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FPI Analysis: What U.S. Officials Said on Iran, What We Know Now | Foreign Policy Initiative

The United States remains the world's indispensable nation -- indispensable to international peace, security, and stability, and indispensable to safe-guarding and advancing the ideals and principles we hold dear.

The Iran deal is NOTHING like what Obama has promised repeatedly. Will ANY Democrats care? Will ANY Democrats vote against the deal? Do ANY Democrats care if Iran has nukes pointed at Washington and Jerusalem?

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Kerry’s absolute idiocy | Power Line

The Obama administration's rush to sell us out to Iran presents a spectacle of deception, prevarication, and idiocy the likes of which we have never seen. It is as though Henry Wallace had been giv...

The collapse of the fig leaf on the Iranian nuclear deal sellout by Kerry and Obama.

No deal is better than the deal they are negotiating. Increased sanctions coupled with military action against their proxies in the region and Iranian forces throughout the region is in order. Take their money and show them as failures in jihad to their friends. Then coordinate with Israel on a strike at their nuclear facilities - either military or sabotage, whatever works best.

Would you sleep better at night with a nuclear Iran? I know I wouldn't.

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Feds Can’t Verify $2.8 Billion in Obamacare Subsidies | Washington Free Beacon

The federal government cannot verify nearly $3 billion in subsidies distributed through Obamacare, putting significant taxpayer funding “at risk.”

Does the Obama Administration even care that they throw out money with no accountability?

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ICE: 121 migrants awaiting deportation charged in deaths

Between 2010 and 2014, 121 undocumented immigrants who committed crimes but were released awaiting deportation were later charged with homicide.

Does Obama believe that American lives matter?

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57% Think Enforcing Current Gun Laws More Important Than Creating New Laws - Rasmussen Reports™

Rasmussen Reports - The best place to look for polls that are spot on

What a novel idea!

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64% Think It Would Be Bad If Only Government Had Guns - Rasmussen Reports™

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Common sense

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Americans Prefer Living in Neighborhoods With Guns - Rasmussen Reports™

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Seems reasonable to me.

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How Obama Abandoned Israel - WSJ

In The Wall Street Journal, Michael Oren writes about the rocky relationship between Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Sad, but true.

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Iran’s Nuclear Stockpile Grows, Complicating Negotiations - NYTimes.com

Iran’s nuclear material has increased during talks with the United States, despite the Obama administration’s assertion that the program had been “frozen.”

Obama brags that we have stopped progress on Iran's development of nuclear material. The problem is that the facts show otherwise. Does Obama even care?

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The governor who didn't bark | UTSanDiego.com

On July 1, 2013, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the Local Control Funding Formula, depicting it as a “truly revolutionary” change in California public schools. Instead of the previous basic formula of paying districts based on average daily attendan

Just another day and another scandal involving teachers' unions under progressive hegemony. Why spend money earmarked for student education on students when you can give teachers a pay increase? Corrupt all the way down.

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The New Nationwide Crime Wave - WSJ

Writing in The Wall Street Journal about the new nationwide crime wave, Heather Mac Donald says that the consequences of the ‘Ferguson effect’ are already appearing. The main victims of growing violence will be the inner-city poor.

By embracing the conceit that the police are racists (even when black and minority), Obama, Holder and many politicians have unleashed inner city criminals on inner city residents (often black) harming them far more than the police ever did. Nice work, race hustlers.

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The Curiously Redacted Sentence From Hillary Email… | Weasel Zippers

In early 2011, emails show that Hillary Clinton said use of private contractors should be considered in Libya, which is just what happened in running guns from Libya to Syria. At the time, this was illegal and against stated U.S. policy. It just shows how Hillary's fingerprints were all over Syrian gun running and the U.S. Benghazi presence.

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Emails Cast Doubt on Hillary Clinton's Benghazi Claims

Hillary Clinton was personally made aware of security dangers in the months leading up to the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi.

Here we go again with the Clintons. Is Hillary a liar? I guess that depends on what the meaning of the word is is.

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Patrick Moynihan: Bill Clinton is the problem - Opinion - providencejournal.com - Providence, RI

 Colleagues who have listened to me criticize Bill Clinton for his work in Haiti since it began five years ago have urged me to share my views with the wider public. For a long time, I have hesitated. Anyone who delves into how the former president faile

More on how Clinton actually made things WORSE in Haiti while benefiting a crony capitalist friend. With charities like the Clinton Global Initiative who needs predators?

