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May 21, 2015
The Anti-Immigration Fixation: Is It Really Necessary For 2016 Contenders?
What is it about the issue of immigration that makes Republican candidates flip and flop? "I don't believe that's the way to go, and I don't believe that's where the American people are," Chris Christie said Monday night on Fox News' "The Kelly File," coming out against a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants that he […]
Watchdog report examines FBI's use of Patriot Act authority
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI has broadened the scope of records it seeks under a section of the Patriot Act that permits agents to gather wide-ranging materials during national security investigations, and also took too long to create procedures for the handling of certain nonpublic information it collects, according to ...
Krauthammer: Obama Admin 'Sounding Like Baghdad Bob,' 'They're Losing' To ISIS [VIDEO]
'Everybody understands that'
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Gov. Chris Christie Uses Media Roast as an Excuse to Eviscerate Reporters — Listen to His Profanity-Laced Rant
"The truth of the matter is, we don't give a s*** about this or any of you."
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Senate passes bill keeping domestic abusers from having guns
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Senate approved a measure on Thursday aimed at making it harder for people convicted of domestic violence or under a restraining order to keep their firearms.
Bill sponsor Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson said the bill was crafted to mirror a federal law that prohibits ...
'Dramatic' Arrest Unfolds Directly Behind Reporter on Live TV: 'They Are Clearly Arresting Someone'
"Dramatic scenes right behind you … The police clearly engaged in activity there."
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Edward Snowden Responds to Rand Paul's 'Filibuster' of Patriot Act Renewal
"What're your thoughts on Rand Paul's filibuster against the renewal of the Patriot Act?"
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Obama Links Emergence of Boko Haram, ISIS to Climate Change
President Obama claimed climate change is a growing national security threat, during a commencement speech on Wednesday, and linked changing weather patterns to the emergence of the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram and "the early unrest in Syria." "Climate change will impact every country on the planet. No nation is immune," Obama told new Coast Guard officers ...More
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Jeb Bush says brother's cabinet overspent during White House years
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush put some distance Thursday between himself and his brother, saying the federal government probably spent too much during the eight years former President George W. Bush was at the helm.
But the former governor, who is weighing a White House bid himself, also embraced a ...
USPS Totally Shredded For Wasteful Approach To Vehicle Replacement
Experts scoff at plan to buy 180,000 new vehicles at once, urge incremental approach instead
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HBO's "Silicon Valley" creators once again punt on sexism issue
satire [n]: the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc There are two major criticisms brought against HBO's Silicon Valley: The first is that it just isn't that funny, at least when compared to some of Mike Judge's other films and television shows, including Idiocracy, Office Space, and King of the Hill. The second, less subjective critique is that as the preeminent commentary on the new tech economy, the […]
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Reality Star Josh Duggar Apologizes, Resigns From Family Research Council Amid Molestation Accusations
"I acted inexcusably for which I am extremely sorry and deeply regret."
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FEC deadlocks on wealthy donor giving limits
The Federal Election Commission stalemated Thursday on writing new campaign finance rules to limit wealthy donors' spending in federal elections, virtually ensuring next year's elections will be fought under the current rules that the Supreme Court has written in several major decisions this decade.
Commissioners deadlocked 3-3 on a proposal ...
Federal Judge Once Again Orders Gay Marriage In Alabama
Commands state employees to submit to federal authority
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Meet the Suspected Nazi Sympathizer Glenn Beck Says Is Behind Police Militarization in America Today
"Some felt protected, some began to feel invaded."
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Union Suspected With Charging Hospital Workers Unlawful Dues
'We want to see this issue resolved'
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Oscar-Winning Actor Gives the Hard Truth to Grads: 'Life's Not Fair, It Never Was, It Won't Ever Be'
"Do not fall into the trap, the entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not."
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SURPRISE: Bin Laden Loved Reading Hardcore Leftist Noam Chomsky
US intelligence agencies declassified the list of English-language texts that were recovered from Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound after the U.S. raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader in 2011. The works on what the government calls "Bin Laden's Bookshelf", looked a lot like that of his leftist appeasers containing texts on how America is evil, ...More
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Americans Vastly Overstate Gay Population
Estimate 23 percent of country is gay or lesbian
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Bar Bouncer Called 911 to Help Assaulted Woman. A Week Later, He Was Out of a Job
"I couldn't believe that he was stating that to me."
