Posts on Monday, June 10, 2019
Shocker. Nadler’s Trump-Bashing Witnesses
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The Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee chaired by Jerry Nadler dragged out Watergate figure John Dean to testify at Monday’s hearing about Mueller’s report.Nadler also trotted out two former Obama-appointed US Attorneys who are contributors to MSNBC, and they both came out and trashed President Trump.Shocker. Joyce White Vance, an Obama-appointed US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama pushed the lie that President Trump obstructed Mueller’s investigation.There was no underlying crime so there cannot be any obstruction of justice,
The top executives of more than 180 companies have signed a letter that says abortion is essential in order for people to be successful in their businesses.“When everyone is empowered to succeed, our companies, our communities and our economy are better for it,” the executives say in the letter posted on a newly launched website titled “Don’t Ban Equality.”“Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health, independence and economic stability of our employees and customers,” they said, adding: Simply put, it goes against our values and is bad for business. It impairs our ability to build diverse and inclusive workforce pipelines, recruit top talent
They're coming through the wire
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Robert Spalding formerly "the chief China strategist for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs" described what he thought was at stake in the US-China "trade war" in which the role of Beijing's telecom giant Huawei figures prominently. In an interview with American Thought Leaders Spalding argued that it was bigger than a trade war. "It's really about what kind of world we want to live in." China, like the US, realized that globalization was not content free and was trying to shape it to its own purposes. The following are paraphrases from his interview found here.
'We were so
House Republicans lined up to hammer John Dean, the Democrats' star witness at Monday's House Judiciary Committee hearing, saying the Nixon White House counsel deliberately obstructed their questioning of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen earlier this year, and pointing out that he has breathlessly accused numerous Republican presidents of Watergate-like misconduct over the years.
At one point, the hearing room broke out into laughter, as Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz grilled Dean for turning Nixon comparisons into a profitable "cottage industry" for himself. Dean assisted with the Watergate coverup and pleaded guilty to obstruction before becoming a key prosecution
Florida assault weapons ban amendment
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heads to Supreme Court for review —
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Gun-control advocates say they’ve collected more than 103,000 signatures, enough to trigger the next critical step before a proposed ban on the sale of assault weapons could go before Florida voters in 2020.
Leaders of the political committee Ban Assault Weapons Now gathered in Orlando on Monday to announce that its draft constitutional amendment met the signature threshold to go before the state Supreme Court for review. The event came just days before the third anniversary of the shooting at Pulse night club where 49 people died in a hail of gunfire from a shooter armed with an assault-style rifle.
Joe Biden: The Evitable Nominee
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Joe Biden leads in the major polls because people think he's going to win, and people think he's going to win because he's leading in the major polls -- but all it takes to puncture his Cloak of Inevitability is a shift in perceptions.
That shift looks like it's taking place right now.
If anything could change the perceptions of Democratic primary voters, it would be weakness on the party's sole sacrosanct issue: Abortion. Pro-life candidates and elected officials have all but been hounded from the party. The slow process began more than 30 years ago when Missouri Congressman Dick Gephardt, a pro-life politician
As part of its ongoing "multifaceted" and "broad" review into potential misconduct by U.S. intelligence agencies during the 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department revealed Monday it is also investigating the activities of several "non-governmental organizations and individuals."
Additionally, the DOJ announced that the probe, let by Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham, was looking into the involvement of "foreign intelligence services.” (Snip)
The information was contained in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., who had inquired as to the scope of Durham's investigation.
A group of Democratic lawmakers in New York state introduced a bill Monday that seeks to decriminalize sex work and make it legal to engage in the consensual sale of sex. (Snip) In addition, advocates noted that current state laws disproportionately affect women of color and members of the trans community who are the most vulnerable and susceptible to violence and are regularly targeted by law enforcement. Such people are "having to face stigma, discrimination and abuse in trying to advocate for their rights to be treated with dignity and to be treated like human beings," said state Sen. Julia
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign accused Fox News personalities of spreading rumors about the presidential hopeful being in poor health, The Daily Beast reports. Fox News host Sean Hannity and Fox Business host Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery have discussed Biden’s health on the air multiple times. On a May 29 broadcast of “The Five,” Kennedy compared Biden to 2016 Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, saying Democrats are quietly talking about Biden’s health, The Daily Beast reports. “If you talk to Democrats, who are working for different campaigns, all of the aggressive gossip whisperers — and this is where the
On Monday, John Dean, the former Nixon White House counsel, testified at the Judiciary Committee Hearing called "Lessons From The Mueller Report.” Dean has no connection to the Mueller investigation but is a CNN contributor who has written a number of anti-Republican books in recent years and testified during the Watergate hearings. In other words, Dean’s purpose for testifying at the hearing had nothing to do with facts. He’s just the expert on the disgraced President Richard Nixon, who resigned from the presidency for his involvement in the Watergate cover-up.There was a memorable exchange between Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Mr. Dean during the hearing.
