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Arizona Lawmaker Aims to Send Border-Crossing Children Home Faster
By[email protected] July 7, 2014April 16, 2026

Legislation proposed by an Arizona congressman would give federal officials authority to quickly screen and deport unaccompanied children from Central America who have crossed the Mexican border into the United States. The bill from Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., would change a provision in a 2008 human-trafficking law that requires U.S. Border Patrol agents to turn over the children…

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To Keep Health Care Coverage, Tennessee Couple Separates
By[email protected] July 7, 2014April 16, 2026

After 33 years of marriage, Linda and Larry Drain of Maryville, Tenn., separated—but only so Linda could have health care coverage that was threatened by federal bureaucracy, according to The Tennessean. The Drains are among 162,000 Tennesseans who are caught up in the health coverage gap. They made too much in combined income to qualify…

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Homeland Security Secretary Won’t Say If Illegal Children Will Be Deported
By[email protected] July 6, 2014April 16, 2026

“Meet the Press” host David Gregory had a simple question for Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson: Do the children flooding the U.S. border need to be deported? What followed was a testy exchange between Gregory and Johnson. “I’m trying to get an answer,” Gregory said at one point. He eventually moved on, but not…

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Reporter Calls Colorado’s Obamacare Website ‘Clunky, Counterintuitive and Confusing’
By[email protected] July 6, 2014April 16, 2026

Colorado journalist Brandon Rittiman called the state’s Obamacare exchange website “clunky, counterintuitive and confusing” after reviewing the website for a TV news story. Colorado received $179 million in federal grants for the state’s healthcare exchange, a portion of which was dedicated to building the site.

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Watch Your Step: Hawaii Taxpayers Will Pay $81,000 for ‘Fall-Prevention Coordinator’
By[email protected] July 6, 2014April 17, 2026

HONOLULU—Take careful steps. When possible, stay in your seat and, by all means, grab hold of that railing. Simple advice, apparently from much simpler times. These days, however, Hawaii seems compelled to pay someone to offer such ubiquitous and common-sense advice. Taxpayers will spend $81,000 in 2015 on a new government position—”fall-prevention coordinator,” who will…

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Government Regulation Threatens 119-Year-Old Family Cigar Business
By[email protected] July 6, 2014April 22, 2026

J.C. Newman Cigar Co. is one of a kind, literally. Founded in 1895 by Julius Caesar Newman, a Hungarian immigrant, the Tampa-based family business is the last of what was once 150 “Cigar City” factories. The business has outlasted 19 U.S. presidents, two world wars, a Cuban economic embargo that crushed many of its competitors…

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Schumer Plans to ‘Pressure’ House to Save Export-Import Bank
By[email protected] July 5, 2014April 17, 2026

Advocates of pulling the plug on the Export-Import Bank are girding to resist what they see as a “blatantly partisan maneuver” in the Senate to save the agency. They’re talking about Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who promises the Senate will take up and pass a bill to reauthorize the 80-year-old bank before Congress leaves for…

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Federal Officials Propose 8-Foot Fences to Protect Endangered Mice
By[email protected] July 5, 2014April 16, 2026

SANTA FE NATIONAL FOREST, N.M.—For more than a century, the Lucero family has grazed livestock in the majestic landscape near Fenton Lakein the Santa Fe National Forest. They started with sheep and, in the 1920s, switched to cattle. But that may all come to an end because of an endangered mouse. “You’re taking a lot…

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Nevada Woman Dies After Suing Over Delayed Obamacare Coverage
By[email protected] July 5, 2014April 16, 2026

A woman with a brain tumor who sued Nevada’s Obamacare exchange contractor for delayed coverage died earlier this week. Linda Rolain was among 150 Nevadans suing the contractor Xerox for lack of coverage. She is the first to die of complications from an illness, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “We are worried that this is…

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Richard M. Scaife, Newspaper Publisher and Heritage Foundation Trustee, Dies at 82
By[email protected] July 4, 2014April 16, 2026

Richard M. Scaife, philanthropist to conservative causes and publisher of Tribune-Review Publishing, Co., died Friday at the age of 82. Scaife, an early supporter of The Heritage Foundation and member of its Board of Trustees since 1985, was serving as vice chairman of the board when he died. In a statement to The Daily Signal, Heritage Foundation…

