Transcript: Taylor Wasn't On July 25 Phone Call, Never Spoke To Trump

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Best Movie I Watched This Week: 'The Professor and the Madman'

Quid Pro Quo?

Leaked: ABC News Anchor Claims Network Squashed Jeffrey Epstein Story Three Years Ago

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Real Talk: Impeachment Is Going Poorly For Democrats And The Media

Real Talk: Impeachment Is Going Poorly For Democrats And The Media: Impeachment is going so poorly for the media and Democrats that 'Meet The Press' host Chuck Todd was forced to broadcast false information to support it.

PA State Rep. Mark Gillen getting a jump on 2020?

Getting a jump on the competition or the handiwork of an overzealous campaign worker?

There were dozens of campaign signs posted outside the Exeter Community Library, which serves as a polling site on Election Day.

The ones that jumped out were for State Rep. Mark Gillen, R-Berks County.

Gillen's name wasn't on the ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 5, but I spotted at least four orange-and-white campaign signs outside the library urging voters to elect Gillen to the Pennsylvania Legislature.

Problem is state lawmakers in Pennsylvania are elected in even-number years, so Gillen won't be seeking re-election until 2020.

House GOP Fed Up With Crooked Impeachment Inquiry: 'It's A Sham'

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Shall We Dance?

Rules Of The Democrat Impeachment Inquiry Are Stacked Against Trump

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Democrat-Only House Majority Rubber Stamps Impeachment, Ignores Bipartisan Opposition

Democrat-Only House Majority Rubber Stamps Impeachment, Ignores Bipartisan Opposition: The resolution provides the framework for how impeachment proceedings will be run in the House, denying Republicans full subpoena powers.

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How The Obama Administration Set In Motion Its Coup Against Trump

How The Obama Administration Set In Motion Its Coup Against Trump: Nunes realized the purpose of Obama’s dossier. 'Devin figured out in December what was going on,' says Langer. 'It was an operation to bring down Trump.'

How America’s Children Became Progressive Political Activists

How America’s Children Became Progressive Political Activists: With so many of our young people emerging as leftist adults, what will our country look like politically a decade from now?

Democrats' Election Bill Allows The Government To Define 'Legitimate News'

Democrats' Election Bill Allows The Government To Define 'Legitimate News': A new bill aimed at deterring foreign interference in our elections would strip Americans of First Amendment rights, and doesn't even address the major issue of 2016 interference.

Why Trump Didn't Tell The Democrats ...

The liberal media keeps spinning ...

In case you haven't figured out yet that The Associated Press is working with the Democratic Party to damage the Trump administration, here's another example of how deceptive the media has gotten in the era of Trump.

Big headline pushed out today by The Associated Press that will run in most newspapers tomorrow makes it look like the robust US economy under President Trump is faltering: "Survey: US business hiring hits 7-year low as sales slow"

But read down into the fifth paragraph of the story and you finally see what the truth is behind the bogus headline: "Hiring may also be slowing because the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low of 3.5%, and many companies are struggling to find enough workers."

Unfortunately, most people tend to read just the headline or the first paragraph of a story.

This is just the latest example of how the AP and the rest of the mainstream media spin stories to reflect negatively on President Trump.

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Why Washington D.C. Compulsively Lies About Donald Trump

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'The Dumbest Generation' Has Gotten Even Dumber 10 Years Later

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What Is The U.S. Doing About The Failed State On Its Southern Border?

What Is The U.S. Doing About The Failed State On Its Southern Border?: A failed state on our southern border just surrendered a drug-lord's son and a whole city to a drug cartel. The president praised the surrender.

Hawley, Blackburn Propose Moving 90% Of Bureaucracy Jobs Out Of DC

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Tulsi Gabbard Breaks With Democrats During Debate, Brands Trump Impeachment 'Divisive'

Tulsi Gabbard Breaks With Democrats During Debate, Brands Trump Impeachment 'Divisive': “If impeachment is driven by these hyper-partisan interests, it will only further divide an already terribly divided country,” Gabbard said.

