Posts on Monday, May 6, 2019
President Donald Trump pardoned Army Lieutenant Michael Behenna, who was prosecuted and convicted of killing prisoner Ali Mansur Mohamed during his deployment in Iraq. Behenna was convicted in 2009 of the unpremeditated murder of Mohamed, despite his claim that he acted in self-defense after Mohamed reached for his gun. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison but was released early on parole. Trump’s pardon came just days after Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter sent a letter to Trump requesting a pardon for Behenna. “Mr. Behenna’s case has attracted broad support from the military, Oklahoma elected officials, and the public,”
Corn planting is more than two weeks behind schedule in Minnesota, and a forecast of more midweek rain is stoking fears that yields will be squeezed by late planting for the second straight year. “We just haven’t had a decent window to do much of anything out in the fields yet,” said Liz Stahl, a crop educator at the University of Minnesota Extension in Worthington. “Too cool and too wet. Too wet is the biggest problem.”(Snip) Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, where corn planting happens earlier in the spring thanks to the warmer weather, are even further behind schedule, according to
President Trump on Monday signed an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, to a former Army first lieutenant convicted of murdering an Iraqi prisoner. The White House released a statement announcing Trump´s decision to pardon Michael Behenna, who was sentenced in 2009 to 15 years for shooting and killing Ali Mansur Mohamed. The move comes after repeated requests from Oklahoma´s attorney general for Trump to pardon Behenna. "Mr. Behenna’s case has attracted broad support from the military, Oklahoma elected officials, and the public," the White House said, noting that more than two dozen generals and admirals as well as
Dunking on the mainstream media is as easy as tripping a fat kid in a cast, except we would probably feel sorry for a fat kid in a cast who we tripped and sent slamming into the pavement piehole first. Unless the fat kid in a cast was a mainstream media journalist, in which case it would be totally hilarious. They hate you, so feel free to hate them back. The MSM was not infuriated with Donald Trump when he called these hack transcriptionists for the liberal elite “the enemy of the people” because he was lying. The MSM was
WASHINGTON — Progressives failed to oust one of the last anti-abortion Democrats in Congress last year, but are coming back faster and harder this time around, setting up an extraordinary intraparty clash. On Monday, EMILY´s List, MoveOn, NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America announced support for Marie Newman, who is once again challenging Rep. Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., for his suburban Chicago district. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., also recently endorsed Newman, becoming the first presidential candidate to do so. Meanwhile, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the election arm for House
"I´m recommending that we impeach Attorney General Barr, so that we can get the information we need to protect our country," Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) told CBS´s "Face the Nation" on Sunday. Swalwell, one of many Democrats running for president, also wants to see President Trump impeached: "It´s maybe the only road to save the country," he said. "But, right now, you know, I will tell you. With the attorney general, I think we should move to impeach him first." (Video) Swalwell noted that the United States "was attacked by the Russians in 2016," and he said that´s what Democrats
You could say kids are taking the lead on climate change. Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish activist and Nobel peace prize nominee, has barnstormed parliaments and United Nations meetings, calling on leaders to stop “behaving like children” and get serious about tackling climate change. Following Thunberg’s lead, thousands of students around the world have started skipping school on Fridays to protest climate inaction. And in June, a group of young Americans will face off against the U.S. government in a landmark trial aimed at spurring more aggressive efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.But kids can change the
Chinese intelligence agents acquired National Security Agency hacking tools and repurposed them in 2016 to attack American allies and private companies in Europe and Asia, a leading cybersecurity firm has discovered. The episode is the latest evidence that the United States has lost control of key parts of its cybersecurity arsenal. Based on the timing of the attacks and clues in the computer code, researchers with the firm Symantec believe the Chinese did not steal the code but captured it from an N.S.A. attack on their own computers — like a gunslinger who grabs an enemy’s rifle and starts blasting
Democrat Alabama State Rep. John Rogers — who advocated his pro-abortion beliefs last week by calling for killing "unwanted" kids" — said in a Monday radio interview that Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) called him and told him that he agreed with what he said but that Jones had to come out against the comments publicly.On the floor of the Alabama House of Representatives last week, Rogers said: "Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later. You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair.
