Posts on Wednesday, April 3, 2019
As the press gives more attention to the mounting accusations against former Vice President Joe Biden for inappropriate touching, it is only doing more to confirm all of the suspicions that conservatives have about liberal media bias. The New York Times quoted two more women as saying they felt uncomfortable by the way Biden touched them, which follows two other accusations of a similar nature. However, there is nothing particularly new about the idea that Biden is handsy. The fact was well known for years and demonstrated in many photos and videos. A number of conservatives tried to argue that
Madison, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court race that liberals needed to win to have a shot at taking majority control of the court next year appeared headed for a recount. Still, the conservative candidate declared victory overnight while holding a narrow lead following Tuesday´s election. A conservative win would increase their majority to 5-2 and ensure their control over the court, which they´ve held since 2008, for years to come. It would be a particularly stinging defeat for liberals, who were confident and riding a wave of wins in 2018
The kneecapping of Joe Biden amuses me. When the first woman accused him of what we all witnessed when he was in the White House, my only question was who was taking him out? President Donald John Trump also is amused. At a fund-raiser for Republicans last night, our president roasted Biden and his party. The Donald said, “We’re going into the war with some socialist. 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. I was going to call
During an MSNBC-hosted town hall last Friday, seemingly un-self-aware socialist congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lectured the audience about why they should abstain from attacking their political opponents with name-calling. Five seconds later, she attacked her political opponents with name-calling by smearing the multiracial Tea Party as xenophobic and racist. Three days later on Fox News, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host Tucker Carlson gave the hypocritical congresswoman a taste of her own medicine by labeling her a “nasty,” “self-righteous” and “awful” “moron.” In response, AOC doubled down on her sanctimony and hypocrisy. “When someone called a fmr Republican Congressman a ‘moron’ at our
Well this is buckets of interesting. Last year CTH anticipated Bloomberg would be one of the Club insiders positioned to take lead in the 2020 Club primary. However, as time progressed Club board members seemed to shift Bloomberg aside in favor of Joe Biden. A proactive Rupert Murdoch hired Biden’s former chief-of-staff in preparation. Unfortunately for the Club’s board, Biden is failing to launch. The free range Moonbat coalition, aka the unsuspecting astroturf, are turning out to be more challenging to herd than the board anticipated. Their plot against installing Biden may succeed. This opens the club to reconsider Bloomberg’s
Nellie Ohr is the wife of DOJ official Bruce Ohr. Nellie Ohr, a specialist in Russian matters, was also a contract employee of the CIA (Snip) Nellie Ohr was hired as a contract agent by Fusion to work on the ‘Trump Project’ assembling political opposition research that was later shared with another Fusion GPS contract employee, Christopher Steele, and compiled into the ‘Steele Dossier’. It always seemed sketchy that at the same time Nellie Ohr began communicating with Christopher Steele and other governmental participants associated with the Steele Dossier, May 2016, she applied for a Ham Radio License
UPDATE: Waco “Twin Peaks” Shootout – All Charges Dropped, Not a Single Successful Prosecution…
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Here’s an update to a story we covered in detail for quite a while. (Snip) After four years of seriously sketchy prosecutorial conduct, likely trying to cover up the number of people killed by police and SWAT units as they shot into the crowd, the McLennen county district attorney has dropped all charges against the bikers involved in the Waco “Twin Peaks” brawl. That means the old DA and the new DA were not able to achieve a single successful prosecution of any of the 177 bike club members, after the entire group was originally rounded up and locked in
Police Aren´t Enough
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Sometimes, during my drive to work, I listen to Clarence Maurice Mitchell IV, host of the Baltimore´s WBAL C4 radio show. Mitchell was formerly a member of Maryland´s House of Delegates and its Senate. In recent weeks, Mitchell has been talking about the terrible crime situation in Baltimore. In 2018, there were 308 homicides. So far this year, there have been 69. That´s in a 2018 population of 611,648 — down from nearly a million in 1950. The city is pinning its hopes to reduce homicides and other crime on new Police Commissioner Michael Harrison. Another hot news item in
CNN has been accused repeatedly by President Trump of being ´fake news.´ And he couldn´t be more correct, given that CNN´s coverage of the border crisis, which not too long ago was characterized by a drumbeat of reports debunking any crisis, is now all about reporting that yes, indeed, there is a crisis. Breitbart News´s Joel Pollak points out the startling U-turn in CNN´s coverage: (Tweet) Remember that? Remember the CNN drumbeat of "not a crisis" and "no emergency at the border"? They´re singing a different tune now, as demonstrated by this report from Chris Cuomo: (Video) But here is
Supporters of House Democrats’ “gender equality” bill testified Tuesday that the legislation is necessary to guarantee equal rights for Americans who identify as transgender. One Republican lawmaker, however, wondered if Democrats would push the bill if President Donald Trump decided to call himself “the first female president.” The Equality Act, introduced March 13 and a priority for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the characteristics protected from discrimination under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to an explainer from The Heritage Foundation, the legislation would force workers “to conform to new sexual norms or else lose their
(Boston) A media circus is expected in federal court in Boston on Wednesday when the two most high-profile defendants in the college admissions scandal — Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin — appear in court. The preliminary hearing in which the actresses will face charges against them for the first time will mark a key moment for the actresses. They are among dozens of people swept up in the scandal. The scheme centered on William “Rick” Singer, the owner of a for-profit Newport Beach college admissions company,
They gave the movie an "R" rating -- which meant the trailer could only run before "R"-rated movies and no one younger than 17 under could see it without a parent´s permission. A half-dozen major music labels refused producers´ requests to license music for the film. Many major television networks except Fox News and the Christian Broadcasting Network refused to run ads promoting it. Then, curiously, the movie´s Twitter account was suspended through no fault of its own during opening weekend. (Snip) Get the feeling someone doesn´t want you to see "Unplanned"?
