Posts on Friday, September 6, 2019
Trump Gloats As NOAA Releases
Statement Supporting Claims Hurricane
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Statement Supporting Claims Hurricane
Dorian Could Hit Alabama replies
President Donald Trump spent the last couple of days showing maps that indicated Hurricane Dorian's path could include Alabama. On Friday evening, the national agency that gives weather advisories defended his claim. Moreover, the president tweeted a video showing a CNN meteorologist explaining how during the initial reports of Dorian's path that some states in the Gulf of Mexico could possibly be affected.
First, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a statement that said Dorian's original predicted path did include Alabama.
UFT director from Queens nabbed after
sexting with detective he thought was
14-year-old boy: officials replies
sexting with detective he thought was
14-year-old boy: officials replies
Brooklyn—A United Federation of Teachers director has been charged with attempting to coerce a minor into sex as part of a sting operation, according to a complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court Friday. According to a statement by Detective Damon Gergar, who was involved in the sting, 41-year-old Jason Seto contacted him via a dating app that Gergar says people "primarily use to meet up to have sexual contact." Gergar claims Seto sent him a picture of himself that included his face as well as a photo of his genitals. Gergar says that within 15 minutes of talking to Seto,
Washington—The White House is considering a plan that would keep most refugees who are fleeing war, persecution and famine out of the United States, significantly cutting back a decades-old program, according to current and former administration officials. One option that top officials are weighing would cut refugee admissions by half or more, to 10,000 to 15,000 people, but reserve most of those spots for people from a few countries or from groups with special status, such as Iraqis and Afghans who work alongside American troops, diplomats and intelligence operatives abroad. Another option, proposed by a top administration official, would reduce refugee
Former Vice President Joe Biden is known to be a bit…handsy at times. There are the biker chick photo and the various allegations of downright odd behavior, like reportedly smelling a lieutenant governor candidate’s hair, which created some controversy at the outset of his 2020 candidacy. Yet, there was never going to be any accountability. He’s the Democrats’ best hope to beat Trump in 2020, and even his past accusers said that his actions, while creepy, shouldn’t disqualify him from running. So, that’s the Democratic Party for you. Weaponize sexual assault/misconduct allegations, but only for use against your political enemies. Yet, at a campaign stop in Iowa,
Boeing’s new widebody jet, the 777X, suffered a setback Thursday afternoon during a high-pressure stress test on the ground when one of the airplane’s doors exploded outward. One 777X employee working in a nearby bay at Boeing’s Everett plant said he heard “a loud boom and the ground shook.” The accident happened to what’s called the “static test airplane,” one of the two airplanes in any new jet program that are built for ground testing only and will never fly. It was during the final test that must be passed as part of the airplane’s certification by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
Gentle readers, in our previous visit we discussed a police chase in Baltimore, one that was, in my view, imprudently and prematurely called off by a police commander who was worried about the potential for a traffic collision. The suspect being pursued had committed two acts of attempted murder on police officers, the first by trying to run an officer over with a car, the second by shooting at another officer, yet this supervisor chose to allow the suspect to escape. Two days later, police shot and killed the suspect after, yes, another car chase.
A police officer and a civilian were wounded
Adios, Think Progress
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Not too many years ago, Think Progress, the web site operated by the Center for American Progress, was one of the most prominent left-wing destinations on the web. But more recently its traffic has declined and it has consistently lost money. CAP tried to find a buyer for Think Progress, but apparently no one was interested in the money-sucking site, and now CAP has shut it down:
"The decision was made after the site was unable to find a buyer. The Center for American Progress (CAP) has tried to sell off the website after operating for years in the red, according to The Daily Beast.
Joe Biden took the hand of a young female protester at his New Hampshire town hall on Friday evening to ask her to look into his eyes as he promised her he would end the use of fossil fuels. The former vice president was confronted by left-wing members of his party about his record on climate issues during the event. Rebecca Beaulieu, 24, of the group of 350 New Hampshire Action, asked Biden, 76, about a fundraiser he attended at the home of Andrew Goldman, who helped found a natural gas company.(Snip) 'Kiddo,' he said to her, 'I want you to
Iceland's president wears rainbow
bracelet during Pence visit, apparently
to show support for LGBT replies
bracelet during Pence visit, apparently
to show support for LGBT replies
The president of Iceland included a colorful accessory choice for the occasion of his recent Reykjavik meeting with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, a rainbow bracelet. Guðni Jóhannesson and his wife, Eliza Reid, both wore the rainbow bands during the meeting, apparently as a show of support for LGBT individuals in light of criticism of Mr. Pence’s record on gay and transgender issues. The Indiana Republican, a devout Christian, has been criticized as anti-LGBT by detractors for his record in public office, especially a controversy from 2015 during Mr. Pence’s tenure as governor when a religious-liberty bill he supported was met
The U.S. economy is “faltering,” House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declared Friday in response to the U.S. Labor Department’s August report revealing that a record number of people were employed last month, while the unemployment rate held at 3.7% - and fell to record lows for blacks and Hispanics.“The August jobs report offers little comfort in an economy faltering under the Trump Administration’s reckless agenda,” Speaker Pelosi says in a statement posted on her website: "The August jobs report offers little comfort in an economy faltering under the Trump Administration’s reckless agenda to undermine the health, financial security and well-being of the American people."
