I am a boxing fan and one of the best traditions of the sport is the referees admonition given to both pugilists, just before the bout commences to protect yourself at all times. This advice makes sense not just for prizefighting, but also for life in general. We live in a rough world, and even if wed rather live in blissful ignorance, evil stalks the earth.

Our Founding Fathers understood this condition full well, and guaranteed, via the Second Amendment, an inalienable right of self-protection  against tyrants, against invaders, against criminals  against anyone who would seek to steal Americans hard-won liberty.

The 2016 electoral shockwave, which culminated in our countrys first ever citizen-president with no prior government experience, was in some ways a reaction by  tens of millions of citizens who felt defenseless in the face of another kind of threat. For decades, they came to believe, the reigning establishment in both major political parties encouraged globalist economic policies that they see as punishing working-class Americans while enriching well-connected elites.

Imbalanced trade deals with many countries, especially with China, massively outsourced American jobs, without trade fairness or reciprocity. Porous borders flooded the workforce with plentiful cheap labor, a disaster for working-class strivers. Donald Trump was widely mocked for describing, both on the campaign trail and in his inaugural address, the American carnage that unfolded across the land. But his honesty struck a deep chord among tens of millions of voters struggling with stagnant wages, government dependency, a loss of confidence, and epidemic levels of substance abuse among too many hopeless citizens.

The same dynamic is present in the debate over guns that is roiling our nation in the wake of the killing of 14 students and three educators at Marjory Stoneman High School in Parkland, Fla. To liberal champions of further gun control, the lesson seems obvious: ban the sale of the weapon used in the Valentines Day rampage, close the gun show loophole, and tighten up controls on other firearms as well.

But this approach is predicated on the same logic that informed trade policy and failed immigration laws and any number of social engineering schemes that dominated U.S. politics until Donald Trump came along. What these Big Government advocates are saying is, essentially, the same thing they said in the NAFTA debate and at so many other times: Let the trained experts -- the government professionals -- protect you.  Except, as we saw with dreadful clarity in Parkland, government failed at every single level, from the FBI to local law enforcement to the public school system itself. These abdications of competence and accountability provide the latest evidence that Americans, as heirs to the patriots of 1776, cannot outsource our self-defense solely to government. We will not, thanks to our Bill of Rights, ever surrender to a government monopoly over weapons.

In contrast to the abject failures of state actors in Parkland stands the incredible bravery of former NRA instructor Stephen Willeford in Sutherland Springs, Texas, who used his AR-15  yes, that gun  to twice shoot and nearly incapacitate the gunman who had killed 26 people and wounded 20 more when he opened fire in a church. The barefoot Willeford (pictured) also enlisted another heroic nearby civilian in a pickup truck, Johnnie Langendorff, to follow and neutralize the fleeing murderer. This unlikely pair of citizen patriots gave chase at speeds up to 95 miles per hour before the assassin crashed and died.

The point of this contrast  government failure in Parkland vs. private citizen heroics in Sutherland Springs -- demonstrates anew that our protection is too important to be relegated to government alone. In the case of schools, the protection of our precious children must rise to at least the level of seriousness with which we already guard our money, jewelry, sports arenas, and offices.

Diffusion of power was a central theme of the election of 2016. Weve had enough of Washington, D.C., siphoning the rights and prosperity of the rest of the country for the benefit of the Beltway-based power structure. Among those sacred rights is the right to bear arms and protect ourselves -- at all times.

Protect Yourself at All Times a Second Amendment Mantra


The man who gunned down John Lennon in New York said he feels "more and more
shame" every year for the murder.

Mark David Chapman, now 63, told a parole board in August about his remorse
during **[his 10th failed attempt](https://news.sky.com/story/john-lennons-
killer-mark-chapman-has-parole-rejected-for-tenth-time-11480850)** to secure
release.

New York prison officials released a transcript of the hearing on Thursday.

Chapman is serving a prison term of 20 years to life at the Wende correctional
facility in the state.

Image: Lennon was shot dead in front of his wife Yoko Ono

He shot dead the Beatles icon outside his Manhattan apartment on 8 December
1980.

Chapman told parole board members he thinks every day about how Lennon was
"incredible" to him when the singer autographed an album on the day of the
shooting.

The Board of Parole denied Chapman's release stating it "would be incompatible
with the welfare and safety of society and would so deprecate the serious
nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law".

Their decision statement said: "Your criminal history report reflects that
this is your only crime of record.

"However, that does not mitigate your actions."

Lennon's widow Yoko Ono, 85, has said she fears for the safety of herself and
the singer's two sons, Julian and Sean, if Chapman was freed.

John Lennons killer feels more and more shame each year


The Italian clear brandy, made from the grape skins, seeds and pulp left over from winemaking, has an unfortunate habit of being rough as hell, acetone-smelling and forced upon you at the end of a spag bol n Chianti trat meal if you decline the limoncello. Even Italians are snooty about it.

But apparently weve just not tried the right stuff. As summer limps wanly into autumn, a shot of Italian firewater brings Mediterranean spirit to darkening evenings, and it also happens to be the perfect spirit for those trendy types with no-waste ethics.

Say hello, then, to Morso, a new dedicated grappa bar in St Johns Wood (the new Dalston, sort of) where directors Barak Peled and Barry McCaughley are trying to get Londoners to give the underdog spirit a chance.

Given grappas rep, Peled and McCaughley knew they were fighting an uphill battle. But we reached out to producers, purchased and tasted dozens of different grappas and discovered that this is easily the most versatile but underappreciated beverage out there. As such they have more than 20 different grappa labels on the menu, from the berryish Fragolino Cru to the intensely smoky, mezcal-like cask-aged Capovilla, infused with tobacco and a range of monovarietals  single-origin grappas made from specific grapes such as Chardonnay and Moscato. Such is their commitment, all spirits bar grappa are barred from their bar: no vodka, gin, rum or whisky  but we have a grappa to emulate each of these, very often much better.

Thus, when it comes to cocktails, expect some grape twists on the classics.

A Morso negroni replaces gin with juniper-infused grappa; a grapparita mixes grappa with limoncello, triple sec and lime; while the espresso martini is a combination of coffee and limoncello. Just kidding. Its coffee and grappa.

If nightmares of nail varnish remover spirit on holiday still haunt you, you might prefer to ease yourself into grappa. Pastaio in Soho has a gentle introduction in the form of its Prosecco slushies, spiked with lemon and Barbara grappa, where the grape spirit  reminiscent of holidays along the Italian coastline, enthuses owner Stevie Parle  lends perfumed plummy richness to the silly-fun frozen cocktail. Its delicious, floral and a bit boozy too, he adds. And if you want to experiment from the safety of your own home, buy a bottle of the gloriously named Dappa grappa, a mellow Devon-distilled English grappa made from the stems and skins from surrounding vineyards.

Ultimately, grappas just a bit cooler than pretentious artisan gin. Go on, have a skinful.

The re-invention of Grappa


A mural of Beto ORourke in Austin, Texas was recently vandalized with anti-Beto writing.

Watch Beto ORourke Mural In Austin Gets Vandalized With Anti-Beto Messages


Chef Heston Blumenthal has revealed a handy trick he uses to improve the taste of any glass of wine.

The Michelin-starred chef discussed his recent epiphany during an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald - and it will change the way you experience wine.

The trick, as explained during an experiment by the British chef, is to take a sip of wine while picturing someone I love dearly.

Then, a second sip should be taken while imagining someone you really dislike.

The difference is marked according to the chefs dining partner, who found in the second theres a bitter taste not apparent in the first.

According to Blumenthal, the explanation for the taste variations is the connection between a persons stomach and memory - which he discovered in his exploration of the significance of the relationship between the brain and the gut alongside the University of Marseilles.

It might be the single greatest discovery that Ive ever made, the imaginative chef said.

The study of neurogastronomy - how the brain perceives flavour - is relatively new, according to Harvard University, however, scientists and chefs are working together to learn more about the link.

New research from scientists at Columbia University has found the tongue may not be necessary for our internal perception of taste - and it is possible to manipulate flavour by activating certain regions of the brain.

At Blumenthals restaurant The Fat Duck, he has already implemented some of the findings.

For example, when one orders the Sounds of the Sea, they are served a seafood meal alongside a pair of headphones playing beach sounds - which apparently makes the fish taste fresher.

While the research has the potential to change the way people eat, Chef Blumenthals initial finding means youll never have to splurge on an expensive bottle of wine again - as you can just think positive thoughts while you drink it.

Chef Heston Blumenthal explains how to make any glass of wine taste better


LOS ANGELES, Sept. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SIMCom wireless, a wholly owned
subsidiary of SUNSEA AIOT (002313.SZ), a world-leading Internet of Things
(IoT) module supplier, announces today they are to showcase their latest
solutions at Mobile World Congress Americas 2018, this September 12-14 at the
Los Angeles Convention Center, CA.

SIMCom Wireless will demonstrate the company's ability to help corporate
clients create seamless global enterprises via the migration of services to
IoT-based platforms across various verticals.

Capstone: SIMCom and Capstone recently cooperated to create a unique portfolio
of water meters and SW applications for municipalities and water suppliers to
intelligently transform their software applications. Utilizing an Open Sense
DMA (Device Management Application) as a robust cloud-based management
solution and full integration with a suite of devices, SIMCom and Capstone
were able to provide features such as OTA, command and control system for
customers across the globe. Most carriers have agreed to fast-track
certification of Capstone's products which contain SIMCom's SIM7000A modules,
supporting NB-IoT/eMTC/GSM this year.

