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President Bush, looking rested after a night that began with his collapse during a state dinner, said today he was feeling “close to back to normal, but not as strong as I’d like to be” after a bout with a stomach flu. “It was a 24-hour thing,” Bush said. “I’m really feeling pretty good.” Bush, appearing with Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa at Akasaka Palace, said he was embarrassed by last night’s commotion, when he suddenly vomited at his seat and toppled to the floor. He said he hadn’t seen the ghastly video footage of his collapse and discomfort - and...

In a week marked by dire polls, the Kennedy surge and fresh drug charges against his chief of staff Hamilton Jordan, it was all Jimmy Carter needed. In the third mile of a tough 6.2-mile race through the Catoctin Mountains in Maryland—pulling hard uphill, foolishly trying to outpace himself and leaving far better runners behind—the President began to wobble. "Without the Secret Service he would have fallen," says Paul Liebler, a CBS producer who was running close by. "His legs couldn't support him, his mouth hung open, he was moaning and his eyes had a glazed look. It was very...

Hillary Clinton abruptly left the 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero this morning because she “felt overheated,” according to her campaign. A senior law enforcement official told The Daily Beast that Clinton looked pale when she arrived at the ceremony. She left the ceremony at about 9:30 a.m., according to pool reports. As she walked away from the ceremony, according to numerous law enforcement officials, she slumped and appeared to faint. Then, according to the sources, her detail put her into a waiting vehicle. “They threw her in like she was a side of beef,” a senior law enforcement official told...

The scapegoat for defeat in 2012 was opposition to immigration reform. Sounds like the scapegoat for defeat this year will be conservative media and advocacy groups. Isn’t it interesting how Beltway Republicans’ least favorite elements of the party are perpetually to blame for its failures instead of, say, the persistent lack of a compelling GOP middle-class agenda. What they really want to overhaul here is their own base. The problem for the party this year in the primaries, glaringly exposed by Trump, is that the business-class Republicanism favored by the GOP leadership has only a small constituency among the rank...

Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) haven't agreed on much during this presidential campaign. In fact, Ryan has disagreed with the Republican nominee about once a week since he reluctantly endorsed Trump in June. But perhaps nowhere do the two men diverge more clearly than on Russia. Trump thinks having a relationship with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, could be a "wonderful thing." In a military-focused forum hosted by NBC on Wednesday, Trump even defended Putin from reports that his country is trying to influence or disrupt the U.S. election.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland is returning to Capitol Hill as part of a Democratic effort to push for a vote on his nomination. Vice President Joe Biden will also be on the Hill Thursday to help turn up the pressure on Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell.

Senate Republicans are working on a short-term measure that would fund the government until Dec. 9, putting them on a collision course with House conservatives who want to avoid a lame-duck spending bill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced the move Wednesday, saying he hoped to bring the funding bill up for a vote as soon as next week. “We’re going to work toward the Dec. 9 date at last year’s levels,” he told reporters during his weekly press conference. “We’re looking for a way forward.” McConnell added that he’s already started talks with Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)...

The polls are close so Crooked Hillary is getting out of bed and will campaign tomorrow.Why did she hammer 13 devices and acid-wash e-mails?

Conservatives don’t have enough votes to oust Ryan (R-Wis.). But they say their coup movement shows his hold on the speakership is far more tenuous than he realizes. Denying Ryan re-election on the first ballot would undermine his political future and cast him as a conservative pariah, they say, and may give conservatives leverage to enact rules changes that would help them push their agenda for years. “If he loses the speaker election, he’s not going to be president,” one conservative member told The Huffington Post on Monday. Conservatives hold no illusion of preventing Ryan from remaining speaker (or, you...

Conservative lawmakers and advocacy groups are fighting to prevent a lame-duck session after the elections, arguing that members of Congress who have been booted from office shouldn't be responsible for major policy decisions. Opponents of a post-election session are primarily wary of lawmakers passing another catchall omnibus government spending package that would likely include a slew of policy riders. “It’s the least accountable time for Congress,” Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told The Hill. “We let people who have either quit or been fired or retired vote on spending billions and billions of...

From the Freerepublic memory bank. No head injury ten years ago, no concussion. We see the lawyerly Alger Hiss pattern: "to the best of my recollection..."

HILLARY CLINTON PARODY: Try to Remember

Donald Trump’s campaign digital director Brad Parscale said that the campaign raised more than $5 million dollars worth of small online donations, under $200, in a single day, not counting donations sent by mail or phone. The amount is reportedly a new daily record for the campaign. The billionaire businessman is running a nimble campaign with only about 80 staffers, while Clinton is navigating the field with a staff nearly ten times larger. Trump has self-funded his campaign with $50 million. So far, the Clinton campaign has spent $77 million on television ads, while the Trump campaign has spent only...

FINALLY we have a candidate who's going for broke! For twenty-five years we've had candidates who's attitude has been "if we muddy the waters on policy enough, maybe some people will vote for us" - with the expected result - electoral losses or bare wins. Instead we have the spirit of Barry Goldwater: "Those who join us in all sincerity we welcome. Those who do not favor our cause, we don't expect to enter our ranks in any case." I'm sure there was a collective clutching of pearls in the swanky "beltway."

At a rally Tuesday night in Everett, Washington, GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump referenced the Democratic Party's role in the history of slavery and racial oppression and said he was proud to represent "Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party." "Nothing makes me more honored and proud than to be the nominee of Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party," Trump said. About the Democrats, he said: "It is the Democratic Party that is the party of slavery, the party of Jim Crow, the party of oppression." "Our party will fight to bring hope to every forgotten stretch of this country. Once again, we will be...

Even before the FBI identified new cyber attacks on two separate state election boards, the Department of Homeland Security began considering declaring the election a "critical infrastructure," giving it the same control over security it has over Wall Street and and the electric power grid. The latest admissions of attacks could speed up that effort possibly including the upcoming presidential election, according to officials. "We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.

Poor Hillary. She looks whipped. Video was posted on imgur today showing Hillary Clinton trying to get out of van. She nearly falls on the way out. And look who is there to help her… The mysterious handler.

The last federal budget was signed into law September of 2007 for fiscal year 2008. Almost a decade has passed without a federal budget. The 2009 ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act), otherwise known as “The $1,000,000,000,000 ’09 Stimulus Bill”, has been spent every year for the past 7 fiscal years. That’s correct. Due to no budget, and base-line budgeting continuous resolutions, aka “omnibus bills”, we’ve spent the 2009 “Stimulus Bill” seven more times. Each year, for seven consecutive years. Ask yourself: Where did it go?

<p>Arizona Sen. John McCain turned 80 on Monday, just one day before he will face off against a Republican challenger in the state’s primary.</p> <p>McCain is expected to win Tuesday's primary. A CNN/ORC poll released last week had him ahead of his challenger, Kelli Ward, 55%-29%.</p>

It’s real simple. For months the House Judiciary Committee has been gathering what amounts to an official list of applying states for an Article V Convention call. As of August 20, 2016, the committee’s official list shows 29 applying states. As we explain elsewhere so-called rescissions do not count as no provision in the Constitution allows states to rescind applications. Further, federal law prohibits removal of federal records by federal officials. Therefore the committee has already collected sufficient applications to cause a convention call. Indeed the full public record of state applications shows the states have submitted sufficient applications to...