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Friday said President Trump is becoming more “erratic” and predicted that the president will double down on his “worst instincts” if the economy moves closer to a recession.Mr. Biden, who has faced questions over his own series of recent verbal misfires on the presidential campaign trail, said the current president’s behavior is cause for concern.“Now that the president is feeling pressure on the economy, he’s becoming — and we’re teetering on a recession — he’s becoming more erratic,” Mr. Biden, the front-runner for
President Trump's Twitter feed is vulnerable to being hacked by a foreign power or other adversary, according to a Washington Examiner investigation of cybersecurity measures in place to protect his account. When Trump logs on to his Twitter account, an authentication code is sent in a text message to a senior aide’s cellphone, a step that could allow for the same type of intrusion as last week’s hack of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.But while Dorsey’s Twitter account spewed racism for 18 minutes, the stakes are much higher for Trump, whose feed can move markets and threaten world peace. “A hack of this President’s Twitter account would be especially dangerous because
Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti argued the media's obsession with President Donald Trump's altering a map of Hurricane Dorian's path is a "winning issue" for him as he continues doing battle with the news media.On Friday's Meet the Press Daily, Continetti directly criticized the media for refusing to move on and making themselves Trump's "punching bag." Host Chuck Todd said he thought Trump stumbled into the controversy and decided to use it to his opportunity."He views it: ‘All right, now I'm going to have a war with the media, because I can make the media the enemy on this and my people won't care,'" Todd said.
Dozens of people trapped on a scuba diving boat that caught fire off the Southern California coast appear to have died from smoke inhalation, not burns, authorities said Friday.
The 34 people were trapped in a cramped bunkroom below the main deck of the Conception after the fire broke out around 3 a.m. Monday and quickly engulfed the boat.
Preliminary findings on the causes of death(Snip) raise the possibility the victims inhaled highly toxic smoke and died in their sleep before being scorched by flames that burned their bodies beyond recognition.
"The indicators are from the preliminary examination of the bodies that the victims died prior to being burned,”
I am thankful every day that we have a businessman in the White House who brilliantly understands how to leverage U.S. economic power to achieve national security objectives.
While remaining under the threat of punishing U.S. tariffs, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez-Obrador (aka AMLO) is strictly enforcing migrant blockades to stop the unlawful travel of Central American migrants to the U.S. border. (Snip)Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador, a leftist who took office Dec. 1 promising better treatment of migrants, instead has embraced the fight against migrant smuggling.
In recent weeks, he has seldom mentioned the U.S. pressure and depicts the crackdown on migrants as a struggle to defend Mexican laws.
The death toll from devastating Hurricane Dorian will be 'staggering' with thousands still missing, officials have warned amid reports looters are 'trying to shoot people' in the scramble for food and water. Up to 70,000 are in need of 'life-saving assistance' while Great Abaco is said to be virtually uninhabitable, with bodies piled up and witnesses say there is a 'smell of death' with corpses floating in the water. While the official death toll stands at 30, that number is expected to rise and hundreds of body bags have been ordered along with extra freezers.A massive international relief effort was ramped up today
Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday released transcript from their hearing on August 22 where Judge Royce Lamberth granted new discovery and witnesses on Hillary Clinton’s email case.Judge Lamberth, a Reagan appointee blasted State Department lawyers defending Hillary Clinton who were working to cover up her email scandal. ‘There is no FOIA exemption for political expedience, nor is there one for bureaucratic incompetence,’ Judge Lamberth said warning the government lawyers.
Felicity Huffman has been recommended to spend just one month in jail in connection to the college admissions scandal where she pleaded guilty earlier this year to mail fraud and honest services fraud. The actress admitted she had paid $15,000 for her daughter Sofia's SAT test to be corrected to help her gain entry to the University of Southern California. After prosecutors originally called for her to spend between four and ten months locked up, the recommendation filed Friday by the U.S. Attorney's office asked for her to be jailed for 30 days. Following her time inside, Huffman, 59, will be on supervised released
Congratulations are in order for Kyle Preckwinkle, the 38-year-old son of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle.
Yesterday, he was acquitted of misdemeanor assault in a bench trial. It’s the second time a judge has found the younger Preckwinkle not guilty of a criminal charge since 2013.
On May 3, a 65-year-old man who lives in the same building as Kyle Preckwinkle called police and reported that Preckwinkle had assaulted him. The man said he was walking up the stairs when Kyle Preckwinkle stopped him. (Snip) to complain about noises coming from his apartment
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A short time later, Kyle Preckwinkle allegedly began repeatedly beating on the man’s door.
A black dean at the University of Alabama has resigned after a conservative website highlighted old tweets he sent linking the US flag with racism.News outlets quote a university statement as saying dean of students and assistant vice president Jamie R. Riley resigned a day after the story by Breitbart News.The website published a report saying a tweet on Riley's social media feed from 2017 stated that the American flag represents a 'history of racism' for black people.
CNN lost 21 percent of its already minuscule audience last week, MSNBC lost 24 percent, while Fox News grew its already enormous viewership by six percent, as TVNewser highlights. Yep, even the massively over-hyped news about a mass shooting and a regional weather story — Hurricane Dorian — could not stop the bleeding at both of these far-left, Russia Collusion Hoax channels.In all of cable television, throughout the 24 hour day, Fox News was numero uno for the 34th consecutive week with an average of 1.32 million total day viewers.MSNBC was still in second place but came in way behind Fox with just 854,000 total viewers.CNNLOL landed in sixth place
Fainting-couch conservatism strikes again: A University of Alabama dean of students is out of a job after conservative media dug up some of his old tweets.
