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Nixon vs. Trump More amazingly, more Americans are in favor of impeaching Trump now than they were at a similar time during the House's investigation of Nixon in 1973 and 1974. The House Judiciary Committee voted to start an impeachment inquiry of Nixon in late October 1973. This was following...

The 17 Congressional republican this year, to bail out: Republican Rep. Paul Cook Of California Announces He’s Retiring From Congress Cook was elected to Congress in 2012 and is currently in his fourth term. He will reportedly announce his campaign to represent the 1st District of the San...

The DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel advised the DNI whether to disclose the complaint, said an official, who would not say if AG William Barr was involved. A whistleblower complaint by an intelligence officer that the Trump administration is withholding from Congress involves a phone conversation...

A US official told CNBC on Friday that a photo of an Iranian launchpad that President Donald Trump tweeted out in the afternoon came from an intelligence briefing Trump received earlier in the day. The picture was attached to a tweet in which Trump said the US was not involved in the failure of...

...after he advised Alabamans to prepare for Hurricane Dorian. Possibly, he confused "Bahamas" with "Alabama." The Weather Service had to issue a retraction to calm Alabamans who were wondering how they were going to be involved. The National Weather Service (NWS) had to quickly reassure...

Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) announced on Friday that he will not seek reelection in 2020, joining the ranks of several House Republicans retiring after this term. “It has been the honor of my lifetime to be asked by the people of Illinois to represent them in our nation’s capitol. Each day I have...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39743712 Why should be be different than the rest of us? He actually thought being president of the United States was going to be easier than being a reality show host.

Hurricane Dorian intensified into a Category 5 on Sunday morning, becoming the fifth Atlantic hurricane in the past four years to reach this highest level on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. Dorian's intensification into a Category 5 marked the fourth year in a row the Atlantic basin...

Christian prophet: ‘Patriots’ will drag dead Democrats through the streets if Trump doesn’t carry out ‘mass arrests’ by January If Trump doesn’t carry out mass arrests of high-profile Democratic politicians by this coming January, “patriots” will rise up and get the job done, according to...

We should not be surprised at the outcome we are now seeing. Nineteen months ago, when President Trump invoked emergency powers (bypassing Congress) to announce his first tariffs, the experts (economists, Wall Streeters, business leaders, historians and even politicians) warned of the damage...

Well, cool. Things move on. And that's a big improvement over hundreds of light-years. This is why Galileo's theory wasn't universally accepted. If he was right, stars should show parallax. And the instruments at the time, couldn't even detect parallax on stars only a few light-years away.

There are Bible verses that seem to indicate a flat Earth. But then astronomers talk about the Sun coming up, when they know that's not really what happens. Taking figurative language and making it literal is always a mistake. It's the basis of many misconceptions people have taken from...

Your well-reasoned post included the above. While we can indeed get the distance to stars by parallax, I was unaware that it was possible to do this for stars much farther than a few hundred light-years away.

In 1999, while sitting at a bus stop in Cuernavaca, Mexico, a Czech physicist named Petr Šeba noticed young men handing slips of paper to the bus drivers in exchange for cash. It wasn’t organized crime, he learned, but another shadow trade: Each driver paid a “spy” to record when the bus ahead...

Turns out, illeism improves one's objectivity and decision-making skills: Instead, the scientific research suggests that you should adopt an ancient rhetorical method favoured by the likes of Julius Caesar and known as ‘illeism’ – or speaking about yourself in the third person (the term was...

Anthony Scaramucci, who famously served as President Trump's communications director for 11 days, says Republicans may need to pick a different candidate in 2020. Driving the news: In a phone interview on Sunday afternoon, Scaramucci compared Trump to a melting nuclear reactor and said he may...