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.…

Jul 2, 2014 – 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…

Jul 2, 2014 – James Varney of the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, stayed at the Hyatt Place hotel in Riverhead, NY. … warnings and kickoffs, not a point of view. … The Drudge Report is rather minimal in what it runs.…

Jun 30, 2014 – When the Obama Administration demanded the Green family pay for abortion causing drugs, the Green family refused. … 14 And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” … 15 And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing…

Jun 30, 2014 – The conservative view is that individuals should have the freedom to make that choice – the liberal view is that the choice should … In the conservative view, you should be free to make this choice for a company you started and owned, and employees should be free … In the liberal view, these companies should have the choice made for them by the government.…

Jul 18, 2014 – The theme of her speech were the economic issues that Democrats should run on in 2016. … The National Journal calls them the eleven commandments of progressivism: In her speech, Warren outlined more clearly than other … In fact, on some we can agree with the problem (regulation of the finance industry and immigration) but our solutions aren’t going…

Jul 18, 2014 – I suspect very few of the people engaged in this activity, and none of the lefties protesting on their behalf, view themselves as criminals … piece of the action. … One permutation of this mindset is the presumption that everything is the rightful property of the collective People, with the State…

Jul 18, 2014 – It is difficult to find a subject on which the Western media is more monolithic in its view than the ongoing conflict between Israel … this conflict and all other conflicts in the region are the fault of the Israelis. … This view seeps out regularly in the media’s allegedly objective reporting of the conflict, which repeatedly informs us that only one…