Incredible moment flailing palm tree gets
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caught in the middle of a whirling
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Wild winds from an Arizona dust devil sent a palm tree flailing in a new viral video. Zak Norgren filmed the unusual weather phenomenon in Phoenix, Arizona, as it wrapped its way around the tall leaves and nearly sent the top to a 90 degree angle.The thin-whirring cloud of dust, sand and debris, spun viciously around the tree with such speed that one passerby worries it will 'snap off'. (Video/Photos) Despite only lasting around 15 seconds, Norgren said he was 'in awe' by the strength of the winds that he captured on June 3.Since posting the video online, it has already attracted
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for signing a campus free speech law banning so-called free speech zones that allow only certain viewpoints to be expressed on college campuses across the state. “The First Amendment is under constant attack by those who shut down ideas they can’t contend with,” Crenshaw said Monday. “The University is a place for students to grapple with new ideas and opinions, not be coddled.” The law requires state schools in Texas to use more content-neutral standards when deciding who can come to campus to speak or which student organizations can use official campus resources.
Republicans shred Dean’s record: 'How
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Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee Monday attacked star witness John Dean’s credibility, citing his criminal record and history of attacking President Trump and other Republicans.“Mr. Dean has made a cottage industry out of accusing presidents of acting like Richard Nixon,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said.Dean, the ex-White House counsel in President Richard Nixon's administration, was convicted of obstruction of justice after striking a deal to cooperate with the Watergate investigation. He has spent decades critical of the GOP and wrote a book in 2004 accusing President George H.W. Bush of acts “worse than Watergate.”
One of my previous CNSNews.com commentaries was on the progressive, socialist left’s three branches of rule. Our constitutional republic’s three coequal branches of government – executive, legislative, and judicial – mean little to them in their quest for ideological domination. What the leftists in America rely on to implement their agenda are their branches of the media, the courts, and yes, academia. What the left has always known throughout history is that they must control the message, mandate their ideological agenda by court mandate, and indoctrinate future generations … the real high cost of education. There is a clear reason why the left has free college education
The Democratic Socialists who launched a full-on assault on the House of Representatives in 2018 are looking at bigger targets for 2022 and 2024, but they still involve the group's most successful candidate to date, Rep. Alexcandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). (Video) According to a report in Axios, "top Democrats" are expecting Ocasio-Cortez to build on the success of the small civil war she's created between factions of the party and launch a campaign to primary one of New York's two Senators, either Sen. Chuck Schumer or Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. Schumer seems the more likely target, according to Axios's sources, particularly given that he often falls
As a journalist who has following the Gibson Bakery racial accusation case for more than two years now--and who was able to cover it from a courtroom seat for the last month or so for Legal Insurrection--I see things from a perspective that is both factually based and less emotional politically. (Snip) Their students were looking for some venting possibilities in the days after the Nov. 2016 presidential election, and the shoplifting case at Gibson’s was grabbed by the students as their symbolic protest expression of how they hated the world because of who was now president.
Hightower Backs ‘Nature Rights’
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The “It can’t happen here” crowd had better start paying more attention to the mainstreaming of the “nature rights” movement. Not only has Science — one of the world’s foremost science journals — published in its favor, but now former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower, a very influential voice on the left, has endorsed the extreme ideological agenda. From his column:
Well, what if we did give all wildlife a fighting chance against the destructive firepower of profiteers who so carelessly ravage their habitats and kill them off? Of course, we can’t arm nature with guns, but we could recognize that other species and ecosystems are living creatures
Former Vice President Joe Biden told a journalist in 1974 that “cruddy politicians” like himself could “take away” the First Amendment if they wanted.
The current 2020 Democrat frontrunner made the comments to Washingtonian magazine while being interviewed for a profile published in June 1974.(Snip)
“to shake his finger at me” while explaining elected officials like himself had the power to “take away” constitutionally protected rights if they saw fit.
“And, whether you like it or not, young lady,” he said. “Us cruddy politicians can take away that First Amendment of yours if we want to.”
A huge plague of locusts is wreaking havoc on the Italian island of Sardinia in the worst insect invasion in more than 60 years, local media report.
Large swarms are destroying crops and invading homes in Ottana and Orani in the central province of Nuoro.
More than 2,000 hectares of farmland has been destroyed by "blankets" of the insects, reports said.
The locust invasion has been linked to a recent rise in temperatures after months of cooler weather on the island.
"There are millions in the countryside," the Italian farmers' association Coldiretti warned in a statement on Monday.
U.S. embassies defying Trump admin by
flying ‘gay pride’ flag: ‘This is category
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The U.S. diplomatic corps, much of which hails from far-Left Ivy League institutions, has been the most defiant when it comes to obeying POTUS Donald Trump’s policies, as evident by the fact that several American embassies have hoisted the “gay pride” rainbow flag in defiance of the president.
After the Trump administration formally denied requests from multiple United States embassies to hoist the LGBT flag in honor of “Pride Month,” several of them, along with other diplomatic missions, are doing it anyway.
