RedState Briefing 10/28/2014

When I Survey We stand a week from the final midterm election of Barack Obama’s Presidential career. When I survey the field I do not see a wave election for the GOP. Read More

YOU MUST GIVE MONEY NOW!!   Zach Dasher is my guy in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional District. He should be your guy too. He’s running against the congressman who had the affair and has decided not to resign. Zach is awesome. He has an awesome commercial. But he needs money to keep it on the air. Watch it here, then pour forth all the money you can into his campaign coffers that he might keep it on the air   Read More Sponsored

It Never Was the Democrats’ Base The ironic humor in this election is that every time Democrats say “President Obama is not on the ballot,” more voters conclude they then do not have to go stand by their man. And this becomes a latent problem for 2016. These voters belong to Barack Obama, not the Democrats. They are going to have to fight for them then. Read More

Hey, white person, please send money I don’t know how many of you have received the unending barrage of shrill, implausible, and marginally literate of fund raising emails from the Democrats this year but they have been a source of amusement to a lot of us. A couple of days ago one said that by raising \$24K and some change (which would be triple matched, presumably by rich plutocrats) Democrats WILL (their words, their caps) retain the Senate. This, is one of the funniest Read More

Sponsored   The LGBT Lobby vs. Academic Debate   The Left is notorious for using any attack necessary to shut down debate, while at the same time claiming to be the sensible ones in the room and accusing the Right of doing it instead. In no argument is this more visible than the homosexual lobby’s efforts to shut down debate and try their damnedest to normalize their lifestyles. Take, for example, this post over at The Federalist, in which Robert Oscar Lopez, a noted scholar and advocate of children’s rights, is attacked for offering debate on the issue of children raised in same-sex households. Oh, and by the way, Lopez is the bisexual son of lesbian parents.   Read More

Pro-Gambling Lobbyists Head Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling The Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling is a relatively new group headed by two former politicians-turned-lobbyists, former New York Republican Gov. George Pataki and former Denver Democrat Mayor Wellington Webb. It wasn’t that long ago that both former politicians were vocal proponents of their respective states’ pro-gaming and lottery policies. Gov. Pataki was labeled by The New York Times in 2001 as “perhaps the most pro-gambling governor the state has ever had.” That moniker came even before the NY lottery nearly tripled its annual intake – from \$2.4 billion when Pataki started as governor in 1995 to \$6.2 billion in 2006 when he left the governorship. Read More

Why @BuzzFeed isn’t trusted by anyone explained in one post Last week Pew Research released a study titled Political Polarization and Media Habits that evaluated various media outlets by how trustworthy they were presumed to be based on the respondent’s self-identified political beliefs. Some of it is hardly surprising Read More

The Vine   As we enter the last week of 40 Days For Life, there is so much to celebrate. Fantastic stories from volunteers have been reported from around the country, with a total of 409 lives saved so far. God has been so present during this campaign, even speaking to one abortion-minded woman through her car battery dying. If you haven’t had the chance to participate yet and/or would like to help push the last week over the top, there’s still time! If you have been involved, please share your stories!   Read More Sponsored

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