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Foreign Affairs
Obama: ‘99% of world agrees’ Iran deal is good; poll shows Americans believe otherwise
Barack Obama is nothing if he’s not a creature of habit. The ink on his new deal with Iran was…
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Sports and Culture
NAACP wants to sand-blast sculpture of Robert E. Lee, others off Stone Mountain
Last year Business Insider ran an entertaining piece titled “6 People Who Were Literally Erased from History.” The article serves as a grim…
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Tweet of the Day: On same day shock video of Planned Parenthood surfaces, Obama tweets THIS?
In show biz and sports, timing is everything. Deliver your line too soon or swing at a pitch too early,…
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Foreign Affairs
Flashback: WH spox claim ‘We never sought anytime/anywhere inspections’
And so it begins. Barack Obama’s infamous dance with the devil is scarcely a day old and already the administration is…
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Media
Geraldo Rivera to Fox co-host during heated exchange: ‘I’d knock you out right now!’
Smart move on the part of Fox News Channel to invite loose cannon Geraldo Rivera to sub in for the recently…
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Foreign Affairs
Images of the Day: Little Golden Book version of Obama’s historic Iran deal
It’s a done deal. At 7 a.m. this morning, Barack Obama made a televised appearance in which he announced that his…
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Politics
Yale U. class dishonors fellow alum and American hero — but you won’t believe how
If you stroll across the Yale University campus in New Haven, Conn., you will eventually come upon the statue of…
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Lib radio host’s plan for cleansing South of Confederate sins dumbest yet
And here you thought the plan to dig up the earthly remains of a Confederate Civil War general and his wife represented…
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Law and Government
9-year-old beaten for taking a slice of birthday cake dies of his injuries
A 9-year-old child is dead, and his killer — his mother’s boyfriend — is in police custody, facing murder charges. The child, Jack…
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Social Issues
Black mob surrounds car, terrorizes white mother, two young children
“They were walking around both sides of the vehicle — in the front, in the back — and as they were walking…
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Education
One high school’s outrageous ‘solution’ to the problem of low graduation rates
Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. And those who can’t teach, cheat. New York’s NBC affiliate WNBC reports…
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Viral video of trio having sex in public instantly evolves into political football
“Hey, get a room, you two — er, you three.” That would seem to be the more-or-less normal reaction to witnessing…
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Law and Government
Guess who’s the new GOP frontrunner in a national poll? (Hint: His initials are DT)
To a raging alcoholic, the initials D.T. are commonly associated with delirium tremens, a medical condition often characterized by hallucinations. D.T.…
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Law and Government
In Oregon, 15-year-olds can get state-subsidized sex change surgery without parental consent
Never mind death panels under Obamacare. Instead try to wrap your mind around a different panel of experts, this one…
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Education
If you define ‘family’ as ‘a group of people related by blood,’ give yourself an F
Another day, another attempt to cleanse the English language of its white-centric, male-dominated nomenclature. This particular lesson comes from a strange…
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Law and Government
Two NFL players lose fingers in July 4 fireworks mishaps
You have to feel sorry for Kathleen Staples, the mother from Maine whose son was killed Saturday after lighting a fireworks mortar that he had…
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Memphis city council votes to dig up remains of Confederate Civil War general, wife
Statue, shmatue. The latest effort to expunge the odious memory of a man who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War…
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Media
Quote of the Day: Hillary Clinton tells Americans, ‘Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes’
Give Hillary Clinton credit. She managed to elude the media for nearly three months between the announcement of her candidacy on…
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National Security
Obama on Islamic State: ‘Ideologies not defeated by guns but by better ideas’
On the one hand you have Winston Churchill, who — when facing the threat of global Nazism in 1940 — rallied his troops…
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Education
How knowing punctuation helped one woman beat a parking ticket
When I taught freshman composition some years ago, my students would challenge me on the utility of learning grammar and punctuation.…
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Social Issues
Savage beating of white man by black mob in Cincinnati not being investigated as hate crime
At first the Cincinnati Police Department labeled the near-deadly Fourth of July beating of a white man by a black mob an…
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You won’t believe why this gravely ill child is about to lose his health benefits
It sounds like a bad joke even for Britain, where health care is mediated through the government-run National Health Service.…
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Politics
#BlackLivesMatter protesters in Tampa set fire to American flag
While chanting “black lives matter” and “end racist violence,” a group of predominantly white protesters in Tampa demonstrated that actions speak…
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Education
Tweet of the Day: Black U. Memphis prof who equated whiteness with terrorism is fired
White bashing — vilifying white people on social media, mostly Twitter — has become all the rage among faculties on American college campuses. It’s easy…
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Media
Black coed wins ‘poetry slam’ with poem titled ‘Black Privilege’
If you stopped reading at the phrase “poetry slam” in the title, you are not to be faulted. Poetry as…
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Media
Video: Read what is likely the shortest obit ever written
In a past life, I was briefly an obit writer, having contributed to “Annual Obituary,” a collection of yearly death…
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Law and Government
Star Trek’s George Takei has some ugly words for one Supreme Court justice
Here is another story to be filed under “Imagine If a Conservative Said This.” The speaker was instead Hollywood liberal and former…
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