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Iowa Banned Most Fireworks 76 Years Ago. Now One Lawmaker Is Trying to Change That.
By[email protected] July 4, 2014April 16, 2026

Jerri Andersen wasn’t impressed by the Fourth of July fireworks display at her local Hy-Vee in Urbandale, Iowa. “Of course, it’s not their fault,” she said. And it isn’t. The supermarket was displaying the only types of fireworks people can buy or possess in Iowa without a special permit: sparklers and snakes. All other consumer…

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Obama Administration Circumvents Congress, Faces Backlash Over Native Hawaiians Proposal
By[email protected] July 4, 2014April 16, 2026

HONOLULU—A proposal by the Obama administration to create a new relationship with ethnic Hawaiians may have backfired. The U.S. Department of Interior is holding a series of hearings about the plan, which, it said in a statement, would determine “the best path forward for honoring the trust relationship that Congress has created specifically to benefit…

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‘We Have Not Forgotten’: Presidents on the Fourth of July
By[email protected] July 4, 2014April 16, 2026

In a letter to his wife Abigail the day before the American colonies publicly justified their independence from Great Britain, John Adams predicted the occasion would be celebrated as “the great anniversary festival” for years to come. Of the birth of a new nation in July 1776, the future second president of the United States wrote, “the…

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1,100 Illegal Immigrants Are Living at an Oklahoma Army Base. Why Can’t This Congressman Visit?
By[email protected] July 3, 2014April 16, 2026

Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., was denied access July 1 to the Department of Health and Human Services facility at Fort Sill, Okla., which houses more than 1,100 illegal immigrant children. Bridenstine, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that he was told to return July 21 if he wanted to gain access. Skeptical of the…

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Obamacare Awash in Millions of Data ‘Inconsistencies,’ Report Finds
By[email protected] July 3, 2014April 17, 2026

Little more than eight months ago, the bungled rollout of the government’s Obamacare website, HealthCare.gov, touched off an avalanche of bad news for President Obama and his health care team. Now comes a new federal report that gives more details on the technical woes of the online insurance exchange — problems that could result in…

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Target to Customers: Please Leave Your Guns at Home
By[email protected] July 3, 2014April 16, 2026

Target announced Thursday that it is implementing an anti-gun policy, “respectfully” requesting that customers don’t bring guns into their stores. “Bringing firearms to Target creates an environment that is at odds with the family-friendly shopping and work experience we strive to create,” Target CEO John Mulligan wrote in a statement. >>> Senator Reid’s Gun Control…

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Can Chris Christie Fix New Jersey’s Budget ‘Disaster’?
By[email protected] July 3, 2014April 16, 2026

New Jersey’s budget mess is so bad a judge last week ruled it a “disaster.” It could be even worse in the new fiscal year that began Tuesday. At stake is a financial future of New Jersey, struggling under the weight of a $51 billion shortfall in the state retirement system. Gov. Chris Christie on…

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John Boehner’s Warning to Harry Reid: ‘As Long as I’m Speaker, There Will Be No Earmarks’
By[email protected] July 3, 2014April 16, 2026

House Speaker John Boehner pushed back against recent rumblings by top Senate Democrats that earmarks are making a return, saying in a new video that as long as he’s speaker “there will be no earmarks.” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and his top deputy, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., both said they would like to see…

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A Taxing Decision for LeBron James
By[email protected] July 3, 2014April 16, 2026

NBA superstar LeBron James became a free agent this week, prompting speculation about where the four-time league MVP will call home next season. James is reportedly seeking a deal worth more than $20 million per year, which could result in a sizeable income tax bill depending on his final destination. If he re-signs with the…

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After Border Visit, Congressman Says U.S. Failing to Detain, Deport Illegal Immigrants
By[email protected] July 3, 2014April 16, 2026

Tens of thousands of immigrants who illegally crossed the Mexico border into the United States are in the process of being released into communities throughout the nation rather than being indefinitely detained or immediately deported, according to a Texas congressman. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, who visited the U.S.-Mexico border last week, said an effort is…

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