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Ebola burden on U.S. hospital system warrants tighter travel restrictions
Among the arguments in favor of stricter travel restrictions on West Africans wishing to come to the United States without first spending 21 days outside of “the hot zone” are the extraordinary costs that would be born by U.S. hospitals by any significant number of Ebola cases.
Most pundits can guess that the costs are high, but I asked one of my law...
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TRANSGENDERED INSANITY MUDDLES HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS
In California, Minnesota and other states, efforts are underway to enable “transgendered” students to participate in sports teams of the opposite sex. Boys who identify as girls could play girls’ basketball, while girls identifying as boys compete in boys’ gymnastics.
But what about hormone treatments commonly used in “transitioning” from one gender...
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AN IDIOTIC NEW HOLIDAY
Though most of the country celebrated Columbus Day on Monday, October, 13th, Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities refused to honor the explorer and proclaimed a new festival called “Indigenous Peoples Day.” The activists behind the change blame Columbus because his discovery of the New World led to devastating results for native tribes.
But a political...
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Unexpected Lessons from the Jobs Numbers
This column appeared originally at TruthRevolt.org on October 7, 2014
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Last Friday, the Obama administration celebrated new numbers showing the national unemployment rate plummeting to 5.9% – the lowest official measure of joblessness since the beginning of 2008 and the financial collapse under the Bush administration. While most economists agree...
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Don’t ‘Vote for the Candidate’
There is a noble-sounding attitude that many Americans hold regarding whom they vote for. “I vote for the candidate,” they say. It sure sounds good. Voting for the best candidate, rather than the party, sounds as American as apple pie. But as the Democratic Party has become a doctrinaire left-wing party, this sentiment is no […]
The post...
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Obama’s political interests are getting in the way of protecting Kobani from the Islamic State
On March 28, 2011, President Obama addressed the nation about the civil war then raging in Libya. Two paragraphs set out the “Obama doctrine”:
At this point, the United States and the world faced a choice. [Moammar] Gadhafi declared he would show “no mercy” to his own people. He compared them to rats, and threatened to go door to door to inflict...
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DIANE MEDVED: Feds Say: Food Stampers Too Fat, Spend More Dough
Somebody said “Do something” about the 47,636,000 people receiving government food stamps. They’re too fat because they buy sodas and junk food, and don’t have the knowledge or access to fresh produce in order to change. Voila: another big government program.
The press release today from the US Department of Agriculture is...
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New Figures Show ‘Gay Marriage Tidal Wave’ Is Only a Trickle
Insistent media messages claim surging and overwhelming public support for redefinition of marriage but recent numbers from major surveys and the Census Bureau tell a very different story.
In late September, a Pew Center poll found less than half of respondents – 49% to be exact – saying that they “favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally” –...
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Bill Maher, Ben Affleck and Islam
Last Friday night a rare dialogue/debate took place on American television. It was rare because it involved criticism of Islam, one of the many taboo subjects that are labeled “politically incorrect.” And it took place on the program “Real Time with Bill Maher,” a show not generally known for taking politically incorrect positions. But on...
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Disenfranchising the American Dream
Dawn Lafreeda began working at Denny’s when she was 16, making her way up from hostess to waitress. In 1984, at the age of 23, she bought her first store. She now owns over 70.
“When I was a kid, I told myself that I was going to be self-employed when I grew up and have a better life and have the things I’d never had,” she told Entrepreneur magazine...
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Congress to get needed injection of members with military experience
Rarely has a Congress so needed an infusion of men and women with military experience as this House and Senate.
Fewer than 110 members of the current Congress have served in uniform, and that compares to a high of approximately 400 in the mid-1970s as the “Greatest Generation” made its way from battlefields to Capitol Hill.
A nation at war and with...
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NO “TIDAL WAVE” FOR GAY MARRIAGE
The cultural left claims that overwhelming majorities now support redefinition of marriage but recent polling shows that’s not true.
A September Pew Center survey found only 49 percent saying they “favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally”—even with the biased wording of that question! Support for same-sex marriage declined by a full five...
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MARRIAGE SHAPES BETTER ADULTS BEFORE IT BUILDS BETTER KIDS
A recent Washington Post piece acknowledges that “children with married parents are better off” but simultaneously claims “marriage isn’t the reason why.” The report cites research at Brookings Institution suggesting that higher family income, more educated parents, and better parenting skills help explain the so-called “marriage advantage,” not...
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MARRIAGE SHAPES BETTER ADULTS BEFORE IT BUILDS BETTER KIDS
A recent Washington Post piece acknowledges that “children with married parents are better off” but simultaneously claims “marriage isn’t the reason why.” The report cites research at Brookings Institution suggesting that higher family income, more educated parents, and better parenting skills help explain the so-called “marriage advantage,” not...
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FOR OBAMA,”THE BUCK” NEVER STOPS
In a disturbing “60 Minutes” interview President Obama wouldn’t give a direct answer on whether he’d been surprised by the frightening rise of ISIS. Instead, he instinctively blamed an underling, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who supposedly had “underestimated” the terrorist group.
Obama also claimed he left Iraq in good shape,...
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FOR OBAMA,”THE BUCK” NEVER STOPS
In a disturbing “60 Minutes” interview President Obama wouldn’t give a direct answer on whether he’d been surprised by the frightening rise of ISIS. Instead, he instinctively blamed an underling, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who supposedly had “underestimated” the terrorist group.
Obama also claimed he left that Iraq in good...
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