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Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, former top intel official: Obama’s ‘incompetence’ on ISIS endangers U.S.

President Obama’s former top intelligence official said Tuesday that “political incompetence” when it comes to the Islamic State group is putting Americans in danger. Retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who now advises Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told the Washington Free Beacon that the White House downplays the extent to which ISIS has infiltrated the homeland. “There […]

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David Clarke: Hillary Clinton ‘a straight-up cop hater’

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said Monday that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is “a straight-up cop hater” who sympathizes with the “criminal element” of the Black Lives Matter movement. Sheriff Clarke, an outspoken black conservative, appeared on “Fox & Friends” to address Mrs. Clinton’s decision not to seek the endorsement of the biggest police

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Kerry and Clinton both snubbed the FOP. He lost to George W. Bush

WASHINGTON, August 8, 2016 – Much is said about Donald Trump turning off voting blocks, but Hillary Clinton might take the cake as the Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton chose the endorsement of the militant Black Lives Matter group, and chose to not pursue the endorsement of the the Fraternal Order of Police. The Fraternal

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Some ‘co-hosts’ disavow involvement in Trump fundraiser in Seattle

SEATTLE — At least three business executives listed as co-hosts of an upcoming Seattle fundraiser for Donald Trump are now disavowing involvement with the event. Gordon Sondland and Bashar Wali, Portland, Ore.-based executives of Provenance Hotels, were named as co-hosts of Trump’s scheduled Aug. 30 fundraiser, according to an invitation circulated last week. But in

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Patricia Smith sues Clinton for son’s death in Libya

By Chris Jennewein Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — The San Diego parent of an American killed during the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, is suing Hillary Clinton over the incident. The conservative advocacy group Freedom Watch filed the suit Monday in Washington on behalf of Patricia Smith of San Diego, whose son Sean Smith was a State Department

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Former EPA administrators under Nixon, George H.W. Bush endorse Clinton

Two former Environmental Protection Agency administrators under Presidents Nixon and George H.W. Bush have endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, saying Donald Trump has shown a “profound ignorance of science” and of public health issues in environmental law. “Republicans have a long history of support for the environment dating back to Theodore Roosevelt. Donald Trump threatens

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Tom Ridge: Iran deal has brought nothing substantial

Last week, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused the United States of failing to honor pledges in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Citing “the futility of negotiations with the Americans,” he distanced himself from the nuclear deal he once supported. Coming just weeks after the one-year anniversary of the agreement, his charge is just

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Donald Trump on national security criticism: I won the primaries by fighting insiders

Donald Trump says he had no interest in using the 50 national security officials from Republican administrations who saidMonday he’d put U.S. national security at risk, and that he won the GOP presidential primaries by fighting insiders. “I wasn’t using any of them and they would have loved to have been involved with the campaign,”

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Emanuel backs decision to revoke powers of police officers in O’Neal shooting

CHICAGO — Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday lamented that a young man lost his life in the latest Chicago police shooting, which has set off protests in Chicago, but declined to offer ideas for preventing such incidents until an investigation is completed. “Look, any time there’s a loss of life, it’s a tragedy in the

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