Square...

The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. In 1910: When I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.^[1]

Roosevelt reflected three basic goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.^[2] These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal.

Thus, it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican, Roosevelt believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president he in 1908 denounced "the representatives of predatory wealth” as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing competition, and to defrauding the public by stock-jobbing and the manipulation of securities.

During his second term, Roosevelt tried to extend his Square Deal further, but was blocked by conservative Republicans in Congress.

I've been...

Michael Rotondo, [has no job ] the 30-year-old man ordered by a judge to leave his parents’ home in upstate New York, has tried to explain why he.

"I've been a father for the past few years, that's what I've been doing. I really haven't been pursuing a career." 

He had been "working here and there, doing things, but mostly being a father." That is despite the fact that he has lost visitation rights to meet with the child.

The judge’s decision came after Mark and Christina Rotondo sent their son several letters asking him to move out, get a job and take his broken-down Volkswagen with him. They offered him $1,100 in cash to help him find a place to stay.

I'm going no where.?!

Pull...

North Korea has threatened to pull out of the meeting after comments by US National Security Adviser John Bolton.

The country reacted furiously when Mr Bolton suggested it would follow a "Libya model" of denuclearization.

Libya's former leader Muammar Gaddafi agreed with Western powers in 2003 to dismantle his program in return for the lifting of sanctions. Eight years later he was killed at the hands of Western-backed rebels.

North Korea is also angry at current US-South Korea military drills and has halted talks with the South in response.

What kind of Diplomacy of Peace killing...

Extortion...

There's been a big rise in the number of victims of sextortion being reported to the National Crime Agency (NCA)..

Sextortion is when people, mainly men in their teens and twenties, are talked into letting themselves be filmed carrying out sex acts. Victims are secretly recorded and then blackmailed by  international criminal gang, most likely based in the Philippines. 

Don't panic, don't pay and call the police. Tens of thousands of people, mainly young men, are putting themselves at risk of sextortion.

Ultimately we'd advise people not to get naked on webcam.

Marcus...

 

Molinaro dedicated a significant chunk of his speech to reining in taxes and spending  [unlike the current] red meat for the Republican delegates he was speaking to.

Marc Molinaro is the Republican candidate for New York State Governor.

Cynthia...

New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon is running for the governor of New York State. 

Think...

The FBI rolled out a new public service announcement called “Think Before You Post" in the hope that people stop making hoax threats in the wake of tragedies. They offer a stark warning: if you make a hoax threat, you will be prosecuted.

 Hoax threats disrupt school, waste limited law enforcement resources, and put first responders in unnecessary danger. We also don’t want to see a young person start out adulthood with a felony record over an impulsive social media post. It’s not a joke; always think before you post.

The FBI highlighted the potential consequences, citing the case of a 22-year-old Texas man just released from three years in prison for using fake email accounts, Twitter accounts and internet-based phone accounts to make hoax threats in Minnesota, including threatening to kill a police officer and her family. He also threatened to blow up and shoot up a school and engaged in swatting -- calling in fake reports that violent crimes were in progress. 

Pelosi...

Over the last dozen or so years Democratic House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi has become the bete noir of the Republican Party. Republicans have turned Pelosi, an outspoken liberal congresswoman from San Francisco, into the caricature of a radical big-spending, pro-abortion and anti-military iniquitous wrong-doer.

But suddenly, and astonishingly, these days she is also threatening to become a bete noir within her own Democratic Party. A large number of Democratic candidates running in 2018 House races have publicly disowned her and some current House members have even demanded that she step down from her position as House minority leader before the November election.

Anyone is showing up in the political stage on this side?

Routine...

 

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article211729224.html#storylink=cpy

A routine traffic stop led officers to find dozens of immigrants without documentation crammed inside an 18-wheeler, Texas police say.

The truck was pulled over at around 10 p.m. in Raymondville, Texas, while driving down Highway 77, police told Fox29. An officer opened the back of the truck — and allegedly discovered a mass of people huddled together inside.

There were 88 immigrants inside, to be exact, according to police, who told Fox29 that some attempted to flee from officers by crawling through a hole on the trailer's roof.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article211729224.html#storylink=cpy

Half Full...

 

TMZ reported that a woman threw a full glass of water at Lahren as she and her family were leaving a brunch at a restaurant near Minneapolis. The incident was unprovoked, TMZ reported.

Lahren, a controversial figure who has called for limited immigration and pro-gun policies, has frequently drawn the ire of social media users.

The 25-year-old previously worked as a host for Blaze TV, and signed with Fox News as a contributor last August.

President Trump praised Fox News contributor Tomi Lahren after the incident.

What cause all this anger? Many have the same views.