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President Donald Trump is moving forward with plans to sell off multiple federal properties in Northern California, including the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building and a historic structure at 50 United Nations Plaza, ABC 7 reported. The administration argues that offloading the buildings will reduce maintenance costs, and it is opting to lease office space for federal workers instead. However, critics see the move as political retaliation. “It’s another example of how he is coming after Democrats. He’s coming after California, and it’s all about payback,” said former Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif. She also questioned the financial logic behind the plan,...

When asked about his thoughts on the 2020 field, outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown (D) recently told the Associated Press that white men will “probably be running things for quite a bit of time” and wondered, “What’s wrong with white men?” The Associated Press asked Brown, who recently told NPR that national Democrats are becoming too radical for voters, for a piece over the weekend if having three white men—Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), former Vice President Joe Biden, and Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke—as his party’s early 2020 frontrunners hurts Democrats, especially after the 2018 midterm elections in which Democrats...

It took less than 24 hours for the political Left to seize upon the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six people on Saturday to blame the political Right for the shooting. Perhaps the most egregious example came from Paul Krugman of the New York Times, who wrote "We don't have proof yet that this was political, but the odds are that it was." (The newspaper that published plagiarized and fabricated accounts of the "D.C. sniper" by affirmative-action hire Jayson Blair in 2003 is still publishing unsubstantiated suppositions without "proof," eh?) "[Giffords'] father says that ‘the...