Posts on Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Four people have been confirmed killed, two remain missing and 10 others were hospitalized after two aircraft collided in midair over Alaska, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. An earlier report said five had died. The current figure may change awith two people still missing. The collision took place in Coon Cove, Alaska, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. A de Havilland DHC-2 Beaver and a de-Havilland Otter DHC-3 "collided in mid-air under unknown circumstances," the FAA told ABC News.
The Reelection of Donald Trump
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Emile Durkheim, a French sociologist, famously discussed something called collective effervescence. Durkheim argued that the universal religious dichotomy of sacrilegious and sacred results from the way in which we live of our lives. Unfortunately, most of us spend too many hours performing menial tasks. These tasks are, for lack of a better word, monotonous. The rare occasions on which the masses have a reason to congregate become sacred, and the high energy level associated with these events gets directed onto momentous events and people. Think religious gatherings, sporting events, or even Trump rallies. To millions of Americans, President Trump
You think, “Nope, progressives can’t possibly be any dumber,” and then they proceed to reset the dumbness bar. The latest example is Alyssa Milano, who has publicly announced she’s not going to have sex anymore until people can once again kill babies without restraint. If that’s what counts as foreplay these days, count us conservatives out. The 80s TV teen turned leftist Twitter twerp recently tweeted that “Our reproductive rights are being erased. Until women have legal control over our own bodies we just cannot risk pregnancy. JOIN ME by not having sex
Who first declared that “demography is destiny” is uncertain, but that doesn’t detract from the aphorism’s validity—and what’s happening in California right now proves it. The state Department of Finance released one of its periodic reports on California population trends this month, revealing that while we’re very close to 40 million residents, growth has slowed to a snail’s pace. California added just 186,807 souls in 2018, the department’s demographers calculated, just a .47 percent gain, the slowest in recorded history and only a quarter of the state’s growth rate during the 1980s,
A trove of what appear to be internal NRA documents were anonymously posted online over the weekend, raising more questions about longtime CEO Wayne LaPierre’s leadership amid mounting allegations of financial mismanagement within the powerful gun lobby.The leaked documents, the authenticity of which ABC News has not been able to verify, included letters that appear to show former NRA president Lt. Col. Oliver North raised serious concerns with the organization’s audit committee about $24 million in legal fees paid to the firm of outside counsel William Brewer over the last year. North was recently ousted
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and a top immigration official challenged a previously secret White House plan to arrest thousands of migrant parents and children in nearly a dozen U.S. cities, Fox News confirmed Monday. The Trump administration wanted to target migrant families that had crossed into the U.S. from Mexico in attempt to show that the U.S. wasn´t going to back down on its border stance by detaining and deporting illegal immigrant families, The Washington Post first reported, citing several current and former Homeland Security officials.
Authorities indicted 96 people and arrested 50 for a marriage fraud operation allegedly taking place in Vietnam and Houston. A months-long Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) probe uncovered a criminal operation that enabled numerous foreign nationals to fraudulently obtain legal immigration status in the U.S., according to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement press release Monday. Under the alleged terms of conspiracy, immigrant beneficiaries would pay around $50,000 to $70,000 to get married and score permanent resident status. The marriages were complete shams, according to the April indictment. The spouses typically met only briefly before
Former Vice President Joe Biden defended his old vote to support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Monday.“Fair trade is important,” Biden said to the Associated Press while campaigning in New Hampshire. “Not free trade. Fair trade. And I think that back in the time during the Clinton administration, it made sense at the moment.”Earlier in the campaign, Biden defended his vote on NAFTA while campaigning in Iowa at an ice cream stop, insisting that it was “not a mistake.”Democrats like Sen. Bernie Sanders continue to criticize Biden’s support of NAFTA. “I helped lead the fight against NAFTA.
