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Endangered Frogs Preventing Fire-Ravaged California City From Being Quickly Rebuilt

10th May 2019

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You knew this was coming.

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Chobani Donates Over $47K to Forgive Student Lunch Debt in Rhode Island

10th May 2019

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The yogurt company’s CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, announced the offer in a Thursday tweet, saying that all students should have access to delicious and nutritious food in school, no matter their ability to pay.

Yeah, well, it may be ‘nutritious’ but it’s far from delicious, as the students well know. Most of Michelle Obama’s lunch selections wound up in the trash.

When you send your kids to a government school, they become lab rats for any freak political notion that comes down the catwalk.

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Democrats showing contempt by holding William Barr in contempt

10th May 2019

Jonathan Turley, no fan of Trump or Republicans, points out the defects.

As someone who has represented the House of Representatives, my concern is that this one violates a legal version of the Hippocratic oath to “first do no harm.” This could do great harm, not to Barr, but to the House. It is the weakest possible case to bring against the administration, and likely to be an example of a bad case making bad law for the House.

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Eric Swalwell Slapped Back by World War II Memorial Over Pearl Harbor Tweet

10th May 2019

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Congressman Swalwell is establishing a reputation as the biggest jerk in the race.

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Oakland’s Fiscal Woes Continue: Noted Sanctuary City Diverts Pothole Money to Keep the Lights On

9th May 2019

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The Democratic stronghold of Oakland, California – which narrowly escaped Bankruptcy in 2009 – is planning to divert state gas tax revenues to keep the city’s lights on amid a $100 million annual shortfall projected in the the 2019-2020 fiscal year (74% worse than forecast just two years ago).

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San Francisco to Ban Cashless Stores

8th May 2019

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Just in case you were thinking that the future happened here, Amazon….

Advocates for the ban claim that it’s prejudicial toward lower income people who may not have access to debit cards or credit cards according to the AP. The concept has also been introduced in New York City. The city’s Board of Supervisors will take up the issue Tuesday, which is likely to pass, as all 11 members of the Board are listed as sponsors or co-sponsors. Officials have been working in vain to make San Francisco more equitable in the face of an unprecedented wealth gap (and despite record amounts of human feces on the streets).

Maybe they don’t want ‘lower income people’ in their stores? Maybe they don’t wast ‘record amounts of feces on the streets’ from migrating into their stores?

Supervisor Vallie Brown said: “I just felt it wasn’t fair that if someone wanted to buy a sandwich in a store, and they had cash, that they would be turned away. We also have our homeless population. They’re not banked.”

Yeah, God forbid that the homeless shouldn’t have access to your stores….

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As Democrats Threaten Barr, a Look Back at What Happened With Holder’s Contempt Charge

7th May 2019

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After the House voted to find Holder in contempt of Congress, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, Holder’s No. 2, issued a letter to the House stating: “The department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a grand jury or take any other action to prosecute the Attorney General.”

In other words, nada.

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Pennsylvania Rep Offers Reward to Anyone Who Will Dox Pro-Life Teens in His Video

6th May 2019

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If this isn’t illegal, it ought to be.

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Flint Gave Contract to Firm With Allegedly No Pipe Replacement Experience, Dug Up Non-Lead Pipes

6th May 2019

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The company Flint, Michigan, hired to replace lead water pipes had no experience with the work, according to a councilwoman and a contractor, despite that the city has received more than $600 million in state and federal aid for its water crisis.

And the city ignored a model showing where lead pipes are and paid to dig up every yard, the vast majority of which had copper pipes, according to meeting minutes.

The city also prohibited contractors from using an efficient method of digging holes known as hydrovac excavation, Flint Councilwoman Eva Worthing told The Daily Caller News Foundation. That leveled the playing field for a contractor, WT Stevens, with no experience or the appropriate equipment — and let it bill far more to taxpayers, she says. All of these factors, she adds, needlessly led to more waiting for anyone who actually has lead pipes.

Democrats.

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CBS’s ‘SEAL Team’ Says VA ‘Might as Well Be the DMV’

4th May 2019

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Government-provided health care. Be very afraid.