A group of Oklahoma teens have been praised as heroes after they reportedly broke into the burning home of a 90-year-old neighbor and saved her from the flames.
Catherine Ritchie, 90, was at home last month in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, when the blaze started, she told KTUL-TV in Tulsa.
"I was getting ready for bed in the bathroom, and I turned around, and my bed, the head of my bed, was covered in flames," she said.
Ritchie said she tried to put out the fire, but soon realized she wouldn't be able to and called 911. But the smoke was building.
MAGAnomics – JOLTS Report: Record
High Employment – Available Jobs Exceed
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High Employment – Available Jobs Exceed
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The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary, aka “JOLTS report“, lags behind monthly employment reports by a month as the ‘hires‘ and ‘quits‘ are contrast against available job openings.
In the latest JOLTS report we find evidence why the May employment numbers were less than expected. The data shows the economy is expanding; businesses are hiring; and the reason for lower new hires has nothing to do with an economic slow-down. In essence, the labor market is tight, very tight, and Main Street businesses are having a hard time finding qualified workers.
Today the House Judiciary Committee led by Chairman Jerry Nadler officially begins the House Impeachment Hearings. Yes, these are impeachment hearings; they are just being presented under other names in an effort by Democrats to avoid the political fallout from holding impeachment hearings. They’ll get away with it because: (1) U.S. media are on their team; and (2) Leadership Republicans are idiots (and many also on the ‘D’ team).
The hearings will be broadcast live and -by design- carried on most media outlets. (Snip)
“Lessons from the Mueller Report: Presidential Obstruction and Other Crimes”
Helicopter crash on high-rise building in New
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York City leaves at least 1 dead, officials say replies
NEW YORK – At least one person was killed after a helicopter made a "crash landing" on the roof of a high-rise building in New York City on Monday, sparking a massive emergency response, officials said. The New York Police Department said preliminary information shows the helicopter made a "hard landing " on the roof of 787 Seventh Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and a fire has been extinguished. The crash happened at around 2 p.m. in a steady rain and clouds that obscured the roof of the tower, the AXA Equitable building, located just north of the famed Times Square. The New
AT readers don’t need to be introduced to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the desperation measure concocted by the Democrats in an effort to make an end run around the Electoral College by pledging states to abide by the popular vote.
Fourteen states, along with D.C., have so far passed the compact. One curious provision is that the compact does not go into effect until the number of electoral votes involved reaches 270 – a simple majority which would guarantee a candidate’s victory. The number of electoral votes controlled as of now is 189 – clearly, the promoters have been concentrating on large jurisdictions.
The leftists running California's one-party state have done it again. They've rolled out a $312 billion budget that includes $98 million for free health care for illegal immigrants under the age of 26. That's a dinner triangle to all able-bodied foreign nationals working off the books that the free ride is about to arrive.
According to the Sacramento Bee:
The expansion will take effect Jan. 1, 2020 and cost $98 million in the upcoming fiscal year. It will make California the first state to allow undocumented adults to sign up for state-funded health coverage.
President Trump walked hard and carried a big stick this week to bludgeon Mexico into honoring its January 2019 deal to halt illegal immigrants at its southern border.
As a key implementation requirement in President Trump’s October 2018 restructure of NAFTA, a side deal titled the Migrant Protection Protocols was subsequently signed by newly inaugurated Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in January 2019.
The MPP committed Mexico to increase security along its border with Guatemala and to shelter returned illegal aliens caught sneaking across the U.S. Southern Border “for the duration of their immigration proceedings.”
My Memory of Chernobyl
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Last April marked the thirty-third anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This date is devoted to many publications of memories from participants in the aftermath of the accident and ordinary residents who lived close to the site of the tragedy. The release of the series Chernobyl on HBO caused a sensation not only in the U.S. but also in Ukraine. Judging by the reviews in the Ukrainian segment of Twitter, the film made a massive impression on Ukrainians. They note its veracity and attention to small details.
I also have my memories of the Chernobyl disaster, although
The Transportation Department under Secretary Elaine Chao designated a special liaison to help with grant applications and other priorities from her husband Mitch McConnell’s state of Kentucky, paving the way for grants totaling at least $78 million for favored projects as McConnell prepared to campaign for reelection.
Chao’s aide Todd Inman, who stated in an email to McConnell’s Senate office that Chao had personally asked him to serve as an intermediary, helped advise the senator and local Kentucky officials on grants with special significance for McConnell — including a highway-improvement project in a McConnell political stronghold that had been twice rejected for previous grant applications.
Alan Dershowitz: House Democrats ‘looking
to create something that isn’t there’
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to create something that isn’t there’
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Famed Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz says House Democrats at this point are gasping for air in the never-ending Russia saga.
“They’re looking to create something that isn’t there,” he told me in a brief phone interview Monday morning. “They’re trying to weaponize the criminal justice system for partisan advantage. It’s not there. There’s no obstruction of justice in the [special counsel] report.”
