Posts on Monday, September 2, 2019
The Department of Justice has drafted legislation that would expedite capital punishment for those found guilty of mass killings, according to a top Trump administration official. Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff Marc Short told reporters Monday that the veep’s policy team has been working with Attorney General William Barr on the death penalty bill, which will likely be part of a larger gun control package the White House will try to sell to Congress amid a wave of shooting massacres, including the latest rampage in Texas that killed seven people. Barr in July said the federal government would push to resume executions of convicted murderers
Faculty members at Kansas University (KU) want to banish a campus Chick-fil-A back to the basement because it’s a threat to “the mental well being” of some on campus.The chicken chain is the most popular fast-food restaurant in America for the fourth consecutive year, but concerned faculty members think Chick-fil-A doesn’t represent the “safety and inclusion” of students, according to Fox News. (Photo) The Sexuality & Gender Diversity Faculty and Staff Council called the outlet a “bastion of bigotry” after it moved from KU’s basement to a more visible location that the council calls “prime real estate.”
As Hurricane Dorian, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record, slammed through the Bahamas en route towards the Southeastern United States, President Donald Trump was spotted on the links at a Trump-branded Virginia golf club. (Tweet) The President has no plans listed on his public schedule for Monday. He was originally set to spend this weekend in Poland commemorating the start of World War II. However, that trip was canceled as the threat posed by Hurricane Dorian became more clear. Trump was also seen at the golf course on Saturday. White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham says that Trump
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The Democrat-Media Complex – the educational system, pop culture, media, music, movies, TV shows, the tech industry – are monopolizing popular culture messaging with “liberalism,” in their relentless attempt to transform America away from what it was founded to be.Conservatives fear expressing their political views and citizens are afraid to publicly support the president of the United States, as Democrats and fake news media twist the meaning of “MAGA” to generate hatred for Trump and incite Antifa thugs to physically attack patriots for expressing the First Amendment right to free speech.In a quest to restore America’s greatness and unify Americans, celebrity designer Andre Soriano
The Odessa gunman reportedly called police and the FBI after being fired from his trucking job and minutes before the mass shooting in West Texas on Saturday. Seth Aaron Ator, 36, had been fired from Journey Oil Field Services on Saturday, Odessa Police Chief Michael Gerke revealed at a press conference on Monday. Gerke said both Ator and the company called 911 after the firing but that Ator was gone by the time police showed up.(Snip) FBI special agent Christopher Combs said Ator then called an FBI tip line and made 'rambling' statements but did not threaten violence. Combs added that Ator
If you read my periodic columns in The Hill, you know I am a Joe Biden supporter. I believe that the former vice president is a decent, honorable man who possesses the right values for America and cares deeply about all people. I am certain he would restore rationality and decency to the American presidency. But I would write this column regardless of who I was supporting in the 2020 presidential election, because I believe it must be said.
It was a quiet night in Platts Harbor, near Santa Cruz Island.
Shirley Hansen and her husband, Bob, had spent the day on the water and anchored their fishing boat Grape Escape in the cove. They cooked a calico bass Shirley had caught and went to bed.
Then, they were woken by a loud thumping noise on the side of their 60-foot vessel.
“It was horrific, the pounding,” Shirley Hansen said. “Our boat is very well made. Having that sound come through [showed] they were very in need of help.”
At what point is enough already enough? Where do we draw the line on our politicians’ personal behavior? Was it the affair between Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton? Or the actions of Minnesota Senator Al Franken, for which he lost his seat? Or will it be the alleged marriage wrecker and serial bride, Minnesota Socialist-Democratic representative Ilhan Omar? Wherever we draw the line, it needs to be drawn. Senator Al Franken, a comedian turned politician, takes a crazy picture, that has the #MeToo movement demanding his head, or seat. And now we have Ilhan Ohmar who glibly dances across America’s political landscape, destroying 243 years plus of American exceptionalism.
Joe Biden’s fellow candidates have compared him to Donald Trump, dismissed him as past his sell-by date and gone public in unison with concerns about his previous positions on race, abortion and even his physically affectionate campaign style. There is little evidence that any of it has stuck. Most August polls showed Biden with the support of nearly one in three Democratic voters nationally, far ahead of his nearest presidential opponent and basically unchanged from polling before he announced his campaign.
That resilience has created a challenge for many of the former vice president’s rivals as the summer comes to
Trump in a Landslide: Here's Why
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How does one know what the voting public thinks?
