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Getting enough sleep is a serious matter for me.  I had to perform several sleep studies to deal with severe apnea, and it was among the wisest health decisions I’ve made in my life.  I’m well-acquainted with everything that can

In the wake of the hostage taking in Sydney Australia, Vox‘s Max Fisher says it’s time to stop asking Muslims to condemn terrorism. Fisher calls the practice of giving space to Muslim leaders space to comment after a violent incident,

The reaction to Jeb Bush announcing the establishment of a leadership PAC as a presumed forst step for running for the GOP 2016 nomination may not have played well across the more conservative GOP base, but the GOP’s deep-pocketed donors

From the UK Telegraph comes a tribute to the amazing courage of the two hostages killed in Sydney: That’s Tori Johnson on the left.  He was the manager of the Lindt Cafe, just 34 years old on the day of

Almost as soon as Jeb Bush put out a note on Facebook announcing his new leadership PAC widely presumed to be his first step in seeking the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, Sen Rand Paul’s leadership went up with a couple notes

The phone numbers given to a group of friends by Jackie, the student who says she was raped in 2012 at a UVA frat hours, were all set up at an online site that allows people to send texts from

MoveOn.org claims to have gathered 110,000 signatures calling on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run for the U.S. presidency in 2016 as part of a “Run Warren Run” effort fueled by a $1 million investment just last week. For her

The Senate confirmed 36 year-old Dr. Vivek Murthy in a 51-43 vote over the objections of Republicans, gun rights groups and even some Democrats.  Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Monday bucked Democratic leadership to vote against the controversial surgeon general

Local media have been fairly diligent in recording the violence that has accompanied protests over the non-indictment of police in the deaths of unarmed black suspects. However, national media have tended to focus on the overall message of the protests,

A remarkable story by Jessica Pressler at New York magazine spread through mediaspace with lightning speed on Monday, reappearing in major media outlets with a speed normally only achieved by Star Wars Episode VII teasers flashing across teenage Facebook pages:

“Some of the actions that were taken were contrary to our values” said President Obama upon the release of last week’s Senate report on the enhanced interrogation techniques that were used during the Bush administration. Obama has a habit of

On the day three convicted bombers were executed for their roles in the 2002 Bali blast, which killed 202 people, Man Haron Monis, the Australian hostage taker, wrote a letter congratulating the families of the men on their martyrdom. Man

I have been looking forward to the release of the movie “”Exodus: Gods and Kings,” but I approached the opening with a certain degree of caution, after the last biblical movie that got me all stoked up to watch, “Noah’”

  Florida Senator Marco Rubio had a very bad weekend, this after Nicaragua’s communist dictator Daniel Ortega told Costa Rica’s Tico Times that Rubio, and one of his partners in political crime, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, would be banned from visiting his

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) raised a point of order in the US Senate Saturday evening. Heritage Action’s Michael A. Needham explained it this way. “If Senators are opposed to President Obama’s executive action on immigration, they should vote in favor of

Former Florida Gov Jeb Bush “plans to release 250,000 emails from his time as Florida governor, part of an e-book that he is writing as he mulls taking the plunge on a 2016 presidential bid”. Given that he was employed

Thank God that we have legislators like Cruz, Lee and Sessions in the U.S. Senate-gives one hope that we can expect to be properly represented.  This CRomnibus bill should be renamed, the “Crapnibus” bill. I have spoken to Lee many

Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) tends to talk a good game when it comes to taking on Barack Obama, especially when it comes to immigration. But now with the battle lines being drawn on the Republican side between conservatives and the

Underneath everything else going on as regards the current firestorm on Capitol Hill over a so called bi-partisan $1.1 trillion spending bill, distrust seems to be the order of the day and it’s hard to argue there isn’t good reason

Republican Senator Mike Lee joined Senators Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions Friday night to push for a vote to defund the president’s amnesty decree in the “Cromnibus” spending bill.  The trio of conservative senators were hoping to get the defund vote onto

More and more legislators are loving on Senator Ted Cruz nowadays, considering that he is one of a few  embers of the Republican caucus in the Senate that actually has the stones to say what he means. Here is Rep.

It was obvious yesterday that a split had emerged within the Democratic Party between a more practical wing that wanted to keep the lights on and a more extreme progressives wing that appeared willing to risk a shutdown if it

Rubio recently gathered  with his top fundraisers to highlight their importance and talk about the possibility of making a White House run  in 2016, saying “he expected to make a decision in the first quarter of 2015.” “He was pretty

There’s a scene in just about every crossover adventure of Superman and Batman where a villain or henchman must be interrogated to obtain essential information.  Superman takes a stab at it first, but even the lowliest pistol-wielding thug laughs in

The campus rape crusade, which yielded positively Orwellian “consent rules”  at some institutions, was driven in part by an oft-repeated, jaw-dropping statistic that one in five women are victimized by sexual assault during their time at college.  The Justice Department

“If you look to prior elections, the one thing that’s clear, is if we nominate in 2016, another candidate in the mold of  a Bob Dole, or a John McCain, or a Mitt Romney…but what they did, didn’t work. And

Until this week anyone on the left talking about a government shutdown was doing so to paint Republicans as irresponsible extremists willing to put at risk the “full faith and credit” of America for partisan gain. But when progressive darling

Even with all of the political push back he has received, and only days after the politically driven, Senate Democrat CIA report on interrogation tactics was released, Republican Senator John McCain, who came out in support of the report and

South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy (R) has been a “man on fire” of late,  ripping into Jonathan Gruber this past week at House Oversight Committee hearing, and then saying that he will be calling Hillary Clinton to testify before his

Not everyone in the Senate is happy as the House advances a “$1.1 trillion spending package”  to the Senate where it’s expected to pass but not without potential delay and some contentious debate. Some Republicans are upset because “the bill

The Federal Communications Commission will spend another $1.5 billion a year on “high-speed Internet in schools and libraries,” relying on a tax increase to fund it. FCC Republicans aren’t actually opposed to the measure. Their argument is that the spending

It’s been a couple of days since the “Sons of Anarchy” finale aired, but just in case, this is a spoiler warning.  Don’t read any further if you want to avoid knowing any details of the series ending. : :

It’s a good thing lying in sworn testimony before Congress isn’t a crime for liberals, or slippery con artist Jonathan Gruber would be a world of hurt.  Under oath, Gruber became a brain-damaged basket case who can’t remember anything he