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Many students believe that the next natural step after graduating from high school is to go off to college. Secondary education has become such a common transition that many parents begin saving for college tuition as soon as their children are born. Although college can be the next chapter in a student's education, many teenagers still choose to attend trade school. Television personality Mike Rowe says the country is in the midst of a skilled labor shortage because workers lack the necessary training to fill the hundreds of thousands of available jobs. Lack of information may drive the notion that...

Tensions between Moscow and the pro-EU government of Moldova have been rising for several years as Russia has increased its interference in the internal affairs of the former Soviet republic. In 2015, 20% of the Moldovan treasury disappeared in a massive bank fraud in the poorest country of Europe. Many fingers pointed to the Russian security services and some analysts allege the funds were traced back to Russia. The Prime Minister’s government has been pushing to move closer to the European Union and away from the orbit of Moscow. The Kremlin seems determined to prevent this from happening. After the...

This is just a taste of what lies at the linked site, Cold Fury. The language is at times too strong for this site, but boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen, he's expressing precisely what I think about so-called "progressives and their ilk. Here's a sample:Progressivism has no new ideas at all, and their tired, old ones are so self-contradictory as to be completely incoherent by now. They. Have. Nothing. They’re intensely, smugly dismissive of all religion—except the most primitive, ass-backwards, hateful one in all human history, which absolutely no one is allowed to criticize in even the smallest way....

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview that the U.S. must cut the size of its diplomatic force in his country by more than half, from about 1,210 to 455. Putin said Sunday that the cut will make the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in his country equal to that of Russia's diplomatic corps in the U.S. "The personnel of the U.S. diplomatic missions in Russia will be cut by 755 people and will now equal the number of the Russian diplomatic personnel in the United States, 455 people on each side," Putin said in an interview...

The Cold War between the president and secretary of state became obvious from the latest State Department annual report on the global terrorism situation, which blames Israeli security policies for stalling the peace process and claims that the Palestinian leadership rarely incites terror attacks. This, in spite of Trump’s repeated statements of support for Israel. In the 2016 State Department Country Report on Terrorism, State clearly took the position of the Palestinian Authority against Israel. That was particularly evident in citing changes on the Temple Mount as incitement of terror, clearly referring to Israel’s recent erecting metal detectors at the...

Polls taken by Independent Women’s Voice, a free market group, find that 94 percent of voters think Congress shouldn’t be exempted from the insurance provisions of ObamaCare. Most voters blame both parties equally for the exemption, which means Republicans will also be hurt politically if it stands. “The president should announce that he is instructing OPM to end the exemption and subsidies for Congress,” IWV president Heather Higgins wrote in Monday’s Wall Street Journal. ”If the president does this, he’d have huge negotiating leverage. He would align the interests of the ruling class with those of his voters, forcing Congress...

Piers Morgan has called JK Rowling “a shameless, lying hypocrite” on Twitter following the author’s tweets about US President Donald Trump’s alleged refusal to shake a disabled child’s hand. Footage emerged on social media on Friday appearing to show Mr Trump ignoring a child in a wheelchair, prompting the author to send a series of critical tweets, calling the president a “monster of narcissism”. (TWEET-AT-LINK) However, another clip showed Mr Trump leaning down towards the child and speaking to him, while the Monty’s mother, Marjorie Kelly Weer, took to Facebook to confirm that the president did not ignore her son....

Jason Osamede Okundaye, Ethnic Minorities Officer for Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge, is being investigated after cheering on violent ‘Black Lives Matter’ rioters in an extraordinary anti-white online rant. “ALL whites people are racist,” tweeted the Cambridge Ethnic Minorities Officer, as rioters protesting the death of alleged drug dealer Rashan Jermaine Charles attacked police and members of the public in Dalston, East London. “White middle class, white working class, white men, white women, white gays, white children they can ALL geddit [get it],” he declared.

No longer sure they can rely on the United States, an increasing number of South Korean lawmakers say their country should develop its own nuclear arsenal to deter an attack by Kim Jong Un, their belligerent neighbor to the north. North Korea’s rapid missile advances, including successful tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in July and again on Friday, are reviving calls for South Korea to assert its “nuclear sovereignty.” South Koreans are wary of President Donald Trump’s isolationist rhetoric and his calls for Asian allies to shoulder more of the defense burdens borne by the U.S. military. “Trump’s ‘America-first’...

