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The real reasons why New Yorkers are fleeing the city
Posted By: MissMolly, 4/21/2019 4:43:42 AM
True story: My wife and I both are former residents of New York City, and on a recent business trip there she was taking a nostalgic walk through the Upper West Side on a lovely fall day, talking to me on the phone about the possibility of moving back there. And then the crusty guy walking in front of her on the sidewalk stopped, dropped trou and took a dump right there on the sidewalk on Central Park West. “Never mind,” she said. We live in Texas, where we don’t have any state or local income tax or languish
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Gowdy made the revelation in an interview Sunday with Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo.
"There are a lot of serious questions that need to be asked" during Attorney General William Barr's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, Gowdy said. Among them: "Where are the transcripts, if any exist, between the informants and the telephone calls to George Papadopoulos?"
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Democracy isn't dying. Liberalism is.
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Rotting Trash Piles Sky-High in LA,
Attracting Rats and Raising Concerns of a New Epidemic 9 replies
Attracting Rats and Raising Concerns of a New Epidemic 9 replies
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Jerry Nadler’s cynical, cowardly show
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Jerry Nadler was at it again Tuesday, waxing indignant about former White House counsel Don McGahn’s refusal to testify before the House Judiciary Committee. It’s all a show, meant to keep old news in the headlines, and to appease the large “Impeach Now!” wing of the Democratic Party without actually doing anything.
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So Nadler’s bluster about how he’ll “go to court to secure” McGahn’s appearance is just noise for the cameras.
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Yeah, right.
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Crown Heights, speaking at a
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Jerry Nadler’s cynical, cowardly show
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Then again, that’s all
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impeachment 19 replies
is making it 'more difficult' not to consider
impeachment 19 replies
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Nadler told CNN anchor Chris Cuomo that his committee will hold McGahn "in contempt" for not complying with the subpoena and will take the battle to court.
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