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On Wednesday, Iran celebrated the 36th anniversary of the day in 1979 when Iranians seized the U.S. Embassy, took 52 American hostages, and held them for 444 days.

President Obama is scheduled to make an appearance in Newark, New Jersey Monday to discuss the “cycle of incarceration.” Meanwhile, Gov. Christie offered a bit of counter-programming Monday morning in Camden, NJ when he announced the creation of an annual law enforcement appreciation day in the state.

On Friday the Arizona Department of Insurance placed Meritus Health under supervision, which prevents the insurer from renewing or issuing new policies. Meritus Health is the 11th Obamacare Co-Op to fail in 2015.

CNBC anchor Carl Quintanilla, one of the moderators of this week’s GOP debate, offered some insight into China’s notorious one-child policy Thursday. Quintanilla published a graph of China’s declining birth rate in the 90s and wrote, “One thing about China’s one-child policy: it worked.”

Black Lives Matter protesters gathered at the Springfield, MA, courthouse Thursday as a hearing was taking place inside to determine the fate of 15 protesters who were arrested in April for blocking traffic.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) says the cost of Obamacare’s benchmark plans will increase by 7.5 percent starting in January 2016.

Arches Health, an Obamacare Co-Op, was put in receivership Tuesday by the Utah Insurance Department. Arches is the 10th Obamacare Co-Op to close its doors this year.

On Saturday a conservative guest appeared on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry show and tried to say something nice about Paul Ryan. Naturally, he was called out seconds later for failing to consider a picture in Harris-Perry’s office and some other important thoughts she came up with to attack Republicans.

Karl Marx is buried in a cemetery in northern London. The cemetery draws as many as 200 visitors a day, most of whom want to see Marx’s grave and all of whom are required to pay a $6 entry fee.

Mitt Romney offered a seemingly different view of Obamacare Friday than the one he offered throughout the 2012 campaign for President.

Apparently, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton doesn’t live up to her own expectations when it comes to bipartisan leadership.

An Obamacare Co-Op in South Carolina has agreed to close its doors at the end of 2015. Consumers’ Choice Health Plan is the 9th Obamacare Co-Op to close this year out of 23 originally launched with low-interest government loans under the Affordable Care Act.

A student group at Williams College disinvited a conservative speaker after students protested the invitation.

The New York Times published a barn-burner editorial Tuesday, which blames Republicans for the recent collapse of several Obamacare co-ops. In fact, the collapse has more to do with poor management.

Tesla Motors stock price dropped 10% Tuesday after Consumer Reports published its findings on the reliability of the manufacturer’s Model S electric sedan, giving the car a below average “overall problem rate.”

Wesleyan University students destroyed the print edition of their student newspaper last month after it published an op-ed critical of Black Lives Matter. Now the student government is picking up where the protesters left off. Sunday, the student assembly voted for a resolution that would slash the funding used to publish the paper’s twice-weekly print edition.

With all the focus on campus “rape culture,” those accused of sexual assault (read: men) often find themselves facing a byzantine, parallel system of justice in which standards of evidence and proof are dubious and the process seems stacked against them from the outset. Increasingly, these cases are being taken to real courts where the accused men are winning back the rights which were not protected by their universities.

Hillary Clinton has backed away from one of her biggest applause lines of the Democratic debate, in which she declared Republicans–without differentiating between politicians and voters–her “enemy.”

Because Democrats are so rarely asked to qualify their support for abortion, they don’t have good answers to even the most obvious questions.

Politico’s Ken Vogel criticized former Senator Jim Webb as “creepy” for referencing a story of personal heroism for which Webb won the Navy Cross.

One of Carly Fiorina’s first important business meetings took place at a strip-club — and she came out the winner, with some help from the strippers. It was in 1980, and Fiorina had just joined AT&T as a saleswoman, she said Monday in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

The phenomenon of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders —an open and sincere socialist drawing huge crowds as he seeks the Democratic nomination—should push conservatives to criticize “crony capitalism,” GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview. “If

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, ripped Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” blog for accusing her of lying about her well-documented “Secretary to CEO” story.

Confession: The 2011 film Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, is one of my favorite films of the last 5 years. In fact, I became a little obsessed with it to the point that I bought the script to see how it differed from the finished film.

An email set by a subcontractor suggests that Hillary Clinton’s deputies repeatedly directed them to erase months-old backups of her State Department emails, just as federal officials began asking for the emails.

CBS has offered a harsh assessment of the film “Truth” which stars Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett in a supposedly accurate account of the Dan Rather scandal. The film is based on the book by disgraced CBS News producer Mary Mapes.

Mob rule is nothing new in France, but this week even a socialist government used to tolerating thuggish union behavior is saying enough is enough.

Activist and Black Lives Matter leader Deray McKesson spoke at the Taft School Tuesday and offered students a version of the Tamir Rice shooting in which police waited an hour to render first aid, possibly leading to his death. In fact, an FBI agent on scene rendered first aid to Rice in under four minutes.

Vox’s Matt Yglesias says progressives would be wise to embrace Hillary Clinton because she has a track record of caring more about results than process. In other words, she’ll bend or even break the rules to get a win for the progressive cause.

Over the weekend, the AP published a story attacking Carly Fiorina for “repeating an erroneous description of videos secretly recorded by anti-abortion activists.” As the correction to the revised story demonstrates, the AP also repeated an erroneous description of the same videos.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo had made some basic errors in an interview with David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress.

CNN’s Chris Cuomo interviewed David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress on Wednesday, and the result was a train wreck of confusion that continues to confuse people just hearing about it a day later.

Last week I wrote a piece responding to an article I read at Salon which was titled “I’m a pedophile but not a monster.” The author of that piece, Todd Nickerson, has now written a follow up at Salon which spends several hundred words attacking what I wrote without ever linking back to my piece.

On Tuesday the Washington Post’s fact-checkers wrote a “response to readers” piece in which they doubled down on their “three Pinocchio” ruling on Carly Fiorina’s biography.

Breitbart News is providing the full video released by the Center for Bioethical Reform so viewers can verify for themselves that this is the source of the brief clip previously seen in the CMP documentary which led to its being described in the GOP debate. CBR released the clip early Tuesday morning with the title “Carly Fiorina was right.”

Fox News’s media reporter Howard Kurtz has weighed in on a fact-check published last week by the Washington Post and declared it a “misfire.”