Posts on Saturday, March 30, 2019
Despite facing heavy criticism this week from one of the most powerful black public policy groups in America for its stunning decision to nominate disgraced Hollywood actor Jussie Smollett for an image award as per his work on the TV series “Empire,” the NAACP kept the nomination. But instead of attending the NAACP’s Image Awards Dinner this Friday evening, Smollett understandably skipped the event, and another actor took the prize. “Smollett was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of Jamal Lyon on the Fox show, but ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star Jesse Williams won the award
New York baseball fans will forever debate if the 1986 Mets, with their MLB-dominating 108 wins, were as good as the fabled 1950s Yankees teams that won six World Series. One argument has been settled: Those Bombers could drink the Amazin’s under the table, even as old men. Ron Darling, a hero of that famously hard-partying Mets squad, recalls in his new book the night he came face to face, and cocktail to cocktail, with three Yankees legends. It was early in Darling’s career, when the Yale grad would routinely stop by Pino’s on 34th Street after a game for
Stacey Abrams is set to reveal soon whether she’ll run for president or senator or something else. But in recent months, the Democrat has mounted a nationwide, largely below-the-radar effort to expand her donor and political network that will make her an instant force whatever she decides. Abrams has traversed the country meeting with top Democrats since her narrow loss in the Georgia governor’s race. She’s met with every leading candidate for president, and become a regular draw on the big-ticket fundraising circuit, donors and fundraisers told POLITICO. Abrams headlined major donor events for the Democratic National Committee
So, the Mueller report finally dropped and lo-and-behold, the most obvious hoax in recent history turned out to be a hoax. For all of Trump’s faults, collusion and obstruction aren’t among them. The various excuses by those who perpetuated this fraud have been fascinating to behold. Many of the poor souls who fell for this farce hold out hope. Others who perpetuated continue to double down. Mother Jones, for example, says that despite Mueller’s findings, “ Trump and his gang betrayed the United States in the greatest scandal in American history.” Many others are demanding we #ReleaseTheFullMuellerReport because obviously this
Former Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores was not just a victim of Joe Biden, but of a complicit media who deliberately looked the other way for decades. Serial Young Girl-Toucher (nickname stolen from Ace of Spades) Joe Biden denies the incident with Flores, but the whole world knows he has been caught countless times on video and in photographs behaving inappropriately not only with women, but with young girls — very young girls. But because Biden is a Democrat, and most especially because he was vice president to Barack “The Precious” Obama, not only has he been allowed to continue his
In their latest video, sketch group Riot Act takes on their own horrifying version of the popularized “Trumpy Bear” with “The Hildebeest.” The sketch — written by Adam Yenser, a writer for "The Ellen Show," directed by Daily Wire writer Paul Bois, and starring a pussy hat-wearing Kassy Dillion of The Daily Wire as “woman” (lol) — mocks all the wretched qualities of twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Americans have come to know far too well.WATCH: (Video) “First came Trumpy Bear, roaring in the wilderness. Now, sulking quietly through the woods because she lost the election, comes ... Hildebeest!” the
The Trump Campaign has unveiled a hilarious brand new item in their 2020 collection — a “Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff” tee. The new shirt has caused quite an uproar among the liberal media. (Video/Tweet) “He spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking. He should be forced to resign from Congress! Everyone should buy a Pencil-Neck Adam Schiff shirt today!” the Official Team Trump account tweeted with a link to the shirt. The new merch is playing on a viral insult that President Donald Trump dropped during a campaign stop on Thursday night in Grand Rapids. “Little pencil neck Adam
President Donald Trump announced Saturday that a Navy SEAL who is accused of fatally stabbing an Islamic State detainee during a 2017 deployment to Iraq will be “moved to less restrictive confinement” ahead of his trial in May. “In honor of his past service to our Country, Navy Seal #EddieGallagher will soon be moved to less restrictive confinement while he awaits his day in court,” the president tweeted. “Process should move quickly!” Trump’s message follows a request by 40 members of Congress to the Navy on Tuesday to “analyze whether a less severe form of restraint would be appropriate” for
Williams Cancino fled his post as a Venezuelan special forces official to neighboring Colombia last month. Now he is restless to get back to his home country to help overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro. “I think it´s time to act," says Cancino, 27, at a park in the Colombian border town of Villa del Rosario. "It´s time to organize ourselves, the soldiers that know how to fight." He is with three fellow Venezuelans who deserted the security forces of the crisis-stricken country and turned over their guns to the Colombian authorities. He says he has no weapons
