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Nullification and What They're
Not Telling You, by KrisAnne Hall
I am compelled to share with you a dirty little secret. This secret is
one that the government doesn’t want you to know, especially your State
legislators, that is if you have one like my dear senator Don Gaetz.
You see, senators like Don Gaetz will tell you that if you believe in
the sovereignty of the States, if you believe that the States bear the
right to nullify unconstitutional federal law, well, you should be
“shot and hanged”(yes, he actually said that, read here). These
legislators will explain to you... read
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Townhall… Whose
Welfare? by Thomas Sowell
Jan 30, 2013 - If there is ever a contest for the law with the most
grossly misleading title, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 should
be a prime candidate, because the last thing this Act protects is the
welfare of Indian children. The theory behind the Indian Child Welfare
Act is that an American Indian child should be raised in an American
Indian culture. Based on that theory, a newborn baby of American...
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Townhall
Finance… Welfare
Competition Among Nations,
by Daniel J. Mitchell
The welfare state creates some amazingly pathetic and disgusting
individuals. In the battle of the bums, we’ve had the spectacle of
“Diaper Man” vs “Footless Hans.” In the contest for most despicable
moocher, we have the “Florida Pedophiles” vs the “Gimme Babymaker.” And
the fight for most pathetic victim of dependency features the
“Connecticut Kid” vs the “English Loafer.” But I’ve never found a match
for Olga, a Greek woman who thinks it is government’s job to take care
of her from cradle to... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Vanishing
Vote:
Rural Influence Dwindles, by Salena Zito
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warns that rural America is becoming
less relevant to the politics of this country, and he urges people to
push lawmakers to do something about that. In rural areas, "there just
isn‘t as much political juice as there used to be, and I think we have
to address that," said Vilsack, a former Iowa governor who grew up in
Pittsburgh. Many voters in this state with more than 7.7 million acres
of farmland might agree... read
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Redstate…
Obama
losing his gun control campaign,
By Dan Spencer
January 24th, 2013 - New polling from Washington Post-ABC News and Pew
find that President Obama’s campaign to repress the Second Amendment
right “keep and bear arms” is faltering. On January 22, 2013, Pew
released polling results that found the public followed news about
Obama’s gun control proposals closely and the reaction is mixed. Only
39 percent think Obama’s proposals are about right, while 31 percent
think the proposals go too far. Or, as Politico put it, “39 percent
back Obama gun plan... read
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Gun
Laws and the Fools of Chelm, By David Mamet
The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal
defense, he is the only one qualified to do so - Jan 29, 2013 - Karl
Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to
each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in
practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery,
poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death. ‘In announcing his gun
control proposals, President... read
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Magazine 24… County
Sheriff: Power To Protect, by Chuck
Baldwin
The local FOX affiliate in Salt Lake City, Utah, has reported that the
Utah Sheriff’s Association has written a strongly worded letter to
President Barack Obama regarding any potential federal laws that would
restrict the citizens of the State of Utah from practicing their Second
Amendment rights. The letter was signed by every sheriff in the State
of Utah except one. The letter reads in part: “With the number of mass
shootings America has endured, it is easy to demonize firearms; it is
also... read
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Heritage Foundation… Morning
Bell: Marching for Life,
Sarah Torre
January 25, 2013 - Later today, hundreds of thousands of people will
descend on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., for the annual March
for Life. Crowds are expected to exceed last year’s 400,000
participants, to walk a now-familiar route to the steps of the Supreme
Court to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision
that, along with an accompanying ruling... read
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Magazine 24… Obamacare
Starts Crippling Hospitals,
by Gailon Totheroh
Perhaps Obamacare should be titled PenaltyCare. With Medicare now
rolling over into Obamacare, many hospitals are taking a hit and losing
payments. Particularly hard hit, strangely enough, was well-to-do
Connecticut–as reported by Hearst Media Group. Eighty-six percent of
the state’s acute-care hospitals were penalized, that is, are losing
lots of money under a new Medicare program put in place by Obamacare
requirements. One reason for the penalties was readmission. If a
person... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: The Urgent Danger in the
Senate, By Amy Payne
January 24, 2013 - Think your state has equal representation in the
Senate? Well, that could be eliminated soon. Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid—a Democrat from Nevada—is trying to ensure that he
personally has the final say on all legislation. And under one plan
being considered, only three other Senators would be allowed any
meaningful contributions. Reid has been talking with Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) about an agreement on this nefarious
plan. But whether it passes... read
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Townhall…
Obama
Inaugural: Full of Audacity, but
Little Hope, By Michael Barone
Jan 24, 2013 - Commentators both left and right agree that Barack
Obama's second inaugural speech Monday was highly partisan, with shout
outs to his constituencies on the left and defiance of his critics on
the right. Obama quoted the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution, and made brief reference to Abraham Lincoln's sublime
Second Inaugural ("blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword"). But
there was not much in the way of... read
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Investors.com…
What
Obama really
said in that inaugural speech (And what he left out)
By Andrew Malcolm - 1/22/13 - Not many inaugural addresses go down in
history books as memorable, especially second inaugural addresses.
