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From the moment that the so-called Steele dossier burst onto the public scene, thoughtful observers have wondered what role its “salacious and unverified” accusations played in the opening of the so-called Russia investigation, the counterintelligence inquiry into whether Trump officials “colluded” with Russians to defeat Hillary Clinton. When news emerged that the dossier was the product of Clinton-campaign opposition research — laundered through a law firm — then the question got even more urgent. Was the entire investigation the fruit of the poisonous dossier? Did the FBI perhaps knowingly cooperate with Clinton operatives to launch an investigation with the (potential)...

This morning, a bombshell was dropped when Politico published an excerpt from former interim Democratic National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile’s new book — in which Brazile claims that Hillary Clinton and former DNC leadership “rigged the [party’s] nomination process” against Bernie Sanders. During an interview today on CNN’s The Lead, one of the leading progressive lions of the Democratic Party, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), was asked point blank if she believed that Brazile’s charge was true — that the nomination process was rigged during the 2016 Democratic primary. She answered succinctly and conclusively. “Yes,” she said. Prior to this stunning...

Okay I didn't know whether to post in Vanity or another. When i click on Nachum's-list Clinton or Obama body count and I think on Benghazi als? no matter I can not find it, it's gone and add and malware clicks are there blocking or just hoping someone clicks on it I personally used to refer to it about five times a week and he's not even emailing. Is he is I hope not and hope someone has saved and can send me a link I think with jusy the prior few. I heard he asked if anyone would take...

Glenn Beck and other #NeverTrumpers are on the wrong side of America’s moral war and needs right now. Get with it or get out of America’s way Donald Trump’s support and ‘America first’ message continues to grow as he delivers speech after speech right out of the park. Trump’s recent immigration speech was delivered from the heart, reflecting guts, clarity, passion and empathy for most American’s real concerns. Now we hear an even better speech from Trump on national security covering our military, vets and risks we face. He is promising to build back our military, care for our vets...

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says Hillary Clinton would be torn apart in a debate with Donald Trump. "Donald Trump will peel her skin off in a debate setting and actually, he'll peel it off this evening out in San Jose as well," Perry said on Fox News when asked about a potential debate between the two presidential contenders. Perry, who backed Trump in May, said Clinton is not used to taking criticism and called out the Democratic front-runner for not holding a press conference in months. He said she does not "want to take hard questions from the...

The State Department said Monday that it still cannot locate emails to or from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s senior information technology staffer. Bryan Pagliano set up Mrs. Clinton’s “home brew” email server in 2009, but a Freedom of Information Act request for documents linked to his tenure at the agency have turned up nothing since last year. “The Department has searched for Mr. Pagliano’s email PST file and has not located one that covers the time period of Secretary Clinton’s tenure,” State Department spokesman Elizabeth Trudeau said Monday, ABC News reported. FBI agents are expected to wrap up...

Could the next president of the United States be neither Clinton, Trump, Cruz, or Kasich ... but Thomas Perez? It’s far more likely than you might think. Even before any candidate definitively secures either party’s presidential nomination, 2016 is looking more and more like 1912 all over again. In that fateful year, Theodore Roosevelt -- after four years of bored retirement -- decided that he wanted to be president again. However, Roosevelt’s handpicked successor William Howard Taft refused to yield. Because of the split, even though the Democrats’ dour, arrogant Woodrow Wilson won fewer popular votes than perennial failed...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A comic gag turned into a gaffe for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, triggering a social media storm that raged through Tuesday over what some said was their insensitivity to African-Americans. New York voters head to the polls next week for the primary election on April 19. While Clinton has strong support from black voters, some supporters worry that Democratic challenger Bernie Sanders has begun making inroads with them. Clinton and de Blasio took the stage on Saturday at the Inner Circle, an annual media roast of politicians that...

A new weekly national tracking poll from NBC News shows Donald Trump adding to his lead over the Republican field, while Hillary Clinton's lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)16% narrows slightly. Trump has the support of 38 percent of Republicans nationally, 20 points higher than his nearest rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% , with 18 percent. Hillary Clinton leads Sanders by 10 points, 50-40. The poll was conducted last week, Monday through Sunday, so it mostly doesn't reflect changes from Saturday's GOP Presidential debate. According to the survey, however, Trump gained three points over the week, while Cruz dropped two...

onventional wisdom has long held that Hillary Rodham Clinton, if she runs for president, would be the clear frontrunner for the Democratic nomination in 2016. But after a trifecta of scandals buffeting President Obama – fresh questions about the White House’s veracity on Benghazi, the IRS’s harassment of conservative non-profits and the Justice Department seizure ofAP telephone records – Clinton's close connections with Obama could become politically problematic. Some Republicans believe that revelations about the Benghazi operation could lead to unflattering details that cast questions about Clinton’s stewardship at the State Department. If there was any attempt to downplay the...

