Posts on Monday, April 8, 2019
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop its new policy of sending asylum-seekers who jumped the border back to Mexico to wait while their cases proceed, ruling Monday that the plan was likely illegal. Known informally as the “wait-in-Mexico policy,” and officially as the Migrant Protection Protocols, the plan was a major part of the administration’s moves to try to stem the flow of immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally. Judge Richard Seeborg, an Obama appointee to the bench, said not only does the policy violate immigration law, but Mexico is so dangerous that making asylum-seekers
Joe Biden Needs A Hug
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It’s pretty obvious to everyone who isn’t Joe Biden that Joe Biden’s quest for the White House is a dead campaign fondling. As a practical, tactical matter, that’s good for us conservatives. For all his goofiness, gaffeiness, and gropiness, Crazy Uncle Joe had a way of hiding his unabashed and unrestrained liberalism behind this easy-going, sure-let’s-crack-open-a-couple-of- Budweisers façade. For reasons that many of us find utterly inexplicable, he seems to connect with normal Americans in a way most of his smug and smarmy comrades don’t.
Well, this is true. CNN actually had a decent segment (sort of) about the 2020 Democratic field and their unpreparedness for the onslaught that is about to be unleashed against them by Donald Trump and the Republicans. So far, there is not one candidate who poses a serious threat. Yes, Joe Biden, but he’s navigating through some Me Too drama, which he made worse by making jokes about it at a union conference last week. The former vice president is being accused of inappropriate touching, one of which included smelling an accuser’s hair, which is super, super creepy.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) in a speech to Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network on Friday proposed giving families making less than $100,000 a year a $6,000 tax credit which they can draw from each month. “I have proposed what economists have described as what would be the largest tax cut in a generation for working families who make less than $100,000 a year,” she said. “What I have proposed would be for families that make less than $100,00 a year, they will receive a tax credit of up to $6,000 that they can collect at up to $500 a
During an interview with Third Hour Today show co-host Sheinelle Jones aired on Monday, PBS anchor Christiane Amanpour denounced criticism of the media as being “corrosive and destructive” to democracy. The comments came just days after the reporter vilely attempted to link Fox News to the recent terrorist attacks in New Zealand. Talking to Amanpour at Variety’s Power of Women gala on Friday, Jones gushed: “Following years of reporting from the front lines and in the newsroom, it’s no surprise that Christiane Amanpour believes in the Committee to Protect Journalists.” Amanpour, who was being honored at the event, declared: “We
Last month, after Forbes named Kylie Jenner the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, we unintentionally set off a heated debate on social media about the meaning of the word “self-made.” The idea that a 21-year-old who grew up on a reality TV show (Keeping Up With the Kardashians), whose sister is Kim Kardashian, and whose rich and famous parents are Kris and Caitlyn Jenner could be considered self-made, sparked a very public backlash. The debate was renewed once again on March 31 after the New York Times published a story in which Kylie admitted to having some help building her business.
During a bond hearing today prosecutors say the FBI is still investigating whether a 32-year-old Yujing Zhang, the Chinese woman accused of lying to illegally enter President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, is a spy. After a search warrant, additional spy tech was found in her hotel room including: $7,500 in one hundred dollar bills; a signal detector device to find hidden cameras; nine USB drives, five SIM cards and an additional cell phone. Sketchy… all of it. (Snip) she told a front-desk clerk she was there for a nonexistent Chinese American event.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Doug Collins writes a letter to Chairman Jerry Nadler smartly using transparency to call his bluff. First the letter: (image - letter) Indeed, the way to diffuse the politicization and weaponization of innuendo within the Mueller report is to specifically get Robert Mueller in front of the committee and ask him questions directly. This is exactly the correct approach to preempt a summer of nonsense. If Mueller is in front of the committee first, all of the downstream manipulations by those who are part of the Mueller assignment become worthless.
