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After the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the debate on race relations in the U.S. has been reignited. What do the #BlackLivesMatter activists really mea...

When the Internet’s legions of Hillary hecklers steal away to chat rooms and Facebook pages to vent grievances about Clinton, express revulsion toward Clinton and launch attacks on Clinton, they now may find themselves in a surprising place – confronted by a multimillion dollar super PAC working...

On Thursday, animal rights protesters descended on a Hillary Clinton campaign rally. Hillary, reacting with all the spontaneity we’ve come to expect from an early-model RA-7 protocol droid, scrolled through her data logs and came up with this snappy comeback: “We’ll keep talking, and apparently these people are here to protest Trump – because Trump and his kids have killed a lot of animals.”

Allah Akbar. Sharia supporting attorney Khizr Khan is still making the media rounds. Khizr Khan who waved a US Constitution ...

Every move you make. Every click you take. Every game you play. Every place you stay. They’ll be watching you.

Paul Nehlen has drawn praise from Donald Trump, who refused to endorse Ryan.

Donald Trump, the man who defied every political rule and prevailed to win his party’s nomination, last week took on perhaps the most sacred political rule of all: Never attack a Gold Star family. Not just because it alienates a vital constituency but because it reveals a shocking absence of elementary decency and of natural empathy for the most profound of human sorrows — parental grief. Why did Trump do it? It wasn’t a mistake. It was a revelation. It’s that he can’t help himself. His governing rule in life is to strike back when attacked, disrespected, or even slighted. To understand Trump, you have to grasp the General Theory: He judges every action, every pronouncement, every person by a single criterion — whether or not it/he is “nice” to Trump.  Vladimir Putin called him brilliant (in fact, he didn’t, but that’s another matter) and a bromance is born. A “Mexican” judge rules against Trump, which makes him a bad person governed by prejudiced racial instincts.  House Speaker Paul Ryan criticizes Trump’s attack on the Gold Star mother — so Trump mocks Ryan and praises his primary opponent. On what grounds? That the opponent is an experienced legislator? Is a tested leader?  Not at all. He’s “a big fan of what I’m saying, big fan,” attests Trump. You’re a fan of his, he’s a fan of yours. And vice versa. Treat him “unfairly” and you will pay. House speaker, Gold Star mother, it matters not. Of course we all try to protect our own dignity and command respect. But Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability. This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an eleven-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about ten years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him. Most politicians seek approval. But Trump lives for the adoration. He doesn’t even try to hide it, boasting incessantly about his crowds, his standing ovations, his TV ratings, his poll numbers, his primary victories. The latter are most prized because they offer empirical evidence of how loved and admired he is. Trump’s greatest success — normalizing the abnormal — is beginning to dissipate. Prized also because, in our politics, success is self-validating. A candidacy that started out as a joke, as a self-aggrandizing exercise in xenophobia, struck a chord in a certain constituency and took off. The joke was on those who believed that he was not a serious man and therefore would not be taken seriously. They — myself emphatically included — were wrong. Winning — in ratings, polls, and primaries — validated him. Which brought further validation in the form of endorsements from respected and popular Republicans. Chris Christie was first to cross the Rubicon. Ben Carson then offered his blessings, such as they are. Newt Gingrich came aboard to provide intellectual ballast. Although tepid, the endorsements by Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were further milestones in the normalization of Trump.  But this may all now be jeopardized by the Gold Star gaffe. (Remember: A gaffe in Washington is when a politician inadvertently reveals the truth, especially about himself.) It has put a severe strain on the patched-over relationship between the candidate and both Republican leadership and Republican regulars.  Trump’s greatest success — normalizing the abnormal — is beginning to dissipate. When a Pulitzer Prize–winning liberal columnist (Eugene Robinson) and a major conservative foreign-policy thinker and former speechwriter for George Shultz under Ronald Reagan (Robert Kagan) simultaneously question Trump’s psychological stability, indeed sanity, there’s something going on (as Trump would say). #related#The dynamic of this election is obvious. As in 1980, the status quo candidate for a failed administration is running against an outsider. The stay-the-course candidate plays his/her only available card — charging that the outsider is dangerously out of the mainstream and temperamentally unfit to command the nation.  In 1980, Reagan had to do just one thing: pass the threshold test for acceptability. He won that election because he did, especially in the debate with Jimmy Carter in which Reagan showed himself to be genial, self-assured, and, above all, nonthreatening. You may not like all his policies, but you could safely entrust the nation to him. Trump badly needs to pass that threshold. If character is destiny, he won’t. — Charles Krauthammer is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2016 The Washington Post Writers Group

