Posts on Wednesday, March 20, 2024
M. Emmet Walsh, the wily character actor who became an audience favorite for his deliciously despicable performances in such films as Blood Simple, Blade Runner, Brubaker and The Jerk, has died. He was 88.
Walsh died Tuesday in St. Albans, Vermont, his longtime manager, Sandy Joseph, told The Hollywood Reporter. The cause was cardiac arrest.
With his distinctive lumbering form and droll delivery, Walsh was an ideal supporting player. A master of off-kilter comic delivery and dogged edginess, he excelled at roles that dwelled in the darker corners of humanity. No matter whom he played, he made a colorful impact.
Joe Biden, the most popular president in US history who got 81 million votes in 2020, gave a rambling incoherent speech to a few rows of people at the Intel Ocotillo Campus in Chandler, Arizona.
Just look at the setup for the most popular president ever who supposedly won Arizona in 2020: (X Video) Biden on Wednesday announced an $8.5 billion investment with Intel for a major CHIPS and Science Act award.
The truth is DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion – killed the CHIPS Act.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-China) became the latest Democrat to get burned alive today in the House of Representatives.
As Jim Hoft reported earlier, The House Oversight Committee is holding its second hearing as part of its impeachment inquiry into White House occupant Joe Biden and there have been plenty of fireworks.
Earlier, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) was caught on camera pouting like a baby while former Hunter Biden business partner Bobulinski read him and Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) the riot act for lying on behalf of the Biden Crime Family.
Representative Dan Goldman (D-NY) said Wednesday on CNN’s “The Lead” that Republican lawmakers are pushing “bogus debunked” narratives about President Joe Biden, which he argued was essentially “conspiring with Russia to interfere in our elections on behalf of Donald Trump.”
Goldman said, “In fact, the prosecutor general in Ukraine was not prosecuting Burisma, was not prosecuting corruption. And so, his removal was bad for Burisma because the next prosecutor general came in and then did investigate Burisma.”
A longtime professor at Arizona State University (ASU) sued the university on Tuesday over a mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) course for faculty, arguing it violates state law. Owen Anderson, a professor of philosophy, religious studies and theology at ASU, is suing the school with the help of the conservative nonprofit the Goldwater Institute, claiming it is in violation of a two-year-old state law that forbids public agencies from requiring employees to engage in training that presents any form of "blame or judgment on the basis of race, ethnicity or sex."
Donald Trump is seriously considering Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his running mate, according to a new report.
NBC revealed on Thursday that it had spoken with "six people familiar with the presumptive Republican nominee's search for a 2024 running mate" and that Rubio is now a serious contender. The outlet reported:
"The list is long, and it's extremely early in any kind of process," one Trump adviser said. "No one has been directly reached out to yet, and I do not expect that for some time."
But Trump's apparent seriousness about Rubio, a 52-year-old, third-term senator, hints at the former president's priorities
Palm Beach, Florida — Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024, lit up his general election opponent Democrat President Joe Biden in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News for lies Biden told during the State of the Union about the bipartisan Senate immigration plan scuttled earlier in 2024.
“It would have exacerbated the problem,” Trump told Breitbart News of the Biden-backed bipartisan Senate immigration plan. “It would have made it worse. And they allowed five thousand people a day. Those are numbers nobody’s ever heard of.”
Trump is exactly correct in that the plan would have codified the entry of thousands of migrants a day
Elon Musk has shared stunning footage of the first person to use the Neuralink brain chip to control a computer cursor and play video games just by thinking.
The groundbreaking patient, paraplegic man Noland Arbaugh, 29, was seen in a video shared to X using only his mind to play a game of chess.
'See that cursor on the screen? That's all me... it's all brainpower' he said from his wheelchair. Arbaugh said in the clip that he suffered a 'freak diving accident' eight years ago that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down.
Let's just face it. In addition to the incoherence and the mental deterioration that we see from Joe Biden, he has horrible policies and he's just not very bright. As Barack Obama's Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, Biden had gotten foreign policy wrong for forty years. Add ten more years on to that and it's still true. But it's not just foreign policy, as we've seen. Biden has horrible domestic policy as well.
As Biden proved on Wednesday, he couldn't do something as simple as filling out his NCAA women's basketball brackets without an embarrassing problem.
