Posts on Thursday, April 4, 2019
Mitt Romney is not particularly impressed with the idea of Herman Cain joining the Federal Reserve, though President Donald Trump is pushing forward on the possible nomination. In an interview, the Utah Republican senator brushed off the prospect of Trump following through and officially nominating Cain: “I doubt that will be a nomination. But if it were a nomination, you can bet [what] the interest rates he would be pushing for.”
Many Democrats may not view what’s occurring at the southern border as a crisis, as President Donald Trump and his administration absolutely do and have stressed repeatedly — but they won’t be able to deny the facts after the commander-in-chief makes a visit to the border in California on Friday, as currently scheduled. Speaking Thursday morning on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends,” press secretary Sarah Sanders said about Trump’s upcoming visit, “The president wants to show the progress that we’ve made on the border wall.There’s a section there that has been finished and he wants to be able to see
AUSTIN—The largest donors on the left will be given a private briefing on investigations into President Donald Trump by House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) during a secretive Texas gathering this week, according to documents obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.The Democracy Alliance, a group of millionaire and billionaire funders of the liberal movement, is holding its Spring Partner Retreat and Strategy Conference at the Four Seasons hotel in Austin, where security has been patrolling the meeting areas since Wednesday. As always at the group´s secretive meetings, all programming is off the record and closed to members of
The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits dropped to a more than 49-year low last week, pointing to sustained labor market strength despite slowing economic growth.Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 202,000 for the week ended March 30, the lowest level since early December 1969, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Data for the prior week was revised to show 1,000 more applications received than previously reported. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims rising to 216,000 in the latest week. The Labor Department said only claims for California were estimated. Claims
He couldn’t resist. President Donald Trump retweeted a spoof video Thursday afternoon showing the Joe Biden video from Wednesday, but with an image of a second Joe Biden, this one in a black suit, slowing appearing from behind the blue-suited Biden, placing his hands on his shoulders and, inhaling deeply with his face on top of Biden’s head. Trump wrote “Welcome Back Joe!” all in caps in the tweet sent from his @realDonaldTrump Twitter account. WELCOME BACK JOE! pic.twitter.com/b2NbBSX3sx — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 4, 2019 -In the original video released Wednesday afternoon, Biden attempted to explain the behavior
Louis Farrakhan told a crowd in Chicago in February that he is Jesus, the Messiah. “God does not love this world,” he said in his Nation of Islam Saviour’s Day keynote address. “God never sent Jesus to die for this world. Jesus died because he was 2,000 years too soon to bring about the end of the civilization of the Jews. He never was on a cross, there was no Calvary for that Jesus.” Farrakhan went on to claim that he is the real son of God, sent to save the world. “The real story is what I tried to
Audrey Hepburn was the princess of Hollywood thanks to such hits as Roman Holiday, Sabrina and Breakfast At Tiffany´s. But before the beauty rolled west, she had harrowing experiences in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. And in the new book Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn And World War II - which shared an excerpt in People this week - historian and biographer Robert Matzen wrote about how she helped the resistance in her native country.
President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen says he has new information to offer Democrats if authorities reduce or delay his upcoming three-year prison sentence. In a letter to lawmakers Thursday, Cohen’s attorneys say he has discovered substantial files on a hard drive that could be helpful to investigations into the president. The hard drive is said to include over 14 million files, which consist of all e-mails, voice recordings, images and attachments from Cohen’s computers and phones, his attorneys Lanny Davis, Michael Monico and Carly Chocron wrote. “To date, Mr. Cohen has located several documents that we believe have significant
New Chicago Mayor´s First Order Of Business: Getting To The Bottom Of The Jussie Smollett Case
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Chicago´s new mayor, Lori Lightfoot, hasn´t even been sworn in yet, and she already has a top priority: figuring out exactly what is going on in Cook County Prosecutor Kim Foxx´s office. Lightfoot, who won Chicago´s mayoral election by a near-50 point margin on Tuesday, is the city´s first black female (and first openly gay) mayor. She campaigned largely as an outsider to the Chicago machine. Lightfoot is, herself, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, who served at the head of Chicago´s Police Board and Police Accountability Board after leaving legal practice for public service.
The city of Chicago was drafting a lawsuit Thursday against "Empire" star Jussie Smollett seeking repayment for the cost of a police investigation into what authorities called a staged attack against the actor. "Mr. Smollett has refused to reimburse the City of Chicago for the cost of police overtime spent investigating his false police report on January 29, 2019," the city´s Law Department said in a statement. "The Law Department is now drafting a civil complaint that will be filed in the Circuit Court of Cook Country.
Why did the Deep State throw caution to the winds in an desperate effort to frame Donald Trump for alleged collusion with Russia--and failing that, to entrap him in an obstruction of justice case? There are a lot reasons for the Establishment to hate Donald Trump, but one of them stands out. During the campaign, Donald Trump denounced the Obama administration for having created ISIS. That claim drew ridicule from the mainstream media, but it is entirely correct. Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, Trump´s campaign adviser, was head of Defense Intelligence Agency in 2012 when the DIA blew the whistle
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 280 employees at a technology repair company in Collin County, Texas, on charges of working in the United States illegally. It´s the largest work site raid in the country in more than a decade, ICE´s Homeland Security Investigations division received tips that the company — CVE Technology Group — may have knowingly hired undocumented immigrants and that several workers were using fraudulent identification documents, said Katrina Berger, special agent in charge in HSI´s Dallas office. Hiring irregularities found during an audit of the company´s I-9 forms confirmed those tips.