Let´s start with the requisite caveats that Democratic presidential primary is a marathon, not a sprint -- and that the field is still taking shape. We are also more than two months away from the first debates of the cycle (one set is scheduled for late June, then another in late July), and roughly ten full months away from the Iowa caucuses. Making any definitive declarations about how things will look by early next year is a fool´s errand. But it may not be too foolish or crazy to start asking the following question: Will Elizabeth Warren
Meghan McCain shocked her co-host Joy Behar into silence on “The View” Monday during a spat over illegal immigration and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s resignation from the Trump administration. McCain chided President Donald Trump for seemingly taking immigration policy advice from cable news personalities rather than his cabinet officials but conceded that the border is in a crisis. “This is a hard line issue for people who live in border states,” McCain said. “Many friends of mine — this is the number one and only issue.” WATCH: (Video) Behar replied that the United States should be sending significantly
MSNBC reporters on Monday broke down the "psychology" of the anger some are feeling over owing money at tax time or getting a smaller refund, while acknowledging the majority of Americans are paying less in taxes after the cuts signed by President Donald Trump. NBC News reporter Jacob Ward interviewed a Houston mother, Victoria Pearl-Wright, who said she got a $5,000 refund last year and typically gets a refund. She was so upset to see she owed the government money at tax time this year that she called her husband in tears, since they were counting on the influx of
The United Kingdom has been stingy with its state visits since Donald Trump became president, but it seems Queen Elizabeth II is willing to make an exception, even amid the Brexit crisis, to welcome Trump for the 75th anniversary of D-Day on June 6th. (Video) People Magazine reports that "after much back and forth," the Queen has settled on welcoming the president, now more than two years into his term, to mark the success of Operation Overlord, and the massive joint invasion that started the Allies down the path to victory in World War II. Donald Trump may even get
To plagiarize T.S. Eliot, April is the cruelest month. But not for the reasons the poet wrote. Rather, for all the taxes. And there are bills in the Legislature to make taxes sting even worse. By April 10, Californians must pay their local property taxes. Five days later is the deadline for filing state and federal income tax returns. Also, the state and the feds want any initial pre-tax payment that’s required on current earnings. So tax collectors get three swings at us this month.It’s a perfect storm for millions of Californians because of the federal tax overhaul enacted in
The ouster of Secret Service Director Randolph D. ´Tex" Alles on Monday was not unexpected, and, in fact, was welcome by most members of the law enforcement agency, sources tell DailyMail.com.´The sentiment at the agency is "good riddance,"´ they say. ´Alles seemed more interested in making friends with agents than fixing the problems that plague the once-proud agency,´ according to agency sources. ´He proved to be the exact opposite of what was needed to reform the agency. ´His idea for trimming costs was to get rid of protection for members of the Trump family. Nothing changed within the Secret Service
Tommy Tuberville opens up about running for U.S. Senate, Sean Spicer and the need for ‘patriots’
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Tommy Tuberville made it clear on Monday what he is and what he is not.The former Auburn football coach is not a career politician. He is, however, a patriot. Tuberville announced Saturday, via Twitter, he is running for the U.S. Senate.[Snip]“I’m worried for this country if we keep going left,” he said. “We don’t have a Democratic Party anymore. All you have to do is look to see what direction they want to take that. That’s the reason we have to fill this seat in the Senate with a Republican in the state of Alabama with Christian values and get
Venezuela: The Next Syria
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently denied that Russia was trying to create “another Syria” in Venezuela. Given Lavrov’s track record, we have to conclude that is precisely what Russia is doing. We weren’t sufficiently paranoid about Syria. No one — myself included — foresaw that Russia and Iran would be able to use the cover of the Syrian civil war to establish permanent military presence in that country. We didn’t foresee Turkey’s perfidious alliance with Russia and Iran to keep Bashar Assad in power. Syria wasn’t very significant before the Russians and Iranians dominated that country. But because they have,
Oscar-nominated actress Felicity Huffman broke her silence this afternoon for the first time since her March 12 arrest in the “Operation Varsity Blues” college cheating scandal to acknowledge she “betrayed” her oldest daughter and will shoulder that shame for the rest of her life. “I am in full acceptance of my guilt, and with deep regret and shame over what I have done, I accept full responsibility for my actions and will accept the consequences that stem from those actions,” the Emmy Award-winning star of the TV series “Desperate Housewives” said in a statement. “I am ashamed of the pain
