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Daily Signal… Federal
Agencies Stonewall House Committee’s Benghazi Investigation,
by Sharyl Attkisson, January 22, 2015 - Some federal agencies continue
to stonewall when it comes to the ongoing investigation into the
Benghazi terrorist attacks, according to insiders familiar with the
process. They say the House Benghazi Select Committee isn’t getting
access to all relevant documents and witnesses. That will be the topic
of the committee’s first public hearing of 2015 called for Tuesday next
week. Most of the committee’s...
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Money… IRS
Hires Same Contractor
that Bungled Obamacare Rollout,
Rob Garver, Fiscal Times - Officials at the Internal Revenue Service
spent a large amount of time trudging up to Capitol Hill in 2014 so
that various Republican committee chairmen in the House of
Representatives could berate them over the targeting of some
conservative not for profits in the run-up to the 2012 election. It
seems likely they’d have preferred to fly under lawmakers’ radar in the
114th Congress. If that’s what they wanted, spending more than...
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Redstate… Forever
Determined To
Let Us Know He Won, By Erick Erickson
January 21st, 2015 - One of the most valuable lessons I have ever
learned in life came from one of the Deans of Students when I was in
college. He would never sit at the head of the table in a meeting.
Often he would sit off to the side. He said he was the Dean where ever
he sat. Barack Obama, commentators on both sides of the aisle have
noted, often seems...
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Daily Signal… Smoking
Gun?
Tape Recordings Reveal the Real Reason Bank Closed Gun Seller’s Account,
by Kelsey Harkness -- January 14, 2015 -- Another gun seller says his
firearms business was forced to shut down its bank account as a result
of the government’s secretive initiative known as Operation Choke
Point. This time, he’s offering audio recordings to prove it. Mike
Schuetz is a former state employee who worked as a probation and parole
officer for eight years in Hawkins, Wis. After working for the state,
he told Breitbart...
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Townhall… 'Diversity'
in Action,
Thomas Sowell
Jan 20, 2015 - Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe, and European
governments' counter-attacks are more than just a passing news story.
Europe is currently in the process of paying the price for years of
importing millions of people from a culture hostile to the fundamental
values of Western culture. And this is by no means the last of the
installments of that price, to be paid...
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Townhall… Self
Defense Still
Reigns as Number One Reason Women Purchase Their First Firearm,
by Katie Pavlich -- Jan 21, 2015 -- Las Vegas - According to
a
new report released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation at the
2015 SHOT Show, self-defense still remains the number one reason why
women purchase their first firearm. Home-defense comes in second. The
report, which comes from a study conducted in 2014, focused "on women
ages 18 to 65 who owned at least one...
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Redstate… The
Closing of
the Republican Mind, By: Erick Erickson
January 20th, 2015 -- The Republicans just beat the Democrats pretty
badly. But the Republicans perceive that they also beat conservatives.
The perception has helped closed the Republican mind. The conservative
stalwarts of the past have given way to the return of the patrician
Republicans who will use government to care for the people, just in
different ways from the Democrats. The Party of...
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The Daily Signal… The
State of
the Union: What It Is and Why It Matters,
Philip Wegmann
January 19, 2015 - This Tuesday, President Obama will face the toughest
crowd of his presidency when he delivers his State of the Union address
to the newly controlled Republican Congress. Each president’s State of
the Union offers a distinct historical snapshot while continuing an
enduring constitutional tradition. The president is expected to
underscore past policy...
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Daily Signal… Firearms
Sellers Say They’re Being Choked Off From Payment Processors,
by Kelsey Harkness -- January 12, 2015 -- Go to a gun show, and you
won’t find many merchants using PayPal. You’ll also find few vendors
using popular payment processors such as Square, Stripe and Spark Pay.
That’s because some payment processors explicitly prohibit the use of
their systems for online — and some in-store — sales of firearms,
ammunition and certain accessories. Retailers in the gun industry say
they’re being discriminated against...
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Daily Signal… What
the Media
Missed About Obama’s New Proposal: It’s a Wage Cut for Workers,
by James Sherk, Alex Belica -- January 15, 2015 -- President Obama just
urged Congress to cut workers’ wages. Of course, the news headlines did
not report it as such. However, make no mistake: The president’s call
for mandatory paid sick leave would simultaneously cut workers’ pay.
