Posts on Wednesday, May 15, 2019
AS HIS LIMO carried him to work at the White House Monday, Larry Kudlow could not have been pleased with the headline in The Washington Post: “Kudlow Contradicts Trump on Tariffs.” The story began: “National Economic Council Director Lawrence Kudlow acknowledged Sunday that American consumers end up paying for the administration’s tariffs on Chinese imports, contradicting President Trump’s repeated inaccurate claim that the Chinese foot the bill.” A free trade evangelical, Kudlow had conceded on Fox News that consumers pay the tariffs on products made abroad that they purchase here in the U.S.
The cultural climate in the United States is growing increasingly hostile towards men. The barbaric behavior of Harvey Weinstein, Larry Nassr, and Bill Cosby has put all males in the proverbial doghouse. To make matters worse, major news outlets and left-leaning politicians add fuel to the fire by pushing an agenda-driven narrative that masculinity is inherently oppressive, violent, and domineering. Though it is true that hypermasculinity is problematic, we face a far greater threat at the opposite end of the macho-spectrum. Ironically, America is experiencing an epidemic of young men who fail to
RUSH: Here is Michael in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as we get started. Hi, Michael. How are you? CALLER: Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh. It’s so cool to talk to you. RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. (Snip) But when you get right down to it, folks, if I were you, I wouldn’t even get caught up in how much pain there’s gonna be, because the media and everybody involved in this is lying to you about these tariffs and how much economic pain they’re gonna cause. This hysteria about Trump’s tariffs is totally political.
Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour is not happy with Georgia’s “heartbeat bill”—or the percentage of “white women” who made it possible. The activist who describes herself as “every Islamophobe’s worst nightmare” told her nearly 300,000 Twitter followers this week that white women are to blame for the election of Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, the pro-life legislation he signed into law May 7, and feminists’ ongoing struggle with “the patriarchy.” “While folks are debating tactics to respond to Georgia’s heartbeat bill, let’s remember that 76% of the white Women electorate in GA (more than white men) voted for Brian Kemp
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has signed the bill to make abortion a felony in Alabama, the governor’s office announced. The law does not take effect now or immediately change the legality of abortion in Alabama. “To the bill’s many supporters, this legislation stands as a powerful testament to Alabamians’ deeply held belief that every life is precious and that every life is a sacred gift from God,” Ivey said in a press release.(Snip) But the sponsors said their intent was to trigger litigation that could lead to a challenge of abortion rights nationally. That course of events would involve federal
Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017, meeting at which he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau’s chief counsel at the time. “We were quite worried about the Hoover analogies, and we were determined not to have such a disaster happen on our watch,” said Jim Baker, then the FBI’s top lawyer in an interview with the Yahoo
Actor Kelsey Grammer seemed to surprise Christiane Amanpour when he didn’t take the bait to agree with negative critiques of President Trump.The liberal journalist repeatedly attempted to get the conservative actor she referred to as one of the “rare Hollywood beasts” to admit something negative about the president during an interview on PBS’s “Amanpour and Company” Tuesday. (Video) “Can I ask you, Kelsey, because we were talking obviously about today’s politics and it’s very divisive, very partisan, whether it’s in the United States, whether it’s here. You are one of those rare Hollywood beasts who is conservative,
For the last few weeks I have been trying with increasing desperation to get a leftist — any leftist — to answer one simple question: what is a woman? (Video) You’ll notice that folks on the Left use the word “woman” quite a bit. They make many claims about women. They say that these creatures known as women have something called “women’s rights.” They say that these rights are under attack. They say that women are persecuted and disadvantaged by something called male privilege. They say that women are the victims of a wage gap. They say things like, “We
After a quarter-century in Congress, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York stands on the brink of an outsize role in American political life. As Judiciary Committee chairman in the Democratic-controlled House, Nadler leads his party´s efforts to exercise oversight of President Donald Trump and his administration. If Democrats pursue the fourth serious presidential impeachment effort in American history, Nadler will wield the gavel when it starts. Nadler, now 71, first took on the future president as a New York assemblyman in the 1980s when he joined the resistance to a massive Trump development project on Manhattan´s Upper West
Knowing why Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is—for a second time in the Democrat Primary race—is knowing down to a ’t’ what the Democrat Party is really all about: power and control by any means possible, because for Socialists the end always justifies the means. For the second time in recent election history, the Democrat Party is out there trying to pull a fast one on the masses. . Being aware of this is everything. If Bernie Sanders wasn’t a Democrat primary presidential hopeful could the mainstream and social media present fellow contender Joe Biden 30 points ahead in the polls?
