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By Razor Before the election, we were told that Trump was a Nazi and his jackbooted thugs would take over and put people into camps and tre...

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Chadwick Moore, a 33-year-old journalist who lives in Williamsburg, had been a lifelong liberal. Then, last September, he penned a profile for Out magazine of Milo Yiannopoulos — a controversial al…

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Dr. Willie Soon described the debate on climate change as “spitting science in the face” and “treating science like a piece of rubbish.”

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Democrats risk worsening their losses and driving their party into the ground.

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Black history month is a month of good intent but unfortunatley in my opinion, is racist. FREE NEWSLETTER: http://www.thepariahnewsletter.tk/

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Chadwick Moore, a 33-year-old journalist who lives in Williamsburg, had been a lifelong liberal. Then, last September, he penned a profile for Out magazine of Milo Yiannopoulos — a controversial al…

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It's a good thing for Democrats that President...

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Internet news mogul Matt Drudge laced into GOP leadership on Wednesday morning, saying the Republican Party should "be sued for fraud" for not delivering on campaign promises soon enough. [...] Republicans vote to shut Warren? Drudge tweeted, linking a New York Times article about Republicans voting to silence Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The founder and editor of the Drudge Report, a popular conservative news aggregation website, ripped the Republican Party in two follow-up tweets. In his third tweet, Drudge, a fierce supporter of President Donald Trump, appeared to take a shot at the leadership inside the White House.

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A Mexican citizen living in Texas was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for voting illegally in elections in 2012 and 2014.

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It’s unclear what this means for Sean Spicer.

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The new commander-in-chief immediately takes over the No. 1 spot in our Golf Digest ranking

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She should be ashamed of herself.

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A social scientist's view on the rising popularity of nationalist, authoritarian politics

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From the Sam Harris Podcast (11/10) - The Most Powerful Clown. https://www.patreon.com/whitemale

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Abhilash Kantamneni shared a video

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Unpacking the Ninth Circuit’s travel-ban ruling -- and a rejoinder to Rich Lowry in our ongoing discussion of nationalism.

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Bill Maher and Piers Morgan exchange jabs during heated debate over Donald Trump. This occurred on Fridays episode (ep 414) of Real Time with Bill Maher. Who...

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The technique has been called (by this columnist) “immunity through profusion.” By keeping the molten lava of falsehoods flowing, the volcano that is Donald Trump can inundate the public and overwhelm his auditors’ capacity to produce a comparable flow of corrections. This technique was on display the other day when the president met with some sheriffs.
He treated them to a whopper that is one of his hardy perennials, market-tested during the campaign: He said the U.S. murder rate is “the highest it’s been in 47 years.” (Not even close: The rate — killings per 100,000 residents — is far below the rates in the 1970s and 1980s.) This Trump Truth (Senator Eugene McCarthy’s axiom: Anything said three times in Washington becomes a fact) distracted attention from his assertion to the sheriffs that there is “no reason” to reform law enforcement’s civil-forfeiture practices.
There is no reason for the sheriffs to want to reform a racket that lines their pockets. For the rest of us, strengthening the rule of law and eliminating moral hazard are each sufficient reasons.
Civil forfeiture is the power to seize property suspected of being produced by, or involved in, crime. If property is suspected of being involved in criminal activity, law enforcement can seize it. Once seized, the property’s owners bear the burden of proving that they were not involved in such activity, which can be a costly and protracted procedure. So, civil forfeiture proceeds on the guilty-until-proven-innocent principle. Civil forfeiture forces property owners, often people of modest means, to hire lawyers and do battle against a government with unlimited resources.
And here is why the sheriffs probably purred contentedly when Trump endorsed civil-forfeiture law — if something so devoid of due process can be dignified as law: Predatory law-enforcement agencies can pocket the proceeds from the sale of property they seize.
The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment says property shall not be taken without just compensation, and the 14th Amendment says it shall not be taken without due process of law. President Trump, 18 days from having sworn to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution, sympathized with the sheriffs’ complaint that they are being pressured to reform civil-forfeiture practices.
These practices are a textbook example of moral hazard — of an incentive for perverse behavior. They give law enforcement a financial interest in the outcome of cases.
It is conceivable that Trump’s studiousness has been stretched too thin to encompass the facts of civil asset forfeiture. He says he would like to “look into” it. Meanwhile, however, he is for it because he assumes “bad people” are behind the pressure for reform. And speaking of a Texas state legislator who favors reform, Trump said, “We’ll destroy his career.” Just another day on America’s steep ascending path back to greatness.
— George Will is a Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist. © 2017 Washington Post Writers Group

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A Canadian man who was found not criminally responsible for beheading and cannibalizing a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus has been granted his freedom.

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When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more t…

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A review of information compiled by a Senate committee in 2016 reveals that 72 individuals from the seven countries covered in President Trump's vetting executive order have been convicted in terror c

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The President’s travel ban was overhasty and incompetent. The Ninth Circuit’s response wasn’t impressive either.
