Posts on Thursday, May 23, 2019
Retired pastor, wife who claim they were
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barred from hosting Bible study in senior
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An elderly Virginia couple has sued the owners of a senior living apartment complex, claiming they were kicked out for hosting weekly Bible study classes. The federal lawsuit, filed in Richmond, Va., alleges housing discrimination against Community Realty, which manages the Evergreens at Smith Run complex in Fredericksburg. Kenneth Hauge, a retired Lutheran minister, and his wife, Liv, said they hosted their classes in the complex's community room and were threatened with eviction if they did not stop.
Lori Rodriguez, a 27-year-old communications professional in New York City, is not saving for retirement, and it isn’t necessarily because she can’t afford to — it’s because she doesn’t expect it to matter.Like many people her age, Rodriguez believes climate change will have catastrophic effects on our planet. Some 88% of millennials — a higher percentage than any other age group — accept that climate change is happening, and 69% say it will impact them in their lifetimes. Engulfed in a constant barrage of depressing news stories, many young people are skeptical about saving for an uncertain future.“I want to hope for the best and plan
A U.S. senator and former presidential candidate said the U.S. military should invade Venezuela if Cuba does not immediately remove its security forces from the country, calling Cuba the Western Hemisphere’s version of Iran.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed posted online Wednesday, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who leads the Senate Judiciary Committee, favorably compared potential military action in Venezuela to the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983, an operation that lasted about a week and led to the overthrow of the Caribbean nation’s military-run government.
Impeachment is becoming and a more and more popular term for Democrat lawmakers. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is the latest to pander to the extreme left by coming out in support of impeaching President Donald Trump.In a Thursday tweet, Sanders called Trump a “pathological liar” and said the president does not “understand the Constitution,” which is rich coming from a socialist like Sanders.(Photos) “It is obvious that the President is a pathological liar who does not understand the Constitution. The fact is that if Mr. Trump continues to disregard the right of Congress to subpoena, he will leave House Members with no choice but to begin
China's growing surveillance state has made the news again. The NYT described a "God's-eye" -- perhaps better described as a State's-eye -- view of Chinese society as seen from the millions of networked devices that are blanketing the country. (Snip) The combination of ubiquitous sensors and database fusion has allowed the Communist party to create "virtual cages" for millions of people. It's easy with Internet Of Things technology to turn off an individual's credit card, phone, car, refrigerator etc should he stray into a proscribed zone.
The Times notes the nightmare "it is also a vision that some of President Trump’s
You can’t even buy a pair of underwear at J.C. Penney (JCP) for $1. But, for $0.93 you can now become a part owner in the struggling department store. J.C. Penney’s stock crashed below $1 on Thursday, falling as much as 7.7% to an intraday low of $0.93. At its current trading level of about $0.94, J.C. Penney’s stock has the unwelcome distinction as being the lowest ever for the retailer. (Snip) Most sources Yahoo Finance talked with about J.C. Penney this week have all voiced a similar concern — the company may have zero chance of survival even under
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump paid a surprise visit to Arlington National Cemetery Thursday afternoon to honor fallen soldiers.The president and the first lady left the White House shortly after 2:00 p.m. to head to the cemetery, where Trump and members of the military placed American flags at grave sites. They visited the section of the cemetery where Gen. John J. Pershing, the American commander in Europe during World War I, and Frank Buckles, who had been the last living veteran of World War I, are buried.The president's visit
AG William Barr given power to declassify
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President Trump has given Attorney General William Barr "full and complete authority to declassify information" related to the origins of the federal investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.The move is the strongest sign yet that Trump is taking serious action to "investigate the investigators" and has found a willing champion in Barr, who rankled Democrats last month when he said "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign.The White House issued a memorandum to the heads of several agencies Thursday instructing them to cooperate with Barr's inquiry, including the Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Department, State Department,
The new owners of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed cottage in the Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Ill., have formally requested permission to tear down the 106-year-old home, a village official confirmed Wednesday. Wright, widely considered America's greatest architect, designed the Sherman Booth Cottage, a flat-roofed, one-story frame house, in 1913. It served as a temporary home for Booth, who developed the architect's Ravine Bluffs neighborhood in Glencoe, including Booth's permanent home. The small house sits on a large lot just west of Sheridan Road. The Chicago-based historic preservation group, Landmarks Illinois, on May 1 placed the cottage on its annual list
“Jeopardy!” champ James Holzhauer notched his 26th straight victory despite stiff opposition from another contestant.The professional gambler from Las Vegas ended Thursday night’s match with $52,108, bringing his total to $1,991,135.Host Alex Trebek opened the broadcast by pointing out just how historic Holzhauer’s winning streak is.About a month and a half ago, the one-day record for winnings in an episode of ‘Jeopardy!’ was $77,000,” Trebek said, gesturing firmly. “That record had stood for many, many years. Our current champion, James, is averaging more than $77,000 per show.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will work with food manufacturers to use the label "best if used by" to refer to food quality, rather than the phrase "sell by," which can create the impression the product is not safe by a certain date.The FDA said that the new label will curb food waste.Setting expiration dates on foods is not an exact science. The "best if used by" date on milk or eggs means that the products will be the highest quality until a certain date, not that they will expire after that date. The "best if used by" date shows consumers that
Justice Department Hits Julian Assange With
Espionage Act Charges–Testing First
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Espionage Act Charges–Testing First
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The Justice Department on Thursday accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of violating the Espionage Act, testing First Amendment limits.The DOJ previously hit Assange on a single count indictment of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, but on Thursday it was revealed the WikiLeaks boss was hit with an additional 18 charges. The 18-count superseding indictment revealed Thursday is related to sensitive State Department cables Assange received from Chelsea (Bradley) Manning and subsequently made public.
