Occupy Wall Street Useful Idiots.

Jake Tapper's Stinging Response to Viewer Angry That He Interviewed 'Vile, Hate-Spewing Bigot' Pamela Geller

"Disappointed."

Columbia's Mattress Girl Has Made An 'Artistic' Sex Tape

That didn't take long

Marcus Luttrell? Whodat???

(Scott Johnson) John Updike's numerous stories about his fictional alter ego Henry Bech are my favorites among Updike's body of work. When Bech wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in the story "Bech and the Bounty of Sweden," Updike posits the headline reporting the news in the New York Daily News: "BECH? WHODAT???" (The thought was at the same time self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing. Updike was foremost among those who deserved the Nobel

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This Facebook Page Is Pretty Much The Only Way To Mock The Dictator Of Egypt

Three times as popular as Egypt's biggest newspaper

Rescue Workers Right Capsized Cruise Ship on China's Yangtze River in Ongoing Search for Survivors

Nearly 80 bodies were recovered before the ship was righted.

Massive Government Data Breach Exposes Information on Four Million Americans

(John Hinderaker) Chinese hackers have invaded computers at the federal Office of Personnel Management, accessing personal information relating to at least four million current and former government employees. The New York Times reports: The Obama administration on Thursday announced what appeared to be one of the largest breaches of federal employees' data, involving at least four million current and former government workers in an intrusion that officials said apparently originated in China.

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Inside the Beltway: Voters want to see Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina debate

Though Election Day is well over 500 days away, voters are already primed to encounter political theater of the presidential kind — Republican vs. Democrat, weaponized sound bites flying and fact-checking in progress. Two-thirds of the nation would like to see a debate between Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and ...

Man's Post About Caitlyn Jenner and 'True Bravery' Goes Viral — Then He Learned of 'Ironic Twist'

"God heals all."

Chris Christie Wins Benefit Baseball Game for Slain NYPD Cops, Named MVP

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was named MVP at the "True Blue" star-studded charity softball game on Wednesday night. The governor, who is expected to announce a presidential campaign later this summer, bravely donned a baseball uniform and joined roughly 20,000 fans and a team of celebrities at Yankee Stadium to memorialize three New York City ...More

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Alleged Extra-Credit Assignment Involving Sex Toys and Selfies Has Parents Demanding HS Teacher's Termination

"We don't feel comfortable with our children in his presence."

WESLEY PRUDEN: Supreme Court gay marriage decision

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The U.S. Supreme Court will dispense its ruling on marriage — who can do it, why, when, where and how — any day now, perhaps as early as Friday — and if the court trashes centuries of law and tradition in its haste to ratify universal conjugal bliss, the ...

John Biggs raising venture capital for tech startup. Next to leave TechCrunch?

After AOL's acquisition by Verizon, writers at the company's tech blog, TechCrunch, were assured that nothing would change. Yes, Verizon recently shuttered its own tech blog after previously banning it from criticising the company's net neutrality stance. And, yes, TechCrunch has previously covered Verizon's involvement in US government spying. But AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told TechCrunch writers that their jobs were safe under Verizon and TechCrunch passed that assurance along to readers. What then are we […]

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Despite A Surge, Rubio's Path To The Nomination Remains Perilous

A late-primary strategy could be disastrous

China Suspected in Massive Breach of Federal Personnel Data

"This is an attack against the nation."

Oregon Senate votes to double time for sex crimes charges

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Senate approved a bill Thursday doubling the amount of time rape or sexual assault victims would have to press charges against their abusers, despite requests from sexual assault victims to expand it even further or get rid of it completely.

The measure would set ...

Iran's Supreme Leader Compares American Cops to the Islamic State

"[T]hey're all the same."

No. 23 Seed Plays First Ever Semi-Final Match In French Open

'You don't get to be playing a semifinal of a Grand Slam every day'

There's a Wild Rumor About John Kerry's Bike Accident

The conspiratorial plot twists connected Switzerland, France, Russia and a U.S.-trained Islamic State loyalist from Tajikistan.

Amanpour: U.S. Fight Against Islamic State 'Not Going Well Right Now'

Is America In Moral Decline?

The moral acceptability of divorce increased from 59 percent to 71 percent…

Is America In Moral Decline?

