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Hillary: Homebrew Server Was Guarded by Secret Service

Hillary Clinton’s statement on her use of private email at the State Department wasn’t terribly convincing, but there is no doubt it was carefully crafted. At one point, she even dragged the Secret Service into a defense of her private email server.

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Terror Suspect Confesses Plans to Attack President, U.S. Capitol for ISIS

A 20-year-old man who planned to murder the president and attack the U.S. Capitol with pipe bombs confessed he made the plans in sympathy with ISIS. In an interview from jail, he warned that the group has followers in every state and claimed additional attacks are on the way.

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Hillary’s Email Revelations Followed Request from Benghazi Select Committee

Contrary to claims made a State Department spokeswoman, Hillary Clinton’s emails were not requested as part of some records-keeping process. They were requested after officials at the State Department realized they needed the documents to respond to information requests from the Benghazi Select Committee. If not for the Committee’s request, it’s unlikely the public would have learned about Hillary’s private email server.

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Witnesses to Michael Brown Shooting Feared Contradicting ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ Narrative

According to an 86-page report issued by the Department of Justice, six of the most credible witnesses to the shooting of Michael Brown were afraid to give testimony in support of Ferguson, MO, police officer Darren Wilson, because they knew it would undercut the “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative being advanced by their neighbors and, eventually, by the media.

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Report: Hillary Clinton’s Aides at State Dept. Also Used Private Email

After the NY Times reported Monday that Hillary Clinton used a private email account during her tenure at the State Department, her defenders were quick to claim no harm was done. Nick Merrill, a spokesman for Clinton, told the Times Hillary had “every expectation they would be retained” because she was careful about emailing her subordinates using their official government accounts. Less than a day later, a report by Gawker suggests that may not be true.

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Jonathan Gruber in 2013: States Without Exchanges Will Cost Residents

Most observers of the legal battle over Obamacare’s subsidies are now familiar with the two clips (one video and one audio) in which economist Jonathan Gruber takes the plaintiff’s side, saying only states which set up an exchange will receive subsidies. But a third example of Gruber saying much the same thing has, so far, received very little attention.

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Arrest Made in Colorado Springs Bombing, NAACP Not the Target

An arrest has been made in the Colorado Springs case known as the “NAACP bombing.” But according to the criminal complaint in the case, the bomb was intended as a warning to the suspect’s accountant and not an attack on the NAACP office.

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Feminist Muslims on ISIS and Islam: ‘Name It to Tame It’

Muslim author Asra Nomani and journalist Hala Arafa have published a piece at the Daily Beast in which they say that in order to defeat ISIS, the President needs to accurately identify it. As they put it, the President must, “name it to tame it.”

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What Obama’s Valentine Story Says About His Islamic Extremism Response

The president’s speech at the conference on combating violent extremism Wednesday wasn’t nearly as bad as some of his other recent statements on the topic. He did not repeat the silly claim that ISIS is not Islamic. He did not refer to the Crusades or the Inquisition. And he at least attempted to explain why he refuses to adopt the phrase “Islamic extremist.”

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Leading Expert: Yes, ISIS Is Islamic

The Obama administration made a kind of parlor game out of refusing to connect the Islamic State with Islam. The president himself said it most directly last year when he announced in a prime time TV address, “ISIL is not ‘Islamic.’”

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Media Gushes over Departing Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart announced Tuesday that he will be leaving The Daily Show he has hosted on Comedy Central since 1999. The reaction from the media has been a gushing geyser of praise and, occasionally, an acknowledgement that his comedy mostly appealed to the far left.

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Politico Hits Vox for ‘Nerf ball’ Obama Interview

This week, Ezra Klein’s “explainer” news site Vox scored an interview with President Obama. Given that Vox is not yet a year old, one might expect some backbiting from the more established media outlets that did not score the big interview.

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Barack Obama’s Crusades Cop Out

Two days after video of the brutal execution of a Jordanian pilot by the Islamic State circled the globe, President Obama reminded his mostly Christian audience at the National Prayer Breakfast about the Crusades and the Inquisition. The President framed

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CNN: ISIS’s Method of Killing Jordanian Pilot ‘Un-Islamic’

After a video of the brutal killing of Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh came to light on Tuesday, Fareed Zakaria appeared on Jake Tapper’s “The Lead” to emphasize the “un-Islamic” nature of the killing. Zakaria, however, failed to explain how the ISIS fighters appear to have relied on an ancient Islamic law of retribution to justify their actions.

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Venezuela Heads for a Breaking Point

The shortages in Venezuela have become so severe that even long-time Chavistas–supporters of the socialist government of the now deceased Hugo Chavez–are reaching a breaking point.

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Buzzfeed Investigates Bill Clinton’s Connection to Sex Scandal

If we learned anything from the UVA rape story, it’s that serious allegations of rape still have to be backed up by evidence. Wednesday, Buzzfeed looked for “hard evidence” connecting Bill Clinton to billionaire sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein and found it lacking.

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