Posts on Monday, May 13, 2019
She’s the hardest working 8-year-old girl in America (maybe, but we don’t know many 8-year-old girls). Anyway, Ava Martinez is back with another perfect impression of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democratic socialist who talks like a Valley girl.“Like, hello America, AOC here again,” Ava says in her latest video. “But this time from Washington, D.C., which is named after our first president — George Washington D.C.” Like, I want to tell you about my plan to single-handedly save the planet. I call it the Green New Deal. I picked green because I’m still learning my colors. I came
Former FBI Director James Comey reacted to Rod Rosenstein calling him a "partisan pundit" on Monday with five words. "I wish him the best," Comey told CNN. Rosenstein, who left his role as deputy attorney general last week, delivered a scathing rebuke of Comey in a speech in Baltimore. “Now the former director is a partisan pundit, selling books and earning speaking fees while speculating about the strength of my character and the fate of my immortal soul,” Rosenstein told the Greater Baltimore Committee. “That is disappointing. Speculating about souls is not a job for police and prosecutors.” He also defended
On Monday, after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) (who is fearless in calling out anti-Semitism) had properly called out Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for her latest display of it, Tlaib’s good friend Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) attacked Cheney with a tweet that was both vicious and self-pitying, ranting, “Give it up, we all know you never met a Muslim you didn’t want to vilify! Your deep seeded hate and Islamophobia might be a tool to rally your base, but won’t get rid your colleagues. You just have to deal.” (Video/Tweets) In response to Tlaib’s anti-Semitic remarks about the Holocaust, Cheney had
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Monday one of his biggest honors in life was serving in the Army with “The Old Guard” as a funeral escort at Arlington National Cemetery. Cotton told "Fox & Friends" he was a member of the Army’s elite ceremonial unit between tours of duty as an infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was elected to the Senate in 2014. “If I wasn’t in Iraq or Afghanistan leading troops in combat, I can’t think of anything more meaningful than serving at Arlington National Cemetery with The Old Guard, honoring our nation’s fallen heroes and everything
Attorney General William Barr has appointed a top Connecticut prosecutor to look into the origins of the Russia probe. US Attorney John Durham was tapped to determine if the government’s methods of collecting intelligence involving the 2016 Trump campaign were “lawful and appropriate,” the Associated Press reported, citing a source. This appointment comes about a month after Barr told Congress he believed “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign, without providing details. He may have been referring to a surveillance warrant the FBI obtained on ex-Trump associate Carter Page and the use of an FBI informant to look into former
Nabisco’s Chips Ahoy! cookie brand on Sunday mocked people who were upset over the company’s Mother’s Day ad that featured a recent contestant on “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Jose Cancel, a drag queen who uses the stage name Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, recorded a video for the cookie company urging people to buy cookies for their moms and “drag moms” for Mother’s Day.(Tweet) “Your real mama, your drag mama, whichever mama, whoever taking care of you, whoever you feel or consider your mama, it’s their day today—get them a cookie,” Mr. Cancel said in the video that’s racked up more
It’s not all kumbaya and kombucha at the Park Slope Food Coop — where life under its socialist-tinged grocery store is apparently so oppressive that the paid workers are trying to unionize. Employees of the Brooklyn food collective recently alleged unfair labor practices by the co-op in a filing with the US National Labor Relations Board. In response, the crunchy-granola collective’s iron-fisted management threatened and punished those who support the effort — with one union-busting boss telling workers they “should have a backup plan” if their collective bargaining doesn’t bear fruit, according to a copy of the labor complaint
EU nations must “empower” children to participate in “decision-making and policy development” at national and European level, according to a declaration adopted by the bloc this week. The Bucharest EU Children’s Declaration and Experts’ Supporting Document was adopted at the first ever ‘Children’s Summit’ in order to “guide European leaders” in putting “structured mechanisms” in place to ensure that young minors’ alleged “right” to influence public policy is respected, Brussels-based media reports. At the event in Romania, whose national government has just taken over the EU rotating presidency, government officials and NGOs stressed that boosting the participation of children in political decision-making
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr Monday calling for him to investigate former Secretary of State John Kerry for potential violations of the Logan Act or the Foreign Agents Registration Act.President Trump had previously called on Kerry to be investigated after it was revealed that Kerry had been in secret talks with the Iranian government in a bid to salvage the Iran nuclear deal after Trump backed out of it.“As you know, former Secretary Kerry’s actions since leaving office have come under scrutiny as they related to the Iran nuclear deal, known formally as
Iran and America moved closer to the brink of war today after two Saudi oil tankers were mysteriously ´sabotaged´ in the Gulf of Oman. The two ships were among four commercial vessels which were targeted off the UAE coast, one of which was due to pick up oil destined for America. Amid spiralling tensions in recent days, the U.S. had warned ships that ´Iran or its proxies´ could target maritime traffic in the region - and now suspects Iran was behind the latest attacks. A U.S. military team sent to inspect the damage believes that that Iran or Iranian-backed proxies
A British judge has given his approval to the foster parents of a transgender child who “transitioned” to their new gender at just three-years-old. The two parents, named only as TP and CP, already had a seven-year-old biological child who had changed their gender from boy to girl just months earlier. The parents said they had supported their seven-year-old child’s transition, going as far as to change their legal status to that of a girl, including ordering a new passport matching the child’s new identity. When the three-year-old turned four and was sent to school, he was sent in wearing a girl’s uniform
