Posts on Sunday, March 31, 2019
There are a lot of unanswered questions arising from Robert Mueller’s investigation, and some of the most compelling ones involve President Obama’s seemingly inept handling of Russia’s efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. According to numerous reports, the Obama administration was well aware of the Kremlin’s operation, but refused to take strong steps to address it until it was too late. We are told to believe that the White House didn’t push back against Russia out of fairness to Donald Trump and because it feared that doing so would spark public outrage. “It was a politically perilous issue for
Remember how President Trump publicly navigated the cunning duplicity of Xi Jinping’s control over Kim Jong-un; without directly confronting Xi? I have a hunch we are going to see the same dynamic in how President Trump publicly confronts President Obama’s seditious conspiracy scheme. (Tweet) President Trump is smartly avoiding the ‘outrage trap‘ by focusing attention toward the beginning of the operation against the Trump campaign. (Photos) The way to avoid the legal and political defense inside Susan Rice’s ‘justification memo’ is to ignore the activity of those protected by it and go directly to the origin of how they created
In some of the photos, Joe Biden is behind the women, his hands on their shoulders, as he whispers in their ears. He embraces Hillary Clinton, his hands around her torso. He kisses a young girl’s head, his fingers framing her face, as she looks blankly toward the camera. This affectionate and sometimes intimate physical style is one of the former vice president’s trademarks, a defining feature of the warm and upbeat persona he has built during more than four decades in the national spotlight.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) revealed during an interview on Sunday that Attorney General William Barr is "pretty upset" over the way the criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton was handled and that he hopes "there´s a special counsel appointed to look at DOJ corruption and political bias." (Video) Appearing on Fox News´ "Sunday Morning Futures," Graham told Maria Bartiromo that there needs to be an investigation into the other side regarding the 2016 election, including the "Clinton campaign, the FISA warrant abuse [and] the counterintelligence investigation." "Nobody in the Clinton e-mail investigation went to jail for lying about
Knife crime must be treated like an infectious disease killing our children, Theresa May and Sajid Javid say today. Unveiling a radical shift in policy, the Prime Minister and Home Secretary will hand hospitals, schools and social services a legal duty to protect youngsters. Casualty staff and GPs will be obliged to flag up knife wounds or other suspicious injuries so children can be referred to ‘violence reduction units’.(Snip) The move comes amid intense public concern over knife crime. Ten separate stabbing incidents have been reported in the past few days, including one in which a hooded attacker knifed four victims
The former Nevada lawmaker who accused Joe Biden of giving her an “awkward kiss” in 2014 said Sunday she decided to go public because she wanted to force Democrats to confront his inappropriate behavior as the former vice president decides to run for the White House. “It’s so easy to Google ‘Creepy Biden’ and you get all these compilations of pictures and video evidence of young women and women looking very, very uncomfortable,” Lucy Flores, a former Nevada assemblywoman and 2014 candidate for lieutenant governor, told POLITICO. Flores said she initially kept quiet about the incident — in which she
Charles Barkley, Bo Jackson react to Auburn’s win over Kentucky to advance to NCAA Final Four
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The magnitude of Auburn’s trek through the NCAA Tournament hasn’t been lost on some of the school’s biggest sports legends. Bruce Pearl’s Tigers defeated Kentucky 77-71 to capture the Midwest Regional title Sunday. In doing so, Auburn has knocked off back-to-back-to-back college basketball royalty to advance to the school’s first Final Four. Before beating the Wildcats, college basketball’s winningest program, Auburn became the first program to defeat Kansas and North Carolina, teams that rank second and third on the all-time victory list, in successive games.
