Posts on Sunday, February 9, 2020
Brad Pitt continued his awards season (and acceptance speech) domination on Sunday night, winning the supporting actor Oscar for his portrayal of stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” During his speech, Pitt also got political, calling out the Trump impeachment trial for blocking the testimony of former national security adviser John Bolton. “They told me I only have 45 seconds up here, which is 45 seconds more than the Senate gave John Bolton this week,” he said on stage. “I’m thinking maybe Quentin does a movie about it — in the end, the adults
HAMPTON, N.H. — It was two days before the New Hampshire primary, and Joe Biden was talking about 13th century common law. The point Biden was making is that he wrote legislation in the U.S. Senate to protect women from domestic abuse, the Violence Against Women Act. But it was hard to make out the connection between Biden’s detour into the Middle Ages with his argument that domestic violence is a modern sign of cultural decay. “We have to change the culture,” he told an audience of a few hundred people inside a hotel ballroom in this seaside town. “You
South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg took issue with Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “my way or the highway” politics at Friday’s debate — but a 20-year-old essay written by Buttigieg had nothing but praise for the self-described socialist. In the early moments of the ABC-hosted debate in New Hampshire, Buttigieg warned against “my way or the highway politics” and when moderator George Stephanopoulos asked whether he was referring to Sanders, he said that he was.
Florida police took 27-year-old Gregory Timm into custody on Saturday in connection with what may have been an attack on Trump supporters. He was charged with aggravated assault just hours after he allegedly drove his van into a Republican voter registration tent. (Tweet/Photo) According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Department, the tent was in a shopping center parking lot, where at least six Trump campaign volunteers were trying to help register new voters. Timm reportedly drove up and waved at the party, seeming friendly, before suddenly accelerating his car directly into them.
Pete Rose posted monster numbers in his Major League Baseball career. Rose, who played from 1963 to 1986, holds major league records for games played (3,562), at bats (14,053), hits (4,256), and singles (3,215). He had a lifetime batting average of .303. Those are Hall of Fame numbers. But the player known as “Mr. Hustle” has never been inducted into Cooperstown because of a scandal that marred his post-player career. In 1989, three years after his retirement, Rose was kicked out of baseball amid accusations that he bet on baseball games while playing for and managing the Cincinnati Reds.
Ricky Gervais Heckles Oscars: ‘I Can’t Wait
to Hear Your Inspirational Speeches About
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to Hear Your Inspirational Speeches About
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Actor-comedian Ricky Gervais viciously trolled Hollywood celebrities just hours ahead of Sunday’s Academy Awards, preemptively deflating their self-important acceptance speeches in a series of humorous tweets. Ricky Gervais took the stars to task for their progressive views on migrant workers, noting that many celebrities employ migrants in their homes to perform menial and backbreaking work. (Tweet)
The New York City police department is reeling after two assassination attempts several hours apart wounded two officers.
In the first incident, a suspect approached a parked patrol car and, after asking for directions, opened fire, slightly wounding one officer. The attack occurred about 8:30 PM Saturday night.
Then at around 8:00 AM Sunday, a suspect, Robert Williams, who is believed to be the same man who shot into the patrol car, walked into a precinct and opened fire.
Fox News:
The gunman walked into the precinct and immediately pulled out a 9mm handgun and fired several rounds toward the desk area where several uniformed officers were standing, Shea said.
Brain-Dead MSNBC Anchor Wants 'Gerry-
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mandering' to Rig the Senate for Democrats After Impeachment replies
Did you hear that senators who voted to convict the president represent 12 million more people than senators who voted to acquit?
“In case you missed it, majority doesn’t always rule in this country,” whined MSNBC anchor Katy Tur. “Forty-eight senators voted to remove the president from office. Fifty-two voted to acquit. But the 48 actually represent 12 million more voters than the senators who decided to keep Donald Trump in the White House.”
What's the relevance? To you, me, and others with gray matter between their ears, none at all. Tur is actually using a false and dishonest analogy to make an idiotic point.
If you thought life couldn't possibly get more difficult for Joe Biden, after he had to settle for a horrific fourth place in Iowa, I've got quite a surprise for you: yes it could. And the former vice president has no one to blame but himself.
Just watch this video of Biden talking to a voter in New Hampshire who asks him why they should trust he can turn his campaign around. Well, Biden asks the lady who dared asked him this "good question" (his words), "have you ever been to a caucus?" When she answers in the affirmative, he lashes out at her.