TWO Arkansas men have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after police say they shot each other while taking turns wearing a bulletproof vest. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that 50-year-old Charles Ferris and 36-year-old Christopher Hicks were arrested Monday. A police affidavit says the two men are neighbors and were drinking on a deck Sunday when Ferris told Hicks to shoot him with a .22-caliber rifle while Ferris wore the vest. The affidavit says the shot left a red mark on Ferris´ chest and that he was angry because it hurt.
Nancy Pelosi´s Perv Problem
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If you´re a sleazy male Democrat, you can always count on Nancy Pelosi to run interference for you and your pervy proclivities. While she has soaked up plaudits as a champion for women (most recently as the VH1 Trailblazer Honors recipient last month for International Women´s Day), what she really deserves is Cheerleader of the Year Award from the Democratic Bad Boys Club. The latest beneficiary of her soft-glove treatment is former Vice President and potential 2020 Democratic presidential aspirant Joe Biden -- a.k.a. the veep creep.
Two more women have claimed that Joe Biden inappropriately touched them, in a further blow to the former US Vice President said to be considering a bid for the White House. Caitlyn Caruso, 22, told the New York Times on Tuesday that Mr Biden hugged her "just a little bit too long" when she was 19 at a University of Nevada event on sexual harassment. According to the former student, the senior Democrat rested his hand on her thigh moments after Miss Caruso had shared a personal story of sexual assault. She said: “It doesn’t
President Trump gleefully mocked one of the Democratic Party’s biggest stars and her signature legislative proposal at a Republican fundraising dinner Tuesday night. Mr. Trump did not name Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, but he did say he didn’t want to be too hard on her “Green New Deal” because he hoped to campaign against it. “The Green New Deal, done by a young bartender, 29 years old,” Mr. Trump said, producing laughter from his audience at the National Republican Congressional Committee dinner.(Snip) Mr. Trump said Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has become the effective leader of the Democratic Party
Facing mounting pressure, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Tuesday it will cease the controversial practice of laboratory test research using cats. The USDA has been using kittens and cats in taxpayer-funded research to study parasites that can cause death to humans from foodborne illness. NBC News reported March 19 that the USDA´s practice included feeding dog and cat meat obtained in "Asian meat markets" to cats.
A 12-year-old boy in Michigan has decided he´s not going to wait for officials to fill the large potholes dotting a street near his home and is instead getting his hands dirty and filling the craters himself. Monte Scott started filling potholes last week using a shovel and dirt from his backyard in Muskegon Heights after he grew fed up with the state of neighborhood roads. “I didn´t want people messing up their cars like my mom did,” he told WZZM-TV. “If somebody were to drive down the street and hit a pothole,
My car, which has a “Trump/Pence” bumper sticker, was keyed. While pumping gas, a motorist seemed impressed by my courage to have a Trump bumper sticker. People have told me they are afraid to wear a MAGA cap or have a Trump sign on their lawn. Having to feel so afraid to express our political views is outrageous. Democrats and fake news media have so twisted the meaning of “MAGA” and generated such hatred for Trump that citizens are afraid to publicly support the president of the United States. This is still America.
