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MSN.com… How
the stock market destroyed the middle class,
By Rex Nutting, MarketWatch
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — There’s something seriously wrong with an
economy that nurtures a few billionaires but can’t sustain the middle
class. Many factors have been blamed for the plummeting fortunes of the
American middle class: globalization, technology, deregulation, easy
credit, the winner-take-all economy, and even the inevitable tide of
history. But one under-appreciated factor is a pervasive...
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The Daily Signal… NPR
Cut Dana
Perino’s Heartwarming Story About George W. Bush,
by Rob
Bluey
April 23, 2015 -- Dana Perino’s new book features a touching encounter
between President George W. Bush and an injured—and intubated—Marine
receiving the Purple Heart. She follows it with another story involving
a dying soldier’s mother yelling at the president about the war. Both
stories were recounted by Perino in an excerpt from “And the Good News
Is…” that was published by The Daily Signal this week. But if you
listened to NPR’s...
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The
Daily Signal… State
Says Bakers
Should Pay $135,000 for Refusing to Bake Cake for Same-Sex Wedding,
by Kelsey Harkness -- April 24, 2015 -- An Oregon administrative law
judge recommended today that the bakers who refused to bake a cake for
a same-sex wedding should be fined $135,000. “[T]he forum concludes
that $75,000 and $60,000, are appropriate awards to compensate [the
same-sex couple] for the emotional suffering they experienced,” wrote
Alan McCullough, administrative law judge for Oregon’s Bureau of Labor...
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| Federal
News Radio… New
Congress
'worst places to work' hotline: right Idea, wrong question,
Commentary by Francis Rose - Tuesday - 4/21/2015 - The new
congressional tip line Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), the chairman of the
House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government
Operations, launched last week offers federal employees a chance to
tell his office directly about problems that contribute to
dissatisfaction and low morale in their workplaces. Federal News
Radio's Emily Kopp reported emails to the tip line...
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Townhall… Overreaching
on Iran,
By Steve Chapman
Apr 19, 2015 -- The case against the U.S. nuclear deal with Iran is
easy to make. It doesn't ensure that Iran will never get the bomb; it
doesn't require Iran to renounce terrorism; it doesn't end Iran's
hostility toward Israel. Each of these things is highly desirable, and
the agreement provides none of them. What it will do, if all the right
details are nailed down and the terms are firmly enforced, is make it
harder for Iran...
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The
Daily Signal… The
Greatest
Setback for Cancer Research Is Obamacare,
Stephen Moore
April 11, 2015 - Nearly everyone is thinking about cancer these days
thanks to the Ken Burns film on PBS, “Cancer: The Emperor of All
Maladies.” All of us, including Burns himself, who as a child lost his
mother to cancer, know a family member or a close friend who has died
of the Killer C. The film tells us the magnitude of the murderous
disease we are up against: “Cancer is a worldwide scourge. The fastest
growing disease on...
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Townhall…
Hillary’s
Struggle to
be Normal, by Ashley Pratte
Apr 17, 2015 -- Hillary Clinton gets in a van a drives from New York to
Iowa and somehow it’s all the media can talk about—but it’s what most
Americans do. They load up their cars for a family road trip and yet,
it’s not covered by the media. Her attempt to be normal is humorous;
she even made a pit stop for lunch at Chipotle—WOW! However, while at
Chipotle she chose to be incognito and donned a pair of sunglasses. Let
me get this straight...
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Redstate…
A
Corrupted Two
Kingdoms For Coward Pastors, By: Erick Erickson
April 20th, 2015 -- When the Protestant Reformation occurred, (I’m
simplifying here) Luther needed an explanation for why the Pope need
not wield the power of the sword. He focused on the idea of the two
kingdoms — there is God’s kingdom in Heaven over which here on the
earth the church presides and there is God’s kingdom on earth over
which civil authorities preside. Calvin picked up the two...
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Townhall…
Religious
Freedom Is Still Worth Protecting, by Steve
Chapman
Apr 12, 2015 -- Gay rights groups and their allies were outraged when
Indiana enacted a "religious freedom" measure that let businesses
refuse to take part in same-sex weddings and other events they find
objectionable. Opponents of the new law had an unassailable goal:
protecting a small group of people from having their freedom trampled
by an unsympathetic majority. Funny thing: That's exactly what religious...
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The
Daily Signal… How
Much Do the
Top 1 Percent Pay of All Taxes? Curtis Dubay
April 15, 2015 - Ever since President Obama started running for
president in 2007, there has been a debate about how much tax rich
Americans pay and whether they should pay more. In that ongoing debate,
Paul Krugman and Matt Yglesias criticized a Daily Signal chart because,
according to them, it does not give a complete picture of the tax
burden borne by Americans because it only includes the federal income
tax. Since...