Pink, as the bing on your cherry. Pink, cause you are so very. Pink it’s the color of passion the Land Rover model the British Army’s Special Air Service (SAS) used to use to fight in the desert in the late ’60s. (Snip) Since SAS forces had determined pink paint was highly effective desert camouflage, especially at dawn and dusk, Marshalls of Cambridge got rid of the standard bronze green paint scheme the Series 2A models were originally decked out in and replaced it with pink.
President Trump announced Thursday that he was nominating former Godfather´s Pizza president Herman Cain to an open seat on the Federal Reserve. "I´ve recommended Herman Cain ... I told my folks that that´s the man," Trump told reporters at the White House. Trump´s pick of Cain to fill a spot on the seven-person Board of Governors follows the controversial choice last week of Heritage Foundation economist Stephen Moore to fill a different open seat. Cain, a prominent African-American businessman, first gained political attention in 1994 when he debated President Bill Clinton over healthcare at a town meeting
A person who claimed on Wednesday that he was Timmothy Pitzen — a 6-year-old boy from Illinois who went missing in 2011 — is not Pitzen, the FBI revealed on Thursday. The male told investigators that he had just escaped the grasp of two male kidnappers who had held him hostage for seven years. Officials ordered DNA testing to determine if the boy was who he claimed to be. The results of the DNA testing "have been returned indicating the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen," the FBI´s Louisville field office tweeted. "A local investigation continues into this person´s true identity. To
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign manager, John Podesta, played a central role in another potential Russian collusion scandal that has not yet been investigated. Podesta, the former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, served on the board of Joule Unlimited, a now defunct alternative energy company, from January 2011 to January 2014. He resigned from the company’s board to accept the powerful job of Counselor to President Barack Obama. During Podesta’s tenure on the board of Joule Unlimited, a significant investment in the company by a firm owned by the Russian government escaped review and scrutiny by the Committee on
The disgraceful team of partisan investigators hired by Dirty Cop Robert Mueller just disgraced themselves further through a series of unforgivable leaks to the fake news media. Obviously angry over the fact President Trump is so innocent they could not even come up with a way to frame him, “Some of Mueller’s investigators,” the far-left New York Times reports, “have told associates that Attorney General William P. Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling for President Trump than Mr. Barr indicated.” Told associates *wink-wink* — Oops, I had no idea *wink-wink*
Few Texas brands elicit as much fanatical loyalty as the blazing orange-and-white Whataburger logo, so when there’s an opportunity to score some rare company swag, Texans tend to go a little nuts. Such was the case over the weekend on Houston’s Reddit page, which was home to not one but two popular posts about the pop-up Whataburger swag boutique at the WhataGames corporate shindig, held at the Bayou City’s George R. Brown Convention Center. Every two years, the WhataGames event pits the restaurant’s locations against one another in speed, accuracy, and efficiency.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has revealed she still sleeps on a mattress on the floor of her unfurnished Washington apartment - despite being elected to Congress six months ago. The Democratic Rep. sipped on a glass of white wine and assembled IKEA furniture as she made the comments during an hour-long Instagram Live video broadcast to her 3million followers. In the opening minutes of the clip, she joked: ´My apartment is like unfurnished. I´ve been living like a completely depraved lifestyle. (Video/Photos) She added: ´I´ve been sleeping on a mattress on the floor,´ and revealed the mattress was still in its plastic
Meghan may have been adorned with the Queen Mary Diamond Bandeau tiara on her wedding day, but it seems the door to the monarch´s treasure chest of priceless jewels has now been slammed shut. Prince Harry is reportedly deeply offended by his 92-year-old grandmother´s decision to ´ban´ the Duchess of Cambridge from borrowing any of the monarch´s precious private jewellery. The ´move´, said to be a response by the Queen to her granddaughter-in-law´s ´demanding behaviour´ since becoming a fully signed-up member of the firm, may smart all the more because so many other royal leading
They Had It Coming
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Sweet Christ, vindication! How long has it been? Years? No, decades. If hope is the thing with feathers, I was a plucked bird. Long ago, I surrendered myself to the fact that the horrible, horrible private-school parents of Los Angeles would get away with their nastiness forever. But even before the molting, never in my wildest imaginings had I dared to dream that the arc of the moral universe could describe a 90-degree angle and smite down mine enemies with such a hammer fist of fire and fury
Over the last two years, Amazon has amassed a real-estate portfolio in Bellevue in excess of 1 million square feet, room enough for several thousand employees. On Wednesday, Seattle employees in the company’s enormous operations organization — responsible for the delivery of orders to customers — learned that their jobs would be moved over the next four years to the city across Lake Washington. “Our vision is to create an urban campus in downtown Bellevue where employees will all be within walking distance of each other and have easy access to public transit,”
A 14-year-old boy found wandering the streets in Newport, Kentucky has told police that he´s Timmothy Pitzen, an Aurora, Illinois, boy who disappeared without a trace in 2011 following his mother´s suicide. According to a police report filed on Wednesday, the boy told officers that he´d managed to flee ´from two kidnappers that have been holding him for 7 years´. The teen said that his abductors had most recently been keeping him in a Red Roof Inn, thought to be in Cincinnati, Ohio. When he saw his chance to escape, he took it and fled,
SAN FRANCISCO - Jen and Sarah Hart and three of their adopted children died of broken necks after their SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff, a forensic pathologist testified during a coroner´s inquest Wednesday to help authorities classify the deaths. A jury in Willits will decide whether the March 2018 deaths of the two women and their six children were accidental or a murder-suicide. The crash happened just days after authorities in Washington state opened an investigation following allegations the children, ages 12 to 19, were being neglected.
