Posts on Saturday, May 4, 2019
Trans Woman Smashes Four World Records and Wins Nine Events in Women’s Weightlifting Tournament
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It’s the end of women’s sports as we know it. (Photo) For the second year in a row, transgender wrestler Mack Beggs won the Texas girls’ Class 6A 110-pound wrestling division. Beggs is in the process of transitioning from female to male and taking testosterone. Mack won the title last year too. (Photo) In October 2018 trangender Dr. Rachel McKinnon (in the middle) became the first ever transgender world champion in a womens cycling event. (Photo) In March 2017, Laurel Hubbard, a 39 year-old transgender who was born male, won her first international women’s weightlifting title in Australia breaking four
There are many reasons most journalists and other Democrats have focused on additional witch hunts on President Trump, and why they seek to destroy AG Barr -- while they lie to the public that they are trying to unite us. Here is a small sample of topics they need the voting public to ignore or not hear about: They don’t want to talk about their continuous lie about Russian collusion with no evidence while Trump told the truth from the start. They don’t want to admit that the Obama administration spied illegally many Americans including Trump. They laughed at Trump
TALLAHASSEE — Seeking to carry out a November constitutional amendment, the Florida Senate on Thursday passed a measure that would require repayment of financial obligations before felons’ voting rights could be restored. It’s an issue that’s been a sticking point as lawmakers grappled with one of this year’s most controversial pieces of legislation. The Senate spent about two hours in an emotional debate on the measure before voting strictly along party lines and sending the proposal to the House for consideration Friday, the final day it can pass before the legislative session ends. The constitutional amendment granted restoration of voting rights
ST. PETERSBURG — The Rev. Andy Oliver of Allendale United Methodist Church has made no secret of the fact that he is willing to perform same-sex marriages. In February, when his denomination voted against a proposal to let regional church bodies decide whether to ordain gay and lesbian people in relationships, allow clergy to officiate at same-sex marriages and hold such ceremonies in a church, his congregation took out a full-page newspaper ad to apologize for the decision. His church website announces that it provides "an altar for all" and is committed "to support and celebrate same-sex marriages." Now Oliver may be
Seoul - The top diplomats of South Korea and the United States agreed Saturday to "prudently" handle North Korea´s launch of short-range projectiles during their telephone talks, Seoul´s foreign ministry said. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke by phone hours after the North fired the projectiles into the East Sea in an apparent show of growing impatience over stalled nuclear negotiations with Washington. "Regarding today´s launch, the two sides agreed to prudently deal with it and continue to communicate while continuing additional analysis (of the launch)," the ministry
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) conversation is returning to Capitol Hill Tuesday as the House Judiciary Committee hosts the first congressional hearing in 36 years to discuss the legislation. The hearing will bring together four witnesses including a state senator, legal experts, and actor and advocate, Patricia Arquette Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-New York, is the sponsor of H.J.Res.35, which would restart the amendment ratification process, and has been introducing ERA legislation DURING each session of Congress since 1992.