For the past five years, like many of its West Coast counterparts, Seattle has endured a steady expansion of homelessness, addiction, mental illness, crime, and street disorder. But the activist class—a political and cultural elite comprising leaders in government, nonprofits, philanthropy, and media—has enforced a strict taboo on declaring the obvious: something is terribly wrong in the Emerald City.(Snip)” According to the Seattle Times, 53 percent of Seattle voters now support a “zero-tolerance policy” on homeless encampments; 62 percent believe that the problem is getting worse because the city “wastes money by being inefficient” and “is not accountable for how
April 3, 1882, was a bad day for Jesse James. A very bad day, in fact. I’ve always been intrigued by his killing. It happened in my birthplace. St. Joseph, Mo., the place “where the Pony Express began and Jesse James ended.” My great-grandfather Elisha Powell even got a postmortem peek at the famous outlaw when James’ body was on public display there. I don’t have a rosy, romanticized view of Jesse James. He put good men in the ground and stole money from innocent people. Murderous thievery doesn’t make one a hero. Still, there was a sad quality to his death
Not long ago, the Democratic Party´s mantra on abortion was that the unfortunate practice ought to be "safe, legal and rare." Nobody is pro-abortion, they told us. Today, the party votes in virtual lockstep against any and all measures that would limit even the most extreme and unpopular forms of abortion, including recent legislation barring elective late-term abortions, and a bill to require medical care for infants born alive after failed abortions. Not a single Democrat running for president has even hinted that the ´right´ to abortion should be curtailed or limited in any way, at any point, for any
The day may be coming when California public employees are permitted to travel on business only to blue states. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday added South Carolina to the growing list of states banned from state-sponsored travel, citing the Palmetto State’s 2018 budget bill allowing faith-based adoption and foster-care services to operate according to their religious beliefs. “The State of South Carolina recently enacted a measure that sanctions discrimination against families in the placement of children in need of homes,” said Mr. Becerra in a statement. “The State of California stands strongly against any form of discrimination.” He cited California Assembly
Bernie Travels First Class
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Washington- I wonder if at the outset of his career back in woodsy Vermont Bernie Sanders — Crazy Bernie, as we say — ever imagined that years later at the age of 77 he would be running for president, have developed a taste for private jets, be the master of three homes, and run on a platform that included Medicare for All, Free College for All, and a Minimum Wage of $15 an Hour for All, that and the rest of the Green New Deal with no hint of how he would pay for it. No one is making a very
JACKSON, Miss., — Imagine for a moment you are sitting at your desk in the newsroom when you find out that some celebrity has called for you to be fired from your job, because you reported a story on a local hunter who had bagged a white turkey. You also find out said celebrity has instructed his two million followers on Twitter to make life for this local hunter “living hell,” because of your story. That is exactly what happened to Clarion Ledger outdoor reporter Brian Broom earlier this week after ESPN Sports Center anchor Keith Olbermann tweeted about Broom’s
On Tuesday, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanding an investigation into whether or not the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) should lose its tax-exempt status. His letter comes after weeks of turmoil with the SPLC struggling with scandals of alleged racism and sexism. The organization fired its co-founder, saw its president and other leaders resign, and lost a prominent member of its board. "I am writing to urge you to investigate whether the Southern Poverty Law Center should retain its classification as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization," Cotton begins his letter. "Recent news reports
The Real Joe Biden Decision
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At some point soon, Joe Biden is going to have to make two decisions. The first is whether he wants to run for the Democratic nomination. The second is whether he wants to win it, and at what cost. Right now, even after some slippage, Biden has the highest polling numbers of any candidate in the race. He also has a record that’s completely out of step with his party’s activists and ideologists, a highly … familiar personal style that promises further accusations like the ones already leveled by Lucy Flores and Amy Lappos, and a base of support that’s roughly
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday that the Trump administration is treating the immigration crisis as a “Cat 5 hurricane disaster.” “We are bringing all of the agencies together; we´re asking everybody to chip in,” Nielsen said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “Why wouldn´t we put the U.S. military along our border if it´s really a crisis of that magnitude?” Carlson asked Secretary Nielsen. “I think we´re looking into that. We´ve made the request. I´m in constant contact with the acting secretary of defense. I talked to some of the combatant commanders today. We are in fact pushing more and
Two Penn State fraternity members were sentenced to time behind bars on Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges related to the 2017 hazing death of Beta Theta Pi pledge Tim Piazza. Joshua Kurczewski, 20, was given a sentence of six to nine months after he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit hazing, one count of hazing and one count of furnishing liquor to a minor, The Centre Daily Times reported. He was also fined $2,250 and ordered to perform 100 hours´ community service. Judge Brian K. Marshall ordered that Kurczewski’s sentence begin on May 17, one week after
It was an election that made history in Chicago, sending the first black woman to City Hall, but you wouldn’t necessarily know it from the dismal turnout at the polls across the city, according to unofficial results from the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners. With voters deciding whom they preferred for mayor and a handful of aldermanic races, turnout in Tuesday’s runoff election rivaled historic lows. Only 32 percent of voters, or 509,624 people, cast ballots, according to unofficial data released by the board as of 8 p.m. As straggling votes come in by mail and from provisional ballots, the
Contrary to the overheated speculation of so many, the United States is not on the cusp of another civil war. Sure, things are tense in America’s political system. Things usually are. Americans are not, however, about to take up arms against each other and hunt down those with whom they disagree. Instead, what we are experiencing is the very public collapse of our managerial elite and this has resulted in a civil war within the Democratic Party. To them it must feel like a more widespread conflict since most of our self-styled elite are Democrats. The good news is this
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are demanding to know why Fox News did not publish a story prior to the 2016 election about an alleged affair years before between porn star Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump. House Committee on Oversight and Reform chair Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) wrote to former Fox News reporter Diana Falzone last month demanding that she turn over any documents relating to Trump’s alleged extramarital affairs. An article in the New Yorker last month alleged that Fox News executive Ken LaCorte spiked the story to protect Trump — a claim LaCorte has vehemently denied,
Some of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators are reportedly frustrated over Attorney General William Barr’s summary of Mueller’s investigation, saying the findings in the actual report are more troubling for President Trump than Barr suggested. A New York Times report cites officials saying some of the investigators involved in the 22-month inquiry are worried public perception of the investigation has been improperly shaped by Barr’s initial summary, a four-page memo to Congress in which he said Trump did not collude with Russia. Officials reportedly declined to elaborate upon why or how many members of the special counsel´s team of dozens
Watch: Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams Claims She Won Her Election. She Lost By Nearly 55,000 Votes.
