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The First Amendment of our U.S Constitution gives the press freedom of speech. I firmly believe this refers to commentary on the editorial pages only, which I believe is sacred, but even then it doesn't protect the press from libel for commentary (through the use of lies, distortions and outright fabrication) designed to hurt, distort and/or mislead the readers in some way.

As for the rest of a newspaper, I believe it is reserved for truthful news free of the author's opinion. Any opinion and bias blended into "news articles" should not be constitutionally protected. Beware of descriptive adjectives, descriptive adverbs and descriptive phrases blended into news articles to bias the reader for or against the topic being written about.

Also, some people read only the headlines to get the "gist" of the article. Others read a few paragraphs, then move on. Others read the entire article as continued onto other pages. For example, refer to the following article in Sunday's Reporter-Herald, "Trump's America after a Month."

Read the headline and write down how you understand what the article is about. Then read the first few paragraphs and do the same. Then read the entire article and do the same. Now go back through the article and cross out all descriptive adjectives, adverbs and phrases, then reread the article and document how you understand what has been written. Is your understanding of what has been written the same as before? If not, you now understand why the press has such a low rating among the American readers.

Try this on several different articles on different days.

Dennis Carr

Loveland

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Hillary Clinton.

Ever sinceHillary Clintonlost the presidential race in an upset last fall,there's been some lingering questions about what she might do next.

Some have speculated that after two presidential races and decades at the forefront of American politics, Clinton might beofficially done with public life. Others wondered ifshe should run forNew York City Mayor this year, or become a college president.

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But as of February 2017, it appears Hillary Clinton has embraced at least one new mission: delivering the slow burnon Twitter.

In the weeks after she conceded the presidential race, Clinton was essentially off social media aside fromposting some friendly holiday greetingsto her more than 13 million followers.

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That changed afterPresident Trumpwas inaugurated. The next day, during the Womens March, shetweeted three timesto offer support to those who were largely protesting the new president.

More recently, Clinton has been using Twitter to prod Republicans and cheer on her political team from the sidelines.

For example, she issueda simple tweetnoting the unanimous decision ("3-0")from a US District Court that essentially halted Trumps executive order, which bannedimmigration from certain predominantly-Muslim countries.

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That mini-missive came a day after she virtually had the back of US Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who was not allowed to speakout against Jeff Sessions during his confirmation hearings forattorney general. ClintonquotedSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnells words lambasting Warren -- "Nevertheless, she persisted" --thathave since become a rallying cry for those who stand with the senator.

And this week, Clinton offered her most pointed criticism yet for Trump and Republican members of Congress.

Clinton said Trump should speak outagainst threats being called into Jewish Community Centers around the country, which Trump eventually did.

What's more, as Republican members of Congress facevocal criticism from more liberal constituents at home, Clintonsuggestedthat they shouldnt dodge holding town hall meetings.

Twitter might appear to be a weird lens to view the political persona of a woman who has served as first lady, US senator,secretary of state, and the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. At the same time, Clinton is not holding press conferences, giving television interviews or delivering many public speeches (though there have been a few).

Twitter is the primary way in whichClinton is communicating these days.

And why shouldnt it be? It seemed to work for Trump all these years.

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Hillary Clinton brings the slow burn to Twitter - The Boston Globe

This combination of pictures created on November 03, 2016 shows US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Dade City, Florida, on November 1, 2016 and US Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump in Warren, Michigan, October 31, 2016 in Warren, Michigan.JEWEL SAMAD, JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP/Getty Images

The city of Toledo, the seat of Lucas County, Ohio, sits in the northwestern corner of the state along the Michigan border. Like so many border counties, Lucas is home to more than a few interstate rivalries, most notably a clash between University of Michigan fans and Ohio State fans so entrenched that one local shop is divided down the middle to accommodate both fandoms.