President Donald Trump awarded Masters champion and golfing buddy Tiger Woods the Medal of Freedom on Monday evening in a Rose Garden ceremony the athlete´s new girlfriend also attended. The president said that Woods, 43, is ´one of the greatest athletes in the history of sports´ and has inspired people worldwide with his barrier-breaking victories, capped by a comeback at this year´s tournament. ´He´s also a great person. He´s a great guy,´ Trump declared. ´He inspired millions of young Americans with his thrilling wire-to-wire victories. Tiger Woods is a global symbol of american excellence, devotion, and drive.´
Anchor Jeff Glor is out as the anchor of CBS´ "Evening News" after a massive shakeup at the network´s struggling news division announced on Monday morning. Norah O’Donnell will replace Glor as anchor of “CBS Evening News,” while Anthony Mason and Tony Dokoupil will join Gayle King as co-hosts of “CBS This Morning.” John Dickerson has been removed from the morning show and will report for “60 Minutes” and help anchor political coverage, while a role for Glor is currently uncertain. “This is a start of a new era for CBS News,”
Buttigieg: I Welcome A Fight With Trump Over Who "Has A More Traditional Attitude On Marriage"
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In an interview, Saturday with MSNBC´s Donny Deutsch, Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg discussed his philosophy of campaigning and previewed some of the lines of attack he might take against President Trump. "The fact that I was packing my bags for Afghanistan when he was filming season seven of ´Celebrity Apprentice,´ we could have that fight," he said. "And if somebody wants to raise the question of which one of us has a more traditional attitude on marriage, we can have that fight."
Bernie’s Soviet honeymoon
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The Washington Post runs a worthwhile account of Bernie Sanders’ 1988 honeymoon in the Soviet Union. The Post claims that this event is “little understood.” However, the article confirms, albeit sheepishly, what I take to be the common understanding of Bernie’s honeymoon: Sanders went because he had an affinity for the Soviet Union and left finding much to admire about it. The Post dances around what is perhaps the most remarkable thing about Bernie’s trip. By 1988, the Soviet system was in shambles. It was about to be cast off in Eastern Europe and was expiring even in Russia. Indeed,
Almost 500 former Justice Department officials said on Monday in a joint statement that the Mueller report´s findings would justify obstruction charges against President Donald Trump if he were not currently occupying the White House. Attorney General William Barr has said he found insufficient evidence in Mueller´s report to conclude that Trump obstructed justice. Special Counsel Robert Mueller himself made no formal finding one way or the other on that question. "To look at these facts and say that a prosecutor could not probably sustain a conviction for obstruction of justice? ... runs counter to logic and our experience," said
Pete Buttigieg’s sexuality boosting 2020 bid, Barney Frank says: ‘His being gay is an advantage’
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Former Rep. Barney Frank, the first openly gay man to serve in Congress, says that Beto O’Rourke “may be regretting he’s straight,” given how well Pete Buttigieg is performing in the Democratic presidential primary polls. Mr. Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who retired in 2013 after 32 years in the House, said being gay had helped Mr. Buttigieg separate himself from the crowded 2020 field of white male candidates. “His being gay is an advantage and, if he were straight, I don’t think he would be doing as well,” Mr. Frank, who came out in 1987 after being elected in 1980,
ICE provides local police a way to work around ‘sanctuary’ policies, act as immigration officers
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Sheriff’s offices and police departments in jurisdictions that provide “sanctuary” to undocumented immigrants will have a new way to work with federal authorities to detain and deport them, immigration authorities said Monday. The new Warrant Service Officer program, introduced Monday in Pinellas County on Florida’s Gulf Coast, will allow participating sheriffs and police departments “the flexibility to make immigration arrests,” according to ICE. The move would allow local authorities to detain a criminal suspect beyond the point at which they would have been otherwise released if ICE has requested
A pediatric medical assistant who landed a job at a Bucks County clinic despite a past child pornography arrest was sentenced Monday to 12 years and seven months in federal prison after FBI agents caught him re-offending. Cameron Carlucci, 27, of Philadelphia, admitted he had lied about his record on his job application for Valley Pediatrics in Warminster Township. The clinic did not perform a background check before hiring him, prosecutors said. Carlucci maintained he never touched any patients inappropriately, but he told FBI agents he often viewed sexually explicit images of children online during his downtime at
Chicago—A federal judge on Monday handed an Illinois man a 16-year prison sentence for trying to kill hundreds of people by detonating what he thought was a car bomb outside a crowded Chicago bar in 2012, saying she factored in his mental health in imposing a sentence much lower than prosecutors requested. The sentence announced in Chicago for 25-year-old Adel Daoud includes time for later attempting to have an FBI agent killed and for slashing an inmate with a shiv for taunting him with a drawing of the Prophet Muhammad.(Snip) Prosecutors wanted a 40-year term.
The Washington County Attorney´s Office has charged Amjad Mustafa Salem, a New Hope resident, with one felony count of possessing untaxed tobacco products. A release from the Minnesota Department of Revenue states Salem was pulled over due to erratic driving, which is when officers allegedly noticed a large amount of tobacco products in his vehicle.
