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A corporate-backed lobbying group is pushing a slate of amendments to transfer power from people to big business.
February 20, 2017
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JIM HIGHTOWER
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WASHINGTON - Gen. Mike Flynn provided the first scalp in the Trump administration in record time - he served as White House National Security Adviser for 23 fleeting days before he resigned last Monday night. In the eyes of President Donald Trump, Flynn could be his team's first casualty of "fake news."
February 20, 2017
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Debra Saunders
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When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, Bill Kristol purred his satisfaction, "If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state."
February 17, 2017
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Pat Buchanan
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President Ronald Reagan said: "I didn't leave the Democratic Party. The party left me." Actor and former president of the National Rifle Association Charlton Heston, who called himself a "Kennedy Democrat," switched to the Republican Party after the 1960s.
February 15, 2017
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To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the '60s and '70s, it is starting to look like "deja vu all over again."
February 14, 2017
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Tromp-tromp-tromp - troops are marching to battles. Boom-boom-boom - bombs are blowing up communities. Whoooosh - poisonous gas is being released.
February 14, 2017
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DEAR DR. ROACH: My blood type is O-negative. I am well aware that O is the universal donor blood type. I have tried to donate every eight weeks since I was 16. I am now turning 49 in a few weeks, and wonder how many people I've helped over the years and if there are any health benefits or problems with me donating so much. I do have scars on my arms from the needles, and was worried that people (doctors or police officers) might mistake these scars as illegal needle use. The ladies at the blood bank have ...
February 12, 2017
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Keith Roach, M.D.
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Dear Didi: My husband and I just found out that we are pregnant. It will be our first child. How do we prepare our dog for the upcoming changes? -Expecting in Ripon
February 12, 2017
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Didi McElroy
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The exciting recent Super Bowl meant that fans paid more attention to the game than to the commercials. But there were some doozies, including the 84 Lumber commercial that sympathetically depicted a Latina mother and her young daughter trying to cross the border and enter America, only to encounter a foreboding wall. Hint, hint: President Trump wants to build a wall on the southern border. But at least two other commercials stood out.
February 10, 2017
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How big is the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? The San-Francisco-based circuit is so big that it represents nine states, including Nevada, 20 percent of the U.S. population and 40 percent of the nation's land mass. It's so big that Congress has looked at bills to split the circuit since 1941, and it's so big that none of those measures have succeeded.
February 09, 2017
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Time magazine has singled out White House strategist Steve Bannon for its Darth Vader cover treatment. Shown is a picture of Bannon looking like a Marvel Comics villain and the title "The Great Manipulator." Bannon dared to identify the liberal media as "the opposition party." Time took offense and demonstrably proved him right.
February 08, 2017
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Is Donald Trump to be allowed to craft a foreign policy based on the ideas on which he ran and won the presidency in 2016?
February 07, 2017
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Bring those jobs back home, Donald Trump bellowed to those greedy corporate executives who've shipped middle-class jobs out of country, or I'll slap you with a big tariff when you try to sell your foreign-made products here.
February 07, 2017
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When Gen. Michael Flynn marched into the White House Briefing Room to declare that "we are officially putting Iran on notice," he drew a red line for President Trump. In tweeting the threat, Trump agreed.
February 05, 2017
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Try this the next time you find yourself standing on a Wall Street corner. Ask the first power suit you see why Wall Street's finest deserve to be making $25 billion in bonuses a year.
February 04, 2017
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