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A pair of rulings this morning by the Eighth Circuit on the contraceptive mandate, ensure that the saga of litigation over Obamacare is not over.
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Kentucky Fried Chicken started as a one-man operation.
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With that kumbayah moment at the Capitol in South Carolina, when the Battle Flag of the Confederacy was lowered forever to the cheers and tears of all, a purgation of the detestable relics of evil that permeate American public life began. City leaders in Memphis plan to dig up the body of Confederate General Nathan […]
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Donald Trump has contradicted earlier positions on key issues while campaigning for the GOP presidential nomination. Here are five of what critics call his biggest flip flops.
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Everyone is talking about what a ferocious debater Carly Fiorina is and how she is really tearing into Hillary Clinton. I've never been comfortable with Carly because she ran as a no-issues moderate for the 2010 senate race in California, and she hasn't articulated any conservative principles before 2015. Like a Potempkin village, she suddenly just... appeared.
But she has spoken up in other ways, just not very conservative-like:
Immediately after 9/11, Carly gave a speech, where, in light of the 3000 Americans who had just been slaughtered, her first concern was for... Muslims.
And as a business leader, I experienced a whole other set of emotions - first and foremost concern for the safety of our employees and their families. Concern for the security of our employees who are of Middle Eastern descent or who practice the Muslim religion here in the US and abroad. Concern for employees who are traveling, and how to get them home to their families as fast as possible. And then a concern for the safety of customers and partners located in the World Trade Center complex, in the Pentagon, and in the airline industry.
..."and then concern for World Trade Center victims". Well, I'm glad the victims fitted into her list of priorities, somewhere. But in case you are thinking this is simply a paragraph written out of order, there's more:
There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.
It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.
And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.
Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.
... the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600...
That's right, Carly is romanticizing the old Islamic Caliphate. Really. And not only is she waxing romantic about it, she is doing so right after 9/11. At the very least, after 3,000 Americans were killed by radical muslims, it's a tone deaf thing to do. And to whitewash a regime which slaughtered and enslaved people of other religions is not explainable.
Then in 2013, when Ted Cruz was counseling defunding Obamacare in the next budget, and Boehner wanted capitulation, Carly sided with... John Boehner.
Everybody could see this train wreck coming. I actually feel badly for John Boehner. I think this is Ted Cruz and President Obama’s shutdown. I think Ted Cruz’s tactics were wrong.
There’s no honor in charging a hill that you know you can’t take, only casualties, although Ted Cruz maybe got name recognition and money along the way. But President Obama wanted this shutdown. And Ted Cruz played right into his hands.
Well, Boehner's "tactics", which ended up being employed, was to fully fund Obamacare, which is what we still have today. Carly was clearly against putting up a fight to defund Obamacare. What kind of a fighter will she be for limited government as President? Not very much of one, based on this matter.
(Abridged version originally published in AT)
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(Breitabrt) – On Wednesday, the normally peaceful and sedate atmosphere of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley was transformed into a hectic, crowded and high-energy setting as the eyes of America, and many in the world, tuned into the second round of the GOP Presidential Debates. The setting was awesome, with the podiums ...
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Even the Pentagon was wincing as a top general fumbled the most basic questions about the Obama administration’s strategy to combat ISIS.
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CNN Republican Primary Debate (2015/09/16) Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich...
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Prof. David Fowler has a history of tweeting explicit and profane language at conservative lawmakers, commentators and public figures.
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The only woman at the GOP debate proved she could hang with the boys—but also represent “women all over this country.”
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Hillary Clinton could not name her
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WASHINGTON--Sen. Ted Cruz will appear on CBS' "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Mon., Sept. 21 at 11:35 p.m. Eastern time. Colbert took the 'Late Show' reigns from David Letterman?
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The brand, in partnership with the It Gets Better Project, unveiled chips featuring every color of the rainbow to support the LGBT community
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The Democratic Party put out a number of tweets during CNN’s Republican primary debate last night. All of them were ...
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Senator Rand Paul's full highlights from the CNN Republican Debate where Paul showed how he is different from the other candidates and the strongest on prote...
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Rick Santorum, like many other candidates running for president, has very little shot at the nomination. But unlike most of the other also-rans, Santorum’s second White House run will likely be rev?
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A half-forgotten exchange of letters between two titans of the Republican party, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, contains an urgent lesson for the presidential candidates who will debate at the Reagan Library on Wednesday: Tell the country that you will be the president of all Americans, and will represent no one group in particular.
This message-in-a-bottle from Ike and the Gipper comes straight from the 1960s, but it holds important lessons for our own time.
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How Wisconsin investigators targeted conservative Supreme Court justices, the Wall Street Journal writes in an editorial.
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The "time and attendance abuse" drained nearly $1.1 million in taxpayer money.
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Hillary Clinton claimed on the campaign trail in Iowa on Monday that one-in-five women in college have been sexually assaulted, though the ratio she cited has been debunked by many scholars who believ
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“Nervous vendors to @ScottWalker presidential campaign tell AP they are waiting to be paid more than $100,000”
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On Sunday, Hillary Clinton will make her first appearance on the Sunday morning political shows as a 2016 presidential candidate when she sits down with CBS’s John Dickerson on Face the Nation. She’s getting a very late start: While Clinton has so far avoided interviews with the “Big Three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) Sunday shows, 18 other presidential candidates have made a total of 106 appearances since January 1, with Socialist Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) topping the list with 12.
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