Mayor Bill de Blasio will appear on “Good Morning America” Thursday, where he’s expected to officially announce his quixotic run for the White House.He will then travel to Iowa after his appearance to stump for votes. The Hawkeye State was a field of broken dreams last time Democrat de Blasio visited in February as he explored a presidential bid. He drew crowds of fewer than 50 people, including one dozing attendee in Des Moines and chin-scratching comments like this one from Sioux City resident Vladimir Landman. “I’ll be honest — I’m not 100% sure what he’s doing here,” said Landman
The “little girl voice” is a prime prop in the lexicon of Justice Democrat Casting Call Winner Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC). Tell folk the planet on which they live will be dead and gone within 12 years, and what you get is a scare monger’s Big Fail. Say it in the plaintive voice of a ‘little girl’ and all bleeding heart liberals will flock to your rescue like seagulls to strewn garbage. Little girl voices always engender immediate sympathy. Just ask Christine Blasey Ford during her epic attempts to destroy Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh. . But everything about AOC is a well orchestrated ACT of
(Video) - The White House is set to unveil a sweeping new plan that would radically transform the makeup of immigrants in the United States, ending the visa lottery program and implementing a comprehensive merit-based admissions procedure, three senior administration officials told Fox News on Wednesday. The move would more than quadruple the number of immigrants admitted because of their work-related skills, while dramatically slashing the number of immigrants admitted because of family ties. Currently, approximately 12 percent of immigrants are admitted based on employment and skills, while 66 percent are
A commuter chopper crash-landed in the Hudson River on Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities. The Bell 206 went down at the shoreline near 12th Avenue and West 34th Street around 2:26 p.m., FDNY and FAA officials said. The helicopter had just lifted off, according to witness Ashton Byrd. “It was wild. It was wild,” said Byrd, 28. “We just watched the helicopter take off, man. It kind of started to spiral out of control.” Social media video shows the harrowing moment the chopper crashed down. “It almost looked like he was turning. Then he started wobbling, and kind of floated backwards,” said witness
President Trump took aim yet again at what he calls “Fake News” — this time ripping reports that there was infighting within his administration over his hardline Middle East policies. “The Fake News Washington Post, and even more Fake News New York Times, are writing stories that there is infighting with respect to my strong policy in the Middle East. There is no infighting whatsoever,” the president tweeted at 3:10 p.m. “Different opinions are expressed and I make a decisive and final decision — it is a very simple process. All sides, views, and policies are covered. I’m sure that Iran will want to talk soon,” he continued.
Helping to pay for my girlfriend’s abortion 20 years ago at the age of 14 seemed like the right thing to do at the time. It would get rid of a bad situation in our lives; we wouldn’t have to deal with the “problem” anymore. After all, we were told — and we believed at the time — that having a baby at our age would “ruin your lives.” But the opposite was true. The abortion sent each of us into a downward spiral that was fueled by drugs, depression and denial. By the grace of God, I was rescued
Amid a deepening trade war with China, President Trump on Wednesday declared a “national emergency” to protect U.S. communications networks in a move that gives the federal government broad powers to bar American companies from doing business with certain foreign suppliers — including the Chinese firm Huawei. Trump declared the emergency in the form of an executive order that says foreign adversaries are exploiting vulnerabilities in U.S. telecommunications technology and services. It points to economic and industrial espionage as areas of particular concern. “The President has made it clear that this
Attorney General William Barr has just blitzed former FBI Director James Comey on third down and there’s a feeling a sack is imminent. Barr’s tasking of U.S. Attorney John Durham to review the “origins” of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign becomes the third examination of Comey and his special team, joining efforts by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and U.S. Attorney John Huber. This is an entirely appropriate response to the fearful possibility that the FBI was misused by its past leadership for political purposes.
Cautiously optimistic — that’s how I feel about U.S. Attorney John Durham being put in charge of getting to the bottom of the failed FBI-Deep State coup against President Trump. Maybe you’re pessimistic, concerned that the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut might turn out to be another one of these disappointments like Jeff Sessions’ boys from Chicago and Utah who haven’t really done any investigation of the investigators. But look on the bright side. Close your eyes and think about where crooked G-man/gangster Zip Connolly is this morning — in a state prison in Florida, age 78,
Forget that’s she’s only 29 and the Constitution declares that presidents be at least 35 years old. Republican pollster Frank Luntz said Tuesday that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the only Democrat out there right now who could possibly beat President Trump in 2020.The key is authenticity,” Luntz told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on her show, “The Ingraham Angle.”“You want to say what you mean, mean what you say,” Luntz said. “You want to be able to look straight at the camera and be yourself. And at least half of them [the 2020 Democratic hopefuls] are trying to be something that
"You Have to Have a Plan to Deal With Them": How the Media Fell Out of Love With Beto O´Rourke
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ou know your press hasn’t been great when the best piece written about your campaign in some time was bylined by your ex-girlfriend. But that’s what happened to Beto O’Rourke last week. The Washington Post Magazine published a lengthy essay written by O’Rourke’s college girlfriend Sasha Watson, about their very 1990s relationship, complete with vintage pictures of the now-presidential candidate looking exactly as you’d expect at the time: holding a guitar, baggy jeans, a buzzcut, and the kind of brooding face he probably wore while listening to Pavement albums and scribbling in his journal.
