Posts on Wednesday, March 20, 2019
The failure of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the Department of Justice to prosecute former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for alleged breaches of 18 U.S. Code §?793. Gathering, transmitting or losing defense information (the Code) is an issue that will come to the fore in the 2020 elections. Clinton’s escape from prosecution during the height of the 2016 election campaign has gained a new head of steam following release of the transcript of evidence given to the Committee on the Judiciary, US House of Representatives, in July 2018, by former senior FBI Lawyer Lisa Page. . A meticulous
The story was already outrageous enough. Port Richey’s mayor, Dale Massad, was arrested last month by a SWAT team after deputies say he shot at them as they entered his home to take him into custody on charges of practicing medicine without a license. Then his replacement, acting mayor Terrence Rowe, was arrested after authorities said he conspired with Massad to intimidate a Port Richey police officer. They hatched the plan, officials said, while talking over a jail phone that is recorded — and that inmates are informed is recorded. Both have been suspended by Gov. Ron DeSantis. The story
"What´s the message of your campaign?" MSNBC´s Mika Brzezinski asked Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Mayor of South Bend, Indiana on Wednesday morning. Buttigieg, like many other Democrats running for president, wants to change the Supreme Court and abolish the Electoral College, among other liberal policy positions. But Buttigieg´s answer had nothing to do with policy, it had to do with his physiognomy: Well, look, the reality is, when you take one look at me, my face is my message. Right, a lot of this is simply the idea, we need generational change. That we need more voices stepping up from
‘Come on, boo!’ Hannity’s warm welcome for Donna Brazile has fans changing the channel in disgust
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On Tuesday longtime Fox News host Sean Hannity welcomed former Democrat National Committee chairwoman Donna Brazile to the network by inviting her onto his show, “Hannity,” so he could grill her to smithereens in a fast-paced “lightning round” debate over various issues. The scorching, oftentimes hilarious grilling started right away thanks to the former DNC chair’s refusal to stick to the “lightning round” rules and keep her answers sweet and to the point.“Medicare for all is going to be $3.3 trillion for every year for ten years. And people like Kamala Harris say that people would have no choice at
Today’s Washington Post includes a story about a meeting among Muslim and Jewish Democratic members of Congress that took place on March 5. The story got a lot of play, but it included an extraordinary error–an error that was mostly covered up, rather than revealed, by the correction the Post subsequently ran: (Snip) Rashida Tlaib is the newly-elected Michigan Congresswoman who is, among other faults, viciously anti-Israel. But the Post’s correction didn’t explain what, exactly, was wrong with the original story. That was left to Omri Ceren, and to a commenter who who published a screen shot of the
Enrique Tarrio runs a popular apparel website known as 1776.shop. Recently Enrique was dropped by payment processor Evalon for selling a t-shirt labeling Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an “idiot” and “communist”. (Photos) According to Tarrio, who is Hispanic and is the Proud Boys group chairman, he was informed that payment processor Evalon terminated their relationship with him due to what they considered “hate speech.” When the company was pressed for details on what exactly they found to be hate speech, Evalon confirmed that the t-shirt mocking the batshit crazy freshmen Congresswoman was considered to them to be “hate speech.” This isn’t
A woman in central China was so keen on staying healthy that she injected the juice of 20 types of fruit – and almost paid for it with her life, according to local media. The 51-year-old surnamed Zeng, from Guiyang county in Chenzhou, Hunan province, had developed an interest in unconventional health treatments, reported the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald. On a whim on February 22, while apparently in good health, Zeng made a juice from more than 20 kinds of fruit and gave herself an intravenous infusion by drip.