The moral acceptability of divorce increased from 59 percent to 71 percent…

Jeb Bush to announce presidential decision on June 15

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is announcing his 2016 decision on June 15 in Miami.

The former governor tweeted out "Coming soon ..." with a link to the jebannouncement.com Thursday morning.

The event will take place at the Miami Dade College Kendall Campus.

Mr. Bush announced in December ...

Jeb Bush to Announce Presidential Campaign Plans June 15, Report Says

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Snoop Dogg Agitates The Left With Post About 'Science Project' Bruce Jenner

Most in the media and Hollywood are praising Bruce Jenner's transition to Caitlyn Jenner. Not Rapper Snoop Dogg. Snoop posted a meme on Instagram Wednesday referring to Caitlyn Jenner as "that science project" and slamming Jenner as not deserving the media attention for his Vanity Fair cover while Akon's plan to provide solar power to hundreds of millions of impoverished Africans has ...More

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South African police investigating World Cup bribes

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - South Africa's organized and serious crime unit said Thursday it was conducting a "preliminary" investigation into bribery allegations surrounding the 2010 World Cup bid.

The unit's spokesman, Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi, told The Associated Press that a file had been opened and the unit would ...

UK Student Union Backs Israel Boycott, After Rejecting Islamic State Condemnation

The executive board for the largest student union in the United Kingdom is under fire for joining the boycott campaign against Israel, after the council voted down a previous measure to condemn the Islamic State late last year.

The Latest: SAfrican police investigating World Cup bribes

The latest on the FIFA corruption investigation:

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0845 GMT (4:45 a.m. EDT)

South Africa's organized crime unit is conducting a preliminary investigation into bribery allegations surrounding the 2010 World Cup bid after being provided with documents by an opposition political party.

The unit's spokesman, Hangwani Mulaudzi, says a file ...

Press Told There Will Be 'NO Opportunities to Interview Hillary Clinton'

A press release from Texas Southern University warned reporters attending Clinton's speech at the university on Thursday that they will have no chance to interview the Democratic presidential nominee. A Bloomberg correspondent posted the university confirmation note from TSU to Twitter on Wednesday, which stated with big, bold red letters stating that Clinton would not be answering questions ...More

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41 to become US citizens at Buffalo History Museum

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A federal judge is set to administer the Oath of Allegiance to a new group of U.S. citizens at the Buffalo History Museum.

The 41 men and women will be naturalized at a ceremony Thursday.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says the newest citizens are from ...

FIFA: Blatter resignation won't lead many to quit

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A consistent ally of Sepp Blatter, Danny Jordaan already has a new job.

Jordaan, the head of the South African Football Association, was credited with bringing the 2010 World Cup to South Africa. He is also being investigated for $10 million in bribes paid to ...

New dimensions to the Hillary email server story?

(Paul Mirengoff) Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reports that the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has obtained information that could deepen the Hillary Clinton private email server scandal. The information is contained in notes of a meeting between two State Department whistleblowers and Oversight Committee staff. During the meeting, the whistleblowers said that a State Department inspector told them he discovered Hillary's private email server while investigating the work

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Pinners' Delight: Buyable pins are coming to Pinterest (But no sex toys allowed)

There was a time in San Francisco when "pinner" used to be a racial epithet and a word denoting slender, single-serving marijuana cigarettes. That was the old San Francisco. In the new San Francisco, Pinterest has finally confirmed to its pinners what so many outsiders had assumed all along: that it is an ecommerce company. To hear CEO Ben Silbermann say it on stage at yesterday at the announcement of […]

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The Latest: Warner makes televised address in Trinidad

0040 GMT (8:40 p.m. EDT)

Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner made a televised address in Trinidad on Wednesday night, saying he will prove a link between soccer's governing body and his nation's elections in 2010.

"I will no longer keep secrets for them who actively seek to destroy the ...

Duggar Parents: We Face Bigger Backlash Because We're Christians [VIDEO]

'All of us as Christians, we struggle every day.'

