January 13, 2016

Rauner aide blasts university 'cronyism' amid funding debate

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Gov. Bruce Rauner took a shot at "waste" and "cronyism" in public universities Wednesday, telling lawmakers through a surrogate that schools should be more accountable for their spending before the state finds money for tuition grants that Democrats are pushing.

A memo from Richard Goldberg, the ...

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Hugh Hewitt To Ann Coulter: You Can't Just Make Stuff Up About Ted Cruz's Eligibility To Be President [VIDEO]

Sparred over Nikki Haley's response to the State of the Union too

Via: The Daily Caller

These Are the Winning Powerball Numbers for the Record-Breaking $1.5 Billion Jackpot

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Peyton Manning Was Asked About Al Jazeera America Shutdown. This Was His 12-Word, Sarcastic Response

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Snoop Dogg Would Like Bill Gates To "Fix His S*&t"

180424-snoop-dogg-champagne-cheers-gi-bIxe When something happens like I don't know…Xbox Live going down, what do you do? A lot of us run to Twitter to complain about it. Not because our complaints will be heard, but because hot damn sometimes it just feels good. Today, one Xbox Live user was particularly miffed. His name happens to be Snoop Dogg. He had a message for Xbox, the Live team, EA sports, Microsoft's… Read More

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Ted Cruz Says He May Amend U.S. Financial Disclosures to Show Loans to 2012 Senate Campaign

The Texas senator did not properly report two campaign loans to the FEC during his 2012 campaign, according to a report in the New York Times.

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How Badly Has the U.S. Been Humiliated? Let's Count the Ways [Updated]

(John Hinderaker) Paul has offered thoughts on the release of the U.S. sailors, all of which I agree with. I want to add a few further observations. The day began with Joe Biden touting the president's State of the Union speech on CBS. Near the end of his interview, he was asked about the seizure of American sailors by the Iranians (the sailors by then had been released) and specifically, whether there

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Iran apology video counters Obama narrative on release of captured U.S. sailors

The Obama administration rushed Wednesday to portray the swift return of 10 U.S. sailors taken captive a day earlier by Iran as a vindication of the president's diplomatic outreach to Tehran, but a video showing the disarmed, kneeling American sailors being watched by Iranian guards and one of the sailors ...

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GOP Lawmakers Call On IRS To Fix Audit System And Protect First Amendment

'The American people deserve better'

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Would-Be Robbers Enter Store, Pull Out Guns — Seconds Later, the Duo Learns They Made a Big Mistake

"A lot of people think they can go out and rob people without anyone defending themselves."

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A Millennial Mom's Guide To CES

Crowds enter the show floor on the first day of CES International, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) Earlier this month I was at CES in Las Vegas doing quadruple duty as radio host of my radio show on SiriusXM; as judge and MC of The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards Show; as co-host of a lively karaoke party with AmpMe, and as tech collaborator with HSN. Read More

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Cruz Calls Failure to Disclose Goldman Loan 'Inadvertent Error'

"Those loans have been disclosed over and over and over again on multiple filings," Sen. Ted Cruz says in response to report in New York Times that he failed to properly disclose a loan from Goldman used toward his 2012 Senate campaign. "If it was the case that they were not filed exactly as the FEC requires, then we'll amend the filings," Cruz, Republican presidential candidate, tells reporters in Dorchester, S.C. "But all of the information has been public and transparent for many years, and t

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Hugh Hewitt Spars With Ann Coulter Over Ted Cruz's Eligibility: 'Ann, You Can't Just Make Stuff—'

"I know you like that, and it's good for marketing, but it's Ann against the world."

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Obama's New Cancer Initiative Could Use A Shot Of Silicon Valley Innovation

Screen Shot 2016-01-13 at 4.44.09 PM Silicon Valley should have a stake in the U.S. government's moonshot initiative to cure cancer. President Obama announced this initiative in his last State of the Union address Tuesday night, placing Joe Biden in charge of "Mission Control" for the effort. Biden started reaching out to hundreds of the world's top cancer experts since his son passed away from brain cancer… Read More

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With All Due Respect (01/13/16)

Mark Halprin and John Heilemann are joined by Selzer & Co. president J. Ann Selzer and Washington Post political reporter Jenna Johnson on "With All Due Respect" on Bloomberg Television.

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Carly Fiorina squanders momentum, slips off Republican debate's main stage

Carly Fiorina remains beloved in the eyes of many GOP voters but has squandered the momentum she earned in shining debate performances last summer, and limps into the new year hoping for a last-minute miracle in the presidential primary.

After having clawed her way onto the main stage for debates ...

