Posts on Monday, April 1, 2019
Even with Albany passing a $175 billion budget underpinned by a series of new taxes, there’s at least one New Yorker whose bank account will be better off: Gov. Cuomo. Lawmakers voted in the wee hours of Monday morning to hike Cuomo’s salary to $250,000 by 2021, making him the highest-paid governor in the nation. Voting largely along party lines, the Senate signed off on the raise around 2:45 a.m. in a 35-to-24 vote. The Assembly followed at 7 a.m., approving the raise by a margin of 92 to 46. Cuomo’s compensation will jump from a 2018 salary of $179,500
Fired FBI Director James Comey posted a bizarre April Fool’s tweet on Monday — and it flopped.Comey posted a photo of himself standing in the middle of a road with a caption, “I’m in. We need someone in the middle. #2020” as if he was announcing his 2020 bid for the White House. *eyeroll* A couple hours later after massive backlash for his awkward, unfunny tweet, Comey followed up by taking a shot at President Trump and told people to vote Dem in 2020. “But could you imagine a president who used this website to make dad jokes rather than
Jared Kushner, President Trump´s senior adviser and son-in-law, told Fox News´ "The Ingraham Angle" on Monday that the president´s threats to close the U.S.-Mexico border are a way "to pressure everybody" into taking action to limit illegal immigration. "This is something that needs a solution, and one of the things I love about the president is, he doesn´t let people hide from problems," Kushner told host Laura Ingraham. "When there´s a problem, he makes people confront the problem and he´s very creative about ways that he´ll look to find a solution."
Specialist soldiers unearthing the remains of a Second World War mass grave in Belarus have discovered a female skeleton cradling the remains of a baby. Footage shows the excavation of more than 1,000 Jews from the construction site in the city of Brest which was occupied by Nazi Germany in the 1940s. The site of the Nazi massacre - discovered on an old ghetto area earlier this year - was found after building work began on an elite apartment block. ‘There are clear bullet holes in the skulls,’ Dmitry Kaminsky, the military team leader, told the BBC.
Trump Advisor FBI First Targeted For ´Collusion´ Gives New Details About Feds´ ´Preposterous´ Claims
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Carter Page, the man who federal investigators first targeted for surveillance on the unfounded premise that he was a potential agent for Russia, part of the feds´ now debunked "collusion" claim against the Trump campaign, wasn´t charged — or even so much as mentioned — in Mueller´s various indictments, none of which were related to the original focus of the investigation. Having been finally vindicated with Mueller´s report submitted to the attorney general and no further indictments issued, Page is now getting his chance to tell his story without the cloud of the years-long investigation hanging over his head. In
North Korea could be on the brink of a missile launch from a pad on its western coast, said a South Korean official on Monday. A series of ominous signs - the foremost being the near complete restoration of a missile launch site (Snip) North Korea maintains a distinction between testing of military ballistic missiles and launching satellites, which it maintains have a peaceful, scientific purpose. But nuclear experts abroad say the fact that the same type of rockets are used for both purposes makes that difference meaningless. Missile launches of any type by Pyongyang are banned under UN Resolution 1695, adopted in 2006.
Chick-fil-A has been banned from a second airport, this time in New York, amid an ongoing controversy surrounding its charitable donations to Christian and socially conservative groups that allegedly discriminate against the LGBTQ community. New York Assemblyman Sean Ryan, a Democrat, celebrated the decision by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) and Delaware North to not move forward with plans to bring Chick-fil-A to the Buffalo Niagara International Airport. “A publicly financed facility like the Buffalo Niagara International Airport is not the appropriate venue for a Chick-fil-A restaurant,” Mr. Ryan said in a statement Friday.
President Donald Trump is reportedly saving a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court for conservative Amy Coney Barrett to take the place of 86-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Barrett, a judge on the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, was added to Trump´s shortlist of potential nominees last year following the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2018. The 47-year-old was said to be among Trump´s top three picks before he settled on Justice Brett Kavanaugh, which sparked a controversy after a California college professor leveled an ultimately unsubstantiated sexual assault allegation against him.