DataRemote: A specialist in IoT wireless communications solutions tailored for
every enterprise level, for the first time, chose SIMCom's SIM7100A as its 4G
LTE Cat. 3 Modules to provide its LTE network. In the future, the company
plans to adopt the Cat. 4 module embedded with the SIM7600X-H designed for the
North American market.

Coffee Leo: SIMCom and Coffee Leo will showcase a connected coffee vending
machine designed for a range of self-service scenarios. Using a touchscreen,
users can order coffee, pay, and monitor the machine's status. The Coffee Leo
IoT solution allows operators to remotely control the devices and send data
through an embedded cloud-based module (SIM7600A-H for business in the US or
SIM7600CE for China). All software applications of the coffee machine are the
same and can be switched seamlessly.

Connected Massage Master: SIMCom and Momoda will showcase the mini-spa zone
service for massage chairs. Visitors will be able to see how to work through
SIMCom 4G modules(SIM7500A) to make payment and how the smart massage chair
connects to Momoda's revenue and data management platform which collects and
transmits machine data. Momoda and their partners, can use the app to monitor
and manage their entire network of machines and can be alerted to potential
issues, reducing downtime and costs.

Ms. Wendy Wang, CEO of SIMCom said: "Over the past 16 years, SIMCom has become
the leader in module hardware manufacturing. With the aim of building the
world's number one IoT enterprise, we continue to strengthen our collaboration
with local companies in the US and globally. To this end, we plan to invest
more in the high-end market and will actively seek strong partners to grow
together."

## **About SUNSEA IoT**

SUNSEA IoT is a pioneer in the Internet of Things industry in China. We offer
a comprehensive portfolio of SIMCom and LongSung IoT modules and best-in-class
cloud services with Ayla technology. We also provide Artificial Intelligence
of Things solutions and services to telcos and customers in major IoT
industries. For more information, visit www.sunseagroup.com.

## **About SIMCom**

SIMCom Wireless Solutions, since its founding in 2002, has been an innovator
and pioneer in the cellular module industry with over 1,500 patents awarded.
SIMCom has certified 2G, 3G and LTE modules for all your IoT deployments,
including NB-IoT, Cat-M1, Cat-1 and Cat-4 certified for carriers in North
America and globally for more than 10,000 enterprise class-users. For more
information, visit www.simcomm2m.com.

SIMCom at MWCA2018 Forging Global Partnerships to Drive Seamless IoT Globalization


(Natural News) When it comes to decor, go-to choices often include tasteful art pieces or some lovely houseplants that can add life to any room in your house. However, aside from beautifying your home, studies have shown that certain houseplants can help clear toxins in the air.

Polluted air can be found both indoors and outdoors, but theres no reason why we cant take measures to reduce the toxins in our own homes. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), indoor air can contain more pollutants than outdoor air.

Polluted indoor air can cause the symptoms of a condition called sick building syndrome, and these include fogginess, a lack of concentration, and tiredness. The longer youre indoors in an area with poor air quality, the higher your chances are of experiencing these symptoms.

If you have allergies or respiratory conditions like asthma, breathing in the polluted indoor air can also cause, coughing, dizziness, headaches, or wheezing. The ironic thing is, even the cleaning products we use also contribute to indoor air pollution due to the many harmful chemicals that they contain. (Related: Another way to clean your air: Salt lamps purify the air and charge it with healthy negative ions.)

Plants help reduce carbon dioxide levels in the air, and they release oxygen. Through this breathing process, plants also help filter various gases and compounds such as potentially harmful volatile organic compounds (VOC).

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Based on research from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), having at least one medium-sized houseplant per 100 square feet in your home can help eliminate VOCs. If you keep at least two to four houseplants for every 100 square feet, you can remove a whopping 87 percent of air toxins in about 24 hours.

By taking good care of these houseplants, you can also boost their toxin-clearing properties.

Below are five indoor plants that can help you clear toxins from your home:

You can read more articles about plants that can keep the air in your home clean at GreenLivingNews.com.

5 toxin-clearing plants you should have in your home


Huaweis new P20 flagship has a notch. Thats okay  loads of phones have launched with notches this year. What Huawei has done different is introduce a feature that lets you turn the notch off. Very simply, this setting changes the status bar to black, which effectively camouflages the cut-out containing the phones front-facing camera and speaker.

Its not completely seamless, but as the pictures below show (tweeted by Stefan Constantine) its pretty damn good. At a glance, it just looks like the phone has a thicker top bezel, although if you squint you can see where the notch ends and the screen begins.

Huawei has done well here, as handling notches has become a bit of a burden for Android OEMs and developers. The Essential Phone was the first handset with a notch, but most phonemakers have since copied Apples take, which goes for a slightly broader cutout.

Google is also having to deal with this sudden change to so many phones user interfaces, and in the latest version of Android it included display cutout support. However, this feature is mainly for developers, who can use it to test how their apps will interact with notches, making sure crucial bits of information dont get hidden by accident.

But perhaps introducing a feature like Huaweis will be next for Android. I certainly know a few Apple users who would like to turn off the notch in their iPhone X.

You can turn off the notch on the Huawei P20


On Friday, The New York Times reported that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had secretly recorded the man who is now president discussing potential payments covering the story of former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who claims to have had an affair with Trump.

That report touches on an issue at the center of an ongoing legal battle involving the Trump team and adult film star Stormy Daniels, who also says she had an affair with Trump  in short, what did the president know, and when did he know it?

Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti wants whatever answer can be provided via any audio recordings that Cohen made of the president. He responded to the news of a tape of Trump discussing hush money by re-upping a past call he made for the Trump tapes to be released.

Captioning a retweet of a video of remarks of his from May, Avenatti wrote:

In the original video, he called on all of those audio recordings to be released for both public consumption and Congressional scrutiny. He pushed the idea for some time that was eventually confirmed by Rudy Giuliani that Trump knew more about hush money given his client than he let on.

The tape that came to light Friday includes Trump discussing buying the rights to McDougals story from AMI, a Trump-aligned media company that had previously purchased the rights to the story from McDougal herself. Among the specifics is that Trump wanted Cohen to use a check for the payment  which was never made  for effective documentation.

McDougals lawyer Carol Heller indicated Friday that she had no prior knowledge of Trump and Cohen seeking to take on the rights to her clients story themselves.

McDougal was formally freed from her agreement with AMI earlier this year after the story of Stormy Daniels and the $130,000 in hush money Cohen sent her emerged.

Daniels pursued her own case with her lawyer Michael Avenatti against Cohen and Trump for some time earlier this year before the criminal investigation into Cohen emerged. That investigation encompasses issues including both McDougals and Daniels stories.

Cohen has been backed into a corner, thanks to that investigation, and left without the backing of the president, who has chosen to distance himself. That could cost him if Cohen flips and cooperates with either the prosecutors behind the criminal investigation into his activities or Special Counsel for the Russia investigation Robert Muellers team.

Its not clear, though, that Cohen himself and any new animosity he has for the president could weigh on whether the Trump Tapes become publicly available. At least the one newly reported on Friday is in the governments possession, and any others no doubt are as well thanks to the government seizure of massive troves of files from Cohen earlier this year.

Avenatti has, actually, gotten information that may have come from the government out to the public before. He got information about Cohens financial activities from internal government reports; that information revealed the partnerships Cohen made with large corporations like Novartis and AT&T.

What consequences either Cohen or Trump may face as this scandal continues remain to be seen.

Michael Avenatti Responds To News Of Cohens Secret TrumpPlaymate Payoff Recording


Bette Midler is the latest example of liberal Democrat insanity:

Hamas terrorists stormed the Israeli border on Monday in an attack that was planned for several days.

 52 people were killed.

The liberal Western media blamed President Trump for the dead Hamas supporters.

Liberal Logic Bette Midler Blames Ahole Trump for Deaths of 52 Hamas Supporters Storming Israeli


Ted Cruz is not everyones favorite politician. In fact, he is one of the most despised Republicans in power right now, and is currently being challenged by one of the most progressive liberals the nation has ever seen, Beto ORourke. Cruz has been under a lot of pressure according to new reports that claim financial hardship for he and his wife, who recently whined about not being able to afford a second house any time soon.

Now, Ted has become yet another Republican victim of the airport swoop-in, as he was confronted Wednesday during his travels. Check out the awkward encounter below:

People responding to this tweet were in agreement with the protesters. We saved the best responses for you below:

Ted Cruz Humiliated By Angry Kavanaugh Protesters In Airport VIDEO


Hear internationally acclaimed bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel make his long-awaited return to the Royal Festival Hall on Friday 5 October.

Accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, he will perform a selection of his favourite operatic arias and popular songs.

To celebrate, we are offering readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to the performance at the Royal Festival Hall and an overnight stay for two with complimentary breakfast at the Park Plaza County Hall, London.

Located on the South Bank, the award-winning hotel is close to popular attractions such as Westminster Abbey, the Coca-Cola London Eye and the London Dungeon, and is home to the LItaliano Restaurant and Spectrum Bar.

To enter, sign in or register below and fill out the form with your details. If youre having trouble viewing the sign in and register links or the competition entry form, please try opening this page with an alternative browser.

