Posts on Friday, April 26, 2019
The 2020 Democratic field is the party´s largest and most diverse in U.S. history — and their families are no different. Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton joked in 2016 that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, would break new ground as America´s first ever "first dude." Now that the 2020 campaign is in full swing, the possibility of a first-ever first gentleman is back in play, with six women and an openly gay married man running for the highest office. Here’s a look at the spouses you can expect to see on the campaign trail. Jill Biden -Biden is
Cosmetic doctors are certain that former Vice President Joe Biden’s full head of hair, smooth forehead, and Cheshire Cat grin are the result of plastic surgery and other procedures. Around the time of the 2008 campaign, alterations in Biden’s appearance became noticeable. His hairline changed, wrinkles disappeared, his smile was brighter. “Without any question Joe Biden had hair transplants,” Dr. Barry Cohen, a plastic surgeon with offices in the Washington suburbs, told the Washington Examiner. “In fact, he had bad plugs years ago,” Cohen said. “Subsequently, he filled in his frontal hairline to camouflage the bad ‘Barbie dollesque’ plugs. I
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein may not be at the Justice Department for much longer but he is apparently making sure his exit won’t soon be forgotten.The embattled DOJ official, who oversaw special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, threw the Obama administration under the bus as he dropped some new information about Russia and the 2016 election during a private speech on Thursday. (Video) In what Mike Huckabee called an “unusually candid moment,” Rosenstein, in his first public remarks since the redacted report was released, fired back at the media, his critics and even took shots at the Obama administration and
Melania Trump absolutely shined on her birthday Friday when she stepped out in a white lace dress to greet Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mrs. Akie Abe to the White House. (Photos) The first lady looked just as gorgeous as ever in the short-sleeve lace number that hit right at her knees as she joined President Donald Trump in welcoming the Japan leaders for dinner. (Photos) She completed the gorgeous look with loose hair and and red metallic high heels. To say she looked perfect on her day would be an understatement.
Washington Post gossip Emily Heil has an obituary of sorts on the front of Friday´s Style section on "How the White House Correspondents´ Association lost its sense of humor." We´re supposed to mourn the era when comedians would "roast" the president, and completely forget the tremendous imbalance of "roasting." In the Obama years, comedians hailed Obama and ripped into conservatives. (See Obama worshipper Larry Wilmore.) The Post pictures Wanda Sykes of the 2009 dinner, but never mentions she wished from the dais that Rush Limbaugh´s kidneys would fail. The problem today, apparently, is the comedy has to be vicious, or
The coup in which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton used the FBI to try to overturn the 2016 election of Donald Trump lives on, and has moved full-bore into the 2020 presidential election campaign. Making it a big deal that he is “not Obama endorsed”, ex-vice president Joe Biden launched his presidential bid as the front runner who will fight off Trump for the “soul of America”. . Behind all the hullabaloo, aside from spreading the Big Lie that Trump’s a “racist”, Biden is really only in the presidential race to keep a seat warm for Obama, who will install
f Joe Biden was going to pick anything in the world as his reason to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, you would think he’d get creative. But no, he chose a well-known lie the media have been spreading since 2017. In his campaign launch video posted Thursday on YouTube, the former vice president said it was President Trump’s comments on the Charlottesville, Va., protests that served as his personal bat signal. (Snip)His primary motivation to run for president was apparently not so much a belief he had the right ideas on healthcare or immigration or the judiciary, but
Former Vice President Joe Biden is in for the 2020 presidential race, and in doing so he has largely settled a field of about 20 serious Democratic candidates. To some, it also means having a candidate they feel comfortable describing as a bona fide "front-runner." "Joseph R. Biden Jr. announced that he would run for president," The New York Times alerted, "becoming an instant front-runner for the Democratic nomination in 2020." "Biden Enters Democratic Campaign for President as Front-Runner," Bloomberg News headlined its piece on the launch.
