Posts on Saturday, April 27, 2019
Climate change is widening the world’s gap between the haves and have-nots, worsening economic inequality between rich and poor countries, according to a new analysis by Stanford scientists. The difference between the economic output of the world’s cool wealthy nations and hot struggling nations is 25 percent larger today than it would have been without global warming, according to researchers Noah Diffenbaugh and Marshall Burke. “Our results show that most of the poorest countries on Earth are considerably poorer than they would have been without global warming,” said climate scientist Diffenbaugh. “At the same time, the majority of rich countries
Gov. Janet Mills signed a bill Friday to abolish Columbus Day. Maine will keep the day a state holiday but will now celebrate it as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. “Our history is by no means perfect. But, for too long, it has been written and presented in a way that fails to acknowledge our shortcomings,” Mills said in a statement. “There is power in a name and in who we choose to honor. Today, we take another step in healing the divisions of the past,” Mills said. Native groups have been critical of Christopher Columbus, viewing his discovery of America as an
Actress Rosanna Arquette melted down in a social media screed, wishing she could wake up without feeling “terrorized” by President Donald Trump’s “fascist regime.” (Tweet) The Pulp Fiction actress apparently thinks about President Trump immediately after waking up regularly.Last month, Arquette penned a similar post, claiming that Trump’s administration has “normalized” rape and pedophilia. “It’s hard to wake up this morning and realize we are living under a sick dictatorship ,that we now have a government that has normalized racism rape ,mass killings from Guns Pedophila ,homophobia, the destruction of our environment .this government has normalized stupidity,” Arquette said. (Tweet)
RENO, Nev. — Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke said Thursday he’s willing to consider a moratorium on new leases to drill for oil and gas on federal lands as a way to help combat climate change. (Snip) O’Rourke said that concern, combined with the need to reduce total greenhouse emissions, makes it especially important that U.S. taxpayers don’t allow oil and gas companies “to contribute more to the problem.” “So, rethinking the leasing of public lands and perhaps creating a moratorium on any future leases — and reviewing all those that are in existence — is in order,”
LAKEWOOD, Colo. -- Video appears to show a semitrailer speeding down the shoulder of eastbound Interstate 70 in Colorado before a massive crash and fire Thursday afternoon. The crash occurred near the Denver West exit in Lakewood. At least one person was killed. Several were injured. The Lakewood Police Department said the crash began when a semitrailer traveling at a high rate of speed on the eastbound side of the highway collided with other vehicles, starting a chain reaction and fire. An estimated 12 passenger vehicles and three semitrailers were involved in the crash. The video, from Burger Planet on
Hundreds of migrants hoping to reach the United States boarded a freight train in southern Mexico late on Thursday, frustrated by efforts to slow their progress by the Mexican government, which is under pressure from President Donald Trump. The risky move to board the train, known as ´La Bestia´ (The Beast), followed a mass breakout of migrants from a holding center in the southern border city of Tapachula on Thursday night. The government estimated some 1,300 people escaped but said a majority later returned to the center.Men, women and children from various countries boarded the slow train as it pulled
A power struggle at the NRA has pitted Wayne LaPierre, the gun-rights group’s executive vice president, against its newly installed president, Oliver North. In a letter to board members on Thursday, which was published by The Wall Street Journal, LaPierre accused North of an extortion plot in an effort to oust him. “Leaders in every walk of life must often choose: between what is true, and what is polite; between what is convenient, and what is right,” LaPierre wrote in the letter.
A Massachusetts judge, who is accused of helping a twice-deported illegal alien evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement, used a back door to help the man slip away, court documents have revealed. Judge Shelley M Richmond Joseph and trial court officer Wesley MacGregor are accused of conspiring to help Jose Medina-Perez evade the ICE agent at Newton District Court on April 2, 2018.Joseph ordered the courtroom recording device to be turned off for 52 seconds while she and Medina-Perez´s lawyer had a conversation about getting him out of the courthouse instead of handing him over to an ICE officer, according to
Remember President John Glenn?
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It took some pollsters only a few minutes to tell us that VP Biden, or #21, has a nine-point lead on President Trump. It reminded some of us of other polls from days gone by, such as this one from the spring of 1983 when President Ronald Reagan was coming out of the 1981-82 recession: 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
President Trump is considering granting waivers to bypass the Jones Act, a century-old law law regulating domestic maritime commerce, to ease the transport of natural gas to the Northeast and Puerto Rico. Enacted in 1920, the Jones Act prohibits tankers from hauling goods and commodities, such as oil or natural gas, between U.S. ports unless the ships are American made, owned, and crewed. The Jones Act was designed to protect American maritime interests and shipbuilders, and the industry has repeatedly fended off attempts in Congress to repeal it, with coastal lawmakers stepping in to save it.
