Americans want the Affordable Care Act improved, not undermined

Here is something you probably haven't heard much lately, if at all, given the shocking news from Charlottesville and the disturbing reaction by President Trump. Roughly 80 percent of Americans believe that Trump and his administration should do all they can to make the Affordable Care Act work while only 17 percent believe they should try to make the law fail so they can replace it.

Trump defends monuments to the pro-slavery Confederacy

U.S. President Donald Trump dug in defiantly on Thursday in his response to racial violence in Virginia, echoing the position of white nationalists by intensifying his opposition to the removal of monuments to the pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy. In a series of Twitter posts, Trump also sharply criticized two fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate, Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham, while denying he had spoken of "moral equivalency" between white supremacists, neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan, and anti-racism activists.

Trump decries monument removals and – history being ripped apart’

US President Donald Trump has decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to leading Confederate figures, declaring that the nation is seeing "the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart". Mr Trump's remarks came as the White House tried to manage his increasing isolation and the continued fallout from his combative comments on last weekend's racially charged violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Rep. Speier wants to use 25th Amendment to remove Trump

With fallout over President Trump's take on the bloody events in Charlottesville, Democratic Representative Steve Cohen of Tennessee announcing his plans to introduce articles of impeachment against the president. Rep. Jackie Speier wants to remove Trump from office under an article within the 25th Amendment to the Constitution that allows the vice president and a majority of the cabinet to declare the president temporarily "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."

Getting Hate Speech Off Music-Streaming Services

In a week of renewed national attention to organized white supremacy, the music-streaming platform Spotify has removed a number of bands alleged to be associated with neo-Nazism. On Monday, Paul Resnikoff at Digital Music News pointed out that 29 bands identified as racist by the Southern Poverty Law Center were available for listening on Spotify .

‘The president is becoming more isolated’: Trump’s Charlottesville…

President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville may be driving a wedge between him and Republican lawmakers, according to policy analysts, and his influence over their plans may be waning. Trump's muddled response to violence from neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville in the past few days took another turn on Tuesday when he blamed "both sides" for the violence and criticized people who did not think his initial response on Saturday was adequate.

Herrod says he still has a sliver of a chance to win – enough to wait for votes to be counted

The Salt Lake Tribune) Former state Rep. Chris Herrod said the race for the 3rd Congressional district is too close to call after learning that Provo Mayor John Curtis claims he's the election night winner Tuesday, August 15, 2017. Registered Republican voters in the 3rd Congressional District will decide whether Provo Mayor John Curtis, former state Rep. Chris Herrod or businessman Tanner Ainge moves forward to the general election.

California congressmen meets Wikileaks founder, who denies Russia was source of DNC leaks

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange told Costa Mesa congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Wednesday that Russia was not involved with leaking controversial emails from the Democratic National Committee during last year's presidential campaign. “He reaffirmed his aggressive denial that the Russians had anything to do with the hacking of the DNC during the election,” Rohrabacher said by phone from London.

Ousted chief justice makes runoff in Alabama Senate race

Ousted Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is trying to play usurper to deep-pocketed Republican forces after making a runoff with incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in the state's Senate primary. Getting to the runoff is a sweet win for Moore, who was twice stripped of his chief justice duties - for refusing to remove a biblical monument he installed in a state judiciary building and for resisting federal gay marriage rulings.

Bishop James E. Dukes of Chicago’s Liberation Christian Center…

AND THIS IS WHERE IT IS INTENDED TO GO, THE NED GAME REMOVING THE FOUNDING FATHERS FROM HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. The other day during the press conference President Donald Trump asked, when does the taking down of statues stop ? The MSM and late night talk show idiots laughed and made jokes.

Trump’s Thursday Morning Tweetstorm: – Publicity Seeking Lindsey…

President Trump on Thursday took to Twitter to slam Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake, as well as the "Fake News Media." "Publicity seeking Lindsey Graham falsely stated that I said there is moral equivalency between the KKK, neo-Nazis & white supremacists and people like Ms.

Alison Rowat: Time running out for Trump to say which side he is on

WHAT a difference location can make. Having at first blamed "many sides" for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, President Trump appeared in the White House's Diplomatic Room on Monday to denounce racism as "evil" and describe the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists as "criminals and thugs".