I don’t hate Joe Biden. He seems like an amiable guy, a decent man. He’s been around Washington for a long time — first as a senator for 36 years and then as Barack Obama’s vice president for two terms. Along the way, he’s managed to make relatively few enemies. He’s also been through a lot of personal tragedy. That makes it especially easy to think fond thoughts when his name comes up, as it often does these days, in discussions of the early presidential polls, which consistently show Biden as the early Democratic frontrunner and the candidate most
I worked at Planned Parenthood for eight years, rising through the ranks from volunteer escort, to clinic counselor to clinic director. I was awarded the Employee of the Year prize in 2008 and was one of the youngest clinic directors in the country, setting an example of how to run a clinic to churn out as many abortions – the biggest money maker – as I could. Then it all changed when I was asked to assist in an ultrasound-guided abortion.Some images stick with you forever, images that you can’t unsee.
In 2014, I was the 35-year-old Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Nevada. The landscape wasn’t looking good for my party that year. There were no high-profile national races to help boost turnout, and after the top candidate bowed out of the governor’s race, “None of the Above” ended up winning the Democratic primary. So when my campaign heard from Vice-President Joe Biden’s office that he was looking to help me and other Democrats in the state, I was grateful and flattered. His team offered to bring him to a campaign rally in an effort to help boost voter turnout.
In January, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) signed a radical abortion bill legalizing abortion through all nine months of pregnancy and removing protections for babies in the womb and babies born in a botched abortion. According to a new poll released Friday, however, a full 79 percent of New York residents think abortion should be limited to at least the first six months of pregnancy. According to a Knights of Columbus (KoC)/Marist poll released Friday, New York State residents tend to support abortion at higher rates than most Americans, but even so, only 21 percent
As far as the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office is concerned, lying about a hate crime is not such a big deal. By deciding to drop charges against former “Empire” actor Jussie Smollet for having faked a hate crime in an apparent deal in which his records would be sealed and no apology required for the costs he had inflicted on the city, the authorities effectively gave him a pass for all he had done. Yet rather than ending the controversy, the deal—which Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel rightly declared was “not on the level”—created a brand-new furor.
I have significantly upgraded my opinion of Jeh Johnson, President Obama´s secretary of homeland security. Appearing Friday on Morning Joe, he was honest and blunt in addressing the border crisis, drawing on his own experience and implicitly rebuking the Democrats´ talking point that this is a "manufactured crisis." The one-minute video below is a classic of sorts, and well worth your time. Johnson was serious as he spoke these words (hat tip: Breitbart for the transcript):
As Trump vows to shut the border to illegals, Gavin Newsom makes a suspicious trip to El Salvador
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With 1.5 million illegal immigrants from Central America rolling into the U.S., President Trump has declared an emergency in order to construct a badly needed wall at the border, and now has threatened to shut the gates of the border down, too, unless Mexico´s government quits enabling the problem. It´s a major issue, and a recent poll shows that many Americans want it dealt with as a top priority. Who should show up to throw a stick into these turning wheels but California´s Gov. Gavin Newsom, who´s announced his first gubernatorial
Two Native American tribes find themselves increasingly desperate in their long-running efforts to legalize gambling on their Texas lands—a source of revenue they claim as vital to caring for their people. Courts continue to rule against them, and Congress has shown little interest in stepping into a decades-old conflict. A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on March 14 upheld a trial court ruling that the Alabama-Coushatta tribe violated state law by offering bingo-based games in their Naskila Gaming facility near Livingston in East Texas. U.S. District Judge Philip Martinez issued an injunction on Thursday
President Trump´s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., echoed his father´s calls on Friday for The New York Times and The Washington Post to have their joint Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Russia probe revoked. "He’s right... unless they give Pulitzer’s for fiction," Trump Jr. said quoting the president, who earlier in the evening suggested the prize be taken back. (Tweet) Many were quick to point out after Trump Jr.´s tweet, however, that there is a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, which went to "Less" by Andrew Sean Greer in 2018. The award was created in 1918 originally under the category "Novel" but was later changed to "Fiction."
