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Netanyahu: If I'm elected, there will be no Palestinian state — In a definitive disavowal of his Bar-Ilan two-state speech, prime minister makes last-minute attempt to draw voters from Bennett's Habayit Hayeudi. — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau said Monday that if he were to be reelected …
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Netanyahu Declares No Palestinian State if He's Re-elected — JERUSALEM — Under pressure on the eve of a surprisingly close election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Monday doubled down on his appeal to right-wing voters, declaring definitively that if he was returned to office …
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Chuck Norris Cuts Last-Minute Campaign Video For Netanyahu (VIDEO)
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Benjamin Netanyahu: No Palestinian state on my watch
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WND, Brookings Institute, The Times of Israel and American Spectator

A Post-Netanyahu Republican Foreign Policy
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If Netanyahu loses, will Republicans still be ‘pro-Israel’?
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GOP senators block Ted Cruz move to hold up Loretta Lynch vote — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's strategy of blocking a vote on President Barack Obama's attorney general nominee until the White House relents on immigration executive actions ran into a brick wall Wednesday: his own GOP colleagues.
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Ted Cruz did not scare a little girl at event. — The mother of the child involved in the “World On Fire” comment from Ted Cruz speaks to Jeff about what really happened. — [0:04:49] ... this. What kind of a mother argue that the air is your baby crying and you're not doing anything to comfort your frightened crying baby.
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Cruz: ‘The whole world is on fire’
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Fiery Ted Cruz confuses a little girl, snubs a goat in New Hampshire
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The Cotton Letter Was Not Sent Anywhere, Especially Not to Iran — Tom Cotton on Face the Nation, March 15, 2015 (CBS) — Before U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and 46 of his GOP colleagues are frog-marched to the gallows and hanged for treason, one vital point of confusion must be cleared up.
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Boehner's sea of troubles — The TV drama “House of Cards,” with all of its fictional backstabbing, looks lame compared to the current, real-life political drama on Capitol Hill starring Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). — The Speaker has the biggest GOP caucus in Congress since the 1920s.


White House calling the shots
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White House: GOP Has Failed to Put ‘Points on the Board’
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WWW.SLTRIB.COM — I've learned the real reason why Mitt Romney chose not to run for president for a third time in 2016. — He's taking up boxing. — In fact, Romney is slated to fight former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield in the marquis event during a several-bout evening …
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Sources: HHS' Obamacare Contingency Plan Is To Ask States To Contract Exchange Work To The Feds — Something odd has been happening with the Supreme Court battle over the legality of subsidies for Obamacare's federally-organized health insurance exchange. The Obama administration has been claiming …
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Lawyer Attempting To Cripple Obamacare Cites Satirical Letter To Support His Supreme Court Case
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Republican Governor Hopes Obamacare Lawsuit Fails In Supreme Court
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Furniture Company: Aaron Schock Likely Spent $5,000 On A Replica Of President Obama's Podium — The Illinois Republican has a podium that appears to be “The Presidential.” — Schock standing behind his custom podium back in his home district of Peoria, Illinois in 2013.
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Investigators contact Aaron Schock associates — Investigators from the Office of Congressional Ethics have begun reaching out to Rep. Aaron Schock's political orbit, a possible first sign of an official investigation of the Illinois Republican. — OCE is seeking to speak to people …
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Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore's son arrested, charged with drug possession in Troy — The son of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore was arrested Sunday for drug possession near the scene of an attempted break-in, court records show. — Caleb Moore, 24, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
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Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe? — For half a century, memories of the Holocaust inoculated the Continent against overt anti-Semitism. That period has ended—the recent fatal attacks in Paris and Copenhagen are merely the latest in a mounting tide.
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Op-Ed Michael Douglas finds Judaism and faces anti-Semitism
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Al Gore should run for president — Democrats need a debate about where their party goes next. Obamacare's passage marked the rough completion of the social safety net that liberals began constructing during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidency. The end of the Iraq War drained Democrats of their foreign policy fervor.
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Oregon Governor Signs Sweeping Automatic Voter Registration Into Law — Sweeping first-in-the nation legislation making voter registration automatic in Oregon was signed into law on Monday by Governor Kate Brown, potentially adding 300,000 new voters to state rolls.


Marco Rubio's house of horrors — A Tallahassee home co-owned by a scandal-plagued ex-congressman is the locus of questions about the senator's finances and judgment. — TALLAHASSEE — The brick-fronted tract house with a satellite dish and a yellow fire hydrant in front looks …
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White House office to delete its FOIA regulations — WASHINGTON — The White House is removing a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act, making official a policy under Presidents Bush and Obama to reject all requests for records to that office.
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Santorum On Putting Bibles In Public Schools: ‘Yes We Can! Yes We Can!’ — Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) issued a passionate call for Bibles in public schools on Saturday during an appearance at a convention of social conservatives in Orlando, Florida.
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The U.K. vs. the U.S. minimum-wage debate: What can we learn? — In a recent lecture at the London School of Economics, Prof. Alan Manning, a British economist who has done extensive research on the impact of the national minimum wage in the United Kingdom, said something that caught my ear.


What Jeb Bush is like in person — HUDSON, N.H.—Being with former Florida governor Jeb Bush for his first trips to Iowa and New Hampshire last weekend and this one, I found his demeanor to be completely different from those of the dozens of other candidates I have covered in these two states as they tested the presidential waters.


Huckabee Pursues Unconventional Ways to Fund a Campaign — In a wood-paneled study lined with books and framed family photos, the prospective presidential candidate looks into the camera. “I'm Mike Huckabee,” he says with all the folksy charm that propelled a career as a preacher, politician and broadcaster.


A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It's Secret — A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials must sign a nondisclosure agreement preventing them from saying almost anything about the technology.
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