According to newly released emails obtained by Judicial Watch, the Obama White House was tracking a December 2012 Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request records concerning Hillary Clinton’s unsecured, private email server back. These new emails prove that the Obama White House knew about the scandal earlier than previously admitted, and attempted to cover it up. Months after the Obama White House got involved, “the State Department responded to the FOIA requestor, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), falsely stating that no such records existed.” "Our discovery is centered upon whether Clinton intentionally attempted to evade
Minneapolis - Five men who say they were sexually abused by Roman Catholic priests when they were minors are planning to sue the Vatican and are demanding the names of thousands of predator priests they claim have been kept secret by the Holy See. In a Monday news release announcing the lawsuit, Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson said he wants to show that the Vatican tried to cover up actions by top church officials including former St. Paul Minneapolis Archbishop John Nienstedt and former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was found guilty by the Vatican of sexually abusing minors and adults and defrocked
Sometimes maître d’ Michael Arnaud has to play bad cop. Granted, he wears a wide smile above his green bow tie and greets every customer of Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab with the cheerily booming voice of a game-show host giving away a brand-new jet ski. But as a gatekeeper at a bustling restaurant on the same block as the White House, Arnaud must enforce certain rules. Namely, you can’t sit until your entire party has arrived. No matter how much he’d love to, unfortunately, he’s terribly sorry but he doesn’t have a choice. Unless, you know, you
Kavanaugh sides with liberal justices against Apple, deals blow to tech giant in App Store challenge
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh sided with the liberal wing of the Supreme Court on Monday, penning an opinion against Apple that ruled the tech company can be sued over high prices in their App Store. The case, Apple v. Pepper, was brought by iPhone users who complained that the App Store is the only place where iPhone apps are available and that, as a result, Apple has a monopoly on “the iPhone apps aftermarket.” They claim prices are consequently high stemming from the charges Apple imposes on app developers.
Washington - The U.S. allegedly rejected the visa application of a ranking member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). "It is official! My US visa application has been rejected. No reason given. Choose any of the following: I´m over 70 & a grandmother; I´ve been an activist for Palestine since the late 1960´s; I´ve always been an ardent supporter of nonviolent resistance," Hanan Ashrawi said in a tweet on Monday. The top member of the PLO said she spoke and negotiated with "every Sec. of State since [George] Shultz, & every President since George H. W. Bush (present administration excluded)."
Former President Jimmy Carter is recovering from surgery Monday after breaking hip at his home in Plains, Georgia. Carter, 94, fell prior to turkey hunting trip, according to a statement from the The Carter Center, a human rights non-profit the former president founded. Carter, who is the oldest living president, is currently recovering at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia. His surgeon said the surgery was successful and his wife, Rosalynn, is with him. "President Carter said his main concern is that turkey season ends this week, and he has not reached his limit. He hopes the State of
Anti-Semitism is quickly on the rise within the Democratic Party, and the poster children for it are two high-profile freshmen US Representatives, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan. Florida, too, has its own Democrat Islamist anti-Semite, anti-Israel activist Rasha Mubarak. Mubarak is on a mission to destroy the Jewish state, Israel, and she is taking the Florida Democratic Party with her. Elected in November 2018, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are the first Muslim women to serve in the US Congress. Recently, both have been cited for making anti-Semitic statements, relative to the issue of Israel. And while
At a graduation ceremony at Liberty University over the weekend, Vice President Mike Pence warned students that it has become “acceptable and even fashionable to ridicule and discriminate against people of faith,” and that they should “be prepared for persecution.” This was a gentle - one might say Christian - way of describing what has become an all-out war on believers. This war which I have described in my book Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America. This war got into high gear in the 1960s with the banning first of prayer and then of any reference to the
The FOX drama Empire is slated to end after season six as producers for the embattled program say there are still “no plans” for actor Jussie Smollett to return, according to a report. “We are turning the final season into a large TV event, we are trying to go out guns a blazing,” Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier said during Fox’s Upfront conference call on Monday, per Deadline. “You allow fans to lean in and have the ending they deserve.”When pressed on whether Smollet would return to the show, Collier replied vaguely that while there’s an option
Limbaugh on Brett Kavanaugh Siding with Liberal Justices: Blasey Ford, Confirmation Hearings Worked
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(Video) - Monday during his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh speculated as to why Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who was appointed by President Donald Trump based on his conservative bona fides, was siding with the liberal wing of the high court in a few recent decisions. The latest ruling of which Limbaugh was referring is one that involved Apple and allegations of antitrust regarding its App Store. Limbaugh suggested that Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings last year may have had an impact on him. “The real question is, what is Kavanaugh doing here?” Limbaugh said.
