The British Economist magazine gave its Nov. 1-7 cover story over to a lengthy puff piece on Iran, just in time for the U.S. congressional elections — or more likely, aimed at the looming Nov. 24 deadline for the current round of the endless “P5 + 1″ talks on Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. “The revolution is over,” The Economist bleated: The…
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Should America be the world’s policeman? That was a question I asked my radio audience when I had Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Bret Stephens on to talk about his book, America In Retreat. His argument is that world situations are aflame because America has decided to retreat from a role it inherited after World War II. We currently have a…
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The Associated Press reported recently on what it calls a “growing trend”: Kids eating dinner at school. According to the AP, the Los Angeles Unified School District, “is doubling the number of students served dinner, with an eye toward eventually offering it at every school.” School board member, Bennett Kayser, told the AP, “When kids are hungry, they don’t pay…
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In the first Affordable Care Act case three years ago, the Supreme Court had to decide whether Congress had the power, under the Commerce Clause or some other source of authority, to require individuals to buy health insurance. It was a question that went directly to the structure of American government and the allocation of power within the federal system….
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday condemned those who seek to use religion as a rationale for carrying out violence around the world, declaring that “no god condones terror.” “We are summoned to push back against those who would distort our religion for their nihilistic ends,” Obama said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast. He singled out…
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It’s an unmitigated disaster for Brian Williams and NBC News. The revelation that the NBC anchor had lied on air about being in a helicopter that was forced down after it was hit by enemy fire during the Iraq War is devastating. It’s hard to see how Williams gets past this, and how he survives as the face of NBC…
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Twenty-six states are suing the federal government over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, but U.S. senators representing 10 of those states are taking the opposite approach in Washington. “We have senators from states going against what their constituents want and what their state attorney generals or governors are doing,” says @HvonSpakovsky Lawmakers in Florida, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, North…
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Arizona recently enacted a law that requires students to pass a U.S. citizenship exam in order to graduate from high school. Although it is the first state to require this, many other states like Indiana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Utah, and Virginia may soon also require this of high school students. Under the law, seniors will need to answer 60 of the…
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Let me start with a troubling statistic. America has the highest corporate income tax in the world. When you think of all the countries of the world, some with free markets and many without, it is hard to justify a corporate tax rate of 35 percent. At the very least, many reformers are suggesting that we could have a tax…
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Conservative lawmakers are officially rolling out a new group aimed at advancing a conservative agenda in the House of Representatives after they expressed discontent with the direction of the Republican Study Committee. “Our main hope is that we can represent the voids and valleys for our constituents back home,” Rep. Raúl Labrador of Idaho told The Daily Signal today. “With…
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Here is an interesting question. What if the best arguments used by atheists to prove that God does not exist actually prove that He does exist? This is a question that Frank Turek considers in his new book, Stealing From God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case. He is the co-author of the best selling book, I Don’t…
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