Jamie Riley had dared to criticize the American flag and the police, writing in 2017 that they represent "a systemic history of racism for my people."
Breitbart decided that this and other tweets of Riley's merited an article. Reporter Kyle Morris wrote that "a series of resurfaced tweets from Dr. Jamie R. Riley, the University of Alabama's assistant vice president and dean of students, show he once believed the American flag and police in America are racist."
Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that she is "relentlessly" attacked by women during her debut as a Fox News contributor. Sanders made the comment during her appearance on "Fox & Friends" on Friday morning after she was pressed by co-host Steve Doocy (Snip) Are you still taking heat when you go out to eat?" Doocy asked. "Sometimes. You know, it usually depends on where I am in the country. Back home in Arkansas, things have been so far pretty easy and very welcoming,” she began, before adding: "But every once in a while, you always have somebody who comes up to say something nasty to you.”
Democrat on Illegal Immigration Contributing
to Classroom Overcrowding: 'I Don't
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to Classroom Overcrowding: 'I Don't
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WASHINGTON-- Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) said she does not think closing detention centers for illegal immigration would further contribute to classroom overcrowding in public schools.According to a 2017 report from The Education Trust-West, more than 250,000 students in public schools had undocumented parents. The report also found that "1 in 13 Californians is undocumented." School districts in cities such as Los Angeles have struggled with classroom overcrowding.Torres, who recently advocated for the closure of immigrant detention centers at a rally with the American Federation of Teachers, was asked if she's concerned that the added influx of illegal immigrants into local
Oakland Raiders' shameful refusal
to discipline Antonio Brown for
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to discipline Antonio Brown for
'cracker' comments and outburst replies
Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown threatened violence against his team's general manager, and the team is doing nothing about it. On Wednesday, Brown had a heated exchange with Raiders GM Mike Mayock where he unleashed a barrage of foul language and went as far as threatening to punch Mayock in the face. The exchange came because Mayock was unhappy that Brown had posted a part of a letter the GM sent him on social media. The letter had to do with the $54,000 the team fined him for a pair of unexcused absences from practice during training camp.
Love Under Liberalism
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“We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations; and this especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us, as if she felt that she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.” —Emerson
Consistent with some research, people tend to believe women are more inclined to monogamy than men—that women desire it more than men do, it being more satisfying for women than for men, who, it is thought,
Sen. Edward Markey expressed worries Thursday that Amazon’s video doorbell Ring and its partnership with law enforcement could lead to increased racial profiling, particularly with people of color. Mr. Markey wrote a letter to Amazon’s chief executive saying he was “alarmed to learn that Ring is pursuing facial recognition technology” and offering police departments access to Rekognition, their face-matching program. The Massachusetts Democrat added the technology raises “serious privacy and civil liberties concern” that “could easily create a surveillance network that places dangerous burdens on people of color” in areas where Ring has partnered with police officials. Although Amazon markets Ring
Last Friday, August 30, at the Raymond Donovan Correctional Facility near San Diego, a convict stabbed inmate B21014, also known as Sirhan, Sirhan Bishara. He had been admitted to the California Correctional System on April 23, 1969, less than one year after the act that landed him in prison.
On June 4, 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy had just won the Democrats’ California primary. The former Attorney General for his brother John F. Kennedy, gave a triumphant victory speech just after midnight, and as he left the event Sirhan Sirhan shot him. The Democrat presidential contender, only 42, died two days later.
Texas Republicans are sounding the alarm as Democratic presidential candidates get ready for their debate next week in Houston, warning that the Lone Star State could become more purple if the party doesn’t treat it as a 2020 battleground.
Most in the GOP are confident President Trump will win Texas and its 38 electoral votes next year, and they think Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn will turn aside his Democratic challenger.
But they are worried they will lose more House seats a cycle after Democrats clawed back two districts as they retook their majority.
Latin is a difficult language to master, and not one that universities like to have in their curricula. Compared to Russian and Japanese, for instance, Latin is relatively easy. The problem is that with Latin, things can go very wrong. To wit, Harry Potter uses it to summon, and banish, the evils of his make-believe world. Every year, the same scene plays out in Latin classes across the country. Students pour over their texts, attempting to conjugate a verb or to master an oration of Cicero. Then one of them makes a minor error and summons a major demon.
Foremost Factoid that best describes the mean-spirited, spoilsport bullies of the Progressive Left: It only took one Election for them to drop their phony masks and to completely coalesce them into a hate-spewing infuriated frenzy.
That would be the 2016 election of President Donald Trump. They’ll NEVER get over it because they can’t get over themselves.
Hurricane Dorian, originally media reported to be heading for Mar-A-Lago, showed Progressive bullying at its most hateful
Banning plastic straws. Carbon taxes. Stopping people from eating meat. Stopping people from having babies.
Am I just seeing things? Or are all the “climate crisis solutions” proposed by the Democrats designed to cause maximum pain to ordinary people, and almost none to wealthy elites?
Progressives almost seem to take joy in inconveniencing the masses for no reason. Take the plastic straw ban, for example. Even National Geographic — hardly an anti-environmentalist publication —
Put it this way: the most benign climate-change plan proposed during CNN’s seven-hour Democratic Party presidential candidate town hall was more authoritarian than anything Donald Trump has ever suggested during his presidency. Democrats were not merely proposing massive societal upheaval but mass coercion.
