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Trump allies received hundreds of thousand dollars under federal health contract

Disney+ suffers technical errors on launch day

Condoleezza Rice: The call is murky, it is really murky ...

Hillary Clinton: I’m facing ‘enormous pressure’ to enter 2020 race

Schiff warns GOP that outing Trump whistleblower could violate federal ethics rules

Trump says China cheated America on trade, but blames US leaders for letting it happen

150 rockets fired at Israel after IDF assassinates Gaza  terror leader ...

Nikki Haley defends Trump, calling him ‘truthful’

Supreme Court will allow Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit against Remington to move ahead

Update: Google secretly gathers personal health data on millions ...

Recession fears evaporate: small business optimism rises in October

Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick mulling White House run

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Biden apologizes for remarks about segregationists

Democracies are losing their global economic dominance as ‘authoritarian capitalism’ rises

Reports: Epstein arrested in NYC on sex trafficking charges

Poll: Majority of Democrats say government caused migrant crisis

Buttigieg campaign multiplies in size after huge cash haul

For most Americans $1.7 million is the magic retirement number

UK ambassador says Trump ‘inept’ ... Leaked secret cables ...

Tremors still rumbling under Southern California

Google’s one-time hired gun could now be its antitrust nightmare

Explosion in Florida shopping plaza injures 20

Boris set for landslide in battle to become PM ...

Netanyahu: Israel preparing for large-scale operation in Gaza

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Trump squeezes Dems with border demands

China says its still preparing for US trade talks — but won’t give details after new Trump threats

Iran behind [Gaza] escalation?

Swalwell: Impeaching Trump ‘may be the only road to save the country’

Pompeo aims to counter China’s ambitions in the Arctic

Warren Buffet: If we have a trade war with China, it could be very bad for the whole world

Confusion: Biden says ‘Margaret Thatcher’ called him with concern about Trump

Democrat lawmakers take on threat of beach umbrellas

Navy strike group deployed to send message to Iran

41 dead after Russian passenger plane crash lands at Moscow airport

Study conclude Universal Basic Income doesn’t work ...

Red Sox manager Alex Cora to skip White House visit

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Mueller’s move dooms impeachment in Senate

Avenati arrested for alleged $29 million extortion plot against Nike, embezzling client’s money

Brennan: ‘I don’t know if I received bad information’ ...

MSM journalists turn on Obama CIA Director John Brennan

Supreme Court to consider new gerrymandering limitations

Trump’s tariffs costing Americans $1.4 billion per month, study shows

Israel strikes Hamas after Gaza rocket attack ...

Don Jr.: Adam Schiff is the ‘leader of the tinfoil hat brigade’ ...

Britain’s House of Commons takes control of Brexit

Democrats want full Mueller report released to Congress by April 2, while GOP resists

Russia deploys troops, equipment to Venezuela ...

France bans Iranian airline for shipping troops and weapons to Syria

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2020 Democrat holdouts wait for Harris, Warren to trip

France to recognize Venezuela's Guaido if Maduro doesn't call [for] vote on Sunday

Israel begins construction of new Gaza border barrier ...

Donald Trump golfs with Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods

Northam refuses to resign but says he once did Michael Jackson blackface

This is how college got so expensive in America

Trump: 'I would have a hard time' letting son play football ...

Report: Ralph 'Coonman' Northam counting on media to save him

Trump: Pompeo 'absolutely not leaving' to rum for Senate

Deutsche Bank said to have refused Trump a loan during hearted 2016 campaign

Fire in [Iran] space center kills three scientists ...

De Blasio: Bloomberg would be 'laughed out' of 2020 race

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Hell hath no fury like Omarosa scorned

'Rudely trampling on international trade rules ': Chinese media beat drum against US

Plane stolen by 'suicidal' employee crashes near Seattle ...

Report: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally made decision to ban Alex Jones

Trump connects with Rand [Paul] 'at gut level'

US budget deficit increase 21%, on track for biggest gap in six years

REPORT: 2 killed, 307 wounded in clashes along Gaza border ...

U.S. Navy will keep challenging China in South China Sea

Puerto Rico concedes hurricane Maria caused more than 1,400 deaths

Roger Stone ex-aide held in contempt in Mueller probe

Cost of living rises at fastest rate in decade ...

Planned Parenthood launches six-figure ad campaign to block Kavanaugh

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Republicans have an Alger Hiss problem  named Marlia

Trade war turns into dangerous currency war as China weakens the yuan the most in 2 years

GALLUP POLL: Americans don't mention 'global warming' as problem ...

IDF soldier killed by Gaza terror snipers ...

Republicans soften ban on [China's] ZTE in concession to Trump

Dick Bove: Trump poised to take control of Federal Reserve

Chicago named 'rat capital' of nation ...