Joe Biden's campaign has released a brutal new ad highlighting Biden's experience compared to Pete Buttigieg's and it pulls no punches, comparing Biden's international experience to Buttigieg's small-town experience which pales in comparison. The ad begins with Biden's role in passing Obamacare, which to be fair, everyone hated, to Buttigieg's thoughtful placement of decorative lighting on some Indiana bridges. While it made me laugh out loud, Mr. Fox had a totally different take on it. "That's going to backfire," he said. When I inquired why, his response was that Biden was clearly saying that Buttigieg is too gay to be a president. On the second run-through, I saw it.
As international flights go, this one must have felt like a commuter hop.
A British Airways jet set a subsonic record for the fastest flight between New York and London on Sunday, completing the journey in four hours, 56 minutes, the BBC reported. The flight, which attained speeds of more than 800 mph, was aided by the jet stream of Storm Ciara, according to the network.
The Boeing 747-436 jet took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and was scheduled to land at Heathrow in London at 6:25 a.m., ITV reported. Instead, the jet arrived at 4::43 a.m. -- 102 minutes before its scheduled landing, the network reported.
Pelosi Tries And Fails To Badger Facebook
Into Nixing An Edited Video Of Her SOTU
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Into Nixing An Edited Video Of Her SOTU
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Facebook and Twitter are refusing to bow to requests from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to nix an edited video of the California Democrat tearing up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech.
The edited video was posted on both social media platforms after the Tuesday night SOTU in which Pelosi can be seen ripping a copy of the speech. The video is spliced together to make it appear that Pelosi ripped the speech as Trump is saluting a Tuskegee airman in the audience.
Trump tweeted the edited version Thursday. Pelosi’s deputy chief of staff, Drew Hammill, criticized Facebook Friday, suggesting the version Trump tweeted mischaracterizes what transpired during the speech.
Manufacturing jobs have disappeared
in N.J. But these industries have
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in N.J. But these industries have
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New Jersey’s days as a manufacturing powerhouse are long gone. Over just the past 20 years, the state has lost 215,000 manufacturing jobs, helping to drive a decline in overall union membership. In 1998, 21% of people in private-sector manufacturing were union members. Only 3% were union members in 2018.(Snip) New Jersey’s ports see a “lot of full containers coming in and lots of empties going out,” Potter said, meaning the state isn’t producing car parts and other goods like it had in the past.
The labor unions that arose from that kind of factory work years ago have maintained at least some
A man carrying a knife was arrested outside the White House after he told a US Secret Service officer that he was there to kill President Donald Trump, police said.Roger Hedgpeth, 25, was arrested Saturday afternoon on a charge of making threats to do bodily harm, the Metropolitan Police Department said.Hedgpeth approached a Secret Service officer who was patrolling outside the White House and said he was there to 'assassinate' Trump.
Medal Of Honor Recipient Says LTC Vindman
Was A ‘Spotlighter’ Whose Own Peers
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Was A ‘Spotlighter’ Whose Own Peers
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Medal of Honor recipient MSG Leroy Petry defended President Donald Trump’s decision to fire LTC Alexander Vindman, saying that Vindman had shown he couldn’t be trusted.(Snip)
Petry went on to explain that Vindman, according to friends who had been with the lieutenant colonel in Ranger School, had referred to him as a “chow thief” and had not thought highly of him even then. “In ranger school, [they] said he couldn’t be trusted. They tried peering him out. They said, ‘Well, I guess it hasn’t changed much.’ Usually folks that try to make a big statue of something, what we call spotlighters in the military, trying to highlight themselves as
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to jokingly insult a New Hampshire student Sunday, calling her a “lying dog-faced pony soldier” at a Hampton Beach event.
