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Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled the country about what had happened in the days following the assaults. The Weekly Standard has obtained a timeline briefed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence detailing the heavy substantive revisions made to the CIA’s talking points, just six weeks before the 2012 presidential election, and additional information about why the changes were made and by whom. As intelligence officials pieced together the puzzle of events...

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man” -William Ralph IngeEveryday it seems nearly impossible to listen to a news program, visit a news or political website, or even check email, without being inundated with poll after annoying poll. Even in my daily discussions with friends and associates, I hear the constant regurgitation of such trite phrases as “most Americans are against”, “only a small number of Americans support”, or “most of people believe”. Who exactly are these “most people” anyway? And why should I...