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  1. Failure Theater: Foreign Policy guru edition https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/26/failure-theater-foreign-policy-guru-edition-n53226
    Failure Theater is the process by which the Establishment deliberately fails to do achieve anything, but wants credit from the Dumb … We are united in our view that to maximize its potential for deterring and dissuading Iran from building a nuclear weapon, the emerging … just before the interim deal, and literally wrote the book in 2014 on how the administration’s emerging concessions-laden Iran deal…
  2. June 25, 1876. Little Bighorn https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/25/june-25-1876-little-bighorn-n53221
    It wasn’t even the largest defeat the US Army suffered at the hands of American Indians. … He wanted to spend the day scouting and strike early the morning of the 26th to drive of the horse herds. … One of the things that is striking from an infantryman’s point of view is where the hasty rifle pits dug by dismounted troopers are…
  3. The Confederate Battle Flag Debate: I Didn't Sign On for This https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2015/06/25/confederate-battle-flag-debate-didnt-sign-n53212
    For the most part, I’ve been trying to avoid the recent debates over the acceptability of the Confederate battle flag. … I firmly believe that the Confederacy was the worst mistake the South ever made. … the Left’s view, and it has been so only since about 1994, when it went Republican.…
  4. The Rise & Fall of the Confederate Flag in South Carolina https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2015/06/23/rise-fall-confederate-flag-south-carolina-n53194
    From Fritz Hollings To Jim Hodges: Democrats, Republicans and the Flag The flag – technically the battle flag of the Army of Northern … remembers the day the Confederate flag was hoisted over the State House to commemorate the war. … The flag went up for the opening celebrations. “The flag is being flown this week at the request of Aiken Rep. John A.…
  5. I Dissent https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/23/dissent-2-n53190
    the Confederate flag (note: the flag in question is actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, but for sake of brevity … the worst impulses of the progressive left. … Slavery remained legal outside the South — the areas covered in the Emancipation Proclamation — until the passage of the 13th Amendment…
  6. The Battle Flag For The Wrong Battle https://redstate.com/absentee/2015/06/22/battle-flag-wrong-battle-n53179
    There is much to credit this point of view, including, as mentioned, the very fact that the Confederate flag has come to dominate the … But you’re eating it for the sugar. For the sweet, not the egg. That’s just the facts. … And continuing to fly the flag of the one diminishes the accomplishment of the other. The South rebelled.…
  7. You Could Be Next: Federal Government Attempts to Intimidate Reason.com Over Internet Comments https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/06/22/next-federal-government-attempts-intimidate-reason-internet-comments-n53178
    By and large I often get the idea that people view these as abstract concepts that are irrelevant to them and moreover that I am taking … Cue the governmental abuse of power machine, as the U.S. … who have provoked the ire of the conservative commentariat.…
  8. It is easy to be a good Catholic and a good conservative https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/06/22/easy-good-catholic-good-conservative-n53173
    The difference between the categories depends on which term is doing the modifying. … The rich and the poor have equal dignity, for “the Lord is the maker of them all” (Prov 22:2). … Disagreeing with the prescription proposed by the Magesterium is not the same as rejecting the teaching.…
  9. Bias in Academia? Surely you jest. https://redstate.com/joesquire/2015/06/21/bias-academia-surely-jest-n53167
    effect the outcome of the study. … Jussim says about the submission process of his article on the subject is the real problem in academia today: An early version of … their world view.…
  10. Another Reason for the Rise of Trump https://redstate.com/erick/2015/07/09/another-reason-for-the-rise-of-trump-n53317
    Remember, the Ryan-Murray plan was a tax increase that conservatives opposed. … Cole and others, at the time, relentlessly attacked [mc_name name=’Sen. … members who voted for the budget with the reconciliation capability in the budget feel like its used in the way that they expected…
  11. Republican heroes go after horrible, Democratic-imposed, school lunch restrictions. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2015/07/07/school-lunch-n53305
    The GOP does have the knives out: “First lady Michelle Obama’s signature school lunch regulations are coming under fresh fire from … GOP lawmakers, who view impending reauthorization legislation as their best chance yet to dial back the controversial nutrition standards … Nobody outside the Democratic party is exactly out in the street there, demanding that it be Ms. Martins.…
  12. Government Crushes People - Then Writes Them Checks https://redstate.com/setonmotley/2015/07/07/government-crushes-people-writes-checks-n53302
    Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. … The government is all too often the cause that begets the effect. … The driver replies “The guy who plants the trees called in sick.”…
  13. Hot Take from Vox.com: the American Revolution was a mistake https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/07/03/hot-take-vox-com-american-revolution-mistake-n53288
    This view is reflected in the Declaration of Independence, which attacks King George III for backing “merciless Indian Savages.” … John, to the south end of the lake Nipissim; from whence the said line, crossing the river St. … meet, to the source of the St.…