U.S. Border Patrol officials are now using air transportation to move migrants from overcrowded processing centers to lesser-impacted facilities, particularly from the Rio Grande Valley Sector. On Friday, officials in the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector began flying migrants from McAllen, Texas, to Del Rio, Texas, the Washington Post reported. The flights are operated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) but the migrants remain in the custody of Border Patrol.
President Trump issued a stern warning to Iran during his meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban Monday. He told the Ayatollah regime to not take irresponsible steps in its foreign policies or threaten the U.S. and its allies. The president also left all options on the table in dealing with Iran. “We’ll see what happens with Iran, if they do anything it will be a very bad mistake if they do anything,” stated President Trump. “It’s going to be a bad problem for Iran if something happens, I can tell you that, they’re not going to be happy
Felicity Huffman pleaded guilty in a Boston courtroom Monday to a fraud conspiracy charge for her role in a brazen test-fixing and bribery scheme that has sent the once-beloved actress´ reputation and career prospects tumbling. Huffman, 56, has admitted to paying $15,000 to William "Rick" Singer, a Newport Beach college admissions consultant, to inflate her daughter´s SAT score. (Snip) Judges are not required, however, to abide by sentencing recommendations from prosecutors. In pleading guilty, Huffman gave up the right to challenge her conviction and her sentence, whatever it may be.
The Pentagon is sending additional marines and assets to the Persian Gulf as tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalate. This comes just days after National Security Advisor John Bolton announced that the super carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group would be deployed to the area. One America’s Neil W. McCabe has more from the White House.
RUSH: It’s amazing. The Drive-By Media now understands the concept of tax cuts and tax increases, but it took tariffs and a tariff war with the ChiComs for the Drive-Bys to understand it. I’m being ironic and a little sarcastic. They know it and understand it. [Snip]It’s just a teachable moment. It’s a instructive moment to see how the Drive-Bys deal with things. Because the bottom line is, anything and everything that can harm Republicans, they will do it.
Donald Trump’s gotten under his skin. Mayor Bill de Blasio grew hoarse shouting over the cranked-up crooning of Frank Sinatra tunes playing in the Trump Tower lobby as he tried to promote his “Green New Deal.” The mayor had planned a press conference outside the tower that houses president’s Manhattan residence, but Mother Nature forced him to relocate the event into some very unfriendly territory—the gilded building’s public lobby.(Snip) Trump Tower staff turned up the dial on the PA system just moments before the mayor entered the 5th Avenue building. Tony Bennet’s “Stranger in Paradise” and Frank Sinatra’s
In the days since the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt of Congress, more and more Democratic lawmakers have opened the door to the possibility of arresting the Justice Department leader in a bid to force cooperation--despite party powerbrokers signaling opposition to such a radical step.(Snip) But there´s a more drastic step that has been gaining traction among some of Barr´s fiercest critics--the possibility of dragging Barr in to testify or jailing the AG for defying the subpoena.(Snip) “We know how to arrest people around here,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told Politico.
