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Britain goes to the polls next week and the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, is clear about what the choice is.
For too long, you have been told something that simply isn't true, Miliband assured supporters as he announced his program. That's what's good for the richest and most powerful is always good for the whole of our country. That as long as a few individuals and companies are OK, we can just wait for the wealth to trickle down to everyone else.
Really? We've been told that? By whom? Who has spouted such bilge? Type trickle down economics into Google and it'll prompt you with myth, criticism, debunked and doesn't work. But you'll search in vain for anyone actually proposing the idea.
Not that this deters leftist politicians, election after election, from tearing into it. Here, for example, is Barack Obama in 2008: We can't afford four more years of the theory that says we should give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else.

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The controversy over scholar Christina Hoff Sommers' lecture at Georgetown University last week is not over.
Lauren Gagliardi, the school's assistant director for the center for student engagement, emailed two members of the College Republicans to request they edit the video to remove students who did not agree to be videotaped.
In the email, provided to the Washington Examiner, Gagliardi tells the students that the edited version needs to be released without students who did not give permission to be taped. She also says that if the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, which sponsored the event, is unwilling or unresponsive to the request, Georgetown will need to step in.
The video that has Gagliardi so upset features feminist activists holding up signs accusing Hoff Sommers of being an anti-feminist or deny rape.
Laurel Conrad, the lecture director for CBLPI who helped organize the event, explained the situation over at Legal Insurrection.

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Columnist Thomas Sowell predicts chaos ahead for would-be presidents on left and right.

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Just like in Ferguson and the #BlackLivesMatters protests, trying to blame Israel.

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The saga and drama surrounding Sweet Cakes By Melissa has taken yet another turn. They have set up another crowd ...

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In 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, only 10 percent of the Clinton Foundation's expenditures were for direct charitable grants.

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Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said an Iranian "force" seized a U.S. cargo ship in the Gulf on Tuesday and directed it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

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The court will likely hand down its ruling in June.

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That is quite the rap sheet. Here are some things that you should know about Freddy Gray.

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Marc Lamont Hill, a Morehouse College professor and regular CNN commentator, embraced radical violence in the streets during an interview Monday on CNN.

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WSJ Global View columnist Bret Stephens writes that the Clintons are counting on America to digest their ethical lapses the way a python swallows a goat.

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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke dropped a bomb on FOX News today. The good sheriff blamed failed liberal policies on today's rioting in Baltimore and Ferguson...

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Since Obama became President and started subtly supporting race-baiting and cop-hating, mob violence is back in style.

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived religious objections by Catholic groups in Michigan and Tennessee to the Obamacare requirement for contraception coverage, throwing out a lower court decision favoring President Barack Obama's administration.
The justices asked the...

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by Paul Joseph Watson, INFOWARS
The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase over 62 million
rounds of ammo typically used in AR-15 semi-automatic rifles, just weeks
after the ATF was forced to back down on a ban on M855 bullets.
A posting on FedBizOpps.gov this week reveals that the DHS is looking to
contract with a company to provide 12.6 million rounds of .223 Remington
ammunition per year for a period of five years – totaling 62.5 million
bullets.
The solicitation explains that the purchase is intended, “to achieve price
savings over the current .223 Rem duty ammunition.” The bullets will be
used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents nationwide for “training”
purposes.
The .223 Remington is one of the most common rifle cartridges in use in the
United States and is used both in bolt action rifles and semi-automatic
rifles such as the AR-15 and the Ruger Mini-14.
In 2013, following concerns about the DHS buying large quantities of
several different types of ammunition, weapons manufacturers noted that the
feds may have been attempting to control the ammunition market by forcing
manufacturers to hold back stock from general sale.
“If they periodically do this in increments, they’re going to control how
much ammo is available on the commercial market,” a weapons manufacturer
told Michael Savage, adding that the contracts with bullet manufacturers
stipulate that everything made goes to the government as the number one
priority before it is allowed to enter the commercial market.
In March 2013, Californian Congressman Doug LaMalfa and 14 of his House
peers wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security demanding to
know why the federal agency was buying so many rounds of ammunition and
whether the purchases were part of a deliberate attempt to restrict supply
to the American people.
“The extraordinary level of ammunition purchases made by Homeland Security
seems to have, in states such as my own, created an extreme shortage of
ammunition to the point where many gun owners are unable to purchase any,”
LaMalfa wrote in the letter.
The bulk purchase follows attempts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms to ban M855 ammo, another popular round for AR-15’s used by
hunters. The ATF justified the ban by claiming that the bullets were “armor
piercing” and a threat to law enforcement officers.
After being on the receiving end of a huge backlash, the feds were forced
to back down and ATF director B. Todd Jones subsequently tendered his
resignation. Democratic Congressman Steve Israel called the ATF backdown
“cowardly” and vowed to revive the ban.
The ATF’s threat to ban the ammo temporarily caused prices of the bullet to
surge more than double in price.
Although federal agencies are increasingly hiding their purchases by
limiting public information on fbo.gov, it can still be conservatively
estimated from available data that the feds have purchased at least 2.11
billion rounds of ammunition since April 2012.
That’s enough ammo to kill around 30% of the world’s population.
Furthermore, U.S. soldiers were shooting around 5.5 million rounds of
ammunition per month during the war in Iraq, or 66 million rounds annually.
Using that figure, the feds have stockpiled enough ammo over the past two
years to fight a 32-year war.

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For 10 people who agreed with God, He would have spared Sodom, but as long as even 1 person says "that's so gay," all Christians must be silenced.

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Announcing his presidential bid this month, Sen. Rand Paul said he wants to repeal “any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color.” Fulfilling this promise would require gutting murd...

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Social media networks have become the number-one distributors of judgment porn, where people get high on another person’s low.

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A Maryland facility offering the abortion pill is part of a push among advocates to be unapologetic.

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The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month. The Clinton family’s mega-charity...

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