In the early stages of her current Speakership, Nancy Pelosi was celebrated in the media for exerting tight control over her new House majority. That discipline has since slipped considerably, with many rank-and-file members siding with Republicans on motions to recommit (will any Democrats sign onto a GOP-led discharge petition to force an anti-infanticide vote?), followed by a disgraceful and shambolic attempt to condemn anti-Semitism within their ranks. With hardcore progressives now going to war with the DCCC over its incumbent protection policies, and Pelosi tossing cold water on radical proposals like the Green New Deal and single-payer healthcare, it
Venezuela´s health system is in "utter collapse," according to a report, including the exponential spread of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles and diphtheria and "dramatic surges" in infectious diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis.The report, to be released Thursday by Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is among the few that has sought to quantify Venezuela´s misery, as the country has ceased releasing health and nutrition data and retaliated against those who did.
Jeff Bezos divorce finalized: Tech exec will keep 75 percent of Amazon stock, control of WaPo
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will keep 75 percent of the Amazon stock he and his now ex-wife MacKenzie own, as part of the settlement agreement she disclosed on Thursday. MacKenzie, who is a budding author in her own right, also said that the divorce is now finalized and her ex-husband Jeff will get her interests in the Washington Post and the space exploration company he founded, Blue Origin. "Grateful to have finished the process of dissolving my marriage with Jeff with support from each other and everyone who reached out to us in kindness, and looking forward to next phase
The Department of Justice released a statement Thursday morning slamming new reporting from the New York Times and Washington Post. Both newspapers accuse Attorney General William Barr of mishandling the release of material in Robert Mueller´s Special Counsel report, in addition to mischaracterizing the findings of the report in the four page summary released two weeks. ago.
Authorities are awaiting the results of a DNA test to determine whether a boy found in Kentucky really is Timmothy Pitzen, the child from Aurora who went missing nearly eight years ago. Aurora police headed to the Cincinnati area Wednesday to assist the FBI with a possible break in the case. Pitzen went missing in 2011 when he was 6 years old. Wednesday morning, a 14-year-old boy told authorities that he was Timmothy and that he "had just escaped from two kidnappers that have been holding him for 7 years," according to Cincinnati area police authorities.
CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert mocked possible Democratic 2020 hopeful Stacey Abrams to her face Wednesday for her past erotic writings under a pseudonym. “Now, you’re also a retired romance novelist,” Stephen Colbert said. “I am,” Stacey Abrams said, adding that she is on a “prolonged hiatus.” (Snip) Colbert mocked Abrams by reading an excerpt from one book, noting that there are portions of the book he cannot actually read on air. “Softly, inexorable, he tested the contours of her lips, the damp heat urging him inside. Reaching for patience, Luke sank down into the chair
The incurable condition known as megalomania is running rampant through Congress, where chef megalomaniac Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) seems to be running the whole Democrat show. AOC reminds Trump in tweet about tax return request: ‘We didn’t ask you’. In her Wednesday tweet AOC suggested that House Democrats won’t be taking ‘No’ for an answer in seeking access to President Trump’s tax returns. Of course not. Democrats never ask, they only DEMAND.on between Congress and the president
New details are out this morning about the specific issues that suburban police chiefs are going to raise today as they express “no confidence” in the performance of Kim Foxx as Cook County State’s Attorney. (Snip) the North Suburban Association of Chiefs of Police had sent Foxx a “no-confidence” letter and the group would be participating in a press conference with the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police to announce their concerns this afternoon. Groups representing the south and west suburban police chiefs have also drawn up similar letters and will attend the press conference, according to reports.
