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Canada Free Press (CFP) Prediction: Journos in the press corps will turn on Stephanie (Rocky) Grisham before this day is out. The music theme from the ‘Rocky’ movie should be playing in the heads of Jim Acosta and other journos whenever they hear the name of new White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham. But members of the mostly anti-Trump White House press corps will, rather than being grateful that she cleared the path for them to cover the President Donald Trump/Kim Jong Un handshake will be too busy looking for ways to knock her out of the ring.

<p>With the well-earned success of the Women’s Soccer Team in France, Megan Rapinoe has been much in the news. Soccer fans are focused on the goals and team play that has gotten the women two games away from the World Cup. On the other hand, those, like me, who cannot give a fat rat’s backside about soccer have been stunned by her display of selfishness.</p>

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Here’s your Week in Review: While the Democrats were back home frightening most Americans half to death with the insanity of their televised debates, America’s Daddy was over in Japan and Korea making history and winning for America. First came the meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, an obviously successful meeting that results in the re-start of U.S./China trade negotiations and which will set the stock markets afire come Monday. Here are the President’s tweets summarizing the meeting: Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump I had a great meeting with President Xi of...

Remember how during the Obama Occupation everything that happened - according to the media - was “historic”? Some things are more historic than others.I’ll concede that the Obama administration invented hashtag diplomacy via the nascent Twitter platform, U.S. Secretary of State Spokeswoman Jen Psaki, tweeting for world peacePresident Donald J. Trump has taken it to the expert level. After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just...

South Korean activists from both conservative and progressive groups held rallies in Seoul on Sunday as U.S. President Donald Trump visited the country, with no collisions being reported. Trump arrived in Seoul on Saturday for a two-day visit following his trip to Osaka, Japan, to take part in the Group of 20 summit. South Koreans were divided over the visit, with various groups expressing different opinions over the Seoul-Washington relationship. A left-leaning activist group of college students staged a rally in front of a hotel where Trump held a meeting with South Korean business leaders earlier in the day, with...

“God’s Green New Deal: From Works of the Flesh to Fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5:1, 13-25) Last week we called our message “God’s Green New Deal: From Slaves to Sons.” We picked up on that phrase, “Green New Deal,” which has buzzing around in political circles this year. Only God’s Green New Deal won’t cost trillions and trillions of dollars. Actually, it’s much costlier than that, for it cost the precious blood of Christ, God’s own Son, which is of absolutely infinite value. But for you, God’s new deal is absolutely free. A free gift, the new covenant in...

A new petition has been started to have the White House correct a wrong assumption about the Second Amendment on its website. The website says: "The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms." The petition asks the White House to correct the mistake and to acknowledge the reality of how the Second Amendment was created, and why. The petition is here. The reality is the right to keep and bear arms was acknowledged and widely accepted to be in existence long before the Second Amendment. What the government can grant, the government can take. The Second Amendment...

Its been a week of extreme heat in France and this Saturday temperatures in Paris around 99 degrees Fahrenheit or 37 degrees Celsius. Other locations in France south and west of Paris at or above 40 degrees Celsius or 104 degrees Fahrenheit amidst the heat wave. Perhaps the heat contributed to what appears to be a halving of the number of Yellow Vests this week. The first "Yellow Number" Facebook estimate is of 10,224 participants, roughly half the number estimated last Saturday. The government estimate is 5,769 participants. In Paris Yellow Vests gathering at 1230 pm local time (630 am...

Dozens of leftist protesters formed a human wall in downtown Miami, Florida Wednesday night to stop investigative journalist Laura Loomer from confronting The Young Turks during the Democrat Debate. In May, Facebook and Instagram banned Loomer, claiming her account violated its policies against its policies against dangerous individuals and organizations. In response, The Young Turks celebrated the social media giant’s decision to deplatform her and mockingly characterizing her as a right-wing, white supremacist and “conspiracy theorist.” The Young Turks were broadcasting outside the Adrienne Arscht Center in downtown Miami, where the Democratic presidential nominees debated each other for the first...

