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DOJ pushes back at reports Barr
considered quitting over Trump tweets
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Posted by Harlowe 2/18/2020 11:35:47 PM Post Reply
The Justice Department pushed back Tuesday night at multiple reports claiming Attorney General William Barr told people close to him he's considering stepping down over President Trump's tweets, days after Barr admitted that Trump's tweeting made it "'impossible for me to do my job." "Addressing Beltway rumors: The Attorney General has no plans to resign," DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec tweeted. (Snip) The White House did not immediately comment on the Tuesday night reports.
‘I want you dead’: Nancy Pelosi’s GOP challenger
threatened by leftist thug, still crickets from
media, lawmakers
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Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 11:32:30 PM Post Reply
California has devolved into an anarchic domain ruled by violent Antifa leftists. An unhinged leftist physically threatened John Dennis, a Republican who’s running against Nancy Pelosi for her Congressional seat representing San Francisco. The ominous threats were caught on a disturbing video, in which a burly, bearded bully warns Dennis: “I’m going to catch you when all the cameras aren’t around and I’m gonna f— you up! I want you dead.” Predictably, CNN, MSNBC and other mainstream media outlets totally ignored the story. Dennis is the chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party. He’s running against Pelosi for her Congressional seat.
Revealed: FBI Used ‘Briefing’ with Trump,
Flynn to Gather Evidence for Crossfire
Hurricane Operation
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 11:29:01 PM Post Reply
The FBI under James Comey underhandedly sent a senior member of the team investigating alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign to conduct a standard official FBI security briefing for presidential campaigns with then-candidate Donald Trump and his then national security advisor, Michael T. Flynn. Unbeknownst to both Trump and Flynn, that FBI investigator memorialized that briefing, which included exchanges with Flynn and Trump, in an official document that was added to the Crossfire Hurricane case file probing the Trump campaign over unsubstantiated and ultimately discredited charges of Russian collusion. The FBI file documenting the August 2016 briefing describes two questions asked by candidate Trump as well as comments from Trump
Hillary Clinton Shuts Down Rumors of Being
Bloomberg’s Running Mate: ‘Oh, No’
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Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 11:27:21 PM Post Reply
Hillary Clinton stated she would not consider being Democrat presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg’s vice-presidential candidate should he receive the party’s nomination later this year. Clinton said at a Clinton Global Initiative event held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Tuesday: Oh, no. I’m just waiting and watching as this plays out. I will support whoever the nominee is because I think, for all the reasons you can imagine, and here in Puerto Rico there are many, we need to have a new president for our country. Clinton also added that she wants to “see Puerto Rican American citizens be able to vote for president.”
Bloomberg Accused of Helping Communist
China Suppress Embarrassing News Stories
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 11:23:48 PM Post Reply
Writing at the Intercept on Tuesday, Leta Hong Fincher described herself as “one of the many women Mike Bloomberg’s company tried to silence through nondisclosure agreements,” even though she never actually worked for Bloomberg’s companies. Her husband did, however, and according to Fincher, Bloomberg brought enormous pressure to bear against the couple to suppress news reports that were embarrassing to Communist China. Fincher said she was studying sociology at Tsinghua University in Beijing when her husband Michael Forsythe worked on a series of Bloomberg News reports about the tremendous wealth accumulated by Chinese leaders and their families, including the relatives of dictator Xi Jinping.
NASCAR Star Ryan Newman Awake and
Talking After Daytona 500 Crash
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 11:21:02 PM Post Reply
NASCAR driver Ryan Newman is “awake and speaking with his family” according to Roush Fenway Racing a day after his terrifying crash during Monday’s leg of the 2020 Daytona 500. Roush Fenway Racing announced that Newman is still in the hospital but is up and awake. His family also expressed gratitude to fans for their messages and well wishes, WTHR reported. “Ryan Newman remains under the care of doctors at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach, Florida,” the message said. “He is awake and speaking with family and doctors.” ‘Ryan and his family expressed their appreciation for the concern and heartfelt messages from across the country,”
Sen. Murphy on Meeting With Zarif: ‘If
Trump Isn’t Going to Talk to Iran,
Then Someone Should’
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 11:13:01 PM Post Reply
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) confirmed Tuesday that he met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on the sidelines of a security conference in Germany at the weekend, justifying his decision to do so by saying that “if [President] Trump isn’t going to talk to Iran, then someone should.”“I have no delusions about Iran,” Murphy wrote in an article about his attendance at the Munich Security Conference, which followed a visit to Ukraine. “But I think it’s dangerous to not talk to your enemies,”“Discussions and negotiations are a way to ease tensions and
Bloomberg Once Called Excessive
Spending on Campaign Ads ‘Obscene’
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 11:08:35 PM Post Reply
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has already poured hundreds of millions of dollars into his last-minute presidential bid, but the 2020 Democratic hopeful once described multimillion-dollar ad campaigns as "obscene" spending that would "annoy people."Bloomberg dismissed 2001 reports that he would spend upward of $30 million on his initial run for mayor in New York City. "At some point, you start to look obscene," Bloomberg told New York magazine. "There's a limited amount of ad time you can buy. It becomes dysfunctional; you annoy people with ads." Bloomberg went on to spend $73 million on his mayoral campaign, outspending his Democratic challenger Mark Green five-to-one.
'Isn’t that called a payoff?': Trump accuses
Bloomberg of 'illegal campaign' contributions
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 10:17:56 PM Post Reply
President Trump accused former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg of trying to buy the presidency and claimed the billionaire was guilty of illegal campaign spending."What Mini Mike is doing is nothing less than a large scale illegal campaign contribution," Trump tweeted Tuesday. "He is 'spreading' money all over the place, only to have recipients of his cash payments, many former opponents, happily joining or supporting his campaign. Isn’t that called a payoff?""Mini is illegally buying the Democrat Nomination. They are taking it away from Bernie again. Mini Mike, Major Party Nominations are not for sale! Good luck in the debate
Barr said he's considering quitting
over Trump tweets, reports say
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Posted by Harlowe 2/18/2020 10:11:18 PM Post Reply
Attorney General Bill Barr told people close to him that he's considering stepping down over President Trump's tweets, multiple reports said Tuesday, days after Barr admitted that Trump's tweeting made it "'impossible for me to do my job." "He has his limits," one person familiar with Barr’s thinking told The Washington Post. Its report suggested that Barr wanted Trump to "get the message" to stop weighing in publicly in ongoing criminal cases. Barr, speaking to ABC News last week, also denied ever acting on improper influence from Trump or the White House.
Plymouth Rock, Other Pilgrim
Monuments Vandalized
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 10:10:43 PM Post Reply
Plymouth Rock, the famous landmark where the pilgrims first set foot on American soil in 1620, was vandalized Sunday night, alongside other iconic monuments to the pilgrims, as CNN reports. On Monday morning, it was discovered that many monuments had been defaced by the same red graffiti, including the iconic Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrim Maiden statue, and the National Monument to the Forefathers. Plymouth Town Manager Melissa Arrighi condemned the vandalism on Twitter, saying that “we are saddened and sickened” by the actions, and that they would “begin clean up as soon as possible,” adding that “the police are investigating.”
