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Revenge of the Radical Middle
By matthew continetti
Two decades ago, in the spring of 1996, Newsweek magazine described a group of voters it called the “radical middle.” Formerly known as the Silent Majority, then the Reagan Democrats, these voters had supported Ross Perot in 1992, and were hoping the Texas billionaire would run again. Voters in the radical middle, Newsweek wrote, “see the traditional political system itself as the country’s chief problem.”


Los Zetas Drug Cartel Linked to US Helicopter Downing
By bill gertz
A shooting incident last month that forced a U.S. border patrol helicopter to make an emergency landing near Laredo, Texas, was the work of Mexican drug traffickers, and analysts say the attack highlights growing narcotics trafficking across porous U.S. borders.



It’s Costing Taxpayers $7 Million for Summit to Talk About Entrepreneurs
By ELIZABETH HARRINGTON
Staging and production for a global summit in Kenya where President Barack Obama will speak are costing taxpayers $7 million.



New Yorkers to Schumer: Kill the Iran Deal or Find a New Job
By Alana goodman
Waving signs reading “Schumer—You Are No Shomer” and “Schumer—You Control the Votes to Stop the Iran Deal,” thousands of New Yorkers flooded Times Square on Wednesday evening to call on Congress to reject the Obama administration’s Iranian nuclear agreement.


Medicare Expenditures Have Nearly Tripled Since 2000, Projected to Double By 2024
By ali meyer
Total Medicare expenditures have nearly tripled since 2000 and are projected to more than double by 2024, according to the 2015 Annual Medicare Trustees Report.



Cruz Shuts Down CODEPINK Outside White House
By adam kredo
Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) tussled with and shut down a group of left wing activists from CODEPINK on Thursday during a rally outside the White House organized by activists opposed to a recently inked nuclear accord with Iran.



ANALYSIS: Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton on Welfare Reform
By andrew stiles
While Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are both vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, they are very different candidates, a recent Free Beacon analysis found. A subsequent analysis has determined that Bernie and Hillary had significantly different opinions regarding the controversial welfare reform legislation signed into law by Bill Clinton in the mid-1990s.


Twenty Bucks to the First Reader Who Can Pronounce This Dutch Artist’s Name
By aaron maclean
It is the year of the misfits in the National Gallery of Art’s premiere West Building exhibition space. I mean the term “misfit” in a precise sense: 2015 has been thus far devoted to painters who do not quite fit into preexisting categories.


‘Southpaw’ Review
BY Sonny bunch
Of all the adjectives that flitted through my head when I learned that Kurt Sutter (the creator of Sons of Anarchy and a writer on The Shield) was teaming up with Antoine Fuqua (the director of Training Day, Tears of the Sun, and Olympus Has Fallen), “dull” wasn’t one of them. And yet I couldn’t help hearing that word banging about my skull while coming out of the screening of Southpaw, a paint-by-numbers tale of loss and redemption.



Dem Congressman: Iran Will ‘Absolutely’ Have More Money To Fund Terrorism If Nuclear Deal Passes

By DANIEL BASSALI

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