Once upon a time, long, long ago, public opinion polls may have reflected, however faintly, some generalization of public opinion. For a multitude of reasons, that is no longer true. To demonstrate that point, compare the August 29 Rasmussen poll showing President Trump’s approval rating of 47 percent with the Quinnipiac reported approval rating of 38 percent. Even more irrational are the Quinnipiac poll result that whatever is left of Joe Biden would beat Trump 54 percent to 38 percent in a general election and the Economist poll number that asserts that 55 percent of the public
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shown some phenomenal political nerve in first shutting down parliament, and then insisting on party discipline on penalty of expulsion from the wets and wobblies in his Tory Party who'd rather drag the Brexit farce out to keep Britain caged within the EU just a little longer. He's got his eyes on the prize, knowing that it's his job to ensure that Britain can leave the European Union as British voters demanded. Like President Trump, he means to keep his promises.
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HONG KONG - Every night at 10 p.m., Hong Kong neighborhoods and university dorms echo with pro-democracy and anti-government chants, the latest form of protest in the Chinese-ruled city where a civil disobedience movement has been going on for more than 12 weeks. What started as a protest against a now-suspended bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China for trial, has evolved into a broad, increasingly violent, and creative, struggle for greater democracy.
Coast Guard officials said four bodies have been recovered and up to 30 people are believed to be missing after a 75-foot commercial diving boat erupted in flames near the shoreline of Santa Cruz Island, Calif., early Monday.
Many aboard the boat, identified as the Conception, were thought to be sleeping below deck when the fire broke out in the pre-dawn hours. (Snip)The crew was distraught, some wearing only underwear, she said. One man told the Hansens that his girlfriend was still below deck on the Conception. Another man cried, describing how they had celebrated three passengers’ birthdays hours earlier,
OXNARD, Calif. — The bodies of four people who died when a raging fire swept through a dive-boat off the Southern California coast were recovered Monday as authorities said more than two dozen others remained missing and feared dead.
Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Kroll says the four bodies had injuries consistent with drowning.
Searchers continued to look for more than two dozen other people who were aboard the vessel Conception, which burned while anchored off Santa Cruz Island.
“Right now they’re conducting shoreline searches for any available survivors,” Coast Guard Capt. Monica Rochester told reporters at a brief news conference at Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Sunday evening that the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) report on former FBI director James Comey, and the DOJ’s decision not to press charge, does not mean he is out of the woods.
Nunes said that Comey, who President Donald Trump fired as FBI director in the first few months of his presidency sparking the launch of the now-completed Special Counsel investigation, could still face charges on a criminal conspiracy from the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut.
A woman and a man out to celebrate J’Ouvert before the street fest officially kicked off were fatally gunned down and another man was stabbed during an attack in Brooklyn early Monday, police and law enforcement sources said. The assault was reported to police just before 3 a.m. on Newkirk Avenue, near Flatbush Avenue—about two miles away from the official J’Ouvert route, according to the NYPD. When cops arrived they found the woman identified by sources as 50-year-old Wanda Rodriguez shot in the torso, a 45-year-old man identified by sources as Felix Avila with multiple gunshot wounds
Sunday on New York AM 970 radio’s “The Cats Roundtable,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich argued that it is not “conceivable” for neither former President Barack Obama nor his Attorney General Loretta Lynch to not know the FBI was spying on the Donald Trump campaign. Gingrich told host John Catsimatidis after the recent release of the Department of Justice’s inspector general report that it is “clear” the fix was in and those involved will not be prosecuted.“With everything we’re learning from the inspector general‘s report, how is it conceivable that the attorney general and the president didn’t know about it?” asked Gingrich. “So, part 1 is to
A Utah woman was arrested over the weekend for allegedly posing as her 21-year-old daughter in an attempt to avoid drug possession charges. Heather Garcia, 38, was pulled over in Davis County on Saturday after an officer noticed that her BMW didn't have a license plate. According to Fox San Antonio, officers from the Davis County Police Department searched her vehicle and found drug paraphernalia and a white powdery substance. Police said Garcia then told them that her name was Mercedes and that she was born in 1998. At that point, the officer didn't realize that Garcia had given them her daughter's
ODESSA, Texas — The Chick-fil-A on University Blvd., along with Chick-fil-A at the Odessa Town Center, cooked and packaged 500 sandwiches for first responders in Odessa. After Saturday's heartbreaking events, the restaurant planned to close early and send their team home to be with their families. As they walked out of the restaurant, the team saw an opportunity to feed local law enforcement. (Tweet/Video) With the option to help, not one person said no. "Sometimes light in a dark world looks as simple as a hot chicken sandwich," the company said in a Facebook post. "We just couldn’t be prouder of these helpers and their hearts of gold."
