Posts on Sunday, March 10, 2019
CNN media hack and host of the inaccurately named program “Reliable Sources”, Brian Stelter drew a lot of flak last week when he came out in defense of the Democratic National Committee’s ban on allowing Fox News to host debates for them. Then, during his show on Sunday, Stelter flashed his deep-seated hatred for his more highly rated competitor when he expressed confusion as to why D.C. reporters were stand up in solitary with Fox News. Towards the end of the program’s A-block, which was dedicated to his unhealthy obsession with Fox News, Stelter was pitching a question to a
As The Gateway Pundit has been reporting for over two years, the Department of Justice and FBI used unethical and criminal actions to go after candidate and President Donald Trump and his associates and family. Last week contributor Joe Hoft put together a stunning list of Mueller and Deep State questionable actions. THE LIST: More than 100 Times the FBI, DOJ and/or Mueller Gang “Deviated from Standard Practice” or Committed Crimes in Effort to Exonerate Hillary and Indict Trump On Saturday Donald Trump Jr. called for investigations on hacks Rep. Adam Schiff and Andrew McCabe. (Tweets) On Saturday Donald Trump Jr.
George Foreman´s daughter Freeda, a professional boxer, was found dead at the age of 42 by a relative in her Houston, Texas-area home. Police told TMZ Saturday they are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death, and that no foul play is suspected.Freeda is survived by her husband and daughter, as well as 11 siblings. (Photos) She began her boxing career in the middleweight ranks in 2001, beginning with a five-match winning streak - with three knockouts - that lasted until the following year, when she was defeated in her sixth match. She subsequently retired
On Thursday, on a party line vote, Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats in the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, dubbed the “For the People Act of 2019.” It is a massive federal intrusion into the states’ constitutionally-protected realm of regulating and maintaining voter rolls. It’s also a recipe for voter fraud. Republicans in the House correctly derided it as a “voter fraud and election theft” bill. But that understates how bad it is. H.R. 1 rolls out the red carpet for election fraud. This is true in multiple respects. A few of the most outrageous provisions in the bill are the
In the wake of the deadly twister outbreak last week, Sen. Bernard Sanders declared that climate change is making tornadoes worse, to which researchers say: Not so fast. Purdue University professor Ernest Agee, who has studied tornadoes for 50 years, said his research and that of other scientists shows that the number of violent U.S. tornadoes has in fact tapered off in recent decades.(Snip) What’s more, 2018 was the first year since record-keeping began in 1950 without an EF4 or EF5 tornado, the most devastating twisters, as rated on the Enhanced Fujita Scale from EF0 to EF5,
There’s no telling how much money the government could save if it were to stop asking Americans to “Press 2 for Spanish.” What is clear, according to those pushing the change, is that President Trump could do it with the stroke of a pen.(Snip) Since the dawn of the 21st century, the U.S. government has operated under mandatory translation rules for its documents and services, a pricey option that President Clinton imposed via executive order near the end of his tenure in August 2000. In essence, the order meant that if a person with limited or no English language skills
Potential presidential hopeful New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio spent Sunday morning awkwardly flapping his arms while a South Carolina church pastor and the congregation belted out disgraced R. Kelly´s ´I Believe I Can Fly.´ De Blasio, 57, spent the weekend at campaign-style events in the Palmetto State with his wife, Chirlane McCray, in addition to the brief interlude where he witnessed the singing of a song by R. Kelly, who was arrested in February for 10 counts of felony aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and again on Wednesday for failing to pay child support.Now that longtime, Big Apple mayor
Radical Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI) declared victory over the US government in a speech to terror-tied CAIR last month — the video just began making the rounds on social media earlier this week. Congresswoman Tlaib was introduced by Executive Director of CAIR’s Florida chapter, Hassan Shibly — Shibly invoked the Islamic war cry as he introduced her. “Allahu Akbar! The first Palestinian-American Muslim Congresswoman, our dear sister Rashida Tlaib!” Hassan Shibly said. As soon as Rashida Tlaib walked up to the lectern to deliver her radical speech, she invoked the Muslim war cry of Allah in Arabic: “Bismillah al-Rahman
