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Back in 1978, Harvey Milk celebrated Gay Freedom Day
2012-05-24 07:36:00
Earlier this week at the LA Weekly, Patrick Range McDonald blogged about Tuesday’s celebration of “Harvey Milk Day in honor of the slain San Francisco supervisor who was one of the first gay elected officials in the United States”: Milk was assassinated by former San Francisco supervisor Dan White in 1978. A few months before ...
Is there anything Barack Obama doesn?t politicize?
2012-05-18 22:30:00
As I was reviewing the transcript of President Obama’s interview with ABC News’s Robin Roberts, I caught this aspect of the Democrat’s attempt to justify his switch on state recognition of same-sex marriage: Part of the reason that I thought it was important– to speak to this issue was the fact that– you know, I’ve ...
Did Ike fault Stevenson for failing to spearhead D-day?
2012-05-02 09:18:00
“Can you imagine“, a 101st Airborne Vietnam vet writes to the Weekly Standard‘s Geoffrey Norman . . . . . . Ike saying, “I pulled the trigger on D-Day but Stevenson never would have had the guts to do that”?  Or Truman saying, “I dropped the bomb, and Dewey wouldn’t have”?  The response from men ...
Axelrod?s Attack on Seamus: The gift that keeps on giving
2012-04-25 09:02:00
Via Drew @ Ace, via The Other McCain‘s headlines. UPDATE: The “dog meme, quips Michael Walsh “has legs. Derision is wolf bane to the Left.? Via Instapundit.
Has class warfare rhetoric ever won an (American) election?
2012-04-16 15:18:00
Last night when I “rescued” a comment caught in our spam filter, I wondered why this critic was so convinced that class warfare rhetoric would propel his candidate back into the Oval Office.  Weighing in on my piece about Ann Romney, Joseph wrote: And it?s a little disingenuous to say that the work of a ...
Why 2012 won?t be a repeat of 1964
2012-04-12 18:18:00
There are a great variety of issues I’d like to blog about today, from the George Zimmerman indictment to Hilary Rosen’s apparent, to borrow language used by the administration and their allies in the legacy media, War on Stay-at-Home Moms (perhaps of particular interest to our readers given that she’s a lesbian, attached to to ...
No, Mr. President, Ronald Reagan didn?t campaign on raising taxes
2012-04-04 00:00:00
Well, you can’t accuse Barack Obama of originality.  Today, the incumbent President of the United States trotted out that old Democratic talking point that Ronald Reagan “could not get through a Republican primary today.” The Democrat uses that silly notion as he lambastes his partisan rivals for their supposed unwillingness to compromise: These are solvable ...
Guess Barack Obama missed the Reagan Recovery*
2012-04-01 01:44:00
When President Obama talks about the economy, it seems he derives his information not from historical facts, but instead from Keynesian theory.  At a campaign fundraiser in Maine, the politician once billed as post-partisan accused his partisan rivals of “madness”: “We won’t win the race for new jobs and new businesses and middle-class security if ...
Obama speechwriters don?t know much about history
2012-03-16 22:30:00
When George W. Bush got a fact wrong, our friends in the legacy media highlighted it as a sign of his stupidity.  If Barack Obama makes a mistake, well, if they get around to covering it, they’ll just see it as a sign of human imperfection. Last night, before bed, I read that in his ...
Obamanomics not as popular in 2012 as New Deal in 1948
2012-01-09 23:18:00
For some time, I have been compiling notes for a post on why the incumbent Democratic president will not have the success that one of his partisan predecessors had with a “Give ‘Em Hell” strategy, attacking the Republican Congress for its “Do Nothing” record. Jim Geraghty has made by task easier, linking and excerpts John Bicknell’s piece in Roll ...
Is the 2012 GOP field as weak as it appears?(History suggests there may be
2012-01-03 14:19:00
Back in 1980 as Ronald Reagan began racking up victories in Republican primaries and caucuses, establishment Republicans were in a panic, fearing that by nominating such an extreme conservative, the party faithful were jeopardizing their best chance to unseat a Democratic incumbent since the year before the United States entered the First World War.  Indeed, ...
