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MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace tore into Republicans who support President Trump as the House formally launches an impeachment inquiry into his conduct involving Ukraine, suggesting that they're no longer "good people." During a panel discussion on Tuesday, Wallace invoked a Washington Post opinion piece written by longtime GOP political consultant Mike Murphy that argued that Republican lawmakers should be pressured in joining the impeachment bandwagon. "You know, Mike Murphy has a piece in The Washington Post sort of about good people that he used to know in the Republican Party. I don't share that optimism,' said Wallace, a former George...

We do not know how much carbon dioxide was in Earth's atmosphere prior to the 1930s. Devices to measure carbon dioxide went through a difficult, slow, irregular development. Reliable devices to measure carbon dioxide were available around 1930. "The measurement of carbon dioxide (CO2) was first developed in the early 1900s; however, it was complex and of limited clinical use. " See: Thomas Nowicki; Shawn London, "Carbon Dioxide Detector," National Center for Biotechnology Information. The technology was slowly developed and produced a useable machine only around the year 1930. Guy Stewart Callendar -- who dreamed up the global warming scare...

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That late-night kebab might be considered a guilty pleasure, but could it one day be seen as a crime against the planet? Will the time come when the only means of procuring a slab of Aberdeen Angus is from a dodgy dealer with a cool box? The barrister Michael Mansfield has suggested that we should have new laws against ecocide – practices that destroy the planet – and that under them, meat could be targeted. “I think when we look at the damage eating meat is doing to the planet, it is not preposterous to think that one day it...

The media had a field day over new hearsay accusations that president Trump was wrong to ask Ukrainian leaders to investigate political corruption related to Joe Biden. Predictably, several several House Democrats have used this news cycle to again demand Trump's impeachment. ... Joe Biden was so proud of the role in the prosecutor's removal from investigating the company paying his son $50,000 per month merely to serve on its board that he actually bragged about it in a speech for the publication Foreign Affairs. In this speech Biden boasts his threat to withhold $1 billion from Ukraine if they...

This week is climate action week where climate change cultists will be holding all sorts of marches and school strikes to demand action on “climate justice.” I do believe that the climate is changing (as it always does) and that man is a contributor to it. I think how much man contributes to it is up for debate. But to be honest I don’t take most climate change cultists seriously and the few that I do take seriously I believe are extremely dangerous for individual liberty and human flourishing. Why? Most seem to use the “climate justice” bandwagon as an...

The Trump administration on Tuesday escalated its fight with California over environmental issues by threatening to withdraw billions of dollars in federal highway funds because of poor air quality in the state. In a letter to California Air Resource Board chief Mary Nichols, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler said the state "has failed to carry out its most basic tasks under the Clean Air Act," and not produced timely plans to meet targets for ambient air quality goals. The EPA said California must withdraw inactive plans that would most likely be denied. If the EPA rejects a...

French investigators announced Tuesday that they carried out comprehensive searches at the home and modeling agency founded by Jean-Luc Brunel, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Brunel’s Karin Models has been an integral part of the investigation into Epstein’s vast network of young women. Epstein, who died in custody awaiting trial on sex-trafficking-related charges, mentioned many women tied to Karin Models in his infamous black book https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeffrey-epstein-paris-police-search-jean-luc-brunels-french-modeling-agency-in-probe-of-late-financier

President Donald Trump used part of his speech before the United Nations Tuesday to warn of the growing accumulation of power by big tech companies. In one of the President’s strongest statements on social media bias yet, Trump argued that social media censorship is incompatible with a free society. He also drew attention to the growing trend of censorship, “canceling,” and blacklisting in general. “We must always be skeptical of those who want conformity and control,” said the President. “Even in free nations, we see alarming signs and new challenges to liberty.” “A small number of social media platforms are...