On Sunday, democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro appeared on CNN’s "State of the Union" with Jake Tapper. (Video) During the segment, Tapper spoke with Castro about the issue of reparations for descendants of slavery: "This is also dividing Democrats on the trail. You´ve said that there needs to be some kind of reparations to descendants of slaves to compensate for years of slavery and discrimination against African Americans in this country." Tapper then played a clip in which presidential rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talks about Castro’s and Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) support for reparations: What do they
President Trump and his top advisers expressed optimism through the weekend that diplomatic efforts on denuclearization talks with Pyongyang can be revived, despite reports of North Korean ballistic missile and nuclear activity. National Security Adviser John R. Bolton sought to dampen the hype around the prospect that a North Korean missile launch could be imminent after the emergence in recent days of commercial satellite imagery appearing to show cranes at work rebuilding a key test site that Pyongyang previously vowed to destroy. “There’s a lot of activity all the time in North Korea, but I’m not going to
Seoul - The message was in response to reporters´ questions about whether South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong plans to hold phone talks with his U.S. counterpart John Bolton later in the day. Bolton said in an interview with ABC that he will be speaking with his South Korean counterpart Monday morning and he may discuss satellite images that show rebuilding activity at the North´s missile launch site. Chung may have a phone conservation with Bolton on Monday afternoon. Speculations have risen since last week as a series of reports by Seoul´s spy agency and two U.S. think tanks show some
Francisco Martinez likes to read. The Bible, usually. And he likes to ditch his tent a few hours a day for somewhere inside, where it’s warm and out of the rain, the people are nice and he can snatch a nap in a chair. There’s one place that fills the bill for a homeless guy like Martinez, who at 78 moves more like someone who’s 88. The library. “I’ve got nowhere else but here,” he said the other day as he settled into a window chair in San Francisco’s Main Library with a
CARACAS, Venezuela —Opposition lawmakers and aid groups warned Sunday that an unprecedented nationwide blackout in Venezuela was causing a rising number of deaths, as citizens struggled for a fourth day to find food and water and hospitals were paralyzed. “What Venezuelans are living today looks like a science fiction movie,” said Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader who is spearheading a U.S.-backed campaign to oust President Nicolás Maduro. At a news conference Sunday, Guaidó said that at least 17 deaths had occurred at hospitals as a result of the outages. Fifteen of them were in the eastern city of Maturin,
Why do Republicans stick with Donald Trump? It’s a question I’m asked again and again by Democrats, “Never Trumpers,” and journalists. But the answer is simple. Attitude and gratitude. For years, Republican voters wanted someone — anyone — to come along and do two things: stick it to the Clintons and punch back against the media-Democratic Party alliance that fires on every Republican brave enough to stick a head out of the foxhole. (Snip)For finally bringing them to heel, alone, the president has earned the forever gratitude of virtually every Republican. The rest hardly matters. Jared’s security clearance? National emergency? Stormy Daniels? Please.
Two paragliders were killed Saturday when they collided above the Torrey Pines Gliderport in the northern coastal area of San Diego County, authorities said. The incident occurred around 2:40 p.m. at the popular cliffside launching point off Torrey Pines Scenic Drive. The two solo pilots crashed into each other about 35 feet in the air and plummeted onto the steep cliff face, about 45 feet below the top, San Diego Lifeguard Lt. Rich Stropky said. One of the men was certified to fly on his own; the other man was working on his certification, Stropky said, adding that it wasn’t
In the digital world, you are what you like. So why was Rashida Tlaib’s official Instagram page following an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist with links to a mosque notorious for its terrorist connections? The account, ‘Free.Palestine.1948’, belongs to a British Muslim who is an accomplished promoter of extremism. Photos of Benjamin Netanyahu with Adolf Hitler are juxtaposed, and a rat superimposed on the Israeli flag. There are repeated claims that the 9/11 attacks were a false-flag operation by ‘the Jews’ or Mossad, that Israel created ISIS and is an ‘apartheid state’, that Tom Watson, deputy leader of the UK’s Labour party,
On Thursday of last week Judicial Watch received a 300+ page release of Bruce and Nellie Ohr communication with government officials as the result of their 2017 FOIA submission. The following day, Friday, representative Doug Collins released the transcript of Bruce Ohr testifying about his activity and contacts with DOJ and FBI officials. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the revelations within both the testimony and FOIA release, saying Bruce Ohr’s testimony confirms how closely the Department of Justice and FBI were working with Clinton operative, Christopher Steele.
