Posts on Tuesday, March 12, 2019
A two-month old interview with Felicity Huffman’s husband William H. Macy talking about the “stressful” process of college applications resurfaced on Tuesday following Huffman’s alleged involvement in a massive college admissions cheating scandal. “My daughters are extraordinary women,” Macy, 68, told Parade magazine. “They’re really a joy. They’re both thriving. They’ve got a life ahead of them, but you can exhale a little bit. They’re 16 and 18 years old, and they’re good people. (Snip)She’s going to go to college,” he said. “We’re right now in the thick of college application time, which is so stressful.
Elements of the Baja California State Preventive Police (PEP) and the Mexican Army (SEDENA) seized a weapons cache consisting of rifles and nine grenades during an operation in Tijuana on Sunday. The effort resulted in the arrest of one individual for illegal weapons possession and other charges. The operation took place in colonia Terrazas de la Presa when security elements contacted a male identified as Edgardo N. Romero, 41, in a parked vehicle, according to local reports. A search led to the discovery of nine rifles, two grenade launchers, three 40 mm grenades, six fragmentation grenades, spare rifle magazines
A Malaysia-bound plane made a U-turn for a frantic passenger who realized that she forgot her baby back at the airport in Saudi Arabia, according to reports. The pilot of Saudi Arabian Airlines Flight SV832 made the rare request to air traffic controllers shortly after takeoff, when the passenger told crew members that she had left her child at the terminal in Jeddah, Gulf News reported. “May God be with us. Can we come back [to King Abdulaziz International Airport]?” the pilot can be heard asking air traffic controllers, according to an online video, the news outlet reported.
Well, well, well; he did it again. Representative Doug Collins has released the transcript of testimony from former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page. The transcript is from two days of congressional testimony July 13th and July 16th, 2018. Each day is a separate Transcript.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, defended her colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar from backlash within their own party regarding the Minnesota representative´s controversial remarks deemed by some to be anti-Semitic. Omar suggested on Twitter that pro-Israel politicians are bought by groups like AIPAC and that those who support Israel have an "allegiance to a foreign country." Her remarks sparked much condemnation, including several of her Democratic colleagues.(Tweet) In a preview clip of an interview on Showtime’s "The Circus," Tlaib suggested that "Islamophobia" within their party could be behind the swift condemnation for the comments. "You know, I´m trying to figure
CARACAS - As Venezuela’s five-day power blackout left homes without water, Lilibeth Tejedor found herself looking for it on Monday in the last place she would have imagined - a drain pipe feeding into a river carrying sewage through the capital, Caracas. Tejedor, 28, joined dozens of people who had flocked to the Guaire river, which snakes along the bottom of a sharp ravine alongside Caracas’ main highway, to fill up a four-gallon (15 liter) plastic container. Unlike the fetid liquid flowing through the Guaire river, the water emerging from the pipe was at least clear. Those who
Actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin are among dozens of parents, elite college coaches and college prep executives accused of carrying out a national conspiracy to get students into prestigious colleges, according to a massive federal indictment. Federal prosecutors said the scheme had two major pieces. In the first part, parents allegedly paid a college prep organization to take the test on behalf of students or correct their answers. Secondly, the organization allegedly bribed college coaches to help admit the students into college as recruited athletes, regardless of their actual ability, prosecutors said.
It was a big weekend for one fisherman at Lake Corpus Christi. Early Saturday morning, Robert Reynosa, from San Antonio, caught a 19 lb. 7 oz yellow catfish at the lake. He said it took him about 8 minutes to reel it in. Reynosa said he was preparing to release it back in the water but another fisherman asked to keep it. So, that he could eat it. So, Reynosa gave the large catch to him. (Photo) Reynosa is originally from Beeville. He said he loves fishing at Lake Corpus Christi and tries to visit the state park as often
New York senator who backed abortion law disinvited from Catholic group’s St. Patrick’s parade
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A New York chapter of an Irish-American Catholic group is now tussling with one of the state’s newly elected Democratic senators over his affirmative vote on an abortion law that has drawn the ire of faith leaders. The Ancient Order of Hibernians JFK Division IV – based in Huntington – recently wrote to State Sen. James Gaughran to inform him that he was no longer invited to their festivities honoring St. Patrick’s Day, over his support of the law.
A Utah teacher who forced her student to wash off the Ash Wednesday cross last week said she thought the Catholic marking was “dirt on his forehead” and claimed she didn’t know it was a religious symbol. Moana Patterson, a fourth-grade teacher at Valley View Elementary in Bountiful, apologized Monday for the incident last week, and explained why she had her student, 9-year-old William McLeod, wipe the ashes off his forehead, FOX13 reported. Patterson was placed on administrative leave as Davis School District officials investigate the incident.