Inside the EPA´s ´resistance room,´ where Trump was never president and climate change is real
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WASHINGTON — No such thing. That was the verdict delivered by the security guard inside the Ronald Reagan Building on the question of whether there existed a museum of the Environmental Protection Agency and, more to the point, whether that museum was somewhere within this airy warren of federal offices in downtown Washington. In fact, she appeared to regard the question as downright insane. Actually, there was — and is, as of this writing at least — such a thing as an EPA museum. The security guard looked on with annoyed concession as this reporter produced on his phone
This is huge — a lunatic hack state judge is indicted and charged with cutting loose a twice-deported Dominican illegal immigrant arrested with drugs after throwing an ICE agent out of her courtroom so that the criminal could escape. For what appears to be the first time, someone in a “sanctuary” jurisdiction has to answer for the coddling of these illegal immigrants who are perpetrating a massive tidal wave of crime on the law-abiding, taxpaying citizens of the United States. Finally in the halls of justice, some justice that’s not in the halls, but in the courtroom.
Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz announced in March 2018 that his office was reviewing the DOJ’s and FBI’s “compliance with legal requirements, and with applicable DOJ and FBI policies and procedures, in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) relating to a certain U.S. person.” In other words, he was asking whether the agencies abused their power in getting warrants to surveil (by then, former) Trump-campaign foreign-policy adviser Carter Page. More than a year later, we still don’t know much about the course of the IG’s investigation. But that may finally be changing.
In some ways, Christopher Steele’s infamous dossier is as much a story about the media as it is about Russiagate, the monumental scandal that it both spawned and richly informed. The dossier, after all, was being whispered about among Washington journalists—some who’d been briefed off the record—for months before it exploded into the open. After BuzzFeed made the controversial decision to publish it in early 2017, Steele himself became a media phenomenon, garnering mouthwatering profiles from the likes of The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, and inspiring best-sellers like Luke Harding’s Collusion and David Corn and Michael Isikoff’s Russian Roulette.
If you´re gonna tell a lie, make it a big one. Make it so astonishing, so blatant, that you cause the listener to question his own grasp on reality. Turn down the gaslight, and when he notices, say the light was always that dim. Is he going to believe the evidence of his own senses, or is he gonna go along to get along? All politicians do it, including our current Commander-in-Chief, but few do it with as much gusto as Joe Biden. He just really digs lying, almost as much as his old boss does.
A Chinese family allegedly paid a whopping $6.5 million to crooked college prep adviser William “Rick” Singer in the nationwide admissions scandal — but still haven’t been charged in the case, according to a new report. Prosecutors mentioned the eye-popping figure last month when announcing they’d busted dozens of rich American parents for allegedly paying Singer to bribe their kids’ way into top colleges — but none of those families were accused of paying anywhere near that much. The Wall Street Journal on Friday revealed that the deep-pocketed family in question is from China, and have not been charged.
What’s that old expression? Those that can, do; those who can’t, teach. That’s what’s happening with two Democrats who lost re-election races in 2018. Former Senators Heidi Heitkamp and Joe Donnelly want to turn their failures into success for other Democrats. As crazy as it first sounds, Heitkamp and Donnelly want to teach other candidates how to talk to rural voters. Ponder that for a moment. The party of identity politics is so accustomed to dividing potential voters into specific categories, with a focus on urban voters,
President Trump has called the Mueller investigation a "witch hunt" nearly 200 times on social media alone. Well, the special counsel concluded he was not a witch. After carefully scrutinizing any links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign, Robert Mueller definitively declared "the investigation did not establish that the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities." He didn´t do it. Still, several leading Democrats have called for Trump´s impeachment on obstruction-of-justice charges. This is absurd. The lesson of Watergate, we are told, is that the coverup is always worse than the crime.
