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<p>Facebook has set up a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/the-violent-incident-in-las-vegas-nevada-oct01-2017/" type="external">crisis response page</a> so people who are in Las Vegas can let people know they are safe.</p>
<p>More than 50 people died in the shooting and at least 400 people have been injured in the shooting, according to Las Vegas police. The shooting started around 10:08 p.m. local time.</p>
<p>Those numbers would make this the deadliest mass shooting in United States history.</p>
<p>The suspect has been identified as local man Stephen Paddock, 64. Paddock was shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. Lombardo said the shooter is dead. Police believe Paddock killed himself before law enforcement entered the room, Lombardo said.</p>
<p>People can check in to let Facebook friends now they are in Las Vegas and that they are safe.</p>
<p>Police also advise people to call 1-866-535-5654 to check in on loved ones.</p>
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"<p>Facebook has set up a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/safetycheck/the-violent-incident-in-las-vegas-nevada-oct01-2017/" type="external">crisis response page</a> so people who are in Las Vegas can let people know they are safe.</p>
<p>More than 50 people died in the shooting and at least 400 people have been injured in the shooting, according to Las Vegas police. The shooting started around 10:08 p.m. local time.</p>
<p>Those numbers would make this the deadliest mass shooting in United States history.</p>
<p>The suspect has been identified as local man Stephen Paddock, 64. Paddock was shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay, Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. Lombardo said the shooter is dead. Police believe Paddock killed himself before law enforcement entered the room, Lombardo said.</p>
<p>People can check in to let Facebook friends now they are in Las Vegas and that they are safe.</p>
<p>Police also advise people to call 1-866-535-5654 to check in on loved ones.</p>"
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<p>August 2016 was the warmest August on record for global land/ocean surface combined, according to NOAA. Records go back to 1880.</p>
<p>This is the 16th consecutive month that a new, record high global temperature average has been set.</p>
<p>Fourteen of the fifteen highest monthly global temperature anomalies have occurred since February 2015.</p>
<p>August 2016 averaged 0.92 deg. C above the 20th century average, breaking the old August record of +0.87 just set in August of 2015.</p>
<p>In terms of land surface only, August 2016 averaged 1.29 deg. C. above the 20th century average, breaking the old record of +1.10 deg. C. set in August 2015.</p>
<p>For ocean surface, August 2016 was the 2nd warmest August on record averaging 0.77 deg. C. above the 20th century average. The warmest August on record occurred last year (+0.79).</p>
<p>For the record, the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) was neutral for the month of August. Weak La Nina or neutral conditions are predicted for the remainder of this year.</p>
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<p>Warmest June-August period on record</p>
<p>The June-August 2016 period was the warmest such period on record, according to <a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201608" type="external">NOAA.</a></p>
<p>June-August 2016 averaged 0.89 deg. C. above the 20th century average, beating out the record of +0.85 set in 2015.</p>
<p>The 10 highest three-month global temperature departures in the record have all occurred since August-October 2015.</p>
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<p>Warmest January-August period on record globally</p>
<p>The January-August 2016 period was the warmest such period on record, according to NOAA.</p>
<p>So far this year, the average temperature anomaly was +1.01 deg. C., which easily beat out the previous record of +0.85 set last year.</p>
<p>Based on these numbers I conclude that 2016 will easily end up as the warmest year on record globally.</p>
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<p>All images courtesy of NOAA.</p> The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. or AccuWeather.com
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"<p>August 2016 was the warmest August on record for global land/ocean surface combined, according to NOAA. Records go back to 1880.</p>
<p>This is the 16th consecutive month that a new, record high global temperature average has been set.</p>
<p>Fourteen of the fifteen highest monthly global temperature anomalies have occurred since February 2015.</p>
<p>August 2016 averaged 0.92 deg. C above the 20th century average, breaking the old August record of +0.87 just set in August of 2015.</p>
<p>In terms of land surface only, August 2016 averaged 1.29 deg. C. above the 20th century average, breaking the old record of +1.10 deg. C. set in August 2015.</p>
<p>For ocean surface, August 2016 was the 2nd warmest August on record averaging 0.77 deg. C. above the 20th century average. The warmest August on record occurred last year (+0.79).</p>
<p>For the record, the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) was neutral for the month of August. Weak La Nina or neutral conditions are predicted for the remainder of this year.</p>
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<p>Warmest June-August period on record</p>
<p>The June-August 2016 period was the warmest such period on record, according to <a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/201608" type="external">NOAA.</a></p>
<p>June-August 2016 averaged 0.89 deg. C. above the 20th century average, beating out the record of +0.85 set in 2015.</p>
<p>The 10 highest three-month global temperature departures in the record have all occurred since August-October 2015.</p>
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<p>Warmest January-August period on record globally</p>
<p>The January-August 2016 period was the warmest such period on record, according to NOAA.</p>
<p>So far this year, the average temperature anomaly was +1.01 deg. C., which easily beat out the previous record of +0.85 set last year.</p>
<p>Based on these numbers I conclude that 2016 will easily end up as the warmest year on record globally.</p>
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<p>All images courtesy of NOAA.</p> The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily those of AccuWeather, Inc. or AccuWeather.com"
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<p>The tropical storm that hit the southern <a type="internal">Philippines</a> on Friday and Saturday has left at least 200 people dead and many homeless.</p>
<p>The island of Mindanao was the worst hit. The local administration there has been criticised for not doing enough to help.</p>
<p>A survivor from Tubod town, where an entire neighbourhood was destroyed, told Al Jazeera that they have ‘never experienced a flood like it'.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Tubod Town, Southern Philippines.</p>
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"<p>The tropical storm that hit the southern <a type="internal">Philippines</a> on Friday and Saturday has left at least 200 people dead and many homeless.</p>
<p>The island of Mindanao was the worst hit. The local administration there has been criticised for not doing enough to help.</p>
<p>A survivor from Tubod town, where an entire neighbourhood was destroyed, told Al Jazeera that they have ‘never experienced a flood like it'.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Tubod Town, Southern Philippines.</p>"
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<p>A <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/foon-rhee/article189993839.html" type="external">recent Sacramento Bee commentary</a>by another anti-Trump ankle biter (“Horrified by Trump? Just tell yourself it could be worse,” by Foon Rhee) talked about how horrified he was by President Trump. How Trump’s belittled our allies, demonized immigrants and endangered the environment — the usual mind vomit leftists spew forth on a daily basis.</p>
<p>He talked about Russian collusion, which after 11 months and nearly $7 million has yielded no evidence whatsoever, and how Trump is undermining America by deregulating the EPA and repealing Obama’s health care debacle, which is true since Trump is trying to improve both fiascos.</p>
<p>The writer then goes on to say that as horrible as Trump is, it could be worse. That is also true, especially if Hillary had been elected. She would not only have increased the growing malignancy of a liberal ideology that has made a mockery of the presidency, the IRS, the FBI, the DOJ and the media, but we’d have both Clinton serial women abusers and compulsive liars in the White House.</p>
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"<p>A <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/foon-rhee/article189993839.html" type="external">recent Sacramento Bee commentary</a>by another anti-Trump ankle biter (“Horrified by Trump? Just tell yourself it could be worse,” by Foon Rhee) talked about how horrified he was by President Trump. How Trump’s belittled our allies, demonized immigrants and endangered the environment — the usual mind vomit leftists spew forth on a daily basis.</p>
<p>He talked about Russian collusion, which after 11 months and nearly $7 million has yielded no evidence whatsoever, and how Trump is undermining America by deregulating the EPA and repealing Obama’s health care debacle, which is true since Trump is trying to improve both fiascos.</p>
<p>The writer then goes on to say that as horrible as Trump is, it could be worse. That is also true, especially if Hillary had been elected. She would not only have increased the growing malignancy of a liberal ideology that has made a mockery of the presidency, the IRS, the FBI, the DOJ and the media, but we’d have both Clinton serial women abusers and compulsive liars in the White House.</p>
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<p>With 11 days left in the presidential election, the FBI’s decision to launch another investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24781261.html" type="external">private email system</a> for government business threatens to upend an already volatile race.</p>
<p>At the most, it could turn at least some voters to rival Donald Trump, who has rested much of his pitch on the argument that Clinton is dishonest and who grabbed at the news immediately as a gift to salvage his trailing campaign. With less but still important impact, it could freeze the momentum to Clinton that has helped her pull ahead in past weeks. At a minimum, it could have a nominal effect on an electorate that already had doubts about her honesty, and has already started voting.</p>
<p>FBI Director James Comey set off the late October furor with a letter to Congress on Friday saying the agency was launching another investigation into Clinton’s personal email server after obtaining additional information in an unrelated case Thursday.</p>
<p>“The FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,” Comey wrote in the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/102816_FBI-Letter.pdf" type="external">letter</a>. “I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”</p> Breaking News
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<p>Donald Trump was holding a rally in New Hampshire when news broke that the FBI would review new emails in its investigation of Hillary Clinton. He called the inquiry “bigger than Watergate.”</p>
<p>By McClatchy</p>
<p>Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta called the announcement so late in the campaign “extraordinary” and urged the FBI to release all of the details of what it is examining. “We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July,” Podesta said, referring to the FBI decision earlier not to seek any prosecution of Clinton.</p>
<p>His eagerness to address the matter as fast as possible underscored the mysterious nature of the new investigation and the impact it could have.</p>
<p>Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.</p>
<p>Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta</p>
<p>The news spread quickly, including through the battleground state of North Carolina, one of several where a turn of a few percentage points still could decide the race.</p>
<p>“This is definitely going to influence me,” said Democrat James Smythers, a warehouse manager from Princeton, North Carolina. “I’ll lean to Trump if he makes her pay for what she’s done.”</p>
<q> <p>A great day in our campaign just got even better. FBI reviewing new emails in Clinton probe <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics" type="external">@CNNPolitics</a> <a href="https://t.co/WBltG2lAK6" type="external">https://t.co/WBltG2lAK6</a></p>— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) <a href="https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/792055185950515200" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q>
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<p>“The perception she’s untrustworthy has existed for years,” said Luke Perrin, a North Carolina State University sophomore from Hickory, North Carolina, who’s a Clinton supporter. “This is going to add to that perception.”</p> Related stories from Bradenton Herald
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<p>At a rally featuring Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence in Raleigh, the mood was buoyant among those waiting, but not overwhelmingly so.</p>
<p>“Five days ago I was down in the dumps, reading the polls,” said Republican Suzanne Morse, a retiree from Clayton, North Carolina. “Now I think there’s hope. It may not make a big difference, it may not be in the millions, but every vote counts.”</p>
<p>Even if it doesn’t drive voters to Trump, it could stop any momentum to Clinton.</p>
<p>“Voters who are on the bubble and maybe leaning toward Hillary, this puts the brake on,” said Republican pollster <a href="http://pos.org/about-us/partners-and-vps/neil-newhouse-partner/" type="external">Neil Newhouse</a>.</p>
<p>The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be.</p>
<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus</p>
<p>Clinton, leading in both national polls and battleground-state surveys, had been trying not to cause any waves as the election winds down. She had benefited greatly from bad news about her opponent – multiple women accusing <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article98915057.html" type="external">Trump</a> of sexual assault following the <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article106982327.html" type="external">release of a decade-old video</a> in which he bragged about groping women – and was working to avoid any change in that narrative.</p>
<p>Now Republicans will work hard in the next few days to use the latest development to drive the argument that Clinton is unfit.</p>
<p>“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before,” Trump said Friday in Manchester, New Hampshire, as the crowd broke into chants of “lock her up.” “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”</p>
<q> <p>Clinton email scandal + Anthony Weiner = a volcanic news cycle that will serve as an 11 day negative ad worth millions.</p>— Ron Bonjean (@RonBonjean) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonBonjean/status/792094575577837568" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q>
<p>Trump will have to rely on news media coverage to drive much of that message, having made the tactical decision much earlier not to spend as much time as Clinton did raising money – money he now could use to buy ads on the FBI news.</p>
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<p>New fundraising reports just this week showed Clinton and associated Democratic committees had more than $62 million on hand as of Oct. 20, nearly four times the almost $16 million Trump and Republicans had.</p>
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<p>And he may have a bit of an uphill battle, given how many voters likely have already made up their minds about Clinton – or have already voted.</p>
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<p>“Is it an unfortunate piece of the agenda?” asked Democratic pollster <a href="http://mellmangroup.com/team-member/mark-s-mellman/" type="external">Mark Mellman</a>. “The fact that we’re sitting here 11 days before the election talking about emails again? Yes, but I don’t think it fundamentally alters the race.”</p>
<p>“The truth is this is a story that’s been out there a long time,” he said. “Most people have reached a conclusion on it one way or the other.”</p>
<p>EDITORS: END OPTIONAL TRIM</p>
<q> <p>Both campaigns now agree Director Comey needs to put forward more information about what prompted this letter to GOP chairmen.</p>— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/792102937023619074" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q>
<p>Indeed, voters have already seen thousands of Clinton’s emails released by the State Department and <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article109662932.html" type="external">thousands of her aides’ emails released</a>, some illegally, by news organizations, conservative groups and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.</p>
<p>“Most people have already decided who they’re going to vote for and I don’t think this will influence people who have decided,” said Jacob Trubey, a North Carolina State University freshman from Cary, North Carolina, who is not affiliated with either party.</p>
<p>“I just think it’s going to be salacious for the next 10 days unless there’s some bombshell out there,” said Kim Alfano, a Republican strategist. “I don’t think this will do anything dramatic to the race.”</p>
<p>The Democratic and Republican parties are offering a choice between a candidate under FBI investigation, and Donald Trump. Voters deserve a lot better than that. America deserves better than that.</p>
<p>Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate for president</p>
<p>Another potential mitigating effect: The news comes after millions already have voted.</p>
<p>An estimated <a href="http://www.electproject.org/early_2016" type="external">17.1 million people had voted</a> as of Thursday, and the surge of early voting is giving Clinton <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article110412872.html" type="external">an important boost</a> in swing states.</p>
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<p>Nancy Gray, a retired high school counselor from Monterey Bay, Caliornia., for example, said she’d already voted for Clinton by mail and had tuned out politics until election night.</p>
<p>“I’m not even paying attention, I’m so sick and tired of all the political stuff,” she said.</p>
<p>John Fetterman, mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and a Clinton surrogate who was about to introduce former President Bill Clinton to a crowd in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Friday, said he hadn’t gotten any “panicked calls from the campaign.”</p>
<p>“I don’t know how to quote a shoulder shrug,” Fetterman said of his reaction to the email development. “It’s just kind of a nothing burger. Could it move the needle a couple of points? Possibly. But I don’t think it’s going to be meaningful. I really feel Pennsylvania is comfortably blue.”</p>
<p>Vera Bergengruen and Lesley Clark contributed to this report.</p>
<p>Anita Kumar: <a href="" type="external">202-383-6017</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/anitakumar01" type="external">@anitakumar01</a></p>
<p>David Goldstein: <a href="" type="external">202-383-6105</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/GoldsteinDavidJ" type="external">@GoldsteinDavidJ</a></p>
<p>David Lightman: <a href="" type="external">202-383-6101</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lightmandavid" type="external">@lightmandavid</a></p>
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"<p>With 11 days left in the presidential election, the FBI’s decision to launch another investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article24781261.html" type="external">private email system</a> for government business threatens to upend an already volatile race.</p>
<p>At the most, it could turn at least some voters to rival Donald Trump, who has rested much of his pitch on the argument that Clinton is dishonest and who grabbed at the news immediately as a gift to salvage his trailing campaign. With less but still important impact, it could freeze the momentum to Clinton that has helped her pull ahead in past weeks. At a minimum, it could have a nominal effect on an electorate that already had doubts about her honesty, and has already started voting.</p>
<p>FBI Director James Comey set off the late October furor with a letter to Congress on Friday saying the agency was launching another investigation into Clinton’s personal email server after obtaining additional information in an unrelated case Thursday.</p>
<p>“The FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation,” Comey wrote in the <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/102816_FBI-Letter.pdf" type="external">letter</a>. “I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation.”</p> Breaking News
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<p>Trump on newly discovered Clinton emails: at last justice will be done</p>
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<p>Donald Trump was holding a rally in New Hampshire when news broke that the FBI would review new emails in its investigation of Hillary Clinton. He called the inquiry “bigger than Watergate.”</p>
<p>By McClatchy</p>
<p>Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta called the announcement so late in the campaign “extraordinary” and urged the FBI to release all of the details of what it is examining. “We are confident this will not produce any conclusions different from the one the FBI reached in July,” Podesta said, referring to the FBI decision earlier not to seek any prosecution of Clinton.</p>
<p>His eagerness to address the matter as fast as possible underscored the mysterious nature of the new investigation and the impact it could have.</p>
<p>Donald Trump and his Republican allies have been baselessly second-guessing the FBI and, in both public and private, browbeating the career officials there to revisit their conclusion in a desperate attempt to harm Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.</p>
<p>Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta</p>
<p>The news spread quickly, including through the battleground state of North Carolina, one of several where a turn of a few percentage points still could decide the race.</p>
<p>“This is definitely going to influence me,” said Democrat James Smythers, a warehouse manager from Princeton, North Carolina. “I’ll lean to Trump if he makes her pay for what she’s done.”</p>
<q> <p>A great day in our campaign just got even better. FBI reviewing new emails in Clinton probe <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics" type="external">@CNNPolitics</a> <a href="https://t.co/WBltG2lAK6" type="external">https://t.co/WBltG2lAK6</a></p>— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) <a href="https://twitter.com/KellyannePolls/status/792055185950515200" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q>
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<p>“The perception she’s untrustworthy has existed for years,” said Luke Perrin, a North Carolina State University sophomore from Hickory, North Carolina, who’s a Clinton supporter. “This is going to add to that perception.”</p> Related stories from Bradenton Herald
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<p>At a rally featuring Republican vice-presidential nominee Mike Pence in Raleigh, the mood was buoyant among those waiting, but not overwhelmingly so.</p>
<p>“Five days ago I was down in the dumps, reading the polls,” said Republican Suzanne Morse, a retiree from Clayton, North Carolina. “Now I think there’s hope. It may not make a big difference, it may not be in the millions, but every vote counts.”</p>
<p>Even if it doesn’t drive voters to Trump, it could stop any momentum to Clinton.</p>
<p>“Voters who are on the bubble and maybe leaning toward Hillary, this puts the brake on,” said Republican pollster <a href="http://pos.org/about-us/partners-and-vps/neil-newhouse-partner/" type="external">Neil Newhouse</a>.</p>
<p>The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be.</p>
<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus</p>
<p>Clinton, leading in both national polls and battleground-state surveys, had been trying not to cause any waves as the election winds down. She had benefited greatly from bad news about her opponent – multiple women accusing <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article98915057.html" type="external">Trump</a> of sexual assault following the <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article106982327.html" type="external">release of a decade-old video</a> in which he bragged about groping women – and was working to avoid any change in that narrative.</p>
<p>Now Republicans will work hard in the next few days to use the latest development to drive the argument that Clinton is unfit.</p>
<p>“Hillary Clinton’s corruption is on a scale we have never seen before,” Trump said Friday in Manchester, New Hampshire, as the crowd broke into chants of “lock her up.” “We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office.”</p>
<q> <p>Clinton email scandal + Anthony Weiner = a volcanic news cycle that will serve as an 11 day negative ad worth millions.</p>— Ron Bonjean (@RonBonjean) <a href="https://twitter.com/RonBonjean/status/792094575577837568" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q>
<p>Trump will have to rely on news media coverage to drive much of that message, having made the tactical decision much earlier not to spend as much time as Clinton did raising money – money he now could use to buy ads on the FBI news.</p>
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<p>New fundraising reports just this week showed Clinton and associated Democratic committees had more than $62 million on hand as of Oct. 20, nearly four times the almost $16 million Trump and Republicans had.</p>
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<p>And he may have a bit of an uphill battle, given how many voters likely have already made up their minds about Clinton – or have already voted.</p>
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<p>“Is it an unfortunate piece of the agenda?” asked Democratic pollster <a href="http://mellmangroup.com/team-member/mark-s-mellman/" type="external">Mark Mellman</a>. “The fact that we’re sitting here 11 days before the election talking about emails again? Yes, but I don’t think it fundamentally alters the race.”</p>
<p>“The truth is this is a story that’s been out there a long time,” he said. “Most people have reached a conclusion on it one way or the other.”</p>
<p>EDITORS: END OPTIONAL TRIM</p>
<q> <p>Both campaigns now agree Director Comey needs to put forward more information about what prompted this letter to GOP chairmen.</p>— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianefallon/status/792102937023619074" type="external">October 28, 2016</a> </q>
<p>Indeed, voters have already seen thousands of Clinton’s emails released by the State Department and <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article109662932.html" type="external">thousands of her aides’ emails released</a>, some illegally, by news organizations, conservative groups and the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.</p>
<p>“Most people have already decided who they’re going to vote for and I don’t think this will influence people who have decided,” said Jacob Trubey, a North Carolina State University freshman from Cary, North Carolina, who is not affiliated with either party.</p>
<p>“I just think it’s going to be salacious for the next 10 days unless there’s some bombshell out there,” said Kim Alfano, a Republican strategist. “I don’t think this will do anything dramatic to the race.”</p>
<p>The Democratic and Republican parties are offering a choice between a candidate under FBI investigation, and Donald Trump. Voters deserve a lot better than that. America deserves better than that.</p>
<p>Gary Johnson, Libertarian candidate for president</p>
<p>Another potential mitigating effect: The news comes after millions already have voted.</p>
<p>An estimated <a href="http://www.electproject.org/early_2016" type="external">17.1 million people had voted</a> as of Thursday, and the surge of early voting is giving Clinton <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article110412872.html" type="external">an important boost</a> in swing states.</p>
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<p>Nancy Gray, a retired high school counselor from Monterey Bay, Caliornia., for example, said she’d already voted for Clinton by mail and had tuned out politics until election night.</p>
<p>“I’m not even paying attention, I’m so sick and tired of all the political stuff,” she said.</p>
<p>John Fetterman, mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania, and a Clinton surrogate who was about to introduce former President Bill Clinton to a crowd in Reading, Pennsylvania, on Friday, said he hadn’t gotten any “panicked calls from the campaign.”</p>
<p>“I don’t know how to quote a shoulder shrug,” Fetterman said of his reaction to the email development. “It’s just kind of a nothing burger. Could it move the needle a couple of points? Possibly. But I don’t think it’s going to be meaningful. I really feel Pennsylvania is comfortably blue.”</p>
<p>Vera Bergengruen and Lesley Clark contributed to this report.</p>
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<p>David Lightman: <a href="" type="external">202-383-6101</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/lightmandavid" type="external">@lightmandavid</a></p>"
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<p>The FBI is advising people to hang up if they receive a call from a woman screaming for help.</p>
<p>A decades-old <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/virtual-kidnapping" type="external">virtual kidnapping scam is placing more U.S. residents at risk of becoming potential victims</a>, the FBI warned on its website.</p>
<p>The scheme takes many forms, but basically callers trick victims into paying ransoms to free family or friends who have been “kidnapped.” The virtual abductors coerce victims to pay a ransom before victims can find out that no one has been kidnapped.</p>
<p>The FBI had been tracking virtual kidnapping calls primarily from prisons in Mexico between 2013 and 2015. The callers targeted individuals who spoke Spanish, the FBI said. Most of the victims were from the Los Angeles and Houston areas.</p> Today's top news by email
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<p>The FBI issued the warning because kidnappers have widened their pool of potential victims by no longer targeting only specific individuals and Spanish speakers. The callers also are cold-calling numbers in various cities.</p>
<p>In a recent investigation, the FBI found that more than 80 people have fallen victim to the new tactics in California, Minnesota, Idaho and Texas. Those victims paid more than $87,000 in ransom.</p>
<p>An FBI spokeswoman for the Kansas City offices said she was not aware of any instances that have occurred in Kansas or Missouri where the FBI was involved.</p>
<p>The scam works this way: The potential victim answers a call and hears a woman screaming, “Help me!” The victim might blurt out a name, like Mary, asking her if she’s OK. At that point, the caller will tell the victim that Mary has been kidnapped and she will be harmed if ransom isn’t paid quickly.</p>
<p>The scam is successful when victims don’t know the whereabouts of their loved ones.</p>
<p>The scammers typically demand that the ransoms are wired to Mexico. The amount is typically less than $2,000 because of legal restrictions for wiring larger amounts across the border, the FBI said.</p>
<p>However, two victims in Houston were coerced to pay larger ransoms by making money drops.</p>
<p>A federal grand jury charged a 34-year-old Houston woman in July with 10 counts, including wire fraud and money laundering, for her involvement in the scam. The charges are the first federal indictment in a virtual kidnapping case, the FBI said.</p>
<p>Robert A. Cronkleton: <a href="" type="external">816-234-4261</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/cronkb" type="external">@cronkb</a></p>
<p>How to avoid falling victim</p>
<p>If you receive a call from someone demanding ransom for an alleged kidnap victim, the FBI suggests:</p> Hang up the phone. Don’t call out your loved one’s name if you do respond to call. Request to speak with the alleged victim. Ask questions only the alleged victim would know. Listen to the voice of the alleged victim if they do speak. Try to contact the alleged victim on the phone, text or social media. Don’t agree to pay a ransom.
<p>If you believe a real kidnapping has taken place, call 911.</p>
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<p>A decades-old <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/virtual-kidnapping" type="external">virtual kidnapping scam is placing more U.S. residents at risk of becoming potential victims</a>, the FBI warned on its website.</p>
<p>The scheme takes many forms, but basically callers trick victims into paying ransoms to free family or friends who have been “kidnapped.” The virtual abductors coerce victims to pay a ransom before victims can find out that no one has been kidnapped.</p>
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<p>The FBI issued the warning because kidnappers have widened their pool of potential victims by no longer targeting only specific individuals and Spanish speakers. The callers also are cold-calling numbers in various cities.</p>
<p>In a recent investigation, the FBI found that more than 80 people have fallen victim to the new tactics in California, Minnesota, Idaho and Texas. Those victims paid more than $87,000 in ransom.</p>
<p>An FBI spokeswoman for the Kansas City offices said she was not aware of any instances that have occurred in Kansas or Missouri where the FBI was involved.</p>
<p>The scam works this way: The potential victim answers a call and hears a woman screaming, “Help me!” The victim might blurt out a name, like Mary, asking her if she’s OK. At that point, the caller will tell the victim that Mary has been kidnapped and she will be harmed if ransom isn’t paid quickly.</p>
<p>The scam is successful when victims don’t know the whereabouts of their loved ones.</p>
<p>The scammers typically demand that the ransoms are wired to Mexico. The amount is typically less than $2,000 because of legal restrictions for wiring larger amounts across the border, the FBI said.</p>
<p>However, two victims in Houston were coerced to pay larger ransoms by making money drops.</p>
<p>A federal grand jury charged a 34-year-old Houston woman in July with 10 counts, including wire fraud and money laundering, for her involvement in the scam. The charges are the first federal indictment in a virtual kidnapping case, the FBI said.</p>
<p>Robert A. Cronkleton: <a href="" type="external">816-234-4261</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/cronkb" type="external">@cronkb</a></p>
<p>How to avoid falling victim</p>
<p>If you receive a call from someone demanding ransom for an alleged kidnap victim, the FBI suggests:</p> Hang up the phone. Don’t call out your loved one’s name if you do respond to call. Request to speak with the alleged victim. Ask questions only the alleged victim would know. Listen to the voice of the alleged victim if they do speak. Try to contact the alleged victim on the phone, text or social media. Don’t agree to pay a ransom.
