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Senate Democrats blast former Trump attorney for 'selling access' to White House
Post Date: 2018-07-13 10:42:20 by Jameson
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In a report released by Senate Democrats on Friday morning blasting Cohen for “selling access” to the White House, senate investigators revealed that they have obtained dozens of emails between Cohen and former Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez. These communications, shared exclusively with ABC News, shed new light on the services Cohen provided through Essential Consultants LLC, a shell company he formed shortly before Election Day. Novartis paid $1.2 million to Essential Consultants, the same company Cohen used to make payments to the adult film star known as Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her allegations of an affair with Trump. In one exchange, Democrats say Cohen appeared to ...
Libertarianism Is A Fundamentally Flawed Ideology
Post Date: 2018-07-13 05:28:47 by Gatlin
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Two recent studies in evolutionary biology (discussed in Scientific American) concern the problem of why not all individuals cheat: "A key problem when trying to understand the evolution of cooperation has been the issue of cheaters." In other words: cheating helps the cheater, so why doesn't everyone cheat? One finding ("Generalized Reciprocity") has been that to the extent that individuals in a culture trust and help strangers, the culture itself thrives, but that to the opposite extent, in which it's common to take from strangers without giving proportionally in return, the culture suffers and declines. This means that cultures in which cheating is ...
Precedent Set as Court Orders Gov’t to Pay for Medical Pot Instead of Opioids for Worker’s Comp
Post Date: 2018-07-13 05:28:42 by Deckard
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Freehold Township, NJ – In a major victory for medicinal cannabis rights, a New Jersey workers’ compensation judge has ordered a Freehold Township to pay for an injured worker’s medical marijuana, despite an insurance carrier’s objections stemming from the drug’s status Schedule 1 status as a controlled substance under federal law. People will no longer be forced to rely solely on opioids for the treatment of pain. New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Judge Lionel Simon invoked the necessity of not forcing injured workers onto opiates that are “killing people” as he ordered Freehold Township to pay for a municipal employee’s medical marijuana. ...
Kyle Kashuv, Parkland Survivor Turned Conservative Activist, on Gun Rights and Free Speech
Post Date: 2018-07-13 05:17:02 by Deckard
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"I get a lot of death threats, I don't even think I notice them anymore.""I'm basically going against the entire tide," Kyle Kashuv, a 16-year-old survivor of the Parkland mass shooting, told Reason in an interview. "Coming out in support of the Second Amendment right after a school shooting is no easy thing to do." Unlike virtually all the other teen activists who have risen to prominence in the wake of the February 14 tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Kashuv is a conservative and a gun rights supporter. His strident Second Amendment advocacy has brought him national fame: he met President Trump, has been mentored by conservative pundit ...
Four new reasons to Rock Billy Boogie
Post Date: 2018-07-13 04:50:18 by Deckard
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Gloriously, scandalously electric rock and roll was never the 'passing craze' 1950s detractors assailed it as being. Of racially and experientially blended character, the defiantly upstart style was much more powerful than the milquetoastian polite society strictures it forever rattled into rubble. In its fecund youth, rock and roll spoke to and for entire swaths of under-celebrated America: the poor, blue collar workers, blacks, teenagers. Anyone who dwelt 'outside,' and intuited that the mannerly crooners blaring from 'Your Hit Parade' broadcasts weren't 'of' them, and didn't care to be. Those powdered songbirds would probably shrink from the ...
Nice: House Republicans to force vote on abolishing ICE
Post Date: 2018-07-13 01:49:54 by Tooconservative
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Basic good midterm politics. I think?House GOP leaders plan to bring a Democratic measure calling for the abolishment of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the House floor, hoping to force Democrats into a difficult vote… “Democrats have been trying to make July 4th about abolishing ICE, which is a radical, extreme position that would lead to open borders and undermine America’s national security,” House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) told The Hill. “I think it’s the wrong approach. I think everyone ought to be on record about where they stand on that issue.” The Democratic bill is the Establishing a Humane Immigration Enforcement ...
