Mailmagazine24…
RNC
Backup Plan:
Just Read Obama's 2008 Promises From the Podium
by Joel B. Pollak - If, as George Orwell once observed, the greatest
enemy of any left-wing
government is its previous propaganda, then Barack Obama’s
most fearsome enemy is a small volume his campaign published in 2008:
Change We Can Believe In: Barack Obama's Plan to Renew America's
Promise.
I bought it after Obama won the presidency that November, and it makes
for very entertaining--and somewhat sad--reading nearly four years
later.
Among the many promises Obama makes are... read
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Human Events… Christie
Doesn’t
Disappoint as he Rips into Liberals, By John
Gizzi
TAMPA, Fla. – Chris Christie did not disappoint — the governor of New
Jersey, with his signature “in-your-face” style, tore into the
Obama record and hailed the Romney-Ryan team as if they were his
beloved New York Mets. It was a performance that lived up to the
expectations of
enthusiasts like Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) who exclaimed to Human
Events early Tuesday night, “He’s the most charismatic speaker we have
— the
right person to be... read
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Heritage.org…
Back
to School: Some Surprising Education Numbers,
By Lindsey Burke
August 27, 2012 - As children head back to the classrooms, let’s look
at two important figures to consider this school year: 308,000 and
$11,400. 308,000: Number of members lost by the National Education
Association. Education special interest groups, such as the teachers
unions, are experiencing a decline in membership. As Stephen Sawchuck
reports in Education Week, “by the end of its 2013–14 budget, NEA [the
National Education Association] expects it will have lost 308,000
members and... read
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Redstate… On
Lance Armstrong, By Erick Erickson
August 24th - If you haven’t heard yet, Lance Armstrong has given up on
fighting the US Anti-Doping Agency. He’s throwing in the towel. I don’t
really have a dog in the fight. I’m never cared much for competitive
cycling. But it really does seem horrendous and un-American to me that
a quasi-government agency, mostly funded by the government, gets to
pretend it is not a part of the government and throw out due process...
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Only in America,
Submitted by
Al Bliss
10 Political and Economic Imponderables that Every American Should
Contemplate - 1. Only in America could politicians talk about the greed
of the rich at a $40,000-a-plate campaign fund raising event; 2. Only
in America could people claim that the government still discriminates
against black Americans when we have a black President, a black
Attorney General and a federal workforce that is roughly 18% black when
the entire black population is only 12%... read
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The passing of Neil Armstrong,
Sent by a reader
Neil Armstrong… RIP. Perfect! "I was certainly aware that this was a
culmination of the work of 300,000 or 400,000 people over a decade and
that nation's hopes and outward appearance largely rested on how the
results came out. With those pressures, it seemed the most
important thing to do was focus on our job as best we were able to and
try to allow nothing to distract us from doing the very... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Small
Businesses Worried More About
Economic Uncertainty, Regulations Under Obama
by Tony Lee - Under Barack Obama, “Uncertainty Over Economic
Conditions” and “Uncertainty Over Government Actions” are,
respectively, the second and fourth most serious problems small
business owners face, according to a quadrennial survey by the National
Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB). In 2008, the last time
NFIB conducted its survey, these... read
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Heritage Foundation… Political
Convention Drama Begins,
By Julia Shaw and Amy Payne
August 27 - This week's Republican National Convention is already
experiencing its own drama thanks to Tropical Storm Isaac, which has
postponed most of the events until tomorrow. But this year marks the
100th anniversary of another Republican Convention embroiled in
political drama of a different nature. Unlike today's conventions,
which are little more than multi-day campaign rallies, at the 1912
affair in... read
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National
Review... Reid’s
Glass House, By Betsy
Woodruff
Democratic senators have offshore accounts. August 24, 2012 - Good news
for Senator Harry Reid: If he’s a little bored while waiting for Mitt
Romney to release his tax returns, there are plenty of other elected
officials — in his own party, to boot! — who merit the same
eyebrow-raising he’s directed at the presumptive GOP presidential
nominee. The Senate majority leader has expressed consternation about
the fact that Romney has some money in offshore accounts, which
probably... read
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Townhall… Downward,
By Ken Blackwell
Aug 25, 2012 - The progressive mindset is set. It believes that
whatever it pursues at the moment must be progress. Think Progress is
one of the groups that is convinced progress is achieved by the right
people thinking the right thoughts. Or, the right people thinking the
left thoughts. "We are the people we've been waiting for," said
candidate Obama four years ago. Better to wait for Godot. The
president's re-election... read
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Mail
Magazine 24…. If
I Were Romney, by Mychal
Massie
I’ve never had a problem confronting a bully, but apparently
Republicans do – and none more so than Mitt Romney. The Obama campaign
has called Romney a criminal with no justification for same. They
simply made up the false allegations, circulated the talking points per
same to Obama’s minions, and then let Harry Reid do the rest. The
result? Romney spends time and energy on defense. Now Obama and his
campaign are demanding Romney release his tax returns for the past
five... read
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Verities & Balderdash… Getting
Old,
Edited by Bob
Robinson
Twenty years ago, I’d read something like this and get a good chuckle.
