Aug 26, 2014 – In addition, the letter questions the circumstances surrounding the secretive settlement: What is even more concerning, given the … Without knowing more, it is impossible to view this as anything other than an attempt by the IRS to escape the confines of the 2009 … The letter goes on to demand answers regarding the details of the settlement and the procedures the IRS is putting in place as part…

Aug 26, 2014 – Ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. … At the time the U.S. was founded, its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men, including the right to vote. … Men who catcall seem to be men who like what they see and can’t manage to just shut up and enjoy the view.…

Aug 26, 2014 – And one thing Republicans can do is kill one of the worst symbols of crony capitalism in the Federal government, the Export-Import … You can tell that the bank is essentially an excuse for corporate welfare and crony capitalism because of the way the U.S. … agency is an example of corporate welfare and “crony capitalism,” a view held by conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation…

Aug 25, 2014 – In the view of some this behavior has become normalized and acceptable: Academics who study anti-Semitism say the acceptance of disparaging … And the trend is unsettling So what is driving the phenomenon? … was the most obvious source of the problem.…

Aug 23, 2014 – The night my wife and I returned from the Redstate Gathering was the night of the initial problems in Ferguson.   … These events and the stories I’ve heard have given me a very different, very personal point of view on what has happened in Ferguson … Pew did a survey after the Brown killing, and found a vast disparity in how blacks and whites view the situation in Ferguson, and I…

Aug 22, 2014 – I personally dislike the knee-jerk reactions of the Left and the Right equally.   … As I see it, the primary problem in Ferguson is not the ethnic breakdown of the police department.   … As I view “affirmative action,” it is the good faith effort to recruit qualified minority applicants for jobs.  …

Aug 22, 2014 – Aristotle The great mind, in a free land, is free from the law. … They rejected the idea that the Republican Party was any less hypocritical than the Democrats, that the Ruling Class knew best about … In place of all these, they accept a view that liberty is better than paternalism from the left or right – even paternalism applied…

Aug 22, 2014 – institutions bilking consumers and put the money in the hands of the consumers who were harmed. … Agree with the concept or not, it seems like a safe bet that that is how most would view the role of a consumer protection agency. … And we’re the ones signing the check.…

Aug 21, 2014 – It is the one area of biblical study people often view in their own time. … In the 1800’s with the rise of the Great Awakening, students of eschatology viewed the end times rather favorably. … The whole world would come to Christ, many of them thought. I view the ends times more pessimistically.…

Aug 20, 2014 – of the police. … I am bothered by the slow response from the Ferguson Police. Many facts could have mitigated some of the issues. … I am appalled at the people who view this situation in terms of winners and losers: of arguments, of laws, of politics, etc.…

Aug 20, 2014 – Nobody sees red-and-blue lights flashing in the rear-view mirror and thinks, “Oh, goody, the police want to have a word with me!   … The cop knows why he initiated the encounter.  The citizen may or may not know.   … If you’re going to view the police as stormtroopers in an invading army, you’re not really part of the same society as them any more…

Sep 5, 2014 – Actually, based on net worth the man’s almost certainly not part of the Occupy movement’s (remember them*?) … That’s the amount of time Mr. Begich voted with Obama priorities—from ObamaCare to the stimulus to the president’s nominees. … From our point of view? The election’s almost over. For regular voting folks? The election’s just begun.…

Sep 5, 2014 – Recent data from the Federal Reserve paint the “income inequality” gap as worse than ever, as the rich quite literally get richer while … the poor get poorer: all of the income growth from the past three years was concentrated in the top 10 percent.   … Raise your standards, America, and reserve the celebrations for the boom you are still capable of, the boom you deserve… the boom you…

Aug 29, 2014 – As the Conservative sees it, the obsession so many on the Left (and even among those ostensibly on the Right) with forcing people into … “All they’re doing is increasing the sense that those are the blacks who matter and that they are the entryway for the rest of the … Thus the title The Omni-Americans is among other things an attempt to restate the problem formulated by the Report of the National…

Sep 17, 2014 – Then the battle began over how to interpret the incident. NORAD Capt. … “To many people, the Great War—as it was known at the time—seemed to come out of the blue, as the European continent was enjoying a … Logic rebels against the two Russian Ambassadors in the YouTube atop the post actually believing they would conquer Miami.…

Sep 16, 2014 – One of the things that has intrigued me about the Obama administration’s alleged strategy to combat ISIS is the degree to which it … The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group based in the United Kingdom, said the groups reached the agreement in a … But, as we see, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) doesn’t view the strategic picture the same way.…

Sep 15, 2014 – Everything we have accomplished – from harnessing fire to splitting the atom, from mapping the Earth’s surface to mapping the genome … I’ve come to think of the late stage war on traditional marriage as the War on Wives, because the wife and mother role is the part … of the arrangement the Left has big problems with.  …

Sep 15, 2014 – If you project the election results just from these national fundamentals, you could take the view explained by Trende that the Senate … the electorate (the “poll error” column shows how far off the final poll average was from the result). … The “2-Party Wave” column shows the swing in the 2-party vote from mid-September to the final election result.…

Sep 15, 2014 – However, the responses indicate a more nuanced view of immigration policy than this headline might suggest: Now, 34 percent of voters … But the second is the equally serious trap of swinging the pendulum too far the other way, especially in terms of allowing emotionally … The reality is that the majority of the country desires to see a day soon, when the border is stabilized, that a path to citizenship…

Sep 12, 2014 – , notably the Saudis and the Jordanians, what is clear is that we have a very common view of this threat.  … ISIL has been I think a galvanizing threat around the Sunni partners in the region.  … as real as the extensive Saudi-Syrian border.…

Sep 12, 2014 – Last year when the administration made a push to arm the Syrian opposition, an effort we opposed, this was the status of the Syrian … This should be the hour of coordination and brainstorming between the U.S., its allies in Europe and the Middle East and the leadership … “The leadership of the FSA is American,” said the veteran officer, who defected from the Syrian army two years ago and won respect…

Sep 11, 2014 – The ad then notes that Landrieu “voted to double the border patrol, build triple-layer fencing, and voted nine times to block amnesty … When she’s safe from challenge, she represents the wealthy Cocaine Uni-nostril Class of McClean, Virginia in the Senate. … The dishonesty is rife here regardless of which view represents what she feels about this issue in her heart.…

Sep 11, 2014 – After some reflection, I came to the conclusion (one that should have been obvious) that the reason is because the world is a profoundly … And the reason for that is the complete lack of leadership from the President and his administration.  … ” Obama claimed, despite the long history of Islamic terrorism and the fact that the first I in the name stands for “Islamic.”…

Sep 11, 2014 – leadership of the Texas legislature grossly mismanaged the bill. … One was an ectopic pregnancy which occurs when the fertilized egg implants outside the uterine cavity, most commonly in the Fallopian … In this view, any story that separates abortions into “good” and “bad” categories is negative because it defeats the larger agenda…

Sep 11, 2014 – The architect who designed the towers – well, we used to complain a lot that the windows were too narrow, but the strength of those … The mind starts to grasp onto the little things, photos of the kids and from my wedding; the radio in my office that I listened to … Aragorn responds that, to the contrary, it is the simpleness and even the pettiness of the hobbits that makes the task worthwhile,…