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For the first time in history, a female duo will be calling a NFL game. Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer will become the first female broadcasting team to provide commentary and analysis during an NFL game when they call this week's Thursday Night Football matchup between the Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Rams on Amazon Prime Video. The live streaming service made the announcement on Tuesday.

Past administrations have called out China for violating the internationally agreed-upon rules of trade for decades. After countless high-level talks, admonitions and appeals, China did nothing to change its cheating ways. President Trump has dispensed with the talk and taken action, slapping tariffs on billions of dollars of goods China exports to the United States at artificially low prices. Naysayers predicted the president’s tariffs would tank the stock market and drag down the economy. But the Dow is posting record gains, unemployment is at a 49-year low and the economy remains strong. The forecasters are at a loss to explain...

Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles, authorizes the enlistment of slaves into the U.S. Navy. Blacks had served in the Navy since the Revolution. By the end of the Civil War, they would make up about 25% of the Navy's enlisted men.

She's going public within 36 hours, with evidence and corroborating witnesses, attorney says. Attorney Michael Avenatti says that he has a client with multiple security clearances who will go public this week with further allegations, and evidence, against Brett Kavanaugh. Christine Blasey Ford is slated to testify before Congress on Thursday, and the attorney is warning Republicans that an attack on her integrity would be misplaced because the government has cleared her multiple times for different agencies. Avenatti says he expects her to take her story public within the next 36 hours, as soon as security measures are in place...

Yesterday, at an event sponsored by the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia, Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., said that “it’s going to be 25 years before banks are forgiven” for the bailouts our government doled out to the nation’s largest banks a decade ago during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Unfortunately, Dimon’s acknowledgement of the lingering anger of Main Street Americans, who suffered the brunt of the Great Recession, was quickly eclipsed after an association of unapologetic Wall Street bankers issued the following satirical statement: We, the bankers of these United States, want to...

<p>Current polls suggest that Republicans could be in for a rough November, but not as rough as one might expect among a key voting constituency.</p> <p>Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report writes today that Democrats are confident about their support among suburban women, but enthusiasm among female Democratic voters “isn’t being replicated among another group of voters that theoretically should be as motivated — or more — to vote for Democrats: Latino voters.”</p>

Some of the worst enemies of the administration are already in the administration This section will be used to alert readers to situations and circumstances that might not be covered in the media as extensively as other dominating stories might be. And today, there is a very critical situation that should concern all Americans, especially those who support the President. Recently, I had a close confidant of the President related to me a story. It seems the President had walked through the West Wing of the White House to say hello to the staff. He is known to do this...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Should students get half credit for an assignment they didn’t even turn in? A former St. Lucie County teacher doesn’t think so. That’s why she wrote a goodbye message to her eighth graders on a white board saying, "Bye Kids, Mrs. Tirado loves you and wishes you the best in life! I have been fired for refusing to give you a 50% for not handing anything in. 💓 Mrs. Tirado" Diane Tirado has been a teacher for years, but she started at West Gate K-8 School in Port St. Lucie in August as an eighth...

The once Dem-dubbed “smartest guy in the room”, still hasn’t figured out that in all the high-pitched screeching chants now dominating our day, we can’t hear the Resistance Leader, who started it all, any more “YO!”, rank and file of the boisterous and belligerent ‘Resistance’ Movement: Your failing ‘leader’ is pulling you toward an Election Night 2016-like disaster for Midterms. Losing Rock Star status by the day, ’Resistance Leader’ Barack Hussein Obama is showing what no leader should ever show mid-Midterm battle: Desperation! You can actually hear his desperation...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - A South Florida teacher said she was fired after she refused to give a student a 50 percent grade on homework that was not turned in, CNN reported. Port St. Lucie teacher Diana Tirado said students should not get credit for work that was never handed in. Tirado said motivation and inspiration is what she strives to provide her students. Tirado has been a teacher for years, but she started at West Gate K-8 School in August as an eighth-grade history teacher. "Teaching is a calling for me," she said. Tirado said she assigned an...