<p>If you believe a real kidnapping has taken place, call 911.</p>
<p>Source: FBI</p>"
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<p>A woman is facing charges as part an investigation by the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office to crack down on illegal slot machines.</p>
<p>Phalla Colman, 54, was arrested Thursday and charged with operating an illegal gambling establishment, operating an illegal lottery and possession of slot machines, according to a news release.</p>
<p>Detectives began investigating Colman’s business at 3325 15 St. E., Bradenton, several weeks ago after she was suspected of running an illegal internet café or gambling establishment. Detectives were able to develop the case and obtain warrants for Colman’s arrest and the search the establishment, the release said.</p>
<p>On Thursday, they searched her business and arrested her. Detectives seized 111 computer monitors, 79 computer towers and $3,415 in currency.</p> Breaking News
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<p>Phalla Colman, 54, was arrested Thursday and charged with operating an illegal gambling establishment, operating an illegal lottery and possession of slot machines, according to a news release.</p>
<p>Detectives began investigating Colman’s business at 3325 15 St. E., Bradenton, several weeks ago after she was suspected of running an illegal internet café or gambling establishment. Detectives were able to develop the case and obtain warrants for Colman’s arrest and the search the establishment, the release said.</p>
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<p>Usually, the person with the most information makes better decisions. But when you rely on info that’s wrong, chances increase that your decisions are wrong.</p>
<p>So it is with Florida’s solar power ballot Amendment 1. Opponents are funneling misinformation into the discussion.</p>
<p>The truth is that by voting for Amendment 1, Florida voters have a historic opportunity to advance solar power in the Sunshine State, at the same time ensuring that energy consumers are treated fairly; this includes those who choose solar and those who do not.</p>
<p>What does the amendment do? It constitutionally guarantees individuals and businesses the right to buy or lease solar equipment to produce their own energy; this means consumers will always have the right to generate their own solar electricity, and politicians cannot tamper with that right. Contrary to what opponents say, solar customers can still sell any excess electricity they generate back into the electric grid. More importantly, it protects Florida consumers from scams, rip-offs, overcharging and unfair subsidies. It treats all electricity consumers fairly.</p>
<p>Because it is renewable energy, a tax break is provided. This is because renewable solar energy aids in protecting the environment. If you choose not to install solar, you won’t be required to subsidize the costs of electric grid access and back-up power to those who do.</p>
<p>Another good point made by Florida TaxWatch is that, for Floridians who want the right to provide their own energy needs, “this amendment raises that right to Constitutional status, which strengthens that right, as it cannot be changed by state or local governments without going back to the voters.”</p>
<p>Something else you should know, since we are seeing political leftists like the League of Women Voters dishing out misinformation to welcoming publishers like The Palm Beach Post (which editorially calls Amendment 1 a “fraud”), is that this ballot initiative is being supported by a wide list of groups other than utility companies. These include bipartisan coalitions of business, civic, non-profit and faith-based organizations working to promote solar energy without sacrificing common sense consumer protection.</p>
<p>Many of those opposing Amendment 1 are companies that don’t want you to buy your own solar panels to generate your own electricity because they want you to buy solar electricity from them. Their business model is to lock consumers into 20-year contracts to put their solar equipment on your roof and sell you the electricity from it. And here’s the awful catch: The current published price for one of the leading companies, Solar City, is nearly 50% higher than what average Floridians pay for electricity today, plus its contract includes an automatic 2.9% cost increase—double what Floridians normally face. Something else these opponents fail to divulge is that they want a subsidy to operate their business model in Florida, a “stand-by charge” uniformly applied to every electric customer to ensure their model makes economic sense—for them. I do not believe that’s good for Floridians. Amendment 1 protects consumers from this type of subsidy.</p>
<p>The Amendment does not block ownership of solar, it does not make solar more expensive, and it certainly does not discourage people from installing solar on their homes. These are outright lies to pull the wool over your eyes.</p>
<p>Florida deserves a holistic approach to solar. Thankfully, Amendment 1 will provide a constitutional framework for solar in the Sunshine State, which will keep politicians and special interest groups from tampering with it.</p>
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<p>So it is with Florida’s solar power ballot Amendment 1. Opponents are funneling misinformation into the discussion.</p>
<p>The truth is that by voting for Amendment 1, Florida voters have a historic opportunity to advance solar power in the Sunshine State, at the same time ensuring that energy consumers are treated fairly; this includes those who choose solar and those who do not.</p>
<p>What does the amendment do? It constitutionally guarantees individuals and businesses the right to buy or lease solar equipment to produce their own energy; this means consumers will always have the right to generate their own solar electricity, and politicians cannot tamper with that right. Contrary to what opponents say, solar customers can still sell any excess electricity they generate back into the electric grid. More importantly, it protects Florida consumers from scams, rip-offs, overcharging and unfair subsidies. It treats all electricity consumers fairly.</p>
<p>Because it is renewable energy, a tax break is provided. This is because renewable solar energy aids in protecting the environment. If you choose not to install solar, you won’t be required to subsidize the costs of electric grid access and back-up power to those who do.</p>
<p>Another good point made by Florida TaxWatch is that, for Floridians who want the right to provide their own energy needs, “this amendment raises that right to Constitutional status, which strengthens that right, as it cannot be changed by state or local governments without going back to the voters.”</p>
<p>Something else you should know, since we are seeing political leftists like the League of Women Voters dishing out misinformation to welcoming publishers like The Palm Beach Post (which editorially calls Amendment 1 a “fraud”), is that this ballot initiative is being supported by a wide list of groups other than utility companies. These include bipartisan coalitions of business, civic, non-profit and faith-based organizations working to promote solar energy without sacrificing common sense consumer protection.</p>
<p>Many of those opposing Amendment 1 are companies that don’t want you to buy your own solar panels to generate your own electricity because they want you to buy solar electricity from them. Their business model is to lock consumers into 20-year contracts to put their solar equipment on your roof and sell you the electricity from it. And here’s the awful catch: The current published price for one of the leading companies, Solar City, is nearly 50% higher than what average Floridians pay for electricity today, plus its contract includes an automatic 2.9% cost increase—double what Floridians normally face. Something else these opponents fail to divulge is that they want a subsidy to operate their business model in Florida, a “stand-by charge” uniformly applied to every electric customer to ensure their model makes economic sense—for them. I do not believe that’s good for Floridians. Amendment 1 protects consumers from this type of subsidy.</p>
<p>The Amendment does not block ownership of solar, it does not make solar more expensive, and it certainly does not discourage people from installing solar on their homes. These are outright lies to pull the wool over your eyes.</p>
<p>Florida deserves a holistic approach to solar. Thankfully, Amendment 1 will provide a constitutional framework for solar in the Sunshine State, which will keep politicians and special interest groups from tampering with it.</p>"
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<p>When the removal of a sign becomes a sign of the times…</p>
<p>In the open border utopia ushered in by President Barack Obama, it’s no longer socially acceptable to think Americans speak English and thus, down comes a famous sign at Geno’s Steaks in South Philly.</p>
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<q> <p>Geno’s has held its prominent location at South Philadelphia’s ‘cheesesteak junction’, at the diagonal meeting of 9th and Passyunk–and across from cheesesteak originator “Pat’s”, since 1966, but Vento’s contentious sign set it apart from the rest.</p> <p>Joey Vento, who died in 2011 at age 71, drew regional and national attention over his “This is America, When Ordering Speak English” sign posted to the walk-up window at ‘Geno’s’.</p> <p>After Vento’s death, his son Geno, named for his father’s shop, apparently decided to take the sign down.</p> </q>
<p><a type="internal">SEE ALSO: Dana Perino Erupts ‘Like Mount Vesuvius’: ‘After 20 Years Of Defending These Guys … Done!’</a></p>
<p>Turns out, the descendant of Italian immigrants never refused service to anyone and said he posted the sign as political commentary on illegal immigration, according to Fox News.</p>
<p>Geno’s Steaks released a statement on the removal of the sign, saying it’s time to move on.</p>
<p>“While Geno continues to honor his father’s traditions of good quality food, cleanliness and giving back to the community, he has decided that after 10 years it is time to move on,” the statement said.</p>
<p>“It’s not about the sign. It’s about what you do and what your mark in life is, and Geno wants to change that mark in life.”</p>
<p>Geno’s was in the news recently when GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is strongly opposed to illegal immigration, came by for a cheesesteak while campaigning.</p>
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"<p>When the removal of a sign becomes a sign of the times…</p>
<p>In the open border utopia ushered in by President Barack Obama, it’s no longer socially acceptable to think Americans speak English and thus, down comes a famous sign at Geno’s Steaks in South Philly.</p>
<p>More from <a href="http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/10/15/joey-ventos-speak-english-sign-removed-genos-philly-cheesesteaks-shop" type="external">Fox News</a>:</p>
<q> <p>Geno’s has held its prominent location at South Philadelphia’s ‘cheesesteak junction’, at the diagonal meeting of 9th and Passyunk–and across from cheesesteak originator “Pat’s”, since 1966, but Vento’s contentious sign set it apart from the rest.</p> <p>Joey Vento, who died in 2011 at age 71, drew regional and national attention over his “This is America, When Ordering Speak English” sign posted to the walk-up window at ‘Geno’s’.</p> <p>After Vento’s death, his son Geno, named for his father’s shop, apparently decided to take the sign down.</p> </q>
<p><a type="internal">SEE ALSO: Dana Perino Erupts ‘Like Mount Vesuvius’: ‘After 20 Years Of Defending These Guys … Done!’</a></p>
<p>Turns out, the descendant of Italian immigrants never refused service to anyone and said he posted the sign as political commentary on illegal immigration, according to Fox News.</p>
<p>Geno’s Steaks released a statement on the removal of the sign, saying it’s time to move on.</p>
<p>“While Geno continues to honor his father’s traditions of good quality food, cleanliness and giving back to the community, he has decided that after 10 years it is time to move on,” the statement said.</p>
<p>“It’s not about the sign. It’s about what you do and what your mark in life is, and Geno wants to change that mark in life.”</p>
<p>Geno’s was in the news recently when GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, who is strongly opposed to illegal immigration, came by for a cheesesteak while campaigning.</p>"
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<p>People are hungry to learn more about Hillary Clinton’s Wikileaks scandal, but you wouldn’t know it if you get your news from the mainstream media.</p>
<p>The search term “Wikileaks” dwarfs the term “Trump Women,” according to an info graphic shown on “Fox &amp; Friends” on Saturday, but the network news coverage does not reflect the interest.</p>
<p>ABC News devoted four minutes to discussing Trump’s sex scandals while NBC did 5 minutes and CBS did 3 minutes on the topic.</p>
<p>By contrast, ABC spent a paltry one minute on Clinton’s Wikileaks scandal while CBS devoted two minutes to the email leaks. But NBC was, by far, the worst. With precisely no coverage at all the peacock network simply pretended the scandal didn’t exist.</p>
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<p>Not many on social media were surprised.</p>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@tuckercarlson</a>: “Here’s a breakdown [of coverage] for the three major networks.” <a href="https://t.co/9wY725Tipa" type="external">pic.twitter.com/9wY725Tipa</a></p> <p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/787078152895901696" type="external">October 14, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>This the game Hillary is playing, The accusers come out of the woodwork and chew up the Air Time, all the Plan</p> <p>— OhReally (@OhReally22) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhReally22/status/787080855026016256" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> What hope do we have for a fair and prosperous future if the media insists on covering up corruption? 😪🙏🇺🇸🙏</p> <p>— Deb (@ddefrankie) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddefrankie/status/787122065153331200" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>The MSM is so afraid of Hillary’s negatives they avoid <a href="https://t.co/thJgzAOODZ" type="external">https://t.co/thJgzAOODZ</a></p> <p>— Hopper (@sofshoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/sofshoe/status/787096108426141696" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> Of course it is covered more. They don’t want to show what HC does. I am sick of her free and to run for president.</p> <p>— Frances Shelton (@FrancesShelto20) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesShelto20/status/787144147803181056" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> this is a shame. Media is not supposed to be biased, but these outlets are bought by the Clintons. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clintonslaves?src=hash" type="external">#clintonslaves</a></p> <p>— Tommy Mora (@TommyTommyjmora) <a href="https://twitter.com/TommyTommyjmora/status/787138370891714560" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> Of course they do not report news, they are a Dems PR outlets no journalists, come on!</p> <p>— MRHF (@Jovisoul) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jovisoul/status/787128009178263553" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
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"<p>People are hungry to learn more about Hillary Clinton’s Wikileaks scandal, but you wouldn’t know it if you get your news from the mainstream media.</p>
<p>The search term “Wikileaks” dwarfs the term “Trump Women,” according to an info graphic shown on “Fox &amp; Friends” on Saturday, but the network news coverage does not reflect the interest.</p>
<p>ABC News devoted four minutes to discussing Trump’s sex scandals while NBC did 5 minutes and CBS did 3 minutes on the topic.</p>
<p>By contrast, ABC spent a paltry one minute on Clinton’s Wikileaks scandal while CBS devoted two minutes to the email leaks. But NBC was, by far, the worst. With precisely no coverage at all the peacock network simply pretended the scandal didn’t exist.</p>
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<p>Not many on social media were surprised.</p>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@tuckercarlson</a>: “Here’s a breakdown [of coverage] for the three major networks.” <a href="https://t.co/9wY725Tipa" type="external">pic.twitter.com/9wY725Tipa</a></p> <p>— Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/787078152895901696" type="external">October 14, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>This the game Hillary is playing, The accusers come out of the woodwork and chew up the Air Time, all the Plan</p> <p>— OhReally (@OhReally22) <a href="https://twitter.com/OhReally22/status/787080855026016256" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> What hope do we have for a fair and prosperous future if the media insists on covering up corruption? 😪🙏🇺🇸🙏</p> <p>— Deb (@ddefrankie) <a href="https://twitter.com/ddefrankie/status/787122065153331200" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>The MSM is so afraid of Hillary’s negatives they avoid <a href="https://t.co/thJgzAOODZ" type="external">https://t.co/thJgzAOODZ</a></p> <p>— Hopper (@sofshoe) <a href="https://twitter.com/sofshoe/status/787096108426141696" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> Of course it is covered more. They don’t want to show what HC does. I am sick of her free and to run for president.</p> <p>— Frances Shelton (@FrancesShelto20) <a href="https://twitter.com/FrancesShelto20/status/787144147803181056" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> this is a shame. Media is not supposed to be biased, but these outlets are bought by the Clintons. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/clintonslaves?src=hash" type="external">#clintonslaves</a></p> <p>— Tommy Mora (@TommyTommyjmora) <a href="https://twitter.com/TommyTommyjmora/status/787138370891714560" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews" type="external">@FoxNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson" type="external">@TuckerCarlson</a> Of course they do not report news, they are a Dems PR outlets no journalists, come on!</p> <p>— MRHF (@Jovisoul) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jovisoul/status/787128009178263553" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>"
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<p>The left continues to harp on unproven allegations that Donald Trump inappropriately touched women and said dirty words 11 years ago many are wondering where the outrage is about Joe Biden.</p>
<p>For years the vice president’s inappropriate touching of women, and the invading of their personal space, has been a punchline seen as harmless.</p>
<p>But now that the barrage of claims against Trump has reached its zenith social media has begun asking where the mainstream news sources are on “creepy Uncle Joe’s” unwanted encroachments.</p>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomenWhoVoteTrump?src=hash" type="external">#WomenWhoVoteTrump</a> wonder why Joe Biden gets a pass on “inapropriate touching.” Yikes!⤵If this was Trump, imagine the MSM headlines . <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash" type="external">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://t.co/gtk64X3tXH" type="external">pic.twitter.com/gtk64X3tXH</a></p> <p>— Trump the Hill (@TrumpTheHill) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpTheHill/status/787119168839495681" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/CNN" type="external">@CNN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/andersoncooper" type="external">@andersoncooper</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/maddow" type="external">@Maddow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC" type="external">@MSNBC</a> Where’s the Wall 2 Wall segment on Creepy Uncle Joe Molesting Young Girls/Women? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HYPOCRITES?src=hash" type="external">#HYPOCRITES</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NVDebate?src=hash" type="external">#NVDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/vODHxrEF0g" type="external">pic.twitter.com/vODHxrEF0g</a></p> <p>— Truth Is Power (@truthispower777) <a href="https://twitter.com/truthispower777/status/787161797832810496" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnHillarysTeleprompter?src=hash" type="external">#OnHillarysTeleprompter</a> would someone tell Joe Biden that touching women and making them uncomfortable makes you unfit for office</p> <p>— Robert Wilson (@rwlawoffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/rwlawoffice/status/787086832706002944" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>Katie Pavlich – It’s Time For a National Conversation About Joe Biden’s Inappropriate Touching <a href="https://t.co/ZHpbwjI5XU" type="external">https://t.co/ZHpbwjI5XU</a></p> <p>— Diamond Barbarian (@NoMoreElitists) <a href="https://twitter.com/NoMoreElitists/status/787080125141495808" type="external">October 14, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>No prof of Trump touching women. Watch Joe Biden Rub, Touch And Kiss His Way To Beck-Like Creepiness – YouTube <a href="https://t.co/jFWNo4ssgF" type="external">https://t.co/jFWNo4ssgF</a></p> <p>— R. Wolfe (@WhoWolfe) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhoWolfe/status/786719240585740289" type="external">October 14, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>Joe Biden can’t Keep his Hands off Women, a known fact! Always touching them! HYPOCRIT! <a href="https://t.co/nNc1QFG7Hk" type="external">pic.twitter.com/nNc1QFG7Hk</a></p> <p>— TRUMP/ PENCE 2017! (@audreyringrose) <a href="https://twitter.com/audreyringrose/status/786589588345106432" type="external">October 13, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>BIDEN IS A CLASS-A PERV. TALK ABOUT GROPING, HE’S ALWAYS TOUCHING WOMEN. IT’S RIGHT IN OUR FACES! <a href="https://t.co/aBAr2mzrlb" type="external">https://t.co/aBAr2mzrlb</a></p> <p>— DeplorableWhatWhat7 (@OpinionOnion7) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpinionOnion7/status/786396789981052928" type="external">October 13, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/frankthorp" type="external">@frankthorp</a> Sure let’s have that conversation <a href="https://t.co/wC1deHu544" type="external">https://t.co/wC1deHu544</a></p> <p>— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/784912665588228096" type="external">October 9, 2016</a></p> </q>
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"<p>The left continues to harp on unproven allegations that Donald Trump inappropriately touched women and said dirty words 11 years ago many are wondering where the outrage is about Joe Biden.</p>
<p>For years the vice president’s inappropriate touching of women, and the invading of their personal space, has been a punchline seen as harmless.</p>
<p>But now that the barrage of claims against Trump has reached its zenith social media has begun asking where the mainstream news sources are on “creepy Uncle Joe’s” unwanted encroachments.</p>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WomenWhoVoteTrump?src=hash" type="external">#WomenWhoVoteTrump</a> wonder why Joe Biden gets a pass on “inapropriate touching.” Yikes!⤵If this was Trump, imagine the MSM headlines . <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash" type="external">#MAGA</a> <a href="https://t.co/gtk64X3tXH" type="external">pic.twitter.com/gtk64X3tXH</a></p> <p>— Trump the Hill (@TrumpTheHill) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpTheHill/status/787119168839495681" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/CNN" type="external">@CNN</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/andersoncooper" type="external">@andersoncooper</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/maddow" type="external">@Maddow</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC" type="external">@MSNBC</a> Where’s the Wall 2 Wall segment on Creepy Uncle Joe Molesting Young Girls/Women? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HYPOCRITES?src=hash" type="external">#HYPOCRITES</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NVDebate?src=hash" type="external">#NVDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/vODHxrEF0g" type="external">pic.twitter.com/vODHxrEF0g</a></p> <p>— Truth Is Power (@truthispower777) <a href="https://twitter.com/truthispower777/status/787161797832810496" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/OnHillarysTeleprompter?src=hash" type="external">#OnHillarysTeleprompter</a> would someone tell Joe Biden that touching women and making them uncomfortable makes you unfit for office</p> <p>— Robert Wilson (@rwlawoffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/rwlawoffice/status/787086832706002944" type="external">October 15, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>Katie Pavlich – It’s Time For a National Conversation About Joe Biden’s Inappropriate Touching <a href="https://t.co/ZHpbwjI5XU" type="external">https://t.co/ZHpbwjI5XU</a></p> <p>— Diamond Barbarian (@NoMoreElitists) <a href="https://twitter.com/NoMoreElitists/status/787080125141495808" type="external">October 14, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>No prof of Trump touching women. Watch Joe Biden Rub, Touch And Kiss His Way To Beck-Like Creepiness – YouTube <a href="https://t.co/jFWNo4ssgF" type="external">https://t.co/jFWNo4ssgF</a></p> <p>— R. Wolfe (@WhoWolfe) <a href="https://twitter.com/WhoWolfe/status/786719240585740289" type="external">October 14, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>Joe Biden can’t Keep his Hands off Women, a known fact! Always touching them! HYPOCRIT! <a href="https://t.co/nNc1QFG7Hk" type="external">pic.twitter.com/nNc1QFG7Hk</a></p> <p>— TRUMP/ PENCE 2017! (@audreyringrose) <a href="https://twitter.com/audreyringrose/status/786589588345106432" type="external">October 13, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>BIDEN IS A CLASS-A PERV. TALK ABOUT GROPING, HE’S ALWAYS TOUCHING WOMEN. IT’S RIGHT IN OUR FACES! <a href="https://t.co/aBAr2mzrlb" type="external">https://t.co/aBAr2mzrlb</a></p> <p>— DeplorableWhatWhat7 (@OpinionOnion7) <a href="https://twitter.com/OpinionOnion7/status/786396789981052928" type="external">October 13, 2016</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/frankthorp" type="external">@frankthorp</a> Sure let’s have that conversation <a href="https://t.co/wC1deHu544" type="external">https://t.co/wC1deHu544</a></p> <p>— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/784912665588228096" type="external">October 9, 2016</a></p> </q>"
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<p>We’re talking the real deal here, not that namby-pamby chemical castration.</p>
<p>An Alabama lawmaker introduced a bill Monday that would require certain sex offenders to be permanently and physically castrated prior to being released from prison.</p>
<p>The offenders that the bill targets are the worst of the worst — predators of young children.</p>
<p>Republican Rep. Steve Hurst introduced the measure requiring anyone older than 21 who is convicted of “certain sex offenses” against children age 12 or younger to pay for the surgical procedure before they serve the end of their prison sentence.</p>
<p>This isn’t a first for Hurst — he’s introduced similar legislation seven times since 2006, but most of his efforts never made it out of committee, according to CBS News.</p>
<p>He was prompted to begin this crusade as the result of a visit from a foster parent advocacy group that relayed a “horrible” story of abuse.</p>
<p>“I’ve often wondered what that child went through, physically and mentally, and what kind of shape he’s in now,” Hurst said Monday. “They (sex offenders) have marked these children for life. They will never get over it. And if they’ve marked children for life, they need to be marked for life.”</p>
<p>CBS News reported:</p>
<q> <p>Hurst in 2005 agreed to remove castration requirements from legislation setting tougher sentences for sex offenders. Several House members at the time told The Associated Press they feared the castration language would have made the bill unconstitutional. In 2011, Hurst co-sponsored a bill that classified the sexual abuse of a child 6 years or younger as a capital offense, allowing courts to sentence offenders to life without parole.</p> </q>
<p>Alabama residents have mixed feelings about the measure.</p>
<p>“Somebody that wants to mess with a little girl or little boy that age should be castrated, and they should not be able to mess with any other kids,” Keith Dison told CBS affiliate WIAT.</p>
<p>“I understand prison and going to prison for a long time for some kind of crime like that, but to physical mutilate someone…that’s a little out there…it’s crazy,” Jessica George told the station.</p>
<p>Watch the report via CBS News.</p>
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"<p>We’re talking the real deal here, not that namby-pamby chemical castration.</p>
<p>An Alabama lawmaker introduced a bill Monday that would require certain sex offenders to be permanently and physically castrated prior to being released from prison.</p>
<p>The offenders that the bill targets are the worst of the worst — predators of young children.</p>
<p>Republican Rep. Steve Hurst introduced the measure requiring anyone older than 21 who is convicted of “certain sex offenses” against children age 12 or younger to pay for the surgical procedure before they serve the end of their prison sentence.</p>
<p>This isn’t a first for Hurst — he’s introduced similar legislation seven times since 2006, but most of his efforts never made it out of committee, according to CBS News.</p>
<p>He was prompted to begin this crusade as the result of a visit from a foster parent advocacy group that relayed a “horrible” story of abuse.</p>
<p>“I’ve often wondered what that child went through, physically and mentally, and what kind of shape he’s in now,” Hurst said Monday. “They (sex offenders) have marked these children for life. They will never get over it. And if they’ve marked children for life, they need to be marked for life.”</p>
<p>CBS News reported:</p>
<q> <p>Hurst in 2005 agreed to remove castration requirements from legislation setting tougher sentences for sex offenders. Several House members at the time told The Associated Press they feared the castration language would have made the bill unconstitutional. In 2011, Hurst co-sponsored a bill that classified the sexual abuse of a child 6 years or younger as a capital offense, allowing courts to sentence offenders to life without parole.</p> </q>
<p>Alabama residents have mixed feelings about the measure.</p>
<p>“Somebody that wants to mess with a little girl or little boy that age should be castrated, and they should not be able to mess with any other kids,” Keith Dison told CBS affiliate WIAT.</p>
<p>“I understand prison and going to prison for a long time for some kind of crime like that, but to physical mutilate someone…that’s a little out there…it’s crazy,” Jessica George told the station.</p>
<p>Watch the report via CBS News.</p>"
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<p>A couple of weeks ago, after the row over Trump "fat-shaming" Alicia Machado, I suggested the Republican candidate lay off our weight.</p> Warning: This article contains some graphic language
<p>Now, and I can hardly believe I'm having to write this, I suggest he lay off our vaginas.</p>
<p>The day after a video tape emerged in which he suggested he could have any woman he wants because he's a star and so could just "grab them by the pussy", Mr Trump is in a whole ocean of hot political water.</p>
<p>Enough, quite possibly, to sink any chance he had of winning the White House.</p>
<p>Why this tape - and not the myriad other controversies that have dogged him in recent weeks?</p>
<p>First, analyse what he actually says. There is something particularly sexist, I'd say abusive, about this recording.</p>
<p>Read this excerpt:</p>
<p>"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."</p>
<p>"Whatever you want," the interviewer says.</p>
<p>"Grab 'em by the pussy, you can do anything," Trump replies."</p>
<p>It's the way Mr Trump reveals that he sees women as a piece of sexual meat, something he wants, grabs, discards that is so damning.</p>
<a type="internal">Lay off a woman's size, Trump</a>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37595079" type="external">Is the Trump campaign done for?</a>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37040360" type="external">Could Republicans still dump Trump?</a>
<a type="internal">The role of gender in the debate</a>
<p>Surveys (US government and UN) suggest one in five American women are the victim of rape or attempted rape and a staggering 83% of girls suffer sexual harassment at school.</p>
<p>Mr Trump is not guilty of either of those but his language is exactly the kind of language that encourages men and boys to feel it's okay to abuse women.</p>
<p>There is a violence in the phrases "grab 'em by the pussy" and "you can do anything" that any victim of abuse would recognise and that most women would find sickening.</p>
<p>To dismiss the tape as mere "locker room banter" and imply that the people who are offended are making an unnecessary fuss, or to say, as he did in his bizarre overnight apology tape, that this is just a distraction, compounds his problem.</p> Trump has offended many groups of people before
<p>But this tape doesn't just offend women, judging from the reaction in the Republican party - it has offended a lot of men too. Whether those men will now withdraw their endorsements of him is yet to be seen.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has denigrated people before. His comments about Muslims and Mexicans have arguably been equally grotesque and many, including some Republicans, have suggested they disqualified him for the presidency too.</p>
<p>Not everyone in America, however, knows a Muslim or a Mexican. Most people, and most voters, do have wives, mothers, sisters or daughters and that's why this tape touches a nerve, with both sexes, in a way his previous remarks haven't.</p>
<p>Powerful men using their position to get sex is nothing new, even in the White House. JFK and Bill Clinton paved that path.</p>
<p>Today some of Trump's supporters are making the case that anyone who voted for Bill Clinton has no right to be offended by Donald Trump.</p> Will the subject of Bill Clinton's infidelities now come up at Sunday's debate?
<p>I've been critical of Mr Clinton's treatment of women, and of Mrs Clinton's role in shielding him, but those supporters are missing the point.</p>
<p>In 2016, don't we all want more from our leaders than another man who feels getting sex from whoever they want, whenever they want is simply one of the perks of power? For my two daughters, I know I do.</p>
<p>How Mr Trump manages the fallout from this isn't clear. He doesn't like apologising. Indeed, he has bragged about never doing so.</p>
<p>Yet overnight he did release a video statement in which he said: "I said it, I was wrong, and I apologise."</p>
<p>In the tape he then goes on to attack both Clintons' records. So on Sunday night, when he debates with Hillary Clinton for the second time, will he raise the issue of Bill Clinton's affairs and Hillary's role in discrediting the women involved, or will he keep quiet about sex altogether?</p>
<p>In the past Mr Trump has not been able to resist lashing out when he's under attack. So, whatever his advisers may caution, I suspect we will see more of that in St Louis on Sunday night.</p>
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"<p>A couple of weeks ago, after the row over Trump "fat-shaming" Alicia Machado, I suggested the Republican candidate lay off our weight.</p> Warning: This article contains some graphic language
<p>Now, and I can hardly believe I'm having to write this, I suggest he lay off our vaginas.</p>
<p>The day after a video tape emerged in which he suggested he could have any woman he wants because he's a star and so could just "grab them by the pussy", Mr Trump is in a whole ocean of hot political water.</p>
<p>Enough, quite possibly, to sink any chance he had of winning the White House.</p>
<p>Why this tape - and not the myriad other controversies that have dogged him in recent weeks?</p>
<p>First, analyse what he actually says. There is something particularly sexist, I'd say abusive, about this recording.</p>
<p>Read this excerpt:</p>
<p>"When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."</p>
<p>"Whatever you want," the interviewer says.</p>
<p>"Grab 'em by the pussy, you can do anything," Trump replies."</p>
<p>It's the way Mr Trump reveals that he sees women as a piece of sexual meat, something he wants, grabs, discards that is so damning.</p>
<a type="internal">Lay off a woman's size, Trump</a>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37595079" type="external">Is the Trump campaign done for?</a>
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-37040360" type="external">Could Republicans still dump Trump?</a>
<a type="internal">The role of gender in the debate</a>
<p>Surveys (US government and UN) suggest one in five American women are the victim of rape or attempted rape and a staggering 83% of girls suffer sexual harassment at school.</p>
<p>Mr Trump is not guilty of either of those but his language is exactly the kind of language that encourages men and boys to feel it's okay to abuse women.</p>
<p>There is a violence in the phrases "grab 'em by the pussy" and "you can do anything" that any victim of abuse would recognise and that most women would find sickening.</p>
<p>To dismiss the tape as mere "locker room banter" and imply that the people who are offended are making an unnecessary fuss, or to say, as he did in his bizarre overnight apology tape, that this is just a distraction, compounds his problem.</p> Trump has offended many groups of people before
<p>But this tape doesn't just offend women, judging from the reaction in the Republican party - it has offended a lot of men too. Whether those men will now withdraw their endorsements of him is yet to be seen.</p>
<p>Mr Trump has denigrated people before. His comments about Muslims and Mexicans have arguably been equally grotesque and many, including some Republicans, have suggested they disqualified him for the presidency too.</p>
<p>Not everyone in America, however, knows a Muslim or a Mexican. Most people, and most voters, do have wives, mothers, sisters or daughters and that's why this tape touches a nerve, with both sexes, in a way his previous remarks haven't.</p>
<p>Powerful men using their position to get sex is nothing new, even in the White House. JFK and Bill Clinton paved that path.</p>
<p>Today some of Trump's supporters are making the case that anyone who voted for Bill Clinton has no right to be offended by Donald Trump.</p> Will the subject of Bill Clinton's infidelities now come up at Sunday's debate?
<p>I've been critical of Mr Clinton's treatment of women, and of Mrs Clinton's role in shielding him, but those supporters are missing the point.</p>
<p>In 2016, don't we all want more from our leaders than another man who feels getting sex from whoever they want, whenever they want is simply one of the perks of power? For my two daughters, I know I do.</p>
<p>How Mr Trump manages the fallout from this isn't clear. He doesn't like apologising. Indeed, he has bragged about never doing so.</p>
<p>Yet overnight he did release a video statement in which he said: "I said it, I was wrong, and I apologise."</p>
<p>In the tape he then goes on to attack both Clintons' records. So on Sunday night, when he debates with Hillary Clinton for the second time, will he raise the issue of Bill Clinton's affairs and Hillary's role in discrediting the women involved, or will he keep quiet about sex altogether?</p>
<p>In the past Mr Trump has not been able to resist lashing out when he's under attack. So, whatever his advisers may caution, I suspect we will see more of that in St Louis on Sunday night.</p>"
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<p>A lot of Californians are mad as hell. Some even say they’re not going to take it anymore.</p>
<p>"It" is the result of November’s presidential election. What these Californians are doing is organizing a secessionist movement — as in, taking California out of the United States.</p>
<p>Their movement is called Calexit, as in Brexit. Their inspiration is the growing gulf that separates them — politically, culturally, demographically — from the rest of the union.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton outpolled Donald Trump by a two-to-one margin here. "Without California, Trump would have won the popular vote," tweeted conservative pundit and Trump critic David Frum.</p>
<p>The Golden State has a population of 39 million people, more than any other state in the union, and more people than in all of Canada. Metro Los Angeles alone is home to close to 19 million, a total greater than Ontario and Alberta combined.</p>
<p>As Frum points out, those are numbers that come with economic clout, and therein lies the rub for many Californians.</p>
<p>The U.S. without California, he writes, would be the world’s second-ranked technology power instead of the first. It’s home to Silicon Valley and companies such as Google, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Oracle, and SpaceX.</p>
<p>California boasts the world’s sixth largest economy, greater than France, Italy, South Korea and India.</p>
<p>California is also culturally distinct from much of the rest of the U.S. It’s synonymous with liberal causes, from environmental protection to gun control to health care, and that has other Americans judging Californians, and not in a flattering way.</p>
<p>It’s a reality not lost on Marcus Ruiz Evans, one of the movers and shakers behind Calexit. "California," he admitted to the Washington Post, "(is) seen as weird."</p>
<p>That weirdness extends to politics beyond the presidential variety. Gov. Jerry Brown has vowed to ensure Californians have health insurance coverage, offered through the state-run health exchange called Covered California, even if Trump Republicans repeal ObamaCare.</p>
<p>But where the state most hears a different drummer is on immigration. Californians are decidedly in favour of it, and it’s easy to see why.</p>
<p>California has the largest immigrant population in the union, approximately 10 million in total, a quarter of those undocumented. If you’re not an immigrant in California, you know one. Or two. Or more.</p>
<p>In response to Trump’s ambitions to engage in large-scale deportation of illegal immigrants, the state legislature is considering a bill that would declare the state a "sanctuary."</p>
<p>Lawmakers have even hired former Obama attorney general Eric Holder to battle the Trump administration on the issue. That step earned the enmity of the new president.</p>
<p>"Trump claims California is ‘out of control,’ " writes columnist George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times, though the irony is undoubtedly lost on the president.</p>
<p>Trump has threatened to cut off federal funds to California. "We’ll defund," Trump told Fox News. "We give tremendous amounts of money to California."</p>
<p>The problem is that, like residents of Canada’s "have" provinces, Californians contribute more money to the federal treasury than what comes back.</p>
<p>There has been much grousing about the Trump administration ever since the threats were levelled, fertile ground for Calexit.</p>
<p>The secessionists even have the support of Silicon Valley billionaires Peter Thiel and Shervin Pishevar.</p>
<p>Companies like Google have expressed concern about their ability in an anti-immigrant climate to recruit foreigners for jobs not enough Americans are qualified to fill.</p>
<p>In January, the group Yes California was given permission to circulate a petition with the intention of putting the sovereignty question on the 2018 ballot. If the petition is successful — close to 600,000 signatures are required — a special vote to decide the state’s future would follow in 2019.</p>
<p>Calexit does have its skeptics. "Canadians know you don’t escape the shadow of your giant neighbour by drawing a border," wrote Prof. Timothy William Waters in the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he believes secession is a bad idea.</p>
<p>Such opinions are far from universal. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll taken in California, one-third of respondents support "peaceful withdrawal from the union."</p>
<p>As one tweeter wrote: "We’ll just take our avocados and legal weed and go."</p>
<p>Terry McConnell is a former Edmonton Journal columnist, editorial writer and copy editor now living in California</p>
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"<p>A lot of Californians are mad as hell. Some even say they’re not going to take it anymore.</p>
<p>"It" is the result of November’s presidential election. What these Californians are doing is organizing a secessionist movement — as in, taking California out of the United States.</p>
<p>Their movement is called Calexit, as in Brexit. Their inspiration is the growing gulf that separates them — politically, culturally, demographically — from the rest of the union.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton outpolled Donald Trump by a two-to-one margin here. "Without California, Trump would have won the popular vote," tweeted conservative pundit and Trump critic David Frum.</p>
<p>The Golden State has a population of 39 million people, more than any other state in the union, and more people than in all of Canada. Metro Los Angeles alone is home to close to 19 million, a total greater than Ontario and Alberta combined.</p>
<p>As Frum points out, those are numbers that come with economic clout, and therein lies the rub for many Californians.</p>
<p>The U.S. without California, he writes, would be the world’s second-ranked technology power instead of the first. It’s home to Silicon Valley and companies such as Google, Apple, Cisco, Intel, Oracle, and SpaceX.</p>
<p>California boasts the world’s sixth largest economy, greater than France, Italy, South Korea and India.</p>
<p>California is also culturally distinct from much of the rest of the U.S. It’s synonymous with liberal causes, from environmental protection to gun control to health care, and that has other Americans judging Californians, and not in a flattering way.</p>
<p>It’s a reality not lost on Marcus Ruiz Evans, one of the movers and shakers behind Calexit. "California," he admitted to the Washington Post, "(is) seen as weird."</p>
<p>That weirdness extends to politics beyond the presidential variety. Gov. Jerry Brown has vowed to ensure Californians have health insurance coverage, offered through the state-run health exchange called Covered California, even if Trump Republicans repeal ObamaCare.</p>
<p>But where the state most hears a different drummer is on immigration. Californians are decidedly in favour of it, and it’s easy to see why.</p>
<p>California has the largest immigrant population in the union, approximately 10 million in total, a quarter of those undocumented. If you’re not an immigrant in California, you know one. Or two. Or more.</p>
<p>In response to Trump’s ambitions to engage in large-scale deportation of illegal immigrants, the state legislature is considering a bill that would declare the state a "sanctuary."</p>
<p>Lawmakers have even hired former Obama attorney general Eric Holder to battle the Trump administration on the issue. That step earned the enmity of the new president.</p>
<p>"Trump claims California is ‘out of control,’ " writes columnist George Skelton in the Los Angeles Times, though the irony is undoubtedly lost on the president.</p>
<p>Trump has threatened to cut off federal funds to California. "We’ll defund," Trump told Fox News. "We give tremendous amounts of money to California."</p>
<p>The problem is that, like residents of Canada’s "have" provinces, Californians contribute more money to the federal treasury than what comes back.</p>
<p>There has been much grousing about the Trump administration ever since the threats were levelled, fertile ground for Calexit.</p>
<p>The secessionists even have the support of Silicon Valley billionaires Peter Thiel and Shervin Pishevar.</p>
<p>Companies like Google have expressed concern about their ability in an anti-immigrant climate to recruit foreigners for jobs not enough Americans are qualified to fill.</p>
<p>In January, the group Yes California was given permission to circulate a petition with the intention of putting the sovereignty question on the 2018 ballot. If the petition is successful — close to 600,000 signatures are required — a special vote to decide the state’s future would follow in 2019.</p>
<p>Calexit does have its skeptics. "Canadians know you don’t escape the shadow of your giant neighbour by drawing a border," wrote Prof. Timothy William Waters in the Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he believes secession is a bad idea.</p>
<p>Such opinions are far from universal. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll taken in California, one-third of respondents support "peaceful withdrawal from the union."</p>
<p>As one tweeter wrote: "We’ll just take our avocados and legal weed and go."</p>
<p>Terry McConnell is a former Edmonton Journal columnist, editorial writer and copy editor now living in California</p>"
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<p>I have never been prouder to be an American.</p>
<p>That might seem like a strange confession in these dark times, when there is so much divisiveness in the country. Every day we are faced with cringe-worthy behavior by our country’s leaders: sexual harassment, enabling hate groups by publicly echoing their messages, the enactment of policies that curtail the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of the nonrich. We who love our country are often left embarrassed, enraged and exhausted. It’s as if some jokester slapped a going out of business sign on our country’s back and scribbled underneath: everything (we stand for) must go.</p>
<p>Then why am I so proud of America? Because, to paraphrase what Thomas Paine famously said during the Revolutionary War, these are the times that try Americans’ souls. It is during tumultuous times like these—times when we are challenged to defend our most sacred beliefs with more than trite slogans on caps—that real heroes rise up to face that challenge. Among these heroes are the athletes who recognize that they have a responsibility not just to defend a goal or a hoop, but also to defend American values and ideals.</p>
<p>There are certain iconic images that will forever live in our social collective unconscious of activist athletes who risked their lives, not to mention their careers, to uphold their principles and commitment to their country: Jesse Owens receiving his gold medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics while a German runner-up beside him gave the Nazi salute. John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their black-gloved fists when receiving their medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics to protest injustice and poverty in the African-American community. In 1996, Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf bowing his head in prayer during the national anthem as a protest against racism. In 2014, LeBron James and other NBA players wearing i can’t breathe shirts to protest Eric Garner’s death at the hands of police.</p>
<p>These heroes remind us what true patriotism is: people caring more about protecting the principles of the Constitution than about their own careers, fame, money or even lives. Colin Kaepernick, the recipient of this year’s Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, is one such hero.</p>
<p>What makes Colin so deserving of this award is that he fully embraced all of those risks in order to remind Americans about systemic racism. This is exactly what Muhammad Ali did when, at the height of his boxing career, he refused to be drafted during the Vietnam War. Ali knew that he was not at risk of being sent into combat and could have served as a celebrity soldier. But he insisted on standing up for his principles, even though it cost him millions of dollars and resulted in death threats, harsh attacks from the press and public, the loss of his title and the possibility of prison.</p>
<p>Since Colin first declined to stand for the national anthem on Aug. 14, 2016, to call attention to the astounding number of unarmed African-Americans killed by police, the citizens have responded with both praise and condemnation, just as they always have whenever anyone exercises their right to free speech on a contentious topic. This is the same treatment bold Americans of conscience have always received. People rarely want to hear the truth when that truth reveals problems they don’t want to face. It’s easier to blame the messenger and ignore the message.</p>
<q> <p>He is forcing the country to continue to have a meaningful conversation about racial inequality when many want to pretend there is no problem.</p> </q>
<p>That’s why Colin has been vilified and glorified, ostracized and memorialized, demonized and idolized. Though supporters have come and gone, Colin has never wavered in his commitment. This selfless courage has inspired other athletes—from high school to professional ranks—across all sports, races and genders to make their voices heard. He is forcing the country to continue to have a meaningful conversation about racial inequality when many want to pretend there is no problem.</p>
<p>Sports Illustrated’s Muhammad Ali Legacy Award was created to honor individuals whose career in athletics has directly or indirectly impacted the world. On Nov. 30, it was reported that a group of about 40 NFL players and league officials had reached an agreement for the league to provide approximately $90 million between now and 2023 for activism endeavors important to African-American communities. Clearly, this is the result of Colin’s one-knee revolution and of the many players and coaches he inspired to join him. That is some serious impact.</p>
<p>It has always been perplexing that people criticize athletes like Colin as being unpatriotic because they are exercising the rights the Constitution protects. It’s especially puzzling when they are accused of disrespecting the national anthem, which contains the lyrics, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,” and was written by a man who referred to blacks as an “inferior race of people.” When that song is playing, it seems like an especially appropriate time to bring up the fact that 200 years after it was written, we are still treating African-Americans as an inferior race by denying them equal opportunities in education, jobs, health care and voting. We praise our military for risking everything to make sure America lives up to the promises in the Constitution: equal opportunity and respect for all people.</p>
<p>Upon hearing about the establishment of the award in his honor, Ali said, “I know there will be a great tradition of champions to receive this award in the future, and I look forward to celebrating their spirit and accomplishments.” Were my old friend still alive, I know he would be proud that Colin Kaepernick is continuing Ali’s tradition of being a selfless warrior for social justice.</p>
<p>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a former recipient of the Sports Illustrated's Muhammad Ali Legacy Award. His new book <a href="https://goo.gl/xB8n33" type="external">Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court</a> details his most influential mentors, including his lifelong friend, Muhammad Ali.</p>
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"<p>I have never been prouder to be an American.</p>
<p>That might seem like a strange confession in these dark times, when there is so much divisiveness in the country. Every day we are faced with cringe-worthy behavior by our country’s leaders: sexual harassment, enabling hate groups by publicly echoing their messages, the enactment of policies that curtail the constitutionally guaranteed civil rights of the nonrich. We who love our country are often left embarrassed, enraged and exhausted. It’s as if some jokester slapped a going out of business sign on our country’s back and scribbled underneath: everything (we stand for) must go.</p>
