Posts on Saturday, February 8, 2020
In contrast to the U.S. citizens who may have been exposed to the coronavirus, transported by the U.S. from China to U.S. military bases in California, willingly coming to isolation units and then being given humane care to ensure recovery, (and speaking gratefully for it) China is conducting mass arrests of anyone exposed to the coronavirus and dragging them to camps. According to the Daily Mail:
Officials in protective suits are seen holding onto two people by their arms before a third more resistive man is picked up from the floor and carried away in one shocking clip
Man Deliberately Crashes Van Into GOP
Voter Registration Tent, Targeting Trump
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Voter Registration Tent, Targeting Trump
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Law enforcement officials in Jacksonville, Fla., say a driver intentionally crashed a van into a tent where Trump campaign volunteers were registering voters Saturday afternoon.Thankfully, no one was injured.“We are investigating this as an aggravated assault,” Lt. Larry Gayle of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said. “Several people were in the area and could have been seriously hurt.”According to Gayle, after plowing through the tent, the driver stopped, got out of the van, then took a video of the scene before flipping off the victims and fleeing the scene. Despite this, Gayle says they don't know the motivation of the suspect,
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews stepped too far outside the liberal box in a rant on socialism that ignited social media’s cancel culture.Matthews unloaded on the word “socialism,” saying he has an “attitude” about the term and proceeded to stun the MSNBC panel and viewers with his passionate warning to Democrats about supporting 2020 candidates who promote the ideology. (Video) “I think that the Democratic Party has to figure out its ideology,” the MSNBC host said Friday in a panel discussion following the Democratic presidential debate.“You know, I have my own views of the word ‘socialist,'” Matthews said.
Many media observers will recall the New York Times’ response to Donald Trump’s unexpected victory in 2016. In their subtle, tacit admission that the paper had covered the election with some bias, publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. and editor Dean Baquet promised to “rededicate” themselves to the fundamental mission of the Times and to bring “fairness” to their coverage.Other mainstream news outlets and journalists issued similar mea culpas. Just about all of them had treated Trump’s campaign and supporters with an attitude of spiteful hilarity. The great irony in the media’s hatred, of course, is that his rise would not have been possible without them and their vain attempt to hijack
We lost a member of the Breitbart family last night, legendary actor-comedian Orson Bean — father-in-law of the late Andrew Breitbart. In 2018, Bean joined Breitbart News editor-in-chief Alex Marlow for a wide-ranging, hour-long interview.Bean and Marlow discussed how students soaking up leftist indoctrination on college campuses today will “become the CEOs and the mayors of cities and governors and, ultimately, presidents,” and Bean warned how Hollywood communists blacklisting conservatives and non-communists in the 1950s (which Bean suffered under and survived) pales in comparison to what the kind of censorship now being imposed by tech companies and mega-corporations.
Joe Biden released a new digital ad on Saturday contrasting his record as vice president with Pete Buttigieg’s record as mayor of South Bend, Ind.: (Tweet) If a Republican had mocked Buttigieg — the first openly gay politician with a serious chance of winning a major party’s presidential nomination—for installing “colorful lights” and “decorative brick,” the backlash would be pretty intense. We’ll see how this works out for Biden. The official response of the Buttigieg campaign was a measured statement that doesn’t accuse Biden of dog-whistling. “At this moment, the American people are crying out for something completely different from
Robert Conrad, the athletic, two-fisted actor who starred as Secret Service agent James West and did his own spectacular stunts on the 1960s futuristic CBS Western The Wild Wild West, has died. He was 84.
China's Communist Party has infiltrated various levels of America's infrastructure and is working to destroy the values of the United States, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a speech Saturday, while also warning state governors to be wary of China's infiltration.
“We can’t ignore China’s actions and strategic intentions," he said while addressing the National Governors Association winter meeting. "The Chinese government has been methodical in the way it's analyzed our system... it's assessed our vulnerabilities and it's decided to exploit our freedoms, to gain an advantage over us at the federal level, the state level and the local level."
