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Merry Christmas from a Jewish GayPatriot
2011-12-25 08:07:00 In our first year blogging, I wrote a piece on why I, as Jew, wish people a Merry Christmas . Then, as now, I felt it absurd that people try to strip this season of his sacred significance to Christians who celebrate today the birth of their Savior. Knowing how holy this day is to those ... More About: Holidays , Jewish
Mitt Romney gets one (big) thing right
2011-12-24 18:00:00 In his interview with the editors of the Wall Street Journal, Mitt Romney showed that he understands the core issue facing conservative voters today: So it is also notable that now Mr. Romney describes the core failure of Mr. Obama’s economic agenda as faith in “a wise group of governmental bureaucrats” rather than political and ...
Of Maggie & Movies
2011-12-24 06:54:00 In her column yesterday, Peggy Noonan demonstrated the qualities that have caused me to dub her the Athena of punditry: she offers a particular feminine insight into recent cultural moments, a woman’s wisdom. Just read her reflection on the death of Steve Jobs and wonder. Although she is slightly critical of the soon-to-be-released movie about ... More About: Movies , Pop Culture , Patriotism , Maggie
The most political new kind of politician
2011-12-23 16:36:00 A few days ago in the Weekly Standard, Fred Barnes contended that President Obama has been “utterly transparent . . . , it?s abundantly clear that he has one thing in mind these days: getting reelected.” The Democrat showed this most recently in the back-and-forth with House and Senate Republicans over the payroll tax cut–when he ... More About: Political , Change , Hope , Politician
Meeting GOP presidential candidate Fred Karger
2011-12-23 00:30:00 Earlier today, I had the chance to sit down for a pleasant lunch with Fred Karger, a one-time political consultant who has tossed his hat in the ring for the GOP presidential nomination and contends he is the first openly gay candidate for a major party’s nod. He is nice guy and our conversation was ... More About: Presidential
?.And What About North Dakota?
2011-12-22 23:32:00 Earlier today, Dan asked “What’s the Matter With Kansas“? The answer is, of course: NOTHING. The same question & answer go for the booming state of North Dakota. In that case it is ENERGY that is fueling the state’s employment. When it comes to creating jobs, North Dakota has found the right formula. The state ...
What?s the Matter with Kansas?
2011-12-22 18:18:00 According to Jim Geraghty, the stste’s “unemployment rate is 6.5 percent, more than two percentage points lower than the national average. For what it?s worth, the rate is down two-tenths of a percentage point from last month. Kansas ?s unemployment rate has been consistently below the national average, peaking at 7.6 percent in the summer of 2009.” ... More About: Matter
So, DC has nation?s biggest increase in population growth*?
2011-12-22 09:00:00 According to Liz Farmer at the Washington Examiner: The District’s population grew faster than any state in the nation this year, an influx led by Americans moving into the thriving city, new Census Bureau data show. The population grew by 2.7 percent from April 2010 to July 2011, according to data the Census Bureau released Wednesday. ... More About: Nation , Growth
Co-opting Republican issue, Obama experiences slight rebound
2011-12-22 02:10:00 Even Karl Rove agrees that Republican s blundered on the payroll tax issue. They may be right “on principle and on policy“, as Charles Krauthammer puts it, but they’ve “lost the optics?, as Rove contends. This has been a rare victory for the president due in large part to a divided GOP. “Republicans,” write the editors ... More About: Congress , Obama , Experiences
Newt Gingrich and Gay Marriage
2011-12-22 01:30:00 Just because I criticized various media outlets — and others — who misrepresented Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich ’s exchange with a gay Iowa Democrat (who, by his own logic, should be a big supporter of former Vice President Dick Cheney) does not mean I support the candidate. Although I have impressed with how the former ... More About: Marriage , Gay Marriage
Putting Newt?s response to a gay Iowan in context