<p>Then why am I so proud of America? Because, to paraphrase what Thomas Paine famously said during the Revolutionary War, these are the times that try Americans’ souls. It is during tumultuous times like these—times when we are challenged to defend our most sacred beliefs with more than trite slogans on caps—that real heroes rise up to face that challenge. Among these heroes are the athletes who recognize that they have a responsibility not just to defend a goal or a hoop, but also to defend American values and ideals.</p>
<p>There are certain iconic images that will forever live in our social collective unconscious of activist athletes who risked their lives, not to mention their careers, to uphold their principles and commitment to their country: Jesse Owens receiving his gold medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics while a German runner-up beside him gave the Nazi salute. John Carlos and Tommie Smith raising their black-gloved fists when receiving their medals at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics to protest injustice and poverty in the African-American community. In 1996, Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf bowing his head in prayer during the national anthem as a protest against racism. In 2014, LeBron James and other NBA players wearing i can’t breathe shirts to protest Eric Garner’s death at the hands of police.</p>
<p>These heroes remind us what true patriotism is: people caring more about protecting the principles of the Constitution than about their own careers, fame, money or even lives. Colin Kaepernick, the recipient of this year’s Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award, is one such hero.</p>
<p>What makes Colin so deserving of this award is that he fully embraced all of those risks in order to remind Americans about systemic racism. This is exactly what Muhammad Ali did when, at the height of his boxing career, he refused to be drafted during the Vietnam War. Ali knew that he was not at risk of being sent into combat and could have served as a celebrity soldier. But he insisted on standing up for his principles, even though it cost him millions of dollars and resulted in death threats, harsh attacks from the press and public, the loss of his title and the possibility of prison.</p>
<p>Since Colin first declined to stand for the national anthem on Aug. 14, 2016, to call attention to the astounding number of unarmed African-Americans killed by police, the citizens have responded with both praise and condemnation, just as they always have whenever anyone exercises their right to free speech on a contentious topic. This is the same treatment bold Americans of conscience have always received. People rarely want to hear the truth when that truth reveals problems they don’t want to face. It’s easier to blame the messenger and ignore the message.</p>
<q> <p>He is forcing the country to continue to have a meaningful conversation about racial inequality when many want to pretend there is no problem.</p> </q>
<p>That’s why Colin has been vilified and glorified, ostracized and memorialized, demonized and idolized. Though supporters have come and gone, Colin has never wavered in his commitment. This selfless courage has inspired other athletes—from high school to professional ranks—across all sports, races and genders to make their voices heard. He is forcing the country to continue to have a meaningful conversation about racial inequality when many want to pretend there is no problem.</p>
<p>Sports Illustrated’s Muhammad Ali Legacy Award was created to honor individuals whose career in athletics has directly or indirectly impacted the world. On Nov. 30, it was reported that a group of about 40 NFL players and league officials had reached an agreement for the league to provide approximately $90 million between now and 2023 for activism endeavors important to African-American communities. Clearly, this is the result of Colin’s one-knee revolution and of the many players and coaches he inspired to join him. That is some serious impact.</p>
<p>It has always been perplexing that people criticize athletes like Colin as being unpatriotic because they are exercising the rights the Constitution protects. It’s especially puzzling when they are accused of disrespecting the national anthem, which contains the lyrics, “No refuge could save the hireling and slave/From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,” and was written by a man who referred to blacks as an “inferior race of people.” When that song is playing, it seems like an especially appropriate time to bring up the fact that 200 years after it was written, we are still treating African-Americans as an inferior race by denying them equal opportunities in education, jobs, health care and voting. We praise our military for risking everything to make sure America lives up to the promises in the Constitution: equal opportunity and respect for all people.</p>
<p>Upon hearing about the establishment of the award in his honor, Ali said, “I know there will be a great tradition of champions to receive this award in the future, and I look forward to celebrating their spirit and accomplishments.” Were my old friend still alive, I know he would be proud that Colin Kaepernick is continuing Ali’s tradition of being a selfless warrior for social justice.</p>
<p>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a former recipient of the Sports Illustrated's Muhammad Ali Legacy Award. His new book <a href="https://goo.gl/xB8n33" type="external">Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court</a> details his most influential mentors, including his lifelong friend, Muhammad Ali.</p>"
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<p>Early this year, Donald Trump made the seemingly audacious suggestion that Hillary Clinton was somehow responsible for Bill Clinton's infidelities. Trump called her an "enabler" and said she "attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward."</p>
<p>In typical Trump fashion, the comment was designed to get attention. Mrs Clinton has been a champion of family issues and women's rights throughout her career, so the idea that she was the enabler of someone Mr Trump has called "the greatest abuser of women in the history of politics," appeared outrageous.</p>
<p>And yet, something resonated in Mr Trump's description of Hillary. There was a kernel of truth to his claim and now it is hurting Mrs Clinton with young female voters.</p>
<p>The New York Times today has a long article outlining <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/us/politics/hillary-bill-clinton-women.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news" type="external">Mrs Clinton's role in the political handling</a> of her husband's sexual affairs. It's pretty damning, and for Clinton's supporters it must make unpleasant reading.</p>
<p>Anyone with an iota of empathy, of course, sympathises with what Hillary Clinton went through during the Lewinsky scandal. I was here and covered the story. It was grim, and the image of Chelsea steadfastly holding both parents hands as they walked, heads slightly bowed, to the helicopter on their way to that summer holiday in Martha's Vineyard will stick with me as one of the more poignant family portraits ever taken.</p>
<p>Dealing with a spouse's unfaithfulness is traumatic in private. It must be an even deeper circle of Hell when splashed on the front of every newspaper.</p>
<p>What is disconcerting now, however, is Hillary's role in pursuing the women themselves - Gennifer, Paula, Monica, they all, according to both the New York Times and previously published accounts, became the subject of brutal, organised discreditation campaigns.</p>
<p>In 1992, Hillary told Esquire magazine that if she had the chance to cross examine Flowers, she would "crucify her." Taking such determined steps to destroy a woman's reputation in order to protect her husband's political career smacks of depressingly cynical calculation.</p>
<p>The Clintons hired a famous private investigator to dig up the women's pasts with the aim of destroying their reputations. It is not clear from the Times' reporting to what degree Mrs Clinton favoured this tough approach.</p>
<p>Did she drive it or just give it an accepting nod? Maybe the more relevant point is that she condoned it. Hillary also famously called Ms Lewinsky a "narcissistic loony toon," according to a friend's testimony. A staff member who was close to Hillary said she referred to Mr Clinton's affairs as "bimbo eruptions".</p>
<p>And there's the problem for young women voters.</p>
<p>Why should the character or the sexual past of these women be relevant to the truthfulness of their claims? Indeed, Mr Clinton went on to confess to affairs with both Ms Flowers and Ms Lewinsky, after initially denying them.</p>
<p>By discrediting the women, the Clintons were spreading the subliminal message that it was somehow their fault more than Bill's. What were they trying to prove - that he was led astray by sexual predators? In 2016 that sounds grotesque.</p> How it all started for Hillary Clinton How it all started for Hillary Clinton
<p>Today's sexual mores are very different from the 1980s and 1990s. Young women today expect women to stand up for other women, particularly in the area of sexual relations and particularly when those sexual relations involve a very powerful man and a younger woman.</p>
<p>Younger women who have been through bruising college sexual abuse scandals across America have little tolerance for women who in any way cast blame on the victim. That empathy extends to consensual affairs - they just don't like women shaming other women. Which is exactly what Hillary Clinton was complicit in doing, according to the New York Times, and other previous accounts.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton's supporters say this is all old news, and is part of a right-wing attempt to slime her. Many millennial voters weren't even born when Monica and Bill were cavorting in the Oval Office. This is their first introduction to this sordid story.</p>
<p>However the Clinton campaign tries to spin it, it just doesn't look great for their candidate.</p>
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"<p>Early this year, Donald Trump made the seemingly audacious suggestion that Hillary Clinton was somehow responsible for Bill Clinton's infidelities. Trump called her an "enabler" and said she "attacked the women who Bill Clinton mistreated afterward."</p>
<p>In typical Trump fashion, the comment was designed to get attention. Mrs Clinton has been a champion of family issues and women's rights throughout her career, so the idea that she was the enabler of someone Mr Trump has called "the greatest abuser of women in the history of politics," appeared outrageous.</p>
<p>And yet, something resonated in Mr Trump's description of Hillary. There was a kernel of truth to his claim and now it is hurting Mrs Clinton with young female voters.</p>
<p>The New York Times today has a long article outlining <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/us/politics/hillary-bill-clinton-women.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=b-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news" type="external">Mrs Clinton's role in the political handling</a> of her husband's sexual affairs. It's pretty damning, and for Clinton's supporters it must make unpleasant reading.</p>
<p>Anyone with an iota of empathy, of course, sympathises with what Hillary Clinton went through during the Lewinsky scandal. I was here and covered the story. It was grim, and the image of Chelsea steadfastly holding both parents hands as they walked, heads slightly bowed, to the helicopter on their way to that summer holiday in Martha's Vineyard will stick with me as one of the more poignant family portraits ever taken.</p>
<p>Dealing with a spouse's unfaithfulness is traumatic in private. It must be an even deeper circle of Hell when splashed on the front of every newspaper.</p>
<p>What is disconcerting now, however, is Hillary's role in pursuing the women themselves - Gennifer, Paula, Monica, they all, according to both the New York Times and previously published accounts, became the subject of brutal, organised discreditation campaigns.</p>
<p>In 1992, Hillary told Esquire magazine that if she had the chance to cross examine Flowers, she would "crucify her." Taking such determined steps to destroy a woman's reputation in order to protect her husband's political career smacks of depressingly cynical calculation.</p>
<p>The Clintons hired a famous private investigator to dig up the women's pasts with the aim of destroying their reputations. It is not clear from the Times' reporting to what degree Mrs Clinton favoured this tough approach.</p>
<p>Did she drive it or just give it an accepting nod? Maybe the more relevant point is that she condoned it. Hillary also famously called Ms Lewinsky a "narcissistic loony toon," according to a friend's testimony. A staff member who was close to Hillary said she referred to Mr Clinton's affairs as "bimbo eruptions".</p>
<p>And there's the problem for young women voters.</p>
<p>Why should the character or the sexual past of these women be relevant to the truthfulness of their claims? Indeed, Mr Clinton went on to confess to affairs with both Ms Flowers and Ms Lewinsky, after initially denying them.</p>
<p>By discrediting the women, the Clintons were spreading the subliminal message that it was somehow their fault more than Bill's. What were they trying to prove - that he was led astray by sexual predators? In 2016 that sounds grotesque.</p> How it all started for Hillary Clinton How it all started for Hillary Clinton
<p>Today's sexual mores are very different from the 1980s and 1990s. Young women today expect women to stand up for other women, particularly in the area of sexual relations and particularly when those sexual relations involve a very powerful man and a younger woman.</p>
<p>Younger women who have been through bruising college sexual abuse scandals across America have little tolerance for women who in any way cast blame on the victim. That empathy extends to consensual affairs - they just don't like women shaming other women. Which is exactly what Hillary Clinton was complicit in doing, according to the New York Times, and other previous accounts.</p>
<p>Mrs Clinton's supporters say this is all old news, and is part of a right-wing attempt to slime her. Many millennial voters weren't even born when Monica and Bill were cavorting in the Oval Office. This is their first introduction to this sordid story.</p>
<p>However the Clinton campaign tries to spin it, it just doesn't look great for their candidate.</p>"
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<p>People have been quick to point out how a bombing in Austin, Texas is reported in the wider media.</p>
<p>Police said today that the suspect linked with a series of deadly parcel bombs targeting Austin, Texas, is dead.</p>
<p>The suspect was killed after detonating a device when officers approached his car.</p>
<p>Four bomb attacks took place in Austin, the state capital, and one in Schertz.</p>
<p>The blasts that began in Austin earlier this - involved package bombs and a tripwire and all said to be related.</p>
<p>The bombings killed two people and left the Texas capital terrorised with fear for 19 days.</p>
<q> <p>Thank you FBI. The Austin bomber, a 24 year old white male (therefore not classified as a terrorist ) will no longer TERRORIZE Austin residents. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— Brian Krassenstein🐬 (@krassenstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/976410801543184385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Imagine if the Austin bomber was a Mexican or Muslim. When the Austin Police chief announce that the bombing suspect was found, Trump would had been calling for a ban of immigrants or the immediate building of his stupid wall. FACT: This is a white terrorist! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— Ed Krassenstein 💎 (@EdKrassen) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/976412827736006656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Bombings have barely made the news. Black people murdered by a white male, no surprise that the media isn’t interested. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— cheat_codes (@closeweek) <a href="https://twitter.com/closeweek/status/976409704954986496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Could you imagine what Donald Trump, Republicans and Fox News would have been saying if the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a> terrorist was Muslim, Black or Latino? But no, he was a 24 year old white male so it’s just another passing news story not a 24/7 tool to fear-monger against minorities</p>— ♻️ Christopher Zullo (@ChrisJZullo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisJZullo/status/976411763821481984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Austin bomber was a 24 year old white male. I am sure he will be described as a sick individual instead of terrorist. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DomesticTerrorism?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#DomesticTerrorism</a></p>— Naturalclone (@naturalclone) <a href="https://twitter.com/naturalclone/status/976408125480882177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a>.....24 year old white male suspect killed after detonating last bomb as police closed in. Or, as the rest of the world sees it, American Terrorist kills himself with own device. If you still believe terrorists are only Muslims with a backpack, I truly pity you.</p>— ❄Is It Over Yet?❄ (@gnomes_77) <a href="https://twitter.com/gnomes_77/status/976401218422571009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<p>Some were a little blunt than others.</p>
<q> <p>This shit is fucking terrorism, stop being fucking dumb. but noooo it can’t possibly be terrorism if they’re not a muslim. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— amani. (@amanisxos) <a href="https://twitter.com/amanisxos/status/976401763908640768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
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"<p>People have been quick to point out how a bombing in Austin, Texas is reported in the wider media.</p>
<p>Police said today that the suspect linked with a series of deadly parcel bombs targeting Austin, Texas, is dead.</p>
<p>The suspect was killed after detonating a device when officers approached his car.</p>
<p>Four bomb attacks took place in Austin, the state capital, and one in Schertz.</p>
<p>The blasts that began in Austin earlier this - involved package bombs and a tripwire and all said to be related.</p>
<p>The bombings killed two people and left the Texas capital terrorised with fear for 19 days.</p>
<q> <p>Thank you FBI. The Austin bomber, a 24 year old white male (therefore not classified as a terrorist ) will no longer TERRORIZE Austin residents. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— Brian Krassenstein🐬 (@krassenstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/976410801543184385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Imagine if the Austin bomber was a Mexican or Muslim. When the Austin Police chief announce that the bombing suspect was found, Trump would had been calling for a ban of immigrants or the immediate building of his stupid wall. FACT: This is a white terrorist! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— Ed Krassenstein 💎 (@EdKrassen) <a href="https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/976412827736006656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Bombings have barely made the news. Black people murdered by a white male, no surprise that the media isn’t interested. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— cheat_codes (@closeweek) <a href="https://twitter.com/closeweek/status/976409704954986496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Could you imagine what Donald Trump, Republicans and Fox News would have been saying if the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a> terrorist was Muslim, Black or Latino? But no, he was a 24 year old white male so it’s just another passing news story not a 24/7 tool to fear-monger against minorities</p>— ♻️ Christopher Zullo (@ChrisJZullo) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisJZullo/status/976411763821481984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p>Austin bomber was a 24 year old white male. I am sure he will be described as a sick individual instead of terrorist. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DomesticTerrorism?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#DomesticTerrorism</a></p>— Naturalclone (@naturalclone) <a href="https://twitter.com/naturalclone/status/976408125480882177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<q> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a>.....24 year old white male suspect killed after detonating last bomb as police closed in. Or, as the rest of the world sees it, American Terrorist kills himself with own device. If you still believe terrorists are only Muslims with a backpack, I truly pity you.</p>— ❄Is It Over Yet?❄ (@gnomes_77) <a href="https://twitter.com/gnomes_77/status/976401218422571009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>
<p>Some were a little blunt than others.</p>
<q> <p>This shit is fucking terrorism, stop being fucking dumb. but noooo it can’t possibly be terrorism if they’re not a muslim. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AustinBombing?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">#AustinBombing</a></p>— amani. (@amanisxos) <a href="https://twitter.com/amanisxos/status/976401763908640768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">March 21, 2018</a> </q>"
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<p>Now that a federal judge has held Obama's illegal "executive amnesty" unconstitutional, perhaps U.S. senators will remember that they swore to uphold the Constitution, too.</p>
<p>Back when they needed our votes before the last election, Republicans were hairy-chested warriors, vowing to block Obama's unconstitutional "executive amnesty" -- if only voters gave them a Senate majority.</p>
<p>The resulting Republican landslide suggested some opposition to amnesty.</p>
<p>Heading into the election, college professor Dave Brat took out the sitting House majority leader and amnesty-supporter Eric Cantor in a primary, despite being outspent 40-1. It was the greatest upset in history since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" at the Lake Placid Olympics: Never before has a House majority leader been defeated in a primary. And Brat did it by an astonishing 55.5 percent to 45.5 percent.</p>
<p>Again, the voters seemed to be expressing disquiet with amnesty.</p>
<p>After that, even amnesty-supporting Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., was denouncing Obama's executive amnesty. "If the president were to do that," he said, "and we have a Republican majority in the United States Senate, why, we have a number of options that we don't now have to remind him to read Article I of the Constitution."</p>
<p>Poll after poll showed Americans ranking illegal immigration as the No. 1 most important problem facing the nation. We haven't changed our minds. Last week, an Associated Press-Gfk poll showed that Obama's single most unpopular policy is his position on illegal immigration.</p>
<p>In other words, Obamacare is more popular than amnesty. That's like losing a popularity contest to Ted Bundy.</p>
<p>Since at least 2006, voters have insistently told pollsters they don't want amnesty. Seemingly bulletproof Republican congressmen have lost their seats over amnesty. President Bush lost the entire House of Representatives over amnesty. What else do we have to do to convince you we don't want amnesty, Republicans? Make it a host on "The View"?</p>
<p>Before the election, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell complained that Obama's decision to delay his executive amnesty until after the election was a ploy to prevent Americans from "hold(ing) his party accountable in the November elections."</p>
<p>But voters went ahead and held Obama accountable! Now McConnell is Senate majority leader -- and he claims his hands are tied.</p>
<p>McConnell's spokesman at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Brad Dayspring, predicted that Obama's amnesty threat would drive voters to "elect a new Senate (that) will stand up to the president."</p>
<p>Check! Mission accomplished! Done and done! Officially off our bucket list. OK, guys, your turn. When do you start standing up to the president? Hello? Hell-oooo?</p>
<p>To gin up votes, "Republican insiders" told the Washington Examiner last fall that "the results of the midterm elections" would determine how "aggressive" the GOP would be in fighting Obama's amnesty.</p>
<p>Voters gave you a blow-out victory, Republicans. You cleaned their clocks. (Have you seen Harry Reid lately?) Where's that promised aggression on amnesty?</p>
<p>Republicans and George Will tell us they can't stand up to Obama's executive amnesty because the media are unfair.</p>
<p>Oh, well, in that case, never mind!</p>
<p>This is news to them? They didn't know the media were unfair when they were promising to block Obama's illegal amnesty before the elections? The media have blamed the GOP for every failure of Republicans and Democrats to reach an agreement since the Hoover administration. This isn't a surprise development.</p>
<p>Why don't Republicans attack the media? People hate the media! Their power is eroding -- and it would erode a lot faster if Congress would challenge them. Instead of submitting to the media's blackmail, my suggestion is, take their gun away.</p>
<p>Tell voters what the media won't: that Obama's "amnesty" will give illegal aliens Social Security cards and three years of back-payments through the Earned Income Tax Credit, even though they never paid taxes in the first place.</p>
<p>Could we get a poll on that: Should the government issue work permits to illegal aliens and give them each $25,000 in U.S. taxpayer money? I promise you, Obama would lose that vote by at least 80-20. Even people who are against hounding illegal aliens out of the country aren't clamoring to open the U.S. Treasury to them.</p>
<p>Tell voters that the media are refusing to report on Senate Democrats' weeks-long filibuster against a GOP bill that would defund Obama's illegal "amnesty."</p>
<p>Contrary to hysterical claims by the media and George Will, the government won't shut down if the Democrats' filibuster goes on forever. The government is funded! Only the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be "defunded."</p>
<p>Which means, let's see ... I'm counting on my fingers ... yes, that's right: NOTHING.</p>
<p>Nearly all DHS employees are deemed "essential" personnel who are required to stay on the job even if the department's budget doesn't pass -- the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard.</p>
<p>Approximately 200,000 of DHS's 230,000 employees are required to keep working through what the media will hysterically call a "government shutdown."</p>
<p>By "government shutdown," the media mean: "some secretaries will not go to work."</p>
<p>Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty.</p>
<p>If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.</p>
<p>COPYRIGHT 2015 ANN COULTER</p>
<p>DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL UCLICK</p>
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"<p>Now that a federal judge has held Obama's illegal "executive amnesty" unconstitutional, perhaps U.S. senators will remember that they swore to uphold the Constitution, too.</p>
<p>Back when they needed our votes before the last election, Republicans were hairy-chested warriors, vowing to block Obama's unconstitutional "executive amnesty" -- if only voters gave them a Senate majority.</p>
<p>The resulting Republican landslide suggested some opposition to amnesty.</p>
<p>Heading into the election, college professor Dave Brat took out the sitting House majority leader and amnesty-supporter Eric Cantor in a primary, despite being outspent 40-1. It was the greatest upset in history since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" at the Lake Placid Olympics: Never before has a House majority leader been defeated in a primary. And Brat did it by an astonishing 55.5 percent to 45.5 percent.</p>
<p>Again, the voters seemed to be expressing disquiet with amnesty.</p>
<p>After that, even amnesty-supporting Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., was denouncing Obama's executive amnesty. "If the president were to do that," he said, "and we have a Republican majority in the United States Senate, why, we have a number of options that we don't now have to remind him to read Article I of the Constitution."</p>
<p>Poll after poll showed Americans ranking illegal immigration as the No. 1 most important problem facing the nation. We haven't changed our minds. Last week, an Associated Press-Gfk poll showed that Obama's single most unpopular policy is his position on illegal immigration.</p>
<p>In other words, Obamacare is more popular than amnesty. That's like losing a popularity contest to Ted Bundy.</p>
<p>Since at least 2006, voters have insistently told pollsters they don't want amnesty. Seemingly bulletproof Republican congressmen have lost their seats over amnesty. President Bush lost the entire House of Representatives over amnesty. What else do we have to do to convince you we don't want amnesty, Republicans? Make it a host on "The View"?</p>
<p>Before the election, then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell complained that Obama's decision to delay his executive amnesty until after the election was a ploy to prevent Americans from "hold(ing) his party accountable in the November elections."</p>
<p>But voters went ahead and held Obama accountable! Now McConnell is Senate majority leader -- and he claims his hands are tied.</p>
<p>McConnell's spokesman at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Brad Dayspring, predicted that Obama's amnesty threat would drive voters to "elect a new Senate (that) will stand up to the president."</p>
<p>Check! Mission accomplished! Done and done! Officially off our bucket list. OK, guys, your turn. When do you start standing up to the president? Hello? Hell-oooo?</p>
<p>To gin up votes, "Republican insiders" told the Washington Examiner last fall that "the results of the midterm elections" would determine how "aggressive" the GOP would be in fighting Obama's amnesty.</p>
<p>Voters gave you a blow-out victory, Republicans. You cleaned their clocks. (Have you seen Harry Reid lately?) Where's that promised aggression on amnesty?</p>
<p>Republicans and George Will tell us they can't stand up to Obama's executive amnesty because the media are unfair.</p>
<p>Oh, well, in that case, never mind!</p>
<p>This is news to them? They didn't know the media were unfair when they were promising to block Obama's illegal amnesty before the elections? The media have blamed the GOP for every failure of Republicans and Democrats to reach an agreement since the Hoover administration. This isn't a surprise development.</p>
<p>Why don't Republicans attack the media? People hate the media! Their power is eroding -- and it would erode a lot faster if Congress would challenge them. Instead of submitting to the media's blackmail, my suggestion is, take their gun away.</p>
<p>Tell voters what the media won't: that Obama's "amnesty" will give illegal aliens Social Security cards and three years of back-payments through the Earned Income Tax Credit, even though they never paid taxes in the first place.</p>
<p>Could we get a poll on that: Should the government issue work permits to illegal aliens and give them each $25,000 in U.S. taxpayer money? I promise you, Obama would lose that vote by at least 80-20. Even people who are against hounding illegal aliens out of the country aren't clamoring to open the U.S. Treasury to them.</p>
<p>Tell voters that the media are refusing to report on Senate Democrats' weeks-long filibuster against a GOP bill that would defund Obama's illegal "amnesty."</p>
<p>Contrary to hysterical claims by the media and George Will, the government won't shut down if the Democrats' filibuster goes on forever. The government is funded! Only the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will be "defunded."</p>
<p>Which means, let's see ... I'm counting on my fingers ... yes, that's right: NOTHING.</p>
<p>Nearly all DHS employees are deemed "essential" personnel who are required to stay on the job even if the department's budget doesn't pass -- the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Customs and Border Protection and the Coast Guard.</p>
<p>Approximately 200,000 of DHS's 230,000 employees are required to keep working through what the media will hysterically call a "government shutdown."</p>
<p>By "government shutdown," the media mean: "some secretaries will not go to work."</p>
<p>Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty.</p>
<p>If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.</p>
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<p>Methinks she doth protest too much -- and too late. Those who condemned President Trump for not condemning white supremacist groups quickly and forcefully enough after Charlottesville have no problem with Hillary Clinton taking five full days to hypocritically condemn sexual predator Harvey Weinstein.</p>
<p>Maybe she was pondering the similarities between Weinstein’s predatory activities and that of her husband. Both used their positions of power to extort sexual favors, sometimes forcibly, from women. And just as Hollywood looked the other way for the sake of career advancement so too did Hillary Clinton as she rode her husband’s attained coattails to political prominence. So her <a href="https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/10/10/hillary-clinton-totally-shocked-harvey-weinstein-lot-like-bill-clinton/" type="external">recent expression of disgust</a> over Weinstein’s activities ring hollow:</p>
<q> <p>At long last, the people who do the strategic planning for Hillary Clinton and tell her what emotions she should imitate in response to various stimuli have weighed in and they have decided that Harvey Weinstein is not a nice man:</p> <p>“I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by the women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior...”</p> <p>Hillary Clinton knew who and what Weinstein was as surely as she knew and knows what Bill Clinton is. Weinstein has been joined at the hip with the Clintons for a couple of decades…</p> <p>Ironically, as it turns out, he was a major defender of Bill Clinton in the Lewinski affair though Weinstein seemed to favor aiming at the ficus bushes rather than blue dresses. At the same time, mind you, that Hillary Clinton was active in directing a campaign to paint the battalion of women who had been sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton as morally decrepit if not outright crazy.</p> <p>Between Hillary’s campaigns and the Clinton Foundation (out of curiosity, is the FBI still investigating this?) she has benefited from as much as a quarter million dollars from Weinstein.</p> </q>
<p>Hollywood was a major funder of both the Clinton and Obama political machines, and many a Hollywood star defended Bill Clinton’s sordid activities as a personal matter as long as he was doing a good job as President. They similarly defended Weinstein as Michelle Obama once did, as a “wonderful human being”, as well as “a good friend and just a powerhouse” Both the Obamas and Clintons knew Weinstein well and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/10/12/cnn-jeffrey-toobin-obamas-clintons-dont-get-pass-on-weinstein-dark-mark-on-their-record/" type="external">neither should be given a pass</a> for feigning ignorance and shock at his activities:</p>
<q> <p>None other than CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on Tuesday evening that former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama should not get a “pass” on Harvey Weinstein.</p> <p>In fact, Toobin said their association with Weinstein throughout the years is a “dark mark on their record.”</p> <p>“I don’t think we can give the Clintons and the Obamas a pass here,” Toobin said on Anderson Cooper 360. He cited Seth MacFarlane’s creepy joke about Weinstein at an Oscars event and added that MacFarlane’s joke illustrated that “a lot of people knew or had very strong suspicions that this was a very bad guy.”</p> <p>“The Obamas and the Clintons embraced him, did fundraisers with him, paid tribute to him,” Toobin continued. “I think it’s a dark mark on their record…”</p> <p>The Obamas also finally said on record that they were “disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein.”</p> <p>“Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein,” the Obamas said in a statement. “Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status. We should celebrate the courage of women who have come forward to tell these painful stories. And we all need to build a culture -- including by empowering our girls and teaching our boys decency and respect -- so we can make such behavior less prevalent in the future…”</p> <p>As Breitbart News has reported, Weinstein visited the Obama White House on at least 13 occasions and Obama’s daughter, Malia Obama, “recently wrapped up an internship at the New York City offices of The Weinstein Co.”</p> </q>
<p>Right. Perhaps Weinstein wanted to see where Bill Clinton dropped his cigar in the Oval Office. Hillary, of course, should be all too familiar with Harvey Weinstein’s despicable behavior. She watched her husband do the same and worse for decades as she also allegedly fought for women’s rights, except for the right of their victims to leave the room unmolested.</p>
<p>Hillary famously said that all claims of rape, abuse, and harassment should be deemed credible and be believed until proven otherwise. It seems there was an exception for her husband, an exception required by her need to ride his coattails to power, just as Hollywood excused Weinstein because he could advance or kill the careers of those he exploited.</p>
<p>Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey as well as, some would suggest, a cast of thousands, have been groped, fondled, and used as sexual objects by one William Jefferson Clinton. Was Hillary appalled and shocked at her husband’s predatory activities or did she blame it on that “vast right-wing conspiracy”?</p>
<p>And then there’s Juanita Broaddrick, who has accused President Clinton of rape. <a type="internal">Juanita Broaddrick’s story</a> is a credible one, and one of the many “ <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/here-are-the-top-5-reasons-hillary-clinton-is-anti-woman/" type="external">bimbo eruptions</a>” that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton handled during her husband Bill’s presidential campaign As Linda Tripp, confidante of former Clinton intern Monica Lewinsky, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3176621/Lies-cover-ups-corruption-Linda-Tripp-West-Wing-assistant-outed-Monica-Lewinsky-s-sexual-liaison-Bill-Clinton-talks-time-Hillary-tells-never-President.html" type="external">told the Daily Mail</a> of how Hillary both enabled and covered up Bill’s many dalliances:</p>
<q> <p>Tripp said: 'His political success was largely dependent upon Hillary. He owed her a great deal. As is widely acknowledged, Hillary took care of all the 'bimbo eruptions' of which there were thousands in order to present to the world an electable candidate.</p> <p>'In this endeavor she was ruthless. She destroyed women so that their stories never saw the light of day.'</p> </q>
<p>So much for fighting for women’s rights. At a Trump press conference in 2016, Broaddrick, tired of being accused of being part of that vast right-wing conspiracy, and afraid that her attacker would once again occupy the White House with the woman who orchestrated the attacks on Bill Clinton’s “bimbo eruptions”, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/09/trump-holds-press-conference-with-women-whove-accused-bill-clinton-sex-assault-rape.html" type="external">repeated her accusation</a>:</p>
<q> <p>“Actions speak louder than words,” Broaddrick said. “Mr. Trump may have said some bad words but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don’t think there’s any comparison.”</p> </q>
<p>Broaddrick, who has said Hillary threatened her, appeared with fellow Clinton sexual assault victims Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey appeared in an interview at presidential suite of the historic Watergate and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/09/juanita-broaddrick-kathleen-willey-paula-jones-bill-clinton-sexual-assault/" type="external">related the tale</a>of Bill’s assaults and their fear of Hillary’s retaliation:</p>
<q> <p>In an exclusive <a href="https://youtu.be/NvoRcPXURwg" type="external">video interview</a> at the presidential suite of the historic Watergate Hotel, the victims of Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual assault -- Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones -- got together for the first time in person to express their personal fear of Hillary Clinton and to warn voters that Clinton does not stand for women’s issues..</p> <p>The three women, who say their lives were forever changed by their experiences with the Clintons, used words like “terrified” and “frightened” to describe their feelings about the prospects of a Hillary Clinton presidency…</p> <p>“We were not willing participants,” Broaddrick said. “These were crimes.” In a separate interview, Broaddrick shared her own story of brutal sexual assault which she says Bill Clinton perpetrated against her.</p> <p>Willey called out NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell and CNN’s Jake Tapper by name, challenging them: “These are not infidelities. A rape is not an infidelity. These are crimes. Any other people would be in jail…</p> <p>“This is no longer about infidelities, indiscretions, girlfriends, sex, interns -- none of those. This is about a serial rapist, a predator, and his wife who has enabled his behavior all of these years.”</p> <p>Later in this interview, Jones, Willey, and Broaddrick expressed fear at how a potential President Hillary Clinton would use the power of her office.</p> <p>“It terrifies me and it should terrify all women,” Jones stated about Hillary’s presidential ambitions.</p> <p>“It should terrify all men and women,” Willey added. “She will annihilate any enemy. All of her enemies. Anybody who has spoken against her. Across the board for I don’t know how many years. She will get rid of them.”</p> <p>“No woman who advocates for women attacks the victims of sexual assault be it by her husband or anybody else,” said Willey.</p> <p>The women argued that the term “enabler” best describes Hillary Clinton’s role in her husband’s alleged sexual crimes.</p> </q>
<p>Harvey Weinstein and Bill Clinton – sexual predators separated at birth. Hillary and Hollywood knew them and their activities full well and tolerated them for similar reasons. We should be appalled, if not shocked, at their craven hypocrisy as both have waged a sick and depraved and very real war on women.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/gerfingerpoken2" type="external">Daniel John Sobieski</a>is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.</p>
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"<p>Methinks she doth protest too much -- and too late. Those who condemned President Trump for not condemning white supremacist groups quickly and forcefully enough after Charlottesville have no problem with Hillary Clinton taking five full days to hypocritically condemn sexual predator Harvey Weinstein.</p>
<p>Maybe she was pondering the similarities between Weinstein’s predatory activities and that of her husband. Both used their positions of power to extort sexual favors, sometimes forcibly, from women. And just as Hollywood looked the other way for the sake of career advancement so too did Hillary Clinton as she rode her husband’s attained coattails to political prominence. So her <a href="https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/10/10/hillary-clinton-totally-shocked-harvey-weinstein-lot-like-bill-clinton/" type="external">recent expression of disgust</a> over Weinstein’s activities ring hollow:</p>
<q> <p>At long last, the people who do the strategic planning for Hillary Clinton and tell her what emotions she should imitate in response to various stimuli have weighed in and they have decided that Harvey Weinstein is not a nice man:</p> <p>“I was shocked and appalled by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein. The behavior described by the women coming forward cannot be tolerated. Their courage and the support of others is critical in helping to stop this kind of behavior...”</p> <p>Hillary Clinton knew who and what Weinstein was as surely as she knew and knows what Bill Clinton is. Weinstein has been joined at the hip with the Clintons for a couple of decades…</p> <p>Ironically, as it turns out, he was a major defender of Bill Clinton in the Lewinski affair though Weinstein seemed to favor aiming at the ficus bushes rather than blue dresses. At the same time, mind you, that Hillary Clinton was active in directing a campaign to paint the battalion of women who had been sexually assaulted by Bill Clinton as morally decrepit if not outright crazy.</p> <p>Between Hillary’s campaigns and the Clinton Foundation (out of curiosity, is the FBI still investigating this?) she has benefited from as much as a quarter million dollars from Weinstein.</p> </q>
<p>Hollywood was a major funder of both the Clinton and Obama political machines, and many a Hollywood star defended Bill Clinton’s sordid activities as a personal matter as long as he was doing a good job as President. They similarly defended Weinstein as Michelle Obama once did, as a “wonderful human being”, as well as “a good friend and just a powerhouse” Both the Obamas and Clintons knew Weinstein well and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/10/12/cnn-jeffrey-toobin-obamas-clintons-dont-get-pass-on-weinstein-dark-mark-on-their-record/" type="external">neither should be given a pass</a> for feigning ignorance and shock at his activities:</p>
<q> <p>None other than CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said on Tuesday evening that former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama should not get a “pass” on Harvey Weinstein.</p> <p>In fact, Toobin said their association with Weinstein throughout the years is a “dark mark on their record.”</p> <p>“I don’t think we can give the Clintons and the Obamas a pass here,” Toobin said on Anderson Cooper 360. He cited Seth MacFarlane’s creepy joke about Weinstein at an Oscars event and added that MacFarlane’s joke illustrated that “a lot of people knew or had very strong suspicions that this was a very bad guy.”</p> <p>“The Obamas and the Clintons embraced him, did fundraisers with him, paid tribute to him,” Toobin continued. “I think it’s a dark mark on their record…”</p> <p>The Obamas also finally said on record that they were “disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein.”</p> <p>“Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein,” the Obamas said in a statement. “Any man who demeans and degrades women in such fashion needs to be condemned and held accountable, regardless of wealth or status. We should celebrate the courage of women who have come forward to tell these painful stories. And we all need to build a culture -- including by empowering our girls and teaching our boys decency and respect -- so we can make such behavior less prevalent in the future…”</p> <p>As Breitbart News has reported, Weinstein visited the Obama White House on at least 13 occasions and Obama’s daughter, Malia Obama, “recently wrapped up an internship at the New York City offices of The Weinstein Co.”</p> </q>
<p>Right. Perhaps Weinstein wanted to see where Bill Clinton dropped his cigar in the Oval Office. Hillary, of course, should be all too familiar with Harvey Weinstein’s despicable behavior. She watched her husband do the same and worse for decades as she also allegedly fought for women’s rights, except for the right of their victims to leave the room unmolested.</p>
<p>Hillary famously said that all claims of rape, abuse, and harassment should be deemed credible and be believed until proven otherwise. It seems there was an exception for her husband, an exception required by her need to ride his coattails to power, just as Hollywood excused Weinstein because he could advance or kill the careers of those he exploited.</p>
<p>Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey as well as, some would suggest, a cast of thousands, have been groped, fondled, and used as sexual objects by one William Jefferson Clinton. Was Hillary appalled and shocked at her husband’s predatory activities or did she blame it on that “vast right-wing conspiracy”?</p>
<p>And then there’s Juanita Broaddrick, who has accused President Clinton of rape. <a type="internal">Juanita Broaddrick’s story</a> is a credible one, and one of the many “ <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/here-are-the-top-5-reasons-hillary-clinton-is-anti-woman/" type="external">bimbo eruptions</a>” that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton handled during her husband Bill’s presidential campaign As Linda Tripp, confidante of former Clinton intern Monica Lewinsky, <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3176621/Lies-cover-ups-corruption-Linda-Tripp-West-Wing-assistant-outed-Monica-Lewinsky-s-sexual-liaison-Bill-Clinton-talks-time-Hillary-tells-never-President.html" type="external">told the Daily Mail</a> of how Hillary both enabled and covered up Bill’s many dalliances:</p>
<q> <p>Tripp said: 'His political success was largely dependent upon Hillary. He owed her a great deal. As is widely acknowledged, Hillary took care of all the 'bimbo eruptions' of which there were thousands in order to present to the world an electable candidate.</p> <p>'In this endeavor she was ruthless. She destroyed women so that their stories never saw the light of day.'</p> </q>
<p>So much for fighting for women’s rights. At a Trump press conference in 2016, Broaddrick, tired of being accused of being part of that vast right-wing conspiracy, and afraid that her attacker would once again occupy the White House with the woman who orchestrated the attacks on Bill Clinton’s “bimbo eruptions”, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/09/trump-holds-press-conference-with-women-whove-accused-bill-clinton-sex-assault-rape.html" type="external">repeated her accusation</a>:</p>
<q> <p>“Actions speak louder than words,” Broaddrick said. “Mr. Trump may have said some bad words but Bill Clinton raped me and Hillary Clinton threatened me. I don’t think there’s any comparison.”</p> </q>
<p>Broaddrick, who has said Hillary threatened her, appeared with fellow Clinton sexual assault victims Paula Jones and Kathleen Willey appeared in an interview at presidential suite of the historic Watergate and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/10/09/juanita-broaddrick-kathleen-willey-paula-jones-bill-clinton-sexual-assault/" type="external">related the tale</a>of Bill’s assaults and their fear of Hillary’s retaliation:</p>
<q> <p>In an exclusive <a href="https://youtu.be/NvoRcPXURwg" type="external">video interview</a> at the presidential suite of the historic Watergate Hotel, the victims of Bill Clinton’s alleged sexual assault -- Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, and Paula Jones -- got together for the first time in person to express their personal fear of Hillary Clinton and to warn voters that Clinton does not stand for women’s issues..</p> <p>The three women, who say their lives were forever changed by their experiences with the Clintons, used words like “terrified” and “frightened” to describe their feelings about the prospects of a Hillary Clinton presidency…</p> <p>“We were not willing participants,” Broaddrick said. “These were crimes.” In a separate interview, Broaddrick shared her own story of brutal sexual assault which she says Bill Clinton perpetrated against her.</p> <p>Willey called out NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell and CNN’s Jake Tapper by name, challenging them: “These are not infidelities. A rape is not an infidelity. These are crimes. Any other people would be in jail…</p> <p>“This is no longer about infidelities, indiscretions, girlfriends, sex, interns -- none of those. This is about a serial rapist, a predator, and his wife who has enabled his behavior all of these years.”</p> <p>Later in this interview, Jones, Willey, and Broaddrick expressed fear at how a potential President Hillary Clinton would use the power of her office.</p> <p>“It terrifies me and it should terrify all women,” Jones stated about Hillary’s presidential ambitions.</p> <p>“It should terrify all men and women,” Willey added. “She will annihilate any enemy. All of her enemies. Anybody who has spoken against her. Across the board for I don’t know how many years. She will get rid of them.”</p> <p>“No woman who advocates for women attacks the victims of sexual assault be it by her husband or anybody else,” said Willey.</p> <p>The women argued that the term “enabler” best describes Hillary Clinton’s role in her husband’s alleged sexual crimes.</p> </q>
<p>Harvey Weinstein and Bill Clinton – sexual predators separated at birth. Hillary and Hollywood knew them and their activities full well and tolerated them for similar reasons. We should be appalled, if not shocked, at their craven hypocrisy as both have waged a sick and depraved and very real war on women.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/gerfingerpoken2" type="external">Daniel John Sobieski</a>is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.</p>"
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<p>I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.</p>
<p>Five score years ago, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" type="external">a great American</a>, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation" type="external">Emancipation Proclamation</a>. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.</p>
<p>But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.</p>
<p>In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the <a href="http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/declarationofindependence.htm" type="external">Declaration of Independence</a>, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."</p>
<p>But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.</p>
<p>We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.</p>
<p>It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.</p>
<p>But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.</p>
<p>The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.</p>
<p>We cannot walk alone.</p>
<p>And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.</p>
<p>We cannot turn back.</p>
<p>There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. **We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only."** We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."1</p>
<p>I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.</p>
<p>Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.</p>
<p>And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.</p>
<p>I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.</p>
<p>I have a dream today!</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.</p>
<p>I have a dream today!</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."2</p>
<p>This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.</p>
<p>With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.</p>
<p>And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:</p>
<q> <p>My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!</p> </q>
<p>And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.</p>
<p>And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.</p>
<q> <p>Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.</p> </q>
<p>But not only that:</p>
<q> <p>Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.</p> <p>From every mountainside, let freedom ring.</p> </q>
<p>And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:</p>
<q> <q> <p>Free at last! Free at last!</p> <p>Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!3</p> </q> </q>
<p>** = Content within red asterisks absent from this audio. For reasons unknown to this writer, the audio has been edited -- at least once -- to exclude the content noted in double asterisks in the main text area above. Click player below or <a type="internal">here</a> for audio of the content in red asterisks. Audio includes surrounding content for reference beginning with "There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights" and ending with "righteousness like a mighty stream."</p> Your browser does not support the audio element.
