Posts on Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Liberals in the U.S. House of Representatives and various state and local jurisdictions are asking the Supreme Court to join them in making a remarkable prediction: Next year, they argue, unless the court acts now to restrain the Department of Commerce, vast numbers of illegal aliens will violate a U.S. law that has profound constitutional consequences. This widespread law breaking, they predict, will impact federal elections for at least 10 years. And, these liberals contend, the bad guys in this situation will not be the illegal aliens
On April 13, a Mexican military patrol spotted an unmarked vehicle on the south side of the border fence outside El Paso, and confronted the two people inside. They turned out to be U.S. Army soldiers, and the spot where they were parked was U.S. territory.The two sides talked, the Mexican military contingent left, and the U.S. soldiers went on their way.That´s the story according to official statements from Mexico and the United States.Then there is President Trump’s version. “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border,” he tweeted
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Joe Biden has yet to formally declare his presidential bid, but he’s already complicating Kamala Harris´ path to victory in a must-win state: South Carolina. The pivotal early primary state is the linchpin of Harris´ strategy to capture the Democratic nomination, yet the former vice president’s experience, pragmatism and close association with former President Barack Obama have given him a significant advantage here — even more so than in other states, according to more than two dozen interviews with state operatives and elected leaders, as well as public and private polling.
It´s not often that you hear from churchmen any signal of righteous anger, but on Sri Lanka, which has a vibrant and growing Church, there is one. Here´s what Breitbart News picked up from the local presses: Sri Lanka´s highest-ranking Catholic prelate called on the government to hunt down the attackers behind the lethal bombings that killed nearly 300 people Sunday and to "punish them mercilessly." "I would also like to ask the government to hold a very impartial strong inquiry and find out who is responsible behind this act and also to punish them mercilessly, because only animals
HOUSTON — The women of color who packed into a university auditorium here Wednesday for a first-of-its-kind presidential forum delighted in the rhetoric of candidates who vowed to make Donald Trump a one-term president. But their frustration was just as palpable — over the heavy media attention being paid to white male candidates in the early days of the Democratic primary, and over polling they contended is feeding a misleading narrative that only a white man can defeat Trump. “With all due respect to the vice president, he hasn’t even announced yet but he’s the frontrunner?” Leah Daughtry, a
Colombo, Sri Lanka -- Two of the suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were members of a prominent and wealthy family in Colombo, sources have told CNN, in a development that has rocked the small Muslim community in the city. The brothers, Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim and Ilham Ahmed Ibrahim, were among the band of extremists who blew themselves up in Sunday´s attacks, two sources with knowledge of the investigation said. Their father, Mohamed Ibrahim, is the founder of Colombo-based Ishana Exports, which describes itself on its website as the "largest exporter
HOUSTON— After touring the National Lynching Memorial recently, former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper spoke of the "shame" he felt that some white people "kind of looked the other way during these lynching incidents." Former U.S. Rep. Beto O´Rourke of Texas has acknowledged he "clearly had advantages" as a white man. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has said that any struggle she faced as a single mom was much more challenging for black women. U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio has talked about not knowing many black people when he was growing up. And Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, recently
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders faced a skeptical audience of minority women in Texas Wednesday, a group that will be critical in deciding the Democratic presidential nominee from a racially diverse field of candidates and a record number of women. Pressed by multiple questioners to address why women of color should support him, Sanders leaned heavily on his economic message, drawing audible expressions of frustration from some of the more than 1,500 people attending the She the People forum in Houston. “Black women will be an integral part of what our campaign and our administration is about,” he said after
The Democrat Chairman of the House Oversight Committee accused President Trump and AG Barr of ‘massive obstruction’ on Wednesday for ordering federal employees to ignore congressional subpoenas. “Both President Trump and Attorney General Barr are now openly ordering federal employees to ignore congressional subpoenas and simply not show up – without any assertion of a valid legal privilege,” Dem Congressman Elijah Cummings said in a statement.Reuters reported that the Justice Department on Wednesday refused to allow John Gore, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division to provide a deposition scheduled for Thursday if the committee would not
Climate change alarmist Robert Redford had an interesting way to commemorate Earth Day on Monday, when the liberal actor warned that people should avoid focusing on political issues because he couldn’t see why any of those would matter “without a planet to live on.” For a change among such extremists, Redford didn’t set a deadline for when life on our planet would end. Instead, he stated that the world is “approaching an irreversible tipping point” because of the “damage mankind has caused all around us every day and everywhere.” In a post for Time magazine, Redford listed a number of
Democratic presidential candidate and millionaire socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) previously described millionaire senators as being "immoral" during his first campaign for office in 1971, according to a new report from CNN. (Video) CNN´s Andrew Kaczynski and Nathan McDermott reported that Sanders "harshly criticized the wealth of US senators" at the time, "calling it ´immoral´ that half the members of the Senate were millionaires." "Sanders´ decades-old comments, which were picked up in December 1971 by the Bennington Banner, a local Vermont newspaper, are resurfacing as the US senator from Vermont has acknowledged that he is now a millionaire in large
What did the Democrats know and when did they know it? For the last two and half years, the vicious Trump haters in the Democratic Party and the media have been bending the truth and outright lying to try and hang the Watergate hat on my father.The natural takeaway from the 448 pages of Robert Mueller’s report is that the analogy fits them a lot better. There was no collusion — none, not by anyone associated with the Trump Campaign. And, according to the report, Special Counsel Mueller appeared to know this as far back as 2017.And yet, for another two
My oldest daughter lives in Los Angeles, a short walk from MacArthur Park. She’s not political. Not that politics is bad, but the practicalities of surviving in a tough city requires her to be no-nonsense about what’s important to her success. I’m convinced she knows nothing about Beto, Bernie, Biden, Booker or Buttigieg. But living at ground zero of one of the most sanctimonious of sanctuary cities, she knows more about the perils of illegal immigration than all of them combined. Politics was dumped at her doorstep and, like many, she’s cracking under the weight.
