Posts on Sunday, April 28, 2019
Lexi Thompson is taking a break from her love-hate relationship with social media. Thompson took to Instagram Saturday to let her fans know that she was personally taking a step back from the various platforms for the time being because she was tired of dealing with the negative comments and wanted to focus on herself. "Hey everybody, just want to say I will be taking a break from social media," the 24-year-old LPGA star wrote. "If I post it will be from my management team for me. I’m too involved with it, and to read some of the hurtful
A body with a missing hand was found in a park in Washington D.C. on Saturday night. The discovery was made on the banks of the Potomac River, near Chain Bridge, in upper Northwest Washington, according to Sgt. Eduardo Delgado of the Park Police. The body was found about 25 feet from the shore. Delgado said the body appeared to be that of a man and he appeared to have suffered multiple sharp force injuries. No identification had been made as Sunday afternoon, and no cause of death could be learned either. At its eastern end, Chain Bridge passes over
Tampa serial killer Bobby Joe Long’s death warrant was just signed. We remember the victims.
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This week Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Bobby Joe Long’s death warrant. The serial killer behind the murders of nine Tampa Bay women is scheduled to die May 23 at Florida State Prison, wrote Times reporter Dan Sullivan. It has been 35 years since Long killed these women during a horrifying eight-month period in 1984. During that year, Long was fired from his X-ray technician job at Tampa General Hospital. He was divorced and lived alone. According the archives, he would drive up and down Nebraska Avenue in his 1978 maroon Dodge Magnum. Red fibers from that car were found on
Even the porridge is five-star. It’s the perfect consistency and comes with a dinky jug of delicious cream – and is garnished with just the right number of raspberries and quantity of brown sugar. I’m having breakfast in a Qatar Airways’ business class Qsuite, which the airline patented. It should do the same with its porridge. (Photos) My top-notch hot cereal experience is just one of many mini ‘wow’ moments I have on a return trip in the business class berth from London to the airline’s home of Doha in Qatar.Everyone says Qatar Airways’ Qsuite is, if not the best,
Hollywood Begins Eating its Own
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For decades Hollywood, along with academia, has been one of the two prime movers of cultural Marxism in America: promoting leftist causes and narratives, undermining traditional morality and social structures, and rewriting history. Increasingly, showbiz is now being choked by its own wokeness – just as our universities are – as the social justice whiners have inevitably begun to turn on their own. Hollywood is floundering. This past Easter weekend at the box office was the worst in more than a decade. The big studios with their mega-budget franchises (where would Hollywood be today without Marvel Comics?) increasingly have to
Ever since the unfortunate violent confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia in August, 2017, the left has condemned President Trump for not condemning forcefully enough one of the groups who participated in that violent confrontation. The irrefutable fact is, President Trump condemned not only the neo-Nazis (a/k/a white supremacists), but also the ANTIFA thugs who congregated outside the park. There was a third group on that day that was represented by local peaceful protesters who were protesting the tearing down of the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. They were not terrorists or members of either of the violent groups,
Britain has a fracking industry–or could have one, anyway, if it weren’t for the Greens’ political clout. It finally became too much for Natascha Engel, Britain’s “fracking czar,” who quit with a blistering letter of resignation: (Snip) The United States is the only country to reduce significantly its CO2 emissions; we did it by substitution natural gas for coal in power generation. But Britain’s Greens won’t let that country develop its considerable natural gas reserves. "Extinction Rebellion (XR), which is demanding zero emissions by 2025 – bringing Central London to almost a standstill for much of the past two weeks
The answer is no. Joe Biden may be too old to be an effective president. He’s certainly too much of a hack to be one. But he’s not too kind for the office. The suggestion to the contrary comes from Kathleen Parker, a columnist for the Washington Post (the question forms the title of her column in the paper edition). Parker cites Biden’s courteous behavior towards Sarah Palin in the 2008 vice presidential debate. But what about Biden’s conduct during the 2012 debate with Paul Ryan? Did Kathleen Parker miss that event? As many readers will recall, Biden constantly interrupted Ryan
