Posts on Tuesday, August 6, 2019
Fixing Baltimore: A plan
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Former South Carolina governor and UN Ambassador Nikki Haley has urged President Trump and Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) to stop exchanging insults over conditions in Baltimore. (Snip) The president should call a meeting that includes not only Rep. Cummings and Nikki Haley, but HUD Secretary Ben Carson, a former pediatric neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The meeting should also include corporate heads with experience in urban renewal and Habitat for Humanity, which builds houses for the poor. Carson and Haley would mobilize volunteers to help remove trash from neighborhoods. Pest removal companies would eradicate rats from infested areas.
During the Barack Obama years there were at least 32 mass shootings including the massacre of children at Sandy Hook, the attack on gays at Pulse nightclub and the police shooting in Dallas, Texas. (Photo) The scene outside the Pulse nightclub in Florida after the 2016 mass shooting by an Islamist.On Monday Barack Obama criticized President Trump and racism for the mass shootings over the weekend.(Tweet)
On Tuesday President Trump responded to Barack Obama’s disgusting remarks. President Trump: Did George Bush ever condemn President Obama after Sandy Hook. President Obama had 32 mass shootings during his reign.
The Trump campaign on Tuesday blasted Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro, the brother and campaign chairman of 2020 presidential hopeful Julian Castro, for publicly posting a list of prominent Texas Trump donors’ names and employers -- accusing him of "targeting" private citizens and demanding he delete it.The campaign told Fox News they reported Castro’s tweet to Twitter, arguing it violates the platform’s abusive behavior provision stating users cannot “engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so.”“How low have Dems sunk?” Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh tweeted. “This is Joaquin Castro, Congressman & chair of his brother’s campaign. Naming private citizens & their employers,
David Gibson, one of the owners of Gibson’s Bakery and a plaintiff in the lawsuit that yielded almost $32 million in damages against Oberlin College, has just posted a video on Facebook announcing that he has pancreatic cancer.(Snip)In the video (below), David says that Oberlin College has known about his illness for several months, and made a motion in court to keep that information away from jurors. Gibson goes on to assert his belief that the assertions by Oberlin College’s president that there is a long legal battle ahead is an attempt to send a signal that the college will just wait out his illness.
A Twitter account associated with the congressional campaign of Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) tweeted a list of President Donald Trump’s campaign donors in the San Antonio area on Tuesday, prompting condemnation from Republicans and even some journalists.But few in the media complained when President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign did the same to several donors to Republican Mitt Romney in 2012. Castro’s campaign account tweeted: “Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump — the owner of @BillMillerBarBQ, owner of the @HistoricPearl, realtor Phyllis Browning, etc. Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders.’”
An MSNBC host who helped put Trump in the White House now suspects he may actually want mass shootings."Isn’t it OK to deduce that at this point this is what he wants? He is inciting hatred, inciting violence, inciting racism," Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski said Tuesday.Her remarks were a response to the president's address this week on two recent mass shootings. A suspect opened fire Saturday in a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Texas, killing 22. Later, in the early hours of Sunday, a second suspect killed nine people in downtown Dayton, Ohio"If he doesn’t unequivocally call it off and say, this is wrong and
CNN eyes all-black panel show
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CNN is fast-tracking an all-black panel show, Page Six has exclusively learned. We’re told the cable network hopes to hire regular CNN contributors April Ryan, Andrew Gillum, Angela Rye and Bakari Sellers as panelists for a brand-new show. The plan was kicked into high gear following the positive response the group received after appearing on the network’s morning show, “New Day With Alisyn Camerota and John Berman” during the Democratic debates last week. “It was the most excitement on that morning show since Chris Cuomo left as co-anchor,” a source told us. “CNN is fast-tracking talks … to develop it
Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the pack of Democratic presidential candidates by double digits, but Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is narrowing the gap, according to a new survey by Quinnipiac University Poll released on Tuesday. Warren’s support rose to 21 percent among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters, the survey says, a 5-point gain since late last month. That puts her comfortably in second place. Biden, the primary contest’s front-runner, still leads the pack, notching 32 percent support in the latest Quinnipiac poll. But that’s a 2-point drop since the last survey, leaving a smaller gap between him and Warren. Sen.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) has plummetted in the polls with black Democrats after Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) called out the former California attorney general for her record on criminal justice.The latest Quinnipiac Poll reveals that Harris has dropped to just one percent of support among black Democrats — one of the party’s most vital voting bloc coalitions.For black Democrats, Harris is the last 2020 Democrat pick amid the party’s leading presidential primary candidates, following former Vice President Joe Biden with 47 percent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with 16 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) with eight percent, and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) with two percent.
Former Vice President and 2020 White House frontrunner Joe Biden has vowed he will use executive powers and other means to accomplish an ambitious set of campaign promises on his very first day as president.Here is a list of five proposals that the former vice president vows to get done on “Day One” of a Biden administration: 1. Repeal President Donald Trump’s tax reform law. Appearing June 22nd before the South Carolina Democratic Party Convention, Biden detailed his plans to combat income inequality in the United States, claiming economic disparities are at an “all-time high and made worse by Trump’s tax cuts and enormous giveaways to the top one-tenth
Ilhan Omar has been seen getting up close and personal with married aide Tim Mynett, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. Last week, DailyMailTV revealed Omar was dining and holding hands with a mystery man at a secluded Italian restaurant outside of Los Angeles back in March. That man can now be identified as Mynett, who had tried to prevent a bystander from taking a video of them. The Minnesota congresswoman, 37, has been carrying on with Mynett, 38, a campaign fundraising strategist, for several months, according to a source.(Snip) Omar's camp has paid Mynett's company—E Street Group—more than $250K in consulting fees
Democrats seem to be adjusting well to the Trump era. On Tuesday, for example, Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro targeted retirees in San Antonio for donating to President Trump's reelection campaign. “Sad to see so many San Antonians as 2019 maximum donors to Donald Trump, etc,” the Twitter account maintained by the congressman’s reelection campaign said Tuesday. The note also lists local businesses and businessmen by name. To be clear, some of the people on this list are his constituents. Castro's district covers the western half of San Antonio.“Their contributions are fueling a campaign of hate that labels Hispanic immigrants as ‘invaders,'" the tweet adds.
