Posts on Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said climate change was a “major factor” behind the wave of migrants making their way to the U.S. southern border. “The far-right loves to drum up fear [and] resistance to immigrants,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday. “But have you ever noticed they never talk about what‘s causing people to flee their homes in the first place?” “Perhaps that’s [because] they’d be forced to confront 1 major factor fueling global migration: Climate change,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. (Tweet)Ocasio-Cortez’s tweet links to a video by The Leap, a group founded by author and activist Naomi Klein. The Leap’s video discusses “why the
James Comey was a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller´s investigation, and his memos contained far more sensitive information than was previously known, it has been revealed. New FBI filings state that Comey´s personal notes and memos, which detailed his meetings with Donald Trump, were ´of interest´ to Mueller´s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. ´The FBI and the Special Counsel’s Office have determined that disclosure of the Comey Memos – or any portions of them – could reasonably be expected to adversely affect the pending Russia investigation,´ the filing reads. (Photos) ´Former FBI Director James B
Americans who think that the political climate in the United States is tumultuous should be aware of the disarray in its principal ally. On the heels of the evaporation of the Trump–Russia collusion scam (on which the Democrats had placed almost all their bets), the personnel changes at the Department of Homeland Security and the indisputable gravity of the numbers of illegal entries has fragmented the Democrats’ backup argument that the border was a “crisis manufactured by the president.” Attempted unauthorized border crossings of over 100,000 per month, and the opinions of senior Obama-administration officials, including the former secretary,
Washington- Well, I guess I have been right all along. Others have been saying that special counsel Robert Mueller was going to be swept up by the Kultursmog and become a tool of Hillary’s conspiracy. She said Russian hackers were the cause of her defeat — see page 395 of Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign — and she ordered her media to investigate. Hillary’s explanation for her defeat has been that the Russians colluded with the Trump team in fashioning her defeat. After all, she has been a lifelong enemy of Moscow, almost a member of the John Birch Society.
Though they were excruciatingly obnoxious to William Barr at Tuesday´s House Appropriations subcommittee hearing, Democrats would be well-advised to lay off the attorney general, maybe even treat him with kid gloves, because he holds a good deal of the future of their party in his hands. In fact, he is positioned to make that party bleed as perhaps no one in history. And it only makes it worse that he is clearly such a straight shooter. The big story from Barr´s testimony then before the subcommittee was not that the AG plans to release a redacted version of the Mueller report
The demise of media objectivity
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American media have come full circle. Newspapers, among the only media in Colonial times, were highly partisan, and truth was not a priority. Today, newspaper and TV media have returned to that point.Before the Revolution, in many towns, one man with a printing press published a paper, venting his own opinions. If that stirred up anyone else, the offended one was likely to start his own paper. Competition made up for the lack of objectivity. In the 1800s, the rise of political parties and the invention of high-speed printing presses caused a spurt in circulation, and many papers blossomed. In
Herman Cain is in deep trouble. And he hasn’t yet even been formally nominated to the Federal Reserve. Senate Republicans are warning the White House that the 2012 presidential candidate will face one of the most difficult confirmation fights of Donald Trump’s presidency and are making a behind-the-scenes play to get the president to back off, two GOP senators said. “There are concerns that are being voiced to the administrations about qualifications,” said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the Republican whip. “They’re probably going to hear from a number of our members about concerns
Washington-The Defense Department announced Tuesday that it had awarded $976 million in contracts to build President Donald Trump´s much-sought-after border wall with a completion date for these projects of October 2020. A $789 million contract was awarded to the Texas-based company SLSCO Ltd. for the construction of border wall in Santa Teresa, New Mexico which is located in the El Paso sector of the border. A second $187 million contract was awarded to the Montana-based Barnard Construction Company for work in Yuma, Arizona. The contracts were awarded by the US Army Corps of Engineers.
