Posts on Sunday, March 17, 2019
I´ve lived through a Democratic Civil War before. In fact, I’ve been in the middle of two of them. The first was in 1968, when I was the research director for Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s presidential campaign. The second was in 1980, when I was Jimmy Carter’s policy director. Both times, I watched pressure from the party’s liberal wing tear the party apart and bring down a Democratic presidential candidate. Both times, the Republicans took the White House. Both times, liberal dreams were shattered.
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was yanked off the air on Friday night a week after she ignited controversy, and earned a rare condemnation from her network, over comments about Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar. The network aired a repeat of the documentary show "Scandalous" instead of Pirro´s "Justice with Judge Jeanine," which airs Saturdays at 9 p.m. ET. Pirro has hosted the show since 2011. "We’re not commenting on internal scheduling matters," a Fox News spokesperson told ABC News. The network would not offer further comment and it was not clear when Pirro´s show would return to the air.
Betomania is a lot like Beatlemania – except instead of teenage girls in the 1960s, journalists are now the ones swooning for their star. If the Beatles were around today to sing about media infatuation with newly announced Democratic presidential hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, their song would be titled “They love him, yeah, yeah, yeah.” O’Rourke is a skateboarding mix of rock ‘n’ roll (he was in a punk band named Foss), lefty politics, dictatorial ambition and media adoration.
MADISON, Wis. — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O´Rourke told supporters Sunday that he´s never taken LSD and there´s "nothing" he hasn´t already revealed about his past that could come back to hurt his run for office. The former Texas congressman — who has become known for his propensity for using the "f-word" — also promised again to clean up his language, despite breaking such past vows. O´Rourke grabbed much attention as he wrapped up his first week of campaigning, but his challengers could be found at events from the Upper Midwest to the South. And looming over them all
During a weekend interview presidential hopeful Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke said AR-15 sales should be banned in America. This is a continuation of the anti-Second Amendment campaign O’Rourke conducted in his failed 2018 Senate bid. For example, in February 2018 interview with CBS News O’Rourke supported banning bump stocks and made clear his belief that AR-15s ought not be sold in America. He said, “I think banning bump stocks makes a lot of sense. … I don’t know that we should raise the age for buying an AR-15 I just don’t think we should be selling AR-15s
Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Sunday that President Trump should be defending Muslims publicly after the white nationalist terror attack last week that killed roughly 50 people at two mosques. “At the very least, he is dividing people,” the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate told CNN of the president. Ms. Klobuchar’s comments come as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown said he had not spoken to Mr. Trump about the white nationalist terrorist attack, which occurred Friday and was live streamed on Facebook. “There is no need for me to specifically speak to the president,” Mr. Brown told CNN, adding Mr. Trump spoke
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Sunday President Trump and his fellow Republicans have exploited anti-Semitism for partisan gain, suggesting their comments have been detrimental to bipartisan support for Israel. The Maryland Democrat’s statement comes as Mr. Trump reportedly claimed the Democratic Party hates Jewish people, and has continuously criticized lawmakers for not quickly condemning and calling out Rep. Ilhan Omar, a freshman lawmaker who has recently come under scrutiny for anti-semitic tropes. Mr. Hoyer accused the president and GOP colleagues of sowing fear in Jewish people. “These actions should cease immediately. They are unworthy of officials
Yansnier Arias knew it was wrong. It violated the Constitution, not to mention the oath he took as a doctor in Cuba. He had been sent to Venezuela by the Cuban government, one of thousands of doctors deployed to shore up ties between the two allies and alleviate Venezuela’s collapsing medical system. But with President Nicolás Maduro’s re-election on the line, not everyone was allowed to be treated, Dr. Arias said. A 65-year-old patient with heart failure entered his clinic — and urgently needed oxygen, he said. The tanks sat in another room at the ready, he recalled.
