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Just guessing here, but I imagine forecasters at the Weather Channel are embarrassed about having to give winter storms names like "Juno," "Kari" and "Linus." Juno is what they called the almost-big one that hit the Northeast in late January. My radar says marketing gurus, not meteorologists, are behind this nonsense.
February 13, 2015
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Peter Funt
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The full-court press is on from every organ of enlightened liberal opinion: the Supreme Court must not decide this term's big Obamacare case, King v. Burwell, on the actual legal merits, which are a slam-dunk for the plaintiffs. Instead, supporters of the government want the case decided on the consequences of the Court stopping the flow of illegal subsidies. And they want to ignore the fact that stopping the subsidies will actually free millions of people in opt-out states from the individual and employer mandates. They only want to talk about people who would lose subsidies.
February 13, 2015
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Phil Kerpen
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If I were still a practicing ob-gyn and one of my patients said she was not going to vaccinate her child, I might try to persuade her to change her mind. But, if I were unsuccessful, I would respect her decision. I certainly would not lobby the government to pass a law mandating that children be vaccinated even if the children's parents object. Sadly, the recent panic over the outbreak of measles has led many Americans, including some self-styled libertarians, to call for giving government new powers to force all children to be vaccinated.
February 12, 2015
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Ron Paul
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With Valentine's Day upon us, female readers are again pummeling me with questions on how to woo the modern male.
February 12, 2015
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There's a big bad brouhaha over at NBC with anchor Brian Williams misremembering being shot down in a helicopter on a trip to Iraq, when the facts seem to indicate that although he did fly in a helicopter, and was over Iraq, he was not shot down. Well, come on; the guy was close. Got two out of three. They keep you in the bigs with a .667 batting average, right? Well, this time around... maybe not.
February 11, 2015
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Will Durst
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There are those who dare to suggest that Texas unduly restricts firearms. They object at having to take a safety class and obey certain rules governing the concealment of their deadly weapons. Their solution is called "constitutional carry," or the belief that the Constitution allows them to openly wield guns without restriction, apology, or safety training.
February 11, 2015
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Jason Stanford
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At last, the story can be told!
February 10, 2015
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Danny Tyree
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Your reaction to the following facts about Loretta Lynch, President Obama's pick to be the next Attorney General, may tell you more about your own political leanings than those of Lynch.
February 10, 2015
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Rick Jensen
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California is experiencing an entirely new disturbance in the Force.
February 08, 2015
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Michael Reagan
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Listening to the attacks on vaccines, I'm reminded of the closing line in The Great Gatsby: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
February 08, 2015
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Dick Polman
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And so another Republican politician, once viewed as a thoughtful leader and having national political potential, proves to be anything but. Is ivy leaguer Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal symbolic of what will make his party fail -- or, in our sound bite, snarky, 21st century America, succeed?
February 06, 2015
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Joe Gandelman
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The internet is really wasted on me and wife Melissa around Valentine's Day.
February 06, 2015
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Danny Tyree
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Women have long been annoyed that they do more housework than men, as demonstrated by many studies, but now they are really steamed.
February 05, 2015
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Tom Purcell
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History has proven that few things are able to unite the social and fiscal wings of American conservatism. There are a handful of exceptions to the rule, however.
February 05, 2015
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Joseph Cotto
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Last September President Obama cited his drone program in Yemen as a successful model of US anti-terrorism strategy. He said that he would employ the Yemen model in his effort to "degrade and ultimately destroy" ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
February 04, 2015
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Ron Paul
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