Posts on Thursday, April 25, 2019
HOUSTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden´s decision to enter the Democratic presidential race is causing consternation among some Democrats, particularly women of color, who have been hoping for a nominee who better reflects the nation´s diversity. At the She the People forum, billed as the first presidential forum focused on women of color, Roxy D. Hall Williamson´s shoulders slumped at the mention of Biden, who made his campaign announcement on Thursday. "I know that we have been cultured to feel that only the white man can save us," the LaMarque, Texas, organizer said Wednesday. "I just don´t feel
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. knew Anita Hill was going to be an issue for him. So a few weeks ago, as he prepared for his presidential announcement, he reached out to her through an intermediary and arranged a telephone call, hoping to assuage her. It did not go how he had hoped. On Thursday, the first day of his presidential campaign, the Biden camp disclosed the call, saying the former vice president had shared with Ms. Hill “his regret for what she endured” 28 years ago, when, as the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he presided
President Trump has bold plans for declassifying documents that could shine light on potential misconduct by federal officials. During an interview Thursday evening, the president told Fox News host Sean Hannity "everything" is going to be declassified."Yes. Everything is going to be declassified and more, much more than what you just mentioned. It will all be declassified," Trump said after Hannity asked if he would declassify FISA applications, Gang of Eight material, and FBI 302s, all elements of his "five buckets of information."Trump suggested the timing is now perfect following the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller´s investigation."I´m glad I
When it comes to “Jeopardy!” titans, game recognizes game.James Holzhauer, a professional gambler from Las Vegas, Nev., won his 16th consecutive “Jeopardy!” match Thursday night. While the streak on its own is significant — it’s the fourth-longest since the iconic game show removed its five-game limit in 2003 — it’s the amount of money Holzhauer has won that is mind-blowing. He’s pocketed $1,225,987, an average of more than $76,000 for each 30-minute episode. Thanks to aggressive wagering, precise timing and encyclopedic knowledge, Holzhauer now holds the eight highest individual-game totals in the 35-year Alex Trebek era. Four of his single-night
Bernie or bust: The Sanders supporters who will back Trump if their man isn´t the Democratic nominee
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“Bernie or bust” is their rallying cry, and many supporters of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., say they will vote for President Trump if their candidate is denied the Democratic nomination a second time. After the 2016 election, the Cooperative Congressional Election Study found about 12% of those who voted for Sanders in the Democratic primaries voted for Trump in the general election. There are early signs that Sanders fervor is so strong that this could double in 2020, a development that could hand the White House to Trump for a second term.
"The Mark of Impeachment"
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Joy Reid of MSNBC asked Democrat Congressman Elijah Cummings, “Do you believe that Donald Trump deserves to have the mark of impeachment — as you said, of indictment, whether or not he would be removed?” The Mark of Impeachment! What is he, Cain and the Democrats are all God?Go ahead. Do it. Tack the tacky Mark of Impeachment on him. His supporters don´t mind, and it will tell history a century from now just how miserable the press and the Congress were. The refusal by Washington to accept its defeat in 2016 is stunning. This anger, this wrath, this psychosis is in its third year.
Strzok-Page texts suggested using post- election briefing to gather information on Trump team
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Text messages between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page indicate they discussed using briefings to the Trump team after the 2016 election to identify people they could "develop for potential relationships," track lines of questioning and "assess" changes in "demeanor" – language one GOP lawmaker called “more evidence” of irregular conduct in the original Russia probe. Fox News has learned the texts, initially released in 2018 by a Senate committee, are under renewed scrutiny, with GOP Sens. Chuck Grassley and Homeland Security Committee chair Ron Johnson sending a letter Thursday night to Attorney General Bill Barr pushing for
Biden? I´d rather fight Bernie
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Matt Drudge ran a banner headline today in uppercase red letters: "Shock poll: Biden opens 8-point lead on Trump." He linked a Morning Consult poll. On 2016, NBC News reported, "Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump by double digits with just over three weeks until Election Day, according to a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted entirely after the second presidential debate.”Today, NBC reported, "Biden launches 2020 presidential bid, says ´we are in a battle for the soul of this nation.´"
First lady Melania Trump will celebrate her birthday Friday with a private dinner in the White House residence. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, Akie Abe, who are visiting the U.S. this week, will attend. “There will be a dinner celebration in the residence. The Abe´s will attend,” Stephanie Grisham, the first lady´s spokeswoman, told the Daily Mail. The first lady also spent her last birthday in the White House residence with her family. The president publicly wished his wife a happy birthday last year during a phone interview with “Fox & Friends.” When asked what he got
A record 220,300 public school teachers reported that they were physically attacked by a student during the 2015-2016 school year, according to a report jointly published this month by the National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The 220,300 public school teachers who said they were physically attacked by a student in 2015-2016 is up from the 197,400 who said they were attacked by a student in 2011-2012 (which is the last school year before 2015-2016 for which teachers were surveyed on the question). (Photo) In 1993-94, the first year that public school teachers were surveyed
In the aftermath of the Mueller report and former Vice President Joe Biden’s announcement Thursday he intends to run for president in 2020, several news outlets began reporting on Biden’s desire during his tenure in the Obama administration to develop closer ties to Russia. The Washington Free Beacon published a piece Thursday morning reminding readers of Biden’s defense of Russia following then-candidate Mitt Romney’s concern over Russia’s apparent moves toward geopolitical domination in 2012. In 2012, when Romney expressed concern that President Barack Obama was caught on a hot-mic promising more “flexibility” regarding Russia, Biden took it as an opportunity
Political “space to destroy” leadership, particularly mayors in Baltimore Maryland, have an inherent disposition toward transparently corrupt behavior. Remember Sheila Dixon in ’08, or Stephanie Rawlings Blake in ’15… It’s a perpetual cycle. I digress… Into the recent corrupt landscape comes current Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, who takes bribes and graft through a pay-to-play bribery scandal for books she “authored” called “Healthy Holly”. Want a city contract?…. buy some books, easy peasy.