Utah Senate votes unanimously
to decriminalize polygamy
among consenting adults
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Posted by Ribicon 2/18/2020 10:07:45 PM Post Reply
Utah lawmakers voted Tuesday to put new regulations on pornography and remove some on polygamy in separate proposals moving quickly through the Legislature in the deeply conservative state. Senators voted unanimously to change state law to remove the threat of jail time for consenting adult polygamists, a step that supporters argue will free people in communities that practice plural marriage to report abuses, like children being taken as wives, without fear of prosecution. A majority of people in Utah belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which had an early history of polygamy but has forbidden it for more than a century.
Senior White House Official Calls California
“Occupied Territory” as Trump Lands in Los
Angeles at Start of Four Day West
Coast Swing
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 10:05:39 PM Post Reply
Joe Grogan, Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy Council, set off a firestorm of criticism when he called California “occupied territory” in a tweet Tuesday night about President Trump’s trip to the Golden State.Trump landed in Los Angeles Tuesday to kickoff a four day, four state West Coast swing that will see him appear at a mix of official events and fundraisers in California on Tuesday and Wednesday and campaign rallies in Phoenix on Wednesday, Colorado Springs on Thursday and Las Vegas on Friday and other official events and fundraisers in those states. Trump is scheduled to overnight in Las Vegas each night
'We must defeat Donald Trump': Nancy
Pelosi warns Democrats they must unify
to beat president and says she's not
'counting Joe Biden out'
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 9:55:33 PM Post Reply
Nancy Pelosi warned Democrats they need to unify ahead of the November election as 'we must defeat Donald Trump.' Her warning comes as the party has failed to coalesce around a single presidential contender, progressive star Bernie Sanders has become the front runner, and moderate Michael Bloomberg will make his debate debut on Wednesday.'I can't even envision a situation where he would be reelected,' the speaker told CNN's Christiane Amanpour of the president. 'But we are not, we don't take anything for granted. As I say, we have to have our own vision for the future.
NASA announces open recruitment for its
2021 class of astronauts, and for the first
time in history will require applicants have
a master's degree
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 9:51:48 PM Post Reply
NASA has announced it will accept applications for its next class of astronauts, the 23rd in the agency’s 61 year history, between March 2nd and March 31st. For the first time ever, the agency will require all applicants have a master’s degree in a STEM-related field, such as engineering, math, biology, computer science, or physics. Previously, candidates only had to have an undergraduate degree, or be qualified as a test pilot. Scroll down for video (Photo) Candidates will also be required to pass a physical that will test their ability to handle long space flights and score 20/20 on a vision test. (Eyeglasses and LASIK are allowable.)
Chris Matthews: If Bernie Gets Democrat
Nomination ‘We’ll Lose 49 States’
Against Trump
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 9:45:15 PM Post Reply
Leftist MSNBC host Chris Matthews said on Tuesday that if socialist Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic nomination for president that Democrats will lose 49 states to President Donald Trump. While talking about how the other candidates are not attacking Sanders’ ideology, Matthews said, “They’re just pandering to the Bernie people and you know what pandering gets you? Nothing. It certainly doesn’t get you respect.” “They’ve got to get out there and say I disagree with socialism; I believe in the markets; I think he’s wrong,” Matthew said. “I think you’ll never get it done and this country will never go that direction, by the way we’ll lose forty nine states.”
Warren: Everyone Here Illegally Must Be
Able to Secure American Citizenship
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 9:41:24 PM Post Reply
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) says “everyone who is here” illegally must have a path to obtaining American citizenship — a policy that would eventually give voting rights to the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens in the United States. During a town hall at the Domestic Workers Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Tuesday, Warren reiterated her plan to make sure all illegal aliens are able to obtain American citizenship and thus, eventually, voting rights. The plan, Warren vowed, would also increase the flow of legal immigration to the U.S. beyond its current admission of about 1.2 million foreign nationals a year,
Bloomberg prepared to sell media
empire for billions on 2020 win
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 9:37:41 PM Post Reply
Billionaire businessman and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg – who is among the 2020 contenders – is prepared to divest his company if he wins the White House in November."If elected President, Mike will sell the company," a spokeswoman confirmed to FOX Business on Tuesday. The plans were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. In January 2019, before Bloomberg officially entered the race the following November, FOX Business reported that employees at the organization had been raising conflict-of-interest questions in regards to what Bloomberg will do with the media empire if he did run. At the time, sources told Gasparino there is growing concern among workers that
Hollywood Demands AG Bill Barr Resign
to ‘Restore Public Confidence’ in DOJ
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 9:16:41 PM Post Reply
The Hollywood left have taken out their pitchforks for Attorney General William Barr, demanding his immediate resignation in order to restore public confidence in the Department of Justice.Stars including Alyssa Milano, Mark Ruffalo, Rosie O’Donnell, and John Leguizamo are encouraging their social media followers to sign a petition that accuses Barr of misleading the public about the contents of the Mueller report and making false statements to Congress.Their demands echo those of Democratic presidential candidates, including Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, who are also seeking Barr’s resignation from office. Republicans are calling the coordinated attack a political hit job
'Some guy wearing a dress': Bloomberg once called transgender people 'it' replies
Posted by momoftwinteens 2/18/2020 8:44:09 PM Post Reply
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made controversial remarks about transgender people while discussing priorities of various issues within the Democratic Party. Bloomberg chided the Democratic Party for its focus on social issues, such as gender dysphoria, during a March 2019 forum hosted by the Bermuda Business Development Agency. "If your conversation during a presidential election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether 'he,' 'she,' or 'it' can go to the locker room with their daughter, that's not a winning formula for most people."
So God Made A Bloomberg replies
Posted by gardenervana 2/18/2020 8:33:01 PM Post Reply
And on the 8th day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a tiny, soulless technocrat to tell everyone else how to live their lives.” So God made a Bloomberg. God said, “I need a know-it-all Wall Street banker who made more money by getting fired than most men will make their entire lives working an honest job.” So God made a Bloomberg.
Why South Bend residents are warning
America about Pete Buttigieg
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Posted by Ribicon 2/18/2020 8:12:41 PM Post Reply
South Bend, Ind.—When residents of this city’s impoverished West Side reflect on Pete Buttigieg’s two terms as mayor, a few things come to mind: A spike in violent crime, development that largely ignored the African American community and how their only well-lit street is the one that leads to Notre Dame University. So how, they wonder, can Buttigieg possibly be trusted to run the country?(Snip) But some in South Bend describe Buttigieg’s mayoralty as a nightmare during which FBI data show that violent crimes surged from 622 in 2012, his first year, to 1,088 in 2018, the latest for which statistics are available.
It’s Up To The MLB And Baseball Fans
To Ensure Astros Cheaters Never Prosper
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 6:52:23 PM Post Reply
The first day of full workouts for Major League Baseball is Feb. 17 or 18, depending on the team. For most baseball fans, reporters, and players, there is only one team to talk about — and it’s not the 2019 World Series champions, the Washington Nationals. That honor would go to the Houston Astros, the Nationals’ opponent in that thrilling seven-game battle and the winners of the 2017 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The reason the 2019 championship losers are the talk of the town is that details emerged in a November 2019 Atlantic expose that the Astros aren’t just world-class contenders, they’re world-class cheaters.
