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Never Trust The Doom-Mongers: Earth Day Predictions That Were All Wrong The Daily Caller, 22 April 2016 Andrew Follett Environmentalists truly believed and predicted that the planet was doomed duri…
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Donald Trump is no longer promising to pay off the national debt
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For more than five years, Donald Trump’s new top campaign aide, Paul Manafort, lobbied for a Washington-based group that Justice Department prosecutors have charged operated as a front for Pakistan’s intelligence service, according to court and lobbying records reviewed by Yahoo News. Manafort’s work
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At the Republican National Committee’s spring meeting, delegates describe vicious missives demanding they support the GOP front-runner.
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Venezuela announced it would soon begin rolling blackouts to save energy as the country grapples with major economic problems.
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“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in 1970.
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While shouting that the minimum wage for illegal aliens working at McDonalds should be $15. an hour, President Obama used a loophole in the US Code deter a pay raise
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SHERYL GAY STOLBERG | NY Times
Gov. Terry McAuliffe of Virginia will use his executive power on Friday to
restore voting rights to more than 200,000 convicted felons, circumventing
his Republican-run legislature. The action will overturn a Civil War-era
provision in the state’s Constitution aimed, he said, at disenfranchising
African-Americans.
The sweeping order, in a swing state that could play a role in deciding the
November presidential election, will enable all felons who have served
their prison time and finished parole to register to vote. Most are
African-Americans, a core constituency of Democrats, Mr. McAuliffe’s
political party.
“There’s no question that we’ve had a horrible history in voting rights as
relates to African-Americans — we should remedy it,” Mr. McAuliffe said
Thursday, previewing the announcement he will make on the steps of
Virginia’s Capitol, just yards from where President Abraham Lincoln once
addressed freed slaves. “We should do it as soon as we possibly can.”
The action, which Mr. McAuliffe said was justified under an expansive legal
interpretation of his executive clemency authority, goes far beyond what
other governors have done, experts say, and will almost certainly provoke a
backlash from Virginia Republicans, who have resisted measures to expand
felons’ voting rights. It has been planned in secrecy, and comes amid an
intensifying national debate over race, mass incarceration and the criminal
justice system.
There is no way to know how many of the newly eligible voters in Virginia
will register, but Mr. McAuliffe said he would encourage all to do so. “My
message is going to be that I have now done my part,” he said.
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That he cannot gain any traction is a pity for his party.
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Hillary in Connecticut: 'It is just too easy for people to reach for a gun to settle their problems.'
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Paul Manafort promises anxious GOP leaders that voters will see "a real different guy" during a general election
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This is In Real Terms, a column analyzing the week in economic news. Comments? Criticisms? Ideas for future columns? Email me or drop a note in the comments. Young people entering the job market ha…
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He doesn't even need to change he could just be himself Captain Americas Biggest Flaw:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iK_DYYS-oM 6 Reasons Why Antman's Powe...
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Judicial Watch has been kicked out of the Pulitzer Prize contest, although the non-profit government watchdog has broken key stories this year in the Hillary Clinton email scandal and the controver
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Who cares? Nobody pays attention to these people. Just ignore them. Conservatives see no reason to support the counter narrative. And that is the problem!
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It’s still not easy, but is now clearly possible, to avoid a contested convention. How it might go.
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Correcting grammatical errors is typically a function of a racial “power imbalance” used to silence minorities who a “struggling” to have their voices heard, according to a journalist at communist bastion The Guardian.
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EXCLUSIVE: HBO Documentaries Fall For Serial Nobel Prize Hoaxer Michael Mann
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Pennsylvania’s unusual delegate system makes it a wild card in the primary process.
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The act of sex is not illegal. But if two members of the American Law Institute have their way, it will be — unless you follow their rules.
Law professors Stephen J. Schulhofer and Erin Murphy are trying to update the criminal code when it comes to sex offenses, believing current definitions of rape and sexual assault are antiquated. The focus of their draft is on what constitutes consent. It adopts the yes means yes, or affirmative consent model that was passed in California last year.
The California law applies only to college campuses, however. Schulhofer and Murphy aim to take that definition of consent — which says that before every escalation of a sexual encounter, clear and convincing consent must be given — to the state or federal level. No one actually has sex this way, requesting permission and having it granted perhaps a dozen times in a single encounter.
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I was in the middle of my summer class when my phone went off around 11:40 am on Thursday, July 18th, 2013. It was my ex-girlfriend. As I answered, I heard her voice insisting that I admit to perpet
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Religious themes were a constant in Prince's work.
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The Republican National Committee’s decision to hold off on spending in some contested states shows how a divisive presidential race is threatening the entire ticket.
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After 10 months of urban conflict in Turkey’s war-torn southeast, the government has expropriated huge sections of property, apparently to rebuild and restore the historical centre of the region’s largest city, Diyarbakir. But to the dismay of the city’s handful of Christian congregations, this includes all its Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant churches. Unlike the state-funded mosques, Turkey’s ancient church buildings have been managed, historically, by church foundations.
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Guest post by Aleister While campaigning for her mother recently, Chelsea Clinton admitted that the left is planning to use ...