So, the same guy who said during the 2012 campaign that Mitt Romney would put black people back in chains has decided on a race-baiting campaign to get himself elected. Biden said in a video released Thursday morning that President Trump had assigned moral equivalence to the white supremacists at Charlottesville in 2017 and the protestors. “In that moment, I knew the threat to this nation was unlike any I had ever seen in my lifetime,” Biden said. “I wrote at the time that we’re in a battle for the soul of this nation. Well, that’s even more true to today.” Biden added
CTH suspected this was sketchy when notorious Swamp Defender Chris Wallace was used as the point person to push it. FUBAR suspicions confirmed when looking at the construct. Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson send a letter to AG William Barr questioning post election text messages by Lisa Page and Peter Strzok that outline questions about the FBI counterintelligence operation against the Trump transition team.(Snip)If you’ve followed the DC pattern, you can pick up the purpose of sending a letter that walks directly, and purposefully, into the President Obama and Susan Rice justification trap, CTH warned about a
Elizabeth Warren has detailed a plan to incentivise hospitals to make childbirth safer for African American women. The candidate, who has unveiled a number of comprehensive platforms for her possible presidency, is being met with praise for the proposed policy, which she revealed at the She the People conference in Texas. “Black moms in our country are dying from childbirth-related causes 3-4 times more often than white moms,” Warren said in a tweet accompanying video of her talk on the policy. “Any meaningful solution to our maternal mortality crisis must address structural racism as a root cause of this problem.
Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser who was suspected by the FBI of being a Russian spy, has written a foreword to an e-book version of the Mueller report, calling it “propaganda” and comparing his time in front of the Mueller grand jury to being at Guantanamo Bay. Written in hyperbolic terms, Page compares the 448-page report put together by special counsel Robert Mueller, and lightly redacted by Attorney General William Barr, to the propaganda pushed by some of modern history’s worst dictators. And he blasts what he sees as a politically-motivated “witch hunt” targeting himself and President Trump.Venting
Former Vice President Joe Biden continues to make a splash in the 2020 Democratic primary. Hours after formally declaring his candidacy for president on Thursday, Biden picked up a coveted endorsement from celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti. The former veep also announced a series of campaign hires, including former Bernie Sanders campaign press secretary Symone Sanders, as well as Anita Dunn, the former Obama adviser who helped provide "damage control" guidance to disgraced Hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein. (Tweet) Dunn, who is currently a managing director at the Washington, D.C., lobbying firm SDKnickerbocker that previously represented left-wing activist Sandra Fluke, had already
Joy Behar Gets Emotional Over Biden: Remember When People Didn´t Look at America ´in Horror?´
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Joy Behar might as well have been wearing a Make America Great Again hat on Thursday’s The View, as she passionately hailed Joe Biden’s “patriotic” 2020 presidential video announcement. Not to support President Trump of course, but because of her wistful longing to get America “back” to when “we were the good guys.” The View co-host couldn’t stop gushing at Biden’s video announcement, in which he claimed he would be the one to bring America back to its Constitutional ideals, unlike Trump who was taking us away from them. Joy Behar loved the video, calling it “touching” before getting back
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman explained on Wednesday on CNN how he thinks the U.S. government can solve the situation at the border, following his trip there.Friedman’s appearance on the network corresponded with his op-ed from the day before, in which he described the port of entry at San Diego a “troubling scene.” WATCH: “The whole day left me more certain than ever that we have a real immigration crisis and that the solution is a high wall with a big gate — but a smart gate,” Friedman wrote, which Blitzer read on the air. “Wolf, I’m as radically
Standing Up for Chick-fil-A
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San Antonio, a predominantly Hispanic city named for a Catholic saint, has persisted in its crusade against the popular fast-food chain Chick-fil-A. In reaction to the conservative religious beliefs of its owners, the city council has barred Chick-fil-A from operating at San Antonio’s airport. So far, advocates against the restaurant have the upper hand, though that could soon change. Voters will soon have an opportunity to weigh in on the controversy in a local election. Last month, the San Antonio City Council voted to exclude the privately owned company as a concessionaire
Former Vice President Joe Biden, fresh off his presidential announcement Thursday, addressed reporters in Wilmington, Deleware, declaring that “America’s coming back like we used to be.” “America’s coming back like we used to be: ethical, straight, tell ’em the truth… supporting our allies, all those good things,” Biden said when asked if he has a message for the world following his campaign kickoff.(Video/Tweet) The former vice president’s remark was reminiscent of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign slogan: “Make American Great Again.” The president’s critics have, without evidence, tried to claim that the phrase and its placement on red baseball caps
