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President Trump shocked markets yesterday when he announced that a new, heavy round of tariffs on Chinese goods will take effect this Friday. Complacent markets had assumed that a trade deal would get done, that it was just a matter of sorting out the details. Now that is far from certain. Failing a last minute deal, which is certainly possible, the trade war is back. And it could get worse.What most surprised me about the new trade war was not that it started, but that the mainstream financial media denied it was happening for so long. The media have consistently...

VIDEO Joe Biden campaigned in Henderson, Nevada on May 7 and the big news that the mainstream media is not telling you is how pathetically low his crowd size was. In fact, it was so low that you can actually count them individually as I did. Do your own count and see how your crowd count matches up against mine.

May 8th is the anniversary of V.E. Day (for "Victory in Europe") in 1945, and commemorates the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces, ending World War II in Europe. With Adolf Hitler dead by his own hand, German military leaders signed surrender documents at several locations in Europe on May 7, capitulating to each of their victorious foes. Germany’s partner in fascism, Italy, had switched sides in 1943, though many Italians continued to fight alongside their German comrades in Italy. Upon entering the war in December 1941, the United States had agreed on a “Europe first” strategy:...

On April 11, the administration of the University of Tulsa shocked faculty, students, and alumni by announcing the elimination of 40 percent of the school’s academic programs. Undergraduate and graduate programs in theater, musical theater, dance, vocal and instrumental music, English, history, philosophy, religion, chemistry, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Greek, Latin, anthropology, mathematics, and many others were axed. The administration has eliminated all academic departments and dumped professors, now stripped of disciplinary protections and powers, into big new divisions, including one called “Humanities and Social Justice.” Administrators at other colleges and universities have recently cut the liberal arts. But TU...

700 rockets indiscriminately fired into Israeli population centres has presented Trump with an opportunity to at least end the suffering of both the Israeli and Palestinian Arab civilian populations and give the Palestinian Arabs a say in their own The barrage of more than 700 rockets fired into Israel from Gaza this past weekend and the “pay for slay” policy pursued by the PLO to reward those Palestinian Arabs who murder and maim Jews cannot continue to be met by only pious condemnations from the United Nations or even from President Trump himself. The fact that such evil practices violate...

Meanwhile, Obama’s ‘Fundamental Transformation of America’ lives on in the Deep State, represented by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib in a never-ending waking nightmare If only Barack Obama had been a one-of instead of a trend setter legitimizing Hatred of America right from the Oval Office. Lacking the courage and too cunning by half to say he stood for the “destruction” of America, he called it the “Fundamental Transformation of America” and soon after his election began misrepresenting what America has long stood for in speeches—paid for by its enemies.

What if the global warmists are entirely wrong? What if it’s all been an optical illusion? Like this “people under water” illusion created by Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich. Visitors can either stroll into the “swimming pool” - an empty room - and gaze up at the rippling water effect, or look down from above. What if instead of the oceans rising because the ice caps are melting at an alarming rate they are actually shrinking?  And what if it’s all due to those troublesome tectonic plates that created those same oceans billions of years ago - along with all the...

Varmint Control builds Long-Range Shooting Skills - If you're Looking to Improve your Shooting Abilities, Helping Farmers and others out by Targeting Prairie Dogs fills the Bill. I frequently find myself dreaming about connecting with spectacularly long shots. Not like a solid 100-yard kill shot at a whitetail, mule deer or elk resting at the fork in a tree, but long, legendary shots that immediately become the fodder for modern lore. I’m talking about ridiculous “struggle to see with the naked eye” far at a target so small you struggle to keep it located in your optic. The shots you...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Hey, y’all, Donald Trump lost a lot of money in the 1980s! – That’s the big “bomb” the news-fakers at the New York Times dropped on President Donald Trump Tuesday night, as the paper somehow got hold of a decade of Trump’s tax returns. In all, the returns show that Trump’s real estate and casino businesses lost over a billion dollars during the 10 year period. Well, for tax purposes, that is. Anyone familiar with how the tax code works, i.e., nobody who works for the NYTimes, would know that tax losses...

