Netanyahu moves to form a government . . . Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Wednesday to form a new governing coalition quickly after an upset election victory that was built on a shift to the right and is likely to worsen a troubled relationship with the White House. Reuters

Obama gets to keep Bibi . . . After six years of testy relations, U.S. President Barack Obama may have to resign himself to the likelihood that he has not seen the last of Benjamin Netanyahu. Reuters

Obama-linked nonprofit that interfered to revise tax status . . . The American nonprofit OneVoice Movement – under scrutiny by a U.S. Senate panel over possible links to a campaign to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – quietly filed paperwork that would allow it to engage in political activism after two leading Republican lawmakers questioned its use of government funds. Fox News

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New York Times throws a fit . . . “Desperate and craven,” “duplicity,” “outrageous,” “demagogy,” “inflammatory,” “subversive,” and “fear-mongering.” Those are just some of the harsh words the New York Times used to rip apart the Israeli prime minister in a scathing editorial following a nearly complete count of votes which showed Israelis had handed Benjamin Netanyahu a decisive win in Tuesday’s elections. The Blaze​

How Obama lost Iraq and allowed ISIS to bloom . . . The failure of the Iraqis to secure their country absent U.S. troops was predicted; Obama did not seek to keep nearly the number of U.S. troops in Iraq his commanders requested; The excuse that a status of forces agreement was not reached because U.S. troops would have been subject to Iraqi law is a canard. In fact, U.S. forces operating in Iraq today have less legal protection than they would have under a deal Obama could have struck in 2011 with then-Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki. White House Dossier

Obama quietly pushing global climate deal . . . The president is pushing for a global climate change accord that could seal his environmental legacy. Politico

Openness administration sets censorship record . . . For the second consecutive year, the Obama administration more often than ever censored government files or outright denied access to them under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, according to a new analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

Loretta Lynch going down? . . . Loretta Lynch, President Obama's attorney general nominee who once appeared to be on a glide path to confirmation, is now a vote away from losing the job after months of delay, thanks mostly to her views on illegal immigration. Washington Examiner

Liberal scholar: EPA "burning the Constitution" . . . “EPA possesses only the authority granted to it by Congress,” Laurence Tribe, a liberal constitutional scholar, told lawmakers in a hearing Tuesday. “Its gambit here raises serious questions under the separation of powers . . . because EPA is attempting to exercise lawmaking power that belongs to Congress and judicial power that belongs to the federal courts.” Daily Caller

Obama Cuba deal strengthens its military . . . Castro’s real heirs are the generals, and they’re going to make a bundle from normalization. Politico 

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Iran, Hezbollah no longer terrorists? . . . ​A decision to strike references to Iran and Hezbollah from the “Terrorism” subsection of the U.S. intelligence community’s 2015 Worldwide Threat Assessment report is stoking controversy, with critics suspecting that the administration is pandering to Iran in a bid to smooth the nuclear negotiations as they come down to the wire. CNS News

White House blitzes Congress on Iran . . . The White House is moving aggressively to limit Democratic defections on Capitol Hill that could undermine its negotiations with Iran, dispatching senior officials and President Barack Obama himself to lobby senators against taking action before a nuclear deal with the rogue regime is reached. Politico

Obama rarely gets his fingers dirty by lobbying Congress, so they must REALLY care about this one.

Iranian official threatens to take White House . . . A top special operations aide to Iran’s leader says his troops are in a global war that will one day bring “the banner of Islam over the White House.” Washington Times

Hillary failed to sign exit document . . . The State Department said Tuesday that former Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton never signed the document affirming that she turned in all classified information when she left in 2013, as the legal jeopardy to the Obama administration continued to grow over her treatment of emails. Washington Times

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GOP budget respects caps but  finesses defense hike . . . House Republicans on Tuesday introduced a $3.8 trillion dollar budget that would dramatically shrink the size of the federal government to balance in nine years. It aims to navigate the differences between penny-pinching conservatives and defense hawks who favor raising the spending caps that are set to keep defense spending at $523 billion for 2016. The budget would respect that cap, but raise defense spending to $613 billion in total in 2016 by allocating funds to the Department of Defense's Overseas Contingency Operations, or war funds. Washington Examiner

Chiefs: Defense spending still perilously low . . . U.S. military capabilities declined during the Obama administration and deep defense spending cuts are increasing the risk that American forces will lose a future war, the Joint Chiefs of Staff told Congress on Tuesday. Washington Free Beacon

Obama to bash budget today . . . The White House is seeking to draw a stark contrast with House Republicans, who took aim at key Obama priorities like healthcare programs for the poor and elderly while cutting trillions of dollars in spending in their new budget proposal. The Hill

Rising GOP star forced to resign . . . Rep. Aaron Schock, once one of the Republican party’s fastest-rising stars, announced his retirement Tuesday after less than four terms in Congress. The 33-year-old from Illinois appeared to have it all: a blossoming political career that included first-class trips across the country, celebrity friends like the pope and Ariana Grande, not to mention the best bod on Capitol Hill — all of which he documented for his 18,300 Instagram followers. Yahoo News

Trump may be serious this time . . . Donald Trump will launch a presidential exploratory committee Wednesday, the eve of the business mogul’s return to New Hampshire. A senior adviser tells the New Hampshire Union Leader that Trump will not be renewing his contract with NBC for the reality television “Apprentice” series. New Hampshire Union Leader

Walker aide out after tweeting mean about Iowa . . . Only a day after being announced as an aide to Gov. Scott Walker’s political operation, Liz Mair told The Associated Press on Tuesday that she was resigning. Mair took considerable heat for her frank Twitter criticism of Iowa’s early role in the presidential nomination process. Politico

The terrifying Ted Cruz . . . Media jump on Cruz for supposedly traumatizing a three year old girl. Fox News

The only ones traumatized by Cruz are the media.

Pakistani Lawyer for doc who helped find Osama shot dead . . . A Pakistani lawyer under death threats for defending a doctor who helped CIA agents hunt al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was shot dead on Tuesday, police said, and two militant groups claimed responsibility. Reuters

Blonde roast vs. dark roast . . . Starbucks chief executive Howard Schultz is urging baristas to write “race together” on your $5 coffee “And if a customer asks you what this is, try and engage in a discussion, that we have problems in this country with regard to race and racial inequality, and we believe we’re better than this, and we believe the country’s better than this," Schultz says. Washington Post

Liberals will make sure we are always defined by our skin color.

A challenger for Fox . . . One America News has the moxie. But can it poach viewers from other cable news stations? National Journal

CBS takes on women in combat . . . CBS vividly documents what has been public knowledge for sometime now: women are graduating, though at a much lower rate than men, from the enlisted infantry school, but failing to get through the officer course. From the admittedly tiny sample of 26 female officers who have made the attempt, some subsequent to when this piece was filmed, zero have passed. Washington Free Beacon

How long before they change the standards? Not long, I'm sure.

Five year plan fails to include bathroom break . . . Civil servants at a federal courthouse in Puerto Rico were left with only one bathroom on the seventh floor of a nearby structure for a year after General Services Administration officials closed all of the government building's restrooms without giving anybody notice. Washington Examiner

U.S to factor out "lost pleasure" . . . The U.S. government is preparing to roll back a widely criticized approach to public health, in which the "lost pleasure" people might suffer if they quit smoking or chose to eat healthier foods was used to reduce the projected benefits of new regulations, government officials told Reuters.

Government will still allow you life - for now - but liberty and the pursuit of happiness are off the table.

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Keith Koffler
Editor
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