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January 5th, 2017
Challenges on Obamacare Debate
Lawmakers from both sides will face a big challenge when it comes to deciding what to do about Obamacare, political strategist and Fox News correspondent Karl Rove said Wednesday. “The Republican challenge is that they need to reassure those people who have private insurance on Obamacare that they will be taken care of, and reassure them that they aren’t going...
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January 5th, 2017
Chip Gaines Responds to Buzzfeed Controversy
“Disagreement is not the same thing as hate,” the HGTV star wrote. By Liberty McArtor Published on January 4, 2017 House-flipping celebrity Chip Gaines encouraged people to “lovingly disagree” in a blog post on Monday. “If there is any hope for all of us to move forward, to heal and to grow — we have got to learn to engage...
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January 3rd, 2017
Too Quick to Protest, Too Millennial to Vote
In this political season, Colin Kaepernick has been the prototypical millennial. The San Francisco 49ers quarterback has made headlines less for his statistics and more for his protests, kneeling during the national anthem to raise awareness of racial injustice. Loud outside the ballot box and absent inside it, Kaepernick has used his freedom to express his frustration but has failed...
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January 3rd, 2017
The Year Liberal Ideas Failed
Hillary Clinton lost because she took her eyes off the Rust Belt and foolishly tried to “expand the map” into Arizona and Georgia. Clinton lost because she was unlikable and dishonest. Clinton lost because she ran against Donald Trump rather than for something. Clinton lost because 2016 was a “change” election, and she was the candidate of the status quo....
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December 30th, 2016
Freedom of Association
On Thursday, Madison Square Garden Company boss James Dolan announced that the Radio City Rockettes had to perform at the Trump inauguration. And the Rockettes went off their rockers. One Rockette wrote: I usually don’t use social media to make a political stand but I feel overwhelmed with emotion. Finding out that it has been decided for us that Rockettes...
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December 30th, 2016
No Smooth Transition
As President Obama prepares to officially leave the White House in just a few weeks, he isn’t going quietly. Two weeks ago, he pushed through a permanent ban on offshore drilling in major parts of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Just before Christmas and Chanukah, the U.S. refused to veto an anti-Israel resolution and new reports show that not only...
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December 30th, 2016
Obama’s Latest Hit on Israel
“When the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.” — Barack Obama, AIPAC conference, March 4, 2012 WASHINGTON — The audience — overwhelmingly Jewish, passionately pro-Israel and supremely gullible — applauded wildly. Four years later — his last election behind him, with a month to go in office and with no need to fool Jew or gentile again — Obama...
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December 29th, 2016
President Obama and Israel
Barack Obama has done his best for nearly eight years to undermine the state of Israel. He’s signed a treaty that enshrines an Iranian path to a nuclear weapon while funding their global terrorist activities to the tune of tens of billions of dollars. He’s repeatedly undercut Israel’s image on the world stage, labeling Israel a mere outgrowth of the...
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December 28th, 2016
The UN Vote
This weekend, on the eve of the Jewish holiday that marks that people’s resistance to savage pagan occupation (Chanukah), the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution that is stunning in its moral blindness. It condemned all Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem — two regions where Jews lived for thousands of years before an Arab set foot...
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December 20th, 2016
Use Electoral College Properly
Maine Democratic elector David Bright announced Monday morning that he would vote for Senator Bernie Sanders in the Electoral College. He told the Portland Press-Herald that his vote would send a meaningful message to the thousands of new voters who enrolled as Democrats to support Sanders. “The very least I can do is tell these new voters, ‘Look, somebody did...
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