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"Let each
citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that ... he is executing
one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to
God and his country." --Samuel Adams
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Tuesday's main events were the
off-year elections in New Jersey and Virginia, and political prognosticators
always look for trends that may be useful for the coming national elections.
Let's just say the lessons Tuesday are mixed.
Beginning in New Jersey, Republican
Gov. Chris Christie won a resounding re-election bid with more than 60% of the
vote in a blue state. Christie is no "Tea Party" conservative, but he
has governed on the conservative side, winning pension reform for public
employees, tenure reform for teachers that makes it easier to fire bad ones,
and vetoing an ill-advised tax increase on the wealthy. On the other hand, he
banned gender-disorientation therapy, has generally been ornery toward
conservative national Republicans and runs a state still mired at the bottom
economically. Still, Christie worked well across the aisle and made significant
outreach to minorities who supplied his margin of victory -- that's what
hugging Barack Obama can do. He is well positioned to make a run at the
GOP presidential nomination in 2016, and it's worth remembering that Ronald
Reagan was the last true conservative to win that nomination.
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by Kirsten Andersen
HELSINKI, Finland, October 31,
2013 There’s no shortage of products on
the market designed to help parents expose their unborn babies to music.
Experts and savvy marketers alike have long speculated that prenatal musical
exposure might make babies smarter, or at least help them develop similar
tastes to Mom and Dad. Others dismiss the “Mozart Effect” as a myth and a sales
gimmick.
A new study out of Finland, however,
may send sales of belly-mounted headphones skyrocketing, as researchers
say they have found conclusive proof infants can recognize a lullaby heard in
the womb for several months after birth. Not only does this suggest babies can
remember things they hear and experience prior to birth, the study’s authors
say it may be an important component of speech development for infants as they
grow into children.
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By David Coppedge
Things that bite and sting are not
always 100% harmful. Maybe some of our categories of natural evil
are due to ignorance.
We shy away from pain, but few would
claim that pain has no purpose. Victims of leprosy illustrated with
stunted limbs what can happen when pain responses are deadened. Botulin
toxin is one of the most potent poisons known, yet it is now used in medical
procedures and even for beautification in plastic surgery. While this
entry by no means exonerates animals and plants that damage and kill, it shows
with recent findings that some of what we dub “natural evil” can have a
beneficial side.
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by John Nolte
"Your religious beliefs
represent hate speech!" - Ann Curry
Make no mistake about it; this is
all about going after the Christian Church. Same-sex marriage, GLAAD's fascist
rampages, and all of this Orwellian political correctness is part
of long-term goal -- and that's to make Christian beliefs a form of
bigotry and to force a left-wing agenda on the church all under a Trojan horse
labeled "discrimination."
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Three weeks into the laughably
catastrophic failure of Barack Obama's signature ObamaCare portal,
Healthcare.gov, he proclaimed, "The Affordable Care Act is not just a
website. It's much more."
This week, in congressional
testimony about that failure, Marilyn Tavenner, who's responsible for
overseeing the ACA technology, reiterated, "It's important to remember
that the Affordable Care Act is more than just a website." Indeed, it is much more, all of which poses
an ominous threat to Essential Liberty, but for the moment, all eyes
are on the cascading failures of ObamaCare.
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By Audrey Russo
Those of us, who are paying
attention, are watching the once magnificence and majesty of Europe
being gradually swallowed up into the quicksand of an ideology that came
from much darker places than the nighttime desert sands. A tyranny, that intends to finish the rest of the West in
its global sweep. It’s a treacherous triad that has three well-known elements.
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