Question – what’s 41,000? Answer…the number of UNACCOMPANIED illegal alien kids taken into custody at our southern border in the last 9 months.

“41,000 Unaccompanied Children Apprehended at Border in Recent Months”

Wonder why that doesn’t get coverage by FakeNews?

Because their parents are to blame.

Just one more way FakeNews affects how we look at things.

“An Open Letter to the Colluding Press”

Sean Spicer and Tommy Hicks Jr penned a response to the coordinated op-ed whine that protests their innocence in the face of the President’s recent FakeNews tirade.

It’s well worth attention, because it not only calls out the ‘free press’ for their continual negative coverage through outright lies, unsubstantiated rumor, and coordinated non-reporting of anything positive…it also lists those positives the ‘free press’ ignores.

As they note, the accomplishments aren’t comprehensive, but it’s an impressive list…

• Almost 4 million new jobs have been created since President Trump’s election.
• African-American, Hispanic-American, and Asian-American unemployment rates have all recently reached the lowest levels in history.
• Women’s unemployment rate has reached the lowest level in 65 years.
• Veterans’ unemployment rate recently reached its lowest level in nearly 20 years.
• The unemployment rate for Americans without high school diplomas is at the lowest level ever recorded, and the Trump administration’s new workforce initiative will deliver job-training to more than 4 million Americans.
• Manufacturing jobs are being created at the fastest pace in over three decades.
• Nearly half-a-million manufacturing jobs have been created since the president took office. In the month of July alone, nearly 40,000 new manufacturing jobs were added.
• Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since President Trump’s election.
• The president crafted the largest tax cut in a generation, which led to savings for more than 80 percent of households and pay raises and bonuses for 4 million American workers.
• President Trump protected American taxpayers by asking Congress to rescind $15.4 billion in unused appropriations.
• The president has hired/nominated an impressive number of women to senior positions in his administration, including the first female director of the CIA, Gina Haspel.
• He’s appointed two Supreme Court justices, and the Senate has now confirmed 26 appellate court judges of his choosing, as well as Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch.
• He successfully negotiated the return of four American hostages in one month’s time.
• President Trump’s Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Action has exceeded the 2:1 mandate, eliminating 22 job-killing regulations for every one new regulatory action.
• President Trump signed the “Right to Try” Act to give terminally ill patients a chance to try lifesaving treatments.
• The Department of Homeland Security arrested 796 MS-13 gang members and associates in FY 2017, an 83 percent increase from the previous year.
• The president signed the VA Mission Act, which allows veterans who don’t live near a VA facility or can’t get an appointment in a timely manner to seek medical care from private health-care providers.
• Signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which provides an $82 billion funding increase for the Department of Defense over the current period, including a $617 billion Pentagon budget, $22 billion for the nuclear weapons program and $69 billion for U.S. military efforts abroad, as well as new tanks, ships, and planes. The package includes a salary boost for service members, about a 2.6 percent raise—the biggest military pay raise in nearly a decade.

Being a ‘free press’ doesn’t mean free from justifiable criticism.

Hey, ‘Free Press’…Got a problem with that?

Stop citing ‘unnamed’ sources, show your facts, prove your point…

…or take your lumps.

John D. O’Connor’s op-ed in the Daily Caller today should give even the most die-hard Brennan-Comey-Clinton fans pause for concern, IF they care about honesty at all…

…because their FISA assertions that the dossier was valid CAN’T BE TRUE.

As Mr. O’Connor points out, the Steele dossier relied on Source D & E for details in it.

But source D & E are the same guy – Sergei Millian…someone both the CIA and FBI “…had on their watch list for years as a suspected Russian asset.” (emphasis added)

So the top offenders in the FBI-CIA FISA-gate fiasco “…knew that Millian was a source, knew he was a Russian asset and knew he was lying about any claim relating to the Trump campaign. And Steele does not cite him as a Kremlin source, but as a supposed insider in the Trump Organization and the Trump campaign.” 

Brennan, Comey, et al knew…yet kept that information off the FISA applications…

…despite a LEGAL obligation for full disclosure regarding sources on those apps.

B-O-O-M.

