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The long knives are coming out for the highly respected Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), President Trump's pick to replace outgoing Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, as Dems signal that they will fight his nomination.Trump announced on Sunday that he had chosen Ratcliffe as his nominee for DNI. I am pleased to announce that highly respected Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas will be nominated by me to be the Director of National Intelligence. A former U.S. Attorney, John will lead and inspire greatness for the Country he loves. Dan Coats, the current Director, will.... — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July...

The Trump-aligned conservative mind surveys the cultural and political landscape and thinks: We’ve got this. Mueller, at the hearings, like some disinterred mortician, victim of his own faded glory, age, and the ignominious designs of Hillary-aligned mortuary scientists.The reprehensible “squad,” embodiments of the subversive enemies from within our Founding Fathers warned about.The ugliness of an individual like Elijah Cummings, turning with subpoenas after the crash and burn of the Mueller/Weissmann Report to family emails, harassing the women and children after failing to take down the man. Al Green, the deranged impeach-o-phile.Speaker Pelosi and a Democrat Party that has lost a...

On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and 20 other senators sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin asking him to change the way the federal government levies taxes on capital gains, indexing the tax to inflation. This change would be more just and it would unleash investment by incentivizing more Americans to buy stock in companies. In fact, this small tax adjustment is estimated to create an additional 21,800 full-time equivalent jobs.'The United States economy has experienced historic levels of growth as a result of Congress and the current Administration’s policies such as the Tax Cuts and Jobs...

Wow! Morning Joe & Psycho ratings have really crashed. Very small audience. People are tired of hearing Fake News delivered with an anger that is not to be believed. Sad, when the show was sane, they helped get me elected. Thanks! Was on all the time. Lost all of its juice!

In a letter sent by Netflix to leaders of a Straight Pride event, the internet giant said, “You should know that we’re unafraid of bullies. Our legal department is here, it’s queer, and it’s telling you to steer clear.”Netflix, we hear you loud and clear! You are here and you are queer.Apparently, the organizers of a Straight Pride parade in Boston had listed Netflix as a potential sponsor, even using the Netflix logo, something the clearly pro-LGBT company did not take lightly.As reported by PinkNews, “Netflix sent a cease-and-desist order to Super Happy Fun America, the group organising the [Straight...

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Two of the most senior intelligence officials in the US and UK privately shared concerns about “our strange situation” as the FBI launched its 2016 investigation into whether Donald Trump’s campaign was colluding with Russia, the Guardian has learned. Text messages between Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI at the time, and Jeremy Fleming, his then counterpart at MI5, now the head of GCHQ, also reveal their mutual surprise at the result of the EU referendum, which some US officials regarded as a “wake-up call”, according to a person familiar with the matter. While Russia had previously been...

The Washington Post, which has done everything in its dwindling power with articles, editorials and columns denouncing, demeaning and attempting to destroy President Trump, appears to have temporarily -- but only temporarily -- raised the white flag. A headline following former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's appearance before two House committees said: "Democrats struggle to figure next move against Trump after Mueller Hearing falls flat." Democrats' hatred is so deep for the president, who refuses to submit to their demands -- the usual scenario for Republican presidents -- that they feel compelled to continue their attacks, if for no other reason...

 Tristan Justice Montana Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) introduced legislation Monday condemning socialism as the 2020 Democratic presidential field pulls the Democratic Party further to the left in the midst of the campaign season. “A radical, socialist, far-left movement is growing across this country. And it has taken root as the new voice of the Democratic Party,” Daines said on the Senate floor Monday, taking aim at Democrats’ Green New Deal and “Medicare-for-All” proposals pushed by candidates on the presidential campaign trail. The proposed resolution would make it the official position of the U.S. Senate that Marxism and socialism are...

Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon Lee, says it was “disheartening” to see Quentin Tarantino depict her father in “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” as “an arrogant a–hole who was full of hot air.” In the film, (spoilers follow), Brad Pitt’s stuntman character, Cliff Booth, trades cocky insults with Bruce Lee (Mike Moh), and the two agree to an informal, best two-out-of-three rounds fight on the set of “The Green Hornet” TV show. Lee easily knocks Booth down in the first round, but in the second, Booth slams Lee into a car, stunning him. The fight is interrupted before the third...

