Posts on Tuesday, June 4, 2019
President Trump sat down with Piers Morgan for ITV's "Good Morning Britain" and clarified controversial comments last week about Meghan Markle. Trump said he wasn't calling Markle nasty, but rather was just surprised to hear her comments about him, including her assertion that if he became president it would force Americans to relocate to Canada. "I wasn’t referring to 'she’s nasty.' I said she was nasty about me. And essentially I didn’t know she was nasty about me," Trump told Morgan in the interview, set to air on Wednesday.
GOMA, Congo, June 4 (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a deadly overnight attack in an area of eastern Congo hit by an Ebola epidemic, although its account of the violence differed from local reports. The deputy mayor of Beni in the eastern Democratic of Congo said 13 civilians were killed late on Monday in an attack by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) - a group thought to be linked to Islamic State. "The victims were killed by bullets and others by bladed weapons," Mayor Modeste Bakwanamaha told Reuters. In a statement on the messaging website Telegram, Islamic State said it was behind the attack.
Mitt Romney on Tuesday used his maiden speech as a U.S. senator to call for closer ties between the United States and its European allies at a time when President Trump’s actions have called into question his commitment to transatlantic relations.
“It is in the United States’ most vital interest to see a strong NATO, a strong Europe, stronger ties with the free nations of Asia and the subcontinent, and with every free country,” the Utah Republican said. “We need to hold our friends closer, not neglect them or drive them away.”
Romney did not mention Trump by name in what was his first major address since joining the Senate in January,
ALBANY — Felines in the Empire State no longer have to live in fear of cold-hearted owners who care more about their couch than their cat. State legislators passed a bill Tuesday that would make New York the first state in the nation to ban the declawing of cats. (Snip) Rosenthal called the practice a-paw-ling. “It’s part of a cat’s nature to use their claws, to scratch, to stretch, to express themselves, defend themselves and to deprive them of that is inhumane,” she said. A spokesman for Gov. Cuomo said the administration will review the bill. While some cities and counties
It was a fairly slow day, as the judge and the attorneys for both sides hammered out a few points regarding the closing arguments tomorrow and sending the case to the eight-person jury after. (Snip) As detailed in court’s ruling on summary judgment, as updated by the ruling today, here are the counts that will go to the jury: Count 1: Libel; Count 3: Tortious Interference with Business Relationships; Count 4: Tortious Interference with Contracts; Count 6: Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress; Count 8: Trespass.
Presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden is facing claims that his campaign plagiarized at least five parts of the climate platform released on Tuesday. The apparent similarities were first flagged on Twitter by a progressive activist. By Tuesday afternoon, most of the examples in the Biden campaign platform had been updated online to include attribution to a third party. “The paragraph in Joe Biden’s climate plan about carbon capture and sequestration includes language that is remarkably similar to items published previously by the Blue Green Alliance and the Carbon Capture Coalition,” Josh Nelson, the vice president of CREDOmobile
2020 candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren released her "Green Manufacturing Plan" Tuesday, a $2 trillion proposal to develop the technology needed to power the Green New Deal over the next decade. Why it matters: Warren is seeking to strike a progressive tone that focuses less on regulations and explicit goals and more on manufacturing and jobs than some other Democratic candidates as divisions emerge between the party and labor unions over the Green New Deal. Details: The three elements of Warren's plan include... Green Apollo Program: Focused on clean energy manufacturing, the program would invest $400 billion in funding toward "clean
In the Weissmann/Mueller case against Michael Flynn there are two material points of evidence central to the underlying issue:
1. The FBI 302 report written by agent Joe Pientka; as an outcome of the interview of Michael Flynn January 24th, 2017, conducted by Peter Strzok and Pientka.
2. The recording/transcript of the December 29th, 2016, phone call intercept between Michael Flynn and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.(Snip)The recordings are part of the underlying case against Flynn, upon which the FBI questioning took place. However, the DOJ claimed the recordings are not part of the prosecution for “lying
Scot Peterson, 56, was arrested Tuesday and charged with seven counts of neglect of a child, three counts of culpable negligence, and one count of perjury, according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Rick Swearingen said Peterson did “absolutely nothing” to stop the shooting, which killed 17 and injured 17 others.
Guests have arrived at Winfield House, the official Regent's Park residence of the US Ambassador, for a lavish dinner at which Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall will be the US President's guests of honour.