The far-left New York Times caved to the leftist Twitter mob with a major switch in headlines between its first and second editions.
The first print edition’s headline read, “Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism.”
But after the Blue Checkmark Mafia freaked out, the Times caved with a late edition headline that reads, “Assailing Hate But Not Guns.”
New York Times print editor Tom Jolly tweeted out the original edition. (Tweet) Within an hour, through, the Times had caved to the left’s demand that President Trump never-ever-ever receive even a neutral headline. (Tweet)
Andrew Cuomo blames cops getting pelted
with water buckets, belittles ‘impotent’ NYPD
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with water buckets, belittles ‘impotent’ NYPD
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Andrew Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York State, slammed NYC police officers for being restrained when street thugs pelted them with buckets and doused them with water two weeks ago.There were four separate incidents in Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, where thugs pelted NYC cops with water, and threw buckets at the officers’ heads. Cuomo says the cops should have fought back when they were assaulted instead of walking away.Naturally, Cuomo ignores that the Democratic Party’s nonstop anti-police rhetoric has emboldened criminals and handcuffed cops‘ ability to react properly, especially where minorities are involved.Police are afraid of being falsely accused of racism and being fired, doxxed,
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her daughter Chelsea have teamed up to write a book called The Book of Gutsy Women to spotlight admirable female figures such as scientist Marie Curie and comedian Ellen DeGeneres.
The project entitled The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience will feature portraits of over 100 women, including heroines from the Clintons' own circle of friends and family.
The book, announced by publishers Simon & Schuster, will be released on October 1.
Boy Scouts failed to stop hundreds of
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previously unreported sexual predators,
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A group of lawyers is claiming to have uncovered hundreds of previously unreported cases of sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Pennsylvania. The plaintiff in the case, named only as S.D. to keep his identity private, is alleging that he was assaulted “hundreds” of times by a scout leader in Pennsylvania over the course of about four years in the 1970s. The lawsuit alleges that S.D.'s abuse would not have been possible had it not been for the negligence of the Boy Scouts, that the organization conspired to keep incidents of sexual assault a secret,
President Donald Trump's reelection campaign has taken issue with a Facebook post from Texas congressman Joaquin Castro that lists the names and employers of Trump donors in San Antonio and accuses the private citizens of "contributing to harmful rhetoric that targets the Hispanic community and so many others." Castro, twin brother of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro, posted late Monday night on Facebook that he was "sad to see so many San Antonians on this list of maximum donors to Donald Trump." He specifically called out two companies, including a popular BBQ restaurant, and posted a list of 44 donors, with their full names and employers.
The criminal farce of the Mueller Weissmann dossier is now being exposed as an extension of the Russia hoax. Mueller is seen as the fragile front man manipulated for an ongoing cabal of Trump-hating coup plotters. The focus can now shift to US Attorney John Durham and Inspector General Michael Horowitz. And the extensive criminal behavior that went into the origins of the coordinated campaign to destroy Donald Trump by the Obama White House. The scope of the Durham investigation will inevitably focus on John Brennan, James Clapper, and James Comey. The implications for what will come out will be earthshaking.
Caracas, Venezuela - An international summit meeting on Tuesday that was meant to break the political stalemate in Venezuela became a one-sided showcase for the United States’ toughest sanctions yet on President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian regime.
During the conference of more than 50 countries in Lima, Peru, the Trump administration rejected compromises proposed by international mediators and some Latin American nations as it doubled down on its so-called maximum pressure policy to oust Mr. Maduro.
Mr. Maduro’s government wasn’t invited, prompting his allies — Cuba, China, Russia and Turkey — to decline the invitation to the meeting.
Seven years after arriving on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover has recently retrieved a record number of clay minerals that agency officials say will lead to the uncovering of the planet’s “richer, more complex” story and its history of water. In a Monday press release, NASA announced their rover had made monumental strides in collecting information that will give researchers a deeper understanding of Mars’ Aeolis Mons - a large clay region more commonly known as Mount Sharp.
Mount Sharp is located inside Gale Crater, which is said to have contained streams and lakes billions of years ago that altered the landscape
Venezuela, that land of free health care, free education, subsidized food, subsidized gas, and five million nationals fleeing for their lives, is warning its nationals, many of whom are waiting to be let in at the U.S. border for asylum, to stay out of the very, very, very dangerous U.S. According to the statement, they'd like Venezuela's nationals to stay out of Cleveland, Detroit, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland, Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta, Stockton, and Buffalo, in addition to El Paso and Dayton. Based on their crime stats, which are high compared to the rest of the U.S., these blue cities should be avoided.
This is rich, indeed
A liberal backlash against the news media’s coverage of Donald Trump and the 2020 race was already brewing when the New York Times published a five-word headline Monday night summarizing the president’s reaction to the mass shootings over the weekend: “Trump Urges Unity Vs. Racism.”
