Posts on Wednesday, April 17, 2019
An investigation has begun into the fire that swept through the medieval cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris, destroying its roof and spire. Much of the roof was covered in scaffolding as part of a big renovation programme, which is being investigated as a possible cause of the blaze.(Images follow) How the fire unfolded The fire began at about 18:43 local time on Monday (15 April). Pictures show flames shooting up around the spire, shortly after the doors were shut to visitors for the day. The blaze spread rapidly along the wooden roof as onlookers gathered on the ground below.
Pete Buttigieg’s meteoric rise as a presidential candidate is putting a spotlight on his years as mayor of South Bend, Ind., including his demotion of an African-American police chief. An Indiana judge will rule soon on whether to release five cassette tapes of secretly recorded conversations between South Bend police officers that led to the 2012 demotion of Police Chief Darryl Boykins, the city’s first ever black police chief. The South Bend City Council subpoenaed Buttigieg to win release of the tapes, which were at the center of a police department shake-up and a series of lawsuits.
The FBI failed to respond to an October 2018 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking more information about secretive communications in late 2016 between a top Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer and the bureau´s then-general counsel, according to the transparency group Judicial Watch. Additionally, the group said, the FBI has ignored September 2018 FOIA requests concerning bureau communications with, and payments to, British ex-spy Christopher Steele -- who authored the infamous anti-Trump dossier. In response, Judicial Watch announced Tuesday it has filed lawsuits seeking the full release of all relevant documents.
SIS fanatics are heartlessly revelling in the inferno at Notre Dame Cathedral just days before Easter calling it ´retribution and punishment´, according to terror intelligence researchers. A poster of the blazing cathedral appeared online accompanied by the words, ´Have a good day,´ and was created by the ISIS affiliated Al-Muntasir group according to the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. The poster says: ´Its construction began in the year 1163 and ended in 1345. It´s time to say goodbye to your oratory polytheism.´
The ancestors of the people who built Stonehenge travelled west across the Mediterranean before reaching Britain, a study has shown. Researchers compared DNA extracted from Neolithic human remains found across Britain with that of people alive at the same time in Europe. The Neolithic inhabitants were descended from populations originating in Anatolia (modern Turkey) that moved to Iberia before heading north. They reached Britain in about 4,000BC.
I used to be a professional bridge player, a member of the “Omar Sharif Bridge Circus.” Sure, I believe in omens. Like most all card players I’m superstitious. But my Italian friend Christian Rocca is surely right to point out that we have to start with the hard facts about the Notre Dame fire: the cathedral wasn’t destroyed, most of its treasures were saved, the damage will be repaired, nobody died, and the fire was not an omen of the decline and fall of Western civilization. If anything, the very sad accident—as it seems to have been—suggests a
The bitter controversy and very divisive battle over abortion have raged for decades in the United States, but it has intensified in 2019. The cultural debate has definitely become a real nationwide battle raging in America over the killing of babies, even in late-term pregnancies, by abortionists (non-doctors), abortion doctors, and abortion mills like Planned Parenthood. The battle started as the newly elected Democrat majority took the House of Representatives. Without wasting time, they immediately passed legislation that
Flipping the 2nd Circuit
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The Hartford Courant reported, "Federal appeals Judge Christopher F. Droney disclosed Monday that he is retiring from active judicial service, a decision certain to focus attention on how President Trump, who has vowed to remake the federal judiciary, chooses a lawyer from Connecticut to fill a vacancy on one of the nation’s most influential courts." This creates the fourth vacancy in the circuit, enough to allow President Donald John Trump to flip the court from liberal to conservative. The district consists of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.
From the beginning I knew that Obama spied on Americans. He wiretapped the phones at the Associated Press, and the organization shrugged it off. Oh the bosses may have complained for show, but consider the protest when President Donald John Trump kicked Acosta out of the press pool. (Snip) In the eyes of our myopic media, Obama could do no wrong, and President Trump can do no right. But the truth is Obama was a sneaky SOB who turned the FBI into the KGB.
In advance of the Mueller Report release, ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, appears with Laura Ingraham to discuss three areas of the 2016 CIA/FBI intelligence operation that deserve answers: (1) The targeting/framing of Michael Flynn and the positioning of a false narrative around innocuous Russia contacts. (2) The use of Joseph Mifsud as an asset by the CIA/FBI running a counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign. (3) The Trump Tower meeting as organized by Fusion-GPS.Additionally, for the first time Devin Nunes confirms that it was Robert Mueller who blocked delivery of documents to the House investigative committees.
When John Carlin resigned as Asst. Attorney General in charge of the DOJ National Security Division in October 2016 he was replaced by Principal Deputy Asst. Attorney General and Chief of Staff, Mary McCord. After President Trump took office on January 20th, 2017, Sally Yates was Acting AG and Mary McCord was in charge of the DOJ-NSD. Yates and McCord were the two Main Justice officials who then engaged with White House Counsel Don McGahn on January 26th, 2017, regarding the General Flynn FBI interview conducted on January 24th. The Trump-Russia Collusion Conspiracy was the headline.
Three Questions to Ask Liberals
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As President Trump threatens to transport illegal aliens to sanctuary cities, suddenly, many on the Left are feeling significantly less generous and magnanimous regarding illegal immigration. Colloquially, this is known as "skin in the game." When people have no skin in the game, then the issue is "no skin off their back." Cher, for example, was gung ho when it came to immigration, as she had no skin in the game. However, when she had some skin in the game, her position suddenly became more conservative. (snip) it has become one of the three questions
It’s a good thing that Sen. Elizabeth Warren is opening a presidential headquarters in Charlestown. At the rate she is lagging in the race among the posse of panderers running for the Democrat nomination for president, she will need all the support she can get, beginning in her home state. So, maybe she should consider also opening headquarters in Worcester, Springfield, Lowell and New Bedford. If she can’t dominate the field in Massachusetts, where can the former “American Indian” win? She has not only fallen behind in the polls; she is behind the leaders in raising campaign money as well.