WASHINGTON— The brother and widow of slain Newman Police Dept. Cpl. Ronil Singh both spoke at a memorial held in the nation’s capital Wednesday, thanking President Trump for his support and all the law enforcement officers gathered for their service. The officer’s brother Reggie Singh and his widow Anamika Singh were attending the 38th Annual National Peace Officers’ Memorial Service on Capitol Hill along with Singh’s 9-month-old son Aranau and several other family members. Cpl. Singh was killed during an early morning traffic stop on December 26, the day after Christmas. During the stop, Singh yelled “shots fired” over the
Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday jokingly asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) if she brought her “handcuffs” in an apparent reference to the Democrat leader insinuating she could put him and other Trump Cabinet members in jail. Fox News producer Jake Gibson, citing a source close to Barr, said the Justice Department head approached Pelosi during the National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Capitol Hill and “asked if she had brought her handcuffs,” sparking laughter between the two. “[N]o word on Pelosi’s response,” Gibson added. (Tweet) Barr skipped a House hearing May 2nd on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia
Alabama lawmakers last night passed a near-total ban on abortions - including in cases of rape and incest - while threatening to jail doctors who carry them out for life. State governor Kay Ivey, a Republican, will make the final decision on whether to enact the controversial law after local senators voted in favour by 25 to six. If it´s signed off, the new law will make it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion at any stage of pregnancy - punishable by up to 99 years in jail. If it´s signed off
The workers who assemble Apple iPhones make a starting wage of $3.15 per hour in the People´s Republic of China, according to The New York Times."Apple has said the starting pay for workers at the world´s biggest iPhone factory, in Zhengzhou, China, is about $3.15 an hour," The Times reported in a story published two weeks ago. That $3.15 per hour is less than half the U.S. minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. That means a teenager working part-time serving Big Macs at a McDonald´s in the American Midwest earns a far bigger hourly wage than a Chinese adult hired
A fifth-grade girl, who was deeply upset and called out other students participating in a “living history” project who were giving the Nazi salute, was removed from the class, with a teacher writing that the young girl "was disrespectful with her tone and body language to me and Mrs. J[redacted] while we were trying to discuss her behavior with her.” The girl’s father, Keith Jacks Gamble, who works at Middle Tennessee State University, issued a Twitter thread detailing his daughter’s alleged experiences at McFadden School of Excellence in Murfreesboro. He started by writing: Please comment with support for my 11-year-old
ELYRIA--Meredith Raimondo repeatedly testified Tuesday that she did not have control over Oberlin College students during the 2016 protests in front of Gibson’s Bakery. However, an attorney for the bakery questioned Oberlin College’s vice president and dean of students on several incidents that he believed showed that she did have “control and influence” over the students and could have stopped the protests.(Snip) Raimondo, however, disagreed repeatedly with that statement, saying she has “a leadership role” but wouldn’t say she has “control of the students.”
Border Patrol agents now spend less than 50 percent of their time patrolling the border, a top official said Wednesday, putting a stark face on the border crisis. Customs and Border Protection acting Commissioner John Sanders made the revelation at a press conference where he stood next to Sen. Lindsey Graham, who proposed new legislation to try to combat the surge of illegal immigrants. Mr. Sanders said his agents are now spending more time changing diapers, driving migrants and providing medical care for families and children than they are spending out in the field on patrol. That’s worse than earlier
Listening to politicians expound on the imminent dangers of that neologism "climate change" you wonder if any of these people could even pass a high school physics test. Maybe Rand Paul — he´s an ophthalmologist. He had to take some chemistry. But most of them? Nevertheless, the Democratic Party at the moment seems to be in a knockdown, drag-out fight for who can be the greenest of the green and push us forward to a brave new world propelled exclusively by solar and wind energy. Only the strongest (i. e. most slavishly devoted to renewable energy at all costs) will survive.
