Cuomo is of course intellectually dishonest (and probably otherwise), using the term "immigrant" when the question is about illegal aliens.
Not to mention that Andrew Cuomo is no immigrant. He is the rich pampered son of the former N.Y. Governor Mario Cuomo, who assumed he was entitled to the position as if by birthrate.
People who have sworn to uphold the laws of our land, like Gov. Cuomo, should also be upholding the immigration laws otherwise they are violating their oaths.
Once is coincidence, twice is [something], three times is a trend.
"Once is an incidence, twice a coincidence, three times... Tri-incidence sounds dumb. Go with trend." If it hadn’t grasped it before, the Washington press corps is now on notice that President Donald Trump’s press briefing room is not going to be run the same way Obama’s was, and no one had a worse reaction than the Associated Press when it found another media outlet being picked first in this week’s pressers.
In the past, the 170-year-old news wire service was the first to be called at every press conference in the White House briefing room. But during his January 23 press conference, Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer called on a reporter from The New York Post instead.
If that didn’t spin the AP up, the January 24 presser did when Spicer gave his first question to conservative website LifeZette.com, a site founded by conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham.
The AP was so upset that after the press conference, it posted a story about LifeZette.com that contained several errors.
For instance, in its rush to attack LifeZette, the AP incorrectly spelled the name of the LifeZette reporter who attended the presser. Initially the AP spelled reporter Jim Stinson’s name as "Stenson." It later changed the spelling without notice.
The AP also took out of context some of the things LifeZette has posted in the past. For instance, the wire service reported as "news" that the site posted a "conspiracy theory" about the Clintons.
"Last year, LifeZette released a video, ’Clinton Body Count,’ that promoted a conspiracy theory that Hillary and Bill Clinton had ties to the deaths of several colleagues and Democrats," the story read.
"The video was made in jest, and merely noted that the theories existed," the site insisted in reply to the AP.
Still, the Clinton video has been scrubbed from the LifeZette site, and its August 21 tweet on the video now leads to a 404 page.
The AP also failed to reveal in its story that it had traditionally been afforded the press secretary’s first question to give readers perspective on why it was writing a story attacking LifeZette.
Finally, LifeZette noted that the AP never contacted them for a comment on their story after the January 24 presser.
In its own story on the AP’s attack, LifeZette noted that the wire service said only that it "stands by its reporting," even as it made unrevealed edits to its story.
That was a mantra my best friend and I repeated to each other a couple of decades ago when playing video games. Why does the left have such a problem understanding this principle?
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bookend of Obama's Education initiatives because back in Chicago in the 90s, Obama chaired a multiple $100M program funded by a major Pew Foundation Grant to improve education. This ultimately produced the same zero impact that the $7B program did in the 2000s.
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Money to education ---> teachers (and ever growing population of educational bureaucrats) salaries ---> dues to teachers' unions ---> contributions to DNC. Did I miss something?
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Now we need a study comparing student outcomes in USA & in other countries, to the per student expenditures in USA & other countries. It would be sickening to read those details.
[THEHILL] Activists with Greenpeace on Wednesday brought a massive "resist" banner to a construction site in Washington, D.C., to protest President Trump’s actions promoting oil pipelines. It's yellow, just like Hezbollah's, and it's got a red sun rising behind the word. Very artsy.
Protesters started scaling a 270-foot tower crane at a downtown construction site Wednesday morning and unfurled the banner once they reached the top.
Greenpeace’s intent is for the 70-foot-by-35-foot banner to be visible from the White House, a few blocks south of the building site, said spokeswoman Cassady Craighill.
The group is protesting Trump’s order yesterday to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, after former President B.O. rejected Keystone and delayed final federal approval for Dakota Access.
"People in this country are ready to resist and rise up in ways they have never done before," Karen Topakian, chairwoman of Greenpeace’s board, said in a statement.
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Something between 'criminal trespass', 'wanton endangerment' and 'hazarding navigation' seem suitable charges.
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[i]Protesters started scaling a 270-foot tower crane at a downtown construction site Wednesday morning and unfurled the banner once they reached the top.[/i]
Doesn't *anyone* take security seriously these days? Good Lord, I've managed rental houses with more attention than this.
