Controversy Follows on Her Heels as Melania Takes to the Garden

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The sirens of the fashion police were blaring Friday after Melania Trump ventured forth into the White House garden.

“Melania Trump has made another public appearance in a pricey outfit,” wrote Kate Taylor on Business Insider, contrasting Melania Trump’s outfit, which included a plaid shirt that looked ordinary but had started life with a $1,380 price tag, with the gardening fashions of Michelle Obama.

“Obama used the garden as a place to showcase her down-to-earth fashion,” Taylor wrote, noting that Obama was praised for wearing J. Crew sweaters to show her common touch.

Some commenters didn’t even care about the facts as they attacked Melania Trump.

As multiple pictures showed, she wore sneakers.

Independent Journal Review decided the fuss belonged on the compost heap and looked into a true comparison of first lady outfits. He noted that Obama wore Jimmy Choo boots that retail for $1,150, while Melania Trump wore $50 Converse sneakers.

“So depending on how you look at it, Michelle Obama is the really out-of-touch first lady gardening. Her shoes were potentially $1,100 more expensive then Melania’s,” he wrote.

You can catch Obama’s pricey boots here, just after the 4:10 mark:

He then suggested that trying to diminish the first lady by attacking her clothes was a waste of time.

“Perhaps the lesson we should all learn here is that a first lady is a human being with a lot of pressure on her and we should stop trying to attack them based on their fashion choices,” he wrote, adding, “All first ladies wear expensive things, idiots.”

During her time in the garden with members of a local Boys & Girls Club to harvest a variety of vegetables, Melania Trump stressed the need for healthy eating.

“I’m a big believer in healthy eating because it reflects on your mind and your body, and I encourage you to continue to eat a lot of vegetables and fruits so you grow up healthy and take care of yourself. It’s very important,” said the former model. (For more from the author of “Controversy Follows on Her Heels as Melania Takes to the Garden” please click HERE)

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Roy Moore Wins Senate Race

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By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. Roy S. Moore, a firebrand former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, overcame efforts by top Republicans to rescue his rival, Senator Luther Strange, soundly defeating him on Tuesday in a special primary runoff.

The outcome in the closely watched Senate race dealt a humbling blow to President Trump and other party leaders days after the president pleaded with voters in the state to back Mr. Strange.

Propelled by the stalwart support of his fellow evangelical Christians, Mr. Moore survived an advertising onslaught of more than $10 million financed by allies of Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader. His victory demonstrated in stark terms the limits of Mr. Trump’s clout.

Taking the stage after a solo rendition of “How Great Thou Art,” an exultant Mr. Moore said he had “never prayed to win this campaign,” only putting his political fate “in the hands of the Almighty.” (Read more from “Roy Moore Wins Senate Race” HERE)

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Roy Moore Shows off Gun at Rally

By Jessica Estepa. The night before Alabama’s Senate runoff, Republican candidate Roy Moore pulled a gun out of his pocket at a campaign rally.

Per a video of the Monday rally, the former Alabama chief justice said false ads had said he didn’t believe in the Second Amendment.

“Nearly three months of negative ads that we couldn’t answer with money because we didn’t have it,” he said. “Ads that were completely false, that I don’t believe in the Second Amendment.”

He then paused before pulling the gun out.

“I believe in the Second Amendment,” he said, leading to cheers from the crowd. (Read more from “Roy Moore Shows off Gun at Rally” HERE)

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Polygamists’ Lawsuit: ‘If Gay Marriage Is Legal, Then Polygamy Marriage Should Be Legal’

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A group of polygamists and a “machinist” who claims to want to marry his computer are challenging homosexual “marriage” in Mississippi.

Chris Sevier and others filed a federal lawsuit reasoning that same-sex “marriage” is part of the religion of secular humanism, and since it is of a religious nature, the state has no right to recognize it over other faith-based “marriages” such as polygamy, zoophilia, and machinism.

