Morning Briefing
For August 2, 2013
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1. Finger Lickin’ Frauds
John Cornyn went on radio yesterday with Chad
Hasty (on twitter: @chadhastyradio) on Lubbock’s NewsTalk 790 AM KFYO.
When asked why he took his name off Mike Lee’s letter about defunding
Obamacare, John Cornyn said he did so because of a Congressional
Research Service report on the implication of Mike Lee’s strategy.
There’s just one problem. John Cornyn took
his name off the letter before the Congressional Research Service
released its report. In fact, before Mike Lee’s office officially
released the names on the letter, multiple sources in the Senate
confirmed that Senator Cornyn removed his name after conversations with
Senator Mitch McConnell’s office.
The
Congressional Research Service report came out Monday, July 29, 2013.
Senator Cornyn dropped off the letter the prior Monday, and was publicly
not on the list when Mike Lee officially released it on July 25, 2013. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. We Are Gathering
Five years ago I put up a post on RedState
asking if any of the long time readers, diarists, and commenters wanted
to get together in person. We had been online four years at that point.
To my surprise, several hundred said yes.
So we met in Atlanta five years ago this
weekend. The first weekend in August ever since we have met. Our second
year, Rick Perry threw a welcome party, thus starting the tradition of
Governors welcoming us to their state. Tonight, Bobby Jindal will do the
same here in New Orleans.
Each year we have featured solid conservative
leaders we are proud to stand behind, solid conservative candidates we
want to see elected, and sound voices from the movement who should be
heard.
The Gathering never attracts a lot of media
attention, save for 2011 when Rick Perry announced his Presidency at the
RedState Gathering. We never were designed as a CPAC or other large
convention. This is about conservative activists interacting with those
they help elect. Questions are asked and answers, speeches are made, and
a good time is had as we prepare ourselves for the fight ahead.
We’ve never had a set theme, but this year it
seems pretty clear there is a theme of disruption within the GOP —
fighting within to defund Obamacare, challenging incumbents to move to
the right in states where it is possible, and fighting the Democrats
within the moral parameters of freedom.
We Gathering in New Orleans as friends and happy warriors fighting for a better, freer America. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Yale’s Declaration On Rape Proves Why Collegiate Females Should Be Allowed To Carry
Via Jezebel, who also supported disarming women on campus out of concern for the rapists . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. The godless Take a Plunge into the Bizarre
When an
angry atheist group like the Freedom From Religion Foundation goes after
something like the Holocaust memorial because it includes a Star of
David, they do it because they hate anything to do with our
Judeo-Christian heritage and to get in the public spotlight.
When
groups like the American Atheists pile on with an anti-Semitic diatribe,
for example, telling Fox News, “It’s important that we not give the
Holocaust to just the Jews,” they do it for the same reason – to grab a
piece of the spotlight. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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