As many as 13,000 homes have been severely damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, according to recent reports. Residents also continue to face dangerous flooding, gale-force winds, and downpours of up to 30 inches of rain. “Despite its downgrade, Dorian is still a powerful hurricane and will remain so in the coming days. There’s not much difference between an intense category 4 and a low-end category 5,” according to the Guardian.
On Monday morning, the National Hurricane Center tweeted an advisory about the life-threatening storm.
“A prolonged period of catastrophic winds and storm surge will continue to affect Grand Bahama Island through today and tonight,”
While Hurricane Dorian’s up-to 220 mph winds were battering the Bahamas, one brave soul there ventured forth to issue a dire message to the world: “Send beer.”
A Nassau tourism web cam captured the moment the unidentified beach-comber ambled out onto the sand to scrawl the message at around 1:30 p.m. — around the same time the monster Category 5 was harrowing Great Abaco Island about 90 miles north after making landfall there around 12:40 p.m.
The man appears to sign his handiwork “G7DAZ.”
It might not be entirely out of character for Bahamians, who are known to be pretty mellow.
Chilling audio of a distress call from the captain of Monday’s doomed Santa Cruz boat includes him describing how all of his passengers are trapped below deck “with no escape hatch.”
“There’s 33 people on board the vessel on fire. They can’t get off,” says the man, who later identifies himself as the captain of the Conception diving tour boat, to a US Coast Guard operator. The Coast Guard worker responds, “Roger. Are they locked inside the boat? Roger. Can you get back on board and unlock the doors so they can get off? Roger. You don’t have any firefighter gear at all, no fire extinguishers or anything?”
Four bodies have been recovered and at least 29 people remained unaccounted for hours after a dive boat burned and sank near Santa Cruz Island early Monday, officials said.
The four people who were found off the Ventura County coast appeared to have drowned, U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Comdr. Matthew Kroll told the Associated Press. Twenty-nine or 30 people remained missing, but that number could change due to some conflicting information on the manifest, Coast Guard Petty Officer Mark Barney (Snip)The Coast Guard’s L.A.-Long Beach station learned about the incident after overhearing a “gargled” mayday call at around 3:15 a.m.,
Beto O’Rourke’s Campaign is Slinging Mass
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Beto O’Rourke’s campaign released a new t-shirt on Sunday in response to the deadly rampage in Texas just one day before.The seven victims who lost their lives in the mass shooting that took place in Midland and Odessa have not even been buried yet. The black t-shirts, which his campaign is selling for $30 each, reads “This Is F—ed Up,” which he is apparently trying to make his new slogan. The campaign says that they will be donating the proceeds to Moms Demand Action and March For Our Lives, while soaking up the free publicity from standing on these bodies.
Fellow actors call on Debra Messing,
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Randy Quaid unloaded on his fellow Hollywood actors over their calls for a “blacklist” of President Donald Trump’s donors. The Academy Award-nominated actor slammed the “naive” stars, Eric McCormack, Melissa Gilbert and Debra Messing, in a tweet denouncing their attempts to shame Trump donors. (Photo) uaid, star of films like “Independence Day” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” remarked in a Sunday tweet that he is “being trolled with negative, decade old Fake News stories” since he denounced the blacklisting efforts of the actors in previous tweets. I’ve noticed since my tweets criticizing @EricMcCormack , @DebraMessing & @MEGBusfield desire to create a blacklist
Today, Americans enjoy a day off of work to celebrate Labor Day, a holiday commemorating the organized labor movement. Unions did indeed secure important rights for American workers, including the idea of a weekend including Saturday and Sunday. Yet organized labor is horrifically corrupt today. Workers who refuse to join a union because they disagree with the union's political stance were forced to pay fees to the union, anyway — until the Supreme Court defended workers' free speech last year. Now, unions and their political allies are fighting to prevent workers from leaving the unions and from opting out of paying fees.
