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Let’s look at the most ridiculous idea the Danish government has ever come up with. As you might suspect, the Danish government has it’s own TV station. Not just 1 TV channel but 6! Along with those 6 TV channels there are 11 radio stations. Add those to the failed TV and radio stations theRead More

The United States is in decline. While not all major shocks to the system will be devastating, when the right one comes along, the outcome may be dramatic.

American small businesses are booming, wages are increasing, tax collections are increasing and GDP is being driven up — all due to Trump GOP policies.

Thanks to Cheryl Pass at My Tea Party Chronicles I have learned something new and I always enjoy learning something new. In a reply to comment I made on one of her essays, she suggested that I migh…

Michael Avenatti, the attorney of porn actress Stormy Daniels, just announced that he will be holding a large rally in Texas at the same time as Donald Trump’s campaign rally for Sen. Ted Cruz. I am

For months, it seemed nearly every media figure was in hysterics over the impending repeal of net neutrality. Then, net neutrality was repealed… and nothing ...

The child’s mother is challenging a Minnesota law that allows a minor who is living alone to make his own health-care decisions, like amputating genitals.

Whether or not it tries to defy President Trump on sanctuary city policies that protect repeat criminals from deportation, Los Angeles has done the right thing by lifting its ban on street vendors. Yes! Magazine reports that by creating a permit process for vendors, the city is sidestepping the question of whether it will have to aid in the deportation of people only guilty of creating their own jobs and trying to make an honest living. Merced Sanchez, 56, became a street vendor in Los Angeles after her storefront burned down about 10 years ago...The problem for Sanchez, and the roughly 50,000 other street vendors here, is that Los Angeles is the only major city in the United States without a permitting system for them. Street vending is technically illegal, leaving vendors subject to vigorous police harassment, constant ticketing, onerous criminal justice debt, bench warrants for failures to appear, arrests, and incarceration, according to a 2015 report by the Criminal Defense Clinic at UCLA School of Law. Since most street vendors are immigrants, largely from Latin America, their legal status compounds the situation.... ...Trump is talking about deporting immigrants who are criminals but, in an executive order signed on Jan. 25, defined that term so broadly as to include those convicted of misdemeanors and those accused of crimes but not yet charged. So, despite its status as a sanctuary city, where local police are prohibited from collaborating with federal immigration enforcement, Los Angeles' street vendor law would end up helping the Trump administration deport immigrants by labeling vendors as lawbreakers. The City Council took note of that and on Jan. 31 voted to begin the process of legalizing and permitting street vending. The proposal not only authorized the city attorney to begin drafting a formal permit structure for street vendors, but also decriminalized the practice immediately. Police will cite but not arrest street vendors until a permitting law is passed.

Cesar De Leon, the Brownsville city commissioner at-large, quit his job on Friday. That was expected after he called two prosecutors the n-word. But his

Look at the Real Clear Politics polling average. The candidates who are perceived to be "not of Washington" are Trump, Carson, Cruz, Huckabee, Fiorina, Paul, Perry, Jindal, and (arguably) Walker. Some of them may be "of Washington," but they have pretty legitimate outsider, non-establishment bona fides. Add up their polling total in the average and we get 61.4% of the vote. In other words, right | Read More »

New book claims Clinton had harsh words for the President over email investigation

Now that Steve Bannon has carried his political jihad to its logical conclusion, martyrdom never looked so meaningless. A bright and talented man has sacrificed himself over nothing more significan…

A CNN/ORC poll showed opposition to expanded gun control is higher after the attack on Umpqua Community College than before the attack.

GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO-AM) -- Michigan's Republican National Committeeman is urging fellow Republicans in Congress to impeach President Obama. "The RNC has done nothing to stop Obama," Dave Agema said. "What I'm doing is, essentially, pushing someone to do the right thing, and I think there comes a point and time when politics need to be set a...

Leftist Protesters Descended on Donald Trump’s Rally in Virginia Today– Far left fascists do not believe conservatives have the right ...

A poster promoting the band Pearl Jam's August 13 concert in Missoula is being described as reprehensible.

'It's not super defensible'

The first half of the video contains a graphic description of a dirty job, so gird your loins. (You'll get why I chose that aphorism pretty quickly.) But do listen to the whole thing, because the insights Rowe provides are very valuable. Certainly the notion that people doing "simple" and dirty jobs live more balanced,…

A federal appeals court agreed with the dismissal of a case against police officers who intentionally shot two dogs during a drug raid.

