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- Opinion · Jul 24, 2019Amazon Book Ban Looks the Author Way
Contact Amazon at 1-800-280-4331. For more on these growing threats, check out Ken Blackwell’s new Townhall column, “ Attacks on Conservative Speech Take Many Forms .” Originally published … conservative policies like privacy laws or abortion limits are bad for business — when in reality, they’re bad for their business. There’s a reason Netflix suffered a historic loss
- Alexander's Column · Jul 10, 2019About Those Self-Appointed Arbiters of Digital Truth
virtually every news medium on the planet, Leftmedia outlets have increasingly promoted their “ fact-checking “ arms as a way to establish themselves as the arbiters of what is “true.” Increasingly … reality -- so much so that it inadvertently exposes how Democrats spin facts to the Left. So intent on taking on anything and all things conservative, recently Snopes even fact checked
- Article · Jul 8, 2019Black Americans: Choose Patriotism Over Pessimism
celebrate the independence of our great nation. That day, I checked in on social media, and as I scrolled down my Facebook feed, I see two sides of America … understand that without 1776, some of us might still be slaves in 2026. Reality check, anyone? For these reasons, I, my family, and my fellow conservatives take a pledge
- Opinion · Jul 2, 2019A Walk Into History
Today’s left truly resembles the “nattering nabobs of negativism.” Here’s a little reality check. When Barack Obama took office, North Korea may have had a few nuclear bombs
- Opinion · Jul 1, 2019How Do Politicians Become Corrupt? ‘The Love of Power and the Love of Money’
year-old Benjamin Franklin spoke and shortly after, the U.S. Constitution became a reality. Franklin stated: “Groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able … perversion of the law. Thus it is easy to understand how law, instead of checking injustice, becomes the invincible weapon of injustice. It is easy to understand
- Article · Jul 1, 2019Monday Top News Executive Summary
state law will require almost all buyers to go through background checks before being able to buy bullets, potentially increasing the amount of time and money it takes to make … www.nationalreview.com/2019/06/for-regime-change-in-iran/)) POLICY: Inconvenient energy realities ( E21 ) HUMOR: Kamala Harris claimed Americans don’t want to see a food fight. Fact check: FALSE. ( The Babylon Bee ) For more of today
- Opinion · Jun 29, 2019‘Fact-Checkers’ Find Democrats Are Truth Tellers
that father and daughter to Trump’s own immigration policies.” She added, “And we checked that. It is true!” Saying that Trump policies kill immigrants is graded as true? That … oozing that the Democrats brought “fact-based reality” to their policy talk. The “independent fact-checkers” at PolitiFact issued seven fact-check tweets during the first debate. Check the tilt
- Opinion · Jun 27, 2019Please, Raise My Taxes?
pundits might mock Broad, pointing out that nothing is preventing him from sending bigger checks to Uncle Sam than current law requires. Or they might protest that the super-rich … feed a family on $7.25 an hour and falling behind. But that’s not reality. (Twenty-nine states plus the District of Columbia have higher minimum wages than the federal
- Opinion · Jun 19, 2019Why Do Democrats Have a Secret List of Supreme Court Nominees?
potential Supreme Court nominees on the White House website. If you want to check the names of people the president hopes to appoint to SCOTUS, it’s right there … candidates for the 2020 presidential race to make this dark court-packing plan a reality? We know Alliance for Justice already has its grubby fingers in this
- Opinion · Jun 17, 2019Double Standards?
Wray, that I wouldn’t believe. It would appear that a breath of journalistic reality has made its way into the upper echelon of the New York Times. It seems … sent me an AP story I had never seen, but which she found while checking me out on the Internet. It appeared in a Florida newspaper
- Article · Jun 12, 2019Caution: ATF Nominee Needs Scrutiny
policy positions (via the FOP opposing national concealed carry reciprocity and supporting “universal” background checks), both Gun Owners of America and the National Association for Gun Rights oppose Canterbury … cities. But our members in the rank and file know the reality on the streets.” Indeed, police chiefs serve at the pleasure of mayors, which in big cities are most
- Opinion · Jun 4, 2019Far More Than a Culture War Rages in America
churches and hotels in Sri Lanka Easter morning reminds us of the harsh reality and magnitude of anti-Christian persecution and intolerance. In January, Newsweek magazine, which is no friend … their representatives, drafted a revolutionary Constitution that created a system of limited government with checks and balances and separation of power, which also prioritized the protection of the people
- Opinion · Jun 4, 2019With the Market Making Parental Leave Routine, Who Needs Congress?
Social Security’s original principle ... to the challenges of today.” That too flips reality upside-down. If anything is fundamental to the Social Security model, it is that retirement benefits … billion. With Social Security already under extreme stress, requiring it to cut checks to yet another population of beneficiaries could hardly be more reckless. And once “hamburgers today, payment next
- Article · Jun 3, 2019Judicial Activism? Tyranny Is More Like It
SCOTUS’s ability to mitigate it overwhelmingly favors the activists. AG Barr makes that reality even clearer. “When Congress passes a statute or the President implements a policy that … policy with the stroke of the pen.” Thus, our so-called system of checks and balances is nothing of the sort. Moreover, the number of agendas is virtually limitless
- Opinion · May 31, 2019Objections Sustained Over Michigan Attorney Bogren
attorney for East Lansing and had to do their bidding. Well, last time I checked, lawyers were not indentured servants. He had a choice as to whether … seen more than 130 Democrats siding with life or against radical abortion expansions, the reality is anything but. Extremists in party headquarters are also scrambling to spin Governor John
- Article · May 23, 2019Stacking the SAT Deck
students who scored above 100 points were told to ‘check it daily’ — as in check their privilege daily,” the Daily Gazette reported. Now, similarly poisonous nonsense has taken hold … effort is not about race, what’s so noble about discrimination by class? In reality, the effort to subvert standardized testing is about two things. First, colleges want cover
- Opinion · May 23, 2019U.S. Isn’t Becoming Europe. We’re Becoming Rome
have a quick reality check and acknowledge that what is happening to America is a million times worse than what’s happening in Europe and is of much greater consequence … have a quick reality check and acknowledge that what is happening to America is a million times worse than what’s happening in Europe and is of much greater consequence
- Opinion · May 16, 2019It’s Time for a Course Correction in the Trade War
tariff on $200 billion in Chinese exports to the United States became reality. Stock prices rose later that day after presidential tweets suggested that trade talks were going well … Trade Organization. Those skeptical of the WTO’s ability to help with China should check out a Cato Institute report from last year titled: “Disciplining China’s Trade Practices
- Article · May 15, 2019Leftists Fear SCOTUS Overturning Precedent (Except When They Don’t)
course, in those cases, leftists applauded his rejection of stare decisis . In reality, regardless of where upon the ideological spectrum one falls, there should be great concern for the amount … letter to Abigail Adams, declaring, “The Constitution ... meant that its coordinate branches should be checks on each other. But the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide
- Opinion · May 13, 2019Villains Posing as Heroes
merely engaged in the sort of lunacy for which the Left is notorious. Reality and facts never matter to those who label themselves Progressives. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has admitted … America’s declining standards. A friend let me know that he had written a check for an amount ending in $66. But because the second six looked more like