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The Dallas Cowboys are facing a backlash after the football team announced a partnership with gun-themed coffee company a day after the deadly shooting in Highland Park, Illinois. The company, Black Rifle Coffee, says it is veteran-owned and sells products with names including “Silencer Smooth Coffee Rounds,” “AK-47 Espresso Blend” and “Murdered Out Coffee Roast.”

Mourning in Hollywood was at its zenith, however, when it became clear on Election Day that Trump was poised to emerge as the unexpected victor. "Gonna cry my false eye lashes off tonight," pop singer and Clinton supporter Katy Perry wrote on Twitter the night of the election, as the results rolled in. "World will never be the same," singer Cher, who had campaigned for Hillary, also wrote on Twitter the night of the election. "I feel Sad for the young." She included images of a toilet and feces to represent Trump. . . . In October, before the election,...

What does conservative pundit Tucker Carlson have to do with an outhouse in Montana? More than you might think. Over the weekend, the Montana Republican Party proved wrong those of us who believe our political discourse has gone down the toilet. In fact, our political discourse has gone to a place where there isn’t even plumbing. Outside the Montana GOP convention in Missoula stood an outhouse labeled “Obama Presidential Library” and painted as though it had been shot full of holes, according to the local paper. Inside, a fake birth certificate for “Barack Hussein Obama” was stamped with an expletive...

Worldwide, May 1st is traditionally a workers day – a day of labor solidarity and a public holiday. It’s a day to celebrate and march in support of immigrant rights, worker rights, and human rights. In protest against the corruption of the worldwide marketplace, which has led to illegal foreclosures, mass unemployment, low wages, high taxes and a penalization of all those who do not own the ‘99%’ of the world’s resources, and in solidarity with the immigrant movements of Massachusetts and the world, Occupy Boston is calling for a general strike on May Day. On May 1st, Occupy Boston...

Sierra Club Director Resigns to Protest Hunting Prize posted April 17, 2006 Sierra Club Director Paul Watson, one of the 15 National Directors of the Sierra Club, has resigned today from the National Board of the Sierra Club. He was elected to the Board of Directors in 2003 for a three year term. His term ends May 17th, 2006. Saying, “I won’t fade quietly into the night,” Watson tendered his resignation on April 17th, which is a month before his term expires to protest the use of Club resources to finance a sport hunting trip to encourage hunting. Watson was...

Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand ... Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative. At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

Best of the Tube This Weekend We'll be appearing this weekend on Fox News Channel's "The Journal Editorial Report." Topics are the Saddam documents and South Dakota's new abortion law. Paul Gigot interviews The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes, who broke the Saddam story. Tune in tomorrow night at 11 EST or Sunday at 6 a.m. (For a complete list of airtimes in the contiguous U.S., click the link atop this item.) If you live in the Washington area and think we have a face for radio, you can hear us on "The Julian Tepper Show" Saturday at 8:30 p.m. on...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadians can put away those extra welcome mats -- it seems Americans unhappy about the result of last November's presidential election have decided to stay at home after all. In the days after President Bush won a second term, the number of U.S. citizens visiting Canada's main immigration Web site shot up sixfold, prompting speculation that unhappy Democrats would flock north. But official statistics show the number of Americans actually applying to live permanently in Canada fell in the six months after the election.

Getting the red out An old Cold War rallying cry declared, “You’re better dead than red.” While it’s a phrase that’s by now fixed in the public’s imagination, a post-election 2004 assessment seems to turn that old saw on its head. The new cry, shouted this time from the left, might be, “If you’re red, you’re dead — faster, anyway.” A week after the Bush/Diebold ticket swept to a narrow presidential victory through America’s heartland, a less earth-shattering news item appeared that put those huge expanses of land blighting the electoral map with red ink into a little bit...

For $24.95, T-shirtKing.com offers the "Go Canadian" package, full of just the kind of things an American traveler needs to leave their country and its politics behind. ----- "It's not meant as a slight against the United States or Canada," explained T-shirtKing.com President Bill Broadbent. "It was meant as something Republicans could give their Democrat friends to say 'C'est la vie.' ... But maybe not c'est la vie because that's a French word."

Adopt an American voter today! WORLDWATCH By Kaius Niemi in Helsinki It is a complete and utter waste of time to go arguing the toss over whether the citizens of the United States are more indifferent to world affairs than, say, the peoples of Europe, Asia, or Africa. What is of significance is that the Americans should in any event be considerably more conscious of what is going on around them. A vote given in the world’s only remaining superpower determines, for instance, whether there will be war in Iraq or not. In November, the United States will be holding...

Posted on Tue, Jun. 03, 2003 Ubiquitous Internet weakens significance of FCC changeBy E. THOMAS McCLANAHANThe Kansas City Star For a good time, go to www.kausfiles.com, the Web log of former New Republic Senior Editor Mickey Kaus, who regularly serves up inside dirt on troubles at The New York Times, as well as other topics on the political and journalistic scene.Kaus' site is great fun, but I didn't sit down to write about him or The Times, at least not directly. Today's subject is what the Federal Communications Commission did Monday on media-ownership rules and why the uproar over...

The Democratic Party needs to find a smoke-filled back room somewhere and tear up the playbook. While Republicans eat their lunch, Democrats rationalize that they needed to lose a few pounds anyway. They're blowing it. A president hasn't gained so much ground in Congress in 50 years. Traditionally, a sitting president loses a few House seats at midterm. This president, who didn't even win a majority of the popular vote in his election, gained ground in the House as his party recaptured the Senate which had tipped, barely, in the Democrats' favor for two years. Now New York's two senators...