Posts on Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Oberlin College has taken a public relations beating in the wake of the massive verdicts against it and its Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo in the Gibson’s Bakery case. (Snip) The stories are too numerous to list, but there has been widespread criticism of Oberlin College’s conduct. What Oberlin College wants to do is now (in addition to winning an appeal) is not to become the next Mizzou or Evergreen State, where unsavory social justice warfare by faculty and staff, egging on students, cause enrollments to collapse. Oberlin College, already suffering from weak enrollment numbers, faces that real possibility.
A gun-wielding grandmother in Alabama confronted a wanted man in her driveway on Monday after he crashed a stolen car near her home, according to investigators.
Marcia Black, 75, said she pointed a rifle at the suspect while her 15-year-old granddaughter called 911.
“I was just calm as can be. I knew I was in control,” the grandmother-of-four told WAAY-TV on Tuesday.
Investigators said Cameron Powers came to Black’s home in Limestone County, west of Huntsville.
“I walked out and said, ‘Can I help you?’ He said, ‘Yes ma’am, I’d like to use your phone,” Black said.
A stunning new image constructed from surface maps has revealed a close-up look at the otherworldly features on the surface of Ceres. NASA’s now-retired Dawn spacecraft reached the dwarf planet in 2015, making it the first to visit an object of this kind.And, it uncovered many peculiarities.The strange looking mountain in the latest image featured on NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day highlights one such oddity; while it’s unclear what exactly spurred its formation, experts suspect it may be evidence of a mud bubble from deep inside the planet that froze over after breaching the surface.Scroll down for video
The Communist Party of the USA will celebrate its 100th birthday this weekend in Chicago, at a conference replete with questions about what the future holds for the organization when national Democrats already embrace some of its most coveted goals. The talk in the run-up to the conference includes questions on whether Communists should embrace Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal—a resounding “yes”—and whether China finally has succeeded with the socialist experiment. Once in town, party members will vote on resolutions on expanding voting rights, legalizing illegal immigrants and opposing Republicans in the 2020 elections
Jackson Cosko, a former aide to Senator Maggie Hassan and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, is headed to prison on Wednesday. Cosko is responsible for doxxing GOP senators during the Kavanaugh hearings last fall. The former aide, Jackson Cosko, pleaded guilty in April to crimes related to an unparalleled effort to ransack a Senate office, extorting a Democratic senator, illegally harming Republicans for their political views, and blackmailing a witnes Prosecutors asked for nearly five years in prison for Cosko, a onetime congressional IT aide to Hassan. Cosko admitted he stole the New Hampshire Democrat’s data out of revenge for being fired, then used it
The Trump administration on Wednesday finished its repeal of the Clean Power Plan, the heart of the Obama-era climate legacy, and replaced it with a rule that extends a lifeline to the coal industry by giving states more leeway on reducing power plant emissions. The replacement, the Affordable Clean Energy rule, places the focus on improving efficiency in the U.S. electricity grid. It puts states in charge of developing plans to lower greenhouse gases and allows flexibility to upgrade coal-fired generation.(Snip) “Rather than Washington telling Americans what type of energy they can use, or how they can travel,
After 18 people were killed in South Bend during the summer of 2012, Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D.) declared the city "unacceptably violent" and announced a data-driven anti-violence commission to combat the problem."We have to send the message that one violent crime in our city is one too many. We cannot tolerate another summer like last summer," Buttigieg said during his 2013 State of the City speech.Composed of a group of community leaders and overseen by Police Chief Ron Teachman, the South Bend Group Violence Intervention sought to use both community
A black writer for The New York Times, apparently incensed that other blacks might not support the move toward reparations for American slavery, ripped the black witnesses testifying against reparations, tweeting that the witnesses “have no apparent qualifications other than being black.” (Video)As The College Fix notes, New York Times writer Jamelle Bouie, formerly chief political correspondent for Slate Magazine, was infuriated by the idea of former NFL player Burgess Owens and Columbia University philosophy major
Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Art Laffer. FOX Business’ Trish Regan talks to former Reagan economist Art Laffer after President Trump awarded him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.President Trump Opens a New Window. values his opinion, just as President Ronald Reagan did throughout the 1980s. On Wednesday, Art Laffer, 78, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, at the White House in a ceremony hosted by longtime friend President Trump. A champion of low taxes and tax cuts, he has earned a reputation that has made him one of America’s most noted economic advisers to several U.S. presidents.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is asked why Democrats are unable to pack arenas with supporters like President Trump in an interview Tuesday night with CNN's Chris Cuomo.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN: Let's call it more MAGA or MAGA 2.0, whatever you want, the Amway Center in Orlando tonight is filled with a throng of cheering Trump supporters as this President tries to generate enthusiasm for his re-election bid.
