Mar 12, 2014 – Just as the last refuge of the poltroon is patriotism, the last refuge of the GOP poltroon is comparing oneself with Reagan.   … This is the real Rand Paul. When this crabbed view of America’s role in the world got attention he had to backtrack. … Cruz really had the right to ask him to specify which view on which day he was referring to.…

Mar 31, 2014 – chopping off pieces of the once-liberated Soviet Empire the way Jack the Ripper handled his business with the ladies. … As long as all the butchery took place in Eastern Europe amidst the mud and the snow, nobody in the United States intelligentsia would … The backlash against the golden strait-jacket and the electronic herd will explode under the built-up steam-pressure of decades of…

Mar 29, 2014 – The anarchists have deemed taxation to be “unacceptable”. I’m sure the IRS will take that as an answer, right guys? … Pass the popcorn. … That’s the Constitutional view of patents.…

Mar 27, 2014 – Soviet Union on the whim of the secretary general of the Communist Party at the time, Nikita Khrushchev. … Why should the Crimean population be denied the will to choose their destiny against the view of the country of which they are a member … In both cases, the Western powers made excuses for the aggressor and gave it the benefit of the doubt.…

Mar 27, 2014 – in the perpetrators, nor in the attack on the California DMV that just happened. … The lack of rule of law in the Bitcoin economy is a fatal flaw. … in the marketplace.…

Mar 26, 2014 – For him, attaining, keeping and amassing power is the name of the game. … If we start ratcheting up the pressure on Russia, the odds are the Russians will become ever more solidly aligned behind Putin and … The bottom line is that Putin is going to follow his plan regardless of what the West offers in the way of blandishments.…

Mar 25, 2014 – Because, if Democrats lose the majority, Chuck Grassley will be the Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. … As a lawyer myself, I like the idea that we should have some lawyers on the Senate Judiciary Committee and on its staff, but the whole … Three, Braley manages to mention here that his losing the election would elevate the state’s senior Senator to the chairmanship of…

Mar 25, 2014 – ditch the stock. … terminate the life, the Greene family opposes the government’s contraception mandate in Obamacare. … Hopefully, though, the Supreme Court will agree with the Greene family and the many others who object to the contraceptive mandate.…

Apr 10, 2014 – The Foundation sued under the state freedom of informations act and the results were astounding. … Cuomo (who I view as the Democrat frontrunner for president in 2016, not a wizened septuagenarian Hillary Clinton) promptly threw … But the scandal continues.…

Apr 8, 2014 – The group of 11 signatories all came together to tell Senate Republicans their view of the role of government in the proposed Time … They raise good points, and come to the correct conclusion that government needs to get out of the way. … The coalition is correct, and the government should show some restraint here.…

Apr 7, 2014 – Oh, the usual reason: the federal government swooped in and slapped a bunch of extra requirements on an existing state-run program, … thus automatically invalidating the current policies. … As is typical in these cases, the parties involved were not able to work out how to get around the problem – kids don’t give money…

Apr 5, 2014 – that is home to the New York City Ballet and the New York City Opera,” according to the New York Post. … We’re supposed to regard each other as predators, and view everything free people in the private sector do with suspicion.   … At the same time, we are required to view government as the avatar of benevolence.  …

Apr 4, 2014 – This points toward the view the modern statist movement, as epitomized by the Democrat party, has taken on individual rights. … Unlike the Declaration of Independence’s bold proclamation that our rights are God-given, the statist view is that individual rights … In Breyer’s view, the purpose of the First Amendment is to see that (in Chief Justice Hughes’s words) “the will of the people” is done…

Apr 4, 2014 – He’s uncontested in the primary and every time Braley opens his mouth, dumb things fly out.   … The man should go hide for a couple of months. >Via America Rising, via Ed Driscoll. … I think, under the circumstances, it’s an open question whether we’d do a better job at that (from our point of view) than Braley himself…

Apr 4, 2014 – Half the board resigned when Mozilla named Eich the CEO. The online dating service OKCupid called for a boycott of Mozilla. … Galileo believed the earth orbited around the sun, or “heliocentrism”. … The prevailing view of the age, held by the Catholic Church, was that every object in the sky orbited the earth.…

Apr 2, 2014 – The best time to put such plans on the table is in a presidential campaign, or when the party holds both Houses of Congress (as it … The Jindal Plan You can read the full 21-page plan document here, the 3-page Executive Summary here, Gov. … But as far as frameworks go, this is already a fairly detailed view of where Jindal wants to take American healthcare into the post-Obamacare…

Apr 2, 2014 – Democrats in the House eventually stripped the Petri-Kucinich amendment from the final version of the Affordable Care Act. … the uh, the state basis.” … The only difference between the President’s expressed view and Petri’s voting record is that Petri prefers to initially limit the public…

Apr 20, 2014 – poll’s history; 64 percent of respondents hold an unfavorable view of the Republican Party. … The IRS scandal? The refusal of Obama to obey the law? Obamacare? No. … The turnabout is due to the base and the nation having seen the House GOP actually fight for something.…

Apr 18, 2014 – the other. … They view Christians who are seen as too hostile to others as inferior in spreading the Gospel or too judgmental. … The world is deeply hostile to the Christian idea of loving the sinner, but not the sin.…

Apr 16, 2014 – The bill is dead! … Thankfully, and an act of providence in my view, yesterday’s vote in the Colorado Senate had to be delay when one of the Democrats … The petition signatures will be delivered to the Senate floor today.…

Apr 11, 2014 – Such issues included the overall direction of the country, the economy, President Obama’s approval rating, taxation, the minimum wage … Virtually everything the Left has done for decades is part of the war on wives. … That’s the cruel truth at the heart of the war on wives: the rejection of traditional family structure leads to dependency, not independence…

Apr 11, 2014 – key players that tread into the territory of virtuosity in the art of reversing the spin. … Yes, investigating the IRS is the same as The Red Scare. … It is the telling reaction of the hardcore liberal who sees the IRS as the engine of social change.…

Apr 30, 2014 – I disagree with him on our nation’s role as the world’s policeman. I disagree with him on the NSA situation. … On the largest issues of the day within the Republican Party, though I may like Lindsey Graham, I disagree with him and think South … This suggests to me that his opponents view him as the most credible challenger to Lindsey Graham too.…

Apr 29, 2014 – You can view the previous posts here: Part 1 , Part 2 Part 3 ,Part 4. … Ohio’s 14th district was represented by Steve LaTourette, the leader of the liberal-wing of the party, for 18 years.  … from the outside. …

Apr 29, 2014 – Yesterday afternoon I had the opportunity to sit down with retired Air Force Major General, and GOP primary candidate for Colorado … In an interview in Rayburn’s relatively modest home north of Colorado Springs, we spoke about his background, world view, and why he … delegate votes at the 5th CD Assembly.  …