Posts on Wednesday, March 27, 2019
The Mueller report exonerated President Trump of claims that he colluded with Russia to steal the election from Hillary Clinton. In response, Nancy Pelosi said screw Mueller´s report. Her minions will continue seeking to create evidence of Trump/Russia collusion to impeach him. Fake news media will continue its lies and deceptions to keep their “Trump colluded” lie going. Thirty-four people were indicted or pled guilty in Mueller´s Trump collusion investigation. Fake news media claims this is proof that Trump is guilty of collusion. The truth is the indictments and guilty pleas have nothing to do with Russia collusion. Many were
"This partisan coup d´etat will go down in infamy in the history of our nation," the congressman said.He was outraged and wanted the nation to know why. "Mr. Speaker," he said, "this is clearly a partisan railroad job." "We are losing sight of the distinction between sins, which ought to be between a person and his family and his God, and crimes which are the concern of the state and of society as a whole," he said. "Are we going to have a new test if someone wants to run for office: Are you now or have you ever been
TAMPA — Two young men were shot to death with an assault rifle in May 2017 at a New Tampa townhouse. The shooter, police said, was their roommate, 18-year-old Devon Arthurs, later described as a former neo-Nazi who converted to Islam and shot the pair after they mocked him. In the garage, investigators found bomb-making chemicals belonging to a fourth roommate, the founder of a white nationalist sect. The bizarre series of crimes yielded a federal prison sentence for one man and a stay in a psychiatric hospital for the other. The saga continued Tuesday night as Arthurs strolled into a
Fired FBI Director Jim Comey wandered out of woods tonight to deliver a speech at the Belk Theatre in Charlotte, North Carolina.Comey lashed out at his close friend Robert Mueller for failing to invent collusion against President Trump. Comey called the Mueller Report “confusing” and he “can’t quite understand what’s going on with the obstruction stuff.” Former FBI chief James Comey said in a speech Tuesday evening that he is confused by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s reasoning on charging President Trump with obstruction of justice. Mr. Comey told his audience that while he had “great faith” in Mr. Mueller, the
Barbara Bush blamed Donald Trump for her heart attack. It wasn’t technically a heart attack, though she called it that. It was a crisis in her long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease that hit her like a sledgehammer one day in June 2016. An ambulance was called to take her to the hospital. The two former presidents who had been at home with her that day, her husband and her oldest son, trailed in a car driven by the Secret Service. The tumultuous presidential campaign in general and Trump’s ridicule of son Jeb Bush
“When you can’t win the game, change the rules.” That seems to be the motto of the far left these days. Not content to play by the rules, it hopes to tilt the playing field to its own advantage and in the process transform American politics. Here are four ways it has proposed doing that. 1. Packing the Supreme Court A number of Democratic presidential hopefuls have floated the idea of adding new seats on the Supreme Court. To begin with, this is something the Constitution gives Congress the power to determine. But this isn’t the first time the political branches
Losing ´bigly´: Nancy Pelosi´s bid to override President Trump´s veto on halting the wall fails
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Nancy Pelosi is actually the most popular Democrat among Democrats, owing to her perceived capacity to fight and win against President Trump, particularly over the border wall issue. Seriously, one poll showed her ranked as number one, more popular than any of the Democrats running for president. Remember this? (Video) Her record, actually, is one of miserable failure.She did achieve in fact, a government shutdown for more than a month in her bid to halt a desperately needed border wall as the migrant surge sends tens of thousands of unvetted illegal immigrants into the country with as many as five
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., posted a message of support for transgender Americans to social media on Sunday. "Discrimination has no place in our society. I am proud to display this flag as a symbol of my support for the transgender people across the country. We must stand with transgender people in all of our communities." "The flag was hung outside our Senate office yesterday to recognize transgender visibility day, which is March 31," Sanders staff wrote in a Tuesday email. The flag will remain flag for one week, as requested by the National Center for Transgender Equality, according to staff.