A former postdoctoral researcher at UC San Diego has been arrested and charged in a string of robberies at San Diego-area credit unions that took place over the last few months, the FBI and San Diego police said. Karl William Doron, 43, who holds a doctorate in psychological and brain sciences, was arrested Tuesday after a teller was robbed at a Sorrento Valley credit union, authorities said. The suspect had been under surveillance when the heist happened at the Navy Federal Credit Union on Mira Mesa Boulevard and Camino Santa Fe, said FBI San Diego spokeswoman Special Agent Davene Butler.
Beating The Cultural Revolution
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Hello from snowy and not-un-Siberia-like upstate New York, where I’m attending a conference at the Russian Orthodox monastery and seminary. At dinner last night with some conference-goers, I was talking about my ideas for my upcoming book. As you regular readers know, I plan to write about the warnings people living here who grew up under Soviet and Eastern European communism are now sounding about the emerging totalitarianism in our own increasingly post-liberal culture. (Snip)What the former anti-communist dissidents among us are recognizing is the totalitarianism inherent in a new Cultural Revolution, the contours of which we are only
The family of a California man is outraged after a hospital used a robotic “doctor” to break the news to their elderly loved one that he is dying from chronic lung disease. The incident took place on March 3, when a nurse wheeled in a machine with a screen showing a doctor into 78-year-old Ernest Quintana’s hospital room at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center emergency department in Fremont, California. “The nurse came around and said the doctor was going to make rounds and I thought ‘OK, no big deal; I’m here,” his granddaughter Annalisia Wilharm told USA Today. (Video)Instead of a
Some people will go a bit too far to get that perfect selfie. A woman was attacked by a jaguar after she crossed over a zoo barrier in order to take a photo with the wild animal, authorities say. The incident took place at World Wildlife Zoo, Aquarium, and Safari Park in Litchfield, Park, Ariz. on Saturday. Officials told AZFamily.com that the woman was “attempting to take a selfie near the fence of the Jaguar enclosure when the cat reached out and attacked her arm.” Adam Wilkerson, a fellow zoo guest, captured the moments after the attack in an extremely
Since its first dramatic moment on March 10, 1876 with the now famous words: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you,” the telephone has had a remarkable and sometimes quirky history. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190309005004/en/ --“We’ve forgotten some of the incidents in the development of the telephone,” said Nancy Friedman, president of Telephone Doctor Customer Service Training, headquartered in St. Louis MO. “For a device that has shaped our lives for over a century, its significant evolution is often taken for granted. In anticipation of celebrating its 143 [rd] anniversary, here
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, née Meghan Markle, used an International Women’s Day event that she and husband Harry, Duke of Sussex, hope their baby will be a feminist. “I’d seen this documentary on Netflix on feminism and one of the things they said during pregnancy was, ‘I feel the embryonic kicking of feminism’,” the American divorcee, 37, told her audience at the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust event, hosted by King’s College London. “I loved that — boy or girl, whatever it is, we hope that’s the case, our little bump,” added the former Suits actress.
