Gold hits 5-month peak as dollar slips after US jobs data

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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Iran Launches Stealth Destroyer

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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Trump Damns Cohen, Praises Stone

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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Double Jeopardy and Paul Manafort

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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Let’s play the PETA Word Game

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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Will Trump Be Impeached?

Speaking on a recent edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” well-known liberal activist and billionaire hedge fund manager, Tom Steyer, said that he believes that President Donald Trump has already “met the grounds for impeachment.” When asked by host Chuck Todd, “Where would you prioritize impeachment right now for the new Democratic House?,” Steyer replied; “I think there’s no question that this president has both met the grounds for impeachment and that it’s urgent to get him out of office…” This is not the first time that Steyer has used…

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Ivanka’s Email Scandal and Hillary’s – What’s the Difference?

As you no doubt know by now, the Washington Post has recently reported that, in the early days of the administration, First Daughter, Ivanka Trump, used a personal email account for government business. While this has garnered promises of investigation — even from the GOP — and shouts of hypocrisy, and even “lock her up,” from the Left, echoing her father’s endless tirades against Hillary Clinton and her emails, there are some significant differences between the two “scandals.” Given that Hillary’s email abuses were a cornerstone of Trump’s 2016 campaign,…

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Mueller Report May Spell Bad News for Trump

Despite his admonishments of it being a “witch hunt,” and insistence that “there is no, there, there,” well-known attorney, and surprisingly frequent Trump defender, Alan Dershowitz, says that the forthcoming Mueller Report, could spell terrible news for the President. Speaking on the Sunday morning news shows, The Harvard Law professor emeritus said that he believes the president will have to navigate the political impact of a potentially damning final report from the special counsel. “I think the report is going to be devastating to the president and I know that…

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History Lesson: Obama Frequently Deployed Tear Gas at Border

The hysteria exhibited by the unhinged left to President Trump’s use of tear-gas in dispersing a violent mob of migrants is perhaps only equal to their woeful ignorance of history – or maybe a clever attempt at rewriting history with President Trump playing the heartless villain. The attempted infiltration of our borders was quickly repelled by a barrage of tear gas. That stopped the onrushing advance, dead-in-its-tracks, scattering the mob in all directions – thus avoiding a more lethal response. However the images of migrants tearfully coughing and rubbing their…

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Tucker Carlson is Number One

If you’re an avid viewer of Fox News, especially in prime time, then you’re probably a fan of this friendly, cerebral host – who uses good humor combined with an analytical common sense approach in unmasking overbearing progressive dogma. This ultimately leaves the unprepared guest looking for an exit door. Carlson’s unassuming and boyish persona masks a sharp intellect that cuts through the smokescreen of political talking points, to the core issues at hand. According to a recent poll just released on Tuesday by the Morning Consult Survey,  Tucker Carlson…

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