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ASHEBORO — Central North Carolina has witnessed a burst of economic excitement in the past two weeks, with the announcement of more than 1,700 new jobs. * Aug. 29: Publix’s intention to build a $300 million warehouse distribution center in Greensboro, hiring up to 1,000 people. * Aug. 28: Defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton’s $5.2 million expansion in Fayetteville, hiring 208 workers with high-tech skills at an average salary of $61,000. * Aug. 28: Automotive supplier Dowa Thermotech Co. Ltd.’s plans for a new $22.5 million plant in Sanford creating 109 new jobs. * Aug. 16: FedEx’s announcement of a...

Support, POTUS, Trump & Nominee for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, who today was treated to a disgusting display from "zero class" Democrat Senators & lunatic protesters in Washington, DC, today, Tuesday, September 5, 2018 in the Capital Building. The Trump rally will be held at the Rimrock Auto Arena (Capacity 12,000 people) on Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 7:00 PM (MST). Doors open at 4:00 PM (MST). Tickets (2) free at the Trump For POTUS web site. Folks...we need to support our POTUS, our candidates and completely Destroy the entire Democrat Party politically, to MAGA!!! Be...

For the past week Washington has found itself debating Bob Woodward. The occasion: his very public argument with White House senior official Gene Sperling, in which Woodward left the impression that Sperling had somehow tried to intimidate him—only to see this accusation undermined --SNIP-- For the Post they had written about the president’s men; in the book they were writing about themselves and their sources. Simultaneously, they adopted a style that was all the rage at the time—the so-called New Journalism, a technique that employed literary devices normally considered the domain of novels. In the hands of an apostle like...

A blast from the past (some of us are old enough to remember him). Of the four great communist dictators of the USSR he was the last, and arguably the least repressive though he undoubtedly had a sea of blood on his hands. By the time of his death the Soviets were having a hard time hiding the dreadful living conditions of their people and the general stagnation and decline of the economy. His immediate successors were so old and cadaverous that they became objects of brutal satire in the west. When Gorbachev finally came to power it was too...

With their supporters energized in opposition to Donald Trump, Democrats hold their widest advantage in midterm election vote preferences since 2006, when they seized control of both houses of Congress. Rebounding from a tighter contest in the spring, Democratic House candidates now lead their Republican opponents nationally by 52-38 percent among registered voters in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll – a lead that holds up across a range of likely voter models.

Hillary Clinton, secret agent! When the former secretary of state approached Madam Secretary executive producer Lori McCreary about guest-starring on the CBS drama, her first request was to assume a provocative new identity as a spy. But McCreary had a better idea. “I said, would you ever play yourself?” McCreary recalls of the conversation she had with Clinton at a birthday party last August for former President Bill Clinton. “And she said, ‘I’d consider it.’ But it was a party, so you think maybe people are just making small talk. So when we confirmed that she really wanted to do...

It just went from bad to worse for Nike. The iconic sports equipment brand took a big risk by employing Colin Kaepernick for its new ad campaign. And it’s not just because Kaepernick – who hasn’t seen any professional action in over a year – insulted the American flag with his protest against police brutality. It’s also because the tagline of the campaign (“Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything.”) is a direct insult to those who have served their country, and have given everything for it. (RELATED: After Nike Kaepernick Ad Outrage, Social Media Focuses on Pat...

Late last week, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station woke up to some distressing news: There was a leak somewhere on the station, and air was escaping into space. After an extensive search, the leak was finally found and plugged with tape and gauze, and the air pressure inside the station has been stabilized. But now that the crisis has passed, there’s a new concern for the astronauts and the space agencies that manage the station. How exactly did that hole get there in the first place? At first, the theory was that a stray micrometeorite collided with the...

Nike Was the Name of the Greek Goddess Who Personified Sports-Marketing VictoryIf you ever wondered what it would take to get the woke Social Justice Warrior crowd to loudly support a multinational corporation with nearly $35 billion in revenue in 2017; that pays its assembly line workers about 2.5 percent of production costs; that faces accusations that its factories bar independent inspections of working conditions; whose workers frequently faint from heat and exhaustion, and suffer wage theft, forced overtime, restrictions on their use of toilets, exposure to toxic solvents, and padlocked exit doors . . . well, apparently Colin Kaepernick...

