Morning Briefing
For June 17, 2013
1. Five Years
Five years ago I put up a post at RedState asking if, after four years of knowing each other online, did anyone want to get together in Atlanta to meet face to face. I expected a few dozen to say yes. More than 400 did. Thus the RedState Gathering was born.
Each year, the first weekend in August, we meet somewhere. Elected officials and candidates join us to have a conversation. They speak for fifteen minutes and spend another answering questions. They talk about what they care about and answer questions based on what you care about. Many of them hang around.
To be honest, it is not a fancy event. There’s no fancy music choreography. There’s no MC booming over a microphone. It is not CPAC or one of the other fancy conventions. This is about you. The speakers pay their own way. They answer your questions. You get to interact with each other.
We don’t do silly dead-end panel conversations weighing the future of some esoteric topic and how it impacts conservatives. We meet for each other and to see the conservative leaders who fight with us, for us, and beside us. We meet the conservative candidates RedState readers help get elected. We set aside pretensions in favor of shared activist goals.
This is why I love the RedState Gathering. It's not about backslapping donors and providing lobbyist access into the conservative movement. It's about conservatives spending time with conservatives -- the elected, the candidates, and the grassroots who help them.
This year we are delighted to be joined by Governors Jindal, Haley, and Perry, Attorney General Cuccinelli, Senators Cruz and Scott, Congressmen Bridenstine, Mulvaney, and Scalise, and we’ll be announcing more shortly. The room block is almost filled and the discounted registration is almost expired. But you’ve got a chance still to register at a discount and get a room.
The RedState Gathering will be in New Orleans, Louisiana on August 1st through the 4th. The two active days will be the 2nd and 3rd. But you’re going to want to make sure you are there by the evening of the 1st so you don’t miss anything. You can register and get access to the room block by going to http://www.redstategathering.com.
Five years in, we’ve seen most of the candidates we’ve supported at the RedState Gathering get elected — some even as primary challengers to powerful incumbent Republicans. We’re going to present some new challengers this year too. I look forward to seeing you there. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Activate Damage Control, Senator Rubio
This cannot stand, particularly if you want to run for President. Ryan Lizza is a liberal and has occasionally written about things he does not understand, i.e. Christianity, but Ryan Lizza doesn’t make sh. . . tuff up. He’s good.
So when Ryan Lizza writes that a Rubio aide told him Senator Rubio had “sided with the Chamber against the construction workers,” we have to take seriously that the aide to Senator Rubio really believes there are Americans who should, for lack of a better term, suffer the fate of natural selection.
The aide’s exact quote is:
"There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it …. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly." . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Microwave Ovens and Monopoly Money
A recent press release from the Department of Energy typifies the regulatory legerdemain we have come to know and love from the Most Transparent Administration in History®. Other blogs and news outlets covered the story this week: the obvious angle is that the Obama Administration pulled a fast one by burying a controversial regulatory change inside an apparently innocuous press release, hoping to slip it by a sleepy constituency and scientifically illiterate journalists.
But in researching the story for this blog, I came to see the story in deeper terms that reveal what’s really going on with the maladministration that afflicts this country. It’s as if they were selling Obamacare with promises to cut your aspirin bill in half. Some folks call it “straining at a gnat to swallow a camel”, typical of how the “blind guides” in this Administration run their business. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Mr. Hogan
Readers of RedState may know that I was a regular front-page contributor for a while before life, circumstance and the good Lord took me, and my place in our larger fight for freedom and in defense of the American way of life to different places. I remain an active reader – and, shall we say, facilitator for other writers. Many have wondered why I write under the name “hogan.” It is because the legendary golfer and American sports icon, Ben Hogan, is a hero of mine – and I chose the lower case “h” because only he is Mr. Hogan.
Mr. Hogan was never a father. This may have been so because Mr. Hogan’s own father Chester committed suicide when Ben was only 9 years old, possibly in front of him. But I always will associate Mr. Hogan with Father’s Day and all that it represents – including what it means to persevere and to work hard to succeed and to win (in golf, in life and in politics). Such always was the American way – and it is why we are a great nation and a great people.
I particularly think of Mr. Hogan as we watch the final round of the United States Open Championship at Merion Golf Club – the site of perhaps Mr. Hogan’s greatest triumph. (Hat tip to the USGA for taking the Open back to a venue deemed “to small” to handle it). . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Out of Bounds: Another Court Smack’s Obama NLRB’s Overreach On Union Rights Posters
In 2010, when Barack Obama’s constitutionally-challenged National Labor Relations Board began proposing an edict to force private-sector, union-free employers to post so-called Union Rights posters. the Board’s lone Republican at the time, Brian Hayes, argued that “the posting requirement is beyond the scope of the Board’s NLRA Sec. 6 power to issue ‘such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions’ of the NLRA.”
In other words, argued Hayes, Congress didn’t give the NLRB the power to require such postings. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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