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Trump Is Desperately Trying To Get His DC Trial Moved To West Virginia
Donald Trump claimed that he can’t get a fair trial in Washington, DC, so he wants his 1/6 trial moved to West Virginia.
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West Virginia to Reward Citizens Aged 16-35 Who Get Vaccine With $100 Savings Bond
Since Joe Biden took office, Americans have been getting vaccinated at a rapid rate. The President’s initial plan was to deliver 100 million vaccinations in his first 100 days in office. The administration shattered that goal with over 200 million shots being delivered. But at this point, many of the people who were interested in…
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GOP Seeks to Destroy First Amendment and Democracy Itself
As Don Draper, the central character of AMC’s hit show Mad Men, likes to say, “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” For the GOP across the nation these days, though, the prevailing attitude is more to the effect of, “If you don’t like what’s being said, repress the conversation.” The GOP…
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Trump’s New Pollution Rules Will Kill Off His Own Supporters
President Donald Trump picked West Virginia to announce his plan to reduce pollution controls on coal-fired power plants, which is no surprise. West Virginia loves coal, and coal miners love Trump, but what both of them may not love is the fact that a reduction in pollution controls is going to greatly increase the number…
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Senate Candidate Says McConnell Has Conflict of Interest
A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in West Virginia lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, saying that McConnell was soft on China and had conflicts of interest because his wife’s father is “a wealthy Chinaperson.” McConnell is married to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao whose father owns a shipping company in…
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Governor Who Switched Parties For Trump Owes Millions In Taxes After Deal With Russian Company
It was a nice photo-op for the West Virginia governor, but there seems to be more to the story than a simple change of heart.
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Twitter Erupts In Disbelief After Trump Attacks Obama, Brags About Election In Boy Scouts Speech
The president’s decision to give such a disturbing rant in front of preteen boys would be shocking if anybody but Trump was delivering the ramble.
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Senate Democrat Promises To ‘Raise Hell’ To Protect The Coal Workers Trump Has Abandoned
Trump conned coal miners in order to win the White House, but Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown promises not to let him get away with it.
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Bernie Sanders Wins Over Crowd Of Rural Trump Supporters By Exposing The Truth About Trumpcare
The Vermont senator went into tough terrain, but he was able to show West Virginia Trump supporters how the GOP is conning them.
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Surprise! W.V. Republican Legislator Calls For Hillary Clinton’s Public Execution
“I’m nowhere near a Hillary Clinton supporter. I’m just not a fan of having a maniac hold office in my great state.”
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Minority White Christians’ Religious War On the Constitution
There is a misconception among ignorant Americans that this nation was founded on the tenets of the bible and is therefore a Christian nation
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State of Emergency – West Virginia Water Supply Poisoned Again
At a time when Republicans and their money-machine the Koch brothers are waging a ferocious battle to put a stop to clean and renewable energy, and oppose any and all regulations on fossil fuels, another man-made disaster in West Virginia reveals why dirty fossil fuels are a clear and present danger to Americans’ health.
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Here We Go Again: GOP Lawmaker Says Rape Can Make Beautiful Children
West Virginia Delegate Brian Kurcaba says rape is awful, but remarks that it can create a beautiful child.
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Koch Congress Still Pushing Keystone After Four Pipeline Explosions In A Month
Of all the reasons to not build the Keystone pipeline, one that is often overlooked, and ignored by the corporate media, is the real and present danger of a break in TransCanada’s rupture-prone pipeline the company claims is safe and environmentally friendly.
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GOP On GOP Violence: Marco Rubio Slams Rand Paul For Agreeing With Obama’s Cuba Policy
During an appearance on Fox News’ The Kelly File Thursday night, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) criticized Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) for agreeing with President Obama’s decision to normalize the United States’ relationship with Cuba.
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As a Regulation Violator Is Indicted For 29 Deaths, Republicans Plan a Deregulation Frenzy
The only protection Americans have against corporate predators are regulations that Republicans promise to eviscerate under the guise of “jobs bills” when they take control of the Congress in January.
