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Townhall
Finance… America:
The Ostrich Years, by Derek Hunter
Aug 24, 2014 - In every cartoon I’ve seen with an ostrich, there comes
a scene where it gets scared and buries its head in the sand. Ostriches
don’t do this in real life, but it came to symbolize, in cartoons at
least, the concept of thinking something bad will go away if you simply
ignore it. It’s foolish – some would say stupid – but it appears to be
the crux of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. There are times
when a president has to be president, even on vacation. This is the
part of the job President...
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Daily Signal… A
Morning in Immigration Court: Judge Hears
38 ‘Favorite’ Cases, Many He’ll See Again
- Josh Siegel - August 22, 2014 - “It is my favorite docket, the
juveniles,” Immigration Judge John Milo Bryant says, unprompted, as he
hears the case of 15-year-old Christian Hernandez, a recent illegal
arrival from Honduras. Bryant, the gregarious judge overseeing 38
juvenile cases in Arlington, Va., Immigration Court on a Tuesday
morning, commends Christian for his “perfect English.” Christian, a
good-looking youth who flashes a sure smile...
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Townhall Finance… Almost
Half of America on Welfare,
Mike Shedlock
Aug 24, 2014 - As a result of Obamacare Medicaid expansion coupled with
means-tested Obamacare assistance, I estimate welfare rolls expanded
from 35.4% of the population in 2012 to about 40% in 2014. Let's go
through the math to see how I make that estimate. The latest welfare
statistics are from year-end 2012. Those figures show 35.4 Percent...
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Daily Signal… Government
to Farmers: Host Same-Sex
Wedding or Pay a $13,000 Fine,
by Leslie Ford & Ryan T. Anderson; August 19, 2014 - Should the
government be able to coerce a family farm into hosting a same-sex
wedding? In a free society, the answer is no. Family farms should be
free to operate in accordance with the beliefs and values of their
owners. Government shouldn’t be able to fine citizens for acting in the
market according to their own—rather than the government’s—values,
unless there is a compelling government interest being pursued in the
least restrictive way possible...
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The
Daily Signal… Police
Arrest Student for Shooting a
Fictional Dinosaur, by Jordan Richardson
August 22, 2014 -- Dinosaurs may be extinct, but absurdity in public
schools isn’t. Alex Stone is a 16 year-old student in Summerville High
School in South Carolina. On the first day of class, his teacher asked
the students to write a few sentences about themselves and then follow
up with a statement in the form of a Facebook status. Alex decided to
use this opportunity to make a joke, and wrote “I killed my neighbor’s
pet dinosaur.” For...
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Federal
News Radio… The
12 Days of Congress, By
Mike Causey
Monday - 8/18/2014 - As often happens in August, the good news and the
bad news are the same: Congress is out of town, and the many White
House operations decamped to Martha's Vineyard last week. Congress,
which has pushed the three-day workweek to new horizons in 2014, is
long gone. And it won't be back until a week after Labor Day. At that
point, it will have a total of 12...
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Townhall
Finance… Secular
Stagnation Is a Cover-Up,
by Larry Kudlow
Co-written by Stephen Moore -- Aug 17, 2014 -- John F. Kennedy
campaigned for president in 1960 by belittling Dwight Eisenhower's
three recessions and declaring, "We can do bettah." He was right. In
the 1960s, after the Kennedy tax cuts were implemented, prosperity
returned, the economy grew by almost 4 percent annually, unemployment
sank to record lows and a gold-linked dollar held down inflation. But
today many leading economists are...
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WatchDog.org… Cost
of hiking wages: It’s not just hiring
wage cops, By Bre Payton
August 14, 2014 - What is the cost to enforce wage hikes in cities
across the Golden State? Economists say it goes beyond the expense of
hiring a team of “wage cops” to police employers. It gives third-party
groups a mechanism to levy financial information from private
companies, while potentially harming family owned businesses, said Sean
Mulholland, an associate professor of economics at Stonehill College in
Easton, Mass. Looking at cities that...
