Posts on Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Elijah Cummings and Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters executed a secret Memorandum of Understanding to “target” President Trump and subpoena all his financial and banking records, according to a letter sent to Cummings from ranking committee member Rep. Jim Jordan. Further, Jordan’s letter indicates that other MOUs have apparently been signed and agreed to with House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Ca, who has promised to continue investigations into the president despite findings by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office that there was no conspiracy between
Police in Inver Grove Heights are warning parents and students about potential risks and impacts of "Nerf Wars" ahead of the game starting. On its Facebook page Tuesday, the Inver Grove Heights Police Department said it received information that some students planned to partake in the game starting Tuesday. (snip) Police said they will be enforcing local ordinances and laws to keep the community safe.
According to the 48th edition of the American Conservative Union’s (ACU) Ratings of Congress report, Representatives Dave Brat (R-Va.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), and Debbie Lesko (R-Ariz.) have maintained a 100% lifetime conservative rating.Although 11 other members of Congress also received a 100% rating for 2018, they have not maintained it for their entire careers in Congress. Of those 11, only Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was awarded 100% for both 2017 and 2018. The ACU rates elected officials by defining conservatism, as detailed in both its report and website, and taking into account their stances on specific types
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) Monday evening Fox News town-hall event was the most-watched town-hall event of the 2020 campaign thus far, according to early Nielsen data. And at least four other Democratic candidates are open to participating in one of their own. According to early Nielsen data, more than 2.5 million viewers tuned in to hear Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist,” make his case on Fox News during the 6:30pm hour, prior to primetime. That total viewership bested CNN’s Bernie Sanders town-hall event from back in February; and it doubled MSNBC’s during the same time period on Monday evening, and
City Hall’ s tech czar ignored a federal warning about a looming, Y2K-like software bug last year — allowing a crash of the city’s official wireless network that has been down since the weekend, sources told The Post. As a result, transit officials can’t remotely control the Big Apple’s 12,000-plus traffic lights, and many of the city’s traffic cameras and NYPD license-plate readers are down, sources said. “This is a big screw-up, even for the de Blasio administration,” said a source familiar with the matter. The New York City Wireless Network, known as “NYCWiN,” crashed on Saturday, affecting the operations of city agencies
Three weeks after a dejected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped the Senate Republican leader for orchestrating the death of her “Green New Deal,” Sen. Mitch McConnell has struck back, accusing the first term House member and top Democrats of waging an “economic culture war” against red America. In a sweeping blow against growing Democratic efforts to squelch conservative voices and force progressive policies and programs on a wary nation, McConnell warned that the Left is ready to “blow up” decades of rules to get their way on issues like the environment and government-financed healthcare. “Progressives are openly acknowledging they´ll never get
Top Senate Republicans are renewing their efforts to get to the bottom of the FBI’s [mis]handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server now that Mueller’s investigation has concluded.Mueller’s investigation into whether Trump colluded with the Kremlin during the 2016 election also served as a way to block Congressional oversight into Obama’s and Clinton’s corruption. Now that Rosenstein and Mueller can no longer run defense at the Justice Department, Republican Senate chairs of three very powerful committees are demanding Bill Barr look into the FBI’s sham ‘Midyear investigation.’In a letter sent to Attorney General Bill Barr Tuesday, Finance Committee
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg has just set the gold standard when it comes to responding to the devastating fire at Paris´ famous Notre-Dame cathedral. Speaking to a reporter for French station BFM TV, Buttigieg, who is currently the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, delivered his condolences and solidarity with the French people in perfect, fluent French. (Tweet) Loosely translated, Buttigieg´s message was, "To the people of France I would like to say that Notre-Dame Cathedral was like a gift to the human race. We share the pain but we also thank you for this gift to civilization."