The current generation of American liberals loves a good war. In recent years they’ve fought, with varying degrees of success, the War on Poverty, the War on Hunger, and the War on Carbon. So it seemed ironic that when the liberals of the Obama administration launched a campaign in Libya that seemed truly worthy of being called a war, they were reluctant to use the word. But now that disinclination is starting to make sense — because a war is something you generally set out to win. You can’t blame liberals for appropriating the word “war” to infuse left-wing...

Bill Clinton says a vast, right-wing conspiracy that once targeted him is now focusing on President Barack Obama.

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Readers of this column will recall that from time to time in covering an election cycle I have referred to a voting bloc that political analysts of more delicate sensibilities would rather not mention, to wit, the moron vote. It is a constituency composed of politically ignorant citizens who nonetheless feel very intensely about political issues once their respective demagogues have notified them of the issues, suitably transmogrified...

seems like ancient history now, but not long ago Hillary Clinton argued that Barack Obama was getting a free pass from the media. Those days are over, with moderators, a private citizen and Clinton herself peppering Obama on Wednesday night with a barrage of the kind of tough questions he escaped for more than a year. He answered some better than others, and some not at all. But the mere fact that at least five damaging issues were thrown at him within 30 minutes was testament to how much the race has changed in the six weeks since anti-American remarks...

Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I was a civil rights worker… South Carolina, 1966… 22 yrs old … helping old folks register to vote, teaching kids to read and write, directing Raisin in the Sun… Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I dream of my kindergarten best friend Andy from Walden School, Manhattan, born one day after me, shot dead in Mississippi 1964. Barack, I idolized Stokley Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Barack, I lost the full use of my left hand for life in South Carolina. Barack, I didn’t do it for...

System Worries Clinton Backers Delegates Won May Not Reflect Popular Vote By Matthew Mosk Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, February 18, 2008; A06 Supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are worried that convoluted delegate rules in Texas could water down the impact of strong support for her among Hispanic voters there, creating a new obstacle for her in the must-win presidential primary contest. Several top Clinton strategists and fundraisers became alarmed after learning of the state's unusual provisions during a closed-door strategy meeting this month, according to one person who attended. What Clinton aides discovered is that in certain targeted...

New York Democrats and Republicans have clear hometown favorites - Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudolph Giuliani - for their parties' 2008 presidential nominations, a statewide poll reported yesterday. But when it comes to a possible 2008 political subway series between the two, New Yorkers give the nod, 50 percent to 40 percent, to Democrat Clinton over the former New York City mayor, the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute survey reported. <A TARGET="_top" HREF="http://ad.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v8/34fa/3/0/%2a/q%3B64936077%3B0-0%3B0%3B15261030%3B4307-300/250%3B19441455/19459349/1%3B%3B%7Efdr%3D74550444%3B0-0%3B0%3B12927814%3B4307-300/250%3B19626407/19644301/1%3B%3B%7Esscs%3D%3fhttp://www.blackberry.com/select/ask/index.shtml?CPID=BAC-NewsDay008"><IMG SRC="http://m1.2mdn.net/1286583/bb_ch_300x250_alt.jpg" BORDER=0></A> "New Yorkers remember [former House Speaker] Tip O'Neill's line that all politics is local and pick a native son and a not-so-native daughter as their favorites...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN SEPT 03, 2006 19:41:35 ET XXXXX BUSH, CLINTON, LIMBAUGH, CRONKITE TO LAUNCH COURIC **Exclusive** Plans for the opening week of CBS EVENING NEWS WITH KATIE COURIC have surpassed network executives' wildest dream: Presidents Bush and Clinton, radio king Rush Limbaugh and broadcast legend Walter Cronkite have all agreed to appear, a CBS insider reveals! A top network source says scheduling of "guest editorials" are still in flux. But the addition of Rush Limbaugh to the CBS EVENING NEWS is bound to generate maximum commotion and tune-in hits.

NEW YORK (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton, apparently not content with eight years as leader of the free world, is now out to save the planet. With more than 170 heads of state and government gathered in New York for the UN summit, Clinton will open Thursday the inaugural meeting of his Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), aimed at wiping out poverty, ending conflict, rolling back climate change and promoting better governance worldwide. "We have an opportunity we cannot afford to pass up -- in just three days, we can begin to make a world of difference," says Clinton's...