Jun 5, 2014 – In the President’s view, therefore, “free nations” and Russia are separate concepts. … Even the German political establishment believes that Russia must have a place at the European, if the not necessarily the EU, table … To the Moscow layman, the view from Washington is that it is still 1981, Russia is the Soviet Union with a new flag and the thoughts…

Jun 5, 2014 – 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…

Jun 4, 2014 – Will He Become The Next Anti-Military Rock Star of The Left? … the vile clutches of the Taliban. … into the hands of The Taliban.…

Jun 4, 2014 – 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…

May 31, 2014 – 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…

Jun 18, 2014 – “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.…

Jun 16, 2014 – 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…

Jun 16, 2014 – 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…

Jun 16, 2014 – “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…

Jun 15, 2014 – 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.…

Jun 13, 2014 – 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%.…

Jun 12, 2014 – 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…

Jun 12, 2014 – 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.…

Jun 11, 2014 – 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.…

Jun 10, 2014 – 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…

Jun 29, 2014 – 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)…

Jun 24, 2014 – 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…

Jun 24, 2014 – 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.…

Jun 24, 2014 – , 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.…

Jul 9, 2014 – 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. …

Jul 8, 2014 – 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.…

Jul 7, 2014 – 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.…

Jul 3, 2014 – 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…

Jul 3, 2014 – 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…

Jul 2, 2014 – 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.…