CNN says it’s a “crisis,” though, so Democrats were free to offer one insane Nostradamus-like prediction after the next. Not only is every weather event now a manifestation of global warming, but Beto O’Rourke says our communities will soon be “uninhabitable,” and Pete Buttigieg says the challenge of warming is on par with World War II, a conflict that took more
Wayne Messam is best known, if you’ve heard of him at all, as the other mayor running for president — in his case, not quite as successfully as South Bend, Indiana’s mayor, Pete Buttigieg.
The mayor of Miramar, Florida, has not found much of an audience or appeared in any debates. He has raised a mere $93,812 and a small campaign staff. And now, according to internal campaign documents and interviews with eight former Messam campaign staffers and contractors, his campaign appears to be in near-total disarray.
The documents and staffers, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect future employment prospects, depicted a no-hope campaign
U.S. employers added 130,000 jobs in August, missing Wall Street's expectations, as trade uncertainty and slowing global growth darkened the economic outlook.
The unemployment rate remained steady at 3.7 percent, near a 50-year low, while the labor force participation rate was little changed at 63.2 percent. Average hourly earnings, meanwhile, rose 3.2 percent over the past year to $28.11. That was slightly higher than projections of 3.1 percent.
Economists expected employers to add 158,000 jobs, in line with average growth this year but sharply below the 2018 average of 223,000. The June and July jobs numbers were trimmed by a combined 20,000, the Labor Department said Friday.
A new poll has some astonishing news for those who keep seeing President Trump losing in polls in head-to-head competition with the leading Democratic Party presidential candidates Democrats: All three leading Democratic candidates — former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — have lower favorability ratings than President Trump. The in-depth, comprehensive poll from The Economist and YouGov, taken between September 1-3, showed 43% of respondents with a favorable response to Trump; 29% had a "very favorable" reaction and an additional 14% had a "somewhat favorable" response.
This is not the time to go all Marie Kondo, thanking those scuffed-up high heels and broken tennis rackets for the joy they’ve sparked, then donating them to the Bahamas recovery effort. Most immediately, Bahamians still stunned at the level of destruction left in Hurricane Dorian’s wake have very specific and urgent needs, listed below, outlined by their government. No matter how well-intentioned, South Floridians should resist the urge to use the disaster in the Bahamas to clean out their closets.
EX-NYPD Lieutenant Blames
Bill de Blasio’s ‘Regressive Policies’
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Bill de Blasio’s ‘Regressive Policies’
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Retried New York Police Department (NYPD) Lieutenant Darrin Porcher blamed the “regressive policies” of Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio after video surfaced Thursday of a bystander throwing an open container of milk at a New York Police officer.
“We look what happened in the summertime, result of regressive policies from city hall, quote, unquote, Mayor de Blasio,” Porcher said Friday during an appearance on Fox & Friends. The suspect remains at large, but Porcher advocated for a public shaming of the man once he is brought to justice. “We have a term we refer to as perp walk,” Porcher said. “Everyone should
Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” mocked Minnesota Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar for repeatedly telling the same joke at President Donald Trump’s expense.
After Klobuchar launched her campaign in a February blizzard, Trump mocked her for discussing global warming while getting drenched by snow, referring to the senator as “snow woman.”
In the ensuing seven months, Klobuchar has repeatedly made the same joke in front of audiences, saying the science of climate change is on her side, and asking how Trump’s hair would fare in a blizzard.
A panel of three judges dismissed a case brought by Britain's former Prime Minister John Major and businesswoman Gina Miller arguing that current Prime Minister Boris Johnson's attempt to suspend parliament through prorogation is an abuse of power, Bloomberg reported Friday.
The case will be appealed to the U.K.'s highest court, handing Johnson a second legal victory and setting up a final battle over parliament and likely the fate of the U.K.'s exit from the European Union (EU) in the Supreme Court.
Miller slammed the ruling in a press conference Friday, according to Bloomberg, and vowed to continue the battle before the nation's highest court.
“Today we stand
Liberals In Pittsburgh Announce Boycott
Of Local Businesses For Trump
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Of Local Businesses For Trump
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The far left has been saying for two years now that Trump is a fascist, but they need to look into a mirror if they want to see what a real fascist looks like. In Pittsburgh, leftists have been compiling a list of local small businesses which are owned by Trump supporters because they want to put these people out of business.CBS News in Pittsburgh reports: Local Effort To Boycott Businesses Owned By Trump Supporters Brings Strong Response From GOP Local social media is abuzz over efforts in Pittsburgh to identify and boycott businesses owned by supporters of President Donald Trump.
House Democrats have taken their first formal steps to probe President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to steer U.S. and foreign government business to his luxury resorts, part of an expanding roster of inquiries informing them whether to recommend of articles of impeachment.
In a series of letters revealed Friday, the Judiciary Committee and Oversight Committee are demanding significant details about Trump’s call to host next year’s G7 summit at his own private resort — as well as Vice President Mike Pence’s recent stay at a Trump property in Ireland.
Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders made her debut on Friday’s “Fox & Friends” in front of a live audience of first responders.
