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A 2002 movie called “Minority Report” featured a 2054 society where members of a specialized police force called PreCrime searched out and arrested suspects who were identified by a trio of psychics, “precogs,” as poised to commit vicious crimes. Poised — meaning not yet committed. Did you get that? Suspects were apprehended pre-crime, based on figments of psychics’ imaginations. This is how the Democrats’ and Nancy Pelosi’s “impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump rings. The precog forces of the far left are demanding Trump’s impeachment for impeachable crimes he’s not even committed — for what “Minority Report” would have chalked...

NEW CASTLE, Pa. (WKBN) – Berner International needs more help as it continues to grow. The New Castle company hired about 10 employees since WKBN’s JobsNow story aired in January. It’s now looking for Shippers, Powder Coaters and General Assembly Workers. All of these positions are being sought on first (6 a.m. – 2 p.m.) and second (2-10 p.m.) shifts. Berner says steady growth and expansion over the last decade has given it the opportunity to increase staff and continue offering its team fully-paid health benefits, a 401K plan and competitive wages. If interested, stop by the plant in the...

As cable news channels breathlessly waited Tuesday for Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph R. Biden to declare his support for impeachment, President Trump stole the spotlight. Mr. Trump announced in a tweet that he was going to do exactly what Mr. Biden planned to demand: release the transcript of his much-discussed phone call with the Ukrainian president. The tweet, which he typed out just minutes before Mr. Biden’s major news conference, forced the campaign team into a hectic rewrite session that delayed the speech for an hour. Throughout a day dominated by an impeachment circus that spanned from Capitol Hill to...

A Republican lawmaker is calling on the Democratic-run House to condemn Rep. Adam Schiff for making up damaging quotes about President Trump at a hearing on an anti-Trump whistleblower complaint. Noting impeachment of a president is a stake, Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, said, “It is therefore inexcusable to toy with the process and mislead the American public with such a statement.” Mr. Schiff, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, opened the Thursday hearing by quoting from a just-released transcript of Mr. Trump’s White House phone call in July with newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Mr....

Rajesh Srivastava always loved trading stocks and options. When he found a way to turn that passion into a software that helps traders analyze and respond to the market, he started a one-man business around it in 2015. He eventually left behind his career working for technology firms to run his company, priceSeries, in Sunnyvale, California, which he launched for less than $1,000 to cover three used servers he purchased on eBay, along with memory and storage for the servers. He sells the software by monthly subscription to more than 2,000 customers a month, on average, and now has annual...

It’s only been three short years since we’ve all gotten to know Luke Combs and his music. But in the years since he released his debut single “Hurricane,” I feel like he’s taught us all how to be ourselves, not to wait around for perfection, and just do what comes naturally. For him, that seems to happen every day, and today was no exception. He tweeted a video on Monday (Sept. 9) that was shot the very first time he was singing his new song “Even Though I’m Leaving” live. It’s not glamorous. It’s not choreographed. It’s not over-produced, over-analyzed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering delisting Chinese companies from U.S. stock exchanges, three sources briefed on the matter said on Friday, in what would be a radical escalation of U.S.-China trade tensions. The move would be part of a broader effort to limit U.S. investment in Chinese companies, two of the sources said. One said it was motivated by the Trump administration’s growing security concerns about the companies’ activities. In June, U.S. lawmakers from both parties introduced a bill to force Chinese companies listed on American stock exchanges to submit to regulatory oversight, including providing access...

When it comes to combating climate change, a lot of people who talk the talk don’t actually walk the walk, particularly if it means traveling on foot instead of by car. While Americans are willing to make convenient changes to reduce the carbon emissions that scientists say are driving climate change and creating unpredictable weather patterns, they resist when faced with inconvenience, according to the results of a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. About nine in 10 Americans said they often or always turn off lights when they’re not needed, according to the poll....

Here's a way to pushback and have a little fun at the same time. Share this all over the place. Probably one of the best produced videos I've ever seen.

Some local Trump supporters and officials interpret the call for impeachment as just another example of Democratic obstructionism aided by the liberal media. Like many backers of President Donald Trump, Lee Roggenburg dismisses Democrats’ growing calls for impeachment as “absurd.” “I fully support him still,” says Roggenburg, a financial adviser in Boca Raton. Those sentiments are shared by other Palm Beach County voters who support Trump -- and they underscore the challenges faced by Democrats hoping to move Florida’s crucial 29 votes in the Electoral College back into the blue column.

