Posts on Thursday, March 21, 2019
When left-wing politicians claim to be “for the people,” they never mean it. You see it every day in how left-wing politicians behave on the national stage and on the local stage.Take for instance the disgusting contempt that the virulently left-wing, elitist members of the Seattle City Council displayed earlier this month when a local voter showed up at a “public comment” hearing to express his concerns about the state of American democracy. From the get-go, members of the council seemed to ignore the voter, choosing to stare down at their phones and paperwork instead of turning their heads up
During Thursday’s MSNBC broadcast of “Morning Joe,” co-host Mika Brzezinski discussed 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s chances. Brzezinski said after having Buttigieg on the show, a handful of Republicans told her he had their support.“I think there is a hunger for somebody who seems and feels and sounds and looks completely real and connected with what we’re looking for: connection to history, a connection to who we are, a connection to faith that is honest and up front,” stated Brzezinski. “This is who I am and this is what I’m going to bring to the table. And he does it
A few months ago, Colton Haas and I traveled to the once beautiful city of San Francisco, hoping to have a question answered: What happened to San Francisco? (Video) Erica Sandberg, a community advocate and journalist, broke it down for us: "Right now the major issue — people always call it homelessness — but the major issue is drugs." While San Francisco has always battled homelessness and currently has about 7,000 homeless people, the drug issue is exacerbating the problem. The city currently hands out more than 400,000 syringes each month but only 246,000 are returned, leaving 154,000 syringes left
A newly unearthed batch of heavily redacted, classified emails from Hillary Clinton´s personal email server revealed that the former secretary of state discussed establishing a "private, 100% off-the-record" back channel to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and that one of her top aides warned her that she was in "danger" of being "savaged by Jewish organizations, in the Jewish press and among the phalanx of neoconservative media" as a result of political machinations by "Bibi and the Jewish leadership." (Snip) The files came from a trove of 72,000 documents the FBI recovered and turned over to the State Department in
If you love Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and want to help the ACLU, you can raise a glass of Sam Adams. Boston Beer Co. will release next week “When There Are Nine,” a Belgian Brut IPA dedicated to the jurist and liberal rock star, according to a Thursday report in the Boston Globe. The title is “inspired by her famous response to the question ‘When will there be enough women on the Supreme Court?’” the company wrote at an Eventbrite page announcing the launch.(Snip) According to the Globe, the Ginsburg-inspired beer is a “pink boots release,” an annual nonprofit
Nearly half of all New Yorkers dislike Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to a poll released Thursday. The Quinnipiac Univeristy poll found that 49 percent of New Yorkers disapproved of de Blasio, while only 24 percent of New Yorkers approved of the New York City Democrat. De Blasio did not fare better on his home turf, as 48 percent of all New York City residents had a negative opinion of the mayor and potential 2020 presidential candidate, while 36 percent of residents viewed him in a positive light. Even de Blasio’s fellow Democrats had an unfavorable opinion of him,
A handful of leading Democrat donors recently told former Vice President Joe Biden that they would not raise early-stage campaign funds for him if he were to run for president in 2020, according to a report. According to CNBC, several donors declined Biden’s request to bundle campaign contributions due to their skepticism regarding whether the 76-year-old establishmentarian could survive a bruising Democrat primary. CNBC reports: Biden, who has yet to announce whether he will run, has reached out to leading financiers over the past week to see whether they will help him raise money for a presidential run.
Please learn to split wide headlines.
Please learn to split wide headlines.
Investigators are still trying to determine why a man who had reportedly been driving erratically Tuesday night fled police, sparking a chase that ended in a shootout in which a Kittitas County sheriff’s deputy was killed. One clue may be the immigration status of Juan Manuel Flores Del Toro, who was also killed in the shootout in the small town of Kittitas. A police officer was wounded in the shootout but is expected to recover. Flores Del Toro, a Mexican national, was in the United States illegally on an expired agriculture visa, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said.
´Progressive´ = the New Nazi
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Before Donald Trump was elected President, and certainly since, self-described "progressives" or "democratic socialists" in the Democratic Party have denigrated anybody who opposes their agenda as Nazis. But are they engaging in psychological projection? Consider the following recent events. Comments by Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Jim Clyburn and Rep. Rashida Tlaib display contempt for Jews -- in Rep. Clyburn´s case, for victims of the Holocaust. Heavily Democratic legislatures in New York, Illinois and Virginia perpetuate the wanton destruction of human life by passing laws allowing abortion to the moment of birth. In Virginia, Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam said a woman can
The apparent scoop du jour is that ex-VP Joe Biden is set to announce his bid with his running mate already picked out: former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Suggestions for his VP thus far have been a who’s-who of the current field of competition for the nomination, including Harris and O’Rourke. Abrams possibly becoming The Chosen One is somewhat surprising, because her star has only so recently begun its ascendency — but not too surprising, because of her fierce intellect, warm demeanor and popularity. Stacey Abrams exudes good sense and kindness, delivered with impeccable poise: that’s the impression most
Cory Booker´s in love, he´s in love, he´s in love, he´s in love, he´s in love with a wonderful person who sports female genitalia! Booker, who is NOT gay, spilled the beans during a visit with Ellen DeGeneres, who IS gay! Just who is this new squeeze of Booker´s who is also a woman? Rosario Dawson! Need a moment to catch your breath? No? Me neither. Anyhow, here´s what heterosexual Cory Booker had to say on the matter: "She was wonderful and she’s just an incredible human being." Golly, I wonder how he feels about her in the present tense?
