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Words: ‘Fetus’ vs. ‘Unborn Child’
This isn’t about abortion per se; it’s about how the U.S. media and the legal system use certain words to frame their agendas. News agencies report: “Police say three adults, two children and an unborn child were killed in the crash,” or “Authorities investigating the discovery of two fetuses found dumped along the side the road.” Yet according to…
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Nothing the Government ‘Gives’ is Free
President Obama wants everyone to have two “free” years of junior college. In his recent “State of the Nation,” address he laid out new tax packages that includes a $320 billion hike to help pay for this plan. But here’s what he didn’t say… Under current law, 529-Plans work like Roth IRAs — you put…
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That Death Song Can Be a Killer
“So, what songs reminds you of your pre-teen years?” was the question I asked on Facebook. I received a number of wonderful answers, but one really intrigued me. That person relayed that her mother refused to let her sing the words, “Yummy, yummy, yummy — I got love in my tummy.” Not being familiar with the…
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Obama’s Optical Confusion
President Obama made an unplanned trip to the French Embassy in Washington, D.C. During the brief visit he signed a condolence book, ending the entry with “Vive la France,” honoring those killed by terrorists at Charlie Hebdo magazine. Earlier in the day, however he zipped right passed the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Hospital to a high school where he delivered…
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Prejudice Doesn’t Always Come With a ‘White Face’
New York Congressman and founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus Charlie Rangel claims he saw plenty of American Army dead during the Korean War. But the deaths of black soldiers meant more to him than the deaths of whites — even if they all wore the same uniform. “When I was in combat, and…
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“Freedom of Press” Under Attack
The terror attack and murder of 12 people in Paris, France can happen in the U.S. too, especially since we’re already embroiled in this mess. In February 2006, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published a series of 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. The same pictures had been featured in the Nordic daily Jyllands-Posten…
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White Lives Matter, Too
Dothan, Alabama police say Robert Lawrence, an unarmed white-man, went to an animal shelter to turn in a stray animal and became “unruly.” This after workers at the shelter demanded his government issued ID. According to news reports, all he carried was a notarized affidavit from the state’s Motor Vehicle Administration. When they refused to accept this…
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Artificial Intelligence and Elon Musk
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has been in Nevada’s news cycle a lot this past year because of his company’s ‘gigafactory.’ But here is something we’re not being told by those same news sources. Musk says the human race should “be concerned” about the computer singularity hypothesis, or idea that artificial intelligence may one day advance…
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Nevada’s GOP Representatives Screw America
Conservatives — not only across Nevada, but all around the U.S. — have been told by their GOP Congressional delegations to “bend over and take more of the same.” Disgustingly, Nevada’s Mark Amodei, Joe Heck and Crescent Hardy are in that same boat, each having voted to keep John Boehner as the Speaker of the House for…
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NBC Head-Over-Heels About Governor Moonbeam
While there were six governors sworn into office on Monday, it was California’s Jerry Brown taking the oath of office for a record fourth term that NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams gushed over last night. “Then there’s Jerry Brown, today at age 76 he was sworn today to a record fourth term. He first…