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UN Blue Helmets attacked those they were sent to protect. Children as young as 7 have been targeted for rape.
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016: At a press conference at Trump Tower in NYC, where Trump was providing the press with a breakdown of how the funds he raised for Veter...
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Far-left activists should be hanging their heads in shame over their complete ignorance of the rules of the game.
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“That’s right,” Mom agreed.
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In this world where work remains an important social, psychological and economic anchor, there are better tools to help than giving every American a monthly check.
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At one time, Glenn Beck offered glowing words to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, but those feelings seemed to have vanished since the vanquished Republican presidential hopeful indicated he will support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Rubio suggested he is behind Trump because there are no other good options...
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U.S. Internet giants Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc., Google and Microsoft Corp. pledged to tackle online hate speech in less than 24 hours as part of a joint commitment with the European Union to combat the use of social media by terrorists.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Katie Couric has reversed course and taken responsibility for misrepresenting the response of gun rights activists to a question she poses in a new documentary on the issue. The segment in "Under the…
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SiriusXM Announces Suspension of Glenn Beck over Brad Thor Interview Comments
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016: Presumptive GOP Presidential nominee Donald Trump will hold a press conference at Trump Tower in New York City. Watch the live stream ...
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"Leap and the net will appear." John Burroughs supposedly said that---but it also describes Bill Kristol's model of punditry. His track record of making predictions is checkered. On the other hand, he
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How is this legal?Facebook is not just looking at user's personal information, interests, and online habits but also to your private conversations, revealed a new report. According to NBC report, this may be the case as Kelli Burns, a professor at University of South Florida states, 'I don't think t
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With video. A propaganda piece put out by an Al Jazeera-run media outlet shows Texans using bullets dipped in pig's blood.
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Pope Francis has issued a challenge to the idea of "just war," and a call to propose an alternative paradigm, but that impulse has to be fleshed out in order to be meaningful.
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Last week, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei called for the Islamic Republic to remain vigilant against the West's "soft war."
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Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.
While throngs of young people are cheering loudly for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, socialism has turned oil-rich Venezuela into a place where there are shortages of everything from toilet paper to beer, where electricity keeps shutting down, and where there are long lines of people hoping to get food, people complaining that they cannot feed their families.
#ad#With national income going down, and prices going up under triple-digit inflation in Venezuela, these complaints are by no means frivolous. But it is doubtful if the young people cheering for Bernie Sanders have even heard of such things, whether in Venezuela or in other countries around the world that have turned their economies over to politicians and bureaucrats to run.
The anti-capitalist policies in Venezuela have worked so well that the number of companies in Venezuela is now a fraction of what it once was. That should certainly reduce capitalist “exploitation,” shouldn’t it?
But people who attribute income inequality to capitalists’ exploiting workers, as Karl Marx claimed, never seem to get around to testing that belief against facts — such as the fact that none of the Marxist regimes around the world has ever had as high a standard of living for working people as there is in many capitalist countries.
Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the Left. What matters to the true believers are the ringing slogans, endlessly repeated.
When Senator Sanders cries, “The system is rigged!” no one asks, “Just what specifically does that mean?” or “What facts do you have to back that up?”
Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the Left.
In 2015, the 400 richest people in the world had net losses of $19 billion. If they had rigged the system, surely they could have rigged it better than that.
But the very idea of subjecting their pet notions to the test of hard facts will probably not even occur to those who are cheering for socialism and for other bright ideas of the political Left.
How many of the people who are demanding an increase in the minimum wage have ever bothered to check what actually happens when higher minimum wages are imposed? More often they just assume what is assumed by like-minded peers — sometimes known as “everybody,” with their assumptions being what “everybody knows.”
Back in 1948, when inflation had rendered meaningless the minimum wage established a decade earlier, the unemployment rate among 16- to 17-year-old black males was under 10 percent. But after the minimum wage was raised repeatedly to keep up with inflation, the unemployment rate for black males that age was never under 30 percent for more than 20 consecutive years, from 1971 through 1994. In many of those years, the unemployment rate for black youngsters that age exceeded 40 percent and, for a couple of years, it exceeded 50 percent.
The damage is even greater than these statistics might suggest. Most low-wage jobs are entry-level jobs that young people move up out of, after acquiring work experience and a track record that makes them eligible for better jobs. But you can’t move up the ladder if you don’t get on the ladder.
The great promise of socialism is something for nothing. It is one of the signs of today’s dumbed-down education that so many college students seem to think that the cost of their education should — and will — be paid by raising taxes on “the rich.”
Here again, just a little check of the facts would reveal that higher tax rates on upper-income earners do not automatically translate into more tax revenue coming in to the government. Often high tax rates have led to less revenue than lower tax rates.
In a globalized economy, high tax rates may just lead investors to invest in other countries with lower tax rates. That means that jobs created by those investments will be overseas.
None of this is rocket science. But you do have to stop and think — and that is what too many of our schools and colleges are failing to teach their students to do.
— Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His website is tsowell.com. © 2016 Creators Syndicate Inc.
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We have NEVER seen Trump do this...
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“We cannot fool ourselves. There is an Islamic problem. Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, ISIS, Boko Haram, all of them are killing by the name of Allah. They’re not killing by the name of Jesus. They’re not killing by the name of Jehovah. They’re not killing by the name of Mahavira, or the Buddha, or Lao Tzu,” said Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a religious leader of Hamas.
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The European Commission has announced that Facebook and Twitter have signed up to censor all “illegal hate speech” within 24 hours.
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Uganda: Muslim kills Christian wife for leaving Islam Video: Robert Spencer on how to defeat the jihad
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During the May 27th San Diego, CA Donald J. Trump Rally, Mr. Trump spoke about the terrible events that had transpired a month before at the Costa Mesa, CA T...
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In this eighth segment of his Basics of Islam series, Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer discusses what the concept of jihad really means in Islamic theology.
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Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES The last and greatest hope for Trump boosters to convince #NeverTrump folks is to hold the specter of Supreme Court nominations over their head. The reasoning goes as follows: we already know/assume Trump will fill the vacancy filled by the death of the great Antonin Scalia, and there’s a good possibility that he will get one or two more. | Read More »
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GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was back on the Twitter warpath, targeting the judge in the Trump University lawsuit on Monday evening.