“Natural born citizenship” goes all the way back to England and determines who can and cannot be the president. But it also speaks to the core of who is an American.
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NYT Still Joking Around About Dead Americans in Afghanistan
Do they have editors at this paper anymore, or it's all just pre-packaged in Langley? In an article about three marines who should have never been in Afghanistan in the first place getting killed there in a suicide truck bombing last year, they 1 try to push their...
News Roundup 7/15/20
US News An Arkansas judge has been exposed for trading sex for favorability in his courtroom. Judge Tim Parker traded money and drugs to women for sex. He also acted as a lawyer and accepted sex for his services. [Link] The Trump Administration rescinds an order that...
How the U.S. Government Gave $200 Million to the Protectors of Pedophile Priests
Over the past week, a conspiracy theory about Wayfair selling children in cabinets took the internet by storm. Sadly, without giving it much thought, people took this unfounded claim and ran with it—distracting from actual, provable conspiracies. Selling expensive...
7/10/20 Gareth Porter on the Pentagon’s ‘Bountygate’ Hoax
Scott interviews Gareth Porter about the Russian bounties story, or "Bountygate" as it has come to be known. Porter describes attempts by outlets like the New York Times to portray this as a well-sourced story with consensus among America’s intelligence agencies—in...
News Roundup 7/14/20
US News A fire injured twenty-one people on the USS Bonhomme. The ship is docked in San Diego. [Link] The federal government ran an $867 billion deficit in June. The US is running a $2.7 trillion deficit for the year. With three months left in the year, the current...
What Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About The $600 Unemployment Bonus
The federal government’s program of supplemental unemployment benefits of up to $600 per week, as provided for in the CARES Act, is set to expire at the end of July. Whether or not to extend this program is setting up to become a contentious political battle mere...
7/10/20 Grant Smith on the Covid-19 Relief Money Helping to Fund the Israel Lobby
Grant Smith discusses the Israel lobby's deep involvement in the U.S. economy, this time as regards the American firms in the business of promoting Israeli interests, who have recently received large sums of money through special coronavirus relief programs. Smith...
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