Quinnipiac today shows him trailing multiple top Democratic candidates in crucial battleground states. But remember, he was trailing in the polls in key states last time, and won.
Millions of dollars raised for “freedom and democracy” in Venezuela ended up spent in Colombia by the aides of US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido, and were exposed by Colombian spies in yet another blow to his cause.
Guaido declared himself “interim president” of Venezuela in January and was recognized by the US and many of its Latin American allies, but has repeatedly failed to seize power from President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas.
Now he seems farther from that goal than ever, as several of his aides have been named by Colombian intelligence in a leak revealing the embezzlement of US funds intended for paying Venezuelan army defectors.
Recently, a dear friend said to me, “the problem is not the regime. It is the system. I agree. The problem is the system.
Once you are a part of the system, it corrupts you. The system compels you to compromise your principles. It seduces you, captivates you, and offers to put currency bills in your pocket. It is the system.
Cucuta
Something happened in Cucuta a while ago. There was a lot of noise around it. All sides were accusing each other, and the information seemed implausible and was unconfirmed. I received news about the money coming to Cucuta,
Now the president has escalated his attacks even further, accusing the Times of a crime so grave it is punishable by death. On Saturday, Mr. Trump said the Times had committed “a virtual act of treason.” The charge, levied on Twitter , was in response to an article about American cyber incursions into the Russian electrical grid that his own aides had assured our reporters raised no national-security concerns. Few paid much attention. Many news organizations, including the Times, determined the accusation wasn’t even worth reporting, a sign of how inured we’ve grown to such rhetorical recklessness.
What kind of a creep is MSNBC contributor David Jolly making himself into?
Here's the Daily Beast, reporting the former Republican's remarks about young Kyle Kashuv, the Parkland shooting survivor whose place at Harvard was rescinded based on racist remarks he wrote as a 16 year-old, on the leftist network:
Reacting to Harvard’s decision to pull Parkland shooting survivor and right-wing pundit Kyle Kashuv’s admission over past racial slurs, former Republican Rep. David Jolly asserted Tuesday that the racist messages Kashuv sent to classmates were the hallmarks of a mass shooter.
A series of polls show President Donald Trump has improved his standing in several key Rust Belt states ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Firehouse Strategies released surveys of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania on Tuesday indicating Trump is holding his own when matched against several of his potential Democrat opponents. These three states were key to President Trump’s victory in 2016. If Trump had lost each of them, he would not have had more than 270 electoral votes and would not have won the presidency.
Former Vice President Joe Biden praised two arch segregationists that he served with in the Senate Democrat Conference for their “civility” on Tuesday.
Biden, the current 2020 Democrat front runner, told a group of donors gathered for a fundraiser at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City it was vital the next president “be able to reach consensus under our system.” To explain why he was the best candidate in that regard, Biden fondly cited his history of working with two of the Senate’s arch segregationists, the late-Sens. James Eastland (D-MS) and Herman Talmadge (D-GA).
Far-left documentary filmmaker Michael Moore informed his 6 million Twitter followers Wednesday that he watched President Trump’s reelection speech and asked fellow resisters if they are ready to take on Trump’s “fired-up insane base.” The Fahrenheit 11/9 filmmaker told his followers that he watched Trump’s reelection speech in its entirety in order to get a good look at the “enormity of the fight ahead.” Michael Moore was seemingly incensed by President Trump’s massive crowd of supporters. “He hasn’t lost one inch of his fired-up insane base,” Moore said.
NFL legend and Super Bowl Champion Burgess Owens, does not agree with the Democrats about much. However, he does agree with them about reparations, except he believes the Democrats should be the only ones who have to pay them. During stirring testimony in front of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Reparations, Owens blasted the Democratic Party “for all the misery” they’ve brought to blacks; citing everything from the party’s support of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow laws, and abortion. Watch: (Tweet/Video) The testimony was in stark contrast to that of other speakers,
Wow! Former NFL Star Burgess Owens
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Democrats in Congress are once again attempting to use race to divide and conquer in a move that has nothing to do with right and wrong and everything to do with increasing their own power and influence over the American people. Watch and listen as former NFL star Burgess Owens, the descendant of slaves breaks down the hypocrisy and dishonesty of these Democrats and gives them all a much-needed history lesson. This is the perfect example of TRUTH speaking to power. This is the true history our public schools and universities refuse to teach.
