Posts on Tuesday, May 7, 2019
Tuesday at Cornell University’s Institute of Politics & Global Affairs Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Democrats could not “accept a second term for Donald Trump.” Pelosi said, “We have to make sure — this will sound political but we have to make sure that the Constitution wins the next presidential election. We can’t be worrying about well, how long is this going to take? Well, that will take as long as it does. And we will press the case so that in the court of public opinion people will know what is right. But we cannot accept a
A letter to William Barr
replies
Emmet T. Flood, special counsel to President Trump, has sent a letter to Attorney General Barr. Although Barr is the addressee, Robert Mueller is the main target. The letter is a blistering attack on Mueller’s report with a shot at James Comey thrown in. Flood gets right to the point: The [special counsel’s report] suffers from an extraordinary legal defect: It quite deliberately fails to comply with the requirements of governing law. Flood cites two major ways in which the Mueller report suffers from this defect. The first problem centers around its statement that the evidence
Aside from his global fame and his love affair with soft-serve ice cream, Joe Biden’s biggest calling card at this budding stage of the presidential race is the mushy notion of “electability.” Biden, the former vice president, isn’t outright saying that he would be the best foil against Donald Trump next year, but he’s laying it on thick, mugging for the cameras in Iowa diners and bragging to a Teamsters union hall in Pittsburgh that the road back to the White House runs straight through working-class Pennsylvania. Biden’s home turf. “Shot-and-a-beer” territory, as Richard Ben Cramer called it.
Venezuela´s Supreme Court, which is closely allied with President Nicolas Maduro, said on Tuesday that it was launching a preliminary investigation into seven top opposition politicians. They are accused of treason, rebellion, and conspiracy in connection with the failed uprising of self-proclaimed interim President Joan Guaido. Amongst those targeted in the probe are prominent lawmakers Henry Ramos Allip and Luis German Florido. The case now goes to the attorney general and the Constituent Assembly, a parallel legislature set up by Maduro and his allies to cement his grip on power.
The project was meant to feed millions. In Delta Amacuro, a remote Venezuelan state on the Caribbean Sea, a Chinese construction giant struck a bold agreement with the late President Hugo Chávez. The state-run firm would build new bridges and roads, a food laboratory, and the largest rice-processing plant in Latin America. The 2010 pact, with China CAMC Engineering Co Ltd, would develop rice paddies twice the size of Manhattan and create jobs for the area’s 110,000 residents, according to a copy of the contract seen by Reuters. The underdeveloped state was an ideal locale to demonstrate the Socialist
This is frustrating, but not surprising. In the updated DOJ court filing today (pdf link here) the DOJ tells the court they want to keep the Comey Journal (memos) hidden from public review {BACKSTORY HERE}(Snip)The DOJ has authorized the release of the Jaunary 22, 2018, transcript from the ex parte hearing. So we will get to see the original discussion which should include the FBI descriptions of the Comey Journal and their reasoning (to the judge) for keeping the collection of memos hidden.
It didn’t work out too well the last time New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen asked Attorney General Bill Barr about the term ‘spying’. This time the intentionally obtuse senator questions the term “spying” on the Trump campaign by conflating a Title III criminal investigation (which never happened), with Title I counterintelligence investigation (which did happen). Senator Shaheen uses a criminal example, operations against the mob, to ask FBI Director Wray about ‘spying’. As expected, Director Wray delivers the reply she was seeking. (Snip)it has become obvious why DAG Rod Rosenstein recommended Chris Wray
There will be no Triple Crown winner this year. Controversial Kentucky Derby winner Country House will not be running in the May 18 Preakness Stakes after developing a cough, trainer Bill Mott told the Daily Racing Form on Tuesday. “He developed a little bit of a cough this morning,” Mott told the paper by telephone. “His appetite is good. He doesn’t have a fever. But he’s coughing. We drew blood. He’s acting like he’s going to get sick. He’s off the training list, and if he’s off the training list, he’s off the Preakness list. “It’s probably a little viral
FBI Director Wray contradicts his boss AG Barr over ´spying´ on Trump: ´Not the term I would use´
replies
FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday disputed Attorney General William Barr´s use of the word "spying" to describe surveillance of President Trump´s 2016 campaign. "That’s not the term I would use," Wray told the Senate Appropriations Committee. "To me the key question is making sure it´s done by the book, consistent with our lawful authorities. That´s the key question, different people use different colloquial phrases." Wray, who appeared before lawmakers to talk about the FBI´s budget request for fiscal year 2020, added that he was not "personally" aware of any evidence pointing to illegal information gathering by law enforcement before
American jurisprudence is based on the presumption of innocence -- in other words, innocent until proven guilty. The accused remains innocent unless and until the prosecution can convince a judge or jury that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Exoneration is not part of this equation for it represents the exact opposite principle, namely guilty until proven innocent. This is an impossible standard as it requires proving a negative. How does one prove that he or she didn’t commit a crime? How does one prove that Elvis or JFK aren’t still alive, conspiracy theories aside?