A couple of days before Beto O’Rourke kicked off his campaign for president, two of his former student staffers, Bryant Young and Autumn Lanning, were reminiscing about those heady days during the Texas race for U.S. Senate when it seemed they had Republican Ted Cruz on the ropes. Over sandwiches at Which Wich next to the University of Texas campus in Austin — he had the buffalo chicken, she went veggie — they described an almost intoxicating ride toward what they hoped would be the first statewide Democratic win in Texas in a quarter-century. “Watching the energy build up
The federal government on Tuesday raided dozens of locations belonging to doctors and medical equipment companies suspected of taking part in a massive telemarketing scam that targeted Medicare recipients and cost taxpayers nearly $1 billion. Investigators said 24 people were charged in the fraud, including three licensed medical professionals as well as company CEOs. The scam relied on telemarketers scattered throughout the Philippines and Latin America who sought out elderly patients eligible for Medicare, the federal health insurance program for older Americans. Using television and radio ads, as well as cold calls, the companies promised a
Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said Tuesday on “Hannity” that Attorney General William Barr´s review of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation will lead to a criminal investigation. “A headline today is that William Barr´s personally reviewing the conduct of the FBI in launching the Trump Russia collusion hoax. He knows and there is a plethora of evidence that the process by the FBI was corrupted by political bias and personal animus,” Jarrett told Sean Hannity. According to an administration official who briefed Fox News, Barr has assembled a "team" to investigate the origins
When I recently discussed (in these pages) the degree of responsibility for the current catastrophic flooding that should accrue to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), I clearly stated that the entirety of flooding could not have been prevented by the Corps or any other organization. However, the severity and frequency of flooding throughout the Missouri River basin — most specifically, what has resulted in all but nine of Nebraska´s 93 counties being under a federal disaster declaration — has increased dramatically due to one reason only, and it ain´t climate change.
Something is coming… something delicious. How can we tell? Well, whenever a bombshell is about to drop on the corrupt Intelligence Community, the New York Times does a quick narrative dump to get out ahead of the story. All the way down, buried deep, in a NYT story about Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s FISA investigation and AG Barr’s review of DOJ and FBI activity… they drop the following two paragraphs (emphasis mine): […] The inspector general is also scrutinizing another early source of information for the Russia investigation, the people said: Mr. Horowitz’s investigators have been asking questions about the role of
A bipartisan coalition introduced a bill in Congress today that would extend the one-time federal tax credit for buyers of electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen-powered vehicles. The Driving America Forward Act, as it’s called, is sponsored by Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Gary Peters (D-MI), and Susan Collins (R-ME) along with Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05). It’s also supported by no fewer than 60 organizations, including automakers, environmental organizations, and electric vehicle suppliers.
Jason “Bubba” Braswell flips a switch in the cab of his modified truck and pellets start spraying into an adjacent pond. The surface boils as young catfish race to collect the feed on his farm, just south of a little airstrip where brightly colored crop-dusters buzz in and out all day. Braswell loves raising the whiskered food fish here in the Mississippi delta, but scores of other catfish farmers weren’t so lucky after the catfish bubble burst in the late 2000s. “Just about everybody went bust around here,” said Braswell, 53, who left the catfish industry for a decade before
A Florida teenager´s goal to do well on the SAT ended up paying off -- and then some -- when he discovered he´d earned a perfect score of 1,600 on the test. Jacob Harrison, a junior at Largo High School in Largo, Fla., had set a goal to score 1,550 when he first took the SAT back in December. When he checked back in to find out his score, however, the 17-year-old said he got quite a surprise. "I was shocked, I showed my friend because I was walking to school," he told FOX13 on Tuesday. "We both kind of freaked out
RUSH: Jackie in Ramona, California, wanted to get to you very quickly. How are you doing?CALLER: I’m good. How are you, Rush? RUSH: Fine and dandy. Great to have you. (Snip) CALLER: Yes. I’m originally from Illinois. I wanted to put that out there. My husband and I have been watching this since about 2003 just unfold with this whole Obama debacle. And as time is going on, we’re believing what we were thinking. We’re watching the left Democrat candidates become more and more radicalized. Well, we believe Michelle is gonna swoon in and save the day for the Obamas.
When candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez use "verbal blackface," as she did at the National Action Network, saying "ain´t nothing wrong with" and "this is what (insert blah blah blah here) ... looks like" as she drawls out the looooks liiike as if she had a stroke while clapping her hands at each word, to add punctuation to her staccato, should we be concerned? Hillary Clinton did it, as did Al Gore. Even Barack Obama, depending on his audience, could upshift and downshift his colloquialisms to match his own perceived level of pandering
It has been a long time since a person as young as Candace Owens appeared on the political scene who is as brilliant, grounded, and quick-thinking as she is. She is the same age as Rep. Ocasio-Cortez! Let that sink in a minute. Owens has about a hundred I.Q. points on the supremely ignorant Ocasio-Cortez. Owens´s grace and class are the antithesis of Ocasio-Cortez´s empty-headed, ditzy meanderings. Owens´s videos are all worth watching, and her performance on Tuesday in front of the House Oversight Committee was spectacular.
Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that President Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan has been adopted by white nationalists as their own phrase. “The white nationalists certainly think MAGA is a white nationalist slogan,” the New York Democrat wrote on Twitter. She included a link to a HuffPost article about shooting suspect Brenton Harrison Tarrant, who is the alleged shooter in last month’s New Zealand mosque attacks, “extensively” following pro-Trump content online.
Hundreds of Honduran migrants, many carrying young children, set out in a caravan for that country’s border with Guatemala on Wednesday, hoping to reach the United States. Some of those who gathered at the San Pedro Sula bus station said they can’t support their families with what they can earn in Honduras and are seeking better opportunities. Most boarded buses before dawn that would carry them to towns on the Guatemalan border. Others walked through the rain, some pushing strollers or carrying sleeping children in their arms.
President Trump suggested Wednesday that illegal immigrants from Central America are worse than those from Mexico, changing tone from his campaign declaration that Mexico was sending the worst of the worst to the U.S. “Those countries are sending the tough ones. They are sending the gang members,” the president said during roundtable in Texas. “People from Mexico, they come in and help with the farming and they go out, no problem.” That’s a marked change from 2015 when, in announcing his campaign, he said Mexico sends “people that have lots of problems,”
If you’re wondering what Democrats have in mind when they tout “Medicare For All,” look no further than England. There are more reports of the U.K.’s National Health System’s collapse, this time featuring horror stories of rationing care for the elderly. Doctors are now sounding alarms bells that seniors with cataracts are going blind as they wait for surgical approval. The Guardian reported, “Patients who are losing their sight are being forced to wait for months before having eye cataracts removed because of NHS cost-cutting. …
President Donald Trump traveled to Crosby, Texas on Wednesday to speak with US energy workers. During his speech he thanked the Texas politicians who came out to see him today. (Photo) President Trump gave a shout out to George P. Bush – “The only Bush that got it right.” President Bush: Thanks also to Texas Land Commissioner George P. Bush for being here. Where’s George. Where’s George? Come here George. This is the only Bush that likes me. This is the only one. Come here! I want to meet you. He’s a friend of my son. And he’s a great
“I started this new club,” House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told the North America’s Building Trades Unions National Legislative Conference on Tuesday. “It’s called the ‘Too Hot to Handle’ club,” Pelosi said in her address promoting her health care, open border, and infrastructure spending initiatives: “As Walter Reuther said, ‘There is a direct relationship between the ballot box and the bread box, and what the union fights for and wins at the bargaining table can be taken away in the legislative halls.’ We cannot let that happen. We have to be aware of the threat.“I am part of a club,
Californians who love “Big Gulp”-style sodas can rest easy for the moment — the state legislature will not outlaw the oversize drinks just yet. On Wednesday, Assemblyman David Chiu, a Democrat from San Francisco who sponsored a provision to ban the large sodas, pulled the proposal from a legislative package aimed at combating obesity amid opposition from businesses and trade groups including the 7-Eleven corporation, the American Beverage Association, and the California Retailers Association. The measure, AB766, would have prohibited restaurants and stores from selling sugary drinks in unsealed containers that hold over 16 fluid ounces. “Make no mistake, the
HOUSTON— During a visit to a training facility in Crosby, Texas, President Donald Trump told union workers that "American labor will always have a friend in the White House."President Trump said crude oil production is at a record high in Texas, but that he believes more can be done. He signed two executive orders designed to accelerate oil and gas pipeline projects.The President said that badly needed energy projects are being held back by what he calls "special interest groups, entrenched bureaucracies and radical activists." (Video/Photo) One executive order that President Trump signed could make it harder for states to
When Pope Benedict XVI resigned the papacy in 2013, he vowed to live the rest of his days in seclusion, to serve the Catholic Church “through a life dedicated to prayer.” But the church’s spiraling abuse crisis prompted him this week to return to the limelight. The retired pontiff has drafted a 6,000-word document in his native German and aims to publish it in a monthly periodical for clergy in his home region of Bavaria. Benedict says the document, an English translation of which I’ve reviewed, is meant to assist the Church in seeking “a new beginning” and making her “again
The far-left ThinkProgress reports that scientists have finally proven that the theory of man-made Global Warming is a total hoax. Of course, no one will admit it, but that is exactly what has happened. A new scientific study shows has revealed the following: Current CO2 levels of 410 parts per million (ppm) were last seen on Earth three million years ago, according to the most detailed reconstruction of the Earth’s climate by researchers at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and published in Science Advances. (Snip) but there is one major difference between three million years ago and today…
