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Mexicans protest Trump administration’s latest deportation plan

After its strongest year in a decade, Apple stock is historically expensive

US embassy attack on Baghdad ... pro-Iran mob ... Trump: Tehran will pay

Lindsey Graham’ There will be no Benghazi on Trump’s watch

CBS airs picture of Elijah Cummings during segment about Rep. John Lewis’s battle with cancer

Fugitive ex-Nissan chairman, Carlos Ghosn says he fled Japan to escape ‘injustice’

Buchanan: Will war derail Trump’s re-election?

Joe Biden: ‘We’re all dead’ if we don’t stop using fossil fuels

Trump claims America stopped terrorist attack in Russia, Putin called to thank him

This decade saw Warren Buffer finally turn his back oh IBM and jump big time into Apple

Consumer confidence unexpectedly drops on dimmer outlook ...

Joe Biden: I would consider a ‘decent’ Republican for my running mate

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Pelosi: Democrats, Trump administration are close on USMCA

The Federal Reserve could soon pause in its latest rate-cutting cycle

Gallup: 52% support [Trump] removal ... Mirrors Nixon ...

Donal Trump urges prayers for ‘very sad’ Nancy Pelosi

China threatens ‘strong countermeasures’ if Trump signs bill supporting Hong Kong rights

Trump Doral to host G-7 summit — sparking yet another ethics fight for the White House

Impeachment blockade crumbles as witnesses agree to testify ...

All eyes on Michael Bloomberg as Joe Biden flops in debate

State Department restarts some Central American assistance

Surging SUV demand is canceling out the environmental benefit of electric cars

More pumping: Fed injects $104 billion in short-term liquidity ...

Elijah Cummings death rocks oversight

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John Ratcliff won’t be Trump’s next national intelligence director

Perfect storm building for stock correction as trade war simmers and market awaits more Fed action

Record 157,288,000 employed

Peter Thiel slams Google for sharing AI technology with China

Lawyers spar over secrecy for Facebook emails on Cambridge Analytica

How decades of US sanctions decimated Iran’s economy

Middle class falling deeper into debt ...

Report: Elijah Cummings’ Baltimore house burglarized

Emails show Stephen Miller premed hard to limit green cards

70% of shoes sold in US comes from China. With new tariffs, the industry braces for hit

Florida declares public health emergency over Hepatitis A ... Philly too

U.S. added 164:000 jobs in July

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Senate passes massive year budget deal

Trump’ latest broadside on China raises fear that the trade war is the ‘new status quo’

ALARM: Biden repeatedly stumbles over words and stats ... Makes at least 7 gaffs ...

Andrew Yang admits climate fanatics can’t stop China, India

Pentagon puts $10B contract on hold after Trump  swipe at Amazon

Retail stocks tank after industry set to take a ‘direct hit’ from new China tariffs

Rep. Cummings’ Baltimore home burglarized ...

Marianne Williamson dominates Google search in 49 states after debate

Night 2 of Detroit Dem debate drew 10.7 million viewers, well below June ratings

Trump says US will impose 10% tariffs on another $300 billion of Chinese goods as talks continue

Michael Moore: To crush Trump,  Michelle O needs to run ...

NATO ally Germany won’t back U.S. in Gulf to avoid war with Iran

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On the attack: Trump targets Cummings for second straight day

The Fed is about to cut rates for the first time since 2008 as trade war weighs on economic growth

Axelrod: If Trump loses [in 2020], this [Cummings attack] will be why ...

Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Trump’s right, declare Baltimore a ‘disaster’ and rebuild it

Trump names Rep. John Ratcliff to replace Dan Coates as director of national intelligence

House judiciary chairman says Trump ‘richly deserves impeachment’

FoxNews poll: 47% want impeachment, 45% don’t ...

Sanders [once] blasted Elijah Cummings’ district as a ‘third-world country’

Trump will sign budget deal, Mulvaney says

There are surprising signs that Trump’s maximum pressure on Iran could lead to talks

Israel, US test intercepting ballistic missiles in Alaska ...

Update: 12 injured, at least 3 killed at Gilroy [CA] Garlic Festival shooting

Charm City

“Don’t shit in your own nest.” — old English proverb

Sixty-two years ago, before the Baltimore Harbor tunnel was completed (November, 1957), drivers had to traverse much of this inner-city when going north or south between New York and Washington, DC. Back then I recall that this city was famous for its freshly-scrubbed white front steps (often owned by minorities) — a badge of pride for the Charm City of Edgar Allen Poe.

Now things have dramatically changed and, according to almost every honest observer, Baltimore resembles a “third-world country” (ala Bernie Sanders). It has the highest murder rate in the US and is a sullen, broken, corrupt society. Why did this descent into hell occur. Perhaps 52 years of unbroken Democrat mayors and 23 years of being represented in Congress by Democrat Elijah Cummings?

