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Steve is right. I like to see the "stuff." I can get anecdotal stories and background biography from Google. My interest is to see and examine historical artifacts and to imagine their use. I was looking forward to the new exhibits. Now I'm not. Hiring a foreign company across the continent to tell Alaskans about Alaska? Dumb.

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Why? See Oppegaard's latest on Civil Beat.

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More and more republican senators are abandoning dog whistle partisanship and realizing that repealing the ACA w/o a replacement is recipe for devastating election losses in the future. Polls have shown the ACA to be popular even among those who voted for the Cheetofuhrer. It will be entertaining to watch the warring factions of the GOP try to draft replacement language to what was essentially a republican idea to begin with.

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And that is the saddest part of it for our Canada. Neither the Conservatives nor the NDP have a credible answer.

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If posters had to answer even the most basic of skill-testing or scientific knowledge-testing questions before commenting on this topic, there would be many fewer posts, but much better ones. Sorry, climate change deniers, but be honest for once: you don't *actually* believe you understand these subjects better than the research scientists that study them, do you?

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If Trump is as bad as you think, wouldn't real criticisms be enough indictment instead of adding false ones?

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Especially on cable news, this point resonates. Less supposition and more facts are needed. ... Incremental stories, though, sometimes are the only way to get a story developed and out into the public view. So I wouldn't necessarily disparage the small stuff, which can eventually lead to bigger stuff, a la Watergate, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/watergate/part1.html. ...

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Captain Ahab is nothing compared to our Governor.

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Well, the easter egg in the penultimate sentence was...it's [sic] own reward.

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The sad part of this story is two fold: One, that despite the glaring management process problems and media wide criticisms, there appears to be no efforts in the Prosecutors office to listen and improve. Two, Kaneshiro was just recently re-elected...Who ran against him? Why was not this story and other mis-management issues (e.g. Deedy trial, Kealoha fiasco, mis-managed safehouse etc.) not highlighted in the media during election time?

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Celebrate Bolshevism! Eh, Charles?

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http://www.dictionary.com/browse/reactionary. All the definitions I found said it was extreme conservatism and resistant to social change. Other sites were much more complete, all said it was a conservative atribute. But if read this as being against the status quo, you would be very right about both major parties feeling threatened by any emerging party or system that minimizes their power.

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That's odd, I could have sworn that it was Obama's administration that got bin Laden and killed a lot of top-level terror commanders.

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Contrary to what some war lovers seem to think, world war I did not save democracy in the west. It was an imperial war between imperial powers, locked into their absurd alliances.

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What questionable deals? You Liberals must be crapping your pants about now. That twit you have won;t last another election. Once we audit that slush fund Trudeau Foundation I'm sure Khan will have made a few 100 million in donations then all will become clear.

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"Do you really think the media is interested in that citizens get better paying jobs as it's priority?" Ummm, yes, I would imagine citizens with jobs would buy far more subscriptions to the media than those without. Or do you just get all your news from Facebook links?

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I agree ordination candidates should be well-educated, theologically trained (using documents later than 1200 maybe), trained as counselors, trained as business and personnel managers (most will end up as pastors or administrators), but why the double heck do so many need to get that all-powerful "Canon Lawyer" degree (whatever it's called) and why do so many hang around Rome wallowing in extensive education they will NEVER need pastorally? Don't we need loving, caring, compassionate, merciful, wise, true followers of Jesus instead? One more example of clericalism gone amok.

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I don't know....if the tables were turned and some dude said "check her out",,,I can't imagine what bodily feature would prompt me to think,..."yeah,..I got to see that!"....no way...as a matter of fact when ever a hot celebrity passes away,...regardless of how hot they were,,,they ALL are kicked of my "spank bank"....I.e.:Mary Tyler Moore the most recent to be retired....too much information?

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Put a cork in it Corker!

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Please enlighten us?!

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Do you mean white? Or what do you mean? What exactly dies Canada look like to you?

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PR benefits the loser parties who don't have mass support. The NDP for example.

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I support the right to bear arms.

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I spent 22 years in the Alaska Army Guard including two years in Bethel. In this area I served with some very fine soldiers yet I was also forced to serve with dregs who were there only because of the undue political influence of those who saw (and apparently continue to see) the purpose of the National Guard in rural Alaska to be nothing more than a "jobs program" intended to inject cash in to rural Alaska. This article demonstrates again exactly why the Commanding General of the Alaska National Guard should not also be a State Commissioner. This is the National Guard not AIDEA. While a General Officer would seriously question the military benefit of this ill-defined program that same State Commissioner can think of no better idea. Creating jobs is not a primary military mission yet it is to politicians. A person in uniform should not be advocating on either side of this purely political effort primarily intended to inject cash into Alaska communities.

