Posts on Saturday, April 20, 2019
The prestige press has some explaining to do — for subjecting the nation to a long, cruel ordeal named “collusion” and “obstruction.” Almost two years and millions of column inches later, special counsel Robert Mueller has revealed the theory that President Trump and his campaign conspired with Russia has been just that. All that remains of collusion and obstruction is the media’s shattered credibility. The errant reporters and pundits — the ones who peddled the most outrageous falsehoods — want nothing more than to move on. But not so fast: There has to be some accountability for the biggest foul-ups.
President Trump stepped up his attacks against special counsel Robert Mueller early Saturday morning, claiming Mueller´s recently released report "was written as nastily as possible" by "true Trump Haters." In a string of early morning tweets, Trump lashed out at Mueller calling him "highly conflicted" and once again declaring the special counsel´s investigation "the greatest Witch Hunt in U.S. political history." "Despite the fact that the Mueller Report should not have been authorized in the first place & was written as nastily as possible by 13 (18) Angry Democrats who were true Trump Haters,
A former lawyer for the Obama White House will go on trial this summer for allegedly lying about his lobbying work for Ukraine. A federal judge in Washington, DC, set Greg Craig’s trial for Aug. 12. The charges against Craig reportedly stem from Ukraine hiring him and his former law firm in 2012 for work related to then-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s jailing of a political opponent. The case against Craig grew out of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Craig has entered a not guilty plea to the charges.
A nighttime video of Rep. Duncan Hunter surmounting a low barrier in Arizona is gaining attention after it turned out he had incorrectly assumed he was crossing the US-Mexico border. “So here is the grand border wall in Yuma, Arizona,” the California Republican says in front of the structure.”This is what we expect to stop people, transnational terrorists, families, all illegal aliens from coming across the border. This is it.” He then swings his legs over a low beam, saying from the other side of the structure,
It’s a good bet that President Trump will get himself re-elected to the White House in 2020. Here are five reasons why.First: It’s the economy, stupid. Recessions kill re-election campaigns. Only two presidents since 1968 have lost in their bids to win second terms, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, and their losses can be tied directly to a bad economy. While many Trump-hating pundits and economists are predicting that growth might stagnate in the next year or two, I think that is wishful thinking by a group who never thought the president would win in the first place.
The President of the United States did not conspire with the Russians. Neither did his family. Neither did his friends. Neither did his campaign. At the end of the Robert Mueller investigation – now clearly staffed and advanced by partisans who loathe this president – not one single American, after all that, has been indicted or charged with any crime for conspiring with the Russians in any way, shape, or form to steal the 2016 election. That is now an indisputable fact. The uncomfortable reality is that we spent two years being fed the most irresponsible allegations
I see where Judge Andrew Napolitano is now an astronaut. I mean you have to be in outer space to believe that Mueller´s report “might be enough to prosecute” President Trump.(Snip) If Mueller had the goods to prosecute, he would have. Forget it, Jake. It´s cable TV. John Solomon at The Hill is grounded. He raised 10 questions about the report. No. 9 is the one that matters most. Solomon wrote, "9.) Did the CIA or Obama intelligence apparatus try to lure or pressure the FBI into opening a Trump collusion probe or acknowledge its existence before the election?