A couple’s wedding day is typically followed by their honeymoon. But there’s a new trend where newlyweds actually spend their honeymoon away from each other. In the early days of honeymoons — early 1800s — it was a time for couples to travel and visit relatives who couldn’t make it to their wedding. So it was zero alone time, which is quite the departure from this new trend. Take the honey out of the moon and you’ve got a solomoon. On Instagram, almost 1,500 posts display the reality of this new trend, where newlyweds decide to vacation alone or with
Representative Doug Collins Explains The Reasoning and Sequencing of House Transcript Releases…
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House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the reasoning and sequencing of congressional transcript releases highlighting the FBI and DOJ officials who participated in the political weaponization of their offices. According to Representative Collins there will be more releases of congressional transcripts timed and sequenced to tell the details behind a very complex story.(Video/Photos) (IG Report Link) I hope Doug Collins is successful in his plan to lay out the factual events in a manner that people will be able to understand and comprehend. Unfortunately, I temper my optimism with knowledge of how Republicans
Pete Buttigieg - the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who is likely to become a presidential candidate - won´t wear his dress jacket, not when he appears on national television for a town hall meeting, not for photo shoots, not even at a fundraiser here in a Russian-themed bar where he´s mingling with such celebrities as comedian Billy Eichner and Olympic diver Greg Louganis. "There´s a side controversy over that question," Buttigieg said in an interview. No less a figure than David Axelrod, the top strategist for the past two winning Democratic presidential campaigns, has been privately urging the 37-year-old
Jess Hilarious — one of the stars of the Fox comedy “Rel” — took to social media on Sunday morning to defend herself against accusations of racism after she posted on social media about being “nervous” because four Muslim men were on her flight. In a since-deleted social media post, Jess posted about four Sikh men on her flight who she says were later removed from the plane. She had said the entire flight was “evacuated” and when she returned, the men were nowhere to be found.
Political leaders and public figures were falling over themselves this weekend to condemn the mosque attacks in New Zealand, while dozens of Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in Nigeria to the sound of crickets. The mosque attacks were indeed a horrific affair and worthy of universal condemnation. Presidents, prime ministers, royalty, and religious leaders rushed to extend their condolences to victims and their families — as well they should — while decrying the hate that purportedly motivated the shootings. Without exception, the mainstream media gave top billing to the shootings, with newspapers carrying the story on their front pages and
President Donald Trump lashed out at several Fox News anchors on Sunday and argued they should be working at CNN, the network he loves to deride as ´fake news.´It was an usual criticism of Fox News from the president, who is a loyal viewer and fan. ´Were @FoxNews weekend anchors, @ArthelNeville and @LelandVittert, trained by CNN prior to their ratings collapse? In any event, that´s where they should be working, along with their lowest rated anchor, Shepard Smith!,´ he wrote on twitter. (Photos/Tweet/Video) Arthel Neville and Leland Vittert anchor the cable news network on weekends. Shepard Smith anchors an afternoon
President Trump called on Fox News to bring back host Jeanine Pirro after her show didn´t air Saturday evening, one week after she questioned whether Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Islamic faith is in opposition to the Constitution. In a trio of tweets Sunday morning, the president called on his favorite cable news network to not allow the "radical" Left silence on of his most prominent advocates. "Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro. The Radical Left Democrats, working closely with their beloved partner, the Fake News Media, is using every trick in the book to SILENCE a majority of our Country.
The Republican National Committee mocked "noted Irishman" 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke with a St. Patrick’s Day "special message." In a tweet, the GOP linked the 46-year-old´s 1998 drunken driving arrest to his Irish heritage. “On this St. Paddy´s Day, a special message from noted Irishman Robert Francis O´Rourke,” the post said, which featured his mugshot with a leprechaun hat atop his head, along with the message “Please drink responsibly.” (Tweets) The swipe at O´Rourke came days after O´Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso who challenged incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, last year, announced his candidacy for president, and
Right on! It’s obvious to any FOX News fan that the weekend hosts are intolerant and anti-Trump leftists.A typical weekend is loaded with hit after hit on President Donald Trump. On Sunday they discussed Trump’s tweets and the New Zealand mosque killer. As reported earlier the New Zealand mosque killer had exactly ONE MENTION of President Trump in his entire 74 page manifesto where he berated Trump’s leadership. Despite this the liberal media and weekend FOX hosts tie this killer to President Trump without any reference to support their claims. On Sunday President Trump slammed the FOX News weekend hosts
Want to see how the illegal immigrant ´conveyor belt´ works? Here in San Diego, a demonstration of it in action was posted by the San Diego office of the U.S. Border Patrol on Twitter, which was then all over the local news, and then picked up by the Daily Mail. Some 50-plus illegal immigrants traveling in family units slipped through one of the openings in the junk fences delineating the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego, and then, in two groups, ran in procession to the U.S. Border Patrol vehicle waiting for them on the beach at Imperial Beach to promptly claim asylum.
