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Once House Democrats voted to impeach President Donald Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made the media rounds with the same phrase: "Once a president is impeached, he's impeached for life," she would say with a smile. "We had confidence- we have confidence in our case that it is impeachable, that this president is impeached for life, regardless of any gamesmanship on the part of Mitch McConnell, however, that could still come to bear," Pelosi told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos last month. "We're still confident in the impeachment and we think it's enough testimony to remove him from office."On Sunday, House Minority...

Scientists claim that the Earth is warming, and human activities such as driving SUV’s, and even cow flatulence are to blame. I believe I have finally discovered the real cause of global warming. The culprit is none other than Daylight Savings Time. Changing from standard to Daylight Time creates an additional hour of daylight while at the same time gives us one hour less of night. This gives the sun an extra hour to heat the Earth and reduces the amount of night time for the Earth to cool itself down. The result is a heating of the Earths surface....

There has been much discussion lately about what it means to be an American. I would like to address this question from two angles; 1) Social Contract and 2) the Patrician Class. Although these concepts appear to represent opposite sides of the political aisle, they deal with what it means to be an American from the perspectives of the commoner, the intellectual and the politician. Social contract means the common understanding by which we conduct our daily lives within society. The term "social contract" was developed to describe the restrictions to which we mutually agree that society may function (click...