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In reversal, Trump says IS claim about Obama was sarcastic
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After days of alleging repeatedly that President Barack Obama literally founded the Islamic State group, Donald Trump abruptly shifted tone on Friday and insisted his widely debunked claim had been sarcastic. Trump, in an early-morning post on Twitter, blamed CNN for reporting “so seriously” that he had called Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton the extremist…
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Trump refuses to back away from false claim Obama founded ISIS
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Donald Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group on Thursday, refusing to take back a patently false allegation even when questioned about the logic of his position. A day after lobbing the attack against the president during a rowdy rally, Trump pressed ahead during a round of interviews. The Republican presidential nominee brushed off…
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LaFaive and Nesbit: Colorado smuggling to rise along with tobacco tax hike
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An initiative that may appear on Colorado’s November’s ballot would, if adopted, nearly triple the state’s current cigarette excise tax. This, we believe the evidence shows, will usher in a wave of cigarette smuggling and other undesirable consequences. Voters should think twice before adopting this tax increase. Research shows high excise taxes invite scofflaws to…
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Coloradans deliver icons to families of martyred Christians in Egypt
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A delegation from Colorado traveled more than 14,000 miles earlier this month to meet with families of the Egyptian Coptic Christians beheaded last year by militants aligned with ISIS. They made the trip to honor the families’ loss and in hopes of spreading the word about what one calls the “ongoing holocaust of Christianity in the…
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May: The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey
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While Western leaders dither, others are shaping the 21st century Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question: How are the most dynamic forces within the Islamic world shaping the 21st century? Jihadism is,…
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Polman: Donald Trump’s fact-free marketing of fear
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I knew it would be a long night when Donald Trump launched his acceptance speech with a promise to speak “honestly,” telling the crowd, “There there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else.” As if. When a con man offers to sell you Arizona land with…
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May: Can America change course?
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The next president needs a new approach to national security. That may be easier said than done. As you watch the circus that is the 2016 presidential campaign, which candidate strikes you as having a coherent vision of national security for the post-Obama era? Who has told you what he (or she) will do about…
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May: Obama’s dollar deal
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The president wants to grant Iran’s theocrats another big concession President Obama’s critics charge that he’s never developed a strategy to defeat terrorism, the weapon of choice for those waging what they call a global jihad. The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, the journalist whose ear Mr. Obama most likes to bend, says that’s wrong — that the…
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U.S. Senate primary debate begins process of thinning bloated candidate field
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All of the eight Colorado Republican candidates for U.S. Senate who participated in the 9News debate Tuesday evening will support Donald Trump if he wins the party’s presidential nomination this year, and two of the candidates would serve in the chamber as rare-species, pro-choice Republican members. Those were two of the main takeaways pundits and…