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Katie Porter: Not Ready for Prime Time

California’s Katie Porter built her brand on whiteboards and righteous indignation. It’s a great act for cable news—until the cameras stop rolling and someone else is allowed to talk. This week she proved, again, that she isn’t ready for prime time.

According to Newsweek and Yahoo News, Porter threatened to walk off a television interview after objecting to basic questions and camera placement.

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Hillary Clinton email scandal reaches boiling point

The word “inevitable” has begun to take on a whole new meaning in the context of Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House in 2016. Once considered the prohibitive favorite not only for her own parties nomination but also in any matchup in the general election, a rising chorus is predicting that the email scandal that has

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Hillary Clinton’s email security lapses mount, denials reveal hypocrisy

Tuesday it was revealed that correspondence included on Hillary Clinton’s homebrew email server included information classified higher than any previously known, increasing the legal and political pressure on her campaign to become the 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee. Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III told both the Senate Intelligence and Senate Foreign Relations committees that intelligence agencies found messages

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