Mailbag: Rights and Votes
When people say rights should not be put up to a vote, they are confusing two truths with one falsehood.
When people say rights should not be put up to a vote, they are confusing two truths with one falsehood.
The opinions expressed in guest op-eds are those of the writer and do not necessarily represent the views of RedState.com. New data and survey results show that the inflation caused by Joe Biden’s policies is having a severe impact on the economy, and it’s ruining Americans’ Christmas season for millions of families. The National Retail Federation conducted […]
Philip Bump had a story up at the Post yesterday titled “The sliding definition of ‘lockdown’ in U.S. politics.” I missed it yesterday but today I caught Pradheep Shanker’s reference to it on Twitter. Pradheep called it “fundamentally dishonest” and he’s absolutely right about that. In fact, the headline for the piece works pretty well […]
Former House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) got emotional Wednesday as he delivered a tribute to outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). The retired congressman appeared to fight back tears as he delivered remarks at the ceremonial unveiling of Pelosi’s official portrait at the U.S. Capitol. “You’ve been unfailingly gracious to me, to my family, and, frankly, […]
Every time the U.N. starts to look like a somewhat credible institution, we’re reminded of how astonishingly ridiculous a place it is.
Back in the old days when gays were fighting for basic respect they hit upon a brilliant strategy: quit being so outrageous, hyper-sexual, and confrontational to the normies. Guess what? That strategy worked wonders. When gays presented themselves as just like everybody else only differing in sexual preferences, everybody else shrugged and said “I guess […]
Around dawn on September 23, the home of Mark and Ryan-Marie Houck in rural Kintersville, Pennsylvania, was swarmed by an FBI SWAT team serving an arrest warrant on a 48-year-old father of seven for violating the federal FASCIST Act, strike that, I mean FACE — “Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances” — Act while protesting […]
The limits of Damon’s operating definition get him into trouble.
A funny thing happened after the midterm elections were finally over. People working in corporate media actually began to notice that the Biden border crisis is completely out of control. CBS and NBC aired reports on the subject (albeit briefly) and I saw some coverage on CNN. But it’s not just the network and cable […]
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to prevent Chinese telecom giant Huawei from accessing the U.S. financial system. The “NETWORKS Act” would impose sanctions on foreign telecommunications companies suspected to be engaged in economic or industrial espionage against American companies. The bill was co-authored by Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Senator Chris Van […]