MEMPHIS — On a Sunday afternoon earlier this month, Senator Elizabeth Warren began a swing through the South by proclaiming that she was running “a different type of campaign” — one that did not include high-dollar fund-raisers but was entirely reliant on grass-roots contributions. (Snip) But as the first fund-raising deadline arrives at midnight on Sunday, Ms. Warren — who last year was widely considered a would-be front-runner — finds herself in a political vise. Her rivals on either ideological flank will raise substantially more money in the first quarter than she does, and her focus on policy has not
Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos hailed Breitbart News and other conservative news media outlets for being “truth-seeking,” for not falling for what he called psychological operations, or “psy-ops,” to push a narrative of Russian collusion. He said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday: I would sit back sometimes, and I would think, I’ve never been to Russia, I have no Russian friends, never met a Russian official in my entire life. In fact, throughout my entire professional career at the Hudson Institute and even after, as an energy consultant aboard, all my work was actually dedicated
Acting chief-of-staff Mick Mulvaney appears on CNN for an interview with furrowed brow Jake Tapper. In this segment the issue is border security, an ongoing crisis at the border, and President Trump’s intent to close the U.S-Mexico border. Furrowed admits there is a crisis at the border and then makes the claim that “investing” in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador “is working” to reduce the outflow of illegal aliens. (Snip) “if it’s working so well, then why are the people still coming?”… Furrowed is left staring at the response like a cow just licked him
Chances are if you say the two words “Common Core” to a parent they will likely evoke strong opinions, and generally not favorable ones. The academic standards that focused on math and English and which many states adopted have been an epic fail and have left several states with a change of heart. But while it’s been a disaster academically, from an agenda-driven perspective Common Core has been a huge win for the politically correct propaganda being peddled. Want proof? Look no further than any college campus over the past couple of years: the rejection of free speech and violent
Searching for Howard Johnson’s
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If you’re over the age of 35, the sight of the orange roof and copper steel cupola weathervane were at one time synonymous symbols of either the great American road trip or a special family meal – or both. With over 1,000 dining establishments in North America in the 1960s and 1970s, Howard Johnson’s was, for several decades, the largest restaurant chain in the United States. Established in 1925 as a small pharmacy by Massachusetts native Howard Deering Johnson, the enterprising Quincy resident quickly expanded his efforts to selling ice cream, hot dogs and soda at area beaches. The enterprise
Lucy Flores, the Democrat lawmaker who just revealed that Joe Biden inappropriately touched her during her 2014 campaign for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.Lucy Flores, the former Democrat nominee for Nevada Lieutenant Governor, accused Biden of an inappropriate encounter in a piece she wrote Friday in “The Cut” titled, “An Awkward Kiss Changed How I Saw Joe Biden.” Ms. Flores described how she was standing in a ‘holding room for speakers’ preparing to go on stage at an event in Las Vegas just days before the November election when Biden groped her and
Jake Tapper said Sunday that CNN has not gotten “anything” wrong during the course of reporting on Russiagate, even though his network has bungled numerous stories over the past two years.“I’m not sure what you’re saying the media got wrong. The media reported the investigation was going on. Other than the people in the media on the left, not on this network, I don’t know anybody that got anything wrong,” Tapper said during an exchange with acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. “We didn’t say there was a conspiracy. We said Mueller was investigating a conspiracy.” “That’s fine,
Former Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy predicted Sunday that the U.S. intelligence community might stop providing information to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff because he leaks “like a screen door on a submarine.” Gowdy was asked to weigh in on Republicans’ decision Thursday to call on Schiff to step down as chairman of the House panel. “Never seen that before,” said Gowdy, who served on the intelligence panel before leaving Congress in January.
Wow: CNN´s Brian Stelter, SE Cupp Bash Fox News´ Coverage Of The Mueller Investigation Because...
