Posts on Tuesday, April 9, 2019
Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu was celebrating victory following the vote in the Israeli Election on Tuesday night after polls showed he has lead over rival Benny Gantz. The votes are due in later on Wednesday and Netanyahu is hoping to secure a record fifth term in power despite corruption allegations hanging over him. Exit polls were giving conflicting results throughout the night. (Photo/Video) But partial election results in the early hours of Wednesday showed Netanyahu´s Likud Party with 38 seats compared to 35 for Mr Gantz´s Blue and White party The buoyant leader said it had been ´a night of
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be headed toward re-election early Wednesday, as exit polls and partial results showed him surging ahead of his main competitor in a tight race that was seen as a referendum on the long-serving leader. Both Netanyahu and former military chief Benny Gantz, leader of the rival Blue and White party, declared victory in speeches to boisterous gatherings of supporters. But as the night went on, there were growing signs that Netanyahu´s Likud was pulling ahead. With a victory, Netanyahu would capture a fourth consecutive term and fifth overall, which this summer
The Chinese woman arrested at President Trump´s Mar-a-Lago club with four cell phones on her last month entered the U.S. on a business visa that allowed her to make repeat trips to the country for a period of a decade.Yujing Zhang, who had a bond hearing in Florida Monday, entered the U.S. on a B-1/B-2 visa, according to documents released by the government. Her visa allowed her to travel to the U.S. for a period ranging from 2016 through 2026. Those visas are designed for people who need to be in the country on a temporary basis, such as to
China´s government-linked telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies has hired a senior Obama administration cyber security official as a lobbyist, according to a congressional filing. Samir Jain, former senior director for cybersecurity policy at the White House National Security Council, notified Congress March 27 that he is registering as a lobbyist for the Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Jain is now with the lobbying firm Jones Day. According to his online biography for Jones Day, Jain worked at the White House from 2016 to 2017 and before that was an associate deputy attorney general from 2014 to 2015, where he worked on
Since the day that Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin were caught up in the high-profile college admissions cheating scandal, the question has remained: Will the actresses spend any time in jail? (Snip)Huffman has agreed to plead guilty, saying, “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.” Loughlin has not yet admitted to any guilt — and things got worse for her on Tuesday, when she and Giannulli were among 16 parents indicted
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has revealed he manages stress through a strict diet and exercise regime as well as quirky lifestyle habits like hours of meditation each day. The 42-year-old´s only daily meal is dinner, but he won´t eat at all on weekends, he has ditched warm showers altogether and he walks the distance between his home and the social media HQ in an effort to make sure his mind stays sharp. Dorsey – whose net worth is $5.3billion is also the co-founder of Square – claims the routine makes his days feel longer and says he´s able to switch
Sanders Admits He´s A Millionaire: ´If You Write A Best-Selling Book, You Can Be A Millionaire Too´
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On Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) revealed some very bad news for his campaign: he’s a millionaire. Sanders, who has been pressured to turn over his tax returns for the last ten years, finally acquiesced, announcing he would do so — and admitting that he is, in fact, worth more than a million dollars. “April 15 is coming,” Sanders told The New York Times. “We wanted to release 10 years of tax returns. April 15, 2019 will be the 10th year, so I think you will see them.” (Video) Sanders then added, contrasting his own wealth with that of President
Google does manipulate its search results manually, contrary to the company’s official denials, documents obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller indicate.Two official policies dubbed the “misrepresentation policy” and the “good neighbor policy” inform the company’s “XPA news blacklist,” which is maintained by Google’s Trust & Safety team. “T&S will be in charge of updating the blacklist as when there is a demand,” reads one of the documents shared with The Daily Caller. “The deceptive_news domain blacklist is going to be used by many search features to filter problematic sites that violate the good neighbor and misrepresentation policies,” the policy document
Attorney General William Barr was questioned today by republican lawmaker Robert Aderholt about potentially fraudulent DOJ and FBI submissions to the FISA court – to gain a Title-One surveillance warrant against U.S. Person Carter Page. In a deliberate response AG Barr stated: “The Office of the Inspector General has a pending investigation of the FISA process in the Russia investigation. I expect that will be complete in probably May or June, I am told. More generally, I am reviewing the conduct of the investigation and trying to get my arms around all the aspects of the counterintelligence investigation that was conducted
House Democrats held a hearing today on white nationalism and hate crimes. Trying to wrench the narrative back after the stunning demise of the Mueller investigation, I suppose. Candace Owens was called as a witness, presumably by the Republicans. Check out her opening statement, in which she let the Democratic Party have it with both barrels. It is one of the most righteous performances you are ever likely to see: (Video/Tweet)
Traditionally, Texas is a conservative stronghold. However, the Democrat strategy of bringing in demographic waves of blue voters appears to be altering the political outlook there, at least according to Rep. Cheri Bustos, Democrat from Illinois who is the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) chairwoman. “We think it’s a great place for Democrats because of the changing demographics of Texas,” Bustos told CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota today. “I think if you look at the next two, four, six years, the way Texas looks today and what it will look like will be completely different.”There’s the logic some conservatives and moderates
House Democratic leaders on Tuesday abandoned plans to vote on a key budget measure this week in the face of sharp opposition from both progressives and moderates. The revolt over legislation to set federal spending is a setback for Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her deputies on the eve of their 100 day mark in the majority. And it darkens the outlook for how Washington will resolve a slew of ugly funding battles later this year.Democrats decided to punt a vote on the budget bill after both corners of their caucus — the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the moderate Blue Dog Coalition
A federal judge is allowing a lawsuit against transgender facilities in a school district to proceed, but warned the student-plaintiffs that, if the government allows boys who claim to be female to use the girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms, then the girls have no right to “visual bodily privacy.” Judge Jorge Alonso of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division is allowing a lawsuit to proceed against the school district that adopted the Obama-era transgender policy permitting boys claiming to be female to use the girls’ bathrooms, showers, and locker rooms.
