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December 1st, 2017
Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to FBI
By: Jeremy Herb, Katelyn Polantz, Evan Perez and Marshall Cohen – cnn.com – December 1, 2017 Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty Friday to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia’s ambassador and disclosed that he is cooperating with the special counsel’s office. Flynn is the first person inside President Donald Trump’s administration to be reached...
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December 1st, 2017
Lawmakers Hush Fund
By: Cortney O’Brien – townhall.com – November 30, 2017 Americans were rightfully outraged when they learned that members of Congress had used taxpayer dollars to pay settlement claims to alleged victims of sexual harassment. They were even more outraged when they saw the numbers. The secret payouts for harassment claims, of which there have been more than 200, amounted to...
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November 21st, 2017
Bill Clinton and Sexual Allegations
By: Ed Klein – November 20, 2017 – Dailymail.com Edward Klein is the former editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine and the author of numerous bestsellers including his fourth book on the Clintons, Guilty as Sin, in 2016. His latest book is All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump was released on October 30, 2017. Bill...
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November 21st, 2017
Evaluating Allegations of Sexual Misconduct
By: Marvin Olasky – November 17, 2017 – World Magazine The past two days have brought more Roy Moore accusers, but the big news is the new front in the sexual predator wars: Washington, with accusations against Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., that contain photographic evidence. This development shows how the current cultural moment can be a positive one for a Biblical...
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November 16th, 2017
The Appeal of Mandate Repeal
Killing the ObamaCare tax will make it easier to restore insurer subsidies. The House is poised to pass tax reform on Thursday, while Senate Republicans have fortified their draft to include a repeal of ObamaCare’s individual mandate. The latter is being denounced as an attempt to deny Americans health insurance, but Republicans can rebut this falsehood and achieve two policy...
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August 9th, 2017
Google and Diversity
You may have heard that a Google software engineer anonymously circulated a memo about “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” The tech blog Motherboard reports that the memo went viral within the company. In it, the engineer argues that Google has created a “politically correct monoculture” in which honest discussion of its hiring practices is impossible. The author avows several times that...
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August 6th, 2017
Comprehensive Immigration Reform?
Conservative efforts at health-care reform are, for the moment, a shambles. Conservative efforts at tax reform are foundering as well, though their prospects may be sunnier, given the habitual Republican appetite for tax cuts of almost any description, including irresponsible ones. Both the tax-reform project and the health-care project have run into trouble because of a lack of intellectual and...
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August 3rd, 2017
The Trump Budget
Remember President Trump’s “terrible” budget cuts? “Promises Little but Pain,” warned The New York Times. “Harsh and shortsighted,” cried The Washington Post. Then Congress passed a budget. President Trump signed it. Do you notice the “pain”? I follow the news closely, but until I researched this column, I didn’t know that Congress actually raised spending on the very agencies Trump...
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August 3rd, 2017
Contract With Republicans
In 1994, after 40 years in the wilderness, Republicans swept both houses of Congress, running on Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America,” in which the GOP promised to hold votes on 10 popular policies in the first 100 days. They won, fulfilled the contract, and went on to control the House for more than a decade. More recently, the country gave...
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