Total attendance in the Capital Building room, where a hearing of a House subcommittee was held last December 13, could fit into a rural Middle School bathroom. The second panel that day to come before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, chaired by Mark Meadows (R. NC.), was boycotted by all its Democrat members. But they did send their Washington, D.C. “Delegate,” Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.), to be both ranking and only minority member there. Besides Chairman Meadows, three GOP House members came. Rep. Jim Jordon said he was there to learn—likely true. The other two
THIS VIDEO IS AMAZING! It is going viral today… It was sent to us at least four times. Paul Hernandez produced a film that perfectly depicts America’s pathetic mainstream media. (Photo) These mainstream hacks at CNN, Washington Post, MSNBC, etc. continue to spew lies and hatred against President Trump and his supporters. Then they lash out at the president and conservatives when they get called out. It’s a never ending cycle. (Photo) This is EXCELLENT! (Video) FYI: My buddy Jimmy, a Trump voter, construction worker and hippie conservative, just watched the video with me
What’s in a name? Everything for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The New York Democrat blasted Fox News host Laura Ingraham and her guest for mocking how she pronounced her name and saying she does so because it’s a “Latina thing.” “If by ‘the Latina thing,’ she means I actually do the work instead of just talk about it, then yeah, I’m doing ‘the Latina thing,’” she wrote on her Twitter page late Wednesday. “Unless of course she‘s talking about being multilingual, which we know isn’t a ‘Latina thing.’ It’s a ‘21st century’ thing.” Ocasio-Cortez also said that Fox News’
It´s Omar´s party now
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When freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar came out with smears whose anti-Semitic nature couldn’t be denied, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer responded rapidly, with unequivocal denunciation. But when Pelosi tried to steer a resolution condemning anti-Semitism through the House, her party’s young radicals, who rightly view themselves as representative of the Democrats’ base, rebelled. Omar and her fellow “progressives” won the day, and Pelosi replaced her anti-Semitism resolution with one so anodyne that Omar happily voted for it. Yesterday, the arch-leftist group MoveOn denounced the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which has until now enjoyed broad bipartisan support, and urged
Levi Strauss & Co.’s return to the stock market today after a 34-year hiatus is momentous enough for the New York Stock Exchange to relax its dress code. Blue jeans, traditonally, are not permitted on the trading floor of the stock market. There’s even a sign warning traders as they enter the fray. But for one day only, it’s casual Thursday on Wall Street so you can wear jeans. The NYSE made the announcement late Wednesday on Twitter: “Tomorrow we’ll be in our 501s.” Levi Strauss priced its offering at $17 per share, higher than the expected range of $14
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calculated to force universities to choose between restrictive on-campus speech codes and an annual gush of federal dollars. ´If a college or university doesn´t allow you to speak, we will not give them money, it´s very simple,´ he announced in an East Room signing event, with conservative leaders and student activists gathered.The Republican president said students in the room ´faced down intimidation, pressure and abuse´ on their campuses. ´You did it because you love your country and you believe in truth, justice and freedom,´ he stated. ´You fought bravely for your rights,
Conservative operative Roger Stone is invoking his Fifth Amendment privilege and refusing House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler’s request for documents in a far-reaching probe aimed at investigating President Donald Trump and his associates. “On the advice of counsel, Mr. Stone will not produce the documents requested by the House Committee on the Judiciary,” Stone’s attorney wrote to Nadler in a letter reviewed by The Daily Caller, adding, “whether the documents requested by the House Committee on the Judiciary exist or not, they are subject to a Fifth Amendment claim.”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday requiring colleges and universities to uphold the First Amendment on campus if they want to receive federal research funding. President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to protect free speech on college campuses. The order calls for holding universities accountable “both for student outcomes and for student life on campus,” by withholding federal research funding if a university or college does not agree to respect the First Amendment.“We must encourage institutions to appropriately account for this bedrock principle in their administration of student life and to avoid creating environments that
In psychology circles, there’s an unofficial concept called “the Martha Mitchell effect.” It’s the tendency to diagnose someone as mentally ill simply because the story they tell is so bizarre, without checking whether the bizarre story is in fact true. That’s what happened to Martha Mitchell, the outspoken wife of President Richard M. Nixon’s attorney general, John Mitchell. She was dismissed as “crazy” for her wild claims about the Nixon administration and issued a public ultimatum to her husband to choose her or the president. This week, another marital spat gripped Washington as President Trump tweeted insults about George Conway,
DENVER -- Former Colorado governor and presidential candidate John Hickenlooper needed to have a big moment during his nationally televised town hall on CNN. He accomplished that. But it´s perhaps not the kind of attention he wanted. (Tweet) When asked by CNN´s Dana Bash if he would select a woman to be on the ticket, he replied: "Of course." But then he pivoted, perhaps awkwardly, to say, "How come we aren´t asking the women, ´Would you be willing to put a man on the ticket?´" Bash quickly replied, "When we get to that point, I´ll ask you that question."
