Posts on Friday, May 3, 2019
How likely is a U.S.-Brazil-Colombia military intervention in Venezuela? I still think that it’s highly unlikely, but judging from what I’m told are secret talks between United States and Latin American officials to resurrect a dormant 1947 Inter-American mutual defense treaty, I’m no longer willing to bet that it won’t happen. First, the Trump administration is escalating its rhetoric following the Venezuelan opposition’s courageous but unsuccessful April 30 attempt to spark a military rebellion. Going beyond his earlier talking point that, “All options are on the table,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that
The Newhouse family sold the 182-year-old daily The Times-Picayune and its Web site, nola, to a scrappy New Orleans competitor, and the entire staff is being laid off. That has stirred worries across the other papers in the family’s Advance Publications empire. A total of 161 staff members are being laid off, according to a WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act) notice filed with the Louisiana Workforce Commission, which listed 65 reporter and editor jobs in the bloodbath. John and Dathel Georges, the husband-and-wife team that owns the rival New Orleans Advocate, are buying
North Korea launched several missile as a test on Saturday morning, Seoul´s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. The JCS are investigating the details of the launch. An unidentified short range missile was fired at about 9 a.m. local time (12 a.m. UTC) from near the east coast city of Wonsan towards the Sea of Japan. It was followed by several others, which flew 70-200 kilometers (44-124 miles). It marks the country´s first documented missile launch since it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in November 2017. After that launch it declared its nuclear capabilities complete and restarted talks with the US and South Korea.
Nearly two out of three voters say Democrats should not initiate impeachment proceedings against President Trump and a majority say it’s time to turn the page on the Russia investigation, according to a new poll. The latest Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll survey found that 65 percent of respondents oppose impeachment proceedings. A majority of Democrats polled, 56 percent, support impeachment, however, only 32 percent of independents and 14 percent of Republicans are in favor. A majority of respondents, 58 percent, said it’s time to turn the page on the Russia investigations, including 60 percent of independents, although two-thirds of Democrats
In the days leading up to her wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle received stern words from Queen Elizabeth II over eggs, according to a royal expert.Katie Nicholl, a British best-selling author and royal correspondent for Vanity Fair, said Markle had insisted on there being a “macrobiotic alternative” for some of the Hollywood star guests attending the ceremony who follow the diet.“[Meghan] got very upset when she felt that she could taste egg in a dish when she was told there was no egg in there, and she said, ‘No, I can taste it, I can taste there’s egg in
President Trump might as well stick his tweet Friday morning on a campaign bumper sticker: "JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!" The social media declaration came as the Labor Department reported robust new economic numbers, saying employers added 263,000 jobs in April as the unemployment rate dropped to a 49-year low. JOBS AND WAGES SURGE IN APRIL The stats only bolstered the president´s economy-focused message as he gears up for what is sure to be a grueling 2020 re-election fight. As Democrats increasingly make the election about the president´s character and controversies, the string of positive jobs reports are complicating any efforts to
Does Joe Biden have any idea what learning to code is? The Washington Examiner found an example of a blithe claim from him last year about how he "helped" get 54 Detroit women, mostly ´of color´ and ´from the hood´ with high school degrees and GEDs, to enroll in a 17-week government program to "do computer coding." DES MOINES, Iowa — Joe Biden Wednesday bragged about time he spent in the "hood," a place where he said he found "women of color" he helped train to do computer coding. Speaking at a rally, the former vice president elaborated on how U.S. workers
The FBI tasked a woman posing as an assistant to longtime FBI informant Stefan Halper to meet with Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in London in 2016, The New York Times revealed in a report Thursday. The report confirms longstanding speculation that the woman, who operated under the alias Azra Turk, was part of the government’s operation to keep tabs on Papadopoulos and the Trump team. But one question about Turk remains unanswered by The Times piece: Who does she work for? The Times report appears on first glance to suggest Turk is an FBI investigator. One section of the
TALLAHASSEE — Republicans in the country’s largest swing state, ahead of what promises to be a heated 2020 battle, on Thursday moved to rein in the number of former felons allowed to cast ballots in next year’s presidential election. The GOP-controlled state Senate voted 22-17 along party lines to pass an election reform bill, adding the felon provision at the 11th hour over the objections of Democrats. The Florida House is expected to pass the measure Friday and send it to Gov. Ron DeSantis, an ally of President Donald Trump. Republicans insisted the move was a response to vague wording in
One of the oldest and greatest guides to understanding American politics is captured in the sage advice: “follow the money.” As America is the richest nation on the globe, there is a lot to be followed. The federal leviathan is awash in trillions of dollars in cash. (Snip) One way of understanding the still unbelievable hostility for Donald Trump is that he had made his fortune before entering government, and because he owes nothing to the denizens of the deep state and the swamp, they cannot control him.
