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Booker drops out of presidential race

Iran is closer ‘than ever before’ to regime collapse, says former Obama security advisor

Fight for Bolton testimony echoes Lewinsky ...

Report: Bernie Sanders told Warren that a woman can’t win in 2020

New poll shows Biden leading Dem field in Iowa

US will remove China from currency manipulator list ahead of trade deal signing

Queen agrees ‘period of transition’ [for Harry and Megham] ...

Dem group began investigating Trump-Ukraine long before whistleblower

Trump attacks Bloomberg on healthcare with misleading claim

Trump authorized Soleimani’s killing 7 months ago, with conditions

Will alleged CIA misbehavior set Assange free?

Trump taunts Cory Booker for ending campaign ...

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NATO suspends Iraq training mission

Trump says US not seeking war or regime change in Iraq, but is still ready to act if ‘necessary’

Iran unveils red flag at mosque warning of severe battle to come ...

Zumwalt: Soleimani demise could end Iran’s long, one-way war with America

Booker raises $6.6 million in fourth quarter

Oil prices surge to highest level since April after US kills Iran’s top commander in airstrike

Poll: Bloomberg pops to third place in Dem race ...

Russian pranksters: Maxine Waters fell for call from ‘Greta Thunberg’

Fed officials saw decreased recession risk in December meeting

Australia fires kill half a billion animals as crisis mounts

Worst flu season in decades ...

Gaetz: The world is witnessing a ‘change in doctrine’

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Schumer demands new documents for impeachment trial

5G may reveal actionable data in everything — from vehicle health to storm drain efficiency

Obama talks up Warren behind closed doors

Activists plan $3 billion city to solve California’s homeless problem

Saudi sentences 5 to death for Jamal Khashoggi’s killing

Millionaires support a wealth tax — as long as they aren’t getting taxed — CNBC survey

McConnell NOT closing door on impeachment trial witnesses ...

Donald Trump approval rating surpasses Barack Obama

Corey Booker would rather defeat Trump at the polls

GM, Ford and others cut thousand of jobs and closed factories to save billions in 2019

Blind mystic predicts Russian meteorite and war for 2020 ...

Boeing CEO resigns amid MAX 737 aircraft problems

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North Korea conducts another test at long-range rocket site

‘Historic’ phase one with China will be very good for global growth, Mnuchin says

Is trap being set for president in Senate trial?

Chaos erupts in London as Socialists clash with police after election

Booker scales back campaign in New Hampshire

Wall Street predicts a high single-digit gain next year, but history shows that is likely wrong

How US-China trade deal achieved a little but left out a lot ...

Notte — Greta Thunberg: We will ‘put world leaders against the wall’

Europe threatens U.S. with carbon tariffs to combat climate change

Path is clear for a year-end rally with key hurdles like the trade war removed

Doubts surface on $50 billion of [China] farm buys ...

UK election: Every candidate backed by Hugh Grant loses seat

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Rick Perry dances toward the exits

Black Friday shoppers spend $7.4 billion in second largest online sales day ever

Ginsburg health scare raises prospect of election-year Supreme Court battle ...

Burisma director admits Hunter Biden secured post because of Joe

Leaked papers hint at post-Brexit trade priorities for U.K., U.S

Tesla, GE and Uber make list of most divisive stocks on Wall Street

Poll: Majority of Republicans say Trump better president than Lincoln

Report: London attacker was convicted terrorist, recently released

Super PAC backing Booker will shut down

Brazil’s president accuses DiCaprio of financing Amazon fires, offers no evidence

Biden to blitz Iowa back roads by bus in 800-mile hunt for support ...

Dems doubt Biden’s S.C. lead will hold after early state losses

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Trump signals ‘second thoughts’ on escalating his trade war with China

White House says Trump regrets not raising tariffs on China higher

Drone war takes flight ... Israel battles Iran action over Beirut

AOC: Electoral College is ‘affirmative action’ for rural America

Lindsey Graham warns Trump not to pull U.S. forces out of Afghanistan

Kudlow does not expect China to retaliate against Trump’s latest tariffs, despite Beijing’s warning

Cities saying ‘No’ to 5-G, citing health, aesthetics, FCC bullying ... Carcinogenic?