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Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are - The Atlantic

Surveys show a shockingly high fraction think a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when the reality is that it's probably less than 2 percent.

Count me as flabbergasted that people could be so far off from reality in their beliefs. Do people really believe that 1 of 4 or 1 of 5 of their friends and acquaintances are gay?

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Murders in Bangladesh, Government Looks the Other Way

Forty-seven percent of Bangladeshi Muslims said that suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets could be justified to defend Islam from an enemy (compared to Malaysia at 18%, Indonesia at 9% and Pakistan at 3%). It seems clear,

News from the religion of peace - half of Bangladeshi Muslims condone violence including suicide bombings! Just like any other religion? You decide.

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More Proof Of Paid Protesters: Ad Asking For Protesters To Travel To Protest, List Of Payouts To #Ferguson Protest Organ

President Obama holds fund raisers in the home of George Soros. Soros pays street protesters in Ferguson and Baltimore. Obama announces plans to give more than $100 million to "community organizaers", likely the same people as the protesters. Why does Obama want street protests, most of which become violent? He's a hater and divider, not a uniter.

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Civil War on the Left, Part 19 | Power Line

I recall back in the 1980s that you could always count on Duke political scientist and “Sovietologist” Jerry Hough to take the wrong line on everything. Reagan was a dunce, the Soviets are normal f...

So a lefty is in trouble with other lefties for telling the truth as he sees it? This tells you as much about Progressives and their totalitarian impulse as it does about anything else. However, this guy is right to ask tough questions about blacks on this country.

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DHS IG report undercuts argument for Obama’s executive amnesty | Power Line

In defense of President Obama's executive amnesty, the Department of Justice has argued in court that the policy is a proper exercise of prosecutorial discretion. It claims that by deferring action...

Add another Obama lie: DHS is not even trying to use prosecutorial discretion on immigration - they are not collecting any data to enable them to do so. They never intended to do so. It is now exposed as a lie to cover their intent to open the borders to virtually ALL illegal immigrants.

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The First — and a Half — Amendment | National Review Online

History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme. Hanson captures how today's Progressives roll - just like the Nazi's and the radical Islamists - threatening freedom and escorting tryanny into America.

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Corruption from the IRS to the DoJ | Power Line

The pro-Israel group Z Street had its application for tax-exempt status held up at the IRS. When founder Lori Lowenthal Marcus asked why, she was told that IRS auditors had been instructed to give ...

Obama's IRS and DOJ actively discriminated against a Jewish organization because of its policy views. The view that Obama is anti-Israel is based on such actions by his Administration. The Federal judge strongly admonished the Obama Administration and found against them for their unconstitutional actions. I guess discrimination against Jews is fair game for Obama.

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No, there’s no “hate speech” exception to the First Amendment - The Washington Post

Asking “is this free speech or is it hate speech?” is like asking “is this free speech or is it rude speech?” or “is this free speech or is it evil speech?”

Clearing up the confusion among some that there are limits on free speech for speech some don't like.

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How the Clintons Get Away With It - WSJ

The Clintons are protected from charges of corruption by their reputation for corruption, Peggy Noonan writes.

"I did not have sex with that woman." "I did not do anything knowlingly inappropriate."

Some things never change.

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The Koran Does Not Forbid Images of the Prophet

The Charlie Hebdo killers were operating under a misapprehension.

There seems to be a general agreement among scholars that images of Mohammed were acceptable within Islam historically and are not forbidden by the Koran. Modern day prohibitions of his image are cultural and promoted by radical Islamists such as the Taliban. As such, they are no different than Christian aversion to Piss Christ and other anti-religious expressions. The big difference is Christians don't kill in retribution - that is a particularly Islamic reaction.

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Obamacare program may be linked to ER opioid prescriptions | WashingtonExaminer.com

Experts say too many patients are being prescribed opioid painkillers by emergency room doctors, and a program created by Obamacare could be enabling the problem. A new study released this week found 17 percent of nearly 20,000 patients were discharged fr

Unintended consequences? How do you feel about tax dollars paying for Oxycontin in ER patients under Obamacare? That's what healthcare reform is about? I don't blame Obamacare so much as big universal medicine, another reason to repeal and replace.

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How images of the prophet Muhammad became ‘forbidden’ - The Washington Post

It's complicated.