Lincoln aside.
With few exceptions, inaugurals are mere aspirational tone poems,
providing a generally warm, good feeling about where the new or renewed
leader wants to take the country although, truth be told, events
usually begin reshaping those goals within days.
And coming very soon after Inauguration Day is the chief executive's
annual State of the Union address... read
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Mail Magazine 24… Hillary
on
Libya: 'What Difference Does It Make?',
by John Nolte
After being pressed today by Republican Senator Ron Johnson to explain
how it was that over the course of weeks, the Obama Administration
stood by an absurd story claiming that four Americans we're murdered in
Libya due to a spontaneous protest gone bad, outgoing Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton played the indignation card.
Because she obviously had no answer to justify the ongoing White House
deception, Secretary Clinton chose... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: Obama’s Second Inaugural Address, Translated
By Amy Payne - January 22, 2013 - Members of Congress—who are about to
debate raising the debt ceiling tomorrow—should have paid attention
yesterday. The President was very clear that he sees no urgency about
reducing the debt and cutting the deficit. In fact, in his second
inaugural address, President Barack Obama was honest about his
intentions to grow government in order to remake our country along his
progressive vision. To sell his agenda, the President borrowed imagery
and... read
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Townhall… Beware
of Those Advising GOP To Unilaterally Disarm,
by David Limbaugh
Jan 22, 2013 - Isn't it ironic that Republicans keep receiving advice
to be more conciliatory and work with President Obama while President
Obama not only is receiving the opposite advice but fully intends to be
even more divisive in his second term? On "Meet the Press" last week,
former Secretary of State Colin Powell said: "There's also a dark vein
of intolerance in some parts of the (Republican) party. What do... read
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Magazine 24… How
Washington D.C.’s Gun Ban Led to a
Crime Wave in the 80s, by Daniel Greenfield
If there’s any place in America where everything must go smoothly, it’s
Washington D.C., the city that runs the country. And that’s true of gun
control, which went as smoothly in Washington D.C. as it has everywhere
else. The formula is simple. Ban guns. Encourage criminals. As a former
prosecutor in Washington, D.C., who enforced firearms and ammunition
cases while a severe local gun ban was still in effect, I am skeptical
of the benefits that many imagine will result from additional
gun-control... read
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Townhall
Finance… Federal
Court Upholds Wisconsin Law on
Unions, By Mike Shedlock
Those looking for excellent news in the midst of a clearly-souring
global economy can find it in Wisconsin. I am pleased to report Federal
appeals court upholds Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s restrictions on
public unions. A federal appeals court on Friday upheld Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker’s contentious law stripping most public workers of nearly
all of their collective bargaining rights in a decision hailed by
Republicans but not undoing a state court ruling... read
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Magazine 24… Who’s
Afraid of Fracking? by
Deroy Murdock
If frackophobes are to be believed, natural gas fracking is the most
frightful environmental nightmare since Japan's Fukushima nuclear power
plant melted down after an earthquake and tsunami. In "Promised Land,"
Matt Damon's new anti-fracking movie -- funded in part by the United
Arab Emirates -- one character demonstrates this production technique's
"dangers" by drenching a toy farm with household chemicals and then
setting it ablaze... read
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Townhall…
The
War on Pot: Not a Safe Bet,
by Steve Chapman
Jan 20, 2013 - As recreational drugs go, marijuana is relatively
benign. Unlike alcohol, it doesn't stimulate violence or destroy
livers. Unlike tobacco, it doesn't cause lung cancer and heart disease.
