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August 29th, 2018
ballot going into box
By: Ellen Cranley – aol.com – August 28th 2018 Voters head to the polls Tuesday for primary elections in Florida, Arizona, and Oklahoma in a potentially historic vote. Tonight’s primaries include 15 millennials who are running for seats in the House of Representatives, and Florida’s race for governor could yield some demographic firsts for state offices. Continuing the swell of...
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August 29th, 2018
Beto at Town Meeting - gettyimages
By: Nicole Goodkind – newsweek.com – August 28, 2018 With less than three months until the midterm elections, new poll data has Democratic Texas Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke in a statistical tie with incumbent Ted Cruz. An Emerson College e-poll conducted from August 22-25 had Cruz with 38 percent of the vote and O’Rourke with 37 percent. About 21 percent...
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August 28th, 2018
Crime scene vehicle at Jacksonville Mall
By: Nicole Darrah – FoxNews.com – August 27, 2018 The gunman who opened fire on a “Madden NFL 19” tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday was hospitalized previously for mental illness, according to court records. Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore showed that as a teenager he was hospitalized twice in psychiatric facilities and was...
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August 24th, 2018
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By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 23, 2018 Failure to enforce the law magnifies the personal injustice. Let’s begin by stipulating two things. First, so long as there is an immigration debate, there will be racists and political opportunists who latch on to isolated events to make broad, sweeping judgments to score political points and to increase ethnic tensions...
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August 23rd, 2018
Michael Cohen exits federal court
By: Mike Huckabee – stream.org – August 21, 2018 On Tuesday afternoon, on the heels of a jury verdict — well, partial verdict — in the Paul Manafort trial that could send Manafort to prison for the rest of his life even though it had nothing to do with Donald Trump or Russian collusion, it was revealed that Michael Cohen...
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August 20th, 2018
Jack Phillips at work at his Masterpiece Cakeshop
By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – August 19, 2018 Vox may still be keeping up its risible just-the-facts posturing, but it is tendentious to the point of dishonesty: “Colorado baker who refused to serve gay couple now wants to refuse to serve transgender person,” it says. That is not true, of course. (But everybody knows that.) Phillips serves customers...
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August 20th, 2018
vote here sign
By: Ross Kecseg – empowertexans.com – August 16, 2018 Conservative leaders are calling on the Texas governor to prevent non-citizens and other ineligible persons from voting illegally. According to a statement issued at today’s press conference, more than 280,000 non-citizens in Texas are registered to vote, with another four million registered voters in question. Direct Action Texas (DAT), a watchdog...
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August 13th, 2018
Voting Booth
By: Kevin McCullough – townhall.com – August 12, 2018 It was merely a comment, a reply, not even a full throated post on Twitter. Shannon Bream of FoxNews’ ratings’ dominant prime time line-up had linked a post about a headline of an election related story in Ohio. @ShannonBream: “Well, that’s an interesting headline: 170 Voters in Ohio Race ‘Over 116...
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August 6th, 2018
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By: Jonah Goldberg – nationalreview.com – August 3, 2018 When I was a youngish teenager, I went to the bank one day. (This was pre-ATM machines, kids.) I stood in line behind a very old, very properly dressed white lady, complete with the sort of fancy hat that I still don’t know the proper name for. When she got to...
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July 30th, 2018
UT Stadium w Texas Flag
By: Timothy Meads – townhall.com – July 29, 2018 In the latest efforts to rectify America’s history of its slaveholding past, Austin’s Equity Office suggested that the Texas capital change its entire name in addition to removing statues and street signs in honor of Confederate soldiers. Austin, TX is named after Stephen F. Austin. The man, now known as the...
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