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Magazine 24… Joe
Biden on Gun Control: ‘Let Me Say This
as Clearly as I Can, This Is Just the Beginning’
by Jason Howerton - Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday the
expected upcoming Senate votes on gun control are only the beginning of
the White House’s fight strengthen gun laws. During a conference call
organized by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Biden assured supporters that
the push gun control would not end with the current proposed bill,
saying, “Let me say this...
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Magazine 24...Paul,
Cruz, Lee to Block Gun Control
Legislation, by Mike Flynn
Sens. Paul, Cruz and Lee have signaled that they will block the Senate
from moving to any consideration of gun control legislation. On Monday,
the three Senators sent a letter to Majority Leader Reid which read in
part, “We will oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that
will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions.” It is
further confirmation that the three are providing the only opposition
to Obama's big-government agenda. Majority Leader Reid has orchestrated
the gun legislation to...
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The
Independent Institute…
The Anatomy of Climate Science Hype,
by S. Fred Singer
A NY Times science story (by Justin Gillis, March 1) illustrates some
interesting points about science journalism–especially in the
contentious and politically charged issue of climate change. A
scientific journal, in this case the renowned Science magazine, wants
to gain publicity for its journal among the non-scientific readers of
the NY Times. So it sends out a press release about a scientific paper
it plans to publish. Of course, it has been “peer-reviewed” to the
satisfaction of the Science editor, but it...
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Heritage
Foundation…
Morning Bell: The Marriage Debate Through a Child’s Eyes
by
Jennifer Marshall - March 25, 2013 - Earlier this month, 11-year-old
Grace Evans appeared before a panel of Minnesota lawmakers
considering a redefinition of marriage in that state. She testified to
the significance of her mother and father
and the different contributions each makes to her life. Then she ended
with a simple question: “Which parent do I not need, my mom, or my
dad?”
It’s a question proponents of same-sex ....
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The New
American… Under
ObamaCare, It’s Quit Smoking or Pay the Price — Literally,
by Michael Tennant
Smokers who thought they were getting a sweet deal from ObamaCare may
want to think twice before lighting up again. According to the
Associated Press, one of the many well-concealed provisions of the bill
that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Congress had to
pass “so that you can find out what’s in it” could make health
insurance cost up to 50 percent more for Americans with cigarette
habits — especially longstanding ones. The law, known as the Patient
Protection and...
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Youngstown
News… DeWine
takes evidence in Steubenville case to next level
Wed, March 20, 2013 - The state attorney general’s office would not
normally become involved in prosecuting a rape case in juvenile court.
But the case involving the assault of a 16-year-old West Virginia girl
by two Steubenville football players stopped being a normal case within
hours of the crime. An image of an apparently unconscious girl being
carried hand-and-foot by the boys accused of raping her became an
electronic trading card. A sickening video...
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Townhall
Finance… Endangered:
The Constitution,
by Mark Baisley
This article is the first in a series on the Bill of Rights in the
United States Constitution. My purpose in posting this exposé
is
to do my part in calling Americans back to their spawning grounds of
liberty. Based on recent trends, I fear that if we don’t
frequent
our founding principles then Ronald Reagan’s warning could be realized,
that “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
The primary motivation for constructing a Bill of Rights was citizen
apprehension over the formation of a...
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Redstate…
The
Most Important Week in Human History,
By Erick Erickson
March 25th, 2013 - There are many candidates for most important day and
most important week in human history. This week we remember what is
arguably the very top of the top of the list. As secularism increases
in the western world, more and more are dismissive of the reality of
Jesus Christ. Consequently, they may choose to dismiss the importance
of this week. That’s narrow minded Christophobic thinking from some
seriously self-centered individuals...
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Redstate…
The
Marketplace Fairness Act is More Unfair
Than Status Quo, By Daniel Horowitz
March 18th, 2013 - The advent of the internet has simplified life for
millions of consumers in this country. But for state
governments,
many of which are hungry for more tax revenue to purvey their rapacious
welfare states, e-commerce has complicated their ability to collect all
sales taxes owed to the state – at least without directly taxing the
consumer, something the statists are too scared to do. Most states have
been collecting sales taxes for over 50 years – long before the
internet was invented. The tax was...
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Mail
Magazine 24… Rand
Paul Unveils Amnesty/Non-Amnesty Plan,
by Daniel Greenfield
According to all the headlines, Rand Paul’s speech was supposed to
unveil a “path to citizenship”. The actual speech is vague on that,
emphasizing work visas, but also using phrasing like “12 million more
people assimilating into society” that suggests something more
permanent is on the table. (UPDATE: Yes, there is a path to
citizenship/Amnesty but it takes longer.) Click link below. Paul’s
people are claiming that he doesn’t actually mean a path to...