A Turkish teenager was killed and four other people wounded Sunday when a gunman opened fire on two beach clubs in the upscale Aegean resort of Bodrum in western Turkey, reports say. The gunman in the early hours of Sunday fired indiscriminately 26 times around two nightclubs on the seafront in the popular resort, the Hurriyet daily said. Waiter Furkan Say, 18, later died of his wounds in hospital. Two other waiters were wounded along with one customer. It was also reported that Zeynep Molho, the wife of Turkish TV personality Jess Molho, was also injured. There was no information...

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney said Sunday that it's official White House policy that nothing else gets a vote in Congress before healthcare. "Yes," it's official policy that the Senate stay focused on ObamaCare reform before voting on anything else, Mulvaney told Jake Tapper on CNN's State of the Union. President Trump's calls for Republican senators to prioritize passing a bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare are "simply reflecting the mood of the people," he said.

Lawyers defending the New York Times say Sarah Palin is overreaching in her defamation lawsuit against the paper, and argue the case should be thrown out. Court papers filed by lawyers for the Times say Palin's legal team is attempting to subpeona "twenty-three non-party current and former Times reporters, editors and other employees — most of whom had nothing to do with the editorial at issue," according to a Wednesday report by the New York Post.

The Daily Caller News Foundation has compiled a weekly list of examples exposing bias in Politico’s daily emailed newsletter that briefs subscribers on the most important news of the day. This week, Politico Playbook’s writers, Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman, and Daniel Lippman took issue with White House Communications Director Athony Scaramucci’s “anonymous” source, declared President Donald Trump’s senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner guilty, and lamented Trump’s inability to fulfill all his campaign promises in his first six months in office. Below are the most egregious examples from the past week: 1. Seems like media skepticism of anonymous sources only...

More than 30 cases involving three Baltimore police officers who are the subjects of an evidence-planting investigation have been dismissed or are set to be dismissed, the Baltimore City State's Attorney said Friday. Body camera footage from an arrest in January that appears to show one of the officers hiding drugs at the scene has called the credibility of the trio into question, Marilyn Mosby, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, said. She said 34 cases will be dismissed while 77 are still being reviewed. Twelve other cases are moving forward. "Where these officers are material and necessary witnesses, we are...

“I had people saying that I was a person of color that just wants to be white and I don’t act like people of color should.” ___ A student from Evergreen State College named Kai-Ave Douvia is of Native American and Puerto Rican descent. He’s also a progressive, yet he became the target of fellow students at Evergreen before the protests began this spring. His story provides insight on how students at the school think and what led to the incident with Professor Bret Weinstein, which we covered in numerous posts, including Evergreen Prof. Bret Weinstein’s greatest alleged sin? Not...

An outspoken Democratic critic of President Donald Trump's is leading the call for Vice President Mike Pence to become the next commander-in-chief. California Representative Maxine Waters, who has become an internet sensation among the left for her frank criticism of the president in recent months, tweeted Saturday: "Mike Pence is somewhere planning an inauguration. Priebus and Spicer will lead the transition." Her tweet comes after former chief of staff Reince Priebus resigned from office Friday, a week after Sean Spicer left his post as press secretary. The men, both longtime insiders among the top ranks of the national Republican party,...

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If history has taught us anything, it has taught us that failure to deal with dictators early in their existence only ensures that we must deal with them later, at a much higher price. For example, Hitler’s orders to his troops during what amounted to Germany’s invasion of Austria was that they were to retreat and return to Germany at the slightest effective resistance. However, Austria (and the rest of Europe) tried to appease Hitler, and the 10 years was a glaring example of the history referenced above. This is the situation we are currently facing regarding North Korea and...

Chinese social media users were angered by an Indian magazine cover showing a map of China without Tibet or Taiwan, heightening the tension between the regional powers amid a protracted border dispute. By registering you agree to our T&Cs & Privacy Policy The revised map of China on the cover of the July 31 issue of India Today sparked patriotic backlash from China’s online users, many of whom used strong language to denounce both the magazine and India as a whole. But China’s foreign ministry dismissed the controversy. In response to a reporter’s question about the contentious cover, spokesman Lu...

This is NOT fake news. This is big, big news. Joe Lee has just become the world’s first full-time Donald Trump bookmaker. The Sun’s Mike Ridley gives a Trump pinch with Paddy Power’s Joe In a rectangular – rather than oval – office on the fourth floor of Dublin’s Power Tower, Head of Trump Bets Joe spends his day working out the odds for punters’ bets on the US President. Donald J Trump is BIG business in the world of betting. More bets are placed on The Donald than on boxing, motor racing or even the President’s favourite sport golf....