The Duke and Duchess smiled for photographs standing next to the President and First Lady as Mr Trump, in advance of the dinner this evening held to reciprocate for last night's lavish banquet at Buckingham Palace.
The mansion in Regent's Park is serving as the Trumps' base while they are in town.According to the President's itinerary the Trumps and the royal couple will enjoy a 'pre-reciprocal dinner reception',
London Mayor Sadiq Khan should note in his President Trump State Visit to Britain diary: Not only did his rent-a-mob protesters get out-chanted by Trump supporters outside Buckingham Palace— but their heartfelt “USA!” “USA!” cheers were heard above the sound of the bagpipes!
“Trump!” “Trump!” “Trump!” cheers resounded as the presidential motorcade departed Buckingham Palace, with the President and First Lady waving to the throngs from the windows of ‘The Beast’.
How is this for nature-worship, diversity, and greenie sensibility run amok?
A new mural, opened on the side of a school in volcano-ravaged Pahoa, Hawaii, depicts the volcano as — are you ready? — our friend.
Here's a screenshot of a shareable Instagram post of the mural:
The local Hawaiian press, Hawaii News Now, had a small news item around the state-financed mural's opening in its May 17 issue, depicting a generic-looking Venice Beach–style wallscape. But a letter to the editor in the Hawaii Tribune Herald by Kapoho resident Sylvia Wan tells us this isn't going over well with locals who lost their homes, neighborhoods, and entire communities to the
We all knew this Trump-Russia narrative was trash. Well, a lot of us knew; the same cannot be said for liberal America.(Snip)
Did Mueller let an FBI source caught with child pornography walk free in exchange for dubious dirt on Trump? I can’t wait to learn more about this 2017 meeting that Nader set up, and at whose behest. Today is a very bad day for Mueller and Comey. https://t.co/z2kjBNwWSz
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 3, 2019 A key witness in former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian election interference has been
SYDNEY - Ferocious weather has lashed a 600-mile stretch of coastline in eastern Australia prompting emergency warnings from the authorities as snow fell in subtropical Queensland. Residents near the town of Stanthorpe, 135 miles south-west of Brisbane, had a wintry surprise with the first significant snowfall in the state of Queensland since 2015. Forecasters said it was a “rare” event, which came just three months after Australia sweated through its hottest summer on record. In Sydney, ferries between the seaside suburb of Manly and Circular Quay in the city centre were cancelled due to wild seas. “Big waves and big fun”
The mainstream media maintains that when it wants answers to troubling questions, it has the investigative resources necessary to ferret out the truth. That was not the case when it came to uncovering the truth behind the Obama administration’s gun sales to Mexico’s deadly Sinaloa drug cartel in Operation Fast and Furious. Or the recent Russia collusion hoax. In fact, the Pulitzer committee awarded The New York Times its top journalism award for the newspaper’s false coverage of the latter.
A federal judge on Monday denied a House request to prevent President Donald Trump from tapping Defense Department money for his proposed border wall with Mexico, saying Congress lacked authority to sue.
Trump’s victory is muted by a federal ruling in California last month that blocked construction of key sections of the wall. The California case was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of the Sierra Club and Southern Border Communities Coalition.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court, sided with her conservative colleagues on Monday over a prisoner's supervisory release. She joined Justices Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh in the majority, deciding that a criminal defendant, in this case Jason Mont, can be sentenced for violating his supervised release, even if the release expires while he is incarcerated ahead of facing new charges. Her vote was swapped with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, who joined liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan in their dissent.
Mont had been indicted by
The Mueller Report (which debunked the media’s Russia Collusion Hoax and cleared Trump of obstruction) contains a transcript of a voicemail left by an attorney for Donald Trump to an attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn, that is selectively edited to look incriminating.The transcript is in the second part of the report, the part where Dirty Cop Mueller attempts to pretend President Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice (Spoiler alert: he’s not — not even close).If you look at the text of the voice mail that the Mueller Report (which debunked the media’s Russia Collusion Hoax and cleared Trump of obstruction) chose to publish,
In your typical Third-World megalopolis, basic city functions fall into disrepair, while once-eradicated diseases run rampant -- and the local bigwig boasts about saving the world.
Los Angeles is quickly becoming a typical Third-World megalopolis, and the rest of the state isn't far behind.
Yesterday the New York Post reported "rats running everywhere among piles of decaying garbage," in a "sprawling 50-block area that is believed to be the base for around 4,200 homeless people."
