Posts on Tuesday, June 25, 2019
Insurgent lefty candidate Tiffany Cabán declared victory over establishment favorite Melinda Katz for Queens District Attorney Tuesday night in a tight race. Cabán, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s preferred pick for the office, garnered 39.5 percent of the vote compared to Democratic rival Melinda Katz’s 38.3 percent with 98 percent of precincts reporting. “They said we could not win but we did it ya’ll,” Cabán said at La Boom in Woodside on Tuesday night where supporters watched the results come in.(Snip) Cabán is a 31-year-old public defender who wants to decriminalize sex work, close Rikers Island and end cash bail.
Well, it looks like the gang has a plan… the details are sketchy, but the picture of the construction is visible. According to Adam Schiff, Robert Mueller has agreed to deliver congressional testimony to a “joint panel” of the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, on July 17th. *First, to frame the narrative for the appearance, HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff releases a letter signed by *only* Nadler and Schiff, that “threatened” a subpoena. This subpoena letter is a prop for a pre-planned theatrical event. How do we know? Because only Schiff and Nadler signed it (no coordination with ranking members).
Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17 after they subpoenaed the special counsel Tuesday, according to the committees' chairmen, Reps. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
Congressional Democrats have fought to get access to Mueller and his unredacted report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether President Trump obstructed justice. Weeks of negotiations between House Democrats and the Justice Department ultimately ended with the subpoena.
Fox News has learned Mueller would appear only under a subpoena, which has been described as a "friendly" subpoena, one that in essence had been planned.
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy is what happens when you stop enforcing all the laws, for all the people. If you tell one group of individuals that, for whatever reason, there are certain laws they no longer have to abide by, it’s not long before everybody else begins to believe that there’s no reason they should be held accountable for any crimes they commit either. Here’s the deal for any society: either all the laws have to be enforced for everybody, across the board, or pretty soon they’re not going to be enforced for anybody.
Mexico’s President and his top security official confirmed the warning by the U.S. government about three ISIS terror suspects who were likely headed north. The three individuals were recently detained in Nicaragua.
Breitbart News first reported exclusively about a security alert issued by U.S. Homeland Security which warned Mexico about three ISIS terror suspects. The alert identifies the suspects as Ibrahim Mohamed and Mohamed Eissa of Egypt, and Ahamed Ghanim Mohamed Al Juburi from Iraq. (Snip) Hours after Breitbart News first broke the story, the top immigration chief in Costa Rica revealed the three suspects were detained in Nicaragua and would be sent back to Costa Rica.
Why is it that every time Donald Trump gets together with Xi Jinping, someone gets busted on a sanctions violation? I'm not privy to the inner workings of our cops and spooks, so I'm just asking. While Trump and Xi sat down to dinner at the November 2018 Group of 20 meeting in Argentina, the chief financial officer of Huawei was arrested in a Vancouver airport transit lounge. Now that Trump and Xi are meeting again next week at the Osaka Group of 20 meeting, there are reports of a contempt-of-court order against Chinese banks for violation of North Korea sanctions. This has caused more than a flutter,
A group of 9/11 first responders praised Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after meeting with him to discuss the bill that would permanently fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund."Mitch McConnell works for us ... and today Mitch McConnell promised to work for us and I'm going to take him for his word," first responder John Feal told reporters after the meeting, saying he is not concerned about McConnell going back on his word because "we challenged his humanity, and he passed."Feal said his past meetings in 2010 and 2015 with McConnell were more contentious and emotional than the one on Tuesday.
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On Wednesday and Thursday NBC, MSNBC, and Telemundo will host the first Democratic primary debates. If they are to match what their colleagues did with Republican candidates in 2015, they should ask questions designed to humiliate, badger and paint them as not ready for prime time, cartoonish, out-of-touch extremists. NBC/MSNBC/Telemundo did not host a GOP debate in 2015, so we looked at the October 28, 2015 CNBC debate (both the prime time event and the early evening undercard forum). All four networks are owned by NBCUniversal, and their correspondents often appear on their sister networks' news programs. Our review shows the moderators l
Each Democrat candidate seems to try and top each of the others with a proposal for more free stuff. From health care to college to guaranteed income, the free that resonates with the mini-mob of the day. President Trump says its a race to who can give away the most stuff, and raise taxes the most. Voters are overwhelmed with an onslaught of vote for me and get it free.Freedom from debt, or the need to sow what you reap, now replaces our Constitutional Freedoms as a talking point.
