Posts on Monday, May 4, 2020
An interesting dynamic unfolds tomorrow as the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) will be holding the confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee, John Ratcliffe. As a result of earlier political moves the SSCI is between a rock and a hard place.
The SSCI is the drain-plug in the swamp. They use their corrupt oversight power and confirmation authority to control the intelligence apparatus (swamp guards) and ensure that no executive branch officer can disrupt or disclose their corrupt Senate schemes.
From the early days of the Trump administration, Stephen Miller, the president’s chief adviser on immigration, has repeatedly tried to use an obscure law designed to protect the nation from diseases overseas as a way to tighten the borders. The question was, which disease? Mr Miller pushed for invoking the president’s broad public health powers in 2019 when an outbreak of mumps spread through immigration detention facilities in six states. He tried again that year when Border Patrol stations were hit with the flu. When vast caravans of migrants surged towards the border in 2018, Mr Miller looked for evidence that they carried illnesses.
It might be a tale of two different approaches to regular briefings on the coronavirus by state and federal leaders.
Whatever the reason, Minnesotan's approve of the coronavirus response of Gov. Tim Walz much more than that of President Donald Trump.
CBS White House correspondent Paula Reid tried to direct Disney’s attention toward a possible copyright violation from President Donald Trump’s campaign team.
In honor of Star Wars Day — “May The 4th Be With You!” — the Trump campaign team tweeted a themed video that depicted former Vice President Joe Biden as Emperor Palpatine. President Trump’s face was photoshopped onto Yoda’s body, and as the video came to a close, he decapitated two droids with one swing of his light saber. Superimposed over the droids’ faces were the CNN and MSNBC logos, respectively.
Former CIA operative Bryan Dean Wright isn’t pussyfooting around when it comes to fired FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan, and their actions in the Russian collusion hoax.Declaring that Comey and Brennan, who went on to become virulent Trump bashers, decided to “take out” a member of President Trump’s administration, Wright said the two are “traitors” and should get the death penalty, if convicted.His remarks are in response to the bombshell report last week that former National Security Adviser Mike Flynn, a retired three-star U.S. Army general, may have been set up by the FBI.Wright, who is a Democratic voter,
Michelle Obama, the former first lady, said it felt like a “slap in the face” that African-Americans did not turn out to vote in the 2016 presidential election. Mrs Obama revealed she was saddened that her husband Barack’s legacy did not live on, in a preview of Becoming, a Netflix documentary about her life which is due to be released on Wednesday. “It takes some energy to go high, and we were exhausted from it. Because when you are the first black anything…,” she said, speaking to a group of African-American schoolchildren in the clip. “A lot of our folks
Florida has now officially reopened with most coronavirus restrictions being lifted as of today as about half of all US states partially reopen their economies after the lockdown. As part of the reopening in Florida, which has seen 1,300 deaths and 36,000 infections among its 21.5 million residents, retailers and restaurants across much of the state can open their doors at a 25 percent capacity. While some beaches across parts of the state were allowed to reopen last month, Clearwater Beach in Tampa officially reopened to the public before sunrise on Monday morning. Police removed 'closed' signs from barricades at 7am to the cheers of the 50 or so people
CNN’s Don Lemon was raked over the coals for his “disrespectful” attempt to get at President Donald Trump.The CNN “anchor” appeared to live up to Trump’s description of him as “the dumbest man on television” when he ripped the president’s handling of the coronavirus crisis and took a moment to ask why former President Barack Obama gets under his skin. (Tweet/Video) Lemon complained about Trump attacking his critics and tweeting over the weekend instead of dealing with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic during his show on Sunday. He took issue with the president retweeting an account that claimed Obama was “the one running the Russian hoax.”
Several countries are reopening schools after temporarily closing them due to coronavirus. For example, Denmark and Norway have reopened their elementary schools. States in America should start reopening their schools, too. New research says that doing so won't spread coronavirus to many adults, and it will have little effect on child mortality. Yet schools remain closed in 44 states. Two months ago, I called for states to close their schools, to reduce the spread of COVID-19. My goal was to "slow down the spread of coronavirus,
On Monday, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell and NBC News presidential historian Michael Beschloss feared that President Trump conducting a virtual town hall with Fox News at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday night to discuss the coronavirus pandemic had somehow sullied the “hallowed ground” of the Washington D.C. monument. “And speaking of inconsistent messaging or unusual messaging, let’s talk about the Lincoln Memorial,” Mitchell proclaimed during her 12:00 p.m. ET hour show, referring to the event. Turning to Beschloss, she complained: “...to a lot of people, that’s hallowed ground.
