Month: December 2018

While here in the US pundits continue to debate if there is or is not a “War on Christmas,” in Europe, there literally seems to be one. With still weeks before the Holiday, certain “Christmas Markets” in Germany have already been the target of terrorist attacks. According to Breitbart, two German towns have seen arrests at their Christmas markets as “migrants brawled with locals in one case, and in another, a migrant threatened passers-by with an ax while yelling ‘Allah hu Akbar.’” The first of the two incidents took place…

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Gold prices hit a five-month peak on Friday and continued to trade close to that level as the dollar slid following weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs data that raised the possibility that the U.S. Federal Reserve might go slow on interest rate hikes next year. Spot gold was up 0.86 percent at $1,248.28 per ounce, having hit $1,245.60 per ounce earlier, its highest since July 13. With a rise of nearly 1.7 percent this week, gold looked set to clock its best gain since at least the week of Aug. 24. U.S.…

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As tensions in the Middle East begin to escalate, Iran has announced that its navy has launched a stealth destroyer. According to Reuter’s, on Saturday Dec. 1, Iran’s navy launched a domestically produced destroyer, which Iran’s state media claims has “stealth,” or radar-evading properties. In a ceremony that was carried live on state television, the Sahand destroyer — which can sustain voyages lasting five months without resupply — joined Iran’s regular navy at a base in Bandar Abbas on the Gulf. The impressive ship was launched as tensions between Iran…

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President Trump would like to make sure that a Federal Judge fixes his former fixer, and throws the book at his one-time attorney and confidant, Michael Cohen. Trump recently tweeted that Cohen should not be shown any leniency, and that he should serve a “full and complete” prison sentence. The full tweet, which can be read below, was in response to Cohen requesting that in exchange for the information he has been providing to the Mueller investigation into Russian collusion that he should serve little or no prison time. “Michael…

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One of the more maddening things for we citizens is to read something in plain English in the Constitution only to have the Brahmans of the Court tell us it does not mean what it says. That is the case of the protection against “double jeopardy” – being tried for the same crime a second time. That issue may come back to the surface with implications for the trials of former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort. He is being tried in both federal and state courts for essentially the same…

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No organization in America can out do People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in  garnering publicity for ugly antics and idiotic ideas.  Following in the footsteps of the radical feminists – who want to remove the word “man” from “mankind” to “manufacture” – PETA’s latest left-wing assault on the common language is proposed to take all references to animals out of our clichés. They propose that “bringing home the bacon” should be replaced by “bringing home the bagels.”  How do Jews feel about that since they are most closely…

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