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high-quality journalism

There is high-quality journalism. It died the day Obama was elected. And they want votes like any other political party.

You had no problem with journalism during the George Bush administration?

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The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Shulkin had become a distraction due to a constant wave of speculation about his future. They said VA undersecretary, Robert Wilkie, will be the acting secretary.

When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

I am out of free articles for the month

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revelette1 wrote:

I am out of free articles for the month

If you view their website in "incognito/private browsing" mode, you can visit their website hundreds of times a month. Because no logs are kept, each time you visit it thinks that it's the first time you've been there.

YEAH, YOU FOUND A WAY TO CHEAT A COMPANY, GOOD FOR YOU, AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT BEING A WELFARE CHEAT, YOU ARE ONLY STEALING FROM A COMPANY. HOW LOVELY.

WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE, COULD YOU TELL ME HOW TO AVOID PAYING PROPERTY TAXES, FEDERAL AND STATE AND COUNTY TAXES. THANKS PAL

Sorry. I have no knowledge on that front.

They wanted to build the Las Vegas of the Baltics.

In 2010, a small group of businessmen including a wealthy Russian supporter of Vladimir Putin began working on plans to build a glitzy hotel and entertainment complex with Donald Trump in Riga, the capital of Latvia.

A senior Trump executive visited the city to scout for locations. Trump and his daughter Ivanka spent hours at Trump Tower with the Russian, Igor Krutoy, who also knows attendees of a fateful meeting at the same building during the 2016 US election campaign.

Then the Latvian government’s anti-corruption bureau began asking questions.

The Guardian has learned that talks with Trump’s company were abandoned after Krutoy and another of the businessmen were questioned by Latvian authorities as part of a major criminal inquiry there – and that the FBI later looked into Trump’s interactions with them at Latvia’s request.

Those involved deny that the inquiry was to blame for the deal’s collapse.

Latvia asked the US for assistance in 2014 and received a response from the FBI the following year, according to a source familiar with the process. Latvian investigators also examined secret recordings in which Trump was mentioned by a suspect.

This means the FBI looked into Trump’s efforts to do business deals in the former Soviet Union earlier than was widely known. Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is now investigating other Trump dealings with Russians as part of his wide-ranging criminal inquiry into alleged collusion between Moscow and members of Trump’s 2016 campaign team.

Glad he's gone then.

Shulkin oversaw the implementation of a contracted-care health care system, aimed at improving service for veterans by privatizing part of the VA’s health care network, which is made up of more than 1,000 facilities nationwide. Shulkin quickly found himself in the middle of an ideological battle over the scope of the VA’s assistance to veterans and, in terms of health care, the department’s second largest expenditure, the existential question of how much of that care should be provided by the VA itself and how much should be privatized and paid for by the department.

These bumps in the road were exacerbated by a mutiny at the department among conservative Trump appointees who launched an orchestrated effort to dethrone Shulkin.

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Sekulow has a huge following on the religious right and is the one who brought Ekonomou onto the President’s team. Sekulow is also a master fundraiser. Indeed, he and his family have made many millions of dollars Over the years through various ‘religious liberty’ charities they control.

Very interesting archaeological find here in BC.