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American Ignorance
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I´m not your average American. I pay close attention to what´s going on in national politics and I keep up on the news as reported from both the left and the right. It´s not that I´m bragging or saying I´m any better than anyone else, it just so happens that as a social and political essayist I´m obliged to know this stuff. Because I dig deeper than most people I can usually sort out the facts from the fake. One thing I´ve learned over time is that the progressive left does not engage in truth nor does it
Former Texas Rep. and current presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke had a small crowd for a campaign event at the University of Nevada Las Vegas on Friday.“Around 35 people here to see Beto O’Rourke at UNLV,” Emma Kinery, a Bloomberg reporter tweeted. “The rally was supposed to be held in the courtyard outside, but students told me no one is on campus on Fridays bc it’s mainly a commuter school.” (Tweet) O’Rourke has seen somewhat of a decline in recent weeks despite having raised $6.1 million in the first 24 hours of his campaign. That number led all of the candidates
WOW–President Trump Speech During NRA Convention–Indiana Convention Center (Video and Transcript)…
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Earlier today President Trump delivered exceptional remarks during the National Rifle Association 148th Convention, Indiana Convention Center. One very important aspect to point out in this speech is the remarks about the “coup” and “overthrow” were not off-the-cuff additions they were written into the teleprompter: …”They tried for a coup; didn’t work out so well.” (Applause.) “And I didn’t need a gun for that one, did I? (Laughter.)” “All was taking place at the highest levels in Washington, D.C. You’ve been watching, you’ve been seeing. You’ve been looking at things that you wouldn’t have believed possible in our country. Corruption
Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., is receiving death threats on a daily basis. A report Thursday from Your Central Valley, which covers news in Fresno, Calif., said Nunes is one of a few lawmakers who contend with such a regular danger. "We take strong precautions, one of the concerns we have is not necessarily me, but people who attend the event that I´m at, and that´s the biggest challenge right now," Nunes said.Nunes´ office did not immediately return a request for comment about whether they have notified House leadership or the House Sergeant at Arms about the death threats.The interview comes
President Donald Trump denied that the U.S. paid North Korea $2 million for Otto Warmbier´s medical care after reports emerged Thursday that the regime forced U.S. officials to sign a pledge to do so. "No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else," the president tweeted. Warmbier, an American college student detained by North Korea for allegedly stealing a propaganda poster, died six days after he was freed by North Korea and handed over to U.S. officials in June 2017.
NEW YORK — If New York is a city of dreams, Anna Sorokin had plenty of them. Sorokin, a Russian immigrant from a middle-class family, longed to be a member of the upper echelon of Manhattan society. She elbowed her way into the city’s bustling social scene and tried to raise money to open a members-only arts club on Park Avenue South. To friends and those wanting to do business with her, there was no reason to believe she was not who she said she was — a wealthy German heiress with a taste for the high life.
Toward the end of his speech at the National Rifle Association´s Annual Meetings and Exhibits, President Trump invited two people on stage who used AR-15 rifles to stop attacks. The AR-15, and rifles similar to it, are frequently targeted for bans among pro-gun control groups and politicians because of their use in mass shootings. Handguns, however, make up the vast majority of homicides by guns in comparisons to rifles. Trump brought up Mark Vaughan, an Oklahoma County Reserve deputy, who stopped a knife attack that took place at work with his AR-15 that he had in his car."I immediately entered
The D.C. Circuit unanimously upheld religious prayer in Congress last week, following a lawsuit that attempted to halt the tradition of opening House meetings with invocations to God. While the lawsuit is unsurprising, it’s still good to see federal judges maintain the authority of the First Amendment, specifically the much-contested establishment clause.According to the opinion in Barker v. Conroy, "a member of the House asked the Chaplain, Father Patrick J. Conroy, to invite Daniel Barker, a former Christian minister-turned-atheist, to serve as guest chaplain and deliver a secular invocation. Conroy denied the request, and Barker sued, alleging that Conroy unconstitutionally
A roaming pack of dogs attacked a teen and an elderly man and then tried to attack a deputy who ended up shooting one of them in a series of incidents that took place Thursday morning in the Shady Hills area, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office. The first report of the pack of three adult bulldogs and two puppies wandering around the area came in at 6:53 a.m. near Crews Lake Wilderness Park at 16739 Crews Lake Drive. Then the attacks were reported. A 15-year-old boy was bitten in the leg while either walking to school or waiting for
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he feels "young" and "vibrant" at age 72 and thinks he can beat 76-year-old Joe Biden "easily." A reporter asked Trump at the White House on Friday how old is too old to be president of the United States. Trump said: "I just feel like a young man. I´m so young. I can´t believe it. ... I´m a young, vibrant man." Then he smiled and said he´s not sure about Democratic presidential contender Biden, the second-oldest contender in the race behind Bernie Sanders. Trump said: "I look at Joe. I don´t know about him." But
