Trade deficit rises to 10-year high under Trump

Via: Larry Hampton  •  Op/Ed  •  6 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  5 years ago

The annual U.S trade deficit reached a record high in 2018, despite President Trump’s efforts to reduce foreign purchases and steer consumers toward American-made products. The difference between the value of goods and services imported and exported by the U.S. rose $68.8 billion from 2017 to...

Cohen says Trump directed him to pay for poll rigging

Via: Larry Hampton  •  News & Politics  •  11 Comments  •  5 years ago

“at "the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.”

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's former "fixer" Michael Cohen said Thursday that he paid the head of a small technology company thousands in 2015 to rig online polls at "the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump. Cohen was responding to a report in The Wall Street Journal that...

Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief

Via: Larry Hampton  •  News & Politics  •  14 Comments  •  6 years ago

President Donald Trump has begun polling advisers about whether he has the legal authority to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to two people familiar with the matter, who described the President as newly furious at the Fed chief as markets tumble. Earlier this year,...

Brett McGurk, top U.S. envoy in ISIS fight, resigns

Via: Larry Hampton  •  News & Politics  •  3 Comments  •  6 years ago

Brett McGurk, special presidential envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, had been planning to exit his post in February 2019. But sources tell CBS News that he informed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that he will accelerate his departure due to a strong disagreement with President...

The True Meaning of Christmas Paganism, Sun Worship and Commercialism

Via: Larry Hampton  •  Religion & Ethics  •  8 Comments  •  6 years ago

Christmas is the celebration of the time when the days start to lengthen, which in the Northern Hemisphere, is in the middle of winter. Many religions in history have claimed the winter solstice as a holy day. The "reason of the season" is a combination of different traditions. It includes sun...

How Donald Trump Broke the Spell of Evangelicalism

Via: Larry Hampton  •  Op/Ed  •  15 Comments  •  6 years ago

“Suddenly, we could see how as white, middle-class, Christian Americans, we were more like the Roman conquerors and religious Pharisees in scripture...”

When you’re inside evangelicalism, when you’ve grown up in it, and it’s the only way you know how to do “Christian,” when most people you know and respect live by its tenets and defend against those who don’t or even gently dismiss those who are different, when there are radio stations and...

A DC neighborhood group just voted to rename the street in front of the Saudi embassy for Jamal Khashoggi

Via: Larry Hampton  •  News & Politics  •  3 Comments  •  6 years ago

An effort underway in Washington, D.C., would create an in-your-face way to remind Saudi Arabia of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Rename the street in front of the Saudi embassy in honor of the slain journalist. The first hurdle for this proposed honor was cleared Wednesday when a...

In a Rare Move, South Park Admits It Was Wrong About Climate Change

Via: Larry Hampton  •  Now Trending  •  3 Comments  •  6 years ago

“super cereal”

In the months after Al Gore released his apolitical, urgent documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, which outlined the looming horrors of climate change, some audiences were quick to laugh him off as an alarmist. Back then, climate change was hardly a partisan worry, it was simply something many...

Mystery benefactor returns sacred pipe tied to U.S.-Dakota war

Via: Larry Hampton  •  News & Politics  •  19 Comments  •  6 years ago

A sacred pipe linked to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 and sold at auction in Boston Saturday has been returned to its native home in Minnesota by the person who paid $40,000 for it, the Prairie Island tribal council president said Monday. ~LINK~

Trump pulls U.S. from Iran nuclear deal, to revive sanctions

Via: Larry Hampton  •  News & Politics  •  227 Comments  •  6 years ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was reimposing economic sanctions on Iran and pulling the United States out of an international agreement aimed at stopping Tehran from obtaining a nuclear bomb. ~LINK~