In the Heart of Trump Country, His Base’s Faith is Unshaken

JD Thu, 12/28/2017 - 12:38

SANDY HOOK, Ky. (AP) — The regulars amble in before dawn and claim their usual table, the one next to an old box television playing the news on mute.

Steven Whitt fires up the coffee pot and flips on the fluorescent sign in the window of the Frosty Freeze, his diner that looks and sounds and smells about the same as it did when it opened a half-century ago. Coffee is 50 cents a cup, refills 25 cents. The pot sits on the counter, and payment is based on the honor system.

In California, harassment scandals roil ruling Democrats

celeste B Thu, 12/28/2017 - 12:11

LOS ANGELES — A national reckoning on sexual harassment that got its start in Hollywood is now upending Democratic politics throughout the nation's most populous state

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/24/sexual-harassment-allegations-...

9 Year-Old Points Pellet Gun at Suspect’s Head, Stops Alleged Carjacking

JD Thu, 12/28/2017 - 10:37

A nine-year-old boy in Kokomo, Indiana, pointed a pellet gun at a suspect’s head and stopped an alleged carjacking the day after Christmas.

Border Patrol Agent Shot in Texas by Gunman in Mexico, Say Feds

JD Thu, 12/28/2017 - 10:34

Federal authorities confirmed the shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent patrolling the waters of the Rio Grande. The shot came from the Mexican side of the river.

The shooting took place near Brownsville, Texas, when an agent patrolling the river on a boat was shot with a “small caliber” weapon that came from the river banks on the Mexican side, information released to Breitbart Texas by the U.S. Border Patrol RGV Sector revealed.

Gingrich Predicts ‘Great Political Surprise’ For 2018 — And That’s Bad News For Dems

JD Thu, 12/28/2017 - 10:10

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich claimed the “great political surprise of 2018” will be the margin of victory for Republicans at the ballot box this November, in an op-ed for Fox News Thursday.

“The great political surprise of 2018 will be the size of the Republican victory,” Gingrich writes. He believes the GOP’s success will come as an “enormous shock” to Democrats and members of the mainstream media who have attempted to derail President Donald Trump’s agenda.

GOP REP: ‘FIRE MUELLER, IF HE WERE ANY MORE BIASED HE’D BE WORKING FOR THE MEDIA’

JD Thu, 12/28/2017 - 09:52

‘FBI and DOJ are the biggest alligators in the DC swamp’.

A GOP Rep called for Robert Mueller to be fired Wednesday night, quipping that if the investigation into Russian collusion and Donald Trump were any more biased, Mueller would have to be given press credentials.

Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) made the striking comments during an appearance on Fox News:

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