“I’ve got a few years to go,” I’d always think to myself. Today, I’m
there… well, getting there. For all you youngsters out there, join in
the chuckles. Just don’t forget: Some day you’ll get there, too. Enjoy…
I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an
affair. She turned to me and asked, 'Are you having it
catered'?
And that... read
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Magazine 24… CBO
Warns: President Obama and Congress
Risk Triggering Another Recession,
by J.D. Foster, Ph.D. - About 1.6 million American jobs hang in the
balance. That is the clear implication of analysis contained in the
annual budget update by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Along
with all manner of dire and dreary budget data reflecting President
Obama’s budget and economic policies to date, CBO provides its
assessment of what would happen if the President and Congress sit on
their respective hands and fail to defuse the threats of Taxmageddon
and the fiscal... read
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Cleveland Plain Dealer… More
steps forward than back in GOP platform,
By Kevin O'Brien
Thursday, August 23, 2012 - The battle between Mitt Romney and
conservatives is joined. This is a healthy thing for Mitt Romney and
the country. It's likely to be a little unnerving at times for Romney,
who is trying on a brand of conservatism not native to Massachusetts.
And it's likely to be frustrating at times for conservatives, because
they're not going to convince the Republican standard... read
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The
Daily Caller… More
than 500 economists, 5 Nobel laureates
back Romney’s economic strategy
By Caroline May - 08/20/2012 - More than 500 economists — including
five Nobel laureates — have endorsed Republican presidential candidate
Mitt Romney’s economic plan as the right choice for jobs creation and
economic growth. The pro-Romney group “Economists for Romney” announced
Monday that its statement of support for the former Massachusetts
governor’s economic plan now has 526 signatories, up from 400 a week
ago... read
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Townhall… "Issues"
or America? By Thomas
Sowell
There are some very serious issues at stake in this year's election --
so many that some people may not be able to see the forest for the
trees. Individual issues are the trees, but the forest is the future of
America as we have known it. The America that has flourished for more
than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the
Obama administration, during the process of dealing with particular... read
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Akron
Beacon Journal… Lawsuits
without facts
August
20, 2012 - For $25 billion, five of the nation’s biggest mortgage
lenders agreed early this year to settle charges that they initiated
foreclosure proceedings relying on paperwork that frequently was
incomplete, inaccurate or simply fraudulent. The “robo-signing” scandal
exposed industry practices that were forcing thousands of borrowers
into foreclosure every year, even though the lenders could not produce
verifiable documentation that they owned the properties in question or
that... read
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Townhall… America
Ready for Paul Ryan’s Adult
Conversation, By Star Parker
Aug
20, 2012 - There’s a line of thinking on the political left that Mitt
Romney served them up a great softball in picking Paul Ryan as his
running mate. According to Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page,
“Ryan brings to the Romney campaign the tea party’s style of magical
thinking, a blissfully simplistic, ideologically driven world view that
seems to think candidates can win votes by promising to reduce
popular... read
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Mailmagazine24…
From
Social Security to Federal Benefit, by Herbert
London
In the parlance of Orwellian newspeak words often mean the opposite of
their seeming intent. The Internal Revenue Service is
anything but a service. Now we have yet another government inspired
contradiction. Social Security has been transformed into the
"Federal Benefits Payment." One might well ask how an insurance
arrangement in which the recipient makes payments throughout his
working
existence is regarded as a "benefit." Whatever happened to "earned
income"? At the moment... read
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Heritage.org … Back
to School: The Rise of Customized Education
, By Lindsey Burke
August 20, 2012 - Customized learning has led the education news cycle
over the past few weeks as back to school season gets in full swing.
