Posts on Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the House Oversight Committee. Seriously. The 29-year-old former bartender who has been a member of Congress for less than three months sits on one of the most important committees in government (yet she still finds time to complain about $7 croissants at LaGuardia Airport). On Tuesday, the chairman of the committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), called on the Democratic socialist during a hearing into allegations from a whistle blower that the Trump administration granted security clearance to some who had been denied because they had “serious disqualifying issues.”
President Trump spoke at the NRCC Spring Dinner on Tuesday night in Washington DC. Trump said he is confident Republicans will retake the House in 2020 after losing control of the lower chamber in last year’s midterm elections. With Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib continuing to spew their hatred and nonsense, he’s probably right. President Trump also took a swipe at Joe Biden.
Police arrested and charged 33-year-old Jorge Rios for the murder of Carolina Cano, a 45-year-old nanny living in New Jersey. Ms. Cano’s roommate told police she went out for a jog at a nearby park at 5:30 AM on March 24th and never came home — Cano’s body was later discovered in a New Jersey lake. Carolina Cano walked through this same park every Sunday on her way to church. Sad. Investigators say Carolina Cano was strangled, raped, then submerged in the lake. Fox News reported that according to multiple sources, Jorge Rios is an illegal alien from Honduras.
Turkish voters punished their ruling party in municipal elections over the weekend. That could be a good omen for America — unless the strategically crucial country has already drifted too far from Washington. (Snip) Instead, a recount has been ordered, perhaps to be followed by another re-recount and another — until the desired results are in. Reversing century-old secularist traditions that created an imperfect but working democracy, Mr. Erdogan presides over a system in which the number of votes counts for much less than who counts the ballots. The question for America and its allies: Provided he accepts the results,
Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot was elected Chicago mayor on Tuesday, becoming the first black woman and first openly gay person to lead the nation´s third-largest city. Lightfoot, 56, defeated Toni Preckwinkle, who served in the City Council for 19 years before becoming Cook County Board president. Lightfoot has never been elected to public office; she and her wife have one daughter. (Snip) Lightfoot promised to rid City Hall of corruption and help low-income and working-class people she said had been "left behind and ignored" by Chicago´s political ruling class.
Two more women have come forward to say they were made uncomfortable by feely encounters with former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. According to accounts given to the New York Times and posted Tuesday evening, one of the women is a sexual-assault survivor and the other had to be protected by her husband. The former woman is a 22-year-old college student named Caitlyn Caruso and the latter is a 59-year-old writer named D.J. Hill. Ms. Caruso told the Times that Mr. Biden, the undeclared frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, put his hand on her thigh, despite her squirming back at
President Trump suggested Tuesday night that socialists in the Democratic Party are behind recent stories about former Vice President Joe Biden making women uncomfortable. “The socialists are really taking care of him,” Mr. Trump said at a Republican congressional fundraising event in Washington. “It looks like the only non-sort of heavy socialist is being taken care of pretty well by the socialists, they got to him, our former vice president.” It wasn’t clear whether Mr. Trump was referring to supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont, or others on the far left of the party. Mr. Trump, who has been the target of
At least four people were injured on Tuesday after an unidentified object exploded in a Russian military academy, state media reported quoting Russia´s defence ministry. The blast took place at the Mozhaysky Military Space Academy in St Peterburg, the country´s second city. "At about 1.30 p.m (10:30 GMT), in St Petersburg, an unidentified unshelled object exploded in one of the offices of the administrative building," Sputnik reported the Ministry of Defence as saying. A journalist from the AFP news agency said the academy was being evacuated by emergency services which were blocking access to the site.
Border Patrol official calls out Dems: Haven’t seen any of them down here. They have an open invite.