A Mexican mayor from the northern border state of Sonora was given a 15-month prison sentence in the U.S. for passport fraud Monday. The politician was previously accused of having cartel ties. The recently elected and now former Bácum mayor, Roberto Aboyte Limón, will serve 15 months in U.S. prison after attempting an illegal crossing into Arizona with a passport not his own on December 27, 2018. During examination after his entry, it was determined that Aboyte Limón failed to disclose a prior arrest for cocaine trafficking. Court records indicate that Aboyte Limón attempted to enter the U.S.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) used a report in his opening remarks on Tuesday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism in the Donald Trump era that highlighted crimes that took place from 2008 to 2016 — when Barack Obama was president. “Today, the Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing that I wish we did not have to conduct, but which is sadly necessary, to examine an urgent crisis in our country,” (Snip) “We will consider issues relating to hate crimes and the rise of white nationalism.”
Ilhan Omar: CAIR Formed Because Muslims Were Targeted After ‘Some People Did Something’ on 9/11
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) referred to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, as a day in which “some people did something” during her keynote address at a private fundraiser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) of Greater Los Angeles last March.In her remarks, Omar urged attendees to “raise hell” and “make people uncomfortable” in an effort to reverse the fortunes of Muslim Americans, who the freshman Congresswoman suggested were demoted to second-class citizens following 9/11. “CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognize that some people did something,
And you thought Bill Buckner’s fielding was the ugliest thing to come out of the ‘86 World Series. Former Met Lenny Dykstra took a legal bat to ex-teammate Ron Darling Tuesday — filing a lawsuit that claims the pitching star lied in a new book about Dykstra hurling racist taunts during the Amazin’s magical win over the Boston Red Sox. The Manhattan Supreme Court suit says Darling “maliciously portrayed Plaintiff as a racist, an irremovable stain and permanent cloud which will forever diminish Mr. Dykstra,’’ in his best-selling tome.
A selfless New Jersey principal died trying to help save the life of a 14-year-old boy he never met, his family said on Tuesday. Derrick Nelson, the 44-year-old principal of Westfield High School fell into a coma in February after a procedure to donate bone marrow to a sick teenager in France. “After the procedure he did, he couldn’t speak and was lying in the bed,” his father, 81-year-old Willie Nelson told the NJ Advance Media Tuesday. “His eyes were open and he realized who we were. But he couldn’t move. He never spoke again. ”The family of the 20-year officer with the US Army Reserve, including his parents, fiancee and the
In his 1944 book "The Road to Serfdom," Nobel prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek argued that socialist economic planning resulted not just in accumulating losses of economic efficiency but "the very destruction of freedom itself." History was kind to Hayek´s worldview. The United Kingdom, Sweden, and India tested socialistic planning without sustained repression. But people in the Soviet Union, Venezuela, Cambodia and Cuba were not so lucky. Natural experiments between socialism and capitalism in East Germany and West Germany, North Korea and South Korea, and Hong Kong and China,
In an astonishing instance of judicial activism, a federal judge has ruled that unvetted Central American caravan migrants seeking U.S. asylum no longer have to wait it out in Mexico. According to NBC News: A federal judge in California issued an order Monday blocking the Trump administration´s policy of returning some asylum-seekers to Mexico while they wait for a court appearance. U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg´s nationwide ruling will not go into effect until Friday, to give the administration time to appeal. Outgoing Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen announced the launch of the Migrant Protection Protocols
A top Border Patrol official told a Senate committee on Tuesday that illegal immigrants from 50 different countries — including China, Bangladesh, Turkey, Egypt and Romania — had been caught crossing the southern border. “People are traveling across hemispheres to attempt to illegally enter the US, using the same pathways as the Central Americans,” Rio Grande Valley Sector Chief Patrol Agent Rodolfo Karisch said at a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing, Fox News reported. He said a caravan-size group of migrants flooded across the border each week in just a
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on course to securing a record fifth term with another right-wing coalition, Israeli TV exit polls indicated after voting ended on Tuesday, as both he and his principal rival claimed victory. Netanyahu, in power consecutively since 2009, is fighting for his political survival. He faces possible indictment in three corruption cases, in which the right-wing Likud party leader has denied any wrongdoing. If he wins, Netanyahu, 69, will become the longest-serving prime minister in Israel´s 71-year history this summer.