<p>1 <a href="http://bible.cc/amos/5-24.htm" type="external">Amos 5:24</a> (rendered precisely in The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible)</p>
<p>2 Isaiah 40:4-5 (King James Version of the Holy Bible). Quotation marks are excluded from part of this moment in the text because King's rendering of Isaiah 40:4 does not precisely follow the KJV version from which he quotes (e.g., "hill" and "mountain" are reversed in the KJV). King's rendering of Isaiah 40:5, however, is precisely quoted from the KJV.</p>
<p>3 At: <a href="http://www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/free_at_last_from.htm" type="external">http://www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/free_at_last_from.htm</a></p>
<p>Also in this database: <a type="internal">Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence</a></p>
<p>Audio Source: Linked directly to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/MLKDream" type="external">http://www.archive.org/details/MLKDream</a></p>
<p>Image #2 Source:. <a href="http://www.jfklibrary.org" type="external">http://www.jfklibrary.org</a></p>
<p>External Link: <a href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/" type="external">http://www.thekingcenter.org/</a></p>
<p>Page Updated: 11/14/17</p>
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<p>I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.</p>
<p>Five score years ago, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" type="external">a great American</a>, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the <a href="https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured-documents/emancipation-proclamation" type="external">Emancipation Proclamation</a>. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.</p>
<p>But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.</p>
<p>In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the <a href="http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/declarationofindependence.htm" type="external">Declaration of Independence</a>, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."</p>
<p>But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.</p>
<p>We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.</p>
<p>It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.</p>
<p>But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.</p>
<p>The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.</p>
<p>We cannot walk alone.</p>
<p>And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.</p>
<p>We cannot turn back.</p>
<p>There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. **We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only."** We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."1</p>
<p>I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.</p>
<p>Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.</p>
<p>And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.</p>
<p>I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.</p>
<p>I have a dream today!</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.</p>
<p>I have a dream today!</p>
<p>I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."2</p>
<p>This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.</p>
<p>With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.</p>
<p>And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:</p>
<q> <p>My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring!</p> </q>
<p>And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.</p>
<p>And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.</p>
<q> <p>Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.</p> </q>
<p>But not only that:</p>
<q> <p>Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.</p> <p>Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.</p> <p>From every mountainside, let freedom ring.</p> </q>
<p>And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:</p>
<q> <q> <p>Free at last! Free at last!</p> <p>Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!3</p> </q> </q>
<p>** = Content within red asterisks absent from this audio. For reasons unknown to this writer, the audio has been edited -- at least once -- to exclude the content noted in double asterisks in the main text area above. Click player below or <a type="internal">here</a> for audio of the content in red asterisks. Audio includes surrounding content for reference beginning with "There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights" and ending with "righteousness like a mighty stream."</p> Your browser does not support the audio element.
<p>1 <a href="http://bible.cc/amos/5-24.htm" type="external">Amos 5:24</a> (rendered precisely in The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible)</p>
<p>2 Isaiah 40:4-5 (King James Version of the Holy Bible). Quotation marks are excluded from part of this moment in the text because King's rendering of Isaiah 40:4 does not precisely follow the KJV version from which he quotes (e.g., "hill" and "mountain" are reversed in the KJV). King's rendering of Isaiah 40:5, however, is precisely quoted from the KJV.</p>
<p>3 At: <a href="http://www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/free_at_last_from.htm" type="external">http://www.negrospirituals.com/news-song/free_at_last_from.htm</a></p>
<p>Also in this database: <a type="internal">Martin Luther King, Jr: A Time to Break Silence</a></p>
<p>Audio Source: Linked directly to: <a href="https://archive.org/details/MLKDream" type="external">http://www.archive.org/details/MLKDream</a></p>
<p>Image #2 Source:. <a href="http://www.jfklibrary.org" type="external">http://www.jfklibrary.org</a></p>
<p>External Link: <a href="http://www.thekingcenter.org/" type="external">http://www.thekingcenter.org/</a></p>
<p>Page Updated: 11/14/17</p>
<p>U.S. Copyright Status: Text and Audio = Restricted, seek permission. Image #1 = Uncertain. Image #2 = Public domain.</p>
<p>Copyright inquiries and permission requests may be directed to:</p>
<p>Estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Intellectual Properties Management One Freedom Plaza 449 Auburn Avenue NE Atlanta, GA 30312 Fax: 404-526-8969</p>"
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<p>Hillary Clinton crawled back into the spotlight once again to lob attacks at Donald Trump.</p>
<p>She lost her mind over his speech at the U.N. General Assembly where he tagged Kim Jong Un with the nickname “Rocket Man.”</p>
<p>But Trump fired back and destroyed both Bill and Hillary Clinton with one tweet.</p>
<p>During Trump’s speech, he declared Kim Jon Un – whom he labeled as “Rocket Man” – was on a suicide mission by continuing to develop nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Trump said the United States would destroy North Korea if they threatened America or her allies.</p>
<q> <p>Rocket man (Kim Jong-un) is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime. – <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNGA?src=hash" type="external">#UNGA</a> <a href="https://t.co/AwPgyKyPrG" type="external">pic.twitter.com/AwPgyKyPrG</a></p> </q>
<p>Trump’s “Rocket Man” nickname for the North Korean tyrant was a big hit and other world leaders quickly adopted it.</p>
<q> <p>"It worked. … [Using the term "Rocket Man"] is a way of getting people to talk about [Kin Jong-un]." – Ambassador <a href="https://twitter.com/nikkihaley" type="external">@nikkihaley</a> <a href="https://t.co/POZxcJbYXD" type="external">pic.twitter.com/POZxcJbYXD</a></p> <p>— Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/GMA/status/910464468248780801" type="external">September 20, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>But not everyone was pleased.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton appeared at one of her safe spaces – Stephen Colbert’s late night comedy show – and attacked the speech as “dark” and “dangerous”.</p>
<q> <p>TONIGHT on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LSSC?src=hash" type="external">#LSSC</a>: Before getting into the 2016 election, <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton" type="external">@HillaryClinton</a> reviews <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatHappened?src=hash" type="external">#WhatHappened</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" type="external">@realDonaldTrump</a>'s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNGA?src=hash" type="external">#UNGA</a> speech today… <a href="https://t.co/AguyWYMnH8" type="external">pic.twitter.com/AguyWYMnH8</a></p> <p>— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/910288546472247296" type="external">September 19, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Trump immediately fired back.</p>
<p>He pointed out he was only in this dangerous situation because of the Clintons.</p>
<q> <p>After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary of State (Bill C also), Crooked Hillary now criticizes.</p> <p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/910453612630900736" type="external">September 20, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Trump correctly noted that in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton made a deal with the North Koreans where they obtained fuel and nuclear power plants in exchange for freezing their weapons program.</p>
<p>The deal failed and North Korea gained the wherewithal to develop nuclear missiles.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton – as Secretary of State – presided over Barack Obama’s policy of “strategic patience.”</p>
<p>This amounted to doing nothing and hoping someone else would clean up the mess.</p>
<p>Now that Trump is taking steps to correct the Clintons errors, they are heckling him from the peanut gallery.</p>
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"<p>Hillary Clinton crawled back into the spotlight once again to lob attacks at Donald Trump.</p>
<p>She lost her mind over his speech at the U.N. General Assembly where he tagged Kim Jong Un with the nickname “Rocket Man.”</p>
<p>But Trump fired back and destroyed both Bill and Hillary Clinton with one tweet.</p>
<p>During Trump’s speech, he declared Kim Jon Un – whom he labeled as “Rocket Man” – was on a suicide mission by continuing to develop nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Trump said the United States would destroy North Korea if they threatened America or her allies.</p>
<q> <p>Rocket man (Kim Jong-un) is on a suicide mission for himself and his regime. – <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNGA?src=hash" type="external">#UNGA</a> <a href="https://t.co/AwPgyKyPrG" type="external">pic.twitter.com/AwPgyKyPrG</a></p> </q>
<p>Trump’s “Rocket Man” nickname for the North Korean tyrant was a big hit and other world leaders quickly adopted it.</p>
<q> <p>"It worked. … [Using the term "Rocket Man"] is a way of getting people to talk about [Kin Jong-un]." – Ambassador <a href="https://twitter.com/nikkihaley" type="external">@nikkihaley</a> <a href="https://t.co/POZxcJbYXD" type="external">pic.twitter.com/POZxcJbYXD</a></p> <p>— Good Morning America (@GMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/GMA/status/910464468248780801" type="external">September 20, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>But not everyone was pleased.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton appeared at one of her safe spaces – Stephen Colbert’s late night comedy show – and attacked the speech as “dark” and “dangerous”.</p>
<q> <p>TONIGHT on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LSSC?src=hash" type="external">#LSSC</a>: Before getting into the 2016 election, <a href="https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton" type="external">@HillaryClinton</a> reviews <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatHappened?src=hash" type="external">#WhatHappened</a> in <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump" type="external">@realDonaldTrump</a>'s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNGA?src=hash" type="external">#UNGA</a> speech today… <a href="https://t.co/AguyWYMnH8" type="external">pic.twitter.com/AguyWYMnH8</a></p> <p>— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/910288546472247296" type="external">September 19, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Trump immediately fired back.</p>
<p>He pointed out he was only in this dangerous situation because of the Clintons.</p>
<q> <p>After allowing North Korea to research and build Nukes while Secretary of State (Bill C also), Crooked Hillary now criticizes.</p> <p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/910453612630900736" type="external">September 20, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Trump correctly noted that in 1994, then-President Bill Clinton made a deal with the North Koreans where they obtained fuel and nuclear power plants in exchange for freezing their weapons program.</p>
<p>The deal failed and North Korea gained the wherewithal to develop nuclear missiles.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton – as Secretary of State – presided over Barack Obama’s policy of “strategic patience.”</p>
<p>This amounted to doing nothing and hoping someone else would clean up the mess.</p>
<p>Now that Trump is taking steps to correct the Clintons errors, they are heckling him from the peanut gallery.</p>"
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<p>A Muslim man was shocked to have his request for a judge to acknowledge Sharia law denied in court.</p>
<p>Nadir Ibrahim Ombabi, a Minnesota taxi driver, was killed in a car accident. Following his passing, legal proceedings began to determine a settlement for his spouse or surviving family.</p>
<p>A wrongful death suit was filed, in which Ombabi's estate was rewarded $183,000 to go to his wife.</p>
<p>Ombabi's brother, Hasameldin Ibrahim Imbabi, subsequently disputed the ruling on the grounds that the money should be distributed to his family in accordance with Sharia law. One of the specifics of that argument was that the men should receive "twice the share of the female."</p>
<p>"[The brother] further asserts that “the principles of the private international law should have been applied from the beginning since the law of all parties (the decedent, his widow and decedent[‘s] next of kin) is the Islamic Law and they are all Muslims and follow the specifics of the religion.” … [The brother’s] main assertion of error appears to be that the district court should have applied Sudanese Islamic law instead of Minnesota law when distributing the wrongful-death settlement proceeds…. [He] also asserts that the district court erred by refusing to honor a legal declaration issued by the Sudanese Family Court in Khartoum regarding distribution of the wrongful-death settlement proceeds under Sudanese Islamic law," court documents stated, the Washington Post reported.</p>
<p>The judge, however, denied the man's argument due to lack of legal representation and specious arguments.</p>
<p>Many reader applauded the judge's decision to reject Sharia law.</p>
<p>"Muslim man has no grounds to stand on with that, Sharia Law has NO place in this country ... these people need to get it through their thick skull that the US Constitution which is law of our land and Sharia Law does not and cannot co-exist in our land!" one Newsiosity reader commented on the site's Facebook page.</p>
<p>"Welcome to America. If you want to immigrate here and live here then follow our laws and rules. "When in Rome Do as the Romans Do " You are in our country .. respect the laws here or go back to your original country. This an example of what is totally wrong with this country now Everyone who comes here wants America to accommodate them and expect us to change . Not happening," another added.</p>
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"<p>A Muslim man was shocked to have his request for a judge to acknowledge Sharia law denied in court.</p>
<p>Nadir Ibrahim Ombabi, a Minnesota taxi driver, was killed in a car accident. Following his passing, legal proceedings began to determine a settlement for his spouse or surviving family.</p>
<p>A wrongful death suit was filed, in which Ombabi's estate was rewarded $183,000 to go to his wife.</p>
<p>Ombabi's brother, Hasameldin Ibrahim Imbabi, subsequently disputed the ruling on the grounds that the money should be distributed to his family in accordance with Sharia law. One of the specifics of that argument was that the men should receive "twice the share of the female."</p>
<p>"[The brother] further asserts that “the principles of the private international law should have been applied from the beginning since the law of all parties (the decedent, his widow and decedent[‘s] next of kin) is the Islamic Law and they are all Muslims and follow the specifics of the religion.” … [The brother’s] main assertion of error appears to be that the district court should have applied Sudanese Islamic law instead of Minnesota law when distributing the wrongful-death settlement proceeds…. [He] also asserts that the district court erred by refusing to honor a legal declaration issued by the Sudanese Family Court in Khartoum regarding distribution of the wrongful-death settlement proceeds under Sudanese Islamic law," court documents stated, the Washington Post reported.</p>
<p>The judge, however, denied the man's argument due to lack of legal representation and specious arguments.</p>
<p>Many reader applauded the judge's decision to reject Sharia law.</p>
<p>"Muslim man has no grounds to stand on with that, Sharia Law has NO place in this country ... these people need to get it through their thick skull that the US Constitution which is law of our land and Sharia Law does not and cannot co-exist in our land!" one Newsiosity reader commented on the site's Facebook page.</p>
<p>"Welcome to America. If you want to immigrate here and live here then follow our laws and rules. "When in Rome Do as the Romans Do " You are in our country .. respect the laws here or go back to your original country. This an example of what is totally wrong with this country now Everyone who comes here wants America to accommodate them and expect us to change . Not happening," another added.</p>"
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<p>President Trump responded to reports that special counsel Robert Mueller is about to indict people in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by pointing the finger at Democrats.</p>
<p>Trump said the investigation into whether his campaign colluded with the Kremlin is “phony,” “bad for our country,” a “witch hunt,” and “evil politics.”</p>
<p>He added the news that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for the unverified dossier alleging scandalous behavior by Trump has united Republicans.</p>
<p>“Never seen such Republican ANGER &amp; UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?), the Uranium to Russia deal, the 33,000 plus deleted Emails, the Comey fix and so much more,” Trump tweeted.</p>
<p>“Instead they look at phony Trump/Russia, ‘collusion,’ which doesn't exist. The Dems are using this terrible (and bad for our country) Witch Hunt for evil politics, but the R's are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!”</p>
<p>The $12 million figure refers to the amount of money Clinton’s campaign paid to Perkins and Cole, a law firm that then paid Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump. Fusion GPS then paid former British spy Christopher Steele, who authored the dossier on Trump that was released shortly before the inauguration.</p>
<p>It’s not clear if all $12 million the Clinton campaign paid to the law firm went toward funding the dossier.</p>
<p>Trump was also referring to a deal between an American company and a Russian government agency to purchase the company, which controlled about 20 percent of the country’s uranium supply.</p>
<p>Clinton’s State Department was one of nine government agencies that signed off on the purchase, and that decision has come under new scrutiny after revelations that the FBI was investigating if Russians were trying to gain influence in the American uranium industry.</p>
<p>Later on, Trump added the new focus on the Russia investigation is likely a distraction from the Republican push for tax reform.</p>
<p>"All of this 'Russia' talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts &amp; Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT!" Trump tweeted.</p>
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"<p>President Trump responded to reports that special counsel Robert Mueller is about to indict people in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by pointing the finger at Democrats.</p>
<p>Trump said the investigation into whether his campaign colluded with the Kremlin is “phony,” “bad for our country,” a “witch hunt,” and “evil politics.”</p>
<p>He added the news that Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for the unverified dossier alleging scandalous behavior by Trump has united Republicans.</p>
<p>“Never seen such Republican ANGER &amp; UNITY as I have concerning the lack of investigation on Clinton made Fake Dossier (now $12,000,000?), the Uranium to Russia deal, the 33,000 plus deleted Emails, the Comey fix and so much more,” Trump tweeted.</p>
<p>“Instead they look at phony Trump/Russia, ‘collusion,’ which doesn't exist. The Dems are using this terrible (and bad for our country) Witch Hunt for evil politics, but the R's are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING!”</p>
<p>The $12 million figure refers to the amount of money Clinton’s campaign paid to Perkins and Cole, a law firm that then paid Fusion GPS to do opposition research on Trump. Fusion GPS then paid former British spy Christopher Steele, who authored the dossier on Trump that was released shortly before the inauguration.</p>
<p>It’s not clear if all $12 million the Clinton campaign paid to the law firm went toward funding the dossier.</p>
<p>Trump was also referring to a deal between an American company and a Russian government agency to purchase the company, which controlled about 20 percent of the country’s uranium supply.</p>
<p>Clinton’s State Department was one of nine government agencies that signed off on the purchase, and that decision has come under new scrutiny after revelations that the FBI was investigating if Russians were trying to gain influence in the American uranium industry.</p>
<p>Later on, Trump added the new focus on the Russia investigation is likely a distraction from the Republican push for tax reform.</p>
<p>"All of this 'Russia' talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts &amp; Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT!" Trump tweeted.</p>"
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<a type="internal" /> Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton, at a Women for Hillary event at West Los Angeles College on June 3, 2016, in Culver City, Calif. An article by the Daily Caller says Abedin forwarded some government passwords to her private Yahoo email account in 2009, when Clinton was secretary of state. Yahoo was hacked in 2013, which affected all 3 billion of its accounts. [Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times via TNS]
<p>WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made his first "Crooked Hillary" Twitter post less than 48 hours into the new year Tuesday, accusing a former Clinton aide of "disregarding basic security protocols," and calling his own Justice Department a "deep state."</p>
<p>"Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols," he wrote. "She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey &amp; others"</p>
<p>Attacking his former Democratic opponent from the 2016 presidential election and taking aim at his own Justice Department struck familiar tones for the new year. Almost 14 months after the 2016 presidential election, Trump has kept up a regular drumbeat of attacks on Clinton. Last year, Trump also criticized the Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not pursing investigations of his political opponents.</p>
<p>Tuesday morning’s Twitter post followed <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/01/abedin-forwarded-state-passwords-to-yahoo-before-it-was-hacked-by-foreign-agents/" type="external">an article in the Daily Caller,</a> a conservative publication that Trump closely monitors. The article said Abedin forwarded some government passwords to her private Yahoo email account in 2009, when Clinton was secretary of state. Yahoo was hacked in 2013, which affected all 3 billion of its accounts. After the breach, the data was offered for sale by a hacking collective based in Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>Trump also implored his administration to investigate Abedin. The term "deep state" typically refers to a shadow government of agency officials who secretly plot to influence policy; they are usually associated with countries that have authoritarian elements that undercut democratically elected leaders.</p>
<p>On Friday, the State Department released about 3,000 of Abedin’s work-related emails. The emails were found on the laptop of Abedin’s now estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, and were released as part of a public records request.</p>
<p>The emails found on Weiner’s computer are a sore spot for Clinton. James Comey, the former FBI director, had notified Congress shortly before the 2016 election about the existence of newly discovered emails that could be relevant to the closed investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.</p>
<p>Clinton, in a book released last year, said Comey’s October 2016 disclosure hurt her campaign’s momentum and helped Trump win the election.</p>
<p>In his Twitter post, Trump also referred to the case of a Navy sailor who was jailed for taking pictures inside a military submarine. According to a report in Fox News, the sailor had hoped to receive a pardon from the president, but has not.</p>
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"<a type="internal" /> Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton, at a Women for Hillary event at West Los Angeles College on June 3, 2016, in Culver City, Calif. An article by the Daily Caller says Abedin forwarded some government passwords to her private Yahoo email account in 2009, when Clinton was secretary of state. Yahoo was hacked in 2013, which affected all 3 billion of its accounts. [Irfan Khan | Los Angeles Times via TNS]
<p>WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made his first "Crooked Hillary" Twitter post less than 48 hours into the new year Tuesday, accusing a former Clinton aide of "disregarding basic security protocols," and calling his own Justice Department a "deep state."</p>
<p>"Crooked Hillary Clinton’s top aid, Huma Abedin, has been accused of disregarding basic security protocols," he wrote. "She put Classified Passwords into the hands of foreign agents. Remember sailors pictures on submarine? Jail! Deep State Justice Dept must finally act? Also on Comey &amp; others"</p>
<p>Attacking his former Democratic opponent from the 2016 presidential election and taking aim at his own Justice Department struck familiar tones for the new year. Almost 14 months after the 2016 presidential election, Trump has kept up a regular drumbeat of attacks on Clinton. Last year, Trump also criticized the Justice Department and Attorney General Jeff Sessions for not pursing investigations of his political opponents.</p>
<p>Tuesday morning’s Twitter post followed <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/01/abedin-forwarded-state-passwords-to-yahoo-before-it-was-hacked-by-foreign-agents/" type="external">an article in the Daily Caller,</a> a conservative publication that Trump closely monitors. The article said Abedin forwarded some government passwords to her private Yahoo email account in 2009, when Clinton was secretary of state. Yahoo was hacked in 2013, which affected all 3 billion of its accounts. After the breach, the data was offered for sale by a hacking collective based in Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>Trump also implored his administration to investigate Abedin. The term "deep state" typically refers to a shadow government of agency officials who secretly plot to influence policy; they are usually associated with countries that have authoritarian elements that undercut democratically elected leaders.</p>
<p>On Friday, the State Department released about 3,000 of Abedin’s work-related emails. The emails were found on the laptop of Abedin’s now estranged husband, Anthony Weiner, and were released as part of a public records request.</p>
<p>The emails found on Weiner’s computer are a sore spot for Clinton. James Comey, the former FBI director, had notified Congress shortly before the 2016 election about the existence of newly discovered emails that could be relevant to the closed investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state.</p>
<p>Clinton, in a book released last year, said Comey’s October 2016 disclosure hurt her campaign’s momentum and helped Trump win the election.</p>
<p>In his Twitter post, Trump also referred to the case of a Navy sailor who was jailed for taking pictures inside a military submarine. According to a report in Fox News, the sailor had hoped to receive a pardon from the president, but has not.</p>"
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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p>The government program had been sharply curtailed by the Obama administration amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters.</p>
<p>Documents obtained by The Associated Press indicate President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order undoing an Obama-era directive that restricted police access to military grenade launchers, firearms, ammunition and other gear.</p>
<p>The documents say Trump's order would fully restore the program under which "assets that would otherwise be scrapped can be repurposed to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement better protect public safety and reduce crime."</p>
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"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is preparing to restore the flow of surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.</p>
<p>The government program had been sharply curtailed by the Obama administration amid an outcry over police use of armored vehicles and other war-fighting gear to confront protesters.</p>
<p>Documents obtained by The Associated Press indicate President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order undoing an Obama-era directive that restricted police access to military grenade launchers, firearms, ammunition and other gear.</p>
<p>The documents say Trump's order would fully restore the program under which "assets that would otherwise be scrapped can be repurposed to help state, local, and tribal law enforcement better protect public safety and reduce crime."</p>"
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<p>It's hard to stay away from strong opinions surrounding the election, even from those not allowed to vote.</p>
<p>Apparently, even from kids not big enough to ride Splash Mountain.</p>
<p>Jimmy Kimmel, megaphone for children everywhere, took to the streets to ask some kids about their feelings on President-elect Trump.</p>
<p>One kid showed us his "angry face." (It's really angry.)</p>
<p>One kid thinks he's going to be "HUUUUUGE!"</p>
<p>One Canadian kid is less than thrilled about a potential mass exodus to his home country, but will welcome Snoop Dogg with open arms.</p>
<p>One kid thinks he looks "like a dope."</p>
<p>One kid thinks he might murder her mom.</p>
<p>But ... optimism, right? At least he didn't steal their Halloween candy!</p>
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"<p>It's hard to stay away from strong opinions surrounding the election, even from those not allowed to vote.</p>
<p>Apparently, even from kids not big enough to ride Splash Mountain.</p>
<p>Jimmy Kimmel, megaphone for children everywhere, took to the streets to ask some kids about their feelings on President-elect Trump.</p>
<p>One kid showed us his "angry face." (It's really angry.)</p>
<p>One kid thinks he's going to be "HUUUUUGE!"</p>
<p>One Canadian kid is less than thrilled about a potential mass exodus to his home country, but will welcome Snoop Dogg with open arms.</p>
<p>One kid thinks he looks "like a dope."</p>
<p>One kid thinks he might murder her mom.</p>
<p>But ... optimism, right? At least he didn't steal their Halloween candy!</p>"
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<p>Depraved ISIS thugs are little more than serial rapists who claim sex assault is a byproduct of implementing teachings of the Qur’an.</p>
<p>The grisly details are laid out in a new report by Nikita Malik called, “ <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/HJS-Trafficking-Terror-Report-web.pdf" type="external">Trafficking Terror: How Modern Slavery and Sexual Violence Fund Terrorism</a>.”</p>
<p>In it, a Yazidi survivor describes how ISIS henchman would line up young girls against walls before groping their chests.</p>
<p>“If they had breasts, they could be raped; if not, they would wait three months to check again,” Victim 1 said, according to an <a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldsvc/123/123.pdf" type="external">interview cited in the report</a>.</p>
<p>The girls – many of them minors – were raped together in rooms as children looked on, she said after finally eluding ISIS’ grip.</p>
<p>Victim 1 also described how she was raped by six ISIS guards one night after attempting to flee.</p>
<p>“She was raped in every place possible," <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/HJS-Trafficking-Terror-Report-web.pdf" type="external">the report reads</a>. "She was forced to do things that were disgusting to her and they kept her without clothes in this room so that anybody could come at any time and rape her.”</p>
<p>Yazidi women were told by brainwashed ISIS brides that they needed to be raped to become fully Muslim, according to the report.</p>
<p>They were often sold, but lost monetary value the more times they were purchased by men in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>The report also describes how sexual depravity continues to act as a pull factor for prospective terrorists</p>
<p>“Sexual slavery serves as an incentive for new recruits and foreign fighters, with the promise of wives and sex slaves.” writes Malik.</p>
<p>The Henry Jackson Society reports human trafficking brought Islamic terrorist groups upwards of $30 million last year.</p>
<p>It’s believed ISIS could turn to kidnapping and sex slavery as a means to sustain itself as its shrinking caliphate continues to crumble.</p>
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"<p>Depraved ISIS thugs are little more than serial rapists who claim sex assault is a byproduct of implementing teachings of the Qur’an.</p>
<p>The grisly details are laid out in a new report by Nikita Malik called, “ <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/HJS-Trafficking-Terror-Report-web.pdf" type="external">Trafficking Terror: How Modern Slavery and Sexual Violence Fund Terrorism</a>.”</p>
<p>In it, a Yazidi survivor describes how ISIS henchman would line up young girls against walls before groping their chests.</p>
<p>“If they had breasts, they could be raped; if not, they would wait three months to check again,” Victim 1 said, according to an <a href="https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldsvc/123/123.pdf" type="external">interview cited in the report</a>.</p>
<p>The girls – many of them minors – were raped together in rooms as children looked on, she said after finally eluding ISIS’ grip.</p>
<p>Victim 1 also described how she was raped by six ISIS guards one night after attempting to flee.</p>
<p>“She was raped in every place possible," <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/HJS-Trafficking-Terror-Report-web.pdf" type="external">the report reads</a>. "She was forced to do things that were disgusting to her and they kept her without clothes in this room so that anybody could come at any time and rape her.”</p>
<p>Yazidi women were told by brainwashed ISIS brides that they needed to be raped to become fully Muslim, according to the report.</p>
<p>They were often sold, but lost monetary value the more times they were purchased by men in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>The report also describes how sexual depravity continues to act as a pull factor for prospective terrorists</p>
<p>“Sexual slavery serves as an incentive for new recruits and foreign fighters, with the promise of wives and sex slaves.” writes Malik.</p>
<p>The Henry Jackson Society reports human trafficking brought Islamic terrorist groups upwards of $30 million last year.</p>
<p>It’s believed ISIS could turn to kidnapping and sex slavery as a means to sustain itself as its shrinking caliphate continues to crumble.</p>"
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<p>Considering over <a href="https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/08/07/poll-majority-of-americans-support-military-action-against-nort/23069236/" type="external">60 percent of United States citizens</a> support going to war with North Korea, one would hope the majority would be able to, at the very least, locate the country on a map. Unfortunately, no such luck.</p>
<p>The laughable discovery was made when <a type="internal">Jimmy Kimmel</a> and his team visited Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, and asked passersby to locate <a type="internal">North Korea</a> on a map. Many citizens were upfront about their lack of geographic knowledge but guessed anyway. Their estimates ranged from Canada to the Middle East to Australia. Only the minority actually knew where North Korea is located.</p>
<p>Though the political situation in the United States is <a type="internal">less than ideal at present</a>, at least the people interviewed aren’t in charge of firing any missiles.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts? Please comment below and share this news!</p>
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"<p>Considering over <a href="https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/08/07/poll-majority-of-americans-support-military-action-against-nort/23069236/" type="external">60 percent of United States citizens</a> support going to war with North Korea, one would hope the majority would be able to, at the very least, locate the country on a map. Unfortunately, no such luck.</p>
<p>The laughable discovery was made when <a type="internal">Jimmy Kimmel</a> and his team visited Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, and asked passersby to locate <a type="internal">North Korea</a> on a map. Many citizens were upfront about their lack of geographic knowledge but guessed anyway. Their estimates ranged from Canada to the Middle East to Australia. Only the minority actually knew where North Korea is located.</p>
<p>Though the political situation in the United States is <a type="internal">less than ideal at present</a>, at least the people interviewed aren’t in charge of firing any missiles.</p>
<p>What are your thoughts? Please comment below and share this news!</p>"
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<p>It’s no secret that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has <a type="internal">great disdain for former Secretary of State</a> Hillary Clinton. Shortly before the Democratic National Convention, the activist released incriminating email showing that <a type="internal">the DNC had worked against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders</a> in favor of a Clinton nomination.</p>
<p>Though that did much to shake up supporters of the American political system and infuriate supporters of Sanders, the Vermont Senator pledged his support to Clinton nonetheless. He cited that it was important to <a type="internal">unify the party and prevent a Trump presidency</a>. Rigged or not (and <a type="internal">it’s most definitely rigged</a>), is this truly the reason Bernie Sanders gave up the good fight?</p>
<p>According to Assange, Bernie Sanders was threatened. During an interview with Australian journalist John Pilger, who is based in the United Kingdom, Assange disclosed some very concerning information. Pilger, who is working on a documentary about Assange, <a href="http://www.usasupreme.com/assange-bernie-sanders-was-threatened-to-drop-out-of-the-race/" type="external">asked</a>:</p>
<q> <p>“Julian, we cut you off earlier when you were talking about what you felt were the most significant emails that you have released. Is there any last one that you’d like to mention? And also, do you have any thoughts on Bernie Sanders? I mean what is your opinion why Bernie Sanders drop out of the race?”</p> </q>
<p>Assange responded:</p>
<q> <p>“Look, I think—you know, we know <a type="internal">how politics works in the United States</a>. Whoever—whatever political party gets into government is going to merge with the bureaucracy pretty damn fast. It will be in a position where it has some levers in its hand. And Bernie Sanders was independent candidate trying to get the nomination trough the Democratic Party and if you ask me he did get the nomination, but he was threatened to drop out.”</p> </q>
<p>Again, Assange has promised to release incriminating emails which are <a type="internal">sure to result in Clinton’s indictment</a>. He says he has evidence that Hillary made deals with an alleged Islamic state sponsor, as well as damning information about the Clinton Foundation.</p>
<p>The Clinton campaign knows he’s on to her, too, which is why a strategist <a type="internal">called for an assassination of Assange</a> on TV.</p>
<q> <p>“Of course, we’re very interested in revealing the truth about any candidate and yes we have some material about Bernie Sanders that will be published,” Assange added.</p> </q>
<p>What are your thoughts? Please comment below and share this news!</p>
<p>This article ( <a type="internal">Julian Assange: This Is The REAL Reason Bernie Sanders Dropped Out Of The Race</a>) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" type="external">Creative Commons</a> license with attribution to the author and <a type="internal">TrueActivist.com</a></p>
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"<p>It’s no secret that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has <a type="internal">great disdain for former Secretary of State</a> Hillary Clinton. Shortly before the Democratic National Convention, the activist released incriminating email showing that <a type="internal">the DNC had worked against Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders</a> in favor of a Clinton nomination.</p>
<p>Though that did much to shake up supporters of the American political system and infuriate supporters of Sanders, the Vermont Senator pledged his support to Clinton nonetheless. He cited that it was important to <a type="internal">unify the party and prevent a Trump presidency</a>. Rigged or not (and <a type="internal">it’s most definitely rigged</a>), is this truly the reason Bernie Sanders gave up the good fight?</p>
<p>According to Assange, Bernie Sanders was threatened. During an interview with Australian journalist John Pilger, who is based in the United Kingdom, Assange disclosed some very concerning information. Pilger, who is working on a documentary about Assange, <a href="http://www.usasupreme.com/assange-bernie-sanders-was-threatened-to-drop-out-of-the-race/" type="external">asked</a>:</p>
<q> <p>“Julian, we cut you off earlier when you were talking about what you felt were the most significant emails that you have released. Is there any last one that you’d like to mention? And also, do you have any thoughts on Bernie Sanders? I mean what is your opinion why Bernie Sanders drop out of the race?”</p> </q>
<p>Assange responded:</p>
<q> <p>“Look, I think—you know, we know <a type="internal">how politics works in the United States</a>. Whoever—whatever political party gets into government is going to merge with the bureaucracy pretty damn fast. It will be in a position where it has some levers in its hand. And Bernie Sanders was independent candidate trying to get the nomination trough the Democratic Party and if you ask me he did get the nomination, but he was threatened to drop out.”</p> </q>
<p>Again, Assange has promised to release incriminating emails which are <a type="internal">sure to result in Clinton’s indictment</a>. He says he has evidence that Hillary made deals with an alleged Islamic state sponsor, as well as damning information about the Clinton Foundation.</p>
<p>The Clinton campaign knows he’s on to her, too, which is why a strategist <a type="internal">called for an assassination of Assange</a> on TV.</p>
<q> <p>“Of course, we’re very interested in revealing the truth about any candidate and yes we have some material about Bernie Sanders that will be published,” Assange added.</p> </q>
<p>What are your thoughts? Please comment below and share this news!</p>
<p>This article ( <a type="internal">Julian Assange: This Is The REAL Reason Bernie Sanders Dropped Out Of The Race</a>) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" type="external">Creative Commons</a> license with attribution to the author and <a type="internal">TrueActivist.com</a></p>"
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<p>By: <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/author/rblevins/" type="external">Rachel Blevins</a>/ <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/trump-pardons-sheriff-protected-pedophiles/" type="external">The Free Thought Project</a> President Trump issued his first official pardon on Friday, sparing former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was found guilty of criminal contempt after he violated a court order in a racial profiling case by continuing to target illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>While both Trump and many of his supporters have applauded Arpaio, who <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/us/arpaio-found-guilty/index.html" type="external">refers</a> to himself as “America’s toughest sheriff,” there is one thing he is not always tough on—pedophiles.</p>
<p>In fact, according to a <a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/12/04/critics_tough_sheriff_botched_sex_crime_cases/?page=full" type="external">report</a> from the Associated Press in December 2011, Airpaio’s office failed to investigate“more than 400 sex-crimes” that were reported in Maricopa County from 2005 to 2007, “including dozens of alleged child molestations—that were inadequately investigated and in some instances were not worked at all.”</p>
<p>The report cited current and former police officers familiar with the cases who claimed that victims of the horrific crimes were as young as 2 years old. In El Mirage, the city where Arpaio’s office was providing contract police services, officials reportedly discovered at least 32 reported child molestations, and even though suspects were known in all but six cases, Arpaio “failed to follow through.”</p>
<p>While Arpaio made headlines for his infamous <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/arizonas-tent-city-jail-where-prisoners-wear-pink-underwear-eat-meatless-meals-and-swelter-in-the-120-degree-heat/article/2546924" type="external">Tent City Jail</a>, a camp in which nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants were forced to live outdoors in Arizona’s sweltering 120-degree heat, he did not make headlines for his treatment of the children of illegal immigrants. According to the officers who worked with him, many of those children were victims of sex crimes, which Arpaio ignored, as he let their American citizen predators run free.</p>
<p>After Arpaio’s contract ended, and his office was no longer required to provide police services for El Mirage, Detective Jerry Laird told the AP he found that an overwhelming majority of the cases he received from the office hadn’t been worked, which meant that “there were no follow-up reports, no collection of additional forensic evidence and zero effort made after the initial report of the crime was taken.”</p>
<p>While some of the cases Arpaio’s office neglected were turned over to prosecutors, the report noted that the El Mirage Police Department claimed “most were no longer viable—evidence dating as far back as 2006 had grown cold or wasn’t collected in the first place, victims had either moved away or otherwise moved on.”</p>
<p>Arpaio held a news conference in response to the 2011 report, in which he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/us/sheriff-joe-arpaio-criticized-over-handling-of-sex-crimes-cases.html?mcubz=1" type="external">said</a>, “If there were any victims, I apologize to those victims.”</p>
<p>As The Free Thought Project has reported, a number of cases involving pedophiles have come to light under the Trump Administration, such as a pedophile ring investigation that resulted <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/children-saved-pedophile-ring-busted-media-silent/" type="external">over 900 arrests</a> in May, and a sex-trafficking investigation that resulted in <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-dragnet-trafficking-1000/" type="external">over 1,000 arrests</a> earlier this month. This raises the question—why aren’t Arpaio and other members of his office being held to the same standards?</p>