With no new evidence presented and a grand jury 16-count felony indictment at hand, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office suddenly decided to ask the judge in the case to drop all charges against Jussie Smollett and seal all the records of the case. (snip) the most obvious immediate effect was to drive from the headlines the Mueller Report’s exoneration of President Trump from any charge of collusion, and therefore the Democrats’ and media’s complicity in perpetrating a catastrophically damaging hoax. The involvement Tina Tchen, formerly Michelle Obama’s top aide makes me think
After prosecutors dropped all 16 charges against Jussie Smollett on Tuesday, the actor insisted he did not fake the fake attack. At a press conference, Smollett made an unusual, if not Freudian, statement about his "truthfulness" and his mother. (snip) Mother Janet Harris Smollett taught him well — lies are facts that will happen sometime, somewhere, because America is a racist, oppressive country. Janet has quite a history of intimate involvement with communists, black supremacists, and Black Panthers
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Tuesday pushed back against Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for denouncing the global boycott and sanctions movement against Israel during an appearance before the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference. (Snip) "A condemnation for people that want to exercise their First Amendment rights is beneath any leader, and I hope that we find a better use of language when we are trying to speak as members of Congress that are sworn to protect the Constitution," Omar told reporters in a Capitol hallway after a House Democratic Caucus meeting on Tuesday. But Omar didn´t
Jordan Peele says “white dudes” need not apply for lead roles in his films. The director of the hit horror movies “Get Out” and “Us” told a Hollywood audience this week that he’ll be keeping lead roles segregated to black people only for the foreseeable future. “I get to cast black people in my movies,” he said Monday at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, The Hollywood Reporter noted. “I feel fortunate to be in this position where I can say to Universal, ‘I want to make a $20 million horror movie with a black family.’ And they say yes. I don’t
Left-wing billionaire mega-donor George Soros donated $408,000 in 2016 to a super PAC that supported Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, whose office prosecuted — and dropped — the Jussie Smollett case. (Snip) Soros has spent heavily on backing “progressive” candidates for local prosecutorial offices across the nation, following the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014, which alleged that black defendants have been treated unfairly by the justice system.
What, then, was it all about? I think I know. It was all about General Flynn. I think it began on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, when Flynn changed the way we did intelligence against the likes of Zarqawi, bin Laden, the Taliban, and their allies. (Snip) This earned him a following among some who worked for or with him, but it also gained him the enmity of those who had been cut out of “the chain of command.” By the time he was made head of DIA, Flynn had a real problem with the intelligence community,
The painting was the Saudi prince’s closely guarded secret. During the three months of the year when Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh cruised the sea aboard his 246-foot super yacht, the Coral Island, the canvas hung from a wall inside the luxury boat, wired to an alarm system, reportedly part of a floating museum of artwork worth hundreds of millions of dollars the deep-pocketed Saudi royal family member kept on board. But this particular piece — “Buste de Femme (Dora Maar),” a 1938 painting by Pablo Picasso — was not for show.“None of the owner’s friends,
Still Dreaming of Watergate II
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Of all the asinine and, at times, almost psychotic misstatements about the bone-crushing victory the president has won, the prize goes, with admirable historical symmetry, to John Dean. It was Dean who led the destruction of lawyer-client privilege in the Watergate debacle, and with it, of much of America’s claim to be a society of laws. Having been the corrupt source of many of the most fatuous illegalities in the amateur obstruction put forward by members of President Richard Nixon’s entourage, John Dean was the first rat down the hawser, denouncing his client, employer,
The long-awaited news on Sunday that the Mueller Report had exonerated President Trump of collusion with Russia instantly shed major new light on the complicity of the mainstream media in perpetrating the mass delusion of collusion. The news also had an immediate and potentially game-changing impact on the cable news television ratings. (snip) On Monday, Fox News had more than twice as many viewers – in both total numbers and in the preferred 25-54 year old demographic – than MSNBC and CNN combined.
Earlier this year, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., jointly proposed a resolution outlining a broad strategy for dealing with climate change. The proposal, billed as the Green New Deal, was laughed off the public stage. The background materials providing its specifics proved so embarrassingly unfeasible — high-speed rail, elimination of "farting cows," and all — that both Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff tried to save face by claiming, falsely, that their own documents were actually a clever Republican forgery. The Green New Deal is a profoundly embarrassing and politically damaging proposal for Democrats.
It began as an alleged hate crime committed against TV actor Jussie Smollett on a downtown Chicago street at 2 a.m. It then careened into charges that Smollett staged the attack to benefit his career. And now this: After State’s Attorney Kim Foxx makes errors of judgment that lead her to recuse herself, after Chicago detectives expend thousands of man hours doing meticulous work, after police Superintendent Eddie Johnson excoriates Smollett publicly for dragging the city’s name through the mud, after Foxx’s prosecutors take the case before a grand jury, after the grand jurors indict Smollett
Now that the whole Russia collusion thing against President Donald Trump has been proven a media-hyped fallacy, politically savvy eyes are turning toward former President Barack Obama and wondering: What about all that sneaky surveillance stuff? What about all that Team Obama titillation of flawed Trump-Russia insider information? What about FISA and Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele reports used to justify spying of Team Trump? These are good questions. And they demand answers. As Sen. Rand Paul put it, in a tweet: “Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax!” Indeed. Since Trump’s not guilty on the colluding-with-Russia-to-steal-the-election-from-Hillary-Clinton
