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The Trump–Russia collusion narrative is officially dead, now that special counsel Robert Mueller has concluded there is no evidence of collusion. With the cloud of the Mueller probe lifted, President Donald Trump can now go on the offensive with an attorney general who appears ready to drop the hammer on corruption in Washington. Moreover, Attorney General William Barr doesn’t appear to be intimidated by Democratic lawmakers who have already threatened him with impeachment and even incarceration.

As promised, goods from China will cost Americans a lot more money starting today — and selling goods in China even tougher. A last-ditch effort to avoid the imposition of tariffs failed late yesterday, resulting in a broadened trade war between two of the top global economies. At least at the moment, there don’t seem to be too many off-ramps from this conflict: The United States and China hurtled toward a defining moment in their four-decade-old relationship, with financial markets bracing for the outcome of unusually dramatic trade talks in Washington.Negotiators met into the evening on Thursday but failed...

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The Trump administration has repeatedly assured Americans that it will not use data from a proposed citizenship question on the 2020 Census to target undocumented immigrants. But more than a quarter of Americans don’t believe it, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll. That skepticism could have serious implications for the accuracy of the decennial count, according to demographers, activists, local governments and corporations who say it will prompt millions of residents to skip the survey out of fear their participation will result in deportation. An undercount on the Census could pose lasting problems for communities with high immigrant populations because the...

Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) wouldn’t speak about the subpoena itself, but defended the character of Burr in leading the Intelligence Committee. “I support his leadership and think that he has done a good job,” she said, the Washington Post reported. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), another member of the committee, also defended Burr’s leadership, and questioned whether some of his colleagues understood that their work was different from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation that concluded earlier this year. “Mueller is a criminal justice investigation. Ours is an intelligence investigation about the Russia threat and about the way our agencies performed,” Rubio...

Imagine a day when newspapers only publish articles regarding the benefits of late-term abortions, socialism, and open borders. Where history books vilify Republican conservatives for fighting to defend slavery, inciting segregation, and founding the KKK. Cable news shows would only report crimes committed by conservatives or capitalists and social media only allowed leftist ideas to be communicated over their platforms. Well, if the left continues its scorched-earth policy against free speech, in no time at all the United States will have no resemblance to what the Founding Fathers envisioned. So many examples exist that fully detail the poverty, violence, and...

For months, Republicans have spent a tremendous amount of energy railing against the Green New Deal, the pitch from progressives to drastically reduce the nation's contributions to global warming while checking off a list of liberal aspirations, such as improving health-care access. If the goal of the anti-Green New Deal campaign was to sour the plan in the minds of Republican voters, it appears to be working. New polling from Yale and George Mason universities suggests that support for that climate plan from prominent freshman congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dropped steeply among Republicans over the past four months since she and...

A new report reveals that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents apprehended over 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in April. According to The Washington Post, CBP detained 109,144 migrants at America’s southern border last month, the highest number of apprehensions in 12 years and a 6 percent increase from March. The number of border-crossers taken into U.S. custody topped 100,000 for the second consecutive month in April, U.S. border officials said Wednesday, deepening the crisis that has derailed President Trump’s immigration agenda and has defied his myriad attempts to fix it.

Beto O'Rourke, the former congressman and failed Senate candidate who decided to abandon a promising career as a blogger to run for president, might be regretting that decision. Not only is he struggling to "organize a viable campaign," according to THE POLITICO, O'Rourke is also struggling to impress 8th graders with his stump speech. It's been a rough couple of months since Beto announced his campaign, and was lauded as a formidable candidate to win the nomination. He's been overtaken in the polls by South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, whose appeal is similar to O'Rourke's, but has the added benefit,...

Below, from a CNN article titled "Who is James Comey: 7 things to know about the fired FBI director" By Gregory Krieg, CNN May 9, 2017 [#4] He’d [Comey] investigated the Clintons previouslyIn fact, the email server probe marked the third time Comey has investigated Bill or Hillary Clinton. Their first run-in came in the mid-1990s, when Comey joined the Senate Whitewater Committee as a deputy special counsel.There he dug into allegations that the Clintons took part in a fraud connected to a Arkansas real estate venture gone bust.No charges were ever brought against either Clinton. ...”In 2002, Comey, then...

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Theodore Roosevelt. Click image (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle.Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was an enigmatic, colorful president who spanned the spectrum from strict Constitutionalist to oppressive socialism via "The Progressive Party."All hints, along with the answer, are provided in the first reply comment below, using filtered font to prevent accidential spoilers. Please refrain from disclosing the full answer in comments to prevent spoilers.To solve the puzzle: Enter the letters in the top half (letter columns) of the puzzle into the white squares on...