<p>Joe Arpaio’s harsh treatment towards illegal immigrants has stirred up controversy, but his outright neglect of children who are victims of sex crimes seems to have slipped under the radar.</p>
<q> <p>Children have no control over which country they are born in, and they are the most vulnerable to predators. If a child is a victim of a sex crime, the question of whether the predators are “illegal aliens” or “legal American citizens” should not keep officials like Sheriff Arpaio from holding them accountable for their actions, and he should be held accountable for his failure to do so.</p> </q>
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<p>While both Trump and many of his supporters have applauded Arpaio, who <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/31/us/arpaio-found-guilty/index.html" type="external">refers</a> to himself as “America’s toughest sheriff,” there is one thing he is not always tough on—pedophiles.</p>
<p>In fact, according to a <a href="http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/12/04/critics_tough_sheriff_botched_sex_crime_cases/?page=full" type="external">report</a> from the Associated Press in December 2011, Airpaio’s office failed to investigate“more than 400 sex-crimes” that were reported in Maricopa County from 2005 to 2007, “including dozens of alleged child molestations—that were inadequately investigated and in some instances were not worked at all.”</p>
<p>The report cited current and former police officers familiar with the cases who claimed that victims of the horrific crimes were as young as 2 years old. In El Mirage, the city where Arpaio’s office was providing contract police services, officials reportedly discovered at least 32 reported child molestations, and even though suspects were known in all but six cases, Arpaio “failed to follow through.”</p>
<p>While Arpaio made headlines for his infamous <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/arizonas-tent-city-jail-where-prisoners-wear-pink-underwear-eat-meatless-meals-and-swelter-in-the-120-degree-heat/article/2546924" type="external">Tent City Jail</a>, a camp in which nearly 1,000 illegal immigrants were forced to live outdoors in Arizona’s sweltering 120-degree heat, he did not make headlines for his treatment of the children of illegal immigrants. According to the officers who worked with him, many of those children were victims of sex crimes, which Arpaio ignored, as he let their American citizen predators run free.</p>
<p>After Arpaio’s contract ended, and his office was no longer required to provide police services for El Mirage, Detective Jerry Laird told the AP he found that an overwhelming majority of the cases he received from the office hadn’t been worked, which meant that “there were no follow-up reports, no collection of additional forensic evidence and zero effort made after the initial report of the crime was taken.”</p>
<p>While some of the cases Arpaio’s office neglected were turned over to prosecutors, the report noted that the El Mirage Police Department claimed “most were no longer viable—evidence dating as far back as 2006 had grown cold or wasn’t collected in the first place, victims had either moved away or otherwise moved on.”</p>
<p>Arpaio held a news conference in response to the 2011 report, in which he <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/10/us/sheriff-joe-arpaio-criticized-over-handling-of-sex-crimes-cases.html?mcubz=1" type="external">said</a>, “If there were any victims, I apologize to those victims.”</p>
<p>As The Free Thought Project has reported, a number of cases involving pedophiles have come to light under the Trump Administration, such as a pedophile ring investigation that resulted <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/children-saved-pedophile-ring-busted-media-silent/" type="external">over 900 arrests</a> in May, and a sex-trafficking investigation that resulted in <a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-dragnet-trafficking-1000/" type="external">over 1,000 arrests</a> earlier this month. This raises the question—why aren’t Arpaio and other members of his office being held to the same standards?</p>
<p>Joe Arpaio’s harsh treatment towards illegal immigrants has stirred up controversy, but his outright neglect of children who are victims of sex crimes seems to have slipped under the radar.</p>
<q> <p>Children have no control over which country they are born in, and they are the most vulnerable to predators. If a child is a victim of a sex crime, the question of whether the predators are “illegal aliens” or “legal American citizens” should not keep officials like Sheriff Arpaio from holding them accountable for their actions, and he should be held accountable for his failure to do so.</p> </q>"
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<p>The DNC has gone beyond the pale this year in using an anchor baby Karla Ortiz, her illegal mother and a second illegal immigrant, Astrid Silva, to promote illegal immigration at their convention this year.</p>
<p>The child puppet of the Clinton machine was brought on stage to share that she is afraid that her mommy and daddy would be “forced to leave”. The crowd went wild, cheering for this law-breaking family and for the wanton use of a child to promote their open border agenda.</p>
<p>Breaking the law, as we have seen with Hillary, is no big deal, and therefore breaking into this country is also of no consequence to Democrats. In fact, one can almost hear Hillary say, “What difference does it make? Let them all stay, as long as they vote for me.”</p>
<p>Read the remarks swirling on Twitter regarding Karla Ortiz and her illegal immigrant parents on the next page.</p>
<a type="internal">Next Page »</a>
<p>Hillary has no shame and will use whomever she pleases to make it to the White House.</p>
<q> <p>Yeah…great job breaking the law.</p> <p>Everyone is super proud of your family.</p> <p>In today’s Democrat Party, rules and laws mean absolutely nothing if they hurt your feelings.</p> <p>It doesn’t get anymore clear than this.</p> <p>Immigrants are obviously great for this country in many ways.</p> <p>But that’s not the conversation the left wants to have.</p> <p>They want to demonize anyone who thinks we should be able to control who comes in and malign anyone who believes that immigrants should come here legally the right way.</p> <p>It’s pathetic to watch them cloud the issue like this.</p> <p>Here are some of the responses that started pouring in instantly from the left.</p> <q> <p>I am the daughter of an immigrant &amp; a daughter of the American Revolution. Our nation’s diversity is our greatest strength #DemsInPhilly</p> </q> <q> <p>This girl’s speech about the fear of deportation brought people to to tears #DemsInPhillyhttps://t.co/pKq5xcNQjM via @fusion</p> <p>— Mike de la Rocha (@mrmikedelarocha) July 26, 2016</p> </q> <q> <p>#KarlaOrtiz Beautiful speech I literally cried. #inspiring#weareallamericans#america</p> <p>— Francisco Aguilar (@francoj559) July 26, 2016</p> </q> <q> <p>Mother-daughter duo who could be separated by deportation try to humanize immigration issues at DNChttps://t.co/jakOnulP8o</p> <p>— Annelize Bester (@AnnelizeBester) July 26, 2016</p> </q> </q>
<p>28-year-old illegal immigrant, Astrid Silva, blasted Donald Trump in her speech at the DNC for his promise to “separate families”:</p>
<q> <p>“When I was four years old, my mother and I climbed into a raft and we crossed a river to join my dad in America for a better life,” Astrid Silva, who hails from Mexico, said in remarks delivered to the 4,000-plus Democratic delegation. Silva was the first illegal immigrant to deliver a major speech at either party’s nominating conventions.</p> <p>“My family and I are here because of people like Sen. Harry Reid,” she said, highlighting the Senate minority leader’s defense of DREAMers, or young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.</p> <p>“When Donald Trump talked about deporting 11 million people, he’s talking about separating families like mine,” Silver said. “Hillary Clinton understands that this is not who we are as a country.”</p> <p>“I know she will fight to keep our families together. I know she will,” Silver said of the former secretary of state.</p> <p>Ahead of her convention speech, Silver told Fusion she hoped the invitation to speak demonstrated “the stark contrast” between the Democratic National Convention and the Republicans’ four-day gathering in Cleveland last week, “where undocumented people [were] being called horrible names.”</p> </q>
<p>Forget law and order and rational thought, let’s just let our feelings do the voting and put the Queen of Law Breaking in the White House. If Trump doesn’t make it into the White House America as we have known and loved her will cease to exist.</p>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IfRNwyfaM</p>
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"<p>The DNC has gone beyond the pale this year in using an anchor baby Karla Ortiz, her illegal mother and a second illegal immigrant, Astrid Silva, to promote illegal immigration at their convention this year.</p>
<p>The child puppet of the Clinton machine was brought on stage to share that she is afraid that her mommy and daddy would be “forced to leave”. The crowd went wild, cheering for this law-breaking family and for the wanton use of a child to promote their open border agenda.</p>
<p>Breaking the law, as we have seen with Hillary, is no big deal, and therefore breaking into this country is also of no consequence to Democrats. In fact, one can almost hear Hillary say, “What difference does it make? Let them all stay, as long as they vote for me.”</p>
<p>Read the remarks swirling on Twitter regarding Karla Ortiz and her illegal immigrant parents on the next page.</p>
<a type="internal">Next Page »</a>
<p>Hillary has no shame and will use whomever she pleases to make it to the White House.</p>
<q> <p>Yeah…great job breaking the law.</p> <p>Everyone is super proud of your family.</p> <p>In today’s Democrat Party, rules and laws mean absolutely nothing if they hurt your feelings.</p> <p>It doesn’t get anymore clear than this.</p> <p>Immigrants are obviously great for this country in many ways.</p> <p>But that’s not the conversation the left wants to have.</p> <p>They want to demonize anyone who thinks we should be able to control who comes in and malign anyone who believes that immigrants should come here legally the right way.</p> <p>It’s pathetic to watch them cloud the issue like this.</p> <p>Here are some of the responses that started pouring in instantly from the left.</p> <q> <p>I am the daughter of an immigrant &amp; a daughter of the American Revolution. Our nation’s diversity is our greatest strength #DemsInPhilly</p> </q> <q> <p>This girl’s speech about the fear of deportation brought people to to tears #DemsInPhillyhttps://t.co/pKq5xcNQjM via @fusion</p> <p>— Mike de la Rocha (@mrmikedelarocha) July 26, 2016</p> </q> <q> <p>#KarlaOrtiz Beautiful speech I literally cried. #inspiring#weareallamericans#america</p> <p>— Francisco Aguilar (@francoj559) July 26, 2016</p> </q> <q> <p>Mother-daughter duo who could be separated by deportation try to humanize immigration issues at DNChttps://t.co/jakOnulP8o</p> <p>— Annelize Bester (@AnnelizeBester) July 26, 2016</p> </q> </q>
<p>28-year-old illegal immigrant, Astrid Silva, blasted Donald Trump in her speech at the DNC for his promise to “separate families”:</p>
<q> <p>“When I was four years old, my mother and I climbed into a raft and we crossed a river to join my dad in America for a better life,” Astrid Silva, who hails from Mexico, said in remarks delivered to the 4,000-plus Democratic delegation. Silva was the first illegal immigrant to deliver a major speech at either party’s nominating conventions.</p> <p>“My family and I are here because of people like Sen. Harry Reid,” she said, highlighting the Senate minority leader’s defense of DREAMers, or young adults who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.</p> <p>“When Donald Trump talked about deporting 11 million people, he’s talking about separating families like mine,” Silver said. “Hillary Clinton understands that this is not who we are as a country.”</p> <p>“I know she will fight to keep our families together. I know she will,” Silver said of the former secretary of state.</p> <p>Ahead of her convention speech, Silver told Fusion she hoped the invitation to speak demonstrated “the stark contrast” between the Democratic National Convention and the Republicans’ four-day gathering in Cleveland last week, “where undocumented people [were] being called horrible names.”</p> </q>
<p>Forget law and order and rational thought, let’s just let our feelings do the voting and put the Queen of Law Breaking in the White House. If Trump doesn’t make it into the White House America as we have known and loved her will cease to exist.</p>
<p>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8IfRNwyfaM</p>"
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<p>Terry Crews, photographed Nov. 2017.</p>
<p>Billy &amp; Hells for TIME</p>
<p>When dozens of women came forward with sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein—who has continued to deny all allegations of non-consensual sex—actor Terry Crews noticed that some people on Twitter were skeptical. Crews knows from personal experience how hard it is to experience harassment and muster the courage to speak out: He says he was groped by William Morris Endeavor agent Adam Venit at an industry event in front of his wife. The agency said they suspended and demoted Venit, who declined to comment for this article. He has since returned to work. Crews is now suing Venit and the agency for sexual assault.</p>
<p>Crews—who was recognized as one of the Silence Breakers, TIME’s Person of the Year—realized that men had a responsibility to lend credence and support to these women’s claims. Almost without thinking through the consequences, Crews tweeted out his own story; in his viral series of tweets, he became one of the first men to join the chorus of women speaking out about harassment.</p>
<p>Crews spoke to TIME about the reception to his story and why it’s imperative that men advocate for women’s rights.</p>
<p>What was the moment you decided to speak out about what happened to you?</p>
<p>I’d actually just read a comment someone made on Twitter about one of Weinstein’s accusers. It went something like: She’s just looking for attention and a payday. It really affected me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I remember going to my phone and I started writing. And I couldn’t stop. What it became was this sixteen-tweet missive from me. I just remember having to say what I felt. I was really angry because these women were being discounted. These women were being discarded. Their pain was just—it was nothing. I wanted to join in. I wanted to say something. I wanted to support. But I did have to let these women know they weren’t alone. And that I understood. My whole mission was to give them strength. Don’t accept the shame that people are giving you. Because that’s what it was. They were being shamed. They were being victimized again. I just couldn’t stand for it.</p>
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<p>What was the reaction like?</p>
<p>In a matter of hours it had become the #1 trending topic on Twitter. And I had a realization: I didn’t check with my wife, I didn’t check with my publicist, I didn’t check with anybody. I just did it. But at that moment, I was free. Until men stand up and say, “This harassment, this abuse, these assaults are wrong,” nothing will change. If I was silent, it would mean I’m consenting to all of it. I always have felt women have been able to take care of themselves, 100%. But men need to hold other men accountable. That’s my thing. I came up in the cult of masculinity, in football and the sports world and entertainment. You’re in places and guys are saying the wildest thing. People need to be called on that. You need to be held accountable for the things you say, the things you do. What it came from is literally a belief that as a man you are more valuable than a woman. The reason I have the authority to say it is because I was like it. I truly believed I was more valuable than my wife and kids. Until I had a major paradigm shift in my own life—it was like I hit rock bottom in order for me to see that I had it all wrong.</p>
<p>I’m here to tell you it’s not your fault. It’s not. What happened to me was a prime example. People were saying, “You should have beat him up.” I’m like, “Why is no one questioning him?” No one questions the predator. The person who is doing the harassment doesn’t even get a question. You know why? Because they just expect it. And I said, “No more.” Why are you questioning the victim here? Let’s flip it.</p>
<p>What would you say to people who think this is becoming a witch hunt?</p>
<p>Hollywood was so far into the fact that everyone thought this behavior is normal. It needs to swing all the way back. What we need is a reset. People say, “Oh, it’s a witch hunt. People could lie.” You know what? First of all, the thread of that is going to keep people right. We need to know you can’t do it. If it’s not a witch, it’s a witch hunt. If there are actual witches there, we need to stop them. I have people coming to me saying, “Hey, man. You could ruin this guy’s life.” Very clever. That’s a very clever thing to say. But he ruined it when he did it. All these people need to be disciplined into knowing what is acceptable and what isn’t. The only way to do that is by holding people accountable every time. This is something that gives my life meaning. There’s no reason why—why should I be the guy to survive Flint, Michigan; survive forty-nine years on this Earth; married twenty-eight years with five kids, the whole thing—and then I just sit in my big house and relax. This gives my life meaning. Now I know why I was put here. Let me tell you—the guy who messed with me messed with the wrong guy.</p>
<p>Is Hollywood a microcosm for how power is imbalanced in the rest of the world?</p>
<p>I believe that. It is in every field, in every business, in sports, in politics. It’s bipartisan. It’s not Democratic, it’s not Republican, it’s not Russian, it’s not American, it’s not black, it’s not white. Because I am an African-American man, I’ve been just as vocal about the abuses in my own community. The pimp culture, where guys are praised for having two or three girls. I’ve been to the rally for civil rights, and they will look at a woman and say, “Bitch, sit down.” And you’re like, “Wait a minute—this is civil rights here.” When it’s like, as a black man, I’m equal to a white man, but they don’t believe that a man is equal to a woman. Self-defeating. Self-destructive. How are you going to get justice, and you aren’t even treating the women in your circle with justice? If you’re a Democrat, you can’t gloss over your own problems of the people in your party. If you’re a Republican, you can’t gloss over those problems in your party. If you’re American, you can’t say just because I’m an American, let’s gloss over that stuff. And sometimes you’ve got to be willing to walk alone. I get most of my courage from my wife. When I went through my trauma, she was right there with me. I’m very thankful to have a wise woman on my team.</p>
<p>This interview has been edited and condensed.</p>
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<p>Billy &amp; Hells for TIME</p>
<p>When dozens of women came forward with sexual assault and harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein—who has continued to deny all allegations of non-consensual sex—actor Terry Crews noticed that some people on Twitter were skeptical. Crews knows from personal experience how hard it is to experience harassment and muster the courage to speak out: He says he was groped by William Morris Endeavor agent Adam Venit at an industry event in front of his wife. The agency said they suspended and demoted Venit, who declined to comment for this article. He has since returned to work. Crews is now suing Venit and the agency for sexual assault.</p>
<p>Crews—who was recognized as one of the Silence Breakers, TIME’s Person of the Year—realized that men had a responsibility to lend credence and support to these women’s claims. Almost without thinking through the consequences, Crews tweeted out his own story; in his viral series of tweets, he became one of the first men to join the chorus of women speaking out about harassment.</p>
<p>Crews spoke to TIME about the reception to his story and why it’s imperative that men advocate for women’s rights.</p>
<p>What was the moment you decided to speak out about what happened to you?</p>
<p>I’d actually just read a comment someone made on Twitter about one of Weinstein’s accusers. It went something like: She’s just looking for attention and a payday. It really affected me. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I remember going to my phone and I started writing. And I couldn’t stop. What it became was this sixteen-tweet missive from me. I just remember having to say what I felt. I was really angry because these women were being discounted. These women were being discarded. Their pain was just—it was nothing. I wanted to join in. I wanted to say something. I wanted to support. But I did have to let these women know they weren’t alone. And that I understood. My whole mission was to give them strength. Don’t accept the shame that people are giving you. Because that’s what it was. They were being shamed. They were being victimized again. I just couldn’t stand for it.</p>
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<p>What was the reaction like?</p>
<p>In a matter of hours it had become the #1 trending topic on Twitter. And I had a realization: I didn’t check with my wife, I didn’t check with my publicist, I didn’t check with anybody. I just did it. But at that moment, I was free. Until men stand up and say, “This harassment, this abuse, these assaults are wrong,” nothing will change. If I was silent, it would mean I’m consenting to all of it. I always have felt women have been able to take care of themselves, 100%. But men need to hold other men accountable. That’s my thing. I came up in the cult of masculinity, in football and the sports world and entertainment. You’re in places and guys are saying the wildest thing. People need to be called on that. You need to be held accountable for the things you say, the things you do. What it came from is literally a belief that as a man you are more valuable than a woman. The reason I have the authority to say it is because I was like it. I truly believed I was more valuable than my wife and kids. Until I had a major paradigm shift in my own life—it was like I hit rock bottom in order for me to see that I had it all wrong.</p>
<p>I’m here to tell you it’s not your fault. It’s not. What happened to me was a prime example. People were saying, “You should have beat him up.” I’m like, “Why is no one questioning him?” No one questions the predator. The person who is doing the harassment doesn’t even get a question. You know why? Because they just expect it. And I said, “No more.” Why are you questioning the victim here? Let’s flip it.</p>
<p>What would you say to people who think this is becoming a witch hunt?</p>
<p>Hollywood was so far into the fact that everyone thought this behavior is normal. It needs to swing all the way back. What we need is a reset. People say, “Oh, it’s a witch hunt. People could lie.” You know what? First of all, the thread of that is going to keep people right. We need to know you can’t do it. If it’s not a witch, it’s a witch hunt. If there are actual witches there, we need to stop them. I have people coming to me saying, “Hey, man. You could ruin this guy’s life.” Very clever. That’s a very clever thing to say. But he ruined it when he did it. All these people need to be disciplined into knowing what is acceptable and what isn’t. The only way to do that is by holding people accountable every time. This is something that gives my life meaning. There’s no reason why—why should I be the guy to survive Flint, Michigan; survive forty-nine years on this Earth; married twenty-eight years with five kids, the whole thing—and then I just sit in my big house and relax. This gives my life meaning. Now I know why I was put here. Let me tell you—the guy who messed with me messed with the wrong guy.</p>
<p>Is Hollywood a microcosm for how power is imbalanced in the rest of the world?</p>
<p>I believe that. It is in every field, in every business, in sports, in politics. It’s bipartisan. It’s not Democratic, it’s not Republican, it’s not Russian, it’s not American, it’s not black, it’s not white. Because I am an African-American man, I’ve been just as vocal about the abuses in my own community. The pimp culture, where guys are praised for having two or three girls. I’ve been to the rally for civil rights, and they will look at a woman and say, “Bitch, sit down.” And you’re like, “Wait a minute—this is civil rights here.” When it’s like, as a black man, I’m equal to a white man, but they don’t believe that a man is equal to a woman. Self-defeating. Self-destructive. How are you going to get justice, and you aren’t even treating the women in your circle with justice? If you’re a Democrat, you can’t gloss over your own problems of the people in your party. If you’re a Republican, you can’t gloss over those problems in your party. If you’re American, you can’t say just because I’m an American, let’s gloss over that stuff. And sometimes you’ve got to be willing to walk alone. I get most of my courage from my wife. When I went through my trauma, she was right there with me. I’m very thankful to have a wise woman on my team.</p>
<p>This interview has been edited and condensed.</p>"
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<p>(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though I am <a href="http://ThyBlackMan.com" type="external">black</a>, I was raised on Superman’s; truth, justice and the American way. I always believed Americans were the world’s good guys. As a kid, I watched my mom cry over “I Love Lucy” TV stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz getting a divorce.</p>
<p>I remember our entire family, mom, dad and five kids gathered around our single television; nail-biting tension in the air as we nervously awaited the final out for our Baltimore Orioles to win the World’s Series over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Despite our country’s racial issues, we patriotically embraced the distinct American culture. We were Americans.</p>
<p>When President JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country“, I believe a majority of Americans agreed with him.</p>
<p>For years, I sang my song, “Celebrate America” <a href="http://bit.ly/2h0Swyv" type="external">http://bit.ly/2h0Swyv</a> at Naturalization Oath of Allegiance Ceremonies. I thought it was pretty cool that mine was the first song new Americans heard after taking their oath of allegiance. I witnessed thousands of immigrants who jumped through all the hoops, learned our language and history and tearfully pledged their allegiance.</p>
<p>I still remember a gentleman who appeared to be in his 90s, raised to his feet from a wheelchair by a grandchild on each arm. Their entire family wept as he took his oath. Clearly, it meant something extremely special to become an American.</p>
<p>It pained me deeply watching Obama lower the bar, redefining and dumbing down what it means to be an American.</p>
<p>Obama rolled out the red carpet welcoming tens of thousands of illegals to invade our country for welfare benefits; even benefits unavailable to American citizens. <a href="http://washex.am/2eL6TGl" type="external">http://washex.am/2eL6TGl</a> For immigrants legally becoming new citizens, Obama made pledging to defend our county optional. <a href="http://bit.ly/1MkmOmR" type="external">http://bit.ly/1MkmOmR</a></p>
<p>Assuming Hillary would win the WH, Obama figured his illegal invaders would eventually be gifted voting rights. It did not matter to Obama that they had no desire to embrace our culture, respect our flag or learn to speak English. In essence, Barack Obama took the majestic shine off of becoming an American.</p>
<p>The late queen of cosmetics, Mary Kay Ash said the speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. Unarguably, Obama’s disdain and disrespect for Americanism trickled down infecting our country. Public schools banned the singing of “God Bless the USA/Proud to be an America“. <a href="http://bit.ly/2mFeyFG" type="external">http://bit.ly/2mFeyFG</a> Students were barred from wearing t-shirts to school featuring the U.S. flag on Cinco De Mayo <a href="http://fxn.ws/2ojaNGY" type="external">http://fxn.ws/2ojaNGY</a>, claiming it was hateful and insensitive to illegal Mexican students. Multimillionaire pro athletes refused to stand for our national anthem, proclaiming themselves victims of America. Their example of dissing our flag trickled down to high and middle school athletes across America. <a href="http://bbc.in/2uuuyAu" type="external">http://bbc.in/2uuuyAu</a></p>
<p>Under Barack Obama, JFK’s words inspiring Americans to strive for excellence for the good of their country were thrown on the junk-heap of forgotten history. Obama’s new Americanism was about demonizing and punishing self-reliant achievers, pandering to lazy parasites and addicting as many Americans as possible to big government dependency.</p>
<p>Due to decades of our Leftist controlled public schools abandoning teaching U.S. history, far too many Americans quickly surrendered their precious God-given and fought for freedom and liberty for a free Obama phone and his promise to Robin Hood the rich. Ben Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”</p>
<p>Barack Obama actually launched an ad campaign begging illegals to apply for food stamps. <a href="http://dailym.ai/1PPPdR1" type="external">http://dailym.ai/1PPPdR1</a></p>
<p>Using a Hispanic soap opera , Barack Obama told illegals that applying for as many U.S. government freebie programs as possible was the honorable thing to do for their families. <a href="http://bit.ly/2tH14AA" type="external">http://bit.ly/2tH14AA</a></p>
<p>It was also painful watching Barack Obama insidiously divide Americans into supposed victimized voting blocs; blacks, Hispanics, women, transgenders and so on. Suddenly, we became an entitlement-minded gimme-society; everyone running around claiming America abused them and therefore owed them a living.</p>
<p>I kept thinking what the heck is going on. We are better than this. I wanted to scream from the roof tops, “This is not who we are. Darn it, we are AMERICANS!!!” In my song, “We Are Americans” <a href="http://bit.ly/1AIVqp6" type="external">http://bit.ly/1AIVqp6</a> , I ask my fellow Americans to repent and return to our founding principles.</p>
<p>I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Mark Levin recently penned a book in which he brilliantly articulated the source of my heartache for my country; the well-orchestrated cultural and moral decline of America.</p>
<p>Levin’s book is titled, “Rediscovering Americanism And The Tyranny of Progressivism” <a href="http://amzn.to/2udTux9" type="external">http://amzn.to/2udTux9</a></p>
<p>The good news is Donald Trump winning the WH in an electoral landslide proves that despite decades of Leftists trying to convince Americans that we are the greatest source of evil in the world, the masses still love our country and long to see her made great again.</p>
<p>And for that, I am extremely hopeful and grateful. Prayerfully, Trump will usher in us becoming Americans again.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; Lloyd Marcus</p>
<p>Chairman of <a href="http://campaigntodefeatobama.com/" type="external">The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama</a>.</p>
<p>Please help me spread my message by joining my <a href="http://www.libertysharenetwork.com/lloyd-marcus.html" type="external">Liberty Network</a>.</p>
<p>Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the <a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/?page_id=741" type="external">American Tea Party Anthem</a> and author of <a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/?page_id=1029" type="external">Confessions of a Black Conservative</a>, foreword by Michele Malkin.</p>
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"<p>(ThyBlackMan.com) Even though I am <a href="http://ThyBlackMan.com" type="external">black</a>, I was raised on Superman’s; truth, justice and the American way. I always believed Americans were the world’s good guys. As a kid, I watched my mom cry over “I Love Lucy” TV stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz getting a divorce.</p>
<p>I remember our entire family, mom, dad and five kids gathered around our single television; nail-biting tension in the air as we nervously awaited the final out for our Baltimore Orioles to win the World’s Series over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Despite our country’s racial issues, we patriotically embraced the distinct American culture. We were Americans.</p>
<p>When President JFK said, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country“, I believe a majority of Americans agreed with him.</p>
<p>For years, I sang my song, “Celebrate America” <a href="http://bit.ly/2h0Swyv" type="external">http://bit.ly/2h0Swyv</a> at Naturalization Oath of Allegiance Ceremonies. I thought it was pretty cool that mine was the first song new Americans heard after taking their oath of allegiance. I witnessed thousands of immigrants who jumped through all the hoops, learned our language and history and tearfully pledged their allegiance.</p>
<p>I still remember a gentleman who appeared to be in his 90s, raised to his feet from a wheelchair by a grandchild on each arm. Their entire family wept as he took his oath. Clearly, it meant something extremely special to become an American.</p>
<p>It pained me deeply watching Obama lower the bar, redefining and dumbing down what it means to be an American.</p>
<p>Obama rolled out the red carpet welcoming tens of thousands of illegals to invade our country for welfare benefits; even benefits unavailable to American citizens. <a href="http://washex.am/2eL6TGl" type="external">http://washex.am/2eL6TGl</a> For immigrants legally becoming new citizens, Obama made pledging to defend our county optional. <a href="http://bit.ly/1MkmOmR" type="external">http://bit.ly/1MkmOmR</a></p>
<p>Assuming Hillary would win the WH, Obama figured his illegal invaders would eventually be gifted voting rights. It did not matter to Obama that they had no desire to embrace our culture, respect our flag or learn to speak English. In essence, Barack Obama took the majestic shine off of becoming an American.</p>
<p>The late queen of cosmetics, Mary Kay Ash said the speed of the leader is the speed of the gang. Unarguably, Obama’s disdain and disrespect for Americanism trickled down infecting our country. Public schools banned the singing of “God Bless the USA/Proud to be an America“. <a href="http://bit.ly/2mFeyFG" type="external">http://bit.ly/2mFeyFG</a> Students were barred from wearing t-shirts to school featuring the U.S. flag on Cinco De Mayo <a href="http://fxn.ws/2ojaNGY" type="external">http://fxn.ws/2ojaNGY</a>, claiming it was hateful and insensitive to illegal Mexican students. Multimillionaire pro athletes refused to stand for our national anthem, proclaiming themselves victims of America. Their example of dissing our flag trickled down to high and middle school athletes across America. <a href="http://bbc.in/2uuuyAu" type="external">http://bbc.in/2uuuyAu</a></p>
<p>Under Barack Obama, JFK’s words inspiring Americans to strive for excellence for the good of their country were thrown on the junk-heap of forgotten history. Obama’s new Americanism was about demonizing and punishing self-reliant achievers, pandering to lazy parasites and addicting as many Americans as possible to big government dependency.</p>
<p>Due to decades of our Leftist controlled public schools abandoning teaching U.S. history, far too many Americans quickly surrendered their precious God-given and fought for freedom and liberty for a free Obama phone and his promise to Robin Hood the rich. Ben Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”</p>
<p>Barack Obama actually launched an ad campaign begging illegals to apply for food stamps. <a href="http://dailym.ai/1PPPdR1" type="external">http://dailym.ai/1PPPdR1</a></p>
<p>Using a Hispanic soap opera , Barack Obama told illegals that applying for as many U.S. government freebie programs as possible was the honorable thing to do for their families. <a href="http://bit.ly/2tH14AA" type="external">http://bit.ly/2tH14AA</a></p>
<p>It was also painful watching Barack Obama insidiously divide Americans into supposed victimized voting blocs; blacks, Hispanics, women, transgenders and so on. Suddenly, we became an entitlement-minded gimme-society; everyone running around claiming America abused them and therefore owed them a living.</p>
<p>I kept thinking what the heck is going on. We are better than this. I wanted to scream from the roof tops, “This is not who we are. Darn it, we are AMERICANS!!!” In my song, “We Are Americans” <a href="http://bit.ly/1AIVqp6" type="external">http://bit.ly/1AIVqp6</a> , I ask my fellow Americans to repent and return to our founding principles.</p>
<p>I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Mark Levin recently penned a book in which he brilliantly articulated the source of my heartache for my country; the well-orchestrated cultural and moral decline of America.</p>
<p>Levin’s book is titled, “Rediscovering Americanism And The Tyranny of Progressivism” <a href="http://amzn.to/2udTux9" type="external">http://amzn.to/2udTux9</a></p>
<p>The good news is Donald Trump winning the WH in an electoral landslide proves that despite decades of Leftists trying to convince Americans that we are the greatest source of evil in the world, the masses still love our country and long to see her made great again.</p>
<p>And for that, I am extremely hopeful and grateful. Prayerfully, Trump will usher in us becoming Americans again.</p>
<p>Staff Writer; Lloyd Marcus</p>
<p>Chairman of <a href="http://campaigntodefeatobama.com/" type="external">The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama</a>.</p>
<p>Please help me spread my message by joining my <a href="http://www.libertysharenetwork.com/lloyd-marcus.html" type="external">Liberty Network</a>.</p>
<p>Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the <a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/?page_id=741" type="external">American Tea Party Anthem</a> and author of <a href="http://www.lloydmarcus.com/?page_id=1029" type="external">Confessions of a Black Conservative</a>, foreword by Michele Malkin.</p>"
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<p>GOP congressional candidate Paul Nehlen has drawn on anti-Semitic sympathy to rally support for his fledgling campaign, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/how-the-alt-right-and-paul-ryans-challenger-coordinate-to?utm_term=.odDRBmXG9#.mbmO9mpzG" type="external">BuzzFeed News reported Friday</a>.</p>
<p>Nehlen — who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in a Republican primary this summer — ran a Twitter group chat where he rallied white nationalists to attack his opponents, BuzzFeed News reported. One of Nehlen's stated adversaries was the "Jewish media," who he believed had "coordinated" to smear him <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/27/media/paul-nehlen-steve-bannon-breitbart/index.html" type="external">after he lost the support of Breitbart News</a> for sending <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/republican-candidate-congress-openly-embraces-white-supremacist-memes-social-753175" type="external">tweets about white pride</a>.</p>
<p>Nehlen's list of targets included conservative personality John Cardillo, author Kurt Schlichter, and former Boston Red Sox pitcher turned Breitbart radio host Curt Schilling. All three men, BuzzFeed News notes, are conservatives <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-steve-bannon-is-finally-renouncing-the-unhinged-racist-running-against-paul-ryan" type="external">who distanced themselves</a> from Nehlen. The candidate turned to his Twitter group to ask for some backup, writing, "Cardillo and others like him are working for Jewish media. Then, there are the fake conservatives who happen to be Jewish."</p>
<p>Per screenshots published by BuzzFeed News, Nehlen then added: "I'm going to decimate them all. And y'all are gonna help me."</p>
<p>Sources who spoke to BuzzFeed News said that "such requests were common" from Nehlen. One of the group chat's most notable participants is <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/his-kampf/524505/" type="external">Richard Spencer</a> ally Eli Mosley, who heads a white nationalist group of his own called Identify Evropa, BuzzFeed News points out. Mosley is a polarizing figure <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/11/27/identity-evropas-controversial-new-ringleader" type="external">even among white nationalists</a>, as many reportedly think he sparked the violence at last year's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/us/charlottesville-james-alex-fields-court-appearance/index.html" type="external">was killed by a white nationalist</a>.</p>
<p>Read more about Nehlen's group chat <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/how-the-alt-right-and-paul-ryans-challenger-coordinate-to?utm_term=.nsA01bLGo#.eqk4nmPoK" type="external">at BuzzFeed News</a>. <a type="internal">Kelly O'Meara Morales</a></p>
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"<p>GOP congressional candidate Paul Nehlen has drawn on anti-Semitic sympathy to rally support for his fledgling campaign, <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/how-the-alt-right-and-paul-ryans-challenger-coordinate-to?utm_term=.odDRBmXG9#.mbmO9mpzG" type="external">BuzzFeed News reported Friday</a>.</p>
<p>Nehlen — who is running against House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in a Republican primary this summer — ran a Twitter group chat where he rallied white nationalists to attack his opponents, BuzzFeed News reported. One of Nehlen's stated adversaries was the "Jewish media," who he believed had "coordinated" to smear him <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/27/media/paul-nehlen-steve-bannon-breitbart/index.html" type="external">after he lost the support of Breitbart News</a> for sending <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/republican-candidate-congress-openly-embraces-white-supremacist-memes-social-753175" type="external">tweets about white pride</a>.</p>
<p>Nehlen's list of targets included conservative personality John Cardillo, author Kurt Schlichter, and former Boston Red Sox pitcher turned Breitbart radio host Curt Schilling. All three men, BuzzFeed News notes, are conservatives <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/even-steve-bannon-is-finally-renouncing-the-unhinged-racist-running-against-paul-ryan" type="external">who distanced themselves</a> from Nehlen. The candidate turned to his Twitter group to ask for some backup, writing, "Cardillo and others like him are working for Jewish media. Then, there are the fake conservatives who happen to be Jewish."</p>
<p>Per screenshots published by BuzzFeed News, Nehlen then added: "I'm going to decimate them all. And y'all are gonna help me."</p>
<p>Sources who spoke to BuzzFeed News said that "such requests were common" from Nehlen. One of the group chat's most notable participants is <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/his-kampf/524505/" type="external">Richard Spencer</a> ally Eli Mosley, who heads a white nationalist group of his own called Identify Evropa, BuzzFeed News points out. Mosley is a polarizing figure <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/11/27/identity-evropas-controversial-new-ringleader" type="external">even among white nationalists</a>, as many reportedly think he sparked the violence at last year's "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where a woman <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/14/us/charlottesville-james-alex-fields-court-appearance/index.html" type="external">was killed by a white nationalist</a>.</p>
<p>Read more about Nehlen's group chat <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/how-the-alt-right-and-paul-ryans-challenger-coordinate-to?utm_term=.nsA01bLGo#.eqk4nmPoK" type="external">at BuzzFeed News</a>. <a type="internal">Kelly O'Meara Morales</a></p>"
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<p>Hillary Clinton apparently can't escape the " <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/president-donald-trump-deep-state/index.html" type="external">deep state</a>."</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-looking-into-hillary-clintons-emails-again" type="external">The Daily Beast</a> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-looking-into-hillary-clintons-emails-again" type="external">reported Thursday</a> that the Department of Justice has taken an interest in a familiar subject — the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/9/19/12941006/clinton-email-scandal-cartoon" type="external">infamous email server</a> of the former Democratic presidential candidate and her alleged bungling of classified information.</p>
<p>Citing a source close to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, The Daily Beast claims that the Justice Department wants to know how those tasked with investigating Clinton's private email server went about their probe. DOJ officials are also reportedly interested in tallying the classified material contained in her emails and finding out "who put that information into an unclassified environment," The Daily Beast says. Before Clinton <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-clears-clinton-crime-while-commenting-scandal-n604116" type="external">was cleared of criminal wrongdoing</a> by the FBI in July 2016, the former secretary of state claimed that many of the emails on her server were classified after the fact or <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-emails-classified-information-2016-9" type="external">that she was unaware</a> of which "headers" denoted that an email was classified.</p>
<p>Clinton's emails are <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/02/trump-huma-abedin-jail-email-release-319922" type="external">a favorite grievance</a> of President Trump, who has <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362271-trump-blasts-deep-state-for-not-investigating-clinton-emails" type="external">repeatedly called</a> for <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/12/03/as_pressure_mounts_trump_predictably_lashes_out_against_hillary_clinton.html" type="external">his erstwhile political rival</a> to be investigated again. As such, people within the DOJ are reportedly concerned that Trump's vocal tweets on the matter could cause the impression that the law enforcement agency is only doing the president's bidding. An unnamed former DOJ official even suggested to The Daily Beast that it was "an open question" if this inquiry would occur "without a political directive from the White House."</p>
<p>The Justice Department would not comment on the reported inquiry to The Daily Beast.</p>
<p>Read the full story <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-looking-into-hillary-clintons-emails-again" type="external">here</a>. <a type="internal">Kelly O'Meara Morales</a></p>
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"<p>Hillary Clinton apparently can't escape the " <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/02/politics/president-donald-trump-deep-state/index.html" type="external">deep state</a>."</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-looking-into-hillary-clintons-emails-again" type="external">The Daily Beast</a> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-looking-into-hillary-clintons-emails-again" type="external">reported Thursday</a> that the Department of Justice has taken an interest in a familiar subject — the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/9/19/12941006/clinton-email-scandal-cartoon" type="external">infamous email server</a> of the former Democratic presidential candidate and her alleged bungling of classified information.</p>
<p>Citing a source close to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, The Daily Beast claims that the Justice Department wants to know how those tasked with investigating Clinton's private email server went about their probe. DOJ officials are also reportedly interested in tallying the classified material contained in her emails and finding out "who put that information into an unclassified environment," The Daily Beast says. Before Clinton <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fbi-clears-clinton-crime-while-commenting-scandal-n604116" type="external">was cleared of criminal wrongdoing</a> by the FBI in July 2016, the former secretary of state claimed that many of the emails on her server were classified after the fact or <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-emails-classified-information-2016-9" type="external">that she was unaware</a> of which "headers" denoted that an email was classified.</p>