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It's going to be a LONG fours years as we see the Rise and Fall of this Regime.

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How about this instead. I want to make sure that everyone's right to use a car to drive privately from point A to point B shouldn't be restricted or recorded because out of the millions of car trips every day a couple of those trips are made by bad guys.

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Prem's self-serving opinion by a 1%'er. He is fostering a climate of a hard crash because it benefits his hedge bets. A softer decline (which all hope will happen) does not make him any money. Yes, it can end badly, but not as high as 50% of fin institutions. ...but that appears to be his wish. Good luck all.

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with who's money Roland?

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In the information age, it takes work to be dumb.

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The Scarborough subway extension (AKA "The Rob Ford One-Stop Gravy Train.") should be put on the back burner permanently.

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The first sentence of your post is not factual and negates everything after. Surprised you didn't state it was Hillary pulling the trigger.

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If you think millennials are idiots just wait until they breed. Jesus the end is near

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Allaha, You don't have to be an excellent marksman. Just aim and fire into the crowd.

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Oh please, insurance premiums are based on the financial risk the insurer accepts. The higher the risk the more the premium. The idea of basing the entire nation's insurance premiums on the financial risk of the 10% of individuals using 90% healthcare is total nonsense. You don't buy insurance to cover that 10% you find a way to pay their bills through taxes or other means. In that way the premiums for the other 90% is based on the other 10% healthcare cost. Lower premiums, smaller out pocket totals and smaller deductibles.

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I have just started a petition on the White House page for a full repeal of the ACA. Would you please consider signing it, then share it on your Facebook page and pass it along to friends and family? Thank you. https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/full-repeal-affordable-care-act

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You're no patriot. Just a socialist/ communist / liberal who has no clue, while living with mommy and daddy.

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Harper was unafraid of constitutional challenges. Trump is unaware that there is a constitution. See the difference?

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Trump bears some responsibility for threats like this. Several people, including Republicans, and many of our top Generals, and constitutional lawyers have told Trump that (1) he is taking an approach that creates constitutional issues by among other things discriminating by religion., and (2) he should follow Obama's previous orders based on persons who might be terrorists and not countries--believe it or not, there are more than six countries from which terrorists can come. Obama looked at where people went (like did they visit regions of Iraq which are the site of terrorist training centers) regardless of whether they were citizens of Syria or Egypt or Canada). Trump can tighten up the language or he can lower Obama's limits on numbers of immigrants, but keep the form of the order.

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Out, I think you are being pretty naive if you think nothing will get tacked onto the STC Bill. We've already seen Republican Lawmakers try to tack on a bill that allows Fracking near the North Country National Scenic Trail, to a bill that allows the NCT to buy land from 'Willing Sellers." We are living in an political environment where the Supreme Court ruling called "Citizens United" has allowed businesses to spend billions of dollars to buy candidates. I'm sure the big oil, timber and mining interests are chopping at the bit to have the Wilderness Act opened up.

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Oh I wouldn't either, if I would feel that way, but I don't feel that way. As time went by and the selection of print media shrank, it was the Globe & Mail that suited me best, not least because of style. e.g they don't regurgitate the same paragraph/sentence in three different forms to a) dumb it down b) fill extra space and they have, by today's norm, very few typos. Do I always agree with them? No, sometimes they're way out in Right field, but they don't have wings. LOL

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I don't think any Democrat would've won in a landslide. It's unusual for the same party to stay in power after two terms. Even though Obama brought the country back from the precipice after the crash in 2008 it took a long time for the economy to recover, and voters were restless. Voters didn't just vote against Hillary, they voted FOR Trump. Many Americans are magical thinkers willing to tolerate, or even welcome, bigotry if some rich guy swaggers around, talks tough and promises the world. Pathetic. Of course Hillary is rich, too, but people held it against her. For Trump it was considered a virtue.

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Trudeau is a disaster just like this road trip. It reiterates why Trump won. Talking points, no real plan or direction and higher costs, deficits and bigger government. He truly is a boy in a mans job.

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The media regularly reports ( and columnists offer opinions) on matters being investigated, where charges have been laid and while the case is being heard (unless there is a publication ban in place). For example see the case of Michael Dennis "Mike" Duffy.