NEW YORK -- Hungary’s top diplomat, in an interview with Fox News, praised President Trump’s push for NATO partners to boost military spending -- and said the administration´s treatment of Central European countries as allies represents a stark contrast from what he called the “lecturing” of the Obama years. “Since the current administration has been in power, the relationship has totally changed and the relationship is based on mutual respect which used not to be the case,” Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told Fox News. “So before this administration took office, ‘lecturing’ was basically the right expression to describe our relationship.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called the Notre Dame Cathedral “art and architecture” in a tweet Monday, without referencing its name or significance to the Catholic religion. “Art and architecture have a unique ability to help us connect across our differences and bring people together in important ways. Thinking of the people of Paris and praying for every first responder trying to save this wonder,” she tweeted. The tweet sparked immediate criticism from those who noted that the historical Catholic cathedral was more than just “art and architecture.”
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio threatened to sue the Trump administration if it sends illegal immigrants to New York City, a “sanctuary city.” “It’s illegal. It is just plain illegal. We will meet him in court. We will beat him in court,” de Blasio said, according to the New York Post. President Trump on Monday tweeted, “Those Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held (Congress must fix the laws and loopholes) will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States”: (Tweet) He said on Friday that his administration was giving “strong consideration” to the
Cable news continued hailing Democrat Mayor Pete Buttigieg as the second coming Tuesday after he officially tossed his hat in the ring for the 2020 presidential race, Monday. Over at MSNBC, “center-right” columnist for the New York Times, David Brooks touted Buttigieg as the anti-Trump that America needed right now, in the wake of the “moral and spiritual crisis” that President Trump had created. MSNBC afternoon host Andrea Mitchell began by gushing with her guests over Buttigieg’s “stunning” and “moving” interview with Rachel Maddow about “coming out” as gay. Afterwards, she asked David Brooks to weigh in on Buttigieg and his
A Minneapolis man is accused of robbing several Twin Cities stores with a machete. Criminal complaints say Abdikadir Ayanle Ali, 32, robbed several stores in the Twin Cities, including several Target stores in St. Paul multiple times, while carrying a machete. He is charged with four counts of first-degree aggravated robbery, according to criminal complaints. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years and/or a $35,000 fine.
London - US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday her Democratic Party must avoid the "menace" of liberal policies pushed by rising political stars if it wants to beat President Donald Trump in the 2020 election. (Snip) But she made explicitly clear that new Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez -- an emerging force in US politics who is often simply referred to as AOC -- and fellow young progressives elected in 2018 represented only the margins of American society. "When we won this election, it wasn´t in districts like mine or Alexandria´s," Pelosi said in reference to the November midterms in
LARGO — John Jonchuck is guilty of first-degree murder, a jury ruled Tuesday, and should spend the rest of his life in prison for dropping his daughter, Phoebe, off a bridge into the chilly, dark waters of Tampa Bay. He was not facing the death penalty. Over more than four weeks, jurors heard a tangled narrative of Jonchuck’s mental history. His public defenders argued that he was insane at the time of the killing, driven by imagined voices and delusions, unaware that what he was doing was wrong. Their case was built on recollections of Jonchuck hearing an old Swedish Bible
On a trip to the U.K. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi dismissed the idea of democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) being representative of the Democratic Party.Pelosi addressed questions about how to handle the left wing of her party in the House during a talk with London School of Economics and Political Science, and she said Ocasio-Cortez needs to understand she cannot set the agenda. She implied Ocasio-Cortez is failing to appreciate how Democrats need to appeal to the rest of the country, saying the freshman congresswoman´s district could be won by any purported Democrat—living or otherwise."This glass
A Holy Week tragedy like no other: For the first time this morning, the bells of the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris will not peal out in their familiar, exquisitely beautiful call to prayer. This morning’s deafening silence of the bells will revoke the horror of last evening’s raging inferno that all but gutted one of history’s most notable, long-standing cathedrals.