Seoul/Washington - U.S. President Donald Trump expressed support Tuesday for South Korea´s possible humanitarian food assistance for North Korea in phone talks with President Moon Jae-in, Cheong Wa Dae said. During the 35-minute conversation, Moon briefed Trump on his government´s position on North Korea´s launch of "short-range projectiles," including a tactical guided weapon, over the weekend. And they discussed ways to keep Pyongyang on the dialogue track despite the firing, the presidential office added. They agreed that the allies´ response to the North´s firing via close coordination was "appropriate and very effective."
FBI Director Christopher Wray, testifying to Congress Tuesday, said that he would not describe the bureau´s traditional surveillance as “spying” -- indicating a possible split with Attorney General William Barr on his controversial use of the term to describe intelligence-gathering during the Russia probe. “That’s not the term I would use,” Wray told lawmakers on the Senate Appropriations Committee when asked if FBI agents engage in "spying" when they follow FBI policies and procedures. “Lots of people have different colloquial phrases. I believe that the FBI is engaged in investigative activity, and part of investigative activity includes surveillance
House Armed Services Committee ranking member Rep. Mac Thornberry told "America´s Newsroom" Tuesday he hopes United States military intervention in Venezuela won´t be necessary, but that Cuban interference needs to stop before that can be decided. Echoing the claims President Trump made last week, Rep. Thornberry, R., Texas, said he believes the Cubans are responsible for the continued support for disputed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. "The important thing to remember about Venezuela is there are thousands of Cubans there that are basically controlling things,"
In Brooklyn, two new social clubs emerge to cater to people of color: ‘A club just for us, by us’
replies
Brooklyn—In the heart of an ever-evolving and ever-gentrifying Brooklyn, there is a push to create a professional and emotional support network for a familiar, but specific demographic. The Gentleman’s Factory one of these social clubs for men of color, is approaching full capacity at 100 paid members with more than 400 other names on a waiting list. Jeff Lindor founded The Gentleman’s Factory two years ago on Flatbush Avenue, across the street from Prospect Park, when he realized there weren’t enough spaces uniquely for men of color. “I could always recall whenever I saw a person of color
President Trump is attending the anniversary celebration of first lady Melania Trump´s "Be Best" campaign, which she unveiled last year to combat childhood bullying and health. Mrs. Trump said that "Be Best" will be taking on online safety for children in the upcoming year. The campaign will also expand to address the effect of the opioid crisis on children of all ages. Mrs. Trump´s emphasis on bullying sometimes contrasts with her husband´s pugilistic style in confronting his political enemies, often affixing insults like "dopey" or "crazy" or "sleepy" to the names of his opponents when he tweets about them.
A former FBI translator has been charged with doctoring transcripts in which his own name appeared on intercepts of phone calls placed by a terrorism suspect. Abdirizak Jaji Raghe Wehelie, 66, of Burke, Virginia, was arrested Saturday at an airport after returning to the U.S. on an international fight, according to Josh Stueve, a spokesman for the US attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. Wehelie made an initial appearance Monday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, where he is charged with making false statements and obstructing an investigation.
