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NEW YORK - Conservative youth leaders in the United States launched a nationwide campaign on Wednesday to promote a carbon tax to combat global warming, defying the Republican Party and opposition to climate measures by President Donald Trump. Drawn from Republican groups on more than two dozen university campuses, the Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends called for laws to tax oil, natural gas and coal producers of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The taxation plan would make fossil fuels more costly while the resulting revenues would go to taxpayers. “We claim to be the party that cares about the future that our...

Lately, it's been convenient — and self-serving to some — to call what is going on with the Trump administration a coup. It's a "soft coup" or a "silent coup" or a wish-it-were-a-coup. Let's take a look at what that means. According to all definitions I can find, a coup is a sudden, often violent overthrow of a government. Every time I look up the definition of a coup, I get something like this from Merriam-Webster: "a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics." But there is nothing sudden about this. Have you ever thought, "What would a modern civil...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a huge majority in Thursday's UK general election after voters backed his pledge to "get Brexit done" and take Britain out of the European Union by the end of January. So what can we expect to happen over the coming days? Here's a guide to the big political events to look out for. * Friday, December 13: Johnson's victory speech Johnson's first job will be to make a speech outside Downing Street on Friday morning. These can be big moments for an incoming prime minister. Tony Blair's comments upon winning a landslide majority in 1997,...

The nation watched in shock on Tuesday as David Anderson, 47, and his girlfriend Francine Graham, 50 entered a Jewish food store in Jersey City and killed three civilians during a hostage/shootout situation that lasted several hours and shut down part of the city. Anderson and Graham, who are now dead, are also believed to have ambushed Jersey City detective Joseph Seals, and there’s evidence they are connected to the murder of an Uber driver in neighboring Bayonne, New Jersey. It turns out that, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections records, Anderson was charged with weapons offenses in...

Conservative Twitter users are revelling in their predicted victory by mocking devastated Labour supporters. Left-wingers are expressing their anger at the 'rich, privileged white men who've ruined our country' as an exit poll indicates a majority for Boris Johnson - with a predicted 368 seats compared to 191 for Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Corbyn appears to have presided over the worst performance for his party since 1935 - and his fans took to social media to express their severe dismay at Britain's voters. The Canada hashtag also started trending, with people expressing their desire to move away and be 'saved' by...

There is no question that Jews are now being targeted for killing right here in America, with the latest attack, in Jersey City, New Jersey, being branded as an anti-Semitic hate crime. Let’s stop for a moment and look back over the last 15 months.October 27, 2018. A white supremacist kills 11 Jews during Sabbath services in a Pittsburgh synagogue, wounding seven others.April 27, 2019. A Presbyterian Christian, concerned that the Jews are destroying the white, European races, opens fire during Sabbath, Passover services in a synagogue in Poway, California, killing one and wounding three others.December 10, 2019. Two shooters,...

The morning after a huge electoral loss by the left, be it here or abroad, conservatives enjoy tuning into liberal networks to savor the collective weeping, gnashing of teeth, and rending of garments. But in the wake of Labour/Jeremy Corbyn's absolute demolition in Thursday's UK elections, Morning Joe, rather than donning sackcloth and ashes, offered something unexpected: a dose of hard reality for Democrats.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

This is the extraordinary moment an ashen-faced Hugh Grant learned that the Tories were on course for a landslide general election win despite his personal campaign to stop Boris Johnson and scupper Brexit. The outspoken actor, 59, looked crestfallen when the exit poll landed at 10pm last night as he enjoyed wine and food at the Tendido Cero tapas restaurant in Kensington last night. As he saw the woeful performance by Labour and the Lib Dems on polling day, the Love Actually star looked down-trodden with his wife Anna Eberstein. A witness told MailOnline: 'He was constantly staring at his...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitles them... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... We, Therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing...

