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What's for Dinner (or supper depending on where you live)

By: kavika • Op/Ed • 301 Comments • 7 years ago

I dropped my wife off at the airport a couple of hours ago. She'll be visiting friends for the next 8 days...I'll be fixing all meals in the Kavika household or the Big Tipi. For this evening...

Does The Netherlands Have a Problem?

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Op/Ed • 41 Comments • 7 years ago

Does The Netherlands Have a Problem? by Judith Bergman , Gatestone Institute, December 8, 2018 According to the National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism of the...

3 ways the women’s movement in US politics is misunderstood

Via: mbfc-censorship • Op/Ed • 268 Comments • 7 years ago

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey after winning the election. AP Photo/Butch Dill A record number of women are headed to statehouses and Capitol Hill in 2019. One hundred women were elected to the...

UN Approves Terror, Torpedoes Peace

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 7 years ago

UN Approves Terror, Torpedoes Peace by Bassam Tawil , Gatestone Institute, December 10, 2018 The UN General Assembly on December 6 voted down a US-sponsored resolution condemning...

The wealth of America's three richest families grew by 6,000% since 1982

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 61 Comments • 7 years ago

It hardly makes news any more that the US is becoming an extremely unequal country. Each year new eye-popping statistics juxtapose the reality of decades of stagnant wages for half the...

Jared Kushner did what?

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

... what in the world is a U.S. official doing advising a foreign leader on how to escape blame for the murder of a U.S. national, a crime so repulsive that a bipartisan push is underway in...

The lesson of the substitute teacher who stole Christmas

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 239 Comments • 7 years ago

The principal of Cedar Hill Elementary School in Montville, New Jersey, is apologizing to parents after a substitute teacher told first graders that Santa Claus isn't real. According to a...

Ups and downs: Trump’s rotten, no good year

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 6 Comments • 7 years ago

By Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer December 10 at 9:00 AM UP : Michael Cohen DOWN : Paul Manafort UP : Robert S. Mueller III DOWN : White House aides and President...

Palestinians: No Difference Between Hamas and Fatah

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • Op/Ed • 15 Comments • 7 years ago

Palestinians: No Difference Between Hamas and Fatah by Khaled Abu Toameh , Gatestone Institute, December 6, 2018 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's hatred of Hamas is...

A Preview of Your Chinese Future

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 6 Comments • 7 years ago

Clouds above the Shanghai skyline on July 31, 2014. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images The year is 2049, one hundred years after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The Belt...

The Angry White Male Caucus

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 22 Comments • 7 years ago

When Matt Damon did his Brett Kavanaugh imitation on “Saturday Night Live,” you could tell that he nailed it before he said a word. It was all about the face — that sneering, rage-filled...

Group led by Thomas Piketty presents plan for ‘a fairer Europe’

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 7 years ago

The manifesto drawn up by Thomas Piketty and others addresses the inequality and populism sweeping the continent. Eric Piermont/AFP/Getty Images A group of progressive Europeans led by...

Young America's Foundation Scores Major Free Speech Victory Over UC Berkeley

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 19 Comments • 7 years ago

Young America's Foundation scored a major free speech victory Monday over the University of California-Berkeley. After losing a lawsuit filed by YAF, the university must pay the organization...

A Rare Moment of Unity

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 10 Comments • 7 years ago

Former President George W. Bush speaks at the funeral for his father, former President George H.W. Bush, at the National Cathedral on Dec. 5, 2018, in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)...

Beyond GDP

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Just under ten years ago , the International Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress issued its report, Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why GDP Doesn’t Add Up ....

The Art of the Imaginary Deal

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 2 Comments • 7 years ago

Are we going to have a full-blown trade war with China, and maybe the rest of the world? Nobody knows — because it all depends on the whims of one man. And Tariff Man is ignorant, volatile and...

Trump Just Scored Two Big Wins for Unborn Babies

Via: mbfc-censorship • Op/Ed • 140 Comments • 7 years ago

No matter where you stand on abortion, what follows is going to upset you. If you believe in the unalienable right of a mother to kill her children, you won’t like what Trump has done....

Racism -- It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere!

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 106 Comments • 7 years ago

It's sobering how much race dominates the public discourse today. But as long as we're discussing stereotypes, we should note that leftists and elites are the ones obsessed with race, not the...

Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Hate’ Labels Deserve a Vigorous Response

Via: mbfc-censorship • Op/Ed • 9 Comments • 7 years ago

The Alliance Defending Freedom doubles down on its call to civil discourse. Last week, we were honored to have U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speak at the Alliance Defending Freedom Summit on...

They Go Together: Freedom, Prosperity, and Big Government

Via: bob-nelson • Op/Ed • 1 Comments • 7 years ago

Economists, libertarian economists included, love to measure things. The Human Freedom Index (HFI) from the Cato Institute is a case in point. Its authors have assembled dozens of...

Global Warming: Fake Science Again Serves Far-Left Political Agenda

Via: mbfc-censorship • Op/Ed • 184 Comments • 7 years ago

Global Warming: A new White House report, issued just last Friday, makes alarming projections about future global warming. Not only will it cost billions and billions in lost economic output, that...

Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins

Via: mbfc-is-censorship-tool • Op/Ed • 139 Comments • 7 years ago

In 1939, the same year the Germans and the Russians mutually consented to rape Poland, T.S. Eliot rather famously (or, I suppose for some, infamously) declared: “If you will not have God (and He...

A Giant List Of Questions The House Needs To Ask James Comey In His Deposition

Via: vic-eldred • Op/Ed • 65 Comments • 7 years ago

By Margot Cleveland DECEMBER 6, 2018 Former FBI director James Comey will be deposed Friday in a closed-door session by the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees as...

The Hilarious Reason Why Home Alone Is Going Viral Nearly 30 Years Later

Via: ender • Op/Ed • 4 Comments • 7 years ago

Home Alone will always be a Christmas classic that truly encapsulates all of the magic and family values of the holiday season. But when you watch it as an adult, you can’t help but have some...

Stocks down 6.7% off 2018 High

Via: johnrussell • Op/Ed • 39 Comments • 7 years ago

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is 25027 as of 11:30 central, which means the stock market average is down 6.7% since it's high of 26828 on Oct 3, 2018. - Stocks sold off after the...

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