Category Archives: Politics

Is The United States A Democracy? America’s Middle-Schoolers Do Not Know

NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS May 4, 2015 Just 23 percent of U.S. eighth-graders are “proficient” or above in knowledge of American civics, according to the “Nation’s Report Card,” released this week by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Only … Continue reading

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Decoding the Rules of Baltimore

PJ MEDIA by Victor Davis Hanson May 3, 2015 For the left, rioting is an effective political tool No one knows what exactly happened to the deceased Freddie Gray, except that it should not have happened. Between what is outlined … Continue reading

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AP Reporter to State Dept: If Iran ‘Routinely Screws’ Other Western Countries, Why is Nuke Deal Any Different

ALGEMEINER by David Daoud May 3, 2015 In a testy exchange on Friday between Associated Press reporter Matt Lee and the State Department’s Acting Deputy Spokesman, Jeff Rathke, Lee questioned whether the Iranian regime can be trusted to adhere to … Continue reading

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145 Intellectuals Agree: Dead Cartoonists Aren’t Worthy of Free-Speech Award if Their Murderers Come From a Disadvantaged Minority

REASON.COM by Matt Welch May 1, 2015 Charlie Hebdo’s posthumous critics pen an authoritarian anti-speech manifesto  Sunday brought the story of six members of PEN America, citing impressively asinine and ill-informed arguments, protesting that a free-speech organization was giving a courage-in-free-speech … Continue reading

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Illinois close to striking a blow to BDS. Your help needed now.

JUF NEWS May 1, 2015 Illinois is poised to become the first state to adopt legislation countering the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Conceived by Governor Bruce Rauner, strategized in cooperation with JUF, sponsored by State Sen. Ira Silverstein and … Continue reading

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Baltimore Rally: Burn Down Stores to get them ‘Out of Our Communities’

BREITBART NEWS by Staff May 2, 2015 During a large rally in front of Baltimore’s City Hall, a young man introduced as “Brother Rose,” in winding and sometimes incoherent speech, praised the burning of a CVS store at the corner … Continue reading

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The Marshall Islands’ cautionary tale

CAROLINEGLICK.COM May 1, 2015 On Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forcibly commandeered the Maersk Tigris as navigated its way through the Straits of Hormuz. Iran controls the strategic waterway through which 40 percent of seaborne oil and a quarter … Continue reading

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Why Is Pakistan More Legitimate than Israel?

FRONT PAGE MAG by Dennis Prager April 30, 2015 Whenever I have received a call from a listener to my radio show challenging Israel’s legitimacy, I have asked these people if they ever called a radio show to challenge any … Continue reading

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Lawless rioters feed bigotry against all blacks

NEW YORK POST by Deroy Murdock April 30, 2015 Dear Black Thugs: To each of you I echo what actor Terrence Howard’s character told his gangbanger brother in the film “Crash”: “You embarrass me. You embarrass yourself.” From Ferguson to Baltimore, … Continue reading

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Republican Senators and the Battered Wife Syndrome

FRONT PAGE MAG by Bruce Thornton April 27, 2015 For 6 years Barack Obama in word and deed has battered the Constitution and slapped around the Republicans. Abetted by his Luca Brasi, Harry Reid, he has run roughshod over the … Continue reading

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