2011-12-21 20:42:00 A reader alerted me to an article contending that GOP presidential candidate “Newt Gingrich told a gay man and longtime resident of Oskaloosa[, Iowa] here today that he should vote for President Obama.” According to Memeorandum, the story is generating quite the buzz in the blogosphere. Only problem is that the spin of the Democrat ... More About: Gay Marriage , Putting
Obama turned away from the economy, stupid
2011-12-21 18:18:00 During his “60 MInutes” interview last week, the most humble new kind of politician to occupy the White House since George W. Bush compared his accomplishments to some of his predecessors: As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president ... More About: Economy , Obama , Stupid
Grande Conservative Blogress Diva 2012?Nominations Take Two
2011-12-21 09:19:00 Due to an unusually busy December, I have not yet had the chance to finalize the ballot for the most coveted crown in the blogosphere, the diamond tiara bestowed upon that distinguished blogress who commands the respect of gay conservatives, the Grande Conservative Blogress Diva. Last year, Robin of Berkeley won the coveted tiara with ... More About: Blogging , Divas
Worthy Causes to Support this Christmas
2011-12-21 00:54:00 Two years ago at this time, I identified three of the charities I support every year and do so again at the end of this post. In that post and this, I lamented how I am inundated with solicitations from various worthy organizations, often receiving ten solicitations a day in my “snail mail,” many from ... More About: Christmas , Support
Has Obama?s charm ever transformed a hostile dictator?
2011-12-20 23:40:00 Yesterday, when writing about candidate Barack Obama ’s pledge, if elected to meet, the then-leader of North Korea, Jim Geraghty quipped that many . . . of us are pleased that this promise reached its expiration date . . . but one would like to think that any future presidents would not need to be disabused ... More About: Where , Scrutiny
Let?s run with Jeb away from the straight line of the statists!
2011-12-20 18:52:00 Yesterday and today, the conservatives blogosphere has been abuzz about an op-ed a successful former governor of a large swing state penned in the Wall Street Journal. In the Washington Examiner, noting Republican “unhappiness” with presidential field, Byron York wrote that “there is new speculation focusing on [Jeb] Bush after the former Florida governor turned ... More About: Freedom
The Protestor as Person of the Year; It?s His Ideology, Stupid
2011-12-20 00:01:00 In his post last week on Time magazine’s decision to name the Protestor as its “Person of the Year,” Ed Morrissey thought the magazine a “little late to ‘the protester’ story in terms of real impact“: In 2009, Time had the same opportunity to pick ?the protester? when the protests were the Tea Party and ... More About: Media Bias , Stupid , Ideology
New Mexicans Love Nation?s First Latina Governor
2011-12-20 00:00:00 As she closes out her first year in office, Susana Martinez, the first female governor of the Land of Enchantment enjoys sky-high approval ratings, earning “a 65 percent job approval rating from the people of” her state, up from an initial rating just nine months ago. This according to a Public Opinion Strategies poll which ... More About: Love , Mexicans , Latina , Nation , Governor
Gay Conservatives in Goldwater Country?
2011-12-19 20:53:00 Lori Heine, a frequent commenter on Gay Patriot, believes there must be more like her out in Goldwater country. She’d like to help get together a gay conservative and libertarian group in the Phoenix area. If you live in the vicinity and are tired of being “in the closet” as a Right-of-center gay American, just ... More About: Country , Blogging , Conservatives
Why do leaders like Havel not win more accolades*?
2011-12-19 18:54:00 “Don?t expect the media to make a big deal of it,” writes Rand Simberg about the passing of an artist who devoted much of theatrical career to challenging Communism. Although Vaclev Havel stood up for artistic freedom and defended the political systems which allowed for freedom of expression, he never achieved the accolades as did ... More About: Freedom
Where are the films exposing the suffering under Islamofascism?