Is the 2012 GOP field as weak as it appears?(History suggests there may be
2012-01-02 14:19:00
Back in 1980 as Ronald Reagan began racking up victories in Republican primaries and caucuses, establishment Republicans were in a panic, fearing that by nominating such an extreme conservative, the party faithful were jeopardizing their best chance to unseat a Democratic incumbent since the year before the United States entered the First World War.  Indeed, ...
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 ...
When Hollywood honestly defied an unjust system
2011-12-09 09:30:00
For the past few evenings while having my snack or seeking a moment’s escape, I have been working my way through The Bette Davis Collection, Vol. 3 which I bought on sale at a Barnes * Noble in Denver.  (I could have saved a few more bucks had I bought it online at Amazon.) Although ...
No, Barack Obama, you?re no Teddy Roosevelt
2011-12-07 00:48:00
Today, the president traveled to Osawatomie, Kansas, in Michael Know Beran’s words “to unveil his latest persona: Teddy Roosevelt, who delivered his ?New Nationalism? manifesto in the town?s John Brown Cemetery in August 1910.” And yea, the Democrat did invoke the Republican who also favored a more muscular state than had that energetic early twentieth ...
Giving Thanks for the United States of America
2011-11-24 01:30:00
I’m glad I stumbled upon this item in the Wall Street Journal today. Any one whose labors take him into the far reaches of the country, as ours lately have done, is bound to mark how the years have made the land grow fruitful. This is indeed a big country, a rich country, in a ...
Name that president
2011-11-02 05:51:00
“On the night of his inaugural gala, all his dreams seemed within his grasp. . . . within 100 days _______ would be compared to Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln.” (Heard on a recent documentary.) HINT:  It’s not Barack Obama.  And that’s the point of this post.
Rush Limbaugh favors Clinton-era spending levels!?!?
2011-10-19 04:10:00
Back in the 1990s, when I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh when driving back and forth between Charlottesville, Virginia and our nation’s capital or when motoring about within the confines of that city’s Beltway, I recall the talker criticizing the then-incumbent President of the United States for his wayward ways. Now, he wants to ...
When we let freedom ring
2011-01-17 19:47:00
Perhaps the best way to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on his day is simply to quote from his greatest speech, one of the greatest speeches in American history: In a sense we have come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of ...
California Rejected Jerry Brown after his two terms as Governor
2010-10-26 15:57:00
The California media would rather focus on Meg Whitman’s household than on Jerry Brown’s record.  It’s been 28 years since he was Governor and our memories grow dim. To give you some sense of what Californians thought of the Democrat after his tenure in office, consider this.  1982 was a Democratic year.  Jerry Brown had ...
Oct. 26 1985: When This Baby Hits 88 MPH?You?re Gonna See Some Serious Sh-t
2010-10-26 08:25:00
In the fictional world of Hill Valley, California today is a momentous day in history. Twenty-five years ago this morning, while being chased by angry Libyans, Marty McFly attempts to outrun them in a gussied-up DeLorean. Instead of escaping from the Twin Pines Mall parking lot, the DeLorean reaches 88 mph, the flux capacitor designed ...
TBS Is Now the Weirdest Television Channel in American History
2010-05-13 13:29:00
Image: TBS With the addition of Conan O'Brien to the late night line-up, the Turner network TBS will now officially become the strangest television channel yet viewed by Western Civilization. Joining George Lopez in the late night slot means that TBS will simultaneously target the Hispanic and young, white, love-the-masturbating-bear demographics, which is the first time this has been attempted since the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Throw on top of this, the fact that TBS has become a repository for the thinly-veiled-socially-conserva-tive Christian-African-American family sitcom factory that is Tyler Perry, and I don't think you could try to devise more schizophrenic programming. The likes of "Meet the Browns" and "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" have as much in...
La Amistad: How the AP Commonly Muffs American History
2010-03-31 23:00:00
-By Warner Todd Huston The Associated Press has a famous book on grammar and style that its news writers use to govern their work, a book that is also popular with the whole American news industry. It has served as a standard for many years. The AP, however, seems to have no style or rule for reporting history. Or rather, perhaps it does and the rule is to purposefully garble American history, always skewing it. The APs recent report on a re-creation of the famous 19th century, two-masted schooner La Amistad, famous for its connection to America's slave trade history, is a case in point. As it happens a replica of the famous ship was built to highlight history of...
