Posts on Saturday, March 16, 2019
Colorado could be part of voting history next general election day, joining 11 other states looking to ensure that their electoral college votes echo the will of the American majority to elect the next president. Gov. Jared Polis signed a law Friday that would allot the state´s electoral college votes to whichever candidate won the national popular vote. The Washington Post previously reported the law´s signing. The trend comes as Americans have shown greater support in recent years for a more democratic presidential election process, without the translational risks of the electoral college. But the daunting requirement of changing
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld took aim at President Trump on Saturday, declaring his intention to win the Republican primary. The 73-year-old White House hopeful, who ran as the vice presidential nominee in 2016 for the Libertarian Party, said that he has the experience and the temperament needed to take on someone like Trump, whom he says fundamentally lacks the basic knowledge required by the office. "Before he was elected president of the United States, he was a New York City and Palm Beach socialite judging beauty contests and employed in the reality television industry. That´s no preparation, with all
I come from a long line of farmers and timber people, folks who made their living from what grew out of the ground, men who had a great and abiding respect for the soil and water – who harvested the timber with an eye on selective cutting, for leaving seed trees to replenish the woodlands, for never leaving the dead trimmings next to a standing tree to keep the bugs who attack dead wood from going into a live tree and killing it. They would let fields lie fallow every so often to give the soil a rest and let
Comic Tom Arnold told a tantalizing tale of a run-in with an LA power couple caught up in the college admissions scandal. “Couple [weeks] ago I got into it … for 10th time with #CollegeCheatingScandal DAD at big party cause his sloppy ass was rambling on again about Trump & people carrying their own weight & his own conservative politics being ‘right of Attila the Hun.’ He embarrassed Scandal Mom again,” tweeted lefty Arnold. Sources told Page Six that the “dad” in question was Mossimo Giannulli, the fashion designer husband of “Full House” star Lori Loughlin.
Why does Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) still have her position on the House Foreign Relations Committee? House Republicans stripped Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) of his committee positions after making his own controversial remarks. Omar should have met the same fate. But considering recent history, it´s not surprising that Omar remains unpunished. It´s just the latest example of their party turning a blind eye to the rise of anti-Semitism in their ranks over the years—if not embracing it at times. Perhaps the most shocking thing was Omar´s subsequent criticism of Barack Obama, calling his “hope and change” slogan a mirage. “We
When Indiana homeowner George Hollingsworth noticed some damage Tuesday to the door frame on his garage, he suspected a break-in, the Marion Police Department wrote in a statement. On Wednesday, Hollingsworth began cleaning out his cluttered garage to determine if anything had been stolen, police reported. That’s when he found the body of a suspected burglar crushed beneath a 900-pound antique floor safe that had apparently toppled onto the stranger, police wrote. “My mind couldn’t comprehend it,” Hollingsworth said, WXIN reported. “This can’t be real. It’s like some strange tale.”
The recent death toll of Christians in Nigeria has reached 120 with this week’s slaughter of more than 50 by Fulani Muslim militants in the Kaduna state of Nigeria, the Christian Post reported. The Fulani jihadists, who have become a greater threat to Nigerian Christians than the Islamist terror group Boko Haram, stormed the villages of Inkirimi, Dogonnoma, and Ungwan Gora in the Kajuru Local Government Area last Monday, destroying 143 homes, killing 52 people, and wounding dozens more.
A registered child sex offender was allowed to read to children during the Houston Public Library’s Drag Queen Storytime. In other news, the Houston Public Library — the city government, y’all — sponsors a thing called Drag Queen Storytime, where troubled men put on women’s clothes and read books to small children.(Videos)The lunatics who promote Drag Queen Storytime claim the idea is “to promote love and acceptance.” Rational and caring parents, who understand that protecting your child’s innocence, especially from things like adult sexuality, are suing the city to stop this madness.
