Politics
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The ‘culture’ of Chris Christie’s office
My husband and I travel to New England to visit relatives a few times a year. Whenever we cross the…
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Sarah Palin says she joined Fox News to anger people who want her dead
Responding to a report that Roger Ailes wanted her on Fox News to “piss off the people that wanted her…
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GOP takes aim at ‘illegal’ IRS payouts, double-dipping in jobless showdown
A group of U.S. Senate Republicans is pressing for $70 billion in fiscal reforms to offset the cost of extending…
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‘Bridgegate’ could cost Chris Christie more than GOP bid in 2016, criminal probe possible
In case you missed the story, which broke yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is in hot water over a…
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Gates highlights Obama White House disdain of the Armed Forces
“It became routine under Obama…” In excerpts from former CIA Director and Secretary of Defense Bob Gates’ memoir “Duty: Memoirs…
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The cold snap could very well be a result of global warming … er — climate change
Let’s call it “blathering-idiotgate.” The name is borrowed from an insult that Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) hurled at “climate-change deniers” before going…
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Welfare as ‘transitional living’ … at Disney World
Sheila Jackson Lee, as noted earlier today by our LU Staff, wants to change the term “welfare” to “transitional living…
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Chinese power move in South China Sea: This is big
Mariners and the specialty mariner press know it’s big. But mariners can’t fix this. It will take national policies to…
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2013 government data on Food Stamp growth worse than you thought
This week our nation celebrates a glorious milestone: the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. You will hear much…
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Salon writer out-MHPs Melissa Harris-Perry in comments over Mitt Romney’s black grandchild
If you think the “jokes” by MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry and a panel of fellow knuckle-draggers in re former Massachusetts governor Mitt…
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CA teacher confiscates candy canes, tells student ‘Jesus not allowed in school’
If you substitute poor Rudolph for “Jesus” and any reindeer games for “school,” the admonition of a first-grade teacher to one of her 6-year-old…
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It’s just a piece of paper, Little Sisters of the Poor. Why not sign it? Here’s why.
I’m not fond of Nazi analogies. They’re usually hyperbolic, and many are too fast and loose with connections to the rise…
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Palin’s New Year’s resolutions: One base short of a grand slam?
When I saw Sarah Palin announcing her New Year’s resolution to “make government as irrelevant as possible” in people’s lives,…
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Little Sisters in Gulag Nation: ‘Just sign the form’
What an interesting moment we have arrived at with the Obamacare contraception mandate. The Catholic order Little Sisters of the…
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Chinese warship arrives off Syria
How many warships does it take to remove chemical weapons from Syria? One more this week than it took last…
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Flashback: Blind Sheik’s attorney endorses violence to stop capitalism
Omar Abdel-Rahman’s self-proclaimed “Maoist” attorney, Lynne Stewart, was “still combative” after she was convicted of “aiding terrorism,” as was reported in…
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Democrats peddle bogus rationale for Obamacare debunked by recent study
“More bad news for Obamacare and its proponents. A new study from Oregon” published in the journal Science found that expanded Medicaid…
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Missiles for Hezbollah; a dilemma for U.S., Saudis, Israel?
An interesting juncture is shaping up for three national policies: a juncture that will see its interactions played out on…
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Illegal immigrant obtains ‘security clearance on high security military airbase’
An illegal immigrant named Mario Bustamante, 37, used multiple sources of fake identification to obtain “security clearance on a high…
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Michael Moore admits Obamacare ‘awful’, calls it a ‘godsend’ and demands state-run healthcare
Michael Moore, the wealthy filmmaker worth an estimated $50 million, admitted in a New York Times op-ed that Obamacare is…
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GOP Is Heartless: Dem mantra for 2014
It’s an election year. With Republicans gaining ground in the generic ballot poll question, with the president’s signature health care…
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A list of everything imperial mayor Michael Bloomberg banished from his kingdom during the past 12 years
At midnight Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg — aka his nannyship, self-anointed emperor of everything east of the Hudson River up to…
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Stacey Dash defends Romney grandchild from MSNBC hate-speech
On the heels of a slew of MSNBC panelists verbally hammering an infant baby guilty of being the adopted grandson…
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AARP: Knockout game victims are often ‘people of color’
In what must be a typo, a blog from the AARP today reported on the “knockout game,” as targeting “people of color.” The post…
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WH so brazenly political after 5 years of MSM coddling they now lie as easily as they breathe
Two companion pieces from the Daily Caller shows what happens when a presidency is given a free pass from the…
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MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry apologizes for mocking Mitt Romney’s adopted black grandchild
Melissa Harris-Perry is sorry — boy is she sorry (as in “one sorry specimen”). Harris-Perry is one of several unfunny jokes that…
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Where is Obama finding the time to watch so much TV?
A recurring theme during the Obama presidency has been that, despite the distinct sense he gives of a man who…
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Courts on same-sex marriage: Adieu, rule of law
Adam Smith famously said there’s a lot of ruin in a nation. America today is testing just how much there…
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Church ordered by county to remove ‘support our troops’ sign
Wind turbines are an eyesore. Even a politician as staunchly liberal as the late Sen. Ted Kennedy would tell you that.…
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Denver Post doubles down on left-leaning bias, calls Phil Robertson, fans haters
The Denver Post, which scrubbed the word socialist from its earlier description of the Arapahoe High School shooter as a “very opinionated Socialist,”…
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California: The Obamacare success story
Mere hours ago, California was once again touted as an example of success for Obamacare, an island of completed sign-ups…
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New York Times’s Benghazi fairy tale written for Hillary 2016?
On Saturday, the New York Times published a report finding no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had a role in…
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Does the Tea Party subscribe to an ‘isolationist’ foreign policy?
Leslie H. Gelb & Michael Kramer of the Democracy Journal are quite worried about what they see as a potentially…
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DNC raises specter of Obama impeachment in new email
In August of this year, the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy published an article on the subject of why talk of impeachment…
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Hillary ‘Christmas’ card warns ‘it’s time to get ready’
The message — “It’s time to get ready” — has the ominous ring of a line from a Bible-thumping fire…
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Man, the state, and surveillance
We’ve now had federal judges come down two different ways on the question of NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens. In…
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