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Resistance Leader Maxine Waters Receives Standing Ovation at MTV Movie Awards
Actress Tracee Ellis Ross told Waters, “And thank you for being an extraordinary example for all of us, especially in these times.”
Articles by Hrafnkell Haraldsson
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen's Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
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A Desperate Trump Lashes Out As Sally Yates Prepares to Testify
“Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council.”
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Idaho Republican Claims ‘Nobody Dies Because They Don’t Have Access to Health Care’
When told he was mandating the death of people on Medicaid Labrador claimed “That line is so indefensible.’ What is indefensible is Trumpcare.
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A New Global Warming Threat: Future Pandemics Await Us in Melting Polar Ice
Pathogens can survive centuries and 1918 influenza is just one of many pandemics that previously killed millions lurking below the melting ice
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Georgia Runoff Between Ossoff and Handel Most Expensive in U.S. History
A record $30 million has been poured into a race neither side can afford to lose as Democrats seek to regain control of the House
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Paul Ryan And His Office Get Busted For A Massive Lie About Trumpcare
“AHCA was posted online a month ago” and “scored by CBO — twice.” She lies. The version voted on didn’t exist a month ago and was never scored.
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Liar David Barton Claims That U.S. Constitution Quotes ‘Almost Verbatim’ from Bible
“You’ll find almost verbatim wording in many clauses of the Constitution to passages in the Bible. It’s a one-to-one correlation on the wording.”
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Trump Claims He is Saving Us Money By Going Golfing This Weekend
“Rather than causing a big disruption in N.Y.C., I will be working out of my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend. Also saves country money!”
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Trump Says AHCA Phase 2 Will Be ‘Great’ But it Won’t Unless it Eliminates Phase 1
“Big win in the House – very exciting! But when everything comes together with the inclusion of Phase 2, we will have truly great healthcare!”
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It’s Official: Donald Trump Has Gone Golfing for the 21st Time Since Taking Office
“I’m going to be working for you. I’m not going to have time to go play golf.” – Donald J. Trump, August 2016
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Alyssa Milano Lays Waste to the Old White Men Making Decisions About Her Vagina
“These are the lawmakers making the decisions for my vagina. Looks like none of them have made contact with one in a while.”
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Paul Ryan Calls Trumpcare’s Upton Amendment “Momentum,” But Really, it’s Murder
“There’s one sentence every American needs to know: Trumpcare eliminates pre-existing condition protections.”
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Historical Novelist Bill O’Reilly Calls Dan Rather a ‘Moron’ for Criticizing Trump
“So Dan Rather, who knows very little about history, and others go out and they hammer Trump like he’s a moron,” says the man who knows nothing of history
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He Doesn’t Know What’s in It, But Trump Desperate to Get Trumpcare 2.0 Passed
“Trump only wants ‘win.’ He does not know or care what’s in bill or what impact it will have on millions.”
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Trump Appears to Fall Asleep in Midst of Late-Night Anti-Hillary Twitter Rant
“The phony…” began Trump, finishing 16-minutes later with, “…Trump/Russia story was an excuse used by the Democrats as justification for losing the election.”
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John McCain Says Trump’s Praise of Kim Jong Un and Rodrigo Duterte ‘Very Disturbing’
While admitting he agrees with Trump half the time, McCain added, “You can’t praise that kind of behavior and not raise concerns around the world.”
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Trump Says He Prefers a ‘Good Shutdown’ to Making a Deal With Dems to Fund Government
Frustrated with having to “do a deal” to fund the government Trump whined, “Our country needs a good ‘shutdown’ in September to fix mess!”
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Trump Told Historian That He Could Have ‘Done a Deal’ to Stop the Civil War
“He told me a year and a half ago or so, a year ago, that, you know, he thought he could have done a deal to have averted the war.”
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They Said it Was Impossible, But Georgia Dem Jon Ossoff Leads 48-47 in New Poll
Ossoff is not only up 48-47 but he holds a 12-point lead among run-off voters who voted in 2016 but did not vote in the 2014 midterms
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While Trump Has Cake, Chuck Schumer Reminds Us Democrats Stand Up for Those in Need
“We will keep working to protect immigrant rights and maintain an inclusive, diverse, and strong America.”