Photos of a father and daughter's bodies on the bank of the Rio Grande River sparked outrage at President Trump. Former Vice President Joe Biden called the photo "gut-wrenching" and another manifestation of "the unconscionable cruelty we're seeing at our border." "We didn't see this kind of tragedy when Barack and I ran things," Biden recalled. "As Barack would've said if he were still alive 'this is not who we are.' One of my responsibilities as vice-president was to be ready 24/7 to strip down and swim to the rescue. You know, I'm really a good swimmer. The Secret Service...

VIDEO It would be an incredible historic moment: Donald Trump being the first U.S. president to step into North Korea. And this is why CNN is irked by that possibility. They are also bothered the casualness of Trump's tweet invite to Kim Jong Un to meet him at the DMZ perhaps to have some tacos...or kimchi.

WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28 (C-Fam) The idea of self-induced abortion has a long history as a scare tactic in legal debates over abortion both in the United States and around the world. Abortion advocates wielding coat hangers have argued that abortion should be a decision left to women and their doctors. Yet the World Health Organization (WHO) is moving toward a standard that frames doctors—and even women themselves—as non-essential to the discussion. According to a new guidance from WHO, self-induced first-trimester abortion using pills “without the supervision of a health-care provider” is “recommended in certain circumstances.” Specifically, they refer to...

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Democratic hopefuls squared off in the first primary debate over two days and they had plenty to say about the gun control plans they would enact if elected. Perhaps the most important take away from the two nights is that the candidates advocated or passively supported gun confiscation, rhetorically couched as “gun buybacks.” Not a single one of the 20 candidates spoke in opposition to confiscation or the respect for the Second Amendment. So, the Democrats really are coming for your guns. The other key takeaway is that former Vice President Joe Biden believes the firearm industry...

A rising wave of homelessness is growing and spreading in the major Democrat controlled cities on the Left Coast. Spreading disease, drug addiction, and social disorder in its wake. From Seattle to San Francisco to Los Angeles the quality of life is plummeting. Democrat municipal and state authorities seem oblivious, placing the rights of the homeless above their duty to their citizens, taxpayers, and public safety. More than 60,000 homeless people by official count are living on the streets of Los Angeles. That doesn’t include the surrounding municipalities and cities in Orange County. Actual estimates are much higher, and the...

The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands. Psalm 138:8 KJV This week’s opening debates exposed the Communist Party for who it is which should terrify most freedom loving Americans. They said without reservation they care more about Mexicans than they do Americans and it is not even close. This was a debate covering the entire political spectrum between the Leninists to the Stalinists and the Stalinists won. The good news is there is nobody on those stages who can go five minutes with President...

Chris Matthews interviews Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) following the first Democratic presidential primary debate and her fiery exchange with former Vice President Joe Biden on segregation-era busing. "This is really important to people of all backgrounds and ethnicities. I don't like the word race -- ethnicities. How did you come out of that and not have hatred towards white people generally?" Matthews asked. "I just ask because you talked about being a kid and having other kids being kept off as friends because their parents looked at you as someone else," the MSNBC host followed up.

Yesterday a divided Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment generally does not bar states from taking a blood sample from an unconscious drunk-driving suspect without a warrant. The issue came to the Supreme Court in the case of Gerald Mitchell, whom police found six years ago on a beach in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Mitchell was wet, shirtless, covered in sand and slurring his words. Police arrested Mitchell after a preliminary breath test indicated that his blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit. But those test results couldn’t be used in court, and police soon realized that Mitchell was too...

(WIkipedia...."During the certification process, the FAA delegated many evaluations to Boeing, allowing the manufacturer to review their own product.[48][49] It was widely reported that Boeing pushed to expedite approval of the 737 MAX to compete with the Airbus A320neo. That aircraft hit the market nine months ahead of Boeing's model.") Article excerpt... ...During his time as President of the United States, Barack Obama promoted the sale of Boeing planes—including the 737 Max 8 planes—around the world. In November 2011, in Bali, Indonesia, President Obama announced an agreement between Boeing and Lion Air. "For the last several days I’ve been talking...

Rand on where the money should have come from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4CZCMPAxB8