Sen. Cory Booker announced a bill Monday to form a commission to recommend reparations for slavery, taking the reins of one of the most intriguing and controversial agenda items from the 2020 campaign. Mr. Booker becomes the highest-profile lawmaker to sign onto reparations legislation. He said it could solve persistent racism and discrimination that have been built into the system for decades, leading to disparate outcomes for all black Americans. “This bill is a way of addressing head-on the persistence of racism, white supremacy, and implicit racial bias in our country,” he said. “It will bring together the best
On Saturday, Tommy Tuberville — who became a national name during his ten-year highly successful run as the head football coach at Auburn University, during which time his team pulled off a perfect season but was famously left out of the BCS National Championship Game — announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate to represent Alabama in 2020. The seat is currently filled by Democrat Doug Jones, who narrowly edged out scandal-plagued Republican Roy Moore in the 2017 special election to fill the seat vacated by Jeff Sessions after President Trump named him attorney general. (Video) "After more than a year
President Donald Trump followed the ouster of his Homeland Security secretary with another pink slip on Monday, this time firing the director of the U.S. Secret Service.Trump ordered acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to fire Randolph ´Tex´ Alles.The move is an indication of the growing power of Trump adviser Stephen Miller, the 33-year-old former staffer to Sen. Jeff Sessions before he was the president´s first attorney general. (Photos) A White House source with knowledge of the West Wing´s goings on in the past week told DailyMail.com on Monday that Miller has advocated internally for Nielsen´s firing, and
United States Secret Service director Randolph "Tex" Alles is being removed from his position, multiple administration officials tell CNN. President Donald Trump instructed his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to fire Alles. Alles remains in his position as of now but has been asked to leave.The Secret Service director reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kirstjen Nielsen, who resigned on Sunday amid growing pressure from the President. The director oversees the Secret Service´s work on both protection and investigations.
An experimental cancer "vaccine" showed promising results in a small clinical trial of patients with lymphoma, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine.Researchers at New York´s Mount Sinai Hospital tested the treatment in 11 patients with lymphoma. Their results were successful enough to warrant another clinical trial in March on lymphoma patients as well as breast and head-and-neck cancer.Researchers said some patients in the initial human trial went into full remission for months or even years.
Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to hold a large lead in early polling for the 2020 South Carolina Democratic presidential primary, but it’s another politician who has not entered the race, former Georgia House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, capturing newfound attention from the early primary state’s voters. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who has been gathering more attention in the crowded field, also is gaining traction in South Carolina, according to a new poll from California-based Change Research shared with The Post and Courier. The poll was taken from March 31-April 4, just after a former member
Adam Schiff Tells Tapper Only Trump Believes ‘There are Good People on Both Sides of a Nazi Rally’
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff ripped Donald Trump for accusing Democrats of anti-Semitism, noting that it’s not the Democratic Party that believes that there are good people on both sides of a Nazi rally. There’s just one party and one party leader who believes that, and that’s Donald Trump.” (Snip)Schiff was referring to Trump’s remarks in the wake of the white supremacist murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville.
Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush has called the Chicago police union the ‘sworn enemy of black people’ as he defended prosecutor Kim Foxx in the wake of the Jussie Smollett saga. Rush slammed the Fraternal Order of Police on Saturday following their repeated calls for Foxx, the Cook County State’s Attorney, to resign after her office dismissed charges against Smollett.(Snip) ‘The FOP has always taken the position that black people can be shot down in the street by members of the Chicago Police Department, and suffer no consequences. ‘Let’s be clear: Kim Foxx, her battle, is with the FOP and all
A number of organizations are coalescing to actively blacklist people who have worked for the Trump administration, including former Secretary of the Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Kirstjen Nielsen. Nielsen resigned Sunday, but could face opposition finding new employment. A group known as “Restore Public Trust” is targeting her and others in a letter sent Saturday that warns corporate America that these purported pariahs may “seek refuge in their corner offices or boardrooms.”