Rashid Khalidi is unapologetic. The longtime Columbia University professor last month said repeatedly that supporters of Israel would “infest” the Trump administration — language that evokes the imagery and metaphors of the Nazis. But for all the on-campus sensitivity seminars and trigger warnings that dominate our age, don’t expect an apology in this case. Apparently, no language, even if it is dehumanizing and deeply rooted in historic anti-Semitism, is out of line in condemning Israel. Professor Khalidi is well known as Columbia University’s professor of modern Arab studies. January 17, in a lengthy radio interview on WBEZ Chicago’s “Worldview,” Khalidi warned that this infestation would begin under the new president. Describing Israel supporters in terms that evoke vermin was not a momentary lapse or slip of the tongue. He used “infest” three times, saying “these people infest” the Trump transition team and will soon “infest” the government. Who are “these people?” In his view, they’re a bit crazy but also scheming. Khalidi explains: There are a group of people, a lot of them in Israel and some of them in the United States, who live in a world of their own. That is to say, they think that whatever they want, and whatever cockamamie schemes they can cook up, can be substituted for reality. Free speech is a blessed thing, and hypersensitivity to offensive language is a curse on college campuses. I have no desire to stifle discussion, but it’s fair to ask: What’s become of “reasonable people can differ”? What’s become of civil discourse? What’s become of the golden rule? One has to suppose that Khalidi would take offense if someone analogized Palestinians, rather than Jews, to rats or cockroaches. His remarks may not be the ugliest comment along these lines that ever emerged from the Middle East–studies faculty at Columbia. Professor Hamid Dabashi once described the soul of an Israeli Jew as containing a “vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture.” But the “infestation” theme is nasty enough to warrant special notice. What makes it especially nasty is its historical resonance. To be sure, not all criticism of Israel is anti-Semitism and not all anti-Semitism is Nazism. But there’s no getting around the fact that in his memoir, Mein Kampf, Hitler over and over again described the Jews as an infestation of vermin. That was one of the book’s main metaphors. And that’s why Nazi officials made a point of saying their Jewish policy aimed not to “kill” but to “exterminate” (vernichten), a word more appropriate for bugs or lice than human beings. There’s no getting around the fact that in his memoir, Mein Kampf, Hitler over and over again described the Jews as an infestation of vermin. While characterizing his opponents as nonhuman, Khalidi complains that “these people . . . have a vision whereby there’s no such thing as the Palestinians.” But that’s not an essential trait of Israel’s supporters, many of whom not only recognize the existence of the Palestinians but also sympathize with their suffering. Many believe, contrary to Professor Khalidi’s views, that it’s corrupt and undemocratic Palestinian officials who are mainly responsible for Palestinians’ suffering. But it’s flatly wrong to say that Khalidi’s opponents think “there’s no such thing as the Palestinians.” Further describing Israel supporters, Khalidi says, “They have a vision whereby international law doesn’t exist.” That’s not true, either. Over many decades, Zionists have published voluminous works on international law, explaining how it supports Israel’s existence and policies. Khalidi can challenge their views, but he shouldn’t grossly mischaracterize them.  I know Rashid Khalidi personally. I was a student in his Modern Middle East course last semester and had several private discussions with him. So after his radio interview, I wrote to him and suggested he publicly clarify that he didn’t mean to characterize his political opponents so harshly. He replied by pointing me to the statement he gave to the Forward. In that statement, he acknowledged “infelicitous phrasing,” but that’s even less of an apology than the classic non-apology “I’m sorry if anyone took offense.” In an e-mail to me, he then renewed his attack on “these people” as having “a racialist disregard for Palestinians” and using “anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian and anti–international law rhetoric.” In other words, Khalidi doubled down on his insult when he should have simply said “Sorry.” Rather than grant that both sides of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict have points worth hearing, Khalidi painted Israel’s supporters as crazy extremists who lack rational arguments and who don’t deserve serious consideration. Many good people are puzzled about how the Arab-Israeli conflict can fester and rage for more than a hundred years. A key reason is that Israel’s enemies are so passionate in their hatred that they pass it down through the generations. Rashid Khalidi’s uncivil words demonstrate the problem. They damage the very people he favors. After all, the Palestinian people would benefit from mutual accommodation and peace with Israel. And his words also harm the interests of Columbia students who hope to have mutually respectful exchanges of ideas about controversial subjects. — Dore Feith is a junior at Columbia and the president of Aryeh: Columbia Students Association for Israel.

The detained man is said to have helped a soldier plan a gun attack disguised as a Syrian refugee.

Democrats’ line of questioning against judicial nominees signals a broader strategy to deter religious people from participating in their government.

The mayor of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico cast serious doubt Saturday on the claims made by San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz, who has repeatedly attacked President Trump and accused him of abandoning Puert

Most importantly about this is that the vote passed with less than a majority of the full House of Representatives. Boehner was only able to--on a purely procedural vote--obtain 217, rather than the 218 votes for a majority, votes for the rule. It passed the House 217-212.

Twenty seventeen passes as a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad year for caring mentors passionate about administering shoulder rubs to interns, the Russian-American Goodwill Association, and statuary who sin against the present by standing as monuments to its ignorance of the past. Bronze Lives Matter! This marked Stonewall Jackson’s worst year since 1863. A narcissistic generation irritated by reminders that anyone great existed before their existence engaged in a great campaign of genocide against bronze people in 2017. The targets merely discovered the Americas, acted as the father of this country, and explored the River of Doubt. The vandals for