NEW HEALTH BILL HAS THE SUPPORT OF CONSERVATIVES
"By 2026, the number of uninsured people would be 24 million higher than under the current law."
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MOGUL IN ISRAEL HELPED FINANCE KUSHNERS' RISE
"[The] Kushner Companies would spend about $190 million ... on dozens of apartment buildings in tony Lower Manhattan neighborhoods including the East Village, the West Village and SoHo."
"[I]t turns out the money came from a member of Israel's Steinmetz family, which built a fortune as one of the world's leading diamond traders."
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"In 2014, the Guinean government alleged that Mr. Steinmet'z company had obtained the rights through corrupt practices, paying more than $8 million in cash through a representative to Mamadie Touré, then the wife of the dictator Lansana Conté."
Just sayin' ...
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"'The only so-called communication between Pyongyang and Washington is the threat of military force in the form of B-1 bombers, nuclear aircraft carriers, missiles and nuclear tests ... This dangerous situation threatens everyone in the region."
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"Our military remains stuck in a barbarian and medieval culture ... [T]he investigators preyed upon gay soldiers' vulnerability like a cat playing with a mouse."
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I guess we'd all smile if we wrote ourselves a check for a few hundred million.
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"Dr. Deméré speculated that the humans might have been trying to get marrow out of the mastodon bones to eat, while using fragments of the bones to fashion tools."
Jean Auel -- who really did her research -- beautifully writes a description of a group of Neanderthal hunters who do exactly what is described above in one of her Earth's Children books.
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"[David] Byrne and Mr. Demme worked together frequently, notably on 'Stop Making Sense,' a 1984 concert film about Talking Heads that many critics (and filmgoers) found mesmerizing."
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"[T]he skimpy one-page tax proposal his administration released on Wednesday is, by any historical standard, a laughable stunt by a gang of plutocrats looking to enrich themselves at the expense of the country's future."
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