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I haven't read the full bill but I can't find that in any of the reporting.

I am a huge fan of Newman

Incredibly clever lyrics that have the great virtue of at once making fun of people he thinks are morons and at the same time being spot on.

"Political Science" is a perfect example.

White House Officials Say Trump Isn’t Target of Any Investigation
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With no evidence of wiretaps emerging, the White House has been forced into a defensive communications strategy. It has curtailed Mr. Trump’s appearances before cameras, where reporters could ask him about his claims. Mr. Spicer held his briefing on Monday without TV cameras, though on Tuesday and Wednesday, he answered questions at length and before the cameras.

Lock him up!

Then-President-elect Donald Trump blasted Long Island’s M-13 scourge in an interview for his Time magazine “Person of the Year” profile last year.

“They come from Central America. They’re tougher than any people you’ve ever met,” Trump said.

“They’re killing and raping everybody out there. They’re illegal. And they are finished.”

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Ten illegal immigrant members of the notorious MS-13 gang — including one who was previously deported — were indicted Thursday in a wave of Long Island violence that included the slaughter of two teenage girls.

Best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, were beaten with baseball bats and hacked with a machete during an attack that began when gang members spotted them walking together in Brentwood.

“The brutal murders of Nisa Mickens and Kayla Cuevas, and the savage killing of Jose Pena, allegedly committed by these defendants, exemplify the depravity of a gang whose primary mission is murder,” Brooklyn US Attorney Robert Capers said.

“Everybody’s got to be covered,” the magician of Mar-a-Lago said on “60 Minutes” in September 2015. “I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.”

Canada’s chilly relations with Russia have taken a nasty turn with charges of disinformation leveled by Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland against Russia over allegations that her long-dead, Ukrainian-born grandfather was a Nazi collaborator in occupied Poland.

Freeland, a 49-year-old former journalist and fluent Russian speaker who was once Moscow bureau chief for the Financial Times of London, has long been on the outs with the Russian government for her outspoken support of Ukraine and her books exposing the influence of Russia’s oligarchs.

Three years ago, as an opposition member of the Canadian House of Commons, Freeland was barred from entering Russia along with a dozen other prominent Canadians in retaliation for sanctions imposed by Canada after Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Hawaii has become the first US state to file a suit against President Donald Trump's revised travel order.

Its attorney general says the new version is fundamentally the same as the first, calling it "Muslim Ban 2.0".

The directive, which takes effect on 16 March, places a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim nations and a 120-day ban on all refugees.

The previous order, which was blocked by a federal court, sparked confusion at airports and mass protests.

"Nothing of substance has changed: There is the same blanket ban on entry from Muslim-majority countries (minus one)," Hawaii Attorney General Doug Chin said of the new order.

Zeig Heil!

GOPers Preemptively Trash CBO Before It Scores Their O'care Replacement

CNN’s newest commentator is Jason Miller, a top communications aide to President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign who was originally tapped to be his White House communications director. The Miller hire appears to be an effort to appease the president, who has spent months trying to delegitimize the network.