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Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill calls out arrogant IRS Commissioner
It takes a special brand of self-delusion to watch IRS Commissioner John Koskinen make a circus out of his inability…
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Some superlatives for Joe Biden, ‘poorest man in Congress’
On Monday, notes the Washington Times, the vice president tried a little one-upsmanship on so-far-undeclared presidential candidate Hillary Clinton by calling…
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Whatever happened to leaked CIA station chief and his leaker?
Being caught in a web of scandals has its benefits. If the latest cover-up or unforced error generates enough outrage,…
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GOP Congressman presents ‘Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act’ bill to House
Despite the White House’s doubling down yesterday on its claim that the IRS scandal is just another Republican conspiracy to smear an…
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Michelle Obama: Nation’s founders weren’t born in America
This must be the sort of brain-teaser employed by the faculty of Princeton University to get students to think critically.…
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Hillary Clinton attempts to explain her remark about Taliban 5 not being threat to U.S.
Hillary Clinton has not officially thrown her pants suit in the ring, but last night she took her first big…
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8-year-old tossed out of school for making gun out of rolled-up paper
Say the word gun. On second, don’t say it! Don’t even think it. If you do, your kid might get thrown out of school. Yes,…
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Florida man phones 911 during violent home invasion, gets switched to voice mail
It sounds like a comedy routine, but a Pasco County, Fla., man isn’t laughing. The man, whose name is being…
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DOJ insider pooh-poohs Lerner’s ‘dog-ate-my-emails’ claim
Let’s assume that the tale of a computer crash “eating” her homework goes no higher up the food chain than former IRS…
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Iraq just another ‘mess’ Obama inherited
“It is becoming increasingly likely,” writes the Washington Post’s Fareeed Zakaria, “that Iraq has reached a turning point.” The forces hostile…
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Bombshell book claims Hillary Clinton told Secret Service to ‘get the f**k away’
Hillary Clinton is many things (some of which can be safely described in a family publication). She is a former…
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Liberal writer argues that army deserted Bergdahl, not vice versa
It sounds like a Yakov Smirnoff joke, but the observation is not by Smirnoff and it’s not meant to be funny.…
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WH and Dems creating unforced parallels between Benghazi and Bergdahl
Except in the most tangential sense — both “Benghazi” and “Bergdahl” begin with the letter pair — there is little…
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TV news in Central America: ‘Now is good time to enter U.S. illegally’
“Go to America with your child, you won’t be turned away.” That advice, according to ABC affiliate KRGV, is being broadcast…
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When will Obama’s supporters accept the reality he’s not presidential timber?
Sucks to be an Obama apologist in the media these days. (It probably sucks most days, but here, nearly halfway…
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Left excuses Obama’s deal with the devil for Bergdahl release
News and opinion travel fast on today’s information superhighway. No sooner does a feckless Barack Obama jubilantly announce in the…
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SF benefit for gun control cohosted by former Crips member Snoop Dogg
California is serious about gun control. So serious that despite already boasting some of the most rigid gun laws in the country, the…
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State Dept’s Psaki: ‘Obama doesn’t give himself enough credit for his foreign policy’
If Barack Obama had a daughter — OK, another daughter — she would be State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. Not that Psaki,…
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In West Point speech, Obama touches again on American exceptionalism
In his curiously defensive commencement foreign policy speech yesterday at West Point, Barack Obama said at one point, “I believe in American exceptionalism with…
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Obama: Continuing to compound his own failures with lies and distortions
Something — some unseen force — has kept President Obama’s approval ratings from seeking their natural rock-bottom level. This is…
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Columbia U. to spend $5.7 M taxpayer-funded grant on climate change ‘games’
“Games and game-like approaches motivate exploration and learning of complex material.” That, according to Campus Reform, is the wording in the…
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WH rules employers can’t dump workers into health exchanges
It figures the Obama administration would wait for a three-day weekend to announce its latest executive rule change to Obamacare…
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It is time for more reparations talk
Here we go again. Ta-Nahesi Coates, who frequently writes on racial inequality, has penned a long (very long) essay that is…
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Man accused of writing racial slur on check sues restaurant, waitress
If you are skeptical at this point over stories alleging racism or other forms of intolerance, you are not to…
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8-year-old in trouble for drawing gun picture in response to school assignment
The thought police in one Colorado community are working overtime. Station KKTV reports (h/t The Blaze): Second grader Kody Smith was assigned to…
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Obama dispatches troops to Africa to help search for abducted Nigerian girls
The abduction of some 300 schoolgirls by the terrorist group Boko Haram is a humanitarian tragedy. Of that there is…
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Education
School that canceled honors night to avoid hurt feelings ridiculed into rescheduling
A Rhode Island middle school that canceled its traditional honors night out of concerns that rewarding scholarship “excludes” non-scholars has…
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Some students think works of literature need PG and R-type ratings
Warning: This literary work is rated R for strong sexual content, language, nudity, drug use, and violence throughout. Which work?…
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California mayor tells victims of bullying to ‘grow a pair,’ angers townspeople
Carson, Calif., made headlines recently when a member of its city council proposed legislation that would criminalize acts of bullying perpetrated…
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High school student caught on video shoving elderly teacher to ground
For all the stories of teacher ineptitude reported in this space, none of it justifies the behavior of the 16-year-old…
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Dem Latino rep sends email warning fellow Dems of ‘treacherous Anglos’ in party
Frank Otero, who is running for a seat in the New Mexico House of Representatives, sought help getting some name…
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Homeowner arrested after taking Biden’s advice, firing warning shotgun blast
When asked about Joe Biden’s obvious mental impairments, former New York City mayor and GOP presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani said…
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Nintendo apologizes for offending gays in video game
Japanese videogame maker Nintendo, whose name translates roughly to “Leave luck to heaven,” is under attack here on earth for…
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Latinos enrolled in Obamacare head south of the border for treatment
“At a 2009 press conference with the Mexican president and the Canadian prime minister,” wrote James Taranto in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, “a…
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Sequestration didn’t cost 1.6 million government jobs but, rather 1 (one) job
Let’s accept the demonstrably false premise that sequestration and the government shutdown brought on by it in 2013 were entirely…
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HGTV cancels home-flipping series to be hosted by anti-gay brothers
“Outing” — the one-time fashionable practice of revealing that a person is a homosexual — is back, this time as…
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Will the formation of a select committee on Benghazi hurt Republicans in November?
When political forecaster Nate Silver predicted in late March that the GOP has a slight edge in the race to control…
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Man convicted of robbery but never sent to prison due to clerical error set free
Try to put yourself in Cornealious “Mike” Anderson’s jumpsuit. He was 23 years old when he was sentenced to 13…
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Ohio parents start hormone therapy on 9-year-old ‘transgender’ son
“It just comes down to love. I mean, if you love your child then you should do anything in the…
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