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Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 57 Comments • 6 years ago

We’re now in the silly season of the Democratic primary — a season that, I worry, may last all the way to the nomination. There are many honorable exceptions, but an awful lot of reporting...

Lori Loughlin Once Said She Never Wanted to Do Anything That 'My Children Have to Pay the Price For'

Via: flynavy1 • Op/Ed • 23 Comments • 6 years ago

Before being indicted in an alleged college admissions cheating scam , Lori Loughlin said in an interview about her Christian morals that she would never do anything that her “children...

America pays for the wall: thieves mock Trump by stealing border razor wire

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 8 Comments • 6 years ago

Mexicans are building fences , and America has already paid for them. In recent months, US authorities have unrolled miles of razor wire along the border with Mexico as part of efforts...

The White-Extinction Conspiracy Theory Is Bonkers

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 9 Comments • 6 years ago

“The Great Replacement” is a racist and misogynistic conspiracy theory that holds that white people face existential decline, even extinction, because of rising immigration in the West...

ADF: Nothing about the Equality Act is equal

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 6 years ago

ADF: Nothing about the Equality Act is equal Monday, March 18, 2019 | Chris Woodward (OneNewsNow.com) Federal legislation in the House and Senate would extend discrimination...

Trump Signs Executive Order to Protect Free Speech on College Campuses

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to promote free speech on college campuses by threatening colleges with the loss of federal research funding if they do not protect...

No Comment! Why More News Sites Are Dumping Their Comment Sections

Via: flynavy1 • Op/Ed • 36 Comments • 6 years ago

Letters to the editor have always been a key part of American newspapers, the main channel for readers to respond to the content they consume and publicly debate major political and social...

Reformulation ... ... by Bob Nelson

By: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 6 years ago

I propose that reformulation be banned. From everywhere. From cable news and from the White House... and from NewsTalkers. Reformulation should be a way to clarify another person's words: "Did...

Rubio to introduce legislation to keep Supreme Court at 9 seats

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 23 Comments • 6 years ago

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) said Wednesday he plans to introduce a constitutional amendment to limit the Supreme Court to nine justices after some Democrats have floated expanding the...

Biden Called Court Packing a ‘Bonehead Idea’ During 1983 Hearing

Via: it-is-me • Op/Ed • 12 Comments • 6 years ago

"President Roosevelt clearly had the right to send to the United States Senate and the United States Congress a proposal to pack the Court," Biden said during the hearing. "It was totally within...

The State of Jefferson’s plan for a California divided

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 282 Comments • 6 years ago

Almost anywhere you drive through Northern California, you’ll see green and gold signs, flags and banners heralding the arrival of the State of Jefferson, a separatist movement that nearly...

‘You call yourselves The Resistance?’ Maher slams Dems for refusing to hold debates on Fox News … ‘grow a pair’

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 15 Comments • 6 years ago

Bill Maher had a blunt message for Democrats on their “terrible” decision to bar Fox News from hosting a 2020 primary debate. The “Real Time” host slammed the Democratic Party on his HBO show...

SPLC Hasn’t Removed False Tweet About Jussie Smollett Hate Hoax

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 35 Comments • 6 years ago

The dastardly Southern Poverty Law Center has allowed a Tweet about the Jussie Smollett hate hoax to remain live, despite the fact that the Tweet’s content has now been debunked. “Hate crimes —...

Ted Koppel says the media is anti-Trump

By: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 63 Comments • 6 years ago

The msm has finally been called out for what it has become. The criticism comes from none other than Ted Koppel, who put it this way: "I'm terribly concerned that when you talk about the New...

Cal Thomas: Florida’s economy is booming while blue states like New York are mired in debt -- why is that?

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 242 Comments • 6 years ago

While most attention has been focused on immigrants trying to enter the United States over America’s southern border, there is legal migration taking place that has been largely ignored, though it...

Getting Real About Rural America

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 15 Comments • 6 years ago

Things clump together; the periphery cannot hold. As you read this, Democratic presidential hopefuls are crisscrossing Iowa, trying to assure farmers that they share their concerns....

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 6 years ago

This is a long article, and I have excerpted it throughout. JR https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/ -...

Google vs. God's Word

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 6 Comments • 6 years ago

It's very clear: biblical content about homosexual practice – spoken accurately and with love – violates Google's policy. Forget any idea that Google actually make a serious effort to recognize...

Ethiopian Airlines crash: FAA is resisting calls by aviation advocates to ground Boeing jets

Via: perrie-halpern • Op/Ed • 58 Comments • 6 years ago

By Phil McCausland The Federal Aviation Administration doubled down on its decision to allow airline carriers to continue operating the Boeing 737 Max aircraft in the United States after...

Rabbi: Leftists ‘Much More Dangerous’ to Jews Than KKK

Via: make-america-great-again • Op/Ed • 19 Comments • 6 years ago

The National Conference of Jewish Affairs (NCJA) held a demonstration at U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Thursday at 1 p.m. to protest her failure to discipline Rep. Ilhan Omar for...

How can you defend a president who is a danger to democracy?

Via: john-russell • Op/Ed • 98 Comments • 6 years ago

Washington Post › How can you defend a president who is a danger to democracy? Michael Gerson March 14, 2019 A friend just returned from some time with a group of...

In bid to lower debt load, White House proposes student-loan limits

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 17 Comments • 6 years ago

The Trump administration on Monday proposed new limits on federal student loans taken out by parents and graduate students as part of a broader proposal to curb the cost of college. White House...

On Politics, with Lisa Lerer, March 19, 2019

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 6 years ago

Lisa Lerer “It won’t leave my mind and it won’t leave my heart,” she told Willie Simmons, a state senator who was giving Ms. Warren a tour, as we walked by burned-out homes, trash-filled...

Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died

Via: don-overton • Op/Ed • 0 Comments • 6 years ago

FERGUSON, Mo. — Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose. Six deaths, all involving men...

Convicted liar Michael Cohen is testifying about Trump – Should we believe a word he says?

Via: nerm-l • Op/Ed • 232 Comments • 6 years ago

After three years of relentless hair-on-fire Trump crap I don't believe anyone, anymore. Come on, people, get off the crapper and flush it! (Seeder's edit, just because ...) Everyone already knows...

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