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Posted at 4:55pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Some interesting pictures....Also a Friday open thread....And Farewell RS2.0

By aaronbg

This last weekend I went to the car was to get my Jeep all cleaned up. While I was in the lobby waiting for my vehicle I perused the greeting cards they had for sale. Most of them were the regular old cards and silly jokes...but then to my surprise I saw these:

That one was pretty good but then this one is really something..

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Posted at 4:25pm on Jul. 11, 2008 Wasteful Officials Idle Their SUVs

By grforbes

Grassley lectured government officials today for idling their SUVs. According to Grassley, these officials will leave their vehicles idling for hours while they conduct government business. In a letter to the president dated July 10, Grassley has asked the president to help stop this wasteful practice.

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Posted at 3:53pm on Jul. 10, 2008 I humbly accept the peoples nomination for POTUS

By Steve Foley

After a long hard talk with my wife and 3 kids I'm happy to announce that I will accept the peoples nomination for President of the United States and promise to work, to the best of my abilities, in serving the people of this great nation.

The Steve Foley Phenomenon

I want to thank David Hinz for working so hard for my campaign!

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Posted at 10:35am on Jul. 10, 2008 Science is Racist in Dallas!

By LanceKates

A County Commissioners meeting in Dallas County ran into a little problem.

You see, Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, a white fellow, was talking about the ability of the central collections office to lose alot of paperwork, specifically discussing traffic tickets and such. He referred to this ability for paperwork to enter the office and disappear as the office becomming "a black hole" of sorts.

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Posted at 11:07pm on Jul. 9, 2008 An Ethics Cage Match: ACORN v. Points Of Light

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

It's not even a contest.

Posted at 6:47pm on Jul. 9, 2008 Democrat Party Tombstone

By Bill Dupray

From one of my favorite Democrats, Uppity Woman.

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Posted at 11:59am on Jul. 8, 2008 That's not the Arctic that I know

By el hombre

I am shocked and dismayed that perhaps the most important find to argue against man-made global warming has escaped this site. I have waited for someone with better linguistic skills than me to report on this, however, I cannot wait any longer. Is RedState part of the conspiracy to squash anti-global warming rhetoric because the presumptive nominee, (heh, Maverick), believes wholeheartedly in AGW? Not sure, however, I’m presuming he doesn’t believe in Science since Scientists made up only 15 percent of the global warming proponents. The remaining 85 percent included politicians, celebrities, other journalists and even ordinary men and women. There were more unidentified interview subjects used to support climate change hype than actual scientists (101 unidentified to just 71 scientists). And let’s not forget that real scientists cannot get any traction with the media and therefore, the American people being brainwashed into believing in this scam. There's more....

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Posted at 9:48pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Quotes That Catch My Fancy

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

This one, this one and this one go together quite well, no?

Posted at 9:44pm on Jul. 7, 2008 Better Late Than Never

By Pejman Yousefzadeh

Adam Smith finally gets his due.

Posted at 3:33pm on Jul. 4, 2008 A Day For Traitors and Treasonists

By haystack

[image via WikiMedia]

Our founding Fathers, 56 of them God rest their souls, were traitors in their time and were considered by their fellow Englishmen back then to be the most evil amongst good men...but what was derived from their high crimes of treason stands before us today as the greatest nation in the history of mankind. This fact deserves nothing less than a hushed silence of reverence and respect; you crush a man under your heels long enough and he will rise up against you. After many years of having to suffer the tyranny of their government, on this day 232 years ago our forefathers flipped off a King, and set about bringing sanity to an insane world.

Consider these words in contrast with the lessons of history our current Congress (and the cavalier nature of their impositions on our lives) either never learned or have clearly forgotten:

[A]ll experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

This Independence day I am especially reminded of these words as I look around at the collective state of our Republic.

More below the fold...

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Posted at 12:43pm on Jul. 4, 2008 Today is worthy of celebration

By Erick

It may surprise you as it surprised me. There are some people, largely those who lean toward the libertarian view on life, who will not celebrate this day as our Independence Day. They say we are no longer an independent people and this day is not worth celebrating. In their effort to shock people with their near atheist view of American exceptionalism, they profoundly miss the point.

I tend to agree with them. We have embraced a national government at the expense of ourselves and our states. For this very reason, we should celebrate this day all the more.

