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Twitter has launched a standalone app for influential Twitter users where they can only see the analytical performance of their tweets.

In the crazy, topsy-turvy year of 2018, socialism is somehow on the rise in America. To those of us unfortunate enough to have been born in the Soviet Union, this is troubling. The new socialists s…

“You don’t know crap about this, Don! You’re a TV guy!" Bongino said. "I was a Secret Service Agent!

As ObamaCare implodes, Democrats blame insurers, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.

The two Americans stabbed Friday night at a train station in Amsterdam were targeted by an Afghan citizen who had a “terrorist motive,” officials say.

Ronna McDaniel appears as conversant with the party platform as the late Bob Dole, who famously said that he never bothered to read it.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that "the cowardly attack was committed by those who are rescued by the Americans ... and they are financed by Saudi and Emirate's money."

This week, Fox News released a poll indicating the majority of Americans view Hillary Clinton as a positive role model.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania ordered the release of 11 immigration detainees over concerns that their health could be in jeopardy if they contracted coronavirus in detention.

Sources told Fox News that the investigation will likely lead to an indictment.

We don’t get to make ourselves feel better by putting on safety pins and self-designating ourselves as allies.

Bill and Hillary had a vicious fight over her blaming FBI Director Comey for her slump in the polls, reveals a source close to the ex-president. Bill says Mook and Podesta were at fault.

Police are responding to an active shooting situation at the The Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill in Pittsburgh. There are reports of MULTIPLE FATALITIES! BREAKING: HEAVY POLICE ACTIVITY AT TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE IN SQUIRREL HILL pic.twitter.com/nHIPehF3ar — Chris Lovingood WTAE (@CLovingoodWTAE) October 27, 2018 A man reportedly walked into the synagogue and …

The Democratic party handed Donald Trump the opportunity to change the electoral map, and he took advantage by reformulating the Republican message.

Two decades of “Castro-is-dead” rumors are finally at an end. And the race is on to see which world leader can most fulsomely praise Fidel Castro’s legacy, while delicately averting their eyes from his less savory characteristics. Two dul -elected leaders of democracies who should know better, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau and American president Barack Obama, are leading the way. Mr. Trudeau praised Castro as a “legendary revolutionary and orator” who “made significant improvements to the education and health care of his island nation.” Mr. Obama offered his “condolences” to the Cuban people, and blandly suggested that “history will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure.” Now, he added, we can “look to the future.” With all due respect to Mr. Obama, the 60 years Fidel Castro spent systematically exploiting and oppressing the people of Cuba provide more than enough history to pass judgment on both Fidel and, now more importantly, his brother Raul. My own family’s experience is a case in point. My father, Rafael, had been an early supporter of the revolution against Fulgencio Batista — and spent a time in prison getting his teeth kicked in for his efforts. He fled the island, only to return to what he hoped would be a liberated Cuba. Instead, he found a new, even more brutal, form of repression had taken hold. In 1960, he left again, never to return. His sister, my Tia Sonia, bravely joined the resistance to Castro and was jailed and tortured in her turn. The betrayal and violence experienced by my father and aunt were all too typical of the millions of Cubans who have suffered under the Castro regime over the last six decades. This is not the stuff of Cold War history that can be swept under the rug simply because Fidel is dead. Consider, for example, the dissidents Guillermo Fariñas and Elizardo Sanchez, who warned me in the summer of 2013 that the Castros, then on the ropes because of the reduction of Venezuelan patronage, were plotting to cement their hold on power by pretending to liberalize in order to get the American economic embargo lifted. Their model was Vladimir Putin’s consolidation of power in Russia (Sanchez called it “Putinismo”), and their plan was to get the United States to pay for it. It worked. The year after I met with Fariñas and Sanchez, Mr. Obama announced his famous “thaw” with the Castros, and the American dollars started flowing. As we now know, there was no corresponding political liberalization. Last September, Mr. Fariñas concluded his 25th hunger strike against the Castros’ oppression. Then there is the case of the prominent dissident Oswaldo Paya, who in 2012 died in a car crash that is widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Castro regime. His daughter, Rosa Maria, has pressed relentlessly for answers, and thus become a target herself. When, just three years after her father’s death, the United States honored the Castros with a new embassy in Washington, D.C., Rosa Maria tried to attend the related State Department press conference as an accredited journalist. But she was spotted by the Cuban delegation, who demanded that she be removed if she dared ask any questions. The Americans complied, in an act of thuggery more typical of Havana than Washington. Finally, I had the honor last summer to meet with Dr. Oscar Biscet, an early truth-teller about the disgusting practice of post-birth abortions in Cuba who has been repeatedly jailed and tortured for his fearless opposition to the Castros. I asked him, as I had asked Senores Farinas and Sanchez, whether his ability to travel signaled growing freedom on the island. He answered just as they had three years earlier: “No.” In fact, he said, the repression had grown worse since the “thaw” with America. Didn’t we realize, he wondered, that all those American dollars were flowing into the Castros’ pockets, and funding the next generation of their police state? That is the true legacy of Fidel Castro — that he was able to institutionalize his dictatorship so it would survive him. There is a real danger that we will now fall into the trap of thinking Fidel’s death represents material change in Cuba. It does not. The moment to exert maximum pressure would have been eight years ago, when his failing health forced him to pass control to his brother Raul. But, rather than leverage the transition in our favor, the Obama administration decided to start negotiations with Raul in the mistaken belief that he would prove more reasonable than his brother (an unfortunate pattern they repeated with Kim Jong-un, Hassan Rouhani, and Nicolas Maduro). Efforts to be diplomatically polite about Fidel’s death suggest the administration still hopes Raul can be brought round. #related#All historical evidence points to the opposite conclusion. Raul is not a “different” Castro. He is his brother’s chosen successor who has spent the last eight years implementing his dynastic plan. Unlike Cuba, however, the United States has an actual democracy, and our recent elections suggest there is significant resistance among the American people to the Obama administration’s policy of appeasement towards hostile dictators. We can — and should — send clear signals that that policy is at an end. Among other things, we should halt the dangerous “security cooperation” we have begun with the Castro regime, which extends to military exercises, counter-narcotics efforts, communications, and navigation — all of which places our sensitive information in the hands of a hostile government that would not hesitate to share it with other enemies from Tehran to Pyongyang. And we should insist that no United States government official attend Castro’s funeral unless and until Raul releases his political prisoners, first and foremost those who have been detained since Fidel’s death. I hope all my colleagues will join me in calling for these alterations. A dictator is dead. But his dark, repressive legacy will not automatically follow him to the grave. Change can come to Cuba, but only if America learns from history and prevents Fidel’s successor from playing the same old tricks. — Ted Cruz represents Texas in the United States Senate.

An illegal immigrant released by a “sanctuary city” county in New Jersey was charged this week with a triple homicide halfway across the country in Missouri, authorities said Friday.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall Paramount has announced that a sequel to Al Gore?s 2006 climate documentary ?An Inconvenient Truth? will be aired at the Sundance Festival in January 2…

Melania Trump has responded to Michelle Obama's revelation that an offer for advice has been ignored, saying she is a "strong and independent woman."

A post of an article from a site called #muslimgirl caught my eye this evening. It was, for the most part a lament from a young Muslim woman who complained in rambling prose about the levels of questioning and pestering that she claims to have experienced since her parents brought her to America from Pakistan. Much of her complaining was regarding her traditional dress and having to refuse request from those around her to see her hair which is usually hidden under the hijab. I will keep this “response” to this woman and my thinking about her plight as short as possible because it is not worthy of miles and miles of rambling comments. Let it suffice to say, “Get over it.” Get over it because you and your parents chose to request asylum or refugee status in our country. It is not the place of the host to bend over backward to accommodate you. It is you who think you would be better off here because our country offers things that yours does not. It offers economic opportunity, safety, relative security, and most of all freedom to walk down the street or move across the country as you please. It often also provide financial assistance to those who cannot afford to make it on their own but there is a limit to our patience. Perhaps you should consider that your habits and dress stand out from the rest of the community where you live and therefore draw attention to yourself. In doing so, you attract the curious and those who simply want to know the why and the how of your customs but really don’t mean you any harm. Perhaps others understand that many from your country and other Muslim countries beg to come here but choose to sequester themselves in enclaves that do not want anything but the benefits without any of the obligations of immigrating to a different country with different customs and different laws. Perhaps the failure to choose to become completely American is where the disconnect develops between your wanting complete acceptance on our part without your having to offer reciprocal acceptance of our traditions and faiths. Perhaps if your country and others that follow the tenants of Islam were not so sure that it was your obligation to kill or subjugate those who do not believe in your religion and political system, then we might not be so hesitant to embrace and welcome you to our country. Very simply, your attitude is one of expecting certain privileges without any of the obligations and responsibilities that come with immigration to a country with a completely different system of government, protections for all religions instead of only one, and most importantly, the expectation that visitors and newcomers to our country respect us for the benevolence we have shown you by allowing you to resettle among us. Until the arrogance and chip on your shoulder disappear along with, perhaps, the foreign habits and dress that makes you stand out as different disappear with it, you will likely continue to experience questions and stares. Most are not particularly malevolent, a few may be, but if you truly want to become American instead of one of many self-serving “hyphenated – Americans” who have come here to turn our country into something it is never going to agree to be, you need to re-think just who needs to adjust. Expecting everything here and everyone here to treat you as if you are home in Jalalabad or Karachi is simply not in the cards. If you want to play in our sandbox, you need to learn to play by our rules. The rewards are beyond anything Karachi has to offer. It’s called ASSIMILATION. Join us and become an American. Otherwise, why did you come?

Texas officials are moving to strip millions of Medicaid dollars from Planned Parenthood in the wake of allegations that the nation’s largest abortion provider impermissibly traffics in fetal body parts from abortions.

It may have been the offseason for the Texas Legislature, but there was still ample news coming from state officials, much of which will reverberate through the legislative session starting in January.

The question isn’t whether conservatives have a health care plan. It’s which plan they’ll pick.

    If there’s one thing that Hillary Clinton allies and supporters established last year, it’s that she was the victim of the year. Nobody in the world has been more targeted and more oppressed than her. Conservative opponents are relentlessly trying to stop a former Secretary of State who before that was a United States Senator and First Lady. To these individuals, her record speaks for itself. She’s established her record. Clinton is above us all. It is for this reason the rules do not apply to her. Chelsea Manning is sitting in prison after releasing classified information to whistleblower website Wikileaks. Before her trial, she was subject to harsh treatment that some have described as torture. The former Army Private First Class did not do this out of reckless negligence or severe incompetence. She did not do it out of spite towards the military or government, nor did she do it to harm the nation. Manning leaked the information to expose wrongdoing. For that, she suffers and pays. Edward Snowden is sitting in Russia?

He’s more like his father-in-law than anyone imagines.