A 36-year-old animal welfare campaigner has been named as one of the seven Britons who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash which killed 149 passengers and eight crew on Sunday morning. The Boeing 737 Max 8 jet crashed within minutes of its take-off from Addis Ababa, losing and gaining speed dramatically in its final seconds after setting off for Nairobi. British victim Joanna Toole, from Exmouth, Devon, was among at least 12 passengers who were travelling to a UN environment meeting in the Kenyan capital.(Snip) Within the first few minutes after take-off the plane´s vertical speed, the rate of climb
Inslee: Combating Climate Change Foremost Duty of the Next President Because the ‘World’s on Fire’
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Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA), a 2020 presidential hopeful, said climate change is the most important job for the next president because “the world’s on fire.” Inslee said, “We are the first generation to feel the sting of climbed change and we’re the last generation that can do something about. We have one shot, that’s the next administration. We have to have this be the primary, first, foremost and paramount duty of the next administration because the world’s on fire and we’ve got to act and we’ve got a climate denier in the White
Truly Bad People
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Fear is a great motivator, as is anger. Those two emotions are among the most powerful and destructive feelings that human beings can experience. Politicians use them, to varying degrees, regularly and effectively. But rarely has a political party so openly embraced these two sentiments as the argument for supporting them. (Snip) Having failed to convert the voting age public into true believers on the environment, liberals set their sights on children. Adopting the tobacco company model of hooking them while they’re young, the indoctrination machine has churned out the first generation of the faithful who’ve been
Sunday on MSNBC’s “Live,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said President Donald Trump is a “cancer on the country. ” Cohen said, “Trump is a con man. Michael Cohen said he is a con man, a liar, and a racist. He is a con man. He is a liar, and he is a racist. He has lied about everything that goes down. He continues to lie. That’s why he’s attacked this Mueller investigation, the Justice Department, the FBI, judges that didn’t rule in his manner and way in the Trump University lawsuit. The man is a walking lie. ”He added, “My
Outspoken left-wing Hollywood actress and “super-sciency” expert Alyssa Milano celebrated International Women’s Day on Friday by giving a shout-out to men. *facepalm* And oh, she also insinuated that she too is a man. *raised eyebrow* “My transgender sisters! I am celebrating YOU this #NationalWomensDay!” she tweeted Friday afternoon. Look: My transgender sisters! I am celebrating YOU this #NationalWomensDay! — Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) March 8, 2019 -Never mind that so-called “transgender women” are in reality biological men who’ve literally appropriated women’s femininity from them.
An adventurer and Guinness World Record holder has revealed that living on the UK´s streets was ´more lucrative´ than he imagined. Ed Stafford, a former army captain and amazon trekker, spent two months being homeless in Glasgow, Manchester, and London. He found that as well as gaining 11lb because passers-by kept giving him fast food, sandwiches, and burgers, he could also make up to £200 a night. [Snip] ´In Glasgow, I witnessed 26 volunteers handing out food one night, and there were only two rough sleepers there. I even met one homeless man who complained the public ´overfeed´ him.´
Christian Mejia thought he had a shot at getting out of immigration detention in rural Louisiana after he´d found a lawyer to help him seek asylum. Then he was quarantined. In early January, a mumps outbreak at the privately-run Pine Prairie Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center put Mejia and hundreds of other detainees on lockdown. ´When there is just one person who is sick, everybody pays,´ Mejia, 19, said in a phone interview from the Pine Prairie center describing weeks without visits and access to the library and dining hall. (Photos) His attorney wasn´t allowed in, but his immigration
Democrats and the media will face a “reckoning” if special counsel Robert Mueller finds no evidence of collusion involving the Trump campaign, ABC News’ Terry Moran argued in a panel discussion Sunday. “How big a deal is it if they don’t find collusion for the president?” ABC “This Week” host Martha Raddatz asked Moran. “Huge,” said Moran. “He’s cleared. If Robert Mueller comes back, Mueller became a folk hero in the United States.” “The central and most serious question in this investigation, the reason Robert Mueller started it: Did the current president of the United States assist the Kremlin in
Venezuela entered its fourth day of blackouts in an "electricity crisis" that plunged most of the country´s 23 states, including the state home to the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, into complete darkness. (Video) Reuters reports that international non-governmental organizations estimate that at least 17 people have died, nine of whom were waiting for emergency medical attention. Reuters was not able to independently verify the numbers, but they are being tabulated by the non-partisan NGO, Doctors For Health, which has been treating patients in Venezuela. "The outage is by far the longest in decades.
