institutions bilking consumers and put the money in the hands of the consumers who were harmed. … Agree with the concept or not, it seems like a safe bet that that is how most would viewthe role of a consumer protection agency. … And we’re the ones signing the check.…
It is the one area of biblical study people often view in their own time. … In the 1800’s with the rise of the Great Awakening, students of eschatology viewed the end times rather favorably. … The whole world would come to Christ, many of them thought. I viewthe ends times more pessimistically.…
of the police. … I am bothered by the slow response from the Ferguson Police. Many facts could have mitigated some of the issues. … I am appalled at the people who view this situation in terms of winners and losers: of arguments, of laws, of politics, etc.…
Nobody sees red-and-blue lights flashing in the rear-view mirror and thinks, “Oh, goody, the police want to have a word with me! … The cop knows why he initiated the encounter. The citizen may or may not know. … If you’re going to viewthe police as stormtroopers in an invading army, you’re not really part of the same society as them any more…
Actually, based on net worth the man’s almost certainly not part of the Occupy movement’s (remember them*?) … That’s the amount of time Mr. Begich voted with Obama priorities—from ObamaCare to the stimulus to the president’s nominees. … From our point of view? The election’s almost over. For regular voting folks? The election’s just begun.…
Recent data from the Federal Reserve paint the “income inequality” gap as worse than ever, as the rich quite literally get richer while … the poor get poorer: all of the income growth from the past three years was concentrated in the top 10 percent. … Raise your standards, America, and reserve the celebrations for the boom you are still capable of, the boom you deserve… the boom you…
As the Conservative sees it, the obsession so many on the Left (and even among those ostensibly on the Right) with forcing people into … “All they’re doing is increasing the sense that those are the blacks who matter and that they are the entryway for the rest of the … Thus the title The Omni-Americans is among other things an attempt to restate the problem formulated by the Report of the National…
Then the battle began over how to interpret the incident. NORAD Capt. … “To many people, the Great War—as it was known at the time—seemed to come out of the blue, as the European continent was enjoying a … Logic rebels against the two Russian Ambassadors in the YouTube atop the post actually believing they would conquer Miami.…
One of the things that has intrigued me about the Obama administration’s alleged strategy to combat ISIS is the degree to which it … The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the United Kingdom, said the groups reached the agreement in a … But, as we see, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) doesn’t viewthe strategic picture the same way.…
Everything we have accomplished – from harnessing fire to splitting the atom, from mapping the Earth’s surface to mapping the genome … I’ve come to think of the late stage war on traditional marriage as the War on Wives, because the wife and mother role is the part … of the arrangement the Left has big problems with. …
If you project the election results just from these national fundamentals, you could take theview explained by Trende that the Senate … the electorate (the “poll error” column shows how far off the final poll average was from the result). … The “2-Party Wave” column shows the swing in the 2-party vote from mid-September to the final election result.…
However, the responses indicate a more nuanced view of immigration policy than this headline might suggest:
Now, 34 percent of voters … But the second is the equally serious trap of swinging the pendulum too far the other way, especially in terms of allowing emotionally … The reality is that the majority of the country desires to see a day soon, when the border is stabilized, that a path to citizenship…
, notably the Saudis and the Jordanians, what is clear is that we have a very common view of this threat. … ISIL has been I think a galvanizing threat around the Sunni partners in the region. … as real as the extensive Saudi-Syrian border.…
Last year when the administration made a push to arm the Syrian opposition, an effort we opposed, this was the status of the Syrian … This should be the hour of coordination and brainstorming between the U.S., its allies in Europe and the Middle East and the leadership … “The leadership of the FSA is American,” said the veteran officer, who defected from the Syrian army two years ago and won respect…
The ad then notes that Landrieu “voted to double the border patrol, build triple-layer fencing, and voted nine times to block amnesty … When she’s safe from challenge, she represents the wealthy Cocaine Uni-nostril Class of McClean, Virginia in the Senate. … The dishonesty is rife here regardless of which view represents what she feels about this issue in her heart.…
After some reflection, I came to the conclusion (one that should have been obvious) that the reason is because the world is a profoundly … And the reason for that is the complete lack of leadership from the President and his administration. … ” Obama claimed, despite the long history of Islamic terrorism and the fact that the first I in the name stands for “Islamic.”…
leadership of the Texas legislature grossly mismanaged the bill. … One was an ectopic pregnancy which occurs when the fertilized egg implants outside the uterine cavity, most commonly in the Fallopian … In this view, any story that separates abortions into “good” and “bad” categories is negative because it defeats the larger agenda…
The architect who designed the towers – well, we used to complain a lot that the windows were too narrow, but the strength of those … The mind starts to grasp onto the little things, photos of the kids and from my wedding; the radio in my office that I listened to … Aragorn responds that, to the contrary, it is the simpleness and even the pettiness of the hobbits that makes the task worthwhile,…
The Precious. … the Obama years. … Obama has done more to divide than to unite the country, that expands to a 63-27 percent negative view of the Republicans in Congress…
The reason? Republicans have allowed a vote on the Bernie Sanders/Tom Udall anti-Koch Brothers constitutional amendment. … to amend the Constitution. … The legislation needed 60 votes to advance and Democrats took a cynical view of the 79-18 tally.…
Which is why he’s now claiming, via the comments section of local (and locally important) New York blog Mayor Graham’s View, that the … Jeff Graham (the guy who runs Mayor Graham’s View) is completely correct when he notes that Letters to the Editor are rarely truly … Really smart ones don’t try to write the stores for the bloggers.…
The signs are not hopeful:
President Barack Obama will address the country Wednesday to explain to the nation “what our game plan … “I just want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we’re going to deal with it and to have confidence … : give the illusion of doing something while kicking the can down the road to the next administration.…
The gossip web rag TMZ released video this morning of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee Janay Palmer in the elevator of the Revel … Then the two enter the elevator and Palmer stands in front of the buttons apparently pushing the button for their floor. … And the purveyors of the campaign of death in this country know that America has much the same instinct regarding the 1+ million children…
But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. … Jonah Goldberg observes that this view places Ginsburg firmly in the mainstream of Progressive tradition:
First, Ginsburg’s view … The alternative is to view human beings as having inherent value.…
My view is that Obama is simply running out the clock on ISIS, hoping that eventually an electorate that is more than a little uncertain … He is also using the Clinton’s “wag the dog” strategy to try to enable the Democrats limp past the November elections with no more … Even if the skeptics are right and the airstrikes prove insufficient to diminish the threat from ISIS the subsequent dispatch of American…