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Natalie deMacedo

Natalie deMacedo is a student at Hillsdale College where she is studying English and Journalism. As part of Hillsdale’s Dow Journalism Program, she works as a staff reporter and assistant editor for her school paper, the Collegian. She also interned at the Old Colony Memorial in Plymouth, Mass. – her hometown.
by | Feb 24, 2014

Season four came to a close last night, leaving us relieved that we didn’t lose any of our favorite characters to brutal childbirth or sudden car crashes. In fact, we ended much like season two – with hope and love…

by | Feb 20, 2014

“You can’t say the Affordable Care Act has killed job growth,” Phil Schiliro, White House health care advisor, announced yesterday. Schiliro’s adamant declaration was based on one fact: 8 million jobs have been created since the bill was signed into law….

by | Feb 19, 2014

UPDATE: It has been widely reported, and was mentioned here by Natalie, that the Koch brothers helped fund anti-UAW efforts in Tennessee. The communications office at Koch Industries recently reached out to us, denying any involvement in the organizing campaign….

by | Feb 19, 2014

Premiums, deductibles, claims—health insurance is tricky business and Obamacare only made it more complicated. Now, with a month and a half left to enroll in the exchanges, states have swallowed up their $60 million federal dollar allotment for personnel needed…

by | Feb 18, 2014

Barack Obama might have snatched the presidency from Mitt Romney’s grasp, but his national health care plan has been an absolute disaster compared to Massachusetts’s Romneycare. Obama allegedly stole his idea from Romney’s somewhat successful (we can save that debate…

by | Feb 18, 2014

Ah, the church bazaar: The perfect place to bring together Downton’s upstairs and downstairs in pretty pastels. Alfred proposes to Ivy via letter and when he returns to the area for his father’s funeral, accepts Ivy’s kind refusal. Daisy, of…

by | Feb 13, 2014

After falsifying her story about her perilous struggles as a single mother, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis apparently wants to win back favor. But her sudden double-mindedness is unlikely to convince Republicans or keep Democrats on her side. Last week,…

by | Feb 13, 2014

Democrats are claiming victory after the administration recently announced new Obamacare numbers—some 3.3 million people were enrolled in Obamacare by the end of January: “I hope Republicans will look at these numbers and realize that the health care law is…

by | Feb 12, 2014

American military affairs expert William Lind argued on The American Conservative website yesterday that Vladmir Putin’s Russia, particularly in the realm of foreign policy, exemplifies conservatism and the United States should take heed. One thing I will agree on is that America’s approach to…

by | Feb 12, 2014

Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner held a vote yesterday for a no-strings-attached debt ceiling hike. What’s worse? It passed. What’s the very worst? The Senate just passed the bill as well. After all the threats of default, after…

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