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Census Bureau: 44.6% in California Don’t Speak English at Home; 35.6% in Texas; 34.5% in NM; 31.7% in NJ; 31.0% in NY
Post Date: 2017-10-24 19:27:01 by cranky
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In California--which with a July 2016 population of 39,250,017 is the nation’s most populous state--44.6 percent of the people five years of age and older do not speak English at home, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau.At the same time, according to the Census Bureau, 18.6 percent of California residents 5 and older do not speak English “very well.”That ranks California No.1 among the states for the percentage of people in both of these categories.Nationwide, 21.6 percent speak a language other than English at home and 8.6 percent speak English less than very well.Texas ranked second for the percentage of residents five and older who do not speak ...
Jeff Flake says he won't run for re-election in 2018
Post Date: 2017-10-24 16:38:27 by IbJensen
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Sen. Jeff Flake abruptly announced Tuesday he won't run for re-election after all in the 2018 midterm elections, leave the Senate when his term ends in January 2019 and delivered a blistering rebuke of President Trump's behavior. The Arizona Republic announced on the Senate floor that he could "better serve my country and conscience" by dropping his re-election bid, "freeing myself of the political consideration that consumed far too much bandwidth," he said. Flake issued a thinly-veiled take-down of President Trump, criticizing the "personal attacks," the "threats against principles, freedom and institutions" and "flagrant disregard ...
Arizona's Jeff Flake announces he will not seek re-election to U.S. Senate
Post Date: 2017-10-24 15:04:09 by Gatlin
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Condemning the nastiness of Republican politics in the era of President Donald Trump, Sen. Jeff Flake on Tuesday announced he will serve out the remainder of his term but will not seek re-election in 2018. The bombshell, which Flake, R-Ariz., intended to detail Tuesday afternoon on the Senate floor, will further roil Republican hopes of keeping the party's 52-seat Senate majority in the midterm elections of Trump's first term, when the president's party historically loses seats in Congress. It also likely will upend the race for Flake's seat. Flake, one of the Senate's more prominent critics of President Donald Trump, has been struggling in the polls. He told The ...
Chick-fil-A Ranks No. 1 as America's Favorite Fast-Food Restaurant
Post Date: 2017-10-24 13:48:16 by no gnu taxes
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Chick-fil-A, the fast food chicken chain with Christian values, is the No. 1 fast food chain in the nation. Even though the restaurant is closed on Sundays when most of its competitors are open, Chick-fil-A still manages to generate more revenue than its competitors, Business Insider reported Thursday. "To determine the most popular fast-food chain in each state, Foursquare looked at which chains received the most visits on average per location in every state based on the total number of visits to each chain divided by the number of locations in that state," Business Insider noted. Many have speculated that the company's Christian values resonate with customers and has ...
Donald Trump: King of Deregulation?
Post Date: 2017-10-24 12:37:50 by Tooconservative
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In a speech on October 11 promoting his tax-reform plan, Donald Trump spoke rosily of America’s economic revival, crediting himself for having cleared the way for growth. “Since January of this year, we have slashed job-killing red tape all across our economy,” the president said. “We have stopped or eliminated more regulations in the last eight months than any president has done during an entire term. It’s not even close.” It seemed a characteristic bit of Trumpian magniloquence—he’s not only a boffo deregulator, he’s the best ever! Still, it was a remarkable claim. Trump has overseen more deregulation than George W. Bush or Ronald ...
Mapping the massacre
Post Date: 2017-10-24 11:25:53 by Tooconservative
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A New York Times team including Malachy Browne, Drew Jordan, Nicole Fineman and Chris Cirillo has produced a video that maps a timeline of the Las Vegas massacre: “The shots began at 10:05. Twelve bursts of gunfire later, police broke down Stephen Paddock’s door at the Mandalay Bay. Using forensic analysis, The Times mapped 30 videos that show a vivid picture of what happened that night.” The Times has posted the video here and also made the video embeddable. I have posted it below. The Times does not specifically address the controversy surrounding the alterations in the timeline regarding Jesus Campos. Rather, the video maps his activity in the corridor during the ...
