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Trump tells ’60 Minutes’ he will try to keep the ‘strongest assets’ of Obamacare

Trump says he no longer plans to repeal Obamacare. Trump wants to keep the provision that prevents insurance companies from denying people with preexisting conditions and continue to force insurance companies to keep children on their parent’s insurance plans until the age of 26.   US President-elect Donald Trump said he will keep parts of President Obama’s […]

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The FBI May Have Run Not Just One But 24 Dark Web Child-Porn Websites

The FBI received a judge’s permission to run 23 child pornography websites. The FBI was previously exposed for operating a child pornography site for two weeks. The sites are thought to have accounted for roughly half of all child porn websites on the dark web. The FBI has a controversial new method of fighting child pornography: distributing

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ColoradoCare measure Amendment 69 defeated soundly

A universal health care ballot measure was defeated in Colorado by an 80-20 margin. ColoradoCare’s $36 billion budget would dwarf state government’s spending.  Amendment 69, the ballot measure known as ColoradoCare that would have created a universal health care system in Colorado, was soundly defeated Tuesday night. At 8:30 p.m., with nearly 1.8 million votes counted across

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GOP calls Trump win a mandate

Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote 279-228.  Hillary won the popular vote 59,938,290 – 59,704,886 (by about 200,000).  I would not call that a Trump mandate. Via the AP:  Emboldened Republicans claimed a mandate Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump after his astonishing election triumph, and an emotional Hillary Clinton told crestfallen supporters the GOP

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Trump gained support among Hispanic and African American voters

Could it be that African-Americans are tired of the way that Democrats presume on them?  Could it be that legal Hispanic immigrants are tired of illegals?  The obvious attraction of voting for America’s first black president in 2008 and 2012 led to large proportion of minority ethnic groups backing Obama for the presidency. Polling figures

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Hillary Clinton failed to win over black, Hispanic and female voters – the charts that show why she lost the presidential election

There’s a story going around that Hillary lost because of all the white males who voted for Trump.  That’s false. She lost because she didn’t have the same level of support as Obama did by women, blacks, millennials, and Hispanics.  Trump actually gained support among those groups over what Romney had last election.  Via the

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BDN: Maine voters narrowly endorse recreational marijuana use

Maine joins California, Massachusets, and Nevada as states that legalized weed in 2016 election. In a very narrow margin, Mainers have approved legalizing recreational marijuana, according to the Bangor Daily News.   Yes on 1 is declaring victory with results showing marijuana legalization ahead by one percent of the vote. The opposition says it’s not ready to

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Putin Reaches Out To Trump, Calls For End To ‘Current Crisis’

Russian President Putin believes the Trump election could be a new start for US-Russian Relations.   They traded compliments during the campaign. Those comments then became part of the campaign itself. And now that Donald Trump has won the U.S. presidential election, Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated him and raised the prospect of a

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Why the Polling was Off

Matthew Helenek reflects my sentiments on this matter. I had told friends last week that I thought this would be a Brexit moment for Trump, where all the liberals and pollsters were convinced how it was going to go, and they didn’t actually know what was going on with the citizenry.  Here’s why the polling

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Stealing From Wal-Mart Is Not a Crime, UW Relations Director Declares

Everett D. Mitchell is the Director of Community Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an attorney, pastor, and community leader.  At a recent panel discussing “Best Policing Practices,” Mitchell said that police should stop prosecuting individuals who shoplift from Wal-Mart and Target. His reasoning? He simply does not believe that police have any justification to engage

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Unenthusiastic

Needless to say, I’m unenthusiastic about the presidential election results.  I was unenthusiastic about Trump (and didn’t vote for him). I was less enthusiastic about Hillary (is that even possible?).  But I’m hopeful about the results.  The Republicans hold the majority in the Senate, the House, and now the Presidency. Normally this is a very

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Lewiston police chief defends military vehicle acquisition

A northern Idaho police chief is defending his decision to get a military vehicle for the department. The Lewiston Tribune reports that Lewiston Police Chief Chris Ankeny on Monday told the Lewiston City Council that the armored personnel carrier is a necessity and not a toy. Councilor Ryan “RJ” Johnson criticized Ankeny for not letting

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‘50% of Americans are independent. Where’s the representation?’

Exposing the Commission on Presidential Debates and promoting “ranked voting” are among the big takeaways from the 2016 election, Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson told RT. “You gotta live with yourself two days after this election, two months after this election, two years after this election,” Johnson told RT’s Jesse Ventura and Lindsay France on

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