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• Fun: Left wants Senate Dems to confirm Merrick Garland in a three-minute window in January or something

  07-12-2016 23:41 via hotair.com
  
  This post is really just an ad to get you to go read Sean Davis’s post at the Federalist, as he’s an expert in Senate procedure and has roughly 37 reasons why this inane idea couldn’t work under the rules of the chamber. To give you a sense of what the left is doing with its time lately during breaks from electoral-college-revolt porn, here’s the argument (as summarized by Davis). Picture it: January 3rd, 2017. The 34 senators who were elected in November are waiting pati
  
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• Dakota Access Pipeline protesters asked to leave by Standing Rock Sioux tribal chairman

  07-12-2016 23:01 via hotair.com
  
  The federal government and the Governor of North Dakota have already asked Dakota Accesss Pipeline protesters to leave their makeshift camp, now the tribal chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux has joined them. Dave Archambault told Reuters Monday, “We’re thankful for everyone who joined this cause and stood with us.” He added, “The people who are supporting us … they can return home and enjoy this winter with their families. Same with law enforcement. I am
  
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• Boeing to Trump: Let’s work together to hold down AF1 costs

  07-12-2016 22:31 via hotair.com
  
  Donald Trump’s tweet about the massive costs of replacing Air Force One prompted a pledge from Boeing to work with the new administration to deliver the best value for taxpayers. By working together, though, Boeing means that the government may need to adjust its expectations on the new pair of 747-8s. Nevertheless, Boeing execs are open to some bargaining, and they reached out to the transition team to make sure they knew it, Bloomberg reports:
  Boeing Co. executives told officials on Pres
  
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• Scientists fear C-section births are altering human evolution

  07-12-2016 22:01 via hotair.com
  
  Before anyone gets too carried away I want to warn you up front that this is a story about evolution. But don’t worry… it’s not the Darwin sort or any discussion of the original origins of man. This science tale deals with “evolution” happening on a much shorter scale. In fact, when compared to the traditional view of the evolution of lifeforms it’s taking place virtually overnight. At least one group of doctors believes that the practice of doctors performin
  
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• Trump chooses Gen. John Kelly to lead Homeland Security

  07-12-2016 21:31 via hotair.com
  
  On the one hand, three former generals in cabinet, or cabinet-level, positions? And not just any cabinet positions but key national security positions. Trump will have Mike Flynn as NSA, James Mattis at Defense, and now John Kelly at DHS. There’s a chance (but a diminishing one) that Adm. Mike Rogers will end up as DNI too, which would leave Jeff Sessions as the only cabinet member in a counterterror leadership role who isn’t a former military officer. All this from a guy known for s
  
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• Democrats once again ask Obama to pardon ‘Dreamers’

  07-12-2016 21:01 via hotair.com
  
  A group of more than 60 Democrats have signed a letter asking President Obama to use his pardon power to grant clemency to more than 700,000 illegal immigrants often referred to as “Dreamers.” The letter reads in part:
  Secondly, we reiterate our request for you to use your Constitutional authority to provide pardons for civil immigration violations. Just as Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution delegates to Congress the authority to establish a “uniform Rule of Naturali
  
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• What a Top FBI Profiler Taught Me About Extreme Narcissists Like Donald Trump

  07-12-2016 20:39
  
  Click here for reuse options!“Flawed individuals will victimize you." I recently spoke with former FBI agent Joe Navarro about Donald Trump. Navarro was one of the FBI’s top profilers, a founding member of their elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, and author of several books on human behavior, including Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People.To be clear, at no time did Navarro diagnose Trump as having a narcissisti
  
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• How to land in prison because of the mannequin challenge

  07-12-2016 20:07 via hotair.com
  
  This seems like a good day for some news on the lighter side. I assume that by now you’ve heard of the mannequin challenge? It’s that pointless trend on social media where you film a group of people standing still for a while and then everyone begins moving again. Heck, even Hillary Clinton got in on the act back when she still planned on being president. But did you know it could get you arrested? Turns out it can. Take a gander at this group of light hearted individuals performing
  
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• The New Dystopia: What Comes After Trump

  07-12-2016 19:35
  
  Click here for reuse options!A look into the dark future; election 2016 was only the beginning. The following is an excerpt from John Feffer’s  new dystopian novel, Splinterlands (Haymarket, 2016). It’s a look back at our world from the shattered Earth of 2050.  Feffer’s novel has come to read ever less like futuristic fiction and ever more like a vivid journalistic report on the latest developments in our distressed, Trumpian universe.  The story is about a &ldq
  
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• RomneyWatch™: CBS claims Romney is now the top contender for Secretary of State

  07-12-2016 19:31 via hotair.com
  
  Good lord almighty. This might actually happen.
  Mitt Romney is now the strongest remaining candidate for President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of state, CBS News’ Major Garrett reports.
  No final decision has been made yet, but Romney, in comparison with Gen. David Petraeus (ret) and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, is in the strongest position to date.
  Petraeus, sources told Garrett, is out of the running. Gen. John Kelly’s nomination to run the Department of Homeland Se
  
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• AlterNet Comics: Matt Bors on the Best Case Scenarios for Defeating Trump

  07-12-2016 19:22
  
  Click here for reuse options!From Jill Stein to secret Slovenian slayers.  Click here for reuse options! Related StoriesAlterNet Comics: Tom Tomorrow on What We Have to Be Grateful For This ThanksgivingAlterNet Comics: Matt Bors on Trump and the NSAAlterNet Comic: Tom Tomorrow on America's Great Divide
  
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• Keith Ellison: I’ll resign my seat if I win the election for DNC chair

  07-12-2016 19:01 via hotair.com
  
  Keith Ellison announced Wednesday that he would resign his seat in Congress if he wins the race for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. Politico reports Ellison released a statement which said, “In order to further their commitment and maximize my effectiveness, I have decided to resign as a member of Congress if I win the election for DNC chair.”
  CBS Minnesota has more of Ellison’s statement:
  “Since I threw my hat in the ring a few weeks ago for the Ch
  
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• Chomsky & Belafonte: Trump's Threat to America

  07-12-2016 19:01
  
  Click here for reuse options!The two legendary figures discussed Trump, Sanders, the KKK and more.On Monday, over 2,000 people packed into Riverside Church in Manhattan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Democracy Now! It was an historic occasion in part because it marked the first time Noam Chomsky and Harry Belafonte appeared on stage together in conversation. The two have been longtime champions of social justice. Chomsky is a world-renowned political dissident, linguist and author who gain
  
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• House Dems ignore Midwest while filling expanded leadership slots

  07-12-2016 18:31 via hotair.com
  
  Democrats have lost vast swaths of the country over the last six years, and Tim Ryan’s challenge to Nancy Pelosi’s perch atop the caucus intended on getting more middle-America voices in Democratic leadership. Pelosi survived by promising more access to leadership positions and more attention to areas outside the coasts. With 15 leadership posts filled, guess how many don’t come from the coastal states that now dominate the House Democratic caucus? Four — and on
  
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• Now that Trump’s won, media suddenly notices that a lot of new jobs are crappy

  07-12-2016 18:01 via hotair.com
  
  You’re going to be seeing a shift in the way the media covers the news in the coming years with the change in management at the White House. Even though the inauguration is still quite a few weeks away, that process has already begun. Just to take one of the more glaring examples which you can reliably track each and every month, let’s take a look at the Washington Post’s coverage of the jobs reports which come out every month.
  When the September jobs report came out we were st
  
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• Trump: We’re going to work something out on DREAMers that’ll make people happy

  07-12-2016 17:31 via hotair.com
  
  I … don’t think he means deportation.
  As for the people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as youths and now have work visas under Obama, Trump did not back off his pledge to end Obama’s executive orders. But he made clear he would like to find some future accommodation for them. “We’re going to work something out that’s going to make people happy and proud,” he says, showing a sympathy for young migrants that was often absent during the campaign. &
  
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• Colorado responds to faithless-elector suit: “Odious,” “evil”

  07-12-2016 17:01 via hotair.com
  
  Who knew the Electoral College could get this interesting? Two electors in Colorado have filed a lawsuit against the state, demanding that they be freed to vote for whomever they personally choose. Both electors are bound to Hillary Clinton, but hope to woo enough electors to join them in order to stop Donald Trump from inauguration six weeks from now.
  This effort has been ongoing for a couple of weeks. However, the state’s response is noteworthy — and pulls no punches:
  “I
  
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• Alec Baldwin is having a ‘very, very difficult time’ with the election

  07-12-2016 16:31 via hotair.com
  
  The man who gets paid a bunch of money to impersonate President-elect Donald Trump lamented to a Spanish-language magazine about how tough things are right now in his world after Hillary Clinton won the presidential election.
  “I’m glad people find it funny … but at the same time, I think people were very worried about the election,” Baldwin told Spanish-language HOLA! magazine, according to PEOPLE.
  “Both sides are very passionate so it’s been a very, very dif
  
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• Virginia “voluntary gun turn-in” program runs into predictable problems

  07-12-2016 16:01 via hotair.com
  
  I never get tired of the seemingly endless series of stories about communities where they decide to combat gun violence by having voluntary gun turn-in or “buy back” programs. It’s not that I object to seeing them try… everyone is free to do what they wish under the law. But all of these stunts seem to wind up defeating their own purpose or simply devolving into parody. There’s another of these programs taking place in Virginia and, as usual, word got out about it
  
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• 75 years ago: “A date which will live in infamy”

  07-12-2016 15:31 via hotair.com
  
  Seventy-five years ago yesterday, most Americans believed that the two vast oceans on our coasts kept us safe from war as long as we pretended not to be part of it. Seventy-five years ago today, an “unprovoked and dastardly attack” on Pearl Harbor woke us from that fantasy — at the cost of over 2400 American lives. Pearl Harbor shattered our pretensions of isolation, and forced the US to perpetually prepare for war even during periods of peace, a lesson that we have occasi
  
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• BRIEF-Wecast to partner with Zhejiang Yanhua Culture Media - Reuters

  07-12-2016 15:28 via reuters.com
  
  BRIEF-Wecast to partner with Zhejiang Yanhua Culture Media
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  Reuters is the news and media division of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters is the world's largest international multimedia news agency, providing investing news, world news, business news, technology news, headline news, small business news, news ...
  
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• Schumer looking to find common ground with Trump on American steel production

  07-12-2016 15:01 via hotair.com
  
  Personally I’m not placing much emphasis on seeing Donald Trump and the GOP majority in Congress rushing to “reach across the aisle” to Democrats now that we’re finally in charge of the entire show. The Democrats haven’t exactly been in the habit of working with conservatives in any way which would buy them that sort of political capital. But incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer seems to be a bit more pragmatic and in search of some gaps in the GOP alliance
  
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• Time: The 2016 Person of the Year is …

  07-12-2016 14:31 via hotair.com
  
  Come on, man. Who else would have been chosen in the Year of the Populist? Time Magazine named Donald Trump its Person of the Year after his surprise win in the presidential election, a result that confounded most analysts on Election Night, and still confounds many of them to this day.
  Guess who came in second? No fair peeking:Had Hillary Clinton managed to win Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan in the way that Trump did, there’s no doubt that Time would have bestowed this honor on her
  
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• This “Laura Ingraham for Press Sec” thing might actually be happening

  07-12-2016 14:01 via hotair.com
  
  There’s been a seemingly endless line of people showing up at Trump Tower for meetings with the President Elect, providing the press pool with fodder for non-stop speculation. One of the more flamboyant figures on the guest list was Laura Ingraham, who took her turn yesterday. When word of her scheduled appearance first broke, our colleague Jim Jamitis at RedState (no fan of Trump’s to be sure) noted that she had been an early supporter of Trump’s so this probably wasn’t
  
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• Culture Machine to make sports content for Scout Media - MediaNama.com

  07-12-2016 10:32 via medianama.com
  
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  Culture Machine to make sports content for Scout Media
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  Culture Machine has tied up with US-based Scout Media to provide its Video Machine services, which lets content producers create videos from audio and text sources to provide visuals and accompanying content. Culture Machine mentions that its ...and more »
  
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• Interview with UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport - CCTV

  07-12-2016 08:10 via english.cctv.com
  Interview with UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
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  Meetings of senior officials from China and the UK are taking place in Shanghai. This is the 4th China-UK High-Level People-to-People Exchange dialogue. CCTV's Lin Nan sits down with Karen Bradley, Britain's Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and ...
  
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• YouGov poll: Republicans far more likely than Democrats to agree that America has been losing from the free market

  07-12-2016 04:31 via hotair.com
  
  A follow-up to Ed’s post earlier on the Morning Consult poll confirming that the “free-market party” isn’t really a free-market party and probably hasn’t been for a long time.
  Here’s the partisan breakdown when Americans are asked whether they agree with Mike Pence’s instantly famous protectionist profession of faith on the day the Carrier deal was announced that “the free market has been sorting it out and America’s been losing.”Trump
  
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• John Kasich to faithless electors: Don’t vote for me for president

  07-12-2016 04:01 via hotair.com
  
  Kasich was the one person specifically named in Christopher Suprun’s op-ed last night as a possible alternative for members of the electoral college. Realistically, though, he’s the only alternative. Every other prominent Republican who might conceivably be chosen as a protest vote by anti-Trump electors has already been coopted by Trump. Paul Ryan? He’s Trump’s right-hand man in the House. Mitt Romney? He could be Trump’s top diplomat before the week is out. Nikki
  
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• Research Report on Global Cell Culture Media Market 2016 Biotechnology Industry, Competitive Applications, Market ... - Digital Journal

  07-12-2016 01:33 via digitaljournal.com
  Research Report on Global Cell Culture Media Market 2016 Biotechnology Industry, Competitive Applications, Market ...
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