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The National Border Patrol Council’s vice president condemned Democrats who are all talk and no action when it comes to the U.S.-Mexico border. Art del Cueto extended an “open invitation” to Democrats who continue to doubt and mock President Donald Trump’s warnings about the national emergency at the southern border, saying he’d be happy to “show them” personally during an interview on “America’s Newsroom” on Fox News Tuesday. (Video) Texas Democrats like Rep. Henry Cueller and Rep. Filemon Vela Jr. as well as others, including 2020 presidential candidate Julian Castro, have openly criticized the immigration policies of the Trump administration,
According to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, India´s recent anti-satellite test created 60 pieces of orbital debris big enough to track, 24 of which rise higher than the International Space Station´s orbit around Earth. Bridenstine had harsh words to say about India´s test April 1 at a NASA town hall meeting, saying that causing this type of risk to humans in space, and low Earth orbit operations, was unacceptable. "That is a terrible, terrible thing, to create an event that sends debris in an apogee that goes above the International Space Station," Bridenstine said at the town hall meeting, which was livestreamed on NASA TV.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson joined SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Tuesday, to discuss HUD’s lawsuit against Facebook over the company’s discriminatory advertising system. Secretary Carson says HUD, the DOJ, and other agencies have their “antenna up” towards the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe.“Secretary, you are doing something that I think is so important, which is that you, HUD, are suing Facebook, and I always want to sue Facebook, full disclosure, but why are you guys doing it?” asked Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief and radio host Alex Marlow. “Well, basically because they violated the fair housing act of 1968, which specifically
Secret Service agents arrested a woman at President Trump’s Florida resort this past weekend after she was found carrying two Chinese passports and a thumb drive with malicious software on it, according to court documents. Prosecutors allege the woman, Yujing Zhang, first approached a Mar-a-Lago security checkpoint on Saturday shortly after noon and told security officials she was there to go to the swimming pool. “Zhang was asked if the true member ... was her father, but she did not give a definitive answer,” according to the criminal complaint filed by Secret Service special agent Samuel Ivanovich.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) put out a statement Monday supporting an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives arguing that the Census Bureau should not be permitted to ask people in the 2020 census whether they are citizens of the United States. A federal district court has held that the Census Bureau may not ask people if they are citizens and the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in the case on April 23. “The Department of Commerce’s proposed citizenship question[] is both unlawful and unconstitutional, violating the Census Act as well
BOGOTA - Colombia on Tuesday rejected a Russian warning against foreign military intervention in Venezuela and said it supported a peaceful transition to democracy in the neighboring South American country. “Colombia reiterates that the transition to democracy must be conducted by the Venezuelans themselves peacefully and within the framework of the Constitution and international law, supported by political and diplomatic means, without the use of force,” Colombian Foreign Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo said in a statement. He was responding to a March 28 letter from the upper house of Russia’s parliament,
Get ready for the anti-Trump “resistance” to go truly loco, because new polling data indicates Hispanic support for the president is swelling, a trend that could seal his 2020 re-election victory. When I helped lead the Trump Hispanic Advisory Council in 2016, our effort was widely derided by skeptics certain that the narrative of Trump as anti-Latino would doom his candidacy, particularly in heavily Hispanic states like Florida. But that November, Hispanics saw through the media smears and Trump massively outperformed dour expectations, actually surpassing Mitt Romney’s 2012 percentage among Latino voters. Since then, prospects have only
Families In Small Michigan Town Want Sex Ed Focused On Abstinence Rather Than Gender Identity Issues
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A small school district in Michigan is pushing back against those who would alter its sex ed program by incorporating discussions of sexual and gender identity. (Video) In Allendale, Michigan, a town of roughly 26,000 people, the sex ed program has been titled. “Willing To Wait,” and holds fast for the "benefits of abstaining from sex until marriage." Allendale School District Superintendent Garth Cooper stated, "It doesn´t matter what your sexual orientation is. The bottom line is that abstinence is the best and only proven way to keep yourself from getting a sexually transmitted infection or from getting pregnant. And
Today House Judiciary Committee ranking member Doug Collins releases the transcript of testimony (full pdf below) from former FBI Director of Counterintelligence Bill Priestap. Director Priestap was the immediate supervisor of FBI Agent Peter Strzok. According to earlier reporting of this testimony Mr. Priestap noted how agent Strzok often worked around him in direct communication with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Additionally, Strzok had a working relationship with former CIA Director John Brennan that also worked around Priestap. Brennan used Strzok as an author for the December 29, 2016 Joint Analysis Report on Russian measures; and the January 2017
Is there any number of illegal border crossings into the United States that would strike Democrats as an emergency? As they resisted President Trump´s efforts to stem the flow of illegal migrants across the U.S.-Mexico border, many Democrats made the point that fewer migrants are coming today than years ago, during the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies. The implication was that today´s situation cannot be an emergency, because it used to be worse. That doesn´t make sense, of course. One could argue that crossings were an unaddressed emergency back then, and that today´s figures, although lower, also qualify as an