Anti-government protesters hurled rocks and paving slabs at police, looted boutiques, smashed up a luxury restaurant on Paris’s famed Champs-Elysées and set a bank on fire on Saturday. A mother and her baby trapped on the second floor of the building, as flames surged up from the bank branch on the ground floor, were rescued by firefighters. The bank offices were gutted and 11 people were slightly injured, including two police officers. Smoke and tear gas shrouded the Champs-Elysées and at least 109 people were arrested in the worst outbreak of violence on the fringes of a “yellow vest” demonstration
Rumors of We Build the Wall’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. In fact, you can go to its GoFundMe page yourself, right now, and see that the group has collected a little over $20 million.This is despite a sustained media barrage claiming GoFundMe was going belly-up and refunding every donation — more than 300,000 — that had been sent into the wall-building effort. It’s also despite a sustained online pounding on founder Brian Kolfage’s past and character from the likes of BuzzFeed — the people largely responsible for clickbait listicles — and the Daily Beast.Brian Kolfage is the Air Force
White Democrats are invoking God far less than their predecessors, referring to religious faith as a source of division rather than unity, according to an analysis by Professor Peter Beinart of the City University of New York. A striking quality of the presidential campaign announcements by leading white, progressive candidates from the Democrat Party is the absence of any positive mention of faith, wrote Beinart, a liberal political commentator, in the Atlantic Friday. Unlike Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry, Barack Obama, and even Hillary Clinton — who all invoked God in their presidential announcement speeches — the new batch
Florida’s political partisans don’t like each other. That might seem obvious, but compared to other states we take it to the extreme. Our partisans — liberal and conservative — are among the most politically prejudiced in the country, according to polling firm PredictWise. That’s not something to be proud of. The analysis, featured in a recent article in the Atlantic magazine, ranked each county in the nation for political tolerance. An accompanying map shaded the least prejudiced counties in white. Dark green indicated most prejudice. Florida was entirely dark green, every one of our 67 counties. No other state was so biased.
Former Vice President Joe Biden had a private meeting with former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams on Thursday, prompting speculation about the implications of that conversation for each one´s potential presidential candidacy. A source close to Abrams confirmed the meeting and said that it occurred at Biden´s request, according to the Associated Press. The meeting is significant because Biden represents the moderate, establishment wing of the Democratic Party and is widely expected to be an instant frontrunner if he decides to seek the presidential nomination in 2020. Abrams, by contrast, has run as an unabashed progressive and, because
Someone fatally shot the former boyfriend of a Mississippi woman who was burned to death, and investigators are questioning a suspect. Travis Sanford, 33, was killed Friday morning at a home in Courtland, Panola County Sheriff Dennis Darby said. District Attorney John Champion confirmed that he was Jessica Chambers’ boyfriend when she was burned to death in Courtland in 2014. Sanford was incarcerated at the time and was cleared in her death, Darby said.(Snip) Chambers, 19, died in a hospital in December 2014, a day after being set on fire in the town of 500 in north Mississippi,
BELGRADE, Serbia – The white supremacist suspected in the mosque shootings that left at least 49 people dead in New Zealand had traveled to the Balkans in the past three years, where he toured historic sites and apparently studied battles between Christians and the Ottoman empire. Authorities in Bulgaria, Turkey and Croatia have confirmed that Brenton Tarrant, 28, had been to their countries in 2016-2018. Hungarian counterterrorism authorities also suggested that Tarrant had visited but revealed no other information, and local media in Bosnia reported a 2017 trip there. While the details of Tarrant´s travels are sketchy, authorities in those
The college admissions cheating scandal that was revealed this week is shaping up to have long-term ramifications for both the parents accused in the scheme and the large world of getting into college. Some of the parents who are accused of cheating to get their children into elite schools are facing civil lawsuits in addition to federal criminal charges. Meanwhile, there is talk in Congress of new laws aimed at cracking down, and the Department of Education is also reviewing the case. Several of the colleges involved have launched their own probes. The sweeping criminal investigation, which came to light earlier
Turkish authorities have released a CCTV picture of the New Zealand mosque killer after he had an extended stay in the country in 2016. Australian-born Brenton Tarrant, 28, allegedly livestreamed his sickening attack on two Christchurch mosques on Friday, leaving 49 dead. Ankara on Friday said it was investigating Tarrant´s multiple visits to Turkey, and who he might have met while he was there during an ´extended period of time in the country.´ The Bulgarian government has also said it was looking into Tarrant, who apparently visited the country late last year, as well as Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia
WASHINGTON, Iowa — Beto O’Rourke said Friday he is “not … proud” of fiction he wrote as teenager about murdering children, while acknowledging its surfacing could hurt his campaign. “Stuff I was part of as a teenager … not anything that I’m proud of today,” O’Rourke told reporters outside a meet-and-greet here. “And I mean, that’s the long and short of it.” O’Rourke’s remarks followed a report in Reuters that O’Rourke, as a young member of the computer hacking group Cult of the Dead Cow, wrote an online article about how society could work without money and, in a more
Is Income Inequality Fair?
