Part of the American success formula is a reliance on fair play: Everyone must follow the same rules. This extends to the American-led effort for free and fair trade around the world, which has led to lowering of prices and better competition for consumers. But free trade isn’t a free for all, and never has been.…
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President Donald Trump said Monday that Obamacare is no longer the law of the land in the U.S. health care system. “There is no such thing as Obamacare anymore,” the president said in a cabinet meeting Monday, Bloomberg’s Jennifer Epstein tweeted. The president’s comments come one week after his administration laid serious blows to Obamacare, and…
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The foreign-born population in the United States hit an all-time high last year of 43.7 million people, making it the highest percentage of residents born outside the country in more than a century, according to a new report. The study, released Monday by the Center for Immigration Studies, is based on data published last month by…
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VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing October 17, Tuesday Haggai 2:6-7 “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. 7 I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty.
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The story of the most successful Latin boy band of all time, Menudo, will go to the screen in the first-ever scripted drama series based on the group. “Subete a Mi Moto—The History of Menudo” tells the story of the formation of Menudo through the band’s rise to unprecedented global success. Originally formed in Puerto Rico…
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Check out the top 10 things we learned during a wild Week 7 of college football. 1. Upsets rule college football. Many assumed with no games between top 25 teams that this was going to be a ho-hum weekend. It was anything but thanks to seven ranked teams falling: No. 2 Clemson, No. 5 Washington, No.…
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For the first time ever, humans have observed light and gravitational waves from the same event, a neutron star collision 130 million light years away. Thanks to advance warning from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), roughly 70 observatories from every continent on Earth, including Antarctica, managed to tune in to watch the merger. Based on this first-ever “multi-messenger” event, thousands of scientists are now making breakthroughs about the behavior of neutron stars and the origin of elements like gold and uranium.…
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Dale Earnhardt Jr daughter Call it the circle of life. Call it divine intervention. Call it whatever you want to call it. We’re calling it the best news we’ve heard all day! Dale Earnhardt Jr. and wife Amy are expecting their first baby, a little girl! Just as he’s winding down his long and successful career…
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Former Governor Phil Bredesen, the man who was the last Democrat to run and win a statewide campaign in Tennessee, is now eyeing a run for the U. S. Senate to replace the retiring Bob Corker, the AP reports: In a statement Monday to The Associated Press, Bredesen said he is mulling an entry into the race after several people urged him to reconsider his initial statements that he had no interest in running. “In the days ahead, I’m going to do some research, talk with people and carefully think this through,” he said. “I’ll make a decision quickly.” The former governor has led a relatively quiet private life since leaving public office – a time before social media. He does not appear to have a Twitter account, and an unverified ‘Phil Bredesen’ Facebook account has no entries, but the profile picture is of him, fishing. Breseden has been complementary of incumbent Corker’s tenure, telling the AP: “We are of different parties and don’t always agree on issues, but I have long admired the way in which he puts the interests of Tennesseans and our nation ahead of political gamesmanship,” Bredesen said. “He educates himself on the issues and thinks independently…
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President Donald Trump believes he will appoint three more Supreme Court justices before the end of his first term, according to a scoop by Axios. If he is right, that would give Trump four nominations in all — the most in a single term by any president since Richard Nixon. Axios cited anonymous sources who have…
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After days of avoiding the topic, the Clinton Foundation told the Daily Mail Sunday that it would not return the up to $250,000 in donations that disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein contributed over the years, because the foundation had already spent the money. Many other Democrats and liberal organizations turned away from Weinstein after more…
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Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said on Saturday at the Value Voter Summit that “it’s a season of war against a GOP establishment” that won’t fully support President Donald Trump and his “America First” agenda that the people voted for in 2016. Bannon, who left the White House in mid-August before returning to Breitbart,…
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Eminem made quite a splash at this year’s BET Awards when he debuted a freestyle rap aimed at President Donald Trump and his supporters. The Detroit musician called the president “Donald the b****” and “racist grandpa” before dropping the line that most upset his fans: “And any fan of mine who’s a supporter of his, I’m…
