October 18, 2015

Has Hillary's Last Defense Been Destroyed By a Smoking Gun?

(John Hinderaker) The Daily Mail has hyped a 2002 memo from Colin Powell to George W. Bush that it said was "part of a batch of secret emails held on the private server of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton which U.S. courts have forced her to reveal." The Daily Mail misread the email, claiming that it put then-Prime Minister Tony Blair in a bad light when in fact, it didn't. The Drudge

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Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush pay staff; Donald Trump spends on travel

For Hillary Rodham Clinton, having the right people in place was the key to the "silent primary" period from July to September, as she spent $5.5 million on payroll — more than a fifth of her outlays — to keep her massive operation humming.

Her chief competitor in the Democratic ...

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Washington Gadfly Exclusive: Federal Judge OKs WaPo Racist Jokes

How insensitive

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Would-be Groom Calls Off Wedding. Family of Bride-to-be Gets Stuck With Reception for 120. Check Out the 'Really Kind' Way They Chose to Handle It.

"To lose out on something so important to yourself and then give it to someone else is really giving, really kind."

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Target Teams Up With Techstars To Create A Retail-Focused Startup Accelerator

Target Target is the latest big company to launch its own startup accelerator. This will a partnership between Target and Techstars, and it's being led by West Stringfellow, former chief product officer at Big Commerce and Rosetta Stone. (There are plans to hire a managing director as well.) Stringfellow said this was one of his initial ideas when he joined Target's entrepreneur in… Read More

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Analysis: Making headlines no guarantee of election success

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Two state senators with proposals that grabbed headlines and divided their colleagues are not returning to the Mississippi Capitol next term.

Sens. Nancy Adams Collins of Tupelo and Phillip Gandy of Waynesboro were both defeated in the Republican primary in August. Their defeat raises questions about ...

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Trey Gowdy: How Did 7 Congressional Committees Miss Amb. Chris Stevens' Emails? [VIDEO]

Rep. said Sunday that he is baffled that the previous seven congressional committees that investigated the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi failed to obtain emails U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens sent in the months before the attacks occurred. "How did they miss Ambassador Stevens' emails? None of the seven previous committees bothered to access the […]

Via: The Daily Caller

Pastor Asks Ted Cruz 'How We Can Pray' for Him. The Final Point of Three-Pronged Answer Stirs Crowd

"You know I'd say three things…"

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Rick Santorum's Direct Message to Islamic State Earns Him Standing Ovation at GOP Presidential Forum

"ISIS knows who I am."

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The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Turns 30

2817906964_0a6c40d805_b OK, I'm old. You're probably feeling old. Let's get that out of the way. Done. The NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) turns 30 today, as it was officially launched in North American on October 18th, 1985 to a limited portion of the US. I mean, where do we start on how amazing the NES was, and still is? I've got one in my closet complete with the Duck Hunt gun. The… Read More

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MSNBC Admits Anti-Israel Graphics Were 'Wrong'

MSNBC has admitted that highly controversial graphics aired on the network that depicted Israel as stealing land from the Palestinians were "factually wrong" and that the broadcast would be corrected on Monday, according to a network spokesperson. The cable news network has been fighting off criticism after it aired the graphics and analysis, including a map linked to ...

The post MSNBC Admits Anti-Israel Graphics Were 'Wrong' appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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Leader Of Elite Al-Qaeda Cell Killed In Airstrike

'In terms of threat to the homeland, Khorasan may pose as much of a danger as the Islamic State'

Via: The Daily Caller

When Asked What Differentiates Her, Hillary Cited Her Gender — Here's How Carly Fiorina Addressed Same Issue

Fiorina gets some thunderous applause for one particular line.

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Carly Fiorina Recalls the Time She Stepped Foot Inside Planned Parenthood Clinic: 'I Watched…'

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The Pure Storage IPO In Context

New York Stock Exchange Pure Storage has been one of the hottest Silicon Valley enterprise startups for the past several years, sporting a world-class team and having raised capital from some of the top enterprise investors on the planet. The company seems to be doing great, so why wasn't there a big pop from the last private round and from the IPO? Does it matter? What lessons can we draw from this? Read More

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Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump Team Up on George W. Bush

The two presidential candidates share a common interest.

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Lawmaker wants state probe of Farmington apartment death

FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - A lawmaker wants the state Attorney General's Office to look into a Farmington apartment complex where a resident's death went unnoticed for weeks.

