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U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, hold a joint press conference. (Photo: Reuters)

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, hold a joint press conference. (Photo: Reuters)

The House of Lords, the unelected upper chamber in the British Parliament, are seeking to delay and amend the Brexit bill passed in the elected House of Commons. The more liberal elitist upper chamber began two days of debate on the bill, which authorizes the government of the United Kingdom to start the divorce process with the European Union (EU), the 28-nation bloc.

“We will not block, wreck or sabotage the legislation before us,” said Angela Smith, the opposition Labour Party leader in the House of Lords. “Neither should we provide the government with a blank check. If we ask the House of Commons to look again at an issue, it is not a constitutional outrage, but a constitutional responsibility.”

But, as British Prime Minister Theresa May called it, a game of parliamentary “ping pong” will likely delay the bill’s passage, putting the government at risk of missing its self-imposed March 31 deadline for starting the two-year negotiations on Brexit.

“I hope that the House of Lords will pay attention to that,” Prime Minister May said.

Prime Minister May added the Lords must not hold up “what the British people want” by trying to delay the process in the upper chamber, which can’t flat-out overrule the House of Commons. However, the amendments sought by the House of Lords, which would guarantee them a bigger say in the negotiations, would have to go back to the lower house for approval.

Natalie Evans, the Conservative leader of the House of Lords, said Parliament must respect voters’ decision in the June referendum to leave the EU. She urged colleagues not to “restrict the government’s hand before it enters into complex negotiations or attempt to re-run the referendum.”

The House of Lords, the unelected upper

Russia's Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin (Photo: Reuters)

Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin (Photo: Reuters)

Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the United Nations (UN), died Monday in New York at the age of 64 after suffering from heart problems. His death, which was only one day before his 65th birthday, was announced inside the UN Trusteeship Council Chamber and the Russian government confirmed.

“A prominent Russian diplomat has passed away while at work. We’d like to express our sincere condolences to Vitaly Churkin’s family,” Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on its official website.

UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq seemed to be taken by surprise by the news, as was the entire UNSC community, despite his condition.

“Our thoughts go to his family, to his friends and to his government,” he said, adding he heard the news from reporters as it circulated during a daily briefing. Matthew Rycroft, the British ambassador to the UN, tweeted he was “absolutely devastated” to hear of the death of Churkin, “a diplomatic giant and wonderful character.”

Churkin, who served as Russia’s permanent representative to the UN since 2006, was at the Russian embassy on East 67th Street on Monday when he experienced a “cardiac condition.” He was rushed to New York Presbyterian Hospital at around 9:30 a.m EST.

Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador to the

Tucker Carlson, the host of Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, responded to the media criticism of President Donald Trump’s comments on Sweden, which cited a segment on his show. He said the president’s comments should always be “clear” but also that the criticism in the mainstream media was “so stupid it’s surprising it even made it on TV.”

Mr. Carlson did a story on the destabilizing social and political impact Muslim refugees have had on nations in Europe who blindly opened their doors and cover up crime statistics as a result. He also said that anyone who is against the rise of nationalism should be concerned about unfettered Muslim immigration threatening the “ancient cultures” of Europe, which not surprisingly, the people of Europe would like to preserve.

Carlson said those cultures are being replaced with a more “violate and threatening” culture, and the people are pushing back.

Meanwhile, the president clarified his comment and responded on Sunday and again Monday morning.

“My statement as to what’s happening in Sweden was in reference to a story that was broadcast on @FoxNews concerning immigrants & Sweden,” he tweeted. “Give the public a break – The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!”

Tucker Carlson responded to the media criticism

Rush Limbaugh, the king of conservative talk radio, said on “Fox News Sunday” that it “is preposterous to think the Russians had any impact on the election.” Mr. Limbaugh also said Democrat embeds in the government are taking the place as the opposition party because the Democratic Party was decimated as a national electoral force.

Democrats have lost more than a thousand electoral offices nationwide since the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008.

“Obama was never challenged seriously by the media,” he said, adding that President Trump only has the American people who elected him.

Rush Limbaugh, the king of talk radio,

President Donald J. Trump, left, shows his signature on an executive order in the Oval Office in Washington, and, a Syrian refugee, right, yells at a Hungarian border guard.

President Donald J. Trump, left, shows his signature on an executive order in the Oval Office in Washington, and, a Syrian refugee, right, yells at a Hungarian border guard.