Soon after her husband was sworn in as president of the United States in 1989, Barbara Bush began losing weight, 18 pounds in all, sudden progress after a lifelong struggle. “I convinced myself it was because I was eating smaller portions and working so hard,” she said in her 1994 memoir. But she also was having trouble with her eyes. They were inflamed and bulging, and sometimes she was seeing double. Aboard Air Force One in February 1989, heading back to Washington after a trip to China, she sat down beside White House physician Lawrence Mohr and described her symptoms. Mohr
Eric Holder wants Mueller report out, but argued against full transparency after Starr report
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder joined the chorus Democrats calling for the full release of special counsel Robert Mueller´s final report, but in the wake of the Starr report he made the opposite argument. Speaking with Ari Mebler on MSNBC last Monday, Holder said, “You look at the letter and you’re trying to figure how much of this is Barr, how much of this is Mueller, how much of this is based on the Mueller findings?... Congress and the public are going to have to get access to the Mueller report.”Yet back in 1999, when he was deputy attorney general in
OTTAWA, Ontario — The Tampa Bay Lightning added another impressive milestone Monday, picking up their 60th win of the season with a 5-2 victory over the Ottawa Senators. The Lightning play their final three games on the road and have a chance to eclipse the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings´ record of 62 wins in a season. Steve Yzerman, who stepped down as general manager of the Lightning before the start of this season, was the captain of that Red Wings team and scored 36 goals and 95 points that season. He remains an adviser for the Lightning in the final season
The Wrong Time for Joe Biden
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On Friday, Lucy Flores, a former Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of Nevada, accused Joe Biden of touching her inappropriately as they waited to take the stage at a 2014 election rally. He put his hands on her shoulders, she said, then nuzzled her hair and kissed the back of her head. She didn’t accuse Biden, who is reportedly close to announcing his presidential candidacy, of sexual harassment or assault, just of making her uncomfortable. “I’m not suggesting that Biden broke any laws, but the transgressions that society deems minor (or doesn’t even see as transgressions) often feel considerable
A fire has erupted at the KMCO chemical plant in Crosby, where two people are injured and one person has been unaccounted for, according to authorities. A shelter in place has been ordered for all residents within a 1-mile radius of the plant at 16503 Ramsey Road. All campuses in Crosby ISD, Channelview ISD, Galena Park ISD and Sheldon ISD are also under a shelter in place. Crosby ISD has turned off their HVAC systems and it will not release students to parents or let them onto school buses until further notice. Officials from the Harris County Fire Marshal´s Office
At the start of this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, the prognosticators at statistical analysis site FiveThirtyEight gave Texas Tech a 14 percent chance of making it to the Final Four. Instead of supporting the number three seed in the West portion of the bracket, the odds were stacked in favor of the top-ranked Gonzaga or maybe the two-seed Michigan. But as the tournament has unfolded, Tech consistently defied the odds. Buoyed by a stifling defense, the Red Raiders have not only made it to their first Final Four in school history, but ended a statewide drought that’s extended since
Fox News´ Greg Gutfeld recently put together a little montage of MSNBC´s biggest star pushing the Trump-Russia collusion narrative that Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s final report has now thoroughly debunked — and it´s gone viral for obvious reasons. The video features host Rachel Maddow repeatedly promoting various Russia conspiracy theories, some of them off the wall even by MSNBC´s standards. Maddow also really gets into counting down the dropping of the next supposed "collusion" "bomb" that will finally take down Trump, or something. WATCH: (Video)
House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings is attempting to undermine the administration with partisan political attacks against Trump officials and their security clearances. Republicans on the committee, led by ranking member Jim Jordan, are fighting back [pdf below]. President Trump’s Senior Advisor Jared Kushner gives an interview to Laura Ingraham to discuss this issue and current topics of the day. WATCH: (Video/Photos)
George Clooney is calling for a boycott of Brunei-owned luxury hotels because that nation has an anti-gay death penalty. Did I miss all the protests against Iran for having similar laws? Nope, Hollywood, almost all the media and other Democrats actively supported Barack Obama when he and his administration gave Iran hundreds of billions while they continually pledge death to America. Why aren’t Clooney and other Democrats supporting Trump for his boycotts and sanctions of Iran instead of condemning him for pulling out if they are so concerned about LBGT rights? Homosexuality in Iranian Criminal Law- Homosexuality is against the
President Trump lashed out at Senate Democrats for voting against a GOP-backed disaster bill that would have aided US farmers but that Democrats argued didn’t go far enough to help hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.In a series of five tweets he began posting late Monday and continued sending Tuesday morning, Trump called the Caribbean island a “mess” and said its politicians “are incompetent or corrupt.” “The Democrats today killed a Bill that would have provided great relief to Farmers and yet more money to Puerto Rico despite the fact that Puerto Rico has already been scheduled to receive more hurricane relief funding
“If the Supreme Court rules that Obamacare is out,” President Donald Trump said last week, “we’ll have a plan that is far better than Obamacare.” (Snip) Besides, the president really doesn’t have a plan that is far better than Obamacare, or any plan at all. Right? Wrong. A look at his fiscal year 2020 budget shows that the president has a plan to reduce costs and increase health care choices. His plan would achieve this by redirecting federal premium subsidies and Medicaid expansion money into grants to states.
