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In Eisenhower's 1954 SOTU address he stated his desire to strip the citizenship of the American Commies. President Trump simply asked the current "Commie Squad" to leave.

The Women’s March press team hit send before they filled in all the blanks on their press release Monday night. The Women’s March, who first gained notoriety in 2017 for marching on Washington the day after Trump’s inauguration, put out a press release that criticized Trump’s “extremist SCOTUS nominee.” The only problem? The person responsible for writing and sending the press release forgot to fill in Kavanaugh’s name before he or she sent the statement to the press. The first line of the press release reads: “In response to Donald Trump’s nomination of XX to the Supreme Court of the...

For this year’s game, the league asked the FBI to perform security checks on all credentialed personnel, including members of the media, (NFL spokesman Brian) McCarthy said. The NFL’s security department, which controls the composition of the application form, attempted to make the press credentialing process “consistent with checks that are done for others who receive a working credential,” which includes requesting racial information. The FBI has said that while providing racial information is helpful to conducting security checks, it has not been, and was not intended to be, a required field on the application form. According to the WaPo,...

According to Sports Media Watch, all four games were down substantially in overnight ratings from the comparable window last January, and several of them hit their lowest mark in years. Saturday afternoon’s Falcons-Eagles game on NBC drew a 17.4 overnight rating, down 5 percent from last year and 12 percent from 2016. It was the lowest for the early Saturday time slot since 2009. The Patriots-Jaguars matchup Sunday night on CBS was the lowest-rated game of the weekend, with a 16.6 overnight. That was down 9 percent from last year and 18 percent from 2016 and was also the worst...

PHOENIX - Phoenix police arrested a man who said "he cut his mother's head off...because she put a hit on him." Officers found him walking in the neighborhood with blood on his pants and detained him. He allegedly admitted to detectives that "he cut his mother's head off while inside the apartment because she put a hit on him." He told police that he drank a fifth of vodka and used methamphetamine before murdering his mother. Then he went to the kitchen and got a knife with a six-inch blade. He also allegedly admitted to police that his mother was...

After years of struggling to find an audience, Bruce Springsteen made it big in the mid-’70s — and soon discovered that failing to pay one’s taxes can have some pretty painful consequences. “We were Willie Nelson in reverse. First of all, I never met anyone in New Jersey who paid his taxes,” he laughed. “They came after us. … Not only did I have to pay all the taxes that I hadn’t paid, and then bills that I hadn’t paid — I wasn’t paying any bills either.”

Female Muslim athletes around the world can finally look forward to representation in professional sportswear after Nike announced it will launch the Nike Pro Hijab. The product was first teased in the Swoosh’s viral video campaign, titled “What Will They Say About You?,” and is set to be released in spring 2018... Though Nike has long been committed to diversity and inclusivity (it launched a plus-size range just last week,) this is the first time it has released an item specifically for Muslim female athletes. “The Nike Pro Hijab was designed as a direct result of our athletes telling us...

CEO Brian Cornell was rather downbeat: “Our fourth quarter results reflect the impact of rapidly-changing consumer behavior, which drove very strong digital growth but unexpected softness in our stores. At our meeting with the financial community this morning, we will provide detail on the meaningful investments we’re making in our business and financial model which will position Target for long-term, sustainable growth in this new era in retail At last check, TGT was trading 12% lower after the earnings, wiping out $4 billion in market cap and weighing in on peers such as Walmart.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has suggested that the people who voted for Donald Trump and Brexit are a bunch of fascists. It’s always nice when someone of such eminent ecclesiastical authority confirms from on high something which many of us long suspected: that the Establishment really just does not have a f###ing clue – and that that’s why we were so right to vote for Trump and Brexit. If Welby had wanted to play a clever game, what he would have done in his speech to the General Synod is keep resolutely schtum about his position on contentious...

Shannon Sharpe: Not go. As a group. At the end of the day, you make the best decision, but I’m just saying, for us, the message that we are going to send that we are united, we are a team, we won this together. We’ve lost and cried and shed sweat and blood together. If we go - if part of us goes, and the other part stays - that says ‘divided.’ And so I would recommend that we do not go, that we do not attend. Because we’re standing up against misogyny, we’re standing up against racism, xenophobia, that’s...

PHOENIX - Police say three men allegedly forced their way into a Phoenix home where they made two men remove their clothes and lay on top of each other while being whipped with a belt....One of the suspects, later identified as 25-year-old Dayuan Holloway, spoke to the victims as he was whipping them saying, "the white man gets to hit us, we get to hit you."