Theresa May will today clear the way for Britain to have a new prime minister by the summer. Allies said that – barring a last-minute change of heart – she will announce plans this morning to step aside as Conservative Party leader next month. Mrs May will begin the day with a meeting with the Tories' backbench shop steward Sir Graham Brady to discuss the exact timetable for her departure. She is then expected to address the nation from Downing Street to explain why she is leaving 'the job I love' before she has realised her ambition of leading Britain out of the European Union.
Bobby Joe Long, a serial killer >br>who terrorized Florida in 1984,
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STARKE, Fla. —
Bobby Joe Long, a serial killer who terrorized Florida with a 1984 spree that claimed the lives of 10 women, was executed Thursday.
Long was pronounced dead at 6:55 Thursday after a lethal injection at Florida State Prison, authorities said.
The killer terrified the Tampa Bay area for eight months in 1984 as women began showing up dead, their bodies often left in gruesome positions. Most of the victims were strangled. Some had their throats slit. Others were bludgeoned.
Law enforcement had few clues until the case of Lisa Noland. Then 17, Noland was abducted by Long outside a church that year
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi openly questioned President Donald Trump’s fitness to remain in office Thursday, suggesting a family or staff “intervention” for the good of the nation after his dramatic blow-up at a White House meeting with Democrats.
No, said Trump’s spokeswoman, it’s the Democrats who are “insane” if they think he should work on legislation with them when they accuse him of engaging in a cover-up in the Trump-Russia election investigation.
Both the Republican president and Democratic leaders dug in a day after Trump stalked out of the Cabinet Room demanding an end to all congressional probes
Since the day after the 2016 election they have been threatening this, placing their chips on the Russian-collusion fantasy and then on the phantasmagoric charade of obstruction of justice. The attorney general accurately gave the ingredients of the offense of obstruction of justice in his four-page summary of the Mueller report: a corrupt act for corrupt purposes in contemplation of a legal proceeding.
The attorney general, William Barr, the then deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and the Justice Department counsel concurred that none of the elements was present in the conduct of the president as recounted by Mr.
A recent Gallup article entitled “Four in 10 Americans Embrace Some Form of Socialism,” by Mohamed Younis, featured the photograph above, credited to the source. Tracking the DNA of street protest movements requires reading the signage. And, understanding the results of polling requires knowing the questions pollsters ask. First, here’s the intro to the Gallup piece:
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File this story under: Obama lied, the FBI spied.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the FBI knew the Russian Dossier was BS when the agency used it to spy on Donald John Trump.
And Americans want to get to the bottom of Obama's misuse of America's spy apparatus.
Scott Rasmussen reported, "64% of voters believe the FBI knew a controversial dossier was unreliable when they used it to obtain a search warrant against President Trump’s 2016 campaign. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that skepticism is shared by 86% of Republicans, 64% of Independents, and 47% of Democrats."
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“Two Obama appointees just greenlit two of the most invasive Congressional subpoenas for private financial information in American history. (Snip) VIA: Robert Barnes for Human Events:
Two Obama appointees just greenlit two of the most invasive Congressional subpoenas for private financial information in American history.