City officials say the question is no longer whether to drop the word Dixie from the name of the Dixie Classic Fair, but what the new name will be. In a presentation Wednesday morning that caught members of the Fair Planning Committee off guard, Assistant City Manager Ben Rowe told the panel that the Winston-Salem City Council had decided the name must change, leaving some members of the committee asking why they were meeting at all.
WASHINGTON - A former U.S. State Department employee pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring with Chinese agents, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. The employee, Candace Claiborne, had been accused of lying to law enforcement officers and hiding extensive contacts and gifts from the Chinese agents in exchange for providing them with internal State Department documents, according to the Justice Department. The gifts included cash, international vacations, tuition at a Chinese fashion school, a fully furnished apartment and a monthly stipend provided directly to Claiborne and an unnamed close family member of hers, the Justice Department
Attorney General William Barr will testify before Congress on May 1 about the recently concluded federal Russia investigation. The Senate Judiciary Committee put out a press release Wednesday that listed him as a witness for a hearing titled “The Department of Justice’s Investigation of Russian Interference with the 2016 Presidential Election." Barr’s testimony is scheduled for 10 a.m. Barr will answer senators´ questions on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.The Justice Department released a redacted version of Mueller’s nearly 450-page report Thursday, which said President Trump´s campaign had “numerous links” to the Russians but
Meghan Markle will skip US President Donald Trump´s state visit to Britain because her ´convenient´ maternity leave gives her an ´excuse´ not to meet him, a Royal expert has claimed. The President and First Lady Melania Trump will be guests of the Queen and will meet senior royals during the three-day visit. But Royal expert Duncan Larcombe said Meghan will skip the meeting because she will be on maternity leave during the trip. (Photos)He told The Sun: ´I’m told that there are no plans for Meghan to meet President Trump.´Not as a snub because – how shall we say –
GILFORD -- Ice Out on Lake Winnipesaukee was officially declared Wednesday at 5:24 a.m. That´s according to Dave Emerson of DAE Aviation Enterprises, who wings his way over Lake Winnipesaukee regularly to keep track of the progress of spring. Ice Out is the day when the M/S Mount Washington cruise ship can safely navigate between its ports of call: Weirs Beach, Alton Bay, Center Harbor, Meredith and Wolfeboro. "I went out early this morning because last night at 6:30 we went up there and it looked like it was going to go out," Emerson said Wednesday. "I got there before
Suppose you put on a major political event and nobody came? That is exactly what happened to the far-left CNN’s five hour town hall event Tuesday night. Now that the Mueller Report has exposed the media’s Russia Collusion Hoax — a hoax CNN led 24/7 for more than two years, the fake news outlet has watched its already-humiliating ratings further collapse in ways no one thought possible. This has forced the last place outlet to come up with programming gimmicks as a means to hold on.CNN has been putting on town hall events for a while now. For example, there
Yesterday, I wrote about the AP U.S. History textbook By the People that calls President Trump and his core supporters “racists” and suggests that the president is “mentally unstable.” Today, I want to write about James W. Fraser, the author of this egregiously biased left-wing book. Stanley Kurtz blew the whistle on Fraser a year ago. Rereading Stanley’s piece made my blood boil, just as it was simmering down. Fraser isn’t just a hard-leftist. Stanley shows that, at a minimum, he’s a communist sympathizer. That phrase went out of style decades ago, perhaps for the best. But applying it to
MACCALLUM: Here now exclusively tonight on The Story, Rush Limbaugh, host, of course, of the Rush Limbaugh Show. Rush, thank you for being here tonight. Great to see you this evening. RUSH: Thank you for having me. This is the one hour on Fox I haven’t done in a while, so it’s great to be here. MACCALLUM: It’s great to have you back. You know, I want to start with Joe Biden. You’ve seen him run for president twice before, in 1984 and 1988. What version of Joe Biden do you think we’re gonna get this time, and how do
The parents of a missing 5-year-old Crystal Lake boy have been charged with his murder after investigators located Andrew "AJ" Freund´s remains in a field about seven miles northwest of his home Wednesday. Crystal Lake Police Chief Jim Black announced the charges against the boy´s parents JoAnn Cunningham and Andrew Freund Sr. at a Wednesday afternoon news conference. Forensic analysis and cellphone data provided information key to the case, Black said.