Yuma, a city on the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona, declared a state of emergency Tuesday, saying it cannot handle the crush of illegal immigrants the government is being forced to release onto its streets. Mayor Douglas Nicholls said the migrants are being released by the Border Patrol into his community faster than they can leave, and local shelters are already at capacity. He warned of mobs of people “roaming the streets looking to satisfy basic human needs,” clashing with citizens looking to protect their own property. “There is an imminent threat on having too many migrant releases into our community,”
Last week Barack Obama, grayer, wearier and older in every way, was in Berlin at one of his foundation’s conferences for ‘emerging leaders’ in Berlin. After wheeling out a few cringe-inducing platitudes like ‘I don’t have a regular meditation practice’ Obama did say something genuinely interesting about where the Democrats are heading going into 2020. He warned that elements of the party were becoming a ‘circular firing squad’ who targeted those ‘straying from purity’ on a variety of issues. Always a big tent politician (‘There are no red states or blue states, just the United States’),
The crisis of the Democrats is becoming more evident each week. Those of us who have been loudly predicting for years that the Russian-collusion argument would be exposed as a defamatory farce, and that the authors of it would eventually pay for it, are bemused at the fallback position of the Trump-haters: that the distinguished attorney general has whitewashed the president in his summary and his decision that there was no obstruction of justice. One of the most entertaining moments of news-watching in many years came last week, when former national intelligence director James Clapper said it was “scary”
While Christians have long challenged Charles Darwin’s theory of undirected evolution, few appreciate the true extent of the challenge beyond the church. Current estimates are that approximately one-third of professional academic biologists who do not believe in intelligent design find Darwin’s theory is inadequate to describe all of the complexity in biology. Ben Stein documented a crackdown within the academy on criticism of Darwin in his 2008 documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” While this might explain why the public rarely hears of challenges to Neo-Darwinism, the documentary centered on intelligent design. But the growing discontent in academia is from secular naturalists.
The Congresswoman From Somalia
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Washington- If a politician of Japanese extraction were addressing a “largely Japanese-American audience” and characterized the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor as “some people did something,” would you think that those words diminished the loss of life and of property suffered by our country 78 years ago in the Pacific Ocean? I would, but apparently Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) would not. She thinks it is a perfectly respectful — and accurate! — way to refer to the 9/11 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C. by 19 Muslim terrorists in 2001. She characterized
Damn that Donald Trump, he’s at it again, making a big deal out of 9/11. How dare he? He’s also threatening to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities. Has the man no decency? “It’s illegal. It is just plain illegal. We will meet him in court. We will beat him in court,” thundered Mayor de Blasio, taking a position at odds with his earlier offers of free medical care and other goodies for illegals. But that was then. Now he’s flipped the script to meet the requirement to always oppose whatever the president supports.
When it comes to raising money, former congressman and failed Senate candidate Beto O´Rourke is a force to be reckoned with. However, when it comes to charitable giving, O´Rourke´s personal contributions are far from generous—typically less than 1 percent of his total income. O´Rourke earned $366,455 in 2017, according to his tax returns, which he posted on his campaign website on Monday. That same year, he reported charitable donation of just $1,166, or 0.3 percent of his total income. That´s even less than rival Democratic candidate Kirsten Gillibrand reported giving to charity on her 2018 tax return.
A new victim has gone public in the Jeffrey Epstein case, filing a sworn affidavit in federal court in New York Tuesday, saying that she was sexually assaulted and her then-15-year-old sister molested by Epstein and his companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, in 1996. Maria Farmer, then 26, claims that she was employed by Epstein, a multimillionaire financier who lived in a vast mansion on New York’s Upper East Side, and that she frequently saw “school-age girls’’ wearing uniforms come into the mansion and go upstairs. She was told that the girls were auditioning for modeling work, according to her affidavit.
I wrote here about how Sen. Bernie Sanders called out the Center for American Progress (CAP) for “smearing him” and a couple of other Democratic presidential contenders. Sanders cited ridicule from CAP over the fact that he’s a millionaire. CAP promptly backed down, sort of. Its president, Neera Tanden, disavowed responsibility for the attacks by publications of CAP Action and by CAP’s website ThinkProgress. She said she disagreed with their tone. This is consistent with CAP’s approach all along to Sanders. The New York Times explained: Since Mr. Trump’s victory, Ms. Tanden [the head of CAP] has recast herself
Rush Limbaugh thinks Team Obama may be strategizing a Michelle Obama run for president in 2020. The radio host said Barack and Michelle are so ticked off that Trump won that they "want back in." Limbaugh cited Michelle´s extensive, never-ending book tour as a sign that the Obamas´ lust for power could result in the ever vicious and vengeful former first lady announcing her candidacy. This past Sunday, during another promotional interview for her book at London´s O2 arena, Mrs. Obama sounded an awful lot like what she sounded like in 2008.
Nearly 1 billion has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the French president set a controversial five-year deadline to get the work done. Construction teams brought in a huge crane and a delivery of planks of wood to the site Wednesday morning. Firefighters are still examining damage and shoring up the structure after Mondays fire collapsed the cathedrals spire and destroyed the roof. French President Emmanuel Macron ratcheted up the pressure by setting a five-year deadline to restore the 12th-century landmark.
As many as two dozen individuals may be implicated in House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes´ criminal referrals to the Justice Department arising out of Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s recently concluded Russia probe, sources confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday. The sources confirmed that the referrals related in part to the anti-Trump dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, and his work for the Clinton camp and the Democratic National Committee-funded firm Fusion GPS. Meanwhile, three top Republican Senate committee chairmen said Tuesday that the DOJ has 10 days to explain itself as to why FBI investigators
President Trump’s nomination of Stephen Moore and Herman Cain (full disclosure, both are friends and Moore an occasional professional colleague) to the board of governors of the Federal Reserve has become something of a cause célèbre in Washington. Moore’s and Cain’s attackers outnumber their defenders. But their defenders have the better argument. The Cain/Moore mutiny of the Establishment is a perfect microcosm of the existential crisis of modernity. Canadian public intellectual John Raltson Saul called this persistent existential crisis, in his eponymous book, Voltaire’s Bastards. (Penguin Books, 1992.)
