Posts on Friday, March 29, 2019
Grand Rapids, Michigan, might be my new favorite city. I hadn’t remembered that it was the president’s last stop on the 2016 campaign trail until he reminded his huge (yuge!) audience there on Thursday night. At 1:00 a.m. on November 8, 2016, he drew some 30,000 cheering people. Some hours before that rally, he recalled, Hillary was waddling (my word, not his) across a stage before 500 or 600 kale-eating advocates for wind power and open borders. I’ll wait while Politifact weighs in with the important correction that Hillary actually drew 687 supporters. That was no big deal because, you
Fifth-seeded Auburn ran past No. 1 seed North Carolina on Friday night in the Sweet 16. The Tigers beat the Tar Heels, 97-80, featuring a barrage of second-half 3-pointers. And that sent the Tigers on to the Elite Eight for only the second time and first since 1986.
The City of Chicago on Thursday warned Empire actor Jussie Smollett that he could be prosecuted for lying if he fails to repay the the six-figure cost of the Chicago Police Department’s investigation into his alleged hate hoax in the next seven days. In a letter written by Edward Siskel, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s senior legal adviser, Smollett is accused of making “false statements,” which led law enforcement to divert “resources from other investigations and undermining the criminal justice system.”(Snip)
The freshman class in the House have brought “firsts” to Capitol Hill, including a change of rules to allow Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) to wear a hijab on the House floor and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introducing the controversial Green New Deal resolution that has put socialism in the spotlight.When Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) was sworn in in January, she was the first to hang a transgender flag outside of her office in the Longworth Office Building. “When I was sworn in less than three months ago I was the only member of Congress to hang a transgender flag outside of my
Threatening drastic action against Mexico, President Donald Trump declared on Friday he is likely to shut down America´s southern border next week unless Mexican authorities immediately halt all illegal immigration. Such a severe move could hit the economies of both countries, but the president emphasized, "I am not kidding around." "It could mean all trade" with Mexico, Trump said when questioned by reporters in Florida. "We will close it for a long time.” (Snip)In Florida, he didn´t qualify his threat with "or large sections,"
Celebrity attorney Mark Geragos blasted CNN for dropping him as a contributor on the network after he was implicated in Michael Avenatti’s alleged Nike extortion scheme. The attorney, who has represented high-profile clients such as Michael Jackson, Colin Kaepernick and, most recently, “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, slammed CNN for its decision Tuesday to drop him as a legal contributor after two decades. (Video) “They ought to change their name to the ‘Cut and Run Network,´” Geragos said on “The Adam Carolla Show” podcast on Tuesday. “I’ve been texted by all of their anchors, who are as outraged as I am
Thursday on the Senate floor, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Attorney General William Barr delaying the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report had “the odor of political expediency” to help President Donald Trump. Partial transcript as follows: SCHUMER: Yesterday, for the second time this week, Leader McConnell blocked our request made by the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein, to make public the full report authored by special counsel Mueller. I want to thank Senator Feinstein for making the request and for standing up for transparency. As Senator Feinstein said, a four-page summary from a
A former Nevada politician published an essay Friday recalling a 2014 incident in which former Vice President Joe Biden made her feel “gross” when he grabbed her by the shoulders from behind and kissed her hair during an event for her campaign for office that year. “He was there to promote me as the right person for the lieutenant governor job,” Lucy Flores wrote in a first-person piece in The Cut.(Snip) “Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?” she asked herself. “I felt him get closer to me from behind. He leaned further in and inhaled
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Friday that the pressure cooker of Washington, DC, is so intense that she can’t wait to get home to the Big Apple on the weekends. “I’m like, ‘Get me out of here!’” by Thursdays, when lawmakers traditionally begin their three-day weekends to chill and mingle with donors and even constituents. “It can seriously be the upside down, and I have to come back to my life,” she said at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, a part of which she represents. Ocasio-Cortez, 29, was taping a town hall meeting at the
Linda McMahon is to step down from her post as leader of the Small Business Administration and will work on President Trump´s re-election effort. "She´s been one of our all-time favorites. Just so smooth. She has helped so many people in the world of small business, and she´ll be leaving," Trump said during remarks alongside McMahon from Mar-a-Lago, his property in Florida. A new nomination will be made in consultation with McMahon "in the very near future," the president said. McMahon´s successor is "somebody that we know very well and somebody that will fit in beautifully," Trump added. McMahon, 70,
