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164 Companies Credit Tax Reform for Bonuses and Pay Raises

"Congress, working closely with the president, took a monumental step to bring taxes paid by U.S. businesses in line with the rest of the industrialized world," AT&T's chairman and CEO says.

The businesses include American Airlines, AT&T, several prominent savings and loan banks, Boeing, Comcast, Pacific Power, and Visa.

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BREAKING. Steve Bannon Gets a Grand Jury Subpoena

What we need here is a one-armed lawyer.

Despite what the source said, it would seem that the decision to lawyer up had a lot more to do with receiving a subpoena than being interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee.

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When it comes to equality, it’s Republicans who are really driving the movement.

Democrat Claims About the Sexism and Racism of the Republican Party Shattered in New Video

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The FBI’s Dubious Probe of Hillary’s Emails

The FBI did everything but drive Hillary’s getaway car. Former secretary of state Clinton is a free woman largely thanks to the tender loving care that the FBI provided her and her conspirators during its probe of her illegal, unsecure email server and related abuse of government secrets. GOP lawmakers concluded this after grilling FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe on December 21, behind closed doors, according to John Solomon’s molar-grinding exposé in Tuesday’s The Hill. “For the first time, investigators say they have secured written evidence that the FBI believed there was evidence that some laws were broken,” Solomon reported ...

Team Hillary has suffered zero consequences for handling state secrets as reverently as one would treat old newspapers.

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Pakistan's government hits back at Trump over foreign aid threat: US has 'given us nothing but mistrust'

It also accused the U.S. of overlooking 'safe havens of terrorists who murder Pakistanis.'

Trump tweeted Monday morning the U.S. would no longer be investing as much in foreign aid to Pakistan as it has under previous presidents unless the country contributes better to anti-terrorism measures in Afghanistan.

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What made Lindsey Graham call for a special counsel to investigate the DOJ's use of the Steele Dossier?

Something has Senator Lindsey Graham extremely concerned, so much so he wants a special counsel to be chartered to investigate the Department of Justice itself and their handling of the infamous Steele Dossier. He went on Fox News and, after giving kudos to Robert Mueller, declared to viewers that new information he’s discovered has him …

“I’ve spent some time in the last couple of days, after a lot of fighting with the Department of Justice, to get the background on the dossier, and here’s what I can tell your viewers: I’m very disturbed about what the Department of Justice did with this dossier, and we need a special counsel to look into that, because that’s not in Mueller’s charter. And what I saw, and what I’ve gathered in the last couple of days, bothers me a lot, and I’d like somebody outside DOJ to look into how this dossier was handled and what they did with it.”

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Why 2018 will be a turning point for America and the world

In 1988, I watched a documentary detailing the end of the world. The mix of prophecies from the Bible and other religious texts combined with Nostradamus and other fortune tellers truly concerned me. When the 1990s rolled around without massive destruction across the planet, I learned we must be cognizant of potential pitfalls while not allowing fear to paralyze …

As much as I’d love to go into 2018 with nothing but hope, we have to be cognizant of the challenges we face. Nefarious forces aim to take us down. As long as we keep our eyes open and our hearts focused on making things better, we can overcome these challenges. We just need a little faith to see us through.

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Trump: Iranians ‘finally getting wise’ on their money ‘squandered on terrorism’

President Trump said Sunday the United States is keeping an eye out for human rights violations during the deadly Iranian protests, which have entered their fourth day.

The Iranian government is blocking the use of a messaging app protesters have been using to communicate, according to a number of news reports on Sunday.

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Iranians' Protests Offer A Real U.S. Reset In The Middle East

Over the past four days, Iranians have taken to the streets in several cities to protest corruption and living conditions in the repressive country.

Ironically, and contrary to the New York Timespiece, it could turn out that the Trump administration’s tough position vis-à-vis Iran actually emboldens the protestors, giving them hope that someone out there cares what’s happening in their country — and might even support them should things escalate.

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Trump administration kills Obama-era fracking rule before it can be enacted

The Obama administration’s 2015 fracking rule was never actually implemented, thanks to an ongoing court battle, and it apparently never will be.

The industry has countered that “there have been no confirmed cases from groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing itself in the at least 2 million wells fracked over the past 65+ years.”

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Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: US is closer to nuclear war with North Korea than it has ever been

“An incredibly dangerous climate exists out there … top of the list is North Korea,” Mullen said.

Retired Adm. Mike Mullen said on ABC’s “This Week” said President Trump’s increasingly antagonistic posture toward North Korea is not leaving him with many options in the region.

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The Number of People on Social Security Isn’t Sustainable – Here’s the Problem

What’s going on? The number of people on Social Security benefits reached a record 61,859,250 last month, according to Social Security Administration data. CNSNews.com reported that even with the unemployment rate at its lowest since 20...

The Social Security board of trustees says Congress needs to increase taxes, cut benefits and/or get some other funds together to pay for Social Security. Whether or not Congress will actually follow that advice remains to be seen.

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Palestinians must accept the reality of Israel as a Jewish state to achieve peace

Nations around the world have condemned the U.S. for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but the real obstacle to peace is the stubborn refusal by Palestinian leaders to accept the reality of Israel as a permanent Jewish state in the historic homeland of the Jewish people.

Ending Palestinian Derangement Syndrome will be not be easy. The delusions of the syndrome are older than most Palestinians alive today, taught to them since childhood. But at some point, Palestinians will have to accept reality if they truly wish to reach a mutually beneficial peace agreement with Israel.

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The United States Should Tell the UN 'Goodbye' and 'Good Riddance'

At the very least, the Trump administration should significantly cut our contribution to the United Nations. This will not only give the President more funds to use on rebuilding our infrastructure but, it will also a strong message to friends and foes alike that, unlike previous presidents, Donald Trump is putting the interests of the United States of America first.

Instead of wasting money on the United Nations or giving foreign aid to countries that regularly vote against our interests, our federal government can use those funds for much more important projects.

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The Iran Echo Chamber Smears Politico

Nothing has been more tedious over the last year than the constant reminders that good journalism is “now more important than ever.” The implication, of course, is that solid, groundbreaking reporting was not as essential so long as a liberal Democrat was in power. I’ve long assumed that the factotums mouthing such clichés lack the self-awareness to understand the true import of their words. But maybe I’ve been wrong. Recent days brought evidence that, no, liberals really mean it: The only meaningful investigative work is that which reflects poorly on Republicans ...

Josh Meyer has produced a classic example of the good journalism that our betters tell us we need more than ever.

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More than 24 women come forward with stories of sexual harassment at Vice

Vice Media has made four settlements involving sexual harassment and defamation by its male employees

While most of the accusations of sexual misconduct have been brought upon older, white men, these allegations bring to light a continual degradation of women by a younger generation of 20- to 40-year-olds.

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After Jerusalem, Donald Trump Should Recognize The Armenian Genocide

This month, Donald Trump officially did something none of his predecessors (since 1995) had mustered the moral courage to do (despite posturing for two consecutive terms that they would). Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; he did it less than one year into his presidency.

Trump’s persistence on recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is a clear change of course in America’s foreign policy; it’s a message that America’s policies won’t be written by the fancies of fascists.