Leading Democrat presidential primary candidate Joe Biden said in a 2013 speech that China’s economic dominance is “overwhelmingly” in the United States’ interests. In a 2013 speech at the Export-Import Bank’s 2013 Annual Conference, Biden touted the need for the multilateral free trade deal known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a necessity to creating a “new world order.” Biden said he proudly supported TPP, which he acknowledged would have opened global markets and forced American workers and U.S. industry to compete against low-wage foreign workers in countries like Malaysia and Vietnam. “These institutions that the affirmative task we have
The Truth about Trump´s Economy
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While Nancy Pelosi and other Democrat leaders dismiss the Trump economy as just benefiting the wealthy, my perspective is quite different. Since I have always resided in or near the inner cities of New York, it is quite obvious that these leaders have no idea what is happening in these neighborhoods. Help Wanted signs are posted in about every small business which no longer has to suffer the Obamacare mandates. Houses are undergoing renovations for the first time in years. The nearby housing project parking lots are filled with brand new vehicles. Restaurants now have packed dining rooms and waiting lists
The Alabama Senate Tuesday passed a bill criminalizing abortion in nearly all cases, approving the most sweeping restrictions on the procedure in the United States and almost certainly guaranteeing a legal challenge if signed by Gov. Kay Ivey. The measure passed the Senate 25 to 6 after more than four hours of often emotional debate that at one point led to the introduction of spectators who had abortions after being raped.(Snip) Sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, the bill would make it a Class A felony—punishable by life or 10 to 99 years in prison—for a doctor
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg is polling at 0% among black voters in the key early primary state of South Carolina. After coming out of nowhere to emerge as a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination, Buttigieg has hit a bit of a wall, and one big reason is his failure to appeal to black voters, who make up a substantial portion of the Democratic electorate. This was highlighted in a poll released Sunday by the Post and Courier, which, like many other polls, showed former Vice President Joe Biden well ahead, with 46%, to 15% for Sen.
State Sen. Dan Bishop easily won Tuesday’s 9th District Republican primary, three months after state officials took the unprecedented step of throwing out a 2018 election marred by fraud allegations. Bishop will face Democrat Dan McCready and two third-party candidates on Sept. 10 in what’s expected to be the nation’s most closely watched special election. With 93% of votes in, Bishop defeated Union County Commissioner Stony Rushing 48% to 20%. Among 10 candidates, former Mecklenburg County Commissioer Matthew Ridenhour was the only other one in double figures, with 17%.
Chelsea Manning will reveal the details of how and why she decided to send hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks, in a memoir due early next year. The as-yet unnamed book will see Manning write about what publisher The Bodley Head described as her “challenging childhood” and her “struggles as an adolescent”. It will also delve into why she decided to join the army, as well as how, when she was working as an intelligence analyst for US forces in Iraq in 2010, she smuggled out 720,000 classified military documents on the memory card of her digital
A group of LGBTQ activists fed up with the overwhelming presence of corporate sponsorship in the New York City Pride March has decided that it was time to reclaim the original spirit of the Stonewall Riots, one of the most important events for the LGBTQ liberation movement. The Reclaim Pride Coalition (RPC), a group of more than 100 human rights and LGBTQ organizations, is following the lead of the Stonewall pioneers, and rising up against the mainstream establishment.(Snip) “We are reclaiming pride by holding our own queer liberation march,” Colin Ashley an activist with the coalition and the Peoples Power
The marriages were short and not for love. But instead of a Las Vegas-style, alcohol-fueled ceremony, these marriages were criminal schemes. Authorities announced Monday that nearly 100 people have been indicted in a massive conspiracy in which immigrants paid as much as $70,000 to briefly marry a U.S. citizen and obtain a permanent resident card known as a “Green Card.” The indictment, returned by a grand jury in Texas late last month, accuses 96 people of taking part in the Houston-based criminal organization, which created sham marriages between legal U.S. residents and aliens, mostly from Vietnam, for years.
