Posts on Wednesday, June 26, 2019
A UK woman died from suffocation when she strangled herself for an online creep who paid her to perform “dangerous and degrading” webcam sex acts while he watched from home, a coroner ruled Wednesday.
Disability worker Hope Barden, 21, was moonlighting as a webcam girl to make extra cash when pervert Jerome Dangar, 45, paid her to strangle herself— then watched as she suffocated in March 2018 without calling for help.
But Dangar—who police said encouraged Barden to perform increasingly dangerous sex acts during their three-month relationship—will never face charges after he was found dead in his prison cell
A woman whose unborn baby was killed in a 2018 Pleasant Grove shooting has now been indicted in the death. Marshae Jones, a 27-year-old Birmingham woman, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury on a manslaughter charge. She was taken into custody on Wednesday. Though Jones didn’t fire the shots that killed her unborn baby girl, authorities say she initiated the dispute that led to the gunfire. Police initially charged 23-year-old Ebony Jemison with manslaughter, but the charge against Jemison was dismissed after the grand jury failed to indict her. The shooting happened about noon
Former Rep. Beto O'Rourke fielded a question about a proposed top income rate of 70 per cent at the Democratic debate–then managed to avoid answering it in two languages. O'Rourke fielded his first question of the debate on MSNBC when asked about the top income tax rate—a notion that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez floated for millionaires in an interview soon after she came to Congress, setting off a debate about taxation. 'This economy has got to work for everyone. And right now we know that it isn't. And it's going to take all of us coming together to make sure
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President Donald Trump's initial reaction to the first 2020 Democratic presidential debate: "BORING!"The presidential tweet landed as candidates on the debate stage in Miami were asked about the crisis at the southern U.S. border involving migrant children.The tweet came minutes after Trump, who had deplaned from Air Force One in Alaska en route to Japan, greeted U.S. troops there, telling them he chose to speak to them instead of watching the debate.The president, who is traveling to Osaka for a G20 meeting, said the troops are "so much smarter than them," referring to the la
U.S. asylum officers slammed President Trump’s policy of forcing migrants to remain in Mexico while they await immigration hearings in the United States, urging a federal appeals court Wednesday to block the administration from continuing the program. The officers, who are directed to implement the policy, said it is threatening migrants’ lives and is “fundamentally contrary to the moral fabric of our Nation.”
The labor union representing asylum officers filed a friend-of-the-court brief that sided with the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups challenging Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocols program, which has sent 12,000 asylum-seeking migrants to Mexico since January.
As 10 Democratic presidential candidates take the stage in Miami for the first primary debate of the 2020 cycle Wednesday, here are 10 things to watch out for: 1. Swipes at Joe Biden- The former vice president has dominated primary polls since before he officially announced his campaign, and that must change if any of the 10 candidates on Wednesday's debate stage stand a chance of winning the Democratic nomination. Although contenders may not directly attack the front-runner, who will appear in Thursday's 10-candidate debate, they could take veiled jabs at him.
MIAMI -- The Trump campaign and Republican National Committee are ramping up an “aggressive” rapid response effort both nationally and locally for the Democratic debates, with a war room locked and loaded with live tweeters, real-time fact-checkers, and new hashtags in an effort to maintain momentum for Trump 2020. As the first group of Democratic candidates takes the debate stage Wednesday night, RNC and Trump campaign officials will be hunkered down in their operation center out of a hotel in downtown Miami.
Attorney General William Barr took to the bagpipes at the Justice Department Wednesday to entertain the assembled guests with his ability to master the Scottish instrument. Barr, who is a longtime piper, played ‘Scotland the Brave’ alongside the pipes and drums of the NYPD Emerald Society band, which performed just before the attorney general gave his opening remarks in Washington, DC. The traditional highland display took place at the U.S. Attorneys’ National Conference at the Justice Department’s headquarters, Barr revealing the last time he played the instrument was in December at his youngest daughter’s wedding,
Bernie Sanders won't commit to leaving
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White House hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) declined to commit to exit the presidential primary race before the Democratic convention if he fails to win the party’s nomination.“I intend to be the Democratic nominee,” he said on MSNBC Wednesday. “Some people say that if maybe that system was not rigged against me, I would have won the nomination and defeated Donald Trump. That’s what some people say. So I think we’re going to play it out,” he added. “So our goal right now is to win it, and by the way as you may now poll after poll shows what against Trump? It shows me beating Trump
It pays to be a doctor. It really pays to be a neurosurgeon.