Moscow has started exerting pressure on Tehran to reduce its presence in Syria by demanding that Iran pull out Revolutionary Guards from military bases there and remove its sophisticated drones, Israeli intelligence sources said Friday. (Snip) This was first noticed when Russia obstructed a decision by Syrian regime leader Bashar Assad on the management of Latakia port near its military base at Hmeimim. Assad had originally agreed to grant Tehran the right to operate the port. Later, Moscow expelled Revolutionary Guards personnel from important air bases throughout Syria, where Russia had previously agreed to operate
Normally, one would expect that a university fortunate enough to get a sitting Supreme Court Justice to join its faculty would be receiving accolades from its students. But of course, these are not normal times. Thus, when George Mason University recently announced that Justice Brett Kavanaugh would co-teach (along with Professor Jennifer L. Mascott) a summer class at its Antonin Scalia Law School, the campus Left was seriously triggered. Students immediately launched protests, a petition drive, and an ad campaign claiming that they would suffer harm due to the uncorroborated allegations of sexual assault
I am filing this story in the “put up or shut up” category of invitations. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham Friday morning sent a letter to Special Counsel Robert Mueller inviting him to testify about the phone call he had with AG Barr following the letter Mueller sent to Barr about the summary of findings the AG issued, pending release of the full report. That letter, purportedly meant to be private, nonetheless was leaked right before Barr testified before Graham’s committee, and was used by Democrat members to criticize the AG.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Jeane Kirkpatrick’s essay, “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” an astute critique of what was then the United States foreign policy establishment’s outlook. On reading the essay, anti-establishment Republican Ronald Reagan invited the Georgetown University political science professor and lifelong Democrat to become a senior foreign policy advisor to his 1980 campaign for president. As she observed, the prevailing worldview among both liberal Democrats and establishment Republicans was that “events are manifestations of deep historical forces which cannot be controlled
Three years ago, then-president Barack Hussein Obama (D) mocked the plans of his sure-not-to-be-successor, Donald J. Trump (R), for the country, comparing them to his oh, so successful eight-year "scandal free," high unemployment, high food stamp use, successful administration. "He just says, ´I´m gonna negotiate a better deal.´ Well how? How exactly are you going to negotiate that?" Obama said during the town hall portion of the event. "What magic wand do you have? And usually the answer is, he doesn´t have an answer." Well, that was then. And this is now. To Obama´s shock and dismay, Trump is president.
A Boeing jetliner with 143 people aboard from the US outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, slid off a runway into a shallow river in Jacksonville, Florida, on Friday while attempting to land at a military base there during a thunderstorm, injuring 21 people. There were no reports of fatalities or critical injuries. The Jacksonville Sheriff´s Office said on Twitter that all 21 of the injured were taken to a hospital, where they were listed in good condition. (Snip) This plane was an older, chartered Boeing 737-800 arriving from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba with 136 passengers and seven crew members, crashed into the St Johns river
Sen. Mitt Romney returned from a Middle East tour saying that he saw no alternative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict other than the two-state solution. The Utah Republican, his party’s 2012 presidential nominee, has just assumed the chairmanship of the Middle East subcommittee in the Senate. Romney’s conclusion could put him at odds with the Israeli government, which now says that the two-state solution is all but moribund, and with the Trump administration, which has retreated from U.S. policy endorsing a two-state outcome.
Colorado Republican Rep. Scott Tipton sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Friday requesting that members of radical activist group Code Pink be removed from the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, D.C., which they have apparently occupied for the last several weeks.(Snip for graphic)The letter reads in part: “The United States must remain strong in its support of the Venezuelan people and the legitimate government of interim President Juan Guaidó. I want to thank you for your leadership during this critical time. I am concerned that the Venezuelan people and the government of interim President Guaidó are being prevented
The attorney for a security guard injured in a 2015 terror attack in Garland, Texas, has filed an appeal in the U.S. Fifth Circuit after the original lawsuit was dismissed in December. Bruce Joiner is seeking millions in damages from the FBI after he was shot in the leg when two radicalized Islamists opened fire at a "Draw the Prophet Muhammad" event. Joiner has argued that the bureau fomented the attack and had advance knowledge it was likely to happen but failed to stop it. ISIS later claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place four years ago on Friday,
The boomerang from the Democratic Party’s failed attempt to connect Donald Trump to Russia’s 2016 election meddling is picking up speed, and its flight path crosses right through Moscow’s pesky neighbor, Ukraine. That is where there is growing evidence a foreign power was asked, and in some cases tried, to help Hillary Clinton. In its most detailed account yet, the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee (DNC) insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country´s president to help.