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REVEALED: Federal Agency Was Concerned Hillary Would Violate Federal Records Law
'Yet, despite knowledge by the State Department and the Archives, nothing was done about it'
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Little interest in Gov. Cuomo's summit on purging emails
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration wants to meet with other state leaders to discuss the creation of a uniform email retention rule after the administration's policy of purging emails was roundly criticized.
There should be plenty of seating available at Friday's gathering, since no lawmakers ...
Marilyn Mosby Announces Baltimore Grand Jury's Decision In Freddie Gray Case
'Additional information has been discovered'
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By Virtue Of Unalienable Right: Pope Francis And The American Idea
The Declaration of Independence translates the Christian understanding of virtue into political terms.
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Pro-Life Activists React To Rand Paul's Eyebrow-Raising Comments On Abortion
'Pro-life Americans would be surprised'
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Witnesses Say School Nurse Pushed, Cursed Out and Called an 11-Year-Old Boy the N-Word. Her Punishment? It Might Come as a Bit of a Surprise.
"… then the nurse got mad and pushed his head and was saying, 'I will knock your lights out and I will F you up.'"
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Job Creator In Chief? It's Jeb Bush, By A Large Margin
Clearly, a state's future depends upon the person who leads it, and a leader's jobs record matters.
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David Letterman and the long, Internet-enabled decline of the nightly talk show
Everyone once in a while we like to throw a PandoMonthly curve ball. A fascinating guest who entrepreneurs can learn from but who you probably weren't expecting to see on a Pando stage. One of the first of those curveballs– and still one of my favorite PandoMonthlys– was a fireside chat with Rob Burnett, executive producer of David Letterman's production company, WorldWide Pants. I'd gotten to know Burnett because he was promoting a new […]
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Teen Started High School With Surgery That Removed Half Her Brain. She's Now Getting Ready to Walk Across the Graduation Stage
"I'm not always the strongest person, but I've made it through a lot."
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California Struggles to Contain Oil Leak From Pipeline: 'It Smells Like What They Use to Pave the Roads'
"We deeply, deeply regret that this incident."
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Rights group: Qatar making little progress on labor reforms
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Qatar is failing to deliver on reforms for its migrant workers a year after the wealthy Gulf nation announced plans to improve conditions for low-paid laborers building its highways, hotels, stadiums and skyscrapers, Amnesty International said Thursday.
In a new briefing paper, the London-based ...
"Mad Men Integrated" imagines Don Draper as a millennial social media marketer. And it doesn't suck!
Here at Pando, we're big fans of Mad Men — or at least I am, to such an extent that I ranked and recapped all 92 episodes the other day. But you know what's (usually) the worst? Social media accounts and sites that imagine the plots of beloved television shows as if they were made in "modern" times. They aren't categorically bad, but the formulaic nature of the concept enables lazy joke-telling. The most […]
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Domestic surveillance fate unclear after lengthy Senate talk
WASHINGTON (AP) - The fate of the government's bulk collection of Americans' phone records is unclear following an FBI warning, House-Senate disagreements and more than 10 hours of criticisms by a GOP presidential candidate.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky dominated the Senate floor from 1:18 p.m. to 11:49 p.m. Wednesday ...
David Letterman Signs Off 'Late Show,' Ending 33-Year Career As Television Host
"The only thing I have left to do for the last time …(is say) thank you and good night."
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Extreme Video Shows How a 73-Year-Old BASE Jumper's Stunt Goes Terribly Wrong 500 Feet in the Air
"Oh sh**. He's not moving."
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Army Dad Couldn't Make Daughter's Kindergarten Graduation, So These Surprise Visitors Showed Up Instead
"They all look out for each other."
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Paul commandeers Senate to protest Patriot Act
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul commandeered the Senate floor Wednesday to deliver a nearly 11 hours-long protest against renewal of the Patriot Act, calling the post-Sept. 11 law government intrusion on Americans' privacy.
Congress faces a June 1 deadline for the law's expiration, and Paul's speech underscored ...
Illinois Teacher On Leave For STOMPING ON AMERICAN FLAG In Front Of Class
'He talked about it being the right to do whatever he wants'
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Hillary Clinton Gets the Highly-Coveted Snoop Dogg Endorsement
Rapper Snoop Dogg said he'll be supporting the former secretary of State and Democratic candidate in her 2016 White House bid. Snoop Dogg was fielding questions with Bravo's Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live" when the conversation suddenly turned political when he was asked whom he'd support in the upcoming presidential election. Snoop said ...More
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Texas Professor To America: You Can't HANDLE Gun Ownership
'Americans do not seem to be able to handle gun ownership in a way that permits maintenance of a civil society'
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