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https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/2019/07/28/jake-tapper-fails-challenge-bernie-sanders-baltimore-hypocrisy https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/27/flashback-bernie-sanders-cited-north-korea-to-slam-conditions-in-baltimore-that-is-a-disgrace/ https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/readers-respond/bs-ed-rr-gerrymander-elijah-letter-20181002-story.html https://www.thetrace.org/2018/04/highest-murder-rates-us-cities-list/ https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/07/29/2018-video-shows-baltimore-mayor-doing-a-city-walkthrough-whew-jesus-you-can-smell-the-rats-779517 ….As proven last week during a Congressional tour, the Border is clean, efficient & well run, just very crowded. Cumming District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess. If he spent more time in Baltimore, maybe he could help clean up this very dangerous & filthy place — Donald … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn Sanctuary states, counties and cities in the (dis)United States of America ignore, defy and violate the federal government’s immigration laws by providing “sanctuary” to illegal aliens with policies, laws, executive orders, or regulations that enable local law enforcement to refuse cooperating with federal immigration law enforcement, as in deporting illegals who have committed … Read more

by Dr. Eowyn In America today, privately-owned businesses are no longer motivated by profit and service. Instead, businesses have become an arm of the Democrat Party by discriminating against conservatives and promoting the Left’s agenda — on abortion, anti-Trump political partisanship, illegal immigration, LGBT, and anti-Second Amendment gun-control. A case in point is Dick’s Sporting Goods. After the mass shooting last … Read more

by DCG The union blames the police commissioner. Yet plenty of blame to go around, starting with anti-cop mayor Bill de Blasio. From NY Post: The fatal shooting at a Brooklyn block party overnight — just steps away from where cops were doused with water last weekend — is proof the city is “slowly crumbling,” the Sergeants Benevolent Association said … Read more

I don’t think there is any precedent for the US going into a presidential campaign where both the media & the intelligence community have so little credibility ….   JADR

Prep looks at the ever-increasing Chinese problem faced by Australia

More than 1 million social numbers nicked among other details – FBI collars, charges software engineer A hacker raided Capital One’s cloud storage buckets and stole personal information on 106 million credit card applicants in America and Canada. The swiped data includes 140,000 US social security numbers and 80,000 bank account numbers, we’re told, as … Read more

by northmantrader As outlined this weekend put call ratios are fairly low and benign going into this week’s Fed meeting. No worries. Investor positioning? All in long it appears. One indicator combination of interest, RYDEX account positioning as well as money flows. During times of market stress we can observe shifts to more bearish positioning and the RYDEX … Read more

by Michael Snyder It is being called “the Great Grasshopper Invasion of 2019”, and it is really freaking out a lot of people in Las Vegas, because most of them don’t understand why this is suddenly happening.  Unusually wet weather earlier this year created ideal breeding conditions, and now massive swarms of grasshoppers have descended … Read more

via Zerohedge: One could get whiplash listening to Guggenheim’s Scott Minerd’s rapidly changing opinions these days. Back on May 29, the weightlifting CIO of the $265 billion asset manager, made a gloomy forecast on CNBC, predicting that the stock market sell-off is likely far from over, and said stocks would go “somewhere below the lows in December.” Near … Read more

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPhrihnNizk Molly Prince from The Daily Wire reports, Firebrand freshman Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) slammed House Democrats on Thursday for prioritizing a “fishing expedition” into senior White House aides’ communications instead of focusing upon the needs of the American people. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.dailywire.com/news/49906/…

by Michael Snyder So there is a lot of buzz that the Federal Reserve is about to cut interest rates – and it might actually happen.  We’ll see.  But if it does happen, it will directly contradict the carefully crafted narrative about the economy that the Federal Reserve has been perpetuating all this time.  Fed … Read more

by visualcapitalist The Case for Taxable Municipal Bonds for Investors If you’re a homeowner, there are probably a few things you’ve been neglecting to do. Perhaps the kitchen needs upgrading, or the roof needs replacing. We tend to procrastinate on these improvements due to large renovation costs, until it hits a point where we can’t ignore … Read more