The two subpoenas from the House often came without House approval, but instead with written memorandums by self-serving chairmen. They compelled invasive disclosure of intimate information from accountants and banks concerning the private records of private people from a time period Trump was neither a candidate nor the President. Their orders eviscerate and endanger
Distorted videos of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), altered to make her sound as if she’s drunkenly slurring her words, are spreading rapidly across social media, highlighting how political disinformation that clouds public understanding can now spread at the speed of the Web. (Snip) One version, posted by the conservative Facebook page Politics WatchDog, has been viewed more than 1.4 million times, been shared more than 32,000 times, and garnered 16,000 comments with users calling her “drunk” and “a babbling mess.” The origin of the altered video remains unclear but its spread across social media comes amid a growing feud
Kevin McAleenan, the acting director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has made few changes to the policies set by former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, say current and former agency officials.
Sources close to Breitbart News, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, say DHS management teams have deliberately sidetracked, stalled, and stopped policies sought by President Donald Trump. (Snip)
used her term to post like-minded allies into key positions with the approval of the White House’s personnel office, sources told Breitbart News. Many job candidates who supported Trump’s policies were blocked even before the interview stage.
President Trump signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday cracking down on welfare-dependent legal immigration to the United States in an effort to protect American taxpayers.
(Snip) The order ensures that federal agencies will enforce the existing 1996 laws which seek to save American taxpayers by having their public welfare funding benefits reimbursed when they are used by a legal immigrant.
The first function of the order mandates that a family member or business sponsor of a legal immigrant looking to permanently resettle in the U.S. is responsible for paying back the welfare costs previously used by that immigrant.
We are three years into the biggest political scandal in American history and former President Barack Obama has yet to be asked about his role in orchestrating the international subterfuge that Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with the Kremlin to rig the 2016 presidential election.
Not one journalist has posed a single question to Obama about what officials in his White House knew—or when they knew it(Snip)But Attorney General William Barr might do the work that the news media refuses to do.
In an interview with Fox News host Bill Hemmer on Friday, Barr indicated his office is looking into “some very strange developments” that occurred between the election and Inauguration Day.
Restoring the Lost Consensus
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Looking around the cultural landscape today, I conclude that we are in the midst of a sort of negative religious revival: let’s call it America’s First Great Awokening.
Evidence of our society’s wokeness—a false awakening sparked by political grievance—is all around. (Snip) Inversion is a dominant principle of our social life.
Consider, to take just one example, the fate of our colleges and universities. Once upon a time, and it was not so long ago, they were institutions dedicated to the pursuit of truth and the transmission of the highest values of our civilization. Today, most are dedicated to the repudiation of truth and the subversion of those values.
Employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are quitting at a rapid clip as Secretary Sonny Perdue prepares to move forward with plans to relocate two offices far outside the Washington, D.C., Beltway.
Federal employees at the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) – two small but important agencies within the USDA – are unhappy with Perdue’s plan, announced last August, to move the majority of their staff from current offices in the capital to an area closer the country’s agricultural centers.
Can you imagine the questions:
Q: Mr. Mueller, did you go to Oval Office on May 16, 2017, because you wanted to apply for the job of FBI Director?
A: No.
Q: Mr. Mueller, was the mysterious cell phone you left behind in the oval office that day actually yours?
A: No.
And then, as Rod Rosenstein takes a hard and uncomfortable swallow, the Weissmann constructed house-of-cards starts to collapse….
With a one-day pause in witness testimony, a chance to explore some theories of the case, and explain some open issues. (Snip) Today was a day off from witness testimony due a prior commitment of the Judge. (Snip) One caution: If you think of this civil case as the simple good vs. evil, take a step back yourself. This case has a little taint of that in it, but it is still in a courtroom, and the legal sense of good and evil and the cultural determination of such opposites, operate in different galaxies.
This week, Attorney General William Barr joined Vice President Mike Pence in condemning the harrowing recent rise of "nationwide injunctions" as anti-constitutional judicial power grabs that disturb the carefully calibrated separation of powers system that the Constitution's Framers so sagaciously devised. (Video) Per The Washington Examiner: In a Tuesday speech to the American Law Institute, Barr went after "improper use of nationwide injunctions against policies of all stripes"
Nobody likes a loser who can’t accept defeat. Hillary Clinton apparently can’t understand that American voters just didn’t like her. She’s still reenacting the 2016 presidential campaign in her mind and finding new ways to blame us all for her loss. Now, the failed Democratic nominee brought her blame game to new levels by complaining about being told she shouldn’t complain. She claims people are telling her to shut down her blame game tour because she is a woman and that nobody wants a male loser to shut his pie hole.