The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for commentary was awarded Monday to Nikole Hannah-Jones for an essay in the New York Times that falsely claimed the American Revolution was fought primarily to protect slavery.The essay, titled “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true,” launched the Times‘ controversial 1619 project.The essay incorrectly claimed that the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776 (signing began weeks later, on August 2).However, the far more egregious error was Hannah-Jones’s claim
Officers from the New York Police Department have decried city officials "get cops out of the social distancing enforcement business altogether," following backlash stemming from a violent confrontation with police over the weekend as officers tried to enforce the rules.
Patrick Lynch, the president of the Police Benevolent Association, lambasted city leadership, saying officers have received "nothing but vague guidelines and mixed messages, leaving the cops on the street corners to fend for ourselves." .@NYCPBA calls for end of @NYPDnews policing of social distancing: "As the weather heats up & the pandemic continues to unravel our social fabric, police officers should be allowed
Lansing - A Republican congressman sued Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in federal court Monday, alleging she has violated the constitution in her management of the coronavirus pandemic. U.S. Rep. Paul Mitchell, R-Dryden Township, said he wants a judge to "define the limits of a state's police power." He sued Whitmer in federal court in Grand Rapids.
Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema definitely got everyone’s attention Monday when pictures started surfacing of her rocking purple hair during the pandemic.
The senator showed up on the senate floor with shiny purple hair and a bright green sleeveless dress while donning a face mask.
She didn’t explain much about the change of look from her platinum blond locks, to the new vibrant hair color. But she did take a second out to point straight at it while on camera. (
Photos of a man wearing a home-made Ku Klux Klan hood as he shopped at a suburban San Diego grocery store caused an uproar on social media over the weekend.
The unidentified middle-aged man, dressed in a camo T-shirt and cargo pants, was photographed Saturday evening in the produce section of a Vons store in Santee. Employees told him to remove the pointy hood, which he was ostensibly using to comply with face-mask requirements in San Diego County. “Several members of our team asked the customer to remove it, and all requests were ignored until the customer was in the checkout area,” said a spokeswoman for Vons
HOUSTON — The Blue Angels will fly over Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth and New Orleans this week, the squadron confirmed on its official Twitter account."Your Blue Angels are heading your way this Wednesday!".."Stay home and stay safe!"The Blue Angels flyover is planned for Wednesday, May 6. This will be the first of two planned flyovers in the Houston area this week as this Friday, May 8, a collection of rare and vintage aircraft will also fly over parts of town. (Tweet)
House Republicans said Monday they have launched an investigation into Chinese influence on U.S. universities with the goal of pilfering research and concealing data about the origins of the new coronavirus. The Republicans say they are concerned that universities funded with taxpayer dollars are also accepting money from China and other affiliated organizations. “For some time, we have been concerned about the potential for the Chinese government to use its strategic investments to turn American college campuses into Indoctrination platforms for American students,” the ranking members of seven committees wrote in a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The lawmakers say they want a better
A newly-launched committee called “Draft Michelle Obama” is pushing for Joe Biden, the apparent Democrat presidential nominee, to select the former first lady as his running mate.“Joe Biden has said he would choose Michelle Obama as his running mate ‘in a heartbeat.’ The aim of this campaign is to build on the substantial grassroots support for a potential Michelle Obama candidacy and help garner media attention for a vice-presidential nominee who has the power to beat Donald Trump,” the group said in a statement released Monday.The statement adds: “The Committee to Draft Michelle Obama firmly believes that Ms. Obama will not only benefit the Democratic ticket this November
The COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously proved the life-and-death importance of local journalism in our democracy and accelerated the destruction of the free press at a scale that only Congress can reverse.
During the novel coronavirus outbreak, readership of The Seattle Times and newspapers nationwide is at an all-time high, but with plummeting advertising revenue. So many papers have laid off staff that journalism enterprises are in danger of not being able to provide the necessary local coverage vital to community connection just when it is most needed: in the midst of a national health and economic crisis.
While the newspaper industry has been struggling with a changing business model precipitated
The good news is that you might get out of future jury duty, because when you are asked under oath about your own biases during a federal criminal case jury selection you would have to answer honestly by responding, “Your Honor, I don’t trust a damn thing anyone in the FBI says.”
If the heirs of Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., were to go up on the stand and testify, the recent disgraceful revelations about how their bosses tried to frame LTG Mike Flynn mean you would be entirely correct to grant them the same credibility as the dude caught wearing a black cape, a Lone Ranger mask, and a nametag
The unsealing last week of a series of documents in the Michael Flynn criminal case cemented the reality that a small cadre of high-level FBI agents set a perjury trap for President Trump’s then-national security advisor. Beyond exposing the depth of this despicable personal and political hit job on a 30-year military veteran, the newly discovered documents hold great legal significance. Here’s your legal primer.