Plan for homeless center in Pelosi´s district leads to raucous public meeting; SF mayor jeered
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed was heckled and jeered during a raucous community meeting Wednesday to discuss a controversial homeless center proposal along the city’s waterfront that has attracted dueling online fundraisers from critics and supporters. “Homelessness is the number one problem that we face in our city. You cannot be upset about homelessness and then when I propose a real solution, then you’re upset about it,” Breed said while trying to discuss plans to build a 200-bed Homeless Navigation Center in the city’s Embarcadero section. The area is part of California’s 12th Congressional District, represented by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Earlier this week the press was having a field day with some of President Trump’s complaints about noise from wind turbines. The fact checkers were busily tracking down expert opinions to ruffle the President’s feathers over it. And while the idea that wind turbine noise causes cancer is certainly dubious at best, that doesn’t mean that the thumping of the turbines isn’t causing problems. Here’s one case in point from last winter that might shed some light on the question. Out in Iowa, three massive wind turbines were torn down after a judge ordered them to be removed. The plaintiffs
Baton Rouge, La.—The Louisiana Attorney General´s office has announced the arrest of an undocumented immigrant accused of more than 100 counts involving sex crimes. AG Jeff Landry (R) says 44-year-old Miguel Martinez was arrested on 100 counts of possession of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13 years old, one count of production under the age of 13, and one count of sexual battery of a juvenile under the age of 13. Landry says Martinez was living in Harvey, Louisiana illegally. Landry says that Martinez was previously deported in 2005 and is a registered sex offender in California.
Some of President Trump’s staunchest allies on Capitol Hill have told him in no uncertain terms that they won’t back his threat to “close” the U.S.-Mexico border, describing the move as economic suicide. In particular, both of Texas’s GOP senators have told him not to do it. Sen. Ted Cruz said he sympathizes with Mr. Trump’s frustration at the soaring number of illegal immigrants who’ve figured out how to game the U.S. immigration system, with children and families surging into the country in record numbers.(Snip)Closing legal points of entry would harm American commerce and legal transit between Mexico
Chicago Mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot wants federal prosecutors to re-examine the so-called “code of silence” trial. In a bench trial, a judge acquitted the three Chicago police officers accused of covering up Jason Van Dyke’s shooting of Laquan McDonald. In an interview with NPR, Lightfoot says she is urging the U.S. Attorney’s Office to reopen their grand jury investigation to see if any civil rights were violated.(Snip)The Fraternal Order of Police says it’s disappointed with that request since a judge found the defendants not guilty.
Alyssa Milano, Theologian Extraordinaire, Quotes Bible to Justify Abortion. Fails Miserably.
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My first memories of Alyssa Milano are from Who´s the Boss, the TV sitcom she starred in during the 1980s. Like most boys with a heartbeat in the 1980s, I had a huge crush on her. Now, though, whenever I see a notification online involving the actress, I cringe. Without my consent, I was emailed a tweet from Milano making some odd point that she believes in God and loves God and then she pitted theology against science. After ripping John 3:12 completely out of context, she decided that it was a good idea to hit the "tweet" button. I
Algeria´s longtime socialist strongman, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, got thrown out of power this week, following 20 years of what even he admits was failed rule. He got thrown out the way they all pretty much do, given the predictable-as-sunrise failure of socialism. He was hardly the worst of them, he just seems to have gotten too old to stay a strongman. Fine and dandy. What´s cool, though, is that Bouteflika´s exit creates some problems - big problems - for the Castro dictatorship over in Cuba. Bouteflika was one of their longtime candymen, sending funds to prop up
What was President Trump up to when he publicly attacked the work of Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller? What was going on behind the scenes between the White House and Mueller´s office? Was there cooperation? A fight over privilege? And just how mad was Trump at Attorney General Jeff Sessions and deputy Rod Rosenstein when the special counsel was appointed? Veteran attorney John Dowd was President Trump´s lawyer for a critical period of the Trump-Russia investigation, from June 2017 until March 2018. In a new podcast, Dowd offered an unusually frank inside look at what was going on between the
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D- N.Y., tweeted Wednesday that President Trump must comply with a House committee´s request for the release of his tax returns. The New York lawmaker suggested Congress would not be taking "no" for an answer. "Congress: ´We’re going to need a copy of the President’s tax returns from 2013-2018,´" she said in her tweet. "45: ´No, I’m ‘under audit.´" "Congress: ´We didn’t ask you,´" her tweet concluded, along with the receipt and nail polish emojis.
A 46-year-old Syrian man has been detained for attempting to enter the United States from Mexico illegally by hiding in a train, border protection agents say. Customs and Border Protection officials report agents apprehended the man last weekend, after a train from Mexico passed through an imaging system at the downtown Calexico port screening center in southern California. "CPB officers noticed an anomaly on the lower side of the commercial railcar," leading to the compartment on the outside of the train where the man was hiding.
What part of “Congress shall make no law” does House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings not understand? The Maryland Democrat, suddenly handed the investigative and subpoena powers of the House, must think there isn’t enough executive branch misconduct to investigate. That would explain why, when finally given the power to hold the Trump administration accountable, he is instead recklessly undermining the First Amendment´s freedom of the press by questioning whether news organizations went and made editorial decisions he doesn’t like. Yes, it is every bit as dumb as it sounds.