The president proposes requiring businesses to offer seven days paid
sick leave to their workers. That sounds great. But the president never
explained...
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| National
Review… Santorum,
the
Blue-Collar Brawler; His
message for Romney: Bring on the re-match.
By Eliana Johnson; January 12, 2015 -- I’m sitting across from Rick
Santorum at a Corner Bakery Cafe on North Capitol Street, near the U.S.
Capitol, when a news alert flashes across my phone. The Wall Street
Journal is reporting that Mitt Romney has told a group of his top
donors that he is seriously considering a third White House bid.
Santorum smiles broadly. “Bring it on,” he says. The surprise runner-up
in the 2012 Republican primary...
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Research the Gulen Crusade…
By
William Phillis
The 19 Horizon Science Academies/Noble Academies charter schools in
Ohio and the other 130 or so sister charters in other states are a part
of the worldwide social/economic/religious/political movement headed by
Fethullah Gulen, the Turkish Islamic cleric living in exile in the
Poconos of Pennsylvania. The mission of the Gulen movement should spike
the interest of all U.S. citizens inasmuch...
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The
Daily Signal… White
House
Faces Backlash for Absence at Anti-Terrorism Rally,
Kelsey
Harkness
January 12, 2015 - The Obama administration admitted this afternoon
that it erred in not sending a more prominent official to the
anti-terrorism march yesterday in Paris. During a press briefing, White
House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said: I think it’s fair to say that
we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there. … We
agree that we should have sent someone with a higher profile in
addition to the ambassador to France...
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Heritage
Foundation… Obama
Administration
Proposes Expanding Government-Funded Preschool,
Lindsey Burke - Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged a revamp of the
“tired” and “prescriptive” law currently known as No Child Left Behind
today, calling for a law that replaces NCLB with one that includes
“more money” than is currently authorized. Duncan urged Congress to
increase spending, ensure educational “equity” and to include preschool
as...
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The
Daily Signal… Why
Free Community College Is Anything But
Free, by Lindsey Burke
January 09, 2015 -- The Obama administration announced Thursday that it
will propose two years of “free” community college, paid for by
taxpayers, for students maintaining a “C” or better average. The
federal government would finance three-quarters of the costs, and the
administration says it hopes the remainder would be financed by states.
The White House claims the proposal will save students $3,800 per year
in tuition costs. When asked about...
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Thorough and Efficient Clause
removal
, By William Phillis
Public Education Privatizers would support removal of the thorough and
efficient clause from the Ohio Constitution. Nick Pittner, having
served as the lead attorney in the DeRolph school funding case,
provides his opinion on the proposal to remove the thorough and
efficient language from the Ohio Constitution (below). If this matter
is forced through all the hoops required to be placed on the ballot...
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The
Daily Signal… The
House Made It
Harder to Steal From Social Security Retirement Fund,
by Romina Boccia, January 07, 2015 -- This Tuesday, House Republicans
nearly unanimously adopted new rules for the 114th Congress (H. Res. 5)
which set the stage for long-overdue Social Security reforms to protect
disabled Americans and seniors from indiscriminate benefit cuts. The
new rule strengthens the integrity of Social Security’s separate trust
funds...
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State illegally
transfers local funds to charter schools, By
William
Phillis
State data show that most school districts lose local funds to the
charter industry. All but a handful of districts receive less state
foundation funding per pupil than is deducted for charter school
pupils. The difference comes from local tax revenue approved by the
school district patrons for the purpose of educational programs and
services within the district. In...
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Heritage Foundation… Union
Lawsuit Against Florida School Choice
Programs Dismissed, By Brittany Corona -
Hundreds of
Florida parents are able to celebrate the New Year with
access to school choice thanks to a decision last Tuesday to dismiss
the union lawsuit against the Sunshine State’s Personal Learning
Scholarship Accounts and expansion of the tax credit scholarship
program. For the second time, Leon County Circuit Court Judge Charles
Francis found that the Florida Education Association, Florida school
boards, the NAACP...
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Human
Events… Voter
turnout boomed
under Bush, not under Obama, By: Michael
Barone
There is a widespread assumption that President Obama has expanded the
electorate and inspired booming voter turnout. One could make a case
for that based on the 2008 election. But since then, not so much.
Looking back over the past 15 years, the biggest surge in voter turnout
came during George W. Bush’s presidency. In the Obama years, turnout
actually declined in both the 2012 presidential...
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