The Democrat Party has spent
President Trump kicked off his re-election campaign Tuesday night with a rousing rally in Florida that culminated with the president raking in a stunning $24.8 million in less than 24 hours.“@realDonaldTrump has raised a record breaking $24.8M in less than 24 hours for his re-election. The enthusiasm across the country for this President is unmatched and unlike anything we’ve ever seen! #trump2020 #KeepAmericaGreat,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted early Wednesday morning.
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This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Calcutta-born NYU journalism professor Suketu Mehta takes pro-immigration polemics to their logical conclusion: “Immigration as reparations.” Historically white countries must open their borders because whites have sinned and deserve punishment. But just lie back and think of diversity:
Indeed, a huge bill is coming due to the West. And it is one that the West is not only morally obligated to pay, but one that it should look forward to paying.
“We must stop asking what the Earth can do for us,” newly elected President Jay Inslee concluded in his inaugural address, “and start considering what we must do for the Earth.”
Inslee had launched his campaign two years earlier as a longshot, single-issue candidate. But events rapidly outpaced what had begun as a boutique candidacy intended to call attention to climate change.
In the spring of 2020, another record Mississippi River flood, a brutal tornado season, drought in the Northwest, and a series of damaging thunderstorms in the Northeast brought battleground primary states into Inslee’s camp. As Democrats gathered for their convention in Milwaukee that July,
When the final chapter of the Russia collusion caper is written, it is likely two seminal documents the FBI used to justify investigating Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign will turn out to be bunk.
And the behavior of FBI agents and federal prosecutors who promoted that faulty evidence may disturb us more than we now know.
The first, the Christopher Steele dossier, has received enormous attention. And the more scrutiny it receives, the more its truthfulness wanes. Its credibility has declined so much that many now openly question how the FBI used it to support a surveillance warrant against the Trump campaign in October 2016.
This is interesting… but not simply because of the surface visibility. Yesterday there was an event in Charlotte, North Carolina, that brought together Apple CEO Tim Cook, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Workforce policy advocate Ivanka Trump and U.S. CoC President Tom Donohue (on the margin).
Today, Apple Inc announces a restructuring of their supply chain away from China. In the media report notice the nations that likely stand to gain, and reference Trump’s 2017 golden ticket tour of Asia.
Most Democrats see economic inequality as a problem, but they don’t always agree about how extreme wealth should be treated. This question sharpened that debate: candidates like Kamala Harris and Amy Klobuchar said they did not object to people amassing vast fortunes, while others, like Bernie Sanders and Kirsten Gillibrand, called it offensive.
It’s sometimes hard to know if the folks at The New York Times are simply trolling us or if they’re completely serious. Times reporter Kevin Roose spun quite a yarn last Sunday entitled, “The Making of a YouTube Radical.” By radical, he and his paper mean those free-thinking Americans whose ideas lack the proper vetting from, well, them. Those that require censorship.
Joe Biden, recalling the "civility" of the Senate in the 1970s and ’80s, on Tuesday touted his experience working with two segregationist Southern senators to get "things done" — drawing an immediate rebuke from Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, who is married to an African American woman and has an interracial family. (Snip) Another Democratic candidate, Sen. Cory Booker, who is African American, called on Biden to apologize. "You don't joke about calling black men ‘boys.’ Men like James O. Eastland used words like that, and the racist policies that accompanied them, to perpetuate white supremacy and strip
Thousands of President Trump's supporters reveled in the raucous start to his 2020 reelection campaign last night. But around 150 folks in and around Orlando's Amway Center weren't having very much fun at all.Namely, the agents and officers of the U.S. Secret Service. Because for those public servants and their compatriots across the nation, two factors will make the 2020 campaign a particular protective challenge: scale and emotion.The scale issue is already clear. At least 24 Democrats are presently competing to be their party's nominee. While some will inevitably drop out long before next summer's Democratic convention, a good number will remain in the race at least
Sarah Huckabee Sanders may be following in her father’s footsteps — with a run for governor of Arkansas, according to a report on Wednesday.The outgoing White House press secretary and those in her inner circle have been making calls to GOP donors and operatives in her home state, the outlet reports, as she begins to plan her first post-DC career move, Politico reported.Last Thursday, John Gilmore, political strategist for Arkansas’ current governor, Republican Asa Hutchinson, tweeted that two websites that could be used for a campaign were registered anonymously on the same day in May, SarahforGovernor.com and SarahforArkansas.com.Sanders’ father, Mike Huckabee,
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed off comments made by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez equating border facilities for migrants to “concentration camps” by saying she wasn’t “up to date” on what the New York freshman said. “These members of Congress, they come to represent their districts and their point of view and they take responsibility for the statements that they make,” Pelosi told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast when asked specifically about AOC’s comments and whether the speaker had talked to her young members about the “power of their words.” “I’m not up to date with her most recent remarks,” Pelosi added.
