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How confident should the Joe Biden team be right now? Think about all of the factors that contributed to Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016. She was a figure who had been around a long time, among the best-known names in the party establishment. As a senator, she worked closely with her home state’s financial industry, leaving some liberal grassroots concluding she was a corporatist who was far too comfortable with big business. Critics asked how someone who had spent the past few decades in the public sector could so quickly become a multimillionaire, and contended that her family foundation had...

Hunting corn country several years ago with Mike Krei, then a field rep for the National Rifle Association, we were working a draw for pheasants when one exploded from cover. Using a 20-gauge over-and-under, Krei fired twice and missed, after which I swung my 12-gauge side-by-side Beretta into action. My first shot missed, but then the ring neck sailed straight away at maybe 20 to 25 yards away, and my final round – a high-base 2¾-incher No. 6 – launched out of my fixed full choke barrel and the bird folded in a cloud of feathers. Krei proved repeatedly that...

President Trump met with Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and the family of Neil Armstrong to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. First lady Melania Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine also joined the president in the Oval Office to honor the Apollo 11 legacy and discuss future NASA missions, which include working with private space companies, returning to the moon and eventually landing humans on Mars.[Video at link]

HUD Secretary Ben Carson weighed in on President Trump's feud with Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and his comments about the city of Baltimore. Carson said he agreed the city is in bad condition and suggested to President Trump today to work with Rep. Cummings to bring "some relief" to the city. "I don't think Elijah Cummings is a bad person," Carson said in an interview with FNC's Tucker Carlson. "I think he actually is working hard to try to help people. And I certainly don't think President Trump is a bad person. He's working very hard – in fact, I...

First Lady Melania Trump suited up as she welcomed members from the United States Special Olympics World Games team to the White House on Thursday. Mrs. Trump was chic and sophisticated in the Oval Office and in the East Room in a navy Michael Kors suit and white menswear-inspired shirt, paired with matching navy Manolo Blahnik leather stilettos.

A British teenager was remanded in custody in Cyprus on Tuesday after she was arrested last week on suspicion of falsely accusing 12 Israeli tourists of gang rape. The 19-year-old was indicted the Famagusta District Court in Paralimni in southeast Cyprus Tuesday, and now faces "public mischief". If found guilty, she could potentially face a maximum sentence of one year in prison and a fine of around 1,700 euros ($1,900). The young woman, who was not named..... Her lawyer, Andreas Pittadjis, said she is expected to enter a plea when she appears again on August 7. He asked the court...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) I demand to be a billionaire! um, will that work too, Rashida? – Michigan Bigot Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib told Fake, er, Jake Tapper yesterday that the economy is not growing because of the policies of President Donald Trump, but because…wait for it…THE PEOPLE DEMANDED IT. I swear I don’t make this stuff up. Here’s a link to the video: Tlaib Flounders While Trying to Explain Why Michigan Shouldn’t Reelect Trump Given Their Economy Recovery No, Rashida, that does not make sense. Not at all. Go away. Hooboy. Here we go again. –...

Did President Donald Trump launch his Twitter barrage at Elijah Cummings simply because the Baltimore congressman was black? Was it just a "racist" attack on a member of the Black Caucus? Or did Trump go after Cummings after a Saturday Fox News report that his district was in far worse condition than the Mexican border area for which Cummings had demagogically berated Border Patrol agents? Here are Trump's crucial tweets: "Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore...

Liberal pearls were clutched from coast to coast again the other day when President Donald Trump tweeted about the Baltimore Congressional district of Elijah Cummings. “Racism,” they cried, mostly because they cry that in response to any criticism who, to use another of their broken record responses, happens to be a “person of color.” Well, I lived in that district from 2001 till 2014, I watched people recoil when I told them. President Trump was too kind.To give the full context of the president’s tweets, since unless you follow him on Twitter you’ve likely only heard small portions of them,...

