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Liberal outlet The Guardian reported Feb. 10 that conservative donor Sheldon Adelson is allegedly gearing up to spend $100 million to help boost President Donald Trump and Republican candidates this fall. Yet, Adelson, at this point, is tied for 43rd in contributions to outside spending groups, according to Open Secrets. In fact, current data reveal that the top four liberal donors dwarf the spending of the top 39 donors to conservative outside spending groups combined. Liberal billionaires Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, Donald Sussman and Fred Eychaner collectively contributed $63,970,900 to liberal outside spending groups working to boost Democrats’ electoral chances...

Recent news reports showed that veteran suicide rates are still high. “Firearms were also singled out by researchers” for being used in nearly 70 percent of veteran suicides, while they are used in less than half of non-veteran suicides. The disparity is obvious, but unexplainable. However, a spending bill to research the root causes behind veteran suicides may help us find answers and save lives. Recently, Congress passed a landmark bill that will allocate $25 million in research funds to study veteran suicides and other forms of gun violence, lifting an unusual ban that prevented the federal government from researching firearm-related...

The president of Jackson State University resigned Monday after he was arrested in a prostitution sting in central Mississippi.

Washington, DC  ~  Monday, February 10, 2020 Remarks as Prepared for DeliveryThank you, Sheriff Hall, for that kind introduction.  And thank you to the National Sheriffs’ Association for inviting me to your conference.  We are grateful for the work that you all do every single day to keep our communities safe.The highest priority of the Department of Justice — and I know it is your highest priority as well — is the safety of the American people.  That is our charge, and we are fully committed to meeting it. The very first duty of government is to protect the safety...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 10, 2020 Today, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit against the State of New Jersey, New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy, and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal. The lawsuit challenges New Jersey Attorney General Law Enforcement Directive 2018-6, which prohibits state officials from sharing information with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) related to the immigration status and release dates of individuals in their custody.The directive also requires New Jersey law enforcement to “promptly notify a detained individual, in writing and in a language the individual...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 10, 2020 The Justice Department filed suit against California Governor Gavin Newsom, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, and the State of California challenging California state law A.B. 32, which prohibits any individual or entity from operating private detention facilities in the state.Under A.B. 32, prisoners and detainees currently housed in private facilities in California will have to be relocated at great cost, potentially isolating prisoners and detainees from their families and causing overcrowding in neighboring states. The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), for example, which is responsible for...

More than 3,000 farmers and residents of four Chihuahua municipalities clashed with the National Guard on Tuesday over the federal government’s plan to divert water from a dam in the northern border state to the Rio Grande for the use of the United States. The newspaper Milenio reported that protesters from Camargo, La Cruz, Delicias and San Francisco de Conchos confronted the guardsmen with the aim of removing them from the La Boquilla Dam, located on the Conchos River about 200 kilometers south of Chihuahua city. The National Water Commission (Conagua) intends to open the sluices of the dam to...

Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 10, 2020 Today, the Justice Department filed suit against King County, Washington, and King County Executive Dow Constantine challenging King County Executive Order PFC-7-1-EO, which has the purpose and intended effect of prohibiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contractors from using King County International Airport, also known as Boeing Field, as a terminal for flights to remove individuals from the United States or transport immigration detainees within the country.The Executive Order directs King County officials to “ensure that all future leases, operating permits, and other authorizations...

The democrat party is in deep trouble and is sliding into oblivion and Nancy Pelosi knows it. Socialist 2020 dem candidates are jerking their party into a sharp left hand turn and off the cliff. Over the last week or so the party platform has been shaped by the socialist front runners and what is it? Racism. Sanders says America is racist from top to bottomDuring an extended back-and-forth on race issues at the Democratic presidential debate on Friday, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders went for the finish line. "We have a racist society from top to bottom," he declared. He...

“It’s a new virus. We don’t know much about it, and therefore we’re all concerned to make certain it doesn’t evolve into something even worse,” said Lipkin, speaking from his New York home on a 14-day self-quarantine after traveling to China to work on the outbreak. Lipkin, the director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, was in Guangzhou and Beijing, where he advised local health officials. He said he did not travel to the city where the coronavirus emerged, Wuhan in central China, because it would have been more difficult to...