<p>Clinton's emails are <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/02/trump-huma-abedin-jail-email-release-319922" type="external">a favorite grievance</a> of President Trump, who has <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/362271-trump-blasts-deep-state-for-not-investigating-clinton-emails" type="external">repeatedly called</a> for <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/12/03/as_pressure_mounts_trump_predictably_lashes_out_against_hillary_clinton.html" type="external">his erstwhile political rival</a> to be investigated again. As such, people within the DOJ are reportedly concerned that Trump's vocal tweets on the matter could cause the impression that the law enforcement agency is only doing the president's bidding. An unnamed former DOJ official even suggested to The Daily Beast that it was "an open question" if this inquiry would occur "without a political directive from the White House."</p>
<p>The Justice Department would not comment on the reported inquiry to The Daily Beast.</p>
<p>Read the full story <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/justice-department-looking-into-hillary-clintons-emails-again" type="external">here</a>. <a type="internal">Kelly O'Meara Morales</a></p>"
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<p>They've got her now, just you wait.</p>
<p>Republicans in Congress have Hillary Clinton in their sights, and it's all going to be different this time. They're <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/justice-department-uranium-one-special-counsel.html" type="external">demanding</a> that the Justice Department appoint a special counsel to investigate Clinton, or more specifically, a couple of different matters relating to her, including the sale of a company that mines uranium and the Russia dossier, in which an opposition researcher assembled potentially damaging information on Donald Trump in 2016. What America obviously needs is a prosecutor with unlimited resources and subpoena power to get to the bottom of these matters, because ... because ... well because Hillary Damn Clinton, that's why!</p>
<p>You may have noticed that Hillary Clinton is not actually the president, a fact that has left Republicans who were looking forward to four or eight years of rip-roaring investigations rather bereft. So why not have the Justice Department investigate the president's former opponent? Maybe they'll get to lock her up after all. Sure, that's something that tends to happen in countries where elections are a prelude to tyranny, but isn't the American system far too lenient on people who commit the crime of losing an election?</p>
<p>What is the point of all this? The answer is a bit complicated, but first let's quickly address the Republicans' complaint. In their fantasy world, what demands investigation is chiefly this: Hillary Clinton gave 20 percent of our uranium to Russia in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation, and there was obviously something fishy going on. However, every bit of the previous sentence is false, other than that there is a person named "Hillary Clinton," a thing called "uranium," a place called "Russia," and an organization called the "Clinton Foundation."</p>
<p>In fact, the Russian government controls a company that has rights to mine a portion of the uranium located within the United States (far less than 20 percent), and the uranium isn't allowed to leave the country. The sale of that company was approved in 2013 by a board that includes representatives of nine different federal agencies; though the State Department is one of the nine, Clinton had no personal role in the decision. The donations to the Clinton Foundation that supposedly were payback actually occurred in 2007, before she became secretary of state, from a man who no longer had any stake in the company by the time the sale took place (you can read more <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/24/what-you-need-know-about-hillary-clinton-and-urani/" type="external">here</a> or <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/31/the-repeated-incorrect-claim-that-russia-obtained-20-percent-of-our-uranium" type="external">here</a>).</p>
<p>As for the Russian dossier, it was opposition research of the kind undertaken by candidates for every significant office in America. It contained some salacious rumors about Donald Trump, but the Clinton campaign didn't even make them public.</p>
<p>In short, this isn't the kind of thing you appoint a special counsel to investigate. When this was brought up by far-right Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), whom retired Speaker of the House John Boehner recently <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/29/john-boehner-trump-house-republican-party-retirement-profile-feature-215741" type="external">referred</a> to as a "legislative terrorist," at a Judiciary Committee hearing this week, even Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/14/jeff-sessions-just-threw-a-wet-blanket-on-president-trumps-russia-dossier-conspiracy-theory" type="external">seemed uninterested</a>. But Jordan and his compatriots are hardly alone; the president himself <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/03/trump-pressures-justice-department-to-investigate-crooked-hillary" type="external">recently said</a> it's "very discouraging to me" that the Justice Department is not "going after Hillary Clinton."</p>
<p>If there's one thing Republicans know, it's how to work a Clinton scandal. You start with wild charges, whether there are any facts behind them or not, then start to hold hearings, create a rising din in the conservative media, and before you know it, you've woven a scandal out of nothing.</p>
<p>Of course, you have to pretend that you care very deeply about consular security or proper email management or whatever the ostensible topic of the scandal is, but they can manage that without too much trouble.</p>
<p>This formula has to be understood as serving multiple goals. In the short run, it merely makes trouble for Democrats, putting them on the defensive and dominating the news. Now that Trump is president, it could also help distract attention from the administration's scandals. Since this story involves Russia too, it can potentially create a fog in the addled mind of the American public, to the point where "Russia" is just associated with a bunch of Washington corruption that involves both parties.</p>
<p>In the longer run, the investigation can act as a lever, producing something more consequential than whatever it set out to investigate. Republicans don't have to know what they're fishing for at the outset; it's enough to hope that there might be something waiting to be uncovered. The Benghazi investigation revealed the existence of Clinton's private email server, so who knows what an investigation into the uranium company might produce?</p>
<p>And then there's the emotional component. Investigating Hillary Clinton promises a return to a simpler time, when Republicans felt a sense of righteousness and purpose, and didn't have to worry about crafting complicated legislation that required difficult tradeoffs. That stuff is just no fun.</p>
<p>The trouble with the project, however, to return to where we started, is that Hillary Clinton is not the president and is never going to be the president. She's gone. There isn't anything to be gained by rooting around like pigs hoping to unearth a truffle of scandal buried somewhere in the woods of Chappaqua. All it does is make them look like sore winners.</p>
<p>Which of course is exactly what they are. Nothing in the last year has turned out the way they thought it would, and they have no idea what to do about it. A good Clinton scandal would make everything make sense again. But they probably won't get it, so they'll just have to content themselves with defending the toddler in the Oval Office and worrying about which of their candidates are going to turn out to have a thing for teenage girls. Oh — and maybe passing some legislation. If they get around to it.</p>
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"<p>They've got her now, just you wait.</p>
<p>Republicans in Congress have Hillary Clinton in their sights, and it's all going to be different this time. They're <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/justice-department-uranium-one-special-counsel.html" type="external">demanding</a> that the Justice Department appoint a special counsel to investigate Clinton, or more specifically, a couple of different matters relating to her, including the sale of a company that mines uranium and the Russia dossier, in which an opposition researcher assembled potentially damaging information on Donald Trump in 2016. What America obviously needs is a prosecutor with unlimited resources and subpoena power to get to the bottom of these matters, because ... because ... well because Hillary Damn Clinton, that's why!</p>
<p>You may have noticed that Hillary Clinton is not actually the president, a fact that has left Republicans who were looking forward to four or eight years of rip-roaring investigations rather bereft. So why not have the Justice Department investigate the president's former opponent? Maybe they'll get to lock her up after all. Sure, that's something that tends to happen in countries where elections are a prelude to tyranny, but isn't the American system far too lenient on people who commit the crime of losing an election?</p>
<p>What is the point of all this? The answer is a bit complicated, but first let's quickly address the Republicans' complaint. In their fantasy world, what demands investigation is chiefly this: Hillary Clinton gave 20 percent of our uranium to Russia in exchange for donations to the Clinton Foundation, and there was obviously something fishy going on. However, every bit of the previous sentence is false, other than that there is a person named "Hillary Clinton," a thing called "uranium," a place called "Russia," and an organization called the "Clinton Foundation."</p>
<p>In fact, the Russian government controls a company that has rights to mine a portion of the uranium located within the United States (far less than 20 percent), and the uranium isn't allowed to leave the country. The sale of that company was approved in 2013 by a board that includes representatives of nine different federal agencies; though the State Department is one of the nine, Clinton had no personal role in the decision. The donations to the Clinton Foundation that supposedly were payback actually occurred in 2007, before she became secretary of state, from a man who no longer had any stake in the company by the time the sale took place (you can read more <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/24/what-you-need-know-about-hillary-clinton-and-urani/" type="external">here</a> or <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/31/the-repeated-incorrect-claim-that-russia-obtained-20-percent-of-our-uranium" type="external">here</a>).</p>
<p>As for the Russian dossier, it was opposition research of the kind undertaken by candidates for every significant office in America. It contained some salacious rumors about Donald Trump, but the Clinton campaign didn't even make them public.</p>
<p>In short, this isn't the kind of thing you appoint a special counsel to investigate. When this was brought up by far-right Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), whom retired Speaker of the House John Boehner recently <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/29/john-boehner-trump-house-republican-party-retirement-profile-feature-215741" type="external">referred</a> to as a "legislative terrorist," at a Judiciary Committee hearing this week, even Attorney General Jeff Sessions <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/11/14/jeff-sessions-just-threw-a-wet-blanket-on-president-trumps-russia-dossier-conspiracy-theory" type="external">seemed uninterested</a>. But Jordan and his compatriots are hardly alone; the president himself <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/11/03/trump-pressures-justice-department-to-investigate-crooked-hillary" type="external">recently said</a> it's "very discouraging to me" that the Justice Department is not "going after Hillary Clinton."</p>
<p>If there's one thing Republicans know, it's how to work a Clinton scandal. You start with wild charges, whether there are any facts behind them or not, then start to hold hearings, create a rising din in the conservative media, and before you know it, you've woven a scandal out of nothing.</p>
<p>Of course, you have to pretend that you care very deeply about consular security or proper email management or whatever the ostensible topic of the scandal is, but they can manage that without too much trouble.</p>
<p>This formula has to be understood as serving multiple goals. In the short run, it merely makes trouble for Democrats, putting them on the defensive and dominating the news. Now that Trump is president, it could also help distract attention from the administration's scandals. Since this story involves Russia too, it can potentially create a fog in the addled mind of the American public, to the point where "Russia" is just associated with a bunch of Washington corruption that involves both parties.</p>
<p>In the longer run, the investigation can act as a lever, producing something more consequential than whatever it set out to investigate. Republicans don't have to know what they're fishing for at the outset; it's enough to hope that there might be something waiting to be uncovered. The Benghazi investigation revealed the existence of Clinton's private email server, so who knows what an investigation into the uranium company might produce?</p>
<p>And then there's the emotional component. Investigating Hillary Clinton promises a return to a simpler time, when Republicans felt a sense of righteousness and purpose, and didn't have to worry about crafting complicated legislation that required difficult tradeoffs. That stuff is just no fun.</p>
<p>The trouble with the project, however, to return to where we started, is that Hillary Clinton is not the president and is never going to be the president. She's gone. There isn't anything to be gained by rooting around like pigs hoping to unearth a truffle of scandal buried somewhere in the woods of Chappaqua. All it does is make them look like sore winners.</p>
<p>Which of course is exactly what they are. Nothing in the last year has turned out the way they thought it would, and they have no idea what to do about it. A good Clinton scandal would make everything make sense again. But they probably won't get it, so they'll just have to content themselves with defending the toddler in the Oval Office and worrying about which of their candidates are going to turn out to have a thing for teenage girls. Oh — and maybe passing some legislation. If they get around to it.</p>"
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<p>Setting the tone for the night. <a type="internal">Donald Trump</a> and <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton</a> <a type="internal">failed to shake hands at the start</a>of the second presidential debate on Sunday, October 9, bunking tradition and kicking off the evening with two cold shoulders.</p>
<p>The presidential candidates took to the stage in St. Louis for their second face-off, with <a type="internal">Anderson Cooper</a>and Martha Raddatz at the helm.</p> Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, left, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrive before the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (
<p>After the two candidates were introduced, Clinton, 68, and Trump, 70, walked onstage from opposite sides of the floor and retained grim expressions and stiff body language as they greeted one another, pointedly choosing not to shake hands prior to their explosive 90-minute debate.</p>
<p>Trump's wife <a type="internal">Melania Trump</a> and daughter <a type="internal">Ivanka Trump</a> were photographed shaking hands with Clinton's husband, former president <a type="internal">Bill Clinton</a>.</p>
<p>The political opponents’ icy demeanor comes just two days after the GOP presidential candidate was caught on newly released 2005 footage <a type="internal">bragging about forcibly kissing and groping women</a> to Access Hollywood host <a type="internal">Billy Bush</a>.</p>
<p>“You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them,” Trump can be heard saying on the controversial audio clip. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p–sy. You can do anything.”</p>
<p>Trump’s lewd remarks have had serious repercussions in the subsequent 48 hours, including a string of high-status <a type="internal">Republican officials denouncing the real estate mogul</a>and the RNC withdrawing their financial support from the candidate.</p>
<p>In response to the fall-out, Trump <a type="internal">issued a video statement</a> via Twitter on Saturday, October 8. “Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am,” he says on the video. “I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.”</p> Former President Bill Clinton checks hands with Melania Trump during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 9, 2016.
<p>In recent weeks, Trump has come under fire for his numerous misogynistic comments about women in the past, including his most recent Twitter attack on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, whom he once called “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.”</p>
<p>Despite the GOP leadership’s distancing itself from Trump, however, the former Apprentice host vowed not to drop out of the race.</p>
<p>“The media and establishment want me out of the race so badly — I WILL NEVER DROP OUT OF THE RACE, WILL NEVER LET MY SUPPORTERS DOWN! #MAGA,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" type="external">tweeted</a> prior to the debate.</p>
<p>When Cooper, 49, directly asked Trump: "You bragged that you sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?" the Republican presidential candidate once again insisted that his words were just "locker room talk" and tried to deflect attention to ISIS, who are "really bad."</p>
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"<p>Setting the tone for the night. <a type="internal">Donald Trump</a> and <a type="internal">Hillary Clinton</a> <a type="internal">failed to shake hands at the start</a>of the second presidential debate on Sunday, October 9, bunking tradition and kicking off the evening with two cold shoulders.</p>
<p>The presidential candidates took to the stage in St. Louis for their second face-off, with <a type="internal">Anderson Cooper</a>and Martha Raddatz at the helm.</p> Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, left, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arrive before the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. (
<p>After the two candidates were introduced, Clinton, 68, and Trump, 70, walked onstage from opposite sides of the floor and retained grim expressions and stiff body language as they greeted one another, pointedly choosing not to shake hands prior to their explosive 90-minute debate.</p>
<p>Trump's wife <a type="internal">Melania Trump</a> and daughter <a type="internal">Ivanka Trump</a> were photographed shaking hands with Clinton's husband, former president <a type="internal">Bill Clinton</a>.</p>
<p>The political opponents’ icy demeanor comes just two days after the GOP presidential candidate was caught on newly released 2005 footage <a type="internal">bragging about forcibly kissing and groping women</a> to Access Hollywood host <a type="internal">Billy Bush</a>.</p>
<p>“You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them,” Trump can be heard saying on the controversial audio clip. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p–sy. You can do anything.”</p>
<p>Trump’s lewd remarks have had serious repercussions in the subsequent 48 hours, including a string of high-status <a type="internal">Republican officials denouncing the real estate mogul</a>and the RNC withdrawing their financial support from the candidate.</p>
<p>In response to the fall-out, Trump <a type="internal">issued a video statement</a> via Twitter on Saturday, October 8. “Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am,” he says on the video. “I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.”</p> Former President Bill Clinton checks hands with Melania Trump during the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, on October 9, 2016.
<p>In recent weeks, Trump has come under fire for his numerous misogynistic comments about women in the past, including his most recent Twitter attack on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, whom he once called “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping.”</p>
<p>Despite the GOP leadership’s distancing itself from Trump, however, the former Apprentice host vowed not to drop out of the race.</p>
<p>“The media and establishment want me out of the race so badly — I WILL NEVER DROP OUT OF THE RACE, WILL NEVER LET MY SUPPORTERS DOWN! #MAGA,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" type="external">tweeted</a> prior to the debate.</p>
<p>When Cooper, 49, directly asked Trump: "You bragged that you sexually assaulted women. Do you understand that?" the Republican presidential candidate once again insisted that his words were just "locker room talk" and tried to deflect attention to ISIS, who are "really bad."</p>
<p><a type="internal">Sign up now for the Us Weekly newsletter</a> to get breaking celebrity news, hot pics and more delivered straight to your inbox!</p>
<p>Want stories like these delivered straight to your phone? <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/us-weekly-mag/id1232011939?mt=8" type="external">Download the</a> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/us-weekly-mag/id1232011939?mt=8" type="external">Us Weekly iPhone app now!</a></p>"
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<p>Although he attended the 2004 Republican National Convention, and supported the GOP’s former gubernatorial candidate for New York state in 2002, the Bay Shore, NY native told Piers Morgan earlier this year that he’s actually an Independent.</p>
<a type="internal" /> The Rock (Republican)
<p>WWE superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a registered Republican, and was reportedly invited to speak at the 2000 Republican National Convention.</p>
<a type="internal" /> Shannen Doherty (Republican)
<p>"I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats," Doherty has said about her conservative views. "I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican."</p>
<a type="internal" /> Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt (Republicans)
<p>The Hills pot-stirrers were big McCain-Palin supporters in 2008. "I'm voting for John McCain," Montag told <a type="internal">Us Weekly</a> in 2008. "I'm a Republican and McCain has a lot of experience." Still, the pair weren't going to let their candidate's defeat by Barack Obama bring them down. "We're behind America and America's decision," Pratt told MTV News. "You win some, you lose some."</p>
<a type="internal" /> LeAnn Rimes (Independent)
<p>Performing at GOP fundraisers does not a Republican make, according to Rimes. When asked via Twitter last year why she agreed to participate in a Republican fundraiser in Washington, D.C., she replied, "It's a job! I'm entertainment, not making a political stance," and added that she performed at the Democratic convention years ago and for Clinton "several times."</p>
<a type="internal" /> Heather Locklear (Republican)
<p>The former Melrose Place scene-stealer is a registered member of the Republican party.</p>
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<a type="internal" /> The Rock (Republican)
<p>WWE superstar Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a registered Republican, and was reportedly invited to speak at the 2000 Republican National Convention.</p>
<a type="internal" /> Shannen Doherty (Republican)
<p>"I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats," Doherty has said about her conservative views. "I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican."</p>
<a type="internal" /> Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt (Republicans)
<p>The Hills pot-stirrers were big McCain-Palin supporters in 2008. "I'm voting for John McCain," Montag told <a type="internal">Us Weekly</a> in 2008. "I'm a Republican and McCain has a lot of experience." Still, the pair weren't going to let their candidate's defeat by Barack Obama bring them down. "We're behind America and America's decision," Pratt told MTV News. "You win some, you lose some."</p>
<a type="internal" /> LeAnn Rimes (Independent)
<p>Performing at GOP fundraisers does not a Republican make, according to Rimes. When asked via Twitter last year why she agreed to participate in a Republican fundraiser in Washington, D.C., she replied, "It's a job! I'm entertainment, not making a political stance," and added that she performed at the Democratic convention years ago and for Clinton "several times."</p>
<a type="internal" /> Heather Locklear (Republican)
<p>The former Melrose Place scene-stealer is a registered member of the Republican party.</p>"
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<p>Athletes choosing to kneel during the national anthem is currently a controversial topic in the US.</p>
<p>The this past weekend, 27 players from the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens opted to take a knee during the singing of the US national anthem before a game at Wembley Stadium in London. This was the most players ever to kneel during the national anthem in a single NFL game ever.</p>
<p>The defiant stance has become a sign of protest against racial inequality within the US, and more recently, against President Trump's lacklustre response to the Charlottesville white-nationalist rally last month, and the heated aftermath that followed.</p>
<p>The defiant stance first made national news following a preseason game in 2016, when Colin Kaepernick sat down (as opposed to the tradition of standing), during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner". His reasoning was divisive, but simple:</p>
<q> <p>"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder"</p> </q>
<p>Eventually, Kaepernick conversed with former NFL player and US military veteran, Nate Boyer, and they both agreed that kneeling would be a much more respectful way to protest, whilst still showing respect for those who have fought in the US military.</p>
<p>But the Jaguars and the Ravens weren't the only NFL teams to show solidarity against President Trump this week. The Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders, Washington Redskins and more all protested in one way or another - with the Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans even choosing to remain their locker rooms during the playing of the national anthem.</p>
<p>And yet, what's even more inflammatory is President Trump's reaction to the silent protests. Instead of addressing the issues of racial injustice, Trump has hit out at the NFL, stating that fans should “refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag &amp; Country”, and that any players who take a knee should be fired or suspended.</p>
<p>But President Trump isn't the only fan tuning in every week to witness the protests. Young children are incredibly impressionable, and one six-year-old in particular decided to demonstrate a protest of his own during the pledge of allegiance at his elementary school.</p>
<p>As reported on ABC Action News, a six-year-old boy in Pasco County knelt down during a reading of the pledge of allegiance - an action that his teacher found disrespectful of the country, and disrespectful of the flag.</p>
<p>The teacher send a text message to the boy's mother, informing her, "I knew where he had seen it. But I did tell him that in the classroom, we are learning what it means to be a good citizen".</p>
<p>The teacher then told the child to "stand up and stop it", something that the boy's mother does not believe is her "right".</p>
<p>The boy's mother said that she did not tell her son to take a knee, but also does not want her son to be silenced. She is now asking the school to be more open-minded, as she believes the issue is "much bigger" than her son.</p>
<p>Linda Cobbe of Pasco County schools stated that they follow state law, and that the only way a student can be exempted from reciting the pledge of allegiance is with a written request from the parents, and even then, "they must stand".</p>
<p>Cobbe also agreed that a more beneficial approach would have been to pull the boy to the side of the class and discuss the matter, instead of punishing him in front of the other students.</p>
<p>But the mother believes that this shouldn't just be about her son: "The bigger issue is cultural. They have demonstrated to me, through multiple incidents, that they don't take inclusion and diversity serious".</p>
<p>Both the boy's mom and the school are now hoping that the incident will be something everyone can learn from, as the school "does not want to infringe on anyone's rights".</p> What do you think?
<p>Should the boy and his mother be punished? Was it simply just a child copying something his favorite football team did one TV, or was he fighting for his right to be heard and respected in the community? One thing is for sure, the actions of the NFL are being seen and heard across the nation by everyone.</p>
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"<p>Athletes choosing to kneel during the national anthem is currently a controversial topic in the US.</p>
<p>The this past weekend, 27 players from the Jacksonville Jaguars and Baltimore Ravens opted to take a knee during the singing of the US national anthem before a game at Wembley Stadium in London. This was the most players ever to kneel during the national anthem in a single NFL game ever.</p>
<p>The defiant stance has become a sign of protest against racial inequality within the US, and more recently, against President Trump's lacklustre response to the Charlottesville white-nationalist rally last month, and the heated aftermath that followed.</p>
<p>The defiant stance first made national news following a preseason game in 2016, when Colin Kaepernick sat down (as opposed to the tradition of standing), during the playing of "The Star-Spangled Banner". His reasoning was divisive, but simple:</p>
<q> <p>"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color. To me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder"</p> </q>
<p>Eventually, Kaepernick conversed with former NFL player and US military veteran, Nate Boyer, and they both agreed that kneeling would be a much more respectful way to protest, whilst still showing respect for those who have fought in the US military.</p>
<p>But the Jaguars and the Ravens weren't the only NFL teams to show solidarity against President Trump this week. The Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders, Washington Redskins and more all protested in one way or another - with the Seattle Seahawks and Tennessee Titans even choosing to remain their locker rooms during the playing of the national anthem.</p>
<p>And yet, what's even more inflammatory is President Trump's reaction to the silent protests. Instead of addressing the issues of racial injustice, Trump has hit out at the NFL, stating that fans should “refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag &amp; Country”, and that any players who take a knee should be fired or suspended.</p>
<p>But President Trump isn't the only fan tuning in every week to witness the protests. Young children are incredibly impressionable, and one six-year-old in particular decided to demonstrate a protest of his own during the pledge of allegiance at his elementary school.</p>
<p>As reported on ABC Action News, a six-year-old boy in Pasco County knelt down during a reading of the pledge of allegiance - an action that his teacher found disrespectful of the country, and disrespectful of the flag.</p>
<p>The teacher send a text message to the boy's mother, informing her, "I knew where he had seen it. But I did tell him that in the classroom, we are learning what it means to be a good citizen".</p>
<p>The teacher then told the child to "stand up and stop it", something that the boy's mother does not believe is her "right".</p>
<p>The boy's mother said that she did not tell her son to take a knee, but also does not want her son to be silenced. She is now asking the school to be more open-minded, as she believes the issue is "much bigger" than her son.</p>
<p>Linda Cobbe of Pasco County schools stated that they follow state law, and that the only way a student can be exempted from reciting the pledge of allegiance is with a written request from the parents, and even then, "they must stand".</p>
<p>Cobbe also agreed that a more beneficial approach would have been to pull the boy to the side of the class and discuss the matter, instead of punishing him in front of the other students.</p>
<p>But the mother believes that this shouldn't just be about her son: "The bigger issue is cultural. They have demonstrated to me, through multiple incidents, that they don't take inclusion and diversity serious".</p>
<p>Both the boy's mom and the school are now hoping that the incident will be something everyone can learn from, as the school "does not want to infringe on anyone's rights".</p> What do you think?
<p>Should the boy and his mother be punished? Was it simply just a child copying something his favorite football team did one TV, or was he fighting for his right to be heard and respected in the community? One thing is for sure, the actions of the NFL are being seen and heard across the nation by everyone.</p>"
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<p>Dumbfounded that Donald Trump beat his hand-picked successor, Hillary Clinton, as president, former President Barack Obama and a top aide began plotting to “destroy” the president-elect around Christmas, according to a new book on Democrat efforts to undermine President Trump.</p>
<p>What’s more, the goal was to not just damage the Trump presidency but set the Republican president up for impeachment, according to Ed Klein’s latest from <a href="https://www.regnery.com/" type="external">Regnery</a> Publishing, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Out-War-Destroy-Trump/dp/1621576981" type="external">All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump.</a> It goes on sale tomorrow.</p>
<p>In an exclusive excerpt provided to Secrets, Klein described a "Christmastime" dinner during which national security adviser Susan Rice pushed plans to “unmask, or disclose, the names of several Trump campaign associates who were mentioned or whose conversations were captured in intelligence intercepts of Russian officials.”</p>
<p>Klein, a former New York Times editor who has written several insider accounts critical of the Clintons and Obamas, said that Obama knew of Rice’s efforts to disclose the names in hopes they would leak to the media and spark an investigation.</p>
<p>“He knew Rice wanted to encourage leaks to the Washington Post and the New York Times accusing Trump and his campaign of colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the American presidential election,” Klein wrote.</p>
<p>“If Rice’s plot succeeded — that is, if it could be proved that Trump had colluded with Putin during the campaign or, later, if it could be proved that he had tried to prevent an investigation into such collusion — Trump would likely face charges of impeachment,” said the new Klein book.</p>
<p>But, he added, Obama didn’t know that his closest aide, Valerie Jarrett, was behind the plot.</p>
<p>Rice eventually had to testify to Congress about her actions, and denied leaking Trump campaign and associate names.</p>
<p>Klein does not reveal his source other than offering the source as Jarrett’s “friend.”</p>
<p>During the dinner, wrote Klein, first lady Michelle Obama raised concerns that the effort was clearly a political plot to “sandbag” Trump.</p>
<p>Rice, however, is quoted saying she was worried about national security and she referenced the leaks of Democratic National Committee emails, embarrassing to the Clinton campaign, by Russian sources. She wanted, said the book, to make sure that the alleged links to the Trump campaign and Russia became public before Trump came to office.</p>
<p>“She said she was afraid that once Trump got into the White House, the evidence of collusion would be covered up or destroyed,” wrote Klein.</p>
<p>At that point during the dinner, the former first lady, said the book, cautioned that the plot could “bite us in the ass.”</p>
<p>As her husband mulled Rice’s plea to unmask the names by lowering security clearances, Jarrett’s “friend” told Klein, “Most of the time he had to choose between the lesser of two evils. This was an example of such a dilemma. It was clearly unethical to use illegal leaks to sabotage Trump. But Barack could argue that it was his patriotic to duty to draw attention to the possibility that the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russians to influence the outcome of an American election.”</p>
<p>At point, his source said, “Valerie piped up. ‘Well,’ she said, ‘[FBI Director James] Comey thinks Susan’s on to something. He’s investigating whether the Trump campaign cooperated with the Russians. There must be something there.’”</p>
<p>Klein concluded, “Valerie has a sixth sense how to handle Barack and Michelle. She understood Michelle’s reservations and her desire to protect her husband, and she wanted to give Michelle a chance to vent. But Valerie left no doubt that she was in favor of Barack going along with Susan’s scheme.”</p>
<p>Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com</p>
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"<p>Dumbfounded that Donald Trump beat his hand-picked successor, Hillary Clinton, as president, former President Barack Obama and a top aide began plotting to “destroy” the president-elect around Christmas, according to a new book on Democrat efforts to undermine President Trump.</p>
<p>What’s more, the goal was to not just damage the Trump presidency but set the Republican president up for impeachment, according to Ed Klein’s latest from <a href="https://www.regnery.com/" type="external">Regnery</a> Publishing, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/All-Out-War-Destroy-Trump/dp/1621576981" type="external">All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump.</a> It goes on sale tomorrow.</p>
<p>In an exclusive excerpt provided to Secrets, Klein described a "Christmastime" dinner during which national security adviser Susan Rice pushed plans to “unmask, or disclose, the names of several Trump campaign associates who were mentioned or whose conversations were captured in intelligence intercepts of Russian officials.”</p>
<p>Klein, a former New York Times editor who has written several insider accounts critical of the Clintons and Obamas, said that Obama knew of Rice’s efforts to disclose the names in hopes they would leak to the media and spark an investigation.</p>
<p>“He knew Rice wanted to encourage leaks to the Washington Post and the New York Times accusing Trump and his campaign of colluding with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the American presidential election,” Klein wrote.</p>
<p>“If Rice’s plot succeeded — that is, if it could be proved that Trump had colluded with Putin during the campaign or, later, if it could be proved that he had tried to prevent an investigation into such collusion — Trump would likely face charges of impeachment,” said the new Klein book.</p>
<p>But, he added, Obama didn’t know that his closest aide, Valerie Jarrett, was behind the plot.</p>
<p>Rice eventually had to testify to Congress about her actions, and denied leaking Trump campaign and associate names.</p>
<p>Klein does not reveal his source other than offering the source as Jarrett’s “friend.”</p>
<p>During the dinner, wrote Klein, first lady Michelle Obama raised concerns that the effort was clearly a political plot to “sandbag” Trump.</p>
<p>Rice, however, is quoted saying she was worried about national security and she referenced the leaks of Democratic National Committee emails, embarrassing to the Clinton campaign, by Russian sources. She wanted, said the book, to make sure that the alleged links to the Trump campaign and Russia became public before Trump came to office.</p>
<p>“She said she was afraid that once Trump got into the White House, the evidence of collusion would be covered up or destroyed,” wrote Klein.</p>
<p>At that point during the dinner, the former first lady, said the book, cautioned that the plot could “bite us in the ass.”</p>
<p>As her husband mulled Rice’s plea to unmask the names by lowering security clearances, Jarrett’s “friend” told Klein, “Most of the time he had to choose between the lesser of two evils. This was an example of such a dilemma. It was clearly unethical to use illegal leaks to sabotage Trump. But Barack could argue that it was his patriotic to duty to draw attention to the possibility that the Trump campaign had conspired with the Russians to influence the outcome of an American election.”</p>
<p>At point, his source said, “Valerie piped up. ‘Well,’ she said, ‘[FBI Director James] Comey thinks Susan’s on to something. He’s investigating whether the Trump campaign cooperated with the Russians. There must be something there.’”</p>
<p>Klein concluded, “Valerie has a sixth sense how to handle Barack and Michelle. She understood Michelle’s reservations and her desire to protect her husband, and she wanted to give Michelle a chance to vent. But Valerie left no doubt that she was in favor of Barack going along with Susan’s scheme.”</p>
<p>Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com</p>"
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<p>Asking the wrong questions will yield the wrong answers.</p>
<p>If you ask yourself, as President Trump did — “Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? [...] They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own — brought in by parents at a young age”- you will surely find the answer is no.</p>
<p>However, if you ask yourself if you should support the proposed resurgence of the flagrantly unconstitutional and unjust “amnesty” that greatly disadvantages American millennials, the answer is less clear.</p>
<p>The resurgence of the debate over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy would put all millennials in direct competition with illegal immigrants who were granted DACA permits, whether it be through college admissions, job opportunities, or wages.</p>
<p>DACA creates competition in the higher education system that inherently favors illegal immigrants through policies such as affirmative action. Affirmative action mandates equal opportunities for, and often results in a larger presence of, minority groups in workplaces and, most notably, universities. Dreamers with permits qualify for affirmative action, giving young immigrants an advantage over not just the skilled worker, but also American college applicants.</p>
<p>DACA recipients have seized on American millennials’ ability to receive financial aid and college scholarships in multiple states. Approximately one out of every four DACA recipients — <a href="http://www.ppic.org/publication/undocumented-immigrants-in-california/" type="external">about 200,000 individuals — live in California</a>. California allows Dreamers to receive in-state college tuition and 19 other states have followed suit. The California Dream Act, embolden by DACA, has set a precedent for states to generously allocate funding to students who have entered or were brought into the country Illegally.</p>
<p>California is merely one example of states diverting funding from the middle class to fund Dreamers. To fund the Cal Grant entitlement for the state’s “neediest” students, California has <a href="http://www.kcra.com/article/why-the-middle-class-scholarship-could-get-cut-this-year/8956490" type="external">“phased-out” the Middle-Class Scholarship Program</a>. Implementing the California Dream Act made certain that undocumented and nonresident students are eligible for state financial aid, and that alone accounts for $67 million of the increase in Cal Grant spending.</p>
<p>However, California students and taxpayers are not the only ones who have felt the impact and burden of DACA. California serves as an example of how scholarship and state-funded aid for the average DACA recipient creates a disadvantage for Americans of similar income classes. Middle-Class American students are less likely to receive financial aid from universities and institutions, due to the diverting funds, implemented in State Dream Acts, emboldened by DACA.</p>
<p>Additionally, DACA creates competition in the workforce, for the millions of jobless American millennials. Currently, over 10 percent of millennials remain unemployed. There are 800,000 millennials from other countries who are competing legally in the workplace for the same occupations where American millennials are looking for work. According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are an estimated <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/diploma-please-promoting-educational-attainment-daca-and-potential-dream-act-eligible-youth" type="external">2.1 million illegal immigrants</a> who are DACA-eligible in the United States in addition to the 800,000 already enrolled.</p>
<p>However, the ultimate issue facing both millennials and Americans is that DACA allows for unjust amnesty. The United States admits approximately 1 million legal permanent immigrants every year, which is more than any other nation in the world. It is unjust to the millions of Americans and resident legal immigrants who followed the rules.</p>
<p>Giving blanket amnesty to those who neglect to follow our laws is irresponsible and rewards those who fail to follow the rules. Refusing to enforce the law equally, by making special exceptions for favored groups, puts a burden on citizens and lawful residents in the states (especially border states) with the irresponsible federal abdication of immigration law. DACA also blatantly encourages more illegal immigrants to enter the United States in hopes of future amnesty.</p>
<p>Granting legal status to Dreamers streamlines the pipeline of illegal immigration through extended family sponsorship. This is a slippery slope for America. The narrative on DACA touts the promise of the American dream by advertising the many who have benefited from the system. What it fails to mention are the impacts and burdens DACA has thrust upon the American millennials.</p>
<p>Sydney Jacobs (@the_poli_chick), a Las Vegas, Nevada native, currently resides in Washington D.C and works in Republican politics.</p>
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"<p>Asking the wrong questions will yield the wrong answers.</p>
<p>If you ask yourself, as President Trump did — “Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military? [...] They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own — brought in by parents at a young age”- you will surely find the answer is no.</p>
<p>However, if you ask yourself if you should support the proposed resurgence of the flagrantly unconstitutional and unjust “amnesty” that greatly disadvantages American millennials, the answer is less clear.</p>
<p>The resurgence of the debate over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy would put all millennials in direct competition with illegal immigrants who were granted DACA permits, whether it be through college admissions, job opportunities, or wages.</p>
<p>DACA creates competition in the higher education system that inherently favors illegal immigrants through policies such as affirmative action. Affirmative action mandates equal opportunities for, and often results in a larger presence of, minority groups in workplaces and, most notably, universities. Dreamers with permits qualify for affirmative action, giving young immigrants an advantage over not just the skilled worker, but also American college applicants.</p>
<p>DACA recipients have seized on American millennials’ ability to receive financial aid and college scholarships in multiple states. Approximately one out of every four DACA recipients — <a href="http://www.ppic.org/publication/undocumented-immigrants-in-california/" type="external">about 200,000 individuals — live in California</a>. California allows Dreamers to receive in-state college tuition and 19 other states have followed suit. The California Dream Act, embolden by DACA, has set a precedent for states to generously allocate funding to students who have entered or were brought into the country Illegally.</p>
