Posts on Monday, April 15, 2019
Sparks and bits of flaming woodwork are still cascading from the remnants of the 12th-century roof. The smell instantly sears the back of your throat like a dose of smelling salts and my feet are soaked. The ancient black and white tiles leading up the aisle are under a gently-flowing river of hose water from the fire crews pumping what seems like much of the River Seine from their elevated platforms. Yet I can faithfully report that the Cathedral of Notre Dame is not entirely destroyed. Because I am standing inside it – alongside the French prime minister. (Photos/Videos) In
A catastrophic fire has engulfed the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, destroying its roof, toppling the spire and threatening the remaining structure of the building. The deputy mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Gregoire, said the cathedral had suffered "colossal damages", and the emergency services were trying to salvage the art and other priceless pieces stored in the cathedral.The wooden interior has been destroyed.But which other features in the 850-year-old Gothic structure make it stand out in a city of iconic buildings. Rose windows (Photo) The cathedral has three rose windows dating back to the 13th century, which are among its most famous
How did this happen? When did it become OK for one of the two major political parties in America to attack a young black woman, who works for an orthodox Jew, as a fascistic fan of Adolf Hitler after she was invited to testify before Congress? When did it become OK for the representatives of the same party openly to label Israel, our closest friend in the Middle East, an “evil” state which has “hypnotized the West,” then libel their fellow representatives of having “dual loyalties” because they are Jewish, or to intimate that Israel simply shouldn’t exist? And when
A French journalist reports the art and sacred relics inside Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral have been saved as a massive fire rips through the more than 800-year-old church Monday evening.“Good news,” Paris Match reporter Nicolas Delesalle began. “All the works of art were saved. Delesalle, citing Father Frédéric, said the Crown of Thorns [pictured, above, during a ceremony in 2017], believed to be the wreath of thorns that was placed on the head of Jesus Christ at his crucifixion, was one of the priceless relics recovered from the blaze. (Tweets) At the time of publication, there had been no official
Bernie Sanders took the stage at a fiery Fox News town hall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on Monday, and sparks flew almost immediately, as Sanders defiantly refused to explain why he would not voluntarily pay the massive new 52-percent "wealth tax" that he advocated imposing on the nation´s richest individuals."We´ll get through this together," Sanders said at one point, as tensions flared. Sanders later admitted outright that "you´re going to pay more in taxes" if he became president. Just minutes before the town hall began, Sanders released ten years of his tax returns, which he acknowledged showed that he had been
With the Mueller report due out this week, President Trump is doubling down on his criticism of the special counsel´s probe into alleged campaign collusion with Russia and blasting Hillary Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and "dirty cops." (Tweet/Video) Attorney General William Barr said last Wednesday that Robert Mueller´s report would be redacted by Justice Department officials and released "within a week." In an effort to get ahead of what will surely be a feeding frenzy for the mainstream media, Trump on Monday demanded that someone "investigate the investigators.""Mueller, and the A.G. based on Mueller findings (and great intelligence), have
Of the 150,272,157 tax returns filed for the 2016 tax year, 50,219,667—or 33.4 percent--were classified by the Internal Revenue Service as “nontaxable returns,” meaning the people who filed them paid $0 or less in income taxes, according to data published by the Statistics of Income Division of the IRS. At the same time, 80 percent of all income taxes paid that year were paid by tax return filers who had adjusted gross incomes of $100,000 or more. Table 2.3 in the Statistics of Income data released by the IRS lists the total number of all returns the IRS estimates it
The faithful of Paris sung hymns as France’s Notre Dame Cathedral was engulfed in flames. Media outlets have shared footage of crowds gathered in prayer and song, standing in vigil as the roof and spire collapsed amidst flames of Our Lady of Paris, while fire began to overtake the rest of the famous Gothic twelfth-century cathedral. (Snip) A member of staff from Radio Notre Dame, the Catholic radio station of the Ile de France, recorded footage of a Parisian couple singing the “I Salute You, Mary,” with other passers-by near the Pont Saint-Michel joining in.
