Politics

Stephen Colbert Mocks Jeb Bush with Counter Ticket Raffle

When Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush set up a $3 ticket raffle for his upcoming guest appearance on Stephen Colbert’s first Late Show, without permission, he likely never imagined the idea would devolve into such a colossal embarrassment for his campaign.

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Exclusive – Armstrong Williams: Putting It All on the Line

In the wake of recent anti-police backlash in New York and Baltimore, crime has spiked considerably in those cities. Murder rates, robbery and theft have risen in the wake of what many believe may be officers’ hesitance to engage suspects for fear of being caught up in some public controversy over how they do their jobs. Worse yet, officers may have started to question themselves and become more fearful for their own safety in the wake of such uncertainty.

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U.S. Considers Cyberwar Sanctions Against Russia, China

Hard on the heels of reports that China and Russia are busy using stolen U.S. government data to identify American intelligence officers and assets, comes word that the Obama administration is considering retaliatory sanctions against Russian and Chinese targets.

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Think Tank: Iran Begins Military Shopping Spree in Russia

Iran has embarked upon a shopping spree, heavily focused on its military, ahead of the billions of dollars in sanctions relief funds it expects to receive, courtesy of the nuclear deal it reached with the U.S and five other world powers, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank points out.

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State Dept. Worried About Clinton Aides Accessing Top-Secret Intel on PDAs

The Hillary Clinton era was a time of much “consternation” for State Department technical staff and security experts, to borrow a word used in today’s Politico article about Clinton aides pushing for the ability to view secret and top-secret material on their personal electronic devices. Just imagine what’s in the 30,000-plus emails Clinton deleted before investigators, Congress, and the American people could see them, if the stuff she eventually decided to hand over is this alarming and embarrassing.

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En Español, Jeb Slams Trump: ‘El Hombre No Es Conservador’

Tuesday in Miami Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush went after his rival front-runner Donald Trump while speaking in Spanish. Bush said “El hombre no es conservador” — the man is not conservative. He continued in Spanish, “Besides, he tries to

Lawsuit Uncovers Secret Lois Lerner Email Account

The Hillary Clinton email scandal cover-up evidently isn’t keeping the Obama administration’s lawyers busy enough. Recently, all of America learned, thanks to Judicial Watch, that the infamous former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS Lois Lerner had

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Meet Hillary Clinton’s Team from Hell

This week, the State Department released the latest tranche of Hillary Clinton emails from her time as Secretary of State. Unsurprisingly, the emails reportedly contained few revelations, since Clinton deleted 30,000 of them and wiped her server before turning it

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WWII Vet Transmitted News of Japanese Surrender 70 Years Ago

MECHANICVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Stephen Dennis enlisted in the Navy soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Less than a year later, the raw 19-year-old recruit was thrust into fighting off the Solomon Islands and survived one of the fiercest naval battles in the South Pacific.

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Trump, Huckabee, Slam Democrats’ Deal with Iran

Donald Trump is denouncing President Barack Obama’s giveaway deal with Iran, following the announcement by Democrats that they have enough votes in the Senate to block any Senate pushback. “It’s time for a real negotiator,” Trump declares in a new

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Fear the Low-Productivity Economy of the Future

In fact, one of the worst things about politicized economics is the false promise that politicians know what the ideal economy looks like, never mind having solid plans for getting there. Is the ideal economy one in which everyone’s basic needs are covered? Welcome to the endless grey fog of the collectivist welfare or communist state, which always proves unsustainable and fails to deliver on those promises anyway.

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