Inhofe praises delist of Lesser Prairie Chicken

Lesser Prairie Chicken

Lesser Prairie Chicken

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement today praising the final step to delist the Lesser Prairie Chicken (LPC) has been made by publishing the final rule in the federal register:

“I am pleased the day has come for the Lesser Prairie Chicken to be officially delisted. The agency’s original listing was rushed and failed to properly take into consideration the facts on the ground.”

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Straight talk truth: BLM vs. Police

DonLemonThe exchange between  CNN’s Don Lemon and Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke on air just hours after the Baton Rouge, Louisiana police shooting Sunday was stunning.

Lemon began by asking Clarke what his message was to American citizens in the wake of another attack on police just about a week after the shootings in Dallas. The CNN anchor said that he spoke to the Baton Rouge sheriff’s department and police department, but Clarke focused on the anti-police protest group, Black Lives Matter.

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Trump does the unthinkable

DonaldTrumpGreatLiz Crokin for Townhall provides an excellent perspective on Donald J. Trump that media fail to include, but that all Americans should remember about the GOP Presidential Candidate. First published July 10, Crokin begins:

Donald Trump is a racist, bigot, sexist, xenophobe, anti-Semitic and Islamophobe — did I miss anything? The left and the media launch these hideous kinds of attacks at Trump everyday; yet, nothing could be further from the truth about the real estate mogul.

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Making American Medicine great again

HealthcareAlertThe Republicans are at it again: trying to tweak a bad idea, make it “bipartisan,” and set a flawed system more firmly in concrete. What we really need is a Republican reform — one that can restore the Republic, along with medicine.

Yes, ObamaCare needs to be repealed—every last syllable. But that’s not all. To make America and American medicine great again, we need to remember what made it great in the first place. It was, to quote Dinesh D’Souza’s great insight in his book Stealing America, the “anti-theft” society. That’s what attracted people like him from all over the world, including India, to come here and become great Americans. They certainly did not risk everything to come to America and turn it into what they had left behind.

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Beating the college textbook industry

TextbookCostThe tuition cost was haunting. The dorm bill was daunting. The laptop your favorite college freshman just had to have cost more than your first car.

Now all she has left to do is hit the college bookstore with a list of required textbooks. Don’t be surprised if she comes out crying.

A recent study by the United States Government Accountability office showed that the average prices for textbooks have risen 82 percent in just 10 years.

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