Even after undergoing heart surgery, Mick Jagger has still got the moves like, well, Jagger. The longtime Rolling Stones frontman shared a video of himself on Twitter dancing around, a little more than a month after having surgery to replace a heart valve. [Tweet] In the uncaptioned 22-second video, the singer shows off some of his trademark dance moves that have helped him become the legend he is today. In April, Jagger had a transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR, surgery, reported Billboard. During the procedure, doctors fixed a heart valve without ever opening his chest, thus
Authorities have discovered a second homegrown Muslim terrorist training facility owned by a terrorist organization presided over by the son of jihadist iman Siraj Ibn Wahhaj. The FBI found the camp near Tuskegee, Alabama, and reportedly described it as containing a “makeshift military-style obstacle course.” Details are few. Researchers at WPMI-TV, an NBC affiliate in Mobile, Alabama, uncovered the existence of the second facility after combing through legal documents and reported on it April 29 but the national media only picked up the story in recent days. The April 29 report states: NBC 15 News uncovered a
Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Wednesday the House won’t take up a contempt measure against anyone in the Trump administration before the Memorial Day recess, which would push off any action until June at the earliest. Hoyer, told reporters Democrats are waiting to “take an inventory,” of more contempt charges against Trump administration officials related to the president’s refusal to fully cooperate with sweeping House investigations by six different committees. The Judiciary Committee last week voted to cite Attorney General William Barr with contempt of Congress for refusing to provide Congress with the
U.S. Attorney John Durham has already used a grand jury in Connecticut, attorney Joe diGenova said on Tuesday. It was revealed this week that Attorney General William Barr tasked Durham with examining the origins of the federal Russia investigation. In a Fox News interview, diGenova said Durham, who is a U.S. attorney in Connecticut, has been working for a couple of months. "Durham has already used a grand jury in Connecticut, they´ve already gotten documents, he´s already talked to the intel people," he said.
Iran has suspended some of its commitments under a nuclear agreement it signed with six world powers in 2015, upon an order from the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), an informed official in the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says. (Snip) Iran will seriously pursue plans about the suspension of caps on production of enriched uranium and unlimited production of heavy water at the Arak facility, as stressed during the first 60-day period related to Iran’s first step in response to the US withdrawal from the nuclear deal, the AEOI official added. In May 2018, US President Donald Trump withdrew
Presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY., warned Wednesday that “radical” Supreme Court Justices like Brett Kavanaugh put abortion rights in grave danger. "We used to believe in precedent in this country,” Gillibrand said during an appearance on MSNBC. “But under President Trump, he´s trying to upend the entire court system." Gillibrand was reacting to news that broke late Tuesday that the Alabama State Senate had passed a measure virtually outlawing all abortions within state lines— including in instances of rape or incest.
Retired Justice John Paul Stevens is lambasting the Supreme Court´s 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller decision broadening gun rights, calling it the “most clearly incorrect” ruling of his 35-year career on the high court. “Heller is unquestionably the most clearly incorrect decision that the court announced during my tenure on the bench,” Stevens, 99, wrote in his new memoir, The Making of a Justice. The retired justice penned the main dissent in the Heller case, which established the right to keep guns for self-defense in the home. Joining Stevens’ dissent were Justices David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
The shaman who has stolen Norway´s Princess Martha´s heart touched down in Norway to be with her on Tuesday ahead of a five-city, joint speaking tour which they are selling tickets for online after announcing their romance to the world on Instagram. The eccentric princess announced on Monday that Shaman Durek, whose real name is Derek Verrett, was her ´twin flame´ and new boyfriend. It is unclear where they met or when but photographs of them together date back to November last year. Sources tell DailyMail.com they are ´madly in love´ and that she was one of his clients.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Wednesday introduced an immigration bill aimed at curtailing the record-high number of immigrant families traveling from Central America to the United States in hope of attaining asylum. Graham´s bill would allow the Department of Homeland Security to immediately deport most unaccompanied children from Central America; double the number of federal immigration judges in order to more quickly decide asylum cases; force all asylum-seekers to apply for credible fear at processing centers in their home countries; and allow those in
No parent can ever be fully prepared for the arrival of a new baby. (Snip) But Kessem was about to become the latest victim of a government policy that effectively de-recognizes her parents’ marriage, granting her no automatic rights to American birthright citizenship despite the fact that both her fathers are U.S. citizens. That policy, Kessem’s fathers told The Daily Beast, poses a unique threat to LGBT families, and could change the decades-old legal understanding of what the word “family” even means. “This is a very clear attack on families, on American families,” Roee, who married Adiel in California in 2013,
Late last year, in a Miami conference room, a consultant for President Trump’s company said business at his prized 643-room Doral resort was in sharp decline. At Doral, which Trump has listed in federal disclosures as his biggest moneymaker hotel, room rates, banquets, golf and overall revenue were all down since 2015. In two years, the resort’s net operating income — a key figure, representing the amount left over after expenses are paid — had fallen by 69 percent. Even in a vigorous economy, the property was missing the Trump Organization’s internal business targets; for instance, the club expected to take in $85 million in revenue in
