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Les Zaitz / Oregonian:
Militia takes over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters — Update at 9:15 p.m.: Statement from Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward: “After the peaceful rally was completed today, a group of outside militants drove to the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, where they seized and occupied the refuge headquarters.
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Armed group's leader in federal building: ‘We will be here as long as it takes’ — (CNN)Armed protesters have taken over a building in a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon, accusing officials of unfairly punishing ranchers who refused to sell their land. — One them is Ammon Bundy …
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Sundance / The Last Refuge:
Full Story on What's Going on In Oregon - Militia Take Over Malheur National Wildlife Refuge In Protest to Hammond Family Persecution... Grab a coffee, because this is soup-to-nuts. — Many people will awaken today to the news of approximately 100 to 150 armed militia taking control …
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OPB:
Who Wants A Burns Standoff? Not The Sheriff, The Ranchers, Or Even Cliven Bundy — BURNS — In this quiet, high desert town, frost covers the sagebrush and most people are staying indoors because of the below freezing temperatures. — Yet, tensions in this Eastern Oregon community …
Washington Examiner:
Three of Cliven Bundy's sons, militia seize federal building in Oregon — Share Tweet Reddit Digg Mail Print SMS More — Three of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's sons and what they claim are 150 militia members have occupied a federal building in eastern Oregon in order to keep two local ranchers …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
Trump: Clinton has ruined the world — Donald Trump pointed to Hillary Clinton as the cause of “so many” of the world's current problems in an interview to air Sunday, attacking, among other decisions, the then-New York senator's vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq in 2002.
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Raheem Kassam / Breitbart:
After The Trump Terror Vid, Can We Start Calling Her ‘Al Shabaab Media Advisor Hillary Clinton’?
After The Trump Terror Vid, Can We Start Calling Her ‘Al Shabaab Media Advisor Hillary Clinton’?
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Tiffany Ap / CNN:
Al-Shabaab recruit video with Trump excerpt: U.S. is racist, anti-Muslim
Al-Shabaab recruit video with Trump excerpt: U.S. is racist, anti-Muslim
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Liam Stack / New York Times:
Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting
Qaeda Affiliate Uses Video of Donald Trump for Recruiting
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CBS News and Pamela Geller
Kevin Cirilli / Bloomberg Business:
Trump Backers Say Their New Hampshire Voter Database Is ‘Huge’ — The Republican insurgent's camp insists they'll be able to turn out his vote. — As the campaign to win the nation's first presidential primary heads into its final weeks, New Hampshire supporters of Donald Trump say they've …
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Associated Press:
SCALIA DISMISSES CONCEPT OF RELIGIOUS NEUTRALITY IN SPEECH — METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country's constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.
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Michael Walsh / New York Post:
The myth of the cop killing ‘epidemic’ — To hear the media tell it, America is in the grip of an unprecedented crime wave, an orgy of wanton murder in which heavily armed thugs randomly gun down innocent unarmed people, some of them teens, just for sport. — Except that these homicidal goons …
Joel Kotkin / The Daily Beast:
How Liberals Are The New Autocrats — Progressives may preach the joys of localism, but the trend in government is all the other way in everything from climate change to the economic complexion of your neighborhood. — The End of Localism — This could be how our experiment with grassroots democracy finally ends.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Eugene Scott / CNN:
CNN to host Obama town hall on guns in America — Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama will join CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday for an exclusive one-hour live town hall on gun control. — Obama will sit down with Cooper at 8 p.m. ET for the event, titled “Guns in America.”
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Not A Blog:
Last Year (Winds of Winter) — The last post from the Lost Post, and the one you've all been waiting for. — Back when this was one long long long post, before Live Journal sent it to the cornfield, I mentioned opening with Dickens' line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
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ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Ben Carson and Sen. Bernie Sanders — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ ON JANUARY 3, 2016 and it will be updated. ANNOUNCER: Starting right now on ABC This Week. It's 2016. With less than a month to Iowa, one-time front runner Ben Carson making big moves to shake up his campaign.
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