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  • Hillary's War & Marley's Ghost

    Hillary's War & Marley's Ghost

    Hillary Clinton has to worry much more about her record as U.S. Senator from New York. This is the record that was so devastatingly detailed in 2007 by New York Times writers Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr.

  • Pell Grants, Loans Drive Up the Cost of Higher Education

    Pell Grants, Loans Drive Up the Cost of Higher Education

    With skyrocketing tuition, there is no denying that college is too expensive. My friend, Professor Richard Vedder of Ohio University, has produced a lifetime of work showing that colleges' hefty price is directly related to students' easy access to Federal Pell grants and student loans

  • Obama Uses IRS to Eliminate His Enemies

    Obama Uses IRS to Eliminate His Enemies

    One of the most roundly condemned aspects of Richard Nixon's malfeasance in office was his use of the IRS to target his political enemies with audits. If people shudder at Nixon's abuses with the IRS, what Obama is doing should drive them to convulsions.

  • Higher Oil Prices Are Taxing Americans, But Solution Is Possible

    Higher Oil Prices Are Taxing Americans, But Solution Is Possible

    At the beginning of this year, many Americans opened their paychecks to find that their take-home pay was suddenly less than it had been the previous month. The payroll tax cut had expired, resulting in the average American worker owing an additional $700 in payroll taxes this year compared to last.

  • Salvation Is From the Jews When It Comes to Protecting Israel

    Salvation Is From the Jews When It Comes to Protecting Israel

    Only Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shown the courage, the careful focus, the intelligent analysis required to see the situation clearly. We are forever being told that the Israelis depend on us. In truth, it is the other way around. We must now depend on them.

  • Obama a No Show at Gettysburg; Thank Goodness!

    Obama a No Show at Gettysburg; Thank Goodness!

    President Obama will not attend ceremonies at Gettysburg later this month marking the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's immortal address. Thank goodness! Mr. Obama has been getting few kudos of late. His Gallup approval rating has slipped into the thirties. But in this, we can applaud his action.

  • Saving Detroit Will Require More Than a Bailout

    Saving Detroit Will Require More Than a Bailout

    At the time when I served as Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, my city and others across the country looked to Detroit as an industrial and cultural center of America. Motown Records, started by Berry Gordy in Detroit, created some of the best music in the world with hits from The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye.

  • Atheist Mikey Weinstein and His 'Murfs' Strike Again

    Atheist Mikey Weinstein and His 'Murfs' Strike Again

    Mikey Weinstein heads up an outfit called Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), which might be shortened to Murfs. These atheizers are not to be confused with those cuddly Smurfs. The little blue cartoon character Smurfs all wear Phrygian caps—a symbol of freedom. No, Murfs take it on themselves to smother religious freedom.

  • Terry McAuliffe's Extreme Abortion Agenda

    Terry McAuliffe's Extreme Abortion Agenda

    Career crony turned perennial candidate Terry McAuliffe's staked his entire bid for the Virginia Governor's Mansion on demagoguing Ken Cuccinelli's stances on social issues.

  • Forty Years of OPEC Manipulation

    Forty Years of OPEC Manipulation

    Four decades ago this month, members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) launched an oil embargo against the United States in retaliation for our steadfast support of Israel in her hour of need. As the Jewish State fought off the Soviet-backed Egyptian and Syrian armies in what would become known as the Yom Kippur War, the OPEC cartel's actions sent the price of oil soaring and our economy into a recession.

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