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The Hill… 13 Republicans most likely to win WH, By Jonathan Easley
Republicans say their long list of 2016 hopefuls is among the deepest, most diverse group in recent history without a clear frontrunner. “This is the most open field we’ve ever seen,” one GOP strategist told The Hill. That means there will be a narrow path to victory for many of the candidates, as they fight for the money, media, and voters they’ll need in the win-early-or-go-home battle royale. The Hill spoke
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Townhall… Don't Shoot (Your Mouth Off) Before All the Facts Are Known, Debra J. Saunders
Nov 30, 2014 -- We hand a man a gun and ask him to protect us. If something goes horribly wrong, perhaps in a flurry of panic, we don't rush to punish him. We make sure a criminal justice system meant to protect all citizens also protects him. We blanket him in the presumption of innocence. It's the reason juries are loath to convict and, as happened in Missouri, grand juries are loath to indict officers involved in shootings. So do I believe that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson
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Redstate… The Truth, By: Erick Erickson
November 28th, 2014 -- I will keep nothing from you. Today, let me share with you the truth. Republicans will not stop Barack Obama’s executive overreach. In fact, while you were enjoying your Thanksgiving there were a number of stories out that the Republican leadership wants to give its members an opportunity to express their outrage and opposition. Expression is not action. They will take no action
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Townhall… Ferguson Obscures Much Bigger Problems in the 'Black Community' Larry Elder
Nov 27, 2014 - From the very beginning, this was much ado about an aberration, a tragic aberration to be sure, but an aberration nonetheless. Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Immediately, according to St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, witnesses began to give different versions of what happened. The apparent would-be star witness, Dorian Johnson, was with Brown
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Townhall… An Inconvenient Law, Victor Davis Hanson
Nov 27, 2014 - There is a humane, transparent, truthful -- and constitutional -- way to address illegal immigration. Unfortunately, President Obama's unilateral plan to exempt millions of residents from federal immigration law is none of those things. Obama said he had to move now because of a dawdling Congress. He forgot to mention that there were Democratic majorities
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Federal News Radio… Thank you, federal employees, Commentary by Jeff Neal
Tuesday - 11/25/2014 -- It is Thanksgiving week and before everyone heads out of the office to take a well-deserved holiday, I want to give thanks for our federal workforce. Fed- bashing may be a popular sport in some places, but not in my home. I believe that majority of federal employees do a great job, care about their work, do more than is necessary, support their co-workers in times or need and provide tremendous benefit to the American people
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Natural News… It is now illegal to share food with the homeless in Florida, by: J. D. Heyes
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 -- If you're someone who believes in personal (not government-provided) charity and who likes to make sure that as many homeless people as possible get a decent meal each day, good for you. But you might want to avoid Fort Lauderdale, Florida, because you could wind up with a hefty fine and some jail time. Seriously. According to reports, police in the city issued citations and further threatened to arrest two priests
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Natural News… New pictures of school lunches illustrate America's decline toward third world status, by Daniel Barker -- Wednesday, November 26, 2014 -- It can be assumed that First Lady Michelle Obama had good intentions when she used her influence to foist her Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act on an unsuspecting population of school-aged American children. After all, obesity, nutrition and hunger are real issues, but the dismal failure of the initiative -- which resulted... read more
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The Daily Signal… Amid Crises, Obama Pushes Out Hagel as Defense Secretary, Josh Siegel - November 24, 2014 - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel resigned today after less than two years in the post amid the struggles of President Obama’s national security team to respond to a slew of global crises. Hagel, the only Republican in Obama’s Cabinet, is widely believed to have been pushed out by the president as he seeks a different approach to enduring challenges such... read more
Natural News… Prescription drug vending machines on college campuses, by Mike Adams
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 -- The total insanity of over-medication in America has reached a new low as Arizona State University has installed a prescription drug vending machine called InstyMeds. American college students -- who are already the most over-medicated population on the planet -- now have an even easier way to pollute their brains with SSRI drugs, antidepressants, antipsychotics and prescription "speed" amphetamines which
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Patriot Voices… "Made in the USA" Christmas Challenge, Rick Santorum
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum today launched Patriot Voices' 2nd annual "Made in the USA" Christmas Challenge urging shoppers to buy goods and gifts made in the United States this holiday season and to shop at local small businesses across the country. Rick Santorum said, "This Christmas season, millions
