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Former Republican Congressman and House Speaker Dennis Hastert may or may not have preyed on underage boys while he was a high school wrestling coach. Those claims slipping into the mainstream narrative — while likely, based on the curious phrasing in his indictment — are just unfounded speculation. Clearly the Feds could not make that case, or they would have charged him for it. But there are much bigger questions to the Hastert affair, and they reveal the rot of the American system. How could a former high wrestling coach/history teacher who lost his first election to an open seat...

Yesterday the president went out of his way to try to exert maximum pressure on the Supreme Court judges. Where was the uproar? “ In an unprecedented moment, Obama left for posterity, his tape showing how he overstepped the law, as you can see here. First of all, he lied: in reality, the health care law, the Affordable Care Act, ACA, was not passed unanimously as he lied. The ACA was passed by a party-line vote in the Senate and seven votes in the House, and what is more striking is that it passed without NO support of ANY of...