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on November 8, 2015 in World News

True National Debt $65T, Gov’t Spending Has ‘Lost Touch with Reality’

True National Debt $65T, Gov’t Spending Has ‘Lost Touch with Reality’ by John Hayward In a radio interview airing on Sunday, former U.S. Comptroller General and chief of the Government Accountability Office Dave Walker asserted that America’s national debt is over three times the official figure, which dramatically understates the government’s financial commitments. Walker told host John Catsimatidis of AM-970 in New York, as related by The Hill: If you end up adding to that $18.5 trillion the unfunded civilian and military pensions and retiree healthcare, the additional underfunding for Social Security, the additional underfunding for Medicare, various commitments and… View Article

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on November 8, 2015 in World News

‘Insane’ Homework Assignment Asks 8th Graders to Write About Herpes, One-Night Stands

‘Insane’ Homework Assignment Asks 8th Graders to Write About Herpes, One-Night Stands by Adelle Nazarian A New Jersey school district is facing backlash after an eighth-grade teacher gave her pupils an assignment to consider what they would do if they got drunk, had a one night stand, and contracted herpes, an incurable sexually transmitted disease. Amy Loper’s 13-year-old son is a student at Myron L. Powell Elementary School in Cedarville, New Jersey. She reportedly described the assignment as “insane” to Fox News and said her son did not complete it. A copy of the assignment was acquired by Fox News…. View Article

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

When a cloying Peter Mansbridge became too much for even Trudeau to take

When a cloying Peter Mansbridge became too much for even Trudeau to take I was trapped in a Toronto court Wednesday with an alleged murderer – some days, you just get lucky – and so missed the massive coverage of The Ascension, as I have come to call Justin Trudeau’s arrival as prime minister and, more really, the return of the federal Liberals to their rightful place in power.…

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

Alberta NDP learns to backtrack faster than a failing fundraiser

Alberta NDP learns to backtrack faster than a failing fundraiser Don Braid, Postmedia News More from Postmedia News here’s nothing in politics like a good free-for-all over party fundraising. The one that hit the Alberta legislature Thursday was a classic of its kind, the first case anybody can recall of a cabinet minister defending a dubious fundraising event, and apologizing for it abjectly only seconds later. That what Health Minister Sarah Hoffman did, after being handed a panicked note from the premier’s office. The NDP had been caught red-handed by the Wildrose party after Premier Rachel Notley’s party advertised a chance… View Article

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

Empty words from the climate doomsayers

Empty words from the climate doomsayers There is perhaps no political territory where piety trumps policy more exuberantly than global warming. Those leaders with a gift for high platitude delivered in the dialect of showy earnestness can always be confident of energetic applause from the multitudes who love to be seen as concerned and “making a difference” on this most vaporous of…

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

Canada ranks first in world for personal freedom and social tolerance

Canada ranks first in world for personal freedom and social tolerance By Michael Walsh O Canada: you might be the land of the free now. A new study reveals that the United States’ neighbor to the north has the “freest country in the world,” with the greatest tolerance for immigrants worldwide. Canada’s ranking as the top nation in the world for personal freedom can be found in the Legatum Institute’s 2015 Prosperity Index. The London-based international public policy think tank released its findings Monday. Typically, a country’s prosperity has been based on its material wealth, but at the Legatum Institute,… View Article

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

Chicago Police Say 9-Year-Old Boy Was Targeted for Death by Gang

Chicago Police Say 9-Year-Old Boy Was Targeted for Death by Gang by Warner Todd Huston Chicago Police are now saying that the 9-year-old boy killed near his grandmother’s home on Monday afternoon was specifically targeted for death by gang members. The boy, Tyshawn Lee was playing basketball at a park next to his grandmother’s home late on Monday afternoon when a group of unidentified people gathered nearby. The child had joined the group at some point, but it is unknown whether he knew any of them. It wasn’t long before a gun was pulled and the child was struck several times… View Article

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

New York’s Failed Obamacare Co-op

Gov Cuomo Blames Obama Administration for New York’s Failed Obamacare Co-op by Jerome Hudson6 Nov 201593 Facing a flood of condemnation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has shifted blame to the Obama administration for the collapse of America’s largest Obamacare co-op, Health Republic. “Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday night sought to share responsibility for a key New York health co-op with the federal government, hours after a Republican congressman and possible challenger blamed the governor for not being more engaged,” POLITICO reports. That Republican congressman is Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY) 42% , who says he’s “taking action to protect New Yorkers who… View Article

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

East Chicago Councilman Re-Elected Despite Murder and Drug Charges

East Chicago Councilman Re-Elected Despite Murder and Drug Charges by Warner Todd Huston6 Nov 2015East Chicago, IL2,431 Despite being arrested on drug and murder charges, an East Chicago city councilman was re-elected to his office in Tuesday’s elections. East Chicago 3rd District Councilman Robert “Coop” Battle cruised to re-election even though he is accused in the Oct. 12 shooting of Reimundo Camarillo Jr. That isn’t all. As The Munster Times reports, the councilman is also facing drug charges stemming from a traffic stop earlier in the year. Police say that Councilman Battle was found with 73 pounds of marijuana and… View Article

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on November 7, 2015 in World News

Investigating NOAA’s Dodgy Scientists Is ‘Intimidation’

Investigating NOAA’s Dodgy Scientists Is ‘Intimidation’ by James Delingpole The American Meteorological Society has weighed into the debate on the climate fraud allegedly committed by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It thinks that NOAA’s dodgy, data-fudging, parti-pris scientists should be allowed to go on spending taxpayers’ money on green propaganda unimpeded by the scrutiny of pesky skeptics like Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)(R-Tex). Here’s how the AMS’s executive director, Keith L Seitter, puts it in an open letter to the congressman: Singling out specific research studies, and implicitly questioning the integrity of the researchers conducting those studies, can be viewed… View Article

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