Posts on Wednesday, May 1, 2019
A Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism
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The Times published an appalling political cartoon in the opinion pages of its international print edition late last week. It portrayed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel as a dog wearing a Star of David on a collar. He was leading President Trump, drawn as a blind man wearing a skullcap. The cartoon was chosen from a syndication service by a production editor who did not recognize its anti-Semitism. Yet however it came to be published, the appearance of such an obviously bigoted cartoon in a mainstream publication is evidence of a profound danger — not only of anti-Semitism
Attorney General William Barr is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. He´s sure to be peppered with questions about how he handled his summary of special counsel Robert Mueller´s report on interference in the 2016 presidential election. This will be the first time Barr is questioned by lawmakers about his summary.Barr´s written statement before the committee, addressed to Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., was released on Tuesday night. The opening statement is divided into four parts: Preparation for Public Release, Bottom-Line Conclusions, Russian Interference and Obstruction of Justice.
In the early morning hours of April 30, Juan Guaidó – the leader of the Venezuelan National Assembly, who swore himself in as interim president in January – called for an uprising against President Nicolás Maduro’s authoritarian government. In a video posted on social media, Guaidó, flanked by soldiers, asked Venezuelans to join him in the streets on May 1 for the final stage of “Operation Freedom.” This mass protest and military uprising would be “the beginning of the end” of a regime Guaidó and over 50 countries including the United States consider illegitimate.
There Is No Coup in Venezuela
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It’s unclear what will unfold in Venezuela now that interim president Juan Guaido has called for the military and citizens to take to the streets. What is clear, however, is that this is not a coup. You wouldn’t know this from the early news coverage. “Trump Aides Back Unfolding Venezuela Coup Attempt,” reads a typical headline in Politico. CNN blared “Coup in Venezuela” in its chyron (it has amended its website to call it an “uprising”). The headlines match the messaging of Nicolas Maduro’s regime. As the country’s information minister tweeted, the event is a small group of traitors
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed during a Wednesday interview with Rachel Maddow that she was “living rent-free” inside President Donald Trump’s brain, and that “it’s not a very nice place to be.” Maddow brought up the recent revelation found in the Mueller report that Trump asked former Attorney General Jeff Sessions to begin a Department of Justice investigation into Clinton.WATCH: (Video) “Well, what I make of it is this as big a sign of a guilty conscience or a real fear that you could possibly have. I mean, I’m living rent-free inside of Donald Trump’s brain. It’s not
Former Vice President Joe Biden dismissed the threat from China during a 2020 campaign rally in Iowa City, Iowa on Wednesday.He said: China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. They can’t even figure out how to deal with the fact that they have this great division between the China Sea and the mountains in the east, I mean in the west, They can’t figure out how they are going to deal with the corruption that exists within the system. I mean, you know, they’re not bad folks, folks. But guess what, they’re not competition for us. Biden’s
During these troubled times in Venezuela, the mango has a new identity. "We call them ´the noise takers´ because they calm down the noise that our stomachs make when we are hungry," says Danilson Hernández, who manages a modest business that upholsters vehicles in Maracaibo, Venezuela. And there are a lot of hungry people in crisis-ridden Venezuela. Nearly 90 percent of families don´t earn enough money to buy the food they need, according to the latest Life Conditions National Survey, run annually by college professors. Hernandez, who´s in his late forties, eats a couple of mangoes for breakfast almost every day.
RUSH: I’m not even gonna try to characterize this. All I’m gonna tell you is that Lindsey Graham, the chairman of the committee, had to intercede and stop Mazie Hirono from slandering the attorney general. Well, I will characterize it. I’m not gonna characterize what she said. I’m gonna wait ’til I get the audio so that you can hear it. I’ll just tell you that I’ve never seen anything like it before. The vicious, unrestrained, pure, raw hatred from the Democrat senator from Hawaii, Mazie Hirono, for Donald Trump--and then secondarily directed at the attorney general, William Barr. (interruption)
RUSH: Chris in Port Chester, New York. It’s great to have you, sir. Hi. CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call. RUSH: Yes, sir. CALLER: I’ve listened to you since 1989. The point that I want to make is that it struck me the other day that what Maduro is doing in Venezuela and what the Democrats and the media are doing here, are basically towards the same end, and that’s preventing a peaceful transition of power. Maduro won’t let Guaido be president, even though the people voted for him. The Democrats and the media here, won’t let
Who says human beings, Central American, Mexican, or North American, don´t respond to incentives? Apparently, all it took was one Mexican police raid and the caravan signups have just about vanished. Here´s the rather amazing Associated Press story: Calls for a new migrant caravan went largely unheeded Tuesday as a relatively small group departed from Honduras, a week after a raid by Mexican police resulted in hundreds of detentions and the dissolution of a previous caravan.