For decades, AM radio has felt as commonplace as a utility, such a basic fact of life that it’s taken for granted. But that’s changing: Across America, AM radio stations are dwindling in number and profitability, as better-sounding FM signals become cheaper to broadcast and would-be listeners turn to the internet for entertainment. Yet even in decline, it has a strength that politicians and media insiders who want to understand America would do well to heed. In 2019, thousands of AM stations remain on the air, many of them thriving—in part because they serve unique sets of people whose voices
Like a medieval pope, Pope Francis has decided that machiavellian meddling in global power affairs is a lot funner than merely shepherding the faithful and serving the poor. He´s taking a deep dive into politics to enact a particular policy result - in this case, against U.S. interests and rule of law in general, by donating money for more caravan infrastructure. According to the Washington Examiner: “In 2018, six migrant caravans entered Mexico, for a total of 75,000 people; the arrival of other groups was announced. All these people were stranded, unable to enter
A Border Patrol agent giving a tour of the El Paso, Texas region to a reporter said human smugglers list advertisements on radio stations in some Central American countries, telling people they will transport them to the United States. "The word is definitely out. They have advertisements by radio. You listen to your radio on your way to work — on your way to the grocery store. And that country is advertising, ´If you want the American dream, we´ll help you out — we´ll teach you how to get in the United States,´"
Mexico City - Mexico´s president said Thursday he was willing to offer an apology to the United States, if necessary, to cool an escalating war of words over a border confrontation between US and Mexican troops. "If necessary, the secretary of foreign affairs will send a note explaining how the facts occurred and, if there was an infraction; he will offer the apologies that are required," President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in his daily news conference. The leftist president was keen to emphasize that Mexico wanted to avoid "any kind of friction,
A New Mexico official who serves as commissioner of a county near the U.S.-Mexico border said Sunday the state´s Democratic governor has not responded to a request to redeploy National Guard troops and that he is moving to block migrants from being released in his county because of a lack of resources. Couy Griffin, the chairman of the Otero County Commission, said Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham´s office has been silent since the board voted April 18 to declare a state of emergency. "We´ve had no response from our governor," Griffin said in a Fox News interview Sunday morning. Former Republican Gov. Susana Martinez
Vanilla with a Touch of Gay
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Pete Buttigieg’s recent ascent over the dwindling Beto O’Rourke largely has been attributed to his claim to diversity—a combination of “Midwest nice” with a gay identity. The South Bend, Indiana mayor also raised $7 million in the first quarter and picked up the monied base of donors from both the Clinton and Obama campaigns. Democratic elites, it seems, have found a candidate who embodies their kind of diversity, which, to quote Darel Paul, involves “creativity, cosmopolitanism, authenticity, toleration, and the reward of merit.” Buttigieg is a white professor’s kid, happily partnered to a man, a speaker of seven languages, a Rhodes
So, Joe Biden has announced that he’s running for POTUS for the third or fourth time over the past 5 decades and the polls have him leading in the quest for the nomination. Are the Democrats nuts? There’s one faction in the Democrat Party that’s very small and very loud and seemingly wants to return us to those halcyon days of the pre-internal combustion engine age with their silly Green New Deal. They promise to tax the livin’ bejeezuz out of everyone and of course, in return, everyone gets everything for free. Total cost, a quadrillion gazillion or some other meaningless
With the entry of creepy “Uncle” Joe Biden into the race for the White House, the total number of Democratic Party presidential candidates has reached 20, making it the largest field in history. Unfortunately, a massive number of candidates does not translate into great ideas on how to move the country forward. Most of the major proposals being offered by these presidential candidates are truly frightening and would propel the United States of America on the road toward socialism, which leads to economic ruin and societal devastation. Although it is laughably expensive and completely unworkable it is worthwhile to examine the
Speakers at Saturday night´s White House Correspondents´ Association dinner struck a somber tone amid signs that the once ultra-trendy, star-studded "nerd prom" just isn´t the event it once was. (Video) President Donald Trump announced several weeks ago that he would not appear at the annual event — which technically raises money for journalism scholarships and awards achievements in covering White House-specific events — for the third year in a row. For the first time, however, the president said all senior members of the White House staff will "boycott" the event. White House officials, including press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, instead