Barriers Against Barbarism
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One of the most fashionable manifestations of Trump derangement syndrome—the assumption that Walls Never Work—is crushingly debunked in historian David Frye’s eye-opening history of 4,000 years of barrier-building, from the Fertile Crescent to the Malibu Colony, Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick. In a brilliant epilogue entitled “Love Your Neighbor, But Don’t Pull Down Your Hedges,” Frye points out that, ironically, shortly after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall made anti-wall triumphalism the unchallenged conventional wisdom, the world quietly entered its Second Age of Walls.
Barack Obama will rake in about a billion bucks off his presidency. The presidency already has cost Donald John Trump a billion. So far, Netflix gave the biggest bribe: $65 million to produce seven films(That ain´t working. That´s the way you do it. Money for nothing and your flicks for free.) From LA Biz: "The Obamas’ first slate of projects for Netflix includes a Frederick Douglass biopic and a kids show from one of the creators of ´Drunk History.´" They are mainly documentaries. I am sure Douglass will be transformed from a crusty and reliable American into a socialist.
The Washington Post headline was meant to be scary but it was hilarious. It read, "Trump is already set to use the government to destroy the Democratic nominee." Really? How is he going to do that?Is President Donald John Trump going to use the IRS to punish critics? Obama did. Is President Donald John Trump going to use the NSA to spy on opponents? Obama did. Is President Donald John Trump going to use the FBI to infiltrate opposing campaigns? Obama did.
The admissions within the New York Times story today -outlining how President Obama’s intelligence apparatus ran simultaneous intelligence operations against the Trump campaign- are starting to merge the FBI and CIA operations. CTH anticipated this. With new information about the “U.K. operation” using Stefan Halper (CIA asset and FBI informant); and the details of the contacts by U.S. intelligence operative Azra Turk; we can overlay the timeline and see a clear picture.On August 15th, 2016, Lisa Page and Peter Strzok discussed the “insurance policy“:(graphic)Two weeks later, September 2nd, 2016, CIA operative Stefan Halper reaches out to George Papadopoulos
This approach is so typically Trump it should be changed to a verb. President Trump tweets about a phone call today with Russian President Vladimir Putin: (Tweets)Note: “and even the “Russian Hoax”“; yeah, that part. Intentionally directed to send the DC democrats and media bananas. He’s not trolling them, he’s toying with them. This dispatch is profoundly Trump; it’s like Andrew Brietbart saying “yeah, so?…” (Snip) This is why Donald J Trump, the businessman, the disruptor, is effectively independent and uncontrollable by customs and norms. He’s provoking…. and laughing…. and annoying….. and winning.
Mary Jo Kopechne was 28-years-old the night she died. Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy, then 37, gave her ride from a party, drove his car off a bridge, and pitched them into the water below. Kennedy survived. Kopechne did not. Almost 50 years later, what happened that July 18, 1969 night is still shrouded in questions, and it is unclear why Kennedy waited 10 hours to call the police, and, more importantly, whether an earlier alert to authorities would have saved the trapped young woman. He served no jail time. Much of the narrative about what has become known as the
Late Show host Stephen Colbert fantasized about “wringing the neck” of William Barr, accusing the attorney general of spreading a “bucket of lies” about the findings of Robert Mueller’s report into supposed Russian collusion.“Happy Bill Barr Day, everybody! I got you the traditional gift: a bucket of lies,” Stephen Colbert said at the beginning of his show, after Barr faced questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about the report’s findings. “It was incredibly frustrating to watch — filled with legalistic hair-splitting and political a**-covering. I’d say it made me want to wring his neck but I’d need five more hands.”