.During an appearance on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Monday night, former View co-host and left-wing conspiracy theorist Rosie O’Donnell not only defended outrageous comparisons of illegal immigration detention centers to “concentration camps,” but she claimed that there were “over 100,000” camps spread across the United States.Near the end of the show, Cohen helped promote a planned nationwide liberal protest of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, teeing up O’Donnell: “Rosie, you’re going to be doing a vigil called Lights for Liberty, July 12th, demanding an end to the detention camps.” O’Donnell launched into a fact-free rant: (Video)
CNN’s John King took time Tuesday to note that problems at the U.S. border did not start with President Donald Trump.Democrats have criticized Trump and his administration for its immigration policies, as well as the treatment of migrants at the border. King said the U.S. faced many of the same problems under the Obama administration. “This particular issue is not new,” King said. “This has been a problem the U.S. government has had to figure out a solution to for a long time.”King then replayed an interview that former President Barack Obama did with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, where Obama issued a warning to migrant families not to send their children
The Donald has dirt on Biden
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President Donald John Trumps knows his enemies well. It is the Sun Tzu in him. Before he ran against Hillary, he knew she was a drunk and that it eventually would come out.
On 9/11/2016 it did. Hilary was too drunk to make it through a 9/11 commemoration that morning in perfect weather.
He immediately stopped hammering away at her health. His point had been made.
The media said he was lying about her health, demanded he prove it, and immediately dropped the subject when she had "the flu" -- as her campaign called it.
Actually, it was another Chardonnay Moment for her.
Joe Biden's recently embraced Democrat segregationists of the past. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren began her campaign with a beer. These are the leading blue-collar candidates among the two dozen or so Democrat presidential candidates.
Hmm. Do they try to get black votes by saying how much they like watermelon?
Warren is closer to being an Indian than being a blue-collar person. I get that is her roots, but she dyed her hair elitists. Nothing wrong with that. Just don't patronize me by drinking a beer.
This is what, the 4th or 5th time a photo of kids at the border has gone viral that ended up not telling the real story? In this case, the misleading was clearly intentional though, as you’ll see.
A picture of children sleeping with aluminum thermal blankets on the floor of a CBP detention facility made the rounds this weekend. It was posted by someone named Nancy Lee Grahn. (Snip)The problem? This was once again a picture from the Obama administration. In fact, the date stamp is in the picture but Grahn cropped it out.
Joe Biden has raked in the cash since he's left the vice presidency—making speeches at up to $200,000 a pop, signing a seven-figure book deal, and renting a 12,000-square-foot home in Northern Virginia from a wealthy venture capitalist.
He even has demands in his contract for raspberry sorbet and chartered flights for his speeches.
The details about the new life of the man who calls himself 'Middle Class Joe' were revealed Tuesday by the Washington Post, which used public records to track down Biden's new lifestyles of the rich and famous. The paper revealed the Bidens rent
A newly-published leaked document contains what appears to be an email exchange among Google employees participating in a "transparency-and-ethics" discussion that includes a reference to PragerU, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro as "nazis using the dog whistles." The document was published by Project Veritas Tuesday, a day after the conservative group released its report on how political and ideological bias influences the ways in which Google connects users to content. The group obtained the "newly leaked document from Google" via their tipline.
"The email apparently was sent as part of the Google 'transparency-and-ethics' group internal communications and suggests that content from PragerU, Jordan Peterson, and Ben Shapiro should be disabled
Facebook has struck a deal with France to turn over identity information on users suspected of posting hate speech on the platform, Reuters reported Tuesday. Digital Affairs Minister Cédric O said he reached an agreement with the social media site, according to the report.
Facebook has also been using artificial intelligence technology to combat the increasing problems of fake accounts, fake news and hate speech. Between October 2018 and March 2019, Facebook took down more than 3 billion fake accounts, estimating that around 5% of monthly active accounts are fake.
