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“30”   By Jon Brake – In 1962, after getting out of the Army, I started in newspapers. Loved it, always have. At that time everything was still hot type, meaning news-papers were put out using Linotypes. At the end of each story the Linotype operator would put a line that just said “30”. That Read More

In White House Speech President Calls Mexican Boarder A “Crisis” WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump made a somber televised plea for border wall funding Tuesday night, seeking an edge in his shutdown battle with congressional Democrats as he declared there is “a humanitarian crisis, a crisis of the heart and a crisis of the Read More

How the FBI Ran an Illegal Counterintelligence Masquerade in Plot to Get President Trump Judicial Watch In examining the cast of FBI and senior Department of Justice (DOJ) officials fired, retired, resigned and under investigation since May 2017, the breathtaking scope of the FBI’s unprecedented criminal efforts to steer a presidential election and frame a Read More

Documents Reveal Obama State Department Provided Classified Documents By Judicial Watch (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch this week released two sets of heavily redacted State Department documents, 38 pages and 48 pages, showing classified information was researched and disseminated to  multiple U.S. Senators by the Obama administration immediately prior to President Donald Trump’s inauguration. The Read More

Judge Opens Discovery Into Clinton Email Usage Judicial Watch (Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that, in a ruling excoriating both the U.S. Departments of State and Justice, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth has ordered both agencies to join Judicial Watch in submitting a proposed schedule for discovery into whether Hillary Clinton sought Read More

U.S. and China Make Successful Start on New Trade Negotiations Heritage Foundation President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping made progress Saturday night toward resolving the ongoing U.S.-China trade dispute. After more than a year of conflict and new taxes on billions of cross-border trade, the two presidents came to an agreement at the Read More

Changes In The City Of Manhattan City of Manhattan – Westar Energy is now able to provide more wind energy to customers, because of an agreement they made with a 300 megawatt wind farm in Northeast Kansas. The utility provider has been approaching high-use customers across the state, including the City of Manhattan, to commit Read More

Secretary DeVos: Proposed Title IX Rule Provides Clarity for Schools U.S. Department of Education WASHING TON — Continuing its efforts to ensure equal access to education free from discrimination, Friday the U.S. Department of Education released its proposal on improving schools’ responses to sexual harassment and assault. The proposed regulation under Title IX, the federal Read More

Democratic wins could mean state action on health care, guns Associated Press – From New York to New Mexico, residents in a number of states can expect a leftward push for expanded health care c overage, gun control, education funding and legalized recreational marijuana as Democrats who gained new or stronger powers in the midterm Read More

National-Split Decision WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans retained control of the Senate on Tuesday, ousting Democratic incumbents in Indiana and North Dakota and handing President Donald Trump a triumph by ensuring they will remain as guardians of his conservative agenda for two more years.