A slew of Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have begun demanding that Facebook and Twitter censor a meme video that they find offensive. Reportedly produced by Turning Point USA and later tweeted by the president himself, the meme juxtaposes the infamous clip of the House speaker ripping up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address with clips of the president paying tribute to several extraordinary Americans, including one of the last surviving Tuskegee Airmen. Watch: (Tweet/Video)
Fragile Omar and Tlaib say they held
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hands during SOTU’s triggering
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Antisemitic Muslim Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar were so triggered by President Donald Trump lauding America’s accomplishments and honoring its heroes during his State of the Union address Tuesday that they felt compelled to hold hands through certain parts of it.“It was a huge struggle for me,” Tlaib admitted at a far-left-wing town hall event Friday at Howard University in Washington, D.C., as she spoke while sitting alongside Omar.“I don’t think people realize that it’s worse when you’re actually there. And actually, there were moments of triggering, and I kept holding your hands
ABC News chief White House correspondent Jon Karl said that President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign isn’t exactly “quaking in their boots” after Friday night’s Democratic debate.During post-debate analysis Friday night, Karl was asked by ABC’s Martha Raddatz about who he thinks “stood out” when it comes to the task of “going after Donald Trump.”WATCH: (Tweet/Video) “First of all, obviously the candidate that he feared most early on was Joe Biden,” Karl responded. “That is not the case anymore and I don’t think there was anybody based on tonight’s performance that has the Trump campaign quaking in their boots.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden upped his attacks on former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, suggesting the Democratic Party would be in peril if its presidential nominee was someone as green as the 38-year-old ex-mayor. 'I do believe we're a party at risk if we nominate someone who's never held an office higher than mayor of South Bend, Indiana,' Biden told a crowd in Manchester, gathered at the Rex Theatre Saturday afternoon. The Biden campaign also put out a new ad, which put the two candidates' records side-by-side, and was tougher on Buttigieg than the digs the former veep was deploying onstage.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a rare appearance with boyfriend Riley Roberts while taking questions from fans in an Instagram story Friday night. The freshman Queens socialist enlisted her man to talk about the issue of “combating racism as a white person.” “I think it’s helpful and important to talk to other white people about racism, and I think a lot of people, they don’t want to be racist,” Roberts, 30, offered as AOC sat beside him. “They don’t think that they’re racist, but they also don’t know some of the things they believe or say are and can be racist.”
The temerity of Tom Steyer
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Craven audacity in US politics knows no bounds. Billionaire intruder Tom Steyer is currently running television ads in New Hampshire lamenting that Donald Trump has received a political boost from the Democrats’ botched impeachment crusade, which ended this week in failure and humiliation — as is true for most Democratic crusades. Trump is therefore going to be tougher to beat, he suggests in the new ad, and nominating an outsider like Tom is increasingly necessary.
What Tom forgot to mention is that no single private individual in the entire country was more responsible than him for fomenting the hysterical drive toward impeachment.
Poll: New Hampshire Democrats would prefer an
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A majority of New Hampshire Democrats said in a new poll that they would rather a "giant meteor strikes the Earth, extinguishing all human life" than see President Trump reelected. The University of Massachusetts Lowell survey of 400 Democratic voters asked which candidates they would support in the state's primary Tuesday, with former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) tying for first place at 23 percent support. But voters were also asked in the online survey conducted by YouGov: "Which of the following outcomes would you prefer occur on November 3, 2020? Donald Trump wins re-election or
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Republican Sen. Susan Collins says she's getting death threats after her vote to acquit President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial, saying three of them were deemed “credible” and are being investigated. Collins made the disclosure Friday while addressing the Maine Chiefs of Police Association winter conference. “I just want you to know that I’ve always loved you and appreciated you. But now I have a real personal appreciation for all that you do to keep us safe,” Collins told the group in South Portland, Maine. Collins also received threats before when she voted to confirm
'In Trump's World There Is No Can't,'
Says Rush In Heartwarming Retelling
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Says Rush In Heartwarming Retelling
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Rush Limbaugh returned to the air on Friday for the first time after announcing his diagnosis with late-stage lung cancer. His retelling of how President Trump got him to the SOTU is nothing short of amazing and revealed why Limbaugh was so surprised to be receiving the Presidential Medal of Honor that night.On Tuesday, Limbaugh was with his wife, about to have a medical procedure to begin his treatment for lung cancer. So we are where I am to have the first procedure that will set up the beginning of treatment. This is Tuesday, and it is scheduled for 5 o’clock in the afternoon.
Clarence Thomas, the second African-American ever appointed to the US Supreme Court, has become a key figure in Trump's America.
