December 9, 2015

'Stop the Bullyionaire': Bush's Biggest Donor Launches Personal Anti-Trump Campaign

"He's a dangerous individual."

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Reporter Reveals 'Mantra' Paul Ryan Lived by as Mitt Romney's Running Mate — and It Has to Do With Sarah Palin

"That, kind of, was his governing philosophy in terms of how to help Mitt Romney."

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Does Trump Have His Finger on the Pulse of GOP Voters?

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discuss the findings of a new Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies PulsePoll about Donald Trump on "With All Due Respect."

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Republican Candidates Unite Behind Pro-Growth Tax Message

Republican presidential candidates have united behind a tax reform agenda that would grow the U.S. economy, Grover Norquist said Tuesday, despite differences among the various campaigns' plans.

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Zuckerberg Says Muslims Will Always Be Welcome On Facebook

Facebook Muslims Mark Zuckerberg urged the world not to "succumb to cynicism" despite bigots like Donald Trump calling for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States. Today, Facebook's CEO posted on his site that "I want to add my voice in support of Muslims in our community and around the world…As the leader of Facebook I want you to know that you are always welcome here… Read More

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Happy Birthday To Me!

The rest of the world does not have a civil right to move here.

Via: The Daily Caller

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Promises to 'Fight to Protect' the Rights of Muslims: 'I Want You to Know That You Are Always Welcome Here'

"We must not lose hope."

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Planned Parenthood Suspect: 'I Am a Warrior for the Babies'

"You'll never know what I saw in that clinic. Atrocities. The babies. That's what they want to seal."

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Rapper Rick Ross Calls For Trump's Assassination

Rick-Ross-Assassinate-Donald-TrumpRick Ross just dropped a new album and on one track, called Free Enterprise, in which the rapper literally declares he wants to assassinate Donald Trump. "Assassinate Trump like I'm] Zimmerman, now accept these words as they came from Eminem," the song goes. Zimmerman is an allusion to George Zimmerman, a Florida man who killed a black teenager, Trayvon Martin. The ...More

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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin Backs Marco Rubio for President: CNBC

Republican candidate Marco Rubio "will be the next president," CNBC reports, citing interview with Citadel CEO Ken Griffin. Griffin says will imminently contribute several million dollars to Rubio's PAC

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Hillary Clinton Out of Step with Chicago Voters on Rahm Emanuel

Hillary Clinton appears to be out of step with the majority of Chicago voters when it comes to her approval of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, a Democratic ally.

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Chicago mayor apologizes for teen's death, vows reforms

CHICAGO (AP) - Mayor Rahm Emanuel, known for keeping vise-like control over Chicago and his own political image, finds himself in the weakest position of his long public career as he struggles to respond to a police scandal, claims of cover-ups at City Hall and calls for his resignation.

But ...

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Former Olympic Gymnast Celebrates Her B-Day By Setting Fire To Instagram [PHOTO]

Ok, McKayla ... we're impressed

Via: The Daily Caller

Why Conservative Christians Are Concerned About Trump's Proposed Muslim Ban

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Claire McCaskill Blasts 'Mr. Wu Tang' Martin Shkreli Over Drug Pricing

During a Wednesday Senate hearing on drug prices, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill took aim at Turing Pharmaceuticals AG founder Martin Shkreli's spending habits.

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Civil War on the Left, Part 25

(Steven Hayward) One of the leading ideas among liberals right now is to forgive students debt, which is crushing a lot of college graduates. It's one of Bernie Sanders's favorite ideas. There's just one problem: it might widen the wealth gap between whites and blacks. Oops. From TakePart: A new report, however, shows that calls to ease the student-loan debt load, including plans unveiled by all three Democratic presidential candidates, could have a significant effect on

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Flipagram's Stories Are Sticky And You Can Now Create 60-Second Flips

Screen Shot 2015-12-09 at 12.59.44 PM In case you've forgotten about Flipagram, we told you about them back in July when they raised $70 million and said they had 30 million users. The company started out as an app to create quick slide shows to share on services like Facebook and Instagram. Seeing ridiculous traction, the team added all of the components the product needed to be its own social network. It's… Read More

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Hillary Clinton Donor at Firm With Eric Holder Among Lawyers Behind Voter ID Suit

A lawyer who has donated thousands to Hillary Clinton and works alongside former attorney general Eric Holder is part of the newest team to bring a lawsuit forward challenging a state's voter identification laws, the fourth such suit filed this year.

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White House, Pentagon disagree on containing Islamic State

President Obama and his top military chiefs can't seem to agree on whether the Islamic State is contained, or where.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told lawmakers Wednesday that the Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS, is not contained. Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ...

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Third Bataclan Attacker Identified As Another French Jihadi

Father: 'If I had known ... I would have killed him'

Via: The Daily Caller

Police Recently Shut Down and Searched Three Mosques in Paris — Now We Know What They Found

"In 15 days we have seized one-third of the quantity of war-grade weapons that are normally seized in a year.."

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A Somber Glenn Beck Gives Update From His Trip to Middle East: 'They Really Don't Care'

"The way they're treating this is truly remarkable."

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Clinton Targets 'Earnings Stripping' by Corporate Tax Avoiders

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday urged Congress to take action against companies that avoid taxes by shifting their debt to American soil while moving profit overseas, a technique known as earnings stripping, and said that if they don't, the Treasury Department should crack down with new rules.