Investigative reporter Yashar Ali revealed on Friday that the managing political editor for NBC News and MSNBC bullied him on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) into holding a scoop that he broke yesterday. (Video) "Yesterday, I received a call from @DafnaLinzer who serves as managing editor of NBC/MSNBC politics," Ali tweeted. "Dafna´s conduct during the call was highly inappropriate and unethical. So what was the purpose of her call? She called me to bully me on behalf of the DNC." (Tweet) "Dafna, who oversees the political coverage for NBC and MSNBC, was calling to bully me into delaying
Former Senator Jeff Flake said that he would rather have a Democrat win the 2020 presidential election than have President Donald Trump win a second term. Flake made the comments during a debate in New York hosted by Intelligence Squared, a non-profit that aims “to restore critical thinking, facts, reason, and civility to American public discourse.” (Photo) Flake was asked by moderator John Donvan if he wants President Trump to lose in 2020. “Are you willing to lose a cycle for the Republican Party because of the principles that you’re arguing?” Donvan asked. “Oh yes, yes,” Flake responded, citing Trump’s
In honor of Jordan Peele’s revival of “The Twilight Zone,” premiering Monday on CBS All Access, here are my Top 10 all-time favorite episodes from the original CBS anthology series, which aired from 1959 to 1964. (Note: All of these classic episodes are available for streaming on CBS All Access and the official “Twilight Zone” YouTube channel.)‘A Game of Pool’ (Oct. 13, 1961)This parable of life and death, decided in a seedy pool room (city unknown), features two actors with terrific chops and even better chemistry: Jack Klugman as Jesse Cardiff, the self-proclaimed best pool player on Randolph Street,
ATLANTA - The Georgia House voted in favor of the controversial abortion bill, nicknamed the “Heartbeat Bill” Friday, the bill now heads to the desk of Governor Kemp who has vowed to sign it into law. House Bill 481 would ban most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, which is around six weeks of gestation. Women in Georgia can currently seek an abortion up to 20 weeks into a pregnancy. The bill makes exceptions in the case of rape and incest,
Twitter War: Pence Absolutely Destroys Eric Holder—With Four Pictures And Not A Single Word!
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Mike Pence is no slouch when it comes to trolling on Twitter. Of course, he works for KOAT (King Of All Trollers) Donald Trump, so he’s sure to have learned a thing or two off the master. Some brief background first before we get to Pence’s slam dunk. Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday appeared on MSNBC, where host Ari Melber asked him: “There is a lot of talk about America being a leader as a democracy, quote unquote, in the 1800s when women and African-Americans couldn’t vote. What kind of democracy is that?” Holder lit into America with
Former Attorney General Eric Holder asked an MSNBC audience, "I hear these things about ´let’s make America great again´ and I think to myself, ´exactly when did you think America was great?´" Holder went on to parrot progressive gripes about America: "It certainly wasn’t when people were enslaved. It certainly wasn’t when women didn’t have the right to vote. It certainly wasn’t when the LGBT community was denied the rights to which it was entitled." When Holder served as Attorney General, he was found in criminal contempt of Congress. While Holder´s dismissal of American greatness might seem surprising to the
The Chicago police chief was the target of an interview today with his mayor, Rahm Emanuel, about the glaring obviousness of Jussie Smollett’s visible bastardization and disregard for our laws and our spirit of fairness. The Chief was righteously outraged at the turn that had been taken in the Chicago prosecutor’s allowing Smollett to walk in the face of such screaming evidence which
Attorney General Bill Barr plans to submit the full version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report to Congress by "mid-April, if not sooner," and will not give the White House a sneak peek, Fox News has learned. The timetable comes as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle – and especially Democrats – demand that Barr turn over the full report. Barr submitted a four-page summary to congressional leaders on Sunday reporting Mueller did not find evidence of Trump-Russia collusion, while he did not reach a conclusion on whether President Trump obstructed justice. "As we have discussed, I
Jeh Johnson, homeland security secretary during former President Barack Obama´s second term, declared Friday the southern border is in a "crisis" state, a claim the Trump administration first made late last year. "We are truly in a crisis," Johnson told MSNBC "Morning Joe" host Mika Brzezinski. "On Tuesday there were 4,000 apprehensions. I know that 1,000 [apprehensions] overwhelms the system and I cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like," he said.
