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BREAKING: Trump Declaring National Emergency On Southern Border To Get Wall Funding, McConnell Says

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign a spending bill to avoid another government shutdown and is declaring a national emergency to secure the funds needed to build the border wall.

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Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Kirsten Gillibrand | National Review

Defending Big Tobacco, keeping rifles under her bed, studying with Jeanine Pirro, and having Edie Falco play her grandmother.

She’s a chameleon emblematic of everything that’s wrong with the political elite in this country.

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Apology Unaccepted: Ilhan Omar Is Not Really Sorry For Her Anti-Semitic Remarks

Ilhan Omar’s second apology in as many months for making anti-Semitic remarks is not genuine, and accepting shallow contrition empowers bigotry.

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Bipartisan Condemnation Erupts Over Ilhan Omar's Anti-Semitism

On Sunday, after Rep.

She is absolutely despicable and she should be forced out of Congress.

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The Progressive Assault on Israel

A movement that can detect a racist dog-whistle from miles away is strangely deaf when it comes to some of the barking on its own side of the fence.

I completely disagree with the unnecessary attack on Netanyahu, a person totally dedicated to fighting the attitude that the authors correctly criticizes here, but the rest of the article is excellent.

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The Problem with ‘Social Justice’ | National Review

Historically oppressed or disadvantaged groups want payback.

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30 Democrats suggest Pelosi give Trump a vote on wall funding if he reopens government

Thirty Democrats sent a letter Wednesday to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, suggesting she guarantee President Donald Trump a vote on his border security funding request if he reopens the government. Led by freshmen Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia, the letter lays o

That’s a significant number-she should be taking this seriously. Not that she will.

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Tamika Mallory insults Martin Luther King's legacy of combating anti-Semitism - NY Daily News

In what alternate universe does a public university select a bigot to speak at its annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King?

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Women’s March, Sponsors Silent on Anti-Semitism Allegations | National Review

This is how toxic the far Left has become.

The worst bigots in the world.

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Notorious Antisemite Louis Farrakhan Leads ‘Death to America’ Chant on Solidarity Trip to Iran

Nation of Islam leader and prominent antisemite Louis Farrakhan chanted “Death to America” and claimed that “America has never been a...

This guy is digusting.

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I'm Jewish, and I Think the Biggest Increase in Anti-Semitism Is From the Left

The biggest increase in anti-Semitism in the last 10 or so years has come from the left. Just ask young Jews who wear yarmulkes or are vocally pro-Israel on most American college campuses.

I agree with every word of this.

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Jewish GOP group calls for resignation of 7 Democrats over 'ties' to Farrakhan

Keith Ellison and Maxine Waters among the lawmakers singled out by the RJC.

It has been repellant for decades that the Democratic Party allows its own to at best tolerate the man, and at worst venerate him. He called Jews “termites” just last week. How much longer are we going to tolerate the democrats who do this to sit in our government? Side point, Maxine Waters, the woman who calls for harassment of republicans, venerates Farrakhan. That alone gives to an idea of what we’re dealing with.

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America’s Cold Civil War

I fear America may be leaving the world of normal politics and entering the dangerous world of regime politics—a politics in which our political loyalties diverge more and more, as they did in the 1850s, between two contrary visions of the country.&hell

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Ocasio-Cortez: We Must Use Blueprint From Defeating Nazis to Defeat Global Warming

Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the way the Nazis were defeated provides a blueprint for how the U.S. should defeat global warming.

The woman is an absolute idiot. Apparently, she hasn’t heard of the Cold War OR knows that it was called “the Axis.” If you’re thinking of voting for her, please do me, the country, and even the Democratic Party a favor and don’t vote. You don’t know how.

Ocasio-Cortez: "We had a direct existential threat with another nation and at this time it was Nazi Germany and Axis, who explicitly made the United States as an enemy, and what we did was that we chose to mobilize our entire continent and industrialize our entire continent, and we put hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, to work in defending our shores and defending this country."

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Taylor Swift Buys the Democrats’ Marketing; Tennesseans Shouldn’t | National Review

Voters in Tennessee are likely to be more savvy.