Venezuela’s self-declared president may have tried and failed this week to overthrow and expel the country’s embattled ruler, but U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio said Friday that Juan Guaidó is winning a power struggle with Nicolás Maduro. Appearing in the heart of South Florida’s Venezuelan exile community with U.S. Sen. Rick Scott and U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Rubio argued that Maduro maintains control over the military but can’t move around his own country amid a popular uprising. He described Maduro as a man with reason to be paranoid, and limited time left on the life of an administration propped
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to announce he’s running for president next week. Three sources with knowledge of the plans told the New York Daily News the announcement could come Wednesday, on de Blasio’s birthday. “He´s moving forward; he thinks this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. He´s looking at the current field and thinks there´s no other time when he can run. He has a record and has been an underdog in primaries before,” a source close to de Blasio told the Washington Examiner in late April. “He thinks he can do well with
The author who created the Dr. Seuss books wrote racist and misogynistic cartoons in his early days—and mocked critics who called him out years later. Theodor Geisel, who was behind children’s classics like The Cat In The Hat, portrayed black people as if they were slaves being sold off at a white-owned department store.(Snip) During the Second World War, Geisel succumbed to the paranoia about Japanese Americans and wrote a cartoon showing them lining up to get explosives to bomb America. In response to criticism he said bluntly: ‘If we want to win we’ve got the kill the Japs’.
Actual AOC Quote: ‘Like, Honestly, Gardening. Food That Comes Out Of Dirt. Like, It’s Magic!’
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is only 29, and she did only graduate from Boston University, majoring in international relations and economics. So it makes sense that she’s still amazing by things like — dirt. In a recent video posted on social media, the Democratic socialist from New York is seen looking at her small plot in a community garden in Washington, D.C. And we swear that we’ve transcribed her comments faithfully. “I just checked on my community garden slot and I was so nervous because I was in New York for two weeks in recess. Look!” she says as the camera pans
The “real” Barack Obama is finally standing up. Make that forcefully dragged to his feet by New York Times Chief White House correspondent Peter Baker, the unlikeliest of sources. Baker shows the world who Barack Obama, with all of his pretensions, really is in his updated book ‘Obama: The Call of History’. The man who wasn’t there for America for the eight long years he was president was as embittered as defeated Hillary Clinton and the loudly boohooing media on 2016 Election night, reportedly blurting out, “This stings! “This hurts!” It didn’t take Obama long to turn on the candidate
So Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign talking about Charlottesville. This tells us that life is so good for the fabulous people on the coasts — the only group the Democratic Party really cares about — that they can afford to devote themselves to crazy fantasies that make them feel morally superior to other people. The Democratic Party used to be about protecting workers’ wages. Now the pitch is: I will suck up more to The New York Times editorial page. I am in no mood to defend Trump, but the media’s wholesale lying about Charlottesville is too much for any
Beto O’Rourke Blew It
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Beto O’Rourke has flamed out. It’s not just me saying it. Polls have shown him slipping for weeks and on Wednesday Quinnipiac confirmed the worst. The one-time wonder Beto O’Rourke is at 5 percent, behind every other first-tier candidate. You can thank, or blame, women who make up almost 58 percent of the primary electorate for Beto’s decline. Disproportionately, they don’t like him. According to my unscientific poll asking every woman I see, Beto reminds them of the worst boyfriend they ever had: self-involved, convinced of his own charm, chronically late if he shows up at all,
North Korea is experiencing one of its most severe food crises in years following the worst harvests in decades, caused by dry spells, heat waves and flooding, the UN said on Friday. The World Food Programme (WFP) said the North Korean government had reduced rations to their lowest level ever for this time of year. People were receiving just 300 grams (less than 11 ounces) per day, down from 360 grams per day at the same time last year. WFP spokesman Herve Verhoosel told a press conference in Geneva that "10.1 million people [in North Korea] suffer from severe food insecurity, meaning they do not have enough food till
GREENVILLE, Miss. — A member of an African American church in Mississippi has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for burning the church, which was also spray painted with "Vote Trump" a week before the 2016 presidential election. WLBT-TV reports 47-year-old Andrew McClinton was sentenced Thursday in Greenville. Circuit Judge Margaret Carey-McCray also gave him 10 years of supervised release after the 10 in prison. McClinton pleaded guilty to arson on March 28. Investigators said McClinton belonged to the church that was vandalized and burned, Hopewell Missionary Baptist in Greenville. Some initially suspected the fire was a hate crime.
