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  1. Executive power: overreaching, overzealous, dream-dashing https://redstate.com/energyrabbit/2014/06/09/executive-power-overreaching-overzealous-dream-dashing-n49316
    Rahall says the actions of the EPA “have truly run amok.” Both stories have dominated the news cycle for the past week. … He contended the approval ‘flies in the face of the democratic process.’” … management plan for the management of the NCA.”…
  2. The Obama Administration’s Shifting, Turning Bergdahl Narrative Shifts and Turns Ugly https://redstate.com/socrates/2014/06/05/obama-administratio…shifting-turning-bergdahl-narrative-shifts-turns-ugly-n49284
    the end of the war in Afghanistan, while at the same time regaining offense in the administration’s constant domestic public relations … Bergdahl was not being “released” by the Taliban, as the administration framed the transaction. … One reason why the Bergdahl thing is so overheated: Many Americans–including military “supporters”–have a cartoonish view of the military…
  3. Governor Rick Perry and the Texas GOP Convention https://redstate.com/aarongardner/2014/06/05/governor-rick-perry-texas-gop-convention-n49277
    We talked a bit about his time being governor, the the successes of Texas, the Democrat attempts to make Texas a battleground, open … in the White House and the philosophy that has helped create the nation’s best economy, and some might argue, the nation’s best state … I have always taken the view that government should equip citizens with the tools of self-sufficiency without entrapping people in…
  4. NIH accused of hiding life and health risks in medical research https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/05/nih-accused-hiding-life-health-risks-medical-research-n49267
    When the risks to the patients are explained in a blizzard of forms written with a view to obfuscate rather than enlighten then the … The mothers wonder: Did the experiment contribute to any of the medical problems of their children? … well as apparently allowing NIH to influence the timing of the release of the letter, which occurred on June 4, 2013.…
  5. The Taliban promise more kidnappings. ...Of *course*. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/05/taliban-bose-bergdahl-kidnapping-n49274
    Me, May 31st, 2014: The Taliban will step up their kidnapping campaigns, because from their point of view said campaigns have been … Time Magazine, June 5, 2014: A Taliban commander close to the negotiations over the release of U.S. Army Sgt. … That last link via Ed Morrissey, who raises the legitimate point that this may just be the Taliban trying to troll us in real life.…
  6. Obama's speech in Warsaw - Russia as Europe's antagonizing "other" https://redstate.com/boris_ryvkin/2014/06/05/obamas-speech-warsaw-russia-europes-antagonizing-n49283
    In the President’s view, therefore, “free nations” and Russia are separate concepts. … Even the German political establishment believes that Russia must have a place at the European, if the not necessarily the EU, table … To the Moscow layman, the view from Washington is that it is still 1981, Russia is the Soviet Union with a new flag and the thoughts…
  7. Not All Soldiers Are Equal https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/05/not-all-soldiers-are-equal-n49269
    Even Hillary Clinton, we now know, wanted more restrictions on the deal the President ultimately agreed to. … and how he wound up in the hands of the enemy. … It is a screwed up administration and a screwed up world view that thinks five Taliban released into the great unknown is a good idea…
  8. Why The White House Valued Bowe Bergdahl https://redstate.com/repair_man_jack/2014/06/04/white-house-valued-bowe-bergdahl-n49266
    Will He Become The Next Anti-Military Rock Star of The Left? … the vile clutches of the Taliban. … into the hands of The Taliban.…
  9. John McCain gets unfair criticism on Bergdahl swap https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/04/john-mccain-gets-unfair-criticism-bergdahl-swap-n49262
    While we’ve been having fun chronicling the travails of the Obama administration as it tries to extricate itself from the observation … would release the “hardest of the hard core.” … According to officials familiar with the internal debate, there are those in both Congress and the Pentagon who view Bowe as a deserter…
  10. Three things about this Bowe Bergdahl / Taliban prisoners swap. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/05/31/bowe-bergdahl-afghanistan-taliban-n49228
    The swap was duly made and Sgt. Bergdahl is now on his way home. I say the following fully respecting the fact that Sgt. … The Taliban will step up their kidnapping campaigns, because from their point of view said campaigns have been proven to work. … But SecDef Hagel clearly wanted the man released in the worst way; we know this because Hagel pretty much chose the worst way to get…
  11. GOP Gov. Kasich: Job Growth, Big Government are "Two Wings of a Bird" https://redstate.com/jasonahart/2014/06/18/gop-gov-kasich-job-growth-big-government-two-wings-bird-n49436
    “I believe the Creator says, is that, ‘There is a rule here about the poor, the disabled, the infirmed. … Later in the speech, Kasich spelled out more explicitly his view that all Ohioans should be treated as wards of the State. … — sometimes it gets in the way, and it gets people to fight over, ya know, trippin’ over the anthills on the way to the pyramids.…
  12. Obama to reward a state sponsor of terrorism for committing terrorism https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/16/obama-reward-state-sponsor-terrorism-committing-terrorism-n49416
    But “I think we are open to any constructive process here that could minimize the violence, hold Iraq together — the integrity of the … This is nothing short of a stunning reversal of US policy and the US view of Iran. … Those of you who followed the run up to the war in Iraq actively, and by that I mean you were an adult at the time, know the left used…
  13. What All the Partisanship Narratives Forget https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/16/what-all-the-partisanship-narratives-forget-n49414
