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"All glory goes to our Heavenly Father for this tender mercy! This is a step in the right direction lets remember those still suffering whom went to expose the atrocities of the Hammonds" Ammon Bundy Facebook Post 7/10/2018 "Today President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Grants of Clemency (Full Pardons) for Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr., and his son, Steven Hammond" White House Press Release 7/10/2018 Word of the pardons came down around 10am this morning Eastern time. The White House says they are full pardons, not a commutation of sentences. The White House issued a statement that read in part:...

President Donald Trump pardoned two men on Tuesday who were involved in a dispute with federal authorities over federal land usage that sparked the takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon. Dwight Hammond Jr. and his son Steven Hammond were granted executive grants of clemency by Trump, according to a White House statement. The father-son duo are cattle ranchers and were convicted in 2012 of committing arson on federal lands in Oregon. "Justice is overdue for Dwight and Steven Hammond, both of whom are entirely deserving of these Grants of Executive Clemency," the statement read....

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) President Trump nominates Supreme Court justice, left goes crazy, fake news media piles on. Wash, rinse, repeat. – So, Brett Kavanaugh will become the latest nominee for the Supreme Court by a GOP president to have his reputation trashed by the Democrat/fake news media propaganda complex. Let’s all hope he can withstand it. So predictable and staged was the leftists’ fake reaction to the nomination that one can only wonder how anyone remains dim enough to fall for this nonsense anymore. A small army of Soros-funded professional protesters began gathering in front...

White House senior adviser Stephen Miller threw out $80 worth of sushi after a bartender at the restaurant he ordered from flipped him off as he walked out of the restaurant, according to The Washington Post. The bartender from the restaurant, located near Miller's apartment, reportedly followed Miller out the door and shouted "Stephen!" The bartender then flipped both middle fingers and cursed out Miller, who then threw out the sushi in disgust, Miller later told colleagues. Earlier this year, Miller was shouted at "Better be better!" by a stranger while walking through Dupont Circle in Washington DC, The Post...

"This is the four day reaching out to the grand jury as well as the first jury who convicted Greg Burleson and Todd Engel in the case of 'USA vs. Cliven Bundy et al. Evidence, documents and videos were withheld from you in trial and during the witnesses of the grand jury. Both the grand jury as well as the first jury who convicted Todd and Greg did not hear all the truth and also testimony was willfully altered and manipulated by the US prosecutors to make something appear different than the facts....." Ammon Bundy video posted on Facebook 7/4/2018...

Beto O’Rourke is running to replace Ted Cruz. Literally. Sweat pours off his lean, 6’ 4”-frame as the El Paso Democrat jogs along the southern bank of the Trinity River surrounded by 300-odd supporters and curious voters jogging along with him. Incredibly, they have shown up at 8 a.m. on a Sunday to join him for a double shot of politics and cardio. In between panting breaths, O’Rourke explains to me the origins of this novel campaign event, which has him running several miles under the Texas sun, stopping in the middle to take questions and lingering at the end...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Hillary Clinton, the gift that just keeps on giving. To Republicans. – Oh please, let this be so. Michael Goodwin, terrific columnist for the New York Post, had a great piece on Saturday laying out the reasons why he believes that the Fainting Felon is planning behind the scenes to mount yet another run for the presidency in 2020. Personally, I think he’s right – have long thought this would inevitably be the case – and that everyone should begin prepping themselves for Hillary Part III: The Return of the Pantsuit. And...

If there’s one celebrity the leftist media needs to stop taking seriously, it’s Tom Arnold. The actor and comedian already proved his misogyny by attacking conservative pundit Candace Owens in a vulgar rant. He also recently threatened to show up at Barron Trump’s school. Barron Trump — the president’s youngest child — is 12 years old. Arnold is 59 years old. Though he’s proved his low level of rhetoric time and time again, the Hollywood liberal continues to be taken seriously by the mainstream media. He has an upcoming anti-Trump show on Vice and he’s appeared on both CNN and...

"Brexit Secretary David Davis resigned from Theresa May's government late on Sunday night, followed swiftly by junior ministers Steve Baker and Suella Braverman. The Monmouth MP, who collaborated with the Leave.EU-backed Grassroots Out campaign as well as the establishment Vote Leave outfit during the EU referendum, made frequent threats to resign during his time as leader of the newly-created Department for Exiting the European Union, reportedly due to persistent efforts by the Remain-supporting Prime Minister and her main adviser, Soviet-sympathizing bureaucrat Olly Robbins, to undermine his negotiations with Brussels." "Bretibart" Article 7/8/2018 The British cabinet minister responsible for Brexit, David...