PHOENIX - A man waiting to board a Southwest plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor Thursday night was booted from the flight for his vulgar t-shirt. But he thinks his punishment was politically motivated. The T-shirt Kevin (he declined to share his last name) was wearing said “F*** Trump.” “I mean there was another guy who just had a middle finger on his shirt but they didn't say nothing to him,” Kevin told ABC15 on Friday. Kevin thinks the problem wasn't the bad word, but rather the target of that aggressive language. “What's really the problem? Are you a Trump fan...

Donald Trump isn’t all that popular with young voters. And he’s definitely not popular with college students hipster crowd. So on that front, it’s probably not a surprise Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters has just started carrying some t-shirts and coffee mugs that are anti-Trump and favor Democrats Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. The retailer is used to controversy. The Navajo Nation — which stretches across northeastern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico — has been fighting Urban Outfitters in court over the retailer’s use of the Navajo name on some of its products. Its customer base probably like Navajos more than Trump....

A Methodist bishop whose church receives millions of dollars in federal grants each year to house unaccompanied alien children asserted in a House hearing on Tuesday that the U.S. has “raped” immigrants’ home countries. “What is your church doing to discourage people from coming to the United States illegally and staying in the United States illegally?” Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte asked Bishop Minerva Carcano during a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security. Carcano heads the California-Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church, which supports comprehensive immigration reform. The church’s Board of Child Care has...

Gov. Mark Dayton (MN) has forbidden state employees from business travel to North Carolina as a reaction to that state’s recent law banning local anti-discrimination policies. The North Carolina law passed last week bans transgender people from using locker rooms and bathrooms designated for the gender with which they identify. The law enacts a statewide anti-discrimination policy, but one that not does specifically provide protections for gay and transgender men and women and prohibits local municipalities from enacting their own anti-discrimination policies. Arkansas and Tennessee passed similar laws in 2014 and 2011, respectively.

<p>Bryan Sanders January 25 · I admit to being conflicted. I sometimes like white people, though probably less than your average white person. I do not, however, like or enjoy or endorse or hope to ever see another moment of, the HBO show "Girls." This show is absurdly self-indulgent and offensive in it's stupidity about life and unbelievably annoying in it's indulgence of it's stupidity. Most if not all of these qualities are down to the immense amount of white people who produce and consume the show and their insistence that everyone around them indulge their whiteness. I really don't give a fuck about the Oscars, but we have plenty of white people telling us about how it is to be as white as they are. Color should speak.</p>

By now everyone is well aware of Donald Trump's injection of raw racism into the election campaign. It is a tribute to the U.S. people that many from all walks of life have stood up and rejected Trump's hate mongering. The AFL-CIO in the first place has challenged Mr. Trump demanding he cease and desist. Muslims have a been particularly targeted by the GOP front runner. In response Rep. Keith Ellison from Minnesota has sent an open letter to Trump renouncing his call to ban all Muslims from the U.S. As Rep Ellison points out, the billionaire Republican's demagogy hurts...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — The Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association wants to ban certain words from being chanted at high school games. It is part of an effort to promote better sportsmanship. Here are some of the words and phrases they do not want to hear: Sieve, Air Ball, Seasons Over, Over-Rated. The association says these chants are “taunting and disrespectful.” The association sent a letter to athletic directors last month with the new guidelines. It is getting attention now because a three-sport athlete was just suspended for five games for tweeting her criticism of the new rules. Her tweet did include...

The father of the billionaires Charles G. and David H. Koch helped construct a major oil refinery in Nazi Germany that was personally approved by Adolf Hitler, according to a new history of the Kochs and other wealthy families. The book, “Dark Money,” by Jane Mayer, traces the rise of the modern conservative movement through the activism and money of a handful of rich donors: among them Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the Mellon banking fortune, and Harry and Lynde Bradley, brothers who became wealthy in part from military contracts but poured millions into anti-government philanthropy. But the book...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Minnesota man charged with recruiting terrorists is in custody in Africa. A State Department spokesperson tells WCCO Muhammed Abdullah Hassan, known as Mujahid Miski online, turned himself in Somalia. The Roosevelt High School graduate returned to his native Somalia after high school in 2008, pledging allegiance to terrorist group Al-Shabab. When Paris endured its first round of terrorism this year at the Charlie Hebdo magazine office, most were condemning the acts. But via twitter, this young Minnesotan was praising the act. Officials say a Roosevelt High School grad, the young man known as *Miski* has been...