On Monday night in the White House President Donald Trump celebrated the passage of the First Step Act. President Trump designated April as the First Step Act Month. The program includes cutting prison sentences for thousands of federal inmates. During the ceremony Trump noted that Americans with criminal backgrounds are unemployed at rates up to five times the national average. (Tweet) According to FOX News: Trump scored a win that eluded his predecessor, Barack Obama, in reducing long mandatory minimum sentences and other guidelines that for decades were blamed for disparate treatment of Americans of color, such as punishing crack
Meghan McCain on Monday jumped to defend Joe Biden—who has been accused by two women of inappropriate touching. McCain called the rumored 2020 presidential hopeful “one of the truly decent and compassionate men in all of American politics.” “He has helped me through my father’s diagnosis, treatment and ultimate passing more than anyone of my father’s friends combined,” McCain tweeted. Her father, Arizona Sen. John McCain, died in August of brain cancer. “The View” co-host added: “I wish there was more empathy from our politicians not less.” Biden, 76, was accused on Monday of grabbing a woman by the head
As former Vice President Joe Biden´s camp scrambles to contain any political damage over his past behavior with women, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has some words of advice: Keep your distance. ´Join the straight-arm club,´ Pelosi told a breakfast hour Washington event on Tuesday. In other words, keep your handshakes at arms´ length and don´t be touchy-feely. ´Just pretend you have a cold and I have a cold,´ Pelosi advised. It is advice that Biden, who has called himself a ´tactile politician, has not frequently followed during his decades in government and politics. Pelosi, a California Democrat who served with
The Trump administration is speeding up the temporary deployment of another 750 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel – and possibly more – to parts of the Southwest border most affected by the influx of migrants. The administration also has directed CBP to return to Mexico hundreds of migrants more each day than are currently being sent back. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen issued the directives in a memorandum to CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan on Monday, telling him to initiate “emergency surge operations.” She instructed CBP to speed up the planned reallocation of up to 750 officers to sectors “affected by the emergency,”
Monday on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Mayor Pete Buttigieg supported the idea of a wealth tax, arguing that “some people” were not paying their”fair share.” When asked if he would repeal the Trump tax cuts, Buttigieg said, “Yes, at least the tax cuts on the wealthiest because that has blown a huge hole in the treasury that my generation is going to be forced to pay. We’re going to have to pay for it probably in the form of reduced services if we don’t come up with revenue. There’s no need for some of these giveaways to
An investigation into whether Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) misused campaign funds for her personal use is slated to conclude, according to a report. ABC local affiliate 13 WHAM-TV reported Monday that officials have recently concluded their probe and are will soon reveal the findings of two complaints against the controversial freshman congresswoman. The pair of complaints, which were reportedly filed as Omar campaigned for the House last year, were brought by State Rep. Steve Drazkowski (R). In his complaint to the Minnesota Campaign Finance Board, Drazkowski accused Omar of spending nearly $6,000 in campaign money on a trip to Boston and
I think that President Trump is going after what the Left calls “root causes” in their typical grab for money to redistribute, purportedly to eliminate some social problem they blame on poverty. But Trump is not seeking a nebulous version of Ultimate Social Justice, he focused on the real obstacles to immigration reform, and I think he has a specific goal in mind as he threatens a complete border closure. Simply stated, at home, Trump wants big business, as embodied in the US Chamber of Commerce,
Here at the Mexican border in San Diego, the local television press is always looking for ways to Get Trump. The illegal immigrant sob stories aren´t working all that much anymore. So now they´re reporting on President Trump´s threatened border shutdown over it as a matter of the price of avocados in San Diego. Here´s the suspiciously similar local headlines with the televised reports that went out yesterday: Will the US Run Out of Avocados If the Border Closes? -NBC 7 Could America run out of avocados if Trump shuts the U.S.-Mexico border? -Fox 5
The Navy’s ambitious fleet-size expansion relies upon a massive increase in heavily armed Destroyers able to launch long-range attacks, fire interceptor missiles, defend carrier strike groups and engage in massive open blue water warfare. Within the next 15 years, the Navy plans to add as many as 30 DDG 51 Destroyers, including 22 new, high-tech DDG 51 Flight III warships and eight state-of-the-art DDG 51 Flight IIA destroyers. Prioritizing such a large number of these warships offers an interesting analytical window into Navy thinking about the next five decades of ocean war.
