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SOTU Proves Democrats Never Learned The Lessons Of 2016
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Instead of learning their lesson from 2016 Presidential election, the SOTU rebuttal proves the Democrats didn't learn a thing from that historic loss.
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The investigation into November's Paris terror attacks has revealed that eight migrants entered Europe with the same forged passport as one of the terrorists. At the same time, a new report released in the US has brought to light that Islamic State is running a thriving trade in counterfeit passports in Syria and that some of its members are now in the States.
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The Bernie Sanders campaign put out a fiscal score for Sanders' plan to replace the entire U.S. health-care system with a government-run single-payer regime.
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Researchers have found ties between longevity and religious faith, the Daily Mail reported.
An analysis of more than 1,000 obituaries from across the U.S. suggests that churchgoers live four years longer than atheists.
What is the reason?
Part of the reason is that religious people tend to participate in more social activities, which is often linked to living longer, Ohio State University psychology researchers said.
But it goes beyond socializing.
"There's still a lot of the benefit of religious affiliation that this can't explain," study lead author Laura Wallace, a doctoral student in psychology at Ohio State University, told the Daily Mail.
Dr. Baldwin Way, an associate professor of psychology at Ohio State who co-authored the study, agreed.
What else plays a role?
Another factor is whether a person’s community is religious.
An initial study involved 505 obituaries published in the Des Moines Register in Iowa in January and February 2012. It found that “religious people lived 9.45 years ?
#4980
Want to fight book banning? Read conservative authors.
#4981
What is conservatism? What are its principles? Russell Kirk offers a list of fundamental conservative beliefs.
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In history, there has been both diplomacy and war. At times, diplomacy saves the world and other times it provides false hope we’ve averted chaos. War can be successful in defeating an enemy, in other times it can be a demoralizing failure. The various events in history teach us there is a time and place for fighting and the same for talking. In modern politics, the same can be said. In recent years, war has escalated. In the aftermath of the tragic terrorist attack of September 11th, the United States has become a global leader in a war against terrorism. While presented as a noble quest against evil, it is actually a complicated web of global politics. Liberals opposed war under former President George W. Bush. While many Democratic politicians initially bought the anti-Iraqi propaganda and supported the invasion, many grassroots liberals were skeptical from the beginning. Saddam Hussein may have been a tyrant, but was he worth going to war for. Furthermore, would destabilization of the?
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Although I find Sen. Ted Cruz’s “lonely man of principle” act as tired as it is phony, I should give the devil his due. Cruz has given Americans exasperated with Washington gridlock...
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Christians may be the most persecuted group in the world, and persecution of Christians is on the rise.
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So a month after the feigned apologies for getting it all wrong, the media has telegraphed clearly their anti-Trump strategy for the next four years. Perhaps a review is instructive at this point.
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"Why would I ever want to do e-mail?"
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With no debate, the House passed a bill that would make sweeping changes to state gun laws.
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An evermore skeptical public isn't buying the necessity of the FCC's net neutrality plan. Will a public backlash prevent the threat of Internet regulation?
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Watch this video to see exactly what he has said and sign the petition to hold Trump accountable.
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Government seizure of private land is a grave threat to the rule of law.
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Many reputable journalists have been left scratching their heads by CNN’s botched handling of their increasingly dubious report claiming then-candidate Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting in advance. Despite their sources (Michael Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis) retreating from his original claims, CNN continued to stand by their assertions while other news outlets cried uncle. And after President Trump mocked one of the reporters of the claim, the network lashed out.
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What do you get when you cross a bunch of angry losers with a cowardly mayor? How about a violent mob harassing innocent people.
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Gun control doesn't work and can't work in the United States.
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Last week Tomi Lahren's TheBlaze show was suspended, and now there's a report out she may be out at the network permanently.
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Accusing non-Muslims of doing to Muslims what Islam commands Muslims do to others….
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President Trump is returning to the Reagan playbook.
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Four faithless electors ditched Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College on Monday, double the number who dumped Donald J. Trump. For Democrats, this was yet another collapsed floor atop the pile of smoldering rubble beneath which they have been entombed since the 9.5-magnitude tremor that Trump unleashed November 8. Democrats can thank Obama for their plight.
