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A House Democrat said Wednesday that it really bothers me when people claim the U.S. Constitution was designed to limit the federal government's power. At a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee hearing focusing on whether Congress should consider impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said the founding document of the U.S. was designed for the opposite purpose. Koskinen is being accused of making misleading statements and failing to produce essential evidence for the committee's investigation into the targeting of politically conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service. The Constitution was enacted to strengthen government power to enable central government to lay taxes and to function effectively. We put limits on that through the Bill of Rights, but the Constitution was enacted for the opposite purpose, said Nadler.

Former UVA law student was punished for sexual misconduct under an improperly low evidence standard.

In a discussion on CBS News Wednesday about how he would handle America's crushing debt, Donald Trump said he'd use the same approach he's used for his businesses: "renegotiate the debt." In other words, walk America through a form of national bankruptcy. When pressed by O'Donnell about the "very severe consequences" of such an act, the self-described "King of Debt" immediately reversed himself, saying, "I wouldn't renegotiate the debt." 

Twitter trolls are turning out in force today to point out how Donald Trump's campaign coffers have seen better days despite how often he brags about his wealth

A hacked DNC memo reveals the dizzying array of Clinton Foundation scandal facts they consider “vulnerabilities” for presumptive presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

Privacy advocates brace for another vote, say it's time to flood Senate offices with phone calls.

Marco Rubio has begun telling colleagues he will run for reelection to the Senate, according to two sources familiar with the discussions. Rubio, who said when he announced his presidential bid in April that he would not seek reelection, had a change of heart following an aggressive push led by National Republican Senatorial Committee executive director Ward Baker, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and his allies, and a bevy of Florida politicos. All expressed concern about losing the seat to Democrats in an election year likely to prove difficult for Republicans across the board, one in which they have grown increasingly worried about keeping their Senate majority.  The decision was an agonizing one for Rubio and required a lot of effort on the part of his fellow Republicans: Rubio has until recently been stubbornly insistent that he is not running, and during the campaign, he said repeatedly that he had decided to leave office because the partisan gridlock in Washington has made it impossible to accomplish anything. Now, he will have to eat his words.   “This is all a giant McConnell plot,” says a source familiar with the push to convince Rubio to run, which began in earnest about three weeks ago. “And they pulled it off. It’s impressive. They cleared the field.”  That’s not technically true. Rubio still faces a four-way GOP primary, though his friend, Florida lieutenant governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera, said last week that he would exit the race if Rubio were to enter. Representative David Jolly dropped out last Friday, and another candidate, Representative Ron DeSantis, suggested that he would reconsider his options if Rubio jumped in. “If he makes a decision to run, that changes a lot about how I look at the race,” DeSantis told radio host Hugh Hewitt last week. Two other candidates — Carlos Beruff, a wealthy real-estate developer, and Todd Wilcox, a defense contractor — have said they will stay in the race. Beruff immediately released a statement blasting Rubio as “Washington’s candidate.”  Rubio will undoubtedly become the frontrunner in the race. A Quinnipiac University poll released earlier today found Rubio leading the two top Democratic candidates for the seat — Representatives Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson — 47 percent to 40 percent and 48 percent to 40 percent, respectively.   Sources say Rubio will not rely on the same campaign team he has used in the past, led by Terry Sullivan, who recently founded a crisis communications firm along with former Rubio press secretary Alex Conant. Sullivan and Conant are likely instead to helm a super PAC that will assist Rubio’s Senate bid. Sources say Rubio has tapped somebody else to lead his campaign, though they decline to name the individual. Rubio is expected to make an official announcement later today. It follows a drawn-out period of indecision during which the 45-year-old Florida senator took stock of the past and was forced eventually to make a fraught calculation about his political future: at the heart of it was whether he could best position himself for a presidential bid in 2020 or 2024 from inside the Senate or as a political outsider.  “I’ll go home later this week, and I’ll have some time with my family, and then if there’s been a change in our status I’ll be sure to let everyone know,” he told reporters last week.

Something wicked happened in Idaho's rural Magic Valley. The evil has been compounded by politicians, media and special interest groups doing their damnedest to suppress the story and quell a righteous citizen rebellion.

In the wake of the Orlando massacre, politicians have attempted to use the tragedy as means of garnering public support for increased gun control measures.

Donald Trump just exposed the self-serving nature of Hillary Clinton?s campaign slogan. He said: Hillary Clinton wants to be President. But she doesn?t have the temperament, or, as Bernie Sanders? said, the judgement, to be president. She believes she is entitled to the office. Her campaign slogan is “I’m with her.” You know what my ?

After being roasted, again, by Hillary Clinton in a speech on Tuesday, Donald Trump on Wednesday returned the favor -- firing off a series of attacks on the presumptive Democratic nominee.

A new study asserts that increased student aid, not faculty salaries or state cutbacks, drives prices higher.

Poll: Voters Trust Donald Trump to Keep America Safe; Favor Muslim Ban

Reporters defended Hillary Clinton during the full-on attack speech on Clinton by Donald Trump in posts online Wednesday morning. The ...