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Trump is Making a Commercial About All the Stuff He Pretended to Do For 100 Days
Trump cites “clear vision” and “resolute leadership,” not to mention “uncompromising dedication to the American people” by fighting media bias
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Trump Idiocy on the Civil War: ‘Why Could That One Not Have Been Worked Out?’
“People don’t ask that question. But why was there a Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?”
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The Embarrassment of an American Foreign Policy Guided by Trump’s Thirst for Profits
As Joy Reid says, “Well… the murderous autocrat did geenlight a Trump condo in his capitol, and Ivanka got a modeling gig out of it so…”
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Erick Erickson Says Gays Make People Uncomfortable and Should Expect to be Assaulted
If intolerant white males have the right to respond violently solely on account of your appearance, you don’t really have any rights at all.
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People’s Climate March Sends Thousands Marching in the Nation’s Capital
It’s Saturday. Donald Trump is off golfing again and climate change protesters are filling the streets of the nation’s capital
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White Supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos Announces New Media Company to War Against Facts
“I will spend every waking moment of the rest of my life making…Black Lives Matter activists and other professional victims a living hell.”
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Frustrated Dictator Trump Says ‘Archaic’ Constitution is a Bad Thing for the Country
@POTUS on getting things done in government: “It’s a very rough system. It’s an archaic system…It’s really a bad thing for the country.”
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Texas Republican Prays to God to Forgive America for the U.S. Constitution
He said “Lord, we have gone to killing the most innocent amongst us,” ignoring God promising Samaria’s “pregnant women” will be “ripped open”
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Trump Whines About Work, Says He Misses His Old Life. We Miss His Old Life Too
“POTUS learned this morning that 2 soldiers had died in combat. Then he whined about having to work a lot, said he misses his ‘old life.'”
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There’s Now More to Laugh at Than Trump as The Simpsons Skewers His 100 Days
“100 days in office…Lowered my golf handicap, my Twitter following increased by 700 and finally, we can shoot hibernating bears. My boys will love that.”
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Nancy Pelosi Reveals There Are ’70 Poison Pills’ in Current Government Funding Bill
The current Republican position is that we destroy our water and air and then make up for it by denying Americans insurance to pay for the resultant medical issues.
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Trump Had No Use for Economic Numbers Until He Started a Trade War with Canada
Trump makes a big deal of low economic growth in 2016 but that economic growth was growing in the last 3 months of the Obama presidency
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Add an Outrageous 16 Lies to Trump’s 16 Unintelligible Remarks in AP Interview
“Trump made 16 false claims in his bonkers AP interview, the most of any interview of his presidency or his campaign. “
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Virginia Republican Compares Politicians Removing Confederate Monuments to ISIS
Stewart says “Nothing is worse than a Yankee telling a Southerner that his monuments don’t matter,” but he’s wrong. Defending them is worse
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Would-Be Dictator Trump Attacks Independent Judiciary for Blocking Sanctuary City Order
“Today, the rule of law suffered another blow, as an unelected judge unilaterally rewrote immigration policy for our Nation.”
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Donald Trump Claims ‘Fake Media’ is Lying About His Wall: ‘It Will Get Built’
“Don’t let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc.”
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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Says GOP Leadership Has ‘Less Backbone than Gumby’
“GOP leadership, with less backbone strength than Gumby, has tossed morals, integrity & patriotism out the window in their lust for power.”
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Numbers of Those with No Confidence in Trumpcare Up Double-Digits Since February
“If our healthcare plan is approved, you will see real healthcare,” said Trump, but polling numbers mean Trumpcare will never be approved
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Chuck Schumer Says ‘Not a Peep’ From Trump About Democrats’ Infrastructure Plan
Don’t hold your breath for a Trump plan. Or rather do: there might be a lot of water below that bridge you’re driving over
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Trump: ‘Positive’ Polls Show 53% See Him as ‘Strong Leader’ But Obama Got 77% in 2009
Trump tweeted “Some very positive info…almost all stand by their vote on me & 53% said strong leader” but he loses to President Obama
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Trump’s AP Interview Reveals Our Unhinged and Unintelligible Commander-in-Chief
Not counting lies, an unprecedented sixteen (!) times AP couldn’t figure out what the heck Donald Trump was saying in a one-on-one interview
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Trump’s Earth Day Message Claims a Gutted EPA ‘Enhances Environmental Protection’
Unsurprising coming from a man who has bragged about sexually assaulting women, his message is an endorsement of the rape of our Earth.
