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- Article · Oct 3, 2013Jacob Lew vs. Jay Leno
Leno zings Lew with a reality check! ### Short Cuts Jay Leno: “Well in a letter to John Boehner, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said the government will run out of money
- Article · Oct 2, 2013The Lights Are Off, but Somebody’s Home
next. Republicans are shifting strategy now that the baseline has changed -- shutdown is now reality. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), who along with Ted Cruz led the Senate effort … essential” services remained: Airports are open, the military is on duty and Social Security checks are going out. And when things like the World War II Memorial are closed, veterans
- Opinion · Sep 30, 2013Thinking Outside the Two Party Box
seeing cameras everywhere they turn, even as they know an out-of-control NSA checks out whoever they want, whenever they want, and claims “mistakes were made” when they commit … believe there is anything about the two-party status quo that will change that reality. My suggestions for a third party platform are simple: promote limited and fiscally responsible government
- Article · Sep 27, 2013The Republican Endgame
growing grassroots storm brewing in opposition to socialized medicine, now that the reality and consequences of ObamaCare are starting to sink in. The House is using … every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.” Fact Check: In the five years since Obama took office, the national debt has increased $6.1 trillion
- Alexander's Column · Sep 19, 2013Derailing ObamaCare and DemoDebt
growing grassroots storm brewing in opposition to socialized medicine, now that the reality and consequences of ObamaCare are starting to sink in. The House is using … every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.” Fact Check: Over the 8 years George Bush was in office, our national debt increased by $4.9 trillion
- Article · Sep 13, 2013Village Academic Curriculum: Racing to the Top of the Money Pile
study defines four “mismatches” between the goals of Race to the Top and hard reality, with the key one being the gap between what states promised for federal money … silver aren’t really worth the strings that are always attached to a check from Uncle
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2013Gun-Grabbers Go Full Femme-a-Gogue in Colorado
losing favor here. The libs’ gun-control laws (including more intrusive background checks and ammo mag limits) have driven manufacturing jobs away, made it more difficult for law-abiding … first place and are not at issue in the special elections. The reality? Both Herpin and Rivera are pro-life, mainstream Republicans focused on increasing economic opportunity and government accountability
- Opinion · Sep 4, 2013Serious About Syria?
succeeded, even after all the hard evidence had convinced most other people. The grim reality is that key people in positions to shape our foreign policy during the Obama administration … national interest. This is the administration that is now asking for a blank check from Congress to take unspecified military action to achieve unspecified goals. “Military action” is a polite
- Opinion · Aug 31, 2013Idle and Not So Idle Thoughts
would think it would work just the opposite, with the person writing the check getting to say “I want to see you at my front door … canceled. I believe that helps to explain why so many people prefer TV to reality. One can’t help noticing that all those things that Obama swore
- Opinion · Jul 18, 2013R.I.P. Britain’s Patient-Killing ‘Pathway to Death’
phased out over the next six to 12 months. This is due to the reality that an independent review board found “shocking examples of abuse” regarding the treatment … communicate, for a short time, or with a doctor or a nurse for a check-up only to return and find a syringe driver had been put in place
- Opinion · Jul 17, 2013America, Forever Racist?
Associated Press writer Cristina Silva asked: “So we can all kill teenagers now? Just checking.” HBO star Bill Maher tweeted: “This is America, waddya expect? The only thing (you) aren … Alabama bombing.” Haygood did talk to Southern lawyer Bill Baxley, who stuck with reality. “I think it was just difficult for the prosecution. You did have a guy (Zimmerman) with
- Opinion · Jul 10, 2013Taking the Military at Faith Value
atheists.” To watch Monday’s religious liberty press conference, check out the video below... > ##PolitiFarce? Media ‘Fact-Checker’ Rejects Reality Apparently, CBS’s Bob Schieffer isn’t the only reporter
- Opinion · Jul 10, 2013Framing Trayvon
those of us who thought we were well informed and weren’t.....quite the reality check. That old adage applies here: “there are two sides to every story … many texts about Trayvon, he towered over Zimmerman. Thus the chain email alleged: “In reality ‘little Trayvon’ at the time of his death stood almost 6’2’ tall and weighed
- Opinion · Jul 6, 2013Scorn on the Fourth of July
again is that white people enslaved black people.” Sowell then offers the clueless a reality check. “If American society and Western civilization are different from other societies and civilization
- Opinion · Jul 2, 2013Justice Is Swerved
Proposition 8 case -- which the Court dismissed -- as a victory of historic proportions. The reality is, five justices did not, as Ted Olson implied, redefine marriage in all 50 states … state’s pro-life pregnancy care centers. Also signed into law were three powerful checks on Ohio’s abortion industry, including a new measure demanding that clinics have a transfer
- Opinion · Jun 18, 2013The Loss of Trust
willing to risk anarchy or terrorism, the most we can do is set up checks and balances within government -- and be a lot more careful in the future than … United States was someone who knew much more than we did about the realities on which all our lives depended. Whatever happened to that feeling? Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon
- Opinion · Jun 15, 2013A Few Glad Tidings
jihadists, you would think that Islam was a major religion in America, when in reality there are only about two million followers of Allah in the entire country … crusade against the Second Amendment, would at most get his universal background check. But, in spite of pulling those Newtown parents out of his back pocket every 20 minutes
- Opinion · Jun 6, 2013The Coming Obamacare Disaster
General Election.” The reason? Foreign nurses cost less. Incredibly, they won’t be checked to see if they can speak English. The potential for confusion over medication and treatment because … After promising that Obamacare would not raise insurance costs, we are now seeing the reality. Daniel P. Kessler, a Stanford University professor of law and business, recently noted
- Opinion · May 22, 2013Progressivism: A Scandal Unto Itself
remaking a nation hidden behind the rubric of nationals security concerns. First a reality check: the AP’s release of a story regarding a thwarted al Qaeda plot … Benghazi, even when the emptiness of those self-serving statements is buttressed by the reality that neither of them have suffered anything resembling a single consequence as a result. Furthermore
- Opinion · May 9, 2013Blow-by-Blow: How Obama & Hillary Left Americans to Die
while, he got an alert that Benghazi was under attack. When he checked his cell phone he saw two numbers, one of which he didn’t recognize. He called that … mission” believed it was an act of terror “from the get-go,” a reality echoed by Libyan President Mohammed al-Magariaf, who said his government had “no doubt that this