It is becoming clear, as well as ironic, that several prominent American personalities have recently raised their voices against the United States’ support of the people of Venezuela, and the current effort to rid the nation of a dictator who has destroyed his own people. This could be construed as support for the corrupt dictatorship of Communist President Nicolás Maduro. Surprisingly, or not, one of the latest public personalities to raise concerns over the U.S. intervening in Venezuela is Tucker Carlson of Fox News. He almost seems to be on a single-handed crusade as several of his programs have taken
The exit door begins to close. According to the latest leak provided to John Solomon the State Department information -deconstructing Chris Steele- was presented to FBI Agent Peter Strzok a week before they used Steele’s sketchy dossier to prop up the FBI FISA application on Carter Page. (Photos) John Solomon – […] The officials declined to say what the FBI did with the information about Steele after it reached Strzok’s team, or what the email specifically revealed. A publicly disclosed version of the email has been heavily redacted in the name of national security. While much remains to be answered,
Evidently Democrats need only utter the words "constitutional crisis" for the media to report it as fact. Watch cable “news” these days, and you’ll surely see talking heads parroting the Democratic line that the Trump administration’s noncompliance with House Committee subpoenas amounts to a constitutional crisis. While a small handful of analysts and guest legal scholars disagree, TV hosts continue to push the idea uncritically, with some even urging the alleged crisis be used as grounds for impeachment. MRC analysts looked at all coverage on broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) and liberal cable (CNN, MSNBC) networks from May 8 to 12,
Last week we looked at the story of a Hasidic Jewish man who was attacked in Brooklyn. The assailant fled, but there was security camera video of the attack available. As it turns out, however, there was another attack in the same neighborhood on another Jewish victim. That man was seriously injured and may have fallen prey to the same group of young men. And once again, cameras captured the alleged assailants quite clearly. And yet they remain on the loose. (CBS New York) Days after police released video of suspects wanted in two separate anti-Semitic attacks in Brooklyn
Last Wednesday Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Senator Richard Burr subpoenaed Donald Trump Jr. to testify before his committee on the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. This was just days after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Russia witch hunt was over.On Thursday several RINO anti-Trump senators defended their colleague. Senators Cornyn (R-TX), Collins (R-MN) and Thune (SD) all defended their colleague and dunce Richard Burr. Mitch McConnell could step in and end this nonsense but so far has remained silent. After two years of Trump it is clear the Republican Party does not have his back nor do they respect their
James Clapper, who served as Director of National Intelligence when the FBI launched its Trump-Russia probe, suggested on Tuesday that politics may be motiving the newest investigation, which focuses on how the FBI´s Trump-Russia probe got its start.The New York Times reported on Tuesday that Attorney General William Barr has assigned John Durham, the United States Attorney in Connecticut, to look into the origins of the FBI´s Trump-Russia investigation.Clapper told CNN the "logical thing to do" would be to wait for the Justice Department inspector general to finish his investigation into the FBI’s
Mitt Romney was the only Republican senator to vote against one of President Donald Trump´s judicial nominees on Tuesday. And he did so in part to defend former President Barack Obama. Romney cast the lone GOP "no" vote against Michael Truncale, who was confirmed 49-46 on Tuesday morning to the Eastern District of Texas. Truncale called Obama an "un-American imposter" in June 2011, and explained to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was "merely expressing frustration by what I perceived as a lack of overt patriotism on behalf of President Obama." He also said he believed Obama was born in
Senate investigators have reportedly reached a deal to have President Trump’s son testify before them again on the Russia probe. Donald Trump Jr. will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee for 2-4 hours on a limited list of about a half-dozen topics, The Hill reported Tuesday afternoon. According to ABC News, he will testify at a closed-door hearing. The Republican-led panel had subpoenaed Mr. Trump, prompting criticism from his father and some rumblings from other Republican lawmakers that the younger Mr. Trump should ignore the subpoena. According to numerous reports last week, the panel had
President Donald Trump´s job approval rating surpassed the half way mark in a Zogby Analytics poll published Tuesday. In the poll, Trump earned 51 per cent approval from likely voters and 48 per cent disapproval – 2 per cent say they are unsure. Among younger millennials, those between 18-29, Trump received 51 per cent approval, but among older millennial voters, those between 25-35-years-old, 53 per cent approval of Trump´s job as president. Those likely middle-aged voters, between 35-54, are Trump´s biggest supporters, and the president earned 59 per cent approval in that demographic. On the other hand, Trump´s disapproval rating