The Russiagate special counsel’s office charged Flynn with violating 18 U. S. C. § 1001, which makes it a federal crime to “knowingly and willfully” make a false statement of “a material fact” to a federal official. Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team claimed Flynn
New Jersey is facing a financial disaster due to loss in revenue and spike in expenses related to the coronavirus outbreak that could be just weeks away, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. “Right now, it’s pouring,” Murphy said, shortly after announcing he was ordering all public and private schools closed for the rest of the academic year. “We are on the brink of having to make very tough and, quite frankly, very unpalatable decisions." Murphy has previously warned of “historic” public worker layoffs without federal assistance.(Snip) The governor called on Congress to provide financial relief to the Garden State.
In this week’s Liberal Media Scream, talk show host Bill Maher and former Obama-era Attorney General Eric Holder are so convinced President Trump will lose reelection and refuse to leave the White House, that cops will have to be called in to drag him out.But while Holder said that federal agents have the power to force Trump out, Maher doubted that they would because they like Trump.(Video) “They have the ability, do they have the will?” he said on his Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, adding, “Police love his dirty draws. You really think they’re going to pull him out of the White House?”
On CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said social distancing and other mitigation measures put in place to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus don't appear to be working as much as public health experts had hoped.
"When you look across the country, it's really a mixed bag," Dr. Gottlieb explained.
The former FDA chief said while New York is really driving the national statistics, other areas of the country are continuing to see a rise in the number of coronavirus cases.
"[W]hen you back out what’s happening in New York ... around the nation, hospitalizations and new cases
Sometime between Saturday and Sunday, it’s expected that Chicago’s total number of coronavirus-related deaths will cross the 1,000-person mark.
“Think about that: 1,000 people dead simply because of COVID-19,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Saturday.
Chicago and the rest of Illinois have been under a coronavirus-inspired semi-lockdown for six weeks, and residents are instructed to stay at home as much as possible for another four weeks.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s latest stay-at-home order will expire at the end of May. But the mayor did not take the possibility of an extension off the table.
“We’re going to stay in the status quo as long as we need to,” she said.
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The Wuhan epidemic has exposed a rift between the academic medicine types who dominate the Centers for Disease Control and similar agencies in the states and practicing physicians who are actually treating COVID patients. (Snip) doctors on the front line have developed effective treatment regimens for the virus–regimens which apparently would save many lives (Snip)
A group of critical care physicians representing the University of Tennessee, (Snip) and a number of other institutions have formed the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Consortium and released a bulletin setting out a recommended treatment protocol. (Snip) based largely on the fact that it is not the virus, but the body’s reaction to the
Retired Pope Benedict XVI links “homosexual marriage” to the “spiritual power of the Anti-Christ” in a new authorized biography published in Germany. “One hundred years ago, everybody would have considered it to be absurd to speak of a homosexual marriage,” the pope emeritus said, according to press reviews of the new book. “Today, one is being excommunicated by society if one opposes it.” The new biography, “Benedict XVI—A Life,” is written by Peter Seewald and set to be published in English in November. In January, Benedict requested that his name be removed as co-author from a book by conservative
New York City is dealing with a crisis within a crisis as nearly two million people—a quarter of the population—will face food insecurity during the COVID-19 outbreak. Food pantries can't keep up the pace, and the city is scrambling to meet demand. “There's a lot of New Yorkers who now have to ask a question they never thought they'd ask. And that question is, where's my next meal coming from?” Mayor Bill de Blasio asked. Many of those New Yorkers are middle and working class, who just a few weeks ago, never had to question where their next meal would come from.
