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Human
Events… GOP
bordering on victory, By Ann
Coulter
9/24/2014 - Everyone is on tenterhooks wondering what the Republicans’
national strategy for the November elections will be. Shouldn’t they be
thinking of that soon? The GOP desperately needs a “wave” election to
rack up Senate seats this year, because the next two election cycles
are not favorable for Republicans. Let’s see, what would make a good
national issue? Democrats are far savvier than Republicans when it
comes to...
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The
Daily Signal… Could
ISIS Influence the Future of
Liberalism? This Scholar Thinks So, by Melissa
Quinn
September 24, 2014 -- As the United States confronts renewed terrorist
threats in Iraq and Syria, a Heritage Foundation expert on America’s
founding principles contends that “terrorism at home and war abroad”
could curb the future of liberalism. Speaking yesterday as part of a
panel at the think tank discussing where liberalism is headed, David
Azerrad also said that if Americans thought prosperity were at stake,
they “would lose interest in large segments of the Left’s agenda...
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Foundation… These
Lucky Parents Get To Control Their
Kids’ State Education Money; Two states are pioneering the
next
generation of education innovation, with parents in the driver’s seat
- By Brittany Corona -- September 9, 2014 -- As kids head back to
school this fall, parents in Arizona and Florida are able to customize
their experience thanks to an innovative tool: education savings
accounts. After decades of government centralization of education,
parent-controlled ESAs are ushering in a new era of choice and
accountability in education. In an effort to improve education...
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Redstate… Scotland
and the end
of centralization, By John Hayward
September 18th, 2014 - Mark Leonard at Reuters has some interesting
thoughts about how the Scottish independence vote could be “the canary
in the independence coal mine,” a harbinger of both statehood movements
and political trends in “many nations that do not face imminent
break-up – from America to Zambia.” He specifies four of those...
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Townhall… The
Challenge of Stopping Do-it-Yourself
Jihadism, By Jonah Goldberg
Sep 19, 2014 - On Thursday, Australian authorities claimed they
thwarted a plot by supporters of the Islamic State to grab random
people off the street and then behead the captured citizens on
videotape. Australia's attorney general said that the massive raid, the
largest counterterrorism operation in the nation's history, involving
more than 800 police officers and raids of at least 12 properties, was
necessary because, "If the ... police had not acted today, there is a
likelihood that this would have happened...
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Townhall… Letting
in the Wrong
Refugees, By Michelle Malkin
Sep 19, 2014 - Fresh terror busts in Australia expose a common
Achilles' heel of the West: Indiscriminate refugee policies turn free
countries into breeding grounds for jihad. It's the same game in
America. Soldiers of Islam have weaponized our blind generosity against
us. In Sydney this week, authorities detained a half-dozen Muslim
plotters and arrested a top collaborator in an alleged conspiracy to
kidnap and...
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PolitiChicks… Guest
Writer Daniel Greenfield: “Americans
Alone”, By: Daniel Greenfield
Posted On Sep 19 2014 - For the first time in American statistical
history, the majority of American adults are single. 124 million or
50.2% of Americans are single. Some will get married, but increasing
numbers never will. Demographically a population of single adults means
the death of the Republican Party. It eliminates the possibility of
libertarian and fiscally conservative policies. It leads inevitably to
the welfare state. Single people are less likely to have a support
system that keeps...
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Redstate… The
Power of
Changed Minds, By: Erick Erickson
September 19th, 2014 - Should any Republican step to any microphone and
announce he has changed his mind on global warming, the press will hail
him as a hero. He has taken new evidence, processed it, and changed his
mind. Should any Republican do the same on gay marriage, tax increases,
or a host of other matters, the same will happen. The media heralds
changed minds, particularly when the mind changed is to the...
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PolitiChicks… Congress
Opens the Purse Wide, Funds
Obamacare and More Terrorists,
By: Carolyn Elkins - Posted On Sep 19 2014 - How many people remember
November 2010 when a new Congress was elected by a landslide for the
purpose of repealing Obamacare? Here we are four years later, and more
people have found out what’s in it, realizing the disaster of it.
Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi got
together with others in Congress and passed a Continuing Resolution
that will fund the federal...
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The Daily Signal... Benghazi
Bombshell: Clinton Alleged Document Review,
Sharyl
Attkisson
September 15, 2014 - As the House Select Committee on Benghazi prepares
for its first hearing this week, a former State Department diplomat is
coming forward with a startling allegation: Hillary Clinton confidants
were part of an operation to “separate” damaging documents before they
were...
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The
Daily Signal… The
Scary Amount of Oil Money ISIS Makes
Every Day, Kelsey Harkness
September 11, 2014 - President Obama, laying out his strategy last
night to defeat the Islamist jihadists known as ISIS, stressed that “it
will take time to eradicate a cancer” such as the terrorist group
represents in the Middle East. One hurdle in the way of Obama’s
intention to work with allies to “degrade and ultimately destroy” ISIS
(also known as ISIL and the Islamic State) is the brutal organization’s
control of oil fields in Iraq and Syria. ISIS uses that oil wealth to
help finance its terror operations...
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The
Daily Signal… The
Insane Reason
This Girl Was Forced Out of D.C. Public Schools,
Kelsey Harris; September 09, 2014 - Avery Gagliano — a piano prodigy
and truant. Yes, the 13-year-old musical genius, who was chosen to join
11 other musicians from around the world to play in Munich last year is
also a truant in the eyes of the D.C. public school system. In March,
Avery traveled to Connecticut for a piano competition. She won the
Grand Prix award for her performance of a Chopin Waltz and when she
returned...
