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IN 1492, COLUMBUS DISCOVERED….A MOSQUE?!
Leftwing activists want to replace Columbus Day with “Indigenous Peoples Day” but the President of Turkey might prefer “Islamic Explorers Day.” Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a delegation of Latin American Muslims that Islamic sailors discovered the New World in 1178, insisting that when Columbus arrived “the religion of Islam was already widespread.”
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WILL NEW SLEEPING BAGS REALLY HELP THE HOMELESS?
Good intentions hardly guarantee good results, as a young activist in Seattle is about to discover. Eddie Wang, a recent graduate of University of Washington, is raising money to provide comfortable new sleeping bags for all homeless people in the Seattle area – an estimated 3,000 of them.
He’s half-way to his goal of $75,000 for the sleeping bags, but he...
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WILL NEW SLEEPING BAGS REALLY HELP THE HOMELESS?
Good intentions hardly guarantee good results, as a young activist in Seattle is about to discover. Eddie Wang, a recent graduate of University of Washington, is raising money to provide comfortable new sleeping bags for all homeless people in the Seattle area – an estimated 3,000 of them.
He’s half-way to his goal of $75,000 for the sleeping bags, but he...
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Poverty Causes Crime?
One of the first clues that this Columbia-educated, liberal, Democrat, New York Jew had that there was something wrong at the heart of progressive/left-wing thought was when I read and was taught over and over that “poverty causes crime.” I knew from the first that this was dogma, not truth. How did I know? First, […]
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Stupid Myths about Turnout, Demographics and GOP Victory
You’ve heard the nonsense: Republicans swept the nation because turnout in the midterm elections was shamefully low, with people of color staying home and allowing a surge of old, angry white males to dominate the contests in state after state.
This narrative may make Democrats feel better about the outcome but it bears no connection whatever to facts...
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Stupid Myths about Turnout, Demographics and GOP Victory
You’ve heard the nonsense: Republicans swept the nation because turnout in the midterm elections was shamefully low, with people of color staying home and allowing a surge of old, angry white males to dominate the contests in state after state.
This narrative may make Democrats feel better about the outcome but it bears no connection whatever to facts...
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Let’s kill the Iran deal
“The first thing we do, let’s kill the Iran deal.” — Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene ii, 73.
A paraphrase, but it ought to be the first line of House Speaker John Boehner and likely Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s joint agenda for January 2015.
A new law dismembering any executive agreement with Iran would...
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Let’s kill the Iran deal
“The first thing we do, let’s kill the Iran deal.” — Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene ii, 73.
A paraphrase, but it ought to be the first line of House Speaker John Boehner and likely Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s joint agenda for January 2015.
A new law dismembering any executive agreement with Iran would...
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Let’s kill the Iran deal
“The first thing we do, let’s kill the Iran deal.” — Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene ii, 73.
A paraphrase, but it ought to be the first line of House Speaker John Boehner and likely Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s joint agenda for January 2015.
A new law dismembering any executive agreement with Iran would...
Read More
Let’s kill the Iran deal
“The first thing we do, let’s kill the Iran deal.” — Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene ii, 73.
A paraphrase, but it ought to be the first line of House Speaker John Boehner and likely Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s joint agenda for January 2015.
A new law dismembering any executive agreement with Iran would...
Read More
Let’s kill the Iran deal
“The first thing we do, let’s kill the Iran deal.” — Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene ii, 73.
A paraphrase, but it ought to be the first line of House Speaker John Boehner and likely Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s joint agenda for January 2015.
A new law dismembering any executive agreement with Iran would...
Read More
Let’s kill the Iran deal
“The first thing we do, let’s kill the Iran deal.” — Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene ii, 73.
A paraphrase, but it ought to be the first line of House Speaker John Boehner and likely Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s joint agenda for January 2015.
A new law dismembering any executive agreement with Iran would...
Read More
Let’s kill the Iran deal
“The first thing we do, let’s kill the Iran deal.” — Dick the Butcher in Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene ii, 73.
A paraphrase, but it ought to be the first line of House Speaker John Boehner and likely Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s joint agenda for January 2015.
A new law dismembering any executive agreement with Iran would...
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Obama, the Role of Race, and GOP Victory
To many liberals, it seems obvious that Barack Obama’s problems and setbacks– including the resounding Republican victory on November 4th – stem in no small part from racist reaction to his status as the first non-white president in American history. The facts, however, suggest that racial factors contributed far more to Obama’s successes than they did...
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When Republicans Win, Politics Are ‘Dysfunctional’
Since the Bolsheviks inaugurated the first edition of their party newspaper Pravda (the Russian word for truth), the left has shaped truth to serve its goals. On an individual level, there are plenty of progressives who are honest and plenty of conservatives who aren’t. But truth is just not a left-wing value — feminism, environmentalism,...
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LOW TURNOUT DOESN’T EXPLAIN DEMOCRATIC FAILURE
Democrats attempt to explain their dismal performance in the recent elections by emphasizing the low turnout – only 36.6% of eligible voters. But the truth is that this turnout is typical of midterm elections over the last forty years. Turnout in each of those eleven cycles since 1974 has been very similar – above 36% and below 40%, and in three of them...
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