Flynn Case Update – Reply Motion
Supporting Dismissal and/or Withdrawal
of Plea…
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 6:48:43 PM Post Reply
Lawyers representing Michael Flynn presented a strong argument today (pdf below) in reply to the governments’ continued efforts to refute prosecutorial wrongdoing. Within the reply motion Sidney Powell highlights the conduct of prosecutor Brandon Van Grack and hypocrisy within the government arguments: “Mr. Van Grack’s contention that he satisfied the government’s obligations by providing this information before Mr. Flynn’s sentencing now proves the point that he suppressed it when it was most important to Mr. Flynn: before his guilty plea on December 1, 2017, and before what was scheduled to be his sentencing on December 18, 2018.” Prosecutor Van Grack suppressed evidence to protect… “the prosecutors, his team, and the cadre of
Man charged with kidnapping woman,
forcing her to watch
‘Roots’ to ‘understand her racism’
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Posted by konocti95 2/18/2020 6:31:48 PM Post Reply
This is the wrong kind of captive audience. Don’t worry if you can’t afford to pay $2,500 to have your white privilege checked — this Iowa man will do it for free. Robert Lee Noye, 52, was arrested for allegedly kidnapping a woman and forcing her to watch the landmark 1977 miniseries “Roots,” the Cedar Rapids Gazette reports. Noye is accused of abducting an unnamed woman of unspecified race, then holding her captive at a residence in the 700 block of Second Avenue SW, where she was forced to watch the nine-hour ABC miniseries “so she could better understand her racism,” according to a criminal complaint.
Venezuela in Limbo replies
Posted by Moritz55 2/18/2020 6:17:41 PM Post Reply
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó met with President Trump last week. Does he still have a chance of taking power? Here's everything you need to know: Why was Guaidó in Washington? A year after he swept onto the international stage as the leader of an uprising that could bring democracy to Venezuela, Juan Guaidó's star has dimmed.
Bernie Sanders Compares Voting for
Him to Voting for Nelson Mandela
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 5:50:35 PM Post Reply
RENO, Nevada — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) compared himself to the late South African President Nelson Mandela in an address to supporters at the University of Nevada, Reno, on Tuesday morning.“You know, I think back now, and I think, in fact, some of you may be familiar with Nelson Mandela — remember that, and his fight for freedom in South Africa? — and people marching to the polls,” Sanders said, as he closed his remarks, before an audience of about 200 people.“I’m thinking about the civil rights movement, and people marching to the polls. Well, we’re fighting to change America.” Sanders then led supporters
Top GOP Lawmakers Release Statement in
Support of AG Bill Barr in Light of
Attacks From Deep State-Media Complex
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 5:45:17 PM Post Reply
Top GOP Congressional leaders on Tuesday released a statement in support of US Attorney General Bill Barr in light of the recent attacks on him from the Democrat-media complex. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) showed their support for Barr in light of the recent attacks on his character. It was reported over the weekend that more than 1,100 former DOJ DC swamp creatures
‘Violation of Logan Act’? Dem Sen under
fire for ‘secret meeting’ with Iran officials,
digs deeper when he tries to explain
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 5:32:17 PM Post Reply
Sen. Chris Murphy admitted he and other Democrats held a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif last week. The Connecticut Democrat who voted to impeach President Donald Trump apparently sees nothing wrong with meeting with “adversaries” as long as the meetings are conducted by Democrats. Trump seemed to be taken by surprise and told reporters Tuesday it “sounds like to me a violation of the Logan Act.” (Tweet/Video) The State Department reportedly knew nothing of the secretive meeting during the Munich Security Conference, according to Mollie Hemingway of The Federalist.
Chrissie Hynde pens kind letter
to Trump, reveals she allowed
Rush Limbaugh to use her song
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Posted by Ribicon 2/18/2020 3:49:30 PM Post Reply
The Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde on Monday penned an open letter to President Trump saying her late father “would have enjoyed” his presidency and would have been “delighted” to see the president award Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom. “Dear Mr. President, I often think of how much my father, Melville ‘Bud’ Hynde, who proudly served his country as a Marine on Guadalcanal, would have enjoyed your Presidency,” Ms. Hynde tweeted, directly tagging the president. The 68-year-old guitarist and singer revealed that her father also liked Mr. Limbaugh, who used her song “My City Was Gone” on his syndicated radio show with her permission.
Mike Bloomberg's supremely
materialistic, anti-human ideology
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Posted by shalimar 2/18/2020 3:24:44 PM Post Reply
Mike Bloomberg once pointed to the in utero child of an employee and said “kill it, kill it,” according to two witnesses. According to another female employee, he would say of attractive women, “I’d like to do that piece of meat." (snip) Human beings, to Bloomberg, are not unique creatures, all deserving freedom, respect, and dignity. They are not ends in themselves, in Bloomberg’s eyes. People are either inconveniences to be ignored or terminated (babies), threats to be neutralized and intimidated (minority males), corporate machine parts to be exploited for profit (employees), or tools for sexual gratification (women).
George Soros calls for Mark Zuckerberg
and Sheryl Sandberg to be removed
from Facebook because they are 'helping
Trump get re-elected' by not
banning political ads
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 3:04:32 PM Post Reply
George Soros has called for Mark Zuckerberg to be removed from Facebook because he thinks he is 'helping Trump get re-elected' by not censoring or banning political ads. Soros, a prolific billionaire Democrat donor, wrote a letter to The Financial Times on Monday calling on both Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to step down. He has accused them of having a 'mutual assistance arrangement' with Trump that will 'help him get re-elected'. Soros was responding to an article Zuckerberg wrote himself last week which appeared in the Financial Times.
Two Trump Critics To Headline
White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 2:57:09 PM Post Reply
Over the past few years, the White House Correspondents’ Association took so much grief for hiring comedians who hate President Trump that last year the WHCA opted to choose as its “entertainment” one of the most eminent biographers of American presidents and statesmen, Ron Chernow. But that was last year. This year, the WHCA is bringing in not one but two longtime Trump critics to entertain the mostly liberal pack of journalists and politicos who cram into a posh ballroom at a Washington, D.C., hotel.Kenan Thompson, the longest-tenured cast member of “Saturday Night Live” with 17 seasons under his belt, will serve as the master of ceremony
Trump commutes sentence of Rod
Blagojevich, pardons Bernie Kerik
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 2:53:28 PM Post Reply
President Trump on Tuesday said he pardoned former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik and commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich, the former Illinois governor who was convicted of trying to sell Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat following the 2008 election.The moves come just hours after it was announced that Trump granted clemency to former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr. for his conviction more than two decades ago in a gambling fraud scandal. Trump told reporters about the pardons as he prepared to depart Joint Base Andrews on his way to California. “There are no words to express my appreciation and gratitude to President Trump.
The Democrat Left is cruel and sadistic replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 2:51:32 PM Post Reply
"Cruelty is the expression of hate and of the will to power. ... The sadistic traits, the tendency to barbarousness, the impulse to destroy, manifest themselves in a manner that is senseless, brutal, scornful of every cultural achievement. ... The sadist revels in the fear, the anger, the humiliation of his victim. ... The sadist pictures to himself what is happening in the mind of his object, whose resistance he calls forth and breaks. Only this feeling of himself into the affective life of the object brings him the expected pleasure." —Wilhelm Stekel, Sadism and Masochism: the Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty (1929)
Roger Stone to be sentenced Thursday
despite controversy, judge says
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 2:51:07 PM Post Reply
Roger Stone will still be sentenced Thursday, a federal judge said Tuesday, amid a tumultuous week that saw President Donald Trump suggest she is biased and several prosecutors quit his case after Justice Department leadership rescinded their initial sentencing recommendation. Judge Amy Berman Jackson will still give Stone time to make challenges in his case after he is sentenced. That means that even if the judge sentences him to jail this week, he won’t be detained right away.