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on Wednesday to be on his way to a fifth term as prime minister of Israel, solidifying the sense across the Arab world that the dream of a Palestinian state is more remote than ever — as is the chance that the United States will help create it. (Snip) “The Arabs are at their weakest. The Palestinians are divided like never before. Israel is stronger than ever and Trump backs it, so Israel can do whatever it wants,” he said. For decades, support for the creation of a Palestinian state was a rare issue
I am a direct primary care (DPC) physician. DPC doctors have determined ways to improve health care access, include telemedicine, and offer deeply discounted rates on medications, labs, and imaging for a low-cost monthly membership, similar in design and value to Costco. If matched with appropriate health insurance coverage, DPC can save patients thousands of dollars annually compared to the current broken, highly inefficient system. DPC is one of the most innovative areas of the current health care system
With the wall still in the works, President Trump isn´t sitting idle as 1.5 million illegal migrants prepare to storm the U.S. border this year. He´s moving swiftly to get some kind of handle on the migrant surge by strengthening the U.S.´s loophole-filled system of laws that have made immigrating here illegally more attractive to would-be migrants than following U.S. law. He´s pulling up the drawbridge. OANN reports that Trump´s new package of measures, which should be complete by this summer, may just be the invisible architecture to deter illegal immigration as effectively as a wall.
Vice President Pence called out Venezuela´s United Nations ambassador to his face while addressing the body´s Security Council on Wednesday -- a speech he used to declare it´s time for Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro to step down. “With all due respect, Mr. Ambassador, you shouldn’t be here,” he said, looking directly at the representative, Samuel Moncada, who was in the room. “You should return to Venezuela and tell Nicolas Maduro that his time is up. It’s time for him to go.” Moncada looked up from his phone and shook his head at Pence’s remarks.
House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters was brought up short Wednesday after she targeted banking chiefs over the student loan crisis, even though the federal government took over student lending in 2010. At a hearing featuring a panel of seven bank CEOs, Ms. Waters ticked off figures on student loan debt and defaults, then asked, “What are you guys doing to help us with this student loan debt? Who would like to answer first? Mr. Monahan, big bank.” Bank of America chairman and CEO Brian Monahan replied, “We stopped making student loans in 2007 or so.” Ms. Waters replied,
ANTI-VAXXER parents are hosting "measles parties" so their kids can contract the deadly virus instead of getting the jab, it has been reported. City health officials blasted parents after they were found encouraging their un-vaccinated kids to get the virus from each other in Brooklyn, New York. Some 285 cases of measles have been confirmed in New York since October.
Ken Starr purposefully left out the finding that Hillary Clinton had ´triggered´ the suicide of President Clinton´s Deputy White House Counsel in his final FBI report to spare her feelings, DailyMail.com can reveal. FBI agents investigating the death of Vince Foster learned he was set off after Hillary attacked and humiliated him in front of other White House aides a week before he took his own life on July 20, 1993. But for what were then unexplained reasons, Starr elected to conceal the FBI´s finding that Hillary´s tirade triggered Foster´s suicide when he wrote his final report on the matter.
In a handful of fossilized teeth and bones, scientists say they’ve found evidence of a previously unknown human species that lived in what is now the Philippines about 50,000 years ago. The discovery deepens the mystery of an era when the world was a melting pot of many different human kinds on the move. Small-jawed with dainty teeth, able to walk upright but with feet still shaped to climb, these island creatures were a mix-and-match patchwork of primitive and advanced features in a unique variation of the human form, the scientists reported Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Former secretary of state John F. Kerry responded in disbelief when a Republican congressman challenged his credentials on climate change, prompting the veteran politician to ask, “This is really happening here?” Kerry, who helped broker the 2015 Paris climate accord that President Trump pulled out of, returned to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to serve as a witness for a House Oversight Committee hearing on the need for leadership to combat climate change. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), who has two engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, began his line of questioning attempting to undermine Kerry’s authority
Charles Van Doren, the inspiration for the 1994 film Quiz Show, died on Tuesday. He was 93. Van Doren confessed to Congress in 1959 that his 14-week winning streak on the popular NBC quiz show Twenty-One was a hoax. During his eloquent testimony, the Columbia University English instructor confessed to having been given the questions and answers in advance, as well as being told to act dramatically while deliberating over the inexplicably correct answers. “I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years,” he told Congress.