In the beginning, it was collusion with the Russians that the Democrats were counting on to send the president to obscurity, or worse. When that partisan fantasy dissolved like snow on a sunny day, the Democrats seized obstruction of justice as the crime of the century. The special counsel concluded there was not enough there, either. Now the only “high crime and misdemeanor” left to imagine is that the attorney general “lied to Congress.” Without a shred of reliable evidence, that’s the thinnest fantasy of all. The third time is definitely not the charm. So what’s next? Is there a scandal
Following months of angry claims by journalists and Democratic operatives that the Obama administration never spied on Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, The New York Times admitted Thursday that multiple overseas intelligence assets were deployed against associates of the Republican nominee. It is not the first time the Times has revealed widespread spying operations against the campaign. In addition to noting that long-time informant Stefan Halper was tasked with collecting intelligence on the Trump campaign, the Times story details how a woman was sent overseas under a fake name and occupation to oversee the spy operation. The woman’s real name
To become mayor, he defeated a Republican who vowed to kill kittens to keep the trains running. After complaining that New Yorkers didn’t appreciate his year one accomplishments, he killed a groundhog. Then helped kill a deer. Now, he’s coming for America. I get it: If there’s one person who can unite this nation, it’s New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who likes to prattle on about his transcendent, historic vision and who (polls confirm) roughly nobody wants running for president after he’s flirted with the idea for months, but who The New York Daily News reported Friday will announce
One of the more epic romances of the past couple of years seems to have come to an end. No official statement has been released, but the signs are everywhere. The mainstream media seems to have moved on from its 2018 heartthrob, one Robert Francis "Beto" O´Rourke.(Snip)In his futile bid to unseat Ted Cruz last year, O´Rourke couldn´t so much as sneeze without fifteen members of the press getting weak in the knees and writing a thousand words about how his sneezes were just so different and dreamy. When O´Rourke launched his presidential campaign
The economy is strong, unemployment is low and wages are rising, according to the latest economic data released Friday, which is in stark contrast to what the vast majority of elite economic opinion predicted just a few years ago from a Trump presidency. The latest unemployment report has joblessness at 3.6 percent. Where is the Trump Armageddon Squad now? What’s even more egregious is that the same folks predicting the end of the world refuse to provide sane analysis of radical proposals dribbling out of the mouths of the Democrats.
The deputy assistant director at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jonathan Moffa, was involved with the Russia–Trump investigation from the start. He was asked, in a closed-door Capitol Hill interview on August 24, 2018, to describe his role: “I was the section chief over counterintelligence analysis during the period of the election,” Moffa told lawmakers and staff. “And as a result, I had analysts who reported to me who supported the full range of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigations and counterespionage investigations during that period. So in a sense, if there’s a Russian-election-related investigation
In a little-noticed exchange during his Senate hearing Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr made a surprising disclosure that could allow the public and press to obtain sensitive details about the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. During a back-and-forth with Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, Barr identified Alexander Downer, a former Australian diplomat, as the FBI’s source for the information that sparked the bureau’s counterintelligence investigation into George Papadopoulos and other Trump campaign associates. The federal government had not officially identified Downer as the source until Wednesday. His role in the investigation was publicly known,
Shocking video of children in Philadelphia Muslim Society: ´We will chop off their heads´ for Allah
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Disturbing footage of Muslim kids saying they would sacrifice themselves and kill for the "army of Allah" surfaced from an Islamic center in Philadelphia. The Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted the video to its Facebook page celebrating "Ummah Day" in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves sang and read poetry about killing for Allah and the mosque in Jerusalem.The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a watchdog group, alerted Fox News to the video. "These are not isolated incidents; they are happening in major centers of the country – including in Pennsylvania,"
Rachel Held Evans, a progressive Christian author whose writing challenged traditional evangelical views on politics and the role of women and LGBTQ members of the church, died on Saturday. She was 37. Evans was hospitalized in mid-April for what she described in a tweet as "a flu + UTI combo and a severe allergic reaction to the antibiotics they gave me." She was placed in a medically-induced coma after her brain began suffering constant seizures, according to updates posted online by her husband, Daniel Evans. On Saturday, he wrote that she had experienced extensive brain swelling after being
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Saturday acknowledged errors made in attempting to stir a military uprising, and did not discard a U.S. military option in Venezuela alongside domestic forces — saying he would take any such offer from Washington to a vote in the country’s National Assembly. After a dramatic week that saw a clandestine plan to oust President Nicolás Maduro fall apart on Tuesday, Guaidó conceded that the opposition had miscalculated its support within the military. In an exclusive interview with The Washington Post, Guaidó suggested that he expected Maduro to step down amid a
WASHINGTON— Clarence Thomas has been a Supreme Court justice for nearly three decades. It may finally be his moment. Many Americans know Thomas largely from his bruising 1991 confirmation hearing, when he was accused of sexual harassment charges by former employee Anita Hill — charges he denied. People may know he’s a conservative and has gone years without speaking during arguments at the court. But scholars say it would be wise to pay closer attention to Thomas. Thomas is now the longest-serving member of a court that has recently gotten more conservative, putting him in a unique
Two pastors whose historically black churches were burned down spoke with CNN’s Don Lemon about Vice President Mike Pence’s Friday visit and the Trump administration’s response. Rev. Gerald Toussaint of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church and Rev. Harry Richard of Greater Union Baptist Church both sat down with Lemon Friday night. Their churches were burned in hate-motivated arsons allegedly committed by the son of a local sheriff’s deputy. Instead of being critical, the reverends praised both Pence and the administration’s response to the tragedy. WATCH: (Video) “Today the vice president visited the site and your church,” Lemon said.
