Benoit Faucon and Ian Talley:

“…The prospect of added pressure on Iran comes as Washington kicked off a fresh round of sanctions on Iranian oil exports on Thursday. The U.S. ban is aimed at coercing Iran into signing a new nuclear and security pact. In targeting the country’s crude—its main income source—the U.S. hopes to sever the financial and trade ties that are keeping Iran’s economy afloat.

Since the U.S. sanctions began in November, the Iranian government has missed out on more than $10 billion in oil revenue, Brian Hook, U.S. special representative for Iran at the State Department, said last week.

The U.S. Treasury Department is now weighing targeted sanctions that would curb the flow of less-visible sources of the U.S.-denominated currency that Iran needs to pay for imports of basic goods—and to shore up its own flagging currency, U.S. officials said.

The sanctions under consideration include the targeting of financial networks that transfer U.S. dollars to Iranian companies as payment for petrochemical exports—the country’s second-largest source of revenue after oil, a U.S. official said…”

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CNN Poll: Trump’s approval rating on economy “is the highest number we’ve ever seen.”

And how is this different from the other Democratic candidates?

From Liberal writer Margaret Carlson:

“…According to my unscientific poll asking every woman I see, Beto reminds them of the worst boyfriend they ever had: self-involved, convinced of his own charm, chronically late if he shows up at all, worth a meal or two but definitely not marriage material. When he should be home with the kids or taking out the trash, he’s jamming with his garage band or skateboarding at Whataburger. He’s “in and out of a funk” which requires long and meaningful runs to clear his head. Every thought he has is transcendent, worthy of being narrated, videotaped, and blogged. He is always out finding himself. At age 46, the man asking to run the country is currently lost…”

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Paul Bedard:

“…The optimism Americans feel about their personal finances has touched a new high, setting the stage for President Trump to ride the economic recovery into the 2020 presidential campaign, according to a new survey.

The latest Gallup poll found that 56% rate their current financial situation as “excellent” or “good,” the highest in the poll dating to 2001.

What’s more, 69% said that they expect to be better off financially in a year, the highest for that finding in 16 years…”

“…The U.S. adding a robust 263,000 new hires in April while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation, according to a Labor Department report Friday. Nonfarm payroll growth beat Wall Street expectations of 190,000 and a 3.8% jobless rate, according to Dow Jones estimates…”

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The circus in the House Judiciary Committee hearing this morning, and the wild accusations from Democrats in the House, are a smokescreen to give the Democratic media talking points and reasons not to cover the emerging, and shortly to be released, investigations into Obama Administration officials regarding malfeasance in the 2016 investigations into Clinton and Trump.

Real bombshells, not made up nonsense, are about to explode, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to divert attention.

JOE CONCHA:

“…CNN’s prime-time ratings dropped a whopping 26 percent in April compared to last year, according to Nielsen Media Research.

MSNBC’s ratings were down 14 percent in April 2019 compared to April 2018, while Fox News’s ratings overall were flat.

The sharp decrease for CNN marked its lowest-rated month in total viewers since October 2015.

In the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers covet most, it was the network’s least-watched month since Aug. 2015.

In prime time, Fox News finished first with an average of 2.4 million viewers. In April 2018, the network also averaged 2.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen.

MSNBC was second with an average of 1.66 million viewers, down from 1.93 million in April 2018.

CNN was third with 767,000 average primetime viewers, down from 1.04 million in April 2018…”

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This Is Not Going to Be the Country of White People

You can’t make this stuff up!

You can’t make this stuff up. Social media requires federal regulation.

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ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ:

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

Evergreen statement of the day.

The media and the Democrats lie about this statement over and over again.