California has launched few government projects with higher stakes than its ambitious 2018 program for registering millions of new voters at the Department of Motor Vehicles, an effort with the potential to shape elections for years to come. Yet six days before the scheduled launch of the DMV’s new “motor voter” system last April, state computer security officials noticed something ominous: The department’s computer network was trying to connect to internet servers in Croatia.“This is pretty typical of a compromised device phoning home,” a California Department of Technology official wrote in an April 10, 2018, email obtained by The Times.
Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, along with 14 other parents, were indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Boston on money laundering charges, as part of the nationwide college admissions cheating case. Loughlin and Giannulli, who were arrested last month on a criminal complaint, are charged with conspiring with William “Rick” Singer, 58, of Newport Beach, Calif., and others to bribe SAT and ACT exam administrators to allow a test taker to secretly take college entrance exams in place of students, or to correct the students’ answers
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz each declared that they won Tuesday´s election after inconclusive exit polls were broadcast on the three Israeli networks. Netanyahu claimed victory, because his Right-Center bloc won handily over Gantz´s Center-Left bloc in polls broadcast on Channel 13 and KAN, 66 to 54 and 64 to 56, respectively. In Channel 12´s poll, the blocs were even at 60 seats. "The right-wing bloc led by Likud clearly won," Netanyahu said. "I thank Israeli citizens for their trust. I will begin forming a right-wing government with our natural partners already tonight." Gantz announced
Tbilisi– Georgia is immensely proud of its ancient wine-making tradition, claiming to have been the first nation to make wine. Now it wants to be the first to grow grapes on Mars. Nestling between the Great Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea, Georgia has a mild climate that is perfect for vineyards and has developed a thriving wine tourism industry. Now Nikoloz Doborjginidze has co-founded a project to develop grape varieties that can be grown on Mars. “Georgians were first winemakers on Earth and now we hope to pioneer viticulture on the planet next door,” he told AFP. After NASA
Sad news—the last Doolittle Raider has died. Lt. Col. Richard Cole passed away Monday at the age of 103.Cole was the final surviving member of the daring raid on Tokyo by carrier-launched B-25s. As I wrote for his 100th birthday in 2015: Col. Richard Cole was the co-pilot of "Crew 1," which means he sat alongside Col. Jimmy Doolittle at the tip of the tip of the American spear aimed at Imperial Japan. The Doolittle Raid on April 18, 1942, was a virtual suicide mission. It was a daring sea-launched bombing mission in the earliest days of World War II.
President Trump is "not looking" to restart the process of separating illegal immigrant families at the border, he told press at the White House on Tuesday a couple of days after Kirstjen Nielsen resigned as DHS Secretary. Customs and Border Protection President Kevin McAleenan has taken over as acting secretary. Upon Nielsen´s announcement, media figures like CNN´s Jeffrey Toobin suggested Nielsen would be remembered as "the woman who put children in cages." Trump upended that narrative on Tuesday, reminding reporters that it was his predecessor who introduced the policy."Those cages that were shown, I think they were very inappropriate," Trump
Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency in parts of Williamsburg and said unvaccinated people in several ZIP codes will be required to get an MMR vaccine as a measles outbreak continues to swell in the Orthodox Jewish community. Under the mandatory vaccinations, members of the city´s Health Department will check the vaccination records of any individual who may have been in contact with infected patients. Those who have not received the MMR vaccine or do not have evidence of immunity may be given a violation and could be fined $1,000. A strong jump in measles cases over
Illegal immigrant charged in 5 deaths in Missouri, Kansas found dead in jail cell, sheriff says
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An illegal immigrant who led authorities on a manhunt across two states after allegedly killing five people in 2016 was found dead in a jail cell early Tuesday, officials said.The Montgomery County Sheriff´s Office said in a Facebook post that Pablo Serrano-Vitorino, 43, was found alone and unresponsive in his jail cell at the St. Louis Justice Center after 2 a.m."Serrano-Vitorino was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced deceased at 3:06 a.m.," police said.Serrano-Vitorino, who was in the country illegally from Mexico, had been charged with five counts of first-degree murder after he allegedly killed four men in
Bernie Sanders is one of the front-runners — raising $18 million in the first six weeks of his campaign — among a crowded field of 2020 presidential hopefuls, but the self-described democratic socialist has also been a trend-setter for the field. Since the Vermont senator mapped out his plans for a "political revolution" in 2016, many members of Congress have embraced his policies and ideas. And now several candidates are using them as talking points as they hit the campaign trail.Sanders will join Fox News Channel for a town hall co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Monday, April
It appears winter isn´t finished quite yet. A major blizzard is expected to dump heavy snow on parts of the Midwest in the coming days, possibly setting new records for the month of April. Forecasters say the low-pressure system could break the all-time pressure record for April in parts of the Great Plains. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration meteorologist David Roth said the storm could be a "bomb cyclone," in which the pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours. A bomb cyclone hit Colorado and Nebraska last month as part of a storm system that killed several people. Forecasters
In remarks over the weekend, President Trump expressed his opposition to immigration as a matter of practical impossibility. "What can we do?" he said. We can´t handle any more. Our country´s full. You can´t come in, I´m sorry." Later, seeming a touch less apologetic, he followed up on the sentiment with yet another of his oddly capitalized tweets. "Our Country is FULL!" Of course it isn´t. There are at least 145 countries more physically dense than the U.S. There is no sense in which America has reached its capacity to hold, support, or employ people. If anything, the opposite is
If you’re under 30, your most prominent associations with G.I. Joe might be Channing Tatum or the Rock. Joe, though, has been around since 1964. At the time of his debut, Joe mirrored the culture of the nation—just like Barbie did in 1959. Joe was a role model to generations of children and a boon to Hasbro, the toy company who produced him. But he was also in a constant struggle. Here’s how G.I. Joe got started, and how the action figure (a term coined for Joe to avoid the word “doll”) maintained its relevance for half a century.