A picture book for second graders about a family with two moms. A lesson for fourth graders about Gold Rush era stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst, who was born a woman but lived as a man. These are just some of the ways U.S. public school students will learn about LGBTQ - lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender queer - history in a growing number of states moving to mandate inclusive K-12 curriculum. It is the latest chapter in a decades-long push to teach students about the trials and contributions of marginalized communities - from suffragettes to black Americans - whose stories have often been absent from classrooms.
Let’s be real here. Venezuela’s dictator Nicolas Maduro is a former bus driver who rose through incompetence and luck to become a pompous, ruthless twit who’s turned a wealthy oil-rich land into a stagnant, starving socialist state. Bernie Sanders expressed admiration for socialism there years ago. But Maduro and Hugo Chavez before him have created widespread starvation, hyperinflation and a refugee nightmare for millions of Venezuelans and Colombia and Brazil. [Snip] As with North Korea and Iran, President Trump’s diplomatic instincts have wisely taken him on an ever-tightening sanctions route,
The chief executive of Russia’s state-owned hi-tech industrial development conglomerate, Rostec Corporation, says his country is “ready to cooperate” to sell Turkey Sukhoi Su-57 fighter jets in case Ankara is excluded from the F-35 fighter jet program with the United States. (Snip) He noted that Moscow would “gladly evaluate” any Turkish suggestions for the localization or transfer of technologies of Su-57 warplanes as well as advanced S-400 air defense missile systems. “We are ready to support Turkey’s desire to develop its own defense industry,” Chemezov said. The Russian official went on to say that Turkey, irrespective of
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - When two local teens skipped school for a beach senior skip day, their adventure turned into a fight for their lives, and their savior was heaven-sent. Tyler Smith and Heather Brown, both 17 years old, have been friends since the fourth grade. They decided to swim offshore in Vilano Beach, but became stranded 2 miles off the coastline for two hours. The teens started to worry that they might not make it, as they became weak and held each other up as much as they could. They began to pray.
Sarah Sanders says Presidents Trump and Putin discussed election meddling and the Mueller report in an early morning call. She would not say who initiated the contact that came amid an uprising in Venezuela but confirmed that the two leaders spoke for ´a little over an hour´ and the special counsel investigation was among the topics.´Very, very, briefly it was discussed, essentially in the context of its over, and there was no collusion, which I´m pretty sure both leaders were well aware of long before this call,´ she told White House press. (Photo) Sanders said the two leaders had a
Mueller moans, media misleads
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Yesterday, I noted that mainstream media coverage of William Barr’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee omitted an important piece of information — Barr tried to address the concern of Robert Mueller that some combination of Barr’s four-page memo and media reporting about it was “confusing” the American public. Barr responded with a statement designed to clarify the situation. The media did not report this fact even though it figured prominently in Barr’s testimony. In addition, the media either did not report or barely mentioned three other important facts to which Barr testified. Marc Thiessen highlights two of them
As usual, there are some worrisome data points in a generally Trump-positive poll, but start with the good news for the president: A new national survey from CNN shows public support for his handling of the economy hitting a new high, with Trump also above water on another important metric. On the heels of a better-than-expected quarter of GDP growth (the US economy has grown at an average clip of better than three percent since the GOP tax reform law was implemented), even a Trump-skeptical to -hostile electorate can recognize prosperity when they see it. And the man at the
The Boom Continues
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They said it couldn’t be done. Well, Barack Obama did, anyway: “What magic wand do you have?” And of course we remember Paul Krugman’s infamous prediction that the stock market would never recover from Donald Trump’s election. But Trump’s formula of lower taxes, less regulation and–a key element, I think–sensible repatriation policy continue to drive our economy to unprecedented heights. The latest: the economy added 263,000 new jobs in April, driving unemployment to 3.6%, the lowest since 1969. Unemployment has now been below 4% for more than a year, something the Obama administration didn’t even attempt to achieve.
