Even Hillary Clinton, we now know, wanted more restrictions on the deal the President ultimately agreed to. … and how he wound up in the hands of the enemy. … It is a screwed up administration and a screwed up world view that thinks five Taliban released into the great unknown is a good idea…
While we’ve been having fun chronicling the travails of the Obama administration as it tries to extricate itself from the observation … would release the “hardest of the hard core.” … According to officials familiar with the internal debate, there are those in both Congress and the Pentagon who view Bowe as a deserter…
The swap was duly made and Sgt. Bergdahl is now on his way home.
I say the following fully respecting the fact that Sgt. … The Taliban will step up their kidnapping campaigns, because from their point of view said campaigns have been proven to work. … But SecDef Hagel clearly wanted the man released in the worst way; we know this because Hagel pretty much chose the worst way to get…
“I believe the Creator says, is that, ‘There is a rule here about the poor, the disabled, the infirmed. … Later in the speech, Kasich spelled out more explicitly his view that all Ohioans should be treated as wards of the State. … — sometimes it gets in the way, and it gets people to fight over, ya know, trippin’ over the anthills on the way to the pyramids.…
But “I think we are open to any constructive process here that could minimize the violence, hold Iraq together — the integrity of the … This is nothing short of a stunning reversal of US policy and the US view of Iran. … Those of you who followed the run up to the war in Iraq actively, and by that I mean you were an adult at the time, know the left used…
to power and the need to kiss ass perverts one’s view of what’s happening in fly over country. … That inability to give a fair hearing to the grassroots on the right only compounds the problem. … The only thing that has changed is Citizens United giving the grassroots the ability to beat the monied interests for the first time…
“We wanted to bring the debate away from the Tea Party and back to the middle.” … what the Tea Party view of the world is: smaller government, lower taxes, less spending, and less regulation. … Again Calvin Coolidge:
The opposite view was oracularly and poetically set forth in those lines of Goldsmith which everybody repeats…
Politics is about choosing between various flawed people to find the one with the least flaws or the greatest knowns. … The world view of a corporate CEO — particularly one who lives in the gated community of a gated private island — is vastly different … from the world view of the small business owner in Bonaire or Cordele or Macon.…
Well, it’s lovely from my point of view, at least.
Gov. Mark Dayton and Sen. … The poll has a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.1 percent. … The GOP-endorsed candidate for governor, Jeff Johnson, trails Dayton 46% to 40%.…
In the article, Williamson speaks the truth – much to the chagrin of the left and pseudo-left:
Regardless of the question of whether … The sexual motive is taken to condone all sorts of behavior which, if it had any other end in view, would be condemned as merciless … Hence, while the bad behavior is real and works miseries and degradations, the happiness which was the object of the behavior turns…
Now, I understand that many of the people reading this are at least neutral towards the idea that it has to be a war of partisan all … against all in Congress; I don’t trust the so-and-sos in the Democratic party myself. … **Spoiler warning: the Republic is not actually doomed.…
But since the people who hold this view are currently opposed by something like 75% of the U.S. … the matter up at the present time. … And the best way to do that is not to say things that fuel the flame.…
Freedom (ADF), the conservative Christian legal advocacy group that represented Phillips in the case, to Fox News on June 5. … of celebrating sodomy and he must pay for the privilege of expanding his view of what Christianity permits. … When it gains the upper hand, its vanity always requires the destruction of the good and the innocent, because the example of good…
Governor Brown, of course, because he was the top Democratic official in charge of the state exchange roll-out. … Brown (D), the highest-ranking elected official charged with implementing the law, was invited to speak across the country about the … I still find it bemusing that the Democrats picked, indeed, the Most Incompetent Man In Maryland…
Moe Lane (crosspost)…
uninsured, only 53% view it favorably–not a resounding endorsement from the group it was supposed to help the most.
62% say they have … Only 44% of plan switchers have a favorable view of the law. 51% do not.
60% of who believe they have benefited from the law received … Daniel Garza of the LIBRE Initiative gets the last word on the subject because he cuts to the heart of the matter:
The promises the…
the day. … As the day wears on, I’m sure other writers will be putting up links to watch the more interesting races. … The Watercooler is always an open thread.…
, has perfectly encapsulated for me the outrage that virtually every American should feel about the current failure of the IRS to preserve … Democrats mocked the elaborate displays of outrage at the hearing—always a safe thing to do—but you don’t have to share Ryan’s view … Everyone hates the surly workers, the unpleasant attitudes, the inherent suspicion towards everything you have ever done or said.…
Despite what the Obama Administration and mainstream media have tried to spin, the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court was about … Senate Democrats outraged by the result of that decision are taking the only step available to them to reverse the decision, gut religious … that under the government’s view there would be nothing to stop such a regulation. …
That’s not even remotely true: I (and most of the rest of the Right) understood the Left’s position on the case from the beginning. … In this particular case, the Left had the wrong answer: the Right had the rig… err, ‘correct’ answer; and that is the end of it. … way we view rights and the role of the government in public life.…
He writes:
in my view, the President has not faithfully executed the laws when it comes to a range of issues, including his health … The courts cannot force the Democrats to consider legislation from the House of Representatives. … The House can refuse to funding the government in retaliation, but the GOP is too scared of blame to do that.…
After The Fools Comes The Flood
I may well be guilty of a loathsome, scurvy and iniquitous sin. … The Iron Duke was correct when he said that the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eaton and Harrow. … Image Credit: A View From The Right…
From day one, angry atheists have made outlandish claims about the Ground Zero Cross – the two intersecting steal beams in the shape … When the American Atheists first filed their lawsuit in state court seeking to have the cross torn down and removed from the National … Among the questions that must be answered in the new filings is how the offensiveness of the cross, which the plaintiffs view as a…
Like any INGSOC, the Purificationist hegemony of the campus needs a nefarious Goldstein to unite the various hues of the Homogenous … in hindsight as the sun setting in the West. … Wren Building or The MIT Chapel, the most powerful option short of violence is massive recourse to the law.…
A past created by the most cynical view of America, by a man whose superficial charm hid from view for so many of us (with the exception … Ever the optimist, I am still looking for the silver lining — the “all things work together for good” outcome that scripture promises … No, instead, I see the goodness of America and of Americans all mixed up in the mess and showing the beauty of her pretty little head…
