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San Francisco: Poster-Child For The Failure Of U.S. Cities' Blue Model

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 8 years ago

Blue-Model Fail: By any standard, San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. So why has it suddenly become an unappealing place to visit and to live? As with so many U.S....

Seinfeld & Galifianakis Agree on 'Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee:' 'Nothing Liberal About Shutting Someone Up'

Via: 96ws6 • News & Politics • 2 Comments • 8 years ago

Jerry: It's so weird that colleges have become these places where, of restricted though, as opposed to thought freedom.Zach: Well, there's nothing liberal about shutting someone up. Jerry: The...

Dershowitz Says That The Supreme Court Could Overturn A Trump Impeachment

Via: johnrussell • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 8 years ago

Alan Dershowitz in a new book says that in the event President Trump is ever impeached, the Supreme Court could intervene and overturn the vote to remove him from office. Dershowitz pens...

Is Trump The Most Fucked Up President Ever?

By: johnrussell • News & Politics • 232 Comments • 8 years ago

Trump ’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why … Trump lies and lies and lies again - The Washington Post The Time Donald Trump 's Ex-Wife Accused Him of Rape…...

IN NEWLY OBTAINED MEMO, CONGRESS’S TOP COP SAID HOUSE DEMOCRATIC CAUCUS SERVER VANISHED

Via: norman-d • News & Politics • 57 Comments • 8 years ago

With all their info. And was replaced with a fake.....Imagine that. A secret memo marked “URGENT” detailed how the House Democratic Caucus’s server went “missing” soon after it became...

Trump? Eisenhower? When was the best economy?

Via: galen-marvin-ross • News & Politics • 99 Comments • 8 years ago

Trump says "We have the greatest economy ever" under him, I think history would disagree. President Donald Trump has plenty of room to brag about the American economy. Calling it the “greatest” on...

China Claims to Have a Real-Deal Laser Gun That Inflicts 'Instant Carbonization' of Human Skin

Via: hal-a-lujah • News & Politics • 47 Comments • 8 years ago

Source As the U.S. prepares for war in space, China’s bringing the space war home. Its ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is reportedly capable of hitting a target from a kilometer away, igniting...

North Korea Accuses U.S. Of Betraying The Spirit Of The Recent Summit, Says Current Pompeo Visit Is "Regrettable"

Via: johnrussell • News & Politics • 126 Comments • 8 years ago

http://thehill.com/policy/international/395925-north-korea-says-talks-with-pompeo-regrettable-report North Korea is reportedly criticizing talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ,...

Major Chicago Roadway Shut Down By Anti-Gun Violence Protesters

By: johnrussell • News & Politics • 68 Comments • 8 years ago

The 7 northbound lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway, the major highway within the city which takes people from the south of the city toward city neighborhoods and the downtown area have been...

A Radical Proposal To Unite The Country

By: docphil • News & Politics • 194 Comments • 8 years ago

I wrote an article recently about civility in politics. There were significant questions about how we might go about re-establishing some sort of civility. Since I wrote that article, the SCOTUS...

Rumors, Clues, Point To Brett Kavanaugh As Supreme Court Nominee

By: johnrussell • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 8 years ago

Rumors and a couple possibly strong clues point to Judge Brett Kavanaugh being nominated tonight for the vacant seat on the Supreme Court. The federal District Court that Kavanaugh currently sits...

How the trade war is changing minds in a Senate battleground

Via: krishna • News & Politics • 27 Comments • 8 years ago

FILE - In this May 29, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., speaks at a rally in Nashville, Tenn. The trade tension has re-shaped the race to...

Trump’s Personal Driver for 25 Years Sues for Unpaid Overtime

Via: hal-a-lujah • News & Politics • 9 Comments • 8 years ago

Source Donald Trump’s personal driver for more than 25 years says the billionaire real estate developer didn’t pay him overtime and raised his salary twice in 15 years, clawing back the second...

Ivanka Trump's Chinese-Made Products Spared From Tariffs

By: docphil • News & Politics • 7 Comments • 8 years ago

Ivanka Trump's Chinese-made products spared from tariffsMary Papenfuss Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods won’t touch Ivanka Trump’s foreign-made products for her fashion line.While Trump...

Trump, the Founders, and Independence Day

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 12 Comments • 8 years ago

Independence Day is, or should be, a time to reflect on the great gifts bequeathed to us by the American founders, and to judge ourselves by their standards. How well are we maintaining the...

What do Americans really think about the Roe v Wade decision?

By: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 592 Comments • 8 years ago

The activist court responsible for the decision For the purpose of this discussion I am using the Pew Research Poll released in January 2013 (Roe's 40th anniversary). That Poll provides an...

Trump Voters Stand by Their Man as He Wrecks Their Jobs

Via: marshall-james • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 8 years ago

His supporters were so enamored with him, then-candidate Donald Trump claimed in January 2016, that "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."...

Mexican Town of 20,000 kicks out Government, all politicians and Cartel in 2011 to ensure the safety of it's citizens.

By: badfish-hd-h-u • News & Politics • 13 Comments • 8 years ago

Amazing story!

More Ohio State wrestlers say Rep. Jim Jordan knew of sexual abuse

Via: pj • News & Politics • 45 Comments • 8 years ago

Corky Siemaszko 3 hrs agoMore former Ohio State University wrestlers have come forward to contradict Rep. Jim Jordan's claim that he had no idea the wrestling team doctor was molesting athletes....

Immigrant "shocked" to be abruptly kicked out of the military

Via: pj • News & Politics • 41 Comments • 8 years ago

Jericka Duncan 1 hr agoNEW YORK -- For more than a decade, the U.S. has offered immigrants who join the military a fast track to citizenship. But now, some immigrant recruits and reservists say...

The Rude Pundit: Our Deeply Perverse President Won't Shut the Fuck Up

Via: hal-a-lujah • News & Politics • 157 Comments • 8 years ago

Source One of the weirdest moments from last night's campaign rally for some fuckin' asshole GOP senate candidate in Great Falls, Montana (motto: "We hate those Mexicans so much even though...

Trump is Winning Over Blacks, Hispanics, Millennials, and Even Gays

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 34 Comments • 8 years ago

Democrat hate speech targeting deplorables has always worked -- on their own voters. Libeling Republicans as racist, homophobic morons has kept Democrat voters in line. President Trump...

Republicans on Russia trip face scorn and ridicule from critics at home

Via: pj • News & Politics • 27 Comments • 8 years ago

Karoun Demirjian 1 hr ago Republican lawmakers who went to Russia seeking a thaw in relations received an icy reception from Democrats and Kremlin watchers for spending the Fourth of July in a...

Red Hen Shut for 10 days; Owner loses seat on area board

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 228 Comments • 8 years ago

The Lexington, Virginia restaurant that kicked White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders and her family out has shut its doors for an extended period and the owner is no longer the Executive...

There’s a crazy plan to tow an iceberg from Antarctica to fix Cape Town’s water crisis

Via: freefaller • News & Politics • 5 Comments • 8 years ago

An improbable idea is being floated to solve Cape Town’s water crisis: towing an iceberg from Antarctica over 2,000 kilometers to the South African city. For much of the past year, Day Zero—when...

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