‘That comment is beneath you’: Tense accusations fly between Jake Tapper and Kellyanne Conway
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CNN host and alleged journalist Jake Tapper caught quite the attitude Sunday when White House counselor Kellyanne Conway accused him and his peers in the demonstrably liberal media of purposefully smearing the president because they think he “can’t be beaten fairly and squarely.” The tiff occurred during a discussion about former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 announcement. In an announcement video published last Thursday, the former VP cited the president’s response to the Charlottesville incident of 2017 as proof of his alleged white supremacist sympathies.Following the Unite the Right that year in Charlottesville, Virginia, where white supremacists and Neo-nazis had
No truer words have recently come my way than those in an email letter sent by Cuban ‘Guillermo’ today: “Looking at the next POTUS election is like a dream come true for the KGB. They have finally fixed all the details for our demise, after decades of propaganda.” . The irony in Guillermo’s intuitive thoughts is impossible to miss. While roughly 90 percent of the mainstream and social media spent the last two and a half years on a wild goose chase trying to prove Trump/Russia collusion, but came back totally empty of evidence, the KGB have “finally fixed all the details for
Several people were shot on Saturday at a San Diego synagogue. Police have one man in custody. The shooting took place exactly six months after the Tree of Life Shooting in Pittsburgh. One of the victims is said to be the synagogue’s Rabbi, Yisorel Goldstein, who founded the Chabad center in 1986. There is at least one fatality. The mayor of Poway is calling this a hate crime.
Those who participated in the 2015/2016 surveillance and spy operations, which evolved into the 2017 (through today) soft-coup effort, are relying on a defense that Russia ‘hacked’ the 2016 election. This false narrative is how the corrupt administrative state will defend themselves. Pay close attention to this interview and note how Senator Graham supports that narrative (Snip) This ‘Russia-hacking narrative’ is the DC ‘chaff and countermeasures‘; when combined with their ‘by-the-book‘ justifications, it becomes their unified defense. Once you accept their baseline, it becomes much more difficult to expose their unlawful conduct. (Video/Transcript)
Under Fire, New York Times Finally Apologizes for Antisemitic Cartoon After Days of Failing to Do So
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The New York Times has finally apologized for printing a blatantly antisemitic cartoon on the opinion pages of its international section last week. The Times ran a cartoon on Thursday showing a blind President Donald Trump, wearing a skullcap, and being led around by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu–who is portrayed as a dog. The leash and collar on the Netanyahu dog character in the cartoon have a Star of David on it.It mirrors literal Nazi propaganda against Jews and then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, as some on social media have noted: (Tweet) The Times‘ decision to print this
A Navy SEAL aged 37 who served four combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan has been told he is too old to become a New York firefighter. Special Operations Chief Shaun Donovan is due to leave the Navy next year and was planning to join the Fire Department of New York. He enlisted after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which took place on his twentieth birthday. “I always had this draw to the city, this connection, even though I never lived there,” Donovan, from Tucson, Ariz., told the New York Post. “When 9/11 happened, I knew I had to do something
Just In: AG Barr Warns House Dems He May Not Appear at Hearing This Week– Nadler Threatens Subpoena
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US Attorney General Bill Barr warned House Democrats that he may be a no-show and skip the scheduled hearing in front of the House Judiciary Committee this week.The Hill has confirmed that Barr told Democrats they need to alter the proposed format for the hearing after the committee scheduled an extra round of questioning.Each member of the Judiciary Committee will have five minutes of questioning, but Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) added an additional round that would allow both sides to question Barr for 30 minutes each.Nadler also proposed additional questioning in a closed-door session to discuss redacted material in Robert
“Joe Biden. He understands what’s happening today.” The newspaper ad ran a few weeks before the 1972 Senate election in Delaware, when the upstart 29-year-old was challenging a 63-year-old incumbent. The ad, which appeared in The News Journal, Delaware’s major newspaper, happened to run under a column that described Biden’s newly combative strategy in the closing days of the race. (Snip) Before they’re able to take on Trump, however, Biden and Sanders will have to confront a field full of candidates young enough to be their children. Five of the Democrats running weren’t even born when Biden first ran
Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know anything at all about the job of a congresswoman? Or does she just talk and talk, parrotty-like, not understanding a thing she´s saying? She´s out blaming President Trump for turning illegal aliens into ... illegal aliens because he´s trying to enforce U.S. law. You know, the job he was elected to do, for the law he was sworn to uphold. Letting migrants in requires processing and By Ocasio-Cortez´s logic, Trump is the one to blame for foreign nationals choosing of their own free will to emigrate from their home countries into the U.S. without any
‘I can land the plane’: How Rosenstein tried to mollify Trump, protect Mueller and save his job
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Rod J. Rosenstein, again, was in danger of losing his job. The New York Times had just reported that — in the heated days after James B. Comey was fired as FBI director — the deputy attorney general had suggested wearing a wire to surreptitiously record President Trump. Now Trump, traveling in New York, was on the phone, eager for an explanation. Rosenstein — who, by one account, had gotten teary-eyed just before the call in a meeting with Trump’s chief of staff — sought to defuse the volatile situation and assure the president he was on his team,
Americans worship God, not government, President Donald Trump said Friday in an address to the National Rifle Association (NRA). In his speech, Trump declared that “faith and family” constitute the foundation of life in America: “We know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of American life. Above all else, we know this: in America, we don´t worship government; we worship God.” (Video) President Trump also listed several principles Americans support. Among them, is the belief that parents should teach their children to love their country, honor its history, and respect its flag. “We believe in
Former longtime U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a foreign policy expert who helped spur the dismantling and securing of thousands of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet states, has died. He was 87. The Lugar Center issued a statement saying Lugar died early Sunday at the Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute in Virginia.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Iowans across the state are telling Sen. Elizabeth Warren about their struggles affording health care, paying student loan debt, or finding quality child care at a reasonable price. "I´ve got a plan for that," she often replies, before launching into why it´s a problem, her plan to fix it, and how she will pay for it. The Massachusetts senator has created a policy-rich campaign focused on "rewriting the basic rules in our economy" that she says favors the wealthy and leaves behind working families. She has rolled out more policy proposals than any other
It’s truly the Avengers’ world. The opening weekend of “Avengers: Endgame” demolished box office records with a stunning $350 million in North America and $1.2 billion worldwide. Disney-Marvel’s fourth and final Avengers superhero movie has captivated moviegoers, accounting for more than four of every five tickets sold domestically. “Avengers: Endgame” topped the year-old “Avengers: Infinity War” records by nearly $100 million domestically and a jaw-dropping $560 million worldwide.
Illegals Apprehended During Maria Bartiromo Live Report — Say Authorities Told Them They Can Stay in US Once They Cross Border. Maria Bartiromo broadcast her show, Sunday Morning Futures, from the southern US border near El Paso, Texas this weekend.During her live broadcast a family of illegal aliens crossed over into the US from Mexico. The family from Honduras told Maria Bartiromo they were told in Honduras that they could stay in the US when they crossed the border. (Photo) Maria Bartiromo: Did somebody tell you in Honduras that you’d be able to stay and get to Oklahoma if you
President Donald Trump said Saturday evening that Fox News Channel senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano asked to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and for a pardon for a friend of the former superior court judge in New Jersey. The president tweeted after his rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, that Napolitano turned “very hostile” once his request to be nominated to the highest court in the land was rejected.“Thank you to brilliant and highly respected attorney Alan Dershowitz for destroying the very dumb legal argument of “Judge” Andrew Napolitano,” wrote President Trump. (Tweet) “Ever since Andrew came to my
When governments take charge of medical care and expenditures on prolonging life come out of the same pool of money used for the military, road-building, schools and all the other functions of government, the bureaucrats who are the decision-makers have every incentive to encourage a rapid death, if not insist upon it. Our northern neighbor Canada offers an example of the slippery slope. Wesley J. Smith writes on National Review Online: Canadian doctors committed thousands of homicides in 2018.
