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John McCain, Lindsay Graham Praise Obama Nominee Involved In Benghazi Talking Points

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:19 +0000

Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham released a statement supporting Barack Obama’s new nominee for assistant secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs at the State Department—which is odd, as Victoria Nuland was instrumental in crafting the Benghazi talking points, for which McCain and Graham have savaged the Obama Administration. “Ambassador Victoria Nuland has a long... Read more »

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Obama admin becomes ABC’s ‘Scandal’

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:03:33 +0000

Life imitates art. Or whatever. NowThis News put together a fantastic video mashing up real news clips of figures in the Obama administration and scenes from ABC’s political drama Scandal. For non-viewers: Scandal follows the highs and lows of a crisis manager who’s having an affair with the president. Related: TheBlaze Magazine: Government rule vs.... Read more »

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Holder personally authorized Fox News surveillance

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 01:03:11 +0000

It’s going to be hard for Attorney General Eric Holder to deploy his standard-issue Incompetence Defense to get out of this one. He can’t claim he never saw the paperwork when he’s signature is all over it. Unless maybe he’s going to drop the Sergeant Schultz routine and go for the Colonel Henry Blake gambit, and claim... Read more »

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Menendez: Immigration Bill Doesn’t Have Votes in Senate

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:47:21 +0000

According to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the so-called Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill does not have enough votes at this point to pass the Senate. Even though the bill has exited the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 13-5 vote, Menendez says that it will not receive 60 votes thanks to Republican opposition. “We don’t... Read more »

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Death of an Empire: The UK Pays Terrorists $38k/yr… While Soldiers Earn Only $24k/yr

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:45:46 +0000

You get what you pay for. Anjem Choudary, a British-Pakistani, who lives on social welfare funds, supports Jihad, 9/11, and Islamic terrorism. He hates democracy, liberalism, secularism and demands Sharia in UK. Choudary tells his followers to take welfare to fund the jihad. Choudary takes a reported sum of £25,000 ($ 37,770) per year. UK... Read more »

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‘PoliticsNation’ Panel Mocks Republican Outreach to Minorities

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:45:35 +0000

On his May 23 program, the Rev. Al Sharpton’s PoliticsNation panel turned to the thorny issue of race in politics. As could be expected, it was not a balanced discussion as Sharpton’s panel was an Amen pew of liberal pundits: the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank and left-wing XM Radio host Joe Madison. For his part,... Read more »

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Steve King blames dirty wimp Ronald Reagan for Obama’s eventual election

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:43:22 +0000

Hates Ronald Reagan Now here’s a conspiracy theory I’ve never heard before: Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said Thursday that President Obama would not be president if it weren’t for the 1986 amnesty bill that Ronald Reagan signed into law. […] In an effort to dissuade Republicans, King argued that the 1986 immigration bill that Reagan... Read more »

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Obama’s six-point plan to wind down the ‘war on terror’

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:34:46 +0000

Like all presidential speeches, President Obama’s Thursday address at the National Defense University was suffused with soaring rhetoric. But it was also a substantive and analytical speech, laying out the president’s conceptual framework for counterterrorism operations and announcing a number of new policy initiatives. Here, stripped of rhetorical flourishes, is what Obama has planned for... Read more »

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Liberal Schlub Lies to Insult Fox Viewers

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:32:02 +0000

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this man speaking from the bottom of the barrel in which he lives, lied intently to Mr. Snerdley about what he wanted to talk about. And it took him much longer to get to his point with these endless implications that I was gonna cut him off, and he deserves to be... Read more »

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Joe Arpaio, ‘America’s Toughest Sheriff,’ Violated Latinos’ Civil Rights

Leon Lovett — Sat, 25 May 2013 00:08:20 +0000

Joe Arpaio, self-styled “America’s Toughest Sheriff” and gaudy critic of illegal immigration, was found by a federal judge Friday afternoon to have violated Arizona Latinos’ constitutional rights. Plaintiffs accused Arpaio and his deputies of racial profiling for pulling over Latinos solely to check their immigration status, a violation of their Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights.... Read more »

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