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09/29/2019
Insanity
City bans calling someone an ‘illegal alien’ out of hate It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate. The restriction…
09/17/2019
It's important to hold our politicians accountable for the things they say. There are several objective, irresponsible inaccuracies and problems in Gabbard’s assertions. Read more below.
Tulsi Gabbard to Trump: 'We Are Not Your Prostitutes. You Are Not Our Pimp' | Breitbart Rep. Tulsi Gabbard denounced the idea of defending Saudi Arabia, telling the president: "We are not your prostitutes. You are not our pimp."
10/15/2018
Last week, the U.S. Air Force selected Blue Origin and others to develop a domestic launch system prototype. The Pentagon deal awards Blue Origin $500 million for the development of the New Glenn rocket.
"We are going to continue to support the [Department of Defense]," Bezos said. "If big tech companies are going to turn their back on the U.S. Department of Defense, this country is going to be in trouble."
Jeff Bezos predicts we'll have 1 trillion humans in the solar system He will spend a "little more" than $1 billion annually to support Blue Origin, Bezos said.
09/27/2018
https://nypost.com/2018/09/27/two-men-tell-senate-that-they-not-kavanaugh-assaulted-ford/
Two men tell Senate that they, not Kavanaugh, assaulted Ford Two men have come forward to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee to claim that they are the ones who actually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford during a house party in 1982 — and not Supreme Co…
09/03/2018
DeVos Is Right to Close Campus Kangaroo Courts | RealClearPolitics DeVos Is Right to Close Campus Kangaroo Courts | RealClearPolitics
Seventy-seven years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered a Labor Day radio address.
“In times of national emergency,” he told the nation, “one fact is brought home to us, clearly and decisively — the fact that all of our rights are interdependent.”
It was three months before the United States entered the Second World War. “The right of freedom of worship would mean nothing without freedom of speech,” Roosevelt continued. “And the rights of free labor as we know them today could not survive without the rights of free enterprise.
“That is the indestructible bond that is between us — between all of us Americans: interdependence of interests, privileges, opportunities, responsibilities — interdependence of rights.
“That is what unites us — men and women of all sections, of all races, of all faiths, of all occupations, of all political beliefs. That is why we have been able to defy and frustrate the enemies who believed that they could divide us and conquer us from within.”
— Sam Sifton (NYT)