The outspoken minister at West Angeles Church of God in Christ, Jonathan Gentry, came out swinging Saturday on Black Lives Matter, asking the group: “Why are you not cleaning up your own community if black lives matter?”
“Where were they at in Chicago?” Rev. Gentry asked Fox Business host Charles Payne. “Where were you at in Baltimore? Where were you at in Ferguson last week when 9-year-old Jamyla Bolden was shot dead in her own home in that drive-by shooting on Tuesday night?”
Gentry urged presidential candidates to “challenge” the anti-police activists if they attempt to crash a campaign event. He received national notoriety after his rant against the rioters and looters in the wake of Michael Brown’s death went viral . . .
Gentry’s comments come on the heels of a new Rasmussen poll revealed that 64 percent of black Americans prefer the phrase “all lives matter.” The poll also found that 78 percent of all respondents preferred “all lives matter.” (Read more from “Black Minister to Black Lives Matter: Why Are You Not Cleaning up Your Own Community?” HERE)
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The intrigue and speculation has just been pumped up regarding the Democrats’ 2016 picture and how it may be totally reshaped in the coming weeks. Vice President Joe Biden reportedly took time out of his vacation at his Delaware home to travel to Washington for a secret, unannounced meeting with Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. The two are said to have met over lunch on Saturday at the Naval Observatory, the vice president’s official residence, where they discussed a wide range of issues impacting the 2016 race.
And with Hillary Clinton appearing to sink deeper into the Emailgate scandal with each passing day, the Biden-Warren rendezvous in D.C. is fueling all sorts of chatter about the real purpose of the get-together. Newsmax notes that “political pundits are abuzz with the possibility of a Joe Biden-Elizabeth Warren 2016 ticket.”
While the 72-year-old Biden has been considering whether to toss his hat into the ring for a third presidential run, he hasn’t yet made up his mind — or at least he hasn’t let it be known whether he’ll jump into the race. The Newsmax report on the secret meeting between the VP and the senator says that Biden “has told friends that if he does run for president, he will serve only one term, making an early announcement of his vice-presidential running-mate a strong possibility.”
The Wall Street Journal over the weekend reported that Biden is “leaning toward” a 2016 bid for the White House. The article referred to the Biden-Warren meeting as a significant indicator of the vice president’s frame of mind. “A surprise weekend trip to Washington to meet with Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), a darling of the party’s liberal wing, represented a pivot from potential to likely candidate, one Biden supporter said.”
As Western Journalism reported late last week, a new Quinnipiac University poll of three swing states showed that Biden fared as well as or better than Clinton in head-to-head matchups with top GOP presidential candidates, even though the vice president isn’t officially in the running. The survey also showed that voters in each of the key states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania found Biden to be more trustworthy than Clinton. (Read more from “This Secret Meeting Just Held in D.C. Could Prove to Be a HUGE Turning Point for 2016” HERE)
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By Alex Isenstadt. Amid mounting concerns about Donald Trump’s candidacy from the GOP establishment, Republican leaders in at least two states have found a way to make life a lot harder for him.
The Virginia and North Carolina parties are in discussions about implementing a new requirement for candidates to qualify for their primary ballots: that they pledge to support the Republican presidential nominee — and not run as a third-party candidate — in the general election.
The procedural moves are clearly aimed at Trump, who pointedly refused to rule out a third-party run during the first GOP debate.
They come amid Republican fears that the real estate mogul is gaining strength in the primary contest, and that his jeremiads against undocumented immigrants will alienate Hispanic voters. Despite coming under a hail of criticism in recent weeks, Trump has held steady atop state and national polls.
John Whitbeck, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, said the proposal was among many that the organization was considering as it sketches out its ballot access requirements for the 2016 GOP primary. The ultimate decision, he said, would be made by the 84 members who make up the state party’s central committee, which is slated to meet on Sept. 19. The requirements must be submitted to the Republican National Committee by Oct. 1. (Read more from “State GOP Leaders Plot to Tie Donald Trump’s Hands” HERE)
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Poll: Majority of Republican Voters Think Trump Will Receive Presidential Nomination
By Amanda Andrade-Rhoades. There was once a point where the idea of Donald Trump being a serious presidential candidate was considered laughable, but that time has apparently passed.
According to Rasmussen Reports, a public polling company, 57 percent of people who will probably vote Republican in 2016 now think Trump is likely to be the Republican presidential nominee next year — another 25 percent of respondents said it’s very likely. Just two months ago, when Trump announced his candidacy, 27 percent of people said they thought a nomination would be likely and 9 percent said it would be very likely.