The worst you can say is that it produces intense, unreasoning panic.
Not in users, but in critics. Those critics have less influence all the
time. Some 18 states permit medical use of marijuana, and in November,
Colorado and Washington voted to allow recreational... read
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Investors.com…
Obama's
Social Security Games Make Case For
Private Pensions
01/15/2013 - Politics: President Obama threatened Social Security
checks would be delayed if Congress didn't play ball on the debt
ceiling. Once again, he turned pensions into a political football.
There are ways to stop this. Americans should know: Social Security
payments won't be affected by debt-ceiling talks, and Obama knows it.
Still, it's not as if the Social Security system is healthy. In a Page
1 story Monday, IBD's Jed Graham reported that 2013 marks the first
year new Social... read
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Townhall Finance… Without
Deep Spending Cuts, the Republicans
Lose the House in 2014
by Larry Kudlow - Okay, it’s official. According to the Treasury
Department, the U.S. debt jumped to $16.1 trillion in 2012 from $14.8
trillion in 2011. That’s a $1.3 trillion deficit for the last year.
Remarkable. During President Obama’s first term, the federal debt rose
by roughly $6 trillion. Now, if they are bold, House Republicans will
take advantage of these dismal numbers. Bold means bold spending
cuts... read
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Investors.com…
President
Obama's Cat-Food Future For
Retirees
01/16/2013 - The Obama Economy: Americans are drawing down their
401(k)s for nonretirement needs in record numbers, just as Social
Security goes bust. This portends poverty for millions as the White
House fiddles. Cat food, anyone? One out of four U.S. workers with
401(k) retirement savings accounts has been forced to cash them out or
borrow from them at high costs just to stay solvent. The Washington
Post, citing a report from financial advisory firm HelloWallet, said
the withdrawals have... read
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Canada
Free Press… Why
are we pretending? By EK
Robinson
Sunday, January 13, 2013 - Why are we pretending? Pretending that
elections in 2014 might change things, that elections in 2016 could
too? Even now the Republicans and their talk show supporters are
flailing about as if there is some future in electoral politics for
them. They discuss strategy as if it mattered, not seeming to get that
they have been marginalized. It is over. It is part of the plan. The
template for stealing elections in America at the national level has
been set in the 2012 election... read
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Redstate… Spending
at Gun Point, By
Breeanne Howe
January 17th, 2013 - In the days leading up to President Obama
announcing his gun control plans, and now that he has, the focus of
Republicans and Conservatives has been squarely on his ever-encroaching
attack on the Second Amendment. As Republican National
Committee
Chairman Reince Priebus stated on the President’s move, “He paid lip
service to our fundamental constitutional rights, but took... read
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Townhall… The
Government Giveth,
by Marita Noon
Or, do they take and then give? It appears to be a vicious cycle with
no beginning or end.
For the last four years, President Obama and his EPA have waged a war
on coal. Though they deny it, their regulations have cost thousands of
miners their jobs, and hundreds of coal-fueled power plants are
scheduled to be closed within the next few years. On January 7, Georgia
Power announced that it will “shut down 15 coal and oil-fired units,
cutting nearly
... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Facts
Anti-Gun
Advocates Don’t Want You to Know, by Giacomo
After last summer’s shooting in Aurora, Colorado and last month’s
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, anti-gun
advocates want you to believe that America is a nation infected with
violent crimes and murders. They want you to believe that we are one,
if not the, most violent nation in the world and that we have to rid
the nation of guns to solve the problem.But what are the real facts?