Washington– US President Donald Trump will seek $8.6 billion in fresh funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border in the 2020 budget request, likely triggering another fight with Congress, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday. The request, which is to be unveiled Monday, would far exceed the $5.7 billion Trump demanded last year, which led to an impasse that resulted in a 35-day partial shutdown of the US government, the longest ever. Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer decried the move, warning Trump that another legislative defeat would await him. (Video) Kudlow,
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – President Donald Trump was just doing what he could to raise spirits when he signed Bibles at an Alabama church for survivors of a tornado outbreak, many religious leaders say, though some are offended and others say he could have handled it differently. Hershael York, dean of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary School of Theology in Louisville, Kentucky, said he didn´t have a problem with Trump signing Bibles, like former presidents have, because he was asked and because it was important to the people who were asking. "Though we don´t have a national faith, there is faith
No one could accuse Michelle Obama of lingering in her husband’s shadow. But few expected her to emerge as America’s queen of non-fiction. Far from being a mere postscript to her White House years, the former US first lady’s memoir, Becoming, has proved a literary phenomenon and turning point in her career, dominating bestseller lists and filling stadiums during a promotional tour. And such is Michelle Mania that last month, she stole the show from the biggest stars in music by making a surprise appearance at the Grammy awards. “She’s a rock star at this point. She’s now a political celebrity, ” said
A new Des Moines Register poll shows Bill de Blasio getting zero interest from likely Democratic caucus-goers as either a first or second presidential choice. Former Vice President Joe Biden — who has yet to announce his candidacy — led the 20-candidate pack as the first choice of 27 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers, and the second choice of 19 percent. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker were the next most popular, in that order. The poll showed de Blasio tied for last place in popularity with Eric Swalwell, Marianne Williamson and Andrew Yang.
In just a few short months, the Muslima from Mogadishu who somehow represents the 5th congressional district in Minnesotastan, has made her stance perfectly clear: she hates Jews with the insouciant, casual fervor of a true Musselman. She hates the country of America-as-founded and, like her compatriots on the increasingly Marxist Left, would like to see it repealed and replaced with something else. For now, she is in an alliance of convenience with the politicians formerly known as "liberals." But when the geriatric leadership, in the form of Maerose Prizzi
AUSTIN, Texas — Beto´s back, but is he running? After a period of self-imposed exile, the former Democratic congressman returned to center stage Saturday as he ramps up for a potential 2020 presidential bid, appearing at South by Southwest for the premiere of a new documentary about his failed Senate campaign against Ted Cruz. It´s been 10 days since O´Rourke said publicly that he´s made a decision about his political future, but he told reporters on Saturday that he wanted to reveal "it the right way and tell everyone at the same time." "I’ve got to be on the timeline
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reunite more families that were separated at the border. US District Judge Dana Sabraw ruled the government must bring parents and children who were separated as early as July 1, 2017 back together, in an updated ruling on a lawsuit brought by the ACLU. Previously, he ruled that about 2,700 children in government custody as of June 26, 2018, the date of his initial decision in the case, should be reunited with their parents. The new order could apply to thousands more children, but first the separated families must be identified.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Canada’s $1-billion-dollar-a-year taxpayer-funded state television network, seems to have come up with a winning race horse to take scandal-plagued Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reelection in October. From what appears to be a planted town hall question in Kitchener, Ont. Thursday night, the CBC was among the first news outlets to pounce on a story linking Conservative leader Andrew Scheer to the thoroughly debunked ‘pizzagate’ conspiracy connecting former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to a child sex ring. Within 48 hours Trudeau jumped his own bob-tailed nag giving an armchair press conference to the Ontario
Selling Socialism to America
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Socialism is a tough sell to Americans who evaluate ideas based on facts and a remarkably easy sell to Americans who evaluate ideas based on feelings. The adult world of facts is a foreign land to the infantilized world of feelings where low-info millennial voters currently dwell. The heated political battle between Americanism and Socialism parallels the battle between parents and their children who refuse to grow up emotionally and leave the nest. Becoming an emotional adult requires embracing a fact based cause-and-effect view of the world that rejects the fantasies of childhood.