Standing for Smaller Government Will Help GOP Win Perot Voters
2009-09-22 10:38:00
It seemed sweetly serendipitous that barely forty-eight hours after speculating about the potential for “Perot voters” (those particularly concerned about the exploding federal debt) to decide the 2010 — and possibly the 2012 — election that I would chance upon a Gallup poll showing that Americans are more likely than ever to say the government ...
What They?re Saying About America?s Worst President
2009-09-20 09:40:00
Glenn Reynolds: JIMMY CARTER?S RACE PROBLEM. And then there?s his more recent anti-semitiism problem. He?s a foul old man, and a disgrace to the office he once held. John McCain: It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
Will Perot Voters Determine Outcome in 2010 (& 2012)?
2009-09-18 23:03:00
One of the reasons I’ve been bullish on Republican chances against incumbent Democratic Senators in such red states as California, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin in next fall’s electons, not to mention purple states like Colorado and Nevada (as well as red states like North Dakota) is that in 1992 and 1996, Ross Perot ran better ...
Constitution Day:Celebrating the Achievement (Against Great Odds)of a Remar
2009-09-17 09:34:00
Today, September 17, 2009 is Constitution Day, marking the 222nd anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution in Philadelphia.  Given the concerns expressed by the delegates from the various states assembled in the summer of 1787, that they could agree on a framework for a federal government is truly remarkable. About this remarkable accomplishment, ...
With Anemic Ratings, Anderson Cooper Dwells on ?Race Factor?:Ignores Racist
2009-09-16 07:59:00
Thanks to Anderson Cooper, I got an extra few minutes of cardio last night.  As I was cooling down on the stairmaster, his CNN program came on one of the television monitors.  Breathlessly, he was reporting something I had just read on Gateway Pundit, the worst president in U.S. history (well, at least since the ...
Thoughts about the President?s Address to Schoolchildren
2009-09-09 07:55:00
On few issues have those who have taken issue with the points we have made stood on as solid ground as have these critics on the issue of the President’s speech to schoolchildren yesterday.  Indeed, despite the outcry on the right, many of our philosophical confrères shared our critics sentiments and thought the speech was ...
Is The United States In a ?Low Grade? Civil War?
2009-08-21 17:17:00
It is a chilling question and one that has been troubling me for about two weeks.  I read the “low grade civil war” phrase as a declarative statement from a commenter on a news story about the Congressional Town Hall meetings and it has been rattling in my brain ever since. I’ve been wanting to post ...
W Addresses a Critic: A Lesson for his successor (& his supporters)
2009-08-11 23:09:00
At Gateway Pundit, Jim links footage of former President George W. Bush addressing a critic in a town hall meeting which should be required viewing for all critics (and haters) of that good man, but flawed politician.  The respect the Republican showed for his adversary is at odds with the imagery the left used to ...
Making Gates? issue a racial one prevents us from moving beyond race
2009-07-28 22:27:00
I have long believe that the primary goal of the gay movement should be promoting real and lasting social change, creating a society where we can live openly without suffering derision or marginalization because of our difference.  That is, people would see our sexuality as incidental to our essence. “Oh, you’re gay?” someone would say when ...
By Sotomayor?s Reasoning, Court decision upholding Jim Crow was ?settled la
2009-07-15 09:25:00
President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor said yesterday that the Roe v. Wade is “settled law.” By that standard, she would (had she been asked in 1932) have called Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 decision upholding Jim Crow laws, “settled law” .
Obama Support Is Tanking
2009-07-02 22:04:00
Wow.  As PatriotPartner said to me — “Want to see a lead balloon?  Go to Rasmussen today“. (h/t - HotAir) Ed Morrissey sums it all up nicely over at HotAir. Rasmussen?s new poll, taken before the release of June?s unemployment numbers, shows significant slippage for Barack Obama on the economy, his central issue.  Only 42% of American ...
Obama Needs Articulate American Ideals, Praise Iranian Protestors
2009-06-22 09:51:00
Like many Americans on both sides of the political aisle, I follow the events in Iran sensing we are witnessing something of great historical significance.  It reminds me of the fall of 1989 when I would return home from work and flip on CNN (then the only 24-hour cable news network) to learn of the ...
Would There Be Green In Iran Without Purple In Iraq?
