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Here Are Some Key Ways the Mainstream Media Distorts the Truth
The media’s decidedly liberal consensus often puts media elites out of touch with mainstream conservative ideas. (Photo: iStock Photos) “Our leading media” are characterized by “indefensibly corrupt manipulations of language repeated incessantly.” Patrick Lawrence in The Nation, Aug. 9, on the media’s reporting of the alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. To understand…
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Virginia Couple Threatened With Eviction for Hosting Bible Study Fight Back
A woman reads from the Book of Joshua during the 27th Annual U.S. Capitol Bible Reading Marathon in Washington, May 2, 2016. A couple threatened with eviction from their Virginia-based senior living community for hosting a Bible study have gotten the support of a conservative legal group to fight the decision. In July, the Community…
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US and Mexico are nearing a new trade agreement
(CNN)The United States and Mexico are on track to announce details of a new trade agreement Monday as part of ongoing discussions over the future of NAFTA, a senior US official said. Negotiators worked all day Sunday and were expected to reconvene at the US Trade Representative’s office in Washington on Monday morning. The official…
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Global stocks push higher after Fed’s Powell reassures
Global markets rose on Monday as fairly dovish comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell helped reassure investors that the central bank is not planning to accelerate its interest rate increases next year. KEEPING SCORE: In Europe, Germany’s DAX was up 0.5 percent to 12,456 while the CAC 40 in France was 0.4 percent…
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US-China trade war worsens
Gil H. A. Santos OVER the weekend, the US-China trade war turned worse as President Donald Trump linked it directly to the continued North Korean nuclear development program—despite the UN sanctions for violating the international reduction of nuclear armaments—and indirectly accused Beijing of using it as a weapon in their trade war. In international news…
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German executives pin hopes on trade truce with US
Businesses in Germany have grown more optimistic again about their future economic outlook, a fresh monthly barometer by the Munich-based ifo think tank has shown. And that despite the US-China trade conflict. Confidence among German business leaders improved noticeably in August, the ifo economic institute found in its latest regular survey of 9,000 firms across…
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Germany should help to stabilize the euro area’s economic growth
Michael Zwahlen | EyeEm | Getty Images – The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. In spite of extraordinarily supportive monetary policy, the euro area economy is showing a considerable, and broad-based, loss of growth momentum since the beginning of this year. The area’s gross domestic product growth in the first two quarters has slowed to an average annual…
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Ex-Vatican diplomat calls on ‘sinful’ Pope Francis to resign over sex abuse scandal
A protester holds up a sign in reference to the sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church as Pope Francis travels through the city in the Popemobile on Aug. 25, 2018, in Dublin, Ireland. (Photo: Charles McQuillan, Getty Images) Pope Francis should resign for his “sinful conduct” in covering up sexual abuse allegations against Cardinal Theodore McCarrick,…
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Cohen lawyer backpedals on Trump-Russia claims, as bombshell reports called into question
Michael Cohen’s lawyer is backpedaling on bombshell claims he made in recent weeks about his client’s knowledge of President Trump’s supposed awareness of Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election. Lanny Davis, a longtime Clinton confidant who now represents the ex-Trump attorney, had been a source for reports saying his client had information that…