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Some Americans have much higher income and wealth than others. Former President Barack Obama explained, "I do think at a certain point you´ve made enough money." An adviser to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has a Twitter account called "Every Billionaire Is A Policy Failure" tweeted, "My goal for this year is to get a moderator to ask ´Is it morally appropriate for anyone to be a billionaire?´" Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in calling for a wealth tax, complained, "The rich and powerful are taking so much for themselves and leaving so little for everyone else." (Video) These people
The daughter of an American imprisoned in Venezuela details the inhumane conditions that her father has endured for nearly two years. “They would not be able to survive on the less than 500 calories a day of carbs that is provided in this basement." Aliro Zambrano´s daughter, Alexandra Forseth, told “Trish Regan Primetime.” “We had to get doctor´s orders to give them food.” Zambrano, a former executive of Citgo Petroleum, has been detained in a Venezuelan prison without due process along with four other American citizens and one U.S. green card holder.
Rep. Jim Jordan: I Don’t Know Why Democrats Don’t Want to Know How Many Citizens Are in the U.S.
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, said Thursday that he didn’t know why Democrats aren’t interested in finding out how many U.S. citizens live in the country, and he accused them of politicizing the 2020 Census. “I do not know why the Democrats don’t want to know how many citizens are in the United States of America, but for some reason, they’re focused on this question. Maybe it’s politics. It seems clear to me we are having this hearing today for that reason. The majority insists on politicizing the 2020 Census,” Jordan said in his
On a sunny day a few years ago, a handful of UC Berkeley students, who were included in a tour of San Quentin State Prison, walked through an outdoor exercise area reserved for prisoners requiring extra security. To their astonishment, they saw convicted murderer Scott Peterson, under guard, doing his workout. A Stanislaus County judge in 2004 had condemned Peterson to die by lethal injection for killing his wife and their unborn child. The tour members gawked while a robust-looking Peterson spoke briefly with the public information officer conducting the tour. Jessie Lau, a UC Berkeley undergraduate at the time
Newly released information confirms that the late Senator John McCain and his longtime associate David Kramer pushed the fake Trump – Russia dossier to the FBI and also to over a dozen left-wing journalists.In December we reported that John McCain and his associate David Kramer pushed the fake Russia dossier to the FBI and Buzzfeed News. The Daily Caller reported: A longtime associate of late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain provided a copy of the infamous Steele dossier to BuzzFeed News, according to an explosive court filing released Wednesday. David Kramer, a former State Department official who was an executive
Artist Mona Shafer Edwards gave the world a sneak peek of what was really happening behind closed doors in the courtroom. Edwards’ colorful sketches of actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman facing the judge for their alleged involvement in a massive college admissions scandal quickly spread throughout social media. (Snip)the freelancer was determined to portray the players in the high-profile scheme accurately. One of her illustrations showed a weary-looking Huffman, 56, who was awoken Tuesday by seven FBI agents, with guns drawn, at the family home she shares with William H. Macy and taken into custody.