Google knows everywhere you go — here’s how to stop it from tracking you and delete the logs
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Google knows a lot about you and, if you use Google Maps or other Google apps, it stores a copy of everywhere you go. I recently performed Google’s “Privacy Checkup” to learn a bit more about what it knows about me, and was pretty surprised at the level of detail it had on my exact locations. I picked a random date: April 16, 2019. It knew everywhere I went, including that I took Interstate 95 to our office in northern New Jersey a
INDIANAPOLIS- President Donald Trump on Friday announced at the National Rifle Association´s annual meeting that the United States will drop out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups. Trump told members of the gun lobby that he intends to revoke the status of the United States as a signatory of the Arms Trade Treaty, which was never ratified by the U.S. Senate. "We´re taking our signature back," Trump said to thousands of cheering attendees, many wearing red hats emblazoned with the Republican president´s "Make America Great
A cellphone was thrown at President Trump as he approached the podium to give an address at the NRA convention in Indianapolis Friday. The phone missed Trump by several feet and bounced harmlessly on the stage at Trump’s left. Video of the incident was posted to Twitter by reporter Bradley Brewer who reported the person who threw the phone was arrested. Katie Pavlich witnessed the incident and noted it took the Secret Service several minutes to detain the man and that he hung around near the front of the stage carrying a soda until he was arrested. (Tweets) Series of
City schools are facing a sickening epidemic of sexual misconduct. In just the past year, the number of “forcible-sex offenses” reported by educators has risen nearly 2,000 percent—from just 21 in 2016-17 to 447 last year, according to a Post analysis of state data. By comparison, the entire rest of the state logged only 49 such incidents last year, the figures show. The offenses involve “completed or attempted” sexual contact from rape to forced groping, and even involved victims and perpetrators as young as elementary school students, according to the data. “Clearly, there’s a serious problem in our school system,
With Sri Lanka already reeling from a series of coordinated bombings, the horror continued Sunday afternoon as police raided the home of Inshaf Ahmed Ibrahim and Ilham Ibrahim, two of the suspected leaders of the plot that killed 359 people. As police entered the residence, the wife of one of the brothers, Fatima Ibrahim, detonated yet another bomb, killing herself, the child she was pregnant with, three other young children and three Sri Lankan police officers.
President Donald Trump committed Thursday to declassifying a slew of records related to the Russia probe “and much more.” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he was “glad” he waited to declassify the documents until after the end of the special counsel’s investigation. “I thought that maybe they would obstruct if I did it early, and I think I was right,” Trump said. Trump has for months considered releasing portions of a classified surveillance warrant application granted in June 2017 against Carter Page, the former Trump campaign adviser.
Some women who joined the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) as fighters, recruiters, and brides are trying to recreate the fallen caliphate from inside prison camps in northern Syria, the Associated Press (AP) reported this week. The females, who appear to miss the now fallen Islamic emirate that once controlled large swathes of Iraq and Syria, continue to express their loyalty as they beg to be allowed back into their home countries. At northern Syria’s al-Hol and Roj camps, overseen by the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces (Snip)AP spoke to four women who traveled to the Middle East to
Joe Biden claims world leaders begged him to ´save the world´ from Donald Trump as he entered the race for the White House yesterday. The former vice-president made the claims in a call to campaign donors yesterday as he announced he was joining the field of 20 Democrats vying for the presidency.´I get calls from people all over the world. World leaders are calling me, and they´re almost begging me to do this, to save the country, save the world,´ Biden said according to Politico. Scroll down for video (Photo/Video) Biden has been frantically garnering support from donors with flights
A man accused of fatally beating a 4-month-old boy after finding out the infant wasn’t his son had been previously deported from the United States five times, most recently in late 2016, immigration officials said. Carlos Zuniga-Aviles, a 33-year-old Honduran national, has used multiple aliases, including the fake name of Jose Agurcia-Avila he gave police in Memphis, Tennessee, following his arrest in the boy’s death earlier this month, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials told WMC-TV. ICE officials have since filed an immigration detainer against Zuniga-Aviles, who was initially deported to Honduras in
Populist Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has outlined proposals for the security services to do more to observe and root out extremism in the country’s Islamic cultural centres. (Snip) “According to the data of the updated census of Islamic presences in Italy to date there are 1,382 Islamic cultural associations, of which 1,068 are also used as a place for prayer,” Salvini said and added, “Obviously it is full of good people but there are also realities underlined by the police to identify the presence of fanatics and extremists.”
