#341626
Be careful what you wish for, Republicans. Hillary Clinton’s medical episode today, officially diagnosed as a result of a three-days of pneumonia, has raised serious questions about her futur…
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#341627
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday there would be new attacks in France but proposals by former president Nicolas Sarkozy to boost security was not the right way to deal with threats. "This week at least two attacks were foiled," Manuel Valls said in an interview with Europe
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#341628
He's not even old enough to vote, but he knows how We the People can take on D.C.
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#341629
“There is no excuse for Clinton escaping charges. Not one.”
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#341630
Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro has released a new attack video targeting Hillary Clinton titled, "5 Things You Need to Know About Hillary's Email Server." with the constant swirl of news surrounding the scandal, Shapiro clearly  delineates why Clinton's actions dealing with her email server render her not only unfit to be president of the United States, but also liable to criminal prosecution.
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#341631

The Facts about Medicaid Fraud

Submitted 8 years ago by ActRight Community

‘Waste, abuse, and fraud.” These are the words politicians say when you ask them what it is they would cut to balance the budget. If they’re really wonky, they might add “duplication.” I have put the question to dozens of politicians over the years, and have rarely received anything like an honest answer. That’s because the honest answer is unpopular: We have to cut Social Security and Medicare spending modestly and military spending significantly, and we’ll probably have to raise some taxes, too, or at least forgo the tax cuts that politicians of both parties habitually promise. “Waste, abuse, and fraud,” W.A.F. I call it WAFfling. We are not going to waffle the deficit away. But we might waffle away a third of it. The federal budget deficit in 2015 was $439 billion; that’s down about two-thirds from where it was in 2010. For all those radio ranters and cable-news mouthholes asking what electing Republicans ever has accomplished, there’s your answer. (Oh, and the fact that Michigan is a right-to-work state, that the First and Second Amendments survive, and, come to think of it, a bit more.) Change happens slowly (if only there were an Anglo-American political philosophy dedicated to gradualism!), but it happens, and that’s how it happens. There are no permanent victories in politics, however, and the deficit is expected to creep up this year, and then to rise steeply in the future if the major entitlements are left unreformed and allowed to become supercharged drivers of deficit spending. RELATED: Medicaid Doesn’t Alleviate Poverty — So Why Do We Keep Spending More On It? Which brings us to the criminal — and I do not use the word figuratively — administration of Medicaid by the Obama administration. In September, the Department of Health and Human Services sent out a warning that improper payments under Medicaid have become so common that they will account this year for almost 12 percent of total Medicaid spending — just shy of $140 billion. (Total improper payments across federal programs will come to about $139 billion this year, according to estimates that have proved too generous in the past, and almost all of that is Medicaid-driven.) That rate has doubled in only a few years, driven mostly by the so-called Affordable Care Act’s liberalization of Medicaid-eligibility rules. 12 percent in improper payments isn’t an error rate — it’s a malfeasance rate. I used to work the late shift at a Burger King across the street from a cowboy bar, which ensured a festive atmosphere after last call, and when the manager settled up the books at 4 a.m., he did not expect us to be accurate down to the last penny. There might be a 1 percent or 2 percent variation from mistakes in counting out change or the like. I once got called into the manager’s office because my till was short some suspiciously round number, like $20, and they were on the verge of either going through my pockets or firing me when someone discovered where the mistake had been made. Twenty bucks is an error. $140 billion is — pardon my English-major math — about 7 billion times worse an error. And 12 percent in improper payments isn’t an error rate — it’s a malfeasance rate. But Burger King has standards. The Obama administration does not. #share#Some perspective: We’re spending more than seven times as much on improper, illegal federal payments as we do on NASA. We’re spending nearly 20 times as much on improper, illegal federal payments as we do on the National Science Foundation. We could build 13 Ford-class aircraft carriers every year for what we are spending on improper and illegal payments driven by Obamacare. We’re spending twice as much on improper and illegal payments as it would cost to pay all the tuition costs of every American college student. (Not that having Uncle Stupid do that is a good idea.) If improper and illegal federal payments were an economy of their own, that economy would be bigger than Hungary’s and and more than twice the size of Guatemala’s. That’s a big waffle. Question: Who is getting fired over this? Who is going to jail? What, if anything is being done. Answer: “ . . . ” No, that’s okay, I’ll wait. “ . . . ” Really? Really. The Obama administration is not lifting a pinky to do anything about this, even though analysts such as John Hood have — for years — been arguing that it is necessary and possible to reform this mess. As the Wall Street Journal has reported, we don’t even verify that doctors billing Medicaid for services rendered are actually doctors. In many cases, we do not do much to verify that their patients actually, you know, exist. We’ve paid untold billions of dollars to “clinics” that turn out to be little more — or nothing more — than post-office boxes and prepaid cell phones. And as bad as that 12 percent rate is, some policy scholars believe that it is in fact probably worse. #related#As I have argued at some length, the real problem with the welfare state is not the poor people receiving checks — it’s everybody in the middle, the vast array of government employees, their union allies, contractors, and third parties who earn six-, seven-, eight-, or nine-figure paydays taking their cuts of money we think we’re spending on the poor. This is an enormous criminal conspiracy against the American people and the public fisc. And what’s the Obama administration been doing? Hiring behavioral-science experts to get more people hooked on government programs. Kurt Vonnegut couldn’t have thought this up. Waste, abuse, and fraud? In Washington, that’s not a set of problems — it’s a career path.  — Kevin D. Williamson is National Review’s roving correspondent.
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#341632
A former female Muslim police officer has accused London’s Metropolitan police of being more worried about “political correctness” than tackling the extremist views of some Muslim officers because they fear being branded “Islamophobic.”
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#341633

