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Townhall…
Incumbents
Always Win, By John Stossel
Oct 29, 2014 -- I'm told that the public is "angry" at today's
politicians. Eighty-two percent disapprove of the job Congress is
doing. So will Tuesday's election bring a big shakeup? No.
Congressional reelection rates never drop below 85 percent. The last
big "wave" election was 1994, when Democrats lost control of both
houses. The media called it a "revolution," and the late Peter Jennings
from ABC likened Americans to...
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The Daily Signal… Journalist:
Obama Administration More ‘Restrictive’ and ‘Dangerous’ Than Any In
History,
Kate Scanlon - October 28, 2014 - USA Today Washington Bureau chief
Susan Page is the latest in a series of journalists to criticize the
White House on transparency. At a White House Correspondents’
Association seminar on Saturday, Page described the Obama
administration as “more restrictive” and “more dangerous” to the press
than...
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Daily Signal… The
True Reason Gas Prices are Falling
(Hint: It’s Not Because of Green Energy),
by Stephen Moore -- October 26, 2014 -- American workers and motorists
got some badly-needed relief this week when the price of oil plunged to
its lowest level in years. The oil price has fallen by about 25 percent
since its peak back in June of $105 a barrel. This is
translating
to lower prices at the pump with many states now below $3 a gallon. At
present levels, these lower oil and gas prices are the equivalent of a
$200 billion cost saving to American consumers and businesses...
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Patriot Voices… George
W. Bush’s
Puzzling WMD Coverup, By Rick Santorum
How to prevent the president from deceiving Congress the American
people, regardless of who controls the White House. The most shocking
revelation by The Daily Beast, The New York Times and other news
sources in reporting on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is that the
Bush Administration so aggressively fought to suppress the truth about
them. The entire world was understandably focused on finding chemical...
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Daily Signal… This
Little Girl With Down Syndrome Was
Stuck in a Horrible School Situation. How a New Policy Changed Her Life
Completely.
By Lindsey Burke -- October 19, 2014 -- “When I would pick her up
almost every evening, she would wait until she got into the car and she
would just start weeping.” That’s what Veronica, mother of Salima, who
has Down syndrome, says in a powerful video about her daughter’s
experience at her assigned public school. But thanks to a fairly new
school choice policy, Salima’s life is now totally different. And
starting this year...
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The
Daily Signal… Make
Conservatism
Cooler, College Students Advise GOP Candidates,
by Josh Siegel -- October 21, 2014 -- RALEIGH, N.C.—Consider a few
truths about the politics of students at North Carolina State
University, a school known for its engineering and agriculture programs
and said to be more conservative than the higher-profile University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Political ads turn the students off.
They don’t pay attention to the ads, and are unlikely to be swayed by
their...
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The Daily Signal… Top
7 Wackiest
Examples of Wasteful Government Spending from Wastebook 2014
- Spencer Woody - October 22, 2014 - Rabbit massages, laughing classes,
and watching the grass grow–these are just a few examples of where your
tax dollars went this year. During a time when many families have made
financial sacrifices to make ends meet, the federal government
continues to spend. Washington politicians continue to claim their
levels of...
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Daily Signal… The
New Civil Rights Division Head Wants to
Decriminalize Possession of All Drugs,
by Cully Stimson -- October 20, 2014 -- So who supports decriminalizing
cocaine, heroin, LSD, methamphetamine, ecstasy and all dangerous drugs,
including marijuana? No, it’s not your teenage nephew. It’s President
Obama’s new acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights
Division, Vanita Gupta. In 2012, Gupta wrote that “states should
decriminalize simple...
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The Daily Signal… Government
to
Ordained Ministers: Celebrate Same-Sex Wedding or Go to Jail,
Ryan T. Anderson - October 18, 2014 - For years, those in favor of
same-sex marriage have argued that all Americans should be free to live
as they choose. And yet in countless cases, the government has coerced
those who simply wish to be free to live in accordance with their
belief that marriage is the union of a man and a woman. Ministers...