Why Democrats Should Be Worried Elizabeth Warren Is The Frontrunner

Why Democrats Should Be Worried Elizabeth Warren Is The Frontrunner: Elizabeth Warren’s inability or unwillingness to answer questions about the cost of her major policy ideas is going to be a problem for Democrats.

Diplomat Testified Obama Admin Orchestrated Ukraine Prosecutor's Ouster

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Only Voters Can Stop The Impeachment Cycle From Further Escalating

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Best Movie I Watched This Week: 'Anna'

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New FISA Court Opinion Reveals More Illegal FBI Spying On Americans

New FISA Court Opinion Reveals More Illegal FBI Spying On Americans: Near-absolute power have corrupted the intelligence community so it now threatens our freedoms and ability to hold elections, says the FISA court.

CNN Whistleblower Reveals Network 'Vendetta' Against Trump, Obsession With Impeachment

CNN Whistleblower Reveals Network 'Vendetta' Against Trump, Obsession With Impeachment: A whistleblower leaked a video in which CNN President Jeff Zucker encourages employees to push the impeachment narrative.

The Point of No Return for Shifty Adam Schiff

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You Don't Need To Be A Scientist To Be Skeptical Of Climate Alarmism

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Andrew McCarthy Unravels The Real Russia Collusion Narrative

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Democrats Have Flown The Coup

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Backstabbers are everywhere ...

Anti-Trump Whistleblower Colluded With House Dems Before Complaint

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It's Not A Crime For Trump To Ask China And Ukraine To Investigate Biden

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According To Hunter Biden, Joe Biden Lied About Ukraine

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Has anyone seen Joe Biden?

Trump Demanded Accountability Of Nations That Fed Russia Hoax

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How The Left's Immense Cultural Power Affects Politics

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Their Turn: ABC, CBS LIE About ‘Favor’ Trump Asked of Ukraine President

The left-wing media hates President Trump so much they feel compelled to make stuff up. No wonder public trust in the news media is at an all-time low. Trump has been right all along about Fake News.

Their Turn: ABC, CBS LIE About ‘Favor’ Trump Asked of Ukraine President

Anti-Trump John Kasich Surprises CNN's Alisyn Camerota by Pouring Cold Water on Impeachment

John Kasich Surprises CNN's Alisyn Camerota by Pouring Cold Water on Impeachment

Intel Community Secretly Nixed Whistleblower Demand Of First-Hand Info

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CNN Cut 540 Words To Frame Trump For 'Favor' He Never Requested

CNN Cut 540 Words To Frame Trump For 'Favor' He Never Requested: CNN and other outlets skipped an entire section of the released and unredacted transcript of a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president.

Congressional Democrats Have No Credibility On Impeachment

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Desperate Democrats Revive Russia Hoax in Ukraine ...

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Media Corruption On Perfect Display In One Washington Post Paragraph

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Like Russian Collusion, Ukraine Hysteria Is Projection By Dems, Media

Like Russian Collusion, Ukraine Hysteria Is Projection By Dems, Media: The only 2016 campaign that colluded with Russia was Hillary Clinton's, and the only 2020 candidate who bribed Ukraine to fire a prosecutor is Joe Biden.

Unhinged NeverTrumper Suggests Trump Should Be Executed For Ukraine Call

NeverTrumper Suggests Trump Should Be Executed For Ukraine Call: Former Massachusetts Republican governor Bill Weld argued that the president could face execution over a conversation with the Ukrainian president.

Remy: All My Loving (Beatles Parody)

The U.S. Doesn't Need An Afghanistan Deal. We Just Need To Leave

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Andrew Yang Has More Support Than Kamala Harris In Her Home State, New Poll Reveals

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Until Something Sticks ...