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John Stossel: Leaving the left

WATCHING THIS VIDEO upset me. Students and even faculty members won't let Dave Rubin speak. They constantly interrupt, shouting “hate speech!” and “black lives matter!”

I can definitely relate. I was a democrat, my views haven't changed at all, not an iota of change, but the party has gone so far left that I am treated like a stranger now.

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SURVEY: Only 39% Of Americans Believe That If Kavanaugh Allegations Are True, It Would ‘Disqualify’ Him From SCOTUS

According to a HuffPo/YouGov survey of 1,000 adults conducted between September 17-18, a large percentage of Americans don’t believe that the allegations against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh

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Ben Sasse Conducts a Two-Minute Master Class in American Civics | National Review

Good for Senator Sasse to remind us all of the Supreme Court’s proper place.

This is excellent. No matter what you think of Sasse, these are principles that every American should know.

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Here Are Trump's Two Best Defenses To The Cohen Campaign Finance Allegations

President Trump is the world’s worst client. He speaks when he should shut up; he doesn’t listen to his lawyers; he takes action that exacerbates legal difficulties.

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Mark Duplass, ‘Mindy Project’ star, apologizes for tweet endorsing Ben Shapiro

Liberal actor Mark Duplass was shamed into deleting a tweet and issuing an apology after he praised Jewish conservative pundit Ben Shapiro as a “genuine person.”

This is so sad. You can’t even attempt to reach across the aisle anymore without being attacked, denigrated, and threatened with marginalization. You may not agree with Ben a Shapiro, I generally do, but he is a good person. So much for tolerance.

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Will Schumer drop Israel for Ocasio-Cortez?

What will Chuck Schumer do if he has to choose between the Democrats and Israel? The question begs for an answer with the rise of the party’s new “it” politician, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She’s th…

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NY pro-Palestinian congressional front-runner can't define 'Occupation'

The interviewer continued to press her for clarification, at which point Ocasio-Cortez somewhat deflected the request, stating that she is "not the expert on geopolitics on this issue."

This woman is such a fool, yet democrats are proud of her.

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Why Postmodern Intersectionality Imperils Israel and Jews

The vogue theory of intersectionality has managed to de-emphasize prejudice against Jews, demonstrating that it is just another vehicle for anti-Semitism.

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Time For A Reassessment Of NATO? A Military Expert Explains Why Trump Is Right To Question The Alliance

5 questions with Lt. Col. Daniel Davis of Defense Priorities

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An Open Letter from Yale Law Students Illustrates the Decline of the Radical Legal Mind

Progressives’ anti-Kavanaugh hysteria is already in full bloom.

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The Truth about Separating Kids | National Review

Some economic migrants are using children as chits, but the problem is fixable — if Congress acts.

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Ben Shapiro: We need fathers to teach manliness | Opinion

Deprived of purpose, too many men turn to empty substitutes for true manliness: a macho culture that prizes sexual conquest or physical strength.

An extremely important message for Fathers Day.

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The Strange Tale of How the FBI’s Anti-Trump Bias Helped Elect Trump | National Review

The decision to prioritize the Russia investigation ended up harming Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

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It’s Time for an Iran-Deal Reckoning | National Review

The Obama administration’s ‘norms’ and ‘values’ included deception and weakness.

The man was despicably dishonest. It’s pathetic that the same people who are obsessed with the current president’ Lack of honesty still insist on pretending that Obama wasn’t st last his equal in terms of his disregard of facts.

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Joy Reid, Ben Rhodes, and the ‘Post-Truth’ MSNBC

On the network’s employment of Joy-Ann Reid, Ben Rhodes, and other champions of truth.

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Trump's Illegal Immigrant Comments: A Willful Lie | National Review

Trump didn't "lash out at undocumented immigrants," or "refer to immigrants as 'animals.'"

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Neo-Nazis wave Palestinian flags in protest against Israel

Nearly 30 neo-Nazis can be seen in a photo tweeted by Bild journalist Claas Weinmann.

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What Would Happen If Trump Fired Mueller? Or Rosenstein? Or Sessions? | FiveThirtyEight

Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): There’s a lot going on, i…

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Why Russia, Assad, and Iran combined don't stand a chance against just 2,000 US troops in Syria

Can 2,000 US troops stand up to tens of thousands of Russian, Iranian, and Syrian fighters? "Everybody poses this question as though the US is Luxembourg."