Costco, Kroger and other grocery chains are rationing the amount of meat customers can buy at one time as processing at U.S. meat plants has slowed down or stopped completely because of the coronavirus.Costco, a chain known for letting customers buy in bulk, is limiting purchases to three items per member of beef, pork and poultry products.Kroger said its meat purchase limits will apply to select stores."At Kroger, we feel good about our ability to maintain a broad assortment of meat and seafood for our customers because we purchase protein from a diverse network of suppliers," a Kroger spokesperson told FOX Business. "There is plenty of protein
A Nevada nurse who travelled to New York to help treat COVID-19 patients has posted a tearful Facebook Live video claiming that patients are not dying from the virus, but are being “murdered” by “gross negligence and complete medical mismanagement.” Nicole Sirotek, a nurse from Elko, Nevada, was assigned to two different hospitals in New York City.“I am literally telling you that they are murdering these people,” Sirotek says in the terrifying video.The video begins with Sirotek explaining that every time she
With Florida being one of the more than 30 states beginning to ease “stay-at-home” restrictions in response to the coronavirus pandemic, people are only too happy to rejoin the world.And in the Sunshine State, which has fared better than many states — and far better than early projections — what better way to do that than hold a boat parade in honor of President Donald Trump. Hundreds of South Florida boaters took to the Intracoastal Waterway on Sunday to show their support for the president, with the boat parade, departed from the Jupiter Inlet and traveled south toward Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, WPTV reported. (Video)
NEW YORK — CBS News “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl said Sunday that she's finally feeling well after a battle with COVID-19 that left her hospitalized for a week. Stahl said she was “really scared” after fighting pneumonia caused by the coronavirus for two weeks at home before going to the hospital. “One of the rules of journalism is ‘don’t become part of the story,'” Stahl said at the end of Sunday's broadcast. “But instead of covering the pandemic, I was one of the more-than-one-million Americans who did become part of it.”
Don Shula, a Hall of Fame NFL coach who the Miami Dolphins to two Super Bowl titles, has died. He was 90. The Miami Herald was the first to report the coach’s death, citing one of his children. The Dolphins later confirmed his death in a separate statement. “Don Shula was the patriarch of the Miami Dolphins for 50 years. He brought the winning edge to our franchise and put the Dolphins and the city of Miami in the national sports scene," the team said in a statement. "Our deepest thoughts and prayers go out to Mary Anne along with
Evidence long withheld from Michael Flynn’s defense team shows that agents at the FBI and possibly CIA had actively searched for “derogatory” information regarding Flynn and Russia but found none. As a result, the investigative team on January 4, 2017, recommended that the investigation into Flynn—who had been given the codename of “Crossfire Razor”—be closed. According to newly released text messages, counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok stopped the investigation from being closed, telling the other agents on the case that the “the 7th floor” of FBI headquarters—where then-Director James Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe worked—was involved.
Back in early 2018, the FBI under newly minted Director Chris Wray issued an extraordinarily rare public rebuke of a sitting House committee chairman. Then-House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes had just issued a memo concluding that the FBI under Wray’s predecessor, James Comey, abused the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act process to improperly spy on President Trump’s campaign. Wray fired back, even though the issues didn’t happen on his watch, suggesting Nunes had given an inaccurate picture to the American public.
Amazon’s decision to let engineers and other office staff keep working from home through at least Oct. 2 was another blow for struggling merchants in downtown Seattle and Bellevue, which have been virtual ghost towns since the coronavirus crisis emptied the cubicle farms in March.
The decision, which the Seattle-based online retailer shared with employees Thursday, also could signal a broader trend toward extending work-from-home practices. Other white-collar employers are realizing that returning to the workplaces is likely to require extensive precautions — and pose heightened health risks — even after business gets the all-clear from Gov. Jay Inslee. (snip) On Friday, Inslee extended the stay-at-home order through May 31
A New Jersey councilwoman went on an expletive-laced, homophobic tirade during a coronavirus conference call Saturday, officials said. During the 10-minute conference call, Councilwoman Robin Vaughn, who represents Trenton, New Jersey, was heard calling openly gay Trenton Mayor Reed Gusciora a 'pedophile.' Vaughn, according to officials and a recording of the call obtained by NJ Advance Media, also called Gusciora a 'woman' and a 'bitch a**,' and accused another city official of performing a sexual act on him.(Snip) At one point, Councilman Joe Harrison, also of Trenton, tried to stop the tirade, but wound up in a shouting match with Vaughn
Joe Biden's got a woman problem.
No, not that one. Not about the diddling of the unwilling interns, or the handsiness and hair kissing of the little girls in public. Not about the Nevada lieutenant governor candidate who said old Joe sniffed her hair and kissed her head, and not about Tara Reade or the several other women who have since her charges also said he creeped on them.
His other woman problem now is something else: Harpies.
Seems that as the last man standing in the Democratic race, he's basically a big carcass there on the desert floor, not expected to last even if he's elected president, and the ambitious
Two dead homeless men were found on Big Apple subway trains in less than 12 hours over the weekend—alarming workers as the MTA continues to struggle with vagrants in the system amid the coronavirus outbreak. “The homeless situation is out of control,” said a train operator who only identified himself as Eddie, who came upon one body on the C train. “You don’t even know if the man died of coronavirus.”(Snip) According to Hicks, it’s gotten so bad, even MTA workers don’t want to ride the rails.
