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October 28, 2015

Anti-Trump Glee Leaves GOP With Single-digit Candidates By Charles Hurt

To hear the GOP establishment squeal with such glee, you would think there was a fire sale going on down at Brooks Brothers. Or maybe Congress just passed a law making country club dues tax-deductible. Or somebody invented a glow-in-the-dark golf ball.

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October 28, 2015

Fear By John Stossel

This Halloween, what do you fear?

I fear fear itself because when we are afraid, we willingly give away our freedoms.

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October 28, 2015

A Closetful of Hillary Clinton's Immigration Costumes by Michelle Malkin

When it comes to immigration policy, Hillary Clinton's had more career costume changes than her new BFF Katy Perry.

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October 27, 2015

Hillary 2.0 by Thomas Sowell

Many people may share Senator Bernie Sanders' complaint that he was tired of hearing about Hillary Clinton's e-mails. But the controversy is about issues far bigger than e-mails.

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October 27, 2015

Clinton Paying a Price Now for Her 2012 Lies About Benghazi By Michael Barone

Nothing new there. Nothing to see here. Time to move on for good.

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October 23, 2015

Biden Decision Leaves Both Parties in Disarray by Michael Barone

Joe Biden has made it official: He is not running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. It's the latest development in a presidential campaign cycle that has not been going according to script.

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October 23, 2015

Doctors Agree: Obama's Electronic Medical Records Mandate Sucks! By Michelle Malkin

Hey, who's up for a stiff dose of "See, I told you so?"

For the past several years, medical professionals have warned that the federal electronic medical records mandate -- buried in the trillion-dollar Obama stimulus of 2009 -- would do more harm than good. Their diagnosis, unfortunately, is on the nose.

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October 22, 2015

Biden Out By Kyle Kondik

The decision by Vice President Joe Biden to pass on the presidential race confirms what would have been true even if he had entered the contest: This is Hillary Clinton’s race to lose.

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October 21, 2015

GOP Leaders Won’t Pledge Loyalty to Trump By Charles Hurt

Just last month, Republican Party officials scurried into Trump Tower to extract a loyalty pledge from a certain unpredictable billionaire real estate mogul turned presidential candidate.

Who knew that it should have been Donald Trump extracting just such a loyalty pledge from Republican bigs?

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October 21, 2015

Forced Silence By John Stossel

In a democracy, citizens must be able to criticize their leaders. It's a reason America's founders put free speech in the Bill of Rights. I assumed that right is safe in the United States. So I was shocked to learn what happened in Wisconsin.

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October 21, 2015

Stop Obama's War On Watchdogs By Michelle Malkin

In the sadistic era of fraudulent Hope and Change, inspectors general inside the federal government have been kicked, neutered and starved of the authority and information they need to do their jobs.

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October 20, 2015

Democrats' Debate: No Solution for Economic Inequality, No Interest in Economic Growth By Michael Barone

You may not have noticed, but Lincoln Chafee, the erstwhile Republican U.S. senator and Independent-turned-Democratic governor, had one penetrating comment at the Democrats' debate Tuesday night. "But let me just say this about income inequality," he said toward the end. "We've had a lot of talk over the last few minutes, hours or tens of minutes, but no one is saying how we're going to fix it."

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October 16, 2015

The Comeuppance of Creepy Obama Crony Kevin Johnson By Michelle Malkin

The fit finally hit the shan for Sacramento mayor and former NBA star Kevin Johnson. His latest troubles are a stark reminder of the despicable White House role in railroading a vigilant government watchdog who red-flagged Johnson's corruption years ago.

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October 16, 2015

Hillary Scores Debate Win -- Among Democrats By Michael Barone

Going into the Democrats' first presidential debate Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton seems to have banked on one thing: that far fewer Americans would be watching than watched the Republican debates in August and September.

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October 14, 2015

Obama Lied, My Health Plan Died ... Twice! by Michelle Malkin

It's deja screwed all over again.

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October 14, 2015

It’s The Empty Lectern In A Landslide By Charles Hurt

For the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States of America, I hereby officially and wholeheartedly announce my endorsement for — The Empty Lectern!

Debate hosts CNN and Facebook announced earlier this week that they were saving an extra debate podium just in case a liberal knight in shining armor rode in at the last minute to provide desperately-needed legitimacy to the stable of lame donkeys on stage.

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October 14, 2015

Democrats 2016: After Months of Struggles, Clinton Helps Herself at Debate By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

Last year at this time, Democrats were in the final month of their losing battle to hold the U.S. Senate. But while licking their wounds after the election, they consoled themselves with a 2016 comeback vision. Democrats already had a candidate so credentialed she was likely to sweep to the nomination and be in a solid position to bury the eventual GOP nominee. Demographics and destiny were on Hillary Clinton’s side, and she’d help the party recapture the Senate too.

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October 14, 2015

Censorship in America By John Stossel

Support for the idea that it's good to hear all opinions, even offensive ones, is thin. A plurality of Americans now support laws against "hate speech."    

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October 13, 2015

The 'Gun Control' Farce By Thomas Sowell

President Obama's intrusion into the mourning community of Roseburg, Oregon, in order to promote his political crusade for stronger gun control laws, is part of a pattern of his using various other sites of shooting rampages in the past to promote this long-standing crusade of the political left.

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October 13, 2015

Hey, Obama: Crowdfunding Aid for Syrian Refugees Is Incredibly Gross and Tacky By Ted Rall

I pay taxes.    

You pay taxes.   

Some of those taxes pay for good things. Some pay for bad things.