Latest Clinton cash scandal carries national security implications

(Paul Mirengoff) Ever since his days in Arkansas, Bill Clinton has had an unerring ability to sniff out corruption and get in bed with it. Or, in the case of Jim McDougal, to sit sweating in its chair. With the Clinton Foundation, Slick Willy has raised this skill to an art form. If there is a corrupt government with which to engage in mutual backscratching, Bill Clinton will find it. Before long,

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CNN Experts: Conservatives Don't See LGBT As 'Human Beings'

A panel of CNN experts blasted former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee on Tuesday for his "insensitive" comments on transgenderism and gender-neutral bathrooms. Huckabee said that there is a time he wishes he could've been transgender: When it was time to hit the high school showers. The governor's comments came in February at the 2015 National Religious Broadcasters ...More

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The Puritans Behind Jennerpalooza

Not all Puritans live in 17th century Salem

'Really, Erin?': CNN Host's Strange Question for Conservative Activist Reportedly Targeted for Beheading

Wow.

'Really, Erin?': CNN Host's Strange Question for Conservative Activist Reportedly Targeted for Beheading

Wow.

June 3, 2015

Union Ramps Up Efforts To Oppose Fast-Track For President

'Join us in calling our representatives in Congress to urge them to stop this runaway trade deal'

Michael McCaul says effort to counter violent extremism lacks structure

House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul said the nation's effort to counter violent extremism lacks structure, sufficient manpower and adequate funding, and is calling on the Department of Homeland Security to step up its efforts.

The Texas Republican said President Obama's three-year-old strategy has been hobbled by mismanagement ...

Tax Dollars, Official Data Lost To Shoddy Cloud Computing Contracts

Taxpayer dollars could be lost thanks to the government's inability to form effective cloud computing contracts.

Video: Confrontation Causes the Benches to Clear Before Marlins Beat Cubs 7-3

Carly Fiorina Reports Net Worth of $59 Million

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO also released two years worth of tax returns on Wednesday.

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Boston Terrorist Wanted to Kill Pamela Geller

(John Hinderaker) More news is leaking out about Usaama Rahim, the 26-year-old would-be terrorist who was shot by police in Boston. CNN reports that Rahim's original plan was to behead Pamela Geller: Usaamah Rahim, who was fatally shot after waving a military knife at law enforcement officers in Boston, was originally plotting to behead Pamela Geller, an activist and conservative blogger, law enforcement sources told CNN on Wednesday. But he and his

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Ever Looked Yourself Up? New Site Reveals More Than You'll Believe!

Search Your Name Now to Find Out...

Is This How You Prevent the Enforcement of 'Stupid, Pointless Regulations' Without Changing the Law?

"I want to have an incentive for the bureaucrats to back off."

Is This How You Prevent the Enforcement of 'Stupid, Pointless Regulations' Without Changing the Law?

"I want to have an incentive for the bureaucrats to back off."

Chris Matthew's Wife Running For Congress As Democrat

The wife of MSNBC personality Chris Matthews, Kathleen Matthews, launched her candidacy for Maryland's 8th Congressional District seat on Wednesday. Matthews, seeking to replace Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) who is running for Senate, is vowing to fight for liberal causes, including abortion rights, raising the minimum wage, equal pay for women. Matthews is a former ...More

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'Virtual U.S. Embassy Tehran' helps U.S. connect with Iranians on Facebook

While full diplomatic relations with Iran remain a distant dream of the Obama administration, a small clutch of American officials have spent the past three years quietly building a "Virtual U.S. Embassy Tehran" that now boasts more than a half-million Facebook fans and a digital footprint that sources say is ...

Sister of Reality Star Josh Duggar Says She Was a Victim, but Wants to Defend Her Brother

"…so overboard and a lie."

CNN Host Asks Target Of Jihadist Beheading Plot If She's 'Stoking The Flames' [VIDEO]

'Who self-promotes to get killed?'

Guest Puts Live Interview on Hold to Be a Mom, Resulting in Jake Tapper's 'Favorite' Live TV Moment of 2015

"Jake, I'm sorry. I'm a mom too."

Lincoln Chafee, bum of the week

(Paul Mirengoff) During the first half of 1941, Joe Louis, the heavyweight champion of the world, took on a series of challengers at the rate of one per month. Sportswriters dubbed the challengers "the bum of the month club." In the past month or so, Hillary Clinton is picking up weak challengers for the Democratic presidential nomination at the rate of about one per week. First came Bernie Sanders, a 73 year-old

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Geraldo Rivera: Vince Vaughn Is Like Timothy McVeigh on Guns Rights

Geraldo Rivera slammed Vince Vaughn on Tuesday's airing of Fox News' The Five, claiming the actor's pro-gun statements reminded him of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. Co-host of The Five, Greg Gutfeld, began the show discussing the media's reaction to Vaughn's recent comments. "The Second Amendment is most lavishly defended" amendment in "all the Constitution of the United States," ...More

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3,700 illegal immigrant 'Threat Level 1' criminals released into U.S. by Homeland Security

Most of the illegal immigrant criminals Homeland Security officials released from custody last year were discretionary, meaning the department could have kept them in detention but chose instead to let them onto the streets as their deportation cases moved through the system, according to new numbers from Congress.