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor Tuesday to declare the Mueller investigation “case closed.” WATCH: (Video) McConnell began by noting the Mueller investigation brought about serious change — namely, progress had been made with regard to election security, even going into the 2018 midterm elections.McConnell then continued: But speaking of serious, seriousness is not what we’ve seen from the Democratic Party in recent days. Not serious. What we’ve seen is a meltdown, an absolute meltdown, an inability to accept the bottom line conclusion on Russian interference from the special counsel’s report which said the investigation
Tokyo - Japan plans to propose to North Korea a summit without asking for a guarantee of progress on the issue of Pyongyang´s past abduction of Japanese nationals, based on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe´s apparent shift in stance, government sources said Tuesday. (Snip) Abe has made it a top political priority to settle the long-standing issue of Pyongyang´s abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s. He has said previously that a future summit with Kim should yield progress on the abduction issue. Abe apparently lowered that hurdle amid fears of seeing the issue take a backseat to North Korea´s nuclear and missile
Pete Buttigieg said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he and his husband Chasten want to be fathers one day – but ‘maybe’ he’ll have to finish his historic run for president first. And he told a ‘Today’ show audience that he plans to keep emphasizing his religious faith in the face of hecklers who berate him for being a gay Christian. The 37-year-old Democrat takes the almighty seriously, and claimed that while God isn’t likely a partisan, he would never be a Republican in the mold of Donald Trump. He said it’s ‘important that we stop seeing religion used
As President Donald Trump continues to spar with House Democrats over subpoenas, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough applauded Democrats, saying that “history has chosen” their party to “stand up and defend the rule of law” in America. Scarborough said that as a former Republican, it makes him “sad” to see the GOP “breaking the law.” “You can look at all of the document requests that they’ve ignored,” Scarborough outlined. “They’re in contempt of Congress.” He later added, “History has chosen the Democratic Party at this point in time to be the only party in America who will stand up
“I happen to think today was the most important day of Donald Trump’s presidency,” former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon said last night on Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight.” The reason being … the president’s resolute position in the “economic war” we are in with China. “He’s president of the United States because of the rejection of working-class people and middle-class people about managed decline of our country at the hands of people like Hillary Clinton, the Clinton Global Initiative, the – you know, the whole Clinton apparatus,” Bannon continued. “These globalists and elitists were very comfortable with
Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg took a jab at President Trump on Monday while delivering a speech in South Carolina, saying America’s past “was never as great as advertised.” “So many of the solutions, I believe, are gonna come from our communities. Communities like the one where I grew up, which is an industrial mid-western city,” the former South Bend, Indiana mayor stated. “That is exactly the kind of place that our current president targeted with a message saying that we could find greatness by just stopping the clock and turning it back.” “That past that he is promising to
CNN says roughly 100 employees have accepted voluntary buyouts a month after an overhaul by parent company AT&T. According to Deadline, AT&T´s decision to offer buyouts, similar to those offered at HBO and the remnants of Turner, was in an effort to chip away at approximately $170 billion in outstanding debt, which AT&T agreed to take on as a result of their acquisition of Time Warner announced in 2016. In March, AT&T restructured the majority of their TV assets under the umbrella of WarnerMedia, including CNN. The news came after what CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said was a
The pilot of a fighter jet shot down south of Tripoli by the Libyan National Army is allegedly a Portuguese fighting in Libya as a “mercenary,” Haftar’s forces claim, as photos of the captured pilot covered in blood emerge online. Photos posted on social media show a bloodied man in military-style clothes without any distinctive badges surrounded by forces said to be loyal to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar of the Libyan National Army (LNA). Citing Haftar’s forces that sent her the photos, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent Bel Trew said the man was a “foreign national” from Portugal. While Trew chose to crop out
An Essex County man was arrested Sunday after police say video posted to social media shows him urinating on a marked police vehicle as a crowd cheered him on outside a movie theater. Tauqeer Boyd, 22, of West Orange, was arrested less than 24 hours after the incident at CityPlex 12 Newark movie theater, according to Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose. “We absolutely will not tolerate disrespect of our police,” Ambrose said in a statement. “We take this as a personal insult. When our department became aware of this, we moved quickly to apprehend the suspect.”
The Trump administration is weighing changes to the way poverty is measured in the United States, a move critics say would break with decades of precedent and threaten social welfare recipients, according to a Monday report. Under the new proposals outlined by the White House Office of Management and Budget on Monday, poverty would be measured using a “chained consumer price index.” The new method, contrary to a formula that has been used since the 1960s, assumes that consumers will opt for less-expensive items as the cost of living rises.
Four B-52 bombers are being deployed to the Middle East in response to what administration officials said earlier this week are threats of a possible attack by Iran or allied fighters on American troops in the region. They are expected to leave on Tuesday from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports. White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Sunday that the U.S. was deploying a bomber task force and the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group to the U.S. Central Command region, an area that includes the Middle East.
JOHANNESBURG — Perhaps nowhere in today´s South Africa is the country´s inequality on more dramatic display than in the neighboring Johannesburg suburbs of Sandton and Alexandra. With its gleaming high-rises and lush estates, Sandton is known as Africa´s richest square mile. Alexandra, a onetime home to Nelson Mandela, is a squalid, cramped and crime-infested black township. Many of its residents stream into Sandton every day on a bridge over a highway to work in upscale shops or homes. Angry protests flared in Alexandra last month, stoked in part by campaigning for Wednesday´s national election but mostly by the frustration
An overwhelming majority of Venezuelans would support a foreign military intervention to oust socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and believe that the rogue regimes in Russia and Cuba have colonized their country, the national polling firm Meganálisis found in a survey published Monday. Asked if the federal legislature, the National Assembly, should authorize foreign military missions in the country, 89.5 percent of Venezuelans said yes. Another 91.2 percent said they did not believe it was possible for Venezuelans to remove Maduro without foreign military intervention. About 88 percent said they did not trust the nation’s armed forces.
