Posts on Friday, May 10, 2019
A newly-uncovered document suggests that the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ), including the FBI, was “well aware” that foreign agent Christopher Steele was trying to interfere in the 2016 presidential election with disinformation — and yet still used his materials to spy on American citizens and the Trump campaign, according to Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC). “[O]fficials at the FBI and (Department of Justice) DOJ were well aware the dossier was a lie — from very early on in the process all the way to when they made the conscious decision to include it in a FISA application,” Meadows said Tuesday
Beto O´Rourke´s example shows that impeachment is the last resort of losing Democratic campaigns
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Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s campaign for the Democratic nomination is not getting the traction his team likely hoped it would. As a result, they are searching out shiny objects to spark interest in the Democratic base for his 2020 White House bid. This week, they dusted off a talking point from his failed 2018 Senate campaign in Texas, and they are using special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year Russia investigation as the hook. As a presidential candidate, O’Rourke is now officially calling for the impeachment of President Trump. Of course, he is not the first
Comey: Yeah, Lisa Page And Peter Strzok´s Anti-Trump Texts Made The FBI Look Like Total Trash
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Well, it’s about time. Fired FBI Director James Comey admitted in a CNN town hall that the text messages between also terminated FBI Agent Peter Strzok and former bureau attorney Lisa Page made the entire agency look like trash. It damaged the institution and it tarnished the Russia investigation Caleb Howe at Mediaite has more: Comey was fielding a question from the audience when the topic came up. The audience member asked what Comey thought should have been the consequences for Strzok, Page, and Andrew McCabe.“I think, given the standards that we have,” said Comey, “there should have been, and
President Trump is moving forward with a plan that would limit the power of judges to dictate national policy. The administration is looking for ways to challenge the judicial tyranny of lower level federal judges in deciding on national injunctions, with Vice President Pence addressing the issue on Wednesday.The authority of federal district court judges to issue national injunctions, which have previously halted policies that have been advocated by the president, is being targeted by the administration, The Hill reported.Pence argued at an event hosted by the Federalist Society on Wednesday that the nationwide injunctions “prevent the executive branch from
Observing the events of the past two years, the past month since the release of the Mueller report, and the last few days of contempt charges, it is impossible to miss the defining characteristics of the most repugnant Democrats driving the impeach Trump campaign. Pelosi, Swalwell, Schiff, Blumenthal, Nadler, Cohen, Waters, Harris, Booker, et. al. are all of a piece. Each of them seems to possess an almost identical and wholesale lack of any character at all. Each of them is vicious to the core.
Earlier today President Trump celebrates with Major League Baseball champions Boston Red Sox at the White House. [Video and Transcript] (Snip)Well, good afternoon. It’s my pleasure to welcome to the White House the 2018 World Series Champion, the Boston Red Sox. A very special group of people. (Applause.) A very special team. Thank you.With us this afternoon are some of your biggest fans in my administration and on Capitol Hill, including Administrator Andrew Wheeler. Where’s Andrew? Andrew? A lot of deputy secretaries. A very great senator, Senator Tom Cotton.
The Department of Defense has a suicide problem. Thank Presidents Clinton and Obama. Prior to 1993, the Department of Defense (DOD) used to screen recruits, officer candidates, and service academy entrants for mental, personality, and suicide behavior disorders. Now they don’t.The Department of Defense uses the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) as its source reference for psychiatric diagnoses and metal disorders. Most Americans have little knowledge of, the DSM, its contents, and its implications. The DSM is published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and “offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental
Senator Braveheart
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Wyoming: the least populated state, where cattle and pronghorn outnumber people. Where two bigoted cowboys murdered Matthew Shepard in 1998 because they hated homosexuals. Except that Shepard, involved in the meth trade, was murdered by his bisexual lover and another man (hardly cowboys) who were part of the local drug culture. (snip) On February 1, Wyoming state Senator Lynn Hutchings (R-Cheyenne) received a note asking her to leave Senate chambers to meet outside with a group of high school students from a Cheyenne high school “Gay-Straight Alliance” (GSA) club
Paul Sperry has an interesting article today at Real Clear Politics outlining the amount of expenditures by special counsel Robert Mueller during his two-year investigation. Sperry notes many in DC are wondering who the “contractors” are that were paid by Mueller: (Snip)Sperry outlines the breadcrumb trail which seems to indicate that Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS) and Chris Steele may have been paid. One of the key aspects lending weight to this likelihood is the part of Mueller’s specific mandate, as delivered by DAG Rosenstein, that the special counsel investigate the claims within the Steele Dossier.
