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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s weekend appearance at a Seattle-area fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) drew protesters as well as socialist counter-protesters who praised the embattled congresswoman. Saturday's event in Bellevue, Wash., had especially tight security as demonstrators criticized the Minnesota Democrat over her numerous controversial comments, some of which were deemed anti-Semitic. But her appearance also attracted the support from a socialist political group. Liberation, the Newspaper of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, revealed Monday that members of the socialist Community & Labor Against Fascism (CLAF) carried signs reading “Solidarity with Ilhan Omar” or “We stand with...

Democrats are scrambling quickly. The Steele dossier was used to gain approval from a FISA judge to spy on then-candidate Trump’s political campaign. However, there was never any probable cause which is needed for a judge to sign a warrant meaning a federal law enforcement official lied. The magnitude of using federal law enforcement agencies to surveil a candidate or even an everyday citizen with no legal reason must result in an investigation into the investigators. The Mueller Report proves there was no collusion. The Democratic Party, along with a few others - John Brennan, James Comey, and James Clapper...

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex, called out Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, over a now-deleted tweet that suggested having a merit-based immigration system would disadvantage Latino migrants. Earlier this month, President Trump unveiled his plans for immigration reform, including the installation of a merit-based system that grants migrants entry into the United States based on their trade, skill level, and education. On Tuesday night, Omar slammed Trump's proposal in a tweet that has since been deleted from her Twitter page.

Automated Texas factory to produce wrenches and sockets at costs similar to work now done in China. Stanley Black & Decker Inc. plans to move production of Craftsman wrenches from China back to the U.S., the latest manufacturer looking to use automation to increase domestic output as tariffs raise the cost of imports from overseas. Stanley is investing $90 million to open a plant in Fort Worth, Texas, by late next year that will employ about 500 people to make 10 million Craftsman wrenches and ratchets and 50 million sockets annually. Robots and fast-forging presses will help boost output about...

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point," observed writer and theologian C.S. Lewis. Hayley Tschetter, a student at a small Christian university, University of Northwestern, St Paul, knows what this means. She stands alone today with her convictions against a university establishment trying to shut her down. Tschetter felt there should be a voice on campus taking on the great issues in today's culture war, so she started a campus chapter of Young Americas Foundation (YAF), which the university approved. Her first invitee to inaugurate the new program was...

"I don't feel safe," says a Harvard student in a video. What threatens her? The dean of her Harvard dormitory, law professor Ronald Sullivan, agreed to be part of accused sexual harasser Harvey Weinstein's legal defense team. Sullivan and his wife were deans of the dormitory for years, but no matter. Now the professor is apparently an evil threat. A group calling itself "Our Harvard Can Do Better" demanded Sullivan be removed from his dean job. Sullivan is black, but black activists joined the protest, too. On the videotape, one says, "Dean Sullivan told me to my face that I...

Just a short while ago, as CNN insisted that an apple was an apple and not a banana no matter who screamed that it was a banana, and the Jeff Bezos Post began warning America that “democracy dies in darkness,” Democrats and their media allies were all about sunshine in matters involving President Donald Trump. But now, not so much. What happened to curiosity, anyway? Curiosity and the pursuit of sunlight were once virtues, whether over presidents waging war by using misleading intelligence estimates of weapons of mass destruction or spymasters engaged in surveillance of the cellphones of Americans in...

If you are not a member of the Democrats' protected class of bitter loudmouths who hate America, you can be investigated and prosecuted for marriage fraud. The headlines have been filled with recent crackdowns. In Texas last week, 96 people were indicted on federal charges of conspiring to defraud our immigration system by arranging phony unions between American citizens and sham spouses in Vietnam. In Bridgeport, Connecticut, three men pleaded guilty to participating in fraudulent marriages with noncitizens and sponsoring them for green cards under false pretenses. At Fort Bragg in North Carolina last month, two soldiers and two African...

"One of the more unusual aspects of the Baoshang drama is that it's been reported — not only that, but high-level authorities have publicly expressed concern that there may be bank runs and financial institutions that 'disappear,'" J Capital Research, a China-focused investment firm, wrote in a note to clients... the balance sheets of Chinese banks are not to be trusted.

