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Last week, Trump held a press conference that Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post called “the greatest trick he ever pulled.” It was quite a show, alright. Promised a “major announcement,” the press showed up with cameras on, only to get the briefest of statements by Trump that (accurately, as it turns out) laid the “birther” story at the feet of the 2008 Clinton campaign – and then be regaled by a passel of high-ranking military endorsing Trump for president. Result? 90 minutes of more “free” coverage for Donald Trump. Boy, was the press pissed. The outraged tweets that followed...

Early this month, Mother Theresa was canonized as Saint Theresa by Pope Francis in a celebrated canonization ceremony in Vatican City. At this juncture, the same poor people in Calcutta (now Kolkata), whom she served with her life, face a different kind of threat to their lives—energy poverty caused by radical environmental policies. Sadly, these policies are supported by Pope Francis himself. People from all walks of life, including those from various faiths, have celebrated the life of Mother Theresa over the past decades. For them, her work of charity and her heart for the poor far outweighed her religious...

The smell of bacon filled the air as I poured myself a cup of joe. I scanned the articles of the day on my phone. I took a sip of my hot coffee as I noticed a headline NEW STUDY: Coffee Can Kill You. I quickly scrolled past that piece of obvious ignorance. If coffee kills people, I thought, it will be a good way to go.Coffee is quite possibly the most popular drink in America. It is woven into our entire culture. We have coffee shops on every corner. Could it be a deadly killer? I decided to read the study...

Bruce Stokes of the Pew Research Center based in Washington, DC, was in Delhi for a series of talks. He presented results of opinion polls that offer an interesting insight into the contemporary American mind Every leap year, the United States presidential election becomes the most watched such event in the world. The quantum of coverage only grows with each successive election, as media and social media capacities expand worldwide. Yet, this year the election has acquired a special significance due to a mix of factors. First, there are the compelling personalities -- in their own ways, Donald Trump and...

It seems like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has determined where his conscience is leading him, and it’s toward Donald Trump. The endorsement could come as early as Monday, unnamed sources, close to Mr. Trump’s campaign, told Lifezette. “Those sources noted that Cruz has become seriously concerned about the long-term threats to the Constitution and conservative priorities, should Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton win the White House,” the online political site, founded by conservative pundit Laura Ingraham, reported.

A Gainesville, Florida, resident is crying foul at the local library’s refusal to add “Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel” to its collection. The book is an adaptation by Chuck Dixon and Brett R. Smith of Peter Schweizer’s nonfiction book of the same name, which is highly critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton. When Ann Lhota asked the Alachua County library to buy a copy of the graphic novel, officials said no. “When the book was requested, we already had 11 copies in four formats,” said spokesman Nickie Kortus, referring to the prose version. Lhota, who asked the library to purchase...

It's time for all the cop bashers out there to learn the truth about police work. The short explanation is that while forensics and science play a large part in modern criminal investigations, being a police officer itself is not a science. It's imperfect people doing their best to enforce imperfect laws, in an often times very difficult environment, and being forced to make split second, sometimes life and death decisions, most of the time with little if any information to base their decisions on. You want perfection, it only exists in the movies. Try 'Robocop', it's entertaining, but it's...

Hillary Clinton is the worst kind of political animal, one who will exploit anything for political gain, distort facts and shift her positions at will for votes, significantly more than your garden-variety pandering politician. Remember when Clinton was for the Iraq War and then later savaged anyone who believed as she had as if they were reprobates? Remember when she opined that marriage is between a man and a woman? Remember her claim that she left the White House "not only dead broke but in debt"? Her pathetically laughable yarn that she came under sniper fire in Bosnia in the...

The Sept. 26 issue of Time magazine cover featured the heads of comedians Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel, and the headline "We Joke. You Decide." The allusion to the Fox News tagline was deliberate. The subheadline declared that they would report on "The seriously partisan politics of late-night comedy." Finally, liberals are acknowledging what conservatives have claimed for years. Inside, the headline was "The New Politics of Late Night." And writer Richard Zoglin began the article saying, "In a wild election with a ripe orange target, comics are ditching balance and taking...

Last summer, the United States, Iran, and other world powers, minted the so-called Iranian Nuclear Deal. After which, at this time last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani triumphantly told the U.N. General Assembly in New York City that the deal was “a brilliant example of victory over war” that “sets a strong precedent” and would “serve as a basis for foundational change in the region.” I’m sure we’ll hear much of the same when Rouhani addresses the UN again on Thursday. As he did a year ago, Rouhani will no doubt talk about peaceful intentions; he’ll make the case that...

