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Rumsfeld says only thing Obama will take responsibility for is killing bin Laden

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Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a rare media appearance Thursday on “CBS This Morning,” discussing the troubles facing the Obama administration with host Charlie Rose. As described by NewsBusters: “The veteran journalist raised the scandals in a very general manner, and didn’t specifically mention the IRS’s targeting of right-leaning groups, the Justice Department’s investigation [...]

Megyn Kelly lashes out at liberal guest over Benghazi talking points

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Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg walked into a buzz saw Thursday when he appeared on Fox News Channel’s “America Live” and argued with host Megyn Kelly over the significance of the White House Benghazi talking points, prompting Kelly to shout, “Come on, Simon! Can we get some honesty?” Kelly invited Rosenberg to appear with George W. [...]

IG report: DOJ placed terrorists in witness protection, then lost them

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Eric Holder’s already beleaguered Justice Department came under attack again with the release of a government watchdog report Thursday indicating that it lost track of two known or suspected terrorists, and allowed them to board commercial flights despite their names being on the no-fly list. The Inspector General’s report indicated that the two alleged terrorists [...]

Sarah Palin rips Obama on ‘scandalous hat trick’

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin held nothing back in going after President Barack Obama and his “galling political hubris” late Thursday in a scathing Facebook post. In response to the president asking a male Marine to hold an umbrella above him as it began to rain during an outdoor press conference  — there is no [...]

Chief of IRS’s scandal-ridden tax-exempt unit will run Obamacare

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This is one of those “good news – bad news” things. The good news is that the IRS official who oversaw the unfair targeting of conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status has been removed from that capacity. The bad news is that she’ll now be overseeing the IRS’s enforcement of Obamacare’s individual mandate. The Internal Revenue [...]

Obama summons Marines to hold umbrellas against protocol

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President Obama held a press conference with visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan outdoors in the White House Rose Garden Thursday, and as if the week hadn’t been bad enough already, it rained. “Why don’t we get a couple of Marines, they’re gonna look good next to us,” Obama says as he motions the [...]

CBS: Bomber’s confession scrawled on boat wall key evidence

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Boston Marathon terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev found a pen and wrote his confession on the wall of the boat he was captured hiding in, according to a new report Thursday from CBS “This Morning.” CBS News correspondent John Miller explained that sources told him Tsarnaev claimed responsibility for the bombing in a note written on a [...]

Things just got serious: Chris Matthews turns on Obama!

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That tingle seems to have left MSNBC’s “Hardball” host Chris Matthews’ leg now that he finally understands what conservatives have known all along — that President Obama makes a lousy chief executive. Obama “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch,” Matthews began Wednesday night. “What part of the presidency does [...]

Smug Comcast CEO takes fire at shareholders meeting over gun ad ban

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Comcast CEO Brian Roberts came under fire Wednesday at the company’s annual shareholders’ meeting in Philadelphia when he was asked about a new policy of banning gun shops ads, while continuing to air a wide array of violent programming. Earlier this year, in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Connecticut, Comcast announced [...]

2016 presidential poll: Dems need a reality check

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Marco Rubio. Check. Jeb Bush. Double check. Hillary “What difference does it make?” Clinton. Whatever. Benghazi was “a long time ago.” But Joe Biden? Reality check. Public Policy Polling, a firm generally identified with Democrats, has found former Florida Gov. Bush and Sen. Rubio tied with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the GOP 2016 [...]