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China’s exports fell unexpectedly in August, as the trade war with the United States continued to hit the world’s second-largest economy. Shipments fell by 1 per cent in the month after growing 3.3 per cent in July in dollar terms, and below the 2.1 per cent growth expected by analysts in a Bloomberg poll. Imports in the month dropped by 5.6 per cent, leaving a trade surplus of US$34.84 billion, according to China’s General Administration of Customs. July’s expansion now seems like an anomaly, likely driven by front-loading as new tariffs of 15 per cent on about US$110 billion of...

The Talk Shows September 8th, 2019 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; former Gov. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.). Lisa Marie Riggins, Fairness for Athletes in Retirement. The panel includes Karl Rove; Jane Harman; Dana Perino; Whine Williams.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): FACE THE NATION (CBS): Pompeo; former Defense Secretary James Mattis; Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del. Antony Savanto highlights a new CBS News Battleground Tracker poll. The panel will be Jamal Simmons, David Frum, Michael Crowley and Laura Barron-Lopez.THIS WEEK (ABC): Pompeo. The panel will be: Mary Bruce; Chris...

A back fire may help save some homes from a wildfire but the same principal doesn’t apply when it comes to our civil rights A Republican Senator is saying the we should sacrifice some of our 2nd Amendment gun ownership rights so the democrats don’t take all of our gun rights in the future. Listen, you don’t negotiate with terrorists or the devil. This is quite possibly the dumbest thing a Republican has ever suggested. The Hill reports that Republican Indiana Senator Mike Braun is ready to sacrifice some of our gun rights in hopes that that the rest of...

“The Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14). John 1:14 is the most concise biblical statement of the Incarnation. The first four words, “the Word became flesh,” express the reality that in the incarnation God took on humanity; the infinite became finite; eternity entered time; the invisible became visible (cf. Col. 1:15); the Creator entered His creation. God revealed Himself to man in the creation (Rom. 1:18–21), in the Old Testament Scriptures (1 Cor. 2:7–14), and, supremely and most...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The upcoming trial of a Chinese national on federal charges that she trespassed at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort and lied to the Secret Service is potentially a circus wrapped in mystery. Rejecting the strong recommendation of U.S. District Judge Roy Altman, Yujing Zhang fired her public defenders in June to act as her own attorney - a longshot move the 33-year-old Shanghai business consultant has struggled with during pretrial hearings setting up Monday's scheduled jury selection. Zhang often frustrates Altman by ignoring his questions or answering with non sequiturs. At times she replies in...

A University of California-Los Angeles professor is calling not only for gun control but also “qualifications” to freedom of speech in order to combat mass shootings fueled by racism, a phenomenon he says has only come to light since President Donald Trump’s election. UCLA professor Douglas Kellner states that until just two years ago, “all of the previous shootings were rather divorced from sociopolitical factors,” claiming that while mass shootings occurred in the past, they were the results of “individual crises of young men,” having to do with things such as family life or school trouble, in an interview published...

A polymer that self-destructs? While once a fictional idea, new polymers now exist that are rugged enough to ferry packages or sensors into hostile territory and vaporize immediately upon a military mission's completion. The material has been made into a rigid-winged glider and a nylon-like parachute fabric for airborne delivery across distances of a hundred miles or more. It could also be used someday in building materials or environmental sensors. The researchers will present their results today at the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2019 National Meeting & Exposition. "This is not the kind of thing that slowly degrades over...

The PM’s personal rating has collapsed and his party’s lead over Labour has shrunk to just three points. An exclusive Deltapoll survey for The Sun on Sunday shows little hope of break in the Brexit deadlock. Most people have not changed their mind since the 2016 referendum – and a snap election looks likely to bring back another hung Parliament. But the majority blame MPs – and not Mr Johnson himself – for the Brexit chaos. Eight out of ten voters believe Parliament has become a “laughing stock” which is undermining British democracy.

Dan Anderson was lying on the forest floor when he regained consciousness. He had no idea how much time had passed. Had it been a couple of hours or a full day? His last memory was of falling about 50 feet from a large tree. “This is a lot farther than I expected,” he remembered thinking as he had accelerated toward the ground. Dan tried to get up but his legs wouldn’t work, and hot searing pain coursed through his pelvis. Feeling an “indentation” in his back, he knew he had broken it.

Today’s Cryptogram ILJ LPHFJH ILJ VQTCGZVI, ILJ KQHJ RGQHZQBA ILJ IHZBKEL. ---ILQKPA EPZTJ You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated. PLEASE DO NOT post the answer in general comments, but DO post your time and any tips you might give the group on how you solve these puzzles...