A painting from Claude Monet´s Haystacks series has sold for $110.7million in New York - setting a new world record price for the French Impressionist´s work. The oil on canvas, titled Meules and completed in 1890, is the first piece of Impressionist art to command more than $100 million at auction, said Sotheby´s.Monet, the founder of French Impressionism and a master of ´plein air´ landscapes died in 1926, aged 86.Meules was one of 25 paintings in a series depicting stacks of harvested wheat belonging to Monet´s neighbor in Giverny, France. (Photo) The works are widely acclaimed for capturing the play of
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) said criticisms of Rep. Rashida Tlaib´s (D., Mich.) recent remarks about Palestinian Arabs and the Holocaust were part of efforts to "eliminate the public voice of Muslims from the public discourse." MSNBC host Chris Hayes introduced his interview of Omar Tuesday night by complaining Republicans were in a "sustained round of bad-faith attacks" against Tlaib, who said last week that she was calmed by the fact that Arabs provided a safe haven for Jews after the Holocaust and simultaneously mourned that this was forced on them. The statement was historically inaccurate: "There´s always kind of
Ankara, Turkey - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has denied that Turkey is delaying the purchase of S-400 missile defense systems from Russia amid tensions with the United States. Cavusoglu told reporters on Wednesday that "there is no question of any delay or of any halting at this point." He reiterated that Turkey´s purchase of the Russian-made systems is a "done deal." The issue has caused a deep rift with the United States, which says the Russian missiles pose a threat to the U.S. F-35 fighter jet program of which Turkey is also a partner. Media reports suggested Turkey would delay the purchase.
Iran will defeat the American and Israeli alliance, Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami says, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). "We will defeat the American-Zionist front," he said. "Iran has the highest level of defence-military preparedness to confront any type of threat and excessive demands," he added. The United States has sent further military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what US officials say are Iranian threats to its troops and interests in the region. (Snip) Israel will stand with the United States to confront
Ohio the Comeback State
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I recently took some flak from Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown for saying in a speech at the Heartland Institute several years ago that the "only place to live in the midwest is Chicago." He was particularly upset that I took a tongue-in-cheek swipe at Cleveland and Cincinnati as "armpits." This was supposedly evidence that I hate Ohio. In truth, I was acting like a homer when I said all this. I was raised in Chicagoland and practically grew up in Wrigley Field. Back then, the Cinncinnati Reds were fierce rivals.That´s all in the past
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Sean Duffy and his wife, Fox contributor Rachel-Campos Duffy, are decidedly not taking liberal Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s advice to zip it up and forgo having children because it might promote global warming. Instead, they have announced that they are having their ninth child. “We’ll take AOC’s carbon footprint for ourselves,” said Rachel on Duffy’s regular podcast. In fact, the coming child might even be named after an environmental quirk. “Should we call it ‘Polar Vortex baby?’ It was a long, cold winter in Wisconsin and I have a cute husband,” she said. “What can I do?” (Tweet/Video)
John Durham, the prosecutor tapped by Attorney General William Barr to investigate how Trump-Russia allegations emerged and spread within federal law enforcement, has already been looking into whether the FBI’s former top lawyer, James Baker, illegally leaked to reporters.In fact, the U.S. attorney from Connecticut appears to have begun that work more than seven months ago, to judge from an underreported transcript of an October congressional interview with Baker. The Baker interview, at which Durham was not present, suggests that the prosecutor nevertheless has some people very worried.
NBC’s Chuck Todd expressed his frustration Tuesday in a lack of “strategery” from the Democratic Party in their partisan quest to take down President Trump — this with no less than five Democrat-controlled House committee investigations of the president currently underway.“If it is Tuesday, where is the Democratic Party’s strategery,” Todd bemoaned, as he opened “MTP Daily” on MSNBC. “Their subpoenas for the full Mueller report, for Trump’s taxes, for Trump’s financial records, for White House documents involving Don McGahn, Muller’s star witness — you name it, the administration is not complying,” he noted. “And Republicans in Congress are essentially
Following the disclosure that US Attorney John Durham has been tasked with investigating and prosecuting potential crimes in the origin of the Russia Hoax, we learned some very encouraging facts that suggest the Russia Hoax will be fully aired and miscreants brought to justice. Like Howie Carr, who had a front-row seat when John Durham went after corruption in the FBI Boston office, I am “cautiously optimistic” (Howie’s term) (snip) at least 7 months before his role was revealed, and months before William Barr took office, Durham was on the case.
Obama´s Other Investigation
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It’s apparent to all but President Trump’s most deranged critics that Obama’s FBI was indeed spying on his campaign. So, it’s worth pointing out that, in addition to the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane operation, the Obama administration was running another concurrent higher-level counterintelligence investigation into alleged Russian efforts to aid Trump’s campaign that hasn’t gotten nearly as much attention. Details of the second investigation were leaked by high-level Obama administration officials for a June 2017 Washington Post story headlined, “Obama’s secret struggle to punish Russia for Putin’s election assault”.
