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Why Some Capitalists Are the Worst Enemies of Capitalism

Amazon lobbies for government favors and bad regulations that hurt their competition. John Stossel explains in this short 6-minute video.

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Illegal immigrant released by a “sanctuary city” in New Jersey was charged last week with a triple homicide in Missouri

Click here: Illegal immigrant released by a “sanctuary city” in New Jersey was charged last week with a triple homicide in Missouri
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Larry King slams CNN: ‘Stopped doing news’

Click here: Ex-CNN host Larry King mocked his former employer earlier this week, declaring that the network “stopped doing news a long time ago.”
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after breaking ribs in fall

Click here: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 85, fell in her office at the court and fractured three ribs, according to a release Thursday.
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Hamilton: The Man Who Invented America?

Alexander Hamilton: You know the name, but what do you know about the man? Joseph Tartakovsky, senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, details how Hamilton took a country with no past and envisioned its future. This short 5-minute video was made in partnership with the American Battlefield Trust.

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Another Kavanaugh accuser admits to fabricating rape story

Click here: Another of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s accusers admitted this week that she made up her lurid tale of a backseat car rape, saying it “was a tactic” to try to derail the judge’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. She admitted to the false allegation, and said she has actually never met Justice Kavanaugh. “I was angry, and I sent it out,” she told investigators. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Judiciary Committee revealed the fraud in a letter to the FBI and Justice Department Friday, asking them to prosecute Judy Munro-Leighton for lying to and obstructing Congress.
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HERE IT IS: Complete List of President Trump’s Accomplishments in the Two Years Since His Historic 2016 Election Win

Click here: Overall President Trump’s first two years since the 2016 election are outstanding. He was attacked from all sides at times yet stood tall. America is stronger and greater than ever before. The economy is growing and the world is safer.  President Trump kept his promises and has truly Made America Great Again!
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President Donald Trump speaks to a packed U.S. Cellular Center crowd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa June, 21, 2017
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October Surprise: U.S. Added More Than 1,000 Manufacturing Jobs a Day, Best Since 1998

Click here: The United States added 32,000 new manufacturing jobs in October, more than 1,000 every day, including holidays and weekends. Twenty-one thousand of the new manufacturing goods were in durable goods manufacturing, including more than 10 thousand in transportation manufacturing. More than 6,000 new jobs were added in autos and auto parts. Nearly 5,000 jobs were added by makers of machinery.
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Record Employment for 12th Time Under Trump

Click here: The number of employed Americans has never been higher. The 156,562,000 Americans employed in October is the twelfth record set under President Donald Trump.

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Hispanic Unemployment Rate Dips to Record Low

Click here: Hispanics and Latinos in the U.S. labor force fell to the lowest level on record in October of 2018, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday show.