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Trump’s North Korea Bluster Scores a Win, But at High Risk - Bloomberg

North Korea’s offer to suspend nuclear and missile tests in exchange for talks with the U.S. reflects an emerging truth about President Donald Trump’s unconventional foreign policy style: It may heighten the risk of conflict, but also the potential fo

I have to admit, this was an impressive piece of diplomacy.

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We’re All Fascists Now - The New York Times

Why are feminists and liberals getting thrown into the slop bucket with the likes of Richard Spencer?

" These future lawyers believe that free speech is acceptable only when it doesn’t offend them. Which is to say, they don’t believe in it at all."

That is absolutely true. While actual fascism is once again, dangerously, rearing its head, these people live in a moral fantasy land in which other Americans, with whom they disagree ideologically, are the enemy. It is pathetic.

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DC officially renames street in front of Russian embassy after slain Putin critic

The Washington, D.C. city council on Tuesday officially renamed a street in front of the Russian embassy in honor of a slain critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

You have to love the audacity of this.

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Switzerland has a stunningly high rate of gun ownership — here's why it doesn't have mass shootings

Here's what the US can learn from Switzerland, which has nearly eliminated mass shootings while maintaining a high rate of gun ownership.

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A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider | National Review

Gun-violence restraining orders can make us all safer while empowering the individual and protecting liberty.

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David Brooks: The Decline of Anti-Trumpism

The quality of the opposition is deteriorating.

I didn’t vote for Donald Trump. I don’t regret that decision. But the opposition is almost comically detached.

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An Open Letter to The New School and Parsons on Linda Sarsour | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com

Dear President Van Zandt, My dream was always to attend a school like the Parsons School of Design, currently housed...

"And yet … there are times to take a stand. And the offensive decision regarding Sarsour make this one of those times."

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NYT’s Bret Stephens says he can never vote Republican again

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens declared he can never vote Republican again because of the party’s backing of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Bret Stephens is a solid republican, this is shocking.

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Mueller Strategy: Obstruction of Justice Investigation Leading to Impeachment | National Review

The pleas and the indictment in Mueller's investigation have nothing to do with collusion because he has no collusion case. He's trying to build a case for impeachment ...

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Senate Blocks GOP Health Bill, Scuttling Bid to Repeal Obamacare

Republican Senator John McCain joined with two of his GOP colleagues to block a stripped-down Obamacare repeal bill early Friday, scuttling the party’s months-long effort to pass health legislation.

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McCain returning to Senate in time for health vote | TheHill

“Senator McCain looks forward to returning to the United States Senate tomorrow to continue working on important legislation, including health care reform, the National Defense Authorization Act, and new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea,"

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GOP reeling after healthcare collapse  | TheHill

Republicans offered competing ideas for what to do next on healthcare Monday night, now that the current ObamaCare replacement effort has fallen apart

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Bungled collusion is still collusion - The Washington Post

The Russia scandal has entered a new phase, and there’s no going back.

"The evidence is now shown. This is not hearsay, not fake news, not unsourced leaks. This is an email chain released by Donald Trump Jr. himself."

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FBI nominee vows to resign if Trump crosses legal line | TheHill

President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI on Wednesday repeatedly sought to reassure lawmakers that he would lead the bureau with a strict commitment to maintaining independence from the White House.

I think Wray is the EXACT right choice for he FBI.

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Republicans to Trump: Hands off Mueller

As Trump allies call for special counsel's firing, GOP lawmakers say former FBI director gives them comfort

Firing Mueller would be a massive mistake.

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F.B.I. Director James Comey Is Fired by Trump

WASHINGTON — President Trump has fired the director of the F.B.I., James B. Comey, over his handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, the White House said on Tuesday.

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Trump has a dangerous disability - The Washington Post

People must let their representatives know just how dangerous this man is.

His disability is in no way impeachable, just hard to watch in an American president,. Will is correct here, Trump is a horrendous communicator.

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Mike Pence Forced A Plane Of Journalists To Watch 'Hoosiers' | The Huffington Post

We get it, Mike Pence: You're from Indiana.

