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Charles Pierce | Steve King, Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan Are All Republicans for a Reason
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "There was nothing funnier in our politics the past week than the sudden discovery by our respectable conservatives that the Republican Party has been a comfortable home for white-supremacist meatheads like Steve King (R-Berchtesgarden) of Iowa."
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The NRA's David Keene with Butina in Moscow, Nov. 2013. (photo: Facebook)
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Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "There was nothing funnier in our politics the past week than the sudden discovery by our respectable conservatives that the Republican Party has been a comfortable home for white-supremacist meatheads like Steve King (R-Berchtesgarden) of Iowa."
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The NRA's David Keene with Butina in Moscow, Nov. 2013. (photo: Facebook)
ALSO SEE: Senate Democrats to Push Vote Blocking
Sanctions Relief for Russian Oligarch's Companies
Betsy Woodruff | Kremlin Blessed Russia's NRA Operation, US Intel Report Says
Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast
Woodruff writes: "The Kremlin has long denied that it had anything to do with the infiltration of the NRA and the broader American conservative movement. A U.S. intelligence report reviewed by The Daily Beast tells a different story."
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Steve Scalise. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Betsy Woodruff, The Daily Beast
Woodruff writes: "The Kremlin has long denied that it had anything to do with the infiltration of the NRA and the broader American conservative movement. A U.S. intelligence report reviewed by The Daily Beast tells a different story."
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Steve Scalise. (photo: Alex Brandon/AP)
Steve Scalise: How Can You Ask Us to Discipline Steve King When Democrats Are So Rude?
Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress
Pyke writes: "Is there a moral difference between calling the president a rude name and saying there's nothing wrong with white supremacy? According to Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the sins are about the same."
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R. Kelly. (image: Scott Olson/Getty Images/WP)
Alan Pyke, ThinkProgress
Pyke writes: "Is there a moral difference between calling the president a rude name and saying there's nothing wrong with white supremacy? According to Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA), the sins are about the same."
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R. Kelly. (image: Scott Olson/Getty Images/WP)
What 'Surviving R. Kelly' Tells Us About Race and Sexual Abuse
Nia Decaille and Rachel Hatzipanagos, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "For many who watched the six-part documentary 'Surviving R. Kelly,' hearing directly from several women who described sexual abuse at the hands of the R&B star prompted a troubling question: Has Kelly remained popular and largely not faced criminal consequences because his accusers are black?"
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Nia Decaille and Rachel Hatzipanagos, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "For many who watched the six-part documentary 'Surviving R. Kelly,' hearing directly from several women who described sexual abuse at the hands of the R&B star prompted a troubling question: Has Kelly remained popular and largely not faced criminal consequences because his accusers are black?"
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Woman with birth control pills. (photo: Image Point)
Judge Partially Blocks Trump Administration Birth Control Rules
Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Wolfe writes: "A judge in California on Sunday partially blocked a set of Trump administration rules that allow employers to opt out of providing health insurance that covers women's birth control from taking effect."
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Jan Wolfe, Reuters
Wolfe writes: "A judge in California on Sunday partially blocked a set of Trump administration rules that allow employers to opt out of providing health insurance that covers women's birth control from taking effect."
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Juan Guaidó, the president of Venezuela's National Assembly, at a rally with supporters in La Guaira on Sunday. (photo: Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
He was released about an hour later, they added.
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Excerpt: "Venezuelan intelligence agents have released opposition leader and congress chief Juan Guaido after briefly detaining him on the way to a political rally, a congressional official has said."
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Right now the deniers are winning. (photo: Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast)
The First Victims of Climate Deniers Are Their Own Kids
Clive Irving, The Daily Beast
Irving writes: "Stop talking about the children and grandchildren paying the price of wrecking the planet. Here is the peril facing five states and the men who have betrayed their own families."
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Clive Irving, The Daily Beast
Irving writes: "Stop talking about the children and grandchildren paying the price of wrecking the planet. Here is the peril facing five states and the men who have betrayed their own families."
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