“Unbelievable,” steamed Beto O’Rourke. “That’s not what happened,” wrote Kirsten Gillibrand. “Lives literally depend on you doing better,” Cory Booker tweeted.New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said senior editors quickly recognized problems with the original headline Monday night and rewrote it. “The fact that Beto O’Rourke and Cory Booker didn’t like it didn’t influence me,”
Former FBI Agent Peter Strzok has filed a lawsuit in DC federal court seeking reinstatement and back pay as a result of his firing in 2018.
According to the lawsuit (full pdf below) Strzok is claiming his first amendment right to free speech was violated and his fifth amendment right to due process was violated.
Upon initial review, this lawsuit looks like a stunt; motive undetermined, but perhaps related to the pending release of the IG report on FISA abuse where Strzok was a key participant.
A federal civil lawsuit using the DC circuit and the U.S. Constitution as a primary protective assertion does not follow the path
Democrat Congressman Joaquin Castro, represents a district that encompasses San Antonio, Texas.
Using his twitter account today, Representative Castro posted a list of local donors to the Donald Trump campaign directing his followers to target those ordinary citizens. [Tweet here]
Pay close attention to this current method of political targeting; and overlay the law of unintended consequences to the current gun control discussion surrounding “redflag” laws.
Ultimately what far-left Joaquin Castro is doing is exactly what will happen when arbitrary rules of defining people for targeting are pushed into law. History is full of examples where this exact process was used. None of those examples ended well for those
Former president, Barack Obama finally weighed in on the three mass shooting violence. His response was nothing that had not already been expressed by fellow party members. Including our Democrat President wannabes. However, the difference was this time it came from Barack. The message? El Paso, Dayton and Gilroy – all Trump’s fault. When tragedy strikes, blame the president. But no one blamed President Clinton for Columbine. Nor did they blame Clinton or Democrats in Congress, then or now, for not addressing gun control. Democrat leadership is not being blamed for the epidemic of gun violence in Chicago or Baltimore.
After President Donald Trump drew attention to Baltimore, some of his supporters went down to West Baltimore to assist with a cleanup effort. The group posted pictures of the effort with before and after photos and found some interesting things along the way.
According to OANN, the group was led by activist Scott Presler, who lead over 100 volunteers after the controversy first arose in the media. Presler said his cleanup effort started with a simple tweet about going to clean up Baltimore, even if it’s just by himself.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday, accusing her of “cheering on” people who want to see the Kentucky Republican “break his neck.”“Last night, an angry left-wing mob of Amy McGrath supporters stormed Senator McConnell’s Louisville home screaming obscenities and hoping someone would ‘just stab the motherf—er in the heart,'” said McConnell campaign spokesman Kevin Golden, referring to the Democrat and retired Marine who is seeking to unseat him in November. Golden then took aim at Ocasio-Cortez and “liberal Twitter personalities,
As Silicon Valley seeks to enhance its control over the news consumers are able to view in the lead-up to 2020, experts say many publications are actively shaping their coverage to stay in “Big Tech’s” good graces. Publications that please the companies are rewarded with more exclusive scoops, better technical support and an elevated search-engine ranking, allowing them to reach more readers. “When is the last time you saw an op-ed in The Washington Post that was deeply critical of Facebook or Google? When is the last time you saw Axios or Politico quote a tech whistleblower in a favorable light?”
Former FBI counterintelligence chief Peter Strzok on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the FBI and DOJ over his firing claiming the decision was based on “unrelenting pressure” from President Trump.Peter Strzok, a key FBI agent in the Russia investigation was caught sending anti-Trump text messages to his paramour FBI lawyer Lisa Page and subsequently removed from the special counsel’s team in the summer of 2017. Peter Strzok was fired from the FBI last August and escorted out of the building. Now he’s suing, claiming the US government violated his First Amendment and Fifth Amendment rights — he is seeking “reinstatement and back pay.” The Hill reported:
Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines’ new resolution – S. Res. 289, “expressing the sense of the Senate that socialism poses a significant threat to freedom, liberty, and economic prosperity” – takes three pages of text to say what can essentially be said in four words: “Stop socialism. Choose freedom.”
Don’t get me wrong – Daines (pictured) is to be commended for pushing his resolution. It has gotten so bad recently that it seems necessary to put the United States Senate on record declaring that “Marxism and socialism are failed ideologies” that “pose a significant threat to the freedom, liberty, and economic prosperity of all countries and peoples around the world
President Donald Trump, the California Republican Party, and the national GOP joined together Tuesday to sue California over a new tax-return law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed last week.
The law requires Trump and other presidential candidates to release the last five years of their tax returns to get their names on the state’s 2020 primary ballot.
Trump has yet to weigh in on the issue himself. His personal attorney Jay Sekulow criticized “California’s attempt to circumvent the constitution.”
“Today we have taken decisive action in federal court challenging California’s attempt to circumvent the U.S. Constitution,” Sekulow said in a statement. “The issue of whether the president should release his federal
A federal appeals court revived former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, over an editorial that she said maliciously linked her to the 2011 mass shooting that seriously wounded Representative Gabrielle Giffords. In a 3-0 decision on Tuesday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan said the judge who dismissed Palin’s case ran afoul of federal rules designed to ensure fairness by first hearing testimony from Times editorial page editor James Bennet, and accepting it as credible. Circuit Judge John Walker also said Palin had plausibly alleged that the Times defamed her, though she still bore the
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler asked the National Archives Tuesday to provide his committee records related to Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s time working in the White House for President George W. Bush.
