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Opinion: North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill Repeal Is Sham
“This ‘deal’ does NOT repeal HB2. It’s HB2 dressed up in a way desperate lawmakers hope will save the state’s economy. There will be consequences for Dem and Rep alike.
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Opinion: Iowa GOP Reverses Existing Minimum Wage Hikes and Ban Future Increases
“It’s the first time a state nullified local wage ordinances already in effect and forced [local] jurisdictions to [immediately] reduce minimum wages that were previously raised.”
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Opinion: Pence’s Rush To Break Senate Tie and Eliminate Women’s Access to Healthcare
We must use the full force of Congress and strength of the [Catholic] pro-life movement to defeat this absurd rule that allows poor women to have healthcare.
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Opinion: Trump Appoints Son-in-law Kushner To Make America a Corporation
Kushner’s new office will be an aggressive team to “run the government like a great American company and potentially privatize government functions.”
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Opinion: Trump Enriches The Kochs, Rex Tillerson and Russians For 35 Jobs
“Keystone XL is not an economic benefit to Americans who will see higher gas prices and bear all the risks. The pipeline is being built through America, but not for Americans.”
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Opinion: As Americans Abandon Religion, Trump Conservatives Push Church In Schools
Although it is true religious Republicans have panted to make public education a theocratic endeavor for a few decades, it is probably true their efforts became paramount after a long-term study’s results last year confirmed their worst nightmare.
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Opinion: Paul Manafort Was Already Planning Putin Influence In Washington in 2005
“Paul Manafort pledged to influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States to benefit President Vladimir Putin’s government.”
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Opinion: Fear Of Trump Costing Tourism Industry $11 Billion and 90,000 American Jobs
“I know politics is politics, but whenever Trump opens his mouth, it shakes our business. Even white, Anglo-Saxon people are afraid of crossing the border into America.”
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Opinion: House Republicans Are Colluding With Trump To Conceal Treason
Given Trump’s refusal to acknowledge the threat to national security, it is essential that Congress discover the truth about Russia’s activities and stop colluding with Trump.
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Democrats Must Block The Illegitimate President’s Supreme Court Nominee For National Security
Democrats don’t need to find an “issue” to stop the Neil Gorsuch nomination from proceeding to confirmation. The Gorsuch hearing is irrelevant. He needs to be blocked out of concern for our national security and sovereignty.
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Opinion: Swindler Trump Is Using the White House to Rip Off Taxpayers
Trump is personally profiting from every golf excursion, every luncheon date and his family’s business trips. Americans are pouring their tax dollars directly into the Trump organization.
Opinion: Trump’s Moronic Lies – Germany Doesn’t Owe America Vast Sums of Money
“[Trump] keeps saying that ‘we’ need to be paid by the Europeans for the fact that we have troops in Europe or provide defense there. But that’s not how it works.”
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The Trump/Russia Hearing Puts An End To The Allegation That Clinton Ran A Terrible Campaign
Pundits and strategists who keep blaming Hillary Clinton for losing while ignoring the impact of Russian interference display a willful blindness that can only be accounted for by a particularly strong emotional bias teetering on hysteria.
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Opinion: Trump Aids Big Pharma To Continue “Getting Away With Murder”
In what turns out to be yet another blatant Trump lie, when he promised to take decisive action to reduce the rising cost of medicine, and stop pharmaceutical corporations from “getting away with murder” with exorbitant and ever-rising drug prices, he didn’t get approval from the big pharmaceutical companies.
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Opinion: American Air Strike On Syrian Mosque Claims 56 Innocent Civilians
Trump promised during the presidential campaign that he would “take out the families” of suspected terrorists. At least 56 and possibly as many as 70” innocent civilian worshippers perished during prayers.
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Opinion: Sick Of Russians, John McCain Says Rand Paul “Now Working For Vladimir Putin”
“You are achieving the objectives of Vladimir Putin…trying to dismember this small country. If they object, they are now carrying out the desires and ambitions of Vladimir Putin.”