America’s founders enshrined property rights in our Constitution, not just because they thought it would provide a strong blueprint for a free market but because they saw ownership as an essential human right. Thus, the final draft of James Madison’s Fifth Amendment has no wiggle words or loopholes. It states unequivocally that private property shall not “be taken for public use, without just compensation.” And yet despite this clear guidance, courts are expanding what can be considered public use, steadily eroding protections in takings law.
Turning Point USA leader reportedly stalked, says almost victim of a hit-and-run on Seattle campus
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On Monday a deranged left-wing activist reportedly harassed, stalked and tried to run over a female South Seattle College student over her decidedly conservative political views. Student Katie Daviscourt, the chair of the Washington state college’s Turning Point USA chapter, told local station KTTH that she and a fellow member had been hosting an on-campus table discussion to recruit new members when the unhinged activist began hassling them.“He started vandalizing our table and trying to take the posters off,” she said. “And the second he takes the ‘Big Government Sucks’ sign, I let him know, ‘Sir, that is actually my
Michelle Obama Takes Swipe At Single Fathers: America Under Trump Is Like ‘Living With Divorced Dad’
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Michelle Obama once accidentally called herself a single mother. (Video) "Believe me, as a busy single mother — or, I shouldn´t say single, as a busy mother," she said in an April 2013 TV interview. "Sometimes, you know, when you´ve got a husband who is president, it can feel a little single. But he´s there."She went on to praise busy mothers — single or not — listing out the woes of "working, driving kids to practice, not having enough time to shop or cook, not having the energy, you know, the resources weren´t the issue but time and energy is
President Donald Trump announced his plan for a political rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Saturday, April 27 — the same night as the White House Correspondents’ dinner.“Big crowd expected!” Trump wrote on Twitter, sharing a signup link for the event. (Tweet) The president declined to attend the WHCA dinner earlier this month. “I’m going to hold a rally, because the dinner is so boring and so negative, that we’re going to hold a very positive rally,” Trump told reporters at the White House. This is the third year in a row that Trump has skipped the dinner in favor of
As the idea of packing the courts starts to become a more mainstream position on the Left, Democrats are now laying the groundwork for such a move by lying about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell´s efforts to confirm conservative judges. On Tuesday, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the campaign arm seeking to return Democrats to the majority in the Senate, tweeted that "Mitch McConnell’s court-packing agenda" was to "Confirm extreme right-wing judicial nominees as quickly as possible."
White House counsel Pat Cipollone and President Trump’s legal team aren’t interested in complying with subpoenas from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, a new report states. The Trump administration doesn’t intend to provide information regarding how some staff members obtained security clearances or Trump’s discussions with world leaders, among other things, the Washington Post reports. Instead, the White House will argue the matters are subject to executive privilege, aides familiar with the discussions said. Aides also claim that Cipollone and other members of Trump’s legal team are bracing for a potential feud over the subpoenas.
LIMA, Peru — A former president of Peru died on Wednesday after shooting himself in the head when the authorities tried to arrest him in connection with one of the biggest corruption scandals in Latin American history. When the authorities arrived at the home of the former president, Alan García, with an arrest warrant, he locked himself into his bedroom, shot himself and was rushed to a hospital, his personal secretary told reporters. The charges relate to Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction giant, which last year admitted to $800 million in payoffs in exchange for lucrative contracts for projects including
Colombia and Honduras -- Cocaine trafficking from Venezuela to the United States is soaring, even as the country collapses. And US and other regional officials say it´s Venezuela´s own military and political elite who are facilitating the passage of drugs in and out of the country on hundreds of tiny, unmarked planes. A months-long CNN investigation traced the northward route of cocaine from the farmlands where much of it is grown in Colombia, and found that the number of suspected drug flights from Venezuela has risen from about two flights per week in 2017
Was Hardball host Chris Matthews speaking to viewers Wednesday night from the past? Because it sure felt like Matthews had rewound back to March 22 because, just as things were on the day the Mueller report officially concluded, the mood of the MSNBC pundit was DEFCON-1 screeching all hour about how the Mueller report rollout “looks like an inside job.”Along with his assembled guests, Matthews suggested, without evidence, that Attorney General Bill Barr has “not” been providing “the truth” about what Mueller found, Americans are “accepting this crapola” from Barr, and that congressional Democrats and their media allies have suffered
The “Jeopardy!” contestant who shattered the record for single-day cash winnings has done it again.James Holzhauer brought home $131,127 on Wednesday, breaking the record he set last week by over $20,000 and winning his 10th straight episode. He now holds the top four spots for the single-game winnings record.Holzhauer, a 34-year-old professional gambler from Las Vegas, has now won $697,787 on the show. He is second to “Jeopardy!” legend Ken Jennings, who amassed $2,520,700 during his 74-game winning streak.Before Holzhauer, the previous single-day mark was set by Roger Craig, who won $77,000 in a 2010 episode.Holzhauer has taken the show
Rep. Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and The Intercept teamed up to create an illustrated video detailing her imagination of the future after the Green New Deal.The bad news: Miami is underwater after being hit by a hurricane.The good news: Indigenous communities teach union workers how to restore the land after they dig up pipelines. Elections are publicly funded, and everyone has a job. The New York progressive narrated her story of what´s to come in the video, "A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez," released Wednesday."The wave began when Democrats took back the House in 2018, and then the Senate
Michelle Obama has spoken about her ‘disbelief’ upon discovering that the Notre Dame Cathedral was on fire. The former US first lady was promoting her memoir Becoming at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris on Tuesday, when she reflected upon the tragedy. She said: ’The security driver, we were en route somewhere, and he said “Notre Dame is burning” and I thought “Oh you must be joking”, (Photos/Video) ‘I sent a tweet out to the people of Paris, to the people of France, just saying that, you know, we have to be strong in times like this, we have to believe in
A former employee at Delaware State University allegedly took more than $70,000 in bribes to give students discounts on their tuition. Crystal Martin, 35, who once worked as a registrar at the public university, told a court on Tuesday that she accepted money from out-of-state students to reclassify them as in-state residents. The scheme took place between 2013 and 2017 and cost the college more than $3 million, according to prosecutors.In-state tuition at Delaware State University is $7,868 per semester, while out-of-state tuition is more than double the cost, at $16,904. (Photos) Martin told Delaware District Court that more than
“Keep Your Mouth Shut”: Democrats Have Meltdown Over AG Barr Press Conference on Mueller Report