Biden was reportedly responding to a question about his campaign’s lackluster performance in the Iowa caucuses and how he planned to forge a path forward, especially if he did not do well in New Hampshire’s primary.(Snip)
“A young woman asks Biden ‘How do you explain the performance in Iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win a national election?’ Biden’s response: ‘You ever been to a caucus?’ Woman says yes. Biden: ‘No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier,’”
Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, brushed off calls for his resignation following a debacle at the Iowa caucuses that left no clear winner in the state for three days. "Look at the last three years," Perez said Sunday on CNN, adding that he will "absolutely not" resign amid calls for him to step down. "My job, when I came in, was to rebuild our infrastructure, to win elections ... We have been winning." Hours passed Monday night with Iowa Democrats providing no results following what they called "inconsistencies" in reporting from local precincts across the state. Issues with a new smartphone app
An NYPD lieutenant has been shot in the arm inside a New York precinct and the suspect—who has a lengthy rap sheet and was paroled from prison in 2017 after an attempted murder conviction—is believed to be responsible for another police-involved shooting in the Bronx just hours before. Robert Williams—who was arrested on murder charges in 1992 and 2002—strolled into the 41st precinct and fired at Lt. Jose Gautreaux who was positioned at the front desk.(Snip) Williams had only recently been released from custody on charges of heavy weapon possession and was due in court in the coming days.
Political Violence – Man Drives Van into
Trump Voter Registration Event in
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Trump Voter Registration Event in
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This is very concerning given the propensity for political violence on the left. The GOP of Duval County, Florida are reporting that a man intentionally drove his van into a Trump voter registration booth in Jacksonville, Florida. Thankfully the volunteers were able to jump out of the way and no-one was hurt, but this is alarming. FLORIDA – Jacksonville police say a driver intentionally crashed a van through a tent where Duval County GOP volunteers were registering voters Saturday afternoon.
Nobody was injured in the 3:45 p.m. incident at the Walmart Supercenter, 11900 Atlantic Boulevard, near Kernan Boulevard in the Sandalwood
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was criticized on Twitter after she said that the “ethos” of the G.I. Bill that gives military personnel the option to go to college for free should be applied to everyone. “Imagine what it would do for our country and those who live here if we were to take the ethos behind the original G.I. Bill and apply it to everybody—canceling all student debt and making public colleges, universities, and vocational schools tuition-free.”
Too Big To Jail?…
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According to reports late last year U.S. Attorney John Durham and U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr were spending time on a narrowed focus looking carefully at CIA activity in the 2016 presidential election. (Snip)
“One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services””. (Link)
(Snip) there is an aspect to the CIA operation that overlaps with both a U.S. and U.K. need to keep Wikileaks founder Julian Assange under tight control.
Red v. Blue
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The political and cultural war between red and blue America may not be settled in our lifetimes, but it’s clear which side is gaining ground in economic and demographic terms. In everything from new jobs—including new technology employment—fertility rates, population growth, and migration, it’s the red states that increasingly hold the advantage.
Perhaps the most surprising development is on the economic front. Over the past decade, the national media, and much of academia, have embraced the notion that the future belonged to the high-tax, high-regulation economies clustered on the East and West Coasts. The red states have been widely dismissed,
It is always darkest, John McCain used to say, before it gets totally black. So it is for the American center-left right now. Bernie Sanders is currently favored to win the nomination, a prospect that would make Donald Trump a heavy favorite to win reelection, and open the possibility of a Corbyn-esque wipeout. While Sanders has not expanded beyond a minority of the party, he has consolidated support of the party’s left wing, and while its mainstream liberal wing is split between numerous contenders, it is hard to see how the situation is likely to improve soon. Indeed, it could get worse, much worse.
The liberal conundrum begins with Joe Biden.
California Lottery gave away $212,500 in
Scratchers on ‘Ellen.’ Some call it a
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Scratchers on ‘Ellen.’ Some call it a
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Comedian Ellen DeGeneres drew wild cheers from the studio audience of her television talk show in December when she announced each person in attendance would receive a $500 bundle of Scratchers tickets from the California State Lottery.
