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“I love my previous life. I had so many things going. This is more work than in my previous life,” Trump said. “I thought it would be easier. I thought it was more of a … I’m a details-oriented person. I think you’d say that, but I do miss my old life. I like to work so that’s not a problem...

Affirmative action is pretty much the classic case of an idea that's good in theory and sucks in practice. It generally leads to tokenism, does little or nothing to benefit the communities it is intended to benefit, and creates interest groups of lefty loonies shrieking about slavery and righty...

America’s gross domestic product, a broad measure of economic growth, grew by just 0.7 percent in the first three months of the year, according to government data issued Friday morning, an estimate economists say is more likely due to measurement error than Donald Trump’s performance as...

Canada is not a great democracy, but do we care? By J.J. McCullough April 25 From a Canadian perspective, the most striking thing about the supposed anti-democratic political reforms approved by Turkish voters last week was their familiarity. The majority of powers the Turkish president...

April 13, 2017 12:37PM GAO Weighs In On “Countering Violent Extremism By Patrick G. Eddington The ongoing controversy and litigation over the Trump administration’s “Muslim ban” has reignited a debate that has raged since the 9/11 attacks: Who commits more domestic...

By Catherine Rampell Opinion writer April 20 at 3:05 PM Don’t blame college students for their hostility to free expression. The fault ultimately lies with cowardly school administrations, who so often cave to student demands for censorship. Or as some now prefer to call it...

Cuz it'd be bad if he was. A man accused of stealing guns in connection with a possible plan for an attack has been captured in Wisconsin following a 10-day manhunt, authorities said. Joseph Jakubowski, 32, was taken into custody early Friday morning after authorities responded to a call...

Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, a nationally famous champion of gay rights and progressive causes, has been accused by three men of having sex with them as children. An unnamed man filed a child sex abuse lawsuit against the mayor on Thursday, alleging Murray “repeatedly criminally raped and...

On Friday night, 18 minutes before midnight, every single one of Dallas’s 156 emergency weather sirens started doing this: (embedded video of siren sounding) The sirens, whose purpose is to be heard by anyone caught outdoors in a tornado or dangerous storm, screamed from the southern...

It's not in the Diagnostic Manual yet, and I don't have a precise definition, but I offer the following as a starting point: If you are unable to approve of a military strike on a military airfield as retaliation for waging chemical warfare on civilians for the sole reason that the person...

We'll have to wait and see if the shooter was a Muzzie before we can tell whether this is a problem or not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/04/10/at-least-two-students-hospitalized-after-shooting-at-san-bernardino-elementary-school-police-say/?utm_term=.4cff45235790

There's an advert in the Washington Post: "VOTE NO ON GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN MEDICARE PART D" apparently missing the fact that Medicare is a government program. Clearly Big Pharma has figured out that "Keep the gummint's hands off'n my Medicare!" isn't just a snarky joke. Trumpchumps...

Rachel Dolezal is a black woman living in the body of a white woman. Trans-racial. Various cupcakes are men living in the bodies of women, or vice versa. Trans-sexual. I see a solution to the refugee crisis here. Refugees can claim they're Germans living in the bodies of Syrians. Or...

Restraint and the Rights of Criminal Defendants Judge Gorsuch on the Sixth Amendment Abbee Cox & Katherine Moy Introduction Whatever openness to the claims of criminal defendants Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch may have displayed in his Fourth...

Ex-Colo. GOP leader said only Democrats committed voter fraud. Now he’s charged with voter fraud By Derek Hawkins March 22 The 2016 election was just a month away when Steve Curtis, a conservative radio host and former Colorado Republican Party chairman, devoted an entire episode of his...

A white man from Maryland who told police he traveled to New York to kill black men turned himself in on Wednesday, about 24 hours after he fatally stabbed a man he encountered on the street, officials said. Authorities described the suspected attacker as someone who had long harbored...

There's a storied quote that holds just as much truth now as it did the first day it was said: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) referenced it Tuesday in an op-ed for the Hill, asserting that “conservatives believe in truth —...

GM will lay off 1,100 in Michigan after domestic production shift By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Motors Co said on Monday it will lay off 1,100 workers in May at its Lansing Delta Township assembly plant in Michigan as it shifts production...

A lone gunman who had just gotten off of a flight pulled a gun from his checked baggage and opened fire Friday at the Fort Lauderdale, Fla., international airport, killing five people and injuring eight others in a brief, bloody shooting rampage that terrorized. The attack at a quiet...

Anorexic woman weighing 69 pounds has a right to starve, court rules By Samantha Schmidt November 22 The 69-pound woman has battled anorexia for the majority of her life. In her preschool dance classes, she compared the size of her thighs to other girls’ limbs, and when she was 13, she...