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Obama’s work to discredit the Trump campaign was ‘bigger than Watergate,’ Trump tweets
President Trump questioned on Monday why the Obama administration began an investigation against his campaign before the November 2016 election, claiming the only purpose was to discredit the Trump campaign with no proof of wrongdoing.
The president also claimed the investigation, which he says was opened in order to get Hillary Clinton elected, was a bigger scandal than Watergate. [Read More]
Oscars: Jimmy Kimmel Takes Shots at Donald Trump, Mike Pence and Fox News (TheHollywood Reporter)
The late night host a quipped that Trump very much liked the first three-quarters of ‘Get Out.’
Well, that didn’t take long.
Right off the bat, host Jimmy Kimmel took shots at Donald Trump during the opening of the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday night, including about the president tweeting from a gold toilet.
The late-night host quipped that Trump very much liked the first three quarters of Get Out. [Read More]
Digitally addicted toddlers? Study looks at young tech users (WJLA
It’s not just teenagers spending massive amounts of time on phones and tablets. Try preschoolers! New local research is investigating whether the youngest tech users are getting obsessed.
Zevi Garrison took part in the research project. He is a busy Seattle two-year-old. [Read More]
One way to get people to church on Sunday: Give away free cars (The Washington Post)
If the pastor had ever wanted to channel his inner Oprah, this was his chance.
“You ready to give a car away?” Stephen Chandler boomed into his microphone, bouncing in his boots at the altar Sunday.
And then the pastor did it again. And later that day, he would do it again. And again. Five free cars in all, handed out to the lucky winners at Destiny Church in Columbia, Md., on Sunday.
“We were just going for something you would not expect a church to do,” Chandler said. “This is something you would not expect a church to do.” [Read More]
NRA Memberships Surge in Wake of Anti-NRA Protests, ‘Media Bias’ (Breitbart)
National Rifle Association memberships surged in the wake of the anti-NRA protests and “media bias” that followed the February 14 Florida school shooting.
The Daily Mail reports that Google searches for “NRA membership” rose “4,900 percent” since the Florida attack. That rise occurred at a time when many Democrats, media personalities, and Hollywood celebrities were denouncing the NRA as causal in the shooting that took 17 lives in a gun-free zone.
The Hollywood attitude was epitomized by writer-director Judd Apatow, actress Mia Farrow, and comedian Chelsea Handler, all of whom responded to the Florida school attack by calling out the NRA to drive a wedge between voters and pro-gun legislators. [Read More]
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