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I suppose we’ll always have Chick-fil-A celebration days as a reminder of what might have been and what can get people motivated. But we are here now, the day after the election and we have to figure out what “forward” means to the conservative movement and by extension, to the idea of limited government. It should be clear. To preserve and restore this republic as it was founded we need a constitutional convention in which the states reassert their 10th amendment rights. I believe that there are enough Republican held legislatures to make this a viable option. This reassertion of...

The UK's first official Star Trek convention for more than a decade has brought together all five captains from across the TV show's 50-year history. BBC News was there to witness the occasion.

U.S. President Barack Obama plans to usher in what he hopes will be a second four-year term in the White House at an election-night rally at a huge convention center near downtown Chicago, campaign and city officials said on Wednesday. The event will likely draw thousands of supporters to the McCormick Place convention center in Chicago, Obama's hometown and the site of his re-election campaign headquarters. Supporters are expected to watch the voting results come in and then hear a speech by the incumbent Democrat who faces Republican Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor and private equity executive, in the...

Sandra Fluke’s America: War on women, by whom? by Daniel Clark At the three-day abortion festival also known as the Democratic National Convention, that party’s celebrity victim du jour, Sandra Fluke, echoed the famous “Robert Bork’s America” speech that was once given by that founding member of Neanderthals For Choice, Ted Kennedy. Fluke’s vision of a Republican-led American future was briefly stated, but nevertheless riddled with lies (“an America in which access to birth control is controlled by people who will never use it”), bigger lies (“in which politicians redefine rape so survivors are victimized all over again”), and dog-whistle...

Hispanics upset about DNC contractLocal Latino groups say a Hispanic state GOP leader shouldn’t have been vendor By Franco Ordoñez Modified: Thursday, Sep. 13, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. Some Hispanic Democrats are angry that one of the few major contracts for minority businesses at the Democratic National Convention went to a Hispanic leader of North Carolina’s Republican Party. Convention organizers made a big effort to contract with minority-run businesses. But some Hispanics see contracting with the chairman of North Carolina’s Republican National Hispanic Assembly as anathema to the mission of the Democrats, especially considering the partisan differences on major issues such...

New International Version (©1984) "I tell you the truth, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times." Democrats in denial of God - 3 times before the rooster crowed in the morning. God finally got put back in to their platform by simply ignoring the voice vote. Now that's the Democratic Way! http://www.youtube.com/embed/vEdLeWTopF8

WASHINGTON -- Nuts. The Democratic National Convention is over. Watching Bill Clinton, Jean-François Kerry, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and all the other preposterosities -- not least being the widely under-depreciated Sandra Fluck -- I fell under a spell. I thought the convention would go on forever. There would be no need for horror movies, action movies, X-Treme sports, cockfights, or soap operas. I could enjoy them all in the comfort of my own home. All provided by the Democratic National Committee, safely watched over by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and probably select units of the North Carolina National Guard. Yet...

Hotair reports how Admiral John Nathman (Retired, U.S. Navy) gave a speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention to honor U.S. Veterans while using a graphic of Soviet-Russian naval warships instead of U.S. Naval warships as the background.

Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how the presidential election shapes up post-conventions. Even though Obama got a bounce from his Convention, the two key questions that dominated the gathering will impose a construct on the election that Obama cannot escape. Tune in!

During their national convention, Democrats arrogantly flaunted U.S. immigration laws and blatantly ignored the majority of Americans' sentiments towards illegal immigration. The Democrats featured an illegal immigrant as a speaker on September 5: "...Activist Benita Veliz was given a prime-time speaking slot..." That's right, an illegal immigrant activist shilling for President Obama's DREAM Act (aka amnesty). But, "54% of likely [American] voters oppose the DREAM Act, compared to 38% who support its passage... U.S. registered voters support stricter enforcement of immigration law over 'integrating illegal immigrants into American society' 68% to 24%." Veliz spoke of the opportunities accorded her as...