2020 Senate Dems shy away from ‘Medicare for All’

Trump: ‘Chosen one’ remark was sarcasm

Trump hints at ‘very big trade deal’ with Britain post Brexit

Cory Booker: Car drivers are licensed, gun owners should be too

Iran foreign minister makes surprise visit [to G-7] ...

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Peter Strzok sues [FBI] over firing for anti-Trump texts

China’s exit from US agriculture is devastating blow to an already struggling sector

China blinks?  Stocks bounce ...

Twitter account allegedly linked to Ohio shooter anti-ICE

Poll: Biden maintains lead over Sanders in New Hampshire

House Democrats ask National Archives for Brett Kavanaugh’s White House records

Uruguay issues travel warning for USA ...

Beto O’Rourke tells Trump: Stay out of El Paso

Huntsman to step down as ambassador to Russia

Bulletproof backpacks have become another back-to-school special

Palin wins appeal reviving defamation lawsuit against NYT ...

Cory Booker campaign demands Trump cancel New Hampshire rally

Booker

From Powerline blog

Me ... a hypocrite?

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Cory Booker charges Trump is ‘worse than a racist’

Hong Kong police fire rubber bullets, tear gas as protests descend into chaos

Israeli minister boasts his country has been ‘killing Iranians’ ...

Stephen Miller: Criticism is OK, turning US into Venezuela isn’t

Japan’s ruling coalition scores an election victory

Iran tanker seizure shows oil price has become a ‘broken barometer’ for Mideast tensions

How Trump could lose by 5 million votes — and still win ...

Sanders campaign limiting staffer hours in order to pay $15 minimum [hourly] wage

Trump claims not to care if his attack on Omar and the squad are good politics

Puerto Rico governor Ricardo Rossello says he will not run for re-election, but is not resigning

Wealthiest 10% of households own 84% of all stocks ...

Exclusive: Mex cartel leader caught sneaking across TX border

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North Korea suggests it might lift weapons test moritorium

Mnuchin: US has ‘very serious concerns’ that Facebook’s Libra could be misused by terrorists

Black homeownership drops to all-time low ...

Trump triples down at press conference, hammers #TheSquad: ‘These are people who hate this country’

Pro-Booker super-PAC raises $1,1 million in first half of 2019

Trump weighs ousting Commerce chief Wilbur Ross after census defeat

EU’s GPS satellites down for days under mysterious outage ... Cyber attack?

Pol: Megan Rapinoe beats Trump in hypothetical presidential race

Poll: Nearly two-thirds of Americans oppose DC. statehood

Jeffery Epstein willing to post $100 million bail — ‘He’s a scary person,’ accuser says

Thiel: Investigate Google for treason! Aiding Chinese military ... Spies infiltrated?

Report: ICE attempts raids in New York City, no arrests made

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Senate passes border funding package, setting up fight with House

Democrats take aim at big business, spar over health care at the first 2020 presidential debate

She [Gabbard] is most searched name during debate — Google ...

Cory Booker: We need to talk more about transgender Americans

Reddit cracks down on pro-Trump channel over ‘repeated rule breaking’

Huawei says it doesn’t cooperate with Chinese military — after report says its employees did

Trump [on debate]: Boring ...

De Blasio: Yes, Democrats are for 70% tax rate, free college

Appellate court raises new threat to Obamacare

Trump campaign shells out on YouTube ad to draw more views than Democrat debate

ISIS threatens to bomb New York ahead of Fourth of July ...

20 times Breirbart reported migrant deaths during Obama-Biden

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Booker proposes “Office of Reproductive Freedom”

China would see blue skies ahead if it accepted US demands: Fed’s Bullard says

Wall stall: Less than two miles built!

Joe Biden: China is going to win 5G and A.I. if Trump is still president

Republican Keller wins Pennsylvania special election

America businesses in China: Tariffs are hurting us

Nevada passes National Popular vote bill in bid to upend Electoral College ...

Obama admin cut Situation Room’s feed during Russia probe meetings

Small-dollar Bernie sidles up to big money

US trade chief is expected to discuss China with officials from Japan and EU this week

NBA ratings plunge 48% ...

