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You keep harping on pellosi

You keep harping on pellosi and ignoyre the fact that tens of millions are in faxct happy with ibamacare and it haas majjority support while the phony repub plan toreplace it got 18 perceent support. and trump stil comes up a fraud on the issue

I can always tell when Tucker Carlson has attacked me — something that he does with monotonous and mysterious regularity. And it’s not because I watch his antics. All I have to do is read my emails.

Sure enough, out of the blue on Tuesday night, I received this ungrammatical missive from some Carlson fan: “Max you stupid piece of s---t why are bald people so f---ing stupid?” Followed by this from another viewer: “Do you want to feed these uneducated illegal wet backs?” And then this from a third savant: “My Prayer is that when your Disgusting Liberal Ignorant A-- passes away that u Burn in Hell for Eternity.” And so on.

Intrigued, I went to the Fox News website to see what Carlson had said. What I found was a typical farrago of lies, half-truths, distortions and omissions. I’m not offended; I consider it an honor to be attacked by this hatemonger. But it’s worth breaking down a few of his assertions to show how Fox brainwashes its audience...

Max A. Boot[1] (Russian: Макс Бут) is an American author, consultant, editorialist, lecturer, and military historian.[2] He worked as a writer and editor for Christian Science Monitor and then for The Wall Street Journal in the 1990s. He is now Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He has written for numerous publications such as The Weekly Standard, The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Times, and he has also authored books of military history.[3] In 2018, Boot published The Road Not Taken, a biography of Edward Lansdale, and The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right, which details Boot's "ideological journey from a 'movement' conservative to a man without a party"[4] in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election.

Mnuchin’s act of abject lawlessness

The son of a police deputy has been arrested as the suspect in three fires at black churches in southern Louisiana, officials say.

Holden Matthews, 21, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with three counts of arson on religious buildings.

The burnings did not result in deaths or injuries, but evoked painful memories of the civil rights era.

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said the "evil acts" dredged up "a very dark past of intimidation and fear".

The Democrat said the alleged arson was perpetrated by a "depraved individual", adding: "Hate is not a Louisiana value."

Louisiana State Fire Marshal Butch Browning told reporters on Thursday that each of the three counts against the suspect carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison.

St Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz said Mr Matthews' father, sheriff's deputy Roy Matthews, "knew nothing about his son's activity" and "broke down" when he was informed.

The deputy then helped facilitate his son's arrest by getting him to an area where police could detain him "without incident", Sheriff Guidroz said.

Officials said Mr Matthews had complied with police during the arrest. He had no criminal record or history of violence.

The fire marshal said investigators are vetting "several motives", but had learned Mr Matthews was involved with a type of music known as black metal that, he added, had historical associations with church burnings.

His Facebook page lists him as the lead singer and songwriter of a heavy metal band called Vodka Vultures.

Mr Matthews had also commented on posts about neo-Nazi black metal musician Kristian "Varg" Vikernes, who was jailed in 1994 for murder and church burning in Norway, the Daily Beast reported.

Black metal music, an extreme subgenre of heavy metal, often contains references to Satanism and pagan beliefs. Some extremists within the genre, like Vikernes, are also proponents of white nationalism.

"When Matthews was developed as a suspect we saw an immediate threat to public safety," Mr Browning said. "We felt other crimes were imminent."

"There were extraordinary means taken to bring safety to this community," he added, without elaborating.

The fires took place in Opelousas (population 16,000) on 26 March, 2 April and 4 April. The suspect lives in the community.

St Mary Baptist Church, the Greater Union Baptist Church and the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church were razed by the conflagrations.

The FBI is now investigating whether the incidents were "bias-motivated", but would not comment further.

Rev Gerald Toussaint of Mount Pleasant Missionary Baptist Church, speaking on behalf of the targeted churches, said the future was "bright" as the difficult time brought the community together in new ways.

"It started out as a dark moment in our lives, but in the rebuilding process, you're going to see some things in our future that's going to be very bright for our churches."

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called the church burnings incidents of "domestic terrorism" against people of colour.

Greater Union Baptist Church Pastor Harry Richard told CBS his grandfather helped found the church over a century ago and the fire had damaged his family's history.

"He left a legacy for me, and I was trying to fulfil that to the best of my ability."

State and local police, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were also involved in the investigation.

Officials said they have no reason to believe the fires are related to another incident of suspected arson on 31 March at a predominantly white church a few hours away from the community.

Powerful women are a huge threat to the frightened little men who voted for Trump.

In the meantime, there’s a broader concern that shouldn’t go overlooked. Yes, Trump’s tax returns may very well include important information, which would help explain the Republican’s insistence on secrecy. But it also matters that the president and his team remain overtly hostile toward the rule of law, certain that Trump gets to play by his own set of rules.

In this administration, the very idea of accountability and checks and balances are niceties that deserve respect – when politically convenient. Indeed, the question for the White House is simple: if Trump and his team don’t have to honor this law, which other laws does the president feel comfortable ignoring?

The bill alters Texas’ penal code, eliminating the exception for abortions from the definition of criminal homicide. Therefore, everyone involved in providing abortion care — from physicians and nurses to patients seeking this type of care — would face murder charges. HB896 makes no exceptions for rape, incest, or cases where the women’s life is in danger. Tinderholt also proposed the legislation would be enforced “regardless of any contrary federal law, executive order, or court decision,” which would go directly against Roe v. Wade.

[T]he state party platform adopted last year calls on lawmakers to enact legislation “stopping the murder of unborn children and to ignore and refuse to enforce any and all federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, and court rulings that would deprive an unborn child of the right to life.”

“Roe v. Wade is unconstitutional,” said Jim Baxa, president of West Texans for Life. “And the 10th Amendment puts it to you all to stand up to that tyranny and do what’s right.”

Baxa said the bill was his organization’s “number one priority” because it was the first to treat abortion fully as a capital felony, giving those who claim to “believe abortion is murder” a chance to “prove that.”

Assange has been booted out of the Ecuadorian embassy and is under arrest.

US grand jury behind Assange charges met in secret in 2010 after Guardian, Der Spiegel, NYT published cables. Why are they not being prosecuted? Only difference would be if Assange accused of encouraging Chelsea Manning to leak them?

Democratic ideals and the moral codes most of us deem foundational in how we ought to organize human affairs are, to people like those three, foolishly romantic and impediments to their need to dominate others.

tens of millions are in fact happy with obamacare and it has majority support while the phony repub plan to replace it got 18 percent support.

I think it is not just that, izzy. Fox and right wing media have been attacking Pelosi since she captured the gavel. It has been a concerted and broad effort.

Those who attend to right wing media exclusively (or near that) don't know other ways to think about her than what they've been told to think.