Tuesday, September 23, 2014

RedState Briefing 09/23/2014

Morning Briefing
For September 23, 2014


Democrats Say What’s Good for the Nation is Terrible for Georgia
When the unemployment rate has gone up nationally, Democrats have relied on one major explanation. So many people dropped out of the workforce that, once the job market started growing, the people who came back in to search for jobs were reclassified as unemployed.

We have, in fact, seen this pattern nationwide. People drop out of the workforce and are no longer considered unemployed. It is silly, but that is the reality. Then, when they decide to start looking for work again they are again classified as unemployed.

This past week in Georgia the Democrats pounced on new data that Georgia has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. The Democrat were, frankly, giddy at the news. They’ve been talking down every bit of good news. The Democrats even attacked a CNBC study that ranked Georgia as one of the top states in which to do business. The Democrats actually attacked CNBC for putting the study together instead of cheering that Georgia was a great place to do business. . . . please click here for the rest of the post



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Women’s sports: the next victim of tolerance
If society survives long enough it  will look back upon the first couple of decades of this century as the point where sexual deviance was mainstreamed in the name of tolerance, the deity du jour of the American left and libertarians. While most attention has focused on the immense effort devoted to making sure that the small percentage of homosexuals (who make up a blessedly small number of people in general) who wish to take part in imitation marriage ceremonies and humored and nothing meany-pants is said about them, the most interesting efforts are those which seek to normalize people who decide that their self-proclaimed gender does not comport with their biological make-up. A while back National Review columnist Kevin Williamson commented on the black man, Roderick Laverne Cox, who now insists that he is actually a woman named Laverne Cox (though one would have thought that anyone with the smallest sense of irony would have changed their last name along with their gender). . . . please click here for the rest of the post


A Marxist Mistake? AFL-CIO Pushes Get Out The Vote For Mid-Terms Under Soviet-Style Symbol
In 1997, shortly after current AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, along with then-president John Sweeney, took over the AFL-CIO, America’s oldest labor federation lifted the ban on Communists.
Nearly two decades later, as Republicans, Democrats and Independents gear up for this fall’s mid-term elections, the special interest group—indirectly funded by union members’ dues—has launched a “get out the vote” page with a symbol that is eerily reminscent of the Soviet-era hammer and sickle. . . . please click here for the rest of the post


The Vine
In 2010, the national pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) decided to invest in billboards in Ohio to inform voters that former Rep. Steve Driehaus supported taxpayer-funded abortion through his vote for the Affordable Care Act. However, due to an Ohio law concerning “false statements,” Driehaus attempted to stop SBA List from telling the truth about him. Now, 4 years and one US Supreme Court case later, SBA List has finally won their legal battle for free speech.

The irony of SBA List having to fight to tell the truth about pro-abortion candidates is how often Planned Parenthood engages in lying about pro-life candidates. In the latest example, Planned Parenthood of Iowa has launched attack ads on television claiming pro-life candidate Joni Ernst is anti-woman. According to Life News, Planned Parenthood is spending \$450,000 on the ad, which shows women at dinner discussing the upsetting idea that Ernst would defund Planned Parenthood; because nothing says we don’t have enough money than spending \$450,000 on one ad in one state.  . . . please click here for the rest of the post


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