#341251
Just 5.7 percent of the Clinton Foundation's massive 2014 budget actually went to charitable grants, according to the tax-exempt organization's IRS filings. The rest went to salaries and employee bene
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#341252
Republican nominee Donald Trump gets a lot of flak for questioning President Barack Obama's birthplace, but Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton supported the idea all the way back in 2008. https://w
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#341253
Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Mark Levin said that “we’ve had a silent coup in this country” with the Obama administration taking over healthcare, targeting the suburbs, and nationalizing the local police.
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#341254
*Someone* leaked sealed documents to the press as U.S. Supreme Ct considers whether to take the case.
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#341255
A twice-arrested illegal immigrant killed a Kansas sheriff's deputy on Sunday, a source with knowledge of the case told The Daily Caller. Adrian Espinosa-Flores, 38, was charged Monday with involun
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#341256
In the West, immorality is on the rise.
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#341257
His name is a Matt Linder, who is a legit Canuck, according to Metro News. He was confronted on campus by Zoe Slusar, the former vice president of student life
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#341258
Thirteen “blue” states are now in play in 2016 as Donald Trump continues to rise at just the right moment as Election Day looms just seven weeks from now. Remarkable.   ——————– More Whispers... Hillary Clinton Claims Russians Working For Trump BOOM: Trump Defeats Hillary In Latest Poll Hillary Clinton's Wheelchair Vehicle????
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#341259

No Pardon for Snowden

Submitted 8 years ago by ActRight Community

Edward Snowden, the former CIA and NSA contractor responsible for the worst leak in the history of American intelligence, is seeking a presidential pardon. “These were necessary things, these were vital things” to disclose, Snowden told the Guardian in an interview published this week. He has behind him the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch, and a letter encouraging President Obama to grant the pardon has been signed by a swath of celebrities ranging from George Soros and Noam Chomsky to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and actor Danny Glover. Snowden, a biopic directed by Oliver Stone, opens in theaters this weekend. But the hype and high-profile support do not change the facts. Edward Snowden should not be pardoned; he should be prosecuted. As leak cases go, this is one even Eric Holder’s Justice Department could handle. Snowden has confessed his crime, explained how and why he did it, and admitted that he knowingly endangered national security. The only issue, of course, is whether Snowden qualifies for “whistleblower” protections, and three-and-a-half years later it’s clear that his disclosures about government surveillance practices came at a disastrously high price. People on both sides of the political aisle were alarmed to discover the extent of America’s surveillance-gathering operations, the most controversial of which has been the NSA’s metadata program, and Snowden did reveal isolated instances of abuse and overreach, though no ongoing illegal practices. In an effort to assuage often-overwrought privacy concerns, Congress and the Obama administration have sought to curtail the NSA’s power to collect data in bulk; in May of last year, they (wrongheadedly, in our opinion) permitted Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which governed the metadata program, to expire, and replaced it with the misguided USA Freedom Act. Snowden and his defenders point to these and other policy revisions as an implicit admission that the policies were unconstitutional to start with. But the constitutional basis for the metadata program — the Supreme Court’s 1974 ruling in Smith v. Maryland — is quite clear. Meanwhile, the revelations about metadata collection, which have been the occasion for Snowden’s celebrity, constitute only a small portion of the information he exposed. According to former NSA director General Keith Alexander, the NSA has determined that Snowden had access to more than 1 million documents, and provided reporters with “probably over 100,000, and maybe even much more.” A declassified U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency report on the leak noted that Snowden absconded with 900,000 documents from the Department of Defense alone. And, as General Martin Dempsey, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified before Congress: “The vast majority of the documents that Mr. Snowden exfiltrated from our highest levels of security, the vast majority had nothing to do with exposing government oversight of domestic activities. The vast majority of those were related to our military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques, and procedures.” The result has been a massive setback in American intelligence-gathering and defense. We know that specific counterterrorism operations and drug-interdiction efforts have been shut down because of Snowden’s leak. High-level officials, including former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, have stated that, post-Snowden, Islamic State and al-Qaeda terrorists have modified the way they communicate. British intelligence has reported that, in the wake of the leaks, terrorists have ramped up their use of sophisticated encryption technologies. Even criminal gangs have changed their methods, making it harder for intelligence agencies to interfere in activities such as human trafficking. Russia, which recently indicated its intention to interfere in American elections, may be the biggest beneficiary of Snowden’s leak. Not only has Russian intelligence had access to the published documents, but they almost certainly have extracted additional information. In fact, a senior Russian security official confirmed as much in July: “Let’s be frank. Snowden did share intelligence. This is what security services do. If there’s a possibility to get information, they will get it.” Snowden may never have intended to become a collaborator with Russian intelligence, but his decision to eschew legal channels of oversight and flee punishment in the States by heading to Moscow — a plan arranged by the odious Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks — sounds less like the work of a whistleblower than like that of a defector, or a dupe. Snowden should face consequences for his actions, like any other lawbreaker. If Snowden is what he says he is — a whistleblower and a patriot — he will do what he should have done in 2013: surrender to the Justice Department and take his chances at trial, where he would have the opportunity to explain in full his actions and motives. Given the widespread sympathy he has garnered on both left and right, it’s hardly inconceivable that a trial would end with a hung jury and a favorable deal from the federal government. With a few shameful exceptions, it has long been the policy of the Justice Department not to negotiate with fugitives. The Obama administration should not make an exception for Snowden just because he has the support of Susan Sarandon. In 2015, Sir John Sawyers, the former head of British intelligence service MI6, said that “Snowden threw a massive rock in the pool, and the ripples haven’t stopped yet.” That will be true for years to come. Edward Snowden is responsible for a grave security breach that has endangered America’s security. He should face consequences for his actions, like any other lawbreaker.
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#341260
Medical care costs rose 1% in August compared to July, the sharpest one-month increase since 1984, the Labor Department reported.
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#341261