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Reed: However, it does not matter. Impacts at 20-55mph can be devastating. Several years ago I was stopped at a light. I was in a 1 ton p/u truck and was rear ended. The driver that hit me told police that he was going 35mph. It was a tremendous impact and shoved my truck thru the light and into another vehicle. My airbag saved me from serious injury. My neck got pushed out of joint and a chiropractor got it back lined up. No problems with the neck but $20,000.00 dollars as a settlement is not worth going thru all the trips to physical therapy, paperwork, dealing with insurance companies etc. People just do not realize what a serious impact it is at lower speeds unless you have been thru it. That vehicle they are building is a DEATH TRAP............

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I would have put McMahon at 3rd base and saved Valaika for the inevitable pinch hit. I want an automated strike zone to be implemented. Am I 5 years ahead of my time????? lol.

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OH boy fact check time here "Trustee Akana's declaratory judgement failed"! No it didn't it was removed buy order of robert kline who did it right after she was removed as chair. Buy what authority is the still the main question that isn't getting answered. Why? He works for the BOT but as most of us know he actually runs the BOT for over a decade now. MAhalo to Ms Kawananakoa for not only following up with this suit on the contract that does not exist but also including OHA'S own attorneys guilt and fraudulent behavior in this matter. The BS just got a whole lot thicker buy the old guards actions!!!

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Wow,what a wonderful and insightful article.

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The words protesting racism and bigotry are fine but actions speak louder than words. It is now time for Republicans, who control House and Senate, to take some action against Trump. It is now time for senior cabinet members and political appointees to take action or resign. And for Trump's own kids, if this is how you want to raise your children, God help you. Otherwise, as difficult as it may be, stand up to your father. We have seen parents disown their own kids for being racist. There should be zero tolerance for people like Trump who hold values of racism and bigotry. American is too great a country to let these despicable attitudes survive.

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Let's say 50,000 Muslims enter every year. By 2030 that means 650,000 Muslims would have come in - about 2 percent of Canada's population. So are the White Anglo Saxons all planning to leave Canada? Or are aliens going to abduct them?

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Trudeau has lowered taxes not raised them Are you once again conflating provincial & federal parties?

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Great article, glad to know our future President spent working hours up here and not just vacationing. The last 2 Democrat Presidents have opened oil drilling areas in our state. I can't think of anything Republicans have opened in the last 30 years. Too bad our up for election serving U.S. Senator is supporting Trump. If Alaskans elected Margaret Stock or Ray Metcalf to U.S Senate and voted for HRC we would most likely improve our economy. All I see Republicans doing is trying to privitze public hunting lands in the west.

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interesting

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I see that Charles has had my response deleted. So, here it is again: Coulter acted like a five-year old with a massive sense of entitlement. Good for Delta not to be black-mailed by her childish rants.

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If it was so important to lock up this land why did former President Obama wait until his last days in office?? Did something happen I am unaware of??

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@StraightShooter - I agree with you in part that Phil Knight's generosity and entrepreneurship is "Kind of genius, actually".

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GBA, I wrote my comment to KP, before I saw your comment. But, it is really a quick timing point. I've watched MANY times, and Trump moves his hand out of the way just before the FLOTUS is snatching at it.

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Still, no answer. That's because you have none.

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Didn't get enough stars at school this year so you gave yourself one.....cute.

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Those of us who live in Vancouver all know that foreign ownership is far more than 6%. Even the media is reporting on this. Too bad corrupt policitians like Christy Clark backed by developers continue to turn a blind eye to foreign speculation and money laundering through real estate. THe median income is around $60K and with housing far over a million on average it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that foreign influence is driving the market. Where did BC Finance Minister Mike Dejong get the money to buy 8 investment properties in BC? No corruption? lol

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You do look around, right, and see the quality of parenting that is prevalent here in Alaska? It's some of the worst parenting I've ever seen. Young over breeders, too poor, too dumb and too unprepared to be parents and then the drug addicted ones that let their kids become part of the OCS roundabout. There is one thing Alaska cannot be proud of and that's the majority of parents here in this state. Pathetic.

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Well, that's one approach to free speech - make a dramatic claim about how it's under attack by them other guys, and then refuse to defend it.

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Natives hired in these contracts? What percent? Don't apply for the contract if shareholders won't be hired! Sick of our corporation making every excuse to not hire shareholders. President of NDC has to go! We have too many foll0wing the popular on the board. Don't need to uuNGa to anybody.....

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Good, he'll have something to 'kneel' on. Perhaps he can influence a few of the $90 Million for 3 years playing basketball, to forego their salaries, and instead, follow he and the ex-SF footballer, in their quest to find more imagined wrongs....