I am so old that I can remember when Democrats and the progressive Left regarded forcing college faculty to sign loyalty oaths as abhorrent. Of course, that was when Communist infiltration of colleges, the media, and government bureaucracy was both genuine and a real threat. President Harry S. Truman signed Executive Order 9835 requiring federal employees to sign a loyalty oath and the state of California passed a law, the “Levering Act,” requiring the same of state employees. The University of California has published a loving, celebratory timeline describing the reaction among faculty and the ultimate repeal of the loyalty
Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos thought he was going to die and closed his eyes before his semi truck slammed into backed up traffic, sparking a massive fatal fire in Colorado, authorities said. The semi truck hit about 28 cars and trucks along Interstate 70 on Thursday near Denver, killing at least four people and leaving several others injured, police said. (Snip) Investigators say Aguilera-Mederos told them he was driving at 85 mph when the brakes failed. He tried to pull over to the shoulder to avoid stopped traffic but another semi had stopped there, an arrest affidavit shows.
A lawyer seeking the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the handling of the Jussie Smollett prosecution subpoenaed Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her top deputy Friday to appear at the first court hearing on the matter. Sheila O’Brien, a former appellate judge, also filed a “notice to appear” in an attempt to get Smollett to attend the hearing Thursday as well. Court documents show that O’Brien requested that Foxx and her top deputy, Joseph Magats, as well as Smollett produce their original files and documents on the case to ensure “that they have not been altered or destroyed.”
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Democratic voters say that more than anything, they want to beat President Donald Trump in 2020. But some worry that means putting their hope of electing the first woman president on hold. "I can hardly think about it. It makes me sick thinking about how nasty this could get for a woman," Marianne Mason said, clutching her stomach as she waited for Sen. Kamala Harris of California to arrive at a town hall event at the University of Iowa on a recent Wednesday night. "How are they supposed to rebut someone like Trump? I want to
Pity Joe Biden. The lifetime political also-ran (what exactly does he stand for? No one really knows. Probably not much) finally has his moment in the sun, leading the Democratic pack in the polls, and the current president, Donald J. Trump, is presiding over a boom economy the likes of which we have never seen in years. So what´s a poor candidate to do? Complaining about income inequality seems a little too, well, Bernie (more of that in a moment). Issues, for Joe, aren´t really his thing anyway. He has shifted on them so much over the years. And what exactly
Greek Easter 2019: Most of the people believe that Easter is over once the chocolate eggs have been consumed over the four-day weekend that commences with Good Friday and finishes with Easter Monday. But, the real truth is that there is more than one Easter. If you are known to any Greek people in your social circle then you may possibly have realized that Easter is the major holiday of the year for them. For the Greek Orthodox Church, it is an honor to celebrate the fact that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. If you have ever
HBO host Bill Maher challenged Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on the idea of a post-Mueller report impeachment of President Donald Trump. During a discussion of the issue on Friday night’s edition of “Real Time with Bill Maher,” the HBO host joked that it now looks like Schiff is “stalking” the president now that the “big gun” of Robert Mueller’s investigation has, in his view, fizzled. (Video)
A California inmate now stands accused of torturing and beheading his cellmate, according to reports. Convicted murderer Jaime Osuna has been accused of the brutal torture and death of his cellmate at Corcoran State Prison in the Fresno suburb of Corcoran, California. The man was killed in the early morning of March 9 and died of blood loss from “multiple sharp force trauma injuries,” charging documents state. The 31-year-old convict is accused of using a sharp metal object wrapped in string to act as a handle to murder his cellmate, 44-year-old Luis Romero, KCRA reported. The attack occurred overnight, and prosecutors are not
Idris Elba broke the hearts of millions of female fans yesterday when he tied the knot with model Sabrina Dhowre at a lavish ceremony in Marrakech. In images shot by British Vogue, the Luther star, 46, wearing a custom-made Ozwald Boateng suit, married 30-year-old Sabrina at the exclusive Ksar Char-Bagh hotel in front of 150 guests, including Idris’s 17-year-old daughter Isan, who was a bridesmaid. Diana Ross was also rumoured to be performing a string of her best-known Motown hits at the newlyweds’ festival-themed party last night, having flown in from Los Angeles.