Former Presidents Come Together for Photo-Op As Internet Forgets They’re ALL War Criminals
Post Date: 2017-10-24 07:59:59 by Deckard
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Five former presidents of the United States came together for a hurricane relief benefit, and their photo-op with musician Lady Gaga led to a surprising reaction—the Internet loved it! Not only did the public put politics aside, it also seems to have forgotten about all of the things these men have done to give them a very different title: War Criminal. “Nothing more beautiful than everyone putting their differences aside to help humanity in the face of catastrophe. #OneAmericaAppeal,” Gaga wrote on Twitter. Here are a few of the highlights from each presidency: Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) After the CIA-sponsored assassination of the first democratically-elected prime minister ...
I Predict Trump Will Continue the CIA’s JFK Assassination Cover-Up
Post Date: 2017-10-24 07:05:15 by Deckard
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Last Friday, President Trump made the following announcement: I have decided not to block release of the CIA’s remaining JFK-assassination related records except for those records that directly implicate the CIA in the assassination, which will continue to remain secret.” Okay, he didn’t really put it like that. But that’s the potential and likely import of his announcement, which actually read as follows: Subject to the receipt of further information, I will be allowing, as President, the long blocked and classified JFK FILES to be opened.” (Italics added.) The operative words, of course, are: “Subject to the receipt of further information….” What is ...
Teen boy 'saved by cannabis' reveals how his mum's illegal drug-buying stopped him from dying
Post Date: 2017-10-24 05:10:26 by Operation 40
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Deryn Blackwell, from Norfolk, was sent to a hospice shortly after his 14th birthday to live out his final few days. He was frail and in extraordinary pain after a relentless battle with a one in a billion form of cancer, Langerhans cell sarcoma. But after his parents secretly gave him cannabis oil to ease his pain and anxiety, he made a miracle recovery, as the Daily Mirror previously reported. Today, Deryn - who had also battled leukaemia - is a happy and healthy 17-year-old student, with friends and a girlfriend. And he was on Loose Women, with his mum Callie Blackwell speaking about the wonders cannabis did for him - and how he felt when his mum first told him about her cannabis ...
Halloween MAGA Hats @ DonaldJTrump.com! $45!
Post Date: 2017-10-23 19:50:36 by Hondo68
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NFL Anthem Protests Continue As Owners Dither, Trump Agitates, Fans React
Post Date: 2017-10-23 13:49:34 by nolu chan
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NFL Anthem Protests Continue As Owners Dither, Trump Agitates, Fans React by Bruce Haring Deadline October 22, 2017 11:19am National anthem protests continued during Week 7 in the National Football League, although the headcount of those kneeling or otherwise acting out during the song has greatly diminished, mirroring media coverage of the actions. Both protesting players and those opposed to their tactics now seem locked-in on their respective stances on the righteousness of the protests. The same players who protested in previous weeks either stayed in the locker room, kneeled or sat, while many teams stood and locked arms in a compromise maneuver. On the other side, President ...
Fun police? Montreal man says he was given $149 ticket after singing while driving
Post Date: 2017-10-23 09:20:09 by Deckard
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A Montreal driver says his passionate rendition of a cheesy 1990s pop hit has netted him a $149 fine. On Sept. 27, Taoufik Moalla was on his way to buy a bottle of water, happily singing along to C+C Music Factory’s 1990 song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” when he says he heard a police siren blaring behind him. “I was thinking they wanted to pass, but they called on the speaker, ‘Please go to the right side,’” Moalla told CTV Montreal. “I stopped and four police came, two on each side, and checked the inside of the car. Then they asked me if I screamed. I said, ‘No, I was just singing.’” Moalla said police ...