One of my all-time favorite lines is from Henry Thoreau: “Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” It came to mind this

On July 3, 2016, Shawn Lucas and filmmaker Ricardo Villaba served the DNC Services Corp. and Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz ...

CNN's Chris Cuomo and Brooke Baldwin ADMIT on live television that they ARE biased! Chris Cuomo: "We couldn't help her anymore than we have. You know, she's ...

While campaigning in Florida on Tuesday, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Tim Kaine attacked congressional Republicans for failing to pass a funding bill that would have directed $1.1 billion toward research to treat and prevent the Zika virus. According to the Orlando Sentinel: Kaine . . . called for federal action on fighting the Zika virus, which officials on Monday said had reached South Florida via mosquitoes. Kaine said Congress should pass a $1.1 billion bill to combat Zika without what he called the “poison pill” of anti-abortion language added by House Republicans. “Congress should not be in recess when Zika is advancing,” he said. In reality, it was Senate Democrats who refused to pass the bill, and there’s no “poison pill” to be found anywhere inside it. Instead, the Democratic leadership is balking because the bill does not specifically earmark a portion of funding for Planned Parenthood. While most of the funding outlined in the bill would go to mosquito prevention and vaccine research, a small segment is dedicated to public-health efforts. According to Don Stewart, deputy chief of staff for Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Democrats chose to block the entire bill because none of this small portion was earmarked for Planned Parenthood. “The conference committee increased health-care block-grant funding and provided guidance on who could receive the funding,” Stewart tells National Review. “Planned Parenthood was not listed as a potential recipient, and Democrats want them to be explicitly listed as a recipient — even though the president’s initial request didn’t ask for any.” RELATED: Florida’s Zika Season: One More Menace In an Electorate That’s Already in a Sour Mood Senate Democratic leaders Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer held a press conference attempting to explain their decision shortly after leading an effort to kill the bill. Reid claimed that women would have nowhere to go to obtain birth control under the bill, but, in fact, nothing in the legislation would cut any federal funding currently going to Planned Parenthood. It simply does not add more funding in the context of treating Zika. Planned Parenthood’s executive director, Dawn Laguens, spoke alongside Reid and Schumer, implying that it is more important for Planned Parenthood to receive direct funding under the bill than it is to pass a bill quickly. The Democratic leadership is balking because the bill does not specifically earmark a portion of funding for Planned Parenthood. A letter from Planned Parenthood to the Senate offices prior to the most recent vote stated that “a vote against this bill will be seen as a vote for women’s health care.” But a vote against the bill is actually vote against women’s health care, particularly if the women in question have contracted the Zika virus. And, even from the perspective of Senate Democrats, there is no rational objection to the bill given that Planned Parenthood still would receive as much federal funding as it did before the Zika virus became an issue. But a compromise from Senate Democrats seems unlikely, given their latest statements. “We would love for them to end that filibuster and pass the bill, but it doesn’t sound like they’re prepared to do that,” Stewart tells National Review. #share#Meanwhile, Florida politicians have honed in with laser-like focus on the question of research funding — the state this week reported 14 local Zika cases, all in the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood. These are the first cases originating from mosquito bites that occurred in the U.S., as opposed to cases related to international travel. Marco Rubio held a press conference Wednesday morning in Doral, Fla., emphasizing the need for immediate congressional action to pass a bill funding research and prevention. RELATED: Regulators’ Infectious Zika Incompetence The Florida senator said he found it “inexcusable that Congress waited for months” to move on the issue and lamented that Zika has become “a political volleyball.” Rubio said that Senate Democrats’ objections to the bill are not enough to justify voting against it. “There is absolutely nothing in the . . . bill that the House is insisting on that has anything to do with Planned Parenthood,” he explained. “I think to be, quite frank, they are making it up because they want a political issue.” He also suggested that the White House has up to $300 million available to fund Zika research immediately, but that the administration might be withholding the money for political reasons. #related#Bill Nelson, the other U.S. senator from the state, has been pushing for the Senate to reconvene and pass an emergency spending bill. Complaining about the lack of response from McConnell, Nelson is said to have told a reporter, “Wait until a mosquito bites one of the people who is traveling to Kentucky and then he gets a transmitted case in Kentucky, then we’ll get action.” Florida representative Patrick Murphy, a Democrat challenging Rubio for a seat in the U.S. Senate, has been using language similar to that of Kaine and Reid, claiming on his campaign website that “Republican leaders are proposing limiting access to contraception” and “prioritizing partisan attacks on women’s health.” Senate Democrats likely will continue blaming Republicans’ opposition to “women’s health” for the political stalemate over Zika-research funding, but the real roadblock is Democrats’ absolute dedication to funding the abortion giant Planned Parenthood instead of actual women’s health care. — Alexandra DeSanctis is a William F. Buckley Fellow in Political Journalism at the National Review Institute.