Hillary Clinton ripped Donald Trump’s presidency as “deplorable” during the last night of her nationwide speaking tour with husband Bill Clinton on Sunday.In front of a large Las Vegas crowd, the former secretary of state answered a question that the moderator said was from legendary musician James Taylor, who asked whether she believed it was an effective “political strategy to divide the country.” “As you might guess, Bill and I have strong feelings about this question,” Mrs. Clinton joked. “Because we think that what’s, unfortunately, happening right now is a political strategy that is absolutely meant to divide
In “Republicans in a Nation” (Washington Post, May 4-5, 2019) “conservative” columnist Peggy Noonan outdid herself in an entertaining display of intellectual gymnastics to defend the following premise: …old conservatism was deeply pertinent to its era and philosophy right, but it is not fully in line with the crisis of our time or its reigning facts. Conservatism centers on the belief that some ideas are timeless. The notion that even one of these ideas was merely “pertinent to its era” is the opposite of conservatism.
He is, arguable, the greatest golfer who ever lived.But Tiger Woods is being criticized for accepting an award from the president of the United States — And the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony doesn’t even happen until Monday at 6 p.m. “It sullies everybody,” Rick Reilly, the author of “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump,” told the New York Times. He added that accepting the award “puts a big stain on Tiger.” “Tiger Woods is obviously a very talented golfer,” Aaron Scherb, the director of legislative affairs for Common Cause, a watchdog group, also told the Times.
‘What’s Pelosi going to do?’ Rudy Giuliani asks, after Tlaib calls Palestinians ‘our people’
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Rudy Giuliani has pointedly asked, “What is Pelosi going to do?” about Rashida Tlaib. Giuliani was referring specifically to Tlaib’s tweet of support for the Hamas terrorist 700-rocket barrage on Israel this weekend that killed at least 4 Israeli civilians and injured dozens. (Tweets) Giuliani currently serves as an attorney to President Donald Trump. Tlaib is a freshman socialist congresswoman representing a district that includes the western half of Detroit, Michigan. “The latest round of violence began two days ago when an Islamic Jihad sniper fired at Israeli troops, wounding two soldiers,” Reuters reported.
Former first lady Michelle Obama congratulated Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Prince Harry on the birth of their first child Monday. “Barack and I are so thrilled for both of you and can´t wait to meet him,” Obama tweeted in response to the royal family announcing the birth of the baby boy. (Tweet) The couple has not yet chosen a name for their newborn, Prince Harry told reporters Monday morning. Obama and the duchess privately met last year to discuss their passion for advocating for women’s issues, the education of young girls, and raising children.
PHOENIX — John McCain’s dog, who was always at the senator’s side until his death last year, died after getting stuck in a pipe and drowning on the family’s northern Arizona property. Cindy McCain told The Arizona Republic on Monday that Burma died last month when she got trapped in a pipe on their Cornville property. She says the Chesapeake Bay retriever had never run into a pipe before. The property includes a series of ponds and a creek.
Joe Biden opened his presidential campaign with a sharp, if familiar, message. “I believe history will look back on four years of this president and all he embraces as an aberrant moment in time,” he said in his announcement video. “But if we give Donald Trump eight years in the White House, he will forever and fundamentally alter the character of this nation.” On the stump, Biden has highlighted his relationships with individual Republican lawmakers and he tries to distinguish the larger party from its leader, to appeal to Republican voters who might be alienated by the president.
Boeing said Sunday that it discovered after airlines had been flying its 737 Max plane for a year that a safety alert in the cockpit was not working as intended. But it didn’t disclose that fact to the Federal Aviation Administration and other airlines that used these planes until after one of the planes crashed. In an announcement on Sunday, Boeing said engineers identified a fault with the pilot warning system on its 737 MAX aircraft in 2017, more than a year before the deadly Lion Air crash. The feature was designed to warn pilots when a key sensor might
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler scheduled a vote Monday to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for not giving the committee special counsel Robert Mueller’s full unredacted report. The New York Democrat gave Barr a deadline of 9 a.m. Monday to turn in the full report with no redactions, which many Republicans believe would be dangerous due to the possibly sensitive material, which could be leaked. Nadler has now scheduled the congressional contempt vote for Wednesday, May 8 at 10 a.m. “Even in redacted form, the Special Counsel’s report offers disturbing evidence
Brunei, a country that just adopted Shariah law, halted its plans to stone to death gays and adulterers after facing substantial outcries from the international community. How nice of Brunei. “Brunei says it won’t enforce death penalty for gay sex,” BBC News wrote in a headline. “Brunei Says It Won’t Execute Gays After Protests of Stoning Law,” The New York Times reported. And The Times went on with this: “Critics of the country’s newly enacted Islamic laws said several other harsh punishments remain on the books, including whipping and amputation, and they have called for continued opposition until the laws are
Turkish authorities on Monday ordered a redo of an election won by an opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political party, snatching away a major victory from the country’s opposition. Under heavy pressure by Mr Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) Turkey’s High Election Commission (YSK), which is described as packed with the president’s loyalists, canceled the results of 31 March Istanbul mayoral elections narrowly won by Ekrem Imamoglu, a rising star in the Turkish opposition. Mr Imamoglu was handed the mandate to govern last month, lifting the spirits of Erdogan’s opponents, despite vague
State lawmaker berates ‘old white lady’ protesting outside Planned Parenthood: ‘Shame on you!’