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What You Can Do Even if You Can’t March for Science on Earth Day
To ignore Earth Day “is to surrender to an ideology that has turned mere environmental indifference into a moral nihilism.”
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Marches for Science Outdraw Donald Trump’s Inauguration
The American people have rejected Donald Trump’s rejection of science and global warming. And they have done it in overwhelming numbers.
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‘I’m With Her’ Takes on New Meaning as the Earth Steps to the Forefront
It is time for all Americans to look and weep and try to explain to their children why they weren’t with her when it mattered.
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Joy Reid Rips the Silent Donald Trump for His Anti-Science Record
If ever the deck was stacked against science and the environment, it was Donald Trump’s cabinet.
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Trump Russia Defense a ‘Bullsh*t Tornado’ of Magic Spells and Rejected X-Files Scripts
Pitted against the US intel community (IC) we find a ‘bullsh*t tornado’ of what Rick Wilson calls “magic spells and rejected X-Files scripts.”
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Maxine Waters Tells Morning Joe Donald Trump Doesn’t Deserve to be President
Waters says she hasn’t attended ceremonial activities because “I don’t respect this president… I don’t think that he deserves to be president.”
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Donald Trump Whines About Feeling No Love for First 100 Days
“No matter how much I accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days, & it has been a lot (including S.C.), media will kill!”
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In Defense of Trump, Mike Huckabee Says You Can’t ‘Kiss a Woman Leaning Away From You’
He released a serial rapist to rape again and on the show of a guy fired for sexual harassment said you can’t kiss a woman leaning away from you
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Trump Can’t Be Boycotted Out of the White House But He Can Be Made to Hurt – a LOT
Trump is about to learn two very painful lessons: he isn’t above the law, and he isn’t above the avenging voice of America’s outraged women.
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Adam Schiff Says He’s Pushing for Sally Yates to Get Her Chance to Testify
Having Sally Yates testify, and being able to hear her testimony, would do much to restore the public’s trust in government.
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Honeymoon Over: Even Republicans Think Trump Should Spend Less Time at Mar-a-Lago
“I do wish he would spend more time in Washington, D.C. That’s what we have the White House for,” says Jon Ernst
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His Career Hanging by a Thread, a Plurality of Americans Want Bill O’Reilly Gone
With a plurality of Americans against him, “Bill O’Reilly’s brand is so toxic right now the only place that might hire him is the White House.”
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Jon Ossoff Sends a Powerful Message to Shake the Foundations of the White House
“We have shattered expectations. We are changing the world. And your voices are going to ring out across this state and across this country.”
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Trump Takes False Credit for a Victory Republicans Didn’t Win Last Night in Georgia
“Despite major outside money, FAKE media support and eleven Republican candidates, BIG “R” win with runoff in Georgia. Glad to be of help!”
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In a Blow to Steve Bannon, Trump May Keep Obama’s Paris Climate Agreement
“Trump may remain in Paris climate deal. That would deal a huge blow to Bannon’s fraudulent nationalism”
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From Turkey to China, The Trumps Continue to Cash in on Presidency
“Ivanka’s company won approval for new China trademarks the same day she dined w/ China’s president at Mar-a-Lago.”
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A Terrified Trump Tweets Warnings About Georgia Democrat Jon Ossoff
“Democrat Jon Ossoff would be a disaster in Congress. VERY weak on crime and illegal immigration, bad for jobs and wants higher taxes. Say NO”
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Safe From Return Fire, Draft Dodger Trump Ready to Start Shooting at North Korea
“What happens if North Korea launches another missile?” asked Fox News’ Ainsley Earhardt finally. Trump’s answer was, “We’ll find out.”
