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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!”
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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.
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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.”
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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,"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 …
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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Donald Trump's 'sleaze' attack on reporter hits new level of media animosity
Donald Trump pointed at a reporter today and called him a
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders Accepts Trump's Challenge to Debate Before California Primary | RedState
Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES . Donald Trump appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday night on ABC, and both made and sparked news. For one thing, he challenged Senator Bernie Sanders to a debate. Shortly afterward, Bernie accepted the challenge and Tweeted abou
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Former Facebook Workers: We Routinely Suppressed Conservative News
Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network’s influential “trending” news section, according to a former journalist who worked on the project. This individual says that workers preve
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No, Trump Isn’t Actually Better than Hillary
Donald Trump's fans like to argue that Hillary Clinton would be worse in the Oval Office. In this, as in many other things, they are wrong.
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BREAKING: Ted Cruz drops out of presidential race - POLITICO
“We gave it everything we’ve got, but the voters chose another path."
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Donald Trump's War on Truth
The Republican front-runner’s repetition of a blatantly ridiculous story about Ted Cruz’s father shows his symbiotic relationship with the press.
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5 numbers that explain the New York results
New York came through for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.
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The Many Scandals of Donald Trump: A Cheat Sheet - The Atlantic
A rough guide to controversies surrounding the Republican front-runner, from mafia ties to anti-trust violations to bankruptcy.
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9/11: What Would Trump Do? - POLITICO Magazine
How would President Trump react to a terrorist attack on U.S. soil? 17 foreign policy experts, historians, psychologists and biographers weigh in.
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Exclusive: Marco Rubio rejected 'unity ticket' with Ted Cruz - POLITICO
Utah Sen. Mike Lee sought to arrange a shotgun wedding of his two Senate colleagues, but Rubio wasn't interested.
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Trump’s Week of Errors, Exaggerations and Flat-out Falsehoods - POLITICO Magazine
POLITICO Magazine subjected the GOP frontrunner to our fact-checking process. This is the result.
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Marco Rubio's #NeverTrump press conference goes viral a little too late
Rubio goes viral with a human plea against Trump.
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45 percent of Americans pay no federal income tax
Many Americans don’t have to worry about giving Uncle Sam part of their hard-earned cash for their income taxes this year. An estimated 45.3 percent of American households — roughly 77.5 million — …
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Trump’s truly absurd claim he would save $300 billion a year on prescription drugs - The Washington Post
If you believe The Donald's math, he will virtually eliminate the cost of prescription drugs in the United States
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg released a moving tribute to her 'best buddy,' Antonin Scalia
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sunday released a statement paying tribute to a man she called her
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Who is John Kasich? - CNNPolitics.com
Ohio Governor John Kasich placed second Tuesday night in New Hampshire behind Donald Trump, who won the first-in-the-nation primary. Who is he?
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Insults, threats and more insults: What it’s like to be a reporter covering Trump
Reporters, particularly the female kind, get a daily lashing from the billionaire candidate.
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Donald Trump isn’t politically incorrect. He’s simply incorrect.
His insults of Megyn Kelly are rude and childish, not clever or refreshing.
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The Republican Race That Might Have Been
Without Donald Trump dominating the stage, the GOP candidates offered a glimpse of a very different primary election.
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Obama delivers the most boring speech of his presidency
Look, if Barack Obama didn’t consider Barack Obama’s presidency a success, who would? Of course his last State of the Union was filled with happy talk about the current condition of the United Stat...
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Obama is the Worst President Since World War II, Poll Finds
Falling behind his predecessor George W. Bush. ore Americans consider Barack Obama to be the worst President since World War II than they do any other president, according to a new poll.
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U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress - WSJ
The National Security Agency’s targeting of Israeli leaders also swept up the content of private conversations with U.S. lawmakers.
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Farook Was Obsessed With Israel -What Else Do We Need to Know? - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show
According to the father of the San Bernardino terrorist, Syed Rizwan Farook, his son was “obsessed with Israel.” In an interview in the Italian newspaper La Stampa, the senior Syed Farook said, “My son said that he shared [Islamic State leader] Al B
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Boos Overtake Laughs as Donald Trump Stumbles on Jerusalem Before G.O.P. Jews - First Draft. Political News, Now. - The
Mr. Trump used personal ties, and some stereotyping, to appeal to Jewish Republican donors, and claimed he could revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in six months, tops.
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American Universities Are Imploding | National Review Online
For over half a century, American universities, with few exceptions, have ceased teaching and begun indoctrinating. In the past few weeks, this downhill spiral has accelerated. The university is now a caricature of an educational institution.
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Obama Insists ISIS Is Contained
President Obama is doubling down on his Friday morning statement that “we have contained” ISIS in the wake of the group's deadly attacks in Paris.
