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52 Media Orgs Sign Letter of Complaint to Eric Holder

Warner Todd Huston — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:43:51 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston The journalist group Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has penned a letter of complaint to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder after revelations that the Dept. of Justice obtained the phone records of some 100 reporters from the Associated Press. The letter informs Holder that the group was “stunned” to [...]

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John Yoo: Obama Created This ‘Leak-Happy’ Washington to Destroy Bush

Warner Todd Huston — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:11 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Former Bush operative John Yoo has said that President Obama is now reaping the whirlwind of a “leak-happy world” that he and his colleagues created to destroy George W. Bush’s administration and is ruefully amused that they are finding the whole thing suddenly distasteful. In a statement, Yoo, who as the [...]

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As Gangs Flourish, Displaying Historical Firearms Illegal in Chicago Museums

Warner Todd Huston — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:37:39 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Outside of Chicago’s museums gangs are killing each other at an alarming rate. But due to Chicago’s strict gun ban policies, inside those museums curators are not allowed to display historical firearms. In fact, in some cases the museums are not even allowed to store their collections inside the city limits. [...]

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New State Dept. Spokesperson Gets Slammed Over Benghazi

Warner Todd Huston — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:37:13 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston It has been 8 months since the terrorist attacks on our facilities in Benghazi, Libya, attacks that ended up killing four Americans including our ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. Still we haven’t had a concrete explanation about this incident and new State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki didn’t do anything to alleviate [...]

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Gosnell Defense Attny Blamed ‘Baby Factor’ In Part For Guilty Verdict

Warner Todd Huston — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:34:02 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Attorney Jack McMahon had an interesting excuse for why he lost the case to a guilty verdict for his client, abortion mill operator Kermit Gosnell. It was because of the “baby factor” he said to reporters right after the court adjourned. McMahon called this “a big problem.” Just what the lawyer [...]

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A Perfect Photo Showing the Wussification of America

Warner Todd Huston — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:26:28 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Are girder-walking, construction workers that build America’s highest buildings wusses? Well, not exactly. But here are two photos that show how America has been wussified between the turn of the 1900s and the turn of the 2000s. The top photo is from the early 1900s and is a shot of a [...]

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Square Mobile Payment Systems Modifies User Agreement to Prohibit Gun-Related Purchases

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:55:29 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston Square payment services is one of those new payment applications that merchants can put on a smart phone and, along with the plug-in hardware, is used like a credit card swipe machine to accept payments made by their customers. This month, however, Square has changed its user policy and is now [...]

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Feds Killing Off Private Bus Lines Based on Fraudulent Study

Warner Todd Huston — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:52:43 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston The story of the coming demise of Chinatown bus lines in New York City is a tale of multiple failures in both government and the media and shows that both have a bias against entrepreneurs that kills new, start up ideas with unfair regulations, faux public advocacy, and dismal reporting. A [...]

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Obama Has ‘No Knowledge’ of ANY of These Scandals? What DOES He Know?

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:17:38 +0000

Obama and his flapping-mouthed flacks keep saying with each new scandal that President Obama had “no knowledge” of any of these scandals. They claim that others are responsible and he is innocent. He didn’t know about Benghazi, he didn’t know about the IRS’ attacks on Tea Party groups, he didn’t know of the DOJ’s violation [...]

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Gov’t Obtains Phone Records of 100 Associated Press Reporters

Warner Todd Huston — Tue, 14 May 2013 17:17:26 +0000

-By Warner Todd Huston In the newest overreach perpetrated by the Obama administration, the Associated Press has discovered that some 100 of its Washington-based reporters have had their phone records–both personal and business–secretly obtained by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The AP reports that the phone records were subpoenaed as a result of a DOJ investigation [...]

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