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Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims videotaped himself berating an “old white lady” demonstrating outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Philadelphia last week. In the video that Mr. Sims broadcast on Periscope, the openly gay Democrat approaches a woman outside the Center City clinic and repeatedly asks her how many children she clothed and fed that day. “She is an old white lady who is going to try to avoid showing you her face,” Mr. Sims says as the woman turns her face away from the camera. “But the same laws, luckily, that protect her for being out here also protect
Socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza suggested to reporters in Moscow Monday that Maduro may request a larger Russian military presence in the country after the nation’s president, Juan Guaidó, announced that Venezuela’s forces had agreed to stop taking orders from Maduro. Russia is Maduro’s most prominent ally and has deployed a significant, though not precisely permanent, troop presence to Venezuela. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused the Russians of convincing Maduro not to flee the country last week after Guaidó announced his uprising. Since then, Maduro has claimed that he remains
The Voter Suppression Myth
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Democrats believe their own bull—- about the Side of History so much that they can’t imagine losing an election, because if you have History on your side how can you lose except by someone using the Dark Side of the Force. Hence the daily claim of the left that Democrats have lost because of voter suppression. Kamala Harris, for examples, has claimed: “Let’s say this loud and clear — without voter suppression, Stacey Abrams would be the governor of Georgia, Andrew Gillum is the governor of Florida.” There have been numerous takedowns
Rovaniemi, Finland - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech filled with sharp jabs and barbs at China and Russia a day ahead of an annual Arctic Council Ministerial meeting with member nations in Finland. He warned the eight members of the Arctic Council of Chinese encroachment and increasing Russian militarization in a region rich with natural resources and emerging sea lanes. (Snip) The Council’s eight members include the Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States. While China is not a member state of the Arctic Council, it gained observer status in 2013. Pompeo said
Stop accepting the Bible as true and admit Christianity has gotten it terribly wrong on homosexuality. This is the advice Rev. Oliver Thomas gives in a recent opinion article in USA Today for how the church can stop “hemorrhaging members” and see brighter days.(Snip)We don’t have to wonder whether Thomas is correct. Not only is he wrong, but an impressive body of very strong data and experience demonstrates the precise opposite of what he claims is true.
The youths in the Democratic Party are angry. Sixty-eight chapters of the College Democrats are urging voters not to donate to the party’s congressional-campaign arm after it instituted a new policy to protect incumbents from primary challenges. The protesting students say that the change will deter young candidates and people from historically marginalized communities from running for office. Their outrage isn’t just noteworthy because they represent younger voters in the electorate—these young people are also some of the party’s key organizers and activists. “As College Democrats, we did a lot of work to build the new Democratic majority,”
Authorities in the West African nation of Niger say at least 55 people are dead after a tanker truck filled with fuel exploded near the country´s main airport. President Issoufou Mahamadou called the explosion a "national tragedy" after visiting a hospital where dozens were wounded, some with serious burns. The death toll was expected to rise as doctors said some were in critical condition. Authorities believe the explosion took place after the tanker truck flipped over near a gas station. A crowd of people came to try and collect the fuel that leaked out as a result of the accident. Scores of people have died in similar accidents in
At least 11 of the Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Friday were members of terror groups, according to Islamic Jihad and Hamas. Eight of the eleven members of terror groups belonged to the Al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad’s military wing. The Al-Quds Brigades confirmed on its website the identities of eight of its members killed in Isaeli strikes. The Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, verified in statements that three others killed during the fighting belonged to its ranks. Israel carried out hundreds of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip Saturday and Sunday after terror groups in Gaza
The House Judiciary Committee has taken its first formal step toward holding Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for special counsel Robert Mueller´s unredacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, as well as the underlying evidence. The panel announced on Monday that it will consider a contempt citation against Barr on Wednesday. A vote of approval from the Democrat-led committee would send the measure to the full House for consideration later this month. “The attorney general’s failure to comply with our subpoena, after extensive accommodation efforts, leaves us no choice but to
Republican Gov. Paul LePage of Maine vetoed a proposed gay conversion therapy ban on July 6, preventing Maine from becoming the 14th state where such counseling is prohibited. The legislation sought to ban individuals under the age of 18 from receiving gay conversion counseling. As a summary of the amended bill explains, the bill “provides that advertising, offering or administering conversion therapy to individuals under 18 years of age in the State is an unfair trade practice.” An exception was included allowing members of the clergy to engage in conversion therapy. LGBT activists were disappointed with LePage’s decision. The Bangor Daily News reported
A weightlifting league has revoked awards to a transgender weightlifter who claimed to have broken several women’s weightlifting records. “Our rules, and the basis of separating genders for competition, are based on physiological classification rather thana identification,” said a statement from Paul Bossi, president of 100% RAW Powerlifting Federation. Bossi continued: "On the basis of all information presented to the Board of Directors for this particular case, the conclusion made, is that the correct physiological classification is male … Since the lifter’s gender classification for the purpose of our rules is not consistent with female, no female
National Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton issued an extraordinary statement from the White House on Sunday evening, announcing that the U.S. was deploying new forces to the Middle East to deter an Iranian attack. The statement read: In response to a number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings, the United States is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region to send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime that any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) wrongly referred to Gaza as “occupied” in a tweet supporting Palestinian terrorists against Israel on Sunday, as hundreds of rockets were fired at Israeli civilian population centers, killing four Israelis. Omar, who supports the anti-Israel “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement, and who has a long history of antisemitic rhetoric relating to the issue, weighed in on the conflict Sunday, calling it a “cycle of violence” but clearly blaming Israel: (tweet) The “protesters” to which Omar refers were
The battle between congressional Democrats and the Justice Department over Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report has reached new levels of vitriol, as some on the left call for Attorney General Bill Barr to be physically dragged in to testify or even locked up for defying congressional subpoenas. The demands have escalated after the attorney general refused to appear before the House Judiciary Committee last week amid disagreements over the format of the hearing. (Snip) Committee member Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., over the weekend urged the panel to specifically pursue “inherent contempt,” calling for Barr
The Duchess of Sussex has given birth to a boy, the Duke of Sussex has announced. Prince Harry said they were "absolutely thrilled" and thanked the public for their support during the pregnancy. He said Meghan and the baby were doing "incredibly well", adding that they were still thinking about names for the infant, who was delivered at 05:26 BST. Buckingham Palace said the baby weighed 7lbs 3oz (3.2kg), and that the duke was present for the birth.
Members of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) gathered to express their opposition to a Drag Queen Story Hour held at Bay View Community Center (BVCC) this afternoon. The story hour was presented by the Drag Queen Story Hour MKE. The group’s Facebook post about the event announced, “Everyone is welcome to come dressed up as Star Wars characters. Please join us for an all ages, family event that will include stories and songs that promote service-learning, diversity, education, and creativity.” Named because a drag queen reads stories to children
Washington Post in April 2018: "The walls are closing in. And Trump´s lawyers know it. " CNN last December: "The walls are closing in on Trump." Newsweek in March: "Donald Trump Knows Walls Are Closing In As Mueller Report Looms." Then the Mueller Report arrived. Now the walls are closing in on the spies and others who broke the law on behalf of Obama. Kimberley A. Strassel of the Wall Street Journal wrote, "Barr gets attacked because his probe endangers powerful people." (As I read that headline, I could have sworn I heard someone singing, "He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of
The Duchess of Sussex has given birth to a healthy baby boy, Buckingham Palace has announced. Meghan went into labour in the early hours of this morning and gave birth to a boy weighing 7lbs 3oz at 5.26am, having been more than a week overdue. Speaking from Windsor, a visibly-excited Duke of Sussex said the little boy ´was absolutely to die for´ as he shared his immense pride for his newborn son and his wife. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said Meghan and her child were ´both doing well´, and that the Queen and other members
The mainstream media are so deeply in bed with the Democrats that they risk having what they do to each other be mistaken for pornography. A recent instance of such mutually assured gratification is E.J. Dionne´s April 24 column, "Will Trump and the Supreme Court Tear Our Democracy Apart?" The esteemed author, formerly called a "radical centrist" by Time magazine, has graduated to being just a plain and simple “radical.” In the wake of Democrats’ failure to establish that President Trump is a threat to America because he is a Russian stooge,
Psychological projection has become a key characteristic of the left. If Democrats and their serfs in the liberal media complain about something, they most likely do it themselves, but pin it on an often blameless GOP. Consider their explanation of Hillary Clinton’s approval of the deal that handed the Kremlin 20 percent of America’s uranium supply, while investors in Uranium One Inc. donated $145 million to the Clinton Foundation. Yet the left has screamed, “Russian collusion!” at Donald Trump for nearly three years.Likewise, Democrats and the left whitewash the anti-Semites in their midst and, instead, blame Trump
The national Muslim American Society says it is investigating a disturbing video that surfaced online last week showing a handful of children at a Philadelphia Islamic center performing a song about decapitating their enemies and martyrs sacrificing their lives to reclaim Jerusalem. The group is calling the video a "mistake" and an "oversight." The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the Muslim American Society believes the "Ummah Day" performances at the Muslim American Society Islamic Center in North Philadelphia were not “properly vetted,” and that the disturbing song was “an unintended mistake and an oversight.” The Daily Wire´s Ryan Saavedra reported
The United States Army wanted a spiffy new service uniform, one that would stand out in a tough recruiting environment and polish the Army’s image after a generation of grinding and divisive wars. So it turned the clock back. Way back. It chose a new uniform that looks almost exactly like the old green gabardine wool field coat and khaki trousers that officers wore in World War II. Probably not by coincidence, that’s what the Army was wearing the last time the nation celebrated total victory in a major war.