Alec Baldwin is asking his social media followers if he could count on their votes if he ran for president. The actor, who won an Emmy Award in 2017 for his portrayal of President Trump on "Saturday Night Live," wrote to his more than 1 million Twitter followers on Monday: If I ran for President, would you vote for me? I won’t ask you for any $. And I promise I will win. Beating Trump would be so easy. So easy. So easy. — HABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) April 8, 2019
Despite the media coverage—I’ll get to that in a second—far right extremist crimes are not on the rise. The number of crimes ascribed to the far-right has been holding steady since the 1970s. “There has been a steady rate of far-right extreme crimes since at least 1970, when we started collecting data,” said Michael Jensen, a senior researcher at START,(Snip) “What has changed is the emphasis on reporting far-right extremism. It produces the perception that there is a new increase. It’s not true.” Are you wondering what might be considered to constitute a
Union College President David R. Harris recently penned an argument against free speech on college campuses, claiming that institutions of higher learning have a responsibility to manage speech by providing “constructive engagement,” so that students can have an optimal learning experience. Union College president David R. Harris penned an op-ed, entitled, “A Campus Is Not the Place for Free Speech,” in which he argues that it is the role of colleges and universities to filter the conversations on campuses to provide “constructive engagement.” “I oppose free speech on college campuses,” states Harris in his op-ed, “I think college campuses should be safe
One can imagine a future in which Democrats, reflecting on our present, are shouting to their past selves, “Walk away!” As I will show below, the Democrat’s continued obsession with opening the pandora’s box of the Mueller report will only make things worse for the get-Trump crowd as the hoax chickens increasingly come home to roost. Politico recently reported the Special Counsel’s office rapidly wound down operations after delivering the report to Attorney General Barr. It took most of a weekend for Barr to wade through the report before issuing the summary. Calls for a full, unredacted release of the report
From outward appearances, the four little black kids singing a song called “We Are Provided For” seemed happy. Along with two other Children of Color, they had been adopted by a married white lesbian couple named Sarah and Jennifer Hart. This odd menagerie consisted of three siblings adopted from one family and three from another, and along with their sexually atypical moms, they constituted a progressive Brady Bunch who presented a grinning face to the world.Sarah and Jennifer had adopted their first trio of nonwhite siblings in 2006 and received training in intangibles such as “racial diversity excitement”
In a tweet on Sunday, President Donald Trump wrote that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will become the new acting head of the Department of Homeland Security after the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. Nielsen had been in the post since December 2017. “Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen will be leaving her position,” the president said, “and I would like to thank her for her service,” he said. He added, “I am pleased to announce that Kevin McAleenan, the current U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner, will become acting secretary … I have confidence that Kevin will do
Reuters reported, "Flood-hit Iran getting no financial aid from abroad due to U.S. sanctions." GOOD. Iran should have put to better use that $170 billion that Obama gave Iran in the middle of the night. Instead of fixing its economy, Iran bought munition and underwrote terrorism. (Snip) Muslim nations are not donating because they want the Iranian government to fall. Iran has made powerful enemies among the Gulf states, who would rather side with Israel than Iran.
Oh, now Democrats need us
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Ten years ago, Democrats nominated for the Supreme Court Sonia Sotomayor who had said, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn´t lived that life.” (Snip)For the last 50 years or so, Democrats have portrayed white working class people as racists and bigots. We are Archie Bunker. The funny thing about that show is Bunker took care of his family, unlike Meathead. At one point, Bunker had two jobs including a dangerous gig as a taxi driver.
Every narrative needs a foundation; every investigation, false or genuine, needs a predicate upon which to launch. Remove the predicate and everything is exposed.The predicate is the reason why so much effort was put forth by the conspiring Obama administration; and corrupt intelligence officials; and all political operatives; and the entirety of the mainstream media; to drumbeat that “Russia attempted to interfere in the 2016 election.” Without that predicate forming the motive for all subsequent action, the house-of-cards collapses (Snip) There is no amount of hindsight manipulation that can cover for a fraudulent basis of origination.
