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"President Donald J. Trump participates in a prayer with African American Leaders and Pastor Paula White Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in the Cabinet Room of the White House." "President Donald J. Trump welcomes Civil Rights activist Gertrude Jane Holiday Stone, 89, of Houston, Texas, to the stage at the African American History Month Reception Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020, in the East Room of the White House.""President Donald J. Trump presents Eagle Scout Alphonso Hill Jr. of Swansboro, N.C., a flag flown on Marine One for his church in Maysville, N.C., at the African American History Month Reception Thursday, Feb. 27,...

Every time a racist, anti-white event goes down, which is often, conservative media call it "identity politics." "The left is playing identity politics." Whatever is gripping and convulsing the country, it's not identity politics. Blacks are not being incited against Hispanics. Hispanics are not being turned on Asians, and Ameri-Indians aren't being urged to attack the groups just mentioned. Rather, they're all piling on honky. That's anti-white politics or animus. The anger of the multicultural multitudes is directed exclusively at whites and their so-called privilege. Anti-whitism is becoming institutionalized, systemic and therefore dangerous. Never once, however, is the thing called...

The US and NATO allies have agreed to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan within 14 months if the details of a "comprehensive peace agreement" signed by the US and Taliban is upheld, BBC reported. US President Donald Trump said the US is "working to finally end America's longest war...

The Wall Street Journal should stand firm in the face of China’s action last week to rescind the media credentials of three Journal reporters and order them to leave the country. Chinese authorities said the expulsion was over the Journal’s publishing a commentary by academic Walter Russell Mead headlined “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia,” which addresses the communist nation’s economic fragility and the worldwide effects of a possible Chinese collapse. The Chinese government claimed that use of the term “Sick Man of Asia” in the headline of the Feb. 3 article was racist toward the Chinese people....

"There's no leaks. There's no drama. I would say it's high-competence, low-drama," the president's son-in-law told a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday about Trump's 2020 campaign. "Everything is very efficiently run. And I think that's exemplary of how President Trump would run his second term in office."....Kushner said the administration has "doubled and tripled down" on good ideas while discarding bad ones, which has allowed it to run more efficiently. While Trump has seen fewer leaks from his White House since the beginning of his term, he has recently pointed the finger at congressional Democrats when...

The Boeing Starliner didn't see any testing shortcuts before its flawed flight test, officials said Friday, but the company vowed to expand tests in the future. Boeing (BA) stock fell. In December, the Boeing Starliner set off on an uncrewed test, but it failed to reach the International Space Station as planned because a software error prevented it from getting into the proper orbit. It was later revealed that an internal timer on the capsule was off by 11 hours, causing the Boeing Starliner to believe that it was further into the mission. Another software issue was found with the...

More than a month after Hong Kong reacted to the coronavirus and closed its border to neighboring China, the overall damage of the virus is not nearly as severe as originally feared, and compared to the common flu, it is minuscule. As reported yesterday: News of the coronavirus reached Hong Kong and the world in early January. Hong Kong citizens were curious at first and then almost hyper-reactive. The Wuhan coronavirus was a big unknown and still is. Hong Kong did very little at first other than observe the actions of the Chinese government in Hubei in response to the...

"Make America A Third-World Hell Hole". I suggested this slogan for Bernie to my Bernie supporting Millenial kids last night. I think it is a great response to Trump's "Make America Great Again". Sums up perfectly what Bernie stands for!

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As I watched my neighbor put her dog’s poop in a single-use plastic baggy, I thought about split pants in China. When my wife and I got off the plane, 18 years ago, to adopt our first daughter, we were taken aback by the split pants. Split pants are (or at least were, back then) pants the children wear that are open in the crotch area. That allows them to urinate or defecate unobstructed, onto the street or wherever they may be. The theory is that eventually they will learn to “aim it at the toilet” or something to that...

Thursday, a public hearing was held at the Capitol over a proposal to tax ammunition by an additional 35%. Nearly 50 people signed up to testify on this issue, and many spoke out against the proposal. “I feel this just goes too far. They just keep nibbling and taking away, taking away,” said Skip Roberts of Higganum. Recently retired, Roberts said he’s on a fixed income. He owns a gun to keep his family safe and estimates a day of practice at the range will cost him and his wife close to $100 more if the ammunition excise tax is...