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Opinion: Former N.C. Governor McCrory Feels Persecuted For Supporting the Toilet Law
“If you disagree with the politically correct thought police … you’re a bigot, you’re the worst of evil. It’s almost as if I broke a law.”
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Opinion: Trump Administration Email Scandal Involves Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
“Was Rex Tillerson that worried about climate risks for Exxon? Or was he more worried about the risk of revealing them to his shareholders and to the public? Or was it both?”
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Opinion: Trump’s Liars Club Is Expanding At Breakneck Pace
The lies surrounding another Trump actor, Mike Pence, extend beyond the White House and are being embraced by the Turkish man who paid Lt. Gen. Flynn to work for the Turkish government.
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Opinion: Florida Supreme Court Rules “Open Carry” is Not Protected By 2nd Amendment
The Florida High Court’s Justices ruled that the Second Amendment does not protect that ridiculous “open carry” practice and it was another setback for the NRA’s attempts to force the nation’s courts to abolish any and all firearm restrictions as unconstitutional.
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Opinion: Social Security Cuts Are On Trump’s Table Despite Campaign Pledge
“There are ways that we can not only allow the president to keep his promise, but to help him keep his promise by fixing (cutting) some of these programs.”
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Opinion: Calls For Liberal Genocide and Deporting Jews Are Part of the Trump Effect
The Democratic Party is the socialist party because they are anti-Americans, they’re not pro-Americans. They’re liars and misleaders, and we need to wipe them out.
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Opinion: Trump’s OMB Cuts Coast Guard and Airport Security To Fund Mexico Border Wall
Who needs counter-terrorism patrols and national security efforts to keep out terrorists when there is a desert wall to keep migrant workers from planting and harvesting fields.
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Opinion: Trump Lies and a Russian Profits As Keystone XL Will Not Use American Steel
A Russian oligarch’s company actively lobbied against provisions which mandated that Keystone XL’s steel be made in the U.S. so Trump elimination the provisions.
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Opinion: Yes, Foreigners Will Profit From Trump’s Infrastructure Plan
Besides billions of dollars in checks to foreigners investing in ‘approved’ projects they will own, Trump’s plan calls for taxpayers to pay tolls.
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Opinion: Sikh Man Shot by Masked White Man Told To “Go Back To Your Country”
“There is a kind of hysteria spreading that is not good. Such hatred is not good for people. Something has changed in the United States.”
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Opinion: Kansas’ Brownback Slammed by Supreme Court a Third Time For Underfunding Schools
It seems completely illogical that the state can argue that a reduction in education funding was necessitated by the downturn in the economy and the state’s diminishing resources and at the same time cut taxes further.
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The Republican Party Must Find Its Moral Center Or Face Its Demise
The Party of Abraham Lincoln is no more and the Trump Russia scandal may not only destroy Donald Trump’s presidency but the entire party.
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Editorial Cartoon: Trumpie Bird
Get everyone talking about ‘wiretapping’ and NOT about the Trump/Putin election hacking.
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Opinion: GOP Senator Threatens Constituent With Arrest For Requesting a Town Hall
Republicans are terrified of the people they are elected to serve; not intimidate or threaten them with arrest for calling or visiting their senator’s office.
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Opinion: Donald Trump’s Cabinet Is a Veritable Liars Club
18 U.S. Code § 1621: Anyone, after having taken an oath, who willfully lies is guilty of perjury and shall be fined or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.
Sessions’ Sermon On the Dangers of Legal Marijuana Is a Pack of Lies
Jeff Sessions told so many lies about non-existent dangers associated with legal recreational marijuana that it likely made his audience’s heads spin.
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Opinion: Fake Liberal Ed Schultz Pimps For Trump at CPAC
Dems ought to be focused on saving healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Instead, they’re chasing down scandals or they’re making them up.
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Opinion: Bannon-Trump Are Taking America From the People
Bannon is a “dangerous person driven by an authoritarian ideology. This is a mean, vicious, intolerant group. I’ve never seen anything like this.”