Donald Trump is almost certainly not going to “Iraq” Iran’s world, and contrary to a lot of misinformation being spread in woeful ignorance of the factual background and historical record, national security adviser John Bolton doesn’t want him to. The President may be infamously erratic in some of his commentary, whether off the cuff or on the tweet. But don’t bet on the man who last fall called his predecessor’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003 “the worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country” doing the same thing in Iran — in spite of it being
“There is an evil in our life, which is an indisputable presence,” Pope Francis told pilgrims Wednesday as he continued his reflections on the Lord’s Prayer. “History books are the desolate catalog of how much our existence in this world has been an often-failed adventure,” the pope said on a drizzly morning in the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Square. “There is a mysterious evil, which surely is not the work of God but that penetrates silently into the folds of history.” “Silent like the snake that carries its poison silently,” he continued. “At times it seems to take over and on certain days
The owner of a small eatery in Virginia, which gained national attention last summer for kicking out White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, says she remains proud of that decision. In fact, booting Sanders from the establishment has been great for business, claims Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, in a Washington Post op-ed published Tuesday. Wilkinson said she was flooded with emails, letters and packages after the story of her encounter with Sanders went viral, many of them full of anger and wishes "that our business die a painful death." "After nearly a year, I’m
A school believed to be the first in the world predominantly for transgender children and their siblings opened in Chile last year. It is named after the Mexican transgender politician Amaranta Gómez Regalado, and caters for children aged between 6 and 17. Many of the students dropped out of their previous schools once they began to transition. They learn traditional subjects like maths, science, history, English and art and take part in state exams. The BBC´s Gender and Identity reporter Megha Mohan reports.
Lawmakers in New York City will hold a hearing Wednesday on a measure that would ban the sale of nearly all new fur products. City council Speaker Corey Johnson sponsored the fur ban that will be the centerpiece of a hearing at City Hall Wednesday afternoon. The bill bans the sale of all fur, except for sales of used fur apparel and fur garments worn for religious reasons. The bill is fervently supported by radical animal rights activists and leftwing celebrities. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals claim that the industry is cruel to animals. Actress Angelic Huston wrote an op-ed
Trump Approval May 14, 2019
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A new Zogby Poll® of 852 likely voters nationwide in the U.S., conducted from 5/2/19-5/9/19, with a margin of sampling error of +/-3.4 percentage points, shows President Trump´s job approval rating at its best since we´ve been tracking the figure. Currently, he stands at 51% approve/48% disapprove, while 2% are not sure. President Trump´s job approval rating has seen a post Mueller Report boost! We called it a few weeks ago. But that´s not the complete story as to why the president has reached a peak in his job approval rating. Trump is also riding high on positive economic news...
From Rashida With Love
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Congresswoman Rashida Talib has been in the news as a result of a Yahoo News podcast in which she participated. The podcast, titled “Skullduggery,” is an anti-Trump hatefest. This episode began with the hosts discussing the desirability of impeaching President Trump. Then they welcomed Tlaib as a guest, and talked about impeachment some more. (Tlaib is an enthusiastic advocate.) Next they turned to foreign policy, specifically the Middle East. This is where the interview turned controversial. Numerous Republicans, including President Trump, have denounced Tlaib’s comments, some because they interpreted them as anti-Semitic. The majority view, however, is the one expressed
I have no love for left-wing, Hillary-promoting Hollywood producer and accused #MeToo villain Harvey Weinstein. Nor am I a fan of those who perpetrated the cop-bashing "Hands Up, Don´t Shoot" fiction involving social justice martyr Michael Brown. But I do strongly believe that a grave injustice has been committed by Harvard´s witch-hunt mobsters against a law professor who joined Weinstein´s legal team and had represented Brown´s family in a civil suit against Ferguson, Missouri.