Shall the lunatics always be in the right to take over the asylum? With the rise of the academic snowflake, this seems to be the mentality these days. It´s what it´s come to as one reads about the disgusting efforts of student snowflakes at Philadelphia´s University of the Arts to take over the university´s hiring decisions and force it to fire distinguished scholar Camille Paglia, a woman whose intellectual heft is probably why the place is called ´university´ instead of ´college´ now. I wrote about it a bit earlier, but this new report just out from The Atlantic,
Three new polls show Sen. Elizabeth Warren´s (D-Mass.) support in the Democratic primary growing, offering some new hope for her presidential campaign. Quinnipiac University´s national survey of the 2020 presidential race released Tuesday showed Warren as the top choice for 12 percent of the Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters asked. That second-place finish, behind former Vice President Joe Biden, is a significant jump from Quinnipiac´s poll released March 28, which had Warren in fifth, polling at just 4 percent. A CNN-SSRS poll released Tuesday had Warren polling at 8 percent, in third place, doubling her support from 4 percent in
Earlier today John Solomon wrote an article noting how congressional investigators were reviewing Nellie Ohr testimony against last month’s release of FOIA documents. There are significant differences between Mrs. Ohr’s testimony about her communication and contacts with DOJ and FBI officials, and the scale of contact within the FOIA release.According to an interview with Representative Jim Jordan, Rep Mark Meadows was considering a criminal referral. This evening, John Solomon is following up and affirming Nellie Ohr has now been referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.
Iran is one of the most heavily sanctioned countries in the world. The United States will on Thursday go one severe step further toward strangling the country’s oil-dependent economy. President Donald Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal a year ago—having called it “horrible,” “disastrous,” “incompetently negotiated,” and “laughable” at various points. Ever since, the administration has vowed to drive Iran’s oil exports, which earlier this month were about a million barrels a day, to zero. In pursuit of that goal, U.S. officials have threatened that those still importing Iranian oil after Thursday will face potential sanctions of their own.
The Absurd Barr Scandal
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An investigation into whether the president of the United States committed treason has devolved into a squabble over Attorney General William Barr’s brief letter saying that he didn’t. We’ve gone from Donald Trump allegedly betraying the nation to Barr allegedly betraying the nation, from potential Trump impeachment to potential Barr impeachment. Barr’s offense is writing a quick letter summarizing the top-line conclusions of the Mueller report. Ever since the attorney general released the letter, he’s been the focus of conspiracy theories and the target of smears. He’s been routinely called, even on respectable TV shows, the equivalent of Roy Cohn, the scuzzy
BEDFORD, Va. – A dispute that started with the age-old argument about the superiority of Ford versus Chevrolet trucks ended in gunfire, leaving multiple people shot at a Virginia home, prosecutors say. Bedford County deputies arrested 56-year-old Mark Edwin Turner after receiving a 911 call around 11:30 p.m. on April 23. Responding officers found two women and a man lying in the grass in front of 105 Shepherd lane, yelling in pain and “stating that that they had been shot by Mark Turner,” according to an affidavit.