And for good reason. Every day there is growing evidence that a seismic
shift in the delivery of instruction is underway, bringing with it a
tidal wave of educational options for families. Earlier this month, the
news site Education Week published an inside look at one family’s
hybrid
schooling experience..... read
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Akron
Beacon Journal… Battleground
Ohio
August
16, 2012 - From the start of this election cycle, Jon Husted urged
bipartisan county elections boards to reach compromises in setting
hours for early voting. If they did not reach an agreement? The
secretary of state emphasized that he would set the time to the board’s
current office hours. The stance reflected his campaign promise. He
wants — for good reason — a more uniform system of voting across the
state. He didn’t want his office establishing varying hours in
different counties. The trouble... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Obama
Administration Already Tossed the Food Stamp Work Requirement
By
Kiki Bradley - The Obama Administration sure is getting defensive about
its recent action to waive all work requirements in the Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash welfare program. But this
isn’t the first time or the first program in which Obama Administration
policy has undermined work requirements. The welfare reform of 1996
requires that after three months on food stamps... read
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Townhall… Ethnocentric
Studies, By Mike Adams
Ethnocentrism is under-rated. Most college students are exposed to the
concept only if they take a course in Introductory Sociology or if they
should chose to major in sociology. Even then, the concept of
ethnocentrism is presented as an evil to be extinguished by fostering
the value of anti-ethnocentrism. For those who are not well-versed in
the language of sociology, ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to... read
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Redstate… The Crazy Fool From the Attic
Turned Vice
President Race Baits
Posted by Erick Erickson - Wednesday, August 15 - In fairness to Vice
President Biden, I supposed I should have a full post for our
collective crazy uncle in the attic turned Vice President. The man from
Delaware claimed that Republicans want to put people back in chains.
Considering there is only one group of people ever put in chains in
this country, it is clear he was race baiting. I have no doubt this was
orchestrated...read
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Heritage... Morning Bell: Wind Energy
Subsidies are as
Useful as VHS Tape Subsidies
By
Amy Payne, August 16, 2012 - The wind production tax credit is set to
expire at the end of this year, which has the industry crying out for
continued subsidies. Heritage’s Nicolas Loris has made the case that
the wind energy tax credit makes as much sense as a VHS production tax
credit. Can you imagine the logic: “We can’t afford to lose our VHS
tape manufacturing plants. They provide...read
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Heritage.org...
Higher
Gas Prices Add to Economic Slump, By Amy Payne
Unemployment
is at 8.3 percent. The economy is sputtering at 1.5 percent growth.
Food prices are rising due to drought conditions across the country.
And gas prices are up again, pinching Americans' summer budgets. It is
past time for the President and Congress to pursue smart policies that
would put us on a path to relief. According to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report,
the current national average for regular is $3.66 per gallon. That's up
28 cents per gallon from a month ago, and July had its biggest... read
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Cincinnati
Enquirer… Innovative thinking can fund our
infrastructure, by
Ellen van der Horst
Aug.
13, 2012 - Just
as innovation leads to improvements in the way we do business,
innovative thinking can also lead to improvements in the way we fund
infrastructure. And the need for innovative thinking is more important
now than ever. Investment in
transportation infrastructure is critical to the growth of our economy.
It impacts the very core of our economic ...read
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Townhall
Finance… Paul
Ryan's Old-Fashioned
American Vision, By
Larry Kudlow
When
you think of Republican congressman Paul Ryan, terms like earnest,
serious, and important come to mind. So does the term old-fashioned.
Ryan comes from an old-fashioned place, the blue-collar town of
Janesville, Wisconsin. He cherishes the old-fashioned values of a
faithful family man. He even looks old-fashioned, with his white shirts
and striped ties. And he uses old-fashioned...read
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Townhall
Finance... The
Last Ticket to Fantasyland Expires in Three Months,
by John Ransom
The presidential playbook generally calls for a successful candidate to
swing to the middle when they are running unopposed for their party’s
nomination. But as we enter perhaps the final months of the Obama
administration, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for anyone to make
an appeal to the center, if indeed a center even exists in American
politics anymore. Obama has destroyed the political center in this
country, and for that we can be thankful. Because Obama’s policies have
exposed the basic... read
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Investors.com... The
United States Of Dependency?