ICE officers who endorsed President Trump in 2016 now say he has failed to follow through on his get-tough promises, saying catch-and-release of immigrants living illegally in the U.S. is not only still happening, but has gone into “overdrive.” Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers say they’re being roped into such mundane tasks as opening the doors on vans to release immigrants already caught by Border Patrol agents. That’s dragging the officers from their usual duties of nabbing fugitives, or scouring local prisons and jails for immigrant criminals who lived illegally in the U.S. ready to be deported.
House Democrats aren’t giving up on attempting to impeach President Trump, even though Speaker Nancy Pelosi all but dismissed it in an interview published Monday. “I happen to disagree with that take,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., told the Washington Examiner Monday night, responding to the Pelosi interview. “But you know, she’s the speaker. … I think we’ll see.” Pelosi told the Washington Post she doesn’t support the House trying to impeach Trump. “He’s just not worth it,” the California Democrat said in the interview. Pelosi’s comments contradict the views of many House Democrats who are eager
On a February morning in 2005 in a hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Joe Biden confronted Elizabeth Warren over a subject they’d been feuding over for years: the country’s bankruptcy laws. Biden, then a senator from Delaware, was one of the strongest backers of a bill meant to address the skyrocketing rate at which Americans were filing for bankruptcy. Warren, at the time a Harvard law professor, had been fighting to kill the same legislation for seven years. She had castigated Biden, accusing him of trying “to sell out women” by pushing for earlier versions
Jeb!´s super-PAC got a little too globalist, accepting 1.3 million from Chinese-owned company
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The Federal Election Commission has imposed almost a million dollars in fines on the super-PAC founded by Jeb! Bush in early 2015 and its Chinese donors of $1.3 million. In other words, "foreign interference in our presidential election." The move represents a blow to the NeverTrump faction of the GOP, for the super-PAC caught being too globalist is headed by NeverTrump Mike Murphy, and the Bush family has been signaling its opposition to President Trump and comfort with Democrats like Bill Clinton, whom the late George H.W. Bush reportedly looked upon "like a son."
Joe Biden is mulling a run for the White House. Beto O´Rourke is also mulling one, and maybe mulling as well why he initially said he wouldn´t run. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is for some reason also mulling a presidential run, and so is Stacey Abrams, who was apparently on some sort of mulling binge -- governor of Georgia, senator from that state or president of the United States. On Monday she postponed her presidential decision until 2028, but then, apparently mulling some more, she later tweeted, "Now 2020 is definitely on the table." This is
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan is offering President Trump unsolicited advice for 2020: Don’t make the race about yourself. “The person who defines that race is going to win the race. If this is about Donald Trump and his personality, he isn’t going to win it,” Ryan said Monday during a speech in Vero Beach, Fla. Ryan said there are some Democrats he believes can beat Trump in the 2020 presidential election, though he did not say who those Democrats are, according to the TCPalm. The Wisconsin Republican retired from Congress in 2018. He had a contentious relationship with Trump
In the past, lefties have flocked to political pilgrimages to newly created socialist countries to drink in the collectivism and praise the new regimes. It happened in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade sugar cane-cutting harvest, it happened in Nicaragua with the Sandalistas (ain´t that right, Bill de Blasio), and it certainly happened in Venezuela during the salad days of socialist Hugo Chavez (until socialized Cuban Castrocare actually killed him in 2013). Oliver Stone, Sean Penn, Naomi Campbell, and Dial Joe-4-Oil Kennedy were all in, and don´t think they weren´t loud about it. Well, now a new invitation has been issued
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says he believes there are some Democrats who could defeat President Donald Trump in next year´s election. “The person who defines that race is going to win the race. If this is about Donald Trump and his personality, he isn’t going to win it,” Ryan said Monday night during a speech in Vero Beach, Florida. The speech was one of Ryan´s first public appearances since retiring from Congress
They did not listen to voters who overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment in 2016 to legalize medical marijuana. They did not listen to a judge in 2018 who ruled their ban on smokable medical marijuana is unconstitutional. But state lawmakers did listen to Gov. Ron DeSantis, and this week the Florida Legislature finally is poised to pass legislation that would allow smokable medical marijuana. It’s about time. The House should send to the governor this week legislation passed with bipartisan support by the Senate last week that would legalize smokable medical marijuana. Lawmakers really have no choice, because DeSantis gave
The Senate, last December, voted unanimously to pass the Justice for the Victims of Lynching Act of 2018. That bill fails to cite even a single example of lynching since 1968 as reason for its enactment, and it is little more than a bit of political subterfuge meant to redefine the historical definition of lynching to include instance there two or more people seek to inflict “bodily harm” against a victim based upon the race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identification of the victim, thereby giving the government power to prosecute any future acts of “lynching” that happen to fit