David Axelrod, who managed Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns and worked as a senior advisor Axelrod’s concerns were expressed in an interview with Apatow for the former’s semi-eponymous podcast, the Axe Files, published last week ahead of Monday’s 92nd Academy Awards in Los Angeles. below. AXELROD: There is clearly a strong sense of antipathy toward the president, president Trump. You see it at the award ceremonies. Every one of them seems to be a little bit of a beat down on him, and I often wonder how that is perceived in Middle America. Even around this whole impeachment thing, you see...

Scarborough described the calls: “I got panic, ‘Joe, what do we do? What are we going to do? This is – we’re in desperate straits. What’s going to happen? Are we going to win?’” He concluded: “There is just this fear that among the current crop of candidates, there’s a fear that there may not be the ability to take down Donald Trump.”

Brighton police have made an arrest in the crash the day before Thanksgiving on Edgewood Avenue that killed two pedestrians. Twenty-year-old Ninoshka Vazquez-Ruiz is charged with two counts of criminally negligent homicide for the deaths of nine-year-old Mila Ruangsuwana and her baby-sitter, Elmira Kamilevna Hall. The woman also is charged with one count of assault for injuring the girl's 2-year-old brother, Evan. Police say the woman was driving 63 mph in a 30 mph zone, failed to keep right and did not have a license. She is due in Town Court on Wednesday.

Charging that so-called "sanctuary" cities that protect illegal immigrants are jeopardizing domestic security, Attorney General Bill Barr announced a slew of additional sanctions that he called a "significant escalation" against left-wing local and state governments that obstruct the "lawful functioning of our nation's immigration system."

The woman who was widely seen as German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chosen successor will not lead her crisis-racked CDU party into upcoming elections, a party source told AFP on Monday. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, known as AKK, took over from Merkel as CDU chairwoman and presumed shoo-in for chancellor in 2018 but “has now said she will not be a candidate for the chancellery”, the source said. She made the surprise announcement after telling a crunch CDU meeting that the center-right party had “an unresolved relationship” with the far-right AfD party and the far left. It comes after an election debacle in...

A lot of attention has been given recently to conservative icon and venerable syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh and his advanced lung cancer diagnosis. President Trump rightfully honored him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during last week’s State of the Union address. Unfortunately, America received more sad news last week. Dan Weber, veteran, husband, father, grandfather, entrepreneur, visionary and giant in the conservative movement, passed away last Monday evening. You say you haven’t heard of Dan Weber? Please let me enlighten you. Dan Weber was born in Brooklyn, NY and grew up no stranger to hard work. He began...

A federal judge on Monday indefinitely postponed the sentencing date for President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn on charges of lying to the FBI in the Russia investigation. The move by Judge Emmet Sullivan comes a day after federal prosecutors filed a rare Sunday motion to delay a number of approaching deadlines that would ultimately make Flynn’s Feb. 27 sentencing unlikely. The delay also comes weeks after Flynn withdrew his guilty plea. In their filing, prosecutors argued that Flynn’s former attorneys should testify after he claimed to have received ineffective assistance from them. Flynn had previously hired the...

The Oscars drew just 23million viewers on Sunday night, six million fewer than it did last year. A total of 23.6million tuned in to watch the show on ABC and it got a rating of 5.3 rating among adults 18-49, according to The Hollywood Reporter. . . . Brad Pitt complained about the recent impeachment trial and how former national security adviser John Bolton was not allowed to testify at it. Documentary filmmaker Julia Reichert made a Marxist call 'workers of the world' to 'unite'. Jane Fonda made a statement about waste and Sigourney Weaver said 'all women are superheroes'....

Crowd has almost filled the arena - which holds 11,700. President Trump should be speaking NEAR 7 PM EST. Kimberly Gilfoyle is speaking now. VP Pence will be speaking before the President does.

Amazon is quietly canceling its Nazis. Over the past 18 months, the retailer has removed two books by David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as several titles by George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party. Amazon has also prohibited volumes like “The Ruling Elite: The Zionist Seizure of World Power” and “A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind.” SNIP “Amazon reserves the right to determine whether content provides an acceptable experience,” said one recent removal notice that the company sent to a bookseller. SNIP “Amazon wants its customers...