This is outrageous. Sen. McConnell Refuses to Let Sen. Warren Speak About Attorney General N...

McCain: Travel Ban Rollout ‘Out-Of-The-Blue Explosion’ | MSNBC

McCain: Travel Ban Rollout ‘Out-Of-The-Blue Explosion’ | MSNBC

The argument against Scalia style Supreme Court "Originalism" Alexander Hamilton

The argument against Scalia style Supreme Court "Originalism" "Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things."

Elliot's Debates, volume 2, p. 364. (28 July 1788) By Alexander Hamilton

Government by white nationalism is upon us. By Jamelle Bouie

"Before the election, when Donald Trump was still just an unlikely presidential nominee, a conservative under the pseudonym “Publius Decius Mus,” wrote a remarkable essay in support of Trump. The pseudonym alone gave a glimpse into the writer’s thinking. The real-life Decius was a Roman consul who sacrificed himself to the gods for the sake of his embattled army. And in the same way, our internet Decius called on conservatives to embrace Trump—to back the vulgarian who mocked their ideals—for the sake of saving the country as they knew it. “The ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle,” he wrote, hailing the real estate mogul as the only figure who understood the stakes, who would beat back these “foreigners” and preserve America’s democratic tradition as Decius saw it. Not a tradition of pluralism, but one of exclusion, in which white Americans stand as the only legitimate players in political life. A dictatorship of the herrenvolk...."





Government by white nationalism is upon us.

Study: White Extremists More Dangerous Than Islamists Since 9/11 | Time.com

"Since 9/11, white right-wing terrorists have killed almost twice as many Americans in homegrown attacks than radical Islamists have, according to research by the New America Foundation.

In their June study, the foundation decided to examine groups "engaged in violent extremist activity" and found that white extremists were by far the most dangerous. They pointed to the recent Emanuel AME Church shooting in Charleston, S.C., and the 2012 attack on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, as well as many lesser-known attacks on Jewish institutions and on police. They found that 48 people were killed by white terrorists, while 26 were killed by radical Islamists, since Sept. 11.

The study also found that the criminal justice system judged jihadists more harshly than their non-Muslim counterparts, indicting them more frequently than non-jihadists and handing down longer sentences."





Study: White Extremists More Dangerous Than Islamists Since 9/11 | Time.com

Trump's Cabinet; No Hispanics or Blacks. There is one Asian and one colored man.

Sean Spicer on Trump Cabinet diversity: 'It's not just about skin color or ethnic heritage' - Doesn't he know that diversity matters? CNNPolitics.com

The Trump administration is ignorant and racist This is Spicer's response to a question regarding that there were no Hispanics in his Cabinet. They have no clue that diversity matters. He said "It is a priority but I think it is a very narrow way to look at it to say: 'If you don't appoint people to this particular position that's a problem,' " Spicer said Thursday at a news conference. "The No. 1 thing that I think Americans should focus on is, 'Is he hiring the best and the brightest? Is he hiring people that are committed to enacting real change?'"

Arturo Vargas, executive director of National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, a nonprofit of more than 6,000 Latino elected and appointed public officials, responded Thursday.
"The exclusion of a Latino voice in President-elect Trump's cabinet has set back our nation. Latinos are the nation's second largest population group, one of every four of America's children, and the highest policy body of the country is void of its perspective," Vargas said in a statement." The onus now is on the President to bring in the voice and perspectives of Latinos into his decision making."

Sean Spicer on Trump Cabinet diversity: 'It's not just about skin color or ethnic heritage' - CNNPolitics.com

Is Steve Bannon the Real President? - The Daily Show

Trump administration lied about the 'yemen raid. Sources contradict White House on Yemen raid The Trump administration's characterization of Sunday's SEAL team raid in Yemen is evolving as more questions have been raised about the operation and contradictions are arising.

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Racist Steve Bannon's 'Islamic State of America' documentary movie pitch. We are getting another window into the worldview of the president's senior advisor and chief strategist, Steve Bannon as the Washington Post obtains an outline of a documentary-style movie pitch by Bannon from ten years ago called, "Islamic State of America

 

 

 

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Trump was to lazy to read executive order he signed placing racist advisor Steve Bannon on the National Security Council

President Trump equates USA to Putin's Russia | MSNBC: ""
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Trump Says Voter Fraud. Stephen Says Bull.

A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months - The New York Times

"A rapidly advancing crack in Antarctica’s fourth-largest

ice shelf has scientists concerned that it is getting

close to a full break. The rift has accelerated this

year in an area already vulnerable to warming

temperatures. Since December, the crack has grown

by the length of about five football fields each day. "

 

A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months - The New York Times

Kellyanne Conway Referenced ‘Bowling Green Attack’ in TMZ Interview - The Daily Beast

"Kellyanne Conway referred to a fictitious “Bowling Green attack” to defend President Donald Trump’s ban on travel and immigration days before she said she misspoke on MSNBC’s Hardball.

