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SolarCity and the Silver Spoon

Having a successful business takes a lot of hard work, good market analysis, a better product or service than the competition, and advertising. Add in a bit of luck, and hopefully it will grow. If, however, you are a politically favored business—say solar—your story is different.

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EXCLUSIVE — Rick Santorum: GOP Presidential Candidates ‘Courageous’ Identifying ‘The Ideology’ of Radical Islam

GOP presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum — the only GOP candidate to appear in person at the Nevada National Security Action Summit— told the crowd that the next president must “challenge the Islamic world to take seriously the threat within,” and told Breitbart News that fellow GOP candidates are “courageous” for identifying the ideology that poses a domestic threat.

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Tennessee Gov. Haslam Not Yet Offering Constitutional Challenge to Syrian Refugee Settlement

Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Haslam is apparently off the list of possible plaintiffs—governors of the 12 “Wilson-Fish alternative program” states where non-profit VOLAGS, not state governments, run the U.S. Refugee Resettlement Program—the Thomas More Law Center says it is looking to represent in a constitutional legal challenge to the program.

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Video: Are Clinton Campaign Workers Violating Election Laws?

Explosive undercover video purports to show a lawyer working with Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Las Vegas allegedly telling local campaign workers to violate election laws and how to conceal it, and then captures several campaign workers seeming to admit to apparent violations.

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers the keynote address at the National Clean Energy Summit 8.0 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on August 24, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Political and economic leaders are attending the summit to discuss a domestic policy agenda to advance alternative energy for the country's future. (Photo by

Obama Calls Economy ‘Stronger’ After Historic Crash On Wall Street

“The economy is stronger, the housing market is stronger, people are seeing job creation again,” Obama said. He blamed Republicans on Congress for holding back the economy after they failed to pass an expansive highway bill.
“Right now, we could be putting hundreds of thousands of people back to work rebuilding the infrastructure of this country and yet we have a Congress that finances our highway bill for 3 months at a time,” he said. “That’s not what the greatest country on earth does.”

Anti-abortion activists hold a rally opposing federal funding for Planned Parenthood in front of the U.S. Capitol July 28, 2015 in Washington, DC.

Thousands Rally Across Nation Urging Defunding Planned Parenthood: #WomenBetrayed

The rallies, titled #WomenBetrayed, were launched by national pro-life group Students for Life of America (SFLA) and its partner organization Pro-Life Future in response to the gruesome undercover investigative videos released by the Center for Medical Progress over the past several weeks. Participants are urging their state and federal lawmakers to investigate, prosecute, and defund Planned Parenthood.

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Showdown on the Las Vegas Strip: Donald Trump vs. Marco Rubio at Planet Hollywood

The made-for-show-business showdown between the rising star of the Washington, D.C. GOP establishment and the controversial populist insurgent marks what might be the biggest ideological rivalry inside the Republican Party in the 2016 cycle. Trump, a bombastic flamethrower, has hammered Rubio-style Republicans for their support for amnesty for illegal aliens while not wanting jobs to first go to unemployed and struggling Americans. Rubio and his allies in the establishment of the party, on the other hand, have argued that Trump’s harsh rhetoric is not good for the Republican Party.

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State Education Officials Fear Federal Withholding of Funds Due to Low Common Core Test Participation

As parents have continued to opt their children out of the testing aligned with the Common Core standards by the thousands in some states, in others, the testing has been halted entirely due to numerous technological glitches, leaving some state education officials worried their federal funding could be at stake as a result of low participation rates in the mandated tests.