So we are supposed to be sensitive to Islamic feelings on images of Mohammed because the Taliban invented the ban in 2001?

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After Dropping Depth Charges on Suspected Russian Sub, Finland Sends Readiness Letter to 900,000 Reservists | Washington

At about 3 A.M. local time last Tuesday, ships of the Finnish Navy dropped depth charges into the waters near Helsinki in the vicinity of what has been reported to be a possible Russian submarine. The Finns initially refused to confirm that this possible

Is one of the Baltic states the next Ukraine? Would Obama move to protect them from Russia? I wouldn't bet the ranch on it, and neither is Finland.

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The Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities’ Social Breakdown | National Review Online

Once again, Thomas Sowell proves that he is the most clear-headed thinker on race issues in America and the world. Read him and take in his information. He has facts on his side.

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U.S. Emergency-Room Visits Keep Climbing - WSJ

Emergency-room visits continued to climb in the second year of the Affordable Care Act, contradicting the law’s supporters who had predicted a decline in traffic as more people gained access to doctors and other health-care providers.

Was anything we were promised about Obamacare true? Here's another lie exposed.

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Uranium Company's Lobbyist Has Clinton Ties | The Daily Caller

The Podesta Group has lobbied for Uranium One, the company at the center of a scandal involving the Clintons.

So Hillary's campaign chair lobbied the State Department on the uranium deal WHILE HILLARY WAS SECRETARY OF STATE!

Corrupt all the way down.

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The Blue-City Model - WSJ

Baltimore shows how progressivism has failed urban America, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

The facts are obvious - progressivism is a blight on America.

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1,100 donors to a Canadian charity tied to Clinton Foundation remain secret - The Washington Post

Non-disclosure raises questions about group’s adherence to 2008 ethics deal with Obama officials.

The Clintons - corrupt all the way down

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181 Clinton Foundation donors who lobbied Hillary's State Department - Vox

Get the list of Clinton Foundation donors who reported lobbying the State Department when Hillary Clinton was in charge. Right here.

Vox is a liberal publication & even they think Clinton sold access and favors.

Circumstantial evidence: If you find a trout in the milk, it indicates something.

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Firms Paid Bill Clinton Millions As They Lobbied Hillary Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton accepted $2.5 million from 13 major companies that lobbied the U.S. State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state.

Oh my! inside traders are investigated for less. Governor McDonnell of Virginia is in jail for less money crossing hands and there was no smoking gun in his case.

If the Clintons were Republicans they would be under federal investigation already.

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Top Clinton Foundation Official: "This Is Not Charity"

When asked by a reporter to describe the Clinton Foundation's charitable efforts, a top Clinton Foundation official declared, "This is not charity."

Wow! This comes from inside the Clinton Foundation!

Is it time to shut it down?

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Freedom of Conscience Wins a Round | National Review Online

Interesting legal twist on a current hot issue. The court makes some solid points. Will be interesting to see where this goes on appeal.

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No, the War on Drugs Is Not ‘Forcing Black Men Out of Society’ | National Review Online

Not having an intact family with a father in the house is the single most important cause of black men failing to succeed in life. Period.

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The Clinton Foundation Only Spent 10 Percent On Charity In 2013

In 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, only 10 percent of the Clinton Foundation's expenditures were for direct charitable grants.

Clinton Global Initiative is a slush fund for the Clintons based on how it spends its money.

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Charity watchdog: Clinton Foundation a ‘slush fund’ | New York Post

The Clinton Foundation’s finances are so messy that the nation’s most influential charity watchdog put it on its “watch list” of problematic nonprofits last month. The Clinton family’s mega-charity took...

Why do I feel like I need to take a shower after reading about Bill & Hillary Clinton?

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Iran plays chess, U.S. plays checkers - CNN.com

While the U.S. entangles itself in the nuclear negotiations, Iran is gaining a freer hand to assert its regional influence

Obama has shown his cards to Iran and Iran is punking him daily. I'm embarrassed for the U.S. and fearful of the results of such a feckless foreign policy.

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This is the case against Obama's Iran deal that everyone should hear - Vox

Michael Doran, who sat on Bush's National Security Council, explains how the deal could make things a lot worse.

Obama believes that the interests of Iran and the U.S. overlap greatly, even as they shout "death to the Great Satan" and we have warships sailing to intercept an Iranian fleet carrying supplies to the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Sheer madness.