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Opinion: Trump’s Deportation War Will Cost the Economy Trillions of Dollars
Undocumented workers contribute 3 percent of GDP, or nearly $5 trillion in economic growth” that will vanish with Trump’s “military action” against Mexican workers.
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Editorial Cartoon – Faux News
Lies upon lies upon lies.
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Opinion: Pope Francis Warns There is No Heaven for ‘Bad Hypocritical Christians’
The Pope wasted little time lashing out at fake Christians whom he said would be better off being a non-believer, an atheist, than a “bad Christian.”
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Opinion: Trump Unleashes Hell By Rescinding Transgender Kids’ Protection
By following evangelical preachers’ edict to legalize discrimination against school-age children, Trump unleashed his theocrats and set a dangerous precedent.
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Opinion: Republican Judge Offers To Help Congress Impeach Trump
Ohio Republican Judge: “We can’t let him get away with the ‘dozens of dazzlingly illegal things Trump has already done… because America is at stake.”
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Opinion: Three White Terrorist Arrests In One Week – Where’s Trump Outrage?
The response from the Trump administration to the dangers from homegrown white terrorists, or the arrest of three in one week, is non-existent.
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Opinion: Evangelical Blueprint To “Restore” God in Schools Handed To Trump and DeVos
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* One of the downsides of investigating, observing, and opining on the state of American politics is the relatively rare case of uncontrollable rage; not at what’s happening, but that it is happening precisely as no small number of opinion columnists and commentators warned incessantly it would….
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Opinion: Trump’s Trade Policies Are Already Hurting Texas Ranchers
Trump represents a risk to international economic conditions, and U.S. policy predictability has diminished raising the prospect of sudden changes with potential global implications.
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Opinion: Trump Lie Exposed With Proof He Is Indebted To Russian Mobsters
Converting Russian mobsters’ stolen cash from overseas into Trump’s properties in the U.S. was a dirty win for both the criminal Russians and the criminal Trump.
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Opinion: Republicans Grant Men, Even Rapists, Purview Over Women’s Bodies
“There is zero part of me that understands why a rapist or someone who got someone pregnant against their will, maybe incest, would have any right in that decision.”
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Opinion: Republicans Are Colluding With Trump To Conceal His Corruption
Republicans know what collusion means, but they must consider Donald Trump much more than a family member because they conspired to help him conceal his corruption by aiding his attempt at keeping his tax returns out of the public’s eye.
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Opinion: Flynn Must Face Prison And Trump Impeached For Ignoring His Crimes
Trump might not have ‘pushed’ Flynn out had the situation not attracted such attention from the media and an alert of a coming article about the matter.
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Opinion: If Intelligence Community Can’t Trust White House, America Is in Distress
It is beyond comprehension that the intelligence community would ever distrust the White House to the extent that it withholds critical intelligence.
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Opinion: Democrat Invokes 1924 Law To Force Release Of Trump’s Tax Returns
This isn’t for Democrats or Republicans, and it’s not to embarrass anybody. This is to make sure the American people know if there are conflicts.
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Opinion: Violence Against “The Other” Is What Trump’s America Looks Like
As four men approached their lone victim, Trump’s acolytes shouted, “Hey snowflake! This is what a Trump America looks like, fag*ot!”
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Opinion: Trump’s Rhetoric Implies the U.S. Constitution is Disgraceful
Trump is really calling the checks and balances and separation of powers in the Constitution “disgraceful” because he refuses to accept they apply to him.
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Opinion: One Politician Shows How To Handle The Threats Of Blowhard Bully Trump
Trump blithely talked about destroying the career of a man who disagreed with Trump on a policy issue and Senator Leach is mad as hell about it.
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Opinion: Trump’s Domestic Religious Crusade Has Begun in Earnest
The deliberate omission of white extremist attacks is necessary for Trump to convince Americans that the only one thing they have to fear is Islam.
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Editorial: Republicans Use Shame As A Weapon To Silence Elizabeth Warren
When Republicans voted to silence Senator Elizabeth Warren Tuesday night on the Senate floor, they justified it by using shame. This matters because this is how Republicans silenced dissent under George W. Bush, and way too many liberals and Democrats fell for it then.