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Patriot Voices… Santorum Responds to President Obama's Immigration Edict
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and Chairman of Patriot Voices issued the following statement in response to President Obama's executive action to provide amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants. Rick Santorum said: "Tonight's announcement by the President is just another in a long line of power-grabs by this Administration.  Despite saying as recently as one
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Heritage Foundation… Why should we trust Barack Obama on immigration reform? By Jim DeMint - President Obama has been quite up-front about it: he refuses to enforce laws he dislikes and unilaterally changes others without the consent of Congress. The Supreme Court may soon have to decide the constitutionality of all this but, in the meantime, many are wondering why Congress would believe they can trust the president to work with them in good faith on any issue. Still more are scratching their heads over the notion that now, when Obamacare is hurting millions and the... read more
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Human Events… Obama denies Gruber, but facts deny Obama, By David Limbaugh  
11/18/2014 -- Do President Obama’s adamant denials that he misled the American public on various important aspects of Obamacare stand up to scrutiny? No, and it’s not even a close call. In the past several weeks, there’s been a major uproar in the alternative media — the liberal media doing their usual best to cover up stories damaging to this administration and the cause of progressivism
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Townhall… Racial Quota Punishment, Thomas Sowell
Nov 18, 2014 - If anyone still has any doubt about the utter cynicism of the Obama administration, a recent agreement between the federal government and the Minneapolis Public Schools should open their eyes. Under the Obama administration, both the Department of Education and the Department of Justice have been leaning on public schools around the country to
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The Daily Signal… What Do the 2016 GOP Hopefuls Really Think About Same-Sex Marriage? Genevieve Wood -- November 14, 2014 -- The marriage issue didn’t play a major role in the 2014 midterms, but activist courts overturning state laws and lawsuits threatening the rights of those who disagree with redefining marriage may very well make the issue a top one in 2016. Since 1998 and across the early 2000s, millions of Americans voted at the state level to define marriage as the union of a man... read more
The White House… We all have a stake in the fight against Ebola, Dr. Kent Brantly
I've come to be known as the first Ebola patient to be treated in the United States -- but I'd prefer to think of myself simply as a family physician. I was born and raised in Indiana, and trained in family medicine in Texas. I spent the last year living and working as a missionary doctor in a small hospital outside Monrovia, Liberia. So when the Ebola virus came to that country, I was among the first to treat infected patients. And in late July, I contracted the disease
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Top down education "reforms": mere alterations with no evidence than improvements will accrue, By William Phillis -- During the past couple decades, politicians and other non-educators have hurled education reform packages at public school boards, administrators and teachers with the warning that if they oppose any of the packages, they will be labeled as obstructionists in support of the status quo. Generally speaking, the public education community has attempted to implement the... read more
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Patriot Voices… Santorum Outlines Foreign Policy Against Radical Islamic Threats
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former U.S. Senator, and Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum addressed several thousand Liberty University students yesterday focusing on the mounting clash between the Western Civilized World and the growing threat of radical Islamists. In his speech, Santorum specifically described his work in 2005 and 2006 to draw attention to the threat posed by an Iranian
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The Daily Signal… Veterans Are the Real 1 Percenters, by Bruce Klingner
November 11, 2014 -- Mentioning “1 percenters” conjures up images of protest and class warfare. But there is another 1 percent who are beyond politics: the men and women who serve in America’s armed forces, as well as the veterans who served before them. Despite over a decade of ceaseless war against terrorism, fewer than 1 percent of the U.S. population has been on active duty. A smaller share of Americans now serve in the military than at any point
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The Daily Signal… School Choice Wins, Common Core Loses in Election 2014, Lindsey Burke - November 05, 2014 - Last night’s election results have seismic implications for education policy at both the state and federal levels. Voters sent a message that school choice and local control are important to them. School Choice Wins Big - Charlie Crist, running as a Democrat, lost his election bid for Florida governor to incumbent Republican Rick Scott. Crist supported the state’s teachers... read more