Jimmy Fallon debuted his Beto O’Rourke impression on Thursday’s “Tonight Show,” when he probably had to pound Red Bulls to keep his energy up that high. Chill with the hands, dude. In announcing his 2020 Democratic candidacy for president of the United States of America, Fallon’s Beto described himself as being “sort of like if a compassionate head-nod turned into a person,” and “if your friend’s hot dad had the energy of a golden retriever.”The whole time his hands were going crazy. God bless “Beto’s” wife, who pretty much hung on to her hubby’s arm for dear life throughout the
An attempted robbery at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas ended in a gunfight between police and the suspect late Friday. An armed man walked into the casino and approached a popular poker cage, where he demanded money, before quickly fleeing out the north entrance, Las Vegas police said in an overnight press conference. The suspect attempted to carjack someone at the valet but was confronted immediately by four uniformed officers. The man turned and fired at least one shot in the direction of an officer who was struck in the chest, police said. Kevin McMahill, an
Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, explained in an interview Sunday with CBS´s "Face the Nation" why he thinks his old office might be a bigger threat to President Donald Trump than special counsel Robert Mueller is. Promoting his new book, "Doing Justice," Bharara sad that Manhattan federal prosecutors are unencumbered by the restraints put on Mueller, saying the office "doesn´t have the same circumscription on its ambit that the special counsel does." "The special counsel was appointed under a particular regulation and was supposed to look at only things relating
Sunday Talks: Senator Ron Johnson Discusses National Emergency Declaration at Southern Border…
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Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (U-DC) was one of the Tea Party backed senators who came in during the 2010 election and later aligned with the UniParty Decepticon caucus funded by the Chamber of Commerce and Tom Donohue. Senator Johnson wants to reform the National Emergencies Act to remove executive branch power and avoid the pesky problem when a President subverts the will of Wall Street and those who actually write legislation, The U.S. CoC and Business Roundtable. (Video)
Ferguson, Mo. - Two young men were found dead inside torched cars. Three others died of apparent suicides. Another collapsed on a bus, his death ruled an overdose. Six deaths, all involving men with connections to protests in Ferguson, Missouri, drew attention on social media and speculation in the activist community that something sinister was at play. Police say there is no evidence the deaths have anything to do with the protests stemming from a white police officer´s fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, and that only two were homicides with no known link to the protests.
St. Patrick sparked a fire
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The holy patron of our archdiocese was a contemporary of St. Augustine. While Augustine of north Africa became one of the greatest Doctors of the church, Patrick of Roman Britain humbly called himself uneducated, even though he was schooled in France by St. Germaine of Auxerre and possibly St. Martin of Tours, and was given books by Pope St. Celestine I.
Large parts of Nebraska and the U.S. Central Plains were underwater on Saturday after a late-winter “bomb cyclone” storm triggered historic flooding along the Missouri and Platte rivers, causing two deaths, tearing apart homes and swallowing roadways. The National Weather Service predicted dangerous flooding would continue through the weekend in Nebraska and in south and west central Iowa, particularly along the Missouri River. “We’re still in a very widely dispersed and intense flooding situation in the eastern third of Nebraska,” said Mike Wight, a spokesman for the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency, in a phone interview.