President Trump responded on Thursday afternoon to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s tirade on Thursday morning.Pelosi was in rare form on Thursday told the media President Trump knows he committed a ‘cover-up.’ Pelosi accused the Trump administration of killing children at the border. And Pelosi ended her speech calling on the Trump family to hold an intervention on the president.President Trump called on his staff who were at Wednesday’s meeting with Democrats to tell the truth about what happened in their meeting with Democrats in the White House.
The nation of Venezuela is in a state of crisis.
Over the past few years, corruption and failed government policies have led Venezuela's economy to collapse, causing infrastructure to crumble and leaving millions of Venezuelans in poverty.
The hardships faced by residents include catastrophic nationwide blackouts, hyperinflation, food shortages, and disease. The New York Times recently called the crisis the worst the world has ever seen outside of war. More than 3 million Venezuelans have fled the country since the crisis began, many of them walking out on foot.
President Donald Trump called out Democrats and specifically Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in an explosive press conference at the White House on Thursday.
Trump spoke about a variety of issues, but the main focus of the press conference was to announce billions of dollars in aid for American farmers. (Photo) Trump opened the press conference by referring to his recent meeting with Pelosi and other Democrats over infrastructure. The actual meeting lasted only minutes and the president held a press conference after explaining that he would not work with the Democrats
Just when you thought you were free of Russian meddling, they pull you back in.
Officials at the U.S. Census Bureau say they are concerned with the distinct possibilities of Russian interests hacking into the government’s census operations next year, much as they did during the 2016 election cycle. “Most of the agencies of the federal government that ingest data are very concerned about
In June of 2016, the British people voted to reject the European Union’s authoritarian rule over the UK and reassert their sovereignty. And so, Brexit was a big winner at the polls.
But two years later, Britain remains a vassal state to the bureaucratic minions of the EU. All due to the inaction of the ruling Conservative Party, also known as the Tories. A party once shepherded by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who said:
“I had the patriotic conviction that, given great leadership of the sort I heard from Winston Churchill in the radio broadcasts to which we listened, there was almost nothing that the British people could not do.”
Ex-FBI Lawyer: Carter Page FISA application approved in unusual way by McCabe, Yates, and Baker
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A former top lawyer for the FBI described to lawmakers the “unusual” way the surveillance request targeting former Trump campaign associate Carter Page was handled by top leadership at the Justice Department and FBI, according to a transcript released this week.
On Aug. 31, 2018, former FBI Deputy General Counsel Trisha Anderson said she was normally responsible for signing off on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act applications before they reached the desk of her superiors for approval. Anderson said the “linear path” those applications typically take was upended in October 2016, with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates signing off on the application before she did.
A new national poll of Democrats and Democrat-leaning independents confirms Joe Biden maintains a comfortable 19-point lead over Bernie Sanders and the rest of the polyglot posse seeking the party’s presidential nomination next year. But even more interesting at this early stage is that the new Hill-HarrisX Poll out Wednesday also confirms several other recent surveys that found Democrats are much more interested in ousting President Donald Trump than finding a candidate that matches their ideological leaning. If this continues, it’s good news
WASHINGTON -- KISS Frontman Gene Simmons dodged questions from the press as he left the White House on Thursday.
Simmons was spotted watching President Trump depart from the White House on Marine One. After Trump left, reporters asked Simmons if he met with Trump at the White House. Simmons replied, "Who?"
Simmons was also asked what he thought of Trump's job performance in office and he responded, "I think the flowers and the trees are just beautiful."
In 2008, Simmons was a contestant on NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice when Trump was the host of the show.
Self-awareness is not Morning Joe's strong suit. On the one hand, today's panel accused President Trump of acting in an immature manner in his handling of yesterday's short-lived meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. On the other, the panelists themselves unleashed at Trump a string of churlish, middle-school worthy insults. Joe Scarborough claimed Trump "stinks" at deal-making. Mika Brzezinski said the President acted like a "complete idiot." And even the normally level-headed Willie Geist got into the act, referring to Trump as "pathetic." Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. seconded Willie's sentiment, adding that Trump was also "dangerous," surprisingly eliciting a "sure" from Willie.
President Donald Trump held a campaign rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on May 18 to raise support for his reelection in the critical swing state.The Daily Caller News Foundation sent a crack team to this unusual event to investigate strange rumors surrounding the event. Could thousands of people in a battleground actually gather together to support the supposedly embattled American leader? It seemed impossible.Imagine our surprise to discover the unbelievable truth. Not only were there really thousands of people at the rally, but the overwhelming majority of those in attendance actually love the current U.S. president!
Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed Thursday that it was unknowable when human life begins, making the issue of abortion too complicated to regulate.“For those who have a strong view about some of these almost unknowable questions around life, the best answer I can give, is that because we will never be able to settle those questions, in a consensus fashion,” he said in response to a question about abortion limits.Buttigieg commented on the issue of abortion during a conversation with Washington Post reporter Robert Costa. When asked to clarify his claim that it was “unknowable” when life began,
Pelosi claims to ‘pray’ for Trump,
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she’s worried about President Trump.The California Democrat continued to goad the president Thursday morning as she offered her medical assessment and called for his family to stage an “intervention.”(Video: CSPAN) Just one day after she accused the president of the United States of being involved in a “cover-up” and angering Trump into prematurely cutting off a meeting to discuss infrastructure spending, Pelosi was at it again.
What Are the Children Learning?
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Because of the manipulative leftist ideology rampant in schools, black children are not permitted any pride in their own achievements. Instead they are pumped full of an inordinate opinion of themselves merely because of the color of their skin. It is an abuse of the potential that they actually possess, and it is leading to frustration, failure, and anger at many levels.
Examples abound. In Saratoga Springs, New York students are asked to tabulate their "privilege" and as a result their race, gender, religion, appearance, and disability status are used as a means "to enlighten students on their relative status in society." Achievement is cast aside.
Climate and the fate of corn
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It is a remarkable thing that the U.K. and Irish parliaments were able to hypnotize themselves and pass climate emergency legislation when the southern half of the planet has not warmed at all in 120 years. (Snip) It has been a very wet and cold start to the 2019 growing season in the Corn Belt, with the consequence that a lot of farmers have not been able to get into their fields to plant. In a normal year, most of the crop would be planted by now. It will now be delayed by a month if it does get planted.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday urged members of the Trump family, White House staff, and administration officials to stage an “intervention” for President Trump, after claiming again that he had a “temper tantrum" a day earlier. (Snip) “The president stormed out, pounded the table, walked out the door,” Pelosi told reporters. “Another temper tantrum, again, I pray for the president of the United States. I wish that his family, the administration, and his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country."
To whoops of delight, the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday night voted to advance legislation to provide a pathway to citizenship for immigrants who arrived in the U.S. without legal permission as minors (“Dreamers”) and allow some immigrants with temporary protected status to apply for permanent legal status.
Voting along partisan lines after lengthy debate, the committee marked up three bills – the Dream Act (H.R. 2820), the American Promise Act (H.R. 2821) and the Venezuela TPS Act (H.R. 549).
Technology can be a beautiful thing. But in the matter of who wields it, it can be vital to distinguish friend from foe. The late historian Samuel Eliot Morison, in his classic 15-volume naval history of World War II, bequeathed us a "grimly humorous" anecdote from the aftermath of the 1942 Doolittle Raid on Japan -- in which, in order to surprise Japan with a retaliatory bombing less than five months after Pearl Harbor, two U.S. aircraft carriers, the Hornet and the Enterprise, sailed much closer to Japanese waters than Tokyo was expecting. After U.S. bombers took off from the deck of the Hornet,
Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently asserted that his government would never agree to pay restitution for properties stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. This is in stark contrast to other former Soviet members of the European Union, which have passed comprehensive legislation regarding private property confiscated by the Nazis or successive regimes.
According to Gideon Taylor, chair of operations, World Jewish Restitution Organization, Prime Minister Morawiecki's statement is "deeply insensitive to Holocaust survivors and their families[.] ... We call on
Beyond awful. Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday blamed the Trump administration for the deaths of six children who died after crossing into the United States illegally after crossing a cartel-infested Mexican desert. How disgraceful!
This woman is a real piece of work.
It began on the upper floors of the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA, where it festered and oozed. There were a few outbreaks overseas as well — in the U.K. and perhaps a case or two in Australia. The conspirators invented a narrative and fabricated a document to support their cock-and-bull story to poison the United States.
Plastic straws, stirrers and q-tips will be banned in the England starting in April of 2020, the government confirmed Wednesday.
Environment officials estimated that 4.7 billion plastic straws, 316 million plastic stirrers and 1.8 billion plastic-stemmed cotton buds are used in the country each year. "Urgent and decisive action is needed to tackle plastic pollution and protect our environment. These items are often used for just a few minutes but take hundreds of years to break down, ending up in our seas and oceans and harming precious marine life," Environment Secretary Michael Gove said in a statement.
NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. — The ongoing crisis in Venezuela is boiling over and aggravating security concerns throughout the Western Hemisphere, according to the top U.S. military commander for South America, Central America and the Caribbean.
Navy Adm. Craig Faller, head of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom), told The Hill this week that he views embattled Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's influence in the region as a "significant threat" to democracy and stability.
Michael Avenatti is back in business, not practicing law of course, but wooing the press, now that he's been charged with multiple felonies for defrauding clients, running out on his tax tab, and attempting to shake down a major corporation for a big dollar payout. He's got a big spread in Vanity Fair, comparing himself to Icarus, the classic figure of Greek mythology who flew too close to the sun and fell into the sea, tragic, as in all tragedy, only because he was once great.
No not exactly. Who's he blaming for this comeuppance? Not himself, of course. According to Vanity Fair, the sun was Trump.
“I never imagined
The Democratic clamor for presidential impeachment seems to be growing by the day. The topic became front-page news again this week with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s statement that President Trump “engaged in a coverup” regarding the Russian collusion investigation. Looking closely, we see that media coverage of impeachment ticked up shortly after Trump’s election and really took off in the aftermath of his firing of FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, accelerating steadily over the last two years. Meanwhile, web searches about impeachment seem to have largely faded.
The timeline below shows the percentage of airtime on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News that mentioned “impeachment” or “impeachable”
A catastrophic tornado has ripped through Missouri's capital, according to the National Weather Service. The 'violent tornado' was confirmed in Jefferson City around 11.43pm Wednesday night. Jefferson City took a direct hit by the storm and there are several unconfirmed reports of residents hearing 'mass casualties' over their scanners. Three deaths in Missouri have been confirmed, the result of a tornado earlier in the day, but there is no word yet on possible fatalities in the capital. Police Lt. David Williams said officers have received multiple calls of people being trapped in their homes and 20 people have been rescued by emergency workers in Jefferson City.
The catastrophic ratings decline for both CNN and MSNBC was no temporary blip following publication of the Mueller report. Both cable news outlets had heavily promoted the hoax of Russian collusion with the Trump administration, teasing the hopes of Trump-haters for impeachment and prosecution for treason. Now, those disappointed viewers have gone away, and continue to stay away. (snip) Both CNN and MSNBC are subsidiaries of large publicly-held corporations, AT&T and Comcast, respectively. It is time for the grown-ups at the corporate level to recognize that each of their subsidiaries have adopted a losing business strategy of focusing on left-wing propaganda, a declining market niche.
AOC says only a 'sea sponge' would
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the world will “end in 12 years” unless climate change is tackled was accepted as a fact by two-thirds of Democrats, even though she said herself that only those with the “social intelligence of a sea sponge” could actually believe it. (Snip) But it appears that more than two-thirds of surveyed Democrats took her literally. A Rasmussen poll, conducted earlier this week, found 67 percent of Democrats believing that the U.S. has only 12 years to avert the “disastrous and irreparable damage to the country and the world” stemming from climate change. Out of all
Waiting for Obama
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Barack Obama is literally more popular than Jesus among Democrats. Unfortunately, neither the former president nor any of the party’s 23 candidates currently seeking the 2020 nomination know quite what to do with that information.
Of course, before any serious endorsement conversation can commence, Obama has to finish his book (between rounds of golf and raising millions for his foundation). The writing has been going more slowly than he’d expected, and according to several people who have spoken with him, the 44th president is feeling competitive with his wife, whose own book, Becoming, was the biggest release of 2018 and is on track to be the best-selling memoir in history.
The guy with the skateboard was not at all above board at CNN’s town hall appearance on Tuesday night. The very first question dealt with restoring “global leadership” post-Trump and Beto O’Rourke swung away at the current president, unhindered by facts or the toxicity of his words.
He claimed Trump described immigrants who come to the United States as “rapists and criminals.” At no point has President Trump made such a blanket declaration of all immigrants. He has rightly noted that there are rapists and criminals coming over the borders.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, between June 1, 2011, and April 30, 2019, 196,000 illegal immigrants were charged
Remember when President Obama promised repeatedly that under Obamacare “if you like your plan you can keep your plan, period”?
Politifact awarded it lie of the year after millions of people got cancellation notices for plans they liked. Yet even now, Democrats are determined to force millions more off insurance plans they like. All in the name of “saving” Obamacare.
Last week House Democrats voted to kill
The Democrats are like a beehive that has lost their queen -- only, in this case, the queen is not Nancy Pelosi, but Barack Obama. He alone was able to hold this fractious cuckoo's nest together. And one wonders if he could do it now.
