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White House Focused on Executive Action for Background Checks on Private Sales

On November 12 a CBS News report focused on Everytown for Gun Safety’s efforts to secure more gun control revealed that President Obama has “assigned White House lawyers” to look for a way that executive action can be used to expand background checks to include private gun sales or at least some sales by private gun owners.

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3 Previously Deported Sexual Predators Cross Texas Border, Feds Call Them ‘Undocumented Immigrants’

Three previously deported sexual predators, including two pedophiles, were caught illegally crossing into Texas from Mexico and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) downplayed the Mexican nationals’ crimes with a press release headlined, “Laredo Sector Border Patrol Agents Arrest Three Male Subjects with Criminal Records.” The agency then avoided the legal term “illegal alien” or “criminal alien” and identified the previously convicted and deported sexual predators as “undocumented immigrants.”

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at the Evinronmentalists for Hillary event on November 9, 2015 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Clinton highlighted the importance of reneweable energy and moving away from coal power. (Photo by

Hillary Clinton Revives Her ‘Marine Story’ For Veterans Day

When a leading Republican presidential candidate was targeted last week by a sloppy hit piece that claimed he was lying about an effort to recruit him out of high school to West Point, commentators with long memories recalled that Hillary Clinton used to tell a story about trying to join the Marines when she was in college.

: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets guests following the Evinronmentalists for Hillary event on November 9, 2015 in Nashua, New Hampshire. Clinton highlighted the importance of reneweable energy and moving away from coal power. (Photo by )

FBI Expands Hillary Clinton Probe, Investigates Possible False Statements

Fox News reports word from sources within the intelligence community that the FBI’s probe of Hillary Clinton’s email server is expanding again, and will now include the investigation of “materially false” statements, under a statute that also covers pressuring third parties to participate in cover-ups. If the Bureau is talking about indicting people for false statements this quickly after moving from preliminary inquiries into a full-blown investigation, it probably isn’t good news for ClintonWorld.

Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at 'Politics And Eggs' at the Radisson Hotel, on November 11, 2015 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Coming off the fourth debate Trump continues to run strong in the polls.

GOP Voters Back Donald Trump on Immigration

An Economist/YouGov survey finds Republican voters overwhelmingly prefer Donald Trump’s position on immigration to that of his rivals. Some 49 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents say Trump is the candidate best able to handle the issue of immigration. Republicans’ preference for Trump on the issue is so overwhelming one pauses to remember that he is running against a crowded field of competitors.

Chris Christie

Facts of Life: Chris Christie, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham Register ZERO Delegates in Alabama

Declaring delegates “is really [a way] to say you have supporters in the state,” said Reed Phillips, the political director for the Alabama GOP. It shows “you have people in Alabama that are saying, ‘I like Ben Carson or I like Ted Cruz, I want to say I’m a supporter of this candidate, I want to represent the people of Alabama [by] saying I want this candidate to be our nominee,’” he tells Breitbart News.

Neel Kashkari

The Federal Reserve of Goldman Sachs

With the appointment of Neel Kashkari as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, former Goldman Sachs executives will hold 4 of the 5 Fed Presidents’ seats on the powerful Federal Open Markets Committee that controls U.S. interests rates.

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Poll: Trump Getting More Hispanic Support Than Romney in 2012

A new poll of 2,000 citizens shows that Donald Trump’s immigration policy is more popular among Hispanic Americans than Gov. Mitt Romney was in 2012, even though the pollsters reminded the respondents of Trump’s most controversial and crude statements on immigration.

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A Veteran for Our Time

Serious problems require serious leaders, not career politicians or Washington insiders. We need to identify people with solid experience in national security or job creation, or both, and encourage them to run for local, state and national offices. This is the first in a series of columns about such people. One of the best is Missouri candidate for governor Eric Greitens.