Economy: New reports suggest America is not only hurting economically
under President Obama, but also on a dangerous road to fiscal decline
and growing dependence on government. This is the real legacy of
Obamanomics. Before you shrug this off as an exaggeration or chalk it
up to scare-mongering, check out the reports that have emerged in
recent days suggesting just how dependent Americans have...read
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Akron
Beacon Journal... Departure
time
Stan Heffner quickly apologized “for my lack of judgment.” His words
came in response to a report delivered Thursday by the state inspector
general that concluded Heffner acted improperly when in May 2011, as
the interim state schools superintendent, he testified in favor of
legislation likely to benefit a private education company seeking to
hire him. On Saturday, he expanded his expression of regret. He stepped
down as the superintendent of public instruction in Ohio. The choice...
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WND... Don’t
Get Fooled, Again!
By Joseph Farah
“This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”
Those are the now famous words of Barack Obama to Russian President
Medvedev in Seoul, South Korea, regarding his need for “more space” in
dealing with the sticky issue of missile defense – when he thought his
conversation was off-microphone. In other words, Obama was ready to
capitulate to Russia’s opposition to U.S. missile...read
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The
Heritage Foundation... Obama
Administration Nationalizing Common
Core Standards
By Rachel Sheffield - At a Tea Party gathering last month, Indiana
Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett expressed his concern with the
growing federal overreach of Common Core education standards. “This
administration has an insatiable appetite for federal overreach,” he
said. “The federal government’s involvement in these standards is
wrong.” The Indianapolis Star adds: Bennett pointed out that the Common
Core’s standards originated with the National Governors Association... read
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Townhall... Sports
Versus
Politics, by Thomas Sowell
Aug 07, 2012 - It has long seemed to me that there is far more
rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in
politics and in commentaries on politics. What has puzzled me is why
this is so, when what happens in politics has far more serious effects
on people’s lives. To take one common example, there are many people
who believe that if the market fails, the government should step in.
But, if...read
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Of
Managing Medicaid - Single agency should allow better coordination of
giant health program
Monday, August 6, 2012 - Gov. John Kasich’s plan to create a separate
cabinet-level department to handle all of Ohio’s
Medicaid work is a good idea. No single state program spends more money
than Medicaid, and no public service is growing in cost
and complexity like health care, yet responsibility for the spending of
more than $18 billion annually in state and federal Medicaid
dollars long has been spread among six different state agencies. The
Department of Job and Family Services.... read
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The
Real Poll
Numbers, by Dick Morris
August 6, 2012 - The media is trying to create a sense of momentum and
of inevitability about the Obama candidacy. One benighted Newsweek
reporter even speculated about a possible Democratic landslide. On
Friday, I saw the real numbers. These state-by-state polls, taken by an
organization I trust (after forty years of polling) show the real
story. The tally is based on more than 600 likely voter interviews in
each
swing state within the past...read
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CNS
News... Of
Free Speech and Chick-Fil-A, By Ed Feulner
August 2, 2012 - Dan Cathy could have saved his company, Chick-Fil-A, a
lot of trouble. All he had to do was keep his views about family to
himself. Instead, he answered a question honestly. In a recent media
interview, the company’s president and COO said what he believes and
why he believes it. But his politically incorrect views are
intolerable, judging from the anger of many on the left, including
several big-city officials who are dead-set against his views. In the
interview, Cathy said he is... read
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Townhall... Capitalism
Did It, by Mona Charen
Aug 03, 2012 - A young Chinese man is under arrest for a rampage
killing in Liaoning province. The knife-wielding 17-year-old reportedly
killed eight people, including two relatives of his estranged
girlfriend, and wounded five others. Terrible story. But Agence
France-Presse, in an account widely circulated by Yahoo and other news
outlets, knew just whom to blame: capitalism. AFP explained, “Violent
crime... read
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Investors.com…
Obama
Embraces
The Islamist Enemy Within
08/03/2012 - The Obama Record - The Obama Record: The Muslim
Brotherhood doesn’t just threaten the Mideast. It threatens America.