“In our constitutional order, a vague law is no law at all.” Those are the words that opened one of the most important decisions of this Supreme Court term, in United States versus Quartavious Davis. (Snip) The author of that sweeping decision in favor of criminal defendant rights was Justice Neil Gorsuch, the first nomination by President Trump to the Supreme Court. I testified at his Senate hearing, favoring his confirmation despite unrelenting attacks on him as a “rubber stamp” and an ideologue. Gorsuch has proven his detractors wrong
Dozens of texts between Jussie Smollett and Abel Osundairo, one of the Nigerian brothers he allegedly paid to attack him, show a months-long friendship in which they discussed drugs, erotic massages and their performances on Empire.
The texts were released on Monday night in a batch of documents, evidence and video footage shared by the Chicago Police Department.
Among the hundreds of pages that were put out are a list of texts between the pair dating back to November.
Some were previously released by the police department. In those, Smollett asked Osundairo for a 'molly connect'.
President Trump relishes turmoil, especially if he creates it. It keeps opponents off-balance, keeps his own staff on high alert and keeps the attention on him. t exactly 71 weeks before Americans render a verdict on renewing Trump’s Oval Office lease comes a new poll revealing that such turmoil displayed through divisive and harsh political discourse is concerning an awful lot of fellow citizens. [Snip] He’s clearly not the only politician to talk harshly these days. See name-calling House impeachanados for prime examples. But the president is the most prominent public speaker — and tweeter. So, he possesses the loudest voice.
Chants of “build the wall” broke out at Tuesday’s rollout of the Donald J. Trump for President Latino Coalition event in Miami, Florida.
Vice President Mike Pence was headlining the launch of the Trump 2020 presidential campaign event when chanting broke out among what was described by New York Times Miami Bureau Chief Patricia Mazzei as a largely Cuban/Venezuelan/Nicaraguan American crowd, “Build the wall.”
“We need four more years for President Donald Trump,” Pence said sparking the crowd to begin chanting those same words.
It’s notable that Pence did this event in Miami on Tuesday because on Wednesday and Thursday in the same city the Democrat candidates for
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday the economic outlook has become cloudier since early May, with rising uncertainties over trade and global growth causing the central bank to reassess its next move on interest rates.
Speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Powell said the Fed is now grappling with the question of whether those uncertainties will continue to weigh on the outlook and require action.
Powell did not commit to a rate cut but said the central bank will closely monitor incoming data and be prepared to “act as appropriate to sustain the expansion.”
Many economists believe the Fed could decide at its next meeting
A November 19th, 2016 Washington Post report says that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tried to get NSA director Admiral Mike Rogers fired. In a memo that was deliberately leaked as an organized smear campaign, “senior officials” attack Rogers abilities, question his leadership, and otherwise tainting his record.
Chants of “build the wall” broke out at Tuesday’s rollout of the Donald J. Trump for President Latino Coalition event in Miami, Florida.Vice President Mike Pence was headlining the launch of the Trump 2020 presidential campaign event when chanting broke out among what was described by New York Times Miami Bureau Chief Patricia Mazzei as a largely Cuban/Venezuelan/Nicaraguan American crowd, “Build the wall.” “We need four more years for President Donald Trump,” Pence said sparking the crowd to begin chanting those same words. It’s notable that Pence did this event in Miami on Tuesday because on Wednesday and Thursday in the same city the Democrat candidates for president
First lady Melania Trump announced Tuesday that top aide Stephanie Grisham has been selected to replace outgoing White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Trump wrote on Twitter that Grisham will also assume the role as White House communications director, a position she served in under the first lady. I can think of no better person to serve the Administration & our country. Excited to have Stephanie working for both sides of the @WhiteHouse,” she said. (Tweet)
Prince Harry and Meghan have been damned today after spending £2.4million of public money doing up their new home in the grounds of Windsor Castle with the cost expected to balloon to £3million.
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The £2.4million 'substantial overhaul' of Frogmore Cottage - a gift to the couple from the Queen - was approved by Her Majesty but it is still not complete with the costs set to rise by up to £600,000 because of landscaping and more decorating.