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His Disapproval Rating at Historic Highs, Trump Lies About His Approval Rating
Even if Trump did have 50 percent approval, Obama’s stood at 62 percent approval on April 18, 2009, the same point in his presidency.
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The Majority of Americans No Longer Believe Trump Keeps His Promises
According to Gallup, 62 percent of Americans felt Trump kept his promises in February. Now, just two months later, that number is down to 45 percent
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Trump Claims His 90 Days as President Expose How Bad Things Were Under Obama
“The first 90 days of my presidency has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy!”
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From Korean DMZ Mike Pence Threatens War: ‘The Era of Strategic Patience is Over’
“We’re going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience. But we’re going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear on North Korea”
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Donald Trump Wants to ‘Ride Like Vladimir’ in Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Carriage
Trump wants to be like his hero, Vladimir Putin, who rode in the royal carriage when he visited in 2003, or President Xi, who rode it in 2015
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Colin Powell’s Chief of Staff Has ‘Never Been so Concerned’ For State of This Country
“And I’ve got to tell you, though, I’ve never been so concerned, as I am now, for the state of this country and world relations.”
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Crises in Middle East and North Korea and Trump Takes 18th Golf Trip in 12 Weeks
“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf” Trump asked in 2014
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With Trump Refusal to Release Visitor Logs Come Renewed Calls for Mar-a-Lago Act
“We can’t see #Trump’s taxes. We can’t know who’s visiting him. What would the GOP do if this were #Clinton? We know”
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Worries Arise Over Where Trump’s Sudden Militarism Will Take Us
Trump’s isolationist hypocrisy is the least of our problems. It is where that hypocrisy is taking us, and at an ever-increasing pace
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Anti-Gay Activist Claims Beauty and the Beast Promotes Inter-Species Breeding
“Swanson said the film is promoting inter-species breeding, which he said Hollywood has been pushing since the days of Star Trek.”
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Attacking Syria Was the Gateway Sexual Activity Republicans Usually Warn You About
As you can see from the polling, conservatives, far from reacting with outrage, have instead laid back and lit up in the post-coital afterglow
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White House Defends Flip-Flops by Claiming Trump Didn’t Change, Circumstances Did
“The line we’re getting from the White House is that…he’s not necessarily flip-flopping or reversing but he’s adapting to situations on the ground.”
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Fact Checker Demolishes “Bonkers” Trump Interview On Fox Business
As Toronto Star fact checker Daniel Dale put it, “Trump’s Fox Business interview is highly dishonest and frequently bonkers.”
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Donald Trump Claims Narrow GOP Win in Kansas Was a Landslide
“Great win in Kansas last night for Ron Estes, easily winning the Congressional race against the Dems, who spent heavily & predicted victory!”
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Panicked Trump Flees Carter Page Scandal by Running to Fox to Sell Obama Lies
“What I did should have been done by the Obama administration long before I did it…I think Syria would be a lot better off right now”
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Former NSA Analyst: George Washington Would Have Shot Half of Trump WH as Traitors
Given Washington was going to execute an innocent British officer in retaliation for the lynching of a Patriot officer, you can bank on it
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Joe Wilson, Who Said ‘You Lie!’ to President Obama, Gets Told ‘You Lie!’ by Unhappy Constituents
Joe Wilson was met with a chorus of boos and cries of ‘You lie!’ when he showed up at his town hall and spoke evasively about protecting women
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Trump Attorney: “Everyone Needs to Get on the President’s Message” on Syria
According to Cohen, Trump is “smart and decisive” and a “swift-acting individual” who listens to people and will eventually tell us what the hell he thinks he is doing.
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A Reckless Donald Trump Issues a Twitter Warning to North Korea
“North Korea is looking for trouble. If China decides to help, that would be great. If not, we will solve the problem without them! U.S.A.”
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Trump’s Vacations Will Cost Americans More in 1 Year Than Obama’s Did in 8 Years
In 8 years, Obama spent $97 million for travel. According to CNN, Trump “will surpass Obama’s spending in his first term, likely within months.”
