey, Ma’am, what are you doing to keep those businesses from fleeing the state. And, Jerry, you may want ... More About: Cities , American , Find
Christie nominates gay Republican to NJ Supreme Court
2012-01-23 20:07:00 Kudos, Governor: Gov. Chris Christie today nominated an openly gay African-American Republican mayor and an assistant state attorney general to the state?s highest court. Christie nominated Phil Kwon, who worked under Christie when he was U.S. attorney, and Bruce Harris, who was elected mayor of Chatham Borough in November. Kwon, of Bergen County, would be ... More About: Supreme Court
Must only the rich pay their ?fair share? (of taxes)?
2012-01-23 20:02:00 Democrats often talk about hiking taxes on the rich so they pay their “fair share“. So what about the 47% who currently don’t pay any federal taxes? Is their fair share zero? More About: Taxes , Rich , Random Thoughts , Share , Fair
Obama Approval Hits New Low
2012-01-23 18:14:00 Repeat after me: “Hope and Change.” <audience chant> Now this: “Mmm, mmm, mmm… Barack Hussein Obama .” <audience chant> Now read this: Exactly three years after Aretha Franklin’s hat launched the Obama administration, the Democrat’s annual job approval rating has sunk to his lowest level. That’s not normally a good sign after 1,095 days in office. But ... More About: Hits
The masks we put on others
2012-01-23 15:45:00 Been reading a book on the Big Easy, Tom Piazza’s Why New Orleans Matters. Reflecting on his surprise at learning that a musician read philosophy, the author philosophizes himself: It is an old American situation, of course—anyone interested in an extended essay on the subject should read Ralph Ellison’s “The Little Man at Chehaw Station,” ... More About: Random Thoughts
Don?t Know Much about Ronny R
2012-01-23 14:25:00 Every now and again, you’ll run into an Obama supporter who professes to be a fiscal conservative. When you challenge them on the incumbent’s big-spending ways, they’ll reply that he had to do it because they mess that George W. Bush left him was so bad. (Well, during the campaign, Obama did say that, there ... More About: Economy , Ronald Reagan
What American calls North Korea Tyrant, ?Revered Leader??
2012-01-23 04:18:00 Click here for the answer. More About: Korea , North Korea , Calls , American , North
To those who deride the 112th Congress as obstructionist. . .
2012-01-23 04:05:00 . . . or counterproductive, bear two things in mind: The Senate still has a Democratic majority. Americans elected Republicans to redress the excesses of the president’s policies not to rubber stamp them, or, to paraphrase that Democrat, “They won.” More About: Congress
Reflections on Mitt Romney?s South Carolina loss
2012-01-22 19:36:00 The “South Carolina vote,” writes Tim Stanley in the Telegraph, “was really a referendum on [Mitt] Romney”. Indeed. The man who rescued the 2002 Olympics tumbled from a commanding lead in the polls last week to a resounding defeat last night. The on-and-off again Republican frontrunner spent the last week playing defense. He could have ... More About: Reflections , Mitt Romney , South Carolina , Loss
Newt?s poll numbers increased when his attacks on Bain decreased
2012-01-22 18:09:00 In congratulating Newt Gingrich on his victory last night, our friend Chris Barron, Co-Founder and Chief Strategist of GOProud , noted something significant about the former Speaker’s South Carolina success: Tonight, we congratulate Speaker Gingrich on his victory in South Carolina. We are hopeful that in the contests ahead that Speaker Gingrich will run the type of ... More About: Poll , Numbers , Entrepreneurs
Where is the conservative candidate at this conservative moment?
2012-01-22 16:54:00 Polls show considerable popular dissatisfaction with the president’s policies, particularly his big-government initiatives like Obamacare. They also show support for the broad conservative policies which have defined the GOP at least since Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980. The best attempts of the media notwithstanding, conservative ideas are ascendant. At the same time, the incumbent struggles ... More About: Media Bias , Conservative , Moment
Reflections on Newt?s big South Carolina victory
2012-01-22 09:40:00 As you can probably guess, I’m not as sanguine about Newt’s victory in South Carolina as is Bruce. I think the most important issue in this election is defeating Barack Obama and replacing him with a president committed to making the kinds of reforms the Democrat has assiduously avoided for the past three years. ... More About: Victory , Reflections , Media Bias , South Carolina
HEADED TO NEWT VICTORY PARTY!
More articles from this author:2012-01-21 22:56:00 We are about to head to Columbia, SC to the Victory Party for Newt tonight. I’ll be posting more later. Also, up to the moment reports on Twitter: @GayPatriot. Update: NEWT WINS SOUTH CAROLINA HANDILY. -Bruce (GayPatriot) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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