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Lily Allen launched an extraordinary attack on British voters saying the reason Boris Johnson stormed to victory was because 'racism and misogyny runs so so deep.' The Labour supporting popstar posted a string of messages on social media overnight, slamming the Tories after it emerged they were heading for an election landslide. After the exit poll predicted Labour's worst performance at the ballot box since the 1930s, the 34-year-old defiantly tweeted: 'Still holding out for a Labour majority'. But as the party's Red Wall began to crumble and it became clear the party were doomed, she began unloading a spool...

Actor Patton Oswalt didn’t mince words on Thursday when he declared that every person who voted for and still supports President Donald Trump is a “stupid asshole.” “The President is a stupid asshole and if you voted for him you’re a stupid asshole and if you still support him you’re a stupid asshole,” Patton Oswalt said. “Oh no this Tweet is going to make all the stupid assholes not like me waaaaah.”

A bipartisan defense budget agreement will authorize the creation of the Space Force. The Space Force will be, like the Army or Air Force, a distinct military service under the Pentagon. The service will take over space functions from existing services, wielding them into a single independent branch overseen by a Chief of Space Operations. It’s really happening. A bipartisan budget agreement for 2020 will see the creation of a new branch of the military specifically oriented towards space. The United States Space Force will be the first new service branch in more than 60 years, tasked to ensure America’s...

WITH ALL OF the results declared in the North’s 18 constituencies, the DUP has emerged as the biggest casualty of the election. The DUP now has 8 MPs, down from 10 MPs in the last election. Sinn Féin stay the same on 7, a result they’ll be happy with. The SDLP now has two MPs, and the Alliance Party has one in Lady Sylvia Hermon’s former constituency. Yet while other parties enjoyed major successes – Alliance and the SDLP in particular – the prospect of a Boris Johnson majority means that the Northern Irish MPs can no longer hold the...

Some recent news stories verge on the bizarre -- the House Democrats' futile fuss over impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi's acceptance of President Donald Trump's U.S.-Canada-Mexico trade treaty. But they're not as bizarre, or possibly as consequential, as unanticipated developments in the Democrats' presidential nomination contest. Consider the role of money, which Democrats are always saying plays too big a role in politics. This year, it plainly isn't. Their two billionaire late entrants, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, aren't running away with the contest. Steyer is at 1.7% in the RealClearPolitics average, and Bloomberg's 5.5% surely owes as much to his...

A comfortable majority for Boris Johnson means his Brexit will happen. That will have profound implications for Northern Ireland. It will likely mean a new "Irish Sea border" in operation in little over a year's time. Mr Johnson is expected to bring his withdrawal deal back to Parliament next week, beginning a process that will take the UK out of the EU by 31 January. The UK will then enter a transition period, effectively a standstill arrangement where EU rules still apply. That transition could continue until the end of 2022 but the prime minister is adamant he will only...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Music in The Bible) Psalm 55 Psalm 55[a] For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A maskil[b] of David. 1 Listen to my prayer, O God,     do not ignore my plea; 2     hear me and answer me. My thoughts trouble me and I am distraught 3     because of what my enemy is saying,     because of the threats of the wicked; for they bring down suffering on me     and assail me in their anger. 4 My heart is in anguish within me;     the terrors of death have fallen on me. 5 Fear and trembling have beset me;     horror...

Advance to 1:12:30 for the handover.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that he wouldn’t be surprised if “one or two” Democrats voted against convicting President Trump in the Senate. McConnell said, “My hope is that there won’t be a single Republican who votes for either of these articles of impeachment. And Sean, it wouldn’t surprise me if we got one or two Democrats. It looks to me over in the House, the Republicans seem to be solid and the Democrats seem to be divided.”

It takes a full hour for “Bombshell” to resemble an actual movie. Until that point, it’s a screeching op-ed against all things Fox News, real and imagined. The “real” part is the sexual harassment Fox News founder Roger Ailes inflicted on female employees. The imagined? Well, that’s a laundry list of far-left talking points against the network, conservatives and a certain Commander in Chief. Once the film clears its throat, and that literally takes 60 minutes, “Bombshell” morphs into a competent, often compelling tale of a harasser’s insidious web.