Uncle Joe wrote to me all day long. (Video) Being signed up to lots of mailing lists — who in turn sell their lists to other mailing list sites — I get all kinds of stuff. But Biden, who on Thursday jumped into the 2020 presidential race, outdid them all."J, did you get a chance to read Joe’s email?" said my first missive from joebiden.com titled "checking in." No, I didn´t read it — because you never sent it to me, Joe! But that didn´t matter. He went on and on."Since this morning´s announcement, thousands of people have chosen to
The days keep getting worse for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh. On Thursday, federal agents raided her homes and offices, Maryland’s governor called for her resignation “for the good of the city” and speculation swirled about her whereabouts, as she presumably is still recovering from a bout of pneumonia. The escalating drama played out in Baltimore amid a backdrop of political isolation for the embattled first-term mayor, whose sales of her self-published “Healthy Holly” books to a medical system she oversaw and to firms seeking contracts in the city are being investigated by federal and state authorities.
The days keep getting worse for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh. On Thursday, federal agents raided her homes and offices, Maryland’s governor called for her resignation “for the good of the city” and speculation swirled about her whereabouts, as she presumably is still recovering from a bout of pneumonia. The escalating drama played out in Baltimore amid a backdrop of political isolation for the embattled first-term mayor, whose sales of her self-published “Healthy Holly” books to a medical system she oversaw and to firms seeking contracts in the city are being investigated by federal and state authorities.
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan police are trying to track down 140 people believed linked to Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings of churches and hotels that killed 253 people, President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday. Muslims in Sri Lanka were urged to pray at home and not after the State Intelligence Services warned of possible car bomb attacks, amid fears of retaliatory violence. The U.S. Embassy in Sri Lanka also urged its citizens to avoid places of worship over the weekend after authorities reported there could be more attacks targeting religious centers.
Normally such a claim would cause more than a few eye rolls and shakes of the head as for a very long time, the upper echelons of the Deep State continued to dance just beyond the realm of real legal accountability for their nefarious actions. Former U.S. prosecutor Joe diGenova is a proven reliable source, though, and so if he says indictments are coming, he’s likely right. (Snip) someone like John Brennan will take all the heat or if he will choose to point at those who approved his actions—namely figures like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Valerie Jarrett.
Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed May 17, 2017. Twenty-two months later, on March 22, 2019, Mueller sent his report to the Justice Department. Some special counsel investigations have taken longer; it is the nature of such probes to drag on and on. But why did Mueller need nearly two years to determine whether the Trump campaign and Russia conspired or coordinated to fix the 2016 election?
TAPACHULA (Reuters) - More than a thousand migrants broke out of a detention center in southern Mexico on Thursday evening, authorities said, in a fresh sign of how a surge in arrivals has stretched the country´s resources to the limit. More than half of the roughly 1,300 migrants later returned to the Siglo XXI facility in the border city of Tapachula in Chiapas state, but about 600 are still unaccounted for, the National Migration Institute said in a statement. Migrants from Cuba, who make up the majority of the people being held at the center,
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who announced his 2020 presidential campaign Thursday, will appear alongside Meghan McCain during a Friday appearance on the national show she co-hosts. McCain, the daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, a longtime friend of Biden´s, announced his appearance on social media Thursday morning. "Thrilled that Vice President @JoeBiden will be giving his first exclusive interview since announcing his run for President with us @TheView table tomorrow morning," she wrote of the ABC show. "It´s no secret of my love and friendship with Joe — and I can´t wait to talk to him tomorrow." (Tweet)
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein spoke out Thursday night on special counsel Robert Mueller’s report for the first time since its release. At an official Justice Department dinner in New York hosted by the Armenian Bar Association, the embattled deputy attorney general reflected on his time in the Justice Department. Rosenstein defended his handling of the special counsel’s investigation, ripped former FBI Director James Comey and accused the Obama administration of misleading the American people on Russia. (Photo) “I did pledge to do it right and take it to the appropriate conclusion. I did not promise to report all results
Florida appears poised to join a righteous law-and-order backlash against so-called sanctuary cities that shield and harbor illegal aliens in defiance of the nation’s immigration laws, after a pro-immigration enforcement bill passed the state’s House of Representatives. The Sunshine State was home to 775,000 illegal aliens in 2016, according to Pew Research Center. The state is also home to 15 municipalities that are sanctuary cities, according to Floridians for Immigration Enforcement, which prefers to label those jurisdictions “anarchy cities.” “Not only do they disobey the law, but I question their loyalty to this country,” David Caulkett, the group’s vice president, said last month.