Jussie Smollett continues his absurd victory lap, continuing to pretend he was attacked in earnest by two Nigerian acquaintances who were wearing whiteface, not as part of a plan of his own design. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has upped the ante on his rhetorical rampage against the actor, slapping him with a $130,000 bill for resources and time wasted in the investigation. Smollett may think he got off scot-free, but the trap the city has set up for him is genius.
Robert Mueller´s investigation was always political; don´t blame Trump for keeping it that way
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Member Log In | Subscribe Now Friday, March 29, 2019 OPINION Robert Mueller´s investigation was always political; don´t blame Trump for keeping it that way by Eddie Scarry | March 29, 2019 12:19 PM Print this article Sign up for In Our Opinion commentary Email Address Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not find the evidence necessary to support theories of collusion with Russia or obstruction of justice and so it’s a riot to watch President Trump’s critics now accuse him of politicizing the affair. What was this investigation, if not a political exercise?
In an interview with CNN, Puerto Rico´s Democratic Gov. Ricardo Rossello referred to President Trump, stating "If the bully gets close, I´ll punch the bully in the mouth." He added that Trump shouldn´t ignore his "courage." I´m pretty confident that Rossello should abandon this theory of action. First, there´s that not-so-small U.S. Secret Service issue. Indeed, I wouldn´t be surprised if Rossello now gets a visit from the Secret Service´s Miami field office, which is responsible for Puerto Rico. The service´s standing protocol is to investigate all threats to the president.
Recently sworn-in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar weighed-in on the country’s escalating border crisis this week; baselessly blaming the migrant caravan’s arrival in El Paso on “white nationalism.” “This is abhorrent and inhumane. It’s without a doubt a reflection of what white nationalism is doing to our country. As a country, we have to acknowledge that this is how people are being treated here and decide that we are better and we must do better,” tweeted Omar. The embattled legislator made national headlines weeks ago when she accused American politicians of supporting Israel
SQUABBLING MPs today voted to block Britain´s EU exit AGAIN as they defeated Theresa May´s deal for the third time - on the very day we were supposed to leave at last. The Commons defeated the PM´s bid to leave the EU on May 22, by 58 votes - plunging the country into the worst chaos yet. The Government is now likely to request a long delay to Brexit, lasting up to a year which casts huge doubt on whether we will ever even leave.
MEXICO CITY— Mexico is bracing for the possible arrival of the “mother of all caravans,” even as doubts arise over whether the group of Central American migrants will be all that big. Interior Secretary Olga Sanchez Cordero has said a caravan of migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala could be forming. “We have information that a new caravan is forming in Honduras, that they’re calling ‘the mother of all caravans,’ and they are thinking it could have more than 20,000 people,” Sanchez Cordero said Wednesday. But a WhatsApp group calling for people to gather Saturday in El Salvador
President Trump on Friday threatened to close the Southern Border next week if Mexico does not “immediately stop” the record-breaking surge of illegal immigrants flooding into the United States. Trump´s warning comes as Customs and Border Protection officials say March is on pace to exceed 100,000 border apprehensions -- the highest monthly total in a decade. According to CBP, this week alone, agents have more than 12,000 migrants in custody., “The DEMOCRATS have given us the weakest immigration laws anywhere in the World. Mexico has the strongest, & they make more than $100 Billion a year on the U.S.,” Trump
MSNBC’s biggest star, Rachel Maddow, has been flailing in viewership since Special Counsel Robert Mueller officially concluded his investigation into the alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. Maddow had seen a rating surge since President Trump took office, offering extensive coverage on the Russia investigation for the past two years. However, her viewership has taken a dive since Mueller handed his report to the Department of Justice last Friday. The report, according to a letter to Congress released on Sunday by Attorney General Bill Barr, concluded that there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. “The Rachel Maddow
All of America is expectantly waiting for the long promised 5G networks to upgrade our communications systems. We are incredibly dependent on our devices, as individuals and as entities; so it’s easy to understand why people are excited for this next-generation Opens a New Window. network. What is the fastest and most effective way to achieve 5G accessibility across the nation? Bluntly, it is not “Have the government do it.” It is not exactly like the big (and small) telecoms are dragging their feet. In fact, quite the opposite. They are racing each other to get strong and reliable 5G service