I´ve lived through a Democratic Civil War before. In fact, I’ve been in the middle of two of them. The first was in 1968, when I was the research director for Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s presidential campaign. The second was in 1980, when I was Jimmy Carter’s policy director. Both times, I watched pressure from the party’s liberal wing tear the party apart and bring down a Democratic presidential candidate. Both times, the Republicans took the White House. Both times, liberal dreams were shattered. Today, I fear it could all be happening again. As President Donald Trump moved
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke acknowledged he has benefitted from being a white man, therefore he wants to make ensuring opportunity for all a “big part” of his campaign. O’Rourke said, “I would never begin by saying I’m at any disadvantage at all.” He continued, “As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I’ve clearly had advantages over the course of my life. I think recognizing that and understanding that others have not, doing everything I can to ensure that there is opportunity and
Corned beef is a St. Patrick’s Day meal staple in the U.S., but how did this holiday tradition begin? Irish immigrants began eating the salty beef dish while celebrating their nationality on St. Patrick’s Day in the 1800s, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Beef was a luxury their ancestors in Ireland were likely unable to afford — Irish farmers exported beef to England but ate pork, which was cheaper, in their own homes.HERE’S WHAT YOU’RE MISSING …For most of us in the U.S., corned beef & cabbage is synonymous with St. Patrick’s Day. But its association with the
Following the controversy over her remarks about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), the Fox News Channel has abruptly canceled Saturday night’s scheduled airing of the Justice with Judge Jeanine Pirro show that regularly airs at 9 p.m. on Saturday, according to a report by Variety. The sudden cancellation came a day after a terror attack on two New Zealand mosques by a white eco-nationalist killed 50 Muslims and wounded dozens more. On Sunday morning President Trump weighed in on the controversy and urge FOX News to bring back Judge Jeanine. President Trump: Bring back @JudgeJeanine Pirro. The Radical Left Democrats,
Five MS-13 members stabbed a 16-year-old fellow gangbanger 100 times because he wanted out of his crew — and then drove his corpse to Virginia, where they torched it, the victim’s mother said. Maryland cops identified the victim, Jacson Pineda-Chicas, after releasing a photo of a tattoo on his left arm, Fox News reported. The teen’s mom told NBC4 in Washington that she and her son fled El Salvador after he was strong-armed to join MS-13 there. When her son’s sadistic gang pals accused him of talking to cops, and threatened to kill his family,
Late last night, failed Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke confirmed to El Paso’s KTSM that he’s seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. This morning, he added a video to the mix, and Twitter exploded with furry jokes and fanfare (the way politics should be?).(Snip) “Whereas Obama is from the tail end of the baby boom, Beto O’Rourke is quintessentially Generation X, weaned on Star Wars and punk rock and priding himself on authenticity over showmanship and a healthy skepticism of the mainstream.” In other words, 2020 contender Beto is getting a heavy lift from the media.
A rust-bucket sports car that belonged to a war hero who bombed Adolf Hitler´s Eagles Nest has emerged for sale for £200,000. The 1936 Bentley Vanden Plas tourer was bought by Charles Blackham seven years after the war. Mr Blackham, who had been a Lancaster bomber pilot in the RAF, happily drove the classic convertible for 36 years before his advancing years forced him to take it off road. (Photos) It has spent the last 30 years languishing in a lock up at his home in Stockport, Greater Manchester, but has been unearthed following his death in January aged 96.
Donald Trump Jr. offered a strong defense of Chelsea Clinton on Saturday after the former first daughter was harassed at a vigil for the 49 Muslim worshipers murdered at two New Zealand mosques on Friday. (Video) A New York University student at the vigil Clinton was attending was seen on video accusing Clinton, who is pregnant, of triggering the terrorist attack with her “rhetoric.” Trump Jr. tagged Clinton in a tweet on Saturday condemning the harassment and praising the former first daughter for “condemning anti-Semitism & all forms of hate.” “It’s sickening to see people blame [Chelsea Clinton] for the
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez´s "unfavorable" rating has skyrocketed now that she has become more well-known, according to a new poll from left-leaning Gallup. (Video) The poll, released on Friday, found that the increase in Ocasio-Cortez´s "unfavorable" rating in recent months has more than doubled her increase in "favorable ratings." "Half of U.S. adults were unfamiliar with or had no opinion of her in September after her seismic primary win over the summer, but that figure has shrunk to 29% today," Gallup reported. "But the increased visibility has not improved her overall standing with Americans." In September, Ocasio-Cortez´s "favorable" vs "unfavorable"
