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Rebecca Hagelin: Culture Challenge of the Week: "Imperfect" Children

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
Nearly every evening, they are there at their neighborhood pool-a father and his nine-year-old son, Michael. The boy's smile captures attention instantly. You can't help but be drawn to watch the two of them as they...
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Dennis Prager: Why the Right Fears Transforming America -- and the Left Seeks It

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
The giveaway regarding presidential candidate Barack Obama's plans for America was his repeated use of the words "fundamentally transform." Some of us instinctively reacted negatively -- in fact, with horror -- at the...
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Sarah Walters: Yes We Care

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
The well-being of your family shouldn't turn on the political budgeting process. Too bad too-big government often makes this inevitable. Earnest politicians create programs with the hope of helping people, but by...
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Mike Adams: My Guns Are Pretty (And Safer Than Your Tattoos)

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
There's nothing more annoying than getting a complaint about my gun collection from a feminist with a tattoo on her lower back. I don't let anyone irresponsible get near my guns so that no one gets killed. When the...
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Thomas Sowell: Political Fables

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
President Barack Obama boldly proclaims, "The buck stops here!" But, whenever his policies are criticized, he acts as if the buck stopped with George W. Bush.The party line that we are likely to be hearing from now...
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Bill Murchison: The End of Affirmative Action

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
It's been a rough year, politically, for the glass-ceiling smashers. Neither feminism nor the civil rights movement, which claimed credit a couple of years back for the golden gifts of Nancy Pelosi and, especially,...
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John Hawkins: 25 Reasons to Send the Democrats Packing in November

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
1) Remember the stimulus bill? Republicans strongly opposed it and said it wouldn't work. Democrats said it would revive the economy and keep unemployment under 8 percent. So, what happened? Democrats shoved through a...
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Chuck Norris: Obama: Muslim Missionary? (Part 4)

Mon, 09/06/2010 - 22:01
Nine years ago this week, we began to chant: "We never will forget 9/11."Nine years later, I think too many of us have forgotten, especially those in the White House.Islamic extremists murdered almost 3,000 innocent...
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Caroline Glick: The New Netanyahu?

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 22:01
Despite a multi-million dollar media blitz, Israelis are not buying the US-financed Geneva Initiative's attempt to convince us that we have a Palestinian partner. A week after the pro-Palestinian group launched its...
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Ben Cannatti and Ford O'Connell: The Path to Victory in Washington

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 22:01
Last month we examined the political climate in Oregon noting that in 2010, the Beaver State is "not your traditional swing state." Head up I-5, and you'll notice striking similarities between the happenings in Oregon...
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Star Parker: Withdrawing From Reality

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 22:01
It's interesting why behavior that we readily recognize, on an individual level, as undesirable, we routinely promote and accept as government and social policy. What rational person would suggest that being detached...
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Michael Barone: The Higher Education Bubble: Ready to Burst?

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 22:01
Imagine that you have a product whose price tag for decades rises faster than inflation. But people keep buying it because they're told that it will make them wealthier in the long run. Then, suddenly, they find it...
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Paul Greenberg: A Labor of Love

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 22:01
On this Labor Day, like most Americans, I come to praise labor, not indulge in it. Has there ever been a people that speechified more about the joys and satisfactions of work and the work ethic, yet was so enamored of...
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Lurita Doan: Stimulating Infrastructure Projects Without Spending More Money

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 22:01
President Obama and his team of White House advisors are wrong: no additional federal funding is needed to stimulate a federal construction boom that would launch job-creation in cities across the United States. What...
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Bruce Bialosky: Budget Is Not California's Only Problem

Sun, 09/05/2010 - 22:01
The Golden State has not been looking so golden for a while now. California has budget deficits that get bigger ever year, despite imposing among the highest tax rates in the country in every category. These factors...
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Paul Jacob: Working for the man

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 22:09
Years ago, my wife and I recounted our early public school experiences to our children. My wife boasted that she finished her schoolwork before her classmates and then got to help the teacher put up elaborate...
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Kevin McCullough: The Looming Obama Depression

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 22:06
The longer President Obama refuses to acknowledge the direction of our nation's economy the greater the impact will be when the looming depression that awaits is named in his honor. For a leader who has had the...
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Ken Connor: Deja Vu All Over Again

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 22:01
It's deja vu all over again in Washington as the midterm elections rapidly approach and all signs point to an electoral route of the party in power. Four years ago, the Beltway was abuzz with news of a GOP bloodletting...
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Austin Hill: Obama, Senators, Coyotes and Wolves

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 22:01
How did President Barack Obama go from a sixty-nine percent approval rating in January of 2009, to being declared "Mr. Unpopular" in Time Magazine last week? Well, in the context of a succinct, roughly 3000 word
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Salena Zito: Anatomy of a Battleground District

Sat, 09/04/2010 - 22:01
BUTLER, Pa. - In a campaign office on the first floor of a Sons of Italy lodge, Republican Mike Kelly spoke confidently to a crowd of locals about his race for the U.S. Congress. Outside, a lone Joe Sestak support
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