Who is your commanding officer? Is it Jesus or someone else? Is it Jesus or yourself? Is it Jesus or the culture? If you say it’s Jesus, well Jesus said, “If you love me you will keep my commands.” Yet we see people in the church today not only failing to keep his commands but denying they are commands at all, especially when it comes to sexual behavior. Join Frank for completely politically incorrect, but biblically correct, insights into what’s right and true regarding sexual behavior. The show starts with LT Hiroo Onoda, a member of the Japanese imperial army,...

On learning that the U.S. Army War College capitulated to the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ (“CAIR”) hysterical demands, Lt Col. Allen West wrote: “This is embarrassing, disgusting, appalling, and highly disconcerting. My Army has just emboldened and encouraged the enemy, and they are laughing at us.” Recent events validate his prediction: having cowed the Army War College into obedience, an “emboldened and encouraged” CAIR replicated its demands with Congress. ... after inviting me to lecture on my recent book on the military history between Islam and the West, the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) reneged once CAIR cried “Islamophobia” and...

Degrowth “does not call for doing less of the same,” as the editors of the first comprehensive book on the movement make clear. “The objective is not to make an elephant leaner, but to turn an elephant into a snail.” They call for a radically different political-economic system needed to preserve the environment and improve well-being. The term décroissance – French for degrowth – was first used decades ago by European intellectuals. But the term became the umbrella slogan for a movement in 2008, when an academic collective organized the first international degrowth conference in Paris. Conference-goers made the term...

Francis Claims: Religious Differences “Are Necessary” “Our differences are necessary,” a confused Pope Francis claimed with greatest emphasis during a September 5 inter-religious meeting with young people in Maputo, Mozambique. At the same time, his controversial Deputy Secretary of State, Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra, sat in the background and was chewing gum. This is Francis’ statement, originally pronounced in Portuguese (video below): “I thank the members of different religious confessions who have joined us, and those who do not belong to any particular religious tradition. Thank you for encouraging one another to live and celebrate today the challenge of peace...

I was driving in my F-150 down the main drag in Morristown, NJ around 8pm last night. A door of a car that is parked on the side of the street opens. Out pops El Heffe Shamu! Chris Christey!It was in front of all the restaurants. He must have been hungry.True. Story. I guess it makes sense because he lives in Morris County I think. I am surprised he was driving himself. I guess he isn't rolling like the big dogs like Rush Limbaugh and Donald Hump (I mean Trump)!

At the end of July, MSNBC’s biggest and dullest conspiracy theorist got some very bad news. After over a year of booming ratings, The Rachel Maddow Show’s viewership had crashed. It had been a long road for Maddow, the former blonde Catholic high school girl who had decided she wanted to be a media personality and ended up with an MSNBC show through the efforts of Keith Olbermann. And after Keith was gone, MSNBC had to settle for a slightly less effeminate version of Olbermann. Maddow had retained the key elements of Olbermann’s personality, the unhinged conspiracy theories, histrionic delivery,...

  With his resignation and a new book coming out the Left was eager to hear Mattis snipe at Trump. They weren’t expecting him to jackhammer their ‘Scandal-Free’ golden boy.One of the most controversial decisions of Obama’s presidency was the Iran deal.Obama had to give up a HELL of a lot to make his Iran deal happen, and every new revelation makes that ‘deal’ he struck look even worse. Prior be being Secretary of Defense under Trump, Mattis served as commander of U.S. Central Command under Obama and Biden. Mattis had predicted that Iran would continue to provoke the...

Even the national media are beginning to admit what the people of Ohio have known for years: President Trump is keeping his campaign promises. The news outlet Axios that has a reputation for its criticism of the Trump Administration, reported that “One of President Trump’s underappreciated re-election assets is something all politicians promise but few do: He has largely done precisely what he promised his base he would do.” The report is a blow to the mainstream media narrative that this administration has been a failure, even as the economy grew, unemployment fell, and wages rose faster than they have...

Just a funny guy I found while looking for another video. Hilarious! Very good humor that preaches faith and the gospel in a way that draws pictures in your head and done in a very entertaining and reverent manner. 16 minutes and he just brings into the bit.

Students who are searching for objective truth should shy away from any course with the word “Studies” in its title. Centered on opinion, persuasion, and propaganda, these courses seldom include rigorous evaluation of provable facts. According to the Hoover Institution, California’s educationists1 have been handed a defeat in their attempt to impose a wildly liberalEthnic Studies curriculum on their students. When the curriculum was circulated for public comment, its authors probably thought that it would be largely ignored. Full of educational jargon, curriculum documents are not easy to read, and seldom attract much notice. This time, an avalanche of public...