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Observing President Trump in masterful action at the Hanoi summit with NK against the backdrop of the Cohen ridiculousness in our swamp here at home reminds us that our greatest enemies are in fact, here at home. And to think of all the diplomatic, economic, judicial, and military progress going to waste is unbearable to consider. Trump MUST win in 2020.

Last week, California governor Gavin Newsom announced that he was intending to aggressively scale back plans for the state’s high-speed rail system, which in its most ambitious routing would have connected Sacramento to San Diego. The immediate cause was ballooning costs, which have risen from $33 billion to $77 billion and looked likely to exceed 1.6 Zuckerbergs within a couple of years (the local CA currency, otherwise known as $100 billion).Unlike other megaprojects, Newsom — and California — were fortunate on the timing. The costs of the project skyrocketed so much and so early that Newsom still had the...

Mutlu Civiroglu @mutludc 19m19 minutes agohttps://twitter.com/mutludc/status/1101522664869515264 Flash/ Reliable sources report the start of SDF operation to clear Baghouz, last pocket under ISIS control #TwitterKurds @realdonaldtrump Mahmoud Bali‏ @bali_mahmoud 10m10 minutes agohttps://twitter.com/bali_mahmoud/status/1101524609495678976After evacuation of thousands of civilians and our comrades who held hostage in #Baghouz, operation to clear the last remaining pocket of ISIS has just started at 18:00 this evening. @mustefabali

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has hired a self-declared “undocumented” immigrant to serve as his 2020 presidential campaign’s deputy press secretary. Belén Sisa, who previously worked on the Latino outreach side of Sanders’s 2016 campaign, announced her addition to the Vermont senator’s 2020 team in a Facebook post Wednesday. “This is really emotional for me. I can’t help but think of 18-year-old Belén, who felt hopeless and powerless to the anti-immigrant attacks and policies that were holding her back from her dreams,” she wrote. “I can’t help but think of the generations of sacrifice my family has had to do for...

VIDEO In all of politics, and perhaps anywhere, it would be hard to top this beyond bizarre CREEPY photo of Joe Biden. Forget all the pics you've already seen of Biden with his hands inappropriately upon young girls and women. The photo revealed in this video is way beyond anything you've seen before of creepy Biden. It is so beyond belief bizarre, that you can be forgiven if you think it was photoshopped. However, I assure you this photo is for real. And if Biden ever gets around to making his Big Announcement, it is almost certain the photo will...

The mess in Venezuela is getting worse, but while that country is literally starving to death under the yoke of an incompetent, corrupt and malignant socialist dictatorship the hopes of a Ukrainian-style peaceful revolution or bloodless coup that would end the Nicolas Maduro regime are dimming. That was the most apparent conclusion following last week’s attempts by the U.S.-recognized interim president Juan Guaido to ship desperately-needed food and medicine into the country. The government fired on aid workers at Venezuela’s borders both with Colombia and Brazil, setting trucks laden with humanitarian aid ablaze and kicking off civil unrest everywhere. Conditions...

University of California-Berkeley officials say that campus police have reopened an investigation into the assault on a conservative activist who was manning a recruitment table on campus. Earlier this week, officials said the investigation had ended and police were seeking a felony arrest warrant from the Alameda County District Attorney Office. The new announcement, which offered no details, was the latest in a series of delays and cryptic messages from authorities relating to the Feb. 19 attack, which was captured on video and clearly shows the face of the apparent attacker. The new delay in the case drew the ire...

Meghan Markle is due in just weeks, and Vanity Fair reports that she and Prince Harry have decided to raise their baby without labels and with a more “fluid approach to gender.” (FYI, Kensington Palace declined to comment on this when asked. Double FYI, Meghan is said to be having a boy.) “Meghan has been talking to some of her friends about the birth and how she and Harry plan to raise their baby. Her exact word was fluid,” a source told the magazine's royal reporter Katie Nicholl. “She said they plan to raise their child with a fluid approach...

