Results for The View

  1. Studies Show: Conservatives are More Tolerant Than Liberals https://redstate.com/ameliahamilton/2015/06/16/studies-show-conservatives-tolerant-liberals-n53117
    However, the article doesn’t really address the fact that this is an alarming social commentary. … I wasn’t surprised by the answer. … StatSocial’s CEO is quoted in the piece as saying “People on the Left are more insular.…
  2. Bob Corker gets a standing 'o' at Failure Theater https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/16/bob-corker-gets-standing-o-failure-theater-n53111
    In the end, the GOP caved to the siren song of Corker and only one MAN voted against it: Tom Cotton. … The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is sounding the alarm about the nuclear talks with Iran, warning the United … “I understand the dynamics that can develop when a group believes they are close to a deal and how your aides may view this as a major…
  3. English teacher: why study Shakespeare? He's a dead white guy https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/15/english-teacher-study-shakespeare-hes-dead-white-guy-n53101
    One of the bywords of the cultural revolution of the late 1960s when it his college campuses was “relevance.” … Once one gets past the utter racism of this point of view and the condescension that says history-began-about-the-time-I-started-high-school … one of her students by sending them into the world with the view that nothing is significant but their own experiences.…
  4. Christie parrots leftwing talking points to attack Ted Cruz https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/15/christie-parrots-leftwing-talking-points-attack-ted-cruz-n53100
    A squishy (or fluffy, depending upon how you view cellulite)  northeast governor considering a run for the presidency visits Iowa and … As a point of perspective, with the vast majority of homes and businesses privately insured, the total cost estimate for the entire … Not only did the bill not pass until 91 days after the event (by contrast the Katrina relief bill passed 11 days after the event) but…
  5. Progressive operative Curtis Ellis surfaces again as free-trade attacker. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2015/06/11/curtis-ellis-tpp-tpa-free-trade-n53080
    The [Tea Partiers] are essentially replaying the ’60s protest paradigm. … Right the face of it. … Because that’s what the Activist Left does.…
  6. Fund Your Own Uterus https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2015/06/11/fund-uterus-n53072
    This is true not just in their conclusion that the unborn are to bear the brunt of the blame in certain situations, but also in their … Only a year ago, the issue of contraception was on the national stage as the “evil” Hobby Lobby sought to control the healthcare decisions … As usual, the Left vocally opposed all the supposed horror taking place.…
  7. June 28, 1778. Battle of Monmouth https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/29/june-28-1778-battle-monmouth-n53250
    In my view, the American Revolution produced two battles which really let you understand the war. … During the retreat into Pennsylvania, Washington had all the boats on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River rounded up and consolidated … Monmouth marks the creation of the American Army as a fighting force worthy of the name.  …
  8. Terrell Owens Has Some Advice for Social Conservatives https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/06/29/terrell-owens-advice-social-conservatives-n53247
    the star at the 50-yard line of Cowboys Stadium while playing for the San Francisco 49ers. … that has come out of the Westboro Baptist Church in the other direction over the last few years. … ” and the key question people today (for better or worse) demand an answer to – “Why is this view something the government should enforce…
  9. Ensuring #LoveWins https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/29/ensuring-lovewins-n53244
    and not with respect to the decision to enter the relationship that is the foundation of the family in our society.” … your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to … In the words of the late mil blogger Carrol LeFon, aka Neptunus Lex, when discussing the merits of the single seat F/A-18 with the…
  10. Obergefell and the roadmap to drive Christianity from the public square https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/27/obergefell-roadmap-drive-christianity-public-square-n53236
    The First Amendment guarantees, however, the freedom to “exercise” religion. Ominously, that is not a word the majority uses. … This is the roadmap. … The larger Protestant denominations will toe the line. Some, like the Episcopalians, are only nominally Christian as is.…
  11. Obergefell Reaches the Right Result via the Wrong Process https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/06/26/obergefell-reaches-right-result-via-wrong-process-n53230
    The general public has a terrible time understanding what the Supreme Court is even saying 90% of the time, and judging by the number … The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the … under the Equal Protection clause under the Fourteenth Amendment – a point which no doubt the other four liberal justices on the Court…
  12. Failure Theater: Foreign Policy guru edition https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/26/failure-theater-foreign-policy-guru-edition-n53226
    Failure Theater is the process by which the Establishment deliberately fails to do achieve anything, but wants credit from the Dumb … We are united in our view that to maximize its potential for deterring and dissuading Iran from building a nuclear weapon, the emerging … just before the interim deal, and literally wrote the book in 2014 on how the administration’s emerging concessions-laden Iran deal…