The move gives House Democrats a chance to relitigate the partisan confirmation battle through the committee’s oversight efforts.
The New York Democrat said the Senate Judiciary Committee failed to review documents from Justice Kavanaugh’s time as a staff secretary in the White House from 2003 to 2006. Former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, had requested documents related to Justice Kavanaugh’s work in the White House Counsel’s office from 2001 to 2003.
Kacey Musgraves called for Donald Trump and Sen. Mitch McConnell to pass gun control measures following the mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, this weekend.
She tweeted early Monday, “Don’t you hear us, @realDonaldTrump? Don’t you hear our pain? You have the power to become a hero. Why don’t you take it?”
“For a man who clearly loves being well-liked, it’s indescribably mind-numbing to see him blatantly and murderously ignore doing ONE THING that would not only make people happy but would SAVE PEOPLE’S LIVES," she added. "True leaders don’t stand back and watch the world burn.”
On March 15, 2019, 28-year-old Brenton Tarrant attacked a mosque and Islamic centre in Christchurch, New Zealand with a semi-automatic rifle; killing 51 and injuring 50. On August 3, 2019, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius attacked a WalMart crowded with Latino shoppers in El Paso, Texas with a semi-automatic rifle; killing 22, injuring 24. Both men posted manifestos. In three places in his 87-page The Great Replacement Tarrant self-defines as ecofascist; to wit: “I mostly agree with Sir Oswald Mosely and consider myself
A police chief in Texas is apologizing after two cops on horseback were caught on camera leading a black suspect by a rope through city streets, acknowledging the officers showed “poor judgment.” Galveston Police Chief Vernon Hale said the officers “clipped” a line to the handcuffs of suspect Donald Neely, 43, as he was being led to a Mounted Patrol Unit staging area after he was arrested for criminal trespassing on Saturday. “First and foremost, I must apologize to Mister Neely for this unnecessary embarrassment,” Hale said in a statement late Monday. “Although this is a trained technique and best practice in some scenarios,
Seven times this year, a gunman has opened fire in a U.S. public place, killing at least three people. One shooter is suspected of being a white supremacist. One was an Elizabeth Warren supporter. And two were black. Yet fears over rising white nationalist attacks after the El Paso massacre threaten to obscure what studies describe as the big picture about mass killings: that they represent a small fraction of annual gun deaths, that they are not surging, and that about half are committed by whites, not a share out of line with the general U.S. populace. A May 2018 policy brief by the Rockefeller Institute
A survivor of this weekend’s shooting in El Paso, Texas told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that he was surprised when he found out that his “gun-wielding” mother did not bring her firearm with her to Walmart.Christopher Grant said, while in a hospital bed, that his mother made the decision not to bring her .38 special revolver before they went to the Walmart, where 22 people were killed, and 26 people were injured. (Tweet/Video) “I ran towards my mother to try and shield her. And I’m like ‘mom.’ Cause my mom is a gun-wielding grandma.
Donald Trump’s influence has crossed the border into Canada. Last week, the populist People’s Party of Canada unveiled its immigration plan. The plan echoes the America First agenda and would provide a solid immigration model for American patriots to imitate.
The PPC’s plan would reduce immigration, combat multiculturalism, focus on high-skilled immigrants, and emphasize assimilation.
Maxime Bernier, a member of Parliament from Quebec and PPC’s leader, delivered the plan along with “Muslim dissident” and long-time critic of multiculturalism, Salim Mansur. Bernier is a former state minister who nearly became the leader of Canada’s more establishment right-wing party,
American sprint great Carl Lewis offered enthusiastic support for the Pan Am Games on Monday, but the nine-time Olympic champion had none for Donald Trump, branding the U.S. president a "racist" and a "misogynist".
Lewis, who represented the United States at four Olympics and is widely regarded as one of the country's greatest athletes, arrived in the Peruvian capital ahead of the start of the athletics competition on Tuesday.(Snip)
"We have a racist president, who is prejudiced, misogynistic, who doesn't value anyone outside of himself, so we have a major challenge in our country to deal with as well.
A survey of more than 42,000 people in 41 different countries conducted by YouGov.com revealed that President Donald Trump is more admired than Pope Francis.
However, Trump is not as admired as Bill Gates—who proved to be the most admired man in the world—or former President Barack Obama who was the second most admired man in the world.In fact, Trump ranked fourteenth and Pope Francis ranked fifteenth.According to the survey, Chinese President Xi Jinping, who ranked fourth, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ranked tenth, were also more admired than Trump and Pope Francis.
Socialism is creeping in our country like never before. A recent study indicates that millennials prefer socialism to capitalism. The Democratic Party has gone so far left, they should be accused of plagiarizing Karl Marx's ideas. But, if these recent videos from the Democratic Socialists of America conference are any indication of how quickly their ideas could be implemented, then the U.S.A has nothing to worry about. It appears the DSA crowd is too triggered by scents, sounds, and the wrong pronouns to actually get anything accomplished without some whiny progressive stopping the meeting to complain. A newly formed group, Young Americans Against Socialism,
Domestic terrorism is on at the forefront of America’s minds following the recent horrific shootings and murders occurring in El Paso, Texas and Dayton Ohio. Getting far less media coverage is the shootings in Chicago that closed down hospitals (7 Killed, 46 Wounded In Weekend Shootings – CBS Chicago).
Or that Baltimore, Maryland is experiencing its worst murder rate ever. (Murders Increase In Baltimore Through First Half Of 2019) Reports of mass shootings on American soil have left feelings of shock, fear, despair, and vulnerability. On any given day and at any time those we care about the most could become victims.
