News of the Week for April 27th<\/sup>, 2014<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cotton\u2019s Former Drill Sgt. Helps Take On Pryor\u2019s \u2018Sense of Entitlement\u2019 Jab <\/a> Mich. GOP Senate Candidate Laughs Off \u2018War on Women\u2019 Attacks <\/a> Senate Democrats Forced to Defend More Seats<\/a> Democrats Could Fail to Survive Primary in Waxman’s District<\/a> The pros and cons of using a cannon in your campaign ad<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “F*** the EU,” Revisited<\/a> <\/p>\n New CA Gun Bill: Gun Manufacturers Must Pay DOJ to Be Allowed Back on CA Roster<\/a> Wayne LaPierre: “\u2018Gun Rights Have Become a Metaphor for Something Larger”<\/a> <\/p>\n The hilarious history of ‘climate tipping points’<\/a> <\/p>\n Washington State threatens to send Obamacare costs through the roof. <\/a> GOP Surrenders on Obamacare <\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 19th-Century Diplomacy and a 21st-Century Paramilitary Beats Lots of 21st-Century Diplomacy <\/a> Jihadists Now Control Secretive U.S. Base in Libya<\/a> Why Militaries Mess Up So Often<\/a> <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Election 2014<\/h1>\n
\nTom Cotton brought in an old friend to playfully push back against Arkansas Democrat Mark Pryor\u2019s comment that Cotton has a \u201csense of entitlement\u201d from his military service: his old drill sergeant.<\/p>\n
\nThe \u201cwar on women\u201d accusation isn\u2019t going to work on at least one Republican candidate. In fact, she\u2019s pushing back at the ridiculousness of the claim.<\/p>\n
\nIn even a neutral political environment, the 2014 midterms were going to be a challenge for Senate Democrats. They are defending 21 seats to the GOP’s 15, with only two of the Republican seats at any kind of risk of flipping to the Democrats. Moreover, Democrats were defending many freshman Senators who first won office in in Republican states in Obama’s wave election in 2008.<\/p>\n
\nFor 40 years, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) has ensured that the Democratic Party owned West Los Angeles. But after a tough re-election fight in 2012 and the likely prospect of remaining in the minority in the Republican-controlled House for the foreseeable future, Waxman retired. Now, Breitbart News has learned, it is possible that the June 3 primary to replace him could fail to advance any Democrats to the November general election.<\/p>\n
\nBrowsing the election news this weekend, I\u2019m starting to get the feeling that it\u2019s going to be long mid-term cycle. <\/p>\n<\/a>Obama Scandals<\/h1>\n
\n“F*** the EU,” top State official Victoria Nuland said on a phone call.<\/p>\n<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nCalifornia gun control bill SB 916 contains a requirement that manufacturers of guns that have fallen off California’s “roster of handguns that have been determined not to be unsafe” pay a fee to the CA Department of Justice in order to be added to the list again.<\/p>\n
\nAnd what is that thing that’s being lost? I think it’s social\/cultural pluralism. There have always, of course, been forces for social\/cultural conformity, on both the left and right. And dissidents and counter-cultural types have always been pressured to join the “default” American culture.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
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\nThe UN is trying to scare us into believing we have only 15 years left. It looks ridiculous doing so, considering all the similar declarations that have come and gone.<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nWhat Obamacare does is turn all of this into a zero-sum game: it mandates an across-the-board, let\u2019s-slap-something-together, we-don\u2019t-care-about-your-stinking-special-circumstances product and doesn\u2019t really care how insurers and consumers cope with the situation.<\/p>\n
\nA prominent House Republican acknowledged Friday that Obamacare is unlikely to be repealed.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nThat\u2019s the upshot of a recent piece of analysis by the New York Times, which indicates that Russia\u2019s military capabilities so far in Crimea have seriously surprised and outmaneuvered the U.S.<\/p>\n
\nA camp on the Libyan coastline meant to train terror-hunters has instead become a haven for terrorists and al Qaeda.<\/p>\n
\nIn last week\u2019s class with Professor Steven M. Teles, we started talking about military mistakes. Military mistakes are fascinating because they are, for most of us in the class, so unfamiliar. They\u2019re also tragic, because they are so deadly.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n