The late Sen. John McCain´s family plans to support former Vice President Joe Biden´s White House bid, backing the Democrat not only in his party´s crowded primary race but also in a general election matchup with President Trump, the Washington Examiner has learned. In an extraordinary snub to Trump, who derided McCain´s Vietnam War service and mocked him even after his death last August at age 81, the McCain family is preparing to break with the Republican Party. McCain represented the party in Congress for 35 years and was chosen as its presidential nominee in 2008, losing to Barack Obama.
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that a former State Department employee who also happened to be a Clinton appointee, pleaded guilty to conspiring with foreign agents. The FBI arrested Candace Marie Claiborne on March 28th, 2017. She made her first appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia the following day.According to the DOJ, Candace Marie Claiborne, a former employee of the U.S. Department of State, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, by lying to law enforcement and background investigators, and hiding her extensive contacts with, and gifts from,
PARIS - A scaffolding firm that has worked on the roof of Notre-Dame said some of its workers had smoked on the site, but ruled out that a cigarette butt might have started the fire that destroyed the cathedral’s oak-framed roof last week.A spokesman for family-owned Le Bras Freres, confirming a report in French weekly Le Canard Enchaine, told Reuters that some workers of its Europe Echafaudage scaffolding unit had informed police that they had “sometimes” smoked on the scaffolding, despite a smoking ban on the site. “We condemn it. But the fire started inside the building...
Washington - The Trump administration on Wednesday granted important exemptions to new sanctions on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, watering down the effects of the measures while also eliminating an aspect that would have complicated U.S. foreign policy efforts. Foreign governments and businesses that have dealings with the Revolutionary Guard and its affiliates will not be subject to a ban on U.S. travel under waivers outlined by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in two notices published in the Federal Register. (Snip) The waivers leave intact sanctions that apply directly to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and its proxies,
Customers of McDonald´s in the UK are demanding the fast food chain brings back plastic straws - claiming the new paper ones aren´t fit for purpose.30,000 people have signed a petition to get rid of the new straws, which have been brought in over concerns about plastic pollution. Many claim the paper ones are dissolving into their drinks and change the taste of the products. (Tweet/Photo) Some have been taking to Twitter to rant at McDonald´s, with some even threatening to boycott the firm until plastic straws return. One tweeted: "I’m all about saving the turtles and that, but @McDonalds
Hillary Clinton said Tuesday the reason President Trump escaped obstruction charges following the Mueller report was because of his presidential title. “Any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted, but because of the rule in the Justice Department that you can’t indict a sitting President, the whole matter of obstruction was very directly sent to the Congress,” the New York Democrat said while speaking at the Time 100 summit Tuesday. Ms. Clinton said she has little faith in Congress acting, saying Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to investigate deeper into special counsel Robert Mueller’s report
Wednesday on The View, co-host Joy Behar had an interesting theory on why Democrats could lose the upcoming 2020 presidential election. To guest Kirsten Gillibrand she worried that her party would lose to Trump in 2020, because Democrats didn’t “play dirty” like Republicans did. Says who? The Democrat Senator from New York and 2020 candidate was on The View later in the show, where she received a tough shake from each co-host to start off, mostly about her chances of winning. When it became Joy Behar’s turn, she grilled Gillibrand for her part in condemning former Democrat Senator Al Franken,
Joe Biden is Obama without hope
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Joe Biden’s inevitable 2020 presidential candidacy is a strange, strange thing. Biden has longed to be president all his political life: he first ran in 1988; he ran again 20 years later. Now we’re more than a decade past his last grab for power, and Biden, as he nears 80, thinks his day has come once more. What are voters supposed to think is different this time? If Biden wasn’t good enough in 1988 or 2008, why should Democrats accept him as the best they can do in 2020? (Snip) Polls don’t suggest he’s the only Democrat who can defeat
A man who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history is set to be executed Wednesday for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. nearly 21 years ago. John William King, who is white and an avowed racist, was put on death row for chaining Byrd to the back of a truck and dragging his body for nearly three miles along a secluded road in the piney woods outside Jasper, Texas. The 49-year-old Byrd, who was black, was alive for at least two miles before his body was ripped to pieces in the early morning hours of June 7, 1998. Prosecutors said he was targeted because he was black.
