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Ways to Be an Annoying Tourist When You're Traveling,
by Kate Friedman, Glamour
Do you make these touristy moves?© Dominique Maitre Do you make these
touristy moves? Reddit user xavierdc recently asked this question:
"Non-Americans of Reddit, What is a dead giveaway that a tourist in
your country is American?" The post blew up within hours with hundreds
of hilarious (and somewhat embarrassing) responses that may cause us to
rethink some of our choices next time we travel abroad. Take a look at
some of these hilariously...
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The
Daily Signal… Seattle
Voted to
Hike the Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour. Here’s What Happened to Seattle’s
Job Market.
By Leah Jessen -- October 22, 2015 -- The $15 minimum wage increase in
the Seattle area “is getting off to a pretty bad start,” according to a
new report. Data shows that the Seattle Metropolitan Statistical Area
(MSA) lost 700 restaurant jobs from January to September of this year,
and a report from the American Enterprise Institute suggests that this
could be the product of adverse effects of minimum wage hikes on
restaurant jobs...
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The
Daily Signal… Ohio
Might Be the
Next State to Defund Planned Parenthood, By
Kate Scanlon
October 22, 2015 -- Ohio could become the next state to defund Planned
Parenthood. The Ohio Senate approved legislation on Wednesday that
would prevent state and certain federal funds from going to Planned
Parenthood. The legislation was approved in a 23-10 vote and was sent
to the Republican-led state House for consideration. In a statement,
Ohio Senate President Keith Faber, R-Celina, said that “these public
funds will now provide...
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The
Daily Signal… 6
Out of 10
Americans Oppose Partial Obamacare Repeal That Leaves Taxes In Place,
Matthew Streit - October 21, 2015 - Republicans have voted to repeal
Obamacare dozens of times. This week the House will try again using a
budgetary tactic called reconciliation to repeal parts of the law.
Reconciliation is the filibuster-proof tool Democrats used to pass the
President Barack Obama’s signature health care law in March of 2010.
Earlier this year, Republicans signaled they would use the legislative...
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Federal
News Radio… Time
to stick a
plastic fork into this federal program? By Tom
Temin
October 21, 2015 -- I never bought school lunches. My mom always packed
mine into a metal lunchbox. I would buy a little bottle of whole milk
at the cafeteria for 3 cents. Impossibly, I still have a Keds shoe box
full of the cardboard bottle stops, each illustrated with a sketch of a
U.S. president. The latest one was LBJ. Today the prosaic school lunch
has become an object of intense federal effort — and the evidence shows
it’s not working out too well...
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Townhall…
Flip-flops
Show
Hillary's Long On Ambition, Short on Principles,
Jonah Goldberg - Oct 09, 2015 - Hillary Clinton revealed on Wednesday
that she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, providing
just the latest evidence that she is little more than political
ambition wrapped in a pantsuit. Pay attention to the press coverage,
because it's fascinating: Nobody takes Clinton at her word. I'm not
just referring to her conservative critics. Slate's Jim Newell asks,
"Will anyone find Clinton's position convincing?" The...
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Federal
News Radio… ‘You
snooze you
lose’ message timed perfectly for Boehner on way out,
By Francis Rose -- October 12, 2015 -- Last week, as the House of
Representatives came down around Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy
(R-Calif.), I told a colleague, “John Boehner (R-Ohio) promised to
‘clean the barn up’ before he left. He should go big before he goes
home.” The lightbulb came on in my head. What a great title for a
commentary! It would riff eloquently on the work Boehner could get done
between now and his departure date, especially since...
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The carrot, the egg and the
coffee bean,
From a CNO reader
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how
things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make
it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. Her
mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In
the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the
last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit...
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The
Daily Signal… McCain
Urges Lawsuit
Against Obama Administration Over the Iran Deal,
David Brody - October 07, 2015 - Sen. John McCain says he wants to see
a lawsuit against the Obama administration over the Iran nuclear deal.
“I think he’s in defiance of the law and I believe we should have
lawsuits that bring justice,” McCain tells The Daily Signal. Back in
the spring, President Barack Obama signed into law the Corker-Cardin
bill, which required his administration to turn over “all related
materials and annexes” related to the Iran deal...