George H.W. Bush's former doctor gunned down while riding bicycle

House Republicans defeat attempts to subpoena Trump interpreter

California could change law allowing utilities to offset wildfire risk sand  save billions of dollars

Genetic researchers reverse wrinkles, gray hair, baldness in mice ...

Mexican border city gun battle result in 1,169 stolen cars in 6 months

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Trump.: EU is one of the United States' biggest foes

Israeli and Gaza militants agree to end fierce flare up of fighting

France dominates World Cup finals ...

Left-wing ANTIFA terrorists angry over 'unmasking' laws

Goody says he won't support Rosenstein impeachment

UK PM May says Donald Trump told her to sue EU over Brexit

Hillary begins speech: 'I'm so tired, I can barely stand' ...

Source: NATO members not living up to Afghanistan troop commitments

Rand Paul on Russian election meddling: 'We all do it'

Trump's SCOTUS nominee thinks ISPs have First Amendment rights, which could hurt privacy laws

Musk attacks hero diver of Thai rescue ...

NAACP lawyer: 'Insane' that Trump can appoint SCOTUS Justice

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Trump's Jerusalem embassy opening marred by deadly clashes in Gaza

Mexico shuts down 17 men who tried to run for office as women

Cracks in Hawaii volcano roar ...

... Democrats skip [U.S. embassy opening in Jerusalem] ...

A GOP surprise:House midterm hopes rise in blue California

IRS may nix blue state's workaround of tax deduction caps

Ecuador prepares to hand over Assuange?

Seafood industry begs for more foreign workers

GOP tax cut not why economy is booming

Supreme Court strikes down federal sports betting ban, paving the way for NJ and other states

Pence reaches for Republican Party control ...

Jimmy Kimmel: American people are tired of Trump bashing

The Jihadist

There was this Hamas jihadist from Gaza

Who blew himself up in a Jerusalem plaza.

Protesting the U.S. embassy.

T'was little left of him to see.

Still, Abbas gave his family the martyr's bonanza.

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President calls [Comey] 'slimeball'

[Jim] Jordon fires warning shot at [Kevin] McCarthy

Tesla ships flawed parts to local machine shop for fixes, and they're piled up outside

Rod Rosenstein absent at DOJ press conference

Gazans attempt to breach border wall with explosives, Molotov cocktails ...

Trump approval holds at 50% ...

Hardly anyone is paying taxes on their Bitcoin gains as filing deadline nears

Gallup: Catholic Church attendance drops during Francis papacy

 Minnesota braces for BLIZZARD ...

GOP faction wants Ryan gone now

Feds spied on Trump lawyer Cohen's emails, feared he'd destroy documents

Department of Justice watchdog releases damning Andrew McCabe report

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Trump administration freezes $200 million in funds for Syrian reconstruction

Visa seekers will have o disclose social media ...

Trump says Washington Post should register as Amazon 'lobbyist'

Ingraham to take 'Easter break' from show amid advertiser boycotts

Tesla Autopilot activated before fatal accident ...

Massive loans. Damaged credit. Nothing to save. How student loans make home ownership a pipe dream

Jimmy Carter rips Trump: America 'apparently wants a jerk' for president

Elizabeth Warren attacks Trump's Asia 'chaos' and ridicules his 'happy-faced' views toward China

Google staff organized to fight cyber bullying -- at Google ...

MIT researchers are tackling a major challenge for self-driving cars -- fog

Media apparently using Hamas-supplied casualty figures for Gaza rioting

Big Pharma's billion dollar scramble to invest in start-ups to fuel innovation

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[Tim] Kaine: Trump is 'lying' or 'delusional' on DACA

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin will eventually be the single global currency

Israeli intercepts incoming rockets from Gaza Strip ...

[Niki] Haley slams 'foolish' Human Rights Council after 5 new anti-Israel resolutions

Kaine questions whether Bolton can I get security clearance

The economy looks weak in the first quarter, but better days are coming

[March for Our Lives] Crowd count well below expected and initial reports ...

Student activists: Arming teachers puts kids more in danger'

Trump's legal team in flux as he reverses decision on controversial pair

Saudi Air Force intercepts missile over Riyadh, state television says

Flashback: School shootings getting LESS common ...

London homeless DOUBLE after deportations blocked by EU ...

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Senator: FBI missing months of text between officials involved in Trump-Clinton probes

World's richest 1% get 82% of the wealth, Oxfam says

McConnell: Immigration, border security next month ...

Austria announces border protection unit to manage migration

Trump tells GOP Senate to go nuclear [get rid of filibuster]

Trump reportedly thinks Wilbur Ross has done a bad job as Commerce Secretary

Republicans bounce back in 2018 polls after tax cuts ...

State [CA] to register illegal aliens to vote -- automatically?

