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Obama, Congress, ISIL and War
President Obama is trying to force his foreign policy on our next President by creating ‘a third term.’ The very week that ISIL beheaded 21 Coptic Christians, Obama sent an “Authorization for the Use of Military Force” to Congress restricting our fight against the radial Islamic group. So what’s in Obama’s AUMF? — Authorization to…
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Itchy Ears
The truth doesn’t seem to mean much to those who claim the mantle of national leadership these days. Worse yet, it appears to matter even less to those who follow those same so-called leaders. ‘If you like your healthcare,” President Obama promised, “you can keep your healthcare.” While hundreds went to Selma, Alabama to commemorate…
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Tax Reform at the End of Obama’s Pen
President Obama has already enacted amnesty through executive fiat and now, he’s eyeing unilateral tax increases. This comes after a self-described democratic socialist and Vermont Senator, Bernie Sanders called on Obama to raise more than $100 billion in taxes through IRS executive action. As the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee, Sanders wants…
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Fed’s to Continue Consolidating Power
The Obama administration is proposing a new government agency dedicated to keeping the nation’s food safe. It would merge parts of the Agriculture Department and the Food and Drug Administration within the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposal comes after outbreaks of illness linked to chicken, eggs, peanuts and cantaloupe. More than a…
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The Shadow Town of Toulon
The abandoned mill buildings in Toulon date from 1892. The main building housed a ball mill used to process tungsten as well as precious metals. Unlike most other mining sites, the original mill is still standing — it’s the large, two-story metal building next to the railroad tracks. The ruins are on private property and…
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Nevada Lawmakers Consider Raising the Minimum Wage
Senator Tick Segerblom is sponsoring SJR 8, which would raise the minimum wage to either $15 or $16 an hour depending if the employer offers health insurance. Segerblom and a number of his Progressive pals claim the change is necessary because the current minimum wage isn’t livable. The minimum wage in Nevada is 8.25 an hour if…
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The Angels Among Us
“When angels visit us, we do not hear the rustle of wings, nor feel the feathery touch of the breast of a dove; but we know their presence by the love they create in our hearts,” Mary Baker Eddy. An 18-month-old baby who survived after her mother’s vehicle veered off the road and landed upside…
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The Gap in Hillary’s Emails and Credibility
Congressman Trey Gowdy, chairman of the special House committee investigating the terror attack on Americans in Benghazi, says they’ve received more than 800 pages of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email account, but not all of them. “There are gaps of months and months and months,” Gowdy said. He points to a trip Clinton took…
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Where Sleeping-in Trumps the Working Man
There was a time in this nation when we celebrated the working man. Now we try to punish them in favor of more shut-eye. A sanitation worker in an Atlanta suburb had been sentenced to 30-days in jail for starting work before 7 a.m. Kevin McGill, employed by Waste Management Inc., in Sandy Springs, Georgia, violated the city’s ordinance for…
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Want to Foster a Child? Give Up Your Gun!
The silence from Progressives is deafening as a Nevada couple’s been told they can’t adopt a 12-year-old child because they have legal concealed-carry permits. Brian and Valerie Wilson asked the Assembly Judiciary Committee to approve a bill that would allow them to carry loaded weapons and serve as foster parents. In testimony to the committee…