They have been the objects of rage, mockery and countless articles. Some have already lost jobs.But in the coming days, many of the parents in the college admissions scandal will enter a courtroom in Boston to face criminal charges. And in doing so, the public will begin to see how they respond to the accusations against them. Fifteen parents charged in a scheme using William “Rick” Singer’s Newport Beach company are making appearances Friday in federal court. A dozen more — including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman — will be in the same court Wednesday.
Conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones blamed a personal “psychosis” for spreading the theory that the Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax, he said in a court deposition. Jones made the remarks in his response to a lawsuit filed against him by the family of a 6-year-old who was among the 20 children slain in the Sandy Hook attack, the Austin American-Statesman reported. The suit was filed in Travis County, Texas, where Jones’ media company is based. The suit was filed in Travis County, Texas, where Jones’ media company is based. Jones claimed his psychosis was brought on by his deep distrust of the media.
They don´t believe in America
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Eric Holder was born in the Bronx at a great time to be a black American. Second-class citizenship ended when he was 13. (Snip)And yet, Holder tweeted sarcastically, "Exactly when do you think America was great?"Mike Pence responded with pictures of Washington crossing the Delaware, Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima, Neil Armstrong planting the flag in the moon, and Martin Luther King delivering the "I Have a Dream" speech. Holder knows better.Two of those events happened in his lifetime, one when he was 11 and one when he was 18.
Is Brexit a phoenix in disguise? Imitating that fabled bird, Brexit went down in flames at Brussels last week. Britain’s true independence from the European Union, however, may yet be resurrected from the ashes. Has Brexit, phoenix-like, acquired new life?In a desperate bid to save her Withdrawal Agreement, Prime Minister Theresa May met her parliamentary party Wednesday and, in exchange for their support, promised to resign. The idea would be to allow new leadership to take charge of the trade deal portion of Britain’s two-step exit from the EU.
Best economy in 53 years
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Throughout the 2016 campaign, elitists said Donald John Trump wanted to bring back the 1950s. A New York Times headline mocked, "Voters Who Long for ´Leave It to Beaver.´" Well, he´s already returned us to 1966. This time without the war. The University of Michigan´s latest monthly survey showed consumer sentiment rose to 98.4 from February’s 93.8. (Snip)So while the media and other Democrats chased their tails looking for collusion with Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale, President Trump was fixing the economy. Those job the idiot Obama said are not coming back came back.