Following the refusal of the professional political class within the U.K. to honor the Brexit votes of the majority, British leader Nigel Farage came off the sidelines and said ‘enough’. Farage and a group of independent British politicians have formed the Brexit party to take down the two-party structure and finally deliver the voice of the people. Their Brexit party campaign has been criss-crossing the nation ahead of elections on May 23rd. The response has been exceptional…. “A Movement for Democracy”. Nigel Farage delivered remarks during a rally today.
Former Vice President Joe Biden charged Saturday that Jim Crow is ´sneaking back in´ as he emphasized the need to ensure voting rights are protected, which he said is lacking under the Trump administration. Biden drew several hundred people to a community center in Columbia as he opened his presidential campaign in South Carolina, home of the first-in-the-South primary and where black voters play a major role in the Democratic nominating process. In criticizing Republican attempts to reconfigure voting rules, including establishing identification requirements, Biden recalled the racial segregation laws of the past known as Jim Crow. (Photos)
Country House was declared the winner of the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on Saturday following “an inquiry ruling” and the disqualification of Maximum Security, officials said. The disqualification marked "the first time in 145 years" that "the horse who finished first in the Kentucky Derby was disqualified," the official Twitter account for the sporting event said. Country House was a 65-1 longshot in the race that included 18 other competitors.
Therapists in Hollywood must be raking it in this month, as celebrities from Chelsea Handler to Amy Poehler confessed to having emotional breakdowns and “panic attacks” over Donald Trump. Some of them were just sad as they cried over no collusion in the Russia case. Singer Bette Midler claimed Trump had “caused depression, despair, confusion and death.” Others expressed anger. Actor Robert De Niro raged against the “wannabee gangster in the White House.” Comedian D.L. Hughley demanded action as he insisted if Democrats didn’t impeach Trump then the word “justice” has no meaning. And others, like Empire actress
On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks reacted to President Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin by stating that even though there “was probably no collusion,” Trump “acts like someone who is in collusion with Russia.” Brooks said, “Trump wonders why people investigate the idea of Russian collusion and the idea that he’s somehow tied to Russia in some nefarious way. Well, this is why they do it. Because, in public, and in the way he conducts himself, he acts like someone who is in collusion with Russia. And there was probably no collusion,
John Kelly joins board of company operating largest shelter for unaccompanied migrant children
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In April, protesters outside the nation´s largest facility for unaccompanied migrant children noticed a familiar face enter the massive, fenced site in Homestead, Florida: former White House chief of staff John Kelly. Soon after, a local television station recorded footage of him riding on the back of a golf cart as he toured the grounds. It wasn´t clear why he was there, but Friday, Caliburn International confirmed to CBS News that Kelly had joined its board of directors. Caliburn is the parent company of Comprehensive Health Services, which operates Homestead and three other shelters for unaccompanied migrant children in Texas.
