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Rudy Giuliani: President Obama doesn't love America — The former New York mayor makes his remarks at a Scott Walker event. — NEW YORK - Rudy Giuliani went straight for the jugular Wednesday night during a private group dinner here featuring Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker …
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Scott Walker Declines To Say Whether He Thinks Obama ‘Loves America’ (VIDEO) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) said on Thursday he won't comment on whether President Barack Obama “loves America,” but he'll certainly tell you that he loves America. — CNBC's Becky Quick asked Walker …
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Bruce Rauner is Scott Walker on steroids. But is that bad?
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Wal-Mart, under pressure, boosts minimum U.S. wage to $9 an hour — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) said it would raise entry-level wages to $9 an hour, a 24 percent increase from the U.S. minimum wage that some employees now earn, succumbing to longstanding pressure to pay its workforce more.
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In Letter to Associates, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon Announces Higher Pay
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Walmart announces Q4 underlying1 EPS of $1.61 and additional strategic investments in people …
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Walmart Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $10 An Hour
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Walmart Raising Wage to at Least $9
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Obama: ‘Islam Has Been Woven Into the Fabric of Our Country Since Its Founding’ — (CNSNews.com) - We hear a lot about the United States' Judeo-Christian heritage, but according to President Obama, “Islam has been woven into the fabric of our country since its founding.”
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Doctor refuses treatment of same-sex couple's baby — Bay Windsor Contreras is 4 months old and she's the apple of her mothers' eye. — Both of her mothers, Krista and Jami Contreras were married in Vermont in 2012. — In October 2014 they welcomed a beautiful baby bay into the world …
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Pediatrician wouldn't care for baby with 2 moms — Sitting in the pediatrician's office with their 6-day-old daughter, the two moms couldn't wait to meet the doctor they had picked out months before. — The Roseville pediatrician — one of many they had interviewed — seemed the perfect fit …
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Obama picks State Department spokeswoman to head White House communications - but her ‘jobs for jihadis’ deputy will NOT be promoted, insider says — White House will move State Dept. spokeswoman Jen Psaki in when its communications director joins Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign
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Obama picks State's Psaki to head White House communications
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U.S. Won't Back Egypt's Attacks on ISIS
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Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer — A MONTH ago, I felt that I was in good health, even robust health. At 81, I still swim a mile a day. But my luck has run out — a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years ago it was discovered …
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A Stupid and Sleazy Clinton Decision — If Hillary Clinton wants to be president, the Clinton Foundation should stop accepting money from foreign countries. — This is sleazy and stupid. Just as Hillary Clinton is getting ready to run for president again, her family's charitable foundation …
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When a Clinton ‘Ally’ Isn't an Ally at All
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How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle — AMERICAN AND BRITISH spies hacked into the internal computer network of the largest manufacturer of SIM cards in the world, stealing encryption keys used to protect the privacy of cellphone communications across the globe …

Do Americans want to send ground troops to fight ISIS? — Shares - — Amid more executions by the militant group ISIS, Americans increasingly see the group as a threat to the U.S. Now, 65 percent of Americans view ISIS as a major threat - up from 58 percent in October - while another 18 percent view it as a minor threat.
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After stumbles, Chicago on course to host Obama library — Chicago soon may win the Obama presidential library in spite of itself. — Earlier this month, it was far from a done deal. Although the Windy City was where Barack Obama launched his career and started his family …


Tucker Carlson Blames ‘Hungover’ Editor For ‘Kill All The Jews’ Headline — Tucker Carlson, the editor-in-chief of the conservative news site The Daily Caller, told TPM on Thursday that a “hungover” editor was to blame for a headline on the site's “Guns and Gear” section that included the phrase “Kill All The Jews.”
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Dems gloat over ObamaCare numbers — Democrats are touting the latest ObamaCare enrollment numbers as proof that the law is working. — The administration announced on Tuesday that 11.4 million people had signed up ahead of Sunday's deadline, a figure that puts the administration on track to beat its goal of 9.1 million enrollees.
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Mediaite Sources: Joy Reid's MSNBC Show Canceled — According to two internal sources, MSNBC has canceled The Reid Report. The daytime show, airing weekdays at 2 p.m. ET and hosted by Joy Reid, has long been rumored to be on the chopping block. — Our sources at the network say Reid …
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Fox Host: 'There Really Shouldn't Be Public Schools' Anymore — Fox host Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery suggested getting rid of the nation's public schools during a discussion on Thursday's “Outnumbered.” — Kennedy's comments came during a segment about an Oklahoma bill, approved by a House committee …


Electric car benefits? Just myths … It is time to stop our green worship of the electric car. It costs us a fortune, cuts little CO2 and surprisingly kills almost twice the number of people compared with regular gasoline cars. — Electric cars' global-warming benefits are small.
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RAF scrambles jets after Russian bombers spotted near Cornwall coast — David Cameron says Moscow ‘trying to make a point’, while Kremlin hits back at defence secretary's warning over threat to Baltic states — Anglo-Russian relations have taken another battering after the RAF escorted …
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Wisconsin to Skip Debt Payments to Make Up for Walker's Tax Cuts — (Bloomberg) — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, facing a $283 million deficit that needs to be closed by the end of June, will skip more than $100 million in debt payments to balance the books thrown into disarray by his tax cuts.
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