Come October, the largest 3D printer in the world will be installed at the University of Maine in Orono. One of its first uses will be to print a boat mold that boat builders can use. The substance behind the 3D printing operation will be a wood-based plastic developed at UMaine. The boat mold is one of the first objectives of a new, bio-based 3D printing program that’s a collaboration between the University of Maine and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The hope is that the initiative could make 3D printing more...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have agreed to meet again next week.... Pompeo met with top Iraqi officials amidst a US warning based on Israeli intelligence reports, citing an Iranian threat to US interests..... Iran made official Wednesday what it was already reported to doing in recent days. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani informed Russia, China and other nations still involved in the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement (France, Germany United Kingdom) that Iran is pulling out... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacting Wednesday saying: "Israel won't let Iran get nuclear weapons".... The Syrian Army...

She's been called "Kerosene Maxine" and gaveled off the House floor for accusing Republican men of badgering women. She dismissed President Donald Trump and his allies as thugs and predicted his impeachment before he was sworn into office. No one, Maxine Waters once observed, should be surprised by her. But after nearly three decades in Congress, the 80-year-old California lawmaker is in an eye-opening role as the highest-ranking African American woman in the country. She's wielding the gavel of the bank-regulating Financial Services Committee with the power to investigate Trump where some say it counts most: his business dealings. The...

<p>A restaurant in Buellton used a profane anti-Trump hashtag in a recent Facebook post, which is generating a lot of reaction.</p> <p>Industrial Eats is known for its pizza, sandwiches, and variety of small plates.</p> <p>The restaurant posts a lot of food pictures, but a recent post used an anti-Trump hashtag.</p>

Need advice. I have a grandson in law who was discharged from the Army about a year or so ago. He'd spent a year in Korea, and then spent a year in poland. He received extra pay for his time in Poland. Now, the Army is demanding that extra pay back saying he was never in Poland. His discharge papers say otherwise, and he also has photographs of himself while there. He protested their error and told them about his papers, and tje woman he spoke with said she didn't care what HIS papers say, the Army says he wasn't...

The California Assembly on Monday advanced a bill to add school faculty, employers and co-workers to the list of people who can ask a judge to take away someone’s guns. The measure, AB 61, passed the Assembly in a Democrat-heavy 54-16 vote and now heads to the state Senate. It would greatly expand who can file for a Gun Violence Restraining Order in the state under California’s so-called “red flag law.” Adopted in 2014, the current law allows the seizure of firearms– for up to 21 days– from an otherwise legal gun owner who is believed to pose a “significant...

Former Vice President Joe Biden recently announced his bid for the presidency in 2020. He is predicted to be a Democratic front-runner and is already focused his attacks on President Trump. This is the hypocritical left, showing the world their disregard for all of the morals they preach to the American people. The left will jump at the chance to smear anyone for being racist or sexist. However, if you’re a Democrat like Joe Biden, you get multiple free passes. Joe Biden isn’t just guilty of one or two of these offenses. He has a long list of this type...

Trump-derangement syndrome can be observed on a massive scale, if you look at the media, the DNC, some Republicans and government agencies. Even academia is against President Trump. These organizations have no problem spreading disinformation. Their main goal is to smear our president. The disproved Russian-collusion narrative took over news media organizations for years. The mainstream media and Democrats knowingly lied to the American people to advance a political agenda.

Venezuela is in a crisis caused by the horrors of socialism. Nicolas Maduro, the socialist- president of Venezuela has ordered his military to harm Venezuelan citizens. This has resulted in innocent Venezuelan’s murdered by gun fire from Maduro’s controlled forces. It has also led to protesters being ran over with military vehicles. Venezuela has faced a hunger crisis for many years. This is due to the hyper-inflation that came with social programs and government spending.

I've always been a WW II amateur historian, totally into WW II history, last year on this very day I was with a Stephen Ambrose Historical Tour on Omaha Beach on at the beginning of the Band of Brothers Tour... I will always honor a WW II from the Greatest Generation who passes away... But it hits home after this veteran passes away on the flight home at age 95 after going to the WW II Memorial in Washington It was like he willed himself to live long enough to visit the Memorial then died.... God Bless Him and all...

TRENTON, N.J. – Governor Phil Murphy is boosting legal aid for illegal immigrants and championing in-state tuition for non-citizens at a cost of millions to taxpayers living in his “Sanctuary State.” Firefighters and their families?