When host Steve Doocy opened the floor for questions and comments from the audience, one firefighter named Chris stood up to say his piece. “More of a comment than it is a question,” Chris clarified. “I have three daughters and three granddaughters. You are a true inspiration to women, not just in our country but throughout the world. I want to thank you for what you’ve gone through. To be honest with you, from bottom of my heart
"I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke," tweeted Donald Trump, himself a frequent consumer of diet soda, back in 2012. Besides being an amusing self-own, Trump's comment helps explain the trouble with most research on diet drinks—including a new study that's been making the media rounds this week.
"It doesn't matter if it's sugary or diet: New study links all soda to an early death," reported The Washington Post on September 4. It was one of many similar headlines. The implication of all of them was clear: Zero-calorie cola is a big fat lie, and if you don't ditch it now you're staring down a premature grave.
Former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod said in a tweet Thursday that Joe Biden was distorting his own record to a damaging degree.
Linking to a Slate article about Biden's misleading remarks about when he began opposing the Iraq War, Axelrod wrote Biden was "in danger" of creating a harmful meme about his candidacy.
"It's one thing to have a well-earned rep for goofy, harmless gaffes," Axelrod tweeted. "It's another if you serially distort your own record. @JoeBiden is in danger of creating a more damaging meme." (Tweet) Biden claimed in a recent NPR interview that he only voted to authorize President George W. Bush to use military
Two conservative groups voiced concern Thursday at a Utah school board meeting about a new law allowing teachers to answer “spontaneous questions” about sex from students.
“If one child asks about oral sex or something explicit and the teacher answers it, it doesn’t mean the other 30 kids want to hear it,” said Robert Woods, a father with four children in public school, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. “Why can’t the teacher just say ‘That’s outside our curriculum. Please ask your parents if you really want to know’?”
Thirty protesters from Utah Eagle Forum and Pro-Life Utah occupied almost every public comment spot available after the president of
How deranged and thoroughly despicable are the California and national Left? How depraved is Governor Newsom? They/he are a collective blight on the nation. They are not alone in their immorality, in their contempt for civilized society. Democrats, who have long led their hostage cities and states to inevitable decline, are absolutely to blame for the destruction of their disintegrating realms. Candidate Barack Obama promised to "fundamentally transform America" and he succeeded in doing just that. He pushed the Democrat party from what was a semblance of JFK liberalism to abject Alinskyite hate-America radicalism.
Women who experience stress in pregnancy could be more likely to have children with personality disorders, research suggests.
The first study of its kind looking at the link between personality disorders and stress in pregnancy found children were at risk if their mothers experienced any level of stress while pregnant. Children had more than three times the risk of developing a personality disorder by age 30 if their mother experienced any level of stress or moderate stress while pregnant, when compared to children whose mothers had no stress.
And they had almost 10 times the risk if their mother suffered severe maternal stress.
The findings, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry,
Eleven months into the fiscal year, almost five times more Christians than Muslims have been admitted into the U.S. as refugees, in sharp contrast to the situation under the Obama administration.
Christians are by far the most persecuted group worldwide. According to Open Doors USA, 245 million Christians around the world, or one in nine, are persecuted for their faith.
With the total number of admissions approaching the Trump administration’s record-low ceiling of 30,000 refugee admissions for the fiscal year, as of the end of August a total of 28,052 refugees had been resettled.
State Department Refugee Processing Center data show that the admissions during the first eleven months
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) announced on August 26 that he will leave Congress before his fourth term is up because his ninth child will need heart surgery when the baby's born in October.
On Thursday, Duffy told Fox Business, "it was sad to say goodbye," but he knows he's doing the right thing for his family. He said he's not sure what the future holds for him, but he knows it's time for a change:
I think what's unique is, people are saying, I'm not a lifetime member of Congress. Service is not for a lifetime. I'm going to come in. I'm going to serve. I'm going to give my
I’ve warned (over and over and over again) that supporters of larger government want big tax hikes on ordinary people.
But you don’t have to believe me.
CNN hosted a discussion yesterday with the major Democratic candidates about global warming … oops, I mean climate change … no, sorry, the preferred term is now “climate crisis.”
Shockingly, something newsworthy actually happened. As reported by The New York Times, most of the candidates expressed support for a big carbon tax that would be especially painful for poor and middle-class taxpayers.
The number of Hispanics and Latinos employed set a record high in August as their national, seasonally-adjusted unemploment rate matched its record low of 4.2%, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data released Friday show.
In August, the unemployment rate for Hispanics and Latinos, aged 16 and up, was 4.2%, down from 4.5% in July, returning to the record low of 4.2% in April and May – which broke the record low of 4.3% set two months earlier in February. BLS began tracking Hispanic-Latino employment data in 1973.
285,000 more Hispanics had jobs in August, as the 27,866,000 employed broke
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The monthly US employment report is always a big moment for investors, who see the numbers as a crucial data point for interpreting the health of the world's biggest economy.
And at a moment when fears of a US recession are growing, the numbers out Friday could draw even more attention than usual.
The scene: The inversion of a closely-watched part of the US yield curve in August triggered a stock market selloff. Though a rally has been sparked by news that the United States
The answer appears to be: not much. That’s based on research by a trio of European scholars who examined the results at a university in the Netherlands. They wanted to know if students do significantly better when taught by professors versus being taught by grad students or even top undergrads. Their findings were that the latter are nearly as effective as the veteran educators.
This interesting piece of research caught the eye of the Martin Center’s Shannon Watkins and in today’s article, she writes about her interview with the lead researcher, Jan Feld.