For alcoholics, the first step to recovery is to admit they have a problem. The New York Times is trying to get Democrats to admit they have a problem on the U.S.´s southern border and is now calling for funds to be appropriated for detention beds. It wrote this unusual editorial to that end: President Trump is right: There is a crisis at the southern border. Just not the one he rants about. There is no pressing national security threat — no invasion of murderers, drug cartels or terrorists. No matter how often
CNN is the latest division of AT&T’s WarnerMedia to feel the effects of company-wide restructuring, with voluntary buyouts being taken by more than 100 seasoned workers at the cable new network. A network spokesperson tells Deadline the exits are purely related to the buyouts and do not involve any layoffs, contrary to a press report earlier on Monday. A WarnerMedia rep said there was no truth to the initial report of layoffs. The buyouts are consistent with similar offerings at HBO and Turner and will see dozens of seasoned employees leave the news brand.
A recent decline in heart failure-related deaths in the United States has reversed, and those types of deaths are now climbing nationwide, especially among adults ages 35 to 64. The trend, which also revealed some racial disparities, was found in a research paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on Monday. The paper points to an increase in the prevalence of obesity and diabetes as possibly driving a parallel rise in heart failure deaths. The research demonstrates "that greater loss of life from heart failure is occurring, especially premature death in those under the age of 65,"
It has been less than two weeks since former Vice President Joe Biden launched his 2020 bid, but numerous reporters have already voiced their concerns about the treatment they have received from his staff. (Snip) Another reporter alleged a Biden staffer "physically put their body" between the reporter and the 2020 frontrunner despite not being that close to the candidate. "This second reporter tells me the staffer physically invaded their space to the point that the reporter could smell the staffer´s ponytail," DiPaola tweeted. A third reporter shared a similar experience, telling DiPaola that a female staffer physically blocked
The US deployment of a carrier strike group and air force bomber unit to deter Iran from a planned attack on American forces was reported to be in response to a new threat. CNN´s Barbara Starr wrote "US officials tell me the threats from Iran included ´specific and credible´ intelligence that Iranian forces and proxies were targeting US forces in Syria, Iraq and at sea. There were multiple threads of intelligence about multiple locations, the officials said." But the US and Iran have been struggling in the twilight for years though it has never received much attention from the press.
James Comey’s planet is getting noticeably warmer. Attorney General William Barr’s emissions are the suspected cause. Barr has made plain that he intends to examine carefully how and why Comey, as FBI director, decided that the bureau should investigate two presidential campaigns and if, in so doing, any rules or laws were broken. In light of this, the fired former FBI director apparently has decided that photos of him on Twitter standing amid tall trees and in the middle of empty country roads, acting all metaphysical, is no longer a sufficient strategy.
Climate change is at it again, ruining everything good. This time around it’s maple syrup that is at risk, according to the New York Times, which on Saturday had the alarming headline, “Warming Climate May Slow the Flow of Maple.” Or at least it would be alarming if it weren’t for the tell-tale word “may.” If a warming climate were actually slowing the flow of the sap that makes for syrup, you can be sure the Times would declare it clearly. To say it “may” slow the flow suggests that it isn’t actually happening, at least not yet.
TAMPA — A judge has denied an effort to stop the scheduled May 23 execution of Bobby Joe Long, a Tampa Bay area killer who murdered eight women in the 1980s. Hillsborough Circuit Judge Michelle Sisco issued an order Monday rejecting arguments from Long’s defense, including the contention that Florida’s lethal injection drugs might cause Long to have a seizure during the execution. Long, 65, suffers from temporal lobe epilepsy. The state’s lethal injection procedure was the focus of a daylong hearing Friday in a Tampa courtroom. Doctors testified about the effects of etomidate, a sedative that is the first of
It is worth remembering a recent court filing by the FBI where we discover James Comey documented each “Crossfire Hurricane” intelligence decision. Within the CYA memos Comey included the ID of code-named spies in a journal of sorts, that remains hidden for now. I have a hunch the full Comey journal will soon be released. A court filing originally scheduled for April 15th, to determine the outcome of the multiple memos, and FBI closed-court discussion therein, was delayed until May 7th, tomorrow: (image)(Snip)The reason I suspect the “journal” will soon be released is connected to the
Democrat Sen Mazie Hirono verbally brutalized AG William Barr during the Judiciary Committee hearing. Hirono´s abuse of Barr and disrespect for our president was condescending and breathtakingly evil. Her demand that Barr resign was rooted in spin and lies. She venomously denounced president Trump as a “grifter and liar.” Can you imagine the American Left´s response to a Republican calling Obama a grifter and liar? That Republican would be declared a racist then given a high-tech beating and stoning to death in the public square. All standards of decency have been thrown out the window
I went from almost a judge to being fired within the space of forty-eight hours. Why? Because it came out that I was a conservative. I had read stories about conservatives being blacklisted, fired, having their careers and reputations destroyed because of their political views. Never once did I dream it could happen to me, an insignificant lawyer in an insignificant part of the country. But just this past week the nightmare happened, and I learned firsthand the consequences of running against the leftist hive that dominates our world.