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If people didn't want, or have to know why they (or someone else..say a criminal) act the way they do, there wouldn't BE any shrinks. They serve a legitimate purpose, and many of our laws are based on criminalizing aberrant behavior that is unacceptable in society. Do the mores of society change? Sure, and obvious aberrant behavior sometimes is "legitimized", if not as "normal", then "acceptable" to a society on a downward spiral. What is "normal" is based on many factors, biology, culture, religion, etc. among them. Usually, it's just a matter of common sense. But, I think I'll go with a "court accepted" expert with decades of experience in dealing with those who aren't. If someone else comes up with a more plausible reason for people who seek to destroy our Constitution, Rights, rule of law, family, etc. I'll entertain their view as well!

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A revenue neutral carbon tax is different than the insidious and disingenuous cap and trade scam that Trudeau/Wynne/Notley are about to perpetrate against Canadians.

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I can see the government going back to no CPP unless essentially not employed. It's only recently that one can be employed and still start their CPP.

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Yawn, Yet another pathetic and puerile attempt at moral equivalency between a sovereign nation removing illegal migrants and the Holocaust. BTW, here’s one more: “And when they came for the illegal migrants, there was much rejoicing.”…

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You mean like Nancy Pelosi who said, "We have to pass the bill to see what's in it." That was the ACA or Obama care. They did. Now we all have to live with the mess it created. Even Bill Clinton said as much, calling Obama care "the craziest thing in the world" That's really something

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Let's see how the left finds a way to make this a negative story...

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Again, not one mention of the value of hiring a permitted guide. And a clear misunderstanding of avalanche education programs. Signage is not the answer. How many people have seen a picture of someone standing on the log at Hanging Lake right next to the sign? Perhaps the Forest Service should do a better job of promoting the use of professional outfitters.

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Joyce: Agree 100%.

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I am always amused by the use of the word Fascism by The Left- they constantly have their definition Wrong. Fascism is already here in Eugene - it is in the form of the West Eugene EMX , and many other true definitions of fascism -when the State uses it's authority to impose onerous laws and regulations. "Professor Richard Griffiths of the University of Wales wrote in 2005 that "fascism" is the "most misused, and over-used word, of our times". Indeed.

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And people still have the responsibility to keep their hands to themselves. There's this concept called "self-control" or "self-discipline". Men have been known to use it. Women shouldn't have to dress like nuns to keep themselves safe from men.

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you wouldn't get off with that answer in court, but hey, it's not court and it's sunny outside, so you are excused....I'll pretend we had a civil debate and you can exit pretending you acquitted yourself honorably....as for your last attempt to tar, here's the thing....Ms Southey and Hitchens both made a living off of unvarnished critique...Hitchens was far smarter and far more well read of course, but essentially both assumed the right to skewer....you can easily find immense and harsh critique of Hitchens' foibles and inconsistencies against which he often defended vigorously...Ms Southey it appears to you, required special care, lest the pointing out of her inconsistencies would act to mar faith in her virtuosity...sorry, but you owed her more respect than that

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"No such thing as sacred rocks..." Maybe somebody should tell the Muslims and Jews about the Dome of the Rock and the Temple of Solomon. Then the Brits and Scots about the Stone of Scone and the Irish about the Blarney Stone. It seems that discrimination against Hawaiian culture is worse in the Pae `Aina than anywhere else in the world.

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…that's Richard wishing he gets to see Ted Nugent. …you know, …'top entertainment'.

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No, they're grooming Connie Yakabuski for that.

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If he is a PERS recipient and lives in Oregon, he has to pay State tax on that income but his actual earned benefit has been increased to cover that cost. All the PERS recipients used to have that benefit, but the last claw-back by the Oregon Legislature removed it for PERS retirees who don't live in Oregon.

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And the nicest

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Greetings.... sorry but I have no tears for Cardinal Pell! My concern is with the abused! Looks like Bernard Law will be renting out a room to Pell at Mary Major Basilica soon....birds of a feather flock together⚠

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Yes, Trump is indeed the perfect metaphor for the GOP's soul. Shallow, belligerent, and with a fondness for empty platitudes over fact, your post highlights exactly the GOPs problem. By the way, more people voted for "crooked Hillary" than Trump.

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We are going to end it! Now!

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With OPEC and non OPEC nations cutting oil supplies to support prices why is the U.S. actively expanding production and increasing output.? Are higher oil prices inconsistent with U.S. national economic interests? Or, are the political tools and policy sentiments to do so inconsistent with the free operation of the marketplace? Bob Jeffries Barrie

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Actually, Krugman pointed out exactly the purpose and effect of the Ryan bill as written. Truth ins't partisan; this bill stinks for every working American. It's a giveaway to the very wealthy at a great cost to our treasury and the income of average working people. You aren't within a mile of being non-partisan.

