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Scalia

• Watch: Reverend Paul Scalia Delivers Touching Homily at Father’s Funeral
• 11People Are Leaving Broccoli, Fortune Cookies and Applesauce At Scalia’s Memorial. Here’s The Reason Why
• The Scalia Ethos
• Why I Wept for Justice Scalia
• 6 Supreme Court Rulings That Could Be Overturned If a Liberal Replaced Scalia

Freedom of

• Secret Memo Details U.S.’s Broader Strategy to Crack Phones - Bloomberg Business
• Decrypting a Government Agenda
• The Threats Of Dark Messaging
• If The FBI Can Make Apple Open Syed Farook’s iPhone, It Can Do Anything
• A twist in the Apple vs Justice Department story
• Government Sinks Teeth Into Apple's Security Core
• However Clumsily, Apple Is Affirming a Constitutional Principle
• Study: Student Support for Censorship Reaches All-Time High
• China Goes ‘Full Mao,’ Bans Foreign Online Publishing

China

• China accuses US of militarizing South China Sea
• Chinese Foreign Minister to Visit Washington Amid Tensions Over Missile Deployment
• China Raises Stakes in South China Sea By Adding Surface-to-Air Missile Batteries

media

• Gutfeld: ‘Donald Trump Is a Liberal,’ ‘The Establishment Versus Outsider Shtick Was Baloney’
• Dana Perino Confronts Eric Bolling: ‘You’re OK with Trump Just Lying About Bush?’
• The Blaze’s Loesch: Donald Trump ‘Is Basically the White Republican Barack Obama’

• Paul Krugman and Mother Jones Have Turned On Bernie Sanders
• Twitter’s Ministry of Truth Bans Yet Another Conservative
• 1984 COMES 32 YEARS LATE: Twitter's Orwellian "Trust and Safety Council" Suspends Robert Stacy McCain for Unspecified Thought Crimes #FreeStacy

politic

• A Government We Deserve -- or One We Need?
• A Growth Message, Not Catfights, Will Propel the GOP to November Victory
• Mark Levin: 'Time for All Conservatives to Come Home Now and Do the Right Thing'
• National Journal Editor: Political Parties Have ‘Never Been Weaker’

• Are Trump and Sanders Two Sides of Same ‘Progressive Populism’ Coin?
• Lights Out for the Brady Campaign and Hillary Clinton
• Let It Burn: The conservative choice [Weirddave]
• Oil Didn't Wreck Venezuela's Economy... Socialism Did

BtF: thinks, executive, the mess, econ., defense, congress, Trump, Europe, the left, Clinton, 2016, and the other

thinks

• Show This Column to Anyone Who Claims Bush Lied about WMDs in Iraq
• Why the Spratly Islands Dispute Matters
• Why is the West So Obsessed with Protecting the Territorial Integrity of Syria and Iraq?
• Suicidal Overcompensation in Germany
• The EU: Bad for Democracy, Britain and the US
• The Pope Was Wrong: Fences Do Not Define Faith
• Bring Back Dueling!
• Why Scientists Shouldn’t Make Laws
• Why Socialized Health Care Is Unjust
• White City Fighting

Executive

• Critics Suggest Race, Religion and Politics Shaped Obama’s Decision Not to Attend Scalia’s Funeral
• Obama: I’ll ‘Speak Candidly’ On Democracy and Human Rights While Talking With Castro In Cuba
• NIH Spent $10.1 Million to Address ‘Gender-Bias’ for Mice
• John Kerry’s Ridiculous Trip to Hollywood
• Obama Spends Less Than 2 Minutes At Scalia’s Wake [VIDEO]
• Border Patrol Leaving Security Gates Wide Open
• Obama Made a Call to McConnell and Grassley With a Chilling Suggestion
• EPA says state, city still lag on response to Flint crisis
• Fiji’s Approval Of The UN Treaty Undermines Obama’s Global Warming Agenda
• FBI Raids San Bernardino Terrorist’s Brother’s House

the mess

• Snowden: I Would Return to U.S. With Guarantee of Fair Trial
• Valerie Jarrett Blames Chicago Gun Violence On Indiana [Video]
• Children Bused In To Lobby Capitol For 86 Percent E-Cigarette Tax
• The AIRR Act Is Not a Union Giveaway
• Michigan Tries Bribing Public College Officials to Keep Tuition Down
• Photographs Of The "Surreal, Uncanny" Emptiness Of China's Ghost Cities
• Efforts intensify to curtail child marriage in the US
• St. Louis archbishop seeks to cut ties with Girl Scouts
• Can I Still Get A Gun Trust?
• Dark Ages
• Incidental Intelligence

Economic

• Currency And The Collapse Of The Roman Empire
• When Cash Is Outlawed... Only Outlaws Will Have Cash
• Most Ordinary Americans in 2016 Are Richer Than Was John D. Rockefeller in 1916 - Cafe Hayek
• Why a Growing Gig Economy Is a Good Thing
• No, Arkansas’ Obamacare Expansion Isn’t Saving Taxpayers Money - Nicholas Hortontory" Is Dead
• Scandal at the Federal Reserve?
• How Public Pension Contracts Violate the U.S. Constitution

Defense

• 'Dragon's Egg': Marines who guarded Saddam's mysterious bunker fear weapons unleashed | Fox News
• Marine Special Operator Highlights Dark Truths Behind Obama’s New Afghan War General
• What Obamunism in the Military Has Given Us
• 1st US trials of suspected Islamic State sympathizers begin

Governance

• Watch Idiocy in Action on Behalf of the Government
• Freedom Isn't Free
• Executive Overreach Meets Resistance
• Obama’s Visit to Cuba Betrays America’s Commitment to Freedom
• Does American Exceptionalism Mean Worshiping The State?