As a First Amendment maximalist, I am inclined to reply an automatic "no" to my own headline — should journalists go to jail for spreading Russia lies? But a penalty of some kind, indeed a serious one, should certainly be levied for misinforming the public on the most important subject of our day, which has happened repeatedly over the last few years concerning the Russia probe. And when these prevarications can be shown to have been deliberate, to have been done knowingly, difficult as that may be to prove
Last month, immediately after fire had almost destroyed the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, the Washington Post ran a piece with the headline, "The Notre Dame fire ignites the West´s far-right." The author, Ishaan Tharoor, used his piece to expand on that untimely and inaccurate claim. He wrote: "A strange — though not altogether surprising — thing happened in the shadow of Monday´s tragedy. As many around the world watched an iconic cathedral in Paris go up in flames, others immediately set about trying to spark new fires. On both sides of the Atlantic, denizens of the far right
President Donald Trump on Sunday reversed course, saying special counsel Robert Mueller should not testify before Congress just two days after telling reporters the attorney general should make that decision. In a pair of tweets, Trump said the special counsel should not appear before the House Judiciary Committee and questioned why the Democratically-controlled committee would need Mueller´s testimony after concluding his two-year investigation into allegations of collusion between Russian operatives and Trump associates during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition.
Former President Trump lawyer Michael Cohen is scheduled to check in Monday at a federal lockup in Otisville, NY, where he will begin serving a three-year stint for crimes including campaign finance violations tied to hush-money payments made on Trump’s behalf. Cohen, 53, who once vowed to “take a bullet” for Trump, whom he now calls a “con man,” will step inside the medium-security Federal Correctional Facility Otisville, in the Catskills about 70 miles from Manhattan, by his 2 p.m. deadline. The president’s former “fixer” was originally scheduled to start his sentence in March, but a judge granted him
They’ve done it, they’ve finally done it! The New York Times has picked up the scent of the scandalous spying on Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and is joining the hunt for the truth. That’s how the president and some supporters reacted after the Times reported the FBI sent a “cloaked investigator” to a London meeting with Trump aide George Papadopoulos in September of 2016. (Snip) If only that were true. In reality, we’ll see pigs fly before we see the Times fully committed to getting to the bottom of what Trump calls “Spygate.”
When two high school athletes who were born male but identify as female took first and second place at Connecticut’s girls indoor track championship this year, it wasn’t just a local news story. To some, it was a story of triumph and courage. The winner, a junior from Bloomfield High School, set a girls state indoor record of 6.95 seconds in the 55-meter dash, and went on to win the New England titles in both the 55-meter dash and the 300-meter dash. (snip) Is this the end of women’s sports? To Selina Soule, a 16-year-old runner from Glastonbury, it was personal.