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Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh Resigns

2nd May 2019

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And another corrupt black Democrat gets caught.

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Social Security Wil Cross Another Dangerous Milestone Next Year

1st May 2019

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The Ponzi scheme is bottoming out.

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Democrats Told to Avoid Talking About Paris Climate Accord Ahead of Voting on It

1st May 2019

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It is enough to know the Party Line. Discussion merely leads to ThoughtCrime.

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House Democrats Earmark $50 Million to Study Gun Violence

30th April 2019

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Think of how many poor people you could feed with $50 million.

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District Attorneys Suing to Keep ICE Agents Out gf Courthouses

29th April 2019

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ICE ought to be prosecuting these clowns for obstruction of justice.  Last I looked, interfering with a Federal office in the performance of his duties was a crime.

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Trump Serves Chick-fil-A to Baylor Women’s Basketball Team

29th April 2019

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Well, that was pretty impressive.

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Kim Foxx and Her Top Deputy Have Been Subpoenaed to Explain Her Jussie Smollett Decisions in Court

29th April 2019

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Pass the popcorn.

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Moulton: The VA System Is Broken, Privatization Should Be an Option

28th April 2019

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The VA is what an American ‘national health service’ would look like.

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FBI Raids Baltimore Mayor’s Home and City Hall Office, Presumably Searching for Evidence of “Brazen, Cartoonish Corruption” Update: Source Says She Fled the State?

25th April 2019

Ace of Spades is on the case.

The mayor of Baltimore has been running a grift: She self-published her own stupid children’s books about health, about the unimaginitively named “Healthy Holly.”

She made these books available. To, for example, health care providers looking to sign lucrative contracts with the city of Baltimore.

And you won’t believe this –health care providers looking to sign lucrative contracts with the city of Baltimore bought tens of thousands of copies of this self-published book, putting a great deal of money in the mayor’s pockets, to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

My, what a coincidence.

UPDATE: Larry Hogan Wants Catherine Pugh To Resign

 

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Massachusetts Judge Indicted for Allegedly Blocking ICE From Detaining Illegal Alien

25th April 2019

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A Massachusetts judge was indicted for “conspiracy to obstruct justice” after she allegedly impeded an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer from detaining an illegal alien.

The indictment was handed down by the U.S. Attorney’s office against Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph on Thursday. Richmond and trial court officer Wesley MacGregor, her fellow defendant, allegedly conspired to keep ICE from detaining the illegal alien last year.

The illegal alien had previously been deported twice and was the subject of an ICE detainer after having been arrested in Pennsylvania for narcotics possession.

It’s high time some of these scofflaws went to jail.

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An Affordable Housing Boondoggle

25th April 2019

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Thanks to its urban-growth boundary, Denver has a housing affordability problem. Apartment rents have increased by 65 percent in the last decade, while the nationwide cost of living in that time rose by just 18 percent and rents nationwide increased by an average of 28 percent.

If you restrict supply, the price goes up. That’s elementary economics, too elementary to appeal to state ideologues legislators.

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CBS Fears ‘Conservative Justices’ Allowing Citizenship Question onto Census

25th April 2019

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For hundreds of years, some form of question about citizenship has been included in the United States census form. But now that Donald Trump was president it’s suddenly a problem of epic proportions, that’s according to the liberal media.

TDS makes all things problematical. The census can ask what kind of car you drive but dooooooon’t you dare ask about citizenship.

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FYI: Yeah, the Cops Can Force Your Finger Onto a Suspect’s iPhone to See if It Unlocks, Says Judge

24th April 2019

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A US judge gave the cops permission to force people’s fingers onto seized iPhones to see who could unlock them, a newly unsealed search warrant has revealed.

There is a story, don’t know whether it’s true, about a French Foreign Legion officer who was so offended by the prospect of police taking his fingerprints that he put his fingertips on a red-hot stove, guaranteeing that all they would get would be scar tissue.

I imagine that this applies to Apple’s ‘face recognition’ as well.