If you left a bait bucket -wrapped in a plastic bag- sitting in the sun for three days, the results would be be appropriate for Mitt Romney’s latest brand of cologne. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said on Friday he was “sickened” by the dishonesty of U.S. President Donald Trump and people around him as portrayed in a report on Russia’s attempts to influence the 2016 election. (more) Apparently Mitt Romney wants the world to know his opinion of the Mueller report:
Last month I wrote about an extraordinary news special produced by station KOMO in Seattle. Provocatively titled “Seattle is Dying” the hour-long special argued that the homeless problem in the city was a disaster for residents thanks to policies that let people with addictions or mental problems live in a law-free zone on the city’s streets... Earlier this month, leaked documents revealed that a group of prominent nonprofits—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Campion Advocacy Fund, the Raikes Foundation, and the Ballmer Group—hired a PR firm, Pyramid Communications, to conduct polling, create messaging
One stalwart ploy of leftist writers, commentators and artists is to attach the adjective American to the normal sins of humankind. American Racism. American Injustice. American Sexism. As if these problems exist nowhere but here or as if they were somehow worse here than other places. In fact, when looked at in context, the word American, when used this way, usually turns out to mean “less.” Less Racism. Less Injustice. Less Sexism. Indeed many of America’s faults and flaws arise from the high standards to which we hold it. After reading the Mueller Report, I came away with a similar
Every time a picture of the too-precious-for-words Mitt Romney turns up on the Internet, it’s a reminder of those long ago classroom days, when smarmies called out: “Teacher, teacher, Larry’s chewing gum!” The holier-than-thous who ratted out gum chewers, who will always be there, stand out like proverbial sore thumbs, when they ‘graduate’ to politics. . The perfectly-coiffed, pixie dust polished Romney is now calling out: “Teacher, teacher, the president’s a bad boy!”
The video snippet below shows within 10 minutes after the 448-page Robert Mueller report was publicly released, Jake Tapper identifies two reporters, Laura Jarrett and Manu Raju, who Tapper says have “read the report.” It’s almost guaranteed Jake Tapper is not lying in that segment. Yes, it is impossible for two journalists to read 448 pages of the report and prepare to discuss it within minutes… but that’s not what they did. The Mueller people who wrote that report; the same Mueller people who tipped off CNN to the raid on Roger Stone; the same Mueller people who
President Donald Trump’s housing agency plans to exclude illegal migrants from subsidized housing, likely freeing up more cheap housing for the many Americans who face rising real estate costs because of legal and illegal immigration. “Because of past loopholes in HUD [Housing and Urban Development agency] guidance, illegal aliens were able to live in free public housing desperately needed by so many of our own citizens,” an official told the Daily Caller. “As illegal aliens attempt to swarm our borders, we’re sending the message that you can’t live off of American welfare on the taxpayers’ dime.” (Tweet) “There may be
Following the horrifying fire that badly damaged one of the world’s great treasures, the mainstream media is pushing the storyline that the fire that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was caused by an “electrical short circuit.” But the story in the Daily Mail lacks any evidence to back up that claim. A French judicial police official said investigators brought in to work out the cause of the inferno made the claims -- despite them not having been given access to the church yet for safety reasons. The official, who spoke anonymously about the ongoing investigation, said the monument
Mike Huckabee sprung into action Friday to defend his daughter, White House Press Sec Sarah Sanders after CNN’s April Ryan called for Sanders’ head to “lopped off.”April Ryan demanded Sarah Sanders be fired over a discrepancy in a statement she made about the rank and file at the FBI losing confidence in Comey.April Ryan flipped out over Sarah Sanders’ statement (via NewsBusters): “Not only does she not have credibility, she lied. She out and out lied,” she declared as emotion welled up in her voice. “And the people, the American people can’t trust her. They can’t trust what’s said from
PHOENIX – A woman accused of sending a man more than 159,000 text messages and breaking into his Arizona home wants her case to go to trial, believing a jury will find her innocent while also ordering her and the man she´s accused of stalking to wed. Those were among the comments made by Jacqueline Ades in a recent phone interview with The Arizona Republicfrom Maricopa County´s Estrella Jail, where she has been held since May 2018. Ades´ case has garnered national attention after authorities said she continued to stalk a Paradise Valley man after a single date, broke
Vulnerable House Democrats, mindful of President Donald Trump´s continued strength among Republican voters, are using caution in how they respond to the special counsel´s report, which detailed Trump´s efforts to thwart the investigation into Russian efforts to help him win the White House. More than 30 Democratic representatives, many of whom are in their first term, represent districts that supported Trump in 2016. The party´s chances of keeping control of the U.S. House of Representatives likely hinge its ability to defend those seats. In the report released on Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said Trump may have obstructed justice
As far as tourist sites and monuments go, the Notre Dame Cathedral is one of the best places to visit. It is beautiful, big, right at the center of a tourist-friendly city, and—best of all—completely free of charge. (Snip) Thus, instead of responding with outrage to find the person who set fire to an enormous stone structure that has weathered nine centuries of so many wars and revolutions, officials quickly chalked it up to an accident related to renovation efforts and have already discussed plans for rebuilding. This is just an unfortunate thing that has no meaning or motive
Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump´s lawyer, was greeted like a conquering hero when he arrived in the atrium of the Trump International Hotel on Thursday evening, hours after the publication of the long-awaited Mueller report. Well-wishers cheered and clapped before he disappeared upstairs for dinner. As the fallout from special counsel Robert Mueller´s 448-page report reverberated through Washington a day later, allies of the president praised Giuliani’s legal strategy for ensuring President Trump was not among the hundreds of witnesses who sat down with investigators.