Atlanta - As socialism moves from the political margins to the center of presidential politics, it faces a new and welcome problem: where to go from here? The last time the nation’s largest socialist organization came together for its biennial conference, congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was serving tacos and cocktails at a bar in Manhattan. Two years later, the Democratic Socialists of America have doubled in size and the young, Latina, democratic socialist from the Bronx who unseated a 10-term veteran to win her New York congressional seat has become a political force so visible she is known simply by her initials, AOC.
Iran unveiled what it described as three new precision guided missiles on Tuesday as President Hassan Rouhani warned of the 'mother of all wars' if the US attacks.
Defence Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami said it proves Iran 'will not hesitate for a moment to defend [itself]' as he viewed the weapons in front of TV cameras.
It comes after President Hassan Rouhani warned the US of the 'mother of all wars' if tensions in the Gulf spill over into conflict.
While stressing that Tehran is willing to negotiate over its nuclear programme, Rouhani said that America must drop all sanctions before the country will talk.
While stressing that Tehran is willing to negotiate over
Mass murderers and derangement
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Anyone over the age of sixty-five was most likely put off by the original trailer for the newest Quentin Tarantino film because what at first seemed a lighthearted story about a couple of aging television stars was going to go dark and murderous. The quick shot of Manson was then removed from the trailer so that the Manson aspect of the film sneaks up on the viewer. Charles Manson was the man of our nightmares in 1969-70, especially for those of us who then lived in Los Angeles. The crimes of Manson's groupies were unimaginable to most of us who grew up in Southern California.
Kellyanne Conway: Beto O'Rourke's
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'cursing and screaming' about Trump
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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway called out presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke Tuesday for "screaming and cursing" about President Trump in the wake of the mass shootings over the weekend, including in the former Texas congressman's hometown of El Paso. Conway argued there is "scant" coverage of reports that the Dayton, Ohio, shooter's Twitter feed was anti-Trump, and supported Antifa and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. "I'm hopping mad this morning," she told "Fox & Friends," criticizing the "nonstop punditry" from O'Rourke and Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, pointing out both are "mired in the low single digits" in polls. O'Rourke said after Saturday's
The anti-Trump forces, now stripped of their Russian collusion ammunition, have invented another imaginary threat they hope to weaponize against the president: The public menace posed by “white supremacist” terrorism.
Much like the collusion conspiracy theory—which relied on random incidents, fictional villains, unconvincing evidence, and the Bad Orange Man in the White House—there is little substance to this purported danger.
Unironically, the whole ruse is being pushed by the same people who foisted the Russian collusion hoax on the American people for three years in the hopes of prompting President Trump’s impeachment and removal.
Two violence-plagued Latin American countries are warning against traveling to the US following the weekend’s back-to-back mass shootings. Uruguay and Venezuela — both nations that US citizens are already warned off visiting — issued their own official travel advisories on Monday. Uruguay’s Foreign Ministry urged citizens to take “extreme precautions” if traveling to the US because of “growing indiscriminate violence, mostly for hate crimes, including racism and discrimination.” It warned of “indiscriminate possession of firearms” and advised Uruguayans to avoid large public events including shopping centers, art and food festivals, and religious gatherings because of the
The Language of the Trump Era
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erhaps it isn’t possible to establish a direct connection between the El Paso massacre and the president. Anticipating that Trump would be held responsible, the killer insisted in an online rant that his own white-supremacist views predated the 2016 election, and that blaming the president would be “fake news.” Perhaps the killer’s denunciations of a “Hispanic invasion” and of Democratic politicians using “open borders” to achieve political power resembled the president’s language by sheer coincidence. Perhaps the killer’s retweets and shares of Trump’s Twitter posts can’t be laid at the president’s feet.
Terrorism in America isn’t state-sponsored, and Trump isn’t the kind of strongman who orders
Toni Morrison, the first African American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is gone. But her unique voice – earthy, poetic, powerful, elliptical – endures in novels like "Beloved, "Song of Solomon," "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye." She died Monday at age 88 in New York following a short illness, according to her family and publisher. The Morrison family issued this statement via Morrison's publisher: “It is with profound sadness we share that, following a short illness, our adored mother and grandmother, Toni Morrison, passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends. She was an extremely
We probably should have seen Connor Betts coming.
Betts killed nine people — including his own sister — during a shooting spree Sunday in Dayton, Ohio. He harbored violent fantasies about raping women and killing classmates. And his dark predilections were no secret. His friends knew. One says she urged him to get counseling. His school knew. He reportedly was once suspended for compiling a hit list of people he wanted to kill. "This isn't a mystery to me," a middle school classmate told reporters. But nobody stopped him from obtaining a firearm and committing a massacre, even though the red flags were there for everybody to see.
Mitch McConnell’s campaign responded to accusations he is paying “for young men to practice groping” after a photo of teens in “Team Mitch” shirts posing lewdly with a cardboard figure of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surfaced.