First things first. We cannot approach the analysis of Robert Mueller or any of the officials within the closed-circle of the DC fiefdom from a reference drawn from our own personal experiences. The people we are discussing are not connected to a frame of reference carried by 99% of the American population. The DC elites are people born to live in a hierarchy of power and position disconnected from any external tribe. Their sense of self-importance is affirmed by perceived status and expressed through their daily conduct. A world of think-tanks, superiority training, traditions and policy-making
This week, The Economist, one of the most respected outlets in the world (and arguably one that is fairly centrist), falsely labeled pundit Ben Shapiro as “the sage of the alt-right.” Shapiro, and then seemingly every conservative on social media, expressed outrage at the accusation. Before long, The Economist corrected itself, instead labeling Shapiro a “radical conservative,” whatever that means. In this case the misappellation was not just factually incorrect, it was unintentionally cruel. During the 2016 Republican primary when the alt-right came to the fore as shock troops supporting Donald Trump (seemingly without his consent) Shapiro was, perhaps more
Bob Gates, perhaps the most farsighted post-Cold War defense secretary, presciently predicted in 2011 “that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress—and in the American body politic writ large—to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.” Gates, who once rightly understood that the Saudis would fight Iranians to the last American, also essentially hinted the same with regards to Germany and Russia, “nations apparently willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume
The marijuana industry had a good day in Washington Thursday, as the House Financial Services Committee passed a bill to liberalize banking laws covering the industry. This win for pot came after a pretty tough blow: A new study published in the Lancet, a highly respected medical journal, found that high-potency marijuana can make you psychotic. In fact, about half of all cases of psychoses in Amsterdam could be prevented “if high-potency cannabis were no longer available,” the data suggest. The study doesn’t prove causality, but it certainly suggests it may be there. It illustrates the need for more research
Joe Biden Is Done
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Joe Biden is a creepy old goat. Everyone knows this. There is much photographic evidence of him crossing the line with women. He’s also a liar and a buffoon. But the Democratic party’s public-relations arm, aka the mainstream media, has never before had any incentive to hold Biden up to scrutiny. Why bother? When he became veep, any attack on Biden risked looking like casting aspersions on the man who made him his number two, and the media could not countenance any naysaying about the judgment of the Precious. For the next few months, though, we’re in
Long Overdue Action on EMP
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Much of what we read in the news is trivial. This isn’t. I have been hearing about the threat posed by electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) for quite a few years. A high altitude EMP can occur if a nuclear device is detonated over the Earth’s surface. It potentially could wipe out all electrical systems, effectively disabling the United States. Some estimate that an EMP attack could kill 90 percent of Americans. A number of countries, including Russia, China and North Korea, are believed to have the ability to detonate weapons creating one or more EMPs over the U.S. I have no idea
The expunging of the 16-count felony indictment against actor Jussie Smollett for faking a hate crime against himself is being treated as a manifestation of Chicago-machine politics, whereby the politically well-connected enjoy a different standard of justice than everyone else. Feminist attorney Tina Tchen, the former chief of staff to First Lady Michelle Obama, had contacted Cook County prosecutor Kim Foxx about the case on behalf of a member of Smollett’s family. But the dismissal of a seemingly watertight case, based on the sworn confessions of Smollett’s two co-conspirators and reams of physical evidence, represents more than celebrity justice.
It´s bad enough, as has been evident for some time, that Donald Trump and his campaign were being spied upon by our own government, but it´s highly likely they were also subject to literal entrapment--at least a serious attempt was made. I don´t mean the entrapment of promulgating the salacious Steele dossier both to the public and the FISA court as if it were the truth. That was more of a smear to justify a phony investigation. I mean something more subtle and LeCarré-like coming from the depths of our intelligence communities.
If you haven’t seen a commercial for Unplanned, an anti-abortion movie critical of Planned Parenthood, it isn’t for lack trying on the part of marketers, whose efforts have been consistently rebuffed by TV networks. Pure Flix, the distributor behind the box office hit God’s Not Dead and other movies aimed a Christians, opens the movie in 1,000 theaters today, but outside of the Fox News Channel, every other mainstream television outlet has declined to air the ad. Lifetime, for example, told the film’s marketers that they declined to air the commercial due to the “sensitive nature of the film,”
WASHINGTON — Moving defiantly to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, President Donald Trump on Friday issued a new presidential permit for the project — two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed. Trump said the permit issued Friday replaces one granted in March 2017. The order is intended to speed up development of the controversial pipeline, which would ship crude oil from tar sands in western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast. A federal judge blocked the project in November, saying the Trump administration had not fully
Trump cuts all direct assistance to Northern Triangle countries Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala
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In a stunning about-face, State Department officials said that President Donald Trump is cutting off all direct assistance to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. “At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and ending FY [fiscal year] 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a State Department spokesperson told ABC News, referring to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “We will be engaging Congress as part of this process.” These three countries are the primary source of migrants to the U.S., but for years the U.S.
