Mark Steyn On The Anti-Prop 8 Arguments Of Ted Olson

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Justice Antonin Scalia And Others Challenge Anti-Prop 8 Attorney Ted Olson

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Senator Ron Johnson Tells Story Of The Cost Of Government Intrusion: "Steve's Story"

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Heritage's Ryan Anderson vs. Piers Morgan On Gay Marriage

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CNN Reports On Rising Health Care Costs Due To Obamacare

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CBO: Food Stamps Hit Historic High

The Wall Street Journal reports:

The financial crisis is over and the recession ended in 2009. But one of the federal government's biggest social welfare programs, which expanded when the economy convulsed, isn't shrinking back alongside the recovery. Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as the modern-day food-stamp benefit is known, has soared 70% since 2008 to a record 47.8 million as of December 2012. Congressional budget analysts think participation will rise again this year and dip only slightly in coming years. The biggest factor behind the upward march of food stamps is a sluggish job market and a rising poverty rate. At the same time, many states have pushed to get more people to apply for SNAP, a program where the federal government picks up the tab. But there is another driver, which has its origins in President Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare overhaul. In recent years, the law has enabled states to ease asset and income tests for would-be participants, with the encouragement of the Obama administration, allowing into the program people with relatively higher incomes as well as savings. The new rules were designed to encourage people to take advantage of the program before they became destitute. By expanding the pool of potential applicants, they are redrawing the landscape of government assistance. It is one reason why SNAP appears to have evolved from a program that rose and fell with the unemployment rate to a more permanent feature of the landscape. 

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"The Beginning Of Wisdom Is Fear Of God"

"The beginning of wisdom is fear of God." - Psalm 111:10 

Dennis Prager: "[This] verse...solved the riddle of why nonsense and moral confusion dominate the liberal arts in almost all Western universities... I realized that, of course, there are individuals who are secular and wise and individuals who are religious and foolish. But it could not be a coincidence that the most morally confused of society's mainstream institutions and the one possessing the least wisdom - the university - was also society's most secular institution. The Psalmist was right - no God, no wisdom." Tweet

Former Israeli Chief Rabbi And Holocaust Survivor Yisrael Lau Delivers Words Of Gratitude For The United States Directly To President Obama

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Hamas On Obama's Visit To Israel

Two rockets fell on southern Israel as Obama was headed to Ramallah. That's what you call a teachable moment. Tweet

Democratic Senators On Budget Committee Unanimously Reject Any Notion Of A Balanced Budget

Democrats explicitly reject a balanced federal budget in rejecting two amendments. An amendment offered by Senator Jeff Sessions called for increasing federal spending at "only" 3.4 percent per year over the next decade. A second proposed amendment by Senator Ron Johnson would make it more procedurally difficult to pass a budget that does not balance with ten years. The votes were in partisan lockstep.

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President Obama To Israeli Students: "Put Yourself In Palestinian Shoes"

President Obama said to Israeli students regarding the Palestinians: "Put yourselves in their shoes." After making sure those shoes are not loaded with explosives, I shall do so if only with some recent examples: 

I do not believe Israel has a right to exist. 

When America suffered the 9-11 attack, I went to the streets to pass out candy. 

I engage in and support terrorism against Israeli civilians. 

During the 2000 to 2005 intifada I killed 1,100 Israelis. 

When Israel withdrew every soldier and settler from Gaza, I burnt down green houses the Israelis left behind intact for us, and my land became an Islamist hellhole bent on destroying Israel.

Since Israel began construction on a security fence, my attacks have declined by more than 90%.

I was part of a strong plurality in 2005 who voted the Islamoterrorist organization Hamas to lead my parliament. 

Since Israel left Gaza, I have continuously fired rockets against Israel's civilians. 

My President has recently paid tribute to the World War II era Hitler-supporting Mufti Haj Amin al-Hussein (as well as other more modern terrorists) as he marked the 48th anniversary of Fatah’s first armed attack on Israel which took place on January 1st 1965 (before any territory was supposedly "occupied"). 

I could go on, but these shoes are starting to feel uncomfortable. Tweet

Rabbi David Wolpe: "The Problem With Being 'Spiritual But Not Religious'"

Rabbi Wolpe writes on Time.com:

"[I]nstitutions are...the only mechanism human beings know to perpetuate ideologies and actions. If books were enough, why have universities? If guns enough, why have a military? If self-governance enough, let’s get rid of Washington... Spirituality is an emotion. Religion is an obligation. Spirituality soothes. Religion mobilizes. Spirituality is satisfied with itself. Religion is dissatisfied with the world... No one expects those without faith to obligate themselves to a religious community. But for one who has an intuition of something greater than ourselves to hold that this is a purely personal truth, that it demands no communal searching and struggle, no organization to realize its potential in this world, straddles the line between narcissistic and solipsistic."

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