The U.S. Treasury, moving to boost pressure on Hezbollah, imposed sanctions on Wednesday against two people and three firms that Washington accuses of being involved in schemes to help the armed Shi´ite group backed by Iran evade American sanctions. The Treasury´s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it was targeting Belgium-based Wael Bazzi because he acted on behalf of his father Mohammad Bazzi, a Hezbollah financier. OFAC also took action against two Belgian companies and a British-based firm controlled by Bazzi. In addition, the U.S. Treasury designated Lebanon-based Hassan Tabaja, who it said had acted
The world already knows CNN’s Chris Cuomo is not the brightest bulb in the chandelier. Still, during an interview with former Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday night, Cuomo proved not only that he’s eager to mislead his audience, but that he doesn’t have the capacity to grasp even the fundamental bottom line of the Mueller Report and has no idea how our three separate branches of the federal government operate. From Maggie Haberman to John Podhoertz to Bill Kristol to Mitt Romney to Chris Cuomo… Nepotism is replacing meritocracy and America is all that much stupider for it.Sure, no
New York - Democratic frontrunners are facing scrutiny for their stance on voting rights for incarcerated felons - after Bernie Sanders said he supports voting rights ´even for terrible people´. In one of five CNN town halls that aired Tuesday night, Senator Sanders was asked by a Harvard student specifically on whether those currently serving a prison sentence should be allowed to vote. "This is a democracy and we have got to expand that democracy,” the Vermont senator said, “and I believe every single person does have the right to vote.” Vermont is one of two states, the other being Maine, where incarcerated felons have always
Two little words are missing from the trending headline, ‘Bernie Sanders Wants Boston Bomber To Be Allowed to Vote’. The two missing words? “FOR ME!”. But it’s not just Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, whose vote Sanders wants, but the potential votes of some possible 183,000 murderers and 164,000 rapists. In fact, Socialist Sanders, Sugar Daddy Dispenser of Free Stuff for All, wants all convicted U.S. felons, no matter how heinous their crime, to be able to vote for him from prison.
American high schools are churning out nearly 100,000 illegal immigrant “Dreamers” a year, according to a new study Wednesday that shows just how extensive the network of illegal immigrant families is in the U.S. The Migration Policy Institute’s research is the first in more than a decade to try to capture the size of the emergent Dreamer population, which is defined as illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as juveniles, lacking any immediate claims to legal status. MPI’s numbers show the population has grown, from about 65,000 a year in 2003 to 98,000 graduating each year now. Some 27,000
As Democratic leaders tentatively took impeachment proceedings off the docket this week, the White House put payback on the front burner--calling for closer looks into everyone from the FBI officials who investigated the Russia case to allies of Hillary Clinton´s campaign who solicited foreign help during the 2016 presidential campaign. (Snip) On social media and in televised interviews, President Trump, his attorneys, his campaign and senior members of his administration have in the wake of the Robert Mueller report seemingly adopted a strategy of highlighting lesser-known episodes of alleged misconduct by Democrats and investigators, as Democrats pursue obstruction of justice
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh didn´t mince words while addressing multiple issues Tuesday on "The Story with Martha MacCallum" but his strongest hits were aimed at Republicans who had yet to fully jump on the President Trump bandwagon. (Snip) Limbaugh criticized the Republican party for not fully standing behind Trump and celebrating his "victory" when the Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s report was released. He also noted that Trump wasn´t just taking on the Democratis but was battling the Washington establishment--including Republicans. "Where´s the Republican party with the celebratory emails to their voters? Even fund-raising, or just celebrating the
RUSH: I’ve been getting a lot of emails. “You haven’t talked about playing golf with the president. Why not?” Because everybody knows I did. But some of the people are saying, “Well, what was it like? How did you do?” Let me explain just a few brief things. (Snip) He is everything that you would want him to be when you meet him. He’s everything that you would hope. He’s not arrogant, he’s not stuck up, he’s not distant. He has this ability to make whoever he’s talking to feel like they’re the only person in his attention span. That
Unredact All of It
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The Mueller Report confirms what some of us have suspected from the beginning: There was no collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Kremlin to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. (Snip)We should fully support Nadler’s request for the unredacted report, any supporting materials and the open testimony of both Barr and Robert Mueller. The American people should finally hear from the inscrutable special counsel; he should answer many lingering questions about his investigation, not the least of which is why he continued to pursue a non-existent offense that had been manufactured by
The University of Delaware library is in possession of nearly 2,000 boxes of archival records covering Joe Biden´s 36 years as a senator but has not committed to releasing them before the presidential election, which the former vice president is expected to enter on Thursday. The records were donated by Biden to his alma mater during his first term as vice president in 2011. Biden stipulated when he donated the papers that their release could come "no sooner than two years after [Biden] retires from any public office," according to the library. Biden left office more than two years ago
Tensions among former Vice President Joe Biden’s advisers are rising ahead of the Thursday launch of his 2020 presidential bid, according to a new report, with a last-minute replacement of his announcement video and major worries about his fundraising needs.The New York Times reports Biden will enter the crowded Democratic field with zero campaign dollars and will need to raise at least $100,000 per day until Christmas if he wants to match the amount of cash that rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had in the bank on April 1st. Members of Team Biden are said to be concerned that the
The Embers of History
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Last week’s fire in the world’s most famous Gothic cathedral, Notre-Dame de Paris, reminds us of the increasingly awkward political issue posed by the immense achievements of the European past. (Snip)Thus, in today’s Coatesian Age, it looms larger than it did a generation or two ago whether one’s forebears built Notre-Dame or a hut. In an era when our most influential voices attempt to unite our increasingly diverse and therefore divisive ethnicities around demonizing the forefathers of Europeans, the overwhelming beauty of the cathedrals of the high Middle Ages is, as they say, problematic.