To anyone but Stanford- and Oxford-educated Chelsea Clinton, it ought to be a no-brainer to tell defenders of anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar to go (k)iss up a rope. These jackasses decided that Chelsea Clinton´s statements decrying the massacre at two mosques in New Zealand, by some self-described fascist freak, were hypocrisy, all because Clinton criticized Omar for her multiple Jew-hating tweets and statements. The statements against what came out of Omar´s mouth, see, were what actually triggered the killings. Nine thousand miles away, Chelsea Clinton´s criticisms were the very thing that activated Brenton
Bernie Sanders came up short in his 2016 bid for the Democratic nomination, but his robust support and enthusiasm surrounding his candidacy surprised many. Will he be able to regain that momentum and build on that support this time around? Sanders faces a far different political landscape in 2020 than he did in 2016 -- it´s a more competitive field that may exceed a dozen candidates, a far cry from 2016, when his only other competitors for the Democratic nomination were Hillary Clinton and Martin O´Malley. Here´s a look at which types of Democratic primary voters went strong for
Christchurch Killer: Nation with Closest ‘Values to My Own Is the People’s Republic of China’
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The man allegedly responsible for the mass shooting at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, wrote in his manifesto that the modern political system he most admired was that of communist China. In a detailed question and answer style manifesto written before the attack that killed 49 people and left dozens of others injured, alleged perpetrator Brenton Tarrant outlined his belief that the white race would eventually disappear as a result of mass immigration from primarily Islamic nations. While rejecting certain labels including Neo-Nazism, xenophobia, and even Islamaphobia, he does describe himself an ethno-nationalist, a racist, and a fascist,
Students at New York University (NYU) berated former first daughter Chelsea Clinton on Friday night for putting “words out into the world” that “stoked Islamophobia,” which, in the students’ opinion, caused a terror attack in New Zealand that left 49 people dead. The students had reportedly scrutinized Clinton for condemning antisemitism perpetuated by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). A group of students confronted Chelsea Clinton on Friday night at NYU where they accused the former first daughter of stoking “Islamophobia” and facilitating, with her words, the recent terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand,
An anti-immigration lawmaker in Australia who has been criticized for blaming Muslim immigration for Friday’s New Zealand shootings struck a teenager who smashed an egg on his head in Melbourne on Saturday. In video footage on the Facebook page of the senator, Fraser Anning, the teenager can be seen approaching him as he speaks to reporters in a southeastern suburb of Melbourne. The teenager raises a mobile phone in one hand and smashes the egg on the back of Mr. Anning’s head with the other. In response, Mr. Anning turns and swiftly strikes the young man in the face twice.
(Video)HOUSTON, Texas -- Houston Public Library is apologizing after a man charged for sexually assaulting a child was allowed to entertain children at Drag Queen storytime. The library said Friday that a review revealed the volunteer never completed a background check before he was allowed to participate in the program. Albert Alfonso Garza, 32, was last seen reading to children at the Montrose Library in September 2018. ABC13 Eyewitness News has learned Garza was charged with child sex assault in 2008. According to records, his victim was a child under the age of 14 years old.
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton advised an undergraduate class at his alma mater, Stanford, on Wednesday to delete Facebook, BuzzFeed News reports. Acton, who sold his company to Facebook for $19 billion, criticized Mark Zuckerberg of abusing users´ privacy by allowing ads on Facebook. This isn´t the first time Acton has called on people to disengage from Facebook. Last year, he showed support on Twitter for a #DeleteFacebook social media campaign triggered by the data privacy scandal started when news broke Cambridge Analytica, the political marketing firm linked to the Trump campaign, had inappropriately obtained the private information of 87 million
The United States will revoke or deny visas to International Criminal Court personnel seeking to investigate alleged war crimes and other abuses committed by U.S. forces in Afghanistan or elsewhere, and may do the same with those who seek action against Israel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday. Pompeo, acting on a threat delivered in September by U.S. national security adviser John Bolton, framed the action as necessary to prevent the international body from infringing on U.S. sovereignty by prosecuting American forces or allies for torture or other war crimes.
Former secretary of housing and urban development Julian Castro appeared to inadvertently endorse President Donald Trump´s policy toward economic development in Central America while attempting to explain the contrast between himself and the president on immigration. (Snip)Castro attempted to point out "how much a failure Trump has been on immigration." But instead of creating a contrast with the president, Castro´s remarks appeared to offer an endorsement of the Trump administration´s recent initiative addressing the root cause of Central American migration.
Presidential hopeful Robert O´Rourke said Thursday that if elected, he would suspend capital punishment on the federal level. O´Rourke´s announcement of his views on the death penalty came just hours after he first announced his bid for the White House, Fox News reported. En route to another appearance, O´Rourke called in to Radio Iowa, where he was asked about California Gov. Gavin Newsom´s (D.) recent decision to issue a moratorium on the death penalty in his own state. "As president, would you suspend capital punishment at the federal level?"