About the time that he was drafting his first inaugural address, President-elect Donald Trump, as he characteristically does, made a series of decisions at odds with all conventional political logic. Twenty-seven months later, as we review the most recent Federal Election Commission reports filed by the reelection campaign, I can report that it all paid off — big league. (Snip) Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump had absolutely no interest in the conventional approach followed by all establishment politicians, as this president has always been his own best strategist. So, as he’s done countless times since coming down the Trump Tower
Appearing Thursday on MSNBC, former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield claimed Biden asked former President Barack Obama not to endorse him in the Democratic primary.(Snip)HALLIE JACKSON: Do you think it hurts that he’s not going to endorse here? KATE BEDINGFIELD: No, so you know the vice president actually asked the president not to endorse. He wanted to make the case. He is running in this race because he believes we need to restore the soul of this nation, we need to rebuild the backbone of America
After former Vice President Joe Biden announced his 2020 campaign for president in a video Thursday, troubled TV lawyer Michael Avenatti endorsed him and said, “He has my enthusiastic support.” (Snip) “I am extremely happy that @JoeBiden has decided to enter the race. He offers Dems the very best chance in 2020, especially in key states. He has the fight, intelligence and fortitude to beat Trump and begin to make America, America again. He has my enthusiastic support,” Avenatti stated on his private Twitter account
We smell a set-up. The most important job for the Illinois Legislature in the next five weeks is to take tough votes on essential legislation to move the state forward after years of stagnation — beginning with a vote in favor of a graduated income tax. Yet opponents of the fairer tax, more interested in protecting the bank accounts of the wealthiest people in Illinois, are doing their best to derail an honest vote by dirtying up Gov. J.B. Pritzker with old mud.
Seattle’s top prosecutor and public defender have jointly accused the city’s presiding municipal court judge of improper conduct, arguing his calls for harsher sentences and his handling of a case involving a prolific offender have undermined public confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary. In a letter Wednesday to Seattle Municipal Court Presiding Judge Ed McKenna, City Attorney Pete Holmes and Department of Public Defense Director Anita Khandelwal asked McKenna to step away from his leadership post and to change his behavior or recuse himself from all criminal matters.
Democrat presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke pledged Wednesday that under his presidency U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will not deport people like the Trump and Obama administrations have. Television host Joy Reid asked O’Rourke if ICE will exist under an O’Rourke presidency. “Yes it will, but it will not employ those (deportation) practices that we’ve seen not just under this administration but under the previous administration,” he replied. [Tweet] O’Rourke went further, criticizing not only President Donald Trump, but also former Democrat President Barack Obama: I hear you on this.
Massachusetts judge who helped illegal immigrant escape ICE arrest indicted, federal authorities say
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A Massachusetts judge and a court officer accused of helping an illegal immigrant flee an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent waiting to take him into custody were indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury for obstruction of justice and three other counts, officials said. U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts Andrew Lelling and Peter Fitzhugh, special agent in charge of the Homeland Security Investigations in Boston, announced the charges in a news conference Thursday afternoon. Newton District Court Judge Shelley M. Richmond Joseph and the court officer, identified in court documents as Wesley MacGregor, face several charges stemming from an April
During Thursday’s broadcast of “New Day” on CNN, Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA) warned House Democrats could be left with no “choice” but to pursue impeachment if President Donald Trump’s administration continues to fight subpoenas. Clark said it is up to Trump whether or not he wants to cooperate. “We have never seen a president like this. We have never seen a president who so flagrantly decides that he’s above the law and that he can do what he wants,” Clark told host John Berman. “You know, we do have tools. And yes, these have not historically been used.
Whoopi: Presidents Insulted at WH Correspondents Dinner Don’t Retaliate: ‘That’s Not How That Works’
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Presidents and people close to them aren’t supposed to fight back when they’re insulted by “comedian” hosts at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner, The View’s Whoopi Goldberg says. On Wednesday´s show, Co-Host Goldberg said that “Every president has taken it” – and so should Trump, or he shouldn’t be president, because “That’s not how that works”: “If you’re in the public eye – somebody’s got something to say. Somebody will always crack on you. What you can’t do is go after them personally. You can’t go after their family. You can’t retaliate. That’s not how that works. “If you
President Donald Trump welcomed former Vice President Joe Biden to the 2020 presidential race on Thursday. “Welcome to the race Sleepy Joe,” he wrote on Twitter. “I only hope you have the intelligence, long in doubt, to wage a successful primary campaign.” Trump expressed doubt that Biden would ultimately win the Democrat nomination, pointing to the current candidates in the race lunging politically left towards socialism. “It will be nasty – you will be dealing with people who truly have some very sick & demented ideas,” Trump wrote.
