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ERICK ERICKSON FRONT PAGE WRITERS FEATURES E-LETTERS COFFEE & MARKETS GATHERING FRIENDS RedState Gathering Set For Atlanta in 2015! Click here for more information. « BACK | PRINT RS FRONT PAGE CONTRIBUTOR 2014 and Republican Morale By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary) | November 24th, 2014 at 05:00 PM | 15 RESIZE: AAA Share on Facebook 12 57 SHARES Sexy Karl Rove 622 There’s been a lot written about the impact of the 2014 elections, but let’s not overlook one of the really crucial points: its effect on Republican morale. Republicans didn’t just need a win: we needed a win that met...

A poll by the Des Moines Register published today offers multiple reasons for GOP joy. Jodi Ernst is breaking out into a lead that is beyond the poll’s margin of error, while, Harry Reid, in words he may regret, has gone on the record saying that an Ernst win portends the GOP taking the Senate. "What Joni Ernst would mean, coming to the United States Senate, is that Mitch McConnell would be the leader of the Senate, someone who agrees with her on virtually everything. Think what that would mean to our country," Reid said on Friday. Unless this is...

War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Published during the Soviet Union's rise as a global superpower, George Orwell's 1984 offers a prescient window into the soul of the propaganda apparatus of a utopia dictatorship. While Barack Obama has yet to transform the United States from a constitutional republic, his effort to redesign Old Glory notwithstanding, enough similarities have arisen during his presidency and his campaign for re-election that it is worth taking notice. When reality is refracted through the prism of the state propaganda machine, we lose sight of who we are as a society. Inhabitants of...

Perhaps mom was right all along -- maybe too much mass debating will make you go blind. So while Americans all across the country are scared to death of the most radical administration in history killing jobs while expanding government debt and power at record rates, liberals in the elite media are debating some comments Christine O'Donnell made in the '90s about fishing camps for kids.

T. Boone Pickens looks tired. Standing in the sunken pit of a packed lecture hall at Houston's Rice University, he's hawking his Pickens Plan for energy independence, saying we need to use more wind power and natural gas. The 80-year-old, with flesh-colored hearing aids set deep inside his ears and tanned bags drooping under his eyes, looks confused and momentarily loses track of what he's saying. He pauses, takes off his gold Rolex, slumps down on a stool and announces in his trademark drawl, "I'm runnin' out of money." (Which, for Pickens, means he's still got untold millions, possibly billions,...

Logan Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Logan Act is a United States federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments. It was passed in 1799 and last ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act - 45k - Cached - Similar pages

The Senate races are now in high gear and it is time for us all to focus. Jack Ryan won the Primary in Illinois last night, and we have a real shot there. As we saw in Colorado, things are still in flux, but I thought I'd give you my take on 10 Senate races that I hope you have at the top of the radar screen. Print this out for future reference. VOLPAC will be taking a position on these races as we get through the Primaries. We are strongly supporting all of the Republican incumbents right now. 1....

What’s wrong with your 401(k) -- and how to fix it Experts agree these ubiquitous retirement plans have gone terribly wrong. Here’s how they would fix the system, but you can take their advice to protect yourself now. By Lynn O'Shaunessy Ted Benna created the first 401(k) for guinea pigs at his own benefits-consulting firm 21 years ago. No psychic could have predicted that the 401(k) -- named for an obscure section of the federal tax code -- would someday dominate how Americans save for retirement. With traditional pension plans fading into the sunset, the do-it-yourself 401(k) has become as...

March 8, 2001 Blue Dogs Given Lead in Tax Fight By Ethan Wallison In a gesture both unprecedented and symbolic, House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) has tapped the conservative Blue Dog Coalition in the Caucus to lead the party's opposition in today's floor debate over the Republicans' proposed $1.6 trillion tax cut. Breaking with custom, the group has been given control over much of the time in the debate and has been handed the reins in a multiday message strategy that will begin with a long sequence of one-minute speeches this morning and continue on the Sunday chat ...

MOSES DELIVERED the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai. And, in this election, Moses may deliver the battleground states for George W. Bush. Over the past two weeks and this week, NRA President Charlton Heston has been making the rounds in key swing states, like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin (as well as Tennessee, Arkansas, and Virginia). And he’s having an effect. Heston’s rousing speeches, coupled with those of NRA VP Wayne LaPierre, have Democratic interest groups, like the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, quaking in their boots. And for good reason. In states like Pennsylvania, an estimated 1.2 million gun owners ...