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Robert Plant was Led Zeppelin’s “Golden God” whose voice could tear through audiences, but on his latest album he proves anew he is more subtle and spiritual than a screecher. “Carry Fire,” which came out on Friday, renews Plant’s fascination with American roots music but ventures further afield as the rocker breezily brings in North African…
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If you’d only spend money on Weird Al Yankovic to hear “Amish Paradise” and “White & Nerdy” live, then the parody artist’s upcoming tour might not be for you. Scratch that, it definitely won’t be for you—and the singer wants to make sure you know it. Weird Al announced the dates for his Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised…
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LifeZette Editor-in-Chief Laura Ingraham said in a speech Saturday that President Donald Trump has done more in 10 months for social conservatives than former President George W. Bush did in eight years. Ingraham, addressing the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., recounted many of the actions the president has taken over his first several months in…
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German soccer team Hertha Berlin kneeled before its game Saturday to promote “an open-minded world.” All 11 starters and the entire bench kneeled before the team’s 2-0 home defeat against Schalke 04. Unlike recent protests in the NFL, the action did not take place during a ceremony of any kind as no national anthems are played…
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by Jeffrey A. Rendall The old saying goes, you can’t have too much of a good thing; but is it really true? Certainly not in the case of great things like patriotism, respect for the flag or honoring your country; ditto for prime steaks, fine wine, zesty pork rub on baby back ribs and chewy chocolate brownies. But in other areas too much of what was once considered good things – at least to some – leads to strange and disastrous consequences. Take for example this week’s announcement from the Boy Scouts of America where the organization that’s helped mold generations of our country’s young boys into flag revering, God venerating adult men declared it will now admit girls into its programs. No joke. The Boy Scouts has gone coed. Melissa Quinn of the Washington Examiner reported, “The Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday it will soon allow girls to join its Cub Scouts program and will develop a new program for older girls to earn the rank of Eagle Scout.” “’This decision is true to BSA’s mission and core values outlined in the Scout Oath and Law. The values of Scouting — trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, brave and…
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Many people have and condemned him after allegations and revelations — mainly via reports in The New York Times and The New Yorker — about . Some people have bravely come forward to share their own unpleasant encounters with the man, while others have expressed shock and sworn off working with him. One of the last…
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(Daily Caller News Foundation) GOP Rep. Rob Bishop of Utah slammed Democrats Wednesday for wanting greater transparency in the Trump administration’s review of some national monuments’ necessity, but refused to back legislation creating a transparent process for national monument creation. Rob Bishop/Photo by AFGE (CC) The House Committee on Natural Resources passed a bill on a…
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North Carolina’s athletic department avoided major penalties when the NCAA Committee on Infractions was unable to conclude the university violated academic rules when it made “paper courses” available to the general student body, including student-athletics. The practice went on from 1993 to 2011 — the NCAA investigation was from 2002-11 — and it involved a Department…
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The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) requested a personal meeting Friday with the FBI director over the department’s report that warned of the possible violence coming from “black identity extremists.” The caucus wants to meet with FBI Director Christopher Wray to talk about how the FBI conducted research on “black identity extremists” for its Aug. 3 report…
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The Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center, a pro-Palestinian organization headquartered in D.C. chaired by Tennessee-based Dr. Subhi Ali (pictured, right), fundraised this month with two galas featuring a keynote by Israeli-Arab Knesset (Israel’s legislature) member, Haneen Zoabi (pictured, left) who compared Israel to Germany in the 1930s, claimed Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state and suggested that Israeli-Arab members of the Knesset should work to undermine the State of Israel from within. Ali who lives in Waverly, Tennessee, joined the Jerusalem Fund in 2000 and became Vice-President of the Board in 2004, serving alongside the Fund’s founder Hisham Sharabi. Ali has led the Board since 2005. The galas’ featured speaker, Zoabi, also speaks at Students for Justice in Palestine anti-Israel events on U.S. college campuses, characterizing Israel as a racist apartheid state, getting what it deserves for forcing people to “live under occupation.” In 2014, when HAMAS militants abducted and murdered three Israeli teenagers, Zoabi said the HAMAS militants were “not terrorists” but people forced to live under occupation: They’re people who don’t see any way to change their reality and they are forced to use these means until Israel will wake up a little, until Israeli citizens and society will…