Take a Torch to the Faux Shaming
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Tyranny gets more efficient, and subtle, with time. (Snip) If you’ve got any relationship to any of the intersectional oppression classes (male, white, heterosexual, Christian, Jewish, employer, investor), then it is very clear that any reasoned defense of your positions will not be tolerated. Dare to make the ghastly mistake of getting “uppity” (i.e., being so sure of your position that you laugh at those who mock you), you will be labeled unclean and outside the camp—a social and economic leper. Expect the relationship killing epithets to be applied: racist, bigot, hatemonger, along with the various shades of phobia
What is justice? This complicated question is the subject of much study by philosophers, lawyers, clergy, and laymen. It is often easier to determine the metes and bounds of justice from what it is not than to define what it is in the abstract. Unfair procedures, treating the rich differently from the poor, racial discrimination, or the infusion of bribery and perjury into criminal procedures strike almost everyone as forms of injustice. (Snip)Anglo-American justice fundamentally is an individual affair. The question it normally confronts is whether a particular person committed a particular offense.
As the congressional testimony of key figures in the so-called Russiagate scandal becomes public, some of it provides a basis to question the veracity of news reporting that often appeared to give cover for the same officials who participated in the scheme. For example, the recently-released testimony of Bruce Ohr does not substantiate a bombshell September 2018 New York Times story that claimed Ohr was leading a secret operation to turn Russian oligarchs connected to Vladimir Putin into FBI assets. (Snip)But nowhere in Ohr’s 268-page testimony does he mention an “oligarch-flipping” plan.
A recent article that appeared in the March 28 Wall Street Journal, "The Two Americas Have Grown Much Fiercer," by Peggy Noonan, is part of an editorial trend of late decrying the divided state of America in these times. As is typical in these pieces, the author does not place the onus for our fractured state on one side or the other, but instead promotes a theme of "Can´t we all just get along?" From the point of view of the "Trumpian" camp, this writer is here to reply with a resounding "no," at least not until the core issue
How journalists dodge exposes
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Reporters Irin Carmon and Amy Brittain of the Washington Post had a terrific story. Three women at CBS told them Jeff Fager, veteran executive producer of "60 Minutes," had sexually harassed them. One woman gave very graphic details, which New York magazine quoted so I don´t have to. According to Carmon´s account in that magazine, Fager pulled some strings and got the expose spiked. This was in March 2018. Six months later, CBS fired Fager for -- yes -- sexual harassment.
Reuters reported, "America would run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump shuts down the U.S.-Mexico border." Fox News reported, "America would run out of avocados in weeks if Trump shuts border with Mexico, grower warns.” (Snip) "The Real National Emergency: We Could Run Out of Avocados in 3 Weeks If Trump Shuts Down the US/Mexico Border." The Daily Wire reported, "Holy Guacamole! Avocado Growers Say U.S. Will Run Out Of Avocados In Three WEEKS If Trump Seals Border." How can you take seriously an occupation that repeatedly dives off the deep end over the tiniest of items?