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The Khamenei Fatwa Hoax Is Absurd on its Face

This has been written about for some time and this article provides a good overview of the missing fatwa.

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Obama removes Cuba from terror sponsor list, Cuban supported terror group kills 10 | Power Line

On Tuesday, President Obama announced that the U.S. is removing Cuba from its state sponsors of terror list. Hours later, FARC, a terrorist group long supported by Cuba, murdered 10 Colombian soldi...

Predictable.

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Decoding the Obama Doctrine :: Daniel Pipes

James Jeffrey, Barack Obama's former ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Iraq, has this to say about the administration's current record in the Middle East: "We're in a goddamn free fall." Count the mistakes: Helping overthrow Muamma

Best summary of Obama's foreign policy philosophy and strategy. Frightening.

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The New Intolerance - WSJ

Indiana isn’t targeting gays. Liberals are targeting religion, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

Sad to see how the left has become so intolerant over the past 20 years.

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Obama’s next earthquake - The Washington Post

He’s set the stage for a Middle East legacy.

Is Obama going to abandon support for Israel?

If you are a Jew, what is your most important religion - Progressivism or Judaism? Who will you support?

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Don’t believe Obama’s faux outrage at Netanyahu - The Washington Post

If you think the Obama Administration's recent hostility to Israel results from Bibi's unwise pre-election comments, you haven't been paying attention--which is exactly what the administration hopes.

Wow - Obama's anti-Israeli animus is beyond what we thought we knew. At what point do his actions become anti-Semitic?

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DHS Inspector General finds that DHS Assistant Secretary gave special treatment in approving government awards to Hillary Clinton's brother (Tony Rodham), Harry Reid, and Terry McAuliffe (former Clinton campaign manager). Crony capitalism at its worst. These rats think that government is theirs to plunder at their will.

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The Obama Administration’s Attack on the Constitution: Part 2, Environmental Protection Agency | Power Line

The EPA's new rules on CO2 are unconstitutional and will be in the courts for a LONG time. Why does Obama insist on violating the Constitution in such obvious ways?

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The Obama Administration’s Attack on the Constitution: Part 1, Immigration | Power Line

What Obama is doing in his executive actions is clearly UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The Founding Fathers believed that a check and balance of powers would protect citizens from tyranny. But checks and balances don't work if the legislative branch does not stand up for its Constitutional prerogatives. If Congress does not, we are on a slippery slope to tyranny.

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Cotton Letter Smokes Out Dangerous Concession to Iran

Using Security Council to achieve

Bottom line: Obama/Kerry plan to remove the UN sanctions on Iran, reach a non-binding deal with Iran that gives it a paved road to a nuclear bomb without legal enforcement of Iran's obligations under any deal, and then present Congress with the prospect of keeping sanctions when no other country in the world is keeping them or approve the deal.

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Rural hospitals, beset by financial problems, struggle to survive

Experts and practitioners cite declining federal reimbursements for hospitals under the Affordable Care Act.

People in some locations have been REALLY hurt in access to healthcare by Obamacare. This explains the Republican effort to "fix" the Medicare reimbursement problem created by Obamacare.

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C.I.A. Cash Ended Up in Coffers of Al Qaeda - NYTimes.com

The United States, largely because of poor oversight and loose financial controls, has sometimes inadvertently financed the very militants it is fighting.

This is NOT how you win against Al Qaeda. Is the Obama Administration just incompetent or simply indifferent about winning the war on terror?

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Obama adviser behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal | New York Post

It’s the vast left-wing conspiracy. Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail address during her time as secretary of...

Schism at the top of the Democratic Party. Obama is working to defeat Clinton.

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Legal Experts: Future U.S. President Could Revoke Bad Nuke Deal With Iran | Washington Free Beacon

Legal experts are refuting a claim by Iran’s foreign minister that revoking a potential deal on the country’s nuclear program would violate international law, amid confusion Wednesday regarding whether or not the deal the State Department is negotiati

The proposed deal with Iran is clearly non-binding in the eyes of legal experts and the State Department.

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Lawfare › The Iran Letter and the Logan Act

Please like our Facebook page and follow Lawfare on Twitter: Follow @lawfareblog // The second-day story about the letter by 47 Republican Senators to the government of Iran that Jack's discussed here and here has shifted to whether these Senators

The Senators' letter to Iran does not expose them to risk of prosecution under the Logan Act.