It really, really pays to be a neurosurgeon at San Joaquin General Hospital.
The eight highest-paid county employees in California last year were all physicians or physician managers for San Joaquin County, with three of them making more than $1 million in 2018, according to wage data released Tuesday by the state Controller’s Office.
The controller’s database shows wages as a total of “regular pay,” “overtime pay,” “lump-sum pay” and “other pay.”
March for Life Action Ad to Air Before
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Debate Showing Americans’ Support
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March for Life Action, which hosts the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., will run a “Consensus” ad before the Democratic primary debate tonight showing data that Americans support restrictions (consensus) on abortion, restrictions that are at odds with the candidates’ advocacy for unrestricted abortion, even up to the moment of birth. Women in the “Consensus” ad repeat that surveys confirm 6 out of 10 pro-choice Americans believe “abortion should happen only during the first three months of pregnancy – at most.” (Video)
It is graduation season, and as such, many families are attending college commencement ceremonies. Some schools hire prominent or celebrity commencement speakers, while others keep the ceremony in-house with Chancellors and school presidents doing the honors.
At the commencement of University of California, Berkeley recently, Chancellor Carol T. Christ delivered the commencement speech, along with barbs and jabs at President Donald Trump, according to several parents who attended the graduation ceremony at Memorial Stadium.
These parents spoke to the California Globe on condition of anonymity.
After waiting in line for more than one hour to get through the security screening at Memorial Stadium at Cal Berkeley graduation
Ever feel like you should eat more vegetables, but just want to eat meat instead? Well, Arby’s has the solution.
In a strange gimmick targeted at the recent popularity of fake meat options—like Beyond and Impossible—the home of “the meats” has rolled out their own version of faux-food: Megetables.
The chain’s first Megetable, known as the “Marrot,” is a meat-based carrot lookalike conceptualized by Neville Craw, the vice president of culinary innovation and a brand executive at Arby’s. It was introduced as part of a category of meat “vegetables” the brand is both “inventing and exploring,”
President Trump on Wednesday took questions from reporters from the South Lawn of the White House as he was preparing to depart for the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan. A Russia-obsessed liberal reporter asked President Trump whether he plans on bringing up 2020 election meddling with Russian President Vladimir Putin.This reporter had the gall to ask about the non existent Russian meddling in our elections just days after James O’Keefe exposed that Google was working to prevent a “Trump situation.”Google and big tech are clearly meddling in US elections yet this reporter asked
It could get nasty tonight and tomorrow when NBC’s moderators bring up the topic of Donald Trump during the Democratic candidates debate. If recent history is a guide expect the moderators to ask questions that push the candidates to criticize Trump and his administration’s policies while treating some candidates – like Bernie Sanders – as heroes. The selected team of moderators (Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and Telemundo anchor Jose Diaz Balart) have exhibited open hostility to Trump and his supporters and their conservative positions since Trump announced his candidacy in 2015.
This week on The New York Times’ “The Argument,” podcast, 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said American capitalism is “perverted.”Booker said, “The head of AEI, a guy named Brooks, talks about this fetishization of capitalism as an end unto itself and forgetting that it is a theory to get us to the higher ideal of more shared growth, better distribution of opportunity and resources. And we have so perverted the ideal of capitalism that now we tolerate policies that are allowing a new era of monopolization,
The Republican candidate for Queens district attorney, who is expected to take on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-backed left-wing Democrat Tiffany Cabán in November, admitted to The Post on Wednesday that he hasn’t raised any money and may not even go through with the campaign.