The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) has made a formal complaint to the BBC about the series of gross inaccuracies in its recent documentary Climate Change: The Facts. As wags have quipped, the programme presented by Sir David Attenborough was so riddled with errors it really should have been called Climate: Change The Facts. Now the GWPF has written to the BBC Complaints department listing just a few of them. The letter can be read here. According to the GPWF, the programme “went far beyond its remit to present the facts about climate change, instead broadcasting a highly politicised manifesto
If you’ve never heard of Senator Lamar Alexander’s (R-Tenn) "New Manhattan Project for Clean Energy," you’re hardly alone. Even as the "Green New Deal" keeps generating buzz, this recently revived 2008 proposal has been largely ignored, except by a handful of fellow senators mostly on the other side of the aisle. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry expressed initial support for the plan in hearings. His fiscal 2020 budget, however, would cut funding for energy research by 70 percent. That includes eliminating the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which Alexander helped to create and is the centerpiece of his proposal.
Fifteen people including six children died as explosions went off when Sri Lankan police raided a ´suicide vest factory´ last night. Police said three men blew themselves up as a blaze of gunfire erupted when they approached a jihadist hide-out near the eastern town of Kalmunai on Friday. The bombs and gunfire killed three women and six children within the property, as well as another three suspected jihadists outside. The battle took place in the area of Sainthamaruthu, 200 miles from Colombo where 253 people were killed in luxury hotels and churches on Easter Sunday.
WHO: A kangaroo who lives in Wimberley WHAT: This escaped fugitive remains at large in the Hill Country WHY IT’S SO GREAT: On Wednesday afternoon, consternation spread through Wimberley after a kangaroo went AWOL from Trails End Ranch, an exotic wildlife ranch on the town’s outskirts. At first the Hays County Constable’s Office struggled to determine whether the calls they were receiving about the creature were pranks. But after several reports from residents who’d spotted it in their yards, officials were forced to reckon with the truth: There was, indeed, a marsupial on the loose.
Olivier Knox, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, decried President Donald Trump’s criticism of the establishment media in his remarks at the annual event and recalled an episode in which his worried son asked if the president will imprison him.Knox said Saturday evening of President Trump.: I don’t want to dwell on the president. This is not his dinner.It’s ours, and it should stay ours. But I do want to say this. In nearly 23 years as a reporter, I’ve been physically assaulted by Republicans and Democrats, spat on, shoved, had crap thrown at me. I’ve been told by
President Donald Trump revealed at a Saturday night rally in Wisconsin that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told him earlier that Japanese auto manufacturers are investing $40 billion in U.S. manufacturing facilities. “Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe, we’re negotiating trade deals because every country has been ripping us off for years, and I really like the prime minister, he’s a friend of mine, but I said, ‘Mr. prime minister, we gotta do something’,” the president told the crowd of thousands. “For so many decades we’ve been losing tens of billions of dollars to China, and Japan, and Indiana, and
President Donald Trump’s supporters gave White House Press Secretary a rock star welcome on Saturday after she skipped the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to attend the president’s political rally in Wisconsin. During the rally, Trump called Sanders up to the stage to give a few remarks.“We have the great Sarah Huckabee over here,” Trump said, as the crowd chanted her name and cheered. After taking the podium, Sanders referred to the 2018 White House Correspondents Dinner she attended, as comedian Michelle Wolf made nasty jokes at her expense.“Last year this night I was at a slightly different event. Not quite the
Former Vice President Joe Biden was a part of the 94th Congress that voted to restore Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s citizenship over 100 years after his death, and yet Biden attacked President Donald Trump’s support of the general in his campaign announcement video earlier this week. On Thursday, Biden entered the presidential race, and he used Trump’s words about a statue of Lee and the people who attended the Unite the Right rally in August 2017 as the focal point for his announcement video. “I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument
That time when Joe Biden and the whole US Senate voted to restore Gen. Robert E. Lee’s citizenship