A readout from the White House following a phone call today between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Photo) [White House] President Donald J. Trump of the United States and President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation spoke today regarding Syria. President Trump and President Putin agreed that the suffering in Syria has gone on for far too long and that all parties must do all they can to end the violence. The conversation was a very good one, and included the discussion of safe, or de-escalation, zones to achieve lasting peace for humanitarian and many other reasons. The
WASHINGTON— U.S. employers added a robust 263,000 jobs in April, suggesting that businesses have shrugged off earlier concerns that the economy might slow this year and now anticipate strong customer demand. The unemployment rate fell to a five-decade low of 3.6% from 3.8%, though that drop reflected a rise in the number of people who stopped looking for work. Average hourly pay rose 3.2% from 12 months earlier, a healthy increase that matched the increase in March.Friday’s jobs report from the Labor Department showed that solid economic growth is still encouraging strong hiring nearly a decade into the economy’s recovery
The Latest on the Trump administration´s "conscience rights" regulation (all times local): 6:15 p.m. The city of San Francisco is suing the Trump administration over its new regulation allowing health care professionals to opt out of providing treatments they oppose. City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court for Northern California on Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump made the announcement. He argues the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services exceeded its statutory authority when it created the rule. The rule would require institutions that receive money from federal programs to certify that they comply with
Bernie Sanders was bare-chested, towel-draped, sitting at a table lined with vodka bottles, as he sang "This Land Is Your Land" to his hosts in the Soviet Union in the spring of 1988. The just-married socialist mayor from Vermont was on what he called "a very strange honeymoon," an official 10-day visit to the communist country, and he was enthralled with the hospitality and the lessons that could be brought home. "Let´s take the strengths of both systems," he said upon completing the trip. "Let´s learn from each other."
The U.S. had agreed a deal with the Venezuelan military that Nicolas Maduro would be arrested this week but the deal fell through at the last moment, it has been claimed. The Trump administration, which acknowledged opposition leader Juan Guaido as the country´s interim president in January, had forged a plan with a high-ranking Caracas official, reports ABC Internacional. A U.S. security council source is said to have told the website that the plan was to force Maduro to leave the country or be arrested before placing Guaido in charge. Thirty days after this, there would be another election.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature is trying again to force presidential candidates to publicly disclose their tax returns, hoping a new Democratic governor known for his clashes with President Donald Trump won’t block them this time.The state Senate voted 27-10 on Thursday to require anyone appearing on the state’s presidential primary ballot to publicly release five years’ worth of income tax returns. The proposal is in response to Trump, who bucked 40 years of tradition by refusing to release his tax returns prior to his election in 2016. California’s presidential primary is scheduled for March 3. If the bill becomes
We all saw the famous picture from the Obama administration on the day after President Trump was elected president in 2016. But now it´s coming out about just how bad it was at the top, according to a new book cited by Fox News. Former President Obama took President Trump´s win and Hillary Clinton´s loss in 2016 as a personal insult, according to a newly updated book. The former president was "shocked" by the election results and felt the American people had turned on him, The Washington Examiner reported, citing New York Times
American presidents — and all political leaders — inevitably face trade-offs between conflicting priorities. In Venezuela, President Trump is stuck between a policy rock and a preference hard place, caught between a democratic and humanitarian demand to side with the Venezuelan people and the tough reality that there is very little he can — or really wants — to do. Trump’s declared “sovereignty doctrine” is now in direct conflict with his desired petro-policy and the reinvigoration of the Monroe Doctrine — and it is all playing out in the streets of Caracas. The losers? Invariably the good people of Venezuela.
