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What was impressive about this sentiment is that it doesn’t even focus on a trade deficit. No, just the brute fact of buying imports per se is (apparently) enough to doom our children. Before unpacking the specific problems with it, let’s warm up by listing some equally plausible questions: ==> If we continue to buy groceries, where will our children garden? ==> If we continue to buy oranges from Florida, where will New Yorkers work? ==> If we continue to buy from people outside the family, where will our cousins work? ==> If we continue to buy from stores where...

It might seem logical that triumph for David Cameron’s traditionally Euro-skeptic Tories would boost the likelihood of Britain splitting from the European Union in a referendum the prime minister has promised to call by 2017. But things are rarely so simple in European politics. Victory has given Cameron his best chance yet to push through enough reform within the EU to avoid “Brexit.” And the poor showing of the UK Independence Party—whose iconic leader Nigel Farage resigned after failing to win his seat—greatly frees up the British leader to seek a compromise with his EU counterparts. Cameron’s Conservatives also represent...

The 700th consecutive "Support our Troops" rally was held Friday at Monument Terrace. Men and women have gathered along Church Street every Friday since November of 2001.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The woman at the center of an abduction and murder case will only face murder charges, according to court documents. According to police, 23-year-old Kiara Ivette Ciares-Quinones was arrested on Thursday for the murder of Vilma Soriano that happened at the Whispering Pines apartments, on the northwest side of the city. The probable cause affidavit said Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officer arrived to the scene to the report of a deceased person on Wednesday around 6:30 p.m. A caller told officers that her neighbor had just been killed by someone fleeing the area who tried to leave her...

None of the remaining eight female candidates going through the Army Ranger School made it out of the first phase of training at Fort Benning, Ga., defense officials told Fox News -- though they scored high enough to try again as early as next week. The candidates were the first women to train for the elite force as part of a program that began in February. While they did not do well enough to move on to the next phase of training, an Army Ranger statement said the eight women -- along with 101 men in the same situation --...

In 2011, I was arrested by Baltimore City Police on charges of conspiracy to commit first degree attempted murder. You might be asking yourself, “Why? What did he do?” I took a cell phone video of a small drunken scuffle in a downtown Baltimore parking garage. I was not a participant in the fight, nor was I an instigator. Despite what the facts of the situation presented, a personal family relationship with one of the so-called “victims” took precedence over the law. What started as a typical two-sided misdemeanor became a one-sided fight for freedom. I spent 50 days in...

There were some updates on the Fox News All Star Panel this evening, and one of them bet ten dollars on Cruz and more on Rubio. Even with the latest second tier announcments, the top four or five still remains the same. Cruz,Walker,Paul and Rubio. Have any of us changed our minds on the ticket that will beat Hillary? Again, lets make our bets with $200.00. Odds are most of us will want Cruz as President, but what VP choice will help take all of the vital swing states?

The Republican chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Friday defended the pace of his panel’s year-old investigation into the 2012 terror attack and announced plans to interview three top aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., in a 15-page “Interim Progress Update” released on the one-year-anniversary of the committee’s creation, blamed the Obama administration for delays in the panel’s probe. “It is difficult to conduct a fact-centric congressional investigation when the Administration impedes the Committee’s progress by repeatedly failing to answer the Committee’s requests or to provide information in a timely...

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Dashcam video released Thursday shows a black suspect being kicked in the face by a white Delaware police who was charged last week with assault. The video, recorded August 2013, was released by Dover police after a federal judge ruled last week that it was no longer considered confidential. The ruling came in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the suspect by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Nothing about “The D Train” feels the least bit authentic, and worse, little about it is funny. That’s a deadly recipe for a dark comedy. Jack Black, who can be deeply effective given the right material (as in the overlooked “Bernie”), gives an uninspired, irritating, heavy-on-the-mugging performance as the thoroughly unlikable and possibly mentally unbalanced Dan Landsman, a sad sack who seems deeply unhappy, despite the fact he has a decent job at a consulting firm, an attractive and devoted wife (Kathryn Hahn) and a teenage son (Russell Posner) who looks up to his pops, against all reason. About that...

Racist Kentucky Judge Olu Stevens should be removed from office for his mistreatment of the parents of a small child who may have at least a borderline case of PTSD. On March 21, 2013, two armed black men [Gregory Wallace and Marquis MacAfee] broke into Jordan and Tommy Gray’s home near Buechel, Ken., while their 3-year old daughter was watching SpongeBob Squarepants and robbed the couple at gunpoint. “Two years later when Gregory Wallace was about to be sentenced, Jordan wrote in a victim impact statement that her daughter was still ‘in constant fear of black men.’”

Natalie Portman will play Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On the Basis of Sex, EW has confirmed. Deadline.com was first to report the news. The film will follow Ginsburg’s life as she fights for equality in her career as the second (and first Jewish) female justice. Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) is in negotiations to direct, with a script being written by Daniel Stiepleman.

The Obama Administration is using a stealth refugee program to import thousands of Muslims into communities throughout the United States. This effort to bring Muslims into the U.S. poses a grave national security threat to America and inevitably brings social chaos in its wake in communities where there are large populations of Muslims living. This stealth program has gotten the attention of Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) who is deeply troubled by the Obama State Department’s plan to dump hundreds of Muslims into the community of Spartanburg – without input from the citizens of that community. Gowdy has been sending letters...

Is anyone moving to the UK? I kinda like that guy Cameron. But I like better that I'm moving to Texas.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco prosecutors say they have already dismissed eight criminal cases as a result of racist and homophobic text messages involving 14 city police officers. District attorney's spokesman Max Szabo said Friday the department did not immediately have details about the nature of the cases that were dismissed.

The 2014 Patriots were just the 3rd team in the last 25 years to never have lost a fumble at home! The biggest difference between the Patriots and the other 2 teams who did it was that New England ran between 150 and 200 MORE plays this year than those teams did in the years they had zero home fumbles, making the Patriots stand alone in this unique statistic. Based on the desire to incorporate full season data (not just home games, as a team theoretically bring “doctored footballs” with them on the road) I performed the following analysis: I...

A Democratic fund-raiser and high-profile hotelier, Sant Singh Chatwal, who had pleaded guilty to skirting federal campaign-finance laws and witness tampering, avoided being sent to prison on Thursday, despite facing a possible sentence of more than five years. Judge I. Leo Glasser, of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, sentenced Mr. Chatwal to three years of probation. The judge described Mr. Chatwal’s crimes as an “aberrance,” and seemed swayed by the 272 letters written on his behalf; by the argument that his grown sons needed Mr. Chatwal’s help at home; and by the fact that Mr. Chatwal did not seem to...

A strange idea has been running through some of the commentary about Baltimore: wasn’t electing Barack Obama supposed to fix this? Why are black people still so mad all the time when we elected a black president? This idea is not new, nor is it terribly hard to find. On Thursday, it popped up in a New York Times report on Hillary Clinton’s speech calling for an overhaul of the criminal justice system following the death of Freddie Gray. Political journalists Amy Chozick and Michael Barbaro included this analysis of how the events in Baltimore might alter Obama's presidential legacy:...

On Syria: “We are deeply concerned about the dire situation in Syria.” On Nigeria: “The United States is deeply concerned by Nigeria’s enactment of the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act.” On South Sudan: “I . . . am especially concerned at reports that civilians may have been systematically murdered based on their ethnicity.” On Iran: “We make clear that we remain concerned about Iran’s destabilizing actions in the region.” On Yemen: “The United States remains deeply concerned about the situation on the ground in Yemen.” On Russia: “We. . .remain deeply concerned about the large deployments of Russian forces...