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October 31st, 2016
The ‘Transactional’ Nature of Clinton Inc. ‘Doug is very transactional.” This was an apt description of Doug Band, Bill Clinton’s longtime right-hand man and the figure at the center of the latest WikiLeaks revelation. The quote comes from an unnamed former White House colleague of Band’s in an illuminating 2013 New Republic profile by Alec MacGillis. Band, who touts himself...
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October 31st, 2016
Computer seized in Weiner probe prompts FBI to take new steps in Clinton email inquiry Newly discovered emails found on a computer seized during an investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner thrust the controversy over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server back into the presidential campaign less than two weeks before the election. Officials said the discovery prompted...
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October 28th, 2016
Trump staffer on campaign’s private polling: “Nate Silver’s results have been similar to ours” – Hot Air If you wanted to know why Kellyanne Conway admitted last weekend that Trump is behind, here you go. It’s because he is, according to the campaign’s own data. Silver’s “polls-only” model gives Clinton an 84.7 percent chance of winning this morning, with a...
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October 28th, 2016
Why Evangelicals Calling for Trump to Withdraw Are Wrong Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds a rally with supporters in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S. September 28, 2016. It’s easy to understand why some evangelical public figures and publications have called on Donald Trump to withdraw from the Presidential race. Widely respected evangelical pastor John Piper’s call for both Trump and...
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October 28th, 2016
OK, I get it. The title of this article sounds conspiratorial and inflammatory. In fact, it sounds like a “shock” headline designed to get your attention. Who, after all, is this ambiguous “they” I’m referring to, and why are “they” coming for “you” — referring obviously to Christian leaders? And what, pray tell, are “they” coming to do to “you?”...
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October 25th, 2016
Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote the following editorial about YouTube restricting access to 16 videos — down from 21 — created and posted online by my non-profit educational organization, Prager University: “YouTube thinks Dennis Prager’s videos may be dangerous.” Tech giants like Google and Facebook always deny that their platforms favor some viewpoints over others, but then they...
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October 25th, 2016
Some of us this election year don’t even want to say the words “Clinton” or “Trump” — and with good reason. However, there is one word that we should keep in mind: “Turnout.” If we sit home in disgust on election day, we forfeit the right — and the duty — to elect a Congress that can keep either of...
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October 25th, 2016
October Obamacare Surprise: Consumers Fume, Worried Democrats Run For Cover The news broke last evening, but it didn’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been paying attention. We’ve known all along that Obamacare’s rate hikes were due just before the election, and independent analysts have been tracking the law’s 2017 premium spikes for months. Now the Obama administration has...
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October 24th, 2016
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Newly confident and buoyant in the polls, Hillary Clinton is looking past Donald Trump while widening her mission to include helping Democrats seize the Senate and chip away at the Republican-controlled House. Though Trump’s campaign insisted Sunday it was premature to count him out, it’s Clinton whose path to winning the White House has only grown...
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October 24th, 2016
Trump’s ‘Gettysburg address’ makes closing argument as race heats up First 100 days’ agenda speech formalized his mainstay political pledges with promises of legislation and executive orders Called it a ‘Contract with the American Voter,’ modeling it after the 1994 Republican ‘Contract with America’ Trump touted ‘the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime’ and made his...
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