Trump frees Rod Blagojevich from prison
years early, commuting the ex-Illinois
governor’s 14-year sentence
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 2:48:23 PM Post Reply
President Donald Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, springing the Chicago Democrat from prison over four years early and writing a stunning final chapter to one of the state’s most notorious corruption cases. The controversial move comes after he granted a full pardon to former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr. Tuesday and more than a year after Trump first revealed he was considering commuting Blagojevich’s sentence. “Yes, we commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich," Trump said in Maryland on Tuesday. "He served eight years in jail, a long time. He seems like a very nice person, don’t know him.”
One man's awesome response to a neighbor's
complaint about his Trump flag
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Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 2:44:21 PM Post Reply
To date, almost 750,000 people have watched a TikTok video showing a Trump supporter's house festooned with Trump signs and paraphernalia while explaining how that exuberant show came to be. The video's narrator, Harper Lee (@harper334036), pans over the property as she explains what happened, picking up her narrative in midsentence: And when he was done remodeling, he put up one Trump flag in the window. And he got a letter from somebody that lives in this community that said, "Your house is beautiful. We love the remodel but you have that Trump flag that you have in your window, [it] makes your house disgusting. So, this is what he did in retaliation.
Violent students attack a young 2nd
Amendment defender at Ohio University
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Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 2:38:37 PM Post Reply
We're frequently told college kids are mostly all right. Sure, their professors are throwing Marxism at them all the time, but most kids have common sense and resist the indoctrination. That may be true, but what's worrisome is that those who succumb to indoctrination are willing to engage in violence, which gives them disproportionate strength that should worry everyone. Kaitlin Bennett made a name for herself the day after she graduated from Kent State University in 1998 when she took a photo of herself holding an AR-10 in front of the Kent State sign.
No, Michael Bloomberg will not 'Get It Done' replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 2:30:36 PM Post Reply
It's safe to assume that someone who managed to amass a fortune in the tens of billions through his own efforts (more or less) is, as they say, a pretty sharp cookie. Why, then, did former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg decide to roll out his presidential campaign using the slogan "Mike will get it done," out of the many options expensive propaganda gurus — um, consultants — proposed? The implication that President Trump isn't "getting it done" is self-evidently absurd. By any measure, Americans in virtually every demographic, economic, and social category will agree they are better off than under Obama. Our president "got it done" despite facing hurricane-force winds.
Trump says he knows identity
of 'Anonymous' author
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 2:24:49 PM Post Reply
President Trump said he knows the identity of "Anonymous." His statement to reporters on Tuesday indicates a multi-pronged search within the White House for the author of the tell-all book, A Warning, which spoke of a resistance movement within the Trump administration, has been successful. "I know who it is," Trump said as he boarded a plane at Joint Base Andrews destined for Los Angeles, adding that he could not divulge a name just yet. "But I know who it is. We won't get into it. People know it's a fraud. I know who it is and I know who some of the leakers are," he added.
Sen. Murphy: I Secretly Met With Zarif in His
Hotel Suite Because its Dangerous Not to Meet
With Adversaries
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Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 2:20:01 PM Post Reply
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) admitted Tuesday morning that he and several other Democrats did indeed hold a secret meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during the Munich Security Conference last week, arguing that it would be dangerous NOT to meet clandestinely with Iranian officials. The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway broke the story about the Dems’ rogue meeting with foreign adversaries in an exclusive on Monday. When asked to respond to the report during a press conference in Ethiopia on Tuesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed hope that the Democrats were supporting “America’s foreign policy and not their own.”
Chicago leaders blast Trump plan to bring
in border agents as effort to intimidate
immigrants, hurt census count
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Posted by AltaD 2/18/2020 2:11:12 PM Post Reply
Chicago politicians and immigrant advocates vowed to push back against plans by the Trump administration to deploy tactical units from the southern border to strengthen immigration enforcement in Chicago and other so-called sanctuary cities.U.S. Rep. Congressman Jesus “Chuy” Garcia contended the timing of the initiative was intended to “instill fear” in immigrants not just about deportation but about participating the 2020 Census. “The timing is no accident,” Garcia said at a press conference Tuesday. “The attempted intimidation has a clear purpose: It is to intimidate our neighbors who are Latino, African American, Asian American communities in particular, not to open their doors.
The Best Is Yet to Come replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 2:07:30 PM Post Reply
In 1969 Frank Sinatra recorded a song that became an instant classic. The title was, “The Best Is Yet to Come.” The lyrics, originally written by Carol Leigh and composed by Cy Coleman in 1959, went like this: "Out of the tree of life I just picked me a plum; You came along, and everything started to hum; Still it’s a real good bet; The best is yet to come. Best is yet to come, and babe won’t that be fine; You think you’ve seen the sun; But you ain’t seen it shine." Historically, “best” has been used to say that good things have happened, but that even better things will happen in the future.
WATCH: President Trump commutes sentence
of ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
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Posted by Illinois Mom 2/18/2020 2:01:08 PM Post Reply
WASHINGTON —President Donald Trump has confirmed during an interview with reporters that he has commuted the sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. In August, Trump said he was seriously considering commuting Blagojevich’s 14-year sentence, calling it unbelievably unfair.
The Reason They Support Trump Isn’t About
Trump
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Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 1:56:52 PM Post Reply
WESTBY, Wisconsin—Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with him. It is likely one of the most misunderstood threads among this new conservative populist coalition. To get the real reasons for their support for Trump, you have to be where they are, have no preconceived ideas about who they are and have no prejudice for what you think their motivations are. Tom Schaub, Ralph Petersheim, Donna Leum, Kris Amundson and Ben Klinkner are all sitting around a large conference table
NFL greats cheer as Trump
pardons former San Francisco
49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo Jr.
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Posted by greggojo 2/18/2020 1:26:19 PM Post Reply
The White House announced Tuesday that President Trump is granting a full pardon to former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr., who was convicted of failing to report a bribe to the former governor of Louisiana when he pleaded guilty in 1998. NFL greats including Jerry Rice, Ronnie Lott, Charles Haley, and Jim Brown were on hand at the White House, expressing their support for DeBartolo, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016. "I take my hat off to Donald Trump for what he did," Rice said, crediting DeBartolo for his former team's success in the 1980s and 90s.