Which is why I use a complicated passphrase rather than any of the it’s-convenent-to-you-and-even-more-convenient-to-the-state ways of unlocking my phone.

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Blue State Blues: Feds to Probe Discrimination Against Asians in Montgomery County Schools

23rd April 2019

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Discrimination is perfectly okay as long as you discriminate against smart people,

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Evidence of Corruption in Jussie Smollett Whitewash Grows

22nd April 2019

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My, what a surprise.

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Federal Audit: DEA Seized Over $50 Million by Secretly Spying on Americans Who Bought Money Counters

19th April 2019

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Under a sweeping surveillance program, the Drug Enforcement Administration secretly spied on Americans who bought money counters, “the vast majority” of whom “were never shown to be connected to illicit drug-related activities.” In an extensive audit, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General revealed that between 2008 and 2014, the DEA had collected tens of thousands of records, including the names, addresses, and phone numbers of buyers, though only 131 arrests were made. (The DEA declined to reveal how many convictions were secured following those arrests.) During the same period, however, bulk purchaser data helped the DEA seize $48 million in cash, $4 million in real estate, 88 vehicles, and 179 firearms, as well as nearly 1,500 pounds of cocaine and over 21,300 pounds of marijuana.

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People Fleeing Kim Foxx’s Office After Decision to Drop Charges Against Smollett

19th April 2019

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April Perry, Foxx’s chief ethics officer, and Conviction Integrity Director Mark Rotert have both tendered their resignations and will serve their last days on the job in May.

I wonder what they know that we don’t know?

Foxx’s office released a statement announcing that she had recused herself, but the office was forced to clarify that she had recused herself only “in the colloquial sense” after it was reported that she had continued to involve herself in the case.

(SNL voice) Never mind!

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Illegal Migrants Walk Right Past Group of Congressmen as They Cross the Border

17th April 2019

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I think we need a wall.

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SCOOP: HUD Planning Crackdown on Illegal Immigrants Taking Advantage of Public Housing

17th April 2019

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I guess the free ride is over.

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Pete Buttigieg: ‘I Could Take 30,000 More’ Immigrants Into South Bend

17th April 2019

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Not bothering to ask the residents of South Bend, of course, like a good Democrat.

I think Trump ought to take him up on it.

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DC Housed Homeless In Swanky Upscale Apartments. It Didn’t End Well

17th April 2019

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There are reasons that the homeless are homeless, and often such reasons are not cured just by putting them in a home.

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Democrats Land First Ethics Investigation Against David Bernhardt Days After Confirmation

16th April 2019

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Republicans are taking notes for the next time a Democrat is President.

It’s going to get very ugly but Democrats have nobody to blame but themselves.

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Oakland Mayor ‘Welcomes All,’ Including Illegal Detainees

14th April 2019

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Send ’em on through. Sounds like a win-win.

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Sign of our Times: A Culture of Fear

12th April 2019

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“On Monday, the boys were forced to meet with an assistant principal and an anti-bullying specialist, who quickly decided to punish them for clearly constitutionally-protected speech.”

Truly a sign of our times. Two boys go to a shooting range, train with legal firearms. Post some pictures and innocuous comments about their training and are immediately punished by their school because of the complaints of one panicked parent.

This is the true battlefield of the Culture Wars, not our politics. No political victory will fix this and no legal regime of protection will last when under assault from people like this parent and the school officials at these boys’ school.

Yet another reason to keep your children from government schools.

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President Trump Is Eliminating a Major Federal Agency.

12th April 2019

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The White House is moving to dissolve the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and reorganize the agency’s responsibilities into three existing departments in order to “drive what is needed to support the mission in all of government.”

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The agency was formed in 1979 and tasked with managing the government’s civilian workforce, which includes healthcare, insurance and retirement benefits, as well as oversight and human resources policies for federal employees.

Basically, the Federal government’s HR department. Another of Jimmy Carter’s mistakes.

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Pelosi Condemns Releasing Illegal Aliens on Her Block

12th April 2019

Steve Sailer brings the comedy,.