Donald Trump Is Not Entertainment

Submitted 8 years ago by ActRight Community

And America woke up a little worse off this morning.
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#341262
I recently got the chance to sit down and talk to Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a new freedom of speech-focused social network.
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#341263
Want these election updates emailed to you right when they’re published? Sign up here. Hillary Clinton’s lead in the polls has been declining for several weeks, and now we’re at the point where it’…
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#341264
Linking you to an article like this is pretty typical of most news and gaming websites to help give you more context as to what is being discussed. Well, what the EU has recently ruled will make it so that...
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#341265
Andrew Lawton reports that Crime Stoppers has backed down from their anti-gun billboard campaign as a result of negative backlash. MORE: http://www.therebel....
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#341266
SALT LAKE CITY ? Well-known Hispanic activist Tony Yapias was charged with rape after he allegedly assaulted a woman who ended their four-year relationship a few months ago. Yapias, 50, known…
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#341267
Patti Solis Doyle, who was Hillary's 2008 campaign manager, admitted a Clinton campaign staffer had, in fact, circulated the Birther theory.
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#341268
Flint?s Democrat Mayor Karen Weaver threw a fit over Trump?s ?unannounced? visit to Flint, Michigan. Mayor Weaver is currently caught in a lawsuit after former City Administ…
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#341269
The idea that Barack Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. and is therefore an illegitimate president—an idea thoroughly discredited after Obama released his long-form birth certificate last year—was mainlined into the femoral artery of the presidential campaign on Tuesday, as Mitt Romney prepared for his high-profile fundraiser in Las Vegas with Donald Trump. Trump is the loudest, brashest, most insistent exponent of “birtherism,” and Romney’s public embrace of him has brought it roaring back. “Is it t
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#341270
Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet.
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#341271
One of the best reasons for a Thiel nomination would be that he meets none of the bogus qualifications partisans have set up for Supreme Court justices.
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#341272
BRILLIANT! Donald Trump snookered the mainstream media into holding 30 minutes of coverage of America’s top military heroes praising Trump! ...
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#341273
Journalists lashed out at Trump for using his “major announcement” to get free airtime.
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#341274
Ben & Jerry’s have found a way to take advantage of climate change panic to sell more ice cream, by creating a list of “Endangered Pints”.
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#341275
WASHINGTON -- The media showed up to the presidential ballroom of the new Trump International Hotel on Friday morning expecting Donald Trump to take questions about whether he still questions Presiden
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