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A Lebanese-American businessman and key “witness” in the special counsel’s investigation of Russian election interference was arrested and charged Monday with transporting a dozen images of child pornography and bestiality. George Nader, 60, was arrested Monday morning at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, according to federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia. Nader was involved in several key meetings at the center of the special counsel’s Trump/Russia investigation and his name shows up more than 100 times in the Mueller report. Throughout the investigation, Nader was represented by Kathryn Ruemmler, Obama’s long-term White House Counsel/fixer. The...

The Virginia Beach shooting is barely a blip on the media’s radar just three days after the deadliest mass shooting of 2019. It has effectively disappeared from the top of the news cycle. Even the staunchest gun control activists have changed the subject. Why? One America News host Liz Wheeler discussed the issue last night on Tipping Point. BlazeTV’s Jon Miller said this was a black man using legally obtained pistols rather than the “scary” guns the left is supposedly targeting. What sort of gun control measure short of taking away all basic firearms could they initiate? “This shooting didn’t...

PRESIDENT TRUMP: ...This week, we commemorate a mighty endeavor of righteous nations and one of the greatest undertakings in all of history. Seventy-five years ago, more than 150,000 Allied troops were preparing on this island to parachute into France, storm the beaches of Normandy, and win back our civilization. As Her Majesty remembers, the British people had hoped and prayed and fought for this day for nearly five years. ...On D-Day, the Queen’s beloved father King George the Sixth delivered a stirring national address. That day, he said, “After nearly five years of toil and suffering, we must renew that...

Two write-in candidates won nominations for seats on the Southmoreland School Board, ousting one incumbent and putting the current board president’s position in jeopardy this fall. Westmoreland County elections officials Monday approved a precertification of the results of the May 21 primary. Barring any court challenges, those vote totals will become official June 10. The totals included more than 4,400 write-in votes cast in the Southmoreland School Board race. Four incumbents were among the five candidates on the ballot seeking five board seats. According to the official results, about 58% of all votes cast in the Southmoreland School Board race...

Marie Josephine Hull (January 3, 1877 – March 12, 1957) was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. Josephine Hull, scene from "Harvey" (1950)

Charlie Daniels =============================================================== Robert Mueller’s summation of his investigation of President Trump has – at least in my opinion – actually created more questions than it has answered. His admission of not being able to prove or disprove obstruction of justice either speaks to gross incompetence or nothing to be found, and his willingness to make the strange statement, “If we had been able to prove the president innocent of obstruction, we would have said so,” has cast a shadow of total uncertainty over his entire two-year fiasco. If Trump is guilty, I want him held accountable, but if he...

RUSH: I’ve also had a lot of people email me today with the news about CNN’s continuing ratings loss. Now, I’ve talked about it before. Normally, I don’t get into this in depth. It’s inside baseball. It’s media stuff. The audience doesn’t care about ratings. They watch what they watch, they listen to what they listen to, and the only time they care about ratings is if something they watch is gonna be canceled; then they find out its ratings are low and they try to do something to change it. But it’s not something that overly people are running...

Miffed that his operation to thwart Trump's election and undermine his presidency has come unraveled, former President Obama tried to sway Brazil's voters to oppose President Jair Bolsonaro's loosening of gun controls by falsely stating that "in the United States anyone can buy firearms, including machine guns, at any time—even over the Internet—without having to get government approval beforehand. Don't let your president lead you down this same dangerous path." Early indications that Bolsonaro's January directive seems to have reduced crimes committed with guns contradicts Obama's premise that keeping guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens would improve public...

A man who was out on parole was arrested after fatally shooting four men and wounding a woman in an hour-long downtown rampage Tuesday in the northern Australian city of Darwin, police said. Witnesses described the shooter using a pump action shotgun to fire multiple blasts at the Palms Hotel and Buffalo Club. A victim was killed at each. Kershaw confirmed that the suspect was armed with a shotgun, but could not confirm what type.

Don't let HBO's acclaimed five-part series Chernobyl (HBO, IMDb, Wikipedia) demonize all nuclear power in your mind. It made this kid eager to read Mac MacDowell's important June 3 article here at American Thinker. In "Rare Earth Minerals and Thorium," MacDowell explains a different type of nuclear reactor that would do more than just help us produce clean energy. "Global warmists" would do well to read it. If that article floats your boat, then you might also listen to the podcast of John Miller, a trader. In "Wind 'Farms' = Inefficient Power Plants," Mr. Miller reports on a "wind farm,"...