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CNN hosts Brian Stelter and SE Cupp on Saturday night discussed the "lessons learned" from the media´s coverage of Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s investigation into President Donald Trump´s alleged collusion with Russia. Once the Mueller report was dropped we know that absolutely nothing took place and, as President Trump said, the investigation was nothing but a "witch hunt."Despite knowing what they do now, Stelter and Cupp continue to defend CNN and other mainstream media outlet´s coverage of the investigation. But they slammed Fox News for not instantly running with the "Trump is guilty" narrative that lefties continued spewing."So Fox News
Because the 2020 presidential election is a year and a half away, it is very easy to get lulled into the false presumption that the outcome cannot possibly be currently determined, especially after the shocking result we all witnessed in 2016. However, there is an extremely strong argument to be made that the emerging destruction of Joe Biden, by both his own hands and those of his rivals, could very well end up allowing President Trump to be re-elected. While I am no fan of Joe Biden the politician, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that, if
‘What Are You, Oprah Now?’ Kellyanne Conway Snaps At Chris Wallace For ‘Inappropriate’ Question
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Kellyanne Conway snapped at “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace over what she deemed an “inappropriate” question about the state of her marriage. WATCH: (Video) Attorney George Conway has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump — calling him, among other things, a narcissist and claiming that he is “unfit for office” — but what makes his criticisms of particular interest to many in the media is the fact that he is married to White House senior advisor Kellyanne Conway. Wallace brought up several of George’s recent tweets during a Sunday morning interview with Kellyanne — also mentioning Trump’s response
White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway appears on Fox News with the insufferable swamp gatekeeper Chris Wallace to discuss the Mueller report. Wallace begins his interview with a predictable set-up scenario to Ms. Conway, hoping to bait her with a discussion of Joe Biden. It goes downhill from there. (Video/Photos)
Cory Booker talks frankly about racism as he campaigns, pointing out how the "dark spirit of bigotry" was part of the nation´s founding and urging crowds to speak the truth about prejudice. Kamala Harris bluntly tells supporters that racism is a potent force in society, saying Americans have for too long avoided confronting the "awful, shameless history on race in this country." In 2019, more than a decade after the nation elected its first black president, and halfway through the term of a president who has faced nonstop accusations of racism, the two Democrats are redefining the black presidential candidate.
The 7-year-old migrant girl from Guatemala who died while detained by the US Border Patrol succumbed to a bacterial infection, according to an autopsy released Friday. Jakelin Caal Maquin died on Dec. 8, a day after she and her father crossed the US border into a remote part of New Mexico in a group of 163 migrants.(Snip)The medical examiner determined her death was natural and caused by “sequelae of streptococcal sepsis,” according to the report.
One Bad Apple
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NEW YORK—This place feels funny, a bit like Beirut, where Christians, Muslims, Druze, and encamped Palestinians live together but separately, with one or two million Syrian refugees completing the mix. Over here the once-ruling WASPs are dead and buried, having moved to their country clubs in the suburbs and irrelevance. The Jews are in like Flynn, ruling Wall Street, the real estate market, and the television networks. The Chinese are creeping up, having bought more real estate in Manhattan alone than ISIS has lost in Syria and Iraq.
On Monday former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper went on with CNN’s Anderson Cooper to discuss the Mueller Report after its release on Sunday. After two years of investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of angry Democrats did not find any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also did not find any evidence of conspiracy after President Trump fired crooked leaker FBI Director James Comey. Clapper defended the Obama administration’s spying on their political opposition during the election.
President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he reversed bans on offshore drilling in vast parts of the Arctic Ocean and dozens of canyons in the Atlantic Ocean, a U.S. judge said in a ruling that restored the Obama-era restrictions. [SNIP] Gleason said. “The wording of President Obama’s 2015 and 2016 withdrawals indicates that he intended them to extend indefinitely, and therefore be revocable only by an act of Congress,”
Brad Parscale, Donald John Trump´s 2020 campaign manager, told Jesse Watters last night that 34% of the people who attended the president´s rally in Grand Rapids were registered Democrats. Parscale knows that because people needed to give the campaign their cellphone numbers to get tickets. The campaign then used the information to check their voting record.Google and Facebook have some competition. Parscale is working on the mother of all GOTV efforts. (Get Out The Vote.)(Snip)harvesting a million voters a month in key states
With the Mueller probe coming to a close, there is increased focus on congress (Lindsey Graham and/or Devin Nunes), along with President Trump, beginning a process toward accountability for those who constructed the Russia collusion/conspiracy hoax. However, amid the increased calls for sunlight and accountability, there are well-intended voices walking perilously close to an outrage trap.The issue(s) surround President Obama and high-ranking Obama intelligence officials, notably: Comey, Clapper, Brennan and Yates, intentionally lying and/or misrepresenting issues to president-elect Donald Trump and the transition team in/around the transition period and shortly after the January 20, 2017, inauguration.