“I don’t have much of … I don’t expect it will be much of a campaign on my behalf,” said candidate Daniel Kogan, 61, a private attorney in Ozone Park. “I haven’t decided to make an active campaign yet. It was an honor to be nominated, but I haven’t started an active campaign.”
Ninety-nine years ago, Democrat Sen. John Walter Smith of Maryland provided $50 of his own — not government — money to help erect a cross in his home state.He was responding to a request from Mrs. Martin Redman, a mother who had lost her son in World War I.To honor him and the 48 other men from Prince George's County who had lost their lives in the war, she had joined the Prince George's Memorial Committee, whose goal was to erect a memorial not far from the Maryland border with the District of Columbia. In a thank-you note, she told the senator that her son "lost his life in France
Former Vice President Joe Biden remains a top choice in the 2020 presidential primary among Democratic voters, but top tier candidates are narrowing his lead according to a new poll. Biden maintains a 6 point advantage, with 24 percent of Democrats surveyed saying they would vote for him if the primary were held today, according to an Economist/YouGov poll. The web-based poll was conducted between June 22 and June 25, and included 1,500 U.S. adults. There is a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is close behind Biden, with 18 percent of
The Alinea Group, owners of the high-end Chicago cocktail lounge where President Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, was spat on by an employee, has been put on leave.
Trump confirmed to Breitbart News that the U.S. Secret Service took an employee of The Aviary into custody following the incident. In a telephone interview with Washington editor Matthew Boyle, Trump said the ordeal was “purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems.”“For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility,” the president’s son continued.
So far this month, the president has charmed the Queen, eloquently memorialized D-Day, got Mexico to help defend our border, and even got a nice birthday card from Kim Jong Un. President Donald John Trump also has averted World War III with Iran.
To counter his making of America great again, Democrats today promised to trot out Mueller next month to flog Russian Collusion, a horse so dead its head belongs in a Godfather movie.
President Trump went on the offense, telling Fox Business Network that Mueller terminated text messages between Pete Strzok and Lisa Page when they were with the FBI.
Hello, obstruction of justice. That's destruction of evidence.
We counted five big Democrat winners from the first set of 2020 presidential debates. Namely, Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan, Montana Governor Steve Bullock, Miramar, Florida Mayor Wayne Messam, Pennsylvania Congressman Joe Sestak and Alaska Senator Mike Gravel. They all finished in a five-way tie at the top. By failing to make the major debate stage, however, they will avoid further tarring their reputations. But the 20 Democrat airheads, bimbos and crazies who qualified for the upcoming Big Debate stage are all competing with 400 pound people to be The Biggest Loser.
You’ll hear literally thousands of words in tonight’s and tomorrow’s Democratic primary debates about policies all the candidates favor and propose, each one carefully nuanced to appear dramatically different from the rest of the crowd on-stage. But it turns out, little of all that policy blather actually matters. Democrats’ top abiding concern about the qualifications of their presidential nominee is that he or she can beat, defeat, oust, destroy and/or obliterate this evil Donald Trump character who should never have defeated what’s-her-name in 2016. Hardly anything else matters. It doesn’t even matter
Brilliant Play – President Trump Invites
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Megan Rapinoe is the co-captain of the U.S. women’s national soccer team and a rabid hater of President Trump. (SnipToday, President Trump brilliantly responded to Ms. Rapinoe. First, by calling out her arrogance in declaring victory before she even played the World Cup matches; and secondly, by inviting the entire team to the White House “win or lose”.
The pressure is now upon Ms. Rapinoe. That pressure overlays a preexisting, unstable and tenuous psychological condition related to her tribal self-identification and commercial aspirations. This dynamic is a recipe for implosion. It will not end well for her.
