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MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle weighed in on the stock market's historic plunge on Monday, stating “we didn't see this when Janet Yellen” was Federal Reserve chairwoman during the network's coverage of the market's wild ride on Tuesday morning. The perspective comes one day after Jerome Powell, 65, was sworn as Yellen's replacement on Monday morning as the 16th chair of the central bank. On the same day, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 1,175 points, or 4.6 percent, to 24,346, the largest single-day drop in points in the Dow's history. The Nasdaq Composite also dropped 3.8 percent. Ruhle welcomed CNBC...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Losing yet? – The stock markets continued their week-long fall on Monday, with the Dow tanking a record 1175 points on the day. Remember all that money you made in your 401(k) in January? Yeah, that’s gone. Nervous analysts and traders stood around after the market closed telling fake reporters that this is just your normal correction, which in truth is long overdue. They don’t really know whether that’s true or not, but let’s all hope they are. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to release the Democrats’...

Rep. Eric Swalwell told THR that a recent threat against CNN staffers showed his bill is needed. Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, who represents California's 15th Congressional District, wants legislators to do more than just use words to convey the importance of a free press. He's hoping the House of Representative will pass a bill he introduced on Monday, the Journalist Protection Act, which would make it a federal crime to harm a journalist in the field with the intent of impeding their work. The safety and security of journalists has been top-of-mind throughout Donald Trump's presidency, and was ratcheted up...

Leftists who hate America as founded dominate fake news media, Hollywood, public education, and social media. Their mission is to bring America down from her status as the world power. This is why leftists are so repulsed by Trump's desire to make America great again. Leftists hate the free market and seek to replace it with socialism; a big brother government controlling every aspect of our lives. Leftists are liberals. Most people think "liberal" means having a live and let live attitude. The reality is that liberals are super aggressive, using government to force their ungodly agenda items down the...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) The Philadelphia Eagles won the franchise’s first Super Bowl, denying the New England Patriots what would have been their 6th NFL championship. Excited Eagles fans swarmed the streets of Philadelphia in celebration, setting fires, breaking windows and vandalizing businesses. So, it was just like they would have done had the Eagles lost. In a last-ditch effort to finally completely destroy the Republican Party – something he tried but failed to do in his 2008 run for the presidency – RINO John McCain is planning to introduce a budget bill in the Senate...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) NBC joined the Alinskyite demonization of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes in earnest on Saturday with a stunningly illogical piece from a University of Texas law professor named Steve Vladeck. NBC’s web minions label the opinion piece a “Hot Take,” but what it really is is an unintentionally hilarious hot mess. Vladeck’s thesis is that FBI Director Christopher Wray simply must – must, I say – resign over the release of what Vladeck calls the “Nunes Memo” because, well, I’ll let him tell you in this wonderfully illogical passage: “Wray shouldn’t...

The FBI special agent who penned a scathing takedown column that ran in Saturday’s New York Times, in which he laid out his reasons for leaving the bureau and cited his disgust with Republicans’ “relentless attacks” on the agency, apparently declined to disclose his history of donating to Democratic candidates.

In their front-page coverage of the story, mainstream media outlets gave readers no indication of the contents of a declassified memo released by the House Intelligence Committee on Friday.The memo alleges the Federal Bureau of Intelligence and Department of Justice abused their power to obtain permission from a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on the Trump campaign. It asserts the FBI used an unverified opposition research dossier paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee to obtain permission to spy, but never disclosed certain information to the court that would have undermined its case, including...

The media’s response to the release of the Nunes memo surpasses the level of Pravda covering a Soviet show trial. No sooner had the memo appeared than journalists immediately began throwing sand into their audience’s eyes. The story, according to the media, is not that Obama’s Justice Department/FBI snookered FISA court judges and used Hillary’s purchased Steele dossier to spy on Trumpworld. No, the scandal is that the evil Republicans exposed this outrage, and that Trump, the ultimate target of this espionage, has the gall to defend himself. How dare a defendant in our kangaroo trial defend himself with the...

LGBT media outlets are implying the Trump administration is responsible for reports that the LGBT homicide rate doubled from 2016 to 2017. The media reports are citing an 86 percent increase in homicides, indicating a disturbing and sudden rise in violence. The details are laid out in a report from the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs titled, “A crisis of hate a report on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and Queer Hate Violence Homicides in 2017.” But a closer look at those details, as is often the case, reveals some problems with the conclusion drawn in the headline. In 2016 there...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Losing yet? – The Dow dumped 665 points on Friday, as fears that the rapidly growing economy will create a new round of inflation. For the week, the Dow was off almost 1,000 points, giving up the majority of the gains made during January. If you’re going to have economic problems, issues like this one related to a rapidly growing economy beat the heck out of issues related to a stagnant one, like we experienced from 2008 through 2016, but still, it’s a problem. Tired of all this...