Scrutiny of business deals by former Vice President Joseph R. Biden’s son Hunter now includes his joint venture with a Chinese government entity to buy a U.S. automotive technology company with potential military applications. The ease with which the 2015 transaction was approved by the Obama administration alarmed Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, who is looking into whether the Obama-Biden White House intervened in the process. One of the companies in the 2015 deal was Bohai Harvest RST (BHR), a billion-dollar investment fund backed by China that was formed by Hunter Biden and Chris Heinz, the stepson of then-Secretary...

Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.), who traveled to Ukraine in early September, told reporters this week that he had heard "directly" from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that Zelensky felt pressured by Trump to investigate Hunter Biden's involvement with Ukrainian gas giant Burisma. But according to a tape of a briefing Murphy gave two weeks ago about his meeting with Zelensky, Murphy made no mention at all of such an allegation. It was only 13 days after his initial briefing that Murphy emerged to say Zelensky had expressed concerns to him that the Trump administration was withholding U.S. aid to compel...

Veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein said his sources are telling him that Attorney General William Barr is preparing to push a "deep state" conspiracy to protect President Trump. During an appearance Thursday on CNN, the famed Watergate sleuth reacted to controversy about an intelligence community whistleblower who filed a complaint alleging Trump improperly leveraged military aid to encourage Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

While U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz expressed unhappiness Saturday with some of Donald Trump's comments related to the president's call with Ukraine's leader, the Texas Republican emphatically pushed back against the Democratic movement to impeach the commander in chief. Cruz said that he had read both the recently released whistleblower complaint and the readout of Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, both of which characterize Trump as soliciting the Ukrainian government's assistance in investigating unsubstantiated allegations against the business activities of former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. "I expected it to be" worse than it was,...

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said Saturday that the "single best thing" to unify the country would be for President Donald Trump to resign for his actions related to Ukraine. "The best possible path, especially if you're concerned about a country that's never been more divided, perhaps more highly polarized every day, is for this President to resign, allow this country to heal and ensure that we come back together with the greatest, most ambitious agenda we've ever faced, none of it possible while he remains in power," O'Rourke said at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

Rawhide is a 1951 Western film made by Twentieth Century-Fox starring Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward with Hugh Marlowe, Dean Jagger, Edgar Buchanan, Jack Elam and George Tobias. It was directed by Henry Hathaway and the music score was by Sol Kaplan and the song "A Rollin' Stone" by Lionel Newman. The cinematography was by Milton R. Krasner. Jack Elam Gunned Down by Susan Hayward ("Rawhide" gunfight scene, 1951)

A Republican congressman supports an “oversight process" to determine whether President Trump broke the law when he asked a foreign leader to look into a political opponent’s activities. Just don’t call it an impeachment inquiry. Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada used language during a phone call with reporters on Friday night that suggested he supported the Democrats’ investigation into Trump. “Let’s put it through the process and see what happens,” Amodei said, according to the Nevada Independent. "I’m a big fan of oversight, so let’s let the committees get to work and see where it goes.” “Using government agencies to,...

Pharmaceutical Product Development LLC (PPD) expects to create 200 jobs in expanding its bioanalytical lab in Henrico County. The governor’s office said the $63.7 million expansion began earlier this year. Wilmington, North Carolina-based PPD provides drug development, laboratory and lifecycle management services. The company has more than 22,000 employees working in 46 countries. Dr. Christopher Fikry, PPD’s executive vice president, said in statement that it employs more than 1,000 people at its Henrico operations in the county’s Westwood/Dabney area. PPD’s existing facility there covers more than 250,000 square feet. The company’s customers include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government...

Full title of article: "Pelosi’s House Rule Changes are Key Part of “Articles of Impeachment”, Being Drafted Over Next Two Weeks…" Excerpt: Back in December 2018 CTH noted the significant House rule changes constructed by Nancy Pelosi for the 116th congress seemed specifically geared toward impeachment. {Go Deep} With the House going into a scheduled calendar recess, those rules are now being used to subvert historic processes and construct the articles of impeachment. A formal vote to initiate an “impeachment inquiry” is not technically required; however, there has always been a full house vote until now. The reason not to...

A Bedford County-based company will start a new customer service center in Brunswick County, which will bring up to 153 jobs to Lawrenceville, Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday. Based in Bedford’s Forest area, Echo World Communications LLC offers insurance products through several carriers and handles service requests for Medicare. Echo World filed documents with the State Corporation Commission as a new business entity in July. Its CEO is Carl Townsend, who was CEO of InService Marketing Group, formerly known as InService America. The new company appears to be a continuation of Townsend’s former business, which established customer service centers in...