Bernie vs. Ta-Nehisi
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The Democratic 2020 race is shaping up into a battle between Bernie Sanders’ new Old Left and those candidates, such as Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Julian Castro, who pay respectful lip service to Ta-Nehisi Coates’ new Woke Left and his signature issue of black reparations. Senator Warren, with her usual sound judgment, tweeted on Tuesday that it’s “time to start a national, full-blown conversation about reparations,” an old question made fashionable once again by Coates with his 2014 Atlantic article just before the Ferguson debacle. Coates, a college dropout and semi-employed journalist, improbably rose to being the decade’s most celebrated
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) suggested that President Donald Trump was abetting white supremacist terror by looking "the other way" after the mosque shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand. In doing so, she retweeted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-Left smear group that demonizes conservative and Christians and has worked overtime to connect Trump to "hate." Ocasio-Cortez retweeted an SPLC tweet quoting Trump saying he doesn´t see white nationalism as a rising threat around the world. "White supremacists committed the largest # of extremist killings in 2017," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "What the President is saying here: ´if you engage
Beto chows down
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Back in the 1940s, Robert A. Heinlein, the "Dean of American science fiction writers," put together an outline of American history for the next two hundred years. It was basically a framework on which to hang a number of related short stories and novels utilizing the same background. This "Future History" series, after being completed, was published in a single volume a quarter-century later as The Past through Tomorrow. A number of commentators, beginning with the critic Algis Budrys, have noted some remarkable congruences with actual events. From the vantage point of 1940, Heinlein predicted
President Trump held his first joint press conference with Brazil´s awesome new conservative president, Jair Bolsonaro, and threw out the bombshell idea of making Brazil a full member of NATO. It was a head-turner, because up until now, the functionality of the U.S.-Brazil relationship has always revolved around assorted trade spats, and now the disintegration of Venezuela, which is situated between the two giants. Now there´s Trump´s talk of making Brazil a NATO member - and it
When life is good, there are people who seek out others to make it worse, to level inequalities. It is hard to get the mind around this, but they do. The players of victim politics speak clearer than mere explanations can do. When Ace Magashule, a career henchman who helped make South Africa fail, says, “We have been building the white people’s roads‚ their houses‚ working their farms, now it’s time for a black person to own land and farm,” – that’s victim politics. When a Palestinian delegate calls on the UN “to hold Israelis accountable
Cast and crew members from "Hamilton", "A Bronx Tale", "Chicago Fire", and "The Second City" joined the striking musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Tuesday. The CSO strike has entered its second week with no end in sight. Concerts are canceled through Monday. (Snip) Illinois´ congressional delegation including Representatives Cheri Bustos, Danny Davis, Bill Foster, Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, Robin Kelly, Raja Krishnamoorthi, Bobby Rush, Jan Schakowsky and Brad Schneider also joined the striking musicians Tuesday. Congresswoman Schakowsky could be heard telling musicians "Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, just loves you. She couldn´t get here.
Twitter is like crack — something we keep using even though we know better, even though it might kill us. All the social networks have some resemblance to that drug, but Twitter most of all. It especially mesmerizes people in the media who feel they must make their mark on it or suffer the worst fate imaginable — to be ignored. Twitter is also said to be seriously biased against the right, sometimes even the milder center-right. At first, this seemed exaggerated, but the truth may be greater than we imagined. The well-respected Sean Davis of The Federalist was skeptical, but
The mass murder of Muslims in New Zealand was a despicable act of terrorism, as wicked as any other act of terrorism. Terrorists who target Muslims must be hunted down the same way we hunt down Islamist terrorists who target non-Muslims. In most cases, this means suppressing Muslim terrorists who kill other Muslims. As a matter of record, the vast majority of Muslim victims of terror have been killed by other Muslims. According to Voice of America: "By far the vast majority of victims of terrorist attacks over the past 15 years has been Muslims killed by Muslims...Of 167,221
Last Saturday night, one of the guests on Greg Gutfeld’s evening show on Fox News was a former Marine staff sergeant, bomb technician Johnny “Joey” Jones, who lost his legs when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in 2010. He brought to mind a young Jimmy Stewart: winsome, modest, good-spirited, and even able to crack jokes about his missing limbs. Watching him, I thought: here is a young man who was handicapped for life because, in the wake of 9/11, he was one of those courageous Americans who agreed
Under capitalism, ownership brings control, and Fox News has a new corporate parent that began trading yesterday on NASDAQ. There are reasons for conservatives to be deeply concerned. (snip) Coincidentally or not, this change in ownership coincides with the reported two week suspension of Judge Jeanine Pirro’s Saturday night ratings champion show, following her questioning of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s adherence to sharia, because she donned a hijab post-9/11. President Trump’s tweeted support for her and expressed worries about his supporters at Fox being silenced.
