Poll: Voters Want Special Prosecutor to Investigate FBIForty-nine percent of voters want a special prosecutor appointed to investigate bias or wrongdoing in the FBI's handling of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, according to a new survey.
Only 31 percent of voters disagree.
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Starbucks to Give Workers Raises, Stock Bonuses, Sick Leave Due to Republican Tax LawStarbucks announced Wednesday they're planning to give many of their workers raises, stock grants and sick leave specifically "because of the recent tax overhaul" which lowers corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%, CNN reports.
From CNN:
For the first time in its history, Starbucks is giving all of its baristas sick leave.
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Apple to Repatriate Billions From Overseas After Tax Bill, Contribute $350B to U.S. Economy Over 5 YrsDuring the 2016 election, President Obama mocked the idea that Donald Trump had a "magic wand" which could bring jobs back to America.
It turns out Trump was right, though his "magic wand" is just common sense, pro-America, pro-growth economic policies.
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U.S. Cuts $285M From 3.3B U.N. BudgetThe significance of this cut is being wildly overblown.
From The Hill:
The U.S. Mission to the United Nations announced Sunday that it negotiated a major reduction in the U.N.'s budget for the upcoming fiscal years.
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EU Fears 'Unfair' U.S. Tax Bill Will Incentivise Companies to Move to AmericaEuropean finance ministers are "worried" the Republican's newly passed tax bill will make the US "go from being a high-tax to a low-tax country" and "unfairly" incentivise companies to move to America from the EU and the UK.
This is truly terrifying.
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Amazon Driver Caught Dropping A Deuce On The Street In Front Of Customer's HouseCheap labor doesn't come without a cost.
From Fox News:
When Nemy Bautista arrived to his Sacramento home on Tuesday, he found what appeared to be dog poop at the bottom of his driveway. When he looked at the footage in his security camera, however, he found a dissatisfying surprise.
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'Kebs & Go': Polish Students Create Revolutionary Kebab Making MachineA team of students at the Warsaw University of Technology may have just made third-world immigrant labor obsolete.
They made their own genuine kebab making machine -- with a grill and everything inside -- and students and local journalists are forming giant lines to give their wraps a try.
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'Tremendous Competition': Trump Signs Executive Order Relaxing Healthcare RulesUS President Donald Trump has signed an executive order allowing the purchase of health insurance across state lines, aimed at creating more choice on the marketplace and reining in the rising insurance premiums.
The new executive order will increase competition, choice and access to healthcare for millions of Americans, while costing the US government "virtually nothing," Trump said.
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Yelp VP: Google Engaged in Severely Anti-Competitive Behavior Against Its CompetitionMonday on Fox News Channel's "Tucker Carlson Tonight," Luther Lowe, vice president of public policy for Yelp, made the argument that Google was abusing its market advantages by snuffing out certain niche competition, particularly when it comes to local search and the use of smart phones.
Lowe likened it to Microsoft engaging in similar practices in the earlier days of the Internet.
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Evergreen State College Announces Layoffs Due to Drop in EnrollmentShockingly, world famous Evergreen State College is having trouble getting out of state students to enroll at their college.
From The College Fix:
Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the embattled school faces a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall due in part to a drop in enrollment, and the institution has already handed out some temporary layoff notices as officials grapple ... (more)
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Poll: Everyone Prefers Working With MenBoth men and women prefer to work with men, according to a new poll from MSN.
From Business Insider:
In a poll conducted earlier this month by Business Insider partner MSN, more than 90% of men and women said they were comfortable with having a boss of the opposite gender.
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Media Goes Full Retard Over Trump WWE TweetWe're reaching levels of media desperation never before thought possible.
The media and the Democrats did everything in their power to make Trump lose the election, yet they failed.
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Trump 'Overrules' Cabinet, Prepares to Unleash Global Trade WarWhile one of Trump's recurring campaign promises was that he would "punish" China and other key US trade counterparties if elected, for taking advantage of free-trade by imposing steep tariffs and duties on foreign imports to "level the playing field", the President's stance changed drastically after the election, U-turning following his amicable meeting with China's president Xi Jinping in March, but mostly as a result of pressure by his ex-Goldman advisors to keep existing trade arrangements i... (more)
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Tucker Carlson Asks Immigrant Rights Activist Why He's Shilling For The Chamber Of CommerceWhy is it the left that claims to fight for higher wages and workers' rights now shills for open borders globalism and free trade?
That's the question Tucker Carlson asked immigrant rights activist Steven Choi on his show Monday.
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Trump Admin Cracks Down On H1-B Visas For CodersAs Nasdaq reaches ever record-er, record highs, it seems the ability to create a "Hello World" app is no longer enough to warrant an H1-B visa according to new guidelines from the Trump administration.
As The Hill reports, the new policy guidance that would make it harder for companies to use the H-1B visa program to bring foreign computer programmers into t... (more)
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Trump Curse: Anti-Trump Macy's Closing Stores, Cutting 10k Jobs, Stock CollapsingEver since Macy's severed ties with Donald Trump and attacked him as a racist, their company has been imploding.
Trump said all like-minded patriots should boycott the company on July 1st, 2015.
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CNN: "Ford Cancels Mexico Plant. Will Create 700 U.S. Jobs in 'Vote of Confidence' in Trump"For the first time in decades, our president may actually pursue sane policies in the best interests of the people of the United States.
From CNN:
Ford is canceling plans to build a new plant in Mexico. It will invest $700 million in Michigan instead, creating 700 new U.S. jobs.
Ford CEO Mark Fields said the investment is a "vote of confidence" in the pro-bu ... (more)
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LOL: Trump Team Sends Memo to Energy Department Asking Who's Worked on Climate ChangeFederal bureaucrats at the Department of Energy are fearing they might lose their cushy make-work jobs.
From Reuters:
President-elect Donald Trump's Energy Department transition team sent the agency a memo this week asking for the names of people who have worked on climate change and the professional society memberships of lab workers, alarming employees and advisors.
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Nice Timing: 'Hamilton' Stunt Happens As Broadway 'Needs Republican Votes' To Get Tax BreakThe cast of Hamilton's idiotic stunt may cost their executives a pretty penny.
With Obama at the helm in 2015, Broadway producers were given special tax breaks by Congress.
Now that Republicans have control of the House, Senate and presidency, their special treatment is likely going to end.
"Brilliant, absolutely brilliant of the Hamilton cast to embarrass Pence at a time when Broadway needs Republican votes in Congress. Genius," former New York Ti... (more)
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Obamacare Premiums to Rise Next Year by Average of 25%Who could have possibly predicted this?
From McClatchy DC:
Insurers are raising the 2017 premiums for a popular and significant group of health plans sold through HealthCare.gov by an average of 25 percent, more t ... (more)
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Working Class White Men's Incomes Lower Now Than In 1996Decades of discriminatory policies, importing cheap immigrant labor and so-called "free trade" are taking their toll.
From The Christian Science Monitor:
Income levels among white men without a college education have dropped by nine percent over the past two decades, according to a new study by Sentier Research, contributing to ongoing ... (more)
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Soros Bets $110m Shorting Germany's Biggest BankGeorge Soros is looking to take down Germany's biggest bank...
Via The Daily Express:
BILLIONAIRE investor George Soros took out a staggering €100MILLION bet that a major German bank would collapse after Britain decisions to cut ties with the crumbling EU.
The man who "broke the Bank of England" took ... (more)
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