It is not now clear whether the Democrats’ pathological attachment to the fantasy that they have some chance of destroying the Trump presidency legally is based on continuing hysteria and frenzy, or addiction to continued harassment of the president even as the credibility of doing so plummets, or is an attempt to forestall the investigation and exposure of the malfeasance of the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign in producing the fraud of Trump-Russia collusion.
Bea Arthur’s son recalls growing up with ´The Golden Girls’ star, addresses alleged Betty White feud
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Bea Arthur left behind a gift that keeps on giving. When the TV legend passed away on April 25, 2009, the Ali Forney Center in New York City, the nation’s largest non-profit providing shelter and support services to homeless LGBTQ young people, learned that she had bequeathed $300,000 to them in her will. In 2012, the City of New York turned over a long-abandoned building to the center, which was ultimately transformed into the Bea Arthur Residence, which is described as “an 18-bed long term housing facility for homeless LGBT youth.” The Bea Arthur Fund not only helps support
When Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign on Thursday, professional and amateur graphic designers tore his new logo apart on Twitter. And while some criticized the typeface and colors, others snarked that parts of the design looked like parts of the female anatomy. Among the 76-year-old former vice president’s campaign hurdles is a series of accusations from women that he improperly touched them during public events.(Snip) ‘Is it just me or do the red stripes look like fingers grabbing a boob?’ Iowa conservative blogger David Burge asked. Novelist Adam Lane Smith weighed in: ‘It’s an appropriate logo because
Federal law enforcement agents fanned out Thursday across Baltimore, raiding City Hall, the home of embattled Mayor Catherine Pugh and several other locations as the investigation into the mayor’s business dealings widened. Dave Fitz, an FBI spokesman, confirmed agents from the Baltimore FBI office and the Washington IRS office were executing search warrants at those locations Thursday morning, as well as at least three other addresses associated with Pugh. It was the first confirmation that federal authorities, as well as state officials, were investigating the mayor’s activities. Pugh remained inside her home during the raids, a police source confirmed.
It may now sound ridiculous but Nikita Kruschev once told America ´we will bury you´ and Washington believed him. For years the Intelligence Community thought the U.S.S.R. was on the verge of overtaking the U.S. as the world´s largest economy before the Soviets unexpectedly collapsed. Daniel Patrick Moynihan´s book Secrecy: the American Experience tries to explain how such a tremendous intelligence misjudgment could take place. (Snip) The illusion lasted so long because it was founded on a secret report which gave it credibility. Once the narrative had been established, it remained fundamentally unchallenged until nearly the end of the Cold War.
County judge unleashes on prosecutor as more and more people aren´t getting the "Smollett Deal"
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One of the many topics that Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office has regularly avoided since abruptly dropping charges against Jussie Smollett on March 26th is this: Could they point to any other occasions when they flat-out dropped felony false police report charges without requiring the accused to at least plead guilty? It’s an essential question because Joe Magats, the top aide who took over the Smollet case when Foxx “recused” herself insisted that the resolution Smollett enjoyed “is available to all defendants; it´s not something out of privilege; it´s not something out of clout."
President Trump’s top surrogate, son Donald Trump Jr., tore through the Democratic Party and media to a sold-out college audience Tuesday night and predicted that the 2020 presidential election “should be the easiest reelection in the history of this country.” To 700 cheering Penn State students, some of whom waited in line for hours to attend the latest Turning Point USA “Campus Clash,” Trump said the economic and foreign policy advances under the president would be cheered if they occurred under any other administration. But instead, he said, opponents, Democrats, and the media spin it negatively. “How do we take good news and
On Tuesday, Olabinjo (Ola) and Abimbola (Bola) Osundairo filed a defamation and false light lawsuit against the attorneys for Empire star Jussie Smollett. (Snip)Attorney Tina Glandian made many statements trashing the Osundairos, even though the charges against Smollett had already been dropped. The lawsuit argues that "Ms. Glandian’s statements indicating Plaintiffs actually criminally battered Mr. Smollett without his consent are patently false and defamatory, as Mr. Smollett originated, planned, and orchestrated the attack."
Edinburg Mayor Richard Molina and his wife Dalia Molina have turned themselves in to authorities after warrants were issued for their arrests on illegal voting charges stemming from the city’s November 2017 election, according to a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case. The Molinas are expected to be arraigned later today on multiple charges. The Edinburg mayor has been dogged by allegations of engaging in and encouraging voter fraud ever since he won the election in November 2017.