Actor Billy Baldwin blames teen suicide
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Actor Billy Baldwin raised eyebrows Wednesday after he blamed the recent spike in suicides among young people on President Trump. “#TrumpEffect,” Mr. Baldwin, the second-youngest of the four Baldwin brothers, tweeted. “You think I’m kidding? Kids today are living in a constant state of chaos because of this jackass.” The “Northern Rescue” star was responding to a CNN article citing a new report that said the suicide rate among 15- to 24-year-olds climbed in 2017 to its highest point since 2000, with the highest spike among 15- to 19-year-olds and young men. The research, which was published
“What’s your pitch to the swing voter on the fence?” ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked President Trump on Sunday. Questions of this sort are gifts to politicians, but interviewers ask them for a couple of reasons. One, they’re civic-minded. Politicians deserve the opportunity to make their cases straightforwardly — and voters deserve to hear them. Second, they save time. (Snip) Trump’s initial answer started off following the standard script. He got four words off that must have had his political advisors cheering, “Safety, security, great economy.” Ideally, this is where Trump should have stopped talking.
Donald Trump Jr. kicked off President Trump’s reelection rally in Orlando Tuesday evening taking aim at Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden’s “vested interest” in China and declaring that “Floppy Joe” no longer knows “what the hell he stands for anymore.”
Don Jr. warmed up the crowd with a speech reminiscent of his father’s, knocking the media and Democrats alike. He took aim at “Floppy Joe’s” squishy position on China specifically, (Snip)
“Two weeks ago Joe Biden said, ‘Oh. China. They’re not really a threat.’ Now, I said, ‘Man, that actually rivals and may surpass Obama’s stupidest comment in the
The closed-door interview that House lawmakers have with Hope Hicks, a former communications director for President Donald Trump, marks the first time they are hearing from someone linked to his inner circle since the release of special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
Obtaining the testimony Wednesday from Hicks, a close and trusted former Trump aide, is a significant victory for Democrats, given that Trump has broadly stonewalled their investigations.
A black parolee arrested for raping and bashing a white woman on the roof of his Bronx apartment building allegedly told a witness that she “deserved” the brutal attack because of slavery, according to court papers.
“She was a white girl. She deserved it because us minorities have been through slavery,” Temar Bishop, 23, allegedly said to someone who witnessed the bloodied 20-year-old woman after the assaults, according to a criminal complaint.
“This is what they used to do to us. This is what they did to us during slavery. They used to beat us and whip us.”
Phoenix police have released surveillance footage of the alleged shoplifting incident that led to a dramatic on-camera confrontation between officers and a local black couple and their kids.
The CCTV footage allegedly shows Dravon Ames swiping a package of underwear and his 4-year-old daughter taking a doll on May 27 at the Family Dollar Store.
The alleged shoplifting incident is what prompted officers with the Phoenix Police Department to draw their guns on Ames and his fiancée, Iesha Harper, in front of the couple’s two young kids.
This New Jersey fisherman had a “Jaws”-dropping encounter.
Jeff Crilly was out on his boat the “Big Nutz Required II” with some pals Monday when a great white shark swam up to the stem of the boat and grabbed a bag of chum, in a tale reminiscent of the 1976 blockbuster “Jaws.”
“Whoah! This thing is huge!” the group can be heard yelling in a video of the incident posted by Crilly on Facebook.
Washington - President Donald Trump kicked off his formal reelection campaign Tuesday night with a rally in Orlando. His 76-minute speech featured more than 15 false statements, many of them ones that he's repeated frequently in the past. Here's a fact check: Energy- Trump boasted about his administration's energy policies. (Snip) “The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.”