They say money is the mother´s milk of politics, but for the Democrats the true mother´s milk is racism—that is the perception thereof. Without the belief that America is a racist country, specifically against blacks but generally against any other group they can claim to be vulnerable, the party would cease to exist, dissolving into a puddle like the Wicked Witch of the West in the "Wizard of Oz." That is why they work so hard to preserve this sense of a country suffused with racism, fanning the flames at every turn to make it so, even when it isn´t.
The Mueller report is over. The economy is simply humming. And President Trump´s job approval rating, according to Rasmussen´s daily tracking, is now 53%. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove. The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 36% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1. (see trends). That´s a figure that corresponds with President Trump´s economic performance. The U.S. jobless rate, for instance, just printed out
London - The beginning of the end of Theresa May’s Brexit strategy was an emotional address to the nation in which she blamed parliament for the delay in Britain’s departure from the European Union. (Snip) Venting her anger at parliament, which had already rejected her deal twice, she said Britain’s departure had been blocked by political infighting for which she was not responsible. Her move backfired, spelling the end of attempts to agree terms acceptable to hardline Brexit supporters in her Conservative Party and to Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, which props up her minority government.
In the latest show of military muscle in the South China Sea, the U.S. has apparently sailed its USS Wasp amphibious assault ship near a strategic reef claimed by Beijing and Manila that lies just 230 km (140 miles) from the Philippine coast. (Snip) China covets Scarborough Shoal for its strategic significance, experts say, as it would be the crowning jewel in a bid to solidify Beijing’s iron grip over the South China Sea. They say building at Scarborough would create a large “strategic triangle” comprising Woody Island in the Paracel Islands to the northwest and its Spratly islet outposts to the south, giving Beijing the ability to police
Trump cleans house; details about oustings media calling a ‘bloodbath’ and ‘workplace violence’
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The forced resignation over the weekend of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was reportedly followed by what some are now describing as a “bloodbath” or “purge” of terminations.On Monday President Donald Trump fired Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles as part of a pre-planned “transition in leadership at the DHS and throughout the ranks,” as reported by Fox News.Shortly thereafter word broke that L. Francis Cissna, the head of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, one Cissna’s top deputies; and John Mitnick, the department’s general counsel and a senior member of Nielsen’s team, are on their way
David Hogg accused President Donald Trump of supporting “terrorism” against black churches on Monday because Trump had not tweeted about the three historically black churches that recently burned down in Louisiana. “You won’t see Donald Trump tweeting about this terrorism because it’s the kind he supports,” the gun control activist tweeted while linking to a Reuters article describing the “suspicious fires that destroyed three predominantly black churches in 10 days” in Louisiana’s St. Landry Parish. You won’t see Donald Trump tweeting about this terrorism because it’s the kind he supports. https://t.co/IMwDZnYwaL — David Hogg (@davidhogg111) April 8, 2019 According to the Lafayette Daily Advertiser,
The crosses on graves in an Italian cemetery in Pieve di Cento have been covered with black cloth so as not to offend those who may come from another religion. The cemetery, which is located in Bologna in a town of around 7,000 people, has also installed motorised blackout curtains in a local chapel following renovations to hide Roman Catholic symbols during ceremonies involving other denominations, Il Giornale reports. Following the reports of the coverings of the symbols, many have expressed criticism including Forza Italia (Forward Italy) deputy Galeazzo Bignami who denounced the move saying those looking not to offend were disrespecting
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said in a statement Monday morning “that it is deeply disturbing” that Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is resigning because she is “not extreme enough for the White House’s liking.” “It is deeply alarming that the Trump Administration official who put children in cages is reportedly resigning because she is not extreme enough for the White House’s liking,” said Pelosi. “The president’s dangerous and cruel anti-immigrant policies have only worsened the humanitarian suffering at the border and inflicted vast suffering on the families who have been torn apart,” Pelosi said. “The Trump Administration’s increasingly toxic
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) lost his battle against a medical device manufacturer this week, and failed to recover from injuries he says he sustained when an exercise band snapped back at him during a workout. (Video) The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that it took jurors only an hour to decide that Reid didn´t deserve the $50,000 he was demanding from Ohio-based Hygenic Intangible Property Holding Co., The Hygenic Corp. and Performance Health LLC, who make the "TheraBand," a large, physical therapy rubber band used, in Reid´s case, to strengthen arm muscles.The Daily Wire reported on the case