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Investors.com...DHS Won't Answer Congress On
Billion Bullet
Purchase
Bullet Buys: Fifteen members of Congress have written a letter to the
Department of Homeland Security demanding to know why the federal
agency is buying so many rounds of ammunition. We'd like to know too.
Freshman California Republican Doug LaMalfa and 14 of his House
colleagues, who signed on to his March 5 letter, are asking the
Department of Homeland Security to explain why it is buying 1.6 billion
rounds of ammunition of various calibers. They aren't happy with
explanations provided so far in the...
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Columbus
Dispatch… Tax
reform under attack;
Special interests unite to preserve their unjustified exemptions
Friday March 22, 2013 - The parade of interest groups predicting dire
consequences from Gov. John Kasich’s proposed sales-tax changes is to
be expected, but that doesn’t make the critics right. The proposed
reforms, part of the budget bill Kasich has submitted, are sound tax
policy: moving toward taxing consumption rather than income, thereby
encouraging savings and investment. Because a separate tax proposal in
the budget would lower state income taxes, the combined effect would...
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Townhall...A Health Care Solution,
By
Mona Charen
Mar 22, 2013 - In my last column, I argued that for all the undeniable
woes of the Republican Party, the unfurling of Obamacare represents a
huge vulnerability for Democrats. The Democratic health reform bill is
economically nonsensical and politically unpopular. A recent Rasmussen
poll found that 54 percent believe the law will damage the U.S. health
care system. Even among Democrats, support for the law is ebbing. In
February, a Kaiser...
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Investors.com...Progressive Democrat Control Came
Via
Welfare State Voters, By John F. Gaski
03/20/2013
- One other pillar of the liberal Democrats' systematic takeover
genuinely was a conscious conspiracy — no conspiracy theory — and has
even received belated recognition recently. If you are old enough, you
can remember Democrats such as Ted Kennedy, in their rare candid
moments, rhapsodizing that someday, when they could get 50% of the U.S.
population plus one receiving a government check of some kind, they
would never again lose a national election! The notorious but true... read
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Washington Post...Steubenville, the media and
‘rape,
essentially’, Posted by Melinda Henneberger
March
18, 2013 - Without social media — and irrefutable video evidence
helpfully provided by the proud young perps themselves — it’s fair to
wonder whether the two Steubenville high school football players found
guilty Sunday of raping an unconscious 16-year-old would ever have even
been charged. Twitter and YouTube were weapons turned against the
victim when a 12-minute party video of her — showing her passed out and
naked, being violated and urinated on — was widely shared and, judging
from the... read
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Common
Dreams...No
More Steubenvilles: How To Raise Boys to
be Kind Men, by Kim Simon
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 by YES! Magazine - What can we do to help young
men respect women, recognize consent, and have healthy sexual
relationships? Teach them kindness to others—and the courage to go
against the crowd. When Max was just a few months old, I sat
cross-legged on the floor with him in a circle of other
mothers.
The facilitator for our “Mommy and Me” playgroup would throw a question
out to the group, and we would each volley back...
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Mail Magazine 24… Conservative leader says GOP must
broaden
appeal, by Ken Thomas
As the GOP struggles to broaden its appeal, the head of the American
Conservative Union declared Thursday that the Republican Party is not a
home for everyone, as prominent voices in Republican politics gather
with thousands of conservatives and tea party activists outside
Washington. The Conservative Political Action Conference offers
Republican leaders — past and potential presidential contenders among
them — a high-profile stage to court their party’s most passionate
voters. The... read
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Townhall…
Gifted
Hands, By Thomas Sowell
Mar 19, 2013 - A remarkable book titled Gifted Hands tells the personal
story of Benjamin Carson, a black kid from the Detroit ghetto who went
on to become a renowned neurosurgeon. At one time young Ben Carson had
the lowest grades in his middle school class, and was the butt of
teasing by his white classmates. Worse yet, he himself believed that he
was just not smart enough to do the work. Fortunately for him, his
mother, whose own education went no...
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Mail Magazine 24… House vs. Senate Budget: What a
Balanced
Budget Looks Like, by Romina Boccia
This week, the budget committees of both chambers of Congress released
their budgets ahead of President Obama’s budget—marking the first time
in 92 years that Congress kicked off the budget process instead of the
President. The House budget, under the helm of Chairman Paul Ryan
(R–WI), delivers a balanced budget in 10 years by slowing the annual
growth in federal spending from a projected 5 percent to 3.4 percent.