The Trump administration is addressing the U.S. government’s $1.45 trillion student loan portfolio, including hiring consultants to advise on selling all or portions of the portfolio to private investors.The Wall Street Journal, citing “administration officials familiar with the matter,” said the move comes after a surge of defaults on loans and individuals taking advantage of federal debt-forgiveness plans that have led to reduced federal coffers.The Journal reported: The Education Department has hired the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. to study how much money could be lost if low repayment rates persist, an agency spokeswoman said. Meantime, President Trump’s top economic advisers
In the span of two days we learned that the inflation rate is below the Federal Reserve’s target rate and that the economy created a surprisingly large 263,000 new jobs in April. This wasn’t supposed to happen. Even before President Trump took office, then Fed chair Janet Yellen was warning that the economy was dangerously close to “maximum employment.” Strong job growth going forward, she said in early January, could spark inflation. In May of that year — almost exactly two years ago today, in fact — the media’s favorite economist, Mark Zandi
The Poynter Institute, a journalism nonprofit organization, has completely disabled a list of what they labeled as an extensive list of “unreliable” news websites on Thursday night after facing scrutiny in the days since its publication. A litany of conservative publications, including The Washington Free Beacon and The Washington Examiner, were lumped into the list of “unreliable” publications and it received nearly instantaneous condemnation from them. “Soon after we published, we received complaints from those on the list and readers who objected to the inclusion of certain sites, and the exclusion of others. We began an audit to test the
The U.S. economy Opens a New Window. added 263,000 jobs Opens a New Window. in April, soaring past Wall Street’s expectations for an increase of 185,000 jobs, while unemployment fell to the lowest rate since 1969. The unemployment rate dropped to 3.6 percent, beating analysts´ expectations of 3.8 percent. The labor force participation rate, meanwhile, was little changed at 62.8 percent, from 63 percent the month prior. Average hourly earnings – which investors were closely watching for signs of inflation – rose by 6 cents to $27.77. Over the year, average hourly earnings have increased by about 3.2 percent, slightly missing
What if I told you there’s an issue that unites a clear majority of Americans? What if I told you that at least 60 percent of independents, Republicans, and Democrats agree on that issue? And what if I told that the Democratic candidates for president are on the wrong side of that issue? That they’re out of step with the party – and the country – they want to lead? That’s exactly the case with abortion. With just nine months to go before the Iowa caucuses, Democratic hopefuls seem to be competing to embrace the most extreme position on abortion
It’s been a very good week for Joe Biden. The former senator and vice president is the clear frontrunner in a crowded Democratic field for 2020. His poll ratings and campaign fundraising surged after he announced his presidential run last week. One of Biden’s biggest assets is his close association with Barack Obama. He may not have the former president’s endorsement yet (Biden says, unconvincingly, that he didn’t want it), but Joe knows how popular Obama still is and how much his candidacy benefits from that reflected glow. Expect him to talk a lot about the Obama-Biden years
U.S. employers added a better-than-expected 263,000 jobs in April, as the nearly decade-old economic expansion shows no signs of slowing. And the unemployment rate dropped to 3.6 % — the lowest in nearly 50 years. A monthly snapshot from the Labor Department showed solid hiring in services, construction and health care. "Our outlook and my outlook is a positive one — is a healthy one — for the U.S. economy for growth for the rest of this year," Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday. The economy picked up steam in the first quarter, growing at an annual
Checkmate.
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When the Mueller Report was released on April 18th, most commentators focused on the “explosive” factual allegations. But other than the shocking revelation that the President once used an expletive in private, very few of those facts were novel; most were leaked long ago. At the end of Volume II of the Mueller Report, however, there were 20 pages of genuinely new material. There, the former FBI director turned Special Counsel Robert Mueller defended his “Application of Obstruction-Of-Justice Statutes To The President.”
Attorney General William Barr scares the wits out of the Democrats who bet their party’s political future on removing President Trump from office. Now that The Mueller Report revealed no collusion with the Russians, they are living in fear that the coup plotters will be held accountable for their misdeeds in courts of law. Barr has indicated that prosecutorial investigations are underway, and his willingness to speak plainly and directly, such as his use (and defense of his use) of the word “spying,” demonstrates that that he and his associates can make their cases in convincing language.