The long-running animation series “Arthur” on PBS Kids aired its season premiere on Monday and it included a blockbuster moment: a same-sex marriage featuring the aardvark’s teacher Mr. Ratburn. Following the scene that shows the teacher and his husband Patrick walking down the aisle, Arthur is shown at the reception saying he cannot believe that Mr. Ratburn is married. “Yep. It’s a brand new world,” says Arthur’s friend Francine in the episode entitled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone” which can be seen by clicking here. It is not the first time the franchise has dealt with same-sex marriage.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to be thrilled when he arrived in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and was greeted by Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser wearing that featured the president´s face and hair. Trump shook Nungesser´s hand and pointed to the socks in an approving way upon his arrival. The socks, made by Gumball Poodle, are available for purchase on Amazon and are described as "Donald Trump socks with soft, luxurious hair you can style, comb over, clip and tease. Change the President´s style to suit your mood!" Trump traveled to Louisiana to speak at a liquefied natural gas export facility to
President Trump’s motorcade was involved in a accident on Interstate 10 near Lake Charles in Louisiana Tuesday afternoon. President Trump’s vehicle is fine, however, three officers who are a part of the motorcade are down and injured. According to CBS, the circumstances of the crash were not immediately clear. “I saw 3 officers down on Interstate 10 near Lake Charles as Trump motorcade headed to Hackberry. One in grassy ditch, sitting up. One flat on his back on highway shoulder, bleeding. A third standing up, bleeding from his arm. Our whole side of highway was closed to traffic,” WH correspondent
New Orleans - A federal appeals court heard arguments Tuesday on whether Texas had the right to cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood clinics in the state — a case that could also determine funding for the organization in Louisiana and Mississippi and that eventually may end up before the Supreme Court. The case involves Texas’ move to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood clinics following the release by anti-abortion activists of graphic, secretly recorded videos in 2015. A state inspector general said the video appeared to show Planned Parenthood had improperly changed how abortions were performed so that
With the imminent arrival of 5G to more US cities, several United States senators expressed concern over how to roll out the new technology without the help of Chinese equipment makers. 5G technology is the next generation of ultra-fast wireless connections. The four main carriers in the US -— Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T, which owns CNN’s parent company WarnerMedia — have vowed not to use components, such as chips, from Huawei or other Chinese companies. These larger US companies never relied on Chinese technology when deploying past networks, so it’s a matter of continuing to avoid it going forward.
San Francisco - Just a week after introducing new privacy controls for its billions of users, Google has a different message for data-hungry advertisers: We have your back. At its annual exposition for advertisers here, the search engine giant on Tuesday rolled out several new ways for marketers to hawk their wares on Google’s products, all based on the reams of data it collects about users. And in a first, it is even putting personalized ads on its iconic white Google homepage. The event was a reminder that despite innovations such as self-driving cars and balloons that beam the Internet, Google is at its core a marketing platform that
New York - Tim Conway, the impish second banana to Carol Burnett who won four Emmy Awards on her TV variety show, starred aboard “McHale’s Navy” and later voiced the role of Barnacle Boy for “Spongebob Squarepants,” has died. He was 85. Conway died Tuesday morning in a Los Angeles care facility, according to Howard Bragman, who heads LaBrea Media. Conway’s wife, Charlene Fusco, and a daughter, Jackie, were at his side. The cause was a disorder in which there is an excess of fluid on the brain, Bragman said. Tributes came from across the comedy world, including from Conan O’Brien, who said as a kid
President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to be thrilled when he arrived in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and was greeted by Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser wearing that featured the president´s face and hair. Trump shook Nungesser´s hand and pointed to the socks in an approving way upon his arrival. The socks, made by Gumball Poodle, are available for purchase on Amazon and are described as "Donald Trump socks with soft, luxurious hair you can style, comb over, clip and tease. Change the President´s style to suit your mood!" Trump traveled to Louisiana to speak at a liquefied natural gas export facility
A Greek billionaire and heir to the Coca-Cola fortune was arrested on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts after a search of his private jet uncovered more than $1.3 million worth of cannabis on board, according to multiple reports. Alkiviades “Alki” David, 50, was arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Unit at the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport after customs officials found approximately 5,000 cannabis plants in addition to seeds and a variety of other cannabis products, (Snip) David claimed the plants on board were “all hemp” and were related to a new venture to start a legal cannabis business in the region.
