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(Newsmax) – Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert told the Washington Examiner that he believes the FBI will not recommend an indictment for Hillary Clinton in the email probe case. The Republican lawmaker said he believed the FBI would announce that they were “just laying out the evidence,” and leave it to the Justice Department to issue any indictment. “Director Comey is a pretty straight-up guy, and I don’t think he’ll pull any punches,” Gohmert said, referring to FBI Director James Comey. “But I could also see him avoiding all the controversy by just saying, here’s all the evidence, it’s not our...

The casual consumer of news hears it all the time and not just from Democratic pundits. Reporters, pundits, and concern trolls in the media fret that Romney has had to move too far right. He’s just too conservative. These same people never stop to examine Barack Obama. Between the two, Barack Obama has repeatedly surrounded himself with people who actually don’t much care for the United States. Writing that may anger people, but it is actual, factual, fact. Instead of considering if Mitt Romney is too far to the right, perhaps we should consider if Barack Obama is too far...

A Republican leader in the U.S. Senate says the healthcare proposals being debated in Congress "miss the point" that most Americans like the healthcare they have, but the cost of that care is a problem. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) opposes the "pay or play" mandate for small businesses and employers under the proposed government-run healthcare option, and he believes the government option will ultimately leave 119-million Americans with no option but the government plan. Although there is little agreement between Republicans and Democrats on the public healthcare option, Cornyn contends there is a lot of consensus on what can be...

In the heat of the electoral controversy — the worst possible time to make constitutional decisions — many people, such as Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton, are calling for an end to the Electoral College. Big mistake. Someone once said, Don’t knock down a wall merely because you cannot immediately see what it’s good for. The same can be said for the Electoral College. We should keep in mind that the Founding Fathers were of somewhat better caliber than the politician you are likely to see on television, including those with presidential ambitions. The Electoral College was not an idea floating...

The federal government is spending millions of dollars on a publicity campaign that could be used to plug budget shortfalls hurricane forecasters are struggling with, the National Hurricane Center's director said Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is spending up to $4 million to publicize a 200th anniversary celebration while the agency has cut $700,000 from hurricane research, Bill Proenza said. The hurricane center is part of the National Weather Service, which is a NOAA agency. "No question about it, it is not justified," he said in a phone interview while attending the Florida Gov.'s Hurricane Conference in Fort...

China: The center cannot hold By Li YongYan BEIJING - The West has often referred to China as the Middle Kingdom, in a mild mockery of Chinese emperors' illusion that their land occupied the middle location on the flat and square earth. Actually, the name has another, more accurate interpretation that has escaped Western observers: China also means central state. The "Middle Kingdom" is a misnomer because the central authorities don't know, or care, as much about the world outside their empire as about the provinces within their borders. The central state functions like the central nervous system that issues...