As Obama concludes his reign of error, his party is smaller, weaker, and more rickety than it has been since at least the 1940s. Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day 2016 — thanks to Obama and his ideas:
Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.
U.S. Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.
U.S. House seats slid from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.
Democrats ran the U.S. Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.
Governorships fell from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.
State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent.
Trifectas (states with Democratic governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.
Since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, eight U.S. presidents have served at least two terms or bowed to their vice-presidents due to death or resignation. Among them, Obama ranks eighth in total state legislative seats that his party preserved during his tenure. Obama has supervised the net loss of 959 such Democratic positions, down 23.5 percent, according to Ballotpedia, which generated most of the data cited here. This far outpaces the 843 net seats that Republicans yielded under President Dwight David Eisenhower.
By this measure, Ronald Reagan is No. 1. While he was president, Republicans gained six statehouse seats.
In terms of boosting his party’s state-level strength, Obama is the worst president since World War II. Reagan is the best.
For even more shocking proof of Obama’s political toxicity across his entire tenure, compare the Democrats’ eight-year net loss of 959 statehouse seats (one post higher than in the graph above, thanks to a subsequently called race) with the Republicans’ net gain of 934 seats. Democrats can chant the soothing lie that this wholesale, multi-level rejection of their party stems from “structural racism,” the legacy of Jim Crow, the immortal tentacles of slavery, or whatever other analgesic excuse they can scrounge up. The same nation that they claim cannot outgrow its bigotry somehow elected and then reelected Obama, quite comfortably. Hillary Clinton is many things, but she is not black. “Racism” does not explain her defeat.
This deep-rooted repudiation is not of Obama himself, but of Obamaism, today’s Democratic gospel.
At home, Obamaism features economic stagnation, morbidly obese and equally dysfunctional government, racial and identity fetishism, and rampant political correctness. Overseas: Shame at American preeminence fuels flaccid “leadership from behind.”
All told, 1,043 federal and state-level Democrats lost or were denied power under Obama, largely because Americans grew disgusted by such outrages as a non-stimulating $831 billion “stimulus,” eight consecutive years of economic growth below 3 percent, an 88 percent increase in the national debt, the revocation of America’s triple-A bond rating, and Obamacare’s epic flop ($2.3 trillion to finance widespread insurance-policy cancellations, 20 bankruptcies among 24 state co-ops, early retirements for experienced but exasperated doctors, and much more). Also nauseating: federal nano-management of everything from dishwashers to third-grade lunches to a national school-shower policy.
#related#Abroad, Obamaism spawned the birth of ISIS, the deaths of U.S. personnel at Benghazi, and Iran’s relentless humiliation of America — before, during, and after Obama’s delivery of some $100 billion in unfrozen assets, including at least $1.7 billion in laundered cash, literally flown in on private jets.
“My legacy’s on the ballot,” Obama said last September. “Make no mistake,” he declared in October 2014. “These policies are on the ballot.”
Voters repeatedly have judged Obama’s agenda since 2008, and Democrats have paid the ultimate price. The political cadavers of more than a thousand Democratic incumbents and nominees, from Hillary Clinton on down, confirm that Obama is poison at the polls.
Rather than enjoy a traditional, low-key post-presidency in Chicago, Obama plans to hunker down in Washington, D.C., comment on current events, and counsel his party’s candidates and officeholders. Democrats should find this as appetizing as a dinner cooked by Typhoid Mary.
— Deroy Murdock is a New York-based Fox News contributor and a contributing editor with National Review Online. William de Wolff, a recent graduate of New York University’s Master of Arts Program in International Relations, contributed research for this article.
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Conservative talk show host Lawrence Jones slammed the practice of affirmative action on Thursday, saying it perpetuates the idea that black people need white people's help to be successful.
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Conservative commentator Candace Owens is calling out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for refusing to debate her.
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"The man stems from a good family, unlike the woman." With this argument, a Swedish court has acquitted an Iraqi man charged with abusing his wife, sparking outrage over the first instance where "Sharia Law" was applied by the Nordic nation's legal system.