Terms and Conditions: 18+. Promotion closes at 23:59 on Wednesday 26 September 2018. There is one prize of a pair of tickets to the 7.30pm Bryn Terfel performance on Friday 5 October at Royal Festival Hall, one nights accommodation for two adults in a Superior Double room at Park Plaza County Hall, London, on Friday 5 October and complimentary breakfast the following morning. Prize is valid for Friday 5 October 2018 only. Travel to and from the venues and any other expense incurred is the responsibility of the winner. The winner will be the first entry selected at random after the closing date and will be contacted by Friday 28 September 2018. The prize is non-transferable and there is no cash alternative. One online entry per person. Usual promotion rules apply, see www.standard.co.uk/rules. For further information, please write to Customer Care, Evening Standard Limited, Northcliffe House, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT. Promoter: Raymond Gubbay.

Win a pair of tickets to see Bryn Terfel at the Royal Festival Hall


Georgia lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday effectively punishing Delta Air Lines for its decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of last months school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

The states House and Senate passed a major a tax bill, which Republican lawmakers had amended to remove a sales tax exemption on jet fuel, The Associated Press reported. Delta, which is based in Atlanta, would have been the primary airline to benefit from the exemption.

Georgia Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle (R) was one of the main lawmakers pushing for the amendment after Delta announced it would no longer offer NRA members discounted fares following the Feb. 14 shooting in Florida. A gunman killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and injured over a dozen others, reigniting a fierce debate on gun control around the country.

A number of companies, ranging from banks to insurance providers to rental car brands, announced decisions to end formal and informal deals with the NRA in response to the companys staunch anti-gun control stance.

Cagle, however, saw Deltas decision as a direct attack on conservatives and vowed to undermine any legislation that might benefit the airlines.

Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back, Cagle wrote on Twitter on Monday.

I will kill any tax legislation that benefits @Delta unless the company changes its position and fully reinstates its relationship with @NRA. Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back.  Casey Cagle (@CaseyCagle) February 26, 2018

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal (R), who is serving his last year in office, criticized lawmakers attack on Delta as an unbecoming squabble.

Ours is a welcoming state, the epitome of Southern hospitality, Deal said on Wednesday. We were not elected to give the late-night talk show hosts further fodder for their monologues, or to act with the type of immaturity that has caused so many in our society to be skeptical about politics.

But the governor said he would sign the tax bill into law in whatever form the state House and Senate pass it.

Georgia Lawmakers Pass Bill Punishing Delta For Cutting Ties With NRA


On Wednesday the man Donald Trump labeled a brutal killer, the top dog in the European Union, Jean Claude Juncker, took his stuff to the White House.

European Commission spokesperson Margaritis Schinas said Wednesdays talks between Juncker and Trump, would seek to de-dramatize any potential tensions around trade.

For background on this important economic meeting read Ted Mallochs post from yesterday.

President Trump discussed the new developments at a presser in the Rose Garden at the White House:

HUGE NEWS TRUMP Secures Concessions From EU to Avoid Trade War VIDEO


Is the FBI trying to goad President Trump into firing the man in charge of supervising the Mueller probe? Thats what Sean Hannity and a handful of  Trumps Congressional allies think.

According to a report in Politico, Republicans in Congress are approaching a story about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein attempting to organize a palace coup with extreme caution, despite having twice nearly gathered the votes to remove him in the recent past.

On Friday, the NYT reported a bombshell story alleging that Rosenstein had tried to recruit administration officials to secretly tape conversations with the president in order to help justify removing Trump under the 25th amendment. Rosenstein vehemently denied the story, which was largely based on confidential memos written by former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. And others who were reportedly in attendance at meeting between McCabe and Rosenstein said the Deputy AG was being sarcastic when he suggested that the president be taped.

Meanwhile, Trump allies including Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan and Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz are saying that the story should be treated with suspicion. Jordan and Freedom Caucus leader Mark Meadows once filed articles of impeachment against Rosenstein. But now, both Meadows and Jordan intend to proceed with caution, telling Politico that he would like to see the memos that the story was based on.

House Freedom Caucus leaders Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, who led a charge to impeach Rosenstein this summer, have said they want to hear from Rosenstein and see documents allegedly describing the comments before they decide what to do. Thats awarded Rosenstein a courtesy theyve never given him in the past. I think Rod needs to come before Congress this week and explain under oath what exactly he said and didnt say, Meadows said at the Values Voters Summit Saturday. The newfound hesitation to oust Rosenstein highlights a cautious approach Trump allies have adopted as the Republican party barrels toward a potential bloodbath in the midterms. Some Republicans fear Trump firing Rosenstein now would only further energize Democrats making the case to voters that the president is corrupt and needs to be reined in by a Democratic House. In a Friday interview, Jordan, one of Rosensteins fiercest critics in Congress, sidestepped questions about whether the House should revisit Rosensteins impeachment or try to hold him in contempt of Congress. Rather, he said, a more focused push to obtain sensitive documents from the Justice Department  which Trumps allies say would expose anti-Trump bias and corruption the FBI  is the most urgent priority. I want to see those memos and evaluate them, said Jordan, who has clashed publicly with Rosenstein over access to documents and accused him of threatening House Intelligence Committee staffers, an allegation Rosenstein denied.

Politico cites two possible explanations for lawmakers hesitation: Republicans are running out of time before members devote themselves full-time to their reelection campaigns. Republicans are worried that the story could have been intentionally planted to provoke Rosensteins firing in order to improve Democrats chances of retaking the Senate AND the House (Trump actively moving to crush the Mueller probe would be quite the propaganda win for the Dems).

Sean Hannity took this latter theory a step further during his show on Friday evening, where he urged Trump not to fire Rosie and instead insisted that the story could have been a trap. He added that he had been told by multiple sources that the story was planted by unspecified enemies of Trump.

Still, a handful of conservative commentators, including Laura Ingraham, urged Trump to fire Rosenstein immediately. And for Trumps part, he hinted at a rally Friday night in Missouri that he planned to get rid of the lingering stench at the DOJ, which many interpreted as a hint that his firing is imminent.

Was NYT Story About Rosenstein Coup Attempt A Setup


Obama waltzed into the Greater Chicago Food Depository wearing a White Sox hat with his Obama Foundation camera crew in tow.

Leave it to Obama to make feeding the homeless and poor about himself.

Obama then tweeted about it, thanking the food bank for letting him crash.

OBAMA: Thanks to the Chicago @FoodDepository team for all you do and to the volunteers who are doing great work and let me crash today. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

The Obamas are set to become a billion-dollar brand soon off of book deals, speeches and Netflix videos.

Didnt Barack Obama once say At certain point youve made enough money?

At least he put some potatoes in a netted baggie for the poor while his crew captured it on camera.

Obama Makes Surprise Visit to Chicago Food Bank WITH HIS OWN CAMERA CREW VIDEO


(Natural News) TV personality Megyn Kelly rose up the ranks at Fox News over the course of several years, finally earning a coveted spot on prime-time with her own news magazine program that was highly successful.

But like all rising stars, eventually they fall, and Kellys fell dramatically after she asked then-GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump about his mistreatment of women as the first question in a Fox-hosted presidential debate.

Soon after, Kelly inked a deal with NBC and after her first attempt at revitalizing her news chops at the peacock network with a prime-time Sunday night show tanked, she joined the networks Today morning show, where she swore off politics and tried to become an accepted member of the liberal Left-wing media. (Related: Megyn Kelly joins fake news giant NBC News, where news liar Brian Williams used to work.)

For a while, it worked  sort of. Kelly never did generate the kind of ratings NBC bosses had hoped for. But this week her experiment in establishment journalism came to a screeching halt because she broke a cardinal rule of the Democrat Plantation: Appearing to insult black people as a rich lily-white chick.

Kelly made the unforgivable mistake of defending the use of blackface as part of a Halloween costume that accurately depicted the ethnicity of the person or character being played.

But what is racist? she asked a panel of guests earlier this week after the perpetually outraged Leftists at her network and beyond began kicking up a fuss about it. You truly do get in trouble if you are a white person who puts on blackface at Halloween or a black person who puts on a white face.

That was okay when I was a kid, as long as you were dressing like a character, she said, as the Leftist The Daily Beast reported. I dont see how that is racist on Halloween.

Well, its not  unless of course you personally want it to be. Then it is. But thats a choice, right?

Right. And NBC has made one too. The network fired her Thursday over the comments, the U.K.s Daily Mail reported.

Megyn Kelly is done. She is not ever coming back, one NBC executive told the British paper, despite Kellys tearful on-air apology Wednesday.

We are just working out the time of the announcement but mark my word  she is gone and will never be seen on NBC live again, the source said.

Then again, it could be worse (for her, that is). Heres the worst part, the executive added, her deal is a non-break deal, so she walks away with all that money. Thatd be $69 million, which is what remains on her contract.

Its disgusting, and heads should roll here because of it, said the executive.

Actually, whats disgusting is the lib medias hypocrisy when it comes to who gets the ax when certain things are said about certain people on-air and who doesnt. If youre a libtard you can pretty much say anything you want about white people, conservatives, and POTUS Donald Trump and the Leftist establishment media will let you get away with it.

In Kellys case, her former network made sure to give plenty of air time to fellow journalists Al Roker and Craig Melvin, both of whom are black of course, so they could denounce what she said (which was so obviously not racist it hardly bears mentioning to reasonable people).