Donald Trump is set to become a grandfather for the tenth time, after his son Eric and his wife Lara announced that they are expecting their second child together. Lara, 36, made the announcement on Twitter on Wednesday morning, revealing that she is five-months along in her second pregnancy - and sharing the news just weeks after she competed in a grueling triathlon in Florida. Along with the happy news, Lara, who is due in August, shared several sweet family photos that show the happy couple smiling at the camera
In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, lawyers for The Washington Post have filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit from the family of Covington Catholic student Nick Sandmann, who was smeared by the media as a racist after a clip of him standing silently while a Native American man beat a drum in his face was shared online. The Post “asserts its stories were accurate and did not impugn the reputation of Covington (Ky.) Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann,” the news outlet wrote of its motion.
Chip and Joanna Gaines´ New Cable Network Will Replace Discovery´s DIY Network in Summer 2020
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Chip and Joanna Gaines are already household names — and their star is only rising. Since the home renovation stars revealed last fall that they were getting their own TV network, Fixer Upper viewers have been anxiously awaiting more news. On Wednesday, Discovery, Inc. and Magnolia, the home and lifestyle brand led by the couple, announced that in summer 2020, the Gaines’ new network will replace Discovery’s DIY Network, currently in more than 52 million U.S. homes. The channel will feature long-form programming centering around community, home, garden, food, wellness, entrepreneurialism and design. The network also will be home to
Attorney General William Barr told a Senate panel Wednesday that he believes American “intelligence agencies” did spy on the Trump campaign but said he has not yet determined whether there was a proper justification for that surveillance.“I think spying did occur,” Barr said during a hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee. “But the question is whether it was adequately predicated and I am not suggesting that it wasn’t adequately predicated. . . . I am not suggesting those rules were violated, but I think it is important to look at that. And I am not talking about the FBI necessarily,
Eric and Lara Trump are getting set to welcome a new member to the family. The second-oldest son of President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he and his wife are expecting their second child in August. (Photos/Tweet) "Lara and I are excited to announce that we will be adding another member to our family in August!´´ Eric Trump, 35, wrote on Twitter. "Luke will be a great big brother!" The couple, who have been married since 2014, are parents to a son, Eric Trump, 1, whom they call Luke. (Photos/Tweet) "Baby number two coming this August!!" Lara Trump, 36,
Lara Logan, a former reporter for “60 Minutes,” has joined Sinclair Broadcast Group to do a three-month exposé on the alarming migrant crisis at the US-Mexico border. Logan worked for 12 years at CBS News before leaving the network last year. In February 2019, Logan made headlines after revealing that the mainstream media are “85% Democrats” who hate President Trump and have devolved into left-wing “propagandists and political activists” masquerading as objective journalists.
President Donald Trump congratulated Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu on Wednesday for apparently winning a fifth term. “I’d like to congratulate Bibi Netanyahu. It looks like that race has been won by him,” Trump said. The president acknowledged that his congratulatory message might be early but commented that it looked like Netanyahu was the victor. He also praised the prime minister for continuing to be a great ally with the United States.