Top Republicans talked up classified documents on Sunday they believe will root out FBI misconduct in the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation. Over the past few days, GOP lawmakers demanded answers about when the FBI was informed about British ex-spy Christopher Steele´s "political motivations" before his unverified dossier was used to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to wiretap Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Seagram’s heiress and accused Nxivm benefactor Clare Bronfman tried to buy influence for the alleged sex cult by illegally raising money for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, a former group member testified in court Monday. Bronfman funneled thousands of dollars into Clinton’s campaign coffers—far in excess of legal limits to contributions—to “curry favor” with the powerhouse political family, according to Mark Vicente, a documentary filmmaker and former member of the Nxivm group that is accused of keeping women as sex slaves. “Clare Bronfman approached other people and said she would like to make a campaign contribution but she
Damn the rich! Elizabeth Warren’s vision for ‘executives’ includes ‘handcuffs and perp walks’
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren decided to give her sagging presidential campaign a shot in the arm by revealing her new plan for rich executives during a campaign stop. The Massachusetts Democrat and 2020 contender continued her finger-pointing at evil corporations and executives during a stop in Kermit, W. Va. on Saturday, threatening “handcuffs and perp walks” for the guilty. Warren made her $100 billion plan to fight against the opioid epidemic a central part of her talk in the small town of nearly 400 people in Mingo County, where four out of five voters cast their ballot for Trump in 2016. In
Mayor de Blasio’s NYPD vehicle was driving wrong way when it crashed with truck, sparking cover-up
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Mayor de Blasio’s NYPD SUV was cruising the wrong way with lights and sirens blaring when it got into a car crash, sparking a frantic cover-up by his security detail, a new accident report obtained by the Daily News shows. NYPD Det. Edgar Robles was driving west against traffic on E. 135th St. in the unmarked black Chevy Tahoe when he collided with a boiler truck at Fifth Ave. at 8:15 a.m. on a Saturday in August 2015, according to the report provided by the department. The mayor and two other detectives were in the vehicle at the time. Both City Hall and the NYPD declined to say whether the mayor was running late.
The U.S. Supreme Court is back in session today, poised to issue several significant rulings to include decisions regarding … Two allegedly partisan gerrymandering cases -Citizenship questions on the census; Another issue related to separation of church and state; Jury selection racial bias in a death-penalty case; Whether Apple is fair game for a class-action lawsuit regarding iPhone apps; Gerrymandering... Historically, issues related to partisan gerrymandering have divided the court. According to The Hill, based on questions justices asked during arguments before the court on two current cases, it appears this high court’s judges are also of differing opinions. North Carolina
A huge controversy erupted last year when President Trump declassified parts of the FBI´s secret request to wiretap former Trump campaign volunteer foreign policy adviser Carter Page. Defenders and critics of the president argued over whether the October 2016 warrant application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court relied extensively on the so-called Steele dossier, which was a collection of anti-Trump allegations compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign. They also argued over whether the warrant adequately informed the court that the dossier was, in
Former secretaries of state should “get off the stage” and leave foreign policy to their successors, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday, when asked about John Kerry’s interactions with the Iranian regime since leaving the State Department. Asked by CNBC’s Hadley Gamble whether Kerry’s reported conversations with his former Iranian counterpart made his job difficult, Pompeo replied, “It’s inappropriate. It’s not consistent with what a former secretary of state ought to be doing, and I’ll leave it at that.” Then, he added, “Suffice it to say, previous secretaries of state ought to just get off the stage – when
CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota asked if President Trump would give a “foaming at the mouth speech” in which attendees “clamor for violence” in response to a report that Trump has taken charge of Fourth of July celebrations in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reported Friday that Trump has moved the annual fireworks display from its usual location near the Washington Monument to West Potomac Park and he wants to address attendees from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. “The president very much wants to give this speech, it sounds like, from the Lincoln Memorial,” Camerota said on air Monday to
Sen. Kamala Harris, now running for the Democrat presidential nomination, says people in this country illegally should have access to public safety, public education, and public health -- "period." Harris, a guest on CNN´s "State of the Union," said "I support Medicare for all. It is my preferred policy." She said she supports the bill introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders. Host Jake Tapper noted that Sanders´ bill says, "´Every individual who´s a resident of the United States is entitledto benefits for health care services under the Senate.´ Not every individual who´s a citizen, but every individual who´s a resident."
If you don´t have a pet (or "animal companion," to be politically correct), you may never have entered a PetSmart store. But the Phoenix-based chain of big box pet stores, with over 1,600 locations, is enduring the same difficult times that other big-box brick-and-mortar retailers face, with declining per store sales. Now PetSmart faces a P.R. offensive from PETA, an organization that doesn´t think people should keep pets, and it is fighting back with a lawsuit. Brent Scher reports in The Free Beacon:
At a graduation ceremony at Liberty University over the weekend, Vice President Mike Pence warned students that it has become "acceptable and even fashionable to ridicule and discriminate against people of faith" and that they should "be prepared for persecution." This was a gentle — one might say Christian — way of describing what has become an all-out war on believers. This war, which I have described in my book Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America, got into high gear in the 1960s with the banning first of prayer and then of any
Four ships, including two Saudi oil tankers, were damaged in mysterious "sabotage attacks" that further inflamed Gulf tensions on Monday amid a standoff between the United States and Iran. In the face of growing international concern, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo scrapped a planned visit to Moscow to head to Brussels instead for talks with European officials on Iran. Tehran called for an investigation into Sunday´s "alarming" attacks off the Emirati coast and warned of "adventurism" by foreign players to disrupt maritime security. Britain warned of the danger of conflict erupting "by accident" in the Gulf.
