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Trump To Iowa

Donald Trump is adding his name to a list of Republicans who will be visiting Iowa next month. He’s slated to attend a dinner party “with Gov. Terry Branstad and Steve Bruere, the president of Peoples Company, a land brokerage firm”.

A tale of two Bible quotes

Barack Obama and Rick Perry both got into the news by quoting the Bible recently.  In Obama’s case, the quote wasn’t even accurate, but of course he gets a total pass.  Plumping for his illegal amnesty orders at a campaign

Time’s Person of the Year 2014: Ebola fighters

The latest Person of the Year award from Time Magazine is another one of those generic group deals where they salute a group or class of people, rather than a specific individual.  Their rules have long allowed such citations, but

Fact-Checking Jonathan Gruber’s Latest Excuse

Economist Jonathan Gruber testified under oath before Congress this morning. When it came to his previously uncovered statements about subsidies and state exchanges–an issue now before the Supreme Court–Gruber offered the following excuse in his opening remarks [emphasis added]: I

Fact-Checking Jonathan Gruber’s Latest Excuse

$1.1 Trillion Lost in the Obama Shuffle

If a Republican administration had to endure the headlines on this, a single day in the life of a presidency, the media would be pronouncing said administration and any further policy initiatives dead on arrival. Instead, the as usual Obama

Tense times at Sony as hackers threaten more attacks

Sony Pictures is still bleeding confidential data from the sucking server wound inflicted by hackers, leading executives to take some remarkable steps to reassure understandably nervous employees.  From the New York Times: As hackers made public more Sony Pictures Entertainment

Fed Workers Unhappy with Lack of Leadership

Given that rank and file federal workers may be best positioned to assess what type of leadership we have in government, that they are “increasingly dismayed by what they see as weak leadership across government” based upon a new survey

Majority See Race Relations Worse Under Obama

According to a new Bloomberg poll, “a majority of Americans, 53 percent, say the interactions between the white and black communities have deteriorated” since Obama took office back in 2008. But can you blame them? In the six years since

Jeb Bush: True Conservative?

The first take-away from a recent Politico Magazine item: Reinventing Jeb Bush How America misremembers the family’s true conservative, is that as is appropriately disclosed at bottom, the author is S.V. Dáte, the author of “Jeb: America’s Next Bush” and “an editor on

Cassidy crushes Landrieu in Senate runoff

No big surprises in Louisiana on special election night; even the Democrat machine knew Mary Landrieu was toast, which was quite vexing to Mary Landrieu.  It looks like she lost by about 13 points to Republican challenger Bill Cassidy.  Landrieu

Reggie “Body Man” Love Writing Book

Reggie Love, known as the “body man” to Barack Obama is said to be writing a book on his experiences, “Power Forward: My Presidential Education,” detailing his time spent over the years with Obama. It’s currently slated for a Feb. 3

George W. Bush: Hard to Understand Garner Death

Former President George W. Bush recently said it was “hard to understand” a New York grand jury’s decision to not indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, a 300-plus pound black man whose death in New York during a

Is Landrieu The Last Southern Democrat?

Per the Christian Science Monitor, “If Sen. Mary Landrieu (D) of Louisiana loses her runoff election on Saturday, there will be no more white Democrats from the Deep South in the Senate. Racial polarization of the two main parties has

Satan Comes To Florida For Christmas

You know that Christmas jingle “Santa Clause is Coming to Town,” well, now you can say that Satan is coming to down, at least to Tallahassee, Florida. Florida’s Department of Management Services has approved The Satanic Temple’s Christmas season “diorama

Holder’s DOJ To Investigate Death of Eric Garner

Within hours of a Staten Island grand jury deciding against indicting police officers in the death of Eric Garner, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a Justice Department civil rights investigation into the death. The quick response may suggest to some that Holder’s

U of Texas’ Missing Brains Mystery Solved

University of Austin researchers had lost their minds (brains), but then realized that dozens of human brains they reported missing were actually disposed of 12 years ago. The university released a statement wednesday saying environmental workers disposed of between 40

Hollywood’s War on Women Exposed!

Sony Pictures was recently the victim of a huge computer hack.  Many articles have focused on the movies that were published, but Fusion.net finds something the feminist beancounters might be interested in. The salary list is contained in a spreadsheet from the

Boston Hospital Treating Possible Ebola Patient

An individual meeting the CDC definition of a “person under investigation” of having the ebola virus is being treated at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital according to Public Affairs Officer Noah Brown. Director Of Emergency Preparedness at MGH, Dr. Paul Biddinger confirmed the individual