The belief that two men or two women can have a marriage is a religious leap of faith, the plaintiffs argue. Therefore, government sanctioning it goes against the Constitution’s Establishment clause.

“Gay marriage is not secular,” Sevier said. “Just like polygamy, zoophilia, machinism, and other forms of perspective marriage are also not secular. All forms of parody marriage are equally part of the religion of secular humanism.”

By sanctioning same-sex “marriage,” the suit says, the courts overstepped their constitutional bounds by favoring one religious view over another. Either homosexual “marriage” is unconstitutional and the state has no right to recognize it, or homosexual “marriage” should be accepted along with other marriage beliefs, such as polygamy. (Read more from “Polygamists’ Lawsuit: ‘If Gay Marriage Is Legal, Then Polygamy Marriage Should Be Legal'” HERE)

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USAA Members Demand Organization Cut Ties With NFL

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Members of the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) are calling for the company to end its sponsorship of the NFL after the string of recent protests during the national anthem, Sharon Ko of WTLV in San Antonio reports.

Since 2011, the USAA has served as the Official Military Appreciation Sponsor of the NFL, with the league shows appreciation for the military through its “Salute to Service” campaign.

But USSA members angry with the NFL are voicing their displeasure in community page forums and demanding the company cut ties with the league.

“Time for USAA to stand up, re-think its sponsorship of the NFL, remove all funding for the NFL, and send that $$$ somewhere worthy. Like it should have been done by noontime today, 25 Sep 17, Eastern,” wrote GoldenRudy.

“If you sponser [sic] them, you are neither honoring nor appreciating the military community. How is the NFL encouraging America to respect and say ‘thank you; to our military if they can’t even have their players show respect for our flag?! Our men come home dead underneath our flag! Cmon USAA do the right thing….” another user, Krispirkle wrote.

One user, John C., declared he has begun cancelling his USAA accounts.

“I just called to begin canceling my USAA products. The offices are closed now so I’ll call again in the morning. Credit card will be first. I have plenty of those. Insurance will be cancelled after that; I just have to find replacement coverage first. USAA, more than any other sponsor, should take the lead in dropping the NFL and sending a message. Absent that, this isn’t the company I thought it was so I’ll find other providers and send my own message,” he said.

And a contributor named Phyll said he was “ashamed” of the USAA.

“My dad died at age 61 from Agent Orange poisoning from his time in Vietnam. He was in the peacekeeping forces in Korea. He became an officer in the field in WWII. The National Anthem is the song praising America,” Phyll wrote.

“If not for the soldiers who fought, died, came home with horrible disabilities, our freedom would not be guaranteed. We all have 1st Amendment rights but disrespecting our country in this way is not the answer. Protest but don’t disrespect. Ashamed of USAA and I’ve been a member for decades!”

In its immediate response, the USAA announce there are currently no plans to end its sponsorship of the NFL.

But USAA did contact the NFL to “emphasize the significance of the national anthem.”

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Aides Are Blocking Key Info From Reaching Trump, Congressman Says

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President Donald Trump is being blocked from knowing he can pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in exchange for information vindicating Russia of hacking allegations, according to Republican California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher.

Trump told reporters Sunday that he has “never heard” of a potential deal with Assange.

“I think the president’s answer indicates that there is a wall around him that is being created by people who do not want to expose this fraud that there was collusion between our intelligence community and the leaders of the Democratic Party,” Rohrabacher told The Daily Caller Tuesday in a phone interview.

Rohrabacher met with Assange in August at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks founder has lived in asylum since 2012 due to now-dropped sexual assault charges in Sweden. However, American authorities are reportedly still investigating Assange for his role in disseminating thousands of classified U.S. documents. (Read more from “Aides Are Blocking Key Info From Reaching Trump, Congressman Says” HERE)

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Dem Senator Is ’99 Percent’ Certain These Trump Associates Will Face Charges

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A Democratic member of the Senate Judiciary Committee says he is “99 percent certain” that indictments will be handed down for former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

“I’m about 99 percent sure there will be some criminal charges from this investigation,” Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal told Politico on Tuesday.

