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No data finds that a single federal program has affected any of its targeted outcomes. This ought to give Betsy DeVos some humility about her position.

Obama's executive actions won't do much to stop guns. What they will do is continue to mainstream a dangerous idea about governing.

In gory new video, 7-year-old jihadist also beheads man tied to spinning disk ride.

Anita Decker-Breckenridge will act as his representative in the process.

President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks affecting the U.S. presidential election and may take actions in response, his incoming chief of staff said on Sunday.

Former NSA agent and whistleblower Bill Binney completely tears apart the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) Russian hacking report.

The question from my September 2015 post “Carbon Pollution” – tongue slip or deep ecology influence? seems to have an answer. Obama and his administration have cited “carbon pollution” on many occa…

Total: 13 0 12 1 Hillary fan club greets her on plane. HAH-HAH! Real Clear Politics crank Erin McPike says ...

Jesse Watters heads to Hunter College campus to find out what students think about the professor who tweeted about his husband harassing Ivanka Trump on an airplane.Jesse catches up with

Meteorologist Eric Holthaus, who has appeared a couple of times on these pages in the past (more on that shortly), is in therapy. Well, okay, lots of people are. But get a load of what has driven Holthaus into therapy: "I know many ppl feel deep despair about climate, especially post-election." And it's because of this, "There are days where I literally can't work," and "We don't deserve this planet."

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As the new Republican-controlled Congress moves forward with its goal of repealing the Affordable Care Act, the biggest question now is what will replace it.

Washington Post journalist David Fahrenthold learned a very difficult lesson about what happens when you ignore the four gun safety rules.

When Barack Obama moves two miles from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue to 2446 Belmont Road in Washington’s Kalorama neighborhood, he will live half a mile from 2340 S Street, where Woodrow Wilson spent his three post-presidential years. Wilson’s embittering foreign policy failure was the Senate’s rejection of the U.S. participation in the embodiment of Wilsonian aspirations, the League of Nations. Obama leaves office serene because “almost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago.” Two seemingly unimpressed nations are Russia, which is dismembering a European nation (Ukraine) and China, which is shredding international law by turning the world’s most important waterway, the South China Sea, into militarized Chinese territory. Obama’s policies that brought America to a pinnacle of admiration, as he sees it, were an amalgam of Wilsonian and anti-Wilsonian elements. Wilson’s grand ambition for America was to reorder the world in a way that would make it unnecessary for America to have grand ambitions. He thought America could lead a restful life after strenuous diplomacy had written rules for the game of nations. Many progressives believe — they take this from the Founders’ favorite philosopher, John Locke, while rejecting his natural rights teaching — in humanity’s natural sociability. This disposes them to believe that peace among nations is natural and spontaneous, or it would be if other nations would cleanse their minds of the superstitions that prevent them from recognizing the universal validity and demonstrable utility of American principles. These, said Wilson, are shared by “forward looking men and women everywhere” and “every modern nation.” He also said, inconsistently, that “every nation of the world needs to be drawn into the tutelage of America.”      RELATED: The Ancient Foreign Policy Obama seemed to doubt that America has much to teach the world, beyond post-Iraq modesty — herewith his Wilsonian dimension — and the power of diplomacy’s soft power to tame the world. Although neither the English nor the American nor the Russian nor the Spanish nor the Chinese civil war was ended by negotiations, Obama thought the especially vicious and complex civil war in Syrian’s sectarian and tribal society could be ended diplomatically. Russian president Vladimir Putin picked a side and helped it win. The fact that the world is more disorderly and less lawful than when Obama became president is less his fault than the fault of something about which progressives are skeptical — powerful, unchanging human nature. Humans are, as Job knew, born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward: They are desirous and competitive, and hence are prone to conflict. And to causing progressives to furrow their brows in puzzlement. In 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, Secretary of State John Kerry was disappointed with Putin, saying, more in sorrow than in anger: “You just don’t in the 21st century behave in 19th-century fashion.” If you do, you place yourself on (in one of Obama’s favorite phrases) “the wrong side of history.” Obama’s foreign policy presumed the existence of “the community of nations.” Make that History, which, in progressives’ lexicon, is a proper noun, an autonomous thing with a mind, or at least a logic, of its own. Kerry’s reprimand of Putin expressed a progressive’s certitude about progress: The passage of time should ineluctably improve the comportment of nations. Which is why in 1911, the renowned 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, in its entry on torture, said “the whole subject is one of only historical interest as far as Europe is concerned.” The Dachau concentration camp was opened in March 1933. Obama’s foreign policy presumed the existence of “the community of nations.” But that phrase is worse than hackneyed and sentimental, it is oxymoronic: Different nations affirm different notions of justice; a community consists of people made cohesive by a consensus about the nature of justice. #related#Obama’s second-worst unforced error, second to declaring and then abandoning a “red line” about Syrian chemical weapons, was involving the U.S. military in regime change in Libya. Perhaps this venture appealed to him because it was untainted by any discernible connection with American national interest. He conducted it by “leading from behind,” which he described as U.S. forces “being volunteered by others to carry out missions” in Libya. As George Orwell said, “The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.” Soon, foreign policy will be conducted by a man who, although in 2010 he said WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange deserves the death penalty, now seems to trust Assange on the subject of Russian hacking more than he trusts the consensus of the nation’s $53 billion civilian intelligence institutions. Time passes and, we are told, brings progress. — George Will is a Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist. © 2017 Washington Post Writers Group

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte toured a Russian warship in Manila and asked for the Russian Navy to visit more often.

Climatologist Dr. Judith Curry appeared on Fox News? Tucker Carlson Tonight saying she was so sick of politicization of global warming in academia she resigned from her tenured position at Ge…

20 million Americans have healthcare due to Obamacare. Republican voters don’t want a repeal without a replacement. Their Senators…

A journey through rural Ohio reveals how a Republican billionaire who “shits on a gold-plated toilet” learned how to “talk Democratic” better than Clinton.

With two weeks left in his term, President Obama is signaling that he intends to do anything but go quietly once President-elect Trump takes office, rejecting the example set by most every other president. Obama's failure to emulate the class and deference shown him by President George W. Bush — allowing his successor to lead without interference from the previous occupant — will not work to the Democratic Party's advantage, nor will it be good for our divided nation. The moral impact of Obama's refusal to recede cannot be understated as he's leaving the nation more politically divided than when he took office, according to polling done by the Pew Research Center. Any post-presidential meddling would undermine Trump's efforts to unify a country sorely in need of healing.

Members of Freedom Caucus are making the repeal of Obamacare their priority.

As a marijuana extract used to treat seizures becomes more widely embraced, Wisconsin Republicans are softening their opposition to medical marijuana.

"He fully supports my plan to replace Obamacare the same day we repeal it," Paul says.

Senate conservatives were eager this week to vote for the first step in repealing Obamacare. But that also meant a vote for a measure that says the public debt will increase by $9 trillion over the next 10 years – the very sort of fiscal nightmare those conservatives have been fighting for years.

Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway joined Fox News's Special Report Thursday night to discuss outgoing President Barack Obama's legacy.

In an effort to raise the bar, we are depriving children of many of the school experiences they need to develop healthy, open minds, and a love of learning.