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Outrage as MSNBC panelists make Mitt Romney's adopted black grandchild the punchline of a joke — Host Melissa Harris-Perry led guests in a segment that ridiculed a photo of the extensive Romney family and its single black member, a baby — Panelist Dean Obeidallah compared …
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Sarah Palin: MSNBC ‘despicable’ — Sarah Palin says MSNBC should ashamed of a “despicable” segment in which they mocked Mitt Romney's adopted black grandson. — “Leftist media hounds are not expressing an opinion with this attack; they are expressing a prejudice that would never be accepted …
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MSNBC host apologizes after panel makes fun of Romney photo with black grandchild
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Melissa Harris-Perry Panel Mocks Black Romney Grandchild As Token
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The Year Washington Fled Reality — ‘Message discipline’ can win elections but is not a healthy way to run a country. — The past year may go down not only as the least productive ever in Washington but as one of the worst for the republic. — In both the executive branch and Congress …
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Betsy's Page and The Gateway Pundit


Why Obamacare Will Only Get Less Popular — Lisa Myers has an excellent investigative reporting piece up at NBC News documenting how one small business is dealing with Obamacare. The quotes from the article are just brutal: … Myers does report that, “A handful of the Extreme Dodge workers came …
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The Facts About Benghazi — An exhaustive investigation by The Times goes a long way toward resolving any nagging doubts about what precipitated the attack on the United States mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year that killed Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
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Change Is Obamacare's Only Certainty — I said in my last post that our newly implemented health-care law “is undoubtedly going to change in the near future, in ways that will make it more or less stable than it is now.” To see what I mean, take the individual mandate.
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7M ObamaCare enrollment target a tall order despite recent surge — Experts say the Obama administration faces a tall order in hitting the 7 million enrollees the Congressional Budget Office projected would sign up for ObamaCare in 2014. — After a surge of enrollees in December …
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americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers
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Dem Congresswoman: Obamacare Sign-ups Low Because Millions Think GOP Repealed the Law
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Weasel Zippers, Clayton Cramer, VodkaPundit and National Review

The NY Times Looks In the Wrong Place for Corrupt Academics — Academic research of all kinds receives funding from a variety of sources. Does the money taint the research? That is a complicated question that sometimes deserves to be asked. But this hit piece by David Kocieniewski …
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Streetwise Professor, National Review and Felix Salmon


And The Country Posing The Greatest Threat to Peace as 2013 Ends is ... (CNSNews.com) - The past year witnessed bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, turmoil in Egypt, anarchy in Central Africa, threats by a nuclear-armed North Korea and Chinese military posturing, but as 2013 ends a global poll finds …
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Israel Matzav and The Lonely Conservative


‘Stuck in our own experiment’: Leader of trapped team insists polar ice is melting — The leader of a scientific expedition whose ship remains stranded in Antarctic ice says the team, which set out to prove climate change, is “stuck in our own experiment.” — But Chris Turney …
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State Dept. whistleblower has email hacked, deleted — WASHINGTON — The personal e-mail account of a State Department whistleblower was hacked, and four years worth of messages — some detailing alleged wrongdoing at the agency — were deleted, The Post has learned.
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The Biggest Political Winners and Losers of 2013 — Chris Christie, Bill de Blasio, and an Arkansas House member head the list of political winners in 2013. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, now seen as a formidable presidential contender, is one of the biggest political winners of 2013.
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ACLU sues for details of U.S. surveillance under executive order — (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Monday seeking to force the U.S. government to disclose details of its foreign electronic surveillance program and what protections it provides to Americans whose communications are swept up.


Overdue reforms boost Mexico — and the United States — Most Americans have an image of Mexico as a nation convulsed by violent drug wars and enervated by the exodus of hundreds of thousands of desperate immigrants across our southern border. — That image is out of date.

Murders or Houses: Kerry's V.A.T. on Peace — The release of unrepentant Jew-killers from Israeli prisons to keep the engine of the peace process running has left many, even those sympathetic with the Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria, angrily wondering why Prime Minister Netanyahu did not accept a settlement freeze instead.
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Power Line and Israel Matzav

FAA Selects Six Sites for Unmanned Aircraft Research … After a rigorous 10-month selection process involving 25 proposals from 24 states, the Federal Aviation Administration has chosen six unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) research and test site operators across the country.
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F.A.A. Picks Diverse Sites to Carry Out Drone Tests
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