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By: Fred Imbert & Gina Francolla – cnbc.com – July 26, 2018 Facebook on Thursday posted the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report. The social media giant’s market capitalization plummeted by $119 billion to $510 billion as its stock price plummeted by 19 percent. At Wednesday’s…

By: Staff – newsmax.com – July 26, 2018 President Donald Trump declared victory for American farmers Thursday after brokering a ceasefire in a trade dispute with the European Union, but it is unclear how soon it will bring relief to those hurt by tit-for-tat tariffs. The White House painted the agreement as a vindication of the US president’s bare-knuckle tactics,…

By: Hiram Sasser – washingtonexaminer.com – July 24, 2018 Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be an ardent defender of religious liberty, all experience shows. As general counsel of a law firm devoted to religious liberty cases, I normally would evaluate a judicial nominee by searching through his or her decisions on the First Amendment and the free exercise clause….

By: Megan Cassella – Politico.com – July 20, 2018 President Donald Trump’s trade wars could become a major political drag for Republicans, with job losses and price increases piling up just as voters head to the polls in November. Trump jolted markets once again early Friday when he said he’s prepared to impose penalties on some $500 billion in Chinese…

By: Catey Hill – nypost.com – July 19, 2018 This is one point financial experts want to drive home. More millennials are buying homes as the economy rebounds. Now, more than 37 percent of millennials ages 25 to 34 own a home, according to data released this month from the Urban Institute. What’s more, nearly all of them dream about…

By: Jim Kreyenhagen – forbes.com – July 23, 2018 Let’s face it — millennials get a bad rap. The popular cliche is that they’re me-focused, narcissistic or unmotivated, but the truth is, they battle steep hurdles today that other generations didn’t face. Beyond that, they tend to be confident, informed, savvy, tech-centric and very knowledgeable consumers. They’re highly entrepreneurial, and…

By: Mike Adams – stream.org – July 23, 2018 Lately, I have been hearing a lot about white male privilege. In fact, just this week a feminist named Lucy got upset with me for using my “white male privilege” to decry abortion in several of my posts on social media. Specifically, she was concerned that I was trying to “use…

By: Mary DeMuth – marydemuth.com – July 13, 2018 Last night I watched the Paterno movie (HBO films). While it is not a documentary, the film agonizes the watcher with every single side of the sexual abuse “debate” especially when it comes to institutional protectionism. Here’s the trailer: The entire movie grieved me, triggered me, saddened me. I see the…

By: Robert Knight – washingtontimes.com – July , 2018 Over the weekend, in addition to being in the World Cup soccer final against tiny Croatia, France got to celebrate Bastille Day, which commemorates the July 14, 1789, storming of the infamous Paris prison. It’s fair to say the soccer match was worthier of feting. The Bastille takeover sparked the French…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – July 20, 2018 I’ve got some questions for my progressive readers. When you think of Colin Kaepernick, do you define him by his quiet kneeling and many thoughtful interviews? Or do you define him by the socks he wore once, dehumanizing cops as pigs? When you think of writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, do you define…

By: Alex Roarty – miamiherald.com – July 20, 2018 Leading moderate Democrats forcefully argued this week that the party can embrace a robust agenda of change while still praising capitalism and downplaying income inequality. In other words, everything the empowered liberal base has spent a year and a half mobilizing against. Democrats gathered here in Ohio’s capital city on Thursday…