The favorite leftist tool for the attack on our nation's founding is that slavery was sanctioned. They argue that the founders disregarded the promises of our Declaration of Independence "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." These very ignorant people, both in and out of academia, want us to believe that slavery is unusual, as historian Kenneth Stampp suggested in his book, "Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South." But slavery is by no means peculiar, odd, unusual or...

The US State Department stepping up criticism of Syria's government and its military offensive the northwest against Al-Qaeda jihadists and other elements.... Next to Syria in Iraq, Turkey says its forces killed six more members of the Kurdish PKK..... Next to Iraq is Iran. US National Security Adviser John Bolton points the finger of blame for damage to oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on Iran with his latest comments...... The political fight in Israel underway ahead of Wednesday night's deadline to form a new government..... Kosovo, a majority Muslim nation whose independence is recognized by half the world's'...

Citizen Free Press readers already know this story, but legend John Ward spices it up in his unique way. (snip) - Hunter Biden – despite the MSM’s best efforts – has led something of a charmed life in the headlines, particularly from 2013 to 2016. He enlisted in the Navy Reserves in 2013 only to be kicked out of the Navy Reserves in 2013 after testing positive for cocaine. Somewhere between 2015-16 he started cheating on his wife Kathleen Biden with Hallie Biden, the one-year-fresh widow of his own brother, Beau Biden; returned a rental car to a Prescott, Arizona...

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on court appearances by embattled attorney Michael Avenatti (all times local): 4:20 p.m. Attorney Michael Avenatti has emerged from a New York courthouse to say he's facing the fight of his life "against the ultimate goliath, the Trump administration." **SNIP** Earlier in the day, he pleaded not guilty through his lawyer in a case accusing him of cheating porn star Stormy Daniels out of about $300,000 from a book deal. Then, he announced four separate times that he was "100% not guilty" when a judge asked him to answer each charge in a case...

House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings is fighting back against allegations that his wife’s nonprofit organization violated its tax-exempt status and posed a potential conflict-of-interest with the work of his congressional panel. Cummings, D-Md., blasted a complaint to the Internal Revenue Service against his wife, Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, who sits as chair of the Maryland Democratic Party and runs a nonprofit group and a for-profit consulting firm, as “baseless,” and partisan. “These baseless claims come from a group funded by right-wing mega-donors known for their political hit jobs,” Cummings said in a statement to Fox News. “I am confident that...

ALBANY — AOC will be waiting tables once again. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is returning to her restaurant roots this week to show support for the federal Raise the Wage Act and abolishing below-minimum wage for tipped workers in the Empire State. The Bronx-born freshman congresswoman plans to pour a few pints and take a few orders at a restaurant in her district on Friday at an event organized by Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United, the Daily News has learned. The exact location will be revealed later in the week.

Shenzhen (CNN Business)Huawei is pressing on with its lawsuit against the United States, challenging the constitutionality of a US law banning federal agencies from buying its products. The embattled Chinese tech firm said Wednesday that it wants Washington to "halt illegal action" against it, calling US restrictions on Huawei an attempt to put it out of business. American politicians are "using the strength of an entire nation to come after a private company," Song Liuping, Huawei's chief legal officer, said in a press conference in Shenzhen. Huawei has filed a motion for summary judgment, asking the court to overturn part...

A group of three Obama-appointed federal judges struck down Trump's border wall and allowed Congress to subpoena Trump in bold rulings. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr., Edgardo Ramos and Amit Mehta challenged President Donald Trump's administration with rulings over the last week. According to The Associated Press, Gilliam Jr. ruled against the construction of parts of Trump's border wall. The decision will prevent the Trump administration from diverting funds allocated to a national emergency. On May 20, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Trump must comply with a Congressional subpoena that will ask for financial records since 2011. And...

The speaker claims "the idea that there is an inevitability of a no-deal Brexit would be a quite wrong suggestion". ... Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, Mr Bercow said: "The appetite of the House to have its say has recently been whetted and that appetite is not exhausted. "Indeed, some would say, it's veracious. "The House will want to have its say and the idea that the House won't have its say is just for the birds.

New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson hit back at actress Alyssa Milano for saying anti-abortion laws would affect "women of color" the most. Watson, a father of seven and the author of “The New Dad’s Playbook,” appeared on “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday and commented on Milano’s abortion remarks. “This is the same type of narrative or lie that’s been told over and over again and whether she meant to do it or not, so many people fall into this and it’s really a combination of ignorance or racism,” Watson said. “And when I say racism what I’m saying...