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  • The Liberal Tilt at PolitiFact

    06/29/2016 5:02:51 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 29, 2016 | Brent Bozell
    CNN's "Reliable Sources" offered a panel discussion on June 26 asking if Americans are so apathetic to the truth that our politics have entered a "post-fact check phase." This is a reference to Donald Trump, of course. The media believe he's a liar and gets away with it because of public apathy. What these journalists will never concede, however, is that Democrats get away with dishonesty because of their own apathy. Hillary Clinton's obscene lie about landing in sniper fire in Bosnia is a distant memory. Washington Post humorist/columnist Gene Weingarten was less than amused. Referencing the segment, he tweeted,...
  • After 'Brexit,' Can We Exit a Few Things Too?

    06/29/2016 4:53:53 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 11 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 29, 2013 | Ron Paul
    Last week's U.K. vote to leave the EU may have come as a shock to many, but the sentiment that led British voters to reject rule from Brussels is nothing unique. In fact it is growing sentiment worldwide. Frustration with politics as usual, with political parties that really do not differ in philosophy, with an economy that serves the one percent at the expense of the rest of society is a growing phenomenon throughout Europe and in the United States as well. The Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump phenomena are but one example of a frustrated public sensing something is...
  • Convicted and Unemployed

    06/29/2016 4:43:22 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 71 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 29, 2016 | John Stossel
    Just got out of jail? Odds are that within five years, you'll get caught doing something illegal and go back to jail. This is bad for ex-cons, their victims, their families and America. Some of these people, of course, are career criminals who ought to stay in jail. But most are people who deserve another chance. They are more likely to stay straight if they find work. Work gives people purpose. It fills the idle hours that get many people into trouble. But America makes it extra hard for ex-cons to find work. Some states make it illegal. Illinois bans...
  • Obama Makes An Impossible Clean Energy Promise

    06/29/2016 4:36:32 AM PDT · by IBD editorial writer · 15 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 6/28/2016 | Staff
    Energy: At a "Three Amigos" summit in Ottawa this week, President Obama and the leaders of Canada and Mexico will pledge that in less than a decade, half of North America's energy will come from "clean" sources. The administration calls it "ambitious." We call it "ludicrous." Since the U.S. accounts for three-quarters of the total energy produced by these three countries, the responsibility of living up to any such agreement would fall most heavily on the U.S. So is there a reasonable chance that the U.S. could achieve such a goal? Let's look at some of the relevant facts. According...
  • Outsourcing Security Is Dumb and Deadly

    06/29/2016 4:34:01 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 29, 2016 | Michelle Malkin
    It is not a theory that delegating the protection of our embassy and military personnel to other countries risks lives. It is a reality bathed in American blood. The latest reports on Benghazi released this week underscore the persistent dangers of outsourcing security. By all accounts, the security conditions at the State Department's consular facility in Libya were "deplorable," as the House Benghazi committee's final summary report described it. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been warned a month before the attack that violence was "on an upward trend" and "unpredictable;" "lawlessness was increasing," and local militia groups that were...
  • Good riddance to George Will

    06/29/2016 4:07:50 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 41 replies
    Americanthinker.com ^ | 6-29-2016 | James Lewis
    I believe Mr. Will has a genuine distaste for what may become Trump Conservatism. Trump represents a kind of happy warrior style of American politician, similar to Harry Truman and Rough Rider Teddy Roosevelt. It's obviously too low-class for Will, Romney and Jeb Bush, who are all too delicate for the political blood sport that the Left has imposed on our politics. Nothing is too low for the Left. Literally nothing. The national GOP has been in decline for years, running decrepit candidates like Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney -- who actually did flinch in the last debate...
  • Clinton Email Scandal: Is The Cover-up Worse Than The Crime?