Kellogg is selling its iconic Keebler cookie brand and other sweet snacks businesses to Ferrero for $1.3 billion. The Battle Creek, Michigan-based Kellogg Co. says the brands in the deal generated sales of $900 million and profits of $75 million last year. Kellogg is also selling its Mother’s and Famous Amos cookie brands, as well as its fruit-flavored snack, pie crust and ice cream cone businesses. Kellogg acquired Keebler Foods, which was founded in 1853, in 2001 for $3.86 billion. It expects to use sale proceeds to pay down debt. Ferrero, an Italian confectionery company best known for its Nutella
Socialist Question of the Day: "We Reacted to 9/11, So Where´s The Reaction On Climate Change?"
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While the Democratic’ Party builds on becoming a total Socialist force, it counts on several of its newly-elected members to provide the necessary diversions to keep the masses from discovering its Big Game Plan. The sooner the masses face it, the better: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib, et al are not just the fringe of the Democrat Party, they are its most valuable members. . They are New York Times-described as: “The congressional freshman class of 2019”… “perhaps best described in superlatives. It is the most racially diverse and most female group of representatives ever elected to the House,
Former Illinois Appellate Court Justice Sheila O’Brien today said she will personally petition the courts to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s handling of the Jussie Smollett false hate crime case. “This is exhausting, but it has to be done,” O’Brien said this morning in an op-ed published by the Chicago Tribune. “We deserve answers. We deserve open court files. We deserve transparency in every case.”O’Brien, 63, retired from the First District Appellate Court in 2011 after 16 years of service. She previously served nine years as an Associate Judge.
President Trump announced Monday the First Step Act had undone a policy of former President Bill Clinton that had "devastated" African Americans. The First Step Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that looks to reform the criminal justice system, was signed into law in December. It passed the House 358-36 and the Senate by an 87-12 vote. The act reverses sentencing provisions that were put in place in the 1990s during Clinton’s administration. Trump said those laws disproportionately affected the African American community, celebrating the First Step Act for undoing those provisions. “Finally, the law rolls back provisions of the
A Honduran mother who was dubbed ´Lady Frijoles´ after she blasted a migrant shelter in Mexico for feeding her ´pig food´, has been arrested in Texas for allegedly assaulting a woman with a gun. Mirian Zelaya Gómez, 38, and her sister, Mirna Zelaya Gómez, 33, were apprehended in Dallas early morning on March 27. Both have been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Each are being held at the on a $10,000 bond. The alleged assault victim is thought to have been the owner of the property Mirna Zelaya Gómez rents in Dallas, according to reports.
Members of the “Men’s Therapeutic Cuddle Group” in Pennsylvania are fighting “toxic masculinity” by cozying up with one another. According to a report from the Philly Inquirer, a group of men in Pennsylvania is getting together twice a month to cuddle. The group was formed to combat “toxic” expressions of masculinity and heal past trauma. The cuddle group was established to allow men to be more vulnerable. According to some on the left, men have been indoctrinated to believe that showing their emotions is a sign of weakness. “So often, we’re taught that to be an emotional stoic is the
California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell was overheard at a fundraising event saying he will announce for president in two weeks. Swalwell, a member of the House Intelligence Committee who is charged with keeping some of the nation´s most closely-held secrets, let the information slip while glad-handing with donors at a famed San Francisco restaurant, Politico reported. ´Don’t tell anybody, but I’m announcing in two weeks,´ the lawmaker, elected to Congress in 2012, was overheard saying. Swalwell, 38, made the remark at the famed John´s Grill restaurant, a more than century old establishment that was a favorite of novelist Dashiell Hammett.
