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Insights, Issues & Istook

Ernest knows the tricks and gimmicks used by politicians and governments. They can"t fool him, so they can"t fool you either when you listen to Ernest. He"s in recovery from 14 years as a U.S. Congressman, part of his 25 years in public office.

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Obama plans to deny guns to millions of seniors

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2015/07/21

Big Brother is everywhere, and now federal databases could cost seniors their guns. And that's just one of the problems from Big Brother's Big Data.Behind the scenes, the Social Security Administration is preparing to add millions of seniors to the FBI's list of people disqualified from owning a gun. These are seniors who have relatives handle their benefits and finances for them. The reports the White House claims the mental competency of such people is questionable, making them a potential

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Here comes a mess as Obama invites transgenders into...

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2015/07/21

Political correctness has become a threat to national defense. The Pentagon's leaders, hand-picked by President Obama, are reversing the long-time rule that transgenders have mental issues and cannot serve. The official and stupid explanation is that ending this debate will free commanders from distractions. This is actually the start of endless new distractions; it was the former policy that avoided those. Start with uniforms: If a man thinks he's Caitlyn Jenner, does he dress like G.I. Joe

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Supreme Court says even innocent people are guilty of...

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2015/07/01

Even when you're innocent, government can find you guilty. By 5-4, the Supreme Court says you can be punished for civil rights violations, even when you never intended to discriminate illegally. They don't want equal opportunity; they want equal results. How? They call it disparate impact. You can be perfectly fair and neutral, but if a minority claims they did not get a fair share of jobs, raises, housing, or loans, then the reasons why don't matter. You can base decisions purely on poor

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Obama encourages us to place same-sex marriage above...

Insights, Issues & Istook ·

2015/07/01

If you like your religion, can you keep it? President Obama said in 2008 that too many Americans cling bitterly to their guns and their religion. He recently repeated his calls for gun control. Now Obama seems to want people to give up their faith as well. At least the part that conflicts with his politics. The President made the remarks shortly after the Supreme Court proclaimed a new Constitutional right to same-sex marriage. The document has no clear language that says so, unless it's

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Same-sex court decision destroys the democratic process

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2015/06/29

We lose the democratic process when courts make our biggest decisions for us. Our Constitution provides clear limits on the powers of government. Instead, the Supreme Court uses the Constitution to reduce our ability to make our own decisions through elections. By ignoring public votes and duly-enacted laws, the Supreme Court has given America a new definition of marriage that ignores biology and contradicts the natural marriage of a man and a woman. We are told that centuries-old standards

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Obama transfroms troops from war fighters into...

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2015/06/23

Once it was Army uniforms that were green. Now it's the whole Pentagon. Global warming is a major national security issue, according to President Obama and his hand-picked general who now run the Pentagon. We still have no strategy to deal with the threats from the Islamic State, but our troops now have a Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap. Over 7,000 bases are under orders to factor-in global warming in all that they do. Evidently the climate impact must be considered before America's troops can

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A racist's act does not justify limiting the rights...

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2015/06/22

Tragedies grow worse when politicians pile on. The minister was one of nine killed at a black church in South Carolina. The horrid murders clearly involved a sick person filled with racial hatred. But before funerals could be planned, politicians jumped to urge gun control on all 320-million Americans. Others claimed it proves that most white people are racists. This was a racial attack, but those are less common than activists claim. Cries of hate crime or hate speech are thrown around loosely

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First they ban trans fat; next will they make us eat...

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2015/06/18

Artificial trans fats are being banned. Trans fat occurs naturally in milk products and in meats like beef. Those are not restricted by the FDA's new ban. Only the “artificial” trans fat is banned. But the grocers and restaurants began phasing those out years ago. What will replace it, and how will it taste? The substitute could be something that itself gets banned years from now. After all, trans fats came in vogue after the feds banned some saturated fats 30 years ago. A better question is the

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Protests against police lead to more violent crime

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2015/06/17

Headlines show that law and order could be collapsing: Murders and shootings are up in big cities where police pulled back after accusations of racist law enforcement. Homicides are up 20 percent in New York City. Shootings have doubled in Baltimore. Shouldn't civil rights protesters aim some of their anger at the thugs who violate the rights of their victims? Since 2010, 121 murders nationwide have been committed by illegal aliens set free instead of detained pending deportation. Didn't

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America: land of make believe; truth and reality got...

