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President Trump says he wants to release everything tied to Jeffrey Epstein
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President Trump says he wants to release everything tied to Jeffrey Epstein

By Misty Severi | Just the News President Donald Trump on Friday night said he would like the federal government to "release everything" that it has on the disgraced, late financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein as long as innocents aren't hurt in the process. The Trump administration has faced heavy backlash over its handling of the Epstein investigation, including its promise to release Epstein's alleged "client list," which it has since said does not exist. But Trump has pushed the Justice Department to provide more transparency on the matter. Trump last month directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to release relevant grand jury testimony related to Epstein, but a judge in Florida denied the request saying that legal precedent doesn't allow it.  Deputy ...
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Turley: ‘The Reveal’ the public is waking up to—Democrats’ greatest political trick in U.S. history
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Turley: ‘The Reveal’ the public is waking up to—Democrats’ greatest political trick in U.S. history

Jonathan Turley | Commentary, JonathanTurley.org Below is my column in Fox.com on the release of the last declassified material on the origins of the Russian collusion investigation. After the release, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote in the New York Times to deny the allegations and insisted that they never relied on the Steele dossier. The column only reaffirmed the level of dishonesty and duplicity that marked their tenures in office. (The Times still printed this claim despite being demonstrably untrue). The documents quote Brennan in overruling career analysts and intervening to include the dossier in the intelligence assessment. Moreover, the column echoes the media spin that the investigation was about ...
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Grand Junction says no to climate strings: City declines Urban Trails grant
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Grand Junction says no to climate strings: City declines Urban Trails grant

By Brandon Leuallen | The Business Times Despite support from the Urban Trails Committee, the City of Grand Junction confirmed it is not pursuing a state-run climate grant that could have required new local policies, including a potential “vehicle climate fee.” At its July 9 meeting, the Urban Trails Committee, chaired by City of Grand Junction Mobility Coordinator Henry Brown, listed “support for Local IMPACT Accelerators grant” as its No. 1 action item. The grant is funded through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program and administered by the Colorado Energy Office. The grant encourages local governments to adopt “transformative” policies that go beyond current state standards in areas such as transportation, building codes, l...
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Pollster: Trump’s early-term record is unmatched since FDR
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Pollster: Trump’s early-term record is unmatched since FDR

By David Charter | The Times Frank Luntz says no US leader since Franklin D Roosevelt has been more effective in delivering their campaign pledges Frank Luntz hears the rage of ordinary Americans in weekly focus groups that lay bare the country’s deep divisions and frustrations, but has come to a surprising verdict on President Trump’s return to office: “He’s succeeding.” The pre-eminent US pollster, whose hard-earned insights are sought by presidential hopefuls and Fortune 500 corporations alike, did not come to this conclusion lightly. He has been among those sounding alarm bells about Trump shattering democratic and legal norms. But Luntz says no US president has accomplished as much as Trump in so short a time since Franklin D Roosevelt almost a century ago — and none can c...
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Joondeph: The public knows RussiaGate was real—but few expect a reckoning
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Joondeph: The public knows RussiaGate was real—but few expect a reckoning

By Dr. Brian C. Joondeph | Commentary, Rasmussen Reports Americans largely believe that RussiaGate was more than just smoke and mirrors or a conspiracy theory, as the media suggess. However, despite this belief, only 28 percent of likely voters expect criminal charges against intelligence or Obama-era officials involved in the scandal. In other words, only a quarter of the electorate expects a reckoning. American Spectator columnist Robert Stacy McCain agrees, recently predicting that for RussiaGate accountability, “Don’t bet on it.” That obvious disconnect between public outrage and accountability expectations needs to be examined. The reckoning many call for appears to be out of reach. According to the July 21–23 Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey, 60...
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Gaines: Medicaid bloat is eating Colorado’s budget after a decade of federal expansion
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Gaines: Medicaid bloat is eating Colorado’s budget after a decade of federal expansion

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Colorado's Medicaid bloat under Obamacare In the first post of this series, I briefly went over Colorado's Medicaid financing (how much and on what). If you want or need that context, it's the first link below. In the second part of the series, I want to talk about how Medicaid got expanded by the Feds--allowing more people to get on government-funded healthcare-- and how Colorado leapt at the expansion like a shot. There were two recent (and big) expansions of Medicaid: the first was the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) which expanded Medicaid coverage to people (including those without any disability or children)making up to 138% of the Federal Poverty wage. Screenshot 1 is a summary of the changes, it comes from...
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Moms for Liberty Branded a Hate Group in Massachusetts Police Trainings
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Moms for Liberty Branded a Hate Group in Massachusetts Police Trainings

By Mairead Elordi | The Daily Wire The group responsible for training Massachusetts police officers listed a prominent parental rights group alongside Antifa and neo-Nazis on its list of “hate groups.” The Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, which trains more than 20,000 police officers across the commonwealth, listed Moms for Liberty under “Hate Groups” active in Massachusetts in training materials, which were shared exclusively with The Daily Wire. Moms for Liberty obtained the training materials through a Freedom of Information Act request. The training materials cited the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center, which labels Moms for Liberty an “anti-government extremist” group. (MPTC training materials) Moms for Liberty, a grassroots group that f...
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Law Enforcement Under Fire for Upholding Federal Immigration Laws
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Law Enforcement Under Fire for Upholding Federal Immigration Laws

By Luige del Puerto | The Denver Gazette Phil Weiser's suit targets Mesa County Deputy Alexander Zwinck for allegedly violating state laws that prohibit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. The unpaid, weeks-long suspension of a deputy sheriff out of Mesa County for sharing information with federal agents has raised questions about how local authorities must navigate a state law that bars cooperation with immigration enforcers. More notably, it's unclear whether the impositions of the new law also mean limiting access by local officers to the more expansive federal databases — something the Mesa County deputy had cited as a major reason for cooperating with multiple agencies.  The law, expanded this year, expressly prohibits all Colorado state agencies an...
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Shots Fired as ICE Operation Turns Violent in Colorado
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Shots Fired as ICE Operation Turns Violent in Colorado

By Nick Smith | The Gazette Two immigrants suspected to be in the country illegally are on the run after allegedly attempting to ram their vehicle into law enforcement officials during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation Thursday in the Black Forest area, according to an ICE spokesperson. An officer reportedly fired three shots into the vehicle, which fled the scene and was later found abandoned, the spokesperson said. No injuries were reported. A shelter-in-place order was issued in Black Forest around 10:30 a.m. Thursday for a quarter-mile radius in the 9900 block of Burgess Road between Windmill and Greentree roads, according to Peak Alerts and the El Paso County Sheriff's Office. "Secure your home/business and stay away from doors and windows. Shelter...
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Biden and Obama Tied to Clinton Plan to Fabricate Trump Russia Narrative
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Biden and Obama Tied to Clinton Plan to Fabricate Trump Russia Narrative

By Jerry Dunleavy and John Solomon | Just the News Then-Vice President Joe Biden was the first major Democrat in summer 2016 to publicly try to link Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin after U.S. intelligence intercepted a purported plan by Hillary Clinton's campaign to vilify Trump by falsely linking him to a Russian plot. The timing of Biden's Russia attacks against Trump in July 2016 was striking to U.S. intelligence because it and other events matched predictions in the intercepted evidence from Russian spy agencies, which had claimed to have gained access to the Clinton campaign strategy, officials told Just the News. Biden would become the public face of an effort to attack Trump by linking him to Putin starting in late July 2016 — just as the Democratic National Convention forma...
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