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Women have been banned from a British swimming pool so that Muslim men can have it to themselves for a weekly men-only session.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton will finally speak in front of members of the press Friday, but only to black and latino journalists. Clinton is set to speak Friday in front of the a conference

In the scathing statement, the largest conservative group at Harvard cited “both policy and temperamental concerns” about Trump and condemned his divisive campaign rhetoric they say “is poisoning our country and our children.”

"I had no idea it would have been easier for me to start a business in India than here.”

Secret Service agents surrounded Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after animal-rights protesters created a disturbance at a rally in Las Vegas on Aug. 4. Clinton later joked the protesters must be looking for Republican rival Donald Trump's children, who are currently on a hunting trip.

Donald Trump backed off a false claim Friday morning, admitting he had not seen a video of a $400 million payment being unloaded from a US plane in Iran.

Adult babies/children are a symptom of a much deeper social problem. While sexual and fetish aspects to people's lives aren't inherently a problem. Looking a...

Democratic Michigan Rep. Brenda Lawrence apparently hasn't been paying the rent on her Washington, D.C., apartment, and has been hit with an eviction lawsuit. The Daily Caller News Foundation was t

Democrat Hillary Clinton has built a slim lead over Donald Trump in Georgia after one of the worst weeks of the Republican's campaign, and the Libertarian presidential ticket cracked double-digits, according to a new Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll. The poll released Friday shows Clinton at 44 percent and Trump at 40 percent in a head-to-head matchup, within the poll's margin of error....

Gordon Tang and Huaidan Chen have cultivated ties to American politicians through campaign contributions and other investments.

An Augustana University student is suing his school after being expelled following an accusation of campus sexual assault. The student says in his lawsuit that he initially told the school that a fellow student had been falsely telling people he had raped her. He asked the school to intervene. Instead, the school went to the accuser and suggested she go to the police. The accuser did so and on Aug. 4, 2015, the accused student was arrested and charged with sexual assault. (The full filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota can be found by subscribers to Pacer.) Just 24 hours after the accused presented evidence that showed he couldn't possibly have committed the rape as described, the charges were dismissed, according to the lawsuit. Most notably, the accused had lost his feet in a car accident and couldn't physically have committed the rape. He also mentioned that this particular accuser had previously falsely accused other Augustana students of rape, including an ex-boyfriend.

A post convention scientific (non media) poll of North Carolina voters from The Civitas Institute (full pdf below) shows candidate Donald Trump with a 46/42 lead over Hillary Clinton. Also, in what…

Larry, a salaried car mechanic, was just bumped down to hourly pay, and thus no longer has a guaranteed income. Why did this happen? Because of a new governm...