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Trump rewrites the First Amendment
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 30 Comments • 5 Likes • 5 years ago
“Trump threatens YouTube with regulation for banning fascists. But the coal industry can do whatever it wants.”
You might have seen the story out of Coal Grove, Ohio, last week where the tap water turned bright purple. It’s not as big a deal as it sounds, though. A malfunctioning water treatment valve caused a substance called sodium permanganate to be released into the system, creating the temporarily...
Trump defends Mexico migration deal and pledges more detail
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Top Democratic senators said many aspects of the deal were not new, while the Mexican ambassador to the United States declined to confirm whether...”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump defended his administration’s deal with Mexico against criticism that there were no major new commitments to stem a flow of Central American migrants crossing into the United States, and said on Sunday more details would soon be released. Key...
GOP Seeks to Destroy First Amendment and Democracy Itself
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 17 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“As Don Draper, the central character of AMC’s hit show Mad Men, likes to say, “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” For...”
The GOP will fight to the death for the Second Amendment, allowing anybody to buy and possess deadly weapons. This uncritical advocacy has, of course, resulted in a string of mass shootings in the United States, costing many American lives. When it comes to the First Amendment, however, the GOP...
Fox News Is Now Inventing Fake Mueller Quotes To Try To Save Trump
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 3 Likes • 5 years ago
“It is an endless drumbeat of lies and propaganda, all designed to save Donald Trump.”
Fox News is now inventing fake quotes that are the opposite what Mueller said in a desperate bid to save sinking Trump. Fox claimed, “Mueller came out with this letter, and he says, charging the president with a crime is not an option we considered. He also said he had confidence that the...
Rachel Maddow: Missouri GOP Now Forcing Women To Have ‘Medically Unnecessary’ Pelvic Exams
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 68 Comments • 1 Like • 5 years ago • LOCKED
“Rachel Maddow reveals the GOP's despicable new attack on women”
Rachel Maddow revealed on Thursday that the Republican-led government in Missouri is now forcing the last abortion clinic in the state to conduct mandatory and medically unnecessary pelvic exams before allowing women to have an abortion. According to the MSNBC host, “As of last week, every...
A Side-by-Side Comparison of Barr’s vs. Mueller’s Statements about Special Counsel Report
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Wednesday marks one week since Robert Mueller broke his silence and made a formal statement on the special counsel’s report on the 2016 Russian...”
What Christianity Teaches about Politics
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Michael Matheson Miller has written a perceptive article in Law & Liberty entitled Five Insights Christianity Brings to Politics. ”
We have been discussing different political ideologies, including debates between Christians. It’s worth asking now, what do the various Christian perspectives on politics–no matter where they fall on the ideological spectrum–have in common? That is, what are the specific political...
U.S. global abortion policy causing deaths, researchers say
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Initially started in 1984, the gag rule policy has been imposed by Republican presidents like Trump and revoked by Democratic presidents”
VANVOUVER, Canada (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A U.S. policy banning government-funded aid groups from discussing abortion around the world has led to deaths from botched procedures and cut care to HIV-infected orphans and other children, researchers said on Wednesday. Non-governmental...
Fox News Claims British Trump Protesters Are Really Pro-Trump
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Fox News is telling their viewers that anti-Trump British protests have people in them who are really pro-Trump”
Fox and Friends sold the myth that there is no way of knowing how many pro-Trump people are at the protests: Fox & Friends continues to insist that Trump has popular support in the UK: "As Kevin Corke accurately pointed out a little while ago, 250,000, it...
FEC Hits Trump With 233 Pages Of Prohibited Contributions
Via: Don Overton • News & Politics • 0 Comments • 5 years ago
“Trump is doing his best Nixon slush fund impression as the FEC has hit the president with 233 pages of campaign contributions that are prohibited,...”
The FEC notified Trump that, “An individual or a political committee other than an authorized committee or qualified multi-candidate committee may not make a contribution(s) to a candidate for federal office in excess of $2,800 per election. An authorized committee may not make a contribution(s)...