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The day he broke up with Trump was one of his toughest, Hossein Khorram says. “I was heartbroken,” the Clyde Hill man told me. “I felt like I was betraying a friend.” Khorram, 62, is one of the more gregarious behind-the-scenes players in local Republican politics. As a max donor and the finance chairman of “Trump Victory Washington State,” he helped raise money here for Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign. Khorram, a Muslim, also made himself widely available to cheerfully parry critiques that Trump is anti-immigrant or racist. Khorram, an Eastside developer, continued to back Trump well past the catastrophe...

Obama Shows His Stupidity In Farewell Speech (Gateway Pundit) – America only has 9 nine days left of Barack Obama and for most American’s those days can’t come-and-go fast enough. In his farewell speech on Tuesday night, Barack Obama once again distorted reality and made outrageous statements. The most idiotic statement of the night came when Obama made this statement: For 240 years, our nation’s call to citizenship has given work and purpose to each new generation. It’s what led patriots to choose republic over tyranny, pioneers to trek west, slaves to brave that makeshift railroad to freedom. It’s what...

This ought to be the top story on every news outlet nationwide, and ought to be the death knell for the “Stimulus” concept and for the “green jobs” fallacy. But I get the feeling the MSM will bury it. When workers showed up at the Solyndra solar-panel factory in Fremont, California, this morning — they were ordered to leave by guards, and then given instructions on how to pick up their final checks. In other words, the dream is over: Solyndra Shutting Its Doors Solyndra, a major manufacturer of solar technology in Fremont, has shut its doors, according to employees...