ELYRIA-A former Oberlin College employee testified that during the November 2016 protests by students against Gibson’s Bakery, a college staff member who reported to Meredith Raimondo was carrying a stack of fliers encouraging people to boycott the bakery and tried to hand him one. Rick McDaniel, who served as the director of safety and security at Oberlin College from 1980 to 1995, said Julio Reyes, whom McDaniel identified as the associate director of the multicultural resources center under the dean of students at the time of the protests, tried to hand him a copy of the flier.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) freaked out at Fox News as a “hate-for-profit racket” after the cable news outlet invited her to participate in a town hall event.As it has with other Democrats (Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar) running for the 2020 presidential nomination, Fox invited Warren to participate in a prime time town hall. Using her verified Twitter account, Warren proceeded to publicly melt down over the invitation with a lengthy, evidence-free thread that reads a little like Kevin Spacey’s diaries in the movie Se7en.What you have here is a desperate attempt by a national joke to perk up her failing
Former Vice President Joe Biden issued a painfully careful, hair-splitting denial about the allegations surrounding his son Hunter Biden’s lucrative dealings in Ukraine. “We never once discussed it when he was there,” Biden told the Associated Press Monday. “There’s not a single bit of evidence that’s been shown in any reporting that’s been done that he ever talked about it with me or asked any government official for a favor.” “All the reports indicated that not a single, solitary thing was inappropriate about what my son did. He never talked to me. He never talked to anybody in the administration,”
AOC, at Green New Deal rally, puts Joe Biden and other Democratic climate moderates on notice
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WASHINGTON — Speaking at a crowded auditorium at Howard University, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and other proponents of the Green New Deal — an ambitious plan to rid the U.S. economy of a reliance on fossil fuels — affirmed their progressive ideals while striking out at both conservative Republicans and moderate Democrats who have, according to her and other critics, done too little about global warming for too long. (Snip) “I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then come back today and say we need a ´middle of the road´ approach to save our
The Jeffersonian formulation in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal," realized and brought to fruition nearly a century later by Lincoln, serves as the nation´s founding creed. And while Americans should all be thankful for the republic´s deeply embedded commitment to equality under the law, we should also all be terrified of the increasingly unhinged version of radical über-egalitarianism that cultural Marxists and post-liberal leftists deploy to bring their political foes under complete submission. (Video) House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has proclaimed H.R.5, the "Equality Act," as a top legislative priority for the current Congress.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O´Rourke said Tuesday he regrets appearing on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine on the eve of his presidential campaign announcement, suggesting it could have created a cloud of elitism around his campaign. During an appearance on the ABC´s "The View," O´Rourke walked through criticism of the magazine profile, saying, "I have a lot to learn, and I still am." O´Rourke brought up a quote of his in the profile in which he said, "I´m just born to be in it," which some criticized as being overly arrogant. "I think it reinforces that perception of privilege,"
Washington - President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed a report that his administration is planning to send 120,000 troops to the Middle East to deal with Iran, but then threatened he would send far more troops if needed. "Would I do that? Absolutely," Trump told reporters gathered Tuesday when asked about a New York Times report that his administration was considering a military build up. "But we have not planned for that."A second later, Trump increased his threats on Tehran, suggesting if the administration does send service members to the region "we’d send a hell of lot more troops than that."
Sochi, Russia - Russia and China are prepared to provide security guarantees to North Korea after the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after talks with China’s State Council member, Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Moscow on Monday. "I’d like to point out that the contacts that began to develop between the leaders of the United States and China proceeded in conformity with the road map that we had drafted together with China, from confidence restoration measures to further direct contacts," Lavrov said. "We hope that at a certain point a comprehensive agreement be achieved on the
WhatsApp was hacked, and attackers installed sophisticated spyware on an unknown number of people´s smartphones. The Facebook subsidiary, which has 1.5 billion users, said it discovered in early May that "an advanced cyber actor" infected an unknown number of devices with the malware. The Financial Times, which first reported on the issue on Monday, said bad actors exploited a vulnerability to install the surveillance technology by calling the target through WhatsApp, giving them access to information including location data and private messages. Even if the target didn´t pick up, the malware was able to infect the phone.