Lottery officials saw it as a publicity boon, but a whistleblower complaint filed by some lottery employees argues the agency’s giveaway of the tickets — which have a combined face value of $212,500 — should be investigated as a “misuse of funds,” according to documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.The controversy comes just weeks before a state audit is scheduled to be released on lottery finances in response to a string of recent
The controversy began with a scientific paper. Israeli mathematician Eliyahu Rips, together with Yoav Rosenberg and Doron Witztum, pored through the Hebrew Book of Genesis in search of hidden codes, and they apparently found some... The names of prominent Jewish Rabbis and the dates they were active were concealed within the text, pretty incredible considering that they existed hundreds of years after the Torah was written! Rips and his colleagues extracted these names and dates using the Equidistant Letter Sequence (ELS) method. Basically, they entered all of the letters of the Torah into a computer and searched for meaningful words and numbers that arose when starting at one letter
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) closed the door on pro-life Democrats Saturday night at a presidential forum called “Our Rights, Our Courts,” hosted by the Demand Justice Initiative, the Center for Reproductive Rights and NARAL Pro-Choice America. The forum was focused on so-called “reproductive rights” per New Hampshire Democratic National Committee members Kathy Sullivan and Bill Shaheen, according to local media in the state, giving candidates the opportunity to speak on “the threat to our courts and our reproductive rights,” per an interview Sullivan gave with WMUR. Every candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination expressed
Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made an awkward blunder when she mixed-up two economists while addressing the benefits of a four-day work week in a video shared on Instagram. The 30-year-old was asked by one of her followers to discuss the benefits of a shorter work week when she misspoke and referred to 'Milton Keynes'. Ocasio-Cortez later said she had confused a British economist, John Maynard Keynes, with Milton Friedman, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize. John Maynard Keynes—who she intended to refer to—theorized that government spending was linked to economic growth. He was an advocate for increased government expenditures
Salt Lake City — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert says he does not support a state lawmaker’s push to censure U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney over his vote to convict in the president’s impeachment trial. Herbert, a Republican, said in a statement Friday that Romney voted in accordance with his conscience after hearing all the evidence in the trial, and his decision does not warrant censure. The position signals a roadblock for the effort to rebuke Romney amid a wave of Republican anger directed at the party’s former presidential nominee. The resolution would show the senator that other members of his party were unhappy with his vote
ZEPHYRHILLS — The Rottweilers’ barking woke Brena Kramer in the darkest part of the January morning, but it was when they fell silent that she got worried. They were chasing something.
She stepped onto the big screened porch and looked toward the barn. A security lamp gave off the only light. Across the yard, she heard an unusual sound — one of the horses shuffling anxiously in his stall.
Five years earlier, Kramer had turned this property, set back off a railroad access drive, into her dream: a horse rehabilitation center. She took horses nobody else would, ones that needed up to a year of treatment. It was nonstop work,
Jacksonville Fla. - Hours after a van plowed through a Republican Party tent where volunteers were registering voters, Jacksonville police arrested a 27-year-year man on two counts of aggravated assault on a person over 65 years old, criminal mischief and driving without a license.. Gregory William Loel Timm was identified
Flights have been cancelled, rail services cut, parks closed and sporting events including a Premier League game cancelled as Storm Ciara sweeps across Britain.
The Met Office has issued weather warnings as the storm, set to be the most intense in Britain since 2013, is expected to bring winds in excess of 80mph and heavy rain - with impacts felt across the whole of the UK on Sunday.
The death toll from several locations where he’d opened fire has risen to 21 victims with more than 30 suffering injuries.
The deadly rampage started at about 3:30 p.m. at the Suatham Phithak military compound, where Thomma allegedly shot and killed his commanding officer, Anantharot Krassae.
Eleven years ago, the writer Michael Walsh wrote (under his penname David Kahane) “Think of the Democratic Party as it really is: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.” After the Democrats’ Russia, Kavanaugh, Mueller, and Ukraine fiascos, the Iowa caucus debacle, and Friday’s bizarre Democratic debate, (Snip) To say the Democrats’ behavior was disconsonant with any message of sober adult solons is to understate it.
President Trump’s acquittal on impeachment charges is welcome, but hardly the best news of the week. For, unnoticed until recently, another court proceeding advances, and win or lose, this matter can shake the globalist, deep state swamp off its here-to-now protected foundation.
The case in question is Lawrence W. Doyle and John F. Moynihan (Petitioners) v Internal Revenue Service (Respondents), a case where allegedly corrupt actions of the Internal Revenue Service itself may fall under the microscope. It likely involves as yet unprosecuted crimes by “charities” that are still corruptly directed by household names. (snip) ample evidence of malfeasance by the network of loosely-affiliated Clinton Foundation “charities”
At a brief training the Sunday before the Iowa caucuses, Iowa Democratic Party officials told the volunteers tasked with staffing a telephone hotline system to arrive Monday morning with books, puzzles and games — they were unlikely to be busy for hours.
But throughout the day and into the night, the phones rang almost constantly in the so-called boiler room, where about 50 phone stations had been set up in a security-encased call center at the downtown Des Moines Iowa Events Center.