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Republican conservative U.S. Senate candidate Andy Ogles is calling on Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) to immediately step down from his Chairmanship of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “Senator Corker’s reckless war of words with President Donald Trump has moved into increasingly dangerous territory as his latest outrageous attacks on the president undermine our national security and foreign policy,” Ogles said. “Corker’s statement that the president is setting the United States ‘on a path to World War III’ was completely irresponsible. His new claim that the president is ‘castrating’ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson not only damages the ability of the president and his foreign policy team to defend American interests but also undermines his authority as Commander.” Ogles noted that it “is clear that Corker has lost the capacity to put America’s interests ahead of his petulant tantrums. If he wants to continue to attack the president he can do so, but he shouldn’t do it with the authority of and from the ‘bully pulpit’ provided to him as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.” Corker has previously dismissed calls for him to resign from the U.S. Senate in the wake of his disparaging comments about President Trump.…
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Part-time Donald Trump critic and actor Robert De Niro went off on the president again on Thursday during a speech at a charity function, the New York Daily News reported. RELATED: Robert De Niro used his commencement speech as another opportunity to rip President Trump De Niro, who has, in the past, said Trump has…
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Nothing brightens a day as much as a baby, especially when that baby just might be the next NASCAR driver in the family. RELATED: This impromptu pregnancy shoot just might be this NASCAR mama-to-be’s most beautiful yet “Healthy baby boy,” former NASCAR racer and current broadcaster Kenny Wallace tweeted out on the occasion of…
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After his 12-game winning streak on “Jeopardy!” came to an end, New York City bartender Austin Rogers collected his $411,000 winnings and stopped by “The Tonight Show” to tell host Jimmy Fallon why he thinks Alex Trebek is actually a hologram. “We got along fairly well. I still have a theory he’s…
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If you like happy endings, then you could be in for a treat today. Dale Earnhardt Jr., his career winding down, took the pole at Talladega for the first time in his career, running NASCAR’s longest closed course at 190.544 mph “We’ve been fighting our teammate Chase and his group for poles at these tracks for…
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Just prior to halftime against Syracuse on Friday night, Clemson starting quarterback Kelly Bryant appeared to suffer an injury after a horrifying hit on third down. Bryant laid motionless on the field for a few minutes before finally being helped off the field. Bryant was already dealing with an ankle injury prior to this hit. Clemson…
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ATHENS, Ga. — On a weekend with its share of upsets, Georgia’s offense made sure the No. 4 Bulldogs didn’t suffer a similar fate, rolling up 696 total yards to rout Missouri 53-28 on Saturday night. The victory will likely push Georgia (7-0, 4-0 SEC) into the No. 3 spot in the poll following Clemson’s loss…
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Supporters of a beloved rural West Tennessee doctor they say is falsely accused of Medicare fraud are frustrated with the lack of response they are getting from U.S. Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN-8), whom they have turned to for help. Dr. Bryan Merrick of the McKenzie Medical Center lost his Medicare reimbursement privileges in April for three years over $670 in billing errors. Only 30 billings for 10 patients, less than one-tenth of 1 percent of 30,000 claims submitted, were identified as being incorrect in a review by the federal government. Merrick, who has been practicing for more than three decades, has maintained they were clerical errors. Jill Mayo, a registered nurse and the practice manager at McKenzie Medical Center, told The Tennessee Star on Friday that the practice reached out to Rep. Kustoff’s office in May. While his office has said Kustoff has been looking into the matter, he has not offered Merrick any concrete help or insight, according to Mayo. “Nothing has changed,” Mayo said. Kustoff’s office released a statement to The Star late Friday saying, “Congressman Kustoff is aware of Dr. Merrick’s situation, and our office has been in contact with CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] regarding the…
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If you’ve been paying attention to outgoing Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and President Donald Trump’s heated back and forth, you would know that Corker threw Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s name into the discussion. RELATED: Trump disputes Tillerson on North Korea: “Wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man” In an interview with…