"Paris Is Beheaded": Firefighters Struggle To Save Notre Dame From Devastation After Spire Collapses
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Update 10: Emmanuel Macron has arrived on scene, and is giving a speech outside the cathedral, after authorities claimed that the body of the cathedral has been ´saved and preserved´. "It is our common history that is burning, he said." Emmanuel Macron gives speech outside Notre Dame https://t.co/XGqDe9w2Jb — euronews (@euronews) April 15, 2019 Meanwhile, a drawing of Quasimodo, the animated hunchback of Notre Dame from the 1996 Disney film, has gone viral as a symbol of mourning and loss after the tragedy. A devastated Quasimodo holds his Notre Dame tightlyhttps://t.co/xsmxG700sk
Young, sincere and raised on the edge of poverty, Sukhi Samra has a mother who worked two minimum-wage jobs when she was a kid — days at a gas station and nights at a Subway. Her father is disabled. She knows what an extra $500 a month would have bought her family.“I spent a lot of 5th and 6th grade just, like, in those tables at Subway so that I could keep my mom some company and spend some time with her,” Samra said. “Five hundred a month would have meant that my mom spent a couple more hours at
Former Massachusetts Gov. William “Bill” Weld announced Monday he is running against President Trump for the Republican nomination for president.Weld revealed that he formed a presidential exploratory committee back in February, but Monday’s announcement makes his intra-party challenge official. “In these times of great political strife, when both major parties are entrenched in their ‘win at all cost’ battles, the voices of the American people are being ignored and our nation is suffering,” Weld said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner. “It is time to return to the principles of Lincoln – equality, dignity, and opportunity for all."
There are two reasons the political media establishment is growing increasingly hostile towards Attorney General William Barr: First, he serves under President Donald Trump. Second, he is not only the messenger of the demise of the Russiagate conspiracy theory that the Deep State and its aiders, abettors, and enablers in the political media establishment worked so hard to perpetuate, but he could also be the source of the demise of the establishment itself, if he ends up exposing their whole sordid affair. Should Barr conduct a thorough investigation of the Russiagate investigators, and the associated leakers and colluders,
Venezuela sold about $400 million in gold despite a growing international push to freeze the country’s assets, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The amount, which would equal almost 9 tons, was reflected by a drop in the bank’s total reserves, which fell to $8.6 billion on April 12, according to data provided by the central bank. About $5.1 billion of that is gold. A central bank press official didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on the sale Monday. The sale could mean President Nicolas Maduro has found a way to skirt the economic blockade.
President Trump said Monday he is awarding Tiger Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom after his remarkable comeback to win the Masters on Sunday after a 14-year drought."Spoke to @TigerWoods to congratulate him on the great victory he had in yesterday´s @TheMasters, & to inform him that because of his incredible Success & Comeback in Sports (Golf) and, more importantly, LIFE, I will be presenting him with the PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM!" Mr. Trump, an avid golf enthusiast, wrote in a tweet.The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation´s highest civilian honor. Mr. Trump has previously bestowed the honor upon
China is the world´s largest oil importer and Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world. For those two reasons alone, the economic relationship between our nations will inevitably grow. In fact, we hope for even more. There are many areas besides oil in which we can mutually benefit from trade and cooperation in the future. For that relationship to blossom, however, Venezuela has to change and abandon a model of governance that’s ruined us economically. The country is suffering a devastating humanitarian crisis: At least 87 percent of Venezuelans live in poverty
The U.S.-Mexican border is essentially wide open. Why? Because there is a general expectation in Mexico and Latin America that American immigration law is unenforced. Or it is so bizarre that simple illegal entry almost always ensures temporary legal residence, pending an asylum hearing. A scheduled asylum hearing, in turn, is seen by border crossers as a mere formality to be ignored. The popular perception on the border, then, is to stick one foot illegally onto U.S. soil, and, presto, win permanent residence for you and any family members who wish to follow.
