Aug 14, 2014 – The news coming out of Ferguson, MO caused me to experience the equivalent of a bad acid flashback without the initial fun of tripping … This guy was somewhat of a Che Guevara wannabee who was never going to hit it big in Hollywood. … agencies to keep the peace and respect the rights of residents and the press during this difficult time.…

Aug 12, 2014 – “In the alternative, could we just let the South secede?” the part owner of the Oakland Athletics baseball team queried. … Saperstein is not a fringe activist hiding out on the far reaches of the left. … from the Elephant to the Mastodon to reflect this developing reality).”…

Aug 27, 2014 – Mitch McConnell took the CEO of Delta Air Lines to breakfast in the exclusive Senate Dining Room last month, the airline executive … The proximity between the meal on Capitol Hill and the date of the donations provides a window into how modern Washington works.” … The issue that we have is that the guy who Democrats constantly like to invoke as the face of the party and who isn’t exactly looking…

Aug 22, 2014 – A couple of weeks ago the New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy piece by a guy named Robert Draper titled, Has the ‘Libertarian Moment … clear about where the government gets its money indicates that they will vote for big government. … When the big government leanings of Millennials are wedded to their “values” it will not be fun for those who do not fall in line.…

Aug 31, 2014 – More regulations hurt the little guy more than the big guy. Regulations hinder competition. Fast lanes become more likely. … for the FCC to do, basically overturning a key concept of the bipartisan Telecommunications Act, and re-regulating the Internet as … The Google-Obama ties continue to exist.…

Aug 30, 2014 – Not bad, guy. Immediately, the conservative movement jumped on Carson as someone to watch out for. … He had a great story – made his way from Detroit to Yale and, in the 80s, was a rock star with some big surgical procedures (included … I don’t dislike the guy, mind you, but in terms of realistic chances of pulling the country (and the world) from the cesspool it’s…

Sep 17, 2014 – Ronald Reagan had only two big items: winning the Cold War and creating jobs. … of the president and keeps it in the hands of the legislative branch. … For the first time the GOP is the party trusted on immigration and that is because conservatives in the GOP have held the line on the…

Sep 11, 2014 – Orrin Hatch of Utah, are leaning on big-ticket donors to fill the long-time Kansas senator’s campaign coffers. Sens. … But the sad thing about this is, even if both Roberts and Perdue lose, expect the establishment to learn nothing from the experience … safest path to more Republican seats is to continue electing the seasoned guy and the incumbent.…

Sep 11, 2014 – When I got above ground, there was a crowd gathering to see the horror above: a big hole somewhere in the top 15-20 stories of the … I thought of the guy who cleans the coffee machines, someone I barely speak to but see every day, who has to be in at that hour. … Aragorn responds that, to the contrary, it is the simpleness and even the pettiness of the hobbits that makes the task worthwhile,…

Sep 24, 2014 – The Dupe shares a characteristic with the Fool – they were sincerely against the war – but while the Fool is typically derived from … , or strategies, or tactics, or even the personalities of the people running the GWOT.   … You can really, really easily identify a Knave these days: that guy over there?  The one who screamed about Bush’s War?  …

Sep 18, 2014 – “Too Big to Fail” is the kind of problem that only money-is-no-object central government could cook up. … The further into the stratosphere power goes, the less impact a voter, his family, or his community have on the outcome.   … The elites of Big Government are just too damn good at buying off constituents and assembling impervious electoral fortresses.…

Oct 30, 2017 – to Russia in the context of the 2016 election. … The outlier was the indictment of a guy named George Papadopoulos. … The Wikileaks metadata for the DNC emails indicates they only cover the period January to May.…

Oct 30, 2017 – Anyway, his latest target is billionaire hedge fund guy, and big league GOP donor, Paul Singer. … No, Singer’s crime is that he funds the Washington Free Beacon, the outlet that recently outed itself as the conservative source of … big money donors, causing them to pull their support, and alienate the average voter, losing their support, as well.…

Oct 30, 2017 – It’s the big question lingering in the back of many minds today. … Knowing what we know about the guy, his business dealings could have impacted the Trump campaign in ways we can’t yet see. … On the Right, outright denial from the farthest of the far Right has consumed them.…

Oct 30, 2017 – Said Boehner: “[Mark Levin] went really crazy right and got a big audience, and he dragged [Sean] Hannity to the dark side. … He dragged Rush to the dark side. And these guys—I used to talk to them all the time. … The “echo chambers” of media have widened the chasm between citizens, according to the former Speaker, creating a nation of low-info…

Oct 27, 2017 – women and they were ready to go to the press about the issue. … The woman who had been one of my best friends at the time of the indecent proposal – the one I relayed the incident to as soon as it … This guy even lied about talking to me about it. I wasn’t the only one targeted.…

Oct 27, 2017 – replace him, though on the record sources cast doubt on the entire premise. … As Erick Erickson says: Conservatives need someone who can help Mike Lee in the Senate and I’m not sure Romney is the guy. … I don’t see him as being a big value-add to the conservative side of the ledger. I see it as replacing Hatch with Hatch v2.0.…

Oct 25, 2017 – Entitlements, the debt, the deficit — all of this is untouched. And then there are the words. Here’s the thing, Trumpers. … The same people will tell you, in the next breath, that the GOP is basically the same as the Democrats and it doesn’t really much matter … And another part of me says: eh, what’s the big deal?…

Oct 24, 2017 – And the system being big enough to admit an error and right it. Background I’m an infantry guy. Period. … With the arrival of the extraction helicopters, Rose returned to the outer defensive perimeter to engage the enemy and repel the continued … He said a guy named Neil Thorne, who worked with veterans of the MACV-SOG, wanted to put in a packet to upgrade his DSC.…

Oct 24, 2017 – Ok, if I were in the mood to be really generous with this guy, I’d write this off to his Hungarian-British upbringing. … Specifically, I’m talking about former White House aide, Sebastian Gorka, speaking about “our big issue” in the United States. … Go to — the city’s run by Democrats for 40 years,” he said. “Black young men are murdering each other by the bushel.…

Nov 8, 2017 – Also, somebody should tell Teen Vogue — and remind Clinton for that matter — that it’s common knowledge that the DNC felt the need … Before the letter begins in the issue Clinton guest-edited, big bold letters state “Hillary Clinton’s Letter to Her Teenage Self Is … ’s likely knowing what kind of guy he was.…

Nov 8, 2017 – As in so many of these cases, at some point the system broke down and a guy breaks a smallish law–buying a firearm which he is not … legally able to own–in order to break a very big law–murder, proving, yet again, that the one defining feature of criminals is that … the reach of the civilian authorities If there is actual physical violence, the military will more often than not let the local civilian…

Nov 7, 2017 – Now begins the analysis of why it happened. And President Trump has offered his theory. The guy just wasn’t Trumpy enough. … Here’s the thing … and we’ll leave aside the speed with which Trump turned on the guy he was supporting. Where was I? … Expect this to be the message from his big boosters, too. Especially on social media.…

Nov 7, 2017 – You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he’s like, yeah, he’s sure he can control … “I fricking loved brainstorming with the guy. … It also calls to mind the moral and ethical discussions surrounding the development of nuclear weapons, the big difference being that…

Nov 6, 2017 – Not all of them involve hurting the other guy. To illustrate, let me tell a story. … As it stands right now, this GOP plan is hitting the working upper middle class to give big tax breaks to the very wealthy. … I’m FOR big tax breaks for the wealthy. But I will fight them if they try to pay for them by taking it out of my hide.…