Democrats on Monday will hear testimony related to their absurd case against President Trump for supposedly obstructing justice. Democrats have called in former President Richard Nixon's lawyer John Dean to offer testimony that would bolster their case for Trump’s impeachment.
Twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton believes President Trump's administration is a gateway to fascism.
"The idea that it can't happen here is just old-fashioned, my friends,” the former secretary of state warned this weekend during an address at Wellesley College.
Her remarks came with a specific reference to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's new book, Fascism: A Warning. How seriously should we take any “warning” written by a former secretary of state who mocked 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney when he cautioned about the growing Russian threat? I am going to say not much.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a legal dispute targeting the inscription of “In God We Trust” on coins and currency from the Department of Treasury.
Michael Newdow, an activist who filed the case on behalf of a group of atheists, argued Congress's mandate to inscribe the nation’s motto on U.S. money was a violation of the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which prohibits Congress from establishing a national religion.
The phrase “In God We Trust” first appeared on coins in 1864, and Congress passed legislation in 1955 requiring all paper and coin currency to bear the words.
House Democrats have reached an agreement with the Department of Justice, staving off criminal contempt proceedings against Attorney General William Barr.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., announced on Monday that the DOJ would comply with House subpoenas to hand over documents and evidence underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
The DOJ "has agreed to begin complying with our committee's subpoena by opening Robert Mueller’s most important files to us, providing us with key evidence that the special counsel used to assess whether the president and others obstructed justice or were engaged in other misconduct,” Nadler said in a statement.
Impeachment will reelect Trump
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Progressives say Democrats could face backlash from their grassroots if they don’t impeach President Trump.
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So what exactly has spurred Democrats new-found fervor to take out Trump ahead of the 2020 presidential election?
The Democrats will almost uniformly tell you the tipping point was former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 10-minute statement at the end May, where he implied that Trump might have committed obstruction of justice and that the only recourse for Democrats to hold Trump allegedly accountable would be to open an impeachment inquiry.
For those who didn’t read the 448-page Mueller report and who
The Democratic chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York, said on Monday he has reached a deal with the Department of Justice on turning over evidence from special counsel Robert Mueller's report relating to possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump."I am pleased to announce that the Department of Justice has agreed to begin complying with our committee's subpoena by opening Robert Mueller’s most important files to us, providing us with key evidence that the Special Counsel used to assess whether the President and others obstructed justice or were engaged in other misconduct,"
When the House Judiciary Committee meets today for the start of hearings that could lead to the impeachment of President Donald Trump, two of the 17 Republicans on the dais will find themselves in a familiar position, having been deeply involved in the last formal attempt to remove a president from office.
Representative Steve Chabot of Ohio, along with Representative James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, voted to impeach President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice. Both later played the role of prosecutors for Clinton’s trial in the Senate, where he was ultimately acquitted.
“I do stand by it,” Chabot told me. “I think he did commit an impeachable offense—
The push to eliminate conservative content online continued on Sunday in The New York Times.Since the 2016 election there has been an organized and well funded movement on the left to eliminate conservative content online.And it has worked — thanks to a weak and ineffective Repubican party.Facebook has been eliminating traffic to conservative websites since the 2016 election. Over a billion page views have been eliminated to conservative publishers since the 2016 election.
Former Boston Red Sox slugger and Dominican star David Ortiz is out of surgery and doing "fine," according to his family, after he was shot Sunday at a club in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.(Snip)According to Lopez, the operation lasted six hours and was performed by three doctors, led by Dr. Abel Gonzalez. The team had to remove part of Ortiz's intestines and colon, as well as his gallbladder. Ortiz suffered liver damage.
"Doctors say that David is out of danger, thank God," Ortiz's father, Leo Ortiz, told ESPN. "What they have told me post-op is that the
LOS ANGELES – After 25 years living under the shadow of one of the nation’s most notorious murder cases, O.J. Simpson says his life has entered a phase he calls the “no negative zone.” In a telephone Interview, Simpson told The Associated Press he is healthy and happy living in Las Vegas. And neither he nor his children want to look back by talking about June 12, 1994 – when his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, were killed and Simpson quickly was transformed in the public mind from revered Pro Football Hall of Fame hero to murder suspect.
The resurgence of the Right in the 1980s under Ronald Reagan was a sight to behold. The country had just been through a demoralizing period under Carter (no need to re-recite the record) and from those depths emerged opportunity for visionary ideas long espoused by Reagan, Jack Kemp, and others to finally get a true public hearing.
Complementing these men were conservative think tanks who believed in economic prosperity, personal liberty, and a strong national defense. (Snip). In time, many millions flowed into their coffers from enthusiastic donors large and smal. lFast forward 30 years
The Russia collusion narrative and associated Robert Mueller hysteria are all but over.
Mueller’s obstruction of justice narrative involving the non-crime of collusion is ending, too.
