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Who’s Afraid of Nancy Pelosi?

Normally, a party that gives away $2 trillion without worrying about where the money will come from can buy itself at least a few votes. But Donald Trump’s tax cut remains remarkably unpopular, and Republicans barely mention it on the campaign trail — in fact, Democrats are running against the tax cut more than Republicans are running on it. Nor are Republicans talking much about...

The Empty Chair

John McCain is the senior Senator from Arizona. First elected to the United States Senate in 1986, replacing the retiring Conservative Senator Barry Goldwater, McCain has had an illustrious political career to match his distinguished military career as a US Navy pilot (surviving the incident aboard the USS Forrestal and later capture by the North Vietnamese). An early proponent for...

Ooops ! "Biker For Trump" Displays Nazi Tattoo On His Arm

DO HIM LIKE GADDAFI’ — ANTIFA PROTESTERS CAUGHT ON VIDEO THREATENING TO KILL THE PRESIDENT

One year ago, President Trump told the American people that there was “violence on both sides” during the Charlottesville riots. Those riots pitted neo-Nazis marching in the city against Antifa and other progressive groups. The powder keg was lit and both sides committed acts of violence against each other. The riots left many injured and one activist lost her life when awhite...

Obama’s “Fundamental Transformation Of America” Is Alive And Well In The Democrat Party

If anyone from the left suggests that they just want to make America a better place in which to live and that they just want to fix what’s broken in our society, they’re lying. Liberals are more concerned with taking away the tax breaks that President Trump has given them. Liberals are more concerned with forcing government medicare-for-all on us, which, after Obamacare, we know is...

The Real Battle In Today's America

Ever since Trump won the election there has only been one true question concerning him and his presidency.  Would effort by his supporters, time, and the effect of the second law of thermodynamics("things fall apart") on the "resistance", all work to "normalize" Donald Trump and his presidency?  From the beginning there has been a constant battle on one side to make Trump seem like...

More than 100 newspapers will publish editorials decrying Trump's anti-press rhetoric

"The dirty war on the free press must end." That's the idea behind an unusual editorial-writing initiative that has enlisted scores of newspapers across America. The Boston Globe has been contacting newspaper editorial boards and proposing a "coordinated response" to President Trump's escalating "enemy of the people" rhetoric. "We propose to publish an editorial on August 16 on...

Trump Rages on Twitter and Hangs With Bikers

Politics Rain pouring, Trump rages on Twitter and hangs with bikers  JILL COLVIN and JEFF HORWITZ,Associated Press Sun, Aug 12 7:54 AM EDT     President Donald Trump stands in the rain with members of Bikers for Trump and supporters after saying the Pledge of Allegiance, Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018, at the clubhouse of Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. (AP...

Omarosa Manigault Newman releases recording made in White House Situation Room

Omarosa Manigault Newman, the fired White House aide seeking publicity for her new memoir about her time in the Trump administration, said in an interview Sunday that the way Chief of Staff John F. Kelly dismissed her involved a “threat” and shared an audio recording of Kelly she said she made in the Situation Room.  The recording was played on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” where...

Mitt Romney’s statement on the Charlottesville anniversary strikes a chord Trump cannot

“It must be electorally disqualifying to equivocate on racism.” Mitt Romney talks to supporters in Orem, Utah in June 2018. The US Senate candidate in Utah released a lengthy statement on the eve of the anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.George Frey/Getty Images Mitt Romney is calling on Americans to “categorically and consistently reject racism...

GOP lawmaker's son blasts father's role in Strzok saga, wants to flip his seat

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The son of a prominent House Republican blasted his father's role in the saga leading up to FBI agent Peter Strzok's ouster, less than a day after he announced that he was supporting the Democratic candidate to succeed his father. "I'm deeply embarrassed that Peter Strzok's career was ruined by my father's political grandstanding. That committee hearing was...

"President" Trump Aims Childish Twitter Rant At Ex-Game Show Contestant/White House Adviser

Donald J. Trump‏Verified account @realDonaldTrump Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard.... ..really bad things. Nasty to...

Pelosi: Voting for Democrats Gives 'Leverage' to Illegal Immigrants

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) encouraged people to vote for Democrats in November's midterm elections to give "leverage" to illegal immigrants in the immigration debate. Pelosi made the remark during a Wednesday press conference in El Paso, Texas, alongside immigration rights activists and Texas Democratic congressional nominee Veronica Escobar. Pelosi argued that...

