June 18, 2015

'Today, We Were Blessed': Jarring Set of Photos Show How Close Texas Officer Was to Being Killed

Wow.

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Barack Obama Disgraces Himself Again

(John Hinderaker) I haven't written anything about the murders in Charleston, mostly because I haven't had time. I expect to talk about the murders tomorrow on the Laura Ingraham show, where I will be guest hosting. I would encourage you to tune in for that. In the meantime, one obvious point can be made: Barack Obama has disgraced himself, once again, by trying to make political hay out of the murders: "I

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Obama Arrives in Hollywood to Collect Fundraiser Cash While Nation Grieves For Charleston

President Obama addressed the tragic massacre of nine people in a Charleston, South Carolina church on Thursday and then boarded Air Force One to California for a series of lavish fundraisers to benefit the Democrat party. Obama attended a pair of extravagant fundraisers to benefit the Democratic National Committee and the DNC's 2016 White House Victory Fund in Los ...More

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U.S.-Bound Flight From India Moments Away From Takeoff Suddenly Makes a U-Turn

"No airline is allowed to take passengers the way United Airlines did." 

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Inside the Beltway: John Bolton campaigns to stop Hillary Clinton's White House ambitions

The Republican National Committee puts it this way: "The Clinton machine rumbles on." Indeed, Hillary Rodham Clinton's quest for the White House is akin to an all-terrain vehicle on the campaign trail — rolling over bumps, skirting ditches, and even airborne at times. Despite the rough ride, it relentlessly covers ...

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Sununu: Hillary More Vulnerable Than You'd Think In New Hampshire

Hillary could get major Democratic challenger, says John Sununu

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Rand Paul Introduces His Tax Plan

He projects his tax would be the largest tax cut in American history

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Scientists Find Plaque on 400,000-Year-Old Teeth, and It Tells Us a Lot About Them

 "This is one of the first, if not the first, cases of manmade pollution on the planet."

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Right question, wrong answer

(Scott Johnson) Our congressman is John Kline, a man who served 25 years in the Marine Corps before he retired with the rank of Colonel. He served as a helicopter pilot and was ultimately accorded the responsibility of flying Marine One. He also served as a personal military aide to Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. When Rep. Kline asks the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a question bearing on

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Obama Tweets About Islam, Still Silent on Charleston Massacre

Nine people were murdered late Wednesday by a gunman at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Among the dead are six females and three males, including a five-year-old child. The church's pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who's also a South Carolina state senator, was among the deceased. Naturally the story is receiving wall-to-wall coverage as the ...More

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Salon: White People Must Answer For Charleston Church Shooting

Liberal website hopes to score political points before the first body is buried

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Glenn Beck Traveling to Charleston Following Deadly Church Shooting

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Donald Trump Floats Welch, Kravis, Icahn as Possible Treasury Secretaries

The Republican presidential candidate says he wants to bring better negotiators to the table.

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Jeb Bush says he will never throw brother George W. Bush 'under the bus'

Jeb Bush says there is one thing he won't do during his campaign to win the 2016 Republican presidential nomination: throw his brother "under the bus."

The former Florida governor told ABC News on Wednesday that although reporters will set him up to criticize former President George W. Bush, he ...

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Former CIA Director Says OPM Hack 'Is Not Shame On China'

Says he would've done the same thing

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How to Recall Emails After You've Already Clicked Send

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Rep. Mark Sanford Back In The News For Sad And Sanguine Reasons

The church killings happened in his district.

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NFL Player Michael Oher Whose Tragic Childhood Story Depicted in 'The Blind Side' Inspired Millions Has Some Shocking Comments About the Popular Movie

"I'm not trying to prove anything."

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Inside the Ring: Congress to Block Obama from Sharing Secrets with German NSA Probe

President Obama wants to share U.S. secrets with a German parliamentary committee investigating the National Security Agency's spying in Germany. The move is in direct opposition to Congressional restrictions, which were added to the fiscal 2016 intelligence authorization bill that would block intelligence sharing.

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Marco Rubio, frugal lawmaker -- his legislation calls for $330 billion in spending cuts: Study

A watchdog group has a counter-narrative to the recent New York Times "investigative" story on Sen. Marco Rubio's personal finances, decades-old parking tickets, a family purchase of a fishing boat and other matters.

The National Taxpayers Union Foundation was prompted to conduct a more thorough analysis of the presidential hopeful's ...

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Obama Is Doing Podcasts Now

If the President of the United States doesn't care anymore, why should I? Dominic Patten, Deadline: Seems Barack Obama is coming to L.A. this week for more than just Hollywood cash. After big-bucks fundraisers at Chuck Lorre and Tyler Perry's not-inconsiderable Pacific Palisades and Beverly Hills pads on Thursday, the leader of the free world […]

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Guess Who Donald Trump Named the Best of the Last Four Presidents

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"Earth First! We'll Drill the Other Planets Later"

(Steven Hayward) That's the snarky bumper sticker I recall from the late 1980s and early 1990s when the monkey wrench gang known as Earth First! was in its heyday. Why not: Earth First's unofficial motto was "Back to the Pleistocene!" The perfect slogan, I thought, for reactionary environmentalism. I've been meaning for a while to make note of the total collapse of one of liberalism's most dear clichés about energy: that the

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Jeb Bush Cancels Campaign Event In South Carolina Because Of Mass Shooting

'Thoughts and prayers'

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This Is the Man Police Are Hunting as the Suspect in a Deadly Church Shooting Labeled a 'Hate Crime'

"Very dangerous individual."

