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The
Hill… 13
Republicans most likely to win WH,
By Jonathan Easley
Republicans say their long list of 2016 hopefuls is among the deepest,
most diverse group in recent history without a clear frontrunner. “This
is the most open field we’ve ever seen,” one GOP strategist told The
Hill. That means there will be a narrow path to victory for many of the
candidates, as they fight for the money, media, and voters they’ll need
in the win-early-or-go-home battle royale. The Hill spoke...
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Townhall… Don't
Shoot (Your Mouth Off) Before All the
Facts Are Known, Debra J. Saunders
Nov 30, 2014 -- We hand a man a gun and ask him to protect us. If
something goes horribly wrong, perhaps in a flurry of panic, we don't
rush to punish him. We make sure a criminal justice system meant to
protect all citizens also protects him. We blanket him in the
presumption of innocence. It's the reason juries are loath to convict
and, as happened in Missouri, grand juries are loath to indict officers
involved in shootings. So do I believe that Ferguson police officer
Darren Wilson...
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Redstate… The
Truth, By: Erick Erickson
November 28th, 2014 -- I will keep nothing from you. Today, let me
share with you the truth. Republicans will not stop Barack Obama’s
executive overreach. In fact, while you were enjoying your Thanksgiving
there were a number of stories out that the Republican leadership wants
to give its members an opportunity to express their outrage and
opposition. Expression is not action. They will take no action...
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Townhall… Ferguson
Obscures Much Bigger Problems in
the 'Black Community' Larry Elder
Nov 27, 2014 - From the very beginning, this was much ado about an
aberration, a tragic aberration to be sure, but an aberration
nonetheless. Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police
Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Immediately, according to St.
Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, witnesses began to
give different versions of what happened. The apparent would-be star
witness, Dorian Johnson, was with Brown...
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Townhall… An
Inconvenient Law, Victor
Davis Hanson
Nov 27, 2014 - There is a humane, transparent, truthful -- and
constitutional -- way to address illegal immigration. Unfortunately,
President Obama's unilateral plan to exempt millions of residents from
federal immigration law is none of those things. Obama said he had to
move now because of a dawdling Congress. He forgot to mention that
there were Democratic majorities...
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Federal
News Radio… Thank
you, federal employees,
Commentary by Jeff Neal
Tuesday - 11/25/2014 -- It is Thanksgiving week and before everyone
heads out of the office to take a well-deserved holiday, I want to give
thanks for our federal workforce. Fed- bashing may be a popular sport
in some places, but not in my home. I believe that majority of federal
employees do a great job, care about their work, do more than is
necessary, support their co-workers in times or need and provide
tremendous benefit to the American people...
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Natural
News… It is
now illegal to share food with the
homeless in Florida, by: J. D. Heyes
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 -- If you're someone who believes in
personal (not government-provided) charity and who likes to make sure
that as many homeless people as possible get a decent meal each day,
good for you. But you might want to avoid Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
because you could wind up with a hefty fine and some jail time.
Seriously. According to reports, police in the city issued citations
and further threatened to arrest two priests...
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Natural
News… New
pictures of school lunches illustrate
America's decline toward third world status,
by Daniel Barker -- Wednesday, November 26, 2014 -- It can be assumed
that First Lady Michelle Obama had good intentions when she used her
influence to foist her Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act on an unsuspecting
population of school-aged American children. After all, obesity,
nutrition and hunger are real issues, but the dismal failure of the
initiative -- which resulted...
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The
Daily Signal… Amid
Crises, Obama Pushes Out Hagel as
Defense Secretary,
Josh Siegel - November 24, 2014 - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel
resigned today after less than two years in the post amid the struggles
of President Obama’s national security team to respond to a slew of
global crises. Hagel, the only Republican in Obama’s Cabinet, is widely
believed to have been pushed out by the president as he seeks a
different approach to enduring challenges such...
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Natural
News… Prescription
drug vending machines on
college campuses, by Mike Adams
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 -- The total insanity of over-medication in
America has reached a new low as Arizona State University has installed
a prescription drug vending machine called InstyMeds. American college
students -- who are already the most over-medicated population on the
planet -- now have an even easier way to pollute their brains with SSRI
drugs, antidepressants, antipsychotics and prescription "speed"
amphetamines which...