When EU Becomes An Empire, Its Clash With The U.S. Is Inevitable

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Why Plastic Straws Are Actually Better For The Planet Than Paper Straws

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Witnesses Defended Kavanaugh. NYT Authors Falsely Claimed Silence

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Average U.S. FICO Score Hits All-Time High Thanks To Trump Economy

Average U.S. FICO Score Hits All-Time High Thanks To Trump Economy: Americans' average FICO score has hit an all-time high with a reported average national credit score of 706, a score FICO considers 'great.'

Things you find out when you Google yourself

Have you ever Googled yourself? Come on, admit it. Who hasn’t?

My name pops up in a lot of places on the Internet because I work for a newspaper and have been known to write a story or two. Or 5,000 or 6,000 … but who’s counting? I’ve also posted hundreds of my opinion columns online ... way back when I had the time to write columns.

Once in a while, my name pops up in the strangest places. Until recently, I had no idea that I was mentioned in a book.

It wasn’t exactly a best seller, but there I am on page 456 of “Actors of the Spaghetti Westerns” by James Prickette. I gotta hand it to Mr. Prickette for doing extensive research on the actors who appeared in a series of classic 1960s movies directed by the legendary Sergio Leone.

So how do I fit in with Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Sergio Leone? This is where I applaud Mr. Prickette for doing his homework.

I wrote an article way back in 1989 about actor Lee Van Cleef, who died of a heart attack that December at age of 64. While his name may not have been a household word, everyone who has ever watched Westerns will instantly recognize Van Cleef. It’s a face you won't soon forget.

He’s best known for the “Spaghetti Westerns” that were critical and box-office hits in the mid-1960s and made a star out of a little-known TV actor named Clint Eastwood. Van Cleef played Eastwood’s arch-rival in two of the films, “For A Few Dollars More” in 1965 and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” in 1966.

In the latter film, Van Cleef played “the Bad” of the title trio, with Eastwood (“the Good”) and Eli Wallach (“the Ugly”) handling the other two leads.

I wasn’t working for Variety magazine or The Hollywood Reporter at the time of Van Cleef’s death. Turns out the actor was a native of Somerville, N.J., and I was an editor at the Somerset Messenger Gazette, a community newspaper based in Somerville.

I was also the biggest Clint Eastwood fan around and everyone at the newspaper knew it. While I normally assigned stories to reporters, I decided to write about Van Cleef's untimely passing myself.

It was the first and so far the only opportunity to mention my favorite actor — Clint Eastwood — in a news story.

The article I wrote was titled, “Somerville remembers the good side of a ‘bad guy’” and I was able to track down several local residents who grew up with Van Cleef and remembered him fondly before he went off to Hollywood to make a name for himself in moving pictures.

Back to James Prickette and his book. The author billed the book as “A unique reference book, jammed full of informational tidbits about some of our favorite actors of the genre…”

And he certainly did find unique information, referencing the article I wrote in which I recounted that a young Lee Van Cleef wrote a column for The Messenger Gazette about his experiences in Hollywood. The newspaper featured many dispatches about Van Cleef as his career blossomed in television and eventually the big screen.

Not every small town can boast a well-known actor. Van Cleef would often write letters of thanks to The Messenger Gazette, expressing his gratitude for publicity about his acting career chronicled in his hometown paper.

Prickette used that anecdote and a few others from my article in his book.

So there you have it. A nearly 30-year-old article about Lee Van Cleef found its way into a book and immortality … as long as Google is around.

Tony Phyrillas is editor of The Mercury in Pottstown and remains a huge Clint Eastwood fan to this day.

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Democrat Rep's Wife Demands Free Marriage Counseling In Health Plan

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Joe Biden Isn't Even Close To A Moderate

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Bloomberg Hit Piece Is Why Americans Distrust The Media

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Dems Propose First Gun Grab Since Lexington And Concord

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The New Star Wars Land Is Proof Disney Has Lost Its Way

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