Ex-Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris has left the country amid more than two dozen lawsuits from investors who say he defrauded them in real estate deals involving properties in Indianapolis . Morris and Whalen are accused of covering their tracks by providing fake leases and sending rent checks even though the properties were vacant. Many of the investors say they only discovered the truth when they began receiving code violations and condemnation notices from the city.

.....Harris’s exhumation of busing was greeted over at Fox News with the delirium usually reserved for striking oil in one’s own backyard......with the possible exception of the Civil War draft, no program has been more hated by working-class Democrats — more whites than blacks, but plenty of blacks as well.......One by one, its candidates have embraced losing issue after losing is

Free to avoid serving during wartime, and free to dodge taxes as well as the draft.

Conservative leaning "white working class" voters in Midwest could give Trump another EC win. And forget Florida, Dems lost in 2018 for Governor and Senator without Trump on the ballot.

This kid bashes his mom's head in with a bat, Republicans beg for compassion.

Trayvon Martin was walking down the street eating Skittles and minding his own business, Republicans assert that he deserved to be shot dead in the street.

Obscene hypocrisy.

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has unveiled a new settlement in the occupied Golan Heights, named after US President Donald Trump.

Oh, sorry, Gulf of Oman..... ."A Japanese-owned ship was targeted just as Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, wrapped up a high-stakes visit to Tehran to help cool hostilities in the region and potentially mediate U.S.-Iran talks.

Who's the faker?

President Trump hailed his new deal with Mexico to avoid tariffs, but the terms were actually agreed on months ago, officials in both nations said.  It was unclear whether Mr. Trump accepted the deal as a face-saving way to escape the political and economic consequences of imposing tariffs.

Defying Congress, Trump vows Supreme Court fight over any impeachment

“If the partisan Dems ever tried to Impeach, I would first head to the U.S. Supreme Court,” the Republican president, who is seeking re-election next year, wrote on Twitter, without offering details about what legal action he envisioned.

Maybe it would be a good idea? Push him over the edge, although isn't he already way over the edge?

The agency reports that Kim said “the development of the weapon system serves as an event of very weighty significance in increasing the combat power of the People’s Army.” The agency says Kim mounted an observation post to learn about the test-fire of the new-type tactical guided weapon and guide the test-fire.

The announcement came after reports of new activity at a North Korean missile research center and long-range rocket site where the North is believed to build long-range missiles targeting the U.S. mainland.

During President Donald Trump's visit to the border at Calexico, California, a week ago, where he told border agents to block asylum seekers from entering the US contrary to US law, the President also told the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Kevin McAleenan, that if he were sent to jail as a result of blocking those migrants from entering the US, the President would grant him a pardon, senior administration officials tell CNN.

Cain compared the right to health care to the right to own a Cadillac, and said God would decide when it was time to stop using fossil fuels.  “When God is ready for us not to have fossil fuels, he’ll find a way,” the former Godfather Pizza CEO told the audience at the Vickers Lecture Series at School of Business.

The bellicose talk of wall-building and a zero-tolerance crackdown gave an incentive to hurry to the United States. The 2018 campaign hysteria about caravans and the country’s limited ability to stop them, meant to frighten Americans, served as an advertisement for asylum for would-be migrants...The government shutdown and unstable management (continuing this week with the purge of top officials at the Department of Homeland Security) slowed the government’s response to the migration surge.

It will save America !! Immigration will be cut TO ZERO!!

AOC leads purity angels in demanding Democratic Party cooperation to have newly elected Democrats in right leaning Trump districts  to be vigorously challenged by lefties in primaries:

The House Democratic campaign arm is nearing open warfare with the party’s rising liberal wing as political operatives close to Speaker Nancy Pelosi try to shut down primary challenges before what is likely to be a hard-fought campaign next year to preserve the party’s shaky majority.

Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Chuck Rettig let everyone know he believed one thing before he was tapped to head the IRS: Trump should not release his tax returns....Rettig owns a condo at a Trump-branded development in Hawaii.....

IRS chief counsel Michael Desmond. had “briefly advised the Trump Organization on tax issues before Trump took office.” Desmond also worked in private practice with Trump Org tax counsels.....