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March 13th, 2019
College-Campus-Safety
By: Liam Quinn – foxnews.com – March 12, 2019 Reaction from Candace Owens, communications director for Turning Point USA. College campuses aren’t a safe space for Republicans students, according to a new survey. More than 1,500 students from 207 schools took part in the study conducted by OneClass, an online education platform. Of those asked, 38 percent of Republican students said they sometimes feel...
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March 12th, 2019
pill-bottle-hands
By: Wesley J. Smith – nationalreview.com –  March 11, 2019 Obamacare failed. There is no denying it anymore. The supposed “signature achievement” of the 44th president isn’t just opposed by Republicans. The Affordable Care Act has now been jilted also by many Democrats, who, like so modern-day Lotharios, have abandoned their once-burning ardor for state insurance exchanges to pursue “single-payer” health...
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March 11th, 2019
By: Elizabeth Vaughn – redstate.com – March 10, 2019 Intellectual giant Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took the SXSW by storm on Saturday with her socialist rhetoric. Speaking at the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, TX, she opened fire on everything from capitalism to FDR’s “racist” New Deal. On President Reagan, AOC said: One perfect example, I think a perfect example...
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March 11th, 2019
patient with medical-technician
By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – March 10, 2019 The Trump administration is considering a rule that would require doctors and hospitals to disclose the rates they negotiate with insurance companies, a step toward establishing something that is sorely wanting in the U.S. health-care market: prices. Milton Friedman famously described the four ways you can spend money. You can: 1....
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March 8th, 2019
AOC hugs
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 6, 2019 Don’t be surprised if either Paul Ryan or John Boehner has put in an empathy call to current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week. The former Republican House Speakers know all about willful backbenchers, and Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez make the GOP Freedom Caucus look like powder puffs....
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March 8th, 2019
trump waves
By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – March 7, 2019 Trump ran as an outcast. He promised to ‘drain,’ not to perpetuate, the swamp. No one in Washington called Donald J. Trump a “god” (as journalist Evan Thomas in 2009 had suggested of Obama) when he arrived in January 2017. No one felt nerve impulses in his leg when Trump talked, as...
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March 8th, 2019
Ilhan_Omar
By: David French – nationalreview.com – March 7, 2019 Something remarkable is happening on the Democratic side of the aisle. Faced with multiple anti-Semitic statements from freshman member of Congress Ilhan Omar, the Democrats are actually struggling to unite to condemn her remarks. This disunity is made all the more remarkable by the fact that there is nothing at all subtle...
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March 6th, 2019
Center for Security Policy
By: Tommy Waller – centerforsecuritypolicy.org – May 11, 2017 This week, the state legislature of Texas took monumental steps to secure its own part of the U.S. electric grid known officially as the Texas Interconnection. On May 9th, the Texas Senate passed SB83 by a 28-3 vote. Authored by Texas State Senator Bob Hall, SB83 addresses the Texas electric grid’s...
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March 6th, 2019
Illegal immigrants w/ super-imposed wall
By: Caitlin Dickerson – nytimes.com – March 5, 2019 The number of migrant families crossing the southwest border has once again broken records, with unauthorized entries nearly doubling what they were a year ago, suggesting that the Trump administration’s aggressive policies have not discouraged new migration to the United States. More than 76,000 migrants crossed the border without authorization in February, an 11-year...
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March 5th, 2019
Ilhan Omar
By: Cristina Marcos – thehill.com – March 4, 2019 Democrats are dealing with a new storm of controversy surrounding freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who for a second time in less than a month has made critical remarks about Israel. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other top Democratic leaders have drafted a resolution, expected to get a floor vote on Wednesday, to...
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