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“Thinking Twice” on Gun Ownership
Proposed bus ads discouraging gun ownership met surprising resistance from two suburban counties near Seattle. Transit officials cited policies banning ads on controversial subjects in blocking inside and outside panels urging the public to THINK TWICE ABOUT HAVING A GUN IN YOUR HOME.
One of the ads from Washington CeaseFire explained, “It Could Mean the...
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On Using Parents of Murdered Children
The president appeared at many rallies on behalf of additional gun control laws with parents of children murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
I have a question for those who agree with the president’s use of these suffering souls.
How would you react if a pro-death penalty president travelled across the country with parents of...
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Secrets of the Suicide Explosion
New statistics show a disturbing, unexpected milestone: for the first time, more Americans died of suicide than traffic accidents. Among baby boomers, suicide soared at unprecedented rates: up 50 percent for males in just 20 years, with the middle-aged replacing teens and the elderly as most likely to kill themselves.
In terms of gun deaths, Americans are...
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House should expose Washington’s growing culture of intimidation
Far better to have an imperfect tax code fairly applied than a perfect tax code unfairly applied.
It is far more important that the entire enforcement and regulatory philosophy of the executive branch be radically remade than any particular law be amended.
The proponents of tax reform are attempting to seize on the parade of horribles marching out of the Obama...
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The Islamist War on Women
The facts just keep coming out of Ohio. It is hard to comprehend what they went through, those young women. What they felt while trapped by a monster through those lost years of their early adulthood is almost impossible to fathom. How did they cope? How did they get through each day?
A close friend of mine was sexually abused as a teenaged girl. It was a man...
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The First Line of Defense Against Crime
Horrendous crimes in Boston and Cleveland remind us that evil exists, but also highlight the significance of stable families as society’s first line of defense. Before the Tsarnaev brothers plotted their Boston marathon bombing, or Ariel Castro kidnapped and tortured three innocent victims in his Cleveland house of horrors, the families of the...
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The Internal IRS Whitewash of the Great Tea Party Purge: We Need A Special Prosecutor
On Tuesday night the report of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration on the great Tea Party purge was released.
This is a terrible report. Just begin reading it and you will quickly realize that you are in the the swamp of obfuscation and CYA.
On the “Highlights” page there are more questions raised than answered –questions such...
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Celebrating the Gift of Biblical Rules
Starting May 14th, Jewish people around the world celebrate one of the most significant holidays in the Biblical calendar: Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks, known to some Christians as “Pentecost.” This Festival ranks alongside Passover, and far above Hanukah, in importance, but it’s widely ignored, even by most Jews.
The reasons? Unlike Hanukah and...
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Avoid the “I Word”
New revelations about the administration’s shameless distortions and epic incompetence regarding Benghazi make it clear this scandal won’t soon disappear. Some conservative commentators, and even talking heads on liberal MSNBC, have even begun to speculate about “the I word” – impeachment.
It would, however, represent a catastrophic miscalculation...
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The Church of Scotland’s Scandal
Earlier this month, the Church of Scotland issued a report titled “The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘Promised Land.'”
The essence of the report is that according to the Bible, Jews have no more attachment to the land of Israel than anyone else. Hence “promised land” is in quotation marks in the report’s title...
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Easier to Win Elections than Revolutions
A disturbing new poll by Fairleigh Dickinson University showed that nearly a third of Americans agreed with the statement, “In the next few years an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.” Among Republicans, a shocking 44% agreed—suggesting that they must think violence could advance their cause more effectively than...
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Hillary never called back
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior staff conducted a conference call with Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Libya, in the early morning hours of Sept. 12, 2012.
Hicks was overseeing a chaotic scene in Tripoli, where his staff was busy destroying classified material with axes and whatever else was at hand and as the few security...
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The Wealth Gap Is Really a Values Gap
Liberals insist that spending more on social programs and raising taxes on the wealthy will close painful gaps between rich and poor. How, then, do they explain why the poor have fallen further behind each year of Obama’s presidency, despite vast increases in welfare spending and, more recently, a sharp hike in taxes on the rich?
The biggest distinction...
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An Unreasonable (and Ignorant) “Day of Reason”
The mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina undermined the recent National Day of Prayer by honoring demands of atheist activists and proclaiming that date an official “Day of Reason.”
The proclamation by Anthony Foxx, who’s been named the new Secretary of Transportation by President Obama, seemed to dismiss religion by insisting that “the application of...
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Benghazi’s Inconvenient Truths
by Brian Fahy & Garrett Fahy
After Wednesday’s remarkable congressional testimony by State Department officials with inside knowledge of the Benghazi attack, it is settled that the explanations for the attack and the American non-response advanced by the Administration and its defenders are false.
In one day, three officials, in minute-by-minute accounts...
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The Improbable Irving Berlin
He did it without anyone’s help, and without any formal music education. He wrote “God Bless America” in 1918 while serving in the Army. But it didn’t lead to anything. He set it aside for 20 years and returned to it only in 1938, after Hitler rose to power. Kate Smith recorded it. The rest was history. The song became America’s unofficial national...
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