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| The
Daily Signal… Abortion
Procedure Extracting Unborn Child ‘One Piece at a Time’ Triggers
Controversy in Kansas,
by Kelsey Harkness -- April 08, 2015 -- Mary Spaulding Balch has been
fighting against what she calls “dismemberment abortion” since she was
17 years old. Now, at 60, she’s breathing a sigh of relief. “It’s been
a long time. Too long,” Balch told The Daily Signal in a phone
interview. “I was naïve enough to think back in the 70s, we would be
able to get this under control rather quickly.” Balch was referring to
an abortion...
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| The
Daily Signal… Congress
Can Raise
Your Income 10 Percent By Updating the Tax Code,
Curtis Dubay - April 10, 2015 - Congress could raise your family’s
income by 10 percent, or maybe even more. And it could do it with a
policy reform that has the support of 71 percent of the American
people. Even better news is this is not some big-government spending
program that would deliver a 10 percent raise. Instead, it’s tax
reform. The Tax Foundation, in a recent study, found that if Congress
implemented a consumption...
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Townhall… Despite
Promises From
Congress and White House, Veteran's Affairs Hasn't Been Fixed,
by Katie Pavlich -- Apr 10, 2015 -- Despite numerous hearings and
promises from Congress and feigned outrage from the White House, the
Veteran's Affairs system, whose WAIT times have left more than 1000
veterans dead, hasn't been fixed. More from the AP: A year after
Americans recoiled at revelations that sick veterans were getting
sicker while languishing on waiting lists, VA statistics show that the...
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| The
Daily Signal… Start
From Scratch
on Taxes? Why There’s a Bipartisan Push to Sunset the Tax Code,
by Kevin Mooney -- April 09, 2015 -- Few people in either party in
Washington are happy with the current tax code, so what if we simply
started over? That is at the root of a proposal to sunset the current
tax code on Dec. 31, 2019. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., has introduced
the Tax Code Termination Act (HR 27), which would do exactly that.
“Even though tax reform has been discussed for many years, we have yet
to see any major actions to...
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Townhall…
Obama
Deal With
Iran in Trouble, by Michael Barone
Apr 10, 2015 -- Is the tide turning against President Obama's purported
nuclear weapons deal with Iran? One sign that the answer is yes is the
devastating opinion article in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal by
former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz. The
architect of Richard Nixon's opening to China and the partner of Ronald
Reagan in his negotiations with the Soviet Union are diplomatic in their...
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The
Daily Signal… Why
Are So Many
Employers Unable to Fill Jobs? By Stephen Moore
April 06, 2015 -- The great conundrum of the U.S. economy today is that
we have record numbers of working age people out of the labor force at
the same time we have businesses desperately trying to find workers. As
an example, the American Transportation Research Institute estimates
there are 30,000-35,000 trucker jobs that could be filled tomorrow if
workers would take these jobs- a shortage that could rise to 240,000 by
2022. While the jobs...
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The Daily Signal… A
Flawed Legal
Analysis Is Helping Lois Lerner, Hans von
Spakovsky
April 04, 2015 - On March 31, Ronald Machen, the outgoing U.S. attorney
for the District of Columbia, wrote House Speaker John Boehner to
inform him that the Justice Department would not present Lois Lerner’s
contempt citation to a federal grand jury. The letter explaining his
decision is an exercise in misdirection—the kind...
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| Federal
News Radio… 5
steps for
the government to regain trust
-- Tuesday - 3/31/2015 -- Commentary By Tom Temin; Last month the Obama
administration rolled out something called the federal feedback button.
Officials describe it as a Yelp-like way for people to give feedback on
the service they get, including online. That is all well and good.
People visiting federal websites should have a good experience, easy to
navigate and returning the results they seek. I think for the most part
they do. Still, you can never have too much feedback. Sites vary. Some
are...
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The
Daily Signal… Hold
the Applause:
No Iran Deal Yet, by James Phillips
April 02, 2015 -- After missing its self-imposed negotiating deadline
for the third time, the Obama administration announced Thursday an
agreement in principle with an Iranian regime that has no principles,
except to expand its power and export its revolution. “I am convinced
if this framework leads to a final, comprehensive deal, it will make
our country, our allies, our world safer,” President...
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| The
Daily Signal… The
Palestinians Have Officially Joined the
International Criminal Court,
Brett Schaefer, James Phillips & Steven Groves - April 01, 2015
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The International Criminal Court, the first permanent international
court established to try and punish individuals committing genocide,
crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression, now
counts the Palestinians among its members. Earlier this year, the
Palestinian Authority announced their intent to accede to the Statute
of the...
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