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On That Extraordinary Letter to Iran

Democrats and Republicans agree on the role of Congress on foreign policy. They disagree with President Obama.

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Bribes Disguised As Charitable Gifts: Hillary Clinton's Legal Trouble

Hillary Clinton's foundation says the money Algeria gave it was for a charitable cause, not favorable treatment. But plenty of bribes are given as charity.

Should U.S. companies be held to a higher standard than the Secretary of State? That's what Clinton and her supporters want us to believe. If we care about money buying influence in our government, why should be buy Clinton's line?

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Emails May Be a Key to Addressing 'Pay-to-Play' Whispers at Clinton Foundation - NationalJournal.com

There are not two separate Clinton controversies. There is one big, hairy deal.

Some inside sources believe that the Clinton email scandal is only beginning. Follow the money.

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Obama "Very Interested" In Raising Taxes Through Executive Action - Conn Carroll

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is "very interested" in the idea of raising.03/02/2015 19:37:46PM EST.

We are witnessing the end of the Republic and beginning a new era of presidential over-reach that defies the Constitutional order that provided America with the greatest success in the history of the world.

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Internet Access Is Not a Civil Right

Obamanet should work out just like Obamacare - empty promises, bait and switch, and harmful to people and America as a whole. But that is not the concern of the socialists pushing net neurtality.

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John Kerry | Iran | Joint Plan of Action | Nuclear

John Kerry criticizes critics of his negotiations with Iran for not knowing the details of the deal. His critics however have seen how he negotiates.

Everything that has been reported on the P5+1 nuclear negotiations with Iran indicate that Iran will be authorized to develop a bomb and not penalized for it. The fig leaf will be to prevent upgrading bomb materials to bomb level, but this is something that can be done within months or at most a year if Iran later decides to do it. At that point, the only option available to the world is military, which would not be likely. So, the deal pursued by Obama/Kerry is de facto endorsement of the Iran as a nuclear nation capable ot sending nuclear tipped missiles as far as the U.S.

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Obama: Islam 'Woven into the Fabric of Our Country Since Founding' - Breitbart

“Here in America,” Obama stated, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.”

Obama appears to be re-writing history. Fortunately facts are stubborn things.

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What ISIS Really Wants - The Atlantic

The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.

Valuable information about the religious foundation of ISIS and why it will not compromise.

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This African Country Was Once the World's Third Poorest. Here's How It Turned Things Around.

But buried in the heart of Southern Africa lies a success story that could be a model for the rest of the continent—Botswana.

Funny how a country embraces rule of law, democracy and free market capitalism and then THRIVES. Who would have thought so?

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Texas District Court Enjoins Immigration Nonenforcement Order | National Review Online

Texas District Court Enjoins Immigration Nonenforcement Order -

The ruling was NOT about the constitutionality of Obama's executive actions on immigration. It WAS about Obama not following procedural requirements for notice and comments when making a "substantive rule".

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The Madisonian Nightmare | Washington Free Beacon

Book excerpt: How Interest Group Liberalism Breeds Corruption

Good historical overview of how special interests dominate government actions to the detriment of the public good.

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Cuban Democracy Advocate Viciously Beaten By Castro’s Thugs | Power Line

Many people are happy that the Obama administration is trying to normalize relations with Cuba's Communist dictatorship. They are the same people, or descendants of the same people, who idolized "U...

Communist thugs are communist thugs. Pretending otherwise is delusional.

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Fewer US-Born Americans Have Jobs Now Than in 2007 | The Daily Caller

Almost half of new jobs added since 2010 have gone to migrants

Obama says he's for the middle class, which he might be. Just not the American citizen middle class. After all, he's a citizen of the world.

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The Legacy of Debt: Interest Costs Poised to Surpass Defense and Nondefense Discretionary Spending - Real Time Economics

The budgetary impact of the federal debt--$18 trillion in total, $13 trillion of that owed to the public--will reassert itself in coming years.

Barack Obama's real legacy as president is the debt he created and left for the rest of America to deal with. This will last far longer than anything else he has done as president.

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The Big Lie: 5.6% Unemployment

Here's something that many Americans -- including some of the smartest and most educated among us -- don't know: The official unemployment rate, as reported by the U.S. Department of Labor, is extremely misleading.

Government statistics are manipulated to benefit politicians, in this case, Barack Obama. People don't "feel" like there has been a recovery because there hasn't been a recovery for them!