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Failed Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams falsely claimed on Wednesday that she won the race for governor last year against Republican Brian Kemp. (Video) "We had this little election back in 2018," Abrams said while speaking at the National Action Network. "And despite the final tally and the inauguration and the situation we find ourselves in, I do have very affirmative statement to make: We won." Kemp beat Abrams by 54,723 votes. WATCH: (Video/Tweet) Abrams, who claimed without evidence that Kemp was "an architect of voter suppression," said that she still refused to concede the election. "I am not
Former vice president Joe Biden promised on Wednesday to adjust his physical behavior toward women, an effort to quell controversy over whether his intimate style is appropriate in the era of the #MeToo movement. (Snip) Three women told The Post that Biden’s behavior toward them made them feel uncomfortable and said Biden’s comments Wednesday didn’t fully address their concerns. Vail Kohnert-Yount said she was a White House intern in the spring of 2013 and one day tried to exit the basement of the West Wing when she was asked to step aside so Biden could enter. After she moved
Univision anchor Jorge Ramos said on Tuesday evening that he believes the solution to the migrant crisis at U.S.-Mexico border is to just legalize illegal immigrants because “nobody can really stop them” from entering the United States. “The U.S. economy has been absorbing them and it seems that we have to realize that the only way to deal with this is in a legal way,” Ramos told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “Just to understand that legally they are going to keep coming and there is really nothing we can do to stop them.” Ramos said Americans have to understand that 300,000
New York—One morning last fall, 4-year-old Joey Wilcox woke up with the left side of his face drooping. It was the first sign of an unfolding nightmare. Three days later, Joey was in a hospital intensive care unit, unable to move his arms or legs or sit up. Spinal taps and other tests failed to find a cause. Doctors worried he was about to lose the ability to breathe.(Snip) Joey, who survived but still suffers some of the effects, was one of 228 confirmed victims in the U.S. last year of acute flaccid myelitis, or AFM,
Beto praises ´courage´ of Biden accusers, questions whether former VP should enter 2020 race
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Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke became the latest 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful to weigh in on the allegations of unwanted touching and kissing leveled against former Vice President Joe Biden. O’Rourke, who currently sits third in the polls alongside Sen. Kamala Harris of California and behind Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, praised the “courage” of the women who have come forward to accuse the former vice president of inappropriate behavior. “We need to listen to those who are raising their stories who have the courage to come forward to share their experience and also to be part of
Former FBI Director James B. Comey says he has nothing to hide, but worries that President Trump’s call to investigate him and others who started the Russia probe would be a “dangerous step.” “I don’t fear it personally. I fear it as a citizen,” Mr. Comey said on CNN Tuesday night. “Investigate what? Investigate that investigations were conducted? What would be the crime you’d be investigating? So it’s a terrible cycle to start. It will just be more of that dangerous step.” The president called again Tuesday for an investigation into the beginnings of the FBI’s counterterrorism probe into
The police were summoned to Missouri Western State University when a black woman asked a white teen to remove his “Make America Great Again” hat. On Friday, university student Dossou Nidaye bumped heads with a campus police officer, upset that a visiting high school boy wore a MAGA hat, as reported by the campus newspaper, The Griffon News. A video of Dossou’s conversation with the officer was published by KMBC 9 News. “It is a symbol of white supremacy. I don’t want to see that,” she said. “I wake up every day and I see my people getting killed
Officials with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security Investigations detained 280 people during an operation at an Allen business on Wednesday afternoon. Multiple large buses were seen parked at the back entrance of a building in the 900 block of Enterprise Boulevard, according to helicopter footage from Fort Worth Star-Telegram media partner WFAA-TV.(Snip) The building is home to CVE Technology Group, which refurbishes and repairs electronics. The people arrested on Wednesday are undocumented immigrants who were working unlawfully at the facility, according to a news release from ICE. Special Agent in Charge
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s determination to purchase Russian anti-aircraft missile systems could cripple his country’s participation in the NATO alliance, Vice President Mike Pence warned Wednesday. “Turkey must choose: Does it want to remain a critical partner of the most successful military alliance in the history of the world?” Pence said (Snip) Pence’s rebuke raised the stakes of Turkey’s insistence over buying Russian S-400s to deploy alongside NATO’s most advanced stealth fighter jet. Pence reiterated that the United States would not deliver the F-35 warplanes to Turkey if Erdoğan sticks with the
Following last year’s disaster of a speaking tour, former president Bill Clinton and failed 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton are again planning to tour the nation — this time featuring Hollywood star power in some locations. “Hillary Clinton and I are hitting the road with some friends and we hope to see you!” Bill Clinton said Wednesday. (Tweet) The Clintons will speak with actors Ben Stiller and Tony Goldwyn and former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha in different cities. Comedian Jordan Klepper will also join the Democrat power couple in Washington, D.C. Bill and Hillary hit the road last year for a tour that failed
If we’ve learned anything by this point it’s that complaints about the ill effects of illegal immigration will be met with a fierce defense by Democrats and their liberal media allies — the objective being to shut down all debate over what’s come to be a burden on the country. “Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade saw the effects of this Wednesday when he spoke about illegal immigrants who don’t speak English being “dumped” in working class schools. Kilmeade made the comment in a segment focused on President Trump threatening to shut down the southern border