At a time when Americans believe immigration to be the most important issue facing the nation, the Eleventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that Georgia’s state colleges and universities can’t be forced to admit illegal immigrants as students. And that includes aliens who qualified under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program implemented by former president Barack Obama in 2012. In an opinion handed down earlier this month, a three-judge panel upheld the right of the Georgia Board of Regents, which runs the state-university system, to verify the “lawful presence” of applicants before granting them admission as students
Unassimilated Islamic Enclaves and ´No-Go´ Zones: Ticking Time Bombs Proliferating in the West
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“The operation to take Islamic State’s last enclave in eastern Syria looked close to an end,” Reuters recently reported, “as U.S.-backed fighters said they were combing the area for hidden jihadists… Its enclave at Baghouz was the last part of the massive territory it suddenly seized in 2014, straddling swathes of Iraq and Syria, where its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a new caliphate.” While this is welcome news, it also prompts one to wonder: what of all those other Islamic enclaves, those unassimilated ticking time bombs that proliferate throughout the West, which are packed with ISIS-sympathizers,
Of all the reputations in tatters now that Robert Mueller has exploded the Russian-collusion fantasy, Obama-era spy chiefs John Brennan and James Clapper stand out. For the past two years, the men prominently insisted not only that President Trump had teamed up with Russian President Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election but that Trump was Putin’s pawn. “I don’t know if I received bad information, but I think I suspected there was more than there actually was”: That was Brennan’s pathetic response to Mueller’s findings — after years when he regularly traded
The Southern Poverty Law Center, the wealthiest civil rights organization in the country, has ousted its founder, Morris Dees, and president, Richard Cohen, amid unspecified allegations of workplace misconduct by Dees. Dees had been with the organization since creating it in 1971, while Cohen had joined in the mid-’80s, and the SPLC’s shake-up can be seen as part of the MeToo reckoning in which conduct that was accepted for years is finally being dealt with appropriately. But the organization has long been dysfunctional in even deeper ways, and the story of Dees
A judge has tossed a defamation lawsuit filed by Black Lives Matter activist DeRay McKesson against Jeanine Pirro on the grounds that the Fox News host specializes in “loud, caustic” opinion. McKesson, who is also a noted speaker and podcast host, sued Pirro in December 2017 for claiming on-air that he had “directed” violence against a Baton Rouge police officer. McKesson said that wasn’t true. Pirro argued that she was merely expressing the opinion that the injured officer could sue McKesson, arguing he is liable for the officer’s injuries.
In many ways, MSNBC’s block of Monday night coverage was a moment the network had been building up to for the past two years, the crucial must-watch episode. Last Friday, Robert Mueller turned over the results of his titanic Trump investigation to Attorney General William Barr, and on Sunday, Barr released a summary of the report that was a painful gut punch to a vast swath of MSNBC’s liberal audience. (Snip)Night after night, hosts took viewers down a complex network of rabbit holes, introducing them to shadowy characters like Felix Sater and Alex van der Zwaan, and eliciting bold prognostications
Tina Tchen, the attorney and former chief of staff to first lady Michelle Obama, has garnered scrutiny after messages traded with Cook County State´s Attorney Kim Foxx -- about the alleged hoax linked to actor Jussie Smollett -- emerged shortly before prosecutors dropped all charges against Smollett on Tuesday. Tchen started practicing law in 1983, after she graduated from Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law, and currently leads the Chicago branch of Buckley LLC. In between, she worked in the Obama White House, first as the director of the Office of Public Engagement
Votive candles of Robert Mueller III will set you back between 10 and 22 bucks. These candles feature everything from the standard black-suited G-man picture to one of a droopy Mueller in saintly robes pointing at his own glowing heart. By tomorrow or next week at the latest, you will be able to snag what Portland Monthly dubbed last year, the “hottest gift” of the holiday season in the bin at the Dollar store. The candles, the buttons, the t-shirts, the mugs and the other Mueller tchotchkes which briefly made their peddlers wealthy, are all headed for that bin after he
A federal court ruled 2-1 last week against allowing Sharyl Attkisson to revive her suit over the Obama administration’s alleged efforts to hack her personal devices. The ruling spells doom for Americans victimized by government hackers in the future. The ruling from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of her case against President’s Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, “six unknown agents” and others. Forensic investigators working for Attkisson — a former reporter for CBS — found that proprietary government software was used to hack her home and business computers, but the court denied her any
Los Angeles Chargers star quarterback Philip Rivers and his wife Tiffany welcomed their ninth child together last week, the team announced Tuesday. The football team made the exciting baby announcement on Twitter, sharing a clip of Lion King where baby Simba is raised into the air, writing: ´SHE´S HERE. Welcome to the world, Anna Rivers.´ Rivers, who has played for the team since 2004, is a devout Catholic and has seven daughters and two sons with his high school sweetheart wife Tiffany - Halle, 16; Caroline, 13; Grace, 12; Gunner, 10; Sarah, 8; Peter, 7; Rebecca, 5; and Clare, 3,
Deutsche Bank is providing Congress with records about its prior dealings with President Trump, a powerful Democratic lawmaker said on Tuesday. House Rep. Maxine Waters, the Democrat from California, said that the Frankfurt-based bank is cooperating with the House Financial Services Committee, which she chairs. Waters is seeking documents from Deutsche Bank related to the millions of dollars in loans that it has extended to Trump and his businesses over the course of several decades, The Hill is reporting. The congresswoman answered ‘Yes’ when asked on Tuesday if Deutsche Bank started to turn over documents linked to Trump.