In fact, 180 years ago, both Michigan and Ohio claimed a strip of territory including Toledo due to a dispute known as the Toledo War . Ohio won that border tussle which, unforeseeable at the time, was very bad news for Hillary Clinton .

Like most urban counties, Lucas County favored Clinton by a solid margin though not solid enough to put Ohio in the Democrat's column. However, had the county been part of Michigan, as was nearly the case long ago, Clinton's 35,000-vote margin of victory would have been enough to flip Michigan in her favor.

For those who did not support President Donald Trump , the 2016 election attracted new ire to the Electoral College, which handed Trump 306 electors to Clinton's 232 even though she won the popular tally by nearly 3 million votes . But most diatribes against the Electoral College fail to account for a curious nuance to the age-old system: The results are largely determined by arbitrary state borders that, in some cases, were drawn before the United States was even a country.

As an experiment, TIME examined the results for all 3,108 counties in the continental U.S. and ran several simulations to see how the results would have been different if those state lines were slightly adjusted without moving a single actual voter, just the state he or she calls home. In the most striking of those scenarios, one can flip the results of the 2016 election by reassigning just three counties to neighboring states: Lucas County, Ohio; Mercer County, N.J. and Lake County, Ill, as demonstrated below.

Of course, states don't redraw their borders after every decennial Census, the way they redraw and reapportion congressional districts. Nor is there an easy mechanism for a county to secede. (North Carolina and South Carolina have been arguing over a small sliver of territory for 20 years.) But when the presidency is at stake, it's worth remembering that the nation itself is made up of archaic boundaries that lead to unpredictable outcomes.

Methodology

Because a state's number of congressional representatives is related to its population, changing a county from one state to another can actually alter the number of electoral votes a state has. To account for this, this app recalculates the number of electoral votes per state with each move. For example, moving Lake County adds an electoral vote to Wisconsin while taking one from Illinois. These figures are calculated using 2010 Census population figures in accordance with the official government apportionment methodology .

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These 3 Counties Could Have Flipped the 2016 Election for Hillary Clinton - TIME

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The parent company of that group is located at the same address as an organization funded by liberal billionaire George Soros, the Free Beacon notes:

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Jimmy Dahman, a former Hillary Clinton campaign field organizer in Iowa, is the founder of The Town Hall Project, which describes itself as a volunteer-powered, grassroots effort that empowers constituents across the country to have face-to-face conversations with their elected representatives.

We are campaign veterans and first time volunteers. We come from a diversity of backgrounds and live across the country. We share progressive values and believe strongly in civic engagement. We research every district and state for public events with Members of Congress. Then we share our findings far and wide to promote participation in the democratic process and make it as accessible as possible for everyone. We have a team of organizers that works with local groups on the ground to coordinate efforts and encourage citizens to amplify their voices.

His Facebook page lists the youthful Dahmans current position as Deputy Organizing Director at Ohio Together, and former positions as Regional Organizing Director at Hillary for America and Organizer (Party) at Hillary for Iowa.

On April 27, 2015, Dahman shared this message on Facebook with a group called the Benton County (Iowa) Young Democrats:

Hey everyone! My name is Jimmy and I am the organizer here in Benton County for Hillary Clintons campaign. Please join our group posted below if you are interested in discussion about the campaign. Also, feel free to reach out to me directly if you want to learn more or get involved!

On its website, The Town Hall Project recommends The Indivisible Guide, which is subtitled a practical guide for resisting the Trump Agenda.

Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen say this about the guide they produced:

When we put the Indivisible Guide online as a poorly formatted, typo-filled Google Doc, we never imagined how far and fast it would spread. Since December, the guide has been downloaded over a million times. More than 4,500 local groups have signed up to resist the Trump agenda in nearly every congressional district in the country. Whats more, you all are putting the guide into actionshowing up en masse to congressional district offices and events, and flooding the congressional phone lines. Youre resistingand its working. . .

