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"The NSA's domestic surveillance program expired at midnight after the Senate failed to reach a deal to pass legislation Sunday evening."

"Delayed paychecks, reduced working hours, and stalled contracts led to a loss of about $11 billion in gross domestic product over the five-week shutdown. About $8 billion of that will be recovered as workers return, but $3 billion or 0.02% of gross domestic product in 2019 will never be recovered, according to the CBO."

This is a little frightening that eleven years after 9/11 we are still trying to crack down on tarriest attacks.

Question: What do George Clooney, Chaka Khan, the American Medical Association, Bon Jovi and C. Everett Koop have in common?

i thin k the nar needs to stop making everyone an enemy so they can focus on how to get firearms still legal

And I thought the NRA was crazy when their phone calls started with "I'm so-and-so, and I'm a gun-totin' Texan." Their list is both foolish and callous. Adding the American Trauma Society to their list? The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence? It almost seems like the NRA wants an increase in violent crimes, if you look at their list. Possibly an increase in violent crimes against women, as it looks like they've included every women's association in the US.

Interesting article out of Great Britain... especially considering all our laws on "drugs", are we forgetting that alcohol is a drug as well. For many, it is socially acceptable to get "drunk" while getting "high" is bad. Do you think if alcohol were discovered today, would we allow people to use it legally?

I really doubt that we would be able to limit it legally to the point of no use. I do think we would better restrict it though. It would likely turn into something like limiting a persons legal purchase amount in a week or a month or something, with some sort of item that would be required to purchase alcohol that one could only receive so many of in a month period.

they tried to stop it with prohibiton when they first discovered it. but that only brought on moonshiners and illegal saloons (i can't think of the name right now) and now it would be almost impossible to make alcohol illegal. It would most likely turn into something like a huge illegal operation like a cartel or something worse.

:Plol

Wonder if we can domesticate them and breed miniature ones for pets, that would be fun... it would be like that Jurassic Park movie but less death and carnage when they go out of control!

forget the small ones, i want the full sized one and i will replace my car with it. :D

Yet these and other domestic programs are exactly where President Trump is expected to focus his proposed budget cuts due out Thursday.

"So the Senate majority leader's decision to create a 13-man working group on health care, including staunch conservatives and ardent foes of the Affordable Care Act - but no women - has been widely seen on Capitol Hill as a move to placate the right as Congress decides the fate of President Barack Obama's signature domestic achievement."

This is a terrible event. I can't believe that ISIS is still believing they are doing the right thing. They are killing people in the name of their God and the way they think things shouldn't be. They are Hippocratics.