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  1. The Barbarian

    Outrage against breaking up families

    Anna Navarro suggests that Trump officials who want Mexican food might best have it delivered: Airlines refuse to be complicit in breaking up families: American Airlines: “We have no desire to be associated with separating families, or worse, to profit from it,” the statement said. “We have...
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    Trump says he won't sign legislation banning separation of children from parents

    President Donald Trump said he hates his own administration’s policy that separates immigrant children from parents when they illegally cross the U.S. border but said he’d refuse to sign compromise immigration legislation crafted by House Republicans that, among other provisions, would end the...
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    Did Donald Trump really tweet it?

    Take the test http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2E7idM/:1UYQpQT8d:ru_-Ybl_/pixlparade.com/quiz-did-donald-trump-actually-tweet-it Warning: Trumpish language.
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    "I won't settle"

    He said that about his fraud charges in the fake "Trump University" scam. But he did. Didn't want to be forced to testify. Crazy as it sounds, he paid $10,000 for a portrait of himself, which he put up in one his sports bars. It can indeed lead to criminal charges in campaign violations and...
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    Piling on

    The New York State attorney general’s office filed a scathingly worded lawsuit on Thursday taking aim at the Donald J. Trump Foundation, accusing the charity and the Trump family of sweeping violations of campaign finance laws, self-dealing and illegal coordination with the presidential...
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    Kim wins

    FOX News: "Shep Smith HAMMERS Trump for Getting HOSED in North Korea meeting: ‘Kim Jong-un got it ALL’"
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    Good News, After All

    This is all very entertaining, but according to economist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who worked at Google as a data scientist (he is now an op-ed writer for the New York Times), such searches may act as a “digital truth serum” for deeper and darker thoughts. As he explains in his book Everybody...
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    Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe

    Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe An ex-congressman has alleged ties to the Trump campaign, as well as powerful figures in Russia and Ukraine. Finding out what he knows is crucial, a top Democrat in the Senate says. ... Curt Weldon, a Republican and former...
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    Donald Trump Jr. in trouble

    When the New York Times first revealed the bombshell 20-page memo President Donald Trump’s legal team sent to Special Counsel Robert Mueller earlier this year, attention immediately focused on the broad assertions of presidential power. In the letter, the lawyers essentially argued that the...
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    Gowdy: FBI 'did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do' in Russia prob

    Washington (CNN)House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy said Tuesday he is now "more convinced" that the FBI acted appropriately in its handling of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible connections to Donald Trump's campaign. Gowdy's comments come as...
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    Trump Lawyer Attended DOJ Meeting On Confidential FBI Informant Emmet Flood

    Emmet Flood, the White House attorney dealing with the Russia probe, was present at a controversial DOJ meeting about the investigation. WASHINGTON ― Top congressional lawmakers and a White House attorney met with Justice Department officials on Thursday to discuss classified information about...
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    Time to tend to other things...

    I think it's time to move on for a while. While it's fun here, after a bit, it's less fun. So I'll be out for a time. God bless you all and take care.
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    Jackson might withdraw

    April 24, 2018 WASHINGTON — President Trump acknowledged Tuesday that Ronny L. Jackson, his nominee to lead the Veterans Affairs Department, is in serious trouble amid allegations that he oversaw a hostile work environment as the White House doctor, allowed the overprescribing of drugs and...
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    We have a spare $30 million to spend on a parade, but...

    The White House estimates that we will spend as much as 30 million dollars for the parade president Trump has planned for himself. However, the Pentagon has told him that he can't have any tanks or heavy vehicles in his parade. Too hard on the streets...
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    The first real economic effect of the tax bill

    World stocks stumble as US Treasury yields near 3% World stocks slipped on Monday as investors braced for a blizzard of earnings from the world's largest firms. Investors are also keeping a wary eye on U.S. bond yields as they approach peaks that have triggered market spasms in the past...
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    And another policy embarrassment for America:

    WASHINGTON — President Trump was watching television on Sunday when he saw Nikki R. Haley, his ambassador to the United Nations, announce that he would impose fresh sanctions on Russia. The president grew angry, according to an official informed about the moment. As far as he was concerned, he...
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    So that's it?

    If libertarians are bold, impulsive, quick witted, adventurous, analytical, and willing to ignore social norms, is that because we have especially active dopamine and testosterone systems in our brains? That's the hypothesis of the biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, who has developed a...
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    "It's all Obama's fault!"

    Since the Trump administration moved in last year, there’s been an unspoken competition among Cabinet officials to spend as much taxpayer money as possible in the most questionable of ways. A favorite among the group, of course, has been refusing to come within 20 feet of coach, insisting...
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