In November 2022, Rep. Janel Brandtjen, then Chair of the Assembly on Campaigns and Elections, sent out an election fraud alert.
Rep. Brandtjen received three authentic military ballots to her home addressed to “Holly,” a woman who has never lived there.
Brantjen believed this was part of a scheme to steal votes in Wisconsin.
The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on this 2020 voter fraud scheme in several battleground states where military ballots shockingly went almost entirely to Joe Biden. We posted evidence that this occurred in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia.
American taxpayers' money is ending up in the hands of the Taliban, according to a U.S. government watchdog, which found that bundles of cash flown into Afghanistan by the United Nations are finding their way to the country's central bank.
The latest report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that the U.N. has delivered more than $2.9 billion in cash since the extremist group took over in 2021. [SNIP] But some of the money, the report concludes, is routed through the central bank, which is under the control of the Taliban.
Planet Fitness' valuation has plummeted $400 million in five days after they banned a member who shared a photo of a 'trans woman' using a female locker room. The company's value dropped from $5.3 billion on March 14 to $4.9 billion on March 19, and its shares are down by 13.59 percent compared to a month ago. The decline follows Planet Fitness' refusal to walk back its decision to ban a member who exposed a 'trans woman' shaving in a female locker room earlier this month. Patricia Silva was barred from the gym in Alaska
President Trump just notched a legal win that may shed some light on the bizarre decision made by the judge in the Big Fani dismissal case. In a moment that felt suggestive in a “wink and a nod” kind of way, Judge McAfee not only granted Trump a substantial triumph but also opened the door for rectifying his own unjust ruling by approving Trump’s appeal request in Georgia. It appears as if McAfee wanted to wash his hands clean and defer to a higher court, almost as if he was encouraging Trump’s team to seek an appeal and give Big Fani the bum rush right out the door.
Top chaotic moments from the House Oversight
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Two former business associates of Hunter Biden testified publicly on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as congressional Republicans pushed forward with their impeachment inquiry against President Biden, leading to several tense and revealing moments. Tony Bobulinski, a U.S. Navy veteran who formerly served as Hunter Biden's business partner, appeared publicly for the House Oversight Committee hearing. Jason Galanis, another Hunter Biden business associate who is serving a 14-year prison sentence, testified virtually from Federal Prison Camp, a minimum-security prison for male inmates in Montgomery, Alabama.
Three Americans are suing the National Park Service over the agency's refusal to accept cash payments to enter parks across the U.S.
The Americans − from California, New York and Georgia − filed the lawsuit earlier this month in federal court in Washington, D.C., saying that the park service is violating federal law by not allowing guests to pay cash to enter various parks, monuments and historic sites.
The lawsuit says the park service's policy violates a U.S. law that says that "coins and currency ... are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes and dues." "Thus, NPS’ refusal to accept U.S. Currency tendered for entrance fees constitutes a
Former Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski blasted Representatives Jamie Raskin and Don Goldman today in his opening statement before the House Oversight Committee.
Bobulinski accused Raskin and Goldman of lying to the American public in order to protect the Biden crime family.
The House Oversight Committee is holding its second hearing today as part of its impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Tony Bobulinski did not hold back in his opening statement.
Palm Beach, Florida — Former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president in 2024, told Breitbart News exclusively that the primary drivers of demographic shifts in the electorate where women and minority voters are leaving Democrats to side with him are “safety and security.”
Trump told Breitbart News in a more than 90-minute long exclusive interview last week here at his luxurious seaside resort and club Mar-a-Lago that polls are showing “numbers we’ve never seen” before with women, black, and Hispanic voters.
Julian Assange is said to be in talks with the Department of Justice to plead guilty to a lesser offense and avoid extradition to the US, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Unnamed sources cited by the Journal on Wednesday say the guilty plea would apply to a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified information. The five years he has spent at Belmarsh Prison in the UK would count as time served, the sources said, and Assange would likely be freed shortly after the deal was finalized. Such a deal is yet to be approved, and would require the highest levels of approval in the DoJ.
The Wikileaks founder, 52, has been
This is the shocking moment carjackers attempted to seize a $200,000 Bentley Bentayga from a driver in a New Jersey parking lot.
The unidentified driver was immediately approached by three masked suspects as he pulled into the Patel Brothers grocery store on Oak Tree Road in Edison on Friday afternoon.
The driver, who is the son of the grocery store owner, Kaushik Patel, managed to fight off the perpetrators and ran into the store with his key fob in his pocket.
Hunter Biden demanded a hearing on Capitol Hill and then didn't show up. Perhaps he should have because his allies in the Democratic caucus aren't handling things well. In the gift that just keeps on giving, Tony Bobulinski's testimony once again produced a must-see moment, this time involving the esteemed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The congresswoman tried to pin the witness down on noting "specific crimes" he witnessed Hunter and Joe Biden commit.
Exclusive: Blackburn Drills West Point
For Ditching ‘Duty, Honor, Country’
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For Ditching ‘Duty, Honor, Country’
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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) wants the U.S. Military Academy at West Point to defend its decision to drop its traditional mission statement of “Duty, Honor, Country,” according to a letter obtained by The Daily Wire.
Blackburn questioned the academy’s superintendent on its decision to replace the old statement with the phrase “Army values,” which she said “represents a vague subjective that can be changed time and again based on cultural and personal preference.”
It’s one of Gov. Chris Sununu’s favorite talking points, and now he has the bragging rights to enjoy during his final year in office. New Hampshire has once again been named the best state for taxpayer return on investment (ROI). It’s the ninth consecutive time the Granite State has taken top honors in the analysis conducted by economists and data analysts for Wallethub.com. (Snip) “Once again, New Hampshire sets the gold standard for efficient government,” Sununu said
During an impeachment inquiry hearing on Wednesday, Tony Bobulinski testified regarding his previous business dealings with members of the Biden family. During the hearing, he accused Hunter Biden of committing perjury during his previous testimony, and he called Joe Biden "a serial liar."
"You are presented with two narratives in this investigation," Bobulinski said in his opening statement, which was received by PJ Media. "A false one being pushed by Joe Biden, a serial liar and fabulist now under this impeachment investigation for public corruption; his brother Jim Biden, a 75-year-old man who cannot keep his lies straight, including under oath; and his son Hunter Biden, a chronic drug addict
Judge Scott McAfee ruled Wednesday that former President Donald Trump and eight other co-defendants can seek review of his decision not to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
McAfee granted the certificate of immediate review sought by defendants, finding it “of such importance to the case that immediate review should be had.” The decision means defendants can appeal McAfee’s decision, which allowed Willis to stay on the case against Trump after special prosecutor Nathan Wade stepped down, despite finding an “appearance of impropriety” in their actions.
The Biden administration finalized a rule on Wednesday that’s expected to make a significant amount of the new car market electric or hybrid.
An administration official told reporters Tuesday that under the new rule, 56 percent of the new vehicles on the market in 2032 could be battery electric, while an additional 13 percent could be plug-in hybrids. That’s up from a collective 16 percent of sales being electric and hybrid cars last year.
The rule is a cornerstone of the Biden administration’s climate agenda, as the cars and other light-duty vehicles it regulates currently make up about 17 percent of U.S. planet-warming emissions. The rule also regulates medium-duty vehicles.
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How to reach the youth market, and it
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really is so much simpler (and cheaper)
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The companies are trying to tell the kids that they get them. They see that LGBTQ is trendy… so they wrap themselves in rainbows and market tucking panties to children.
(Snip) However, one American brand recently reached the youth market … quite accidentally.
They did it by producing an attractive, quality product … at an affordable price. With zero social media presence, and no virtue-signaling.
General Motors recently announced their sales figures for 2023. Buried in the mountain of data was a fascinating statistic. Of all the GM nameplates, the nameplate with the highest sales rate amongst 16-34 year olds is the new gas-powered, Buick Envista.
Former Biden Business Partner Accuses
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Hunter, Jim of Lying under Oath about
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In his opening statement before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday, Hunter Biden’s former business partner Tony Bobulinski publicly accused the first son and his uncle, Jim Biden, of lying under oath about the nature of their business dealings with Chinese conglomerate CEFC.
Bobulinski cited three examples from Hunter Biden’s sworn testimony last month where the younger Biden allegedly committed perjury in describing the timeline of his CEFC dealings and his father’s apparent involvement.
“Hunter Biden gave his transcribed interview to the House Oversight Committee on February 28 and lied throughout his testimony,” Bobulinski said in his opening statement. Hunter Biden said his work for CEFC began with a retainer in 2017
A new systematic review suggests COVID-19 vaccination could trigger a rare neurological disorder that primarily affects the nerves outside the central nervous system, causing pain, muscle atrophy, and, in some cases, paralysis.
In a March 14 paper published in Vaccines, researchers found Parsonage–Turner syndrome (PTS) may occur after all COVID-19 vaccine types and can recur with additional doses of similar or unrelated vaccines.
(snip)PTS, or neuralgic amyotrophy, is a disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system characterized by the rapid onset of severe pain followed by significant muscular atrophy. It primarily affects the skull, shoulder, upper limbs, and the chest wall on one side of the body.
Nevada hasn't voted Republican in a presidential election since 2004. I have to admit that I'd nearly given up on the state, as hopes of being competitive there have been repeatedly shattered. But Donald Trump appears to be in a solid position to win it in November. He's led in the RealClear Politics average in Nevada since early November, with an average spread of +4.3 points. In 2020, Trump never led Biden in the RCP average there. Something has definitely changed. Naturally, Democrats have to be worried. Even though Nevada only has six Electoral College votes, those are six votes that could make Trump's path to 270 much easier.
As you read this, I have entered a federal prison. I am the first senior White House adviser ever to go to jail for a “crime” never before considered to be a crime, yet there are really two bigger stories for the American people to ponder.
The first story is about the death of the constitutional separation of powers and the demise of executive privilege that, since the days of George Washington, has helped facilitate effective presidential decision-making. The second is about the alarming success of lawfare and the partisan weaponization of our now dual system of justice.
Tyson Foods is facing boycott calls following a report that the company planned to hire migrants to work at its factories.
Conservatives reacted with outrage to a now-retracted Scripps News article claiming that the company was hiring some of the asylum seekers who arrived in New York City. However, a spokesperson for Tyson Foods told Newsweek the figures presented in that retracted article were inaccurate.
Tyson Foods responded to boycott calls in a statement.
"In recent days, there has been a lot of misinformation in the media about our company,
Who knows if President Biden is as “angry and anxious” about his re-election prospects as a new NBC News report portrays him?
It could be that it’s ordinary ill temper from a politician prone to shouting in private (an Axios headline not too long ago dubbed Biden “old yeller”) or exaggerated reports from meetings where typical salty language is used by old political pros hashing out strategy and tactics.
According to the piece, an anonymous lawmaker said Biden began “to shout and swear” when told the Gaza war has hurt his standing in key swing states.
After months of being absent from the public eye after stomach surgery, Princess of Wales Kate Middleton was spotted on video alongside her husband, Prince William, during a shopping trip near their cottage in Berkshire, England.
Kate’s public appearance comes as rumors are swirling about the princess’ health due to her posting a heavily edited photo of herself alongside her children on Mother’s Day.
The video of Kate and William on their shopping trip instantly went viral, but not everyone was convinced Kate Middleton was the woman spotted in the video.
President Joe Biden confused guests at an Arizona campaign event Tuesday night when he wandered off stage to join a baby in the crowd and pull faces with his young fan.
The octogenarian spied the youngster while his campaign manager introduced him at a Mexican diner in Phoenix, the New York Post reports. The president then made his unprompted visit. “Well folks, I have to tell you straight up… I like you all, but I couldn’t resist that baby,” he proudly regaled the audience, which appeared to be only a few dozen people.
The time has come for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to pack his bags and shuffle back home to Brooklyn.
The New York Democrat has been around politics way too long. Aside from being a politician, he’s never held a real job since graduating from Harvard Law School nearly a half-century ago. And as they say about washed-up pitchers in baseball: He seems to have lost his fastball.
But like many a career politician, Schumer, 73, is the last to realize it. He clearly showed last week that he is losing his stuff when he recklessly overstepped his bounds and publicly called on duly elected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
In Praise of Ties
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The first thing I notice when I watch a black-and-white TV show on one of the rerun networks is the ties. In the 1950s, every man wore a tie. The milkman wore a tie. The mailman wore a tie. The policeman wore a tie. Even Elvis wore a tie on occasion. Chuck Berry always wore a tie. Gas station attendants wore them. (Snip) Men wore ties to ballgames because men were civilized.
Ties were important because they gave a sense of authority but ties also showed that a man wants to belong in society. As Benjamin Franklin said, “Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”
Texas immigration law blocked again, just
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hours after Supreme Court allowed state
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Hours after the Supreme Court gave Texas officials permission to jail and prosecute migrants suspected of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization, an appeals court late Tuesday blocked the state from enforcing its controversial immigration law known as SB4.
In a late-night order, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel dissolved a pause that it issued in early March to suspend a lower court ruling that found SB4 to be unconstitutional. The order reinstated a ruling from U.S. District Court Judge David Ezra, who concluded in late February that SB4 conflicted with federal immigration laws and the Constitution.
An Orlando elected official allegedly took control of a 96-year-old woman’s finances and spent more than $100,000 of the nonagenarian’s money on a facelift, Miami hotel room for New Year’s Eve and other personal expenses, according to recently filed court documents.
Orlando City Commissioner Regina Hill also allegedly used the six-figure sum on dental surgery, pricey perfume and clothes, and multiple intravenous vitamin infusions, according to reports.
The spending spree came after Hill met the senior citizen in March 2021 and retained power of attorney over the 96-year-old the next month, the Orlando Sentinel reported, citing an Florida Department of Law Enforcement affidavit.
X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has posted a devastating ad exposing the migrant invasion for what it really is.
Musk, who has become progressively red-pilled over the last few years, shared the ad with his 177 million followers on X with the tagline: “This is happening!”
The ad, which was originally posted and produced by the anti-communist account Western Lensman, exposes how the Democratic Party’s open borders policy is part of a broader plan to entrench single-party rule.
Voters Split On Whether Charges Against
Trump Are ‘Warranted, Based On Facts’:
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Trump Are ‘Warranted, Based On Facts’:
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Saturation coverage of President Trump’s legal woes by the media have convinced a plurality of Americans that the four felony charges against the former chief executive are both “warranted” and “based on facts.” But a closer look at the results of March’s I&I/TIPP Poll shows much of that sentiment on this issue comes mainly from one side of the political divide: Democrats.
The national online I&I/TIPP Poll, taken from Feb. 28 to March 1, posed the following question to 1,419 registered voters across the nation: “Over the past year, former President Trump has faced four major indictments totaling 91 separate charges of criminal behavior. Based on what you know
DC attorney general drops charges against
Steve Nikoui for disruption of Congress
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Steve Nikoui for disruption of Congress
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Brian Schwalb, the Democratic attorney general in Washington, D.C., has dropped charges against Gold Star father Steve Nikoui for disrupting Congress during President Biden's State of the Union speech earlier this month. Nikoui is the father of Kareem Nikoui who was killed during the Biden Administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. The decision to drop the charges was confirmed by the Speaker’s Office. The DC AG’s office told Fox News that it decided not to prosecute in this case just as they have in the cases of protesters in the past. Fox News was told that Nikoui was "thrilled and humbled,"
Gov. Abbott talks exclusively with CBS
News Texas after SCOTUS ruling on Texas
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News Texas after SCOTUS ruling on Texas
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NORTH TEXAS — Governor Greg Abbott told CBS News Texas Tuesday afternoon the U.S. Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling allowing Senate Bill 4 to take effect is "consequential" even though he acknowledged the ruling isn't conclusive.
That proved accurate when hours later, after 10 p.m. CST when the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans blocked SB 4 from taking effect.
Judges there have scheduled oral arguments for 10 a.m. CST Wednesday.The Governor was campaigning in Rockwall on Tuesday afternoon when a staffer handed him a note telling him about the Supreme Court's order.
Trump-backed Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno celebrated his primary victory in Ohio’s primary race Tuesday evening, making it clear that Republicans now have the opportunity to “retire the old commie,” Sen. Sherrod Brown (D).
Moreno defeated establishment Republican, State Sen. Matt Dolan (R) as well as Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose in the Buckeye State on Tuesday. The Associated Press (AP) called the Republican Senate primary at 8:35 p.m. ET, with about 25 percent of the vote reported: (X)