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Newly uncovered information about then-Sen. Joe Biden’s voting record from 1975 to 1977 appears to indicate that the just-announced Democrat presidential candidate is a flaming hypocrite.According to reporting by The Daily Caller, in 1975 then-Sen. Biden voted in favor of a bill to reinstate deceased Civil War Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s citizenship.After the Confederates surrendered to the Union in 1865, Lee reportedly wrote then-President Andrew Johnson and asked for a pardon so that his citizenship could be restored. For reasons that remain unclear, Johnson never received the letter. Lee reportedly died five years later as a non-citizen. Now fast-forward by
Unlike his predecessors, President Trump chose to absent himself from the mainstream media´s smug, sanctimonious, self-celebratory annual gathering, formally known as the White House Correspondents Dinner. Last year´s crude, rude, misogynistic attack on Trump´s White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, by a crude, rude, unfunny female comedian at the dinner, was the last straw. His staying away now proved that Trump is a man of taste. Rather than bother with these failed clowns, Trump attended an enthusiastic rally in Wisconsin, a place most of the White House correspondents know about as much about as Hillary Clinton does, given that
Sloppy Joe bragged, “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.” No thank you, foreign politicians. We just spent $30 million investigating Russian interference in the last presidential election.Now Sloppy Joe is bragging about how foreigners will help his campaign -- as if Americans want to go back to bowing to them.
President Donald Trump hosts Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for a round of golf today, while First Lady Melania Trump hosts Madame Akie Abe in DC. The relationship between the Trump’s and the Abe’s goes back quite a while and is rooted in a genuine friendship. The president and prime minister are strong competitors on trade and economic policy; however, the competition is founded on respect.Prime Minister Abe’s economic policies are rooted in the growth process taught by Edwards Demming. If you follow their professional business ideology, it is easy to see how President Trump and Prime
Does anyone else remember when a New York Times editorial blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords because of a bulls-eye on a map? The New York Times published a hideous, obviously anti-Semitic cartoon the day before a gunman entered a Chabad synagogue in suburban San Diego, killing one person and injuring 3. (snip) By the standards that a 2017 New York Times editorial published after Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson attempted a mass assassination of members of the GOP House caucus, the Times bears some responsibility.
I think there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 Democrats who have thrown their hats into the ring so far. Frankly, I’ve lost count. Each week, as a new hat comes flying, the contender is the recipient of free, often favorable, press doting, only to be followed within hours by attacks on his or her personality, policies and history. This week’s person-whose-definitely-going-to beat-the President is Obama’s former vice president, Joe Biden. He postponed the big announcement several times, and finally, the big day arrived this week. His party’s theme for some time now has been straight white men bad,
Anita Hill made her claim to fame by accusing Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing back in 1991. The Left painted Thomas as a misogynistic monster despite the glaring contradictions, lies and lack of evidence to support such a narrative. The U.S. House and Senate dismissed the baseless accusations presented by Hill, confirmed Thomas to the court, and the public largely viewed Hill as discredited. Despite all this, the Left, through HBO, continues to smear Thomas for the irredeemable sin of being conservative while being black. On April 16 a slanderous film called Confirmation,
It is easy to forget that, in 1947, when the United Nations recommended the creation of a Jewish state in Mandatory Palestine, the international body also recommended the creation of an Arab state—what would today be a national home for the Palestinians. The idea was to partition the land into two separate entities—in other words, a two-state solution. Indeed, in 1988, the Palestine National Council described the partition resolution as what "still provides those conditions of international legitimacy that ensure the right of the Palestinian Arab people to sovereignty." Yet at the time of the resolution, the Arabs—
It´s official: Joe Biden is running for president. He started in signature bumbling fashion, claiming that he asked Barack Obama not to endorse him, putting out a tone-deaf fundraising email talking about how "all men are created equal," and releasing a very awkward picture of himself with Obama. But here we are: the leading candidates for the Democratic nomination are two elderly white men — Biden and Bernie Sanders (at least in terms of polls at this early date). Nevertheless, their political legacies are poles apart.