Nevertheless, Pelosi, anxious to do her part and stave off impeachment charges she knows are electoral poison for her party, did her best to damp things down by accusing Trump of a "cover-up" when she emerged from the Democratic caucus Wednesday morning.
Talk about projection!
Was it Machiavelli who said: When they accuse you of something, they're the ones who are doing it?
As the LGBT movement continues to grow in power and influence, it has started to market drag and transgender ideology to the most gullible group out there: children. These efforts normalize concepts that are unscientific and that promote medical treatments that many medical professionals oppose. Take what happened recently on Mother’s Day. Chips Ahoy!, king of the commercialized, processed cookie, tweeted an endorsement of its product by Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, the name of a well-known drag queen.
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Congress would not allow President Donald Trump to use infrastructure to “blackmail” Congress to stop investigations into him and his administration.
Waters said, “I was concerned about the fact that he even pretended that he was going to negotiate with the speaker and with Schumer about infrastructure. I never trusted him and, of course, it turns out, today he’s made up an excuse about why not going to proceed with them on infrastructure and, basically, blackmailing them and talking about if you want to get infrastructure, you got to stop all investigations. I think that’s outrageous.
Another federal judge appointed by Barack Obama has ruled that House Democrats can subpoena President Donald Trump’s personal and business finance records, with Wednesday’s decision from New York following on the heels of a similar Monday ruling from a court in Washington, D.C.
House Democrats are pursuing members of the president’s family and private family-owned businesses, demanding banking records and financial statements. As part of this partisan attack strategy, two committees in the U.S. House of Representatives controlled by Democrats – the Financial Services Committee and the Select Committee on Intelligence – issued subpoenas to
Schumer, Nadler Once Compared
Impeachment to Cannibalizing Children, Assassinating a President replies
Impeachment to Cannibalizing Children, Assassinating a President replies
When President Bill Clinton, over 20 years ago, was probed by a special investigator, and 11 possible grounds for impeachment were found, including perjury, witness tampering and obstruction of justice, Democrats didn’t defend their party’s President the way Republicans defend Trump today.
No, Democrats were far more extreme.
What makes the rhetorical record so glaringly hypocritical is that in Donald Trump’s case, unlike Clinton’s, the investigator found no evidence of presidential crimes.
Biden and the Millennials
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Joe Biden may give Donald Trump a run for his money in the race for irreverence. Trump slaughters sacred cows of propriety like a walleyed abattoir worker with a bolt gun. But gaffe-prone Biden once again proved that savoir-faire isn't his strong suit, and it may cost him a key Democratic Party demographic. (snip) Tired of the endless tirades about toxic Boomerism, Biden took America's self-pitying young adults to task for their woe-is-me fatalism. "The younger generation now tells me how tough things are. Give me a break. No, no, I have no empathy for it," he insisted
The 24 Democrats
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Every presidential primary ends with one winner and a lot of losers. Some might argue that one or two once-little-known candidates who overperform low expectations get to enjoy a form of moral victory. (Ben Carson and Rick Perry might be happy how the 2016 cycle ended, with both taking roles in Trump’s cabinet. Bernie Sanders might be, too.) But running for president and flopping is a deep disappointment, and while the occasional figure can emerge from a failed bid to move on to different victories — Lamar Alexander and Elizabeth Dole became senators, Jerry Brown became governor again, Howard Dean became chair of the Democratic National Committee —
If Trump wants black votes, he
should talk about illegal immigrants
seizing rare public housing spots replies
should talk about illegal immigrants
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A sure-fire campaign issue for President Trump heading into 2020 is sitting on the table like free money if at any point he feels like taking it.
His own HUD secretary, Ben Carson, is reconfiguring the way people of low income receive public housing subsidies. The goal is to ensure that illegal immigrants aren’t taking in welfare that otherwise might go to Americans.
“It seems only logical that tax-paying American citizens should be taken care of first,” Carson said Tuesday during a hearing on Capitol Hill. “It’s not that we’re cruel, mean-hearted. It’s that we are logical. This is common sense. You take care of your own first.” It would admittedly
I’m so old, I can remember when global warming caused droughts. Or, put another way, climate change was making the Earth–in particular, the Great Lakes–drier. Thus, as I noted here:
National Geographic: “Climate Change and Variability Drive Low Water Levels on the Great Lakes.”
The National Resources Defense Council: “Climate change is lowering Great Lakes water levels.”
