They just ran out of options:
The White House on Tuesday for the first time issued a veto threat over Republican-backed legislation … to approve the Keystone pipeline, setting up a likely showdown between President Obama and the GOP-controlled Congress in the coming … Moe Lane (crosspost)
*It is honestly fascinating to contemplate the world-view of a hardcore Green. …
Tonight the President delivered his State of the Union remarks. … alright,” and the President is ready now/still/again to get the job done. … The Maxine Waters “Oh face” was pretty much the only takeaway from this throwaway cheap shot at the Keystone pipeline.…
If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill
Be a scrub in the valley—but be
The best little scrub on the side of the hill,
Be … But more importantly, the hedonist world view that believes in a swerve, not a God, and that believes “the highest goal of human life … is the enhancement of pleasure and the reduction of pain” is a world view that would have never charted the moral course to free slaves…
Those that do the best still have a “Gorillas in the Mist” quality. … But the war, the closeness of the 2000 election, and Bush’s own personable nature had drawn much of the conservative movement to his … It is not fair to Jeb Bush to view him as a proxy for his brother, but his candidacy will force the conservative movement to finally…
the benefit of the liberty realized). … Accordingly, I have come around to theview that conservatives should embrace the same sex marriage cause – with caveats. … I take the idea of original intent seriously, and accordingly the idea that the drafters of the federal constitution or any of the…
Like the residents of Middle Earth willfully choosing to ignore the evil shadows, the government in Macon, Georgia ignoring the signs … In the same way, I think Barack Obama came into office with a liberal, academic, secular world view. … We know how it ended up in the Lord of the Rings.…
It is not necessary for me to recount for you the events in Paris, the controversy that led up to them, or the consequences in the … refused to show the cartoons for which the Hebdo victims died, in some cases, even blurring out the covers when reporting on the story … of the attack.…
Adding more free school at the higher levels of education doesn’t work if the lower levels already aren’t working. … Not every school is failing to do its job, but many are, and the testing scores (regardless of your view of how effective standardized … The people who write the books we complain about are either idiots or liberals or (shockingly, I know) both.…
While many on the Left (and the Right) believe that the Presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton is a foregone conclusion, there … View Warren’s full speech here. … Left—including the ever-important union bosses—than the presumed nominee.…
He apparently skipped the unity march. … …Look, if the Left can’t understand why this looks bad, can they at least black-box the whole thing and accept that it looks bad? … I think that the last few years have demonstrated pretty clearly why the American people default to looking to the Republican party…
While the Democrats have given the White House until March 24 to come to terms with the Senate, the picture is more grim for Obama … the new bill nor signed the letter to Obama. … view is not shared by the administration.…
Russia’s elites have been feeling the bite of US sanctions coupled thethe near halving of the price per barrel of oil. … No one in the West should back down from this challenge.
There is a tendency to viewthe Cold War as a bad thing. … During the Cold War the West achieved enormous economic integration because the USSR wasn’t able to meddle in Europe.…
disdain the freedoms that most of the world covets. … At the same time, I don’t subscribe to theview that all religions are compatible with the mostly-secular but Judeo-Christian based … When the discussion of the issues is placed completely off limits, like the two little neo-Nazis at Vanderbilt are trying to do do,…
government takeover of the financial sector since the New Deal. … The final FCIC report put the blame squarely on Wall Street. … Under the banner of expanding homeownership, the FHA provides risky loans to households that often lack the resources to make the payments…
She worked mid shifts in the Maricopa County Hospital Emergency Room. She worked in the NICU in the same hospital. … In my view every single life, no matter the circumstances of his or her conception, should be protected by law. … The only people standing in the way were Renee Ellmers, her boys in the GOP leadership, and the followers of Moloch.…
While they are there, they will viewthe gorgeous mountain vistas while hovering aloft in helicopters to better see the decimating … Gail Collins, once you sift through the trolling, makes some legitimate points that got past the editors and into the New York Times … One, we fix the roads. Two, we populate a sinking fund and pay off the debt indentures.…
who saved the abortion regime from the edge of death. … I believe the low should be treated as well as the high, and the high as meanly as the low. … I voted for the Party that still retains my Church’s view of human beings — as all being endowed with inherent dignity by the Act of…
Rice, the media has been transfixed by the sight of the nationwide protests that have been designed to raise awareness of the perceived … Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was “well timed” in theview of those who have not suffered unduly from … Even the lives of the extremely young.…
According to the AP, the Democrats are planning on defeating the Jeb Bush juggernaut by painting him as the second third coming … But, I think there’s also a general view among the donors. You’re very isolated when you’re that rich. … the population.…
A sample of the kvetching can be found in Politico and the New York Times. … in about the middle of the pack. … The people who are paid to evaluate Louisiana’s budget practices from fiscal standpoint clearly view Jindal’s budgetary approach to…
Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. … Unfortunately, the rest of the world does not have six hundred years to wait and, despite this view among intellectuals, it has no … But even the President seems to hold that view.…
The website Less Wrong gives us the “Parable of The Believing Communist” to describe the ways in which Progressivism precipitates an … Every bit of the dogma reinforces the world view from which it springs. This, in turn, becomes more entrenched. … This is what Progressivism is increasingly doing to people just like the ones in the Portland Anarchist Club in the video atop the…
to see for themselves the barbarity of ISIS outweighed legitimate concerns about the graphic nature of the video,” said John Moody, … “Online users can choose to view or not view this disturbing content.” … We have returned to the days where evil men walk openly in the sunlight. I wish that we had not, but we have.…
A few days ago, John Judis, the co-author of the book on every liberal’s bookshelf, The Emerging Democratic Majority, took to the … And the arguments in defense of this view did seem to be backed by persuasive evidence. … rich to the poor.…
