September 22nd, 2011
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Morning Briefing for September 22, 2011
RedState Morning Briefing For September 22, 2011 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to getthe Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. The first post today is on Troy Davis. I want to make clear that I have a lot of friends who oppose the death penalty. They have valid reasons for doing so. But those of my [...]
Tech at Night: LightSquared, AT&T, T-Mobile, Google
I’ve basically got three topics for tonight’s edition. It’s sad that two of them are government antitrust actions. I suppose elections do have consequences, and one key consequence of Barack Obama’s election is corporatist selection of winners and losers in the marketplace. The third main topic: Alleged corruption. I’m still playing the role of skeptic [...]
Christianity and the Death Penalty
“Whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall their blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made mankind.”— Gen. 9:6 (NIV) I am no theologian, but tonight I kept running into people who claim I cannot be a Christian and support the death penalty. Many of them referred to the Catholic Church, [...]
There Is No Travesty of Justice in Georgia. Execute Troy Davis
Tonight the United States Supreme Court declined to stay Troy Davis’s execution. He will, by the time many of you are reading this, be dead. There were no expressions of dissent or objection from any of the 9 members of the Supreme Court. ———————- I like Guy Benson a lot, but his column on Troy [...]
Green Profiteers and Plastic Bags
Believe it or not, there’s been a war going on over plastic bags for some time now. It seems that manufacturers of those reusable bags you see near the checkout line were none too pleased that so many people were continuing to choose plastic or paper bags as opposed to shelling out $20 bucks for [...]
Troy Davis Is A Justly Convicted Cop Killer
I’ve had my say on Troy Davis. Now consider Ann Coulter who read through the entirely of the 170+ page federal judicial re-examination of the evidence. [T]he media claim that seven of the nine witnesses against Davis at trial have recanted. First of all, the state presented 34 witnesses against Davis — not nine — [...]
The Troy Davis Execution and the Horserace
Tonight, Troy Davis is set to be executed at 7:00 p.m. I go on air at 7:06 p.m. We’ll be handling the situation live and then going into the horserace at 7:30 p.m. tonight. You can listen live by clicking here and you can call in at 1-800-WSB-TALK. Consider this an open thread.
Get Ready: Conservatives Are About to Support the Federal Takeover of Schools
After Mitt Romney attacked Rick Perry for joining Milton Friedman in calling social security a “ponzi scheme”, conservative intellectuals in the DC-NY corridor suddenly began treating Friedman as John Maynard Keynes’ bastard love child with Karl Marx and rejecting all calls to reform social security because Rick Perry dared to call it a ponzi scheme. [...]
On HPV and Virtuous Diseases
One of the disadvantages of being a procrastinator is that sometimes you lose great opportunities. I started on this story last week and put it aside because of travel, In the meantime I find that Michael Gerson has hit the subject much better than I ever could. Though the kerfuffle concerning Michele Bachmann and the [...]
Isn’t This a Relevant Connection?
Nicole Gelinas is over at National Review joining in questioning Rick Perry about his “ponzi” rhetoric on social security. I’ve read that post twice and really don’t see the point of it, even with the previous points. But what is relevant to me is that Ms. Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute’s [...]