President Donald Trump has a low approval rating. He is engaging in bitter Twitter wars and facing metastasizing investigations. But if the election were held today, he’d likely ride to a second term in a huge landslide, according to multiple economic models with strong track records of picking presidential winners and losses. Credit a strong U.S. economy featuring low unemployment, rising wages and low gas prices — along with the historic advantage held by incumbent presidents.
Parents of a teenage son who has Asperger’s and autism were threatened by authorities to have their child placed in foster care after they refused to help facilitate a so-called "sex change" of the boy. Recalling the horrifying ordeal to The Daily Mail, the couple, who wished to remain anonymous, claimed an NHS clinic in the U.K. said their then-14-year-old boy should be put on hormone-blockers since he told them he thought he was a girl. The parents, believing their child´s autism played a role in the declaration of gender confusion, refused to cooperate with the “transition,” particularly since the blockers
The commandant of the Marines has warned the Pentagon that deployments to the southwest border and funding transfers under the president’s emergency declaration, among other unexpected demands, have posed “unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency.” In two internal memos, Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller said the “unplanned/unbudgeted” deployment along the border that President Trump ordered last fall, and shifts of other funds to support border security, had forced him to cancel or reduce planned military training in at least five countries, and delay urgent repairs at bases.(Snip) Neller, a four-star general, said because of the
WATCH: Border Patrol Agents Harassed By Arizona Students: ´Murder Patrol,´ ´Extension Of KKK´
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On Tuesday, two border patrol agents were harassed by students at the University of Arizona during an event intended to allow criminal justice majors to hear from law enforcement agents. The agents were invited by the school’s Criminal Justice Association, which hosted agents from both the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Homeland Securities Investigations (HSI) wing of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in previous meetings. In several videos, students are seen interrupting the officers´ presentation and even following them down the hall while chanting “murder patrol.”
ICE has had to turn loose more than 100,000 illegal immigrant family members over the past three months, a top official said Thursday, setting them free in border communities as the surge of people coming to the U.S. overwhelms the system. That works out to more than 1,000 family members being cut loose every day, stressing not only Homeland Security but also the charities that are trying to help them, and the local infrastructure—including bus stations—that are trying to help them. The numbers are so high that deportation officers are being taken from other duties such as scouring prisons
President Donald Trump explained why he did not like the late Senator John McCain, listing reasons why on Wednesday after taking the stage at an Ohio battle tank factory. Trump asked the hundreds of gathered employees if he should talk about his ongoing feud with the deceased senator. After several of the employees shouted “Yes!” Trump continued, “I have to be honest. I never liked him much. Hasn’t been for me. I really probably never will.” Here is Trump’s list of grievances: 1) McCain helped distribute the phony Russia dossier to the FBI and the media
The illegal alien accused of murdering 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa, has been granted $3,200 in state taxpayer funds for an expert witness in the upcoming murder trial. In August 2018, Cristhian Bahena-Rivera, an illegal alien from Mexico, was charged with Tibbetts’ murder after police said he admitted to confronting and chasing down the young woman. Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in Poweshiek County after a statewide search for her. The illegal alien lived in a region of Iowa that was surrounded by sanctuary cities, (Snip) worked on a dairy farm
Empire’s ratings suffered series-lows on Wednesday as fallout from actor Jussie Smollett being indicted for filing a false police report continues to plague the Fox drama. According to TheWrap, Empire garnered 4 million total viewers with a 1.1 demo rating/6 share. The program’s last series lows occurred in October of 2018 Halloween 2018, then drawing 4.2 viewers with a 1.2 rating. Empire returned midseason last week, drawing 4.4 overall audience members with a 1.3 rating. This week’s episode saw a demo drop of 18 percent and 9 percent overall.
Boeing jets in Ethiopia and Indonesia lacked two safety features in their cockpits because the company charged extra to install them. The features could have helped pilots detect erroneous readings, which some experts believe might be connected to the planes’ failures, The New York Times reports. Lion Air Flight 610 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302, which crashed within five months of each other, were brand new but were not equipped with an angle of attack indicator or an angle of attack disagree light, the paper said.
President Trump must respond forcefully to Nicolas Maduro´s arrest on Thursday of interim Venezuelan President Juan Guaido´s chief of staff, Roberto Marrero. In allowing its rhetoric to exceed its actions, the Trump administration has ceded the strategic initiative to Maduro. In recent weeks we´ve seen repeated pledges for new tough action against Maduro from officials such as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton. But President Trump and President Ivan Duque of Colombia have been reluctant to embrace those bolder actions. The consequences are clear: Maduro´s retained power, Guaido´s inability to win greater support from Venezuela´s
Ethiopian Airlines Had a Max 8 Simulator, but Pilot on Doomed Flight Didn’t Receive Training On It
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian Airlines surpassed many carriers by becoming one of the first to install a simulator to teach pilots how to fly the new Boeing 737 Max 8, but the captain of the doomed Flight 302 never trained on the simulator, according to people close to the airline’s operations. The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Ethiopian Airlines had not authorized disclosure of the information, said the carrier had the Max 8 simulator up and running in January, two months before Flight 302 crashed.
