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May 25, 2016

Trusting Models Too Much…

(IBD) Trusting the models too much is not the only gaping hole in the climate alarmists’ claims. Their bigger problem is that they rely on models that have been consistently wrong. The heat that the models have predicted for decades has simply not arrived. And, as the Daily Caller pointed out last week, the federal …

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Anti-Trump Protest In New Mexico Was Staged by Left-Wing Astroturf

Like most of these anti-Trump protests, left-wing astroturf groups are responsible. The Party for Socialism and Liberation (and at least one other left-wing group) organized the recent ‘event’ in New Mexico. These are the folks that threw rocks and bottles at police. Read all about it at Conservative Treehouse.

Has Target Suffered For It’s Transgender Changing Room Folly?

Target’s market cap has lost $9.2 billion since April 19th, 2016. Is it just a coincidence? (American Thinker) Although past performance is not always a good predictor of future trends, in this type of widely used correlational analyses, the message is typically correct.  Where the financial performance of two companies was closely correlated in the past, …

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Trump Nears Delegate Threshold

(Bloomberg) Donald Trump won Tuesday’s Republican presidential primary in Washington state, according to the Associated Press, putting the party’s presumptive nominee on the cusp of crossing the delegate threshold required to formally secure his party’s nomination. Trump scored 27 delegates in Washington State, leaving him 41 delegates shy of 1237. With 300 Delegates still up for …

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Data Point – you like new laws passed by non-legislators

20,642 New Regulations Added in the Obama Presidency …More than $22 billion per year in new regulatory costs were imposed on Americans last year, pushing the total burden for the Obama years to exceed $100 billion annually. That’s a dollar for every star in the galaxy, or one for every second in 32 years. …America’s problem …

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It changed their minds and their outlook of the unborn children

“When faced with the reality of the abortion procedure, many people who are pro-choice change their minds instantly. A video put out by Live Action shows former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levantino describing and showing the process of a second-trimester (13-24 weeks of pregnancy) surgical abortion procedure. Dr. Levantino has preformed over 1,200 abortions and explains …

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