A defiant Brett Kavanaugh tells the Senate Judiciary Committee he will not allow the ongoing smears from Democratic sources to intimidate him into withdrawing his Supreme Court nomination. Good for him. Especially when the latest onslaught against him from Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer in The New Yorker adds up to a whole lot of nothing. By Farrow-Mayer’s own account, accuser Deborah Ramirez couldn’t be certain that Kavanaugh was responsible, and every one of her “corroborating” witnesses disputes her account. Just as all the people named by Christine Blasey Ford as having been at the high-school party where she recalls...

Senator Ted Cruz (Republican-Texas) and his wife were forced to leave a restaurant after they were accosted by a group of left-wing activists. ..... Twitter screen shots, videos .....

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"I don’t give a s**t if that is a crime” Latest Project Veritas video: Target: the IRS.

While Ivanka Trump has a high-profile job advising her father, the president of the United States, she told the International Space Station Expedition 56 crew Thursday (Sept. 20) that she had different childhood ambitions. "I think I can speak for all of us here to say you inspire us all. You actually have my dream job," she told the crew via a video call from NASA's Mission Control Center. "I always wanted to be an astronaut, and I always wanted to go to space. You are fulfilling my dream up there." Trump made her comments while touring NASA's Johnson Space Center with...

Jane Mayer is the co-author of the New Yorker’s outrageous hit piece on Judge Kavanaugh. In this context readers may recall Mayer’s book (written with Jill Abramson) defaming Justice Thomas and supporting the Democrats’ late hit on him at the end of his confirmation to the Supreme Court in 1991. The Democrats sought to turn Justice Thomas into roadkill to prevent a black conservative from taking his place on the Court. The true victim of a ludicrous smear, Justice Thomas called out the Democrats’ 1991 playbook as “a high-tech lynching.” Now the Democrats seek to assassinate Judge Kavanaugh. We should...

Linda Wall "Bring Your Bible To School Day" October 4th (hashtag #BringYourBible).Being a Christian is more than going to a building on Sundays. It’s about becoming Christ-like and sharing the message of Jesus to others. During the next two weeks, the Virginia Christian Alliance will send out helpful ideas to assist you in participating in “Bring Your Bible To School Day”. On October 4th, you have an opportunity to introduce your classmates to the Bible, God’s Word. The spokesperson for this year’s Bring Your Bible To School Day is Sadie Robertson. Here is her message to you. CLICK HERE  [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QEI6uqVWLY[/embed]...

The "fancy DC restaurant" remains unnamed in every story I've seen so far. Name and shame the place. Who's protecting them ? (rhetorical question) The media won't name the restaurant, thus encouraging more of this behaviour. I want to know.Once known, we must shout it far and wide.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 24, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – The founder of U.S. Catholic publishing house Ignatius Press has called for Pope Francis to answer Archbishop Viganò’s allegations that he knowingly promoted an American cardinal accused of abusing seminarians and priests.  Father Joseph Fessio, SJ, told CNN that he finds the pontiff’s refusal to give an answer “deplorable”. In recent weeks, commentators have interpreted Pope Francis’ homilies about “the Great Accuser” and Christ’s “silence” as coded commentary on the Vatican whistleblower’s testimony and the pontiff’s own reluctance to answer it.  “He’s attacking Viganò and everyone who is asking for answers,” Fessio told...

More than a week after Linux creator Linus Torvalds said he would be taking a break from leading kernel development, it is still unclear as to what actually led to his decision. But one thing is crystal clear: the social justice warriors, who played a role in what happened, are now targeting another kernel developer, Ted Ts'o, who works for Google.Was it the article in The New Yorker, as its author claimed, that led to Torvalds stepping down? Or was it pressure from kernel maintainers who were annoyed that Torvalds had bungled his schedules and planned a family vacation at...