Justice Thomas has voted consistently with conservatives on issues of abortion, gun rights, voting rights, the welfare state, and — perhaps surprisingly — race.
But he hasn't always been a leading figure on the right. In fact, he was once a radical leftist and Black Power activist.
Political scientist Corey Robin says Justice Thomas was once a "pretty dedicated black militant" and "a devotee of Malcolm X".
And according to Robin, who has studied hundreds of the justice's Supreme Court opinions, his conservative ideology is not entirely contradictory to his radical roots.
Former Romney Campaign Spokesman
Says Romney’s Impeachment Vote All
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Says Romney’s Impeachment Vote All
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Failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s impeachment vote betrayal was quickly painted by the far-left media as an act of “courage.” Mr. Romney himself premised his vote by bringing up what he calls his deeply-held religious beliefs.
Ah, but a former Romney campaign spokesperson is calling out the Utah senator on that – claiming Romney’s true motivations are nothing more than bitter, jealousy-fueled nonsense mean to curry favor among the D.C. elites.
Romney despises President Trump for one thing above all else – Trump is president and he never will be.
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Rick Gorka,(Snip) tweeted Wednesday that Trump “accomplished what he [Romney] has failed to do multiple times.”
Guess he couldn’t find anything else to pin it on. Mayor Bill de Blasio linked a recent crime surge in the Big Apple to the state’s controversial overhaul of bail laws Friday, after spending a week dancing around the matter. “We had, for six years, steady decreases in crime across the board. There’s not a whole lot of other environmental things that have changed recently,” Hizzoner told WNYC’s Brian Lehrer on new CompStat data that shows crime has soared since the new laws took effect at the start of 2020.(Snip) The controversial law bars judges from setting bail to hold criminal defendants for most misdemeanors and
The Democrats and Democrat-Socialists held a debate last night in New Hampshire following their disastrous caucus in the state of Iowa.
Following the debate Chris Matthews went off on the hardcore Socialist wing of the party. (Photo) Chris Matthews: The issue of this campaign is that word socialism. Some people like it. Younger people like it. Those of us like me, who grew up in a cold war and saw some aspects of it while visiting places like Vietnam, like I have, and seeing countries like Cuba, being there. I’m seeing what socialism’s like. I don’t like it. OK? It’s not only not free. It doesn’t freakin’ work!
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a “star witness” in the impeachment farce against President Trump, and his twin brother Yevgeny were removed from their National Security Council posts and escorted out of the White House on Friday, Politico reported.(Snip)Retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Jim Hickman told American Greatness that he “verbally reprimanded” Vindman after he heard him “talking up” then-President Barack Obama and making derisive remarks about America and Americans in front of Russian military officers. “Do not let the uniform fool you,” Hickman wrote on Twitter: “He is a political activist in uniform.”
The retired officer said that Vindman(Snip) made fun of the United States to the point that
President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted out a video that showed images of the people the president honored at the State of the Union alongside clips of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) ripping up Trump’s speech. The caption for the video reads “Powerful American Stories Ripped To Shreds By Nancy Pelosi.” Trump supporters would see the point the video makes – that Pelosi ripped up a speech that included the stories of many honorable Americans because she hates Trump. Any politician would do the same for an attack ad. Trump’s speech contained a lot of positive information and Pelosi ripped it up, claiming it was full of lies.
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday called for the Democrat primary debate audience in New Hampshire to give a standing ovation for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman hours after he was removed from the National Security Council by the White House. “Col. Vindman got thrown out of the White House today, walked out,” Biden said. President Trump “should have been pinning a medal on Vindman and not on Rush Limbaugh. (Tweet/Video)
All those corrupt local Puerto Rico officials who have used U.S. disaster response aid to enrich themselves had better watch out. President Trump has just assigned Coast Guard Rear Admiral Peter J. Brown to take charge of all U.S. efforts on the island.
Rear Admiral Brown is an excellent man with a servants heart, but he is also a very deliberate and serious man. And this man knows the island; we have crossed paths…. (Snip)A career Coast Guard officer (Snip)Rear Admiral Brown’s first duty station in the Coast Guard was in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and he has served more than half of his career in the Caribbean.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday added another pile of good news to the mountain of data showing that the contemporary economy is the strongest in generations. Not only did employers create a staggering net 225,000 jobs last month, crushing expectations, but the labor force participation rate has reached its highest point since the recovery began after the Great Recession.