Americans Going On Vacation For The First Time in Decades
Post Date: 2018-07-13 00:46:45 by Tooconservative
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Americans are going on vacation in droves for the first time in years, thanks to the booming Trump economy. For instance, this Independence Day, a record number of Americans were able to travel away from home. AAA predicted that nearly 47 million Americans would travel 50 miles or more to celebrate America’s birthday. That is a 5 percent increase from the previous year, and the highest number for the holiday since AAA started tracking the data 18 years ago. This record number, despite a recent spike in gas prices, reveals just how strong the economy has become under President Trump’s leadership, while reflecting unprecedented confidence in the economy’s future growth. ...
New Species of Moth Named for Donald Trump
Post Date: 2018-07-12 19:23:57 by Hondo68
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New Species of ‘Distinctively’ Orange, Blonde-Haired Moth Named for Donald TrumpFrom a binomial nomenclature standpoint, its name is Neopalpa donaldtrumpi. On 17 January 2017, an entomologist working at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes, Vazrick Nazari, published a paper that re-examined a genus of moth (Neopalpa), discovering a previously undescribed species in a large collection of specimens from California and Mexico. The paper, published in the peer-reviewed, open access journal ZooKeys, described the discovery as follows: The new species was initially discovered through dissection of Gnorimoschemini material borrowed from the Bohart Museum ...
Federal Court Rules TSA Can Abusively Fondle Your Genitals With Immunity
Post Date: 2018-07-12 12:50:41 by Deckard
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The TSA – whose job is supposedly “fighting terrorism” – is, without doubt, one of America’s most corrupt and incompetent agencies. However, last year, they apparently became so unsatisfied with the mere ability to strip search babies, remove colostomy bags, beat up blind cancer patients, and fondle your genitalia, that they announced a more invasive physical pat-downs. The pat-downs, which TSA warned would probably prompt assault complaints with the police department because of their invasive nature, have been implemented and now, a federal court ruled that these complaints mean absolutely nothing because the TSA cannot be sued. As the Washington Post reports, the ...
Papa John's is surging after founder John Schnatter resigns from board and apologizes for using a racial slur [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2018-07-12 11:20:30 by Deckard
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Papa John's founder and executive chairman John Schnatter resigned Wednesday following a public apology for using a racial slur on a conference call in May. The pizza stock surged more than 10% Thursday, erasing some of its heavy losses from Wednesday.Follow Papa John's stock price in real-time here. Shares of Papa John's surged more than 10% Thursday morning following the resignation of founder and executive chairman John Schnatter, who on Wednesday apologized for using a racial slur on a May conference call with company executives and an outside marketing agency. "News reports attributing the use of inappropriate and hurtful language to me during a media ...
President Trump, Please Free Ross Ulbricht
Post Date: 2018-07-12 11:15:20 by Deckard
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Say what you will about President Donald J. Trump — his politics, his policies, his business dealings, his personal peccadilloes — the man demonstrated possession of a heart when he commuted the sentence of grandmother Alice Johnson 21 years into her life term for non-violent drug offenses. He’s asked protesting NFL players to send him a list of people who deserve clemency in lieu of continuing to kneel in protest during the national anthem. It’s encouraging to find mercy among his many and varied qualities.On July 3, the Libertarian Party’s national convention unanimously requested that President Trump exercise that mercy in the case of Ross William ...
The New Normal
Post Date: 2018-07-12 11:07:48 by Deckard
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“Nothing,” economist Milton Friedman once observed, “is so permanent as a temporary government program.” And nothing makes a government’s programs — or, more importantly, changes in its core values — more permanent than the loss of collective memory that comes with generational changes.We’re hitting a big one soon. It worries me.Next year, the first generation of Americans who weren’t yet born on September 11, 2001 will come of age. They’ll graduate high school. They’ll get jobs. They’ll vote.What they will not do, because they can’t, is remember: Remember a time before the 9/11 attacks, or the changes in American society that ...
Why Does the Law Not Warn?
Post Date: 2018-07-12 10:59:00 by Deckard
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Everyone who has children, or even nieces and nephews, understands that you have to warn a child before punishing him or her. If not, you teach the child a rash of bad lessons, like these: Punishment can rain down upon you at any time, with no warning. The world can’t be predicted. There are two kinds of people: those who order and punish and those who obey or suffer. The line between what is punished and what is not is unknown. Trying new things brings you shame and pain. I doubt that any of my readers would consider these as healthy attitudes for a child to assume. And that’s why we warn before we punish. We want them to understand that there are rational reasons for ...