Police have arrested a semi-truck driver accused of causing a fiery multi-vehicle wreck Thursday on Interstate 70 near Denver, Colo., that left four people dead and six more injured. Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 23, of Texas, was arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide, police said. He is slated to appear in court on Saturday for an advisement hearing. The charges stemmed from interviews and evidence, Lakewood police spokesman Ty Countryman said. Authorities said it did not appear drugs or alcohol were involved and the crash does not appear to be intentional. Officials said they were looking into
TurboTax and H&R Block deliberately hid their free tax filing options from Google results which forced many low-income tax filers to pay for expensive, unnecessary tax filing. Intuit, the company that operates TurboTax, accomplished this by adding code to its free filing site that essentially told Google and other search engines to not list the site in search results.(Snip) Intuit, H&R Block, and other tax-prep companies created free filing software in exchange for the IRS not creating their own version. However, while 70% of tax filers are eligible for free filing, only about 3% use those services.
April 27 marks the seven-year anniversary of the first op-ed piece that I had published. Not surprisingly, the platform willing to accept something from a conservative high school senior was Breitbart. Then as now, Breitbart was willing to provide a place for otherwise unheard voices to be expressed. The headline for that 2012 column was “Liberal Bias Starts in High School Economics Textbooks.” I pointed out that Krugman’s Economics for AP, written by Margaret Ray and David A. Anderson, and adapted from Paul Krugman and Robin Wells’ Economics (Second Edition), was being used as the textbook to teach the principles
Proctor and Gamble and Gillette decided to run razor ads trashing men and “toxic” masculinity in their new ad campaign. The company decided the best way to promote their product was to attack their customer base. (Photo)The new ad also highlights sexist and bullying white males in the United States. Of the 43 abusive males in the ad – 42 are white. 7 of the hero men out of 8 are black. (Photo) The ad is not doing so well with many users promising to avoid the product. The ad had 642,000 down votes after its first two days on YouTube.
Four people are dead after a construction crane collapsed on several cars on the west side of Fairview Ave North and the Mercer Street intersection Saturday, according to the Seattle Department of Transportation. According to the Seattle Fire Department, two crane operators were killed and two people in cars on the ground died. Three others were taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Their condition is unknown at this time. Among the injured is a 25-year-old mother and her child, under the age of one. None of the injuries is life threatening. Another victim was treated at the scene
Culture may seem to be dominated by trigger warning and hypersensitivity. A sizable new poll, however, finds that 81% of Americans agree that “people are too easily offended these days,” an opinion that also spans political beliefs. The poll found that 94% of Republicans, 82% of independents and 70% of Democrats agree with this idea. The finding comes from a Morning Consult poll of more than 13,000 U.S. adults. The public also reveals a certain weariness with both the culture wars and the social dynamics at work these days. Only about a third of Americans would describe themselves as “politically
The New York Yankees’ bold decision to ban Kate Smith’s 1939 recording of “God Bless America” from the stadium over two racist songs she once performed surely calls for further brave steps by the team.(Snip) But if the Bronx Bombers are serious about standing tall against racism, they must next ban the national anthem, which is sung before every game. Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1814, owned slaves—at least six of them, as a matter of historical record. Isn’t “ownership” of human beings a more grave offense than merely ridiculing black people
Jersey City, N.J.—New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is ordering that the Mississippi flag be replaced by the American flag at a state park that overlooks the Statue of Liberty because it has a Confederate emblem on it. The Democrat on Friday ordered the removal of Mississippi’s flag from a display of each state’s flag at Liberty State Park. He says the flag “is reprehensible and does not reflect our values of inclusivity and equality.” The Mississippi flag includes the Confederate battle emblem in the upper left corner. The emblem has a red field topped by a blue X-shaped cross,
In Thursday’s international edition of The New York Times, a cartoon with “anti-Semitic tropes” was published that portrayed a blind President Trump led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu depicted as a dog with a Star of David collar around its neck. The cartoon appeared in the April 25 international edition and coincided with the end of the Passover holiday and Shabbat, two days many observant Jews were not online. The cartoon was quickly criticized by several social media users. (Tweet) Donald Trump Jr. shared the photo in a tweet and said, “Disgusting. I have no words for flagrant anti-Semitism