The biggest losers of all the good economic news are the Democrats vying to unseat President Trump.
Naysayers will point to the unemployment rate ticking up by 0.1 percentage points from its half-century low, but the BLS report confirms what Trump argued
Few conceptions are more destructive to American society, drive us further apart, than “identity politics,” the idea that members of all groups—gays, Latinos, blacks, Asians, women, transgendered, disabled and on and on—would and should vote alike.
The Democratic Party has lived off this reactionary construct—one that obviates the competition for votes, thus clearing the way for exploitation of those groups—for decades.
It’s as if the Democrats were engaged in an unspoken conspiracy against liberty, free will, and the rights of the individual. Members of identity groups who don’t conform are to be ostracized and/or humiliated for their apostasy.
Does that veer to the totalitarian? Well, if it walks like a duck….
Orson Bean, the witty actor and comedian, was hit and killed by a car in Los Angeles, authorities said. He was 91.
The Los Angeles County coroner's office confirmed Bean's Friday night death, saying it was being investigated as a “traffic-related” fatality. The coroner's office provided the location where Bean was found, which matched reports from local news outlets.
A man was walking in the Venice neighborhood when he was clipped by a vehicle and fell, Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Brian Wendling initially told local stations. A second driver then struck him in what police say was the fatal collision. Both drivers remained on the scene. Police were investigating
The Purge of Colonel Vindman
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What is the official policy — today — of the United States in respect of Ukraine and the Bidens? Is it that Ukraine should investigate the Burisma energy company’s employment of the son of Vice President Biden? The veep’s son was pulling down something like $80,000 a month while his father was vice president. Is it the policy of the United States that Ukraine’s government should look into this?
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
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JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST – In the event of a coronavirus outbreak in the United States, this sprawling military installation in Ocean and Burlington counties was designated Thursday as an emergency camp to quarantine potential patients. U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper was asked by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to select forts and bases near 11 major airports that could house airline or cruise ship passengers, should existing designated sites become filled, according to the Pentagon. The Joint Base was designated because of its proximity to Newark Liberty International Airport.
A Thai soldier has gone on a gun rampage inside a shopping mall, killing at least 17 people and taking a dozen hostages while live-streaming the mass murder on Facebook and posing for selfies. Sergeant Major Jakrapanth Thomma began his murderous rampage this afternoon at his barracks, where he executed his commanding officer along with two other soldiers, before commandeering a humvee and tearing away from the scene. As he drove along the motorway toward the Terminal 21 shopping mall in Korat, a city 155 miles northeast of Bangkok, Thomma opened fire on civilians along the road. Reports say the frenzied soldier also sprayed bullets at a Buddhist temple
Former Vice President Joe Biden began Friday night's Democratic debate in Manchester, New Hampshire by conceding that he "took a hit" in the Iowa caucuses and he'll "probably take a hit" in the New Hampshire primaries next Tuesday. "This is a long race and I took a hit in Iowa and I'll probably take a hit here," Biden said, adding that Sen. Bernie Sanders swept the 2016 New Hampshire primary against Hillary Clinton. "Bernie won by 20 points last time and usually it's the neighboring senators that do well, but no matter what I'm still in this for the same
Morning Joe regular Donny Deutsch claimed on Friday that Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren’s decline in popularity over the past couple of months is due to her being strident and unlikable—all while making sure everyone knew he wasn’t peddling a sexist trope. Following her third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and polls currently showing her lagging ahead of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough asked Vice correspondent Shawna Thomas what may be behind Warren’s “precipitous decline over the past two months.” “You know, just two months ago we were talking about what a stellar campaign she had
Orson Bean, a veteran actor known in the 1950s and 1960s for appearances on “The Twilight Zone” and other shows, then later as a panelist on TV game shows such as “To Tell the Truth,” died Friday night in Los Angeles, according to reports. He was 91.
At a time when Confederate monuments are being pulled down, it would make sense to think that the military geniuses who defeated the real live Confederates might in conversity be honored, right?
Not in an age of idiocy.
So, the 200th birthday of General William T. Sherman, destroyer of Atlanta and much of the South across the Civil War, the master strategist who, alongside U.S. Grant. led the Union forces to victory, goes virtually unnoted.
It shows that the Confederate statue pulldown isn't really about winners or losers.