Democratic senator's wife to Biden:
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Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal journalist married to Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, slammed Joe Biden for hailing his relationships with segregationist senators as examples of “civility.” Schultz said Biden’s comments show he should not replace President Trump in the White House. “There is no punchline here, no emoji or funny meme to soften the harm of your words. That segregationist never called you ‘boy’ because you are white. If you want to boast about your relationship with a racist, you are not who we need to succeed the racist in the White House,” she tweeted Wednesday.
Joe Biden has always gotten away with being Joe Biden.
This was true when he was President Barack Obama’s vice president, and it was true for his decades in the Senate.
“That’s just Joe being Joe,” reporters, politicians and commentators would say with a chuckle whenever Biden said something outrageous or awkward,(Snip)
But what happens if Joe stops being Joe?
What if he starts being no different from his 20-plus competitors? One month after Biden rolled out a near-perfect presidential announcement, bookending his tour in his home state of Pennsylvania, Biden started to become a little
It seems fitting that the Democratic National Committee chose Miami to host the first debates of the 2020 presidential campaign. Given that many of the candidates appearing on stage have endorsed a single-payer health care plan, the debates’ location epitomizes how government-run care will lead to a massive increase in fraud and corruption.
In South Florida, defrauding government health care programs doesn’t just qualify as a cottage industry — it’s big business. (Snip) Medicare fraud “has pushed aside cocaine as the major criminal enterprise.” One former fraudster admitted that likely thousands of businesses in the Miami area
Mexico pledges 6K troops to help
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Mexico is planning to deploy thousands of troops to its southern border amid heightened pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on the Central American migrant crisis. According to Mexican officials Monday, the country has already sent over 400 military personnel to the town of Tapachula near its border with Guatemala this past week.“Since Saturday 426 soldiers from the National Guard have arrived in Tapachula,” announced Maximilano Reyes, Mexican Undersecretary of State for Latin America and the Caribbean. “President Obrador and the Foreign Minister have said that 6,000 will be sent in total, but that does not mean that all 6,000 are going to disembark here.
President Donald John Trump kicked off his re-election campaign in Orlando tonight. Rush Limbaugh pointed out earlier than twice as many people wanted to see the president than went to Disney World today.
It was rock 'em, sock 'em time again. It was 80 minutes of Rolling Thunder.
Mike Pence warmed up the crowd, as if Donald Trump needed the help. Pence said, "Thanks to the leadership of President Donald Trump, America is back and we're just getting started ... But to keep America great, we have to re-elect a president who's been fighting for you every day."
Tariffs work. President Donald John Trump told Mexico to stop exporting illegal aliens or start paying a tariff on all its other exports.
Mexico chose the former.
Agencia EFE is a Spanish international news agency. Using Google Translate, here is some of its report. (The original Spanish version is here.)
The headline said, "Mexico toughens immigration control on its southern border with the National Guard."
From the story, "The Plan of Attention and Development for Migrants from Central America has been deployed by 50% and is expected to be completed next weekend, Maximiliano Reyes Zúñiga, assistant secretary for Latin America
The New York City Council and Mayor Bill De Blasio (D-N.Y.) agreed on Friday to a New York City 2020 Budget that would allocate $250,000 to the New York Abortion Access Fund, a non-profit abortion organization that helps arrange transportation for poor women seeking an abortion to more abortion-friendly states, reported the New York Times.
“This initiative not only makes New York the first city in the nation to directly fund abortion services, but also lets any American who is facing increasing abortion restrictions in their home state know that they can come and get the services they need in the Five Boroughs,” said city councilwoman Carlina Rivera (D-N.Y.)
As we noted on Day #1, if we watch how Beijing scripts the messaging we should be able to identify if Chairman Xi Jinping is taking the dragon approach toward his captive Kim Jong Un, or if Xi would instead reshape the geopolitics by announcing his release of Kim as a hostage: The magnanimous panda approach. [Critical Background HERE and HERE]
It looks like we have an answer today as Chairman Xi writes a personal op-ed, published on the front page of North Korea’s state newspaper, where Xi is releasing Kim from proxy province captivity:
Woe unto him who makes an unsanctioned visit to his quarantined llama. He could soon find himself up to his neck in federal charges. In America’s early days, the law was fairly simple. The Constitution specifies just three federal crimes: piracy, counterfeiting and treason. Since then, however, the number of no-no’s has expanded by the millions, encompassing everything from how many beers you can drink while riding a bike in a national park (zero) to what shape margarine pats must be served in restaurants if they aren’t clearly labeled as margarine. (For God’s sake, triangles! A Hartford, Connecticut, restaurant owner was arrested in 1952 for serving square pats of margarine.)