For three days and nights, Maria and her 14-year-old son were penned behind barbed wire, under a bridge in El Paso. Cold, hungry, surrounded by sick and crying babies and with only the stony ground for a bed, her first experience of America was not as she had imagined. “I came here to work and get a better future for my family,” she said. “I never thought I would go through this.”(Snip) The full brutality of the conditions in this makeshift prison-cum-shelter is only now starting to emerge. Reporters are being kept away from the area
Let’s be clear: A hate crime did take place in Chicago. It’s an ongoing crime, too. Yes, a hoax occurred -- more like two or three hoaxes -- but deliberately stoked racial animosity can’t be washed away with the forfeiture of a $10,000 bond, a few hours of dubious “community service,” or the sealing of public records in a criminal case. If history has taught us anything, it’s that hate tends to fester, especially when aided by fraud and abetted by government. The latest chapter in America’s dispiriting culture wars began Jan. 22, when television actor Jussie Smollett
Planned Parenthood has long proclaimed itself to be a pro-woman medical provider of comprehensive health care services to women . . . Such self-righteous congratulatory proclamations have been partially unmasked. In recent years, Planned Parenthood has been exposed for what it truly is – the world’s largest provider and promoter of abortion, for which it receives millions of tax-payer dollars.
Rachel Maddow’s Conspiracy Brain
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On Monday night, the first night that MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show aired after Attorney General William Barr released his four-page memo on the Mueller report, Rachel Maddow was skeptical. Like, extremely, extremely skeptical. In fact, she had 15 questions worth of skepticism about the “the Barr Report,” which she displayed in remarkably tiny font behind her head. The questions started with the basics—Had Robert Mueller expected the attorney general to jump in and make a no prosecution, no collusion announcement? Was it appropriate for the attorney general to make that kind of determination at this point in the process?—before
I have my ´Trump 2020´ cap!
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Quoting the Pointer Sisters´ song, "I´m So Excited," my "Trump 2020" cap arrived in the mail. I am not a red cap–wearing kind of guy. But desperate times require desperate measures. Trump must be re-elected. For over two years, the Deep State attempted a silent coup to remove Trump via the Mueller special council. Their illegal scam failed. Without fear of punishment for their crimes, the enraged Deep State is now trying to remove Trump by absurdly claiming he obstructed justice. These people are relentless and evil.
RABAT - Pope Francis told Morocco’s tiny Catholic community on Sunday their role in the predominantly Muslim country was not to covert their neighbors but live in brotherhood with all other faiths. Francis has used his two-day trip to stress inter-faith dialogue. He has also backed Moroccan King Mohammed VI’s efforts to spread a form of Islam that promotes inter-religious dialogue and rejects violence in God’s name. (Snip) Conservative Catholics have frequently criticized the pope’s position against organized or aggressive recruiting of potential converts. “The Church grows not through proselytism but by attraction,” Francis said to applause.