Valerie Plame, the former CIA operative who was at the center of an intelligence leak when her identity was publically revealed during the George W. Bush administration, plans to run for a U.S. Senate seat in New Mexico as a Democrat, according to reports. Plame told the Washington Examiner on Friday that she would "like another opportunity to serve my country." Her disclosure follows the announcement Monday by U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., that he will not seek re-election. Plame, 55, has a been vocal critic of President Trump,
Enough! Unfathomable 7th grade assignment ‘Trump Against American Values’ has people fighting mad
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A middle school teacher in Texas faced death threats and angry parents after a school assignment appearing to be critical of President Donald Trump was called out by a state lawmaker. The Houston-area teacher, who was not identified, was accused by a Texas state congressman of violating the “sacred trust” of parents sending their children to public school after it was learned that she gave her 7th grade students an assignment to review an essay titled, “Trump Against American Values,” the Houston Chronicle reported.(Video) Texas State Rep. Briscoe Cain slammed the teacher and the Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for more urgency to address climate change on Friday, comparing its impact on American to the tragedy of 9/11. The Bronx rep. was discussing her Green New Deal on MSNBC when she said the devastation from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was similar to the 2001 terrorist attack. “On the events on September 11, 2001 thousands of Americans died in the largest terror attack on US soil,” Ocasio-Cortez told host Chris Hayes. “Our national response was war in one then eventually two countries: 3,000 Americans died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria. Where is our response?”
Rudy Giuliani joined Sean Hannity on Friday night to discuss the aftermath of the Mueller Report. Rudy warned the Mueller mob that if their report is released he will drop an 87 page report on the corrupt and criminal tactics of the Special Counsel. Rudy is no wilting flower. At the end of the interview Rudy dropped a bomb on the Deep State! The FISA Warrant investigations will lead to perjury prosecutions. “Guaranteed.” (Photo) Sean Hannity: I want to see that. I want to see the FISA applications. Rudy Giuliani: That one’s going to lead to perjury prosecutions. Guaranteed. They
Following the release of the “no collusion” Mueller report, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has led the charge to focus on saving the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare as the government-run health care program faces an uncertain future.Democrats have introduced legislation that would reduce health insurance premiums, protect people with pre-existing conditions, and place restrictions on some types of insurance.The move has gained support from a lot of Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (R-NY), the New York Times reported. (Video) But Ocasio-Cortez’s former mentor disagrees. When asked by reporters about it, presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a one-word
On a chilly night almost two years ago, in a cramped, cluttered room in a dirt-cheap motel on Aurora Avenue, I found myself sitting face-to-face with six heroin addicts. They were nice kids. They seemed tired. Wrung out. But they were honest, and funny at times, and I liked every one of them. I´ll never forget Ace, who was 30-years-old, with a closely shaved head and a slow, drawn out way of speaking. And, of course, they broke my heart.
Leftist presidential candidates of all (correction: the same) stripes are preparing to do battle with President Trump in 2020, pushing their menu of spoiled and smelling Venezuelan-style socialist ideas for voters. Trump will swat them away like flies, but he´s not looking in their direction much. His real target, according to the Atlantic Monthly, is going to be the press. Instapundit has found a beauty from within the Atlantic Monthly report, noting that Republicans are raring to go after the mainstream media, using their atrocious strings of lies and "narratives"
The government of Honduras has rejected the claim by Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero that “a mother of all caravans” is forming in that country, while a migrant advocacy group contends that the term was used as a ploy to justify the implementation of stricter immigration policies in Mexico. Honduran deputy foreign secretary Nelly Jeréz said yesterday that “there is no indication of such a caravan” and “this type of information” only encourages people to leave the country. Jeréz’s remarks came after United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen met with Honduran
Mexico bowed to President Trump´s border security demands by agreeing to set up a Central American illegal alien "containment" belt 2,200 miles south of San Diego. Mexico´s socialist president, Andrés Manuel López-Obrador, known as "AMLO," trumpeted after his huge July victory that he sympathized with migrants suffering from "hunger and poverty." He promised to slash funds dedicated to border control and claimed that he would stand up to any of President Trump´s bullying tactics.