<p>California is merely one example of states diverting funding from the middle class to fund Dreamers. To fund the Cal Grant entitlement for the state’s “neediest” students, California has <a href="http://www.kcra.com/article/why-the-middle-class-scholarship-could-get-cut-this-year/8956490" type="external">“phased-out” the Middle-Class Scholarship Program</a>. Implementing the California Dream Act made certain that undocumented and nonresident students are eligible for state financial aid, and that alone accounts for $67 million of the increase in Cal Grant spending.</p>
<p>However, California students and taxpayers are not the only ones who have felt the impact and burden of DACA. California serves as an example of how scholarship and state-funded aid for the average DACA recipient creates a disadvantage for Americans of similar income classes. Middle-Class American students are less likely to receive financial aid from universities and institutions, due to the diverting funds, implemented in State Dream Acts, emboldened by DACA.</p>
<p>Additionally, DACA creates competition in the workforce, for the millions of jobless American millennials. Currently, over 10 percent of millennials remain unemployed. There are 800,000 millennials from other countries who are competing legally in the workplace for the same occupations where American millennials are looking for work. According to the Migration Policy Institute, there are an estimated <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/research/diploma-please-promoting-educational-attainment-daca-and-potential-dream-act-eligible-youth" type="external">2.1 million illegal immigrants</a> who are DACA-eligible in the United States in addition to the 800,000 already enrolled.</p>
<p>However, the ultimate issue facing both millennials and Americans is that DACA allows for unjust amnesty. The United States admits approximately 1 million legal permanent immigrants every year, which is more than any other nation in the world. It is unjust to the millions of Americans and resident legal immigrants who followed the rules.</p>
<p>Giving blanket amnesty to those who neglect to follow our laws is irresponsible and rewards those who fail to follow the rules. Refusing to enforce the law equally, by making special exceptions for favored groups, puts a burden on citizens and lawful residents in the states (especially border states) with the irresponsible federal abdication of immigration law. DACA also blatantly encourages more illegal immigrants to enter the United States in hopes of future amnesty.</p>
<p>Granting legal status to Dreamers streamlines the pipeline of illegal immigration through extended family sponsorship. This is a slippery slope for America. The narrative on DACA touts the promise of the American dream by advertising the many who have benefited from the system. What it fails to mention are the impacts and burdens DACA has thrust upon the American millennials.</p>
<p>Sydney Jacobs (@the_poli_chick), a Las Vegas, Nevada native, currently resides in Washington D.C and works in Republican politics.</p>"
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<p>"There’s something happening here." — Buffalo Springfield, 1967</p>
<p>Every major leftist movement the world has seen has been totalitarian by nature. Occasionally this brand of extremism arises elsewhere along the ideological spectrum, such as Islamo-fascism, but Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany remain the archetypes of the socialist genre of dictatorship among many incarnations which clearly include today’s “liberal Democrats” in the United States.</p>
<p>Contemporary liberal Democrats reveal their totalitarian proclivities in many subtle ways, such as support for single-payer healthcare and all other forms of big government, and some that are not so subtle. Recent years have seen a surge in the latter variety. Shouting down conservative speakers on college campuses to silence their views has been ongoing, but now the practice has graduated to violent attacks on speakers and audiences. There is no record of comparable suppression of speech by conservatives. And why is it only the left that abides no dissent from its preferred orthodoxy? The adherents expose through their own behavior that they fear a fair debate of ideas, so they attempt to quell intellectual challenge through brute force—just as all autocrats do.</p>
<p>America’s so-called liberal Democrats resort to the most aggressive tactics out of the Saul Alinsky manual, i.e., destroy any threat to the radical agenda. Truth is beside the point to them. To substantiate via illustration of such Stalinist “politics of personal destruction,” here are a few examples:</p>
<p>(1) Mitt Romney, as 2012 presidential candidate, was Mr. Nice Guy until Democrats got ahold of him. Then the public found out that he had abused his dog, caused an employee to die of cancer, and sadistically imprisoned women in a torture device known as a binder! All this derived from the Obama campaign’s suitably-named “ <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/kill-romney-060929" type="external">kill Romney</a>” strategy. Of course, candidate Obama’s own personal history was deemed off-limits. Hypocrisy is a familiar trait of leftist totalitarians.</p>
<p>(2) Poor George W. Bush. Investigations by three different governmental commissions concluded that he did not lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If anything, he received the same information worldwide intelligence agencies did about Saddam’s WMD arsenal. Yet “Bush lied” was burned into the national consciousness through liberal Democrat propaganda, paving the way for election of a true leftist president.</p>
<p>(3) Barack Obama advanced the practice of despotic repression by weaponizing every office of his government for domestic political use. The IRS campaign of terror against conservative groups was only one of the most obnoxious. Richard Nixon received an article of impeachment for much less.</p>
<p>(4) The grand master of personal destruction politics was Bill Clinton, who slimed anyone seen as a threat whether James McDougal, Ken Starr, or Juanita Broaddrick. This m.o. was the whole point of the “war room” of Clinton’s permanent campaign, not to mention Hillary’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/yes-hillary-was-an-enabler-213919" type="external">“bimbo eruption" squad</a>. A colorful couple, those Clintons. Hillary, in particular, was a disciple of leftist Saul Alinsky.</p>
<p>(5) Currently we have liberal Democrat rioters, following the Occupy Wall Street slow-motion riot. Black Lives Matter extremists demand the murder of police, and the misnamed Antifa ironically lives the fascist ideal of causing mayhem whenever someone utters a thought contrary to liberal Democrat political correctness. After the first violent act by a right-wing fringe fanatic in many years, in Charlottesville, the fake news narrative is that conservatives are the violent ones. In reality, almost all political violence in this country is committed by the far left (for example, a Bernie Sanders-supporting maniac actually attempting to assassinate Republican members of Congress).</p>
<p>(6) A telling symptom of the left’s nascent despotism is the public shaming of any entity that disagrees with them, e.g., organizing against businesses that violate leftist dogma by supporting a traditional position. For instance, dare to agree with the view on homosexual marriage held until a few years ago by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and you become a target. (Recall Alinsky’s “isolate it, freeze it, personalize it.”) Likewise, the revelations about leftist groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center demonizing those they disagree with. The left decided long ago to downplay debate over ideas—their ideology having failed empirically all over the world—and to simply use neo-McCarthyist tactics instead.</p>
<p>(7) In Animal Farm, some pigs really are more equal than others. Hillary Clinton was found to have committed numerous email felonies, and then the gutless James Comey said “never mind.” Clinton’s Benghazi malfeasance with Barack Obama also has gone unpunished. The political elite elevating itself above the law is a hallmark of leftist dictatorship.</p>
<p>(8) One of the liberal Democrats’ favorite slander devices is the accusation of racism, which has become the supreme insult in our society. White-on-black racism, in particular, has become socially unacceptable, which actually is a measure of how anti-racist America has become in overcoming vestiges of its more primitive state. Recognize, however, that for the past 45 years, the only legally permissible, sometimes legally mandated, racial discrimination in the U.S. is that which is committed in favor of minorities against Caucasians. This is the extreme state of our social law, for better or worse, yet many on the left trot out “white supremacist” allegations more often than we can count.</p>
<p>There is a more substantive reason for the liberal Democrat amalgam’s resort to this odious tactic, beyond findings of its marketing effectiveness: Liberal Democrats cannot permit the mass healing of race relations in our country. They need to aggravate those relations so their side is better able to exploit the issue. Is there no limit to their neo-McCarthyist cynicism? Politics is everything to liberal Democrats, because government power is everything to them.</p>
<p>(9) Perhaps the worst of the Big Lies was “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” designed to give liberal Democrat government absolute life-and-death power over all citizens through the enactment of Obamacare. What better way to achieve totalitarian rule than mortal power over all the ruled people? See why socialized medicine is the liberal Democrats' Holy Grail?</p>
<p>A broader explanation for the liberal Democrats’ current hysteria: Their camp had some very sinister plans for the country, and was oh-so-close to ultimate success. With the election of President Hillary Clinton, a prospective second straight subversive in the office, Democrats could have finally amnestied 11 million illegal aliens, i.e., new Democrat voters, thereby ensuring that no Republican could ever again be elected president. This outcome would establish their goal of a one-party dictatorship, in effect―if only it had happened. The dream scenario having been snatched away is what has driven the liberal Democrats over the edge.</p>
<p>So, in their delirium, they lash out. It is all understandable for a group of closet totalitarians in the throes of catastrophic disappointment. And if they tear the nation apart as they act out, so much the better, in their warped view. They always despised the country anyway.</p>
<p>Now the plan is for arch-socialist Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren (who misrepresented her own race for financial gain), to win the presidency in 2020 for a slightly postponed takeover.</p>
<p>Pleasant dreams, America. There is something happening here.</p>
<p>John Gaski is an associate professor at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He is a long-time registered Democrat and long-time registered Republican—intermittently, not simultaneously.</p>
<p>If you would like to write an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, please read our <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/editorial-guidelines" type="external">guidelines on submissions here.</a></p>
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"<p>"There’s something happening here." — Buffalo Springfield, 1967</p>
<p>Every major leftist movement the world has seen has been totalitarian by nature. Occasionally this brand of extremism arises elsewhere along the ideological spectrum, such as Islamo-fascism, but Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany remain the archetypes of the socialist genre of dictatorship among many incarnations which clearly include today’s “liberal Democrats” in the United States.</p>
<p>Contemporary liberal Democrats reveal their totalitarian proclivities in many subtle ways, such as support for single-payer healthcare and all other forms of big government, and some that are not so subtle. Recent years have seen a surge in the latter variety. Shouting down conservative speakers on college campuses to silence their views has been ongoing, but now the practice has graduated to violent attacks on speakers and audiences. There is no record of comparable suppression of speech by conservatives. And why is it only the left that abides no dissent from its preferred orthodoxy? The adherents expose through their own behavior that they fear a fair debate of ideas, so they attempt to quell intellectual challenge through brute force—just as all autocrats do.</p>
<p>America’s so-called liberal Democrats resort to the most aggressive tactics out of the Saul Alinsky manual, i.e., destroy any threat to the radical agenda. Truth is beside the point to them. To substantiate via illustration of such Stalinist “politics of personal destruction,” here are a few examples:</p>
<p>(1) Mitt Romney, as 2012 presidential candidate, was Mr. Nice Guy until Democrats got ahold of him. Then the public found out that he had abused his dog, caused an employee to die of cancer, and sadistically imprisoned women in a torture device known as a binder! All this derived from the Obama campaign’s suitably-named “ <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/kill-romney-060929" type="external">kill Romney</a>” strategy. Of course, candidate Obama’s own personal history was deemed off-limits. Hypocrisy is a familiar trait of leftist totalitarians.</p>
<p>(2) Poor George W. Bush. Investigations by three different governmental commissions concluded that he did not lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If anything, he received the same information worldwide intelligence agencies did about Saddam’s WMD arsenal. Yet “Bush lied” was burned into the national consciousness through liberal Democrat propaganda, paving the way for election of a true leftist president.</p>
<p>(3) Barack Obama advanced the practice of despotic repression by weaponizing every office of his government for domestic political use. The IRS campaign of terror against conservative groups was only one of the most obnoxious. Richard Nixon received an article of impeachment for much less.</p>
<p>(4) The grand master of personal destruction politics was Bill Clinton, who slimed anyone seen as a threat whether James McDougal, Ken Starr, or Juanita Broaddrick. This m.o. was the whole point of the “war room” of Clinton’s permanent campaign, not to mention Hillary’s <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/05/yes-hillary-was-an-enabler-213919" type="external">“bimbo eruption" squad</a>. A colorful couple, those Clintons. Hillary, in particular, was a disciple of leftist Saul Alinsky.</p>
<p>(5) Currently we have liberal Democrat rioters, following the Occupy Wall Street slow-motion riot. Black Lives Matter extremists demand the murder of police, and the misnamed Antifa ironically lives the fascist ideal of causing mayhem whenever someone utters a thought contrary to liberal Democrat political correctness. After the first violent act by a right-wing fringe fanatic in many years, in Charlottesville, the fake news narrative is that conservatives are the violent ones. In reality, almost all political violence in this country is committed by the far left (for example, a Bernie Sanders-supporting maniac actually attempting to assassinate Republican members of Congress).</p>
<p>(6) A telling symptom of the left’s nascent despotism is the public shaming of any entity that disagrees with them, e.g., organizing against businesses that violate leftist dogma by supporting a traditional position. For instance, dare to agree with the view on homosexual marriage held until a few years ago by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and you become a target. (Recall Alinsky’s “isolate it, freeze it, personalize it.”) Likewise, the revelations about leftist groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center demonizing those they disagree with. The left decided long ago to downplay debate over ideas—their ideology having failed empirically all over the world—and to simply use neo-McCarthyist tactics instead.</p>
<p>(7) In Animal Farm, some pigs really are more equal than others. Hillary Clinton was found to have committed numerous email felonies, and then the gutless James Comey said “never mind.” Clinton’s Benghazi malfeasance with Barack Obama also has gone unpunished. The political elite elevating itself above the law is a hallmark of leftist dictatorship.</p>
<p>(8) One of the liberal Democrats’ favorite slander devices is the accusation of racism, which has become the supreme insult in our society. White-on-black racism, in particular, has become socially unacceptable, which actually is a measure of how anti-racist America has become in overcoming vestiges of its more primitive state. Recognize, however, that for the past 45 years, the only legally permissible, sometimes legally mandated, racial discrimination in the U.S. is that which is committed in favor of minorities against Caucasians. This is the extreme state of our social law, for better or worse, yet many on the left trot out “white supremacist” allegations more often than we can count.</p>
<p>There is a more substantive reason for the liberal Democrat amalgam’s resort to this odious tactic, beyond findings of its marketing effectiveness: Liberal Democrats cannot permit the mass healing of race relations in our country. They need to aggravate those relations so their side is better able to exploit the issue. Is there no limit to their neo-McCarthyist cynicism? Politics is everything to liberal Democrats, because government power is everything to them.</p>
<p>(9) Perhaps the worst of the Big Lies was “if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” designed to give liberal Democrat government absolute life-and-death power over all citizens through the enactment of Obamacare. What better way to achieve totalitarian rule than mortal power over all the ruled people? See why socialized medicine is the liberal Democrats' Holy Grail?</p>
<p>A broader explanation for the liberal Democrats’ current hysteria: Their camp had some very sinister plans for the country, and was oh-so-close to ultimate success. With the election of President Hillary Clinton, a prospective second straight subversive in the office, Democrats could have finally amnestied 11 million illegal aliens, i.e., new Democrat voters, thereby ensuring that no Republican could ever again be elected president. This outcome would establish their goal of a one-party dictatorship, in effect―if only it had happened. The dream scenario having been snatched away is what has driven the liberal Democrats over the edge.</p>
<p>So, in their delirium, they lash out. It is all understandable for a group of closet totalitarians in the throes of catastrophic disappointment. And if they tear the nation apart as they act out, so much the better, in their warped view. They always despised the country anyway.</p>
<p>Now the plan is for arch-socialist Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren (who misrepresented her own race for financial gain), to win the presidency in 2020 for a slightly postponed takeover.</p>
<p>Pleasant dreams, America. There is something happening here.</p>
<p>John Gaski is an associate professor at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He is a long-time registered Democrat and long-time registered Republican—intermittently, not simultaneously.</p>
<p>If you would like to write an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, please read our <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/editorial-guidelines" type="external">guidelines on submissions here.</a></p>"
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<p>Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, has hired a lawyer as he prepares to appear before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report.</p>
<p>Bannon hired Bill Burck, a co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan LLP’s Washington, D.C., office, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-lawyers-up-russia-investigators-ready-to-pounce" type="external">according to The Daily Beast</a>.</p>
<p>White House counsel Don McGahn and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus <a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/937051/exclusive-priebus-mcgahn-hire-quinn-emanuel-in-mueller-probe" type="external">hired</a> Burck in September to represent them in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.</p>
<p>Bannon is scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee next week. Sources told The Daily Beast the former chief strategist intends to “fully cooperate.”</p>
<p>Bannon was hired as chief executive of the Trump campaign in August 2016 and was tapped by President Trump to serve as White House chief strategist. He left his post there in August 2017 and returned to Breitbart News as its executive chairman.</p>
<p>But, Bannon and Breitbart parted ways earlier this week amid a spat between President Trump and his former chief strategist. Bannon made derogatory comments about the president and his family in a new tell-all book, prompting a fiery condemnation from Trump.</p>
<p>Though Bannon had previously avoided being swept up in the Russia probe—until the House Intelligence Committee asked last month for him to appear before lawmakers—he had been <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-thinks-trumps-legal-team-is-asleep-at-the-wheeland-hes-looking-for-ways-to-kneecap-mueller" type="external">discussing</a> the probe with Trump behind the scenes.</p>
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"<p>Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, has hired a lawyer as he prepares to appear before the House Intelligence Committee as part of its investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, according to a report.</p>
<p>Bannon hired Bill Burck, a co-managing partner of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan LLP’s Washington, D.C., office, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-lawyers-up-russia-investigators-ready-to-pounce" type="external">according to The Daily Beast</a>.</p>
<p>White House counsel Don McGahn and former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus <a href="https://www.law360.com/articles/937051/exclusive-priebus-mcgahn-hire-quinn-emanuel-in-mueller-probe" type="external">hired</a> Burck in September to represent them in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.</p>
<p>Bannon is scheduled to testify before the House Intelligence Committee next week. Sources told The Daily Beast the former chief strategist intends to “fully cooperate.”</p>
<p>Bannon was hired as chief executive of the Trump campaign in August 2016 and was tapped by President Trump to serve as White House chief strategist. He left his post there in August 2017 and returned to Breitbart News as its executive chairman.</p>
<p>But, Bannon and Breitbart parted ways earlier this week amid a spat between President Trump and his former chief strategist. Bannon made derogatory comments about the president and his family in a new tell-all book, prompting a fiery condemnation from Trump.</p>
<p>Though Bannon had previously avoided being swept up in the Russia probe—until the House Intelligence Committee asked last month for him to appear before lawmakers—he had been <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon-thinks-trumps-legal-team-is-asleep-at-the-wheeland-hes-looking-for-ways-to-kneecap-mueller" type="external">discussing</a> the probe with Trump behind the scenes.</p>"
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<p>Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who alerted police to the Las Vegas shooter, is speaking out for the first time about the violent encounter that left him with gunshot wounds.</p>
<p>Jesus opened up to <a type="internal">Ellen DeGeneres</a> ... detailing the harrowing moments leading up to him discovering Stephen Paddock on the 32nd floor, just as he was starting to <a type="internal">open fire</a> on the crowd of concertgoers below.</p>
<p>He thinks a loud slamming door during his routine check of the floor is what tipped off his location to Paddock, who then started shooting into the hallway -- and hit Campos in the leg.</p>
<p>Miraculously, Campos says he was still able to somehow get on his radio and tell his team shots had been fired. You can hear his full story on Wednesday's episode of 'Ellen.'</p>
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"<p>Jesus Campos, the Mandalay Bay security guard who alerted police to the Las Vegas shooter, is speaking out for the first time about the violent encounter that left him with gunshot wounds.</p>
<p>Jesus opened up to <a type="internal">Ellen DeGeneres</a> ... detailing the harrowing moments leading up to him discovering Stephen Paddock on the 32nd floor, just as he was starting to <a type="internal">open fire</a> on the crowd of concertgoers below.</p>
<p>He thinks a loud slamming door during his routine check of the floor is what tipped off his location to Paddock, who then started shooting into the hallway -- and hit Campos in the leg.</p>
<p>Miraculously, Campos says he was still able to somehow get on his radio and tell his team shots had been fired. You can hear his full story on Wednesday's episode of 'Ellen.'</p>"
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<p>CHANDLER, AZ - The Chandler Unified School District says an off-duty Phoenix officer left a gun at Hamilton High School on Friday.</p>
<p>The gun was reportedly found by a student in a restroom at the Hamilton library.</p>
<p>The school district says the Phoenix officer was on campus at the time and left the gun in the restroom in a holster. That officer is being questioned and has not been arrested at this time, according to the district.</p>
<p>We've reached out to Chandler police for more information and are awaiting a response.</p>
<p>A statement was sent Friday afternoon to parents by the school’s principal:</p>
<p>Dear parents and guardians,</p>
<p>I am writing to you to let you know that a student found a loaded handgun in a holster on a handicap rail in the stall of a restroom in the Hamilton Public Library this afternoon (the library on the Hamilton campus). The student reported the gun to city library staff immediately, it was retrieved and secured by the Chandler Police School Resource Officer and students are safe.</p>
<p>The adult community member who was visiting the Chandler Public Library and left his gun in the bathroom stall, returned for his gun and has been identified by the Chandler Police Department. Police investigated and determined that no crime had been committed.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Chris Farabee Acting Principal, Hamilton High</p>
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"<p>CHANDLER, AZ - The Chandler Unified School District says an off-duty Phoenix officer left a gun at Hamilton High School on Friday.</p>
<p>The gun was reportedly found by a student in a restroom at the Hamilton library.</p>
<p>The school district says the Phoenix officer was on campus at the time and left the gun in the restroom in a holster. That officer is being questioned and has not been arrested at this time, according to the district.</p>
<p>We've reached out to Chandler police for more information and are awaiting a response.</p>
<p>A statement was sent Friday afternoon to parents by the school’s principal:</p>
<p>Dear parents and guardians,</p>
<p>I am writing to you to let you know that a student found a loaded handgun in a holster on a handicap rail in the stall of a restroom in the Hamilton Public Library this afternoon (the library on the Hamilton campus). The student reported the gun to city library staff immediately, it was retrieved and secured by the Chandler Police School Resource Officer and students are safe.</p>
<p>The adult community member who was visiting the Chandler Public Library and left his gun in the bathroom stall, returned for his gun and has been identified by the Chandler Police Department. Police investigated and determined that no crime had been committed.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Chris Farabee Acting Principal, Hamilton High</p>"
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<p>In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, FEMA said they would only give aid to victims if they had received (unspecified) vaccinations.</p>
<p>In late August and early September 2017, false rumors began to spread on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/str/fema%2Bvaccine/stories-keyword/stories-opinion?esd=eyJlc2lkIjoiUzpfSTEwMDAwNjE3MDM0NjExMjoxOTc1MDIyMTE5MzgwMTE0IiwicHNpZCI6eyIxMDAwMDYxNzAzNDYxMTI6MTk3NTAyMjExOTM4MDExNCI6IlV6cGZTVEV3TURBd05qRTNNRE0wTmpFeE1qb3hPVGMxTURJeU1URTVNemd3TVRFMCIsIjEwMDAxMDkxMTY3NzA3Mjo0ODA3NTE4Mjg5NjUyMDIiOiJVenBmU1RFd01EQXhNRGt4TVRZM056QTNNam8wT0RBM05URTRNamc1TmpVeU1EST0iLCIxMDAwMDEzNTk2MjQ0MTg6MTQ3NDI4MTg1OTI5Mzc4NyI6IlV6cGZTVEV3TURBd01UTTFPVFl5TkRReE9Eb3hORGMwTWpneE9EVTVNamt6TnpnMyJ9LCJjcmN0IjoidGV4dCIsImNzaWQiOiJjMmFiMGQ1ZmYzOGRkNzcxZDgxNGE0ZGRjNDA1ODE5OSJ9" type="external">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=fema%20vaccine&src=typd" type="external">Twitter</a> that FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) was refusing to give aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey unless they had been vaccinated, and that the agency was forcing people to undergo vaccinations in order to receive aid.</p>
<p>These rumors are entirely false, and we could not find any iteration of them which provided even a fabricated source or citation.</p>
<q> <p>Fema is saying that Texans will have to have a vaccine shot in order to get aid are you paying attention.</p> </q>
<p>Despite including absolutely no evidence whatsoever, the post was shared more than 5,000 times within a few days.</p>
<p>A search of FEMA’s <a href="https://www.fema.gov/news-releases" type="external">press releases</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FEMA/" type="external">Facebook</a> account and <a href="https://twitter.com/fema" type="external">Twitter</a> account shows that the agency has not said any such thing. Not only that, but a FEMA spokesperson definitively rejected the rumors in a statement sent to us:</p>
<q> <p>There is absolutely no requirement for Hurricane Survivors to be vaccinated in order to receive assistance from FEMA. They only need to register with FEMA for assistance. They can do this online at <a href="http://disasterassistance.gov/" type="external">disasterassistance.gov</a> or call <a href="tel:(800)%20621-3362" type="external">1-800-621-3362</a>.</p> </q>
<p>This is just the latest in a series of <a href="http://www.snopes.com/page/2/?s=fema" type="external">false claims</a> surrounding FEMA, and forms part of the long-standing “ <a href="http://www.snopes.com/obama-opens-first-concentration-camp/" type="external">FEMA camps</a>” conspiracy theory, which holds that the federal government is planning to build concentration camps and impose martial law in the aftermath of a natural disaster.</p>
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<p>In late August and early September 2017, false rumors began to spread on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/str/fema%2Bvaccine/stories-keyword/stories-opinion?esd=eyJlc2lkIjoiUzpfSTEwMDAwNjE3MDM0NjExMjoxOTc1MDIyMTE5MzgwMTE0IiwicHNpZCI6eyIxMDAwMDYxNzAzNDYxMTI6MTk3NTAyMjExOTM4MDExNCI6IlV6cGZTVEV3TURBd05qRTNNRE0wTmpFeE1qb3hPVGMxTURJeU1URTVNemd3TVRFMCIsIjEwMDAxMDkxMTY3NzA3Mjo0ODA3NTE4Mjg5NjUyMDIiOiJVenBmU1RFd01EQXhNRGt4TVRZM056QTNNam8wT0RBM05URTRNamc1TmpVeU1EST0iLCIxMDAwMDEzNTk2MjQ0MTg6MTQ3NDI4MTg1OTI5Mzc4NyI6IlV6cGZTVEV3TURBd01UTTFPVFl5TkRReE9Eb3hORGMwTWpneE9EVTVNamt6TnpnMyJ9LCJjcmN0IjoidGV4dCIsImNzaWQiOiJjMmFiMGQ1ZmYzOGRkNzcxZDgxNGE0ZGRjNDA1ODE5OSJ9" type="external">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=fema%20vaccine&src=typd" type="external">Twitter</a> that FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) was refusing to give aid to victims of Hurricane Harvey unless they had been vaccinated, and that the agency was forcing people to undergo vaccinations in order to receive aid.</p>
<p>These rumors are entirely false, and we could not find any iteration of them which provided even a fabricated source or citation.</p>
<q> <p>Fema is saying that Texans will have to have a vaccine shot in order to get aid are you paying attention.</p> </q>
<p>Despite including absolutely no evidence whatsoever, the post was shared more than 5,000 times within a few days.</p>
<p>A search of FEMA’s <a href="https://www.fema.gov/news-releases" type="external">press releases</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FEMA/" type="external">Facebook</a> account and <a href="https://twitter.com/fema" type="external">Twitter</a> account shows that the agency has not said any such thing. Not only that, but a FEMA spokesperson definitively rejected the rumors in a statement sent to us:</p>
<q> <p>There is absolutely no requirement for Hurricane Survivors to be vaccinated in order to receive assistance from FEMA. They only need to register with FEMA for assistance. They can do this online at <a href="http://disasterassistance.gov/" type="external">disasterassistance.gov</a> or call <a href="tel:(800)%20621-3362" type="external">1-800-621-3362</a>.</p> </q>
<p>This is just the latest in a series of <a href="http://www.snopes.com/page/2/?s=fema" type="external">false claims</a> surrounding FEMA, and forms part of the long-standing “ <a href="http://www.snopes.com/obama-opens-first-concentration-camp/" type="external">FEMA camps</a>” conspiracy theory, which holds that the federal government is planning to build concentration camps and impose martial law in the aftermath of a natural disaster.</p>"
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<p>Liberals have used Hurricane Harvey to their advantage in almost everything: climate change, abortions and now DACA.</p>
<p>ABC’s Martha Raddatz exploited the hurricane in a desperate argument to keep DACA.</p>
<p>It ain’t gonna work, sister!</p>
<p>The American people have spoken, and we want Obama’s “Dreamers” out of here, PERIOD!</p>
<p>For that matter, fake Republicans (like Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio) who want these illegal alien anchor babies to stay also need to shut their yap, because they’re directly going against the will of the American people.</p>
<p>We are concerned for the future of AMERICAN children, not illegal alien anchor babies.</p>
<p>They’ve got to go back!</p>
<p>Watch the video:</p>
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"<p>Liberals have used Hurricane Harvey to their advantage in almost everything: climate change, abortions and now DACA.</p>
<p>ABC’s Martha Raddatz exploited the hurricane in a desperate argument to keep DACA.</p>
<p>It ain’t gonna work, sister!</p>
<p>The American people have spoken, and we want Obama’s “Dreamers” out of here, PERIOD!</p>
<p>For that matter, fake Republicans (like Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio) who want these illegal alien anchor babies to stay also need to shut their yap, because they’re directly going against the will of the American people.</p>
<p>We are concerned for the future of AMERICAN children, not illegal alien anchor babies.</p>
<p>They’ve got to go back!</p>
<p>Watch the video:</p>"
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<p>President Donald Trump criticized some in the National Football League Friday night <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/22/politics/trump-alabama-trip-senate-race/index.html" type="external">at a rally for Alabama Republican Senate candidate Luther Strange</a>, saying team owners should fire players for taking a knee during the national anthem.</p>
<p>Trump added that if fans would "leave the stadium" when players kneel in protest during the national anthem, "I guarantee, things will stop."</p>
<p>Trump said NFL owners should respond to the players by saying, "Get that son of a b**** off the field right now, he's fired. He's fired!"</p>
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<p>"For a week, (that owner would) be the most popular person in this country. Because that's a total disrespect of our heritage. That's a total disrespect for everything we stand for," Trump said.</p>
<p>Last year, Colin Kaepernick -- formerly with the San Francisco 49ers, but currently without a team -- drew national attention for refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to kickoff.</p>
<p>"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000691077/article/colin-kaepernick-explains-why-he-sat-during-national-anthem" type="external">in August 2016.</a></p>
<p>His protest spurred both support and backlash.</p>
<p>Following the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate soldier statue, Seattle Seahawks defensive end <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/sport/seahawks-michael-bennett-not-standing-for-national-anthem/index.html" type="external">Michael Bennett told CNN</a> he would follow suit.</p>
<p>"I can't stand for the national anthem," Bennett said. "I can't stand right now. I'm not going to be standing until I see the equality and freedom."</p>
<p>Trump also took aim at NFL efforts to prevent concussions. "They're ruining the game, right?" he said. "They're ruining the game."</p>
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<p>Trump added that if fans would "leave the stadium" when players kneel in protest during the national anthem, "I guarantee, things will stop."</p>
<p>Trump said NFL owners should respond to the players by saying, "Get that son of a b**** off the field right now, he's fired. He's fired!"</p>
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<p>"For a week, (that owner would) be the most popular person in this country. Because that's a total disrespect of our heritage. That's a total disrespect for everything we stand for," Trump said.</p>
<p>Last year, Colin Kaepernick -- formerly with the San Francisco 49ers, but currently without a team -- drew national attention for refusing to stand during "The Star-Spangled Banner" prior to kickoff.</p>
<p>"I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color," Kaepernick told NFL Media <a href="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000691077/article/colin-kaepernick-explains-why-he-sat-during-national-anthem" type="external">in August 2016.</a></p>
<p>His protest spurred both support and backlash.</p>
<p>Following the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists gathered to protest the removal of a Confederate soldier statue, Seattle Seahawks defensive end <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/16/sport/seahawks-michael-bennett-not-standing-for-national-anthem/index.html" type="external">Michael Bennett told CNN</a> he would follow suit.</p>
<p>"I can't stand for the national anthem," Bennett said. "I can't stand right now. I'm not going to be standing until I see the equality and freedom."</p>
<p>Trump also took aim at NFL efforts to prevent concussions. "They're ruining the game, right?" he said. "They're ruining the game."</p>"
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<p>On July 28 1982, President Ronald Reagan designated August 14 as Navajo Code Talkers Day.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=42794" type="external">Reagan called it</a> a day dedicated to "all members of the Navajo Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so that others might live."</p>
<p>"When called upon to serve the United States, [the Navajo Nation] contributed a precious commodity never before used in this way. In the midst of the fighting in the Pacific during World War II, a gallant group of men from the Navajo Nation utilized their language in coded form to help speed the Allied victory."</p>
<p>According to the U.S. Marine Corps, Code Talkers took part in every assault by Marines in the Pacific during the war from 1942 to 1945 serving in all Marine six divisions.</p>
<p>The Code Talkers were a vital part to the Allied forces victory as the Navajo language is the only spoken code to have never been deciphered.</p>
<p>"The dedication and unswerving devotion to duty shown by the men of the Navajo Nation," Reagan said the proclamation, "should serve as a fine example for all Americans."</p>
<p>PHOTOS: <a type="internal">Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=42794" type="external">Reagan called it</a> a day dedicated to "all members of the Navajo Nation and to all Native Americans who gave their special talents and their lives so that others might live."</p>
<p>"When called upon to serve the United States, [the Navajo Nation] contributed a precious commodity never before used in this way. In the midst of the fighting in the Pacific during World War II, a gallant group of men from the Navajo Nation utilized their language in coded form to help speed the Allied victory."</p>
<p>According to the U.S. Marine Corps, Code Talkers took part in every assault by Marines in the Pacific during the war from 1942 to 1945 serving in all Marine six divisions.</p>
<p>The Code Talkers were a vital part to the Allied forces victory as the Navajo language is the only spoken code to have never been deciphered.</p>
<p>"The dedication and unswerving devotion to duty shown by the men of the Navajo Nation," Reagan said the proclamation, "should serve as a fine example for all Americans."</p>
<p>PHOTOS: <a type="internal">Honoring the Navajo Code Talkers</a></p>"
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<p>LAS VEGAS, NV – Video cameras are everywhere. Now, even a tween can catch a cop breaking the law. Parking on the sidewalk will get you a ticket, but what happens when a police officer does it?</p>
<p>A 12-year-old identifying himself as Jeremy Drew asked a police officer to see his badge number after catching him parked on the sidewalk. But, the officer would not give his badge number to Drew. When the kid told the cop it is his right he calls the kid a “junior lawyer” and takes off on his motorcycle.</p>
<p>The video was posted in September 2012 and now has almost 3.5 million views.</p>
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<p>LAS VEGAS, NV – Video cameras are everywhere. Now, even a tween can catch a cop breaking the law. Parking on the sidewalk will get you a ticket, but what happens when a police officer does it?</p>
<p>A 12-year-old identifying himself as Jeremy Drew asked a police officer to see his badge number after catching him parked on the sidewalk. But, the officer would not give his badge number to Drew. When the kid told the cop it is his right he calls the kid a “junior lawyer” and takes off on his motorcycle.</p>
<p>The video was posted in September 2012 and now has almost 3.5 million views.</p>"
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<p>Please <a type="internal">sign in</a> with your WRAL.com account to comment on this story. You also will need a Facebook account to comment.</p>
<p><a type="internal">Oldest First</a></p>
<p>I think WRAL should be ashamed! How can you just assume this person is a man? What if that is not the pronoun they choose for themselves and here you are all over your story just, "Man", "his", "he".I mean what you've basically done is committed a terroristic act on trans-non-binary people everywhere. You should post a public apology because I'm literally autistic and this makes me want to cry. I'm not even joking right now! I cannot believe how insensitive this story is!If this were California, you'd be in jail right now!!</p>
<p>Just when I have a sliver of faith in humanity, I go and read WRAL story comments. Good job being horrible people.</p>
<p>That is one creepy looking "guy." So Democrats want their daughters to be okay with going to the restroom with this guy?</p>
<p>Where does the story say anything about anyone using a female restroom?</p>
<p>So...is it possible for them to assault each other and never trigger an "assault on a female" charge that often coincides with domestic disputes?</p>
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<p><a type="internal">Oldest First</a></p>
<p>I think WRAL should be ashamed! How can you just assume this person is a man? What if that is not the pronoun they choose for themselves and here you are all over your story just, "Man", "his", "he".I mean what you've basically done is committed a terroristic act on trans-non-binary people everywhere. You should post a public apology because I'm literally autistic and this makes me want to cry. I'm not even joking right now! I cannot believe how insensitive this story is!If this were California, you'd be in jail right now!!</p>
<p>Just when I have a sliver of faith in humanity, I go and read WRAL story comments. Good job being horrible people.</p>
<p>That is one creepy looking "guy." So Democrats want their daughters to be okay with going to the restroom with this guy?</p>
<p>Where does the story say anything about anyone using a female restroom?</p>
<p>So...is it possible for them to assault each other and never trigger an "assault on a female" charge that often coincides with domestic disputes?</p>
<p><a type="internal">Oldest First</a></p>"
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<p>The meme “all’s fair in love and war” apparently did not sit well with supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders who (allegedly) threw chairs and where, reportedly, one person was injured at the Nevada Democrats’ convention over the weekend.</p> At the 9:15 mark, there is reference to a ‘bloody uprising…’
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<p>Not too long ago we wrote about KFC following 11 people on Twitter: The five Spice Girls and six guys named Herb (including UFC referee Herb Dean). That’s right, six herbs and five spices! If you missed the article, check it out <a type="internal">here</a>.</p>
<p>Well the gentleman that noticed this (@edgette22 on Twitter) has now been rewarded. You might think that the obvious choice would be a life supply of KFC right? Wrong… that’s not KFC’s style.</p>
<p>What do you know, that’s Edge being given a piggyback ride by the Colnel himself! A work of art yes, a strange gift… also yes. But wow KFC’s marketing team are inventive.</p>
<p>People on Twitter went mad for this of course!</p>
<p>Edge had also been the victim of some controversy surrounding the whole debacle, so this will come as a welcome treat.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Images via: Twitter / @edgette22</p>
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"<p>Not too long ago we wrote about KFC following 11 people on Twitter: The five Spice Girls and six guys named Herb (including UFC referee Herb Dean). That’s right, six herbs and five spices! If you missed the article, check it out <a type="internal">here</a>.</p>
<p>Well the gentleman that noticed this (@edgette22 on Twitter) has now been rewarded. You might think that the obvious choice would be a life supply of KFC right? Wrong… that’s not KFC’s style.</p>
<p>What do you know, that’s Edge being given a piggyback ride by the Colnel himself! A work of art yes, a strange gift… also yes. But wow KFC’s marketing team are inventive.</p>
<p>People on Twitter went mad for this of course!</p>
<p>Edge had also been the victim of some controversy surrounding the whole debacle, so this will come as a welcome treat.</p>
<p>What do you think?</p>
<p>Images via: Twitter / @edgette22</p>"
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<p>There’s nothing patriotic about the lunatic outrage of the angry white male Trump voter. Real Americans have had enough.</p>
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<p>This is now bigger than who becomes the next president. Trump is a threat to our democracy.</p>
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"<p>This is now bigger than who becomes the next president. Trump is a threat to our democracy.</p>"
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<p>Don't like Hillary? Desperate to change the system? That's fine. But those impulses must wait.</p>
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<p>After another week of violence and mayhem, it's clear Hillary Clinton's controversial assessment of Trump's fans was, well, generous.</p>
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"<p>After another week of violence and mayhem, it's clear Hillary Clinton's controversial assessment of Trump's fans was, well, generous.</p>"
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<p>In this election, we're with her. Here are 12 Michelle Obama quotes that make us proud to have Hillary's back.</p>
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"<p>In this election, we're with her. Here are 12 Michelle Obama quotes that make us proud to have Hillary's back.</p>"
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<p>The line of Republican cowards attempting to curry favor with Donald Trump stretches out the door, around the building, down the block, through the next door overflow room, and extends up to space, where it circles around the moon like Dr Manhattan. There's sniveling turdface Ted Cruz, who, among other things, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/23/9-truly-awful-things-that-were-said-between-ted-cruz-and-the-man-hell-now-support-donald-trump/?utm_term=.edfe1aa3a681" type="external">listened to Trump call his wife ugly and his dad a traitor and a murderer.</a> There's J Crew crewneck used to wipe pig vomit off of a misspelled yield sign Paul Ryan, who Trump has basically played the one-way dozens with for three years. And of course there's Most Racist Cracker Barrel Manager Ever Jefferson Sessions, who's remained mute as a Nazi church mouse as Trump continues to drink his milkshake on Twitter every day.</p>
