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California AG: Trump's Comments Against Illegal Immigration Are Ignorant

There?s a double standard in America when it comes to obeying the law. Conservative firebrand Dana Loesch took to social media to ask a very good and timely question: Why do businesses have to “follow the law” but cities labeled “sanctuaries” do not? Businesses must ?follow the law? and bake a cake but cities can ignore law ?

If the president grants another 40 or so commutations as expected, he will have shortened the sentences of more prisoners than any president since Gerald Ford, who extended clemency to thousands of Vietnam draft dodgers.

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By Alexandra Alper ALMOLOYA DE JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, broke out of a high-security prison on Saturday night for the second time, escaping in a tunnel built right under his cell, and heaping embarrassment on President Enrique Pena Nieto. The kingpin snuck out of the prison through a subterranean tunnel more than 1.5 km (1 mile) long that ended at an abandoned property near the local town, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido told a news conference on Sunday. Guzman, who had bribed his way out of prison during an escape in 2001, was seen on video entering his shower area at 8:52 p.m. on Saturday (0152 GMT Sunday), then disappeared, the National Security Commission (CNS) said.

Fox News analyst and former judge Andrew Napolitano recently posted a Washington Times op-ed called "Hillary's Secret War," in which he declares with certainty that Hillary Clinton "provided material assistance to terrorists and lied to Congress in a venue where the law required her to be truthful."

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A backlash against the Confederate flag in the US has gathered pace, but it is also seen flying in other parts of the world.

The Washington Times reports that Hassan Giordano, a leader of a Baltimore branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said he was told that hosting Republican outreach in his office is off-limits.

. . . to the Democratic Party, cuz Carlos Danger is all about loyalty

A professor a UMass-Amherst is calling for the mere display of the Confederate flag to be a criminal act.

I keep hearing that false  accusations of rape make it harder on real victims of rape.  Really? There may be a kernel of truth in this idea but it completely ignores the trauma and pain of the man ...

"Our stories are all a little different, but we share the same pain."

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With murder rising, the homeless population mushrooming and the quality of life taking a beating, New Yorkers wanting help will need plenty of luck getting Bill de Blasio’s attention. They might al...

Kevin Williamson of National Review Online attacks the conservative base of the Republican Party in his latest column, "WHINOS: On the Martyrdom of the Holy, Holy Base."

But you know Obama and the Democrats will keep on spending anyway:Testifying in the U.S Senate yesterday, Congressional Budget Office Director Keith Hall warned that the publicly held debt of the U.S. government, when measured as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, is headed toward a level the United States has seen only once in its history—at the end of World War II.To simply contain the debt at the high historical level where it currently sits—74 percent of GDP--would require either significant increases in federal tax revenue or decreases in non-interest federal spending (or a combination of the two). Historically, U.S. government debt held by the public, measured as a percentage of GDP, hit its peak in 1945 and 1946, when it was 104 percent and 106 percent of GDP respectively.In 2015, the CBO estimates that the U.S. government debt held by the public will be 74 percent of GDP. That is higher than the 69-percent-of-GDP debt the U.S. government had in 1943—the second year after Pearl Harbor.The difference between then and now, of course, is that back then the U.S. had fought and won a two-front war against National Socialist Germany and the Empire of Japan. Today, we are fighting ourselves:While the run up in debt held by the public as a percentage of GDP in the 1940s financed a global war against Nazi Germany and Japan that ended with an allied victory, the current run toward unprecedented debt is based on projected increases in mandatory federal spending for entitlement programs. These include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies. “Mainly because of the aging of the population and rising health care costs, the extended baseline projections show revenues that fall well short of spending over the long term, producing a substantial imbalance in the federal budget,” Hall said in his written testimony.That's putting it mildly.

The WHINO is a captive of the populist Right’s master narrative, which is the tragic tale of the holy, holy base, the victory of which would be entirely assured if not for the machinations of the perfidious Establishment. Never mind the Democrats, economic realities, Putin, ISIS, the geographical facts of the U.S.-Mexico border -- all would be well and all manner of things would be well if not for the behind-the-scenes plotting of Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and their enablers. The WHINO is a Republican conspiracy theorist, in whose fervid imaginings all the players -- victims, villains -- are Republicans.