Solomon/Meadows – FBI Was Notified of Sketchy Steele Dossier Info in Advance of FISA Application…
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House Judiciary member Mark Meadows has provided John Solomon with notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016, during her meeting with Dossier author Christopher Steele (full pdf below). Solomon Article HERE. Within the notes Kavalec outlines: ¹the motives of Steele; ²innacuracies in his claims; and ³his media distribution network used to push the sketchy information. From the notes Kavalec wrote an email(Snip)informing the FBI of her review, two weeks ahead of the FBI application to the FISA court, which should have led investigators to withdraw Steele’s dossier from
More than 750 people have been diagnosed with measles in the United States this year, the most cases nationwide in more than 20 years. Health officials say that more than 500 of those people had not been vaccinated.The biggest outbreaks are in New York, where more than 670 people have been diagnosed with measles. In California, just 42 people have come down with the disease this year, in part because of steps the state has taken to curb outbreaks, experts say.
Verlon Jose had long vowed President Trump would build a wall along his tribe’s 75-mile border with Mexico only “over my dead body.” But late last month, the Tohono O’odham Nation’s vice chairman stood at the border and praised a planned wall meant to deter migrants, smugglers — and, according to the tribe, federal agents — from disturbing its lands. The wall he described was not physical, but virtual: 10 towers up to 140 feet tall, with radar and night vision cameras capable of surveying over several miles and streaming footage around the clock to the Border Patrol.
In 2016, Donald Trump stormed Washington and swept aside a hostile Republican Party establishment. Now, as he seeks reelection, the president has tightened his grip on the GOP as loyalists — whose main credential is fealty to the White House — seize control of state parties around the country. Trump acolytes have replaced veterans and party insiders in places such as Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, (Snip) Here in Arizona, an emerging 2020 battleground, the new party chief is Kelli Ward, a former state lawmaker, fierce Trump devotee and twice-failed candidate for U.S. Senate who campaigned against fellow Republicans
Is that a five-day Dow Jones chart — or a roller coaster? Investors are certainly getting bounced around as financial markets obsess over trade negotiations with China — which have now culminated in tariff hikes on $200 billion of goods. But the real issue is how China has taken America for a ride for four decades. And — it’s absolutely vital to recognize — on way more than just trade. When Jimmy Carter normalized relations and granted the Communist regime Most Favored Nation (MFN) status
Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, described the news media and political establishment’s disinterest in Hunter Biden’s business deals with foreign states “stunning.” Schweizer contrasted this disinterest with the treatment of Donald Trump Jr.’s “deal that actually never happened” in the Trump Organization’s contemplated construction of a skyscraper in Moscow, Russia. Schweizer joined Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight for an interview with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
Former FBI Director James B. Comey said Thursday that he thinks President Trump likely has committed crimes that could be cause for indictment once he leaves office and, were he not president, likely would already have been indicted. In a CNN town-hall-style meeting, Mr. Comey was asked by host Anderson Cooper whether Mr. Trump acted with corrupt intent to interfere with an ongoing investigation. “It sure looks that way,” Mr. Comey replied, saying he based that judgment on his reading of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and leaning most heavily on Mr. Trump’s
‘We’ve talked for a long time about approaching a constitutional crisis. We are now in it.” That was House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler on Wednesday. When reporters asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday if she agreed with Nadler’s assessment, her response was that she does, “because the administration has decided that they’re not going to honor their oath of office.” What neither Nadler nor Pelosi did say,
Here’s an interesting pair of polls that, put side-by-side, paint a revealing and somewhat surprising portrait of both Russians and Americans. Gallup reported the other day that a record percentage of Russians (20 percent) would like to leave Russia for some other country. This is especially true among young people. But before you start feeling smug: Earlier this year Gallup found a similar record number of Americans (16 percent) also would like to leave their homeland. [Snip] A driving force for both nationalities to leave their country is – wait for it – dislike of their sitting president, for
Most policy proposals during party primary campaigns are essentially pipe dreams designed to attract the largest number of politically faithful voters who are also delightfully gullible. [Snip] Unless you’re Donald Trump promising tax cuts and to defeat ISIS. Since Democrats for the moment are the only ones with seriously-contested primary campaigns, we can examine what some of them are hankering for in their preliminary policy plans. You’ll never guess what most of them want. Of course, you can. They’re Democrats. They want more taxes, a lot more taxes. They need to take tons of extra cash from
When former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s daughters smashed champagne bottles against a metal star atop the bow of the ship named for him last month, the crowd roared, patriotic streamers shot skyward, and there were smiles all around. No one was churlish enough to mar the christening ceremony in Bath, Maine, by noting that in naming the futuristic-looking stealth destroyer for the 36th president, the Navy was honoring a part-time officer who spent decades wearing a decoration for valor that he knew full well he didn’t rate. For most of his political life, Johnson proudly displayed a Silver Star
The public faking of sincerity is an underappreciated, yet dark and unctuous art, practiced with great skill by Roman senators, French courtiers (just before the advent of the guillotine) and, yes, Washington politicians. Fear is a different creature. There is no need to fake it. It shows itself on the faces of intriguers in Washington as it would have shown itself on the faces of macaques in a laboratory or on some 15th century jester in a painting. We are all primates. The lips curl back, there is a witless acceptance of threat and the showing of teeth, of gums.