    06/29/2016 4:00:24 AM PDT · by IBD editorial writer · 28 replies
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 6/29/2016 | John Merline
    Bad news about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while Secretary of State keeps dribbling out. The latest is that she failed to turn over dozens of work-related emails, many of which just happen to completely undercut key claims she's made over the past year.
  • Greenpeace under fire

    06/26/2016 9:51:46 PM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies
    Washington Times ^ | June 26, 2016 | H. Sterling Burnett
    Nations around the world reject its eco-terrorism tactics. Governments and courts around the world are finally cracking down on the eco-terrorist organization Greenpeace. The crackdown, which is long overdue, couldn’t happen to a more misguided bunch of people. In early December 2014, more than 20 Greenpeace activists damaged a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of a publicity stunt meant to motivate greater government support for renewable-energy sources they think are necessary to battle supposed human-caused climate change. The activists walked into a “strictly prohibited” area where the Nazca Lines are located in Peru and laid big, yellow cloth letters...
  • Bernie Sanders volunteer allegedly goes full Bernie-bro in anti-Semitic phone call to Jewish voter

    05/28/2016 4:11:51 AM PDT · by ErikJohnsky · 11 replies
    TWITTER TWITCHY ^ | Unknown | Unknown
    The Jerusalem Post’s Lahav Harkov reports that one of her friends was on the receiving end of a nasty anti-Semitic attack from a Bernie Sanders volunteer after the friend calmly told the caller that she would never support the Vermont socialist for president. “Oh, you’re ISRAEL people,” the Bernie bro allegedly said. “I HATE all of you so much. I hate ALL of you. GOODBYE.”
  • Different Trump Delivers Prompter Speech in Pennsylvania

    06/28/2016 6:03:33 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 32 replies
    Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh
    BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: So Donald Trump, what's he doing? He's in Monessen, Pennsylvania, western Pennsylvania standing in front of, it looks like, an aluminum Christmas tree. It obviously is not that, so what is that? It looks like a bunch of different colored cans have been squished together like Oddjob squished the car in Goldfinger and it's obviously recycled. But he's speaking on the prompter. Have you been listening to it in there? You haven't been listening to it? That's right. You're screening calls. You probably think I'm running a test. No. He's on the prompter. I listened to a...
  • Democrats Mention Donald Trump 23 Times in Their Benghazi Report

    06/28/2016 5:41:51 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 22 replies
    Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh
    BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I just want to spend a couple more minutes here on this Benghazi report today, because once we finish, the narrative elsewhere is going to be entirely different. Outside of this program -- and I'm sure other conservative media -- the narrative on this today is gonna be that they found no new evidence of any wrongdoing by Mrs. Clinton, so there's nothing to see here. And they're gonna move on. Now, they won't be able to say that the Republicans targeted Mrs. Clinton. They won't be able to allege the Republicans did this for purely partisan...
  • Truth vs. Narrative: Benghazi Exemplifies What Has Happened to Our Country

    06/28/2016 4:14:11 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 12 replies
    Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh
    BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I thought I had adjusted to it, but I haven't. It just makes me sick. It depresses me. It makes me sick all over again. This Benghazi thing, it's so emblematic of what has happened to us as a country. It is so enlightening as to what has happened to institutions that we need to be able to trust. It exposes this administration as, gosh, I don't know, incompetent, uncaring, self-focused. It's just, I don't know, folks. Greetings. Great to have you here. Rush Limbaugh behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Telephone number if you want to be...
  • House Sit-in: Dems Jump the Shark

    06/28/2016 2:14:41 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    American Thinker ^ | June 28, 2016 | Christopher Chantrill
    In a way, I feel sorry for our Democratic friends. As Rush Limbaugh has been saying for 20 years, they are playing out of a 30-year-old playbook, just running the same old plays because that’s what Ted Kennedy did. But conducting a sit-in on the floor of the House of Representatives on gun control while protected by the guns of the Capitol Hill police goes beyond doing one more for the Gipper. It shows that the modern Democratic Party and its liberal movement have completely forgotten the point of representative government. It removes the need for sit-ins and street politics....
  • United States v. Texas: The Supreme Court’s Silent Endorsement of Trumpisprudence