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Just remember, Greenpeace, Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Humane Society International (HSI) are one in the same.
There will always be a funding stream from innocent folks thinking that they're donating to the 'American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals' (ASPCA) just because the Greenpeace/Sea Shepherd storefront calls itself the 'Humane Society'. My mom used to send money to them before I explained that it wasn't the ASPCA.
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[CNSNEWS] On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Trump had "made it very clear that he's a pro-life president," and "the reinstatement of this policy is not just something that echoes that value but respects taxpayer funding as well."
"This may be news for Sean Spicer, but access to safe, legal abortion is an American value," Laguens said in a statement. "The world’s most vulnerable women will suffer as a direct result of this policy, which threatens to undermine years of efforts to improve women’s health worldwide." Yes! Remember: "Mom, Apple Pie, Baseball, and Abortifacients"...
A Marist poll conducted in December found that 83 percent of Americans "oppose using tax dollars to fund abortions" both abroad (83%) and in the U.S. (61%).
Laguens also claimed that "women will die because of this action," in an interview with Democracy Now.
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Owning a gun is a constitutional right yet taxpayers do not fund weapons to low income Americans (even though they may need them the most). And in some cases not owning a weapon will lead to their death. See I can make the same argument.
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"The world’s most vulnerable women will suffer as a direct result of this policy,
And who would that be? The sex slaves of Rottherham, the laundry bags of KSA, the young girls of Nigeria or the poor blacks in the inner city?
Let's be honest here Abortion is the Progs weapon of choice in their racist war with blacks. Been that way since Margaret Sanger spelled it out and it still is.
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This is just another example of where we're at globally, at what happens when we allow anything and everything to take place under the guise of "education".
This kind of crap wouldn't take place if history and ethics/philosophy/law were tethered to something akin to truth and the basics of morality.
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is "deeply disturbed" by President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration. Just a wild guess, but I suspect Trump's order is intended to apply to illegal immigrants.
Walsh held a press conference Wednesday following Trump's executive orders that will jumpstart the construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexican border as well as crackdown on sanctuary cities.
Flanked by immigrants and first generation citizens who work for Boston, Walsh said the Trump administration is advancing the most destructive and un-American threats made during Trump's campaign for president. 28 percent of Boston residents are immigrants. How many of those are legal immigrants, Marty?
"We will not back down from our values that make us who we are as a city," Walsh said. "We will fight for our residents, whether immigrant or not, and provide the best quality of life for all Bostonians. I will use all my power within lawful means to protect all Boston residents, even if that means using City Hall itself as a last resort." Do everything legal to break the law. Why stop with legal, when you're breaking the law?
In regards to City Hall, Walsh went as far to say he will use City Hall as a place to shelter and protect those who don't feel safe. And my very own home, too. C'mon in!
"I will never turn my back on those who are seeking a better life," Walsh said. "We will not be intimidated by the threat to federal funding. We have each other's backs, and we have the Constitution of the United States of America on our side." Apparently, the Constitution applies to all Mexicans, as well.
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How many of those are legal immigrants, Marty?
That is one of the key questions but don't expect Hizzonor to answer it. I have a real problem with people who either cannot or will not distinguish between legal and illegal. The more the illegals protest the more I want them deported. Who the hell do they think they are entering our country illegally and trying to tell us what to do? You should hear them squeal in San Diego.
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What gets me is that the 'illegal aliens' have nothing to do with 'immigration'. Its a border security problem and should only be handled by either the border patrol or criminal justice system. They are not immigrants and should never be extended immigration rights or access to any immigration processes while they are in violation.
No 'immigration' hearing. No application for asylum accepted (sorry - you forfeited that when you violated our borders). Simple appearance before a judge (and not an immigration judge) and, if found guilty, deportation.
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excerpt from The Mexican Constitution ...
Here is a snippet of the Mexican Constitution ...
Chapter III
Foreigners
Article 33
Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in
Article 30
They are entitled to the guarantees granted by
Chapter I, Title I of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive
shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may
deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the
necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
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excerpt from The Mexican Constitution ...
Here is a snippet of the Mexican Constitution ...
