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The 2016 election was less than a month away, and Donald Trump’s attorney had blown the deadline for paying Stormy Daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with the future president.

In an Oct. 17 email, an attorney for Daniels — a porn star whose real name is Stephanie Clifford — threatened to cancel the nondisclosure agreement by the end of the day.

That very morning, Trump’s attorney, Michael Cohen, had created a limited liability company, public records show, that ultimately would serve as a vehicle for Daniels’s payoff. But the money had not arrived. A second email to Cohen, a short time after the first, said Daniels was calling the deal off.

...Ten days later, the $130,000 payment arrived, according to another email reviewed by The Post. Daniels’s story about her sexual encounter with Trump a decade earlier would remain under wraps long past Election Day.

Anti-vaccine campaigners have found a growing political voice for their debunked ideas in Texas, the adopted home of discredited British researcher Andrew Wakefield, and now hope to unseat a moderate Republican in the heart of Houston.

Texas has seen rates of children opting out of vaccines for philosophical reasons skyrocket after Wakefield – the man behind the UK’s MMR vaccine controversy in the early 2000s – moved to the state’s capital, Austin, more than a decade ago.

President Trump’s embrace of discredited theories linking vaccines to autism has energized the anti-vaccine movement. Once fringe, the movement is becoming more popular, raising doubts about basic childhood health care among politically and geographically diverse groups.

Public health experts warn that this growing movement is threatening one of the most successful medical innovations of modern times. Globally, vaccines prevent the deaths of about 2.5 million children every year, but deadly diseases such as measles and whooping cough still circulate in populations where enough people are unvaccinated.

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On "The Jim Bakker Show" yesterday, Lori Bakker warned that liberals want to declare Christians to be mentally ill and lock them all up in "mental illness centers.

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Mike Cernovich warns that moves to ban people like him from social media platforms like Facebook are really just a precursor to wholesale anti-Christian persecution.

A 1979 fund-raising letter signed by Senator Jesse Helms informs readers of the "very real possibility of a relative handful of union bosses seizing control of America's government".

...Consumers and businesses are stepping in where the government has cowered. Boycotts may not influence lawmakers, but they certainly seem to be changing the game in the business world. And the students of Parkland, Florida, unbothered by the games played by legislators and lobbyists, are still planning a massive march on Washington. These teens have—by most objective measures—used social media to change the conversation around guns and gun control in America.

Now it’s time for them to change the conversation around education in America, and not just as it relates to guns in the classroom. The effectiveness of these poised, articulate, well-informed, and seemingly preternaturally mature student leaders of Stoneman Douglas has been vaguely attributed to very specific personalities and talents. Indeed, their words and actions have been so staggeringly powerful, they ended up fueling laughable claims about crisis actors, coaching, and fat checks from George Soros. But there is a more fundamental lesson to be learned in the events of this tragedy: These kids aren’t freaks of nature. Their eloquence and poise also represent the absolute vindication of the extracurricular education they receive at Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

Despite the gradual erosion of the arts and physical education in America’s public schools, the students of Stoneman Douglas have been the beneficiaries of the kind of 1950s-style public education that has all but vanished in America and that is being dismantled with great deliberation as funding for things like the arts, civics, and enrichment are zeroed out. In no small part because the school is more affluent than its counterparts across the country (fewer than 23 percent of its students received free or reduced-price lunches in 2015–16, compared to about 64 percent across Broward County Public Schools) these kids have managed to score the kind of extracurricular education we’ve been eviscerating for decades in the United States. These kids aren’t prodigiously gifted. They’ve just had the gift of the kind of education we no longer value.

A 1979 fund-raising letter signed by Senator Jesse Helms informs readers of the "very real possibility of a relative handful of union bosses seizing control of America's government".

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Orrin Hatch says that if you're one of the millions who benefited from the ACA and think it was a good thing, "you are one of the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met."

Now you get it hightor. Typical RightWing puke. If they get in the last word, no matter how many times they repeat the same lies, that is considered a win to them. If you were directly talking to them, they would be shouting over you and spitting in your face at the same time. Totally wrong on so many accounts. So bad, deplorables in action.

Says the clown who can't point out anything untrue in anything I wrote.

Is there a written list of clearly defined rules on this site, so that people who participate know exactly what to do and what not to do?

Because, as far as I know it's not available.

The assault styled weapons are lighter in weight, easier to stow, and can have extra-capacity magazines, all features which make them better suited for carrying out an effective massacre. I think you know this.

If that's what people are talking about it's justified to use the corrected term, "assault-style".

You simply don't recognize truth, oralloy.