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Heritage Foundation… Michelle
Obama Is Ignoring the Problems Her New School Lunch Standards Have
Caused,
Daren Bakst - May 30, 2014 - Yesterday in an op-ed, First Lady Michelle
Obama attacked the House of Representatives for considering giving some
schools a one-year reprieve from complying with the new school lunch
requirements. In a New York Times column on her Let’s Move initiative,
Obama addressed several issues but sidestepped acknowledging key
problems that have been identified with the school lunch program. For
example, she doesn’t...
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Heritage Foundation… A
Jail
Sentence for Selling Hot Dogs? By Evan Bernick
May 23, 2014 - It should be obvious that throwing people in jail for
selling hot dogs is profoundly un-American. But in the state of North
Carolina, it could happen to you. In fact, it has already happened. In
2011, a judge sentenced Steven Pruner to 45 days in the custody of
Durham County’s sheriff. His sin? Selling dogs from a food cart near
Duke University Medical Center. In case you’re wondering, no, Pruner’s
dogs didn’t make anyone sick. But Pruner sold food without a license.
And, under North...
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Human
Events… Democrats
try to run out the clock on the
VA scandal, By John
Hayward
5/23/2014 - It’s comically obvious that the Democrats (and their good
buddy, “independent” socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont) are fully
committed to the Obama Scandal Damage Control playbook over the VA
outrage. They’re going to try to drag this thing out for
months,
and hope the public loses interest. The delaying tactics are
painfully obvious. In one voice, everyone from President Obama...
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Heritage
Foundation… School
Car
Wash Fundraisers Banned in Virginia County
By Eric Boehm, May 24, 2014 - For years, car washes have been a
fundraising staple for high school sports teams, marching bands and
youth groups. Just get some kids together with buckets and soap, rent
out a parking lot, put up a sign and hope it doesn’t rain. But in
Arlington, Va., you also have to hope the government doesn’t catch you.
Charity car washes and car wash fundraisers are now banned on school
property there, after the Department of Environmental Services issued
new rules for...
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Heritage Foundation… Worth
Dying For, by James
Carafano
May 26, 2014 - For myself and many other veterans, Memorial Day is
encapsulated in one unforgettable experience. That moment for me was
while I was still in uniform and teaching at West Point. I took a group
of cadets on a study tour of the battlefields at Normandy. We walked
the grounds of the U.S. cemetery overlooking the bluffs at Omaha Beach.
The crosses and Stars of David trace perfect lines across the rolling
grassy knolls — row...
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| Heritage
Foundation… Texas
Is
Booming With New Jobs and 'Dirt Cheap' Energy. Why Are Some People
Still Naysayers?
Josh Shepherd - May 25, 2014 - Texas is getting under some people’s
skin. Its population is growing. Its people are becoming more
prosperous. It is creating both billionaires and employing more
minimum-wage workers than any other state. Its energy sector has
thrived—year-over-year drilling has doubled so far in 2014, with 10,000
new wells drilled just since January. Its technology corridor now
extends for hundreds of miles along I-35. Texas is...
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Heritage Foundation… IRS
Holds Off -- for Now -- on Rules to
Restrict Political Groups
Amy Payne - May 23, 2014 - Any day that the Obama administration halts
its regulatory overreach is a good day – even if it won’t last forever.
Yesterday, the IRS announced it would hold off until next year on new
rules that would have restricted the activities of nonprofit groups.
The administration had been working on these behind the scenes since
last year. But after the agency’s targeting of...
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Townhall…
Coming
Obamacare
Attraction: Summertime "Premium Hike Drumbeat"
by Guy
Benson
May 23, 2014 - The Hill previews healthcare consumers' upcoming summer
slog, and it isn't pretty for Democrats: States are nailing down dates
to release 2015 premium costs under ObamaCare, and their decisions will
guarantee a drumbeat of news about rate hikes all the way to the
November midterm elections. Democrats are bracing for grim headlines
that could put the unpopular law back at the forefront of voters’
minds. Premiums are expected to go up in a majority of states, as...
