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Defense

• Pentagon, CIA Prepare for Russia to Break Ceasefire in Syria
• Chinese Foreign Minister in Washington: South China Sea Ours ‘Since Ancient Times’
• 'Spinning up as we speak': Email shows Pentagon was ready to roll as Benghazi attack occurred | Fox News
• Pacific Command: China Seeking to Control South China Sea

executive

• Obama Admin to Waive Counter-Terror Measures to Aid Iran
• Obama Administration Looks to Erase Castro’s Worst Crimes
• Kerry on Gitmo Detainee Who Returned to Terrorism: ‘He’s Not Supposed to Be Doing That’

• Probe: HealthCare.gov 'passive' on heading off fraud
• Lynch: FBI Is Still Investigating Clinton’s Email Issues
• Justice Dept. to do 'stress test' of FBI forensic sciences

• Obama Says Biden’s Comments On Not Filling Supreme Court Vacancy Not Applicable Today [VIDEO]
• Brian Sandoval: Obama’s GOP Trojan Horse for the Supreme Court

• EXCLUSIVE: Feds Outsource Vet Benefit Processing To Philippines
• VA Inspector General Still Hasn’t Released Wait Time Investigation Reports

• White House Says Obama Would Veto Bill to Curb Lawsuit Abuse
• In Surprise Move, Obama Admin. Deals Blow To ‘Sanctuary’ Cities

freedom of

• Campaign for Liberty to CA Attorney General: LEAVE OUR MEMBERS ALONE - Campaign for Liberty
• Christian Filmmakers Ask if YouTube Is Targeting Their Worldview After Their Video Was Pulled and Branded ‘Inappropriate’

• Watch Live: Gonzaga Caves, Won’t Shut Public Out of Dinesh D’Souza Speech
•  Judge Ruling Limits When People Can Videotape Police Officers
• Twitter Breathes New Life Into Orwell
• We Just Found Out The Real Reason The FBI Wants A Backdoor Into The iPhone

• The #FreeStacy Twitter Exodus Has Begun
• American Fools Falling for Government Lies on Apple Court Order
• As Gov’t Tries to Force Apple to Crack iPhone, Here’s What Company Is Reportedly Doing Behind Scenes

Clinton

• Cables Show Hillary Clinton's State Department Deeply Involved in Trans-Pacific Partnership
• Is it Espionage?
• Federal Judge: Yes, Hillary's Staffers Should Be Questioned Under Oath About Evading Freedom of Information Laws

• Ex-Army Chief Quietly Hired By Firm With Close Clinton Ties
• Clinton Says Failure to Expand Medicaid Is Racist
• Clinton Cites ‘Constitutional Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness’ in Gun Control Argument
• EXCLUSIVE—Dick Morris: Hillary Will ‘Feast’ on Rubio’s Finance Scandals, Voters ‘Must Demand Truth’

 BtF:2016, the mess, congress, economic, foreign, Trump, judical, the left, politic, thinks, and the others2016

• How Cruz Could Win | The Weekly Standard
• Cruz: Romney Makes ‘Good Point’ About Tax Returns, Media ‘Using Kid Gloves’ On Trump, Then Will Bury Him
• Judge Denies Motion to Halt Voter Citizenship Requirement
• Judge Sides Against Justice Dept. In Voter Proof-Of-Citizenship Case
• A Grudging Admirer of Ted Cruz
• It's Time for an Anti-Trump Manhattan Project
• Frontal Assault
• DoJ Might Not Be Able to Make It Easy for Illegals to Vote After All – For Now

the mess

• This State Offered Free College Education. Here’s What Happened.
• Hackers Using Facebook Quizzes to Harvest Personal Data
• Oinker: California Gov. Jerry Brown’s $15 Billion Project To Save Three-Inch Fish
• MasterCard Using Selfies to Verify Online Purchases
• PA School District Spent $1.3M Taxpayer Dollars On Union Salaries
• Farm Contractors Balk at Obamacare Requirements
• South Dakota Stands Up To The Transgender Mafia
• The 4 Worst Winston Churchill Myths From Vox
• Judge Upholds NYC Sodium Warning Rule
• NY mayor's call for heroin injection site divides experts

Congress

• McConnell: Not a 'snowball's chance in hell' I'll relent on SCOTUS - POLITICO
• Leahy Defends Iran Capturing U.S. Sailors
• Committee Presses Obama Admin. to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group
• Sen. Jeff Sessions, Sen. Ron Johnson Introduce Bill to Repatriate Illegal Immigrant Minors
• Rep. Louie Gohmert Skewers Bernie Sanders, Socialism And Hippie College Professors
• Lawmakers: Obama Administration Illegally Diverted Billions Intended for U.S. Treasury to Insurers
• Rangel Retiring

economic

• The U.S. States Where Recession Is Already a Reality - Bloomberg Business
• Japan's Negative Interest Rates Are Driving up Sales of Safes - Fortune
• ‘Absurdly Overwhelming’: Hedge Funds Are Betting Against The US Economy
• Are You Ready for an Internet Tax?
• More Americans See China as World’s Leading Economic Power

