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NY Times Article on Genesis of Obamacare Subsidies Omits Key Detail

A NY Times story published Monday focuses on the genesis of “four words” in the Affordable Care Act which are at the center of the Supreme Court case King v. Burwell. However, the story leaves out important details which undercut the claim that drafters of the bill never considered withholding subsidies from the states.

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Interview–Kirsten Powers on ‘The Silencing’: Obama ‘Normalized’ Left’s Anti-Speech Mobs with Attacks on Fox News

Kirsten Powers’ new book The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech surveys the political landscape of the past couple years and finds something new to worry about. A self-described liberal, Powers writes that the “illiberal left” is trying to dominate the discussion on campus, online and in the media through intimidation. In our discussion, Powers suggests there is an authoritarian impulse at play, one that has been gaining steam in the broader culture.

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Documents: ‘Hillary Clinton School of Journalism’ Transformed into Nursing School

A former Clinton fundraiser committed $6 million dollars to the founding of the Hillary Clinton School of Journalism, made under the umbrella of the Clinton Global Initiative an offshoot of the Clinton Foundation — but the project was renamed”Hillary Rodham Clinton Nursing School” with no explanation a few years later.

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ISIS Leader: ‘Islam Is the Religion of War’

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has released a call to arms which asks Muslims everywhere to physically join ISIS in the area it now controls or simply take up the struggle against unbelievers wherever they are.

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Hillary Clinton Has Answered 13 Questions in 31 Days

Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for President on April 12, just over one month ago. Since then she has held meetings with hand selected Democrats but has only answered a total of 13 questions from the media. And frankly, some of those questions were softballs and some of Hillary’s answers were dodges.

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Bill Clinton: Mining Magnate Giustra Can’t ‘Get Something Out of It’ Since I’m No Longer President

At a 2006 Gala for his 60th birthday, Bill Clinton praised Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra’s selflessness, saying it was not as if Giustra could “get something out of it,” since Clinton was no longer President and therefore not in a position to do him any favors. That comment came almost exactly one year after Clinton’s overnight trip to Kazakhstan coincided with Giustra closing a uranium mining deal worth billions of dollars.

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Problems with the AP’s Story on Pamela Geller Went Beyond ‘Do You Regret It?’

Thursday night the AP published a story based on a meeting with Pamela Geller, the woman who organized the Muhammad drawing contest in Garland, Texas. The story got a lot of attention once the AP sent out a tweet which seemed to suggest Geller ought to have regret for hosting the conference which resulted in two (carefully unidentified) deaths.

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Chris Christie Claims Vindication After Bridgegate Charges

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie took to Twitter Friday to claim vindication after U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced charges against three of the Governor’s former allies but not against Christie himself.

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Report: Freddie Gray Had Head Injury Matching a Bolt Inside Police Van

An ABC news affiliate reported Thursday afternoon that the injuries which ultimately killed Freddie Gray took place inside a police van and not during his arrest. It remains unclear whether those injuries were the result of a failure to secure Gray with a seat belt or caused by some actions of the police officers involved.

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Critic Harangues Author of ‘Ferguson’ Play After Performance

Monday night after the second performance of Ferguson, the play which reenacts the shooting of Michael Brown based on grand jury transcripts from the Ferguson, MO, case, a would-be critic gave his unvarnished opinion to the play’s author.

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Pictures of Bill Clinton Giving a $500K Speech in Moscow

As a Russian state nuclear corporation sought a majority share of Uranium One, a leading Uranium producer with mining rights in the U.S., former President Clinton was invited to Moscow to give a speech to Renaissance Capital.

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Broken Promise: Obama Won’t Describe Armenian Massacre as ‘Genocide’

President Obama will once again avoid using the word “genocide” at a ceremony to designed to memorialize more than a million Armenians murdered by the Ottaman Turks 100 years ago. During his 2008 campaign, then-Senator Obama repeatedly promised he would label the massacre a genocide as president.

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Vox Has Second Thoughts on Obama’s Iran Deal

When negotiators in Lausanne, Switzerland announced the framework of a nuclear agreement with Iran earlier this month, Vox’s Max Fisher proclaimed it an “astonishingly good” deal. Less than three weeks later, Fisher is now highlighting the case against the deal.

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