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Townhall… Ferguson
Shows Blacks Live in a Different
America, by Steve Chapman
Aug 17, 2014 - Fifty years ago this summer, President Lyndon Johnson
signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Back then, it was
reasonable to expect that by 2014, America would be a fully integrated
nation in which equality prevailed. But as the events in Ferguson, Mo.,
dramatize, the country still resembles what a presidential commission
described in 1968: "two societies, one black, one white -- separate and
unequal." There is a big difference...
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Federal
News Radio… Office
Attire: The
end isn't near, it's here! By Mike Causey
Tuesday - 8/12/2014 - Sent with this comment from a CNO reader: “Casual
Friday” has taken on a whole new meaning in recent years. My husband
sees fashion statements from tourists daily. One recent
eye-popper was a visitor in red, white and blue Bermuda shorts and a
green and yellow shirt. I haven’t been down there recently
just
to pull up a bench to observe the fashion parade. I’m long
overdue... Now, to the column: When federal agencies switched to
"casual" dress Fridays decades ago, they...
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Townhall… Will
ISIS Attack the United States?
By Katie Pavlich
Aug 11, 2014 - As the extremely radical terror group the Islamic State,
better known as ISIS, continues its march on Iraq and mass slaughter of
Christians, many are asking the question: Will ISIS strike inside the
United States? According to experts, and ISIS itself, it's a
possibility and steps must be taken immediately to prevent it. More
from CNN: Within hours of U.S. military jets and drones conducting a
strike on ISIS artillery that had been used against...
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The
Daily Signal… Obama’s
Iraq
Problem Just Got a Lot Worse, James Carafano
August 10, 2014 - According to news reports, Iraqi prime minister Nuri
al-Maliki has ordered Iraqi military forces to seize government
buildings. The move comes in the wake of an ongoing dispute over
forming a new government. After an Islamist insurgency over ran large
swathes of Iraq, there was an effort to replace Maliki with a “unity”
government that would enjoy broader support and deal more effectively
with the crisis. If Maliki chooses to rule without the support of...
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Townhall… How
Barack Obama Killed Tax Reform in Its
Infancy, by Donald Lambro
Aug 08, 2014 - WASHINGTON - There's a much bigger, largely untold story
behind the renewed debate over U.S. corporations who merge with foreign
firms to reduce their federal tax bills. The latest chapter in the
story concerns Walgreen, the nation's largest drugstore chain, which
plans to go ahead with a cash and stock purchase of a Swiss company
that could have resulted in a big tax cut on its corporate profits...
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The
Daily Signal… Most
of
Government’s Own Watchdogs Say They’re Stonewalled,
by
Melissa Quinn
August 07, 2014 - More than half of the federal government’s inspectors
general have joined to lodge a formal complaint that the Obama
administration places “serious limitations” on their ability to uncover
waste, fraud, and abuse. A total of 47 of the 73 government watchdogs
sent the unprecedented letter to leaders of two congressional
committees, Fox News reported. In their complaint, the inspectors
general say.
Agency actions that limit, condition, or delay access thus have...
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The
Daily Signal… Q&A:
How Should the U.S. Respond to New
Violence in Iraq? By Steven Bucci
August 08, 2014 - Military expert Steven Bucci, director of the Allison
Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, takes
your questions on the current situation in Iraq. Q: What is the U.S.
doing in response to the Islamic State’s violence in Iraq? A: The U.S.
was again caught by surprise by the insurgent army known as the Islamic
State of Iraq and al Sham. Its rapid advance on the Kurdish capital of
Erbil and threat to kill...