A redacted version of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller is expected to be released to Congress and to the public by the Justice Department a day before the Easter holiday weekend, a department official said Monday. But the release of anything less than the full report will not placate congressional Democrats, who want to see all of it. The report, totaling more than 300 pages, details Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the question of whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russian agents in that meddling.
CBS drama ´The Good Fight´ sparks outrage after tweeting ´Assassinate,´ ´President,´ and ´Trump´
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CBS All-Access’ "The Good Wife" spinoff series, "The Good Fight," is in hot water after tweeting an image from one of its episodes that shows a list of "target words" including: "Assassinate," "President" and "Trump" in a red column and a second orange column that started with the words: "Mar-a-Lago" and "Eliminate." The episode itself focuses on the character Diane (Christine Baranski) joining a female resistance group tasked with dragging down Donald Trump´s approval ratings.
A fire has broken out at the world-famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Pictures posted on social media showed enormous plumes of smoke billowing into the city´s skyline as firefighters rushed to the historic site. According to French newspaper Le Monde, the fire broke out in the attic of the historic monument before spreading to engulf a large section of the roof. A spokesperson for the cathedral said the blaze was first reported at 5.50pm (GMT) and the building was evacuated soon after. Officials in Paris said the fire could be linked to renovation works being carried out at the
Paris’ centuries-old Norte Dame Cathedral is on fire, according to video footage tweeted Monday afternoon. The city’s deputy mayor, Emmanuel Gregoire, confirmed the blaze on Twitter, warning Parisians to avoid the area. [Tweet] It’s not yet clear what started the blaze, or how extensive the damage will be—but footage shows flames engulfing the French Gothic cathedral’s spire, and quickly spreading to other parts of the building. Sixteen copper statues were removed from the Cathedral Thursday as part of restoration efforts. Officials say the blaze may be linked to the restoration. Paris is currently flush with tourists ahead of Holy Week.
A Minneapolis man said he came to the Mall of America Friday “looking for someone to kill” before throwing a 5-year-old boy nearly 40 feet over a railing in an attack that shocked the nation. Emmanuel Deshawn Aranda, 24, was formally charged Monday with attempted first-degree premeditated murder in the attack.(Snip) “He said he planned to kill an adult, because they usually stand near the balcony, but he chose the Victim instead,” the complaint said. Aranda told investigators he had been coming to the mall for several years “and had made efforts to talk to women
Almost every day, somebody somewhere recycles the idea that President Donald J. Trump doesn’t want to be president. He never did, they say. His heart is not in it. He wants to protect his business empire first and foremost. He doesn’t like having to answer to Congress. You’ll have heard these arguments in one form or another. They all make sense, until you consider that there is almost zero evidence to support them. The truth is that, unless he is pulling the greatest con perpetuated against American democracy (not impossible), Trump is running again –
President Donald Trump’s proposal to ship immigration detainees to so-called sanctuary cities –which are Democrat strongholds— is a political masterstroke, if the Left’s wounded animal-like howling is any indication. With this politically brilliant tactic, the likes of which would never have come from a President Jeb Bush or a President Mitt Romney, Trump continues to demonstrate that he is one of the few Republican presidents in modern American history who actually knows how to fight the Left. He is giving leftists a well-deserved taste of their own medicine. And what better place to send illegal aliens than to sanctuary jurisdictions?
Prisoner Assange
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WikiLeaks founder and chieftain Julian Assange was tossed out of the Ecuadorean embassy in London into the hands of British police last week. Assange is wanted on charges of sexual assault in Sweden and charges of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion in the U.S. He allegedly helped Army private Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning illegally obtain a password that led Manning to leak hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Assange for WikiLeaks to publish. Both Sweden and the U.S. have requested that Assange be extradited to face justice. It’s not clear which extradition request
National Reckoning, My Eye
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Okay, sports fans, get your wallets out and start giving. That’s the latest brainstorm from a New York Times columnist who makes however unconvincing a case for reparations to black people. For slavery, that is. And that means you, whitey—or brownie, and I guess that goes for yellow ones also. He wants these reparations to be legislated into law, and everyone except African-Americans has to pay. (Snip)There is no such thing as a collective inherited crime. The call for reparations is a con trick by African-American race hustlers, or a Times jerk
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CNN April 13 that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s plan to extend Israeli sovereignty to West Bank settlements wouldn’t hurt the administration’s forthcoming peace plan, a gesture of support to the Jewish State unthinkable under any previous administration. Following President Trump’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights earlier this month, Pompeo’s declaration is a landmark victory for the Jewish State. It is also a victory for the small minority of American Jewish leaders who stood by President Trump, and joined hands with evangelical Christians and other conservatives to support the realignment of American
New York/Washington - As recently as February, Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s team dropped hints that the inquiry into Russia´s role in the 2016 U.S. election might unearth evidence of active cooperation between Moscow and President Donald Trump´s campaign. That turned out not to be the case. Attorney General William Barr, who has said he hopes to release Mueller´s nearly 400 page report this week, told U.S. lawmakers on March 24 that the special counsel investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." To be sure, the
Betty Ermey says she still feels the larger-than-life presence of her beloved father, R. Lee Ermey, a Marine-turned-Hollywood star. Ermey, who rose to fame on screen as the no-nonsense drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket,” passed away on April 15, 2018, at age 74 from pneumonia. He is survived by his wife, two brothers, six children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, The New York Times reported. “I still feel him around,” Betty told Fox News. “I still hear his voice. I was just so lucky. I’m thankful there’s so much recording of him. Because on those days
Police are investigating the brutal beating of a transgender woman in Texas after an apparent outbreak of “mob violence” was caught on camera. A video posted on Facebook reportedly showed the woman being attacked and insulted with homophobic slurs near an apartment complex in southern Dallas. Dallas Police Department said in a statement that 29-year-old Edward Thomas had been arrested for his suspected role in an “aggravated assault”. The victim reported the attack on Friday while receiving hospital treatment, telling officers it had occurred soon after she was involved in a minor traffic accident next to the apartment complex.
Special counsel Robert Mueller´s redacted report on the Russia investigation and President Donald Trump is expected to be made public Thursday morning, the Justice Department said Monday. Washington has been waiting for the release of the report, which has put Attorney General William Barr at loggerheads with congressional Democrats who have demanded the entire, unredacted document since Mueller recently concluded his nearly two-year investigation. Six House Democratic committee chairs sent a letter to Barr last month requesting that he submit the full report be delivered to Congress by April 2. Barr missed that deadline.Barr sent a four-page letter to Congress
Pelosi is not in charge
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The feel-good story of the day is supposed to be "Pelosi rips AOC, says her posse in Congress is ‘like five people.’" But Pelosi is wrong. She is delusional. She is out of touch. She is the Bill Kristol of her party. (Snip) Her quick quip masks the reality. Decades of the nasty, filthy hatred of America that Democrats have drilled into the heads of kids in school have come back to haunt the party. Taught that America is a genocidal, racist, sexist and otherwise deplorable country, new generations of Democrats hate America. They demand reparations. Now.