Amidst the Noise released a video on You Tube (you can watch the video
on the right) that... read
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Townhall… How
I Spent My Sick Days, by Steve Chapman
Jan 13, 2013 - Recently, after a couple of days of feeling a bit run
down, I groused to my wife that I didn't feel bad enough to miss work,
just bad enough to make work a lot harder than usual. "It might be nice
to feel bad enough to have to stay home," I said sardonically. Scratch
that thought. The microbes have ears. A couple of days later, I had
gotten my rash wish -- complete with cough, sneezing, scratchy
throat... read
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Townhall…
You
Can't Call a Pretty Girl Pretty; What
Kind of Country Are We Becoming?
by Mark Davis - Jan 11, 2013 - Before examining the ridiculous
controversy stemming from Monday night’s college football championship
broadcast, let us stipulate that there are more urgent and scary ways
to describe the current changes in America. We are becoming a culture
of dependency. We are becoming a neo-socialist experiment. We are
becoming a dumbed-down nation unappreciative of its founders. We are
losing touch with the Constitution and the very concept of liberty... read
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Townhall
Finance… 24
Million Martyrs, by John
Ransom
I wish Obama and the Democrats could be as passionate about jobs as
they are about, say, the contents of Happy Meals. Or the dust from
cement factories. Or the habitat of the red-cockaded woodpecker. While
the wizard of DC remains a master of illusion and delusion, focusing
everyone’s attention on the man behind the curtain- and his 20 Little
Martyrs- the jobless recovery now enters its fifth year with no signs
that hiring will be picking up soon... read
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Townhall
Finance… America’s
Future? Look to Illinois,
by Fritz Pfister
Somewhere along the line I remember a song about how you can take the
kid out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the kid.
Guess one could write a song, you can take the kid out of Chicago but
you can’t take Chicago out of the kid. In October of 2008 my warnings
went unheeded regarding candidate Barack Obama. All one needed do to
see America in four years was to look at Blagojevich’s Illinois. It
turned out worse than imagined. Blagojevich’s Illinois was reeling in
corruption... read
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2012 Darwin Awards,
Sent by a
CNO Reader
Nominee No. 1: [San Jose Mercury News]: An unidentified man, using a
shotgun like a club to break a former girl friend's windshield,
accidentally shot himself to death when the gun discharged, blowing a
hole in his gut. Nominee No. 2: [Kalamazoo Gazette]: James Burns, 34,
(a mechanic) of Alamo MI, was killed in March as he was trying to
repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck." Burns... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… IRS
Watchdog Says Tax Code Too Complex,
Recommends Romney’s Tax Plan
by Duane Lester - In her annual report to Congress, National Taxpayer
Advocate Nina E. Olson told them what most Americans already know: the
tax code is too complex. It’s so complex, she said, it actually hurts
revenue: The report said Congress should approach tax reform in a
manner similar to zero-based budgeting — encouraging Congress to
examine the entire tax code with the idea of scrapping all tax breaks
except those with the greatest public benefit. That’s the rub, isn’t
it? After all, who... read
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Huffington
Post… The
Soul of America, By Bernie
Sanders
Despite such terminology as "fiscal cliff" and "debt ceiling," the
great debate taking place in Washington now has relatively little to do
with financial issues. It is all about ideology. It is all about
economic winners and losers in American society. It is all about the
power of Big Money. It is all about the soul of America. In America
today, we have the most unequal distribution of wealth and income of
any major country on earth, and more inequality than at any... read
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Redstate…
Fact-Checking
Matt Damon’s ‘Promised Land’,
By: Steve Maley
Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kentucky any more. ... Kentucky,
Kansas, whatever. January 8th, 2013 - I wasted $7.75 on Hollywood’s
latest anti-fracking agitprop “Promised Land” (1) so you won’t have to.