Joe Rogan Just Shattered the ‘Racist’ Ideology of Cultural Appropriation
Post Date: 2017-10-23 09:07:04 by Deckard
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Firebrand comedian Joe Rogan took direct aim at the absurdity of recent cries of cultural appropriation during his extremely popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. With the Halloween season in full swing, which is traditionally a time of increased claims of cultural appropriation, the latest accusation of cultural appropriation from the pc police is the claim that white women wearing hoop earrings are appropriating Latina culture. “I was f***ing reading an article, and I almost punched my screen. They’re saying that hoop earrings are cultural appropriation. Girls aren’t allowed to wear hoop earrings,” said a clearly frustrated Rogan. “It’s racist against ...
Landmark Study Shows Psychedelics Far More Effective at Reducing Crime Than Police
Post Date: 2017-10-23 09:00:16 by Deckard
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In recent years the U.S. has seen a dramatic resurgence of research into the medical use of psychedelics, after the drug war put a decades-long halt on scientific advancement. Despite psilocybin, LSD and other hallucinogens still being labeled as “Schedule 1” drugs, researchers are discovering the astounding benefits of their medical application. Last December, pioneering clinical trials found that magic mushrooms heal mental illness like a “surgical intervention.” Advanced cancer patients have “experienced immediate and dramatic reductions in anxiety and depression, improvements that were sustained for at least six months.” Psychedelics can treat addiction, ...
Legal weed has become about as controversial as Powerball
Post Date: 2017-10-23 07:29:13 by Deckard
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The war on drugs has been going on since 1971, and we have a winner: marijuana. Back then, possession of pot carried heavy penalties in many states—even life imprisonment. Today, 29 states sanction medical use of cannabis, and eight allow recreational use. Legal weed has become about as controversial as Powerball. One sign of the shift came in Wednesday's debate among the Democrats running for governor of Illinois. The state didn't get its first medical marijuana dispensary until 2015, and it decriminalized possession of small amounts of pot only last year. But most of the candidates endorsed legalization of recreational weed, and one supported "full ...
Democrats should be terrified by this governorÂ’s race [Virginia] [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-10-22 23:15:05 by Tooconservative
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WINCHESTER, VA. — The melodic sounds of a street musician’s trumpet echo through every corner of this old Virginia town as locals shop or make their way to lunch. Daren Johnson has been blowing his horn at the pedestrian mall in the shadow of the Shenandoah Valley Civil War Museum for over an hour. He performs for two reasons: “To make some extra cash and to share a little bit of lightness. We are exhausted as a country,” he said, “a direct result of last year’s election.” Johnson and his wife were tireless volunteers for Hillary Clinton last year. They knocked on doors, they made phone calls, they were invested. When she lost, the couple was devastated. ...
The “Czech Donald Trump,” Andrej Babis, wins in a “voting hurricane”
Post Date: 2017-10-22 21:33:35 by Tooconservative
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The polls in the Czech Republic were predicting that the ANO party of Andrej Babis was going to do well this weekend, but even the most optimistic seemed to be surprised by the margin of victory. Known as “the Czech Donald Trump,” Babis is one of the richest people in the country and campaigned on a number of issues which would sound familiar to Trump voters in the United States. When the votes were all counted, his party had taken almost 40% of the seats in Parliament, with well over a quarter of the popular vote. One analyst on Czech television described it as, “a voting hurricane.” The centrist ANO movement led by populist Andrej Babis decisively won the Czech ...
Air Force Punishes Respected Officer for Refusing to Endorse Same-sex Marriage
Post Date: 2017-10-22 17:25:34 by Hondo68
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A highly decorated and respected Air Force officer has been punished by his superiors over his refusal to sign a document affirming the same-sex “marriage” of a retiring subordinate. Colonel Leland Bohannon (shown) is an experienced pilot with over 3,000 flight hours in such aircraft as the B-2A and B-52H bombers, as well as the recipient of the Bronze Star (for service in Afghanistan), the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, and the Air Medal. While his 20 years of Air Force service had made him eligible for a merit-based promotion to brigadier general, Bohannon found the promotion shelved and his career in jeopardy when he declined to sign an unofficial certificate of ...