Donald Trump’s tax-return psychodrama is going the way of the Emoluments Clause, the Logan Act, the 25th Amendment and the comical in-house coup attempt of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe.
What takes the place of Mueller and “the noose is tightening” bombshells? (Snip) new narratives involving Inspector General Michael Horowitz and FISA abuse, or Attorney General William Barr’s investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion probe—far quieter, far more serious.
Title IX is why Oberlin failed
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Oberlin College was a pioneer in race and sex equality. In 1835, it became the few colleges to enroll a black student. In 1837, it became one of the first to enroll women.
But from a 19th century leader in tolerance, it is now a citadel of bigotry that must to pay $11 million to a bakery that it discriminated against. You can thank the federal government for this transformation.
Specifically Title IX.(Snip)With Title IX coordinators and their staffs on every college campus in America dependent on discrimination for their livelihoods, the bureaucracy looked for discrimination at every
Watergate witness John Dean, answering the House Judiciary Committee's call to testify on this Monday, told CNN what he plans to say at the 2 p.m. hearing. "What I'm going to try to do...I'm clearly not a fact witness, but I hope I can give them some context and show them how strikingly like Watergate what we're seeing now, and as reported in the Mueller report, is. "So I've taken several examples from the Mueller report relating to obstruction of justice, which is their focus today, and looked at those and made the comparisons," Dean said Monday morning. (Video)
Former White House China trade negotiator Clete Williams makes a rare appearance to discuss President Trump’s ongoing trade position with China; and the lessons they are learning from Trump’s severity with Mexico.
Fox News talking-hair Leland Vitter, a prime example of the axiom: “a little knowledge is dangerous”, tries his best to promote the preferred Murdoch points; however, Vitter finds himself struggling against the weight of the examples highlighted by Mr. Williams. Quite funny actually:
US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned tail on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue to avoid a potential Republican challenger as they both marched in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday, her political opponent said.
Talk-radio producer Rich Valdes told The Post that he tried to challenge the freshman Democratic congresswoman to a debate on the merits of capitalism versus socialism when he spotted her near West 47th Street.
But Ocasio-Cortez “cut her handshaking short, jerked her hand back and jetted to the other side of the street,” Valdes said.
Clarence Thomas, an associate Supreme Court justice, has an exhibit dedicated to him in the Smithsonian’s African American Museum. But it’s, well, fake.“People can say things about you and for you that has nothing to do with you,” he said.(Tweets/Video) Take the exhibit. He said he met with some students who had visited the museum. “They said the exhibit said that my views on affirmative action result from my going to various schools in my youth. And the young woman, the young student said, ‘Well is that true?' I said, ‘No.’ They said, ‘Well, did they talk to you before they put that exhibit up?’ I said, ‘Nope.’
President Donald Trump said on Twitter Monday that he will continue to fight the establishment media, despite critics’ complaints.“I know it is not at all ‘Presidential’ to hit back at the Corrupt Media, or people who work for the Corrupt Media, when they make false statements about me or the Trump Administration,” Trump acknowledged on Twitter. “Problem is, if you don’t hit back, people believe the Fake News is true. So we’ll hit back!”Trump spent the weekend challenging a New York Times story reporting that his new deal with Mexico to help secure the border was already underway when he threatened economic tariffs on the country.
Lack of respect for juries can be very, very costly. The landmark jury verdict awarding $11 million (with the possibility of triple damages to come) to members of the Gibson Family, owners of a 5-generation bakery boycotted and slandered by students with the encouragement of a College official, is looking to be as much about social class as it is about the excesses social justice warriors (SJWs). (snip) Don’t accuse the jurors of disregarding the “clear evidence,”
Watergate criminal and disbarred lawyer John Dean will appear before the House Judiciary committee to testify about his view of the Mueller-Weissmann report. Just when buckets of fried chicken and endless grandstanding stunts weren’t enough, shameless Democrat Jerry Nadler’s Judiciary Committee is trying to revive the corpse of the Mueller inquisition with the ghost of Watergate.
NEW YORK - In a sign that a presidential hopeful's sexual orientation has diminished as a concern for voters, Americans are more likely to say they would reject a candidate older than 70 than a candidate who is gay, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll on Monday. The national opinion poll, conducted with the Williams Institute at UCLA ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and the birth of the LGBT rights movement, highlighted a steady trend toward acceptance of gay politicians. The survey also called attention to one of the challenges facing President Donald Trump, who will be
A teenage poster boy for bail reform who once spent more than a year on Rikers Island just landed back in a familiar place—the jail.
Over the weekend, teen trouble-magnet Pedro Hernandez was busted yet again, this time for reversing his car against traffic and blowing through several stop signs in a bid to evade Bronx cops, authorities said Sunday.
Hernandez—who became a cause célèbre of criminal-justice crusaders in 2016 after spending more than a year on Rikers Island while refusing to take a plea deal for a botched bodega robbery—was arrested Saturday morning for his alleged
A newly released Quinnipiac University Poll shows that that favorable feelings about the economy aren't helping President Donald Trump's approval ratings — even though the state of the economy is one of his favorite talking points. It also shows that Joe Biden has the highest favorability ratings among the Democratic field.
