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Grassley: We Will Follow ‘Biden Rules,’ No SCOTUS Vote in 2016

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 23, 2016

Click here: “Justice Scalia’s death marks the first time a sitting Supreme Court justice has passed away in a presidential election year in 100 years,” Grassley, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee, said.

Chairman Grassley made clear that he intends to follow then Senator Joe Biden’s Rules if President Barack Obama makes a Supreme Court nomination.

In 1992, then Senator Joe Biden “emphasized that in four vacancies that arose during a presidential election year, the president exercised restraint and withheld from making a nomination until after the election,” Grassley declared. He added, “One of those presidents was Abraham Lincoln.”

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What is Crony Capitalism?

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 22, 2016

This election season there’s a lot of talk about corruption, about politicians being “bought and sold”, and about “crony capitalism”. What do those terms mean? Why should we care? Is there a way to reduce corruption and restore our trust in government? Author Jay Cost, staff writer at The Weekly Standard, answers these questions and proposes a solution that every society could benefit from.

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Hacker: ‘Entire banking system is fundamentally flawed – you’re giving access to your cash’

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 21, 2016

Click here: Hacker warns that security at our banks is woefully inadequate

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How Obama Denied Conservative Judges a Vote

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 19, 2016

Click here: Conservative nominees were blocked from 4 to 6 years

Born in segregated Alabama, Janice Rogers Brown had been a leftist like Obama before becoming conservative. When Obama rose to denounce the respected African-American jurist for her political views it had been almost a full two years since President Bush had nominated her in the summer of ’03.

Obama complained that Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who had gone to segregated schools and become the first African-American woman on the California Supreme Court, was guilty of “an unyielding belief in an unfettered free market.”

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How the DNC Helps Clinton Buy Off Superdelegates

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 18, 2016

Click here: DNC opens floodgates to donations from special interests, the future of the Democrat party is auctioned to the highest bidder.

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Obama Acknowledges His Vote to Filibuster Supreme Court Nominee Alito

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 17, 2016

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Beware of Android virus that can WIPE your phone

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 17, 2016

Click here: Owners of Android phones have been warned to beware of powerful malware being spread by text message which can wipe handsets and read text messages.

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White students undergo weekly ‘deconstructing whiteness’ program at Northwestern University

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 17, 2016

Click here: The “6-part workshop series for undergraduate students who self-identify as white” launched in January and runs through March, according to the university’s website.

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A Progressive’s Guide to Political Correctness

Post author By Falcon
Post date February 15, 2016

Is there a point where the “P.C. Police” are satisfied? Are there ever “enough” rules governing the jokes we tell, the mascots of sports teams, or the symbols on city seals? Or should we want a society as non-offensive as the American college campus? George Will, Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, imagines what an idyllic politically correct universe would look like.