According to the Infinite Monkey Theorem, if you give enough apes sufficient time and plenty of typewriters, then they should be able to rattle out the complete works of William Shakespeare. However, one chimpanzee appears determined to get a head start on his simian friends by picking up an iPhone and trying to master a few of the more basic features. The one-minute-long experiment prompted excited internet users to share footage of the inquisitive chimpanzee. JD Durkin from Queens, New York, who posted the footage expressed his concern over the prospect of technologically advanced apes.
Yesterday Senators Johnson and Grassley opened the door for the DOJ and FBI to justify the post-election investigation of President Donald Trump, based on a premise of a possible FBI counterintelligence operation ran against the office of the Vice-President, Mike Pence. And lickety-split the outrage voices jumped right to work. Predictable.Discussions, conversations and displays of evidence outlining the efforts of the intelligence community, to defend against the potential of a compromised President, are exactly what the previous administration officials want to see.
California Republicans are determined to take back the four congressional seats they lost in Orange County in 2018, among the seven the party lost statewide.They have some political momentum, as Nancy Pelosi’s Democrats have proven incapable of doing anything except arguing about impeaching President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, the tactic of “ballot harvesting,” introduced last November, has made it impossible for Republicans ever to win again. “Ballot harvesting” involves using a third party, such as a well-trained political activist, to collect mail-in ballots on behalf of other voters and deliver them to the polls. There is no vetting of ballot harvesters,
The U.S. economy grew more quickly than most economists expected during the first quarter of 2019, according to data released Friday by the Commerce Department.During the three-month period from January to March, the GDP rose at a 3.2 percent annualized rate, beating most analysts’ expectations of 2.5 percent. It also bested GDPNow, a real-time tracker monitored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which lowered its forecast to 2.7 percent this week because of weakness in existing-home sales and a drop in residential investment growth. The economy largely shook off the effects of a five-week long government shutdown -- the
Your next salad might include leafy greens grown by robots in California greenhouses. About 75 percent of the lettuce farmed in the U.S. comes from that state’s Central Coast and San Joaquin Valley. Cultivating it requires warm temperatures, not too much rain, and lots of time and labor. Startups such as Iron Ox, a maker of agricultural robots, and big players such as John Deere are investing in artificial intelligence to raise produce more efficiently.
It wasn’t long ago that economists were warning how President Trump’s government shutdown — which extended into late January — would wreak havoc on an already struggling economy, especially in the first quarter of the year. So what are these experts saying now that GDP growth accelerated to a startling 3.2% in the first three months of the year? Early in the year, anyone following the news was being bombarded with warnings about the economic calamity that the lengthy (partial) government shutdown would cause.
Is sanity finally returning to the justice system? A most welcome story comes from Newton, Massachusetts, where a state judge has been busted by the U.S. Attorney´s office for interfering with federal lawmen attempting to deport a convicted career criminal illegally present in the U.S. The judge, Shelley Richmond Joseph, and her court officer, Wesley MacGregor, are charged with conspiracy and obstruction for blocking ICE agents from detaining the twice-deported illegal immigrant who´d been convicted of drug dealing and was wanted elsewhere for drunk driving, from scooping him away at the courthouse.