Modern architects are making plans for the new and updated Notre Dame Catholic Cathedral in Paris, France. Proposed plans include a giant glass spire to signify secularism or an Islamic minaret. This is the modern day left. (Photo) Breitbart.com reported: Modern architects have begun circling the charred remains of Notre Dame, proposing that it should not be faithfully restored, but rebuilt with “contemporary” features such as a glass roof, steel spire, or even a minaret. With leading academics and professionals in architecture generally being hostile to building or restoring anything in styles predating the infamous Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and the
Liberals in the U.S. House of Representatives and various state and local jurisdictions are asking the Supreme Court to join them in making a remarkable prediction: Next year, they argue, unless the court acts now to restrain the Department of Commerce, vast numbers of illegal aliens will violate a U.S. law that has profound constitutional consequences.This widespread law breaking, they predict, will impact federal elections for at least 10 years. And, these liberals contend, the bad guys in this situation will not be the illegal aliens violating the law but the federal agency trying to enforce it. We are talking
Well, well, well, what have we here? AFL-CIO boss of bosses Richard Trumka is out and about and doesn´t sound too pleased with the Democrats. He signalled understanding as to why union members voted for President Trump, and now he thinks the Democrats´ Green New Deal stinks. In an appearance with the Economic Club, he answered some questions from the business elites, and his answers were enough to give the entire Democratic Party indigestion. Here´s Vic Reklatis´s report on Marketwatch: “The rules of this economy are designed for the people at the top to do exceptionally well.
The former police officer who arrested Beto O’Rourke for driving drunk in 1998, along with the sergeant who signed the incident report, both say they believe now what they reported at the time: that O’Rourke tried to leave the scene of the wreck he caused. O’Rourke admits he was intoxicated and says there is no justification for his actions, but he has denied that he tried to flee. "Beto´s DWI is something he has long publicly and openly addressed over the last 20 years at town halls, on the debate stage, during interviews and in Op-Eds, calling it a serious mistake
Is Kim Foxx panicking?
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is a national laughingstock over her decision to let off Jussie Smollett from any punishment beyond a trivial fine and laughable “community service” at Jessie Jackson’s office over a weekend. I can’t imagine how she thought this default on a huge national story would be accepted by the public, but I speculate that she may have been taken by surprise by Team Smollett’s aggressive stance that he is the victim. But there is some evidence that she is panicking: Item One: The ever-popular “I’m receiving death threats” (so no more criticism of me,
During a town hall on CNN Monday night, socialist Bernie Sanders was asked about his long history of supporting socialist and communist regimes around the world. "My father´s family left Soviet Russia in 1979 fleeing from some of the very same socialist policies that you seem eager to implement in this country. So my question is, how do you rectify your notion of democratic socialism with the failures of socialism in nearly every country that has tried it?" student Samantha Frenkel-Popell asked. "Is it your assumption that I supported or believe in authoritarian communism that existed in the Soviet
When considering who were the FBI contractors, with special program access to the NSA database, conducting unauthorized searches and extracting results… there’s a specific type of contractor described by FISA Judge Rosemary Collyer. One who was able to work around the security protocols: [Page 21] “systems …. that do not interface with NSA’s query audit system“.(Snip) People started asking questions and Fox News Catherine Herridge detailed how Daniel Richman held special access privileges to the FBI, as an outcome of former FBI Director James Comey authorizing his friend as a “Special Government Employee” or SGE.