Please split head wide headlines. (Staff)
Please split head wide headlines. (Staff)
London - British Prime Minister Theresa May fired her defense minister on Wednesday over a leak of discussions in the National Security Council about Chinese telecoms company Huawei, the latest of her allies to be ousted from government. The sudden dismissal of Gavin Williamson, who “strenuously” denied involvement in the leak, was another blow for May, whose own premiership hangs by a thread after her failure so far to usher Britain smoothly out of the European Union. (Snip) That secrecy was broken last month when the Telegraph newspaper reported Britain would allow Huawei a role in building parts of its 5G network,
Attorneys for Nicholas Sandmann filed a $275 million lawsuit Wednesday against NBCUniversal over its coverage of the Kentucky teen, accusing the network of creating a “false narrative” driven by its “anti-Trump agenda.” The lawsuit, the third filed by the Sandmann attorneys against major media outlets, alleged that NBC targeted the Covington Catholic High School student in its reporting on his Jan. 18 encounter with Native American activist Nathan Phillips at the Lincoln Memorial. “NBCUniversal created a false narrative by portraying the ‘confrontation’ as a ‘hate crime’ committed by Nicholas,” said the complaint
Russia and Cuban military forces won’t fight to preserve Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro. That was the message Wednesday from Ambassdor Gustavo Tarre, an envoy from Maduro´s archrival, Juan Guaidó, the top opposition lawmaker whom President Trump and other Western democratic leaders have recognized as the interim president of Venezuela. (Snip) Tarre stressed that point one day after Guaidó unsuccessfully called for a military uprising to overthrow Maduro. Guaidó blamed Russia and Cuba for the failure but argued that they don’t have sufficient motivation to stabilize the regime in the face of an economic
Dems ditch duties to bash Barr
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Republicans on Capitol Hill aren’t very interested in congressional oversight of the executive branch, which is a shame but not surprising, given that the president is from their party. What’s more surprising is that Democrats aren´t much interested in real oversight either. Senate Democrats, whose collusion narrative has been exposed as delusional by special counsel Robert Mueller, spent Wednesday trying to inflict pain on Attorney General William Barr, laughably accusing him of a “cover-up.” They were incanting from a script cobbled together from a sloppy or tendentious reading of a Washington Post article,
Attorney General William Barr told Congress he was “working very closely” with the Justice Department’s Inspector General Michael Horowitz as they both conduct investigations into the investigators who ran the Trump-Russia investigation at the DOJ and FBI. Horowitz has been looking into possible Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse for more than a year. Barr told the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday that he was looking into the origins of the investigation into Trump, any criminal leaks from the FBI or DOJ to the media, the possibility the "Steele dossier" — compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele —
As the political situation in Venezuela deteriorates, an editorial endorsed by presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., that praised the socialist country as a place where the "American dream is more apt to be realized" in 2011. The piece from the Valley News editorial board, which discussed the U.S. jobs and wealth gap, was posted under the "must read" section on Sanders´ official Senate website. "Less remarked, however, is the fact that America´s wealth gap is also a race gap," the editorial board wrote. "As the Pew Research Center reported last week,
Barr not expected to testify before House Judiciary Committee, as Dems vow to hold hearing anyway
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The House Judiciary Committee has been informed that Attorney General Bill Barr will not testify at a planned hearing Thursday, an aide to the panel told Fox News -- even as the Democrats who lead the committee vowed to hold the hearing anyway, and threatened a possible contempt citation against Barr. The prospect of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y, gaveling a hearing with an empty chair came hours after Barr endured withering questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee earlier in the day. A key sticking point was that Nadler wants to have House Judiciary Committee staff -- rather
The Democratic fundraising machine found another target on Wednesday, soliciting donations from supporters angered by Attorney General William Barr’s handling of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on 2016 collusion between Russians and the Trump campaign.Even before Barr finished his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on that and other related issues, longtime Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, up for reelection in 2020, dispatched a fundraising email citing Barr and a reported clash he had with Mueller. “Barr has lost all credibility,” said the plea for donations up to $2,500 via the Democratic fundraising site ActBlue.com. “News just broke that Special Counsel Robert
Turning Point USA founder and Executive Director Charlie Kirk launched his new podcast, The Charlie Kirk Show on Wednesday. Donald Trump Jr. and television personality Kimberly Guilfoyle were Kirk’s first guests on the show, where the three discussed the results of the Mueller report, the dangers of socialism, as well as their thoughts on what to expect from the 2020 election.“People have to really examine the issues and pay attention to this, because what you’ve seen is such a disservice by the media,” said Guilfoyle, “because they are [backing] these unsustainable policies. There’s no way to pay for any of