President Trump — and his views on immigration, Muslims and foreign affairs — isn’t popular with Indian Americans. That’s not likely to change much, so why did Trump travel to Houston over the weekend to appear with the recently reelected Indian prime minister before thousands of them? More than 80 percent of Indian Americans voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, according to an analysis by the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. And according to the Asian American Voter Survey, Trump’s approval rating was 28 percent with Indian Americans registered to vote in 2018. But that...

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NFL Live Thread: Week 4 Thursday, September 26, 2019 (All Times Eastern) Philadelphia at Green Bay 8:20 pm FOX / NFL Network / Amazon Prime Video Lambeau Field Sunday, September 29, 2019 New England at Buffalo 1:00 pm CBS New Era Field L.A. Chargers at Miami 1:00 pm CBS Hard Rock Stadium Oakland at Indianapolis 1:00 pm CBS Lucas Oil Stadium Tennessee at Atlanta 1:00 pm CBS Mercedes-Benz Stadium Washington at N.Y. Giants 1:00 pm FOX MetLife Stadium Kansas City at Detroit 1:00 pm FOX Ford Field Cleveland at Baltimore 1:00 pm CBS M&T Bank Stadium Carolina at Houston 1:00...

September 25 2019 Wednesday of the Twenty-fifth Week in Ordinary Time Reading 1 Ezr 9:5-9 At the time of the evening sacrifice, I, Ezra, rose in my wretchedness,and with cloak and mantle torn I fell on my knees,stretching out my hands to the LORD, my God. I said: "My God, I am too ashamed and confounded to raise my face to you,O my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our headsand our guilt reaches up to heaven.From the time of our fathers even to this daygreat has been our guilt,and for our wicked deeds we have...

Sen. Bernie Sanders announces a wealth tax that would hit multibillionaires like Jeff Bezos especially hard. Rival presidential candidate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, has a plan that would impose a tax of 2% of wealth over $50 million and 3% on wealth over $1 billion. Sanders’ plan starts at a lower wealth level – taxing those worth $32 million at 1% – so his tax would hit about 180,000 families while Warren’s would affect about 75,000 households. The sliding scale of the Sanders plan quickly escalates for wealth over $500 million, which would be taxed at 4%. Here are estimates...

A Republican congressman introduced a resolution on Tuesday calling for the ouster of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., from his panel post for pursuing impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The proceedings were formally backed late Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, said in a release that Nadler has acted against the will of the House of Representatives, which never gave his committee explicit authorization to begin impeachment proceedings. The body voted 332-95 in July to table an impeachment resolution from Rep. Al Green, D-Texas.

Earlier this month, during a bipartisan meeting in Kiev, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) delivered a pointed message to Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky. While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s family. Murphy boasted after the meeting that he told the new Ukrainian leader that U.S. aid was his country’s “most important asset”...

The Democratic primary is a three-way race, at least among declared candidates. There is one battle-tested candidate still on the sidelines who could enter the race at any time and wrest her party's nomination from the likes of former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.). Her name is Hillary Rodham Clinton. Recent developments suggest that such a scenario could be more likely than the so-called experts are willing to admit. For starters, the Daily Beast reports that former Hillary Clinton campaign aides are giving "advice" to the Biden campaign on how...

MPs and peers will return to Parliament later after the Supreme Court ruled that its suspension was unlawful. Boris Johnson is returning early from a UN summit in New York, while Labour cut its conference short in the wake of Tuesday's unanimous ruling. The PM, who has faced calls to resign, has said he "profoundly disagreed" with the decision but would respect it. Commons Speaker John Bercow has said there will be "full scope" for urgent questions and ministerial statements.

Hillary Clinton joined her fellow Democrats in calling for impeachment proceedings against President Trump on Tuesday. Clinton made the statement while speaking to People Magazine, saying the country is in a “crisis.” “I did not come to that decision easily or quickly, but this is an emergency as I see it,” she told the magazine. “This latest behavior around Ukraine, trying to enlist the president of Ukraine in a plot to undermine former Vice President Biden or lose the military aid he needs to defend against Trump’s friend Vladimir Putin — if that’s not an impeachable offense, I don’t know...