According to the poll, 71% of the voters say that the economy is "good" or "excellent," the highest proportion of favorable feelings on the economy in nearly 18 years of Quinnipiac's polling.
Last month's economic data showed that unemployment in the United States had fallen to 3.6%, a 50-year low. That said, 45% of voters disapproved
Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” CNN White House chief correspondent Jim Acosta revealed one his “regrets” in life is the media not standing together in solidarity.
Acosta lamented he has “missed some opportunities” to challenge President Donald Trump labeling the media “the enemy of the people.”
“You know, I wish at times that the press had been a bit more in solidarity with one another in standing up to this White House and saying, ‘Listen, ‘You know, the president can’t call us the enemy of the people. We’re not going to go along with that.’ Acosta told host Brian Stelter. “I think we’ve missed some opportunities here and there to challenge that.”
Pro-life activists in Connecticut say the fact that a bill intended to place faith-based pregnancy care centers under the thumb of the state attorney general died in the State Senate this week is miraculous. (Tweet) olfgang also told CT Mirror the death of the bill in the State Senate after it passed the House – with Democrat majorities in each chamber – was “an act of God.”
The bill, introduced by Democrats and lobbied for by abortion industry advocates such as NARAL, made the claim pro-life pregnancy centers engage in “deceptive advertising practices” that lure women into believing they offer abortions.
Failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed Saturday that one “cannot read” special counsel Robert Mueller’s report without concluding that President Donald Trump committed obstruction of justice.
“You cannot read the report, chapter and verse, fact after fact, without reaching those conclusions,” Clinton then stated the American public is expecting fatigue with respect to the media’s insistent covering of the special counsel’s findings and want to get on with their “normal lives.”
“People just want to quit hearing about it and get back to their normal lives. There is nothing normal about undermining the rule of law,” she said, per the Associated Press. “There is nothing normal about attacking the press.
This summer, PBS Kids premiered an episode of the children's show Arthur in which a teacher, Mr. Ratburn, "marries" another male character. Even before this premiere, PBS was already infusing the LGBT agenda into its programming. In between its shows, a happy song about families included an image of two dads with a baby and lyrics to that effect.
Disney and other children's stations long ago jumped onto the LGBT bandwagon with their line-up. As a Guardian headline noted in 2016, "From Nickelodeon to Disney: Children's TV leads the way for LGBT characters," with same-sex unions featuring prominently in shows. It is not just television,
Robert Mueller says he was able to pinpoint security company executive Erik Prince’s precise location for several hours in January 2017 by matching his mobile phone signal to a cell site near Trump Tower in New York City.The special counsel’s report discloses the use of this investigative technique, by which police determine a suspect’s location via a cellphone’s GPS signal.The Prince narrative is one instance in unredacted sections of the report in which Mr. Mueller’s team explicitly discloses cellphone tracking. It raises the question of whether the FBI applied the process to other investigative subjects — a phone’s GPS signal can disclose its exact location within a few feet.
On a sunny afternoon in 2010 a man stepped through the window of his San Francisco apartment onto a ledge, looked at the street below, and saw a cheering crowd taking cell phone videos while yelling: “Jump! Jump! Jump!” His death was collecting clicks on the web within seconds. This unsettling episode provides a grisly metaphorical glimpse at the motivation of the media as they continue to peddle impeachment. They know it would be political suicide for the Democrats because only a minority of voters supports removing the President, yet they crave the countless clicks and eyeballs the circus would inevitably produce.
A former senior adviser to President Barack Obama was among those who ridiculed Joe Biden on Sunday, after the former vice president celebrated his friendship with Obama by tweeting an image of a friendship bracelet.
"Happy #BestFriendsDay to my friend, @BarackObama," Biden wrote.
"This is a joke, right?" David Axelrod tweeted in response to Biden's original tweet, which many claimed was Biden's forced attempt to associate himself with the former president.(Tweet)Biden claimed in his memoirs that Obama repeatedly discouraged from running in 2016, believing that Biden's entrance into the race would unnecessarily "rock the boat."
The Open Border Extremists
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The extremism of the Democrats, their honed-to-a-fine-edge radicalism, is displayed almost daily on the subject of abortion. When anyone — like poor old Joe Biden — strays an inch on abortion, they’re quickly reined in as Biden was last week when he endorsed the Hyde Amendment and then was forced into a flip-flop.
Their extremism goes beyond abortion to other important issues such as illegal immigration. The Dems are committed to an extreme open borders position.
The Dems’ refusal to consider any legislation to stop the flow of illegal immigration across our southern border was, to their outrage, end-run by the president in his deal with Mexico last week. The deal resulted
The question from an audience member made the three network chiefs bristle:
Why aren’t the news media holding the White House accountable like they did during the Nixon/Watergate era?
