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Jeffdunetz | December 24, 2015
The controversy has been raging since the Washington Post ran an editorial cartoon depicting the young daughters of Republican Presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tx) as monkeys. Among the questions being asked are: Since Cruz used his daughters in a political commercial where he slammed Democrats, are they fair game? Would the reaction to the mocking of the senator's kids be different…
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Jeffdunetz | December 23, 2015
According to climate change enthusiasts, warming temperatures are melting the arctic ice, reducing the habitat of the polar bears and causing a decline in their numbers.  There are only two problems with this claim: the arctic ice cap is growing, and so is the polar bear population. According to Polar Bear International, a conservation group focusing on polar bears: Polar bears have evolved…
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Jeffdunetz | December 22, 2015
According to the U.S. Government's Center for Disease Control (CDC), "Once you have been diagnosed, you will be asked to identify your sexual and needle-sharing partners, so that they can be told that they have been exposed to HIV and need to be tested. Partner notification is one of the most important ways to prevent the spread of HIV. (It’s also important, of course, that you use a condom…
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Jeffdunetz | December 20, 2015
Recently, President Obama scrapped the "97% consensus of scientists believe in climate change" claim - and raised it 99.5%: While the president noted that "99.5 percent of scientists and experts [and] 99 percent of world leaders" agree human-caused climate change needs to be reckoned with. If the President relied on facts rather than hyperbole, he would admit that there is no study claiming…
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Jeffdunetz | December 17, 2015
  To the biological parents of some children being carried by surrogate mothers, three's a crowd.  Brittneyrose Torres a surrogate mother, is 17 weeks pregnant with triplets and fighting a demand from the childrens' biological parents that she abort one of the babies.   Ms. Torres, who lives in Thousand Oaks, Calif., was implanted with two fertilized egg in the hopes that one would develop.…
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Jeffdunetz | December 16, 2015
Obamacare received a major blow this week when Cleveland-based insurance company HealthSpan announced it will no longer sell Affordable Care Act (ACA) health plans, is disbanding its physicians' network, and has notified its brokers it will stop paying commissions for small group and individual customers. According to HealthSpan spokesman Chuck Heald, the ACA was a big money loser for the…
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Jeffdunetz | December 15, 2015
Fox News is reporting that a review by inspectors general (IG) of state and national intelligence has confirmed that two of the emails found on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unsecured personal email server were, indeed, top secret at the time she received them. The two emails were deemed top secret after an initial review, however, in early November the State Department leaked to…
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Jeffdunetz | December 13, 2015
We're still waiting Al!  Back in 2008 and again in 2009, former Vice President Al Gore said that in the next 5-7 years the Arctic Ice cap will be totally gone during some parts of the summer. Sadly for Al and his climate change enthusiasts, the opposite is happening. On December 15, 2008 The Herald, a daily newspaper in Australia, reported: Add Al Gore’s name to the list of people we need to…
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Jeffdunetz | December 11, 2015
It seems as if, every time there is a death which can be re-engineered into a racial bias incident such as Michael Brown, for instance, that  MSNBC host Al Sharpton finds a way to give the eulogy. But, in a proven case of bias which took place twenty years ago, the future advisor to President Obama and NYC Mayor DeBlasio was nowhere to be found. That is because Sharpton was one of the main…
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Jeffdunetz | December 10, 2015
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (R-NV) slammed Supreme Court Justice Anton Scalia for peddling racism on Thursday because of comments Scalia made during arguments in the affirmative action case of Fisher v. the University of Texas. The case has been brewing for seven years. Plaintiffs Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz applied to the University of Texas at Austin in 2008 and…