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Why the Public Questions the Recovery
While economists and politicians celebrate economic recovery, the American people refuse to accept the good news. Only a third of the public sees the nation headed in “the right direction” – a figure that’s dropped ten points since President Obama’s re-election.
Improved unemployment numbers hide the fact that millions have dropped out of the work...
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Americans Value Cheerfulness, but Germans….
A new study of female business success has inspired controversy around the world with its conclusion that women with a “cheerful” and friendly temperament face less chance of advancement at work. Big majorities of the business executives surveyed believed that female employees who struck their colleagues as “proud” would fare better than those who...
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What part of ‘no fence, no deal’ does the Senate GOP not get?
“A fence from left to right, from east to west, except obviously the mountainous areas,” Charles Krauthammer told me on air in an interview in late April.
“We know that fences work,” he continued. “If the president tells you fences don’t work, ask him why he’s got one around the White House.”
Krauthammer is easily...
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Data Collection Isn’t Data Abuse — Yet
Notorious RINO and Blind Sheik prosecutor Andrew McCarthy posted this at NationalReview.com’s The Corner yesterday afternoon:
What gaineth a president if he wins over knuckle-dragging right-wing loon commentator McCarthy but loses the New York Times? ”The administration has now lost all credibility.” Ouch!
Ouch indeed, but if you really need...
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Choosing from the Party’s Center
Democrats regularly insist the GOP has been captured by right wing extremists and only hard-line conservatives can prevail in the primary process.
How, then, do they explain the last two presidential nominees – Romney and McCain?
Both candidates vanquished more moderate, centrist rivals – Rudy Giuliani in 2008, John Huntsman in 2012 – as well as besting...
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Do Blacks and the Left Really Believe This?
Here is a contemporary political truth: Every time you think that the left and its political party have hit moral bottom, they will eventually prove you wrong.
The most recent example occurred last week in Louisiana. The head of the Louisiana Democratic Party, State Senator Karen Carter Peterson, D-New Orleans, stood before her colleagues in the state Senate...
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A reminder about what’s good for the Harvard goose
Harvard University president Drew Faust Gilpin was in a conversation before the assembled reunion gatherings of the classes of 1978 and 1988.
The day before, Oprah had exhorted the departing seniors of the College to expect and then overcome failure, and President Gilpin had…blasted the sequester.
Washington Post writer Melinda Henneberger noted how...
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Obama’s Scandalous Second Term
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
Like an onion being peeled, each week seems to reveal new layers of odious conduct by the Obama Administration that increasingly offends the senses. Only five months into the second term of the hope and change presidency, few are hopeful of any positive change.
The scandals that have dominated the headlines should concern all...
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Gay Activists Tacitly Concede: Same Sex Relations Less Significant
If an 18 year old boy faced charges for sex with a 14 year old girl, would attorneys praise him as a “courageous teen” or would the ACLU offer support?
Eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt drew precisely such praise and support for her lesbian relationship with a 14 year old. The Florida student rejected a minor sentence and insisted on defending her conduct in...
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Should Eleven Year Olds “Come Out”?
Should eleven year old boys who haven’t even reached puberty make public declarations about their sexuality? Of course not, but the disastrous new policy by the Boy Scouts of America encourages children to proudly announce their own homosexuality. Scouting is open to all boys at age 11, and those who’ve completed Cub Scouts with an “Arrow of Light”...
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The ‘Muslims-Killed-by-the-West’ Lie
The alleged butcher of the off-duty British soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby, defended his carving up of a living human being by claiming that he was engaging in “an eye for an eye” because the British army is killing Muslims in Afghanistan.
Normally there is no reason to respond to the justifications offered by terrorists and other murderers of the...
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Does an Opposition Congress Doom a Presidency?
President Obama blames Congressional Republicans for collapse of his “hope and change” agenda, but those claims make no sense in historical context. Since World War II, all the most successful two-term presidents worked with Congresses where the opposition enjoyed far more strength than today’s GOP wields against Obama. Opposition Democrats dominated...
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Fake flowers and the pretend White House press corps
Here is what Attorney General Eric Holder testified to when, while under oath, he was asked about the Department of Justice’s investigations of journalists and national security leaks:
“In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material: This is not something I’ve ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would...
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I Drive Your Truck
It happens now and then. You hear a story so sad, so beautiful, so filled with loss and pain and grief and love, that it makes you cry. Really cry.
Two years ago, I was making a grocery run for my family on Memorial Day when a story came on the local NPR station in Oxford, Miss. It was about a father whose son had been killed in action in northwest Afghanistan....
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Scandalous Ignorance
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
“Everything comes from the top.” This quote from an anonymous source in the IRS Determinations Unit explains why the IRS targeting of conservative groups did not likely originate with low level staffers at a remote IRS outpost. The truth is far different.
In March of 2010, the IRS offices on tax exempt entities, headed by...
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GOP Shouldn’t Use “The ‘I’ Word”
As new revelations underscore the administration’s epic incompetence in its handling of the Benghazi disaster and IRS abuses, some Republican voices in the House and Senate, along with pundits of every persuasion, have begun to speculate about “the I word” — impeachment. Even MSNBC, the most unapologetically progressive of all television...
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