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Americans Fleeing High-Tax States According to National Movers Study

by Daniel J. Flynn United Van Lines names South Dakota as the state seeing the highest percentage of incoming moves for 2016. With the exception of Vermont, states experiencing a high degree of inbound moving vans lie either west of the Mississippi or south of the Mason-Dixon Line. In contrast, states in the Rust Belt and Northeast disproportionately make up those seeing more outbound moving vans. The departures tell a more interesting story than the destinations. “The Northeast continues to experience a moving deficit with New Jersey (63 percent outbound), New York (63 percent) and Connecticut (60 percent) making the list...

by Daniel J. Flynn United Van Lines names South Dakota as the state seeing the highest percentage of incoming moves for 2016. With the exception of Vermont, states experiencing a high degree of inbound moving vans lie either west...

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Trump Transition Team Demands List of Every Executive Order Obama Made on Immigration, Assets to Build Border Wall: Reuters

by Katie McHugh The Trump transition team wants copies of every single executive order and directive outgoing President Obama ordered on immigration since he took office, along with several other documents that will let them assess how to beef up border security, according to a Reuters exclusive. Most famous among the executive orders: Obama’s unconstitutional shielding of illegal aliens from deportation in 2012, carving out exemptions for illegal aliens who arrived in the U.S. as minors. It granted a form of legal status and work permits to some 1.4 million illegals who signed up—and an “advance parole” that would let...

by Katie McHugh The Trump transition team wants copies of every single executive order and directive outgoing President Obama ordered on immigration since he took office, along with several other documents that will let them assess how to beef...

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Manchin: I Plan to Skip Obama’s Capitol Hill Meeting Defending Obamacare

by Katherine Rodriguez Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced he would skip President Obama’s Capitol Hill meeting with Democrats on defending Obamacare. “In good conscience, I can’t do it,” Manchin said Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, according to the Hill. He added: If anyone listened and paid attention to what the American people said when they voted, they want this place to work. Can you imagine in here … we have the outgoing president coming up here today to talk to only Democrats. We have the incoming vice president coming up to talk only to Republicans. Manchin then stated that this is not what… View Article

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‘Audit the Fed’ bill gets new push under Trump

By Peter Schroeder Controversial legislation to subject the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy powers to outside scrutiny is getting new life in Washington. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have re-introduced legislation to “Audit the Fed,” after a similar effort stalled in the last Congress. But such a proposal, which has been vocally opposed by Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, may face its best odds ever of becoming law. Both chambers are controlled by Republicans long critical of the Fed’s policies, and President-elect Donald Trump has heaped scorn on the central bank since the beginning of his...

By Peter Schroeder Controversial legislation to subject the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy powers to outside scrutiny is getting new life in Washington. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) have re-introduced legislation to “Audit the Fed,” after...

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Apple Removes New York Times Apps From Its Store in China

By KATIE BENNER and SUI-LEE WEE Apple, complying with what it said was a request from Chinese authorities, removed news apps created by The New York Times from its app store in China late last month. The move limits access to one of the few remaining channels for readers in mainland China to read The Times without resorting to special software. The government began blocking The Times’s websites in 2012, after a series of articles on the wealth amassed by the family of Wen Jiabao, who was then prime minister, but it had struggled in recent months to prevent...

By KATIE BENNER and SUI-LEE WEE Apple, complying with what it said was a request from Chinese authorities, removed news apps created by The New York Times from its app store in China late last month. The move limits...

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Stakes high for Trudeau as world’s last major progressive leader standing: Aaron Wherry

After Brexit and Trump triumphs, prime minister knows delivering on the economy is crucial By Aaron Wherry If the next 12 months seem particularly pivotal for Justin Trudeau’s leadership of Canada it’s because of what happened everywhere else in the year of Brexit and Donald Trump. A month to the day after Trump’s U.S. presidential victory, Democratic Vice-President Joe Biden came to Ottawa and anointed Justin Trudeau. “The world’s going to spend a lot of time looking to you, Mr. Prime Minister, as we see more and more challenges to the liberal international order than any time since the end of...

After Brexit and Trump triumphs, prime minister knows delivering on the economy is crucial By Aaron Wherry If the next 12 months seem particularly pivotal for Justin Trudeau’s leadership of Canada it’s because of what happened everywhere else in the year...

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As Long As It’s Choice, Columbia Students Okay with Funding Female Genital Mutilation

“To each his own.” by Trey Sanchez Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative descended onto the campus of New York City’s Columbia University to offer a hypothetical to students and ask if they would support Planned Parenthood funding of female genital mutilation. Surprisingly — or perhaps not — nearly all of them said yes. The prevailing sentiment among these millennials was that they’d get behind anything that’s a woman’s choice, even the barbaric Islamic crime of cutting out a young girl’s clitoris, usually between birth and 15 years old. Of course, FGM is never a choice; it’s a religion-based punishment....

“To each his own.” by Trey Sanchez Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative descended onto the campus of New York City’s Columbia University to offer a hypothetical to students and ask if they would support Planned Parenthood funding of female...

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The Outraged Left Responds to Milo’s Book Deal With Rampant Virtue-Signaling

“In these times we can not let hatemongers get rich off of their cruelty.” by Mark Tapson Brace yourselves for a torrent of leftist virtue-signaling under the pretense of standing up to “hate speech” from gay conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos, who recently sent shock waves of horror through the left by announcing that Simon & Schuster gave him a huge advance for his forthcoming book Dangerous. After reports that Milo would be receiving a $250,000 advance, the left lost what little is left of its collective mind. Funny, they didn’t seem to have a problem, nor did conservatives, when...

“In these times we can not let hatemongers get rich off of their cruelty.” by Mark Tapson Brace yourselves for a torrent of leftist virtue-signaling under the pretense of standing up to “hate speech” from gay conservative firebrand Milo...

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WashPost Is Richly Rewarded for False News About Russia Threat While Public Is Deceived

Glenn Greenwald In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that the core claims of the story were fiction: The first note was posted a full two weeks later to the top of the original article; the other was buried the following day at the bottom. The second story on the electric grid turned out to...

Glenn Greenwald In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the...

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Obama ‘Risks American Lives’ by Focusing Energies on Russia Instead of Terrorism

Last week, President Obama made a decision to use the last days of his presidency to make life more difficult for his successor, introducing sanctions against Russia over rumors of ‘Russian hacking’ of the US election. But observers warn that instead of trying to reignite the Cold War, the US would do better to use its energy to fight terrorism. On Thursday, outgoing US President Barack Obama announced the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, the closure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in the US, and sanctions against six individuals and five entities, including the GRU (the Main Intelligence Directorate),...

Last week, President Obama made a decision to use the last days of his presidency to make life more difficult for his successor, introducing sanctions against Russia over rumors of ‘Russian hacking’ of the US election. But observers warn...

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