Just when you think our politics can´t get any dumber, along comes a congressman with some chicken. Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tennessee, turned up at Thursday´s House Judiciary Committee hearing intent on mocking Attorney General William Barr, who failed to make an appearance after a dispute over the questioning format. Cohen enjoyed a helping of Colonel Sanders´ finest at around 9 a.m. and later told reporters, "Chicken Barr should have showed up today... It´s a sad day in America."
Florida wants to execute Robert Joseph Long. His real name is Bobby Joe Long. Does it matter?
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TAMPA — Last week, the governor ordered the state to kill a man named “Robert Joseph Long.” The name appeared just like that, eight times, in a death warrant signed April 24 authorizing the state to execute Long for a 1984 Hillsborough County murder. A letter that accompanied the warrant referred to him as “Robert Joe Long.” So did the original sentencing paperwork. Here´s the problem: That´s not his legal name. The man the state wants to execute is Bobby Joe Long. That´s what´s written on a West Virginia birth record, and other documents which predate the notorious serial killer´s
In 1988, four Mexican military troops with automatic weapons ´invaded´ San Diego I was there.
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On Sunday, March 13, 1988, at 10:25 P.M., four Mexican military troops wearing camouflage uniforms and brandishing automatic weapons penetrated a mile and a half into U.S. territory south of San Diego, Calif. Their entry point was an unfenced stretch of beach that separated Playas de Tijuana (Tijuana Beach), Mexico from Imperial Beach, Calif. Within sight of the first group of American residential condominiums at the end of Seacoast Drive in Imperial Beach, the Mexicans accosted a group of a dozen Americans who were picnicking on the beach, pointing their loaded machine guns at the picnickers
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump, the liberal media´s daily reporting routinely defaults to an all too familiar word: "bombshell." Most every news segment begins with "bombshell," and it is certain (in their collective opinion) to end the Trump presidency. No luck so far! Failed media munitions aside, the rise of liberal rhetoric is at near deafening decibels, and for good reason. Attorney General Bill Barr´s congressional hearing testimony (on two separate occasions) has no doubt caused Democrats angst and discomfort.
Sen. Josh Hawley: Prejudiced FBI Officials Tried to Overturn Results of a Democratic Election
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, said officials like former FBI agent Peter Strzok tried to overturn the results of a democratic election by launching an investigation into the Trump campaign for Russian collusion. Hawley read aloud a text from Strzok to his former lover and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page on August 26, 2016: “Just went to the southern Virginia Walmart. I could SMELL the Trump support.” “Smell is capitalized,” he said. “In my view, you want to know what’s really going on here? You want to know why the counterintelligence investigation really
Over the weekend, half a dozen presidential hopefuls in the Democratic party attend a union sponsored event called “National Forum on Wages and Working People,” at which they all pledged to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 if elected. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper said he wants $15 to be the minimum age. “Where living costs are higher, like New York, Los Angeles, and maybe Las Vegas, we will go above $15 an hour.” Have none of these Democrats heard about what happened when Seattle jacked its minimum wage up. Or
In a National Review column titled “Biden Is Well-Positioned to Offer Chaos-Weary Voters a Rest,” George Will welcomed the entry of former-Vice President Joe “Huggy-Sniffy” Biden into the peculiar pack pursuing the Democratic presidential nomination. Will notes some of the proposals made by other Democratic presidential wannabes which Biden may have to embrace to get the nomination. He suggests that Biden will, if elected, betray those issues and become a moderate. Let’s review a few of the things that Democrat candidates have proclaimed essential to creating their socialist paradise. Votes for Crooks Some Democrat candidates believe felons, including murderers, should
Left-leaning critics of the Federal Reserve, in particular Big Labor, have a colorful metaphor for the central bank’s oversized power over our economy. You’re at a great party. The partygoers are having the time of their lives, but some are throwing back a few too many and it’s getting out of hand. So the host has to take away the punchbowl! Removing the booze when the economy gets too happy is a thankless job, but somebody has to do it, and that somebody is the Fed. Otherwise people might get hurt, the victims of “irrational exhuberance,” to use Alan Greenspan’s infamous phrase,