“I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It’s too late for me.” You know that liberal Hollywood boycott about filming in Georgia because of its new fetal heartbeat anti-abortion bill? Legendary tough guy Clint Eastwood knows all about that Hollywood boycott. Anyway, he’s filming his next movie — in Georgia. “Now, you’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky?” The new film is “The Battle of Richard Jewell,” about the security guard/police officer who discovered a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. Initially, he was hailed as a life-saving hero. But relentless suggestive media coverage implicated him and
Senate legislation to curb unexpected high medical costs for patients moved ahead 20-3 without the support of presidential hopefuls Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who voted against the measure by proxy because they were preparing for the Democratic debates in Miami.The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee advanced the Lower Health Care Costs Act Wednesday, putting it on track to hit President Trump's desk ahead of the August recess. The only other senator to vote against the bill was Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who said he didn't think it would work. The vote came after more than a year of bipartisan efforts from the HELP Committee.
The tragic image of a father and his 11-month-old daughter dead in the Rio Grande is a result of bad immigration policies that Democrats could change, President Trump said Wednesday. “Open borders mean people drowning in the rivers,” the president told reporters who demanded his reaction to the image, which surfaced in Mexican papers earlier this week, then was splashed on the front page of The New York Times on Wednesday. The father and daughter, from El Salvador, tried to cross the Rio Grande from Mexico to Texas. But the girl got caught in the current and then the father
America is fighting a culture war and the Progressive Left is the aggressor. The latest front was opened on June 21 when the House of Representatives passed the so-called “Equality Act,” which would allow boys who self-identify as girls to compete in school sports as girls. Conservatives point to the Democrats’ embrace of transgender ideology as further evidence the party has gone off the rails, but typically left unexplained is how and why Leftists get to the positions they hold. Here is an attempt to do that. It has three parts.
Much is being written and said about Modern Day Harpy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), but no one sys it better than author/journalist Marilyn MacGruder Barnewell: Through AOC, “We’re actually living SNL!”(Saturday Night Live).
SNL became a surrealistic every day reality, when top staff of Bolshevik Bernie Sanders opened Pandora’s Box and let a rarin’ to go, fully scripted, screaming meemie AOC out.
Beth Chapman, wife of Duane "Dog the Bounty Hunter" Chapman, died Wednesday. She was 51.
Duane, 66, announced her passing on Twitter, writing, "It’s 5:32 in Hawaii, this is the time she would wake up to go hike Koko Head mountain. Only today, she hiked the stairway to heaven. We all love you, Beth. See you on the other side."(tweet)In November 2017, Beth was diagnosed with stage 2 throat cancer. She underwent successful surgery, but doctors later told her the cancer had returned. She began chemotherapy in December 2018, but Duane told Us Weekly at the time that she wasn't necessarily cooperating with her doctors and wanted to explore alternative therapies.
Declaring “I love this president,” former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan, President Trump’s reluctant pick for a new “border czar” position, indicated that he’s open to accepting the first-ever job. “I will never say never,” said Homan at a morning conference hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies. Noting that he worked for five presidents, he added, “This president has done more to secure this border than any president.” Trump recently surprised even his closest aides when he said in a Fox interview that he wanted Homan to be his czar.
A car dealership in a rural Alabama town is tapping into some of the locals' passions for a special Fourth of July promotion.Chatom Ford, a dealership in Chatom, Alabama, is running a “God, Guns and Freedom” promotion that promises a Bible, a 12-gauge shotgun and an American flag to anyone who buys a car between the start of the promotion and July 31. The dealership released a Facebook video that features Koby Palmer, a general sales manager, talking about the promotion. It’s been viewed nearly 14,000 times as of Tuesday night. “I guess it went viral, as the kids say,” Palmer, 29, told USA TODAY.
This was awkward.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday interviewed E. Jean Carroll, a woman who alleged Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990’s.(Snip)The woman is not well.
And it appears she is also a plagiarist.
Carroll’s story is eerily similar to an episode of Law and Order from season 13 — right down to the rape fantasy in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.Via The Bradford File:
Dear @CNN:
I saw your interview of E. Jean Carroll. Her story sounds a lot like an episode of Special Victims Unit—Episode 11, Season 13
Rise of the religious left? DNC hires
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In 2012, the last election Democrats won, a headline from their convention read: "Democrats boo God." In 2016, they heckled a preacher during the opening prayer. It's a perception they've been trying to change since, especially on the 2020 campaign trail. (Snip) The DNC hired former Washington, D.C. anti-Trump pastor, Rev. Derrick Harkins, who held a similar position in 2012 and has been the senior vice president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, which recently celebrated "rejoicing in the queerness of God."
