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Klein: Trump and Ryan are better off without each other
Washington has been consumed by speculation over whether House Speaker Paul Ryan will eventually learn to stop worrying and embrace presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump. But for all the fanfare generated by their Thursday meeting in D.C., the truth is that Trump and Ryan have more to gain this year by remaining apart than by awkwardly joining forces.
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White House to issue rules on transgender bathroom use in schools
The Obama administration is expected to issue a decree on Friday, straight from President Obama's desk, that will assert a right for a transgender student in public schools to use whichever bathroom corresponds with his or her gender identity, according to a report released late Thursday. On behalf of the White House, the Departments of Justice and Education will send a letter to every public school district in the country. It will not be legally binding, though.
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Ryan's fight to save conservatism in the Trump era
House Speaker Paul Ryan is battling to preserve the conservative movement as the ideological power center of the Republican Party amid a populist takeover by Donald Trump. The new Republican standard bearer won his party's presidential nomination despite casting aside decades of sacrosanct GOP dogma on domestic and foreign policies, while ignoring convention for how candidates should behave on the campaign trail. Ryan, a product of the conservative movement who has helped shape the modern Republican agenda, is refusing to fall in line behind his party's new leader - at least for now, a fairly extraordinary move for a politician in a senior leadership position.
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Dan McLaughlin, RedState editor. 
@baseballcrank
Trying to picture media reaction if Sarah Palin, in 2008, claimed that Obama would put the fed govt in charge of who uses school bathrooms.
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About that imagined socialist revival
Judging by recent headlines and the fervent hopes of overflow crowds at Bernie Sanders' rallies, you'd think socialism was on the rise. But it isn't. American disdain for that -ism remains unchanged. Just 35 percent of 1,500 adults polled recently by Gallup had a positive image of socialism. Sixty percent felt positively about capitalism. Both numbers are unchanged from six years ago.
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Nets ignore FBI contradicting Clinton on emails
FBI director James Comey has disputed Hillary Clinton's characterization of his agency's investigation of her private emails, and said this week they are conducting much more than a simple "security review." However, the FBI chief's remarks have gone unreported this week by the three major networks.
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| It's Friday the 13th, a good day to troll anyone in your life who is superstitious. And make sure you do it today, because this will be the only Friday that falls on the 13th of a month in 2016. The precise origin of the superstition is unknown, although some claim (with scant evidence) that it has to do with the Last Supper, in which 13 people partook and which immediately preceded the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ on a Friday. The superstition seems to be confined to the Anglophone world. In Spanish-speaking cultures, Tuesday the 13th is actually considered unlucky, and superstitious Italians get nervous whenever Friday falls on the 17th of the month. |
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NYT mag defends its Rhodes profile from angry journos
The New York Times Magazine is defending its report alleging one of President Obama's top spin doctors fed fictitious talking points to a credulous and complicit media in order to put a positive spin on the controversial Iran nuclear deal. Responding to some of the reporters implicated in the story, the magazine's editor-in-chief used social media Thursday to address the criticism.
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Paul Ryan and Donald Trump finished their meeting yesterday with positive statements but no commitments. Do you think Ryan will still chair the Republican convention at which Trump is nominated?
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Researcher: Don't just blame climate change
Newsrooms around the world blamed climate change after a new study spotlighted the disappearance of five islands in the Pacific Ocean, but the study's author says those reports are exaggerated. One of the study's chief researchers, Dr. Simon Albert, told the Guardian that sea-levels in the area of the Pacific Ocean he studied have risen twice as fast as the global average, and said trade winds caused by climactic cycles are also a major factor in this.
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Feds planning more immigration raids against absconders
Federal immigration officials are preparing to start a number of raids targeting illegal immigrants who entered the U.S. in the last two years and evaded deportation orders, according to a new report. The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are expected to start the raids over the next few weeks.
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Carney: You don't have to pick the lesser of two evils
Which is the lesser of these two evils? Thankfully, good men and women are free, when confronted with two evils, to choose neither.
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What are educational savings accounts? Possibly the future of K-12 education
Education savings accounts are the fastest growing form of school choice, but they're still rare enough that few people understand them. Here are answers to some common questions.
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Civil suit proceeds against Ill. Dem Senate candidate
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tammy Duckworth will face trial before the November general election because of a workplace retaliation lawsuit that accuses her of ethics violations during her time leading the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs. On Thursday, an Illinois judge shot down the government lawyers' desire to have the seven-year old lawsuit tossed out and the judge set an August court date, the Associated Press reported.
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Coal state threatens to sue EPA over methane regs
West Virginia is threatening to sue the Obama administration over Thursday's greenhouse gas rules for fracking. The Environmental Protection Agency has an established track record of pumping out illegal regulations, said West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, who is digging into the new methane regulations to find anything that constitutes federal overreach.
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