Is Twitter going off the deep end? Here´s the latest person they´ve decided to ban: Ray Blanchard, PhD, is no Alex Jones with out-there conspiracy theories. He´s a respected scientist whose research on transgenderism is science-based and consistent with existing research on the reality of gender dysphoria, the psychological disorder that prompts some patients to attempt to change their gender.
Taking low-dose aspirin to prevent heart disease and stroke is associated with an increased risk of bleeding in the skull in people without a history of those conditions, according to a new report. Researchers analyzed data from 13 previous studies in which over 130,000 people ages 42 to 74, who didn’t have a history of heart disease or stroke, were given either low-dose aspirin or a placebo for the prevention of these conditions. An aspirin is typically defined as low-dose if it is between 75 and 100 milligrams, but most over-the-counter pills are around 81 milligrams. People who took the placebo had a 0.46% risk of having a head
A plan by California’s biggest utility to cut power on high-wind days during the onrushing wildfire season could plunge millions of residents into darkness. And most people aren’t ready. The plan by PG&E Corp. comes after the bankrupt utility said a transmission line that snapped in windy weather probably started last year’s Camp Fire, the deadliest in state history. While the plan may end one problem, it creates another as Californians seek ways to deal with what some fear could be days and days of blackouts.
New York - Donald Trump’s reluctance to address climate change is set to cost his business empire millions of dollars in fines levied by New York City due to the amount of pollution emitted by Trump-owned buildings. According to data shared with the Guardian, eight Trump properties in New York City do not comply with new regulations designed to slash greenhouse gas emissions. This means the Trump Organization is on track to be hit with fines of $2.1m every year from 2030, unless its buildings are made more environmentally friendly. According to city officials, the president’s eight largest New
The New York Times gave Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden free press Sunday because he hasn’t said anything stupid recently. Biden is praised in the story, which was featured on the paper’s app Sunday night, for making it a few weeks into his presidential bid without going off message. “‘There He Goes Again?’ Not Yet, as Biden Avoids Major Gaffes,” the headline reads. “Just over two weeks into Mr. Biden’s candidacy, the most notable feature of his campaign may be what hasn’t happened: He has not blurted anything out that delights his rivals, horrifies his aides and reinforces his image
We all know the horrors of addiction—lives destroyed, families shattered. It wrecks the fabric of society. Unfortunately, the Democrats have contracted an extraordinarily virulent form—investigating Donald Trump has become crack cocaine to them with maybe fentanyl and methamphetamine thrown in. The likes of Jerrold Nadler and Adam Schiff seem to be sucking on this pipe for dear life, day and night, giving them barely time to breath or eat. Even when getting a rare touch of sleep, these putative public servants clearly have Trump on the brain. They never think of anything else—or, seemingly, do anything else.
Matthew Boling set a national high-school record when he ran a 100-meter race in 10.13 seconds during the Texas Class 6A state championships event on Saturday. Boling, a senior sprinter who attends Strake Jesuit, had already made headlines when he legged out a 9.98 run during the regionals. The performance, however, was not considered a national record because it was wind-aided.
After nuking their debate rules for nominations last month for the stated reason that they wanted to push the confirmations of more Republican judges, the Senate this week used the rule change instead to waste precious floor time expanding corporate cronyism. The Export-Import (Ex-Im) Bank for more than 1,000 days has lacked the full quorum of its board of directors, which is necessary to approve taxpayer-funded loans of over $10 million to benefit America’s richest corporations (think Boeing, Caterpillar, and General Electric). The board now has a full slate, and can confirm loans up to $100 million.
Male-to-female transgender powerlifter Mary Gregory has been stripped of several women´s championship titles after the Powerlifting Federation determined that Gregory was not eligible to compete as a female.The Daily Wire´s Amanda Prestigiacomo reported back in April that Gregory set world records in the women´s squat, bench press, and deadlift, and had earned a "Masters total world record" for her powerlifting scores across the board. "What a day, 9 for 9! Masters world squat record, open world bench record, masters world dl record, and masters world total record!" Gregory posted to Instagram at the time. "A huge thank you to [RAW
Doris Day, the perennial girl-next-door whose career as a singer and actress spanned almost 50 years and made her one of the biggest box Hollywood stars and most popular entertainers in the United States has died. She was 97. The Doris Day Animal Foundation confirmed Day died early Monday at her Carmel Valley, California, home. The foundation says in an emailed statement she was surrounded by close friends and "had been in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia."
