Aug 7, 2015 – Below are the questions the moderators addressed to the candidates. … The name in caps is the person to whom the question is addressed. … exception, are you too out of the mainstream on this issue to win the general election?…

Aug 7, 2015 – Last night’s GOP presidential debates were, in Churchill’s phrase, not the end or the beginning of the end, but the end of the … , 2011, a week before the caucus, and in seventh at 3.8% barely a month before the voting began; meanwhile, the winner of the August … But if the debates are far from the last word, they still matter as one of the first.…

Aug 6, 2015 – The second, and more important, is that he likely came to view that the lives of French soldiers were worth more than any mission they … with the Nazis in some of the worst atrocities of the war. … Second, McConnell has come to view the preservation of literally all his troops as more important than any mission he might send them…

Aug 5, 2015 – : pro-life Kansas has the fourth-highest white fertility in the country at 2.06 babies per woman, and the birthrate of the conservative … and pious sanctimony, whereas those on the left actually seem to give a whit for the health of the planet and the dire effects of … Even the left-leaning SFGate.com sees the issue.…

Aug 5, 2015 – The weapons embargo has been lifted. The ballistic missile embargo is on the cusp of being lifted. … … We have no illusions about the Iranian government or the significance of the Revolutionary Guard and the Quds Force. … … either the Iranian government, or the Iranian opposition, or the Iranian people would agree to what they would view as a total…

Aug 5, 2015 – The sad thing is the percentage of the Senate Republican Caucus that would probably agree with most if not all of it, particularly … , which holds the view that blocking bad policies is actually more important than making new policy. … This is what the GOP, particularly the Senate fails to understand.…

Aug 1, 2015 – fracking – are generally limited in the scope of their chicanery. … And yet, he’s done nothing of the sort. … “The government has cherry-picked facts to support its cynical view of friendship and wrongly labeled it bribery,” she said.…

Aug 1, 2015 – There is a piece that is making the rounds on the liberal side of the Internet today that concerns the Planned Parenthood videos … I am not going to link the piece here because I view it as either a transparent attempt to curry head pats from liberals and/or the … Let me say right off the bat that I disagree strongly with the way the author of this piece characterizes the content of the Planned…

Jul 30, 2015 – The constant snark of Bill Maher and Jon Stewart only continue to perpetuate the straw man view of the intolerant Christian. … Justification of hatred was the meal ticket for the foul horsemen of the New Atheist Movement. … Christaphobia is no longer merely the domain of the puerile and the socially inept.…

Aug 18, 2015 – We also don’t know anything about the marital status of the parents. So the 13% is quite meaningless. … A couple of weeks ago one of the twits on ABC’s “The View” got in trouble for saying this about Trump’s immigration statements: “ … the law.…

Aug 17, 2015 – Add up their polling total in the average and we get 61.4% of the vote. … In other words, right now 61.4% of the vote is with the anti-establishment crowd. … Cruz knows his path to victory lies through the south and the election calendar puts Southern states in play for the first time in…

Aug 16, 2015 – The old view of this subject is that Republicans are better on crime because they are tougher on crime, whereas Democrats are bad on … This simplistic view may have at one point been true but it no longer reflects the reality on the ground. … The result has been impressive.…

Aug 15, 2015 – Now that the Soviet Union has entered the war against us, to continue the war under the present internal and external conditions would … be only to increase needlessly the ravages of war finally to the point of endangering the very foundation of the Empire’s existence … With that in mind and although the fighting spirit of the Imperial Army and Navy is as high as ever, with a view to maintaining…

Aug 15, 2015 – But the point is: who cares if The Donald has peaked? … But the problem isn’t just that the national polls at this stage in the race lack empirical power to predict the nomination; it’s also … Currently, the average GOP voter has a favorable view of seven Republican candidates; being agreeable won’t help you stand out in the…

Aug 15, 2015 – In addition, the court held that wedding guests would attribute the message of the cake to the customer, not to Masterpiece. … Nor — despite the fact that every sentient person knows the cake is the baker’s work and not the couple’s — will anyone impute the … But if that’s the case — if the clear message of a cake isn’t imputed to the baker but instead the customer — then why is it okay to…

Aug 14, 2015 – In the next few days I’ll rate the 8 leading GOP candidates for the 2016 Nomination as reported by RealClearPolitics on 6 August … The rating scale here is honesty, not an axis of the DSM. He maxes. … He wins the “I’m not King Richard” Award in the current GOP field.…

Aug 14, 2015 – inventor of the Internet, Al Gore, to the main stage to put up a primary battle against her. … The story linked above does not that this isn’t a sure thing – in fact, I doubt he would run again – but the consideration is the important … Well, he won the popular in the 2000 election while losing the electoral college and a SCOTUS hearing.…

Aug 12, 2015 – sinker, not once questioning the veracity of the largest abortion provider in the U.S. … has been forced to look at the stark reality of the Culture of Death. … Today, the Washington Post – no friend to the pro-life movement – lobbed the first salvo at Planned Parenthood’s unbreachable – and…

Aug 12, 2015 – “ISIS grew while the United States disengaged from the Middle East and ignored the threat,” Bush said. … The former US ambassador to Iraq thinks Hillary is to blame and this should outweigh the view of the former ambassador to Kuwait. … are coming to the correct decision that the war in Iraq was the right thing.…

Aug 12, 2015 – That number was higher than the 53% of the general population that held that same view. … Ford isn’t the only company that has moved work back to the U.S. because of the lower wage rates. … One, it keeps down the price of new automobiles in the US.  This benefits the consumer.  …

Aug 11, 2015 – And over the years Erick has taken no small amount of grief from his cohorts in the media and the blogosphere for sticking up for the … In writing the post, the author found an image through Google that was hosted at the Fiscal Times, which had a Getty Images stamp, … Erick, not having written the post, but having been inundated with Twitter complaints, inquired as to the origin of the photo, and…

Aug 11, 2015 – The major takeaway any Republican pundit should gather from the current GOP primary polling and from the reception of the crowd … in about the middle of the pack. … The people who are paid to evaluate Louisiana’s budget practices from  fiscal standpoint clearly view Jindal’s budgetary approach to…

Aug 11, 2015 – Good people, but not the best ones for the job. … But he has developed his message to its highest level, and recently delivered what I view as the most powerful, gripping, motivational … In case you missed the link, here is what I view as the most powerful speech by a conservative in decades regarding race relations…

Aug 10, 2015 – about the imprudence of their frustrations and need to fall in line with the orders of the Washington establishment. … It is to be expected then that they view Donald Trump’s rise in the polls as a creation of those of us who have been trying to call … the ruling elite in the Acela Corridor.…

Aug 28, 2015 – The New Republican Party I am speaking about is going to have room for the man and the woman in the factories, for the farmer, for … conservatives: I want the record to show that I do not view the new revitalized Republican Party as one based on a principle of exclusion … The cause, not the mechanism, brings and holds the members together.…