Recent news reports in the last week revealed that Amazon has thousands of workers listening to Amazon Echo aka Alexa voice assistant recordings. That is a bit unnerving, however, this post will share several ways, including a serious DIY project, to increase your privacy. I’m going to cut right to the chase here: 1. The first method of silencing most voice assistant devices is via the manual, physical button. Some of us don’t read the manual and are unaware that there are manual overrides. On Amazon Echo, when you press the microphone button, the external ring glows red
For the first time in Vatican history, the pope allowed for the reading of Islamic prayers and Koran readings from the Catholic facility. The readings and prayer came as Pope Francis met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Vatican City, a gathering designed to pray for Middle Eastern peace. A Holy See spokesman said the prayers were supposed to be a “pause in politics,” Breitbart reported. The pope said, too, that he hoped the interfaith prayers would foster peace specifically between Israelis and Palestinians, the news outlet said.
The damage to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris could have been a lot worse. If it weren’t for a robot named “Colossus,” firefighters could have lost their lives battling the blaze. “Time was against us, the wind was against us, and we had to get the upper hand,” Gabriel Plus, a spokesman for the Paris Fire Brigade, shared with the Times of London Thursday. “The priority we set was to save the two belfries,” he added. “Imagine if the timber of the belfries had been weakened and the bells had collapsed. That was really our fear. In the beginning,
Numerous examples are provided in a soon to be released book, Judgment in Moscow, by the heroic Soviet dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky. He makes use of extensive first hand documents that he personally stole from Russia´s Central Committee (C.C.) archives, which have never before been accessible to Americans. The media must be tripping over themselves to see what Bukovsky reveals...right? Well, not so much. Because the C.C. documents demonstrate, irrefutably, that the American Establishment was the one willingly and repeatedly colluding with Russia — an inconvenient fact. This is history that the mainstream media don´t want Americans to know.
