The American Spectator : Some Things You Might Have Missed
These other stories shouldn’t be lost in the stuff
The media is consumed as it should be by the massive failure that is HealthCare.gov and the hundreds of thousands of people throughout the United States losing health insurance as a result of Obamacare. But there are a few other stories that shouldn’t be lost in the shuffle. Here are two:
The first is about the troubling relationship between sex trafficking and the foster care system – a topic addressed by an October 23 hearing in Congress. My guess is that what much of what Americans know of foster care and adoption comes from heartwarming movies like “The Blind Side.” That movie tells the amazing life story of Michael Oher, who started out the son of a drug addicted mother who bounced between foster homes and homelessness before being adopted by the Tuohy family in Memphis, Tennessee, becoming a football standout at the University of Mississippi and a 2009 first round draft pick for the Baltimore Ravens. …
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Story number two: According to a recent report in the Daily Caller, federal agents took a reporter’s personal files during an August raid of her home in Maryland in search of illegal guns.
The journalist, Audrey Hudson, used to write for the Washington Times and is now a freelancer. Department of Homeland Security agents had a search warrant allowing them to look for guns in the home she shares with her husband Paul Flanagan, who unknown to the couple, was prohibited from owning firearms. After the search started, she was asked by one investigator, a former air marshal official, if she was the same journalist who wrote a series of articles critical of air marshals. ...
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