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Harry Reid Throws Blue Dogs A Bone By Naming Senator Jon Tester New Chair Of The DSCC
On Thursday, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) announced that Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) will take over as Chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, replacing Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO).
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America, Our Children Are Being Punished for Excluding God from Pledge of Allegiance
One student was told that failing to stand is disrespectful to members of the U.S. military; another was told the law required him to stand
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Republicans Sweating As Democrats Hold Leads In Georgia’s Senate And Governor Races
All the talk of a Republican takeover of the US Senate after this year’s midterms may have been a bit premature as a new poll in Georgia shows that Democratic candidate Michelle Nunn holds a three-point lead over Republican nominee David Perdue for Georgia’s open Senate seat.
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Another Red State Democrat Calls On Elizabeth Warren To Bring Home A Victory
West Virginia Senate candidate Natalie Tennant plans to campaign with Elizabeth Warren in July.
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Republicans Label Obama’s Plan To Combat Climate Change a Terrorist Attack
. As usual they use mendacity as a fear-mongering tool to convince their stupid supporters that President Obama’s attempt to assuage the health and economic devastation of climate change is a deliberate job-killing, economy-devastating, terrorist assault on Americans.
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House Republicans Refuse to Discuss Climate Change Because They Aren’t Scientists
In the House of Representatives, Republicans signaled to the world that not only are they not discussing the veracity of man-made climate change, they signaled to the world they are smarter than climate scientists and officially denied that what 97% of climate scientists say is wrong and that there is no climate change threat.
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Ted Cruz Actually Thinks Government Shutdown Will Lead The GOP To Victory In Midterms
During a speech at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans on Saturday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) stated his belief that the 17-day shutdown of the federal government last year will be a positive for the Republican Party this November in the midterm elections.
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Politico’s Poll Showing Democrats In Trouble This Midterm Election Is a Total Crock
This week, political news site Politico released a poll showing that Democrats are at a seven-point disadvantage against Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections. The poll is supposed to reflect voter sentiments in the most competitive House and Senate races this year.
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Republicans Says Climate Change is In God’s Hands as Taxpayers Foot The Bill for Dirty Coal
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory knows the dirty coal industry is polluting the environment in North Carolina because his state’s environmental regulators are not doing their jobs. It is why he expects his god to clean up what he knows will be more toxic spills.
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Doubts About the Safety of West Virginia Drinking Water As Republicans Push Deregulation
As doubts remain about the safety of West Virginia drinking water, Republicans were so certain there are sufficient regulations to keep the water supply safe, they passed three bills to eliminate the EPA’s authority over states.
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The Republican Assault on Clean Water Laws Caused West Virginia Chemical Spill
The recent West Virginia chemical spill should be a stark reminder that Republicans’ greatest assault of all is on Americans’ water supply that is about to get a lot worse.
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Republican Deregulation Culture to Blame For Water Poisoning West Virginia Chemical Spill
Freedom Industries knew the 70 to 80 year-old tanks were in desperate need of replacement and did not want to spend the money to repair them because regulations did not require them to.
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Romney Attacks Obama over Coal Employment When Jobs are at 15 Year High
Mitt Romney attacked Obama over jobs Friday in Abingdon, Virginia, but coal jobs are at the highest level in 15 years and unemployment is at its lowest level since 2009.
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Mitt Romney’s New Ads Feature Coal Miners that Were Forced to Attend His Rally
Today, Romney debuted two ads in Eastern Ohio and Western Virginia hitting Obama on coal, and he used coalminers in his ads who were forced by their employer to attend Romney’s rally at no pay.
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Sierra Club: End Coal Fire Plant but Not Mountaintop Removal?
. Sierra’s Beyond Coal project does only so much, and it has not recognized to date that ending Mountaintop Removal for the human health disaster science is now demonstrating that it is.
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Extortion: The United States Senate’s Newest Racket
American government has lost its designation as a representative democracy, and is turning into a racket where one man, or one party, dictates its will on the entire government, and apparently no-one is willing to stop the demise of democratic rule. There is much talk about compromise and bipartisanship from the Democrats, and the White House, but in the 21st Century American democracy, it is a fallacy and a joke.