Pelosi’s spokesperson went on to say that if undocumented migrants were released in the streets of San Francisco they might catch cholera from all the feces

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New York’s ‘Temporary’ Millionaire Tax Extended 5 More Years

10th April 2019

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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Congress Is About to Ban the Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing

9th April 2019

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God forbid that the government should upset some leeches’ rice bowl.

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National School Lunch Program Has Morphed Into Massive, Wasteful Entitlement Program

9th April 2019

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The National School Lunch Program has changed dramatically since it began in 1946. What started as a grant program to help poor students and those with special needs has morphed into a massive entitlement offering meals to 30 million students every year—equivalent to nearly 55% of all children enrolled in public and private schools.

And the bigger the program got, the more wasteful it became. The Office of Management and Budget now classifies the school lunch program as a “high-error” program due to large losses from incorrect payments each year—nearly $800 million in fiscal year 2018 alone.

In 2010, the Obama administration approved letting school districts offer free meals to all students in schools where 40% of the student body comes from low-income families that qualify for public assistance such as food stamps. This “Community Eligibility Provision” is providing meals—breakfast as well as lunch—to kids from middle- and upper-income families.

Universal welfare via a back door.

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Corrupt State’s Attorney Kimm Foxx: I’ve Been Wondering What All the Criticism of My Exoneration of Jussie Smollett Is Really About, and I Think Maybe It’s All About Race

8th April 2019

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Well, it is, but not the way you mean it.

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The New Minimum Wage Is Killing NYC’s Once-Thriving Restaurant Scene

7th April 2019

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They can always subscribe to Blue Apron or Hello Fresh or something.

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Over 100 House Democrats Demand Extending Billions Worth of Green Energy Subsidies

5th April 2019

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Of course, They know upon which side their campaign contributions are buttered.

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Manhattan D.A. Spent $250K in Asset Forfeiture Funds on Fine Dining and Luxurious Travel

5th April 2019

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When you’re in the Crust, you get to live like you’re in the Crust.

Vance is the son of Jimmy Carter’s Secretary of State and the product of Groton, Yale, and Georgetown Law.

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Why Should the Partisan SPLC Be Tax-Exempt?

3rd April 2019

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That is the question that Senator Tom Cotton asked today in a letter to the IRS. The Southern Poverty Law Center is an arm of the Democratic Party whose stock in trade is defamation. What tax-exempt purposes do baseless, politically-motivated smears serve?

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Maxine Waters Supports Charges Being Dropped Against Smollett

1st April 2019

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Of course she does. Black privilege!

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Analysis: Shallow State: How Congress Protects Its Own

30th March 2019

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Members of Congress are old. Really old. The House Democrats’ top three leaders are all 78 or 79.

Democrat John Dingell was re-elected to the House every two years from 1955 to 2014, even though he represented Detroit during the period in which the city sank from America’s crown jewel of manufacturing to a symbol of urban blight. In 2014 he was replaced — by his wife.

Republican Strom Thurmond was a racial segregationist born in 1902 who served in the upper chamber from 1956 until 2003. The nation changed, but he remained in office. By the end, his aides were dragging him around and propping him up like a marionette. Who did this serve?

Congressmen have used their power to design an institution that’s first order of business is keeping current members as current members for as long as possible.

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US Halts Foreign Aid to Central American ‘Caravan’ Countries; Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Cut Off

30th March 2019

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The Trump administration has cut off all foreign aid to the Central American nations of Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras – known as the Northern Triangle countries.

About. Fargin. Time.

“We were paying them tremendous amounts of money. And we’re not paying them anymore. Because they haven’t done a thing for us. They set up these caravans,” Trump reportedly said.

They need to realize that they are no longer allowed to dump their trash on our lawn.

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The FCC Has Collected Just $6,790 of $208 Million It Has Fined Robocallers

30th March 2019

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Boy, our government is certainly effective, isn’t it?

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The Fed’s Controlled Demolition of the Economy Is Almost Complete

28th March 2019

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Can’t have a prosperous economy for Trump to get re-elected on.

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Chicago Demands $130,000 From Smollett, Threatens New Charge If He Doesn’t Pay Up

28th March 2019

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This is entertaining.

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