    06/28/2016 1:56:47 PM PDT · by Elderberry · 6 replies
    Dorf on Law ^ | 6/27/2016 | Anil Kalhan
    It may be tempting to regard the Supreme Court’s deadlocked decision last week in United States v. Texas, the Republican lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s 2014 immigration initiatives, as something of a “non-decision” or “punt.” The Court’s one-line opinion—which, by convention, affirms the lower court’s judgment but has no further precedential effect—does not address any of the substantive issues presented in the case. Nor does the opinion itself disclose how any of the justices voted on any of the questions before them, although there seems little mystery as to which justices were likely on each side of the decision. And...
  • Review: Brion McClanahan’s

    06/28/2016 1:47:35 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 6 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Jack Kerwick
    A friend and colleague of mine just sent me a NY Times article by Robert Reich in which the latter contends that the Republicans are acting “unconstitutionally” by refusing hearings to any of Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominees. I replied—admittedly, a bit too abruptly—that the Democrats feign concern about abiding by the Constitution only when it suits their purposes. I stand by this position. But I know that the same can be said for Republicans. Brion McClanahan’s latest book underscores in spades this bipartisan disregard of the Constitution. His 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to...
  • Millennials and National Security in the 21st Century

    06/28/2016 1:27:10 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 5 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Allen West
    (Editors’ Note: This column was co-authored by NCPA Research Associate Christian Yiu)It is summer time and that means most students are out and about, some having fun, others are working jobs. At the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) in Dallas, it means summer research associates who conduct extensive research with our senior experts for publication. For those working this summer in the field of national security policy, there is a startling difference from today’s pivotal issues and those from 30-40 years ago. The 21st century battlefield that Millennials are encountering is far more complex than the global security situation...
  • An Open Letter to Trump Supporters about Some Misleading Polls

    06/28/2016 1:04:34 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 28 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 27, 2016 | Jack Kerwick
    Dear Trump supporters,A recent ABC/Washington Post poll of “registered voters” purports to show that Donald Trump lags 12 points behind Hillary Clinton in a national head-to-head contest. In case you’re inclined to accept this at face value—don’t. First, this poll does indeed purport to gauge preferences nationally. Ultimately, what’s going to matter is how the candidates fare in the battleground states. For example, a Pew Poll from just last week showed Trump beating Clinton by two points in North Carolina (a state that Barack Obama won in 2008).Secondly, it is June. The election isn’t until November. Thirdly, this poll focuses...
  • Useless Hand-Wringing over Abortion Ruling

    06/28/2016 12:48:00 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 10 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Marc Newman
    The leadership of our nation is committed to the continuance of abortion: a violent act that kills a defenseless human being. This is nothing new; it's been going on since Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton. It's been going on under Democrat administrations and under Republican administrations. For many legislators (and justices under review), "pro-life" is nothing more than a check box that they tick in order to win the votes of a particular constituency. Once in office, they do little or nothing to protect the lives of the unborn -- because, as long as the unborn remain out...
  • Zika, Abortion, and Population Control: The Hype and the Real Danger

    06/28/2016 12:38:01 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 5 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Megan Toombs
    The Zika virus has caused massive concern bordering on panic across a significant portion of the globe. Women are worried sick that their children could be born with birth defects, worries that are being heightened by some health agencies’ advice to avoid pregnancy during the Zika outbreak. But if experts are advising women not to get pregnant, what are already pregnant women to do? A recent study reports a 36–108 percent increase in abortions in Latin American countries with a Zika health advisory despite abortion’s being condemned morally by the Catholic Church, and illegal or restricted in many countries. The...
  • Philly’s “Soda Tax”: Not Popular, Not Fiscally Sound, Not Legal

    06/28/2016 12:16:32 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 58 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | June 28, 2016 | Jerry Rogers
    In Philadelphia, a 1.5-cents-per-ounce tax on beverages goes into effect January 1, 2017. The regressive, highly unpopular tax will add 18 cents to the cost of a can of soda, $1.08 for a six-pack or $1.02 for a two-liter bottle. The new “soda tax” will be added on top of the already excessive 8% sales tax that applies to beverages in Pennsylvania.Yes, the tax is unpopular – 58% of residents oppose the measure. Yes, the tax will disproportionately harm poor residents – economic studies show that low-income Americans spend a larger portion of their income on consumer goods like soda. No, the...