AG William Barr Meets AG Advisory Committee, Chairman Richard Moore and Vice-Chair John Huber…
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The U.S. Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC) was created in 1973 and reports to the Attorney General through the Deputy Attorney General. The AGAC represents the U.S. Attorneys and provides advice and counsel to the Attorney General on matters of policy, procedure, and management impacting the Offices of the U.S. Attorneys. The purpose of the AGAC is to ensure consistent interpretation and application of the Attorney General’s priority throughout the broad U.S. justice system. [28 CFR § 0.10] As much as possible pay attention to the dates and names (highlighted) as they each play an important role in understanding what
Welcome to another Bubba the Love Sponge news cycle. Like it or not, Tampa Bay’s most famous – and perhaps infamous – talk radio host has been towed again into the national news conversation, this time after comments Fox News host Tucker Carlson made on Bubba’s show years ago went viral Sunday. Media Matters for America released a nearly four-minute audio reel in which Carlson refers to women as “extremely primitive” and uses other sexist language. In another clip, Carlson discusses Warren Jeffs, then on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list for arranging marriages with underage girls, in a way Media Matters
Sydney- Rupert Murdoch´s News Corp has called for Google to be broken up in Australia, the latest salvo in a battle between the corporate media giants. In a petition to Australian regulators, News Corp´s local subsidiary complained that "Google enjoys overwhelming market power in both online search and ad tech services." Going a step further, the company accused Google of "abusing its dominant position to the detriment of consumers, advertisers and publishers." Earlier this week US presidential hopeful -- and former federal consumer watchdog -- Elizabeth Warren became the latest in a line of commentators to argue that firms such
Because the Left knows that it loses the argument anytime the merits of its policies are discussed, it has weaponized selective outrage in order to silence the most effective voices against it. Sunday night, timed to make headlines and generate Twitter storms as the new week began, Media Matters, the Soros-funded nonprofit whose donors receive tax deductions, launched an attack intended to drive advertisers away from Tucker Carlson’s prime time show on Fox News Channel. (snip) Last night, Tucker responded in the opening segment of his show, well-worth almost 7 minutes of your time, refusing to play the outrage game
Red China helped finance Jeb
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Low Energy Jeb turned out to be Red China´s Bush Boy as well. The Sun Sentinel in Florida reported, "A Super PAC that spent more than $100 million in support of Jeb Bush’s failed 2016 presidential campaign has been hit with a massive fine by the Federal Elections Commission for soliciting more than $1 million in political contributions from Chinese nationals.”Now we know why Jeb ran for president: to protect Red Chinese interests.
The scenario sounds familiar: Democrats, facing a Republican presidential candidate widely reviled among the party’s rank-and-file, nominate a seemingly safe establishment figure to keep their hold on the White House. To the party’s shock and horror, their establishment figure loses the general election. The reviled Republican becomes president. The party’s liberal activists seethe at the loss, arguing that their party’s establishment centrists stole the nomination at their convention and then failed to produce. In reaction, they push the party to the left and, four years later, propel a decidedly liberal candidate to the nomination.
Rahm is right. The Democrats are in a leftward lurch that could ruin their chances of retaking the White House. Rahm Emanuel, now stepping down after two terms as mayor of Chicago, knows something about winning elections. He was a key White House operative for Bill Clinton and chief of staff for Barack Obama. It was Rahm, as chairman of the Democratic campaign committee, who engineered the party´s takeover of the House in 2006 — and is known for his hardball brand of politics, with all the subtlety of his frequent F-bombs.If Mayor Emanuel believes the Democrats are in danger
As anyone who has ever been caught in its gears can tell you, the great American outrage machine is a remarkable thing. One day you´re having dinner with your family, imagining everything is fine. The next, your phone is exploding with calls from reporters. They read you snippets from a press release written by Democratic Party operatives. They demand to know how you could possibly have said something so awful and offensive, and ask something like, "Do you have a statement on how immoral you are?" It´s a bewildering moment, especially when the quotes in question are more than a decade
A new study released Monday finds the most popular education topic today is social and emotional learning (SEL), which amounts to the “psychological training of children starting at a young age.” The Boston-based, privately funded Pioneer Institute published the study, “Social-Emotional Learning: K-12 Education as New-Age Nanny State,” which asserts SEL is the latest panacea in a long line of so-called progressive “education reforms” that only serves to distract from the fact that American public school children are failing academically. Authors Karen Effrem, M.D. and Jane Robbins, J.D. observe: As student scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP,
Yes, the radical Islamists and their allies, the radical Leftists, hate Jews and Americans. Bernard Lewis wrote a masterpiece about it entitled What Went Wrong?, explaining that the Middle Eastern Islamic world constitutes one vast area of failure. Unwilling or incapable of taking the blame for this epic failure, they blamed it on the West -- above all, on the United States and the Jews. Ironically, they imported these doctrines from the West they hate.