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Townhall… Murder
in Rio Grande Valley: 'This Is
Coming to a Town Near You',
Michelle Malkin - Aug 06, 2014 - The voice on the other end of the line
is exasperated. "It's insane," he wants America to know. "We're in a
war zone." And there's no room for apathy. "This is coming to a town
near you," he warns. The man on the phone is a veteran of the
Department of Homeland Security who works in South Texas. He reached
out to me Monday night in the wake of an off-duty U.S. Border Patrol
agent's horrific...
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Townhall…
How
the Media
Craft Victory for Hamas, by Ben Shapiro
Aug 06, 2014 - On Tuesday, CNN's Wolf Blitzer hosted Hamas spokesman
Osama Hamden. The week before, Hamdan labeled Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu "a new image of Hitler" on the network. But now, for
some reason, Blitzer stumbled into a random act of journalism: He asked
Hamdan about comments he had made suggesting that Jews used Christian
blood in matza. Hamdan stumbled around and blamed the Jews for their
action in Gaza. Blitzer called Hamdan's comments an...
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Patriot
Voices… ICYMI:
Santorum: Bury CRPD Once and for All
Former Senator Authors Op-ed in Roll Call Against U.N. Disabilities
Treaty -- Verona, PA -- Former U.S. Senator, former Republican
presidential candidate, chairman of Patriot Voices and author of Blue
Collar Conservatives Rick Santorum authored an opinion piece in Roll
Call discussing his opposition to the United Nation Convention on the
Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Senator Santorum and
Patriot Voices were instrumental in stopping...
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Daily Signal… Unions
Lose and
the Public Wins Big in Wisconsin,
Hans von Spakovsky and James Sherk - August 04, 2014 - Gov. Scott
Walker of Wisconsin had quite a good day on July 31 when the state
supreme court upheld not only Wisconsin’s voter ID law, but also the
2011 budget legislation that severely curtailed the power of public
unions to control the lives and salaries of state and municipal
government employees. In Madison Teachers, Inc. v. Walker, a majority
of the court overturned a lower court decision that had enjoined
various parts of the law and upheld it in its entirety...
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The
Daily Signal… Could
You Soon Lose Your Job to a Robot?,
James Sherk
August 03, 2014 - As senior policy analyst in labor economics at The
Heritage Foundation, James Sherk researches ways to promote competition
and mobility in the workforce rather than erect barriers that prevent
workers from getting ahead. Is the increasing automation of our economy
a threat to American wages and jobs? Should the American worker fear
the rise of the...
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The
Daily Signal… Green
Group Under
Scrutiny for Trespassing, Harassment at Woman’s Farm,
Kevin Mooney -- July 24, 2014 -- Robert Marmet knew he was supposed to
inspect Martha Boneta’s farm, but he didn’t know exactly what for. He
knew there were limits on what he could inspect, but he had no idea
where they were. So when Marmet, a senior energy policy analyst with
the Piedmont Environmental Council, and his partner Mike Kane, a
conservation officer with the group, turned up June 12 to inspect
Boneta’s Liberty Farm in...
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The
Daily Signal… In
IRS Emails,
Lois Lerner Calls Conservatives ‘Crazies’ and… Worse,
by Melissa Quinn -- July 30, 2014 - IRS division chief Lois Lerner, the
central figure in the tax agency’s targeting scandal, uses a vulgar
anatomical expletive to refer to conservatives in newly released
official emails and, again referring to conservatives, writes that it’s
not foreign terrorists but “our own crazies that will take us down.”
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., details the emails
from Lerner, then head of the...
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The
Daily Signal… Marriage
Won’t End Poverty. But It Will
Help (A Lot). Rachel Sheffield
July 31, 2014 - Marriage isn’t the answer to poverty. That’s the
argument made last week in The New Republic by Carter Price, who
asserts conservatives are too preoccupied with marriage in anti-poverty
efforts. Price takes particular issue with a Harvard study by Raj
Chetty and colleagues that suggests children, regardless of whether
they come from a single- or married-parent family, have greater social
mobility when raised in a community with a higher share...
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