Local columnist Steve Lopez called his city a "giant trash receptacle" and asked, "Did someone turn back the calendar a few hundred years?” No, Steve, the city
Suspect in carjackings shot, killed outside
Publix in Sun City Center,
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Publix in Sun City Center,
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SUN CITY CENTER — A suspect in a number of carjacking attempts was shot and killed by a business owner on Tuesday morning outside a Publix supermarket, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
The shooting occurred at about 9:10 a.m. in the parking lot of the Publix shopping center at 4854 Sun City Center Blvd., the Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Deputies called to the scene found a man with a gun shot wound to the upper body. He was taken to South Bay Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Detectives believe that the man had attempted to carjack at least four vehicles and entered businesses in the shopping
June 3 and 4, 2019, marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The following is what I observed during those fateful and sad days in Beijing – when Chinese Communist People’s Liberation Army (PLA) troops killed, maimed, or incarcerated several thousand of their own unarmed countrymen and women. (Snip) And it was early Sunday morning (about 2 or 3 a.m.) when I received a call from the embassy that the troops had begun killing demonstrators What ensued afterward became one of the most memorable days of my life as I watched events unfold from the hotel room,
NEW PORT RICHEY — Eric Scharber and his 13-year-old son Wesley decided to spend Memorial Day fishing, but it wasn’t long before all the other boats and swimmers out there on the gulf made them think twice.
Still, they were already on the water in their 25-foot bay boat so they stuck with it. They were rewarded with a sight they won’t soon forget.
About noon, about 150 yards off Anclote Key, they were motoring through shallow water and spotted something strange.
Wesley grabbed his dad’s phone as Eric steered toward it. Not too far away, a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office boat was headed in the same direction.
Former British spy Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier of salacious and unverified claims about the president’s ties to Russia, has agreed to be questioned by investigators from the United States, according to a report in Britain.
The Times (UK) cited sources close to Steele on Tuesday in reporting that the 54-year-old is set to be interviewed in London within weeks. The development comes as attention has returned to the dossier authored by Steele -- especially since its more sensational claims were not substantiated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose report found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.
India's tallest rubbish mountain is on course to rise higher than the Taj Mahal in the next year, becoming a fetid symbol for what the UN considers the world's most polluted capita. Hawks and other birds of prey hover around the towering 213ft Ghazipur landfill on the eastern fringe of New Delhi, stray cows, dogs and rats wander at will over the huge expanse of smoking filth.Taking up the area of more than 40 football pitches, Ghazipur rises by nearly 33ft a year with no end in sight to its foul-smelling growth.At its current rate of growth, it will be taller than the iconic Taj in Agra,
Melania Trump was well dressed for the weather this afternoon, as she stuck with her favourite Celine trench coat outside of Downing Street for a garden party. The First Lady, 49, greeted children who waved British and American flags and handed her flowers, as she walked with Theresa May's husband Philip May. The garden party is being held for families of staff from No.10 and the US Embassy in London, at 10 Downing Street, during the second day of President Trump's State.She looked happy to meet the children while her husband Donald Trump and Theresa May held talks inside Downing Street.
Joe Biden opened his much hyped 2020 presidential campaign last month by proclaiming the “first thing” he would do if elected is to repeal the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That means the middle class would see a tax increase. Does that sound eerily familiar? It is because Walter Mondale made a similar promise when he ran for president against Ronald Reagan. (Snip) If Biden repealed the tax law, millions of low and middle income workers would again be burdened by the ObamaCare individual mandate tax. A family of four earning the median income of $74,000 would see a $2,000
The NYPD is investigating a scuffle between two cops on a Harlem street that was caught on camera, authorities said Monday. The video shows one of the NYPD officers get out of the driver’s seat of a police cruiser and shove the other officer while they’re standing in the street near Malcolm X Boulevard and 116th Street. The two cops then struggle with each other, and one of them shoves the other against the parked police car, the video shows. Other officers eventually break up the altercation.
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On a Sunday afternoon in May, Etta Nugent found Marco Cobos, a Mexican national, at her doorstep in Houston after his truck had broken down nearby. Cobos knocked and Nugent, described by friends as “gentle soul” and a “good Christian woman,” answered. When Cobos asked her to help him fix his truck, the septuagenarian politely declined, citing her age.