Republicans are maneuvering to give an abortion survivors protection bill a floor vote in the Democrat-controlled House. GOP leaders will file a discharge petition to force a vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on April 2 in an effort to force a vote after Democrats have refused to bring it out of committee. Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise (R., La.) is spearheading the effort to gain the 218 votes needed to accomplish that goal. That would require the support of his entire caucus, as well as 21 Democrats. Scalise acknowledged that the maneuver is rarely used, but
Brexiteers are much nicer people than Remainers, experts have confirmed. We know thanks to research produced by political analyst Matthew Goodwin. On every metric, Brexiteers turn out to be kinder, more generous spirited, more tolerant and forgiving than spiteful, nasty, vengeful, bitter Remainers. Here are the results of his research: (Tweets) None of this will come as the remotest surprise to the many Brexiteers who have lost friends, work, or even jobs as a result of the prejudice directed at them by Remainers. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that this has been happening across Britain ever since the Remainers
The Senate is poised this week to consider two more nominees selected by President Trump to sit on the left-leaning 9th Circuit Court of Appeals -- and the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee isn´t happy about it. That´s because the nominees, Ken Lee and Dan Collins, were picked without any input from either Sen. Dianne Feinstein or Sen. Kamala Harris. Traditionally, the White House seeks to obtain a so-called "blue slip," or approval, from a judicial nominee´s two home-state senators before pressing on with their nominations. But the Trump administration, which has successfully nominated several conservative judges to the
San Antonio — The surge of migrant families crossing the southern border is overwhelming a bus station and aid organizations in San Antonio. The San Antonio Express-News reports city shelters have run out of space for the hundreds of people U.S. authorities are releasing from family detention centers around the city and on the border. The influx of people to San Antonio and other cities comes after U.S. officials announced so many families and children are entering the country from Mexico that they will be immediately released instead of transferred to immigration officers. Border agents are on track
Russia claims its Venezuela intervention is justified by - are you ready - the Monroe Doctrine
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With the Mother of All Weird Logic, Russia´s embassy in the U.S. just put out this tweet: I look at that and all I can think is: Whuhhh? Why´d they bring up the Chukotka Peninsula, a spit of land up there by the Arctic Circle as their justification for defending Venezuela´s Maduro regime? What they´re doing is using the Monroe Doctrine to justify their propping up of a brutal communist dictator operating 6,171 miles out from their capital by saying they, too, are part of the Western hemisphere.
Have you ever witnessed a miracle? Have you met a person who experienced one? Sure, I’ve experienced things that seem like they might have a supernatural component. Many to most of us probably have, at least at some point in a long lifetime. But I’m talking about the real deal. That is, something so extraordinary that you can’t quite explain it by normal physical means, nor can medical personnel. Something that is so stunning, that so defies rational-scientific explanation,
Judge Jeanine Pirro made her return to the Fox News Channel on Saturday night after being off the air for three weeks and called for President Trump’s enemies to get ‘behind the bars justice’. A day after Fox News colleague Sean Hannity said the former Westchester County district attorney had a family emergency that prevented her from appearing on his Friday television show, Pirro returned to the airwaves to her usual 9pm slot on Saturday. She was absent the past two Saturdays after she accused House Rep. Ilhan Omar of wearing a hijab to show her adherence to Sharia law
A compelling hour of intelligent television is in store tonight at 10 PM ET/PT on the Fox News Channel, Life, Liberty & Levin. The program will feature a discussion of the Mueller Report and the Deep State’s efforts to take down President Donald Trump with guests Sara A. Carter and John Solomon. In a preview of tonight’s episode at Fox News dot com, the episode is described as the reactions of the host – Mark Levin – and his guests to the close of the Mueller investigation “and what should happen next.” (Photo) Tonight’s two guests, Sara Carter and John
Amid her zeal to save the world with the Green New Deal, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has ignored residents in her own Bronx back yard. “I thought AOC would be our savior, but that’s not the case,” complained Roxanne Delgado, a local activist who said she has tried for months to get in touch with the congresswoman for help saving an animal shelter and to clean up parks in the district.Delgado, 40, says she has made numerous calls to Ocasio-Cortez’s offices in Washington and Queens and sent a barrage of tweets after the freshman
The Day the Dinosaurs Died
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If, on a certain evening about sixty-six million years ago, you had stood somewhere in North America and looked up at the sky, you would have soon made out what appeared to be a star. If you watched for an hour or two, the star would have seemed to grow in brightness, although it barely moved. That’s because it was not a star but an asteroid, and it was headed directly for Earth at about forty-five thousand miles an hour. Sixty hours later, the asteroid hit. The air in front was compressed and violently heated,
Even in high school, I found myself offended by my fellow students who were card-carrying communists in their beliefs and sympathies. In fact, a sizeable number of students clung to Marxism as dogma. The high school was Central High School for Boys, a school for gifted boys located in Philadelphia, Pa. Later, as I continued my studies in the Ivy League, I saw that there was a consistently strong element of intellectuals who were not in the least embarrassed to express their interest in communism.