In his address outside No 10 about an hour ago, Johnson called on MPs to vote with the government tomorrow, hinting that not doing so would make an election more likely. He said: “We will not accept any attempt to go back on our promises or scrub that referendum...” Please split wide headlines.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The childhood home of Corpus Christi icon Farrah Fawcett is up for sale. The real estate website Zillow.com notes that the home at 926 Rosedale Drive was "Farrah Fawcett's childhood home" and has been on the website for 44 days. The three-bedroom, one-bathroom home, built in 1953, is listed as having 997 square feet. It currently has an asking price of $129,500 and has a pending offer, according to the website . The home also has a sign in its front yard saying the property has a pending offer.The Fawcetts lived at the home during the 1950s and 1960s.
An EMT driver blasted other road users for hogging the shoulder of the I-15 highway after a truck crash near Baker, California.
The crash had left roads closed on both sides after one of the trucks caught fire, sending smoke billowing across the desert roads.
As the truck approaches, blaring it's sirens, cars on the shoulder are slow to move out of the way. [Video] The driver is forced to take the van down the verge, tilting the ambulance. Annoyed by the obstacles in front of him the driver gets on the loudspeaker.
He says to the drivers: 'This is why you guys stay on the f***ing road,'
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Donald John Trump is the first president in decades not to make human rights part of his foreign policy. He may be the most effective president since Ronald Wilson Reagan on human rights. [Snip] The Trumpian goal is not just to balance trade with Red China but to obliterate its communist regime. He keeps it to himself, but those who observe him know. He says it best when he says nothing at all. [Snip] "Mr. Trump, with an admittedly unorthodox style, is trying to break down the systems, and the concessions, that have allowed the CCP to operate unchecked for too long. He deserves credit, not criticism, for saying: Enough."
Back in the day, young people and soccer moms used to hang out at the local shopping mall when they had nothing better to do. Typically, they’d exchange the latest gossip, malicious or otherwise. Enjoy, guilt-free, cheap eats together somewhere in the mall’s food court. And occasionally filch something from one of the shops if the spirit moved them. But above all, they socialized, in person, face-to-face, one-on-one or as a group. Today, that’s all gone. And, unsurprisingly, malls are going downhill for various reasons. In their stead, today’s generations congregate at the propaganda mall, otherwise known as social media. Please split wide headlines.
VJ Day – September 2, 2019
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What is VJ Day? VJ Day, or Victory over Japan Day, marks the allied victory over Japan in World War II. (Snip) VJ day is celebrated on different dates in different nations. For example, V-J Day is August 15 in the United Kingdom; that’s the date of the initial announcement of Japanese surrender. In the United States, however, V-J Day refers to September 2 — the day in 1945 on which the surrender of the Empire of Japan was actually formalized, marking the end of World War II. This is one of the most important commemorations in U.S. and world history. Let’s look deeper.
The progressive wing of Democratic presidential contenders is staking out a hardline position on a pipeline replacement project in Minnesota, a position that is further left than many local Democrats in the state and could pinch more centrist Democrats on the national level.The Enbridge 3 pipeline, or "Line 3," would run slightly more than 300 miles in Minnesota, cross headwaters of the Mississippi River, and also traverse some tribal land. Although it is a replacement project, the project will involve some construction on new ground.
For the Democratic far-left, opposition to the pipeline appeals to environmentalists and provides an opportunity to show solidarity with Native American groups
Oh no! Not Hanoi Jane! Democrats sent out communist sympathizer and treasonous Jane Fonda this weekend to knock on doors and push swing voters to dump Trump. Fonda wore an AFL-CIO T-shirt for her canvassing campaign against President Trump. (Snip )-She was out campaigning against the ONE PERSON who is bringing manufacturing jobs back to America today.The Daily Mail reported: Actress Jane Fonda reveals she’s ‘scared for our democracy’ and to raise political awareness for the upcoming election she rolled up her sleeves and went door-knocking in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
New Jersey's largest Labor Day parade was canceled Monday after a cooler of fireworks left at a Sunday concert led police to find "multiple small explosive devices" on a property near the parade route, senior law-enforcement officials tell NBC 4. The South Plainfield Labor Day parade and fireworks display was canceled Monday morning due to a "security concern," the borough announced on Facebook. Governor Phil Murphy was supposed to be marching in the parade.(Snip) A man had brought a cooler of fireworks to the concert and then left the cooler near the venue, a senior New Jersey State Police official said.
A Middlesex County man is in police custody after several pipe bomb-like devices were found near the route of a Labor Day parade that the governor was set to attend Monday. Officials detained a man on Monday morning after they found “over half a dozen” devices on his large property near South Plainfield’s Labor Day Parade route, according to a senior law enforcement official with the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.