‘Illegal immigrant’ is charged with killing a man by running over him TWICE after a fight at a club
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A woman has been charged with killing a man by running him over twice after an argument in a Texas bar. Laura Rosas, 33, was arrested on Monday night for allegedly murdering Emmanuel Ramirez, 30, OK Corral, a Latin nightclub in Fort Worth, Texas. She is accused of running him over twice in the parking lot in the early hours of Monday morning after an argument inside the club. It is unclear how they knew each other or what they were fighting about. Another woman who was allegedly in the car with her is yet to be named
Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edge of the abyss. Assembling data gathered by eight radio telescopes around the world, astronomers captured a picture of the hot, shadowy lip of a supermassive black hole, the light-sucking monsters of the universe theorized by Einstein more than a century ago and confirmed by observations for decades. It is along this edge that light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect. “We have seen what we thought was unseeable. We have seen
Following the tragic death of Nipsey Hussle, his hometown of Los Angeles is honoring the rapper. Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson announced on Tuesday (April 9) that the intersection of Slauson Avenue and Crenshaw Boulevard, right in the center of where Nipsey grew up, will become "Ermias ´Nipsey Hussle´ Asghedom Square." (Snip) The rapper was gunned down on March 31 in front of his Marathon Clothing store, located at the newly named intersection. Suspect Eric Holder has been charged with murder, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney´s office. Holder is in custody after pleading not guilty. Nip´s family
‘Some people did something’: Dan Crenshaw blasts Omar for denigrating comments on 9/11 attacks
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After taking a brief sabbatical from front page controversy, perhaps just to catch her breath, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is back and as filled with hate as ever. Not only has the freshman Democrat returned to bashing Jews, a video has come to light of Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, denigrating the 9/11 terrorist attack at the hands of Islamic extremists — an attack that claimed nearly 3,000 lives. Speaking at a Council on American-Islamic Relations fundraiser last month,
Democrats in the House of Representatives canceled a scheduled vote on a two-year budget bill Tuesday as the more moderate members of the party are clashing with the progressive members. HERE’S WHAT YOU’RE MISSING … Many members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus pushed back against the budget bill, saying the bill is too focused on funding for the Pentagon instead of funding for domestic programs, according to Politico. More moderate members in the Blue Dog Coalition also are coming out against the bill, but for different reasons, saying the bill is too expensive.
Georgia Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath was the target of some creative trolling by the Republican Party over her widely disputed claim that she actually lives in Georgia, after receiving and signing for a gift basket the GOP sent to her address -- in Tennessee... The state’s Cobb County Tax Commissioner’s Office ... confirmed last month that McBath didn’t meet the requirements to call her Cobb County home her primary residence for the three tax years leading up to the election, meaning she was a Tennessee resident when she was elected to Congress.
For those of you who trust the Establishment Media 100%, chances are you are currently living under the illusion/delusion that hate crimes in Trump’s America are rising at a pace never before seen. NOT TRUE. In fact, what is actually ‘exploding’ in this regard are hate crime hoaxes and some widespread manipulation of the statistical data. Read on to learn the truth (Snip) Did you catch the manipulation of the data that is going on? While reports of hate crimes went up 17% in 2017, the number of agencies reporting hate crimes increased by more than 1000!
An estimated 500 protesters gathered at the steps of the Sacramento Capitol Building on March 28 to protest explicit sex education, including gender fluidity lessons, being taught in the state’s elementary schools. The protest was organized by the Informed Parents of California (IPCA), which was established following the enactment of the California Healthy Youth Act in January 2016. That legislation was initially called the California Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education Act and was designed to provide “comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education” to California kids in grades seven through 12. “They want to teach our children how to
In the movie Escape From New York, the island of Manhattan was walled off and mined. For its fortieth anniversary, New York City will try to recreate its plot by walling off parts of Manhattan with toll booths. The walls of toll booths to impose congestion pricing on the locals will fulfill the dream of former Mayor Bloomberg whose wildest ideas now seem downright tame to the new Dem radicals. You could try to bypass the toll booths along 61st Street by taking an Uber, but good luck.
Google decided this year to create an advisory council that would help guide the company in the responsible development of artificial intelligence. (Snip) Like many businesses and nonprofits, my organization, the Heritage Foundation, relies on Google search, YouTube and other Google products to promote our work, to reach audiences and to advance our mission. We’re also concerned about reports alleging that Google suppresses conservative voices and politically skews its search-engine results. It was reassuring to be invited to participate in the AI advisory council — a sign that Google wanted to treat a wide range of viewpoints fairly
Astronomers have captured the first image of a black hole, heralding a revolution in our understanding of the universe’s most enigmatic objects. The picture shows a halo of dust and gas, tracing the outline of a colossal black hole, at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy, 55m light years from Earth. The black hole itself – a cosmic trapdoor from which neither light nor matter can escape – is unseeable. But the latest observations take astronomers right to its threshold for the first time, illuminating the event horizon beyond which all known physical laws break down. (Snip) The image gives the first direct glimpse of a black hole’s accretion
Let’s Not Mourn for Texas Tech
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It’s never fun to lose. That’s true if you’ve been bleeding red and black since childhood, suffering through the bad years, and enjoying every second of Texas Tech men’s basketball’s performance in this year’s NCAA tournament. And it’s true even if you just hopped on the bandwagon in the final week of the team’s improbable journey to the national championship game. By Monday, seemingly the entire state was on board—as far from Lubbock as San Antonio, highway signs were adorned with “Go Tech” messages, while in the city itself, scooter companies removed their devices from the streets,
In April 2017, scientists used a global network of telescopes to see and capture the first-ever picture of a black hole, according to an announcement by researchers at the National Science Foundation Wednesday morning. They captured an image of the black hole at the center of a galaxy known as M87. "We have seen what we thought was unseeable," said Sheperd Doeleman, director of the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. "We have seen and taken a picture of a black hole."