You can read movie reviews elsewhere. From what I’ve seen, they’ve been
rather lukewarm. And in its first weekend of nationwide distribution,
audience response was tepid at best. In the words of lead
actor/screenwriter Matt Damon, “Who ****ing wants to go see an
anti-fracking... read
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Townhall… The
Role of 'Educators', by
Thomas Sowell
Jan 08, 2013 - Many years ago, as a young man, I read a very
interesting book about the rise of the Communists to power in China. In
the last chapter, the author tried to explain why and how this had
happened. Among the factors he cited were the country's educators. That
struck me as odd, and not very plausible, at the time. But the passing
years have made that seem less and less odd, and more and more... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: 13 Tax Increases in 2013, By
Curtis Dubay
January 8, 2013 New Year’s Day was tough for taxpayers. Thirteen tax
increases kicked in.
The deal that Congress and President Obama struck that finally—but only
partially—avoided the fiscal cliff resulted in seven tax increases.
Those hikes combined with six tax increases from Obamacare that also
began on New Year’s Day.
13 Tax Increases That Started January 1, 2013
Tax increases the fiscal cliff deal allowed:
1. Payroll tax: increase in the Social Security portion of the payroll
tax from 4.2 percent... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: The Slow Dismantling of Obamacare, By
Amy Payne
January 7, 2013 - Things aren’t going so well for Obamacare. Even
Democrats in Congress aren’t huge fans any more. It seems after passing
the law and finding out what’s in it, the allure has faded—so much so
that Congress actually repealed part of Obamacare in the fiscal cliff
deal last week. That’s right—part of Obamacare has been completely
undone. It was the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports
(CLASS) Act, essentially a new entitlement program for... read
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Townhall… Five
Good Men, by Katie Kieffer
Jan 07, 2013 - There are a few good men. And by “a few,” I mean five.
Certainly there are far more than five good men in America. But in the
U.S. Senate, there are just five moral Republicans. Who am I referring
to? Let me introduce you to the five men in the Senate who stood their
ground while their Republican peers (save two abstainers) voted for a
fiscal cliff deal that essentially codifies theft: Sen. Rand Paul... read
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Magazine 24… Obama's
'Cash For Clunkers' Unleashed
'Environmental Nightmare'
by Wynton Hall - In a classic tale illustrating the “law of unintended
consequences,” a new report concludes that President Barack Obama’s $3
billion “Cash for Clunkers” taxpayer-funded boondoggle artificially
drove car prices up, not down, and unleashed an “environmental
nightmare” through shredding, not recycling, many of the 690,000 cars
people traded in for an up to $4,500 car credit. In 2009, Mr. Obama
proudly declared that his Cash for Clunkers program, officially known
as the Car... read
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Redstate… The
Trouble For Conservatives,
By Erick Erickson
January 7th, 2013 - Jim Bridenstine may get a primary challenge. You
may not know who he is, but Jim Bridenstine is a brand new member of
Congress, a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy Reserves, a fighter pilot
from the Iraq and Afghan Wars, and a strong fiscal conservative. He
should be a hero to any and all Republicans. He’s a genuine bad ass.
And on Day 1, he decided not to vote for John... read
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Akron
Beacon Journal… Defining
‘college ready’
January 3, 2013 - Slowly, Ohio’s public colleges and universities are
raising the expectations bar, spelling out more precisely the minimum
preparation they require for incoming students. This week, the college
presidents unveiled a uniform set of standards to serve as a measure of
the ability of freshmen to handle postsecondary coursework. The step is
a critical part of a sharper focus on performance and accountability in
higher education. If anything has become clear in recent decades, it is
that personal... read
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Townhall…
Getting
Dirty Getting bin Laden,
by Debra J. Saunders
Jan 06, 2013 - During George W. Bush's presidency, it was a matter of
liberal faith that the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on
al-Qaida members "undermine our moral authority and do not make us
safer," as Barack Obama once put it. According to Obama, "enhanced
interrogation techniques" are wrong, and -- no matter what common sense
tells you -- they never work. Asking nicely works best with terrorists.