Princess Charlotte´s fourth birthday has been marked by the release of three pictures taken by her doting mother - and the young royal is growing up fast. In a floral blue dress and a grin from ear-to-ear, Charlotte, who is fourth in line to the throne, looks as pretty as a petal as she sits crossed legged on a patch of grass at the palace. The shots were taken by keen amateur snapper Kate, 37 - who has lifetime honorary membership of the Royal Photographic Society - at both Kensington Palace and the family´s Norfolk home of Anmer Hall, earlier
Senator Mazie Hirono is one the loudest and dumbest of the current Democrats in the US Senate. On Wednesday at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Bill Barr Hirono used her time to attack President Trump as a “grifter and liar” and to slander the Attorney General and demand he resign.Hirono rattled off a series of conspiracies, half-truths and lies to attack the Trump Administration and his Attorney General. (Video/Tweet) It got so bad that Chairman Lindsey Graham stepped in to cut off the liberal mouthpiece. Graham accused Hirono of slander — which was being generous. (Tweets/Videos) No
If anyone wants to see what is wrong with journalists´ and other Democrats´ thought processes, they should read Charles Lane´s (another genius from the Washington Post) writing about the Jeopardy! champion. He thinks it is terrible that James Holzhauer seems to be much smarter than his opponents (it should be noted that he won by only $18 on Monday) and calls him a menace. It is just so unfair. Heaven forbid that Holzhauer plays by the same rules as everyone else but seem to be a better player and smarter. Lane complains that we pay too much attention to numbers
Socialist Venezuela is spiraling into chaos and violence, according to news reports. What we are really seeing is defenseless citizens trying to fight a dictatorship not with firepower, but with their hands. Venezuela´s democrats have no guns. The dictatorship they´re fighting, however, is armed to the teeth, and it´s using those arms with little to fear from the citizens. With this result: And these pictures. The Getty photos show Venezuelans trying to set military equipment on fire by hand, as well equipped, organized Venezuelan troops fire right into the crowds,
The Palestinians will not engage in any political progress that does not meet their minimum rights, namely an independent sovereign Palestinian state on the pre-1967 lines, with Jerusalem as its capital and a just solution to the refugee issue, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said on Wednesday. He called on Americans to voice their opposition to US President Donald Trump’s policies towards the Palestinians
Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sat down with Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, sources tell The Hill. Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., who has been recently surging in the polls, requested the meeting, the sources say. He´s the latest 2020 contender to meet with Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, as she offers advice on what she learned from her race. Others who have met with her include Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.). “She has a lot to share and is happy to give advice to the 2020 candidates,” one Clinton ally said.
CNN sees ratings swoon in April
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CNN´s prime-time ratings dropped a whopping 26 percent in April compared to last year, according to Nielsen Media Research. MSNBC´s ratings were down 14 percent in April 2019 compared to April 2018, while Fox News´s ratings overall were flat. The sharp decrease for CNN marked its lowest-rated month in total viewers since October 2015. In the 25- to 54-year-old demographic that advertisers covet most, it was the network´s least-watched month since Aug. 2015. In prime time, Fox News finished first with an average of 2.4 million viewers. In April 2018, the network also averaged 2.4 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., unveiled a plan on Wednesday to give every voter up to $600 in what she calls "Democracy Dollars" that they can donate to federal candidates for office. In an exclusive interview with NBC News to discuss the roll out of her first major 2020 policy initiative, Gillibrand said her "Clean Elections Plan" would help reduce the influence of big money in politics. "If you want to accomplish anything that the American people want us to accomplish — whether it´s healthcare as a right, better public schools, better economy — you have to take on
LPGA golfer Lexi Thompson announced last weekend she is taking a break from social media after catching flak for golfing with President Trump. “Hey everybody, just want to say I will be taking a break from social media. 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 things being said to me lately isn’t fair and I’m not dealing with it,” Thompson said on a caption to a selfie she posted on Instagram. “Thank you to my true fans out there. I will be back
President Trump’s 2020 campaign used Attorney General William P. Barr’s testimony on the Mueller report as a messaging opportunity Wednesday, firing off an ad that says President Barack Obama, more than anyone, is responsible for Russian meddling in the last campaign.“There is no doubt: On Russian interference in 2016, Obama dropped the ball,” the reelection campaign said in releasing a two-minute digital ad called “Obama knew.” The clip pastes together news coverage and testimony suggesting the former administration failed to prioritize Russian intrusion, which favored Mr. Trump and proved damaging to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The ad was blasted out
Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse attempted to shame Attorney General Bill Barr during testimony on Wednesday morning for using the term "spying" to describe FBI actions against the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election. It didn´t work. "I´m not going to abjure the use of the word spying. My first job was in the CIA and I don´t think the word spying as any pejorative connotation at all. To me the question is always whether or not it´s authorized and adequately predicated, spying. I think spying a good English word that in fact doesn´t have synonyms because it is the
Attorney General Bill Barr Wednesday testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee about Mueller’s report. Barr is not intimidated by the screeching Democrats and he’s putting them in their places. Stolen Valor Senator Richard “Da Nang Dick” Blumenthal (D-CT) tried his hardest to intimidate Bill Barr — it didn’t work. Blumenthal, who lied about his Vietnam War service, had the gall to tell Barr “history will judge you harshly.” Bill Barr was unfazed and reminded Blumenthal that he, as the Attorney General is in charge of the Justice Department, and in no way was he going to recuse himself from any
MSNBC’s Brian Williams Pushes Conspiracy Theory: ‘Not Correct’ That Mueller Found No Collusion
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Wednesday during MSNBC’s live coverage of Attorney General William Barr testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, anchor Brian Williams broke in to disagree with committee chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) opening statement. Partial transcript as follows: BRIAN WILLIAMS: We’re reluctant to do this, we rarely do, but the chairman of the judiciary Committee just said that Mueller found there was no collusion. That is not correct. Nicole Wallace, the report says collusion is not a thing they considered. It doesn’t exist in federal code. NICOLLE WALLACE: And what’s stunning is that Lindsey Graham is offering answers to questions that are
Chief executive officers are typically the highest paid employees in any business, and a new report reveals the top earning CEOS at America´s biggest companies.Experts at 24/7 Wall St. analyzed compensation packages at the 150 of nation´s biggest, publicly traded companies, based on revenue for the year ended December 31, 2017. Their report found that almost all of the largest companies have CEO pay that stretches well into the seven and eight figure range. A small minority of those highly paid executives are female, though a woman tied for first place on the list. Scroll down for the full list
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., on Wednesday urged Attorney General William Barr to include special counsel Robert Mueller´s team in his widespread leak probe. "When you are investigating leaks at the Department of Justice and the FBI, I hope you will include the Mueller team as well," Kennedy told Barr during the attorney general´s appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee. While Barr has already indicated he wants to examine the genesis of the FBI´s counterintelligence inquiry into President Trump´s 2016 campaign, Kennedy said he would also like more information about what triggered a separate counterintelligence investigation into Hillary Clinton and her
Media executive Oprah Winfrey said in an interview released Tuesday she is currently “studying the field” of potential Democrats vying to be the nominee in the 2020 election, but mentioned she has already given one a nickname. “I’m reading ‘Shortest Way Home’ by [Pete Buttigieg], I call him Buttabeep, Buttaboop. The name’s either going to really hurt or [really help]—I think it’s going to help, actually,” she said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “Just the other day, I was at Apple with Spielberg and we were in the hallway talking about, ‘What are we going to do?’
The U.S. Army veteran charged with planning a terrorist attack in Southern California was kicked out of the service several years ago following a clash in Afghanistan, sources told The Times on Tuesday. Mark Steven Domingo, a 26-year-old Reseda man who the FBI said Monday was plotting to detonate a pressure-cooker bomb at a rally in Long Beach, was discharged following the incident in 2013, (Snip) One official described the incident in Afghanistan as “violent,” saying it led to an accusation that Domingo violated the the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Democrats are likely to grill Atty. Gen. William Barr over a letter special counsel Robert Mueller sent him in late March that said the attorney general’s initial summary of the investigation failed to “fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this office’s work and conclusions.” Mueller was responding to a four-page letter sent on March 23 by Barr to congress that issued his top line findings of the special counsel’s probe. Full coverage of the hearing>> (Letter in pdf)
Just before Robert O´Neill stepped down as director of the California Lottery, his agency hired his twin sons and his stepdaughter during one 17-day period. The daughter of Assemblyman Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) landed a job with the state Board of Equalization, where her mother also worked, after managers pressured personnel staff to hire her despite a low rating in an interview, according to a special investigation report by the California Personnel Board. And more recently, the state auditor accused the head of the Department of Industrial Relations of misconduct for bypassing
Over two dozen Venezuelan soldiers stormed the Brazilian embassy in Caracas asking for asylum on Tuesday amid an uprising of some in the military ranks against Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime. NTN24 spoke with a Brazilian presidential source who confirmed that 25 soldiers asked for asylum in Brazil, where they would no longer be under control of the Maduro regime and its Cuban military apparatus. “There were several military requests [for asylum], yes, but we can not say how many or what rank,” the presidential source said.