The Justice Department’s internal watchdog intends to complete by May or June his investigation into aspects of the Russia inquiry, including whether law enforcement officials abused their powers in surveilling a former Trump campaign aide, Attorney General William P. Barr told lawmakers on Tuesday. The department’s inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, has been examining how law enforcement officials obtained a warrant in October 2016 to wiretap Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign with links to Russia. Mr. Horowitz’s investigators have also asked witnesses about informants that the F.B.I. turned to in the early
Tehran - A B-52 bomber belonging to US military terrorists crashed in Helmand region, Afghanistan, Fars News Agency reported. According to the report, a B-52 US bomber has crashed in Washir district in the west of Helmand Province. Taliban has claimed responsibility saying it has targeted the plane and also saying that all US crews on board have been killed. The report has not been confirmed by officials in Afghanistan or the US.
Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters bullied and harangued Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin during his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee. Mnuchin’s Congressional hearing was related to the Democrats’ rabid witch hunt for President Trump’s tax returns — which most Americans could not care less about. Waters Named One of the Most Corrupt Members of Congress -Amazingly, Waters is the chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee despite being repeatedly named one of the most corrupt members of Congress by the George Soros-funded liberal watchdog CREW (Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington). In contrast, Mnuchin is a self-made businessman whose
The Hollywood Reporter performed a poll on the news media, and the finding is still unexpected and shocking to some. The headline was "Americans Think All Network News Channels Lean Liberal, Poll Finds."Common sense has won. Can we dispose of the ridiculous fiction that the network news product is objective, strictly balanced and nonpartisan? The poll of 2,200 Americans from March 28 to April 2 asked if certain media outlets are "more liberal" or "more conservative" or have "no political lean." The Big Three networks averaged 35 percent "more liberal" and about 20 percent "no political lean." Count on the
A member of the Trump administration told Fox News´ Gregg Re on Tuesday that Attorney General William Barr has assembled a team to investigate the origins of the Obama administration´s FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. (Video) During a congressional hearing on Tuesday, Barr said: "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 during the summer of 2016." Barr´s testimony came after he sent a letter to Congress in late March that revealed that Special Counsel Robert
According to holier-than-thou, sanctimonious Progressives and their protester surrogates, President Trump’s a “white nationalist”, a “misogynist”, a “homophobe”, an “Islamophobe,” a “patriarch of privilege”. We can add to the same old, same old tiresome list, and a most convenient how to get elected or reelected ‘FillI-in-the blank” space. Filling in the Blank Trump descriptions are exactly what the Progs have been doing since 2016, making things up as they mosey along.
Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan, and are scouring the waters for the missing pilot, authorities said on Wednesday. The aircraft, less than a year old, was the first F-35 assembled in Japan and was aloft for only 28 minutes on Tuesday before contact was lost, a defense official said. The plane had logged a total of 280 hours in the air, he added. (Snip) The advanced, single-seat jet disappeared in good weather about 135 km (84 miles) east of the Misawa air base in Aomori prefecture at about 7:27 p.m. (1027 GMT), the Air Self Defense
The American Spectator is on a list of sites “blacklisted” in Google search results, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller. Google created an “XPA news blacklist” to suppress “fake news, hate speech [and] conspiracy theories” in its search results, the Daily Caller’s J. Arthur Bloom reported in an exclusive Tuesday. This practice, approved by Google’s Trust & Safety team, contradicts congressional testimony by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who denied that the company manipulates its search results. Bloom quotes the internal Google document as saying the blacklist would be used to “filter problematic sites that violate the good neighbor
“Now I know,” I thought to myself, “what a vice president’s breath smells like—coffee.” An interesting fact gleaned on a surreal day. At the time, it didn’t occur to me that perhaps he should not have been close enough to me that I could smell him at all. It was Sept. 19, 2014, and I had just introduced then–Vice President Joe Biden at a White House event.