On February 15, 2016, the National Review took unprecedented action. In an all-out plea to Republican voters to stop Donald Trump before it was too late, the magazine enlisted 22 of the right’s most prominent voices to band together and throw support elsewhere, to save the party. The “Conservatives Against Trump” issue didn’t move the needle. Despite a lineup of pleas against Trump that included Glenn Beck, Cal Thomas, Mona Charen, Michael Medved and Dana Loesch, Trump surged in the polls that month, expanding his lead over primary opponents at a critical juncture of the race.
The truth of violations of law by the Obama White House, long buried, is being excavated by two private groups. Judicial Watch has obtained testimony from a top FBI official that Hillary home brew server emails were found in the White House. This means that Barrack Obama’s illegal handling of classified information contained in those emails is closer to being exposed. This implicates him in the same felonies committed by Hillary Clinton that James Comey falsely claimed “no reasonable prosecutor” would pursue.
Impeaching Trump
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The Democrats control the House, and while those in the party’s “old guard” like Pelosi and Schumer counsel caution, the new leadership (Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib, et al.) are avid proponents of impeaching “the motherf*@ker.” The media will love it, and so will the base. Frankly, it’s difficult to envision another move by the Democrats that would be more popular with the media, academia, celebrities, and the rabid Democrat base.
Judicial Watch announced today that a senior FBI official admitted, in writing and under oath, that the agency found Clinton email records in the Obama White House, specifically, the Executive Office of the President. The FBI also admitted nearly 49,000 Clinton server emails were reviewed as result of a search warrant for her material on the laptop of Anthony Weiner. E.W. (Bill) Priestap, assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division, made the disclosure to Judicial Watch as part of court-ordered discovery into the Clinton email issue.U.S District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered
Robert Mueller’s hit job disguised as a counterintelligence report would not be complete until America heard from its favorite Bain Capital founder whose dad was a governor: Willard “Mitt” Romney. The senator from Utah was “appalled” at Mueller’s revelations, but not in the raised eyebrow sort of way you or I would be when the baseball manager signals the bullpen and brings in the struggling pitcher. No, Romney was upset like the guy who forgets to lock the bathroom door in first class and suffers an intrusion by a confused kid from the cheap seats who blurts out, “Sorry, dude.”
We’re at a time in our country when most of our elected officials apparently have forgotten their responsibilities. In truth, U.S. politicians in their capacity as politicians have one moral imperative: to promote, protect, and advance the interests of the American people they represent. Everything else is secondary. To do anything other than promote the interests of the American people—or worse, to promote behavior that is detrimental to the interests of Americans—is, in fact, immoral. So what does it mean, then, to be a moral public official?
Liberals call anyone they don´t like Hitler, so often that we have to remind ourselves that there really are monsters out there. One of them is Turkey´s strongman Recep Erdogan, who marked the remembrance day for the nearly 2 million Armenians butchered by the Turkish army and their auxiliaries at the end of World War I. Hitler declared in 1939 that he could kill the Jews because Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?" The Armenian genocide was massivly reported at the time by US and other foreign diplomats and comprehensively documented by historians. Despicably, Erdogan
Court watchers seem to think that the Supreme Court will end up overturning a lower court ruling and allow the Trump administration to add a citizenship question on the 2020 Census. The New York Times, for example, led its coverage of the arguments on Tuesday by saying: “The Supreme Court’s conservative majority seemed ready on Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census, which critics say would undermine its accuracy by discouraging both legal and unauthorized immigrants from filling out the forms.”
Drawing a lesson from last year’s near loss by incumbent Senator Ted Cruz to Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke, Texas’s senior senator, John Cornyn, has declared several times that he will not underestimate any potential opponent to his re-election next year. He’s certainly been stocking his war chest like a candidate who expects a bruising fight. In the first quarter of 2019, Cornyn raised more than $2 million, giving him more than $7.5 million cash on hand—the most of any incumbent U.S. senator seeking re-election next year, a spokesman said. His campaign has hired John Jackson,
Presidential contender Elizabeth Warren’s strategy is to win the Democratic nomination by promising the most free stuff. Monday she upped the ante. She’s offering a whopping $50,000 student loan forgiveness for nearly everyone who borrowed for college or graduate school. That’s old-fashioned, Tammany Hall-style bribery — handing out dollars to buy votes. Warren’s proposal is designed to buy a lot of them. One in every six adult Americans is saddled with college debt.