Former director and Monty Python member Terry Gilliam lamented the change in comedy culture in a new interview, saying he’s tired of being “blamed for everything” because he’s a white male. In an interview published Monday by The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Gillam spoke about Monty Python’s 1979 comedy film “Life of Brian” and how “it would be a fight” to get some of those jokes onscreen today. He also addressed comments made last year by BBC comedy chief Shane Allen, who said any modern-day sketch show wouldn’t feature “six Oxbridge white blokes.”(Snip) “The idea is that we’re already excluded
A day after Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared on a Fox News town hall, Pete Buttigieg’s campaign is in talks with the cable network about getting their candidate on the air, according to a report on Tuesday. A campaign spokesperson for Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., told The Hill that “reaching out to the Fox audience is something we intend to do.” Sanders appeared Monday evening on a town hall moderated by Fox News anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum in Bethlehem, Pa. President Trump turned to Twitter on Tuesday to share his displeasure with seeing Sanders on Fox.
Bernie Sanders donated less than one percent to charity first year he made over one million dollars
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Vermont Sen. and 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s charitable contributions fell far under the average for his income bracket the first year he reported earning more than one million dollars. Sanders released 10 years of tax returns Monday, revealing that he earned an average of $280,975 per year from 2009 through 2015, and that his income skyrocketed to $1,062,626 in 2016 due to sales of his best-selling book, “Our Revolution.” Sanders reported $10,600 in charitable contributions in 2016, making up slightly less than one percent of his reported income and falling under the $21,365 average charitable contribution for Americans who
For over 850 years, Notre-Dame de Paris survived the French Revolution, two world wars, terror threats and pollution.But on Monday the historic Notre Dame Cathedral was engulfed in flames and nearly destroyed. (Tweet/Photos)It is not yet clear how the fire at Notre Dame started. French officials have not said it was due to arson. But what is clear is that hundreds of French churches have come under attack in the just the last year. (Photo) Saint Sulpice in France caught fire less than a month ago. According to the UK Sun 875 French churches were vandalized just last year.Vi Allum
Rep. Steve Cohen likens Trump to Notre Dame fire: ´He´s torching the entire structure of government´
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Too soon? While warm sparks were still spilling down from the ceilings at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, a Democratic lawmaker was using the blaze to describe President Trump. Rep. Steve Cohen, Tennessee Democrat, appeared Monday evening on MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” show to tout his long crusade to impeach Mr. Trump and promptly reached for the fire. “What he has done to the Constitution and the rule of law is as bad as that fire did to Notre Dame. He’s torching the entire structure of government and the people’s respect for it.
Up until now, Russia-Russia-Russia coverage as fodder for Pulitzer prize nominations was big-game prize material.Here´s a big one in the national reporting category that the Washington Post got last year, and there were others among the nominations through the years. This year? Nothing. Zero, zip, nada. Poof! I checked, even among the non-winning nominees, which took some work. There was a single entrant from among the cartoonists who had a few ignorant Trump-colluded-with-the-Russians tropes, and that guy didn´t win.It adds up to a rather dramatic change in focus because up until now, Russia-Russia-Russia coverage has been big business for Pulitzers.
"(T)here is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," said Hamlet, who thereby raised some crucial questions: Is moral truth subjective? Does it change with changing times and changing attitudes? Or is there a higher law, a permanent law, God´s law, immutable and eternal, to which man´s law should conform? Are, for example, the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament, Christian teaching and natural law unchangeable and applicable to all men at all times? Or can some of the 10 be consigned to the dumpster of antiquated moral prohibitions? This question has been brought straight into the
Ten years ago, in February 2009, Democrat Ilhan Omar married her biological brother. (Photo) Via Jack Posobiec. (Video/Tweet) Ilhan Omar won a historic victory in 206 over 44-year incumbent DFL Rep. Phyllis Kahn. Ilhan Omar built a vast coalition of East African voters to defeat the incumbent in Minneapolis.The liberal media forgot to mention Ilhan was married to her brother.Power Line reported: A reader has written us to point out that the Somali website Somalispot posted information last week suggesting Omar’s involvement in marriage and immigration fraud. The post notes that Omar married Ahmed Hirsi in 2002. Hirsi is the