An outlandish theory that Donald Trump was a traitor who had conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election gripped much of the nation’s media for more than two years. Countless “bombshells” in support of this theory were published and broadcast. Media outlets won numerous awards for publishing leaks they received from partisan government officials and other operatives. When Special Counsel Robert Mueller announced in late March that his sprawling Russia probe had ended with not a single indictment related to criminal collusion, it was a devastating blow to the media’s already damaged credibility
Forum With Presidential Candidates Begins With Chant From Fugitive Cop-Killer, Assata Shakur
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A Monday forum in Washington D.C. that featured a number of Democratic presidential candidates began with the opening speaker leading a chant that originated from a fugitive cop-killer. Jamal R. Watkins, the vice president of civic engagement at the NAACP, led off the “We The People Summit” by reciting a call-and-repeat chant from Assata Shakur. “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains,” Watkins said, referencing Karl Marx while the crowd repeated each sentence, according to
House Democrats are eager to boast about all they’re doing with their new majority. The only problem? Most of it’s headed for Mitch McConnell’s dustbin. From a sweeping health care package to ambitious proposals on gun safety, climate change and voting reforms, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her sprawling class of freshmen are quickly following through on the campaign promises that won them the House. But after they pass their proposals, that’s as far as they’ll go — a frustrating dynamic that lawmakers begrudgingly acknowledge. “I’m not sure that anything we do
The movie “Unplanned” now has more Twitter followers than Planned Parenthood, Abby Johnson, whose story is told in the movie, announced Monday afternoon. Look who we just passed in followers. ?? #unplannedmovie pic.twitter.com/PCFY7EPp0A — Abby Johnson (@AbbyJohnson) April 1, 2019 -As of just before 3 p.m. on Monday, the “Unplanned” Twitter account had 266.8K followers while the Planned Parenthood Twitter account had just 255.5K followers. The Twitter account for “Uplanned” was started in August of 2018, while Planned Parenthood’s Twitter account has been in existence since November of 2011, almost seven years earlier. Johnson’s gleeful announcement follows a wave of
He’s the conscience of the party. Former lawmaker Democrat Luis Gutierrez wants welcome centers in every major US city for illegal caravan migrants. (Photo) This is a party that seeks a national suicide.Gutierrez was on CNN this weekend when he made the comments.Via Breitbart: Former Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) over the weekend called on mayors of major U.S. cities to open “welcoming centers” for caravan migrants. Appearing on CNN, Gutierrez, who is now a senior policy adviser for the National Partnership of New Americans (NPNA), urged Democrats leading major U.S. cities like Chicago and Los Angeles to “invite” caravan migrants
“My whole life,” Kamala Harris told a crowd gathered in Oakland, Calif., for her presidential announcement, “I’ve only had one client: the people.” The California progressive will soon deliver some iteration of that same message at a swank fundraiser hosted by Angelo Tsakopoulos, a multimillionaire with ties to corrupt politicians, a longtime patron of the Clinton family, a man who once bragged that staying in the Lincoln Bedroom was his proudest moment. Harris will leave the campaign trail to headline the April 1 fundraiser hosted by Tsakopoulos in Sacramento.