The budget focuses on reducing spending by addressing the... read
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Townhall…
Smoke
Gets in Your Rights, By
Debra J. Saunders
Mar 17, 2013 - California Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, has
introduced a bill to make it illegal for people to smoke in their own
homes -- if they live in an apartment or a condo or a multifamily home.
When last I wrote about Levine, he was pushing a statewide law to
require grocers to charge for bags. Now he's after cigarettes -- but
only the legal kind. With his new AB 746, Levine is following a trail
blazed by New York Mayor Michael...
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: What We Still Don’t Know
About Benghazi, by Amy Payne
March 14, 2013 - Yesterday, President Obama nominated a new ambassador
to Libya to succeed Christopher Stevens, who was killed in the
terrorist attack in Benghazi last September 11. Six months after that
attack—and two federal investigations later—we still have an alarmingly
small amount of information about it. The Obama Administration made
quite a mess in the media with its conflicting accounts of the attack,
originally blaming a controversial YouTube video for sparking protests
abroad... read
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Better
Roads… Getting
the Job Done Right, By
Kirk Landers, Editor Emeritus
Some people just know how to sell. In mid-December, Ohio governor John
R. Kasich and the leaders of Ohio’s Department of Transportation and
Turnpike Authority announced that the state would raise $3 billion for
roads without leasing the Ohio Turnpike to a private vendor and without
laying off Turnpike employees. Hailed as the Ohio Jobs and
Transportation Plan, the new initiative called for raising $1.5 billion
through bonds issued by the...
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Investors.com...An Order From Obama Puts Another
Boot On
The Economy
Anti-Industry: The president reportedly will tell federal agencies they
can't approve major projects until their impact on global warming has
been weighed. Why halt commerce in an economy in dire need of more?
According to Bloomberg media, "President Barack Obama is preparing to
tell all federal agencies for the first time that they should consider
the impact on global warming before approving major projects, from
pipelines to highways." Bloomberg says Obama plans to "expand the scope
of a... read
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Redstate…
Obamacare
Will Not Crumble Without a
Government Shutdown; Republicans
Must Move Beyond Rhetorical Maginot Lines, By Erick
Erickson
March 14th, 2013 - There are many naive fools who think Obamacare will
crumble under its own weight.History shows us that government
entitlements never crumble under their own weight. Rather, countries
crumble under the weight of those entitlements.“[Republicans] speak
against Obamacare building rhetorical Maginot lines that they... read
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Washington
Times… An
open letter to Secretary of Defense
Chuck Hagel, By Norb Ryan Jr.
The
truth about
military personnel costs
- Monday, March 11, 2013 - Dear Secretary Hagel, As a former soldier
and senator, you are well-prepared for what you might encounter as you
begin your new job. It won’t be easy, and the hardest part will be
separating fact from fiction to make the best decisions. Here is some
advice. The most important thing you can do is challenge the “experts”
who use misleading rhetoric and statistics to sway you toward their
conclusions...
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Online
MBA… The
Business of Guns; Guns
a huge economic industry in
the
country, By Amy Clark
It may not surprise you to hear that the U.S. is the number one country
in the world when it comes to gun ownership. But regardless of your
politics, between the manufacture and sale of firearms, guns are one of
the biggest economic industries in the country. In fact, the gun
industry makes about $32 billion a year and employs approximately
98,000 people. This is five times as many employees as Google, and $10
billion more in revenue than Ford... read
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Akron
Beacon Journal...
Why Kasich is right on Medicaid,
by Laura Ofobike
Thursday, March 14, 2013 - John Kasich may or may not prevail in what
is becoming internecine warfare in the Ohio Republican camp regarding
health insurance. The governor decided, after much studying and
thinking, that it would be in the state’s best interest to extend
Medicaid so that Ohioans who are not insured can benefit from federal
funding offered through the Affordable Care Act. To make that happen,
Kasich will need the Ohio General Assembly, which is dominated in both
chambers by his... read
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Townhall...
Abusing
Due Process,
by Mike
Adams
Mar 11, 2013 - Totalitarianism is brewing in the heartland. An Indiana
inmate is now serving two years for voicing his online opinions against
a judge who took away his child-custody rights during a divorce case. I
know the custody case pretty well having written about it in 2009. But
I'm convinced that the free speech case that is brewing in its
aftermath heaps an even greater injustice upon an existing one. And I'm
convinced it is showing the darker side of... read
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Columbus
Dispatch… Support
the fracking tax
Severance-tax plan would help all without harming competitiveness -
Wednesday March 13, 2013 - For all the work Ohio leaders are doing to
attract economic development to the state, one of the biggest
opportunities for job creation already is here, underfoot.