The Democrats have given up electing a president next year. What else could explain the party’s obsession with the election of four years ago? Hillary Clinton lost, and they can’t let it go. Jerry Nadler and the House Judiciary Committee continue to pursue Attorney General William Barr, their surrogate target for President Trump, demanding that Mr. Barr flout the law protecting grand jury proceedings, or they will turn it into “a constitutional crisis.” Nancy Pelosi, who blows hot and cold on whether the House of Representatives should impeach the president,
Earlier this month, the New York Times published an op-ed by James Comey in which the former FBI director claimed that President Trump “eats your soul in small bites.” Talk about demonizing your adversaries. Comey must not have read Robert Mueller’s report very carefully. One of Mueller’s findings is that members of Trump’s team didn’t carry out his instructions when they believed the instructions were wrongful. Don McGahn, then the White House counsel, is perhaps the main example, but he’s certainly not the only one. The report cites Jeff Sessions, Rod Rosenstein, Reince Priebus,
He was charged by a herd of 200 elephants, escaping only with the help of a flatbed truck, and was once knocked unconscious by a surly chimpanzee named Mr. Moke, who punched him “square between the eyes.” But neither incident compared to the time a 22-foot anaconda swallowed his arm, up to the shoulder. “Luckily,” said Jim Fowler, the longtime co-host of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,” “I knew what to do.” As the indigenous tribe gathered around him fled, Fowler remained calm, waiting for the anaconda to tire itself out before he wriggled out
Where’s Sen. Amy Klobuchar? Last time I saw her, she was covered in snow like Nanook of the North announcing she was running for president. She’s one of a critical mass of would-be female presidents, too many for the Hillary brush-off of “I’m all for a woman president, just not this woman.” What will the excuse be this time? “There are so damn many, I can’t keep them straight.” Klobuchar is, of course, in plain sight but not so you’d know it. She surfaced on Wednesday evening at Fox News’ second town hall,
A man must be something of a moralist if he is to preach,” G.K. Chesterton observed, “even if he is to preach immorality.” Brian Sims, a Pennsylvania state representative by profession and abortion counterprotester by avocation, embodies Chesterton’s quip. The former defensive tackle for Bloomsburg University aggressively hectored a woman who appeared to be praying the rosary outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic in his Pennsylvania district. On the uncomfortable eight-minute clip, Sims calls the silent protester “an old white lady” and announces, “If you know who this woman is and if you can give
The FBI’s sworn story to a federal court about its asset, Christopher Steele, is fraying faster than a $5 souvenir T-shirt bought at a tourist trap. Newly unearthed memos show a high-ranking government official who met with Steele in October 2016 determined some of the Donald Trump dirt that Steele was simultaneously digging up for the FBI and for Hillary Clinton’s campaign was inaccurate, and likely leaked to the media. The concerns were flagged in a typed memo and in handwritten notes taken by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Kathleen Kavalec on Oct. 11, 2016.
The House Judiciary Committee is voting to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress and to secure a vote of the entire House of Representatives in order to send the matter to federal court. The problem is that the contempt action against Barr is long on action and short on contempt. Indeed, with a superficial charge, the House could seriously undermine its credibility in the ongoing conflicts with the White House. Congress is right on a number of complaints against the White House, including possible cases of contempt, but this is not one of them.