White Men Really Are The Worst
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Former Vice President Joe Biden is the latest Democratic Party candidate for president to make a very important point – white men and our culture are the worst. The whole field has, in one way or another, said pretty much the same thing. And you know what? They’re right, we’re awful. Especially those of us who are straight. It’s time to reject white male culture! When you think about it, what have we ever done for humanity anyway? Michael Avenatti is one of us, so clearly not much.
Joe Biden´s Al Franken problem
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Joe Biden has an Al Franken problem. Though he hasn´t even officially announced he´s running for president, on Friday Biden was hit with the first of what could be more #MeToo accusations. Lucy Flores, a former Nevada assemblywoman, wrote that in 2014, when she was seeking office and Biden was still vice president, he smelled her hair and then planted an unwanted kiss on the back of her head. The problem for Biden is similar to the one faced by Franken when he was forced to resign from the Senate: Descriptions of misconduct are more believable when consistent with visual evidence.
Even after Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain to the New World and back, some naysayers surely clung to their shattered superstitions like life preservers after a shipwreck. “Who cares what Columbus says?” they likely whined. “The Earth IS flat. Columbus must have turned around and come home before he fell over the edge.” Today’s Democrats resemble those 15th-century bitter-enders. No matter what, many insist that Donald Trump and Russia colluded to win the White House. Even after special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation finally repudiated their destructive myth, they still scream: “Collusion!”
Donald J. Trump – is there anything he can’t do? I ask this after the most recent example of his omniscient omnipresence in every single headline issue of the day — in this case the Jussie Smollett hate crime hoax in Chicago. When the shocking crime was first reported, it was naturally blamed on Trump — two homophobic MAGA-hat wearing rednecks, assaulting a gay black D-list actor and looping a noose around his neck. But now that it’s been exposed as the most cynical of frauds, guess what — it’s still Trump’s fault. On Friday, the soon-to-be ex-mayor of Chicago blamed Smollett’s crimes
The Tsunami Approaches
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Tsunamis are nature’s surprise party. The sky is blue, the waves lap the shore gently, as usual. No reason to pack up the beach towel — much less run to the car and drive at top speed as fast as you can to the nearest highest ground. But across the ocean, an earthquake. (Snip)The European Union has decreed — fatwa’d— that beginning with the 2022 model year, all new cars shall be electronically gelded, forced by software to hew to every speed limit, all the time. The same software — and hardware —
Soon after news broke that special counsel Robert Mueller found no Russia collusion, media types began offering their idea of an olive branch to President Trump. It generally came in the form of advice that he try to “heal” the nation. One writer encouraged the president to give an Oval Office address in which he is “contrite, humble and authentic in tone” and use it to ask the public “for a new opportunity to be president of all Americans.” Allow me to go out on a limb with a prediction: Hell will freeze over first.
Among the high former Obama administration officials who have disgraced themselves by their public comments since leaving office, John Brennan deserves special recognition.(Snip)In Brennan’s many television appearances pronouncing President Trump a traitorous Russian stooge, one could hardly miss the rabid hatred beneath Brennan’s pronouncements. Given his former responsibilities, the thin smile and spittle flecked visage of the man might send a shiver down your spine.
A credit union set up to serve employees of CBS was shuttered last week after its manager was accused of embezzling $40 million over 20 years, according to reports. The suspect, identified as Edward Martin Rostohar, 62, was a 30-year employee of the Studio City, Calif.-based credit union, reports said. He was arrested at his Studio City home and charged with bank fraud and identity theft, authorities said. If convicted on both counts, he faces up to 32 years in prison and a $1 million fine, Deadline Hollywood reported.