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Democrats are melting down over Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the release of the Mueller Report with a scheduled Justice Department press conference at 9:30 a.m. EDT. The DOJ told Congress hard copies would be delivered later Thursday morning, causing further outrage. Other reports that DOJ and White House officials met in recent days about the Mueller report and that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was at DOJ earlier Wednesday has sent many Democrats over the edge. (Photo/Tweets) House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said he is “deeply troubled”.“Attorney General Barr wrote to me on April 1: “I
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) held an emergency presser on Wednesday evening and used his platform to attack Attorney General Bill Barr. Nadler held a very short presser Wednesday evening ahead of the release of Mueller’s report. As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, the Democrats are melting down over Attorney General William Barr’s handling of the release of the Mueller Report with a scheduled Justice Department press conference at 9:30 a.m. EDT.The DOJ told Congress hard copies would be delivered later Thursday morning, causing further outrage. Other reports that DOJ and White House officials met in recent days about the
Democrat politicians and their water-carrying media allies who helped spur the Mueller investigation for two years are furious about Attorney General Bill Barr and Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein holding a press conference tomorrow (9:30am) shortly before releasing the Mueller report (11:00am). The level of Democrat pearl-clutching over process is only exceeded by the transparency of their political demands to create a narrative. It really is silly…
Racism to the Rescue!
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As a teen in the early 1980s, no issue was more important to my friends than the “imminent” threat of nuclear war. “Reagan’s gonna blow up the world! The Soviets just want peace. If we don’t ban the bomb, World War III will kill us all.” We young ’uns found cohesion and camaraderie in the antinuke cause. It was us against the ruthless, greedy, warmongering adults who didn’t care if they left us a world of nuclear winters and irradiated cities. As kids, our hands were clean. There were no teens with their finger on the button. It was all
Once democrats and socialists have invented distorted definitions of equality and social justice, they clutch them to the end. No sensible argument or explanation can penetrate the depths of dogma squarely lodged in their circular thinking. If that last image challenges logic, it’s meant to because it’s an exact depiction of leftist doctrine that is moored in the world of fantasy just as Obamacare has always been. Unconstitutional from its inception due to the fact that no revenue legislation can originate in the Senate (which the ACA did by including the individual mandate), that this key aspect was demonetized by
Cook County State´s Attorney Kim Foxx personally meddled in the case of Empire star Jussie Smollett even after she claimed to have "recused" herself, recently unearthed texts reveal. Her staff also slammed police as "the worst," and a special prosecutor who had worked with Foxx in prosecuting police sent letters supporting Smollett shortly before the charges against him were dropped. The local police union said these acts reveal a "double standard": police are required to be transparent while officials like Foxx can hide the truth. "Chicago´s elected officials never tire of demanding accountability and transparency from Chicago Police Officers," Martin
House Democrats exploded in anger Wednesday over Attorney General William Barr’s plans to roll out special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, accusing the Justice Department of trying to spin the report’s contents and protect President Donald Trump. Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will hold a news conference at 9:30 a.m. Thursday morning to review the report, which will include redactions. Reports that DOJ officials have already discussed Mueller’s findings with the White House only further inflamed tensions. Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Barr had “thrown out his credibility & the DOJ’s independence with his single-minded effort to protect @realDonaldTrump above
TAMPA — A woman severely beaten last month at Amalie Arena has filed a lawsuit against the company that manages the venue and the cleaning it service it hired, alleging they were negligent in employing a man released from prison after serving 46 years for rape. The suit, filed last week in Hillsborough Circuit Court, names Leonard Edwards along with five other defendants, including Inspired Staffing Solutions and the Lightning Hockey company. The plaintiff is Aimee Morris, who suffered severe head injuries when, according to police, Edwards attacked her. Morris told the Tampa Bay Times last month that she was working with
Democrats in the House of Representatives have started to reject and refund campaign donations from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) over Omar´s anti-Semitism scandal and her recent trivialization of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. (Video) The Washington Free Beacon reported on Wednesday that the reelection campaign for Rep. Lucy McBath (D-GA) left a $2,000 contribution from Omar off its quarterly fundraising report, and, when pressed by the Free Beacon, admitted that they left the money off the report because they decided to reject it."McBath’s rejection of the donation is more important than it may sound," the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. "The Sixth District
Taylor Swift and Sandra Oh are named as two of Time magazine´s 100 most influential people of 2019
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Taylor Swift and Sandra Oh have been named as two of Time´s 100 most influential people of 2019 and appear on the publication´s covers. The stars are joined by a list of other ´pioneers, leaders, titans, artists and icons´, including TV star Gayle King, 64, actor Dwayne Johnson, 46, and former First Lady, Michelle Obama, 55. Each year, the honorees have an article written about them in the magazine by a fellow celebrity and this year, Shawn Mendes wrote Taylor‘s Time 100 piece. (Photos) The singer said of Taylor, who has been listed as an ´icon´: ´I’ve been a Taylor Swift
The event was billed as ‘an intimate conversation with Michelle Obama’. And as the former US first lady strolled onstage in a loose silk trouser suit, her fans may well have thought they’d been invited to a pyjama party. Mrs Obama – more often seen in glamorous dresses at black-tie events – slipped into something more comfortable to promote her memoir Becoming in Paris. (Photo) She teamed her orange-striped suit with open-toe heels and hoop earrings. The mother of two, 55, spoke of her ‘disbelief’ at the blaze in the city’s Notre Dame cathedral. She said: ‘The security driver, we
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reports a much lower trade deficit than all economists predicted. This is good news for the upcoming GDP growth report because the value of imported goods are deducted from GDP. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $49.4 billion in February, down $1.8 billion from $51.1 billion in January. (read more) (Photo/Chart) The smaller overall trade deficit was primarily driven by a decrease in the deficit with China. The deficit with China decreased $3.1 billion to $30.1 billion in February. As
The National Border Patrol Museum was attacked by protesters in February. A poster on Twitter, whose report about the attack was retweeted by a Texas Border Patrol union account, stated the protesters attacked every exhibit at the museum including the Memorial Room dedicated to agents who gave their lives in the line of duty. On Monday two violent activists connected to the vandalism at the museum surrendered to police. The protesters are accused of causing $2,500 in damages and glued stickers to memorials of agents lost in the line of duty. (Photos) The El Paso Times reported: Two activists surrendered Monday
Seoul, South Korea — North Korea announced that it has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon. The Korean Central News Agency says Chairman Kim Jong Un observed the firing of the weapon Wednesday by the Academy of Defense Science. The agency says Kim mounted an observation post to learn about the test-fire of the new-type tactical guided weapon and guide the test-fire. The announcement came after reports of new activity at a North Korean missile research center and long-range rocket site where the North is believed to build long-range missiles targeting the U.S. mainland.