The Department of Justice on Monday released a new version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election and President Donald Trump´s campaign, shedding light on why significant portions of the 448-page document were redacted before it was released to the public earlier this month. The new version was released by the Department of Justice in response to a Freedom of Information Act request and a subsequent lawsuit filed by BuzzFeed News and separately by the Electronic Privacy and Information Center. The copy of Mueller’s report that Attorney General William Barr
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused to release President Donald Trump’s personal and business tax returns, setting up what could become one of the biggest legal showdowns between the president and a Congress seeking to investigate him. The rejection of House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal’s request for six years of the president’s returns opens the door for Democrats to pursue more forceful measures, such as issuing a subpoena or filing a lawsuit. Mnuchin had put off a firm response for nearly a month but in a letter on Monday officially declined the request
Entrants in this year’s contest were invited to submit images that showcase Earth’s biodiversity and show some of the mounting threats to the natural world. These images originally appeared on bioGraphic, an online magazine about science and sustainability and the official media sponsor for the California Academy of Sciences’ BigPicture Natural World Photography Competition. The organizers were kind enough to share some of the winners and finalists here, selected from nearly 6,500 entries. The captions were written by the bioGraphic editorial staff, and lightly edited for style.
In 1954, traveling milkshake-mixer salesman Ray Kroc visited a hamburger stand designed and managed by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald. He was impressed. Freshly cooked hamburgers were delivered to customers based on principles of the assembly line. The kitchen and counter space were rationally coordinated to distribute food immediately upon its purchase. There was no waiting—or waitressing—as customers accepted a discount to provide their own table service and clean-up. It worked fabulously and Kroc stole the idea.
Apparently, there is no rock bottom to the hell that is Venezuela. Out of the economic shambles - quintuple-digit inflation, food shortages, expropriations, medical meltdown, blackouts, and ruined democracy -- terror is now emerging. Not just street crime, but the kind of reign of terror that went on during the French Revolution, or Lenin´s red terror, or Stalin´s extended horrors, or Castro´s paredon, or Mao´s cultural revolution, or Pol Pot´s Cambodia. A sort of late-stage, demonic killing spree in the interest of consolidating the hellhole into an absolute dictatorship. Theoretically, the tottering dictatorship then is embraced by relieved
Americans often pride themselves on their lawns. Maintaining our green grassy landscapes and colorful gardens is a $36 billion a year industry. Three-fourths of us have told pollsters that “my lawn and garden (are) a reflection of my personality.” But the eco-lobby doesn’t want us to have nice things. “On balance, lawns are awful for the planet,” Eric Holthaus wrote last week in Grist, an environmentalist online magazine. “Our addiction to lawns means that grass is the single largest irrigated agricultural ‘crop’ in America, more than corn, wheat,
Why the Left Mocks the Bible
replies
At PragerU, we have released about 400 videos on virtually every subject outside of the natural sciences and math. Along with two billion views, the videos have garnered tens of thousands of comments. So we have a pretty good handle on what people most love and most hate. For example, any video defending America or Israel inevitably receives many negative responses. But no videos elicit the amount of contempt and mockery that videos defending religion, explaining the Bible, or arguing for God do. Why is that? There is a good reason.