“I don’t really want to ride the trains for free anymore because I’m afraid
Project Veritas has a new video out, focusing on funeral directors who are blowing the whistle on the alleged padding of Wuhan coronavirus death totals.
The Project Veritas folks spoke with funeral directors out of New York who believed that the deaths were being attributed to the virus whether they were due to the virus or not.
The tape reveals a completely haphazard approach, as James O’Keefe observes, marking down people as having the virus whether they had it or not. If people died at home people would rather put “COVID” rather than have to go into the home if the person had a fever,
The claim: The Obama administration gave $3.7 million to a research institute in Wuhan, China
The origins of the coronavirus have become an increasingly hot-button issue, allowing conspiracy theories to gain traction online and among high-profile officials.
Claims that the U.S. government helped fund research into coronaviruses began to spread after the Daily Mail reported it obtained documents, which “show the Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on mammals captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan – funded by a $3.7 million grant from the US government.”
The report gained traction on social media, while the claim was repeated by high-profile political figures.
When the weather permits I like to work in my little backyard here in Brooklyn. It’s a 20’ by 25’ postage stamp of cement and dirt surrounded by the small plots of my neighbors. Over the past couple of weeks as New York City has endured its lockdown, I have noticed one neighbor, day in and day out, cutting people’s hair a few yards down. At first I thought maybe it’s just family haircuts, but unless this guy has old testament levels of offspring, it became clear he had set up shop. I even saw the cash exchanged once or twice.
The lies never end when it comes to demonizing conservatives.
On April 20th, entrepreneurs, and their supporters participated in simultaneous rallies in both Pittsburgh and Harrisburg to send a message to Governor Wolf that it was time to safely reopen Pennsylvania businesses (snip) One of the drive-in participants in the rally to call for the reopening of the state was Jill Cooper of Murrysville, PA. (snip) On May 1st at 5:32 pm Talia Lavin, former writer for the New Yorker, posted the photo, but with a doctored sign that read; “Work Sets You Free”. A slogan on the sign posted above the Auschwitz Concentration Camp; “Arbeit Macht Frei” accompanied the forgery
More Americans are turning to hunting during the coronavirus pandemic — and amid fears of nationwide food shortages after meat plants were forced to halt operations over outbreaks.
“People are starting to consider self-reliance and where their food comes from,” Hank Forester of Quality Deer Management Association said, adding that he believes there will be a hunting resurgence over empty grocery store shelves.
Outbreaks have recently caused at least three major meat producers — Tyson Foods, JBS USA and Smithfield Foods — to shutter more than a dozen plants across the nation.
Meanwhile, some states have seen a jump in hunting licenses — including Indiana,
[Video] Hundreds of sheep were caught on camera parading through the streets in Turkey Saturday night amid the country’s coronavirus lockdown.
The astonishing footage shot in the city of Samsun was reposted to Twitter by Ragip Soylu, a reporter based in Turkey. The video, as of Sunday night, has been viewed nearly 2.5 million times.
“Flock of sheep invades Turkey’s city of Samsun last night during the coronavirus lockdown,” wrote Soylu.
The majority of sheep can be seen moving in the road at varying speeds. But some of the animals were spotted grazing in an adjacent city greenspace.
What a couple of scrubs.
Two women, who were dressed up as healthcare workers, stole packages left outside homes in Washington State, police said.
The porch pirates were spotted on surveillance footage approaching houses while wearing blue scrubs and lanyards with ID badges.
One of the women wore gloves as she grabbed a package, according to images released by the Kennewick Police Department on Saturday.
Police said they don’t believe the women are real nurses.
Now that roughly half the states in the country are starting to reopen their economies, expect a rash of stories about how they opened “too soon” and that COVID-19 cases are climbing as a result.
A headline on Friday, for example, was about how Georgia reported more than 1,000 new cases of the virus “the same day its governor lifted the stay-at-home order.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Saturday about “blindly” lifting lockdowns and reopening the economy. “Use information to determine action – not emotions, not politics, not what people think or feel,” he said.
It’s Cuomo himself who is
President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his hostile tone with the press during a Fox News town hall at the Lincoln Memorial.One woman from New Jersey challenged Trump’s tone in a video question provided by Fox News moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.“Please let go of those behaviors that are turning people away from you,” she said, criticizing his tone in the press briefings.Trump smiled at the question but said he has to continue fighting off a hostile press.“I am greeted with a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen,” Trump said.
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing what many have known for decades: Our education system is broken. But the situation also presents us with a silver lining: the opportunity to uncover the damaging influences and restore education.
While millions of families are suddenly home schooling, it’s important to know that when our schools were elite and the envy of the world, we were a nation of home-schoolers and small, private, and independent schools.
What happened? Government and labor unions intruded, claiming families and educators needed them.
But do we? Theressah and Victor Ramirez say, “Absolutely not!”
The Ramirez’s live with their two sons in a low-income, immigrant neighborhood in San Diego, California.
Marie Harf suggests small businesses aren’t
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As governors of mostly red states begin to gradually reopen their economies due to the ‘flattening’ of the coronavirus ‘curve,’ cable news pundits continue to debate over whether the country ought to remain shut down ‘for our own good.’This, as more than 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits over the past six weeks after state-imposed shutdown orders required “non-essential businesses” to close.That debate continued on “Fox News Sunday,” with liberal pundit Marie Harf, a former adviser to then-Secretary of State John Kerry, suggesting that allowing some small businesses to open was essentially meaningless.
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Hopefully, no one will forget our debt to Rudolf Flesch. He was a great man with a great mind. Almost forty years ago, Flesch published Why Johnny STILL Can't Read, wherein he continued his crusade against Whole Word (AKA Whole Language, Sight-Words, and other aliases). In this book, Flesch attacked the Education Establishment and its counterfeit merchandise in a unique way. He pointed out that all the things the professors assert most loudly and proudly are nothing but alibis — a polite way of saying lies.Has there ever been a field, in all of human history, that could be best defined by its alibis and lies?
No one has ever wanted to be vice president as much as Stacey Abrams.
The Georgia Democrat, best known for her failed gubernatorial candidacy in 2018, has launched a full-fledged campaign for the vice presidency in recent weeks, telling every news channel that will book her why she thinks she’s cut out for the job. And in doing so, Abrams has proved why she’s not.
Abrams’s media tour began back in February when Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, first mentioned his campaign was looking at Abrams. When asked if she’d want the job, Abrams didn’t shy away. “Of course, I want it,” she said at the time.
A lawyer for former national security adviser Michael Flynn questioned special counsel Robert Mueller’s mental acuity as Flynn’s legal team seeks to dismiss the charges against him.
“It seems like some neurological problem has evolved there for Mr. Mueller. I don’t know how soon that started. Ultimately, he is responsible for all of this because he was supervising the investigation,” Sidney Powell told John Catsimatidis on The Cats Roundtable radio show on Sunday.
Flynn, who served as President Trump’s national security adviser for less than a month, pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with a Russian diplomat before Trump entered the White House.
On Virginia-Tennessee border, one side is now
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BRISTOL, Tennessee/Virginia state line — Joe Deel is behind the chrome-trimmed turquoise counter of his legendary diner, The Burger Bar, working with his wife Kayla, daughter Emily, and sous chef Corey Young; they can see people going in for lunch at the State Line Bar and Grill just across the street from them less than 50 yards away in Tennessee.
But their round, black-topped stools in Virginia remain as empty as they were nearly two months ago when the coronavirus first shut down the country.
“When they talked about opening Tennessee and not Virginia, I knew this was going to be a problem, " Deel said.
An additional two counties in California are reopening their local economies despite Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s statewide stay-at-home order.
Modoc County in California announced last week that all businesses and churches might reopen, but people must keep a 6-foot distance from each other. Yuba and Sutter counties are now joining Modoc in reopening despite Newsom’s stay-at-home order that is still in effect.
“We cannot wait for a vaccine without seeing extreme economic damage done to our community. The consequences of waiting will be additional health concerns brought on by stress and the very real dilemma for those with limited resources whether to buy life-saving food or life-saving medicines,”
When Abraham Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation he was criticized by abolitionists for not issuing a more sweeping order. He refused to do so, asking “If I take the step, must I not do so . . . without any argument, except the one that I think the measure politically expedient, and morally right? Would I not thus give up all footing upon constitution or law? Would I not thus be in the boundless field of absolutism? Could this pass unnoticed, or unresisted?”
Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer stepped into this boundless field at the end of April.
Hotels around the country are prepping for travelers to start showing up again amid the coronavirus pandemic. But how can guests know that it's safe to stay there?
Officials: WH pushing to rip supply chains from China
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Hotels around the country are prepping for travelers to start showing up again amid the coronavirus pandemic. But how can guests know that it's safe to stay there?
The hotel industry at large has had to update its cleanliness guidelines in the wake of coronavirus. © Chainarong Prasertthai, Getty Images/iStockphoto The hotel industry at large has had to update its cleanliness guidelines in the wake of coronavirus.
The movement that set the boundaries of what appropriate male/female interactions look like and finally held men accountable for crossing that line lost its righteousness this week.
Few social crusades have been as impactful as the #MeToo movement. Powerful men in all sectors were brought down by accusations of sexual impropriety, many without a semblance of due process.
But this past week some of the leading feminist figures in the nation lined up to endorse Joe Biden for president or to defend him against charges nearly identical to those used to crucify other men, most notably Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
This is a tale, not of two cities, but of two states, and two governors. Both states began reopening their economies last week as the worst of the Chinese flu appears to be over, except for a few isolated hotspots. Both states are reopening in a similar fashion, taking baby steps rather than a full gallop.
One state is Georgia, the other is Colorado. (snip) Media reaction was anything but comparable or reasonable. The Guardian calls the decision racist with this headline, “Georgia's Covid-19 reopening pits white governor against black mayors.” CNN parrots the racist angle with this headline, “Black leaders say reopening Georgia is an attack on people of color.”
Where’s the Beef?” was once just a funny (yet successful) advertising slogan. But now, it could soon be an actual question on the minds of many shoppers.
Amid the coronavirus crisis, some are calling attention to the coming meat shortages the United States faces as the virus continues to ravage our economy. Rep. Thomas Massie has been sounding the alarm for weeks, and the Kentucky Republican recently introduced the “PRIME Act” in an effort to address the coming crisis. The congressman is right to be concerned.
If you’re lucky when you report your sexual assault, you’ll become known as a person who was sexually assaulted. If you’re unlucky, you’ll become known as a person who lied about being sexually assaulted.
It could still go either way for Tara Reade.
In March, Ms. Reade told journalist Katie Halper on Halper’s podcast that she had been sexually assaulted by Joe Biden in 1993, while working in his Senate office. Ms. Reade contends that, sometime in the spring of that year, Mr. Biden forced her against a wall, shoved his hand up her skirt, and forced his fingers into her vagina. Mr. Biden has unequivocally denied Ms. Reade’s allegations.
No one has ever wanted to be vice president as much as Stacey Abrams.
The Georgia Democrat, best known for her failed gubernatorial candidacy in 2018, has launched a full-fledged campaign for the vice presidency in recent weeks, telling every news channel that will book her why she thinks she’s cut out for the job. And in doing so, Abrams has proved why she’s not.
Abrams’s media tour began back in February when Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, first mentioned his campaign was looking at Abrams. When asked if she’d want the job, Abrams didn’t shy away.
Traditionalist former Pope Benedict XVI accuses opponents of wanting to "silence" him while attacking gay marriage in vehement terms in a new authorised biography published Monday in Germany. The 93-year-old, whose original name is Joseph Ratzinger, claims in "Benedict XVI - A Life" that he has fallen victim to a "malignant distortion of reality" in reactions to his interventions in theological debates, according to passages published by German media and news agency DPA.
s the bailout-seeking billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker resists lawsuits saying his lockdown order extension exceeds his authority and is unconstitutional, his wife jets to their estate in opened-up Florida to enjoy life without being arrested for leaving the house. Meanwhile Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot keeps barbershops and hair salons closed under penalty of imprisonment as she visits her own hair stylist on the grounds she is “the public face of Illinois” and must look her best. Both deem themselves more important than the people they represent. Laws are for the little people. It’s good to be king and queen.
Weekend at Biden’s
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Tara Reade claims to be a loyal Democrat, and she might be doing her party a huge favor. Her accusation that Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993 gives Democrats a plausible excuse to ditch the former vice president as their 2020 presidential nominee, thus sparing themselves a likely disaster in the fall campaign. To put it as bluntly as possible, Biden’s mental decline is so obvious as to be an embarrassment, as he stumbles in every interview, even with the most friendly journalists. Democrats and their friends in the media attempting to push Biden’s candidacy forward resemble nothing so much as the cast
Coronavirus saddled the Trump administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with a near impossible task.
How could the government stabilize the nation’s medical supply chain while simultaneously refilling the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to prevent future pandemics from crippling the country? By leveraging a “whole-of-America approach,” facilitating private-public partnerships, and launching Project Air Bridge, a first-of-its-kind manufacturing and distribution initiative, Supply Chain Task Force Leader Rear Adm. John Polowczyk and senior administration officials tell Daily Caller.
“Under the leadership of President Trump, Project Airbridge is a temporary solution
A U.S. district judge issued a ruling Sunday upholding Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order for Illinois as constitutional.
The Beloved Church of Lena, an Evangelical church located about 50 miles west of Rockford, had filed a complaint Thursday seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction in order to resume worship services with its 80 congregants.
The church and its pastor, Stephen Cassell, still held in-person service Sunday without intervention from police, though the temporary restraining order was denied.
A new CBS News poll has Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren running away with the vice-presidential nominating sweepstakes among rank-and-file Democrats.
But big donors to the party are pressuring Joe Biden not to take her on, believing, “He would lose the election.”
It’s one more indication just how far left the Democratic Party has lurched since 2016. Bernie Sanders, Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, and the “Squad” have brought radical, transformative, socialist ideas into the mainstream of the party, endangering the Biden’s electability.
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If we lived in a fair and just world, most of the current media would simply go away and try something else.
The problem is not that reporters are human and therefore sometimes err. The rub is not even that they are poorly educated or rarely write well.
We also expect officials to leak one-sided stories and then the media to print them without edits. These are all things baked into the media cake and the public understands, even if it does not quite accept them.
Carl Icahn’s Hertz — once considered the gold standard of car rental companies — is sputtering on the side of the road while its closest rival, Avis, is positioned to ride out the coronavirus storm.
The 102-year-old Hertz told shareholders last week that it had missed a debt payment tied to its 500,000 fleet amid a “rapid, sudden and dramatic negative impact” on its business amid the pandemic.
Sources tell The Post the company has until Monday to fork over roughly $500 million or obtain a waiver from its lenders. If it fails, it will be in default on its fleet financing
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Friday’s news brought the welcome report that U.S. Attorney John Durham, investigating possibly illegal misconduct by the FBI and CIA against the Trump campaign, is focusing on the FBI’s illegal acts in prosecuting President Trump’s first national security advisor, Gen. Michael Flynn. According to reports by the Washington Examiner and Fox News, Durham is looking closely at newly revealed documents in the Flynn case.
As I wrote here on September 2, there was a conspiracy between the FBI and CIA to prevent Trump’s election and, when that failed, to interfere in his transition to the presidency. The conspiracy aimed at violating the civil rights of Trump
Marianne Williamson is facing a powerful new dark psychic force — campaign debt.
The New Age author’s presidential campaign committee still owes $238,180 to various election vendors, some of whom now say she is trying to renege on the payments. Williamson suspended her campaign in January 2020.
“She’s not paying us,” Jennifer Marshall, co-founder of Next Digital Connection, told The Post. “We are a very small business, and we will be totally and utterly bankrupted if she doesn’t pay her bill.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said “enormous evidence” exists indicating the coronavirus pandemic began in a lab in Wuhan, China and that the ruling Communist Party did everything it could to keep the outbreak under wraps.
“There’s enormous evidence that that’s where this began. We’ve said from the beginning that this was a virus that originated in Wuhan, China. We took a lot of grief for that from the outset. But I think the whole world can see now,” he said on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday.
Michelle and Barack Obama
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The Hollywood Reporter recently broke a scoop about the latest Netflix documentary from the Obamas, designed to offer us an oasis of joy as we suffer through the coronavirus pandemic.
The documentary is called "Becoming" and it will be available worldwide Wednesday. As the title suggests, it promotes Michelle Obama's memoir of the same name, which has sold more than 10 million copies.
So let's get this straight. The Obamas were awarded a book deal worth an estimated $65 million for their memoirs, hers and then his. They also struck an estimated $50 million production deal with Netflix.
France plans to quarantine all travelers entering the country, including returning citizens, for two weeks as part of a new proposal to extend the health emergency put in place to limit the spread of the coronavirus, the country’s health minister said Saturday.
The move comes after French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced a nationwide plan last week to gradually bring the country out of a six-week lockdown on May 11 to stem the risk of economic collapse.
When Joe Biden allegedly sexually assaulted Tara Reade in the hallway of the Russell Senate Office Building, the storied building was home to an entire culture of Senate Democrat sexual predators.
The Russell Building is the home of the Kennedy Caucus Room. After Senator Ted Kennedy’s death, the ‘Kennedy’ part was added to the Caucus Room to honor the notorious sexual predator whose actions had led to the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Mary Jo was one of the many young women drawn to public service by the idealistic speeches of the Kennedy clan’s political scions only to suffer at their hands.
We have an election to win here.
The president has always asked when surrounded by his ardent supporters: Is there anything more fun than a Trump rally?” The response is—was—over the top. The fanfare that greets the question eclipses even the uproarious approval that occurs when Trump turns the media’s baleful eye back on them at the rallies, letting the hate-Trump press experience firsthand a microdose of the macro loathing that routinely shows up in polls.
The rallies are fun—were fun—because they’ve always been about winning. Winning America-first style. Companies and jobs returning stateside. The documents of a parasitic regulatory regime shredded.