A Connecticut woman says Joe Biden touched her inappropriately and rubbed noses with her during a 2009 political fundraiser in Greenwich when he was vice president, drawing further scrutiny to the Democrat and his history of unwanted contact with women as he ponders a presidential run. “It wasn’t sexual, but he did grab me by the head," Amy Lappos told The Courant Monday. “He put his hand around my neck and pulled me in to rub noses with me. When he was pulling me in, I thought he was going to kiss me on the mouth.” Lappos posted about the
HAVANA - Cuba faces yet another threat to its exports of health services in exchange for oil and money as social unrest roils old friend Algeria, even as a new deal to mitigate declining support from crisis-racked Venezuela kicks in. Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika will resign before his mandate ends on April 28, state news agency APS said on Monday, after more than a month of mass protests and army pressure seeking an end to his 20-year rule. An estimated million protesters had filled the capital Algiers on Friday demanding the ruling elite and aging leaders
The men who ripped Carlos Guillen’s toenails out and tightened a plastic bag over his face at counterintelligence headquarters in Caracas were Venezuelan. But the officers overseeing his torture were Cuban. What immediately gave them away was how they spoke Spanish, said Guillen, a former lieutenant in the Venezuelan military who was accused of treason and, after being placed under house arrest and escaping, fled to Colombia. Accents were a tip-off, too, for Maria Martinez Guzman. She was on the Univision team that scored an interview in February with embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and she said she
America has charted 387 cases of measles across 15 states since the beginning of the year—the second-highest number of reported infections since the disease was declared “eliminated” in 2000. The number was topped only once before, in 2014, when 667 cases were reported by the same date. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s graph of year-over-year cases—updated every Monday—shows that 2019 passed last year in terms of outbreaks as of March 28. There were 372 cases confirmed by this time in 2018. The states that have reported cases are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois,
Police are investigating a lengthy melee at a McDonald’s restaurant in Atlantic City that involved a woman standing on a counter and twice pepper-spraying a security guard during a fight over the weekend. Officers were called to the fast-food eatery on Arkansas Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Saturday after a skirmish broke out inside, Sgt. Kevin Fair said Monday morning. Video posted on the Facebook page of Scan Atlantic City shows women already behind the counter tossing wrapped food and straws during a chaotic scene. One of the women then climbs on the counter and pepper-sprays a security guard twice.
In a secret memorandum obtained exclusively by The American Spectator, New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, are pressing leading Democrats to support a call for government-paid free sex, saying that “sex is a human right.” The memorandum was scheduled to be released on April 1st. The Mayor, in a statement to be issued by his press secretary, said: “This is the city that will be paying for direct comprehensive sex (not just one-night stands) for people who can’t afford it, or can’t get comprehensive sex — including
The Southern District of New York (SDNY), which in effect, is replacing the failed Robert Mueller Special Counsel Russia probe, will have much more leeway in the diehard agenda to bring down President Donald Trump. …”Prosecutors in Manhattan’s Southern District aren’t saddled with a limited mandate like special counsel Robert Mueller in his Russia probe; they can follow the trail wherever it leads.” (nbcnews.com , March 25, 2019.)
Sir Mick Jagger will undergo heart valve replacement surgery after cancelling the Rolling Stones´ latest tour, it has been claimed. The 75-year-old rock icon is set to have a damaged valve replaced during the operation in a New York City hospital this week, according to Drudge Report. Jagger was forced to postpone the nine-week ‘No Filter’ tour across the US and Canada after doctors told him he wasn´t fit to go on stage.
My Uber driver a few mornings ago didn’t mind the relatively short ride we embarked on. “Every trip counts,” he said, “no one is more or less important than the other.” (snip)Every person has a story that can help others . . . I think that’s the power of the new movie Unplanned. It’s the story of a woman, Abby Johnson, and her desire to help women, to have a purpose, to do something good with her life. She believed she was doing that when she worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic, but realized the horrors of the abortion industry and resigned to become a pro-life activist.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D., N.Y.) announced the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a Wednesday vote to subpoena the Mueller report from Attorney General Bill Barr. Although Barr has indicated he intends to provide a redacted report sometime in the next two weeks, Democrats set this Tuesday as the deadline to receive "the full and complete Special Counsel report, without redactions, as well as access to the underlying evidence." Nadler chairs the Judiciary Committee, and is joined by five other committee chairs in making the demands for the documents. Special Counsel Mueller turned over his report, now known to be more
President Donald Trump and his family arrived back in Washington, D.C. on Sunday evening after spending the weekend at his Mar-a-Lago retreat in sunny Florida. The president was seen boarding Air Force One in Palm Beach with his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, and their 13-year-old son, Barron. Also making an appearance was Ivanka Trump, his daughter; her husband, Jared Kushner; and their children, Theodore, Joseph, and Arabella. (Photos) While Ivanka was tending to Theodore, her husband held the hands of the couple´s other two children, Arabella and Joseph. The president´s youngest son, 13-year-old Barron Trump, was also seen boarding Air
Who kneecapped Biden?
