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That was then. This is now.    In the moments after President Obama commuted the sentence of convicted criminal Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, CNN’s Jake Tapper, host of The Lead, vocalized this disconnect between the White House’s actions versus how they felt when Manning first handed over stolen government documents to WikiLeaks. Speaking to Bloomberg’s Margaret […]

Only a liberal could get away saying this on TV! 

President Barack Obama is still desperately searching for a good hiding spot for the nation’s nuclear codes, just hours before his successor is set to take the oath of office. According to senior intelligence officials, the president has kept the secret codes for America’s nuclear arsenal at close hand in recent weeks, while repeatedly failing

In the tense political maneuvering between California’s progressive representatives and the Trump administration, our state may have just blinked first. The repeal and replacement of Obamacare has been one the most consistent promises of President Donald Trump during his successful campaign. And, controlling illegal immigration has been just about the biggest plank in Trump’s platform.

The Fifth Amendment protects individuals from incriminating themselves, but a Minnesota court has ruled it does not apply when a suspect is ordered to provide a fingerprint to unlock a cell phone.  Giving a fingerprint is akin to standing in a lineup, not revealing a password, the Minnesota Court of Appeals found on Tuesday. The

CNN’s president claims his network’s credibility is “higher than ever,” calling it a “mistake” for the new US administration to be at odds with the news media. His statements come amid a fake news controversy on Donald Trump’s ties to the Russian government.  CNN’s president claims his network’s credibility is “higher than ever,” calling it

President Barack Obama’s legacy is a hot topic on his last day in office. Many on Twitter are not allowing others to forget that the 44th commander-in-chief won the Nobel Peace Prize, before becoming the first to bomb several countries over eight years.   Read Full Article

More than triple average January snowfall.  Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows ski resor in Lake Tahoe, California, has broken the snow record for ANY month in 45 years of its existence: Until now, the biggest snowfall was 202 inches, which came in March 2011. So far this January – 212 inches. That’s more than 17 ft (more

From Physics.org: US President Donald Trump signaled a sharp break on energy and the environment policy Friday, announcing plans to undo climate policies and promote domestic energy development as part of his “America First” agenda. A statement on the White House website, posted shortly after Trump took the oath of office, said he was “committed

More counterexamples. From UK Mail:  More than half of Spain’s 50 provinces placed on alert for heavy snow and sleet storms, Meanwhile the beaches of the south-eastern resort town of Torrevieja was coated in white for the first time in 90 years. Other Spanish resort towns also saw snow.

From USA Today: Trump begins with call to kill climate action plan WASHINGTON —- As President Trump delivered his inaugural address Friday, his new White House team posted a proposal to eliminate President Obama’s environmental regulations. “For too long, we’ve been held back by burdensome regulations on our energy industry. President Trump is committed to

And this is not from The Onion!  Two members of Young Americans for Liberty’s (YAL) Kellogg Community College (KCC) chapter have filed suit against the Michigan school following their arrest on campus last September for passing out pocket-sized copies of the U.S. Constitution without administrative permission. Michelle Gregoire (a student at KCC) and Brandon Withers, along with KCC’s YAL chapter are suing

From Mark J. Perry:  Bottom Line: The great majority of US manufacturing job losses (88% according to this study) are a direct result of increased productivity of America’s factory workers, not because our jobs have moved overseas. And those factory jobs lost to increased productivity are never, ever coming back to America, unless of course

If Reps. Marv Hagedorn, R-Meridian, and Tom Loertscher, R-Iona, and chairman of the House State Affairs Committee, have their way, Idaho would formally petition Congress to convene a convention to amend the U.S. Constitution. Under Article V of the Constitution, that takes two-thirds of the states. The Balanced Budget Amendment Task Force claims 28 states;

Do they not realize that it’s this kind of antics that cements the will of Trump supporters?  Hundreds marched through Seattle and Olympia Friday and a group in Portland burned several U.S. flags as activists protested the inauguration of President Donald Trump. The flag-burning occurred on Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square, called “Portland’s living room” because

The Bureau of Land Management has formally barred sheep from three grazing allotments along the Salmon and Little Salmon rivers east and south of Riggins and reduced access to a fourth. The move – made by BLM Idaho director Timothy M. Murphy at Boise to protect wild bighorn sheep from a disease carried by domestic

And why did all this foreign money dry up as soon as she lost the election?  “Rarely, If Ever, Has A Potential Commander In Chief Been So Closely Associated With An Organization That Has Solicited Financial Support From Foreign Governments.”  “Clinton formally joined the foundation in 2013 after leaving the State Department, and the organization