LONDON (Reuters) - British retailers had their biggest increase in sales in six years in January as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's sweeping election win and price-cutting encouraged consumers to spend more, a survey showed on Friday.
Accountancy firm BDO said its High Street Sales Tracker found sales jumped by 5.7% last month, the biggest annual rise since January 2014, with gains seen across all sectors.
There have been signs of a pick-up among companies since Johnson's Dec. 12 election victory,
Immigration experts and House Republicans are balking at the New Way Forward Act, a Democratic bill that is being described as an embrace of “open borders” and likely to be the most “radical” legislation ever introduced in history.
Democratic Illinois Rep. Jesús García, along with several other progressive House members, introduced the New Way Forward Act in December 2019, to seemingly little fanfare. The bill, among many things, calls for the decriminalization of illegal immigration, would make it more difficult to deport convicted criminal aliens, empower immigration judges to nullify deportation orders, and also calls for the return of previously deported illegal aliens.
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed a slew of networks declined to book a White House official for Sunday programming after a good news week for President Trump.Grisham, in a Friday night appearance on Hannity, acknowledged the White House will not get much airtime to discuss the State of the Union address, the president getting acquitted in the Senate impeachment trial, and a strong jobs report."I have got to tell you there is not going to be one White House official on any of the Sunday shows this weekend. Only Fox Business is taking a White House official to talk about what an amazing week this president has had,
President Donald Trump's campaign strategy came into sharp focus during the State of the Union address, and the Democrats are horrified at the mirror held up to their faces. The campaign strategy has three components. The president will tout the incredible record of achievement hidden by the media. He will engage in sustained and aggressive outreach to minority voters who have been victimized the most by Democrat policies. Finally, he will force the Democrats to defend the indefensible. It is those last two components that left the Democrats stuck on stupid.
2020 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday that “we have a racist society from top to bottom.” The Vermont senator spoke Friday evening at ABC’s Democratic debate in New Hampshire, where he discussed racism in the United States as former Vice President Joe Biden and billionaire Tom Steyer argued over who has more support from black voters. “We have a racist society from top to bottom,” Sanders said, adding that this “racist society” is “impacting health care, housing, criminal justice, education — you name it.”
At the New Hampshire Democratic debate on Friday — who schedules a debate on a Friday?! — the knives came out for former Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-Church of Social Justice), the winner (?) of the Iowa caucuses. Candidates also took shots at Sen. Bernie Sanders (S-USSR) — the second-place (?) finisher — over Medicare for All. Former Vice President Joe Biden needed a strong showing but fumbled right after the kickoff.The candidates all went after President Donald Trump to one degree or another, repeated tired Democratic mantras against free speech in politics (Citizens United), originalist judges and justices, and the right to life.
Long-time Democratic strategist James Carville issued a warning to 2020 Democratic presidential candidates in a Vox article published Thursday, warning them not to look down at people from the South and Middle America.
Carville used the example of a New York Times reporter ripping LSU for cancelling classes ahead of its National Championship victory over Clemson last month. “You know how fu***** patronizing that is to people in the South or in the middle of the country?” Carville asked. “First, LSU has an unusually high graduation rate, but that’s not the point. It’s the godd*** smugness. ”
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will end the Visiting Forces Agreement that underpins U.S. military training exercises with the country's troops, one of his top advisers announced Friday.
“The president said he is terminating the VFA,” Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Friday. “I asked for clarification, and he said he is not changing his decision.”
That choice is another blow to the relationship between the United States and the Philippines, which has suffered for years from disputes over Duterte’s human rights record. The belligerent president announced a plan to terminate the deal, which provides legal protection to U.S. troops who visit the island for military drills,
The most important thing that happened during President Trump’s post-impeachment rant at the White House didn’t happen at the lectern.
Yes, as usual, he called me a sleaze and scum and a dirty cop and said he likely would no longer be president if he hadn’t fired me. Although I still can’t follow the logic of that last bit, it doesn’t matter.
The important thing was what happened in the audience, where there were plenty of intelligent people of deep commitment to religious principle. They laughed and smiled and clapped as a president of the United States lied, bullied, cursed and belittled the faith of other leaders. That was the deeply disturbing
Six African-American staffers from Elizabeth Warren’s Nevada campaign have resigned. They accused the campaign of “tokenism” and racial insensitivity, and claimed that their work environment was “toxic.”
