Category Archives: National

Sanders surpasses Clinton in California

Graphic: L.A. Times

Graphic: L.A. Times

According to an analysis published today by the L.A. Times, “Hillary Clinton’s popularity has slumped in California under an unrelenting challenge from Bernie Sanders, who has succeeded in breaching the demographic wall Clinton had counted on to protect her in the state’s presidential primary.”

This startling result is from a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.

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Cherokee Days celebration scheduled June 10-12

CherokeeHistoric1The Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians are partnering again to host the third annual Cherokee Days at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.

The three-day event is June 10-12 and free to attend. Cherokee Days showcases a timeline of historical milestones, live cultural art demonstrations and scheduled cultural performances. Among the activities is a make-and-take experience, which allows children to create traditionally inspired Cherokee items.

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What Democratic Socialism looks like

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Patient in Venezuela lies in filth dying of socialism

SkyNews.com today features a compelling story of patients dying in hospital beds in Venezuela for lack of food, water and medicine.

America, under the leadership of elected Democrats, is quickly flying down the same evil path. This is Democratic Socialism.

Sky News reports: People lie in filthy hospital wards with no air conditioning and no clean water as a medical crisis sweeps the country. Senior cancer specialists at Venezuela’s top oncology hospital say half of their patients are needlessly dying because they have no access to the most basic of medicines.

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Amendment to block commissary privatization

Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe

Oklahoma Senator Jim Inhofe

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) today introduced amendment #4204 to the Fiscal Year 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would prevent the Department of Defense (DOD) from privatizing commissaries at five major installations until a study, requested in last year’s NDAA, to assess the costs and benefits of privatization is completed and properly taken into consideration by Congress.

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Watchdog: Clinton, top aides did not comply

HillaryClintonCampaign2TheHill.com is reporting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior aides did not comply with the State Department’s record-keeping policies, an internal watchdog determined in a report sent to Capitol Hill.

Through the exclusive use of her personal email account routed through a private server, Clinton circumvented policies designed to follow federal records laws and may have jeopardized official secrets, the department’s Office of the Inspector General said in a report obtained by The Hill ahead of the its official publication on Thursday.

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