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Gambling Insanity–Where Are the Promised Millions?

by Charles Colson February 2, 2012

A well-known expression attributed to Albert Einstein defines insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Well, if that’s insanity, then most state officials are quite insane when it comes to gambling: for more…

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Obama’s Lowball Tax Vision

by Lawrence Kudlow February 1, 2012

You would think that with one of the weakest economic recoveries on record, President Barack Obama would be searching desperately for ways to promote economic growth. It is, after all, an election year. Most pundits and pollsters agree that it’s…

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The Trouble for Bald Men

by Tom Purcell February 1, 2012

As our country goes to pot, I find myself more focused on personal matters, such as this item from ABC News: Scientists may soon find a cure for baldness.
As it goes, researchers were surprised to discover that balding men…

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Who Commissioned Us to Remake the World?

by Pat Buchanan February 1, 2012

U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul, Obama’s man in Moscow, who just took up his post, has received a rude reception. And understandably so.
In 1992, McFaul was the representative in Russia of the National Democratic Institute, a U.S. government-funded agency whose…

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Preach Out and Touch Someone

by Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D. January 31, 2012

The Bible is not just for churches and synagogues. Portions of it are read as literature, even in secular university classrooms. Invariably, when you look at the syllabus of such courses, you find Job.
It’s not hard to see why.…

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Do Gays Have More Rights than Christians?

by Charles Colson January 31, 2012

It started as a drip, drip, drip. Then the flow increased, and now it’s a gusher: The Obama Administration has decided to promote and emphasize lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered rights—and it is doing so at the expense of everyone’s…

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New “Occupy” Movement Takes Off

by Marybeth Hicks January 30, 2012

That rumbling sound you hear isn’t a snow-removal truck, a low-flying plane, or a train inadvertently chugging through your backyard.
No, it’s the low, slow churning of civic discontent, fomenting thanks to the decades-long trend toward educational mediocrity and resulting…

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Obama Swings Left Hook — Catholics Not Down for the Count

by Charles Colson January 30, 2012

The Supreme Court’s decision to grant religious groups a “ministerial exception” in hiring, while important, does nothing to halt the Obama Administration’s relentless crusade to restrict religious freedom.
Now the Administration has announced it will not expand exemptions for religiously…

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Who Wants War With Iran?

by Pat Buchanan January 30, 2012

On Sept. 21, 1976, as his car rounded Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row, former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was assassinated by car bomb. Ronni Moffitt, a 25-year-old American women who worked with Letelier at the leftist Institute for Policy Studies,…

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Obama Makes an Unconstitutional Power Play — Not During Recess

by Phyllis Schlafly January 27, 2012

Barack Obama’s latest unconstitutional action is his attempt to make four so-called recess appointments to high-level, well-paying jobs in the federal bureaucracy when the Senate was not in recess. He appointed three people to the National Labor Relations Board, plus…

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