Blumenthal said that Flynn and Manafort “are the most prominent” Trump associates who are likely to be indicted, “but there may well be others” charged as part of a sprawling investigation being led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Blumenthal also told Politico that he is less certain that Trump will face any charges related to the investigation, which has expanded to include a look at whether Trump obstructed justice by firing James Comey as FBI director in May. (Read more form “Dem Senator Is ’99 Percent’ Certain These Trump Associates Will Face Charges” HERE)

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Saints Quarterback: Respecting the Flag More Important Than Making a Point

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Fighting against racism does not mean failing to treat the American flag with respect, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees said Sunday.

After the New Orleans Saints defeated the Carolina Panthers, what happened on during the game took second place to the growing furor over protests that occurred during the playing of the national anthem.

On Friday, President Donald Trump criticized players who protest racism by failing to stand for the anthem, causing players, coaches and owners around the NFL to take a stand.

Brees said Trump came down too hard.

“I disagree with what the president said and how he said it,” Brees said. “I think it’s very unbecoming of the office of the President of the United States to talk like that, to the great people like that, and, obviously, he’s disappointing a lot of people.”

Brees said that there are two problems on the table — one is that not all Americans have an equal chance at success, and the other how NFL players are responding to that issue.

“Let me say this first – do I think that there’s inequality in this country? Yes, I do. Do I think that there’s racism? Yes, I do. I think there’s inequality for women in the workplace; I think there’s inequality for people of color, for minorities, for immigrants,” he said.

How NFL players respond to that issue determines whether he is with them or not.

“If the protest becomes we’re going to sit down or kneel or not show respect to the flag of the United States of America and everything it symbolizes and everything it stands for, everything our country has stood for to get to this point, I do not agree with that,” he said.

Brees said the anthem should bring Americans together, not divide them.

“Looking at the flag with your hand over your heart is a unifying thing that should bring us all together and say, ‘You know what, we know what things are not where they should be, but we will continue to work and strive to make things better and bring equality to all people,’” Brees said.

Brees also said the anthem is a time for respect.

“I will always believe that we should be standing and showing respect to our flag with our hand over our heart. I will never say it’s OK to not show respect to the flag of the United States of America during the national anthem,” he said.

Brees, whose grandfather served in World War II, said the flag is a symbol all Americans should hold dear.

“That is the symbol of showing respect to our country. I won’t. I don’t think that that’s OK because of all who have fought so hard and died and sacrificed so much for us to have the things we have, to have the freedoms that we have. The very freedom of the speech that we are talking about was born from that flag,” he said.

Although 10 New Orleans Saints did not stand for the anthem, contradicting what Brees believes is right, he did not expect the issue would divide him team.

“I’m not sure exactly what happened pregame because I was locked in, but I’ll talk to all my guys and we’ll be fine,” he said. (For more from the author of “Saints Quarterback: Respecting the Flag More Important Than Making a Point” please click HERE)

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The Senate Will Not Vote on Latest Obamacare Repeal Bill

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The Senate will not vote on the latest GOP health care bill meant to replace Obamacare.

In a devastating blow to Republican efforts to repeal and replace The Affordable Care Act, Senate leaders have decided not to put up for a vote the Graham-Cassidy health care legislation.

The bill, sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-SC., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., was just the latest in a string of legislative efforts to finally repeal Obamacare, a promise the Republican Party has made since the passage of the heath care law in 2010.

Republicans had previously tried to pass health care reform over the summer, but failed to push through a “skinny” health care bill by just one vote.

Supporters of an Obamacare repeal began to feel optimistic as the Graham-Cassidy bill continued to pick up momentum among Senate Republicans.

Speaking to members of the media last week in New York, Trump said the Graham-Cassidy has a “very good chance” of passing the upper chamber.