On the other end of the phone lines were dozens of precinct leaders and county party chairs from across the state who could not download or log into
Bernie Sanders has been agitating against billionaires for years. From the Senate floor to the presidential campaign trail, Sanders targets the billionaire class and the outsized influence of moneyed interests. Now, the anti-billionaire candidate may face an extraordinary showdown with a real billionaire. Opinion Even if Sanders — or someone else — emerges as a clear front-runner after Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, billionaire ex-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg looms as a major threat. Wide headline split.
I see that various pundits are competing to write the political epitaph for Joe ‘son-of-a-bitch‘ Biden. That’s entirely understandable. It’s been clear for some time that Biden is on the threshold of senility, and it is only my charitable disposition that prevents me from speculating about which side of the threshold he occupies.
And then there was the desolation wrought by the Democrats’ impeachment entertainment. From the start, it was clear that the chief casualty of that amateur theatrics was going to be Joe Biden and his sniff, sniff, sniffing son Hunter.
Everyone who is not Bill Kristol understood that the bullet of that purely partisan hit job would miss President Trump.
The president’s fiscal 2021 budget will not include funding for the licensing of Nevada’s Yucca Mountain as a nuclear waste repository, a senior administration official confirmed to CQ Roll Call on Thursday.
President Donald Trump tweeted earlier what appeared to be a rejection of the long-debated plans for the federal site about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, an abrupt reversal of his administration’s policy.
“Nevada, I hear you on Yucca Mountain and my Administration will RESPECT you! Congress and previous Administrations have long failed to find lasting solutions — my Administration is committed to exploring innovative approaches — I’m confident we can get it done!” the president tweeted Thursday evening.
The year the Oscars had its highest viewership, Titanic won best picture. That was 1998, when the broadcast drew in 55.25 million viewers. “A billion people tuning in to see,” Billy Crystal sang in his opening monologue. A small fraction of a billion, perhaps, but the claim wasn’t as ludicrous then as it would be now.
The Oscars had its worst year ever in 2018, with a measly viewership of 26.5 million. The following year’s host-less Oscars saw a slight bump to 29.6 million — though it’s still a far cry from years past. Host-less again, the Oscars might expect to see a similar bump in numbers this year.
Joe Biden Is Collapsing
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Joe Biden brought his “No Malarkey” tour to a New Hampshire debate stage on Friday night. But in promising to tell the truth, he accidentally exposed his own doleful (or I should say, Bob Dole-ful) prospects in Tuesday’s opening-gun primary. In his first words of the debate—the moment when candidates are usually the most scripted—Biden confessed, “I took a hit in Iowa and I’ll probably take a hit here.” It was a novel campaign strategy; few candidates ever say, “Vote for me because I’m going to lose here.”
If his comments were a brief misstep in an otherwise smooth debate, it would have been one thing.
Netanyahu Unbound
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life, trying to fend off bogus charges of “corruption” that have been concocted by his political enemies–a group that includes, unfortunately, most of Israel’s political class. Earlier tonight he delivered a remarkable campaign speech that included a blunt assessment of Israel’s recent past and its relationship with the United States. I am tempted to reproduce the whole thing, as reported by Israel National News, as it is seamless, but will do my best to excerpt:
Without our homeland [Judea and Samaria], we have no existence, we are left hanging – we have no past,
Back in 2016, former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg made elitist and demeaning comments about Midwestern rubes who are too uneducated to support transgender bathroom access. The remarks, which resurfaced on Friday, illustrate the patronizing attitude many pro-transgender activists have toward those who dare to disagree with the view that gender identity overrides biological sex. Ironically, transgender activists were triggered by how the former mayor insulted the Midwesterners who disagree with them.
Speaking to an audience at Oxford University and addressing the Brexit vote, Bloomberg said, "We, the intelligentsia, the people who could make it into this room, we believe a lot of things in terms of equality
Well, it is over. Trump won, Biden lost. No, not the Presidential race…
In a blow to pietists the world over, who believe devoutly in the power of prayer, President Trump was impeached despite Nancy Pelosi’s supplications on his behalf. I don’t meant to damn her for faint prayers, but all her genuflections failed to sway the Heavens Above. And so it came to pass that certain Articles, embodying abuse of power and obstruction by Congress, were formally delivered to the Senate.