How the Left is saving me money
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Although the Left in recent years has elevated my blood pressure, increased my gastric acidity, and made family gatherings a bit more rancorous, I am truly grateful to the Left for improving my bank account. The Left´s recent trashing of the American icon and patriot, Kate Smith, is my best recent example.(snip)So, I thought, what else has the Left ruined for me, and in the process saved me money? Well, I no longer contribute a dime to my college alma mater, and haven´t since they invited the buffoon, Chris Matthews, as their commencement speaker. Second, I attend the movies hardly
Joe Biden joined 19 other Democrat presidential candidates who appear to be serving as crash dummies until Michelle Obama as America´s sixth most popular and second most famous public figure jumps in. (snip) With the feeding frenzy expected to drive down all the Democrat hopefuls´ positives by February, Michelle Obama will be perfectly positioned to sweep the nomination as the most popular and most famous Democrat, second only to her husband. Michelle Obama enjoys an almost identical 56 percent positive to just 31 percent negative public opinion as her husband.
President Trump has gone on the record that the plotters against him in what he called an "attempted coup" are going to be exposed and brought to justice for their misdeeds, and that it is happening faster than most people believe. Last night, for almost three quarters of an hour, President Trump spoke via telephone on air with Sean Hannity on the latter´s eponymous Fox News program. Because the two men are friends, the conversation flowed from topic to topic, covering a wide range of points. But the president made some startling points
The gloves are beginning to come off in the crowded Democratic race for the White House that so far has resembled more of a tea party than a bar-room brawl. Pete Buttigieg said this week he didn’t think Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could rebuild the coalition that pushed his 2016 candidacy forward, a line many saw as a shot undercutting a rival campaign. Those remarks came after Sanders´s campaign co-chairman Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) lashed out at Buttigieg for comparing Sanders´s supporters to President´ Trump´s, even though Buttigieg had been praising Sanders for reaching out to the anti-establishment voters that Democrats
While TSA agents say they’re not discriminating against women of color, their equipment has been doing otherwise, according to new report from ProPublica. Those futuristic full-body scanners — the ones that require you to put your hands over your head inside a human-sized cylinder — have proven inadequate when it comes to screening African-American hair, ProPublica’s Brenda Medina and Thomas Frank found. They often result in false positives, which lead to a “hair pat-down,” Washington D.C. resident Dorian Wanzer, who frequently has her hair searched, told ProPublica.
It began as a minor dispute over a free pizza. But when the police got involved, a Colonie mother ended up in handcuffs and thrown in jail for three nights due to a "clerical error" on an arrest warrant that should have listed her ex-boyfriend. "I just missed three days of my life, plus Easter with my children," Jessica L. Donovan said. "It was rough. ... I felt so degraded." At the county jail, Donovan — who had never been arrested before — was booked, fingerprinted, photographed, given a prisoner jumpsuit and issued a test for tuberculosis.
Earlier this month, the principal of James Madison High School, in Houston, Carlotta Outley Brown, sent out a directive to parents. Any parent wearing revealing and/or slovenly attire would be banned from entering the school, and in some cases, prohibited from so much as setting foot on school premises. Items banned from the building include shower caps, hair rollers, bonnets, satin caps (a.k.a. “Do-rags,” or “durags,” in the parlance of Solange and the New York Times), house shoes, undershirts (for men), and pajamas, or anything that could be construed as such,
Long before the special counsel probe ended in confirming there was no collusion between President Trump and Russia, the U.S. government knew there was no evidence of a vast conspiracy between Trump and a foreign power. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate “ties between President Trump’s campaign and Russian officials” on May 17, 2017. President Obama’s director of national intelligence James Clapper had access and was privy to all the “evidence” the U.S. government collected since the Russia investigation began in July 2016.
The Democrats should be changing the subject, and running away from President Trump’s legal issues as fast as they can. It is illustrative of how completely invested they were in the hare-brained fraud of Russian collusion, that they are having such a crisis of separation from the subject. They are not the only losers in this fiasco, though they are the biggest losers.They are left trying to pretend that they have an invitation to impeach from special counsel Robert Mueller, but that is not correct. In his and his Trump-hating investigative staff’s desperation to attack the president,
OLATHE, Kan. — The Kansas City Chiefs effectively suspended Tyreek Hill from all team-related activities Thursday night while they investigate an audio recording that aired on a local TV station in which the star wide receiver´s fiancee accused him of abusing their 3-year-old son. The recording surfaced one day after prosecutors said they believed abuse had occurred in Hill´s home last month but that they could not press charges because it was unclear who committed the crime. Chiefs general manager Brett Veach read a statement after the conclusion of the first round of the NFL draft
A white can still win the Democrat presidential nomination. So can a male. So can a senior citizen. And a heterosexual. And so can a non-socialist. But an old, straight Caucasian guy from the party’s current ideological center cannot. And all these attributes may be beside the point anyway if that same septuagenarian, white, cisgender male is a full-fledged member of the Washington establishment going back to the early 1970s. Joe Biden squeaked through to his first election to the U.S. Senate, as an unknown underdog, the same year Richard Nixon was re-elected President, over 46 years ago.
