Jun 18, 2015 – Dystopic Worldview Along with a false premise, the encyclical is based on a very dystopic view of the situation. … Quite honestly, it is a view much more in line with Young Adult fiction of the genre that has given us The Hunger Games and Divergent … This view of the market is a major blind spot of the draft, but also reflects a long history of the Vatican often ignoring or downplaying…

Jun 17, 2015 – On the surface, l’affaire Dolezal seems barely worth mention in the oddity section of actual news coverage. … Certainly, at least some of it is due to the humor value, as the #AskRachel hashtag on twitter aptly demonstrated, but underneath the … It is not an exaggeration to say that the way you view the Rachel Dolezal story is a leading indicator of the way you view the modern…

Jun 17, 2015 – The statement, the platform it was shared on, and the timing (right after the Hobby Lobby contraception decision) blended together … They’ll always promote the idea that the Right is the party which wants to rewind back to the 1950s, complete with pearl necklace-adorned … Reclaiming the term would require us to connect our logical view of gender issues/roles to one of the most illogical and damaging of…

Jun 16, 2015 – The Bruce Jenner/Rachel Dolezal clown show has provided an interesting view into the anti-science and anti-logic core underpinning … The argument has long been that much human pain is the result of denying the heart its deepest desires, that the path of indulgence … Even within the context of the left’s own arguments you see the utter imbecility clawing its way out of the very thin-shelled egg. …

Jun 16, 2015 – However, the article doesn’t really address the fact that this is an alarming social commentary. … I wasn’t surprised by the answer. … StatSocial’s CEO is quoted in the piece as saying “People on the Left are more insular.…

Jun 16, 2015 – In the end, the GOP caved to the siren song of Corker and only one MAN voted against it: Tom Cotton. … The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is sounding the alarm about the nuclear talks with Iran, warning the United … “I understand the dynamics that can develop when a group believes they are close to a deal and how your aides may view this as a major…

Jun 15, 2015 – One of the bywords of the cultural revolution of the late 1960s when it his college campuses was “relevance.” … Once one gets past the utter racism of this point of view and the condescension that says history-began-about-the-time-I-started-high-school … one of her students by sending them into the world with the view that nothing is significant but their own experiences.…

Jun 15, 2015 – A squishy (or fluffy, depending upon how you view cellulite)  northeast governor considering a run for the presidency visits Iowa and … As a point of perspective, with the vast majority of homes and businesses privately insured, the total cost estimate for the entire … Not only did the bill not pass until 91 days after the event (by contrast the Katrina relief bill passed 11 days after the event) but…

Jun 11, 2015 – The [Tea Partiers] are essentially replaying the ’60s protest paradigm. … Right the face of it. … Because that’s what the Activist Left does.…

Jun 11, 2015 – This is true not just in their conclusion that the unborn are to bear the brunt of the blame in certain situations, but also in their … Only a year ago, the issue of contraception was on the national stage as the “evil” Hobby Lobby sought to control the healthcare decisions … As usual, the Left vocally opposed all the supposed horror taking place.…

Jun 29, 2015 – In my view, the American Revolution produced two battles which really let you understand the war. … During the retreat into Pennsylvania, Washington had all the boats on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River rounded up and consolidated … Monmouth marks the creation of the American Army as a fighting force worthy of the name.  …

Jun 29, 2015 – the star at the 50-yard line of Cowboys Stadium while playing for the San Francisco 49ers. … that has come out of the Westboro Baptist Church in the other direction over the last few years. … ” and the key question people today (for better or worse) demand an answer to – “Why is this view something the government should enforce…

Jun 29, 2015 – and not with respect to the decision to enter the relationship that is the foundation of the family in our society.” … your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to … In the words of the late mil blogger Carrol LeFon, aka Neptunus Lex, when discussing the merits of the single seat F/A-18 with the…

Jun 27, 2015 – The First Amendment guarantees, however, the freedom to “exercise” religion. Ominously, that is not a word the majority uses. … This is the roadmap. … The larger Protestant denominations will toe the line. Some, like the Episcopalians, are only nominally Christian as is.…

Jun 26, 2015 – The general public has a terrible time understanding what the Supreme Court is even saying 90% of the time, and judging by the number … The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the … under the Equal Protection clause under the Fourteenth Amendment – a point which no doubt the other four liberal justices on the Court…

Jun 26, 2015 – Failure Theater is the process by which the Establishment deliberately fails to do achieve anything, but wants credit from the Dumb … We are united in our view that to maximize its potential for deterring and dissuading Iran from building a nuclear weapon, the emerging … just before the interim deal, and literally wrote the book in 2014 on how the administration’s emerging concessions-laden Iran deal…

Jun 25, 2015 – It wasn’t even the largest defeat the US Army suffered at the hands of American Indians. … He wanted to spend the day scouting and strike early the morning of the 26th to drive of the horse herds. … One of the things that is striking from an infantryman’s point of view is where the hasty rifle pits dug by dismounted troopers are…

Jun 25, 2015 – For the most part, I’ve been trying to avoid the recent debates over the acceptability of the Confederate battle flag. … I firmly believe that the Confederacy was the worst mistake the South ever made. … the Left’s view, and it has been so only since about 1994, when it went Republican.…

Jun 23, 2015 – From Fritz Hollings To Jim Hodges: Democrats, Republicans and the Flag The flag – technically the battle flag of the Army of Northern … remembers the day the Confederate flag was hoisted over the State House to commemorate the war. … The flag went up for the opening celebrations. “The flag is being flown this week at the request of Aiken Rep. John A.…

Jun 23, 2015 – the Confederate flag (note: the flag in question is actually the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, but for sake of brevity … the worst impulses of the progressive left. … Slavery remained legal outside the South — the areas covered in the Emancipation Proclamation — until the passage of the 13th Amendment…

Jun 22, 2015 – There is much to credit this point of view, including, as mentioned, the very fact that the Confederate flag has come to dominate the … But you’re eating it for the sugar. For the sweet, not the egg. That’s just the facts. … And continuing to fly the flag of the one diminishes the accomplishment of the other. The South rebelled.…

Jun 22, 2015 – By and large I often get the idea that people view these as abstract concepts that are irrelevant to them and moreover that I am taking … Cue the governmental abuse of power machine, as the U.S. … who have provoked the ire of the conservative commentariat.…

Jun 22, 2015 – The difference between the categories depends on which term is doing the modifying. … The rich and the poor have equal dignity, for “the Lord is the maker of them all” (Prov 22:2). … Disagreeing with the prescription proposed by the Magesterium is not the same as rejecting the teaching.…

Jun 21, 2015 – effect the outcome of the study. … Jussim says about the submission process of his article on the subject is the real problem in academia today: An early version of … their world view.…

Jul 9, 2015 – Remember, the Ryan-Murray plan was a tax increase that conservatives opposed. … Cole and others, at the time, relentlessly attacked [mc_name name=’Sen. … members who voted for the budget with the reconciliation capability in the budget feel like its used in the way that they expected…