Twitter users are fawning over a Los Angeles dad who couldn´t contain his glee over how much he saved on a recent Costco run. TJ Musto, 25, recorded his dad Tom Musto, 49, unpacking his groceries last weekend, capturing Tom´s enthusiasm as he held up each item that he bought and exclaimed over how inexpensive it was. Now the video has gone viral, being viewed a whopping 6.44 million times in less than a week and garnering nearly half a million likes so far — and Tom´s earned the very flattering nickname ´Hot Costco Dad.´ (Video/Tweet/Photos) TJ shared the popular
In subpoena fight, Trump lawyer told Mueller: ´You want to do it, you´ve got yourself a war´
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Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller completed his investigation without ever interviewing President Trump. The two sides wrangled over the issue for much of the Mueller investigation before Trump finally agreed to answer questions in writing. Now, in a new podcast interview, a former lawyer for the president, John Dowd, said the wrangling became so contentious that he threatened Mueller with "war" if the special counsel subpoenaed the president. Dowd, who was Trump´s lawyer from June 2017 to March 2018, said Mueller was hampered by two daunting problems. The first was that Mueller could not establish that a crime had occurred
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he has directed his administration to fund the Special Olympics after public backlash against the Education Department’s 2020 budget proposal completely cut funding for the organization. Speaking to reporters prior to heading to Grand Rapids, Mich., the president was asked why he would cut funding for the Special Olympics. “The Special Olympics will be funded. I just told my people, ‘I want to fund the Special Olympics,’ and I just authorized a funding of the Special Olympics. I´ve been to the Special Olympics. I think it´s incredible, and I just authorized a funding. I
A student who worked with L. Douglas Wilder at the Virginia Commonwealth University school named for the former governor reported to the university and police that Wilder sexually harassed her by kissing her without consent. The woman, Sydney Black, 22, said Wilder, 88, also suggested she could live at his house and offered to take her on foreign trips and pay for her law school in 2017, while she still worked as an office assistant at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs. VCU officials cited privacy concerns and declined to answer a series of detailed questions.
Former GOP Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz said Republicans should target Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff’s security clearance, following the release of the Mueller report. “I think the one that has been the most discredited through this entire process is Adam Schiff,” Chaffetz said Thursday on “Varney & Company.” He then pushed for Congressional Republicans to unite and bring their demands directly to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. “I think he should lose his security clearance and I don’t think he should be on the House intelligence committee,” Chaffetz continued. “I wish the Republicans would gather in force and demand that
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) revealed Thursday that former President Barack Obama said he was “proud” of her during a meeting this week with House Democrat freshmen in Washington, D.C. “President Obama met with us new members of Congress and it was a thoughtful discussion. The best part was when he looked straight at me and said, “I’m proud of you,” Tlaib wrote on Instagram, sharing a photo of her posing with the former president. (Photo) The Michigan Democrat, who is first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress, has quickly established herself as one of the most divisive lawmakers in Washington.
The Democrat-media meltdown over Special Olympics funding is everything we hate about Washington
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The current debate surrounding grant funding for the Special Olympics is an excellent case study of why our country will probably never get out of debt. In case you missed it, there’s been a fair amount of outrage over the Department of Education’s budget proposal to cut $18 million in federal grant money to the Special Olympics. The proposed budget states that “such activities are better supported with other federal, state, local or private funds.” On Wednesday, Education Secretary DeVos responded to widespread criticism of the proposed spending reduction with a statement saying.
Not wanting a confrontation with the U.S. over the border surge, Mexico´s socialist President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador decided to pick a fight with socialist-run Spain instead, calling on its king to "apologize" for the nation´s 500-year-old conquest of Mexico. (snip) Much to AMLO´s surprise, he got a wet mop in the face from Spain, from its socialist foreign minister, no less. Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said Spain would refuse to apologize for the 500-year-old conquest, and reminded Mexico that they´d settled these matters many years before.