Chapter III
Foreigners
Article 33
Foreigners are those who do not possess the qualifications set forth in
Article 30
They are entitled to the guarantees granted by
Chapter I, Title I of the present Constitution; but the Federal Executive
shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may
deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the
necessity of previous legal action.
Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country.
[Idaho Statesman] Sally Boynton Brown, the Idaho’s Democratic Party’s executive director and one of seven candidates to chair the Democratic National Committee, is taking heat for comments she made at a candidates’ forum last week on how the party should talk about the Black Lives Matter movement.
Brown, responding to a question from moderator Joy-Ann Reid of MSNBC, said Democrats have failed minorities and people of color and need to “accept there is prejudice” within the party. Speaking as a “white woman” who doesn’t “get it,” she said her job was to was to “shut other white people down when they want to say, oh, no, I’m not prejudiced; I’m a Democrat.”
Right-leaning media outlets seized on the “shut other white people down” part of her comment to attack her and the party.
“Obviously they’re being taken out of context,” Boynton Brown said of the reporting on her comments Tuesday. “What I was answering to was an internal party conversation around being in alignment with our values and words.”
She added: “I think that this is the issue we see with fake news. These media outlets take something completely out of context and sensationalize it, and now people across the country are sending me hate mail and thinking I’m saying something that’s not true.”
Boynton Brown, traveling in New York on Tuesday, said that her comments were aimed at racism as “the oldest power structure that we have in this country.”
“We absolutely need to check our own filter,” she said. “And the DNC needs to be making sure that we’re training people on how to listen to our brothers and sisters of color who are sharing their life experience with us.”
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“Obviously they’re being taken out of context,” Boynton Brown said of the reporting on her comments Tuesday. “What I was answering to was an internal party conversation around being in alignment with our values and words.”
Obviously the folks standing right behind you when you said it took you out of context, too.
She added: “I think that this is the issue we see with fake news. These media outlets take something completely out of context and sensationalize it, and now people across the country are sending me hate mail and thinking I’m saying something that’s not true.”
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“And the DNC needs to be making sure that we’re training people on how to listen to our brothers and sisters of color who are sharing their life experience with us.”
Please keep doing that.
Meanwhile, President Trump will continue to listen to our brothers and sisters of ALL colors who are sharing their life experiences with him.
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Sally Boynton Brown's egregious rant was 4 min. long.
The video and the "quote" cited in the article cut off and omitted the last minute of the rant.
Her dramatic and radically racist spiel concluded with:
We pull people in and they are volunteers. They don’t know anything and then we send them out to have conversations with people, hard conversations. We promote them to chair of a party where they have power and they have no clue what they are doing. We have to, at the DNC, provide training. We have to teach them how to communicate, how to be sensitive and how to shut their mouths if they are white. So I think I made my point.
I think the only point you made Sally, is that any future political aspirations you may have envisioned for yourself, are now laughably nonexistent.
Once upon a time, there was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years.
One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically, “you must be so sad.”
“We’ll see,” the farmer replied.
The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it two other wild horses.
“How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed! “Not only did your horse return, but you received two more. What great fortune you have!”
“We’ll see,” answered the farmer.
The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune. “Now your son cannot help you with your farming,” they said. “What terrible luck you have!”
“We’ll see,” replied the old farmer.
The following week, military officials came to the village to conscript young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out. “Such great news. You must be so happy!”
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Tom Cotton on Wednesday chided Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer for a delay on a confirmation vote for CIA Director Mike Pompeo and suggested Mr. Schumer’s tenure as the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate might improve with "a little more seasoning and experience."
Mr. Cotton, Arkansas Republican, said he has worked with Mr. Schumer on legislation before and found him to be "forthright" and "transactional."
"On this particular instance, though, we all thought he had made a commitment to us that we would vote on Mike Pompeo’s nomination on Friday," Mr. Cotton told radio host Hugh Hewitt.
"I guess he hadn’t taken the temperature of the Democratic caucus, though, so that was unfortunate," he said.
"Senator Schumer is still in his first month of leadership, so maybe as he gets a little more seasoning and experience, this won’t happen again," Mr. Cotton said.
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Since when is putting lipstick on a pig called "seasoning"?
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Always ask a Schumer supporter why they are in favor of someone who wants a religious test (in total violation of the First Amendment) for federal judges, as Schumer has publicly called for in the past.