Tonight President Donald Trump is holding a massive ‘Make America Great Again’ rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin at the Resch Center. President Trump is expected to highlight the U.S. economic growth, jobs and continued success following a first quarter GDP result that exceeded all expectations. The President will speak at approximately 7:00pm CDT / 8:00pm EDT with ongoing event festivities and speakers earlier. RSBN Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream Link – GST Livestream Link (Videos)
Former representative Allen West (R., Fla.) called for investigation and reform at the National Rifle Association´s (NRA) leadership in an interview with the Washington Free Beacon Saturday, as the historic gun group finds itself embroiled in a "contentious" board fight. West, a retired Army colonel and member of the NRA´s board, spoke with the Washington Free Beacon‘s Stephen Gutowski Saturday at the NRA´s annual summit in Indianapolis, Ind. (Tweets) West´s comments followed a letter, penned Thursday and published in the Wall Street Journal late Friday, from NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. LaPierre accused NRA president Oliver North of "extortionist"
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shared their love of golf on a sunny, windy Saturday at the president´s northern Virginia course just before the Republican headed to Wisconsin for a rally meant to counter the White House Correspondents Dinner.Trump said on the eve of their outing they´d play a quick round at a ´beautiful´ place before he goes to Green Bay later on Saturday. In the meantime, Melania Trump and her Japanese counterpart, Akie Abe, visited the Washington Monument after the two couples celebrated the American First Lady´s 49th birthday over dinner the previous evening. Abe has
Police in California have detained a man in relation to a shooting at a San Diego synagogue on Saturday afternoon that has left one dead and several others injured. The incident - believed to be a hate crime - took place at the Chabad of Poway house of worship sometime after 11:30 local time, the San Diego County Sheriff´s Office reported. Four victims were transported to the Palomar Medical Center to be treated for gunshot wounds. One of them, an older woman, later died from her injuries.Police say the suspect, a 19-year-old resident of San Diego, was injured by an
LAS VEGAS — Former Texas Rep. Beto O´Rourke suggested illegal immigrants were akin to slaves during his Saturday afternoon remarks to the Service Employees International Union. "[With] Immigration. Millions [are] living in the shadows, working some of the toughest jobs, lucky to make a minimum wage. Some not even making that," O´Rourke told the audience of roughly 200 labor union members, organizers, and activists at Las Vegas´ Enclave venue. "Kept in modern-day bondage, their immigration status used as leverage to keep them down from fully participating in this country’s success." O´Rourke also repeated his promise to Democratic voters that he
In 2019, with a soft advertising market and a big-tech duopoly that isn´t letting up, the digital media landscape is largely bereft of hungry buyers. But in late March, radio giant Salem Media Group quietly disclosed the purchase of a sixth digital media company, PJ Media, for just $100,000. Salem´s conservative-leaning digital arm, Townhall Media, which includes right-leaning sites like HotAir and RedState, now reaches more than 15 million unique visitors a month, and is a "nicely profitable business," says Dave Evans, who leads new media and book publishing for Salem. Salem, based in Camarillo, California, has grown in political
Bernie Sanders is taking his campaign back to his grass-roots base Saturday with nearly 5,000 house parties for supporters as the Democratic presidential primary battle heats up. The Vermont senator declared his candidacy two months ago – and raised more than $18 million in the first quarter, far more than any of his rivals – but has devoted his efforts to rallies and other large-scale events in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire. Now that Vice President Joe Biden has taken the plunge with his Thursday announcement, Sanders is activating his passionate supporters. “At the end of
Dead Facebook users could outnumber living by 2070, leaving vast historical archive, Oxford finds
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The number of dead Facebook users could outnumber the living by 2070, leaving a vast archive of such historical importance that archivists should be brought in to conserve the data, Oxford University has said. Currently the global social media site has around 2.27 billion members, but 1.4 billion will die before 2100, according to the new calculations. It means that within around 50 years the number of dead could pass the living, in a milestone that has important implications for what should happen with such a huge digital legacy. By 2100 the number of deceased profiles could reach as
POWAY, Calif. -- San Diego County Sheriff´s deputies are responding to a shooting at a synagogue in Poway on Saturday afternoon. The incident was reported at the Congregation Chabad located at 16934 Chabad Way sometime before 11:30 a.m., the San Diego County Sheriff´s Office twitter account reported. "Deputies investigate reports of a man with a gun. Please stay clear of the area and allow deputies to safely do their job. Thank you for your patience and cooperation," said the tweet. 10News learned there are multiple patients and at least four victims have been transported.