President Donald Trump expressed surprise that Sen. Bernie Sanders appeared Monday on Fox News to discuss his socialist policies. “So weird to watch Crazy Bernie on Fox News,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Not surprisingly, Bret Baier and the ‘audience’ was so smiley and nice.” Some in the audience for the town hall cheered and supported the famous Democrat-socialist’s plans for socialized medicine and proposal to raise taxes. Political analysts praised Sanders for successfully snapping back at the Fox News hosts and winning the evening by eliciting a positive response from the crowd, which included some of his supporters. “Senator, this audience
Two men who allegedly attacked and robbed a pedestrian because of his “Make America Great Again” hat have been arrested in Maryland. The Montgomery County Department of Police said in a press release Monday that Jovan Crawford, 27, and Scott Duncan Roberson, 25, were arrested and charged over the weekend after they harassed a man for wearing the pro-President Trump and then beat him to the ground and robbed him in Germantown. “The victim, who was wearing a red Make America Great Again hat, was approached by two men who began harassing the victim and asking why he was wearing
Social media has seen a variety of reactions following the tragic fire at Paris’ iconic Notre-Dame cathedral Monday, but some users chose to mock and laugh at those expressing sorrow. Several accounts on Twitter expressed mockery over the loss of the 850 plus year-old cathedral, which has become an icon of the city of Paris since the Medieval era. Twitter user @SarahSahim, a writer for Rolling Stone magazine, Teen Vogue and the Independent newspaper wrote, “Notre-Dame burning is cosmic karma for all the historical sites and artefacts France destroyed and stole when being colonialist scum.”
NEW YORK — Mainstream retailers are leaping into the world of products like skin creams and oils that tout such benefits as reducing anxiety and helping you sleep. The key ingredient? CBD, or cannabidiol, a compound derived from hemp and marijuana that doesn’t cause a high. Retailers are taking advantage of the booming industry even as its legal status and health benefits remain murky. And the flood of products is only testing how federal regulators can police it. Retail sales of CBD consumer products in 2018 were estimated to reach as much as $2 billion, according to Cowen & Co. By 2025,
The cause of the massive blaze that engulfed the iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is under investigation, authorities said Monday as firefighters continued to work to save the world-famous landmark. But some experts said the extensive renovations going on at the historic building could have contributed to the fire. There is a history of churches, synagogues and temples going up in flames while under repair, said Glenn Corbett, an associate professor of fire science at John Jay College in New York. Notre Dame, which was built in the 12th and 13th centuries, has a wooden roof.
When a child comes at us with paint covered hands or a marker, most of us high tail it to a safe distance and direct the child to the nearest handwashing station. Rebecca Bonner, an art teacher at McAuliffe Elementary School in Highland Village, Texas, has the opposite response—she encourages it. Bonner loves to showcase her students’ creativity and work, which is why last year she decided to wear her students’ masterpieces to the school’s art show. After getting the idea from an art teachers’ Facebook group, the dedicated teacher laid out Sharpies and colored fabric markers next to a
Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for being an authoritarian, ´Trump-like figure´ while suggesting that US military and economic aid to Israel should be cut. The Representative for New York, a rising star in her party, has insisted that the idea of cutting aid to Israel should ´definitely be on the table´.The 29-year-old has been criticised by the Jewish Democratic Council of America for the comments, with the organisation saying that US-Israel ties ´must supersede politics´. (Photo) Ocasio-Cortez, also known as AOC, made the comments on Sunday on Yahoo´s Skullduggery podcast. She said: ´I think
Good news for Team NeverTrump: they have their man — a declared 2020 primary challenger to Donald Trump, and it’s exactly the man they wanted, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, a man who has graced a presidential ticket before, Mitt… Sorry, Willard… No, wait… Will… William. As in William Weld. The other former Republican governor of Massachusetts who once had a spot on a national ticket, as the Libertarian party’s 2016 nominee for vice president. Romney has carpet-bagged his way to the US Senate, after all,
WASHINGTON — The bad blood started early. In 2008, Neera Tanden, then a top aide on Hillary Clinton’s first presidential campaign, accompanied Mrs. Clinton to what was expected to be an easy interview at the Center for American Progress, the influential group founded by top Clinton aides. But Faiz Shakir, the chief editor of the think tank’s ThinkProgress website, asked Mrs. Clinton a question about the Iraq war, an issue dogging her candidacy because she had supported it. Ms. Tanden responded by circling back to Mr. Shakir after the interview and, according to a person
Before the tragedy seen all around the world, flames leaping from the top of Notre-Dame Cathedral, there was a smaller one, thousands of miles away in upstate New York. Andrew Tallon, a pioneering architectural historian and father of four, died on November 16, 2018, from brain cancer. He was 49. He had dedicated his life to the study of medieval architecture, its mysteries and resonances, blending in his interest in technology to create novel ways of studying centuries-old buildings. “When you’re working on medieval buildings, it’s difficult to have the impression you can say anything new.
