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FAA Plays Politics At the Expense of the Aviation Community

For one week each summer, the city of Oshkosh, Wisconsin (population 66,083) hosts the largest airshow in the world, with more than 500,000 people coming from over 60 countries to attend – bringing in approximately $110 million to Wisconsin’s state economy. The Experimental Aircraft Association’s (EAA) AirVenture event brings over 10,000 airplanes into Oshkosh’s local airport, ranging from …

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WikiLeaks Trying to Get Snowden Asylum in Iceland

Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has stated that his organization’s legal team is attempting to help NSA leaker Edward Snowden get asylum in Iceland. U.S. authorities believe Snowden is in Hong Kong right now, but no one knows for sure. USA Today reports: Assange, marking the one-year anniversary of his stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in …

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Oops: Mayor Ed Koch’s Tombstone Has the Wrong Birthday

Well, this is awkward. Despite the fact that former New York City mayor Ed Koch planned his funeral for decades, the wrong birthday was engraved on his tombstone in Washington Heights’ Trinity Church. USA Today reports: NBC 4 News reported that the mammoth marker for Koch, who died in February at the age of 88, says the …

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Brazil: 200,000 People Protest in 11 Cities

Protests began in Brazil earlier this month, initially sparked by increased bus fares. However, as the weeks passed by, the protests morphed into something very different. The protests have been peaceful overall, yet the authorities have been accused of using tear gas and rubber bullets in Sao Paulo as the demonstrations have become more violent. The …

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Rand Paul Proposes Immigration Reform Amendments

Whacko bird Senator Rand Paul is at it again. This time, offering some reasonable and sane amendments to the “Gang of 8″ immigration bill. Paul’s most ambitious proposal would eliminate the pathway to citizenship for 11 million illegal immigrants and lift the caps on guest workers. It would provide immigrant workers to employers who can demonstrate …

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Obama Approval Numbers Falling

As John Avlon reports, the teflon is off. It was only going to be a matter of time before this happened.

Farm Bill Is All About Big Business

The Free Beacon has details on this. The House and Senate versions of this bill both come close to $1 trillion: A number of policy groups slammed the farm bill currently under consideration in the House of Representatives as bloated, regressive, and a handout to big farming businesses at a press conference Monday morning on …

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The Era Of Reagan and Clinton Politics Is Over. Here’s Why

What would the Iran-Contra scandal have looked like in a social media driven world? How about the Monica Lewinsky scandal? Would it have changed anything? Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were two of the most gifted politicians of the modern era. The two, working with similar gifts of charisma and folksiness, were able to look …

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Syrian Rebels Killing Christians In Syria

Fighters aligned with the US government supported Free Syrian Army massacred Christians and destroyed churches in the city of Homs. More details of a massacre in Homs late last month have emerged following the global outcry of a massacre in Deir el-Zour yesterday. The massacre, carried out by Free Syrian Army militants reportedly targeted men, …

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Obama Administration Agrees To Arm Syrian Rebels

The Obama Administration has agreed to arm the Syrian rebels. The Administration is also now directly accusing the Assad regime of using chemical weapons. The Obama administration announced Thursday that it has determined that the Syrian government has deployed chemical weapons against opposition groups, crossing what President Obama had called a “red line” and prompting …

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Year: 2013