Caster Semenya, a two-time Olympic champion runner, has lost her appeal against proposed rules to limit her testosterone levels in what could be a milestone moment for athletics and gender in sport.(Snip)The South African runner, who won gold in the 800 meters in 2012 and 2016, was challenging proposals brought by the sport´s governing body -- the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) --to enforce limits on testosterone levels of female athletes with differences in sexual development (DSDs).
Trump Will Meet With Top Advisers to Discuss Plans to Challenge Climate Change Reports, Source Says
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Wednesday with White House officials to discuss creating a commission to scrutinize climate change reports, according to a source familiar with the matter. Top National Security Council (NSC) officials John Bolton and William Happer will press Trump to create a commission to scrutinize major climate change reports, like last year’s National Climate Assessment, the source told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Should Trump agree, the plan is to issue an executive order creating a climate commission within the NSC, said the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
ELYRIA — Attorneys representing Oberlin College sought Tuesday to exclude several text messages, emails and online postings from the upcoming trial in the lawsuit filed by Gibson’s Bakery against the school. Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi spent the day hearing pre-trial motions in the case, and on that one, he ruled he will consider each one individually as the case progresses. The potential evidence in question included texts, emails and posts by college administrators, faculty and students. More pretrial motions will be handled today, and jury selection is expected to begin Thursday for the civil case, which is
Cuba, the socialist police state so adored by Obama administration twerps like Ben Rhodes, is finding itself in the line of fire for its brutal grip on Venezuela. President Trump has vowed to make the socialist dictatorship pay by threatening Cuba with ´full and complete´ sanctions, which is exactly what it deserves. Here are his tweets: (Tweets) but killing Cuba´s people in the political prisons and streets. But right he is to squeeze Cuba to the gills. The socialist hellhole run by the same greedy and murderous family for 60 years is a linchpin to keeping the Maduro dictatorship in
Former CIA Director John Brennan, a sharp and frequent critic of President Trump, is now blaming the president for "infecting" Washington. Brennan, appearing on MSNBC´s "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, was asked about reports that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was displeased with the way Attorney General William Barr characterized Mueller´s findings, before the redacted Mueller report was released."They (the reports) underscore that there is a very grievous sickness in Washington right now, that is causing individuals to forego their constitutional and statutory responsibilities and their obligations to the American people," Brennan said. (Video) "And it´s clear that the source of that
The already ruined nation of Venezuela descended further into chaos this week. Opposition leader Juan Guidó has called on the military to overturn the leftist regime of Nicolás Maduro. The government has blocked CNN from the nation’s airwaves. Every storm cloud has a silver lining. Doctors have treated at least 50 injured demonstrators, including one woman shot in the abdomen. A military tank crushed protesters attempting to flee. Amnesty International reports a systematic policy of repression throughout the country, including widespread extrajudicial executions.
Attorney General William Barr sat to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. This is his first of two back-to-back hearings he will take part in on Capitol Hill this week. According to The Hill, Democrats are expected to grill the attorney general over his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation into Russian election interference. His prepared remarks were posted online earlier this week.(Photo) Chairman Lindsey Graham opened the hearing by revealing information on the corrupt DOJ process to exonerate Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing and indict Donald Trump and his campaign in a Russia collusion witch hunt. Graham
The past several days have left many Jews in the United States feeling shell-shocked. Attacks against them seem to be coming from all quarters.First, on Thursday, the New York Times’ International Edition published a stunningly antisemitic cartoon on its op-ed page. It portrayed a blind President Donald Trump wearing the garb of an ultra-Orthodox Jew, replete with a black suit and a black yarmulke, with the blackened sunglasses of a blind man being led by a seeing-eye dog with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face.
Private payrolls surge by 275,000 in April, blowing past estimates in biggest gain since July
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The U.S. economy added far more jobs than expected in April as payrolls in the services sector grew by the most in more than two years, according to data released Wednesday by ADP and Moody’s Analytics. Private payrolls grew by 275,000 last month, the biggest increase since July, when they expanded by 284,000. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected private payrolls growth of 177,000. Services-providing jobs increased by 223,000 in April, led by a gain of 59,000 positions in professional and business services.