Labor organizations will no longer be allowed to skim dues money from the checks of Medicaid patients under new rules adopted by the Trump administration. The Department of Health and Human Services´s Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services adopted a new regulation that will prohibit states from siphoning money from caregiver reimbursements to third parties. The rule takes direct aim at state policies enacted to enrich union coffers. "State Medicaid programs are responsible for ensuring that taxpayer dollars are dedicated to providing healthcare services for low-income, vulnerable Americans and are not diverted in ways that do not comply with
Democratic Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Cory Booker both argued during Sunday interviews that former President Barack Obama deserves the credit for a good economy under President Donald Trump.The U.S. Labor Department announced Wednesday that the unemployment rate had hit 3.6%, the lowest rate since 1969. The report did note that 490,000 people left the workforce, but the gain was due in part to an increase in hiring in professional and business services, along with construction and healthcare jobs. Despite those gains, the pair decided that the credit went to Obama, not Trump, for the dramatic gain in
Though the infamous and now thoroughly debunked Russian collusion delusion conspiracy theory made a mockery of America’s justice system and cost taxpayers $30 million, it did produce one serendipitous side-effect: a fabulous new “line” of swag. Available for sale everywhere, from eBay to Amazon to President Donald Trump’s own website, this new “line” of swag is designed to mock congressional Democrats, their media allies and their deranged base for having fallen for the greatest conspiracy theory of the 21st century.Over on the president’s website, for instance, conservatives can purchase collusion delusion swag ranging from t-shirts with the words “collusion delusion”
Donald Trump has floated the idea of adding two years to his presidency after claiming they were ´stolen´ from him by the Mueller probe. The President retweeted a message from Jerry Falwell Jr, the president of Liberty University, Virginia, on Sunday suggesting that his term should be extended to 2022. Falwell, whose father was an evangelical preacher and who has been a vocal supporter of Trump, wrote: ´After the best week ever for Trump - no obstruction, no collusion, NYT admits Obama did spy on his campaign, & the economy is soaring...(Photo/Tweet) ´I now support reparations -
Maybe it´s a sign of the times. President and Mrs. Clinton can´t sell tickets and CNN can´t draw an audience. According to the New York Post, the numbers speak for themselves: Tickets to the latest stop on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s speaking tour were going for as little as $20 on the secondary market as their 13-city adventure continued to struggle to find an audience. The best seats in the house at Seattle’s WaMu Theater on Friday could be had for $829, a steep 54% drop from the $1,785 that the former first couple fetched
Saturday on MSNBC, South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a likely 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, said he would welcome a debate with President Donald Trump over which of them holds a more traditional view of marriage. Openly gay candidate Buttigieg said, “My emotions about this president is not what’s going to matter most. I’m not interested in expressing my anger about him as much as I am in defeating and ending this presidency. If we want to have a debate or fight over any number of things from the difference between how I approach service and
An Academic Umbrella for Bigots
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There is a lot of justifiable hand wringing over the Israel bashing and overt anti-Semitism in American academia. The bias is correctly blamed on the leftist “progressives” who buy into the libels promoted by Moslem/Arab students and their campus affiliated organizations. It is no secret that Saudi Arabia has poured a huge sum of dollars both from government and private donors into American colleges to promote whitewashed Islamic studies and influence opinions on the Middle East. However, there is another culprit, namely the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) which feeds faculty to universities and colleges throughout the
So Nancy Pelosi is telling Democrats to stay in the center. She’s quite a few decades too late. Oldtimers will have a hard time remembering when her party was anywhere near the middle of the political road. Speaker of the House Pelosi issued her cautionary word last week. She said Democrats cannot beat President Trump in a close 2020 election. The winning margin has to be “big,” she said, because then he won’t be able to challenge the results. Today’s Democrats are so far removed from the center that they haven’t been able to see it from a distance
Now that the Mueller witch hunt has reached its final conclusion, are those of us who are fully awake finally going to witness some justice regarding the various deep state actors and their attempted coup d´état against President Trump? We currently hear the Huber and Horowitz reports are coming soon. Will these reports finally shine some much-needed light upon this huge scandal? This country has been put through a holy hell the last two years, a hell based upon a promulgation of a myth by a leftist propagandist media.
Las Vegas, Nev. — Former President Bill Clinton on Sunday lambasted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for complaints of mistreatment during his Senate confirmation hearings last fall. During a Las Vegas speaking appearance with former first lady, senator and secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the ex-president suggested Kavanaugh has no moral authority to complain about sexual misconduct allegations from his high school days. Kavanaugh has denied charges by Christine Blasey Ford stretching back to the early 1980s, when they both attended private high schools in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C.