The spending emerged as the Royal Household's 'Sovereign Grant' accounts were published today,
Should a vacancy come up on the Supreme Court before the 2020 election, President Trump said he would absolutely fill the seat promptly. “Would I do that? Of course,” Trump said in an exclusive interview with The Hill when asked if he’d fill the post during campaign season.The president’s vow runs counter to what he said in 2016, when he was running for the White House. As a candidate, he opposed former President Obama’s effort to seat his nominee, Merrick Garland, before the election, backing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) decision to block the nomination.
Not that we have word of any openings coming up on the Supreme Court in the immediate future, but it always pays to be prepared, right? Particularly when you have several justices in their septuagenarian or even octagenarian years and one of them regularly talks about packing up his RV and touring the country. But given the politically poisonous mood currently gripping both Congress and the nation, would President Trump really want to open that can of worms and introduce a new nominee if someone suddenly retired? Oh, baby… you know he’s champing at the bit. (The Hill) President Trump
President Donald Trump complained about the cost burden of protecting Middle East shipping lanes Monday– just days after pulling back from a military strike on Iran.
He also claimed the U.S. didn't even 'need to be there' due to increases in domestic energy production, although the U.S. still imports billions worth of crude each year even as it boosts exports.(Snip) 'China gets 91% of its Oil from the Straight, Japan 62%, & many other countries likewise,' Trump wrote Monday. 'So why are we protecting the shipping lanes for other countries (many years) for zero compensation,' he asked, without using a question mark.
Climate change is threatening ancient Greek monuments, among them the Acropolis, one of the most-visited archaeological sites in the world, scientists said. Air pollution and acid rain are eroding marbles, while extreme weather phenomena such as droughts or torrential rains have led ancient walls and temples to develop structural problems. Even though the Acropolis hill, where the Parthenon stands, is probably Greece's best preserved archaeological site, there are signs that climate change has been increasingly affecting the monuments that stand on the hill. "The walls of the (ancient) city have more erosion than in the past," Maria Vlazaki, General Secretary
Chicago police released hundreds of files and nearly 70 hours of video footage on Monday from the investigation into Jussie Smollett's claim back in January that he was attacked by two men -- a claim that police later characterized as a hoax.
In one of the videos, police body-cam footage showed Smollett -- with his face blurred -- wearing a white rope that he told detectives his attackers looped around his neck. When one of the officers asked Smollett if he wanted to take the rope off of his neck, the 37-year-old actor did while stating: "Yeah. I do. I just wanted you all to see it."
The best that may be said of the drama playing out in Oregon this week is that it exemplifies the vast and growing distance between Left and Right in America today.
To see it in its worst (and, perhaps, clearest) light, however, it exemplifies the relentless onslaught of corporate leftist tyranny, in all things, and everywhere at once.
The main strategy of the ‘progressives’ during the 2020 presidential election campaign is to dispirit Hillary’s deplorables. The mantra of the day, backed by polls, seems to be ‘President Donald Trump doesn’t have a chance; no point voting for him’.
To avoid becoming dispirited by what will be be wall-to-wall, one-sided media coverage of the 2020 presidential election campaign, stick to this simple rule of thumb: God 1st, family and country 2nd and third, and politics only when absolutely necessary.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is on board with Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) proposal to erase all student loan debt, because she has not paid off her student loans either, she said Monday.
While making remarks in support of Sanders’ sweeping bill to cancel $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, Ocasio-Cortez discussed her “personal stake” in the fight. She wants to make the bill a reality, in part, because she has outstanding student loans.
“I will be completely honest. I will disclose my personal stake in this fight because I have student loans too,” she said Monday. “And I think it’s so funny. A year ago, I was waiting tables in a restaurant.”
