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Residents here in Oroville, Marysville and Yuba City are now living with the fresh knowledge that maybe this dam isn’t as safe as they thought.
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According to a report by Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster is canceling publication of Milo Yiannopoulos's book "Dangerous."
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Homophobic conservatives angered by a homosexual speaker being invited to speak at CPAC edited together a hit job portraying a victim of child abuse as an ad...
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CPAC also rescinded its invitation to the right-wing provocateur, after videos surfaced in which he criticized age-of-consent laws.
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Donald Trump has made his choice to replace Michael Flynn, and it’s hard to think of a better man. Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster will be the new national security adviser:
Breaking News: Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster has been named President Trump’s national security adviser https://t.co/chaJn51pjq
— The New York Times (@nytimes) February 20, 2017
General McMaster is a former commander of the Third Armored Cavalry Regiment, my old unit. I served in Iraq with a host of guys who’d served under McMaster in the Battle of Tal Afar in 2005, and almost to a man they loved him. I never served under him (I came along for the next deployment), but many of the people I respect the most were with him during one of the Iraq War’s most significant urban battles and came away deeply impressed.
Indeed, I’d call McMaster the Neil Gorsuch of generals. Like Judge Gorsuch, General McMaster is respected by his peers, admired for his intellect, and possesses an impeccable record of public service. Professionally, he’s in the short list of the best of the best. (Seriously, read up not just on the Battle of Tal Afar, but also on the Battle of 73 Easting in the Gulf War — where McMaster’s outnumbered Eagle Troop of the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment took on a numerically-superior Iraqi armored force and destroyed it in a mere twenty-three minutes).
There’s something else, however, that McMaster shares with Gorsuch — a known hostility to executive overreach and a keen awareness of his proper role in a constitutional republic. Gorsuch has famously questioned the explosive expansion of the federal bureaucracy. In his seminal book, Dereliction of Duty, McMaster famously called out civilian and military leaders for their profound mistakes in the run-up to the Vietnam War. Central to his argument is the notion that generals can and should (consistent with the chain of command and respect for presidential authority) provide their independent judgment to the president, including by criticizing and pointing out the shortcomings of the president’s tactical and strategic plans. In other words, effective military leaders shouldn’t simply roll over when confronted with unreasonable presidential demands.
With the exception of his loyalty hire of Michael Flynn, Trump’s key generals — James Mattis, John Kelly, and now H.R. McMaster — represent the best of modern military leadership. Their presence in the government is deeply reassuring. It’s now incumbent on President Trump to heed their counsel and give them the level of authority that they have earned.
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On Monday, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman opened up his intellectual pop-gun on President Trump’s plans to base budget projections on higher numbers. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported:
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Despite media reports of a massive crackdown by President Trump on illegal immigrants, just a tiny percentage of the nearly 1 million on the government's deportation list have been arrested, according to statistics provided to Congress. The 680 seized in recent sweeps by U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents represent just .07 percent of the 950,062 with deportation orders as of May 21, 2016. Responses to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, provided by Thomas D. Homan, currently the acting ICE director, revealed the struggle the agency faces as it moves to deport illegals, many with criminal records and slapped with final orders of removal after exhausting their court appeals. He said that ICE has custody of just 11,006, or 1 percent, of the 950,062 ordered deported. As of May 21, 2016, there were 950,062 aliens with final orders of removal on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) national docket. Of those aliens, 939,056 were on ICE's non-detained docket and 11,006 were on ICE's detained docket, said Homan's answer to questions from Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley.
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A Democrat who sits on the Federal Election Commission says partisan gridlock and dysfunction led her to resign before her term expires. Ann Ravel’s early exit gives President Donald Trump the opportunity to “drain the swamp” and shake up the campaign finance system.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt heads to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) headquarters Tuesday to address staffers about the agency’s new direction under the Trump administration
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Today I talk about the "Nanny State" of California with my special guest, Harmonanny! RESOURCES: http://thefederalist.com/2016/05/05/california-is-an-authori...
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I'm not looking to jump …
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Trump also announced that Keith Kellogg will act as a chief of staff on Trump's national security team.
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As we observe Presidents Day, take a look at how much debt each president left the country. President Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over most of World War II, left the country with more debt than any other president to date. Public debt as a share of GDP was at 95.7 percent in 1944, his last full calendar year in office. There was no public debt in 1836, President Andrew Jackson's final year in office. Presidents Martin Van Buren, John Tyler and Franklin Pierce are the only other presidents to leave office with debt at 1 percent of GDP or less. It's worth noting presidents do not have full control over the federal budget, so they don't deserve full responsibility for debt levels when they leave office. Timing, wars and recessions cannot totally be pinned on presidents, and they have a major impact on the national debt. Still, the veto pen is a major tool in budget debates, and the president arguably deserves more credit or blame than any other individual.
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When a Republican congressman on MSNBC brought up a 2012 incident where President Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic promising to give Russia's Vladimir Putin
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Controversial comments by Milo Yiannopoulos may cost him his job.
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Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show today that the press reaction to President Trump's attacks on the media is giving him the impression that journalists
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Despite the sniping back and forth between the press and President Trump, Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters that he has no such issues. Speaking in Abu Dhabi, on Sunday, Mattis responded to a question from Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin as to whether Mattis agreed with President Trump that the “fake news media was the enemy of the American people.
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On the 17th of February 2017 Bill Maher along with 3 other tag-alongs interviewed Milo Yiannopoulos. This was the footatage left on the scene. They gang up o...
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a victim of genital mutilation and sharia law was harassed on Twitter by Women's March Leader Linda Sarsour. Linda Sarsour said she wanted t...
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In a series of tweets Sunday night, Tapper slammed the invite after a video surfaced of the Breitbart editor appearing to defend pedophilia.
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"Funniest thing on Twitter in a long time."
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DHS Secretary John F. Kelly authorized the hiring of an additional 10,000 ICE agents and enforcement officers.
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Syrian-born Prospect Park Mayor Mohamed Khairullah and his fellow New Jersey Democrat mayors have gotten all the media attention as of late for their sanctuary city declarations, Save Jerseyans, and that?s a damn shame. There?s another side to the story. A very different perspective that?s not getting the attention it deserves because, frankly, it doesn?t fit the media?s ?
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Last year they couldn’t wait to see Havana. This year airlines cut service. What happened?
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Republicans celebrate smacking leftists in the mouth no matter what it takes, leftists in the media make it about themselves, and what the hell happened in Sweden?