ST. GEORGE, S.C. —Before Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) stepped out of her white minivan, no presidential candidate had ever visited St. George, at least as far as any local officials could remember. But the shadow of the ever-growing Democratic field fell on Harris even here, when a young voter named Essence Williams asked her about fellow Democratic candidate Andrew Yang’s proposal to give $1,000 of basic income to every American ages 18 to 64. “Do you think this program is feasible in our economic climate?” Williams asked. “And is it possible to increase the standard of living
In the fifth century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt and wrote of unusual river boats on the Nile. Twenty-three lines of his Historia, the ancient world’s first great narrative history, are devoted to the intricate description of the construction of a “baris”. For centuries, scholars have argued over his account because there was no archaeological evidence that such ships ever existed. Now there is. A “fabulously preserved” wreck in the waters around the sunken port city of Thonis-Heracleion has revealed just how accurate the historian was.(Snip) Originally measuring up to 28 metres long, it is one
He hasn’t earned it. I’ve distilled it down. And that’s basically the refrain I’ve heard from dozens of Latinos who — unlike the media, which is run by white liberals who are fascinated by other white liberals — refuse to go loco for Beto. They’re concerned that Robert Francis O’Rourke, who this week joined an already-crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls, is trying to put one over on Latinos by tricking them into thinking he’s one of them. Or, at the very least, they think that his strategy,
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is right about the negative effects of inequality but wrong when she says a society with billionaires is an immoral one, said Allianz’s chief economic adviser, Mohamed El-Erian. “If you create Facebook in your dorm, of course, you should be a billionaire,” El-Erian said, adding that wealth inequality is “a good thing — you incentivize.” But El-Erian said he agrees with New York’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about how the gap between rich and poor unfairly narrows economic opportunity for many Americans. “We´re going to risk a major alienation and marginalization of part of our country, which
Amidst the welter of good and bad news we are assaulted with every day, by far the most dangerous long-term are the new polls showing America´s youth tilting significantly toward socialism. Not surprisingly, these same young people haven´t the slightest idea of what socialism really is, its history or what it entails, which is suicidal for them more than anyone else. They are the ones who will suffer most if the USA turns into Venezuela. Because of a sclerotic leftwing education system, our youth have been indoctrinated in a simple-minded version of socialism for decades without knowing it.
Judge Jeanine Pirro got her Fox News show pulled from the air, presumably suspended, maybe cancelled, after she made a remark about Rep. Ilhan Omar´s wearing of the hijab that was condemned, first by the left and then by politically correct FNC officials as unacceptable. According to Deadline Hollywood: Referring to Omar, who is a practicing Muslim, Pirro said: “Think about it — Omar wears a hijab. Is her adherence
Most pets would be prohibited from University of Minnesota buildings under a proposed policy that school officials hope will help ensure the comfort of all students and employees on campus. Service animals for those with disabilities would still be permitted, but emotional-support animals would be banned from classrooms, labs and offices, Minnesota Daily reported. Animals can cause a disturbance if they bark, lunge or go to the bathroom on campus, said University Services Chief of Staff Paige Rohman. Animals are also problematic for people with allergies or those of the Muslim faith who view dog saliva as unclean, he said.
CNN Continues to Lie About Charlottesville in Attempt to Connect Donald Trump to New Zealand Attack
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CNN continues to lie to its views in the United States and around the world about what President Donald Trump said about the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. As Breitbart News has explained repeatedly, and as CNN’s own coverage at the time showed, Trump used the phrase “very fine people” to describe non-violent protesters on either side of the debate over a Confederate statue — and specifically excluded the neo-Nazis, whom he “condemned totally.” Yet for the past several weeks, CNN has reported that Trump was referring to neo-Nazis as “very fine people” in
For Christians, we are currently in Lent, the holiest of our seasons which culminates in the solemnness turned celebration of Easter Weekend. It is convention during this period for Christians to commit to some deliberate act of denial in order to focus on their faith and bring them nearer their God. This is paraphrased into the common giving something up for Lent. (Snip) My answer has to be that I’m giving up the hope that any elected government leaders other than President Trump, are willing to stand up for the beliefs and intentions of a majority of Americans.
Iranian authorities sentenced U.S. Navy veteran Michael White to 10 years in prison for allegedly insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and disclosing private information by posting a phone of a woman he was visiting on Instagram. White, 46, a native of San Diego, was arrested last July in Mashhad, Iran during his third visit with the woman. White had been imprisoned at Iran’s Vakilabad Prison, known for its execution of drug traffickers, (Snip) the family had been told that White has been beaten and interrogated about his naval service and Iranian officials have refused to let him contact family.