Even as the New Zealand government was condemning the Erdogan regime for using mosque shooting footage in its election rallies, the Washington Post decided to give the Islamist tyrant a platform. It was the second time in six months that The Post had given Erdogan a platform. Recep Tayyip Erdogan has prisons full of political dissidents. He has silenced the media and has tortured opponents. His brutal Islamist regime has been described as the world’s biggest jailor of journalists. It’s been estimated that a third of the world’s imprisoned journalists have been locked up by his regime. But that didn’t stop the Washington Post
Ben Rhodes, a former national security aide to President Barack Obama, told the New York Times this week that the “donor class” had prevented Obama from taking more anti-Israel steps than the administration had wanted to take. Rhodes spoke to author Nathan Thrall for a feature article titled, “How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics.” The headline describes “politics,” but Thrall focused on policy debates within the Democratic Party, which has seen the rise of an assertive anti-Israel constituency in recent years. That constituency has included overtly and unabashedly antisemitic
City Comptroller Scott Stringer’s recent warnings about massive waste at NYC Ferry were alarming enough. But a Citizens Budget Commission report out Thursday truly, uh, rocks the boat. For every ferry ride, the CBC found, the city kicks in an average of $10.73 of its own funds to meet costs. Every ride! And, to be clear, that $10-plus is on top of the $2.75 fare. That’s 10 times the average subsidy for the New York City Transit system.(Snip) And get this: A new route Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced will run from Coney Island to Wall Street—and cost
High-capacity gun magazines will remain legal in California under a ruling Friday by a federal judge who cited home invasions where a woman used the extra bullets in her weapon to kill an attacker while in two other cases women without additional ammunition ran out of bullets. "Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts," San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez wrote as he declared unconstitutional the law that would have banned possessing any magazines holding more than 10 bullets. California law has prohibited buying or selling such magazines since 2000,
CARACAS, Venezuela — The Red Cross said Friday it had received permission from Venezuela’s government and opposition to roll out one of the organization’s biggest global relief campaigns, signaling a possible easing in the dire humanitarian emergency gripping the country. The announcement amounted to the first tacit acknowledgment by the government of Nicolás Maduro that Venezuelans are suffering from lack of food and other basics. In scale and ambition, the relief effort could become an “operation very similar to what is happening in Syria,”
The good folks over at Campus Reform report that leftist students at Hofstra University are demanding the college´s administration take down a statue of founding father Thomas Jefferson because the statue represents a "legacy of racism and bigotry on college campuses." Campus Correspondent Sergei Kelley reports that Hofstra students held a second annual "Jefferson Has Gotta Go!" event on Friday. In addition to demanding that Jefferson´s statue be torn down due to his slave-holding past, the group that gathered sought to ´´expose the culture of bias and discrimination" found on college campuses. Who exactly put on this event?
Illinois Bar Drops Hammer On Kim Foxx Over Jussie Smollett, Lays Out Possible Illegality By Her
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To say this is a strongly worded letter is a bit of an understatement. As you’ve no doubt heard, Illinois State Attorney Kim Foxx is in the middle of a firestorm for her apparent corrupt handling of the Jussie Smollett case. After inexplicably dropping all charges, she’s told several different stories, including some that are objectively false. She’s under FBI review, under fire from the Chicago PD, and she’s now taking hits from the Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association.