Exclusive—Tom Cotton Plans to Back
Veterans for Congress in GOP Bid to Retake
House: ‘We Will Win Back the Majority’
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 1:25:20 PM Post Reply
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has launched a new effort to support fellow veterans in bids for Congress as part of an organized campaign designed to help Republicans secure their U.S. Senate majority and retake the majority in the U.S. House in November. Cotton, a U.S. Army veteran who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan before his election in 2012 to the U.S. House, told Breitbart News exclusively that he is rolling out a series of endorsements of veterans running in key battleground House districts nationwide this year. Cotton, in 2014, won a U.S. Senate seat in Arkansas, and he is running for re-election this year unopposed,
Let Presidents’ Day Include FDR,
Reagan With Our Other Giants
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Posted by abuela10 2/18/2020 1:22:31 PM Post Reply
Writing on Presidents’ Day, there comes back to me the notion I have held for more than 20 years that the holiday should be moved forward one week and extended to include the next two great presidents after Washington and Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt (born January 30, 1882) and Ronald Reagan (born February 6, 1911). I was contemplating this when Mark Levin’s show on Fox News appeared on my television screen and the guest was Burton Folsom, a retired professor from Hillsdale College, an exceptionally fine university which had the generosity (and questionable judgment) to invite me on one of its lecture-cruises around the British Isles
Bernie Sanders: ‘The United States Must
Find the Moral Conviction to
Choose…Democratic Socialism’
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 1:11:13 PM Post Reply
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who won the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire last week, is arguing that “the United States must find…the moral conviction to choose…democratic socialism.” “Today,” he said in a June 12, 2019 speech at George Washington University, “we have a demagogue in the White House who, for cheap political gain, is attempting to deflect the attention of the American people away from the real crises that we face and, instead, is doing what demagogues always do--and that is divide people up and legislate hatred.” (Video)
Indie Rock Band Helps Draw 17,000 for
Bernie Sanders Rally in Tacoma, WA
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 1:08:27 PM Post Reply
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew a massive crowd of over 17,000 to his rally in Tacoma, Washington, Monday evening, which featured actor Tim Robbins, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), and the indie rock band Portugal. The Man. His campaign is calling it “the largest rally any presidential candidate has held in Washington this cycle.”“This is the kind of energy a campaign needs to defeat Donald Trump in November,” Bernie 2020 Washington State Director Carin Chase said in a statement.“Our campaign has the grassroots support and momentum we need to expand the electorate here in Washington and complete the political revolution
Midland Oilman Clayton Williams (1931-2020):
Winner in Business, Not in Politics
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Posted by StormCnter 2/18/2020 1:04:55 PM Post Reply
There was never enough for Midland oilman Clayton Williams. Never enough crude and gas to extract. Never enough ranch land to graze. Never enough groundwater to exploit. Never enough wealth. “Money is how you keep score,” he once told journalist and social critic Vance Packard. By that measure, Williams was a winner when he died Friday night at age 88, having walked away with $1.3 billion from the sale of his oil company in 2017. Yet Claytie—as he was widely called—is better known among Texans for losing his 1990 gubernatorial bid to Ann Richards, the last Democrat to occupy the governor’s mansion.
I Take It All Back, Joe! Please Don’t Quit! replies
Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 12:57:58 PM Post Reply
This is a cri de coeur. I know what Joe is thinking right now. Joe knows that his 60-year quest to become president is crashing and burning. He knows that things are looking pretty hopeless. He knows that he hasn’t got a prayer. He knows that he will never sit behind the Resolute Desk. He knows that he will never spend the night in the White House bedroom. He knows that he will never fly on Air Force One. He knows that he will never hear “Hail to the Chief” (Snip) knows that he will be remembered as something other than “a distinguished elder statesman”—it will be more like “geriatric
Guns, ammo confiscated from car at
United Center before NBA All-Star Game
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Posted by AltaD 2/18/2020 12:35:11 PM Post Reply
Authorities confiscated weapons and ammunition from a car at the United Center on Sunday before the start of the NBA All-Star Game. A 2019 black Yukon Denali drove into the loading dock checkpoint area of the arena about 6:45 p.m. and stopped to be checked out by a bomb-sniffing dog before dropping off its passengers, Chicago police said. The K9 “detected a possible hit and warranted further investigation,” police said. Passengers were told to remain inside the car, but they grabbed their things, got out and walked toward the United Center, saying they were part of the half-time show.(Snip) two loaded weapons and boxes of live ammo inside of a military style
Biden channels Bill Clinton 1992
'Comeback Kid' narrative to buoy
sinking White House chances
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Posted by PageTurner 2/18/2020 12:31:16 PM Post Reply
Joe Biden is playing up Bill Clinton's comeback during the 1992 Democratic presidential primary season as he seeks to convince voters in Nevada not to give up on him. Biden, 77, who is fighting to stay in the 2020 Democratic race for the White House after finishing fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, was confronted by a voter in Reno over his electability ahead of this Saturday's Nevada caucuses. "You're smart, you're well-educated, you're experienced, you've got class, and you've got character," the man started. "What the heck is going on with your campaign?" In response, Biden called the question "legitimate" before telling the crowd his
On Presidents Day, Jeb Bush
urges return to civility in politics
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Posted by NorthernDog 2/18/2020 12:27:53 PM Post Reply
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told a Presidents Day audience of investors and money managers that it’s time for a return to civility in the nation’s politics. And the man who was ousted early from the Republican primaries of 2016 gave a decidedly mixed review of the first term of President Donald Trump, who bruised him often on the campaign trail. Bush spoke Monday to an audience of several hundred investors in Hollywood at a conference sponsored by the financial firm Noble Capital Markets of Boca Raton. During the speech and onstage interview with author Brant Pinvidic
Pompeo: I Hope Secret Democrat Meeting
With Iran Wasn’t Meant To Undermine
U.S. Foreign Policy
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 11:58:27 AM Post Reply
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to Federalist reporting Tuesday of Democratic senators privately meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif without State Department knowledge or approval. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut and other Democrat senators met with Zarif last week on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, an annual forum convening hundreds of world leaders each February to discuss international threats. (Snip)Murphy has defended Democratic rogue meetings with foreign leaders in the past while offering harsh criticism of Republicans who sent an open letter to the Iranian regime while the Obama administration stamped out the details of a nuclear agreement with the Middle Eastern adversary.
Biden’s Stuck Between
Barack and a Hard Place
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Posted by Garnet 2/18/2020 11:01:54 AM Post Reply
For all of the agonizing within Joe Biden’s inner circle over how to cure what ails the former vice president’s anemic presidential run – fourth place in Iowa, fifth place in New Hampshire, presumably another setback in Nevada this weekend – there’s an obvious fix: roll out Barack Obama’s endorsement post haste. Specifically (and yes, it assumes that Biden would be Obama’s favorite among the Democrats remaining in the race), have the former president endorse his ex-running mate in the week leading up to the Feb. 29 Democratic presidential primary in South Carolina.Why the Palmetto State? Because of sentimental value (in 2008, Obama won that state’s primary
Left Goes Bananas On Barr’s DOJ After
Ignoring Far Worse Under Obama
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 10:56:08 AM Post Reply
No one should be above the law, Republican or Democrat. Nor should our elected leaders undermine equal justice under the law.Okay, now that these obvious statements have been made, what should we make of the 1,100 signatures to a letter calling on Attorney General Barr to resign amid all the debate regarding the Department of Justice (DOJ)? As someone who served, albeit briefly, as a federal prosecutor, this question is of particular interest to me.First, consider that the DOJ resides in the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Department of Justice Building. Bobby Kennedy was his brother’s closest political ally and advisor. Does the media suggest we should re-name the building
Dems Beware: Don’t Be
Like Mitt in 2012
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Posted by Garnet 2/18/2020 10:54:51 AM Post Reply
Democratic political operatives have been banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out what went wrong in 2016. How did the party lose one of the most winnable elections in recent history? What can they do differently in 2020 to right that electoral wrong? But what if Democrats are looking at the wrong election for lessons about how to win 2020?When all is said and done, the 2016 election might end up being a black-swan event. The combination of Russian interference, Comey intervention and multiple third-party candidates make that election a hard one to extract guidance from. Besides, running for an open seat is a fundamentally different
Protests planned at Seattle-area Catholic
school over contested teacher resignations
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Posted by Ron_lfp 2/18/2020 10:47:43 AM Post Reply
Students, parents, and alumni are planning protests at Kennedy Catholic High School in Burien this week over the recent resignations of two teachers. School officials say the resignations were voluntary. But some say Paul Danforth and Michelle Beattie were forced out over their sexuality. Students plan to stage a protest inside the school on Tuesday morning. (snip) The controversy has already caught the eye of King County Councilmember Dave Upthegrove,
President Donald Trump Threatens To Sue
‘Everyone’ Over Mueller Investigation And
Roger Stone Trial
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 10:26:54 AM Post Reply
President Donald Trump threatened on Twitter Tuesday morning to sue “everyone” involved in Robert Mueller’s special counsel Russia investigation and the trial of former Trump adviser Roger Stone.“These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things,” Trump stated in relation to the former prosecutors in Stone’s case. The four prosecutors Trump referred to withdrew from Stone’s case after Trump voiced displeasure over the reported 7 to 9 year sentence the Justice Department originally sought for Stone.