2009-06-20 00:47:00
I have been following the demonstrations in Iran this past week with great interest. I was a young boy in 1979 when the Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah and led to a decades-long cold and hard war with the West.  It is my firm belief that the events in Iran in 1979 were the beginning of ...
The Budweiser Clydesdale ? American History & Future
2009-06-10 07:01:00
According to USA Today, 2009 Super Bowl ads featuring the Budweiser Clydesdales ranked second and third in its list of the top ten most popular. Fans of these animals may wonder how they can appear identical and march in perfect step with one another – not to mention how a person can c
W & the Historians
2009-05-14 22:14:00
When future historians start to seriously consider the record of the immediate past President of the United States, George W. Bush, they will wonder at how a man so moderate in temperament could have attracted criticism so vicious. They will certainly rate him above many of those who preceded him in the late Twentieth Century, well ...
Jack Kemp: 1935-2009
2009-05-03 04:45:00
It it with great sorrow that I read the news this evening of the passing of former Congressman, Cabinet Secretary and VP Candidate Jack Kemp.  He was one of the good guys in politics. Rest In Peace.  I’m sure there is a touch football game in Heaven tonight. -Bruce (GayPatriot)
The Fading Appeal of Bill Clinton
2009-04-30 08:56:00
I believe one reason Barack Obama tapped Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State in large part to buy her husband’s silence. As the most popular Democrat in the country until Obama came along, Bill Clinton could give “blue dog” Democrats cover should he ever even hint that he opposed one of the President’s initiatives, particularly ...
The President Enters the Fever Swamp
2009-04-29 22:46:00
Just look at how he describes the Tea Parties:  “Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I?m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around . . . .“ Emphasis added.  Guess he doesn’t know that we called them Tea Parties in honor of a certain pivotal event in ...
Cheney?s Inappropriate Criticism
2009-04-08 21:30:00
It should be no secret to readers of this blog that I am a huge fan of of the immediate past Vice President of the United States. Not only was Richard Cheney The Most Pro-Gay Vice President in U.S. History, but he was also a steady advocate throughout his tenure in the Executive Branch ...
A Glimmer of Hope for the GOP
2009-04-05 05:40:00
Not Since Ulysses S. Grant has a president first elected in a year ending in “8″ served two full terms in the White House.
You Say You Want A Revolution?
2009-04-04 04:40:00
You know, if this were a map of, oh I don’t know…. anti-war protests against the Bush Administration in nearly every state in the USA…. there’d be national news coverage every day bordering on hysteria. But since this is a map of ordinary Americans standing up spontaneously against the tyranny of Washington, DC spending — nary ...
Bush Deficits vs. Obama Deficits
2009-03-30 13:06:00
Here’s a nifty graphic originally created by the Washington Post. (h/t - Heritage Foundation) And by “nifty”, I mean completely scary and mind-boggling! Obama Lied, the American Way of Life Died! Paraphrasing Eva Peron — “We are ALL Government Workers Now”. -Bruce (GayPatriot)
?Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death!?
2009-03-23 17:29:00
One of the original American patriots, Patrick Henry, delivered one of the greatest speeches in our nation’s history — 234 years ago today.  (h/t - Casey Wright via Twitter) I can’t believe I have never posted this speech at GayPatriot before.  Perhaps the time wasn’t right.  Until now. ?No man thinks more highly than I do of ...
Early On, FDR Understood the Threat of Fascism
2009-03-21 20:36:00
I just completed Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression and expect I’ll offer a more complete review as some later date, but for now will offer a more concise review:  Read this book as it shows the many parallels between the actions of President Obama and his predecessor in ...
The President Should Watch This
2009-03-06 23:54:00
(H/t Glenn.)
Obama, Rush & Valerie Plame
2009-03-05 17:43:00
Barack Hussein Hoover is morphing this week into Richard Milhouse Obama.  The focused, surround-sound attack on Rush Limbaugh seems awfully familiar.  So, now we know.  President Obama’s mentions of Rush Limbaugh are no accident.  Democratic strategists have discovered that Rush has low approval ratings with the general public.  So they have devised a strategy to paint ...
Barack Hussein Hoover
2009-03-02 23:18:00
Last week, Michael Ledeen compared the President to one of the worst presidents of the twentieth century, Jimmy Carter. But, as I read Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, it seems he has more in common with another failure of the previous century, Herbert Hoover. Like that hapless (as ...
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