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Daily Signal… IRS
Employees Erased 422 Backup Tapes Containing 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s
Emails,
by Leah Jessen -- June 25, 2015 -- Investigators at the Internal
Revenue Service are looking to agency employees as the reason thousands
of emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner were lost, and the
agency’s watchdog said today their actions were a mistake. The Treasury
Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) J. Russell George
testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
and told lawmakers...
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Townhall…
The
Iranian-American Nuclear Project, Caroline
Glick
Jun 26, 2015 - Under President Barack Obama, the US has implemented
policies toward Iran that are catastrophic for Israel specifically, for
US Middle East allies more generally and for US national security
itself. Consider, first, the known details of the soon-to-be- concluded
nuclear deal. In an article published by The New York Times this week,
Prof. Alan Kuperman explained that Obama’s central justification...
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The Daily Signal… More
Honest
Accounting Shows That Repealing Obamacare Is Good for the Economy,
by Paul Winfree -- June 19, 2015 -- The fiscal year 2016 budget
resolution passed by Congress in May requires the Congressional Budget
Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation to include the macroeconomic
feedback effects of changes in policy on the budget when evaluating
major legislation (CBO and JCT are the official number crunchers of
Congress). Specifically, Section 3112 of the resolution requires CBO
and JCT to “incorporate...
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The
Daily Signal… Top
9 Quotes From
Justice Scalia’s Scathing Dissent in King v. Burwell,
by Tiffany Bates & Elizabeth Slattery -- June 25, 2015 --
Justice
Antonin Scalia is known for his sharp wit and even sharper pen. He
pulled no punches in his dissent today from the Supreme Court’s
decision in King v. Burwell allowing the Obama administration to allow
Obamacare subsidies to flow through the federal exchange. Here are nine
highlights: 1. “We should start...
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Mike
Causey's Federal Report… 'Good'
news about the OPM breach, By Mike Causey
Friday - 6/19/2015 -- So what, if any, is the good news coming out of
the Great Hack Job of 2015. Can there be any? The short answer is, yes,
some, a little. But first this: At this point in time, we still don't
know what we don't know. What we know, or think we know, is: The breach
took place late last year. It wasn't discovered until April. The hack
attack was made public June 6. It covers an estimated...
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| The
Daily Signal… How
Liberals
Manipulate Data About the Minimum Wage,
James Sherk - June 20, 2015 - Does the U.S.-Canadian speed gap bother
you? Americans can drive no faster than 65 on Massachusetts highways.
Meanwhile Canadian motorists zip along at speeds of up to 100. Congress
should close this inequitable speed gap! This argument sounds
ridiculous, because it is. Canadians measure speed in kilometers per
hour, not miles per hour. Moreover, many states have higher speed
limits than Massachusetts. Any comparison...
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Daily Signal… House
Republican Unveils Conservative Response to King v. Burwell,
by Melissa Quinn - June 18, 2015 -- As Republican lawmakers brace for
the U.S. Supreme
Court’s King v. Burwell decision, a conservative plan has emerged that
would eliminate the subsidies awarded under the Affordable Care Act,
popularly known as Obamacare. In anticipation of the King v. Burwell
decision, Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., introduced the Premium Reduction
and Insurance Market Reform Act. The bill would end Obamacare’s
subsidies and eliminate...
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Townhall… The
Confederate
Flag and South Carolina, By Steve Chapman
Jun 21, 2015 -- When I went off to college in 1972, leaving Texas for
New England, I took something to remind me of home: a large Confederate
flag. With my roommates' indulgence, it hung on the wall of my freshman
dorm suite the entire academic year. It seemed harmless at the time. I
didn't intend any racial message, and I didn't feel any sympathy for
racial bigotry. Although I had attended...
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The Daily Signal… Rand
Paul
Warns GOP Leadership: Don’t Give Us ‘Obamacare Lite’,
David Brody - June 19, 2015 - Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tells The Daily
Signal that he’s not in favor of a GOP plan to extend Obamacare
subsidies for a couple of years if the Supreme Court rules they are
unconstitutional in the King v. Burwell case. “By keeping parts of
Obamacare and letting it sputter on for awhile and saying we’re just
going to get rid of...
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Daily Signal… Can
Hillary
Clinton Be the ‘Champion’ of Everyday Americans?