Gov. Phil Murphy and first lady Tammy Murphy were supposed to attend the parade, which was set to start at 10 a.m., according to spokesman Dan Bryan.
Dorian 2019 - Atlantic Ocean
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Hurricane Dorian is breaking records over the Bahamas as the most destructive hurricane to ever hit the Bahama Islands. Catastrophic winds with gusts over 200 mph are smashing through the islands leaving devastation in their wake. Storm surge of 18 to 23 feet above normal tide levels with higher destructive waves are expected throughout the storm’s passing.
On Dorian’s current track and speed of movement, the core of extremely dangerous Hurricane Dorian will continue to pound Grand Bahama Island through much of today and tonight. The hurricane will move dangerously close to the Florida east coast tonight through Wednesday evening.
Joe Biden is Going Nuts
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“I want to be clear—I’m not going nuts,” Joe Biden assured a crowd in New Hampshire last Friday. It was merely the latest in a lifetime of lies this serial fabulist has told. ALL of the available evidence proves that he is clearly going nuts. Perhaps part of it is due to the pressure of being an old white man who’s posing as the standard-bearer of a political party whose sole agenda these days is the extermination and debasement of old white men.
A disturbing number of senior officials in several U.S. Federal Government Departments and Agencies seem to have forgotten—if they ever knew—the story behind the words “liberty and justice for all”.
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, students in their first year in public schools began the day by standing to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, ending with the words “...with liberty and justice for all”.
Facebook notified Live Action founder and president Lila Rose on Friday that her organization’s pro-life posts would be subjected to “reduced distribution and other restrictions” after “additional reporting from an independent fact-checker” had deemed the content “false news.” Live Action is a non-profit organization “dedicated to exposing the truth about abortion and affirming the life of every child.” The alleged third-party “fact checkers” quoted abortion doctors as evidence that Live Action’s claim that “abortion is never medically necessary” is false.
President Donald Trump recognized the American worker in a proclamation for the Labor Day holiday.“On Labor Day, we recognize the remarkable American workers who comprise the greatest labor force in the world,” he wrote. “American workers are the heart and soul of our Nation’s economic resurgence.”The president touted his record of pro-growth policies in the economy, adding more than six million new jobs since his election with historically low unemployment numbers. He also pointed to wages rising at the fastest pace in a decade.“Jobs are consistently becoming available faster than people can fill them,” he wrote.
On Saturday, anti-abortion organization Live Action released a video in which Founder Lila Rose interviews Sue Thayer, a former Planned Parenthood manager. Thayer describes in graphic detail the process by which abortion clinic workers would attempt to put together all the pieces of the terminated fetus in order to make sure everything had been removed from the post-abortive woman's uterus: ROSE: You described when you were first being trained at Planned Parenthood, they sent you to an actual abortion room to witness the procedure. Can you tell us about that experience? THAYER: Well, when you first start out, they have the trainees stand by the door,
Far-left activist Alyssa Milano inquired on Sunday about whether self-defense was a God-given right, and she promptly received a first-class education from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on the subject. "Can someone cite which passage of the Bible God states it is a god-given right to own a gun?" Milano tweeted. "This guy is unbelievable and is clearly owned by the gun lobby. #NoRA" Milano's tweet was directed at Texas State Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler), who delivered a blistering rebuke to anti-Second Amendment advocates in response to this weekend's tragedy in Odessa, Texas, in which a man went on a shooting spree after being pulled over by troopers,
The U.S. Coast Guard was involved in a massive rescue operation Monday morning after a 75-foot boat caught fire off the coast of Ventura County, trapping dozens of people.More than 30 people were missing and officials said some died. Many on the boat were believed to be sleeping below deck when the fire broke out and appear to have been trapped.“This situation is unfolding,” said Coast Guard Petty Officer Third Class Aidan Cooney. (Photo) Just after 3:30 a.m., the Ventura County Fire Department responded out to a boat in distress off Santa Cruz Island. They arrived to find the boat fully engulfed.
