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President Trump Says Disabled People Competing In Sporting Events Is "Tough To Watch"

Via: johnrussell • News & Politics • 95 Comments • 8 years ago

Steve Silberman ‏ Verified account @ stevesilberman Follow Follow @ stevesilberman More Trump, who openly mocked a disabled reporter during his campaign,...

Chicago aldermen voted Monday to scale back a recently enacted ban on civilians wearing body armor.

Via: badfish-h-s-fsh • News & Politics • 11 Comments • 8 years ago

Chicago aldermen voted Monday to scale back a recently enacted ban on civilians wearing body armor. The proposed changes would allow journalists to wear body armor, such as bulletproof vests,...

A White House Indignant at Receiving What It Metes Out

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

A White House Indignant at Receiving What It Metes Out updated at 09:23 by David Frum via Master Feed : The Atlantic “Women attacking conservative...

Indiana High School Student Is Suspended For Singing National Anthem…And Local Residents Are Furious

Via: jasper2529 • News & Politics • 157 Comments • 8 years ago

A high school student from Homestead High School received a three-day detention for singing the national anthem in the school’s cafeteria, and now, an online petition to protest the school’s...

'Can We Stop Being Such Jerks?': Ex-Clinton Staffer's Warning to Fellow Liberals

Via: jasper2529 • News & Politics • 157 Comments • 8 years ago

Former Clinton staffer Annafi Wahed joined "Fox & Friends" to discuss her recent op-ed in which she argues that her fellow liberals have become "arrogant" in political discourse. Wahed...

Revolution and Worse to Come

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 3 Comments • 8 years ago

When legal bloodhounds and baying critics fail to take out Trump, what’s next? The Resistance wants Trump’s head — on the chopping block. On the domestic and foreign fronts, the Trump...

Where Are The Vetters? One Fool After Another Gets Nominated.

By: docphil • News & Politics • 71 Comments • 8 years ago

Has anyone in this white house ever heard of the word "vetting"? As we collect facts about the potential and proven scandals in the Trump White House, there are a couple of things that stand out...

Trump's Role in Midterm Elections Roils Republicans

Via: docphil • News & Politics • 53 Comments • 8 years ago

I came across this article on the MSN politics page. If nothing else it demonstrates the internal angst and chaos that the Republican Party is having with their own president. This article really...

Judges for the #Resistance

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 44 Comments • 8 years ago

There is a lawlessness rampant in the land, but it isn’t emanating from the Trump administration. The source is the federal judges who are making a mockery of their profession by twisting the...

DNC Unknowingly Suicides with Trump Suit, Opens Door for Trump to Depose Hillary

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 171 Comments • 8 years ago

Democrats, be careful what you wish for. When the news broke Friday that the Democrat National Committee had filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump campaign for literally helping its...

Melania Shows Incredible Class, Invites Special Guests to Bush Funeral

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 143 Comments • 8 years ago

First lady Melania Trump is showing her class again. This time, it’s evident in who she invited to the funeral of one of her predecessors, former first lady Barbara Bush. According to The Hill,...

Bill Cosby found guilty of drugging, molesting woman

Via: badfish-h-s-fsh • News & Politics • 101 Comments • 8 years ago

NORRISTOWN, Pa. — Nearly 14 years after Bill Cosby drugged and molested a woman 30 years his junior, a jury found him guilty Thursday of all charges in his sex assault retrial. The...

ICE held an American man in custody for 1,273 days. He's not the only one who had to prove his citizenship

Via: galen-marvin-ross • News & Politics • 21 Comments • 8 years ago

Immigration officers in the United States operate under a cardinal rule: Keep your hands off Americans. But Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents repeatedly target U.S. citizens for...

Trump's 'Fox & Friends' call-in was bizarre, and here's why that matters

Via: johnrussell • News & Politics • 107 Comments • 8 years ago

For all of his tweets and the news they generate, we don’t actually hear from President Donald Trump in an interview setting all that much. But we did Thursday morning, when he called in to...

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE APPLAUDS END OF ‘SECRET SCIENCE’ AT EPA

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 14 Comments • 8 years ago

“Another week at the EPA, another victory for transparency by Scott Pruitt. For decades, the EPA has improperly claimed massive power to regulate nearly every aspect of our economy and lives. It...

New York Gov. Cuomo sends ICE cease-and-desist letter, calls arrests ‘illegal’

Via: spikegary • News & Politics • 48 Comments • 8 years ago

Source New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D) issued a cease-and-desist letter to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Wednesday, accusing the agency of making illegal arrests and describing...

Americans Are Migrating In Droves To Low-Tax States

Via: heartland-american • News & Politics • 23 Comments • 8 years ago

Fiscal Policy: There has been a vast, largely unheralded migration in the U.S. over the past decade. Not because of weather, or amenities. But because of taxes. Recently, Wallet Hub published a...

Is Justice About To Be Served For Democrat Crimes?

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

It is the most delicious service of justice ever seen, that the Democrat crimes committed with the intent to unseat Donald Trump are unraveling and ricocheting back at the perpetrators in our...

Man Identifying as Squirrel Elected to University of California, Berkeley Student Senate

Via: badfish-h-s-fsh • News & Politics • 8 Comments • 8 years ago

Just how nutty is the University of California, Berkeley? A guy identifying as a squirrel has been elected to the student Senate: The candidate for a seat in the UC Berkeley student...

Trump's Role in Midterm Election Roils Republicans

Via: docphil • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 8 years ago

I came across this article today and found it to be very interesting. If anything, it demonstrates clearly the angst and discord in the Republican party leading into the 2018 midterms. Trump’s...

Creationism Bill Dies in Alabama

Via: dignitatem-societatis • News & Politics • 15 Comments • 8 years ago

Alabama's House Bill 258 , which would have allowed teachers to present "the theory of creation as presented in the Bible" in any class discussing evolution, "thereby affording students a...

Appeals court overturns ruling against revised Texas voter ID law

Via: vic-eldred • News & Politics • 24 Comments • 8 years ago

A divided federal appeals court panel has thrown out a challenge to a revised voter identification law the state of Texas passed last year after an earlier measure ran into legal trouble. In...

HUD Secretary Ben Carson to propose raising rent for low-income Americans receiving federal housing subsidies

Via: bob-nelson • News & Politics • 101 Comments • 8 years ago

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson testified before a Senate Banking Committee hearing March 22. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary...

House Chaplain Forced Out Because He Criticized GOP Tax Plan

Via: johnrussell • News & Politics • 36 Comments • 8 years ago

For Paul Ryan, Money Trumps God There is a huge hullabaloo brewing on Capitol Hill over the resignation of the House chaplain, Father Pat Conroy, who claimed he was forced to resign...

Russian Lawyer Who Met With Trump Campaign Honchos To Offer Dirt On Hillary Admits She Has Ties To Russian Government