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Ilhan Omar’s Big Lie | National Review

The Left distorts what happened in El Salvador in the 1980s.

She has a few “big lies” because all she does is lie.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar Makes Radical Call For Defunding Department Of Homeland Security

On Friday, anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) appeared to call for a complete defunding of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which would eliminate numerous government agencies that protect the United States.

Am I the only one who sees how obvious it is that this woman is extremely dangerous?

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The Green New Deal Is Everything That’s Wrong with Progressive Environmentalism | National Review

Progressivism is the priority, not environmentalism.

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Susan Sarandon gushes over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's growing love for anti-Semites

"Good luck with this one, Susan."

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Tamika Mallory Defends Decision to Praise Farrakhan as the ‘Greatest of All Time’ | National Review

On Monday, Women’s March co-chair Tamika Mallory defended her past praise for notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan on ABC’s The View.

I’m not sure who’s more disgusting, Tamika Mallory, or the women on The View who didn’t question her pathetic defense of obvious bigotry.

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The Not-So-Pretty Fine Print of the ‘Green New Deal’ | National Review

The ‘Green New Deal’ isn’t only unrealistic, it would be irresponsible to implement.

“A ‘Green New Deal’ Would Cut the Military in Half, End 87 Percent of U.S. Energy, and Ban Cars”

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'Bark bark ... anybody?' Dem Rep. Rashida Tlaib blows anti-Semitic dog whistle — but where are media guardians of truth?

Bueller? Bueller?

This coming from the utter hypocrite who waved the Palestinian flag when sworn in as a Congresswoman.

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UH OH! Nate Silver noticed what 'none of the reports' about Russia and 2016 detail (the Resistance WON'T want to hear it)

"You may make Neera Tanden's head explode."

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Trump orders feds to declassify key FISA documents, text messages in FBI Russia probe

President Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of several key documents related to the FBI investigation of Russian actions during the 2016 presidential election, including 21 pages of an application for a renewed surveillance warrant against form

Remember when people on the left were all for transparency?

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Thank goodness Trump gets what Obama failed to grasp on economy | TheHill

During Obama's eight years in office, business leaders never felt confident about the future.

A most inconvenient truth for the left.

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North Korea's Kim sets denuclearization time line, prompting thanks...

North Korea's Kim Jong Un has given his first time line for denuclearization, aiming for the end of U.S. President Donald Trump's first term, Seoul officials said on Thursday, prompting thanks from Trump who said they would "get it done together".

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US economy logs best performance in nearly 4 years

Businesses spent more on software than previously estimated in the second quarter and the nation also imported less petroleum.

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Wilmette girl's solo dog walk indeed shameful — we should be ashamed of this nanny state. - Chicago Tribune

John Kass: Investigation of Wilmette mom for letting her daughter walk the dog around the block is further evidence of the Nanny State's failure to our children.

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NO JUICE FOR YOU: California Unleashes Most Nanny State Bill Yet

California is home to some of the most absurd nanny state laws in the union: defy a plastic straw ban and you might find yourself behind bars; buy a Happy Meal for your scream

This is outrageous.

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Dave Rubin: What Is A Classical Liberal? | RealClearPolitics

Dave Rubin explains how there's already a little classical liberal in you right now in a new web video. RUBIN: These days, liberalism has been confused with leftism or progressivism which actually has nothing to do with classical liberalism. Sadly, the l

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Sorry Bernie Bros But Nordic Countries Are Not Socialist

As much as liberals like to use Nordic countries as examples that socialism and successful societies can co-exist, the reality is that these countries are not socialist, or even farther along the spectrum toward socialism than most other developed countri

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Here’s What Happened the Last Time the Left Got Nasty

History shows why Democrats shouldn’t take the low road.

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Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Made Enemies At Work Over Greedy Behavior, Ex-Coworker Says | Daily Wire

Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently made enemies while working at a bar in New York as a former co-worker claims that she was greedy and, in at least one instance, allegedly kept most of the tips for herself.

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Socialism Is Growing In America Because Everybody's Rich Thanks To Capitalism | Daily Wire

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the flavor of the month among members of the media. She’s the new, fresh face of democratic socialism, the harbinger of the new wave of Leftism among Democrats.

I'm politically in the middle - but this woman is a total fool.

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David Lynch: Trump Could Be ‘One Of The Greatest Presidents In History’ | HuffPost

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George Will: Vote against GOP in midterms | TheHill

Conservative columnist George Will is making the argument to vote against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. 