"Zero Dark Thirty"... read
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Magazine 24… Middle-earners
Hit Hardest By Fiscal Deal,
by Hayley Peterson
Middle-class workers will take a bigger hit to their income
proportionately than those earning between $200,000 and $500,000 under
the new fiscal cliff deal, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy
Center. Earners in the latter group will pay an average 1.3 percent
more - or an additional $2,711 - in taxes this year, while workers
making between $30,000 and $200,000 will see their paychecks shrink by
as much as 1.7 percent - or up to $1,784 - the D.C.-based think tank
reported... read
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Townhall…
Sweet
Reason, by Ken Blackwell
Jan 04, 2013 - Editor's Note: This column was co-authored by Bob
Morrison. Much of the Internet exploded in wrath over Pope Benedict
XVI’s Christmas greetings to the Roman curia. Delivered in those
historic halls painted by Renaissance artists, the Pope’s address was
given to those tasked with administering the Vatican State and serving
the Catholic faithful worldwide. “Rant!” “Hateful!” “Outrageous!” These
were some of the milder expletives cast at the... read
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Townhall…
Ten
Ways to Start the New Year Fresh,
by Jackie Gingrich Cushman
Jan 03, 2013 - It's the beginning of a new year and a great chance to
start over -- but how? Here are 10 ways to gain a fresh start in 2013.
1) What's past is past. Wipe all the disappointments of 2012 from your
mind. They cannot be changed, and any amount of dwelling and wallowing
will not help. Pretend you have amnesia and that it never happened,
while retaining the lessons learned from the experience. Then do this
again every month, every week, every... read
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Townhall…
If
Demography Is Destiny, Good News for
Texas, D.C., by Michael Barone
Jan 03, 2013 - Demographics buffs get a special Christmas present every
year courtesy of the Census Bureau: its annual estimates of the
populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This gives
demographers a chance to see where the nation is growing and where it
is not, and to get an idea of the destination of immigrants and of the
flow of people into one set of states and out of another. Nationally,
the Census Bureau estimates that the United... read
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Kim
Komando… Historical
newspapers
In today's digital age, newspapers have to compete with plenty of other
formats. But that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy a good read -
especially newspapers with historical value.
The Library of Congress has collected thousands of newspapers from all
over the U.S. since 1836 in its Chronicling America section. You can
browse more than 100 newspapers printed from 1836 to 1922 online.
They are perfect for use in research projects, or just... read
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Townhall…
Obama's
Tax Evaders of the Year, by Michelle Malkin
Jan 02, 2013 - President Obama will kick off the new year the same way
that he kicked off the old year: by demanding that the wealthy pay
their "fair share" in taxes. But while millions of small-business
owners, struggling entrepreneurs, inventors and investors brace for a
double whammy of fiscal cliff tax hikes and new Obamacare taxes, the
class-warrior in chief's richest pals are getting a pass. It's a Golden
Pass for liberal millionaires and billionaires who... read
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Townhall Finance… Putting
the Spending Genie Back in the
Bottle, By Bob Beauprez
As the following chart (click link below) from Investor's Business
Daily demonstrates, The Bush Tax Cuts didn't starve the federal
treasury – revenue flooded in as the economy expanded from the
pro-growth policies implemented in 2003 and continued until the
sub-prime mortgage market collapse. Even with the anemic Obama economic
recovery, revenues are again nearly equal to the level required to fund
the... read
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A Year of Time…
Steven B. Cloud
Pulpit Helps, Vol. 14, # 2 …Though even thinking on the subject of time
may prove discomforting, it is not a bad idea—especially at the
beginning of a new year. As we look into <year> we look
at a
block of time. We see 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours,
525,600 minutes, 31,536,000 seconds. And all is a gift from God. We
have done nothing to deserve it, earn it, or purchased it. Like the
air... read
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