Jul 23, 2013 – GOP would not tie defunding Obamacare to funding the government for the rest of the year. … That unfortunately had to be done by the sequester, but the sequester is the law,” McConnell said. … “My view is that we should do what we promised two years ago and that will be my goal going into the final discussions.”…

Jul 23, 2013 – The entire political class speaks always and only to the Sainted Middle Class.  … Byron York at the Washington Examiner sets the doomsday clock for the middle class at January 1, 2014: On that day the government … It’s the brass ring of socialism, the “change” that can never be changed again, the day upon which your very life depends upon the…

Jul 22, 2013 – Case in point: her addressing of basic reality on the Martin-Zimmerman case, and exactly why the ACLU was smart to reverse course and … Amends the Criminal Code of 1961. … estate, spouse, or other family member of such a person, against the person or estate of the person using such justified force.…

Aug 8, 2013 – “Swallow the goldfish!” But then the reflection-hangover set in. … Old timey feminists promoted the view that to be a lady is to live under the bars of societal construct. … We are past the decade of the “the aughts” yet many women are completely uncomfortable in their own skin.…

Aug 7, 2013 – They think all money and resources are the rightful property of the State and the ruling class.  … Recall the last debate over tax increases, and the one before that, and the one before that.  … The sacred temple of the State has been violated. …

Aug 5, 2013 – The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, fired off letters to the brass at the two networks on Monday, demanding … She joined Obama in lying to the American people, and the families of the Benghazi dead, to keep Obama’s “al-Qaeda on the run” campaign … This illustrates a very wide gulf between the Democrat Party/media elite, who view Clinton as the nearly inevitable nominee and probable…

Aug 2, 2013 – That has been defined elsewhere as hate speech, as inconsistent with the enlightened view of government.” … The news coverage on the Zimmerman case almost implies that the killing of this young black man is somehow an anomaly and I resent … It saddens me to see the downhill slide of bookstores, with the shuttering of Borders and the endangered state of B&N.…

Jul 30, 2013 – With Janet Napolitano leaving the office of Secretary of Homeland Security at the end of August, the search has been on for her replacement … As a black Democrat on the Hill, it should be no surprise that the Congressional Black Caucus initially endorsed him for the position … I do not make this charge lightly, but in view of the evidence available, she appears to lack both the temperament or intelligence…

Aug 15, 2013 – As far as current pop music goes, this is about as good as it gets: Clarkson is, in my oft-stated view, the best thing in pop today … down or bolting for the exits during the encores. … The best track is the last one on the deluxe version of the album, a 7-minute long cover of Prince’s “Kiss” done in the style of the…

Aug 14, 2013 – Vota Las Vegas Town Hall (Unavailable) 8/15/2013 7:30AM – 8:30AM Georgia Doug Collins (GA- 09) Coffee with the … Main St., Coalgate, OK 8/15/2013 3:00PM – 5:00PM IN Todd Young (IN-09) New Albany Open House Pine View Government … Room, 3158 College St., Marianna, FL 8/15/2013 3:30PM – 4:30PM GA Doug Collins (GA-09) Stephens County Coffee with the…

Aug 14, 2013 – Over the next several weeks I’m going to start posting the data. Get it to your friends. Get it to you relatives. … Track down the members of Congress. Have your voice heard. … Tell them to oppose the Gang of 8 Immigration Bill and tell them to defund Obamacare. Both messages are key.…

Aug 13, 2013 – Roll Call reports that Mitch McConnell is publicly espousing the view that he has always held privately: Senate Minority Leader Mitch … They, in a word, hold the purse — that powerful instrument by which we behold, in the history of the British Constitution, an infant … as it seems to have wished, all the overgrown prerogatives of the other branches of the government.…

Aug 13, 2013 – The project has already received praise in the web and business communities largely on the merit of Booker’s notability… Yet hidden … within the fanmag praise, we can already see the initial issues. … It was The Honorable Cory Booker’s ticket aboard The Torricelli Express.…

Aug 13, 2013 – that the power of states is not diluted, as originally feared by the framers of the Constitution. 3)      Restoring the Judiciary … The last two proposals are rooted in the idea that the states only agreed to the Constitution on condition that their power would not … Every proposal is backed up by scholarly analysis of the Framers’ view on the proposal, an overview of what has changed since the founding…

Aug 9, 2013 – The great liberal project of the past 20 years has been blurring the lines between the Middle Class and Lower Class.  … The three real classes are the Ruling Class, the Dependency Class, and Everyone Else. … The entitlement mentality dissolves the boundaries that should surround the Dependency Class. …

Aug 28, 2013 – [f]or the sake of the Syrian people, the time has come for President Assad to step aside.” … The fact that Syria affects the interests of the U.S. and its allies does not mean that we currently have any options on the table … In my view, this is misguided as a sole casus belli: the problem of rogue regimes is the regimes, not their choice of weaponry.…

Aug 27, 2013 – If you can’t be a pine on the top of a hill Be a scrub in the valley—but be The best little scrub on the side of the hill, Be … But more importantly, the hedonist world view that believes in a swerve, not a God, and that believes “the highest goal of human life … is the enhancement of pleasure and the reduction of pain” is a world view that would have never charted the moral course to free slaves…

Aug 26, 2013 – Her guardian sued to prevent the action and eventually the case wound up in the United States Supreme court. … Wrote Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: In view of the general declarations of the legislature and the specific findings of the … If the mother is poor, just abort the baby and save the downstream costs.…

Aug 24, 2013 – The acid keeps eating away at the rock until the weight of the overlying landscape collapses the cave roof. … The news stories above fail to address the science, the response and the future outlook for the sinkhole; again, I hope to do that … Aerial view of the sinkhole in 2013. (Credit:Jeffrey Dubinsky for Leanweb.org/LMRK.org)…

Aug 23, 2013 – What passes for “leadership” in the modern “civil-rights” community has frequently compared the shooting of Trayvon Martin to the … The most obvious difference between the Left/media response to the Lane murder, and the Trayvon Martin shooting, is that mighty efforts … If the dull, selfish people of the United States reclaim an inch of the ground they have lost to the State, mere anarchy will be loosed…

Aug 23, 2013 – in the terminal. … Although Washington bureaucrats have not given the bikers a permit (so far), that is not stopping the riders from descending on the … Capitol for a “riding event” to make their…er…voices heard (the louder the pipes, the louder the roar).…

Aug 23, 2013 – Though it does not get much notice in the West, Egypt is home to some of the oldest Christian communities in the world. … On August 18, the Assyrian International News Agency noted the following statement from Coptic Pope Tawadros II: The Pope said the … and we can bolster their standing and effectiveness if we take the long-term view. …

Aug 22, 2013 – Long gone are the old days when Syria held the key to the spice roads and marked the intersection of the world’s greatest trade routes … The results may shed light on the questions. … In Jordan, 55% of the population has a favorable view of Hezbollah. They also think favorably of Hamas.…

Aug 21, 2013 – with outrage, aptly sums up the power the Democrats have amassed in the public. … Floyd: Palladian View is the entity through which Bridging The Gap is being hosted.   … The Palladian View vision is building leaders of tomorrow by empowering women.  …

Aug 19, 2013 – It doesn’t help the enemies of voter ID that the hard cases they drag out to oppose the law always turn into theaters of the absurd … For the first time in the modern era, we’re suddenly hearing about all the intangible costs associated with the handout of a “free” … Under the new rules, North Carolina will reduce the number of days for early voting from 17 to ten, which in our view is ten days too…