Members of Congress are old. Really old. The House Democrats’ top three leaders are all 78 or 79.Democrat John Dingell was re-elected to the House every two years from 1955 to 2014, even though he represented Detroit during the period in which the city sank from America’s crown jewel of manufacturing to a symbol of urban blight. In 2014 he was replaced — by his wife. Republican Strom Thurmond was a racial segregationist born in 1902 who served in the upper chamber from 1956 until 2003. The nation changed, but he remained in office. By the end, his aides were
Conservatives often complain that the media are colluding with Democrats. Well, here’s more proof that yes, there is collusion. But what looks like bad journalism required good journalism to ferret it out. New York Magazine and HuffPost contributor Yashar Ali is accusing Dafna Linzer, the managing editor for political coverage for NBC News and MSNBC, of trying to “bully” him to help Democrats. While Ali leans and works left, he has a good reputation for being an honest broker – even among conservatives. His complaints lit up Twitter Friday. Ali devoted a 25-tweet thread to criticizing the actions Linzer. Ali
Some of the veteran members in Congress fired back after Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has more patriotism and integrity in his little finger than President Donald Trump “or any of the Republicans in Congress today will have in their lifetimes.” (Tweet) Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), who lost both of his legs to an IED in Afghanistan, listed his fellow veterans and their achievements, such as Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ): (Tweets) Crenshaw also responded to Cicilline: (Tweets) Schiff has received a new wave of criticism after Robert Mueller’s investigation, according to
He’s the Democratic Party’s hands-on favorite for 2020. The revelation last week of Joe Biden’s creepy encounter with a young female politician was is hardly the first time the 76-year-old has been accused of being too touchy-feely with women.Topping the Post’s Gallery of Biden’s Greatest Hit-ons was the time he grabbed the shoulders of Stephanie Carter from behind and whispered in her ear while her hubby Ash Carter gave his 2015 Secretary of Defense acceptance speech.He awkwardly groped the waist of The Hill’s Amie Parnes at a 2013 holiday party. During a 2012 campaign stop in Ohio he sat so
Democrats and the establishment media are floating conspiracy theories about special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation in order to discredit his finding of no collusion. Mueller delivered his report to Attorney General Bill Barr last weekend, and Barr sent a letter to Congress summarizing the report’s principal findings: no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and no conclusion on obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump. Republicans and the White House have celebrated Barr’s letter as an exoneration of the president, but Democrats and the media have seized on what they see as an elaborate cover-up by Trump’s
Americans don’t respect sleep. As much as 40 percent of us say that we don’t sleep enough, according to Gallup. Perhaps we have too much to do or work more than one job, preventing a normal sleep routine. Whatever our reasons, sleep is often not a high priority. We shouldn’t take it so lightly: there is a growing mountain of compelling evidence that our casual disregard of healthy sleep is downright dangerous. A meta-analysis published in the journal Sleep, found that too little sleep leads to an “unambiguous and consistent pattern of increased risk of dying.” A recent study in
NEW YORK— Cities around the world were marking Earth Hour on Saturday by turning off lights at 8:30 p.m. local time in a call for global action on climate change. Earth Hour, spearheaded by the World Wildlife Fund, calls for greater awareness and more sparing use of resources, especially fossil fuels that produce carbon gases and lead to global warming. Beginning in Sydney in 2007, Earth Hour has spread to more than 180 countries, with tens of millions of people joining in. (Instagram Video) n Hong Kong, major buildings along Victoria Harbour turned off their non-essential lights and the city’s
Joe Biden´s history of unwanted touching threatens to put off women if he runs for president
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An allegation that Joe Biden inappropriately touched a Nevada state lawmaker is renewing questions about his appeal to women if he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president’s decades of vacillation on abortion rights and his handling of Anita Hill’s sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas at Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 1991 were already serious vulnerabilities. If Biden launches his third campaign for president, as expected, he will be joining a crowded field of Democratic rivals that includes four women in the U.S. Senate — and at a time when women have been siding strongly with Democrats
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Saturday called for governments to play a greater role in regulating the Internet, citing four areas where he believes better rules are needed. Zuckerberg said new regulations are needed to protect society from harmful content, ensure election integrity, protect people’s privacy and to guarantee data portability. Facebook has faced a torrent of public criticism over its handling of Russian intervention in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and its policies on hate speech that many governments and users consider too lax.
