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on February 24, 2017 in World News

WTH? #NeverTrumper Brian Hook Poised for Senior State Department Job

by Jim Hoft Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is poised to appoint outspoken #NeverTrumper Brian Hook for a senior position in the State Department.Brian Hook, a former Romney adviser, organized a letter signed by 121 GOP national security luminaries refusing to support Trump. In October 2015 Brian Hook went on FOX Business Network to insist that the Trump campaign was losing steam. Foreign Policy reported: A critic of Donald Trump and a longtime member of the GOP foreign-policy establishment is poised for a senior position at the State Department absent a last-minute veto from the White House, Foreign Policy...

by Jim Hoft Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is poised to appoint outspoken #NeverTrumper Brian Hook for a senior position in the State Department.Brian Hook, a former Romney adviser, organized a letter signed by 121 GOP national security luminaries...

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

Shock Video: Democrats Forcibly Remove Female GOP California State Senator From Senate Floor

by Kristinn Taylor Will the mainstream media make Republican California state Senator Janet Nguyen a star like they did with Democrat Texas state Senator Wendy Davis or Democrat U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for speaking truth to power as those liberal woman politicians were lionized by the media? Senator Janet Nguyen, Twitter avatar VIDEO: State Sen. Janet Nguyen removed from floor after criticizing late state Sen. Tom Hayden https://t.co/q3xPeSbNfk pic.twitter.com/oddPIOEsh3 — ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) February 24, 2017 Video posted by the California Senate GOP Caucus shows Nguyen being forcibly removed from the Senate floor by Sergeants at...

by Kristinn Taylor Will the mainstream media make Republican California state Senator Janet Nguyen a star like they did with Democrat Texas state Senator Wendy Davis or Democrat U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts for speaking truth to power...

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

State Department writes anti-leak memo, which promptly leaks

By Josh Rogin The State Department legal office prepared a four-page memo for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warning of the dangers of leaking by State Department employees. It promptly leaked, to me. That’s only the latest sign that the relationship between the Trump administration political appointees and the State Department professional workforce is still very much a work in progress. The Feb. 20 memo by State Department acting legal adviser Richard Visek to Tillerson is entitled “SBU: Protecting Privileged Information.” The SBU stands for Sensitive But Unclassified, a designation used on documents that are not technically secret but...

By Josh Rogin The State Department legal office prepared a four-page memo for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warning of the dangers of leaking by State Department employees. It promptly leaked, to me. That’s only the latest sign that...

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

Arkansas lawmaker wants to strip Clintons’ name from airport

By Steve Barnes The largest and busiest airport in Arkansas would no longer be named after the only president and first lady from the state if a bill introduced in the legislature on Thursday succeeds. The legislation would prohibit public buildings or civil works from being named for anyone living or who served in public office in the 10 years prior to the structure’s completion. The bill makes no mention of former President Bill Clinton or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, for whom the Little Rock airport was re-named four years ago – as Bill and Hillary Clinton National… View Article

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

Bette Midler: It’s 62 Degrees in NY! Global Warming! Blame Men!

by: Hank Berrien On Thursday, Bette Midler, who uses so much hair spray she has personally engendered global warming, was panicked in New York as the temperature rose to a balmy 62 degrees in the middle of winter. Midler tweeted: It is currently 62 degrees in February in NY. Our poor planet, crucified on the cross of fecklessnes, malevolence and greed, mostly by men. — Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) February 23, 2017 Only days before, Midler noted with panic: In NYC. Dead of winter. 60 degrees. — Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) February 19, 2017 Midler has been on her global warming...

by: Hank Berrien On Thursday, Bette Midler, who uses so much hair spray she has personally engendered global warming, was panicked in New York as the temperature rose to a balmy 62 degrees in the middle of winter. Midler...

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

Illegal fundraiser for the Clintons made secret tape because he feared being ASSASSINATED over what he knew

 And used it to reveal Democrats’ bid to silence him DailyMail.com has obtained a video in which convicted illegal Clinton fundraisers Johnny Chung gave secret testimony while in fear of his life The Chinese-American was convicted of funneling money to Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election bid in a breach of campaign finance law known as ‘Chinagate’ Now new book revealed how he spilled details of his activities in a video he made because he thought a squad of assassins would come after him   He made the video with a friend after his FBI protection detail was suddenly removed – which Chung...

 And used it to reveal Democrats’ bid to silence him DailyMail.com has obtained a video in which convicted illegal Clinton fundraisers Johnny Chung gave secret testimony while in fear of his life The Chinese-American was convicted of funneling money to...

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

Economist: 41 Percent of White, Working-Class Men Have Abandoned Work

by Katie McHugh Four out of ten white working-class men have given up looking for work, says a study by the Economist magazine, which normally champions unrestricted trade and migration. That has a huge impact on American society because these non-college, working-age white men comprise 23 percent of male workers in the United States, and they are hit hard by unrestricted trade, cheap-labor immigration, and government-aided spread of opioid painkillers. The Economist shows the national unemployment rate was 4.7 percent at the end of 2016. But the formal unemployment rate is 6.4 percent among white, working-class men. That’s “a difference of 30...

by Katie McHugh Four out of ten white working-class men have given up looking for work, says a study by the Economist magazine, which normally champions unrestricted trade and migration. That has a huge impact on American society because these non-college, working-age...

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski to Vote ‘No’ on Obamacare Repeal, Defunding Planned Parenthood

by Dr. Susan Berry Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) says she will not vote with fellow Republicans for an Obamacare repeal bill that defunds Planned Parenthood. “The Affordable Care Act has failed in so many ways, but there are elements within it that deserve to be saved,” Murkowski said, according to CBS affiliate KTVA. As she addressed the Alaska state legislature Wednesday, the Republican senator said Obamacare has allowed for the expansion of Medicaid and the opportunity for more than 27,000 Alaskan citizens to obtain health insurance coverage. Additionally, Murkowski said the provisions for pre-existing conditions, coverage for adult children up to… View Article

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

Ivanka Trump Pushes White House Agenda to Human Trafficking

by Ben Kew Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, is pushing her father and the new White House administration to take legislative action on the issue of human trafficking, according to Axios. On Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump held a listening session on the issue, to greater understand the problem of women and girls who are trafficked into America, and then sexually exploited for profit. However, the issue was fast-tracked onto the agenda by Ivanka Trump, alongside Dina Powell, the White House senior counselor for economic initiatives. According to a source close to Axios, “Ivanka recommended the meeting to the president and...

by Ben Kew Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, is pushing her father and the new White House administration to take legislative action on the issue of human trafficking, according to Axios. On Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump held a listening...

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on February 24, 2017 in World News

Witches Unite to Cast ‘Binding Spell’ on Trump and Followers

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. A group of witches is attempting to use black magic to neutralize U.S. President Donald Trump by casting a “binding spell” to prevent him from governing. The “mass spell to bind Donald Trump” will be performed at midnight on every waning crescent moon beginning Friday, February 24, “until Donald Trump is removed from office,” the group’s website states. The mass ritual will allegedly be repeated again March 26, April 24, May 23, June 21 (the summer solstice), July 21, and August 19. The spell also invokes evil on “those who abet” Trump, which would seem...

by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. A group of witches is attempting to use black magic to neutralize U.S. President Donald Trump by casting a “binding spell” to prevent him from governing. The “mass spell to bind Donald Trump” will be...

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