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April 18th, 2018
SC Justice Neil Gorsuch
By: AP Staff – businessinsider.com – April 17, 2018 The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced. The court’s 5-4 decision — an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns...
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April 13th, 2018
zuckerberg before congress
By: Kurt Wagner – recode.net – April 11, 2018 Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about Facebook’s data collection and privacy policies this week from almost 100 different politicians in nearly 10 hours of public testimony. The hearings had it all. One lawmaker literally held up the U.S. Constitution at Zuckerberg and recited the First Amendment. Another asked him about his college...
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April 9th, 2018
Parkland, FL
By: Foster Friess – usatoday.com – March 9, 2018 If we are going to help avoid new generations of school violence like that unleashed in Parkland, Fla., last month, changing laws isn’t enough. We have to address the core of the problem: the shooter himself. Who was Nikolas Cruz? Like many other mass shooters, fatherless or a victim of divorce,...
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April 6th, 2018
Pelosi - tax increases?
By: Guy Benson – townhall.com – April 05, 2018 Nancy Pelosi didn’t have a great day yesterday, making an embarrassing, ‘Anchorman’-style mistake on social media, then handing Republicans another ready-made attack line against Democrats heading into the fall.  On the Twitter faux pas, it looks like she or somebody on her staff was supposed to tag a tweet with names...
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April 6th, 2018
Trump - Dysfunctional Immigration
By: Ann Coulter – humanevents.com – April 4, 2018 Once upon a time, we cared about the welfare of our fellow Americans. Farmers in the Midwest devastated by tornadoes, trailer parks washed away in a Florida hurricane, our country’s ranking on various international comparisons — we all rooted for our fellow Americans. Like all countries, we would squabble, but we...
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April 6th, 2018
Scott_Pruitt
The media’s biggest target after Trump is Scott Pruitt, the president’s most effective cabinet secretary. Ousting him would be a huge victory. By: Mollie Ziegler Hemingway – TheFederalist.com – April 4, 2018 After Donald Trump, the individual in DC with the biggest target on his back is Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt. When he was attorney general of Oklahoma,...
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April 4th, 2018
Teachers pack state Capitol rotunda to capacity during teacher walkout in Oklahoma City
By: Mark Antonio Wright – nationalreview.com – April 3, 2018 A deeply red state has refused to fund its schools at adequate levels, and conservatives there must work to change that. In the shadow of the state capitol building on Monday morning, thousands of public-school teachers from across the state rallied after walking off the job. After months of negotiations...
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April 4th, 2018
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By: Dana Goldstein – nytimes.com – April 2, 2018 Thousands of teachers in Oklahoma and Kentucky walked off the job Monday morning, shutting down school districts as they protested cuts in pay, benefits and school funding in a movement that has spread rapidly since igniting in West Virginia this year. In Oklahoma City, protesting teachers ringed the Capitol, chanting, “No...
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April 2nd, 2018
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By: George Will – nationalreview.com – April 1, 2018 Another fiscally ruinous entitlement is the last thing America needs. The recent bipartisan budget agreement, which indicates that ten-digit deficits are acceptable to both parties even when the economy is robust, indicates government’s future. So does government’s pregnancy, which was announced nine months ago by this tweet from Senator Marco Rubio...
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March 28th, 2018
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By: Jonah Goldberg – nationalreview.com – March 28, 2018 It’s not true that Trump was tricked or betrayed into signing the omnibus. President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending deal on Friday, averting another government shutdown. Written largely in secret and passed without any time to read its 2,232 pages, the bill violated pretty much everything the GOP had...
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