Customs and Border Patrol released statistics last week showing the highest number of apprehensions at the border in 11 years. But along with the numbers of illegal crossers an equally serious crisis is growing—that of sexual and other types of violence perpetrated against migrant women and children as they make their way to the U.S. border. Lax border enforcement and asylum loopholes that favor minors have encouraged women and children to come to the United States. (Snip) So where is the #MeToo movement for these women and girls? Where is the outrage, the marches, the Twitter hashtags
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., NY) suggested the current state of America is "garbage" and argued former president Ronald Reagan stirred up conflict between white Americans and minorities during an appearance at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas on Saturday.(Snip) the thing that is really hard for people to sometimes see is that when we are on this path of a slow erosion and a slow, slow, slow, just like move away from what we´ve always been, we´ll be a hundred miles, you´ll, you know you won´t even realize that you´ve drifted a hundred miles,”
Most people reading this will know Sir Walter Scott’s famous couplet (Snip) Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive! Less well known, but undeservedly so, is the excellent completing couplet by J. R. Pope, published under the sly title “A Word of Encouragement”: But when we’ve practiced for a while, How vastly we improve our style! Indeed. You really have to give it to the suits in Barack Obama’s intelligence services and Department of Justice (many of whom, of course, are still strutting about in Donald Trump’s administration). It was quite a web they
You´d think that after bringing herself one controversy after another from her social media posts, the smart thing for far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar to do would be to get off social media for awhile or at least hire a pro to take care of it. Not Omar. After escaping unscathed following a raft of anti-Semitic tweets for which the Minnesota congresswoman representing District 5 was forced to apologize for on some, she´s ignited a new round of controversy by attacking President Obama as "a pretty face" who has gotten away with "murder"
By 2021, Americans traveling to certain countries in Europe will have to preregister online as part of a security system intended to screen visa-free travelers. The European Union announced last year that before entry, travelers from all visa-free countries, including the United States, will need to preregister and pay a small application fee using the European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS), a system designed "to strengthen security checks on those persons who travel visa-free to the EU,” (Snip) applies to people traveling to Europe´s Schengen Zone, an area comprising of more than two dozen countries,
Conversations in the Dark
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“It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah.” — Leonard Cohen. God is just the explanation that people concoct for those random moments when the pain of life eases. That’s what I was told one dark night as I was going through a rough patch and heard a raspy voice in my ear taunting me. “If there’s a God in heaven, then why all the pain, lies and destruction on Earth?” asked the voice. “But there’s also a lot of beauty and joy,” I replied. I’ve seen it.” “Oh? Like what?” “I’ve seen the beauty in children laughing. I’ve
Diary: Nightmares in Harare
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As a child growing up in Harare, I believed there was a Whitney Houston song that went: ‘Oh! I wanna dance in Zimbabwe, wanna feel the heat in Zimbabwe.’ It seemed entirely reasonable: Zimbabwe was, and remains, more beautiful, more richly green and blue and growing, than any other country I know. (Snip)I was back in Harare, visiting my grandmother, when the riots began. My grandmother is in her nineties, and lives in a cluster of cottages in a northern suburb which used, once, to be one of the smartest in Harare. It’s now so rundown that the roads,
New York City is careening closer to all-out financial bankruptcy for the first time since Mayor Abraham Beame ran the city more than 40 years ago, experts say. As tax-fleeced businesses and individuals flee en masse, and city public spending surges into the stratosphere, financial analysts say Gotham is perilously near total fiscal disaster. Long-term debt is now more than $81,100 per household, and Mayor de Blasio is ramping up to spend as much as $3 billion more in the new budget than the current $89.2 billion.(Snip) But city spending, up some 32 percent since de Blasio
We discovered last year that Jeff Sessions had authorized U.S. Attorney John Huber to work with the Inspector General’s office, but we did not know exact dates and scope of the original Huber investigation. Thanks to a FOIA request, some details now fill in. A left-leaning watchdog group, American Oversight, filed a FOIA request in 2017 looking for any communication that might show former AG Jeff Sessions giving instructions to DOJ officials to target Hillary Clinton for investigations.
Progressives claim President Trump marks a new low in American political and presidential history, personifying a singularly odious message. But if we examine the present pantheon of progressive icons, and strip away their reliance on liberal-media protection and transfer them instead into the present age of tabloid promiscuity and cyber omnipresence, would we now have a very different view of their presidencies? The progressive Woodrow Wilson administration likely would never have completed its two elected terms had it operated on media protocols common just a half-century later.
