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May 10 2021
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Former postal worker caught on Election Day for failing to deliver ballots and political mailings
A former postal worker was fined after he was caught with hundreds of pieces of undelivered mail on Election Day, including absentee ballots.
Brandon Wilson, a 27-year-old from Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty to delay or destruction of U.S. Mail, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, and was fined $200 last week.
The fine comes after Customs and Border Protection encountered
Washington ExaminerOct 11 2015
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Bernie Sanders shows strength with big crowds as first Democratic debate looms
Days before the first Democratic presidential candidates debate, Sen. Bernard Sanders sent a signal to his competition by drawing hefty crowds at weekend rallies.
An estimated 9,000 supporters converged Saturday at Potts Field at the University of Colorado Boulder for the Vermont senator’s campaign appearance, a day after a crowd of 13,000 packed Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.
The
Washington TimesOct 21 2021
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Blood clots associated with COVID-19 vaccine are extremely rare
Several days before the Oct. 19 start of the National Basketball Association season, a widely circulated headline said a 26-year-old NBA player suffered blood clots shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.
The headline, shared in an Instagram post, referred to guard Brandon Goodwin, who played for the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks last season and before that with the Denver Nuggets and at
PolitiFactDec 27 2015
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders declares truce with Democratic National Committee
After a brief yet bitter battle with the Democratic National Committee over access to voter data files, Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders said Sunday he is looking to move past the “differences” he has with the party organization and instead focus on income inequality and other important issues facing the country.
Mr. Sanders, a 2016 presidential candidate, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that
Washington TimesOct 03 2021
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Border Patrol Union’s Judd: ‘I’ve Never Seen the Morale Any Lower than It Is Right Now’
Even though President Joe Biden has been in office only eight-and-a-half months, his policies have had a remarkably negative impact on the morale of the Border Patrol, according to National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd.
During an interview with Mobile, AL radio’s FM Talk 106.5 at the annual Federation for American Immigration Reform’s annual “Hold Their Feet to the Fire
Breitbart NewsApr 24 2016
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Bernie Sanders on key losses: Poor people don’t vote
Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernard Sanders said Sunday that his platform on income inequality hasn’t translated into victories in key states because of a simple reality — poor people don’t vote.
“I mean, that’s just a fact. That’s a sad reality of American society,” said Mr. Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist from Vermont.
Speaking to NBC’s “Meet the Press
Washington TimesAug 21 2020
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Progressives Have a 'Trickle Down' Problem
In George Bernard Shaw’s Back to Methuselah, the serpent says to Eve in the Garden of Eden: “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’”
What’s funny is that a version of this quote is often ascribed to Robert F. Kennedy as the perfect distillation of progressive idealism.
I don’t think Kennedy’s idealism was the root of all
The DispatchNov 21 2019
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It’s 2019, And States Are Still Making Exceptions for Spousal Rape
Almost immediately after former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick entered the presidential race last week, he started facing questions about his 2014 decision to push out two officials who had tried to put his brother-in-law on the state’s sex offender registry.
The backstory: According to a complaint filed by one of the officials, in 1993, Bernard Sigh pleaded guilty under California’s
Mother JonesMar 31 2022
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Florida: DeSantis Builds Massive Re-Election Lead, Torches 'Woke' Disney Executives
Near the beginning of my exclusive interview with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis yesterday, I asked him whether national Democrats and their allies are right to view him as a threat nationally. I also asked whether, say, a six-point win in a state like Florida would count as a 'blowout.' He avoided the second question with a 'who knows?' -- but did appear to at least somewhat agree with the
TownhallFeb 19 2020
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Who got pardoned, who got shorter prison sentences under Trump's clemency spree?
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump granted clemency on Tuesday to 11 people who served prison sentences for crimes in high-profile cases ranging from gambling fraud to tax evasion to drug-related charges.
Trump, who has broad clemency powers granted by the Constitution, granted full pardons – a full legal forgiveness for a crime – to seven people and commuted, or shortened, the
USA TODAY