A ‘lights out’ proposition seems to be catching the business community by surprise in downtown South Bend. The city street department has put some new signs in place on traffic signals along Michigan Street warning that those signals are “under study for removal.” The signs have gone up where Michigan Street intersects Jefferson and Washington streets. The affected area basically amounts to restaurant row. There are 12 restaurants in the two block section of Michigan in question. “We were a little surprised,
Most people have to wait until they´re out of a job to begin collecting retirement benefits they accrued while working there. That´s not the case for at least 13 part-time suburban county board members who are receiving as much as $82,124 in annual pension payouts from the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund for jobs in which they´re still getting salaries of $21,000 to $43,018.
SAN RAFAEL — After months of debate, the Dixie School District in Marin County is changing its name after critics said it’s linked to the Confederacy and slavery. Dixie School District trustees voted 3-1 with one abstention Tuesday night to change the name of the district and its elementary school by Aug. 22, when classes resume. (Tweet) However, the board didn’t choose a new name. A committee made up of parents, other community members and district staff will be set up to solicit and evaluate suggestions from the public. The board rejected some 15 names in February when it voted
Democratic presidential contender Pete Buttigieg´s public calls for pluralism do not apply to religious small business owners. South Bend Mayor Buttigieg has made his Episcopalian faith and tolerance a centerpiece of his campaign, but the policies he champions would force religious small business owners to participate in ceremonies they find objectionable under penalty of law. Buttigieg, who is married to a man, will keynote the Human Rights Campaign´s annual dinner. The nation´s largest LGBT lobbying group credited his support for the Equality Act for the invitation. "Buttigieg is an outspoken advocate of the Equality Act—critically important, bipartisan legislation that would
The news from Mexico is that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has halted efforts to reform Mexico´s underperforming education system. According to Reuters: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will freeze an education overhaul enacted under his predecessor so that consensus can be sought for a new law, delivering a boost to a teachers´ union faction that has spent months demanding its repeal. That´s significant for us, because Mexico has already sent us large numbers of the products of this educational system. And the World Bank
The Latest on the Trump administration’s position on Cuba (all times local): 2:15 p.m. The U.S. says it’s imposing sanctions on the Central Bank of Venezuela. The Trump administration says the bank has been instrumental in propping up the government of Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton says the move is aimed at restricting U.S. transactions with the bank and cutting off the bank’s access to U.S. currency. Bolton says the action is meant to be a warning to others, including Russia, against deploying military assets to Venezuela to help Maduro stay in power.
Middlebury College has canceled a campus speech by conservative Polish Catholic philosopher Ryszard Legutko in response to planned protests by liberal activists. A professor of philosophy at Jagiellonian University and a member of the European Parliament, Legutko was scheduled to speak Wednesday at the Vermont college´s Alexander Hamilton Forum, delivering a lecture entitled "The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies." A member of the anti-Communist Polish resistance during the Cold War, Legutko warns that western democracy is also susceptible to creep towards totalitarianism. (SNIP) The chairmen of both departments denied the activists requests, defending the event on grounds of
On Tuesday, appearing at a town hall at the University of Virginia, former congressman and current presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke offered a typically egocentric answer when asked why he donated so little money to charity: the audience should understand the sacrifice he’s making running for president. (Video) The Dallas Morning News reported that Maura Nakahata, a senior majoring in chemistry with a minor in government, asked O’Rourke why if he made seven times what her sister made, she gave more money to charity than O’Rourke. As Jenna Johnson of The Washington Post reported, O’Rourke responded loftily: I’ve served in office since
If only a presidential platform could be as simple as a haiku. Almost two dozen candidates are vying for the Democratic nomination to take on President Trump in 2020, and with such a crowded field, it would be nice to strip away the noise. A haiku, a traditional Japanese poem, has three verses of five, seven, then five syllables. It’s traditionally used to describe nature, to distill a grand feeling into a single moment. On Haiku Poetry Day, the poetic form might help in distinguishing all of the presidential candidates. To that end, I’ve written poems for several Democratic front-runners:
The US Naval Academy is banning transgender students starting with the 2020 school year. The Defense Department on Monday confirmed the change, which follows a policy shift under the Trump Administration to bar people who are transgender from serving in the military. The 2018 policy from Defense Secretary James Mattis took effect Friday after the Supreme Court allowed the ban and dissolved court injunctions. While the school in Annapolis, Maryland, currently accepts transgender students and retains midshipmen who transition to another gender, as of next year it will revert for new members.