“These young men are not campaign staff, they’re high schoolers and it’s incredible that the national media has sought to once again paint a target on their backs rather than report real, and significant news in our country,” the Kentucky Republican senator’s campaign manager Kevin Golden said, according to The Washington Post. “Team Mitch in no way condones any aggressive, suggestive, or demeaning act toward life sized cardboard cut outs of any
The Democratic candidates have revived the anti-police rhetoric of the Obama years. Joe Biden’s criminal-justice plan promises that black parents will no longer have to fear when their children walk the streets — the threat allegedly coming from cops, not gangbangers. Pete Buttigieg has said police shootings of black men won’t be solved “until we move policing out from the shadow of systemic racism.” Beto O’Rourke claims that police shoot blacks “solely based on the color of their skin.” A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demolishes the Democratic narrative regarding race and police shootings. It turns out that white officers are
Political differences have become so personal and hate-filled that violence always feels like it’s just a few steps away these days. We must all recognize that mass shooting are not a Republican or a Democrat issue; they are an American issue.
Instead of using the recent tragedies in Dayton and El Paso as an excuse to ramp up the partisanship even further, we should all cool down the rhetoric so that more lives aren’t put in harm’s way.
Setting a moral example, President Trump immediately expressed his condolences to the victims of the shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, as well as his gratitude to the
SAN JOSE, Calif. — California's largest operator of recycling redemption centers shut down Monday and laid off 750 employees.
RePlanet closed all 284 of its centers, and company president David Lawrence said the decision was driven by increased business costs and falling prices of recycled aluminum and PET plastic, the San Jose Mercury News reported . The move came three years after RePlanet closed 191 of its recycling centers and laid off 278 workers. Now many San Francisco Bay Area residents have few or no options for redeeming their recyclables, which is especially concerning for those who live in poverty or experience
A former girlfriend of Connor Betts, the man who went on a shooting rampage outside a bar in Dayton, Ohio, said a number of warning signs led her to break up with the 24-year-old.
Caitlyn “Adelia” Johnson, 24, and Betts briefly dated this spring, NBC reported. She told The (Toledo) Blade the two met in their psychology class at Sinclair Community College. They bonded over their struggles with mental illness; Johnson said she has depression and anxiety, and Betts told her he was bipolar and had Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
At first, Johnson found Betts "kind of charming" and intelligent, The Blade reported. She said he was outgoing and willing to start
WASHINGTON – 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, who is from El Paso, Texas — the location of a mass shooting where more than 20 people were killed in an apparent racist attack — said Monday that President Donald Trump is not welcome there.
O'Rourke, who has repeatedly labeled Trump a "racist," said that Trump helped create the tragedy in El Paso.
"This president, who helped create the hatred that made Saturday's tragedy possible, should not come to El Paso," O'Rourke wrote on Twitter. "We do not need more division. We need to heal. He has no place here."
Trump will be visiting El Paso on Wednesday,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday joined the chorus of Democrat lawmakers blaming President Donald Trump for the deadly shooting in El Paso, Texas, over the weekend, saying his discourse on immigration is “directly responsible” for the tragedy. The freshman congresswoman did not address how the Dayton, Ohio, shooter echoed her own controversial rhetoric on social media.Ocasio-Cortez took aim at the president during her remarks at a vigil in Brooklyn paying tribute to the shooting victims of El Paso and Dayton, Ohio.I’m tired of the questioning if the president is racist. He is,"
Protesters gather outside McConnell's Kentucky
home, one calls for his stabbing
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A group of protesters supporting gun control gathered outside the home of Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. where one expressed that someone should "stab the motherf---er in the heart."The protest took place on Sunday night in the wake of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. McConnell is currently recovering from a fall he had over the weekend, leaving him with a fractured shoulder.Approximately 25 demonstrators stood on the sidewalk near McConnell's Louisville home, shouting "No Trump, no KKK, no Fascist USA!" while others called him names like "Murder Turtle"
In the wake of the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib spewed out at least three times on Twitter her loathing for the power of prayer from those who expressed shock and sadness at the events and said they were praying. Look at how repugnant this is:
She also retweeted this:The nastiness with which she replies to two Republicans who express a sincere appeal to a higher power in the face of the inexplicable is utterly revolting. It's the kind of contempt Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin
Far-left activist and former CNN anchor Reza Aslan has publicly called for White House counselor Kellyanne Conway to be “eradicated.”
In a weekend tweet commenting on the twin mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Conway wrote, “Working as one to understand depraved evil & to eradicate hate is everyone’s duty.” (Snip) From his verified account, Aslan responded with a tweet that said, “You are ‘the depraved evil’ we need to eradicate.”
When he was called out for demanding the eradication of another human being, Aslan changed the subject. “So then when @KellyannePolls said we need to ‘eradicate’ this evil she meant shoot it in the face?
China needs to buy dollars to backstop their own currency (¥uan). When China trades with the U.S. they hold the return dollars as a peg against their weak currency. Remove the flow of dollars (lessen exports) and they start to run out of strong pegged currency.
What is happening today is not as much direct devaluation by China; rather they are intentionally allowing their currency to drop in value, internally, burning cash, to keep their economy from weakening. Their Yuan burn rate is greater than the influx of higher valued dollars needed to hold their position.
A now-suspended Twitter account that appeared to belong to the Dayton mass shooter showed extreme-left postings in which he lamented President Trump’s election and encouraged people to cut fences at immigration detention centers, according to reports. Though the Twitter account @iamthespookster does not bear 24-year-old Connor Betts’ name, it does include selfies that resemble known images of him. The Washington Post captured over 3,000 tweets from the account, which was created in December 2013.(Snip)
The account, which had 301 followers, was taken down by Twitter late Sunday amid speculation it belonged to Betts.
So far, seven months into 2019, eight Republican representatives have announced retirement, six of them during the months of July and August 2019. By comparison, in 2018, 39 congressional Republicans (three U.S. senators and 23 members of the House of Representatives), together with 18 Democrats, did not run for re-election.
