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Flashback: Obama Said Iran Deal Not Based on ‘Trust’

President Barack Obama insisted in a speech Aug. 5 that the Iran deal “doesn’t require trust,” because it “verifies” Iranian compliance. Now, that claim has been destroyed, thanks to an Associated Press report confirming that Iran will be testing a suspected nuclear site on its own.

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Obama Hires First Openly Transgender White House Official

Raffi Freedman-Gurspan began working for Obama this week, according to the Washington Blade, and was previously a a policy adviser for the National Center for Transgender Equality. Freedman-Gurspan was hired to work at the White House personal office as the director of outreach and recruitment.

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Obama Wants $1 Billion For Post Presidency Legacy

In recent months, Obama has been hobnobbing with wealthy CEOs and Wall Street bankers at the White House, drinking “extra-dry Grey Goose martinis” as he waxes eloquently about his presidential library. Tech moguls have pitched him ways to make his library a digital state-of-the-art facility to expand his policies around the world.

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5 Things America Has Lost in Cuba

Today the Obama administration raised the American flag above the U.S. embassy in Cuba. It is unclear what, if anything, the U.S. has won in exchange for normalizing relations with the Castro regime–one of the world’s most oppressive tyrannies. It is clearer what we have lost.

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‘The Best Is Yet To Come’ – Obama Releases Summer Vacation Spotify Playlist

Some themes obviously reflect his current mood in his presidency including “Nothing Even Matters” by Lauryn Hill, and “The Best Is Yet To Come” by Frank Sinatra. After beginning with an inexplicably jazzy version of the Sound Of Music’s “My Favorite Things,” the playlist predictably moves into Beyonce territory with Superpower followed by Van Morrison’s “Moon Dance.”

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Iran Deal: Stop Fighting Schumer, and Fight Obama

There is a strong case for cynicism about Schumer’s decision to oppose the Iran deal, but Schumer’s own essay on the deal is a potent weapon against Obama’s arguments. Obama’s army is in retreat on this issue. Forget Schumer himself. Fight.

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Steny Hoyer: Failing to Pass Iran Deal Won’t Lead to War

Tuesday on CNN’s “Newsroom With Carol Costello,”  House Democratic Whip Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) broke ranks with President Barack Obama saying he did not agree with his administration’s stance that if the Iran nuclear deal was not passed, the only alternative is

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Obama Refuses to Diagnose an Ailing Islam

In the aftermath of the July 16th Chattanooga murders claiming the lives of five U.S. servicemen and the FBI’s findings concerning the killer’s motivation, we desperately need a correct diagnosis to be made as to cause. Unfortunately, both the media and our government refuse to give it.

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Obama’s Syrian Rebel Force Goes AWOL and MIA

As mentioned last week, President Obama’s desultory attempt to influence the bloody chaos in Syria with a mere handful of U.S.-trained and equipped Syrian rebels brought contempt and stunned disbelief from across the Arab world.