Former British prime minister Harold Macmillan was once asked what could happen that might change the direction of his government. His world-weary answer: “Events, dear boy, events.” Actually, there’s some question as to whether or not Macmillan really said those words, but there’s no question that he—and everyone else, in politics or not, who has ever had a plan—knows the feeling. As much as we hope to ride events, events have a way of riding us. Today, unforeseen events are once again in the saddle, and the Democrats’ plan for the orderly defenestration of President Donald Trump has been disordered.
Hollywood stars are handing over thousands of dollars to their preferred 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, it has been revealed. Movie stars including Ben Affleck and Susan Sarandon and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour have all donated ahead of this week´s first quarter fundraising deadline. The information was revealed in campaign finance reports submitted to the Federal Election Commission this week. It offers a glimpse of who is drawing attention from the entertainment industry in the early stages of the race. Among the most notable donors are actress Eva Longoria, who has given $5,400 to California Sen. Kamala Harris and Danny DeVito
While speaking to the Michigan Coalition for Human Rights on Sunday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) revealed she feels more Palestinian in Congress now than she has ever felt anywhere else in the world — including in Palestine. “You know, myself, Ilhan, and all of us, we watch that people are policing what we say,” Tlaib told the attendees. “People are literally policing, ‘What do you mean by that Rashida? Do you condemn this?’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, did you condemn that?” “Honestly, I’ve never felt more Palestinian than I’ve ever felt in Congress — even in Palestine when
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Four months after taking over from Jerry Brown, Gavin Newson headed south some 3,000 miles to El Salvador. The California governor left little doubt that the trip was to challenge the immigration policies of President Donald Trump. Newsom claimed he would address the basic reasons Salvadorans flee to California, and he set out to boost the tourist industry in El Salvador, where the beaches boast “some of the best waves in the world.” That got plenty of publicity but another reason for the trip was overlooked. When Gavin Newsom is out of state, the lieutenant governor becomes governor of California.
Jihadists linked to ISIS have shared a menacing image of Notre Dame in flames once more, warning: ´Wait for the next´. The extremist media group published the graphic showing flames in front of the Paris cathedral´s bell towers, which survived Monday´s blaze. There is no indication that the fire was linked to terror but ISIS fanatics have revelled in the damage to the 850-year-old landmark, a symbol of Western civilisation, just days before Easter. The latest image, revealed by terror monitors SITE intelligence, hints at a possible deliberate attack by ISIS-aligned militants in the future. (Photos) As the church burned
Mayor Pete Buttigieg will stop calling Vice President Mike Pence and other Republican evangelicals “Pharisees” after Jewish critics expressed concern about using the word. Communications adviser Lis Smith announced on Twitter that the campaign would change their approach. “We appreciate the people who have reached out to educate us on this,” she wrote. “While intended to highlight political hypocrisy, we listened and learned and won’t be using it going forward.” [Tweet] After the Jerusalem Post raised concerns about Buttigieg’s use of the word, the campaign initially defended it. “The Mayor expressed his concern about the hypocrisy on the part of evangelical
Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar´s disrespectful description of 9/11 as "some people did something" is following in the footsteps of none other than President Barack Hussein Obama. President Trump, in his statement following the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, repeated the expression "anti-semitism" over and over. Perhaps it was to offer a course correction to the bizarre utterances of President Obama in 2015, when jihadi Moslems in Paris shot up a Jewish-owned theatre, killing 130 people. The Islamists then made a big detour to shoot up a small Jewish delicatessen, killing Jews shopping for the Sabbath. President
The mayor of Yuma, Arizona has declared a local state of emergency due to the flood of migrants, released from custody, who are overwhelming his city and is asking the federal government for help. Yuma mayor Douglas Nicholls said the crisis is overtaxing the city´s ability to care for the flood of released immigration detainees — many of them families — who have filled the shelters to capacity, with more coming every day. Fox News: "I am calling upon the federal government to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Yuma,
A flight attendant for Israel’s national airline is in a coma after contracting measles, which she may have picked up in the Big Apple, a report said. Israeli health officials told CNN that the 43-year-old El Al flight attendant now has encephalitis, an inflammation of the brain and complication of the potentially fatal virus—which she may have contracted in New York, Israel or on a flight between the two locations.(Snip) The woman, who had been healthy prior to contracting measles, is now on a respirator in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Kfar Saba,
Deadline has confirmed that Empire actor Jussie Smollett read for a leading role in next year’s Broadway revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2003 Tony-winning play Take Me Out but is no longer in the running.Britain’s Daily Mail has reported that Smollett was “cut” from the 2020 Second Stage Theater revival of the play about a mixed-race baseball star who comes out as gay. The publication reported that Zachary Quinto was set to co-star. A source close to the production tells Deadline that Smollett did indeed read for the lead role in January but that no casting decisions had,
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx described “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett as a “washed up celeb who lied to cops” in texts messages released Tuesday by her office in response to a public-records request by the Chicago Tribune. Foxx compared Smollett’s case to her office’s pending indictments against R&B singer R. Kelly in text messages to Joseph Magats, her top assistant, on March 8, the paper reported “Pedophile with 4 victims 10 counts. Washed up celeb who lied to cops, 16 (counts),” she wrote. “… Just because we can charge something doesn’t mean we should.”
DES MOINES, Iowa — On the surface, the only hitch in Democratic candidate Julián Castro´s most recent trip to the first-in-the-nation Democratic caucus state was a snowstorm that mucked up his travel schedule. Once he arrived here Sunday for a two-day swing, Iowa Democrats treated him to all the trappings of a serious presidential contender: He was a guest on a podcast taped before a standing-room-only crowd at the University of Iowa campus, he made the rounds of the state capital and his schedule was packed with events. Yet there was an underlying problem that emerged during the trip,
Woman ´infatuated´ with Columbine, connected to Colorado school threats found dead, source says
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A manhunt for a woman allegedly "infatuated" with the Columbine massacre who forced schools in Colorado to close after threatening violence came to an end Wednesday after she was found dead in the mountains west of Denver. Sol Pais,18, was found near the base of Mt. Evans in Clear Creek County, located about 45 miles west of Denver, FOX31 reported. A law enforcement source confirmed to Fox News that Pais was dead. It was not immediately clear how she died, but the FBI´s Denver Office said on Twitter there was "no longer a threat to the community.”
Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia died Wednesday after he shot himself before being detained by police amid allegations he received illegal payment from a Brazilian construction giant. The 69-year-old Garcia was taken from his home in the capital Lima to the Casimiro Ulloa Hospital at around 6:45 a.m. local time for a bullet wound to the head. He died several hours later after falling into a coma during emergency surgery, current President Martinez Vizcarra announced. Earlier Wednesday, Health Minister Zulema Tomás said doctors provided cardiac resuscitation three times on Garcia before operating on him. Garcia – a populist firebrand whose erratic
An expansive network of “shadowy” dark money donors has grown to rival the influence of the conservative Koch network -- pumping millions into left-wing causes ranging from health care to climate change to abortion -- all while flying well under the radar of public scrutiny, according to an explosive new report obtained by Fox News. The report, by conservative watchdog Capital Research Center, describes a band of nonprofits operating under the banner of Washington-based philanthropy company Arabella Advisors. Those “pop up groups” are housed in four Arabella-controlled “sister” nonprofits, according to the report: the New Venture Fund, Sixteen Thirty Fund, Hopewell
Move over AOC! Just when you thought AOC (or her scriptwriter) was unbeatable. Just when you thought blather from public servants could not possibly become more daft. Just when you thought AOC’s throne atop the pinnacle was unreachable and her crown secure—New Orleans’ Democrat mayor LaToya Cantrell (or her scriptwriter) lunges for the royal scepter. You see, amigos: The Democrat mayor and a retinue of associated New Orleans city officials spent all of last week in Havana, Cuba to, in the mayors office’s own words: “I see firsthand how (Cuba’s) history has produced unique opportunities
Ivanka Trump appears to be having a brilliant time on her solo tour of Africa - at least if her dynamic dance moves are anything to go by. The 37-year-old first daughter, who is normally very reserved, showed off a much more fun and carefree side to her personality on Wednesday when she joined in with some local dancers in a small town on the Ivory Coast, where she is due to tour a coffee collective. Ivanka, who wore a $595 white shirt dress for the occasion, along with a demure neck tie, threw her hands in the air like
It is now more than 25 years since the Oslo Accords were signed in October 1993. Yet in the many published opinion pieces and reporting on this anniversary and the failure of the parties to agree on a final two-state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, nowhere is found any Israeli politician or journalist who has the slightest inkling of the massive effect of Islam in influencing and motivating the Palestinian supposed peacemakers. Islam is indeed “The Elephant in the Room.” The Koran, chapter 2, verse 191 states: “Drive them out from where they drove you out.” Islamic scholars universally have interpreted
Now middle-aged, the enfant terrible novelist Bret Easton Ellis, has turned to nonfiction to mock the "childlike fascism" and "demented narcissism" of American liberals that helped put President Trump in the White House and left them facing "mental and emotional collapse." For good measure, Ellis, 55, also denounces the "legacy media" in his new book "White" — originally due to be called "White Privileged Male" — describing it as "a moral disaster for the country" that had covered Trump in the 2016 with such bias and "absolute cluelessness" that it assisted him. The Washington Examiner obtained a copy in advance
As flames rose from the timber roof of the historic Notre Dame de Paris, the world watched the 850-year-old landmark’s tallest spire and roof succumb to the heat. (Snip) Vassar College Art History professor Andrew Tallon, who tirelessly 3D laser scanned the entire Notre Dame cathedral and other Gothic treasures throughout France. Although Tallon passed away from brain cancer in 2018, his work wasn’t lost. Ochsendorf, who worked with Tallon on the project, says “such a 3D model can provide crucial information about the geometry and materials.” Tallon’s laser scan process used a Leica ScanStation C10 laser beam
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dismissed claims by President Trump and asserted that there is “no taint” of anti-Semitism within the Democratic party. Pelosi slammed President Trump for being “bankrupt of any ideas” in his accusations of an anti-Semitic agenda by the Democratic Party, staunchly defending her party and freshman congresswoman Ilhan Omar during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “We have no taint of that in the Democratic Party, and just because they want to accuse somebody of that doesn’t mean … that we take that bait,” Pelosi said Tuesday in the interview from Dublin, Ireland. “I don’t think that
Rudy Giuliani to Release Trump Rebuttal Within Hours of Release of Full Mueller Report on Thursday
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Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani announced on Tuesday that his rebuttal to the Mueller report is almost complete. The Department of Justice will release the full and redacted Muller Special Counsel Report on Thursday. Giuliani says his report will be released within hours of the release of the Mueller report.President Trump was already cleared of collusion and conspiracy in the 4-page report released in March. (Photo) WTOL reported: President Donald Trump’s lawyers are putting the finishing touches on a rebuttal to the forthcoming report by special counsel Robert Mueller. Rudy Giuliani, one of the president’s attorneys, said Tuesday that their document will be dozens
A black immigrant from West Africa was beaten up Saturday by two black men in Germantown, Maryland, because the victim was wearing a red Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” hat, police say. The victim, Atsu Nable, is a legal immigrant from Togo and he supports President Donald Trump. But the two alleged attackers were apparently incensed by the victim’s Trump hat. According to ABC 7, the man was punched in the head and upper body and his hat taken away from him.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a rising star in the Democratic Party, and she’s got a huge edge over many of her colleagues: A savvy understanding of social media. (Video) AOC, as she is known, is prolific, sending out dozens of tweets and retweets on Twitter each day, as well as posting on Facebook and Instagram. But on Sunday, she announced that she’s quitting Facebook and plans to cut back on all the others. “Social media poses a public health risk to everybody,” she said in a “Skullduggery” podcast. “I think it has effects on everybody — increased isolation, depression, anxiety,
When Rye Electric was founded in Orange County five years ago, it screened all prospective workers for drugs. If a test showed traces of cannabis, the applicant was nixed. But the fast-growing construction company, which has a millennial-heavy workforce, has since adapted to the times. "We still do the tests," Chief Executive Chris Golden said, "but we choose to look the other way on marijuana." Some 20 of the company´s 150 workers were hired despite flunking a pre-employment screening for cannabis. "We let them know they can´t do it on the job and we trust them not to," Golden said.
