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There is much talk about the chaos of this political season.  Regardless of who you support and why, this season is definitely "off-script."  Many people a

In the wake of Donald Trump’s apocalyptically bad fundraising report, a new word seems in order to describe the exercise in grift being played out on the national stage. Call it a scampaign. The presumptive Republican nominee’s FEC filing, released yesterday, is quantitative confirmation that Trump is not running a presidential campaign so much as another of his success-immune business schemes. At the end of May, Trump had $1.3 million in cash on hand — less than the price of most apartments in Trump Tower — and managed to raise $3.1 million over the whole month. Hillary Clinton, by contrast, raised $27 million and ended the month with $42 million. Mitt Romney, that loser, raised $78 million in May 2012. #ad#Even more alarming is what Trump has done with the money he does have. Twenty percent of the campaign’s May expenditures — $1.1 million — were reimbursements to businesses that Trump owns. The Daily Beast has a partial list: Trump Plaza, Trump SoHo, Trump Café, Trump Grill, Epic Trump Wine Manufacturing, Trump Restaurants, Trump National Golf Club, Trump International Golf Club, Trump International Hotel, Trump Ice. And, on top of all of this, it appears that Trump may be taking a salary. There’s obviously an element of incompetence here, the exigencies of national campaigning being just one of the panoply of things about which Trump is utterly and proudly ignorant. There’s also an element of sloth. Fundraising is the drudgework of political life, and Trump hates drudgery. But there’s also the specter of unseemliness — which hangs around Donald Trump with unusual persistence. There is the Trump Network (his maybe-a-pyramid-scheme vitamin operation) and the American Communications Network (the maybe-a-pyramid-scheme tech company he promoted) and Trump University. It was just last month that Trump was facing questions about $6 million supposedly raised for various veterans’ organizations. With Trump, it’s always a question whether you’re getting played. With Trump, it’s always a question whether you’re getting played, and as the question pertains to his presidential run, the FEC filing effectively proves that the answer is yes. Would someone worth “TEN BILLION DOLLARS” be pinching the edges of the toothpaste tube? Would he be trying to bilk donors out of their money — not to build campaign infrastructure and start advertising, but simply to cover his own out-of-pocket costs? Of course not. And potential donors know it. Any money-man who was thinking about getting behind this effort is going to reconsider. Every right-leaning super PAC is going to look around for alternatives. No one wants $1 out of every $5 that he donates going to fill the coffers at Mar-a-Lago. #related#But that is what is happening. Just like his opponent on the Democratic side, Trump has no qualms about turning the advantages of public life to private gain, about erasing the line between public service and private enrichment — and even for pennies. Trump has always been concerned, first and foremost and solely, about his own bottom line. Now, he’s simply taken the grift national. It’s Scampaign 2016, and we’re proving a nation of suckers. — Ian Tuttle is the Thomas L. Rhodes Fellow at the National Review Institute.   [Editor's Note: This article has been amended since its initial posting.]

The judge in ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s fraud trial revealed Friday he has received threats over the case and now travels with U.S. Marshals, as he turned back a media request to release juror information.

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This is why Rome crumbled.

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To the political witch hunt that seemed as though it might ruin his and his family’s lives, and which certainly caused the Kavanaugh family to experience profound suffering, Brett Kavanaugh reacted as anyone would: with natural and justified anger. Of course, at first Kavanaugh was rather cool-headed, but by the September 27 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, the cheap character assassination had become a lot worse, and a fiery Kavanaugh reflected the difference.

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The personal crime rate throughout America has hit a 16-year high, with nearly 30 percent of all households report being victimized, according to a new survey Americans' direct experience with crime is at a 16-year high, consistent with a gradual increase — from 22 percent in 2001 to 29 percent today — in the percentage saying that they or a household member was the victim of a robbery, vandalism or violent crime in the past year, Gallup reports.

On Sunday, MTV News' Rachel Zarrell induced nausea when she threatened to send Vice President-elect Mike Pence her monthly period blood if he "tries to regulate [her] uterus," or, in other words, if he advocates for the unborn. 

A man whose parents emigrated to California in the 1970s is seeking to become the first Muslim Republican in Congress, attempting to unseat a Democratic Rep. Scott Peters.

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The IRS announced the tax code’s parameters for 2019, implementing a new method for making inflation adjustments that will result in higher tax payments over time.

Facebook has announced that they will decide what is true and what is false.  Today the social media company announced that stories that they decide are ?fake news? will be flagged as false. Skirting Free Speech Issue Facebook seems to have anticipated that they would come under criticism.  Rather than simply remove anything that they ?

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Nativity scene and Christmas tree are in place on the corner of the street. Some of the children proudly wear red Santa Claus hats or show off new toys, mostly plastic guns for small boys. Windows and balconies are festooned with colorful balloons.

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Last year a manhunt for at least 1000 men had started as the women of Germany was raped whilst out celebrating. This year German police had identified measur...

Taiwan on its way to solely Taiwanese identity: academics.Up to 43 percent of Taiwanese younger than 40 defend independence for the island, even if it means war with China, according to a poll mentioned by academics in a piece for The Washington Post.

A recap of Barack Obama's Farewell speech in Chicago on January 10, 2017.