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    What Republicans Want

    Just as we have a list of the usual suspects telling us that "Democrats want" this or that based on one Democrat (or even no Democrats) supporting it, I present the following. . . By that same standard, Republicans want to be able to deport United States citizens whom the President deems as not...
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    I Was Wondering. . .

    Exactly what combination of ancestry and attitudes should require one to "go back" to where their ancestors came from?
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    Omnibus Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell

    Oh, dearie me! I can see why nobody's talking about this, seeing as the kiddy rapist was buds with Bill Clinton AND Donny Dodger. Since it can't be effectively used as a stick to beat "themmuns" with, who gives a damn about a bunch of raped and trafficked girls? Who do y'all think Secretary...
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    Donny Dodger Saves the Budget!

    Read it and weep.
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    An Oscar for Wes Studi

    The Academy has announced that Wes Studi will receive a Governors' Award Oscar for lifetime achievement. No one deserves it more.
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    Women's World Cup

    USA is in the final! Engerland applied an interesting strategy. You're down 2-1 in the last 10 minutes, so you fail to convert a PK and then pull a red card. Clever.
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    Democratic Debate

    First night, I thought Warren held steady and Booker and Castro looked very good. So did Inslee, but he's so far back as to be a no-hoper. Tonight, Sanders, Biden, Harris, Buttigieg, and six other no-hopers.
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    Something Completely Different

    The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. States agree that they will give all of their electoral votes to the Presidential candidate who receives the highest number of popular votes nationwide. So far fifteen states, totalling 196 electoral votes, have agreed to the Compact. Should be...
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    A Real Simple Question

    Read this article. . . ‘Urgent needs from head to toe’: This clinic had two days to fix a lifetime of needs http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-clinic-of-last-resort/2019/06/22/2833c8a0-92cc-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html?utm_term=.1c404f8845d1 and tell me how you respond to the...
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    Conservative Quotes

    I put this in "U.S.-American Politics" because, honestly, I don't really know what Canadian conservatism is, other than it has to do with moose, plaid, and beer. But this is conservatism in America, or was until they got weird. "There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: make the...
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    Trump. . . Again

    TOKYO — President Trump is so determined to sell his vision of peace with North Korea that he is prepared to back Kim Jong Un over his advisers, his allies and his fellow Americans. At a joint news conference with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump directly contradicted his own national...
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    Here's A Fun Game. . .

    It's called "How Will the Trumpsuckers Debase Themselves Next?" We've already seen that they have already. . . 1. Decided that having a book ghost-written proves you're smarter than actually writing a book. 2. Defined raw-dogging a porn star while your wife is recovering from giving birth...
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    The Deficit

    Remember back when it mattered? Before Trump brought his documented business practices to Washington? Over a trillion last year, over a trillion this year, projected to be over a trillion next year, the year after that, and the year after that. But only 900 billion in 2023 and 800 billion in...
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    Somebody Just Rang the Liberty Bell

    "[S]ection 1 of the Kansas Constitution Bill of Rights protects all Kansans’ natural right of personal autonomy, which includes the right to control one’s own body, to assert bodily integrity, and to exercise self-determination.” -- Kansas Supreme Court Who'da thunk it'd come out of one of the...
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    Pete Buttigieg

    PROS: None. CONS: 1. Education: made it into and through Harvard and Oxford on merit. Parents didn't love him enough to bribe his way into a good school like Wharton. 2. Military: Lieutenant Senior Grade, U.S. Naval Reserve. Combat tour in Afghanistan. Doesn't feel like he was in...
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    The Cathedral of Notre Dame is Burning

    Terrible, sad day.
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    Black Man Burns Black Churches for Insurance Money

    Well, at least that was the story our local White Right was pushing. OPELOUSAS, La. — The first fire engulfed St. Mary Baptist Church in late March, incinerating nearly everything that stood within the historically black church. Pews turned to ash, and the brick walls burned so hot that they...
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    Think About This for a Second

    We're leaving health care up to a man who believes vaccines cause autism, windmills cause cancer, and exercise is bad for you. Boys and girls, we are well and truly farked.
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    Instinct

    Tiny famously said "I have an instinct for science" to explain why he understood science better than. . . well. . . scientists. Probably right there next to his instinct for trade. And his instinct for immigration. And now we learn that he has an instinct for intelligence, too! Makes a body...
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    A Brief History of the Wall