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TEHRAN, IRAN — Iran's government abruptly raised gasoline prices and imposed strict rations early Friday prompting large protests in major cities across the country with angry crowds calling for the ouster of President Hassan Rouhan. The price of fuel has been increased by up to 300 percent in some locations exacerbating the fears of protesters already struggling under extreme economic pressure as its economy worsens under U.S. sanctions.

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119:18 KJV Watching these hearings is like seeing SchifforBrains playing chicken with a brick wall and him expecting the wall to swerve. At what point do you finally realize the wall does not get hurt and your Party needs to stop even if the donors want him to go pedal to the metal? Oh well, it could not happen to a bigger pile of Schiff. So far you have three disgruntled employees who were canned for incompetence still thinking they know better than the President...

As the Trump coup proceeded yesterday some very key things arose from the pile of schiff that stank up the room. That dope masquerading as a news man Chris Wallace took the emotional bait set for him and the rest of the left wing media. “if you are not moved by the testimony of Marie Yovanovitch today, you don’t have a pulse.” Wallace's job is not to be "moved." This is also what the rest of the stooge media focused on- a shiny object to distract from what were to be the most significant discoveries of the day. Yovanovitch was the...

Hey, have you heard that Jeffery Epstein didn’t kill himself? I hear that too. That ought to be good enough to convict someone. Hillary maybe. If hearsay and memes are good enough to impeach the president, why not just go with it and solve the Epstein killing.

Attorney General William Barr delivered a hard-hitting speech at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention on Friday evening. – In the speech, the AG presented a vigorous defense of President Trump and his administration, and a pointed take-down of the Democrat-funded “resistance” and its repugnant, ongoing efforts to destroy the country from within. It’s more than an hour long, but well worth your time to watch. Below is a video of the speech, followed by key outtakes from the transcript: Outtakes (full transcript can be read here): Unfortunately, over the past several decades, we have seen steady encroachment on Presidential...

Heavy rainfall has been blamed for the spread of vast amounts of pig’s blood into rivers along the Korean border this week, following a cull of some 47,000 hogs amid an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF). A local NGO claims that blood from a nearby burial site, where some 47,000 pig carcasses had been disposed of, had seeped into the Imjin River due to heavy rainfall. South Korean authorities claim that the pigs had already been disinfected before being slaughtered and that there was a delay in the production of plastic containers for the carcasses. Nothing to see here:...

Trump: "We did nothing wrong -- and they're doing nothing.” Lest we forget: It was former President Barack Obama who turned loving America into a crime—an impeachable one. Obama successor President Donald Trump sincerely loves America—and that is his most unforgivable crime. The Soviet-style Live Impeachment Inquiry, getting saturation coverage by all television networks—including Fox News—is a farce, proven by the fact that even with wall-to-wall coverage, only 13 million people tuned in on its Opening Day.

Un-elected bureaucrats, the faceless horde, the Deep State, the swamp if you will, the little despots drunk with power and the ability to screw with people's lives, have risen up President Obama correctly said, ‘Elections have consequences.”...consequences that Democrats have never been able to fully accept in the past and especially not now. When Ronald Reagan became president, Democrats complained about being surrounded by so many Reagan appointees. They had to be reminded that they lost the election. And so it is with President Trump, but this time the opposition is fighting for what they see as their very existence,...

As the Schiff show trial continues in the Swamp, this paraphrase of Ernest Hemingway will apply. Ask not for whom the gavel falls; it falls for Paul Ryan. Each of Adam Schiff’s gavel strikes, that silences Republican members of the House Intelligence Committee’s Inquiry into an Impeachment of President Trump, drives home the failure of the former Republican Speaker of the House to support Trump. Paul Ryan helped put that gavel into Schiff’s hand.

Tired of all this #WINNING yet? Not even close. – Every stock market index set a new record-high close on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing above 28,000 for the first time, a level that no Democrat on the face of the earth could have imagined just three short years ago. Media outlets like CNBC of course attributed the weeks astonishing gains to good news on the trade front, which is partially valid. But let’s not kid ourselves here: Traders keep up with politics very closely, and they were also reacting to the confirmation that, in their ongoing...