This is a shocker.

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Obama cyber chief confirms 'stand down' order against Russian cyberattacks in summer 2016

Michael Daniel, Obama White House’s chief cyber official testified that proposals he was developing to counter Russia’s attack on the U.S. presidential election were put on a “back burner” after he was ordered to “stand down” his efforts in th

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New Milestones in Jobs Report Signal a Bustling Economy - The New York Times

With a gain of 223,000 jobs and unemployment at its lowest point since 2000, the trends are encouraging but unlikely to prompt the Federal Reserve to intervene.

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Reed Hastings and the Obamas are making bank with Netflix deal

Reed Hastings, the founder, chairman and CEO of Netflix, had quite a run last week. The darling of streaming saw his company pass Disney and Comcast in market cap as his stock hit an all-time high …

Netflix in 2007 had a $3 share price and was mailing DVDs to people. The Obamas were poised to enter the White House and then had a reported net worth of $1.3 million, according to CNN Money. Fast-forward to 2018. The Obamas have an estimated combined net worth of $75 million...”

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Why the Left Won't Call Anyone 'Animals' - The Dennis Prager Show

If you want to understand the moral sickness at the heart of leftism, read the first paragraph of the most recent column by Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne: "It's never right to call other human beings 'animals.' It's not something we should e

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The Numbers Are in: April Marks the Best Month in History for the US Budget

We can thank "stronger-than-expected" economic growth last year and early this year.

Good news for the country. Most of the media will ignore it, just like they ignore everything that doesn’t fit in with the narrative about this administration they’ve totally invested themselves in.

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Neo-Nazi Senate candidate kicked out of California GOP convention

Patrick Little is running against Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and his campaign website advocates for "limiting representation of Jews in the government"

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Clinton: Being a capitalist 'probably' hurt me with Dem voters | TheHill

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton says identifying as a capitalist hurt her in the 2016 campaign. 

She's right. It's sad that this is what the democratic party has come to. Do younger liberals even understand what capitalism is outside of the vitriol that sites like Vulture, Mother Jones, Salon, etc. constantly spew?

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Police looking into Kanye West threat after Snoop Dogg's cousin urges Crips to 'f***' him up over Trump tweets

Kanye West's support of President Trump may have made him a gang target. Rapper Daz Dillinger urged for the Crips to attack West in an Instagram video.

How many people who are on the left will condemn this?

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Barbara Bush 'racist' rant: Tenured professor could lose job

A California State University, Fresno professor's rant about Barbara Bush being an "amazing racist" could cost her a job.

This woman is absolutely disgusting. She should lose her job and never be allowed to teach again.

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Ryan to retire as Speaker in January

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is retiring at the end of this Congress, ending his speakership a little more than three years after it began.

This is not good for Republicans.

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WATCH: Parkland's Emma Gonzalez Admits to Bullying the Shooter. A Few Things...

A number of points here...

So in addition to everything else, she’s a massive hypocrite.

“Perhaps Emma and her peers who ostracized the Parkland shooter since middle school should have a march against bullying.“

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Justin Trudeau’s Celebrity Schtick Has Finally Blown Up in His Face - VICE

Trudeau’s Indian misadventure was an epic misfire.

I am not Canadian. However, I am embarrassed to be on the same continent with this jackass.

"Try imagining Indian PM Narendra Modi hanging out in Ottawa for a week alternately dressed like a cowboy or a Mountie or a French-Canadian biker..."

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Why An 'Assault Weapon' Ban Won't Stop Mass Shootings

Congress can't "stop the killing...by changing the law."

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Trump's Parade Is Political Genius

Hours of free airtime that Democrats can’t argue with? That’s a pretty clever strategy.

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California is collecting so much of your money it can’t save it all

Democrats and Republicans want to fill California’s budget rainy day fund. But what comes next?

The government is not your friend.

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Nazi speech on campus opposed by half of Americans - Washington Times

Nearly half of Americans support banning Nazis and white supremacists from speaking on college campuses, a poll shows, but higher education critics warn that such a move would be imprudent and legally dubious.

It is very scary that so many people are willing to give up one of our most important rights.

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Home Depot employees to get up to $1,000 bonus due to tax reform

Home Depot is awarding its hourly employees in the U.S. a one-time cash bonus of as much as $1,000 following the passage of new tax legislation.