232 years ago, a group of men pledged their lives, their fortune, and their honor to rebel against a tyrant who refused to recognize them as free people subject to the laws of the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was a very conservative revolution — the men wanted to be recognized as free men like the other British subjects on the island and, when not so recognized, threw off the shackles of tyranny that these free men might be free.

Those who believe we are no longer free fail to recognize that we are no longer free through our own actions. We have, collectively, chosen actions to make us less free. Those who believe we are no longer free should therefore highlight the example of our founders more so than any other group.

Today is not the day to proclaim our Independence Day no longer has any meaning. Today is the day to celebrate our Independence Day to show what might be yet again if a free people chose again to be free of the shackles of a federal government that increasingly seeks to make a free people again dependent.

A Christian in the midst of those who have thrown off the faith has a duty to proclaim the gospel even louder and pray even harder for the lost. One committed to the first principles of this nation has a similar duty when surrounded by those who have forgotten those first principles. And just as Easter and Christmas are the two high holy days for the Christian, Independence Day and Constitution Day should be viewed the same by those disenchanted by our present lack of every day independence.

So celebrate and rejoice. Today is the day a free people rose up and restored their freedom through independence.

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Posted at 5:32am on Jul. 3, 2008 An additional note on Rush Limbaugh, the $400 million man.

By Erick

I am writing this at 4:45 a.m. For the last week and a half, I've been getting up while the majority of you are comfortably in bed and hosting a three hour radio program from 6am to 9am here in Macon, Georgia. The channel, AM940 WMAC, is the Rush Limbaugh station in the Middle Georgia area.

I have always had profound respect for what Rush Limbaugh does. Those who hate him and are most critical of him, I have found, are often those who have never listened to more than an hour of his show. While passionately and uncompromisingly conservative, Rush is also a great entertainer.

After this last week and a half on the radio, I have even more respect for Rush than I did. You try speaking for 120 minutes non-stop off the top of your head with no written script in front of you (3 hours with 40 minutes of talk per hour). Try also to make sure you are engaging, entertaining, and have necessary information at instant recall to be informative. It's a damnably difficult thing to do.

Naturally today, the left is up in arms over Rush's deal. I am too. For what Rush Limbaugh does, Clear Channel got him cheap. It's easy to throw stones at the man, but it is virtually impossible to duplicate what he does.

Tony Snow has always been my favorite guest host for Rush. In the past year, however, I think Jason Lewis is my favorite. Both Jason and Tony are witty, very conversational, highly informative, and pleasant to listen to. Jason Lewis, in particular, has an impressive knowledge of economic and financial data ready at the recall to explain most any subject for any caller. Neither of them, however, are comparable to Rush in style, humor, or engagement with the listener.

As I head out this morning with IV of caffine, I have my well prepared stack of stuff, made all the easier because of what my day job is here at RedState — I'm constantly sifting information. The feedback I've gotten has been very positive. I will aspire to do what Rush does on the radio as well as Rush does it, but I also know that I never will reach his level. He is unique. And $400 million is a small price to pay for a man who does something better than anyone else on earth and who single handedly revitalized a dying medium.

And yes, I do make sure both of our children, though one is still comfortably in the womb, get their daily dose of Rush. After all, according to the New York Times, Rush Limbaugh listeners are smarter than NPR listeners and also 99% less pretentious.

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Posted at 10:25pm on Jul. 2, 2008 On service.

By Patrick Murdock

Senator Obama said today:

"Loving your country shouldn't just mean watching fireworks on the Fourth of July. Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it."

"We need your service right now, at this moment — our moment — in history."

Senator Obama, I always find such comments interesting because it seems to say that most of us civilians are not involved in any service to our country - that civilians are not making any sacrifices in their lives to make our country better and to help others. And that the only legitimate service is one where you are employed in some program or service operated by the Federal, State or local government.

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Posted at 10:07am on Jul. 2, 2008 Congratulations Rush Limbaugh

By Erick

This is outstanding news. Expect the left to redouble their efforts to revive the Fairness Doctrine.

And isn't it interesting to note that Rush Limbaugh is thriving and the left just can't get their act together on talk radio? I've always suspected that is because the people who listen to talk radio are people going to jobs or on the road for work; in other words, people who tend to contribute to society instead of taking from society and those people are generally conservative.

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