Gaza family kills own son after Hamas says he aided Israel

[Sen.] Graham tees off on Stephen Muller over immigration

Trump's [stock] market cheerleading tweets could end up fueling a bubble

Mulvaney: Schumer offered to 'authorize' wall funding, not actually spend money

Acid Test

There is a clear acid test to differentiate the foreign policies of Obama and Trump ... and that is now occurring in Iran. There, demonstrations are getting more deadly every day. What started as economic protests have blossomed into full-throated anti-mullah uprisings. The Iran government is a very repressive anti-American and anti-Israel theocracy ... trying to establish Shiite hegemony throughout the Sunni Middle East. However, Trump-style populism is even creeping into Tehran ... causing distrust of its leadership. The Persian government there is even forced now to augment its police and special forces with Gaza and Hezbollah Arabs.

When the Green Revolution took place after disputed elections in Iran back in 2009, President Obama turned his back on this infant insurrection ... and it died as did many of its supporters. Obama then went on to suck up to Iran's despotic mullahs by negotiating a horrible one-sided nuclear pact that gave Iran back $150  billion in frozen assets and an easy path to atomic weaponry ... as well as some other goodies ... Obama's $1.7 billion cash ransoming of American prisoners, his secret letters to the mullahs, his allowing the humiliation of U.S. sailors and his calling off the drug-enforcement dogs from Iran-backed Hezbollah ... all to placate, for some mysterious reason, a major sponsor of Islamic terrorism.

In opposition to what many consider to be capitulation on Obama's part, Trump is vigorously supporting these recent protests by the Iranian populus ... a populus that generally supports America. Trump has tweeted his enthusiastic endorsement of these mew Iranian insurgents ... saying the 'time has come' for these thuggish mullahs to be overthrown. Hopefully other nations will fall in line behind Trump.

So, the acid test now presents itself ... is Trump right to go with the Iranian populus ... or was Obama's mullah boot-licking the right policy? We should know the answer within Trump's first term in office.

News You Can Use

In talking recently to a well-versed and connected former politician, I broached two subjects of which he was unaware. I believe that this information is so important that I am going to reprise it here with links to my original blogs that more fully explain this news that, for some inexplicable reason, never made it into the main-stream media.

First, back in August, Egypt offered to cede to the Palestinian Authority (PA) 618 square miles of the Sinai Peninsula to expand the Gaza Strip. This would effectively quintuple its land area for the settlement of its refugees … and would have provided the PA the perfect opening to create its side of the famous “two state solution” to the decades' old smoldering conflict with Israel. President Mahmoud Abbas of the PA rejected this offer on the flimsiest of grounds … see: The Impossible Dream

Second, both the Clintons and the Obama administration have deep and important ties to the Muslim Brotherhood … the nursery for much of the Jihadists movement. These links have helped color our foreign policy in the Mideast over the last six years …and are, I believe, a primary reason that things are so bollixed up there. Read some of the known details here: Fleas.  I’m fairly certain that there are many other more incriminating connections.

Have you dear reader seen or read about these profound revelations highlighted in our national media? I thought not.

Afterward: Abbas once again showed his blood-stained hands ... see: Breitbart Article.

After Afterward: Now we learn that Obama's buddy, the religious head of the Muslim Brotherhood, is being sought by Interpol ... see: Atlas Shrugged.

Managing the News

I was saddened ... and Joe Scarborough was ranting on yesterday’s Morning Joe show … saying that the killing of 15 women and children by Israeli artillery was asinine … see: Huffington Post Story. Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the U.N., said that attacking sleeping children was shameful … see: The Guardian Video. Even an Israeli military general was attempting to draw a moral equivalence … saying that the U.S. also killed many women and children when it shelled Fallujah during the Iraq war ... and Britain killed many more women and children when it fire-bombed Dresden during World War II.

However, independent of the horror of this tragic war, there are aspects of the news that we here in America are receiving that should be obvious … but we keep conveniently ignoring … and that is much of what we are hearing is a contrived fiction. The news is being shaded and even subverted by both sides of this conflict. But it does seem that Hamas is more aggressive at this game than Israel. I found the following post of the Powerline blog that showed me more of this subterfuge than one sees in most of our media: Powerline Blog Entry.  Here is a key excerpt:

Consider the case of Italian journalist Gabriele Barbati. On Tuesday, he tweeted that the deaths of Palestinian children on a playground caused by rocket fire were the result of a misfired Hamas rocket. “Misfired rocket killed children in Shati. Witness: militants rushed and cleared debris,” Barbati wrote: 

Significantly, Barbati tweeted this only after he had left Gaza. In the same tweet he wrote, “Out of Gaza far from Hamas retaliation.”

Please read this whole referenced blog entry above to see how closely Hamas manages the news coming out of Gaza. I think we must show a great deal of skepticism when we, including Joe Scarborough and Ban Ki-moon, jump to conclusions about what is actually happening in this current horrific conflict.