Drone attacks claimed by Iran-aligned Yemen rebels shut down one of Saudi Arabia´s major oil pipelines Tuesday, further ratcheting up Gulf tensions after the mysterious sabotage of several tankers. Days after the United States deployed bombers and an assault ship to bolster an aircraft carrier in the region, the world´s largest crude exporter said two pumping stations had been targeted early Tuesday. They lie on the East West Pipeline, able to pump five million barrels of oil a day from the oil-rich eastern province to a Red Sea export terminal. The announcement came hours after Yemen´s Huthi rebels said they had targeted vital
Washington - At a meeting of President Trump’s top national security aides last Thursday, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented an updated military plan that envisions sending as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, administration officials said. The revisions were ordered by hard-liners led by John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser. They do not call for a land invasion of Iran, which would require vastly more troops, officials said. (Snip) It is highly uncertain whether Mr. Trump, who has sought to disentangle the
Once again, freshman leftist Congesswoman Rashida Tlaib has stepped in it, making remarks that have offended people of sound mind around the globe. Not only that, she has continued to make matters worse by calling those she has offended “racist idiots” … as a guest on Seth Meyers’ program last night.Tlaib made the original offensive comment during her Saturday appearance on Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast … There’s always kind of a calming feeling I tell folks when I think of the Holocaust, and the tragedy of the Holocaust, and the fact that it was my ancestors, Palestinians — who lost
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former New York congressman, is officially a free man. The 54-year-old was seen leaving a Bronx halfway house at 6am on Tuesday morning which marked the final day of his 21-month sentence for having illicit contact with a 15-year-old girl. His messages to the girl, which included sexts and shirtless selfies, were exposed by DailyMail.com in September 2016. On Tuesday, Weiner told reporters that he hoped to get back to my family and make up for some lost time.´ ´I hope to be able to live a life of integrity and service, and I’m glad this
Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and immigration official Ronald Vitiello blocked a White House plan for a large 10-city raid to deport thousands of migrants here illegally, according to the Washington Post. (Snip) the administration wanted to target the crush of families that had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border after the president’s failed “zero tolerance” prosecution push in early 2018. The ultimate purpose, the officials said, was a show of force to send the message that the United States was going to get tough by swiftly moving to detain and deport recent immigrants
If you don’t know the name John Durham now is the time to remember the name, John Durham Here’s why…(Snip) Attorney General William Barr tapped Connecticut’s chief federal prosecutor, John Durham, to assist in an investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation and the FBI’s surveillance activities, a person familiar with the matter said Monday. The person, who is not authorized to comment publicly, said that Durham has been assisting the attorney general for at least a couple of weeks to determine whether federal investigators acted appropriately in the early stages of the now-completed inquiry into
At least five people have tragically died after two floatplanes crashed off the coast of southeastern Alaska on Monday afternoon. The incident took place just after 1 p.m. in the George Inlet area near Ketchikan and involved a small floatplane, carrying 10 guests and a pilot from the cruise ship Royal Princess, Princess Cruises spokeswoman Alivia Owyoung tells PEOPLE. The flight was returning from a Misty Fjords tour. The second plane was occupied by four guests, from the Royal Princess, and a pilot, Owyoung says. The plane was embarking on an independent tour. At this time, the U.S. Coast
FBI spies are toast
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The man who nailed the FBI agents who helped mobster Whitey Bulger is heading the investigation of the origin of Obama´s unconstitutional spying on Donald John Trump. The New York Times reported, "Attorney General William P. Barr has assigned the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut to examine the origins of the Russia investigation (Snip)John H. Durham, the United States attorney in Connecticut, has a history of serving as a special prosecutor investigating potential wrongdoing among national security officials, including the F.B.I.’s ties to a crime boss in Boston and accusations of C.I.A. abuses of
Justice Clarence Thomas wanted to make sure there was no doubt about the heinous crime of Christopher Lee Price, whose attack on an Alabama minister nearly scalped the man, leaving him to a slow and painful death. In an opinion Monday, Justice Thomas defended the Supreme Court’s decision to approve Price’s execution and blasted fellow Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who had tried to erect roadblocks on the path to the execution chamber last month.
President Trump is executing one of the most brilliant geopolitical economic resets in the history of global trade. It really is stunningly remarkable how President Trump has controlled the entire landscape. The consequential phase now begins. It is fascinating how the financial pundits didn’t see this coming. Perhaps one of the best indicators of where things are today comes from this quote within the South China Post: “The Administration’s Section 301 tariffs and China’s retaliatory tariffs will now further disrupt – or even break – many thousands of supply chains in both countries.”