While America’s fickle media and inattentive voters obsess over a platoon of Democrats seeking that Oval Office chair, an even larger, potentially more important struggle is well underway. Who will control the United States Senate starting in January 2021? Once considered the greatest deliberative body in the world – at least in senators’ own minds – the chamber’s operations have degenerated into partisan packs of maneuvering pols following arcane rules until one side decides to change them for its own benefit. [Snip] In 2020, the GOP must defend 22 of the 34 seats in
Oh where have you gone, Republican “oppo” (opposition) researchers? As dozens of Democratic presidential hopefuls begin to test the waters with their party’s primary voters, many of them are finding those waters filled with piranhas. Amy Klobuchar is a senator from the North Star State who dipped her toe in and CHOMP. Stories about her brutalizing staffers were promptly released and did significant damage. No more Ms. Minnesota Nice Guy for Klobuchar. She’s now the wicked witch of Minneapolis. She recently bragged to a crowd of college students that she had carried Michelle Bachmann’s congressional district and then had to prod them
Jihad at The Border
replies
On Sunday, April 28, 2019, CBS News program, 60 Minutes reported on The Situation At The Southern Border. Here is how the 60 Minutes’ report began: Earlier this month, President Trump placed Kevin McAleenan in charge of the Department of Homeland Security. The president fired his previous DHS chief, Kirstjen Nielsen, because he said he wanted to go in a tougher direction. As the new acting secretary, McAleenan is facing the largest wave of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border in a decade. 100,000 migrants were detained just last month. So we went to McAllen, Texas,
A UN report is concerned about 1 million species going extinct, but its solutions are dead wrong
replies
A new United Nations report tells us that human activity is basically slaughtering the wildlife out there, killing off the species upon which our own existence is reliant. We should stop doing that, and I assume that you´re with me, because we´d like a world for our grandchildren to live in so we probably should stop doing that. The thing is, to do so we should stop doing pretty much every thing it is that this report and environmentalists tell us to do. There is a problem with their basic contention that we´re about to drive 1 million species
CNN interviewed the author of a debunked population doomsday book from 1968 during a segment on climate change Monday morning. "For a species that named itself homo sapiens, the wise man, we´re being incredibly stupid," Paul Ehrlich, a professor at Stanford University, told CNN. In his book The Population Bomb, Ehrlich projected overpopulation would have dire implications and result in widespread famine, and pushed limiting population growth. "The human population has doubled in just 50 years, our agriculture consumes more and more land, natural habitats are shrinking, we continue to pollute,
Trump Looks Solid for 2020
replies
Most of the elements are now in place for a decisive electoral victory for the current president, and a clear mandate to drain the swamp of all that he ran against. It is aberrant that with the economy performing at historic levels, and international relations steadied and easing toward a more satisfactory relationship with China and North Korea, the president’s approval ratings are in the upper forties rather than the low sixties. He is about where President Obama was at this point in his presidency, but Obama had not been successful; all he had done was Obamacare,
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), who recently promised to “bring a fight to the NRA like they have never ever seen before,” on Monday morning introduced a sweeping gun-violence prevention plan that centers around a national gun-licensing program, the most comprehensive and far-reaching of any candidate in the Democratic presidential field. “My plan to address gun violence is simple—we will make it harder for people who should not have a gun to get one,” Booker said in a statement, pledging to take executive action on the first day of his desired presidency.
Hand it to Jerry Nadler: He’s doing his best to blow enough smoke about supposed Team Trump crimes that it’ll still seem like there’s a fire somewhere. As House Judiciary Committee chairman, Nadler has set a vote for Wednesday on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusing to hand over the full, unredacted report from special counsel Robert Mueller or all the underlying materials behind the report. Never mind that Barr by law can’t release grand jury testimony to the public. Or that Nadler and other committee members are free to view the report privately
The Fright of James Comey
replies
In a recent op-ed, fired FBI Director James Comey was back again preaching to the nation about the dangers of Donald Trump and his capacity to corrupt any top-ranking federal official of lower character than Comey’s own. Comey seems to have become utterly unhinged by Donald Trump, especially when the president, in his thick Queens accent, scoffs in the vernacular—quite accurately, given the transgressions of the FBI hierarchy—about “crooked cops.” What an affront to Comey’s complexity, his subtlety, his sophistication, his feigned Hamlet-like self-doubt—at least as now expressed in his latest incarnation as
Stuck Pigs
replies
Last week was a bit of an historical moment in American politics, though perhaps not in the way those exhibiting a spectacle for the ages on Capitol Hill intended it to be. Specifically, on Wednesday Attorney General William Barr was subjected to a four-hour interrogation in the Senate Judiciary Committee over his handling of the Mueller Report. Barr wasn’t fazed by the questioning from the minority members of the committee, though a man with lesser patience and composure — the man Democrats like Richard Blumenthal, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Mazie Hirono, and Dianne Feinstein were hoping
Conservative commentator and author Mark Steyn said Monday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" that Democrats are making politics nearly "impossible" by refusing to accept election losses. Steyn is reacting to former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton saying this weekend that the election was "stolen" from her by Trump and the Russians. And by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams refusing to concede. "When you have someone like Stacey Abrams actually saying we don´t need to concede anymore because this entire system is oppressive and out to get us.