The Republican-controlled Senate on Thursday followed the lead of the Democratic House and voted to disapprove President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the southern border.(Snip)But, ”How dare Trump repurpose defense spending?!” screams Schumer, Senator Marco Rubio, and National Public Radio. Oh, OK. Where was that same indignation when presidents used national emergencies to move defense spending around 18 times between 2001 and 2014? And for real crisis situations, too, like waterfront development in Bahrain, airplane parking lots in Iraq, and a courthouse in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Rules for thee but not for me. So goes the sad reality of politics in America. While the Establishment Media attempts to distract with story after story of a college admissions scandal, or a shooting tragedy across the globe, the real news breaking in the U.S. this week involves some serious Deep State shenanigans whereby ruling class members like the Clintons and Obamas are allowed to do what they want when they want without fear of repercussions. (Snip)In one of the most explosive parts of Strzok’s testimony, he revealed that the Department of Justice struck a deal
Talk of socialism is suddenly everywhere. The journey from a free society to socialism, however, does not occur overnight. It’s a stepped process that begins slowly and ends with a rush. Here are those steps: Step 1. Massive Government Spending. Socialist states have government at the center of their economies and feature enormous spending programs. In early 1990s Sweden often cited as a socialist state, government spending exceeded 70 percent of its economy. Under President Jefferson, government spending was approximately 2 to 3 percent of the economy. Today, we are at 36 percent. Sweden, now walking away from socialism,
Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota poses an interesting case study in American cultural or civilizational consciousness. She is the first congressional representative to wear a scarf around her head, and that scarf is for some a symbol of the breadth and depth of our acceptance of others. For others, it is a symbol of alienation and rejection of the America she claims — simply by holding office — to represent. (snip) her comments blew her cover. She cannot simply be seen as a highly motivated immigrant
A young pro-life activist completely destroyed the major abortion arguments during a hearing on Rhode Island’s late-term abortion bill. Following the left’s recent trend toward infanticide, Democrats in Rhode Island are preparing to pass Senate Bill 152, a horrifying bill which would legalize abortion up to moments before the baby’s birth. And as Matthew Thomas Foster pointed out at last week’s hearing, the Rhode Island bill is eerily similar to the equally horrifying bill passed in New York and bills proposed in Vermont and New Mexico.
Hundreds of protesters descended on D.C. at Lafayette Square near the White House on Saturday to show their support for Venezuela’s embattled socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro. The “Hands Off Venezuela” protesters are not only against any sort of intervention in Venezuela, but many actually believe Maduro is a good leader. So much so, some even admitted they would trade President Donald Trump for Maduro when asked by The Daily Caller. It’s no secret that Madruo’s regime is repressive, violent and corrupt. It’s shocking to hear that some Americans seriously support him staying in power. The group’s website accuses the Trump
Reuters bragged Friday about its scoop that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was once involved in a notorious hacker group, but revealed in the process that one of its reporters willingly sat on the story until after O’Rourke lost his Texas Senate race to incumbent Ted Cruz. Reuters’ Joseph Menn reported exclusively Friday morning that O’Rourke, a former member of Congress and the latest Democrat to join the 2020 presidential race, had a secret membership in an infamous hacking group. The group, known as the Cult of the Dead Cow (CDC), is the oldest and perhaps most influential collection of
President Trump attacked the late Sen. John McCain Saturday over recently revealed evidence that the Arizona lawmaker helped push Russia-collusion rumors in the weeks after Trump’s election. “Spreading the fake and totally discredited Dossier ‘is unfortunately a very dark stain against John McCain,’” Trump tweeted, quoting former independent counsel Ken Starr. Trump continued that McCain “had far worse ‘stains’ than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace [Obamacare] after years of campaigning to repeal and replace!” David Kramer, a former State Department official and close McCain associate, testified in a 2017 deposition that McCain sent him to London in
My Unfair Lady…
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AOC Denies Being a Puppet Candidate, She’s Not Being Entirely Truthful… Amid growing revelations surrounding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a puppet candidate, enlisted by a group of far-left activists, Ms. AOC tweets a firm denial. (AOC Tweet – Handler Saikat Chakrabarti Tweet) Unfortunately, the AOC denial breaks an Alinsky rule. When a leftist breaks an Alinsky rule, the opposite of their claim is generally accurate; counter-intuitively affirming a stronger likelihood Representative AOC is actually steered by a group of leftists. The evidence to support the puppet proposition is quite strong, albeit somewhat overblown in construct; and unfortunately for Ms. AOC, the
Beto the Buffoon
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The Democrats now have their rock star in the ever-growing presidential race. On Thursday, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke officially launched his bid for the presidency. Beto is hoping to capitalize on the excitement that surrounded his losing U.S. Senate race last year in Texas. Despite a massive haul of $80 million, O’Rourke was defeated by incumbent U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX). During his online announcement speech, O’Rourke warned that the United States faces “maximum peril,” but
The dossier that launched several investigations into Donald Trump and his presidential campaign was based, in part, on posts from "random individuals" from a CNN website that allows the public to publish unverified information.Christopher Steele made the admission in a deposition given in connection with a lawsuit against the dossier. The judge released portions of the deposition this week.Washington Examiner: 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
ABC’s The View co-host Meghan McCain said Saturday evening that no one will ever love President Donald Trump in the same way her late father Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) was loved. “No one will ever love you the way they loved my father…. I wish I had been given more Saturday’s with him. Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine?” McCain wrote on Twitter. The View co-host’s scathing remarks came in response to President Trump’s criticism of her late father’s involvement in giving the FBI a copy of the largely debunked Steele dossier.