Kirsten Gillibrand on being underestimated for 2020 Democratic nod: ´I think it´s just gender bias´
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said Saturday she feels like she’s being underestimated in the race for the Democratic nomination for president, who will likely go up against President Trump in 2020. Gillibrand is one of nearly two dozen major candidates who have declared their intention to run for president. She spoke about her campaign during her trip to New Hampshire. “I think it´s just gender bias. I think people are generally biased against women. I think also biased against young women,” she said in an interview, according to CNN. “There´s just bias and it´s real and it exists
School shootings are terrible events -- except for the left where they represent opportunities, as in Rahm Emanuel’s “Never let a crisis go to waste” modus operandi. (snip) After the shooting, other than some virtue signaling by the media, the story has left the front pages, as the narrative may be inconvenient for the leftist agenda. CNN and MSNBC have lived up to their reputation as “drive-by media” by quickly moving on. No interviews with David Hogg or other gun control fanatics. So, what are some of the inconvenient aspects to this story
Carpet Bomb
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Pat Buckley would be spinning in her grave if she knew what has happened to the Met Gala she used to cohost with Blaine Trump. The benefit for the museum’s Costume Institute is now an orgy of vulgarity starring Kardashians and pop stars I’ve never heard of wearing getups one might see in a Halloween parade. It wasn’t always so. The gala used to be the high point of the social season, when A-list matrons wore their chicest couture and their biggest diamonds.Grandes dames like Betsy Bloomingdale flew in from the California. Marylou Whitney came up from Kentucky.
July 4th fireworks already begun
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Fox News reported, "Dems fume as Trump moves to amend DC´s July 4 celebration, possibly address the nation." Why should they care? They don´t love the country much and believe patriotism is only the final refuge of the scoundrel. The last guy they elected had to be taught to place his hand over his heart for the national anthem. But there they are whining because President Donald John Trump loves the flag, the country, and the American people. On Independence Day (I prefer the Fourth of July) President Trump plans to address the nation as part of the capital´s celebration
I am so glad that fear of pregnancy has spooked Alyssa Milano, 46, and Bette Midler, 73, from having sex with men because they might not be able to get an abortion if they wait too long in certain states. My happiness stems from the fact that after all these years, these women are promoting abstinence and chastity. Perhaps modesty will follow.Midler is a particularly interesting case. She left Broadway for the bathhouses to launch her career as a solo act. (Snip) "Despite the way things turned out [with the AIDS crisis], I´m still proud of those days.
The Media Wounded
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There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events. But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news. Journalism is now dead. The media lives on. Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity politics, “equality” and diversity. To the degree a news account is expanded or ignored, praised or blasted, depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding. At the recent third president-less White House Correspondents’ Dinner, passive-aggressive journalists whined that they were victims,
President Trump Points Out Alternate Favorable Trade Partners – The 2017 “Golden Ticket” Summit….
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Perhaps now people will reference President Trump’s long-game strategy which has been evident since his marathon Asia trip in November 2017. Long before media pundits starting noticing/considering how serious President Trump was about structurally resetting the entire landscape of a U.S-China trade relationship, President Trump quietly and methodically laid the groundwork with personal visits to: Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (Japan); President Moon Jae-in (S-Korea); President Tran Dai Quang (Vietnam); and President Rodrigo Duerte (Philippines).
There’s a remarkable political restructuring happening on the other side of the Atlantic. Nigel Farage has led the U.K. Brexit Party into the leading political force in a matter of weeks.With frustration over the intransigent unwillingness of the political elites who control power in the U.K. to deliver on the Brexit referendum, the grassroots “Brexit Party” was formed. According to recent polling the movement now leads in advance of upcoming EU Parliament elections. It’s possible another political earthquake is about to happen:
President Trump Calls Out FBI Director Christopher Wray: “the director is protecting the coup gang”…
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This is good to see. Finally President Trump indicates he is well aware of the intents and motives of FBI Director Christopher Wray covering for the illegal coup effort: (tweets)President Trump may have been aware of Chris Wray’s corrupt disposition prior to today; however, this is the first visible indication he understands the internecine organization of it. Hopefully we can start the countdown clock to Wray’s exit. Next up, Chris Wray’s #1 strategic hire, current FBI Legal Counsel Dana Boente. (Snip) Dana Boente was one of the small group who participated in a conversation that led to
Joe Biden, who is currently leading in the polls against the horde of other Democratic presidential hopefuls, believes he can win back the working-class voters who defected to Donald Trump last election and thereby win the presidency. So Biden is trying to convince them that Trump was making a lot of empty promises. “The stock market is roaring. But you don’t feel it,” he said at a rally. “There are — $2 trillion tax cut last year. Did you feel it? Did you get anything from it? Of course not. Of course not.” Actually, they did get something out of it.