Jussie Smollett might have been a no-show at Saturday night´s NAACP Image Awards in Hollywood but that didn´t stop comedian Chris Rock from blasting the "Empire" star. "They said ´No Jussie Smollett jokes´ ... What a waste of light skin. Do you know what I could do with that light skin? That curly hair? My career would be out of here! I´d be running Hollywood," said Rock, who was on hand to present the award for Outstanding Comedy Series. He continued: "What the hell was he thinking? You´re ´Jessie´ from now on. You don´t get the ´u´
Former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) on Saturday formally kicked off his 2020 presidential campaign, declaring at a rally in El Paso, Texas, that immigrants and asylum seekers make the border town safe.(Video) In a speech to over 1000 supporters, O’Rourke drew a sharp contrast between his immigration policies and those of President Donald Trump, extolling the virtues of increased immigration and diversity as a unifying force.“With Ciudad Juarez we form the largest binational community in this hemisphere. And for 20 years running, we’ve been one of the safest cities in the United States of America,” the El Paso
More than 100,000 illegal immigrants are poised to cross the US border into Texas — a crisis threatening to overwhelm facilities operated by the feds as well as shelters run by cities near the border, according to shocking new reports.That’s the biggest monthly total in more than a decade, according to USA Today.“It’s staggering,’’ the city manager of McAllen, Texas, Roy Rodriguez, told station KETK. “Really, we’ve never seen anything like this before.’’US Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said the border has hit “its breaking point.’’He added “CBP is facing an unprecedented humanitarian and border security crisis all
ANCHORAGE, Alaska- A federal judge in Alaska has overturned U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to open vast areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans to oil and gas leasing.The decision issued late Friday by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason leaves intact President Barack Obama’s policies putting the Arctic’s Chukchi Sea, part of the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea and a large swath of Atlantic Ocean off the U.S. East Coast off-limits to oil leasing. Trump´s attempt to undo Obama’s protections was “unlawful” and a violation of the federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Gleason ruled. Presidents have the power under that
Jesse Jackson is crying “fake news” over the outrage prompted by the Jussie Smollett case which he believes is “misplaced and out of proportion.” The reverend made his appeal for people to move on from the scandal involving the “Empire” actor accused of staging a hate crime against himself, addressing the issue in a statement released on Friday demanding an end to the “politically motivated” attacks on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. “The outrage over the Jussie Smollett case is misplaced and out of proportion,” Jackson said in a letter from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.
As if ICE didn’t have enough work, 24 immigrants go on a hunger strike to protest their detention
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Migrants being held in a Louisiana detention center are continuing a hunger strike in protest while they await their asylum claims to be processed. The strike protesting their detention began last week with about 150 people, immigrant advocates told The Associated Press, while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement report that only 24 people have continuously refused to eat meals. Immigrants at River Correctional Center in Ferriday, a privately-run prison which ICE began to contract with this year, have complained about the lack of attention to their cases and that they are being denied bond.
Time to venture boldly through the looking-glass … Sen. Rand Paul is among the millions who think so. The Republican senator from Kentucky effectively blocked a resolution Thursday that called for the public release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report. Objecting to the resolution, he argued that the communications of officials in the Obama administration be released first, to include those of former CIA Director John Brennan and Former FBI Director James Comey, as relating to the beginning of the Russia probe. Others no doubt among that vile cartel would be Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, Bruce Ohr, James Clapper,
Rev. Jesse Jackson on Friday released a statement branding the “outrage” surrounding Jussie Smollett as “fake news” and called on people still angered by allegations that the Empire actor staged a hate crime against himself to move on from the scandal. “The outrage over the Jussie Smollett case is misplaced and out of proportion,” said Jackson. “It is being used from City Hall to the White House to deflect and distract from City Hall to the White House. It is fake news.” “The voices that are crying out the loudest seem to have only recently found their sense of righteous indignation,”