It’s no secret that, partially due to climate change, the water levels in the Great Lakes are getting very low.
The U.N’s IPCC: “[T]he following lake level declines could occur: Lake Superior -0.2 to -0.5 m.”
Dick Durbin: “What we are seeing in global warming is the evaporation of our Great Lakes.”
Minnesota Public Radio:
How is it possible to have an American flag that’s too large, you might ask? Especially on a national holiday honoring the too many who’ve given their lives for it. Well, the town elders of Statesville, N.C. have informed the owner of the local Camping World outlet that its 40 x 80 foot American flag is too large. [Snip] The town is suing Camping World Gander Outdoors, a NASCAR sponsor, seeking a fine of $50 a day. Camping World’s owner suggests the town leaders find a flagpole and sit on it. The owner is Marcus Lemonis, a billionaire businessman and host of CNBC’s most popular reality TV show “The Profit.”
Here’s a news flash for the leftwing politicians, pundits, and unbalanced billionaires who continue to push for the impeachment of President Trump: There is a large group of people living beyond the Beltway, collectively known as “the voters,” which doesn’t share your obsession with removing him from office. Countless polls confirm that the percentage of the electorate that supports impeachment is steadily dwindling. The vast majority of the people who will cast ballots in 2020 want you to stop indulging your nostalgia for Watergate and do something useful. The following passage from the latest Quinnipiac survey explains why:
The nation’s economy is “excellent,”
Since the day after the 2016 election they have been threatening this, placing their chips on the Russian-collusion fantasy and then on the phantasmagoric charade of obstruction of justice. The attorney general accurately gave the ingredients of the offense of obstruction of justice in his four-page summary of the Mueller report: a corrupt act for corrupt purposes in contemplation of a legal proceeding.
The attorney general, William Barr, the then deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and the Justice Department counsel concurred that none of the elements was present in the conduct of the president as recounted by Mr. Mueller. The dream died, except in the febrile imagination
If there’s anyone left in America who actually believes Democratic Party leaders are interested in constructive dialogue with President Trump on substantive policy issues like infrastructure, I have a Russian conspiracy theory to sell them. When Trump cut short a meeting Wednesday with Democratic leaders on a potential infrastructure deal, liberals and their media allies had found their ginned-up outrage of the week. An allegedly irate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claimed that she and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had come to the White House in the “spirit of bipartisanship,” only to be rebuffed. This, only hours after Pelosi had accused the president of engaging in a criminal “coverup.”
Embattled lawyer Michael Avenatti has been charged with fraud and aggravated identity theft for allegedly snatching a total of $300,000 from Stormy Daniels and spending it on personal expenses like airfare, hotels, and restaurant delivery, and to bankroll his law firm.
Federal prosecutors in New York announced the latest charges against the Newport Beach litigator soon after ABC News reported Avenatti was expected to be charged with additional financial crimes. The 48-year-old lawyer faces a slew of charges on both coasts, including wire fraud, bank fraud, and extortion.
On Wednesday, a grand jury also indicted Avenatti for trying to extort the footwear giant Nike to the tune of $25 million
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) on Tuesday castigated supporters of President Donald Trump by claiming America's problem with ignorance is "pervasive."
Omar appeared on the Nation’s "Next Left" podcast with host John Nichols to discuss various issues, including the intelligence of Trump supporters.
"So suddenly you’re elected, and you had this teaching moment. It strikes me that, in watching you, you are conscious of teaching moments and of that opportunity to say something that might cause people to think differently about what’s going on," Nichols said.
Omar said U.S. voters "have a misconception" about refugees and the process they face getting into the United States.
Jefferson City, the capital city of Missouri, has taken a direct hit from a tornado and suffered possibly “catastrophic” damage, according to reports.
According to the National Weather Service, a “confirmed large and destructive tornado” was observed over Jefferson City, at 11:43 p.m., moving northeast at 40 mph.
The twister appeared to have traveled through the center part of town, the Jefferson City News-Tribune reported.
"We are currently identifying the location of damages and searching for injured residents," Lt. David Williams of the city's police department said in a statement to the News-Tribune.
Well, it’s official. Washington’s governor has signed that freaky human composting funeral legislation that allows residents to recycle loved ones like Seattle requires food waste be composted. This makes that zany, wet state the very first and quite possibly the very last to allow composting of human bodies instead of standard burial or cremation. [Snip] According to the provisions, licensed facilities are now authorized to accept your loved one’s bodily remains for “natural organic reduction.”
After several weeks, two wheelbarrow loads of organic mulch are returned to the family. “Where