Headlines

White House ordered top-secret system upgraded to prevent leaks

Silicon Valley donors starting to back Elizabeth Warren despite her pledge to break up Big Tech

GRASSLEY: Whistleblower followed law and should be heard ...

Poll: 8 percent of college Democrats ‘very proud’ to be American

Judge sides with Harvard in case challenging use of race in admissions

Trump, RNC blows away Dems with $125 million raised in the third quarter

Colbert audience chants ‘lock him up’ ...

China rolls out ICBM portrayed as defense against ‘nuclear blackmail’

Giuliani hires Watergate prosecutor to represent him

Trump targets ‘pathetic’ Federal Reserve after worst manufacturing data in a decade

Iran sentences U.S. spies to death ...

Ukraine mystery: Adam Schiff staffer made August visit

Headlines

Trump’s re-election campaign is on a crusade against leaks

It was a monumental week for markets with major milestone for stocks, bonds, gold and oil

ICE raids starting Sunday ...

TX Governor orders 1,000 National Guard troops to border

Huawei sues Commerce Department over seized equipment

Traders his week bet on a Fed rate cut in record-setting numbers

Trump deporting illegals at slower pace than Obama ...

Donald Trump: People ‘forgot’ Elizabeth Warren is a ‘fraud’

What if Trump won’t accept 2020 defeat?

Giant explosion rocks largest refinery complex on East Coast, sends gasoline prices higher

Special Prosecutor named in Jussie Smollett case, new charges possible

Trump cuts Obama’s Syrian refugee surge by more than 60 percent

Cabal?

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Cartoon of the Day

From Powerline Blog

Nothingburger

The Trump-Russia balloon keeps inflating daily with lots of hot air and unsourced rumors. There is some modest pushback which I have collected below. Not that you will see or hear these quotes on network news, CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, WaPo, PBS or NPR. Anyway, perhaps this innuendo balloon will someday burst and the whispering roaches will go scurrying into the woodwork ... not to emerge again until the 2020 election.

"I have not seen any evidence of such collusion ..."

"There is no there there ..."

"Bad news for the Trump-Russia tinfoil-hat brigade"

"Where's the beef?"

"Media using leaks as ammo in Trump's media assasination"

"Utter nonsense ..."

"No evidence of any collusion between the Trump campaign and the
Russians"

"It's a nothing burger ..."

"A path that leads nowhere"

"Nobody can locate the crime, but Trump acts as if there is one"

"There was no collusion, when does it end?"

Deep State

In an effort to keep you, dear reader, (and me) current with the rapidly changing political vernacular, I bring to you the term "deep state" ... an ominous description of those Obama holdovers still within the administration and who are actively working against Trump and his agenda ... see: Breitbart/WSJ Story. I have previously referred in a blog to this dangerous development as the "resistance" ... see: The Resistance ... but now this more descriptive pejorative has taken over.

I say that this is a dangerous development mainly because of its apparent size and scope ... reaching well into our intelligence community. And now that this cabal has taken the scalp of General Flynn, I am confident that they will be even more emboldened. I wish I could identify the players in this intrigue, but my spider senses tell me that former CIA chief, John Brennan's loyalists might be a good part of this Deep State. The new CIA Director, Mike Pompeo certainly has his swamp-clearing work cut out for him. And I expect plenty more subterfuge directed at Trump before all the alligators have been eliminated.

This could get messy ...

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites

Whistle blower accuses Venezuela of issuing passports to terrorists

Pew: 6 in 10 illegals live in 20 metropolitan districts

Schumer: When Jeff Sessions was confirmed 'it turned my stomach'

Protests erupt outside Phoenix ICE office after arrest of illegal ...

Trump may designate Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization

Trump challenges Blumenthal on Gorsuch's 'disheartened' story

Mississippi considers death by firing squad ...

U.S. Commander tells Congress: More troops needed in Afghanistan

UPDATE: White House besieged by leaks ...

Democrats aim to make Steve Bannon a scarier Karl Rove ...

Durbin demands Senate hearings on Trump's immigration orders

Senate looks to break Cabinet confirmation logjam