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adexkola said:
Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man

I'm cool with "feck procedure", except when it's the gov'ment.
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The New York Times has reported that the house that Roberts claims as his residence in Dodge City, Kansas is actually owned and occupied by campaign contributors C. Duane and Phyllis Ross.[36]


On Aug. 11, 2017, Risch, in an interview aired on the PBS Newshour, warmly endorsed President Trump's rhetoric threatening North Korea with military destruction in the event that country launched missiles at Guam. [16



In March 2014, Coons voted against President Obama's nomination of civil rights lawyer Debo Adegbile to be Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, even though he believed that Adegbile would have been "an asset to the Justice Department." He stated that voting for a nominee "who would face such visceral opposition from law enforcement on his first day on the job" was troubling and the vote was "one of the most difficult I have taken since joining the Senate".[31] President Obama described the Senate's vote against Adegbile as "a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks against a good and qualified public servant."[32] An open letter to Coons from students, faculty and alumni of the Yale Law and Divinity Schools, of which Coons is an alumnus, criticized his vote as "alarm[ing]" and "signal[ing] a lack of respect for the fundamental American legal principle that all parties have a right to zealous representation."[33]


Shaheen said that she came to supporting the policy of removing Saddam Hussein from power after meeting with former Clinton-administration National Security Advisor Sandy Berger.



sweet ethics comittee
 
Cheesy said:
Aye, pretty much economic blackmail you could argue. "Give us more money or we'll feck off" means citizens will get less money invested in them because big businesses will leave them unemployed otherwise.
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American sports franchises are great at holding cities hostage for lavish arenas and stadiums.
 
Looks like the Moore campaign are using fake witnesses to try to discredit the allegations.

Rhonda Ledbetter told CNN she used to work at the Olde Hickory restaurant and she never once saw Moore. But CNN spoke to two other witnesses who went to that restaurant and these women say they saw Moore at the venue on a regular basis.
 
An ex police officer called Johnny Belyeu is also claiming to have dined at the restaurant and says he never saw Moore.

Its ironic that with all the talk from the Moore supporters about this being a conspiracy against their candidate, the real conspiracy may turn out to be from the Moore campaign themselves by getting witnesses to lie.
 
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Raoul said:
This smacks of a Bannon type operation.
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James o'Keefe was doing this previously as well - I think he single-andedly took down ACORN and landed a huge defeat on PP with interestingly-edited undercover videos.
 
berbatrick said:
James o'Keefe was doing this previously as well - I think he single-andedly took down ACORN and landed a huge defeat on PP with interestingly-edited undercover videos.
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Yeah its definitely O'Keefe, but this has Bannon's fingerprints all over it. Wouldn't surprise me if he put O'Keefe up to it.
 
DO ANTI-CHOICE ACTIVISTS have a constitutional right to trick vulnerable women seeking an abortion into stumbling into a facility run for the purpose of talking them out of one?

And if so, does the state have any right to require the facility to provide the women with basic information about their reproductive rights?

The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, a nonprofit representing anti-choice pregnancy centers, is challenging California’s requirement that all such centers inform patients that the state provides free or affordable access to contraception, prenatal care, and abortion.

The centers — often called “crisis pregnancy centers” in an effort to conflate them with abortion clinics — must also disclose whether they are medically licensed or have medical professionals available. The law, theReproductive FACT Act, was passed in 2015 after California’s legislature determined that roughly 200 crisis pregnancy centers across the state deployed “intentionally deceptive advertising and counseling practices [that] often confuse, misinform, and even intimidate women from making fully-informed, time-sensitive decisions about critical health care.”

NIFLA argues that California’s law violates its clients’ First Amendment right to free speech by forcing the centers to advertise abortion-related messages against their religious beliefs.
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Legal experts note that a win for the crisis pregnancy centers could, in the end, come back to bite them. In recent years, many states have passed laws requiring abortion clinics to provide patients with misleading or medically inaccurate facts, such as telling women that abortions may hurt their mental health or increase their risk of breast cancer. A win for the plaintiffs could make it easier for abortion clinics to challenge these sorts of mandates.
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https://theintercept.com/2017/11/27/the-first-amendment-case-that-could-upend-abortion-law/
 
--A federal judge hearing the case over who rightfully can lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on an acting basis Tuesday denied a request to block President Donald Trump from installing Mick Mulvaney as acting director.

At a hearing Tuesday evening at the US District Court in Washington, DC, Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that he will not issue an emergency order blocking Trump from installing Mulvaney in the post.--

--The government attorney said Mulvaney has instituted a regulatory freeze, so any concerns about him upending the status quo are unfounded, and the agency under him will continue to enforce the Dodd-Frank law.--

Well, apparently they're not following the Dodd-Frank law that mandated the deputy to assume acting director role until a nomination passes the senate. Just another display of dictatorship by Trump, and the GOP will do nothing about it.

More to come...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/director-cfpb-judge/index.html
Federal judge won't block Trump's pick to lead consumer protection agency

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Why that should worry citizens?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...to-run-consumer-watchdog-agency-he-hates.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/25/new...nsumer-financial-protection-bureau/index.html
 
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MrMarcello said:
--A federal judge hearing the case over who rightfully can lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on an acting basis Tuesday denied a request to block President Donald Trump from installing Mick Mulvaney as acting director.

At a hearing Tuesday evening at the US District Court in Washington, DC, Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that he will not issue an emergency order blocking Trump from installing Mulvaney in the post.--

--The government attorney said Mulvaney has instituted a regulatory freeze, so any concerns about him upending the status quo are unfounded, and the agency under him will continue to enforce the Dodd-Frank law.--

Well, apparently they're not following the Dodd-Frank law that mandated the deputy to assume acting director role until a nomination passes the senate. Just another display of dictatorship by Trump, and the GOP will do nothing about it.

More to come...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/director-cfpb-judge/index.html
Federal judge won't block Trump's pick to lead consumer protection agency

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Why that should worry citizens?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...to-run-consumer-watchdog-agency-he-hates.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/25/new...nsumer-financial-protection-bureau/index.html
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It's easy to get accustomed to the hysteria and antics from this regime, but getting rid of net neutrality and neutering the bureau for consumer protection within a week should be setting off some alarm bells.

As does the move on net neutrality happening during one of the busiest holidays in the US calendar. Of course, that wasn't on purpose, since the public wanted it to happen and was hugely pushing for it anyway...
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MrMarcello said:
--A federal judge hearing the case over who rightfully can lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on an acting basis Tuesday denied a request to block President Donald Trump from installing Mick Mulvaney as acting director.

At a hearing Tuesday evening at the US District Court in Washington, DC, Judge Timothy Kelly ruled that he will not issue an emergency order blocking Trump from installing Mulvaney in the post.--

--The government attorney said Mulvaney has instituted a regulatory freeze, so any concerns about him upending the status quo are unfounded, and the agency under him will continue to enforce the Dodd-Frank law.--

Well, apparently they're not following the Dodd-Frank law that mandated the deputy to assume acting director role until a nomination passes the senate. Just another display of dictatorship by Trump, and the GOP will do nothing about it.

More to come...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/28/politics/director-cfpb-judge/index.html
Federal judge won't block Trump's pick to lead consumer protection agency

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Why that should worry citizens?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...to-run-consumer-watchdog-agency-he-hates.html

http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/25/new...nsumer-financial-protection-bureau/index.html
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The weakness of the Obama Administration was not touting its victories and the instruments that it had built for the protection or good of the joe six-packs. Obamacare is a very good example and this Consumer watchdog being the latest.
Imagine if they had Trump-like effort in their marketing efforts to promote these various platforms...
 
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