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Five years after the fact, Nevada Democrat Lucy Flores came forward with a story that Joe Biden gave her an unwanted kiss. (Snip)Somebody wants Biden out of the race. Hence, Flores told her tale and Matt Drudge linked it. I am guessing this is the work of the Obamas. They saw Plugs up close for eight years. They know him. They know he is too impulsive to be president, which would stain Obama´s legacy. That was why the Obamas supported their arch-enemies, the Clintons, last time. Michelle has made it plain that she wants a Woman of Color as the nominee.
President Donald Trump´s threat to shut down the U.S.-Mexico border would hit American consumers — in the gut. From avocado toast to margaritas, the United States is heavily reliant on Mexican imports of fruit, vegetables and alcohol to meet consumer demand. Nearly half of all imported U.S. vegetables and 40 percent of imported fruit are grown in Mexico, according to the latest data from the United States Department of Agriculture. Americans would run out of avocados in three weeks if imports from Mexico were stopped, said Steve Barnard, president and chief executive
The case of Jussie Smollett is, among other things, an accidental tribute to the life and work of Tom Wolfe. Wolfe, who died last year, annoyed progressives with his portrayal of white guilt and black radicalism in Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, and the contempt he expressed for identity politics and fashionable attitudes in other works. Wolfe, who coined the term the ‘Me Decade’, delighted in mocking cultural narcissism. He argued that America was full of ‘status spheres’ in which politicians, artists, activists and others jockeyed for cultural capital.
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), a progressive Democrat who is the co-chairman of the 2020 Democrat presidential campaign for Vermont independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview that he hopes a bipartisan coalition comes together to work with President Donald Trump to end a number of wars and U.S. military conflicts worldwide. Ro Khanna argued that if the United States stops its backing of Saudi Arabia in Yemen’s civil war, finally ends the war in Afghanistan, withdraws troops from Syria once and for all, resists temptations by some to get militarily involved in Venezuela, and completes successful
Canadian drivers raced to gas stations to fill up their tanks Sunday before the Trudeau administration’s carbon tax went into effect at midnight and raised prices at the pump roughly 12 cents per gallon. The carbon tax went into effect Monday in four Canadian provinces resisting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change agenda. Canadians in Ontario, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Saskatchewan will see fuel prices increase. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who won a landslide election in 2018 opposing a carbon tax, urged residents to head to the pumps before Trudeau’s carbon tax went into effect.
Journalists Sara Carter and John Solomon sit down for a lengthy discussion of the multi-year weaponization of the DOJ, FBI and intelligence apparatus to target Donald Trump and his administration. This is the biggest political scandal of our lifetime. (Snip)Every person who has read the extensive research into this conspiracy MUST contact their representatives and let them know that We The People are fully aware of the actions that took place; and we will NOT accept any effort to cover-up what has happened. That notification is our first step. This is what we can do. ‘A republic
Pope Francis was at it again, offering up a confused "narrative" about illegal immigration in his bid to hector Western nations seeking to control their lawless borders through the construction of border walls. This time, his Marxist analysis of things got in the way of his theologically-charged argument, making him look like a V.S. Naipaul-style third-world boob. With a hat tip to the Daily Caller, get a load of this interview he gave to a Spanish journalist, blasting the West´ for building walls against human surges of unvetted illegal immigrants,
It’s become abundantly clear there was a conspiracy waged against a sitting U.S. president now that the Robert Mueller investigation has confirmed the Russia collusion hoax was just that — a hoax — manufactured by a witches’ brew of Democrats including Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, the Democratic National Committee, Obama deep state officials and a complicit media seeking to derail the Trump administration. The interference began as an attempt first to “stop Trump” from getting elected, as former FBI agent Peter Strzok said in a text message, since uncovered, to his lover during the 2016 election.
