“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies,” said Winston Churchill.
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Usually there is some give and take if there is a genuine willingness between individuals to find an agreement.
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Because Ben Bernanke’s public persona is as mild as milk, the transformation in American governance in which he has participated is imperfectly understood and hence insufficiently deplored. The change is dramatized by two recent developments.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-30 00:40:422013-09-30 00:40:42The Fed has Become a Creature of Politics
George Orwell, after attending a meeting of impoverished but passive miners, remarked sadly that “there is no turbulence left in England.” The Democrats, and much of the Republican establishment, have made a bet that there is no turbulence left in America, and the citizenry will stand mute before Obamacare’s wrecking ball.
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Does the extinguished candle care about the darkness? Ask the huddled masses who are yearning to be free. America was once thought of as a light unto nations. Obama has single-handedly extinguished that light.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-27 02:25:342013-09-27 02:25:34Obama Has Dismantled America
Just when you think the media can’t go any lower, along comes online news blog Alaska Dispatch to put the ‘ass’ in class. These folks are proving to be the kind of ‘journalists’ that have to look up to the supermarket tabloids.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-27 00:43:432013-09-27 00:43:43Creepy Trolls at Alaska Dispatch Cyber-Stalk Joe Miller’s Pregnant Daughter
Each time Islamists murder Christians, the media treat it as an isolated episode.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-26 00:38:572013-09-26 00:38:57Islamist War on Christians
After two days, the New York Times finally corrected its story claiming Virginia state law blocked Aaron Alexis from buying an AR-15 rifle before his rampage at the Navy Yard. The article, however, still is not accurate.
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It hasn’t always been the case that only MPs can carry firearms on U.S. military bases.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-18 00:01:582013-09-18 00:01:58When did Military Bases Become ‘Gun-Free Zones’?
In the midst of the Navy Yard attack, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum took advantage of the chaos to attack gun rights advocates.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-17 01:37:222013-09-17 01:37:22The GOP Elites Never Miss an Opportunity to Pick a Fight
The party establishment seems to think the answer begins with amnesty and more low-skilled labor — which just happens to be the policy preference of the GOP’s donor class. Beyond this, the party’s top consultants offer only rhetorical tweaks around the typical GOP package of low-tax corporatism.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-17 00:30:292013-09-17 00:30:29To Win Minority Vote, GOP Has to Show it’s Ready to Battle Privileged Interests
Later this month, a long-awaited event that last happened in 2007 will recur. Like a returning comet, it will be taken to portend ominous happenings. I refer to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) “fifth assessment report,” part of which will be published on Sept. 27.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-16 01:24:402013-09-16 01:24:40Dialing Back the Alarm on Climate Change
The mid-term elections of 2014 are looking to be another banner year for the tea party fueled by the outcomes of a flawed liberal agenda.
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This has been a consistent liberal attack since the days of Ronald Reagan: Republicans are extremists and crazy not to work in a “bipartisan” manner to support more liberal programs and that being more conservative will lead to the party’s implosion. They left cries crocodile tears, lamenting the destruction of the GOP because it is just too conservative.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-15 00:45:562013-09-15 00:45:56Conservatives Must Embrace Principles of Reagan, Lincoln to Succeed
The blockbuster story that the facts in the Matthew Shepard murder case have been distorted in order to promote a political agenda is another example of the power of the left’s narrative mythmaking.
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https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-14 02:43:292013-09-14 02:43:29Reagan was to Gorbachev what Putin is to Obama (+video)
In a recent National Review piece, Jim Geraghty pondered the alliterative question, “Can Conservative Comments from Celebrities Change the Culture?” He’s worried that by touting two celebrity quotes that espoused conservative values, the right is wading into the shallow waters of pop culture and degrading the serious business of politics. His concern couldn’t be more misdirected.
https://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.png00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2013-09-12 00:01:092013-09-12 00:01:09Subverting the Liberal Cultural Occupation? Bono, Kutcher et al.
What could be worse for America’s standing in the world than a Congress refusing to support a President’s proposal for military action against a rogue regime that used WMD? Here’s one idea: A U.S. President letting that rogue be rescued from military punishment by the country that has protected the rogue all along.
As a Chinese warship joins Russian ships in the Mediterranean, we should remember a cruise missile attack on an Israeli warship. President Obama should understand that Syria and Hezbollah have missiles, too.
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Early in his first term, President Barack Obama signed the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The new law provided much-needed reforms to the traditional GI Bill, such as simplified tuition rates, the ability to transfer entitlements to dependents and expanded access to higher education for many veterans.
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How do you know the August jobs report was pretty bad? When the best thing you can say is that it might have met Wall Street expectations if not for a temporary shutdown in the porn industry last month.
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Some are so eager to be inaugurated in 2017 that the 2016 campaign has begun 28 months before the 1.4 percent of Americans who live in Iowa and New Hampshire express themselves. It is, therefore, not too soon to get a head start on being dismayed.
Buchanan: The Beltway Lies of the ObamaCare War
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Patrick J. Buchanan“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies,” said Winston Churchill.
Dear President Obama-Negotiate Doesn’t Mean “My Way or the Highway”
/7 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Ed FarnanUsually there is some give and take if there is a genuine willingness between individuals to find an agreement.
The Fed has Become a Creature of Politics
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by George F. WillBecause Ben Bernanke’s public persona is as mild as milk, the transformation in American governance in which he has participated is imperfectly understood and hence insufficiently deplored. The change is dramatized by two recent developments.
Worse Is the New Normal
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Mark SteynGeorge Orwell, after attending a meeting of impoverished but passive miners, remarked sadly that “there is no turbulence left in England.” The Democrats, and much of the Republican establishment, have made a bet that there is no turbulence left in America, and the citizenry will stand mute before Obamacare’s wrecking ball.
