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U.S. patent office cancels Redskins trademark registration, says name is disparaging — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled the Washington Redskins trademark registration, calling the football team's name “disparaging to Native Americans.”
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In Landmark Decision, U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team — The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled six federal trademark registrations for the name of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name is “disparaging to Native Americans” …
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U.S. Patent Office Cancels Redskins Trademark Registration — The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, part of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, canceled the trademark registration of the name Redskins for use in connection with a professional football team, saying that …
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Patent & Trademark Office cancels several Washington Redskins trademarks
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The Daily Signal


The Collapsing Obama Doctrine — Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. — As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few …
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The Graciousness and Dignity of Richard B. Cheney — “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.” — A few hours ago I said (sincerely) that a number of prominent officials who had set the stage for today's disaster in Iraq deserved respect …
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Cheney rips Obama over foreign policy in op-ed
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Poll Shows Erosion in President's Support — As clouds gather abroad, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds Mr. Obama's job approval rating at 41%, matching a previous low.
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NBC/WSJ Poll: Obama's Foreign Policy Rating Plummets, Even Without Iraq — And respondents are evenly divided if the details of Bergdahl's disappearance from his base in Afghanistan matter in the U.S. decision to secure his release: 47 percent say the details matter, while 46 percent say they don't.
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Hillary Clinton cannot let you hold a viewpoint about guns that is terrorizing the vast majority of Americans. — At yesterday's CNN Town Hall with Hillary Clinton, a Maryland teacher named Gail Santa Maria expressed concern about school shootings and asked whether “reinstating the ban …
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Power Line, CNN, The Hugh Hewitt Show and Rush Limbaugh
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Is Hillary Clinton Imploding?
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Hillary Clinton Gets Friendly With ‘Squirrel’ The RNC Sent To Stalk Her (VIDEO)
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Jindal moves against Common Core — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal issued executive orders Wednesday to withdraw the state from the Common Core standards and federally subsidized standardized tests, defying his state legislature, his superintendent of education and the business community …
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Politico's reporting disaster — Politico's media blogger, Dylan Byers, regularly supplies his readers with tidbits on comings and goings in the news business, but this week he provided an additional service: a lesson in the limitations of armchair journalism.
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What's Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse — I grew up in Los Angeles, the city by the freeway by the sea. And if there's one thing I've known ever since I could sit up in my car seat, it's that you should expect to run into traffic at any point of the day.
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Dallas County commissioners unwittingly back slavery reparations — John Wiley Price's Price's resolution went beyond taking note of Juneteenth; it included a long list of injustices endured by blacks, from slavery to Jim Crow to predatory lending practices.
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Obamacare subsidies push cost of health law above projections — The large subsidies for health insurance that helped fuel the successful drive to sign up some 8 million Americans for coverage under the Affordable Care Act may push the cost of the law considerably above current projections, a new federal report indicates.
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Federal insurance exchange subsidies cut premiums by average of 76%, HHS reports
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Israel's occupation of the West Bank is indefensible — JERUSALEM — There is a pleasant fiction in the United States and parts of Israel that the Israel-Palestine conflict exists in a sort of suspended animation, on pause and simply awaiting diplomatic resolution.
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TED CRUZ RESISTS CALLS TO CRITICIZE REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES — Tuesday after CNN's town hall presentation with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, “OutFront” host Erin Burnett had Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on to offer his reaction. — After talking briefly about the former secretary …
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John Boehner wants ‘overall’ Obama Iraq strategy — Speaker John Boehner wants the White House to outline a broad strategy to combat al Qaeda-affiliated extremists in Iraq during a meeting with the president and congressional leaders on Wednesday. — The Ohio Republican …
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Iraqi premier Maliki gaining strength as Shiites rally behind him
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