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New "English votes for English laws" rules have been implemented in the House of Commons for the first time. Conservative MPs cheered as English and Welsh members prepared to give their consent to parts of the Housing and Planning Bill that only apply to their constituencies. Housing Minister Brandon Lewis said he was "very proud" to be implementing the reforms. But the SNP said the changes were "driving Scotland out of the door". They were introduced in response to calls for a stronger voice for English MPs following increased devolution to Scotland. Where parts of a bill are deemed to...

WASHINGTON -- A New Jersey imam will be sitting Tuesday in the same place where House members last year voted to restrict Syrian refugees from coming to the U.S. Imam Hamad Ahmad Chebli of the Islamic Society of Central Jersey in Monmouth Junction will be watching President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in person as the guest of Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12th Dist.). The speech traditionally is given in the chambers of the U.S. House. "We will be, all of us, under the roof of the Congress," Chebli said by telephone. "Who can say, 'So-and-so is better...

Proving that there is nothing and no one she won't sacrifice on the altar of her political ambition, Hillary Clinton sent her daughter Chelsea out to smear Bernie Sanders today, claiming his health care plan would "strip millions, and millions and millions of people of their health insurance." On today's With All Due Respect, Mark Halperin repeatedly said he was "stunned" by the attack. John Heilemann put in blunter terms, flatly calling the attack a "lie." Last night I suggested that Hillary's lunge left in suddenly proposing a big tax increase on the rich suggested panic on her part. But...

The E! News sensibility has finally permeated the Oval Office. Tonight on the White House website there will be a first ever Station of the Union address pre-show. It begins at 8pm and is hosted by Terrence Jenkins on the White House website. There may be an audience since it’s coming “straight from the theater at the Executive Office Building.” According to a press release, Jenkins, “an acclaimed author,”… has been a “co-host of BET’s hit show 106 & Park and more recently as the co-anchor of E! NEWS with Giuliana Rancic. Up next, Jenkins will STAR opposite Paula Patton...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let's go to the Hillary audio sound bites. Some of this you haven't heard because this took place on the Fusion TV network. It was last night in Des Moines. She was at Drake University live on the Fusion TV network. My guess is that eight out of 10 of you could not find the Fusion network on your cable system or on your satellite. You'd have to go to a guide and try... Many of you probably haven't even heard of it. Well, there she was. Democrat for president participating in the "Brown & Black Democratic...

"Wasserman Schultz : I’m ‘Appalled’ at the ‘Vitriol,’ ‘Hatred’ from GOP Aimed at Muslims" Tuesday on MSNBC, while discussing Democrats inviting American Muslims as guests to tonight’s State of the Union Address to counter Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s calls to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the Untied States, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) 4% her motivations in doing so. Host Tamron Hall asked, “Chairwoman, let me ask you about the overall point here. I mean, I know we have bring our daughters to work day, bring our children to work day, to expose them. But...

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton argued that she is privileged, and “it is hard, when you’re swimming in the ocean to know exactly what’s happening around you” when asked about white privilege at Iowa Brown and Black Forum broadcast on Fusion on Monday. Hillary, in response to a question on what “white privilege” means to her, and whether she has benefited from it, said “it is hard, when you’re swimming in the ocean to know exactly what’s happening around you, so much as it is when you’re standing on the shore, perhaps watching.” Hillary added that...

Tracklist: Tema e Variações Para Orquestra, enigma, Opus 36 1. Introdução de Variação 1: C.A.E. 2. Variação 2- H.D.S.-P 3. Variação 3- R.B.T 4. Variação 4- W.M.B 5. Variação 5- R.P.A 6. Variação 6- Ysobel 7. Variação 7- Troyte 8. Variação 8- W.N 9. Variação 9- Nimrod 10. Variação 10: Intermezo: Dorabella 11. Variação 11- G.R.S 12. Variação 12- B.G.N 13. Variação 13- Romanza 14. Variação 14: Finale: E.D.U Concerto Para Violoncelo e Orquestra em Mi Menor, Opus 85 15. Adagio - Moderato 16. Lento - Allegro Molto 17. Adagio 18. Allegro, Ma Non Troppo 19. Marcha Militar #1 Em...

The Bee Gees - a musical group founded in 1958. The group's line-up consisted of brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their decades of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s/early 1970s, and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s. Tracks: 1) 0:00 Night Fever 2) 03:24 Stayin' Alive 3) 07:24 You Should Be Dancing 4) 11:32 More Than a Woman 5) 14:40 How Deep Is Your Love 6) 18:37 Too Much Heaven 7) 23:27 Fanny...

