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"The Fed operating under a cloak of secrecy has gone on for far too long," Paul said.
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Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz will air a Christmas-themed parody infomercial during the broadcast of this weekend's "Saturday Night Live." The ad, which features the Texas senator read Christmas classics like "Rudolph the Underemployed Reindeer" and "The Grinch Who Lost Her Emails," will air in key...
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Many Christians face having their belief questioned, if not downright assaulted. But the proof for the Bible's accuracy is overwhelming. Three of the world's...
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Kurt Russell opens up on 'The View' about his controversial comments on gun control.
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The only sensible conclusion one can draw is that the Rubio campaign is struggling to adjust to the big leagues of Presidential politics.
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Not only did Hillary Clinton ignore warnings to use her Blackberry in the executive offices, but she used it everywhere
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Just in time for the holidays, The Star Wars Libertarian Special features Senate filibusters, border patrol stops, eminent domain, a guest appearance by Edwa...
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Atlantic readers and others debate the question in this ongoing and often contentious thread.
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Christmas will be different this year.Oh, there still will be plenty of joy and merriment. The holiday lights will shine just as brightly and children will bubble with anticipation just as they have for generations. On the surface the season will look and feel about the same.But there will be changes nonetheless, subtle and yet unmistakable. Some of the grand old traditions, customs, and icons of our most revered holiday season will look different in the age of political correctness.Some say that this PC trend has smothered spontaneity, undermined creativity, and threatens our fundamental freedoms. They argue that in our zeal not to offend or hurt anyone else’s feelings, we risk never expressing our own. Others say it’s simply an effort to make our society more sensitive, tolerant, and respectful of others. They say it’s all part of the mellowing of America in which “kinder and gentler” has become a reality and hugging is de rigueur.No matter which view is correct, the images of Christmas and the mythological magic it spins will look entirely different through the PC prism. Here’s a sampling of the spectrum of changes we may see.
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There’s reportedly a joke going around among Iowa Republicans that Marco Rubio must be running for mayor of Ankeny, the Des Moines suburb where his sole Iowa office is located. Defying Iowa’s tradi?
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According to purists, the field of economics is supposed to be free of political ideology. Economics views itself as a science and the prevailing consensus, best articulated by Nobel-winner and Chi…
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DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz seemed visibly aggravated Friday when CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked her if the Democratic Party is trying to work more debates into its current lineup. The Florida congresswoman's first answer — though tense — seemed friendly. "We have a combination of candidate...
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Last week, Glenn Beck's nonprofit charity organization, Mercury One, through its Nazarene Fund, evacuated 149 Christian refugees from Iraq to Slovakia. Friday night, on ABC News' 20/20, reporter Elizabeth Vargas will showcase the charity's work. "We decided to go with ABC because they happen to have the best...
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If Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush or Chris Christie or John Kasich somehow ends up the Republican nominee in 2016, there will be one reason why: the Republican Party’s asinine delegate allocation process. There are several reasons why the Republican primary process is deeply flawed. Here are the top three.
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In an exclusive interview, Chuck Hagel said the Obama administration micromanaged the Pentagon, stabbed him in the back on the way out — and still?
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The tally is in, and President Barack Obama is on most Republicans' naughty list this year, while GOP White House candidate Donald Trump is on the nice list.
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Just as journalists and liberals across the world are cheering on the climate change Paris Agreement, taxpayers are about to ...
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s reliance on poorly-sited weather stations to calculate surface temperatures is inflating the warming trend of the U.S. and maybe even the rest o
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Republicans ban the IRS from private email. But why not all federal employees?By Kimberley A. Strassel, Wall Street Journal Some scandals come on fast, and some creep up on Washington. The
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The American people have some right to be ‘scared’ by terrorism, because their government has consistently failed to seriously confront the problem.
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A few days after Secretary of State John Kerry’s trip to the tsar’s court in Moscow, several obvious things have happened. Russian President Vladimir Putin has admitted that Russian troops were in East Ukraine, the International Monetary Fund has declared the $3 billion bond Ukraine owes to Russia as “official,” and Mr. Putin has stated he is ready to “push” separatists to a settlement in Donbass. Russia has also ended a trade pact with Ukraine as tensions between the two former Soviet states worsen.
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