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) referred to illegal immigrants as her "constituents" during a Thursday House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing. Ocasio-Cortez was questioning Wilbur Ross, President Donald Trump´s secretary of commerce, when she made the statement. She began by referencing remarks Republican Kris Kobach made while he was Kansas secretary of state. Kobach encouraged Trump early on in his administration to add a 2020 consensus question about citizenship. "Kobach said, ‘I raised the issue with the president shortly after he was inaugurated´ and ‘he was absolutely interested in this,´" Ocasio-Cortez said.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — Beto O’Rourke said Friday that America’s capitalist economy is “racist,” while he praised a proposal to give infants so-called baby bonds to address systemic inequalities. Responding to a question at a meet-and-greet in Iowa about whether he is a socialist, O’Rourke reiterated that “I consider myself a capitalist” and said capitalism is necessary to meet myriad “historic challenges” facing the country. (Snip) On Friday, O’Rourke lamented “the disparity in wealth accumulation between white America and black America” and spoke favorably about a proposal to give infants a “baby bond” of hundreds of thousands of dollars
America today is an enormously divided nation, both politically and culturally. We should hope this situation soon will change in a manner that, among other things, embodies and puts into practice the very special words of the “American’s Creed.” In order for this to happen, many currently serving politicians—at all levels of government—will first need to learn what the “American’s Creed” says and then learn to use its words as guidance for actions and decisions. Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the “American’s Creed” by the U.S. House of Representatives. In April 1918, Congress accepted
Not long ago, to support Great Britain’s departure from the European Union remained the hoppy heady preserve of the corduroyed English fruitcake. Only the niche, and utterly mental clung to such opinions. Those trifling oddities, blimpish and better suited to reliving colonial exploits in faraway lands, were not of polite society. To be a Euroskeptic invited the label of weirdo, or, if they liked you—“eccentric.” That argument was settled. Britain, and indeed the world, owed and pinned its future not to outdated concepts such as nationhood, borders, or common culture—oddities, pined for by oddities. To be British was embarrassing,
Veni, vidi, veto
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No one trolls like he trolls. Not only is he going to veto their stupid resolution, he´s going to sell the t-shirt. I love it.(Snip) — Julie Ponzi (@JuliePonzi) March 15, 2019 President Donald John Trump issued his first veto, which is unlikely to be overridden because the truth is, Congress likes playing wall politics. As long as the wall is unbuilt, it is a possibility that people in the multi-billion-dollar illegal alien business want to stop. They send millions to congressmen as campaign donations. Once the wall is up, donations will fall.
The Perfect Democrat nominee
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Democrats have as many presidential candidates running in 2020 as there blackbirds baked in a pie. Each has qualities that would make the perfect candidate for the party. They need someone with the White House experience of Joe Biden. Someone with the youthfulness of Bernie Sanders. Someone with the intelligence of Cory Booker. Someone with 1/1,024th of the authenticity of Elizabeth Warren. Someone who treats her staff as well as Amy Klobuchar does. Someone who made it on her own, as independent of any man as Kamala Harris is.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said he supports a lawsuit against Nobles County and Sheriff Kent Wilkening. The Minnesota American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing over the county´s immigration policy. KSTP previously provided this in-depth report last year. The ACLU´s lawsuit accuses the county of unlawfully detaining people suspected of violating immigration law for immigration and customs enforcement.
Playing for Time
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The attack on the mosques, like Anders Brevik´s murderous rampage in idyllic Norway happened in New Zealand, ironically rated in 2017 the safest country in the world after Iceland. It´s a sad reminder that no place is exempt from ethnic conflict. Et in Arcadia ego sum, whether Arcadia is Africa, Burma or Western China. Wherever populations mix under pressure there´s the potential for volatility. As a New York Times article reminded its readers in a 2014 article the Rwandan Massacre had its roots in the population policies of European governments. In 1884, 130
The top strategist for Sen. Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign is working for a likely Republican challenger to President Donald Trump. Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld told The Associated Press on Friday that Stuart Stevens is his general consultant as he explores a primary bid against Trump. Stevens joins former New Hampshire GOP chairwoman Jennifer Horn, who is working as an adviser to Weld’s possible campaign.
Migrant Families Can No Longer Wait Inside Greyhound Bus Stations Without Tickets Due to New Policy
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Greyhound Lines Inc. is no longer allowing U.S. authorities to drop off immigrant families inside bus stations, forcing those who have been released from custody to wait outside until they have a ticket. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed to The Associated Press on Friday that it had been asked to drop off migrants outside facilities instead of busing them in. ICE for years has dropped off migrants at Greyhound stations, largely in Phoenix, after releasing them pending court hearings to decide whether they can stay in the country.