VENTURA – Five people were rescued and 34 more are missing after a fire broke out on a boat early Monday morning near Santa Cruz Island, off the Ventura County coastline. Authorities confirm there are fatalities, although the exact number is unknown. (Snip) Experienced diver and CBS2 employee Darla Fletcher, who has taken several diving trips with Truth Aquatics, explained that the quarters on the boat are very cramped. “Typically, the crew members will sleep up top, they’re not gonna sleep down there with the divers,” Fletcher said. “Especially on a full boat like this weekend, there were probably divers
An Afghan man suspected of stabbing two American tourists last year at Amsterdam's Central Station has told judges he travelled to the Netherlands 'to protect the Prophet Mohammed'. Jawed Santani, 20, appeared at a two-day hearing in a heavily fortified courtroom in Amsterdam, where he faces two attempted murder charges with the aim of committing an act of terror. 'I came to the Netherlands to protect my prophet,' he told the judges in reference to the August 31 incident last year that sent midday commuters into a panic and left two severely injured victims.(Snip) Santani previously mentioned anti-Islam politician Geert
Nicole Schulze was 24 years old and €40,000 (£36,6616) in debt when she decided to become a prostitute. It was 2004 and she was living in Cologne. Two years earlier prostitution had been legalised across Germany, and the city of Cologne quickly distinguished itself: it made sex work a major part of its urban policy.(Snip) Located on the edge of town, the result is a kind of sex drive-through. Customers drive down a one-way street, into a roughly two-acre open air-space where sex workers can offer their services. Once hired, the sex worker accompanies the customer into
Are American Voters Helpless?
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There is not a day that goes by that I read comments from all over the social media on major issues that threaten this land of the free. Many Americans know what the problems are, but they are helpless in solving them alone. Why? Because we are a representative republic and expect our elected representatives to know the problems and solve them. Americans love courageous leaders like President Trump and Senator Ted Cruz and despise weak politicians whose only art is playing with nonsocial words.
When was the last time you witnessed a courageous and knowledgeable representative stand up in the U.S. Congress to address
CNN’s fall from a purveyor of news to pure propaganda organ of the Left was vividly displayed yesterday. An anchor named Ana Cabrera accused an expert of “sidestepping” the purported issue of global warming making hurricanes more dangerous. She didn’t interview the guest herself, but rather commented on a previous interview done by her colleague in which the other CNN anchor tried to bait guest Peter Gaynor, acting FEMA director, into blaming global warming:
Researchers say that we’re going to see even more very intense hurricanes due to the climate crisis. Do you agree with that?
While Dave Ball today on these pages cautions us that polls no longer are reliable, in his article Trump in a Landslide: Here's Why, the New York Times’ own polling guru is picking up signs that the paper’s bête noire may be surging in public support. Nate Cohn writes in Don’t Assume Trump’s Approval Rating Can’t Climb Higher. It Already Has.:
Donald J. Trump doesn’t always seem like a candidate focused on expanding his base of support. He may have done so anyway.
The share of Americans who say they have a favorable view of him has increased significantly since the 2016 election.
So there was another shooting in Texas. At last count, including the perpetrator, there are seven dead and around 20 injured. We don't really know anything much about the perpetrator except that he's been identified as white. Apparently, what prompted the shooting was the perpetrator was stopped by the police, shot his way out, and then raced off, shooting other people until he was finally cornered and shot dead. (Prediction: we'll find out he had a long criminal record and active arrest warrants for major crimes.)
Now because I'm sure some rental commenter is just waiting to start typing, yes I think it's awful that people got shot and killed.
WASHINGTON - As summer ends and the race for the 2020 Democratic U.S. presidential nomination shifts into a higher gear, former Vice President Joe Biden's perilous position atop the vast field stands to be tested under even more pressure. Biden, 76, has consistently maintained a comfortable lead over his rivals. But his campaign has been plagued by doubts over his age, fitness for office and whether, as a moderate, he can be a standard-bearer for a party that has grown increasingly liberal. Those questions are likely to be magnified in the coming weeks. Labor Day serves as the traditional marker for
The life cycle of labor unions is predictable, the late economist Sylvester Petro once wrote. Because they are born not out of mutual exchange, but out of state-backed coercion, American unions inevitably face eventual demise triggered by their own corruption.
The aged United Auto Workers union may be approaching that moment of extinction.
After a four-year federal investigation into UAW bribes, kickbacks, and crony labor negotiations, the government has secured prison sentences for eight people connected to the union, Fiat Chrysler, and Automobiles NV, according to the Detroit News.
The feds raided six locations, including the home of UAW President Gary Jones, and say they have evidence
Happy Labor Day? Federal authorities raided the homes of present and past union leaders in what appears to be a widening probe into corruption at the United Automobile Workers (UAW). (Snip) Walter Reuther is turning over in his grave. UAW leadership in a corrupt relationship with auto executives? In the 1930s, the ancestors of those execs hired goons (and local police) to beat up striking workers. Now they appear to have a nice, cozy sweetheart relationship.