A Georgian-American businessman is accusing special counsel Robert Mueller of publishing “glaring inaccuracies and misrepresentations” about rumors of alleged sex tapes of President Donald Trump during a visit to Moscow in 2013. In a letter sent to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday, a lawyer for the businessman, Giorgi Rtskhiladze, called on the Justice Department to retract a footnote in Mueller’s report mentioning an Oct. 30, 2016 text message exchange he had with attorney Michael Cohen about a rumored Trump tape. Rtskhiladze claims that the special counsel’s report inaccurately quotes his text message with Cohen. He says that additional text
Rush Limbaugh, on “The Story” on Fox News with Martha MacCallum, said it’s not President Donald Trump who has anything to worry about when it comes to the whole Russia investigation thing — it’s Hillary Clinton. She should be in jail, Limbaugh said. And a whole world of political watchers go — absolutely. And then, just as quickly, a whole world of political watchers go, sigh. ‘Cause it’ll never happen. Still: For years, a handful of hard-core truth-seekers have been making the case that the collusion accusation slung Trump’s way has really been the Democrats’ way of covering their own tracks — has
Mexico has deported about 15,000 migrants from Central America who´d been part of a caravan trying to reach the United States, Mexican officials said. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has changed his policy for migrant caravans, amid pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump. Migrant groups that used to be welcomed in Mexico are now being detained by police and sent back. "[They are] mainly from Central America, but also from other countries," Alejandro Encinas, Mexico´s interior secretary for humans rights, said Monday. Mexican Interior Minister Olga Sanchez Cordero said the "mother of all caravans" was preparing to leave Honduras for Mexico late
Russia has launched its latest nuclear-armed submarine under the watchful eye of President Vladimir Putin.The sub, named Belgorod, was launched from the Sevmash plant in northwestern Russian on Tuesday while Putin observed via teleconference.Belgorod is designed to carry nuclear-armed Poseidon drones, a doomsday weapon that Russia says will be capable of destroying entire cities by triggering a tsunami. (Photo) Mikhail Budnichenko, director of the shipyard, said during the launch ceremony that ´the enterprise´s shipbuilders will fulfill all the tasks of building ships within the established timeframe and with high quality.´ The submarine will be finished while afloat and TASS quoted
Former President Barack Obama on Thursday offered praise for his former Vice President Joe Biden following the launch of his 2020 presidential campaign — but noticeably stopped short of endorsing him as a candidate. “President Obama has long said that selecting Joe Biden as his running mate in 2008 was one of the best decisions he ever made,” Obama said in a statement released through his spokeswoman Katie Hill. “He relied on the Vice president’s knowledge, insight, and judgment throughout both campaign and the entire presidency. The two forged a special bond
Maryland’s governor has called on the mayor of Baltimore to resign. The state’s governor, Larry Hogan, a Republican, called on Thursday morning for Catherine Pugh to leave office “for the good of the city”. Agents with the FBI and Internal Revenue Service carried out a raid on Baltimore city hall and two homes belonging to the mayor on Thursday morning, amid widening investigations to determine whether she used sales of her children’s books to disguise government kickbacks.(Snip) Pugh had previously stepped aside temporarily following a growing scandal involving her sales of a self-published children’s books, and amid declining public
Former Vice Preisdent Joe Biden launched his third presidential campaign on Thursday by referring to a debunked claim that President Donald Trump referred to neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 as “very fine people.”In a three-and-a-half minute YouTube video, Biden cited the August 2017 riots as his primary motivation for running against Trump, presenting a version of events that even a CNN contributor has declared to be fraudulent.
Women of color at the She the People presidential forum say they´re frustrated with the attention given to Democratic primary front-runners, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and other white males.She the People co-founder Aimee Allison said Wednesday she’s also frustrated with polling numbers that indicate Biden and Sanders are in the lead in the Democratic primary, and said it’s up in the air whether Biden will attract support from women of color. “He´s going to enter a really different world,” Allison told Politico. “It´s a world in which we´ve woken up as women of
Joe Biden ended months of speculation Thursday when he formally entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in an announcement that struck directly at President Donald Trump and laid out the former vice president´s vision to led the nation.´We are in the battle for the soul of this nation,´ Biden declared in his announcement video. ´The core values are standing in the world. Everything that has made America America is at stake. That´s why today I´m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.´ Trump wasted no time hitting back and gave Biden the moniker ´Sleepy Joe,´ mocking
Six months before President Obama’s 2012 reelection, his campaign released an online slideshow. It was not an effort that helped him win. Called “The Life of Julia,” it was an imaginary story complete with slick graphics and digestible talking points designed to illustrate “how President Obama’s policies help one woman over her lifetime — and how Mitt Romney would change her story.” The timeline showed the mythical Julia growing up, graduating from college, building a business, giving birth, and eventually retiring. For every major milestone, a federally subsidized government program was there to help.
Bernie Sanders called millionaire senators ´immoral,´ unearthed 1971 newspaper article shows
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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is now a millionaire, had called millionaire senators “immoral” when he first ran for Senate in the 1970s. On Wednesday, CNN dug up a 1971 issue of the Bennington Banner, a local Vermont newspaper that reported on then-Liberty Union Party Senate candidate Sanders, who declared it was “immoral” that half the U.S. senators at the time were millionaires and insisted that they represented “the interests of corporations and big business -- their fellow millionaires.” As the paper reported, Sanders also proposed to replace each lawmaker´s pay with the average income of his or her home
San Francisco is a city covered in excrement, and now even the wealthy inhabitants of its Embarcadero are going to experience more of it, up close to home and quite personal. Here´s the news from the Guardian: Authorities in San Francisco have approved plans for a homeless shelter that had faced fierce protests from wealthy local residents (snip) this could be some kind of watershed, widening a new fault line on the left, given that tech billionaires were the ones behind this, making a sort of warfare on the merely wealthy. After all, in San Francisco, there´s no one else left.
