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Anyone who watched more than a few minutes of Wednesday’s painful hearings with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller discovered a sad truth the Democrats and many in the media continue to hide: Mueller neither wrote his report nor did he master the content of it. Repeatedly during the day, the former FBI director stumbled over what we had been told were his findings. He slowly leafed through a binder, searching for passages that lawmakers were quoting to him, only to say “okay” or “true” when he finally found them. In the morning’s hearing at the House Judiciary committee, Rep. Doug...

Whether Chablis, Sancerre, or Pomerol, French wine is better than American wine. But President Trump is right to threaten tariffs over a French tax on U.S. technology companies. Trump explained his position on Twitter.Don't get me wrong, I support free trade. But free trade must flow both ways. In turn, the U.S. cannot sit idle when other nations take unfair advantage of American companies. And tariffs offer a rough but effective tool to force reconsideration of unfair actions. Such is the case with France's technology tax.

RUSH: Now, Jerry Nadler has conducted a press conference where he said, “We can’t go any further now unless we see the grand jury materials from the Mueller investigation.” That’s a violation of the law. He’s asking for the law to be broken. BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: You know, I use metaphors, and I use real-life examples to illustrate in my ongoing efforts (which are largely successful) to persuade. Yesterday, I described the Democrats as being confounded by something they can’t change, and that is reality. The Democrats have become delusional. They’ve become so poisoned with delusion and hate — and...

Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong broke into Broadway song on Friday, filling the special administrative region's airport with musical protest. The peaceful, highly-organized demonstrators serenaded travelers with "Do You Hear the People Sing?" one of the most recognizable and beloved hits from the musical "Les Misérables." The catchy tune has become a universal anthem of protesters, "Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men?" Greeting travelers at the arrival hall at Hong Kong International Airport was "the most direct way" for protesters to tell visitors about their struggle to maintain freedom for Hong Kong residents. "The...

Pennsylvania Game CommissionLike Page 1 hr · 🚨Operation Game Thief Alert: Erie County We Need Your Help - A dead bald eagle was found last night, July 25, near Hope Cemetery, Elk Creek Township, Erie County. This is the intersection of State Route 18 and Sherman Road, near Cranesville. State Game Warden Stutts responded to the incident and his investigation revealed the mature bald eagle was shot. If you have any information, please call the Game Commission's Northwest Region Office at 814-432-3187 or the Operation Game Thief Hotline at 1-888-PGC-8001. Thanks in advance for any information provided

The New York Rangers’ free-agent signing of the summer, Artemi Panarin, gave an interview where he did something unprecedented for a Russian athlete of his caliber: criticize President Vladimir Putin. “I think he no longer understands what’s right and what’s wrong. Psychologically, it’s not easy for him to judge the situation soberly. He has a lot of people who influence his decisions. But if everyone is walking around you for 20 years telling you what a great guy you are and how great a job you are doing, you will never see your mistakes.” Panarin admits that he used to...

Have you taken a bite out of Beyond Meat (BYND) ? The company is set to announce earnings on Monday, July 29. However, after the company reported a partnership with Dunkin' Brands to roll out a meatless sausage, egg and cheese sandwich earlier this week, the stock has been soaring. In fact, last night, market analyst Charlie Bilello noted that Beyond's market cap was larger than quite a few other companies. With a market cap of $13.3 billion, Beyond Meat is now worth more than the market value of Shake Shack, Wendy's, Jack in the Box, Red Robin, Habit Burger,...

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) announced Friday that his committee is filing an application in court to obtain the grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference and possible obstruction of justice by President Trump. Nadler said that the panel is seeking the material in order to decide whether to recommend articles of impeachment against Trump — perhaps the Democratic chairman’s most significant and public acknowledgement that his committee is considering impeachment as a possibility. "Because Department of Justice policies will not allow prosecution of the sitting president, the United States House of...

One evening in the spring of 2016, Marjorie Moon slipped off her scrubs and washed the emergency room out of her long blond hair. She stepped into a dress and high heels, transforming herself from a tired trauma nurse into a hot date. The 47-year-old divorcée from Los Angeles was inundated with offers from men on matchmaking websites, who often compared her to the Friends actress, Lisa Kudrow. For Moon, dating involved racing home from 12-hour shifts while wrangling babysitters. “I’d been under a lot of stress,” she explained. “Just single mom stuff and whatnot. I have five kids.” Scheduling...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell says he is not going to run against Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. The entrepreneur told the hosts on Fox and Friends on Friday that while he “would love to run” against the congresswoman, he can’t give up his current platform.

