RochesterConservative.com

Conservatism isn't about party, its a philosophy that both parties failed

RochesterConservative.com header image 4

Entries from July 2009

Friday Night Blues – Dirty Mac

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

I bet you’re all wondering, who the heck is Dirty Mac? I’ll let John tell you in video! RochesterConservative.com Friday Night Blues Featuring Dirty Mac – Yer Blues Your suggestions and submissions to RochesterConservative.com Friday Night Blues are surely welcome! RV

[Read more →]

Tags: American History · American Traditions · Friday Night Blues · Just for Fun · Supporting the Troops · Veterans Affairs

Obama’s Amateurism and Incompetence

July 31st, 2009 · No Comments

By Thomas Sowell RealClearPolitics After many a disappointment with someone, and especially after a disaster, we may be able to look back at numerous clues that should have warned us that the person we trusted did not deserve our trust. When that person is the President of the United States, the potential for disaster is [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Communism and Socialism · Economy · From the Liberal's Mouth · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · National Security · Our Community · Politics · Taxation

Sgt. Crowley, a Cop in Full

July 28th, 2009 · No Comments

By Pat Buchanan Townhall.com Sunday, professor Louis Henry Gates retreated from his threat to sue Sgt. James Crowley. Friday, President Obama retreated from his charge that the Cambridge cops “acted stupidly.” As Crowley has not budged an inch — his arrest of Gates was correct, and there will be no apology — there is no [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Communism and Socialism · From the Liberal's Mouth · Moonbat Lunacy

A fact the Left ignores: the KGB seriously infiltrated postwar America

July 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment

By Peter Whittle Telegraph.co.uk Joe McCarthy’s anti-communist campaign during the post-war era in the US remain one of the great totemic events in liberal-Left mythology. Every time there is a revival of Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, solemn words are trotted out about how this metaphor for the appalling witch-hunts which ruined careers is a [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Communism and Socialism · From the Liberal's Mouth · Moonbat Lunacy · National Security · Our Community

Thomas Paine, visionary

July 25th, 2009 · 2 Comments

So, I was reading Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (published January 1776)… and the following two paragraphs kinda stuck out to me The authority of Great Britain over this continent, is a form of government, which sooner or later must have an end: And a serious mind can draw no true pleasure by looking forward, under [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: American History · American Traditions · Communism and Socialism · Conservatism · Economy · Nanny State · Patriotism · Politics · Socialized Health Care · Taxation · World History

First Soldier to receive Medal of Honor for valor in Afghanistan

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments

AF NEWS Photo credit 10th Mountain Division Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti was killed in Afghanistan June 21, 2006 and a White House ceremony is scheduled for September to award him a Medal of Honor. WASHINGTON (Army News Service, July 24, 2009) — Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti, who was killed in Afghanistan June 21, [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: American History · American Traditions · Gathering of Eagles · National Security · Patriotism · Supporting the Troops · Veterans Affairs

Friday Night Blues – Paul Butterfield Blues Band

July 24th, 2009 · 1 Comment

While searching for a video for another band, I found this high quality video of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band performing at the Monterey International Pop Festival in 1967. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Friday! RochesterConservative.com Friday Night Blues Featuring Paul Butterfield Blues Band – Driftin’ Blues Your suggestions and submissions to RochesterConservative.com Friday [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: American History · American Traditions · Friday Night Blues · Just for Fun · Supporting the Troops · Veterans Affairs

Big-Government Medicine

July 24th, 2009 · No Comments

Even after the financial meltdown, history is still running against collectivism. By Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online Big new taxes. Big new spending. Big new government. This seems to be the proposed cure for the Wall Street–inspired recession. The government now runs major banks and companies, and plans to take control of the American [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Communism and Socialism · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · Politics · Socialized Health Care · Taxation

ObamaCare in Trouble

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

By Karl Rove Wall Street Journal Polls are turning against President Barack Obama’s health-care plan. The political calendar is, too. On Monday, the Washington Post/ABC poll reported that 49% of Americans approve of his handling of health care while 44% disapprove. What many people missed is that those who strongly disapprove of the president’s approach [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Communism and Socialism · Economy · Energy · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Politics · Socialized Health Care · Taxation

The Obama Agenda Bogs Down

July 20th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Democrats got what they wanted in the stimulus bill. The public knows it. By Fred Barnes Wall Street Journal It usually doesn’t happen this quickly in Washington. But President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are finding that the old maxim that what goes around, comes around applies to them, too. Less than six months into [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Economy · Moonbat Lunacy · Nanny State · National News · Politics · Taxation