There are two possibilities here. The first is that the allegations are true. Warren wouldn’t be the first liberal to treat African-Americans as tokens or, indeed, affirmatively to mistreat them. And even if Warren herself doesn’t discriminate against African-American staff members, it’s certainly possible that those who help run her campaign do.
The second possibility is that the allegations are BS. These six staffers wouldn’t be the first employees to play the race card without justification.
Naturally, I don’t know which scenario is accurate.
Romney's Links to Burisma
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It wasn’t 2012 Presidential loser Mitt Romney’s faith that caused him to vote to impeach President Trump, whom he once begged to rescue him from political oblivion. While Romney, who undoubtedly entertained visions of succeeding a President Trump after his vote helped remove from office, says it was his faith that caused him to believe Trump really did abuse his power to pressure the Ukrainians to dig up dirt on the Bidens, more likely it was because that Romney wanted to put an end to an administration that might expose his link to the Bidens and Burisma,
The Democrats are lucky the February debate in New Hampshire took place on a Friday night, when relatively few were watching — because if they wanted to deliver the message to the working-class white people who delivered the upper Midwest and the presidency to Donald Trump in 2016 that they should stick with him rather than voting blue in November, they did a brilliant job of it.
Tom Steyer, the billionaire who’s trying to buy a win Bloomberg-style in the South Carolina Democratic primary, issued a stark warning at the beginning of the Democratic debate Friday night in New Hampshire:
Firing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert at the National Security Council, and his twin brother Yevgeny, an NSC lawyer, is just the start of a promised restructuring and a rebuilding of the National Security Council.
Last September, National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien pledged to drastically downsize what he called the “bloated” NSC staff, so it is encouraging to see that some of that “bloat” was just escorted out of the White House on Friday. The swelling of the NSC ranks was real and Obama was to blame. During the George W. Bush administration, there were 100 policy professionals working in the NSC under Condoleezza Rice —
Washington - Six oil executives held in Venezuela for more than two years were suddenly moved from house arrest into prison on Wednesday night, just hours after Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido met with US President Donald Trump.
The "CITGO 6" -- Tomeu Vadell, Gustavo Cardenas, Jorge Toledo, Alirio Zambrano, Jose Luis Zambrano and Jose Angel Pereira -- were taken by the Maduro regime's intelligence services from their separate house arrest locations, according to several family members, Vadell's legal team, and the State Department. According to the legal team, they were removed "without warnings or judicial order" and are being held together in the same cell at El Heliocoide prison,
When President Barack Obama launched his 2012 reelection campaign, he did it with back-to-back rallies in a pair of logical places: Virginia and Ohio. The two essential swing states, with 31 electoral votes between them, were vital to Obama’s chances of winning a second term.
Ohio, a traditional Midwestern bellwether, epitomized the old electoral map, from the now-distant era when presidential elections featured dozens of contested states and candidates sought to campaign in all of them. Virginia, a Southern state that for decades had voted Republican for president until Obama broke the streak in 2008, represented a new map, one in which rapid demographic change created new opportunities for Democrats.
A growing homeless crisis in the Texas capital has the governor and mayor clashing, and Austin residents say the progressive city in a red state seems to be losing ground.
The city's plight has prompted a war of words between Mayor Steve Adler and Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who has not been shy about criticizing policies he says make the situation worse. Abbott took to his personal Twitter account to say the city’s ordinances are “dangerous for everyone” after a homeless man fatally stabbed another man, then jumped off a building and later died from his injuries. In an interview with Fox News, Adler took offense at what he considered
Friday was the last Democratic debate before the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday. There were seven candidates onstage at St. Anselm College in Manchester: Former Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg and businessmen Andrew Yang and Tom Steyer.
So what was my take on this debate? Below you’ll find my winners and losers for the evening.
WINNERS
BIGGEST WINNER: Sen. Amy Klobuchar
On Friday night Klobuchar had a breakthrough moment; perhaps because the U.S. senator from Minnesota knew this could be her last debate if she didn’t step it up -- and she did.
President Donald Trump took an apparent shot at Democrats during Friday night’s primary debate on ABC News by tweeting out a video of an elderly woman saying that the president was Superman. “I think that we need to put a cape on his back, an ‘s’ on his chest and call him Superman,” the woman in the video said while she was answering a question from Fox News’ Pete Hegseth. “No mortal man could take what he took for the last three years and two, he has done what he said he would do, and he’s still doing it.”
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