Feeling entitled to a different answer, Cobos forced his way into Nugent’s home and stabbed her in the chest. He proceeded to show himself to kitchen to look for “more knives,” he told prosecutors, while his victim lay grievously
Too bad President Trump can’t run for prime minister of Britain. He arrived in London for his long-awaited state visit just as Britons showed themselves to be a lot Trumpier than the elites have been suggesting.
Oh, sure, the Leftist louts in London hauled out their 20-foot “baby Trump” balloon, showing the president in diapers. Another, showing Mr. Trump tweeting while on a gold toilet, was reportedly being readied. Protesters are out in force.
The far more meaningful “demonstration,” though, took place May 23. That’s when Britons elected a new delegation to the European Parliament. In a stunning turnout, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party just trounced the establishment.
A 23-year-old man identified as a U.S. citizen died Monday following a shootout with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, San Diego police officials confirmed. Shots were fired after the northbound driver failed to stop for an inspection at the border crossing located south of San Diego, CPB confirmed. A CBP spokesperson said a driver in a white pickup truck approached the port at around 7:30 p.m. and refused to stop. "The suspect began firing a gun out of his vehicle towards the officers, then exited his vehicle and continued firing at the officers," the statement from SDPD Homicide explained.
Former commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Gil Kerlikowske told CNN anchor Poppy Harlow on Monday that the number of migrants crossing the border constitutes a crisis.
"So this is a crisis, and for anyone on either side of the policy aisle that said it's not a crisis, these numbers are a crisis and the workload is tremendous,” (Snip)
border agents are overwhelmed by the number of migrants crossing the border. Border apprehensions hit a record high last month with 98,977 arrests. On Wednesday, border agents apprehended a group of 1,036 migrants
The dust-up between New York Post op-ed editor Sohrab Ahmari and National Review author David French has offered an enlightening view into the chasm between Trump supporters and his detractors on the Right. (Snip)In what he defines as “David French-ism,” Ahmari essentially claims that French’s trust in traditional institutions, the good faith of the other side, and belief in neutral territory where everyone is respected not only is naïve but misguided to the extent of being destructive of the things conservatives believe are essential to a just society.
Further, French’s objections to fighting the Left’s
A coalition of more than two dozen liberal groups on Tuesday urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump, writing in a letter that her reticence is “resulting in dangerous inaction that enables this racist and xenophobic president.” The strongly worded letter voicing frustration with Pelosi (D-Calif.) came a day after the Democratic-led House returned from a week-long recess and continued to grapple with how to respond to the report of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. While a growing number of Democrats are calling for launching an impeachment inquiry based on findings related to potential
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President Donald John Trump has taken London by storm in his second state visit to Not-So-Great Britain.
The media and the mayor hate him, which makes him feel right at home. Sadiq Khan sounded just like New York's Bill de Blasio the Groundhog Slayer. (Snip)The Associated Press reported, "Mixing pageantry and political pugilism, President Donald Trump opened a state visit to Britain on Monday by drawing a smile from Queen Elizabeth II and stepping up a long-running feud with London’s anti-Trump mayor before his plane had touched down on English soil.
The hypocrisy and ideology of the Mexican position would indicate the tariffs are certain to take place. Factually, after Mexico has made their “red line” position clear, one could argue there’s no reason to go through the graduated timeline; the U.S. might as well just start applying the full 25% tariff amount on June 10th. WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico said on Monday it would reject a U.S. idea to take in all Central American asylum seekers if it is raised at talks this week with the Trump administration, which has threatened to impose tariffs if Mexico
After a court filing revealed how Andrew Weissmann and Robert Mueller carefully edited the telephone message by John Dowd to Michael Flynn’s attorney, Dowd points out the motives of Weissmann and Mueller was to create a fraudulent report.n the Michael Flynn sentencing phase Judge Emmet Sullivan requested the Mueller prosecution team provide records related to the case. [Backstory Here]
Among other evidence, the judge ordered the government to file on the public docket “the transcript of the voicemail recording” from President Trump’s attorney John Dowd to Michael Flynn. The transcript of that voicemail recording was cited in the Mueller
Trump holds press conference with UK PM
Theresa May, tells her to ‘stick around’
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Theresa May, tells her to ‘stick around’
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President Trump on Tuesday was set to hold a press conference with outgoing U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May, hours after he told her to “stick around” to complete a long-awaited trade deal with the U.S.