The Democrat Party is finally lifting the curtain on their true intentions. Democrats want complete control so they can institute their Socialist state without out interference. To do that they decided in 2016 to eliminate conservative content online. Since that time the tech giants have eliminated over one billion page views to conservative websites.Conservatives are targeted and censored on YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Pintarest, Facebook and Google. And now top liberal groups are sending out blacklists similar to what you might see in socialist regimes to US corporations to prevent Trump officials from ever being employed again. The Socialist revolution is
It was bound to happen. In fact, I’m surprised it took this long for leftists to viciously attack Kay Coles James. The general strategy since she became president of The Heritage Foundation seems to have been to largely to ignore Mrs. James in an attempt to keep the masses unaware of her effective advocacy of conservative principles. (Snip) In late March, a small cabal of Google employees began circulating a petition calling for Mrs. James to be removed from Google’s newly appointed external advisory council on artificial intelligence. The title of the petition? “Googlers Against Transphobia and Hate.”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is going all in on opposing President Trump - and the majority of the American people - on the problem of illegal migration as the caravans from Central America fire up. Now he´s heading off to El Salvador to "examine the root causes of migration," as Big Daddy holding out the bag of goodies to would-be illegal immigrants in their home countries. To him, they´re his constituents. So he´s got to find some justification for this trip and you can bet he will.
If Chicago is a black political mecca, why are African-Americans leaving the city in droves?
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You’ve probably seen the list by now. Some folks are calling it “black women magic.” Since Lori Lightfoot’s historic victory last week, the list has been passed around proudly as a symbol of the achievements of African-American women in the Chicago area.While hardly anyone was paying attention, black women rose up and took charge of the most high-profile positions in our city and county government. If you throw in the African-American men also in top spots, the changing political tide is even more astounding. I have a question, though. If our city really has become the black political mecca
All the Progressive Plotters
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Right after the 2016 election, Green Party candidate Jill Stein—cheered on by Hillary Clinton dead-enders—sued in three states to recount votes and thereby overturn Donald Trump’s victory in the Electoral College. Before the quixotic effort imploded, Stein was praised as an iconic progressive social justice warrior who might stop the hated Trump from even entering the White House. When that did not work, B-list Hollywood celebrities mobilized, with television and radio commercials, to shame electors in Trump-won states into not voting for the president-elect during the official Electoral College balloting in December 2016.
NEW YORK — Hundreds of parents and students were sitting on folding chairs or standing against the wall in dimly lit linoleum floored party hall underneath the elevated train on a gray day in Queens. They were there, they said, to rally on behalf of public schools and against charter schools, to learn about how to opt-out of high-stakes testing and how to make more schools less segregated and more equitable. These kinds of civic meetings occur every day in New York, but they don’t
The idea that Congress can use the IRS as a political weapon "is incorrect both as a matter of statutory law and constitutionally," President Trump´s attorney Jay Sekulow told ABC´s "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday."We should not be in a situation where individual private tax returns are used for political purposes. As you just said, George, what stops another party from doing the same thing?" Stephanopoulos asked Sekulow if President Trump plans to do that -- to ask members of Congress to produce their tax returns:"No, no. He hasn´t. Congress has," Sekulow replied: The majority party in the
Although the Democratic National Committee has not allowed Fox News to host a Democratic primary debate since 2004, the DNC recently made a show of boycotting Fox for the 2020 presidential cycle.Some conservatives have expressed outrage over this slight, but another question is why haven’t Republicans taken similar steps against CNN and MSNBC? In November 2015, I wrote a column, “A debate that will live in infamy,” which excoriated CNBC for its sneak attack on the top 10 Republican candidates for president at the time. That column (reprinted in “The Media Matrix”) called the debate a “blatant attempt to manipulate
It’s not often that a president delivers exactly what he promised for the US economy, but this one has. Specifically, President Trump has delivered not just solid job growth, but also rising wages. This, when his critics called it impossible. March saw nonfarm payrolls grow by 196,000, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports — a major rebound from the slowdown in the first two months of the year. And wages grew 3.2 percent over the last 12 months, markedly faster than inflation. Unemployment was 3.8 percent in March, and has been at or below 4 percent for 13 straight months.
