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NBC & CBS News: Democrats Plotted to Disrupt Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court Hearing

Click here: Democratic senators opened Kavanaugh confirmation hearing with a protest plan that was coordinated and agreed to over the weekend, people familiar with the planning tell @NBCPolitics. — NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) September 4, 2018

CBS News’ Nancy Cordes reports that a source familiar with the discussions confirms that Sen. Schumer held a conference call with Judiciary Committee democrats over the Labor Day weekend to discuss the strategy they are now deploying in a coordinated manner, interrupting the start of the hearing to call – one after the other – for a delay in the proceedings until senators get all the Kavanaugh documents they want and have time to read them.

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$75,000 a year with benefits; no college needed. Yet employers can’t fill jobs

Click here: As the economy barrels toward full employment, contractors are struggling to find enough skilled workers to fuel the construction boom.
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Manufacturers growing at fastest pace in 14 years

Click here: American manufacturers are on a roll: Business conditions surged in August to a 14-year high.
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Stossel: What Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Means for Liberty

Will Judge Kavanaugh will be good for liberty? John Stossel explains in this short 5-minute video.

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Are you Left or Liberal?

Tell the average American you’re a liberal and they’ll assume you’re on the political left. Yet, leftists and liberals hold very different positions on key issues. In this short 6-minute video, Dennis Prager explains how the tenets of liberalism like a belief in capitalism and free speech have more in common with conservatism than with the identity politics and racial resentment preached by the left.

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With the Economy Humming Americans Are Grilling More Steaks for Labor Day

Click here: The economy is booming. So when Americans have more money, they like to treat themselves. That means there could be plenty of steaks on the grill this year for Labor Day.
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Boom Times: 83% execs say business is better, 76% see more growth

Click here: Over eight-in-10 executives believe that business is better than it was two years ago, and almost as many expect further growth in the third year of the Trump administration, according to a new survey of decision makers.

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Jacksonville shooting suspect had history of mental illness

New details are emerging about the young man accused of opening fire at a video game tournament in Florida over the weekend. The shooter, David Katz, had a history of mental illness and was hospitalized twice.

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Welfare Generation? 52.1% of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance

Click here: According to the most recent data from the Census Bureau, there were approximately 73,586,000 people under 18 in the United States, and 38,365,000 of them — or 52.1 percent — resided in households in which one or more persons received benefits from a means-tested government program. These included the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps), Medicaid, public housing, Supplemental Security Income, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the National School Lunch Program.
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Illegal Alien charged with Mollie Tibbetts’ murder

Click here: An “illegal alien” is in custody for the murder of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, according to Iowa police officials. Cristhian Rivera, 24, was charged Tuesday in Poweshiek County after being brought in without incident by local cops.
Click here for more on the murder: “He went to get her out of the trunk and noticed blood on the side of her head… he then dragged Tibbetts on foot to a secluded location in a cornfield, put her over his shoulder and took her 20 meters into the field where he left her, covered up in some leaves”
Illegal Alien Cristhian Bahena Rivera; University of Iowa Student, Mollie Tibbetts