  14. The Cozy Community of Oppression https://redstate.com/kimberly_ross/2015/07/02/cozy-community-oppression-n53273
    Despite the outcome announced on June 26, ushering in a “new era” for the gay community, plenty among their ranks seem to view the … Even the day of the announcement from the Supreme Court, the following was already reported in The New York Times: “What do gay … The fallout from the ruling indicates the loss of counter-cultural relevance is a problem.…
  15. Polygamy is here. https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/07/01/polygamy-n53272
    After the establishment of the ecclesiastical courts, and until the time of James I., it was punished through the instrumentality of … courts from the civil the ecclesiastical were supposed to be the most appropriate for the trial of matrimonial causes and offences … But both DeBoer and Rauch are approaching this from the point of view that polygamy is the next step. They are wrong.…
  16. Yes, I Am One of the Pod People https://redstate.com/lifeofgrace/2015/07/01/yes-one-pod-people-n53271
    A year ago, I wrote that the battle was over, and we were in the mop-up phase, and that the federal courts would be doing the mopping … So the crimes of the white man, who stole ten million black lives, rest squarely in the roots of the Pilgrims, who were authentically … their view have an obsessive-compulsive desire to turn them into pod people and spoil the fun.…
  17. Gawker acts true to its nature and the left goes crazy https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/07/18/gawker-acts-true-nature-left-goes-crazy-n53408
    The latest faux outrage in the world of the faux subject of ‘jouralistic ethics’ concerns Gawker. … “The biggest issue is that the jury could say, ‘No, this wasn’t newsworthy,’ and put the jury into the newsroom, making determinations … This argument underscores the fact that the people complaining about this don’t care about the ethics they care about the objective…
  18. You Actually Are Better Than This, Donald Trump https://redstate.com/erick/2015/07/18/you-actually-are-better-than-this-donald-trump-n53409
    The Donald®℠™ is a television show creation, not the man who raised up an empire of tall buildings and cares about his employees, the … guests and residents of his buildings, and men and women of the country who are chasing the American Dream he found. … But, Donald Trump, Sr. needs to apologize for what The Donald®℠™ said in Iowa today, casting aspersions on the military record of a…
  19. Hillary “TINA” Clinton Falls In Line On Iran https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2015/07/17/hillary-tina-clinton-falls-line-iran-n53402
    Here’s the clincher. She respects other points of view. But,…TINA! … The former secretary of state reiterated her belief that the deal was the best the United States could reach at present… So there … Stupid from the point of view that a treaty should protect average Americans from being victimized by potentially violent countries…
  20. Trump and the Abdication of Responsibility https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2015/07/17/trump-abdication-responsibility-n53399
    Yes, that’s right, the same people who in the past have burned conservative candidates like Rick Perry at the stake for the slightest … These people tend to disproportionately view immigration as literally the only issue facing the nation right now. … finger in the eye of the GOP establishment.…
  21. The Lessons of Planned Parenthood’s Theology of Sartre https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2015/07/17/lessons-planned-parenthoods-theology-sartre-n53388
    Do you wish to whip up the mob and blast through the ennui of Post-modern apathy? Just let people see the way it is. … And that, my friends is the view of reality that powers so much of the Post-modern Left. … the uterus.…
  22. Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal Vs Solyent Green Inc https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2015/07/15/scott-walker-bobby-jindal-vs-solyent-green-inc-n53368
    We can see the Democrats rise up and criticize Walker for his opposition of the abortionist chop shop franchise. … Streiff gives us the really sickening view of how PP supplements the taxpayer subsidies they receive to snuff babies. … I hope the lady explaining how the organs are harvested enjoyed her lunch.…
  23. Key & Peele illustrate the marriage divide with a funny sketch https://redstate.com/neil_stevens/2015/07/14/key-peele-illustrate-marriage-divide-funny-sketch-n53361
    The cable TV series Key & Peele did a sketch on the societal effects of the Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision. … Note the underlying assumptions of the homosexual man giving the presentation. … That proved, in the view of the court, that the laws were really about ‘white’ supremacy, and had nothing to do with marriage at all…
  24. DC Metro riders continue to look out for each other https://redstate.com/streiff/2015/07/14/dc-metro-riders-continue-look-n53358
    Over the weekend I posted on the murder on the Red Line of the DC Metro on July 4. … This particular commenter’s view was that the best thing to do is to let the other guy get killed and hope and pray you aren’t next … The problem is not,  as the commenter and the perpetually befuddled Petula Dvorak of the Washington Post allege, one of people knowing…
  25. WHINOs, RINOs, Donald Trump, Bright, Shiny Objects, and The Intervention. https://redstate.com/bs/2015/07/13/whinos-rinos-donald-trump-bright-shiny-objects-intervention-n53349
    In the tech industry, many of us refer to a lot of the new technologies that come down the line as “bright, shiny objects” – things … The WHINO is a captive of the populist Right’s master narrative, which is the tragic tale of the holy, holy base, the victory of which … That this is a deeply stupid view of the world should go without saying, but if you need evidence, consider that the WHINO vote has…