One of the TV honchos, Susan Zirinsky, had the perfect background to answer.
“We are holding this White House accountable — this is our job every day,” she said, with conviction ringing in her voice.
But it may not seem that way to those members of the public who’d like President Trump’s lies and misdeeds to catch up with him the way Nixon’s eventually did, but foresee little hope of that.
Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said members of his party are united in their support of President Trump’s strategy of using tariffs to motivate Mexico to curb illegal immigration.
“The caucus definitely supports the president's use of tariffs to give us leverage against our trading partners to treat us fairly,” Johnson said on Fox News Sunday. ”This is out of control. That’s why the president had to act, because Mexico had not been acting.”
Lake Erie and Lake Superior — two of the five that make up the Great Lakes — broke records for water levels this May. Lakes Michigan and Huron could follow suit.
Naturally, climate change is getting the blame. “We are undoubtedly observing the effects of a warming climate in the Great Lakes,” says Richard Rood, a University of Michigan climate scientist.
But just a few years ago, climate scientists were insisting that a warming climate would cause water levels to decline.
In 2008, Science Daily reported on a study that attributed the decline in Great Lakes water levels to global warming.
AT readers don’t need to be introduced to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, the desperation measure concocted by the Democrats in an effort to make an end run around the Electoral College by pledging states to abide by the popular vote.Fourteen states, along with D.C., have so far passed the compact. One curious provision is that the compact does not go into effect until the number of electoral votes involved reaches 270 – a simple majority which would guarantee a candidate’s victory. The number of electoral votes controlled as of now is 189 – clearly, the promoters have been concentrating on large jurisdictions.The compact has 81 votes to go,
The Washington, D.C., professional class, both left and right, desperately wants a return to pre-Trump normalcy.
Never-Trump Republicans are boosting long shots like Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld to challenge the president in a primary election.
This nostalgia is most apparent, however, with the strong polling numbers of Joe Biden. So far, the progressive message of a new generation is being ignored for the old guard. Biden is crushing the other two dozen primary candidates, with his closest competitor, Bernie Sanders, garnering less than half his numbers.
This early in the campaign cycle, name recognition goes a long way. But Biden has only gained strength
Why Joe Biden Gets Away With It
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Joe Biden, the Democratic front-runner, has had a peculiar couple of weeks: The points on which he’s been historically weak—women’s rights, mass incarceration, and plagiarism—have surfaced again, as weak points are bound to do, but if his responses on all three fronts have muddied his record, they haven’t done much damage to his vaunted “electability.” He’s reiterated his support (before retracting it) of the Hyde Amendment, which prevents federal funds like Medicaid from paying for abortions. He’s defended his 1994 crime bill, which contributed (many believe) to America’s mass incarceration problem. Asked at a recent event whether he’d “commit to reducing the prison population by half,” Biden claimed
Chalk this one up to “everything is relative.” Someone who admires Nancy Pelosi and talks to her regularly assures me that, “She’s not one of the crazies.”
The praise, such as it was, aimed to persuade me that the Speaker is not off the rails like the Democratic lynch mob forming in the House.
That’s good to hear, but then why does Pelosi keep talking as if she’s in a banana republic? Doesn’t she realize she’s playing a dangerous game guaranteed to tear America further apart and spark a tit-for-tat escalation?
Twice in recent weeks she jacked up the temperature on the crazies’ obsession with impeaching President Trump.
Nineteen presidents-in-waiting will get five minutes apiece to address Iowa Democrats from a single stage on Sunday, seizing the chance to stand out from a pack of two dozen who want their party's nomination.The front-runner is marching to his own cadence, however: Former Vice President Joe Biden doesn't plan to be in the eastern Iowa town of Cedar Rapids to lock horns with the other polling leaders. Sunday's event, what political insiders describe as a 'cattle call,' is the first official one of its kind in the 2020 campaign season. The high-profile audition comes as Democratic White House hopefuls are jockeying for position on abortion rights, economic inequality, global warming,
Pacific Gas & Electric implemented a controversial practice of cutting power to selected portions of Northern California on Saturday to guard against wildfires as the weather turned very windy, dry and hot.
Electricity was turned off around 6 a.m. to 1,600 customers in parts Napa, Solano and Yolo counties. Just as that shutdown was called off, the utility warned 27,000 customers in Butte, Yuba, Nevada, El Dorado and Placer counties that their power would be cut from 9 p.m. through Sunday morning.
The end of the earlier shutdown was announced around 4 p.m., and the utility said power would be restored in those areas as soon as crews
Watergate figure John Dean front and center
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John Dean, the former White House counsel to Richard Nixon and a key figure in the Watergate scandal whom President Trump called a "sleazebag" on Sunday, is expected to be front and center on Capitol Hill on Monday, as House Democrats are set to begin a series of hearings this coming week seeking to keep the spotlight on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Although the week could end with Attorney General Bill Barr and former White House counsel Donald McGahn in contempt of Congress, no formal impeachment inquiry is on the table, and the way forward remains unclear. Prominent Democrats have continued to support the investigative "path" —
Baseball legend Pete Rose took a shot at his former teammate and Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench on Thursday during an appearance on “The Brian Kilmeade Show.”