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Patriot
Voices… "Made
in the USA" Christmas Challenge,
Rick Santorum
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and
Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum today launched Patriot Voices'
2nd annual "Made in the USA" Christmas Challenge urging shoppers to buy
goods and gifts made in the United States this holiday season and to
shop at local small businesses across the country. Rick Santorum said,
"This Christmas season, millions...
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Patriot
Voices… Santorum
Responds to President Obama's
Immigration Edict
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and
Chairman of Patriot Voices issued the following statement in response
to President Obama's executive action to provide amnesty to 5 million
illegal immigrants. Rick Santorum said: "Tonight's announcement by the
President is just another in a long line of power-grabs by this
Administration. Despite saying as recently as one...
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Heritage Foundation… Why
should we trust Barack Obama on
immigration reform?
By Jim DeMint - President Obama has been quite up-front about it: he
refuses to enforce laws he dislikes and unilaterally changes others
without the consent of Congress. The Supreme Court may soon have to
decide the constitutionality of all this but, in the meantime, many are
wondering why Congress would believe they can trust the president to
work with them in good faith on any issue. Still more are scratching
their heads over the notion that now, when Obamacare is hurting
millions and the...
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Human
Events… Obama
denies Gruber, but facts deny Obama,
By David Limbaugh
11/18/2014 -- Do President Obama’s adamant denials that he misled the
American public on various important aspects of Obamacare stand up to
scrutiny? No, and it’s not even a close call. In the past several
weeks, there’s been a major uproar in the alternative media — the
liberal media doing their usual best to cover up stories damaging to
this administration and the cause of progressivism...
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Townhall… Racial
Quota Punishment,
Thomas Sowell
Nov 18, 2014 - If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism
of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal
government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes.
Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and
the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around
the country to...
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The
Daily Signal… What
Do the 2016 GOP Hopefuls Really Think
About Same-Sex Marriage?
Genevieve Wood -- November 14, 2014 -- The marriage issue didn’t play a
major role in the 2014 midterms, but activist courts overturning state
laws and lawsuits threatening the rights of those who disagree with
redefining marriage may very well make the issue a top one in 2016.
Since 1998 and across the early 2000s, millions of Americans voted at
the state level to define marriage as the union of a man...
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The
White House… We
all have a stake
in the fight against Ebola, Dr. Kent Brantly
I've come to be known as the first Ebola patient to be treated in the
United States -- but I'd prefer to think of myself simply as a family
physician. I was born and raised in Indiana, and trained in family
medicine in Texas. I spent the last year living and working as a
missionary doctor in a small hospital outside Monrovia, Liberia. So
when the Ebola virus came to that country, I was among the first to
treat infected patients. And in late July, I contracted the disease...
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Top down education "reforms":
mere
alterations with no evidence than improvements will accrue,
By William Phillis -- During the past couple decades, politicians and
other non-educators have hurled education reform packages at public
school boards, administrators and teachers with the warning that if
they oppose any of the packages, they will be labeled as
obstructionists in support of the status quo. Generally speaking, the
public education community has attempted to implement the...
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Patriot
Voices… Santorum
Outlines
Foreign Policy Against Radical Islamic Threats
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and
Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum addressed several thousand
Liberty University students yesterday focusing on the mounting clash
between the Western Civilized World and the growing threat of radical
Islamists. In his speech, Santorum specifically described his work in
2005 and 2006 to draw attention to the threat posed by an Iranian...
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The
Daily Signal… Veterans
Are the
Real 1 Percenters, by Bruce Klingner
November 11, 2014 -- Mentioning “1 percenters” conjures up images of
protest and class warfare. But there is another 1 percent who are
beyond politics: the men and women who serve in America’s armed forces,
as well as the veterans who served before them. Despite over a decade
of ceaseless war against terrorism, fewer than 1 percent of the U.S.
population has been on active duty. A smaller share of Americans now
serve in the military than at any point...
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The Daily Signal… School
Choice
Wins, Common Core Loses in Election 2014,
Lindsey Burke - November 05, 2014 - Last night’s election results have
seismic implications for education policy at both the state and federal
levels. Voters sent a message that school choice and local control are
important to them. School Choice Wins Big - Charlie Crist, running as a
Democrat, lost his election bid for Florida governor to incumbent
Republican Rick Scott. Crist supported the state’s teachers...
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Daily Signal… The
War on
Women Didn’t Work and 3 Other Lessons From the Midterm Elections,
by Hans von Spakovsky -- November 07, 2014 -- Many pundits and campaign
consultants are no doubt analyzing the election results across the
country to try to decipher what lessons the Republican wave holds for
candidates planning to run in 2016. But there are four easily seen
lessons that both of the major political parties should take to heart:
First, the manipulation of election rules and political trickery didn’t
work. In Kansas, for example, the Democratic...