Despite the growing possibility of Trump receiving the Republican nomination, the prospect does not come without significant contention from within the GOP. Trump was famously, or infamously, uninvited from a major Republican event put on by RedState after he made comments about the blood flow of debate moderator Megyn Kelly, who openly questioned his behavior and attitude towards women.
His comments on immigration have also divided Republicans. Though many candidates have toughened their stance on the issue or outright advocated for changing the 14th Amendment, which deals with birthright citizenship, some believe Trump’s hard-line approach may alienate voters — possibly costing Republicans the election. (Read more from this story HERE)
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Iran’s supreme leader is still declaring that the United States is the “enemy:” “We will not allow the Americans to have economic or political influence in our country,” CNS News quotes the ayatollah as saying in a recent speech. “Nor will we allow them to have a political presence and cultural influence in our country.”
Controversial secret “side deals” to the Iran nuclear pact negotiated by the Obama administration are being revealed and are causing great concern among some lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The New York Times reports the disputed contents of those side deals are fueling opposition to the accord that Obama argues must be approved because it will stop Iran from developing the bomb:
To the most strident opponents of President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, the suspicious behavior at a military base about 12 miles southeast of Tehran has become a rallying call to defeat the accord, especially as it now appears that Iranian officials may be allowed to take their own environmental samples at the site and turn them over to inspectors.
And another article in The New York Times — a news analysis published on Monday — points out that Obama’s argument in favor of the nuclear accord has a glaring problem that’s only growing more pronounced:
His problem is that most of the significant constraints on Tehran’s program lapse after 15 years — and, after that, Iran is free to produce uranium on an industrial scale.
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The Hill just published the results of a new poll from Quinnipiac University showing that voters in three key swing states oppose the Iran nuclear accord “by margins of more than 2-to-1.” (Read more from “Americans Just Pushed Back in a HUGE Way Against Obama’s Big Plan to Change the World” HERE)
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By Steve Goldstein. You may have seen headlines to describe the market carnage like a trillion dollar’s worth of wealth wiped away in a single day. But it’s worth noting just how much is held by Americans in the stock market in the first place . . .
As of March 31, households and nonprofits held $24.1 trillion in stocks. That’s both directly, and through mutual funds, pension funds and the like. That also includes the holdings of U.S.-based hedge funds, though you’d have to think that most hedge funds are held by households.
Using the Dow Jones Total Stock Market index DWCF, -3.94% through midmorning trade, that number had dropped to $22.32 trillion.
In other words, a cool $1.8 trillion has been lost between now and the first quarter — and overwhelmingly, those losses occurred in the last few days. This will probably be the worst quarter for stock-market destruction since the third quarter of 2011, when $2.8 trillion was wiped away. (Read more from “Households Just Saw $1.8 Trillion in Wealth Vanish as Stocks Fall” HERE)
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Biggest One-Day Drops for the Dow Jones Industrial Average
By AP. U.S. stocks closed sharply lower on Monday, part of a global wave of selling triggered by worries of economic slowdown in China.
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 1,000 points shortly after the open of trading, before regaining ground throughout the day. Despite rallying after the initial sell-off, the Dow ended the day 588.40 points, or 3.6 percent, lower.
The point decline was the eighth-largest ever, but on a percentage basis, it’s not close to the top 10 declines for the index, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. (Read more from this story HERE)
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A top police official has issued a stark warning about President Barack Obama’s recent presidential pardons: America will pay “with blood and tears.”
Obama pardoned 46 prisoners last month, forgiving a slew of drug and weapons charges. Jon Adler, National President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, recently published a scathing editorial in Police Magazine lambasting the decision.
Adler argues that drug trafficking by its very nature is a violent enterprise, from overdoses to crimes committed to pay for drug addictions to territorial battles between dealers.
“So how would the president resolve an over-crowding problem at a zoo?” Adler writes. “With limited space, rising labor, and lodging costs, which animals would the president let go? Using the president’s methodology, the lions would likely be set free. Why? They eat the most food and therefore cost the most to maintain. During the 10 years of their captivity, they haven’t eaten anyone or attacked their handlers. They have no known affiliation to any violent lion groups. They are totally safe to release into the public.” (Read more from “Top Cop: America Will Pay for Obama’s Pardons With ‘Blood and Tears'” HERE)
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Want to get a handgun, some synthetic marijuana and porn into a prison?
Two men in Maryland allegedly tried to do just that — by remote controlled aircraft — though their plot never got off the ground, authorities said Monday.