Ilhan Omar: ‘Ignorance is really pervasive in many parts of this country’

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‘The epitome of privelege’: Booker supporters rail against Buttigieg mania

JP Morgan: The US-China tariff battle is just the start of a global trade reordering

Saudi tankers ‘sabataged’ ... Mideast tensions flare

Lutz: Bernie is ‘most likely’ Democratic nominee in 2020

Booker hits Warren over proposal to break up tech giants

Beijing defiant on trade war: ‘No one should expect China to swallow bitter fruit’

Iran orders men not to look at women during Ramadan as hardliners tighten control ...

Study: Google search results overwhelmingly favor mainstream

Kamala Harris: ‘I would not have voted for NAFTA’

Bitcoin is now over $7,000 and is now up over 90% year-to-date

Poll: Theresa May headed for historic defeat ...

Healthcare CEO: Medicare for All could ‘collapse’ the system

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The Democratic base is angry as hell’: Cory Booker’s message of love falls flat

Earnings and data could prove that slowdown fears were overblown

Reuter’s poll: Trump approval drops to 37% ...

Holder: Prosecutors could win obstruction case against Trump

Trump campaign punishes Don McGahn’s law firm

Lawmakers call for Zuckerberg to be held accountable for Facebook’s privacy fumbles

Chomsky: We may have handed Trump next election ...

Mitt Romney: ‘I’m sickened’ by Trump’s behavior in Mueller Report

State Republicans challenge Democrats with ‘born-alive’ bills

Elizabeth Warren calls for start of impeachment proceedings against Trump

Border Battle: Militia in New Mexico detains asylum seekers at gunpoint ...

Pete Buttigieg questions whether Trump will run in 2020

Flummery

But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a  cum laude graduate in economics from Boston University ... for whatever that is worth. She is also proposing a Green New Deal which has been endorsed by Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Ed Markey, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (a total of 64 Democrat co-sponsors) ... whom Trump has tongue-in-cheek endorsed  for endorsing this bit of flummery.

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Pressure mounts on Northam over racist yearbook photo

Russia suspends Cold War-era nuclear deal after the US pulls out

[VA Gov.] Northam now tells Dems NOT him in [racist]photo?

Black Monday: GM to lay off 4K white-collar American workers

Congress tunes out Trump's border wall threats

A democracy win in Venezuela would be hugely significant for a world gripped in rising autocracy

Venezuelan general urges military to disavow Maduro ...

[David] Brooks: 'I'm more appeale' by Northam's abortion comments

Is Cory Booker for real?

China's COFCO buys million tone batch of US soybeans

Scandals loom over Bolsonaro after first month in office, 'It smells dirty' ...

Trump: 'People are dying all over the country' because of Nancy Pelosi

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Cory Booker didn't announce first. But that doesn't mean he is behind

Car loan rates rising quickly, despite the Fed holding rates steady

Pelosi: No wall money ever ... Botches words, suffers facial spasms, confuses Dems, GOP ...

Muslim leaders reject call  to denounce 'violent' Koran

Kamala Harris' crusade against 'revenge porn'

January jobs report: Hiring remains solid, despite government shutdown

Feds charge 19 in Chinese 'birth tourism' scheme ...

U.S. mulls sanctions against Turkey for trading with Venezuela

Trump makes it official: U.S. to leave missile treaty with Russia

Trump: 'There is a good chance we'll have to' declare a national emergency to build the wall

Sperm bank freaks after woman uses DNA test, finds donor ...

Saudi Arabia concludes corruption probe, banks over $100 billin

Identity Politics

From Mostly Cajun blog ...

A Question

For all my Liberal readers: Aren't you embarassed to be associated with such underhanded slimeballs? (They make Trump look like a choirboy.) 

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Behind Trump's obsession with social media suppression

Apple says Trump's China tariffs are going to hurt company

MAG: Why Trump's record trumps the media's spin ...

Serena Williams melts down during U.S. Open, claims sexism

[Corey] Booker handing to Iowa in October

Tesla accountant quit after concluding  Musk wasn't following go-private advice

Sweden swings right

Brooks: 'Democrats overwrought' over Kavanaugh docs

Forget about the 25th Amendment. It won't work.

Trump's battle against Silicon Valley may create an opening for China in artifice intelligence

STORM WATCH: Odds rising that Florence will strike East Coast ...

Judge orders Florida election officials to offer ballots printed in Spanish