Pete Buttigieg, a longshot contender to take on President Donald Trump in 2020, announced Monday that his campaign raised more than $7 million dollars since the Indiana mayor declared his candidacy in January. The fundraising total does not list the number of donors, and a complete public accounting is due April 15. But the number is turning heads, given Buttigieg´s low name recognition — more than half of registered voters haven´t heard of him — and his small but growing political profile. Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, seemed to come from nowhere to catapult
If you haven´t seen the KOMO News special Seattle Is Dying, you need to. (Watch it here.) The hour-long show does a sound job of depicting the ugly decline of one of the most beautiful places in America. However, the piece misses the forest for the nasty, dirty, twisted trees. Part of the root of the problem in Seattle is political, but Seattle Is Dying virtually ignores the liberal politics behind Seattle´s foul decline.
On March 26th Jussie Smollett entered a Cook County courthouse to find all 16 of his felony charges dropped. In just a little over two weeks since he had been charged for confabulating his own assault, the shocking dismissal of Smollett’s crimes brought a wave a scrutiny of Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx. But just one day before, his lawyer, Mark Geragos, was implicated in crimes alongside notorious celebrity attorney, Michael Avenatti. Did Smollett roll on his lawyer per an agreement that the court would treat him with leniency?
What is the government´s primary function? If you look at the debates that rage each year when the president´s budget comes out, you´d think it was defense spending. Or food stamps. Or cancer research. Or student loans. Any proposed changes to those programs make headlines. Just as President Donald Trump´s 2020 budget did. It would, we were told, "slash domestic spending," "cut science and medical research," and "eliminate funding for arts," while boosting defense spending. But if you look beyond the headlines at the actual budget document, you learn that those are all squabbles over crumbs. Today, the one thing
Brexit and the Irish Question
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Could Brexit result in the reunification of Ireland? Could it trump — forgive us — all the wars and feuding over the division of the emerald isle between the centrally Catholic Irish Republic in the south and the predominantly Protestant part of the United Kingdom that is known as Northern Ireland? That it might is a suggestion being made in a piece in Sunday Review of the New York Times . Nice to see the Times come in on that story. That’s because the first to raise this possibility was our columnist on 20th century history,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has incorrectly asserted that in Congress amended the Constitution to kick President Franklin Delano Roosevelt out of office. ´They had to amend the Constitution of the United States to make sure Roosevelt did not get reelected,´ Ocasio-Cortez said Friday during a night hall event with MSNBC with Chris Hayes. Ocasio-Cortez was referring to the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution which passed in 1947.(Snip) ´Epic fail. Hilarious that you say people don´t know history when you don´t know that FDR was elected FOUR times (1932, 1936, 1940 & 1944). The 22nd amendment wasn´t even
The irony of the entire Russian collusion hoax is that accusers who cried the loudest about leaking, collusion, lying, and obstruction are themselves soon very likely to be accused of just those crimes. Now that Robert Mueller’s 674-day, $30 million investigation is over and has failed to find the original goal of its mandate—evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Trump presidential campaign and the Russian government to sway the 2016 election—and now that thousands of once-sealed government documents will likely be released in unredacted form, those who eagerly assumed the role of the hunters may become the hunted, due
See also: Judge Jeanine is back – and took the high road -The best evidence of a powerful media taboo is the absence of any mention of something that the public is well aware of. The power to banish any reference to a subject that media consumers are interested in is almost awe-inspiring; it demonstrates genuine command. So, when Judge Jeanine Pirro returned to the Fox News Channel’s air Saturday night, her fans, including me tuned in eagerly to see what she would say about hijabs, Ilhan Omar, CAIR and the forces that drive her into a two-week suspension, with worries
After the National Women´s Hall of Fame inducted actor Jane Fonda, the town that hosts the hall is considering pulling funding. The hall of fame was established in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York, where the first American women´s rights convention was held in 1848. In a draft resolution, Seneca Falls town supervisor Greg Lazzaro decried Fonda´s 1972 visit to North Vietnam, during which she posed atop a Viet Cong anti-aircraft weapon, saying it was "derisive" and "universally condemned." He proposed ending the town´s partnership with the organization out of respect for veterans.
