Last week, before clearing himself and his family out of the White House for summer vacation, President Obama commuted the sentences of 214 nonviolent drug offenders, 56 of whom had been convicted of firearms violations as well. That single day’s work brought the president’s total number of commutations to 562 … so far.
The effort to empty out the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is going strong as well…
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Remember that bounce that Donald Trump got from the Republican National Convention?
Trump is now down 7.7 points to Hillary on the RCP avg. At this point, McCain trailed by 3.6 and Romney by 3.8.
He's doubled their deficit.
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 9, 2016
After the Democrats brought out four days worth of speakers ranging from Lena Dunham to Barack Obama, who can say why Trump decided to zero in on a pair of Gold Star parents for criticism? Was it because Khizr Khan called him out personally with his pocket Constitution?
Here’s how badly Trump lost his battle with the Khans https://t…
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As Twitchy reported, police in Chicago were bracing for civil unrest following the release of videos related to the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Paul O’Neal, whom police believed was armed when he rammed a patrol car with a stolen Jaguar July 28.
The Chicago Sun Times reported Monday that the Chicago Police Department had alerted officers to a threat to shoot cops following a meeting of three gangs…
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It’s not easy to applaud PETA, but it appears the one time the organization did something useful, it’s being slammed for collaborating with police.
Police in St. Louis, Mo., have been operating an initiative called Operation Polar Cops, a community outreach program that gives free ice cream bars to kids.
Love is in the air. Ice cream just brings people together. #SamSafety #STLPolarCops @FOX2now pic…
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Judaism is one of the world’s oldest practiced religions, and from it came the two largest faiths on the planet: Islam and Christianity. Despite its rich history, many people do not fully understand the faith. Because of this, several misconceptions have sprung up over the centuries about Judaism and its people. 10Jews Cannot Be Buried […]
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America’s Wild West was a time of cowboys and gunslingers, of the fight for freedom, of westward expansion, the hunt for gold, and the struggle to secure new-found wealth against bank robbers. Unfortunately, a lot of what we think about the Old West comes not from history, but from the romanticized version of those—like Buffalo […]
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The Roman Emperor Nero is enjoying a newfound respect these days. At this point, it’s almost common knowledge that the stories of him playing a fiddle while Rome burned are almost certainly untrue. Still, there are stories about Nero’s excess and depravity that go beyond anything imagined in the most gruesome horror stories. Although there’s […]
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