Foreign

• Cuba's Dissident Crackdown Peaks Ahead of Obama's Historic Visit - Bloomberg Politics
• 100 Riot In Migrant Reception Centre, Triggered By Woman’s Refusal To Wear A Head Scarf
• Young Boy Repeatedly Raped After He Was Billeted With Migrant Men
• Russia Announces Closer Military Cooperation with Iran in Syria
• How The Iran-Russia-Syria Alliance Is The Middle East’s ‘Number One Problem’
• U.S.: Russia to Violate United Nations Embargo with Sale of Weapons to Iran
• France rejects Russia's proposed UN resolution on Syria
• Iran seeks $45B in foreign investment
• Kiev demonstrators attack Russian banks

Congress

• Lawmakers Now Demand Gov’t Investigate Shell For Ignoring Global Warming
• GOP Rep Demands 'Recapture' of Obamacare Tax Credits Awarded to Illegal Immigrants
• Congress May Finally Fight Obama’s Campus Sexual Assault Policies

Trump

• Stop Defending Trump’s Poisonous ‘Middle-Finger Politics’
• Trump and Code Pink: Perfect Together
• Trump: ‘If I Were African-American I Would Be So Angry At’ Obama [VIDEO]
• Donald Trump Predicts Germany’s Merkel Will ‘Be Out if They Don’t Have A Revolution’
• Trump’s Iraq Chicanery
• Pope Francis Was Spot-On About Donald Trump

Europe

• Britain and EU still don't agree on benefits, treaty change
• What's in the historic agreement on the UK's place in the EU
• France orders expulsion of big swath of Calais migrant camp
• Hungary Is Arming Their Central Bank To Defend It From The Migrant Crisis
• CONFIRMED: EU Referendum 23 June: Live Reactions
• 5,000 Islamic State-Trained Jihadis Could Be in Europe, Says Europol Chief
• 6,000 Migrants Arrive on Greek Island of Lesbos in Just 3 Days
• Greece threatens to veto Britain-EU deal if states close borders to refugees | World news | The Guardian

the left

• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: Teachers Should Incorporate Islam In More Subjects | ReaganCoalition.com
• Black Lives Matter Activist-Professor Threatens Ben Shapiro and Conservative Students at CSULA
• Rutgers Students Hold Group Therapy Session After Milo Yiannopoulos Visit
• John Derbyshire Gets BANNED From Williams College, Told His Opinions Are ‘Hate Speech’
• It’s Getting Harder To Take Fracktivists Seriously
• How the Left Is Ruining Science
• Brown Students Whine: My Homework Is Interfering With My Social-Justice Activism
• Milo and Christina weigh in on 3rd wave feminism

Clinton

• The Line From Hillary Clinton That Elicited Boos From Audience at MSNBC Town Hall: ‘You Know It’s True’ | Video | TheBlaze.com
• Gowdy Says 'Significant Breakthroughs' Were Made in Benghazi Probe After Susan Rice Testimony
• Clinton Wins High-Card Draw To Win Nevada Precinct
• The psychodynamics of Hillary's arf-arf

2016

• Marco Rubio Says Cops Racist Against Blacks & He, Too Has Felt 'Sting of Racism' - Breitbart
• BREAKING: Jeb Bush Suspends Campaign
• Brian Williams: ‘Republicans Own the Excitement’ of the 2016 Race
• Nonwhite Millennials Overwhelmingly Choose Sanders
• The 10 Most Compelling Questions to Ask the 2016 Presidential Candidates
• Mike Bloomberg Would Lose In Landside Against Trump, Sanders
• Sanders Admits A $15 Minimum Wage Will Increase Prices
• John Kasich Needs to Stop Hugging People
• Biden: Bernie's Socialism Now 'Mainstream'

the others

• Saturday morning links - Maggie's Farm
• Larwyn's Linx: Ted Cruz's Full Speech at the Conservative Review Convention
• Ace of Spades HQ Overnight Open Thread (20 Feb 2016)
• Larwyn's Linx: On Eve of SC Vote, Nation's ICE Officers Detail How Marco Rubio Betrayed Them
• Friday morning links - Maggie's Farm
• The Bookworm Beat 2/19/16 — the “it’s the end of the world as we know it” edition and open thread
• Ace of Spades HQ Overnight Open Thread (19 Feb 2016)
• Six Things that Caught My Eye Today (Feb. 19, 2016)