"It's been an honor to work with you. I don't know what your timetable is, but... stick around, let's do this deal,” Trump told May at a breakfast meeting with senior leaders, according to The Sun. May will step down from Number 10 on Friday after intense criticism of her handling of Britain’s departure from the European Union. Britain can only make trade deals after it leaves the E.U. -- scheduled to happen in October.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday ruled against House Democrats who tried to block the Trump administration from reallocating Defense Department funds for a border wall.
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden said the House of Representatives does not have standing to bring the challenge, calling it a political fight between two branches.
“While the Constitution bestows upon members of the House many powers, it does not grant them standing to hale the executive branch into court claiming a dilution of Congress’s legislative authority,” McFadden’s decision reads.
Trump-hating liberal activists know how to cause trouble. (snip) there is an awful type of activism happening out there, and it affects us all. Even though this activity is underreported, it affects everyone's 401(k) retirement savings.
Shareholder activists are taking direct aim at companies — such as oil companies and gun-manufacturers — by abusing rules that publicly traded companies must follow to promote a far-left agenda. Instead of trying to pass gun control laws through Congress, they are forcing public companies to bend to their will.
Mayor de Blasio is the city’s debtor-in-chief.
Last year, City Hall’s resident presidential hopeful owed banks and other creditors between $1.35 million and $1.75 million, and maybe more, according to financial disclosures released by the Conflicts of Interest Board on Monday.
Twenty-eight of the city’s elected officials collectively owed between $2.3 million and $5.4 million in 2018, a News analysis of the disclosures shows. Hizzoner was by far the biggest debtor. Again, the upper range is unclear due to the way the debt is reported.
De Blasio had two mortgages worth more than $500,000 each, his 2018 disclosure shows.
Until it became useful for him to claim being a victim of anti-Semitism, there is no visible evidence of Bernie Sanders embracing his Jewish heritage, and plenty of evidence of him avoiding it. Daniel Greenfield yesterday pointed out:
Only Bernie Sanders could write an entire New York Times essay titled, I" Know Where I Came From. Does President Trump?" without mentioning Jewish. (snip) his friends on the Left hate fake socialists who become millionaires through politics more than they hate Jews. The awkward fact is Bernie is a great example of a man who went into politics purportedly to do good and ended up doing very well
Evangelical pastor apologizes for ‘hurt’
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caused by praying for Trump during unscheduled visit replies
The pastor of McLean Bible Church apologized for hurting some members of his congregation by praying for President Trump during an unscheduled visit.Trump visited the northern Virginia church on Sunday on his way back to the White House during a golf outing. His appearance at the church came the same day that evangelist Franklin Graham called for a special day of prayer for Trump. Pastor David Platt said Trump’s visit was unexpected and he didn’t have time to think through his actions.“My aim was in no way to endorse the president, his policies, or his party,
A former Democratic congressional candidate attacked white people and the American flag in a series of angry tweets Sunday.Saira Rao, who ran for Congress in Colorado’s first district last year, blamed white people for making her life “miserable,” and said that she can’t stand the sight of the American flag. The American flag makes me sick. — saira rao (@sairasameerarao) June 2, 2019- White people have done everything to make my life miserable. Yet I’m supposed to not hate white people? — saira rao (@sairasameerarao) June 3, 2019
Greetings everyone, from New York City. I’m here for a couple of days for a book signing and FOX interviews. As the plane was coming in for a landing at NYC LaGuardia airport, and as I gazed over the impressive NYC skyline, I had a moment of reflection. Remember the show “Green Acres”? Yes, I am dating myself, but the title song went running through my mind: “Green Acres is the place to be, farm living is the live for me, “Land spread out so far and wide, keep Manhattan just gimme that Countryside.”Oliver Wendell Douglas, played by Eddie Albert, was a successful New York businessman
A scruffy, hippie-ish animal rights demonstrator with long beard, long hair in a bun, and blue jeans leapt onto the stage and grabbed the mike from Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris during MoveOn.org’s “Big Ideas Forum” in San Francisco on Saturday, before being shuffled away by security.
If you were the left-wing Democratic Party operative moderating the event, you think, “too bad it wasn’t a right winger wearing a MAGA hat. We could blame it on Trump!” Right?
Wrong. It’s still Trump’s fault!
This past Wednesday, May 29, former Vice President Al Gore spoke to the graduating seniors at Harvard University. A summary of his talk? There is an “assault on science” that threatens “the capacity of the human species to endure” on planet Earth.
Mr. Gore proceeded to warn both students and faculty at Wednesday’s annual Class Day convocation, stressing that “reason” and “rational debate” were under threat from what he called “ideology of authoritarianism” by those who disagree with him and his political agenda.