President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday during an Oval Office ceremony with mothers whose children were killed by illegal immigrants. The ´angel moms´ were present in the Rose Garden when Trump declared that a national emergency existed on America´s southern border; they returned to the Oval Office to see him formally reject an attempt by Congress to overturn it. ´Today I am vetoing this resolution,´ he said. ´Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution and I have the duty to veto it. And I´m very proud to veto it.´ Within an hour, House
Beto O´Rourke said Friday night that he had been wrong for joking at several events in his first two days campaigning in Iowa that his wife has been raising their three children "sometimes with my help."The former congressman from Texas, who launched his bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, addressed the remarks during a recording of the podcast Political Party LIVE! in Cedar Rapids. The comments triggered complaints from Democratic operatives and activists, many of them women, that female candidates could never similarly joke about their roles raising their children.
In a universe of parallel political parties RNC Jeb Bush is mirror image of DNC Beto O’Rourke. “I think someone should run. Just because Republicans ought to be given a choice,” said Bush, who also served as the governor of Florida, in an interview with David Axelrod that will air Saturday on “The Axe Files.” He added that beating Trump in 2020 will be difficult for anyone because “he has a strong, loyal base” and “it’s hard to beat a sitting president.” (more) (Video)
Former British spy Christopher Steele confessed that he used an unverified report submitted to a CNN website, where “random individuals” can post information, for his salacious anti-Trump dossier. Steele made the awkward revelation during a deposition last year in a case involving Russian entrepreneur Aleksej Gubarev, who claims his companies Webzilla and XBT Holdings were defamed by Steele after the dossier was published by BuzzFeed. Steele was asked during the deposition how he verified allegations about Gubarev´s companies and whether he found “anything of relevance concerning Webzilla,” according to the newly released transcripts of the deposition. “We did. It was
It didn’t take long for some mainstream media members and Democrats to blame President Donald Trump for the horrific massacre on Friday that targeted Muslims in mosques — leaving at least 49 people dead and at least 48 others wounded. At least one gunman targeted, shot and killed Muslim worshippers in two mosques.A 28-year-old Australian who claimed responsibility for the terror attacks in New Zealand is in custody. He also live-streamed the brutal massacre. The suspect issued an 87-page manifesto outlining his radicalization and hatred for Muslims and immigrant minorities.Witness Carl Pomare told Radio New Zealand he saw hundreds of
Why Beto is a Beta
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Beto O’Rourke is about to launch a presidential campaign off the back of a failed Senate bid. He’s not the first to do so – Abraham Lincoln famously followed exactly that path to the White House. But nobody else is Lincoln, and Beto is hardly anyone at all: as a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination, he’s the ‘not’ candidate. (Snip)His path to the White House, if he has one at all, leads through the graveyard: if Beto does well enough to merit a place on the ticket as running mate to almost-octogenarians Joe Biden (who turns 77 this year)
These arrogant, smug, rich pampered pukes in the middle of the college admissions scandal — they’re even more obnoxious than you think. I read the entire 204-page affidavit the FBI filed in support of the criminal complaint, and it’s like being locked in a windowless room with 12 or 15 of the Democrat candidates for president. They ooze smarminess, entitlement and sanctimony, and as stupid as they are, they are absolutely positive that they are the smartest, most woke people in the room. Let’s go straight to the affidavit. Meet Agustin Huneeus Jr. of San Francisco.