Much noise has been made about reinstating a citizenship question on the 2020 census, the subject of Tuesday’s Supreme Court arguments. The objections to the citizenship question revolve around unjustified hysteria and the unfortunate, but growing, notion that citizenship doesn’t matter. As attorney general of Oklahoma, I filed an amicus curiae brief joined by 16 other states in support of the citizenship question, in part to bring some sober thinking that should quell the unreasonable panic. Let’s start with the Constitution: It gives Congress the power to conduct the “Enumeration …
I hereby nominate Eric Holder for the inaugural Nobel Prize for Chutzpah. Obama’s initial attorney general, the first black American to hold that office, has a ton of nerve to lecture Attorney General William Barr about releasing the Mueller Report. “The attorney general of the United States is the people’s lawyer, not the president’s lawyer,” Holder said Thursday in Chicago’s Rogers Park district. “You have a responsibility to run the Justice Department in a way that is not political.” This is not the same Holder who served Obama.
Elizabeth Warren may be the least jolly member of the Senate, but she is nonetheless offering up her best Santa Claus impersonation as she seeks the Democratic presidential nomination, complete with a trillion-dollar-a-decade student-loan giveaway — to be paid for by those on her naughty list. Senator Warren proposes to pay off Americans’ student loans in a tiered fashion: Up to $50,000 in bailouts for those earning up to $100,000 a year, gradually phased out to $0.00 for those earning $250,000 a year or more. That would eliminate all student debt for about 75 percent of borrowers
Speaker Nancy Pelosi´s (D-Calif.) near-term effort to tamp down talk of impeaching President Trump could have the paradoxical effect of building support for that very step. Pelosi and Democratic leaders this week launched a series of aggressive investigations into the myriad allegations facing the president, many stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller´s recently released report on Russia´s 2016 election interference. The strategy is designed, in part, to dampen the growing calls for impeachment — a move Pelosi considers premature — by assuring her troops that party leaders have no intention of letting Trump off the hook.
Creepy Joe Biden is finally getting into the presidential race Thursday — thank goodness. I was worried for a while there Tuesday, when he suddenly canceled his plans to announce today in Virginia. Cold feet, perhaps? Sometimes you can develop a few circulation problems when you’re 76 years old, which Creepy Joe is. If he’d dropped out, I had my lede all ready to go: “Say it ain’t so, Joe!” But he’s in, and this is a big bleepin’ deal, as he would say. I mean, he was the vice president for Barack Obama, or as Joe called him, “Barack America.”
On February 27, 2019 at a speaking engagement held at a Washington D.C. bookstore, newly elected Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar stated, with apparent reference to both American Jews and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee ("AIPAC"), "I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is OK for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country." This comment followed recent tweets from Omar suggesting that American elected officials were "bought off" by the pro-Israel lobby, and earlier tweets from before she was elected, beseeching Allah to punish Israel for its "evil deeds."The tweets were
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A funny thing happened on the way to the 2016 presidential election. The unelectable, uncouth, unintelligent, unpolitical, unlikeable, and utterly unthinkable guy won. Clearly, the "deplorables" assisted, as did the "bitter clingers" — owners of guns and Bibles — and the so-called uneducated, unsophisticated, and ridiculed patriotic swath of the American people. But it took more. The uncovereds carried President Trump over the finish line to unbelievable victory. Who and what are the uncovereds? They are the silent army who are passionately pro-Trump but wouldn´t and still won´t admit it. Why? one might ask. Were they cowards?In the months leading
Nathaniel Hawthorne, call your office. Hester Prynne, your fictional protagonist, had a scarlet letter “A” imprinted on her dress, to wear in public and thus advertise to the end of her life her adulterous relationship. Hester was ostracized, a punishment visited on Donald Trump by various public- and private-life segments of the Never Trump coalition: academics, Hollywood and above all, left-wing mainstream press. Hester, doing penance to the end of her life, stuck to her knitting; Trump, for the remainder of his first term, and perhaps, for a full second term, plans to stick to his — being president.
If you had told me in the spring of 2016 that three years later I’d be touting the merits of the Bernie Sanders campaign—taking flak from Hillary Clinton supporters for not being loyal enough to her—I would have laughed and asked what alternate reality you lived in. But life and politics have a way of taking unexpected turns, and here I am writing about the considerable strengths Sanders brings to the 2020 election. I do so not to endorse Sanders or to minimize the large and diverse Democratic field. It is early in the primary
MIAMI — The Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a sheriff who fought his removal from office after the governor claimed he failed to prevent last year’s Parkland school shooting. Florida’s highest court agreed that Gov. Ron DeSantis was within his authority to suspend Scott Israel as Broward County sheriff earlier this year. The justices noted that under the Florida Constitution, the state Senate is responsible for deciding whether the removal should be permanent. “Today’s Florida Supreme Court opinion leaves no doubt of my authority as governor to suspend a government official for neglect of duty and incompetence,”
A 70-year-old woman has died after falling from the edge of the Grand Canyon, authorities said. Park rangers found the visitor’s body about 200 feet below the canyon’s South Rim on Tuesday. “The name of the victim is not being released pending notification of next of kin, and no additional information is available at this time,” John Quinley, a park spokesman, said in a statement. “Park staff encourages all visitors to have a safe visit by staying on designated trails and walkways, always keeping a safe distance from the edge of the rim and staying behind railings and fences at overlooks.”
Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday reportedly threatened to "declare war" against Canada within the next week if the country fails to remove tons of garbage that was previously shipped to Manila. Duterte, in remarks aired by state media and reported by The Canadian Press, said he will "give a warning to Canada maybe next week that they better pull that thing out or I will set sail." "I will declare war against them. I will advise Canada that your garbage is on the way. Prepare a grand reception. Eat it if you want to," he said.
Donald Trump has thanked Rush Limbaugh, after the staunch Republican figure delivered a blistering defense of the president in response to Democrat jibes. Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday night following Limbaugh´s radio interview with Martha MacCallum, where he took aim at Republicans who do not fully support the president, and Democrats who have been ´unable to defeat´ him. His words came in the wake of a New York Times op-ed by Joe Lockhart, a former secretary to then President Clinton, who claimed: ´Republicans today are the party of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.´ (Tweet/Photo) Paraphrasing Lockhart´s words, Limbaugh
A man in Alabama shared a heartwarming dinner with an elderly woman and his friends after noticing she was sitting alone. Jamario Howard says the trio of friends were waiting on their food at Brad’s in Oxford when they noticed the elderly woman sitting by herself, according to a report published Monday by WBRZ 2. Howard approached the woman and asked if he could sit with her. (Tweet) The woman allowed him to sit and they chatted for a while and she revealed that she was widowed. “…After a while of talking she told me she lost her husband and
A driver deliberately drove into a crowd in Northern California Tuesday night, injuring eight, police said. The incident occurred in Sunnyvale, which is southeast of San Francisco. The victims-- which included a 13-year-old boy -- were rushed to the hospital with unknown injuries, ABC 7 in San Francisco reported. Witnesses told police the driver, who was arrested after crashing into a tree, showed no sign of attempting to stop. "Some of the statements show that the driver did not try to avoid the pedestrians at the crosswalk, and there was no attempt to swerve, drive away or break," Sunnyvale Department
All aboard the crazy train! On Tuesday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom, liberal media janitor and Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter appeared alongside host Brooke Baldwin to complain about the Trump administration boycotting Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD), which is arguably the most pompous, self-worshipping annual celebration known to man (besides Hollywood awards shows). Because after all, there’s no profession that loves itself more than the national press! Here’s how Baldwin put it in one of two teases for their discussion: “And it is no secret the President likes to insult the free press but now we´re learning the White House
Shiver me timbers! Those politically correct landlubbers have decided that generations of seafaring tradition must end. In a move that would scupper the custom of launching a boat with the words ‘God bless her and all who sail in her...’ a leading museum wants to make sailing vessels gender neutral. For centuries, ships have been referred to as ‘she’ and given feminine names. But the Scottish Maritime Museum says it is to introduce a ‘gender-neutral interpretation’ of craft and call them ‘it’. Officials say it is because signs on exhibits bearing the words ‘she’ and ‘her’ have been vandalised. However,
In response to a horrific series of radical Islamist jihadist attacks Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka that killed 290 and left an additional 500 injured, Rick Noack of The Washington Post has decided that the proper subject of his ire ought to be..."far-right anger in the West."Yes, seriously. Here is a portion of Noack´s piece, entitled, "Christianity under attack? Sri Lanka church bombings stoke far-right anger in the West": To some, [the attacks were] further proof that Christians in many parts of the world are under attack. Several churches were targeted in Sunday’s bombing attacks, along with hotels and a
What crime did President Donald Trump actually commit, in which there is actual evidence, that would allow the Democrats to proceed with impeachment? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) held a “private call” with Democratic leaders on Monday about what they should do about President Trump and the results of the Mueller report. Seems like things didn’t go the Democrats’ way, did it? They are scrambling. I have never seen anything like this before; now they are circling burning wagons to see what they have left to do. To Nancy Pelosi, the message is this: Trump should be held “accountable” for
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” conservative talker Rush Limbaugh reacted to comments former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had made earlier in the day at the TIME 100 event in New York City regarding President Donald Trump and impeachment.Limbaugh dismissed Clinton’s overtures and said that instead, Clinton should be the one investigated. “This is the irony: Hillary Clinton is who tried to rig a presidential election, Martha,” Limbaugh said. “Hillary Clinton and her pals in the Obama Department of Justice and their pals in the FBI — they are the ones who colluded with the Russians. They are
Joe Biden thinks he wants to run for president. If he does run, he’ll regret it. Biden is regarded as an elder statesman and an affable and devoted public servant. In truth, he is a typical Washington politician who has spent decades cutting crooked deals with special interests and greasing the revolving door between federal power and K Street.