Shortened title. Full title: BREAKING: Video Shows “Victim” of “Hate Crime” Erica Thomas Screaming and Chasing Alleged Harasser — Witness says She Was the One to Scream “Go Back to Where You Came From!” As reported on Saturday — State Rep. Erica Thomas told supporters a white man told her to “go back to where you came from.” Thomas is an African-American Democrat state lawmaker. She was at a Publix grocery store and was checking out at the express lane with too many items when the man confronted her.

A 14-year-old girl in a black veil walked onto the road, raised her hands and made a plea to the soldiers nearby. She had been strapped to a suicide bomb and didn’t want to die. It was explosives specialist Randy Iljeseni’s turn to defuse the girl, one in an army of child bombers deployed across northeast Nigeria by jihadist group Boko Haram. He grabbed a pair of fabric scissors, mouthed a brief prayer and slowed his breathing. He began to slice into her bomb-strapped belt. Some of his closest friends had died this way. ...In a gruesome turn, they are...

If you own bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, you might want to check your mailbox. The Internal Revenue Service is in the process of sending letters to U.S. citizens who own virtual currency and potentially failed to pay the necessary taxes and to those who improperly reported taxes on digital assets last year, the agency announced Friday. “Taxpayers should take these letters very seriously by reviewing their tax filings and when appropriate, amend past returns and pay back taxes, interest and penalties,” IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig said in a news release. “The IRS is expanding our efforts involving virtual currency, including...

French police have pepper sprayed at close range climate activists blocking roads in the capital Paris, before removing them by force. The protesters, many of them students, were trying to draw government and media attention to climate change. They complained that the police response was excessive considering that the protest was peaceful. The protest happened as France baked in a heatwave, with temperatures in Paris around 33C (91F).

It’s not great news for the White House, but it could have been a lot worse. The US economy’s growth slowed to 2.1% in the second quarter, down a full point from Q1. However, with economists predicting a recession right around the corner, the growth is still substantial enough to look positive: Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter of 2019 (table 1), according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In the first quarter, real GDP increased 3.1 percent.The Bureau’s second-quarter advance estimate released...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested an undocumented immigrant the moment he stepped out of a mediation meeting in Austin on Wednesday. The meeting was a court-mandated order over a custody battle with his ex-wife over their three-year-old daughter. His family law attorney is critical of the arrest, calling it cruel and unfair. According to ICE, officers will generally avoid enforcing arrests at places like courthouses and family court proceedings. However, it is completely legal. According to Daniella Lyttle, the family law attorney representing Javier Alexander Valencia, ICE agents were waiting in the parking lot of the law office...

Rep. Martha Roby (R-Ala.) is slated to retire at the end of her term, according to a Fox News report. Roby was first elected in 2010 to serve Alabama’s 2nd congressional district, a traditionally Republican stronghold.

The Carrizo Springs detention center in Texas that was opened in response to the squalid conditions in which children were being detained by the Border Patrol is closing as early as this week after less than a month being open. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) opened the facility in late June... But by the time HHS opened Carrizo Springs, the huge numbers of children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border had fallen as they typically do during the summer months because of high temperatures. HHS is also processing children more quickly after rolling back guidelines on fingerprinting and...

Islamomoonbat congresscritter Ilhan Omar has the perfect response for those who ask her to condemn practices associated with Islam like terrorism and female genital mutilation. She shouts that she is “appalled” and “disgusted” by the question. That way, she doesn’t have to give a straight answer. Also, she gets to bully the person asking it, which in this case was a fellow female Muslim: Omar was reportedly taking questions [at] an event for the Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy event when Muslim audience member Ani Osman-Zonneveld of Muslims for Progressive Values asked Omar to condemn FGM. After the punishing, long-winded...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews congratulated House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) for doing a "really good job" at Wednesday's hearing with former special counsel Robert Mueller. "I just want to congratulate you, sir, because I thought you—especially as chairman and all the members of your committee, I thought, the Democratic members did a really good job," Matthews said on Thursday's edition of 'Hardball' on MSNBC. "Whatever slowness there was on the part of the witness was just, you know, life," Matthews said. "I think you really did a good job in those questions you put to him, and if...