Friday on CNN’s “Wolf,” host Wolf Blitzer harangued Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, for releasing the much-anticipated FISA memo and doing so not at the same time as the Democratic Party minority memo, so that a side-by-side comparison could be made. Stewart dismissed the criticism, but later in the segment, Blitzer accused Stewart and the GOP of allowing Russian President Vladimir Putin to succeed given the member created doubt in U.S. government agencies. “So, Putin has succeeded because that’s what’s happening right now,” he said. “The whole nature of the support for the intelligence...

Now that we’ve finally been able to read and analyze it, here’s what the FISA Abuse Memo reveals beyond any doubt: Top officials DOJ and FBI in the Obama Administration clearly and intentionally conspired to deprive a major party’s presidential nominee and his campaign personnel of their Constitutional rights during the 2016 presidential campaign and in the months afterwards. Those same officials knowingly and intentionally misled the FISA Court in an effort to abuse the FISA process to fix a Presidential election, and then to attempt to nullify the results of that election once their original objective failed. We know...

Rep. Devin Nunes’s infamous memo — the document numerous House Republicans claimed would demonstrate fundamental anti-Trump corruption at the FBI — was released early Friday afternoon. The entire thing is three and a half pages and only takes a few minutes to read closely and carefully. After doing that, there is only one conclusion a fair reader could draw: There is absolutely nothing here. There is no proof in the memo that the FBI is biased against Trump, no proof of abuse of surveillance powers by the FBI, and no proof that the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) It’s Groundhog Day, and Fox News is reporting that Punxsatawney Phil has a record of being right 39% of the time. Which, given the track record I’ve seen from the TV weather people in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, must mean the groundhog is twice as accurate at predicting the weather as certified professional meteorologists. Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – Former Deep State FBI Director James Comey continues to make a damn fool of himself on Twitter, which is always a #Winning situation. On Thursday, in apparent reaction to...

Evening Campaign Update: CNN Goes All #FakeNews On Christopher Wray, Again February 1, 2018 by David Blackmon So, I gave a lunchtime speech to a group about the Trump tax plan, and when I come out of the building and get in my car, the first thing I hear on my trusty AM radio is that FBI Director Christopher Wray. Wait, what???? Three days after he “removes” Andrew McCabe from the Hoover Building less than 24 hours after he read the FISA Abuse Memo, Wray is supposed to suddenly be so overwrought about the possible release of that very same...

On Thursday morning, Politifact announced that it would be hiring former Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson to help its team of fact-checkers as a "reader advocate." Just two hours later, however, Politifact publicly severed their agreement with Grayson after receiving sustained and intense backlash on social media. We sought out a Democrat and Republican to critique our work in order to try to improve the trust and credibility in fact-checking and PolitiFact. It has become clear our choice of Alan Grayson did not meet that threshold to many. pic.twitter.com/uJuoHhiObI— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 1, 2018 Most of the opposition to Grayson's hire...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? Part I – A CBS flash poll shows that 75% of viewers were happy with President Trump’s State of the Union Address. This included 97% of Republicans, 72% of Independents and – wait for it – 43% of Democrats. 43%! That hamster that was running around inside Nancy Pelosi’s mouth during the speech had babies when it saw that number. Tired of all this Winning yet? Part II – The Moody’s measure of private sector job growth showed that private sector payrolls added 234,000 jobs in...

A photojournalist withheld publication of a 2005 photograph of a smiling then-Sen. Barack Obama with a beaming Louis Farrakhan, the anti-Semitic, anti-white leader of the Nation of Islam. The occasion was a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. The photographer, Askia Muhammad, said that almost immediately after he took the picture a CBC staffer called and said, "We have to have the picture back." Muhammad later surrendered the disk with the photo to Farrakhan's chief of staff. "I gave the picture up at the time and basically swore secrecy," Muhammad said in an interview with the Trice Edney News Wire....

Evening Campaign Update: Devin Nunes Drops A Bomb In case you missed it, House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes all but revealed the fact today that the FISA Abuse Memo states that the FBI did indeed use the fake Trump Dossier – a Dossier the FBI Director at the time, James Comey, testified to congress that he KNEW was fake – to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump Campaign (see the text below). It continues to be rumored that memo details the fact that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein also used that fake Dossier – that was paid...