I am pretty liberal and have been a democrat for years. But he made them watch a truly outstanding movie, I can't criticize that.

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George Will: O'Reilly is 'replaceable' | TheHill

Former Fox News contributor and Bill O'Reilly opponent George Will told CNBC Wednesday that O'Reilly is "replaceable,"

"Mr. O'Reilly on the air is reckless, coarse and bullying," Will said in discussing "The O'Reilly Factor" host's demise. "It turns out off the air he's reckless, coarse and bullying."

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Guess Who Came to Dinner With Flynn and Putin - NBC News

NBC News reviewed video and photos from a 2015 Moscow gala that Mike Flynn was paid $45,000 to attend to see who else was in the room.

The hypocrisy is seriously unreal.

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Mary Katharine Ham Is Not Here to Entertain You | Washingtonian

On February 6, 2016, Mary Katharine Ham settled into her moderator’s chair alongside David Muir and Martha Raddatz at the ABC Republican debate in Manchest

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Sony's New Projector Turns Any Surface Into a Touch Screen

Your kids can now draw on the walls and not leave a mark.

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Want to resist the post-truth age? Learn to analyze photos like an expert would

Pay attention to perspective.

Interesting article about the power of fake news. It also gives some decent advice on how to determine what's fake in terms of photojournalism. The problem is that the people who accept fake news as real, do so because they want to believe that it is real. Therefore, the people who need to read articles like this one probably won't.

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Putin Ordered 'Influence Campaign' To Help Trump, U.S. Intelligence Report Says : The Two-Way : NPR

The public version of the intelligence report on the investigation into Russia's interference in the U.S. elections concludes that Russia "aspired to help" Trump's election chances when possible.

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Will Republicans cave to Trump on Kremlingate?: Max Boot

Election hacks and Russia-friendly nominees pose historic choice of party or principle.

"Imagine that we live in an alternative universe in which Hillary Clinton won the presidential election after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei hacked her opponent. Imagine, further, that it emerged after the vote that not only had the Iranians hacked the Republican high command and released a batch of embarrassing emails, but they also had hacked Clinton and kept the results confidential."

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America's Educational Divide Put Trump in the White House

Even controlling for race and income, the concentration of college degrees was the strongest indicator of whether a county would back the Republican.

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Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump’s Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’ - The New York Times

The alt-right, an extremist fringe popular with white supremacists, has celebrated the election of Donald J. Trump, and now hopes to have the ear of his White House.

These are the most vile people on the planet and they love the president-elect.

"Mr. Spencer suggested that the news media had been critical of Mr. Trump throughout the campaign in order to protect Jewish interests. He mused about the political commentators who gave Mr. Trump little chance of winning."

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The world’s most reckless president

Donald Trump was declared by the entire mainstream media to be unfit for office – the voters ignored all that

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Charles Krauthammer: Who I’m voting for, and why

The case against Hillary Clinton could have been written before the recent WikiLeaks and FBI disclosures...

He's a brilliant man and ought to be listened to.

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Five things to watch in tonight’s last debate - POLITICO

Clinton's on defense and Trump has nothing left to lose.

It should be interesting.

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Where the Candidates Stand on Your Taxes | MONEY

How much of your paycheck will you keep? Ahead of the election, see what Clinton and Trump are planning for your taxes.

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‘I Think He’s a Very Dangerous Man for the Next Three or Four Weeks’

At one of the most explosive moments of the campaign — and with a month to go — Politico Magazine reconvened the top Trumpologists to dissect The Donald’s final days as a presidential candidate and what comes next.

This was written by Trump's biographers. Not that that will make a difference to his supporters.

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13 times Trump was dead wrong at the debate, and 2 times Clinton was

Plus a host other instances in which the candidates bent the truth.

This whole thing is a joke.

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Bono: ‘Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America’

“I think he’s hijacked the party. I think he’s trying to hijack the idea of America," Bono says.

Bono has proven himself to be an articulate advocate for American values in the past. He is correct here as well.

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Facebook Categorizes You Politically-See How

You may think you are discreet about your political views. But Facebook, the world’s largest social media network, has come up with its own determination of your political leanings, based on your activity on the site.

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Paul Manafort resigns from Trump campaign

The departure of Trump's campaign chairman comes two days after the nominee shook up his leadership team.