An alleged sexual assault on a five-year-old special needs girl has put a small Idaho city at the center of the debate over the Obama administration’s move to take in hundreds of thousands of refugees.

US Muslim reported Orlando jihadi to FBI, disregarding Hamas-linked CAIR's call to Muslims not to talk to FBI In wake of Orlando massacre, Hamas-linked CAIR issues new

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US Muslim reported Orlando jihadi to FBI, disregarding Hamas-linked CAIR's call to Muslims not to talk to FBI Lynch:

Today I'd like to share my thoughts about the stakes in this election.

If you care about violence in America, don't waste your time on the red herring of “assault weapons.”

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A divided Supreme Court bolstered police powers on Monday, ruling that evidence of a crime in some cases may be used against a defendant even if the police did something wrong or illegal in obtaining it.

In the immediate aftermath of the murder of 49 Americans at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., CNN’s Anderson Cooper descended on the scene of the crime. There, he confronted Florida state attorney general Pam Bondi, who was attempting to organize support for the victims and their families. She agreed to speak with Cooper, presumably to talk about those efforts. Cooper, however, had a different agenda. #ad#Bondi had defended Florida’s statute in favor of traditional marriage in court. This, according to Cooper, put her in league with the ISIS-inspired jihadi. “Do you really think you’re a champion of the gay community?” Cooper sneered. “Do you worry about using language accusing gay people of trying to do harm to the people of Florida when doesn’t that send a message to some people who might have bad ideas in mind?” Cooper’s not alone. The New York Times lamented that the Orlando massacre did not drive sudden, wholesale acceptance of the LGBT agenda, from same-sex marriage to transgender bathrooms. Writing in the Times, Jeremy Peters and Lizette Alvarez mourned that the terrorist attack “only exacerbated the anger from Democrats and supporters of gay causes, who are insisting that no amount of warm words or reassuring Twitter posts change the fact that Republicans continue to pursue policies that would limit legal protections for gays and lesbians.” And when Evangelical leaders traveled to New York to meet with presumptive 2016 Republican nominee Donald Trump, they were met with protest by LGBT activists who screamed, “Your hate is killing us! Your lies are killing us!” Meanwhile, Democrats played the same routine with gun-rights advocates. After proposing, in fully unconstitutional fashion, that Americans placed on a terror watch list be stripped of their Second Amendment rights — without a showing of evidence, without an opportunity for defense — the Left suggested that anyone opposing this measure was in league with ISIS. Senators Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) and the execrable Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) stated outright that Republicans wanted ISIS to have weapons. “Republicans,” spouted Murphy, “have decided to sell weapons to ISIS.” Warren then repeated the line. So did the White House. Why the demonization? The mainstream Right has never claimed that the murder of military members at Fort Hood by a jihadist required Democrats to support more military spending. We never claimed that the jihadist had been motivated by an anti-military culture generated by the Left. When Donald Trump idiotically suggested that Barack Obama might be a secret Muslim in league with ISIS, Republicans nearly universally condemned him. The same isn’t true of the Left. There are no shades of gray in the Left’s view of the Right — we disagree, and thus we are evil. To the Left, failure to support their agenda is tantamount to support for murder. There are no conservative Americans who oppose same-sex marriage yet believe that gays and lesbians should not be murdered at nightclubs; there are no Christian Americans who don’t think men should enter women’s bathrooms, but also think that people who suffer from gender-identity disorder ought not be shot to death by a rampaging Muslim terrorist. There are no shades of gray in the Left’s view of the Right — we disagree, and thus we are evil. That’s because the Left doesn’t believe in the basic concept of rights. The Left believes that you have a right to behave as they say you should behave — no more, no less. This is why the Left supports regulations on hate speech; they don’t agree that you have a right to say things that make people feel bad. That’s being a bad person, and the government shouldn’t let you be a bad person. This is why the Left thinks that private businesses have no right to discriminate in choosing their clientele — unless, of course, the Left is choosing which states to boycott for political purposes. The shibboleth so often parroted by the Left — “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — no longer applies. The Left projects its own view of rights onto the Right, imagining that if the Right disagrees with any particular views or behavior, it must want to stamp out the people who propagate them. And this funhouse mirror-image rightly scares them. It scares them so much that they have to routinely demand government coercion. Ironically, however, it’s precisely because the Left is what they claim to despise that conservatives insist on holding onto their guns. Not one conservative in America has called for Pulse nightclub to be closed. But leftist allies of Pulse patrons want conservatives to hand over their weapons in the mistaken belief that conservatives side with ISIS. Obviously, the Left is wrong. Pam Bondi can oppose same-sex marriage and still stand with the LGBT community in their right not to be slain at gay clubs. Republicans can stand for gun rights and oppose jihadism. But so long as the Left insists that its cartoonish vision of conservatism represents reality, there will be no room for negotiation. You can’t negotiate with a monster, even a monster of your own creation. — Ben Shapiro is the editor-in-chief of the DailyWire.com.