Morning Briefing
For August 21, 2013
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1. #DontBlink — Defund It
I
am in the minority among my closest friends. Most of my friends are, as
they are expressing on twitter and elsewhere, appalled at Heritage
Action for America, For America, and soon other groups running targeted
ad campaigns against various Republicans in Congress.
The ads
are designed to remind voters that those members of Congress and
Senators have campaigned against Obamacare, but now will not vote to
defund Obamacare.
My
friends believe these conservative organizations are doing great harm
and will potentially hurt Republicans. They find them off putting,
likely to do more harm than good, pushing a strategy doomed to fail, and
putting Republicans in a no win position.
I myself intend to give For America and Heritage Action money so they can keep the ads going.
I
understand my friends’ position. My concern is not that these ads harm
our side, but that the ad buys are too small. I think our side has been
harmed by Republicans campaigning since 2010 against Obamacare, passing
symbolic vote after symbolic vote to show just how much they hate
Obamacare, then putting themselves in a position to actually be able to
do something to stop it and punting on it. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Oregon To “Rehabilitate” Businesses Opposed To Gay Marriage
There is a new case in the never ending war waged by homosexual activists on people of faith. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Losing Family, Losing God, Losing the Country
John
Adams once said, to the chagrin of libertarians through the ages, “Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is
wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Indeed,
many of the problems we see manifested in our nation today, from the
refusal of the president and attorney general to enforce the laws of the
land to the Supreme Court finding a right to sexual perversion, have
their genesis in the fact that it has become déclassé among the self-
described elites to look upon religion as anything other than a curious
practice engaged in by proles.
How
did we get to this point where we have a government that is
fundamentally hostile to religion and religious expression? Where we
have a president who repeatedly defines Freedom of Religion as a much
more narrow Freedom of Worship? . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Obama’s small business rubber stamp not so good at paying taxes, debts
In
revelations that would be comical if they weren’t so predictable (and
true), President Obama’s top small business advocate really is keeping
it consistent with the administration he backs. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. How pathetic is the Christian Nation alt-history?
This
pathe… what’s that? Oh, Christian Nation is this new, steadily-bombing
alternate history that’s been out that takes as its change point John
McCain winning the election (yeah, I know), then conveniently dying in
Russia two months into his administration (yeah, I know) and leaving
Sarah Palin to somehow idiot-savant, evil-genius her way into creating
an American theocracy (YEAH, I KNOW) over the next twenty years. Because
writing and publishing this tripe is apparently cheaper than undergoing
therapy for irrational fear of Protestant Christians. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
6. Interior: Keystone XL Pipeline will impact “cultural soundscapes” and “high quality night skies”.
As
part of the State Department’s review of TransCanada’s proposed
Keystone XL Pipeline, 1.2 million comments have been received from
interested parties including environmental groups and the public at
large. The Department of the Interior has commented too, expressing
concern that TransCanada’s impact during construction and during
pipeline operation will disrupt the “cultural soundscapes” and “high
quality night skies” at national parks and recreation areas distant from
the actual route.
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Erick Erickson
Editor-in-Chief, RedState
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