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President Donald Trump reacted to an order from a federal judge on Tuesday to halt enforcement of his order to deny asylum to the migrant caravan crossing into the United States illegally at the Southern border. “This was an Obama judge, and I’ll tell you what, it’s not going to happen like this anymore,” Trump said, about the judge’s ruling on the migrant caravan. U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of San Francisco, appointed by former President Barack Obama, issued a restraining order of the Trump administration’s effort to deny asylum to migrants trying to cross the southern border illegally. The...

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving so I hope everybody has their meal prep well underway. My only advice is to keep it traditional - what’s traditional for you and your family that is. I know people whose traditions include dishes as ‘diverse’ as lasagna, sauerkraut, pirogues, lobster, tamales, shrimp etouffee, latkes, samosas and dal along with the standard turkey with dressing. Of course there are some who quash the turkey altogether, replacing it with a regal pork or beef roast.  Americans are openminded that way. However even we open armed, openminded and open-borders Americans must draw the line somewhere when it comes...

Fifty-one years ago this month, the 173rd Airborne Brigade (Separate) fought in close quarters and uphill through deep foliage to take Hill 875 in what became known as the Battle of Dak To. The 173rd Airborne Brigade had already seen action before moving inland to South Vietnam’s Central Highlands in early November of 1967. This support included a role in Operation Junction City in the spring, as well as a search-and destroy (S&D) mission in the vicinity of Tuy Ho on the south-central coast. The 173rd was assigned to Dak To after intelligence reports indicated that North Vietnamese Army (NVA)...

In his first nearly three years in office, America has much to be thankful for in having Donald Trump as their President as opposed to Hillary Clinton. Trump has been on a mission to implement policies and platforms he campaigned on like no other President possibly in our lifetime. From domestic policy to foreign affairs, the administration has been firing off his agenda efficiently and effectively – despite being hamstrung at every turn by the liberal media, by judicial activists, and by a Democrat party that once stood for something, but now exclusively exist to resist the progress President Trump...

When Republicans have stated that Democrats will go to any lengths to win elections – they aren’t kidding. According to Fox News, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office is charging nine people in connection with an alleged voter fraud scheme. During the 2016 and 2018 elections, Skid Row homeless were offered cash and cigarettes in order to obtain fraudulent signatures.

"If a rebrand will help the activist cause, who really cares about rigour in the scientific discipline?" ..... "One of the more distinguishing aspects of the global warming frenzy is the playful manner in which its adherents approach language. Whenever they feel the need to rearrange the terms of debate, counter the emergence of “inconvenient” facts, or simply put a whole new banner on the crusade, neither shame nor consistency offers any brake to their innovations."

McLean Police District – Detectives from our Major Crimes Bureau are investigating a suspicious man and woman that approached a young girl in the Pine Spring Neighborhood in the Falls Church area of Fairfax County. The preliminary investigation shows a girl was walking home from elementary school with her adult brother yesterday afternoon around 3:45. They were approached by a man and a woman at the intersection of Pine Spring Road and Meadow View Road. The pair offered a treat to the girl and motioned her towards them. The brother moved his sister away from the pair. The siblings made...

A young Manhattan man allegedly stole $1million from a Silicon Valley executive by hacking into his phone and stealing his cryptocurrency. Nicholas Truglia, 27, faces 21 felony counts after he allegedly went on a hacking spree that targeted six victims. Authorities said Truglia successfully hacked into six victims' phones, but was only able to steal money from Robert Ross.

A federal judge dismissed charges Tuesday against two doctors and six others involved in the genital mutilation of nine girls at a Detroit clinic, and also declared a US law banning the practice unconstitutional. US District Judge Bernard Friedman dismissed mutilation and conspiracy charges against Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, who performed the surgery, and Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, who allowed his clinic in Livonia, Michigan, to be used for the procedure. The same charges were dismissed against Attar's wife, Farida, and Tahera Shafiq, who assisted in the procedure, as well as four women who tricked their daughters into going to the suburban...