Instead of protecting the nation from these Islamofascists, the
president has embraced them. Five patriots on Capitol Hill have cast
political correctness aside and warned of Brotherhood plants inside the
Obama administration. Led by House intelligence committee member
Michele Bachmann, these GOP lawmakers have asked key agencies dealing
with... read
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Townhall... President
Obama:
You’re no Bill Clinton, by Cal Thomas
Aug 02, 2012 - The Obama re-election team must be in panic mode. The
president is stuck in a virtual tie with Mitt Romney in some polls and
behind him in others, so in desperation it has reached out to the Big
Dog, Bill Clinton, for help. Clinton will speak next month at the
Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in a Wednesday night
position often reserved for the vice presidential nominee. Obama and...
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Heritage
Network... Morning
Bell: Has Any Administration Policy NOT Killed Jobs Lately?
Amy Payne
August 3, 2012 - Congress has headed off for its long
vacation-and-campaign season, fleeing Washington as the unemployment
rate rises. According to the Labor Department’s July jobs report, the
unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent, 12.8 million Americans are
out of work, and 5.2 million have been out of work for at least a half
a year. According to one survey, the country added a surprising 163,000
jobs in July, while according to a second Labor Department survey,
employment fell... read
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Townhall... Want
Hope? Make a
Change. by Michael Reagan
Aug 02, 2012 - President Obama was supposed to be all about hope and
change. But after almost four years he’s squeezed the hope out of most
of us. A new Rasmussen poll is the latest proof that the only hope of
getting out of our economic ditch is to fire the hopeless guy in the
White House who keeps digging it deeper. Since early 2009 Rasmussen has
been asking two questions that serve as a good barometer of what people
think... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Win
Olympic
Gold, Pay the IRS, by Hugh Johnson
U.S. Olympic medal winners will owe up to $9,000 to the IRS - While 529
hardworking athletes proudly represent the United States in the 2012
Olympics, any medals and money they earn wearing red, white and blue
will be taxed by the IRS. According to research done by the Americans
for Tax Reform Foundation, U.S. Olympic athletes are liable to pay
income tax on medals earned and prizes received at the London games.
American medalists face a top income tax rate of 35 percent. Under U.S.
tax... read
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Investors.com... Labor
Dept.
Waives 60-Day Notice To Help Obama Win
Politics: An administration that doesn’t want layoff notices required
by law going out days before the November election is telling defense
contractors they don’t have to send them for the cuts required by
sequestration. As the heads of major defense contractors Lockheed
Martin, EADS North America, Pratt & Whitney and Williams-Pyro
testified recently before the House Armed Services... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... New
Study
Crushes Global Warming Data Claims, by Michael
Patrick
Leahy
Global warming skeptic and meteorologist Anthony Watts, whose
wattsupwiththat.com website has been called the “world’s most viewed
climate website,” released a scientific discussion paper yesterday that
crushes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s [NOAA’s]
“global warming” data claims. The study, co-authored with Dr. John R.
Christy of the University of Alabama at Huntsville, Stephen McIntyre of
Toronto, Canada, and Evan Jones of New York, concluded that... read
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Mail
Magazine 24... Louisiana
Teachers Union Threatens to Sue Voucher Schools,
by Bright
Knight
This is just another proof that the Unions don’t care about the
students and the student’s future. It’s just about indoctrination of
the students and about power. They know, the easiest way to transform
America is poisoning the brains of the students (the best proof that
this works is the Socialist-in-Chief in the White House - he was
indoctrinated by Marxists and Islamists from childhood on and you see
where it ended) and they do whatever they can, using all methods, even
mobster-methods, to get as... read
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Townhall... Election
Integrity:
It Matters, by Katie Pavlich
In 2009, Catherine Engelbrecht of Houston volunteered to be a poll
watcher. From that moment forward, her life changed. During her time as
an election volunteer, she saw people come in with duplicate
registrations and people coming into the polling place to vote only to
find out someone else had already voted for them through the
mail. This, among other reasons, is why Engelbrecht founded
True
the Vote, a non-profit... read
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Redstate...
Government
Determined to Waste Money on Catfish, Posted
by Ben Howe
Monday, July 30th - If you don’t remember the Federal Agriculture
Reform and Risk Management Act (FARRM), better known as the Farm Bill,
here’s a quick refresher: Put simply, the farm bill is an anathema to
free enterprise, limited government, and individual responsibility.
The House version (H.R. 6083) authorizes $957 billion in spending over
10 years, 80% of which will go towards food stamps. Despite erroneous
claims in the media regarding severe cuts to food stamps, this bill
actually consummates... read
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