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Opinion: Trump Is Attempting to Delegitimize Barriers To His Tyranny
Trump spends no small amount of time casting aspersion on the judiciary, the press, and the intelligence community; because they do their jobs.
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Opinion: Trump’s Crazy Chaos Is a Distraction From GOP Atrocities
Ryan isn’t bothered with Trump’s atrocities. He is thriving on Trump’s chaos to “slip in his own deplorable but more mundane agenda” without anyone noticing.
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Opinion: Mass State Department Exodus Is a Really Bad Sign
“You don’t run foreign policy by making statements, you run it with thousands of people working to implement programs every day. To undercut that is to undercut the institution.”
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Opinion: Lock Him Up – Virginia Seeks Contempt of Court Charge Against Trump
“When federal judges rule, government officials – up to and including the president – are supposed to obey or risk being held in contempt of court.”
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Opinion: Muslim Ban Protecting Trump Profits Is Impeachable Offense
Three Muslim nations Trump exempted from his ban on Muslims have Americans’ blood on their hands but he profits by protecting the terrorists.
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Opinion: California Threatens Retribution Against Bully Trump Over Immigration Ban
“California could very well become an organized non-payer. They could recommend non-compliance with the federal tax code.”
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Opinion: Pope Francis Called it: Trump and His Supporters Are Un-Christian Hypocrites
Pope Francis said “It’s hypocrisy [and un-Christian] to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or toss out someone who is in need of help.”
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Opinion: Trump Creates a Constitutional Crisis With Muslim Ban
Trump’s order includes the flagrantly unconstitutional detention of perfectly legal immigrants whose only crime is their national origin and religion.
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Opinion: The Opinion of Leading Psychologists Is That Trump Is Mentally Deranged
Trump’s narcissistic mental defect puts him in the same category as infamous tyrannical dictators like Muammar Gaddafi, Adolf Hitler, and Saddam Hussein.
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Opinion: Ben Carson Reveals Why Trump Republicans Hate the American People
Carson can’t possibly imagine why President Obama would think of doing “something of that nature,” something like helping Americans at not cost to anyone.
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Opinion: Trump Makes It Clear After Taking Office That America Is Under a Fascist Regime
Fascism was what Trump was selling throughout the presidential campaign and is implementing now according his plan to “make America great.”
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Trump’s Illegal Voting Lie Is Part of Larger Republican Attack On Democracy
There was a good reason Trump admitted being 3-million votes less “popular” than Hillary Clinton; it fostered his other dangerous lie to kill democracy.
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Trusted Trump Advisor Demands Federal Workers Who Voted For Clinton Be Fired
“Those bureaucrats overwhelmingly voted for Clinton. There won’t be any real cooperation until we change federal law so we can fire them.”
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‘Women’s Protest’ Sent Trump Republicans A Powerful Frightening Message
The diverse protesters said that what is about to happen to any American at the hands of Trump Republicans “should never happen to anyone.”
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Warning!! – A Petulant Child Is Loose In the Oval Office
Trump spent his first full day on the job complaining that he is not getting the human-turned-god treatment he feels he deserves like he gets at home.
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Trump Needs To Learn How To Be and Act Like an American
Only an un-American can find no redeeming value in anything about the United States of America; as if he is a hostile foreigner or enemy of the state.
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The Women’s March Isn’t The “New Tea Party” It’s the Democratic Party Getting Loud
The media has dubbed the Trump protests as the “New Tea Party”. But this is mainstream America. This is not an extremist faction of the Democratic Party. And therein lies the huge difference between this movement and the Tea Party.
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America’s Dismantling Begins According to the Trump Heritage Blueprint
All of Trump’s proposed cuts, privatization, eliminations, and subsequent job losses “hew closely to a Heritage Foundation blueprint published earlier in the year.”
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Jeff Sessions Believes the First Amendment Separation Clause Is Unconstitutional
Jefferson stating separation of church and state is contained within the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment is “unhistorical” according to Sessions.