“Sleepy” Joe Biden is counting on his eight years as President Obama’s vice president to provide some sort of nostalgic boost for his third run for the White House in the past 32 years.But “the problem with nostalgia” – to quote former Sen. John Edwards as he described the presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton in 2007 – “is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn’t like.” The disgraced former Democratic senator from North Carolina was, of course, referring to the scandal-plagued administration
There are 20 Democratic contenders vying for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Or is it 21? It’s tough to keep track. Through the tiresome ranks of the Kamala Harrises, Cory Bookers, Julian Castros, Elizabeth Warrens, Beto O’Rourkes, Kirsten Gillibrands, Tulsi Gabbards, Eric Swalwells, and John Hickenloopers, among all the rest, one thing becomes glaringly apparent: All of these putative “leaders” -- as astonishingly undistinguished, inexperienced, and inward-looking as they are -- have one thing in common: They are flag carriers for the clichéd, predictable, unimaginative, and ultimately unproductive weltanschauung of identity politics.
My grandmother cooked in her kitchen on a wood-burning stove until, at 92 years of age, she passed away. Wood stove technology is not as simple as some people think. We may have to learn it all over again. Here is why: I recently read an online article about something called 5G and became aware that this innovation will potentially enable any large government, our own or our adversaries, to spy, hack, sabotage or otherwise wreak havoc on the entire world infrastructure of communication and security. This is not hyperbole.
After 30 years of relentless black mob violence at the annual black college beach weekend in Virginia Beach, pop star Pharrell finally figured out how to “change the vibe.” He gentrified it, staging a three-day festival with white performers and white concertgoers paying $280 for a three-day pass. The result: instead of 30,000 to 100,000 black people invading Virginia Beach at the end of every April to create epic levels of violence, theft, mayhem, chaos, attacks on police, killing a police horse, looting, defiance, lots and lots of dope (snip) Pharrell’s festival attracted an older, whiter, more docile crowd.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller wrote Attorney General William Barr a letter in late March complaining that Barr’s four-page letter to Congress describing the conclusions of the investigation “did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance” of the special counsel’s investigation, the Washington Post reported Tuesday. Mueller’s March 27 letter “revealed a degree of dissatisfaction with the public discussion of the special counsel’s work that shocked senior Justice Department officials,” the Post reported, citing “people familiar with the discussions.” Mueller reportedly wrote: The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did
"The recession talk in talk in late 2018 got way, way out of hand," the New York Times economic reporter Neil Irwin tweeted a few days ago. Indeed it did. Irwin´s tweet came shortly after the government released figures showing the economy grew at a 3.2% annual rate in the first three months of this year. The number was good by anyone´s measure, significantly outpacing predictions. And it raised a question: What about all that recession talk of the last few months? What was going on? Certainly there were some economists who looked at various indicators — housing, energy,
The founder of the private security firm Blackwater wants to gather 5,000 mercenaries to help socialism-weary Venezuelans topple the dictator who’s made their lives miserable. It’s a plan sure to make Bernie Sanders roll over next to Lenin’s tomb. Even worse for Sanders, opponents of Nicolas Maduro, the nominal “president” of Venezuela, and his security forces have been involved in violent clashes since Tuesday morning. Some dare call it an attempted coup. It’s not. Juan Guaido, the opposition’s leader, was recognized as Venezuela’s legitimate president by the U.S.
On Sunday, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee threatened to subpoena Attorney General William P. Barr if he refuses to testify this week about the Mueller report. But a subpoena is unlikely to elicit Barr’s cooperation. “We’re fighting all the subpoenas,” says the President of the United States. In other words, there is to be no congressional oversight of this administration: No questioning the Attorney General about the Mueller Report. No questioning a Trump adviser about immigration policy. No questioning a former White House security director about issuances of security clearances. No questioning anyone about presidential tax returns.
Fed monetary policy bumbling threatens President Trump’s booming economic recovery, job growth, and rising wages prompted by tax reform legislation and deregulation. So Trump is trying to restore the Fed to Reagan era predictability with his new appointments. Republicans should not thwart this effort. Trump named Stephen Moore and Herman Cain as nominees to the Federal Reserve Board. In saner times, they both would be the first picks promoted by Democrats, which used to be the party of working people.