Marine Corps UH-1Y pilot Capt. Brian Jordan was low on fuel when he heard a frantic plea. Two British soldiers had been hit by a Taliban Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and were at death’s door. It was June 21, 2012, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Jordan had had a busy week of flying missions when he learned that a small unit of British Grenadier Guards were pinned down under heavy enemy fire. They needed an urgent MEDEVAC.
It's often said that the denizens of the New York Times live in a bubble, and nowhere is it more obvious than at the Times' editorial page on the matter of James O'Keefe's undercover reporting revealing how Google intends to skew the 2020 election in favor of Democrats.
Get a load of this tweet sequence: Clueless? No kidding. He even used the word "boob" to describe his situation.
Now, I don't want to be mean to the guy, I've been an editorial writer myself and understand where he's coming from, and secondly, I appreciate his honesty -- think about how many of them out there aren't this honest. But cripes,
In a weird twist on socialism, Bernie Sanders on Monday rolled out a plan to hand a $1.6 trillion gift to college-loan borrowers — who tend to be better off than the average taxpayer. He’d cancel all student debt, public and private — even for grad students and no matter the borrower’s income. Another $600 billion would go to make public universities and community colleges free. Sanders claims a tax on Wall Street transactions can raise $2.4 trillion to pay for it. But critics say the tax would lead to fewer trades — and generate far less revenue. Plus, many of those transactions are made on
While speaking with CNN on Tuesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) stated that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is “deeply reluctant” to testify before Congress, but “has agreed to respect” the Congressional subpoena. He also stated that Mueller’s staff will testify in executive session.
Schiff said, “I don’t think the special counsel’s office considers it a friendly subpoena. He was, and is, deeply reluctant to come testify. But nonetheless, he has agreed to respect the subpoena.”
Following an announcement by a group to hold a second “burkini” protest at a pool in the French city of Grenoble, counter-protesters have called on locals to swim in the pool wearing nothing at all.
Last Sunday, a group of around a dozen women belonging to the Alliance Citoyenne (Citizens’ Alliance) protested at a pool that had banned the wearing of the Islamic sharia-compliant swimwear,
(Snip group has announced another protest to take place on Sunday, but this time others on social media have suggested bathers take off all of their clothes and bathe naked in counter-protest.
In March 2017 CTH first highlighted statements by Evelyn Farkas that described a coordinated effort from within the Obama administration to push political opposition research, gathered by the intelligence community, into the media.Jay Sekulow now discovers documents that highlight the Obama administration’s efforts in their last days in office. This effort backstops Farkas’s earlier statements. First, from Sekulow:
(Via Fox Op-ed) – Stunning new information just released by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) shows that the Obama administration stepped up efforts – just days before President Trump took office – to undermine Trump and his
The Trump administration is threatening to veto the House border funding bill. In a statement released Monday, the Office of Management and Budget criticized the Democrats’ $4.5 billion plan for not setting aside enough money for critical border programs. It goes on to call it a “partisan bill that under funds necessary accounts, and seeks to take advantage of the current crisis by inserting policy provisions that would make our country less safe.”
The overcrowding at some facilities has reportedly left officials with bare-bones resources to care for unaccompanied migrant children and migrant families. On Monday, the Border Patrol moved hundreds of migrants kids from a detention center in
Justice Department sues former Trump
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The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Omarosa Manigault Newman alleging that the former "Apprentice" star who served as an adviser to President Donald Trump before becoming a prominent critic of his administration failed to file a financial disclosure report after she was fired from the White House.
In a civil complaint filed in federal court in Washington, the department said Manigault Newman failed to file the report despite several emails reminding her to do so. Such a report is required of employees who leave government jobs. The Justice Department is seeking a $50,000 penalty against Manigault Newman.
