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Jeffdunetz | November 11, 2015
Liberals on Twitter and in the mainstream media didn't understand (or didn't want to understand) one comment made by Marco Rubio during Tuesday night's Fox Business Channel debate. The firestorm was incited by the comment: "Welders make more money than philosophers. We need more welders and less  philosophers." An objective observer would have recognized that Rubio was not making a literal…
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Jeffdunetz | November 10, 2015
Every Friday, Evangelical Christian Brian Ingalls stands outside the building housing the Portland, Maine Planned Parenthood clinic yelling up at the clinic via the second second floor window pleading with women not to have an abortion. According to Maine's Attorney General Janet Mills, Ingalls is violating those patients' civil rights - so, she is suing the pro-life protester for "yelling so…
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Jeffdunetz | November 8, 2015
Since it was first posted on Friday, Politico has been facing criticism for its story that Ben Carson's claim he was offered a full scholarship to West Point was a fabrication.  Carson says Politico's story is a lie and an example of how the mainstream media "vets" Republican candidates differently than they do Democrats. Politico claims that the story needed some clarification, but that it was…
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Jeffdunetz | November 8, 2015
Since it was first posted on Friday, Politico has been facing criticism for its story that Ben Carson's claim he was offered a full scholarship to West Point was a fabrication.  Carson says Politico's story is a lie and an example of how the mainstream media "vets" Republican candidates differently than they do Democrats. Politico claims that the story needed some clarification but it was…
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Jeffdunetz | November 6, 2015
The Little Sisters of the Poor are finally going to have their day in court---Supreme Court!  On Friday, the nation's highest court said it will hear the case of The Little Sisters and six other religious non-profit organizations who believe the Obama administration didn't go far enough in its offer to carve them out of the Obamacare birth control mandate.  According the Obamacare mandate,…
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Jeffdunetz | November 5, 2015
Many concerned Americans are following the battle in Congress to defund Planned Parenthood, spurred by videos released over the summer by the Center for Medical Progress allegedly showing the organization selling the pieces of aborted babies. However, even if the abortion organization loses its funding from the federal budget, many tax payers will still be supporting it with their hard-earned…
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Jeffdunetz | November 3, 2015
In early September, citizens of Marion County, Ore., learned that Circuit Judge Vance Day was under investigation by the Oregon Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability. According to Day’s spokesman, the initial reason for the inquiry was Day's refusal to perform any marriages out of concern that he would be asked to officiate same-sex weddings, which is against the judge's deeply held…
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Jeffdunetz | November 1, 2015
While Congress was debating the P5+1 nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration warned legislators that any changes to the deal would destroy the complicated agreement. But now that Iran has supposedly accepted the deal, its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, is demanding changes that, if agreed to, would basically render the agreement moot. Khamenei made the demands in a letter…
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Jeffdunetz | October 30, 2015
Trying to stave off a revolt from the candidates running for the party's 2016 nomination, the RNC has suspended plans to partner with NBC News for a February debate.  “The CNBC network is one of your media properties, and its handling of the debate was conducted in bad faith,” RNC chairman Reince Priebus wrote in a letter to NBC chairman Andrew Lack on Friday (full letter at end of post).  "…
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Jeffdunetz | October 29, 2015
Republican candidates are uniting on at least one thing: debate moderators need to clean up their act. And, they're drafting a list of demands to make them do it. From its first moments when the moderators of Wednesday's Republican CNBC debate left the candidates to wait on stage while the chatted for ten minutes before introducing them and beginning debates, the CNBC moderators displayed…