Many of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have hauled in record sums of money in the first fundraising quarter of the 2020 election cycle, but none of them can hold a candle to President Donald Trump, who took in a whopping $30 million, according to the Washington Post.(Video) The sum "far outpaces" any of the Democratic contenders, the WaPo reports, and dwarfs the candidate with the next highest fundraising totals, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who pulled in around $18 million.Monday is the last day that Federal Election Commission reports, which should have been filed at the beginning of April, can
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler says he takes no issue with a colleague dismissing Sept. 11, 2001, as a day when “some people did something.” When asked if he “take[s] any issue with the way [Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan] Omar characterized 9/11,” Democratic New York Rep. Nadler, whose congressional district contains the on-site memorial to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, said, “No, I did not.” (Tweet/Video) The congressman was being asked about the incident in the light of Omar’s recent speech to the Council on American-Islamic Relations in which she appeared to trivialize the events of Sept. 11,
This is all that matters to the Democrat Party. Race. Liberal Democrat and Trump-hater Al Green asked top bankers to identify their race at a committee hearing last Wednesday. It’s all about identity politics. That’s all that matters.CNS News reported: Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) asked seven of the nation’s leading bankers on Wednesday to confirm their race. “As I look at the panel, and I’m grateful for your attendance, the–the eye would perceive that the seven of you have something in common. You appear to be white men. I may be mistaken,” Green said at a hearing of the House
Following a severe weather outbreak this past weekend, another multi-day siege of severe thunderstorms and heavy rain is likely starting Wednesday in parts of the South, Midwest and East. Another rather vigorous southward plunge of the jet stream will pivot out of the Desert Southwest into the Plains Wednesday, then lumber through the rest of the South and East through the end of the week. (Snip)Wednesday After a brief lull, severe thunderstorms are expected to flare up once again Wednesday afternoon, particularly in the southern Plains of Oklahoma and Texas. Large hail, damaging winds and tornadoes are threats,
What do the following four points have in common? *The manipulated DC legal case surrounding the Awan brothers; and how they escaped full accountability, likely due to need to protect politicians. (House of Representatives) The sweetheart plea deal. *The manipulated DC legal case surrounding SSCI Security Director James Wolfe; and how he was allowed to plea only to lying to investigators when the evidence was clear from the outset how he leaked classified information to his journalist concubine. Again, likely due to the need to protect politicians. (SSCI, Senate) The sweetheart plea deal. *The manipulated DC legal case surrounding Obama
The Left´s New Teflon Candidate.
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The left has more candidates running for president in 2020 than a Boston Marathon. I’ve been in mosh pits less crowded than this claustrophobic roomful of crushing egos. The Democrats don’t seem to care. Ambition is its own reward, damn the actual results. So the strategy here seems to be the test used to determine when pasta is done -- throw a few strands on the wall. If they stick, voila, you’re good to go. The problem is that the Democratic field running today have no real fiber. Their positions are uniform, frail and thin.
President Donald Trump said Monday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has lost control of her caucus and Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota, is running the show. As he prepared to fly to Omar’s home state for a tax day event, the president called the Minnesota Democrat an ‘anti-Semite’ who is ‘ungrateful’ in a tweet that questioned the Somalian-born lawmaker’s loyalty to the United States. Omar and her family applied for asylum and relocated to the U.S. in the mid-90’s. She became a U.S. citizen as a teen. ‘Before Nancy, who has lost all control of Congress
For some foreign nationals seeking a visa to come to the US, a little noticed change in the State Department handbook for approving visa applications has led to their denial, even though the applicant appears to have met all legal criteria to enter the country. The handbook change gave consular officers much wider latitude in the ability to deny an individual a visa. As can be expected, some apparently worthy applicants have been denied entry to the US. But the change was necessary. It had to do with determining whether or not a visa applicant would become a "public charge"
Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, pleaded not guilty Monday in the college admissions scam, Fox News has learned. In court documents obtained by Fox News, Loughlin, 54, and Giannulli, 55, said in the filing they are waiving their right to appear in court for an arraignment and plead not guilty. The "Fuller House" actress also requested to waive her appearance for an arraignment in the college admissions scandal,(Snip) Loughlin and Giannulli did not appear in court and it is currently not known if the judge will permit the pleas without them present.
Is this the face of criminal justice "reform"? Dallas County district attorney John Creuzot is enacting sweeping changes to the way his office deals with crime. It appears that Creuzot will be giving petty criminals a pass. Creuzot will "decriminalize" most petty crimes against property, reform the bail system, and refuse to prosecute first-time drug offenders. Dallas Morning News: But as we work toward improvements, we are apprehensive about Creuzot´s plan to decriminalize low-level crimes. It has the potential to send the wrong message about our tolerance for any crime in this county.