Venezuela is Trump’s first new foreign "war", the only major conflict he did not inherit from the Obama administration. "War" is in quotes because no military forces are likely to be involved. This is the peculiar characteristic of what appears to be an American version of "hybrid war" using only sanctions, diplomacy, information operations and proxies. Why it has evolved is easy to explain. A new Cold Hybrid War has been raging for some time, though its existence has been played down for years to preserve the fiction of a Global World Order. Some of its most
There is an important reason why courts do not admit evidence that stems from corrupt law enforcement or prosecutorial activity—evidence known in law as “the fruit of the poisonous tree.” If corrupt governmental activities lead to convictions, and the threat of such convictions is used to trample upon the rights of free citizens, then those citizens will not, in fact, be free. They will not be citizens at all, in the proper sense of the term. They will, instead, become subjects of tyranny, victims of a government which can work its will without regard to the due process
Historians tell us that in the final days of the Third Reich, as the Red Army surrounded the Berlin Führerbunker, a crazed Adolf Hitler ranted, raved, and issued increasingly irrational orders for non-existent Wehrmacht divisions to counterattack and repel the invaders. Even as Germany was being laid waste by the British and American armies advancing from the west and the Russians from the east, Hitler still appeared to believe that victory was within reach. After all, when he had started World War II, world domination by the Nazis had been all but certain.
Which American president changed the White House Christmas cards from being about Christmas or faith to cards featuring the family dogs and similar non-Christmas related subjects? Which president decorated the White House Christmas tree with ornaments that included figures such as Mao Zedong and a drag queen? Which president excluded pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit? Which president nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican? Which president speaking at Georgetown University ordered a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name covered while he was delivering his speech?
Bombshell: Ukraine Embassy Says DNC Operative Reached Out For Dirt On Trump In 2016, Report Says
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A new bombshell report released on Thursday evening alleges that an operative for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) reached out during the 2016 presidential election and asked for dirt on Donald Trump. (Video) The Hill reports that Ukrainian Ambassador Valeriy Chaly´s office said in written answers to questions that DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa? sought information on Paul Manafort because Chalupa wanted to force Manafort´s business dealings in front Congress: The Embassy got to know Ms. Chalupa because of her engagement with Ukrainian and other diasporas in Washington D.C., and not in her DNC capacity. We’ve learned about her DNC involvement
She’s baaaaaaaack! Ava Martinez is 8 years old and talks in a squeaky high-pitched voice, saying “like” repeatedly. That makes her perfect to play Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (even though she has to dumb it down a bit to make it believable). Ava blew up the internet last month when her stepfather posted a video of her impersonating the New York Democratic socialist. “And, like, I want to talk about, like, climate change, because, like, there’s no doubt that cow farts are making the climate change.” Now Ava’s back with another installment — and this one’s even better. “Hi, AOC here
Former Texas Representative Beto O’Rourke emerged in a new poll as the most likely to beat President Donald Trump if he were to win the Democratic nomination in 2020. In a new CNN/SSRS poll released Thursday, 52 per cent of registered voters said they would vote for O’Rourke if he was running against Trump in the general elections. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Independent Senator Bernie Sanders came in a close second and third with 51 and 50 per cent, respectively. Of the six Democratic candidates the surveyed polled about, five earned more per cent of respondents’ vote than
The only thing uglier than an angry Washington is a fearful Washington. And fear is what’s driving this week’s blitzkrieg of Attorney General William Barr. Mr. Barr tolerantly sat through hours of Democratic insults at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday. His reward for his patience was to be labeled, in the space of a news cycle, a lawbreaking, dishonest, obstructing hack. Speaker Nancy Pelosi publicly accused Mr. Barr of lying to Congress, which, she added, is “considered a crime.” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he will move to hold Mr. Barr in contempt unless the attorney general