What is going on with all these Republican retirements?
One narrative has it that Republicans were retiring because they were fed up with the toxic political environment or were afraid of losing elections, but these narratives were prematurely formed or they lacked correlation. There actually are three possible hypotheses
Chris Cuomo: Trump’s ‘Teleprompter’ Speech
‘Hit All The Right Notes,’ But Was Just
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‘Hit All The Right Notes,’ But Was Just
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Chris Cuomo said President Donald Trump “hit all the right notes” in his Monday “teleprompter” speech against white supremacy following two mass shootings over the weekend, but also contended that the words were just “lip service.” The CNN anchor’s Monday night “Cuomo Prime Time” comments came during a larger segment about the concept of adjusting U.S. terrorism laws to cover white nationalist terror. WATCH: (Video)
Bill and Hillary Clinton Dismiss Trump’s
Calls for Mental Health Reform, Demand
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Calls for Mental Health Reform, Demand
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Both Bill and Hillary Clinton reacted to President Trump’s Monday morning remarks on the deadly shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, dismissing his push for mental health-based reform and calling for the ban of “assault weapons.”Trump addressed the nation Monday on the deadly shootings that occurred over the weekend, resulting in more than 30 fatalities and dozens of injuries. He unequivocally condemned racism, bigotry, and white supremacy, calling them “sinister ideologies” that “must be defeated.”“In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy,” Trump said.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) sent a fundraising email Monday on the heels of two mass shootings, urging donations to Democratic Senate campaigns. (Snip)Warren, a 2020 presidential candidate, didn't solicit donations for her campaign, but rather for Sens. Doug Jones (D., Ala.), Tina Smith (D., Minn.), and the eventual Democratic nominees in states holding Senate elections in 2020.Warren blasted the lack of action on gun control in the Republican-led Senate, lamenting its "inexusable" failure to pick up legislation passed by Democrats in the House expanding background checks and waiting times."It's clear Republicans don't have the courage to do something about this crisis.
The leftist playbook is simple: the mainstream media create false Trump narratives, and they repeat them far and wide until the false narrative becomes an accepted "truth." The current narrative is that Trump is a racist. The significance of the racism charge is not lost on these connivers, because racism is second in its universal disrepute only to pedophilia. Now they are capitalizing on it when real racists commit heinous acts of violence as they pin them on Trump as if he is responsible.Here is the problem, though: we have yet to see any evidence, even flimsy evidence, that this president really is a racist.
Two organizations linked to Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her outgoing senior aides are the subject of a Federal Election Commission investigation into alleged campaign finance violations, the Washington Examiner has learned.
The FEC opened an official case on March 7 to examine complaints against Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress, two campaign committees started by Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff Shaikat Chakrabarti, according to an FEC confirmation letter disclosed to the Washington Examiner. The matter was assigned a case number and remains open.Ocasio-Cortez also sat on the board of Justice Democrats from December 2017 to June 2018, the Daily Caller reported.
John Solomon recently broke the news that former FBI director James Comey will soon face a “reckoning” for leaking memos of his conversations with the president. Solomon means Comey will be embarrassed by an imminent inspector general report containing stern language. Solomon does not mean that Comey will face any legal consequences, however, because “prosecutors working for Attorney General William Barr reportedly have decided to decline prosecution.”
Many recognize Comey as a central figure in the Russia collusion hoax, the U.S. Department of Justice’s interference in the 2016 election, and subsequent resistance to the transfer of power to President Trump. It’s frustrating for knowledgeable observers to see Comey’s elite status
Imagine if Democratic leaders Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer were viciously assaulted and Republican politicians behaved as though they deserved it, citing everything from their positions on abortion to healthcare. Democrats would be outraged, and rightfully so.
When Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky announced Monday that he had surgery over the weekend to remove part of his lung, a result of his 2017 assault from his neighbor, many wished him a speedy recovery.
And many didn’t.
“I cannot in any way shape or form … feel any sympathy for you,” wrote “Spring” on Twitter, sympathizing with Paul’s neighbor. That tweet had 112 likes
On Trump's Excellent Speech
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Paul has noted the comments that President Trump made on the weekend’s two mass shootings this morning. His post embeds a video of the president’s speech, which is 10 minutes long. I recommend that you watch it. It was thoughtful, measured, and, in my opinion, struck all the right notes.
It consisted in large part of denunciations of the murderers and sympathy for their victims. Beyond that, Trump’s comments were notable in several ways.
First, Trump attacked white supremacism without noting that socialism, the doctrine of the Ohio murderer, was equally fatal in this case. That was probably sound from a political standpoint, and perhaps manifests
An Arab sheikh tried to enlist his American security staffer to murder two people and ordered him to hold another American captive, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court.
A second plaintiff in the lawsuit makes similar allegations, saying he served as the sheikh’s around-the-clock medic to monitor his vitals during 36-hour long benders and that he was held captive in a compound, threatened with a gun and ultimately jumped from an 18-foot wall to escape.
Sheikh Khalid Bin Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, the brother of the ruler of the oil-rich nation of Qatar, is the target of the lawsuit, which was filed July 23
America desperately needs to have a conversation, and it’s very different than the one we have been having when reflecting on mass murders. Despite the hysteria that these events cause, there is no significant upwards trend. (snip) There are five stages that culminate in a perfect storm that leads to individuals committing these massacres (also known as the Levin & Madfis model). This is gravely important for our society to know, as identifying these factors can lead to prevention of these atrocities.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday that he will introduce bipartisan legislation encouraging states to create "red flag" laws and that President Trump is "very supportive" of the idea.