Hispanic Americans are set to outpace black Americans as the largest voting minority group in the 2020 election for the first time ever, new research finds. Pew Research Center projections predict that Hispanic American voters will now be the largest voting minority in the 2020 presidential election, passing black American voters for the first time in United States history. (Snip) In total, Pew predicts that the number of eligible Hispanic voters in 2020 will tick up to a record 13.3 percent of the entire American electorate, while eligible black American voters will make up about 12.5 percent of the electorate.
Almost 150 schools and school districts along the Front Range have canceled classes Wednesday as authorities continue to investigate credible threats they say were made by an 18-year-old Florida woman "infatuated with (the) Columbine school shooting . " Sol Pais is wanted for questioning after the FBI learned she had flown into Denver International Airport Monday and purchased a shotgun and ammunition, forcing several schools, including Columbine, to lock their doors for nearly three hours Tuesday. Her last known whereabouts were somewhere in the Jefferson County foothills, authorities said.
Pittsburgh now stands with fellow sanctuary city Oakland in telling President Trump it’d be happy to take in detained illegal immigrants. Mr. Trump claimed this week that “Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held … will be, subject to Homeland Security, given to Sanctuary Cities and States!” following through on a threat that was in part designed to expose liberal hypocrisy and NIMBY-ism. But like Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf over the weekend, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said words to the effect of bring it on. “We welcome people to Pittsburgh. This city was built by immigrants when
Immigration judges cannot release migrants who are caught sneaking into the United States, even if the migrants ask for asylum, says a binding legal decision by Attorney General William Barr. The decision will dramatically shift the migration-caused civic and housing crises from the nation’s blue-collar communities over to the Congress and the Department of Homeland Security, whose budget and detention centers only have enough resources to house about 50,000 people year-round. “The [text of the relevant] Act provides that, if an alien in expedited proceedings establishes a credible fear,
Nothing lasts forever — and that’s what hurts the most about the near-loss of Notre Dame Cathedral: what it tells us about our own mortality, about the unpredictability of the future and about the fragility of even our greatest creations. (Snip)When Lord Clark made his landmark 1969 documentary series Civilisation and famously asked: “What is civilisation? I don’t know. I can’t define it in abstract terms, yet. But I think I can recognise it when I see it.” Then, turning to Notre Dame behind him, he added: “And I’m looking at it now.”
President Donald Trump says he´s ready to take on his Democrat opposition.In a Tuesday night tweet, he nicknamed his anticipated opponents:"I believe it will be Crazy Bernie Sanders vs. Sleepy Joe Biden as the two finalists to run against maybe the best Economy in the history of our Country (and MANY other great things)! I look forward to facing whoever it may be. May God Rest Their Soul!"Trump also retweeted Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA. "It is miraculous that Trump not only beat the Bush dynasty, 16 Republicans, the FBI, the media, voter fraud cheaters, the political class, Clinton
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”:
The news from Mexico is that President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has halted efforts to reform Mexico´s underperforming education system.According to Reuters: MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will freeze an education overhaul enacted under his predecessor so that consensus can be sought for a new law, delivering a boost to a teachers’ union faction that has spent months demanding its repeal. That´s significant for us, because Mexico has already sent us large numbers of the products of this educational system. And the World Bank confirms that Central America´s educational system is pretty
Canada announced new sanctions today against 43 individuals connected to the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland met with counterparts from the Lima Group of nations in Santiago, Chile. The Lima Group is an association of 15 American nations that accuse Nicolas Maduro of usurping Venezuela´s democracy through fraudulent presidential and assembly elections in 2017-18. A Canadian official, speaking on background, told CBC News that one of the purposes of the sanctions is to punish Venezuelan judges who rubber-stamped Maduro´s moves to sideline the country´s legitimately-elected National Assembly
President Trump scored a win on Friday, when a federal appeals court gave a temporary green light to his Remain-in-Mexico program. The idea is to keep asylum seekers south of the border until they get their day in court. It’s urgently needed to help border towns like McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley region, and Las Cruces, New Mexico, which are being overwhelmed. The same critics pouncing on Trump’s call to transport these asylum seekers to sanctuary cities are also opposing his Remain-in-Mexico program. For these Trump-haters, nothing matters but politics.
Democrats have spent the past two-plus years accusing the president of the United States and his allies of seditiously conspiring with our enemies to destroy “democracy.” For the most part this fairytale has been cynically deployed by politicians to undermine the legitimacy of a Republican presidency, yet millions of Americans now believe their votes were upended by a foreign power. There is no more serious charge against an elected official than treason. Then again, for decades before the 2016 election, Democrats argued that Republicans were literally killing their fellow Americans when cutting taxes, murdering the sick
MSNBC analyst Steve Kornacki on Tuesday pointed out that presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s (D) support is coming mostly from wealthy white liberals like many so-called “wine-track” Democrats before him. Kornacki said that “a bit of a profile” about who is behind the Buttigieg “boomlet” is emerging. He said, based on the most recent national polls, “the higher the income, the more interest there is in Buttigieg,” the South Bend, Indiana, mayor.
The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell — it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately apartment building in Northwest Washington. But the Art Deco complex, which overlooks Rock Creek Park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is today the troubled locus of a debate on housing policy in a city struggling with the twin crises of homelessness and gentrification.(Snip) when D.C. housing officials dramatically increased the value of rental subsidies.
Jackie Kennedy oversaw a restoration of the White House and transformed the First Residence into a museum of American art and history. She also arranged for the Mona Lisa to tour America (a move that caused riots in Paris). Betty Ford, candid about her struggle with drugs and alcohol, established the nation’s preeminent addiction treatment center. Rosalynn Carter attended cabinet meetings and was the president’s emissary to Latin America and Melania Trump is a paragon of grace, elegance and style for American women to admire.