Why amnesty isn´t the answer
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With the news full of reports about more caravans headed for the border and immigration agents overwhelmed by surging numbers of migrants seeking asylum, it may seem like an odd time for our leaders in Washington to be proposing amnesty. Yet that’s what happened recently, as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proudly announced a proposal that would allow more than 2 million aliens to apply for U.S. citizenship.Contrast this overture against President Trump’s immigration agenda—a robust physical barrier, asylum reform, and an end to catch-and-release, among others—and it’s clear that America is at a crossroads with not only our
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was awarded the recipient of the 2019 Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. The award is given to those who purportedly show “political courage” over a lifetime, or for a particularly notable incident. Honorary Foundation President Caroline Kennedy called Pelosi “the most important woman in American political history,” CBS News reported.“So, the courage that that takes, really, I think, makes her an example and an inspiration for generations of Americans, men and women,” Kennedy added. (Video/Tweet) The foundation cited Pelosi’s success as the first female House Speaker as well as
DES MOINES, Iowa — Between the prom proposal from a young admirer, the long lines for photographs and the conservative tracker recording his every word, Beto O’Rourke had all the hallmarks of a top-tier candidate during his latest swing through Iowa. Yet by the time he left the state on Sunday, it was also clear that the euphoria that greeted O’Rourke’s entry into the race three weeks earlier has started to subside. The inevitable slog of competing in a packed Democratic primary is underway, and O’Rourke has not yet drawn the wave of national
Trump is Popping in the Polls
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Watch most cable or network news shows and the message is clear -- President Donald Trump is unpopular, especially compared to the dozens of fresh faces attempting to challenge him for the White House in 2020. Some of the faces are not so fresh as three of the leading contenders -- Biden, Sanders, and Warren are septuagenarians. Despite the exonerating Mueller report, Trump is still on the ropes, about to be impeached, a Russian agent, and so on. Trump is also a Nazi, racist, homophobe, Islamophobe, and sexist pig. Nobody likes him. At least that’s what CNN says.
Reasonable citizens of our republic are frustrated. They tire of progressive politics invading every simple moment, ruining things that used to be fun, injecting anger and politically correct nonsense where it should not go. Sports, movies, school, award ceremonies, funerals, everywhere one looks, P.C. nonsense attempts to spoil it. Reasonable citizens are also discovering their once trusted print or televised media has been lying big time. Yes, Trump had something to do with this. He called out the Fake News! But what about academia, social media, Hollywood, tech CEOs and progressive mayors and governors of sanctuary/decaying cities/states?
The Case for Trump by the political and military scholar Victor Davis Hanson is a book dedicated to the "Deplorables." It is a fact-based analysis of why Donald Trump was able to win the presidency in 2016. Beyond that, Hanson sat down with American Thinker and discussed the presidential election in 2020. Donald Trump ran against both political parties and the East Coast establishment in the 2016 presidential election. He was the first man ever elected to the nation´s highest office without prior experience in government, politics, or the military.
Former Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska made a name for himself by honestly criticizing his own party when he believed it was wrong. He famously said of Bill Clinton that he was an “uncommonly good liar” and has bucked his own party in supporting entitlement reform. But in a recent op-ed, Kerrey called out his fellow Democrats for harboring two major delusions. “The first,” he writes in an op-ed in the Omaha World-Herald, “is that Americans long for a president who will ask us to pay more for the pleasure of increasing the role of the federal government in our lives.”