Notre Dame´s three medieval stained-glass windows all survived last night´s devastating fire, the Archbishop of Paris has said, as detectives probe the renovation work which may have led to the blaze. The first daylight pictures inside the wreckage of the Paris landmark today showed the roof destroyed, the 850-year-old church exposed to the elements and the floor covered in charred debris. However the three ´irreplaceable´ Rose Windows, which date to the 13th century and were last night feared to have melted or exploded, are all still believed to be intact.
After 100 days of accomplishing nothing but tax increases and bad headlines, the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives boldly proclaimed her socialist Democratic caucus have the 2020 elections in the bag. Her faux confidence is misplaced; the past three months for her band of socialists were disastrous, (Snip) Democrats managed to call for over $100 trillion in new spending, but are so dysfunctional, they refuse to propose a budget outlining the payment plan for their radical agenda. Ridiculously, these socialists have spent weeks continuing to attack President Donald Trump’s budget proposal. Talk about hypocrisy.
Margot Cleveland has an interesting article in The Federalist today outlining how the DOJ (Mueller) investigation of Christopher Steele was dropped [READ HERE]. Essentially the article outlines how Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley sent a criminal referral of Chris Steele to Rosenstein/Mueller in January 2018; however the case was used as a shield to ward-off FOIA inquiry, but the case was never actually pursued – and eventually dropped.At the time of the 2018 referral CTH noted the Grassley/Graham referral was not what it appeared [See Here]. Additionally, with hindsight and a greater understanding of the Mueller
Would you pay attention to the moral advice from a clergyman caught in an adulterous relationship who pointed out that adultery is no longer a crime? And who said that once adultery is re-criminalized in his state, he would start to be faithful to his wife? That is the same position taken by Bernie Sanders on taxes, where he has in the past railed against “millionaires and billionaires” who don’t pay their fair share, but now that he has earned a million bucks in one year, is emphasizing only the “billionaire” end of the scale.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report is expected to be made public early this week. The big special counsel news already occurred last month when Attorney General William Barr announced Mueller ended his investigation without a single American, much less a single American tied to President Donald Trump, being indicted for collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 election. The news followed years of media coverage claiming Trump was an agent of Russian President Vladimir Putin and had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election from Hillary Clinton. That conspiracy theory led first to widespread spying on the Trump campaign
The Titanic Explains the World
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April 15th, 2019 marks the 107th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. More than a century later, why does this story still captivate so many people’s imaginations? Maybe it’s because, in the words of James Cameron, director of the 1997 Titanic film, “It was like a great novel that really happened.” But as a near-lifelong Titanic aficionado, I have an alternative theory: the sinking of the Titanic was a “lifeboat ethics” scenario involving actual lifeboats. Looking back on the disaster allows people to ask themselves,
The greatest “tell” for non-scientists evaluating the likelihood that the anthropogenic global warming theory is a fraud is that instead of critically examining the facts, warmists try to silence skeptics, with some of them even demanding jail for the thought-crime of questioning their unproven theory. So thorough has been the pressure to keep the fraud going and keep the billions of dollars a year in research funds flowing to universities and other research institutions pushing the party line that skeptics are under threat of firing – and some have been fired. That’s why this news from Australia is so important.