China may end up inadvertent winner from Trump's aluminum tariffs

LAUNCESTON, Australia (Reuters) - It’s probably not what U.S. President Donald Trump had in mind when imposing tariffs on aluminum imports, but it looks likely that some of the big winners from the 10 percent import tax will be China’s producers. A worker checks aluminium rolls at a warehouse inside an industrial park in Binzhou, Shandong province, China April 7, 2018. China...

Alaska seafood industry braces for China tariff pain

SEWARD, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska fishermen are used to coping with fickle weather and wild ocean waves. Now they face a new challenge: the United States’ trade war with China, which buys $1 billion in Alaskan fish annually, making it the state’s top seafood export market. Icicle Seafoods plant is seen in Seward, Alaska, U.S., August 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yereth Rosen Beijing,...

The Truth Behind Chicago’s Violence

http://www.nationalmemo.com/the-truth-behind-chicagos-violence/ But don’t believe the hype. There are not, in fact, more murders in Chicago than ever before. The number of homicides peaked at 920 in 1991. The death toll last year was 674 — and that was down 15 percent from 2016. This year, even with the latest frenzy of shootings, the number of homicides is 25 percent lower than...

Laura Ingraham Has Been Peddling White Nationalism For Years: A Reminder

David Duke Gives Ingraham’s Anti-Immigrant Speech A Thumbs Up https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kkk-leader-david-duke-gives-ingraham-anti-immigrant-speech-a-thumbs-up ------------------------------------------------------------- Laura Ingraham Has Been Peddling White Nationalism For Years: A Reminder To Ingraham, the so-called alt-right is just a “more traditional”...

Photo-Essay: Two Parks, a Flower Festival and a River

Photo-Essay: Two Parks, a Flower Festival and a River In and around Luoyang, in Henan Province, one of China's ancient Dynasty Capitals, there has been much to see besides the White Horse Temple and the Longmen Grottoes, and I have been lucky enough to experience some of it. The first time I was there, I was walking out of the hotel and just outside a wedding party was being...

Photo Essay: A Traditional Chinese Wedding - Very Red in Red China

Photo Essay: A Traditional Chinese Wedding - Very Red in Red China The fact is that the colour red is used considerably in China because it represents good fortune. Lots of red is used here. This is my recording of the wedding of my Australian teaching colleague Peter to a Chinese woman. (I think he realized how smart I was to marry one.) In China, one legally marries at a...

What is the best Science Fiction series ever?

For the science fiction buff , here is a list of some science fiction series that has appeared on television, both past and present. For this list, I have only included live action sci-fi series that appeared on TV. So no movies, comic book stories, anime, ect.. The focus is on series which involved aliens and/or space travel. Travelling between universes, dimensions, realities,...

NBC Ignores Own Reporter and Crew Assaulted By Antifa in Charlottesville

On the one-year anniversary of the deadly Charlottesville protests, white supremacists and radical leftists known as Antifa descended on the Virginia town once more to commit more violence. Late Saturday night, NBC News reporter Cal Perry and his crew were in the thick of it as Antifa members ganged up on them and attacked. The next morning, NBC’s Sunday Today ignored the attack and...

DESTROYING AMERICAN HISTORY AND IT'S PLACE IN THE WORLD

Watching the past twenty years unfold in the political arena, I've become increasingly convinced that our founding fathers must be turning in their graves when they see what our politics has devolved into. It is almost as if we're repeating the mistakes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as the infant wilderness struggled with developing an identity that would take them from...

Stephen Miller's uncle calls him an 'immigration hypocrite' in a scathing op-ed

Stephen Miller's uncle calls him an 'immigration hypocrite' in a scathing op-ed Ellen Cranley  White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller was called out in an op-ed by his uncle, who called him an "immigration hypocrite." David S. Glosser traces his and Miller's family origins from Eastern Europe to a series of successful family businesses in the US — a journey...

Trump's tactic to attack black people and women: insult their intelligence

Donald Trump has an endless and varied supply of insults and playground taunts to hurl at opponents but appears to have a one-track mind when it comes to African Americans and women. An analysis of the Trump Twitter Archive website shows that the US president has used the words “dumb” or “dummy” 236 times since 2011, and on 14 occasions since becoming taking office in January last...