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Attorney: Jerry Brown Should ‘Just Confess’ in Oil Scandal

Patricia Oliver, the attorney who uncovered Jerry Brown’s use of state oil and gas experts to search for oil on his family’s private property, told Breitbart News on Thursday that the California governor should “just confess.”

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Shock: Jerry Brown Used State Experts to Seek Oil on Family Land

California governor Jerry Brown used state experts to prepare a 51-page report on the prospects for oil development on his family’s private land in Northern California, according to an Associated Press investigation released early Thursday morning.

Jerry Brown signature (Kevork Djansezian / Getty)

Latino Group Offers $5k to Disrupt Donald Trump on SNL

The same radical pro-amnesty group that released a video of children shouting profanities at Republican frontrunner Donald Trump is offering $5,000 in “cold, hard cash” to anyone who disrupts his upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live by shouting, “Trump is a racist!”.

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Penny Pritzker: The Obama Crony Destroying the Internet

The Wall Street Journal’s L. Gordon Crovitz reports Monday that the Department of Commerce is unlikely to stop Los Angeles-based XYZ.com from enforcing Chinese censorship of domain names around the world.

Penny Pritzker (Mark Ralston / AFP / Getty)

Media Matters Defends CNBC over GOP Debate

For once, almost the entire media agreed that the CNBC moderators at the GOP debate showed an unacceptable level of political bias and plain incompetence–except for Media Matters for America.

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Why Not Hold a Conservative Blogger GOP Debate?

Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus is facing a barrage of criticism over his management of the GOP debate process after CNBC’s shockingly biased performance Wednesday night.

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Scalia: ‘Liberal’ Supreme Court Destroying our Democracy

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia told an audience at Santa Clara University in Silicon Valley that the Supreme Court is “liberal,” not conservative–and that its views herald “the destruction of our democratic system.”

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Chris Christie Has a Breakout Night at GOP Debate

The consensus winner of the CNBC GOP Debate in Boulder, Colorado was Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in second. But New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie deserved the “most improved” award with a performance that could vault him back into serious contention.

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With Budget Deal on Table, Obama Slams Republicans

Less than 24 hours after agreeing to a two-year budget deal with the Republican Congress, President Barack Obama slammed Republicans for budget cuts, telling police chiefs in Chicago that they had tried to cut funding for police.

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Bill Daley Blames Sarah Palin for Obama’s Mess

Former Obama White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley has ripped into former Alaska governor Sarah Palin in an op-ed in the Washington Post entitled, “The GOP’s dysfunction all started with Sarah Palin.”

Bill Daley (Scott Olson / Getty)

Feinstein Says Hillary Clinton Could Confront Putin

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) praised Hillary Clinton’s performance at the House Select Committee on Benghazi last week as “presidential,” saying: “I could see her across the table from [Russian President Vladimir] Putin.”

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Trey Gowdy’s Blunder–and Redemption–on Benghazi

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) did a decent–though imperfect–job running Hillary Clinton’s hearing before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. But his interviews afterward were a disaster.

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Westmoreland, Jordan, Brooks: Best of Benghazi Committee

The outstanding members of the House Select Committee on Benghazi during Hillary Clinton’s testimony were Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Susan Brooks (R-IN), and Jim Jordan (R-OH). Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) earns honorable mention.

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Blue State Blues: Top 9 New Revelations from the Benghazi Hearings

Hillary Clinton was forced to make several damning revelations during hours of sworn testimony at the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Thursday. The media declared that she “won” because she largely retained a placid demeanor. The Democrats declared that she won because they had already decided her political survival mattered more than the truth. Yet there were seven key revelations that emerged from the Benghazi committee.

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