The Chinese woman who tried to lie her way into Mar-a-Lago appeared in court today to plea ‘not guilty’. However, U.S. Magistrate Judge William Matthewman ordered her continued detention and pointed out the obvious: “It does appear to the court that Ms. Zhang was up to something nefarious when she unlawfully attempted to gain access to Mar-a-Lago”…(Snip)Yujing Zhang, who was carrying multiple electronic devices when arrested, pleaded not guilty at her arraignment and detention hearing on Monday in West Palm Beach, Florida. Zhang, 33, was indicted on Friday on charges of making
No, I didn´t see any Muslims dancing over it. Which, in my anger as the horror sunk in, was the first thing I looked for. But there were plenty of people didn´t quite get what the massive losses from the Notre Dame fire, which made so many of us actually cry, was really about. (snip) Three things that made me go ´ugh.´ First, the press coverage utterly dismissing that it was terrorism, or that someone set the fire deliberately. For a place like Notre Dame to go 850 years without such a fire,
With the support of labor unions, a new bill prohibiting municipalities in the state from enacting “right-to-work laws” was signed into law by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker last week. The “Collective Bargaining Freedom Act” prohibits local right-to-work ordinances and imposes penalties for violations. Right-to-work laws became a focus for state lawmakers after the village of Lincolnshire, a northern suburb of Chicago, passed one in 2015. A federal court later overturned the ordinance. Right-to-work laws prohibit union contracts from requiring all workers to either join a union or pay dues.
French Billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault Pledges $113 Million to Help Rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral
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French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault, chairman and CEO of the international luxury group Kering, is pledging 100 million euros ($113 million) to help rebuild Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral after a massive blaze ripped through the over 800-year-old church Monday, according to Agence France-Presse.Pinault owns several high-end fashion brands, including Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, and Balenciaga, and is the husband of actress Salma Hayek. Forbes pegs the Pinault family fortune at $35 billion.A massive fire engulfed the upper reaches of the Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as
Fox anchor Shepard Smith on Monday melted down when a French guest attempted to explain the ongoing attacks, violence and vandalism against French churches. Talking about the fire engulfing Notre Dame, where the cause is unknown, guest Philippe Karsenty began, “For the past years, we´ve had churches desecrated each and every week all over France.” Just seconds after his guest was introduced, Smith immediately jumped in and reprimanded, “Sir, sir, sir, we´re not going to speculate of the cause of something that we don´t know! If you have observations or you know something, we would love to hear it.” After
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday night abortion up until birth “happens very, very rarely” and was being “made into a political issue,” reiterating his view that abortion was a decision for a woman and her doctor, not the government. At the Fox News town hall, host Martha MacCallum quoted the 2020 presidential contender as having said at a rally in Pittsburgh on Sunday that “no one should tell a woman what to do with her own body.” “With regard to abortion,” MacCallum asked over enthusiastic applause for Sanders from the audience, “do you believe that a woman should be able to
Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is running for president. He’s one of many who are hopping into the 2020 clown car. No, he probably won’t win the nomination. And yes, he would certainly lose against President Donald J. Trump. He’s also running on an issue that is only popular with the most insane of Democrats: gun confiscation. Swalwell has gone off the deep end with his absurd allegations that Donald Trump is an agent of the Kremlin. Yet, he’s been saying it for months. Even with the Mueller report torpedoing Democratic hopes of finding cause to impeach the president, the
Trump and Drug Reform
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When it comes to the drug pricing debate, it´s often easy to let the details obscure the heart of the issue. Even understanding the Trump administration´s newest proposal to bring down high drug prices requires understanding the supply chain at a considerable level of detail. However, when one takes a step back, the broader principles at play become easier to see. Government policies should enable the market to function, letting companies make more money when they offer a better product at a lower price.