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Townhall… What
Common-Sense Gun
Control Looks Like, by Erick Erickson
Oct 09, 2015 -- Last Thursday, as Americans were still coming to grips
with the tragic rampage in Oregon, President Obama addressed the
American people. An hour before the president spoke, news outlets were
confirming that the shooter in Oregon had targeted his victims based on
their religion. Multiple eyewitnesses and relatives of the victims all
said the shooter asked the victims to state their religion...
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Human
Events… The
Media’s Latest Phony
Attack on Ben Carson, David Limbaugh
Friday Oct 9, 2015 - How about the next time the mainstream media
decide to fabricate a controversy against a conservative presidential
candidate, they choose something less laughable? The media’s latest
faux gasp concerns Dr. Ben Carson’s comments about the Oregon school
shooting. When I first watched news reports on it, I didn’t immediately
grasp the reason for the fuss, not having the artificial sensibilities
of the MSM...
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The
Daily Signal… Recess
Consultant
Hired in Minnesota Schools, Kids Get Coached Through Play Time,
by Leah Jessen -- October 06, 2015 -- What happens when an adult steps
onto the recess playground with new rules and a game list in hand that
reads “Animal Tag,” “Four Square Volleyball,” and “Basketball Bowling?”
Two elementary schools in the Minneapolis area, in the town of Edina,
have gone from the usual “on duty” recess supervisor to hiring a recess
consultant. As part of a new strategy, kids are now coached through
play at recess...
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The
Daily Signal… How
California’s
New Assisted Suicide Law Could Especially Hurt the Poor,
By Katrina Trinko -- October 06, 2015 -- “My concern is for people who
don’t have resources, who don’t have a choice. You read about Oregon
denying someone a lung transplant, but, ‘Here, you can you have these
pills.’ That’s my fear about what this would become.” That’s what
Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat who represents the San Diego
area, told the Sacramento...
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The
Daily Signal… NY
Times Report:
Number of Oregon Natives Want Guns After Massacre,
by Sara Jones -- October 09, 2015 -- The tragedy at Umpqua Community
College in Oregon has reignited the national gun debate. Unlike
President Barack Obama, who called for stricter gun control, The New
York Times reports that many residents of Roseburg, Ore., “want to have
a gun.” Passion and tension have gripped the nation as Americans fight
for what they believe would be the best answer to prevent future gun
massacres in the homeland. According to...
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Federal News Radio… Shutdown
preppers update, By Mike Causey
October 8, 2015 - This is something that even the GS 13 who has
everything will appreciate. What is it? How about food? Money, maybe?
If money is too impersonal, get him or her one of those prepper kits.
You know, packages containing a week, month or year” supply of
delicious all-you-add-is-water meals. Something to get someone through
hard times...
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The
Daily Signal… Senators
Reach
Long-Elusive Deal to Reduce ‘Unjust’ Prison Sentences,
by Josh Siegel -- October 01, 2015 -- A bipartisan group of senators
have reached a long-elusive deal on criminal justice reform, with a
proposal that would reduce mandatory minimum prison sentences for
certain nonviolent drug offenses and allow well-behaved inmates to earn
time off their prison terms. After months of negotiations, the Senate
Judiciary Committee’s agreement — dubbed the Criminal Justice Reform
and Corrections Act of 2015 — was set to be introduced...
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Townhall… Our
Shameful Foreign
Policy, Erick Erickson
Oct 02, 2015 - Barack Obama has made the American political left
comfortable with human rights abuses. See a despot engaged in genocide
in Obama's America, blame George W. Bush and move on. In Afghanistan,
American soldiers are being driven out of the military for taking
action to stop Afghan soldiers from raping boys. Rape is a war crime...
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The
Washington Post…Trump
will lose,
or I will eat this column, By Dana Milbank
October 2 - I never expected to write these words, but I miss Mitt
Romney. On Wednesday, the day the front-runner for the 2016 Republican
presidential nomination was in New Hampshire alleging that Syrian
refugees fleeing for their lives may actually be clandestine
terrorists, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee was in Washington,
talking sense. “Donald Trump will not be the nominee,” Romney told a
group...
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The
Daily Signal… The
Consequences
of Russia’s Bombing Campaign in Syria,
Josh Siegel - October 01, 2015 - Since the fall of the Soviet Union,
the United States has worked to isolate Russia from the Middle East.
Now, in 2015 and five years into a devastating civil war in Syria,
Russia has not only entered the most intractable situation in the
Middle East, but also attacked the situation with indiscriminate
authority. Under the guise of fighting terrorism to protect itself and
save the ruthless government of Bashar Assad, Russian...
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