The US Department of State sent out a notice Wednesday ordering all non-emergency US government employees to leave Iraq immediately. Without giving a reason for the partial evacuation, the notice said that employees should "depart Iraq by commercial transportation as soon as possible" and "avoid US facilities within Iraq." US employees are being pulled out of both the US Embassy in Baghdad and the US Consulate in Irbil. State provided some additional clarity after the release of the notice, explaining that "given the increased threat stream we are seeing in Iraq, ... the secretary has decided to place Mission Iraq on ordered
Democrats and abortion advocates have reacted with swift fury to a bill passed in Alabama that would ban abortion in nearly all cases. Alabama´s state Senate passed a bill on Tuesday to outlaw nearly all abortions, creating exceptions only to protect the mother´s health, as part of a multistate effort to have the U.S. Supreme Court reconsider a woman´s constitutional right to an abortion. The country´s strictest abortion bill was previously approved by the Alabama House of Representatives and will now go to Republican Governor Kay Ivey, who has withheld comment on whether she would sign but is generally a
A "nonpartisan" government watchdog group that has generated a steady flow of litigation against President Donald Trump shares employees with the left-wing Media Matters for America, according to an independent audit. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has filed lawsuits against Trump and government agencies nearly every month since he was sworn into office. These actions follow a plan that was laid out in a confidential memo from David Brock, the liberal operative who founded Media Matters, American Bridge, and Shareblue, that was handed out to deep-pocketed liberal donors as Trump was taking office.Brock stepped away from CREW in
Higher Education in America
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Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University Richard Vedder´s new book, "Restoring the Promise," published by the Independent Institute based in Oakland, California, is about the crisis in higher education. He summarizes the three major problems faced by America´s colleges and universities. First, our universities "are vastly too expensive, often costing twice as much per student compared with institutions in other industrialized democracies." Second, though there are some important exceptions, students "on average are learning relatively little, spend little time in academic preparation and in some disciplines are indoctrinated by highly subjective ideology." Third, "there is a mismatch between
It was pure poetic justice that the weather ruined Mayor de Blasio’s latest stunt — turning his plans to preen about his Green New Deal efforts outside Trump Tower into a humiliating debacle inside the building. Forced indoors by rain, the mayor found his remarks drowned out by lobby music and protesters, some of whom ruined every picture by holding up “Trump 2020” and “Worst Mayor Ever” signs.
Former Vice President Joe Biden denied Monday that his son Hunter Biden asked him for a favor in Ukraine while serving on the energy board of a Ukrainian energy company. “We never once discussed it when he was there,” Biden told the Associated Press. “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.” When he was vice president, Joe Biden threatened to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees for Ukraine if officials did not fire the country’s top
The pill many people take in the morning may have come a long way to the breakfast table, from the other side of the world, in fact. "America needs generic drugs. They make up 90 percent of the American drug supply. Without them, every large-scale government health program — the Affordable Care Act, Medicare Part D, the Veterans Health Administration, charitable programs for the developing world — would be unaffordable." In the fall of 2012, an FDA employee tasked with "inspecting the Indian manufacturing plants that make many of America’s low-cost generic drugs" discovered that its reputation as "the world
Joe Exotic was done. For the previous two decades, 55-year-old Joe had been the heart, soul, and ubiquitous public face of a massive private zoo in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, an hour north of the Texas line. He had boasted of owning the largest tiger collection in America. His sixteen-acre park was lined with metal cages, each filled with majestic tigers, lions, bears, alligators, and even tiger-lion hybrids called tiligers. His sun-leathered visage, horseshoe mustache, and blond mullet adorned signs all over the zoo and all along I-35 between Dallas and Oklahoma City. His image covered the side of a tour bus
The doggedness of William Barr
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I am embarrassed to admit that when William Barr became Donald Trump’s Attorney General a couple of months ago, I did not remember that he had been here, done that as George H. W. Bush’s Attorney General back in the previous century. They did have television back then, however, and students of history, as well as students of politics, can profit from watching Barr’s original confirmation hearings, presided over – drum roll, please – by a younger, much more acute Joe Biden, who, like the poor, we seem to have always with us. It’s a long clip, but very much worth
There was a school of thought that said former Vice President Joe Biden would begin to sink in the polls the moment he announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. Biden´s first day in the race, the thinking went, would be his best day. In fact, the opposite has happened. Since formally becoming a candidate on April 25, Biden has shot up in the polls.
Now that the smoke from the always-dubious Trump-Russia investigation has cleared, the real scandal is finally coming into focus. Namely, the one where the Obama administration, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and various top law enforcement officials apparently worked together to spy on the campaign of their political opponent. A scandal with far more credible evidence to back it up than the phony Russia collusion story. On Monday, news broke that Attorney General William Barr had appointed John Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to investigate the FBI’s use of the Clinton-campaign-financed “dossier”
Emerald Trash Heap
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Over the past few years, Seattle has become a dumping ground for millions of pounds of garbage, needles, feces, and biohazardous waste, largely emanating from the hundreds of homeless encampments that have sprouted across the city. Now, the Emerald City is on the verge of a full-blown public-health crisis. Last year saw a 400 percent increase in HIV infections among mostly homeless addicts and prostitutes in the city’s northern corridor. Public-health officials are sounding the alarms about the return of diseases like typhus, tuberculosis, and trench fever. Even the region’s famed mussels and clams have tested positive for opioids.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who’s running for president of the United States, turned up her nose and turned down a Fox News town hall, calling out the cable giant as a “hate-for-profit” racket. This is a big political misstep. Warren is seeking a seat that makes her the lead executive, the top dog, the big kahuna — the spokesperson — for the entire country. Like it or not, Fox News has a voice in this country. Like it or not, viewers of Fox News, fans of the cable outlet, watchers of its shows are voters and American citizens,
Smooth Sailing Ahead for Trump
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The full proportions of the debacle that awaits the Democrats next fall is starting to penetrate their complacent disdain and revulsion toward President Trump. Rank-and-file Democrats are so ecstatic at the arrival of a known candidate whose views on principal policy issues cannot be invoked by Republicans to frighten children into eating their breakfast cereal that they have accorded Joe Biden a levitation in the polls. Biden is a shopworn, moth-eaten, malapropistic journeyman about whom, when asked to assess him as a potential president, former bipartisan defense secretary
So, You Want to Invade Iran?