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Townhall… The
Top 5 Things Graduating Students Need
To Hear Before They Go Into The Real World,
by John Hawkins - May 24, 2014 - All across America at this time of
year, there are high school and college students graduating from our
education system and heading into the real world. Here's a little
advice for them from outside the liberal cocoon their teachers have
weaved over the last few years. 1) You were not born special: Everyone
is not a winner. Everyone is not a good person. Everyone doesn't
deserve to have high self-esteem...
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| TPNN… New Emails
Reveal Obama
White House Worked on Concocting Benghazi Lie DURING the Attacks,
By Matthew Burke - May 23, 2014 - House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said on Thursday that the Obama White
House was contacting YouTube owner Google during the Benghazi terrorist
attacks, working on the false narrative even before Americans were out
of harm’s way and before the intelligence community...
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| Townhall…
House
Democrat:
Obama's Press Conference on VA Scandal Wasn't Good Enough
- By Daniel Doherty, May 22, 2014 - We wrote up the president’s
uninspiring press conference yesterday. In essence, he called for a
series of investigations after numerous and sundry allegations surfaced
that corruption and malfeasance is rampant at the VA. He also announced
that Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki would stay on, and
help with those ongoing efforts. The problem? Even his fellows
Democrats aren’t impressed. Indeed, his wooden and emotionless response
is provoking all sorts of...
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Heritage
Foundation… Saving
for
Retirement -- Without the Government, by Amy
Payne
May 19, 2014 - We can all agree that it’s good for Americans to save
for retirement. But should the government expand from providing old-age
entitlement benefits to controlling personal retirement investments as
well? Whether you want to or not, we’re forced to pay into Social
Security and Medicare. But today’s working Americans don’t have the
guarantee that these programs will be there to carry us through
retirement. Why? The taxes we’re paying now are supporting today’s
retirees – not...
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Santorum Slams DCCC for Calling
War Veteran
Lee Zeldin a Coward; Patriot
Voices PAC Endorses Zeldin for Congress in NY-1
- Verona, PA - Former U.S. Senator, former Republican presidential
candidate, chairman of Patriot Voices and author of Blue Collar
Conservatives Rick Santorum issued the following statement about the
Democratic Campaign Congressional Committee's (DCCC) attack on Lee
Zeldin in his run for Congress in New York's first Congressional
district.
"This
is an unbelievably egregious attack on an American...
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Blue
Collar
Conservatives… Wall
Street
Journal and National Review Offer Praise for Rick Santorum's Blue
Collar Conservatives
- Verona, PA - In case you missed it, both The Wall Street Journal and
National Review offered praise for former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum's
book Blue Collar Conservatives. Below are excerpts from each
article: From The Wall Street Journal's Gerald Seib: Republicans
already obsessing about the 2016 presidential sweepstakes have paid
little attention so far to Rick Santorum. That's a mistake...It is a...
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Heritage
Foundation… 9
Obamacare
Predictions That Have Come True, by Robert
Moffit
May 5, 2014 - It directly affects the personal life of every American,
and it controls or regulates a complex sector of the American economy
that is slightly larger than the entire economy of France. If you
guessed Obamacare, you’ve been paying attention for the past four
years. Four years ago, many health policy analysts, including those at
The Heritage Foundation, predicted some of the effects this law would
have on Americans. These...
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Heritage
Foundation… Terrorists
Who
Kidnap Little Girls, Amy Payne
May 14, 2014 - Parents and relatives of kidnapped schoolgirls react
during a protest over the Nigerian government's failure to rescue the
abducted girls. Americans have increasingly been pulled into the
frightening story of more than 250 schoolgirls in Nigeria who were
kidnapped by terrorist group Boko Haram. People around the world have
watched and prayed and helped spread awareness of...
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Policymic…
21
Things
Politicians Love to Say — And What They Really Mean,
By
David Ludwig
If you've listened to more than one campaign speech, press conference
or prime time address, you've likely noticed that politicians'
vocabularies have become strangely limited. While our elected officials
attempt to solve some of America's most difficult problems, their
discourse has descended into something between Morse code and picture
book. Here are just a few of our politicians' very favorite
catchphrases and what they really mean. 1. We need stronger leadership
in Washington, D.C. -- I've always...