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Feld summarized the findings this way: “So, we think that our results most speak to those institutions where professors
News consumers know what they want from reporters -- just the facts, not opinions.
In findings aimed directly at the Facebook, Twitter and other social media chatterings of journalists, the latest Gallup/Knight Foundation survey found that Americans appreciate the added value of putting out more info.
But when it comes to reporters coughing up their spin on the day’s news, the advice is to zip it.
The survey looked at the use of social media by reporters and found that it can help the industry regain some trust.
Americans, for example, approve of reporters using social media to seek input for stories and they especially like
If someone is prepared to slaughter 10, 20 or more innocent civilians shopping in a drug store, do you think they are inclined to respect the “wishes” of a retail outlet that doesn’t want firearms in its establishment? CVS and Walgreens think so.
CVS and Walgreens joined the woke corporation crowd of Walmart and Kroger and announce they request customers do not bring firearms into their stores.
“We support the efforts of other individuals and groups working to prevent gun violence, and continually review our policies and procedures to ensure our stores remain a safe environment,” CVS said in its statement. “We join a growing chorus of
Seven individuals have been charged with murdering a 21-year-old man to death in Maryland, six of whom are illegal aliens who have been living in the United States. This week, prosecutors charged seven individuals, six of whom are illegal aliens, with first-degree murder after 21-year-old Daniel Alejandro Alvarado Cuellar was found stabbed to death, his body left near an apartment complex in Baltimore County, Maryland in July. The seven individuals charged with murder include: 20-year-old Jonathan Escobar-Hernandez
20-year-old Marlon Leonardo Fabian-Flores 18-year-old Edwin Edgardo Garcia-Martir 31-year-old Hugo Portillo-Chavez 19-year-old Jose Fausto Rivera-Coreas 20-year-old Odaliz Rosas-Yanez 16-year-old Leonel Alexander Velasquez-Hernadez
Nearly every candidate that participated in CNN’s seven-hour climate town hall agreed that we need to invest trillions of dollars in building a clean energy economy fit for the 21st century, and create hundreds of thousands if not millions of jobs in the process. However impressive these commitments are, they won’t be worth much if they don’t also take on the fossil fuel industry.
There was plenty of common ground to be found on Wednesday night, where candidates happily focused more on presenting their own visions than tearing down those of their opponents. On what to do with dirty energy companies, though, the differences couldn’t be starker.
Marriage rates have steadily declined over the past few decades, and now researchers from Cornell University are offering up a possible explanation: there just aren’t as many economically-attractive men for unmarried women to meet as there used to be. Previous studies had attempted to answer why marriage rates are on the decline, but most focused solely on gender ratio discrepancies as opposed to looking into the specific socioeconomic characteristics that make a particular man and woman a good match.
The Obamas have always been big on Chicago-style political muscle, and even in the post-presidency, Barack and Michelle have not changed a bit.
Get a load of this outrageous bid to force a little company to give up its trademark -- to him. According to Fox News:
The legal team representing the Obamas filed a petition to cancel the trademark of an e-book publishing company called Higher Ground Enterprises, much to the chagrin of the publishing company.
“This is really deplorable behavior. I hope that the Obamas realize that these actions are not consistent with the values they preach and that they instruct their attorneys to immediately dismiss
Not a day goes by without Jews being shot in their synagogues, stabbed, bludgeoned by blocks, physically attacked, pushed to the ground, spat on, and cursed; without graffiti on the walls of Jewish institutions, graffiti on the walls of synagogues; without victims killed, maimed for life, traumatized, hospitalized, extended rehabilitation. The list goes on and on. Older Chassidic Jews, young orthodox Jews, Conservative Jews, Reform Jews, non-affiliated Jews — they are all targeted, irrespective of their level of Jewishness, irrespective of whether they look or act Jewish. They are preyed upon only because they are Jews. The daily incidents now pass without
National Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign field have dodged questions of whether they agree with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors’ decision to declare the National Rifle Association (NRA) a “domestic terrorist organization.”
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors enflamed controversy in September when they voted unanimously to declare the NRA a “domestic terrorist organization.” The San Francisco board also proposed that the city and county of San Francisco should take every step to limit its relationship with vendors that do business with the NRA, given that they declared it a “domestic terrorist organization.”
Swedish behavioural scientist Magnus Söderlund has suggested that eating other people after they die could be a means of combatting climate change.
The scientist mentioned the possibility of cannibalism during a broadcast on Swedish television channel TV4 this week about a fair in Stockholm regarding “food of the future”.
Söderlund is set to hold seminars at the event, entitled “Gastro Summit — about the future of food” where he intends to discuss the possibility of eating people in the name of cutting down greenhouse emissions.
According to his research, the main problem with the idea is the widespread taboo of eating human flesh and said that conservative
The U.S. economy created 130,000 jobs in August and the unemployment rate remained steady at 3.7 percent.
Economists had expected the economy to between 150,000 and 180,000 with the median consensus at 163,000, according to Econoday. Unemployment was expected to remain unchanged. Last month’s jobs figure was originally reported at 164,000, now revised down to 159,000, and unemployment was 3.7 percent.
Although the headline number was weaker than expected, wage growth was strong in August. Average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 11 cents to $28.11, or 0.4 percent, following 9-cent gains in both June and July. Over the past 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased
If you're a political conservative, don't feel so picked on by the Stalinist Democratic Party. It doesn't allow dissent among its own ranks either, being the party of the ideological straitjacket.
