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Poll: Most Republicans Believe Colleges, Universities Are Hurting America

University of California, Berkeley, student Jack Palkovic, center, stands with others near a Berkeley College Republicans table in front of Sather Gate on campus in Berkeley, Calif., Feb. 2, 2017. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
Republicans have an increasingly dim view of colleges and universities and the effect those institutions have on the way things are going in the United States, according to a Pew Research Center survey released Monday.

Foreign policy blunders could be Donald Trump’s downfall

For a nation that has gone to war as much as the United States, surprisingly few American Presidents have been elected, failed to win a second term or been impeached because of a matter of foreign policy.
Had Lyndon B. Johnson decided to run in the 1968 Presidential election he may well have lost in part due to the failures of the war in Vietnam, but ultimately he did not run, the Democrats did not choose the anti-war Eugene McCarthy and by the day of the election Robert F. Kennedy, another peace candidate was dead, the victim of a callous assassination.

Shock for Democrats as Jon Ossoff loses in Georgia

Georgia has provided further proof if any were needed that the Russiagate scandal is failing to gain traction with the US public.
Over the last few two months a frenzied campaign has been underway in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District, which the Democrats have been hoping to win in the expectation that the US public is turning against President Trump and the Republicans.
There were reasons why the Democrats had particularly high hopes of this district.  It is a well off, well-educated suburban district with a demographic profile expected to favour the Democrats.

Rep. Al Green Begins Official Process To Impeach Donald Trump

U.S. Rep. Al Green, D-Houston, speaking in favor of impeachment of President Trump from the floor of Congress on May 17, 2017. (Photo: Rep. Al Green’s YouTube Channel)
 WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Al Green, a Houston Democrat, announced Wednesday he would begin proceedings to impeach President Donald Trump.
“There is a desire … to see articles brought so the president can answer for obstruction of justice,” Green told reporters.