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Day 36 of Hillary Clinton’s Media Silence: Off to Iowa

Hillary Clinton has not given an interview to a national media outlet since she announced her candidacy, via Twitter, on April 12. Other candidates, both announced and unannounced, have given dozens, answering hundreds of questions.

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Changing Times Require Change in Immigration Policies

Today’s economy isn’t creating enough jobs for those who are already here; in April more than one-third of Americans weren’t in the work force. So immigration, whether legal or illegal, is simply serving to hold down wages.

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At SC Summit, Santorum Touts Foreign Policy Experience

Former Sen. Rick Santorum is gearing up for a presidential run, telling the crowd at the South Carolina Freedom Summit on Saturday that “Commander-in-Chief is not an entry-level position,” and insisting he’s got the experience needed to deal with a troubling world.

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Time To Blow Away Wind Tax Credit: Lawmakers

The federal government wants Americans to use wind power, which is produced here in the U.S. and doesn’t put out any emissions. So wind is heavily subsidized in the tax code. The bill to taxpayers will total at least $6.4 billion over the next decade.

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Nevada Bets Big on Batteries, Seems Set to Lose

In Nevada, the House always wins. That’s why they build massive casinos: to collect money from gamblers–who are unofficially known in the state as “suckers.”

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Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Themes a Bitter Pill for Labor Unions, Environmentalists

Steelworkers exist to make things. They use a process that requires lots of energy and produces lots of pollution. Environmental groups exist to oppose making things, such as steel, since doing so produces so much pollution. Eventually, since their reasons for existing are diametrically opposed, they have to come apart.

In this March 21, 2005 file photo, the Severstal steel plant in Dearborn, Mich., is shown.

Hillary Clinton, Ready for an Iowa Panderfest

Hillary finished third in Iowa the last time around, trailing a then-obscure senator named Barack Obama and a soon-to-be-disgraced former senator named John Edwards. This time, whether or not she faces any real competition, she’s prepared to pander properly to Iowans.

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Ashamed of ‘Is Shame Necessary’

The new book “Is Shame Necessary?” promises to give the reader, its subhead says: “New Uses for an Old Tool.” But it’s really just old whines in a new cover.

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Waiting For Hillary Not Such a Smart Strategy, New Poll Suggests

Hillary Clinton is hunkering down. But while she is playing it coy on 2016, Republican Senators Ted Cruz (TX) and Rand Paul (KY) are in full-fledged campaign mode, and a new poll shows they’re gaining ground on Mrs. Clinton in key states.

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Fewer Americans Working, Zero Economic Growth Expected

Fewer than two-thirds of Americans are working or looking for work, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports. The labor force participation rate last month was 62.7 percent, as low as it’s been since the Carter administration.

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Are Smart Phones Making Humans Stupid?

In his recent book, The Glass Cage, Nicholas Carr goes into frightening detail about the dangers of relying on smart phones to think for us. If we’re not careful, humans may find we can no longer think on our own.

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Washington, D.C. Is Full Of…

The National Park Service plans to use specially trained border collies to herd geese into designated areas. That should might it easier to clean up their droppings.

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House Passes $3.8 Trillion Budget, Senate Up Next

The House of Representatives passed a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2016 on Wednesday. The final House measure calls for $96 billion in Pentagon spending, much more than the $58 billion President Obama’s budget calls for.

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Only A Third of Voters Want Lynch Confirmed as AG, Survey Says

A new Rasmussen survey indicates voters are in no hurry to see Lynch sworn in to replace Eric Holder as AG. “Just 33 percent of Likely U.S. Voters believe the Senate should confirm the federal prosecutor from Brooklyn, N.Y., to be the nation’s highest law enforcement officer,” the poll of 1,000 likely voters finds.

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Is New Atheism Simply a New Faith?

Perhaps there’s a religious aspect to the Chapel Hill killings after all, if New Atheism is, in fact, a religion.

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