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Wednesday of “devastating” results if Turkey strikes Syria as he met in Washington with Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. “Secretary Pompeo expressed support for ongoing negotiations regarding northeast Syria, while warning of the potentially devastating consequences of unilateral Turkish military action in the region,” (Snip) Turkey has repeatedly threatened to hit the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces, who joined Western forces in battling the Islamic State group but which Ankara links to the separatist PKK movement at home. Fears for the safety of the fighters has
The Vermont GOP demanded Sunday that Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders release “all investigative material” related to the investigation of a land deal connected to his wife. Sanders, a leading contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has called for release of the “whole damn report.” Attorney General William Barr released a summary indicating that special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of Russian collusion by the Trump campaign. “I call on you to apply this same standard of transparency to yourself. Under your proposed standard, surely you would agree that all investigative material related to the criminal bank fraud investigation
Russia has expressed its anger over Damascus’ granting of Iran the right to operate the western Latakia port on the Mediterranean. This marks the first time that Tehran is given a foothold on the Mediterranean near Russia’s bases in Tartus and Latakia. (Snip) In January, the joint committee, headed by Syrian Prime Minister Imad Khamis and Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, signed nine agreements on Syria’s railroads, reconstruction, investment, combating terrorism financing and money laundering, education and culture, reported Syria’s SANA state news agency. Khamis said at the time that the “historic”
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas denied any interest in retirement this weekend, telling a friendly audience in Beverly Hills, California, that he has no plans to leave judicial service in the near future. Speaking at Pepperdine University School of Law’s annual dinner, the 70-year-old Thomas emphatically denied speculation that he will leave the Supreme Court, amid speculation that he may wish to leave the bench under President Donald Trump. Professor James Allan Gash, Pepperdine’s incoming president and moderator of the Saturday evening talk, asked Thomas who he would like to speak at his retirement party 20 years hence, according to Law360.
The University of Texas at Arlington has suspended all social activities of Greek organizations due to "concerns regarding the culture of the fraternal community," the school said Wednesday. The university, which has about 28,000 undergraduates among its more than 40,000 students, began the suspension of social activities of fraternities and sororities Monday so that it can study their communities´ culture, the university´s chief spokesperson said in a statement. (Snip) The suspension was not based on a singular event but was sparked by concerns about fraternal culture both on the campus and nationally. "The University hopes this pause will be
The Trump administration will be increasing the number of Central American asylum seekers who are sent back to Mexico to await their court case. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced Monday she will be expanding the “Migrant Protection Protocols” program, more popularly known as “Remain in Mexico.” Nielsen, in a memo sent to the federal borer chief, ordered Customs and Border Protection agents deployed on the U.S.-Mexico border to begin reviewing hundreds of migrant cases a day to determine if they should be booted back to Mexico.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, trying to stem the wave of allegations and questions against him ahead of his expected 2020 run, broke his silence on the ´inappropriate touching´ scandal Wednesday, saying he ´tried to make a human connection´ with his actions but ´will be more mindful and respectful of people´s personal space´ in the future. ´I want to talk about gestures of support and encouragement that I´ve made to some women and some men and I´ve made them uncomfortable,´ he said in a video posted on Twitter. ´I always try to be in my career, always tried to make
The Trump administration has made great strides in recent months to transform the cash-strapped and perpetually ailing North Atlantic Treaty Organization into a viable global military force that has the capabilities to confront Russia and other rogue regimes allied with terror forces. Vice President Mike Pence, in wide-ranging remarks on Wednesday before a gathering of NATO members in Washington, D.C., outlined a series of reforms the Trump administration has taken to boost NATO’s military readiness and position it as a force that can combat Russian aggression, as well as that of regional terror groups. Pence told NATO members the United
In an announcement that will elicit gigantic sighs of relief from conservatives across the nation, last weekend Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas told attendees at a Pepperdine University School of Law dinner that he has no intention of retiring. (Video) As The Washington Free Beacon reports, Thomas was asked which person he would want to speak at his retirement party 20 years from now. Thomas answered bluntly, "I´m not retiring." As Law360.com noted, the moderator, who was Professor James Allan Gash, Pepperdine’s incoming president, according to The Daily Caller, pressed Thomas, altering the date of the party to 30 years
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is in El Paso today as the crisis on the border continues to rage. On Thursday, she will travel to Yuma, Arizona, where a border barrier has been used to successfully stop illegal immigration, human trafficking and drug flow. During an interview Tuesday night with Fox News, Nielsen described the DHS response to the chaos as "category 5 hurricane." In other words, as many resources as possible are being diverted to address the issue. (Tweet) According to DHS, one million illegal immigrants are expected to cross the southern border with Mexico this year.
