Damon Linker has an interesting article at The Week in which he makes the case that the Culture Wars are really all about sex, and … Sure, some people are perfectly happy in the new anything-goes order, but the social pathologies caused by the breakdown of the traditional … Social conservatives lean toward the latter view, and can marshal considerable evidence to support their analysis. …
On the one hand, we have the preliminary autopsy report showing pretty clearly that Michael Brown was shot in the front, not in the … Much the same, as Erick has noted, is true of the response of the police and the community after the shooting. … My concern here, as it was at the start of the Trayvon Martin case, is that the Left (the Democrats, the progressive activists, the…
We know also from the Chief of Police that the police officer who shot Mr. … One can viewthe events of Ferguson, MO and decide it was a good call to, before rioting even began, suit up the police as soldiers … not simply presume the ends justify the means.…
It puts the focus on the fetus rather than the woman. … It’s ghoulish on the one hand, but on the other hand, it’s welcome. … With the advances in medical technology, the message that “the child inside you is not even an entity that deserves the status of being…
to keep the U.S. on the sidelines during the first phase of the Syrian uprising. … my view, makes Obama look much more on top of the situation than Clinton. … But a critical view of the record and Clinton’s claims indicates that if there was a conflict we are lucky that Obama prevailed.…
the wall and spin around on the track. … “The right rear tire went down, he spun on the exit of (Turn) 2. They threw the caution and everything was toned down. … that can be heard in the video; however, Graves has no special view into the mind of Tony Stewart, and while he might know what it…
The military problem has a different dimension. The Kurds can take care of themselves with the right equipment. … Even if your view is that Maliki spent a lot of time and effort creating this mess and he should be allowed to enjoy it to the fullest … While there is no doubt that the US has the military power to transform the face of the war in northern Iraq, protecting Kurdistan…
Needless to say, the deepwater and shale plays are the prize that has the attention of the major international companies who hope to … More on the story here and opinion from the Houston Chronicle here. … While some may viewthe statement as an exaggeration, few would dispute that the reform will be transformational for the country.…
death penalty being used as a political football, he would grant Dunlap full clemency between the election and the new year. … According to the Denver area CBS affiliate, the father of a 19 girl killed by Dunlap said “Gov. … threaten to take the justice these families have sought for two decades and completely remove it from the realm of possibility.…
In addition, the letter questions the circumstances surrounding the secretive settlement:
What is even more concerning, given the … Without knowing more, it is impossible to view this as anything other than an attempt by the IRS to escape the confines of the 2009 … The letter goes on to demand answers regarding the details of the settlement and the procedures the IRS is putting in place as part…
Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. … At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. … Men who catcall seem to be men who like what they see and can’t manage to just shut up and enjoy theview.…
And one thing Republicans can do is kill one of the worst symbols of crony capitalism in the Federal government, the Export-Import … You can tell that the bank is essentially an excuse for corporate welfare and crony capitalism because of the way the U.S. … agency is an example of corporate welfare and “crony capitalism,” a view held by conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation…
In theview of some this behavior has become normalized and acceptable:
Academics who study anti-Semitism say the acceptance of disparaging … And the trend is unsettling
So what is driving the phenomenon? … was the most obvious source of the problem.…
The night my wife and I returned from the Redstate Gathering was the night of the initial problems in Ferguson. … These events and the stories I’ve heard have given me a very different, very personal point of view on what has happened in Ferguson … Pew did a survey after the Brown killing, and found a vast disparity in how blacks and whites viewthe situation in Ferguson, and I…
I personally dislike the knee-jerk reactions of the Left and the Right equally. … As I see it, the primary problem in Ferguson is not the ethnic breakdown of the police department. … As I view “affirmative action,” it is the good faith effort to recruit qualified minority applicants for jobs. …
Aristotle
The great mind, in a free land, is free from the law. … They rejected the idea that the Republican Party was any less hypocritical than the Democrats, that the Ruling Class knew best about … In place of all these, they accept a view that liberty is better than paternalism from the left or right – even paternalism applied…
institutions bilking consumers and put the money in the hands of the consumers who were harmed. … Agree with the concept or not, it seems like a safe bet that that is how most would viewthe role of a consumer protection agency. … And we’re the ones signing the check.…
It is the one area of biblical study people often view in their own time. … In the 1800’s with the rise of the Great Awakening, students of eschatology viewed the end times rather favorably. … The whole world would come to Christ, many of them thought. I viewthe ends times more pessimistically.…
of the police. … I am bothered by the slow response from the Ferguson Police. Many facts could have mitigated some of the issues. … I am appalled at the people who view this situation in terms of winners and losers: of arguments, of laws, of politics, etc.…
Nobody sees red-and-blue lights flashing in the rear-view mirror and thinks, “Oh, goody, the police want to have a word with me! … The cop knows why he initiated the encounter. The citizen may or may not know. … If you’re going to viewthe police as stormtroopers in an invading army, you’re not really part of the same society as them any more…
Actually, based on net worth the man’s almost certainly not part of the Occupy movement’s (remember them*?) … That’s the amount of time Mr. Begich voted with Obama priorities—from ObamaCare to the stimulus to the president’s nominees. … From our point of view? The election’s almost over. For regular voting folks? The election’s just begun.…
Recent data from the Federal Reserve paint the “income inequality” gap as worse than ever, as the rich quite literally get richer while … the poor get poorer: all of the income growth from the past three years was concentrated in the top 10 percent. … Raise your standards, America, and reserve the celebrations for the boom you are still capable of, the boom you deserve… the boom you…
As the Conservative sees it, the obsession so many on the Left (and even among those ostensibly on the Right) with forcing people into … “All they’re doing is increasing the sense that those are the blacks who matter and that they are the entryway for the rest of the … Thus the title The Omni-Americans is among other things an attempt to restate the problem formulated by the Report of the National…
Then the battle began over how to interpret the incident. NORAD Capt. … “To many people, the Great War—as it was known at the time—seemed to come out of the blue, as the European continent was enjoying a … Logic rebels against the two Russian Ambassadors in the YouTube atop the post actually believing they would conquer Miami.…
One of the things that has intrigued me about the Obama administration’s alleged strategy to combat ISIS is the degree to which it … The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the United Kingdom, said the groups reached the agreement in a … But, as we see, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) doesn’t viewthe strategic picture the same way.…