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Prager: Why I Am in Israel — and Why You Should Be | Truth Revolt
I want to explain why I am in Israel. I am in here with 450 American (and a German and a Canadian) listeners to my radio show. About 400 are non-Jews. We are here on a “Stand with Israel” tour organized by the syndicator of my radio show, the Salem Ra
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Bill O’Reilly slanders Ronald Reagan - The Washington Post
The Fox News host’s book “Killing Reagan” is nonsensical history. Donald Trump is just one symptom of today’s cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evidence. Another is the fact that the book atop the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list is a tissue of unsubstantiated assertions.
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Do the Rich Pay Their Fair Share?
Do the rich pay their fair share of taxes? It's not a simple question. First of all, what do you mean by rich? And how much is fair? What are the rich, whoev...
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Iranian aggression since Obama nuclear deal looms as 2016 headache for Democrats - Washington Times
For any Democrat anxious to see the unpopular Iran nuclear agreement fade from public view between now and November 2016, it's been a rough couple of weeks.
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They Really Hate Ben Carson
The invective against Dr. Ben Carson coming from the left is extraordinary, even for the left. Now that Carson, one of the pre-eminent brain surgeons in America, has become a viable candidate for president, the left has labelled him everything awful it ca
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Team Obama winks at incitement against Israelis
Does Team Obama want more Palestinian attacks on Israelis? Secretary of State John Kerry sure gives that impression. Wednesday saw more bloodletting: An Arab stabbed a 70-year-old woman as she boar...
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Under speaker pressure, signs pointing to a reluctant Paul Ryan - The Washington Post
The Wisconsin congressman faces increasing pressure to lead his fractured party in the House.
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Email: Hillary Clinton Complained about Gay-Friendly Passports at State Dept. | National Review Online
In September 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton styles herself as a staunch defender of gay rights — particularly gay parental rights. “I’m proud of you!” she told a gay man last April, after he explained how he and his partner had adopted a little girl together.
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Kill the Department of Ed.? It’s been done
When Washington’s education bureaucracy comes under political attack, it’s common to pin responsibility for its existence on Jimmy Carter. He signed legislation to establish the Department of Education in 1979, and critics note that this imposed a new department on a country that had gotten along quite well without one for more than 200 years.
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Tech company: No indication that Clinton’s e-mail server was ‘wiped’ - The Washington Post
If data traces still exist, there is a chance that deleted personal e-mails could be recovered.
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Iran nuclear deal: Senate Dems block GOP measure to kill Iran deal - POLITICO
The 58-42 vote ensures the Iran deal’s survival.
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The Left Sees Only White Evil - Dennis Prager - Page 1
In the past week, two television reporters in Roanoke, Va. -- Alison Parker and Adam Ward -- were murdered by a black man who hated whites, and a white police officer in Houston -- Darren Goforth -- was murdered by a black man. Neither crime has been labe
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Democratic Blues - Jeff Greenfield - POLITICO Magazine
Barack Obama will leave his party in its worst shape since the Great Depression—even if Hillary wins. As historians begin to assess Barack Obama’s record as president, there’s at least one legacy he’ll leave that will indeed be historic—but not in the way he would have hoped.
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Inside the Beltway: The majority of Americans support a 'criminal investigation' of Hillary emails - Washington Times
The news coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton is very telling at the moment as the Democratic presidential forerunner faces inquiries about her private email system while she was secretary of state, amid some unstable favorability numbers.
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Responses to the President's Arguments for the Nuclear Deal - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show
At American University last week, President Barack Obama gave a vigorous defense of the Iran nuclear agreement. In the belief that every student who was present — indeed, all Americans — should hear the other side, here are responses to claims the pre
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Donald Trump Suggests Support of Some Federal Funding for Planned Parenthood - ABC News
The candidate veered from the rest of the GOP when it comes to the organization.
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FBI investigation of Hillary's emails is 'criminal probe'
The FBI investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's unsecured e-mail account is not just a fact-finding venture -- it’s a criminal probe, sources told The Post on Wednesda...
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Iran and the Bomb - Prager University
Many countries have nuclear weapons, and many more want them. Only one, though, has its neighbors and the world terrified. That country is Iran. Why is everyone so concerned? Because the Islamic theocracy has repeatedly threatened to destroy Israel, spons
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Clinton aide may have 'delivered favors' for friends, IG finds | Washington Examiner
An investigation may have found evidence a top State Department aide to Hillary Clinton took advantage of government employment rules with potential conflicts of interest and overpayments. In a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry Thursday, Sen. Chuck
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What Hillary Doesn't Know (Or Want To Understand) About The Bush Tax Cuts
The Bush tax cuts resulted in more tax revenue not less
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It's not us, it's the Chinese! Iran's supreme leader mocks Barack Obama with letter
'Some of the six states participating in negotiations are not trustworthy at all,' the Ayatollah wrote in a letter to Obama posted on Twitter 8 minutes after his press conference ended.