The “evidence” used by the FBI to secure FISA warrants on Trump adviser Carter Page was known to be suspiciously inaccurate 10 days before procuring the warrants, but the FBI used them anyway. In fact, the FBI swore before the FISA judge that the information had been corroborated when it clearly had not. Information had been given to the FBI demonstrating the motivations behind the Steele Dossier were clearly political and prompted by the Clinton campaign. They knew this going in, but without actual evidence to back their FISA request, they ran with the false story in hopes it would...

Forecasting the Results of the European Union Elections and the Future of the EU & Robert Mueller vs. “Il Gobbetto” Giulio Andreotti GUEST SPEAKER: Wallace Bruschweiler - Sunday, May 19, 2019! Doors: 6:00pm The Metropolitan Republican Club 122 East 83rd Street : New York, NY 10028 Members: $15 Non-Members: $25 Join us as Wallace Bruschweiler, an expert in Counterterrorism and Intelligence, returns to the Met Club! He will be here to discuss current World Events. In what promises to be an informative, wide-ranging discussion on: The European Parliament elections will be held on May 23, offering a chance for a...

One of the greatest mysteries of our time is how people who claim to be the intellectual elite seem to value diversity of skin color over diversity of thought. An acquaintance of mine in New York just had to give up his career plans there and start studying for a different career in another state because he came to the conclusion that a white male with the best of academic credentials and life experiences would not be able to find or hold a job in a field dominated by women, nonwhites, and transgenders of all variations in a "liberal" bastion....

Should catching the measles, or mumps, or chicken pox, or tuberculosis be part of a federal employee's job description? You know, take the TB the way the military at war with an enemy takes the bullet? Except, of course, that the military can defend itself. Border Patrol agents cannot. It is now. InfoWars, via Drudge Report, has some news on just this appalling state of affairs: More agents than ever before are calling in sick to work or showing up sick, says a Border Patrol representative who worries too many agents are succumbing to illnesses brought by illegal aliens.   Carlos...

Senator Rand Paul: Senate Intel Committee’s Subpoena of Donald Trump Jr. is “Persecution of President’s Family” and a Mistake for Republicans (VIDEO) Jim Hoft by Jim Hoft May 10, 2019 41 Comments Share22TweetEmail Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) ripped fellow Republican senators for their continued harassment of the Trump family. On Wednesday dummy Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. to retestify before the Senate Intelligence Committee in an attempt to continue to harass the president’s family. Several RINO Republicans support Burr and his latest attempt to harass Donald Trump Jr. Rand Paul weighed in, “I think it’s a very...

“No one will help us.” This refrain is echoed in story after story of parents whose child has suddenly announced that they are transgender. The parent of a teen with Asperger’s grieves that she cannot find “a professional that would consider her diagnosis of ASD” as possibly contributing to her gender dysphoria. When her daughter declared herself to be a boy, an anonymous parent writing at The Federalist looked for a “therapist who could help her sort out what her gender dysphoria meant.” What was going on in her daughter’s life that might be making her feel disassociated from...

<p>Rebekah Katherine Brewis was indicted Tuesday by a grand jury in Multnomah County on three counts of first degree aggravated theft from the Women’s March on Portland and two counts of felony computer crime.</p> <p>Each of the three theft counts is for money “of the total value of $10,000 or more, the property of Women’s March on Portland,” according to court documents.</p>

May 9 is one of several possible dates given for the death of the last Western Roman emperor, Julius Nepos, in the year AD 480. “Wait,” you say. “I thought the last Western Emperor was Romulus Augustulus who was deposed by Odoacer the Scirian in AD 476.” Well, about that... Julius Nepos was named Western Emperor by the ailing Eastern Roman emperor Leo in AD 473. Leo did this because he opposed the puppet emperor Glycerius who had been raised by the Burgundian general Gundobad. According to the Chronicle of John of Antioch, this Gundobad had personally beheaded the Western...

A major super PAC aligned with POTUS Donald Trump has identified six key states the president will need in order to secure his reelection next year. According to America First Action, those states are Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania and Michigan, The Daily Caller reported. No doubt whatever crazy the Democrats nominate, that candidate will win the deep blue enclaves of California and New York, and may even be able to pull off a majority of votes again (though that is looking less and less likely).