In an attempt to work around the White House, Democratic lawmakers in Albany are trying to do what their federal counterparts have so far failed to accomplish: to obtain President Trump’s tax returns. Albany lawmakers are seeking state tax returns, not the federal ones at the heart of the current standoff in Washington. But a tax return from New York — the president’s home state, and the headquarters of his business empire — could likely contain much of the same financial information as a federal return. Under a bill that is scheduled to be introduced this week,
Social Justice Prosecutors
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For years, many have bemoaned the slide of America’s higher education system down the slippery slope of moral relativism and the embracing of virtually all facets of progressive dogma while rejecting most elements of conservatism. The mere invitation of a conservative commentator to speak on college campuses is now reason enough for rioting and mass student protests. Bozo the Clown has a better chance of giving a commencement address at an Ivy League school than does Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice, or their conservative contemporaries. Nowhere is this truth more prevalent than at our most prestigious law schools,
For the past six decades, Democrats have been mesmerized by the Kennedy style, like adult children searching for the forever-young father who left them before his time. The pressure for candidates to fit the Kennedy mold—in looks, style and political bearing—became so oppressive that the writer Garry Wills coined a term for it: “The Kennedy imprisonment.” The generation of politicians that immediately followed John F. Kennedy—John Kerry, John Tunney and even Republicans like John Lindsay—tried so hard to emulate JFK that they enacted impersonations:
Whatever their differences, the two front-runners in the Democratic presidential race, Joe Biden, born November 20, 1942, and Bernie Sanders, born September 8, 1941, share one common trait: They are too old to be president. Biden, leading the RealClearPolitics average of polls, will be 78 years old on inauguration day 2021. Sanders, number two in the field, will be 79. Both would be older upon taking office than Ronald Reagan was when he left office after two terms. Voters are clearly open to older candidates. President Trump, born June 14, 1946,
Democrats Feed on Voter Fears
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During the recent gathering of vultures at the National Action Network conference, where Democratic scavengers attempted to tear gobbets of civil rights credibility from the desiccated carcass of Al Sharpton, Elizabeth Warren claimed that the integrity of our elections is under assault by the GOP. She accused the President and congressional Republicans of conspiring to suppress the vote of various Democrat-leaning groups, particularly minorities like blacks and Hispanics, in order to prevail in elections they could not otherwise win. She essentially said that the Democrats inevitably win any fair election and that all Republican victories are, by definition, illegitimate.
While the newspapers await the details of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller’s report on President Trump, we went up on the Web to watch “Five Star Final.” That’s the classic movie about the genre of gutter newspapering that seeks to drive up circulation — or Web traffic — through the journalism of personal destruction. If ever there was a metaphor for our time, this is it. We’ve been thinking about it since Mr. Trump spoke of the “young and beautiful lives” that have been crushed by the special prosecutor’s “witch hunt” that turned up no prosecutable collusion
An explosive new report by The Smoking Gun claims that the Rev. Al Sharpton is a former paid FBI informant. The report published Monday claims that Mr. Sharpton regularly interacted with members of four of New York City’s five organized crime families, specifically leaders of the Genovese family, and he secretly recorded their conversations. Mr. Sharpton was known by the FBI as “CI-7” — short for confidential informant No. 7 — and began working for the agency in the mid-1980s, the report said.
If Brexit Fails, So Does Britain
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Charles Moore today ends his weekly Telegraph column, which has become required reading for both supporters and opponents of Brexit, with a gloomy forecast that the only way of saving Brexit from its betrayal by a Tory prime minister and government is her replacement by a new leader who then reforms the Tory party along lines that would allow local Tory associations to deselect Remain MPs and replace them with Leavers. His final paragraph reads: It does not sound very likely, does it? The only reason to think that it might happen is the prospect of the alternative, which is annihilation.
Twitter appears to be one of the only big tech companies to back out of an alliance with the Southern Poverty Law Center after the group’s long-time president was fired for unspecified conduct reasons, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. “The SPLC is not a member of Twitter’s Trust and Safety Council or a partner the company has worked with recently,” a source within the company told TheDCNF. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity and did not disclose when Twitter distanced itself from the SPLC, which was dealt a significant blow in March following reports
To fully appreciate what follows, the background issues and parties, the reader will benefit by reading this prior article that laid the foundation. Israelis go to the polls this Tuesday, April 9, electing a new national government. As the only American-style democracy in the Middle East, Israelis are a universe apart from all their border neighbors. And you can bet your farm and life savings that they have built big, beautiful border walls — and they work! To their north in Lebanon, they border with the insanely terrorist Shiite Muslim Hezbollah.
