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By: Staff – expresspros.com – August 29, 2018 America’s blue collar workers may be one of the most optimistic groups in the country today. According to a new study conducted by The Harris Poll and commissioned by Express Employment Professionals, 85 percent of America’s blue collar workers see their lives heading “in the right direction.” Sixty-nine (69) percent also say…

By: Editorials – investors.com – August 29, 2018 Median household income is up more than 4%, the economy is growing fast, optimism is at decades long highs. Not that you’d know it, since the press is too busy trying to drive President Trump from office. Inflation-adjusted median household incomes in July hit $62,450 according to the latest release from Sentier…

By: Ben Gittleson & David Wright – abcnews.go.com – August 28, 2018 Pope Francis has no intention of stepping down as he fights accusations that he protected a former archbishop accused of sexual abuse, Italian news agency ANSA reported, citing “close associates” of the pope. The pontiff was “embittered” by a letter written by the Vatican’s former ambassador to the…

By: Alex Pappas – foxnews.com – August 28, 2018 President Trump’s favored candidate, GOP Rep. Ron DeSantis, defeated state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam in Florida’s Republican gubernatorial primary on Tuesday after riding the wave of the president’s enthusiastic endorsement to victory. Meanwhile, the Bernie Sanders-backed Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum pulled off a major upset in defeating a half a dozen…

By: Ellen Cranley – aol.com – August 28th 2018 Voters head to the polls Tuesday for primary elections in Florida, Arizona, and Oklahoma in a potentially historic vote. Tonight’s primaries include 15 millennials who are running for seats in the House of Representatives, and Florida’s race for governor could yield some demographic firsts for state offices. Continuing the swell of…

By: Nicole Goodkind – newsweek.com – August 28, 2018 With less than three months until the midterm elections, new poll data has Democratic Texas Senate hopeful Beto O’Rourke in a statistical tie with incumbent Ted Cruz. An Emerson College e-poll conducted from August 22-25 had Cruz with 38 percent of the vote and O’Rourke with 37 percent. About 21 percent…

By: David French – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 As I watch the crisis engulfing the Catholic Church, an analogy one of my pastors once made comes to mind. It will likely make some of my Catholic friends uncomfortable, but it’s helpful for understanding the way many Protestants view the larger body of Christ, the “Holy Catholic Church” of the…

By: Michael Brendan Dougherty – nationalreview.com – August 27, 2018 Well, it’s a relief to discover that, despite all its troubles, the Roman Catholic Church is still capable of producing gripping melodrama. This weekend Pope Francis was in Ireland, capping off the Church’s “World Meeting of Families,” held in Dublin. He apologized over and over again for the sins of…

By: Nicole Darrah – FoxNews.com – August 27, 2018 The gunman who opened fire on a “Madden NFL 19” tournament in Jacksonville, Florida, on Sunday was hospitalized previously for mental illness, according to court records. Divorce filings from the parents of 24-year-old David Katz of Baltimore showed that as a teenager he was hospitalized twice in psychiatric facilities and was…

By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – August 24, 2018 Wrapping up the week: why a Democratic House majority almost certainly means Nancy Pelosi will be speaker of the House again, why the world needs to get tougher with China, and an allegedly paranoid memo in the White House that . . . doesn’t really seem all that paranoid, considering recent…

The Senate should focus on questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional reasoning. By: George Will – nationalreview.com – August 26, 2018 Senate Republicans and Democrats are at daggers drawn over confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Instead, they should unsheathe some questions designed to illuminate the excitement of constitutional reasoning. The Constitution vests in Congress the…