The day before accused pedophile and wealthy Manhattan financier Jeffrey Epstein was found injured in his jail cell, he was handed a lawsuit from a woman who says he raped her when she was just 15 years old, court documents obtained Monday showed. A New York Deputy Sheriff, Qin Zhang, last Monday personally handed Epstein documents accompanying Jennifer Araoz's lawsuit against the 66-year-old at the Metropolitan Correctional Center where he has been jailed after he was arrested and charged with sex trafficking and conspiracy. The day after Epstein received Araoz's lawsuit, he was found inside his cell, semi-conscious in a...

WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. - A bizarre incident at the Walmart in West Mifflin has police searching for a woman. They released surveillance camera pictures of the woman in the hope that someone can help identify her. She is accused of urinating on potatoes at Walmart. A Walmart representative said it was a store employee who saw what the woman was doing. "My first reaction is one, kind of horrified. I realize that some people have issues that might lead them to do things that might be considered unusual," said Beth Elliot who shops at the store.

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Every non-liberal leftist -- that is, nearly every Democrat running for president, New York Times and Washington Post columnist, CNN and MSNBC host, and your left-wing brother-in-law -- labels every Trump supporter and, of course, President Donald Trump, a "racist." And they don't stop there. Leftists don't only label the half of the country that supports the president "racist," they label all whites and America itself "racist." If your son or daughter attends or recently attended an American university, it is close to certain he or she was repeatedly told that America and all whites are racist. According to the...

Join with fellow FREEPERS to pray for PRESIDENT TRUMP and VICE PRESIDENT PENCE and for AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 1 JOHN 5:14 Religion Forum threads labeled [Prayer] are closed to debate of any kind. O Jehovah, be favorable toward us; we have waited for you. Be our strength of arm from morning to morning, our salvation in troubled times. . . My favour is near, My salvation is gone forth ~ And...

CNN’s president, a media titan at the helm of a global news organization intensely covering the 2020 presidential election, has a longstanding personal rule against supporting politicians. He’s broken it once ⁠— for Kamala Harris when she ran to become the first woman of color to hold the office of California attorney general a decade ago. “Kamala is not just important for the city of San Francisco, the state of California, but for the entire country,” Jeff Zucker, then president of NBC Universal, told guests at a breakfast at NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza office in August 2009, according to reporting by...

Before any of them takes the debate stage on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 2020 Democratic candidates will already have put in dozens of hours each preparing. But here’s what they need to understand: Nothing they do to prepare for the primary debates will feel remotely similar to when the nominee faces Donald Trump in a debate. My perspective on this is unique: I was assigned the role of playing Trump during Hillary Clinton’s general election debate prep in 2016. His stand-in. Her sparring partner. The ball machine. Over 17 years of working for her, I’ve argued with and annoyed Hillary...

Ever since President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to chide Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) about the state of Baltimore, which sits in the heart of his district, political pundits have debated just how bad the city truly is. CNN's Victor Blackwell got emotional when he heard Trump's comments about his hometown. A current Baltimore resident, however, confirmed one thing: the city really is rodent infested and Cummings has done nothing to help residents out over the last 20+ years he's been in office.Turning Point USA's Chief Content Creator, Benny Johnson, hit the streets of Baltimore to talk to residents about their...

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A columnist at Teen Vogue has been dumped from her position as a contributor at NPR over her ties to Antifa, the loosely-affiliated gang of thugs known for domestic terrorism. “I’ve been contributing to [NPR Music] since 2011, but was just told they don’t want me to contribute anymore because my ‘activist stance’ ‘conflicts’ with their journalistic ethics,” Kim Kelly said on Twitter. “My ‘activist stance’ can be boiled down to a very simple political worldview: ‘Up, up, up with the workers! Down, down, down with the Nazis!’ Seems pretty reasonable to me.”

Death, anguish and flickers of hope: 10 years of Boko Haram A decade later, one of the world's most dangerous armed groups is still wreaking havoc in the region it sprouted from. by Eromo Egbejule Despite the armed group losing much of its territory, analysts say the war against Boko Haram is far from over [EPA] Mobile money: Abuja central bank gives MTN Nigeria green light today Nigeria: Toll in suspected Boko Haram funeral attack rises to 65 today Nigeria bans Shia group after deadly clashes yesterday Boko Haram kills 23 mourners after Nigeria funeral 2 days ago Lagos, Nigeria...