Morning Briefing
For July 9, 2014
Barack Obama’s Border Funding Plan is a Bad Idea
Barack Obama has flown to Texas to fundraise. He won’t actually go visit the border. But he did come up with a $3.7 billion plan to deal with what’s happening. Senator Tom Coburn is voicing his opposition. The GOP would be wise to listen to Senator Coburn. As he noted last night on Crossfire, “That’s $60,000 per child we will spend, in emergency money.” He also noted that if we bought all the kids first class tickets back home it’d only be $8 million. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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I like this Megan McArdle post on the clashing ideological worldviews on Hobby Lobby, but I object to her suggestion that the Left and the Right “misunderstood each other so profoundly — and continue to do so even after all the screaming.” That’s not even remotely true: I (and most of the rest of the Right) understood the Left’s position on the case from the beginning. I just rejected it, because it was stupid; simplistic; and frankly designed to produce Two-Minute Hates on cue. We in this business have a bad habit sometimes of assuming that there are, broadly speaking, at least two correct answers to any policy problem (if we had three viable political parties, we’d assume that there were three, and so on). . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
The Senate Conservatives Fund Provides $70,000.00 to Fight
I hear all the time the establishment guys in DC say that people like me are in this for the money. Just this morning, Rep. Tom Cole went on MSNBC to say I was somehow profiting from pointing out that John Boehner is engaged in a political stunt.
We hear that also about conservative groups in D.C. The Establishment has repeatedly attacked the Senate Conservatives Fund for taking advantage of conservatives and wasting money. In fact, the Senate Conservatives Fund pours out in excess of seventy percent of all dollars raised on candidates — more than the NRSC does. And now comes word that the Senate Conservatives Fund is sending $70,000.00 to help Chris McDaniel investigate election fraud in Mississippi. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
I Do Not Believe It
According to FEC records, the NRSC an Alexandria, VA company $13,000.00 for media production and $69,000.00 for media placement on June 20, 2014, with the Mississippi runoff on June 24, 2014.
On the exact same day the NRSC paid a media buying company to place its advertising, “All Citizens of Mississippi” used the exact same company from Virigina to place its advertising attacking tea party groups. We have documentation that “All Citizens of Mississippi” placed ads. All we have from the NRSC is a denial that beggars belief. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Jihadists Escalate the Persecution and Slaughter of Christians Worldwide
In recent days and weeks, we’ve witnessed and unprecedented escalation of radical Islamic violence and persecution of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa.
In Nigeria, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and a number of other countries in the region, radical jihadists are literally slaughtering Christians. They are pillaging Christian villages and burning churches.
In Nigeria, the radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram continued their killing spree, massacring 30 Christians as they worshiped and burning down four churches this past weekend. Experts continue to reiterate that “Christians are one of the explicit targets of Boko Haram.” . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Jim Hinch and the Politico Get Off On Another Evangelical Fantasy
Evangelicals are beginning to support gay marriage. That is what Jim Hinch claims in the Politico.
His evidence? A liberal Methodist church, the declining mainline Presbyterian Church (USA), and a lady who left a Methodist Church for a UCC Church. Anyone who knows anything about Christianity in America knows the Methodists, PCUSA, and UCC are not evangelical churches.
Oh, but there is that one preacher at a Baptist Church in California whose son is gay so he’s now decided he’s for gay marriage. But the Baptists are taking action there. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Who Are These People?
One of my pet peeves, even with some good friends, are some of these mostly internet and email conservative groups I’ve never heard of. I am generally in the know on these groups. But, frankly, if I see a group peddling Ben Carson for President or Allen West for [insert office du jour here] I delete them. I do wonder, however, how many of seniors, veterans, and hard working conservatives are being scammed by groups that are mostly playing consultants.
I got an email yesterday from the “Conservative Action Fund.” At first I thought the Senate Conservatives Fund had changed its name to broaden its reach. After all, the masthead had Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Sarah Palin in it. But alas, no. The Conservative Action Fund is something different. In 2012 it seems consultants made good coin off it. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
Did the New York Times Just Stumble Across an IRS Motive for Targeting the Tea Party?
The New York Times editorial board may have just stumbled across an ulterior motive for the IRS targeting of the Tea Party.
In its latest liberal rant coming to the aid of the IRS – that poor defenseless government leviathan – it repeats the same tired leftist talking points about the root of all the IRS’s problems being that it doesn’t have enough money.
Yet in doing so, it may have just stumbled across a new motive behind the targeting, good old-fashioned revenge. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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