    to power and the need to kiss ass perverts one’s view of what’s happening in fly over country. … That inability to give a fair hearing to the grassroots on the right only compounds the problem. … The only thing that has changed is Citizens United giving the grassroots the ability to beat the monied interests for the first time…
  14. Big business is afraid of conservatives-- and they should be https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/16/big-business-afraid-conservatives-n49410
    “We wanted to bring the debate away from the Tea Party and back to the middle.” … what the Tea Party view of the world is: smaller government, lower taxes, less spending, and less regulation. … Again Calvin Coolidge: The opposite view was oracularly and poetically set forth in those lines of Goldsmith which everybody repeats…
  15. In Georgia, I Back Jack https://redstate.com/erick/2014/06/15/in-georgia-i-back-jack-n49397
    Politics is about choosing between various flawed people to find the one with the least flaws or the greatest knowns. … The world view of a corporate CEO — particularly one who lives in the gated community of a gated private island — is vastly different … from the world view of the small business owner in Bonaire or Cordele or Macon.…
  16. KTSP/SurveyUSA poll in Minnesota shows Mark Dayton, Al Franken having problems. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/13/minnesota-polls-al-franken-mark-dayton-n49388
    Well, it’s lovely from my point of view, at least. Gov. Mark Dayton and Sen. … The poll has a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.1 percent. … The GOP-endorsed candidate for governor, Jeff Johnson, trails Dayton 46% to 40%.…
  17. Social Conservatism and Poll-Driven Values https://redstate.com/bs/2014/06/12/social-conservatism-poll-driven-values-n49226
    In the article, Williamson speaks the truth – much to the chagrin of the left and pseudo-left: Regardless of the question of whether … The sexual motive is taken to condone all sorts of behavior which, if it had any other end in view, would be condemned as merciless … Hence, while the bad behavior is real and works miseries and degradations, the happiness which was the object of the behavior turns…
  18. National Seersucker Day comes back to Congress, thank God. https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/12/seersucker-day-congress-n49367
    Now, I understand that many of the people reading this are at least neutral towards the idea that it has to be a war of  partisan all … against all in Congress; I don’t trust the so-and-sos in the Democratic party myself.   … **Spoiler warning: the Republic is not actually doomed.…
  19. The Toxicity of Immigration Rhetoric https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/06/11/toxicity-immigration-rhetoric-n49353
    But since the people who hold this view are currently opposed by something like 75% of the U.S. … the matter up at the present time. … And the best way to do that is not to say things that fuel the flame.…
  20. Christian baker sentenced to re-education for opposing homosexual marriage https://redstate.com/streiff/2014/06/10/christain-baker-sentenced-re-education-opposing-homosexual-marriage-n49329
    Freedom (ADF), the conservative Christian legal advocacy group that represented Phillips in the case, to Fox News on June 5. … of celebrating sodomy and he must pay for the privilege of expanding his view of what Christianity permits. … When it gains the upper hand, its vanity always requires the destruction of the good and the innocent, because the example of good…
  21. 'Anthony Brown - The Most Incompetent Man in Maryland.' https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2014/06/29/anthony-brown-maryland-obamacare-larry-hogan-n49568
    Governor Brown, of course, because he was the top Democratic official in charge of the state exchange roll-out. … Brown (D), the highest-ranking elected official charged with implementing the law, was invited to speak across the country about the … I still find it bemusing that the Democrats picked, indeed, the Most Incompetent Man In Maryland… Moe Lane (crosspost)…
  22. Looking in Depth at the Kaiser Obamacare Poll https://redstate.com/ironchapman/2014/06/24/looking-depth-kaiser-obamacare-poll-n49508
    uninsured, only 53% view it favorably–not a resounding endorsement from the group it was supposed to help the most. 62% say they have … Only 44% of plan switchers have a favorable view of the law. 51% do not. 60% of who believe they have benefited from the law received … Daniel Garza of the LIBRE Initiative gets the last word on the subject because he cuts to the heart of the matter: The promises the…
  23. The Watercooler ~ Primaries Open Thread https://redstate.com/westcoastpatriette/2014/06/24/watercooler-primaries-open-thread-n49513
    the day. … As the day wears on, I’m sure other writers will be putting up links to watch the more interesting races. … The Watercooler is always an open thread.…
  24. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) Rooted for the Tanks in Tiananmen Square https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2014/06/24/elijah-cummings-d-md-rooted-tanks-tiananmen-square-n49511
    , has perfectly encapsulated for me the outrage that virtually every American should feel about the current failure of the IRS to preserve … Democrats mocked the elaborate displays of outrage at the hearing—always a safe thing to do—but you don’t have to share Ryan’s view … Everyone hates the surly workers, the unpleasant attitudes, the inherent suspicion towards everything you have ever done or said.…
  25. Senate Democrats Propose Bill to Gut Religious Liberty After Hobby Lobby Decision https://redstate.com/matthewclark/2014/07/09/senate-democrat…opose-bill-gut-religious-liberty-hobby-lobby-decision-n49669
    Despite what the Obama Administration and mainstream media have tried to spin, the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court was about … Senate Democrats outraged by the result of that decision are taking the only step available to them to reverse the decision, gut religious … that under the government’s view there would be nothing to stop such a regulation. …