President Donald J. Trump will issue a new executive order travel ban targeting the same 7 countries but with exemptions. Travelers who already have a visa to travel to the U.S., even if they haven’t used it yet, will be excluded in an effort to avoid legal challenges in liberal courts that halted the initial executive order.

An official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the order will target only those same seven Muslim-majority nations–Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, Sudan and Libya–but also does not single out Syrian refugees when processing new visa applications. The president himself last week said the order would be issued sometime this week, and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly at the Munich Security Conference on combating terrorism Saturday mentioned “seven nations.”

Secretary Kelly said he will “make sure that there’s no one caught in the system of moving from overseas to our airports” after the new order is issued.

President Trump was forced to come up with a second order after the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a stay issued by U.S. District Judge James Robart on his original executive order on immigration and refugees. The decision from the most liberal, most overturned court in the country received heavy criticism from legal experts on both sides of the aisle almost immediately after it was released.

“These concerns are more about litigation rather than constitutional standards in this controversy,” liberal law professor Jonathan Turley opined on the judges focus of the case.  Alan Dershowitz, another liberal law professor, said the 9th Circuit’s ruling was “not a solid decision,” adding “Trump will win at the Supreme Court.”

“They’re not citizens, they’re not permanent legal residents,” Mark Levin, a conservative talk radio host and constitutional scholar said of those impacted by the travel ban. “They have a visa. That’s it! And the government can yank the visa whenever the hell it wants to!”

The official said the order could come sometime this week.

While the current list of countries was taken from an analysis by the Obama Administration, People’s Pundit Daily has confirmed that refugees and migrants allowed into America from Bosnia, Somalia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ghana, Kuwait and Bangladesh were also deemed in 2014 to have been implicated in terrorism.

What of the cap on refugees?

President Trump put a 50,000-per-year cap on refugees allowed into the United States, which cuts the previous cap set by Mr. Obama by more than half. That was not impacted by the court rulings and the U.S. has already taken in more than 35,000 refugees this year.

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President Donald J. Trump will issue a

President Donald J. Trump, left, points to a supporter's "Make America Great Again" and, right, a crowd of supporters in Florida cheer.

President Donald J. Trump, left, points to a supporter’s “Make America Great Again” and, right, a crowd of supporters in Florida cheer.

In a 50-minutes speech on Saturday, President Donald J. Trump sought to rally supporters and paint D.C. as the enemy of the people and center of corruption. He also touted the work his administration has already gotten done and the agenda moving forward for the future.

“I am here to tell you about our great progress and our incredible plans for our future,” President Trump said at a rally in Melbourne, Florida. “I am here because I want to be among my friends and among my people. This was truly a great movement.”

He slammed the “dishonest media” and called them a “a big part of the problem,” vowing to build a “beautiful” wall on the southern border, to replace “disastrous” ObamaCare and take his message directly to the people who elected him.

“I also want to talk to you without the filters of fake news,” he told a crowd of roughly 10,000 at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport near Melbourne. “They have their own agenda.”

The president pushed back on the media narrative claiming his administration is in disarray, saying it was a “fine-tuned machine” despite inheriting “one big mess.” He mocked the suggestions that he and members of his administration coordinated with Russia.

On Saturday, he also repeated what he said Thursday about his administration running like a “fine-tuned machine” and that he inherited “one big mess,” knocking back criticism about a rocky start and suggestions that he and his administration are working in coordination with Russia.

The state, which he won after visiting some 23 times during the 2016 presidential election, is friendly territory for the president. He carried the largest battleground after Barack Obama won it twice in both 2008 and 2012.

“Thank you,” he said to the crowd. “This is a state where we all had great victory together.”

President Trump won on a platform promising to “drain the swamp,” among other key issues. Since the first days of the Trump Administration, the swamp has been fighting back with illegal leaks of classified information, some of which reportedly gathered by illegal wiretaps. Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was asked to resign after one such leak revealed he misled Vice President Mike Pence over the content of his communication with a Russian ambassador during the transition.

“I hear your demands. I hear your voices,” President Trump said. “And I promise you, I will deliver.”

In a 50-minutes speech on Saturday, President

Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman speaks during a news conference in this file still image taken from a February 1993 video footage released on January 18, 2013.