Obama Has Dismantled America
/4 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Pamela GellerDoes the extinguished candle care about the darkness? Ask the huddled masses who are yearning to be free. America was once thought of as a light unto nations. Obama has single-handedly extinguished that light.
Creepy Trolls at Alaska Dispatch Cyber-Stalk Joe Miller’s Pregnant Daughter
/10 Comments/in Alaska News, Opinion /by Matt JohnsonJust when you think the media can’t go any lower, along comes online news blog Alaska Dispatch to put the ‘ass’ in class. These folks are proving to be the kind of ‘journalists’ that have to look up to the supermarket tabloids.
Islamist War on Christians
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Lee HabeebEach time Islamists murder Christians, the media treat it as an isolated episode.
New York Times Corrects AR-15 Navy Yard Story, Still Misses the Mark
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Emily MillerAfter two days, the New York Times finally corrected its story claiming Virginia state law blocked Aaron Alexis from buying an AR-15 rifle before his rampage at the Navy Yard. The article, however, still is not accurate.
Steyn: American Banana Republic
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Mark SteynThe decay of a free society doesn’t happen overnight, but we’re getting there.
When did Military Bases Become ‘Gun-Free Zones’?
/4 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Awr HawkinsIt hasn’t always been the case that only MPs can carry firearms on U.S. military bases.
The GOP Elites Never Miss an Opportunity to Pick a Fight
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Joel B. PollakIn the midst of the Navy Yard attack, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum took advantage of the chaos to attack gun rights advocates.
To Win Minority Vote, GOP Has to Show it’s Ready to Battle Privileged Interests
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Timothy P. CarneyThe party establishment seems to think the answer begins with amnesty and more low-skilled labor — which just happens to be the policy preference of the GOP’s donor class. Beyond this, the party’s top consultants offer only rhetorical tweaks around the typical GOP package of low-tax corporatism.
Dialing Back the Alarm on Climate Change
/4 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Matt RidleyLater this month, a long-awaited event that last happened in 2007 will recur. Like a returning comet, it will be taken to portend ominous happenings. I refer to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) “fifth assessment report,” part of which will be published on Sept. 27.
Why 2014 Shapes Up to Be Another Tea Party Year
/13 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by John RansomThe mid-term elections of 2014 are looking to be another banner year for the tea party fueled by the outcomes of a flawed liberal agenda.
Conservatives Must Embrace Principles of Reagan, Lincoln to Succeed
/3 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Jarrett StepmanThis has been a consistent liberal attack since the days of Ronald Reagan: Republicans are extremists and crazy not to work in a “bipartisan” manner to support more liberal programs and that being more conservative will lead to the party’s implosion. They left cries crocodile tears, lamenting the destruction of the GOP because it is just too conservative.
Matthew Shepard, Trayvon Martin, Brandon Darby and the Power of Leftist Mythmaking
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Lee StranahanThe blockbuster story that the facts in the Matthew Shepard murder case have been distorted in order to promote a political agenda is another example of the power of the left’s narrative mythmaking.
Reagan was to Gorbachev what Putin is to Obama (+video)
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Joshua RiddlePutin Didn’t Save Obama, He Beat Him.
Subverting the Liberal Cultural Occupation? Bono, Kutcher et al.
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Mark TapsonIn a recent National Review piece, Jim Geraghty pondered the alliterative question, “Can Conservative Comments from Celebrities Change the Culture?” He’s worried that by touting two celebrity quotes that espoused conservative values, the right is wading into the shallow waters of pop culture and degrading the serious business of politics. His concern couldn’t be more misdirected.
GOP REP: Obama Speech a ‘Display of Foreign Policy Incompetence’
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Todd Beamon - David Patten - News EditorRep. Ron DeSantis Tuesday characterized President Barack Obama’s speech on Syria to Newsmax as “a typical Obama performance.”
“He didn’t say anything new,” the Florida Republican told Newsmax. “This is just topping off a catastrophic display of foreign policy incompetence.”
Obama Rescues Assad
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by Wall Street JournalWhat could be worse for America’s standing in the world than a Congress refusing to support a President’s proposal for military action against a rogue regime that used WMD? Here’s one idea: A U.S. President letting that rogue be rescued from military punishment by the country that has protected the rogue all along.
Obama’s Successful Foreign Failure
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by News EditorThe president may look incompetent on Syria. But his behavior fits his strategy to weaken America abroad.
Syria Can Shoot Back, Mr. President
/4 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by IBD EditorialsAs a Chinese warship joins Russian ships in the Mediterranean, we should remember a cruise missile attack on an Israeli warship. President Obama should understand that Syria and Hezbollah have missiles, too.
The GI Bill isn’t Good Enough for Veterans
/2 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Michael McNerneyEarly in his first term, President Barack Obama signed the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The new law provided much-needed reforms to the traditional GI Bill, such as simplified tuition rates, the ability to transfer entitlements to dependents and expanded access to higher education for many veterans.
August Jobs Report: We’re ‘Dead in the Water’
/0 Comments/in Featured, Opinion /by Rick MoranHow do you know the August jobs report was pretty bad? When the best thing you can say is that it might have met Wall Street expectations if not for a temporary shutdown in the porn industry last month.
Clinton. Christie. Cringe.
/1 Comment/in Featured, Opinion /by George F. WillSome are so eager to be inaugurated in 2017 that the 2016 campaign has begun 28 months before the 1.4 percent of Americans who live in Iowa and New Hampshire express themselves. It is, therefore, not too soon to get a head start on being dismayed.