Peter Schweizer: ‘Legions More Evidence’ Against ‘Clinton World,’ but Only Trump ‘Gets Investigated’
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Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, highlighted the evidence of Russia-related political corruption connected to Bill and Hillary Clinton and John Podesta while reflecting on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of alleged Russian political interference involving President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Schweizer joined Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight for an interview with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. (Audio) Schweizer said, “The very thing that they are accusing Donald Trump of having done, which Mueller has come back and said there’s no evidence for — not that there’s a little
News that Jussie Smollett was being let off without doing time for tying up the city of Chicago and half the world´s media with his bizarre accusation of being beaten by homophobic Trump supporters in the middle of the night was met by predictable fury from Chicago´s mayor and chief of police. But they needn´t worry. Smollett should. He will be the new O. J., another man getting away with a crime he committed in full public view. That didn´t work out very well for The Juice. In fact, he´s a pariah for life. And it won´t for Smollett either.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding yesterday’s letter from Attorney General Barr to Congress on Special Counsel Mueller´s report. "So, two years, thousands of subpoenas, hundreds of search warrants, hundreds of witnesses, millions of taxpayer dollars, and these are the findings: No collusion. No conspiracy. No obstruction. What the investigation did produce, it seems, is a deep examination of Russia’s efforts to interfere in our 2016 election," McConnell said. Yesterday, Attorney General Barr transmitted to Congress his summary of the Special Counsel’s principal
Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who narrowly lost the Georgia gubernatorial race in 2018, said she believes race may have played a role in Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O´Rourke´s rising popularity after his failed Senate run, she told MSNBC on Wednesday. Abrams suggested that she and Andrew Gillum, the Democrat who ran for governor in Florida, did not receive the same attention as the former Texas congressman, despite there being no "distinction with a difference between what he accomplished" and what she and Gillum achieved. Both Abrams and Gillum are African American, while O´Rourke is white. O´Rourke´s popularity skyrocketed after losing
President Trump, in an exclusive wide-ranging interview Wednesday night with Fox News´ "Hannity," vowed to release the full and unredacted Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants and related documents used by the FBI to probe his campaign, saying he wants to "get to the bottom" of how the long-running Russia collusion narrative began. Trump told anchor Sean Hannity that his lawyers previously had advised him not to take that dramatic step out of fear that it could be considered obstruction of justice. "I do, I have plans to declassify and release. I have plans to absolutely release," Trump said.
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo met yesterday with Mihrigul Tursun, a Uighur Muslim who survived horrific conditions and abuse in a Chinese internment camp in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Secretary Pompeo also met with three other members of the Uighur Muslim community (snip) among the more than one million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and members of other Muslim minority groups whom the Chinese government has detained in internment camps since April 2017. The Secretary commended their bravery in speaking out about China’s abuses, and pledged U.S. support to end China’s campaign of repression against Islam and other religions.
Appearing Wednesday on ABC’s Good Morning America, Jussie Smollett attorney Tina Glandian told anchor George Stephanopoulos that the Empire star is mulling a lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department over their handling of his alleged hate hoax case. On Tuesday, Cook County, Illinois prosecutors suddenly dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett after the Empire actor, who is alleged to have staged a racist and homophobic attack against himself, sacrificed his $10,000 bail. Smollett denies all wrongdoing and maintains he was attacked in downtown Chicago on January 29th.
The decision to file a fresh set of charges against Jussie Smollett now rests in the hands of John Lausch, Chicago’s US Attorney who was handpicked by President Trump. (Snip) the FBI has been working with the Chicago police department since early in the investigation and processed all of the evidence in the case, cops have said. The feds and investigators with the US Postal Inspection Service have been also probing a death threat letter Smollett received a week prior to the purported beatdown. That means the “Empire” star could potentially face federal charges including obstruction of justice,
After a video surfaced of Cardi B admitting to robbing and drugging men, the singer is explaining herself. In the clip from an Instagram Live recorded three years ago, the rapper said, “I had to go strip, I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to f–k me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go back to this hotel,’ and I drugged n—–s up, and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do,” (via Hip Hop Ratchet) she explained.After horrified social media users responded to the 26-year-old star’s confession with the hashtag #SurvivingCardiB (in reference to the R.
Hold the Pulitzers
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The only people surprised that the special counsel’s investigation of Russian collusion did not confirm a lunatic conspiracy theory are consumers of the modern American media. For two years, our constitutionally protected guardians of the truth put out a stream of misinformation, promising viewers that Robert Mueller was going to reverse the outcome of the 2016 election. Everyone at fake news MSNBC, marginally less fake news NBC, and totally fake news CNN — hosts, guests, legal experts and national security analysts — should be told, Clean out your lockers. Put all your things in cardboard cartons.