"The raids come at a critical time for the UAW and auto workers, as the union is in the midst of contract negotiations with
This is what it looks like in the eye of the storm. A stunning photo posted Sunday afternoon on Twitter shows the sun shining in a clear blue sky over powerful Hurricane Dorian as a US Air Force plane flies through the calm center of the chaos.A fluffy, brilliant white cloud stretches in a semi-circle across the bottom of the spectacular image, which also shows a six-bladed propeller engine near the lower left-hand corner.“The eye of #Dorian,” tweeted Garret Black, whose profile describes him as a “Meteorologist” and “Air Force Hurricane Hunter.”
From Icon to Just a Con
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Most of us who came of age in the 1970s revered the university—even as it was still reeling from 1960s protests and beginning a process that resulted in its present chaos and disrepute.Americans of the G.I. Bill-era first enshrined the idea of upward mobility through the bachelor’s degree—the assumed gateway to career security—and the positive role of expanding colleges to grow the new suburban middle classes.Despite student radicalism and demands for reform, professors had been trained in the postwar era by an older breed of prewar scholars and teachers. As stewards they passed on their sense of professionalism about training future scholars and teachers—and just broadly educated citizens.
Trump in a Landslide: Here's Why
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How does one know what the voting public thinks?Once upon a time, long, long ago, public opinion polls may have reflected, however faintly, some generalization of public opinion. For a multitude of reasons, that is no longer true. To demonstrate that point, compare the August 29 Rasmussen poll showing President Trump’s approval rating of 47 percent with the Quinnipiac reported approval rating of 38 percent. Even more irrational are the Quinnipiac poll result that whatever is left of Joe Biden would beat Trump 54 percent to 38 percent in a general election and the Economist poll number that asserts that 55 percent of the public
Military spouses are better educated than ever before, but rather than helping increase family income, their additional qualifications are often an impediment to greater earning power.
Between 35% and 50% of military spouses work in fields that require occupational licenses or certifications, which are not always recognized when couples move to a new state or country.
This week, Bishop Antonio Yao Shun was installed as Bishop of Jining in northern China. There are thousands of Catholic bishops, but Shun’s installment was a groundbreaking event. Bishop Shun was approved by both the Vatican and the Chinese government. In the past, the millions of Chinese Catholics have been divided between the state-sanctioned “Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association” and the underground and persecuted Catholic Church, which is loyal to the Vatican. Shun is the first bishop to be appointed since a deal was made in September of last year, which gave both the CCP and the Vatican a say in appointments. While the deal is said to be a compromise
Last week’s publication of the Justice Department Inspector General’s report on former FBI director James Comey basically found that he was the leaking, sneaky weasel that he promised President Trump he wouldn’t be.
Comey claims that he’s been cleared and is demanding an apology. Some conservatives are disheartened that the IG’s findings didn’t result in a Justice Department decision to prosecute Comey.
Former U.S. attorney Joe diGenova, meanwhile, has said categorically that the IG’s report investigating the FBI’s actions in obtaining Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants during the “Russia collusion” investigation concludes that all four of the warrants obtained against one-time Trump advisor Carter Page were obtained “illegally.”
Here are some of the quarterbacks with whom the Colts, now in search of a backup quarterback to Jacoby Brissett, have visited in the week since Andrew Luck shocked the football world by retiring:
Brock Osweiler, such a crackerjack at the position that he once got released by the Browns after they’d traded for him because they liked DeShone Kizer better than they liked him.
Matt Cassel, who is 37, who had his best year 11 years ago with the Patriots when Tom Brady got hurt, and whose last start was with the Titans two years.
On 1 September 1939, as the massed German divisions began the invasion of Poland, one of the places that would be quickly overrun was a small and unprepossessing town on a railroad junction close to the Vistula river.
Named Oświęcim, within 10 months it would host the beginnings of the camp the world would know by its infamous German rechristening: Auschwitz.
Today, on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War, it still prompts one of the most shaming questions of the war: why allied leaders, Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt most prominent among them, failed to prevent the mass slaughter of Europe’s Jews?
We Need to Talk about Joe Biden
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There are two possible explanations of Joe Biden’s inability to tell the truth about things: One is that his mind is failing him, the other is that his honor is. In neither case is Biden fit to hold the office of president of the United States of America, and Democrats would discredit themselves and endanger the nation to nominate him.