Alec Siegel - June 15, 2015 - ROOSEVELT ISLAND, N.Y.—The theatrics of
Hillary Clinton’s campaign relaunch here Saturday—live music, a dance
performance, a crowd of nearly 5,500—were carefully choreographed to
position the former first lady, senator and secretary of state as a
“champion” of everyday Americans. How did some of these everyday
Americans attending the speech at Four Freedoms Park react to Clinton’s...
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The
Daily Signal… Winston
Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and the Fragility of Freedom,
by Justin D. Lyons
June 08, 2015 -- This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of
Sir Winston Churchill and the 150th anniversary of the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln—two men whose lives and achievements shed light on the
fragility of freedom and the statesmanship necessary to preserve it. As
noted in my recent essay, “Champion of Liberty: Winston Churchill and
His Message to America,” both were leaders of democracies...
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| The
Daily Signal… Obama
Taunts
Supreme Court on Obamacare Case,
by Hans von Spakovsky & Elizabeth Slattery -- June 09, 2015 --
It’s
déjà vu all over again. President Obama’s comments about King v.
Burwell during a press conference at the G-7 summit in Germany earlier
this week echo those he made when the Affordable Care Act was before
the Supreme Court in 2012. Putting on his
constitutional-lawyer-in-chief hat in 2012, Obama said, “I’m confident
that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented,
extraordinary...
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Senior Scribes… Swishing...
From a CNO Reader
A woman goes to the Doctor worried about her husband's temper. The
Doctor asks, "What's the problem?" The woman says, "Doctor, I don't
know what to do. Every day my husband seems to lose his temper for no
reason. It scares me." The Doctor says, "I have a cure for that. When
it seems that your husband is getting angry, just take...
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The
Daily Signal… 4
Liberal Myths
About Ronald Reagan Debunked, by Lee Edwards
June 07, 2015 -- Presidential historian H. W. Brands’ new biography of
Ronald Reagan and his conclusion that modern American politics is best
seen as “The Age of Reagan” has aroused liberals to circulate once
again the hoariest myths about the man and his presidency, including
the malicious charge that Reagan was deliberately indifferent to the
lot of African-Americans and other minorities. Liberal Myth No. 1:
Reagan’s dangerously...
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The Daily Signal… The
New
Congressional Plan to Repeal and Replace Obamacare,
by Diana Stancy & Kelsey Harkness -- June 05, 2015 -- A group
of
House Republicans unveiled a 192-page health care plan that fully
repeals Obamacare and replaces it with “patient-centered reforms” and
“free-market solutions.” Lawmakers released the plan Thursday as the
GOP-led Congress prepares to attack the Affordable Care Act. Both
houses of Congress have already signaled...
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| The
Daily Signal… There’s
Broad
Public Support for Congress to Reduce Insurance Costs in Response to
King v. Burwell,
Nina Owcharenko - June 02, 2015 - As director of the Center for Health
Policy Studies, Nina Owcharenko oversees The Heritage Foundation’s
research and policy prescriptions on such issues as health care reform
on the federal and state levels, Medicare and Medicaid, children’s
health and prescription drugs. Read her research. By the end of June,
the Supreme Court is expected to issue...
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Townhall… Crime
Wave: Murders
Skyrocket Across The Country, by Katie Pavlich
Jun 03, 2015 -- Anti-police sentiment in big cities across the country
comes at a cost and we're seeing it now with skyrocketing crime
statistics from St. Louis to New York City. Baltimore - Murders have
doubled with 43 homicides last month alone; Chicago - 900+ shootings
this year; St. Louis - 55 murders this year; Dallas - Violent crime up
10 percent; Atlanta - Homicides up 32 percent...
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The
Daily Signal… How
‘Affordable’
Will Health Insurance Be in 2016? By Melissa
Quinn
June 01, 2015 -- For consumers purchasing health insurance under the
Affordable Care Act next year, plans may no longer be quite as
“affordable” as they were in the past. Health insurance companies
around the country are providing states with their proposed premium
rates for 2016, and changes include rate hikes of up to 51 percent in
New Mexico and more than 30 percent in Maryland and Tennessee. The
proposed rate changes come...
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Redstate… George
Bush more
popular than Obama, Posted by streiff
June 3, 2015 - This is pretty much karma on steroids and PCP. Americans
now have a more favorable view of former President George W. Bush than
they do of President Barack Obama. It is the first time in more than a
decade that Americans have expressed a favorable view of Bush, at least
according to a new CNN/ORC poll released...
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