The U.S. government has adopted a DNA testing system that would allow border officials to assess within two hours whether immigrants claiming to be in the same family are telling the truth. Last June, the FBI approved the use of ANDE, an automated system which was developed with the military and can be operated by a nonscientist to process cheek swabs and other DNA. In October, it was used on human remains found after wildfires swept through Northern California. It is now under consideration by the Department of Homeland Security and could be used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Sen. Ted Cruz is opening an investigation into Yale Law School for what he claims is discrimination against students with "traditional Christian views" and threatened legal action if they do not cooperate.The Texas Republican sent a letter, dated Thursday, to Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken notifying her that he will investigate a new law school policy which Cruz said stems from “unconstitutional animus and a specific discriminatory intent both to blacklist Christian organizations and to punish Yale students whose values or religious faith lead them to work there.” Cruz believes that Yale´s policy change could deny financial assistance to
Rupert Murdoch was lying on the floor of his cabin, unable to move. It was January 2018, and Murdoch and his fourth wife, Jerry Hall, were spending the holidays cruising the Caribbean on his elder son Lachlan’s yacht. Lachlan had personally overseen the design of the 140-foot sloop — named Sarissa after a long and especially dangerous spear used by the armies of ancient Macedonia — ensuring that it would be suitable for family vacations while also remaining competitive in superyacht regattas. The cockpit could be transformed into a swimming pool.
Each year, state lawmakers across the U.S. introduce thousands of bills dreamed up and written by corporations, industry groups and think tanks. Disguised as the work of lawmakers, these so-called “model” bills get copied in one state Capitol after another, quietly advancing the agenda of the people who write them. A two-year investigation by USA TODAY, The Arizona Republic? and the Center for Public Integrity reveals for the first time the extent to which special interests have infiltrated state legislatures using model legislation. USA TODAY and the Republic found at least 10,000 bills almost entirely copied from model legislation were introduced nationwide in
In the politically charged environment powered by the Trump White House, Fox News Channel’s role in public discourse is more polarizing than ever. Even an error in an on-screen graphic can spark critics to charge the network with misinforming, propagandizing or serving as state TV. But after 23 years at the network, Fox News Chief Executive Suzanne Scott has learned how to shut out the noise surrounding her — no easy feat when the channel’s No. 1 fan, President Trump, is watching for policy advice and emotional sustenance. “Of course people are going to pay attention to what we’re doing,”
Former CBS News journalist Lara Logan has taken aim at two CNN primetime hosts. Logan, a former “60 Minutes” reporter, criticized Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo for not clearly stating whether they are journalists or “opinion hosts.” “My concern as a journalist is trying to figure out what the facts are and trying to figure out what people are actually representing and what they’re trying to do in the election,” Logan said during “Hannity” on Wednesday night. “As journalists, it seems to me, our job is to do that. That is our duty. But what I really want to know, Don Lemon, Chris
Special counsel Robert Mueller had become something of a messiah figure to the Trump haters. Like a god, he was remote, white-haired and reputed to work miracles. But Mueller ultimately disappointed his worshipers, establishing none of the Russian collusion they had been banking on to bolster their efforts to overturn the 2016 election. The Russian collusion story had been an article of faith for the Resistance and the press. But why were so many people so deeply convinced of something that was not true? Who was behind not only concocting this fantastic tale but also embedding it in the
Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) used his opening statement at an Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2020 budget request to warn about the existence of “a new kind of refugee - climate refugees” - a byproduct of climate change. “First and foremost, this administration has abandoned all efforts to fight climate change, and you’ve personally doubled down on that by denying climate change is even a major crisis. Administrator Wheeler, climate change is a major and very real crisis,” said Udall, ranking member of the Subcommittee on Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies.
The Marines’ top general allowed internal memos to leak out of the Pentagon to bring attention to service families living among hurricane-ravaged military installations as the Trump administration tries to bankroll the southwest border with defense funds at the expense of combat readiness. General Robert Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, let two internal Defense Department memorandums leak to The Los Angeles Times and NBC News in the past two weeks, two Pentagon sources, who asked not to be named due to U.S. military media regulations, told Newsweek. The letters underscore the fiscal challenges
Interesting indeed! Here is the left-leaning USA Today finally calling for an accounting of Obama-era officials, (including Mr. Obama himself) and the roles they played in what became the 2+ year-long, multi-million dollar waste of time known as the Mueller investigation that saw the U.S. intelligence agencies politically weaponized to alter the Election Day outcome. Treason, sedition, intimidation, corruption, you name it they seemingly did it all…(Snip) Yet Obama officials also treated Trump campaign staffers as targets themselves. They used cooperative foreign intelligence services to chat them up overseas, both to put a layer
Then again if he did nothing wrong why would he fear an investigation into the investigators? It’s far more likely James Comey was integral to the Trump-Russia hoax that was in fact an attempted coup against a sitting president of the United States. He should be concerned! Via Politico: Former FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s calls for a possible investigation into how special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia inquiry started, adding that it creates a troubling precedent. (Snip) “I don’t fear it personally. I fear it as a citizen,” he said. “Right? Investigate what?