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Why All Is Not As It Was for Jews in America – Tablet Magazine
Probably the scariest sentence in the Bible, and maybe in all of Western literature, comes early in Exodus. “Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.” It suggests how era changes to era, way leads to way, evening darkens to nig
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Americans bomb Pew test of basic political knowledge - Nick Gass - POLITICO
Only one-in-three Americans knows how many women serve on the Supreme Court, but 91 percent can identify Martin Luther King Jr., 47 years after his assassination. That’s according to the latest Pew Research Center News IQ survey released Tuesday, which
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Joyful Iranians dance into night after nuclear breakthrough - Yahoo News
From Yahoo News: Hundreds of Iranians took to the streets in Tehran early Friday to celebrate a breakthrough in talks with the West that may end the country's 12-year-long nuclear crisis. The capital's longest street, Val-e-Asr Avenue, was lined with cars
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Netanyahu’s zero-sum game on Iran - The Washington Post
The Israeli prime minister gave a powerful speech and raised the bar on an Iran deal.
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Blog: Shades of Churchill's 'Iron Curtain Speech'
It was a remarkable speech. PM Netanyahu spoke clearly, forcefully, and eloquently about the nuclear deal. This is one of those "must-watch speeches" that comes along once a generation.
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Anti-Semitic horrors don’t exist in Obama’s world | New York Post
At Tuesday's press briefing, White House mouthpiece Josh Earnest said something disgusting — I don’t know how else to describe it — about the massacre at the Hyper Casher kosher supermarket in Pari...
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Who’s dividing US on backing Israel? | New York Post
How long can it last that the Republicans are the party that’s more supportive of Israel but the Democrats are the ones that get the Jewish vote? Could it be that President Obama is upending the ol...
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The American catastrophe waiting to happen if Obama gets his way - Israel Video Network
An important examination of what the Obama; administration's policies would really mean for Israel if they were realized.
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Why the Teenage Girls of Europe Are Joining ISIS – Tablet Magazine
Teenage girls are the West’s center of gravity: Virtually all of Western pop culture, the key to our soft power, is tailored to the tastes of teenage girls. Through the wonders of information technology, the mobile phone mass-produced the mores and habi
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Russia Responds To Canada's Sarcastic Geography Lesson
Russia has fired back at Canada's NATO delegation in response to a snarky Ukraine tweet that went viral earlier this week.
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Kerry to Mother of Fallen IDF Soldier: ‘How’s Your Day?’
Taking a break in Jerusalem today from his attempt to broker a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry visited with the parents of Max Steinberg, a 24-year-old Los Angeles n
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‘My bad’: State Dept. official apologizes for #UnitedForGaza tweet
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Richard Stengel gave a peculiar apology to outraged Twitter users on Sunday after he tweeted #UnitedForGaza to his 15,000 followers.
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Though Scorned by Colleagues, a Climate-Change Skeptic Is Unbowed
John Christy, a highly credentialed professor in Alabama, says warming predictions have been greatly overstated. His critics are many.
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BDS: The Attempt to Strangle Israel - Prager University
The latest strategy employed by those who wish to strangle Israel is called BDS. It may sound harmless, but do not be fooled. It stands for Boycott, Divestment�and Sanctions, and not only is it poisonous for Israel, but for the world as well. Israel is on
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Report: Obamacare contractors paid to do nothing
Private contractor has hired employees to process Obamacare applications, but there's little work to be done, employee tells CBS affiliate
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The Anti-Semitism of the Obama Administration
On Friday, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Trilateral Commission that Israel would turn into “an apartheid state” unless it made concessions to the Palestinians – the same Palestinians who just signed a peace deal between the Palestinian Auth
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Israeli Arabs: We don't want to be part of Palestinian state
News: Residents of Arab triangle communities see FM's land swap plan as unrealistic. If proposal approved most would move to other cities in country: 'The population won't agree to give up their citizenship'
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Pro-Israel groups slam US court decision on Jerusalem passports
American Jewish Committee expects controversial ruling to be petitioned to the US Supreme Court.
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George H. W. Bush Shaves His Head In Solidarity With 2-Year-Old Suffering From Leukemia
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Obama Calls Californian Kamala Harris 'Best Looking' Attorney General
California Attorney General Kamala Harris participates in TheWrap President Obama assessed the beauty of California’s attorney general Kamala Harris, calling her “the best looking attorney general,” during remarks at a fundraiser in Athe
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Senator: 'Increasingly Clear [Obama's] Comfortable Going Off the Cliff'
Read conservative news, blogs and opinion about Barack Obama, Cliff, Fiscal, Fiscal Cliff, Golf, GOP, John Barrasso, Republican and Senator from The Weekly Standard, the must read magazine available in online edition.
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The mysterious media Benghazi bugout - NYPOST.com
Where is the Benghazi media feeding frenzy?I don’t think there’s a conspiracy at work. Rather, I think journalists tend to act on their instincts. And, collectively, the mainstream...