Robert Mueller’s longtime boss appears inclined to stick it out until the end after all. Rod Rosenstein — the deputy attorney general who appointed the special counsel, signed off on all his major decisions and even spoke on behalf of the investigation at a news conference and in congressional testimony — is not ready to leave just yet, putting off his previously planned departure for at least a few weeks, a source familiar with his plans confirmed on Tuesday.
Freshman Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) on Tuesday evening said he cannot understand why President Donald Trump would “disparage” the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), whom Romney described as “heroic,” “courageous,” “patriotic,” and “honorable.” “I can’t understand why the President would, once again, disparage a man as exemplary as my friend John McCain: heroic, courageous, patriotic, honorable, self-effacing, self-sacrificing, empathetic, and driven by duty to family, country, and God,” Romney tweeted.
Washington -Robert Mueller´s prosecutors dropped yet another head-scratching signal in their latest court filing Tuesday that the special counsel investigation may be wrapping up -- or maybe it´s not. Either way, they´re very busy. Senior appellate litigator Michael Dreeben told a federal judge on Tuesday that he and his co-counsel "face the press of other work" and would like a deadline extension this week in response to a request to unseal court documents in Paul Manafort´s now-wrapped criminal
OLATHE, Kan.—Soon after Jim Hildenbrand arrived in Avignon Villa Homes, a community for older adults in a Kansas City suburb, the homeowner association disputed the placement of his satellite dish. It cited him for parking cars in his driveway overnight and placing a St. Francis statue in a flower bed. He was later written up for a dead cat in a window well—which Mr. Hildenbrand suspects was planted by a neighborhood enemy. Things went downhill from there. After he installed a decorative, shin-high wall around a plant bed on the side of his house,
The United Auto Workers (UAW) — which represents thousands of American workers at General Motors (GM) — is standing with President Trump in his recent call for GM CEO Mary Barra to reopen the corporation’s idled Lordstown, Ohio assembly plant. This week, Trump called on Barra to reopen the recently closed GM Lordstown assembly plant. The closing of the plant resulted in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 American workers and since 2017, about 4,500 American workers in Ohio have lost their jobs at GM.
SAN FRANCISCO—California’s economy is adding jobs far faster than affordable places to live, forcing some employers to leave the state as they expand. Companies that move from California have historically left behind its diverse industries, renowned public universities and balmy climate for states with lower taxes and lighter regulation. But now home prices and rents, higher on average than anywhere else in the country, have surged to the top of concerns for businesses and workers. For employers, “we’re at a crisis stage,”
Bernie Sanders: Need To Do ‘Better Job’ Explaining How Socialism Leads to a ‘Vibrant Democracy´
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is running again to be president of the United States, and although he lost the Democratic nomination in 2016, he hopes to earn the mantle this cycle and bring his brand of socialism to power. One thing he hopes to do better on the road to the White House is to do a “better job” explaining socialism. “I think what we have to do, and I will be doing it, is to do a better job maybe in explaining what we mean by socialism — democratic socialism,” Sanders told National Public Radio’s (NPR) Morning Edition
Walt Disney Co. Chief Executive Bob Iger has scaled the mountain. Through a series of sure-footed moves, Iger has worked tirelessly to position Disney as the world’s preeminent entertainment company. Now he is closer to realizing his vision as the Burbank giant late Tuesday finalized its $71.3-billion purchase of much of Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox. The acquisition is the boldest — and riskiest — of Iger’s 14-year stewardship of Disney. It’s the culmination of an expansionist strategy that has guided Iger as he has transformed the storied company through a series of takeovers that made Disney the home of
The number of Freedom of Information Act requests the Environmental Protection Agency received from mainstream outlets such as the New York Times and Washington Post spiked immediately after Republican President Donald Trump took office, according to a Free Beacon analysis of FOIA requests by the media from 2013 to the present. The figures, obtained through the government´s FOIA online database, reveal a clear increase in requests for information from the agency once Trump was elected president. The New York Times, for example, made just 13 FOIA requests during the four years of Obama´s second term, sending 3 in 2013, 1
President Trump defended the electoral college on Tuesday following calls by presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke to abolish the system. “The brilliance of the Electoral College is that you must go to many States to win,” Trump tweeted on Tuesday night. “With the Popular Vote, you go to… just the large States – the Cities would end up running the Country.” The statement came one day after Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said during a CNN town hall event that she would back a plan to scrap the process and move to a national popular vote. “My view is
