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Charles C. Johnson
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Spitzer honed his lust for power as Princeton student body president

3:50 AM 07/11/2013

Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former governor of New York who is trying to make a comeback running for New York City comptroller, got his first taste of bullying opponents and pushing technocratic rule when he served as the elected president of the student body at Princeton University.

Though liberals call him a ‘LINO,’ Ted Cruz founded Harvard Latino Law Review

11:50 PM 05/26/2013

Although the left-wing press and Democratic former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson are busily trying to depict him as a fake Latino, Sen. Ted Cruz has long been involved with the Latino community. The Texas Republican, who won a Senate seat last November, helped found Harvard Law School’s Latino Law Review and worked with then-Gov. George W. Bush to reach out to Latinos in Texas.

Ruemmler met one-on-one with Treasury lawyer long before April

12:35 AM 05/23/2013

Although White House Chief Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler claims to have learned about the IRS audit scandal only last month, she had three unprecedented one-on-one meetings last year with the Treasury Department's chief lawyer, who has known about the inspector general's investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative nonprofits since at least June 2012.

Susan Rice, likely NSC head, had string of failures in Africa before Benghazi

10:03 PM 05/18/2013

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, reportedly the leading contender to be President Barack Obama’s next national security adviser, failed during the 1990s to prevent unnecessary deaths in Rwanda, provide adequate security prior to the bombings of the embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, or deal effectively with the Robert Mugabe's dictatorship in Zimbabwe.

Media downplay Tsarnaev connection to Muslim student group

3:07 AM 05/03/2013

Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing has ignored admitted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's connection to his college's Muslim Student Association, a group that has close relations with both the Muslim Brotherhood and a local imam friendly with an al-Qaida operative.