Biden, with a straight face, calls on AG
Bill Barr to resign over greatest abuse
of power he has ever seen
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 10:14:34 AM Post Reply
Former Vice President Joe Biden “absolutely” agreed with calls for Attorney General William Barr to resign. The 2020 Democratic presidential candidate joined the chorus of critics demanding Barr resign after President Donald Trump “intimidated” him into intervening in the case involving former Trump campaign official Roger Stone. (Video) Biden slammed the “greatest abuse of power” he has ever seen during an interview on MSNBC on Monday, speaking to Nicolle Wallace about the letter she said was signed by more than 2,000 federal prosecutors and Justice Department officials calling for Barr’s resignation.
Obama is jealous of Trump's economy replies
Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 10:08:54 AM Post Reply
Barack Obama, ex-prez, took to Twitter to try and claim that today’s great economy is due to his 11-year-old policy — suggesting, laughably, his White House is owed a big ol’ thank you from President Donald Trump, from the world of business and from Joe Q. Taxpayer and Jane Q. Consumer.Sorry, Mr. Obama, but to coin one of your own phrases: You didn’t build that. You didn’t build the economy America is now cheering. If memory serves, and it does, you built the economy that earned you the monicker, “Food Stamp President.”
Ryan Newman's crash at Daytona a grim
echo of Dale Earnhardt tragedy
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Posted by earlybird 2/18/2020 10:06:49 AM Post Reply
As the minutes ticked by, the all-too-familiar dread grew. While Denny Hamlin celebrated a victory in the Daytona 500, emergency crews tended to the wrecked car of Ryan Newman, who’d been turned upside down and t-boned in the driver’s-side window. No word came from Newman’s radio. Emergency crews eventually unloaded Newman from the vehicle and into an ambulance, which drove back down the Daytona International Speedway frontstretch, lights flashing. And still—no word on Newman’s condition.
Dershowitz: I Have Proof Obama Ordered
FBI Investigation At Request Of George
Soros
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Posted by mc squared 2/18/2020 9:17:34 AM Post Reply
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz revealed in an interview on Sunday that he has proof that former Democrat President Barack Obama ordered the FBI to investigate someone after far-left billionaire George Soros asked for the investigation. There was a lot of White House control of the Justice Department during the Kennedy administration and I don’t think we saw very many liberal professors arguing against that,” Dershowitz told Breitbart News. “I have some information as well about the Obama administration – which will be disclosed in a lawsuit at some point, but I’m not prepared to disclose it now – about how President Obama personally asked the
Will Bloomberg News Ignore NYT Story on Bloomberg’s Massive Spending? replies
Posted by MojoV100 2/18/2020 9:02:29 AM Post Reply
No wonder liberal billionaire 2020 candidate Michael Bloomberg does not want his own news outlet investigating him. They might have to do journalism and risk exposing where his money has been going all these years.The liberal New York Times chose to do some actual journalism by digging up records on Bloomberg’s enormous spending between 1977 and 2019 in a report Feb. 15. Bloomberg spent "at least" a whopping $10 billion split between charitable and political causes. Some of those causes included: abortion, climate change and gun control.
Yale's Art Department Commits Suicide replies
Posted by Zarin 2/18/2020 9:01:33 AM Post Reply
Changes to an academic curriculum normally do not arouse public controversy, but we do not live in normal times. Yale University’s decision to abolish its venerable “Introduction to Art History: Renaissance to the Present” has drawn considerable publicity and outrage, surely to the surprise of its instructors. For Tim Barringer, chairman of the art-history department, it was a straightforward act of modernizing. “No one survey course taught in the space of a semester could ever be comprehensive,” he told the Yale Daily News, nor could any single course “be taken as the definitive survey of our discipline.” Instead of that course’s heroic journey from Michelangelo to Jackson Pollock ...
Bloomberg’s ‘mercenaries’: Billionaire
Dem funding network of climate
lawyers inside state AG offices
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Posted by abuela10 2/18/2020 8:21:34 AM Post Reply
A program funded by 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is paying the salaries of lawyers who are farmed out to liberal state attorney general offices to pursue climate-based litigation -- a compact critics say amounts to Bloomberg buying state law enforcement employees to advance his preferred political agenda. The arrangement, which currently pays the salaries of Special Assistant Attorneys General (SAAGs) in 10 Democratic AG offices, is drawing new scrutiny now that Bloomberg is running for president. The New York University School of Law's State Energy & Environmental Impact Center, which was started in 2017 with $5.6 million from Bloomberg's nonprofit,
'Ryan's a tough guy': NASCAR
driver in serious condition after
fiery crash at Daytona 500
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Posted by Hazymac 2/18/2020 8:15:36 AM Post Reply
NASCAR driver Ryan Newman is in serious condition and recovering at a hospital after his car flipped several times during the Daytona 500. Newman, 42, was pulled from the wreckage of his car on Monday night and immediately taken to a nearby hospital where he is being treated for injuries that doctors said are not life threatening. “Ryan Newman is being treated at Halifax Medical Center. He is in serious condition, but doctors have indicated his injuries are not life threatening,” according to a statement by Roush Fenway Racing. "We appreciate your patience and cooperation and we will provide more information as it becomes available.”
