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It's Brexit Day. Mike Pompeo: the UK will be ‘front of the line’ for a trade deal. Pompeo declared that the UK/US relationship was in a ‘fantastic place’

A revolution of independence without a war. Pretty cool.

Down with White Medical Science

Rometty Replaced As IBM CEO

IBM still exists. Who knew?

Sorry, dear millennials, but we may have screwed you for life

What????

What weed smokers need to know before going into surgery

Elizabeth Warren: A Young Trans Person Will Have Veto Power Over My Choice For Secretary Of Education

Michael Bloomberg Does Nutty Video Promoting ‘Big Gay Ice Cream’

Losing a step or two: Forget the Map: Biden Can't Locate Ukraine in His Mind

Ashley Biden organization received $166K federal grant while father was vice president

FEELING THE BERN IN CALIFORNIA

Jerry Nadler was overheard on the metro bragging on the phone about how he should be the one leading the impeachment against Trump … the day after Trump took office

ABC, NBC, CBS evening newscasts favor Democrats on impeachment coverage

Duh

Hey, If You Can’t Trust the Chinese Government, Who Can You Trust, Right?

Arab Israelis Hate Trump’s Peace Plan. Israel-Haters Will Hate The Reason Why

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"Go ahead and whine, millennials! You're even more entitled that you thought you were!"

I'd like to think there are a lot of millennials tuning out this condescending defeatist garbage. Some of them are even learning to avoid the debt trap, especially the part that comes from borrowing to pay for a useless variety of education.

#1 Texan99 on 2020-01-31 09:34 (Reply)

I would just like to point out that none of my five children have received $165,000 federal grants. It's almost as if...

Nah. Couldn't be.

#2 Assistant Village Idiot on 2020-01-31 10:44 (Reply)

IBM has pretty much divested from any consumer-level products. Commoditization has pretty much wiped out any profitability in that sector. Unless you work in a corporate IT department, you're no longer likely to encounter them.

They're still players in the seriously heavy-iron, consulting services, and enterprise back-office software.

#3 Another Guy named Dan on 2020-01-31 11:05 (Reply)

Bloomberg does do 'nutty' things. He's going to emulate Hillary and "kill coal".
There goes the Rust Belt.

#4 oolioo on 2020-01-31 11:21 (Reply)

Isn't it interesting that Bernie seems to be quietly chugging away and getting results in the polling data that nobody can explain? All while the Democratic machine politic gets increasing uncomfortable, sending out little worried noises about electability and Joe Biden's attractive features and so on - while stacking the convention committee for a 2016 re-play. It kind of looks like Bernie may have cracked the code of Democratic machine politics, much to the machine's consternation.

#5 Aggie on 2020-01-31 11:56 (Reply)

Triangulation was something kinda new when Bill Clinton used it back in the 1990s but that was almost a generation ago. It's now an old tired cliche, and everybody can see the game. The pendulum has swung back to authenticity.

#5.1 Christopher B on 2020-01-31 12:54 (Reply)

I'm wondering myself whether the polling data is accurate.

It could well be - but we don't know the sample sizes and the questions... and those being contacted may be hard-core who look at the choices and see Bernie as 'least worst' among a man exhibiting senility, a woman exhibiting shrill incompetence, and a socialist who they're likely hoping will die before the election.

(Not that I wish ill on any of them, I just wish they'd go the hell away. They're NOT competent or capable, and any delusion they are can be quickly dispelled by just watching them for a bit.)

#5.2 JLawson on 2020-01-31 12:58 (Reply)

The reason for the missed predictions of Trump over Clinton was similar to the reason they polls showed Dewey over Truman: the sample polled was younger, more urban, and more minority than the population that actually voted.

The way that the Democratic party rules are set up virtually guarantees that a candidate the takes California will take the nomination. This generally hasn't been too much of an issue because California fell late enough that a presumptive nominee had usually been determined before the primary.

The outstanding issue with Bernie is can he get any electoral votes out of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin? Are there enough voters young enough to consider an avowed socialist to carry any or all of these states? I'd even go as far as to think that nominating Bernie puts the Carolinas and even Virginia in the R column.

#5.3 Another guy named Dan on 2020-01-31 13:44 (Reply)

Magna Carta is restored.

#6 jim on 2020-01-31 13:20 (Reply)

Interesting that the author of the millennials article felt the need to include Gen X as part of the problem.

Sorry bub, that's strictly on the boomers. Gen X got a worse deal than even the millennials.

#7 DrTorch on 2020-01-31 14:12 (Reply)

Arab Israelis Hate Trump’s Peace Plan. Israel-Haters Will Hate The Reason Why.

Their response doesn't fit the narrative. They objected to Trump's Peace Plan because the area where they they live would be transferred from Israel to the Arab Palestinian state.

QUOTE:

Leaders and residents of Arab-Israeli towns in the so-called Triangle fumed on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump’s peace plan proposed including their villages southeast of Haifa in a future Palestinian state.

“We are citizens of the state of Israel. Not enemies,” said Tayibe Mayor Sha’a Mansour Massarwa, who blasted the Trump’s “Deal of the Century” during an interview with the Ynet news site.

His town, along with the Triangle communities of Kafr Qara, Ar’ara, Baqa al-Gharbiya, Umm al Fahm, Qalansawe, Kafr Qasim, Tira, Kafr Bara and Jaljulia, were all referenced in the US peace plan, which “contemplates the possibility, subject to agreement of the parties that the borders of Israel will be redrawn such that the Triangle Communities become part of the State of Palestine.”

The proposal has long been rejected by Arab-Israeli leaders.

But Qalansawe mayor Abdulbast Salameh called the plan “political propaganda at the expense of Israel’s Arab citizens.”

These Arab Israelis have concluded that they would have a better life under the current setup, minority Arabs in a Jewish majority state, than under the Arabs in West Bank/Gaza.

#8 Gringo on 2020-02-01 11:54 (Reply)

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