So much for the Joe Biden-Stacey Abrams team-up. In order to pick the Georgia gubernatorial runner-up as the lower half of the Democrats’ 2020 presidential ticket, Biden would have to first win the nomination. Abrams told CBS This Morning that this is the year of the woman and/or minority candidate, which might make things awkward for her negotiations with Biden: (Tweet) When asked if this was the year that a woman and/or minority candidate “ends up being the nominee,” Abrams replied, “I believe so.” In fact, it sounds more like Abrams might take aim at the top half of the
‘We’re Expecting A Third Wave’: Over 100 Mumps Cases Reported Amid Temple University Outbreak
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PHILADELPHIA — The number of mumps cases associated with Temple University has now reached into the triple digits as 105 people have come down with the highly contagious disease. Officials say that there are 18 confirmed cases and 87 probable cases. Due to the growing number of mumps cases, Temple University will be holding two walk-in vaccination clinics this week. “I think we have a handle on it, but we’re expecting a third wave,” said Mark Denys, Temple University’s student health director.
SANTA CLARA CO., Calif. -- An infected tourist recently made several stops across Santa Clara County and may have exposed shoppers, diners and other visitors to measles. According to the County of Santa Clara Public Health Department, the tourist made 20 stops across the South Bay between March 16 and the 22. Dr. Sara Cody, Public Health Director for Santa Clara County explained, "The time that the infected person was at each location was not very long, but there were numerous locations. Dr. Cody stressed the alert is not a public health emergency. She said the vast majority
A 42-year-old man was arrested in West Virginia on Wednesday going 130 mph on Interstate 68. K9 units were alerted and detected the presence of explosive material in the car. (Photo) The man’s car was confiscated on the highway. The man was making threats to assassinate Trump and blow up the Pentagon. WAJR reported: A 42-year-old man is in custody following the lengthy shutdown of Interstate 68, a West Virginia State Police spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. “As a result of the investigation based on a traffic stop that occurred earlier [Wednesday] morning, it had been discovered that threats were made to
It was a stunning moment. Standing outside court, emotional Empire star Jussie Smollett looked close to tears as he spoke, just minutes after all 16 grand jury charges against him had been sensationally dropped. ‘I have been truthful and consistent on every single level since day one,’ he said. ‘I would not be my mother’s son if I was capable of one drop of what I have been accused of. This has been an incredibly difficult time, honestly one of the worst of my entire life, but I am a man of faith, and I am a man that has knowledge of
In a move aimed at getting the public´s attention, officials in New York´s Rockland County have declared a state of emergency in response to an ongoing measles outbreak. Among the measures: a 30-day ban on any unvaccinated people under the age of 18 from being in public places. Of course, there´s no practical way to enforce the measure. But that´s not exactly the point, anyway, says Rockland County Executive Ed Day. Officials just want to make sure parents know how serious things are in Rockland. There have been more than 150 confirmed cases of measles in the
The FBI has launched a probe into the reasons why prosecutors decided to drop all criminal charges against Jussie Smollett — despite evidence that he allegedly staged a hate crime against himself, a report said Wednesday. The investigation was revealed one day after Chicago prosecutors suddenly abandoned the 16-count indictment into the “Empire” star, according to Chicago’s WLS -TV. The station cited two law enforcement sources for the information about the federal probe.
INDIANAPOLIS - Health officials are warning of a case of measles that may have been exposed to people at two Indianapolis locations. The Marion County Health Department confirmed the case in an out-of-state visitor who stayed at the Microtel Inn & Suites at 5815 Rockville Road between midnight and 2 p.m. on March 18. The infected individual also visited Shapiro´s Delicatessen on South Meridian Street between noon and 2:15 p.m. the same day. The department said most residents should already be vaccinated and protected against measles infection. Anyone with questions about their vaccination status should ask their health care provider
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — There´s been a confirmed case of the measles at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento County officials said Wednesday. This is the latest of several confirmed and suspected measles cases that have cropped up recently in Northern California. Health officials are investigating three cases of the measles in one family in Placer County. The Placer County Public Health Department said in an update Wednesday that the cases are considered confirmed because they meet the clinical criteria for diagnosis and are linked to other confirmed cases. In Butte County, two unvaccinated adults contracted the virus,
Brunei is set to permit the stoning and whipping to death of LGBT+ people under a series of reforms to its penal code that are attracting international condemnation. New laws due to come into effect next Wednesday will see the tiny kingdom become the first nation in southeast Asia to impose the death penalty for those found engaging in same-sex intercourse. Homosexuality was already illegal and carried a long jail sentence in Brunei. However, the country is in the process of introducing a sharia law-style system for criminal punishment. Human rights groups have denounced the move, including Amnesty International
CHICAGO -- Cook County health officials are warning the public that they may have been exposed to the measles at locations in Chicago and the north suburbs, including Deerfield, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Niles and Northbrook. The Cook County Department of Public Health reported a confirmed case of measles in a north suburban Cook County resident on March 26. While the resident is no longer considered contagious, the individual may have exposed others before realizing he or she was sick. People may have been exposed to measles at the following locations on the following dates:
