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Remember When the White House Was Just 'Vulgar and Abusive'?
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2014/02/23/remember-when-the-white-house-was-just-vulgar-and-abusive-n1799224
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It is still obvious that neither political party has the will to cutback any spending. … Let’s look at interest on the national debt for example. … And here’s the really bad news.…
Could Censorship Lead Serbia Back to Dictatorship?
https://townhall.com/columnists/aleksandarkokotovic/2014/02…3/could-censorship-lead-serbia-back-to-dictatorship-n1798629
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Soon after, another national scandal erupted in which the Minister of the Economy, Saša Radulovic, resigned after failing to pass a … Radulovic’s resignation statement critical of Vucic was quickly taken of the website of the largest regional news agency, Tanjug. minutes … Furthermore, Radulovic was replaced as a guest on Serbia’s most watched political commentary show to be replaced by — you guessed it…
Why Parents Are "Paranoid" About Common Core
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2014/02/21/why-parents-are-paranoid-about-common-core-n1798303
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Jeb Bush (who derided opponents' motives as "purely political"). … It's all a snitty, snotty smokescreen that will backfire as more families from all parts of the political spectrum discover the truth … They fear them because "paranoid" is the political demagogue's word for active, alert and well-informed.…
Unions Can't Win
https://townhall.com/columnists/lindachavez/2014/02/21/unions-cant-win-n1798276
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It's not often that a union election makes front-page news. … through their employers is that unions demanded the benefit in their collective bargaining agreements during World War II when the National … Some 90 percent of union political contributions go to Democratic candidates, and union staff and "volunteers" are the backbone of…
Liberal Plutocrats and Their Personal Campaigns
https://townhall.com/columnists/debrajsaunders/2014/02/20/liberal-plutocrats-and-their-personal-campaigns-n1797594
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limits -- to elect like-minded politicians who will help them halt the wheels of government, move their party further from the political … Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, who wrote that the spot did not meet "minimal standards" for "political attack ads." … "News flash," he said, "we're not getting out of the oil business in America."…
Saudi Arabia Declares Muslim Brotherhood to be Terrorists
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During a press conference at the session of the National People's Congress in Beijing on Saturday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China … PravyiSector leader Dmytro Yarosh is Ukraine's Deputy Secretary of National Security. … Only the names in the government offices have changed….Our struggle is entering a peaceful phase, a political phase and that is why…
Ready for Rand? Maybe not Yet
https://townhall.com/columnists/billmurchison/2014/03/11/ready-for-rand-maybe-not-yet-n1806746
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Consider this week's news that state prison officials are turning over their health care costs to the federal government. … But history never shifts into reverse gear because of political war whoops, for all their shivery gratifications. … Paul, nevertheless, as national savior -- maybe not; not yet at least.…
Wealthy environmentalists push Democrat Harry Reid to lean-in to green energy
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Podesta is the organ grinder from within the White House and progressive political platforms. … Steyer was even handpicked to make a cameo appearance at the 2012 Democratic National Convention.” … If so, he should remove himself from any form of financial gain he can reap from his political activism and donations.…
Obama’s Poison Pill for Putin and other Quick Takes
https://townhall.com/columnists/shawnmitchell/2014/03/10/obamas-poison-pill-for-putin-and-other-quick-takes-n1806355
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Any libertarian who says: “Reagan, overspending warmonger” is a naïve babe in the political woods. … government are vulnerable to frenzies akin to the Salem Witch Hunts, ponder that once upon a 70s time, the US Congress passed a 55 mph national … The News Hour's Mark Shields is shocked Putin pivots from the good will of the Games to oppressing Ukrainians.…
No Political Fix to America’s Death Spiral
https://townhall.com/columnists/mattbarber/2014/03/09/no-political-fix-to-americas-death-spiral-n1806266
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“conservative” political wheel. … We’ve been playing political Ping-Pong for decades. … America does not need a political fix. America needs a spiritual fix.…
Real Education Reform: Deprogram Liberals
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moral qualms about the use of war powers to secure U.S. security or the security of any other peoples that are important to our national … I care where public schools teachers send their kids because it’s their political machine- the union- that has turned public schools … Apparently it is accepted in journalism to reference other articles or news even if the facts are wrong.…
Putin Lectures Obama on Foreign Policy Concerns
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News service reports said Russia had been using 10 ships to block the port, including the guided missile cruiser Moskva. … Crimea: Political. … Sevastopol is governed directly from Kyiv as a national city.…
Where’s the Red Line? Ukraine Will Lose Crimea to Putin
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This ruling and its consequences are good news for Israel. … No US official has acknowledged the unique political status of Crimea and the national city of Sevastopol. … That is tonight's good news.…