If Democrats are not careful, they will end up in the worst of all political worlds. Since the release of the Mueller report, the party´s leadership in Congress has been extraordinarily hesitant about taking the logical next steps. Faced with a 400-plus page report documenting extensive efforts by the President of the United States to obstruct justice, House Democrats have punted -- making it pretty clear that impeachment proceedings will not be happening any time soon. Even as the attorney general takes extraordinary steps to obstruct the subsequent hearings into obstruction, Democratic leaders remain tepid about any
Winter has come. The air stings your skin as you shuffle toward the National Mall. But there are scattered patches of blue in the sky, and sunlight peeking out from behind a cloud. And the crowd that now surrounds you is alive with good cheer. Your fellow Americans are high off civic pride, or their proximity to future history, or possibly marijuana (your nose is stuffy, but you think you think can smell a trace of something skunky on the wind). He emerges from the Capitol Building. The crowd goes wild. You join their cheer,
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Maximum Security co-owner Gary West criticized race stewards’ disqualification of his horse’s Kentucky Derby victory as “egregious” and said he was pondering his next step, including a possible appeal. "I think this is the most egregious disqualification in the history of horse racing, and not just because it´s our horse," West told The Associated Press by phone Saturday night. Several hours earlier, Maximum Security appeared to back up his undefeated record with a 1¾-length victory in the slop over Country House in the Kentucky Derby. The victory was overturned 22 minutes later
In September of 2016 Hillary Clinton famously gave the nation a glimpse of the “bottled spider,” to borrow Shakespeare’s metaphor about Richard III, which personified her mewed up inner loathing for the peasants who declined to recognize her divine right to be President: “You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.” Later, having declared those 30 million voters “irredeemable,” she told her mirthful audience that they should “empathize” with the other half of Trump’s benighted supporters. The voters in question ignored Clinton’s scorn and patronizing empathy, thus garnering their first big win.
The network of street and campus demagogues known as Black Lives Matter pretty much has operated with impunity since its founding. But a court ruling late last month could make these social media-based grievance peddlers think twice before targeting cops. On April 24, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit unanimously ruled that an injured Baton Rouge, La., police officer has legal standing to sue DeRay Mckesson (he prefers not to capitalize the “k”), Black Lives Matter’s unofficial mouthpiece and most visible organizer. Mckesson, the complaint read, in coaxing
The Climate Reality Project, an activist group founded by Al Gore in 2006, is now demanding that major broadcast news organizations refer to climate change as a “crisis” — and have launched a public petition to entreat ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox News and MSNBC to change their ways. “When stronger storms and hotter wildfires leave millions homeless, it’s a crisis. When runaway global warming threatens our food and water, it’s a crisis. When our kids walk out of school because their future is at stake, it’s a crisis. But the coverage we see on television
President Trump has called it “Spygate,” but it’s looking more like “Get Smart” or the classic Mad magazine cartoon, “Spy vs. Spy.” According to The New York Times, the FBI in 2016 actually sent a buxom blonde to pump Trump-campaign nobody George Papadopoulos for information about collusion. It would be hilarious if the investigation hadn’t continued on (in various forms) for over two years, plaguing the president with damning “news” coverage that now turns out to be fundamentally false. Just how feckless and reckless was the Crossfire Hurricane investigation? (The name alone is amatuerish.)
When the bottom fell out of the ticket market for An Evening With the Clintons, it really plummeted. The final date of their “speaking tour” is Sunday night in Las Vegas. A quick scan of tickets on Stub Hub for the Sunday night show offers tickets for as little as $15.00, at least when I checked late Saturday night. A glance for tickets available on sale at Ticketmaster online shows they begin at $45.72 and go up to $257.18. I wrote about this tour back at the beginning of December and even then,
I remember when political “gaffes” could take over a news cycle for more than 90 minutes, and this is The Trailer. When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wants to argue with Joe Biden, he usually starts with Iraq. In a Sunday interview with ABC News, Sanders pointed out that he had broken with the former vice president on whether to invade the country in 2002. “Joe voted for the war in Iraq; I led the effort against it,” Sanders said. A few days earlier, in a CNN interview, he was less concise: “I helped lead the opposition
National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow denounced Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sunday after the 2020 White House candidate said President Trump was "taking credit for a recovery that started under [former President Barack] Obama." "What Mr. Booker and some others are saying is simply not true factually," Kudlow told Fox News´ "America´s News HQ". Kudlow spoke two days after the publication of the April jobs report, which showed that the American economy added 263,000 jobs last month while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6 percent, the lowest since 1969. Despite the rosy numbers, Booker insisted that the
´People jam´: Were Aeroflot blaze victims killed by fellow passengers evacuating with their luggage?
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Just watching the disturbing video of the Russian plane disaster will send shudders through everyone who has ever been lined up on a plane, waiting for everyone ahead of them to collect their bags and file out of the aircraft. In this case, there is a very real possibility that the 41 people who died on board Flight SU1492 were trapped as those ahead of them grabbed large bags and other hand luggage before running out, as the videos show. (Snip) As flames eat into the rear of the aircraft, it is not a continual stream of people seen sliding down the emergency escape, but rather one person every few seconds emerging from the plane