Source: Bloomberg.com news

Milestone-Based Vesting For Startup Founders

hurdles Scott Kupor, CEO and a managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, recently published an article on Fortune.com (titled "Your next business partner should come with a prenup") in which he reviews several of the common pitfalls of business partnerships and wisely suggests to address them using a prenup agreement. One critical issue Kupor discusses is the vesting of founder shares in… Read More

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Claims Marco Rubio Advocated 'Internment' of Muslims after Paris Attack

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Joe Biden: I could have won in 2016

Vice President Joseph R. Biden said he made the right decision not to run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, even though he believes he could have won.

"I believed I could win, but that's not enough," Mr. Biden told Bloomberg in an interview. "My decision, I know, was ...

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'Yale Not Jail!' Hillary Clinton Has To Remind Voters That She Hasn't Been To Jail [VIDEO]

'I spent time there'

Via: The Daily Caller

More Than 300,000 Brits Have Signed a Petition to Bar Donald Trump From Entering the United Kingdom

"The signatoires believe Donald J. Trump should be banned from UK entry.."

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Gun Rights Group Plans to Take Extreme Measures to Prove 'When the Seconds Count, Police Are Minutes Away'

"An armed society is a polite society."

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Swarm Now Lets You Spend Those Coins On Upgraded Stickers

sushi Remember when Swarm launched coins? While the reward for checking in was entertaining, the coins had no real use other than providing a measurement by which to rank you on the weekly leaderboard. Today, however, that changes. With the latest Swarm update, folks can use their coins to pay for sticker upgrades. Upgraded stickers yield 2X the amount of coins when used in a check-in. That said,… Read More

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University Affirmative Action Questioned at Supreme Court

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over the value of university affirmative action policies, and pivotal Justice Anthony Kennedy raised the prospect that the court might put off issuing a broad ruling.

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Daily News Cover Shows Donald Trump Beheading Lady Liberty

daily newsThe front page of Wednesday's edition of The New York Daily News' depicts GOP presidential frontrunner Donald Trump as an ISIS terrorist beheading the Statue of Liberty, targeting the real estate magnate's call to temporarily ban all Muslim immigration to the United States. "When Trump came for the Mexicans, I did not speak out — as ...More

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Congress: Iran Missile Tests Violating Nuclear Deal

Leading lawmakers are lashing out at Iran for violating the recently approved nuclear deal by conducting a series of ballistic missile tests that some say could be used to perfect nuclear weapons technology.

Iran this week reportedly conducted its second test of a ballistic missile since the deal was announced. Such testing is prohibited under United Nations Security Council resolutions, which Iran maintains it has not violated.

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Missouri Supreme Court weighs case on gun shop liability

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A lawyer for a Missouri mother says a pawn shop was wrong to sell her mentally ill daughter a gun that was used in a fatal shooting.

Attorney Jonathan Lowy of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence told Supreme Court judges Wednesday that Odessa ...

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Poll: Two-Thirds Of GOP Primary Voters Back Trump's Muslim Immigration Proposal

37-percent of ALL voters agree with the plan

Via: The Daily Caller

Stunning A Cappella Version of 'Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful' Seeks to Bring the 'Joy' of the Season to Life

"Take a few minutes to slow down and remember the real reason that makes this season so joyful…"

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The Daily Show Dubs Donald Trump 'White ISIS'

"One-third of a major political party in America is backing a racist maniac."

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Obama: U.S. Must 'Push Back Against Bigotry'

President Obama spoke Wednesday at a ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery. "We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms," said the president. "Our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others, regardless of what they look like or where they come from or what their last name is or what faith they practice."

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There Is No Trump Card

(Steven Hayward) I don't think I've ever seen such a complete major media freakout like last night's NBC Nightly News coverage of Trump—it tops even the breathless coverage of the "constitutional crisis" of Nixon's "Saturday Night Massacre" in 1973. You can watch it at the link above if you are a glutton, but suffice it to say the NBC News crew failed in concealing their animus and panic toward Trump (I thought

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New Google Apps Feature Helps Businesses Keep Sensitive Information Out Of Emails

privacy please Google is launching a new privacy tool for Google Apps Unlimited users today. The new Data Loss Prevention feature will make it easier for businesses to make sure that their employees don't mistakenly (or not so mistakenly) email certain types of sensitive information to people outside of the company. Businesses that subscribe to this plan for their employees now have the option to… Read More

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McCain: Vice Chair of Joint Chiefs' Answer at Hearing One of 'More Embarrassing Statements I've Ever Heard'

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Obama: U.S. still bears 'scars' of slavery

President Obama Wednesday commemorated the 150th anniversary of abolishing slavery in the U.S., using the occasion to draw parallels to the current political furor over Muslim immigration and terrorism.

"We betray the efforts of the past if we fail to push back against bigotry in all its forms," Mr. Obama ...

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Soldiers Contradict Pentagon Account Of Doctors Without Borders Strike

'They had already removed and ransomed the foreign doctors'

Via: The Daily Caller

Director Comey: FBI Still Can't Access 109 Messages Between Garland Shooter and Overseas Terrorists

"We have no idea what he said because those messages were encrypted."

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Ben Carson Set to Announce Reform of Medicare in His Health Care Policy Plan

"The best, most effective health care decisions are made at the granular level.."

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California Attackers Radicalized Two Years Before Shooting

The California couple who fatally shot 14 people last week in what authorities are calling a terror attack had become radicalized and discussed martyrdom at least two years ago, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday.

Source: Bloomberg.com news

CODE2040 Snags $1.2 Million To Double The Size Of Its Diversity In Tech Programs

code-2040 The Knight Foundation is supporting non-profit organization CODE2040 with $1.2 million, the foundation announced on its blog this morning. Since launching its pilot program in 2012, CODE2040 has helped thousands of black and Latino students get involved in technology through its flagship CODE2040 Fellows Program, which places students in career-building workshops and internships at top tech… Read More

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