Some of ...

Twitter Users Vow To #BoycottESPN For Giving Courage Award To Caitlyn Jenner

'Elective surgery isn't courage or bravery...'

Here's the Joe Biden Joke That Now Has Ted Cruz Apologizing

"It was a mistake…"

The Power Line team is talking 2016 live on YouTube right now

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Texas Executes 67-Year-Old Lester Bower for Fatally Shooting 4 Men Over 31 Years Ago

He's the eighth Texas inmate put to death this year.

Antidotes to Silly Commencement Addresses

(Steven Hayward) So it's college commencement time, which means graduates are typically subjected to appallingly trite commencement addresses from appallingly trite celebrities whose mediocrity goes unnoticed even when on full live display in front of the new graduates of some of our finest universities. Which may say something about the substantive quality of higher education today. One antidote is the six-minute video George Will has done this week for Prager University on

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Barbarism: Family Beats Girl To Induce Abortion, Burns Remains

Four accused of beating pregnant teen, another with sexual assault

Boston Terror Suspect Originally Plotted to Behead High-Profile Conservative Activist: Report

"This is a showdown for American freedom."

Lincoln Chafee Talks Peace with ISIS, Forgiveness for Edward Snowden, and the Metric System for All

The former Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat laid out the themes of his presidential campaign on Wednesday.

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What If Operation Choke Point Was Used Against Progressive-Friendly Businesses?

Democrats, be careful what you wish for, as it could be visited upon you ten-fold.

Lincoln Chafee Challenges Hillary in 2016: 'Elections are About Choices'

U.S. Says 10,000 Islamic State Militants Killed in Nine-Month Campaign

PARIS (Reuters) - More than 10,000 Islamic State fighters have been killed since the international coalition started its campaign against the militant group nine months ago in Iraq and Syria, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.

With $50 million in new funding, TJ Parker and PillPack take aim at the pharmacy establishment

Growing up in Concord, New Hampshire, TJ Parker kind of figured that he would end up one day running the family pharmacy business. Parker filled various roles for the pharmacy his father ran, working behind counter or delivering medications to the nursing homes and assisted living facilities. He even color-coded one customer's pill bottles so that she knew which time of the day to take each medication. So it was quite […]

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Scott Walker: 'I hope in the future we'll re-establish the Patriot Act'

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday called for a full reauthorization of the Patriot Act, a day after the U.S. Senate voted to rewrite the post-9/11 law and overhaul the NSA's bulk data collection program.

Mr. Walker, a potential 2016 GOP presidential candidate, said on "Fox and Friends" that he ...

Hillary's Campaign Relaunch Bumps Roosevelt Island Children's Event, Blood Drive

Go to the back of the line, kids. Go to the back of the line. Geoff Earle, NY Post: Hillary Clinton's campaign didn't pick the best time to stage a major campaign rally at Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island later this month. According to the park's website, a specially planned event for tots called […]

Biologists, State Park Rangers Puzzle Over Why a Dozen Piles of Worms Lined Up in the Middle of the Road

"We were all fascinated by what happened."

IRS Approves Marijuana Church That Says 'God' Is Sexist

'LOVE is our GOD/GODDESS without sexism'

Has ISIS Resorted To Spray-Painting Threats At American Elementary Schools?

The bravery of targeting a grade school has all the marks of ISIS

Share a Bathroom With Other People? Here's Something You May or May Not Want to Know About Your Toothbrush

"Better hygiene practices are recommended."

Bobby Jindal to Announce June 24 Whether He's Running for President

The conservative Louisiana governor would join a large and growing Republican field.

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Scarborough: Hillary Clinton 'Running Scared' From the Press

Ministry Responds to Firestorm Over Famed Megapastor's Quest for Coveted $65 Million Private Aircraft: 'We Plan to Acquire a Gulfstream G650 Because It Is the Best'

"I dare you to tell me I can't dream!"