During a brief video interview with TMZ on January 29, Conway referenced the event that did not happen. "



Kellyanne Conway Referenced ‘Bowling Green Attack’ in TMZ Interview - The Daily Beast

More evidence of a Manchrian Administration as Democrats ask Pentagon to explain 2015 payment Flynn received from Russia - The Washington Post

"The ranking Democrats on six House congressional committees asked the Pentagon on Wednesday for information about President Trump’s national security adviser, suggesting that he may have violated a constitutional restriction by accepting a fee for speaking at a 2015 Moscow event."
Democrats ask Pentagon to explain 2015 payment Flynn received from Russia - The Washington Post

Black Lives, White Lies and Emmett Till - The New York Times

"The history of the American South is littered with lynchings and burnings of black citizens that went unpunished, either because the authorities could not rouse themselves to charge the killers or because all-white juries reflexively exonerated them.



The case of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago who was kidnapped, mutilated and killed while visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955, stands out in this long bloody history, both for its savagery and because the episode pushed the country to confront, at last, the racial terror that had long defined black Southern life.



That period comes painfully alive in “The Blood of Emmett Till,” a new book by the historian Timothy Tyson in which Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who accused Emmett of assaulting her, says she lied. This admission is a reminder of how black lives were sacrificed to white lies in places like Mississippi. It also raises anew the question of why no one was brought to justice in the most notorious racially motivated murder of the 20th century, despite an extensive investigation by the F.B.I.



Emmett Till was visiting the hamlet of Money in August 1955 when he encountered Ms. Bryant in a store she owned with her husband. Something during a transaction made her take offense, though what remains unclear. Days later, the killers kidnapped Emmett from his uncle’s home, tortured him and shot him in the head. They then tied a heavy cotton gin fan to his neck with barbed wire and dumped him into the Tallahatchie River.



Under ordinary circumstances, a death like Emmett’s would have passed unremarked into history. His mother prevented that by tirelessly publicizing the case — and keeping the coffin open at the funeral so that mourners and newspaper readers all over the world could view the mangled remains of her child.



Ms. Donham’s husband Roy and his half brother J. W. Milam were charged with murder. Documents show that Ms. Bryant told her lawyer at the time that the teenager had “insulted” her. But by the time of the trial, Mr. Tyson writes, Ms. Bryant had become “the mouthpiece of a monstrous lie,” claiming that the teenager had grabbed her around the waist while uttering obscenities. The fraudulent testimony was meant to convince the court that Emmett’s behavior justified his death.



Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milam, both now dead, were acquitted, though they later confessed to the murder in an article in Look magazine in 1956. The killing embarrassed the United States before the world and did much to inspire the modern civil rights movement.



The F.B.I. under J. Edgar Hoover, who ran it until he died in 1972, was more focused on undermining civil rights groups than on enforcing federal law. In 2004, prompted by two documentaries suggesting that people other than Mr. Bryant and Mr. Milam had been involved, the F.B.I. reopened the Till investigation. The case remains unresolved, though Emmett’s body was exhumed as part of the investigation. The original coffin is on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, where it anchors an exhibition on the freedom struggle.



Ms. Donham’s admission that her testimony was false underscores yet again that killers and collaborators from other racial terror attacks may still be alive — and that the horror of their crimes still weighs heavily on the nation..."



Black Lives, White Lies and Emmett Till - The New York Times

Amicus briefs against Trump's travel ban: the strongest arguments | US news | The Guardian

"The First Amendment mandates governmental neutrality with respect to religion. This principle, contained in the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses and reflected also in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, secures the right to religious freedom by straightforwardly forbidding official discrimination on the basis of religion. Ignoring the clear constitutional command, however, the government has singled out a religious group – Muslims – for official disfavor and maltreatment. By instituting a wide-ranging, punishing ban on immigrants, the government has run roughshod over core First Amendment protections.

The Executive Order is exactly what President Trump promised all along – a “Muslim ban”. No amount of rebranding will change that. People from seven countries are refused entry to the United States for no reason other than their deity and preferred holy book. Beyond failing every applicable legal standard, the Executive Order is an insult to the fundamental principles of our Constitution. It cannot stand. It should not stand even for a day."



Amicus briefs against Trump's travel ban: the strongest arguments | US news | The Guardian

Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Bowling Green massacre’ wasn’t a slip of the tongue. She’s said it before.

Kellyanne Conway is a serial lier.  "Kellyanne Conway thinks she took too much flak for citing a nonexistent “Bowling Green massacre” to justify President Trump's travel ban. She said she simply meant to say “Bowling Green terrorists,” and she later said, “I misspoke one word.”

Except now she doesn't seem to have misspoken; she seems to have believed that the Bowling Green massacre was a real thing. How do we know? Because she also cited it in an interview with Cosmopolitan, as the magazine revealed Monday morning. And in that interview, she described the “massacre” in more detail.

While discussing why President Obama halted refugees from Iraq in 2011, Conway explained on Jan. 29: “He did that because two Iraqi nationals came to this country, joined ISIS, traveled back to the Middle East to get trained and refine their terrorism skills and come back here, and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre of taking innocent soldiers' lives away.”

Kellyanne Conway’s ‘Bowling Green massacre’ wasn’t a slip of the tongue. She’s said it before