The Trump White House will host more than 70 Jewish community leaders to discuss “pertinent issues” on Tuesday as the Democratic Party faces accusations of anti-Semitism. American Jewish leaders recently received an invitation to meet with key White House officials for a “discussion” “pertinent issues impacting the community,” Jewish Insider reported on Friday. A White House official confirmed to The Daily Caller that the event would be taking place. “On Tuesday, April 16, the White House will host more than 70 Jewish non-profit leaders, business leaders, and rabbis to meet with senior administration officials. This is part of our ongoing
Nearly 80 percent of certified public accountants believe President Donald Trump’s tax cuts helped America’s small businesses, according to a poll commissioned by the Job Creators Network.“According to the national survey of 102 Certified Public Accountants—representing over 5,500 small business pass through clients across the U.S.—conducted by Research Strategy Group International, nearly 80 percent of respondents believe that the implementation of the tax cuts legislation has helped America’s small businesses,” the pro-small business organization said in a statement timed for tax day. “Moreover, almost as many also felt that the TCJA helped stimulate the economy (76%).”“In conjunction with Tax Day,
For over two years the public has been treated to diatribes from people acting as journalists and other Democrats, saying that Trump was guilty of colluding with Russia to win the election, even though there was never evidence those talking points were true and -- much evidence showing the conspiracy theory was false. When the Mueller report came out and AG Barr said there was no evidence of collusion or obstruction, some of these same people accused Barr of lying or a cover up -- with no evidence that is true.We have continually been told that Trump and others should not
Throughout most of southern Ohio, residents who watch cable news are predominantly glued to one channel: Fox News. People there don’t watch Fox News to know what to think; they already know what they think, and they avoid news channels that insult their intelligence and core beliefs. Yes, Fox News is an echo chamber for the right, but no more than CNN and MSNBC are for the left, as far as conservatives are concerned. To be fair, when a Democrat is in the White House, the networks switch places, with Fox News criticizing every move, and MSNBC and CNN defending
During two separate occasions on Monday afternoon, Fox News anchors Shepard Smith and Neil Cavuto had to dump out of interviews after their guests wildly speculated and parroted conspiracy theories that the blaze that suddenly destroyed much of the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was an intentionally malicious act. While anchoring breaking-news coverage of the fire, Smith interviewed witness Philippe Karsenty, the deputy mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine and a controversial right-wing media figure. Early in the call, Karsenty suggested that the Notre Dame blaze—which is currently being investigated as an accident—was a terrorist a
Judging by the record of personnel failures, whoever selects President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members should be the next one fired. He’s doing a historically awful job of finding honest, ethical and skilled employees who can perform in the demanding jobs and satisfy a mercurial boss. President-elect and candidate Donald Trump promised to have the most talented, smartest and best Cabinet in history. “We have by far the highest IQ of any Cabinet ever assembled,” Trump asserted. [Snip] Trouble is, of those named to the new president’s Cabinet, 12 of them are gone already. That amounts to record turnover
Aujourd´hui, nous sommes tous français. Today, we are all French. Today, we gasp, we ache, we mourn. Today, we feel a nauseating sense of loss. Today, we weep. The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is surely, along with St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, among the three most famous Christian churches in the world. And with good reason. It is — it was — magnificent. The sheer size of the cathedral was stunning. For it to have been commissioned 850 years ago, and finished, largely, 700 years ago, makes its achievement even more mind-boggling.