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Redstate… Nebraska
and the Status Quo,
By Erick Erickson
May 12th, 2014 - The Nebraska Republican primary draws near and the
race is clear test of whether Republicans support the status quo. As
Shane Osborn collapses in the Senate polling and Ben Sasse’s lead
grows, some Republicans are flirting with Sid Dinsdale. Dinsdale claims
to be a “life long” Republican, with a pattern of giving to Democrats.
He’s a pretty good example of a crony...
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Investors.com…
Americans
Need
To
Wake Up To Green Movement's Radicalism, By
Stephen Moore
5/2/14 - Can Opinion Turn Against Not-So-Jolly Green Giant? How much of
a toll on the American economy does the green movement have to charge
before Americans start to wake up to the dastardliness of radical
environmentalism? Last month we saw firsthand one impact of Big Green
on our economy with the White House announcement that the Keystone XL
pipeline won't be built for at least six more months. Ten thousand blue
collar jobs, almost all paying more than $50,000 a year, down the drain...
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Townhall
Finance… Google
Tells
Conservative News Website to Take a Hike,
Michael Schaus
May 09, 2014 - The Conservative oriented website dedicated to
aggregating news from around the world-wide-interwebs, Weasel Zippers,
has just lost its primary funding source because… Well… It’s kinda hard
to say. According to the site, Google AdSense (an add generator
produced by the infamously liberal corporation in Silicon Valley) has
cancelled its agreement with the website because of apparent violations
to their terms of use. According to Google, the conservative news site
has...
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Townhall… Democrats'
Latest Idea: Send One Person to Help With Benghazi Investigation,
Katie Pavlich - May 09, 2014 - Will Democrats actively participate in
the Benghazi Select Committee? At this point, who knows. When Speaker
John Boehner announced he would form the Committee last weeks,
Democrats threatened to boycott altogether by refusing to participate.
Then, Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded the Committee be split
equally between Democrats and Republicans, despite...
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Townhall…
Why
the GOP is
So
Divided, by Steve Deace
May 10, 2014 - The following is an excerpt from the new book “Rules for
Patriots: How Conservatives Can Win Again.” Several times during the
2012 campaign I had newspaper reporters from across the country contact
me for my take on what Mitt Romney has to do to rally his base for the
general election. I always told them they were asking the wrong
question. The question isn’t whether or not Romney would be able to
successfully rally his base—the question is whether or not he actually
wants to...
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D.C.
Gets a New Obamacare Tax,
by Marguerite Bowling
May 6, 2014 - The District of Columbia’s legislative body voted today
to give its health exchange the power to tax any health-related
insurance product sold in the city. The D.C. Council, in a unanimous
vote, approved the emergency tax measure to help the D.C. Health
Benefit Exchange Authority run the online insurance exchange set up
under the national health law known as Obamacare, The Washington Post
reported. The D.C. bill...
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| Heritage
Foundation… The
Benghazi Select Committee Has Been Established. Why That's a Good Thing.
Helle Dale - May 9, 2014 - On Thursday, the U.S. House of
Representatives voted, 232-186, to establish an investigative Select
Committee on Benghazi. The committee, which will consist of seven
Republicans and five Democrats, is a welcome if overdue step toward
getting to the truth about the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2012,
which left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher
Stevens. The committee was established with bipartisan support...
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Federal
News Radio… Federal
government as an employer -- Is the glass half full or half empty?
Monday - 5/5/2014 - Commentary by Jeff Neal - This column was
originally published on Jeff Neal's blog, ChiefHRO.com, and was
republished here with permission from the author. Now that OPM is
sending out the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, it is a good time to
talk about the government as an employer. The U.S. government has its
share of critics — both inside and out. We also talk about how federal
employees have been treated in recent years, with pay freezes, fed...
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Heritage Foundation… 9
Obamacare Predictions That Have Come True,
Robert Moffit
May 5, 2014 - It directly affects the personal life of every American,
and it controls or regulates a complex sector of the American economy
that is slightly larger than the entire economy of France. If you
guessed Obamacare, you’ve been paying attention for the past four
years. Four years ago, many health policy analysts, including those at
The Heritage Foundation, predicted some of the effects...