The attempt by students at New York University to blame Chelsea Clinton for the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand is a shocking marker of the temper of our times. At a vigil for the 49 persons killed by a self-described “racist” and “ethno-nationalist eco-fascist,” students accused Ms. Clinton of having stoked the killer’s hatred because — wait for it — she recently criticized anti-Semitism.
Every time I think Britain’s MPs have touched bottom, they sink lower. The House of Commons has just resolved that it will not let Britain leave the EU without explicit permission from Brussels, or, as Europhiles absurdly phrase it, that they will not let Britain “crash out” with “no deal.” With one vote, MPs have destroyed any prospect of an equitable outcome. Eurocrats now know that Britain has only two options: either to leave on humiliating terms, terms that would leave Brussels in charge of its trade policy in perpetuity, or to give up on Brexit entirely.
I’ve lived most of my adult life inside the blood-stained walls of people doing horrible things to one another. At the age of 26, while a state prosecutor outside of Detroit, I spent the better part of a year prosecuting a 17-year-old with a long criminal history who escaped from juvenile detention, broke into a house, and shot a hole through a young father’s head while he was sitting at his desk working from home. As a federal prosecutor, I ran the FBI investigation into a gang leader who decided it was cheaper to murder his drug supplier than pay
An Ohio woman is suing one of the state´s most powerful unions for its continued collection of dues payments over her objections. Connie Pennington has been forced to pay dues to the Communication Workers of America Local 4502 as part of her job with the city of Columbus, but attempted to sever ties after the Supreme Court declared mandatory dues payments unconstitutional in the 2018 Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees ruling. The union has maintained that workers should not be allowed to leave the union until its contract with the city
“Michael Corleone says hello.” That line from an iconic scene in “The Godfather 2” is uttered just before an attempted hit on the character Frank Pantageli. The garroting in a bar is broken up by a beat cop who just happens to walk in. The incident is not entirely fiction. In August 1961, Carmine “the Snake” Persico tried to take out Larry Gallo in a very similar incident the scene was based upon. Ten years later, Persico became the boss of the Colombo crime family, and he stayed the boss until last week, when he died in federal prison.
Today’s Yellow Vest protesting in Paris produced violence on a scale not seen since the early days of the movement. AP reports: French yellow vest protesters set life-threatening fires, smashed up luxury stores in Paris and clashed with police Saturday in the 18th straight weekend of demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron. Large plumes of smoke rose above the rioting on Paris’ landmark Champs-Elysees avenue, and a mother and her child were just barely saved from a building blaze. Cobblestones flew in the air and smoke from fires set by protesters mingled with clouds of tear gas sprayed by police,
Reuters reporter Joseph Menn exclusively revealed on Friday that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke belonged to one of the best-known groups of computer hackers as a teenager. Within minutes, his special report was the most popular story on Reuters.com here and was picked up by other news outlets. But the origin of the story goes back more than two years. Members of the group, which calls itself Cult of the Dead Cow, protected O’Rourke’s secret for decades, reluctant to compromise the former Texas Congressman’s political career..
With President Trump simultaneously fighting much of his own party as well as Democrats, a Yogi Berra classic fits the occasion: “It’s deja vu all over again.” More than two years into his presidency, Trump is once again at odds with most of Washington. The first veto of his presidency reflects his predicament, one of many perils he faces on the road to 2020. The politics notwithstanding, the president is right to use executive power to find more funds for border barriers and security. To do otherwise would be to betray his promises to secure