THE WEEKLY STANDARD WEDDING BELL BLUES August 29, 2011 The first unintended consequence of New York’s legalization of gay marriage appeared in a press release from the University of Rochester earlier this summer: “Effective July 24, 2011, University of Rochester employees are no longer able to enroll same-sex domestic partners (or children of domestic partners)
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AUGUST 16, 2011 In a civilized society people would be allowed to defend themselves with guns, not baseball bats. By JOYCE LEE MALCOLM As wild gangs of youths burned homes, shops and cars and severely beat anyone who tried to stop them last week, English people tried to defend themselves. Their desperation triggered a 5,000%
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AUGUST 9, 2011 A union election is a decisive event in an employee’s life, and new rules limit the information employees get before voting. By EUGENE SCALIA Government encroachments typically come as a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Justice Antonin Scalia once observed, but occasionally they are brazen—then, the “wolf comes as a wolf.” The Obama
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World Proposed U.N. Treaty to Regulate Global Firearms Trade Raising Concerns for U.S. Gun Makers By Maxim Lott Published August 05, 2011 | FoxNews.com EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Regardless of what regulations other countries agree to, the treaty only becomes law in the U.S. if it gets a two-thirds majority in the Senate. AP Some
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August 3, 2011 Eric Holder’s Newest Witch Hunt By Bob Beauprez 7/31/2011 The Department of Justice is executing a “Witch Hunt” against banks. Through the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, Attorney General Eric Holder is forcing banks to “relax their mortgage underwriting standards and approve loans for minorities with poor credit as part of a new
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by Human Events (more by this author) Posted 07/25/2011 ET Updated 07/25/2011 ET [The following was originally published as the editorial in the July 25 issue of Human Events newspaper.] It has been strange to watch the mainstream media ignore the most incredible scandal of the modern era—the “Gunwalker” program used by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
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JULY 20, 2011 Richard Cordray is a junior achievement Elizabeth Warren. In the small favors department, President Obama did not nominate banking scourge Elizabeth Warren to run the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Instead on Monday he nominated one of her protégés, former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, whose career sounds like Mrs. Warren without
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July 20, 2011 Wrong Marriage Debate Again By Mona Charen 6/28/2011 If only lower income heterosexuals were as keen to marry as some homosexuals, the United States would be a much stronger country.Supporters of gay marriage (most prominently The New York Times, which reported New York’s legalization of such unions last week with about as
July 19, 2011 By Star Parker 7/11/2011 The New York Magazine headline reads: You Can Thank a Few Rich Libertarians for Gay Marriage. The story is that a million dollar contribution by several rich Republican hedge fund operators, “ inclined to see the issue as one of personal freedom, consistent with their libertarian views,” was
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THE WASHINGTON TIMES NATIONAL WEEKLY EDITION July 4, 2011 LETTER TO THE EDITOR by Marvin L. Hoovis, Centerville, Massachusetts THEY’VE COMPLETELY CHANGED THE COUNTRY IN THE PAST 40 YEARS The far-left liberal progressives must be awed and encouraged by their success in achieving many of their desired agenda changes over recent decades. They have support
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