Sen. John Cornyn and Lt. Dan Patrick of Texas exploit the deaths of 10 people to push for anti-immigrant crackdown

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Rupert Murdoch buys Pat Robertson's fundamentalist family cable network, uniting Bart Simpson with John-Boy Walton at last.

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Statistics find that the political divide in vaccine acceptance shows little sign of abating

Under Obama, Trump and now Biden, mainstream media has tugged at progressive heartstrings to justify endless war

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