Kamala Harris Says She Would Not Execute Someone for Committing Treason Against the United States
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In an interview broadcast yesterday by National Public Radio, Sen. Kamala Harris (D.-Calif.) said that she would not impose the death penalty on someone who committed treason against the United States. Harris takes the position that the death penalty should never be used as punishment for any crime. In the interview, which aired on NPR’s Morning Edition, Steve Inskeep had the following exchange with Harris: (Video) Inskeep: California’s current governor, Gavin Newsom, has this week, as I am sure you know, announced a moratorium on the death penalty in California. Is there a federal equivalent that you would do? Federal
Former British spy Christopher Steele admitted that he relied on an unverified report on a CNN website for part of the "Trump dossier," which was used as a basis for the FBI´s investigation into Trump. According to deposition transcripts released this week, Steele said last year he used a 2009 report he found on CNN´s iReport website and said he wasn´t aware that submissions to that site are posted by members of the public and are not checked for accuracy. A web archive from July 29, 2009 shows that CNN described the site in this manner:
The US is suing Volkswagen, accusing the German carmaker of "massive fraud" over the diesel emissions scandal. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claims the firm misled investors by issuing billions of dollars worth of bonds and securities, without disclosing that it had cheated emissions tests. Volkswagen´s former chief executive Martin Winterkorn is also being sued. The company said it would contest the SEC lawsuit vigorously. VW first admitted in September 2015 that it had used illegal software
When Democrats lost to a non-politician in 2016, they could not swallow the failure and began to degrade their opponent´s victory (by manufacturing "Russia collusion"), insult people who voted for the winner (calling them racist), and assassinate the character of the winner (calling him a dictator). To make the case for the third act, they invented a story that Donald Trump likes dictators and wants to be one and will not leave office if not elected in 2020. But his actions show the opposite. Trump does not want to be a king or a dictator, while his predecessors behaved as
For fair-minded observers, this has been a bad week for the credibility of the two most aggressive (and punitive) “watchdogs” of the right — Media Matters and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Thanks to Peter Hasson at the Daily Caller News Foundation, we discovered the stunning hypocrisy of Media Matters president Angelo Carusone. The man who helms an organization that combs through the past of every conservative public figure looking for evidence of hate and bigotry has his own history of hateful posts. And now the SPLC faces its own internal challenge. Yesterday, the SPLC fired
Long-time actor and director Rob Reiner is one of many Hollywood celebrities to have frequently expressed disdain for President Donald Trump, particularly when it comes to his border policies. However, Reiner’s stated opposition to Trump’s border policies hasn’t stopped the “All in the Family” star from implementing a barrier to protect his own home. So reporters from The Daily Caller paid a visit to Los Angeles to check out Reiner’s massive wall. Check out Reiner’s wall that protects his Los Angeles home in the video above, and see how Hollywood elites protect their homes.
The written word cannot express the true extent of the tragedy that occurred in Christchurch, New Zealand (snip) In fact, conservatism had nothing to do with this. We need to understand exactly how people like this shooter think, and how the media is doing that admirable goal a disservice. How do we know that the shooter isn’t a conservative? For starters, he explicitly says that he detests conservatism twice, once in the “Q&A” and again in his more ideological section, where he devotes a whole page to it
Our Bankrupt Elite
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Every element of the college admissions scandal, aka "Operation Varsity Blues," is fascinating. There are the players: the Yale dad who, implicated in a securities fraud case, tipped the feds off to the caper; a shady high school counselor turned admissions consultant; the 36-year-old Harvard grad who sold his talents for standardized testing to the highest bidder; the comely actresses from Full House and Desperate Housewives; the fashion designer; the casino magnate. Who would have thought that one of the major headlines of 2019 would be "Lori Loughlin released on bond"? There are the children: the social media influencer
Beto O´Rourke´s announcement he´s running for president may have captured the hearts and minds of many Democrats who believe he can beat President Trump in 2020, but as far as TV´s Dr. Drew Pinsky is concerned, "something´s not right" with the former congressman. "I thought that was Tony Robbins," Pinsky, a board-certified internist and addiction medicine specialist, said on the "Brian Kilmeade Show" in response to audio of O´Rourke´s presidential announcement video. "I´m just saying, there´s something gonna go down there. I can feel it coming. I don´t know what it is... There´s something not right," Pinsky said.
Here’s the signal question facing the Democrats in Washington: Does the Superstar Leftist Trio in Congress — Alexandria and the Supremes — truly represent the views of the party’s voters as 2020 approaches? If they do, then the decision to capitulate last week to Rep. Ilhan Omar and back away from censuring her anti-Semitism was the right call politically, even if it was morally despicable. Clearly, enough Democratic members of the House believe the trio —
A Dominican National in the US illegally has been charged with assault for biting off the tip of a veteran ICE officer’s finger, according to newly unsealed court papers and law enforcement sources. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were attempting to take Cristopher Santos Felix into custody on March 3 when he chomped down on the unnamed officer’s left ring finger, a source told The Post. Santos Felix entered the country in June 2015 on a visitors visa, sources said, and then overstayed it and never left.