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***Live Updates*** GOP Debate Night in South Carolina

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The Republican presidential candidates debate tonight in North Charleston, South Carolina less than three weeks before the Iowa caucuses. Carly Fiorina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will participate in the undercard debate, which starts

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GOP Field Must Use 2016 To Force Conservative Primary Reform

With an unprecedented field of uniquely qualified candidates and an equally unprecedented number of wealthy individuals willing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the nomination process, the Republican political industry is fully mobilized in the most lucrative Presidential nomination chase in history. Given these circumstances, now is the time to study reform of the nomination process, especially the Rules of the Republican Party.

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Politicians Designate Oil a ‘Loser’ In Paris, But Green ‘Winners’ Need Huge Subsidies to Survive

We have a load of headlines and sound bites about how “the end of the fossil fuel era” and Paris has put oil decisively on “the wrong side of history” – which is, not coincidentally, the same term our effete ruling class and inept President Obama use to describe ISIS terrorism. Meanwhile, as New York magazine noted, many proponents of the Paris plan “agree that its value is more about symbolism and hoped-for gains than near-term substance, and critics are zooming in on the agreement’s lack of legal teeth, as well as how optimistic it seems to be about future international cooperation, technological advancement, and the sustained domestic will within each country.”

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Rep. Rothfus: Don’t Destroy Economy for Climate Deal

President Obama may believe that less than two one-hundredths of one degree Celsius is fair tradeoff for slashing jobs, destroying the economy, lowering living standards, and making it more difficult for everyday Americans to pay their energy bills. Many Americans and their elected representatives disagree with his climate deal.

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Report: GOP Debate Expectations, High Ratings, and More Donald Trump

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — The Media Research Center (MRC) analyzed data from the first four GOP presidential primary debates to predict what the audience should expect for Tuesday’s fifth GOP primary debate, predicting the moderators will try to get candidates to fight with each other and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump will have the most talking time.

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Ceiling Shattered: Trump Surges to 41% Nationally

Proving once again that many of America’s political pundits are paid to shape public opinion through wishful thinking (disguised as analysis), Monmouth University just released a national poll showing that all this PunditSpeak about Donald Trump having a ceiling of support around 20%… No, 25%… For sure, 30%… is nonsense.

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Former Radical Dr. Tawfik Hamid: A Look ‘Inside Jihad’

Dr. Tawfik Hamid, a physician and former radical Islamist, author of “Inside Jihad: Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam,” dispelled the myth that all jihadists come from the impoverished, or uneducated fringes of Muslim society today as a guest on Breitbart News Daily.

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May the Stupid Be With You: Political Correctness Meets ‘Star Wars’

A strong contender for dumbest “Star Wars” story is MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry sobbing over the crypto-racist messages she distilled from the central character of the saga. “I could spend the whole day talking about the whole Darth Vader situation,” she wailed. “Yeah, like, the part where he was totally a black guy whose name basically was James Earl Jones, who, and we were all, but while he was black, he was terrible and bad and awful and used to cut off white men’s hands, and didn’t, you know, actually claim his son. But as soon as he claims his son and goes over to the good, he takes off his mask and he is white.”

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NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo Backtracks After Vetoes, Issues Freedom of Information Executive Order

New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo raised the ire of government reform activists by vetoing two bills that would have loosened the state’s strict controls over its Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to allow citizens quicker and easier access to government records. But then he reversed course the next day and issued an executive order intended to do the same thing.