The Chinese Communist government does not have so much a strategy to translate its economic ascendance into global hegemony as several strategies. All of them are brilliantly insidious. On matters of trade, China is always flexible in responding to critics of its asymmetrical, 30-year mercantilism. In the initial stages of Westernization, China was exempted from criticism over serial copyright and patent infringement, dumping, and espionage. Western elites assumed that these improprieties were just speed bumps on the eventual Chinese freeway to liberalism. Supposedly the richer China got, the more
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has always been a Janus-faced swamp thing, and as a good swamp thing, he´s a realist with regard to recognizing power shifts. The Mueller report exonerating President Trump has come out, so. unlike the tantruming Democrats (and one stupid Republican), he´s adjusted his political stance to new realities. So, now we see him openly turning on the former FBI director he fired, James Comey, making the latter look like a sanctimonious boob:
The Damage That Harvard Has Done
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Defense attorneys often arouse what John Adams called a “clamor of popular suspicions and prejudices” when representing reviled clients. Just last week, the attorney Christopher Darden stopped representing a California man charged with killing the rapper Nipsey Hussle because people were so upset with his choice of client that they demanded to know his fee and threatened the safety of his children.
Once again the New York Times is getting out ahead of the story to reveal Attorney General Bill Barr has instructed U.S. Attorney John Durham to review the origins of the 2016 DOJ and FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign. [Durham Background Here] The appointment looks like a way to keep the sensitive inquiry within Barr’s control as opposed to appointing a special counsel. John H Durham, the U.S. attorney from Connecticut, has handled previous investigations into the intelligence community.(Snip) Again, cautious optimism this appointment is a step in the right direction.
Ocasio-Cortez goes full Marx
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Speaking to a rally to promote the lunatic Green New Deal that would bankrupt America while allowing China, India, and the rest of the world to continue to emit CO2 without restriction for more than a decade, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed the fount of her economic thinking: Karl Marx.Fittingly, she was accompanied by avowedly socialist presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders at a rally at Howard University, where both radical politicians denounced anything short of a full commitment to the radical restructuring of our economy. Obviously alluding to frontrunner Joe Biden’s less than full-throated support of the GND
PHILADELPHIA -- When Brian Sims first ran for state representative in 2012, he ran as a new pro-business voice. He was going to be a bridge builder, brimming with common-sense ideas on pocketbook issues. He never met that promise. Instead, he became many other things: an outdoor adventurer who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro; a partisan attack dog who accused fellow state Rep. Martina White of saying she wanted to deport all immigrants, something his staff had to admit she never said; and a celebrity activist whose lucrative, nationwide speaking circuit earned him an ethics investigation. He also became the guy who tweeted
According to Italian media, the majority of the pages supported the populist parties La Lega (The League) and the 5-Star Movement (M5S) — who currently govern Italy in a temporary coalition. Facebook has justified its dramatic move by claiming that the sites shared fake news, so-called “hate speech”, and “divisive content” regarding immigrants, vaccines, and Jewish people.