Intersectionality is the Achilles Heel of Democrats in 2020. Assembling a collection of grievance-based identity groups works well for the Democrats, until it doesn’t. And with President Trump driving a substantial number of Democrats into clinical derangement, the angry, angry ethno-sexual-economic group partisans are fed up with waiting for their turn. Bernie’s own partisans feel, with considerable justification, that they were robbed of the nomination in 2016, and with Bernie turning 79 years old by Election Day, they can’t wait for another election cycle to receive their vision of “justice.”
“SHOCK POLL: BIDEN OPENS 8-POINT LEAD ON TRUMP” screamed the Drudge Report headline on the announcement that two-time loser Joe Biden has decided to run, once again, for president. The headline links to a Morning Consult story that found Biden with a 42 percent to 34 percent lead over President Trump in a hypothetical matchup. “Along with his advantage over Trump, Biden has held a consistent lead in Morning Consult’s weekly tracking among likely Democratic primary voters,” the report says. But the only thing shocking
TAMPA — A year ago, Cher Lowther typed a letter to Gov. Rick Scott, beseeching him to follow through on a promise the state made more than 30 years earlier to put Bobby Joe Long to death. Long, a notorious serial killer, murdered at least eight women in the Tampa Bay area in the early 1980s, including Karen Dinsfriend, Lowther´s step-sister. He was first sentenced to die in 1985, yet he remains on death row. Speaking of the death sentence, Lowther wrote, “It is right and just and it cannot be more horrifying and painful for him than it was for
Former Trump attorney Michael Cohen walked back parts of his plea deal for financial crimes, while taking shots at fellow disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti, in a phone call secretly recorded by comedian Tom Arnold. “Look at what’s happening to Avenatti — it’s called karma boomerang,” Cohen also said in the call, which Arnold recorded March 25, without Cohen’s knowledge. “The guy lied about me every single day, right? And the world loved it.”
Everything after March 9th, 2016, is a function of two intelligence units, the CIA and FBI, operating together to coverup prior political surveillance and spy operations. Prior to March 9th, 2016, the surveillance and spy operation was using the NSA database to track and monitor their political opposition. However, once the NSA compliance officer began initiating an internal review of who was accessing the system, the CIA and FBI moved to create ex post facto justification for their endeavors. [Full Backstory] The evidence for this is found in the documents attached to both operations; and bolsters the original statements by
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s first presidential campaign fundraiser on Thursday will be co-hosted by a top union busting attorney, undercutting the leading Democrat candidate’s message that he is somehow in favor of American workers while incumbent GOP President Donald Trump is not.Pennsylvania news outlet WHHY reported April 17 that several prominent Democrats in the state, including former Gov. Ed Rendell and former Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter, as well as Comcast Senior Executive Vice President David Cohen, are putting together a fundraiser for Biden this week.“We keep hearing that Vice President Joe Biden is seriously considering a run for President,”
The Death of Humor
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Ron Chernow, the best-selling biographer and historian, has agreed to deliver the after-dinner speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, to be held Saturday night at the Washington Hilton. If we were to list the potential victims of our present era of post-humor comedy, his name would be near the top. The WHCD is the event the Washington press corps throws every year to celebrate the Washington press corps. (If we don’t do it, it won’t get done.) It is best understood as a provincial trade meeting—a few hundred people in the same line of work crowd together
An elderly pro-life woman in Kentucky was thrown to the ground outside an abortion clinic earlier this month, suffering a broken leg and head injuries. The incident was captured by a surveillance camera outside the EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville. (Video) The victim, sidewalk counselor Donna Durning, is seen on video being shoved to the ground after approaching a woman who exited the abortion facility. Durning said she was trying to give the woman literature about a crises pregnancy center.“I had a little card from Little Way Crisis pregnancy center, and I just offered it to her. And I
Propaganda, Trust, and the Media
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If there is one critical component responsible for the division this country is suffering with, it is the loss of trust in the information provided by news organizations once relied upon by Americans. According to a September 2018 article in the Columbia Journalism Review, poll conducted by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that a majority of those surveyed said they had lost trust in the media in recent years, and more than 30 percent of those who identified themselves as being conservative said they had not only lost faith in the media but they “expect that change to be
The number of uninsured climbed by 1.4 million from 2016 to 2018, according to a report out last week from the Congressional Budget Office. Naturally, this led those on the left to blame the Trump administration for its Obamacare “sabotage.” But the data in that report — which was released on the same day the Mueller report came out and largely ignored — tells an entirely different story. All of the increase in the uninsured over the past two years — all of it
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Joe Biden formally joined the crowded Democratic presidential contest on Thursday, betting that his working-class appeal and ties to Barack Obama’s presidency will help him overcome questions about his place in today’s increasingly liberal Democratic Party. He made his announcement in a video posted on Twitter, declaring, “We are in the battle for the soul of this nation.” “If we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation,” Biden said. “Who we are. And I cannot stand by and watch that happen.”