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Townhall… Over
It: 'Steady Stream' of Democrats Leave
Campaign Rally During Obama Speech,
by Guy Benson -- Oct 20, 2014 -- In 2008, they were passing out. In
2014, they're walking out. These tweets come from mainstream
media correspondents who watched in puzzlement as "lots" of Maryland
voters departed a campaign rally over the weekend while President Obama
was still talking. Change: Here's how Reuters' Jeff Mason
summarized the event: President Barack Obama made a rare appearance on
the campaign trail on Sunday with a rally to support the Democratic...
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Patriot
Voices… Santorum
Condemns
Houston for Violating First Amendment Rights
Verona, PA - Former Presidential candidate, U.S. Senator and Chairman
of Patriot Voices Rick Santorum issued the following statement today
regarding the actions by the City of Houston to violate our First
Amendment: Rick Santorum said, "Many say fighting to protect our First
Amendment is a conservative issue. It is not. It is
an
American issue. Regardless of one's religious or political
views,
we should be extremely alarmed...
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Daily Signal… Here’s
Why Budget Cuts Have Nothing to Do
With Developing an Ebola Vaccine,
Melissa Quinn - October 17, 2014 - Some government health officials
have joined Democrats in blaming the lack of an Ebola vaccine on budget
cuts orchestrated by Republicans. However, more federal funding likely
would not have led to creation of a vaccine to combat the deadly
disease, since pharmaceutical companies had little incentive to do so.
In addition, a review of federal budget figures by The Daily Signal
shows that in...
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Townhall… Ft.
Hood Murderer's
Attorney: "I Don't Know Where They Come Up With Workplace Violence"
by Katie Pavlich -- Oct 14, 2014 -- Ft. Hood murderer Nidal Hasan
recently sent a six page letter to Pope Francis about waging Jihad,
further clarifying Hasan's murder of 13 people and the shooting of 30
others in 2009 was Islamic terrorism, not work place violence as the
politically correct Obama administration has said and argued. Last
night on The Kelly File Hassan's current attorney, John Galligan, said
he doesn't understand...
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The Daily Signal… Thanks
to
Obamacare, Health Costs Soared This Year,
Robert Moffit
October 13, 2014 - On November 15, open enrollment in the Obamacare
exchanges begins again. Before the second act of our national
healthcare drama commences, let’s review what we’ve learned in Act I.
For starters, everyone now knows that federal officials are challenged
when it comes to setting up a website. But they’ve demonstrated the
ability to dole out...
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Townhall… The
Obamacare Trifecta, by
Hank Adler
Oct 13, 2014 -- Over the past several years, I have written at least a
dozen columns on Townhall.com regarding individual and specific issues
with Obamacare. This week, I attended a meeting to learn about my
employer's plan to deal with our Preferred Provider Organization (our
PPO health insurance plan). Touch 'em all: Over the next couple of
years, I will lose my doctor, I will lose my plan and my healthcare
costs will increase. The next two phases of Obamacare are now kicking...
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Redstate… I
Have a Question,
By Erick Erickson
October 13th, 2014 -- I think the President of the United States owes
the American public an answer now. I had been willing to give him the
benefit of the doubt in his role as Command-in-Chief, but not now. In
Dallas, TX, a health care worker who came into contact with the Ebola
patient has contracted Ebola. The health care worker was a trained
professional wearing protective clothing. But that trained professional
in protective...
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The
Daily Signal… The
2014 Deficit Is the Smallest In Six
Years. But Here’s the Bad News. By Romina
Boccia
October 09, 2014 - The Congressional Budget Office released Wednesday
the figures for spending, revenues and the deficit in 2014. At $486
billion, the 2014 deficit is the smallest since the pre-stimulus and
pre-bailout level of $498 (adjusted for inflation to 2013) in 2008.
This means the household national debt burden rises by about $4,000.
The total household debt burden exceeds $150,000. While some, like
President Obama and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, see today’s
announcement...
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Daily Signal… Obama
Administration’s New Teacher Equity
Plan Will Not Improve Access to Good Teachers,
Brittany Corona - October 07, 2014 - We can all agree that all students
should have access to top-notch teachers. But the approach the Obama
administration is taking is unlikely to lead to this. Last Wednesday,
the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights sent 14,000
school districts a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter outlining administration
guidance on resource equity—ensuring resources and good teachers are as
available to underprivileged children as to...
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Daily Signal… Supreme
Court Decision Will Lead to Gay
Marriage in Five States. Why That’s Wrong.
