Will it be Susan B. Anthony or Harriet Tubman? Eleanor Roosevelt or Rosa Parks? Or another important woman from American history? These will be among the names the nation ponders after the Obama administration’s announcement late Wednesday that a woman will be featured on the $10 bill, the first time in well over a century that a female portrait will grace…
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If you want to see how political correctness can even be used to destroy a fellow liberal professor, just look at what happened to Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis. Her essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education led to a university investigation of her in what she has described as “My Title IX Inquisition.” Rich Lowry believes it is a…
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There is a growing threat to the children and youth of America, a problem unprecedented for previous generations in the land of the free and the home of the brave. The sex trafficking industry has moved into our borders and it is growing. No longer are human smugglers just bringing in kidnapped foreigners but now the emboldened traffickers will seize…
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It’s to be expected that I hardly agree with President Obama on any political issues, as we have radically different worldviews, but what I don’t understand is why there isn’t more alarm from all quarters about the potentially existential threats to this nation posed by his policies. Obama’s ideas, policies and actions in office are often so outrageous that when…
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Campaign season is just around the corner. So we are now hearing from all sorts of pundits and consultants about what candidates should do or not do. Karl Rove recently asked, Are Social Issues Hurting Republicans? His answer is yes. That is why he is calling for a change in how Republican candidates address abortion and marriage. He understands that…
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The Isis militant group has seized enough radioactive material from government facilities to suggest it has the capacity to build a large and devastating “dirty” bomb, according to Australian intelligence reports. Isis declared its ambition to develop weapons of mass destruction in the most recent edition of its propaganda magazine Dabiq, and Indian defence officials have previously warned of the…
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Each day we get closer to the June 30 deadline for the president and his administration to negotiate a nuclear treaty with Iran. What we have learned so far doesn’t suggest that we should enter into an agreement nor should we trust what the leaders of Iran say they will do. Let’s look at a few issues. Iran’s nuclear stockpile…
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Later this month The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on state marriage laws. Here are the three most important things you need to know about the case, and what to do after the Court rules. 1. Whatever people may think about marriage as a policy matter, everyone should be able to recognize the U.S. Constitution does not settle…
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Americans need to make an informed choice about this country’s foreign policy. We will be making that decision in this upcoming election. And I believe that foreign policy will be a more important issue in choosing a candidate than in previous elections. Ian Bremmer explains the options in his book, Superpower: Three choices for America’s Role in the World. In…
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While the domestic spying National Security Agency has been under the red-hot political spot light, another quasi-governmental agency has quietly gone about the business of collecting nearly 1 billion U.S. credit card records without consumer consent. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, CFPB, unlike the NSA, operates with no congressional oversight and with little public transparency, even as it demands complete…
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Covering issues from Europe to terrorism and IT, the lesser known Bilderberg policy conference includes prime ministers, CEOs from banks, airlines, oil and the arms industry, and even George Osborne. As one summit closes, another opens. Thursday sees the start of the influential Bilderberg policy conference, which this year is being held in Austria, just 16 miles south of the…
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