Whoopsie, Chicago State Attorney corruption is going into ludicrous mode. According to an interview with ABC7, Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx is now claiming all the activity to seal evidence in the Jussie Smolett case was done “inadvertently”. Yeah, yeah…. that’s the ticket. The keyboards and computers self-activated and typed up the motion to the Judge, and then convinced the clerk of courts to accept the motion filing all just accidental and stuff… or something. Nothing to see here, Russians! Gottabe…
A new migrant caravan of about 2,500 people is making its way through southern Mexico, headed for the US border, facing greater heat – and a much cooler welcome – than last year’s caravans. The caravan walked past the city of Huixtla in the southern state of Chiapas on Monday, but police were lined up to keep them moving along a highway outside the town, and did not let them enter – a contrast to last year, when caravans were allowed to stay in the city center. The city said in a statement that
According to a new Hill-HarrisX survey released on Monday, a majority of registered voters are now open to re-electing President Trump. In even better news for Trump, the survey was conducted before the submission of special counsel Robert Mueller´s report that exonerated the president of any possible Russian "collusion" allegations stemming from the 2016 presidential election. (Video) The Hill reports:Fifty-four percent in the Hill-HarrisX survey released Monday said they would think about voting for Trump, though 46 percent of registered voters said they would not even consider casting a ballot for the president. The polling was conducted before a summary
How did hate crime huckster Jussie Smollett get away with it? All crooked roads in Chicago lead back to the Obamas. On Tuesday, as part of a sealed deal, the Illinois state attorney´s office dismissed 16 felony charges brought by a grand jury against the Trump-hating actor, who blamed phantom white MAGA supporters for a brutal racist "assault" that left him with a teensy-weensy scratch under his eye. The day before the "attack," Smollett´s two bodybuilding friends were caught on surveillance tape buying costumery (red hat, ski masks, bandanas, sunglasses and gloves) that just happened to match
LIMA, Peru — With her youthful energy and globe-trotting, the 26-year-old wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is emerging as a prominent figure in his campaign to bring change to the crisis-wracked country. Fabiana Rosales’ age and informal dress, often jeans, while touring Latin America belie an inner toughness and maturity cultivated with her activist husband during violent street protests in Venezuela’s capital. Her husband has since claimed Venezuela’s interim presidency with the support of dozens of nations including the United States, setting up a standoff with President Nicolas Maduro, who refuses
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and said that “all options” were open to make that happen. The arrival of two Russian air force planes outside Caracas on Saturday believed to be carrying nearly 100 Russian special forces and cybersecurity personnel has escalated the political crisis in Venezuela. Russia and China have backed President Nicolas Maduro, while the United States and most other Western countries support opposition leader Juan Guaido. In January, Guaido invoked the constitution to assume Venezuela’s interim presidency, arguing that Maduro’s 2018 re-election was illegitimate.
Multiple law enforcement officials told a local ABC News reporter Rob Elgas on Wednesday that they are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of criminal charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett. "Two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter tell @ABC the FBI is *reviewing* circumstances surrounding dismissal of criminal charges against Jussie Smollett," Elgas tweeted. "ABC News is told this is not an investigation. It is a ´review´ or ´inquiry´." "As the @ABC7Chicago I-Team revealed this morning, records obtained from the Chicago police file on the Smollett case
Morris Dees’ Mesoaggressions
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It was a bad week for polite society’s most respectable conspiracy theories, with the debunking of the Trump-Putin collusion allegation and more implosions among the conspiracy-theory-mongers at the Southern Poverty Law Center.(Snip)One conspiracy theory is that the current purges of the SPLC’s Old Guard are the result of a conspiracy by unnamed parties to get their hands on the nearly half-billion dollars in assets that supersalesman Dees has piled up in the SPLC’s onshore and offshore accounts over his 48 manic years of always-be-closing fund-raising. Which is getting us deeper into conspiracy theorizing than even I want to go…
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx never “formally” recused herself from the Jussie Smollett case ? contrary to the Chicago prosecutor’s public announcement that she had done so ? a spokesperson for the prosecutor confirms. In a statement Wednesday, Cook County State’s Attorney spox Kiera Ellis said Foxx “did not formally recuse herself or the [State’s Attorney] Office based on any actual conflict of interest. As a result, she did not have to seek the appointment of a special prosecutor.” (Snip) “was a colloquial use of the term rather than in its legal sense.”
CWBChicago is posting the complete Chicago Police Department investigative file on the Jussie Smollett "hate crime" investigation that we have received in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. We have not read or reviewed the files for completeness or accuracy. (Snip)These files were provided by the Chicago Police Department in response to a FOIA request that CWBChicago submitted upon learning that the Cook County State´s Attorney´s Office had reached a sealed agreement to resolve Smollett´s criminal exposure in the case.