A U.S. Marine veteran won a 20-year fight against his homeowners’ association (HOA) to fly an American flag on his property. Richard Oulton, a Vietnam veteran of the U.S. Marines who resides in Virginia, began his legal fight against his HOA in 1999, when the HOA told him he had to take down his flagpole because neighbors said his flag caused a disturbance to the community.The Marine veteran took his case to court and lost his case the first time around. He took Old Glory down in 2003, but he continued to fight for his right to honor his fellow
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), now a presidential contender, told Jimmy Kimmel Tuesday night how to pronounce her name and what her stepchildren call her. "We have a huge, very modern family," she told him. "Are people learning how to pronounce your first name?" Kimmel asked the senator. "It helps when I tell them that it´s, like, ´comma,´ like a punctuation mark, and then add a ´la,´" Harris replied. "I think of comma-la and my mom-ela," Kimmel joked, telling Harris that she looks like his mother. "That´s what our kids call me," Harris told Kimmel. "We don´t use the term in our family,
German politicians on Tuesday threatened to expel U.S. Ambassador Richard Grenell over his sharp criticism of Germany’s low defense spending. Grenell took Germany to task for failing to meet its own spending goals, let alone its commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Grenell responded on Monday to advance word that Germany’s new budget plan calls for defense spending to peak at 1.37 percent of national income in 2020, but then begin declining to 1.25 percent by 2023. NATO members are supposed to spend 2 percent on defense, a target the Trump administration has insisted upon
In the 1800s, adulterated milk was common. Milk produced by swill herds, as muckraking journalist Robert Hartley wrote in 1842, was "very thin, and of a pale bluish color," the kind nobody in their right mind would buy. So distillers added flour, starch, chalk, plaster of Paris, or anything else they could get away with to make the milk look healthy. This adulteration only increased the bacteria in milk that we today would consider undrinkable. The common theme in adulteration is that you pay for A but they give you B. It´s not what you want. Additionally, it´s likely to
This is a little funny. CNN’s Dana Bash interviews President Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. The discussion is about the election, but on a granular level is really about data use in the 2020 election. (Snip) However, the more interesting aspect to the interview actually comes after the segment when CNN’s Jake Tapper happens to note what the DNC is attempting to do. Within Tapper’s remarks he happens to outline why the DNC is running the crew currently enlisted as candidates. Watch specifically at the 04:00 point.
This month, the greatest off Broadway production should be titled “The Prosecutors,” starring Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and New York Attorney General Letitia James. As in another dramatic comedy, “The Producers,” the state case against former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort seems designed to fail, leaving its prosecutors with the convenient windfall of public support and none of the burden. The New York state charges that Vance filed against Manafort appear to run afoul of state and federal protections against double jeopardy, or being prosecuted twice for the same underlying conduct.
In the past several days the 2020 Democrat candidates have been assembling a rather odd set of 2020 platform issues. President Trump notes it all seems rather “strange”: (Tweets)In addition to promoting infanticide; eliminating borders and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and banning guns; the Democrats have all signed on to The Green New Deal, which advocates for: raising taxes, paying people not to work, eliminating air travel, banning cows and rebuilding every structure in America to run on ‘sustainable energy’. The platform is now expanding to: lowering the voting age to 16; eliminating the electoral college; placing term
Amid a number of proposals pushed by 2020 Democratic presidential candidates trying to stand out in a crowded field comes an idea that totally doesn’t scream “sore loser” at all: abolishing the Electoral College. During a CNN town hall on Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said, "My view is that every vote matters. And the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College." But the disdain you’re seeing from Democrats to get rid of a system that’s been a thorn in their side is a sentiment
Stick a Fork in O’Rourke
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If, as I wrote last week here, Joe Biden may save the Democratic party from a horrible debacle at the polls next year, Beto O’Rourke may be doing the whole process a good turn now. Biden, despite his efforts to masquerade as the vanguard of what is now called progressivism, is politically sane and, if nominated, might hold his shaggy legions back from holus-bolus embrace of the many suicide potions being offered to the Democratic contestants. To date, the most lethal intoxicants that have been extolled by some of the candidates are legalized infanticide, open borders, reparations to African
On Tuesday the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration in Nielsen v. Preap, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to detain illegal aliens without bond while awaiting deportation for committing crimes within our borders. The decision reversed a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. It was authored by Justice Samuel Alito, who was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts as well as Justices Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. The ruling involved a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of various resident aliens, including a few with Green Cards, convicted of crimes for which U.S. law mandates deportation.