Nadler cries ´constitutional crisis´ but let’s look at what Dems said about Fast and Furious
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I remember. Seven years ago Democrats had the opportunity to right the very wrongs they so sincerely decried in a House Judiciary Committee hearing this week. Not only did they fail to defend our Congressional subpoena power, they vociferously argued that doing so was inappropriate. I kid you not. Back then, Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder had refused to comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents in the Fast and Furious investigation. Republicans argued at the time that Democrats should stand with us in defending our Congressional subpoena power. They refused. With a Republican president,
Conan O’Brien’s team decided to settle a 2015 joke-stealing lawsuit this week. But in a lengthy yet witty op-ed published Thursday, O’Brien defended his writers’ innocence by explaining the honor code of comedy writers – next to murder there’s nothing more despicable than joke theft. “I have devoted 34 years in show business striving for originality,” he wrote in Variety. “Had I, for one second, thought that any of my writers took material from someone else I would have fired that writer immediately, personally apologized, and made financial reparations. But, I knew that we were in the right.”
Feeling bored? Read this
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Feeling scared? Tense? Concerned? It’s hard to believe but a new poll of 2,000 Americans finds they are bored more than one-third of their daily life. If you sleep one-third of the time, that doesn’t leave much time for happy. [Snip] The average respondent reported that being bored, having no fun or dreading something was taking up about 36 percent of their life. Which works out to 61 hours every week. Or 131 days every year. Imagine being bored or dreading every single day for that long, ever since last New Year’s Eve, in fact.
President Donald Trump sees parallels between Joe Biden’s early surge to the front of the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential field and his own runaway success in the 2016 Republican primaries. In an interview with POLITICO on Friday afternoon, Trump cast the former vice president as a clear, if flawed, front runner, noting that Biden had recently flubbed the name of Britain’s prime minister. And he compared Biden’s early success in a heavily crowded field to his own entry and rapid ascent in the 2016 Republican campaign. “I look at it like my race” in 2016, the president said in a
The organizers of a rally calling for the impeachment of President Donald Trump said the event was held to deliver to Congress a petition with more than ten million signatures urging for the action, but only two House Democrats showed up in support. Reps. Al Green (D-TX) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) were the only two Democrats to attend and speak at the event. They were joined by a host of leftwing organizations, including CREDO, George Soros-funded MoveOn.org, the Woman’s March — including pro-Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour — and Free Speech for People. “I always tell people: ‘This is your House,
Jeff Glor Signs Off From ‘CBS Evening News´: I ‘Wish Norah O’Donnell the Best of Luck’ (Video)
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Jeff Glor officially signed off from the anchor chair of “CBS Evening News” on Friday, finishing his last broadcast of the news show before Norah O’Donnell takes over the position in the summer. “As we leave here tonight I just want to say thanks. This is a short broadcast, but a long game. Through it all, the people who put on the ‘Evening News’ remain committed,” he said. “This program will be moving to Washington D.C. in the coming months. I wish Norah O’Donnell the best of luck, though she won’t need it. Because of the people backing
WASHINGTON -President Donald Trump has effectively taken charge of the nation’s premier Fourth of July celebration in Washington, moving the gargantuan fireworks display from its usual spot on the Mall to be closer to the Potomac River and making tentative plans to address the nation from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, according to top administration officials.The president´s starring role has the potential to turn what has long been a nonpartisan celebration of the nation´s founding into another version of a Trump campaign rally. Officials said it is unclear how much the changes may cost, but the plans have already
Judicial Watch strikes again! Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch on Friday announced it obtained 44 pages of State Department records through a court-ordered discovery that revealed the Obama White House was paranoid and tracking a December 2012 FOIA [Freedom of Information Act] request seeking documents on then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server system (shortly after the Benghazi terror attack). A few months after the Obama White House intercepted and got involved, the State Department responded to the FOIA requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), and falsely claimed that no such records existed. Not
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West welcome baby number four via surrogate: ´He´s here and he´s perfect!´
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have welcomed their fourth child via surrogate. The reality TV star, 38, shared the happy news about their baby boy´s birth with fans on Friday morning. The couple are already parents to daughter North, five, son Saint, three, and daughter Chicago, 15 months. ´He´s here and he´s perfect,´ the beauty tweeted. Minutes later she added, ´He´s also Chicago´s twin lol I´m sure he will change a lot but now he looks just like her.´ The baby was born on Thursday evening and weighed in at 6 lbs, 9 ozs, according to TMZ. This comes after
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) said in a new interview that he will likely still clean up after his two dogs if he ends up in the White House. In an interview with TMZ, the 2020 presidential hopeful confirmed that the dogs would accompany him and his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, to the presidential residence, and that he doubted his dogs would see him any differently. "When you become president, will you still clean up after them?" a TMZ reporter asked. "Well, yeah, you know, the dogs don´t care," Buttigieg responded. "Either we gotta do it, or somebody does."