The recent wave of asylum-seekers from Central America who have shown up at our southern border points out the desperate need for reforming our asylum laws and procedures. The fact is, few asylum-seekers will be successful because they don´t come here to escape religious persecution or political oppression. They come for "a better life." You can hardly blame them for that, considering the hell-holes they are trying to escape. But asylum laws were written not to give people a better life.
The U.S. government awarded hundreds of work permits in 2017 to a front company that, according to an FBI statement, trafficked almost 2,000 Chinese graduates into the U.S. white-collar labor market. The March 28 FBI document alleges that a Chinese migrant named Weiyun Huang took money to issue fraudulent claims of employment to Chinese students who were seeking to get “Optional Practical Training” work permits. Huang was arrested March 26, the document says.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads the Democratic presidential field in a new Emerson poll, followed by former Vice President Joe Biden and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. The survey found that Sanders, who has come in second behind Biden in most polling, is leading with 29 percent. Biden, who has not yet announced a 2020 bid, is in second place with 24 percent, followed by Buttigieg at 9 percent. (Snip) Meanwhile, Kimball said, Biden has lost some support in recent weeks. He led Sanders, 27 percent to 17 percent, in February before dropping to 26 percent in March, tying
Rep. Ilhan Omar continues to be an embarrassment and a disgrace for me and other American Muslims with her outrageous, ignorant, anti-Semitic and now anti-American comments. And while Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, holds herself out as a proud Muslim, she repeatedly projects a distorted and patently Islamist interpretation of Islam – a religion that in reality stands for the values of justice, peace and ethical conduct.Sadly, Omar gives millions of Americans a false impression of what Islam is and what we Muslims believe and stand for.
Not in Cher´s neighborhood
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The singer Cher (no last name) promised to leave this country, even this planet, if Donald J. Trump (R) became President of the United States. Well, Trump is president and Cher is still living in this country. And yes, Los Angeles, California and its wealthy liberal suburbs of Beverly Hills and Malibu, where Cher lives in huuuuuge homes (she owns several here and there) surrounded by gates and walls and doormen and guards, utilizing the hi tech security that is part of the USA. What, you expected a lefty liberal to keep a promise of sacrifice? But President Trump
Five reasons why campaign cash is rolling in for Trump and even Goldman Sachs is forecasting victory
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Here´s something to give the Trump-hating left some heartburn, from Axios: The Trump campaign told the AP on Sunday that it raised more than $30 million in the first quarter of 2019, bringing its total cash on hand to $40.8 million. Why it matters: The AP notes that this is "an unprecedented war chest for an incumbent president this early in a campaign," especially with the Republican National Committee also raising $45.8 million in the first quarter — bringing the pro-Trump effort´s total cash
The Catholic bishops of Massachusetts have released a statement condemning proposed bills in the state legislature that would expand access to abortion and eliminate requiring medical care for an infant who survives abortion. Cardinal Sean O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, joined with the bishops of Springfield, Worcester, and Fall River in denouncing the two bills as “an egregious attack on human life.”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who was arrested last week, tried to use the Ecuadorian Embassy in London as a “centre for spying,” Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno told the Guardian on Monday. “Any attempt to destabilize is a reprehensible act for Ecuador, because we are a sovereign nation and respectful of the politics of each country,” Moreno told the Guardian by email.
When Chief Justice John Roberts pompously admonished President Trump last year, making the preposterous claim that we “do not have Obama or Trump judges,” Carlton W. Reeves evidently failed to get the memo. This Obama appointee to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi is a textbook example of a partisan jurist who ignores the law and the will of voters as expressed through their elected representatives. Indeed, Judge Reeves has now escalated his activism by attacking the President and comparing him to a long line of white supremacist Democrats and their partners in the KKK.
