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Even the New York Daily News described Obama's pending background check expansion through executive gun control as "meaningless."
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He needs to prove he’s not a lame duck, but it could have been worse.
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President Obama formally announced plans Tuesday to expand background checks and make other changes to America’s gun rules via executive action, bypassing Congress and fueling an election-year fight with Republicans.
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In the era of rabidly left-wing Bill de Blasio, New York has reverted to its old "Shattered" incarnation, with rats on the West Side, bedbugs uptown.
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Three members of the security team who responded to the attack on the Benghazi annex on Sept. 11, 2012 say that they believe the families of the four Americans killed that day when they say that then-
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The president gets emotional as he remembers Sandy Hook victims and fiercely calls for more rights for those vulnerable to gun violence.
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MP3: http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/3167/the-truth-about-the-oregon-rancher-standoff Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/stefan-molyneux/fdr-3166-the-truth-abou...
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Senators revive the Do Not Track initiative. Is it too late?
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Why Are Leftists So Gung-Ho About Shooting Americans For Disobeying Government?
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Sometime in the spring of 2007, something strange happened to the Iraqi coverage in the national media — it disappeared. Or rather, as soon as the news ceased to be bad, the media lost interest in covering it. It was not till July, when Michael O'Hanlon reported back from the front that the surge had been working, that the world started to realize what happened. To them, the fact that George W. Bush had succeeded in something was what the press couldn't bear to believe.
Something of the sort is happening now in reverse regarding the current Middle East crises, which make Iraq in 2006 seem calm in comparison. This time the press, which can no longer deny that the world has been going to hell since Barack Obama started unleashing his peacemaking powers, is doing its best to insulate him completely from any possible blame for it all. Where Bush was asked every day if he regretted invading Iraq, Obama is never asked if he thinks leaving Iraq had something to do with the chaos engulfing the region, or the vulnerability of citizens here and in Europe to Islamic State-inspired attacks.
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“Liberty and fairness are bedrock principles of this great nation,” Carson says. “It’s time that our tax system reflected those ideals."
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Cologne's mayor calls crisis talks with police after about 80 women reported sexual assaults and mugging by men on New Year's Eve.
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Thousands and thousands come to see Trump in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Ella Taylor listed "The Hunting Ground" as a film that received "empty prestige."
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Hope for reform lies not in Washington but in state capitals, where local politicians will likely pass a series of free-market reforms in 2016.
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Obama's Gun-Control Plan Includes Gun-Ban For Some Social Security Beneficiaries
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Three security operators responsible for guarding the CIA station in Benghazi dismissed on Monday claims they were never told to "stand down" during the night of the deadly 2012 attacks. "Congressional investigators concluded there was no 'stand down' order," Fox News host Megyn Kelly told the three commandoes.
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Congress should suspend the president's invitation to deliver his State of the Union address from the House chamber until they get answers about his administration spying on members of Congress and American Jewish organizations.
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Roving packs of men sexually assaulted dozens of women in the German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve.
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It would be hard to measure how many times conservatives have been described as authoritarian. They want to control our lives! Impose their religious beliefs! Etc. Liberal writer Joe Conason, for example, wrote a book titled "It Can Happen Here," about the alleged authoritarian trend under President Bush.
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Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus just gave presidential contender Donald Trump a huge vote of confidence in a Washington Post retrospective published Sunday about the Republican Party's hectic 2015:
I'm not one of these people that think that Donald Trump can't win a general election. I actually think there is a huge crossover appeal there to people that are disengaged politically that he speaks to.... Donald Trump taps into the culture. Some people in politics don't get it, don't understand it, are frustrated by it. It doesn't matter. He does. [The Washington Post]
Priebus' remark comes after December rumors that the party establishment would consider a brokered convention for 2016, as outsiders like Donald Trump and Ben Carson remained popular in the polls months after they were expected to fade. In that light, the notion that Trump would be an appealing general election candidate sounds a little off.
As Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) put it to the Post: "If I said one of the things [Trump] had said about Hispanics, Muslims, or women, I'd have to go into a witness protection program." Julie Kliegman
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Our romance with Iran was supposed to bring peace. Now, we might be in for an all-out Sunni-Shiite war in the Middle East. In President Obama’s seven years in office, hostilities between Iran and S...
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US President Barack Obama is to bypass Congress and widen background checks on buyers of firearms, in an attempt to address gun violence.
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President Obama has a reputation for political judgment and calm. His latest maneuver undermines that.
