7 questions for the media regarding Benghazi

Trey Gowdy: “I’m not telling you how to do your job, but I’m going to ask you some questions, and if you can’t answer these questions, then I’ll leave you to draw whatever conclusions you want to draw about whether the media has provided sufficient oversight:”

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The profane, the violent, and the demagogues

Liberals roared their displeasure on Twitter with typical indelicacy.
They were reacting to the Supreme’s Course smack down of the HHS Mandate imposed on closely held companies, such as Hobby Lobby. The Green family that owns Hobby Lobby said the mandate forced them to violate their religious conscience or be fined.
The Supreme Court agreed with the Greens.
Here are a few (heavily edited) comments on Twitter in reaction…

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Hillary to Diane Sawyer: 'I take responsibility, but I don't mean it'

The anchor [Diane Sawyer] continued pressing, asking Clinton whether the people might be seeking from her a “sentence that begins from you ‘I should have…’?” Clinton sort of ducked that one. The accountability-heavy moment came when Sawyer’s slow and steady line of questioning on Benghazi security prompted Clinton to utter this self-contradictory and sure-to-be-repeated statement: “I take responsibility, but I was not making security decisions.”

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Conan O'Brien laments Hillary's poverty

By Tom Quiner In her new book, Hillary Clinton laments that they came out of the White House “dead broke and in debt.” Conan O’Brien put the Clinton’s dilemma in perspective:  “It got so bad, they had to share a bedroom. Til the $8 million book deal check arrived.”  

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Chump change

Before he went into business for himself, I remember the night that we were having dinner and my dad made a big announcement to the family. He had been offered a new sales position with a firm that was a competitor to his present employer and he had accepted it. But the big part of the announcement was, “If I exceed my quotas, I can earn twenty thousand dollars in my first year.” A hush fell over the table as mom, grandma and I were awestruck as we tried to contemplate that massive amount of money …

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