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Regulators and other bureaucrats form a fourth branch of government with elements of the other three, but little public influence.
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Clash Daily
This video is going viral in Europe, but the #NeverTrump folks who refuse
to listen to common sense will hate it.
If you still support Obama bringing in thousands of Syrian refugees to our
borders after watching this, then you will be to blame when something
tragic occurs on our homeland:
Please share this dire warning with everyone you know.
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Muslims in Europe are not assimilating, and the cost is high.
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Donald Trump joined Milwaukee radio host Charlie Sykes this morning, and in a wide-ranging interview, stood by his contention that the NATO alliance is “obsolete” and “extremely expensive for the United States” and that traditional allies actually ripped off U.S. taxpayers.
“We are getting ripped off by every other country in NATO,” Trump said this morning. “They pay almost nothing.”
The NATO Alliance spent $924 billion in 2014; in the most recent budget deal, the U.S. military budget is slated at $610 billion.
There’s a fair argument that European NATO allies need to spend more on defense. They set up a goal of getting each country to spend 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense, and so far, only five of the 28 members meet that threshold — the U.S., Britain, Estonia, Poland and Greece.
But the hyperbolic portrayal of our closest allies as “ripping us off” and their collective $300 billion per year on defense spending as “almost nothing” is typical ill-informed, insulting Trumpism.
The world’s third-largest defense budget is . . . the United Kingdom, at $66 billion. France is fifth at $52 billion. Germany ninth $43 billion. Italy, Canada, and Turkey rank 13th, 14th, and 15th. And these are countries with much smaller populations and economies than the United States.
Overall, non-U.S. NATO countries make up nine of the 25 largest defense budgets on Earth.
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In an interview with Howard Kurtz, the Krauthammer lays out what makes Donald Trump different from Cruz and would make him such a dangerous President. Watch below: The Cabbage-Smasher says that the…
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The NOAA has proven with their own data that there actually has been no Global Warming for..not just 2 decades...but for the last 6 decades!!
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Whether California lawmakers’ plan to set a $15 an hour minimum wage will provide an economic boost or blow to the nation’s most populous state is dividing experts.
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Following official warnings, organizers in Brussels have postponed a planned solidarity rally. European nations have boosted security since the Brussels bombings, with Germany and Belgium arresting several suspects.
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Brutal takedown of Donald Trump by Charlie Sykes of RightWisconsin @columbiabugle for more
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Cruz was once a director at the Federal Trade Commission. He had a remarkable record of convincing Democrats to vote for conservative principles.
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The founder of the fledgling Islamic Association of SA warns a lack of tolerance could spark violence.
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Share on Facebook 1 1 SHARES This is why it’s important to have a competent campaign. Donald Trump’s people should have never allowed him to go on Charlie Sykes’ show. Sykes is a well known critic of Trump – moreover, he’s intelligent, articulate, and a relentless interview. As a communications professional, you have to always know what kinds of interview you are sending your boss | Read More »
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As Cubans debate the impact of President Barack Obama's historic trip to the island last week, one prominent figure is lambasting the visit: Fidel Castro.
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Donald Trump is driving disaffected blue collar voters to the polls, according to The New York Times. And if the Republican Party doesn’t embrace Trump’s values, the Times suggests, Republicans will lose from here to eternity.
Nonsense.
Nicholas Confessore, writing for the Times, talks at length about how Republican elites have long supported free trade at the expense of uncompetitive domestic American businesses. Confessore writes:
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Petition calls for open carry rules at GOP convention in Cleveland
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Just when it seemed that the Republican presidential race couldn’t get any less edifying, Donald Trump went after Heidi Cruz and the National Enquirer entered the fray.
The latest flap began when an anti-Trump super PAC used a nude photo from a Melania Trump modeling shoot in an ad meant to warn Utah voters off making her first lady. The ad was tasteless (and unnecessary in a state that Ted Cruz was about to win with nearly 70 percent of the vote). Trump would have been justified in strongly objecting to it. Instead, he falsely insisted that Ted Cruz was behind the ad and, true to his bullying style, threatened to reveal damaging information about Heidi Cruz. This alone would have marked a new low — has a presidential candidate ever threatened a rival’s spouse before? — but Trump followed it up with a re-tweet of an unflattering photo of Heidi Cruz juxtaposed with a flattering image of his wife. So Trump had immediately scraped an even lower low.
#ad#Such is Trump’s boundless capacity to make everything he touches in this race reek of the gutter. Much of the media coverage played the controversy as if Cruz and Trump were equally responsible for it, when Cruz acted completely honorably. He had nothing to do with the super-PAC ad and denounced it. He said only complimentary things about Melania and defended Heidi, who is extremely accomplished herself (and, if we may add — lovely). Ted Cruz deserves great credit for trying to maintain his dignity, and that of his party, in a contest that Donald Trump has made the political equivalent of a Bravo reality show.
The National Enquirer piled on by publishing wild innuendo alleging multiple Cruz affairs. There is no direct evidence that Trump was responsible for the so-called report, but he is friends with the head of the supermarket tabloid, and the piece quoted Trump’s bottom-dwelling political associate Roger Stone, who imagines himself a Machiavelli of political dirty tricks. Mustering all his disingenuousness, Trump said he hoped the story wasn’t true, while noting that some past National Enquirer reports have been borne out (although most of what it publishes is self-evidently trash). Trump said this even though his own spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, is one of the women alleged to have had an affair with Cruz. For her part, Pierson denied the report, but said she spoke only for herself, not the other women alluded to — a response just as classy as anyone who has seen Pierson’s absurd defenses of her boss on TV would expect.
Cruz vehemently denied the National Enquirer report with the righteous indignation of a man who can’t believe that this is what the presidential race has come to.
But Republicans should get used to it. There will, at the very least, be weeks more of this. And if Trump is its nominee, the GOP will be associated with swinish politics all the way to Election Day, if not beyond.
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Georga Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed religious liberty protections on Monday, leading many in media to cheer him on while exposing their own bias and ignorance.
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Donald Trump is complaining about his own incompetence
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Trump once again spewed lies this morning that Cruz not only knew about the GQ photo of his wife, but also sent it out. He got a little push back from the Fox and Friends hosts on this but that did…
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Donald Trump leads by one point in latest CA poll
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Protesters refuse to disperse unless govt declares Qadri a martyr
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On Tuesday, when Islamist suicide bombers blew themselves up in Brussels, killing 35 innocent people and injuring 240, the European Union’s foreign policy representative, the Italian Federica Moghe…
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A new study by the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) claims Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumps plan to repeal and replace Obamacare is going to cost roughly $500 billion over 10 years and would cause 21 million Americans to lose their insurance coverage.