The massive compensatory and punitive damage jury verdicts in favor of Gibson’s Bakery and its owners Allyn W. Gibson and David Gibson, against Oberlin College and Dean of Students Meredith Raimondo, continue to reverberate.(Snip) Yet think of the jury verdict as the end of the beginning. The most legally dangerous territory for the Gibsons is ahead. The facts of the case were so strong for the Gibsons that in some ways the easiest part is behind them. Now they need to protect what they have earned from numerous legal dangers.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has highlighted his ability to do business with people all political persuasions, citing how he had worked with two prominent segregationists. The frontrunner for the 2020 Democrat ticket was speaking at a fundraiser in New York's Carlyle Hotel where he referred to Senators James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, whom he worked with during a 36-year Senate stint. Eastland, who died in 1986 aged 81, vehemently opposed integration and thought black people belonged to "an inferior race." He also feared a "mongrelization" of the races, The New York Times reported. Biden recounted
The Moral Case for Capitalism
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Presidential candidates and the media keep telling people "it's immoral" that a few rich people have so much more money than everyone else.
They talk as if it doesn't matter what the rich did to get the money. Instead, the fact that they are rich is itself immoral.
Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute says this is lunacy. "They want to condemn the people that actually have moved civilization forward," Brook complains. "People who improved the standard of living for everybody on the planet."
Everybody? How is that possible? Isn't there a certain amount of money in the world, so that
Yoo-Hoo, FoxNews and overzealous polling friends, the best poll of them all transpired before our very eyes last night when President Donald Trump and family launched his 2020 Re-election bid, in president-proud Orlando, Florida. Some 20,000 patriots cheered the president on at the packed-house Amway Center. But that’s not counting the throngs of thousands gathered outside, some of whom waited up to 40 hours in humid and rainy weather.
President Trump last night clearly signaled that his re-election campaign is going to be built on not just his track record of accomplishments – standard stuff for any re-election campaign – but something quite unusual – an attack on the conspiracy against his presidency that generated the Russia Hoax. (snip) POTUS has a Trump card (forgive me the pun): the forthcoming Inspector General’s report and the indictments that may be forthcoming from US Attorney Durham. In fact, because Trump talks to AG Barr who is supervising Durham’s probe, it is highly probable that he knows something about what lies ahead courtesy of a grand jury sitting in Hartford
Four people will be charged with murder and causing the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, five years after the plane was shot down in eastern Ukraine killing 298 people, international investigators said Wednesday.
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said it would issue national and international arrest warrants Wednesday for the four suspects. Three Russians, Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinskiy and Oleg Pulatov, were named, along with Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko.
According to investigators, Girkin is a former colonel of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), Dubinskiy was employed by Russia's military intelligence agency GRU and Pulatov was a former soldier of the Russian special forces, Spetsnaz-GRU.
President Trump held his 2020 campaign kick-off rally in Orlando, Florida Tuesday night to a massive, overflow crowd. First Lady Melania Trump stunned in Orlando on Tuesday evening in a bright yellow jumpsuit with a gold belt. The President and First Lady walked into Amway Center to a standing ovation — the First Lady was beaming as she waved to the crowd of Trump supporters. WATCH: (Video/Tweet) First Lady Melania proudly introduced her husband and the Orlando crowd went wild.
“It has been my honor to serve as first lady
With the arrival of summer, clergy at our synagogue have declared the beginning of "casual Shabbat." Until autumn, we are invited to attend services in casual attire, or coats and tie if we prefer. This is not uncommon at liberal congregations.
Just come, they say.
I find the practice distasteful. Here's why:
First, we dress formally, in coat and tie, out of respect.
Just like in 2016, President Trump appears ready to make Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails an election issue in 2020.
“Just compare how they came after us for three years, with everything they have, versus the free pass they gave to Hillary and her aides after they set up an illegal server, destroyed evidence, deleted and acid-washed 33,000 emails, exposed classified information,” Trump told a raucous crowd in Orlando on Tuesday night. “Thirty-three thousand emails! But let’s see what happens.”