In watching some of the clips from the Democratic climate change marathon, I was struck by how willing each candidate was to grovel and play dumb to retain favor with the crazy leftist base. And that should tell us all we need to know about how dangerous this party is for America.
"You didn't watch the entire thing?" you ask. No, sorry, I do have some self-respect.
How these reckless clowns could persuade even 10 percent
Zimbabwe's preening socialist strongman, Robert Mugabe, a man who left his once-prosperous country a hellhole, is gone, and his end didn't come soon enough. He went out as as one of the world's worst curses against humanity.
Here's the New York Times announcement:
Robert Mugabe, the first prime minister and later president of independent Zimbabwe, who traded the mantle of liberator for the armor of a tyrant and presided over the decline of one of Africa’s most prosperous lands, died on Friday. He was 95.
The death was announced by his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
At CNN’s “Climate Crisis” town hall, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the rising star among Democratic candidates at the moment, laid out her vision for energy production in the U.S. It is so catastrophically misguided that it should disqualify her from holding the office she seeks.
At Wednesday’s town hall, Democrats tried to one-up each other with various grandiose plans to decarbonize the U.S. economy.
But it was Warren’s almost offhand remarks about domestic energy production that caught our attention.
“I think the way we get there,” she said, is to force electric utilities to stop using fossil fuels to generate electricity. “We just say, sorry, guys but by 2035, you’re done.
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It was a man-made disaster, created in the fevered swamps of CNN and fueled by pledges of allegiance to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.
The candidates came across as not-serious-people. Worse, they came across as nanny-state monsters who really do want to take away your plastic straws and cheeseburgers to save the planet. It was a self-parody of what woke totalitarianism sounds like, with an abnormal focus on meat.
Republican attack-ad makers have hours of footage that can be sliced and diced to make any of the candidates who appeared at the Townhall look insane. And they wasted no time.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has came under fire from conservatives on social media Thursday after he said he would be open to discussing population control as a means to combat climate change.
The presidential candidate made the comments on Wednesday at a climate town hall on CNN after he was asked by an attendee about rising populations and how the planet "can not sustain this growth."
The questioner, identified by CNN as a teacher named Martha Readyoff, said that she realized linking population control to climate was a topic "poisonous for politicians, but it's crucial to face."
Is former Vice President Joe Biden's "electability" argument weakening?
From the beginning of his 2020 campaign, Biden has banked his nomination chances not on arguing that he's the best candidate, either in terms of policy or enthusiasm, but that he is the only one "safe" enough to run against Donald Trump in the general election. Coasting on his association with the wildly popular Barack Obama, Biden's strategy has been to appeal to skittish Democratic voters who might not themselves have much personal zeal for the former veep, but who believe he won't scare off those fragile working-class white voters in the Midwest who have become such a focus of media attention
The entertainment sections of the liberal news are breathing into paper bags this week after the premier of famed comedian Dave Chappelle's newest Netflix special. Mr. Chappelle hit on everything in his stand-up routine, aptly named Sticks and Stones, from mass shootings and child molestation to the Jussie Smollett hoax and the LGBT community's thin skin.
Rotten Tomatoes, the site that calls its tools "the world's most trusted recommendation resources for quality entertainment," initially rated Chappelle's stand-up with its first-ever zero score, though it has since raised it to 17% and then finally to 30%. This was only after the audience continued to recommend it
It’s been a lost summer for the Washington Post.
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, the Post had some pretty embarrassing moments. Whether it was incorrectly stating that presidents do not deliver remarks on the 4th of July, ignoring speeches by Presidents Reagan, Kennedy, and Obama, or being called out for shoddy, politically motivated fact-checking, the Post’s lost summer culminated with a fateful day in August when they were forced to issue 15 corrections to a single article.
But as the summer came to a close, the Post set out to ”report” the president’s summer accomplishments, but reporting is not what the Post does. Two of its writers
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“Tickling the wire”: That’s the slang expression used by law enforcement personnel to describe the process of trying to breathe life into a moribund or unproductive wiretap. When the subjects of such surveillance fail to discuss their criminal activities over the monitored telephones or at the bugged premises, surreptitious steps can be taken to induce them to do so. For example, in the case of a federal wiretap on a drug dealer’s telephone, if few incriminating communications have been intercepted, the local police can be enlisted to conduct an apparently unrelated car stop, interrogation, and search of the subject. This would be calculated to rattle
When the shimmering, state-of-the-art, $1.3 billion Levi’s Stadium opened its doors in Santa Clara, it was hailed as the pinnacle of technological innovation. Concessions delivered to your seat at the touch of a button! Bluetooth beacons to navigate you with pinpoint precision! High-speed internet throughout! And to top it all off, not a single public cent was spent. The whole thing was privately financed, partly through seat licenses sold to fans at prices ranging from $2,000 to $250,000 — a testament to the exorbitant, almost incomprehensible wealth generated in the greater Bay Area in recent decades, and a gambit that happened to price out a huge swath of 49ers
Former Defense Secretary James Mattis has a book coming out in which he is harshly critical of President Obama. Among other things, he recalls his dissent from Obama’s decision to pull troops out of Iraq prematurely, which had nearly-disastrous consequences. But this less well-known story about Iran is also noteworthy:
Mattis says Washington didn’t even inform him when Iran committed an “act of war” on American soil.
