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on April 18, 2017 in World News

Madine: Please President Trump, No Deal with the Sleepy Devil of the Supreme Court!

by Colin Madine NewsMax CEO and Trump confidant Chris Ruddy believes Donald Trump should “do a deal” in which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg would retire from the Supreme Court to be replaced by Obama apointee Merrick Garland. But you don’t need to have read (or written) Art of the Deal to know it is not profitable to compromise with a weak opponent. Speaking to Business Insider, Ruddy laid out his case for a Ginsburg deal: “They would remove a very liberal Democrat with a moderate, consensus Democrat, who I think Garland is. And I think it would be a huge… View Article

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on April 18, 2017 in World News

Voting Machines Stolen Before Georgia Special Election

by Warner Todd Huston Several voting machines were stolen in Georgia as the state gears up for a hotly contested special election to replace a Republican who left Congress to take a job in the Trump administration, reports say. The devices were taken on Monday from a Cobb County precinct manager’s vehicle, according to Channel 2 Acton News.  In a public statement, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp said, “It is unacceptable that the Cobb County Elections Office waited two days to notify my office of this theft.” “We have opened an investigation, and we are taking steps to ensure… View Article

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on April 18, 2017 in World News

How YouTube’s Shifting Algorithms Hurt Independent Media

By AMANDA HESS At the age of 21, David Pakman started a little Massachusetts community radio talk program. While the young broadcaster got his show syndicated on a few public radio stations, it was a YouTube channel he began in 2009, “The David Pakman Show,” that opened up his progressive political commentary to a whole new digital audience. The show has since amassed 353,000 subscribers, and roughly half of its revenue now comes from the ads that play before his videos. He earns enough to produce the show full time and pay a lean staff. Or, at least, he used… View Article

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