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It’s easy to understand if some of you are scoffing at that number and failing to be impressed. After all, there are just shy of 200K federal employees in the District of Columbia (and that represents less than 20% of the total nationally.) Is a reduction of 11,000 really all that significant? Yes, it really is. That’s particularly true if you compare Trump’s performance thus far to his recent predecessors. Over the past two years there were a total of 50K federal workers added to the previous staffing levels in 2015 and 2016. Barack Obama added 60K in his first...

Can anyone remember the Drudge Report going gray in the past? It's sort of ominous with the North Korea headline. Turned it gray at 10:14:03http://www.drudgereportarchives.com/data/2017/08/07/index.htm?s=flag

A new Urban Institute study on food insecurity aims to measure just how many college students go hungry. And while the figures released by the Urban Institute may be alarming, critics say they are too low, especially when it comes to hunger on campuses throughout California. Right now, the process of applying for and receiving food can be confusing, students say, and many who got free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch as K-12 students suddenly find themselves struggling to navigate the system in college. In the last couple of years, the state has made it easier for students to apply...

Former Vice President Al Gore’s new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel”, came in a dismal 15th this weekend at U.S. theaters, according to Box Office Mojo. Gore’s defenders have been quick to blame Paramount Pictures for the dismal performance of Gore’s sequel. “Al Gore Gets Ripped Off Again,” screamed the headline of D.R. Tucker in Washington Monthly.View post “This was not supposed to happen,” Tucker wrote, adding, “he should have demanded a recount.” “Sadly, the box-office under-performance of An Inconvenient Sequel will be seized upon by climate-change deniers as ‘proof’ that Americans don’t really care about this issue,” Tucker wrote. The...

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RUSH: I checked the email here during the break. I got some, “Why aren’t you talking about Rosenstein on Fox News Sunday yesterday? Why aren’t you talking about Rosenstein?” My friends, I know about Rosenstein on Fox News Sunday. We’ve already talked about that! This is what I mean about being on the cutting edge of societal evolution. We’ve already talked about Mueller’s charge from Rosenstein. We’ve already talked about the wide berth that Mueller has. We’ve already talked about how there were no limits. Rosenstein — the deputy AG who appointed Mueller as the special counsel — was on...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) said Monday morning that she believes it is "possible to impeach" President Donald Trump by December, and even provided multiple examples of how she believes it can happen. Waters was a guest on NTK Network's "The Breakfast Club." Host DJ Envy asked Waters, "How far are we away from kicking Trump out of the White House?" Waters did not hesitate before jumping into a list of reasons why she believes impeachment is possible and will happen, stemming back to Trump's actions on the campaign trail. "For some of us, who saw this was a deplorable...

Just a few days ago, Pope Francis sent to Medjugorje Cardinal Ernest Simoni, who attended the 28th International Youth Festival. Speaking in front of the open-air altar of the Medjugorje church, where he saw 50,000 thrilled young people who came from all over the world, he said that it seemed to him that the sky had opened and that angels from heavens were coming down to earth, reports Večernji List on 6 August 2017. Similar impression, as though angels were coming down from heavens, must have been felt by all those who heard words spoken by the Cardinal that, before...

Is it outlandish to say that the welfare of Americans should come before the welfare of potential immigrants in the actions of the American government? No. Of course not. It is reasonable, rational and what almost every other country does without all the name-calling we get from the progressive left in this country.

The Department of Justice on Friday released 413 pages of emails related to a controversial private meeting between former President Bill Clinton and then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the FBI’s investigation into then-presidential-candidate Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi emails. The FBI said earlier such records did not exist. This discharge of information is the result of a lawsuit filed against the DOJ by the American Council for Law and Justice (ACLJ) in November 2016. The newly-released emails mostly include DOJ officials’ conversations with reporters, who were seeking comment on the meeting between Lynch and the former president on an airport tarmac in...

Turkey’s dictatorial president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s recent efforts to mediate between the Saudis, their Arab Gulf allies and Egypt on one side versus his Qatari ally (both are staunch supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood) on the other, have failed to materialize.  At the same time, his war of words with Germany, and the European Union’s cold shoulder, has left the arrogant Erdogan with one avenue to make headlines - incite Muslims against Israel.  His crude anti-Semitic incitement has gone hand-in-hand with his posturing as the leader of the Sunni-Muslim world.  Erdogan has called on Muslims to show solidarity with the...

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An unpalatable and indefensible initiative that cannot end well. Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives recently took the politically questionable – and morally objectionable – step of voting to allow horses to once again be slaughtered on American soil for human consumption. It’s a massive power grab by the beef lobby, which would prefer to cull wild horses and burros so public lands can be devoted to livestock-grazing. No one else will rejoice in the heartland at the prospect of being able to chow down on a horse steak or a horse-burger. Most Americans are opposed to hippophagy,...

(CNN) — American journalist Julia Ioffe slammed the Trump administration's plan to curb legal immigration calling it "very restrictive" and part of a formula that would "provide the right kind of demographic engineering," for his base. Ioffe said first lady Melania Trump initially came to America on an H-1B visa, one of the visas the government is now working to restrict. "When you ask Trump supporters, they don't care because she's a different -- she's the right kind of immigrant." "She is a beautiful white woman from Europe, and we like those. Even though she doesn't have a college degree....

How a young university student in California became a leading mouthpiece of campus anti-Semitism. Anti-Semites are a dime a dozen on American university campuses nowadays. But Saleem Shehadeh, who graduated from the University of California at Davis in 2015, is a special case unto himself. During his undergraduate years, Shehadeh was heavily involved in the Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Hamas-inspired initiative that aims to use public protest and economic pressure to advance the Hamas agenda of permanently discrediting and destroying Israel as a Jewish state. Toward that end, BDS strives to create the false impression that Israel is a habitual human-rights violator guilty...

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Monday announced the federal government will relax Obama-era rules designed to protect the imperiled sage grouse, saying the administration will offer states flexibility in how they choose to protect the bird and also will loosen restrictions on energy development in sage grouse habitat. In a statement issued in response to a lengthy report from Interior’s sage grouse review team, Mr. Zinke said the recommendations will go into effect immediately.

Hillary Clinton, joined by husband, former President Bill Clinton, and top aide Huma Abedin, stepped out in style yesterday in New York City for the wedding of Clinton campaign supporter Marc Lasry’s daughter Sophie to hedge funder Alex Swieca. Despite the presence of numerous fashionable luminaries (including Jennifer Lopez, dressed in an emerald Hamel evening dress), Hillary Clinton won our best-dressed award by swapping her signature silhouette, the pantsuit, for a summery and cheery caftan. Clinton’s Tiffany blue caftan was subdued and sophisticated with minimal embellishment. Letting the soft color do the talking, she went minimal, forgoing heavy jewelry...

RUSH: I went out to Los Angeles for the weekend. I had to go out there to play golf. Everybody I play golf with is gone, out of town here in Palm Beach. So I went out and, you know, it was a fabulous time. I played Bel-Air yesterday, and Jack Wagner was in the foursome, the famous actor. The guy is a scratch golfer, maybe plus one, knocks the ball 325 yards. Just the nicest guy, and he plays so well it’s intimidating. But I had a fine last three holes and our team pulled even and broke even....

Americans are increasingly willing to put U.S. boots on the ground to fight for South Korea in the event of a North Korean invasion, new poll results released Monday by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveal. In fact, for the first time since the organization began polling on this question in 1990, a majority of Americans — 62 percent — are ready to go to war for South Korea.....