AMZN SLIDES AFTER TRUMP SLAMS “DUMBER & POORER” POST OFFICE FOR NOT CHARGING MORE

JD Fri, 12/29/2017 - 09:03

President continues to expose waste, fraud, abuse

President Trump is on a roll this morning with a tirade of tweets, taking jabs at any and everyone in his way. The latest exclamation was aimed at Jeff Bezos (“getting richer”), Amazon.com (“should be charged more”), and the US Post Office (“getting dumber and poorer.”)

Notably, while Trump singled out Amazon – perhaps just another episode in the ongoing Bezos war – he did include “other” online retailers in his rant.

New Trump Executive Order: Good Move Or Global Asset Forfeiture?

Ron Aldof Thu, 12/28/2017 - 19:14

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.

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