Store Manager Intercepts Gun Thief. Two Weeks Later Store Fires Him Over It.
Post Date: 2018-07-12 10:37:25 by IbJensen
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n late June, a sporting goods store employee in Tallahassee, Florida, detained a man who was in the process of allegedly stealing a gun. On Tuesday he was fired over the incident. The Tallahassee Democrat reports that on June 29, Dean Crouch, 32, was working as an assistant manager at the Academy Sports store in Tallahassee when suspect Jason White allegedly tried to steal a .40 caliber handgun and matching ammunition. According to the Tallahassee Police Department, only hours before his attempt at Academy Sports, White stole two handguns from Cash America Pawn. The Tallahassee Democrat states that White asked to look at the handgun at the firearms counter; when he was given the gun, ...
WashPo Hails ‘All-American City That Speaks Spanish’ As Victory For Immigration. Residents Say It’s The Most ‘Unsafe’ City In America
Post Date: 2018-07-12 09:34:57 by Deckard
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Information Liberation – by Chris Menahan A writer for the world’s richest man at The Washington Post celebrated July 4th by highlighting a town in Texas which is a model city for open borders advocates. From The Washington Post, ‘An all-American city that speaks Spanish’: Immigration isn’t a problem for this Texas town — it’s a way of life: MCALLEN, Tex. — Maria’s Restaurant offers Pollo en Mole for $8.25 and patriotic red, white and blue peanut M&Ms for a quarter in a gumball machine near the front door. The menu in this family restaurant, about seven miles from the U.S.-Mexico border, is a reflection of the ...
Trump: NATO partners "agreed to substantially up their commitment"
Post Date: 2018-07-12 09:30:26 by Tooconservative
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Mission accomplished? After a contentious NATO summit, Donald Trump held a surprise press conference earlier today to announce substantial increases in spending commitments by other members of the alliance. Trump declared NATO now a “fine-tuned machine” after his negotiations, but also hinted that he could have disassembled it if he wanted: "Everyone has agreed to substantially up their commitment": Pres. Trump says NATO member nations have agreed to spend more money on defense. https://t.co/rc4ztpQ6dg pic.twitter.com/RxIHuz0QoV — ABC News (@ABC) July 12, 2018 President Donald Trump declared NATO a “fine-tuned machine” in an impromptu news ...
TSA on the Defensive With Defensive Lineman
Post Date: 2018-07-12 09:29:02 by Deckard
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The Thieves and Sexual Assailants don’t just grope great-grandmothers and steal stuff. They’re also pros at desecrating the ashes of cremated folks whose survivors dare transport them through airports. And so when “New York Giants defensive lineman A.J. Francis” flew out of Los Angeles International, his mother’s ashes attracted the TSA’s ghouls as bureaucracies do sociopaths. They opened the urn they discovered after rifling Mr. Francis’s checked luggage in blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment. Then they left one of their calling cards so there’s no question as to who insulted the lady. We’ll assume that as a grown man who ...
Was this Trump Tweet a typo or a tongue in cheek comment?
Post Date: 2018-07-12 09:28:28 by no gnu taxes
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Ex-FBI LAYER Lisa Page today defied a House of Representatives issued Subpoena to testify before Congress! Wow, but is anybody really surprised! Together with her lover, FBI Agent Peter Strzok, she worked on the Rigged Witch Hunt, perhaps the most tainted and corrupt case EVER!
Filling the Swamp
Post Date: 2018-07-12 09:19:02 by Deckard
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When Donald Trump started running for the Republican nomination for president in June 2015, he began by attacking the Republican establishment in Washington, and he began his attack by calling the establishment “the swamp.” His real target was the permanent government and its enablers in the legal, financial, diplomatic and intelligence communities in Washington. These entities hover around power centers no matter which party is in power. Beneath the swamp, Trump argued, lies the deep state. This is a loose collection of career government officials who operate outside ordinary legal and constitutional frameworks and use the levers of government power to favor their own, affect ...
