Half of Illinois Residents Would Leave the Land of Lincoln (If They Could)

Half the residents of Illinois (50%), Connecticut (49%) and Maryland (47%) would flee their state if they had the chance, a new Gallup Poll show. Residents of these states are also the most likely to leave, and Gallup attributes three factors: State taxes State Government Quality of Life “Nevada, Illinois, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, […]

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House Select Committee to Probe Unknowns of Benghazi Attack

President Obama walks with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. (Photo: Pete Souza) Americans will get the answers they deserve to questions surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack through creation of a special committee empowered to dig deep into the subject, House Speaker John Boehner announced today. In a formal statement, Boehner said: The administration’s withholding of […]

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The heavy hand of the IRS seizes innocent Americans’ assets

Earnest moralists lament Americans’ distrust of government. What really is regrettable is that government does much to earn distrust, as Terry Dehko, 70, and his daughter Sandy Thomas, 41, understand. Terry, who came to Michigan from Iraq in 1970, soon did what immigrants often do: He went into business, buying Schott’s Supermarket in Fraser, Mich., […]

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It is time to choose our side

By Doug Hagmann    –The American Revolutionary War, or our war for independence from the oppression of the British that officially began in 1775 and birthed our nation, was a most pivotal time in our nation’s history. Many men and women of average means and intelligence rose to become celebrated heroes and heroines. They placed […]

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Chinese Economy Overtakes America’s

Photo: Zhou Ke/Newscom With much faster growth rates between 2011 and 2014, China is now being forecast to eclipse the United States as the world’s largest economy sometime this year. The U.S. has been the world’s largest economy since the 1870s when it overtook Great Britain. Before the current revisions were released this week, it […]

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Why Kerry Was Wrong to Rebuke Israel With ‘Apartheid’ Comment

AFP PHOTO/JACQUELYN MARTIN/Newscom Secretary of State John Kerry undiplomatically declared that Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state” if it fails to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Josh Rogin of the Daily Beast reported that Kerry made the disparaging remark during a closed-door talk before members of the Trilateral Commission. Kerry told the […]

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This Man Quit Michael Bloomberg’s Anti-Gun Group Just a Week After It Launched

Michael Bloomberg and Tom Ridge (Photo: Peter Foley/EPA/Newscom) Michael Bloomberg’s new $50 million anti-gun group is off to a rocky start just days after launching. Tom Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania and Homeland Security secretary, resigned from the organization, the Daily Caller reported. Bloomberg’s new group is called Everytown for Gun Safety, an umbrella […]

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