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Recently, the Trump Administration announced that it was deploying both an American aircraft carrier as well as B-52 bombers to the Middle East as a show of force against the Iranians. According to National Security Adviser John Bolton, intelligence provided by Israel suggested that Iranian proxies were readying to strike against U.S. assets in war-torn Syria and against oil tankers passing through the vital oil transit chokepoints known as the Straits of Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz. More ominously, the president is reportedly reviewing Pentagon war plans for an invasion of Iran. This plan calls for the buildup
In all Washington investigations, the essential questions become who knew it and when did they know it. In the case of FBI informant Christopher Steele and the credibility of his now-disproven Russia collusion allegations against Donald Trump, we have some important clarity: Government officials confirm that an October 2016 email revealing that Steele met with State Department officials — a breach of protocol for an informant if it was unauthorized — was sent to an FBI counterintelligence supervisor. Multiple sources confirm to me that the recipient of the State Department email was Special Agent Stephen Laycock
The Rot Is Irreversible
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Disease is reversible—rot isn’t. Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib brought the disease of anti-Semitism into the upper echelons of the Democratic Party when they were elected in November. The party could have fought the disease. It chose instead to nurture it. And that’s when the irreversible rot set in. The rot explains why Democrats, from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on down, are vigorously defending Tlaib’s recent lies about Arabs welcoming Jews after the Holocaust. It doesn’t matter what Tlaib or Omar say, how blunt their Jew-hatred is, or how often it’s aired. A defense pact is already
Former Vice President and current Democratic presidential primary frontrunner Joe Biden said “I absolutely agree” with a woman who described herself as having a “very severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and said that Trump “is an illegitimate president.” Biden took questions from audience members at a campaign event in Nashua, NH n Tuesday, after delivering a fire-up speech about why he’s running for president. The third audience member to address Biden didn’t really have a question, but rather a lengthy message about how Democrats should oppose Donald Trump.
A prominent board member of the National Rifle Association urged the organization to clean “its own house” and move on from CEO Wayne LaPierre’s leadership on Tuesday in a stunning escalation of the internal crisis that has plagued the organization in recent months. Retired Lt. Col. Allen West, a former Republican congressman from Florida serving his second term on the board, announced in a blog post that he was withdrawing his support from LaPierre, citing concerns about alleged financial mismanagement within the organization and what he called “outright lies” told by Carolyn Meadows, the group´s new president,
America’s 10 largest cities, largely Democrat strongholds, are drowning in municipal debt, according to a new report from government watchdog Truth in Accounting. The report sought out “to determine what ... overlapping financial entities mean for taxpayers’ bottom line.” Truth in Accounting said its purpose was to “calculate the various bills (and surpluses, when available) at the city government level and divide them out to determine a per-Taxpayer Burden.” The two cities with the highest burden: Chicago and New York City; Chicago’s combined taxpayer burden: $119,110; New York City’s combined taxpayer burden: $85,600.
Donald Trump singled out four of his challengers for ridicule on Tuesday, mocking Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O´Rourke and Bernie Sanders and predicting one of them will win the 2020 Democratic nomination.´Boy, you got some beauties there!´ he said during a speech in Louisiana about energy infrastructure. ´Three hundred and fifty million people and that´s the best we can do?´´It´s going to be one of these people,´ he said. So far 23 different Democratic White House hopefuls have declared their candidacies. He poked fun at O´Rourke for quickly losing what a month ago looked like juggernaut momentum. He jeered
MANCHESTER, N.H.— Campaigning for president in the small states with early primaries is supposed to be retail politicking, but gaffe-prone 2020 front-runner Joe Biden´s handlers are leaving nothing to chance, deploying a teleprompter to help him stay on message. Appearing in here in Manchester, N.H., before a crowd of 400, Biden´s people rolled out a teleprompter despite the relative intimacy of the gathering.But it turns out, he used the teleprompter more as a stump speech outline rather than a script. At some points, the prompter operator struggled to find which point he was supposed to hit next while Biden threw