The Japanese Air Self-Defense Force said Tuesday an F-35A fighter jet deployed at Misawa Air Base in northeastern Japan disappeared from radar over the Pacific during a training exercise. The stealth fighter was flying with three other aircraft off the coast of Aomori Prefecture some 135 kilometers east of the base when radar contact was lost around 7:27 p.m., it said. Radio communication cannot be established with the missing single-crew fighter, and search operations are under way. The fighter is one of 13 F-35As deployed at Misawa. Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya told reporters the ASDF will ground the 12
John McCain´s dog, Burma, who was a constant companion to the late senator during his final months at the family home near Sedona, has died in a "tragic accident." Burma, a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, was a birthday present to McCain years ago and was "absolutely and truly devoted to him," his daughter Meghan McCain wrote Monday on Instagram. She rarely left his side. McCain, R-Ariz., and his family frequently shared photos of Burma romping around their Cornville property, swimming in the creek, or posing wide-eyed in a family photo from Meghan´s 2017 wedding. "To all who loved our dear Burma,"
CHICAGO — Two people attacked a security guard at a downtown McDonald´s restaurant and the incident was caught on cell phone video. It is unknown how the incident began but video shows the security officer working the McDonald’s at 10 E Chicago Avenue fighting with two men. As customers look on, the security guard drew his weapon and the men backed off. This incident comes amid a backdrop of several incidents in the River North neighborhood over the weekend where 21 people in different groups were arrested for causing disturbances. According to police
COLLEGE STATION, Texas— The U.S. Postal Service will issue a stamp honoring former President George H.W. Bush. The Postal Service said Saturday that the commemorative Forever stamp featuring Bush will be issued on his birthday, June 12. A first-day-of-issue ceremony will be held that day at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station.Bush died in Houston on Nov. 30 at the age of 94. The nation’s 41st president served from 1989 to 1993. Bush, who was a World War II hero, also served as Texas congressman, CIA director and Ronald Reagan’s vice president. The stamp features
Chelsea Clinton criticized President Donald Trump’s immigration and conservation policies Monday, saying the administration has consistently hit “new levels of cruelty” during a Late Night with Seth Meyers interview. A partial transcript is as follows: SETH MEYERS: I would imagine because of your experience, you would say that certain people who have an expectation of what happens during a presidency — like, trust me, it’s a lot harder than you think it is. There’s a lot more going on. Are you constantly taken aback, however, by exactly how chaotic this one seems?
The faith of my father
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I was at church when I first realized that, despite my best intentions, I had inherited some of my father’s mannerisms. Standing up during Mass one Sunday, I found myself rocking back and forth from my heels to toes, my arms crossed, eyes closed, head down while I listened to the priest lead a prayer. I’d seen my father do that same thing every week for much of my life and thought it seemed idiosyncratic, but either by nature or nurture I had unwittingly assumed the same series of movements.
Friday, at four o’clock in the afternoon. Kay Cole James, the president of the Heritage Foundation, steps to the podium of the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in suburban Harrisburg and gives the startling update. Ms. James, at a laughing, self-admitted 70 and famously one of the best known, longtime conservative leaders in the country, announces to the PLC crowd (the PLC is the Pennsylvania version of CPAC and was celebrating its 30th anniversary) that this was her first public comment since she had learned only hours earlier that she had been removed as a recent appointee to Google’s Advanced Technology
News that President Trump may nominate Stephen Moore and Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors has invited pushback by pretend-serious people supposedly concerned about these men’s qualifications. The notion that these detractors would accept some other “Good Republican,” just not these two, is a farce. The Good Republican would mostly agree with Democrats about the horribleness of other Republicans, scowl at standard Republican policies and nod along on a panel of liberals on your television. Moore and Cain aren’t Good Republicans, and that’s why their credentials are called into question.
Every day millions of Christians around the world are persecuted for their faith. They are often intimidated, abused and in fear for their lives all because of their commitment to Christ. [SNIP] This and other correlating issues will be addressed in ‘Religious Freedom at the Crossroads – The Rise of Anti-Christian Sentiment in the West’ – a timely legal conference to be held at Sheridan College in Perth, Western Australia, from June 14-15. Facebook, however, believes that material relating to a conference on religious freedom violates their ‘community standards, so no one else can see it’. Facebook has arbitrarily censored this
On Saturday, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx appeared at Rainbow PUSH headquarters where she found some friendly faces after being derided for nearly two weeks over her office’s handling of the Jussie Smollett hoax hate crime case. Yesterday, an assistant state’s attorney in Foxx’s office sent the following essay to CWBChicago to express a view from inside the prosecutor´s office. We are publishing the piece in its entirety with permission. The author asked to remain anonymous because they are not permitted to speak publicly about department business.