Chicago´s Fraternal Order of Police is officially requesting a federal investigation into whether the Cook County State´s Attorney, Kim Foxx, tried to interfere into the department´s investigation of "Empire" star Jussie Smollett on behalf of a former Obama administration official. CWB Chicago, which has covered the Smollett case from the beginning, reports that Chicago´s police union requested the investigation in a letter to John R. Lausch, the U.S. Attorney in Chicago on Monday. Smollett is accused of staging a "hate crime" outside his Chicago apartment in the early morning hours of January 29, 2019.
When Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke arrived for a campaign stop at Beancounter Coffeehouse in Burlington, Iowa, he hopped right up on the shop’s counter and addressed the masses below. During a visit to Narrow Way Cafe in Detroit, Michigan, O’Rourke grabbed a microphone and scrambled up onto the counter. At Sing-A-Long Bar and Grill in Mount Vernon, Iowa? You bet he got up on that counter. Critics have accused O’Rourke of running on a vague political platform. But there’s one platform the Democratic hopeful openly stands on: the sturdy countertops of Midwest cafes.
The lawyer for the 16-year-old girl who state prosecutors now say was the victim attached to the mysterious plea deal given to multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein says neither he nor his client was ever informed that it was her case that ended Epstein’s prosecution. The victim, who is now 31, wasn’t among Epstein’s youngest victims, but she was among those who were more brutally sexually assaulted, repeatedly, by both Epstein and others, according to records reviewed by the Miami Herald. “I was never told that any of my 16 victim clients were part of Epstein’s charges in state court,’’
Not long ago, a 4-year-old boy died of the flu. His mother, under doctor´s orders, watched his two little brothers like a hawk, terrified they might get sick and die, too. Grieving and frightened, just days after her son´s death she checked her Facebook page hoping to read messages of comfort from family and friends. Instead, she found dozens of hateful comments: You´re a terrible mother. You killed your child. You deserved what happened to your son. This is all fake - your child doesn´t exist.
Baltimore Mayor Catherine E. Pugh has resigned from the board of the University of Maryland Medical System following a controversy involving a deal with the hospital system to buy her children’s books. Last week, Pugh (D) and others on the health system’s board were criticized by Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and top state lawmakers for the financial deals with the hospital system and possible conflicts of interest. On a financial disclosure form, Pugh listed a $100,000 profit for one year from selling 20,000 copies of her self-published children’s book series
The duplicitous Angela Merkel
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Angela Merkel apparently went behind NATO´s back to make a deal with Russia for the natural gas pipeline Nord Stream II, paying for which will drive Germany´s contribution to NATO defense spending below the 2% of GDP that was agreed on in 2014. Germany, with one of the world´s wealthiest economies, is far in arrears on her NATO obligations, has been for years, and has no acceptable excuse for it. America has been open for years now to selling liquid natural gas (LNG) to Europe at rates below those the Russians can provide
Plea deal offered to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft in solicitation of prostitution case
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Robert Kraft, the owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, is being offered a deferred prosecution agreement in which he would not be required to plead guilty to any charges surrounding his visits to a Florida spa in January that was under investigation for sex trafficking and prostitution, a prosecutor in the case announced on Tuesday. Kraft is facing two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution for allegedly visiting the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida on two occasions earlier this year and paying for sexual favors from the massage parlor’s staff. The proposed pre-trial diversion program
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has reached an agreement with Attorney General William Barr to stay on at the Justice Department “a little while longer,” a source familiar with their conversation told Fox News – despite initial plans to step down by now. Fox News and other outlets previously reported that Rosenstein had planned to step down in mid-March. However, sources close to the deputy attorney general say Rosenstein has not yet given his two weeks notice. He remains at the DOJ as Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe enters what is widely believed
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday compared likely 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg to former President Barack Obama. Scarborough tweeted that he and his co-host and wife, Mika Brzezinski, have been “overwhelmed” by the response from viewers to Buttigieg’s appearance on “Morning Joe.” “Mika and I have been overwhelmed by the reaction [Pete Buttigieg] got after being on the show,” Scarborough tweeted. “The only other time in twelve years that we heard from as many people about a guest was after [Barack Obama] appeared on Morning Joe.” (Tweet) The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has not yet officially