As for Kelly, like her or despise her shes got nothing to apologize for. In fact, the vast majority of Americans  on the Left and on the Right  are sick and tired of speech Nazis (on the Left) who insist we all act a certain way and say (or not say) certain things, as a recent study about political correctness shows.

The only people who dont hate PC? Rich white liberals like those running NBC. Go figure.

Read more about the nonsensical behavior of politically correct Left at PoliticalCorrectness.news.

Megan Kelly fired from NBC over blackface Halloween costume suggestion proves there is no placatin


The U.S. government is, as a matter of policy, literally ripping children from the arms of their parents and putting them in fenced enclosures (which officials insist arent cages, oh no).

Fall of the American Empire


The college opened an investigation on Sociology professor Howard Finkelstein after video was posted online of him slamming his hand on a desk and screaming profanity at a conservative student.

Brookdale Community College is investigating a sociology professor after one of his students said the teacher was targeting him for being conservative.

The situation came to a head last week during a discussion about sexual harassment, Brookdale student Christopher Lyle said.

During the exchange, professor Howard Finkelstein slammed his hand on a desk and told Lyle, f your life, which was caught on video by another student.

Brookdale spokeswoman Avis McMillon said she could not comment because of the ongoing investigation. Finkelstein was not immediately available for comment.

But Lyle said the harassment has been happening all semester in Sociology 105, Intercultural Communication: The Person and the Process.

He said he believes hes being targeted because hes a conservative who supports President Donald Trump. He said he also believes that the negative attention has impacted his grade in the class.

Brookdale Professor Under Investigation after Cursing Conservative Student in Class VIDEO


Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski called Ivanka Trump sick for thanking President Donald Trump for reuniting immigrant children and parents who were separated as a result of his own administrations policies.

Brzezinski attacked the first daughter and other members of the Trump administration Friday after airing heart-wrenching footage of a Guatemalan mother seeing her 8-year-old daughter for the first time since they were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border 55 days earlier.

The footage was particularly difficult to watch when you realize this happened because of policies in the United States of America, Brzezinski said.

For some reason, some people who work for President Trump, including his daughter, are twisting this and actually thanking President Trump for moments like this, moments he created, she later noted.

Brzezinski continued: How sick, how sick for someone in the White House to tweet thank you to Donald Trump for these reunions. Because these reunions, they should have never happened. These children should never have been taken away from their parents. These children should have never been traumatized.

After the president countermanded his administrations family separation policy last month, Ivanka Trump tweeted a thank you to her dad for taking critical action ending family separation at our border.

Thank you @POTUS for taking critical action ending family separation at our border. Congress must now act + find a lasting solution that is consistent with our shared values;the same values that so many come here seeking as they endeavor to create a better life for their families  Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 20, 2018

Some 3,000 children are still separated from their parents because of the Trump administrations zero tolerance immigration policy, and 100 are under the age of 5, said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.

Last week, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite children separated from parents within 30 days, or within 14 days for those under age 5. HHS went back to court on Thursday to ask for an extension of the deadline.

Some of the children and their parents records have vanished or even been destroyed, according to sources in the Department of Homeland Security cited in a New York Times article Thursday. This raises the possibility that some children may never be reunited with their parents.

Hear what else Brzezinski had to say and watch the mother and child reunite in the video above.

Mika Brzezinski Rips Ivanka Trump For Hailing Dad On Migrant Kids


Microsoft first unveiled its Fluent Design changes for Windows 10 at Build last year, adding subtle animations to many apps and core parts of Windows. Weve seen a number of changes to the design of apps in the Fall Creators Update and the recent April 2018 Update, and now Microsoft is unveiling some future Fluent Design plans today at Build 2018.

During a session on Fluent Design at Build today, Microsoft unveiled a number of new subtle changes that will appear in Windows 10 apps this year. Microsoft is using shadow effects across Fluent Design, alongside modernizing context menus and implementing consistent back button controls in apps.

The changes make for a more refined version of Fluent Design, and should hopefully avoid the somewhat inconsistent implementation of Fluent across Microsofts own first-party Windows 10 apps. Third-party app developers will need to adopt the Fluent controls to get access to these newly designed elements in their apps, and even Microsoft will need to bring these to its Windows applications.

The shadow effects for Windows 10 apps provide more depth in apps, and Microsoft is also emphasizing the use of color. All of these subtle additions should add up to prettier apps, but Microsoft is also acting on feedback over the touch-focused UI elements of Fluent Design.

A number of the controls you find in Universal Windows Apps that use Fluent Design are rather large, and optimized for tablets and touchscreen devices. Microsoft admits that its heard from developers that the UI is too big, especially for mouse and keyboard users. Its balancing that out with smaller controls, and even a compact mode thats designed for more dense and complex applications.

Microsoft is even tweaking the back button placement in Windows 10 apps to make it more consistent. At the moment app developers can place a back button within the app, or at the very top, but its not always clear for Windows 10 users. The navigation changes for Fluent Design apps also include support for keyboard shortcuts and even the Xbox One controller to navigate around apps.

All of these Fluent Design changes are being introduced this year, allowing developers to take advantage of them in Windows 10 apps. Microsoft is slowly changing the design direction of Windows 10 and modernizing apps in the process, and these subtle changes help freshen up the overall look and feel of Windows.

Microsoft reveals the future of its Fluent Design for Windows 10


(Natural News) A shocking new report has revealed that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, personally made the decision to ban Alex Jones. While its true that when the average user gets banned, there may not be any humans involved at all, it turns out the attack on InfoWars started at the top of the social media network.

As The New York Times reported,  Zuckerberg got personally involved in the case of Alex Jones because of how volatile the situation had become.

His evaluation of Infowars took the form of a series of technical policy questions. They included whether the mass-reporting of Infowars posts constituted coordinated brigading, a tactic common in online harassment campaigns. Executives also debated whether Mr. Jones should receive a strike for each post containing hate speech (which would lead to removing his pages as well as the individual posts) or a single, collective strike (which would remove the posts, but leave his pages up).

According to the Times, an insider at Facebook revealed further that Zuckerberg was the first person to think about banning Jones  and that he discussed his next steps with Apple CEO Tim Cook before taking further action.

Apple ultimately beat Facebook to the censorship punch, prompting the Zuck to decide that Jones posts and pages would all be removed from the network. Not to be outdone, it seems the censorship zealots are already trying to up the ante. Liberal politicians are already demanding that more conservatives be censored  and not just on Facebook, but across the entire internet.

Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, recently called on Big Tech to do more than just take down InfoWars.

Infowars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses sites like Facebook and YouTube to tear our nation apart. These companies must do more than take down one website. The survival of our democracy depends on it, Murphy declared over Twitter.

Most liberty-loving Americans would say that preserving our First Amendment right is whats integral to the survival of democracy in the United States  not blatant censorship of conservative viewpoints. Coloring censorship as a means to preserve freedom is about as Orwellian as you can get. The Ministry of Truth was the ministry of propaganda, after all.

Mark Zuckerberg and other Big Tech leaders may have crowned themselves as arbiters of truth, but their purpose is no different: They are eliminating divergent thought, one step at a time.

First it was the war on fake news, now the tech industry is banning conservatives under the guise of protecting the masses from alleged hate speech. Under the hate speech paradigm, virtually any opinions or thoughts that go against the left-wing grain can be targeted. Ultimately, Silicon Valley giants have given themselves the power to silence anyone, for any reason, at any time.

Mike Adams, founder of Natural News and REAL.video, recently called out Big Tech. Its clear that this censorship effort was a coordinated, criminal racketeering effort. Number one is that the Department of Justice should now arrest the CEOs of all of these companies: Google, YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, all those who censored InfoWars. They should be arrested right now and charged with RICO Act violations. They are running a criminal racket, an online racket with the purpose of silencing all voices with which they disagree, Adams declared.

See the rest of Adams statement below, and check out more banned content at REAL.video  a video-sharing network where freedom of speech still exists.

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(Natural News) For health-minded consumers, knowing that the organic label is something they can trust is of utmost importance. But now, it seems lawmakers are seeking to make changes to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB). And as you might suspect, these are the kinds of changes that could spell disaster for organic food as we know it.

The NOSB was created back in 1990 as a supervising body for the National Organic Program. The organization is made up of 15 volunteer members. Current members include organic producers, environmentalists and conservationists, consumer and public interest advocates, and a scientist, among others. The board member requirements were designed to ensure representation is balanced, and to inspire trust in the NOSB overall. The panel must be comprised of a certain number of individuals from each area, and by design, this is supposed to help protect organics against special interest groups like the agriculture industry.

But all that could change, under a new scheme designed to give politicians (and perhaps indirectly, Big Ag) more power than the board.

Congress, in their infinite wisdom, has proposed two major changes to the NOSB  changes that would ultimately weaken the power of the NOSB, if not render the board obsolete entirely. What are these harebrained ideas from our elected officials?

As Civil Eats reports, Congress would, for one, like the NOSB to allow employees of organic farmers or producers to be permitted to have board positions. And secondly, Congress has proposed that they begin allowing politicians to sidestep the NOSBs authority to approve substances such as the fertilizers and pesticides used in organic production.