Chicago police came out swinging Wednesday and released the full 61-page investigative report in the alleged Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax, one day after charges against the "Empire" star were dramatically dropped -- but the move prompted a moot court order. The release of the documents came one day after Cook County prosecutors dismissed a 16-count indictment against the actor, saying they had cut a deal with the TV star to perform two days of community service and forfeit his $10,000 bond to the city. The move made it possible for Smollett´s attorneys to get his criminal case
“Captain America” star Chris Evans talked politics in a recent interview and said he “really” hopes the quarterback of his favorite team, Tom Brady, is not a supporter of President Trump. Evans, 37, conducted a tell-all interview with The Hollywood Reporter that was published Wednesday. The discussion turned to politics when the issue of the actor´s vocal political views on social media came up. "You don´t want to alienate half your audience," Evans told magazine of his tweets. "But I´d be disappointed in myself if I didn´t speak up. Especially for fear of some monetary repercussion or career damage — that just
His fans are relieved. He’s getting off scot-free. I’m referring of course to Jussie Smollett, the Empire actor whose charges were dropped today in Chicago. It’s a good week if you’re in the crosshairs of the law — unless, of course, you’re Michael Avenatti, the quondam lawyer for Stormy Daniels who got busted, if that’s the appropriate word, for trying to shake down Nike for a cool $25 million. In Greek, Nike means ‘victory’ but Avenatti looks to be going down to a nasty defeat. The slick talking lawyer had delusions of grandeur all along, reckoning first that he
In some cities, people might be shocked if the mayor called out the prosecutor for running a crooked system that allowed a Hollywood star like the smarmy Jussie Smollett to walk away from charges he created a fake hate crime. But this is Chicago, and is there anything, really, that surprises Chicago anymore? No. Thanks to the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, Smollett gets to walk away from 16 felony counts of a grand jury indictment. Her office dropped all charges. Smollett blamed the alleged attack on mythical Trump supporters. According to his story, he apparently fought them off
The prosecutor who dropped Jussie Smollett´s charges says he believes the actor lied to the police
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The prosecutor who dropped the charges against Jussie Smollett said he still believes the actor lied to the police about the racist and homophobic attack he allegedly staged in Chicago in January. In a surprise hearing Tuesday, Joe Magats, the first assistant state´s attorney in Cook County, Illinois, announced he decided to drop charges against Smollett.(Snip) The decision to drop the charges does not mean the actor was innocent or any new evidence was presented, Magats told CNN affiliate WLS. "We believe he did what he was charged with doing," he said. "This was not an exoneration.
On July , 205, beautiful California native, 32-year-old Kate Steinle was shot dead while walking with her father on Peir 24 in San Francisco. Steinle died two hours later as a result of her injuries. Illegal immigrant José Inez García Zárate was arrested and charged with her murder. In November 2017 a San Francisco jury found the Kate Steinle’s killer Jose Zarate innocent of murder or manslaughter.Following the verdict Zarate’s attorneys accused those offended by Kate Steinle’s murder of being racists. On Monday a federal appeals court ruled the parents of Kate Steinle cannot sue the San Francisco for their
GRAND RAPIDS — President Donald Trump will make a visit to Grand Rapids on Thursday in an early bid for re-election. The likely 2020 Republican Party nominee is expected to sound off on a range of issues inside the Van Andel Arena beginning at 7 p.m., while outside protestors have planned resistance. Trump has recently declared a national emergency to secure federal funding of a wall along the U.S-Mexico border. The House and Senate voted this month to block the directive, which Trump vetoed. Trump has pursued tariffs against China in what some are calling a looming “trade war,” but
Over a century ago, Carl Sandburg captured the essence of the Second City in the verses of “Chicago.” (Snip) “And they tell me you are crooked, and I answer: Yes, it is true...” This crooked culture vaulted to national attention again Tuesday with the inexplicable dismissal of 16 felony charges against actor Jussie Smollett. Given the gravity of the allegations, combined with the ironclad prosecution evidence believed to be assembled against Smollett by the Chicago Police Department, the only reasonable conclusion regarding this dismissal involves the crooked “Chicago way” of influence-peddling.
If Obama had a son, he would look exactly like Jussie Smollett.Chicago´s politicians dropped charges and wiped the record clean of Jussie Smollett because one of Michelle Obama´s many, many ladies-in-waiting called the person in charge of the investigation to pull some strings. How typical of the Obama Clan. Michelle also was behind the firing of Roseanne Barr for telling a joke about Valerie Jarrett. ABC´s president did the deed and six months later got a better job at Netflix which happened to hire the Obamas to produce shows.