Legal Expert: Chicago Lawsuit Is Jussie Smollett’s ‘Worst Nightmare’ — ‘City Wants Pound of Flesh’
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While Cook County prosecutors may have let Empire actor Jussie Smollett off for allegedly staging a hate crime against himself, one legal expert predicts the city of Chicago could still cause him major issues. Chicago officials last Thursday announced plans to file a civil lawsuit against Jussie Smollett for the cost of the investigation into his purported racist and anti-gay attack after he refused to meet a week-long deadline to repay roughly $130,000. According to high-profile Chicago-area attorney Karen Conti, the city’s lawsuit is the actor’s “worst nightmare.” “The evidence would likely be unsealed and the case could drag
Mike Pence was governor of Indiana in 2015 when Democrat Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend came out of the closet as gay amid a controversy over Indiana´s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows Christian businesses to act on their beliefs even if the subject is homosexuality. Buttigieg attacked Pence. The governor turned the other cheek when asked about the attack. (Snip)But if the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is so wrong that God opposes it, then why is Buttigieg a Democrat? A Democrat Congress passed the federal version of this law in 1993 when Buttigieg was 11.
A Maryland man has been charged with stealing a rental truck that authorities say he wanted to use to kill pedestrians at National Harbor in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Federal prosecutors on Monday accused Rondell Henry, 28, of Germantown, Maryland, of planning to carry out the attack. He was arrested March 28 after surveillance video showed him parking and getting out of a U-Haul truck that was reported stolen two days earlier, investigators said. "He said he wanted to carry out a Nice-style attack," a law enforcement official said...
Democrat obstruction of the presidency continues as Obama-appointee Judge Richard Seeborg sided with a liberal group in stopping President Donald John Trump from executing his constitutional duty as commander in chief. Seeborg is the same obstructionist judge who earlier blocked the Trump administration from restoring the citizenship question on the census that Obama had unilaterally removed in the 2010 Census. That unconstitutional decision is on appeal. Fox News reported, "The so-called Remain in Mexico policy was one of the primary innovations of former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen,
Whether at a lubricant factory, orphanage, potato company or fish-pickling plant, Kim Jong Un has conducted sporadic visits to odd and quirky North Korean sites throughout the years. Through the years, Kim has visited several companies, including a “newly-remodeled” Pyongyang Teacher Training College and trackless trolley factory, around the regime’s capital to provide "field guidance," according to North Korean propaganda. The despot is often photographed with a massive grin and interacting with factory workers as several officials stand in the background taking notes -- about something -- during the visit.
Washington - The Trump administration announced Monday that it is designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, the first time the U.S. has used the designation on part of another country’s government. “This unprecedented step, led by the Department of State, recognizes the reality that Iran is not only a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft,” President Donald Trump said in a statement. “The IRGC is the Iranian government’s primary means of directing and implementing its global terrorist
Actor John Cusack declared Monday that outgoing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen belongs behind bars for enforcing immigration laws. “Let history never let her be anything other than the criminal she is for the role she played in one of the most (among many) horrifying modern crimes this country has committed,” John Cusack said in a social media post. [Tweet] The 2012 star also said that Nielsen “Belongs in JAIL.” “Unless child abduction and torture is not a crime And there is no universe of law where it isn’t.”
Victoria Nuland, President Obama’s assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs from September 2013 until January 2017, has been linked to the notorious anti-Trump dossier fabricated by Hillary Clinton’s opposition research firm. The author of the dossier, Christopher Steele, reportedly had developed long-standing relationships with senior State Department officials, including Nuland. “Between 2014 and 2016, Steele authored more than a hundred reports on Russia and Ukraine. These were written for a private client but shared widely within the State Department and sent up to Secretary of State John Kerry and to Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland,
So much for all that free health care. Now for what it looks like up close: Socialist Venezuela is now an exploding supernova of spreading disease vectors, with its three million fleeing refugees bringing measles, malaria, diptheria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, AIDS, Zika, leprosy, dengue chikungunya virus and other diseases long thought to have been eradicated in the early 20th century, with them. What an advertisement for socialism that is. It´s the effect of the collapse of the country´s medical system, brought on by socialism´s unsustainable economics, and Venezuela´s Maduro dictatorship
Democrat presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke had harsh words for Israel’s prime minister at a recent rally. While speaking in Iowa City Sunday, O’Rourke slammed Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies in Israel by saying the prime minister defies the prospects of peace in the region. Netanyahu is up for reelection and Israeli voters are set to head to the polls Tuesday. O’Rourke called America’s relationship with Israel “one of the most important on the planet,” which must transcend a “racist” prime minister. “That relationship, if it is to be successful, must transcend partisanship in the United States and
Rather amazingly, Democrats are promoting the addition of yet another candidate to their crowded subway car of potential presidential candidates — this time, failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. Here´s what The Hill is reporting: Democrats say there´s room in their crowded presidential field for one more high-profile candidate: Stacey Abrams. The Georgia Democrat, who became a national name in her gubernatorial bid last year, is pondering whether to run for the White House — or the Senate, where Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) would love to have her take on Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.).