Republicans Officially Give Up Trying to Cut Spending
Post Date: 2017-10-22 14:27:28 by Hondo68
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After all that fuss from 2009 onward, Rand Paul is the last Republican left objecting to the continued growth of government. After the rise of the Tea Party in 2009 as a grassroots expression of revulsion at government bailouts, spending, and Obamacare; after a series of insurgent Tea Party primary victories in 2010 over big-spending incumbents and hand-picked establishmentarians; after Republicans re-took the House that November thanks in part to that new jolt of fiscally conservative energy; after the House majority from 2011-14 successfully used its power of the purse to force debate and at least some temporary agreements on the debt ceiling, long-term entitlements, and year-on-year ...
Immigration in the National Interest
Post Date: 2017-10-22 08:44:02 by IbJensen
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The following is adapted from a speech delivered on September 18, 2017, in Washington, D.C., at Hillsdale College’s Eighth Annual Constitution Day Celebration. Last year, for the first time in our nation’s history, the American people elected as president someone with no high government experience—not a senator, not a congressman, not a governor, not a cabinet secretary, not a general. They did this, I believe, because they’ve lost faith in both the competence and the intentions of our governing class—of both parties! Government now takes nearly half of every dollar we earn and bosses us around in every aspect of life, yet can’t deliver basic services well. ...
HILLARY UNLEASHED: Cracks joke about H.W. Bush’s health, says Trump speech ‘some weir Shit't
Post Date: 2017-10-22 08:16:20 by IbJensen
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Still hawking her book overseas, Hillary Clinton appeared on The Graham Norton Show and cracked a joke about former President George H.W. Bush’s health, and referred to President Trump’s inauguration speech as “some weird shit.” Hillary was asked about attending Trump’s inauguration, and she claims she and Bill tried to get out of it — a statement that contradicts what she said only days ago. “I really tried to get out of going,” she said. “I was going not as the candidate or as the opponent, but as a former first lady.” She said it’s tradition for Republican and Democratic former presidents and first ladies appear, but ...
YouTube deletes Maxine Waters promise to ‘go and take out Trump’
Post Date: 2017-10-22 07:38:00 by IbJensen
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EDITOR’S NOTE: YouTube has deleted the original video of Waters’s appearance. Another version has been embedded here and will be visible until it is removed, too. It’s been only four months since Rep. Steve Scalise was shot by a Bernie Sanders fan, but did one of his colleagues advocate violence against the president of the United States? The one-note impeachment minstrel Maxine Waters promised a group that benefits “homeless LGBTQ youth” that she will “take out” the president — and the liberal audience wildly applauded. Appearing recently at the Ali Forney Center gala in New York City, it only took Waters 27 seconds before she slammed Trump. ...
Jim Bakker Says God Will Punish You For Making Fun Of Him
Post Date: 2017-10-22 06:40:41 by Tooconservative
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Jim Bakker has had it with his critics. The disgraced televangelist is demanding that “mean people in America” who make fun of him stop watching his show, which is essentially an infomercial for his doomsday food mixed with predictions about an impending apocalypse. He’s warning that there will be dire consequences for those who continue to watch and mock. “If you don’t want to hear it, just shut me off,” he said in a clip from Friday’s show posted online by Right Wing Watch. “Especially you folks that monitor me every day to try to destroy me. Just go away. You don’t have to be there. You don’t have to hear ...
The Big Myth About Dirty Jobs, Minimum Wage, and Illegal Immigration
Post Date: 2017-10-22 00:11:20 by Tooconservative
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NEW YORK—Wherever you stand on the Wetback Issue, you’re no longer allowed to say the following sentence: “Mexicans only take the dirty jobs that Americans won’t do.” I’ve been hearing this for thirty years. Enough. It’s not only untrue, it’s so easily disproven that you don’t need Keynesian economics or Milton Friedman economics or even the economics they taught in that glossy college freshman textbook that had the hokey supply-and-demand graphs in it. You can basically blow this out of the water with Pre-Kindergarten Economics. Principle Numero Uno: If there aren’t any Mexicans to pick the lettuce, that doesn’t mean the owner of the ...
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