FBI Raids James Biden-Tied Business replies
Posted by Pluperfect 2/18/2020 7:57:20 AM Post Reply
FBI agents last month raided the home of the CEO of a bankrupt hospital chain and one of its hospitals in Pennsylvania in new signs of trouble for a company central to accusations of influence-peddling by James Biden, brother of former Vice President Joe Biden. The federal investigation was disclosed in documents filed this month by the acting U.S. trustee overseeing the bankruptcy case of Florida-based Americore Holdings, which is in the business of acquiring and managing rural hospitals. The filing in Kentucky by the federal trustee, Paul A. Randolph, seeks the appointment of a trustee specifically to oversee the bankruptcy case,
Watch as Victor Davis Hanson destroys
Bloomberg for his ignorant remarks
denigrating the skills and intelligence of farmers
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Posted by PageTurner 2/18/2020 7:44:31 AM Post Reply
Victor Davis Hanson is the perfect person to refute the arrogance of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who denigrated the “grey matter” needed by farmers in now-infamous remarks to a group of elitists at Aspen. Hanson is not only a brilliant historian of ancient Greece and a political commentator with few if any peers, he is also a fifth-generation farmer. He understands the skills and brainpower needed to be an academic or other elite member of the analytical class, and he understands the skill sets and brainpower needed to
Uncovering 'Anonymous' in the White House replies
Posted by PageTurner 2/18/2020 7:41:41 AM Post Reply
In swamp news, Deputy National Security Advisor Victoria Coates is reportedly being pinned by senior officials in the Trump administration as the so-called "Anonymous," the hideous little operative deep within the Trump administration who claimed to be the anti-Trump "resistance" on the inside, brazenly writing an essay in the New York Times to 'assure' us that the Trump administration was full of such people. Here's the Daily Mail's summary: Deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates may be reassigned to a position in the Department of Energy from the National Security Council In recent weeks, it has been rumored that Coates is author of anonymous op-ed
Jeff Bezos Delivers $10 Billion
To The Wrong Address
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Posted by RockyTCB 2/18/2020 7:24:18 AM Post Reply
When it comes to virtue signaling, it will be tough to top Jeff Bezos, who has pledged to put $10 billion – nearly 8% – of his net worth to help “save Earth.” He’d be better off investing that money in his own company, which has probably done more to reduce CO2 emissions than the do-gooders lining up for his handouts ever will. “Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet,” Bezos wrote in an Instagram post. “I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change
Love Me Tender! White House Advisor
Stephen Miller and new wife are serenaded
by an Elvis impersonator at lavish DC
wedding-but 'The King' can't be upstaged
by President Trump who delivers a toast to
the couple
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 7:03:38 AM Post Reply
Stephen Miller and new wife Katie Waldman were serenaded by an Elvis impersonator at their lavish Washington, D.C. wedding on Sunday. An official photo from the nuptials - shared to Twitter on Monday - shows the White House power couple slow-dancing to a ballad by 'The King' inside the ballroom of the Trump International Hotel. Miller, 34, is a White House Senior Advisor, while Waldman, 28, is a Press Secretary for Vice President Mike Pence, and their wedding was attended by President Trump. And while the Elvis impersonator made a memorable appearance in a embellished white suit, the Commander-in-chief wasn't about to be outdone at the microphone.
Bloomberg qualifies for Las Vegas debate,
facing Democratic rivals for first time
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 6:48:41 AM Post Reply
Michael Bloomberg has officially qualified for Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, marking the first time the billionaire 2020 contender will come face to face with his rivals.Bloomberg, who made a late entry into the Democratic primary race, met the Democratic National Committee’s qualifications to get on stage with the Tuesday release of a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll which placed the former mayor in second with 19 percent support.Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was in first place with 31 percent support, according to the poll.“Mike is looking forward to joining the other Democratic candidates
The Epic Donald replies
Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 6:42:03 AM Post Reply
We voting Americans need to sort out our thinking and do so before next fall. I am so tired of hearing reasonable, intelligent people express anti-Trump attitudes based on truly flimsy grounds. A relative said to me that she’d never vote for Trump because “he’s an a**hole.” I have had other people voice similar concerns in more genteel terms -– they don’t like his tweeting, his braggadocio, his unpredictability. Okay, okay. At first, I didn’t either.Now, it’s true that Trump can be a jerk. But so was Julius Caesar. So was Winston Churchill. So was George Patton. For that matter, so was King David, who was appointed by God
Political Trials Should Be Tried
Outside of the Beltway
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Posted by Judy W. 2/18/2020 6:38:10 AM Post Reply
Attorney General William Barr is enlisting U.S. attorneys outside the Beltway either to investigate or review several high-level cases related to President Trump, the Washington Post reported over the weekend. Barr has asked federal prosecutors from “far-flung offices,” as the Post described it, located in remote places such as Connecticut and Chicago, to handle these sensitive matters. (Snip) Given the accusations from Trump foes that Barr is doing Trump’s bidding from his corner office at the Justice Department, this otherwise rational move prompted convulsions of panic in the nation’s capital. Some distraught observers grimly warn that transferring politically charged cases out of the most politically obsessed town in the world
Forget Iowa — let's switch to
a one-day national primary
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Posted by Pluperfect 2/18/2020 4:49:28 AM Post Reply
The delays and potential errors in the results of the Iowa Democratic caucus should cause Americans of both parties to reconsider how the country selects its nominees. The current system of primaries and caucuses staggered over several months has three primary flaws. A new method of selecting nominees would be beneficial for the country. First, states that vote early in the process (especially Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada) unfairly carry greater weight in the selection of the nominee than other states. Winners in early states typically receive increased contributions and media attention, both of which are critical for the long nomination process.
Remember the 'NASCAR
Democrats?' Neither do they
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Posted by MissMolly 2/18/2020 4:39:38 AM Post Reply
Remember after the 2000 election? Democrats were baffled that the voters hadn’t given Al Gore a third Clinton term in the midst of a good economy. Never mind that President Bill Clinton never won a majority of the vote and had been impeached for covering up his defiling of a young intern in the Oval Office. To the credit of those old Democrats, at least they were slightly capable of self-awareness. This crowd today would march right down the throat of a flaming volcano if somebody told them that doing so would hurt President Trump. After months of litigating hanging chads in Florida, those old Democrats of yore wondered
Mike Bloomberg as Mary Poppins is a
Train Wreck We Can’t Stop Watching
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Posted by MissMolly 2/18/2020 4:35:16 AM Post Reply
Or at least I can’t. Back in 2007, Bloomberg appeared on stage dressed as a male Mary Poppins. Whether or not the nanny statist parallel here was intentional or accidental, the whole ordeal is just… well, just watch:(video)
Bloomberg's AR-15 Ban Rejected in Virginia replies
Posted by shazbot123 2/18/2020 4:31:54 AM Post Reply
It was supposed to be the best state government money could buy, bought and paid for by Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety for the purpose of overturning the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms in Patrick Henry’s Virginia. Bloomberg overwhelmed the NRA in spending during the Virginia state election campaign.
Four Virginia Democrats Hand Gun-Control
Advocates a Bitter Disappointment
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Posted by MissMolly 2/18/2020 4:29:20 AM Post Reply
The Virginia State Senate Judiciary Committee sank the hopes of Governor Ralph Northam’s bill to expand the definition of “assault weapons,” in a bit of a surprise. Earlier this month, the narrowly divided Virginia House of Delegates passed the bill, 51-48. Democrats in the Senate were less enthusiastic, and Monday morning, Committee chairman John Edwards, Democrats Chap Petersen, Creigh Deeds, Scott Surovell, and all committee Republicans voted to send the bill to the Virginia Crime Commission for further study, meaning it will not be passed in this session. The National Rifle Association is pleased: “This is a victory for honest, hard-working Virginians who shared their support
Who will win in Nevada,
Sanders, Biden, or chaos?
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Posted by MissMolly 2/18/2020 4:24:41 AM Post Reply
In this post, I noted that the Culinary Workers Union, a big player in Nevada Democratic politics, is attacking Bernie Sanders over his “Medicare for All” proposal. I figured that these attacks would harm Sanders’s Nevada caucuses campaign. However, the Union hasn’t endorsed another candidate. Thus, to the extent that its attacks on Sanders dissuade members from supporting the Vermont socialist, these members are likely to split their vote among other candidates, thereby decreasing the harm to Sanders. Polling in Nevada seems to confirm this analysis. Sanders leads, but his lead isn’t as large as it likely would have been had the Culinary Workers Union not blasted him on health insurance.