Ankara - A day after reports emerged that North Korea was running out of food and currency reserves, Pyongyang is said to be sending its people to China to bring home money, media reported on Tuesday. According to Seoul-based daily Cholsunilbo, tens of thousands of North Korean workers are rushing to China on temporary visitor visas to “make quick cash for the regime”. North Korea is under international sanctions ban for its nuclear weaponry and the ban extends on UN member countries as not to employ Pyongyang workers too. To avoid violation of sanctions ban, Beijing is said to be issuing temporary visas against work
One person who has direct, long, and painful personal experience of the Mueller inquiry is George Papadopoulos. (snip) "The democrats have absolutely no idea what they are wishing for in terms of releasing the full Mueller report. It will detail all the western intelligence operatives and US allies (UK, Australia, Italy)" I have long suspected that President Trump has a story arc – a term of art from continuing television dramas (including reality TV, at which Trump is the greatest practitioner in history) – in mind for handling Mueller.
Grrr. Delayed ! This one is under the radar, and yet may be a big reveal. Federal Judge delays compliance and production day to April 8th… (image - Minute Order) Original story below. There’s a somewhat sketchy background here that’s a little bit more granular and important than is being outlined. The redacted Comey memos were originally released to congress and the media. However, the unredacted memos -and more importantly the reason for the redactions– has never been held up to scrutiny.
t has never made sense that U.S. Person Carter Page was an FBI witness from 2013 through to March/May 2016 and yet in October 2016, to achieve a FISA warrant, the FBI called him an agent of a foreign government. [FISA APPLICATION]It just never made any sense; perhaps, until today. Put yourself in the mindset within the highly political small group at the DOJ and FBI who have a plan to help Hillary Clinton win the presidency. From October 2015 through early March 2016 Fusion GPS was assembling opposition research on all the GOP candidates. However, mid-March
Monday on ABC’s “The View,” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, Meghan McCain and Joy Behar defended former Vice President Joe Biden in the wake of former Nevada lawmaker Lucy Flores’ claim he inappropriately touched and kissed her in 2014 at a campaign rally. Goldberg said, “Listen, in the old days we would call Joe—some folks of a certain age would say he’s overly familiar. Most politicians when they’re doing this with you, they are—Joe is a hands-on kind of guy. I’ve never heard anyone—she says she felt violated. I have to take her at her word.
For over two years, we have been tormented or delighted, depending on one´s political preference, by the opinions and or declarations avowing President Trump´s guilt with regard to collusion with Russia. (snip) These people, this cabal that set out to undo the 2016 election, absolutely believe they are smarter, better, more entitled, more privileged by birthright than the rest of us. The question is why do they seem to be the least bright people on the public stage?
Valerie Jarrett reportedly writes in her new book that she confronted former President Obama over a "macho atmosphere" in the White House, where she served as senior adviser, adding that female staff members initially felt intimidated during his time in office. Axios, which obtained a copy of "Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward," reported Tuesday that Jarrett writes that she told Obama that women "rarely talk" in meetings, adding that "when you aren´t there to ask their opinion, they are becoming increasingly mute." Jarrett also writes that the
The Age of Walls
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On empty altars demons dwell. Ernst Junger Russia is acquiring an empire of chaos. According to the New York Times "Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, brought in Russian mercenaries in January to help shore up his rule against nationwide protests. And last spring, five sub-Saharan African countries — Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso and Mauritania — appealed to Moscow to help their overtaxed militaries and security services combat the Islamic State and Al Qaeda." It´s part of the Kremlin´s burgeoning network of failing states around the world. (Snip) Trouble is turning a handsome profit for the Kremlin which John Bolton says
Somebody is kneecapping Creepy Joe. Call me obsessive and paranoid, but I have a long shot theory. (snip) I have to wonder if the fine hand of Hillary Clinton is not behind this phenomenon. It would be perfectly in character for her. But is she really thinking that she has a chance? Is she willing to make another run? Hillary has been awfully quiet. But – purely by coincidence? – the Clintons are poised to resume their speaking tour in a week and a half. And the venues will be big, blue cities where enthusiasm for the Clintons
A spokesperson for Joe Biden pushed back forcefully on Monday at a "cottage industry of lies" he said has formed about the former vice president supposedly crossing a line between affectionate or supportive behavior with women to something inappropriate. Biden spokesman Bill Russo in a lengthy statement emailed to reporters highlighted two images of Biden with different women that he said had been repeatedly taken out of context — one with Stephanie Carter, who is married to former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, and a second with Sen. Christopher Coons´s (D-Del.) daughter.