Former independent counsel Ken Starr on Monday sharply criticized the leak of Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s letter to Attorney General William Barr following Barr´s summary of the Russia report, calling the release of the letter an "unforgivable sin." "His letter, that was then leaked on the very eve of Bill Barr´s testimony, was essentially, I believe, an unfair, whiny complaint," Starr argued on "The Story with Martha MacCallum." Details of the March 24 letter went public shortly before Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a tense hearing last week. Multiple news outlets
This past Saturday evening, Angela and I had the pleasure of attending a traditional Jewish wedding for one of my close friends. It was a real fantastic evening, and the venue at the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas was exceptional. Heck, even a non-cultured fella like me from Georgia could appreciate the setting. Being a dad to two daughters myself, I know that my friend wanted to make this a memorable evening for his daughter, and it was. tad too much pepper on the peppercorn steak, but that is why they make water. The dinner band was great, playing those old ’80s-style
Receipts from CVS drug stores are so long that they nearly surpass the height of a former White House press secretary. Sean Spicer, who was President Trump’s top spokesperson during his first six months in office, took the ‘CVS receipt challenge,’ the competition that has gone viral on social media. ‘I’ve gotten some long @cvspharmacy receipts but I’m 5’6” (I know, you thought I was taller) and this one is almost as tall as I am,’ Spicer wrote on his Instagram page. ‘What’s the longest one you’ve gotten?’ (Photos) The image next to the caption shows a smiling Spicer holding
President Trump’s approval rating has hit its highest levels since his inauguration in a recent poll.Trump has hit 46% approval in the latest Gallup poll, the highest level since the polling group began asking the question. His approval in the poll has been as low as 35%, but the new numbers show an increasingly positive trend for the president. In early March, before the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, Trump’s approval sat at 39% but jumped to 45% in the first half of April.The poll found that Trump carries a 91% among Republicans, close to his record high
Former Vice President Joe Biden leaned heavily on the legacy of his old running mate, President Barack Obama, during a campaign appearance on Saturday. Prior to the rally, the campaign aired a video of Obama praising Biden in 2017 and awarding his own vice president a Presidential Medal of Freedom. “I heard you playing the tape of my buddy,” Biden said, speaking to the audience in Columbia, South Carolina, and apologized, “My buddy… I shouldn’t be so casual — President of the United States Barack Obama!” During his campaign speech, Biden recalled the 2015 racist church shooting in South Carolina,
Fort Worth—A program to train Afghan pilots at Fort Worth’s Meacham Field has ended after many of the participants went absent without leave—or AWOL—according to the Air Force Times. The report didn’t specify how many pilots are still unaccounted for, but indicated that it’s not uncommon for foreign pilots to go missing while in the United States for training—and, in many cases, resurface later and request asylum. The Air Force Times cited a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction showing that, between 2005 and 2017, 152 of the 320 foreign pilots who went AWOL while training
San Francisco officials voted Tuesday to require brick-and-mortar retailers to take cash as payment, joining Philadelphia and New Jersey in banning a growing paperless practice that critics say discriminates against low-income people who may not have access to credit cards. The vote by the Board of Supervisors was unanimous. Supervisor Vallie Brown, who introduced the legislation, said it "will go far in ensuring all San Franciscans have equitable access to the city´s economy." Brown said she thought it unfair that someone couldn´t buy a sandwich just because they had cash. She said young people, victims of ID theft, immigrants
Conservative congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) knew he was sitting down at a majority liberal coffee table on "The View" Monday morning, but he willingly debated the hosts on his ideals, a certain controversial freshman lawmaker, and, of course, President Trump. Since entering Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has uttered a string of what many would call anti-Semitic remarks and has also made an outrageous comment about September 11, which she defined as, "some people did something." Crenshaw shared his frustration with her rhetoric on Monday and Democrats´ inability to call her out. He mused that while some
Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recordings? For most people, the answer is, "Are you crazy?" Yet that´s essentially what Amazon has been doing to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. And it´s hardly alone: Bugging our homes is Silicon Valley´s next frontier. Many smart-speaker owners don´t realize it, but Amazon keeps a copy of everything Alexa records after it hears its name. Apple´s Siri, and until recently Google´s Assistant, by default also keep recordings to help train their artificial intelligences. So come with me on an unwelcome walk down
It’s been over three years since the FBI and the Department of Homeland security referred to the radical leftist Antifa movement´s behavior as that of a “domestic terrorist” organization, but that hasn’t stopped CNN from promoting their activities. Just days after CNN host Chris Cuomo argued that Antifa was a “true” and “good cause,” social justice warrior Kamau Bell on Sunday’s United Shades of America offered a national platform to an Antifa member while offering no pushback against their violent tactics. Completely ignoring the terrorist designation, Bell sat down with a young woman who only went by the name Ariel. As
Conservative author and media pundit David Horowitz, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and editor of FrontPage magazine, was suspended by Twitter on Tuesday. It is unclear why Horowitz’s account has been suspended. It comes just days after Facebook launched an unprecedented crackdown against right-of-center personalities including Laura Loomer and Paul Joseph Watson, in addition to its implementation of a blanket ban on anyone who links too often to InfoWars. Horowitz, whose articles have often been published at Breitbart News, has been a major figure in conservative politics for decades.