We now have over seventy (70!) volunteers working early mornings, late nights, weekends, and sick days on everything that you see the Indivisible Guide team doemail responses, congressional updates, the group directory, the website, our social media, and a bunch more. Its been an amazing labor of love by a stellar group of, yeah well say it, patriots. But we want to do more.

As we form a nonprofit*, we want to make something clear: were not the leaders of this movement. The last few weeks have made it abundantly clear that local groups are taking ownership of the resistance to Trumps agenda themselves. You all are the leaderswere just here to help

The guides website is signed In solidarity, Ezra Levin, President of the Board, Leah Greenberg, Vice President of the Board, Angel Padilla, Secretary of the Board, Sarah Dohl, Board Member, and Matt Traldi, Treasurer of the Board.

Democrats have insisted that recent town hall outbursts against Republican politicians occurred organically, likening them to the Tea Party, while President Donald Trump yesterday tweeted that the so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous occasions, planned out by liberal activists. Sad! the Free Beacon reports.

But the Free Beacon notes:

Dahmans group is closely involved with MoveOn.org, a major progressive activist group that recently launched a website, called ResistanceRecess.com, to encourage activists to attend town hall events.

The Town Hall Projects parent company is The Action Network, which was involved in demonstrations against Walmart and the protests in Ferguson.

The Action Networks board of directors includes Mark Fleischman, a former vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); Brian Young, who worked on campaigns for Howard Dean and John Kerry; Jeffrey Dugas, who worked for John Podestas Center for American Progress and Elizabeth Warrens 2012 Senate campaign; and Rich Clayton, who worked for the SEIU and the shareholder activism arm of Change to Win, a labor group that describes itself as a strategic organizing center.

The connections to big liberal money from this supposedly organic group are quite strong.

The Action Network is located at the same Washington, D.C., address as United We Dream, the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the nation. United We Dream has received funding from liberal billionaire George Soros. It began organizing sanctuary campus anti-Trump protests shortly after the election, the Free Beacon reports.

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President Trump joked with manufacturing executives on Thursday during a business roundtable at the White House, goading the CEO of General Electric into telling a story about his success on the golf course and teasing the CEO of Lockheed Martin about her preference for Hillary Clinton.

After inviting the group of corporate executives gathered in the State Dining Room to introduce themselves one by one, Trump interrupted Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, to recall a golf outing the two had shared years earlier.

"Jeff actually watched me make a hole in one, can you believe that?" Trump told the table of business leaders. "Should you tell that story?"

Immelt obliged, drawing laughter from the room.

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"We were trying to talk President Trump into doing 'The Apprentice;' that was my assignment when we owned NBC," Immelt said, referring to an NBC reality show that starred Trump.

"President Trump goes up to a par three on his course he looks at the three of us and says, 'You realize, of course, that I'm the richest golfer in the world?'" Immelt said. "Then gets a hole in one."

"I've seen the magic before," Immelt added.

But Trump cut in with a correction to Immelt's version of events.

"No, I actually said I was the best golfer of all the rich people," Trump said.

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"I think one of the most pivotal moments in modern American history was his immediate withdrawal from TPP."

02/23/17 2:37 PM

The president also joked with Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin, about her company's effort to cut more than $700 million from the cost of F-35 planes.

"You think Hillary would have asked for 700 million?" Trump said, referring to his Democratic opponent in the presidential election. "I assume you wanted her to win."

"You're going to do great and you're going to make more planes," Trump added.

The president focused on his economic message at the outset of the "listening session" on Thursday, repeating his assertion that the U.S. has suffered from lopsided trade agreements.

"The deals we have with other countries are unbelievably bad," Trump said. "We don't have any good deals."

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"Hold us accountable to what we promised, and delivering what we promised," Bannon said.

02/23/17 2:28 PM

Trump touted his crackdown on illegal immigration as well.

"We're getting gang members out. We're getting drug lords out. We're getting really bad dudes out of this country," he said.

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