LOS ANGELES - Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, a rising party star who narrowly fell short of becoming the first female African American governor last year, said on Thursday she is still considering running for president. In an interview on "Pod Save America" with Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to former Democratic U.S. President Barack Obama, Abrams was asked whether she is considering joining the huge field of Democratic presidential candidates. She replied: "Yes." If Abrams does join the 2020 race, she will add to a field that currently numbers 22 Democrats trying to become the nominee to take on
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Environmental concerns, including fear of harming a sensitive frog species, have forced Camp fire crews to back away from cleaning some properties in the Paradise area. State officials tasked with debris cleanup say they have been directed not to enter an estimated 800 burned Butte County home sites within 100 feet of a waterway. They’ve been told to wait for representatives of several state and federal agencies to reach an agreement on environmental assessment guidelines. (Snip) The revelation that some stream-side properties are now on hold triggered a strong public rebuke Thursday from two local legislators
Bernie Sanders may have captured the hearts of young voters in 2016 and be leading them now, but one observer of youth politics thinks that that advantage may evaporate. “His appeal to young people in 2016 was conditional on who he was running against. … If you thought Hillary [Clinton] was boring, unexciting, cautious, timid, a flip-flopper, Bernie was the vehicle,” said Peter Hamby, host of the weekly Snapchat political show “Good Luck America.” “There are younger, fresher options," Hamby said in an interview with the Yahoo News podcast “The Long Game.” Sanders is leading among young voters in
According to Reuters, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler is negotiating terms for special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before the committee… (Snip)In my opinion no-one in DC wants Robert Mueller to testify because they know Mueller was/is purely a figurehead for a corrupt investigative enterprise that was simply an extension of the 2016 DOJ and FBI effort.Mueller was the 2017 cover that allowed the 2016 DOJ and FBI team to continue their efforts. Mueller didn’t select an investigative team, a pre-assembled TEAM that included Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and FBI Counsel James Baker selected Mueller;
McClatchy stock sank to a new 52-week low on Thursday after the company, which was feverishly trying to do a deal with the larger Tribune Publishing earlier this year, reported a net loss of $42 million in the first quarter as revenue tumbled 9.3 percent to $180.3 million. McClatchy, owner of the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star and other papers, still had close to $745.1 million in debt on its books at the end of the quarter thanks in large part to its acquisition of Knight Ridder a dozen years ago. Tribune, owner of the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun
This week, conservative favorite freshman congressman Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) spearheaded a stirring letter that sounds the alarm on the dire fiscal situation currently facing the United States federal government. As Conservative Review notes, fellow signatories include Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Louie Gohmert of Texas, Ken Buck of Colorado, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Justin Amash of Michigan, Jeff Duncan of South Carolina, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.The letter, which merely pleads that Congress actually stick to its current prescribed spending limits and not blow through previously agreed-upon spending caps,
WASHINGTON— On June 6, 2019, it´ll have been 75 years since the D-Day Invasion that was the beginning of the end of World War II. As an early salute to that anniversary, a squadron of C-47s flew over the Pentagon and Arlington National Cemetery at noon Friday. "It´s great to see the old aircraft still flying," said Tom Donovan, a veteran and former naval aviator from Arlington, Virginia. Five C-47s took off from Frederick, Maryland, and flew to the nation´s capital Friday as a salute to the fallen ahead of the D-Day anniversary. Donovan said he was humbled to witness
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said unlike former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, President Trump is not worthy of the honors of an official state visit. Khan specifically took issue with the "Access Hollywood" tape, where Trump said how he could just grab women by their genitals and start kissing them since he was famous, and with TV host Billy Bush laughing along in 2005. When Trump won the presidency in 2016, "an impression [was] being given you could get away with it, that you get a get out of jail card," Khan told British radio talk station LBC
Having failed to impeach President Trump on grounds of collusion with the Russians, the Democratic left and its allies have turned to other weapons in their arsenal to obstruct his re-election. Their instruments can be very potent: a media blitzkrieg, the raising of the dead (the cemetery vote), multiple vote counting, newly franchised illegal voters, massive vote harvesting, and social media censorship—all of which constitute a campaign of monstrous voter fraud. Evicting dissident voices from social media platforms may be the most effective device of the left. How can such high-tech despotism be challenged or negated? Citizen journalists
