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We are stuck with the probability that the bank, masquerading as an agency for student learning, will collapse under the weight of unpaid debts Americans should brace themselves for the coming failure of one of the biggest banks in the country that does not have the word “bank” in its title. And no impressive polished brass safe in the lobby either. Why should Americans care about this bank? Because they own it! And its receivables exceed $1 trillion! How much of those “assets” are actually collectible is a valid question.

In the safety of the large number of like-minded, pussy-capped women at the "march" held on the Washington Mall, actress Ashley Judd came off as fairly deranged, delivering an over-acted rendition of a rhyme-challenged poem written by a 19-year-old "nasty woman", targeting the evil, misogynist President Trump. It now comes with a sense of irony that the same Ashley Judd was approached and subjected to a very muted example of what Trump supporters and Republicans receive from those on her side of the aisle and it left her "scared". She shared her horrific experience with a post on Facebook.

And Rand Paul too! The word we get from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell is that the American Health Care Act (actually it’s just a bill right now), is the bill. This is the ObamaCare replacement. Take it or leave it. It doesn’t sound like that’s necessarily President Trump’s position. He spent several days last week in intense discussions with conservative members of both the House and Senate - as well as libertarian Rand Paul, who sometimes pretends to be conservative - trying to reach an agreement that will push a good bill forward to passage. What the conservatives most...

The Southern Poverty Law Center never lets facts intrude on its fantasies : By the time Donald Trump won the Republican primaries last year, the vile Southern Poverty Law Center was working overtime to manufacture incidents of “hate” to blame on Trump supporters. It didn’t matter that Trump supporters weren’t committing any so-called hate crimes. Fabricating hate crime hoaxes is what the SPLC does best.

Budget and personnel cuts reflect environmental progress and essential regulatory reforms The Trump White House wants significant reductions at the Environmental Protection Agency: two dozen or more programs, including a dozen dealing with President Obama’s climate initiatives; a 20% downsizing in EPA’s 15,000-person workforce; and a one-fourth reduction in its $8.1 billion budget.

We should remember it because it was one of the first acts of serious domestic terrorism” Long before Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants flew a hijacked commercial airliner into the Pentagon on 9/11, Muslim terrorists carried out an attack in the heart of Washington, D.C. This week in 1977 armed Islamic militants invaded three Washington, D.C. buildings and took almost 150 people hostage, radio station WTOP reminds us. During the three-day siege that took place on March 9, 10, and 11, a few weeks after Jimmy Carter was sworn in as the nation’s new president, Hanafi Muslims killed two men and...

While the jury found two of the defendants, Jason Patrick and Darryl Thorn guilty of a "conspiracy" charge, the other two defendants, Jake Ryan and Duane Ehmer were acquitted. But Ryan and Ehmer were found guilty of depredation of government property for using an excavator at the refuge. Thorn found guilty of possessing a firearm on federal property, Patrick and Ryan acquitted of the same charge. U.S. District Judge Anna Brown will coming down with her written verdicts on misdemeanor charges against the four defendants.....

As more of Obama’s nefarious deeds are unveiled, his reputation continues to suffer tremendously. The former President not only worked through organizations such as Organizing For Action (OFA) and even the deep state, but has also been outed by Judge Napolitano, who revealed that Obama did, in fact, wiretap President Trump during the 2016 election, and without a warrant. Is there no end to the treachery of the disgraced former President? Obama’s popularity continues to decrease by the day, with only himself to blame.

Your Senate seat, give it to me, now! Thanks to the very bad, low, not-classy, sad ratings during his stint as host of “Celebrity Apprentice,” Arnold Schwarzenegger suddenly finds himself with a lot of free time. He has a handful of movies in the pipeline, but nothing that sounds particularly Earth-shattering in terms of box office potential. So, if the rumors are true, he’s turned his attention back to the political arena.

The western world is in an apparent state of crisis. Each year brings more data on declining soil fertility, loss of fresh water, dangerous swings in global temperature and much else. In light of these truths the conscientious consumer seeks to do good, to participate in saving the planet in the greatest altruistic experiment of them all; to buy green. Unfortunately, our ecological warrior is generally unwilling to do too much. They still commute to work, participate in productive white collar labor, fly on air planes, purchase needless consumer goods, and eat outrageously varied diets (you live in New York,...

Last month, Mika Brzezinski in essence banned presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway from Morning Joe. Saying she doesn’t believe in “fake news,” Mika declared that Conway has tried to book herself on MJ, but “I won’t do it.” Brzezinski took things a big step further this morning, seeming to call for Conway to quit the Trump administration. In the context of discussing the criticism of the White House by the Office of Governmental Ethics for not disciplining Conway for her endorsement of Ivanka’s clothing line, Mika said “it’s probably time for [Conway] to pack it up.” View the video here.

Mayor Barack Obama. How does that sound? According to my imaginary, non-existent Russian intelligence sources, the real reason the former president decided to live in Washington is so that he can run for mayor of Washington, D.C.

Deliberations Continue Friday Friday March 10th AM The jury considering the felony part of the charges against four men in the second Oregon Standoff trial is resuming its deliberations at 8:30am Portland time. This will be the third day of deliberations......

Physicist Stephen Hawking, who some have suggested is a conspiracy in and of himself, is now claiming we need “some form of world government” to protect us from the escalation of technology and artificial intelligence. “Since civilisation began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages,” he told The Times. “It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason.” … “The real risk with...

President Trump’s new executive order will have the U.S. housing less refugees here than under the previous administration. But while you have politicians and pundits the world over screaming that we need to resettle more Middle Eastern refugees in America, they never talk about the ridiculous cost of shipping refugees half way around the world to resettle them. An analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies has shown that resettling a single Middle Eastern refugee in the United States costs taxpayers approximately $64,370 for five years — that is a whopping 12 times more than what it would cost to...

Under President Trump we are now seeing record highs in Small-Business optimism, Consumer confidence, Consumer Comfort Index, U.S. household net worth, buying homes....

An Obama has joined the birther movement. Malik Obama, Barack Obama's half-brother, tweeted image of what appears to be Barack's birth certificate. Except it's not from Hawaii, but rather Kenya. "What's this?" he tweeted. The document is from the "Coast Province General Hospital" in Mombasa, British Protectorate of Kenya, and is for Barack Hussein Obama II, who was born on the "4th day of August, 1961."

The major poll that shows who the most trusted news networks are is a fake. The data is flawed and biased, the samples are weighted in favour of the “expected results” and the conclusions are erroneous. IN this article, we’ll show you exactly where the lies come from and look at why such a poll was first conducted. The poll was carried out by Morningconsult.com on the 1st and 2nd of December last year and their results show that ABC, CBS, WSY, NYT and CNN are among the “most credible news sources” in the US. News sources that were deemed...

Ya can't make this stuff up. Meet Scott Dworkin. He’s the founder “The Democratic Coalition” - an organization that lays claim to the title: “Largest anti-Trump group in the world.” I don’t know if that’s true and, frankly, I don’t really care. Huge or tiny, a quick search reveals the organization’s membership is made up of the standard socialist rabble that populates most of these fringe groups. Their dogma is the usual wealth-redistribution stuff, bundled in a “we hate Trump” wrapper.

"Since ABC is reporting that the meeting was listed on then Senator Sessions' public schedule, it is likely to have been immediately available to the public from Sept. 8th, and to the Judiciary Committee throughout the confirmation process, inclusive of January 10, 2017, when Sen. Al Franken asked the famous question."