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As Chick-fil-A expands globally and into more liberal parts of the U.S., the chicken chain plans to change which charities it donates to after years of bad press and protests from the LGBT community. Beginning next year, Chick-fil-A will move away from its current philanthropic structure, Bisnow has learned. After donating to more than 300 charitable organizations this year, the Atlanta-based fast-food chain will instead focus on three initiatives with one accompanying charity each: education, homelessness and hunger. "There's no question we know that, as we go into new markets, we need to be clear about who we are," Chick-fil-A...

American Express today again refused to withdraw its sponsorship of The Public Theater's adaptation of Julius Caesar, which is now playing in New York's Central Park. The play depicts the brutal assassination of President Donald Trump as he is stabbed to death by multiple assassins. Other theater sponsors, including Delta Air Lines and Bank of America, withdrew their sponsorship from the theater earlier this week. Despite today's attempted massacre of two dozen Republican lawmakers by a leftist gunman provoked by violent anti-Trump rhetoric, American Express stands firm in its corporate support of The Public Theater. In a phone conversation with...

Lynn Westmoreland (Vichy-GA) will betray his district this afternoon and vote for the Murray-Ryan budget compromise.

John McCain is on fire over the Benghazi abandonment and coverup, and vows to put the responsible parties under oath before his committee when the GOP retakes the Senate. I have many differences with Senator McCain, but I have never heard him express the level of anger and passion that he holds on this issue. Good for him! A transcript of Hugh Hewitt's interview is provided at the source...

WSB AM750 - the nation's top talk radio station and the Atlanta home of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Neal Boortz and Herman Cain - has yet to mention Candy Crowley's debate performance. Never mind that Crowley's intervention on Obama's behalf was obviously scripted and rehearsed, and that she "just happened" to have the Rose Garden transcript right in front of her. Never mind that Crowley interrupted Romney to protect Obama from his greatest scandal. And never mind that Crowley admitted afterward - on tape - that she was wrong and Romney was right. As far as WSB's newsroom is concerned,...

As thunderclouds gather over the Middle East, America and Britain stand once again shoulder to shoulder preparing to draw the sword in defense of freedom, democracy and human rights. A line has been drawn in the sands of the Arabian desert. We have deployed some 200,000 American troops, together with more than 40,000 British, who will shortly be committed to battle. Meanwhile, I have a confession to make: It was my grandfather, Winston Churchill, who invented Iraq and laid the foundation for much of the modern Middle East. In 1921, as British colonial secretary, Churchill was responsible for creating Jordan...

Oswald Spengler, in his two-volume book, Decline of the West, figured that by our time Western Civilization would be dead, dead, dead. Dead as Hector, as my old man used to say. I'm beginning to think that old Spengler was right. Looking out on the horizon of Western Civilization, the scene is rather bleak. Let's take the political leaders and the opposition leaders in Germany, France, Holland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America. Pretty much the whole lot is mediocre. I can't think of one leader in any of those countries who could ...

On Oct. 22, 1992, 61-year-old Donald Scott was shot dead in his own home by a sheriff’s deputy serving an early-morning search warrant on Scott’s ranch in Ventura County, Calif. No drugs were found, and the local district attorney later determined that the search warrant had been obtained by using false evidence. So why was the raid undertaken? The district attorney’s investigation determined that the deadly raid “was motivated, at least in part, by a desire to seize and forfeit the ranch for the government.” Before the raid occurred, deputies had gone so far as to get an appraisal of ...

STRATFOR's Global Intelligence Update July 1, 1999 GREECE ANNOUNCES PENDING DEFENSE PACT WITH IRAN AND ARMENIA Summary: Greece and Iran have announced that they intend to sign a tripartite military cooperation agreement, along with Armenia, as early as July 12. Such an agreement would seriously undermine NATO unity and strategy in the Balkans and the Caucasus, exacerbate tensions between Greece and Turkey, isolate Azerbaijan and Georgia and, by extension, Central Asia, and provide Russia with a tremendous lever against NATO. As all involved intended, it is not something NATO can ignore. Analysis: Addressing reporters in Tehran on June 28, Greek ...