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is shifting $1.5 billion in funds originally targeted for support of the Afghan security forces and other projects to help pay for construction of nearly 80 miles (130 kilometers) of wall at the U.S.-Mexican border, officials said Friday. Congress was notified of the move Friday. It follows the Pentagon’s decision in March to transfer $1 billion from Army personnel budget accounts to support wall construction. Some lawmakers have been highly critical of the Pentagon shifting money not originally authorized for border security. The combined total of $2.5 billion is in response
Back in December, Washington state Trump supporter Joshua Greene donated a small amount of money to the crowdfunding effort to build a wall along the southern U.S. border. He wasn’t alone. The GoFundMe page to build the wall, to which he’d donated, was a sensation on the right in late 2018 and raised more than $20 million. Organized by triple-amputee veteran Brian Kolfage, the campaign eventually morphed into a nonprofit called We Build the Wall, which promised to build portions of the wall on private land using the money it raised. Months later, there’s no evidence that any construction
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez: Moms Can Pump Breast Milk, Feed Babies, Use ‘Play Mats + Cribs’ in My Office
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“We work to be a pro-family workplace,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) declared Friday, launching a series of tweets outlining her office policies for new mothers and fathers. Ocasio-Cortez says new mothers who work for her are welcome to bring their babies to work, are provided play mats and cribs, and are welcome to use her personal office to pump breast milk and feed their babies: “We make an effort to make our office family-friendly. We talk about what play mats + cribs we need along w/ our legislative agenda. My personal office can be used for pumping/feeding. Staff can bring
The Liberty to Hate
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If you want to understand politics, it is instructive to overcome the common prejudice against negative feelings—enmity, hatred, contempt, envy, resentment, and others—because though often concealed by people’s moral delusions and self-serving social games, they are constitutive of political ideology and essential to political action. Consider David French, that phony conservative par excellence. His April 22 column in Time magazine—“Donald Trump Is Weak and Afraid. The Mueller Report Proves It”—is typical of French’s method. Instead of criticizing the president’s neoconservative foreign policy and betrayal of the American working class on the labor/immigration issue—the subjects for which
Democrats and their media allies are so fearful of the gains President Trump may be realizing among people of color that they have pushed all in on claiming that he is a racist. The latest example of this was seen Thursday on MSNBC, when political operative Ron Klain implied Trump was “happy” that only “white players” from the Boston Red Sox World Series championship team showed up for their official White House visit.The team was making the traditional championship visit and manager Alex Cora declined not to go, as did a number of players of color, including World Series MVP
One of the two gunmen accused of opening fire on classmates at a Denver high school in a deadly attack allegedly joked about shootings and would bully younger students. Devon Erickson, 18, and 16-year-old Maya McKinney, who goes by the name Alec, were arrested over the shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch on Tuesday that left one dead and eight injured. In an interview with NBC’s Today on Friday, students say they are angry about red flags they claim were missed in relation to Erickson.(Snip) ‘We weren’t surprised who it was because you could kind of see that coming
SARASOTA, Fla. - Two people were found dead inside a Sarasota home this morning, the apparent victims of carbon monoxide poisoning. Hazmat teams remain on the scene. The home is a duplex along Bouchard Circle, just south of Clark Road. According to the Sarasota County Sheriff´s Office, the elderly couple was found inside the home, which had "elevated levels of carbon monoxide," which is the colorless, odorless gas produced in car exhaust. One victim was found in bed; the other on the floor. Investigators remain at the home; it´s not clear if the deaths were criminal or accidental. Their next-door neighbor was
Dow turns positive, rebounding from 358- point loss, after Mnuchin says trade talks ´constructive´
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Stocks rebounded from steep losses on Friday on hope there is still time to strike a trade agreement with China, even after new tariffs were enacted just after midnight. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was about flat on Friday, coming all the way back from a 358-point loss earlier in the session. Stocks began paring some of their losses after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said China trade talks were "constructive." Chinese Vice Premier Liu He also said the talks went "fairly well," according to reports. The talks are now done for the day. The U.S. told China it had three
A proposed hike in Illinois´ annual registration fee for electric vehicles, from $17.50 to $1,000, is being called unfair by current EV owners, and a sales disincentive by manufacturers - just as the new technology is beginning to gain broader traction. "It´s outrageous," said Nicoletta Skarlatos, 56, of Chicago, who bought a Tesla Model S five years ago. "I thought Illinois was progressive and would want to encourage EV ownership." Aimed at raising money to make overdue road improvements across Illinois, the proposed legislation would also more than double the state´s gas tax to 44 cents a gallon, and raise