A second onetime aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan is implicated in former IT staffer Jackson Cosko’s massive data-theft scheme that was ultimately used to “intimidate” Republican senators by “doxxing” them during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, prosecutors said. Samantha G. DeForest-Davis, at the time a staff assistant to Hassan, was the aide who allegedly helped Cosko conduct his scheme, a source with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Court records show a case naming her has been opened, and the source confirmed it relates to her alleged role in the data theft.
The likelihood that Prime Minister Netanyahu will be given the mandate to form the next government in Israel is a remarkable achievement. It ratifies not only his own leadership but also the historic shift to the right in Israel over the past generation. It augurs well for Israel’s relations with America, which has been one of the bright spots in the eras of both Mr. Netanyahu and President Trump. Mr. Netanyahu’s victory — if it holds — is all the more remarkable for the fact that it was achieved while he is facing a likely trial
Candace KO´s Dems
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“The media and the journalists on the Left are not interested in telling the truth about me because I don’t fit the stereotype of what they like to see in black people. I am a Democrat. I support the President of the United States and I advocate for things that are actually affecting the black community.” That was Candace Owens of Turning Point USA in her opening statement to the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. The African American conservative, 29, had not come alone. “The person sitting behind me is my 75-year-old grandfather,” Owens told the committee.
NEW YORK - A measles outbreak in Brooklyn, primarily among Orthodox Jewish children, prompted New York City on Tuesday to declare a public health emergency, requiring unvaccinated people in the affected areas to get the vaccine or face fines. The city’s largest outbreak since 1991 of the once virtually eradicated disease has mainly been confined to the Orthodox Jewish community in the borough’s Williamsburg neighborhood, with 285 cases confirmed since October, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference. That’s up sharply from only two reported cases in all of 2017.
Netanyahu Declares ‘Incredible Victory’ As Revised Exit Polls Indicate Clear Path to Election Win
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TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared victory here tonight as revised exit polls projected his clear path to forming a right-wing coalition and early official election results put Netanyahu’s Likud party ahead of his Blue and White rivals.“I am very moved on this night,” stated Netanyahu, addressing supporters at a victory rally in Tel Aviv. “This is a night of an incredible, incredible victory.”Netanyahu hailed a “fantastic achievement, an enormous achievement, which is almost unfathomable.”Before most ballots were counted, Netanyahu called his party’s purported victory “almost unprecedented,” asking, “When did we receive so many seats? I don’t even
If you want to know why the Democrats are frightened of Candace Owens, watch the video of her Tuesday morning testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. For example, early in the proceedings, Owens chastised Chairman Jerrold Nadler for misrepresenting her biography: “You reduced it to one sentence, calling me a conservative activist. It wasn’t what I submitted to your office last night and I think that you opened with anti-black bias.” Having demonstrated that she is no shrinking violet, Owens debunked the ostensible purpose of the hearing — that it was convened to examine white nationalist hate crimes:
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Tuesday called vacancies at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) "dangerous" and "seriously troubling." Romney made the comments during a hearing of the Homeland Security Committee two days after President Trump announced the departure of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. "It is dangerous, given what’s happening at the border, dangerous given the broad responsibility that the Department of Homeland Security has for protecting our nation," Romney said. "It is seriously troubling."
Democrats in Congress want to turn back the clock. In 1947, amid a period of labor unrest so extreme that the public had taken notice, Congress passed the Labor-Management Relations Act, better known as the Taft-Hartley Act, over the veto of President Harry S. Truman. The bill was an effort to strike a reasonable balance in labor relations where the decade-old Wagner Act had failed. Among Taft-Hartley´s critical reforms was that it permitted states to adopt what are now known as right-to-work laws. These laws make it illegal for employers to discriminate against nonunion workers. In right-to-work states,
Hillary Clinton spent nearly her entire adult life on a desperate quest for power and money. She stood by as her horny husband achieved both, and longed to escaped his crooked shadow, to step into the spotlight on her own, to make history. Political success was insufficient. Overcome with rage and class envy — at having so much raw power and prestige yet still having to debase herself before the altar of America´s financial elite — she vowed to abandon all shame in her crusade to join their ranks.