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee — Martin Luther didn’t set out to start a new church, much less change the course of the Western world. But his actions in 16th century Germany had profound effects on religion and politics in the years to come. Well-known Christian writer and speaker Eric Metaxas recounted Luther’s life story Saturday at World Outreach Church in Murfreesboro. Around 2,000 people turned out to listen to Metaxas, author of the new book, Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World. “He opened the door, folks, to this thing we call freedom,” Metaxas said, describing how Luther stood against the powers that be and showed that truth was independent of power. “Sometimes power was the enemy of truth,” Metaxas said. Oct. 31 marks the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, which Luther inadvertently led, causing a break with the Catholic Church and the creation of new Protestant denominations. Luther was born into a world in which the gospel had been obscured, Metaxas said. The church was focused on institutional power and building projects and ordinary people believed they had to earn their way to heaven. “There was a lot of fear,” Metaxas said. Luther’s father wanted him to practice…
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President Trump told a group of social conservative activists Friday that he’s keeping his pledge to stop Washington from meddling in people’s faiths. “In America, we don’t worship government, we worship God,” Mr. Trump told the Value Voters Summit in Washington. He pointed to the revocation of the Johnson Amendment that prohibited nonprofit organizations, including churches,…
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South Carolina scored nine second-half points and the defense came up with three stops inside the 2-yard line in the final 10 seconds as the Gamecocks held on for a 15-9 win over the Volunteers on Saturday at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee redshirt freshman Jarrett Guarantano, making the first start of his career, drove…
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Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” was removed from the 8th-grade curriculum Thursday at a Biloxi, Mississippi, school. Administrators from the Biloxi School District worked in conjunction with the Biloxi Junior High School’s English department to remove the classic novel because it “makes people uncomfortable,” according to reports. Several complaints emerged about the book’s content, citing…
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Wildfires raging in California’s wine country are “all combining into one,” Napa County’s fire chief said Friday as firefighters faced more dry, windy conditions. Fire Chief Barry Biermann said he’s teaming up with the state’s fire protection agency to set up containment lines in “priority spots” in order to keep the fires from spreading. He said…
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So far, 22 American diplomats and their family members have been harmed in unexplained attacks in Cuba – the country Barack Obama assured was our new bestie, maybe even more so than Iran. Obama needs to apologize. His personal crusade to restore relations with the communist country was misplaced at best, a national security threat at…
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After insisting it had no documents related to former President Bill Clinton’s infamous tarmac meeting with then Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the FBI this week acknowledged that was not true. Judicial Watch had filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in an attempt to learn more about the meeting, described by both the former president and…
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President Donald Trump is coming back to his base after weeks of hoping for signs of friendship from Democrats and moderate Republicans. Trump pushed his courtship of the Democrats to new heights in mid-September when he met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the Oval Office. Trump…
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Journalists expressing individual opinions make it hard to convince the world that The New York Times doesn’t have a “vendetta” against President Donald Trump, The New York Times’ executive editor said Thursday. “I feel pretty strongly that New York Times journalists should not be able to say anything on social media that they cannot say either…
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VERSE OF THE DAY Be blessed and be a blessing October 15, Sunday James 1:5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
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A reckless Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) undermined President Trump and American foreign policy once again on Friday with a stunningly irresponsible statement made during an interview with the Washington Post. “You cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice,” Corker told the Post. Corker described his use of “binary choice” language by stating the president was “creating scenarios in which the United States might be forced to choose between waging war on North Korea or Iran or allowing those countries to threaten the U.S. with nuclear weapons,” Politico reported: According to Corker, the secretary was in fact one of Trump’s greatest assets, and had made strides toward improving relationships with other global powers, notably China. “The greatest diplomatic activities we have are with China, and the most important, and they have come a long, long way,” he said. “Some of the things we are talking about are phenomenal.” It was an unprecedented and disturbing attack on the president of his own party by the current chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Conservatives and supporters of President Trump around the country immediately escalated their criticism of Corker. On Saturday, “Former White House chief…