The caliphate has crumbled, and the final offensive is over. While the official announcement hasn’t yet been made – Fox News has been told that this village, the last ISIS stronghold, is liberated. It’s the first time since we’ve been here in Syria for five days that the bombs have stopped dropping and the gunfire has disappeared. We have witnessed the end of the caliphate – the brutal empire that once ruled over 8 million people – is gone. Troops here are now bringing down the black flags of ISIS. The flags no longer fly over the town, instilling fear.
On Thursday morning, media reports claimed former Vice President Joe Biden, who is expected to announce his 2020 presidential bid any day now, will do so as in a "packaged" deal, with his number two likely being failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. "Close advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden are debating the idea of packaging his presidential campaign announcement with a pledge to choose Stacey Abrams as his vice president," reported Axios. The New York Times published a similar report concerning a Biden/Abrams ticket, though the outlet noted that other young Democrats´ names are still being shopped around for the
For some reason, Robert "Beto" O´Rourke just can´t stop leaping onto counters and tables in restaurants and coffee houses to deliver speeches as he tours the country on his 2020 presidential campaign. The 46-year-old Texas Democrat does it so often, it´s become a thing, as in a memey thing on the interwebs. [tweets] Note that in the first montage of pictures, Beto is atop a counter -- then squatting down to speak to someone at ground level. The upstart candidate -- who the mainstream media is gushingly comparing to John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama -- has a thing for
At 10:38 on the morning of Feb. 4, 2019, the deputy for United States District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said, “Good morning, Your Honor. This is a sealed proceeding, and the courtroom has been locked.” It was a hearing at which lawyers for Special Counsel Robert Mueller would argue that Paul Manafort had lied to them during 12 interviews, both before and after striking his plea bargain on foreign lobbying and money laundering charges. We know what was said behind those locked doors because a word-for-word transcript was made of the courtroom proceedings.
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said Thursday that government agents detained his chief of staff, Roberto Marrero, in an overnight raid. Describing what he called a kidnapping, Guaidó said weapons had been planted at Marrero´s house and that he should be freed immediately. The raid took place around 2 a.m. local time, Guaidó said, adding that he does not know Marrero´s current whereabouts — and saying his chief of staff had denounced any knowledge of two rifles and a grenade that he says authorities allegedly found in his home. Marrero lives in Caracas, near lawmaker Sergio Vergara
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs criticized Utah Sen. Mitt Romney and other Republican critics of President Donald Trump’s latest comments about late Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain. Speaking with former Reagan’s campaign director Ed Rollins on Wednesday evening about the president’s recent positive polling within the Republican Party, Dobbs gave GOP chairwoman Ronna McDaniel “great credit” before ripping Trump’s GOP critics. WATCH: (Video) “These are better numbers than Reagan had and Nixon had when they both had 49 state victories,” Rollins said, referring to the fact that 78 percent of Republicans are enthusiastic about Trump. “I am not predicting that,
Joe Biden’s video problem
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For the same reason that he is the Democrat most likely to run successfully against Donald Trump in 2020, Joe Biden is the most problematic choice for the Democrats’ presidential nomination. Slow Joe, you see, spent decades as a prominent officeholder before the Democrats embraced crazy leftism as dogma. And in the age of online video clips, social media, and email, his previous speeches contradicting the leftism currently demanded by the party’s base are available for all to see. A case in point is the current Democrat desperation measure: packing the Supreme Court. Brent Scher of the Free Beacon remembers
In early March Speaker Pelosi bowed to her radical wing of the Democrat Party. Instead of passing a resolution to condemn Democrat anti-Semite Ilhan Omar, the Democrat leader rewrote the party’s resolution to omit Omar’s name. The final resolution was not specific and condemned bigotry and prejudice of all kinds. Speaker Pelosi also allowed anti-Semitic Rep. Ilhan Omar to review and edit the Democrat resolution before it is voted on. Wow! It was another shameful moment in Democrat politics. But that does not stop Democrats from attacking President Trump and comparing him to Nazis and Hitler.
As the caravans keep rolling in, and Congress does its darndest to prevent the construction of a border wall, journalists who follow the money can find some striking news. The Washington Examiner´s Paul Bedard has a good one on U.S. remittances to the three Central American countries whose nationals are leading the surge across our unguarded southern border. He writes: Immigrants from the three Central American nation’s sourcing many illegal border crossers sent a record amount of money home last year, bringing the total this decade to $120 billion.