Yes, yes, go ahead — “But, Trump!” etc. — and continue when you’ve completed the ritual of equivocation, and don’t think too hard about how far and in what direction that line of moral self-justification has carried the Republican party.
Joe Biden is a plagiarist and a liar, among other things.
The new report from the Justice Department inspector general proves beyond any doubt that fired FBI Director James Comey leaked sensitive law enforcement material in the Trump-Russia investigation. Doing so set a "dangerous example" for the bureau's other employees, Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote.
Still, Comey's supporters have claimed exoneration on one front: that Comey did not leak classified information. Some reacted angrily when President Trump tweeted that Comey had done so.
But Comey did, in fact, leak classified information. It's right there in the report. It wasn't much classified information, and it was perhaps not terribly important, and Justice Department officials concluded it was not worth prosecuting.
It's an extra-sunny Sunday for NASA's Parker Solar Probe, which is making its third close pass around the sun today (Sept. 1).
The spacecraft is designed to help scientists better understand the sun and, in particular, its outer atmosphere, called the corona. That atmosphere is millions of degrees, whether Fahrenheit or Celsius — much hotter than the visible surface of the star — and scientists can't quite figure out where all that heat comes from.
So NASA built the Parker Solar Probe, which will make 24 daring dives into the corona by the end of its mission, in 2025. The spacecraft launched last August and has already completed two solar flybys.
It's hard to know what constituency Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke is targeting by dropping F-bombs all over the media landscape.
Normally, I'd guess high school hipsters but they can't vote. Maybe Beto is trying to sound "working class" -- power to the effin' worker and all that. But let's face it, Beto doesn't look or sound "working class." He looks and sounds like a nerdy folk singer -- which is exactly what he was.
All we know is that Beto has been using a naughty word for making love a lot these last 24 hours.
Daily Beast:
Former Texas representative and 2020 hopeful Beto O’Rourke railed
A new book comparing Melania Trump and Michelle Obama has brought out predictable slaps against the current first lady from bullies who seek to attack the president through his family.
Pitting two women against each other just never gets old, does it?
“Melania & Michelle: First Ladies in a New Era,” by Tammy R. Vigil, is presented as a mere bipartisan assessment of the public images of both women.
But it thinly veils its criticism of one and its admiration of the other. No prizes for guessing who’s who.
Vigil, a Boston academic, notes that Melania “ranks among the least liked of all modern first ladies, [and her] professional life prepared her to serve
The 36 arrests and four police who were injured during Saturday’s Straight Pride Parade in Boston is the latest episode highlighting why Antifa, a radical far-left militant group, ought to be designated a terror organization.
Someone please tell Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins and the media who turn a blind eye to the anti-Trump, anti-conservative and anti-democracy terror group’s rampant thuggery.
First off, Antifa doesn’t really stand for “anti-fascist,” despite what the violent hooligans masquerading as “protesters” claim. The alt-left militant group clad in all black wearing face masks and helmets resembling ISIS extremists are more aptly described as anti-First Amendment as they — like other terror groups —
Texas authorities on Sunday said the gunman who opened fire the day before—killing seven and injuring at least 22—had been fired from his trucking job just hours before the shooting rampage, a report said.
The gunman was killed by law enforcement in a movie theater parking lot in the town of Odessa. It is believed he was acting alone and no motive was determined, The New York Times reported. The deceased victims ranged from 15 to 57. The gunman—who was identified in a press release Sunday—used an “AR-type weapon” in the rampage that had multiple crime scenes.
Law enforcement mentioned that this was a “different type” of active shooter
Midwood, Brooklyn—Police say they don’t believe a Saturday attack on a man wearing traditional Jewish garment in Brooklyn was motivated by bias, but some members of the jewish community are concerned. Men dressed in traditional Jewish garment have been the target of attacks in Brooklyn three times over the last week. The latest attack happened late Saturday in front of a Midwood synagogue.(Snip) Former New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind tweeted that the victim was a young, Jewish man— and that the suspects called the victim a "f***ing Jew." Then, proceeded to hit him over the head
Former presidential hopeful Sen. Kristen Gillibrand plans to help the campaigns of other women running for office after recently ending her own White House bid, she said Friday. Ms. Gillibrand, New York Democrat, said on Twitter that she intends to fundraise for female candidates on the heels of exiting the 2020 presidential race Wednesday. “I’m proud that we put women front and center in my campaign. And while this chapter is over, there’s still work to be done to bring more women to the decision-making table. That’s why I’m committing to raise and invest at least $1 million to elect women candidates