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JOE SCARBOROUGH, MSNBC: And Rick Tyler, here we go with the Republican Party again, here in the state of Alabama, a state I know well and love, but you can go around the country and see the Trump effect on one Republican Party after another, and it is truly distressing all in support of a president who says he's going to seize private lands and told his aides to do it illegally and he would pardon them. From a president who ordering private companies to move out of other countries, a guy who's running up the biggest debt ever, some...

If you can't post a new status on Facebook, it's not you. Facebook and Facebook-owned photo app Instagram are down for some users on Wednesday. The social networks have been having issues since around 9 a.m. PT, according to tracking site Down Detecter. Some users have posted on Twitter that they're seeing a message saying Facebook is "down for maintenance." Other users trying to post status updates on Facebook, including CNET staff, got error messages saying "something went wrong." Facebook confirmed the outages. "We're aware that some people are currently having trouble accessing the Facebook family of apps," a Facebook...

In the Boston Herald, Michael Graham argues both that 'It's a Wonderful Life' is a bad film on a technical level and that its message is bad. There seems to be a blooming holiday tradition in certain circles to attack “It’s a Wonderful Life.” This year we have Michael Graham in the Boston Herald taking up the ill-considered assault on Frank Capra’s masterpiece.Graham argues both that “It’s a Wonderful Life” is a bad film on a technical level and that its message is bad. His reason for saying it’s a bad film hinges on a claim that the plot makes...

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor agreed with 19 States to declare the Affordable Care Act, (aka Obamacare) Unconstitutional because Congress revoked the tax penalty last year.

For the third consecutive week, Obama birth certificate forgery investigator Mike Zullo was Carl Gallups’s guest on the “Freedom Friday” show on December 29, 2017 to discuss anomalies discovered in the “long-form” birth certificate image bearing the name “Barack Hussein Obama II.” Zullo was Gallups’s guest on December 1, when he began releasing analysis and commentary on his 5+-year investigation into the “long-form” birth certificate image released by the White House on April 27, 2011 said to represent Barack Hussein Obama’s original birth record from the Hawaii Department of Health (HDOH). On March 1, 2012, Zullo declared at the first...

It was a sorry day when schools stopped teaching American history, and it's time for American children to know something about their heritage and understand, along with the blemishes of slavery and mistreatment of Native Americans, the nobility of America, it's long standing place in the world as the aspiration and hope of every freedom loving person on earth. In my opinion, America's days to pull out of the morass we're stuck in are numbered, our problems need immediate and decisive action, and problems such as the Veterans Administration should be at the top of the stack. We're sinking in...

Democrats seem to have entered the “call their bluff” phase of running Washington. Republicans complained about being left out of the back room in health care — now they’ve been invited to a televised bargaining session with President Obama. Republicans are blocking dozens of White House nominees — now Democrats are ready to force those filibusters and push uncomfortable votes. Republicans have presented alternative budgets that call for partial privatization of Social Security — now Democrats may call a vote on that very proposal just to get GOP lawmakers on the record on a potentially unpopular idea. Whether this will lead to actual...

The Texas Department of Transportation is pulling the last plug on the Trans-Texas Corridor, Gov. Rick Perry's embattled plan to build a toll-road network across the state. The agency said earlier this year it was scaling down the project and dropping the name "Trans-Texas Corridor." Now, transportation officials say it's fully dead. Transportation Commissioner Bill Meadows told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram of the decision in a report posted online Tuesday. The news comes a day after Perry's Republican primary opponent, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, secured the coveted endorsement of the powerful Texas Farm Bureau — a vocal opponent of the...

Midway through his speech on urban and metropolitan policy in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building this afternoon, one of his two small glass prompters came crashing down, hitting the wood floor and crashing in many pieces. It made quite a ruckus. “Oh, goodness,” a startled President Obama said. “Sorry about that, guys.”

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrial average dropped another 200 points today on fresh concerns about banks and about General Motors. In midday trading, the Dow is down 219.11, or 3.19 percent, to 6,656.73, a low not seen since April 1997. he Standard & Poor's 500 index dropped 26.09, or 3.66 percent, to 686.78. The S&P has not traded below this level since October 1996. The Nasdaq composite index fell 42.29, or 3.12 percent, to 1,311.45. Investors are having another change of heart and are selling stocks once again after a one-day burst of optimism fizzled.