Despite signs of growing support for socialism among young Democratic primary voters, America’s most famous socialist doesn’t want to dwell on the ideology. Instead, Bernie Sanders prefers to focus on the individual populist measures that make up his platform. “It’s a long discussion, but all I would say is virtually all of the initiatives we are supporting are supported by a majority of the American people,” said Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has long styled himself a "democratic socialist." “So you can call them whatever you want, and of course programs like Social Security, and Medicare, and the
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finally understands that her claim that we have only 12 years to save the world from global warming disaster was a ridiculous statement. Having been mocked by her many enemies, and unable to defend the absurdity, she is actually digging a deeper hole for herself, trying to main the self-righteousness that seems to power her drive for political power. In a Tweet Sunday morning, she implausibly claimed that the 12 years ‘til doom prediction was “dry humor” and that the GOP is too stupid to grasp her wittiness
The Department of the Interior (DOI) accused House Democrats of “political showmanship and threatening tactics” after lawmakers threatened to cut department salaries, according to a letter obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. On May 7, Democrat Reps. Elijah Cummings of Maryland and Raul Grijalva of Arizona, the top Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Committee on Natural Resources, respectively, threatened to withhold the pay of Interior employees that interfered with or refused Congressional requests to testify. The threats came after four DOI staff members refused Democrats’ requests to testify on allegations that the department
Someone’s sure to be skating on thin ice over this. Russian President Vladimir Putin was on skates taking a victory lap around an ice rink after scoring a slew of goals in an exhibition match — when he tripped and fell flat on his face. The leader had been waving proudly as he glided around the Bolshoi Ice Arena in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday. Video shows Putin, 66, then unknowingly skating onto red carpet at the edge of the rink, falling face-first as his skates came to an unexpected stop. Two other hockey players appeared to
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib was criticized over the weekend by House Republicans for comments she made about Jews moving into Palestine after the Holocaust. Speaking on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery” on Friday, the Michigan lawmaker — a Palestinian-American — said, “It was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some lost their lives, their livelihood, their human dignity. Their existence, in many ways, had been wiped out..?..“I mean, just all of it was in the name of trying to create a safe haven for Jews, post-the Holocaust, post-the tragedy and the horrific persecution of Jews across
Apparently, it´s not just ballot-harvesting that has made the state of California impenetrably blue.If you ever wondered why a political charlatan such as Rep. Maxine Waters could have so much power, well, take a look at how her daughter makes money. According to the Washington Free Beacon´s investigative reporter, Joe Schoffstall: Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) paid $50,000 from her campaign´s coffers to her daughter in recent months to chip away at six figures of accrued debt for an operation that pulls in large sums of money for the congresswoman´s campaign committee, Federal Election Commission filings show. Rep. Waters´s committee
The same Beltway braniacs who assured us that the President was in league with Vladimir Putin and sundry other R?ski reprobates now claim he has precipitated a constitutional crisis. House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler claims Trump is acting like a “king” by refusing to relitigate the Russia hoax, allow already-interrogated aides to berequestioned, or permit partisan congressional staffers to rummage through his tax and financial records. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concurs that a crisis is at hand: “I do agree with Chairman Nadler because the administration has decided that they’re not going to honor their oath of office.”
The Left’s Obsession with Race
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There was a time when people aspired to a world where race was an afterthought. It was always a tough slog, but we’d moved closer and closer over time. Then something funny happened – a political party realized they could benefit from division and that unity was bad for business. Unity would require a debate on issues and their merits, which was one they had been losing, so they opted for backsliding; divide to conquer. If you divide people into groups it is much easier to win. Groups of people are easier to manipulate than millions of individuals.
What’s the difference between the average big-government liberal and a full-fledged socialist? Socialists sometimes comprehend the devastating effect regulation has on private enterprise — and for them, that’s half the point of regulation. Socialists also don’t try as hard as ordinary liberals to hide the fact that they don’t trust you to make decisions for yourself. Socialists Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are trumpeting a new proposal, the Loan Shark Prevention Act. It would ban lending at effective interest rates, including all fees, greater than 15%.
Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke is planning what one adviser called a “reintroduction” of his presidential campaign after failing to sustain the attention of Democratic voters on the national stage. O’Rouke, who climbed onto the top counter of the Democratic Party with his inspired (but unsuccessful) Senate run last year, has seen his poll numbers plummet in recent weeks. A South Carolina poll published Sunday showed a seven-point drop from a month ago, with O’Rourke now tied with entrepreneur Andrew Yang at just two percent. Overall, Beto is doing terribly in just about every metric
The Obama White House kept tabs on a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email accounts that the State Department improperly denied, according to newly released emails. The emails, which were provided to Judicial Watch, show for the first time that the Obama White House was aware of the Clinton-related FOIA request, which the liberal watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) submitted to the State Department in December 2012. The State Department denied the request in May 2013, claiming that no responsive records
Pet superstore PetSmart has filed a lawsuit against PETA, claiming a former employee who illegally filmed internal operations was being paid by and acting with orders from the animal-rights group that aims to fully eradicate pet ownership. PetSmart had already filed a lawsuit against the employee, Jenna Jordan, for lying on her job application and proceeding to transmit secretly recorded audio and video to PETA. The newly filed lawsuit, however, names both Jordan and PETA as the defendants. The lawsuit alleges that Jordan was on the receiving end of both "funding and logistical support"
Rumors abound that the new White House Middle East peace plan will be unveiled next month. The plan’s focus is a “deal of the century” that will supposedly make peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The plan will be dead on arrival for two principal reasons. First, the Palestinian leadership doesn’t want peace because any agreement with Israel will delegitimize everything that all of them — from Yassir Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas — have ever done. Second, because Iran will never allow a peace with “Little Satan” — Israel — on any terms and because any such agreement could interfere
An American Airlines pilot was dragged from a plane in Kentucky and arrested this weekend for the 2015 triple-homicide of three of his former neighbors, authorities said. Former Army Ranger Major Christian Richard Martin, 51, was nabbed at the Louisville International Airport on Friday, on a plane loaded with passengers preparing for takeoff to Charlotte, ABC News reported. The arrest came a day after his indictment by a Christian County grand jury on murder and arson charges stemming from the November 2015 killings of Calvin and Pamela Phillips and their neighbor, Edward Dansereau.
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó on Saturday said he’s instructed his political envoy in Washington to immediately open relations with the U.S. military in a bid to bring more pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to resign. The leader said he’s asked Carlos Vecchio, who the U.S. recognizes as Venezuela’s ambassador, to open “direct communications” toward possible military “coordination.” The remarks, at the end of a rally Saturday, mark one of his strongest public pleas yet for greater U.S. involvement in the country’s fast-escalating crisis. While Guaidó has repeatedly echoed comments from the Trump administration
The very public scene of hundreds of Colorado students and their parents walking out of a vigil that was turned into political theater by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence was so embarrassing that the gun control group actually issued an apology. Before leaving the Wednesday night event, students shouted, in front of journalists who the Brady Campaign invited: “this is not for us,” “political stunt” and “we are people, not a statement.” The Brady Campaign had portrayed the event as a vigil in memory of Kendrick Castillo, a student hero who died from gunshot wounds
Imagine if Republicans and Democrats worked together to pass reforms that improve the lives of millions of people. And imagine if those reforms put America’s veterans at the center of their health care decisions, leading to better customer service for our nation’s heroes. This isn’t hypothetical. It happened last year when Congress passed the MISSION Act. The law gives the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) the ability to provide veterans with the best health care possible, whether at VA health care facilities or with community providers.
UNITED AIRLINES FLIGHT 93 -The 37 passengers were already strapped in their seats when they heard that take-off would be delayed. As United Flight 93 waited in the queue for the runway at Newark International Airport, the minutes crawled past. Flight attendants busied themselves serving juice to the passengers in first class. Those in economy went thirsty.Among those offered juice were three men from Saudi Arabia and one from Lebanon. At least one of them had brought on board an instruction sheet for would-be martyrs.Handwritten and titled ´The Last Night´, it said: ´Pray that you and all your brothers will
Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris says she will use executive action to criminalize selling more than five guns a year without a background check.This follows a consistent Democrat-led push to criminalize all private gun sales via universal background checks. On February 27, Breitbart News reported that the Democrat-run House passed legislation to require a background check for every gun sale, thus criminalizing someone who sells a gun to a decades-long neighbor without government approval. It also criminalizes a friend who sells a gun to a lifelong friend without asking for government approval. During a May 12 appearance on CNN’s State
Democratic presidential contender Kamala Harris revealed on Sunday that her two step children call her ‘momala’ after the word stepmother was adopted by Disney as ‘not necessarily a great word.’ ‘I love those kids. It was a collective decision that the word stepmother has been adapted by Disney and others, not necessarily a great word,’ Harris told CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ in an interview that aired Sunday. ‘They call me momala. We’re able to be together for Mother’s Day,’ she added.(Snip) ‘We have a very modern family,’ Harris told CNN. ‘We joke it’s almost too functional.