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he toughest job in politics these days is defending Hillary Clinton, mocked brilliantly by The Post as the “Deleter of the Free World.” Her beleaguered defenders, as they retreat behind the bunker door, are settling on a crude ­legal defense. Their mumbo jumbo chorus ­begins with the claim that she didn’t break any laws by doing government business on her private e-mail and ends with the insistence that everybody does it. That’s their story, and they are sticking to it — until they are forced to find another one. That will be soon because, while Hillary’s Helpers may have a...

Former Secretary Clinton use of private email for her state correspondence with foreign dignitaries and persons removed her actions from public scrutiny and political accountability, converting her State Department post into a private diplomatic backchannel. Her actions have the potential to be among the most dangerous precedents for use of executive power. According to Article II of the Constitution, the “president” is one person who is vested with “[t]he executive power,” and who delegates such power to his agents. Our Framers did not insert that clause just to empower a president; they did it to make the president and his...

Vengeful Obama confidante Valeria Jarrett went through back channels to leak Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to the press, an explosive new report reveals. The New York Post‘s Edward Klein reports that a source familiar with Bill Clinton said that the former president told him: “The Obamas are out to get us any way they can.” Jarrett blamed the Democratic party’s 2014 midterm losses on the Clintons’ insinuations that Obama’s unpopular policies, including executive amnesty for foreigners gobbling up American jobs, made the president an “albatross” around the reigning party’s neck. Jarrett, Obama, and Obama’s wife greeted...

We've been focused on the emails controversy and the other scandal involving the Clinton Foundation.   Furthermore, we are hearing a lot of serious concerns about Hillary Clinton the candidate. And these concerns are from Democrats. I've been looking at the head to head match ups for several months and Hillary is under 50% across the board in the RCP average: 47% vs Walker48% vs Bush (but that includes one poll that had her at 54%..... no candidate has achieved that percentage of the popular vote since President Reagan was reelected in 1984 with 60%... so forgive me for being a bit...