Wanting to be president is not something that White House wannabes ever really get over. Remember Richard Nixon? John McCain? Hillary Clinton? Now comes Joe Biden — again. Most likely. He’s late starting his third bid, which should launch shortly after Easter, a good time, symbolically speaking, to attempt political resurrection. [Snip] Watch today’s growing mob of progressive jump-on-the-counter, government-should-do-everything, sure-I’ve-inhaled-marijuana, watch-my-dental-cleaning, yes-I-took-Mom-to-a-porn-flick crowd of ambitious, uber-liberal Democrats. And you’d think
Another day, another Democratic tax idea which could prove economically devastating. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), not to be outdone by similar terrible ideas from his Senate colleagues — such as Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) estate tax increase or Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax proposal — recently introduced a proposal to tax unrealized capital gains. This policy, as Sen. Pat Toomey aptly put it, is a “breathtakingly terrible idea.” Under current policy, capital gains, such as increases in value for held stocks, are only taxable when they are “realized.”
A late day submission to DC Circuit Court in a FOIA case previously discussed, reveals the content of Mueller’s probe & use of multiple, previously unknown, James Comey memos. Additionally, within the filing we discover how Comey documented multiple events, meetings and information surrounding the FBI investigation of Donald Trump.The documents surface as part of the FOIA case [Backstory Here] where DC Court Judge James E. Boasberg -an Obama appointee and also a FISA judge- asked the FBI to file an opinion about the release of Comey memos to the public. There are two issues: (1) can the memos be
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) went on Twitter Monday to warn, “immigrants and people of color to use extreme caution when traveling to Florida.”(tweet)The ACLU’s tweet comes in light of the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, urging Florida’s legislature to pass laws that would ban sanctuary cities. The laws would prevent police departments from refusing to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in apprehending illegal immigrants. Florida has one of the largest illegal immigrant populations in the nation; estimated at more than 700,000 people. ACLU of Florida said that the state’s recent push
Freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar called White House adviser Stephen Miller a “white nationalist” in a tweet on Monday afternoon. Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota and one of the first Muslim women elected to congress, made the statement as Miller reportedly pushed President Trump to move immigration enforcement in “tougher direction.”“Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. The fact that he still has influence on policy and political appointments is an outrage,” Omar wrote in the tweet, accompanied by a link to a story about Miller in Splinter News.Miller, an immigration hardliner, has been the driving force behind a number of Trump’s
The Destruction of Citizen Cain
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In 2016, black businessman extraordinaire Herman Cain terminated his run for the presidency due to allegations of sexual misconduct. Cain chose to protect his family from the humiliation of enduring leftists´ attempt to destroy a black conservative Republican.It is unfortunate that negative press was many black Americans´ national introduction to Herman Cain. When Cain dropped out of the presidential race, his accusers magically disappeared. Now that Trump has chosen Cain for the Federal Reserve Board, the allegations have resurfaced to block his appointment.Folks, we cannot continue allowing leftists to hypocritically use this tactic to disqualify good people. When president Bill
Nearly a month after Beto O´Rourke announced his candidacy for president, the Texas Democrat has yet to articulate any meaningful views on policy. His campaign is a series of empty platitudes, lacking any substance. To the extent that O´Rourke discusses actual issues, he just calls for debates or national conversations to determine what to do, no matter the subject. Interested in concrete solutions to the problems facing the American people? Do not look to O´Rourke, who, during six years in the House of Representatives, sponsored no major legislation and only passed three bills. Even liberal
In the past two weeks, two different airports have blocked Chick-fil-A from the premises. First, the city council of San Antonio banned the chain because, in the words of councilman Robert Trevino, “everyone should feel welcome when they walk through our airport.” Then, two weeks later, a New York Democratic assemblyman, Sean Ryan, announced that the Buffalo airport food vendor was prohibiting Chick-fil-A from operating in its food court. Ryan was explicit about the reason, declaring in a statement that “the views of Chick-fil-A do not represent our state or the Western New York community.”