Foreign

• ‘Leave’ Starts EU Referendum Campaign One Point Ahead in Polls
• Pro-Kurd Opposition Leader: Turkey’s Ruling Party ‘an Extension of’ Islamic State
• Treasury Department: Islamic State Building Base In Gaza Strip; Using Palestinian Enclave to Recruit and Deploy Fighters
•  Brazil to Sterilize Zika Mosquitoes with Radiation
• North Korea Threatens ‘U.S. Mainland’ in Response to Largest-Ever Joint Drill on Border
• Rotherham Abuse Trial: Six Guilty of Child Sex Offences
• Germany’s Family Minister Wants €100 Million To Fight ‘Right Wing Extremism’
• Asylum Seeker Raped Young Migrant Shelter Employee After He Received Anti-Rape Training
• President Obama’s Former Deputy Chief Of Staff Signs On To PM Cameron’s EU Remain Campaign
• Forget The Negotiated Deal, The Coming Debt Storm Is What Will Decide The EU Referendum
• Bishop Blames Europe For Near Extinction Of Christianity In Syria
• Saudi Arabia Just Shattered OPEC, Won’t Reduce Oil Production
• Bolivian Socialist President Resoundingly Rejects His Own Rejection
• Islamist Turkey is Imploding
• David Cameron’s Referendum Won’t Solve EU Tensions
• Russia and China Are on a Collision Course in Asia
• Egypt's president says criticism threatens the state

Trump

• How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable | Rolling Stone
• Bloomberg: Donald Trump’s Global Deals Reveal ‘Trouble in Many Spots’
• Melania Trump Defends Husband: ‘He Opened Up Conversation,’ ‘They Don’t Give Him Enough Credit’
• Trump Exposing the GOP, A Large Group of Delusional and Incompetent Politicians
• China Warns U.S. After Trump Wins Nevada Caucus
• Godfather Trump now Threatens Cub Owners
• Trump Is Not Leading a Conservative Revolt
• David Frum on Donald Trump’s Policies, Obamacare, and American Nostalgia
• I’ll Take Hillary Clinton Over Donald Trump
• Against Trump Fatalism

judicial

• Teens Arrested for Attacking Marine Won't Be Charged with Hate Crime | Fox News Insider
• L.A. County spends more than $233,000 a year to hold each youth in juvenile lockup - LA Times
• Texas Court of Appeals Dismisses Obviously Politically-Motivated Indictment of Rick Perry
• Rick Perry Is Not Guilty, but Texas Is
• Rick Perry 1, Rosemary Lehmberg 0
• Voters, Not Obama, Should Decide Future of Supreme Court
• Court Refuses to ‘Entangle’ Itself in Catholic Diocese’s Firing of Lesbian Employee

the left

• Should Dictionaries Do More to Confront Sexism? - The New Yorker
• University of Oklahoma: ‘It’s Your Fault’ if You Deny Privilege | MRCTV
• Cornel West: ‘Black Political Class’ ‘Confuses the Gravy Train With the Freedom Train’ By Supporting Hillary
• Black Lives Matter Crash Apple Support Rally, Set Flag on Fire
• Article in Medical Ethics Journal Suggests Allowing Limited Female Genital Mutilation Is ‘Culturally Sensitive’
• Michael Eric Dyson: ‘There Is Some Racist Impulse’ in Senate Blocking Obama SCOTUS Pick
• Univ Warns Profs To Avoid Sensitive Topics Since Armed Students May Snap And Kill Them
• Columbia Investigating Green Activists For Breaking University Conduct Rules [VIDEO]
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch vs. Scalia: A Liberal Daily Newspaper Trashes Conservatism
• Atheist Group Abandons Fight Against ‘Big Mountain Jesus’ on Montana Ski Slopes

Politic

• Republican Voters Aren’t Into That Kind Of Amnesty
• A Warning To The Feds On Incremental Prosecutions Of The Liberty Movement
• Is This The Death Of The American Political Establishment?
• What if both establishments give their voters the finger?
• What This Washington Post Columnist Got Wrong in Analysis of Conservatives

thinks

• The Costs of Abandoning Messy Wars
• When You're a Big Enough Bully, You Don't Have to Comply With the Law
• US Should Exit Debate Over Brexit
• Apple's Involuntary Servitude
• The Twitter Police Target Conservatives
• The Death of Twitter
• Trump's Orgy of Irresponsibility
• The Leftist world in which we live and its effects on just about everything
• Charlie Daniels: Will America Continue Down Path Toward Socialism and Decay?
• O’Reilly Says Let Obama Pick A Nominee for SCOTUS

the other

• Twelve Things that Caught My Eye Today (Feb. 24, 2016)
• Larwyn's Linx: Rubio Needs to Step Aside and Clear the Field For Ted Cruz, Not Vice Versa
• Wednesday morning links
• 10 Things to Know for Today
• Ace of Spades HQ Wednesday Morning News Dump 2/24/16 [Misanthropic Humanitarian]