A White House whistleblower told lawmakers that more than two-dozen denials for security clearances have been overturned during the Trump administration, calling Congress her “last hope” for addressing what she considers improper conduct that has left the nation’s secrets exposed. Tricia Newbold, a longtime White House security adviser, told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that she and her colleagues issued “dozens” of denials for security clearance applications that were later approved despite their concerns about blackmail, foreign influence, or other red flags, according to panel documents released Monday.
Two years after leaving office, Joe Biden couldn’t resist the temptation last year to brag to an audience of foreign policy specialists about the time as vice president that he strong-armed Ukraine into firing its top prosecutor. In his own words, with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
Facing nuclear war and the end of all human life in the 1964 dark comedy “Dr. Strangelove,” a U.S. general and a Russian ambassador get into a physical struggle. “Gentlemen,” yells the U.S. president, “you can’t fight in here. This is the War Room!” The humorous insanity of that moment leapt to mind in recent days while watching the crazed reactions to the special prosecutor reporting no evidence of collusion with Russians by Donald Trump in the 2016 election. The diverse individual reactions, ranging from hypocritical praise to absolute denial, matter less than the overall canvas of so many dysfunctional democratic institutions
Sandy O´s Credibility Problem
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The radical left just loves Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. That much can’t be denied. Actress Lena Heady, most widely recognized as Cersei Lannister on HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones, went so far as to say that Sandy O “should run the world.” That’s nothing short of crazy. But why do liberals go so crazy over Sandy O? (snip) She said that she “just got health insurance for the first time a month ago.” She’s almost certainly lying about having never had health insurance at any point in her life. But let’s presume she meant in her adult life
REPARATIONS FOR American slavery are a misbegotten idea, unworkable and unjust, but every now and then they come back into vogue as a political talking point. In 1969, the radical civil rights activist James Forman made headlines when he seized the pulpit of New York´s Riverside Church and issued a "black manifesto"demanding $500 million in reparations for African enslavement. Thirty years later, Randall Robinson, founder of the black social-justice organization TransAfrica, revived the reparations movement with his bestselling book The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. Now progressive Democrats, or at least some of the ones running
Several high-powered rifles were seized, along with ammunition and magazines, during a traffic stop in Jim Wells County on Friday, authorities said in a statement. According to a post on the Jim Wells County Sheriff´s Office Facebook page on Monday, a deputy with the department made a traffic stop around 9:30 p.m. on Friday on State Highway 359, near Orange Grove. A criminal complaint filed in federal court said that the traffic stop wast initiated by a defective license plate light. (Photo) According to the complaint, the deputy asked the driver — Jodie Rocha — if he could search the
Attorney General Jeff Sessions thought he had already answered calls for a special counsel to look into the FBI’s handling of sensitive political investigations when he named a Utah prosecutor to conduct an inquiry and report back. Nearly 18 months later, there has been nary a public peep from U.S. Attorney John Huber, the man Mr. Sessions assigned to get to the bottom of things. Likely witnesses say Mr. Huber has never contacted them, and members of Congress say they are still in the dark despite regular pleas to see progress. “It concerns me that we haven’t heard
Time’s Up!
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Addressing charges that Joe Biden behaved inappropriately toward former Nevada legislator Lucy Flores, a spokesperson for the likely presidential candidate said, “Neither then, nor in the years since, did he or the staff with him at the time have an inkling that Ms. Flores had been at any time uncomfortable, nor do they recall what she describes.” (Snip)According to the standards of culpability that Biden has articulated in similarly conflicted situations, however, it’s an open-and-shut case. Perhaps no major American political figure has so consistently championed the erosion of due process for those accused of sexual misconduct.
Mueller the Boy Scout
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So. Here we are on the good side of history as the United States of America, God’s greatest gift to the human race, has just escaped a media/leftist coup. Ever since Mr. Trump defied all of the pundits and the pollsters and won the election in November of 2016, the media and the leftists have been planning and executing a leftist/media coup against the Constitution. The bare bones of the coup were apparent almost immediately. The media swore up and down that there had been “collusion” between the Trump campaigns and Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton
A federal judge on Thursday rejected Nestle’s bid to dismiss a revised lawsuit claiming that it defrauded consumers by filling bottles of its Poland Spring water with ordinary groundwater. US District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer said consumers from eight Northeastern states may pursue claims that Nestle Waters North America deceived them into overpaying by labeling Poland Spring as “100% Natural Spring Water.” The New Haven, Connecticut-based judge allowed claims on behalf of consumers from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. He said federal law preempted claims from Vermont consumers.