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The
Daily Signal… Obama
Administration ‘Doubles Down’ on
Fight Against Nuns, by Kelsey Harkness
September 09, 2014 - The Obama administration has decided to continue
its legal battle against Little Sisters of the Poor, a Catholic charity
that objects to Obamacare’s mandate that employee health plans cover
contraceptives and abortion-inducing drugs. The order of Catholic nuns
argues that the rule fashioned by the Department of Health and Human
Services requires them to violate their religious beliefs by offering
insurance coverage for 20 specific drugs and devices...
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Now
she is a teacher!!! Attributed to June Gross,
Sent from a
CNO reader
In September of 2005, on the first day of school, Martha Cothren, a
History teacher at Robinson High School in Little Rock, did something
not to be forgotten. On the first day of school, with the permission of
the school superintendent, the principal and the building supervisor,
she removed all of the desks in her classroom. When the first period
kids entered the room they discovered that there were no desks. 'Ms.
Cothren...
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Townhall…
Obama's
Delusions Dispelled? Well, we Can
Hope for Change, Michael Barone
Sep 09, 2014 - "If you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world
is falling apart," President Obama told Democratic mega-contributors
last month in one of the 400-plus fundraisers of his presidency. But
not to worry. "The world has always been messy," he said. "In part,
we're just noticing now because of social media and our capacity to see
in intimate detail the hardships that people are going through." Like
being...
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Townhall…
Can
We Survive a Feckless, Egotistic
President Afraid to Lead? by Bob Barr
Sep 10, 2014 - Fear. It is a basic, primitive emotion common to every
living species on planet earth. It is the instinctual response that
keeps animals alive in nature, and influences the thoughts and actions
of humans. Edmund Burke once described the potency of fear saying, “No
passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and
reasoning as fear.” Burke’s observations ring especially true in
today’s hypersensitive, hyper-connected...
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Redstate…
House
GOP Setting the Stage for Massive
Crony Capitalist Pay Backs in a Lame Duck,
By Erick Erickson -- September 9th at 10:33 AM -- House Republicans are
preparing a continuing resolution to keep the government open. In doing
so, they’ve decided to be total sluts for K Street and Wall Street. The
Crony Capitalists, emboldened by the Chamber of Commerce’s help during
primary season, are doing some very unusual things. Here’s what I hear
is happening. First, they will reauthorize the Ex-Im bank, which...
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Townhall… Obamacare
is Affecting Everyone,
John C. Goodman
Aug 30, 2014 - Millions of people are out of work and can’t find a job.
Many of those who have jobs are being forced to work part-time instead
of full-time. And those who have full-time jobs are in for a nasty
surprise. Next year’s take home pay is like likely to be smaller than
what they earn right now. In all cases the reason is the same:
Obamacare. Why can’t people find a job? Three Federal Reserve Banks –
in Philadelphia, New York and Atlanta...
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Human
Events… Job
market craters in August,
By John Hayward
9/5/2014 - It seems like only yesterday that Barack Obama was telling
his $35,000-a-plate cronies that the economy was much stronger than
everyone thought it was, and he really ought to be taking a victory lap
for his “achievements.” When that “achievement” is six years
of
grinding high-unemployment, low-growth malaise and the biggest
food-stamp program the world has ever...
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Townhall… Obama
Does Have A Strategy, And It’s Awful,
by Derek Hunter
Aug 31, 2014 - On Thursday, President Obama told the world he didn’t
yet have a strategy for dealing with the Islamic Front in Syria.
Although it’s never good to let an army who beheads your citizens and
is hell-bent on your destruction know you don’t know how to deal with
them – yet, or otherwise – Josh Earnest, the president’s press
secretary “clarified” his comments the next day. We do have a plan, it
turns out. And the plan is awful. Before we dive into the new
statements, let’s take a look back...
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The
Daily Signal… Local
News Airs ‘Homework Helper’ Videos
for Parents Struggling With Common Core Requirements,
by Kelsey Harris -- September 04, 2014 -- “When you and I were in
school, we used to just memorize 9 plus 6 equals 15. Not anymore. With
the Common Core, students need to understand why that’s the case.” It
took a teacher 56 seconds to explain how to add 9 plus 6. This is the
introduction to the first of six “Homework Helper” segments Buffalo,
N.Y., NBC...
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The
Daily Signal… Why
the Abortion Rate Is Declining,
by Chuck Donovan
September 01, 2014 - Over the most recent decade for which data are
available (2001–2011), the overall U.S. abortion rate, calculated as
the annual number of abortions per 1,000 women of childbearing age (15
to 44), has dropped, continuing a trend that first appeared in 1980.
The decline has been steeper since 1990, with a brief plateau in the
middle of the past decade. The 2011 rate for the nation is the lowest
since 1973. Discussions of U.S. abortion trends must always be
accompanied by...
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Politico…
Will
the Real Rand Paul Please Stand Up?
By Rick Santorum
The
Kentucky
senator is trying to tell us he’s not an isolationist. That dog won’t
hunt.
September 05, 2014 - Rand Paul insists he’s not an “isolationist.”
Writing this week in TIME, he says, “I look at the world, and consider
war, realistically and constitutionally.” But in reality, the Kentucky
senator has advanced a brand of neo-isolationism and appeasement that
is as short-sighted as it mistaken. Despite his recent, and frantic
efforts to recast himself...
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Washington
Post… Obama
sets his own pace in a world whirling
with crises
By Karen DeYoung and Dan Balz - August 31 - Short of world war, it’s
rare that a chief executive goes through a foreign policy month like
President Obama’s August. U.S. warplanes struck in Iraq for the first
time in years, as U.S. diplomats struggled to establish a new
government in Baghdad. Islamic State militants beheaded an American
journalist in Syria and spread their reach across the Middle East. War
raged between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. In...
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