Democratic presidential candidate John Hickenlooper confirmed Wednesday night during his CNN town hall event that he took his mother to watch an X-rated pornographic movie when he was younger and that the two stayed for the entire movie. (Video) Hickenlooper confirmed that the incident, which he wrote about in his memoir, happened when he returned home from college to visit his mother for Thanksgiving. Hickenlooper´s dad died when he was 8-years-old, and he said that he didn´t realize that his mother was lonely until he returned home from college."I promised, I called a friend in Philadelphia — and ... we
West Coast Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose members earn average wages and benefits of $285,000 by raising labor Hell, is facing existential risk from the widened Panama Canal. The San Francisco Chronicle described the 42,000 card-carrying International Longshore and Warehouse Union members that since 1934 has maintained iron-fisted control of all 29 West Coast commercial ports, “the aristocrats of the working class.” ILWU full-time workers receive an average of $175,000 in annual wages, along with a non-wage benefits package costing more than $110,000 per active worker
On March 13, California governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order granting a reprieve to all 737 convicted murderers awaiting execution in the Golden State. The death penalty, Newsom said, has discriminated against mentally ill defendants and people of color. The San Francisco Democrat also contended that the death penalty has not made the state safer and has wasted billions of dollars. Gov. Newsom also cited the possibility that an innocent person could be sentenced to death, and that gives Californians something to ponder. All 737 reprieved death-row inmates had been found guilty of
Advisers for former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign-in-waiting are debating whether to name failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams as his running mate, a Thursday report says. According to Axios, Biden aides believe adding Abrams to the ticket would send a strong signal to voters that he’s not “just another old white guy.” The outlet said Team Biden isn’t going all-in on picking the rising progressive star just yet, worrying that the move could be received as a “gimmick” and open the former Vice President up to a new line of attacks.
It’s no news to anyone who lives on the West Coast that such cities as Portland, Seattle and San Francisco are in the midst of a homelessness crisis, and the issues that are associated with it. A recent TV documentary about the situation for our neighbor to the north takes a particularly grim view, as the title, “Seattle Is Dying,” may indicate. The hourlong special, which first aired on KOMO-TV in Seattle on Saturday, March 16, has prompted strong reactions from viewers who say “Seattle Is Dying” gets it right, and those who object to the
We all saw the rumblings of this for years. Democrats want to destroy the Second Amendment, create gun registries, and eventually confiscate firearms. It won’t happen in a couple of years, of course. This is the long game. Emboldened by their state-level victories in Vermont and Florida, in which the anti-gun Left was able to increase the age to purchase all firearms to 21. In Vermont, they even got Republican (and at the time pro-NRA) Gov. Phil Scott to sign off on magazine limits.
Don Blankenship, the former CEO of Massey Energy and GOP candidate for West Virginia’s U.S. Senate seat last year, filed a massive defamation lawsuit against several mainstream media outlets this past Friday. In the lawsuit, Blankenship alleges that these news organizations (among them CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and even Breitbart) knowingly and willfully misreported him as a felon instead of a misdemeanant. Blankenship, a former CEO of Massey Energy, was acquitted on three felonies but convicted of a misdemeanor for conspiring to violate safety regulations, after a deadly 2010 mining disaster.
In his 2018 book, The Restless Wave, the late Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) wondered aloud why he was sought out and given the infamous Steele dossier shortly after the 2016 presidential election. After suggesting that anyone who questioned his role in handling the political document was indulging in “conspiracy theories,” McCain offered his explanation: “The answer is too obvious for the paranoid to credit. I am known internationally to be a persistent critic of Vladimir Putin’s regime and I have been a long while.”
AUSTIN, Tex.—Austin is the only city in America where Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could speak—as she did last week at the South by Southwest Festival—and listeners say, “She’s a little too conservative for my tastes.” That’s why it’s odd that, in my home state’s capital, this mini–San Francisco, this island of ultraliberalism, Facebook has hired several thousand “moderators” to police speech around the world. Call me old-fashioned, but I remember when liberal Democrats were First Amendment radicals.
“It Wasn’t Russia. It Was Us.”
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By now most reasonable-thinking folks understand the entirety of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax was little more than a multi-billion dollar Democrat-media-Deep State scam meant to discredit the results of the 2016 Election. What the below map also shows is just how truly widespread President Trump’s America-First message is to the nation’s voters. The radical left has spent decades pushing millions into high-population density centers (cities) whereby they become almost completely dependent upon government services in order to survive. This results in more voters for radical left Democrat candidates who repeatedly promise yet more
Yet another sickening layer to the Deep State machinations that worked to delegitimize the votes of tens of millions of Americans and destroy a duly elected President of the United States…Via Zero Hedge: Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) revealed that “sitting ambassadors” were involved in a plot to “take down” President Trump. (Snip)Meadows said that the release of new documents will “show” that US ambassadors conspired with the DOJ, reports the Washington Examiner. “It’s additional information that is coming out that will show not only was there no collusion, but there was a coordinated effort to take this president down,”
John Podesta tweeted: "Good news for the planet: Federal judge demands Trump administration reveal how its drilling plans will fuel climate change." According to Reuters, "Tuesday’s ruling only pertains to 282 leases issued in Wyoming after five sales held in 2015 and 2016.” (Tweet) This happened before we elected Donald John Trump president. The ruling was against actions by Barack Hussein Obama´s administration. President Trump inherited the legal nightmare of leases granted improperly.