<p>But none of these cowards compare to the cowardice standard exhibited by John McCain; whose cowardice is legion and legendary, massive and magnificent. It's been only two years since Darth Cheeto — who was then still just Anakin Skyrapist — <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/18/trump-slams-mccain-for-being-captured-in-vietnam/?utm_term=.f6dda0a2afcd" type="external">doubted McCain's war hero bonafides</a> and added (quite humorously, I must admit) "I like people that weren’t captured." And now, here's McCain jumping out of his government-funded death futon to deny government-funded death futons to other sick people, all to support a President who disrespected the fuck out of him and whose only substantive agenda and platform is to erase everything the preceding President did.</p>
<p>Again, Washington is full of cowards. But what makes McCain's cowardice special is that his whole entire personal and political brand is bravery. Well, "bravery." You expect people like Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan to be rats. But John McCain has created, attached himself to, and submerged himself in this maverick narrative; that he's somehow different from the rest of those craven motherfuckers. That he does what he does, but does what he does with integrity. And this story only exists and has been able to persist because he was a bad pilot. His "bravery" is to bravery what Arby's "roast beef" is to roast beef. Fuck him.</p>
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"<p>The line of Republican cowards attempting to curry favor with Donald Trump stretches out the door, around the building, down the block, through the next door overflow room, and extends up to space, where it circles around the moon like Dr Manhattan. There's sniveling turdface Ted Cruz, who, among other things, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/23/9-truly-awful-things-that-were-said-between-ted-cruz-and-the-man-hell-now-support-donald-trump/?utm_term=.edfe1aa3a681" type="external">listened to Trump call his wife ugly and his dad a traitor and a murderer.</a> There's J Crew crewneck used to wipe pig vomit off of a misspelled yield sign Paul Ryan, who Trump has basically played the one-way dozens with for three years. And of course there's Most Racist Cracker Barrel Manager Ever Jefferson Sessions, who's remained mute as a Nazi church mouse as Trump continues to drink his milkshake on Twitter every day.</p>
<p>But none of these cowards compare to the cowardice standard exhibited by John McCain; whose cowardice is legion and legendary, massive and magnificent. It's been only two years since Darth Cheeto — who was then still just Anakin Skyrapist — <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/07/18/trump-slams-mccain-for-being-captured-in-vietnam/?utm_term=.f6dda0a2afcd" type="external">doubted McCain's war hero bonafides</a> and added (quite humorously, I must admit) "I like people that weren’t captured." And now, here's McCain jumping out of his government-funded death futon to deny government-funded death futons to other sick people, all to support a President who disrespected the fuck out of him and whose only substantive agenda and platform is to erase everything the preceding President did.</p>
<p>Again, Washington is full of cowards. But what makes McCain's cowardice special is that his whole entire personal and political brand is bravery. Well, "bravery." You expect people like Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan to be rats. But John McCain has created, attached himself to, and submerged himself in this maverick narrative; that he's somehow different from the rest of those craven motherfuckers. That he does what he does, but does what he does with integrity. And this story only exists and has been able to persist because he was a bad pilot. His "bravery" is to bravery what Arby's "roast beef" is to roast beef. Fuck him.</p>"
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<p>As previously <a type="internal">reported</a>, embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is the subject of a devastating expose detailing decades of sexual harassment.</p>
<p>Donald Trump Jr. trolled Hillary Clinton on Saturday in a viral tweet. “Weird, Hillary has been really quiet about Harvey Weinstein. You would think she would be all Over this. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatHappened?src=hash" type="external">#WhatHappened?</a>”</p>
<q> <p>Weird, Hillary has been really quiet about Harvey Weinstein. You would think she would be all Over this. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatHappened?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%205Etfw" type="external">#WhatHappened</a>?</p> <p>— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/916639351425126400?ref_src=twsrc%205Etfw" type="external">October 7, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>But Don Jr. wasn’t finished yet. Donald Trump Jr. challenged sometime comedian Jimmy Kimmel to share his thoughts on liberal icon and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein.</p>
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"<p>As previously <a type="internal">reported</a>, embattled Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is the subject of a devastating expose detailing decades of sexual harassment.</p>
<p>Donald Trump Jr. trolled Hillary Clinton on Saturday in a viral tweet. “Weird, Hillary has been really quiet about Harvey Weinstein. You would think she would be all Over this. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatHappened?src=hash" type="external">#WhatHappened?</a>”</p>
<q> <p>Weird, Hillary has been really quiet about Harvey Weinstein. You would think she would be all Over this. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatHappened?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%205Etfw" type="external">#WhatHappened</a>?</p> <p>— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/916639351425126400?ref_src=twsrc%205Etfw" type="external">October 7, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>But Don Jr. wasn’t finished yet. Donald Trump Jr. challenged sometime comedian Jimmy Kimmel to share his thoughts on liberal icon and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marshall_(attorney)" type="external">Amanda Marshall</a> was Oregon’s federal district attorney. Then the scandals started catching up to her. Let’s recap her sordid history.</p>
<p>Appointed by Obama in 2011, <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/04/oregon_us_attorney_amanda_mars.html" type="external">Marshall resigned in 2015</a> after <a href="http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-32952-u-s-attorney-amanda-marshall-allegedly-stalked-subordinate.html" type="external">allegedly stalking a subordinate</a> and having an affair, and later faced internal probes (no pun intended).</p>
<p><a href="http://kval.com/news/local/a-sentence-grossly-disproportionate-to-the-severity-of-the-offenses-here" type="external">Marshall is the DA who pursued charges, even to the point of double jeopardy, against Dwight and Steven Hammond</a>, the eastern Oregon ranchers who preemptively set controlled burns to stop wildfires from encroaching on their property. After already serving time in federal prison, Marshall encouraged the judge to re-imprison them for a harsher sentence. Those actions are what prompted the Malheur Wildlife Refuge protests in early 2016.</p>
<p>In 2014, <a href="http://www.progressivestoday.com/you-wont-believe-what-these-anti-gun-folks-are-openly-saying/" type="external">Marshall was caught on camera conspiring with Gabby Gifford’s gun control group</a>, Americans For Responsible Solutions, to scheme up new gun control laws and propaganda. She spoke of wanting to force county Sheriffs to enforce federal gun laws, while also being <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/10/oregons_top_federal_prosecutor_1.html" type="external">one of the voices saying that local law enforcement shouldn’t enforce federal immigration laws.</a></p>
<p>Of course the anti gun folks were more than happy to <a href="https://newtrajectory.blogspot.com/2014/01/remarks-on-gun-violence-from-us.html?m=0" type="external">feature Amanda Marshall as a guest speaker at a summit</a> presented by Ceasefire Oregon and “Oregon Alliance To Prevent Gun Violence”.</p>
<p>Now she faces ethics complaints with the Oregon State Bar. <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/10/oregon_state_bar_authorizes_fo.html" type="external">The Oregonian reports</a>:</p>
<q> <p>The panel determined there was probable cause to bring ethics charges against Marshall for violating rules dealing with honesty and trustworthiness.</p> <p>The case now advances to the trial phase. A panel will convene, likely sometime in the spring, to determine if Marshall has engaged in misconduct. Punishment for ethics violations range from a public reprimand to a suspension or disbarment.</p> <p>The disciplinary board identified two rules Marshall may have violated, one involving criminal conduct that reflects poorly on a lawyer’s honesty and trustworthiness or fitness and the other dealing with conduct involving fraud and dishonesty.</p> <p>Marshall’s lawyer, Allison Martin Rhodes, said Monday that Marshall “has always acknowledged” that she “was not completely truthful” when asked by a superior about the relationship.</p> <p>Martin Rhodes has said Marshall lied when asked if she had sex with her subordinate but was subsequently forthcoming in a four-hour interview with authorities.</p> <p>The professional standards agency opened an investigation last year after the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general found Marshall had engaged in a yearlong “intimate and personal” relationship with a subordinate.</p> <p>The inspector general said Marshall, who now practices law in McMinnville, violated sexual harassment laws, lied to investigators and tried to block the investigation.</p> <p>The Inspector General’s Office in March 2015 opened an investigation of Marshall. She took a leave of absence that month, citing health reasons that included post-traumatic stress disorder. She officially resigned on May 15, 2015, amid the internal review.</p> </q>
<p>It’s just fitting that someone with ties to the Obama administration and anti-gun organizations is caught up in a series of scandals and lies.</p>
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"<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Marshall_(attorney)" type="external">Amanda Marshall</a> was Oregon’s federal district attorney. Then the scandals started catching up to her. Let’s recap her sordid history.</p>
<p>Appointed by Obama in 2011, <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/04/oregon_us_attorney_amanda_mars.html" type="external">Marshall resigned in 2015</a> after <a href="http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-32952-u-s-attorney-amanda-marshall-allegedly-stalked-subordinate.html" type="external">allegedly stalking a subordinate</a> and having an affair, and later faced internal probes (no pun intended).</p>
<p><a href="http://kval.com/news/local/a-sentence-grossly-disproportionate-to-the-severity-of-the-offenses-here" type="external">Marshall is the DA who pursued charges, even to the point of double jeopardy, against Dwight and Steven Hammond</a>, the eastern Oregon ranchers who preemptively set controlled burns to stop wildfires from encroaching on their property. After already serving time in federal prison, Marshall encouraged the judge to re-imprison them for a harsher sentence. Those actions are what prompted the Malheur Wildlife Refuge protests in early 2016.</p>
<p>In 2014, <a href="http://www.progressivestoday.com/you-wont-believe-what-these-anti-gun-folks-are-openly-saying/" type="external">Marshall was caught on camera conspiring with Gabby Gifford’s gun control group</a>, Americans For Responsible Solutions, to scheme up new gun control laws and propaganda. She spoke of wanting to force county Sheriffs to enforce federal gun laws, while also being <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/10/oregons_top_federal_prosecutor_1.html" type="external">one of the voices saying that local law enforcement shouldn’t enforce federal immigration laws.</a></p>
<p>Of course the anti gun folks were more than happy to <a href="https://newtrajectory.blogspot.com/2014/01/remarks-on-gun-violence-from-us.html?m=0" type="external">feature Amanda Marshall as a guest speaker at a summit</a> presented by Ceasefire Oregon and “Oregon Alliance To Prevent Gun Violence”.</p>
<p>Now she faces ethics complaints with the Oregon State Bar. <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/10/oregon_state_bar_authorizes_fo.html" type="external">The Oregonian reports</a>:</p>
<q> <p>The panel determined there was probable cause to bring ethics charges against Marshall for violating rules dealing with honesty and trustworthiness.</p> <p>The case now advances to the trial phase. A panel will convene, likely sometime in the spring, to determine if Marshall has engaged in misconduct. Punishment for ethics violations range from a public reprimand to a suspension or disbarment.</p> <p>The disciplinary board identified two rules Marshall may have violated, one involving criminal conduct that reflects poorly on a lawyer’s honesty and trustworthiness or fitness and the other dealing with conduct involving fraud and dishonesty.</p> <p>Marshall’s lawyer, Allison Martin Rhodes, said Monday that Marshall “has always acknowledged” that she “was not completely truthful” when asked by a superior about the relationship.</p> <p>Martin Rhodes has said Marshall lied when asked if she had sex with her subordinate but was subsequently forthcoming in a four-hour interview with authorities.</p> <p>The professional standards agency opened an investigation last year after the U.S. Department of Justice’s inspector general found Marshall had engaged in a yearlong “intimate and personal” relationship with a subordinate.</p> <p>The inspector general said Marshall, who now practices law in McMinnville, violated sexual harassment laws, lied to investigators and tried to block the investigation.</p> <p>The Inspector General’s Office in March 2015 opened an investigation of Marshall. She took a leave of absence that month, citing health reasons that included post-traumatic stress disorder. She officially resigned on May 15, 2015, amid the internal review.</p> </q>
<p>It’s just fitting that someone with ties to the Obama administration and anti-gun organizations is caught up in a series of scandals and lies.</p>
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<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed an upcoming book on his campaign and administration as "full of lies" and invented sources, after unsuccessfully attempting to block its release.</p>
<p>“I authorised Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist,” Mr. Trump tweeted in reference to Michael Wolff's “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”</p>
<p>“Look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!” Mr. Trump wrote.</p>
<p>It was unclear to whom Mr. Trump was referring, with possibilities including Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist, and Steve Rubin, the president of Henry Holt and Company, which is publishing Wolff's book.</p>
<p>The book quotes key Mr. Trump aides, including Mr. Bannon, expressing serious doubt about his fitness for office.</p>
<p>Mr. Trump has been enraged by the betrayal by Mr. Bannon — a man who engineered the New York real estate mogul's link to the nationalist far right and helped create a pro-Trump media ecosystem.</p>
<p>After Mr. Trump instructed his lawyers to try to block the release of the book, the publishers responded by moving the release date up by four days to Friday.</p>
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"<p>US President Donald Trump on Thursday dismissed an upcoming book on his campaign and administration as "full of lies" and invented sources, after unsuccessfully attempting to block its release.</p>
<p>“I authorised Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist,” Mr. Trump tweeted in reference to Michael Wolff's “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”</p>
<p>“Look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!” Mr. Trump wrote.</p>
<p>It was unclear to whom Mr. Trump was referring, with possibilities including Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist, and Steve Rubin, the president of Henry Holt and Company, which is publishing Wolff's book.</p>
<p>The book quotes key Mr. Trump aides, including Mr. Bannon, expressing serious doubt about his fitness for office.</p>
<p>Mr. Trump has been enraged by the betrayal by Mr. Bannon — a man who engineered the New York real estate mogul's link to the nationalist far right and helped create a pro-Trump media ecosystem.</p>
<p>After Mr. Trump instructed his lawyers to try to block the release of the book, the publishers responded by moving the release date up by four days to Friday.</p>"
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<p>The death toll from Hurricane Matthew, which barrelled towards the southeastern United States, in Haiti has climbed to 264, authorities said, forcing the US President Barack Obama to declare a state of emergency.</p>
<p>Emergency officials in Haiti’s Sud province, which bore the brunt of the storm’s impact, provided the new fatality figure just hours after Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph cited a provisional death toll of 108.</p>
<p>Matthew, the most powerful hurricane to strike the Caribbean since 2007, made landfall in southwestern Haiti on Tuesday as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 230 kph.</p>
<p>Casualties</p>
<p>A partial evaluation indicates that more than 20,000 homes were severely damaged, Joseph said, describing the storm’s impact as a “catastrophe.”</p>
<p>The search for additional casualties continues, authorities said.</p>
<p>Most of the victims were killed by falling trees, flying debris and swollen rivers.</p>
<p>Due to the emergency declaration in Florida, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency are authorised to coordinate all disaster relief efforts, Xinhua news agency reported.</p>
<p>Evacuation order</p>
<p>Meanwhile, local authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order on Thursday for nearly 1.5 million coastal residents in preparation for the hurricane, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in a decade.</p>
<p>“This storm will kill you. We don’t have much time left,” said Florida Governor Rick Scott at a press conference.</p>
<p>According to the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami, Florida, Hurricane Matthew remained a Category 3 hurricane as of Thursday morning.</p>
<p>There was still possibility that it would evolve into a Category 4 storm in approaching the east coast of Florida, said the Centre.</p>
<p>Matthew is now moving on to the coast of the US. The US National Weather Service warned on Thursday that the hurricane could be the worst storm seen in Florida for decades. Over 2 million people have been ordered to evacuate coastal areas.</p>
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"<p>The death toll from Hurricane Matthew, which barrelled towards the southeastern United States, in Haiti has climbed to 264, authorities said, forcing the US President Barack Obama to declare a state of emergency.</p>
<p>Emergency officials in Haiti’s Sud province, which bore the brunt of the storm’s impact, provided the new fatality figure just hours after Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph cited a provisional death toll of 108.</p>
<p>Matthew, the most powerful hurricane to strike the Caribbean since 2007, made landfall in southwestern Haiti on Tuesday as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained winds of 230 kph.</p>
<p>Casualties</p>
<p>A partial evaluation indicates that more than 20,000 homes were severely damaged, Joseph said, describing the storm’s impact as a “catastrophe.”</p>
<p>The search for additional casualties continues, authorities said.</p>
<p>Most of the victims were killed by falling trees, flying debris and swollen rivers.</p>
<p>Due to the emergency declaration in Florida, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency are authorised to coordinate all disaster relief efforts, Xinhua news agency reported.</p>
<p>Evacuation order</p>
<p>Meanwhile, local authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order on Thursday for nearly 1.5 million coastal residents in preparation for the hurricane, one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in a decade.</p>
<p>“This storm will kill you. We don’t have much time left,” said Florida Governor Rick Scott at a press conference.</p>
<p>According to the US National Hurricane Centre in Miami, Florida, Hurricane Matthew remained a Category 3 hurricane as of Thursday morning.</p>
<p>There was still possibility that it would evolve into a Category 4 storm in approaching the east coast of Florida, said the Centre.</p>
<p>Matthew is now moving on to the coast of the US. The US National Weather Service warned on Thursday that the hurricane could be the worst storm seen in Florida for decades. Over 2 million people have been ordered to evacuate coastal areas.</p>"
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<a type="internal" /> Donald Trump. Photo from whitehouse.gov.
<p>MADISON – U.S. Rep. <a type="internal">Mark Pocan</a> (WI-02) released the following statement after the White House announced the Keystone XL Pipeline will be exempt from President <a type="internal">Trump</a>’s executive order requiring construction projects to be built with American steel.</p>
<p>“President Trump has repeatedly vowed to build construction projects with American steel as a way to support manufactures and create jobs here at home—even going as far as making it one of his first signed executive orders,” Rep. Pocan said. “But now, he has decided that a major construction project will not abide from his own Buy America plan. House Republicans have already shown their hand by opposing provisions to permanently require American steel be used in our country’s infrastructure projects. If President Trump is concerned with livelihood of American workers, he should take steps to ensure the Buy America Act is strongly and meaningfully enforced. Unfortunately, the President’s talk about ‘Buy America’ is proving to be just another broken promise to the American people.”</p>
<p>Previously, Rep. Pocan <a href="http://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-pocan-leads-letter-to-president-elect-trump-highlighting-republicans" type="external">sent a letter</a> to the Trump transition team asking the President to enforce and expand the Buy America Act, and also highlighting Congressional Republican leadership’s opposition to requirements that American tax dollars go to companies that employ American workers. To date, Rep. Pocan did not receive a response from the transition team, nor have White House officials responded in any capacity.</p>
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<p>MADISON – U.S. Rep. <a type="internal">Mark Pocan</a> (WI-02) released the following statement after the White House announced the Keystone XL Pipeline will be exempt from President <a type="internal">Trump</a>’s executive order requiring construction projects to be built with American steel.</p>
<p>“President Trump has repeatedly vowed to build construction projects with American steel as a way to support manufactures and create jobs here at home—even going as far as making it one of his first signed executive orders,” Rep. Pocan said. “But now, he has decided that a major construction project will not abide from his own Buy America plan. House Republicans have already shown their hand by opposing provisions to permanently require American steel be used in our country’s infrastructure projects. If President Trump is concerned with livelihood of American workers, he should take steps to ensure the Buy America Act is strongly and meaningfully enforced. Unfortunately, the President’s talk about ‘Buy America’ is proving to be just another broken promise to the American people.”</p>
<p>Previously, Rep. Pocan <a href="http://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-pocan-leads-letter-to-president-elect-trump-highlighting-republicans" type="external">sent a letter</a> to the Trump transition team asking the President to enforce and expand the Buy America Act, and also highlighting Congressional Republican leadership’s opposition to requirements that American tax dollars go to companies that employ American workers. To date, Rep. Pocan did not receive a response from the transition team, nor have White House officials responded in any capacity.</p>"
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<p>President Donald Trump on Tuesday began dismantling the government program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children.</p>
<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared the Obama administration’s program “an unconstitutional exercise of authority” that must be revoked.</p>
<p>New applications will be halted for President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which has provided nearly 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the U.S. in the form of two-year, renewable work permits.</p>
<p>“I’m here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions announced.</p>
<p>Cummins Inc., the Columbus-based global diesel engine maker and power company, issued a statement after the DACA announcement.</p>
<p>Here’s the statement by Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger:</p>
<p>“The decision by the Trump Administration to rescind DACA is discriminatory, harmful and sets our country back. These young people deserve every opportunity to continue living, working, and thriving in the United States – for nearly all of them the U.S. is the only country they have ever known. This is their home.</p>
<p>Dreamers are our colleagues, our friends and our neighbors. They strengthen our country through daily contributions to our companies, our universities and our communities. We have a moral obligation to help these young people, protect them from living in fear, and to prevent families from being torn apart.</p>
<p>Cummins stands in full support of Dreamers and we ask Congress to take immediate action to pass the Dream Act or find a permanent legislative solution to support these young people before anyone is affected by this decision.</p>
<p>We hope that Americans speak out and make it clear to Congress and the President that we stand with the Dreamers.”</p>
<q> <p>Dreamers are our colleagues, friends &amp; neighbors. We are deeply disappointed with today's decision to rescind <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DACA?src=hash" type="external">#DACA</a>. <a href="https://t.co/4ExwUP3Knt" type="external">https://t.co/4ExwUP3Knt</a> <a href="https://t.co/DlzcvMpuiX" type="external">pic.twitter.com/DlzcvMpuiX</a></p> <p>— Cummins Inc. (@Cummins) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cummins/status/905131944928796674" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>Cummins is proud to stand <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/withDreamers?src=hash" type="external">#withDreamers</a> who make our company and our communities stronger. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefendDACA?src=hash" type="external">#DefendDACA</a> <a href="https://t.co/bAUfrBBckE" type="external">https://t.co/bAUfrBBckE</a></p> <p>— Cummins Inc. (@Cummins) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cummins/status/904095313182560257" type="external">September 2, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Cummins currently employs approximately 55,400 people worldwide and serves customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of approximately 600 company-owned and independent distributor locations and approximately 7,400 dealer locations. Cummins earned $1.39 billion on sales of $17.5 billion in 2016.</p>
<p>Groups planning rally in Columbus Some Columbus area churches and organizations are planning a Rally in Support of Dreamers at 6:30 p.m. today at Columbus City Hall, 123 Washington St.</p>
<p>The rally is being organized to support immigrant children threatened with deportation, said The Rev. Felipe Martinez, First Presbyterian Church.</p>
<p>In an announcement about the rally, organizers said President Donald Trump is planning to rescind the executive order known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA protects from deportation young undocumented immigrants (known as Dreamers) who were brought to the United States as children by their parents, the announcement states.</p>
<p>Those who attend the rally will be asked to write to their senators and congressman asking them to pass legislation which would place DACA protections into law.</p>
<p>Participants are asked to show their support by bringing American flags and signs expressing love and solidarity.</p>
<p>Collaborating partners include First Presbyterian Church, Bartholomew County Indivisible, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbus, SuCasa and Islamic Society of Columbus.</p>
<p>From Vice President Mike Pence, a Columbus native:</p>
<q> <p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a>: In best interests of country &amp; keeping w/ office of POTUS obligations <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov" type="external">@DHSgov</a> will begin orderly transition &amp; wind-down of DACA <a href="https://t.co/UHXpulFSWs" type="external">pic.twitter.com/UHXpulFSWs</a></p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110063240634368" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a>' statement: President Obama made an end-run around Congress and violating the core tenets that sustain our Republic.</p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110539310960641" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a> said, "Only by the reliable enforcement of immigration law can we produce safe communities, a robust middle class &amp; econ. fairness."</p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110727505137665" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a>: We'll resolve DACA w/heart &amp; compassion thru lawful Dem process while ensuring immigration reform provides benefits for US citizens</p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110878999244801" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Indiana University has also issued a statement.</p>
<q> <p>"Indiana University is deeply disappointed in the Trump Administration's decision to end the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DACA?src=hash" type="external">#DACA</a> program." <a href="https://t.co/it1aukEMp9" type="external">https://t.co/it1aukEMp9</a></p> <p>— Indiana University (@IndianaUniv) <a href="https://twitter.com/IndianaUniv/status/905107790691262468" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<a type="internal">AP story: Trump rescinding DACA program protecting young immigrants</a>
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"<p>President Donald Trump on Tuesday began dismantling the government program protecting hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children.</p>
<p>Attorney General Jeff Sessions declared the Obama administration’s program “an unconstitutional exercise of authority” that must be revoked.</p>
<p>New applications will be halted for President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program, which has provided nearly 800,000 young immigrants a reprieve from deportation and the ability to work legally in the U.S. in the form of two-year, renewable work permits.</p>
<p>“I’m here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded,” Sessions announced.</p>
<p>Cummins Inc., the Columbus-based global diesel engine maker and power company, issued a statement after the DACA announcement.</p>
<p>Here’s the statement by Chairman and CEO Tom Linebarger:</p>
<p>“The decision by the Trump Administration to rescind DACA is discriminatory, harmful and sets our country back. These young people deserve every opportunity to continue living, working, and thriving in the United States – for nearly all of them the U.S. is the only country they have ever known. This is their home.</p>
<p>Dreamers are our colleagues, our friends and our neighbors. They strengthen our country through daily contributions to our companies, our universities and our communities. We have a moral obligation to help these young people, protect them from living in fear, and to prevent families from being torn apart.</p>
<p>Cummins stands in full support of Dreamers and we ask Congress to take immediate action to pass the Dream Act or find a permanent legislative solution to support these young people before anyone is affected by this decision.</p>
<p>We hope that Americans speak out and make it clear to Congress and the President that we stand with the Dreamers.”</p>
<q> <p>Dreamers are our colleagues, friends &amp; neighbors. We are deeply disappointed with today's decision to rescind <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DACA?src=hash" type="external">#DACA</a>. <a href="https://t.co/4ExwUP3Knt" type="external">https://t.co/4ExwUP3Knt</a> <a href="https://t.co/DlzcvMpuiX" type="external">pic.twitter.com/DlzcvMpuiX</a></p> <p>— Cummins Inc. (@Cummins) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cummins/status/905131944928796674" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>Cummins is proud to stand <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/withDreamers?src=hash" type="external">#withDreamers</a> who make our company and our communities stronger. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DefendDACA?src=hash" type="external">#DefendDACA</a> <a href="https://t.co/bAUfrBBckE" type="external">https://t.co/bAUfrBBckE</a></p> <p>— Cummins Inc. (@Cummins) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cummins/status/904095313182560257" type="external">September 2, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Cummins currently employs approximately 55,400 people worldwide and serves customers in approximately 190 countries and territories through a network of approximately 600 company-owned and independent distributor locations and approximately 7,400 dealer locations. Cummins earned $1.39 billion on sales of $17.5 billion in 2016.</p>
<p>Groups planning rally in Columbus Some Columbus area churches and organizations are planning a Rally in Support of Dreamers at 6:30 p.m. today at Columbus City Hall, 123 Washington St.</p>
<p>The rally is being organized to support immigrant children threatened with deportation, said The Rev. Felipe Martinez, First Presbyterian Church.</p>
<p>In an announcement about the rally, organizers said President Donald Trump is planning to rescind the executive order known as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). DACA protects from deportation young undocumented immigrants (known as Dreamers) who were brought to the United States as children by their parents, the announcement states.</p>
<p>Those who attend the rally will be asked to write to their senators and congressman asking them to pass legislation which would place DACA protections into law.</p>
<p>Participants are asked to show their support by bringing American flags and signs expressing love and solidarity.</p>
<p>Collaborating partners include First Presbyterian Church, Bartholomew County Indivisible, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Columbus, SuCasa and Islamic Society of Columbus.</p>
<p>From Vice President Mike Pence, a Columbus native:</p>
<q> <p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a>: In best interests of country &amp; keeping w/ office of POTUS obligations <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov" type="external">@DHSgov</a> will begin orderly transition &amp; wind-down of DACA <a href="https://t.co/UHXpulFSWs" type="external">pic.twitter.com/UHXpulFSWs</a></p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110063240634368" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>From <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a>' statement: President Obama made an end-run around Congress and violating the core tenets that sustain our Republic.</p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110539310960641" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a> said, "Only by the reliable enforcement of immigration law can we produce safe communities, a robust middle class &amp; econ. fairness."</p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110727505137665" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<q> <p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS" type="external">@POTUS</a>: We'll resolve DACA w/heart &amp; compassion thru lawful Dem process while ensuring immigration reform provides benefits for US citizens</p> <p>— Vice President Pence (@VP) <a href="https://twitter.com/VP/status/905110878999244801" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<p>Indiana University has also issued a statement.</p>
<q> <p>"Indiana University is deeply disappointed in the Trump Administration's decision to end the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DACA?src=hash" type="external">#DACA</a> program." <a href="https://t.co/it1aukEMp9" type="external">https://t.co/it1aukEMp9</a></p> <p>— Indiana University (@IndianaUniv) <a href="https://twitter.com/IndianaUniv/status/905107790691262468" type="external">September 5, 2017</a></p> </q>
<a type="internal">AP story: Trump rescinding DACA program protecting young immigrants</a>"
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<p>The US Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from six Muslim-majority countries and two others can go into full effect, even as legal challenges against the executive order continue in several states.</p>
<p>The ban means that the US can refuse entry visas to travellers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as well as North Korea and Venezuela.</p>
<p>“The ruling does not mean that the Supreme Court has accepted the ban as constitutional, but that it finds persuasive the Trump administration’s argument that an emergency injunction against the ban was unnecessary,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/04/donald-trump-travel-ban-on-six-mostly-muslim-countries" type="external">The Guardian</a> reports.</p>
<p>US Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the ruling "a substantial victory for the safety and security of the American people".</p>
<p>“The Constitution gives the President the responsibility and power to protect this country from all threats foreign and domestic, and this order remains vital to accomplishing those goals,” Sessions said.</p>
<p>Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project said he was disappointed by the court’s decision.</p>
<p>“President Trump’s anti-Muslim prejudice is no secret - he has repeatedly confirmed it, including just last week on Twitter,” Jadwat told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-allows-full-enforcement-of-trump-travel-ban-while-legal-challenges-continue/2017/12/04/486549c0-d5fc-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?utm_term=.1f0a7a249a95" type="external">The Washington Post</a>. “We continue to stand for freedom, equality, and for those who are unfairly being separated from their loved ones.”</p>
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"<p>The US Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump’s ban on travellers from six Muslim-majority countries and two others can go into full effect, even as legal challenges against the executive order continue in several states.</p>
<p>The ban means that the US can refuse entry visas to travellers from Chad, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen, as well as North Korea and Venezuela.</p>
<p>“The ruling does not mean that the Supreme Court has accepted the ban as constitutional, but that it finds persuasive the Trump administration’s argument that an emergency injunction against the ban was unnecessary,” <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/04/donald-trump-travel-ban-on-six-mostly-muslim-countries" type="external">The Guardian</a> reports.</p>
<p>US Attorney General Jeff Sessions called the ruling "a substantial victory for the safety and security of the American people".</p>
<p>“The Constitution gives the President the responsibility and power to protect this country from all threats foreign and domestic, and this order remains vital to accomplishing those goals,” Sessions said.</p>
<p>Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project said he was disappointed by the court’s decision.</p>
<p>“President Trump’s anti-Muslim prejudice is no secret - he has repeatedly confirmed it, including just last week on Twitter,” Jadwat told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-allows-full-enforcement-of-trump-travel-ban-while-legal-challenges-continue/2017/12/04/486549c0-d5fc-11e7-a986-d0a9770d9a3e_story.html?utm_term=.1f0a7a249a95" type="external">The Washington Post</a>. “We continue to stand for freedom, equality, and for those who are unfairly being separated from their loved ones.”</p>"
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<p>Ex-FBI Director James Comey went rogue, according to testimony Wednesday from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.</p>
<p>Sessions said in a Senate hearing that by clearing Hillary Clinton from prosecution for leaking and transmitting classified and top secret emails, Comey acted as investigator, judge and jury.</p>
<p>And that is why he was fired.</p>
<p>Sessions was addressing questions from Sen. Diane Feinstein about why Comey was fired as FBI chief.</p>
<q> <p>AG Sessions “I don’t think the significance of the ERROR that Comey made on the Clinton matter is fully understood”! <a href="https://t.co/5LrYvbBYNO" type="external">pic.twitter.com/5LrYvbBYNO</a></p> <p>— ‘GITMO’ BAMA ▪️ (@President1Trump) <a href="https://twitter.com/President1Trump/status/920665702582890496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 18, 2017</a></p> </q>
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"<p>Ex-FBI Director James Comey went rogue, according to testimony Wednesday from Attorney General Jeff Sessions.</p>
<p>Sessions said in a Senate hearing that by clearing Hillary Clinton from prosecution for leaking and transmitting classified and top secret emails, Comey acted as investigator, judge and jury.</p>
<p>And that is why he was fired.</p>
<p>Sessions was addressing questions from Sen. Diane Feinstein about why Comey was fired as FBI chief.</p>
<q> <p>AG Sessions “I don’t think the significance of the ERROR that Comey made on the Clinton matter is fully understood”! <a href="https://t.co/5LrYvbBYNO" type="external">pic.twitter.com/5LrYvbBYNO</a></p> <p>— ‘GITMO’ BAMA ▪️ (@President1Trump) <a href="https://twitter.com/President1Trump/status/920665702582890496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" type="external">October 18, 2017</a></p> </q>"
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<p>Ashley Judd is the absolute worst.</p>
<p>I want to like her, I really do. Sometimes she chooses a good cause, like speaking up for trafficked and abused children. Those are the activities she should stick to. Unfortunately, Judd had to go to the "Women's March," where hundreds of thousands of women wore pink "pussy" hats while claiming to be upset that Trump had used that word once. She performed ridiculous slam poetry, screeching defamatory accusations about the president wanting to have sex with his daughter and about other terrible things about which she had no first-hand knowledge. (You can watch the video below if you have the stomach for it.)</p>
<p>But at no time did she ever discuss a man who she did know did horrific things. No "by the way, Harvey Weinstein is a dirtbag who tried to get me to watch him shower for a part." Why didn't that come up?</p>
<p>I find it very difficult to believe Judd is this angry at Donald Trump, a man who has never done anything to her, or provably to anybody, when there is a man who did do something horrible to her whom she could be screeching about. She needs therapy. And possibly tranquilizers.</p>
<p>Jennifer Lawrence was recently interviewed for her epic fail of a movie, Mother, and gave Democratic talking points like "equality for women in the workplace," blamed Trump for hurricanes, and rattled off the same tired Leftist arguments we've heard forever. During another interview, she claimed that she is terrified of Trump and wanted to make a video of herself saying "F*** you!" to him.</p>
<p>Lawrence claimed she felt she could be a spokesperson for women who are underpaid:</p>
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I felt like I had a voice, people look at me and listen to me, and to not say anything, that's never sat well with me. </q>
<p>That seems disingenuous, because she kept quiet about the creepy mogul who everyone in Hollywood appears to have known was abusing women. Why stay quiet over that? Don't you have a responsibility to alert other women that there is a serial sexual predator in their midst? Lawrence hasn't alleged any harassment from Weinstein, although she is seen looking awkward in many photos with him while he holds her too close to his massive girth. It wouldn't surprise me if she had first-hand knowledge of his depravity.</p>
<p>Gwyneth Paltrow is the most apolitical in this list. While she supported Obama, she never had anything more interesting to say beyond how handsome she thinks he is. Mostly she spends her life divorcing people and selling outrageously priced trinkets to rich women online. While she doesn't fit in the category of commenting on Trump, she bears much responsibility in this scandal.</p>
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"<p>Ashley Judd is the absolute worst.</p>
<p>I want to like her, I really do. Sometimes she chooses a good cause, like speaking up for trafficked and abused children. Those are the activities she should stick to. Unfortunately, Judd had to go to the "Women's March," where hundreds of thousands of women wore pink "pussy" hats while claiming to be upset that Trump had used that word once. She performed ridiculous slam poetry, screeching defamatory accusations about the president wanting to have sex with his daughter and about other terrible things about which she had no first-hand knowledge. (You can watch the video below if you have the stomach for it.)</p>
<p>But at no time did she ever discuss a man who she did know did horrific things. No "by the way, Harvey Weinstein is a dirtbag who tried to get me to watch him shower for a part." Why didn't that come up?</p>
<p>I find it very difficult to believe Judd is this angry at Donald Trump, a man who has never done anything to her, or provably to anybody, when there is a man who did do something horrible to her whom she could be screeching about. She needs therapy. And possibly tranquilizers.</p>
<p>Jennifer Lawrence was recently interviewed for her epic fail of a movie, Mother, and gave Democratic talking points like "equality for women in the workplace," blamed Trump for hurricanes, and rattled off the same tired Leftist arguments we've heard forever. During another interview, she claimed that she is terrified of Trump and wanted to make a video of herself saying "F*** you!" to him.</p>
<p>Lawrence claimed she felt she could be a spokesperson for women who are underpaid:</p>
<q>
I felt like I had a voice, people look at me and listen to me, and to not say anything, that's never sat well with me. </q>
<p>That seems disingenuous, because she kept quiet about the creepy mogul who everyone in Hollywood appears to have known was abusing women. Why stay quiet over that? Don't you have a responsibility to alert other women that there is a serial sexual predator in their midst? Lawrence hasn't alleged any harassment from Weinstein, although she is seen looking awkward in many photos with him while he holds her too close to his massive girth. It wouldn't surprise me if she had first-hand knowledge of his depravity.</p>
<p>Gwyneth Paltrow is the most apolitical in this list. While she supported Obama, she never had anything more interesting to say beyond how handsome she thinks he is. Mostly she spends her life divorcing people and selling outrageously priced trinkets to rich women online. While she doesn't fit in the category of commenting on Trump, she bears much responsibility in this scandal.</p>"
The publisher of the news piece above has reported strongly in favor of one political side and seems to have ignored the other side. "True" or "False"?
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