President Donald Trump said this week that the United States is preparing to impose further sanctions on the Venezuelan oil industry—one of the chief sources of income for President Nicolás Maduro‘s authoritarian regime as it continues to cling to power. The news came less than a week after the Trump administration announced sanctions against Geneva-based but Russian-controlled oil brokerage Rosneft Trading S.A., which U.S. officials say has been helping the Venezuelan regime to skirt the American oil embargo by acting as an intermediary to supply Venezuelan oil to third parties in Asia. “You’ll be seeing something on that in the...

But the position Sanders landed on is a very peculiar one. It suggests that he would rather lose to Trump than to tarnish his ideological purity by taking money from a billionaire. That his campaign would turn down hundreds of millions — perhaps even $1 billion or more — in financial help is a revelation that should be very troublesome for Democrats across the country who have set their sights on removing Donald Trump from office, no matter his successor. It's important to highlight that Bloomberg's offer is not a random gesture from some random billionaire. I don't think anyone...

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A 29-year-old San Clemente woman was sentenced Thursday to 51 years to life in prison for an alcohol-fueled crash in Huntington Beach that killed two Las Vegas teenagers and an 18-year-old man on spring break. Bani Marcela Duarte was convicted Oct. 1 of three counts of second- degree murder and a single count of driving under the influence of alcohol causing bodily injury, for causing the March 29, 2018, pre-dawn crash. Killed in the crash were the other driver, 17-year-old Brooke Hawley, and passengers 18-year-old Dylan Mack and 17-year-old Albert Rossi. A fourth high school classmate,...

— A man stole an ambulance and tried to run over an officer who shot him three times, leading to a low-speed chase through Philadelphia that lasted more than an hour Friday night, authorities said. Authorities were called to a motel in northeast Philadelphia around 9:20 p.m. for reports of a domestic disturbance involving a man and a woman that necessitated medical attention for one or more parties, Staff Inspector Sekou Kinebrew of Philadelphia police said. The man became combative and jumped into the ambulance, driving at one of the officers who medics called for backup, Kinebrew said.

At his rally in South Carolina Friday night, President Donald Trump tied the Coronavirus issue to the Democrats’ preference for open borders: “We must understand that border security is also health security,” the president said to cheers from the crowd at a reelection campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, one day before the Democratic primary in the state. “You’ve all seen the wall is going up like magic,” he continued, saying they’d “have 500 miles built by very early next year.” “We will do everything in our power to keep the infection from entering our country. We have no...

Erdogan said Saturday his country’s borders with Europe were open, thousands of refugees gathered at the frontier with Greece. “We will not close the gates to refugees,” Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul. “The European Union has to keep its promises.” The move by Turkey to open its border, first announced Thursday, was seen in Greece as a deliberate attempt to pressure European countries as tensions ratcheted up between Turkey and Syria. It would be a dramatic departure from Turkey’s current policy. Under a 2016 deal, Turkey agreed to stem the tide of refugees to Europe in return for...

CALABASAS, Calif. - Put on the map with the help of the 'Beverly Hillbillies,' 'Beverly Hills Cop,' the '90210' clan and Weezer, Beverly Hills has worn the crown for wealth in Southern California, until now. Bloomberg just named Calabasas one of the richest cities in the U.S, surpassing Beverly Hills. Located 25 miles west of downtown Los Angeles, Calabasas is a community of about 24,000, where “Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” now entering its 18th season, calls home. It’s a place where the rich and famous can enjoy a more normal lifestyle. “We do have some ordinances about paparazzi that...

President Donald Trump has taken tough steps to protect Americans from the spread of the coronavirus rampaging through China. In an order issued Friday, federal officials announced that as of 5 p.m. Sunday, “Foreign nationals other than immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have traveled in China in the last 14 days will be denied entry into United States.” American citizens returning the U.S. from areas in China where they may have been exposed to the virus will be quarantined, while others coming from the rest of China will be screened for the virus. Earlier Friday, officials...

THIES, Senegal (AP) — The only place in the world where fighters linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are cooperating is in West Africa’s sprawling Sahel region, giving the extremists greater depth as they push into new areas, according to the commander of the U.S. military’s special forces in Africa. “I believe that if it‘s left unchecked it could very easily develop into a great threat to the West and the United States,” U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Dagvin Anderson told The Associated Press in an interview this week. The leader of U.S. Special Operations Command Africa described...