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OrganicConsumers.org reports that the 2018 Farm Bill would also require the NOSB to consult with the EPA and FDA when considering whether to allow a pesticide or any other non-organic substance approved by those agencies in organic. Further, the bill would give the Secretary of Agriculture the power to put pressure on the NOSB to expedite their review of industry petitions to allow the use of a non-organic post-harvest handling substance in organic foods, provided the product is related to food safety.

So, how long do you think it will take some bought-off politician to quietly approve a toxic product from Bayer-Monsanto for use in organic food?

For consumers and members of the organic industry alike, this latest move by Congress is seriously disturbing. Not only are they trying to take power away from the NOSB, but they are trying to corrupt the organization and are literally paving the way for special interests groups to have their way with organic food.

The 2018 Farm Bill, titled Agriculture and Nutrition Act (HR2) has already been given an F from the National Organic Coalition. The coalition declared that the new measures proposed by Congress are unnecessary and weaken the authority of the NOSB  a sentiment many people share, no doubt.

Proponents of the Farm Bill claim that the NOSB is a dinosaur, holding organic farmers back from the latest innovations. Others have been critical of the fact that the NOSB primarily consists of small farmers and business owners, claiming that this leaves larger operations (like Del Monte or Driscolls) unrepresented. But whether or not these concerns are fair is debatable; large-scale farms that are new to the organic industry may be less concerned with upholding the integrity of organic food.

Jay Feldman, executive director of Beyond Pesticides, commented, There are so many large companies getting involved with organic that do not have the history with organic, and that makes them less than optimal members of the NOSB.

They dont have the insight into organic practices, he contended.

If a Del Monte employee replaces a small-scale family farmer, for example, youre undercutting the integrity of the organic seal, Feldman added. Feldman was an NOSB member from 2010 to 2015. He added that many people who are critical of organics are really steeped in the pesticide industry.

Ultimately, the 2018 Farm Bill seems dead-set on undermining the integrity of organic food, and the government is once again attacking food freedom. Learn more about what youre eating at Food.news.

Congress is proposing big changes to the National Organic Standards Board and farmers are raising


MSNBC Deadline: White House host Nicole Wallace admitted on Thursday that she once encouraged Jeb Bush to physically attack then-candidate Donald Trump after a heated debate during the 2016 Republican primary race.

I told Jeb Bush after that debate that I thought he should have punched [Trump] in the face, Wallace said during her show. He insulted your wife, he came down the escalator and called Mexicans rapists and murderers.

Wallace  who worked for Jeb Bush when he was the Florida governor  said Bush asked her what he could have done following Trumps personal attacks, that included using the derogatory nickname low energy Jeb.

Watch: Democrats Attempt To Blame Their Violence On Republicans

MSNBCs Nicole Wallace Admits She Told Jeb Bush to Sucker Punch Trump During GOP Primary


A University of Colorado professor has been placed on leave, and reportedly banned from campus, as CU officials investigate misconduct allegations against her.

Amy Wilkins, an associate professor of sociology, is accused of a pattern of sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct that spans more than a decade, according to reporting by the Chronicle of Higher Eduation. The Chronicle also reported that Wilkins has been banned from campus and ordered not to contact seven people as university officials investigate.

CU spokesman Ryan Huff confirmed that Wilkins has been on paid administrative leave since Oct. 1. He declined to comment further, citing personnel privacy laws and policies. Excluding someone from campus is a decision made on a case-by-case basis, he said.

Wilkins did not respond to an email request for comment, and calls to a landline listed under her name showed the number has been disconnected. It appears that her nameplate has been removed from outside an office, listed as hers on her CU employee page, in the Ketchum Arts and Sciences building. In addition to her duties as a professor, she has been overseeing the departments undergraduate honors program. Between 2014 and 2016, according to her online CV, she was also the departments graduate program director.

Herbert Covert, the chair of the sociology department, confirmed that other faculty members were covering her courses and her oversight of the honors program in her absence, but he declined to comment further and said he was instructed to direct inquiries to Huff, the CU spokesman.

CU Boulder professor accused of sexual harassment placed on leave amid investigation according to r


Burnley have appointed former Manchester City and Football Association executive Mike Rigg as the clubs new technical director.

Rigg, who has been involved in football for 30 years and previously worked as head of player acquisition at City and head of talent identification at the FA, has been chosen from a number of candidates interviewed by Burnley chairman Mike Garlick and manager Sean Dyche.

Burnley say the 49-year-old will oversee a new, large investment programme in growing the talent identification and analysis teams at the club.

We are delighted to welcome Mike on board, Garlick said in an article announcing Riggs appointment on Burnleys official website. All of the candidates which Sean and myself interviewed were of a very high calibre.

However, Mike stood out as someone who we feel can help move the club forward in terms of identifying and hiring the best possible footballing talent, both on a national and international basis.

Its an area of the club that we need to invest in and improve further, and we feel sure that Mikes wealth of experience will be a valuable asset to us.

Dyche added: I have mentioned over the past couple of years how important it is to grow all areas of the club, and recruitment structuring and how we want to go forward, is an important part of that.

I think at the end of a good process for the club, involving myself and the chairman, amongst others, we have found someone who can help the club to grow. By bringing in Mike, I think its a great opportunity for him to stamp his side on the way that we work.

Within the role its not just recruitment, but thats a big part of it, and with Mikes background, both here and abroad, in searching for the right players for Burnley Football Club, I think that experience will be needed and used wisely, and thats what well look to Mike to add to what we already do.

Burnley have stabilised in the Premier League under Dyches guidance since earning promotion in 2016 and remarkably finished seventh last season, though the new campaign has been considerably less smooth and so far yielded just two wins from 12 league games.

Dyches success has been achieved with a squad of predominantly British and Irish players, and part of Riggs job will be to broaden the scope of the clubs recruitment.

I am delighted and absolutely honoured to be asked to come and join the club, Rigg said. I have worked for over 30 years in football, starting out as a community officer, which was a terrific grounding, and have been lucky to work with national associations and club sides.

I feel I have an excellent understanding of all areas and how things have to fit together to be successful. What Burnley has achieved over the past few years is absolutely phenomenal and I hope I can do everything possible to support Sean and try and strengthen the clubs position moving forwards.

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Burnley appoint former Manchester City and Football Association executive Mike Rigg as technical dir


Christina Hoff Sommers is an American author and philosopher and leading critic of contemporary radical feminism.

Sommers was asked to speak today at Lewis and Clark Law College Portland, Oregon.

The radical feminists did not want her to speak on campus.

 Todays college campuses are cesspools of radical Marxism.

Protesters stormed the room today during Christinas speech and tried to drown her out.

 The far left mob brought their own speaker to try to drown her out.

The far left mob started singing about fascism during her speech to drown her out.

The liberal mainstream media will NEVER report on this radical demonstration.

 The media lies and hides these truths from the American public.

It is unsafe for conservatives, Republicans and Trump supporters to speak at most college campuses in the US today.

 The liberals are too unhinged to allow open dialogue.

Violent Leftists Storm Christina Hoff Sommers Campus Lecture Try to Shut Down Speech VIDEO


(Natural News) A new Dutch startup called Crowded Cities is training crows to recognize and pick up cigarette butts in exchange for treats, effectively cleaning up the city streets and parks.

The crows would drop the cigarette butts into a Crowbar device, which then scans the piece of litter to confirm that it is a cigarette butt. Once confirmed, the device gives the crow a food reward, reinforcing the behavior.

The inception of the bizarre project was inspired by a fateful meeting of project foundersinteraction designer Ruben van der Vleuten, and experiment designer Bob Spikman  with a man named Joshua Klein, who was teaching crows to collect coins.

The Crowbar is the device developed by Crowded Cities designed to train crows to pick up and deposit cigarette butts. A crow drops a cigarette filter onto the devices funnel, where a camera scans it. After the camera recognizes the item as a filter, it releases a piece of food for the crow to pick up as a reward. The crow then flies off to find more cigarette butts and recruit more crows to participate.

About 4.5 trillion cigarettes are littered each year around the globe. Discarded cigarette butts are a form of non-biodegradable litter, according to a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. During rainfall, these litter are carried off from the streets to the drains, rivers, and the oceans. Aquatic life then come across these trash and mistake the highly toxic matter for food. There have also been instances of children swallowing them.

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In a recent study, New Caledonian crows and kea parrots in captivity were observed as they manipulated and explored different objects that would help them get a desired reward.

In the experiment, the birds were tasked to unlock feeding devices by using different tools and actions. Seven birds were divided into a component group (three crows) and an innovation group (four crows). The component group was given 10 trials, broken down into six tasks, to familiarize them with the controlled environment of the experiment before the actual testing. The innovation group was also given 10 trials, but with only four tasksthe last two were omitted to observe how the birds would figure them out. All three crows from the component group solved the problem without error on their first recorded trial, while two crows from the innovation group did the same.

Through repeated interaction and exploration, the subjects were able to recognize steps and patterns and selected the correct tools, demonstrating complex cognition and innovative behavior.

The research reveals that certain bird species are capable of learning how to navigate through controlled surroundings through interaction with objects, and later use the new understanding to their benefit. (Related: If someone calls you bird brain it may be a compliment: Researchers found that pigeons are better at multitasking than humans.)

In another study, the researchers have found that corvids (crows, ravens, magpies) and parrots reach the same level of mental complexity and diversity as in apes. This might explain the basis of the birds cognitive skills, as they show similar brain organizations as in mammals.