Graham, in a statement, said he has reached a deal with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on a bill that would start a federal grant program to help and encourage states to create " 'red flag' protection order" laws, which are meant to make it easier for law enforcement to identify mentally ill people who should be banned from purchasing guns.
“These grants
Well, this is both awkward and a solid entry for a Darwin Award. A basketball player attempting to return to the game after a hiatus found a way to spectacularly fail his drug test and get some family news at the same time.
The New York Post:
D.J. Cooper, a former Ohio University star who’s played professionally in Europe, is currently suspended by FIBA after using someone else’s urine for a doping test — a sample which showed Cooper was pregnant, according to Eurohoops.net.
Cooper, 28, was interested in joining Bosnia as a naturalized player. Specifically, Cooper tested positive for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG),
The Democratic candidates have revived the anti-police rhetoric of the Obama years. Joe Biden’s criminal-justice plan promises that black parents will no longer have to fear when their children walk the streets — the threat allegedly coming from cops, not gangbangers. Pete Buttigieg has said police shootings of black men won’t be solved “until we move policing out from the shadow of systemic racism.” Beto O’Rourke claims that police shoot blacks “solely based on the color of their skin.”
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demolishes the Democratic narrative regarding race and police shootings. It turns out that white officers
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, never said there were "fine" Nazis or Ku Klux Klansmen.
This is one of the two great lies of our time -- the other being that all Trump supporters are racists -- and perhaps in all of American history. I cannot think of a lie of such significance that was held as truth by so many Americans, by every leading politician of one of the two major political parties and disseminated by virtually the entire media.
The major news media need to understand these are important reasons that half of America considers them frauds. And we get no pleasure from this fact.
A New York Times headline about President Trump’s remarks on the recent mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton drew condemnation online-- including some Democratic presidential candidates-- and was subsequently changed online late Monday.
The newspaper summarized Trump’s comments, in which he denounced hate and white supremacy, with the headline “Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism” on the front page of its first edition. A photograph of Tuesday’s first edition was tweeted out by journalist Nate Silver Monday night and was quickly slammed by critics who accused The Gray Lady of inaccurately representing Trump’s comments.
El Paso, Texas, Mayor Dee Margo told reporters on Monday that President Trump will visit the city on Wednesday, even as several prominent Democrats indirectly blamed the president for Saturday's mass shooting there -- with some warning him, in frank terms, to stay away.
News of Trump's planned appearance teed up a potentially bitter national political moment just four days after suspected gunman Patrick Crusius, 21, allegedly opened fire at a Walmart and killed 22 people while injuring more than two dozen others.
"He is president of the United States," Margo, a Republican, told reporters. "So in that capacity, I will fulfill my obligations as mayor of El Paso,
By pure chance I stumbled recently on a news report posted on the U.S. taxpayer-funded Voice of America website. It was a news feature story about the personality cult of Argentine Communist Ernesto “Che” Guevara.He is described as a “Marxist revolutionary” in a complimentary narrative that would make any antifa sympathizer proud. Americans who know something about the history of communist atrocities of the last century might find it shocking and wonder how their tax money is being spent. What VOA failed to mention is that Che was a ruthless communist, directly and indirectly responsible for brutal murders of tens of thousands of innocent human beings in Cuba and elsewhere.
Fifty-nine people got shot across the city of Chicago this past weekend — seven fatally, according to police officials.That’s more than the Dayton and El Paso shootings, respectively.“It’s got to stop,” said Keith Flowers, father of Chicago victim Demetrius Flowers, who was murdered following a dispute over a basketball game.“This senseless killing has got to stop,” he told WLS.Of the multiple shootings reported in the Windy City over the weekend, two were said to have been mass casualty incidents in the same police district.
Former President Barack Obama issued a statement Monday expressing grief for the families of the victims of the El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, shooting massacres and calling for people to reject language from leaders “that feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalizes racist sentiments.” “Even if details are still emerging, there are a few things we already know to be true,” Obama tweeted on Monday. “First, no other nation on Earth comes close to experiencing the frequency of mass shootings that we see in the United States. No other developed nation tolerates the levels of gun violence that we do.
The surprise isn’t that we had two
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After the El Paso and Dayton shootings at the end of last week, a friend of mine was asking how we can “pull young men out of the 4chan/8chan toxic cesspool.” It seems like a natural question since the El Paso shooter was the third mass murderer linked to 8chan. This has led to numerous people calling for 8chan to be shut down, as if someone wouldn’t just create a similar forum. The same types of comments come up in one form or fashion whenever a mass murderer is connected to white supremacists, incels or conservatives (but not when the mass murderers, like the Dayton killer, are connected to liberals
Former President Barack Obama delivered a lengthy response to the dual mass shootings that killed 31 people in Texas and Ohio over the weekend. He blamed guns, white supremacist websites, and President Donald Trump’s rhetoric for the ongoing violence in the United States. In a message shared on Twitter, the former president specifically called for more gun control to help prevent more mass shootings. “Until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening,” Obama said in a statement,
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed Monday that Donald Trump's use of a 'dog whistle' to subtly support racists makes him an heir to the Ku Klux Klan, the infamous white supremacist hate group. Biden is the Democratic Party's front-runner to challenge Trump for the White House next year; he said in a brief interview clip aired by CNN that the president is trying 'to divide people – divide them, pit them against one another.' Trump has been on the receiving end of unrelenting attacks since a pair of gun massacres on Saturday claimed 31 lives, beginning with a shooting in El Paso, Texas