Michelle Malkin’s ‘Inconvenient Question’ on the Mt. Vernon Statement
As Michelle Malkin points out, the Mount Vernon Statement lays out broad principles for “constitutional conservatism,” and is an elegant tribute to limited government and the Founding Fathers. The document carries the signatures of movement leaders, Beltway heavyweights, and veteran activists, however, the views of two of its most prominent backers -: the American Conservative [...]
Mount Vernon Conservatives
Together, President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were supposed to usher in a
new era of liberal dominance. The defeated conservative remnant,
it was predicted, would then turn against each other, bereft of
ideas and reduced to cannibalizing their own movement.
[...]
NY23: ‘Do You Believe in Miracles’?
What a difference two weeks can make. Toward the end of an
Oct. 14 conference call organized by David
Keene of the American Conservative Union, congressional
candidate Doug
Hoffman plaintively asked, “Does anybody know how to get
Glenn Beck interested in this?”
Monday afternoon, Hoffman was interviewed [...]
Huckabee and Hoffman
WILL HE OR WON’T HE?
Fox News host, garage band cover guitarist, and former Arkansas
Gov. Mike Huckabee will be making a
long-planned speech before the New York Conservative Party in
Syracuse, New York on October 28, but has thus far declined to
say whether he will formally [...]
State Health Care Plan: Traveling Eternity Road - on a One-Way Ticket
This is so stunning, I’m still not sure what to make of it.
Several states already have the equivalent of ObamaCare’s “government option;” one of those is Oregon.
Oregon is a blue state… in the last two decades, a very blue state:
The last time it went for the Republican in a presidential race was a quarter century [...]
Don’t Mess With Fred Smith
The American Conservative Union gets caught in flagrante delicto — and not for the first time. What’s really amazing about this story is that anyone thought they could pull a fast one on Fred Smith, who was awarded a Silver Star, a Bronze Star, and two Purple Hearts for his service in Vietnam before returning [...]