The National Park Service has reportedly granted a liberal activist group the right to fly the “Baby Trump” blimp over the National Mall during President Trump’s July 4 speech. According to WTTG Channel 5, the Fox affiliate in Washington, Code Pink will be taunting the president as he delivers an Independence Day speech at the Lincoln Memorial, though exactly where is still being worked out. “Baby Trump blimp expected in DC July 4. @NatlParkService says @codepink has been granted a permit to protest & NPS is now figuring out where they will be allowed to fly their blimp,” reporter Lindsay Watts tweeted,
Brigadier General Don Bolduc told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday he wants to run for the New Hampshire U.S. Senate seat so that he could serve as a “change agent” in Washington, DC, which faces a “crisis of leadership.”
Brig. Gen. Bolduc announced his campaign at the VFW in Concord, New Hampshire on Monday and shared his record of service, outlining at the same time the need for a change in DC. He said that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) by contrast has yet to serve as a leader in the Senate.
“We’re facing a crisis
Mexican Secretary of Defense Luis Sandoval said on Monday that Mexico is deploying thousands of soldiers to the U.S.-Mexico border to help stop the massive flow of illegal immigration into the United States.
"Mexico has deployed almost 15,000 troops to the US-Mexico border to curve migration flow," CNN reporter Nick Valencia tweeted. "An additional ~2,000 National Guard elements have also been deployed across the country’s southern border with Guatemala & Belize.: MX Secretary of Defense Luis Sandoval.” BREAKING- Mexico has deployed almost 15,000 troops to the US-Mexico border to
The three-year orchestrated campaign to discredit Donald Trump and destroy his presidency is littered with sketchy reports authored by partisan characters motivated by power and revenge.(Snip)One example is the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA), which claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin directly interfered in the 2016 election to help Donald Trump win the presidency. Two weeks before Trump was inaugurated the 45th president of the United States, Barack Obama’s top security chiefs—acting on a directive from the departing president—issued an official report to suggest that Trump’s victory was tainted.
According to Obama’s FBI, CIA, and NSA, Putin “
Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign calls to mind nothing so much as Sideshow Bob among the rakes. It's been one media firestorm after another, most of them totally self-inflicted. What hilarious pratfall will strike next?It's true, Biden is currently leading Trump in head-to-head polls — and by more than any other potential Democratic nominee, though Bernie Sanders is close on his heels. But insofar as traditional political skills like messaging, campaigning, and sheer common sense matter at all, Biden is an exceedingly risky choice to take on Trump.
Donations have been pouring in to support President Trump’s much-anticipated 4th of July celebration in Washington D.C. this year. It is a move by the president which harkens back to the days of Ronald Reagan who, like Trump, loved seeing a grand celebration honoring America’s beginnings. (Snip) Washington’s July Fourth “Salute to America” envisioned by President Trump will conclude with the capital’s longest ever fireworks display thanks to donations being made by two of America’s biggest pyrotechnics outfits.
“We’re gearing up for what I think we can safely say without hyperbole is going to be the biggest fireworks
The Google Fascists
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Well. Shocking… but not shocking at all.
Project Veritas and founder James O’Keefe have scored a scoop from an identified Google whistleblower, replete with video and inside documents. Here’s the Project Veritas headline and story:
Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent “Trump situation” in 2020 on Hidden Cam (Snip)The report includes undercover footage of longtime Google employee and Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, saying:“Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her but she’s very misguided, like that will not make it better it will make it worse,
22% of Democrats care about 2020
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The Associated Press reported on its own poll of 2020, "Only 22% of Democrats registered to vote say they know a lot about the candidates’ positions, while 62% say they know a little. And only 35% say they’re paying close attention to the campaign, with almost two-thirds saying they’re paying some or no attention."
What is to know?
Their positions are all the same.
They are all for reparations, men in girls bathrooms, soaking the rich, repealing middle class tax breaks, stripping the military, open borders, Medicare For All, and erasing student loan debt.
Bookies taking bets on the 2020 presidential election are predicting a Trump-Biden race, with President Trump a 1-1 favorite to win reelection.Current wagers indicate that former Vice President Joe Biden would take the nomination and stands at a 4-1 chance to beat Trump. In a surprise, BetOnline.ag said that the odds for Sen. Bernie Sanders, long the first or second choice in the Democratic primary race, has sunk to sixth in the general election, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren is second behind Biden.“Now at even money (1/1), Trump is still the odds on favorite to win re-election in 2020.