The White House press corps held its annual celebration of itself, cramming 2,500 nattering narcissists into a Washington, D.C., hotel ballroom Saturday to eat overcooked filet mignon and fret about the fate of the First Amendment. Olivier Knox, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, which throws the increasingly debauched party, was in high dudgeon over the state of America’s media under the horror that is President Trump. “I don’t want to dwell on the president,” Mr. Knox said in a speech, to much applause from the audience of fakes and phonies, charlatans and mountebanks. “This is not his dinner. It’s ours.”
Every Pronoun Must Go
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Two types of people desire to impose politically correct locutions on the rest of us: those who possess unlimited power and fear to lose it and those who aspire to unlimited power and need a means to attain it. And there is, after all, no greater power than that of prescribing what others must say and what others must not think. The Scottish Maritime Museum, dedicated to the history of the country’s shipbuilding industry, has decided that it will no longer use the words sheand herto refer to ships, but rather itand its. This is in response to feminists,
Joe Biden’s announcement of his candidacy for president must be seen as the last stand of forces trying to prevent the Democratic party from descending in a power dive into a mighty bonfire of the far Left. That party’s only plan of action since Election Day 2016 has been to attempt to destroy Trump, and that tactic survived even the complete dismissal of the Trump–Russia collusion canard and the declination of leaders of the Justice Department to accuse the president of obstruction of justice (for the reason that no ingredients for a prosecution existed).
President Donald Trump, according to one well-publicized tally, has told 10,000 whoppers during this presidency. His falsehoods include such incredible claims such as accurately stating the number of new jobs since the election. Or Trump saying he signed executive orders that he did, in fact, sign. Or claiming that Sen. Bernie Sanders, who wants corporate taxes to increase, worker wages to rise, and stock buybacks to end, wants 401(k) values to “dissipate.” If those don’t sound so fraudulent, that’s because they’re not. The Washington Post’s count of what it calls “false and misleading statements,” and what other
Liberal media seized on news of special counsel Robert Mueller’s letter to William Barr, which expressed frustration over the attorney general’s initial depiction of his investigation’s findings, and presented it as evidence of wrongdoing. Yet, much of the anti-Trump left seemingly ignored a crucial detail of the Tuesday report from The Washington Post, which explained that during a phone conversation between the two, the attorney general actually asked the special counsel whether or not his memo was “inaccurate.”
Presidential contender Joe Biden is under attack from fellow Democrats for how he treated Anita Hill in 1991, after she accused future Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of harassment. #MeToo advocates are warning that Biden had better apologize if he wants the women’s vote in the primaries. Biden’s an expert panderer. He is already expressing contrition for how he, as chairman, handled the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Hill’s accusations. “I believed her from the very beginning,” Biden told ABC Tuesday, “but I was chairman. She did not get a fair hearing. She did not get treated well.
On Thursday, the international version of The New York Times published a horrifically anti-Semitic political cartoon, depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dachsund with a blue Star of David dog tag, leading President Donald Trump, who is wearing a kippa. The New York Times pulled the cartoon and apologized, but the cartoonist insisted his work was not anti-Semitic and at least one Jewish leader is not accepting the Times´s apology. "A political cartoon in the international print edition of The New York Times on Thursday included anti-Semitic tropes,
“Amazon and Netflix are among many companies paying zero federal taxes under Trump’s tax law” This is just one of several similar headlines in the wake of a report that major, profitable, corporations paid little or no federal income taxes last year. And as that headline suggests, President Trump’s corporate tax reform bill is getting the lion’s share of blame. The New York Times, for example, claimed that “the list of those paying zero roughly doubled last year as a result of provisions in President Trump’s 2017 tax bill
Schiff Hires Ex-Chief of FBI Financial Crimes Section as House Intel Probes Trump’s Finances
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Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has hired Patrick Fallon, former chief of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Section, according to two sources familiar with the move. It’s a significant hire that will bring expertise to the committee’s efforts to scrutinize President Donald Trump’s financial dealings. A committee source told The Daily Beast that Fallon started this week. Schiff announced earlier this year that the committee will look at Trump’s finances to see if his personal interests are influencing his decisions as president. “That pertains to any credible allegations