Then watch their heads explode.
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Mr. Cotton using the line between sage and sarcasm as a jump rope.
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Southern Gentleman's version of DiploSpeak offering the face-saving notion that Schumer is (A) incompetent instead of (B) a low-down, lying penny-ante scoundrel.
The entire senior management team of the US State Department resigned on Thursday. Hey! A self-draining swamp!
It was not immediately clear whether their departure was part of the normal transition process when a new administration starts or whether it was a coordinated walkout by diplomats who had served in Democrat Barack Obama's administration.
A week ago, Republican President Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of State, former Exxon Mobil Corp chairman Rex Tillerson, was confirmed by the Senate foreign relations committee. He has yet to be confirmed by the full Senate. The departures will put more pressure on Tillerson to fill these senior posts.
Some reports suggest that only three have resigned and name them as Gregory Starr, Assistant Secretary for State for Diplomatic Security, Michele Bond, Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs and Tom Countryman, the acting undersecretary for arms control and international security. Hit the road Jack
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Created ISIS, gave billions to the Mad Mullahs, under Hillary refused to help our Benghazi heros who battled AQ for 8 hours. You should be prosecuted on the way out.
#4
These people have done the nation a great service ... by resigning.
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I doubt their motivation had much if anything to do with the 'nation' Iblis, but an encouraging outcome nonetheless. 'Thank God and Greyhound they're gone' ...as was once said.
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Now he does not have to fire them and pay severance....
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U. S. Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan has also left. He was asked to leave by the Trump administration. The border patrol union was critical of him for supporting Obama's plans to safeguard certain "undocumented immigrants" from deportation.This will probably improve morale at the Border Patrol.
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Fleeing any Congressional and/or DOJ probes into obstruction of FOIA? Gross Incompetence (see Benghazi)? Corruption other than "normal" corruption, featherbedding and nepotism (see Clinton's CGI)?
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Way overblown. One division head of seven and three of his direct reports out of about 10. Should be easy to redistribute duties and leave their openings on the org chart.
[FoxNews] Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick Kennedy's last day will be Friday, according to a State Department official.
Things are definitely looking up at Foggy Bottom. Patrick was one of Hillary's tools at State -- like a pry-bar, he could be used to do anything that required crude, blunt force...
Mark Toner, acting spokesman, told Fox News Wednesday that Kennedy "will resign as Under Secretary for Management on January 27, and retire from the Department of State on January 31."
Kennedy first joined the State Department in 1973, according to Toner.
Republicans have criticized Kennedy for his conduct related to classified email status, Libya, Benghazi and internal State investigations. Trump administration officials have wanted to replace him.
Apparently he spent the last couple of months during the transition pandering to keep his position, or to get another one of equal stature. Didn't work, so he's gone.
In October, Fox News reported that Kennedy proposed a “quid pro quo” to convince the FBI to strip the classification on an email from Hillary Clinton’s server – and repeatedly tried to “influence” the bureau’s decision when his offer was denied, even taking his plea up the chain of command, according to FBI documents.
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This fellow had a gov't career which included 16 key assignments spanning over 40 years and he needed assistance "understanding the FBI (US Gov't) classification process?"
No, what Kennedy really "needed" was to be GONE! Unfortunately there are dozens, possibly hundreds just like him still at Foggy Bottom. Additional shortcomings and examples of tawdry performance are found at his wiki bio link.
On October 17, 2016, the FBI released interviews related to the Hillary Clinton email investigation. One of the interviews alleges that Patrick F. Kennedy "pressured" the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to declassify an email from Hillary Clinton's private server in exchange for a "quid pro quo" of placing more agents in certain countries.[13][14] The FBI stated that the email's classification status was re-reviewed and remained unchanged and denied quid pro quo accusations. The State Department called the allegations "inaccurate" and maintained that Kennedy was trying to "understand" the FBI's classification process. [13] Emphasis provided Wiki link to bio.
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Someone should determine who was involved in the slow discovery of State Department emails that were subpoena by congress.
Also I'd like to know when/what these fellows knew about the Clinton toilet server and perhaps put them up on charges or withhold some of their retirement pay because of the illegalities involved.