Chasing Bonnie and Clyde
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The Highwaymen, Netflix’s new manhunt film starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson, is a suspenseful and morally fraught take on the story of the ex–Texas Rangers who tracked down the most famous bank robbers of 1934. But this movie about chasing Bonnie and Clyde is also a movie about Bonnie and Clyde. It’s a pleasing tale of resourceful, hard-nosed cops that’s also something of an essay on cinema and society. Arthur Penn’s 1967 cinematic landmark (which is also streaming on Netflix) launched an American New Wave of counterculture films about anti-heroes and misfits contesting a nefarious system. Penn’s successors painted a
Estrada´s Revenge
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Largely as a result of unprecedented Democratic obstructionism in the United States Senate, President Trump has yet to staff many executive positions in his administration or fill many judicial vacancies. This afternoon comes word that the Republican majority has finally altered Senate rules to reduce debate time on most presidential nominees by reducing post-cloture debate. They have done so by exercising what the media refer to as the “nuclear option” — what should probably be known as the Harry Reid option — under which a Senate majority changes the Senate rules. In order to understand the meaning of this particular procedural
NEW YORK — Six states and the District of Columbia sued the Department of Agriculture on Wednesday, saying it weakened nutritional standards in school breakfasts and lunches when it relaxed the requirements affecting salt and refined grains last year. The lawsuit in Manhattan federal court asked a judge to overturn the changes, saying they were carried out in an arbitrary and capricious manner. The government "significantly weakened" nutritional standards for sodium and whole grains, according to the lawsuit, without giving the public a chance to comment on them and in opposition to nutritional requirements for school meals set by Congress.
According to the most recent Annenberg Constitution Day Civics Survey, conducted last September, Americans have a pretty appalling grasp of their nation´s governing structure. Only 32% of those surveyed were able to name all three branches of the federal government (which actually represented s 6% increase from the previous year). But an even higher portion of those surveyed, 33%, could not even name a single branch of the federal government. And according to the 2017 iteration of the same survey, 37% of those surveyed could not name a single right secured by the First Amendment! (Video) It is long past
Texas prisons have amended their policy to disallow all chaplains from the execution chamber following two controversial high-profile cases, according to the Texas Tribune. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court halted the execution of Patrick Murphy, who had been sentenced to death for his part in the 2000 murder of an Irving, Texas police officer, because he had not been given access to a Buddhist chaplain. Only prison employees are allowed in the chamber and the state only employs Christian and Muslim clerics as prison chaplains.
Major Upset: Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Candidate Shocks Liberals With Surprise Victory
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It was a statewide race that only the nerdiest of political nerds were following at the national level, but suffice it to say that we´d be hearing a lot about it if the expected outcome had come to pass. By way of background, Wisconsin´s Supreme Court has been decidedly conservative for years, but when a liberal justice won a resounding 12-point victory last fall (Badger State voters choose Supreme Court members in nominally "non-partisan" elections), the Left immediately set it sights on the 2019 contest. If a left-leaning candidate had defeated another right-leaning jurist --
Wednesday MSNBC played a clip of 2020 Democratic presidential primary candidate Beto O’Rourke at the Nation Action Network’s convention. O’Rourke was asked if he would sign Sheila Jackson Lee’s bill which would consider reparations proposals for Africans-Americans. O’Rourke said, “Yes. Civil rights are not just those victories that began with at the outset of my comments, but the injustices that have been visited and continue to be visited on people. We will never get the change that we need to live up to the promise of this country. So absolutely, I would sign
In Tuesday’s Wisconsin supreme-court election, conservatives appear to have scored a shocking upset victory. With only a handful of precincts left to report, conservative-backed Brian Hagedorn leads liberal-backed Lisa Neubauer by nearly 6,000 votes out of 1.2 million cast, according to unofficial results. The liberal Neubauer called for a recount, which a losing candidate may do — if she pays for it herself — when the margin is less than one percentage point. (Taxpayers pick up the tab at margins less than 0.25 points.) But a lead of 6,000 votes would almost certainly be insurmountable in a recount, assuming there
One of the biggest problems with the Trump-hating media spewing its propaganda against President Donald Trump is that there are too many simple-minded folks in the U.S. who actually believe the rubbish. Rubbish such as the insinuation that if you support secure borders and the rule of law, and don’t want migrants by the thousands flowing into the country unchecked, then you hate brown people, which is the media-inspired stigma attached to every red MAGA hat in America. The latest example of low-information liberals reacting to what they see on MSNBC and CNN was seen in a Palo Alto, Calif.,
NATO chief, in speech to Congress, declares Trump´s push for more defense spending is working
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, in a historic address to Congress, declared Wednesday that President Trump’s push for NATO allies to increase their defense spending has “had an impact” and made the alliance stronger. “Allies must spend more on defense. This has been the clear message from President Trump,” he said. “And this message is having a real impact.” NATO does not have a defense budget, but members commit to spending a minimum of 2 percent of their Gross Domestic Products on defense. Trump, however, has repeatedly called out members that do not meet that commitment, even as this campaign
Liberal media goes full commie– Christiane Amanpour asks James Comey if he is responsible for President Trump’s victory in 2016 because HE ALLOWED Trump supporters to chant “Locker her up!” at Trump rallies. Chistriane says this is “hate speech” and believes these people should have been silenced. (Photo) Christiane Amanpour: Of course, ‘lock her up’ was a 206 feature of the Trump campaign. Do you in retrospect wish that people like yourself, the head of the FBI, the people in charge of law and order, had shut down that language, that it was dangerous potentially? That it could have caused violence?