The Climate Cult
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I’m fond of referring to the climate campaigners as the “climatistas” because they remind me of the Sandinistas and their fellow-traveling fans back in the 1980s. But someone writing as “Will” over at The Medium has done me one better in calling attention to how the climate change fanatics resemble nothing so much as a full-blown religious cult. Read the whole thing, but here are the ten signs and his introductory description to each, based on the indicators developed by the Cult Education Institute: 1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. The leading advocates of the Climate Change movement
The Mueller Report is a 448 page-long primal scream of rage by the frustrated Hillary Clinton acolytes who wrote it and who utterly failed in their anointed mission to (a) lure President Trump into a General Flynn-style perjury trap and/or (b) goad him into obstructing their faux investigation of non-existent Trump campaign collusion with Russia. Unable to find any evidence of actual criminality by the president, Team Mueller resorted to dirtying him up as much as possible for the benefit of their mainstream media and Democrat party fan clubs. This extra-prosecutorial exercise in character assassination was undoubtedly good group therapy
The partisan warfare over the Mueller report will rage, but one thing cannot be denied: Former President Barack Obama looks just plain bad. On his watch, the Russians meddled in our democracy while his administration did nothing about it. The Mueller report flatly states that Russia began interfering in American democracy in 2014. Over the next couple of years, the effort blossomed into a robust attempt to interfere in our 2016 presidential election. The Obama administration knew this was going on and yet did nothing. In 2016, Obama´s National Security Adviser Susan Rice told her staff
The ridiculous excesses of political correctness have now stretched all the way to Yankee Stadium and Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center. Both the Yankees and the NHL Flyers have banned Kate Smith’s famed 1943 recording of Irving Berlin’s classic “God Bless America.” The Flyers — for whom the recording has long been a good-luck charm (Smith herself sang it live during the 1974 Stanley Cup final) — went even further: They’ve actually covered up a statue of the singer that stands outside the arena. The Yankees have played the recording during the seventh-inning stretch ever since 9/11. The problem? Two other songs Smith
It’s fun to write your own version of this using other religious sites. “Islam gaining traction in popular travel destination Mecca.” “Former Argentine cardinal relocates to Rome.” And to think, this isn’t even the most embarrassing big-media take on religion in the wake of the Notre Dame fire. But fair is fair. The AP’s story about this is much better than the unfortunate headline appended to it. It doesn’t typify the secular perspective of the title as much as it responds to it, informing readers who might regard Notre Dame as chiefly a cultural landmark
The family of a 5-year-old boy who was thrown from the third-floor balcony at the Mall of America released a hopeful update on Friday, saying that despite "a long road ahead," the boy is "showing real signs of recovery." "We have good news to share with you on this Good Friday," the family said in a statement. "Our miracle child is showing real signs of recovery. New test results have been positive, though he remains in intensive care with a long road ahead. Our faith in God and our savior Jesus
I´m Stuart Varney and this is “My Take.” Stand by for a wild week: it begins Monday! Congress drifts back after the Easter break. Normally, that would not create much excitement, but these are different times. We´ve just received the Mueller report. It’s been picked over with a fine-toothed comb and the Democrats have concluded they can still salvage something from the "no collusion" conclusion: they´re going to contest it. They´re going to re-try the whole investigation. They´re going after all the underlying documents, all the witness statements: and they´re demanding Mueller himself testify. They´ve demanded the president´s tax returns
There have been a lot of viral impersonations of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on social media, but none have been quite this hilarious and adorable. Wearing glasses and bright red lipstick, a young girl brilliantly skewered the freshmen congresswoman in a way that put the current cast of Saturday Night Live to shame. (Video/Tweet) “Like, I’m Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aka AOC, and like, I want to talk about like, climate change, because like, there’s no doubt cow farts are making the climate change,” the girl’s rant begins. “Like, in July the climate was 96 degrees and in February the climate was 36
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a dear colleague letter to members of the House Democratic Caucus today stating that the caucus will hold a conference call on Monday to discuss the report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which was released yesterday.’ “As we continue to review this document, we will have more to report and will update you on the next steps that must be taken,” Pelosi said in her letter. “The Caucus is scheduling a conference call for Monday to discuss this grave matter, which is as soon as our analysis and this Holy Season’s religious traditions allow.” “This
Warren: Even If Impeachment Proceedings Fail, It Would Be a Worthy Use of Time and Resources
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On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” 2020 presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stated that even if impeachment proceedings result in the House voting for impeachment, but the Senate voting against conviction, it would still be a worthwhile use of time and resources. Host Rachel Maddow asked, “If you could see into the future, and that’s how it would go, the House says yes. The Senate says no. Would you still think that it was the right thing to do for the country and that it was a worthy use of resources and time?” Warren responded, “Yes, I
The Trump 2020 campaign raked in $1million in donations after the Mueller report cleared him of colluding with Russia. The campaign´s COO Michael Glassner boasted about the boost on Friday, telling The New York Post that it represented a 250 percent increase in a day. ´The release of the full Mueller report directly led to the campaign raising more than $1 million. ´Relative to our recent daily average, the Mueller news drove a 250 percent increase in fundraising from grassroots donors,´ he said. Glassner added: ´Now it´s time to investigate the investigators´.