Pope Francis has donated 500,000 dollars to assist migrants in Mexico. The funds, from the Peter’s Pence collections, will be distributed among 27 projects promoted by sixteen Mexican dioceses and religious congregations, which requested assistance in continuing to provide food, lodging, and basic necessities to the migrants. According to a statement from Peter’s Pence, “In recent months, thousands of migrants have arrived in Mexico, having travelled more than 4,000 kilometres on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Men and women, often with young children, flee poverty and violence, hoping for a better future in the United
In California, the water wars are continuing to boil. Leftie greenies recently hailed the return of ... five ... salmon, swimming upstream to the San Joaquin river to spawn. Paradise restored! In water-starved California, that was quite an achievement, given that each salmon required 50,000 gallons of water to get the job done, coming at a price tag of $890 million at the low end and $2 billion at the high. And that water came out of the hides of California´s farmers, who got very little of the water they were promised, and paid for,
Pope Francis donated $500,000 to Mexico-based projects to help migrant communities as media attention has faded, the Vatican said Saturday. The funds will be distributed between 27 projects associated with 16 Mexican dioceses and congregations, all of which asked for help to continue providing food, lodging, and basic necessities to those fleeing their home countries through Mexico. “In recent months, thousands of migrants have arrived in Mexico, having travelled more than 4,000 kilometers on foot and with makeshift vehicles from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Men and women,
Camped Out! Hundreds of Trump Supporters Line Up in Blustery 40° Green Bay for Trump Rally (Video)
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Thousands were lined up on Saturday in blustery Green Bay, Wisconsin hours before the Trump rally. (Video/Tweet) National Press Secretary for President Trump’s 2020 campaign Kayleigh McEnany is in Green Bay and posted a video to her Twitter account showing how windy and cold it is. (Video/Tweet) Thousands of Trump supporters were lined up over five hours before the rally tonight.
National Rifle Association president Oliver North announced he will not serve a second term Saturday amid controversy stirring the group, including allegations of extortion from NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre. North cited a “clear crisis” that “needs to be dealt with” for the gun rights behemoth to continue operating in a statement read on his behalf, (Sniip) LaPierre said North contacted his office Wednesday, telling a staffer LaPierre needed to resign, or its ad agency Ackerman McQueen would send a letter with “a devastating account of our financial status, sexual harassment charges against a staff member, accusations of wardrobe
The civil war threatening to rip apart the National Rifle Association spilled into public view today at the gun lobby group´s annual meeting. Reports of a clash between NRA president Oliver North and longtime NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre have been brewing for some time, with The New York Times reporting that a group of "insurgents" within the NRA were bent on overthrowing LaPierre on Friday. But at the NRA´s annual meeting on Saturday, it appeared clear that the NRA CEO had triumphed. North was conspicuously absent from the gathering, which featured speeches from US President Donald Trump and Vice President
During an interview with Maker that was published in 2018, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) recalled what her life was like for her following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Tlaib, a Muslim, revealed after the attack she was “really afraid” of her “fellow Americans.” “I was probably in my second year in law school when 9/11 happened,” Tlaib shared. “And I was really terrified of what was going to happen to my husband, who was only a green card holder at the time. I immediately called my brothers and told them to be very careful who you hang out with, telling my
President Donald Trump on Friday addressed attendees at the National Rifle Association´s Annual Meeting. During his speech, Trump touted the number of jobs the economy has added, his America First approach and even an end to the UN Arms Trade Treaty. Trump said one very important line: "In America, we don´t worship government. We worship God." (Tweet/Video) That saying in itself is a direct testament to the policies the Trump administration has pursued. The White House has worked diligently to roll back red tape, rein in illegal immigration, cut welfare fraud and get the American people standing on their own
Democratic presidential frontrunner Joe Biden´s out and about, repeating the old, tired saws of the Obama administration. According to Fox News: Former vice president and newly-minted 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden appeared on "The View" on Friday morning and told hosts that his proudest moment of serving with President Barack Obama was that there was "not one whisper" of scandal during the time they served together in the White House.
Rosenstein, Wray, NYT and WaPo Remind Everyone Devastating Impact of 2016 Russian Interference…
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The 2016 anti-Trump effort and 2017 soft-coup was not just an assembly created by Obama officials; there was/are a significant number of mutually aligned republican politicians willfully blind to the effort.As a consequence, we see the administrative state now holding a vested interest in retaining the originating Russia premise. (Snip) those who participated in the coup and overthrow effort now need to protect their involvement by substantiating the background lie they used to carry out the cover-up operation. Keep in mind the familiar outlets for distribution of the narrative as delivered by those who operate
Former Rep. Beto O´Rourke called for the establishment of farm-to-table restaurants in every community to combat poor nutrition. Farm-to-table restaurants are part of a socially-conscious movement favored by wealthy urbanites that often feature small, elaborately designed fare from local farms and are typically very expensive. The Democratic presidential candidate made the gaffe at a Friday event hosted at a brewery by the Nevada State Democratic Party in Henderson, a Las Vegas suburb.National campaign reporters took note on Twitter. "Beto says he wants farm to table restaurants in *every* community when asked about poor nutrition in many places," reported Washington Post