The 9 Most Hated Professions
Post Date: 2018-07-12 09:17:36 by Gatlin
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Certain images pop into your head when you think about some professions, and these images aren't always so favorable. The reason they come to mind is probably not because of your personal experience with a particular profession, but your impression is instead based on the way these professions are portrayed on television, in movies, or on what you know about the few bad seeds that are present in every field of work. Let's take a look at why we hate some professions and learn the truth about them. Who knows ... you may wind up finding your future career, once you know the facts about it. 01 Dentists A trip to the dentist usually means you* will have a little bit of discomfort, if ...
A Cop Attacked and Threatened a Man Who Did Nothing Wrong, Then Made His Life Hell for Complaining
Post Date: 2018-07-12 07:10:09 by Deckard
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Video footage shows that Adam Finley calmly followed a hotheaded cop's instructions. But he was charged anyway.A police officer in a small Arkansas town pulled a man over for driving suspiciously near some railroad tracks. The driver—Adam Finley—turned out to be a railroad employee just doing his job. Here's what happened next, as evidenced by video footage of the encounter. Even though the cop, Matthew Mercado, had no reason whatsoever to escalate matters, he ordered Finley out of the car, became aggressive with him, shoved him against the car door, handcuffed him, swore at him, and threatened to use a taser on him. Meanwhile, Finley kept remarkably calm. He didn't ...
Will New Mom Cardi B Raise an Insurrectionist Army Against Government Tyranny? Probably not, but the new mom does support the "insurrectionist" theory of Second Amendment rights as a bulwark against tyranny.
Post Date: 2018-07-12 07:01:53 by Deckard
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Probably not, but the new mom does support the "insurrectionist" theory of Second Amendment rights as a bulwark against tyranny.New mom Cardi B, star of the cover story in the first issue of the redesigned Rolling Stone, doesn't generally worry about old-fashioned bourgeois respectability. As described in that story, "she's an ex-stripper with butt injections who's after your money; she's a possible former member of the Bloods...and says today that she still carries a knife." She's apparently willing to step outside ideological respectability as well. Cardi B, the first female solo hip hop artist to earn two number-one Billboard singles, says this to ...
Police Seized Property of Close to 1,000 People in Michigan—Without Ever Convicting Them of Crimes
Post Date: 2018-07-12 06:45:54 by Deckard
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Thanks to a new state law, agencies now have to report how extensively civil asset forfeiture is used to take people’s stuff.Close to 1,000 people in Michigan had their property seized by police or government officials last year even though they were neither convicted nor sometimes even charged with committing a crime. That's the bad news. The good news is that we have this information at all. In 2015 Michigan passed legislation that mandated local law enforcement agencies report more information to the state about the extent of their seizures. The Department of State Police just released its first report that encompassed all agencies for a full calendar year. Law enforcement ...
The problems with Libertarianism
Post Date: 2018-07-12 05:08:27 by Gatlin
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Some of my best friends are libertarian, but I don’t hold it (too much) against them. Libertarianism appears to be very popular these days, especially among Republicans who wish to pretend to be anti-big government and yet are ashamed of eight years of huge government deficit and interference in personal life under W. Unfortunately, there are several problems with being a libertarian, perhaps the major one being that it is hard to say what exactly a libertarian is. I actually spent quite some time wading through the bewildering taxonomy of libertarian-like positions, and finally came up with a complicated tree-like “concept map” that summarizes the basics. First off, you ...
KAVANAUGH THREATENS THE LEFT’S RIGHT TO CHEAT
Post Date: 2018-07-11 22:36:43 by nolu chan
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KAVANAUGH THREATENS THE LEFT’S RIGHT TO CHEAT Ann Coulter July 11, 2018 The fact that the media responded to the nomination of a Supreme Court justice by obsessively covering Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Russia and NATO proves that Trump has checkmated them with Brett Kavanaugh. Liberals know they can't stop Kavanaugh's confirmation, so they'd just as soon not hear any news about it at all. Please cheer us up with stories about Paul Manafort's solitary confinement! But there was one very peculiar reaction to the nomination. The nut wing of the Democratic Party instantly denounced Kavanaugh by claiming that his elevation to the high court would threaten all sorts ...
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