The mayor of a small Mississippi town appears to be discriminating against churches, which has resulted in legal action. Liberty Institute has filed a federal lawsuit against Holly Springs, Mississippi, for blocking the use of a building on town square by Opulent Life Church and its Pastor Telsa DeBerry. Jeff Mateer, an Institute attorney, explains: [...]
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The phrase “Let them eat cake” is attributed to Marie Antoinette. It is claimed to have been said by her during one of the famines that occurred in France during the reign of her husband Louis XVI. Upon being alerted that the people were suffering due to widespread bread shortages, the Queen is said to [...]
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From Fox News, The White House is pushing back against claims from a new tell-all book that staff kept an extravagant, Hollywood-created Halloween Party under wraps due to fear it would create imaging problems. . . . In her new book, “The Obamas,” author Jodi Kantor wrote that the White House was more than just a [...]
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Obamanomics has been described as Robin Hood economics, taking from the rich to give to the poor. Actually, Robin Hood took back from the king (and in some traditions of the story from corrupt clergymen) what had been taken from the people by the government. In terms of popular culture’s understanding of Robin Hood, mostly through [...]
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Hard facts ought to prevail where American security is concerned. This applies equally whether the issue at hand is the geopolitical consequences of ill-advised defense cuts or the possibility that waste and fraud in military procurement might result in the deaths of American soldiers. It is in that spirit that we view President Obama’s announcement [...]
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Forget Mitt Romney’s whisper-close eight-vote margin of victory over Rick Santorum in Tuesday’s Iowa caucuses. The real tally stands at Romney, 25 percent, not-Romney, 75 percent. That’s not good news for Mitt — or for President Obama. With Michele Bachmann dropping out of the race yesterday — and with other candidates likely to follow after [...]
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Randy Parraz, the activist-attorney who WND reported has publicly targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Apraio in a politically motivated campaign to force him to resign, staged a poorly attended protest Wednesday morning at the sheriff’s downtown Phoenix office. Parraz posted on his Facebook page details of what he called the “Sheriff Arpaio Special Action”, calling [...]
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During MSNBC coverge of the Republican Party Iowa caucuses on Tuesday, shortly after 8:30 p.m, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews lumped “neocons” and the socially conservative Moral Majority movement in with segregationist Dixiecrats as he asserted that Republicans had picked up the “droppings” and the “effluent” of the Democratic Party, causing the Republican Party to be “junk [...]
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Video gold… Iowa coffee shop owner Amy Brehm wasn’t going to let idiot leftists disturb her customers. After they tried one of their goofy chants, Amy promptly gave them the boot. On Friday morning before a planned event appearance by Newt Gingrich, some members of “Occupy Iowa” made a stop at Java Joe’s, a coffee [...]
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President Obama signed the National Defense Appropriation Act, a law that ends the 4th Amendment in the United States unless the Supreme Court overturns it. He offered this explanation. The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it. In particular, I have signed this bill [...]
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Texas Representative Ron Paul today stood by statements he made in his 1987 book arguing that someone who is a victim of sexual harassment in the workplace should bear some responsibility for resolving the problem and that society should not bear the burden of paying for the care of AIDS victims. In his 1987 book [...]
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Back in 2008 and 2009, the Media Research Center’s year-end awards for the Best Notable Quotables were dominated by journalists fawning over the greatness of Barack Obama. In 2008, our winner for “Quote of the Year” was Chris Matthews for his on-air exclamation that upon hearing Obama give a speech, “I felt this thrill going [...]
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg backed New York police ahead of a boycott of the city’s annual interfaith breakfast Friday by a prominent group of Muslim clerics. On Thursday, he touted law enforcement efforts to thwart future terrorist attacks in New York, telling reporters that “we obey the law” and that authorities “don’t target anybody,” instead focusing [...]
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We’re back to Michelle Obama, and as much as I hate to say it yet again - it’s all about the double standard. Here we have a woman who preaches financial abstinence, but whose personal expenditures are promiscuous beyond belief. Mrs. Obama is a harbinger of ‘safe-spending’ and then uncontrollably prostitutes herself on the altar of sartorial [...]
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Much was written about the most recent United Nations Climate Change Conference, which was held in Durban, South Africa November 28 through December 9 of this year. However, most commentators gave short shrift to the most important—in a sense, the only—outcome of the meeting. This was, of course, the agreement to hold yet another conference [...]
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