By Ryan T. Anderson -- October 06, 2014 -- Today the U.S. Supreme Court
declined to review appeals from Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Indiana and
Wisconsin on the definition of marriage. This means that lower court
rulings that struck down state marriage laws now will go into effect,
forcing the redefinition of marriage in these states and potentially in
other states in the 4th, 7th, and 10th circuits. This is an unfortunate
setback for sound constitutional self-government and a setback...
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Daily Signal… All
About the Money: Why Government
Spending and Debt Matter for Millennials,
by Michael Sargent -- October 06, 2014 -- If you’re a millennial who
recently returned to your college campus or started your first job, you
probably haven’t paid much attention to the trillion-dollar spending
measure Congress passed without much fanfare. And why should you have?
How does it affect your life? Spending decisions made in Washington can
seem abstract and irrelevant for what matters to you. But Congress’s
spending decisions DO matter for today’s young people...
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National
Review… ESAs
Are Changing the
Game, By Lindsey M. Burke
October 6, 2014 - ‘A blind student in Arizona gets about $21,000 a
year,” says Marc Ashton, whose son, Max, is legally blind. That $21,000
represents what Arizona spends to educate a student such as Max in the
public-school system. “We took our 90 percent of that, paid for Max to
get the best education in Arizona, plus all of his Braille, all of his
technology, and then there was still money left over to put toward...
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The Daily Signal… 6
Steps to
Subtract 2 Numbers: Common Core Homework in 1 Photo,
Kelsey Harris - October 02, 2014 - For third-graders learning Common
Core math in Georgia, there are four ways to subtract—and only four
ways allowed. The picture above is just one of the methods for
subtraction under Common Core straight from RedState editor in chief
Erick Erickson’s third-grade...
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Townhall… Ebola
In America: Is The Government Doing
Enough? By Derek Hunter
Oct 05, 2014 -- I’m writing this with Ebola-type symptoms. I don’t have
Ebola;, I have food poisoning. But still. The world is not yet in panic
mode over the latest outbreak, but it’s close. Is it justified? Ebola
isn’t an easy virus to contract, or at least it didn’t used to be. The
only sure way to catch it is from the bodily fluids of people with it –
and then only once they start to exhibit symptoms themselves. That’s
why it’s been the near-exclusive domain of countries without proper
sewage...
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Townhall… CDC
Director Doubles
Down on Lack of Flight Restrictions From Ebola Stricken Countries,
by Katie Pavlich -- Oct 03, 2014 -- In light of the first case of Ebola
in the United States emerging earlier this week after Thomas Duncan
traveled to and from the country of Liberia to attend a funeral (and
then knowing he was infected, lied on a medical form before hopping on
a flight back), many people are asking why flight bans or restrictions
to Ebola stricken countries have not been put in place. On Wednesday,
White House...
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Daily Signal… School
Board Tells Homeschool Family Their
Curriculum Must Be ‘Guided’ by Common Core Standards;
Chris McNutt -- September 30, 2014 -- For many public school students,
Common Core national standards and tests are being implemented in their
classrooms this school year. Yet parent opposition has been vocal over
the past few years, 60 percent of the public opposes Common Core, and
teacher support for the standards has dropped precipitously over the
past year from 76 percent in 2013 to just 46 percent in 2014, according
to a Harvard poll. But it ...
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Townhall Finance... Obama
Claims Obamacare is Working – You
Just Haven’t Noticed,
Michael Schaus - Oct 04, 2014 - I’m beginning to think that Obama
doesn’t actually have any speech writers or talking-point authors… He’s
just recycling the set of talking points he was handed in the first
four years of his tenure. During a recent Q&A session at a
campaign
event in Princeton Indiana, the President trotted out the
tried-and-failed talking points of 2012 to defend his signature
healthcare law. According to the Free Beacon: “We are seeing almost a...
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Natural News… Kansas
governor
declares October Zombie Preparedness Month,
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger; Tuesday, September 30, 2014 -
(NaturalNews) Although Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is sure to be
teased about this by persnickety whiners, it's actually a smart
initiative: Kansas has declared October to be "Zombie Preparedness
Month" in an effort to raise awareness about disaster preparedness
among its citizens. Obviously, the Kansas government isn't literally
concerned about...
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