es, you read the headline correctly. But don´t gross out too soon. I´ll grant you the right to be grossed out later if you like, but, first, allow me to introduce you to the concept of customized 3D-printed sushi based on the customer´s urine and stool sample, and then defend that concept as interesting and possibly tasty. The website Design Boom breaks down the details. (For some reason, Design Boom takes their grammar cues from the poet e.e. cummings and ignores rules of capitalization. I´ve left it as they´ve written it.) a japanese company is fusing science
Andrew Gillum announced a plan Wednesday to register and turn-out 1 million new and low-propensity Florida voters in an effort to crush President Donald Trump’s reelection chances in the nation’s largest swing state. “Voter registration is red flag No. 1,” the former Tallahassee mayor told POLITICO, calling increased voter registration crucial to the Democratic Party’s ability to survive and thrive in Florida.“We’re looking at a target of 1 million,” he said. “We’ve got over 3 million people eligible to vote, and that’s to say nothing of the 1.4 million returning citizens” — former felons in line to have their voting rights
Barron Trump, the youngest of President Trump´s children, turned 13 years old Wednesday. His mother, first lady Melania Trump, marked the occasion with a celebratory Twitter post: "Happy Birthday BWT." (Tweet) Barron William Trump becomes the latest in a series of teenagers to grow up in the White House, including Malia and Sasha Obama, who both entered their teenage years while their father was president, and Chelsea Clinton who turned 13 in 1993, the same year her father, Bill Clinton, became president. Jenna and Barbara Bush, the twin daughters of George W. Bush, were 19 when Bush became president in
Abrams Discusses ‘Plotting’ for Days After Georgia Election: ‘Revenge Can Be Very Cathartic’
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Defeated Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Tuesday she spent the 10 days between Election Day and her non-concession speech "plotting," telling an audience "revenge can be very cathartic." Abrams has claimed for months that Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R.) used voter suppression methods as secretary of state to win, and she essentially deemed his victory illegitimate. She refused to concede on election night in hopes of forcing a runoff, and despite eventually losing by more than 50,000 votes, Abrams said the election was an "erosion of our democracy."
Leading Republican senators are uniting against what they describe as a bid by some elements of the Trump administration to keep the Iran nuclear deal on life support via a package of waivers exempting Tehran and its allies from new sanctions spearheaded by President Donald Trump, according to multiple conversations with top congressional officials both on and off the record. (Snip)While President Donald Trump has promised a "maximum pressure" campaign to choke off Tehran´s resources, the State and Treasury Departments have advocated in favor of waivers permitting Iran to continue sensitive nuclear work as well as its lucrative oil
The battle over the admissions standards at New York City’s elite public high schools has heated up again. After having failed to change the standards last year, Mayor Bill de Blasio is back at it, this time with some backup from celebrity freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As usual, their impassioned pleas about the lack of black and Hispanic students completely ignores that it is Asian, not white, students who would bear the brunt of the proposed changes. At issue is the fact that these hyper-competitive high schools consider only a test score in deciding admissions
In the early morning hours on Tuesday, U.S. Border Patrol agents in El Paso, Texas, detained over 400 illegal immigrants in the span of five minutes. The first group of 194 illegal border crossers turned themselves in at 2:45 a.m. Just five minutes later, at 2:50 a.m., a second group of 252 people were apprehended just a few miles west of the first group. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the group consisted of mostly Central American families and unaccompanied children, in a press release. “Agents had already taken over 430 people into custody within the first three hours
Democrats, increasingly worried about the U.S. Supreme Court tilting to the right, have been talking lately about changes in its overall makeup. Most voters like the idea of term-limiting the justices but draw the line at adding more members to the court. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 27% of Likely U.S. Voters favor increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Fifty-one percent (51%) are opposed, but 22% are undecided. (Snip) The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on March 17-18, 2019 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error
Joe Biden has left little doubt that he is running for president because he has already told us. “I have the most progressive record of anybody running for the—” he exclaimed during a speech in Delaware over the weekend, before stopping short. “Anybody who would run,” he corrected himself. Nevertheless, we must continue to pretend, for now, that Biden is not officially seeking the White House, despite mounting and irrefutable evidence that he is doing precisely that. Politico’s Playbook says Democratic ad-maker Mark Putnam was “SPOTTED” in Scranton, Pennsylvania, over the weekend, where he was apparently “scoping out” Biden’s childhood
A federal judge ruled that the Interior Department violated federal law by failing to take into account the climate impact of its oil and gas leasing in the West. The decision late Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras in the District of Columbia marks the first time the Trump administration has been held to account for the climate impact of its energy agenda, and it could have sweeping implications for the president’s plan to boost fossil fuel production across the country. Contreras concluded that Interior’s Bureau of Land Management “did not sufficiently consider climate change” when making decisions to auction