Members of the legislature should work with Gov. John Kasich to
implement a reasonable and fair tax on oil and natural-gas extraction
to help ensure that development of the state’s natural resources
benefits all Ohioans rather than simply...
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Townhall…
Frack
to the
Future, by John Stossel
Celebrities are now upset about fracking, the injection of chemicals
into the ground to crack rocks to release oil and gas. With everyone
saying they want alternatives to foreign oil, I'd think celebrities
would love fracking.
I'd be wrong. Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono and their group, Artists Against
Fracking, don't feel the love. Yoko sang, "Don't frack me!" on TV.
Stopping fracking is the latest cause of the silly people. They
succeeded in getting scientifically ignorant... read
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Pew
Research Center… Twitter
Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion
The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions
often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys.
This is the conclusion of a year-long Pew Research Center study that
compared the results of national polls to the tone of tweets in
response to eight major news events, including the outcome of the
presidential election, the first presidential debate and major speeches
by Barack Obama. At times the Twitter conversation is more liberal than
survey responses...
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Townhall…
Deaf
Dialogue on Drones, by Steve Chapman
Mar 10, 2013 - A famous book on negotiation is called "Getting to Yes."
Sometimes, though, the better achievement is arriving at "no." That's
what Eric Holder and Rand Paul did the other day. It came in a letter
from the attorney general to the Republican senator from Kentucky,
which said: "It has come to my attention that you have now asked an
additional question: 'Does the President have the authority to use a
weaponized drone to kill an American not... read
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Verities
& Balderdash...Words
of Wisdom, From a CNO
Reader
I remember receiving this years ago… checked out a couple of them, but
not all. In my opinion, it really makes no difference who gets the
credit for saying it. They are “Real Truths”… real “Words of Wisdom.”
You might want to take note of the comment by the CNO Reader when he
sent it. He said… “This is more information than a person’s mind can
absorb in one reading…” REAL TRUTHS 1. In my many years I have come to
a conclusion that one... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Prof
forces students to lobby government to
ban soda
by
Robby Soave - If students want to pass John Banzhaf’s law class,
they’ll have to fight for increased government regulation in the food
and beverages industry. Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington
University, will require his students to lobby state and local
governments to ban sugary beverages, according to a press release. The
release was put out by Banzhaf himself, who summarized the objective as
“Undergrads Required to Lobby for Obama Policy.” “Some 200
undergrads... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… What’s
Scary: Federal Spending Per
Household
by Emily Goff -
On this Halloween, ghastly, ghoulish garb and haunted houses aren’t the
only sources of spookiness in Washington. Americans across the country
have cause for alarm, because the federal government spent a
spine-chilling $29,691 per household in 2012. As The Heritage
Foundation’s “Federal Spending by the Numbers—2012” shows, federal
spending per household has grown 29 percent since 2002, when it stood
at $23,010. Put another way, $29,691 is about two-thirds of the
median...read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Republican
Congressman From Virginia Joins
Democrats In Calling for Gun Control
By Eric Odom - The nation is quickly beginning to find out what
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is all about. McDonnell campaigned on
promises to hold strong on taxes, only to turn around and provoke the
largest tax hike in Virginia history. Now McDonnell is seeking an
internet tax as well, adding salt to a deep wound across his home
state. The betrayal doesn’t stop at the Governor’s office, though. In
fact, Virginia Beach area Congressman Scott Rigell is in on the game as
well. Here’s a... read
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Heritage
Foundation… Morning
Bell: Busting 5 Myths About the
Minimum Wage
By Amy Payne - March 5, 2013 - When someone says “minimum wage,” what
comes to mind? Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single
parent trying to feed several kids? While President Obama and other
proponents of a higher minimum wage want you to visualize that single
parent, the truth is that a burger-flipping teenager or college student
with a part-time job paints a much more accurate picture of the minimum
wage in America. In his State of the Union address, President... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Oil
and Gas Production Decline on Federal
Lands . . . Again
“I’m proud of the fact that under my administration, oil production is
higher than it has been in a decade or more. President Obama, February
20, 2013 - When President Obama claims responsibility for the increase
in oil and natural gas production in the United States, it is important
to know that he is referencing the energy miracle that is occurring on
private and state lands, where his Administration has little or no say
over what happens. In fact, the United States is the largest
natural gas producer... read
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Redstate…
Today,
House Conservatives Will Prove They
Are the Problem, By Erick Erickson
March 6th, 2013 - Yesterday, the White House announced it would stop
White House tours in response to sequestration. Congressman Louie
