Most of the media over the last 24 hours has focused on the predictable yet infuriating question of whether Chris Christie will apologize … I view it of zero significance that the same people who have floundered incompetently through this entire outbreak (to wit, the CDC … the State can ensure the safety of the unwitting public.…
My topic was “Don’t Make the Good the Enemy of the Perfect.”
In politics, we often hear people say the opposite. … of the good. … Conservative activists need an eternal view. The fight never stops, not even on election day.…
On September 16, the Huffington Post model had a 53% chance of the Democrats keeping the Senate, while the Daily Kos model on September … to exacerbate the problem of being skewed in one or another direction in any given year – more proof of streiff’s view of the herd … The chart at the top of the page notes the trend across the 14 Senate races where Republicans were competitive or flipping a seat –…
The two poles in the discussion are the epitome of the “no label” crown, David Brooks, and the man who has done more than any other … And here Chait really has the best of the argument. … While we disagree on the specifics of desirable qualities, Chait view is that your politics are a reflection of your character because…
Or, as Mark Twain put it: “The true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the … The objection, at least in my view, is not that Fortunate Son and Born in the U.S.A are anti-American, because in their essence they … The situation portrayed in the song was counterfactual during the Vietnam era when a clear majority of the House and Senate who made…
As we commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the momentous events of the last century, the left … The new party line on the fall of the Berlin Wall seems to be that the wall fell as the result of a sort of comedy of errors on the … However, this reductionist view completely ignores the fact that a similar chain of events would not have caused the wall to come down…
Along the way, all the liberal tributes to the fall of the Berlin Wall are writing Reagan and Thatcher out of the history of the events … All that the public rejected on Tuesday is now the bedrock of the Democratic Party. … For the last six days, all the public has gotten from the Democrats is an honest view of what the Democrats really belief, i.e. they…
The end.” … I think it’s difficult for many of us to acknowledge the shadow our parents cast on the way we viewthe world in this (and many other … the world through the eyes of our neighbors.…
In the flat version of history, the Electoral College was created in the 18th century by the Framers as a council of elders who would … The Democrats and their hand puppets in the Media who just a few weeks ago were praising the Constitution and the veracity of our elections … Oh the Irony.…
The FBI and other agencies don’t fully endorse that view, but few officials would dispute that the Russian operation was intended to … Now the U.S has solid information tying Putin to the operation, the intelligence officials say. … It moved because Russia interfered in the election to the Democrats’ detriment, whether that was the core motive or not.…
But based solely on a reading of the Constitution and on our nation’s history, my tentative view is that electors can vote for whom … Article II and the 12th Amendment give the authority to vote for the President to “The Electors.” … to be faithless to the vote of the people of the state — then replacing them before the vote could well be constitutional.…
It was the first such call since the dark days of the Carter regime. … Russia to his hands-off view of the Middle East. … And Trump may be the right guy to carry the message to them.…
that progressives “favored before the New Deal and the great society.” … When the baton passes to one’s enemies, the follies of expedience come clearly into view. … Suddenly the Media will acknowledge the dangers of changing the Constitution on a whim.
I love this Country.…
DOTE report from November 2014.[149] The F-35 program office considered software to be the top technical risk to the program. … Senator John McCain blamed cost increases in the program on “cronyism”.[151]
In 2014, the GAO found that the F-35 fleet would have … You will hear more of the latter because the real role of the F-35, at least from theview of a lot of members of Congress, is a milch…
Too many lifelong politicos simply don’t possess that particular looking glass – so their view of the man is perpetually warped and … To wit: The Art of the Deal. … As demonstrated by the decades-long gutting of the American middle class.…
The problem with this theory is in that looking at the RCP average of the national vote, Clinton’s lead dropped by a full point from … The polls continued to tighten until the day of the election when Clinton’s RCP average lead stood at 3.2%. … Theview of Hillary and her emails was baked in way before October 28th.…
A reasonable point of view and definitely the more prudent.
Then there is another hand. This is the one I favor. … networks somehow altered the eventual outcome of the election, in the face of the wall-to-wall “Donald Trump is the unholy offspring … Also, guys, the very CIA Democrats you’re attacking probably share your stupid view on Bush and Iraq.…
With the news that the CIA feels Russia deliberately interfered with the U.S. election, in order to get Donald Trump elected, the … “It’s very rational in my view that [Putin] would rather see President-elect Trump be the next president of the United States instead … The U.S. is currently dealing with what is possibly the most divided citizenry in recent history.…
Kennedy is the guy who repeated foisted on the public the lie, the “fake news” if you will, that the classified information on Clinton … But I’ll ask him the same question I’ve asked the others: do you understand the historic lesson that the Iraq war was a failure, a … He should get nowhere close to the State Department if anybody with the same world view is in charge.…
The other is “Russian hacking” which is predicated on the idea that what Americans saw in the hacked emails of the DNC and John Podesta … the fact that he was quoting the IAEA. … The impetus behind this effort it to prevent you, the citizen, from hearing multiple points of view… some of them stupid (we’re used…
First, there is no direct evidence of the claim (see global warming, consensus view) but rather they are making the claim base on their … consensus view” that if the DNC was hacked then the RNC was hacked. … Trump is exactly right to give them the “consensus view” on their performance (I’d differ with Trump on the WMD issue, but could easily…
official, it was the “consensus view” of the intelligence committee that Russia’s goal was to get Trump elected, the Post reported … Taking all the shenanigans with the DNC, the Clinton Foundation, and her email scandal, once the smokescreen of ‘First Woman President … All that said, Trump as the leader of the Republican Party, should not be spitting in the face of the CIA.…
According to one unnamed senior U.S. official, it was the “consensus view” of the intelligence committee that Russia’s goal was to … The Trump transition team questioned the credibility of the CIA in response to the report. … the conclusion of the intelligence community.…
The reason? … That paved the way for the film to be made. … Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier, the heads of the production company, View Askew Productions were both credited as co-executive producers…
who are accusing the party of “soft bigotry.” … Frustrations over the lack of diversity among the ranks of top Senate Democratic aides began seeping into public view after Hillary … Reid’s aide Maria Meier, who has been in charge of the diversity effort since 2011, is leaving by the end of the year.…