This week George Conway, a Republican lawyer and prominent critic of Donald Trump who happens to be married to presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway, diagnosed the president with "narcissistic personality disorder." Trump responded by calling Conway "a total loser," then, upon reflection, a "stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!" It is tempting to conclude that Conway was the winner of this exchange. His insult was certainly more detailed, and it seemed more sophisticated as well, relying on the supposedly scientific authority of the American Psychiatric Association´s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). But the spat illustrates psychiatry´s pernicious
Earlier this afternoon President Donald Trump delivered a speech in Lima, Ohio, at an Army tank plant. The overall speech held a jobs and economic focus highlighting a strong U.S. economy that continues to expand. Within the remarks President Trump mixed in a wide variety of current event topics including U.S. military success against ISIS; and the need for GM and the UAW to come to terms, then sell or re-lease the Lordstown, Ohio, auto plant. (Video) [Transcript will follow] (Photos) Interesting tweet from Bloomberg reporter: (Tweet) Looks like President Trump drawing attention to the opportunity has led to GM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren explained at a townhall meeting sponsored by CNN in Jackson, Miss., on Monday night how God picks some people to go to heaven and others to go to another place. She did this after she was asked by moderator Jake Tapper what role faith plays in her life. After saying that she was raised a Methodist and used to teach Sunday school, Warren said: “The story for me is Matthew 26, and I´m sure some of you, a lot of you know this story. You know, this is the one where the shepherd is dividing the world
Convicted abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell appears worried that more states are not considering late-term abortion laws like those passed in New York and introduced in Virginia, in an email obtained by The Daily Caller. Gosnell expresses his “doubts” in the email sent from prison that “rural conservative” Pennsylvania would consider laws legalizing abortion up until birth. The piece of communication was part of correspondence between Gosnell and film producers of the movie “Gosnell,” and its veracity was verified by the Caller. (Photo) Gosnell was convicted of first degree murder in 2013 after killing infants that survived his failed abortions, as
For the first time in a decade, kale, Opens a New Window. the popular green leaf cabbage adored by health enthusiasts worldwide, has rejoined the ´Dirty Dozen´ list of fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide residues. On Wednesday, the Environmental Working Group released Opens a New Window. its annual Shopper´s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which analyzes Department of Agriculture test data to identify which supermarket produce have the most --and least-- contamination. Researchers said they were shocked that kale made the list this year.
A white University of Missouri police officer is public enemy No. 1 after a photo emerged of him in blackface as rapper Flavor Flav, campus officials said. Officer Marcus Collins of the MU Police Department was terminated immediately on Tuesday after university officials said he admitted that the photo—featuring Flavor Flav’s iconic oversize clock necklace and Collins’ darkened skin—depicted him prior to his employment with the department. “This type of behavior is not tolerated at Mizzou, and we understand how this impacts our entire community profoundly,” Chancellor Alexander Cartwright said in a statement. “Racism, hate and insensitive behavior have no place
Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Meghan McCain responded to President Donald Trump’s ongoing criticisms of late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McCain said, “I think if I had told my dad seven months after you’re dead, you’re going to be dominating the news and all over Twitter, he would think it was hilarious that our president was so jealous of him that he was dominating the news cycle in death as well. Do not feel bad for me and my family. We are blessed.” “We are a family of privilege,” she continued. “Feel bad for people out there who are
LIMA —President Donald Trump told a crowd at the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center in Lima that 400 new jobs are coming to the plant, just north of the Dayton region.“You better love me. I kept this place open,” President Trump said when he took the stage. Trump said “jobs are coming back” like never before.Early in his address, President Trump mentioned the recently closed General Motors plant in Lordstown.Trump said “sell it to somebody or open it yourself.” (Video) The president is traveling with acting Defense secretary Patrick Shanahan and Secretary of the Army Mark Esper, according to an administration
Here’s To The Cheaters
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Have you filled out your bracket yet? Better hurry — by 5:40 p.m. Eastern time, when Fairleigh Dickinson and Prairie View A&M tip off to open the NCAA’s First Four play-in, the 2019 NCAA Tournament will have begun and your prognostications, at least those for the various monetary remunerations and other prizes so many chase by putting their skills at hoops analysis to the test, will be tardy. It’s time for March Madness, perhaps the greatest show in all of sports. Don’t give me the World Cup in soccer — nothing about soccer is great.