Florida Republicans aim to take away the best weapon progressive groups have left. Here’s how.
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TALLAHASSEE — Republicans in Tallahassee control both chambers of the Legislature and the governor’s mansion, and they’ve appointed every member of the Florida Supreme Court. Now, they’re taking aim at the last realm outside their grasp: Voters’ access to amending the Florida Constitution through ballot initiatives. Two bills Republicans introduced this week would make it far more difficult to gather the signatures needed to get constitutional amendments before voters. And they would thwart two major amendments that could appear on the 2020 ballot, one raising the minimum wage and the other allowing “energy choice,” advocates for those ideas say.
A member of the infamous ‘Ripper Crew,’ which was linked to 18 sadistic, satanic murders in the early 80s, has been released from prison, according to the IDOC notification system. Thomas Kokoraleis, 58, was set free from the Illinois River Correctional Center in downstate Canton Friday morning, after serving half of his prison sentence.(Snip)She was then tortured, raped and murdered in May 1982. Police believe Kokoraleis and his brothers, plus two other men, were responsible for the murder of up to 20 women during the 1980s.
Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx inadvertently gave away the game -- what’s really behind the bizarre dropping of charges and sealing of court records of the slam-dunk case put together by Chicago Police on Jussie Smollett’s fake hate crime report -- when she explained to two reporters for Chicago public radio station WBEZ in an interview: "I don’t believe it is in the interest of the people of Cook County to engage in a narrative that is anything other than all of us working collectively for the public safety of the people of Cook County."
Spring Is on the Way
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As the Northern Hemisphere begins to warm once more and the spring equinox has passed, flowers and trees finally appear to be in bloom—especially in California, blessed by a very wet winter. Gathered here today is a small collection of images from the past few weeks from North America, Asia, and Europe, of poppies, sunshine, and cherry blossoms—surely signs of warmer days to come.
Even as the number of coal-fired power plants under development worldwide declines, increased coal use in China and a proposal to boost capacity could imperil global climate change goals, researchers have warned. The industry´s powerful China Electrical Council called this month for ramping up the national coal power capacity to as much as 1,300 gigawatts by 2030, a 30 percent increase compared to today´s levels. With nearly 1,000 GW in operation, China accounts for about half the world´s coal-fired power, with the United States (259 GW) and India (221 GW) a distant second and third, according to the Global
Joe Biden’s Terrible Week
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“You don’t run for second place,” Stacey Abrams told the ladies of The View this afternoon. Abrams, who refuses to concede her loss to Georgia governor Brian Kemp last October, is enjoying a second life as a potential candidate for U.S. Senate or, why not, president in 2020. Indeed, Abrams has become so popular among Democrats that a few advisers to Joe Biden recently told the New York Times that he might announce Abrams as his running mate long before the first caucuses and primaries are held next year.“With a younger but still accomplished vice-presidential nominee at his side,”
Sen. Bernard Sanders has amassed a presidential campaign team of pit bulls skilled in the art of internal party warfare — and in many cases is still grinding axes over the way he was treated by the Democratic Party in his 2016 run for the White House. Three members of his team didn’t even back Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, and instead supported the Green Party in the general election. Others have made a career of ripping the very people Mr. Sanders now faces in the 2020 Democratic primaries. Among those is David Sirota, his senior adviser and speechwriter
Almost from the start, Democrats and their media echo chamber have moved the goal posts on collusion. The original allegation – the political narrative that the Clinton campaign, through Obama administration alchemy, honed into a counterintelligence investigation – was that that the Trump campaign was complicit in Russia’s “cyberespionage” attacks on the 2016 election. But there was no evidence that candidate Trump and his surrogates had anything to do with the Kremlin’s hacking and propaganda schemes. And no supporting logic. The Russians are very good at espionage. They neither needed nor wanted American help,