CPAC 2014: Focus On The Big Three Things
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root cause of the rise of Barack Obama, never fully grasping that the president's rise was an almost inevitable byproduct of a national … As should the folks at CPAC, especially with regard to the budget for national security. … On the question of national defense, the party has many serious voices outside of Congress, including John Bolton, Robert O'Brien,…
Funny Cartoon Video Mocks Obamacare
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Obamacare may not be good news for taxpayers or consumers, but let’s look at the bright side. … At least the law has generated some superb political humor, including funny videos. … *The head of the National Socialist Workers Party finds out he can’t keep his health plan.…
CBO Repeatedly Confounded Liberals, Vindicated Conservatives in February
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reported in early February that President Obama’s healthcare law will drive millions out of full time work and push our ballooning national … The good news is that these CBO reports have vindicated much of what conservatives have been saying for a long time: that liberalism … The bad news is that many of our political leaders seem unfazed by these recent revelations, and remain determined to push forward…
Obama’s New Budget: Burden of Government Spending Rises More than Twice as Fast as Inflation
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Since we’re talking about government spending, I may as well add some more bad news. … The one sliver of good news is that taxpayers didn’t get ripped off to the same extent last year as they did the previous year. … But I still appreciate good political humor.…
Ukrainian Colonel Refused Russian Orders to Surrender
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Other news services reported Russian officials are telling Ukrainian officials the same message. … Dead Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhchisaray risk inciting a national backlash against Russia. … It exposes a weakness in the Russian military-political calculation by complicating and prolonging consolidation of Russian control…
The NSA and Millennials
https://townhall.com/columnists/charliekirk/2014/03/05/the-nsa-and-millennials-n1804035
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But the seeds of today’s National Security Agency (NSA), named in 1952, had been sown and gentlemen have been having their mail read … Snowden created international news and outrage with his revelations of the extent of NSA spying on U. S. … This isn’t about political parties bending political light like Einstein.…
Obama to Putin: "The Cold War's Over" Putin To Obama: "No, it Never Ended"
https://townhall.com/columnists/donaldlambro/2014/03/05/obam…the-cold-wars-over-putin-to-obama-no-it-never-ended-n1804026
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The immediate reaction among Washington's top political and media power centers to President Vladimir Putin's audacious military incursion … That's pretty strong stuff, but it is evident that Obama's foreign policy and national security team and its record is one of the weakest … House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers of Michigan flatly acknowledged on Fox News Sunday that Putin was a cunning and dangerous…
Obama's Shutdown Cost National Parks $414 Million
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/carolplattliebau/2014/03/04/cost-of-obamas-shutdown-414-million-n1804018
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The AP's formulation of the issue is studiously "neutral": "Shutdown cost national parks at least $414 million." … In fact, a contemporaneous news account revealed that:
Republican lawmakers and local community officials in some communities … Anyone wondering how the shutdown came to "cost" national parks (and really, us, the taxpayers!)…
Grievance Deficit Disorder
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/conncarroll/2014/03/04/untitled-n1801470
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The incidents received national news coverage, but their resolution did not... at least not until The Daily
Caller News … Gallup polling shows that Americans of all political persuasions are increasingly satisfied with the state of race relations. … For those itching to see the hand of evil everywhere, it is especially easy to transfer it to one’s own political…
Freedom Is Not Free
https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/03/04/freedom-is-not-free-n1803530
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The prosecution of Dinesh D'Souza for contributing $20,000 to a political candidate, supposedly in violation of the many campaign finance … All of this is over a campaign contribution that is chicken feed, compared to what can be raised inside of an hour at a political fundraising … Only after Megyn Kelly on the Fox News Channel brought this case to national attention did the Massachusetts bureaucrats back off and…
The Whopper Temptation
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Last Wednesday, the Senate Majority Leader from Nevada lauded the Affordable Care Act, and declared that, "Despite all that good news … “During the 2012 presidential election, the media never made Reid pay a political price for spreading the false rumor that for years … The current National Security Advisor ought to get a job at Burger King. She’s flipping Whoppers again.…
"Rarely has a threat from a U.S. president been dismissed [so] quickly"
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speeches -- many of which denounced the United States -- the resolution passed unanimously, with legislators belting out the Russian national … On Saturday, Obama skipped his team's national security briefing on the growing crisis, opting for briefings from Susan Rice interspersed … @FaceTheNation
— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) March 2, 2014
ABC News' George Stephanopolous pressed…