The US will withdraw all remaining State Department officials from Venezuela as a nationwide blackout and political turmoil has gripped the economically struggling nation. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a tweet late Monday night that the decision “reflects the deteriorating situation in #Venezuela as well as the conclusion that the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy.” In January, the US pulled out all “non-emergency U.S. government employees” from the country and urged U.S. citizens not to travel to the South American nation. The country has been rocked by a
In my last article I quoted a post from a Democrat, “We have the money, real estate, education and the best jobs. When we think about you we think you are a dying breed which you are thankfully.” No doubt this guy believes it because he’s so elite, which he is thankfully. Follow this link to see another elite Democrat flaunt her money, real estate, and education while doing her very best at work--she is an aide on a school bus and the little boy is wearing a MAGA hat. You can tell that she loves “The Children” as all Democrats
A recent cartoon showed President Donald Trump watching a TV screen with an immense mob marching down a road. No, says an aide, that’s not another migrant caravan. Those are Democratic candidates. [Snip] Joe Biden, who turns 78 right after the 2020 election, has the luxury of name recognition. But even for someone who dithers over decisions, Biden’s taking an unusually long time to decide. Biden recently began a vacation in the Virgin Islands, not the fire-in-the-belly ambition that typically fuels successful Oval Office quests
There seems to be an emerging conventional wisdom that the freshmen Democratic women in Congress really don’t know what they are saying, poor little things, so we shouldn’t really take their anti-Semitic statements seriously. Note to all non-Democratic men and women: Do not try this at home! But I do not think that we are giving congresswomen like Sandy O, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib enough credit. To me they are perfect products of our lefty educational system. Ask yourself: If you went to school and college in the United States today and believed everything your teachers taught you,
If Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez had grown up as I did during the Cold War in the 50´s the very last thing she would be promoting would be socialism. Granted our circumstances were very different as my family was dysfunctional, poor and we lived in the tough streets of Spanish Harlem; unlike the new Democrat congresswoman who spent most of her teen years in a more posh neighborhood. Nevertheless I benefited from a solid parochial education taught by anti-Marxist nuns.
Felons. Sixteen-year-olds. Noncitizens. Let ’em all vote. Serial killers? Slip them a ballot, too. We’re literally giving away votes. The Democratic-controlled House, driven by partisan zeal, is going to ridiculous lengths to increase its political power by opening up the right to vote to just about any living, breathing human — as long as they vote Democrat. The latest display came on a meaningless Republican resolution with a pretty simple goal — embarrass Democrats into rejecting this language: “It is the sense of Congress that allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States Citizens.”