Jeffrey Prottas is deeply troubled by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s use of language long seen by many as anti-Semitic. Mohammed Amin thinks Omar is being unfairly targeted by critics. David Dobkin just wants the political firestorm to end. “I hope the conversation for the next two years isn’t just about Israel,” Dobkin said. The uproar over Omar’s recurring comments challenging political support of Israel has quickly thrust the freshman member of Congress into a searing national spotlight. It is also dividing voters in Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District, a diverse and deeply Democratic stronghold that easily elected her last fall.
Pick up a newspaper or watch the news about what Democrats are up to and you’re certain to ask yourself the same question dominating American politics: Are they going too far? Did Democrats overreach when they invited convicted liar and turncoat scammer Michael Cohen to tell Congress President Trump is a bad guy? Are they on a ridiculous fishing expedition when they summon 81 people, including three of the president’s children, to testify to a congressional panel whose chairman says he’s certain Trump committed crimes, no matter what special counsel Robert Mueller says?
NBC News penned an article about the unorthodox release of DOJ official Bruce Ohr’s transcript. Within the article NBC notes current DOJ officials responded to the congressional request for release by sending them an approved “redacted version”:(NBC) […] The transcripts of interviews with Ohr and other witnesses before the joint committee investigation were sent to the Justice Department last December to be vetted for public release(Snip) The Justice Department returned the Ohr transcript to the committee this week with redactions.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a slim 2-point edge ahead of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in Iowa according to a Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom poll released Saturday. Though Biden still has yet to officially declare his candidacy, he leads the pack of 20 declared and potential candidates in the state with the support of 27 percent of likely Iowa caucus voters, but that number is down slightly from 32 percent in December. Sanders came in second with 25 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) with 9 percent, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) with 7 percent and former Rep. Beto
Ocasio-Cortez’s failed company is a tax deadbeat: warrant filed over unpaid taxes to New York State
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Despite being the object of a huge amount of media attention, few people seem to know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to be an entrepreneur and fell flat on her face. Her media pals certainly have no interest in publicizing the fact the she embraced socialism after she proved to be utterly, embarrassingly incompetent at earning her way. Monica Showalter asked the key question ion these pages last summer: “Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez´s socialist fanaticism come from bitter failure in business? Now, thanks to digging by the New York Post, we know
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has hit back at Western European critics, stating clearly that multiculturalism has no place in his country. The new statements come from an interview of Orbán by French politician Philippe de Villiers as part of the newly released book, I Pulled the Thread of Lies, and Everything Unravelled, according to a press release from the Hungarian prime minister’s office. “What outrages our opponents the most is the fact that in our Constitution we have written that Hungary has Christian roots; that here there is no place for multiculturalism; that a child has the right to a mother
A damning new report has claimed that since 2014, the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has allowed thousands of war criminal migrants to enter the country. The new report claims that from 2014 to 2019, the German government not only let in around 5,000 migrants who were subject to investigation for violating international law, but only investigated a handful of them itself, German tabloid Bild reports. The paper states that the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) tipped the government off to around 5,000 migrants they believed had been involved in war crimes or other crimes against humanity.
Fox News host Jeanine Pirro questioned Rep. Ilhan Omar´s loyalty to the U.S. on Saturday. During he opening monologue, Pirro asked her viewers to think about the fact that Omar wears a hijab while speculating whether the freshman Democrat opposes the U.S. Constitution. Pirro focused on Omar, who recently came under fire for what were seen as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel comments, during her opening monologue. "This is not who your party is," Pirro said of the Democratic Party. "Your party is not anti-Israel, she is. Think about this. She is not getting this anti-Israel sentiment doctrine from the Democrat Party."