Breakout Box Office Hit: Pro-Life Film ´Unplanned´ Edges Out ´Captain Marvel´ In Key Screening Stat
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Despite intense media opposition, an "R" rating from the MPAA, and big tech censorship, pro-life film "Unplanned" is wildly outperforming expectations at the box office. (Video) The biopic — which details Planned Parenthood defector Abby Johnson´s dramatic journey from abortion mouthpiece to pro-life crusader — has taken in an estimated $6,110,000 this weekend, expected to become the #5 movie at the box office. The film was projected to bring in less than half of what it´s generated thus far. Notably, "Unplanned" ($6 million budget) racked up a cumulative per-screen average of $5,770 per screen, edging out big-budget flick "Captain Marvel"
Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos in a recent exclusive interview with Breitbart News slammed Democrat lawmakers Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and others who accused him and other Trump campaign members of colluding with Russia, calling the promotion of the collusion narrative a “power grab.” “I think they’re putting their own personal interests ahead of the country,” he said during a 30-minute long interview on Thursday. “It’s sad when the media does it, but when an elected official does it, you’re meant to represent the people, and you’re putting your own personal vendetta or agenda ahead of the country.”He also
For the past two and a half years this nation has been roiled by the incessant drumbeat of accusations that its newly elected President, Donald Trump, was a clandestine agent of Russia and colluded with them to alter the outcome of the 2016 election. On their face, these accusations were so preposterous that anyone with a modicum of common sense would have thought them totally unbelievable. (snip) How were the Democrats, and their allies in the mainstream media able to suspend rationality and manipulate the emotions of so many Americans for so long?
Congressional Democrats are committing a grave political blunder by continuing to push Russia conspiracy theories and insinuating that Attorney General William Barr is perpetrating a cover-up by complying with the law in his handling of the Mueller report. In addition to the special counsel probe, which produced no evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice by the Trump campaign, there have been two congressional inquiries that also failed to find proof of malfeasance. Several polls conducted since the Mueller probe ended suggest that most Americans believe the President is innocent of wrongdoing and that the Democrats are merely playing politics.
Morrie Tobin was in Boston to cut the deal of his life. It was early April last year. A few weeks before, federal agents had descended on the multimillion-dollar home Tobin shares with his wife and some of their six children in Hancock Park, a moneyed Los Angeles enclave. Warrant in hand, the agents searched the French chateau-style mansion for financial records and other evidence to nail Tobin, the suspected ringleader of a stock scam that defrauded investors of millions of dollars. The raid imploded Tobin’s very comfortable life. Faced with the prospect of years in prison and a seven-figure fine,
The job of newspapers was once to “comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Today, that job seems to be to give voice to liars and shout down the truth. You really cannot blame Democrat voters in America for fleeing in droves the fetid airwaves of MSNBC and CNN, which have suffered a collapse in ratings last week as viewers learned they have been steadily and spectacularly lied to for the past two years by the so-called “mainstream” media about the so-called Russian collusion “story.” Examples abound of pundits and reporters from once-respected newspapers and cable “news” outlets leveling
Jesse Jackson, others plan rally for Kim Foxx after criticism in handling of Jussie Smollett case
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CHICAGO – The Rev. Jesse Jackson and other clergy are planning a rally in support of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who’s faced criticism since her office dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett. Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition says the civil rights leader will join fellow clergy, elected officials, attorneys and community activists for a Monday morning rally at the Chicago Temple supporting Foxx. Jackson says in a statement that the criticism of Foxx is “unreasonable, unjustified and politically motivated.”