An outraged flea market shopper in Connecticut called the police after spotting Confederate and Nazi memorabilia at a local flea ...

At this moment -- 10:37 a.m. EST -- the House is considering the Brat Amendment to H.R. 6, a bill which would fund the National Institute of Health and the Federal Drug Administration and has one of those precious titles implying that big government can indeed -- and in this case, literally -- fix what ails you: the '21st Century Cures Act.'Most media reported Dave Brat's election as primarily being due to his stance on immigration. Yet while on the stump in Virginia's 7th, Brat said that citizens actually responded most fervently to his promise to lead a full frontal assault on the national debt.Brat was a full professor of Economics at Randolph-Macon -- he mentions Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan's point man on the economy, as his greatest influence.For a body that deliberates over the greatest collection of wealth in human history, you would expect a few more economists would fill its roster. But shockingly -- or not at all, Washington being Washington -- Dave Brat is the only Economics Ph.D. in either the House or Senate, let alone the only Econ professor. (Brat was as surprised as I was to discover that, prior to his election. I had been researching something else, came across that fact, and asked if he was aware no one had been elected with an Econ Ph.D. since Phil Gramm. It's just Brat now, yet Paul Ryan continues in his role as the supposed premier GOP voice on budgetary issues.)Brat's amendment has nothing to do with the bill's intent -- only with the bill being proffered with Washington's favorite funding method, 'autopilot,' wherein your tax money is spent automatically without future Congressional review or public notice. In practice, this surmounts to Taxation without Representation, as 'autopilot' is not an entity Constitutionally qualified to hold office nor even an experimental Facebook gender identification option.Brat gave the following speech (click to the next page) this morning. You'll notice that it differs from the typical Floor speech in that it makes sense to adults who manage budgets, and that it treats Virginia's 7th like citizens, not as Pinterest 'likes'...I rise to support my amendment against the creation of a new mandatory program.Some on the other side have called my amendment a poison pill.I consider that a compliment.A poison pill was reserved for the man who brought human reason to Greece.I similarly would like to bring a bit of reason to bear on the budget process of the United States.We are currently $127 trillion light on mandatory spending at present.This means by 2027, all federal revenues will be spent on only mandatory programs. This is a disaster.My children right now are 13 and 16.By the time they are about 30 we will have zero dollars for running government, because all dollars will be spent on these mandatory programs.We all want cures, and I am for the underlying bill.But in economics, rationality requires that we rank our preferences in order and fund the best programs.This is one of them.There is no issue finding two billion dollars out of a three and a half trillion dollar budget.But currently there is no discipline up here in this city.We just fund everything and hand the bill to the next generation.Every mandatory program starts off with high hopes.But go to the trustee reports on the major mandatory programs today, and you will find that they are all insolvent.By around 2030 as well.So today, you will hear all sorts of fancy terminology about pay-fors and oil reserves and deficits, but don’t be fooled.Our annual deficit spending is $500 billion and on its way to a trillion in a few years.We are off course on every front.We always talk about the children.But at present, we are handing them $18 trillion in debt and another $127 trillion bill in mandatory programs.You want the truth?The children are the only group without a lobbyist up here on Capitol Hill, and that’s why they’re getting trashed.If you want a cure, go to a doctor.But if you want to clean up the U.S. economy, please consult an economist or two.The numbers and the story I have given are not in dispute.The only issue is whether we have the resolve to balance our budgets and leave our children a brighter day.I urge a YES vote on the amendment.Thank you, and I reserve the balance of my time.Of course, Washington being Washington, Brat's amendment was defeated, and every health industry lobbyist savvy enough to file incorporation papers to create entities with authority-tinged names took to Twitter to celebrate, because -- as mentioned above -- in the end, and also in the beginning, they think of you as retweets, not citizens:

WASHINGTON -- Just as Sen. Bernie Sanders' progressive presidential challenge to Hillary Clinton is gaining steam, an old essay of his has surfaced in which he says women fantasize "being raped by ...

OPM's latest data breach affects 21 million Americans.

GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson says he's open to a White House ticket with the blunt-speaking Donald Trump as his vice president.

Shocker, right!?

It’s an Obama world. A mob of black youths attacked a woman near the University of Chicago with children in ...