"It's a mean nasty world out there" US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo On Close US-Saudi Relationship Continuing After Khashoggi Murder 11/20/2018 In an announcement clearly designed to happen during the Thanksgiving Week, President Trump has stressed the important economic relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia and Iran as a security threat in saying the US relationship with Saudis will continue in spite of the brutal murder of Saudi Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul October 2nd.... President Trump says he has submitted written answers to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's questions.... The "New York Times" reports that...

**SNIP** “While I was reading this letter that was kind of released today, my main concern was that there is no vision, there is no common value, there is no goal that is really articulated in this letter aside from we need to change,” she said. “I do think that we got sent to Congress [with] a mandate to change how government works, to change what government even looks like. But if we are not on the same page about changing the systems and the values and how we’re going to adapt as a party for the future, then what...

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Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are trading barbs on Twitter. “Now that’s *TWO* fallen GOP Vice Pres candidates going after a freshman Congresswoman that’s not even sworn in yet,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “Isn’t it a little early to be bringing out the big guns? Especially when they look like the FWD:RE:FWD:WATCH THIS grandpa emails from the ‘08 election they lost.” The spat began after Palin, running mate to Republican presidential candidate John McCain in 2008, tweeted on Monday: “YIKES: Ocasio-Cortez Fumbles Basic Civics TWICE In 1 Statement.”

Fighting erupted on Sunday between rival factions of the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition in Syria’s Afrin, leaving 11 dead and 27 wounded, according to a war monitor.  The Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwestern Syria was taken over by Turkish forces and their Syrian opposition proxies in March this year.  The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said pro-Ankara Syrian opposition groups launched an assault on Sunday morning against the al-Sharqiya Martyrs, which had helped Turkey in the Afrin offensive.  The group, which is part of Ahrar Sharqiya brigade, is led by Abu Khula and consists of around 200 fighters. It...

The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was finally able to upend the remaining Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) terrorists in the Al-Safa region of southern Syria on Monday. Led by their 3rd Corps and 4th Armored Division, the Syrian Arab Army stormed Daesh’s last positions in western Al-Safa on Monday morning.This powerful attack by the Syrian Arab Army would result in Daesh’s full capitulation in southern Syria.According to a military source in Sweida city, the remaining Daesh terrorists in western Al-Safa agreed to surrender their last positions after suffering heavy casualties over the last three days.The source added that some of the Daesh...

The AP is saying some privileged white male in Utah has gotten rid of a black woman trying to do her job. I just saw ABC news report it happily. When will Democrats speak AGAINST this racist action?

Hollywood director Rob Reiner once again unloaded on President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning, insulting him with nearly every derogatory term used in modern politics. “Hypocritical. Incompetent. Corrupt. Ignorant. Criminal. Mentally unstable. Racist. Misogynistic. Self-aggrandizing. Self dealing. Disrespects allies. Embraces dictators,” Rob Reiner wrote. “And all wrapped up in a constant stream of lies. Ladies and gentleman, the President of the United States.”

WASHINGTON — President Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with the conversation. The lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, rebuffed the president, saying that he had no authority to order a prosecution. Mr. McGahn said that while he could request an investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To underscore his point, Mr. McGahn had White House lawyers write a memo for...

Author of the book, Deep Undercover speaks of his secret life and tangled allegiances as a KGB spy in America. "I am sad to say that we as a nation are not doing a very good job giving guidance to our young people to make the decision. I can't explain the fact that more than 40% of the Millennials think that socialism is a good idea."

[Rabbi Dov Fischer is an attorney and adjunct professor of law, a Senior Rabbinic Fellow at the Coalition for Jewish Values, congregational rabbi of Young Israel of Orange County, California, and holds prominent leadership roles in several national rabbinic and other Jewish organizations. He has been Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review, clerked for the Hon. Danny J. Boggs in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and served for most of the past decade on the Executive Committee of the Rabbinical Council of America. His writings have appeared in the Weekly Standard, National Review, Wall...