The Path to Ruin Being Blazed by
Congress, the President, and the Fed
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Posted by MissMolly 2/18/2020 4:17:37 AM Post Reply
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cited a record 11-year expansion, an economy “resilient to the global headwinds,” “near half-century lows for more than a year” regarding unemployment, and how “GDP rose at a moderate rate over the second half of last year” in his appearances before Congress last week. But his more oblique warnings about what should happen if a recession occurs came as the most interesting part of his words to the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee. He essentially told Congress that economic gimmickry in sunny financial times leaves policymakers with few tools to combat a recession once the clouds roll into town.
Interlopers poised to take control of
Democratic Party like Trump took GOP
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Posted by Pluperfect 2/18/2020 4:07:08 AM Post Reply
It’s a familiar plotline. An interloper runs for a party’s nomination and, with an anti-insider pitch, scores wins and near-wins in the first contests with vote pluralities. His numerous opponents, fearful of antagonizing his enthusiastic supporters, launch attacks on one another that, predictably, hurt the attacker as well as the target. Party establishment types, convinced the interloper is a sure loser in November, dither and tilt things mildly against him while trying to maintain the impression of fairness. Candidates with no chance remain in the race, dividing the anti-interloper vote, hoping the interloper will collapse.
Florida’s “red flag” law has led to
massive gun confiscation numbers
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Posted by Pluperfect 2/18/2020 4:00:58 AM Post Reply
Florida enacted its red flag law in the spring of 2018 and they didn’t lose any time in putting it to use. And I mean a lot of use. But as this report from the Associated Press indicates, use of the law is not consistent from county to county and there are serious questions remaining as to how fairly it’s being applied. The law, supported by legislators of both parties , has been applied more than 3,500 times since, with the pace accelerating during the last half of 2019. Even so, an Associated Press analysis of the law showed its use is inconsistent, with some counties
Mike Bloomberg said 'many black
and Latino males' don't 'know
how to behave in the workplace', in
newly unearthed 2011 interview
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Posted by Pluperfect 2/18/2020 3:53:54 AM Post Reply
Michael Bloomberg is again under fire for his problematic comments on race, with a resurfaced video showing the 2020 Presidential hopeful claiming that many young black and Latino men 'don't know how to behave in the workforce'. The billionaire, 78, made the assertion during a 2011 interview with PBS, which is now going viral amidst outrage over Bloomberg's other controversial remarks. In the 2011 interview - conducted while he was serving a third term as New York City Mayor - Bloomberg attempted to a spruik a new initiative to enhance employment opportunities for young men. He told interviewer Jeffrey Brown: 'There's this enormous cohort of black and Latino males,
Boy Scouts of America files for
bankruptcy after sex abuse lawsuits
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Posted by Pluperfect 2/18/2020 3:45:57 AM Post Reply
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection early on Tuesday after decades of sexual abuse claims within one of the country's largest youth organizations. The move filed in Delaware bankruptcy court halts the hundreds of lawsuits the BSA is facing that allege sexual misconduct by people within the 110-year-old organization over the years. Sexual abuse settlements had reportedly strained the Boy Scouts' finances, with states passing laws last year so victims from long-ago abuse can sue for damages.
Buttigieg: If Trump Refuses to Leave
White House, He Can ‘Do Chores’
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 3:39:42 AM Post Reply
Democratic presidential candidate former South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg said at a town hall in Reno, NV if President Donald Trump could “do chores” if he refused to leave the White House after losing his reelection bid.A voter asked Buttigieg what he would do if Trump said, “No, this is all a hoax,” and refusing to concede.Buttigieg said, “I mean, if he won’t leave, I guess if he’s willing to do chores, I guess we could work something out.”He continued, “I think we want to set a goal of winning big enough that this election is way beyond cheating distance and that Trumpism goes into the history books, too.”
Deep State Revolt: Federal Judges to Hold
Emergency Meeting Over Barr and Trump
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 3:29:14 AM Post Reply
Just weeks after President Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate of bogus partisan impeachment charges by the House of Representatives, a group of federal judges will hold an ’emergency meeting’ on Tuesday regarding the intervention by Attorney General William Barr against the abusive proposed sentence for Roger Stone and the criticism by President Trump of the proposed sentence and the federal judge overseeing the case, Judge Amy Berman Jackson, as well as other actions by Barr and Trump regarding ‘politically sensitive’ cases before the judiciary.
Trump fires back after Obama claims
credit for economic boom: 'Con job'
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Posted by Imright 2/18/2020 3:15:53 AM Post Reply
President Trump fired back Monday after former President Barack Obama, in a subtle swipe at the commander in chief, claimed credit for the economic gains in both their terms.Obama tweeted Monday morning to note the anniversary of his signing the 2009 economic stimulus package.“Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more than a decade of economic growth and the longest streak of job creation in American history,” Obama tweeted, alongside a photo of his signature on the bill.
Coronavirus could be knockout blow
for Hong Kong's once-thriving
tourism, retail sectors
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Posted by MainelySane 2/18/2020 2:58:51 AM Post Reply
Tom Bennell’s olive oil distribution business took a heavy beating during months of pro-democracy protests that emptied Hong Kong hotels and restaurants, his major customers. Now he fears a knockout blow as the city fights the coronavirus. The two-decade-old Olives and Oils supplies more than 20 five-star hotels, as well as clubs, delis and restaurants in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong, where retail and tourism act like balance wheels for an economy running on trade and finance.
Brawl breaks out at Bernie Sanders
rally over ‘Black Guns Matter’ shirt
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Posted by MainelySane 2/18/2020 2:30:43 AM Post Reply
A brawl broke out at a Bernie Sanders rally in Colorado on Sunday when a supporter of the Vermont senator confronted another man for wearing a T-shirt that read “Black Guns Matter,” a report said. The man sporting the shirt, who is black, told CBS Denver that he was recording the presidential hopeful. "I thought it really would be a lot more inclusive than that. It’s not a safe place to express differences.”
Denny Hamlin wins third Daytona 500;
Ryan Newman hospitalized in fiery
wreck at finish
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Posted by DVC 2/18/2020 1:25:07 AM Post Reply

Denny Hamlin emerged victorious at the Daytona 500 on Monday night, winning the iconic NASCAR race for a third time, but it was overshadowed by a string of frightening crashes -- including a fiery wreck that sent Ryan Newman to the hospital. Newman flipped several times; his car ultimately crossed the finish line engulfed in flames.    Fortunately, his injuries were not life-threatening, according to NASCAR Executive Vice President Steve O'Donnell, who read a statement from Roush Fenway Racing Monday night.

Mile hay club! Woman takes her mini service
HORSE Fred on a first class flight from Michigan
to California
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Posted by ladydawgfan 2/18/2020 12:18:58 AM Post Reply
A Michigan woman is hitting headlines for taking her miniature service horse on a series of first class flights across the country. Ronica Froese and her equine companion, Fred, flew from Grand Rapids, Michigan to Ontario, California on February 7, before taking a return flight on February 16. Froese says she paid 'an arm and a leg' for tickets with bulkhead seating so that there was ample room for she and Fred to fly in style. 'This was our first trip via an airplane. Fred has traveled several thousands of miles in my vehicle but this was the first time in the air,' Froese told WXMI on Monday.
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