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Oklahoma Repeals Common Core

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill on Friday to repeal Common Core. Fallin said Oklahomans are “capable of developing our own academic standards that will be better than Common Core.” “Now is the time for Oklahomans — parents, citizens, educators, employers and elected officials — to unite behind the common goal of improving our […]

New York Soda Ban Rises From the Grave

Nanny state totalitarian Michael Bloomberg is no longer Mayor of New York. But progressive tyranny works like a ratchet; notch by notch it is pulled tighter, never giving way in the opposite direction. So not even the most absurd of his restrictions are going anywhere. His soda ban was held up in court. No matter; […]

Extravagant Salaries at Taxpayer-Subsidized Abortion Mill

Putting down unwanted children is a highly lucrative industry, yet the #1 abortion business in the country, Planned Parenthood, is massively subsidized by taxpayers. Where does all the money go? A partial answer: Planned Parenthood likes to paint itself as a crucial provider of affordable women’s health care to the poor. But it also aids […]

Now Obama Is Coming for Your Cigars, America

Obama’s Food and Drug Administration is targeting your cigars, America, and if you are a cigar lover you’d better pay attention because if Obama gets his way costs will soar. AP photo The USFDA is proposing a whole slew of new regulations changing the way the government treats cigars, one if which is to outlaw […]

“Mr. President, You Are My Commander-in-Chief. Get Me Out of Jail.” Marine Rotting in Mexican Prison For Making a Driving Mistake Pleads With Obama to Free Him Like He Did Bergdahl

Obama has proudly declared that he doesn’t leave any Americans behind as justification for choice to trade five high-level terrorists for deserter Bowe Bergdahl. This apparently doesn’t apply to Marine Andrew Tahmooressi, trapped in a Mexican prison and being held in despicable conditions, simply for making a wrong turn. A US Marine held in a […]

Ex-Con With Mental Problems Who Stabbed 6-Year-Old Boy to Death and Left 7-Year-Old Girl Fighting for Her Life Was Paroled Despite Being Off His Meds

There are situations where you can’t help but think that our justice system bears some culpability in the aftermath of the decisions they made. The case of Daniel St. Hubert is one of them. An ex-convict with a history of mental illness eyed in the stabbing that left a six-year-old boy dead and his seven-year-old […]

VA Under Investigation For Whistleblower Retaliation

The hit parade keeps coming (Wall Street Journal) A federal watchdog is investigating allegations of dozens of complaints of backlash against whistleblowers at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to a release Thursday. The U.S. Office of Special Counsel, a federal body that protects government employees from improper employment practices, including backlash against whistleblowers, announced […]

This Week In Quotes (Double Edition: May 23 – June 5)

Touré believes he is entitled to win out on every political belief he has because he’s black. It’s that simple. And his method to achieving this is just to cry “Racist” whenever someone disagrees with his idiotic ideology. — Ace Cochran didn’t pose for any pictures during his brief sweep. As he made his way […]

North Korea Claims To Be Holding An American “Tourist”

Fallout from the Bergdahl exchange? First, let’s consider The swap of five high-level Taliban operatives — dubbed a jihadist “Dream Team” — for a U.S. Army sergeant accused by fellow soldiers of desertion has “encouraged” the Afghan terror group to kidnap more U.S. service members, according to a report. A source described as a Taliban […]

What Happened to Marine Deserter Wassef Ali Hassoun?

Ten years ago this month, U.S. Marine Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from Camp Fallujah in Iraq. After a five-month military investigation, he was charged with desertion and theft, brought back to Virginia’s Quantico Marine base and then transferred to North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune for trial. Yet, a full decade later, Hassoun is as free as […]

Bergdahl’s free, but at what cost?

There he goes again. At a press conference in Brussels Thursday, President Obama was asked if he was surprised by the controversy over his decision to trade Bowe Bergdahl for five high-ranking Taliban leaders. His response was vintage Obama: “I’m never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington.” Thus establishing from the start […]

Is ‘Not Obama’ Enough?

Though President Barack Obama’s first term was characterized by anemic economic growth, decreasing household income, prolonged joblessness, an unpopular health law, foreign policy blunders and bitter partisanship, the electorate seemed stubbornly unwilling to lay any of it at his feet. As late as July 2013, 35 percent of Americans assigned George W. Bush a “high […]

It Was Probably Never About Bergdahl

Everything about this horrendous Bowe Bergdahl affair reminds us just how out of touch President Obama is with ordinary Americans and American sensibilities. Just look at what we’ve learned. Obama reportedly expected that the American people would meet his egregiously lopsided deal exchanging five Osama bin Ladens for one Benedict Arnold with a “euphoric” response? […]

Obama’s Real Goal: Close Gitmo

Why did President Obama release five of the most dangerous prisoners he had in Guantanamo in exchange for a man who is, at best, a deserter and, at worst, a traitor? Why did he take the risk of bypassing Congress? Didn’t he realize the fallout that would hit him? I believe the answer is that […]

College for Everyone Is Not the Answer

A recent study estimated that getting a college degree is worth about a half-million dollars over the course of a graduate’s lifetime. On the surface, that presents an open-and-shut case that college is worth the time and money involved. That’s the conclusion reached in a New York Times column by Dave Leonhardt, who wrote, “Yes, […]

The Platinum Supply Shock

Even investors who typically eschew precious metals have been hard-pressed to ignore the platinum industry this year. The longest strike in South African history paired with surging Asian demand is set to push the metal back into a physical deficit in 2014 – and could have repercussions for years to come. While gold remains the […]

Serial Killer Told Police He Was Covered In Blood Because He’d Clubbed a Deer to Death: “I’m a redneck, it’s what we do for fun”

Behold, evil: An alleged serial killer told Canadian authorities who had pulled over his vehicle that he was covered in blood because he had just clubbed a deer to death, it has emerged. But: Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers knew there was more to the story when they stopped Cody Legebokoff, 24, for speeding on a […]