Teaching cows to use the toilet is not the easiest task, but a Dutch inventor is banking on a new bovine urinal to help cut emissions that cause environmental damage. Tests have started on a farm in the Netherlands on the device which collects some of the 15 to 20 litres of urine that the average cow produces a day. That produces huge amounts of ammonia in a country like the Netherlands, which is the world´s second-biggest agricultural exporter after the United States. "We are tackling the problem at the source," Henk Hanskamp, the Dutch inventor and businessman behind the
Americans are split over whether House Democrats should continue to investigate President Trump after special counsel Robert S. Mueller III made no determination about whether he attempted to obstruct justice during the inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, a Washington Post-Schar School poll finds. (Snip) Among Democrats, who long expressed faith in Mueller during the inquiry, 53 percent now say they are disappointed with its conclusions. And while most still approve of Mueller’s efforts, more than 6 in 10 Democrats do not accept his finding on whether Trump conspired with Russia. Over the course of Mueller’s 22-month
A quarter of people interviewed in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo last year during the ongoing Ebola outbreak believed the deadly virus wasn´t real, according to a new study. A survey was conducted last September, one month after the country declared its 10th outbreak of the Ebola virus disease. Researchers interviewed 961 adults in the cities of Beni and Butembo in the North Kivu province, which is at the epicenter of the active outbreak. More than 25 percent of respondents said they believed rumors Ebola doesn´t exist. Additionally, some 33 percent said they believed the outbreak was fabricated
Star of the biopic "Unplanned," Ashley Bratcher responded to a letter written by abortion advocate Alyssa Milano to Georgia House Speaker David Ralston and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp threatening to boycott the state if a proposed pro-life heartbeat bill passes. Milano slammed H.B. 481, the Living Infants Fairness and Equality (LIFE) Act, which bans abortions if a heartbeat is detected. As The Daily Wire reported, over fifty celebrities have signed the letter in solidarity. Responding on Deadline, Bratcher, who portrays pro-life advocate Abby Johnson in the film, says she is a "proud Georgian" and that she is "incredibly
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, who is running for president in 2020, addressed the recent article by a former Nevada assemblywoman claiming that former Vice President Joe Biden inappropriately kissed and touched her during a 2014 campaign event. Warren became the first 2020 candidate to address the accusations, saying Biden needed to answer for them, but admitted she was not entirely familiar with the specific claim. "So I don´t know anything about this," Warren said. "But obviously if there´s a problem, then Joe Biden needs to answer." Warren made the comments Friday night to a group of reporters
While much of the attention Chicago is currently receiving revolves around the Jussie Smollett debacle, there are more serious matters afoot out in the streets. (Snip) After securing the suspect and confiscating a bundle of drugs as evidence, placing them in the patrol car, the officers were surrounded by a group of men who began to threaten them. At least one claimed to be armed and demanded the suspect be released or he would shoot the cops. Someone in the mob stole the drugs from the patrol car and fled, with one officer giving pursuit. The threatened violence surrounding the
Pro-life, pro-God, pro-gun and pro-Trump singer Kaya Jones, formerly of the Pussycat Dolls, didn’t mince her words Friday when she went on a Twitter tear against Hollywood. Her beef? Hollywood’s obsession with catering to the minority at the expense of the majority. “As a straight woman who respects and loves men I don’t feel represented by Hollywood in tv or films. I don’t see strong male characters anymore. I don’t see gentle loving kind women anymore. I see bitchy women hating men and men who aren’t interested. And that’s the truth!” she wrote. As a straight woman who respects and
Hollywood threatened Georgia with a boycott if the state passed a bill that limited abortions to the first six weeks. Peach State lawmakers passed the bill and left-wing celebrities are erupting. As Breitbart News reported Friday, Hollywood has lined up to warn the state that they would take their business out of Georgia if the “Heartbeat bill,” H.B. 481, passed, a bill that would ban abortion after a heartbeat could be detected in a fetus. In a letter written by actress-turned-activist Alyssa Milano, stars threaten to “do everything in our power to move our industry to a safer state for
Dick’s Sporting Goods reports $150 million in lost sales after halting assault-weapons sales
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Dick’s Sporting Goods’ bottom line took a very big hit after halting the sale of assault-style weapons in response to the Parkland school massacre. The policy change cost the nation’s largest sporting goods retailer about $150 million in lost sales, about 1.7 percent of annual revenue, Bloomberg News reported Friday. But boss Ed Stack isn’t complaining. “The system does not work,” Stack said, according to the news outlet. “It’s important that when you know there’s something that’s not working, and it’s to the detriment of the public, you have to stand up.” Parkland gunman Nikolas Cruz purchased a shotgun from