2011-12-19 04:59:00 The late Vaclav Havel was a voice of moral clarity on a continent confused by the various ideologies which arose as the threat of communism receded, indeed, which became chic even as those totalitarian regimes oppressed the citizens of nations in eastern and central Europe and challenged democratic republics in the western and southern regions ... More About: Movies , American History , Films , Islamofascism , Pop Culture
The world has lost one of the last Communist tyrants:Kim Jong Il joins Stal
2011-12-19 04:36:00 Earlier today, Bruce reported that one of the truly great liberators, a voice of moral clarity on a confused continent, passed. Just moments ago, on Facebook, Glenn Reynolds reported that on the other side of the Eurasian landmass, a man who was very much the opposite of Vaclev Havel met his reward: ”Kim Jong Il, ... More About: Lost , World , The World
Hiding Israel?s record on gays behind the ?pinkwashing? slogan
2011-12-19 01:36:00 In a letter to the New York Times explaining why Israel i Prime Minister Binnyamin Netanyahu “respectfully declined? to write an op-ed piece for the old gray lady, his senior advisor Ron Dermer provides his correspondent with many examples of the paper’s bias, including this one: Yet instead of trying to balance these views with a ... More About: Media Bias , Gays , Record
LA Times coos over Occupy version of Christmas Carol
2011-12-19 00:54:00 To see just one reason why fewer and fewer right-of-center Angelenos subscribe to the Los Angeles Times, take a gander at this front page puff piece on a left-wing playwright’s revisioning of Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol . The story is not even about a play that has been produced, but merely about a script a man has ... More About: Movies , Media Bias , Pop Culture
The World Has Lost A Champion of Freedom & Liberty:Vaclav Havel, RIP
2011-12-18 17:29:00 From the NY Times: Vaclav Havel, the writer and dissident whose eloquent dissections of Communist rule helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall and swept Havel himself into power, died on Sunday. He was 75. A shy yet resilient, unfailingly polite but dogged man who articulated the power of the ... More About: Freedom , Lost , World , Liberty , The World
Homosexuality is not an excuse for betraying your country
2011-12-18 01:40:00 According to AP, the soldier “accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive items to” WikiLeaks, is using his sexual orientation as a defense: The young Army intelligence specialist accused of passing government secrets spent his 24th birthday in court Saturday as his lawyers argued his status as a gay soldier before the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” ... More About: Country , Homosexuality , Excuse
When spending cuts aren?t real and tax hikes don?t reduce the deficit
2011-12-18 01:21:00 On Thursday, Glenn Reynolds linked a post from Daniel Mitchell which, like most posts from that libertarian scholar, merit your attention. Mitchell corrected a New York Times reporter eager to peddle the notion of horrible, no good, very bad Republicans unwilling to raise taxes, reminding her that the “only budget agreement that actually produced a ... More About: Economy , Media Bias , Spending , Reduce , Real
The Visual Power of A Single Man
2011-12-18 00:57:00 Last night, I finally got around to watching A Single Man and wish I had seen it on the big screen. Although the script had a numerous problems, the art direction and cinematography made the flick a real treat. And Colin Firth‘s portrayal of the solitude of gay man in the early 1960s struggling with ... More About: Movies , Power , General , Pop Culture , Visual
Memo to MSM:Examine charges on left-wing blogs before reporting them as fac
2011-12-17 00:17:00 On Tuesday, several left-of-center Facebook friends linked posts from a left-wing blog contending that Mitt Romney had adopted a Ku Klux Klan slogan to guide his presidential campaign. Quickly as charges leveled against conservatives and Republicans on such blogs are wont to do, that allegation was soon repeated unexamined on such news outlets as The Washington ... More About: Blogs , Media Bias , Left , New Media , Wing
Christopher Hitchens Sui Generis
More articles from this author:2011-12-17 00:03:00 Calling Christopher Hitchens “one of the most dynamic voices of our generation“, Sonicfrog laments the passing of this iconoclastic columnist: With the exception of being an ardent atheist, he was impossible to pin down and categorize as belonging to any one political movement or ideology. He truly called them as he saw them. Without question, ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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