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Report: One-Third of Veterans on VA Wait List Already Dead

It shows that more than 238,000 veterans out of roughly 847,000 have died after applying for health care through the VA – but never receiving it. The Washington Times reported that VA spokeswoman Walinda West stated that there isn’t a way of removing the names of dead applicants off the list.

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SHOCKER: HuffPo Attacks Texas Cop for Doing His Job

Following the release of a YouTube video regarding a police incident in McKinney, Texas, the Huffington Post quickly jumped to conclusions that police were in the wrong. Police responded to a call about a large group of teenagers at a private neighborhood pool where they did not live. Police also had calls indicating fights in progress.

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Woman Allegedly Attempted Suicide in Texas Immigration Detention Facility

A 19-year-old immigrant at a family detention facility is reported to have attempted to commit suicide after being told she was being denied parole and asylum. She was staying in the Karnes City, Texas, facility which was opened last year after a flood of unaccompanied minors and families crossed the border illegally. Another facility in Dilley, Texas, also had to be opened.

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HuffPo: Dig In and Fight, Rather Than Follow Laws Protecting Gun Rights

On January 11, Breitbart News reported on a Pennsylvania preemption law that recognizes gun owners’ rights to “seek damages” from municipalities if those municipalities have ordinances regulating the “ownership, possession, transfer, or transportation of guns and ammunition” that are in conflict with state laws on the same.

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Huffington Post Pledges To Not Cover Trump Run Seriously

The Huffington Post announced Thursday that the left-wing outlet will not cover seriously any run Donald Trump might make for president. The announcement takes issue with Trump’s role as a celebrity (he hosts a popular NBC reality series, a bestselling

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How Tom Cotton’s Iran Letter Sets up ‘Checkmate’ on Obama’s Iran Deal

Democrats are pushing back against the letter, circulated by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and signed by 47 Senators in all, that warns the Iranian regime that any deal it signs with President Barack Obama could be voided by the next president if it is not ratified by the Senate under the U.S. Constitution. They have enlisted Vice President Joe Biden and even retired Sen. Richard Lugar to disparage the effort. In so doing, they have proved Cotton’s point–and checkmated the administration.

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HuffPo Writes Off Three-Quarter Million Defensive Handgun Uses

Following a pattern similar to one we’ve seen in Slate, Politico Magazine, and The Washington Post, the Huffington Post is now contending that guns are used to shoot and kill bad guys only about “450” times a year, and the NRA mantra about good guys with guns stopping bad guys with guns is plain hogwash.

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Huffington Post Assumes Louie Gohmert’s Black Coach Was a Basketball Coach

A writer at the liberal media outlet Huffington Post falsely assumed that a black coach of Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) was his “basketball” coach when Gohmert referenced the man’s influence on his life in response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Gohmert’s black coach, he told Breitbart News on Thursday, was not in fact a “basketball” coach—he was a football coach.

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Left Media Continues Smear Campaign on Economist John Lott

Media Matters has long advertised to the public a commitment to fighting misinformation on the internet, but lately the group seems to be creating misinformation of its own.  The nonprofit generally targets Republicans and is regularly cited by pundits and news outlets. More recently, the group engaged in

Left Media Continues Smear Campaign on Economist John Lott

Huffington Post: Cops ‘Get Away With Murder’

On Thursday, the Huffington Post ran one of its patented subtle headlines regarding the grand jury decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner. “HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER,” the website blared, featuring a

Huffington Post: Cops ‘Get Away With Murder’

News Websites Attacked by Pro-Assad Hacktivist Group

News websites critical of the Assad regime, and high-traffic websites including a popular computer game reviews site, and the National Hockey League have been hacked today by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Newspapers the Independent, the Evening Standard, the Telegraph,

News Websites Attacked by Pro-Assad Hacktivist Group