I guess anyone lamenting this fall from grace is a racist? Just another symptom of why Baltimore is such a rotten place to live ... it’s always someone else’s fault.

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Democratic governors sound alarm on Trump re-election

Trump calls Baltimore a ‘rat and rodent infested mess’ in attack on Rep. Elijah Cummings

Fed’s to turn over ‘highly-sensitive’ material to Epstein’s lawyers ...

Rand: Maybe Ilhan Omar would ‘appreciate’ USA more by visiting Somalia

Trump, Boris Johnson working already on U.S.-U.K. trade deal

Safety groups, want FTC, state probes of Tesla’s Autopilot system — and its marketing efforts

Police arrest hundreds at Moscow election protest ...

Levin: Nadler has ‘declared war on American people’

Covington student’s defamation suit against Washington Post is dismissed

Facebook bans sale of alcohol, tobacco between users

China could wait for U.S. election for trade deal ...

Bill de Blasio: Trump ‘will not be welcome back in New York City’

Semantic Pirouettes

Representative Elijah Cummings was on This Week with George Stephanopolous today and was asked if Trump was a racist. He answered “Yes” ...  then a few minutes later said, “I never call anybody a racists.”  Is this not a semantic pirouette?

Democrats swear they are not against open bothers ... then turn around an claim that illegal aliens are not illegal, border agents and ICE are Nazis and should be abolished, advocate sanctuary cities/states, decry a border wall as immoral and want to provide free healthcare to all illegal aliens. They must think we are really stupid! Democrats are full-bore for open borders ... which, combined with a welfare state, is national suicide.

Is the Democrats’ incessant drumbeat of calling Trump a racist because they are concerned with losing more minority voters in .2020? I think so. President Trump has been a very good friend to minorities with his economic, prison reform and development zones ... meaning he should do better next time ... unless this echoing term “racist” sticks. I doubt it will for no other reason than Democrats are so over turning their pirouettes.

Liberals always have a insidious way of disparaging their opposition. But they seldom know when to stop.

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‘Sometimes you have to walk’: Why Trump bailed on North Korea

Fourth quarter GDP grows at 2.6%, better than expected

D-Day for Netanyahu as he braces for possible indictment

Cummings on Cohen: ‘I believe he told the truth’

Trump’s inner circle sustains collateral damage in Cohen hearing

Pakistani PM says Indian pilot to be released Friday in peace gesture

Trudeau on brink? Scandal rocks ...

Travel ban ends nearly all immigration from terrorist nations

India, Pakistan exchange gunfire

Michael Cohen: ‘I hear’ Trump won’t peacefully give up the White House if he loses in 2020 ...

‘Excited’ Beto says made 2020 decision ...

Lighthizer: There is no ‘soy [bean] solution’ to trade fight

Thanks for Nothing!

One is allowed to speculate about the collapse of  the Hanoi summit with Km Jong Un. My take is that Kim saw Trump as besieged because of the Cohen hearings and thought our president was desperate for a deal ... and concluded he could get a weakened Trump to drop the sanctions.

He was wrong ... and a golden opportunity was sacrificed on the alter of internecine American politics.

Thanks Elijah Cummings and the many spittle-flecked myopic House Democrats who elevated Cohen in this shameful stunt! You have likely traded a huge long-term international win for your short-term petty political advantage.

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Global leaders snub Trump and his nationalistic vision

Australia prime minister: Concerns about political instability are 'overly stated"

Death toll hits 31 from wildfires at both ends of California ...

Dem Sen. Coons: Acting AG Whitaker should recuse himself ..

Democrats vow to tighten the screws on Whitaker

Oil prices jump 2 percent after Saudi Arabia announces December soppy cuts

Macron rips Nationalism, 'old demons reawakening'

Trump pays tribute to 'great warriors' in cemetery visit ...

Cummings: I won't hand out subpoenas like 'candy on Halloween'

Trump cancels visit to US WWI cemetery due to rain, causing Twitterstorm

WSJ: Hillary will run again ...

Report: Putin has good conversation with Trump in Paris

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Winter Revenge: Blizzard warnings, NYC, Boston

Chinese Communist officials harden rheohtoric on Islam ...

McCain on Trump-Russian probes: 'Lots of shoes to drop from this centupede'

Letterman ugly personality no laughing matter, former colleagues say

Top Democrat: [U.S. attorney] Bharara may have been fired for investigating Trump

Europe's relations with Turkey go from bad to worse

L.A. Gay Pride Parade to be replaced by anti-Trump march

Cummings to Trump: Tweet less, lead more

Women flock to plastic surgeons to copy Ivanka's looks ...

. Bus runs into crowd in Haiti, killing at least 34

1970s extremist 'Carlos the Jackel' faces trial in Paris

Price on Obamacare replacement: No one will be worse off financially