Breitbart News reported, "Students at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, demanded on Friday that the school remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson, arguing that it is not possible for the university to have the statue on campus while also being an institution that ´prides itself on diversity and inclusion.´ Students also called on the university to train its faculty and professors to behave in a more politically correct manner." If you believe in diversity and inclusion, you do not ban people. These punks are the foot soldiers for oppressors. Their call to strip President Jefferson
At 37, she is a refugee struggling to survive in a foreign country she hates. She told Vogue Arabia, "It’s an everyday assault. Every day, a part of your identity is threatened, demonized, and vilified." Oh that poor woman. We should rescue her. She also said, "[The nation´s leader] is tapping into an ugly part of our society and freeing its ugliness." That poor woman. We should liberate her from that country she is forced to live in.She also said, "It’s been a challenge to try to figure out how to continue the inclusion;
President Trump’s MAGAnomic policies are tailored to raise the income levels of all Americans; however, to the anxiety of his political opposition, the focus for greatest economic benefit is the middle-class, blue-collar and white-collar workers. In essence, the demographic hardest hit by 30 years of bad policy is the demographic receiving the largest gains from a return to Main Street, ‘America-First’ policy.It is not really a complex dynamic to understand. Abandon the flawed multinational policy that led to outsourcing and overseas investment, and what you get is domestic growth and investment in the United States.
Team Mueller and the Predictable “Leak Campaign” – But The Much Bigger Issue is the 40 FBI Agents…
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Predictably the leftist and highly partisan Mueller Team, in close coordination with Lawfare and their media allies, start trying to shape a narrative. Seriously, I’m not going to waste time on their New York Times article except to say the motive for this effort is self-admitted…. In their own words: […] At stake in the dispute — the first evidence of tension between Mr. Barr and the special counsel’s office — is who shapes the public’s initial understanding of one of the most consequential government investigations in American history.
Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler is huffing and puffing away about his committee´s subpoena-in-waiting lest Attorney General William Barr not be sufficiently forthcoming about the details of the Mueller Report. (Snip) Methinks the chairman doth protest too much. In other words, it´s all a charade for the faithful. He doesn´t really want to do anything. Likely Nadler is secretly praying Barr redacts the whole damn thing or ties things up in the courts for long enough for the investigation to disappear at least somewhat down the memory hole. The full text of the Mueller report is a booby-trap for
Finally! Mitch McConnell shuts down Democrats’ obstruction of confirmation of Trump appointees
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Because of unprecedented abuse of Senate rules, two-and-a-half years into his presidency, President Trump has not been able to put all of his own qualified, confirmable appointees into senior-level positions. This obstructionism has allowed Obama administration holdovers to obstruct and sabotage implementation of his policies (and to leak to the media). Senate Democrats have cynically exploited the Senate rules allowing 30 hours of debate of each appointee to slow down the staffing of his administration. Finally, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell yesterday pushed through a majority-vote measure that changes those rules, limiting debate to two hours per appointment.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un visited a northern county known to be the birthplace of his late father, state media reported Thursday, amid speculation that he could soon announce his next steps after the breakdown of his February summit with U.S. President Donald Trump. Kim inspected Samjiyon County of Ryanggang Province bordering China, according to the Korean Central News Agency. North Korea claims that Samjiyon, near Mount Paekdu, the sacred highest peak on the Korean Peninsula, is the birthplace of Kim Jong-il. Kim has visited Samjiyon ahead of major announcements or decisions. A visit in November 2013
Venezuela Now!
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My late father had the privilege of living in a socialist paradise, Stalin’s Soviet Union. He had many stories of the wonders he saw. Unfortunately I was young and stupid and did not record all of them. He could go on for literally hours, and I thought I would have a father forever. I remember only four, which I will relate. For while Liberals refuse to acknowledge an objective past, Conservatives carefully learn its lessons.
Marine Chain looked like any other ambitious startup. Its website, which first appeared online in April 2018, had a trendy .io domain name and promised potential investors a way into the lucrative international shipping industry. (Snip) North Korea’s response has been to hack and scam its way out of trouble. The country´s state-funded hackers have been linked to a number of cyberattacks on cryptocurrency exchanges as well as traditional banks, stealing more than a billion dollars in the process. A recent report by the United Nations Security Council criticised North Korea for dodging sanctions. The UN said Marine Chain´s Foong
In the past few decades, the racial wealth gap doubled. African-Americans are incarcerated at more than 5 times the rate of whites. They die at a higher rate than white Americans. And their homeownership has reached record lows. These disparities can be traced back to centuries of slavery and subsequent generations of oppression under Jim Crow. And reparations, repairing the harm done by slavery, have been sporadically pitched for years as a way to acknowledge, apologize and compensate descendants of slaves for past and continuing harms. “Compensation can be anything that helps people of African descent in this country build
The pilots of the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max that crashed last month killing 157 people followed Boeing’s emergency instructions but were still unable to stop the plane’s nose repeatedly pointing down, investigators said. The Ethiopian government said data from the plane’s recorders showed “repetitive uncommanded aircraft nose-down conditions” and said Boeing should review its aircraft control system. The country’s transport minister, Dagmawit Moges, did not cite the aircraft’s controversial anti-stall system, but said: “The crew performed all the procedures repeatedly provided by the manufacturer but was not able to