Democrats love to talk about rights. They say people have the "right to affordable health care," the "right to a debt free college education," the "right to choose," and so on. But there's one right they apparently want to erase: The right to work. Here's how Hillary Clinton put it in a videoconference this week at the Laborers' International Union of North America: "I will fight back against so-called right to work. Right to work is wrong for workers and wrong for America." Come again? The right to work is wrong for America? Clinton is referring to state right-to-work laws...

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. Keith Lamont Scott was scum. He had been convicted of assault with a deadly weapon in two different states and convicted of assault in three states. He had been hit with “assault with intent to kill” charges in the 90s. His record of virtue included “assault on a child under 12” and “assault on a female.” The media spin; “Family and neighbors call Scott a quiet ‘family man.’” Nothing says “quiet” like “assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill”...

"As his presidency comes to a close, the fact is that Obama has little to show the world on Syria. With an estimated half a million deaths, the Middle East in flames and European allies destabilised by the impact of refugee flows, he will pass on a festering crisis to his successor."

The international reaction to Monday night’s devastating attack on an aid convoy in the Syrian town of Urem al-Kubra has been swift and furious. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in an unusually forthright speech at the General Assembly, described the attack as “savage and apparently deliberate.” He concluded by saying the fate of Syria could not depend on the “future of one man,” namely Bashar al-Assad. According to a statement released Wednesday by the Free Syrian Army, 31 people in total died—19 civilians and 12 aid workers. The director of the local branch of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), Omar...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: You gotta hear this. Just got this. Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucasians. Maxine Waters in Washington, DC, today describes a moment when truth revealed itself to members of the Congressional Black Caucasians while they were having lunch. WATERS: At our regularly scheduled luncheon for the black caucus, as we sat there trying to do business we decided we just couldn't keep going on business as usual, we couldn't just have our lunch and talk about an agenda that really does have to do with a lot of our work while our minds and our hearts...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: A story from yesterday I didn't have a chance to get to. Sunday at the Men's Day program hosted at Union Temple Baptist church in Washington, DC, the Nation of Islam grand pooh-bah, Minister Louis Farrakhan, said to President Obama, "Your people are suffering and dying in the streets of Chicago, so you failed to do what should have been done." Farrakhan continued by saying it's time to let Donald Trump do what he wants to, because he's not destroying your legacy. Farrakhan said, "So you Democrats, you been in their party a long time. Answer me,...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Loretta Lynch, the attorney general. When I saw the transcript of this, I said, "This has to be a mistake. This is not Loretta Lynch. This has to be Marilyn Mosby." Does that name ring a bell, Marilyn Mosby? Marilyn Mosby was the state attorney, the district attorney in Baltimore that came out and announced that she was gonna go after those cops for what they did to that nice young man, Freddie Gray. So I read the transcript here what Loretta Lynch said at a press conference at the Department of Justice today, and I literally...

Cornell University Football Coach Roy Istvan apologized to students who were offended by an image he tweeted: an image of two of his players wearing sombreros. Why were they wearing sombreros? Istvan awards the big hat to the player or players who best represented team spirit on the field after a game. This practice has displeased some members of MEChA de Cornell, a Mexican student group. "They're appropriating a culture that isn't theirs and using it as a joke," wrote one student on MEChA's Facebook page, according to Campus Reform. "It's disgusting and I'm ashamed that you can't see that."...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is Bill in Los Angeles. Bill, great to have you with us here on the EIB Network today. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you? RUSH: Just fine, sir. CALLER: I'm one of that 11 to 14%. RUSH: You are one of the 11 to 14% of what? CALLER: The NFL drop. RUSH: Oh! Oh, you are. You've stopped watching. CALLER: Oh, yes. And the games that I did kind of tune in to, I refused to buy any of their products. RUSH: What brought this on, is it the Kaepernick type stuff? CALLER: Absolutely it...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Did you see it has gotten so bad, so desperate in the Hillary campaign, that some of the cast of the old TV show The West Wing are campaigning for her? Did you see that? My friends, do you realize what you have in me? I can't tell how many years ago the left... When that show was on, it was during the Bush presidency, and they really thought Martin Sheen was president! The left engaging in their fantasyland and West Wing was the real government to them. That's how they stayed sane. (chuckles) So now, Hillary...