E Jean Carrol made headlines recently with her rather bizarre and sketchy claims of a forced sexual encounter with Donald Trump in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room two decades ago. (Snip)
Ms. Carrol just imploded on CNN with Anderson Cooper, explaining her definition of rape is not sexual, nor doe it include sex. However, before getting to that recent development, a historic reference to Ms. Carrol is, well, weird.
(h/t BAXT3R) In 1995 E. Jean Carroll shares her unique perspectives on an Esquire article, “Do Women Love Men?” and discusses changing gender roles with Charlie Rose:
In Aberdeenshire, Scotland, a teen told his teacher there are only two genders.The teacher didn’t agree.As reported by the Daily Mail, the instructor had informed his class that a website which only allowed for two gender options was “old fashioned.”The 17-year-old spoke up, claiming that male and female are the only two, biologically.For taking a position that was “not inclusive,” he was kicked out of class.Later, the teacher discussed the issue with the boy privately — and the kid secretly videoed it.On the tape — which has been viewed nearly 100,000 times via YouTube —
One of the reasons why the Flynn legal situation is so interesting is not really because of Flynn himself; but rather because the Flynn situation is a likely example of President Obama’s surveillance network in operation.Tenuous legal theories (Logan Act) and obscure laws (technical FARA violations) appear to have been exploited by DOJ administration officials, in close ideological alignment with the Lawfare Group. In association with overall Obama administration officials, the fellow travelers used the legal system to create a DC surveillance network.
At the 30,000 ft. level Obama’s surveillance network looks like this:
EAST LOS ANGELES — By the time his plane touched down in California at the end of a whirlwind week, Julián Castro had set an early political benchmark in the crowded presidential race.
It was early April, and the former mayor and housing secretary had just released a sweeping immigration policy platform, garnering national headlines and widespread praise from immigration reform advocates who went as far as calling his proposals “exactly what we need in this moment.”
Castro was still struggling to break from the pack, but he was the first in the field with a detailed plan to tackle the one issue that could come to define the 2020 presidential campaign.
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris nodded knowingly when a black woman at a weekend candidate forum recounted watching her mother face racial discrimination during her childhood. "You and I have a similar experience growing up," said Harris, the California senator and former prosecutor who would be the first black woman elected president. "I don't talk about it often. But I remember walking into a department store and people looking at my mother assuming she couldn't afford to buy what she was looking at."
She also recalled watching her mother brace herself around law enforcement or seeing people assume her mother was a housekeeper
Democrats have an insurance policy for the 2020 Presidential election, and it has nothing to do with the eventual Democratic Party nominee. The original policy was initiated by Obama, Comey, Brennan, McCabe, Hillary, and their ilk, bragged about by Strzok to his paramour, and paid for by the Democrat/media cabal. The mephitic Mueller tried to cash it in, but the hero Marine got slapped down by Barr.
It’s a plan to “win” the election by any means necessary, even by cheating if necessary. Of its components, the “failsafe,” is most intriguing, if for no other reason than it is so devious, underhanded, clever, and inventive
On summer's opening day, up to 20 inches of snow buried the high terrain of the Colorado Rockies, boosting the state's snowpack to extraordinary levels for the time of year. The solstice flakes marked a continuation of a snowy stretch that began in January and February and lingered through spring. Even before the solstice snow, The Denver Post wrote, the state's snowpack was "in virtually every numerical sense . . . off the charts." At the time, the snowpack was 751 percent above normal.
If Hillary Rodham Clinton insists she’s not running for president in 2020, why is she running… all over the place? Well, for one thing, Her Heinous has always believed in the value of high visibility as a means of enhancing her political chances When she’s out of sight it’s almost like she’s out of her mind.
To that self-serving purpose, she and Bill arranged a cross-country tour of joint speaking engagements that began last year. It was to be a means of keeping their power-presumptive connubial image front and fresh in the public eye, but flopped almost from the start.