Science “is now being slandered as a conspiracy based on a hoax,” Mr. Gore said. “The subordination of the best scientific evidence is yet another strategy
The State Banquet was a who's who of the American and British political elite as Donald Trump and his family rubbed shoulders with royalty. Sixteen members of the royal family attended the dinner, including Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Prince William, and Kate Middleton. But there were also a number of royals in attendance who are less known to the American public - at least those who haven't watched The Crown. Here is a breakdown of some of the key British dignitaries at Monday night's dinner, some of whom have had their own brush with scandal.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee announced Monday that they will call John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon, as their first witness in the upcoming Mueller report hearings.
The hearings, which House Democrats have titled “Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes,” will begin June 10 and will primarily serve as a platform to further explore President Trump’s alleged attempts to obstruct Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“While the White House continues to cover up and stonewall, and to prevent the American people from knowing the truth, we will continue to move forward with our investigation,” Judiciary Committee chariman
The Battle of Midway began 77 years ago, today. This anniversary (if that, indeed, is the right word) will be noted but not so lavishly as the one in two days time, in remembrance of D-Day. These were both great and decisive American victories and should be remembered and honored as long as there is a United States of America. Not so much, however, because they saved the nation. The U.S. would almost certainly have survived defeat at Midway and a repulse in Normandy. The “what-if” scenarios around either case — or both, for that matter — make for interesting speculation. But while the world may have
All four of Donald Trump's adult children attended the State Banquet at Buckingham Palace on Monday night. And while none were called upon to pose for official pictures with the Queen, they all made sure to appear in the background as she and Trump attended the event. Don Jr., 41, Ivanka, 37, Eric, 35, Eric's wife Lara, 36, and Tiffany, 25, each dressed up for the fancy fete and could be spotted milling about and smiling in the direction of photographers. (Photos)
In your typical Third-World megalopolis, basic city functions fall into disrepair, while once-eradicated diseases run rampant -- and the local bigwig boasts about saving the world.
Los Angeles is quickly becoming a typical Third-World megalopolis, and the rest of the state isn't far behind.
Yesterday the New York Post reported "rats running everywhere among piles of decaying garbage," in a "sprawling 50-block area that is believed to be the base for around 4,200 homeless people."
Local columnist Steve Lopez called his city a "giant trash receptacle" and asked, "Did someone turn back the calendar a few hundred years?” No, Steve, the city government turned hard left is all. Although debate fans might note
It’s #MeToo time for Martin Luther King — despite, historian David J. Garrow alleges, the efforts of senior staff at the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the LA Times and the Guardian. In this week’s Green Room podcast, Garrow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, alleges that these outlets chose not to publish his discovery of transcripts from the FBI’s taped surveillance of Martin Luther King. Instead, Garrow’s research was published this week in Britain’s Standpoint magazine. The transcripts report King, an icon of the Civil Rights era, taking part in orgies, coercing women into performing sex acts upon his friends, and laughing as he watches
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The end is nigh. If you "believe" in "science".
That's a phrase that these days is tantamount of being a crackpot because it means believing doomcrying drivel.
The analysis, published by the Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, a think-tank in Melbourne, Australia, describes climate change as “a near- to mid-term existential threat to human civilization” and sets out a plausible scenario of where business-as-usual could lead over the next 30 years.
The paper argues that the potentially “extremely serious outcomes” of climate-related security threats are often far more probable than conventionally assumed, but almost impossible to quantify because they “fall outside the human experience of the last thousand years.”
Breaking news: Some guy posted a doctored video of Nancy Pelosi.
But fear not. The website The Daily Beast sprang into action. It tracked down the random, Trump-supporting man who allegedly posted the offending clip, hounded him until he talked, then published his name and other details about his life in a shocking instance of harassment masquerading as journalism. The man denies creating the video.
Journalists usually imagine themselves holding the powerful to account but now they are happy to punch down — and congratulate themselves on punching down — if their targets are politically uncongenial.
MORGAN CITY, La. — The Democratic governor of Louisiana signed one of the strictest anti-abortion bills in the country into law, then traveled to a barge here to inspect emergency flood control efforts.
But John Bel Edwards couldn't stop the political deluge from his own party.
"Gov. Edwards' decision is dangerous and we will fight it," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the bill "heartbreaking." Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., labeled it "draconian," while Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., called his decision to sign it "outrageous."