Gohmert of Texas responded by offering an amendment to the pending
continuing resolution that would prohibit federal dollars spent to
cover the costs of President Obama’s golf games. Speaker John Boehner
and the Republican Leaders ruled that Congressman Gohmert’s amendment
was not relevant to the continuing... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Chicago
public schools will start sex
education in kindergarten, by Eric Owens
The dismally low graduation rate for students who attend Chicago Public
Schools is barely over 60 percent – substantially lower than the
national rate of roughly 75 percent. Nevertheless, citizens of the
Second City will surely take heart, because the Chicago Board of
Education just passed a new policy that requires sex education to begin
in kindergarten. The new policy, which was passed on Wednesday,
according to ABC News, is part of a broader makeover of the school
district’s sexual health program... read
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Townhall
Finance… America's
Fiscal Stupidity Mirrors Detroit,
by John Ransom
It’s fitting that on the day Washington, DC is cutting the budget by an
agreement that they really didn’t mean, that the city of Detroit will
finally get what it has needed for a long time: declaration of fiscal
disaster. Michigan’s Rick Snyder has appointed an emergency city
manager to do for Detroit what Obama, Biden, the UAW, GM, Chrysler, the
city’s council and mayor have not been able to even do with a $80
billion bailout of the automotive industry... read
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Stand
Up for America; If They Come for Your Guns…
Dean Garrison
January 15, 2013 - In case you have not seen it, a blogger named Dean
Garrison wrote a terrific article on what responsibilities we have as
patriotic Americans who actually support and defend the Constitution
upon which we are founded. His article has gone viral and we hope it
goes further. In addition to the article, we want to add some
understanding to further bolster his well written and clear thinking
piece. The addition concerns wording in the second amendment that most
people today do not fully....
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Mail
Magazine 24…Three
steps:
How the Dems plan to make Texas a battleground state by 2016
By Christopher Bedford - On Tuesday morning, the Democrats launched an
independent group called
Battleground Texas, which is capable of making the Lone Star state a
battleground by 2016 and a lean-Democrat state by 2024, effectively
breaking the back of the national GOP and blocking a Republican path to
the White House. Yes — that Texas: The state that has not elected a
single statewide.... read
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Mail
Magazine 24… Is
Leftist School Indoctrination
Unstoppable? by Bruce Thornton
Rush Limbaugh weighed in recently on the Republicans’ on-going debate
about what went wrong in November. Elaborating on his earlier comment
that he was “ashamed of America,” Limbaugh said, “The Left has beaten
us. They have created far more low-information, unaware, uneducated
people than we’ve been able to keep up with . . . I’ve always had a
Civics 101 view of the country: People get what they want, they vote
what they want, and they get the way they vote.” He added... read
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The
Heritage Foundation… Morning
Bell: Obama’s Sequester Smokescreen,
By Jim DeMint
March 1, 2013 at 5:30 am- Suppose you desperately needed to lose weight
but had a Big Mac with fries and a Coke staring you in the face. You
could take your need to diet seriously and say, “No thanks, I’ll have a
salad.” Or you could decide to reduce the Big Mac meal by 2
percent—pushing aside a couple French fries and gobbling up the rest.
If you took Option B, how do you think that “diet” would work out for
you? Well, that, my friends, is the tale of the sequester that hit us
this morning... read
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Verities & Balderdash… How
do you Decide Who to Marry?
(Written by kids), From a Reader
HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHO TO MARRY? You got to find somebody who likes the
same stuff. Like, if you like sports, she should like it that you like
sports, and she should keep the chips and dip coming. -- Alan, age 10.
No person really decides before they grow up who they're going to
marry. God decides it all way before, and you get to find out later who
you're stuck with. -- Kristen, age 10 WHAT IS THE RIGHT AGE TO GET
MARRIED... read
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Investors.com…
VA
Unconstitutionally Tries To Disarm Veterans
Guns: Veterans who bore arms to defend their country are receiving
letters that they may be declared mentally incompetent and have their
Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms stripped from them.
Welcome home.
The contempt by the Obama administration for our Constitution and our
rights has reached a new low with news the Veterans Administration has
begun sending letters to veterans telling them they will be declared
mentally incompetent and stripped of the Second Amendment... read
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PEW
Charitable Trusts… Supreme
Court to Weigh States’ Rights vs. Voting Rights,
By Jake Grovum
When the Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday (February 27) in a
direct challenge to a central part of the Voting Rights Act, it will
once again wade into a decades-old dispute over voting rights that has
its roots in the country’s long history of racism.
But in asking whether a key part of the federal law is constitutional,
the court also will reopen a debate that long predates the measure’s
enactment in 1965. It’s an argument that was at the heart of the U.S.
Civil War, and one that has seen resurgence... read
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