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Clever solution Crows are cleaning city streets a Dutch startup is training them to pick up cigar


As the midterm elections this November get closer and closer, some familiar issues remain  like actual efforts from those in power or seeking power to suppress the vote. (President Donald Trumps rampant grassroots level voter fraud is a fantasy.) This week, in that ongoing saga, a Virginia judge struck a Congressional candidates name from the ballot because some of the signatures theyd presented to get on the ballot in thn Scott Taylors campaign had helped Brown collect signatures in support of her candidacy. In the face of the scandal, Democrats sued to get her off the ballot  and Wednesday, they proved successful.

Among the ironic aspects is the fact that Taylor had previously run against Brown, beating her in the 2016 election by a massive margin of some 22 percent  but now, he wanted her on the ballot, which would split the Democratic vote and help him stay in office. His district is among those that Democrats are targeting in their efforts to pick up the some two dozen U.S. House seats needed to become the bodys majority party. The Cook Political Report has his seat among 27 total that lean Republican.

Hed previously been subpoenaed to appear in court Wednesday, but a judge ruled he didnt have to, although he is certainly personally intertwined with the alleged activity.

He personally called local Lindsey Terry after she posted suspicions that her former neighbors signature on signature collection documents had been forged, admonishing her to take the material down. He also seems to have been in the area when the signature collection took place based on social media posts and not in D.C. as hes claimed.

Theres an ongoing special prosecutor probe into his campaign staff in addition to the Democratic lawsuit. At least half a dozen people associated with the Taylor campaign have asserted they would plead the Fifth Amendment  meant to protect against self-incrimination  if asked whether or not the Congressman had personally directed them to fake signatures. The Taylor campaign jumped into help Brown get the 1,000 signatures she needed late in the game, but they ended up turning in some 600.

Brown had previously been in the running to be the Democratic nominee for the general election, but in the face of an ongoing fraud investigation, she dropped out and ran as an independent, letting Elaine Luria take the metaphorical stage as the party nominee.

Luria has since appeared at event with high profile figures like Senator Tim Kaine  whos facing a curious electoral battle of his own against alleged white nationalist Corey Stewart  and U.S. Representative Bobby Scott.

Taylor is not the only incumbent Republican to face legal trouble ahead of November.

U.S. Reps. Chris Collins and Duncan Hunter have both been indicted, Collins for insider trading and Hunter for a systematic pattern of using campaign funds for personal purposes.

It all adds up to the around 7 in 9 chance FiveThirtyEight estimates Democrats have of taking control of the U.S. House this fall.

Candidate For Congress Caught In Scandal Booted From Ballot GOP Panics


According to the Chicago Sun Times, federal agents removed everyone from the office of Chicago Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke and put brown paper on the doors.

Ed Burke previously helped Donald Trump with his property taxes, reducing Trumps tax burden on his Chicago skyscraper by $14 million.

Trump and Burke decided to go their separate ways earlier this year citing irreconcilable differences.

Source says feds showed up this am, asked everyone to leave and put brown paper on the doors, tweeted Chicago Sun Times reporter, Fran Spielman.

Eight more federal agents just arrived at Burkes ward office.

Federal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over the windows Thursday morning. The nature of their visit was not known, but Ald. Burke (14th) has dodged dozens of federal investigations over five decades in Chicago politics. Federal agents also showed up to Burkes ward office and papered over the windows there. A spokesman for the U.S. attorneys office declined to comment. Calls to the FBI office in Chicago and the IRS criminal investigations division were not immediately returned. Burkes brother, state Rep. Dan Burke, reached in Springfield, was stunned by the news. Its shocking. I dont know what to think, Burke said from his state capitol office. I dont have a clue. Any time there is this type of thing, where they come in and paper your windows, certainly thats a concern. But I know my brother. For his entire life and career hes been abiding by the law. Burke is leaving the legislature, having been defeated by a little-known candidate backed by Jesus Chuy Garcia after a campaign dominated by Ed Burkes property-tax reduction work for the tower along the Chicago River bearing the name of Donald Trump.

President Trump is being harassed by the Deep State and Robert Mueller once again as he leaves the country and heads to Argentina for this weekends G-20 Summit.

Also happening Thursday morning: Trumps former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress after Mueller interrogated him for 70 hours.

BREAKING Feds Raid Office of Chicago Lawyer Who Previously Did Tax Work For Trump


The poster has a picture of an ISIS fighter firing on CNN and others with the words Allahu Akbar written over the Islamic state fighter.

The poster also features the goat-headed Satan statue.

Indonesian ISIS supporters circulated posters online warning that Satan is behind the American financial system as well as media and entertainment, threatening to attack a handful of entities. The first poster, telling adherents to think smart, shows a devilish figure looming over several icons in flames: the United Nations, the Federal Reserve, Universal Studios Hollywood, CNN, NATO Allied Command Transformation and NASA, along with the reverse of the Great Seal on the U.S. dollar bill. An ISIS jihadist fires a gun up at the seals, with the words Allahu Akbar! above his head. Those who believe fight in the way of Allah and those who disbelieve fight in the way of Taghut [un-Islamic rulers], says the poster.

ISIS Threatens Satanic CNN and American Media in New Poster Campaign


On Sunday, as world leaders gathered in France to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the end of World War I, Emmanual Macron gave the speech the world needed to hear while U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin looked on.

Macron decried the scourge of nationalism that is gripping the world with Trump, Putin, and other world leaders in power who embrace the philosophies that allied countries have fought so hard to quell.

According to The Washington Post:

French President Emmanuel Macron marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I by delivering a forceful rebuke against rising nationalism, calling it a betrayal of patriotism and warning against old demons coming back to wreak chaos and death. Macrons speech in French to more than 60 global leaders, including President Trump, aimed to draw a clear line between his belief that a global order based on liberal values is worth defending and those who have sought to disrupt that system.

Just a little more than two weeks before, Trump controversially stood in front of his rally fans and claimed the word for his own amidst cheers from the crowd and horror from those who understood how dangerous that sentiment has been throughout history.

You know, they have a word  its sort of became old-fashioned  its called a nationalist. And I say, really, were not supposed to use that word. You know what I am? Im a nationalist, okay? Im a nationalist. Nationalist. Nothing wrong. Use that word. Use that word.

There was no love displayed between the two despite their warm photos during Macrons visit to Washington, D.C. over the summer. Trump mostly sat stone-faced looking on and began his visit with a rebuke of Macron that was filled with misinformation about statements the French president made prior to Trumps arrival.

After Macrons moving and heartfelt speech, that tension is only likely to increase.

Emmanuel Macron Gives Scathing Rebuke Of Trump Rhetoric Like A Boss


This was after he initially denied the Intelligence Community was spying on Donald Trump.

Clapper told CNN it was a good thing if the FBI had someone observing the Trumps campaigns interaction with the Russians because the Russians posed a threat to the very basis of our political system.

Now the liberal media is working OT to persuade Americans Clapper did not say this two days ago.

James Clapper also told Joy Behar on The View that the FBI was spying on the Trump campaign.

NPR has a piece up titled: FACT CHECK: No, Clapper Has Not Admitted That There Was Spying On Trump Campaign

Of course this is a complete lie  as the above video clearly shows.

Intel expert Tony Shaffer took Maggie to the woodshed.

The liberal mainstream media is so far gone that they are now trying to refute a mans own words on video!

 They are worse than Pravda.

Clapper Said Spying on Trump a Good Thing Now FakeNews Media Says Clapper Has Not Admitted FBI


On Wednesday Trump attorney Jay Sekulow announced the American Center for Law and Justice uncovered thousands of documents showing Clinton Foundation pay-to-play with Hillarys State Department through a FOIA lawsuit.

Also on Wednesday Hillary Clinton told New York Democrats if you want to stand for the rule of law you must vote Democrat.

The irony was lost on the far left crowd.

This is Rich Crooked Hillary Clinton Says if You Want to Stand for Rule of Law You Have to Vote D


While the stock market has fallen recently, it is still up since President Donald Trump took office in January 2017. But despite Trumps best efforts, most Americans dont even know that.

Just 40 percent of the public knows  or acknowledges  that the market is up from a year ago, with 18 percent saying that its currently about the same, and 23 percent that its lower, according to a HuffPost/YouGov survey taken earlier this month. The rest arent sure.

Americans who view the stock market as relevant to their own finances are likelier to have the correct answer, as are wealthier Americans and those with college degrees.

Those results tie into a larger pattern in which views of the economy are filtered through a distinctly partisan lens. Trump voters dont realize that 2017 didnt outpace 2016 for job creation. And polling during Barack Obamas presidency found that, when Obamas name was mentioned, Republicans grew more likely to say the economy, and their own finances, had declined, while Democrats shied away from noting a rise in income inequality.

Its possible that like Obama before him, Trump generates sufficiently polarized feelings that rather than views of the economy shaping Americans views of Trumps presidency, their views of his presidency are instead shaping their perspective on objective facts about the economy  or at least the way they describe it to pollsters.  Thats especially true in cases involving specific statistics, like the performance of the stock market or the unemployment rate, which many people may not have a personal sense for or any reason to commit to memory. But its also true of the way people perceive broader trends. Merely days after Trump was elected, Gallup found, Republicans ratings of the current state of the economy soared, while Democrats plummeted  despite the fact that Trump was still months from taking office, let alone crafting policies that would shape the nations economy.