I first noticed something was up in the New York City backwater called the 14th Congressional District when a friend across the aisle, a well-respected political columnist, tweeted out the news of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “upset” victory against the incumbent Democrat, Joe Crowley, just minutes after it happened. Who cares? thought I. Crowley, one of the last of the Irish machine politicians, had safely sailed to reelection to the House for a decade, often without even a primary challenger. But the 29-year-old AOC,
Changing the Rules
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The news cycle is so unnaturally shrill as if it was the status quo itself was screaming. From unenacted policies to the automatic assignment of blame to Western civilization the news cycle has become one continuous rant. Referring to the root causes of the Christchurch mosque massacre a Slate article argued: "we are a nation born of shame. A white-majority Australia exists only as the result of a genocidal invasion." Speech has never been more dangerous nor points of view more opposed. When the demand isn´t "why didn´t you denounce this" or "why didn´t you apologize for that"
Who needs Fox News?
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Paul Ryan cashed in on his congressional career by joining the board of directors of Fox News. The channel also hired Donna Brazile, (Snip)Its strength was neoconservatism. Then Donald John Trump came along and neoconservatism was dead. Rather than build its commentary around President Trump, the network continued to favor neoconservatism over conservatism. So I would tune in for the Fox News All-Stars after the inauguration and find whatever President Trump did that day was wrong according to A.B.Stoddard, Stephen Hayes, and Chris Stirewalt, or whoever the panelists were that night.
Trump Pulled Ambassador Nomination of State Department Official Who Communicated With Steele and Ohr
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A State Department official who was awaiting confirmation to be U.S. Ambassador to Albania communicated with the former British spy Christopher Steele and supplied information to a senior DOJ official after and before the 2016 presidential election. Former State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathleen Ann Kavalec’s nomination was withdrawn recently by President Trump, according to a Senior White House official who spoke to SaraACarter.com.
In a stunning revelation from a 2009 UN document titled “Rethinking the Economic Recovery: A Global Green New Deal“, it is discovered that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ (AOC) Green New Deal is not a new movement of the people, but rather a crafty (and plagiarized) creation of a small group of global elite working through the United Nations. This 144-page report was headed by Edward B. Barbier, a professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming at the time, but specifically prepared for the United Nations Environment
Sperry Outlines the Post-Election Effort of Dan Jones To Continue The “Vast Russian Narrative”…
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It was previously noted how Senator Dianne Feinstein abdicated her position as Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, a Gang-of-Eight member, following the 2016 election. Senator Feinstein’s top aide was Daniel Jones; who, following the election, continued funding Christopher Steele and the Russia Conspiracy narrative.Paul Sperry has done some great follow-up research into Jones’ group, The Democracy Integrity Project; and how the team continued to collaborate with journalists, pushing the Russia Conspiracy, from January 2017 through to today.
Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows Send Letter to AG Barr Requesting Update on McCabe Criminal Referral…
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With a few exceptions CTH is not a big fan of expecting congressional letters to deliver results and information. However, that said, I hope this is one of the exceptions. Representatives Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows send a letter (full pdf below) to Attorney General William Barr wanting to know what is the status of the criminal referral for fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. The referral was made April 19th, 2018, approximately five days after the OIG published their report outlining McCabe’s lies.
Human nature being what it is, many candidates run for office the same way they did the last time. Take the 15th Democratic presidential candidate, former Rep. Robert Francis O’Rourke. When Mr. O’Rourke ran for the U.S. Senate in Texas in 2018, he was an energetic, charismatic campaigner who visited all 254 counties in the state. He gave inspirational speeches to Democrats, heavy on appeals for unity and optimism but generally devoid of substance. He relied on breathlessly positive press coverage while adroitly using social media to establish a personal channel to supporters. He raised $80 million,
Ralph Nader’s latest and most unlikely anti-corporate campaign focuses on a crash site in Ethiopia. That’s where Samya Rose Stumo, a 24-year-old public-health researcher and the daughter of Mr. Nader’s niece, died along with 156 others when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 went down. Her parents and a brother spent last week visiting the site, beseeching investigators, Red Cross workers and the carrier’s chief executive in an ultimately vain effort to retrieve any remains or belongings. Now Mr. Nader, the high-profile consumer crusader in the twilight of his career, is determined to translate his family’s anguish into action.