Do you think illegal immigration is a serious problem? If you are like 67 percent of likely voters, you do. If you think illegal immigration is a very serious problem, you have plenty of company–47 percent of voters. Of course, if you are running for president as a Democrat, you don’t think illegal immigration is a problem at all. Eight percent of likely voters agree with you. Not only do none of the Democratic presidential candidates want to build the wall, some of them want to tear down barriers where they already exist. Open borders! Come one, come all!
According to a new report, criminal aliens currently make up nearly 20 percent of the population in the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) system -- a total of 34,776. David Olen Cross, a Salem, Ore., crime and immigration researcher, looked at the number of foreign nationals in the U.S. BOP system based on the most recent federal report. As of March 30, 2019, there were 179,761 inmates incarcerated in federal prisons across the U.S. Their countries of origin, according to the report, are: Mexico 21,668 inmates, 12.1 percent; Colombia 1,633 inmates, 0.9 percent; Dominican Republic 1,425 inmates, 0.8 percent;
SAN FRANCISCO — Three blocks from Mark Zuckerberg’s $10 million Tudor home in San Francisco, Jake Orta lives in a small, single-window studio apartment filled with trash. There’s a child’s pink bicycle helmet that Mr. Orta dug out from the garbage bin across the street from Mr. Zuckerberg’s house. And a vacuum cleaner, a hair dryer, a coffee machine — all in working condition — and a pile of clothes that he carried home in a Whole Foods paper bag retrieved from Mr. Zuckerberg’s bin. A military veteran who fell into homelessness and now lives in government subsidized housing,
President Trump revealed in a tweet Sunday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan will become the acting head of Homeland Security, the sprawling department of 240,000 people, following the resignation of Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.(tweet) McAleenan is a longtime border officer, reflecting Trump’s priority for the department initially founded to combat terrorism after the Sept. 11 attacks. Fox News is told Trump wanted the “toughest cop” around on border security, and McAleenan fit the bill. Administration sources tell Fox News that McAleenan needs to be able to handle the politics involved and change minds on Capitol Hill
George Strait performed his slow song "God and Country Music" at the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards on April 7, bringing a spark of traditional country sound to the Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Wearing a simple black blazer and coordinating cowboy hat, the King of Country performed the moving ballad with a full band, backdropped by slideshow of beautiful landscapes and other graphics. “Come h**l or high water, there´s two things still worth savin´/ God and country music,” he sang. "God and Country Music” appears on Strait’s thirtieth studio album Honky Tonk Time Machine. Watch a clip
The left-wing media will never learn to tell the truth. That was reinforced when we learned that even though special counsel Robert Mueller’s cleared President Trump of false claims against him, many in the media energetically spun the report in a way that perpetuated their anti-Trump narrative of the last two years.This is the same media that write thousands of articles and hit pieces on Trump over the past two years, claiming that he stole the election from Hillary Clinton by means of an elaborate, but unexplainable, scheme with Russian President Vladimir Putin or some other Russian. They were never
WASHINGTON– Pete Buttigieg got a hero’s welcome as he took the stage Sunday at a fundraising brunch for a group that supports LGBTQ candidates. The improbable presidential campaign of the previously little-known, openly-gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has been generating significant buzz, positive headlines, and large crowds in important primary states like New Hampshire. He arrived at the LGBTQ Victory Fund event fresh off an interview with NBC’s "Meet the Press."He was on the front page of that morning’s Washington Post.“In Buttigieg, gay Americans see a symbol of acceptance,” the headline read.But as he spoke to a packed hotel
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned Sunday. Read the letter she submitted to President Trump below. Mr. President, I hereby resign from the position of Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), effective April 7th 2019. It has been my great honor to lead the men and women of the Department as its sixth Secretary. I could not be prouder of and more humbled by their service, dedication, and commitment to keep our country safe from all threats and hazards. I join all Americans in thanking them for their sacrifices and those of their families. For more than
Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “racist” on Sunday, telling an audience in Iowa that the U.S.-Israel relationship must “transcend a prime minister who is racist.”O’Rourke’s full comments, as reported by The Hill, were as follows: The US-Israel relationship is one of the most important relationships that we have on the planet, and that relationship, if it is successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States, and it must be able to transcend a prime minister who is racist [sic], as he warns against Arabs coming to the polls [sic], who wants to defy