Attorney General William Barr has promised to release a redacted version of the Mueller report this week. It will of course consume the political conversation for days, but even now it is clear that, as much as the report might be talked about, it will not settle the main arguments that have raged about the Trump-Russia affair for more than two years. Here are five debates that won´t be resolved, no matter how much of the report Barr makes public: 1. Collusion. On the face of it, Barr´s summary of Mueller´s conclusion could not be clearer:
After eight years of reckless expansion of the federal workforce under Barack Obama, Donald Trump vowed to downsize the wildly growing bureaucracy of Washington. In 2016, he promised to “cut so much your head will spin.” However, during the first two years of his presidency, there has been no significant effort to reduce the bloated federal payrolls. In fact, the federal government is the largest employer in the nation. Walmart, which has a presence in communities of all shapes and sizes, is the largest private employer in the nation with 1.5 million workers. Yet the number of Americans who rely
´Horrible´: Clinton loyalists exploited Obama´s FBI to spread Russia conspiracy stories about Trump
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Hillary Clinton loyalists fed the FBI’s upper echelon an assortment of anti-Donald Trump criminal accusations during the 2016 campaign and his presidency, according to a string of interview transcripts released in recent weeks. James A. Baker, former FBI general counsel who participated on the receiving end, testified that the situation was “horrible” and “highly unusual.” At least 10 of Mrs. Clinton’s supporters directly or via middlemen told the bureau tales about Russia-Trump conspiracies. It appears to be an unprecedented effort by a presidential campaign and the party in power to count
Mariel Boatlift Revisited
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It is fun to watch the left react to Trump’s suggestion that he might send migrants and asylum seekers to “sanctuary cities,” but their outrage may conceal the panic of the political fallout if Trump goes through with it, as he should. Anyone remember the Mariel Boatlift in 1980? That’s when Fidel Castro declared that anyone who wanted to emigrate to the United States was free to do so within a narrow window of time. Within days, 125,000 Cubans were en route to the U.S. Just where did that rickety fleet come from on such short notice?
Return of the Tiger
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“There are no second acts in American lives.” The line is F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and it is overused and demonstrably false as Tiger Woods proved on Sunday at the Masters. Fitzgerald probably would not appreciate the way his famous line has been turned into a cliché. He likely had intended it as one character’s brooding thoughts in a novel he never completed. Perhaps he had it mind for that character to experience a second act, disproving the gloomy aphorism. Maybe he was even imagining something like the resurrection of Tiger Woods in the Masters on Sunday.
The beginning of Media Matters for America´s "About" section reads thus: Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media. In reality, its mission is to obsess over and respond with histrionics to everything Fox News does. MMFA is probably FNC´s most loyal viewer. The site was founded by David Brock, a one-time conservative turned left-wing operative, so it has a real "crazy ex-girlfriend" feel to it. The juice-box drinking staff spends their days trying to undermine
Words have actual, distinct meanings. Somehow accepting this wisdom that is thousands of years old is something of a struggle in this, the 21st century. (Snip)The real danger in regard to Democrats accusing Republicans like Rep. Dan Crenshaw and Donald Trump, and outlets like the New York Post, of incitement to violence is that the charge is one of very few that can be used to erase First Amendment free speech protections. It’s no accident that this is the word being used. But it is an absurd accusation.
Valerie Jarrett, a top adviser to former President Barack Obama, published a book that ranks dismally on Amazon and at Barnes and Noble, but was placed on The New York Times Best Seller list. Anomalies around the book’s sales figures in industry databases have some in the book business questioning whether Jarrett, who’s rumored to have received a million-dollar-plus advance, paid a company to game the numbers. Her book, which was published April 2, is number 1,030 on Amazon’s list of top sellers and has only three reviews on the site. It similarly ranks 1,244 on Barnes and Noble
My college-age son called me recently and asked me about “kratom,” saying that it was all over campus and even some of his friends were trying it. Thankfully, I got the phone call asking about what it was rather than him just hopping on the bandwagon of trying the latest trend. “What is it?” he asked. And for once, I had to admit, that although I had heard of it, I didn’t know much else about it. This concerned me on many levels. How is there a “wellness” product being promoted and sold