The Daily Signal… The War on Women Didn’t Work and 3 Other Lessons From the Midterm Elections, by Hans von Spakovsky -- November 07, 2014 -- Many pundits and campaign consultants are no doubt analyzing the election results across the country to try to decipher what lessons the Republican wave holds for candidates planning to run in 2016. But there are four easily seen lessons that both of the major political parties should take to heart: First, the manipulation of election rules and political trickery didn’t work. In Kansas, for example, the Democratic... read more
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Townhall… Is There a Viagra for Bored Voters? By Debra J. Saunders
Nov 09, 2014 -- Democrats won every statewide office (California) and a comfortable majority of the congressional delegation and legislative seats. Yet at Capitol Weekly's election postmortem confab Thursday, Republicans were giddy, and many Democrats were, well, agitated. Even for California Republicans, Tuesday was heavenly. To start, they spent Tuesday night watching the GOP make big gains nationally
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The Daily Signal… Here’s How Conservatives Aim to Stop Obama’s Action on Illegal Immigrants, by Josh Siegel -- November 07, 2014 -- Aides to conservative members of the U.S. Senate say their bosses are rallying around a strategy to prevent President Obama from taking executive action to move illegal immigrants toward citizenship: Use government funding bills to withhold the money the president needs to implement his plan. At the same time, some of the Senate’s most conservative members are worried that party leadership could try to strike a deal with Democrats... read more
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The Economist – Lexington… A big win for John Kasich
Ohio’s Republican governor puts results ahead of ideological purity - November 8, 2014 - WHAT is conservatism for? In the election campaign just past, too many Republicans ignored that question. Instead they went negative, harnessing the anger of voters who feel that America is going to ruin and have no faith in President Barack Obama. Senator
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You really want to know about this, By Tom Dunn
In a previous article, I criticized state superintendent Dr. Richard Ross for his claim that the state's quest for transparency is the driving force behind the Ohio Department of Education's (ODE) School District Report Card. I suggested that his, the ODE's, and the legislature's quest for transparency seems to end where their pet project, the charter school movement, begins. I challenged readers to visit the independently created web site known as
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Santorum Comments on Republican Election Victories
VERONA, PA - Former presidential candidate, former United States Senator, and Chairman of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum issued the following statement in response to the results of the midterm election: "Tonight's results are not just a victory for the Republican Party, but a victory for America.  And while the results are a clear repudiation of President Obama and his policies, we cannot take tonight's results
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Natural News… Meat industry uses chemical 'meat glue' to trick consumers into eating food scraps, by: S. D. Wells - Thursday, October 30, 2014 - A white powder that glues together small scrap pieces of beef, lamb, chicken and fish is sold by the kilo and is considered to be the meat industry's "dirty little secret." This is not breaking news, as the industry has been at it for quite some time, but just how many people need to know if they're greatly increasing their chances of consuming some E. coli with those "choice" filets... read more
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Townhall… Survey: 51 Percent of People Who Used Obamacare Exchanges Last Year Won't Use Them Again, Katie Pavlich - Nov 03, 2014 - According to a new study conducted by Bankrate.com, a majority of Americans who used the Obamacare healthcare exchanges last year through Healthcare.gov don't plan on doing so again this year when open enrollment begins on November 15. "Those who experienced the rocky rollout of the Obamacare health... read more
The Daily Signal… The People You Vote Out of Office Tuesday Will Still Have Two Months in Power. What Will They Do? by Genevieve Wood -- November 03, 2014 -- In most of America, when someone gets fired for poor performance, they are not allowed to stay on the job another two months. But Washington isn’t like the rest of America, and being a member of Congress isn’t like most other jobs. On Tuesday, Americans will elect people to represent them in Washington. In the process, they will also un-elect some current members of Congress in whom, for whatever reason... read more
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Heart of the matter: Public Education, By William Phillis
Heart of the matter: Charters, vouchers and other strategies to privatize public education are backdoor approaches to the annulment of state constitutional provisions for public education. Each state has one or more constitutional provisions for a system of public education. Words such as thorough, efficient, uniform, fundamental value and high quality set the standards for the state systems. The importance
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The Daily Signal… These Studies Found Exposure to the Arts Boosted Educational Success, by Brittany Corona -- October 27, 2014 -- New research into humanities education suggests student learning outcomes increase with exposure to the arts. Few empirical studies have been conducted on the benefits of arts education for students. Jay Greene, endowed chair of the Department of Education at the University of Arkansas, and his team have released two studies on the educational benefits of engagement with the arts. Last year, Greene, along with researchers... read more

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