A young and healthy Texas couple on a dream vacation in Fiji died suddenly after they both contracted a mysterious illness.
Family of David and Michelle Paul said the Fort Worth couple began feeling unwell the day before they were supposed to leave Fiji and return home two weeks ago. “They knew something was going on in their body and were able to get to the hospital,” Michelle’s sister-in-law Tracey Calanog told local TV station KVUE.
“Anything can happen,” she added through tears.
Friends said the Air Force veteran and his wife loved to travel and tried to get away on annual trips with just each other
Democratic 2020 longshot Eric Swalwell may regret this rash decision.Swalwell, who has struggled to gain a foothold in the crowded 2020 field, on Sunday posted a bizarre video on Twitter seeking donations from his supporters.In the video, Swalwell is seen changing the diaper of a baby girl, apparently his daughter Kathryn. “If Eric can clean s#*% up at home… he can clean it up in Washington,” text displayed over the top of the video reads.
Washington, D.C., district court Judge Trevor McFadden threw out House Democrats' lawsuit seeking an injunction against President Trump's emergency border wall funding reallocation, saying that the matter is fundamentally a political dispute and that the politicians lack standing to make a legal case. Trump had declared a national emergency this past February over the humanitarian crisis at the southern border, following Congress' failure to fund his border wall legislatively. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Democrats then filed suit in April, charging that Trump was "stealing from appropriated funds” by moving $6.7 billion from other projects toward border wall construction.
Trump unlikely to face serious primary
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challenge as Never Trumpers give
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Never Trump Republicans have all but given up on mounting a serious primary challenge to President Trump in the aftermath of special counsel Robert Mueller's failure to find Trump campaign collusion with Russia.“I think there’s broad consensus that no one is moving toward a run,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican consultant in California who for several months has been involved in discussions about dislodging Trump.Trump remains broadly popular with Republican voters, and one of the most formidable potential challengers, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, announced over the weekend he would forgo a 2020 bid.
When faced with complaints earlier this year from city workers about rats infesting L.A. City Hall, most city officials said little about whether the problem was connected to several homeless camps right outside.But a newly uncovered report from a pest control company hired by the city has raised fresh questions about whether officials wrongly downplayed that possibility during discussions at City Council meetings. CatsUSA Pest Control, brought in to assess areas outside City Hall and nearby buildings, warned that homeless people create “harborage for rodents,” according to the report
Washington -Justice Clarence Thomas' booming voice filled the Supreme Court chamber Monday afternoon, as he took time off from the last month of the term to give a wide-ranging talk and publicly question where the rumors of his retirement come from."People can say things about you and for you that have nothing to do with you," Thomas told an audience attending an event sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society in the ornate chamber."I enjoy being here, I enjoy my work," he said.Thomas was never directly asked by the moderator, David Rubenstein, whether he planned to step down sometime soon, but the 70-year-old justice recounted that his wife had
Former Vice President Joe Biden, the 2020 Democrat frontrunner for president, lied in 1987 during his first of many runs for the Oval Office by claiming he marched in the Civil Rights Movement–something he never did.The New York Times‘ Matt Flegenheimer, in a Monday report, resurfaced the 1987 lie by Biden before an audience in New Hampshire, where he was campaigning for the Democrat nomination for president for the first time in his long political career. “When I marched in the civil rights movement, I did not march with a 12-point program,” Biden said in New Hampshire in February 1987, according to the Times.
Mexico’s top diplomats issued a veiled threat to the U.S. government suggesting that without their efforts, 250,000 more Central American migrants could proceed north. The statement follows President Donald Trump’s threat of raising a 5 percent tariff if Mexico does not strengthen its borders.On Monday evening, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretariat posted a statement claiming the country was effectively providing humanitarian visas to Central American migrants and strengthening immigration enforcement operations in southern Mexico.
Bernie Sanders' latest socialist pipe dream:
Taxpayers pay for millions of new ‘affordable’ homes! replies
Taxpayers pay for millions of new ‘affordable’ homes! replies
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is once again proving that it’s easy to be a democratic socialist. All you have to do is make wildly unrealistic promises and blame rich people for the world’s problems. After that, most of the left-wing media will fawn all over you for your “revolutionary” and “innovative” thinking—no matter how foolish the policy proposal might be. Sanders’ newest idea is to have government build “millions” of new housing units to help improve access to “affordable” housing. “When I talk about infrastructure, I’ll tell you what else I’m talking about: The need to build