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Now that all of my inside-the-beltway, elitist, morally superior friends and colleagues have weighed in with their self-righteous denunciations of Donald Trump, it's my turn. After initially opposing his candidacy for president, I have come around to another point of view. The election of Hillary Clinton will perpetuate and probably worsen everything many people hate about our bloated and dysfunctional government, collectively and derisively known as "Washington." The election of Donald Trump will offer an opportunity -- perhaps the last for decades -- to "fire" or at least isolate the elites, returning the country to its constitutional boundaries. All analogies...

In the most dramatic diplomatic escalation involving the Syrian conflict in the past years, yesterday John Kerry issued an ultimatum to Russia, in which he warned his colleague Lavrov to stop bombing Aleppo or else the US would suspend all cooperation and diplomacy with Russia. 24 hours later, this appears to be precisely what is about to take place, leading to an even greater geopolitical shock in Syria. According to Retuers, the United States is expected to tell Russia on Thursday it is suspending their diplomatic engagement on Syria following the Russian-backed Syrian government's intense attacks on Aleppo, U.S. officials...

NEWS UPDATE: #Trump to spend $100M on TV and $40M on digital advertising....$140M TOTAL from now until Election Day. Some people say #Huge NEWS: #Trump to spend $100M on ads ($60M TV $40M digital) between now & Election Day. 13 states. Adding New Mexico, Wisconsin, Maine. 1-2

Following Ted Cruz's endorsement of Donald Trump and president Obama's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, aka the "Sept 11" bill allowing victims to sue Saudi Arabia in US court, the trifecta of Friday afternoon data dumps was completed by the FBI, when the agency released 189 pages of notes from its investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server, just three days before she squares off against Donald Trump in the first presidential debate. The notes are from FBI's interviews with some of Clinton’s closest aides, such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills; senior State Department officials;...

This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history.

Revelations That Cheryl Mills, Two Others Received Immunity Deals From Obama’s DOJ In Clinton Email Scandal Brings Total Number To Five

While Goldman is best known for creating the revolving door, where it either soaks up SEC "regulators", spawns countless central bankers, Treasury Secretaries like Hank Paulson (whose departure from the firm allowed him a tax free cash out on his vested GS equity), NJ governors and client fund comminglers like Jon Corzine, a new function was revealed today: providing sabbaticals for the spouses of presidential candidates. Case in point: Heidi Cruz, who left Goldman Sachs last year to help her husband Ted Cruz in his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, is returning to the bank in a newly created...

Do people around the world have a right to move to the United States? It's a bedrock belief of most conservatives that there is no such right. The U.S. sets its own immigration policy, admits whom it chooses, and foreign nationals in foreign countries have no right — a claim that could be pursued in court — to enter the United States. Now, Hillary Clinton says there is such a right, at least if a tweet from her campaign headquarters can be taken for a policy pronouncement. This is what happened. In his Monday speech on terrorism and immigration, Donald...

HARTFORD – The office of the U.S. Attorney is convening a criminal grand jury to investigate claims of illegal fundraising by the state Democratic Party for the benefit of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy. Criminal subpoenas have been issued by U.S. prosecutors in recent weeks to a few individuals as part of a federal investigation into Democrats' funding of Malloy's 2014 re-election campaign. Recipients have included people who worked for the party during that state election cycle, sources have told The Courant. On the state level, election regulators recently approved a negotiated settlement in a high-profile civil lawsuit related to campaign...

In just a year, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his close-knit family and team of social media warriors have shattered Internet records, collecting over 30 million followers and fans and generating billions of views, according to a Secrets analysis.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would impose a 65% tax on the largest estates and make it harder for wealthy households to pass appreciated assets to their heirs without paying taxes, according to an updated version of her tax plan released Thursday. The estate tax increase and other new proposals from Mrs. Clinton would generate $260 billion over the next decade, enough to pay for her plans to simplify small business taxes and expand the child tax credit, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which advocates fiscal restraint. In all, Mrs. Clinton would increase taxes by...

Oh you’ve got to be kidding me. After Trump pulled a fast one on the media, duping them into giving him about 20 minutes of free airtime, with Medal of Honor recipients, veterans, and retired generals giving remarks that praised Trump and noted the national security challenges we face. Katie wrote about this event earlier today, as did Justin. This press event was called because we’re back to the old birther nonsense again, which was diffused when these veterans showed what the real issues were in this election. Donald Trump eventually took the stage and said that Obama was born...

Berlin. The car of the AfD-politician Frauke Petry is in the night of Saturday to a total loss. Unknown persons have the vehicle in Leipzig set on fire. According to the police, the car was completely burned down. "we go in a moment of arson." The traces of Backup was turned on. Not the first arson against AfD politicians a letter of confession or a reference to the possible perpetrators there is so far not yet. (Best I can do with the German)

I am now pretty much convinced that it would be impossible to prove any kind of bribery allegation against Donald Trump or Pam Bondi for his foundation’s $25,000 donation to a fund to reelect the Florida Attorney General. And surprisingly, the documents that put to rest this entire ordeal were dug up by The New York Times. As hard as they try to keep the scandal alive, based on this evidence, I think there is no way a prosecutor would be able to prove any kind of public corruption case. As you know, several complaints have been filed with local...

McCrory up Two Points over Cooper in NC Governor’s Race RALEIGH – The latest Civitas poll of North Carolina likely voters finds the two major presidential candidates in a dead heat, while Governor Pat McCrory is up two points over Atty. General Roy Cooper in the race for governor. Civitas President Francis De Luca said, “As we head into the final two months of the election, it’s about as close as it can get in the races for president and governor.” The full questions with the top responses are below. Cross tabs can be found here. The poll surveyed 600...

West Long Branch, NJ - The race for Nevada's electoral votes has flipped from two months ago, with Donald Trump now holding a slim 2 point lead over Hillary Clinton, whereas Clinton held a 4 point lead in July's Monmouth University Poll . In the U.S. Senate contest, Republican Joe Heck clings to a narrow 3 point lead over Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, virtually unchanged from his earlier 2 point lead. Among Silver State voters likely to participate in November's presidential election, 44% currently support Trump and 42% back Clinton. Another 8% intend to vote for Libertarian Gary Johnson and...

Monday, September 12, 2016: RSBN is in Asheville, NC for the Donald Trump rally today. Tune in for our pregame show as we report live from outside the venue and interview Trump supporters.

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Hillary Clinton's phony "press conference," where she took six questions from friendly reporters and filibustered nearly half of the time to trash-talk Donald Trump, shows a candidate and a campaign that is disintegrating in broad daylight. Even The Washington Post noted there were "no questions about her emails," Topic A of the news cycle. Clinton's reckless mishandling of classified material — reinforced by her 39 memory "lapses" in her FBI interview — should disqualify her from office. And Americans get it. The media elites are in a panic. They witnessed the meltdown of their candidate in broad daylight and can...

With two months to go before the November general election, Republican Donald Trump (44 percent) leads Democrat Hillary Clinton (41 percent), by 3 points in North Carolina, according to a Suffolk University poll of likely voters in the Tar Heel State. The poll is a statistical dead heat and is within the survey’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points. When asked who they think will win the November presidential election, 49 percent said Clinton and 33 percent Trump, with 17 percent undecided. Libertarian Gary Johnson was the choice of 4 percent of voters, with 8 percent...