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He was ill-mannered and ill-spoken—a boor, a braggart, a ruffian, a bigot, a hick, and a trickster. His name was Brother Jonathan. Today he is all but forgotten—eclipsed by his upstanding uncle, Sam. But after the Revolutionary War, Brother Jonathan was the personification of the newly independent American people: clever, courageous, not all that sophisticated and proud of it. He was the everyman incarnate. It was the everyman who had led America to victory. And now America looked to the everyman to lead them out from the bloated shadow of Great Britain. During the nation’s first hundred years, America tried...

The wife of former Chief of Staff to Mike Pence Joshua Pitcock was working for Peter Strzok and investigating into Hillary Clinton’s crimes. This comes after it was reported on Thursday that lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were “cultivating sources” to spy and inform them on President Trump. It is not clear at this point Pitcock’s involvement in this development. Sara Carter has more: The texts and sources reveal that Strzok had one significant contact within the White House – Vice President Mike Pence’s Chief of Staff Joshua Pitcock, whose wife was working as an analyst for Strzok on...

This just broke. 15 minute video at link. Summary: The former Chief of Staff to VP Pence, Joshua Pitcock, has been accused during an interview with the Prez of spying on Trump for the FBI. On April 8th Jack Posobiec was told of this matter. Pitcock's wife was top aide to Peter Strzok. They have all the text messages showing his culpability.

Senior Republican chairmen submitted a letter Thursday to Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr revealing new texts from former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok to his paramour FBI Attorney Lisa Page showing the pair had discussed attempts to recruit sources within the White House to allegedly spy on the Trump administration. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson revealed the information in a three page letter. The texts had been obtained by SaraACarter.com Tuesday and information regarding the possible attempt to recruit White House sources had been divulged by several sources to...

Fired in August by the Huffington Post for reporting on healthy concerns that dogged the Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, on Friday journalist David Seaman was interviewed by the popular YouTube channel, Quite Frankly: Seaman detailed a chilling chance encounter with a member of a Three Letter Agency at the January 19th Washington DC DeploraBall, a festive gathering of conservatives and Trump campaign enthusiasts at the National Press Club: "We are watching all your videos and are investigating carefully because it's constantly shocking just how high up these behaviors go --it could even take down major parts of the British...

I cannot find ararticl posted here from yesterday re: journalist David Seaman being removed from Youtube. A search of his name does not show it. Can someone direct me to it or did FR remove it? And if so, why?

What the Secret Service could learn from drunken sailors Roberto Loiederman, a merchant seaman from 1966 to 1974, is a writer in California. He co-authored “The Eagle Mutiny,” an account of the 1970 mutiny on a U.S. vessel. What happened in Cartagena, Colombia, with the Secret Service seems unsavory to me, but not for the reasons you might think. I make no judgments about men spending a night with escorts. As far as I’m concerned, those who take a holier-than-thou attitude about this are like Inspector Renault in “Casablanca” when he says he’s “shocked, shocked” to discover there is gambling...

He is still revered around the world as a peace-loving working class hero. But by the time he died, John Lennon was a closet conservative embarrassed by his radical past, according to his former personal assistant. Fred Seaman claims that the former Beatle was a fan of Ronald Reagan, who went on to become America’s Republican president in 1981 and forged a close political alliance with Margaret Thatcher.

Forbes writer Rick Ungar is getting some attention for a piece arguing that history shows that John Adams supported a strong Federal role in health care. Ungar argues that Adams even championed an early measure utilizing the concept behind the individual mandate, which Tea Partyers say is unconsittutional. I just ran this theory past a professor of history who specializes in the early republic, and he said there's actually something to it. Short version: There's no proof from the historical record that Adams would have backed the idea behind the individual mandate in particular. But it is fair to conclude,...

<p>HONG KONG, China -- A Russian sailor who survived after being trapped for six hours inside a sunken dredger said prayers and the thought of his family kept him alive.</p> <p>"As the water rose, I just prayed and thought of my wife and my daughter in Russia," Chief engineer Viktor Larin told reporters on Wednesday.</p>