Long Before Ilhan Omar, Politicians Could Get Away With Murder As Long As They Were Democrats
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It would do wonders for our political discourse if we treated people as individuals rather than running down a checklist of the various groups to which a person belongs before deciding how we feel about him and how we respond to his words and actions.(Snip)All my life I’ve watched with interest as the label “Democrat” has insulated individuals from reprehensible behavior. Women who claim to care about women and their struggles as a sex rallied around Clinton for years, knowingly protecting a womanizer––and, more importantly, a man credibly accused of rape––because he was a warrior
Off the Richter Scale
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Americans have long dreaded the “Big One,” a magnitude 8.0 earthquake along California’s San Andreas Fault that could one day kill thousands of people and cause billions of dollars in damage. The Big One, though, is a mere mini-me compared with the cataclysm forming beneath the Pacific Northwest. Roughly 100 miles off the West Coast, running from Mendocino, California, to Canada’s Vancouver Island, lurks the Cascadia Subduction Zone, where the Juan de Fuca Plate is sliding beneath the North American Plate, creating the conditions for a megathrust quake 30 times stronger than the worst-case scenario along the notorious San Andreas,
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left nonprofit known for its "hate group" designations, has surpassed a half billion dollars in total assets and now has $121 million parked offshore, according to the group´s most recent financial statements. The SPLC, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., has not publicly posted its most recent financial statements on its website. However, the organization applied for renewal in the state of California days ago and submitted a number of documents pertaining to its financial standing including its most recent audited statement and tax forms
More than a decade ago, when Karl Rove and other “center-right” Republican Party strategists were talking endlessly about the need for GOP “outreach” to Hispanic voters, Steve Sailer examined the same electoral data and reached quite a contrary conclusion. The weakness of Republicans — exposed by the razor-thin margins of George W. Bush’s elections in 2000 and 2004 — was not due to their lack of support among minority voters, Sailer argued, but rather that the GOP was failing to maximize its share of the white vote. Contradicting the conventional wisdom within the Republican establishment,
A federal court of appeals in New York on Monday took the first step in unsealing documents that could reveal evidence of an international sex trafficking operation allegedly run by multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his former partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell. The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit gave the parties until March 19 to establish good cause as to why they should remain sealed and, failing to do so, the summary judgment and supporting documents will be made public. The court reserved a ruling on the balance of the documents
Welcome to the Donkey Dow
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With 13 candidates so far, 11 months from the first caucus in Iowa, it’s hard enough already to keep track of the 2020 Democratic primary. That’s why Cockburn is introducing the Donkey Dow: a round-up of the movers and shakers in the race to face up against Donald Trump. Here’s how the candidates and contenders fared over the last few days.(Snip for graphic)Winners Are you part of the Yang gang yet? Outsider candidate Andrew Yang has had a barnstorming week – all thanks to the internet. The businessman and Universal Basic Income advocate has quietly reached the necessary 65,000
CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela - Venezuela´s opposition-run congress on Monday declared a "state of alarm" over a five-day power blackout that has crippled the OPEC member country´s oil exports and left millions of citizens scrambling to find food and water. Much of Venezuela remained without power on Monday, although electricity had largely returned to the capital of Caracas following an outage that began on Thursday and which President Nicolas Maduro has called an act of U.S.-backed sabotage. The outage has added to discontent in a country already suffering from hyperinflation and a political crisis
If Michael Cohen ever goes to jail, he will likely be surrounded by some familiar faces. A judge has recommended that President Trump’s former personal lawyer — sentenced to three years for tax fraud and other crimes — serve his time in the minimum-security prison at the Federal Correctional Institution Otisville, in New York state. The facility, 70 miles from Manhattan in Orange County, is home to “Jersey Shore” star Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Fyre Festival fraudster Billy McFarland and Dean Skelos, the former Republican leader of the state Senate convicted of corruption.
The Privilege of Being Beto
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As Beto O’Rourke moves closer to a presidential run, the unconventional way he’s spent the four months since losing his Senate bid (Metallica concerts! Road trips! Viral Instagrams!) is raising some concerns in the Democratic Party, as I wrote about today with my colleague Matt Flegenheimer. But there’s another, perhaps slightly less-covered piece of Mr. O’Rourke’s rollout story: Female Democratic strategists have grown increasingly frustrated as they’ve watched Mr. O’Rourke jump on his single-speed bike, read his emotional posts from his road trip and seen him slip into the premiere of a documentary about his Senate campaign.
Donald Trump has endorsed ending the twice a year clock-bending Daylight Savings Time ritual, echoing many Americans´ frustrations with Saturday night´s loss of an hour of sleep that they won´t get back until November.´Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!´ the president tweeted Monday morning. DST changes the clock-time of sunrise and sunset, an idea that dates back to ancient Rome but had its modern rebirth thanks to New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson. (Photo/Tweet) Hudson proposed the idea in 1895, telling fellow scientists that two extra hours of sunlight would give him more time in the evening
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) made dehumanizing remarks about President Donald Trump on Monday when asked about an interview she gave last week, saying that the president was not human. (Video) Fox News’ Guerin Hays asked Omar, who has been engulfed in an anti-Semitism scandal, about an interview she gave to Politico last week where she attacked former President Barack Obama and suggested that he was a murderer. Omar came out after the interview was published and claimed that Politico was lying about the interview and that she did not make those comments. Omar tweeted an audio clip of that segment
President Donald Trump told Breitbart News on Monday that he feels “very strongly” that the United States will never succumb to socialism. “I feel that—I feel it very strongly,” Trump replied when asked by Breitbart News’s Washington Political Editor Matthew Boyle about his pledge in the State of the Union address that the United States would never become a socialist country. Trump continued by explaining that many Democrats are campaigning on socialism, however, because it is “easy” to campaign on but difficult “to govern on.” “Now with that being said, you always have to be very careful, because socialism is easy