If such a thing as American exceptionalism remains, maybe it can be found in this: Despite deep IRS budget cuts, an average audit rate that has plunged in recent years to just 0.6 percent, and a president who has bragged that dodging federal taxes is “smart,” most Americans still pay their income taxes every year. Even more remarkable, most of us feel obliged to pay. To quote the findings of a 2017 IRS survey: “The majority of Americans (88%) say it is not at all acceptable to cheat on taxes; this ethical attitude is not changing over time.”
May Turns Brexit Into Wrecks-It
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Friday was supposed to be “Brexit Day,” when the United Kingdom once again became a sovereign nation independent of the European Union. Instead, it was the day that the UK’s parliament rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s awful Brexit deal for the third time. Astonishingly, it’s not entirely Theresa May’s fault. Just mostly. May has lost power in great chunks since grabbing the PM job when David Cameron resigned. She called a snap election in 2017 and lost her party’s majority in Parliament in the result. Her critics in the UK and the EU have levied severe criticism for her action
Imagine there is a movie about a meteor heading toward earth. It will be here in 12 years. Following Hollywood convention, once you got past the part where the maverick scientist or precocious kid discovering it struggles to convince the world about the threat, you would expect the president or the military to leap into action. Congress is usually left out of such plots, but it isn’t a stretch to imagine that Congress would race to authorize a plan to send astronauts into space to prevent Armageddon or a planetary deep impact.
Office Depot agreed yesterday to pay $25 million in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission as part of a lawsuit accusing the company of tricking customers into buying unneeded tech support services --akin to a real-world version of online tech support scam sites. Support.com, a PC health scanning service also named in the lawsuit, also agreed to pay an additional $10 million, which the FTC said it would use to refund impacted customers.
Last Sunday, shortly after Attorney General William Barr had released his no collusion/maybe obstruction summary of Robert Mueller’s report, I spotted George Conway wandering out of the National Zoo, in Northwest Washington. George, as anyone even casually familiar with the wacky spectacles surrounding our 45th president is aware, is the prominent conservative lawyer who has been increasingly open about his contempt for Donald Trump, mostly via Twitter. This is notable because he is also the husband of the White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, making him one-half of the marital embodiment of Trump-era Washington
Some of hip-hop´s biggest and brightest stars took to social media on Sunday to mourn the death of Nipsey Hussle, the Grammy-nominated rapper earlier shot and killed in South Los Angeles, city officials said. Hussle, born Ermias Asghedom, was shot multiple times outside his clothing store in LA´s Hyde Park area around 3:20 p.m. local time, authorities said. The 33-year-old entertainer was rushed to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. The rapper´s debut studio album, "Victory Lap," received a 2019 Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album, but hip-hop sensation Cardi B ultimately took home the win.
The photographs taken during the swearing-in of then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter in 2015 that showed Vice President Joe Biden standing behind the ex-cabinet member´s wife with two hands on her shoulders and-- at times-- his nose nuzzled against her hair, were misleading and "extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends," Stephanie Carter said in a post on Medium. The photographs from the Feb. 17, 2105 ceremony made their way back into the public eye in recent days after recent allegations against Biden. Nevada’s Democratic lieutenant governor candidate Lucy Flores alleged in an article Friday
After the Mueller report plopped with a wet thud on the media, everyone is blaming everyone else. MSNBC and CNN are blaming the fake experts they invited on and interviewed night after night, urging them to make outlandish predictions that Mueller would soon have Trump locked up for treason. Like Inspector Renault, they’re shocked that the baseless claims they had been repeating were nonsense. And a few of the experts who turned it up to 11 will no longer be invited into media green rooms.