The volume of reporting on how our political discourse is descending into hysteria won’t be lessened anytime soon…because the 800-lb villain in the room isn’t going to let it.

That 800-lb villain – the mainstream media – FEEDS off this hysteria and chaos.

And as long as they give oxygen and voice to haters, instead of those with REAL ideas, the violent rhetoric, chaotic rioting, and personal assaults will continue…unabated.

The 800-lb villain has adopted a new logic – MAKE it bleed, so it can lead.

Calls for ‘civility’ – with that malevolent intent at play – are futile.

Washington Free Beacon headline…“Newsom to Hold Hollywood Fundraiser With California Still Reeling From Wildfires” (Wildfires, we might add, still RAGING.)

But, so what?

Remember DURING the Benghazi attack, when Obama went to sleep even as four Americans were being killed, so he could be rested for his Vegas fundraiser next day?

Benghazi…wildfires…they burn out eventually – but a fundraiser? THAT’S a big deal.

Word to the wise – if Democrats have to choose between a crisis or fundraiser…

...NEVER get between them…and the fundraiser.

At Politico: “Brennan: Revoked security clearance is ‘politically motivated’”

We couldn’t agree more…

…Brennan’s extreme political motivation to accuse a sitting President of treason and being in the pocket of foreign leaders – without an IOTA of proof – justifies that act.

Put your PROOF where your security clearance was, John.

Otherwise, shut up.

Politically Motivated? You bet…

…on the GLOBAL political stage, de-fanging America-haters can only be a good thing.

\ – the media’s approval ratings keep plummeting…

/ – the President’s approval ratings keep rising…

…and FakeNews thinks Trump has a problem?

For two years, the media has demonstrated the DEFINITION of insanity – you know, that thing where you ‘do it over and over again…but keep expecting different results’.

Keep it up, CNN – he’ll be up around 60% by the Nov. midterm elections.

(And, fyi – being called out for lying hasn’t interfered with your continuing to do so…we think it’s probably about time to stop whining about freedom-of-the-press interference.)

Antifa claims righteous cause to use violence…behind masks to hide identities.

Since when does righteousness need to hide?

Now we learn that British dossier-creator Steele texted Justice Dept official Ohr that he was “hoping that important firewalls will hold” at Comey’s congressional testimony.

‘Firewalls’ are defined as barriers 1) that prevent the spread of fire, or 2) as a “protection against something undesirable” from occurring.

Hmmm. Fires and undesirable events are universally considered a BAD thing…so we can assume that Steele’s ‘important firewalls’ are meant to protect important things…

…in this case – Steele, Ohr, Comey, et al…from BAD things.

But…what would they need protection from, if everything was on the up-&-up?

As with masked Antifa rioters, firewalled partisans are guilty of lies and subterfuge and need the obscurity a firewall/mask provides to keep their activities and identities secret.

You know – just in case our Attorney General ever WAKES UP.

The ex-CIA director is angry about losing his security clearance, but considering some of the conjecture within the DC area, he has a lot more than that to worry about.

What’s really scary is someone with this level of access doesn’t know his security clearance wasn’t a ‘free speech’ issue…it’s a need-to-know job requirement…

…not a Constitutional right. It’s a privilege, that demands its ethical use.

As Investor’s Business Daily points out, if it were a ‘right’, we’d all have clearance.

If it weren’t for his obvious partisan leanings, we’d ask how he ever got a gov’t job…

…let alone a CIA gig.

The Washington Times headline…“Trump: Newspapers are ‘in collusion’; fake news ‘an opposition party’ as 300 editorials protest“

Conflating often unsubstantiated and in some cases downright falsehoods with the ‘free press’ status is a bridge too far…and complaining when the President pushes back on their innuendo and falsehoods is pathetic…but don’t tell that to the liberal media.

Pretty bizarre, that they can’t see coordinating biased editorials as collusion.

Yeah, yeah…no bias there.

Their actions aren’t naïve efforts of an uninformed nature. The first rule of journalism is to “…ensure the accuracy of the facts one is conveying to so many people.”

In our opinion, deliberately publishing unsubstantiated information, or outright lies, to hurt or diminish our Nation’s governing administration, justifies an ‘enemy’ designation.

Call that speaking TRUTH…to FakeNews.