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Media Fawning Over North Korean Olympic Envoy Does No Favors for an Oppressed People

Click here: “The speed at which the American media lapped up North Korean propaganda in the first weekend of the Olympics was stunning. Almost all of the major news networks and publications ran glowing profiles of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, who has attended the games.”
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FLASHBACK (from 2015): What is life really like in North Korea? One Woman’s Story.

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VIDEO: How Lincoln Changed the World in Two Minutes

Why do Lincoln’s iconic words at Gettysburg still matter to each and every one of us? Professor Doug Douds of the Army War College explains in 5-minutes.

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VIDEO: DACA Recipient Slams Democrats for Using ‘Dreamers’ As ‘Pawns’

“Dreamer” Hilario Yanez praised President Donald Trump’s leadership on immigration and slammed Democrats for using DACA recipients as “pawns”. “The Democratic leadership, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, really have no clear message,” he said. “We have been confused, I think at the end of the day they have been using us as pawns.”

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#METOO BACKLASH: Survey Shows Twice As Many Men Now Afraid To Mentor Women.

Click here: Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post, now realizes that the #MeToo movement might have a serious problem on its hands: if #MeToo insists that all women must be believed, no matter what, some men are going to act in risk averse ways with female employees.

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#MeToo movement lawmaker investigated for sexual misconduct allegations

Click here: California Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia, who earned national notice as a high-profile advocate of the #MeToo movement, is herself the subject of a an investigation in the wake of a report that she sexually harassed and groped a former legislative staffer.

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N.Y. Times photographer: Trump gives us more access than Obama

Click here: President Trump grants substantially more access to photographers compared to former President Obama, says a New York Times photographer who covered both presidents.
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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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Trump’s approval rating tops Obama’s at the same point in his presidency by 4 points

Click here: Trump’s approval rating tops Obama’s at the same point in his presidency by 4 points
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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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Oil World Turned Upside Down – America Exports Oil to Middle East

Click here: In a trade that illustrates how the rise of the American shale oil industry is upending energy markets across the globe, the United Arab Emirates bought oil directly from the U.S. in December.
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New GOP ad asks, “Democrats: What do you stand for?”

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Ranking Democrat of House Intel Committee, Adam Schiff, sent his staff to try and collect ‘classified materials for the FBI’ after Russian pranksters told him Putin has NAKED blackmail pictures of Trump

Click here: Two Russian radio pranksters called Democrat Adam Schiff’s office and posed as a fake Ukrainian politician to say Trump had sex with Russian glamour model Olga Buzova after a Miss Universe pageant in 2013. Sadly, Democrat Adam Schiff, recklessly desperate for Russian dirt on Trump, bought it hook, line, and sinker.
Democrat Adam Schiff, from Burbank, California, is ranking member on House Intel Committee