Egyptian Omar Abdel-Rahman speaks during a news conference in this file still image taken from a February 1993 video footage released on January 18, 2013.

The Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, has died at 78, People’s Pundit Daily has confirmed. Abdel-Rahman died at Butner Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina.

Abdel-Rahman, who lived in New York City, along with nine others were convicted for plotting terror attacks and other targets in New York City.

He was serving a life sentence at the medical center. When the Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammed Morsi was elected president of Egypt, he urged Barack Obama to free the Blind Sheikh on humanitarian grounds.

Abdel-Rahman was the leader of Al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, also known as “The Islamic Group,” which was a militant Islamist movement in Egypt  considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and Egyptian governments. The group was responsible for the November 1997 Luxor massacre, in which 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians were killed.

While serving what would be only a three year sentence in an Egyptian jail, he was awaiting trial on charges of issuing a fatwa resulting in the 1981 assassination of Anwar Sadat by Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

The Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, the mastermind

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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a campaign rally in San Diego, California. (Photo: Mike Blake/Reuters)

All forms of statism are despicable because they’re morally and practically evil. They’re morally evil since they’re based on coercion. And they’re practically evil since they deliver such awful results for ordinary people.

The good news is that some forms of statism are widely discredited. Outside of universities, you don’t find many people who defend and advocate communism. And other than a few lonely cranks, you don’t find many people who defend and advocate national socialism and other forms of fascism.

But for some inexplicable reason, you still find some folks who harbor positive feelings about socialism.

To be sure, that opens up a bunch of questions, such as whether they even understand that socialism – at least in theory – involves government ownership and operation of the means of production. Such as the United Kingdom in the post-WWII era.

For what it’s worth, the fans of Bernie Sanders probably don’t understand anything about economics (goes without saying, right?) and they probably think that socialism is simply a system with lots of redistribution. Such as modern Denmark (even though that nation is just as market-oriented as the United States).

I’m not sure how we educate these people, and I doubt these three photos will have much impact on them, but I chuckled when this showed up in my inbox.

I guess the top photo might be Detroit. The second photo could be Cuba. And the last photo might be where Al Gore lives.

If that’s the case, the first is actually an image showing the destructive impact of the welfare state and the third is actually an image the benefits of insider cronyism, but let’s not get hung up on details. The real point is that corrupt insiders are the only real beneficiaries of big government.

Outside of universities, you don’t find many

One of seven F-15 Eagles from the Florida Air National Guard's 125th Fighter Wing arrives at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Aug. 29.

One of seven F-15 Eagles from the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing arrives at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Aug. 29.

DEVELOPING: The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirmed two F-15s were scrambled to intercept aircraft flying in restricted airspace over West Palm Beach, Florida. The warplanes startled residents as the sonic boom was heard as they took off from their base in Homestead to intercept unresponsive general aviation aircraft craft headed near where President Donald J. Trump is staying at Mar-a-Lago.

“The intent of military intercepts is to have the identified aircraft re-establish communications with local FAA air traffic controllers and instruct the pilot to follow air traffic controllers’ instructions to land safely for follow-on action,” a statement by the North American Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD read.

This is the second time in as many weeks that aircraft came closer than permitted to Air Force One in Florida. On Feb. 3, one came within 2 nautical miles of the president and the incident is being investigated by authorities. When Air Force One is in flight, Secret Service agents work with FAA supervisors and monitor for threats.

Even though the parallel flight pattern about 30 miles out meant there was no risk of collision, it was still concerning to authorities, nonetheless. President Trump arrived at Palm Beach International Airport.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)

President Donald J. Trump visited the Boeing (NYSE:BA) factory in North Charleston, S.C., where talked jobs, manufacturing and the rollout of the 787-10, their newest Dreamliner jet.

“We are here today to celebrate American engineering and American manufacturing,” he told a welcoming working crowd. “And we’re also here today to celebrate jobs. This plane as you know was built right here in the great state of South Carolina. Our goal as a nation must be to rely less on imports and more on products made right here in the U.S.A.”

He spoke about the Wright brothers being a “testament to the spirit of the American people,” which he said he sees all over the country.

“As your president, I’m going to do everything I can to unleash the great power of the American people,” President Trump said, keeping his focus on his “America First” campaign message. “We are going to fight for every last American job.”

President Donald J. Trump visited the Boeing

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