Joe Biden’s First Mistake
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Vice President Biden is making a mistake, in our view, in trying to run for president on the idea that America is full of deplorables. He’s launched his campaign with a video featuring neo-Nazis marching at Charlottesville. He’s suggesting that President Trump — and his millions of followers — are racists and anti-Semites. That libel backfired on Secretary Clinton. What can Mr. Biden be thinking?
Mueller Is Circling the Drain
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Certain aspects of the process whereby Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel challenge the legitimacy of the entire undertaking. To understand them, we must dip into the legalese surrounding the appointment process (snip) Rosenstein´s letter explicitly directs Mueller to investigate Trump-Russia collusion and only incidentally extends his investigatory purview to other matters. In short, it does not say Mueller should investigate general Russian government efforts to meddle in our election process. Mueller was free to investigate Russian meddling, but his only true directive was to investigate the Trump campaign.
The terrifying old gods return
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The media may have given impression that Brenton Tarrant, the New Zealand mosque murderer iwas a Christian or accidentally conveyed that sense by spotty coverage. The Evening Standard wrote "Mosque shooting suspect Brenton Tarrant ´travelled to Europe to investigate historic battles between Christians and Muslims´". Heavy writes that "in his disturbing manifesto, white nationalist terrorist Brenton Tarrant says that he received a blessing in support of the attack from a group called the ´reborn Knights Templar.´" So he was a Christian bigot right? The better to disarm others like him.
The Islamic State (ISIS) has now taken credit for the Muslim massacre of Christians in Sri Lana. On average over 300 Christians a month are killed for their faith globally. This is the end result of a campaign of disrespect and hate towards Christians that have become a significant theme of American politics as well.Is it merely coincidental that the most rapidly rising candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, Pete Buttigieg launched his campaign with an unfounded and unprovoked attack on America’s vice president because he is a Christian? In fact, as Buttigieg’s governor in Indiana, Pence had been particularly
Even before launching his 2020 presidential bid, Joe Biden knelt at the altar of identity grievance. He will kneel and kneel some more through the campaign. None of it will be enough, and he is destined to be mauled by the modern left’s grievance-mongers. The “woke” social justice movement rules today’s Democrats, and the party’s candidates are ranked for fitness on a crude, ever-shifting scale of “intersectionality,” used to determine who is most oppressed. If a candidate can claim oppression based on race, gender or sexuality, he or she can move forward.
Since its inception 40 years ago as a political payoff from President Jimmy Carter to the National Education Association, the Department of Education has engaged in scores of dubious actions that have made millions of Americans yearn for its expulsion. The most recent example of comes from a long string of audits showing the federal department is doing a lousy job keeping tabs on the $38 billion it receives to administer federally funded K–12 programs. “Complex and persistent” is how Congress’ spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, described the agency’s mismanagement of data, oversight, and evaluation.
CNN recently published an article arguing that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should not have issued a report suggesting the president may have committed obstruction of justice without actually reaching this conclusion. CNN is obviously disappointed because inside the leftist echo chamber the obstruction case seems undisputable. For example, the Mueller report suggests that the president committed some kind of sin for wanting to fire former FBI director James Comey for being a party to the plot to blackmail or frame the president. Some believe presidents should fire FBI chiefs who participate in hoaxes against their boss.