Nicolas Maduro’s staunchest international ally—Russia—reaffirmed last week its full support to the Socialist leader’s regime and his efforts to prevent what Moscow sees as interference in Venezuela’s domestic affairs. At the same time, Russia, which vowed to defend its oil assets in Venezuela as early as the political crisis began in January, sees risks to its investments in the Latin American country and pledges to react “in the toughest way” possible within international law if those investments are threatened, Russia’s Ambassador to Venezuela, Vladimir Zaemsky, told Russian government-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta
A suspected Russian assassin who MI5 believe was planning to murder an ex-prime minister was barred from entering the UK. Umar Sugaipov was prevented from coming into the country last summer because intelligence suggested he was preparing to kill Akhmed Zakayev, the former Chechen leader and enemy of Vladimir Putin. The decision to block the suspected hitman came five months after Sergei Skripal was the target of a novichok poisoning attack. Sugaipov was judged by British security officials as a ´threat to national security´ and, more specifically, the life of Mr Zakayev who was granted asylum in 2004,
There is a lot happening in Iran as the Supreme Leader shakes things up politically. While Iranians continue to protest about unpaid salaries and long queues for food, Ayatollah Khamenei is busy making preparations. The changes he is making relate to the future of the Islamic Republic and aim to guarantee that when he is gone, his loyal supporters will remain in control. One of his first moves has been to raise the political profile of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force. He was seen sitting beside the supreme leader when Syrian President Bashar Assad paid an unexpected visit to Tehran two weeks ago.
Millions of North Korean voters, including leader Kim Jong Un, went to the polls today to elect a new lineup of roughly 700 members for the next session of the national legislature . But voters were presented with just one state-sanctioned candidate per seat and cast their ballots not to select but rather to show their approval or, at least theoretically, disapproval of that candidate. The elections, last held in 2014, are for the entire Supreme People´s Assembly, which on paper is the highest organ of power in North Korea. Its delegates come from all over the country and all walks of life. The candidates are selected by the ruling
Two more jihadi brides being held with their children in Syrian refugee camps have been stripped of their British citizenship, it has been reported. It comes as the row over Islamic State runaway Shamima Begum continued following the death of her three-week-old son. According to The Sunday Times, two women, who between them have five boys under the age of eight, had their UK nationality removed after marrying into a terror cell linked to the murder of western hostages. The Home Office said it did not comment on individual cases. A spokesman added: "Any decisions to deprive individuals of their citizenship are based on
North Korea said on Sunday that sanctions imposed by the United Nations last week are an "act of war," and Pyongyang vowed to bolster its nuclear force in an outright rejection of the resolution. "We define this ´sanctions resolution´ rigged by the U.S. and its followers as a grave infringement upon the sovereignty of our Republic and as an act of war violating peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula and the region," North Korea´s foreign ministry said in a statement on state media. The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday to impose additional sanctions on North Korea because of its missile tests, the third time the Security
During the 2018 campaign, we heard a lot about Democrat enthusiasm or the blue wave. Indeed, there was a lot of excitement, and it flipped enough districts to give us Speaker Pelosi. The other side of the excitement is that a bunch of radical leftists were elected, such as Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib. They are now Pelosi´s triple nightmare and a full threat to the party in 2020, as Doug Schoen just wrote. Omar´s remarks about President Obama are just startling. This is what she said: The Minnesota Democrat, who´s faced controversy over comments perceived as anti-Semitic, got into hot water yet again after saying Obama´s "hope
I find it impossible to disagree with Ryan Saavedra’s Twitter observation: "The Democratic Party, which has called everything under the sun a “Nazi” for the last 3 years, all of a sudden can’t muster up the spine to condemn blatant anti-Semitism within their own party.” It’s been in the works for years under the cloak of intersectionality -- in truth little more than an effort to ingather voting blocs of illegal immigrants, Palestinian supporters, socialists, blacks locked in the ghettoes of their minds, sexual outliers – LGBT (and "whatever other gender” now included), and malcontent women delighted that even post-birth abortion will be legal.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - An Ethiopian Airlines flight with 157 people thought to be on board crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday morning from Ethiopia´s capital while headed to Nairobi, the airline said. Ethiopia´s state broadcaster said all passengers were dead, adding that they included 33 nationalities. The airline´s statement said 149 passengers and eight crew members were thought to be on the Boeing 737, which crashed six minutes after departing Addis Ababa on its way to Kenya´s capital. There were no immediate details on what caused the crash. The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, widely considered the best-