In the U.S., coverage of the Islamic terrorist bombings of churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has been sparse and generally uninformative. It tells you something when Britain’s Sun, which has mostly abandoned the news in favor of soccer and celebrities in bikinis, is a better source than the New York Times or the Washington Post. That is certainly the case with regard to the Sri Lanka bombings. ISIS claimed responsibility for the Easter bombings, a claim that initially was doubted. But links between the mass murderers and ISIS have now been confirmed.
HIT: BMW Z8 – The World Is Not Enough One of those moments where you wince slightly at the galumphing product placement, but when the Z8 appeared in 1999’s The World Is Not Enough, at least the car was fit for Bond. In case you’ve forgotten, the Z8 was a svelte two-seat RWD roadster that BMW produced in the late Nineties until 2003 by a team led by Chris Bangle, with the exterior design by a certain Henrik Fisker (he of the Karma, DB9 and V8 Vantage). It was a gorgeous retro-styled thing, and certainly had the go to match the show,
As Beto O’Rourke prepared last month to tell the world that he would run for president, Vanity Fair unveiled its April cover featuring the Democrat from El Paso on a dusty road with his pickup truck, his dog and these words: “Man, I’m just born to be in it.” In the six weeks since O’Rourke got in it, the former congressman has gone from the buzzy celebrity candidate — the one trailed by dozens of journalists, compared to Barack Obama and photographed by Annie Leibovitz — to just another Democrat in a crowded field,
Steve Hart, the longtime lawyer for the National Rifle Association board, has been suspended from that role, two people with knowledge of the move told The Daily Beast. In addition, Col. Oliver North–who announced his departure from the powerful gun rights group this morning–has warned board members that the organization could lose its nonprofit status. A spokesperson for the NRA’s outside law firm did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and neither did Hart. A lawyer for North declined to comment.
No doubt you’ve heard a Democrat or two declare that President Trump is a “threat to our democracy.” Joe Biden used his campaign launch to up the ante, saying that the 2020 election is a “battle for the soul” of America and warning that if Trump gets a second term, “he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.” Ho hum. The suggestion that the president is the personification of evil and is destroying all that makes America exceptional has become so routine that it’s easy to ignore it. In fact, it’s an extraordinary charge,
A pair of bumbling burglars were arrested after apparently butt-dialing 911 while fleeing the scene of a burglary at a Best Buy near Houston early Saturday. The men are alleged to have knocked off a Best Buy in Sugar Land, Texas, at about 3 a.m. While responding to an alarm at the store, dispatch received a 911 call in the area, Houston police said. But instead of a caller, they heard only background noise. Authorities said they pinged the cellphone, which was coming from a car traveling toward Houston from the suburban electronics store, and took off in pursuit.
A 34-year-old man who was wounded when gunfire erupted inside a San Diego-area synagogue on Saturday was being praised as a hero for saving several children from a hail of bullets. The gunman – identified by authorities as 19-year-old John Earnest – allegedly opened fire with an assault-type rifle inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue as worshipers were prepared to celebrate the last day of Passover. A woman was killed and three people were injured. “(The gunman) was just shooting, shooting, shooting, shooting. Like crazy. Just spraying,” said Danny Almog, whose friend Almog Peretz was shot in a leg
Pierce Bush, the grandson of late President George H.W. Bush, may try to follow in his grandfather´s footsteps. Bush, CEO of Big Brothers Big Sisters Lone Star, said in a statement that he is "seriously considering running" in 2020 for the 7th Congressional District, which is located in the Houston suburbs. George H.W. Bush held the seat in the late 1960s. "Leaders in our community have encouraged me to run for Congress in the 7th district. I am flattered and seriously considering running,"
A year after comedian Michelle Wolf caught flak for mocking Sarah Huckabee Sanders during the 2018 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the White House press secretary is once again getting sharp criticism--this time from veteran news anchor Sam Donaldson. The former co-anchor of ABC’s This Week accused Sanders of lying “about everything--not just one thing” during his appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 on Friday night. (Snip) The former White House correspondent went on to compare Sanders to former President Richard Nixon’s Ron Ziegler’s lies about Watergate. “Except for Ron Ziegler who lied for Richard Nixon, I’ve never seen anything like this