Remember when tax cuts meant that the sky would fall? Not so much.

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Starbucks to boost worker pay and benefits after US lowers corporate taxes

Starbucks will give domestic employees pay raises, company stock, and expanded benefits worth of more than $250 million, the company said on Wednesday.

At some point people will have to admit that this is becaus of the recent tax cuts. There are just too many people now who are receiving pay increases. It’s extremely obvious.

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What the librarian who rejected Melania Trump’s Dr. Seuss books as ‘racist’ got wrong - The Washington Post

Seuss had issues. But so did a vast array of other authors.

This is absurd and makes this librarian look incredibly silly.

"A librarian’s role — and Cambridgeport’s has a graduate degree in library science, so she should know it — is to curate a collection that represents a diverse set of viewpoints over an extended period of time so that readers can see the widest possible picture of the literary past and present."

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The fake news machine: Inside a town gearing up for 2020

There's a whole industry dedicated to producing fake US news in Macedonia – and it's getting ready for 2020

It amazes me that so many people have such a high capacity to believe almost anything if it backs up their own previously held opinions. So much of "fake news" is clearly untrue, yet large groups of people believe it anyway. It's also interesting that both sides believe that only the other side pushes fake news.

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Opinion | Trump is something the nation did not know it needed

He may whet Americans’ appetites for a grown-up leader who shuns sycophants.

Is Trump going to limit the power of the presidency just by being Trump?

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19 seconds of drama: McCain's vote

After debating into early hours of the morning, Senator McCain shocked his colleagues by voting "no" on the "skinny repeal" of Obamacare. CNN's Brooke Baldwin points out the various reactions across the room.

I disagree with McCain's vote, but it is very interesting to see the process in progress.

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Sessions' powerful friends stand up to Trump

The attorney general's former colleagues in Congress, as well as conservative allies, publicly questioned the president's attacks on Sessions.

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Why The Georgia Special Election Matters | FiveThirtyEight

Either outcome could affect where congressional Republicans go from here.

A democratic win in Georgia may rob the GOP of any chance to get anything reasonable done. That includes opposing Trump when necessary.

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WATCH: After Endless Leaks, Rubio Asks Comey Why This ONE THING About Trump Wasn't Leaked

On Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding President Donald Trump's behavior relative to the Michael Flynn and overall Russian Investigation pre-firing.

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Inside the failed secret mission to save the filibuster

A group of senators secretly tried to negotiate an end to the Senate's decade-long judicial wars. But distrust ran too deep.

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Will North Korea fire a missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland? Probably. - The Washington Post

Kim Jong Un has declared that North Korea is close to testing a missile that can reach the United States. Is it time to freak out?

North Korea and China should be the focus of the Trump administration's foreign policy.

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Sessions recuses himself from Russia probe

The attorney general is removing himself following reports he met twice with the Russian ambassador during Trump's campaign.

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‘He’s a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager’

Donald Trump sits at the top of the biggest org chart in the world. Why does he look so uncomfortable in the job.

I think that some of the mania about Trump is a little absurd and I want him to be successful because it will benefit all of us. But, he does invite a lot of the criticism and a lot of that has to do with his casual attitude toward the truth.

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The Future of America According to President Donald J. Trump | WIRED

A change in atmosphere rolled into Washington, DC the very second Donald J. Trump approached the podium. And it wasn't just the rain.

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Trump Is Making Journalism Great Again - POLITICO Magazine

In his own way, Trump has set us free.

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'Reagan would roll over in his grave' — President Obama blasts Republicans who approve of Putin

"Over a third of Republican voters approve of Putin."

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Alexander Hamilton Will Save America from Hillary Clinton | National Review

Hillary Clinton couldn't destroy America if she tried, because of the way the Founders structured our government.

"The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously against the Obama administration no less than 23 times, and has many times reaffirmed bedrock constitutional principles protecting religious liberty and prohibiting viewpoint discrimination by overwhelming majorities. Our core liberties are not as precarious as you think."

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Trump: My mic was 'defective'

He questioned whether it was tampered with deliberately.

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POLITICO fact-checks Trump and Clinton at the presidential debate

Keep up with the latest on the race for the White House.

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'Taco trucks on every corner' sounds like the greatest campaign promise since Herbert Hoover

If Hillary Clinton doesn't run a campaign ad by next week promising a taco truck on every corner, she's really missed an opportunity.

