[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[afraidfortherepublic]

I spent about and hour and a half with my Congressman this afternoon. He was always known as very conservative and religious. Very pro-life, very pro-traditional everything.

He’s only been in DC 6 months. He’s gained about 100 lbs and looks totally stressed. Sleeping in his office; showering in the house gym; eating out every meal.

I asked him what can be done about the gay marriage problem, and he point blank said that his constituency doesn’t care about it. He says that he has long dreamed of finding a billionaire, conservative backer who could mount a campaign to put the moral fiber back in America — to counter the brainwashing of the children in our schools.

He says there is nobody, and his wealthy backers say up front that none of them care about gay marriage. I’m discouraged.

[TChad]

Instead of launching another radio show or news aggregator or think-tank, never mind obsessing over whether Jeb or Jindal or Christie will play better in Iowa, we need to make like the Islamic mullahs and the sex mullahs and start competing for the space where people actually live.

Sounds good, but I'm not sure what that would mean in practice.

[nathanbedford]

Nathan Bedford's third Maxim of American politics: culture trumps politics and bottom-up beats top-down.

[nathanbedford]

Nathan Bedford's third Maxim of American politics: culture trumps politics and bottom-up beats top-down.

[867V309]

Rise with the tide

go with the flow

get your head battered

and sink like a stone..

[John W]

“....conservatives have spent the supposed “end of history” winning a zillion elections, and losing everything that matters.”

[windsorknot]

Law of the land! Law of the land! Move on! Bipartisan! Squawk!

[B212]

there are no conservatives, only liberals of varying degrees of political allegiance, liberal right-wing, liberal-centralists and liberal left-wing

[Guenevere]

Steyn ‘gets it’ like no one else!

Oh, there are plenty of us who, in good conscience, can not, will not go with the flow.

Corrie ten Boom is one (of many) of my spiritual mentors.
I never met her.....I’ve only read and heard about her....
But if I can only have an ounce of her courage, passion and faith, I would consider myself blessed indeed.

The time is coming.......actually is now here....when all of us need to decide where we stand.

[Servant of the Cross]

I don't want to wind up with a choice between the twin totalitarianisms of soulless state-regulated hyper-sexualized semi-tyranny and sharia - because, if that's what it comes down to, I know who'll win. But conservatives have spent the supposed "end of history" winning a zillion elections, and losing everything that matters. To most of the so-called millennials, conservatism is entirely invisible except as a Jon Stewart punchline - and that invisibility was largely our choice. Instead of launching another radio show or news aggregator or think-tank, never mind obsessing over whether Jeb or Jindal or Christie will play better in Iowa, we need to make like the Islamic mullahs and the sex mullahs and start competing for the space where people actually live.

[Old Sarge]

Jonah Goldberg was on before me, and advanced the proposition, after the Supreme Court's almighty constitutional bender last week, that it wasn't so bad; conservatives who just pottered around in their own world and tended to their families would still be able to lead lives largely unbattered by the forces of "progress".

Jonah Goldberg said this.

JONAH GOLDBERG.

[Excellence]

it’s telling you that these guys mean it - and they’ve figured out that you don’t.

That’s really it in a nutshell.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Wow. Really excellent column. So well written and profound at the same time.

[wintertime]

When it **really*** mattered Mark Steyn could have stood up for the Constitution. Instead, he called the requirement of natural born citizenship for the President a mere “technicality”.

Who is he to tell me to stand up for truth and light when he failed to do it when it was most critical.

I will never forgive these yappers. **Never***!

[Gritty]

That's how effective Big Gay is: They took "the good guys", and made 'em the bad guys, in nothing flat.

In a deranged culture where the Stalinist blood lust of political correctness is so insatiable that a hit TV show has to be yanked from the airwaves because of the roof of a motor vehicle driven by the characters, how many networks will be willing to countenance anyone espousing "traditional" theology or morality?

...that long march through the institutions... turned out to be not that long after all. If it's too much to expect a Supreme Court justice to stand against "Modern Family", why should anybody else?

Exactly.

Kristallnacht is coming soon and Christians are the new Jews.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Those of us in small businesses will be the first targeted.

From the responses I have seen on this board we will be told to submit, we will be given advice on how to weasel around the law. We have only a few who will stand strong with us.