Rose fired back after Bench refused to budge from his view that the former Cincinnati Reds star should be excluded from the Baseball Hall of Fame for gambling on the sport in 1989. “It don't bother me but you know Johnny Bench is one guy who should thank God I was born,” Rose told host Brian Kilmeade. “Because he never would have made the Hall of Fame if I wasn't born.”
CNN's Jim Acosta has made a household name for himself – and not in a good way. He has become the face of "fake news" and shoddy reporting. He's really great at breaking rules and pretending he's somehow the victim. Does his press pass being revoked for pushing an intern ring a bell? He's now using his experiences to write a "tell-all" type of book about what it's like reporting on the Trump administration. Acosta is releasing his new book, "The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America," on Tuesday. Immediately, people noticed something about the cover: (Tweets) Acosta kicked off his book
It's the end of an era. The Four Seasons restaurant, where the New York City power lunch was born, is closing.The famed restaurant is closing less than a year after it reopened in a new location. The New York Times reports that the midtown Manhattan restaurant known as the original power lunch destination will close Tuesday.The Four Seasons lost its home in the Seagram Building when developer Aby Rosen took over the landmark skyscraper in 2016. It reopened in August 2018 in a new location three blocks away.
WASHINGTON — President Trump called Nixon’s White House Counsel John Dean a “sleazebag” in a tweet Sunday. The president once again hammered Democrats for wanting a “Redo, or Do Over” on the heels of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation wrapping up. House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) is kicking off a series of Mueller-related hearings on Capitol Hill Monday with an appearance from Dean.He became a household name during the Watergate era, when as White House counsel he agreed to help prosecutors.He gave key testimony linking President Nixon to the burglary“They are even bringing in @CNN sleazebag attorney John Dean,” Trump commented. “Sorry, no Do Overs –
Fallujah Army vet David Bellavia
to be first living Medal of Honor
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to be first living Medal of Honor
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On Friday, the Army Times broke the news that the Silver Star Staff Sgt. David Bellavia received for his heroic actions in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004 is being upgraded to a Congressional Medal of Honor. The report, quickly picked up by several media outlets, was a bit of a departure from protocol, as the White House would normally be first to make such an announcement with a statement. The White House is expected to make the announcement sometime this week.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Nineteen presidential hopefuls auditioned Sunday afternoon in front of Iowa Democrats who will kick off the nomination process with the first-in-the-nation caucuses in 239 days.While they sang from the same songbook on abortion rights, combating climate change, limiting access to guns and providing health care to all Americans — and they were in perfect harmony in calling President Donald Trump the worst president in U.S. history — they weren’t always on the same page during their downtown Cedar Rapids performance. When it was over, it was clear that no candidate had sewed up the Iowa caucuses. But they all helped Democrats better understand
Imagine being arrested and losing your home after two repeat burglars break into your house again and rush toward you with the possible intention of murdering you. This exact scenario played out in New York late last month thanks to the far-left state’s draconian gun control laws.
A 64-year-old Deerfield homeowner was charged with illegal firearm possession and arrested after he used a gun he’d inherited from his deceased father to kill two repeat burglars. Then upon his release from a jail a couple of days later, he found himself homeless because his house had been condemned.
Democratic California Rep. Eric Swalwell claimed his place among superheroes like Marvel’s Avengers Sunday, saying that he and the other 2020 Democratic candidates were poised to save America.Speaking in Cedar Rapids at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Hall of Fame event, Swalwell argued that the 2016 GOP primary was more like “The Hunger Games.” WATCH: (Video) “Thank you, Iowa. Congratulations to tonight’s honorees. Welcome to my fellow candidates,” Swalwell said as he walked onto the stage. “Whom I consider — we are all a part of being The Avengers. The Republicans in 2016, that was ‘The Hunger Games.'” “We are in this with your help and support to save this country
This is one way the U.S. media works to try to keep President Trump’s poll numbers down: Not reporting favorable images of President Trump like the ones from last week where he was warmly greeted and serenaded by Irish children during his visit to Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland last week. (Photos) The Irish and UK media reported on Trump meeting the 27 children from Clohanes National School along with several of their teachers near the ninth hole of the Trump International Golf Links, Doonbeg resort on Friday.Trump took a break from his round of golf and went over to where the children were gathered, many of them holding American flags,
Sacramento, Calif. — California will become the first state in the country to pay for some adults living in the country illegally to have full health benefits as the solidly liberal state continues to distance itself from President Trump’s administration. Democrats in the state Legislature reached an agreement Sunday afternoon as part of a broader plan to spend $213 billion of state and federal tax money over the next year. The agreement means low-income adults between the ages of 19 and 25 living in California illegally would be eligible for California’s Medicaid program, the joint state and federal health insurance program