As the Democratic presidential field begins to take shape, liberal and left-wing billionaires are shopping around for the best candidate to support. Some, as we shall see, are also seeking to torpedo President Trump’s presidency through impeachment long before the 2020 election takes place. But we shouldn’t lose sight of what these billionaires have already accomplished: they helped elect a Democratic House of Representatives in 2018 that largely can be relied upon to do their bidding. In other words, the Democrats have become what they always professed to loath: a party propped up by big-money interests
Rich San Francisco residents in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s congressional district have collected more than $60,000 after starting an online crowdsourcing campaign to wage a legal challenge against a proposed center for the city´s homeless. The campaign, called “Safe Embarcadero for All,” was launched March 20 after San Francisco Mayor London Breed proposed a 200-bed homeless Navigation Center in the city’s most desirable location, the Embarcadero along the coast of San Francisco Bay, earlier this month. “The planned location for Mayor Breed´s #megashelter is home to thousands of families, visited by millions of tourists and at the center of some
MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace is divorcing her husband of 14 years and dating New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, a regular on her afternoon show. Schmidt broke the story of Hillary Clinton´s secret email server and several major revelations about Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Schmidt, 35, and Wallace, 47, decided they had to disclose their relationship to MSNBC, according to Page Six. Wallace and Schmidt, an MSNBC contributor, were seen together at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, earlier this month. She joined MSNBC and NBC News after a career in Republican politics. In 2005 she
So, how is the liberal media doing after it was revealed that President Trump didn’t commit Russian collusion? Not too well. In fact, they’ve been bleeding viewers ever since the big nothing burger was revealed. Again, a lot of us knew this was the case, but the Left peddled this myth for two years. Now, they all have to eat crow. When will they be done? It remains to be seen.For now, CNN and MSNBC’s ratings are heading back into the toilet (via AP): Rachel Maddow isn’t backing away from her coverage of President Donald Trump and any connection to
After the parents of a sick 2-year-old child refused a doctor’s recommendation late last month that they take their unvaccinated son to the emergency room for treatment for the boy’s 105 degree fever, he reportedly sicced a police swat team on them via the Arizona Department of Child Safety. Shocking police surveillance footage released by the media this week shows Chandler Police Department officers busting down the parents’ front door and storming into their home as if they were taking down drug dealers or trying to apprehend armed fugitives. Except they were, in reality, looking for the 2-year-old because they
Socialist freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sees a conspiracy between Fox News, Republicans, the Mercers, dark money–and fellow Democrats–as the driving force behind her crushing unpopularity. A new Quinnipiac poll published Thursday found her with just a 23 percent approval rating overall and underwater across all demographics except Democrats. But even then she does not have the approval of a majority of Democrats. (Chart) Ocasio-Cortez became a media darling last year when the then 28-year-old bartender defeated incumbent Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley in a stunning primary victory. Since taking office in January Ocasio-Cortez has stumbled with the roll out of
The problem with modern political correctness run amok is its reinforcement of stupid lies and hate. Joe Biden had this to say yesterday: “In the 1900s so many women were dying at the hands of their husbands because they were chattel, just like the cattle, or the sheep, that the court of Common Law decided they had to do something about the extent of the deaths. You know what they said? No man has a right to chastise his woman with a rod thicker than the circumference of his thumb. This is English Jurisprudential culture, a white man´s culture. It´s
Just days after the prosecutors dropped all charges against Jussie Smollett, who had been indicted on 16 counts of disorderly conduct, the "Empire" actor could again make headlines. Smollett is nominated for the 2019 NAACP Image Awards, scheduled for Saturday. Six-time host and "Black-ish" star Anthony Anderson told Variety on Wednesday that he hopes to see the controversial actor there. “I hope he wins," Anderson added. "I’m happy for him that the system worked for him in his favor because the system isn’t always fair, especially for people of color. So I’m glad it worked out for him."
