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Newt Gingrich: Visiting An ISIS Or Al Qaeda Website Should Be A Felony

“Anybody who goes on a website favoring ISIS, or Al Qaeda, or other terrorist groups,that should be a felony and they should go to jail.”

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Newt Gingrich

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is making some news today for some silly remarks he made on Fox News last night in response to the attack last night in Nice, France. It comes right at the beginning of this video: https://youtu.be/SNtGGFJOmYs All of the press -- for good reason -- is focusing on the first part of what he said, about

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Congress Drops All Pretense: Quietly Turns CISA Into Full On Surveillance Bill

Senator Ron Wyden was one of the only people in Congress willing to stand up and directly say what it was: “it’s a surveillance bill by another name.”

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Remember CISA? The "Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act"? It's getting much, much worse, with Congress and the administration looking to ram it through -- in the process, dropping any pretense that it's not a surveillance bill. As you may recall, Congress and the White House have been pushing for a "cybersecurity" bill, for a few years now,

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MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Via Today Show And WSJ

The emails just how corrupt the big players in American media really are.

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If you talk to the reporters who work for various big media companies, they insist that they have true editorial independence from the business side of their companies. They insist that the news coverage isn't designed to reflect the business interests of their owners. Of course, most people have always suspected this was bullshit -- and you could

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