Schumer Raises Question of Whether McConnell is Willing to Let Russians Help Trump’s 2020 Campaign
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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y.) spoke on the Senate floor Wednesday about the report produced by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and raised the question of whether Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) was holding back on pursuing election reforms because he believes Russia will try to help President Donald Trump get reelected and he is willing to let that happen. “I hope the reason that Leader McConnell is resisting a strengthening and securing [of] our elections, I hope the reason is not because he believes Russia will help President Trump and he’s willing to let that go forward. I
Have we seen the last of James Woods on Twitter? Actor issues ominous statement on his suspension
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Is it possible that we’ve seen the last of Hollywood actor James Woods on Twitter? The outspoken conservative actor has more than 2 million followers and has emerged as an important voice on the right in calling attention to important issues, but for the second time, Woods has found himself suspended by the social media platform over what proves to be innocuous tweets. Even President Donald Trump has taken note of the suspension: [tweet] Woods has grown weary of the censorship and is doing what might be expected from a leader, he’s taking a stand for free speech,
ELYRIA — Attorneys for Gibson’s Bakery said Thursday that Meredith Raimondo and other Oberlin College administrators knew students planned to protest in front of the bakery hours before the demonstrations started Nov. 10, 2016. Raimondo, the vice president and dean of students at Oberlin College, received an email from students about 11 p.m. the night before that Gibson’s attorneys called a “declaration of war” against the bakery. Raimondo, in texts, emails and a deposition, said she didn’t see the message until the following morning at which point she contacted other administrators to let them know “what was coming.”
President Donald Trump is reportedly on the verge of changing the judiciary in two significant ways that could reverberate for decades to come. First, this week the GOP-led Senate confirmed conservative justices Judge Joseph Bianco and Michael Park to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Two vacancies remain on the court, and if the president manages to fill both with conservatives, the court will finally lean to the right. “When Trump makes additional appointments for vacancies that will be left by two judges who recently announced their retirements, Dennis Jacobs and Christopher Droney, the 13-member court will be majority Republican-appointed,”
Rep. Louie Gohmert ripped the “attempted coup” against President Donald Trump and warned that “we’re not going to last much longer” if those behind it don’t go to jail. The fiery Texas Republican blasted the Robert Mueller report and doubled down on previous criticisms he has leveled against the special counsel’s investigation of now-disproved Russian collusion with the Trump campaign in the 2016 election, telling Fox Business News host Lou Dobbs it “goes beyond the pale.” “It’s bad enough that this thing has gone on for two and a half years since the election,
Canada and the United States have many things in common – we love our hockey players, our astronauts and our veterans. We value freedom and prosperity and, when push comes to shove, will fight tooth and nail against those who would take either from us. We also have our shares of misguided conservative politicians who think they can win over left-leaning voters by promoting the climate scare. In Canada we had Stephen Harper who was elected prime minister as a conservative and a committed climate sceptic but changed sides after being elected in an apparent attempt to curry favor with
Imagine a day when newspapers only publish articles regarding the benefits of late-term abortions, socialism, and open borders. Where history books vilify Republican conservatives for fighting to defend slavery, inciting segregation, and founding the KKK. Cable news shows would only report crimes committed by conservatives or capitalists and social media only allowed leftist ideas to be communicated over their platforms. Well, if the left continues its scorched-earth policy against free speech, in no time at all the United States will have no resemblance to what the Founding Fathers envisioned. So many examples exist that fully detail the poverty,
Should catching the measles, or mumps, or chicken pox, or tuberculosis be part of a federal employee´s job description? You know, take the TB the way the military at war with an enemy takes the bullet? Except, of course, that the military can defend itself. Border Patrol agents cannot. It is now. InfoWars, via Drudge Report, has some news on just this appalling state of affairs: More agents than ever before are calling in sick to work or showing up sick, says a Border Patrol union representative who worries too many agents are succumbing to illnesses brought by illegal
As a case study in American political tribalism in the age of President Trump, a Los Angeles writer wore a MAGA hat to an ultra-liberal vegan restaurant in the city to see what sort of adventures would unfold. Quite shockingly, people actually proved his thesis wrong. The article by Joel Stein in Los Angeles Magazine confronts the fact that Americans hate each other in the age of President Trump, a fever he himself admits to having been inflicted with at times.
