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DHS Releasing ‘Family’ Illegal Immigrants

DHS expanded family detention last year in response to the unprecedented run on the border by illegal immigrant adults with children. The government had pointed to detention as a deterrent to the ongoing influx of illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border — which has seen more than 108,000 family unit members apprehended attempting to illegally enter the U.S. over the past two fiscal years.

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Ben Carson Says He Would ‘Love’ to See Roe v. Wade Overturned

Dr. Ben Carson is taking the strongest pro-life position possible, declaring he would “ultimately love” to see the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision overturned, and abortion made illegal nationwide, with very carefully-defined exceptions where the life of the mother is at stake.

Janice Crouse, executive director of the World Congress of Families, and Stan Swim, chairman of the organization’s ninth conference.

LGBTs Riled by 3,000 Pro-Family Conservatives Meeting in Utah

Since it was announced last year that the Congress will meet for the first time on American soil, the LGBT elite have been working hard first to shut it down and then to sully it. According to a reporter with close ties to the LGBT world, the gay Human Rights Campaign has even set up a “war room” to monitor the event and to counter any arguments they find offensive.

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Carly Fiorina: Hillary Clinton ‘Flunks Economics’

GOP 2016 candidate Carly Fiorina says Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton “flunks economics” if she believes the economy is better with a Democrat in the White House. “Whose economy is she talking about? The middle class has shrunk under the Obama administration,” Fiorina responded in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.

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The CNBC Debate Moderators On Hillary Clinton and Free Trade

Consumers of political news should understand that the biases of debate moderators are highly relevant. It doesn’t mean moderators with strong views are incapable of running a good debate, but the networks really ought to make portfolios of their moderators’ political history available for easy public consumption. It is fair to ask what sort of perspective these CNBC moderators bring to the presidential contest.

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Bernie Sanders Hedge Fund Donor Hammered Over AIDS Drug

Maybe Bernie Sanders does understand the drug industry — it’s a semi-socialized system where socialism creates shortages and other problems, and then socialists like Sanders can call for expanded government control to fix the problems they’ve created, in a downward spiral toward increasing state control of society, diagnosed in 1929 by economist Ludwig von Mises in his book Interventionism, as he watched Europe collapse into fascism.

Chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo John Stumpf addresses the 2014 annual conference of the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) April 25, 2014 in Washington, DC. The two-day event focused on global business environment and prospects for growth.

GOP Donors Force House Action on Ex-Im Bank

A large block of House Republicans is working with Democrats to resurrect the Export-Import Bank, a New Deal-era federal agency benefiting the largest corporations. The Ex-Im Bank expired at the end of June, but has been resurrected through legislative efforts of Tennessee Republican Rep. Steve Filcher.

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Video of White Officer’s Takedown of Black Student Goes Viral

Videos of a white deputy roughly pulling a non-compliant black high school student out of her chair and then dragging her on the floor went viral Monday night, just hours after the incident occurred at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. Over half of Spring Valley High’s students are black.