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- Opinion · Jan 17, 2013Why Obama Gives Video Game Violence a Pass
come perilously close to violating privacy and infringing on states’ rights. Bowing to constitutional reality, the president further noted that congressional approval is required for the more restrictive measures … even the leftist New York Times was forced to acknowledge reality. “A new federal assault weapons ban and background checks of all gun buyers ... might have done little to prevent
- Opinion · Jan 15, 2013Obama’s Three Years of Budget Failure
better fix” on negotiations with Republicans regarding the fiscal cliff deal. Despite that reality, Obama had no qualms about taking Congress to task for its inability to reach a deal … veterans’ checks will be delayed” if the debt ceiling isn’t raised “quickly.” This is nothing less than Chicago-way thuggery designed to obscure the reality that the president could
- Opinion · Jan 14, 2013A ‘Path to Citizenship’ for Illegals?
difference approach, Rubio has co-sponsored E-Verify legislation that would require employers to check the status of would-be hires against a federal database. E-Verfiy has been extended … Union speech February 12. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney alluded to that reality last Wednesday. “I would say, broadly speaking, that State of the Union addresses tend to include
- Opinion · Jan 11, 2013Will Obama Follow Cuomo’s Example on Guns?
direct Internet sales of ammunition in New York. Number seven, create a state check on all ammunition purchases,” he added. In a radio appearance on December 20, Cuomo attempted … think they can somehow stuff the proverbial genie back in the bottle is the reality that there are approximately 270 million firearms currently held by civilians, a number equivalent
- Opinion · Jan 9, 2013Obama Power Grabs on the Horizon
assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, moving into such arenas as universal background checks for gun buyers, a national database tracking the movement and sale of weapons and measures that … pressing problems. No doubt a large part of their arrogance is due to the reality that, when Americans get utterly disgusted by this continuing spectacle, they have the utmost confidence
- Opinion · Dec 29, 2012Disorganized Labor
liberals would, if only for the sake of variety, face reality. Reality is that when Social Security checks first started going out, there were about 30 workers whose payroll taxes … altered in some meaningful way before it crashes and burns. The same reality reveals that there are 66 million Americans collecting Medicaid and food stamps, with another 21 million people
- Opinion · Dec 28, 2012Obama’s Regulatory Cliff Draws Near
mortgages, student loans, savings and checking accounts, and most other consumer financial products and services. The CFPB’s power is further enhanced by the reality that it is immune
- Opinion · Dec 14, 2012Obama’s Electronic Medical Records Scam
actually guarding against GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). No one is checking whether recipients of the EMR incentives are receiving money redundantly (e.g., raking in payments when they’ve already … claim that the EMR conversion will reduce paperwork, many doctors say the reality is just the opposite. In Greensboro, N.C., Dr. Richard Aronson told local TV station FOX 8 that
- Opinion · Dec 12, 2012Welcome to the Thugocracy
aggregate interests of the community.” The purpose of the Constitutional order was to check faction against faction, to prevent a combination of the majority against the minority. And yet over … tyranny of the majority is no longer speculative: it is a living, breathing reality. If the majority decides on the purest form of wealth redistribution -- from each according
- Opinion · Dec 12, 2012Smoking Pot and Tying the Knot
probably know people who have, and that kind of firsthand knowledge provides an important reality check on the government’s anti-pot propaganda. Another clear pattern in both of these
- Opinion · Dec 11, 2012Why Liberalism Doesn’t Work
devise enormous taxpayer-funded, government-run programs, minimally connected, if at all, to the realities of human existence. An article in the Dec. 9 New York Times, of all places … kids out of literacy programs to avoid forfeiting a $698 monthly Supplement Security Income check meant to “help” the intellectually disabled. Reason No. 1 not to tremble at the prospect
- Historic Document · Dec 7, 20122012 Republican Platform
affirms that America has always been a place of grand dreams and even grander realities; and so it will be again, if we return government to its proper role, making … diverse programs under the heading of “entitlement,” as if veterans’ benefits and welfare checks belong in the same category. Far worse, the process assumes every spending program will be permanent
- Opinion · Dec 5, 2012Progressives Support Welfare for the Rich
entitled” to those benefits because we have “earned” them through our “contributions.” In reality, Medicare and Social Security are funded through intergenerational transfers from relatively poor workers to relatively affluent … payroll taxes extracted from middle- and working-class employees to cut monthly checks to Michael Bloomberg or subsidize prescription drugs for Ross Perot. Both programs do include some modest means
- Opinion · Nov 29, 2012The Deduction Cap Trap
seven years these “temporary” tax increases remain in effect. The Weekly Standard offers a reality check to such pipe dreams. California, “once a prosperous industrial and high-tech powerhouse
- Opinion · Nov 8, 2012George Soros Enmeshed in Bribery Scandal
Condé promised. “This also means that for companies that have already signed, we will check if they signed against bribes. If this was the case, then we would either cancel … cycle,” one unidentified source involved in the situation revealed. Despite this daunting reality, the current government insists on investigating bribe allegations against BSGR that consist of offering then-president Conté
- Opinion · Nov 1, 2012Demonizing Republicans With Hurricane Sandy
their time of need. As for Romney’s contention that crushing debt -- the reality of which will eventually have every government program squeezed white by entitlements and debt service … displaced by Hurricane Katrina, issuing $2000 debit cards to hurricane victims without bothering to check their identification, and allowing nearly 11,000 unused manufactured homes to deteriorate on old runways
- Opinion · Oct 17, 2012Hollywood’s Hysterical ‘Cancer Screening’ Lie for Obama
stupidest lies about Mitt Romney this election cycle. Fantasyland needs a fact check. According to starlets Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington, the GOP presidential ticket wants … meatheads and their hysterical handmaidens inhabit a manufactured world impervious to facts and fiscal realities. COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Oct 10, 2012California’s Choice: Bigger Worker Paychecks or Bigger Union Coffers?
organized labor is being challenged like never before. Prop 32 is a long-overdue reality check on their ability to dictate terms to government officials beholden to union campaign contributions
- Opinion · Oct 3, 2012A Few Debate Questions for Obama That Won’t Be Asked
books at D.C.-area coffee houses and private townhouses, where Secret Service background checks and login routines are abandoned. In August, House GOP investigators unearthed communications at the Department … given the actual record? If this is your proudest accomplishment, why on earth would reality-based voters want you back in the driver’s seat? COPYRIGHT 2012 CREATORS.COM
- Opinion · Sep 20, 2012Arizona Begins Enforcing Immigration Law -- for Now
upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in June. As a result, police can check the immigration status of people they stop and suspect are in the country illegally. The implementation … Justice (DOJ) are contemptuous of Arizona’s attempt to protect itself, despite the reality that the state remains the nation’s most heavily traveled corridor for both illegal immigration