A week after saying any Democrat who made the 2020 presidential race about “Trump’s personality” will beat him, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch hires Paul Ryan to serve as a board member for the news organization. This announcement follows on the heels of Fox News hiring the former head of the DNC, Donna “Debate-Gate” Brazile,(Snip) in 2013 Fox News worked behind the scenes to facilitate the Senate’s comprehensive immigration reform platform. Additionally, a year later, Murdoch himself advocated for Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio as the preferred candidates in 2016, using Megyn Kelly to achieve their
Two former USC football recruiters point out how administrator could have manipulated admissions
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The federal investigators named their landmark case “Operation Varsity Blues” as a tongue-in-cheek nod to the hit late-’90s film depicting an obsessed football culture in small-town Texas. Yet, despite the clever name, only three of the students who allegedly wiggled their way into prominent universities through the college admissions bribery scandal were presented as fake football players. (Snip)The Los Angeles Times spoke Tuesday with two former USC football recruiting staff members who worked directly with Heinel to get real recruits admitted to the university. Both Eric Ziskin and Alex Rios said they had no knowledge of
Ellen DeGeneres peddles idea that Trump may be ‘losing his mind’ during Sen. Booker interview
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Ellen DeGeneres wants to know if “horrible” tweets by President Trump are an indicator that he’s mentally unstable. The comedian invited Sen. Cory Booker onto her show this week to discuss his career, an ongoing romance with actress Rosario Dawson, and the commander in chief’s Twitter feed. The conversation veered, however, from the New Jersey Democrat’s desire to “love more fearlessly” to Mr. Trump’s “almost repugnant” commentary on social media. “This past weekend, our president tweeted more in a short amount of time than he’s ever tweeted before,” Ms. DeGeneres said Wednesday. “I mean, it was an enormous amount
This binational celebration commemorates when Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa attacked the US in 1916. It starts as a two-week cavalcade in Mexico and riders are allowed into the US for the daily festivities.
It happens pretty much the same way every time. The day after I’ve partaken in some sort of weekend or holiday eating-and-drinking binge—i.e., the Monday after the Super Bowl, the fifth of July, the first week of January after the entire Thanksgiving-through-New Year’s season officially comes to a close—I engage in the same detoxifying, repenting ritual: the consumption of a fresh, nutrient-rich salad. Somehow, in my mind, the more vividly green the leaves in the salad, the more purifying the ritual will feel, and with that first crunch on a crisp piece of greenery,
Last place CNN’s already humiliating ratings nosedived by double digits last week. (Snip)some ten days ago the far-left CNN launched a 24/7 jihad against President Trump, going so far as to question his mental health, his patriotism, blaming him for a mass murder in New Zealand, and serial lying about his response to Charlottesville. But this unhinged hate campaign obviously turned off a considerable number of Americans. When compared to this same week last year, CNN lost -16 percent of its primetime viewers and -17 of total day viewers; young people ran away screaming: In the
On Tuesday´s episode of "The Andrew Klavan Show," host Andrew Klavan discusses how the mainstream media has entered a constant cycle of "Trump hatred" when it comes to the current White House administration. Transcript and video below. (Tweet/Video) So, I think it was Molly Hemingway of the Federalist who first pointed it out, that there is a cycle that the press goes through in their Trump hatred. They first go into Russian Collusion, who and where the Russians and here is Boris Badenoff and Natasha and Paul Manafort and all of these things. Then that blows up because it´s all