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There has not been a liberal majority of Justices since Nixon was President. If Hillary Clinton is elected, that will change.

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Thanks a lot for watching! Like, share and subscribe for more! The momentum behind the shitstorm that is about to ensue worldwide in the coming decades scare...

#340178

Let's not forget that Hillary wants to censor games as well.

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Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes, was supposed to be the Blue-leaning state that could make or break Donald Trump’s bid for the White House. The theory was that Trump would hold most or

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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told his U.S. ally Barack Obama "you can go to hell" in a speech Tuesday that was his latest tirade against the U.S. over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug…

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced Tuesday that his website will publish information regarding the presidential election “every week for the next 10 weeks.”

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Tuesday, October 4, 2016: Live stream coverage of the Wikileaks press conference featuring Julian Assange. Assange is expected to make an announcement and re...

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The long-running battle over billions of dollars in state subsidies to Airbus and Boeing intensified when the World Trade Organization ruled that European governments had failed to end unfair funding to the European plane maker.

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Watch the original here and support the creators: https://vimeo.com/185223229 1791L - Your source for common sense political discourse. Support the channel, ...

#340186

Is there a future for constitutional conservatism? YES. YES THERE IS.

#340187

A report alleges Clinton once asked "Can't we just drone this guy?"

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After an Alabama High School’s homecoming football game on Friday night, a 17-year-old white male was viciously beaten by a “large group” of students in what looks like a “racially motivated” attack, reports CBS42 Morning News.

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In a cold open this weekend, Saturday Night Live parodied the first presidential debate with Kate McKinnon as Hillary, Alec Baldwin playing Trump, and Michael Che as moderator Lester Holt.

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Hillary Clinton slammed Wells Fargo today during her rally Monday in Toledo, Ohio. Hillary Clinton: Look at Wells Fargo. Really ...

#340191

Every spring, millions of progressive households join with their conservative neighbors and busily get to work doing the exact same thing. They open TurboTax, take documents to an accountant, or sit down with pencil and paper at the kitchen table to figure out how to pay the smallest amount of taxes possible. Sure, they may have disagreed on what tax rates should be or whether certain deductions should exist, but after the rules are set, both sides apply them, work diligently to minimize their tax liability, and celebrate when the refund is larger than expected.
In all my years on this planet, speaking to friends and family members on the left and right, I have never — not once — heard anyone say, “You know, I could have taken that business-expense deduction, but I decided the troops needed the cash more than me.” Yet to read Twitter, one would think Donald Trump is a monster for (apparently) using legal tax breaks to offset future earnings.
According to leaked documents obtained by the New York Times, Trump took an immense loss in 1995 — an amount totaling nearly $916 million. The paper then notes that this amount would be enough to allow Trump to pay no income tax even if he made $50 million per year for the next 18 years. The Trump campaign didn’t deny the fundamental facts of the story, and the commentariat was off to the races — hashtags and all.
Since this is 2016, it was hard to find rational discourse. Trump defenders proclaiming his “genius” were cleverly eliding his catastrophic losses. Indeed, Trump had endured massive financial setbacks, and he had himself primarily to blame. Yet his attackers were almost certainly hypocrites. How many of them have skipped standard available deductions for the purported good of the commonwealth? Yes, the tax code is complicated, and, yes, it is intentionally crafted to provide benefits to particular classes of business, but that’s simply progressive wonkery in action. Technocrats are constantly fiddling with the code to incentivize or discourage certain kinds of business activity.
To be sure, another shoe may soon drop. The Times has strongly hinted that it has more documents, and we may discover that Trump’s tax filings crossed legal lines. Or we may not. But, for now, the story is lurid mainly because of the numbers, not because of the underlying principle. A man lost money, he was thus entitled to take deductions. He almost certainly took those deductions. Wake me up when this gets interesting.
What is interesting, however, is the speed at which pundits can impose new moral standards. Writing in the Washington Post, columnist Allan Sloan notes that while both Trump and Hillary Clinton are filthy rich, at least Clinton’s tax proposals would cost her money, while Trump stands to benefit immensely from his proposed tax cuts.
The story is lurid mainly because of the numbers, not because of the underlying principle.
But the proper standard for economic effectiveness and moral propriety is not whether any given tax proposal will cost a candidate money (by that standard, virtually every tax-cutting Republican would fail the moral test) but whether the policy would increase prosperity and enable human flourishing. When a politician considers a tax proposal, he should disregard his own self-interest entirely — weighing its merits regardless of whether it costs or saves him money. His own personal experience is relevant only to the extent that it informs his knowledge as to how tax policies work in the real world.
Moreover, I want wealthy, public-spirited Americans to pay less in taxes and provide more charitable contributions. Charity dollars are typically far more efficiently spent and allocated to help our nation’s poorest and most vulnerable citizens than tax dollars, which prop up our soul-destroying welfare superstructure. Leftists argue that Trump’s tax dollars would have been outlaid to support “troops and vets,” but the majority would have gone to the exact same causes that the rest of our dollars support — immense entitlement programs, massive bureaucracies, and debt service.
#related#Sadly, however, it appears as if Trump has hardly been the model philanthropist. And his continued failure to release his tax returns leaves his supporters hanging by a thread. All those hailing Trump’s “genius” may be forced to eat their words if later leaks show that he’s little more than a lawyered-up tax cheat. For the time being, however, the story is much ado about nothing. We already knew Trump faced massive financial challenges in the 1990s. We all knew the tax code allowed past losses to offset future earnings. The rest is just math.
Unless another shoe drops (and it well might), it’s time to return to the truly pressing issues of our time. After all, another beauty queen might be nursing an ancient grudge. Americans have a right to know.
— David French is an attorney, and a staff writer at National Review.

#340192

Ron Paul slammed the Johnson-Weld ticket in an interview with FOX Business’s Stuart Varney earlier this week. VARNEY: [Are you going to vote for] Gary Johns

#340193

The hypocrisy of our media is astounding!

#340194

The justices split in a 4-4 decision that left a lower court ruling blocking Obama's plan in place.

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There’s a letter that will be sent to with the petition to the U.N. Electoral Assistance Division (EAD) that says the honesty of the electoral process in the United States has been jeopardised so to position an undemocratically selected nominee and notes the many differences between exit polls and the true results, which is enough to have ?

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LAHORE, Pakistan — For two months, over the thunder of machines at the steel mill, the men taunted Mubeen Rajhu about his sister. Even now, they laugh at how easy it was to make him lose his temper…

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Universal pre-K is doing great . . . according to a study funded by the city Department of Education, which would be in trouble if it had reported any other result. The study found that kids enroll…

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“Yikes!” one official emailed another, according to the report.

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“INBOX: Statement from vet who asked Trump about veteran suicide rates this morning. Calls his answer "thoughtful" and "understanding"”

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With plans too expensive and inaccessible for many, the law will almost certainly need to evolve. The election is likely to determine how.
