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Which of the follwing "collusions", if any, would be illegal? 1. a candidate meets with a foreign agent to get dirt on their opponent, but no information changes hands. legal or illegal? 2. a candidate meets with a foreign agent to get dirt on their opponent, foreign agent gives info, but asks for no compensation. Legal or illegal? 3. a candidate meets with a foreign agent to get dirt on their opponent, foreign agent gives info, receives financial compensation. Legal or illegal? 4. a candidate meets with a foreign agent to get dirt on their opponent, foreign agent gives info,...

Generally, an individual (including a foreign national) may volunteer personal services to a federal candidate or federal political committee without making a contribution. The Act provides this volunteer "exemption" as long as the individual performing the service is not compensated by anyone. The Commission has addressed applicability of this exemption to several situations involving volunteer activity by a foreign national, as explained below. In AO 2014-20 (Make Your Laws PAC), the Commission concluded that a political action committee could accept assistance from a foreign national in developing intellectual property for the PAC, such as trademarks, graphics, and website design because...

Laura makes Krauthammer look like a dope. Starts around the 38:00

United States President Barack Obama employed representatives and experts to hold secret high-level talks with Iran and Syria months prior to his election as president, organizers of the meetings told Agence France Presse on Monday. Over the past few months, Obama campaign and election officials, as well as nuclear non-proliferation experts, had several "very, very high-level" contacts with Iranian leaders, according to Jeffrey Boutwell, executive director for the U.S. branch of the Pugwash group, a Nobel Prize-winning international organization of scientists. Former defense secretary William Perry, who served in Obama's election campaign, also participated in some of the meetings, which...

Is anyone else seeing a very slow response from Free Republic?

Should people turn off images before viewing Personal Messages on political forums? I’ve been reading about how CNN got the real name of the reddit forum user who they think created the wrestling video they felt so threatened by. It seems it involves sending emails with images or web links in them. When either the image is viewed with the rest of the message or when the link is clicked on the sender learns the IP address of the recipient. So if forum software allows images to be sent in PMs then one can include a transparent 1 pixel by...

It seems that there has been a plague of gun violence by inner city youths. It is not just in Chicago or other large cities but even in smaller communities. How can these kids afford guns which cost hundreds of dollars? How are they getting them since it is illegal for them to purchase them? I know that they use "straw buyers" who do not have criminal records to purchase the guns for them. It appears that they often use girl friends or female relatives to actually buy the guns for them. However I think that there is more than...

Anyone think this is by coincidence ? Standing close by her are Vlad and Xi. And behind her, Shinzo Abe. But look where Trump is. Kasich has to be ROFL'ing somewhere.

CNN would feel much more at home in North Korea. CNN in general, and leftist dirt-digger Andrew Kaczynski in particular, researched the purported creator of the Trump animated meme in which he body-slams someone who has the CNN logo superimposed on his head. Kaczynski found out the Reddit user's real-life name and other personal information, contacted him, and ordered him to issue an apology, remove all his posts, and promise to never again engage in speech Kaczynski does not agree with. To back the order, Kaczynski threatened to reveal the real-life name and personal information of the Reddit user in...

"White privilege" (their term for self-sufficient productive people) is a direct result of our American heritage and Judeo-Christian work ethic and free market economy. America was founded on the Judeo-Christian principles of liberty, freedom, self-sufficiency, self-responsibility, self-governance, respect for God, respect for self, for each other and the law, civic responsibility and the value of family, church, tradition, education and hard work. The liberal/progressive/atheist/socialist democrats have been working overtime for a hundred years or more trying to tear all that down. They are teaching our children that there is no God, that government is all powerful and will provide for...

Some classics already posted. The meme wars have begun! Note: This anti-CNN board was created by Redditors in response to the doxxing of HanA-HoleSolo who posted the Trump wrestling video last week. Trump tweeted it and Han claimed credit for creating it on Reddit. Both Reddit and CNN are owned by Time Warner.

I turned on Hannity and saw that tonight's show was dedicated to interviewing GW Bush. I'm a Hannity fan and usually watch his show, but I didn't watch tonight because I didn't have the stomach to listen to Bush. Just wondering if anyone watched it, and if so, what Bush had to say about Trump and what he is facing, and about the issues facing our nation today. Anyone?

Okay I didn't know whether to post in Vanity or another. When i click on Nachum's-list Clinton or Obama body count and I think on Benghazi als? no matter I can not find it, it's gone and add and malware clicks are there blocking or just hoping someone clicks on it I personally used to refer to it about five times a week and he's not even emailing. Is he is I hope not and hope someone has saved and can send me a link I think with jusy the prior few. I heard he asked if anyone would take...

... for saying, among other things, that Kellyanne Conway looks like she got hit by a shovel.

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump 5h5 hours ago More Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!

How Trump can respond to Two Dozen Democrats attempting to create a panel to remove Trump for “being mentally incapacitated” (Brilliant Vanity)In case you didn’t know, sociopathy/psychopathy is simply a prefrontal lobe disorder. You can see if someone is a sociopath by simply doing a cheap brain scan. Doing a cheap MRI will determine it. Sociopathy is an actual physical issue where you will see a dark patch in the orbital cortex (the area right behind the eyes). You can be born with it and learn to deal with psychopathy starting as a child. You can also be normal person...

The #CRUSH 💋💄 #MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski is a gushing 😳 Clearly, she's got it bad for the Don, Don 😂😂 (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCLNH-5COv4) youtube.com/watch?v=HCLNH-…

My theory - Trump is great at unmasking the GOP and Dems. He pushed the House to pass a bill regardless of content knowing the Senate would do their own. He also knew both bills would bring out all sides of criticism, the left, the repeal crowd and the replace crowd. And with the perfect timing (GOP frightened to make any decision, holiday weekend, the resistant Dems, and GOP risking dissent with voters), Trump tweets, "Repeal Obamacare, we'll replace it later". Genius! Trump could not start with that position in March without being attacked by the GOP and the Dems....

As we get ready to celebrate the 241st anniversary of our Independence from King George, it would be well to remember that our founding fathers were a lot like Donald Trump. Many were not politicians, most were hard working entrepreneurs who decided to do something about the over bearing control of King George. Like Trump, they finally had enough and decided to fight back. Oh they didn't have Twitter, Nope. They fought back with blood, sweat, and tears. The left should be happy that Trump is not calling his followers to take the fight to the street, because I...

Published on Oct 22, 2016 During the debate somehow Chris Wallace didn't ask Hillary the same question he asked Donald Trump. She became 'horrified' and she wasn't asked. Even though everyone was so upset about Trumps answer she has managed to not answer this question even when asked point blank after the debate on the plane.