The Daily Times in Farmington reported (http://bit.ly/1ZMu8Oa) Saturday that U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan's office has asked Attorney General Hector Balderas to review ...

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Lawrence Lessig Wants The Same Air Time On NBC As Hillary Clinton Gets

'When a network gives one candidate free airtime, outside of its news coverage, it has to allow a comparable opportunity to other candidates'

Via: The Daily Caller

Gunman Kills Israeli Soldier at Beersheba Bus Station, Hamas Applauds Attack

Hamas: "Intifada" will continue and escalate.

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California Churches Sue Agency That Requires Them to Pay for Abortions

"Churches should not be forced to pay for the killing of innocent human life."

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Bank Loans Are A Better Financing Option Than You Might Think

bank Today's startup scene is all about raising VC money — as much as possible, as fast as possible. The market celebrates VC fund-raising, cheers unicorns and makes it seem like VC-backed startups are the holy grail of innovation. And so my fellow entrepreneurs were somewhat surprised to learn that when my VC-backed startup needed another cash injection, I resorted to the oldest trick… Read More

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Trump Blasts Environmental Protection Agency

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he would cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Iran nuclear deal hits milestone aimed at sanctions relief

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. expects Iran will take months to live up to its end of a seven-nation nuclear pact that could eventually provide the country relief from international sanctions.

The deal formally took effect Sunday, opening the way for Iran to make major changes to an underground nuclear ...

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Jeb: Trump Lacks Seriousness To Be President [VIDEO]

'Mr. Trump talks about things that as though he's still on 'The Apprentice''

Via: The Daily Caller

'We Have Strayed Away From What We're Supposed to Be Doing': Top Dem on Benghazi Committee Slams Group for Lack of Transparency

 "I'm looking for transparency."

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Notifications Summit: Session 4

Notifications Summit Media as the First Instance, Alerts: Media as a case study, how media is using the notifications as an alert infrastructure: Jon Steinberg (Daily Mail), Andrew Mclaughlin (Digg), Alex Danco (Share the bus) How do you think about the notification stream? How do media companies develop notifications beyond simple alerts? How do you think about other contextual signals, interest graph, location… Read More

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WFB Managing Editor Andrew Stiles Breaks His Silence on Trump Hat Scandal

The post WFB Managing Editor Andrew Stiles Breaks His Silence on Trump Hat Scandal appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.

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Rep. Kinzinger: Trump's Foreign Policy Ideas Are 'Ludicrous' [VIDEO]

'There's nothing there or it's not in line with what Republicans believe and our principles'

Via: The Daily Caller

Pentagon Confirms Senior Al-Qaida Official Killed in Airstrike

"[T]hose who seek to do us harm are not beyond our reach."

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Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy Reveals Brazen Two-Word Message He Delivered to His GOP Colleagues

"I have told my own Republican colleagues…"

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The Social Web And The Digital Panopticon

Panopticon Foucault's idea of the "Panopticon" in Discipline and Punish has become depressingly easy to explain because the Internet has made it depressingly literal. Read More

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Trey Gowdy Tells Republicans to 'Shut Up' About Benghazi Committee

Trey Gowdy would like his fellow Republicans to stop talking about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi.

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Hillary Clinton blasts Benghazi panel as 'partisan arm of the Republican National Committee'

Days before she is to testify before of a House panel investigating the Benghazi terrorist attacks, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday blasted the committee and called it nothing more than a "partisan arm of the Republican National Committee."

Mrs. Clinton, the front-runner for the 2016 Democratic ...

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Sanders: I'm Going To Raise Taxes 'A Damn Lot Higher' Than They Are Right Now [VIDEO]

But Sanders wouldn't give specific numbers

Via: The Daily Caller

Student Sues College Because It Refused to Let Her Start a Conservative Club: It's 'Censorship. Pure and Simple'

"Hagerstown Community College is playing political games and we have had enough." 

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MissionBit Teaches SF Public School Students How To Code; Needs Your Donations, Volunteers

stevon-cook A year ago, I checked in with a tiny non-profit called MissionBit that was bringing computer science education to San Francisco's public schools after class. Considering that fewer than five percent of the city's high school students are even enrolled in any computer science classes, it's a startling contrast with how the city has become geographic center of the U.S.… Read More

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