  13. June 25, 1876. Little Bighorn https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/25/june-25-1876-little-bighorn-n53221
    It wasn’t even the largest defeat the US Army suffered at the hands of American Indians. … He wanted to spend the day scouting and strike early the morning of the 26th to drive of the horse herds. … One of the things that is striking from an infantryman’s point of view is where the hasty rifle pits dug by dismounted troopers are…
  14. The Confederate Battle Flag Debate: I Didn't Sign On for This https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2015/06/25/confederate-battle-flag-debate-didnt-sign-n53212
    For the most part, I’ve been trying to avoid the recent debates over the acceptability of the Confederate battle flag. … I firmly believe that the Confederacy was the worst mistake the South ever made. … the Left’s view, and it has been so only since about 1994, when it went Republican.…
  15. The Rise & Fall of the Confederate Flag in South Carolina https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2015/06/23/rise-fall-confederate-flag-south-carolina-n53194
    From Fritz Hollings To Jim Hodges: Democrats, Republicans and the Flag The flag – technically the battle flag of the Army of Northern … remembers the day the Confederate flag was hoisted over the State House to commemorate the war. … The flag went up for the opening celebrations. “The flag is being flown this week at the request of Aiken Rep. John A.…
  16. I Dissent https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/23/dissent-2-n53190
    the Confederate flag (note: the flag in question is actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, but for sake of brevity … the worst impulses of the progressive left. … Slavery remained legal outside the South — the areas covered in the Emancipation Proclamation — until the passage of the 13th Amendment…
  17. The Battle Flag For The Wrong Battle https://redstate.com/absentee/2015/06/22/battle-flag-wrong-battle-n53179
    There is much to credit this point of view, including, as mentioned, the very fact that the Confederate flag has come to dominate the … But you’re eating it for the sugar. For the sweet, not the egg. That’s just the facts. … And continuing to fly the flag of the one diminishes the accomplishment of the other. The South rebelled.…
  18. You Could Be Next: Federal Government Attempts to Intimidate Reason.com Over Internet Comments https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/06/22/next-federal-government-attempts-intimidate-reason-internet-comments-n53178
    By and large I often get the idea that people view these as abstract concepts that are irrelevant to them and moreover that I am taking … Cue the governmental abuse of power machine, as the U.S. … who have provoked the ire of the conservative commentariat.…
  19. It is easy to be a good Catholic and a good conservative https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/22/easy-good-catholic-good-conservative-n53173
    The difference between the categories depends on which term is doing the modifying. … The rich and the poor have equal dignity, for “the Lord is the maker of them all” (Prov 22:2). … Disagreeing with the prescription proposed by the Magesterium is not the same as rejecting the teaching.…
  20. Bias in Academia? Surely you jest. https://redstate.com/joesquire/2015/06/21/bias-academia-surely-jest-n53167
    effect the outcome of the study. … Jussim says about the submission process of his article on the subject is the real problem in academia today: An early version of … their world view.…
  21. Another Reason for the Rise of Trump https://redstate.com/erick/2015/07/09/another-reason-for-the-rise-of-trump-n53317
    Remember, the Ryan-Murray plan was a tax increase that conservatives opposed. … Cole and others, at the time, relentlessly attacked [mc_name name=’Sen. … members who voted for the budget with the reconciliation capability in the budget feel like its used in the way that they expected…
  22. Republican heroes go after horrible, Democratic-imposed, school lunch restrictions. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2015/07/07/school-lunch-n53305
    The GOP does have the knives out: “First lady Michelle Obama’s signature school lunch regulations are coming under fresh fire from … GOP lawmakers, who view impending reauthorization legislation as their best chance yet to dial back the controversial nutrition standards … Nobody outside the Democratic party is exactly out in the street there, demanding that it be Ms. Martins.…
  23. Government Crushes People - Then Writes Them Checks https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2015/07/07/government-crushes-people-writes-checks-n53302
    Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. … The government is all too often the cause that begets the effect. … The driver replies “The guy who plants the trees called in sick.”…
  24. Hot Take from Vox.com: the American Revolution was a mistake https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/07/03/hot-take-vox-com-american-revolution-mistake-n53288
    This view is reflected in the Declaration of Independence, which attacks King George III for backing “merciless Indian Savages.” … John, to the south end of the lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the river St. … meet, to the source of the St.…
  25. The Cozy Community of Oppression https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2015/07/02/cozy-community-oppression-n53273
    Despite the outcome announced on June 26, ushering in a “new era” for the gay community, plenty among their ranks seem to view the … Even the day of the announcement from the Supreme Court, the following was already reported in The New York Times: “What do gay … The fallout from the ruling indicates the loss of counter-cultural relevance is a problem.…