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Politico’s GOP Insiders Think Donald Trump May Be The Nominee

It wasn’t all that long ago that many of the same “early state” operatives and strategists had Trump pegged for an early primary exit. The news that Donald Trump is increasingly likely to win the GOP nomination is likely to force some of the establishment forces dogging him to recalibrate. Say what they will, there’s no way operatives and strategists are going to want to be frozen out from feeding at the general election trough should Trump become their party’s standard bearer next Fall.

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Establishment Women Reporters Swoon As ‘Maternal’ Hillary Clinton ‘Liberates’ Them

The generally pro-Democratic publication Politico ran one of the most unintentionally funny pieces in the history of American journalism Monday, by profiling 18 female reporters who cover Clinton for mainstream media outlets. The piece revealed that the mostly-female Clinton press corps all got together at Clinton’s Brooklyn headquarters in August, having presumably been invited by the Clinton campaign (Breitbart News’ lead Clinton campaign correspondent, Patrick Howley, was not in attendance).

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Paul Ryan: House GOP Leadership’s Third Strike

If GOP leadership puts forward Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as its “Plan C” for Speaker of the House, which appears to be Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) and Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) plan, it’s sure to be a third strike, according to several influential conservatives.

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Politico ‘Analyzes’ Grammar of Facebook Commenters

Pity the poor folks at satirical periodical The Onion. It is increasingly hard to parody everyday life when reality has become an electric kool-aid acid test. On Monday, purported news site Politico brought its self-reported sharp political analysis to bear by analyzing the grammar of Facebook commenters for various Presidential candidates.

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Migrants Navigating Through Europe Using BBC-Made Maps

Migrants attempting the precarious, illegal journey up through Europe are navigating using a map created by the publicly-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), as revealed in Sky News coverage from earlier today. The very basic map, which is unlikely to have

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Politico Dubs Pope Francis the ‘Anti-Donald Trump’

In the general scramble to grab a bit of Pope Francis’ luster in time for his upcoming trip to the United States, Politico has joined a host of other journals, pundits and politicians to stake a claim to the popular pontiff while attempting to distance him from their political adversaries.

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CNN, Politico, WaPo, NYT Bury Hillary Clinton Email Bombshell

Tuesday night the bombshell news hit that Democrat presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton turned over her rogue email server to authorities and that the Inspector General found that, despite Clinton saying the complete opposite was true just a few months ago,