Sen. Marco Rubio

Oklahoma City — Senator Marco Rubio, fresh off officially announcing his presidential campaign on Monday, confirmed today to serve as one of the keynote speakers at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC) in Oklahoma City in May.

Rubio is the tenth national leader and 2016 presidential candidate to confirm for the conference behind Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Senator Ted Cruz, former Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Dr. Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, and Ambassador John Bolton.

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Percy Sledge during his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in New York.

When Percy Sledge finished singing “When a Man Loves a Woman” in a recording studio in 1965 in his first recording session – he had a hit.

Sledge, who died Tuesday, grew up singing in the cotton fields of Alabama and had never before been in a recording studio and didn’t even know how to work a microphone.

Regardless, the song became a No. 1 hit in 1966 and established Sledge as a rhythm-and-blues singer for all time – a classic historic talent.

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Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah Al al-Sheikh, Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti and top authority on Sunni religious law, has called for all churches in the Arabian Peninsula to be destroyed, in accordance with Muhammad’s command to rid the region of all Jews and Christians.

The statement was made March 17th in response to an enquiry from a delegation from Kuwait after Kuwaiti MP Osama al-Munawar made a statement on Twitter in February that he was planning to submit a bill to remove all churches in the country. The same MP later clarified that what he really meant to say was that he would submit a bill to prevent the construction of any new churches in the country, not the destruction of existing church buildings.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei

In his first official remarks about the framework agreement between Iran and Western powers, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said on Thursday that nothing is finalized, and therefore the understandings remain non-binding.

“I’m neither for nor against the outcome of the recent talks. According to the Iranian officials involved no measure has been taken yet and there are no binding results,” said Khamenei during a televised speech on Thursday.

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Jonathan Gruber, M.I.T.

As Grubergate continues to unfold, Reason.com’s Remy offers up a new video revealing just how President Obama’s administration discussed selling Obamacare to the American people.

Sure, Remy wasn’t involved in the deliberations but, from his telling, he seems to have a pretty accurate read of how it went down and you will love the video.

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