Helter Skelter amid a perfect storm

By Doug Hagmann “Look out… Helter Skelter… She’s coming down fast… Yes she is.” Two police officers were executed in New York City by a lone gunman on Saturday who was reportedly exacting revenge for the deaths of two black men by police, one from Ferguson and the other from Staten Island. The bold execution […]

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The Reasons Behind Obama’s Failures

In early October, President Obama warned his supporters to “make no mistake: these policies [of mine] are on the ballot. Every single one of them”. After the November elections, he probably wishes he hadn’t said that: the scale of the liberal defeat is remarkable, as are its causes. In 2008, Obama had long coat-tails: when […]

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Harvard Activists Call Israeli-Made Soda Machines a ‘Microaggression’

Harvard University’s dining services backtracked on a plan to boycott Israeli-based SodaStream following a rebuke from the university president. Palestinian students had complained that the mere logo offended them. Before the controversy sparked worldwide attention, the university’s dining services division decided to remove SodaStream labels while it awaited new machines from American companies EverPure and […]

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Has America Finally Begun to Despise BOTH Parties?

By Jim Yardley   For many years average Americans, regardless of color, gender, national origin, religious affiliation (or lack of any religion), level of formal education or any other cultural identity have despised Democrat politicians more than Republican politicians. Why would this be so?  Largely it can be assumed that Republicans have had a much better […]

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Are Obama’s Drone Strikes More Defensible than Torture?

Victor Davis Hanson There are lots of hypocrisies surrounding the recently released executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. But they pale in comparison to the current Democratic silence about President Barack Obama’s policy of targeted drone assassinations.  Since 2004, drones have killed an estimated 2,400 to […]

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Liberal Governor Abandons Single-Payer Health Care: ‘Greatest Disappointment of My Political Life’

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Gov. Peter Shumlin announced this week he has called off his plans for single-payer health care in Vermont for 2015, saying “now is not the right time.” At an unannounced news conference, Shumlin said he received the final modeling for financing single-payer health care on Tuesday and concluded the taxes required to fund […]

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