Anything politics/news related is generally considered Off-Topic by the community guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/n

Anything politics/news related is generally considered Off-Topic by the community guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and people are encouraged not to up-vote them, and I think you are generally ok to flag these items as well if you believe they don't contribute to the "hacker" nature of the site.