Thank you Trump supporters for the greatest "threat" of all time!

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John McLaughlin, TV Host Who Made Combat of Punditry, Dies at 89 - The New York Times

A Jesuit priest who served in the Nixon White House, he turned to a new vocation that brought a sharp edge to the Sunday morning political talk show.

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Trump repeats claim about nonexistent Iran footage - POLITICO

Trump's tale of having seen video of the $400 million cash delivery to Iran has been widely debunked as false.

I am not a fan of Hillary, so I really want to like Trump. But...it's just too weird.

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Ted Cruz doesn't endorse Trump, then upstaged by him - CNNPolitics.com

Ted Cruz sensationally withheld an endorsement of Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, earning a chorus of boos from the floor before he was upstaged by a power play by the GOP nominee himself.

"As delegates began to protest, Sen. Cruz's wife, Heidi Cruz, was heckled by Trump supporters shouting "Goldman Sachs!" and escorted out by security. Heidi Cruz, who is an employee of Goldman Sachs, declined to answer questions from reporters, saying "I don't talk to the media, thanks."

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Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret - POLITICO

Trump's attorneys argued that the deposition videos should be kept under wraps because they would become weapons in the ongoing presidential contest.

His attorneys suffer from the same level of self delusional grandeur as the candidate does. OF COURSE the testimony will be used by the Clinton campaign. But doesn't that demonstrate why the public has a right to see the footage? If he is dirty, and he almost certainly is, we need to know now.

"While Trump is currently lagging well behind presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the polls, Trump's lawyers argued that his predicament is similar to those of sitting presidents who have been shown deference by the courts when the question arose of releasing videos of their testimony."

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Anti-Trump delegates consider several attempts to upend convention

What, if anything, they can do is still up for discussion.

It's probably a lost cause, but they have to try.

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3 Pinocchios: Obama’s strange claim that it is easier for teens to buy a Glock than get a book

The president exaggerates a point about teens' access to handguns compared to their access to books.

This was a very obvious, and very absurd lie. The rest of the speech was pretty good. But he just couldn't help himself and not inject his own ideology (badly) into what should have been a speech free of politics.

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Trump's VP search enters frenzied phase - CNNPolitics.com

Donald Trump's vice presidential search turned into a head-spinning melodrama Wednesday as candidates vying for the spot hopped on planes and phones to perform frenzied, last-minute try-outs.

It looks like Trump is determined to have as few Hispanics, women, and blacks voting as possible voting for him. Gingrich or Sessions guarantee victory for Hillary. A more intelligent strategy would have been a Hispanic male or female, or at least a female. I don't like identity politics, but strategically that makes far more sense. It is definitely possibly that those options weren't open to him.

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Cruz to name Fiorina as VP running mate - POLITICO

Ted Cruz will announce Wednesday that Carly Fiorina will be his vice presidential nominee if he's the Republican party's pick for president, according to two sources with knowledge of the announcement.

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Donald Trump Calls to 'Bring Back' Penn State Coach Joe Paterno as Clashes Erupt Outside - ABC News

Trump Calls to 'Bring Back' Penn State Coach Joe Paterno

"I know a lot about Pennsylvania, and it’s great. How’s Joe Paterno. We’re gonna bring that back? Right?...How 'bout that whole deal?”

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Donald Trump reveals when he thinks America was great - CNNPolitics.com

If Donald Trump wants to make America great again, as his oft-repeated slogan promises, then that leads to the question: When was the last time America was actually great?

"If you look back, it really was, there was a period of time when we were developing at the turn of the century which was a pretty wild time for this country and pretty wild in terms of building that machine, that machine was really based on entrepreneurship," he told the Times.

Trump also pointed to the "late '40s and '50s," a time when, he said, "we were not pushed around, we were respected by everybody, we had just won a war, we were pretty much doing what we had to do."

Not on his list: The Reagan Era."

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Here’s exactly how a brokered Republican convention would work

Josh Putnam is a lecturer in the Political Science Department at the University of Georgia. But, to political junkies, he's better known as the founder of Frontloading HQ (FHQ, for short), a site that tracks the presidential primary calendar and all that comes with it. With an open convention on the Republican side looking more and more likely, I reached out to Josh to ask a few questions about the rest of the primary calendar and to clear up all of the fuzziness about exactly how that convention might work.

