Matt Bevin, who was recently endorsed by Freedomworks, does a great job in this interview explaining why he’s running against Mitch McConnell and dodges a few landmines while he’s at it. (read more)
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov resigned on Tuesday in a bid to ease Ukraine’s deadly two-month crisis as lawmakers debated key reforms.
“I have taken a personal decision to ask the president of Ukraine to accept my resignation from the post of prime minister with the aim of creating an additional possibility for a political compromise to peacefully resolve the conflict,” he said in a statement. (link)
Juxtaposition:
The progs didn’t vet their golden child Fem-Savior too well and now they are stuck with her. Worse yet she considered herself a “homemaker” – oh, snap, that’s just about the worst self-description for any self loathing fem-stazi. Oh, how the splodey head value has risen exponentially…
What these building emphericals actually reinforce is a picture of a gold digger grifted to ideology with only her selfish interests providing the magnet for her compass needle.
(Via Breitbart) According to Federal Election Commission records, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis—the feminist icon who exploded onto the national political scene with a pro-abortion filibuster in June—donated to Republican George W. Bush days before becoming a public official.
The records list a $250 donation from Wendy Davis from April 28, 1999 to Bush for President, Inc. Davis listed her occupation as “homemaker” and her address as “Continental Plaza #C-10,” a sector of an office building which legal directory FindLaw.com lists as the office of attorney Jeffry Davis, her husband at the time.
The donation, earmarked for the Republican primary campaign, came two days before Wendy Davis won her first political office—a seat on the Fort Worth city council which she had unsuccessfully ran for in 1996. Jeffry Davis also donated $250 to Bush that day—and listed the exact same address as Wendy Davis. Jeffry Davis’s occupation was listed as “Safeco Tile,” an apparently mistaken reference to the company he owned then, Safeco Title. (continue reading – Breitbart has the donation forms)
(Via Politico) Sen. John McCain said a censure from Arizona’s Republican Party is “regrettable” but that it will not dissuade him from running for reelection in 2016.
The Republican senator and former presidential candidate said that the formal reprimand from the GOP over the weekend only serves as a motivator as he weighs whether to pursue a sixth term in the chamber. The state Republican Party passed a resolution over the weekend that derided his record as too liberal and “disastrous and harmful” to the country.
“We’ve got polling data that shows overwhelming support. I’ve won every election in Arizona by very large margins, quite often with the opposition of that element of the party,” McCain said of his state’s rightward flank, which he described as encompassing a “very small portion” of Arizona voters.
“If anything, it fires me up.” (more…)
I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable
— Pope Francis (@Pontifex) January 22, 2014
h/t Brent Bozell, freedom Warrior at NewsBusters:
“…Inspired by the real-life story of Kathy DiFiore, the founder of Several Sources Shelters, writer and director Ronald Krauss wrote his original screenplay while spending a year in a shelter for pregnant teens, and based it on the lives of several of the shelter mothers.
Krauss wasn’t the only one who was inspired. Brendan Fraser asked to be in the movie after reading the script and spent time in the shelters with the mothers and the babies. On the last day of shooting, Krauss said Fraser “quietly told Kathy that he was donating his salary to the shelter, so he actually did the movie for nothing. It was a complete surprise to all of us.”
I’ve been to many a wedding, but I’ve never heard anything that comes close to this father’s expression of love and joy for his daughter. No one that attended this wedding will ever forget what it meant to this man to be a father. Entertainment value = priceless!
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(h/t Michelle Hart)…The night before the burial of her husband 2nd Lt. James Cathey of the United States Marine Corps, killed in Iraq, Katherine Cathey refused to leave the casket, asking to sleep next to his body for the last time. The Marines made a bed for her, tucking in the sheets below the flag. Before she fell asleep, she opened her laptop computer and played songs that reminded her of “Cat”, and one of the Marines asked if she wanted them to continue standing watch as she slept. “I think it would be kind of nice if you kept doing it”, she said. “I think that’s what he would have wanted.” (From a public Facebook page)
For the rest of the her story in photographs, please follow below the fold. They are a visual remembrance of the true cost of freedom. Might not be a bad idea to keep a Kleenex or two handy as well….keyboard can get real dusty. (more…)
You may not be a native Texan, but after watching this beautiful photo-essay by west Texas’ official state photographer Wyman Meinzer, you’ll wish you were. I suggest you turn up the volume, click on the “full screen” icon on the lower right, and keep a box of Kleenex handy. If ya’ll aren’t dancin’ in your seats…..well, ya’ll haven’t got a pulse!
This is dedicated to all my Texas buddies….you know who you are.