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Spin Zone / Franken resigns in disgrace
« on: December 07, 2017, 10:01:26 AM »
Good bye, good riddance!
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That long period of confirmation obstruction has given President Trump a huge number of seats to fill; twice as many as President Obama's also large number of vacancies when he took office in 2009. The Christian Science Monitor reports this is likely the most vacancies for a president to fill in 40 years. And the Trump team hasn't been wasting much time.
Michigan Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat and the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, settled a wrongful dismissal complaint in 2015 with a former employee who alleged she was fired because she would not “succumb to [his] sexual advances.”
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. Plenty of campus leftwing loons in teaching positions have been fired or reprimanded for harassing and intimidating conservative students. But, the video really does show the threats some students, such as Valdez and TPUSA, have to endure in order to have free speech and productive conversations
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