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2015/06/16

Political correctness is at new levels of absurdity A man has surgery to look like a woman. He competed in the Olympics. He fathered children. He forever has male DNA. Yet we're told it's shameful unless we call him a her. A white woman leads a chapter of the NAACP. She was born Caucasian. She attended a black university--but sued them claiming mistreatment because she wasn't black. But now she says she's black. So does her opinion about herself override the facts? Are imaginary friends real,

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Now is funny money time in Congress

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2015/06/15

'Tis the season for Washington, DC, to roll out the gimmicks. News stories might make you yawn, saying the House or the Senate just approved a bill to spend umpteen billions of dollars. Now's the time when Congress considers the appropriations bills. Is there any control on spending? No, not much. Most spending is on automatic pilot. Programs like Medicaid, Medicare, disability and Social Security are the biggest programs, and Congress doesn't even vote anymore on the amounts they get. When they do

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Consumers get socked with $11,000 in costs due to new...

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2015/06/12

It's hard to get ahead when prices keep climbing. There's a link between rising prices and runaway regulations. Higher costs of doing business hurt the whole economy, and fewer jobs get created. But billions in red tape costs get tacked onto the prices that all us consumers must pay. Most of that is higher energy costs and more expensive automobiles, appliances, and everything that the government says must be more energy-efficient. That means your toasters, washers, dryers, refrigerators, and

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Feds push to end our privacy in the bathroom

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2015/06/11

Say goodbye to your restroom privacy. Employers should let people use the restroom of their choice, according to new federal instructions. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration calls “guidance” rather than a legal requirement. They won't even admit that men and women are different. Instead, they write that our sex “assigned at birth” can be disregarded. We're told to be sensitive to the emotions of someone who feels trapped in the wrong body, so a male who considers himself female can

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Government shrinks America's middle class

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2015/06/01

Honey, they've shrunk the middle class. Upward mobility first requires gaining a middle class income, on your way to a higher standard of living. What happened? Government. Low incomes were exempted from income taxes, then taxes hit hard when you approach middle class. Plus you lose the public assistance benefits awarded to lower incomes. Welfare reform? Abandoned. Also, runaway regulations raise prices, making it harder to make ends meet. Failure to enforce immigration laws increases the ratio of

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Politicians do nothing to make health care more...

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2015/05/20

Lots of people getting Obamacare say they still cannot afford health care. A liberal group reports that one-fourth of people covered by Obamacare still avoid seeing a doctor or having tests done because they cannot afford the deductibles or co-pays. That shows how bureaucratic the law is, because even after raising insurance premiums it also raises other out-of-pocket costs. To the left, that's a reason to abolish co-pays. But look closer. Almost every political proposal does nothing about the real

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Studies show marijuana use stunts growth & causes...

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2015/05/20

If you want to be called PeeWee, then smoking dope is for you. Another medical study confirms that marijuana stunts growth as well as causing brain damage in youth. Boys who smoke marijuana are 4 inches shorter by age 20 than their counterparts, on average. That can earn them nicknames like PeeWee or Runt. But the drug legalization crowd continues to pooh-pooh the medical studies. They ignore the report from the National Institute for Drug Abuse that youth who use weed end up with lower IQ's and

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Free speech suppressed at school: NRA T-shirt leads...

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2015/05/20

Imagine arresting a student for supporting the Second Amendment. Students who don't toe the liberal line may face arrest like a West Virginia teenager suffered. A school secretary objected to his T-shirt bearing the logo of the National Rifle Association and told him to turn it inside out. Knowing his rights, the teenager said no. He was hauled to the principal's office and ultimately arrested. The charges got thrown out of court, but now the teen's family is suing the school and its officials for

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"Microaggression" is the new term for making racial...

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2015/05/15

America's divides cannot heal when agitators invent new ways to act offended. At Harvard University, a soda machine made in Israel was removed from campus because Palestinian students claimed it was a microaggression against them. The University of Illinois reports that minorities sense microaggression just from being in a room full of white people. That's even when the white people aren't doing anything. The study says therefore all whites should take sensitivity training. Microaggression is the

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Will fossil fuels ruin America? Or save it?

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2015/04/30

According to Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe, President Obama's goal is to leave a legacy of ending America's use of fossil fuels. That includes coal, natural gas, and oil. Obama condemns anyone who disagrees that global warming is the biggest threat to mankind, above even terrorism. Obama's solution is spending billions of dollars in crony capitalism to reward his friends. The warnings don't match the facts, such as 18 years now of global cooling. Meantime, major oil and gas discoveries have

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