On CNN’s “Primetime with Chris Cuomo” on Monday night, a segment on the legality of state-level fetal heartbeat bills quickly spiraled into a chaotic debate about whether unborn children should be considered human beings. CNN contributor and erstwhile New York City Democratic politician Christine Quinn said, “When a woman is pregnant, that is not a human being inside of her.” When guest Rick Santorum asked CNN Host Chris Cuomo if he disagreed “that at the moment of conception that a child is human and alive?” Cumono replied that means it’s “viable.” When Santorum asked, “Is it biologically a human life?”
A 95-year-old World War II veteran died aboard the ´Honor Flight´ on his way back from visiting Washington, DC, war memorials with other Greatest Generation veterans. Frank Manchel, 95, had traveled to Washington, DC, on Friday on an all-expenses-paid weekend arranged by Honor Flight San Diego. He was among 82 other veterans, family members and volunteers who toured key WWII memorials in the capital city before boarding the flight home on Sunday. The WWII Army technical sergeant collapsed after standing up about an hour before the chartered American Airlines jet was due to land in San Diego Sunday, The San
House Democrats threaten to withhold salaries of Trump officials who ignore interview requests
replies
The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday threatened to withhold the salaries of Interior, Commerce, and Justice Department officials who block lawmakers from interviewing their agencies’ employees. House Oversight and Reform Committee Chairman Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., sent letters seeking transcribed interviews with eight current and former officials as part of two ongoing House investigations. The probes relate to the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt’s compliance with federal record-keeping laws. The letters warned that “any official at the
New York Times obtained Trump´s official IRS tax transcripts from 1985-1994 Trump lost so much money he didn´t have to pay income taxes for 8 of 10 years [...snip...] In the span of nearly a decade, Donald Trump lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer, a new report has claimed. Ten years of Trump´s official Internal Revenue Service tax transcriptions, obtained by the New York Times, have revealed shocking findings.
Noted billionaire bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, who accurately predicted Donald Trump’s presidency at the Sohn Conference May 2016, slammed virtually the entire field of Democratic primary contenders at the same conference on Monday. Even as polls suggest most of the crowded Democratic field could beat Trump in the 2020 elections, Gundlach, the CEO of $130 billion DoubleLine Capital, told the crowd that he’d “short them all.” (Snip) Gundlach continued: “But, no, Joe, I don´t want you grabbing my shoulders and giving me an Eskimo kiss.” He added that “a two-minute trying to explain away and get past this problem is
Baltimore TV anchor ousted after backlash to question about ´female, African American mayors´
replies
A Baltimore television station has dismissed one of its anchors who drew criticism for a question she posed late last week about the gender and race of the city´s past three mayors. The ouster of Mary Bubala from WJZ-TV was first reported by the Baltimore Sun. Bubala faced backlash after she asked a professor an on-air question about Catherine Pugh, the former mayor who resigned amid a widening scandal revolving around children’s books that she wrote. “We’ve had three female, African American mayors in a row,” Bubala said while speaking with Loyola University Maryland professor Karsonya Whitehead. “They were all
A shooting at a suburban Denver middle school injured seven people Tuesday, and two suspects were in custody, authorities said. Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth says there is a possible eighth injury and doesn´t believe there are any other shooters, but tactical teams were still searching room by room. She did not know if there were fatalities or other details about the victims or the extent of their injuries.
The Democratic National Committee asked Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for help in its unseemly plot to sabotage Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, according to media reports. The revelation comes as a backlash continues to build against Deep State Democrats for foisting the now-discredited Trump-Russian electoral collusion conspiracy theory on the American public as a way to explain Democrat Hillary Clinton’s unexpected defeat and to cover up President Obama’s leadership role in a real-life left-wing conspiracy to take down Trump’s campaign, transition team, and new administration. The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C., now acknowledges DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa asked
On Monday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw went up against several of the divas on “The View” on such topics as anti-semitism, Ilhan Omar, and President Trump. On the border crisis, Crenshaw said, “Every country has the right to own its own sovereignty. Every country has the right to manage who comes in and out of those borders. And right now, it feels as though the United States does not have that right … We have no effective control over our border right now.” He was asked about the President’s proposal to charge a fee for seeking asylum. “Those illegal immigrants are
More women donated to President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign than any of the Democratic 2020 presidential candidates, according to FEC data. 10,375 women have donated to Trump in the first quarter of 2019, more than double the nearest Democratic challenger. California Sen. Kamala Harris had the second highest number of female donors with 3,850. Trump’s average donation per woman donor is also much lower than his top female opponents. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand’s average donation was $1,321, and Sen. Harris’s average was $935 per woman respectively, while Trump’s donors average out to $141. The data, compiled by the Center