Whoever said that there’s no such thing as a free lunch never said it to the various presidential hopefuls aiming to unseat the current occupant of the Oval Office. And whoever says it now risks issuing a warning misunderstood as a challenge. Elizabeth Warren proposes free college tuition and debt forgiveness for student loans. “The entire cost of my broad debt cancellation plan and universal free college is more than covered by my Ultra-Millionaire Tax,” Warren explains. “For decades, we’ve allowed the wealthy to pay less while burying tens of millions
As activists around the world recently celebrated Earth Day with warnings about the awful state of our planet, now seems like the right time to share the good news that actually—contrary to countless dire predictions—we´re not running out of resources. In fact, the late economist and scholar Julian Simon was right: People again and again have innovated "their way out of resource shortages." As Mark Perry of the American Enterprise Institute reminds us in an article about "18 spectacularly wrong predictions made around the time of first Earth Day in 1970," back in 1969, Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich wrote
As Donald Trump began his meteoric rise to the presidency, the Obama White House summoned Ukrainian authorities to Washington to coordinate ongoing anti-corruption efforts inside Russia’s most critical neighbor. The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), the FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ). The agenda suggested the purpose was training and coordination. But Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long — during the meetings and afterward — to realize the Americans’ objectives
Senior Republican chairmen submitted a letter Thursday to Department of Justice Attorney General William Barr revealing new texts from former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok to his paramour FBI Attorney Lisa Page showing the pair had discussed attempts to recruit sources within the White House to allegedly spy on the Trump administration. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Charles Grassley and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson revealed the information in a three page letter. The texts had been obtained by SaraACarter.com Tuesday and information regarding the possible attempt to recruit White House sources had been divulged by several sources
Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is sick and not “lucid” enough to decide whether to resign over a federal investigation into shady sales of a children’s book she authored, her lawyer said Thursday. The embattled Democrat was at her house during an FBI and IRS raid on the property earlier Thursday and met with a doctor there, said her attorney Steve Silverman. An earlier report from local outlet WJZ quoted sources saying Pugh had skipped town. But her lawyer — whose office was also raided by the feds — said he met with her for an hour
Tesla’s first quarterly earnings report of 2019 showed the company took a massive financial hit after losing a $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit on Jan. 1, Greentech Media reports. Tesla released its Q1 earnings report Wednesday, showing losses greater than the already pessimistic predictions from analysts. The electric car company posted a $702 million net loss. The negative cash flow is the greatest loss the company has ever posted over one quarter. In conjunction with the deficit, Tesla’s car delivery dropped by 31 percent from 90,700 cars in the last quarter of 2018 to 63,000 cars in the first quarter of 2019.
Rudy Giuliani, a personal attorney for President Trump, called Thursday for conservative writer Bill Kristol to apologize for accusing him of lacking the courage to face the “stronger person” Hillary Clinton in New York´s 2000 U.S. Senate race. Giuliani said Kristol´s critique on Twitter completely omitted the fact that Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer at the time. Kristol, a frequent Trump critic, called out the former New York City mayor on Sunday, saying Giuliani played “a tough guy” on Twitter but lacked the nerve to take on Clinton in his home state. “When the race got tough, @RudyGiuliani got going.
Rosenstein slams Obama administration for choosing ‘not to publicize full story’ of Russia hacking
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Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. deputy attorney general who supervised the Mueller investigation, spoke publically on Thursday for the first time since the report was released, taking a swipe at the Obama administration’s real-time reaction to Russian hacking and its decision "not publicize the full story" to the American people. Rosenstein, who was speaking in New York at the Public Servants Dinner of the Armenian Bar Association, defended his handling of the probe and criticized former officials in the process. He called out former FBI Director James Comey for alerting Congress about the investigation into Russian collusion
Joe Biden almost died after suffering an aneurysm while serving in the Senate, but the surgeon who operated on his brain says that the incident shouldn´t hold him back in his pursuit of the presidency. Dr. Neal Kassell, the renowned neurosurgeon who operated on Biden, said he’s confident that Biden is “totally in the clear,” and joked that he believed the surgery had even “made him better than how he was.” “Joe Biden of all of the politicians in Washington is the only one that I’m certain has a brain, because I have seen it,” Kassell said. “That’s more than
President Trump gave an extensive interview to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday evening. The President made several stunning comments about the Mueller investigation, previous wiretaps, the upcoming inspector general report, the deep state, and his firm plans to declassify a significant amount of background documents. For the first time President Trump used the terms “attempted coup” and “overthrow” to discuss the coordinated effort against his administration by the previous administration including James Clapper (ODNI), John Brennan (CIA), James Comey (FBI), and lower level officials within the intelligence apparatus. (Video)