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Posted at 8:30 pm on May 16, 2017 by Kira Davis   a freeloader and he’s tired of your complaining. speech in Orange County last week Brown responded to criticism over a new $52 billion tax hike that was hastily rammed through Sacramento by the Democrat supermajority over the objections of taxpayers across the state.

Posted at 10:54 pm on May 16, 2017 by Kimberly Ross Fortunately for Americans, there are still some level-headed politicians in D.C. Given what has transpired this past week, it would seem that this is increasingly rare. Mark Meadows is chair of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of representatives whose disgust with the initial version of the AHCA put them at odds with the president and other party members.

Posted at 11:35 pm on May 16, 2017 by Caleb Howe On Fox News tonight, Rep. Trey Gowdy cut right to the heart of the latest explosive Trump story. We’ve all heard now about the already-infamous Comey memo written about by the New York Times. As you know, they did not have a copy but had it read to them over the phone. Comey has not denied the memo, but it does mean that, at the very least, we don’t know the sum of it. So Gowdy rightly, directly, and succinctly points out what should be obvious: we need to see it.

Posted at 11:43 pm on May 16, 2017 by Jim Jamitis By any measure, the last couple of weeks haven’t been good ones for President Trump. The firing of Jim Comey and then the release of intelligence to the Russians which absolutely didn’t happen until Trump himself tweeted that it absolutely did, energized his opponents on the left and had them shrieking about a Constitutional crisis and treason. Now it looks like Trump fired Comey after unsuccessfully trying to get him to drop the Mike Flynn investigation.

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(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • “I hope you can let this go.” President Trump asked the former F.B.I. director, James Comey, to close the investigation into Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, over Mr.