Mattis was CENTCOM commander at the time, responsible for our military posture vis-a-vis Iran.
The duty officer at his Tampa, Florida, headquarters on Oct. 11, 2011 told him that the attorney general and FBI director had held
President Trump on Thursday awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Los Angeles Lakers legend Jerry West during a ceremony in the Oval Office.
The president, in his welcoming remarks, touted his election victory in West’s native West Virginia as he praised the star hoopster as “one extraordinary American.”
“I swear my name is going to look like a misprint on this list,” West said, referring to other recipients of the medal, America’s highest civilian honor.
Actually, Kamala Harris didn’t even get close to the truth in this answer at CNN’s climate-change forum last night. And unlike Joe Biden’s bleeding eyeball, CNN actually noticed it in a fact check. When challenged by a voter about how she would “rein in these disinformation campaigns of big business,” Harris said she already had a track record of suing companies over climate change — especially ExxonMobil, the giant oil company:(Snip)HARRIS: … What do we do? Well, this is what we did with the tobacco companies. We sued them. We took them to court. Because you know what happens, people who profit off of harmful behaviors, when you take away
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Police in Massachusetts reportedly arrested 12 pro-immigration protesters Thursday after hundreds of demonstrators marched through the Boston area, blocking rush-hour traffic.
The group, arrested for trespassing at the Amazon building in nearby Cambridge, across the Charles River via the Longfellow Bridge, were advocating for private businesses to stop cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Cambridge police said, according to The Hill.
The unscheduled route frustrated passengers and police. “It’s rush hour, there’s only one way (on the bridge). Take some other way around,” a man said to WBZ-TV in Boston. The protesters reportedly refused to tell police their planned route.
The owners of the California dive boat where 34 people died in a fire over the weekend have filed a lawsuit to avoid liability in the case, as investigators say the crew of the ship made several attempts to save victims who were trapped by the blaze.
Truth Aquatics Inc. filed suit Thursday in Los Angeles federal court under a pre-Civil War provision of maritime law that allows it to limit its liability.
The suit said the company and owners Glen and Dana Fritzler “used reasonable care to make the Conception seaworthy, and she was, at all relevant times, tight, staunch, and strong, fully and properly manned, equipped and supplied
Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who rose to power as a champion of anti-colonial struggle but during 37 years of authoritarian rule presided over the impoverishment and degradation of one of sub-Saharan Africa’s most promising countries, has died. He was 95.His death was announced on Twitter on Friday by Zimbabwe’s current leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa.“Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people. His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in eternal peace,” Mnangagwa wrote.
CNN and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation have partnered to host the next Democratic presidential town hall, focused on LGBTQ issues.CNN host Don Lemon made the announcement after the seven hour-long Democratic presidential climate town hall on Wednesday. "CNN is partnering with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation for our next series of presidential town halls on issues that are important to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community," Lemon told viewers.
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said executive orders can only be executed properly and appropriately when a Democrat occupies the White House.“We need a Democratic president for a number of reasons," the Nevada Democrat said Wednesday during a conference call with reporters about climate change-related issues."We've learned over the last few years from trying to govern the country by executive order that there's a lot that can be done legally with executive order,” Reid said, a reference to President Trump's unilateral moves on immigration, climate,
Democratic front-runner Joe Biden was speaking at a televised town hall Wednesday when the corner of his left eye appeared to fill with blood, bringing attention away from the issue of climate change at a time when his campaign is already batting back scrutiny about his age and health.The eye issue likely isn't serious and will go away on its own after a few days, but it came after reporters have been asking Biden about whether his age will get in the way of his pursuit for the White House and following a string of verbal miscues. Biden is 76, and if elected he would be the oldest person
A rear admiral in the Coast Guard who briefed President Trump on Hurricane Dorian is defending the commander in chief amid backlash for his claims that the storm might hit Alabama. In a statement disseminated by the White House on Thursday, homeland security and counterterrorism adviser Peter Brown argued the president was correct in addressing the "potential impact" on several states, including Alabama. "As the Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, I briefed President Donald J. Trump multiple times concerning the position, forecast, risks, and Federal Government preparations for and response to Hurricane Dorian," his statement read.
Looking over how much corrupt Hillary Clinton dirt the intelligence community hid in the 2016 election, the big picture aspects deserve an expanded discussion.
In the larger picture it is clear the Obama administration weaponized the institutions of government to target his/their political opposition. It is also increasingly clear a Hillary Clinton administration would have monetized the U.S. government.
The Gathering Threat to the Electoral College—and to the U.S. Senate. The left has a hot new cause: getting rid of the Electoral College. And if the left succeeds in doing away with that venerable institution, its next target, the U.S. Senate, will fall like a dried apple. As is so often the case with leftist causes these days; the spearhead is Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York; being social-media-savvy and telegenic, she’s the star of the progressive A-Team. Way back on October 6, 2018, AOC was tweeting: It is well past time we eliminate the Electoral College, a shadow of slavery’s power
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former White House press secretary, is writing a memoir.Her book will be released next fall, just before the 2020 election, the news website Axios revealed on Thursday, a day before the ex-Trump adviser makes her first paid appearance on Fox News.A description of the book indicates that it will not be a tell-all in the style of other departed Trump aides Omarosa Manigault and Cliff Simms, both of whom betrayed the president for seven-figure book deals.'From Arkansas to the White House and back, I'm excited to tell my story about the challenges of being a working mom at the highest level