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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on September 15, 2018 23 Comments
Twitter has long been adversarial to conservatives, libertarians, Republicans, and other right-leaning users; we've been suspended and/or banned so often that a lot of conservatives have a second account in place should they end up in the infamous #TwitterGulag. Since the outrage and backlash against these blatant attempts to silence any and everyone not toeing the regressive line, Twitter has become more creative in its efforts to silence "wrong thought."  First it was shadow-banning, and when they got called out on that, they started a new and deeply bizarre not shadowbanning shadow-banning policy.

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Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on September 15, 2018 55 Comments
The #Resistance isn't content with its "impeach Trump" efforts, its Russia investigation, its marches, boycotts, and pussy hats.  Some of them are targeting President Trump's business efforts as a means of political retribution. The latest of these efforts took place in Washington DC where a "group of civic and religious leaders" banded together to press the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration there to revoke the Trump International Hotel's liquor license.  The group, laughably calling themselves "Make Integrity Great Again," asserted that he doesn't pass the "good character" test.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 15, 2018 21 Comments
As the week draws to a close, a new analysis shows that California is actually leading the nation . . . in the poverty rate.
Newly released federal estimates show California’s poverty rate remained the highest in the nation, despite a modest fall, and the state’s falling uninsured rate slowed for the first time since before Medicaid expansion.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 15, 2018 2 Comments
Next week, South Korean President Moon Jae-in is expected to head to Pyongyang for the first time with the goal of accelerating international efforts to denuclearize North Korea.
"At this stage, I believe it is most important to put a complete end to military tensions between North and South, or possibility of military conflict, or war threat," Moon told reporters Thursday.

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 15, 2018 77 Comments
Former Secretary of State John Kerry recently admitted that he has had meetings with officials from Iran since leaving office. One of the points Kerry relayed to them was that they should wait out the Trump presidency. It's nearly impossible to imagine the firestorm this would set off among Democrats and the media if a former Bush official had done this to Obama.

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Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on September 14, 2018 25 Comments
Senate Democrats have redefined "absurdity" since the confirmation hearings for Judge Kavanaugh began ten days ago. With every single antic squashed and mocked, Sen. Feinstein released a super secret letter to the FBI, a letter alleging that 30 some odd years ago, Kavanaugh sexually assaulted a woman.

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on September 14, 2018 16 Comments
The Texas Senate race between Senator Cruz and Rep. Beto O'Rourke has gotten a little too close for comfort (if the polling data is anywhere near accurate, which we've explored over the last few months here on the blog). Cruz and O'Rourke had been in discussions for five debates.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 14, 2018 26 Comments
Pope Francis has just concluded an emergency summit with U.S. bishops over the growing sex abuse crisis and cover-up scandal that has impacted the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of the revelations in by a Pennsylvania grand jury and the details offered in a letter recently published by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, who served a a Vatican diplomat in Washington D.C. from 2011 to 2016.

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 14, 2018 20 Comments
Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort faced a second trial this month on seven counts of foreign lobbying violations and witness tampering. Reports have surfaced this morning that Manafort will plead guilty to two criminal charges. Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed superseding criminal information, which "typically precedes a guilty plea, and a plea hearing for Manafort has been scheduled for 11 a.m. in federal court in Washington, D.C."

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 14, 2018 21 Comments
Once again, if you don't want to be called fake news, DO NOT PUSH OUT FAKE NEWS. The New York Times published an article this morning that curtains in Nikki Haley's apartment cost $52,701. Buried within the article? The Obama administration ordered the curtains in 2016 and Haley had no say in it! But muh narrative.

Posted by Leslie Eastman on September 13, 2018 2 Comments
It was my pleasure to interview Legal Insurrection's Antonio Branco during the Canto Talk show today, with host Silvio Canto Jr. We began the show remembering where we were during the events of September 11, 2001. I recounted walking to my local swimming pool that morning, and hearing the TV broadcasts from all the homes I passed through the open windows. Both Antonio and I agreed that it was the first major event that we followed more closely through the internet and new media than through traditional news sources.

Posted by Andrew Branca on September 13, 2018 39 Comments
A prosecutor in Colorado Springs is going to once again test the legal boundaries of Colorado’s "make-my-day" statute, which came into law in 1986. The "Make My Day" law, properly §18-1-704.5. Use of deadly physical force against an intruder, has several substantive sections:  one relaxes the proportionality requirement when dealing with a home intruder under certain circumstances.  Two others provide for criminal and civil immunity under those same circumstances.

Posted by Mary Chastain on September 13, 2018 69 Comments
The Atlantic wrote an article about teenagers protesting in-class presentations after a tweet went viral that said "stop forcing students to present in front of the class and give them a choice not to." Students said this experience can be traumatic and permanently scar them. As someone with severe anxiety, I understand where they're coming from. I refuse to use the word snowflake in this situation because there is a stigma around anxiety and it's not well understood, but at the same time, learning to speak in front of people is a valuable lesson.
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