Chelsea Clinton hit the trail for the first time this election cycle on Tuesday to campaign for her mother, and she came out swinging. In New Hampshire, the younger Clinton attacked Bernie Sanders' Medicare-for-all, or single-payer, health care plan by wondering if it would in fact take away coverage from millions. "Sen. Sanders wants to dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare, and dismantle private insurance," she said, according to MSNBC. "I worry if we give Republicans Democratic permission to do that, we'll go back to an era-before we had the Affordable Care Act-that would strip millions and millions...

An inquiry has been launched into claims police in Sweden purposely downplayed a string of sexual assaults at a music festival. Prime Minister Lofven decried the "betrayal" of young women. The Swedish police ordered an investigation on Monday after national media made explosive allegations about the cover-up of sexual assault claims. The reports suggested that a number of teenage girls reported being molested by mostly migrant young men at a music festival in August. Allegedly a group of some 50 suspects carried out the assaults at the "We are Sthlm" youth festival, which attracts thousands of every year and also...

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"We bear a big responsibility, and if we succeed in it, then Iraq will become well. Our fighters work side-by-side with the Muslims, who grant us double the force we had without them," said Iraqi Christian David Boulos, who fights in the ranks of the Babylonian Brigades, which are under the authority of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (the PMF, an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of some 40, almost exclusively Shiite, militias). Boulos intended to emigrate from Iraq after his displacement from Mosul on 10 June 2014; however, he reversed his decision and decided to remain for a time...

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Tuesday evening ripped the Obama administration over its handling of Iran, saying the seizure of two U.S. Navy ships was "humiliating" to the nation and President Obama. "This kind of openly hostile action is not surprising," Cotton said during an appearance on CNN's "Situation Room" shortly after news emerged that the two ships and 10 U.S. sailors had been captured. In a statement, Cotton called for the president to demand that Iran release the sailors immediately. If Iran fails to release the U.S. sailors, he said the Iran nuclear deal should be nullified. On CNN,...

Workers at a New Jersey restaurant jumped for joy when they thought they’d hit the Powerball jackpot, scoring Saturday's $949 million prize. But the celebration at Grissini's Restaurant in Englewood Cliffs came to an abrupt end when employees realized they'd mistakenly compared Wednesday's winning numbers to their Saturday ticket. "It was like getting punched in the stomach," said Charles Poveromo, 55, who's worked as a bartender at the restaurant for 13 years. Poveromo said 42 employees pooled their money together and bought $210 worth of tickets.

It's going to be one of those days that reduce stronger men to tears. Today I'll debut at Instapundit, host & record five or six Trifecta segments, and drunkblog Barack Obama's worthless useless lame duck State of the Union Address. Actually, that's not enough to make me cry -- not quite. But the thought that I'll be back here Thursday night to drunkblog the next GOP debate is. Can my liver handle the loss of David Bowie, a SOTU, and a debate all in the space of four days? Stay tuned...

On Monday night, college football will crown a new champion. In the process, a lot of money will be made. No matter who wins, the University of Alabama’s Southeastern Conference and Clemson University’s Atlantic Coast Conference will be paid $6 million each. So will the conferences of the schools those teams beat to make it to the final. The organization that runs the playoff, a Delaware-headquartered corporation that’s separate from the NCAA, takes in about $470 million each year from ESPN. Clemson coach Dabo Swinney made $3.3 million last year and, as The Washington Post recently reported, his chief of...

The Department of State recently discovered "thousands" of previously unreviewed documents that relate to Hillary Clinton and the Benghazi attack, according to a watchdog group that has been suing the department to release public records from Clinton's tenure. The State Department disclosed the existence of the additional records in a court filing on Friday and asked the judge for further time to search and review the documents. The watchdog group Judicial Watch has been suing the State Department for years to turn over public records related to Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, the Clinton Foundation, the employment arrangements of...

Cruz has long strained to avoid directly criticize the Republican front-runner. But on Tuesday, Cruz mused that it's "interesting" that some left-wing legal scholars are providing validation to Trump's claim. --SNIP-- Cruz suggested on Howie Carr's Tuesday radio show that those scholars were working on behalf of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner. "She and Donald know each other well," Cruz said of Clinton. "And I do think it's interesting that Hillary Clinton's key supporters are doing everything they can to echo Donald's attacks on me. We've seen in the past couple elections where the Democrats worked...

Donald J. Trump, the Republican frontrunner who has repeatedly promised to “Make American Great Again,” participated in organized soccer as a high school student approaching the age of legal adulthood, the Free Beacon has learned. The following was published in the 1964 edition of the New York Military Academy yearbook: