Posts on Sunday, June 16, 2024
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that “the greatest threat to democracy today” is President Joe Biden.
Partial transcript as follows:
JON KARL: So – so this was Trump’s first visit to Capitol Hill since before the attack on January 6th. I want to play something for you that he said just days before he came back to Capitol Hill about those who have been convicted for attacking the Capitol.Take a listen
CNN unveils Trump v. Biden debate rules...
and one regulation appears to target the ex-president replies
and one regulation appears to target the ex-president replies
The host of the first presidential debate of 2024 general election season has released new details on the rules for what could be the most consequential political event of the year, and one of those regulations appears to take direct aim at Donald Trump.
In a new step since Trump and President Biden came face-to-face during the last presidential election, microphones will be muted throughout the debate except when it is a candidate's turn to speak.
The decision to mute mics comes after the presidential debates in 2020 went off the rails at times with Trump speaking over Biden to the point where past moderates
Border Patrol Seizes 25 ‘AK-47 Style
Rifles’ Headed To ‘Transnational Criminal Organizations’ replies
Rifles’ Headed To ‘Transnational Criminal Organizations’ replies
The authorities have intercepted a cache of rifles headed for “transnational criminal organizations” at a gas station in Blythe, California, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) press release published Friday.
The discovery of the weapons came when a K-9 unit detected the weapons and alerted its handler. Border Patrol agents searched the vehicle and found 25 AK-47-style rifles with 30-round magazines and two pistols, according to the press release. The authorities arrested the two individuals in the car. These included a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and a minor.
“Transnational Criminal Organizations traffic weapons to fuel their illicit activity on both sides of the border.
Stephen A. Smith went on a Caitlin Clark-driven WNBA race rant this week, bringing up what he believes her rise has exposed about society, while name-dropping Martin Luther King and Donald Trump.
Smith spoke up about Clark in this instance after Connecticut Sun star DiJonai Carrington had taken issue with Clark's lack of a brash statement to disassociate herself from those using her name to weaponize the spread racism and misogyny.
Clark did push back directly when asked about those claims, but Smith thought the exchange had a larger meaning.
The Indiana Fever star being at the forefront of women's basketball during her WNBA rookie season
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) won a straw poll conducted at Turning Point Action’s “People’s Convention” over the weekend regarding who voters want to see serve as former President Donald Trump’s vice president.
Big Data Poll conducted a straw poll, which surveyed 1,986 people at the convention and found that 43 percent were in favor of Vance running as Trump’s vice president, according to the Daily Mail. Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA described Vance as one of Trump’s “most capable and articulate defenders and surrogates.”
Hollywood stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts struck an ominous note at Saturday’s glitzy Los Angeles fundraiser for Joe Biden, warning that “democracy” and “our children’s future” are at risk if former President Donald Trump re-takes the White House in November.
George Clooney and Julia Roberts lent their considerable star power to the big Hollywood party, which raised around $30 million for Biden’s re-election campaign. They also dutifully recited Democrat talking points intended to scare the party’s base into rallying behind the deeply unpopular Biden.
Joe Biden and Barack Obama appeared on stage together for a fundraiser in Los Angeles, California Saturday evening.
Biden reportedly raised $28 million from California Hollywood elitists in Los Angeles.
Out-of-touch Hollywood actors and singers like George Clooney, Barbara Streisand and Julia Roberts helped Biden raise money Saturday night at the Peacock Theater.
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Biden continued his attack on the US Supreme Court, calling it “out of kilter.”
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Americans battling the crippling cost of living crisis are fleeing to the South to more affordable states where there are favorable tax rates.
Tens and thousands of people are moving across the country to escape higher expenses which have put the squeeze on residents to areas with lower overall costs.
Florida is the most popular state people are relocating to with 16,259 looking to make the move this year, according to data from ConsumerAffairs.While eight of the 10 states with the largest influx of new residents are in the south due to their cheaper cost of living and lower tax rates.
Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that former President Donald Trump did not love America.
Host Jen Psaki said, “I’m sure you are aware of the controversy that broke out over some comments that Trump made about Milwaukee, which is hosting the Republican convention coming up later this summer. He reportedly called Milwaukee a horrible city. He called Washington a filthy and crime-ridden embarrassment. He has called Chicago worse than Afghanistan. He once called Baltimore a disgusting rat and rodent infested mess. These are America’s cities.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law established by Congress requiring the deportation of foreign nationals who illegally enter the country.
The court ruled on three consolidated cases in Campos-Chaves v Garland that were on appeal in the Fifth and Ninth circuits, where the appellate courts issued conflicting rulings.
The lawsuits were brought by foreign nationals who illegally entered the country, were deemed “inadmissible” under federal law and given Notice to Appear (NTA) documents stating they must appear before an immigration court at a future date and time. Each of the plaintiffs didn’t show up to their hearings, and federal immigration judges ordered their removal in absentia in accordance
PINEHURST, N.C. — This was everything you want out of every major championship.
Star power at the top of the leaderboard.
Dripping drama to the final putt struck.
Palpable pressure on every shot.
A taxing and exacting golf course with zero margin for error. (Photos) The 124th U.S. Open was a true and proper war of attrition, just as it ought to be.
And when the day — the fourth consecutive sun-soaked day of oppressive 90-plus-degree heat — was over on Sunday, it was Bryson DeChambeau who was the last man standing.
A popular haircut known as 'The Edgar' has sparked a major backlash - with some restaurants and schools seeking to ban those who sport it.
The bowl-shaped style - which has been compared to a modern Moe of Three Stooges and Spock of Star Trek look - is typically favored by Mexican-American young men who are known as 'Edgars'.
But the trend is causing widespread division in Hispanic communities as locals increasingly link the haircut to crime, while others accuse critics of being racist.
Many wondered if the Chicago Sky would again resort to bullying tactics and obvious, flagrant fouls in their rematch with Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever.
The answer is yes. Yes, they would.
Late in the third quarter of a tight, hard-fought battle between longtime rivals, Caitlin Clark drove to the basket to increase her team’s lead. However, her scoring attempt was undone by a forearm to the head from Angel Reese.(X Video) The foul was initially called a common foul. However, officials upgraded it to a Flagrant 1 after review. Honestly, this is just purely malicious. Reese wasn’t even pretending to go for the ball here.
France— Jordan Bardella is shaking things up in French politics. He’s young. He’s handsome like a male fashion model, and since 2022, he’s been president of the National Rally, the new name for the National Front party founded in 1972 by controversial far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. The party has moved on from its far-right roots, becoming more of a populist party under Le Pen's daughter, Marine.
"Jordan Bardella, the right-wing 28-year-old without a college degree, could be the French prime minister in a few weeks," says Thomas Corbett-Dillon, a former adviser to former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and adviser to other European politicians. "This is great news
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) Texas home was disturbed yet again by pro-Hamas agitators as he remains true to his pro-Israel stance.
Cruz’s Houston-area home was the victim of more than two dozen pro-terrorism protesters who occupied his front lawn, yelling antisemitic slogans. This weekend marked the 23rd time protestors showed up at his home. The senator took to social media to reiterate his undivided support for Israel, saying that “No matter how much these antisemites cheer Hamas,” he will always stand with the Jewish state.
Republican National Committee (RNC) Co-Chair Lara Trump offered a warning Friday to anyone planning to cheat in an election.
While speaking during Turning Point USA’s convention in Detroit, Michigan, former President Trump’s daughter-in-law told the audience, “This year is the year we do it,” Fox News reported Sunday. (X Video) “We are also sending a loud and clear message out there to anyone who thinks about cheating in an election. If you cheat in an election, we will find you, we will track you down and we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law,” she added.
Biden FREEZES at star-studded fundraiser
before Obama comes to his rescue and pulls
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before Obama comes to his rescue and pulls
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President Joe Biden appeared to freeze on stage after giving remarks at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday night before his old boss took him by the arm and pulled the president away.
The incident captured on video is the latest in a series of episodes that have plagued 81-year-old Biden as he mounts a second bid for the White House.
In the video, Biden and Obama are seen waving and smiling while receiving a standing ovation in the Peacock Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
We’ve told you about California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit to block a citizen initiative from this November’s ballot that would make it harder to raise taxes. Now his Legislature is trying to sabotage another initiative that would toughen penalties for theft and drug crimes. Why do Democrats fear voters?
Jill Biden is gaslighting senior citizen audiences about her husband's ability to do his job.
Something that Paul Ryan said in a recent interview stuck with me. Ryan, former speaker of the house and Mitt Romney's running mate in 2012, said that the Joe Biden of today is not the same Joe Biden of 2012. He recalled his debate with Biden as a vice presidential candidate. Biden has significantly aged since then.
Mrs. Biden may look at her husband through different eyes. She is his wife. She may think that his age is not an issue but it is. She may think he is better able to do the president's
Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese dealt with foul trouble all afternoon long in her team's 91-83 loss to Caitlin Clark and the Indiana Fever on Sunday, and she was assessed a Flagrant 1 for a hit on the No. 1 overall pick. During her postgame press conference, Reese had some strong words about the officiating. Asked about the flagrant foul, Reese said the referees "affected the game a lot tonight." She expanded on those thoughts when detailing the difference between the first and second half for herself and her team.
"For inside, I think we were playing really hard," Reese
What’s happening with black women in America? Some are rising to power thanks to the DEI movement, which rewards skin color, gender, and sexual preference over merit, experience, or excellence. However, the problem arises once those women who are not qualified are placed in positions of power and leadership, where they often quickly crash and burn. From embezzling $15 million in COVID funds to engaging in shameless plagiarism, these meritless women have demonstrated that they are not up to the task and struggle with the responsibilities they’ve been given. Naturally, they revert to what they know best: lying, cheating, and stealing.
President Biden hosted “celebrities and elite social media influencers” a White House reception on April 26 (I’m quoting Ken Bensinger’s June 14 New York Times story). One such “influencer” was Jonathan Katz, who seized the opportunity to ask Biden about his support for Israel in the context of what he believes might “plausibly [be] described as genocide” — committed by Israel, of course.
Katz is that kind of a guy. He’s also the kind of guy that the Biden White House seeks to enlist in the cause of Biden’s reelection.
That’s not quite how the Times describes Katz. The Times pegs him as “an independent journalist and sharp critic of the administration,”
OK, let’s get this out of the way. The core trio of The Rolling Stones are old, pretty darn old -- even if 80 is the new 70. [SNIP] During his moments of banter, Jagger referenced the 22-year gap between Cleveland shows and the band’s first local show at Public Hall in 1964. He also shouted out the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and suggested that everyone in attendance vote in the big U.S. election in November. “It may be the last time you get to vote,” he said ominously, drawing murmurs from the crowd.
First stepping on stage during the 1970s, George Strait not only encompassed country music but went on to carve his own spot in the genre with hits like “Baby Your Baby”, “I Cross My Heart”, and “Amarillo by Morning.” Releasing numerous albums over the decades, the country star gained countless awards and even landed in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Besides dominating country music and the charts, Strait also sold over 120 million albums. Considered the “King of Country Music”, the singer recently proved his stardom when he set a record for the largest single-ticketed concert in the United States.
This is a re-post of something I wrote several years ago for Father’s Day. I think this Father’s Day weekend is a good time to share it again, and now is a good time to celebrate and appreciate God’s gift of manhood.
It has often become an annual tribute to my husband, as we were married on Father’s Day weekend in 1976. He has been the best of husbands, and such a wonderful father, and now grandfather.
A man who excelled at being a father, and especially when the going got tough.
Requiring women to register for Selective Service (ie, the draft) really is a part of the 2025 National Defense Reauthorization Act that has been assembled in the Senate. 3. Strengthening the Joint Force and Defense Workforce • Authorizes funding to support a 4.5 percent pay raise for military members and a 2
percent pay raise for DOD civilian employees. • Increases monthly basic pay for junior enlisted servicemembers in the grades of E-1
through E-3, in addition to the force-wide pay raise.
• Amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for
Selective Service.
Russian forces storm a detention facility
to rescue staff taken hostage, killing
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to rescue staff taken hostage, killing
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Security forces stormed a detention center in southern Russia on Sunday, killing inmates accused of links to Islamist terror cells who had taken two staff members hostage, state-funded news channel RT reported.
Journalists on the scene reported the sounds of gunfire, while multiple ambulances were seen arriving at the prison in footage on social media.
The hostages at the pretrial detention center in Rostov-on-Don were uninjured, Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service said in an official statement.
Hamas not only uses its civilians as human shields, but may be the first government in history that wants to see its own people killed in order to blame another country, Israel, for their deaths. Meanwhile, Israel goes out of its way – seriously risking the lives of its soldiers – not to commit any crimes against humanity or indiscriminately bomb, as Russia does in Ukraine.
"Israel implemented more measures to prevent civilian casualties than any nation in history," wrote John Spencer, chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert Redfield said he predicts a bird flu pandemic will happen, it’s just a matter of when that will be.
Redfield joined NewsNation Friday to discuss the growing concern for bird flu, as the virus has been detected in dozens of cattle across the country and the World Health Organization identified the first human death in Mexico. {snip}
He also noted that bird flu has a “significant mortality” when it enters humans compared to COVID-19. Redfield predicts the mortality is “probably somewhere between 25 and 50 percent mortality.” NewsNation noted that the death rate for COVID was 0.6 percent.
When I look for the headwaters of love, for its source in my life, I always arrive back at my father.
Every other Saturday morning from when I was 13, when my parents got divorced until I left for college, my brother, sister and I would watch for him through the living room window. When he pulled into the driveway, we’d shout “Bye, Mom!” as we shut the front door and ran down the steps to his car.
Mainly what he wanted to do was have a long breakfast at a cafe with comfortable banquettes and bottomless coffee. And talk, except he would say “visit.” A lot
In an age filled with hostile propaganda against the nuclear family and devoted fathers in particular, it is worthwhile to ask why the celebration of Father’s Day persists.
Most of us instinctively understand the connection between fatherlessness and social ills, such as crime, poverty, and mental illness. At the same time, we can see the calm and joy of children who are blessed with responsible and loving fathers. Maybe those are reasons why the tradition of Father’s Day continues to hold sway in America, in spite of ideologues who hope to abolish responsible masculinity by labeling it as toxic, patriarchal, or a product of “white supremacy.”
Former President Donald Trump vowed to “make the Trump tax cuts permanent” during a speech at Turning Point Action’s “People’s Convention” on Saturday.
During his speech at the convention in Detroit, Michigan, the former president added that if elected president in November, his administration would also “cut taxes even more for working families and small businesses.” “We will make the Trump tax cuts permanent and cut taxes even more for working families and small businesses,” Trump told the crowd at the end.
Los Angeles— Some of Hollywood’s brightest stars headlined a glitzy fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Saturday night, helping raise what his reelection campaign said was $28 million and hoping to energize would-be supporters for a November election that they argued was among the most important in the nation’s history.
George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand were among those who took the stage at the 7,100-seat Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Biden and former President Barack Obama, who both stressed the need to defeat former President Donald Trump in a race that’s expected to be exceedingly close.
This week, Attorney General Merrick Garland took to the pages of the Washington Post to lash out at critics who are spreading what he considers “conspiracy theories crafted and spread for the purpose of undermining public trust in the judicial process itself.” His column, titled “Unfounded attacks on the Justice Department must end,” missed the point.
It is Garland himself who has become the problem. The solution is in Wilmington, Delaware, where 12 average citizens just showed a commitment to the rule of law that seems to be harder and harder for the attorney general to meet.
An illegal immigrant from El Salvador was arrested and charged for raping and murdering a Maryland mother of five.
Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez was taken into custody on Friday after law enforcement agents found him in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The illegal alien was charged for allegedly killing Rachel Morin, who was found dead near a hiking trail in August of 2023. Hartford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler confirmed the arrest and said that Martinez-Hernandez has been charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
“Five hours after meeting with [Morin's] family and just before midnight our time, police in Tulsa,
No person with a loved one who has suffered through addiction could feel anything but empathy for Hunter Biden and his family. “There are a lot of Hunter Bidens in this world, people who fell in way over their heads, who long for someone to believe they can recover and construct their lives differently,”
Be Prepared for Chaos
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I suggest you start preparing for a great deal of left-wing civic violence, supply disruptions (including food shortages) and widespread urban chaos. I say this because it is my sense that the Democrats, deep state, and their media enablers are all in rough shape and have no other way out but to fall back on their usual criminal methods of retaining power.
I find it impossible to believe that President Biden will be the Democratic nominee, and if he is, that he can win. What do the Democrats do? They certainly can’t substitute Kamala Harris for Biden; she’s tanked in opinion polls even lower and faster than has Biden.
The chirp of cicadas in the tree-lined streets of Evanston is almost deafening. Billions of the insects have been making their periodic emergence from underground dormancy, on a scale not seen for centuries. With the ground strewn with dead bugs, and gardeners rushing to put protective netting around their plants and trees, locals have dubbed it ‘The Cicada-geddon’.
And yet this quiet university town – an affluent suburb of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan – now has another interloper that its ultra-liberal citizens deeply resent.
Three years after Evanston proudly became the first local government in the US to start paying reparations to its black citizens – in this case
$895-Billion House Defense Bill Signals
End of Biden Administration Woke Daycare
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End of Biden Administration Woke Daycare
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With its Friday passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives put the Biden Administration on notice that the grownups are back in charge of America’s military preparedness. The $895.3-billion measure—which passed on a vote of 217 to 199—ratchets Pentagon policy back from the abyss of D.E.I-driven nonsense that under Joe Biden has seen our armed forces devolve into daycare centers instead of fearsome fighting troops.No more funding for hormone therapy woke reeducation seminars, and other Biden-approved brainwashing antics that have caused powerful enemies like China, Iran, and Russia to double over in laughter while our troops are subjected to the madness
Former President Donald Trump described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as being “maybe the greatest salesman of any politician.”
While speaking at Turning Point Action’s “People’s Conference,” in Detroit, Michigan, on Saturday, Trump criticized President Joe Biden for “wasting money at levels never seen before” and putting money into the Green New Deal. The former president continued to add that Zelensky might be “the greatest salesman of any politician” to ever live, noting how “every time” he comes to the United States, he leaves with “$60 billion.”
Detroit Pastor Thanks Trump for Coming,
Saying Obama and Biden ‘Never Came to
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Saying Obama and Biden ‘Never Came to
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A pastor in Detroit thanked Donald Trump for coming to the city during his event there today, pointing out that neither Obama nor Biden has visited ‘the hood.’
Trump was very gracious in his response, saying it was an honor.
This is one of those amazing moments that the liberal media refuses to share with the American people.
The Daily Wire reported:
Pastor Thanks Trump For Visiting Detroit, Says Biden, Obama ‘Never Came To The Hood’. A pastor in Detroit thanked former President Donald Trump for visiting the city during a Saturday roundtable with religious and community leaders.
During the event at 180 Church,