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BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul is running away with a recent (very early) Iowa presidential poll put out by Freedom to Choose PAC. Rand Paul comes in at 39% with the closest competition, Marco Rubio at 20%. In February, Senator Paul was trailing Senator Rubio by 1
Jeremy Hobson wraps up his final report for NPR’s ‘Marketplace’ with an insightful conversation with some teens about technology and social media in their lives. To get some insight, we went to the source — high schoolers. We found out what apps they use
As you peruse the internet you’ll find this story running with headlines like, “Pro-gun rights billboard depicting American Indians sparks outrage,” or “draws criticism.” However, if you read one of the original articles, you’ll find this, “Matt Wells, an account executive with Lamar Advertising
Around noon today, Rush Limbaugh played an audio clip of Michael Scheuer explaining the insanity of U.S. foreign policy Saying, “The meme is ‘we did it.’ Once again, Rush seems incapable of critical thinking skills when it comes to terrorism. He even tried to pretend
Appearing on Fox Business Network’s Varney & Co. this morning, Judge Andrew Napolitano reported that he had spoken with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and believes that the libertarian-leaning lawmaker “unequivocally” did not change his position on drone strikes, despite how many people interpreted his
Contrary to the desires of neoconservatives, like senators McCain and Graham, the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, has just announced that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not be charged as an ‘enemy combatant.’ UPDATE: Read the official ‘Criminal Complaint’–United States of America vs. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. JAY CARNEY:
(Town Hall 4/22/13 9:00am) The Saudi national who was initially detained and then ruled out as a suspect in the Boston Marathon terrorist attack had been flagged on a terror watch list and was granted a student visa without being properly vetted, sources have
Three senior officials tell Daniel Klaidman, of The Beast, that the Obama administration is poised to shift the CIA’s drone program to the Pentagon. But is this just a shell game? All of this shifting around by the administration surely isn’t because of the
Today, Sen. Paul launched into his filibuster of John Brennan as director of the CIA, with a lengthy passage from Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan’s nomination for the CIA. I will speak until I
UPDATE…SEN. PAUL ENDS FILIBUSTER AT 12:39 AM–NEARLY 13 HRS. APPLAUSE ERUPTS IN SENATE CHAMBER DESPITE RULES… WHITEHOUSE DEAFENING SILENCE ON FILIBUSTER… TRANSCRIPTS OF FILIBUSTER… Republican senators who participated in the filibuster with Paul include, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah),