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• Notre Dame students walk out on VP Pence’s commencement speech

  21-05-2017 23:01 via hotair.com
  
  A group of Notre Dame students walked out at the start of Vice President Pence’s commencement speech Sunday. The protest had been planned in advance so the walkout was not a surprise. What may have been a surprise was how few students actually decided to join the walkout. The group that organized the protest cited a news report saying 150 people walked out:South Bend Tribune saying 150 participants. That's great turnout! Thank you for everyone who showed courage by walking out #Walkou
  
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• Report: Trump leaning towards ending ObamaCare’s cost-sharing subsidies

  21-05-2017 21:31 via hotair.com
  
  Rumors about this have been swirling for months but the moment of truth is nearly here. Tomorrow’s the deadline for the White House to decide if it wants to continue to fight the lawsuit filed by the House of Representatives against the Obama administration over O-Care’s cost-sharing subsidies. The House claims that it never appropriated money for the subsidies; Obama chose to spend the money anyway. (The subsidies reimburse insurers for reducing the deductibles and out-of-pocket exp
  
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• Venezuelan tyrant tells Trump to, “get your pig hands out of here”

  21-05-2017 20:01 via hotair.com
  
  Come now, sir. There’s no need to resort to rudeness.
  When we heard the announcement about sanctions against Venezuelan supreme court judges this week I wasn’t overly impressed. Considering how badly any semblance of democratic principles have been thrown under the bus in that socialist paradise and the way that the hand picked supreme court does the bidding of their despot, Nicolas Maduro, a few sanctions seemed like rather weak tea. But Maduro himself didn’t take it that way.
  
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• On Same Weekend as Record-Breaking Arms Deal, Saudis Announced $100 Million Donation to Ivanka Fund

  21-05-2017 19:11
  
  Over the weekend, Jared Kushner was credited with negotiating a $110 billion arms deal with the Saudis. Over the weekend, Jared Kushner was credited with negotiating a $110 billion arms deal to the Saudis, the largest arms deal in U.S. history:The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser. He shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson
  
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• Why the U.S. Does Not Have Universal Health Care, While Many Other Countries Do

  21-05-2017 18:33
  
  America won't be getting universal healthcare anytime soon.The lead-up to the House passage of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) on May 4, which passed by a narrow majority after a failed first attempt, provided a glimpse into just how difficult it is to gain consensus on health care coverage. In the aftermath of the House vote, many people have asked: Why are politicians struggling to find consensus on the AHCA instead of pursuing universal coverage? After all, most advanced industr
  
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• Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia took some risks but could open a door

  21-05-2017 18:31 via hotair.com
  
  In a sweeping and wide ranging set of remarks, President Trump launched into his much anticipated address to the Muslim world. This was a moment which could have really gone off the rails if the President had begun freestyling and dropped back into campaign mode, but this wound up being one of the most impressive speeches of his presidency in front of an audience which definitely contained elements who might be skeptical of him at best. He announced several initiatives in cooperation with not on
  
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• Let the Wild Romp-Us Begin! What Have Men in Suits Done for Us Lately?

  21-05-2017 17:36
  
  I, for one, welcome our new adult-baby overlords. Take the man-romper as a sign of optimism for a brighter future.A couple of mornings ago, I woke in a panic. My dreams have been hyper-realistic verging on the hysterical lately, and I had just spent a cycle living out the beginning days of a “Handmaid’s Tale” violent transition to full reproductive martial law. This kind of thing happens when, after a long day of working through a logic-defying, emotionally abusive news cycle,
  
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• Sunday reflection: John 14:15–21

  21-05-2017 17:31 via hotair.com
  
  This morning’s Gospel reading is John 14:15–21:
  Jesus said to his disciples:
  “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you wil
  
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• Billionaire Betsy DeVos Wants to Scrap Student Debt Forgiveness. Surprised?

  21-05-2017 17:24
  
  The secretary of education's plan represents the Trump administration’s multi-part assault on public education and the non-rich. When Donald Trump appointed Betsy DeVos secretary of education, America’s school-going people worried it was only a matter of time before she brought back debtors’ prison for student loan defaulters and subcontracted out K-12 education to Nickelodeon. Now Donald and Betsy are one step closer to making that vision a reality, with $10.6bn in c
  
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• Fox Host Avoids Trump Bowing to Saudi King While Interviewing Kellyanne Conway

  21-05-2017 17:12
  
  Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s show played B-roll of Trump’s lavish visit to Saudi Arabia.The Fox News program Justice with Judge Jeanine on Saturday abruptly cut video of President Donald Trump bowing his head to King Salman of Saudi Arabia.During an interview with Trump Counselor Kellyanne Conway, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s show played B-roll of Trump’s lavish visit to Saudi Arabia.But when the highly-mocked video of Trump bowing to accept a gift f
  
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• What would have happened in a Sanders vs Trump race?

  21-05-2017 17:01 via hotair.com
  
  I’ll confess right up front that I don’t watch Bill Maher’s show on HBO, but one of his recent episodes is covered over at AlterNet and it broke out into some blue on blue verbal warfare. Maher got into a scrap with Cornel West, an avowed Bernie Sanders supporter, over West’s claim that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were “equally awful.” Even though it still comes down to a battle over which of them despises President Trump more, West feels that the Democra
  
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• Senate finally targeting bonuses for malfeasant federal employees

  21-05-2017 15:31 via hotair.com
  
  While much of the news this week revolved around the President’s overseas trip, there was actually some business of the people getting done in Washington. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee actually found an issue where both the Democrats and Republicans could agree. A bill introduced by Nebraska Republican Senator Deb Fischer intended to stop the payment of bonuses to federal employees who commit offenses subject to suspension or firing actually passed through
  
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• Clock-boy’s discrimination lawsuit dismissed by federal judge

  21-05-2017 02:31 via hotair.com
  
  Ahmed Mohamed, better known as clock boy, has lost in court again. His family’s discrimination lawsuit against the city, the school district, and the principal have been dismissed by a federal judge. From CBS News:
  On Thursday, Judge Sam Lindsay of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying the plaintiffs had failed to prove officials discriminated against Mohamed.
  In his ruling, Lindsay dismissed claims ag
  
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• The Probation Officer Protection Act is actually not such a bad idea

  21-05-2017 01:01 via hotair.com
  
  Yesterday morning, Taylor published an article about a piece of pending legislation which he gave the rather straightforward title of, The Probation Officer Protection Act is a bad idea. I actually read it over before it was published and I really didn’t agree with Taylor’s take on it at all. After having had a day or two to chew it over, I’d like to offer an alternate view. (Not to be confused with alternative facts for those of you just tuning in.)
  What he’s discussing,
  
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