The left and its compliant media are willfully reporting false news to the American people. Whether it is a symptom of mass hysteria that is the genesis for this confirmation bias-style reporting or an intentional maneuver to spread anti-Trump propaganda, its effect is toxic and pernicious. The report comes in the form of a tweet making its way through the Twitter-sphere in which a user named Mark Elliott has posted a video of Donald Trump who he contends is referring to migrants at the border as “animals.” Elliott, who has almost 20,000 followers added the comment,
Hollywood used to confine its hostility toward traditional American values to the screen. It took a hard left turn half a century ago with productions like The Graduate, Easy Rider, Bob and Carol, Ted and Alice, M*A*S*H, and every show by Norman Lear, to nudge the culture that way. Sure, there were overreaches — Jane Fonda cozying up to a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, Marlon Brando sending a poor Indian girl onstage to reject his Best Actor Oscar for The Godfather, the Edith Bunker Memorial for the Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, Steven Spielberg’s fanboy swoon for Fidel Castro,
Last week, the New York Times featured an illustrated timeline of “white extremist” killings over the last nine years, with lines demonstrating citation and affiliation among the killers. According to the Times, the record shows “an informal global network of white extremists whose violent attacks are occurring with greater frequency in the West.” The idea that white supremacist violence is a growing global threat has gained more currency recently, notably in the wake of the ghastly Christchurch mosque massacre, when an avowed white nationalist murdered 50 Muslims. New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, asserted that “White supremacists committed
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who´s vying for the Democratic nomination for president, called for a federal ban on so-called right-to-work laws in a Monday speech. Speaking to the International Association of Machinists at the union´s conference in Las Vegas, Sanders said as president he would push legislation in Congress to prohibit the laws. Right-to-work laws bar unionized workplaces from negotiating contracts under which all members who benefit from the contract must contribute dues. Twenty-six states currently have right-to-work laws on the books. “We need elected officials and candidates at every level to get serious about speaking out for the trade union movement.
California Could Be Coming For Your Kitchen Stove Next (Plus Your Water Heater, Clothes Dryer, Etc.)
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California is essentially a one-party state at this point so whatever Democrats want to do is what is going to happen. One of the things they are apparently thinking about doing now is getting rid of natural gas appliances in homes and businesses. The idea is to replace millions of gas stoves, gas dryers and gas heaters with replacements that run on electricity to help fight climate change. From the Los Angeles Times: Among the sources of climate change pollution, cars and power plants get the most attention.
A good Samaritan was fatally shot over the weekend while handing out $20 bills and paying for meals at a Florida restaurant, according to police. Police arrested Ezekiel Hicks, 25, on murder charges early Sunday in the death of 41-year-old Craig Brewer, who was shot and killed at a Waffle House, in Gainesville, Florida, just a few miles west of the University of Florida. Officials with the Alachua County Sheriff´s Office said the restaurant´s surveillance camera captured an altercation between the two on video. Witnesses said the victim was arguing with a female acquaintance of the suspect,
Small business owners across the country are beginning to feel the pinch as more states move toward a $15 minimum wage. While proposals to raise pay are intended to help workers, several mom-and-pop coffee shops as well as restaurants are responding by cutting hours, eliminating jobs or closing down entirely because they can´t keep up with rising wages under the law. It´s the ugly side to the highly touted wage hikes, economists say, adding that the bumps can unleash a "payroll tsunami" for smaller businesses already stretched thin from rising rents and soaring health care costs.
Less than an hour after tweeting his presidential bid announcement Monday evening, Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell used another tweet to share with America what appeared to be his new campaign slogan. “Are you ready America?” Swalwell tweeted. “Let’s go big, be bold, and do good!” (Tweet/Video) Several were quick to poke fun at the California congressman’s campaign slogan: “Finally, we got what the people wanted: ‘Beto with less charm,´” wrote Nick Pappas. (Tweet) Pappas’ tweet had at least one fan: (Tweet) Democratic strategist Donna Brazile poked fun at Swalwell’s inclusion in what is already a crowded field. “Welcome candidate
Nunes files $150M lawsuit against McClatchy, alleging conspiracy to derail Clinton, Russia probes
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House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes filed a $150 million lawsuit in Virginia state court against The McClatchy Company and others on Monday, alleging that one of the news agency´s reporters conspired with a political operative to derail Nunes´ oversight work into the Hillary Clinton campaign and Russian election interference. The filing, obtained by Fox News, came a day after Nunes, R-Calif., revealed he would send eight criminal referrals to the Justice Department this week concerning purported surveillance abuses by federal authorities during the Russia probe, false statements to Congress and other matters. In March, Nunes filed a similar
Democrat 2020 presidential candidate Robert “Beto” O’Rourke proposed Friday in Iowa that the U.S. “allow” farmers to give up their “fair share” of crops to fight climate change. O’Rourke stood aloft as he proclaimed his message at a rally in Marshalltown, Iowa Friday:If we allow farmers to earn a profit in what they grow, if we allow them to contribute their fair share in combatting Climate Change by growing cover crops, allowing the technologies that invest in precision tilling and farming, capturing more of that carbon out of the air is another way in which they can make a profit.
MINNEAPOLIS -One. More. Time. Virginia showed resolve to hold off Oregon in the Sweet 16, withstood Purdue’s best in the Elite Eight and survived Auburn’s resilience in the national semifinal. Yet, there the Cavaliers were Monday night, facing overtime in the national championship game after a late rally by Texas Tech. (Video) One. More. Time. Again, U.Va. had what it took down the stretch and wouldn’t be denied in its quest to make a 180-degree turn in the NCAA tournament. "March to Redemption": Order your book now. An 85-77 overtime win against Texas Tech ensured U.Va.’s ultimate comeback after becoming the