And the latest HuffPost/YouGov survey finds those divides persisting. Eighty-four percent of Trump voters, but just 37 percent of Clinton voters and a third of everyone else, pronounce themselves satisfied with the current state of the economy, a wider gap than between the richest and poorest Americans, or between those working full-time jobs and those currently unemployed. Nearly half of Trump voters, but just 5 percent of Clinton voters and 15 percent of non-voters and third party voters, think the stock market will continue to climb during the next year.

Although the tendency to view economics through a partisan lens didnt start under Trump, it perhaps ties into the unusual difficulty he saw throughout most of his first year in converting the strength of the economy into support for his work as president. Traditionally, strong economic numbers are a pretty good gauge of presidential approval, but Trump has consistently underperformed his economic indicators, failing to win much support beyond his own party.

One reason may have simply been that, in his first months in office, most people didnt think Trump bore responsibility for the state of the economy. But at least when it comes to the stock market, Americans give Trump more credit than Obama for the performance of the stock market. Thirty-seven percent of Americans hand Trump responsibility for the stock markets performance, while 12 percent say its mostly due to Obama. Another third say its just the regular ups and downs of the market, with the remainder unsure.

Nearly 70 percent of Trumps supporters name the current president as responsible for the markets performance. In contrast, just 16 percent of Clinton voters  largely, those who believed the stock market was doing poorly  think that Trump is responsible.

The public is divided over how much the performance of the markets actually matter to the nation. About a third said the stock market is a good indicator of the economy, about a third that it isnt and the remaining third that they dont know. Americans are also divided over how much the stock market matters to them personally, with 42 percent saying it matters somewhat or a lot to their personal finances, and 45 percent that it matters not much or not at all.

The splits are both financial and political. Two-thirds of Americans in households making $100,000 or more annually say that the stock market affects their finances at least somewhat, while half of those making $50,000 to $100,000, and a third of those making less than $50,000, say the same. A 52 percent majority of those in the highest-earning group, but just 28 percent of the lowest earners, think the stock market reflects the overall economy.

Trump voters are only slightly likelier than Clinton voters, 53 percent to 46 percent, to say the markets have some bearing on their own finances. But theyre about twice as likely as Clinton voters, 51 percent to 25 percent, to consider the stock market a good economic indicator.

Use the widget below to further explore the results of the HuffPost/YouGov survey, using the menu at the top to select survey questions and the buttons at the bottom to filter the data by subgroups:

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A proposal that clinicians and hospitals be required to inform safety and oversight agencies of incidents involving patients has been welcomed by the Ombudsman.

Publishing a progress report on the complaints system in the States hospitals, Peter Tyndall expressed concern, however, that there had been no specific evaluation of the open disclosure programme in acute hospitals, despite a statutory framework put in place last year.

Mr Tyndall said despite the fact that the open disclosure process was placed on a statutory footing at the end of 2017, the system remained entirely voluntary.

The Civil Liability Act gives legal protection in respect of information provided or any apology given during an open disclosure meeting with a patient or their family  in other words they cannot be used in any later legal proceedings as an admission of fault or liability.

Mr Tyndall noted that in the wake of serious incidents such as the CervicalCheck audit, there were proposals in the Patient Safety Bill to make open disclosure of serious incidents mandatory.

It was also proposed that clinicians and hospitals will be required to inform the relevant safety and oversight agencies, such as the Health Information and Quality Authority, of incidents.

This is a welcome development. According to the Final Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme (otherwise known as the Scally report), the evidence suggests that currently a relatively small number of medical staff are taking part in open disclosure training. It also appears that no specific evaluation of the open disclosure programme and training in acute hospitals has yet been carried out, said Mr Tyndall.

The Learning to Get Better: Progress Report examines measures taken to improve the complaints system in hospitals following the Ombudsmans original examination in 2015.

The Ombudsmans office conducted a review of complaints received since that year.

Mr Tyndall said this showed that many of the responses to complaints were well-drafted, empathetic and, in some cases . . . clearly outlined the steps taken as part of the examination of the complaint.

However, unfortunately the review also showed that there is still a tendency on the part of the health services to adopt a defensive attitude and shy away from providing a proper explanation for what went wrong  in one case more details were provided to the complainants private insurer provider as to what happened than to the complainant.

Of 36 recommendations made by the Ombudsman in the 2015 report, 10 have been implemented by the Health Service Executive and Department of Health, 17 have been partially implemented, seven have not been implemented and two are under consideration.

The report focuses on some areas that still need attention. But Mr Tyndall commended the HSE and the hospital groups for the many improvements and initiatives that have taken place since 2015.

Among the recommendations that have been implemented, the Ombudsman noted there was now a more obvious presence of complaints officers in the public areas of hospitals and there were also private rooms to facilitate meetings with service users.

Mr Tyndall said there was also a much stronger focus on front-line resolution in all areas of the HSE. An e-learning module had also been developed to assist all staff in resolving complaints.

Plan for reporting hospital incidents welcomed


Yesterday, a guest on Fox News claimed that migrants traveling toward the US will infect our people with smallpox, leprosy, and tuberculosis. He did not cite evidence to support this claim, because there is none  and available evidence suggests that when it comes to public health, we have more to worry about from anti-vaxxers than from immigration.

This isnt to say that there is never any risk of infectious disease from migration. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledges the possibility of diseases such as measles, rabies, hepatitis A, flu, and tuberculosis spreading across the US-Mexico border. But though migrants often have health problems like the common cold and diarrhea, there has never been evidence of mass outbreaks at the border. Plus, the CDC, its Mexican counterpart, and border officials all know to be vigilant for signs of diseases. (A representative for the CDC was not available for comment as of press time.)

More to the point, the US already has tuberculosis, measles, and the flu  as well as tropical diseases like Chagas disease, dengue, and West Nile  so theres little evidence for common right-wing talking points, most recently claimed by Laura Ingraham, that migrants will bring diseases we havent had in decades. We live in a very interconnected world, with people and goods constantly on the move. As a result, there are very few diseases found globally that are not also found in the United States, according to Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. Theres the misconception that somehow the United States is protected from those diseases and thats simply not true, he says. The major factors promoting these diseases are poverty and urbanization and climate change. The idea that a few thousand immigrants are going to create a bump in that just defies the numbers.

More specific parts of the Fox News infection claim are wrong, too. The last victim of smallpox was a cook named Ali Maow Maalin, and that was in Somalia in 1977. Three years later, the World Health Organization officially declared the disease eradicated. Smallpox, at least, is a frightening disease with no cure. In contrast, leprosy (or Hansens disease) is a bacterial condition that is easily treated with antibiotics and which has been almost entirely eliminated in Latin America. And when it comes to viral diseases, many areas of Latin America have higher vaccination rates than parts of the US, Hotez says.

The people doing greatest harm to public health arent refugees or asylum speakers, theyre anti-vaxxers right here in the US

That infectious disease is a small and well-addressed risk hasnt kept it from being touted again and again by xenophobic politicians. The Fox News hosts later clarified that they couldnt independently confirm the leprosy-and-smallpox claim, but this was hardly a one-off mistake considering that the same day, a Fox and Friends host mused about migrant disease. Dave Levitan, author of Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science points out how the Immigration Act of 1917  a sweeping piece of legislation that marked a turn toward nationalism  associated foreigners with loathsome or dangerous contagious disease. Similarly, in their academic article on the persistent association of immigrants with germs, scholars Howard Markel and Alexandra Minna Stern argue that metaphors of germs and contagion are usually motivated by ideologies of racialism, nativism, and national security rather than substantiated epidemiological or medical observations.

Recent history provides plenty of examples. In 1987, Republican Senator Jesse Helms authored legislation banning anyone who was HIV-positive from entering the country, despite the fact that there were almost no HIV-positive people trying to enter and even though it was well-known by then that HIV isnt spread through casual contact. There was a lot of fear-mongering that these people are going to come to our borders and infect us, which doesnt make a lot of sense in terms of the transmission mechanism for HIV, Levitan says, but it was very effective as a political tactic. This same association of foreignness with disease popped up during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and again a year later when both a Republican House representative and then-candidate Ben Carson falsely suggested immigration was responsible for a measles outbreak.

The irony is that, at this point in time, the bigger health risk is Americans who resist vaccinating their kids. The outbreak Ben Carson worried about? That wasnt caused by immigrants, that was because of distrust of vaccines. We were able to eradicate smallpox because of a worldwide vaccination campaign. And yet the anti-vaxxer movement has been growing.

Though most parents in the United States do vaccinate their children, there are pockets where it has become increasingly common to refuse. For example, between 2003 and 2016, there was a 19-fold increase in vaccine refusal in Texas and a political action committee in the state is raising money to help parents apply for exemption. Vaccine skeptics have hosted an anti-vaccine march on Washington and Trump himself has falsely suggested that vaccines cause autism.

When enough people arent vaccinated, we lose herd immunity and the entire community is at risk. Using the examples of measles again, a single infected person can infect more than a dozen people who havent been vaccinated  many of whom are children or who have compromised immune systems. Last year, a JAMA Pediatrics study suggested that a 5 percent reduction in vaccination coverage is enough to risk a big outbreak. This is a terrible self-inflicted wound and a lot of that is coming from the activities of political action committees using Tea Party language like medical freedom and vaccine choice, says Hotez. And so its incredibly disingenuous of those same individuals to worry about diseases that immigrants are bringing in. Ultimately, the greater harm doesnt come from refugees or asylum-seekers outside our borders, but from the anti-vaxxers, already right here in the US, who could make us all vulnerable.