This had a powerful impact on Wall Street, which immediately shot up to record highs, not letting Pelosi’s bull upset the China shopping promised in the —
November 4, 2020. Early morning. The clock radio flips from 5:59 to 6:00. And the radio plays, “I Got You, Babe.” You know it’s coming: the Groundhog Day election.
The Democrats are heading for a replay of their worst day because, like the rude and dismissive Bill Murray character Phil Connors, they can’t relate to their fellow citizens. Oblivious, they’re doomed to make the same mistakes until they learn something.
Get ready to see a lot of stuff you’ve seen before. First there will be denial: “Uh-uh. No way. Can you check the numbers again? That can’t be right.”
There is no doubt that Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is now the leading Democratic presidential candidate. That's not because his ideas are overwhelmingly popular -- a majority of Americans approve of capitalism, while less than 1 in 5 like socialism; few Americans are on board with total nationalization of health care, even if many like the idea of universal health care; most Americans do not approve of Sanders' anti-American ideology with regard to foreign policy.
But nobody in the Democratic Party can stop Bernie.
There's a reason for this: The Democratic Party has fed off the energy of Sanders' ideology hoping that, eventually, the voters would come to their senses.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and six were wounded Saturday when U.S. and Afghan troops were fired on during a mission in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials told Fox News.
The casualties occurred during a so-called "insider attack" in which an Afghan dressed as an Afghan army fighter suddenly opened fire, U.S. military officials said, according to The Associated Press.
Such attacks have been frequent occurences in the nearly two decades U.S. troops have spent in the country. In 2012, for example, 25 percent of Americans military deaths in Afghanistan were caused by such attacks by allied Afghan forces, U.S. military officials have said.
I used to love the Oscars. The Oscars and election night were my “Super Bowls” growing up. I would print out the list of nominations, see all the movies with my cousin, and then vote for my favorites and which movies I thought would win. In sixth grade, I wrote that I wanted to be an executive producer — that’s how much I adored movies. I saw the medium of film not just as an end to be loved for its own sake but also as a means to change culture and direct people’s attention to the true, the good, and the beautiful. They say politics is downstream from culture.
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Former President Barack Obama hasn't endorsed anyone in the 2020 Democratic primary, but ads from six White House hopefuls would leave voters with another impression.Obama, an intensely popular Democratic Party figure, has featured in spots produced by Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Tulsi Gabbard, Deval Patrick, Tom Steyer, and Elizabeth Warren — Biden, Bloomberg, and Warren, in particular, using snippets of speeches he's given about them to give the appearance he's narrating the ad.Obama's silence, seen by many as a snub of Biden, his two-term vice president, has left open the possibility that the remaining top contenders
Former Secretary of State John Kerry called Sen. Bernie Sanders a 'Socialist' and said he was 'surprised' former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg thought he was ready to be president at a campaign stop Saturday on behalf of Joe Biden. 'I'm not personalizing this with Bernie, but he's a Socialist. He's been a Socialist all his life,' Kerry warned the crowd of 20 or so Biden supporters who were about to go canvassing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. 'I'm not and a whole bunch of Americans or not.' Kerry, who was the Democrats 2004 presidential nominee, reminded the crowd that he had spent 17 years in the U.S. Senate before trying
Pearls clutched, hair on fire, heads exploding — pick your favorite image to describe the left’s latest reaction to President Trump. Once again, the end is near, he’s gone too far, this time we got him.His outrage against all that is good and pure was to pink-slip star impeachment witnesses Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland.“Friday Night Massacre” screamed the usual suspects, a not-very-subtle reference to Richard Nixon’s “Saturday Night Massacre.” The difference, unmentioned, is that Trump was already acquitted, whereas the Nixon impeachment hadn’t formally started.
Donald Trump’s chances for reelection in November have never been higher. The latest Gallup poll puts his approval rating at 49 percent, other polls have measured even higher, and he just gave the speech of his life in his 2020 State of the Union address. But watch out. Without Republican control of the Senate in 2020, much less recovering control of the House of Representatives, the impact of a second Trump term will be profoundly diminished.Left-wing billionaires like Michael Bloomberg, Tom Steyer, Donald Sussman, James Simons, George Soros, Kenneth Griffin, Stephen Schwarzman, Fred Eychaner, Karla Jurvetson, and Jeff Bezos have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars almost exclusively to Democrats