Pope Francis walked back an earlier statement Wednesday on God “willing” a plurality of religions, saying that in reality God only permits the existence of many religions. (Snip) “The only religions that God positively willed are Judaism and Christianity for he himself founded these religions through his own positive divine actions and revelation,” Weinandy said. According to many scholars, Islam, for example, was born as a Christian heresy — a perversion of Christianity — and it would be odd if God directly willed for heresy to be proclaimed. In a series of unscripted remarks Wednesday, the pope attempted to clarify
National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd says the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is considering a plan to allow U.S. Border Patrol agents to administer “credible fear” interviews to border crossers that would “exponentially” drive down soaring illegal immigration levels. During an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Tonight, Judd said illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border could be quickly cut and the policy of Catch and Release could be ended if DHS authorized Border Patrol agents to conduct immediate interviews with illegal border crossers claiming asylum. As Breitbart News has reported, less than ten percent of the
Social media executives risk jail for failing to take down violent extremist content quickly, under controversial laws passed in Australia on Thursday — a “world first” in the wake of the Christchurch mosques massacre. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of the laws, which hold firms like Facebook and YouTube — and their executives — responsible for removing “abhorrent material” quickly. The companies face fines approaching billions of dollars — or 10% of global annual turnover — for failing to enact the “expeditious removal” of footage of terrorism, murder and other serious crimes, while executives could face up to
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, recalled how Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s second son, received millions of dollars from Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings while his father directed $1.8 billion in aid money to Ukraine as vice president during the Obama administration. Schweizer joined Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. Schweizer said, “I think a deeper problem that [Joe Biden] faces is — as has been reported on Breitbart and reported at the Hill, today — which I think is far deeper is the
Things Get Awkward When Tucker Asks Mexican Official Why Mexico Won’t Let Central Americans Stay
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Things got awkward fast when Tucker Carlson asked a Mexican official why Central Americans migrating through Mexico shouldn’t be allowed to remain there. Speaking with Guanajuato Secretary of Migration Juan Hernandez on Wednesday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” the Fox News host began by asking why Hernandez’s own words from the past wouldn’t constitute a “hostile act” against the United States. WATCH: (Video) “I want to read three quotes from a Mexican government official, and these are direct quotes,” Carlson said. “‘We are betting Mexican-Americans will think ‘Mexico first,’ even unto the seventh generation. Mexican immigrants to the United States
It is uproariously entertaining to see the scurryings of the innumerable host of Democratic presidential candidates in what is already more of a lottery than a quest for the nomination of a great party to the world’s greatest office. The Gadarene stampede to (and over) the edge of the abyss of all who advocate open borders, 70 percent income taxes, the green terror, socialized medicine, legalized infanticide, reparations to native and African-Americans, packing the Supreme Court, and vacation of the Electoral College, has finally elicited, in a Churchillian expression, a tiny mouse of dissent.
After overreaching on the Trump-Russia collusion attempted coup, rather than admitting they were wrong, humbling apologizing and moving on, Democrats (and I include the media here) are doubling down. They are hellbent on seeing the entire Mueller report, with the House Judiciary Committee voting on party lines to authorize a subpoena of the report without redactions sooner than AG Barr’s promised mid-April release. In their minds, the 400-page report contains all manner of evidence of collusion and obstruction, despite the summary written by Barr and Rosenstein that says otherwise. Note that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein was easily confirmed by the
The abortion industry has had a rough couple of weeks. In addition to the commercial success of the pro-life film, Unplanned, the Georgia legislature just joined the growing number of states to pass bills prohibiting abortions after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. Predictably, the film and the legislation have been denounced by baby part purveyor Planned Parenthood, its bought-and-paid-for stooges in Washington, and the legacy media as another offensive in the “war on women.” The irony of that charge is that legendary feminists like Susan B. Anthony and other genuine fighters for women’s rights were ardent opponents of abortion.
The transformation of the GOP into the party of Patrick J. Buchanan and Donald J. Trump—defined by cultural resentments, crude populism, and ethnic nationalism—is among the most important political stories of this century. But the GOP is hardly the only party that is undergoing some alarming tectonic shifts. Liberals wondering why conservatives who worry about Trump don’t join the Democrats should consider what is happening on their own side of the aisle. If you want to understand just how radicalized the Democratic Party has become in recent years, look at the ascent of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
In progressive America, an official elected in a predominantly Jewish district in the country’s largest city can be punished for asserting an indisputable historical fact if it happens to offend the sensibilities of hard-left activists. In this case, Kalman Yeger, a councilman from Brooklyn, in a back-and-forth about Rep. Ilhan Omar, tweeted that, “Palestine does not exist. There, I said it again. Also, Congresswoman Omar is an antisemite. Said that too.” Mayor Bill de Blasio quickly issued an ultimatum to Yeger demanding he apologize, or else. After he refused, NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson booted Yeger
The best defense, the saying goes, is a good offense. The key orchestrators of the Big Trump-Russia Collusion Lie seem to have hewed tightly to that tactical advice. Over the past two years, one of their biggest “tells” has been their hyper-aggressive and gratuitous attacks on the president. Given that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation found no collusion or obstruction of justice, their constant broadsides now look, in retrospect, like calculated pre-emptive strikes to deflect attention and culpability away from themselves. By accusing Mr. Trump of what they themselves were guilty of, they created a masterful distraction through projection.