Australian man accused of blowing up couple’s car following altercation at McDonald’s drive-thru
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An Australian man was accused of blowing up a couple’s car after they allegedly beeped at his partner while at a McDonald’s drive-thru in February. Ryan Sharp, 33, of the Illawarra region, and his 31-year-old partner allegedly stalked and harassed a couple for six weeks following the altercation at the fast-food joint. The couple had allegedly beeped at the man’s partner at the drive-thru after she swerved close to their vehicle. Sharp was not present at the time of the incident, but the woman reported the couple to police and wrote down their license plate number.
Patagonia outerwear comes in many flavors: fleece or puffy, vest or jacket, navy or heather gray. Patch on a corporate logo, and you’ve got what passes for a uniform in San Francisco’s tech sector. Now, the Ventura clothing maker, seeking to advance its Earth-friendly capitalist agenda, is threatening to leave them stitchless as it gets choosier about its corporate partners. (Snip) “Patagonia has nothing against your client or the financial industry, it’s just not an area they are currently marketing through our co-brand division,” the email said. It went on to explain that Patagonia is taking a new direction,
White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg raised doubts about President Trump’s belief in God during an interview published Wednesday. The South Bend, Indiana, mayor discussed Mr. Trump’s faith during a recent conversation with USA Today. “I’m reluctant to comment on another person’s faith, but I would say it is hard to look at this president’s actions and believe that they’re the actions of somebody who believes in God,” Mr. Buttigieg told the newspaper. “I just don’t understand how you can be as worshipful of your own self as he is and be prepared to humble yourself before God. “I’ve never seen
While the rich and famous get access to Foxx, murdered cab driver´s family waits for answers
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Omar Tungekar tried to contact someone in the Cook County State´s Attorney´s Office after his father was kicked to death in a West Loop road rage incident on Sept. 2nd. “I spent days trying to find a way to contact someone,” Tungekar said. “and the first time I called, the person who answered the phone told me the guy who normally answers the phone was having a ‘hard day’ and couldn’t take my call.” While TV star Jussie Smollett’s family had no trouble pulling showbiz- and politically-connected levers to get in touch with Cook County State’s Attorney
The man charged with raping and strangling a jogger in Jersey City’s Lincoln Park had already been deported twice, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. Jorge Rios, who was identified by ICE officials as Jorge Alberto Rios-Doblado, is from Honduras and “has been removed from the country on two prior occasions, in 2003 and 2004,” according to ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operation (ICE-ERO) in Newark. ICE-ERO said that it has placed a detainer on Rios following his arrest on Sunday on charges the 33-year-old kidnapped, raped and murdered Carolina Cano, 45, of Gautier Avenue in Jersey City
Russia´s been in Venezuela less than two weeks and already it´s threatening to attack Colombia
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Less than two weeks ago, Russia shifted the balance of power in Venezuela, sending in 100 crack troops, ostensibly to repair Russian-made military aircraft damaged in Venezuela´s massive blackout. According to the Washington Post: Two planeloads of roughly 100 Russian military personnel landed in Venezuela. The stated reason for their arrival was to help service Venezuela’s Russian-purchased S-300 air defense systems, which may have been damaged amid the country’s increasingly frequent blackouts. The news followed earlier reports of Russian mercenaries or private military contractors already operating as security for the embattled regime. Venezuela´s neighbors,
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that she believes women who say they felt uncomfortable after receiving unwanted touching from former Vice President Joe Biden. "I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it," Harris said at a presidential campaign event in Nevada. The California senator added that Biden will need to decide for himself whether to run for president. "He´s going to have to make that decision for himself. I wouldn’t tell him what to do," Harris said. In recent days, several women have come forward to
The Original Amateur Hour was an American radio and television program in the 1940s that had similarities to the Democrat Primary. It was a popular show as its copycat television shows such as American Idol have been in recent years. Most of the Amateur Hour’s nascent contestants went down in flames and deservingly so, but a few of the winners went on to have success such as Gladys Knight and Pat Boone. It’s amateur hour in the 2020 election cycle with many of the Democrat candidates having disqualified themselves by their personal lives (lack of character) or insane, inane, and
House panel authorizes subpoena for Mueller report as Trump backs away from calls for public release
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The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday approved a subpoena to obtain the full confidential report from special counsel Robert Mueller, sending a warning to Attorney General William Barr not to redact Mueller´s report and setting the stage for a clash between Congress and the Trump administration.