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Regulations
take $1.8 trillion bite out of economy, By:
Christine
Hall
5/5/2014 - The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) this week
released its annual Ten Thousand Commandments report on the size and
scope of federal regulations. According to the report, federal
regulations took a $1.863 trillion bite out of the U.S. economy in
2013. The report aims to establish a baseline for the largely unknown
“hidden tax” of the U.S. regulatory state, since more than 99 percent
of federal regulations are never subjected to cost-benefit analysis.
“Federal agencies crank out thousands...
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Townhall… Contempt
Vote Coming Down on Lerner,
by Katie Pavlich
May 05, 2014 - The House of Representatives will vote this week on
whether to hold former head of tax exempt groups at the IRS Lois Lerner
in contempt of Congress. Back in April, the House Oversight Committee
voted to hold Lerner in Contempt after she plead the Fifth for a second
time in March. Many lawmakers argue Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment
rights the first time she testified the first time last year due to
making an opening statement...
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GOP
Politics… The
Roots of Obama's Foreign Policy Troubles,
The White House Dossier
President Obama’s foreign policy is a disaster. He cruised along for
awhile, but then the rest of the world figured him out and started
taking matters into their own hands, for which the Devil has made ample
use. And now, as everyone can see, we’re in deep doodoo in every corner
of the globe. Here’s why: 1. Obama never cared about foreign policy.
The president came into office with one thing in mind: To
“fundamentally transform” the United States into a a kind of Northern
Cuba where he could...
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WND… Now teachers revolt over Common
Core tests
'Our professional judgment dictates that we cannot participate in this
assessment' - By Leo Hohmann - Teachers at a New York City high school
fired a shot across the bow of the concept of a nationalized education
industry Thursday, becoming the first in their state to refuse to
administer a standardized test tied to the controversial Common Core
national standards. The boycott by teachers at Prospect Heights
International School in Brooklyn comes amid a small but growing
“opt-out” movement. Thousands...
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Heritage Foundation… Caution:
Senators at Work, by
Amy Payne
May 2, 2014 - Obamacare is wreaking havoc on the economy; entitlement
spending is swallowing the federal budget; America’s military readiness
is in shambles; and a handful of senators are working hard to make sure
the government stays in the housing finance business. Priorities,
right? Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-sponsored
entities (GSEs) that dominate the American housing market, were
supposed to help people get homes...
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Heritage Foundation… Marijuana
Is Harmful: Debunking 7 Myths
Arguing It's Fine, Kevin Sabet
April 27, 2014 - Don’t believe the hype: marijuana legalization poses
too many risks to public health and public safety. Based on almost two
decades of research, community-based work, and policy practice across
three presidential administrations, my new book “Reefer Sanity”
discusses some widely held myths about marijuana: Myth No. 1:
“Marijuana is harmless and non-addictive” No, marijuana is not as
dangerous as cocaine or heroin, but calling it harmless or
non-addictive denies...
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Townhall… Carney
Tries to Spin Damning Benghazi Email
Evidence as "Republicans With Conspiracy Theories"
- Katie Pavlich - May 01, 2014 - Speaking and answering questions from
the White House briefing room Thursday afternoon, Press Secretary Jay
Carney tried to spin newly released and damning Benghazi email evidence
as Republicans politicizing a tragedy, accusing them of being
conspiracy theorists. "What hasn't changed is the effort by Republicans
to claim a conspiracy when they...
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Breitbart… 8
Things That Won't Get You Banned by the
NBA, by Ben Shapiro
29 Apr 2014 - With the lifetime ban by the NBA of despicably racist Los
Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, the door is wide open to
further sports bans on people who say offensive things in private.
That, of course, is why Sterling was ousted. Everyone knew for decades
that Sterling was a disgusting pig racist – he had federal lawsuits led
by the Department of Justice against him for discriminating against
blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in housing (one allegation in the 2006
DOJ lawsuit: he said black...
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