Those with big egos tend to be overly sensitive to criticism, and well, judging by the way the folks at CNN reacted Tuesday evening to President Donald Trump’s presidential election re-launch, they must have egos bigger than life itself.As the crowd began chanting “CNN sucks” and the president panned the media for their poor ratings, the left-wing network quickly cut away from the rally to begin its daily airing of grievances. Some reports suggest that MSNBC also cut away from the event. Our President is speaking In Florida, but you can’t watch it on CNN or MSNBC.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sought to deflect attention from her "concentration camp" remarks on Tuesday by feigning outrage at Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) after Cheney correctly stated the horrors of the Holocaust.(Video) Cheney blasted Ocasio-Cortez early on Tuesday after Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed in a late night Instagram live video on Monday that the Trump administration was operating "concentration camps" on the southern border. "Please @AOC do us all a favor and spend just a few minutes learning some actual history," Cheney tweeted to Ocasio-Cortez. "6 million Jews were exterminated in the Holocaust. You demean their memory and disgrace yourself with comments like this."
During the kick-off campaign rally in Orlando Florida, President Donald Trump delivered a farewell tribute to a “warrior”, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. During the first two years of the administration Sarah Sanders has stood firmly in support of President Trump and fearlessly faced a hostile and ideologically corrupt media. Tonight Trump supporters had the opportunity to say thank you. The crowd delivered a rousing standing ovation while shouting: “Sarah, Sarah, Sarah”…. WATCH:
The Democratic Party “has become more radical, more dangerous, and more unhinged than at any point in the modern history of our country,” President Trump said on Tuesday night.In a no-holds-barred speech in Orlando, Florida kicking off his re-election campaign, Trump lashed out at the Democratic Party, hitting it particularly hard on the issue of border security.“No matter what label they use, a vote for any Democrat in 2020 is a vote for the rise of radical socialism and the destruction of the American dream,” he told the packed 20,000-seat Amway Center, where according to local media some supporters had been lining up since Monday morning.
President Trump's rally on Tuesday to officially launch his 2020 campaign for re-election was a tour-de-force. The twenty thousand people in the arena, along with the thousands of people outside watching on jumbo screens were all on the same page: He has been a great President these past two and a half years and they want more of the same. The crowd was excited, happy, and phenomenally supportive of the President, much to the chagrin of the angry left. And boy are they angry. They have lost any semblance of tolerance or open-mindedness. The radicalized American Left is now motivated by one thing,
Few have ever heard of “Health Reimbursement Accounts,” but they could fundamentally change the nation’s health care system — for the better — and destroy the Democrats’ case for socialized health care.
Late last week, the Trump administration finalized rules that will let companies put money into tax-exempt HRAs that their employees could then used to buy an individual insurance plan on their own. Seems like no big deal, right? Except it will start to unravel a 77-year-old policy mistake that is largely responsible for many of the problems the health care system suffers today.
Perhaps hearing the footsteps of Attorney General Bill Barr, U.S. Atty John Durham, and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz getting closer, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe crawled out from the rock he had been hiding under long enough last Thursday night to appear on CNN with Chris Cuomo. Like his yet unindicted co-conspirator and boss in the Russia “collusion delusion” coup attempt against President Trump, former FBI Director James Comey, McCabe sought to mask his own real crimes while joining the media frenzy over President Trump’s suggestion that he would at least listen to a foreign source reporting to have “dirt” on an opponent
Why haven't efforts to impeach President Trump gained Watergate-style momentum? The lack of energy has created a sense of bafflement and disappointment among some of the president's most determined adversaries. But there are some simple reasons for it. Here are three:
1.) The facts are different. In Watergate, the underlying crime was a break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters, perpetrated by burglars paid by President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign. The scandal proceeded from there. In Trump-Russia, the underlying crime was the hacking of the DNC's and John Podesta's emails — a crime committed by Russians in Russia. Special counsel Robert Mueller, who indicted a number of Russians and Russian entities
Happy 70th birthday, fake Indian!
Elizabeth Warren’s big day is Saturday, and I’ll bet this is news to you. But I think the imminent 7-0 explains the recent torrent of fawning puff pieces Lieawatha has gotten in the alt-left media over the last few days.
These next 72 hours are her hagiographers’ last chance not to have to lump her in there, actuarially anyway, with the other wrinkly septuagenarians on the Democrat side, Joe Biden, age 76, and Bernie Sanders, age 77.
