August 31st, 2011
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Obama Makes the Case for State Control of Surface Transportation
Earlier today, Barack Obama decried the gridlock that has prevented Congress from passing a long-term surface transportation bill (highway bill) as unacceptable and inexcusable. He also asserted that we must formulate a policy in which funding would be directed to those districts that need it the most, instead of politically motivated pork, such as the [...]
The Arrogant Left Hates Rural, Conservative America.
“It seems unjust to me that someone would be charged when they were protecting their family,” state Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, said after the hearing. “I’m at a loss to understand why the U.S. government is pursuing this in the manner they are.” (HT: The Spokesman Review) Let me break this down for Representative Keough. [...]
David Bernstein Talks About Rehabilitating Lochner
Download audio here Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Pejman Yousefzadeh and Kevin Holtsberry are joined by Professor David Bernstein to discuss the his new book, Rehabilitating Lochner, and how the curbing of economic liberty helps lead to the curbing of a host of other rights as [...]
Back By Popular Demand — Ms. Maxy
Folks, I’ve been overwhelmed with requests to replay Ms. Maxy on Boortz’s show and relink. Here you go. Ace of Spades discovered Ms. Maxy on YouTube. I cleaned it up and put her on air today for Neal Boortz. You can listen to the edited version that I played by clicking right here.
Is Ryan Lizza An Idiot or Willfully Distorting Christian Theology?
From Ben Domenech’s excellent Transom, I found out some news I did not have when I wrote yesterday about Ryan Lizza’s The New Yorker article where he got major, substantive facts wrong. One of the things Lizza did was tie Michele Bachmann to Francis Schaeffer and Nancy Pearcey, who Lizza opined are “dominionists.” Well, Schaeffer [...]
Ezra Klein vs. the Dictionary
Ezra Klein is the twenty something leftwing hack who has never had a real job in the private sector beyond the lefty think tank and pundit shops in DC. Somehow or another he got a cushy gig pretending to be objective at the Washington Post where he continues to mouth off on economic policy from [...]
RGA Ad: Earl Ray Tomblin and West Virginia Pays.
The RGA has a website (West Virginia Pays) and an ad up to get people… acquainted… with acting Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D): To refresh people’s memories: West Virginia – a coal-producing state that is almost stubbornly Democratic on the local level, despite the fact that the national Democratic party elite dreams of dismantling [...]
Back In For Boortz This Morning
Reminded again he has more vacation days than me, I’m filling in for Neal Boortz today. I’ll get into my top post this morning about folks in the media acting so dumb when it comes to religion and we’ll explore Ms. Maxy’s rants as well. You can listen live this morning by clicking right here [...]
Obama NLRB’s War on Workers and Job Creators Continues
On Tuesday*, a mere four business days after the union extremists at President Obama’s National Labor Relations Board issued an edict forcing all NLRA-covered private-sector businesses to notify their employees about their rights to unionize their workplace, the government’s primary union pushers issued a series of decisions that undermine both employee’s rights and employers ability [...]
Morning Briefing for August 31, 2011
RedState Morning Briefing For August 31, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. The Left: still quite unhinged about Dick Cheney. 2. The Shame of Colin Powell 3. Obama continues to politicize 9/11 anniversary ———————————————————————- 1. The Left: still quite unhinged about Dick Cheney. You probably remember him. [...]