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Speaking of Underinflated Balls. . . | Power Line

Did you catch the economic news yesterday? The U.S. economy hit “speed bumps,” according to the Wall Street Journal’s lede story, but it would appear that those berms may be quicksand traps. Fourth...

This administration's policies have cost Americans hundreds of $billions in economic activity, wealth, and jobs. The current "recovery" is the worst on record since the 1980's.

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The greatest increase in 1% share of GDP came in the Clinton presidency.

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Elizabeth Warren backers fund poll stoking Hillary Clinton doubts

A group of major liberal donors who want Elizabeth Warren to run for president have paid for a poll intended to show that Hillary Clinton does not excite the Democratic base and would be vulnerable in a 2016 general election. The automated poll of nearly

Democrats are nervous about a Hillary Clinton candidacy. She was knocked out from the left last time and may very well get knocked out again if she doesn't excite the left-wing Democrat base.

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Loretta Lynch Must Not Be Confirmed | Power Line

Do you think we should have an Attorney General who vows to not uphold the law?

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State Department funded group working to defeat Netanyahu | Power Line

Obama is actively trying to unseat Netanyahu, yet continues to lie about it.

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Why Islam Is More Violent Than Christianity

No one really acts as if Islam and Christianity are an equal threat. So what exactly causes one religion to be more violent?

An atheist's view of the two religions

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Chicago Activists Unchained, Destroy Black Leadership

Chicago activists Paul McKinley, Mark Carter, Joseph Watkins and Harold

Black on black violence? Blacks ID Democrats as the perpetrators. Hmmmm. Perhaps the beginning of a consciousness raising.

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800,000 Muslims Rally Against Charlie Hebdo in Chechnya – A Country of 1.3 Million People

Nearly one million Muslims rallied in Grozny, Chechnya against the French magazine Charlie Hebdo. They're more upset with the magazine than they are with the killer Kouachi brothers. People attend a rally to protest against satirical cartoons of prop

Over 60% of all Chechnya protests in support of the killers of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. Where are all the purported "moderate" Muslims?

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Obamacare “Fail” Stories | Sharyl Attkisson

Obamacare's failings and negative impact on American citizens has been buried by the media.

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TV Makers Design for Streaming Video to Stay Relevant

Does anyone just watch TV anymore? The dramatic shift toward online and mobile viewing is driving television set makers to design as much for streaming video as for watching broadcast or cable channels. Traditional TV is far from dead, but these days view

Things are moving fast in home entertainment.

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The GOP Doesn't Have To 'Replace' Obamacare

You don’t have to replace Obamacare's bad ideas, you just have to get rid of them.

Obamacare spawns lots of alternatives, each of which is better than it is.

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Cuban dissidents arrested before free-speech demonstration in Havana

Antonio Rodiles, Eliezer Avila and Reinaldo Escobar reportedly detained and government action will be test of newly restored diplomatic relations with US

President Obama showed his support for the repressive Cuban regime and once again they are showing they will not change. Hope and change, Obama style.

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Paving the Way to Full Repeal - THE 2017 PROJECT

Under a winning alternative, costs would drop, liberty would be secured, and any American who wants to buy health insurance would be able to do so.

There are better alternatives to Obamacare if the goals are fairness, insuring those with pre-existing conditions, and slowing the growth of healthcare costs. Here is one.

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Big Data, Big Brother: It’s a Big Deal

Government knows it can find small problems by sweeping up “Big Data.” Sifting through it, they can find terrorists’ needles amid a haystack of tweets about who got voted off The Voice.

"The Constitution ... sets up security and freedom to fight it out with each other, constantly, like two indefatigable pit bulls. The struggle is intentional, so neither side wins out, but neither gets compromised. Freedom and security tear at each other until we get answers that reasonably address both. So, if people stop raising objections every time security might look like it’s winning out, the system will fail."

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Anderson Forecast: U.S. economy falls short of true recovery; California job growth steady / UCLA Newsroom

Anderson Forecast: U.S. economy falls short of true recovery; California job growth steady / UCLA Newsroom

"It's not a recovery. It's not even normal growth. It's bad."

""U.S. real GDP is now 15.4 percent below the normal 3 percent trend," Leamer writes. "To get back to that 3 percent trend, we would need 4 percent growth for 15 years, or 5 percent growth for eight years, or 6 percent growth for five years, not the disappointing twos and threes we have been racking up recently, which are moving us farther from trend, not closer to it."