Thus far, four Democratic 2020 candidates have done town halls on Fox News. (Gillibrand, Klobuchar, Sanders, and Buttigieg.) Now a fifth contender has approached the network looking to get a slice of that high-ratings goodness, and it’s none other than New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. Of course, people were quick to point out that it might be a bit awkward for Hizzoner to go to Fox with his hat in his hand after some of the things he’s said about the network in the past. And we’re not even talking the distant past. (Free Beacon) New York City...

DETROIT (FOX 2) - One of three women charged in the death of a Detroit teen after a social media fight escalated to murder was sentenced to prison Monday. Teriana Hicks, 20, was sentenced to 2 to 15 years in prison in connection with the murder of 19-year-old Destiny Parks of Detroit. She was originally charged with second-degree murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Police say Parks, Hicks, and two other women, 20-year-old Charlie Desharon-Marlene Wooten and 19-year-old Destiny Grace Easterling, were engaged in an ongoing argument on social media. This led to Hicks, Wooten and Easterling driving over to...

Larry the Downing Street cat stole the spotlight once again today by taking shelter under Donald Trump's armoured limousine. Number 10's chief mouser, who has so far outlasted two prime ministers, ran under the £1.2million car during the U.S. President's talks with Theresa May. The beloved moggy, who moved into the residence in 2011 after being 'recruited' from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, even tried to climb inside the bomb-proof vehicle dubbed 'the Beast'. Larry's antics meant the car could not be moved - with some joking that it was a 'huge security issue'.

Pete Buttigieg called President Trump "really mean" in response to a question from a child at a campaign event in California. The South Bend, Ind., mayor was speaking Sunday at a fundraising event in Palo Alto when he was asked by a young girl how he would beat Trump in the 2020 election. "The most important thing is we can’t play his game. Ya know how he’s really mean? He likes to call people names," he responded.

All three networks spent their morning shows again hyping protests in London over President Trump’s visit with departing Prime Minister Theresa May and the royal family. ABC’s foreign correspondent Ian Pannell was clearly excited by the protesters, inflating their numbers while speaking on their behalf as if he were a protester himself, even admitting the only reason he was there was to cover the protesters: [B]ut the reason we're here today is for the people out here, thousands, tens of thousands possibly even hundreds of thousands are expected to gather here today. They're not against America. They are against the...

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (FOX 35 ORLANDO)-A Florida man was arrested after fleeing a traffic stop and then calling 911 to brag about not being caught yet.(snip) Deputies said that 19-year-old Nicholas Carlmann Jones was pulled over in St. Augustine after he fled from a traffic stop. Nicholas was also wanted for a warrant out of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office. When he was pulled over, the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office said that they found a jar full of marijuana, THC wax, a small bag containing an unknown white powder, and a dish containing a pink tinted crystal substance....

ST. LOUIS — Police arrested Alderman Megan Ellyia Green and several board members of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region on Thursday after a downtown protest over Missouri's new abortion law — and the state's attempt to close Missouri's only remaining abortion clinic. Green and others sat down in the lobby of the Wainwright State Office Building after a protest in a park between the Gateway Arch and the historic Old Courthouse. By the time the bulk of the protesters had marched from the park, Green and the others were seated in the lobby of the Wainwright building and...

Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence agent who authored the hoax dossier alleging dubious ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, will meet with U.S. officials to discuss his relationship with the FBI, according to a report. The Times of London, citing a source close to Steele, reports the ex-spy will sit down with officials in London “within weeks.” The report comes days after Reuters broke the news that Steele refused to face questions from Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney John Durham, who was recently appointed by Attorney General William Barr to examine the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference...

Are you a propagandist? If you write nonfiction intended to persuade, yes, by a broad definition, you almost certainly are. Here are fifty terms for, and definitions of, forms of propaganda, at least one of which such writers will likely employ in a given piece of content. Propaganda (the word is from a New Latin term meaning “propagating,” synonymous in this connotation with publicizing) has been defined as “communication intended to shape perceptions, manipulate cognition, and direct behavior.” That’s a broad definition — a narrower one would limit propaganda to willful, prejudicial manipulation of information — but it helps writers...

Former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, best known for authoring the infamous anti-Trump dossier, has reached a deal with American officials to answer questions about his work for the FBI, according to The Times of London. The Times, citing a source close to Steele, reported that the former spy will meet American officials in London in the coming weeks. An anonymous senior government source told the Times that there was no request to interview Steele. Whether to testify or not would be Steele’s decision since he is no longer in government service, the source added. Steele paid second- and third-hand...