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May 19, 2016

Green 20 Gets A Congressional Committee ‘Shot Across The Bow’

The Green 20, seventeen state’s attorneys general and eight environmental groups (17+8=20?) received letters from 13 Science, Space, and Technology Committee Republicans (13=13), concerned that the legal intimidation tactics of the Green 20 (+5) might be violating citizen’s first amendment rights. The letters request documents related to the groups’ coordinated efforts to deprive companies, nonprofit organizations, scientists …

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90% of Native Americans Aren’t Bothered By This, 80% Don’t Care At All

Washington Redskins. It’s not just “not that big a deal” to Native Americans, most of them couldn’t care less. These findings show that the fight has wasted lots and lots of time, money, and especially attention. It’s a non-crisis, a made-for-media controversy that matters to very, very few people. The poll shows that 73% of …

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Trump’s List of SCOTUS Nominees

Presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump released a list of names of possible nominees for appointment to the US Supreme Court–should he be elected President. (Fox) Top picks include conservative federal and state judges like Steven Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado and Raymond Gruender of Missouri. Also on the list are: Thomas …

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Obama Speech Writer’s Laugh About ‘If you Like Your Plan You Can Keep Your Plan’

https://youtu.be/Pkqn6wsrUfs Some of Barack Obama’s speech writer’s laugh it up on Charlie Rose over Jon Lovett’s crafting of the idea that ‘If you like your Insurance you can keep it.’ If you don’t find it all that funny, given what is happening to health insurance and health care in America, feel free to take it …

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NH Defrauds Exxon Mobil with MTBE Scam

“the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety), by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”  – H.L. Mencken