Migrant caravans wont bring disease anti-vaxxers will


Liberals will be shocked to hear this. Yes, I finally agree. Youve won over Wayne Root with evidence and common sense. Its time to impeach the president.

However, its not President Trump Im talking about. Its time to impeach former President Barack Obama. And of course, prosecute him too.

Many are starting to come to this conclusion. Tom Fitton, the legal genius behind Judicial Watch (the number one government watchdog in America), has come to the same conclusion. Fitton said this week that amidst a climate of impeachment fervor, the actual evidence points to Obamas actions warranting impeachment far more than Trump. Fitton reports that ordering surveillance and sending spies into the Trump presidential campaign are all grounds for post-Presidency impeachment and more importantly, prosecution.

None other than greatly respected former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said this week, I guarantee the answer is yes as to whether Obama knew the FBI had planted spies into the Trump campaign. He says no FBI Director would dare infiltrate a presidential campaign without the direct approval and authorization of the sitting president.

Welcome to my world. Ive screamed about Obamas illegal actions for years. Starting of course with his attempt to use the IRS to destroy my life. But Im just one of thousands of victims. I have always understood the lengths Obama would go to, to destroy his political opposition.

Obama didnt just authorize illegal spying, surveillance and FISA warrants based on fraud, paid for by Hillary and the DNC. He ordered it all.

Somehow this must all be getting through. Despite 93% negative news coverage from the mainstream media, President Trump is sitting pretty at 50% approval at Rasmussen (the most accurate pollster of the 2016 election). More shockingly, Reuters generic Congressional poll has shifted from Democrats winning by 16 points back in February, to Republicans up by 6 points this week. YES, I said Republicans are now leading by 6 points.

Thats a 22-point swing in a matter of months. And a 9-point swing in a week. The supposed blue wave is finished.

Why do you think this is? Because the average American now understands what happened. It isnt Trump who did anything wrong. He was clearly framed by Obama, Hillary and their minions in the DC Swamp (FBI, DOJ, CIA and NSA).

But far worse is the reason for the framing. First, Obama had a personal hatred and obsession with Trump- for daring to ask questions about Obamas birth certificate, place of birth and college records. Second, Obama was on the hook for his own crimes: spying, surveillance, criminal weaponization of government agencies like the IRS. And he was also on the hook for allowing Hillarys crimes, including the Uranium One deal, where the Clinton Foundation received $140 million in donations from Russia.

But that was only one of many corrupt deals while Hillary served as Obamas Secretary of State. Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice reported days ago his organization has uncovered THOUSANDS of docs showing Pay-to-Play between Hillarys State Dept and the Clinton Foundation. He called Hillarys State Dept a favor factory.

Sekulow found 30,000 emails between Hillary, her top staff and the Clinton Foundation. This is crime on a massive unprecedented scale. The State Dept became a division of a private company (a charity scam), using taxpayer money to dole out government contracts to Hillarys donors.

How much money changed hands? Billions? How many crooked deals? Hundreds? How many other members of Obamas administration got cut in on the bribes? Could President Obama have had a piece of the action? Obama desperately needed Hillary to win, or hed face criminal prosecution. Remember what Truman said, The buck stops here.

And then there was this news: WikiLeaks reports Obama was a veteran of illegal spying. They claim to have proof Obama ordered the CIA to spy on all of Frances presidential candidates.

Who else did Obama spy on? What other world leaders did he try to frame just like Trump? How about American politicians, like his 2012 opponent Mitt Romney? Obama and Hillary tried to fix the 2016 election. Is it possible Obama fixed the 2012 election with spying and surveillance vs. Romney?

Yes, the media is right. Its time to start talking about impeachment and prosecution of a president...

Wayne Allyn Root is the host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show on Newsmax TV, nightly at 8 PM ET, found on DirecTV channel 349, Dish TV channel 216, or at http://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/The-Wayne-Allyn-Root-Show He is also a nationally syndicated radio host of WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show found at http://usaradio.com/wayne-allyn-root/

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WASHINGTON -- The deliberately outrageous idea of arming classroom teachers is nothing more than a distraction, a ploy by the gun lobby to buy time for passions to cool. Don't get sidetracked. Keep the focus where it belongs -- on keeping military-style assault rifles out of civilian hands.

The National Rifle Association and its vassals in the Republican Party would like you to exhaust your outrage on a possibility that is, from the start, impossible. Picture one of your grade-school or high-school classrooms. Imagine a loaded gun in there somewhere. Even on an average day, without an active shooter stalking the halls, the question isn't what could go wrong. It's how many dead or wounded.

President Trump has touted the idea, but he tipped the NRA-GOP hand Saturday with a tweet: "Armed Educators (and trusted people who work within a school) love our students and will protect them. Very smart people. Must be firearms adept & have annual training. Should get yearly bonus. Shootings will not happen again -- a big & very inexpensive deterrent. Up to States."

"Up to States" means abdicating the federal government's responsibility and urging state legislatures to waste time and effort debating whether to mandate that instruments of death be introduced to classrooms. Are parents going to be confident that the gun is securely locked away and no student will ever get his hands on it? That in an emergency the teacher would know how to use it? That an assailant wouldn't simply shoot the teacher first?

According to The New York Times, police officers in the nation's largest city -- men and women who are highly trained and periodically tested for firearms proficiency -- hit their targets only one-third of the time. During actual gunfights, the paper reported, officers' accuracy drops as low as 13 percent. The idea that teachers would somehow do any better is ludicrous, as is the idea that most teachers and their powerful unions would agree to such a horribly bad idea.

The fact that the GOP and the gun lobby are pushing this nonstarter is proof of how worried they are that the Parkland massacre has the potential to provoke real change. It's not so much that Republicans would enact sensible gun control, but that voters might replace them with Democrats who will.

That is why NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre spent much of a foaming-at-the-mouth speech Thursday making the insane claim that Democrats, if elected, will impose some kind of socialist tyranny. "You should be anxious and you should be frightened," he warned at the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference. Please, oh please, he wants you to be frightened.

"If they seize power, if these so-called European socialists take over the House and the Senate and, God forbid, they get the White House again, our American freedoms could be lost and our country will be changed forever," LaPierre implored. "The first to go will be the Second Amendment." LaPierre charged that Democrats "want more restrictions on the law-abiding," which is an odd way to describe school shooters.

The unhinged LaPierre wildly lobbed every cultural and racial grenade he could get his hands on. He railed against Black Lives Matter, the FBI, George Soros, college professors -- and the media. Because, I guess, when a young man with an AR-15 walks into a high school and kills 17 students and faculty members, we write about it.

NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch, in her CPAC speech, was equally shrill and desperate. "Many in legacy media love mass shootings," she said, despicably. "Crying white mothers are ratings gold to you."

All this squealing can only mean that the NRA and Republicans think they're in trouble. The usual playbook for dodging an actual debate about gun control isn't working.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has an A-plus rating from the NRA, has come out in favor of raising the minimum age for gun purchases from 18 to 21. Some other Republicans agree. That would be one tiny step in a long journey toward sanity, but the NRA's strategy is never to give an inch. It would be a disaster for the gun lobby if Republicans began heeding public opinion on guns -- which, according to a new USA Today poll, favors an assault weapons ban by 2-to-1.

With the Parkland students continuing to speak and inspire, could common-sense gun control be the issue that turns expected Democratic gains this November into a historic wave? That's up to you. Ignore all distractions, and keep your eyes on the prize.

Absurd Ploy to Arm Teachers Is a Distraction


It is a great mystery of the universe how some people rise to the top of the entertainment field. Some of those people are, to put it mildly, not nice. Put current pop star Chris Brown in that category. This week he was arrested in Tampa following a concert on an outstanding warrant.

A sheriffs spokeswoman said the entertainer was released after posting $2,000 bond on the battery charge issued by the Tampa Police Department. No details about the allegations in the arrest warrant were immediately available. Brown was performing at the Coral Sky Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach when he was put into handcuffs by officers who were waiting for him, TMZ reported. Brown is currently in the middle of his Heartbreak On A Full Moon Tour.

It seems that Brown has a history of violent behavior.

The 29-year-old entertainers record of violence includes a guilty plea to felony assault for beating up his then-girlfriend pop superstar Rihanna in 2009 and a 2016 arrest on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. A judge ordered Brown in February of 2017 to stay away from his ex-girlfriend Karrueche Tran after she accused him of physically abusing and threatening her. The Grammy winner was ordered to stay 100 yards away from Tran and not attempt to contact her after she wrote in court filings that Brown had repeatedly threatened her. Tran also accused the singer of punching her in the stomach and pushing her down a flight of stairs. Her filing does not offer any additional specifics or note if she reported the events to police.

Oh, dear. This sort of behavior goes well beyond just being troubled. This guy is a thug who obviously was never taught how to treat women. (Or took the rap culture lyrics that abuse women to heart.)

And then, when President Donald Trump was cheerleading the border patrol and other law enforcement when it came to arresting MS-13 gang members, Brown had this to say on Instagram:

This is what entertainment companies are offering as the talent du jour.

Foul Mouthed Pop Star Chris Brown Gets Arrested For Outstanding Warrant