25 Questions for Robert Mueller
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Much like the Steele dossier, the FISA application on Carter Page, and most of the news media’s coverage of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, the Mueller Report reads more like political propaganda aimed at harming Donald Trump than a sober collection of facts and evidence. The 448-page document is filled with innuendo that has nothing to do with collusion (the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape is mentioned a few times for no apparent reason); it cites irrelevant articles planted by Trump foes as evidence, including this egregious National Review hit piece on Carter Page from April 2016;
At least two of the suicide bombers had law degrees. Two were brothers from a wealthy Colombo family, one of whom attended university in the United Kingdom and earned a postgraduate degree in Australia. There were nine of them altogether, eight men and a woman. Most were “well-educated and come from (the) middle or upper-middle class,” Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lanka’s deputy defence minister, told reporters. There is still much to piece together from what happened on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, about why the authorities did not respond to specific and actionable intelligence about an imminent jihadist
For well over three years, Donald Trump has been under attack. He has been subjected to unprecedented slander by the media, dirty tricks by the Democrats, legally dubious investigations, and sabotage by the deep state. Yet he is not only still standing, he has a record of accomplishments that any president would be happy to claim after two years in office. One would think his opponents would be able to divine a message from this. To wit, their time might be better spent working on behalf of the voters rather than launching further futile attempts to bring Trump down.
In the summer of 1947, the British lord and lawyer Sir Cyril Radcliffe found himself in charge of the fate of a subcontinent. As the freshly appointed head of the Boundary Commission, he was tasked with dividing up the British India territories of Bengal and Punjab—and he had just a few weeks to complete the task. After three and a half centuries of brutal and exploitative involvement in the region, the last 90 years as official imperial overlord of the British Raj, the United Kingdom was officially abdicating colonial rule. Deeply in debt from two world wars,
A gentleman, out for a walk late at night, comes upon a drunk who is sprawled beneath a street lamp, clawing at the pavement. “Sir, what are you doing?” asks the man. “Looking for my keys,” the drunk replies. “You dropped them around here, then?” the man asks. “No,” says the drunk. “Then why are you looking here?” “Because,” the drunk replies, “this is where the light is.” This old anecdote sums up Democrats’ approach to preventing mass shootings for the last seven years or so.
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee want to depose John Gore about his role in the Trump administration’s decision to add a question to the 2020 Census about citizenship. Gore was acting as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights when the decision was made. Gore is prepared to testify and the administration is fine with him doing so. Attorney General Barr insists only that Gore be accompanied by an attorney. Barr is right to attach this condition, one that, according to a Department of Justice spokesperson, is consistent with longstanding DOJ policy. The lawyer accompanying Gore
The crime patterns began emerging in the last year: crews of thieves employing inventive techniques to gain entry and ransack scores of cars, homes and businesses in Southern California and across the nation. As investigations and arrests ramped up, detectives noticed another key commonality: The suspects were Chilean and had gained entry into the U.S. with easily obtained visa waivers. “It is a growing problem,” said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. “They’re very sophisticated. It’s a hot zone in Southern California.” Law enforcement has dubbed it “burglary tourism,” and it is thriving locally and around the world.
Special counsel Robert Mueller´s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. Despite compiling private allegations of loud and obnoxious Trump behavior, Mueller also concluded that there was not any actionable case of obstruction of justice by the president. It would have been hard in any case to find that Trump obstructed Mueller´s investigation of an alleged crime. One, there was never a crime of collusion. Mueller early on in his endeavors must have realized that truth, but he pressed ahead anyway. It is almost impossible to prove obstruction of nothing.
So long, Beto O’Rourke. It was fun while it lasted. The mainstream media has a new presidential crush now, one just as cloyingly nicknamed, vague on policy and whose biggest success is also failing upward: Mayor Pete. This 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, Indiana, we are giddily informed, is checking all the right boxes: He served in the Navy and deployed to Afghanistan as an intelligence officer; he speaks seven languages; his father is an immigrant; he’s a Harvard grad and a Rhodes scholar; he plays piano; he has two rescue dogs;
Facebook is anticipating a multi-billion dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over their handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, according to The Hill. The company disclosed to investors in its quarterly earnings report that they have already put $3 billion aside for this on Wednesday, adding that they haven’t reached a settlement with the FTC, and are unsure when this will be resolved. The fine could be as high as $5 billion, according to The New York Times. “People want to use both private and public platforms,” Zuckerberg said
A Jeopardy! contestant has become the second in history to surpass the $1 million mark as he continues his record breaking streak. James Holzhauer, 34, won $118,816 on Tuesday during his 14th appearance and last week shattered the program´s previous one-day record of $77,000. The professional gambler from Las Vegas now claims the top five one-day scores in the history of the game-show which has aired since 1984.Holzhauer is quick with the buzzer, displays an extraordinary breadth of knowledge and - true to his profession - is cold-blooded in his willingness to risk big sums of money. (Photos/Video) The show´s
A few weeks ago, as the ranks of Democrats running for president ballooned, Joe Biden sat down in private with Terry McAuliffe. Both the former vice-president and the former Virginia governor were openly considering joining the field, but McAuliffe had made it clear to his friends and allies atop the party that he’d likely hold off on running if Biden was going to get in. Not only was Biden vastly better known than McAuliffe, he figured, but also, if the Delawarean committed to suitably representing the centrist Democratic perspective,
President Donald Trump may successfully drag out many of his legal battles with Congress beyond 2020, denying Democratic investigators much, if any, political bounty before the next election. With Democrats pressing on multiple fronts, from demanding Trump’s tax returns to seeking the testimony of current and former administration officials, some Trump allies see a White House working to buy time. Administration lawyers have rejected a variety of Democratic requests and subpoenas, taking steps that seem to ensure protracted legal battles, which past presidents have used to run out the clock on their congressional adversaries.