It has been more than three months since the U.S. accelerated its onslaught of economic sanctions on Venezuela, coupled with the back of a new interim President – heightening official expectation that the Nicolas Maduro-led regime would crumble. Only the socialist dictatorship has failed to fall. While there an array of factors to blame, analysts are pointing to illicit trafficking rings as a fundamental Maduro lifeline. “The Venezuelan military forces has become a narco-criminal, armed organization. Most of the top and mid-commanders are deeply involved in corruption, drug operations, and serious human rights abuses,” Johan Obdola, president of Latin
ELYRIA — An associate professor at Oberlin College wrote that the protests conducted by students outside of Gibson’s Bakery in 2016 to “smear the brand” of the business had been achieved. A message sent by associate professor of music theory Jan Miyake said, “So heres one rhing (sic) on my mind about gibsons. They own so much prime property in oberlin that boycotting doesnt hurt them that much. The smear on their brand does, and that’s been taken care of.” (Snip) The rift between the bakery and the college began in 2016 when a student tried to buy alcohol with
Williamstown, KY—A northern Kentucky barbecue food truck is getting a lot of heat after advertising its T-shirts on social media. The of Belle’s Smoking BBQ took a play on the acronym LGBTQ and changed it to Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump, and BBQ. Some are calling the message insensitive and hateful. Belle’s Smoking BBQ is based in Williamstown, but the owner Jamie Smith has been traveling all over the state bringing his food to crowds for three years. Now his merchandise is overshadowing his smoked meats. Smith says he started selling the T-shirts nearly two years ago.
The salacious and uncorroborated “dossier” compiled by ex-British Intelligence officer Christopher Steele was used by the media to justify its endless attacks on President Donald Trump and accuse him of treason. The dossier was never anything more than opposition research paid for by Fusion GPS – and not even good opposition research at that. Steele reported rumors and gossip, including some Internet comments, to bolster his report. What wasn’t corroborated was downright debunked by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, including the allegations that former Trump attorney Michael Cohen went to Prague to meet with Russians.Now, after two years of using
James Clapper is making a fool of himself — and now wants you to be his bigger fool. Get a load of his hot take on the Mueller report, reported by the Daily Caller: Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he believes the Mueller report demonstrates "passive collusion" from President Donald Trump if not "active collusion." Clapper suggested Thursday that candidate Trump was perhaps "unwittingly" advancing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, in a CNN interview reported by Fox News. "If there wasn´t active collusion proven, then I think what we have here is a case of
President Donald Trump joked Saturday that Sen. Mitt Romney could have beaten Barack Obama in 2012 if he fought the former president as much as the current president. “If Mitt Romney spent the same energy fighting Barack Obama as he does fighting Donald Trump, he could have won the race,” Trump wrote on Twitter, adding “(maybe)!” He shared a clip of Romney appearing to be emotional as he lost the election in 2012. Trump was responding to Romney’s assertion on Twitter that he was “sickened” by the revelations in the Mueller report of the “dishonesty and misdirection” by the president.“That
An 8-year-old’s impersonation of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking social media by storm. “Like, I want to talk about, like, climate change. Because, like, there’s no doubt cow farts are making the climate change,” Ava Martinez says in a video posted to Twitter this week. “Like, in July, the climate was 96 degrees and in February the climate was 36 degrees. OMG, like that’s a huge change in the climate in only”—she pauses to count her fingers—“four months!” “At this rate, the world is going to end in exactly 12 years, adds Ava, who sports red