A $1.5 billion sweetheart deal Hunter Biden’s private equity firm secured from the state-owned Bank of China is “looming on the horizon” as a potential line of attack against his father’s 2020 presidential campaign, according to Vanity Fair’s Tina Nguyen. This comes days after a New York Times article renewed interest in the revelations exposed in Peter Schweizer’s 2018 bestseller Secret Empires concerning the sweetheart deals Hunter Biden’s private equity firm secured while his father, Joe Biden, was vice president. But the Times’ article “may be just the first volley in what is likely to become a broader
The Big Lie That Barr Lied
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I originally thought this was too stupid to write about. But stupid is like the plague inside the Beltway — one person catches it and next thing you know there’s an outbreak at MSNBC and the speaker of the House is showing symptoms while her delirious minions tote ceramic chickens around Capitol Hill. So I give you: the Bill Barr perjury allegation. We are all entitled to our own opinions. But are we entitled to our own facts? Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s bon mot says no, but Washington makes you wonder. Like when spleen-venting about the supposedly outrageous, unbelievable, disgraceful invocation
Even if Stephen Moore were an Obama-era leftist, the kind of media hit job thrown at him is cause for disgust. President Trump´s nominee was doxxed, smeared, and dirt-dug by a host of media opponents, making him impossible to confirm as a Federal Reserve Board governor in the weak-kneed, RINO-infested Senate. His economic ideas were barely touched upon, although blowhards such as Paul Krugman made a few attempts. Krugman, you recall, was the one who said the economy would tank and never recover if President Trump were elected.
Kamala Harris´s glass house
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When Kamala Harris started throwing stones at A.G. Barr during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, she apparently forgot that she lives in a very big glass house. In case you´ve forgotten what she demanded of the eminent lawyer sitting before her, here is a video of the question, starting at the point in her questioning when she was laying the predicate for chastising him for not reviewing the supporting documents of the Mueller Report, which, we should note, include over a million pages. [Video]
North Korean “Projectile” Test….
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There’s something really odd about the latest reports from South Korea about a test of three missiles the South has corrected to describe as “projectiles”. The odd part is there’s zero mention in North Korea state media about it. Fox News picked up on that aspect in a brief sentence inside their report: […] South Korean officials were monitoring the situation and were sharing information with their American counterparts. North Korea did not report on Saturday’s firings. Seoul’s intelligence agency said it thinks the projectiles were not missiles given their short travel distances
This year’s Kentucky Derby, at least on paper, is one of the most competitive in many years. You’ve got Bob Baffert’s trio of Game Winner, Roadster and Improbable, all within half-a-tick of each other on the morning line. You’ve got undefeated Florida Derby winner Maximum Security and Wood Memorial winner Tacitus, who jumped to first and second in early betting. You’ve got the always present “buzz horse,” who this year is By My Standards, winner of the Louisiana Derby.
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi does not believe President Trump can be removed through impeachment — the only way to do it, she said this week, is to defeat him in 2020 by a margin so “big” he cannot challenge the legitimacy of a Democratic victory.That is something she worries about.“We have to inoculate against that, we have to be prepared for that,” Ms. Pelosi said during an interview at the Capitol on Wednesday as she discussed her concern that Mr. Trump would not give up power voluntarily if he lost re-election by a slim margin next year.