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Scott Walker Forms 'Testing the Waters' Committee as He Nears Run

The Wisconsin governor isn't expected to formally enter the race until July, but his new committee will let him raise more funds.

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'Alliance in Tatters': Shocking Accusations From Former Israeli Ambassador About His Treatment by Obama Admin

Among the charges: State Department staffers secretly listened in and "cheered" when the ambassador was being chewed out over Jewish settlements.

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Former Obama Administration Official Blames South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley For Shooting At Black Church

Nine people died in the attack

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An Applebee's Parking Lot Might Seem Like an Unusual Place for a Wedding, but When You Hear Their Story, You'll Understand Why They Wanted It There

"It was just absolutely unbelievable."

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Prayers for Charleston

(Scott Johnson) Sen. Rev. Clementa Pinckney and eight churchgoers were murdered during a prayer service at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (also known as "Mother Emanuel) in Charleston, South Carolina last night. The gunman remains at large. Neither the remaining victims nor the murderer have been identified by name. The Washington Post reports on the shootings here. The shooter appears on surveillance video. Charleston authorities are engaged in a

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Nine Dead In Shooting At Black South Carolina Church

Police believe it's a hate crime

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Jeb Bush Takes Scott Walker Washington Riff and Super-Sizes the Critique

Taking shots at Washington is almost never a bad move when running for president.

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Jeb Bush Cancels South Carolina Event After Mass Shooting in Charleston

The city's mayor and chief of police say the incident was a "hate crime."

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Feds arrest 280 immigrants, including 36 in Kansas

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say they have arrested 280 convicted criminals for deportation in six Midwest states, including Kansas, during a monthlong enforcement surge.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a news release Wednesday that of those arrested, 35 men and one woman were found in Kansas. Thirty ...

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FBI Says Its Spy Planes Used in Investigations Are Not Conducting Mass Surveillance

"How the federal government can watch Americans from the sky."

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Assad Targets Civilians, Hospitals Amid Defeats in Syrian War

The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad is systematically targeting civilians and hospitals, often with chemical weapons, to reverse recent setbacks in the country's civil war, witnesses told the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday.

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What's blamed for California's drought? Basically everything

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Mother Nature isn't the only one blamed for California's drought.

The state's historic four-year dry spell has brought with it a flurry of finger-pointing. Now advocates, noting how California's water shortage ranks as the top public concern, are invoking the drought to bolster their own causes.

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A Woman on the $10 Bill Will Bolster Obama's Legacy

The Treasury secretary announces the plan, will seek public comment and then make a decision.

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Voting rights rally set next week in Roanoke

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Civil rights and voting rights activists will hold a rally in Roanoke to mark the second anniversary of a Supreme Court ruling that dismantled a key provision of the Voting Rights Act.

The event is set for June 25 at Elmwood Park. Organizers say activists from ...

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Trump On Clinton Foundation Donation: 'I Give It Everywhere. It's Supposed To Be Spent Wisely'

'In some cases, foundations do not spend it fairly or wisely.'

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Read Obama Admin. Official's 'Unbelievable' Tweet About Gov. Nikki Haley in Aftermath of Charleston Mass Shooting

"How does this help?"

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Feds Spent $19 Billion To Clean Up Nuke Site But It Could Still Explode

'No one's lost their job. No one's gone to jail'

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Brian Williams Will Lose 'Nightly News' Post

Disgraced anchorman Brian Williams, who is four months into his six-month suspension for inconsistencies and false statements he made about his reporting will leave "NBC Nightly News." But, he will likely join the ilk of Al Sharpton, Ed Schulz, Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow over at MSNBC. Williams was the number 1 night news anchor, ...More

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The Latest: Family members arrive after balcony collapse

8:45 p.m. (PDT)

About 300 people, including some of their fellow Irish students, attended a somber Catholic Mass at Oakland's cathedral for the six Irish students killed in a California balcony collapse.

Father Aidan McAleenan said at the Mass Wednesday evening that this is a time to come together and ...

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Activist: Rachel Dolezal Said That White People Can't Talk About Racism

Dolezal really didn't seem to care for white folks

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Camera Captures 'Powerful Moment of Prayer' Following Reported Mass Shooting at Charleston Church

"Bring us together, black, white, red, yellow, Christian, Muslim — it don't make a difference, God!"

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Rand Paul and Ted Cruz move to the left of Lindsey Graham on terrorist rights

(Paul Mirengoff) Earlier this week, the Senate passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that limits the entire U.S. government to only the interrogation and detention techniques outlined in the Army Field Manual. The vote was 78-21. The Army Field Manual does not permit physical contact with detainees, not even a slap. The harshest method it permits the "Fear-Up (Harsh)." In this approach, "the interrogator behaves in an overpowering

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HuffPo Blogger Describes 'The Pain Of Realizing I'm White'

University of Pennsylvania Professor Ali Michael described "the pain of realizing I'm White" in a blog published Tuesday by The Huffington Post's Black Voices  entitled "I Sometimes Don't Want to Be White Either." Michael describes Rachel Dolezal as a "fascinating case study in White racial identity development" and empathizes with the former NAACP leader deceptively pretending to be ...More

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Bill Clinton Praises Trump: He's been 'uncommonly nice to Hillary and me'

Donald Trump and Bill Clinton had something of a lovefest Wednesday. Appearing on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday morning, Trump said Bill Clinton was his favorite president since Ronald Reagan. Later in the day, in an appearance on "The Daily Show," Bill Clinton had mainly positive words to say about Trump, who entered the Republican presidential field Tuesday. "He has […]

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