As South Carolinians shake off our collective deer-in-the-headlights look, there is only one word many of us can say.
Wow.
Cody Fields @ June 24, 2009
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I’m on a vacation right now, but I wanted to at least post some links for your perusal. These are some stories I’ve found important and/or entertaining this week.
First, Charles Krauthammer has the best column I’ve read about how conservatives and the formerly-conservative Republican Party should address the Sotomayor nomination. Indeed, we can use this confirmation process to contrast conservatism and liberalism, liberty and statism. Sotomayor should be confirmed, but not before we use what will be a highly-publicized process to articulate our agenda and ideology.
Also on Sonia Sotomayor, Tom Tancredo has some great analysis in this video– something about the Latino KKK.
From one of the worst sit-coms ever, Coach, Craig T. Nelson told Glenn Beck he was through with taxes. It’s an entertaining video.
I’m a policy wonk. But when it comes to health care policy, I’m a policy nerd (Here are my health care ideas, if you’re interested . . . I devour just about any health care policy proposals I see. In that spirit, I post this story from Breitbart to be sure everyone is updated on the president’s plans. Also, I want to continue establishing a theme I’ve written about before: the Obama administration uses fear and urgency to push their policy proposals.
Cory Truax @ May 29, 2009
Since the election of President Obama, marriage has been under a relentless assault as proponents of same-sex marriage sense the tide of public opinion turning in their favor. The new White House website, which was posted on the day of President Obama’s inauguration, calls for the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. In relatively quick succession, the Iowa and Connecticut state supreme courts declared same-sex marriage legal and Vermont became the first state to pass same-sex marriage through their legislature. The people of Iowa have yet to have their say in the matter and it is likely, if the legislature will allow it, there will be a constitutional amendment protecting marriage on a future Iowa ballot that will pass with plenty of votes to spare.
While it is true same-sex marriage activists suffered a major setback in California with the passage of Proposition 8, they haven’t lost heart because recent national poll numbers suggest traditional marriage may be on the way out. Two very biased polls, one conducted by CBS News and the other conducted by Newsweek, suggest that support for same-sex marriage is surging. The CBS poll reported forty-two percent believed same-sex couples should be allowed to legally marry while only twenty-eight percent said they should have no legal recognition. The poll also revealed twenty-five percent would support civil unions. What CBS fails to mention is that those who favor no legal recognition and those who favor civil unions both agree that same-sex couples should not be allowed to legally marry. That means the split is actually forty-two percent in favor of same-sex marriage and fifty-three percent opposed. But of course the reader comes away from the presentation of the data believing the majority favor same-sex marriage. More on page 245
Cory Truax @ May 14, 2009