Top Democrat calling for full Mueller report had different view when Bill Clinton was investigated
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Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is the leading Democrat demanding the release of the Mueller Report “in its entirety” without redactions. (Snip)But back in 1998, as a member of the same committee, he vociferously opposed the release of the full Starr Report, saying that “as a matter of decency and protecting people’s privacy rights, people who may be totally innocent third parties, what must not be released at all.” Then, the president was Bill Clinton. Now, it is a Republican, Donald Trump.
Lori Loughlin has received a star-studded welcome after touching down in Boston where she will face court over the college bribery scandal. The smiling actress posed for photos and signed autographs when she was greeted by fans at Boston Logan International Airport on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday´s hearing.Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimmo Giannulli are accused of paying $500,000 to get her daughters into the University of Southern California by lying about their athletic abilities. Felicity Huffman, of Desperate Houswives, is also charged in the bribery scheme along with 33 wealthy parents accused of cheating their children´s way into
CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour called "lock her up" chants by Donald Trump supporters "hate speech" in a new interview and asked James Comey if he wished he had "shut down that language" in his capacity as FBI Director at the time. Amanpour recounted the frequent chants at Trump 2016 campaign rallies about imprisoning Hillary Clinton for her perceived crimes and wondered if they should have been legal, but Comey responded it was not the role of government officials to censor that speech. "Do you, in retrospect, wish that people like yourself,
The House Judiciary Committee voted Wednesday to authorize the subpoena of the full Mueller report, as panel Chairman Jerold Nadler indicated Attorney General William Barr had one last chance to hand it over. The resolution passed on a party-line 24-to-17 vote in the Democratic-controlled committee. ´I will give him time to change his mind,´ Nadler told the committee shortly before the vote. ´But if we cannot reach an accommodation, then we will have no choice but to issue subpoenas for these materials,´ Nadler, a New York Democrat said. The vote came after Barr failed to abide by an April 2
Egypt’s Dar al-Iftaa, the government’s principal Islamic legal institution for issuing fatwas (religious edicts), warned on Monday against April Fool’s Day, which coincides with April first. “Do not participate in April Fool’s Day. The Muslim is not a liar–even if the lie is a joke. It is agreed upon that lying is banned in Islam, and it is deemed unequivocally ugly. There are many evidences for this in Islam,” Dar al-Iftaa said in a post on its official Facebook page.
Cartel gunmen kidnapped 11 police officers traveling through the Mexican central state of Puebla during the weekend, taking their guns and detaining them for hours, according to reports. The officers were traveling in two police trucks when their attackers surrounded them, ordering them to get out and forcing them to kneel, reported Mexican news outlets. The gunmen, who had been in three SUVs, took the officers’ weapons and cell phones and beat them, according to the reports. The officers had finished responding to a call about an attempted theft of gasoline from an oil refinery.
After the first shoe dropped on groping, I said Joe Biden should drop out of the race because someone powerful wanted him out of the race. A second woman came forward yesterday. The bombshell fell today as The Hill reported, "Joe Biden´s 2020 Ukrainian nightmare: A closed probe is revived." His opponents have the goods on him. Of course they do. He spent 42 years in the Senate (the last eight as vice president, who is the president of the Senate). I am convinced now that everyone in Washington has secret baggage that is known by someone.
EXCLUSIVE -- Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has been hit with another Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint, this one alleging she and her campaign manager operated a “subsidy scheme” that ran afoul of campaign finance laws. The crux of the complaint, which was given exclusively to Fox News in advance of its filing Wednesday, accused Ocasio-Cortez and her campaign manager, Saikat Chakrabarti, of overseeing a "shadowy web" of political action committees (PACs) that allowed them to raise more cash than they could have legally.
Why McCain still stinks
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We usually allow the dead to rest in peace because they no longer can defend themselves. But by using his funeral to get one last lick in on his opponents -- Republicans -- John McCain relinquished any claim to such decency.(Snip)It is not that I care how he treated President Donald John Trump; he gives as good as he gets. McCain´s banning of Sarah Palin from his funeral was -- in her words -- a gut punch. No gentleman hits a lady. And a commissioned officer never treats a loyal subordinate like that either.