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Even Steve Bannon and other key advisers to former President Donald Trump have had enough of his latest stunts — demanding everyone behind his wacky NFT collection be “fired today.” “I can’t do this anymore,” an exasperated-sounding Bannon said Thursday on his show, “The War Room,” when discussing the widely derided collection the 45th president launched the previous day.

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Obama may be in deep trouble… Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court By Rebel Rouser from Texas According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable. Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained that much, if not all of Obama’s major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government. Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used...

Now that George W. Bush has finally left office, here's a challenge to a nation famous for its proud tradition of invention: Can somebody invent a machine capable of fully measuring the disaster that was the Bush presidency? [Snip] In a way that was inconceivable when he took office, Mr. Bush -- the advance man for the "ownership society," smaller and more trustworthy government, and a humble foreign policy -- increased the size and scope of the federal government to unprecedented levels. At the same time, he constantly flashed signs of secrecy, duplicity, ineffectiveness and outright incompetence. Think for a...

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Madrid, Feb 21 (EFE).- The presiding judge in the trial here of 29 people for Spain's worst-ever terrorist attack ordered one of the accused removed from the courtroom Wednesday for making faces during the testimony of another defendant. "I am sick of his gestures," National Court magistrate Javier Gomez Bermudez said, referring to Rafa Zuhier, who was expressing displeasure over critical remarks about him from co-defendant Rachid "The Rabbit" Aglif. Zuhier, a 27-year-old Moroccan, was later allowed to return to the bulletproof chamber within the courtroom from which he and 17 other defendants are observing the proceedings. The remaining 11...

Huge unseasonable rainfall has triggered disastrous flooding and mudslides in several parts of Venezuela, at a cost of about 80 lives now, and rising. Tens of thousands of people remain homeless, their homes washed away by mud and rocks that thunder down from high, steep mountains sliding down oil-rich soil. The country's government has known about this hazard for years, since the gargantuan mudslides devastated Vargas province in 1999, at a cost of 30,000 lives. Supposedly the regime has spent a billion dollars in aid to reinforce the hillsides and re-channel rain-laden waterways. And as surely as nature's force, it's...

Germans are fleeing re-united Deutschland, with its high taxes and resulting stagnant economy, for more promising environs overseas, most prominently in the United States and Canada, according to Deutsch Welle. I sympathize, and offer them a hearty "Wilkommen!" I only wish that the United States would reform its immigration policies to stop discriminating against those with financial assets and educational qualifications. Penniless uneducated immigrants can sneak in with few conseuqences. But if you have worked to establish yourself with an educational and career pedigree, and have bank accounts, a stock portfolio, and want to buy real estate, you cannot live...