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Seems ironic that McDonald's is trying to bring traffic into the stores while at the same time driving away families with severe food allergies. Since our family has a child with a nut allergy, we won't be visiting McDonald's again.

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O: "It is not clear whether or not Lincoln committed war crimes by brushing the south's right of self-determination aside and enslaving them to the north's wishes." Your statement concerning the "south's right of self-determination" was only for the whites of the south. Did you know that there were slaves there as well. And your statement that Lincoln "enslaved" the south would have - had you written it in history class - earned you an F.

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Yes drugs are so cool! Try and sell that to your prospective employer when he asks you to submit to a drug test. Oh wait, they probably have outlawed that intrusion in stoner Canada.

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Earns them special treatment in school-including the MCATs- (Medical school testing on proficiency before admittance-think about that!) Tracked Data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. * For students applying to medical school with slightly below average GPAs of 3.20 to 3.39 and slightly below average MCAT scores of 24 to 26...black applicants were more than 9 times more likely to be admitted to medical school than Asians (56.4% vs. 5.9%), and more than 7 times more likely than whites (56.4% vs. 8.0%). * For all matriculants to US medical schools in the fall of 2015, the average MCAT score for Asians (32.8) and whites (31.8) were above the average MCAT score of 31.4 for all matriculants, while the average MCAT score for Hispanics (28.0) and blacks (27.3) had average MCAT scores below the overall average - MUCH MORE here! http://www.aei.org/publication/acceptance-rates-at-us-medical-schools-in-2015-reveal-ongoing-discrimination-against-asian-americans-and-whites/"

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Alberta needs to get its product to tidewater for the good of the Canadian economy and of course for the good of Alberta. We are a confederation and that is the way things work, as an Albertan I think that we should shut down all highways and rail traffic going into B.C. and all communications, and then we would see what happens to the B.C. economy. We would see what all the long shore man working on the docks and the industry that goes along with that and then we would see if B.C. can last with it's smelling the flowers. In the agreement of confederation no province can stop the movement of trade and commerce to the determent to another. So get with it BC flower children trade and commerce has to happen in this country for it to survive. This country can't survive with raising marijuana and whale watching .

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I think you missed both the point and the boat, polar bob.

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Oh, one more really important point. A key reason kids can remain in foster care so long without adoption is this idea that what is best for them is keeping them with "family." When that family is drug and alcohol addicted, and/or emotional unstable, then the child winds up staying in foster care year after year after year...given false hope by parents and a system who if they were honest would acknowledge that the child will likely never be best with those parents. There should be a time limit on how long a child must wait. And children cannot often make this decision for themselves. Some people were not meant to be parents... and waiting and dreaming that they will is abusive and cruel to kids.

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Reasonable accommodations? - does that include retro fitting a room in a Catholic high school into a muslim prayer room for 24 students? (approx student population 1400). BTW, there is no chapel in the school for the Catholic students, so how exactly do the 2 dozen muslims think they are owed a room?

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....and preen himself.

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Even if you did roll back all of that domestic spending, we have so much debt to pay off that the difference wouldn't and likely shouldn't go back to tax payers. Not to mention that the amount rolled back will never happen.

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I have a feeling Junior and his second-rate cabinet are going to get crushed by Trump and his powerhouse cabinet.

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It comes up now because he is running for THE UNITED STATES SENATE. How you can even wrap your mind around defending this pos is beyond my comprehension. Grown men coming on to teenage girls is wrong. Sometimes the girl isn't sophisticated enough to understand this, but the man should be.

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Individualists in private cars competing against the clock for limited road space is a highly competitive environment. There are rules, but they are barely enforced in the boom time. As in unregulated capitalism, even the mild-mannered must develop thick skin and sharp elbows or risk being sidelined. Humans are highly adaptable. Occasionally, there's a crash. Someone might be disciplined for an infraction, but not always. That's just some bad actors, they say. It's still a good system. If fact, it's the only way except for that collectivist, regulated business of riding together (even with strangers!) in large professionally-driven vehicles and predictably arriving all at the same time. The evidence suggests most people today prefer the costs of the lone "road warrior" battle to the compromises of collective cooperation. Can either psychologists or economists tell us why that is?

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Why isn't anyone discussing banning studded tires? Why does that discussion only surface in the summer months? LOL

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Europe was completely destroyed during World War II, millions died in concentration camps, families were torn apart, and tens of millions of men, women, and children were killed. Europe should be a complete mess but is not....

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Great job making it OK to crap in the street. Saw some bum pee on larimer square at noon 1/2 block from a porta potty. Thanks Handcock, let's decriminalize beatings for people shooting dope in plain sight. (Nevermind, just public urination/defecating cause cherry creek smells better now)

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