HHS Confirmation Hearings: 49,000 Words, Zero on Abortion-Drug Mandate

Two Senate committees held hearings this month on the nomination of Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell to succeed Kathleen Sebelius as secretary of Health and Human Services, the federal agency most responsible for overseeing implementation of Obamacare. In these two hearings, according to transcripts published by CQ Transcriptions, the senators and […]

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The Obama Administration’s Absurd Battle Over School Meal Programs

(Photo: Stephen McGee/Detroit Free Press/MCT) “Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”  This Marx Brothers quote from “Duck Soup” is effectively the mantra of the Obama Administration when it comes to the USDA’s new School Lunch and Breakfast Program requirements implementing the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 — requirements that likely […]

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Putin on Obama: Who Is He to Judge? Seriously?

Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to Obama’s accusations that he’s lied about the Ukraine with: “Who is he to judge? Who is he to judge, seriously? If he wants to judge, why doesn’t he get a job in court somewhere.” Putin’s answer brought cheers and clapping from the crowd at the St. Petersburg economic conference […]

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One Man’s Tireless Fight to Make Congress Live Under Obamacare

Sen. David Vitter, R-La. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom) Sen. David Vitter, an ardent opponent of Obamacare, readily concedes that his proposal to end health care subsidies to members of Congress and their staffs isn’t popular on Capitol Hill. But the Louisiana Republican won’t give up anytime soon, he vows. “I won’t let my amendment fall […]

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As Scandal Deepens, Senate Stalls on Veterans Health Bill

(Photo: St Petersburg Times/ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom) A veterans advocacy group hailed House passage of a measure making it easier for the secretary of Veterans Affairs to dismiss managers for poor performance and called for Senate action that appears much less likely just days before Memorial Day. By a vote of 390-33, the Republican-controlled House last night passed […]

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Political Correctness Makes Race & Genetics Taboo in the West, Which is why China is Winning

Most scientists will tell you that race has no biological basis—it is, in academic-speak, a “social construct.” But a new book by distinguished journalist Nicholas Wade challenges that assumption, concluding that race is real and human social behaviour is subject to natural selection just like everything else. As the New York Review of Books put it, in […]

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Hensarling’s ‘Choice’: Success Should Depend on Hard Work, Not Friends in Washington

Until conservatives undo a system that grants favors to well-connected business interests, they will lack the “moral authority” to reform a social welfare state that traps too many Americans in poverty and dependence, Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said this afternoon in a speech he bluntly acknowledged as “a call to action.” In a half-hour address […]

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Obama Syndicate Assaulting Americans from every angle

In order to effectively—and with as much certainty as is possible—decimate and destroy a country, its Middle Class must be thoroughly eradicated.  The infamous Soviet-style Communist Saul Alinsky—mentor to Hillary Clinton who wrote her Senior thesis on him “There is Only the Fight…” at Wellesley College—wrote extensively about it in his book Rules for Radicals. […]

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