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Patrick Kennedy leaving can only be a good thing for State. Obama's Border Chief fired? Draining the Swamp begins. There's a lot of house cleaning that needs to be done.
[DAILYCALLER] The Trump administration told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take down its global warming webpage, an anonymous EPA staffer said.
"If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear," the staffer told Rooters Tuesday. The staffer was not authorized to speak to the media and claimed EPA employees were scrambling to save data on the website. If they give me a few dollars, barely a smidgen of their annual budget, I'd be happy to show them how to archive webpages and data from their databases. Something in the low seven digits should cover it nicely.
The EPA’s global warming webpage is currently still up as of Wednesday morning. The page contains some links to EPA’s data on carbon dioxide (CO2) as well as other greenhouse gas emissions and lists the effects the agency says global warming will have. The site doesn’t host much of the data, however, and only aggregates links to it. So... The data they're scrambling to "save" is still there, just not on their website? So the benefit is either zero or near zero?
EPA was ordered Tuesday to stop handing out grants for projects and research on global warming, air quality monitoring and education, and the agency instructed employees not to discuss the spending freeze outside the agency, according to anonymous leaks to multiple media outlets.
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"If the website goes dark, years of work we have done on climate change will disappear."
Considering most of it is fraudulent, I would consider that a benefit to humanity.
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Absolute idiots. Did they forget Trump claim about figuring out who leaked information? Did it not occur to them this is a God-damned sting to clean out the EPA?
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The EPA is not the climate department. Smog reports maybe, but not your job.
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Sell all the EPA owned aircraft and any vehicles larger than a bicycle.
Forbid any EPA officials from flying or going by train or bus to any job-related functions. Walking and the beforementioned bicycle are ok.
Cut the HVAC related budget of all EPA occupied buildings to zero.
In short - make them eat their own dogfood.
So they're using private devices and accounts to keep the communications out of the government archive? Tut tut.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] The Badlands National Park, located in South Dakota, has tweeted and deleted posts on climate change. The account is the latest from the National Parks Service (NPS) social media presence to post on topics off-message from the White House.
The tweets discussed information about how levels of carbon dioxide are at their highest in history, citing the Organic Act of 1916, a federal statute that calls for the preservation of lands for the "enjoyment of future generations."
Tuesday morning President Trump signed a series of executive orders giving the green light on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines as well as expediting environmental reviews and approvals. Opponents argue that the pipelines will increase carbon emissions and contribute to the disastrous effects of climate change on the environment.
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pipelines will increase carbon emissions and contribute to the disastrous effects of climate change on the environment.
So do all the vehicle miles driven by the NPS. So I assume they will walk everywhere from now on.
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And looking at ice cores and such, the average ppm of CO2 throughout the history of the planet is really more like 1200 to 1800ppm. We're in CO2 starvation according to an actual scientific paper I got off a government website. Dunno how they managed to get it on there considering it really doesn't help the warmers much.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Weasel Zippers] I’m down with that...
If it hadn’t grasped it before, the Washington press corps is now on notice that President Donald Trump’s press briefing room is not going to be run the same way Obama’s was, and no one had a worse reaction than the Associated Press when it found another media outlet being picked first in this week’s pressers. 
[THEHILL] Activists with Greenpeace on Wednesday brought a massive "resist" banner to a construction site in Washington, D.C., to protest President Trump’s actions promoting oil pipelines.
[CNSNEWS] On Monday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said President Trump had "made it very clear that he's a pro-life president," and "the reinstatement of this policy is not just something that echoes that value but respects taxpayer funding as well."
Boston Mayor Marty Walsh is "deeply disturbed" by President Donald Trump's executive orders on immigration.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Tom Cotton on Wednesday chided Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer for a delay on a confirmation vote for CIA Director Mike Pompeo and suggested Mr. Schumer’s tenure as the top-ranking Democrat in the Senate might improve with "a little more seasoning and experience."
The entire senior management team of the US State Department resigned on Thursday. 
[DAILYCALLER] The Trump administration told the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to take down its global warming webpage, an anonymous EPA staffer said.
[INDEPENDENT.CO.UK] The Badlands National Park, located in South Dakota, has tweeted and deleted posts on climate change. The account is the latest from the National Parks Service (NPS) social media presence to post on topics off-message from the White House. 