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Despite Pledge Trump Is Expanding His Business Interests Internationally
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Once upon a time in America, there used to be an unwritten rule that no-one is above the law, but that rule is fundamentally lost on the rich, the connected, and the politically powerful. It is certainly lost on Donald Trump because it appears there is…
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Obama Gave The US the Greatest Gift and It’s One We’re Going To Need Now
Trump will destroy many things, but he won’t destroy the memory of a great president or the wake of hope Obama left behind him.
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Corrupt Tom DeLay Calls President Obama a “Professional Racist”
“When is he [President Obama] going away? My goodness gracious. This is just unbelievable, but you know, he’s never gotten over his racism.”
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Trump Education Pick Will Inflict Generational Damage on America
DeVos has an appalling record on civil rights, no experience in or around public schools, and is intent on dismantling the American education system.
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Trump Shames America As Human Rights Group Labels US a Global Threat
Due to the rise of Donald Trump et al, Human Rights Watch declared that the United States is now a global threat to human rights.
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Editorial Cartoon – Trumpocchio
Golden showers bring Trump glowers…
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Republicans Join Trump’s March to Silence US Dissent
“House Republicans’ agenda is clear: intimidate and silence anyone who would raise questions about the President-elect’s vast conflicts of interest.”
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Cruel Republicans Vote To Strip Healthcare From 6 Vulnerable Groups
Republicans blocked amendments that would protect the “most popular and effective provisions” of the ACA, including some with no fiscal impact.
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Trump Packed His Press Conference With Paid Staff To Assail the Media
Trump turned a news conference into an anti-media circus event like he is still entertaining his sycophants at campaign rallies.
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Opinion: Democrats Are Too Nice When Dealing with Racist Republican Jeff Sessions
Democrats are wasting air time playing Nice Guys and praising Sen Jeff Sessions, which is typical Senate behavior and typical of Democrats, for whom reaching across the aisle is a value.
But those times are gone, and they are dealing with a dangerous racist who has been nominated to be the Attorney General.
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President Obama Puts Another Nail In Big Oil’s Atlantic Ocean Oil Coffin
By rejecting “dangerous seismic airgun blasting,” Obama ensured “East Coast communities can finally take a well-deserved sigh of relief.”
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Trump’s Nominees Are Set For Confirmation Without Proper Vetting
The head of the Office of Government Ethics called “The announced hearing schedule for several [Trump] nominees “of great concern.”
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Trump Calls On Congress to Investigate NBC for Reporting Russian Attack
Of all issues implicated by Russian spy measures, Trump’s top priority for intel committees is a congressional investigation into NBC.
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Editorial Cartoon: American Voodoo
Health insurance is not for the ‘little people’…
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Trump Trusts Russian Operative Assange but Not America’s Intelligence Community
In the continuing saga surrounding the overarching question of whether or not Donald J. Trump is really an American, or a Russian operative, it is getting a little clearer that defector Donald is intricately aligned with Russia and its interests; he has shown absolutely no allegiance to America, its people, or its security interests.
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Preview of Trump’s Presidency Unfolding as Israeli Netanyahu Faces Criminal Investigation
Suspected of receiving illicit gifts and favors from foreign and domestic business executives, Netanyahu was questioned by police “under caution.”
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Wall Street Journal Enables Trump Dishonesty by Not Calling His Lies “Lies”
“I’d be careful about using the word ‘lie.’ ‘Lie’ implies much more than just saying something that’s false. It implies a deliberate intent to mislead.”
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Leading GOP Strategist Labels Trump and His Supporters Traitors
“What’s closer to treason? Political opposition to a candidate, or siding with a hostile foreign power in the Intel war?”
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Under Republican Rule North Carolina Is Not Classified As a Democracy
North Carolina does so poorly on the measures of legal framework and voter registration that it ranks alongside Iran and is not classified as a democracy.
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President Obama Dismantled Program Trump Intended to Use as Muslim Registry
President Obama took the plan out of commission and described it “not only as out-of-date but also an inefficient waste of resources.”