WATCH: Bill and Hillary Clinton, who have long been the center of scandal and corruption, fly commercial without threat of being attacked by conservative critics, while Trump Administration officials face harassment by violent liberals

"Israel is considered the party that gave the green light for the entry of Assad forces into southern Syria, following negotiations held between the commander of Russia's policing forces, a representative of the Russian administration, Jordanian and Israeli officials. These were based on a Russian commitment to remove Iranian forces from the area, to an initial distance of 40 kilometers from the Jordanian border. Further negotiations regarding the depth of Iranian deployment in the Golan Heights will be held at a meeting between Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin..." Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" Analysis July 8, 2018 Negotiations are underway to...

While President Trump seems to have it right in his consideration of pardons for Dwight and Steven Hammond, treated unjustly with five year manadatory sentences for lighting a backfire to protect their land, the political machine seems to be grinding out credit for itself for any pardons that may be coming. In this mid-term election year Oregon's leading Republican politician Congressman Greg Walden broke his silence last week to call for a pardon of the Hammonds. Its an issue that he remained silent about for years, never saying a word about it. He followed that up with a personal meeting...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Is there nothing the all-powerful, all-evil Trump cannot do? – Writing in the UK Guardian, some fake journalist named Brigid Delaney just published what is quite possibly the single dumbest anti-Trump screed ever written. Yes, yes, I know it’s an extremely crowded field with tons front runners with recognizable names – are you listening, George Will, Bill Kristol, Max Boot? – and that we are still early in the race, given that President Trump very likely still has more than six years to serve in the office. But the nondescript Ms. Delaney...

On Saturday, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough accused President Donald Trump of forcing the summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un for the headlines. “Proving once again that only fools rush in, Trump forced a summit for cheap headlines,” Scarborough wrote. He added: “In the process, he gave legitimacy to the most oppressive communist regime on the planet, further damaged the United States and made himself look like a fool.” He also included a link to a Washington Post article that read, in part: “In a sharp signal that denuclearization negotiations with North Korea will be drawn out and difficult,...

After the assassination attempt on Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and other Republican members of Congress, I wrote that “the caustic and toxic gasoline of hate speech” was inviting someone “to light the match that will ignite a bond fire of political assassinations…” A year later the rhetoric and actions of the left have gotten worse and borders on incitement to violence against those who implement and support the Trump agenda. Unfortunately, it is encouraged by little condemnation and therefore tacit approval of much of the Democratic and mainstream media leadership. A few examples: Entertainer Samantha Bee calling the President’s daughter...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Tired of all this Winning yet? – San Fran Nan and her fellow Democrats recoiled in horror at yet another fantastic jobs report, as the private sector added another 213,000 new jobs in June, once again beating analyst expectations. The jobs report includes new record low unemployment for Hispanic workers and continued record low unemployment for Black workers. Thus, Democrats went into a panic, with Pelosi issuing a statement claiming that “Donald Trump’s reckless policies are hurting millions of hardworking families.” Because lying shamelessly is all they got. A classic case of...

Trump is too busy coddling Sessions and waiting for Mueller to indict him so he can be removed from office. ~ Comment from a Freeper on another thread. I would normally balk at such a statement, but I've recently begun to think there's a method to the President's madness, in that regard. Until now, it hadn't occurred to me that our beloved President might be of such noble character, that he is actually baring his chest to the (very real) knives of the left, and is willing to martyr himself, at least politically, to light a fire under the behinds...

FBI officials in the Little Rock field office in Arkansas are not actively pursuing leads on the Clinton Foundation, according to several FBI insiders who are blowing the whistle on the bureau’s investigative ruse. Everyone and their mother knows the Clinton Foundation is a front for personal and private gain, bending and breaking numerous state and federal laws for decades. Except, apparently, the FBI. Little Rock FBI’s special agent in charge Diane Upchurch has all but smothered the investigation which at one point was focusing on money laundering and other financial-based crimes, FBI officials said. “There was some momentum but...

This Brexit strategy is a sell-out to the global corporates, at it was during Maastricht. The Tory Euroskeptics are a waste of space" Nigel Farage Twitter 7/6/2018 May's surrender proposal talks of Economic and Security Partnership. This means EU control of our trade policy and being part of their plans for EU Armed Forces. Plus being bound to things like the evil European Arrest Warrant...." Gerard Batten-UKIP leader Twitter 7/6/2018 "Brexit did not mean keeping 90 percent of our economy that does not export to the EU trapped by their laws...." Nigel Farage Twitter 7/6/2018 After an eight hour meeting...

In a post on her now-defunct blog, MSNBC anchor Joy Ann Reid attacked CNN’s Wolf Blitzer for treating Jewish guests with too much understanding. Blitzer is a “former flak for the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC),” reads the post from July 16, 2006. “He doesn’t even try to hide his affinity for his Israeli guests, or his partisanship for their cause, while turning instantly to prosecutorial mode when questioning any guest who has the dumb luck to be an Arab or Muslim in King Blitzer’s court,” Reid continues. “It’s actually quite stunning how brazen Blitzer’s bias has become.” In...