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Rep. Ratcliffe: No where else in the United States of America can you be both the fact witness and the lead prosecutor for an investigation in ANYTHING much less an investigation to remove the president from office. It’s entirely inappropriate and Chairman Schiff should be disqualified from running an investigation where his committee members or staff are fact witnesses about contact with the whistleblower and the whistleblower process.

On April 9, 1965, a 34-year-old lawyer named Charles Rangel took out a low-interest mortgage to renovate his childhood home — a row house on West 132nd Street that he had just inherited from his grandfather. The $39,350 loan came from a New York City program to develop low-income housing. Rangel and his sister Frances were to use the money to turn the family home in Central Harlem, which Rangel affectionately called Buckingham Palace, into six apartments. While Rangel may have thought he scored a sweetheart deal, the loan came back to haunt him during his first run for Congress...

President Obama continues to nominate persons of ill-repute to his Cabinet and Sub-Cabinet, including a pornography defender and a woman who covered up for her tax cheat husband by lying about the financial obligations to Congress. The lack of ethics of this budding administration is astounding — kind of like a 21st Century version of Roman Emperor Caligula. An orgy of spending, lying, strange sex. David Ogden is nominated to be the second person in command in the U.S. office of the Attorney General. According to a number of reports, as an attorney in private practice, Ogden filed court briefs:...

Senate candidate Al Franken says he will pay about $70,000 in back income taxes in 17 states going back to 2003. The Minnesota Democrat has been under attack by Republicans for failing to file tax returns in California for several years when the comedian-turned-candidate earned money there. Franken tells The Associated Press he never intended to avoid paying taxes.

Trouble at Bush-Cheney Headquarters Violence has erupted at Bush-Cheney headquarters across the country. Protesters from the AFL-CIO in Orlando, Fla., face possible assault charges after storming and ransacking the Bush-Cheney headquarters there. According to WKMG-TV, they also defaced posters of President Bush and poured piles of letters onto the floor. Protesters similarly stormed and took over the Republican Party headquarters in West Allis, Wis.