When You Can’t Hold Your Horses
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Millions of two-dollar bettors became experts on the rules of horse racing over the weekend after Maximum Security, a handsome bay colt with a white stripe down the middle of his forehead, won the Kentucky Derby, then was disqualified for interference with three other horses on the final turn.(Snip)Horse racing is based on the fiction that an 85-pound jockey—in this case, Luis Saez of Panama—can totally control an 1,100-pound animal so high-strung and inbred that he’s the equivalent of a steroidal maniac. I once saw a thoroughbred at Belmont Park kick a groomer
Et Tu, Sen. Burr?
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How nauseating that RINO Sen. Richard Burr, as chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is doing the bidding of vindictive Democrats in issuing a subpoena to Donald Trump Jr. Burr has joined the Democrats´ investigatory vendetta against President Trump, most recently exemplified in the House Judiciary Committee´s vote to hold Attorney General Will Barr in contempt of Congress. Democrats claim Barr is in contempt for failing to release an unredacted report by special counsel Robert Mueller, allegedly lying twice to Congress (Snip). All three claims are absurd on their face and, if heard by an impartial tribunal, will be rejected.
If the Trump-Russia election collusion hoax was a movie, Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak would have a starring role. From Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ fateful recusal to National Security Advisor Michael Flynn’s(Snip) the former Russian diplomat made more than just a few consequential appearances. The question is, were these incidental cameos or was Kislyak following a script written for him by the collusion fraudsters? As Senate Republicans threaten to excavate the origins of the corrupt investigation into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, they might want to take a closer look at how Kislyak helped shape the bogus Russian collusion plotline.
Devastating: Liberal Law Professor Clinically Dismantles Democrats’ Contempt Case Against Barr
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Left-leaning law professor Jonathan Turley -- who has stood out in recent years as a rare legal analyst unwilling to allow his political views to cloud his constitutional judgments -- has written an absolutely devastating column addressing House Democrats´ efforts to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress. (Snip) House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has chosen to focus the contempt charge on the Attorney General´s unwillingness to release a tiny redacted fraction of the Mueller report. Turley says this is "the weakest possible contempt claim,"
The Midwest’s broken blue wall
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Regardless of who wins the Democratic nomination for president one year from now, the party’s deep pockets already are prepping the groundwork to make sure that history—or herstory, if you will—does not repeat itself in 2020. The Democratic presidential candidate’s path to the White House doesn’t run along the Acela Corridor or the Pacific Coast Highway, but rather across Interstate 94 in the upper midsection of the country. Democrats learned this the hard way in 2016. For all her excuses (Snip) Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election for one reason: She failed to carry the Midwest
Donald Trump is clearly spooked by Joe Biden—but some of the president’s supporters say there’s an easy solution: Make Biden out to be Hillary Clinton, just older and with a longer record of not getting things done in Washington. Go ahead and try, Biden and his advisers say, offering a list of reasons why they believe that strategy won’t work. Though an old white man is not a history-making candidate like Clinton, Biden’s advisers know their candidate benefits from not being a woman, which they think will save him from the sexism and misogyny that defined 2016.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” conservative talker Mark Levin, author of “Unfreedom of the Press,” made the argument for a criminal grand jury to be impaneled and a special counsel to be appointed to “get to the bottom of” the events that led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe based on allegations of Trump-Russia collusion. Levin argued that if Democrats were going to use “Soviet tactics” against Republicans, it was up to Republicans to reciprocate. Partial transcript as follows: SEAN HANNITY, “HANNITY” HOST: Joining us now with reaction to all of this Author of Unfreedom of the Press, which