Complaints from media critics of the Trump administration prompted a leading hostage rights group to withdraw its historic “Freedom Award” to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his, and President Trump’s, successful efforts to free political prisoners around the world. The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, named for the journalist beheaded in 2014 by ISIS forces, had announced that at its dinner Tuesday night at the National Press Club Pompeo would receive the “2019 Foley American Hostage Freedom Award.” The award was to recognize Pompeo and the administration’s focus on freeing Americans held prisoners around the world,
California May Be Coming for You
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Sacramento- Those of us who live in California are used to the state’s aggressive tax-collection policies. Despite record-setting budgets, the state never has enough revenue to fund all the programs it wants to create or expand so the tax authorities have to shake every last dime out of residents’ pockets. But now, thanks to confusion over how to collect online sales taxes, California’s tax-collection agency may be coming for you — even if you sell a few items from your kitchen table in Kansas.
How is Al Sharpton — the Jussie Smollett of civil rights — still a kingmaker? This week, nearly every single Democratic candidate for president — save the otherwise-distracted Joe Biden — has or will appear at Sharpton’s annual convention for his National Action Network, which he calls a charity. A more rational observer might call it a personal piggybank funded by shakedowns. This is a man who, as The Post exclusively reported in December, sold the rights to his life story to his own “nonprofit,” paying himself $531,000 — on top of his $244,661 salary to run NAN in 2017.
Biden’s Problem Is His Ego
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Joe Biden wants us to believe that all his touching speaks to how deeply he cares about other people. It’s really a testament to how much regard he has for himself. As everyone has always known, Biden is prone to weird and wildly over-familiar interactions with women, which are extensively on the record and have been the subject of jocular commentary over the years.The #MeToo era has put his grabby style in a different light, and now he’s had to tweet out a video saying he gets it. Biden’s conduct is obviously different
Senate Republicans used the “nuclear option” Wednesday to unilaterally reduce debate time on most presidential nominees, the latest in a series of changes to the fabric of the Senate to dilute the power of the minority. The move by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) immediately paves the way to expedite confirmations of President Donald Trump’s judicial and executive branch picks and comes amid deep GOP frustration with Democrats’ delays. Future presidents will benefit, too, though McConnell and Trump stand to gain inordinately as they seek to fill 130 District Court vacancies during the 18 months before the 2020 elections.
An American woman was kidnapped on Tuesday evening while visiting Uganda´s most popular national park, authorities said. Four unidentified gunmen allegedly ambushed a group of tourists who were on an evening game drive with a guide in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in southwest Uganda around 6 p.m. local time Tuesday. They held the group at gunpoint before fleeing with their guide and 35-year-old American tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott, according to the Uganda Police Force. A Canadian couple was left behind without a key to the vehicle. They contacted the camp manager who brought them to safety, officials said.
Two drivers in California were willing to waste a good chunk of their day duking it out for a parking spot — and it was all caught on video and uploaded as part of a viral Twitter thread. The encounter took place in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles on Monday, according to Mariah Flores, under handle @Mrhflrs, who documented the hilarious battle. Dubbed the "black car" and the "silver car," drivers in each vehicle appeared to spend close to two hours — from 6:20 p.m., seemingly until past 8 p.m. —
President Trump responded with a dismissive taunt on Wednesday after a House committee chairman formally requested the IRS provide several years of his personal and business tax returns, in a move that prompted congressional Republicans to warn that Democrats had "weaponized" tax law. Told by a reporter at the White House that Democrats wanted six years of his tax returns, Trump replied: "Is that all? Usually it´s 10. So I guess they´re giving up. We´re under audit, despite what people said, and we´re working that out -- I´m always under audit, it seems, but I´ve been under audit for many
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio’s coveted 18 electoral votes would be delivered to the presidential candidate who wins the national popular vote under a proposal making its way toward the state’s fall ballot. The proposed constitutional amendment , whose summary language was certified Monday, would force state lawmakers to assure the powerful Electoral College’s votes are delivered to whichever candidate wins the most votes nationally, rather than the most votes within Ohio. (Snip) A national movement has burgeoned in the wake of those elections to defy the Electoral College system and instead honor the popular vote in presidential elections.
Fox Business Network reporter Charles Gasparino said Wednesday that former Vice President and potential 2020 candidate Joe Biden is “seething” behind the scenes at Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), whose campaign he believes is behind media scrutiny of him getting too close for comfort with myriad women. (Video) A partial transcript is as follows: CHARLES PAYNE: It’s not just Joe Biden’s video on Twitter that makes it look like he’s running. Joe Biden’s associates are also telling Wall Street donors he’s running. […] CHARLES GASPARINO: You know, Charles, I’m going to prefaces this by saying as of yesterday, the reason why
Alan Dershowitz slammed efforts by Democrats to push for the release of Robert Mueller’s full report as a political game. The Harvard Law professor emeritus dismissed the push by Democrats to subpoena the Justice Department for an unredacted report as “all about politics,” during an interview on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” “No court should and would issue a subpoena for the unredacted report, when the rules of the Justice Department provide for the Justice Department, through the attorney general, to make that decision,” Dershowitz said Wednesday. “This is all about politics.” “They, the Democrats, want to make sure that the