When most Americans think of Philadelphia -- although probably fewer today than ever before, given the low level of history education in American schools -- they probably think of the founding of the United States, the Liberty Bell and the city´s nickname, the City of Brotherly Love. Having been to Philadelphia at least 20 times, I am among the many Americans who have warm feelings toward America´s founding city. My daily radio show has a large and enthusiastic listener base there, and I have a son who lives nearby. So, it is with no joy that I write about the
What? You don’t know what MySpace is? Just 12 years ago, it was considered a giant, unstoppable social media monopoly that required government intervention to protect consumers. That year, in fact, Victor Keegan wrote a column in the Guardian newspaper with this headline “Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly?” In it, he says that “as the MySpace generation goes into employment, (it) could eventually extend (Rupert) Murdoch’s influence in ways that would make his grip on satellite television seem parochial.” Around the same time, John Barrett, writing in Tech News World, declared that “MySpace Is a Natural Monopoly. “
Former Vice President Joe Biden, now running for the Democrat presidential nomination, told a gathering in New Hampshire on Monday that the 2020 election is "bigger than politics" and "bigger than any you´ve been engaged in" because of "who occupies the office."“The fact of the matter is that I´m running for three basic reasons, and I´m going to be very clear about it as I move along and go into great detail as we get down the road here, because this is a marathon," Biden said.He then listed his three reasons for running: I want to restore the soul of
Obama’s Defense Secretary questions Biden’s ‘intellectual acuity’: He’s been wrong for past 40 years
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Former Vice President Joe Biden’s “intellectual acuity” in potentially leading the nation seemed a cause of concern for a former Obama administration official. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates did not exactly give the 2020 Democratic contender a glowing reference as he simply said he “didn’t know” if Biden would make an effective commander-in-chief, telling CBS News’ Margaret Brennan on “Face The Nation” that he stood by his view that Biden has “been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue” in the last 40 years.Brennan read from Gates’ comments on Biden in his 2015 memoir: Joe
The general public typically equates the Chamber of Commerce with local Mom and Pop businesses in their area which meet for networking and mutual support in local chapters across the country. This is erroneous. According to the Hill: While local chambers cater to the needs of car dealers and restaurant owners, the national Chamber operates as the lobbying arm of large corporations that have never met a big government program they did not like.
It looks like Americans are not the only people following the 2020 presidential contest closely, and that’s causing serious and growing challenges for President Donald Trump. A self-proclaimed world-class dealmaker, a perhaps overconfident Trump is confronting not one, not two, but a half-dozen serious foreign policy problems simultaneously. [Snip] In fact, the possibility — some would say likelihood — of a Trump with chronically unfavorable poll numbers joining George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter as one-term presidents seems a factor in recent decisions by China and North Korea to back off of previous commitments. Iran also has
President Trump and his extravagant ego are both out of line in their insistence that he be in charge of, make a speech at, and further increase the already huge size of the annual Independence Day celebration in Washington, D.C. The problem is not so much the idea, in theory, that a nation’s head of state should lead the celebration of the nation’s birthday, in a sort of apolitical way. Instead, the first of several problems is that in the United States, the head of state is also a partisan political leader, and thus by his very nature,
Democrats and Republicans will never agree on the validity of the outcome of the Hillary Clinton investigation. While Clinton backers believe the former secretary of state committed no crime by transmitting classified information through her personal email account, critics counter that former FBI director James Comey’s conclusion that Clinton acted “extremely careless” euphemistically described gross negligence subjecting her to criminal liability. Likewise, the country seems perpetually divided over the question of Russian collusion. Even Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s finding that there was no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia failed
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Engineers at Purdue have built a flying robot to mimic one of the most expert flyers in the natural world: the hummingbird. Drones wish they could fly with the agility and grace of the biological family Trochilidae, which includes all 357 types of hummingbirds. Boasting the flying capabilities of birds and the hovering abilities of insects, they represent an intersection of flying philosophies that scientists are eager to unlock. Hummingbirds could lead to leaps forward for search-and-rescue drones, commercial filming robots, military use, and any other flying venture that is punctuated by quick, unexpected stops and starts.
Beto O´Rourke, the heiress husband and failed Senate candidate who briefly launched a career as a pensive travel blogger before deciding to run for president, is struggling to stay relevant in the Democratic primary. In a recent poll of primary voters in New Hampshire, O´Rourke is approaching "statistically insignificant" territory. South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is surging, while THE POLITICO is running feature stories on "Beto´s Long History of Failing Upward." Given the circumstances, O´Rourke was asked a rather ridiculous question during a recent campaign stop in Bedford, N.H.
Rod Rosenstein unloaded on former FBI Director James Comey in remarks to the Greater Baltimore Committee (GBC) on Monday evening, slamming Comey´s turn as a "partisan pundit," reiterating that he deserved to be fired, and faulting him for trampling "bright lines that should never be crossed." Rosenstein formally stepped aside as deputy attorney general two days ago. His speech specifically took aim at Comey´s comments earlier this month implying that Rosenstein and Attorney General Bill Barr lacked the "inner strength" to "resist the compromises necessary to survive Mr. Trump." Comey also derided Rosenstein´s "character" and suggested his "soul"