The most famous debates in American political history came in 1858 as a young ex-House member from the brand-new Republican Party named Abraham Lincoln challenged Democrat Stephen Douglas, who was seeking a third Senate term. The pair did seven debates all around Illinois. One candidate opened the event with a speech lasting one hour. The other got 90 minutes to describe his positions. Then, a 30-minute rebuttal for the first man. [Snip] No commercials. And no microphones. Candidates required theatrical volumes to reach the surrounding crowd. Safe to say this week’s first set of Democratic primary debates will bear no resemblance whatsoever to Lincoln-Douglas
This week, Sen. Bernie Sanders upped the ante on free stuff the legion of Democratic presidential candidates are promising voters. In what he called a “revolutionary proposal,” Sanders says that if elected he would forgive “all student debt” — that’s $1.6 trillion worth — and end “the absurdity of sentencing an entire generation to a lifetime of debt for the ‘crime’ of getting a college education.”
It would be hard to devise a plan that would shower more benefits on the wealthy than this one.
Just 12% of college debt is owed by those in the bottom quarter of income earners, according to the Urban Institute.
As more states pass pro-life laws, pro-abortion advocates are making their opinions on the issue known. Alyssa Milano just issued a state-by-state abortion bill guide for filmmakers, while networks and studios continue to double-down on their boycotts of states that have passed pro-life legislation.
Reese Witherspoon, who has typically stayed out of politics, had her own starlet tantrum on Twitter, ignoring the will of a large majority of her southern neighbors. Miley Cyrus couldn’t resist the limelight — she coupled with Marc Jacobs to produce a sweatshirt emblazoned with “Don’t F*** with My Freedom,” the proceeds of which go to Planned Parenthood. Not to be left out
For those who want their hearts broken, the story of Zohar and Gabi Ilinetsky, the parents of one-year-old twins, is a world to live inside. Zohar: twenty-seven, confident, and voluble, a construction project manager proud of his work. Gabi: fastidious, attentive, academic, an early-education specialist who used to work at a preschool. They met in Israel, where he grew up, and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, her childhood home. While dating, they would speak often about the parenting styles that they hoped to have. “We’re old-school people,” Zohar told me recently. “My friends now are waiting until thirty-five to start thinking about kids, but always
The legion of Democrats who think they can take the measure of Donald Trump will go at it beginning Wednesday night, each trying to figure out a way to stand out in a crowd of mediocrities.
They’re in the position of Elizabeth Taylor’s sixth or seventh or maybe eighth husband, who cried out in frustration: “I know what’s expected of me on the wedding night, but how can I make it new and interesting for her?”
The candidates are practicing to come up with the meanest, harshest and most colorful way to say how much more they hate the Donald than anyone else in the whole world, and certainly more
The United States and China have traded since the early days of our republic, but only recently has the scale of that trade become a political issue. More than any other point, Donald Trump’s rhetoric against outsourcing to China gave him the blue-collar Midwestern votes that made up his margin of victory in 2016. His election was a break with the generation-long bipartisan consensus that more and freer trade is better, whether the trading partner is a liberal democracy that respects the rule of law or a communist dictatorship where unfree people labor in unsafe conditions for government-suppressed wages.
Even to call trade with China “free” is a misnomer.
In a recent Nazi outrage, Rashida Tlaib, Democrat Liar of Michigan, stated that the Holocaust has had a “calming” effect on her because the “Palestinians” “welcomed” the Jews into “their” land as a haven from Hitler. The Big Lie — in so many dimensions.
New to the fray, South Bend Mayor Buttigieg — an expert on world affairs though still unable to maintain civil equanimity in his own city where African Americans are furious over a recent police shooting — has announced that, if Israel ever extends sovereignty into any part of Judea or Samaria, he will cut off aid to Israel accordingly
On Saturday, Joe Biden was one of 20 presidential candidates to speak at a Planned Parenthood forum in Columbia, S.C., held right next door to the state’s Democratic convention. It was just a couple of weeks after he’d reversed his longtime support for the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortion. One of the moderators asked him what he’d say to pro-choice voters who have concerns about his mixed record on the issue.
This was part of his answer: “The fact of the matter is that we’re in a situation where mortality rate for poor women and black women, here in this state, 26.5 percent
A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that a federal law requiring longer prison sentences for using a gun during a "crime of violence" is unconstitutionally vague.
