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Cruz Confirms Kasich Alliance to Deny Trump 1,237 Delegates

The day after news broke that the presidential campaigns of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich agreed to split their efforts between Indiana on the one hand and Oregon and New Mexico on the other, Cruz confirmed that the two campaigns indeed “had conversations” and agreed to the strategy to divide and prevent GOP frontrunner Donald Trump from securing the nomination before the Republican National Convention.

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Trump Campaign Aims To Win New Voters, Alienated Voters

Donald Trump seems to be attracting new, or formerly disgruntled, voters into the Republican primary. The impact of this phenomenon will vary by state, depending on unique voting rules, but it could propel Trump to securing the nomination must faster than many folks expect.

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Arab States Are Conning Obama on Iran Deal

The Arab states have opposed the Iran deal from a very early stage, seeing Iran’s regional ambitions as a direct threat. As negotiations went on, Saudi Arabia and other states were vocal and demonstrative in their protests, and warned that they, too, might seek nuclear weapons.

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Obama: Rejecting Iran Deal Will Ensure ‘Rockets Falling On Tel Aviv’

In a meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, President Obama reportedly predicted that if Congress were to reject the nuclear accord that his administration signed with the Iranian regime, the result would entail Tehran’s proxy, Hezbollah, proxy firing rockets at Tel Aviv, according to multiple reports citing sources from the meeting with the President.

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Obama’s Iran Deal: Two False Choices

Critics of the Iran deal have pointed out that President Barack Obama has imposed a false choice on Congress: accept a bad deal, or go to war—as if those are the only two alternatives. In fact, Obama has imposed a second false choice: either cooperate with the international community, or go it alone.

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Strategy: Where the Iran Deal Really Fails

In sum: as a purely nuclear deal, the Iran agreement is very weak but debatable, depending on whether you believe it can be enforced. The non-nuclear part of the deal, however, concerning the arms and ballistic missile provisions, is a complete disaster.

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Former UN Chief Kofi Annan Blames US for Rise of ISIS

Kofi Annan, who served as secretary-general of the United Nations when the group overwhelmingly supported the 2003 U.S. war in Iraq, claimed at the Munich Security Conference that the United States is to blame for the creation of the Islamic State (ISIS).

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