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The Appalling Last Act of Rudy Giuliani - The New Yorker

Trump’s campaign has compromised so many prominent conservatives that it’s almost possible to overlook the way it has initiated the grim denouement of Giuliani’s career.

I disagree strongly that Bush was "rarely seen" or that Pail Ryan's reputation is tarnished. But, Giuliani'snrecent behavior will damage his reputation permanently.

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Son of slain Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin warns Donald Trump about 'incitement' - CNNPolitics.com

Yuval Rabin, whose father, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated while serving as Prime Minister of Israel, criticized Donald Trump for appealing to "Second Amendment people" in a speech and warned that the words that politicians use can incite violence and und

"Intentional or not, the Republican presidential nominee is removing confidence in the democratic form of governance. If an election is seen as illegitimate, if those who supported a candidate are viewed as somehow lesser 'Americans,' then it becomes acceptable — and even appropriate — to work outside the political system," he warned.

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50 G.O.P. Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation’s Security ‘at Risk’ - NYTimes.com

Fifty of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter declaring that Donald J. Trump “lacks the character, values and experience” to be president and “would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”

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A Letter From G.O.P. National Security Officials Opposing Donald Trump

Dozens of the nation’s most senior Republican national security officials, many of them former top aides or cabinet members for President George W. Bush, have signed a letter saying they will not vote for Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee.

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Obama said Israel supports the Iran deal — here’s their response

What could President Obama have been thinking when he claimed that Israel’s “military and security community” now supports his disastrous nuclear deal with Iran? “The country that was most opposed …

So that was just an egregiously untrue lie.

"Israel’s Defense Ministry, in an official statement, compared the deal to the infamous 1938 Munich accord, whose “basic assumption, that Nazi Germany could be a partner to any kind of agreement, was wrong."

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5 Things You Need to Know About Donald Trump’s Tax Returns | TIME

Donald Trump has said he will not release his tax returns before the presidential election, a standard practice by presidential candidates.

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Clinton: I 'short-circuited' on 'truthful' email answer - POLITICO

Asked about the inconsistency of three emails marked classified, Clinton noted that Comey had testified that they were not appropriately marked.

Trump and Clinton both seem to "short circuit" a lot.

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George Will: Trump Doesn't Want to Release Tax Returns "Because He Is Deeply Involved In Dealing With Russia"

FOX News' Bret Baier said the Democratic party would "not go down" the road of making a connection between Russia and Donald Trump, but on Monday's Special Report conservative columnist George Will said the Republican nominee for president may n

The amazing thing about this is that it might be true.

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Trump’s RNC address: Fact or fiction?

The GOP nominee rolled out a series of frightening statistics about the state of the nation. They ranged from accurate to incomplete to outright false.

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Trump to Pick Mike Pence, Says Source

Donald Trump is planning to announce that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is his choice for his vice presidential running mate.

Of his four choices, this is the most reasonable. But, demographically, not having a woman, African-American or Hispanic on the ticket is a very poor strategy.

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USA TODAY Network: Dive into Donald Trump's thousands of lawsuits

A deep dive by USA TODAY shows how Trump amassed thousands of lawsuits over three decades, unprecedented for a presidential nominee.

The excuse that "all businessmen get sued" is getting thin. If you do the reasercj, you will find that Trump is, far and away, involved in more lawsuits than any other person in his class of wealth. As conservatives, I thought that one of the things we opposed was gratuitous litigiousness? He is a poster boy for it.

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Trump deletes tweet with image of the star of David, Hillary Clinton and money

Graphic also included controversial phrase ‘America first’, which has antisemitic connotations that date to the second world war

This abhorrent bigot can't be allowed best the White House.

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How Political Ads Sway Our Emotions Using Classic Filmmaking Techniques | Mental Floss

The "montage" is a century-old technique that's beloved by film directors, and presidential hopefuls.

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George Will leaves GOP: 'This is not my party'

“Make sure he loses,

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Donald Trump's 'sleaze' attack on reporter hits new level of media animosity

Donald Trump pointed at a reporter today and called him a

He really is an extremely immature guy. There is no excuse for this. It has gone beyond conservative/liberal and entered into the "Is he even sane?" territory.