BUSINESS INSIDER — President Barack Obama during a press conference at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit
on Wednesday defended his use of executive power as a means to bypass gridlock in Congress....
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August 7, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — The Constitution provides
for impeachment when a president exceeds his authority, and it's a
provision that should be used, according to a member of Congress....
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August 7, 2014
INFOWARS — A shocking video shows a New
Jersey cop responding to a complaint about corruption by asserting that
law enforcement officers no longer need to follow the Constitution
because it has already been decimated by President Obama....
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August 7, 2014
EAG NEWS — A prominent CNN commentator, the
top two political reporters for The Huffington Post, a Reuters
reporter, the editor of The Nation magazine, a producer for Al Jazeera
America television, a U.S. News & World Report columnist, and
approximately two dozen Huffington Post contributors are among the more
than 1,000 members of Gamechanger Salon....
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August 7, 2014
CLIFF KINCAID — A young reporter at the
publication Politico contacted controversial writer Glenn Greenwald, in a
successful effort to shower some unexpected praise on Fox News host
Megyn Kelly....
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August 7, 2014
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Teenage criminals
and gang members from Central America have been using "a loophole" to
stay in the country, border agent Chris Cabrera revealed. Under current
policy, unaccompanied minors are allowed to stay in the country if they
have family in the United States and say they have none in their home
country, regardless of their background....
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August 7, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES — Along the Rio Grande here,
the suspected smugglers trying to slip into the United States have
certainly noticed their adversaries on the water: burly commandos in
black-and-white boats mounted with .30-caliber machine guns and
bulletproof shields. The patches on the officers' camouflage fatigues
identify them not as federal Border Patrol agents but as another breed
of law enforcement entirely....
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August 7, 2014
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — President Obama's
much-rumored executive order granting legal status to potentially
millions of illegal immigrants will be "disastrous" to African-American
job seekers and a slap in the face to others proceeding through the
tedious legal immigration process, charges a member of the U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights....
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August 7, 2014
BREITBART — President Obama's executive
actions on immigration did not begin with Deferred Action for Childhood
Arrivals (DACA) in mid-2012. It began in 2011 with his announcement of
"prosecutorial discretion" on deportations. A few months later the
border patrol noted the first uptick in unaccompanied children at the
border....
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August 7, 2014
THE DAILY BEAST — The self-proclaimed
Islamic State, formerly known by the acronym ISIS, is actively
recruiting Western women and girls. And in the process this "caliphate"
that now occupies large swathes of Syria and Iraq is showing, once
again, that it's almost as shrewd with social media as it is ruthless on
the battlefield....
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August 7, 2014
NEWSMAX — The hard-right tea party faction has claimed just one big win so far this primary season -- in Virginia, where House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was unseated by a little-known conservative, Dave Brat....
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August 7, 2014
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — Tea-party Republicans continued to gain influence during
Tuesday's elections in Kansas and Michigan. Take Kansas, where veteran Republican senator Pat Roberts won reelection --
with 48 percent of the vote. The tea-party candidates, a trio of
no-name political novices, combined to win 51 percent of the vote....
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August 7, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — Any party that allows its opponents to help pick its candidates in "open" primaries is a PPINO -- a "political party in name only" -- say many Republican officials at their annual summer meeting....
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August 7, 2014
WORLDNETDAILY — With the growing threat
from the Ebola outbreak in Africa, it was expected the epidemic would be
front-and-center at this week's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit held in
Washington, but now an NBC reporter is giving the meeting of heads of
state a birther twist....
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August 6, 2014
MICHELLE MALKIN — The voice on the other
end of the line is exasperated. "It's insane," he wants America to know.
"We're in a war zone." And there's no room for apathy. "This is coming
to a town near you," he warns...
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August 6, 2014
BROWNSVILLE HERALD — Two Mexican nationals
are in custody after authorities said they confessed to killing an
off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent and wounding the agent's father.
Willacy County Sheriff Larry Spence said Border Patrol agent Javier Vega
Jr., 36, of Kingsville, died of a gunshot wound to the chest and Javier
Vega Sr. of La Feria was hospitalized with a shot to his hip...
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August 6, 2014
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE — A Masters of the
Universe drawing hangs in a frame above the desk in the Capitol Hill
office of Alabama senator Jeff Sessions. It stands out among dozens of
pictures of his three children and seven grandchildren. The protagonist
of the comic-book series, He-Man, is depicted mounted atop his heroic
lion, Battle Cat. His muscles are bulging; his sword is thrust into the
air. Battle Cat's mouth is open, his fangs exposed. They are a
formidable pair...
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August 6, 2014
PR NEWSWIRE — The Gang of Eight immigration
bill (S.744) passed by the U.S. Senate last June, and voted for by both
Tennessee senators - Lamar Alexander (R) and Bob Corker (R), would have
roughly doubled the number of new foreign workers allowed into the
country, as well as legalized illegal immigrants...
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August 6, 2014
JOE KOVACS — More claims of divine
intervention are being reported in the ongoing conflict between Israel
and Hamas, with an operator of Israel's Iron Dome missile-defense system
saying he personally witnessed "the hand of God" diverting an incoming
rocket out of harm's way...
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August 6, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — The United Nations slammed Israel for possibly committing war crimes in its fight against Hamas --
and then backed that accusation by suggesting the Jewish nation ought
to be sharing its Iron Dome defensive technology with the very terror
group it's fighting...
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August 6, 2014
REUTERS — A U.S. general was killed and
more than a dozen people were wounded, including a German general, in
the latest insider attack by a man believed to be an Afghan soldier,
U.S., German and Afghan officials said
on Tuesday...
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August 6, 2014
NEWSMAX — There will be more attacks on American and allied troops in Afghanistan like the one that killed a U.S. general
on Tuesday,
says former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy. That's because the
Taliban wants to make it appear they are chasing America out of the
country, McCarthy said
Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "The Kelly File."...
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August 6, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — In a pointed assessment,
an Army colonel advising the National Security Council says one of the
Taliban prisoners released in the Obama administration's deal to free
Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdal is a "psychopath" who poses a "danger to fellow
Afghans."...
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August 6, 2014
WASHINGTON TIMES — Sen. Pat Roberts beat back tea party challenger Milton Wolf in
Tuesday's Kansas Senate primary --
keeping intact the perfect record of sitting Republican senators and
clearing the way for the veteran lawmaker to secure a fourth term in the
November election...
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August 6, 2014
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY — A slightly lower pass
rate for women on a physical fitness test has prompted the Obama
administration to sue the Pennsylvania State Police. This lawsuit is
obviously demanded by the feminists, since their ideology is that, if
women cannot do as well as men on a fitness test for a job, it must be
caused by discrimination and use of the test must stop...
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