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Michele Bachmann Leads the Religious Right’s Unholy Chorus in Support of Donald Trump
Bachmann complains Trump’s opponents are “rebelling against God” to create “a manmade, one-world system” the Bible doesn’t even mention
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Armed and Dangerous Author of Trump Manifesto Stalking Wisconsin Communities
Jakubowski’s manifesto “includes grievances against government and personal angst towards anyone or anything other than natural law or rule”
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New Poll Reveals Americans Are Less Likely to Use Products Endorsed by Trump
In a new poll, 78 percent of Americans say they would not use, or would even boycott, a product endorsed by Donald Trump
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After Dozens of Dead Children, Trump Still Doesn’t Know Where He Stands on Syria
Rex Tillerson says one thing, Nikki Haley another. If there is any sort of messaging being sent, it is impossible to determine what it might be
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John McCain Says Trump Administration ‘Partially to Blame’ for Syria Chemical Attack
Asked if he thought the Trump administration “encouraged this behavior,” McCain’s answer was, “I think it probably was partially to blame.”
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Tom Cotton Says Donald Trump’s Syria Strike Restored U.S. Credibility
“But these strikes did more than simply punish Mr. Assad and deter future attacks; they have gone a long way to restoring our badly damaged credibility in the world.”
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Trump’s Syrian ‘War’ Was as Much of a Joke as His Presidency
“FYI: Lobbing high explosives around, in limited quantities, has never changed the course of any war, ever. No matter what TV “experts” say.”
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Trump’s For-Profit Presidency Takes Ugly Turn as He Makes Money by Attacking Syria
Trump owns stock in Raytheon, the manufacturer of the Tomahawk missile. When he fired them at Syria, Raytheon’s stock rose
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David Frum Describes How the Biases of Mainstream Media Pundits Benefit Trump
“The worse he does, the more eagerly the pundit seeks something to praise. We’ve all experienced this. ‘There has to be something good to say about Trump.'”
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Sen. Tim Kaine Condemns Trump for Bypassing Congress: ‘There is no Excuse’
“There is no excuse for bypassing Congress. Because the Constitution we all pledge an oath to is very plain…you can’t start a war without an act of Congress.”
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In His Own Words from 2013, Trump’s Unauthorized Attack on Syria Was ‘A Big Mistake’
Donald Trump to President Obama in 2013: “The President must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria-big mistake if he does not!”
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Netanyahu Says Trump’s Illegal Attack on Syria ‘Setting Example For Free World’
“Israel fully supports President Trump’s decision and hopes that this message of resolve…will resonate not only in Damascus, but in Tehran, Pyongyang and elsewhere.”
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Pew Research Reveals Muslim Births Will Outnumber Christian Births by 2035
The world is a different place than conservatives wish it to be, and those differences are only going to become more pronounced.
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GOP Strategist Rick Wilson Burns Donald Trump’s Presidency to the Ground
“Trump’s poll numbers suck for a reason. It’s not complicated. He. Is. Bad. At. Being. President.”
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The Hits Keep Coming as 21 Advertisers Have Now Dumped Bill O’Reilly
“The No-Ads Zone … @oreillyfactor quickly becoming commercial-free hour on @FoxNews … telethons and totebags coming soon.”
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In Expletive-Filled Rant, Alex Jones Uses Anti-Gay Slurs to Attack Rep. Adam Schiff
Trump worshiper Alex Jones made his feelings about Schiff more than plain when he accused Schiff of “sucking globalist d—“
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Nancy Pelosi Destroys Trump for Taking our Internet Privacy by Pointing to His Secrets
“Someone with as many hidden secrets as President Trump should have greater respect for the privacy of the American people.”
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Hyundai Becomes the Second Sponsor to Pull its Ads from Bill O’Reilly’s Show
“We had upcoming advertising spots on the show, but are reallocating them,” said Hyundai in a statement
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Bombshell Report Exposes Secret Meeting Between Trump and Putin Representatives
The Post reports that Blackwater founder Erik Prince, acting on behalf of Trump, secretly met in Jan. with a representative of Vladimir Putin
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National Security Expert Blows Trump’s ‘Unmasking’ Claims Out of the Water
“OF COURSE the National Security Advisor had questions about SIGINT regarding Trump’s foreign ties. #duh”