Trans Texas Corridor is dead, TxDOT says 10:50 AM CST on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 By MICHAEL A. LINDENBERGER / The Dallas Morning News mlindenberger@dallasnews.com AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Transportation announced this morning that it has officially killed the Trans Texas Corridor, saying that despite the project's visionary aspects, "it is clearly not the choice of Texans." Direct link to article...

It's just a coincidence that the essay "Does the News Matter to Anyone Anymore?" by the impresario of The Wire, David Simon, appeared in the Washington Post the same day news broke of the top editor of the Los Angeles Times having been forced out over a refusal to make further budget cuts. Virtually every major magazine...has eloquently bemoaned the state of contemporary newspapering. And the departure of James O'Shea from the LA Times marks the fourth time in less than three years that either the top editor or the publisher has "quit" rather than make budget cuts demanded by...

Here we are again my friends, hopefully for the last debate thread on this particular monstrous legislation. Proceedings are supposed to begin at 9:30 a.m. EST, with the cloture vote being taken at 10:30 a.m. On a personal note, you've all been wonderful in your passion, vigilance, and commitment to the principles on which our country was founded. If I have to be in a foxhole, I want to be in it with you guys.

A cycling tour to sound the alarm about the deteriorating state of the Dead Sea is planned for next month, hoping to attract those concerned that the area is heading toward an ecological disaster. Cyclists will have the opportunity to ride over 260 kilometers during the January 24-26 competition known as the Tour de Dead Sea. According to the Megilot Council, which organized the event, both professionals and amateurs are invited to be a part of the event, which aims to sensitize the public to the drastic drying-out of the Dead Sea. The tour's route circles the sea and includes...

• Q2 jumps by 67 percent year over year • Buyers done in by ‘creative mortgages’ according to figures released Monday by Foreclosures.com, a Central Valley-based real estate investment advisory firm and publisher of foreclosure property information. "Year over year at the end of the second quarter of 2006, foreclosure activity in California has increased more than 67 percent," says Alexis McGee, president of Fair Oaks-based ForeclosureS.com. The once hot housing markets in Las Vegas and Phoenix are cooling off rapidly and defaults there are on the rise as well, she says. "Both Las Vegas and Phoenix were impacted by...

RUSH: All right. This is hilarious: (story) "The long-fought Senate immigration bill that opponents say grants amnesty to 10 million illegal aliens is unconstitutional and appears headed for certain demise, Senate Republicans now say." Here is why, "A key feature of the Senate bill is that it would make illegals pay back taxes before applying for citizenship, a requirement that supporters say will raise billions of dollars in the next decade. There's just one problem: The U.S. Constitution specifically prohibits revenue-raising legislation [taxes, tax cuts, what have you, has to come from the House] from originating in the Senate. 'All...

J.J. Abrams, producer of hit shows Lost and Alias, as well as director of the upcoming Paramount film "Mission: Impossible III," is slated to produce and direct the next Star Trek feature, according to today's Daily Variety and sources at Paramount Pictures. There is no title as yet for the new movie, but it will be the eleventh in the franchise. (Until a title is selected, we will usually refer to the project as simply "Star Trek XI.") Although there isn't an official Paramount press release announcing the movie, it is a confirmed project under development with a 2008 release...

A whale that arrived in the Chesapeake Bay lodged on the bulbous bow of a giant container ship died as a result of colliding with the ship, biologists said this morning. A team of scientists spent much of yesterday examining the 35-foot, 8½-ton male sei whale at a Baltimore landfill, searching for the cause of death of the unusual visitor. They performed a necropsy, or animal autopsy. "It wasn't apparent immediately, but once we got into the necropsy, it became pretty apparent what happened," said Tricia Kimmel, a biologist with the state Department of Natural Resources. The sei whale -...

Dubai Ports Worls to divest itself of all American interests

The last new Enterprise airs tonight, and soon Star Trek will be, in a sense, dead -- but we should all have such a rollicking afterlife. Forget the five-year mission; Star Trek has succeeded in its thirty-year mission to be the most all-encompassing multimedia geek experience ever. Star Trek doesn't need new episodes, or new anything else. Between hundred of episodes, novels, comic books, video games, role-playing games, conventions, cartoons, and movies, Star Trek has achieved cultural immortality. Yes, Orson Scott Card, it was inferior science fiction, but so what? Star Trek was family. You don't stop loving your kids...