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Neil Young is no fan of Donald Trump. In an open letter published on his website on Tuesday, the aging rocker told the president directly: “You are a disgrace to my country.” Young, who is originally from Canada, revealed last month that he’s now a citizen of the United States and plans to use his new status to vote Democrat. The 74-year-old singer used the letter to Trump to show his support for former President Barack Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment and our relationships with friends around the world...

Eight people are reported to have been killed following a drive-by shooting at two shisha bars in Germany. The incidents happened in the town of Hanau, located 20 miles from Frankfurt at around 11pm local time. Five other people are also believed to have been seriously injured.

Steven Spielberg's adopted 23-year-old daughter Mikaela has revealed she is working as a porn star, while opening up about the sexual abuse that she suffered as a child. In a new interview, the Nashville-based adult film star, who was adopted as a baby by Spielberg, 73, and his wife Kate Capshaw, 66, revealed that she only recently told her parents about her new line of work, but said that they have been very supportive of her career choice. 'My safety has always been a number one priority for them,' she told The Sun, while revealing that she broke the news...

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Failed politician Stacey Abrams wants to do away with the electoral college. Her reasoning? The electoral college is a "classist, racist system whose time has passed and we need to get rid of it," so it's the same argument the left makes to get rid of everything they don't like. Naturally, Abrams attacked the centuries old constitutional system with the cast of ABC's "The View" on Monday morning.   Abrams claims the founding founders created the electoral system as a racist system designed somehow to prevent blacks from voting. To make her point, Abrams repeated the historically illiterate lie about...

Some residents in Oregon are fed up with living under Democratic control of their state government and have launched a ballot initiative campaign to join Republican-led Idaho. The movement, known as "Move Oregon's Border for a Greater Idaho," is hoping to expand the borders of the Gem State through the inclusion of more than a dozen bordering rural counties now in Oregon. Mike McCarter, chief petitioner of the movement says the group has gotten the "green light" in at least three Oregon counties -- Josephine, Douglas and Umatilla -- that would start the first step in the secession process, which...

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) pushed back on Fox News’s Neil Cavuto’s citation of record low African American unemployment, saying African Americans “were fully employed during slavery.” The subject came up when Cavuto asked Clyburn, who has yet to make an endorsement ahead of the South Carolina primaries, if he would support the Democratic nominee if it was former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg. "I'm going to back whoever our nominee is. Absolutely,” said Clyburn, the top African American Democrat in Congress. "Even with the things he has said about African Americans? Does that bother you?" Cavuto asked. Bloomberg...

A Vermont bill that proposed increasing the state’s hourly minimum wage was vetoed Feb. 10, 2020, by Gov. Phil Scott (R). The measure (S. 23) proposed raising the minimum wage to $11.75 from $10.96 on Jan. 1, 2021, and to $12.55 on Jan. 1, 2022. Scott, in statement, said an analysis showed that a higher minimum wage would lead to job losses, decreased employee hours, and increased costs for goods and services. To override the veto, a two-thirds majority vote is needed in both legislative chambers, each of which has a Democratic majority.

Washington, DC ~ Wednesday, February 19, 2020 Remarks as Prepared for DeliveryThank you, Director Wray, for that introduction and thanks for hosting us for today’s workshop on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.Section 230 is a topic that has garnered significant attention over the past year, and we are pleased to have so many experts and thought leaders on our panels and in the audience here today.The Department of Justice’s interest in Section 230 arose in the course of our broader review of market-leading online platforms, which we announced last summer.  While our efforts to ensure competitive markets...

Starts at 9pm Eastern. On NBC News as well as MSDNC. Will post youtube link when it goes live. Buttigieg, Sanders, Warren, Klobuchar, Biden, Bloomberg

Deeper into the deep state's contrivances on two continents.

NEW YORK — As Republican President Donald Trump seeks a second term in November, Americans' interest in voting is growing faster in large cities dominated by Democrats than in conservative rural areas, according to an analysis of Reuters/Ipsos national opinion polls. If the trend lasts until Election Day on Nov. 3, it would be a reversal from the 2016 election when rural turnout outpaced voting in urban areas, helping Trump narrowly win the White House. The finding, based on responses from more than 88,000 U.S. adults who took the online poll from August to December 2015 or from August to...

At a Glance A mature swarm of locusts entered South Sudan this week.Warmer temperatures and more rain have contributed to the outbreak.Some swarms are the size of cities and can move up to 90 miles a day. The locust outbreak plaguing East Africa has now reached South Sudan as swarms the size of cities continue to move across several countries, fueled by extreme weather and changing climate patterns. "Studies have linked a hotter climate to more damaging locust swarms, leaving Africa disproportionately affected — 20 of the fastest warming countries globally are in Africa," Richard Munang, United Nations Environment Programme...

Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said his party will seek to form a government without Sinn Féin. Both parties have been seeking a path to a viable coalition since the Irish general election earlier in February. Fianna Fáil’s parliamentary party met last Thursday and decided forming a coalition with Sinn Féin “would not be the right thing to do”. On Wednesday, Mr. Martin said a steering group would be set up to formally engage with other parties. He said the group, made up of members of the Fianna Fáil front bench, would begin formal engagements with other parties and...

The 27-year-old woman and her family were spotted walking about a mile east of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry about 2:30 p.m. Sunday. It is believed they used a ladder to get over the border fence, said Border Patrol spokesman Jarrett Decker. Once they got to the Chula Vista station, the woman, the baby’s father and two children were being examined for a routine medical assessment when the woman went into labor, officials said.

Overzealous, out of control, and power-hungry prosecutors wanted to send a message with the Rod Blagojevich case: if you dare to have the audacity to exercise your Constitutional rights and challenge their false claims at trial, they will use the entire weight of the United States of America to destroy your reputation in the court of public opinion, and see to it that the court imposes the most devastating of fines, penalties, and prison sentences. They will do everything in their power to destroy you personally, professionally, and financially, and worse than anything else, they insure that in the end...

Former President Barack Obama wants to stay out of the 2020 fray, but he’s being drawn into it whether he likes it or not. First, he’s the most popular Democrat in recent memory. He cannot just hang in the bunker and disappear. Second, former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg had done a swell job with his campaign folks in finding all the clips where Obama said good things about him and turned that into an ad. It almost seems like a quasi-endorsement, but it’s not. Obama hasn’t even lifted a finger concerning who he’s going to back, but you can...

President Donald Trump is returning to Phoenix for a "Keep America Great" rally with his supporters at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Wednesday, his first campaign visit to the state this election cycle. 1:30 p.m.: Hundreds already lined up A line of hundreds of enthusiastic Trump supporters winds through the coliseum parking as people wait for the rally to begin. It’s sunny and 75 degrees. The crowd is lively, dressed in red. Trump hats abound. People sit on chairs shaded by umbrellas and munch on fairground food – pork chops on sticks, cheese curds and cowboy fries. Police say there have...

While Boy Scouts of America's financial bankruptcy won't kill local organizations, it is a result of their ongoing moral bankruptcy. Here are a number of conservative Boy Scout alternatives.