“I think there’s tremendous support for it. I think it’s actually much better than the previous shot,” Trump said, referring to the past GOP health care bill that failed to clear the Senate.

However, things began to fall apart as various members of the GOP announced their opposition to the bill.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she was opposed. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., for reasons almost opposite those of his moderate colleagues, announced he would not vote for the legislation unless major changes were made.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who had cast the deciding vote against the skinny repeal bill over the summer, sinking its passage, ultimately came out against the latest repeal effort as well.

Following a closed-door meeting Tuesday between GOP members, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell revealed that there would be no vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill this week.

The need for the GOP to pass repeal this week was essential, due to congressional rules allowing the Senate to pass health care reform by a simple majority until Sept. 30.

With the Republican Party carrying a slim 52-46 majority in the upper chamber, it would be virtually impossible for GOP lawmakers to push through such controversial legislation requiring a 60-vote threshold.

During the news conference following the GOP meeting, McConnell vowed to keep pushing for health care reform. (For more from the author of “The Senate Will Not Vote on Latest Obamacare Repeal Bill” please click HERE)

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California Billboard Urges Drivers to Impeach Trump

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It could be argued that calls for President Donald Trump’s impeachment have become more “California” than blockbuster movies, surfing and the Pacific Coast Highway. In June, California Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman filed an article of impeachment against Trump, and in July thousands gathered in Los Angeles to call for Trump’s impeachment.

On Monday, a group in the San Francisco Bay area upped the ante in its bid to impeach the president, using a billboard to let its thoughts be known. Drivers near the Bay Bridge were greeted with a billboard of Trump’s face next to the word “impeach.”

A California-based super PAC named Courage Campaign is responsible for the billboard, which can be seen below in a tweet from KTVU.

Back in 2013 the organization gained notoriety after spearheading a petition and rally campaigning to prohibit the sale of assault weapons after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

The 1.4-million-member “progressive” group actively urges followers to engage in “courageous resistance,” which involves sending letters to Congress opposing the American Health Care Act and refraining from eating in an effort to show solidarity with farmers who make a living off of people buying the food they farm.

Courage Campaign’s executive director Eddie Kurtz said in a news release Monday that impeaching Trump is a “no-brainer.”

“From using his position as president to enhance his personal bank account via foreign interests — in direct violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause — to revealing classified information to Russia and openly admitting that he fired FBI Director James Comey in order to obstruct the Russia investigation, the case for the impeachment of Donald Trump on legal grounds is a no-brainer,” Kurtz said.

Kurtz also blamed Trump’s supposed defense of “white supremacy” and his supposed “misogynistic rhetoric” as factors that have led to the “moral imperative to act.”

“The United States’ constitutional system is one of delicate, deliberately designed checks and balances, and it is Congress’ duty to keep the president from eroding the rule of law,” Kurtz added.

“Such flagrant violations must not go unchecked. Continuing to let Trump’s trespasses go unaddressed plainly and simply undermines the very foundations of America’s democracy. Congress must show Americans the values that our country stands for by taking steps to impeach President Trump,” he said.

According to Newsweek, the billboard was paid for by members of the the Courage Campaign and via a national crowdfunding campaign. (For more from the author of “California Billboard Urges Drivers to Impeach Trump” please click HERE)

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Canada Recognizes ‘Chelsea’ Manning as a Traitor, Won’t Let Him in Country

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Chelsea Manning has been denied entry into Canada, according to a letter [he] recently posted to Twitter.

According to the letter Manning received from the Canadian government, [he] was “inadmissible on grounds of serious criminality for having been convicted of an offense outside Canada,” the letter reads.

The letter further describes Canada’s decision to bar Manning by comparing the offense [he] was convicted of in the U.S.

“If committed in Canada this offense would equate to an indictable offense, namely Treason described under section 46(2)(B) of the Criminal Code of Canada,” the letter states. (Read more from “Canada Recognizes ‘Chelsea’ Manning as a Traitor, Won’t Let Him in Country” HERE)

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