The Associated Press faced backlash on social media Monday after writing that Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke spoke “in his native Spanish” at a rally in El Paso, Texas. Although O’Rourke speaks Spanish, he a fourth-generation Irish-American whose full name is Robert Francis O’Rouke. The AP report originally wrote: "O´Rourke also spoke at length in his native Spanish, eliciting loud and sustained cheers.” (Snip)After the criticism, AP appended a correction to its story, reading: “In a story March 31 about a Beto O’Rourke campaign rally, The Associated Press reported erroneously that O’Rourke spoke to a rally in his native Spanish.
Sources: Martin Shkreli Thrown In Solitary Confinement After Claims He Ran Company From Prison
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Earlier this month, the much-maligned pharmaceutical businessman and uber troll Martin Shkreli was put in solitary confinement at Federal Correctional Institution in Fort Dix, New Jersey, Forbes has been told by two sources with knowledge of the situation. That came after the Wall Street Journal described how he was using a contraband phone to run his pharma business from behind bars. The Bureau of Prisons (BOP) wouldn’t confirm that Shkreli had been placed in solitary confinement, saying it would not release information about “an individual inmate´s conditions of confinement.” But it confirmed that the issues
In a baffling twist of logic, the intense IRS focus on Humphreys County is actually because so many of its taxpayers are poor. More than half of the county’s taxpayers claim the earned income tax credit, a program designed to help boost low-income workers out of poverty. As we reported last year, the IRS audits EITC recipients at higher rates than all but the richest Americans, a response to pressure from congressional Republicans to root out incorrect payments of the credit. The study estimates that Humphreys, with a median annual household income of just $26,000,
Saudi Arabia has given multimillion-dollar homes and monthly five-figure payments to the children of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post writer who was killed in a Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last October, as compensation for their father’s death, according to a report. The reported payments to Khashoggi’s two sons and two daughters are part of a long-term arrangement to ensure they refrain from speaking out, the Washington Post reported, citing information from current and former Saudi officials. The children will also likely receive additional payments of tens of millions of dollars apiece
Hundreds of mourners who had gathered Monday night to remember Grammy-nominated rapper Nipsey Hussle fled the memorial in droves after inaccurate reports of shots fired in the area. Several police officers worked to control the frightened crowd and track down more information about what had prompted the commotion, which started just after 8 p.m. While a member of the crowd shared some words on the late rapper, dozens of people who had gathered outside Hussle’s store started running away. People fell on top of each other as they tried to flee amid the dense crowd,
Joe Biden is in a lot of trouble, as editor Lifson points out today. Biden apparently kissed a woman without her permission, which is a serious offense in #MeToo land. There are also several photos of Biden with his arms around women, kissing them, kneading their shoulders — shouldn´t he be arrested or something?But never fear, Uncle Joe. The Washington Post is riding to your rescue.The headline gives a flavor of how one of the most important propaganda arms of the Democratic Party in the media is framing Biden´s troubles."Joe Biden´s affectionate, physical style with women comes under scrutiny ..."Uh-huh.This
A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to “government entities,” according to IRS filings.The payments made by The Democracy Integrity Project are more than three times what the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS and Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign to investigate Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia. Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC and Clinton campaign, paid $1 million to Fusion GPS in 2016 to investigate Trump. Fusion
The father of Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg was a Marxist professor who spoke fondly of the Communist Manifesto and dedicated a significant portion of his academic career to the work of Italian Communist Party founder Antonio Gramsci, an associate of Vladimir Lenin.Joseph Buttigieg, who died in January at the age of 71, immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s from Malta and in 1980 joined the University of Notre Dame faculty, where he taught modern European literature and literary theory. He supported an updated version of Marxism that jettisoned some of Marx and Engel´s more doctrinaire theories, though he
Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar — a Muslim refugee from impoverished, war-torn Somalia — trashed the United States under the Trump presidency, saying living here is a daily nightmare. “It’s an everyday assault,” Omar told Vogue Arabia. “Every day, a part of your identity is threatened, demonized, and vilified.” Women Are Systemically Abused in Many Muslim Nations -Keep in mind that in Saudi Arabia and in many Muslim countries, Omar wouldn’t be allowed to leave the house without a male chaperone, drive, work, or vote. And she certainly wouldn’t be a member of the federal government. Also, wife-beating is acceptable — and even