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WV Unions Rally Against Right-To-Work

'We thought it was time West Virginians hear from working people'

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Listen to the Three Words Jordan's King Abdullah II Uses to Describe Radical Islamic Terrorists

"How I've explained it…"

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South Carolina GOP Chair Has Message for Ann Coulter After Her 'Despicable' Attack on Nikki Haley

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Jeb! Gets! Phone! Call! On! His! Apple! Watch!

jebbbb The walking embodiment of the "I'm a PC" guy just discovered that his Apple Watch can make phone calls and he couldn't be more excited :D Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush was doing an interview with The Des Moines Register when his Apple Watch started going crazy. USA Today caught a video of Jeb's reaction. "My watch can't be… Read More

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Cruz Didn't Disclose Goldman Loan Used in Senate Campaign: NYT

Personal finl disclosures Ted Cruz filed with Senate don't show liquidation of assets that would have accounted for all the money he spent on 2012 Republican primary campaign, NYT reports, citing review of disclosures. Disclosures show Cruz, wife obtained in 1H 2012 low-interest loan from Goldman and another from Citibank that eventually totaled to max. of $1m before being paid down later that yr Neither loan appears in reports Ted Cruz for Senate Committee filed with Federal Election Commission

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Major Schadenfreude Alert: Current Isn't

(Steven Hayward) What a great week. First The New Republic deservedly implodes. Now comes the news that Al Jazeera America, formerly Al Gore's Current TV, is folding up. Most of the time Power Line has more active readers than Al Jazeera America had viewers, and we're just a website. Yeah, Al Gore cashed out nicely with some serious fossil fuel money, but it's nice to reflect back, as Twitchy does, about Gore's

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Obama: 'Things Are Not Terrible'

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McAuliffe urges bipartisanship in speech to lawmakers

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is asking state lawmakers to avoid partisan squabbles but warned the GOP-controlled General Assembly he'd veto any bills on abortion rights or gun control he found objectionable.

The Democratic governor touted his accomplishments and outlined his goals in his State of the ...

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McCain To VA Secretary: Why Are Suspended Phoenix VA Execs Returning To Work?

'Senior VA officials repeatedly gave inaccurate testimony'

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Christian Duck-Hunting Twins Who Starred in Reality TV Series Reveal the 'Biggest Thing' About The Show

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Babylon, The U.K. Digital Doctor App, Scores $25M To Develop AI-Driven Health Advice

Ali Parsa - babylon Hot on the heels of PushDoctor's $8.2 million Series A, another U.K. startup playing in the digital health app space has picked up funding. Babylon Health, which like PushDoctor, lets you have video consultations with a doctor (and a lot more), has raised a $25 million Series A round led by Investment AB Kinnevik, the Swedish listed entrepreneurial investment. Read More

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Obama Hits Republican States in Post-Speech Highlights Tour

President Barack Obama touted Nebraska's unemployment rate of less than 3 percent as evidence that America's economy has rebounded under his leadership as he kicked off his post-State-of-the-Union address tour and the final year of his presidency.

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Military Law Journal Publishes Argument for Arming More Soldiers on Military Installations

The Military Law Review published an article outlining the case for arming more American military personnel while they're on military bases and installations.

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Cuomo Talks $15 Minimum Wage During State Address

'Millions of low-wage workers have to choose between paying taxes and buying food'

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From Public Housing to Public Office: Rep. Diane Black Details the Long Road That Brought Her to Capitol Hill and Why Health Care Is Near and Dear to Her Heart

"I am blessed."

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How You Can Watch the Debate Tomorrow Night Even if Fox Business Isn't Part of Your Subscription Package

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Uber And Lyft And The Debate Over Fingerprints In Austin

shutterstock_264764873 It is self-evident that ensuring public safety is a city's job. In a sane world a public official would never choose between reducing sexual assault and reducing drunk driving. Ridesharing policy is increasingly being framed as either/or brinksmanship, presenting a false choice. I reject that polarity, and I urge you to as well. Read More

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John Kerry Thanks Iran for Releasing Kidnapped U.S. Sailors

US-Sailors-Iran-KerryTen American sailors that were captured in the Persian Gulf by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard on Tuesday have been set free. The Obama Administration downplayed the dangerous international incident and didn't mention a word about the detained sailors during his State of the Union remarks last night. Secretary of State John Kerry released a statement ...More

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Obama: Ukraine a Russian 'Client State'

President Obama referred to Ukraine as a client state of Russia's in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, eliciting criticism from some U.S. lawmakers and analysts who noted Kiev's independence from Moscow and ongoing battle against Russian-backed separatists.

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'Amazing and embarrassing': Obama SOTU Gaffe On Ukraine Almost Goes Entirely Unnoticed

Russia is 'pouring resources' into what now?

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'Unexpected Urgent': Obama to Release Up to $70 Million for United Nations Program for Resettling Refugees

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Stocks Plummet, Bringing S&P 500 Into a 'Correction,' Down 10 Percent From November Peak

A bad start to 2016 for the stock market got even worse.

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Trump's Birther Attack on Ted Cruz Is Landing in Iowa

In the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, 15 percent of respondents say they are "bothered" that Cruz was born in Canada.

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AFFH-world comes to Iowa

(Paul Mirengoff) In discussing the radical implications of President Obama's "Affirmative Furthering Fair Housing" rule (AFFH), I typically point to what happened in Westchester County, New York as a sneak preview. But Stanley Kurtz directs our attention to an even more chilling example — Dubuque, Iowa. In Westchester County, Obama's Department of Housing and Urban Development forced the local government to build low-income housing in an upscale community and to encourage people

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PrintABowl 3D Prints Beautiful "Elevation" Devices For Your Pleasure

printa-portfolio-squad-reflections If you enjoy a bit of the old Weed O' Gandalf then you're going to get a kick out of these smoking systems by PrintABowl. This company makes specially -designed smoking paraphernalia that is 3D printed using a ceramic molding method. While the bongs themselves aren't 3D printed – that would be a bit difficult given the state of things – the molds used to make them… Read More

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