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THIS. IS. NOT. A. DRILL. Jon Gruden, Tennessee fans’ dream coaching candidate for years, was sighted in Knoxville on Friday and is expected to be in attendance for Saturday’s game against South Carolina at Neyland Stadium. Gruden was photographed by Twitter user Sam Hutto eating lunch in the Market Square pedestrian mall area of downtown Knoxville.…
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U.S. Senate candidate Andy Ogles blasted the “deep state” health care bureaucracy for revoking the Medicare privileges of Dr. Bryan Merrick, a family doctor with a practice that serves rural McKenzie, Tennessee and the surrounding communities, over a $670 billing error on Friday. “Establishment Republicans have failed to repeal and replace Obamacare, despite a constant stream of promises to do so. But while they lack the will to fix our healthcare system they are willing to unleash the full force of the U.S. government to shut down the medical practice of a country doctor who is actually delivering lifesaving care to the elderly in his community,” the conservative Republican U.S. Senate candidate said. “If they can shut down Dr. Merrick over $670 in clerical billing errors over nearly two years, then every bureaucrat at Health and Human Services and the Veterans Administration should be in jail for the epidemic of waste, fraud and abuse they have overseen and enabled for the last few decades.” Ogles, the former head of the Tennessee chapter of Americans for Prosperity, was the first candidate to announce for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate seat currently held by Senator Bob Corker (R-TN). Ogles…
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Nashville’s Metro Sports Authority has approved issuing revenue bonds for construction of a soccer stadium at the Nashville Fairgrounds. The sports authority approved a resolution Thursday, reports WKRN News 2. The project still must be approved by Metro Council, which will vote on the proposal Nov. 7. The council will hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Oct. 24 in the Creative Arts Building at the fairgrounds. The resolution approved Thursday would allow the sports authority to issue up to $225 million in revenue bonds for the 27,500-seat stadium if Metro Council also signs off on the project. The project would cost a total of $250 million. Mayor Megan Barry’s proposal for the stadium is controversial because of the costs and also because of how it might impact existing activities at the fairgrounds. Barry, a progressive Democrat, wants to entice a Major League Soccer expansion team to come to Nashville. MLS will make a decision in December. Her proposal also involves opening up 10 acres at the fairgrounds to mixed-used development that would include affordable housing. Monica Fawknotson, executive director of the sports authority, told WKRN that the stadium is “an incredible opportunity for the city” and that “there are a lot…
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Maine Sen. Susan Collins announced Friday that she will not run for the governor’s seat in 2018. “I am a congenital optimist, and I continue to believe that Congress can – and will – be more productive. I want to continue to play a key role in advancing policies that strengthen our economy, help our hard-working…
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President Trump said Friday he’s decertifying the Iranian nuclear deal forged under the Obama administration, but stopped short of ending the international agreement, instead giving Congress 60 days to take a tougher approach toward Tehran’s lawless behavior. In an address from the White House, the president also said he’s directing the Treasury Department to sanction Iran’s…
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Social Security beneficiaries will receive a 2 percent cost-of-living payment increase next year, the agency announced Friday. The increase is based on rising wages and prices, and is the highest since 2012. Benefits rose less than half a percent this year, and didn’t rise at all in 2016, because inflation was stagnant. The agency also said…
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by George Rasley, ConservativeHQ.com Editor Wednesday, one of the most remarkable political events of the 21st Century played out in an obscure Capitol Hill hearing room, and no one in the establishment media paid the least bit of attention to it. Two months have passed since the August 17 indictment of Pakistani national Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, who were technology staffers for Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-23), former Chair of the Democratic National Committee. House IT ScandalBrothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group reported on Tuesday, February 7, 2016. The brothers and Hina R. Alvi (Imran Awan’s wife) are suspected of serious violations, including accessing members’ computer networks without their knowledge and stealing equipment from Congress reported our friend Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation. Alvi was a House IT employee who works for many of the same members as the three brothers, as well as the House Democratic Caucus. Also implicated in the investigation are Natalia Sova, a Ukrainian national who is married to Abid Awan and Rao Abbas, also a Pakistani national often described as Imran Awan’s…
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