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Posted at 7:34 pm on July 7, 2017 by Jim Jamitis Goofball conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is offering 20 grand for the best anti-CNN meme because people who follow Alex Jones and Infowars are really upset that someone would push bogus stories as news. Let that sink in. (Note: I’m deliberately not linking directly to this nonsense.) I don’t know what bothers me more about this—that running a loony conspiracy website is so lucrative that Jones has enough disposable cash to blow $20,000 on a poorly made GIF; or that InfoWars, Alex Jones, and his avid followers think

Posted at 8:00 pm on July 7, 2017 by streiff There are two good pieces of news on border security. One is a policy shift and the second is the Border Patrol data. First the policy change. One of the things John Kelly has going for him in immigration enforcement is that ICE is happy to arrest and deport illegals, but they have had their hand stayed for quite a while.

Posted at 9:17 pm on July 7, 2017 by streiff The Mengele-esque medical claque at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has found playing God has responsibility. They’ve “reconsidered” their unilateral decision to remove 11-month-old Charlie Gard from life support over the wishes of his parents. This is bullsh**.

An Omaha man was arrested by the FBI on Friday after he made threats to "kill" U.S. Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), according to a report from the DesMoines Register. Robert William Simet, 64, was charged and arrested for threatening a U.S. official on Friday in Omaha, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of Iowa.

Walter Shaub, the Office of Government Ethics director who announced his resignation Thursday, said the current ethics program in the White House is a "serious disappointment." When asked on MSNBC Friday about the ethics program in the White House, Shaub said, "I have only got really good things to say about the ethics program that President Bush ran and the ethics program that President Obama ran.” President Trump's White House, Shaub said, has been a "very serious disappointment." When pressed on whether top White House officials and the president are free from conflicts of interest in the W

Greenpeace protestors hung a banner from Trump Tower in Chicago reading “Resist, Defend” on Friday. Greenpeace posted about the protest banner on their Facebook page. “Activists have just raised a massive banner at Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago to show this administration that the people of Chicago -- and people all over the country -- will continue to RESIST Trump's attacks on our clean air and water, and defend our communities and the planet!” the post read. The environmental group has been outspoken against the Trump administration's environmental policies.  Greenpeace acti

Alaska Senator MORE (R) said “there is a good nucleus of people” from both parties working on healthcare reform. “I have been in communication with colleagues on the other side of the aisle about our opportunities as lawmakers to come up with healthcare reform that’s actually going to make a difference for us in terms of reducing costs and increasing access,” Murkowski told The Washington Post

More than a dozen disability rights protesters were arrested outside Sen.

In pediatrics, attachment is the emotional connection that develops between a young child and a parent or other caregiver. Attachment theory was developed in the mid-20th century by a British psychiatrist, John Bowlby, whose own upper-class British upbringing included the loss of a beloved nanny, and an early trip to boarding school.

It was past 1 a.m. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, on Memorial Day weekend, on Fulton Street between Throop and Nostrand. A few bodegas and a fried chicken spot were open, supported by gaggles of hungry young people bubbling up from the subway every few minutes. Hip-hop from passing cars with windows open or tops down melted into the night. But for the most part, it was quiet.