Ibrahim Hooper, call your office: there was an outbreak of “Islamophobia” Monday at the Pennsylvania State Assembly. Luckily, Muslim state Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell was there to blow the whistle on this bigotry and hatred. The “Islamophobia,” according to journalist Todd Starnes, was committed by another state Representative, Stephanie Borowicz, who prayed this to open a legislative session: “Jesus, you are our only hope. At the name of Jesus, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus, that you are Lord.” Johnson-Harrell was livid. The prayer, she declared was “highly offensive to me,
The Senate crushed the Green New Deal on Tuesday with a 0-57 vote against the resolution, with three Democrats and one Independent voting “no” and 43 Democrats voting “present.” Democrats tried to spin the resolution’s failure into a win for the radical proposal, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), who introduced it last month and took credit for Democrats not voting in favor of the measure. (Snip)Ocasio-Cortez took to Twitter to respond to Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, who tweeted: “Why did Senate Democrats just duck a vote on your #GreenNewDeal?”
Earlier today House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins, released the 239-page transcript (full pdf below) from testimony delivered by George Papadopoulos.(Snip)It is widely suspected, almost certain, that CIA Director John Brennan enlisted the help of U.S. and foreign intelligence assets to run operations against the Trump campaign. The objective was to give the false and manufactured appearance of compromise. Once the CIA established the possibility of compromise that opened the door for FBI investigation. It’s likely the operation run by Brennan targeting Papadopoulos is at the center of the two-page “EC” (electronic communication); an
WASHINGTON- U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Russia to pull its troops from Venezuela and warned that “all options” were open to make that happen.“Russia has to get out,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, where he met with Fabiana Rosales, the wife of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido. Two Russian air force planes landed outside Caracas on Saturday carrying nearly 100 Russian troops. The U.S. government believes the troops include special forces and cybersecurity personnel. Asked how he would make Russian forces leave, Trump said: “We’ll see. All options are open.” Trump and Vice President Mike
For several months, people have wondered whether freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was actually dictating the House agenda rather than Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. But now we must ask, is Ocasio-Cortez also dictating the strategy of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer? On Tuesday, facing an embarrassing and divisive vote on the Green New Deal resolution, which is supported by the base of the party but opposed by those closer to the center, Democrats decided to vote "present" en masse. The fact that no Democrat was willing to go on record as supporting the resolution, despite the fact that
Chicago Democrats, from Mayor Rahm Emanuel on down, were unusually vociferous in their condemnation of the decision Tuesday by prosecutors to let Hollywood actor Jussie Smollett off the hook for a hate crime hoax. Smolett was facing 16 felony counts before the office of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx (who had recused herself) dropped all charges. Emanuel called it a “whitewash of justice,” and other officials made similar comments. (Snip) But the most important reason Chicago Democrats are sounding off about a hate crime hoax — a topic that is almost taboo on the left — is that the
In 2016, President Donald Trump compared Hillary Clinton’s campaign to the lumbering federal bureaucracy. Now he’s building one of his own. From an office tower across the Potomac River from Washington, from the bowels of the Republican National Committee´s headquarters on Capitol Hill and from field offices across the country, Trump is assembling an army of operatives to fight for victory in what stands to be a legacy-defining political battle. Even with a sea of still-unfilled desks, his 2020 campaign is already unrecognizable from the fly-by-night operation of the last effort, when Trump won the White House despite his inexperienced
Things in DC are about to get ugly. Big ugly. Two MAGA freight trains are heading full-speed toward each other and there ain’t no spur between em’. The conductor of one engine is HPSCI ranking member Devin Nunes who will be sending criminal referrals to AG Barr next week based on existing evidence and testimony. The conductor of the opposing engine is Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, who wants AG Barr to ignore the criminal referrals and instead launch another Special Counsel which will be guaranteed to carry into the 2020 election year. Both are not backing down.
The Green New Deal failed to pass a procedural vote in the Senate Tuesday, with Democrats slamming the GOP motion as a “sham” and with two exceptions voting “present” in protest. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell put the ambitious plan to create jobs and improve the environment to a vote to force Democrats to take a public stand on the measure and try to divide the party’s moderates and progressives. The final vote was 57 against and no one for the plan, with 43 Democrats voting present. Red State Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona
Release the Mueller report now
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It´s been three days since Attorney General William Barr sent Congress a four-page summary of the "principal conclusions" of special counsel Robert Mueller´s report on the Trump-Russia investigation. That´s not a long time, but it has been long enough for a passionate debate to arise between partisans who have not seen the report, played out for a public that has not seen the report, either. Uninformed arguments are everywhere. The Mueller report should have been prepared from the very beginning with public release in mind, and then made public the moment its completion was announced.
President Trump is reportedly thinking about making an appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 27. Trump has refrained from attending the event the past two years as president, but this time around he hasn’t ruled out participating or speaking this year, Axios reports. Nothing is finalized and it’s unclear how interested Trump is in attending. The dinner, known for being a venue for the media and politicians to rub elbows with celebrities, has long featured a stand-up act by a featured comedian. But after comedian Michelle Wolf’s controversial routine last year, in which she made controversial