In the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates, Andrew Yang stands out with a lengthy and eccentric list of policy proposals. Yang, a lawyer-turned-entrepreneur who has never run for a political office before, addresses more than 75 issues on his website for what he calls “A Campaign of Ideas.” Yang is a New Yorker whose parents immigrated to the United States from Taiwan in the 1960s. In 2011, he launched the non-profit Venture for America. It encourages and trains young entrepreneurs to work for local start-ups across the country. After announcing his presidential bid in 2017, Yang has slowly gained
Pamela Geller recently reported on the murders of 120 Christians in Nigeria since February of this year. (Snip)The sympathy with Islamic jihadists is the necessary perverse outcome of a deep mental illness which I diagnose and call Islamophilia. This is the exaggerated love of Islam and of followers of Islam based upon a desire to bring death and destruction to Christians, Jews, and even those secularists who remain loyal to Judeo-Christian morality. It is an overidentification with the mindset that wishes to destroy Anglo/American liberty based on natural rights,
At least it’ll be easier to find a seat on the subway. More than a third of all city residents say they can’t afford to live anywhere in the state — much less the Big Apple — and believe economic hardship will send them packing in five years or less, according to a dismal new poll. That’s 41 percent of city dwellers who say they can’t cope with New York’s high cost of living, according to a Quinnipiac poll published Wednesday. Separately, 41 percent fear they’ll be “forced” to pull up stakes and seek greener pastures where the economic climate
Democrats may regret their years of hyperventilation over allegations of foreign “collusion” to influence a presidential election. In what amounts to slow-motion political jujitsu, the very nefarious acts attributed to the Trump campaign may end up being applied to the Obama administration and Hillary campaign. A formal criminal investigation already is being launched overseas, making an American counterpart investigation awkward to suppress. Anyone who has paid attention to the genesis of the Mueller investigation understands that it was opposition research paid for by the Democratic Party and Hillary presidential campaign and corrupt senior officials at the FBI that sparked the
Former liberal Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger ripped President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening for his “absolutely unacceptable” attacks on the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). “He was just an unbelievable person,” Schwarzenegger told the Atlantic. “So an attack on him is absolutely unacceptable if he’s alive or dead—but even twice as unacceptable since he passed away a few months ago. It doesn’t make any sense whatsoever to do that. I just think it’s a shame that the president lets himself down to that kind of level.
A rare super worm moon rose across the world Wednesday night as the planet welcomed spring. The third and final supermoon of 2019 was visible after Tuesday´s full moon brought stunning sights from behind the Statue of Freedom atop the US Capitol in Washington DC, One World Trade Center in New York City and even the US-Mexican border in Anapra, New Mexico.But it reached its full visual potential just before spring equinox. (Photos) The first full moon this month coincided with the start of the new season for the first time since 1905. The ´worm moon´ gets its name from
Former interim Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile was full of posthumous praise for the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) on Wednesday’s edition of Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier. The context was President Trump’s renewed criticism of McCain after a newly-released deposition showed how deeply McCain was involved in the fraudulent “Russia dossier” that has been used to attack the administration and divide the nation. Brazile, who Fox News recently hired as a contributor, began by criticizing the president for speaking ill of the dead. She then continued: “John McCain leaves a legacy. He leaves a legacy of
Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls have so far proposed or signaled willingness to discuss at least four major policy ideas that would require the U.S. Constitution to be amended. Lowering the voting age to 16. Introducing term limits for Supreme Court justices -Dissolving the Electoral College and adopting a National Popular Vote- Reintroducing the Equal Rights Amendment -As more and more Democrats enter the rapidly expanding field, each vying for the chance to challenge President Donald Trump’s re-election bid, it is becoming apparent that most of them are looking for ways to change the status quo — even if that means changing
The joy of Left Privilege
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Karl Marx was right: When you run the schools and the organs of propaganda you can do anything. These days people can lynch you with the word "privilege." For our Democratic line of Rockettes, "Left Privilege" is a magic box of power. If you´re Beto you can eat a plateful of “magic dirt,” and then pull in six million bucks in the first 24 hours of your campaign. Best of all, you get to keep any money that´s left after your "presidential campaign" has become a burning wreck. It´s better than bank robbery.Just think about the raw political power of
“There you go again,” Ronald Reagan famously joked in 1980 when President Jimmy Carter painted an inaccurate picture of one of his policies. Perhaps he’d say the same of those who are distorting the history of the Electoral College today. New York’s newest congresswoman, Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been quick to jump onto this bandwagon, recently labeling the Electoral College a “shadow of slavery’s power on America.” Others have called it a “living symbol of America’s original sin,” an “antiquated relic of slavery,” or even a “pro-slavery compromise.”
To run or not to run? Despite leading a dozen announced Democratic 2020 presidential candidates in the polls, former Vice President Joe Biden is again dragging out a decision on a presidential run, repeatedly teasing that he is close to making up his mind. In April 2018, Biden said that "I know I got to make that decision by, you know, by the end of this year." By December, he had amended that to: "We´re going to make that decision in the next six weeks to two months." At the start of January, members of his inner circle intimated
Brexit: What Would Thatcher Do?
