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Posted at 10:00 pm on August 10, 2017 by Teri Christoph What has the Heisman Trophy winner turned pro football player turned minor league baseball player done now, you ask? Well, he made a young autistic fan’s night by taking time out of the game to greet him, then proceeded to hit a home run. All in a day’s work for Tebow. It happened on the evening of July 29th as Tebow’s team, the St.

Posted at 10:30 pm on August 10, 2017 by Patterico I despise shameless Trump enthusiasts who routinely make laughable arguments on Trump’s behalf. Jeffrey Lord falls squarely in that category.

Alt-right protesters are planning a "March On Google" next week, following the tech giant's firing of an employee over his internal company memo discussing gender differences in the workforce. Far right internet activist Jack Posobiec and "a coalition of free speech activists around the United States" organized the march, according to the official "#MarchOnGoogle" site. “We are going to raise awareness about Google’s one-

NBC host Chuck Todd ripped President Trump's top counter-terrorism adviser Dr. Sebastian Gorka on Thursday, calling the top aide a "menace" to other staff in the West Wing. "This Seb Gorka guy, or doctor, I know some people have questioned his credentials," Todd said. "He appeared to contradict told Fox News' Sean Hannity that he was the president's "pitbull" after an on-air confrontation with CNN's Anderson Cooper. "Sooner or later, somebody has to push back," Gorka responded. "We've got beautiful, intelligent women like Kellyanne Conway, we've got brave professionals like Sean Spicer.

"Late Show" host Stephen Colbert poked fun at President Trump on Thursday after Trump suggested that his promise that North Korea would face "fire and fury" wasn't tough enough, questioning what could possibly be tougher. "I'd like to go on the record, I do not want the Earth to blow up," Colbert began. "That's where my house is." "But here's why I'm getting a little nervous," he went on. "Things are getting uh...tense? Between working on a plan to attack the island territory of Guam.

Eight in ten Americans say President Trump and his administration should do what they can to make ObamaCare work, according to a new poll released Friday.  That includes 95 percent of Democrats, 80 percent of independents and even a majority of Republicans at 52 percent, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation Poll.  Seventeen percent, though, think Trump should make the law fail so it can be replaced later.  Meanwhile, 57 percent of Americans say Republicans in Congress should work with Democrats to make improvements to ObamaCare. Only 21 percent of Republicans want to continue working on

Exit poll results from CNN for the New Hampshire primary show that almost half of all GOP voters decided in the past few days whom they would support. Among GOP voters, about three quarters said they were very worried about the economy, six in 10 are very worried about terrorism and nine in 10 said they were very dissatisfied with the federal government. Fifty percent of Republican voters said they feel betrayed by their party, which may indicate a tilt toward “outsider” candidates like MORE. Democratic voters were also split on what they wanted in a president.

Jeffrey Lord, the indefatigable defender of President Trump whose advocacy turned him into an unlikely political celebrity, was fired by CNN on Thursday after a convoluted Twitter exchange in which he evoked — mockingly, he said — a Nazi salute. Mr. Lord received the news by telephone while on his way to CNN’s Manhattan studio in a town car provided by the network, which ferried him from his home near Harrisburg, Pa. After Mr. Lord, 66, learned that his contract had been severed, the car turned around.

The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African-American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done “more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.” Mr.

PARIS, Wis. — When Gov. Scott Walker announced last month that the electronics giant Foxconn had chosen Wisconsin as a site for its new factory, he was a picture of grinning, fist-pumping excitement. It would be the biggest economic project in Wisconsin history, Mr. Walker promised, with a $10 billion investment, as many as 13,000 jobs and a high-tech campus the size of 11 Lambeau Fields. But the project has run into doubts.