Robert de Niro furthered the actor’s feud with President Trump by labeling him a “total loser,” “dumbbell” and “wannabe gangster” in an interview Friday evening. Appearing on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS, Mr. De Niro repeatedly took swipes at the president while discussing his reoccurring role depicting special counsel Robert Mueller on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live.” “It’s a civic duty. It’s my obligation, my civic obligation to play Mueller,” said Mr. De Niro. “I am hoping that it goes further. I don’t know would will happen,” Mr. De Niro continued. “I don’t know if this is actually
Frank Carus peers through the windshield of the Piston Bully snowcat as it approaches the top of the Hermit Lake caretaker’s cabin near the base of Mount Washington’s Tuckerman Ravine. He notes a small slide near the bottom of the ravine, observes variations of shading in snow color across the wide bowl of Tuck’s, studies the nuances of the terrain from afar. A light layer of new snow has brightened the mountain to dazzling white. Beyond, the mid-April sky is an impossibly deep blue. The sun is shining, and the temperature hovers just above freezing. It’s the kind of day
A little after five A.M. on December 11, 2017, a gray Volkswagen Passat inched through the darkness of Tijuana toward the brightly lit Customs and Border Protection port of entry at San Ysidro, California. It was in the SENTRI lane, the special passageway for pre-approved, low-risk travelers who have passed a stringent background check. The driver, a stocky 54-year-old man with shaggy blond hair and a goatee, seemed as low-risk as they come. John Lee Bishop had established himself as one of the most successful pastors in America. His mega-church, Living Hope, was one of the country’s fastest-growing congregations.
LONDON — Land ownership in England, a source of enormous wealth, is often shielded by a culture of secrecy harking back to the Middle Ages. But a researcher says that after years of digging, he has an answer: Less than 1 percent of the population — including aristocrats, royals and wealthy investors — owns about half of the land, according to “Who Owns England,” a book that is to be published in May. And many of them inherited the property as members of families that have held it for generations — even centuries.
A group of armed Mexican soldiers disarmed and detained two US soldiers on the US side of the border near Clint, Texas on April 13th. Officials with US Northern Command told CNN that “The U.S. soldiers were appropriately in U.S. territory,” and were reportedly providing border support “in an unmarked (U.S. Customs and Border Protection) vehicle.”According to officials, the Mexican soldiers pointed their firearms at the two US soldiers and removed a sidearm from one of the US soldiers. The US soldiers allowed their weapons to be taken “in an attempt to de-escalate a potential volatile situation.” One of the
More than six months since Hurricane Michael ripped through the Florida Panhandle, the National Hurricane Center has upgraded it to a Category 5 storm. Forecasters now say, based on a post-storm analysis, that the hurricane packed 160 mph winds when it hit Oct. 10 around Tyndall Air Force Base near Mexico Beach. It´s the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States as a Category 5 since Hurricane Andrew came ashore near Miami in 1992, according to the Hurricane Center. Only two other storms in recorded history have struck the nation as Category 5s, forecasters said — the Labor
A Depression-era mural depicting white children playing outside in the winter was removed from Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park because school officials said it failed to represent the school’s diversity.While some said the mural was upsetting to students of color who felt it excluded them from the school, a local historian likened the removal to a “modern-day book burning.” Julian Principal Todd Fitzgerald announced the weekend removal in an email sent to school staff Monday.