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What would Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher do in respect of Brexit? That’s the question with which we’re wrestling as the second woman premier to lead Britain, Theresa May, flounders toward the March 29 date by which, absent a deal or an agreed-upon delay, Britain will finally regain its independence. How would the Iron Lady handle what the nervous Nellies are calling a colossal constitutional crisis? We understand that Thatcher has left this mortal coil. We focus on her because, as we’ve often marked, the idea of Brexit took flight only after Thatcher delivered her famous speech at Bruges, Belgium. T
President Trump complained Wednesday that he was never thanked for allowing Sen. John McCain’s funeral celebration, escalating a feud with the McCain family and drawing the ire of senators on Capitol Hill who told the president he was embarrassing himself. Mr. Trump, during a speech to workers at an Army tank plant in Ohio, took a detour in his remarks to blame the press for picking at years of scar tissue between the two men which has lasted even beyond McCain’s death in August. The president said he has “certain reasons” for disliking the former senator, including his votes
When Jimmy Carter left office in 1980, the return home to Plains was not easy. His once flourishing farming business was more than $1 million dollars in debt, and he faced the prospect of selling the land that his family had been on for 150 years. Then a friend pointed out that Carter, at the tender age of 56, could expect to live at least until 80-years-old.“I had one disturbing reaction,” Carter wrote in his 1998 book, “The Virtues of Aging.” “What was I going to do with the next 25 years?Let’s just say a lot —
In the latest Tweet storm involving President Trump — this one with George Conway, Kellyanne’s husband — I am glad that the President finally has responded to him frontally. (Snip)But this utterly failed campaign of attempted character assassination and personal destruction that George Conway has been pursuing against President Trump for so long, with such bitterness, so overtly, so viciously, so vituperatively — all while his wife so publicly stands by the President and is known to be one of the President’s highest-ranking confidantes — actually brings shame not to the President but to Mr. Conway.
In recent days, Democrats have been trampling all over each other to get to a microphone to trumpet massive structural changes to American public life. First, several presidential candidates are calling for an increase in the size of the Supreme Court. Nine justices are too few, apparently. In a proposal that seems straight out of the writers’ room at “The West Wing,” Beto O’Rourke wants the court apportioned by party, with five Democrats and five Republicans, and an extra five chosen by the 10 partisan ones. Meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed a proposal
Polar Bear Populations Booming
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Liberals apparently chose the polar bear as a poster child for global warming because the bears are considered cute, although no one who had a close encounter with a polar bear would describe it that way. Why global warming would be harmful to polar bears was never persuasively explained, nor was there any explanation of how the bears had survived many climatic changes over hundreds of thousands of years. In any event, it’s time to call the whole thing off. Polar bears are thriving: Polar bear numbers could easily exceed 40,000, up from a low point of 10,000
Two mysterious parties, labeling themselves Jane Doe and John Doe, have filed separate legal briefs in an attempt to limit the public release of personal information that could connect them to an underage sex trafficking operation allegedly run by New York financier Jeffrey Epstein and his partner, Ghislaine Maxwell. Jane Doe, represented by Kerrie Campbell, a Washington-based gender equality lawyer, appears to be a victim who wants to remain unidentified, but indicated she is amicable to the release of some information — as long as it doesn’t identify her, court documents filed this week show.
After nearly three years and millions of tax dollars, the Trump-Russia collusion probe is about to be resolved. Emerging in its place is newly unearthed evidence suggesting another foreign effort to influence the 2016 election — this time, in favor of the Democrats. Ukraine’s top prosecutor divulged in an interview aired Wednesday on Hill.TV that he has opened an investigation into whether his country’s law enforcement apparatus intentionally leaked financial records during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign about then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an effort to sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said Tuesday that he deliberately exposed his nine children to chickenpox in lieu of vaccinating them, actions that follow reports of an outbreak of the contagious disease at a Roman Catholic school in a northern part of the state. “Every single one of my kids had the chickenpox," Bevin told Bowling Green radio station WKCT. "They got the chickenpox on purpose because we found a neighbor that had it and I went and made sure every one of my kids was exposed to it, and they got it. They had it as children.
Justice Clarence Thomas, who is known for his silence, shocked spectators in court Wednesday when he asked a question during arguments in a dispute over racial discrimination in jury selection. Thomas´s question, which marks the second time in a decade the court´s leading conservative has spoken during arguments, came in the case of a Mississippi man who has been tried six times for the 1996 murders of four people inside a furniture store. Thomas last spoke in February 2016 when he asked several questions during oral arguments in a gun rights case.
It´s hard to believe that some of author Beverly Cleary´s beloved characters are nearly 50 years old. Little Ramona, who got in trouble for pulling one of nemesis Susan´s curls, middle-aged? Henry Huggins, owner of beloved dog Ribsy, ready for AARP? Could Ramona´s big-sister Beezus actually be old enough to be Grandma Beezus?
SEATTLE - A 34-year-old Seattle man was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly tried to push a woman off an Interstate 5 overpass, according to the Seattle Police Department. Jonathan Wilson was charged with attempted first-degree assault Wednesday, two days after he was booked into King County Jail. On the Madison Street I-5 overpass, Wilson allegedly shoved a random woman against the bridge railing after she passed him going to work, the case investigation report said. He said she cut him off before shoving her. He then grabbed her by the backpack and tried to push her over the railing