An arctic blast left unseasonably early snow and ice all across the country last week. Apparently President Trump said mean things about Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch that made her feel bad…and threatened. Ms. Yovanovitch told investigators that when she learned Mr. Trump had criticized her in a July phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, “the color drained from my face.”“[I was] shocked, appalled, devastated that the president of the United States would talk about any ambassador like that to a foreign head of state,” Ms. Yovanovitch said. “It was a terrible moment.…I think I even had a physical reaction,” she said....

The initial failure of "quid pro quo" to generate a satisfactory narrative for impeachment within the ranks of voters inspired Democrat Party leaders to search for different terminology. The term they've settled on for now is "bribery." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) lamented that "our internal polls revealed that the Latin phrase 'quid pro quo' is too arcane for the average person to grasp. 'Bribery,' on the other hand is something even the most dense voter can understand—as we discovered from a bevy of focus groups. It has the added advantage of being one of the listed offenses in the...

President Trump pardoning two members of the US military in war crimes cases tonight and restoring the rank of another convicted in a war crimes case..... Israel investigating an air strike in Gaza this week that killed a family of eight..... Two missiles fired from Gaza early Saturday morning Israel time aimed at the city of Beersheba.... "So now they convict Roger Stone....... The House "impeachment inquiry" active on Newsdump Friday...... The BBC promoting an interview with Britain's Prince Andrew on this Newsdump Friday..... French police looking for witnesses at an international level as they investigate sexual abuse of minors...

In her decade of living and running with cancer, last year was Carol Chaoui’s toughest yet. But in 2019, she’s mounted a remarkable comeback. She has stage 4 breast cancer and stage 4 thyroid cancer, but Chaoui, now 56, finished the New York City Marathon on November 3 in 5:39:34—faster than 13-minute pace—even though she has tumors all over her body, including in her brain. And she mostly walked for the last 19 miles after stumbling several times in the early going. “I’m a pretty fast walker,” she quipped after the race. Chaoui was first diagnosed with breast cancer in...

Fitting metaphor for Obama (Secret Service codename was Renegade).

When the battleship USS Oklahoma turned over just 15 minutes after being hit by the first Japanese torpedo on 7 December 1941, 429 sailors and Marines were either already dead -- or soon would be. Men that somehow survived the initial nightmare of torpedoes, bombs, shrapnel, bullets, and fire had to swim through another level of hell to reach the relative safety of land. Those that remained inside the flooding ship would spend days in pitch-black darkness with no food, water, and what breathable air they had was being slowly used up while they hoped for rescue. 78 years later,...

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!! TRANSLATED FROM UKRAINIAN ON INSTAGRAM: Miss Ukraine Universe Anastasia Subbota is not allowed in the US to the finals of the competition [Miss Universe 2019]. The girl was denied an American visa. Director of the competition Anna Filimonova is trying to solve the problem with the documents. But there is very little time - the finale will take place in Atlanta on December 8. For the 14 years of the Miss Ukraine Universe contest, this is the first time the Consulate has not given the winner the entry permit to America. “There are 12 days left...

No, hidden under 30 paragraphs, the Post tried to drop this bombshell hoping no one would notice [emphasis added]:The shift came after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee conducted focus groups in key House battlegrounds in recent weeks, testing messages related to impeachment. Among the questions put to participants was whether “quid pro quo,” “extortion” or “bribery” was a more compelling description of Trump’s conduct. According to two people familiar with the results, which circulated among Democrats this week, the focus groups found “bribery” to be most damning. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the results have not...

When it comes to trashing President Trump, there's nothing nastier than an "MSNBC Republican"--the ilk whose livelihood depends on dishing out a dependable stream of bile about the president. On today's Morning Joe, MSNBC Republican Elise Jordan did her best to promote her job security, calling the president "a classic scumbag." Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

Most people don't understand how much the Washington establishment and the federal employees hate President Trump. I live in Montgomery County Maryland. Many of my neighbors are government employeeds, political types and government contractors. They hate President Trump with a passion and brag about how they undermine and sabotage his presidency. Their goal is not just to impeach the president. It is to completely destroy him and to send him, his family and his close supporters to prison. They can not ever be pleased with Trump. Tnere is nothing President Trump can do that will ever satisfy them. They will...