Online story: "Humana, one of the five large publicly traded health insurers, said in a press release Tuesday that it will pull all of its business from the individual marketplaces starting January 1, 2018. *  the company said that in reviewing data from 2017 enrollment on the exchanges, it saw "further signs of an unbalanced risk pool." *  Obama officials hoped that a larger number of young people would sign up, (but) enrollment plummeted in the two weeks after Trump took office, and sign-ups came in lower than the year before." -- Good grief.. when the only incentive to make young people buy into OObamaCRAP was a severe tax penalty if they didn't, then why would young people enroll unless the insurance was a good buy and make sense to them?

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You know, if Nancy Pelosi and Elijah Cummings had put as much effort into helping America when Obama was in office as they do in vilifying Trump, Hellary might have won..

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Question..where were Democrats John Lewis and Elijah Cummings indignation when Loretta Lynch met with Bill Clinton when Hellary was under investigation?

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Where was the liberal indignation when Obama was caught on an open mic telling a Russian official to tell Putin he "could be more flexible after the election" in 2012, and where wad their indignation when Obama denied Romney's inference that Russia should be our nation number one concern.

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There's a list of the top 12 "sanctuary" cities in the US, along with the estimated illegal aliens residing in them (and about 20% of the total illegal alien population)...plus the amount of federal funds each city receives annually.. Adding up the fed funds, it looks like if Trump shuts that off, there is more than enough saved in one year to "Build the WALL"!

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Remember "Obama For America"?..Remember that he changed that to "Organizing For America" following his reelection? Now it seems he has decided to use "OFA" as a political protest organization to "Resist Trump". That, my friends is almost, if not actually, is a terrorist organization. I hope Trump has IRS run a forensic audit on "OFA", and remove its 501 (c) __ status.

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The taping/leaking of phone calls made by General Flynn before Trump took office pretty much confirms the lack of patriotism of Obama appointees still sprinkled throughout the government. Flynn was wrong in what he did, but, he may end up a hero since the holdover "moles" had to expose themselves..and their covert personal agenda.

 

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General Prateus was back in for consideration as Trump's National Security Advisor...definitely a stellar military strategist in the past, but didn't Patreus get vilified for enabling himself as a potential blackmail victim which is what mainscream media was concerned about with General Flynn.

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Why would the City Manager throw out a $100 MILLION dollar figure to build a new government center since a downtown replacement structure would not have to hold any of the offices which use to be there but were relocated to the Macon Road Government Services Building?

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When Mayor Tom-LYING-son charges the committee she appointed to study about constructing a new government center, shouldn't she have them explore other surrounding counties to pony up their share of Superior Court costs? After all, it seems the Superior Court "space" is the main issue since so many other other Columbus services have already shuffled out to the Macon Road facility?

Oh! And who pays for Superior Court salaries? Do Columbus taxpayers shoulder all the costs, or do the other counties they serve "chip in"?

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What is it about mainscream media that its brains work better at formulating investigative questions when in the presence of conservatives versus liberals?

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LIVs' L-E "soundoff": "In order to become a school superintendent, you should have been a teacher first. In order to become Commander-in-Chief, you should have been in the military first."  -- And to be a voter, you ought to be a property owning, tax paying citizen.. with a photo ID..and a job.

 

Let's review our presidents military service: While Trump did not serve in our military, he did attend a military school, but let's review our previous presidents service.. Democrats of the past 100+ years - Obama zilch, Clinton.. double zilch because he was failed to report after being called up; Jimmy Carter Lt in Navy.. Lyndon Johnson.. Commander, USN Reserves.., John F Kennedy.. Lt. USN Reserve; Harry S. Truman.. Col.. MO National Gurad/ USArmy/ US Army Reserve; FD Roosevelt.. zilch; Woodrow Wilson.. zilch.

 

Now, Republican presidents: George W. Bush..1st Lt. Texas Air National Guard, George H.W. Bush.. Lt/pilot US Naval Reserves; Ronald Reagan.. Captan.. US Army Reserve/US Army Air Corp; Gerald Ford.. Lt. Commander..USN Reserve; Richard Nixon..Commander...USN Reserve; Dwight D. Eisenhower.. General of the Army; Calvin Coolidge..none; Warren G. Harding..none; William H. Taft..Conn. Home Guard and US Secretary of War; Teddy Roosevelt, Col.. US Army.

 

Looks like the country is a lot better off with Republicans overseeing our military. Oh.. and just think what electing Hellary would have added to the Democrats' side?

 

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L-E headline/story: "Local liquor store owner sentenced for cashing fraudulent IRS checks * George Rowell, 61, owner of Big O’s Package Store at 4034 Cusseta Road, cashed fraudulent tax refund checks from February 2012 to March 2013, charging his co-conspirators a 10 percent fee, authorities said. *

Rowell to serve 18 months in prison plus three years of supervised release, and to pay $645,343 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service." -- Restitution to IRS? Not enough.. this was intentional fraud.. and he should be paying restitution to the taxpayers  for court/prosecution costs as well as his 3-year taxpayer paid "room and board" and all costs of monitoring him in the future!

 

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L-E headline: "MUSCOGEE COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD * Request to fire school board’s law firm fails" --

Thank heaven for Frank Myers and John Thomas.. as bad as the results have been in the MCSD, just imagine what they'd be without the Board and school Administration knowing the issues/practices/policies that NEED to be challenged WILL be challenged.

 

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L-E story: "Federal guidelines don’t allow students to receive a hot lunch if their account is in arrears, and health department regulations require the original meal to be discarded, Schlader said." -- You know.. we taxpayers are already paying for 38 schools free meals.. students' families that do not get free meals at other schools are also paying for other schools free meals.. Isn't that double taxation!

 

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From the "ironic or moronic" department - Online L-E headline/story: "Entrepreneur gets extension for hookah liquor license * (Saad) Ahmed is the son of Dr. Sajid Ahmed, an oncologist at the John B. Amos Cancer Center. " -- How does a son of an oncologist end up in the tobacco business?

 

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Response to a "Letter" in today's L-E: Good grief.. How can liberals "feel" that Putin influenced Trump's election victory.. like Hellary, Putin wouldn't have bothered to try to influence voters in what the Democrats refer to as "flyover country", and that my friends is why Trump was elected.. he won the majority of votes in 30 states..plus another Electoral College vote in another state..