When Attorney General Bill Barr testified last week that, yes, “spying did occur” in the government’s Trump-Russia investigation and that spying on a political campaign is a “big deal,” the Democrats were apoplectic. How could he dare say such a thing? The saintly James Comey went even further. He told an audience that he didn’t even know what spying meant. No, siree, he had no idea. Barr’s candor is what Michael Kinsley famously called a “Washington gaffe,” where the naked truth somehow slips out. Naturally, it set off a firestorm. Democrats demanded an immediate retraction but got only an anodyne
The left has a new tool to bring illegals to America — to wedge border doors a bit wider in defiance of law and order — and it goes like this: climate change. The weather. The weather is making people flee their countries and come to America. And as the left sees it, America has a duty — an obligation — to let these poor people in and take care of them. Wow. This is a new low even for the left. It’s U.N.-speak, pure and simple. While discussing President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate immigrants to sanctuary cities on NBC’s “Meet the Press,”
California, Blinded By Plastic
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California, the Los Angeles Times recently reported, is building a “non-plastic future.” The state has outlawed or restricted single-use plastic bags, plastic drinking straws, and plastic cutlery. Future targets: plastic detergent bottles, unattached caps on plastic bottles, and polystyrene containers (typically used to hold restaurant takeout orders), which more than 100 California cities have already banned. Some legislators also want to ban travel-size shampoo bottles that hotels provide for guests. Golden State consumers are schlepping groceries in their arms as if they’ve been sent backward to the pre-bag era, sucking on paper straws that quickly become sodden and useless,
Strange as it may seem, watching Bernie Sanders on the Fox News town hall Monday night brought back memories of the Soviet Union for me. I went there for the first time in 1987, one year before Sanders went to the communist country. I was on a cultural exchange arranged for crime writers; Bernie was there to get married. Although I was more or less still on the left, I found what I saw horrifying. Bernie took off his shirt and sang ”This Land Is Your Land.”(video)In other words, although we were in the USSR at basically the same point,
Monday is the first Tax Day under the new Republican tax bill passed in December 2017, and the results are not what Democrats and their media apparatus predicted. Many Americans are discovering that they are not only alive and well, but indeed paying less taxes. As Ben Casselman and Jim Tankersley pointed out in The New York Times, there is a disparity between what Americans thought they would be paying the IRS this year, and what they actually paid. This myth, “appears to flow from a sustained — and misleading — effort
In Senate testimony last week, Attorney General William Barr used the word “spying” to refer to the Obama administration, um, spying on the Trump campaign. Of course, fainting spells ensued, with the media-Democrat complex in meltdown. Former FBI Director Jim Comey tut-tutted that he was confused by Barr’s comments, since the FBI’s “surveillance” had been authorized by a court. (Needless to say, the former director neglected to mention that the court was not informed that the bureau’s “evidence” for the warrants was unverified hearsay paid for by the Clinton campaign.)
A group of parents in Brooklyn are seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent mandatory measles vaccinations from taking effect. The parents’ lawsuit against the New York City Department of Health called the emergency order "arbitrary and capricious" and the measures it necessitates "drastic." The order, issued by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio last week, demands that all persons, starting at the age of 6 months old, who live, work or attend school within the specified zip codes of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, be vaccinated.
PARIS – The Latest on the fire that swept through Paris´ Notre Dame cathedral (all times local): 8:45 a.m. A French cultural heritage expert says France no longer has trees big enough to replace ancient wooden beams that burned in the Notre Dame fire. Bertrand de Feydeau, vice president of preservation group Fondation du Patrimoine, told France Info radio that the wooden roof that went up in flames was built with beams more than 800 years ago from primal forests. Speaking Tuesday, he said the cathedral´s roof cannot be rebuilt exactly as it was
Firefighters, police, and churchmen risked their lives last night to carry priceless historical artefacts and religious relics away from the flames which engulfed Notre Dame de Paris. The Mayor of Paris tweeted her thanks to first responders for forming ´a formidable human chain´ to save irreplaceable objects including the relic believed by Catholics to be the crown of thorns which was put on Jesus´ head as he died on the cross.Mayor Anne Hidalgo went on: ´The Crown of Thorns, the tunic of Saint Louis and several other major works are now in a safe place.´And Father Fournier, Chaplain of the
Barbara Bush had a second wedding ceremony over the weekend, Page Six has exclusively learned, this time at her father’s ranch in Texas.President George W. Bush’s daughter wed actor and screenwriter Craig Coyne in Maine in October.Now we’re told the pair had a second ceremony in Crawford — where her father and mother, Laura, have owned the sprawling 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch, known as the Western White House during his administration, since 1999 — on Saturday.We’re told more than 100 people attended this larger bash, including the former president.Other guests included the actress Megan Ferguson, fashion executive Alyssa Zachary, the