We live in a world that is almost too stupid for words. Here is the latest: the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers have stopped playing Kate Smith’s iconic recording of “God Bless America.” Why? Because Smith recorded a couple of other songs, during the 1930s, that some liberals now consider objectionable. The Washington Post takes this idiocy seriously: The voice of singer Kate Smith is rapidly disappearing from the world of professional sports.(Snip) The Yankees have been playing Smith’s “God Bless America” since 2001, but no longer. What’s the problem? Smith recorded a song
A former member of the George W. Bush White House said the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller´s investigation that Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election are one person´s fault: President Barack Obama.And that started with negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Iran nuclear deal.“Obama wanted Putin in the [Iran nuclear] deal, and to stand up to him on election interference would have, in Obama´s estimation, upset that negotiation. This turned out to be a disastrous policy decision,” Scott Jennings wrote in an opinion piece for CNN, where he is a commentator. President Trump withdrew the U.S.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto: Coast to Coast,” Fox News Analyst and host Howard Kurtz stated that some people on the right “are going too far” by claiming that the Mueller report completely exonerates President Trump “as if there’s no embarrassing or damaging material in here.” He added that “too many” people in the media aren’t accepting that there are no further charges. He said, “I mean, some on the right are going too far in saying this completely and totally exonerates the president, as if there’s no embarrassing or damaging material in here
The Center for Union Facts has launched a new website, www.PublicUnionFacts.com, to track more than $1.5 billion in public sector union political spending over the past two decades. It found that these unions give 90 percent of political funding to Democrats.Democrats in California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Oregon alone received more money from public unions than Republicans did nationwide."There´s a growing disconnect between how public unions are spending money and what workers actually want," Charlyce Bozzello, the center’s communications director, said. "The breakdown of union members who support Democrats versus Republicans is likely not 90 to 10, as years
The far-left New York Times was forced to issue a humiliating correction this week after describing “the body of Christ” as a statue. The story by Elian Peltier was titled “The Chaplain, the Cathedral Fire and the Race to Rescue Notre-Dame’s Relics” and offered a detailed account of Father Jean-Marc Fournier (the Paris Fire Department chaplain) and his heroic efforts to save cherished Notre Dame’s treasures and relics during that devastating fire. In the second paragraph, the Times quotes him as saying, “I had two priorities: to save the crown of thorns and a statue of Jesus.”
A Flock of F-15X Eagles
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The F-15 Eagle fighter, which first entered United States Air Force (USAF) service in 1976, will continue to be an essential element of America’s air superiority force into the 2040s. Accordingly, the Department of Defense needs to procure the F-15X, the latest version of this fourth-generation fighter that will remain a vital weapons system even in an era of stealthy fifth-generation fighters like the scarce F-22. The website Warzone has examined how a “quiet USAF inquiry” prompted the F-15X, not Boeing’s commercial interests (Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, has recused himself from F-15X decisions). Previously USAF
Yellow Vest protestors in Paris battled police during violent clashes Saturday -- newly enraged at the more than billion dollars that have been pledged to rebuild fire-damaged Notre Dame Cathedral, overshadowing their anti-wealth cause. Black-hooded demonstrators set fire to trash cans, scooters and a car and pelted police with rocks to draw attention anew to their 23rd weekend of protest. Many protesters are frustrated that the international effort to help Notre Dame has drawn more attention than their five-month-old Yellow Vest movement against wealth inequality, The Associated Press reported.
“What about these notes?” President Donald Trump demands of Donald McGahn, then his White House counsel. “Why do you take notes? Lawyers don’t take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes.” Of all the hallucinogenic moments chronicled in Robert Mueller’s report, this is one of the most dizzying. McGahn has been summoned to the White House in February 2018 because a livid Trump wants him to deny something truthful. McGahn explains that he can’t “correct” an accurate report in The Times that the president had instructed him to have Mueller “fired.”
Two Highlands County middle school students were arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder after detectives say they plotted to harm others. The Highlands County School Board on Thursday released details about the incident involving the Avon Park Middle School students and said it was releasing the details in an effort to prevent incorrect information from circulating. The school district said the two students were taken into custody at Avon Park Middle School on Wednesday after a teacher told law enforcement about a possible plan to harm others off campus. The school district said that all families involved in
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand channeled her inner diva at a Des Moines gay bar, where she posed and palled around with a drag queen. Pics of the Democratic presidential candidate posted to Twitter late Friday showed Gillibrand doing her makeup and striking poses alongside a drag queen at a bar called Blazing Saddles. “I felt underdressed, so I brought a dress I picked up yesterday—turns out it fit me, but it fit Vana even better! Thank you for having me, ladies!” the New York lawmaker tweeted. Gillibrand is holding a May 2 fundraiser with Marti Gold Cummings, whom the campaign described
Amazon and Walmart on Thursday kicked off a two-year government pilot program allowing low-income shoppers on government food assistance in New York to shop and pay for their groceries online for the first time. ShopRite will join the two retailers on the program early next week, said the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The USDA has long required customers using electronic benefits transfer, or EBT, pay for their purchases at the actual time and place of sale. So the move marks the first time SNAP customers can pay for their groceries online.
