GOP’s Senate Chances; Is a Wave Election in Store? Kids and Guns; Suffragists’ Key Moment
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 30th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
GOP’s Senate Chances; Is a Wave Election in Store? Kids and Guns; Suffragists’ Key Moment
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Good morning. It’s Thursday, August 28, 2014. As the National Guard pulls out of Ferguson and residents of that troubled Missouri town try to make sense of what has happened — and what is yet to happen — in their community, today’s date reminds us that street protests can be more than a cathartic exercise. They can also promote necessary social change. In 1917, Alice Paul and her army of demonstrators marched for months in front of the White House, all of their demands contained in single placard: “Mr. President, what will you do for women’s suffrage?” The…
Solving Immigration: It Need Not Be So Difficult
Mark Salter, RealClearPolitics
The air is charged. Distant rumblings grow louder. President Obama is promising to do by executive order what Congress has not done: allow millions of illegal immigrants to remain in this country. And if media accounts forecasting the reaction to such a move are accurate, a political firestorm is heading our way, which could include another government shutdown and calls for impeachment hearings — this time from responsible quarters. Perhaps the president will act less precipitously than expected, disappointing immigration advocates and businesses that rely on immigrant labor, but averting a…
The Continued Farce
Erick Erickson, RealClearPolitics
Just last week, the temperatures in Middle Georgia, where I write, were over 100 degrees. This week, they are struggling to get to 90. But, as say climate change advocates, that is called weather, not climate. Of course, this is the second year in a row Georgia has experienced a milder than normal summer. The data shows, rather inconveniently, that there has not been a warming trend in 17 years. Climate change alarmists say that is wrong. Just a few months ago, the alarmists claimed the world is still warming. The Pacific Ocean, they claimed, is acting as a heat sink. Last week, another group…
The Left’s Ridiculous Burger King Freakout
David Harsanyi, RealClearPolitics
Burger King plans to merge with Canuck coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons and base the company’s headquarters in Canada, where it will enjoy the kind of reasonable corporate tax structure that Democrats continue to obstruct here in the United States. And the move has provoked a fresh round of moral panic, faux patriotism and confusion. It’s doubtful, despite much wishful thinking, that there will be much of a real backlash. Nor should there be. Most obviously, the majority of fast-food customers are probably less inclined than the petitioners of MoveOn.org to mistake high tax rates for…