To treat the next rounds of Dem debates with the seriousness they deserve, here's a fresh take on an oldie. The song is rooted in several radical tempo changes, so if you haven't heard it in a while, you can open a new tab in the article and sing along! Dems on the Run (to the tune of Band on the Run. Sorry, Paul) Listen to these morons Everything is racist Only seeing skin tone Once again, it’s hue

When Democrat Beto O’Rourke takes the stage in the second round of presidential primary debates on Tuesday, three young black men from Michigan who were inspired by ex-NFL player Colin Kaepernick to kneel during the national anthem before their high school football games will be in the audience as guests of the former Texas congressman. O’Rourke reached out to ex-Lansing Catholic High School football players Michael Lynn III, Matthew Abdullah and RoJe Williams and spoke with them by phone last week. Teammate Kabbash Richards is away at college and unable to attend the debate.

[Catholic Caucus] U.S. bishop praises cardinal’s statement on impossibility of women’s ordination July 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) -- Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, praised Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s latest statement on the forthcoming controversial Amazon Synod in remarks on social media over the weekend. Müller had said, among other things, that no synod, pope, or council “could make possible the ordination of women as bishop, priest, or deacon.”  It is widely feared that the Synod, scheduled for October, is being implemented as a means of ushering in women’s ordination. Strickland made his comments in posting the July 26 LifeSiteNews article...

Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer (N.J.) said Monday that a letter announcing his resignation that appeared to be from him is “completely untrue,” NorthJersey.com reports. "This disgusting smear campaign is a violation of federal law and is being criminally investigated by the U.S. Capitol Police," he said. "I am confident that they will quickly identify and pursue charges against the perpetrators responsible for this crime." The letter, dated July 29, appears to be on official congressional letterhead and falsely claims that Gottheimer had a sexual relationship with one of his staffers, the outlet reports. It’s unclear how many officials received it....

President gave $16B in 2018 ALONE to Elijah Cummings's district in federal grants': Donald Trump's aide Lynne Patton asks what Baltimore has done with its financial help as POTUS' row with 'rat-infested' city escalates Lynne Patton, a regional administrator with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, appeared on Fox News to defend the president He was accused of racism over his tweets saying Baltimore was 'infested with rodents' Trump has been engaged in a simmering feud with House Rep. Elijah Cummings, the Democrat who heads the House Oversight Committee Earlier on Monday, Trump attacked the Rev. Al Sharpton in...

It’s not every day that a random encounter between two politicians in an airport results in an in-your-face confrontation. It happened to Senator Ted Cruz Sunday as he waited to board a plane at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). His confronter was a California politician.Hillary Ronen, a San Francisco Supervisor, literally got in Cruz’s face to berate him over the Trump administration’s enforcement of immigration law at the southern border. Her specific beef with Cruz is family separation and the “caging” of children. She turned her opposition to the administration’s policy into a personal attack on the senator. “We...

A pair of college professors have built pink seesaws to place across the U.S.-Mexico border in order for people “on both sides” to draw a connection with each other. Ronald Rael of the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello of San José State University — who initially designed the fulcrum in 2009 — teamed up to create the fluorescent pink seesaws. Rael posted photos and a video of kids swinging up and down on the toys on both sides of the border wall in an event he said generated “joy, excitement and togetherness” at the divide. “The wall...

When then-AG Jeff Sessions announced 15 months ago that US Attorney for Utah, John Huber, would be conducting a review of the FBI’s use of wiretapping on the Trump campaign, initial hopes soon turned to disappointment that nothing seemed to be happening. But yesterday, former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker rather casually mentioned (or perhaps let slip) during an interview with Sandra Smith that Huber is looking at “Comey’s memos and the like…. And there’s a lot of things Bill Barr is going to be bringing to a conclusion.” Watch below, cued to the moment he mentions this: (hat...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) promoted a tweet on Monday fantasizing about violence against Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in response to a Breitbart News interview the senator did in which he offered to buy her a plane ticket to return to Somalia to see the conditions of the African nation.

Suddenly, nearly everyone wants the Federal Reserve Board to cut interest rates. I've been arguing for this for nine months, so it's nice to see the economic intelligentsia is finally persuaded. The Fed has become a restraint on growth since last August thanks to ill-advised interest rate increases (and promises to raise rates more in 2019), which slowly squeezed out of the economy dollar liquidity and tanked the stock market. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is finally signaling a rate cut by 0.25 of a percentage point next week. This almost certainly will be accompanied by a reduction in the interest...