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Cruz Super PAC decides not to attack in Florida as new poll shows Rubio within six of Trump « Hot Air

This is what anti-Trumpers wanted a week ago, right? Cruz should leave Marco alone and give him every chance to shock the world by winning Florida and swiping those 99 delegates. Every delegate that goes to someone besides Trump increases the odds of a brokered convention, which is the only way to keep Trump from the nomination.

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AP delegate count: Trump not yet on track to win nomination

WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Donald Trump's string of Super Tuesday victories, the billionaire businessman must do even better in upcoming primaries to claim the Republican presidential nomination before the party's national…

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Newspapers Demand Christie Resign, Lament Endorsement for Supporting Trump - NBC News

Christie's full-throated support of Trump has also vexed the New Hampshire Union Leader after it endorsed the governor's candidacy in November.

"That's the message from a joint editorial Tuesday from six New Jersey newspapers that say Gov. Christie has no standing in the state following his endorsement last week of Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination."

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Trump declines to assess white supremacy groups, including KKK, without first doing research - The Washington Post

"I know nothing about white supremacists," Trump said Sunday.

"I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists," Trump said. "So, I don't know. I don't know. Did he endorse me? Or what's going on? Because, you know, I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about white supremacists. And so you're asking me a question that I'm supposed to be talking about people that I know nothing about."

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The Republican Party’s implosion over Donald Trump’s candidacy has arrived - The Washington Post

As campaign-trail rhetoric gets hotter, party leaders wonder whether Republicans are irretrievably divided.

I will never vote for this man.

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20 times Donald Trump has changed his mind since June

Trump's policy positions often seem a little like the weather in New England: If you don't like them, just wait a few minutes.

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6 of Donald Trump’s biggest campaign-trail flip-flops - The Washington Post

He's flipped several positions in a matter of weeks.

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Donald Trump claims Ted Cruz 'stole' Iowa caucuses and calls for new election | US news | The Guardian

The businessman, who came in second in Iowa, tweets that Cruz committed fraud by telling voters that Ben Carson was quitting the race

This is about one thing: Trump is upset that he isn't getting all of the attention anymore. Poor baby.

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Debate Without Trump Gets Better Ratings Than Last Debate with Trump | The Weekly Standard

Donald Trump's campaign manager predicted that Thursday night's GOP presidential debate on Fox News would only get about 2 million viewers because Trump refused to show up. In fact, Fox News likely had 11 million to 13 million viewers for the debate, CNN'

I think this was a very sad and pathetic move on Trump's part.

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Fox News issues incredible response to Donald Trump's Twitter poll about going to the debate

In a statement to Business Insider, a spokesperson for Fox News mused about whether global leaders would be fair to a potential President Trump.

I am not a fan of Fox, but I am much less of a fan of Trump and this is great.

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Donald Trump trashes Samuel L. Jackson's golf game after actor accuses him of cheating

Trump is a joke.

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Admit It: You Just Want Your Own Dictator

This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better “leaders” and more “leadership” is one of the most unsavory, dangerous, and un-American tendencies in political discourse.

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Administration nixed probe into Southern California jihadists

The San Bernardino jihadists may have benefited from the administration’s closure of an investigation I initiated.

"We had these two groups in our sights; if the investigation had continued and additional links been identified and dots connected, we might have given advance warning of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino.....But after more than six months of research and tracking; over 1,200 law enforcement actions and more than 300 terrorists identified; and a commendation for our efforts; DHS shut down the investigation at the request of the Department of State and DHS’ own Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Division."

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NBC Poll: Clinton Would Trounce Trump But Lose to Rubio, Carson - NBC News

Against Trump, the Democratic front-runner would win 50 percent to 40 percent.

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Feinstein breaks with Obama: 'ISIL is not contained'

In a blow to President Barack Obama's strategy with ISIL Sen. Dianne Feinstein broke with him, saying that ISIL is not contained.

I didn't see this one coming. Good for her for being honest and placing national security above politics.

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Disappointing debate ratings spark Democratic campaign complaints

The DNC comes under fire for Saturday's low viewership.

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Obama’s Comments on Clinton Emails Collide With F.B.I. Inquiry - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — Federal agents were still cataloging the classified information from Hillary Rodham Clinton’s personal email server last week when President Obama went on television and played down the matter.

WHY is the president making public comments about an ongoing investigation at all, let alone comments that conflict with those that conflict with his own Justice Department?