On Monday, former President Trump “fixer” Michael Cohen checks in to the federal prison in Otisville, NY — where he can enjoy bocce ball and tennis with fellow inmates “The Situation,” Fyre Festival fraudster Billy McFarland, and former state Senate leader Dean Skelos. Cohen, 53, will step inside the medium-security Federal Correctional Facility Otisville, in the Catskills about 70 miles from Manhattan, to begin a three-year sentence for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance. He’ll sleep in a bunk bed inside a barracks-like hall holding about 115 other inmates, the Associated Press reported. He’ll be assigned
Fired FBI Director James Comey defended the agency’s spying-on of the 2016 Trump campaign and the use of a “honey pot” to entrap former campaign aide George Papadopoulos. Comey was reacting to a New York Times report alleging that the FBI had employed an attractive female who used the alias “Azra Turk” to spy on Papadopoulos. Naturally, the New York Times contorted themselves to not say the word “spy,” making for a laughable headline. (Tweet) James Comey rips Trump supporters -Instead of slamming the FBI for illegally spying on American citizens to influence a presidential election, Comey blasted Trump
t’s called the “Greatest Two-Minutes in Sports.” The journey to get to the Kentucky Derby started four years ago when breeders and owners hope to put together the perfect combination of sire and mare.(Snip) This is the culmination of that quest, a spectacle held before more than 150,000 people at Churchill Downs. Trainer Bob Baffert, who has three horses in the race, calls this one of the tightest Derbies in a long time. Things got even more interesting when the favorite, Omaha Beach, had to scratch because of a minor medical condition. Now, it’s on to
Trainer Bob Baffert will be looking to make history this weekend as he saddles three horses in search of a record-equaling sixth Kentucky Derby win. One of the 66-year-old’s horses, Game Winner, is the 9-2 favorite for Saturday´s 145th running at Churchill Downs. Winner originally opened Tuesday as the 5-1 second choice behind Omaha Beach, who has now been scratched from the running because of a breathing problem. Baffert´s two other pupils, Roadster and Improbable, are 5-1 co-second choices that give the Hall of Fame trainer additional chances to win a sixth Derby and tie Ben Jones´ record.
Shocking footage of children in a Philadelphia Islamic center has emerged that shows them saying that they would "chop off...heads" for Allah."The Muslim American Society (MAS) Islamic Center in Philadelphia posted the video to its Facebook page celebrating ´Ummah Day´ in which young children wearing Palestinian scarves sang and read poetry about killing for Allah and the mosque in Jerusalem," Fox News reported. "One girl talks about martyrs sacrificing their lives without hesitation to conquer Jerusalem." "We will defend the land of divine guidance with our bodies, and we will sacrifice our souls without hesitation," another girl says.
Hillary Clinton’s defenders will never stop making excuses for why she lost in 2016: It was Matt Lauer! It was James Comey! It was men being sexist! It was women being sexist! It was voter suppression! It was Citizens United! It was fake news! It was WikiLeaks! It was Facebook! It was the Russians! Today, a new excuse: It was Jon Stewart! In the middle of last week, Huma Abedin must have bustled over to Hillary’s place with a lovingly bound copy of the latest in cutting-edge academic research, a report that says Jon Stewart’s retirement is ACKSHULLY
Just 18 months after his career as a political pundit and TV commentator imploded amid sexual harassment and assault allegations, Mark Halperin is trying to mount a comeback. He’s getting help from media personalities including MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinksi. The women who have accused Halperin have a few things to say about this: They’re outraged. Halperin, 54, lost commentary gigs with MSNBC, NBC and Showtime in October 2017 after nine women accused him of unwanted touching, sexual comments and physical assault when he worked at ABC News between 1994 and 2006. HBO also canceled plans
As most people know by now, pretty much everything that has or will go wrong in America these days is President Trump’s fault. There’s simply no way around it. The media is full of it. [Snip] Political turmoil. His failure to collude with Russia. The overuse of exclamation points. What? Wait! Of course, Americans’ addiction to exclamation points is not really Trump’s fault, though he has revolutionized the use of instant political communications with very frequent missives to his 60 million Twitter followers. He is, however, executive producer of the current White House reality show. So, Trump’s become
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo/GENEVA - The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Congo rose above 1,000 on Friday, with attacks on treatment centres continuing to hamper efforts to control the “intense transmission” of the second-worst epidemic of the virus on record. The World Health Organization said it expected the nine-month outbreak to continue spreading though the east of Democratic Republic of Congo, and announced plans to expand vaccinations in the coming weeks once a new treatment by Johnson & Johnson is approved. The WHO is already using another experimental vaccine made by Merck. Michael Ryan, executive
Dubai - Iran will continue with low-level uranium enrichment in line with its nuclear deal with world powers, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani was quoted as saying on Saturday, despite a U.S. move to stop it. Washington acted on Friday to force Iran to stop producing low-enriched uranium and expanding its only nuclear power plant, intensifying a campaign aimed at halting Tehran´s ballistic missile programme and curbing its regional power. (Snip) Washington said the move was aimed at forcing Tehran to end its production of low-enriched uranium, a demand Iran has repeatedly rejected as it says it uses the uranium
The Mueller Report has come and gone leaving behind neither collusion nor obstruction. But in the time that has passed, the Democrats have shown that they won’t give up their pet conspiracy theory. The post-Mueller efforts of House Democrats to interest the public in scandals about White House security clearances and Trump´s tax returns failed miserably because they lacked the drama, the unfolding layers of conspiracies, and the delegitimization of the 2016 election that Russiagate offers. After Attorney General Barr´s summary of the Mueller Report, the Democrat media held out hope that the full report would prove collusion. When it failed
In recent columns I’ve argued that Steven Pinker, Kevin Williamson, and others are terribly wrong to insist that material progress entails a superior form of life. For our problem today is that we Americans are so devoted to work and consumption that we don’t know how to live. We talk about GDP growth without considering what it is for. We look at all our fancy new gadgets, as more of them are produced every year, and pride ourselves on our “progress,” but all the while we grow more anxious, desperate, and miserable. Yesterday, while observing a vast, harried crowd
We know what Democrats are guilty of by what they accuse Republicans of doing. We’ve all heard that axiom (or some variation of it) before, yet, every time it happens it’s no less shocking that they think they can get away with it. And right now that axiom is proving itself true once again with their targeting of Attorney General William Barr. Congressional Democrats are clearly aware that the American people do not favor impeachment of President Trump. Even a CNN poll shows that 59 percent of the public oppose impeachment—and that’s a left-leaning poll. While impeaching Trump is,
Youth Is Wasted on the Idealists
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There are several public figures from whose faces I feel compelled to avert my gaze, so irritating do I find them, among which are those of Messrs. Blair of Britain and Trudeau of Canada, La Compasionaria of New Zealand Jacinda Adern, and the Scottish nationalist leader Nicola Sturgeon, whose visage has all the charm and good humor of reinforced concrete. But by far the ghastliest of contemporary visages imperative to avoid for the sake of my peace of mind is that of the Swedish pigtailed prig Greta Thunberg. If there were a Nobel Prize for self-satisfaction she would be without
Alabama state representative John Rogers´s recent comments on abortion have received widespread condemnation—including from his former lawyer, Sen. Doug Jones (D., Ala.). Jones defended Rogers in federal corruption cases as far back as 1989 and as recently as 2010, according to Alabama outlet Yellowhammer News. When Rogers defended abortion on the State House floor by saying fetuses would either be killed "now" or "later," he took a great deal of criticism, including from Donald Trump Jr., but Rogers doubled down by calling the president’s son "retarded" and a "very good defense" for aborting kids.
A month before his inauguration, and shortly after he had finished a round of golf with Tiger Woods, Donald Trump was introduced to an adviser of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the chief advocacy group for American corporations. Stanton Anderson stood in the clubhouse of Mr. Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Fla., and extended his hand to the president-elect. Mr. Trump refused it. “You guys did everything to stop me,” Mr. Trump said, his face reddening, according to two people who were there. “I haven’t forgotten.” In the two years since, relations between Mr. Trump and Washington’s biggest lobbying organization
The New Cheney
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I can´t think of a better illustration of our partisan divide than the reactions to Attorney General William Barr´s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Democrats are furious at Barr´s defense of his rollout of the Mueller report and his assertions of executive power. Some Democrats want Barr to resign, others want him to be impeached, and Nancy Pelosi says he´s guilty of lying to Congress. Republicans have found a hero. Barr is the new Dick Cheney: a stocky, bespectacled, confrontational, blunt, intelligent, unapologetically conservative, experienced, and high-powered official who believes in and fights for the office of
Attorney General Bill Barr lied to Congress? If you have any liberal friends, they’ve already started repeating this talking point. It’s nonsense. When I first read the editorials carping on the attorney general’s March 24, 2019 summary of the Mueller report, I failed to recognize the coordinated assault being launched to punish Barr for . . . well, let’s be honest, speaking truth to the leftist juggernaut that pushed the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. After all, why are we arguing over a summary of a report that’s now available to the public? Nope, this thin gruel is the Left’s chosen weapon
Who won this week
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When he was with the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza used to do a loser-of-the-week column. He is now a nattering nabob of negativism nodding on CNN. It´s a living. (Snip) Let us look at who won this week in Washington. No contest. Attorney General Bill Barr won. The promo for a new movie is "Getting Straight A´s. Giving Zero F´s" best describes Barr´s attitude now that the Mueller Report officially clears our president of the Russian conspiracy nonsense.His appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a magnificent moment. The attempted coup by Obama, the FBI, and
This is interesting…. because it strikes at the heart of the CIA/FBI construct around George Papadopoulos. The impetus for the early 2016 CIA/FBI investigation motive of George Papadopoulos surrounds Joseph Mifsud as a Russian asset; who supposedly told Papadopoulos that Russia had ‘dirt’ in Hillary Clinton. Professor Mifsud being a Russian asset underpins all of their subsequent activity. If Mifsud is not a Russian intelligence asset, the FBI and CIA have a problem within their narrative. If Mifsud is a Western asset, well, that proves Papadopouls was being set up.
Always just one tweet away from playing the victim card, as a Twitterer noted, Rep. Ilhan Omar made an unexpectedly unfortunate allusion to ´women of color´ being put down as she sought to bite back at Vice President Mike Pence, who criticized her ignorance on Venezuela. According to The Hill: Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) fired back on Friday after Vice President Pence said she "doesn’t know what she´s talking about" regarding the ongoing conflict in Venezuela. Omar took to Twitter to say that Pence´s criticism is something "women of color have heard" before.
An investment fund backed by Hunter Biden, son of 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden, invested in a surveillance system used to spy on Muslims in China, a new report claims. The former vice president has been facing scrutiny over his son’s business dealings in Ukraine and other countries, with reports focusing on Hunter Biden’s role in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. The company employed the younger Biden as a board member as the U.S. and the Obama administration were mulling a course of action amid Russia´s invasion in Eastern Ukraine.
Last April 24 was Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Millions of Armenians around the world remembered how the Islamic Ottoman Empire killed -- often cruelly and out of religious hatred -- some 1.5 million of their ancestors during World War I. Ironically, most people, including most Armenians, are unaware that the first genocide of Christian Armenians at the hands of Muslim Turks did not occur in the twentieth century; rather it began in 1019 -- exactly one thousand years ago this year -- when Turks first began to pour into and transform a then much larger Armenia
NEW YORK — "The Situation" and the Fyre Festival fraudster are already there. President Donald Trump´s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is up next. It´s not reality TV. It´s a federal prison 70 miles (113 kilometers) from New York City where white-collar and D-list scoundrels can do time while playing bocce ball and noshing on rugelach. Cohen, 53, is due to report Monday to the Federal Correctional Institution, Otisville to start a three-year sentence for tax evasion, lying to Congress and campaign finance crimes. Tucked in the lush countryside south of the Catskill Mountains, Otisville is actually
Rashida Tlaib’s Father Says She ‘Lied Big-Time To Get Elected’ In Resurfaced 2010 Newspaper Article
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In a March 11, 2010 newspaper article in The Detroit News, Rep. Rashida Tlaib´s (D-MI) father accused her of lying "big-time to get elected" by falsifying her address on an election affidavit. (Video) Tlaib´s father, Harbi Elabed, made the accusations against Tlaib, who at the time was a freshman state-level representative from the 12th District in Detroit’s Southwest side. The newspaper article was scrubbed from the internet when The Detroit News migrated to a new website but was available in a subscription-based digital archive. The Detroit News reported: He said his daughter misrepresented her residency when she signed an election
Pope Francis addressed participants at a Vatican conference on Thursday and denounced a trend toward nationalism that entails “excessive demands for sovereignty.” “The common good has become global and nations must associate,” the pope told members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences who gathered for their annual meeting, entitled “Nation, State, Nation-State.” “Unfortunately, we have before our eyes situations in which some nation states carry out their relations in a spirit of opposition rather than cooperation,” the pontiff said. Many tensions come “from an excessive demand for sovereignty on the part of States, often precisely in areas where they