What Does Jesus Mean When He Says We Must Be Salted with Fire? Msgr. Charles Pope • February 28, 2019 • The Gospel from Thursday’s daily Mass featured one of Jesus’ lesser-known teachings:Everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good, but if salt becomes insipid, with what will you restore its flavor? Keep salt in yourselves and you will have peace with one another (Mark 9:49-50).Let’s begin with a few observations about salt in those times. Salt was valuable. Some people were even paid with salt (which is where we get the word “salary”).Salt was connected with healing...

THE FORMER CONGRESSMAN AND LIKELY 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER RODE A SURLY STEAMROLLER WITH ONE BRAKE AND PINK GRIPS. BY RILEY MISSEL Feb 28, 2019 Beto O’Rourke was spotted riding a singlespeed bike home from a political meeting in Texas on Wednesday. O’Rourke is a known cyclist and runner. The former congressman and Senate candidate is expected to launch a primary campaign for the 2020 presidential election. Former Democratic congressman, U.S. Senate candidate, and likely 2020 presidential contender Beto O’Rourke made a grand exit from a political meeting in El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday: He rode his bike home. Amid a...

Missouri Democrats’ presence in state politics has shriveled to its smallest in well over a decade as the once-purple state turns deeper crimson.

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Well, Bill de Blasio for sure. But also mayoral spouse Chirlane McCray, who has just been revealed as a world-class boondoggler in her own right. Hey, the family that preys together stays together, right? And it’s only (your) money — even if it is quite a lot of it.

The testimony Wednesday by former Trump attorney and convicted perjurer Michael Cohen before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform did not produce the smoking guns that Democrats were hoping for, but it did produce a prodigious amount of fake news.Several members of the committee noted beforehand and during the hearing the oddity of Cohen testifying before a congressional committee as he's headed to prison for lying to Congress: As Michael Cohen speaks, think about how remarkable it is: a man convicted of LYING to Congress is now appearing before Congress again... just weeks later. Invited by the Democrats...

The long-awaited first read on Q4 GDP has just come out, with results better than expected: +2.6%, whereas analysts had been pivoting right around that 2.0% figure ahead of the release. The historically strong Q3 results were revised upward in its third and final headline: 3.5%. Even though it’s too early to take the long view of 2018 GDP as a whole, this 2.6% number joins the 2.2%, 4.2% and now 3.5% from the previous quarter to put preliminary GDP at 3.125%, or above 3% for the first time since prior to the Great Recession a decade ago. That this...

Jen Hummel, 35, has always been a runner. After spending her high school years running cross country, she kept it up recreationally, balancing training runs and races with taking care of her two young children. “For me, it’s the best exercise and gives me time to think,” she says. But in early December, she started to experience pain and discomfort almost immediately after she’d start running. “I had pain going down my arms and in my chest. It would come up in my chin,” she explained. “I’ve always been someone who can push myself, but after I’d get up to...

LINK IT. SHARE IT. Brilliant opening statement from Rep. Jim Jordan regarding a Congressional hearing chaired by Elijah Cummings featuring convicted LIAR and fraudster Michael Cohen as star witness against Pres Trump. Watch the faces of Cohen and Cummings - they reek of guilt and deception.

Ready for DemocRATS to Raze Down Your House? It was on the Green New Deals FAQ as well as getting rid of farting cows and airplanes. But are you ready for your house to be bulldozed? Oh, and since we are not talking of how to pay for it, would a new one be yours or would it belong to the State? Since AOC is a Socialist, we believe it would be the State and therefore you could be booted from it at any time. Oh the Joys of Socialism. Wait, they did say a tax North of 70%, so...

TGIFF! Its Fiddle Friday and although a little scratchy, here is Chubby Wise and his 1970 recording of I Don't Love Nobody. THE WESTERNER https://thewesterner.blogspot.com/

Military tensions in the disputed region of Kashmir have erupted in recent weeks, with India and Pakistan painting different versions of events. One thing we do know for certain is that an Indian pilot, identified as Wing Commander Abhinandan, was captured by Pakistan after his plane was shot down in a dogfight earlier this week between Pakistani and Indian warplanes over the ceasefire line in Kashmir. He was due to be handed back to India on Friday afternoon, at a famous border post in the village of Wagah. While Indian-controlled Kashmir and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir are separated by a 435-mile de...