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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/.../planned-parenthood-health-care-abortion.html

As the Senate barrels toward a vote next week to sever all federal support for Planned Parenthood, the 100-year-old organization is mobilizing furiously to bring down the Republicans’ broader legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act before it reaches President Trump’s desk.
The fight over one provision — to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood for...

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http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2017/06/23/7-Huge-Tax-Breaks-Senate-GOP-Health-Care-Plan

I think the details about the various tax breaks are worth discussing. Didn't realize how Obamacare was being funded.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/22/judge-blocks-homeland-security-move-deport-100-cri/

Those clowns in robes need to decide who they represent, Americans or foreigners.

We need an offshore holding area for such people while they are being checked out, and we need to re-implement the quota system for immigrants, so many per foreign country.

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I'll give him credit, he was trying to do the right thing. The article is long so I will copy in only
a part of it.

Read it and weep you wingnuts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?utm_term=.ef83b1b0e41d

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Via Washington Times:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/22/14-million-illegals-working-stolen-social-security/


Most illegal immigrants who pay taxes have stolen someone else’s legal identity, and the IRS doesn’t do a very good job of letting those American citizens and legal immigrants know they’re being impersonated, the tax agency’s inspector general said in a new report released Thursday.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/opinion/our-fake-democracy.html

We tell ourselves stories in order to live, as Joan Didion said. We do this as a nation, as individuals, as families — even when that construct is demonstrably false. For the United States, the biggest institutional lie of the moment is that we have a government of the people, responding to majority will.
On almost every single concern, Congress — whether it’s the misnamed People’s Hous...

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