CRB: Which side are you on?

(Scott Johnson) Just in time for summer reading, the spring issue of the Claremont Review of Books has arrived. Subscribe here for the heavily subsidized, ridiculously low price of $19.95 and get immediate online access thrown in for free. If you enjoy books and politics, the CRB is the best magazine going. If you enjoy reading about books about politics, ditto. Courtesy of our friends among the CRB editors, I took an

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Elementary School Kitchen Manager Bought Kids Lunches. She's Been Fired for It but Says She'd Do It Again.

"I had a first grader in front of me, crying, because she doesn't have enough money for lunch."

How to Make Friends and Influence Elections

This California winemaker has a private plane and a boat. Now he has a super PAC, too.

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CNN: White House 'Can't be Happy' About Large Drop in Polls

California Lawmakers Pass Bill to Raise Smoking Age to 21

"Stop allowing tobacco companies to make the deadly product so readily available to our youth."

Lincoln Chafee Set to Enter Democratic Presidential Field

The former Rhode Island governor says he'll focus on the middle class, and will attack Hillary Clinton for her vote to authorize the Iraq War.

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Police Now Arresting For 'Manspreading' on NYC Subways

If you are a man living in liberal NYC, you might want to sit with your legs crossed or close together while riding on the subway from now on, or you could face a brush with the law–even jail time. Two men have been arrested in New York for 'manspreading' – the act of taking up ...More

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Kansas lawmakers approve further limits on local gun rules

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas legislators have approved a bill to prevent cities and counties from imposing special taxes on firearms or from using zoning ordinances to limit gun sales.

The House passed the measure on a 96-14 vote Tuesday. The Senate approved it on a 35-3 vote Monday, and ...

FEC Attempts to Strong-Arm Anti-Hillary Group

illary PAC on Tuesday responded to federal regulators' attempts to force the group to change its name with a simple declaration: "No."

NC House panel to debate updated gun bill

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - House Republicans have decided to move forward with an updated bill on gun regulations that ultimately still would repeal North Carolina's pistol permit application system run by local sheriffs.

The House Rules Committee prepared to meet Wednesday morning to discuss a new version of the legislation ...

McConnell's role in surveillance bill bewilders his friends

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, generally seen as a master congressional deal-maker, walked into a legislative dead end on domestic surveillance that left some of his friends bewildered.

The Kentucky Republican had repeatedly insisted on continuing the government's bulk collection of Americans' phone data. That put him ...

House panel backs bill amending gun background checks bill

SALEM, Ore. (AP) - An Oregon House committee advanced legislation Tuesday that makes changes to a bill requiring background checks for most private firearm transfers.

The House Judiciary Committee approved a measure allowing people to lend firearms to a friend for seven days without having to visit a licensed gun ...

Two World War I Heroes Finally Awarded Medal Of Honor

'Never too late to say thank you'

FBI Arrests Man in Connection With Terrorism Investigation of Boston Man Fatally Shot by Officers

The charges are related to an investigation of Usaama Rahim, who was under 24-hour surveillance by terrorism investigators before he was shot and killed Tuesday.

New Black Panther Party Members Admit Planning to Kill Prosecutor, Blow Up Police Station

Two members of the New Black Panther Party who met in Ferguson during protests over Michael Brown's death admitted to plotting to bomb a police station and kill the prosecutor involved in the case. Olajuwon Ali Davis, 23, and Brandon Orlando Baldwin, 24, plead guilty to multiple explosive and gun related charges in federal court Tuesday. ...More

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"Ex Machina" brilliantly captures the horror and hubris of the modern tech CEO

(If you live in New York, you can still catch Ex Machina on the big screen at Nitehawk Cinema. It's definitely worth seeing in a theater, and also Nitehawk is the best). If somebody told you the basic plot but little else about the 2015 science fiction film Ex Machina, you'd be forgiven for thinking, well, that the world doesn't need another film like Ex Machina. The directorial debut of longtime Danny Boyle […]

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The Price Of Transgender Acceptance

There's more to this issue than equal treatment

Watch the Faces of Rest of CNN Panel When Conservative Guest Gives Her Opinion on Caitlyn Jenner

"Repugnant"