Two U.S. Army soldiers sat in an unmarked Chevrolet Tahoe owned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on the west side of an El Paso County, Texas, Colonia known as Las Pampas. It was April 13, and the Army sergeant and private had set up a hasty observation post north of the Rio Grande River, but south of the border fence in U.S. territory.(Snip) observed five to six individuals dressed in green pixelated military camouflage uniforms and carrying weapons, which appeared to be FX-05 Xiuhcoatl, an assault rifle designed and built for the Mexican armed
For almost three years now, much of the American political media — what I’ve been calling the Democratic Media Complex — has been clinging to a fantasy about President Donald Trump and Russia. You might call them bitter clingers. They cling to the fantasy that Trump won the 2016 election only because he was the servant of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. And they believed, really believed, as a matter of faith, that their saint, special counsel Robert Mueller,
This week’s far left news coverage of the Mueller Report fallout has been a bizarre affair that has CNN, MSNBC, etc., still refusing to admit their wrongdoing and in some cases actually continuing to push the impeachment narrative. Let that sink in. When media figures are still demanding impeachment of a president who was found to have done NOTHING WRONG it only further emphasizes the point that this entire Mueller boondoggle was never about the truth but only a means by which these people wanted to harm President Trump, his tens of millions of supporters,
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — As Peter Johnson and Emily Neal waited for Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to arrive at Barley’s, a brick-lined sports bar in southwestern Iowa, they gamed out possible nominees in the Democratic presidential primary. Mr. Johnson, a 27-year-old law student, said the large field was a great equalizer, and “if at the end of it we get an old white guy, someone who represents the status quo, it’ll be because they’ve proven themselves.” Ms. Neal, a dental hygienist, made an agonized face at Mr. Johnson, her boyfriend. Wouldn’t something be lost, she asked, if the historically diverse slate
Beto O´Rourke was confronted by an angry voter in New Hampshire Friday morning over a contribution he accepted from a fossil fuel lobbyist. The exchange between O´Rourke and the woman unfolded during a town hall at a tea cafe in Somersworth, N.H., after it came out that the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful received a $250 donation from a Chevron lobbyist based in New Mexico on Mar. 29. The Texas Democrat has repeatedly fundraised on the basis that he has no ties to special interest groups. "I don´t take PAC money, have not taken PAC money for approaching five years now
He’s getting to write his wrong. A Brooklyn gangbanger got busted with a loaded, stolen revolver in a caught-on-video incident — but a softie judge cut him loose with little more than a homework assignment, The Post has learned. Judge Ellen Edwards rejected a prosecution request to set bail at $25,000 for Ismail Abraham, 18, following his arrest in East New York, law-enforcement sources said on Friday. Instead, Edwards gave Abraham an 8 p.m. curfew and told him to compose a “report on gun violence in the community,” sources said. It was unclear how many pages Abraham has to write,
The New York City Council on Thursday took a major step toward implementing a pillar of the Green New Deal, the aggressive blueprint for addressing climate change supported by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. The council passed a bill that requires large buildings to meet new standards aimed at reducing their carbon footprint. The bill aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the city´s buildings by 40% over the next decade. That will require many building owners to take measures to make them more energy efficient. The bill is packaged with several other green initiatives in the Climate Mobilization
McAllen, Texas - U.S. Border Patrol has identified over 3,000 fraudulent family unit cases in the last six months. That is according to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan. He says the system is full and urges congress to act on current immigration policies. "It´s very clear that the cartel and smugglers know the weaknesses in our laws. They know that family units and unaccompanied children will be released with no consequences for their illegal entries." McAleenan adds the Rio Grande Valley Sector has been the main arrival point for immigrants in the last five years.