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President Donald Trump is demanding a vote Friday in the House on the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said. If the bill fails, Trump is prepared to move on and leave Obamacare in place, Mulvaney said.

RNC paid intel firm for Clinton dirt
Firm started by ex-CIA officers initially denied probing Democratic presidential candidate.

As the general election was taking shape last summer, the Republican National Committee initiated a series of payments to a low-profile firm started by retired Central Intelligence Agency officers that worked closely with an ex-Russian spy.

...RNC officials and the president and co-founder of Hamilton Trading Group, an ex-CIA officer named Ben Wickham, insisted the payments, which eventually totaled $41,500, had nothing to do with Russia.

Police have identified Khalid Masood as the man who carried out the Westminster attack, as the death toll rose to five.

Masood, 52, was born as Adrian Elms in Kent and was shot dead by police. He had not been the subject of any current police investigations.

PC Keith Palmer, 48, Aysha Frade and US tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, were killed on Wednesday, while a 75-year-old man died on Thursday evening.

@McGentrix,
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Illegal immigrants come to this country and have no regard for the people or laws that make this country great.

That statement is pure bigotry. I have lived around and worked with illegals most of my life. Every one of them that I interacted with was intent only on making a decent life for themselves. As has been pointed out by others, there are a few bad apples in every tree, but on average, I believe the illegals are less criminal than the average citizen.

Obqmq should hqve done a "recess appointment" I would hqve, had I known the GOP was this bunch of cynical folks

Trump, the master deal maker couldn't repeal Obamacare as promised. What now?

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Thursday released a new score for the revised plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare that Republican leaders are struggling to pass through the House.

The CBO find that the latest version of the healthcare plan contains significantly less deficit reduction than the original bill, but would lead to essentially the same levels of coverage losses and premium increases.

Fortunately for the public, the ghastliness of their ideas is matched only by their incompetence.

"snowflakes". Really?

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Israeli police arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday in connection with the wave of bomb threats and hoaxes against Jewish community centers in America, authorities in Israel said.

The unnamed man — a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen — is Jewish himself, officials said. While a motive remains unclear, his attorney told a Magistrate Court that the suspect was diagnosed with a brain tumor that effects his cognitive functions.

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So it wasn't a white nationalist anti-Semite, which is good news. On the other hand, this is the sort of individual who the NRA thinks ought to be "free" to purchase weapons.

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President Donald Trump is demanding a vote Friday in the House on the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare, White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said. If the bill fails, Trump is prepared to move on and leave Obamacare in place, Mulvaney said.

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Some stupid bullshit commentary that has nothing to with anything deleted here.

@McGentrix,
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Illegal immigrants come to this country and have no regard for the people or laws that make this country great.

That statement is pure bigotry. I have lived around and worked with illegals most of my life. Every one of them that I interacted with was intent only on making a decent life for themselves. As has been pointed out by others, there are a few bad apples in every tree, but on average, I believe the illegals are less criminal than the average citizen.

I believe the illegals are less criminal than the average citizen.

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@McGentrix,
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Illegal immigrants come to this country and have no regard for the people or laws that make this country great.

That statement is pure bigotry.

Of course it is. This is the sort of statement that arises out of anger. It is a far too broad and irrational rejection of all such individuals. If we consider people coming from south of the border, most are serious Catholics, for example. Most hold values regarding family which are broadly shared on the American right. Most are extremely hard-working. By far the most do not commit crimes other than residing in the US without proper authorization.

By way of contrast, we could compare with some of the Russian Mafia types presently living in Trump's hotels. But legal re immigration status.

Using data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), state prison systems, and Pew, we were able to compare rates of major offenses in states with sizeable populations of illegal aliens.

For example:

Arizona: Approximately 240 illegal aliens were imprisoned for homicide-related offenses. This means approximately 68.57 illegal aliens were imprisoned for homicide offenses per 100,000 illegal aliens in Arizona, whereas 54.06 citizens and legal residents were imprisoned for homicide-related offenses per 100,000 citizens and legal residents in Arizona.

California: Approximately 2,430 illegal aliens were imprisoned for homicide-related offenses. This means approximately 97.2 illegal aliens were imprisoned for homicide and related offenses per 100,000 illegal aliens in California, whereas 74.1 citizens and legal residents were imprisoned for homicide and related offenses per 100,000 citizens and legal residents.

Florida: Approximately 480 illegal aliens were imprisoned for homicide-related offenses. This means approximately 54.85 illegal aliens were imprisoned for murder and manslaughter per 100,000 illegal aliens in Florida, whereas approximately 67.8 legal residents were imprisoned for murder and manslaughter per 100,000 legal residents.

New York: Approximately 1,350 illegal aliens were imprisoned for homicide-related offenses. This means approximately 168.75 illegal aliens were imprisoned for murder and related offenses per 100,000 illegal aliens in the state, whereas approximately 48.12 legal residents were imprisoned for murder and related offenses per 100,000 legal residents.

Texas: Approximately 900 illegal aliens were imprisoned for homicide-related offenses. This means approximately 54.54 illegal aliens were incarcerated for homicide-related offenses per 100,000 illegal aliens in Texas, whereas approximately 65.43 legal residents were incarcerated for homicide-related offenses per 100,000 legal residents. As you can see, in three of the five states above, incarceration rates for murder and manslaughter were far higher for illegal aliens than for legal residents.

Incarceration rates for murder are an imperfect proxy for rates of murders committed (illegal aliens may be more likely to be apprehended, have less competent counsel, etc ), but it’s difficult to contend that illegal aliens are more law-abiding than legal residents — at least when it comes to major crimes. And it’s even more difficult to contend that Americans’ concern about crimes committed by illegal aliens is overblown.

Regardless, comparative crime rates are less important than the absolute number of crimes committed by illegal aliens. Look at California, where approximately 2,430 illegal aliens are in prison just for homicide-related offenses. Even if one assumes that each illegal alien so imprisoned was responsible for just one homicide-related offense, that amounts to about a couple thousand major crimes that, arguably, wouldn’t have occurred but for the actors’ unlawful presence in the United States. That translates to thousands of American citizens (and others) across the country slaughtered by individuals who shouldn’t have been here in the first place.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/424858/illegal-immigration-crime-us-civil-rights-commission

But Edgar has this **** all backwards in his head. I blame the shitty education system he went through.

You guys just don't get it. I am sad that so many of you are so completely stupid about this stuff.

You'll turn your eyes away from rape and murder because then you'd see that your shitty liberal attitude is responsible for thousands upon thousands of deaths, rapes and other violent crimes every year.

And it’s even more difficult to contend that Americans’ concern about crimes committed by illegal aliens is overblown.

Liberalism is a disease and I hope that a cure is found soon.