Michael Avenatti’s outrageous attempt to cash in on the campaign to destroy Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh largely destroyed the celebrity attorney´s standing in Democratic and media circles, transforming him from a possible 2020 Democratic candidate to a universally reviled huckster. Yet, in an otherwise comprehensive expose this week detailing the porn lawyer´s swift fall from grace, the L.A. Times managed somehow to omit all mentions of the Kavanaugh debacle. On its own, reporting on Avenatti’s evolution from Democratic folk hero to alleged tax felon without also mentioning one of the major events of his rapid downward spiral
For more than two years, the campaign, presidential transition, and official government administration of Donald Trump operated under a cloud of suspicion that they had engaged in a treasonous conspiracy to steal the 2016 election from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. Trump and his top associates were accused of collusion and of conspiring with the Russians to subvert American democracy. The former director of the Central Intelligence Agency publicly declared Trump to be guilty of treason, an offense punishable by death. The former head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the country’s premier law enforcement agency,
Jerome Corsi was wondering whether he would be indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller when he learned from a Friday news report the Russia probe concluded without new charges. He and his wife dropped to their knees, cried and thanked God. George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his time with the Trump campaign, revealed Tuesday he’s formally asked for a presidential pardon. Michael Caputo, who also worked on the Trump campaign, was at a police station Tuesday reporting his latest death threat — one of the hundreds he’s received
We´re Naming And Shaming The Absolutely Worst Reporters on The Russian Collusion ConspiracyTheory
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Attorney General Bill Barr revealed this weekend that special counsel Robert Mueller did not find that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government, dealing a hefty blow to a large swath of the media. Perhaps most damaged were the individual anchors and reporters who bet their careers on proving that President Donald Trump conspired with a foreign power to steal an election. These journalists authored fake stories, gave breathless coverage to the alleged scandal and ultimately misled the public. We’ve compiled a list of some of the worst offenders. Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has been one
After 27 years, Anita Hill is still waiting for a personal apology from Joe Biden. Apparently, the former vice president has yet to reach out for a private tête-à-tête with the law professor who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearings. But while Biden hasn’t been able to pick up the phone to talk to her about events from the fall of 1991, he understands that his connection to the Thomas hearings is a distinct liability in the 2020 Democratic presidential race. That’s why he used an event hosted
Pinocchio Nation
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It’s not what you are that counts,” Joe Kennedy allegedly reminded his children, “but what people think you are.” The Kennedy patriarch’s amoral advice seems almost quaint next to the prevailing ethos of today’s famous, rich, and influential. It’s not even what people think you are but what you can say you are, while keeping a straight face, that now counts. Take Jussie Smollett, who says that he has “been truthful and consistent on every level since day one.” Nobody, not even anyone with the last name Smollett, believes that. But he can say it
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating the city of San Antonio for potential First Amendment violations after the City Council voted to prevent Chick-fil-A — a franchise known for opposing same-sex marriage — from opening a location in the city’s airport. “The Constitution’s protection of religious liberty is somehow even better than Chick-fil-A’s chicken,” Paxton, a Republican, wrote in a Thursday letter to San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and the rest of the council. “Unfortunately, I have serious concerns that both are under assault at the San Antonio airport.” In a 6-4 vote, the council voted
The Democratic Party´s Leninist fundamental transformation is near complete. It was November 6 and 7, 1917 when Lenin and his Russian Bolsheviks led a coup d´état against the Duma´s provisional government. The parallels between the Bolshevik takeover, which begat the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the über-leftward turn of the Democratic Party are impossible to ignore. Lenin and the Bolsheviks did not significantly differ ideologically from the Romanov monarchical dynasty they ended with their takeover, or from the Mensheviks, from whom the Bolsheviks spilt in 1903, just as the new Democrats don´t differ much from the old Democrats.
The BBC has apologised and agreed to pay damages to Ukraine´s President Petro Poroshenko. The apology relates to an incorrect report claiming a payment was made to extend a meeting between Mr Poroshenko and US President Donald Trump. An article, published last May but since removed from the BBC website, alleged $400,000 was paid to Mr Trump´s former lawyer Michael Cohen. The allegation, relating to a meeting in June 2017, was untrue. The BBC also featured the report in a News at Ten television bulletin in the UK.
Nothing about the Mueller report — or at least what we know of it to this point — surprised me very much. As I’ve written before, I never thought it very likely that President Trump had entered into some kind of explicit agreement with the Russian government in 2016, only because the Russians, who are pretty sophisticated about this, wouldn’t have needed any quid pro quo to understand that having Trump in the White House would be like celebrating Defender of the Fatherland Day every day of the year. (I’m not making that up — it’s an actual Russian holiday.)
