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How Oil Drillers Saved the Whales
Watching a parade of migrating whales as they leap and frolic in the warm waters off Honolulu, it’s worth remembering that these creatures owe their very survival to a much-derided 19th century Pennsylvania oil driller named Edwin Drake. His story should reassure present-day pessimists of the near miraculous power of technological advancement and pursuit...
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Freezing Spending, Assuring a Surplus
Amazingly enough, the federal government announced in February a freeze on new spending, with credible plans for a budget surplus by 2015! Unfortunately, the federal government I’m referring to isn’t in the U.S.; it’s north of the border in Canada.
Under the admirable leadership of the Conservative Party’s Stephen Harper, the Canadian deficit shrinks...
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Shady Operations Hurt Conservative Cause
Dr. Ben Carson has inspired millions with his idealism and common sense, but those of us who respect him most should shun dubious operators who are raising big money for the Draft Ben Carson for President Committee.
Dr. Carson insists he has no plans to run for office and no connection to those who solicit unauthorized funds in his name. This situation...
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Judges, Hubris, and Same-Sex Marriage
In 2006, 57 percent of Virginia’s voters voted to amend their state’s constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Last week, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled the amendment unconstitutional. In 2004, 76 percent of Oklahoma’s voters voted to amend their state’s constitution to define marriage as the...
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Judges, Hubris, and Same-Sex Marriage
In 2006, 57 percent of Virginia’s voters voted to amend their state’s constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Last week, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled the amendment unconstitutional. In 2004, 76 percent of Oklahoma’s voters voted to amend their state’s constitution to define marriage as the...
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Judges, Hubris, and Same-Sex Marriage
In 2006, 57 percent of Virginia’s voters voted to amend their state’s constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Last week, U.S. District Judge Arenda Wright Allen ruled the amendment unconstitutional. In 2004, 76 percent of Oklahoma’s voters voted to amend their state’s constitution to define marriage as the...
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NBC’s latest Olympics fail: Banishing the US-Russia hockey game to cable
You can work alongside someone for years, live next door, think you know them, and then, bam, one day you discover they are hockey fans.
Sure, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is obliged to be a hockey fan, and a profligate one at that. He even claims to have played for more than five decades.
Other Minnesocoldians succumb, like Chad the Elder, sinister...
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White House Protection for Black-Out Drunks?
Do American young women deserve a sacred, federally-protected right to engage in reckless, irresponsible and even illegal behavior with no fear of consequences?
Vice President Biden seems to think so.
After a White House meeting in January to announce a new task force to curb sexual assaults on campus, the ever-effusive VEEP declared that every woman should...
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Why Do Progressives Want the Boston Bomber to Live?
Federal prosecutors have announced they are seeking the death penalty for Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, murdered three people and wounded more than 260. In addition, they shot a Boston police officer to death. In keeping with what the citizens of progressive Massachusetts consider to be progressive values, the...
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Why Do Progressives Want the Boston Bomber to Live?
Federal prosecutors have announced they are seeking the death penalty for Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, murdered three people and wounded more than 260. In addition, they shot a Boston police officer to death. In keeping with what the citizens of progressive Massachusetts consider to be progressive values, the...
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Why Do Progressives Want the Boston Bomber to Live?
Federal prosecutors have announced they are seeking the death penalty for Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, murdered three people and wounded more than 260. In addition, they shot a Boston police officer to death. In keeping with what the citizens of progressive Massachusetts consider to be progressive values, the...
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What John Boehner should say about the cut in military retirement benefits
The House of Representatives will almost certainly undo this week the very unjust cut to the retirement benefits of career military which House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., engineered in the recently adopted spending bill.
House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., had left the door open to such a cut in his negotiations with his...
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The President and Bill O’Reilly” Stonewalling As Super Bowl Warm-Up
Bill O’Reilly tried, about as well as anyone has, to oblige the president to respond to serious questions in a serious way, but of course the president didn’t and simply wouldn’t.
Rejecting the idea that there remain serious issues to be investigated, disclosed and discussed with regards to both Benghazi and the IRS scandals, the president signaled that...
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America’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Are Not ‘Ended’
In his State of the Union address, on four occasions, President Barack Obama mentioned the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq coming to an end: 1. “And in tight-knit communities across America, fathers and mothers will tuck in their kids, put an arm around their spouse, remember fallen comrades, and give thanks for being home from […]
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America’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Are Not ‘Ended’
In his State of the Union address, on four occasions, President Barack Obama mentioned the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq coming to an end: 1. “And in tight-knit communities across America, fathers and mothers will tuck in their kids, put an arm around their spouse, remember fallen comrades, and give thanks for being home from […]
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America’s Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Are Not ‘Ended’
In his State of the Union address, on four occasions, President Barack Obama mentioned the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq coming to an end: 1. “And in tight-knit communities across America, fathers and mothers will tuck in their kids, put an arm around their spouse, remember fallen comrades, and give thanks for being home from […]
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