Ben Shapiro on Twitter

Submitted 8 years ago by ActRight Community

“At this point, most plausible explanation for Hillary setting up a private server is to hide her medical emails.”
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#341634
Clinton's episode at a 9/11 memorial service makes a conversation about her health unavoidable.
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#341635
Hillary Clinton came under withering criticism on Saturday after dismissing “half” of Donald Trump supporters — therefore one-quarter of the nation — as “the basket of deplorables” and called them “irredeemable” and “not America.” The hashtag #basketofdeplorables trended on Twitter as average Americans ridiculed the elitist Clinton. Others used it as a rallying cry. Actor …
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#341636
Ted Cruz may have won the Values Voter Summit straw poll three years running, but attendees at this weekend’s social conservative gathering in Washington, D.C., weren’t happy with the Texas senator’s refusal to back Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
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#341637
In the wake of Hillary Clinton’s Sunday collapse at a 9/11 memorial ceremony, Democrat leaders are asking: “What if … ?” “What if she hasn’t been candid and is a lot sicker than they thought?” “What if it becomes apparent that she is too weak to campaign vigorously?” “What if we have to reconsider her nomination because she chooses to step aside?” “Clarification from dem operatives @HillaryClinton pneumonia: Expect emergency DNC meeting to CONSIDER replacement,” MSNBC David Shuster tweeted Sunday evening. The Clinton camp has insisted the nominee has no serious health problems and that attention to the issue amounts to right-wing conspiracy-mongering. But the latest incident has even mainstream media outlets like The Washington Post finally acknowledging the legitimacy of Clinton’s health concerns as an election issue. “Hillary Clinton’s health just became a real issue in the presidential campaign,” read a Washington Post headline after the Clinton collapse Sunday. The once unthinkable idea of the scandal-marred 2016 bid of Hillary Clinton being prematurely ended by a
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#341638

John P. Warren - Remember Benghazi

Submitted 8 years ago by ActRight Community

With Memorial Day just around the corner, let us remember our family, friends, and fallen heroes in their eternal rest.
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#341639
It’s commonly believed by Americans that allowing students to skip grades is unhealthy for their social and emotional development. Wrong.
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#341640
A CNN interview taped Friday shows a subdued Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton repeatedly taking unnatural breathing pauses mid-sentence. ...
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#341641
There is nothing more to learn about Hillary Clinton’s home-brew server, deleted e-mails, chronic cough or anything else that makes her look bad, according to The Washington Post. And The New York …
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#341642
Hillary Clinton?s doctor says the Democratic presidential nominee was diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia, put on antibiotics and advised to rest and modify her campaign schedule. Dr. Lisa Bar…
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#341643
The title Dumb & Dumber would fit as the title to any movie made about the NFL’s handling of player protests, and attempts at support around the Fifteenth Anniversary of 9/11.
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#341644
"On 9/11 this is just in poor taste..."
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#341645
I Live in Jersey and Trump is Right: Muslims Did Celebrate on 9/11 in NJ . . . We Saw It! Donald Trump is telling...
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#341646
This episode is getting more bizarre by the minute. Watch and hear the piece of metal that falls out of Hillary Clinton’s pant leg after she collapses and is dragged into the awaiting van: More Whispers... Bill Clinton Falls Asleep During Hillary's Speech (VIDEO) BREAKING: Hillary Clinton Collapses In Public (VIDEO) (UPDATED) Remember When Hillary …
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#341647
Underneath, it has a lot in common with the Tea Party.
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#341648
The out-of-work and attention-starved businessman live-streamed himself running to Chelsea Clinton’s apartment.
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#341649
1791L - Your source for common sense political discourse. ✖ Follow 1791L on Twitter for updates on new videos! https://twitter.com/1791L ▬ KAPITAL I talk abo...
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#341650
There have been several alarming developments in Germany over the past few weeks. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government has told its citizens to begin stockpiling …
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