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Townhall… Is
There a Viagra for
Bored Voters? By Debra J. Saunders
Nov 09, 2014 -- Democrats won every statewide office (California) and a
comfortable majority of the congressional delegation and legislative
seats. Yet at Capitol Weekly's election postmortem confab Thursday,
Republicans were giddy, and many Democrats were, well, agitated. Even
for California Republicans, Tuesday was heavenly. To start, they spent
Tuesday night watching the GOP make big gains nationally...
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| The
Daily Signal… Here’s
How
Conservatives Aim to Stop Obama’s Action on Illegal Immigrants,
by Josh Siegel -- November 07, 2014 -- Aides to conservative members of
the U.S. Senate say their bosses are rallying around a strategy to
prevent President Obama from taking executive action to move illegal
immigrants toward citizenship: Use government funding bills to withhold
the money the president needs to implement his plan. At the same time,
some of the Senate’s most conservative members are worried that party
leadership could try to strike a deal with Democrats...
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The Economist – Lexington… A big
win for John Kasich
Ohio’s Republican governor puts results ahead of ideological purity -
November 8, 2014 - WHAT is conservatism for? In the election campaign
just past, too many Republicans ignored that question. Instead they
went negative, harnessing the anger of voters who feel that America is
going to ruin and have no faith in President Barack Obama. Senator...
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You
really want to know about this, By Tom Dunn
In a previous article, I criticized state superintendent Dr. Richard
Ross for his claim that the state's quest for transparency is the
driving force behind the Ohio Department of Education's (ODE) School
District Report Card. I suggested that his, the ODE's, and the
legislature's quest for transparency seems to end where their pet
project, the charter school movement, begins. I challenged readers to
visit the independently created web site known as...
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Santorum Comments on Republican
Election
Victories
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former United States
Senator, and Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum issued the
following statement in response to the results of the midterm election:
"Tonight's results are not just a victory for the Republican Party, but
a victory for America. And while the results are a clear
repudiation of President Obama and his policies, we cannot take
tonight's results...
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News… Meat
industry uses chemical 'meat glue' to
trick consumers into eating food scraps,
by: S. D. Wells - Thursday, October 30, 2014 - A white powder that
glues together small scrap pieces of beef, lamb, chicken and fish is
sold by the kilo and is considered to be the meat industry's "dirty
little secret." This is not breaking news, as the industry has been at
it for quite some time, but just how many people need to know if
they're greatly increasing their chances of consuming some E. coli with
those "choice" filets...
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Townhall… Survey: 51
Percent of People
Who Used Obamacare Exchanges Last Year Won't Use Them Again,
Katie Pavlich - Nov 03, 2014 - According to a new study conducted by
Bankrate.com, a majority of Americans who used the Obamacare healthcare
exchanges last year through Healthcare.gov don't plan on doing so again
this year when open enrollment begins on November 15. "Those who
experienced the rocky rollout of the Obamacare health...
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Daily Signal… The
People You Vote Out of Office Tuesday
Will Still Have Two Months in Power. What Will They Do?
by Genevieve Wood -- November 03, 2014 -- In most of America, when
someone gets fired for poor performance, they are not allowed to stay
on the job another two months. But Washington isn’t like the rest of
America, and being a member of Congress isn’t like most other jobs. On
Tuesday, Americans will elect people to represent them in Washington.
In the process, they will also un-elect some current members of
Congress in whom, for whatever reason...
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Heart of the matter: Public
Education,
By William Phillis
Heart of the matter: Charters, vouchers and other strategies to
privatize public education are backdoor approaches to the annulment of
state constitutional provisions for public education. Each state has
one or more constitutional provisions for a system of public education.
Words such as thorough, efficient, uniform, fundamental value and high
quality set the standards for the state systems. The importance...
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Daily Signal… These
Studies Found Exposure to the Arts
Boosted Educational Success,
by Brittany Corona -- October 27, 2014 -- New research into humanities
education suggests student learning outcomes increase with exposure to
the arts. Few empirical studies have been conducted on the benefits of
arts education for students. Jay Greene, endowed chair of the
Department of Education at the University of Arkansas, and his team
have released two studies on the educational benefits of engagement
with the arts. Last year, Greene, along with researchers...
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