September 10, 2012 DNC vs. RNC: Which convention had the most impact? Donald Trump weighs in

Last week, Democrats feasted on the extreme positions of Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri during the Republican National Convention. Yet Democrats have gone too far in the other direction, threatening their hold on the great American middle. Abortion is a more delicate subject than our fierce, partisan arguments would have it.

His Agenda: President Obama's convention speech got rough reviews, and rightly so. He offered little but tired bromides and recycled promises. But critics overlooked one promise that will guarantee an even bleaker future. There was plenty to dislike in Obama's speech. The language was flat, his delivery languid. The speech was stuffed with standard Obama chestnuts about the smallness of politics, the corrupting influence of money in politics, and how cynicism is our worst enemy. [snip] But while everyone was picking apart these and other flaws in Obama's speech, they overlooked the most frightening line of all.

It began, like the Obama presidency itself, with the loftiest of hopes and the greatest of expectations.

Protesters peacefully leave Marshall ParkBy April Bethea, Joe Marusak and Karen Sullivan The Charlotte Observer Posted: Friday, Sep. 07, 2012 CHARLOTTE, N.C. Protesters peacefully exited Marshall Park on Friday shortly after the noon deadline came for them to leave. **SNIP** Evan Kelley of Jacksonville, Fla., said he was one of the last people to use a port-a-jon at the park. He said he tried to wake people to warn them the toilets were being taken away. “The city was handling things very well until this incident,” he said. “To leave everyone without a place to go the bathroom, there’s no...

Charlotte man charged with threatening president on TwitterBy Caleb Troop The Charlotte Observer Posted: Friday, Sep. 07, 2012 **SNIP** Donte Jamar Sims, 21, appeared in court Thursday after officials said he posted threats to kill the president on his Twitter account Monday. Sims posted several statements through his @DestroyLeague_D account, and a Secret Service agent was made aware of the tweets Tuesday, police said. “Well Ima Assassinate president Obama this evening !...Gotta get this monkey off my chest while he’s in town - -,” the tweet read at 6:06 a.m. Monday. Two hours later, Sims allegedly posted, “Ima hit president...

The president’s convention speech was never going to be a make-or-break moment for him in this campaign: People already have an opinion of him, they basically know his pitch, and unless he planned to offer a major new proposal or argument it wouldn’t have been easy for him to move anyone with his convention closer. But he surely could have done better than he did. He gave the fourth best speech of the Democratic convention, and the three better ones—Bill Clinton’s, Michelle Obama’s, and (rather surprisingly, at least for me) Joe Biden’s—weren’t spectacular. And he gave a speech that couldn’t...

The system is rigged. America is unjust. Opportunity is dead. You didn’t build that. Dammit, where’s mine? Oh, and Republicans are the people who rigged the system. They’re trying to take away your rights to vote, to health care, to education, to housing. They hate women, gays and immigrants. They don’t pay their fair share and they’re un-American. Barack Obama lights candles, Mitt Romney spreads darkness, and Osama bin Laden is dead. There, I saved you the time of watching the Democratic convention. For three grating days, demands for more government spending were coupled with sweeping character assassinations of Romney....

The Democratic National Convention was a musical tragedy composed in three acts. Tuesday night was the gathering of special interests and professional victims from every corner of the known universe, the most toxic group of economic and spiritual vampires since the mass gatherings in the early 18th century. If any suffering portion of the American subculture missed their turn at the bar, I missed it. It seemed that every ethnic, cultural, sexual group in the country with more than three members put in at least a cameo appearance, as did the community organizers, union bosses, government employees and all the...

The most fascinating aspect of Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, other than it was pure, political science fiction, was that it was eerily identical to his 2008 address; both in tone and rhetoric. He promised to heal the Earth, feed the hungry, house the cold, foster economic vitality, restore unity, reduce the deficit, cut unemployment (5% again?), develop sustainable, domestic energy, provide transparency in all federal matters, and to strengthen our Armed Forces. Yes, “We the People” have heard it all before; all this from the same rationale, “patriotic” leader who said “You didn’t build it”, profits should be shared (envy...