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She’s not pussyfootin’ around VIDEO Patrice Waite, Peter Cooper and Janet Upadhye Topics: Sarah Palin, original video More Related Stories The Oscars’ race problem isn’t going away The media has a Bernie Sanders problem: What the elites miss about politics the rest of us understand Bill Gates should be ashamed: His back-room,…
The cover was tweeted by the magazine shortly before 10 p.m. ET. A source with knowledge of the issue’s contents told CNN earlier Thursday that the issue will feature a blistering editorial that labels Trump a threat to conservatism, as well as essays by 22 prominent conservative thinkers from various ideological factions, in opposition to…
fuck no Look, we hate Ted Cruz. We talk about it often. Democrats hate him, not because he’s threatening in the electoral way, but because he’s a pompous sack of Canadian goose droppings with absolutely no breeding, the kind of man who thinks it’s funny to make “jokes” about Joe Biden the same week his son…
In December 1950, Woody Guthrie signed his name to the lease of a new apartment in Brooklyn. Even now, over half a century later, that uninspiring document prompts a double-take. Below all the legal jargon is the signature of the man who had composed “This Land Is Your Land,” the most resounding appeal to an…
Establishing a worldwide caliphate has proved to be a rather expensive endeavor. Subscribe Receive daily email updates: Subscribe to Defense One Today. Be the first to receive updates. Author The so-called Islamic State is feeling the economic toll of waging wars on a number of fronts as more countries join the fight against it. ISIL,…
This past week has brought the shape of the Democratic primary into sharper focus. As we head into the start of voting, anyone paying attention to the arguments being made among voters, political professionals and opinion columnists should be able to recognize that the nomination fight is a battle between Hillary Clinton’s continuation of the…
Photo Sarah Palin put her political backing behind Donald J. Trump in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times Sarah Palin’s meandering, fiery, sarcastic, patriotic and blustery speech endorsing Donald J. Trump for president on Tuesday in Ames, Iowa, does not easily submit to categorization. It has been described as…
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s latest idea for how to make America great again? Force Apple to build its products in the US. Trump, in a Monday speech at Liberty University in Virginia, said he’d “get” Apple to build its “damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries.” Now, Trump didn’t…
Watch Hillary Clinton in the debates or in interviews, and she’s confident, focused, and seems ready to be president. But a long-building wave may be cresting, and it could do real damage to Clinton’s chances. A new New York Times story describes Lena Dunham – who enjoys a heavy following from both Millennials and Gen…
On the same day that the mayor of Flint, Michigan, traveled to the White House to meet with President Obama about her city’s nightmarish, nearly two-year ordeal with lead-contaminated drinking water, the president was forced to issue his ninth veto to save a key component of the Clean Water Act. “Too many of our waters have been…