The pair was found Saturday on a side road that runs alongside the Western Correctional Institution in Cumberland with the aircraft — which officials called a drone — in their vehicle, the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services announced in a press release . . .
Not after what else they found in the vehicle, which they suspect the two men planned to fly over onto the WCI’s grounds. One tweet from the state agency apparently shows the bounty: packets of K2 (or synthetic marijuana), tobacco, suboxone, pornographic DVDs and a handgun laid out on a table next to the four-propellered miniature aircraft . . .
The vehicle’s owner had been under surveillance for some time. An intelligence officer at the western Maryland prison and a state corrections department detective suspected the owner and his associate along with at least one inmate planned to use an unmanned drone to drop off contraband at the prison. (Read more from “Authorities Foil Drone-Delivery of Porn, Drugs and Gun to Maryland Prison” HERE)
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That hamburger you’re grilling could contain harmful bacteria, and unless you cook it thoroughly, it could make you sick.
New lab tests conducted by Consumer Reports found that of the 300 packages of ground beef purchased in stores across the country, almost all contained bacteria that signified fecal contamination.
More than 40 percent contained Staphylococcus aureus. Almost 20 percent contained Clostridium perfringens, which causes nearly 1 million cases of food poisoning annually, many related to beef . . .
“That practice can lead to the creation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a major public health problem. If you get sick from these bugs, your infection can be difficult to treat,” said Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., director of Food Safety and Sustainability at Consumer Reports . . .
Consumer Reports contacted the National Cattleman’s Beef Association and got this comment: “If all cattle were grass-fed, we’d have less beef, and it would be less affordable. Since grass doesn’t grow on pasture year-round in many parts of the country, feed lots evolved to make the most efficient use of land, water, fuel, labor and feed,” Kansas State University professor Mike Apley said. (Read more from “Consumer Reports Find Fecal Contamination in Ground Beef” HERE)
Under a new proposal, sanitation workers could be picking up much more than trash during their weekly visits to residents’ homes.
Officials in San Jose, California, are working on a proposal to increase Big Brother’s spying powers by affixing law enforcement license plate readers to city garbage trucks.
According to a proposal from San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and Councilmen Johnny Khamis and Raul Peralez, the city wants to place license readers with the ability to send real-time information to the police to the front of each of the privately operated sanitation vehicles collecting trash in the city . . .
Northern California-based ACLU privacy attorney Chris Conley noted that the scheme would provide police with far more information than leads on stolen vehicles.
“If it’s collected repeatedly over a long period of time, it can reveal intimate data about you like attending a religious service or a gay bar,” the attorney told a local reporter. “People have a right to live their lives without constantly being monitored by the government.” (Read more from “California Officials Considering Using This to Spy on Residents” HERE)
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By Steve Guest. Sen. Rand Paul blasted Donald Trump, stating “I think truly he is a fake conservative because he has been on every side of every issue in the last five years.”
Paul, whose comments were released by NBC ahead of his full interview on “Meet the Press” Sunday with Chris Jansing, further ridiculed Donald Trump, saying voters will “have to decide whether we want sort of empty platitudes or whether we are going to look at substance.”
Rand Paul: So it is important that the front runner on the Republican side is a disaster in a general election. He’s like ‘Here Hillary Clinton, have the election.’ Democrats are applauding saying. [Rand Applauds]
Chris Jansing: So why is Donald Trump doing so well on the the polls, senator?
Paul: Well 90 percent of the people are unhappy about what is going on in Washington. I’m one of them.
(Read more from “Rand Paul: Trump IS the Problem With the System” HERE)
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Donald Trump Heads to Cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, as Support for Mogul’s 2016 Bid Continues to Rise
By Adam Edelman. He says he keeps getting richer, and now he’s got his picture … on the cover of the Rolling Stone.
Donald Trump on Sunday notched his third magazine cover story in two weeks, after reports emerged indicating that he would gloss the front page of the ubiquitous pop culture mag.
The iconic monthly periodical is slated to feature the surging 2016 Republican candidate on its cover in its next issue, due out in early September, CNN reported.
A Rolling Stone spokeswoman declined to comment on the report. But if true, the cover would be Trump’s third in two weeks.
Last week, amid an extraordinary surge in national polls, the real estate mogul appeared on the covers of Time magazine and The Hollywood Reporter. (Read more from this story HERE)
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The outspoken minister at West Angeles Church of God in Christ, Jonathan Gentry, came out swinging Saturday on Black Lives Matter, asking the group: “Why are you not cleaning up your own community if black lives matter?”