Hillary Clinton: Mueller documented a serious crime against all Americans. Here’s how to respond.
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Our election was corrupted, our democracy assaulted, our sovereignty and security violated. This is the definitive conclusion of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. It documents a serious crime against the American people. The debate about how to respond to Russia’s “sweeping and systematic” attack — and how to hold President Trump accountable for obstructing the investigation and possibly breaking the law — has been reduced to a false choice: immediate impeachment or nothing. History suggests there’s a better way to think about the choices ahead. Obviously, this is personal for me,
President Trump made sure to highlight a rare appearance on Fox News Tuesday by Rush Limbaugh that featured the conservative talk show host´s blistering takes on Trump´s potential 2020 opponents and the continued failure of the Democratic Party and the media to figure out how to handle Trump. Limbaugh also offered his thoughts on the final report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which he slammed as part of "an attempt to overthrow the 2016 elections." Tuesday night, Trump tweeted out clips of Limbaugh´s interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum, along with a simple, "Thanks Rush!" (Tweet) In the interview
Hillary Clinton weighed in on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report in a Wednesday op-ed and compared “the president’s possible obstruction of justice” to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.The 2016 Democratic nominee for president claimed in the op-ed that the Mueller report revealed a “serious crime against Americans” committed by President Donald Trump. Her allegations come after Attorney General William Barr announced on April 18 there was no evidence Trump conspired with Russians or committed an obstruction of justice. “Congress can’t forget that the issue today is not just the president’s possible obstruction of justice — it’s our national security,” Clinton wrote
"Are you a U.S. citizen?" Only in self-defeating, sovereignty-eroding America is the idea of asking whether people living in America are American citizens for the American census a matter of controversy. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the high-stakes 2020 Census questionnaire. Thank goodness, the conservative majority indicated support for allowing it. There´s already such a question on the annual American Community Survey administered by the Census Bureau. It was asked in long-form questionnaires sent to a sample of households in 2000. And it was regularly asked in historical
In 2002, Shmuel Waldman, an American from New Jersey, was shot while boarding a bus in Israel. The terrorist attack killed 2 people and left 40 injured. Among that 40 was Shmuel whose leg was blown apart, forcing him to undergo multiple surgical procedures, and leaving him suffering from PTSD. The terrorist who shot him was Said Ramadan, a “police officer” working for the terrorists who run the Palestinian Authority. The attack had been planned by senior Palestinian Authority officials and the Palestinian Authority viewed Ramadan as a hero. Waldman joined other victims of terrorism in a lawsuit against the terrorist
If you think the mainstream media in America are shameless in their devotion to leftist orthodoxy – well, of course you’re right. But there are exceptions: at least some major outlets in the U.S. don’t march in ideological lockstep. Even the New York Times has a good, honest reporter or two. In any event, you don’t have to pay to read these people’s claptrap if you don’t want to. Imagine, by contrast, living in Norway, where the political left has a total lock on the mainstream news media, and the country’s five million people are forced to pay big time for
Transcript: KATIE HOPKINS: (Applause) That was good. That was good. That was very beefy. Okay, thank you. Anyway, it´s so fun to be here. Thank you all for having me here. Thank you in particular to David Horowitz, who I believe is the most inspirational freedom fighter of our time. Absolutely. Without David and his gorgeous team, I certainly wouldn´t have a platform, and I can´t tell you how grateful I am. I have noticed however, David has become a little bit like the queen. So, it´s his 80th birthday year, and I don´t know how many birthdays he´s had
The entrance of former Vice President Joe Biden into the 2020 White House race adds yet another septuagenarian into the crowded field of contenders.Of the 20 Democrats and two Republicans who are running for president, six are nearing or over the age of 70.If Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., wins, he would be 79 by the time he reaches the White House, becoming the oldest president in history; Ronald Reagan was 77 years and 349 days on the day he left office. President Trump, who turns 73 this summer and has long batted back scrutiny about his health, is the oldest