41 states have tried to pass abortion restrictions this year, as Georgia votes on a new ban: Report
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The expected vote on a so-called "heartbeat" abortion ban in Georgia is just one of a growing number of abortion restrictions that may become law this year. In fact, more than 250 bills restricting abortion have been filed in 41 states since the start of 2019, according to a new report issued by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights research group initially formed under Planned Parenthood that has been operating separately for years. While some legislators have been working to restrict abortion access since the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case that codified
Cook County (Ill.) State’s Attorney Kim Foxx did not “formally” recuse herself from the Jussie Smollett case, her office said in a statement Thursday, explaining that Foxx used the term "recuse" in a "colloquial" sense rather than a legal sense when she left the case in February. The statement was the latest twist in the saga centering around Smollett, the "Empire" actor whom Foxx´s office decided not to prosecute Tuesday in a stunning reversal after Smollett faced a 16-count indictment for allegedly staging an assault against himself in January. Foxx announced Feb. 19
The Socialist Fantasy
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Michael Moore said that Chavez used oil money to "eliminate 75 percent of extreme poverty." But now that the socialists created much more extreme poverty, I would think that progressives would realize that democratic socialism is not the route to paradise. But no, nothing convinces a dedicated socialist — or much of the media. A popular Vox video titled "The collapse of Venezuela, explained" never once mentions socialism. Instead, it says Venezuela collapsed because "oil prices plummeted in 2014 and Maduro failed to adjust." "Blaming socialism for Venezuela´s riches to rags story is grossly misleading," said Al Jazeera anchor Ryan Kohls. Venezuela didn´t collapse because
After it was revealed on Sunday that the two-year investigation conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the finger pointing began. This time, the national media was under the microscope. It´s one thing to hear baldly partisan idiocy from the opposing political party and its candidates — we expect that. It´s another thing altogether when crazed accusations are being spewed by the press 24/7/365 as if they´re fact. Voices as disparate as Rich Lowry, editor-in-chief of the conservative National Review, and Glenn Greenwald, co-founding editor of the nonpartisan (but leftish) The Intercept, have
The two-year-in-the-making Mueller report has finally concluded. The main takeaways: no further indictments, no allegations of interference with the investigation and no finding of collusion with Russia. So, let´s go to the videotape. Before Robert Mueller´s report: "The bombshell revelation that U.S. officials have information that suggests Trump associates may have colluded with the Russians means we must pause the entire Trump agenda. We may have an illegitimate President of the United States." — Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., March 23, 2017. "Here you have a President who, I can tell you and guarantee you, is in collusion with the Russians to undermine our
Even More University Corruption
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Last week´s column discussed the highly publicized university corruption scheme wherein wealthy parents bought admission at prestigious universities for their children. That is dishonest and gives an unfair advantage to those young people but won´t destroy the missions of the universities. There is little or no attention given by the mainstream media to the true cancer eating away at most of our institutions of higher learning. Philip Carl Salzman, emeritus professor of anthropology at McGill University, explains that cancer in a Minding the Campus article, titled "What Your Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University" (https://tinyurl.com/y9ds7e7t). Professor Salzman argues that for most of
Former First Lady and family matriarch Barbara Bush was once described as ´a silver-haired pearl draped howitzer´. But a combination of blows in her life in the mid-seventies sent her spiraling into a depression that almost led to her taking her own life. Among the causes of her despair was a woman who would stay by her husband George´s side for more than 12 years. Her name was Jennifer Fitzgerald and she was his aide – and according to some, his mistress, reveals Susan Page, author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty out next
Make no mistake: the Robert Mueller who was heralded by Democrats and clueless Republicans is anything but upstanding and honest. Robert Mueller is an agent of the Deep State who was handpicked by another Deep-State operative, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. As special counsel, Robert Mueller became an integral part of the ongoing Deep-State insurance policy to destroy and eventually impeach and unseat President Trump and provide cover for Hillary Clinton, the Obama administration, and Deep-State operatives in the FBI and DOJ.
A couple of weeks ago, the liberal blog BuzzFeed "broke" a "story" about President Trump supposedly ordering his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress on his behalf, citing an unnamed "source" within the Robert Mueller investigation. But the "news" was so fake that Mueller´s office publicly disavowed it almost immediately after it appeared. And re-appeared...practically everywhere. Other media outlets picked up the BuzzFeed "story" — creating the false impression of smoke where there was no fire. This has become the modus operandi of what Rush Limbaugh perceptively calls the drive-by media.