These slobbering kisses she’s been collecting in recent days are actually the second break she’s gotten on the old-folks candidate front.
Democratic presidential hopefuls have been reluctant to attack Joseph R. Biden Jr. over his eight years with President Barack Obama, but voters in early primary states say it’s an opportunity for anyone brave enough to challenge the Obama orthodoxy.
While the Democratic base still harbors enormous goodwill toward the country’s first black president, some early state voters say Mr. Obama failed to deliver on many of his promises, leaving the political battleground virtually unchanged a decade after his historic ascent to the White House.
“We saw what happened with Obama. There’s no change yet,” said Democratic voter Derryl Mitchell II, 27, who owns a media marketing firm in Charleston, South Carolina.
More than 200 men in black suits sit in a conference hall in a Baltimore hotel. On folding tables in front of them hundreds of pieces of paper are scattered and pitchers of water are placed at regular intervals. Two tables raised in the front are lined with people apparently in charge, each with a microphone. Everyone has a name tag, hung around his neck on a green lanyard. At a glance, you might think it’s a regional gathering of some professional association of paper salesmen, hotel managers, maybe even low-caliber lawyers. Only a careful look at their collars will show that these men are the apostolic shepherds,
Politics is about power, how to get it and how to keep it.
Politics is about mobilizing votes.
It should come as no surprise that candidates can say one thing on one day and another on another day because they will say whatever needs to be said to appeal to the electorate.
Joe Biden instantaneously flip flops on abortion. Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were as much against illegal immigration as is Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton was once against gay marriage.
In totalitarian societies, the truth is what the dictator says at any given moment. In democratic societies, the truth is what the mass public wants to hear at any given moment.
1. The Disappearance at 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH. The flight number was 370. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the airplane. He was 27 years old. This was a training flight for him, the last one; he would soon be fully certified. His trainer was the pilot in command, a man named Zaharie Ahmad Shah, who at 53 was one of the most senior captains at Malaysia Airlines. In Malaysian style,
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom formally apologized Tuesday and pushed the state to reckon with California’s dark history of violence, mistreatment and neglect of Native Americans, saying it amounted to genocide.
The Democratic governor met with tribal leaders at the future site of the California Indian Heritage Center, where he also announced the creation of a council to examine the state’s role in campaigns of extermination and exploitation.
Throughout history, the California government was key to efforts to remove and kill Native Americans who lived on land that would become part of what is now the world’s fifth-largest economy.
“Genocide.
“The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border. That is what they are.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In April 1944, two Slovakian Jews named Alfred Weczler and Rudolf Vrba escaped from Auschwitz, and provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the horrors of the European concentration camps. Both men had been rounded up with a group of their countrymen and sent to the Birkenau section of the camp in the spring of 1941, where they were immediately put to work as slave labor. This was before the German regime had properly streamlined and industrialized efforts to destroy European Jewry. In the early days of the camp, any man
Comments from two U.S. senators -- one a Democrat and the other a Republican -- appeared to illustrate Tuesday how far apart the two parties are on the proposal of reparations for the descendants of American slaves.
U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., one of three African-Americans in the U.S. Senate, is expected to argue Wednesday that the nation hasn’t fully come to grips with “the racism and white supremacy that tainted” the nation's founding, according to remarks prepared for his scheduled Wednesday appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
“As a nation, we have yet to truly acknowledge and grapple with the racism and white supremacy
Fox News Channel attracted more prime-time viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined last week, adding to its streak as the most-watched basic cable network.
Fox News averaged 2.3 million viewers during the hours of 8-11 p.m. ET from June 10-16, while MSNBC finished second with an average of 1.5 million. HGTV, A&E and USA joined them among the top five, while CNN averaged just 744,000 to finish 14th.
Discovery, TNT, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, TBS, Hallmark and the History Channel also finished with more prime-time viewers than the struggling CNN.
State law for decades has placed the director of Hennepin County's massive library system on the top shelf.
Lawmakers decided nearly 40 years ago that Hennepin should be the state's only county where applicants for the top library job needed a master's degree in library and information science.
But recent efforts to recruit a new Hennepin library director found the law resulted in a limited pool of candidates with little diversity.(Snip) Their concerns were based on the demands visited upon the head of a large government department who oversees 41 branch libraries, 835 employees and an $88 million budget.