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TAXES IN FRANCE ‘TOP 100% OF INCOME’

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By Larry Leonard

May 18, 2013 — Today’s Drudge top headline identifies the present location of Lewis Carroll. Margaret Thatcher once said that the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of rich people to tax into poverty. (Or something like that.) It’s now a matter of time in

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A Day in the Presidential Life

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By Larry Leonard

                                                                                                   

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Benghazi Fiction

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By Art Hyland

He was the President, a position with the highest command authority in the history of the world, but the community organizer went to bed.

[What follows is speculation of what took place in the days before and after the attack in Libya, by the

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Spring’s Sprung, Warfare Now More Predictable

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Pigskin Pete

By Fred Delkin   

Pac12 members have wrapped up their spring drills and the various formats employed by coaches for network TV spring scrimmage viewing have contributed to Pigskin’s prediction on what this fall’s warfare will produce. New recruits will report for fall practice, but these rookies are not likely to seriously affect

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NBA’s Jason Collins: ‘Gay’ Superhero!

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By Matt Barber

So I guess you’ve heard. Fading, 34 year-old NBA free agent Jason Collins has been declared a hero for publicly announcing that he digs dudes. Well, it’s about time! Used to be all a guy had to do was die at Omaha Beach or some other such nonsense. The Imperialist USA

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Kermit Gosnell Trial: Much Ado About Nothing

By Matt Barber

What’s the big deal?

I mean, why are we surprised that an abortionist and his staff would, behind the walls of an always-lethal abortion clinic, commit one of the most horrific serial killings in American history? What did you think abortionists do, heal people?

Why are we taken aback that there was

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The Moral Foundations of Society

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by Margaret Thatcher
Former Prime Minister, Great Britain

Margaret Thatcher was born in 1925 and went on to earn a degree in chemistry from Somerville College, Oxford, as well as a master of arts degree from the University of Oxford. For some years she worked as a research chemist and then as a barrister, specializing in

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National Publication Features Oregon’s Northeast Corner

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By Fred Delkin

Nez Perce tribal leader, the legendary Chief Joseph, uttered a compelling endorsement to his homeland in the late 19th century…”I love that land more than all the rest of the world.”  National magazine Country features this northeast Oregon region in its current issue and reminds this writer of why we were

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Oregon Wine Investment Maintains Growth & Profit

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Decanting with Delkin

By Fred Delkin

We’re old enough to remember when wine production was more dream than reality on the Oregon agricultural scene. No more! The state’s wine industry has more than doubled its economic impact since 2005, boasts more than 450 wineries and is attracting major vineyard creation by outside financial

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‘Marriage Equality’ Spells ‘Marriage Extinction’

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By Matt Barber

This week the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on two of the most critical cases of our time. On Tuesday, March 26, attorneys will make the pitch both for and against California’s Proposition 8. This, of course, is the Golden State’s pro-marriage amendment. It maintained the timeless definition

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Portland State Taking Next Expansion Move

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By Fred Delkin

The Vikings are on the move…the Portland State Vikings that is, who already boast the highest enrollment for Oregon institutions of higher learning. The downtown campus is now gathering funds for a $50 million expansion of current facilities at Stott Center, to be titled the Viking Pavilion. This project will

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‘Pro-Choice’ Slave Masters Losing War

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By Matt Barber

The pro-aborts are losing. They know it, and they hate it.

As LifeNews.com reported in January: “CNN released the results of a new poll showing a majority of Americans want all or most abortions prohibited – a clear pro-life majority.” Indeed, the winds of life are blowing free the

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A Lesson about Eggshells

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By Art Hyland

It’s starting. Well, it’s been predicted, but what’s beginning is something even America’s low-informed might notice but only when in front of their collective faces. Banks in southern Europe are beginning to restrict access to bank accounts. That this phenomenon will make its way across the pond is

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Supreme Court: Another Chance to Kill Obamacare

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By Matt Barber

“Unconstitutional? Absolutely. It’s like dropping a Ford Pinto engine into a totaled Ferrari body, patching it up and then selling it to some unsuspecting dupe as a “brand new Ferrari.”

“But Republican governors are folding like cheap lawn chairs,” you say. “And political eunuchs in the GOP

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The North Star of Hollywood

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By Larry Leonard

February 27, 2013 — Mariners navigate by the north star.  In the early 1940′s, Sam Goldwyn made a movie starring John Huston, Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter.  (It was released in ’43.)  I’m writing this in the middle of the night as I’m watching it.  The story began in a

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