The court voted 5-4 stating the law "provides no reliable way" to determine which offenses qualify as crimes of violence. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion on behalf of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
"In our constitutional order, a vague law is no law at all," Gorsuch wrote. "Only the people's elected representatives in Congress have the power to write new federal criminal laws. And when Congress exercises that power, it has to write statutes that give ordinary people
Sadly, there are some Michael Jackson songs that — 10 years after the King of Pop’s death rocked the world on June 25, 2009 — just don’t sound the same anymore.
One of them would be “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)” — the bumping, sure-to-start-the-party jam from his 1982 blockbuster LP, “Thriller” — on which Jackson sings, “Tenderoni, you’ve got to be/Spark my nature, sugar, fly with me” with clenched, crotch-grabbing desire.
That song — and, for some, all of MJ’s music — will never have the same pure thrill after “Leaving Neverland,” the documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and then aired on HBO in March.
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A father of two with 24 years of experience in law enforcement.
These are just two of the four police officers shot and killed in the United States this week -- part of what one expert calls a disturbing "multi-year" trend of violence toward police. June 23: Wellston, Missouri
In Wellston, Missouri, officer Michael Langsdorf from the North County Police Cooperative was shot and killed on Sunday night in what police described as an execution.
A $4.5 million House bill aimed at providing more funding to migrant families detained at the U.S.-Mexico border is posing a challenge to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s grip on her party, as its liberal faction argue that the bill doesn’t go far enough while moderates worry that pushing for perfection will result in inaction at the border.
Calls for more funding at the border come amid reports that children detained entering the U.S. from Mexico are being held under harsh conditions. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told Fox News on Monday that the situation at the U.S.-Mexico border is dire.
A parade in Highmore, South Dakota celebrating the 50th Annual Settler’s Day had one float that stole the show. The float that got the most attention showed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in prison with President Donald Trump standing outside the case, his hands up as if presenting the prisoners to the crowd. (Photo) “I just wanted to put it out there, it was just my view that I feel that they should be charged, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton,” Jeff Damer, the float’s creator, told KSFY. Damer revealed there was some hesitation because he did not want to come across as racist by throwing Obama behind bars.
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised eyebrows on Monday with a series of comments that she made about enforcing U.S. immigration laws. (Video) Speaking at an event in Elmhurst, New York, Pelosi attacked President Donald Trump over the raids from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers that were scheduled to happen over the weekend but were delayed after sensitive information was leaked to the public about the locations of the raids."When I saw that the president was going to have these raids, I mean it was so appalling," Pelosi said. "It's outside the circle of civilized human behavior to just be kicking down doors, splitting up families,
A House Democrat who clashed with former White House chief of staff John Kelly has come out against impeachment, arguing that after President Trump leaves office he will 'rot in prison'. Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Florida Democrat who demanded an apology from Kelly after he inaccurately accused her of touting her own efforts to get funding from President Obama during dedication of an FBI memorial in her district, explained her reasoning on Twitter Monday. 'There's no question Trump is guilty but the current Senate will never find him guilty of anything,' she said. 'If the House impeaches him the Senate will exonerate him w/in days
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Illinois has eliminated protections for unborn human beings, even late in pregnancy, and mandated insurance coverage of abortion. Some of the officials who voted for the law are Catholics, and Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield has argued that they should not receive communion. Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago agrees with Paprocki that the law is gravely unjust: “It says that human life is cheap,” he told the Catholic News Agency. But he disagrees about communion.
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We’ve all known that Big Tech has a liberal bias. Silicon Valley is loaded with progressives. Though they hate conservatives, these techies also like making money. To be fair, they do work with everyone. Facebook has dedicated teams that serve Republicans and conservative. That still doesn’t mean they can’t enact policies that impact them more. Twitter seems to ban scores of conservatives for innocuous things, like “learn to code,” a swipe at progressives are utterly detached from the everyday happenings of rural America. And yet, Louis Farrakhan can call Jewish people termites…and not get banned. Well, Project Veritas decided to dig into this bastion of liberalism.