Special counsel Robert Mueller will allow President Trump to submit some written answers about whether his campaign colluded with Russia ahead of the 2016 election, according to a report Tuesday. Two people familiar with the matter told the New York Times that Mueller’s office made the concession in a letter to the President’s legal team. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s top lawyer in the Russia investigation, declined to confirm or deny the existence of such a letter, but acknowledged that “of course we would prefer written answers.”

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“I have read it, and I will not say a word. You [journalists] read it, and make up your own minds. When a bit of time has gone by and you have drawn you conclusions, maybe then I will speak.”This is how Pope Francis responded - on the evening of August 26, on the flight back from Dublin - to those who asked him about the indictment leveled against him that same morning by the former nuncio to the United States, Carlo Maria Viganò.A very elusive reply. On a par with other previous reactions of his, every time he has...

This week’s Liberal Media Scream features MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski declaring the Trump presidency over, and that was before the Washington Post began writing on editor Bob Woodward’s critical look at the president in “Fear.”

Senate Republicans laid out a fast schedule Tuesday for action on Judge Brett Kavanaugh, setting up a Sept. 20 vote in committee which would be followed by action on the full Senate floor the final week of the month. Barring hiccups, that schedule would put Judge Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court before its Oct. 1 start of the new session.

In April 2005, a Republican-led Department of Justice did something quite unusual. After catching a Democratic operative stealing and destroying highly relevant classified documents, the DoJ punished him as though he had stolen the Snickers bars from the office vending machine. On October 28, 2005, another curious event took place in those same halls of justice: an allegedly Republican special prosecutor indicted a White House advisor of his own party for a series of process crimes unrelated to the original intent of his investigation. As will become clear, this double injustice not only foreshadowed future injustices, but it also served...

“To be brave, you have to know so you can act.” They were South African author Sisonke Msimang’s words but could well have been the theme for this past weekend’s Antidote, a festival of ideas which focused on solutions that saw Chelsea Manning, Ronan Farrow, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Maureen Dowd, Msimang and more speaking out on the Sydney Opera House stages. The event was almost overshadowed by the home affairs department’s decision to issue a notice of intention to deny Manning an entry visa on character grounds last week. But her talk went ahead regardless: Manning video-called in from Los Angeles...

Kevin Spacey and Steven Seagal won’t face criminal charges following allegations from the 1990s because the alleged incidents are beyond the statute of limitations, and prosecutors rejected filing a charge against “black-ish” actor Anthony Anderson, citing insufficient evidence. Prosecutors declined to charge Spacey in an October 1992 case, saying the date was beyond the period in which a charge could be filed. That allegation, made by a man, involved an incident in West Hollywood. Beverly Hills police last year investigated Seagal after a woman reported he had raped her on Jan. 1, 1993. Prosecutors, however, declined the case, noting the...

Watch the video, make your own judgement. Some of you will not like this because it totally backs up the Q stuff but without ever mentioning it. I would not be surprised if these guys were part of the Q crowd. They're now going to post all the evidence they have on a website for all to see this week. Either way these whistle-blowers lay it bare what the bad actors in the IC, FBI and Justice Department under the obama administration were doing to the country. Again, make your own judgments, but at least watch the entire video. Here's...

The next chapter in Dick Wolf‘s criminal justice franchise is officially in the works with NBC ordering 13 episodes of Law & Order: Hate Crimes. Per a release, this new series is “based on New York’s actual Hate Crimes Task Force, the second oldest bias-based task force in the U.S. The unit, which pledges to uphold a zero tolerance policy against discrimination of any kind, works under the NYPD’s real Special Victims Unit and often borrows SVU’s detectives to assist in their investigations.” As you might have been able to infer from that last sentence, the Hate Crimes team will...

About Marine Week Join the United States Marine Corps in Uptown Charlotte this September for a celebration of Community, Country and Corps. From Sept. 5 – 9, Marine Week Charlotte will feature hands-on displays, live demonstrations, time-honored Marine Corps traditions, musical performances and other events to showcase the history, military capabilities and community involvement of the Corps.