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January 22nd, 2024
US Department of the Treasury Logo
US House of Representatives Judiciary subcommittee is seeking to question a former official in the US Treasury’s financial crimes enforcement office over revelations the agency urged financial institutions to flag customer transactions linked to phrases like “MAGA” and “Trump” as well as purchases of religious texts.
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January 22nd, 2024
Stack of multi-racial hands
Andre Archie argues that “social justice” groups are dragging us back to segregation, and making race relations worse, not better.
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January 19th, 2024
socialized medicine
America is experiencing the worst shortage of prescription medicines in nearly a decade. Patients and their physicians are struggling to obtain more than 300 drugs, mostly generics.
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January 19th, 2024
sad child with measles
Last month, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia experienced a measles outbreak when several unvaccinated children contracted the disease. The city’s public health department issued an alert on Jan. 4:
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January 17th, 2024
Welcome to Texas
By: Henry Olsen – nationalreview.com – January 4, 2024 Conservatives have noticed approvingly that deep-blue states such as California and New York have been losing residents to deep-red ones such as Texas and Florida since the pandemic. Many note that this points to the comparative advantage low-tax places have in attracting businesses and families. Few have noted, however, the possibly...
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January 15th, 2024
Biden - angry pointing finger
By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – January 15, 2024 Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, chronicled various neurotic disorders, including “projection” and other psychological defense mechanisms. Projection occurs when someone “projects” their own feelings, motives, behaviors and thoughts onto others. It’s a way of coping with one’s own insecurities and to blame one’s problems on others. Another Freudian concept is...
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January 11th, 2024
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Last year marked the twentieth anniversary of the passing of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, distinguished educator, politician, diplomat and four-term U.S. senator from New York State from 1977 to 2001. It also marked the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of his landmark essay “Defining Deviancy Down” in The American Scholar.
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January 11th, 2024
SBC Teen/young adults worshipping
In 1986, The New York Times described evangelicals as “more easily led than other kinds of voters.” Then in 1993, The Washington Post reported that evangelicals were “largely poor, uneducated and easy to command.” (The Washington Post issued a correction; the Times did not.)
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January 10th, 2024
Texas State Seal - Bronze
What really makes red states prosperous is the determination of its politicians to do the best they can with a modest revenue stream
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January 7th, 2024
Capitol building at night
On the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, President Joe Biden and the Democrats still operate as if this one terrible afternoon is the No. 1 issue of the 2024 campaign.
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