Manigault Newman was unavailable for comment. Her attorney, John Phillips, accused
In a joint statement Tuesday night, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) announced that "Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has agreed to testify before both Committees on July 17 in open session."
Nadler and Schiff said Mueller agreed to come before both of their committees -- in back-to-back hearings -- after they issued subpoenas for his testimony.
“We look forward to hearing his testimony, as do all Americans,” Nadler and Schiff stated.
Be careful what you wish for, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) told Fox News's Laura Ingraham Tuesday night:
Knicks president Steve Mills indicated having a pioneering predominately black front office will help the team in the upcoming free agency. “The African American front office, that doesn’t get lost on guys,” Mills said in an article published Tuesday on The Undefeated, which deals with race issues. After getting the job when Phil Jackson got canned, Mills hired GM Scott Perry, who is black, and player developmental director Craig Robinson, the brother of Michelle Obama. Also hired after Jackson’s firing was director of player personnel Harold Ellis and college scouting director Gerald Madkins. Both are African American.
U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) star and co-captain Megan Rapinoe, says she’s “not going to the f*ck*ng White House” if her team wins the World Cup.
Rapinoe made her feelings known in explicit fashion during an interview with Eight by Eight Magazine. Rapinoe was asked if she was “excited” about making the trip to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, should her team win the World Cup.
“I’m not going to the f*ck*ng White House,” Rapinoe responded. “No. I’m not going to the White House. We’re not going to be invited… I doubt it.”
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The majority of working-class Americans say the country’s mass legal and illegal immigration policies are driving up crime in the United States, a new survey finds.
The latest Gallup survey finds that among Americans with less than a college degree, more than one-in-two, or 51 percent, said immigration to the U.S. has made crime across the country worse. About 41 percent said immigration has not had much impact on crime, and only seven percent said immigration has decreased crime.
Overall, more Americans say immigration is driving up crime than those who say immigration is decreasing crime.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is one-upping her Democratic rivals by promising to make a pre-debate, TV-magnified visit to a nearby center that shelters foreign youths before they are handed over to U.S.-based “sponsors.”
“We have to shut down that facility and shut it down now,” Warren told supporters, according to a tweet by a Washington Post reporter. The crowd enthusiastically chanted, “Shut it down!”
Warren’s gambit highlights the growing number of progressives who emotionally oppose the federal agencies’ efforts to identify — although not actually stop — the huge wave of Central American migrants and their children who are walking into Americans’ blue-collar workplaces, schools, and neighborhoods.
Amid the emotion, and its use by
New York — Monument Park has a new addition that celebrates diversity.
A plaque behind the center field fence at Yankee Stadium was dedicated Tuesday night to commemorate the Stonewall Inn uprising 50 years ago, which sparked a pivotal rebellion in the LGBTQ rights movement. The marker was unveiled before New York played the Toronto Blue Jays. It is located on a wall alongside tablets honoring Jackie Robinson and Nelson Mandela for their work fighting prejudice, breaking barriers and creating equality.(Snip) Steps away sit monuments and plaques that salute Yankees greats from Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig to Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera.
New reporting from the Washington Post details how former vice president Biden has earned millions of dollars since leaving the White House in what the Post described as "an explosion of wealth."
Biden's newfound wealth since leaving public office has mostly come from paid speeches, some of which earned him as much as $200,000, and book deals. The book deal for his 2017 memoir Promise Me, Dad was reportedly worth $8 million and covered three books from Biden and his wife,
(Snip)Four contracts unearthed by the Post show Biden making between $150,000 to $200,000 per speaking
Washington—The Transportation Security Administration plans to send more than 650 airport screeners and federal air marshals to beef up protection along the U.S.-Mexico border. House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings says TSA tells his committee it has dispatched nearly 200 screeners and supervisors and 172 air marshals to the border already and plans to send another 294. “The administration’s actions are not helping aviation security, they are harming it,” the Maryland Democrat said during a hearing Tuesday on TSA shortcomings. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, defended the Trump administration. “Why are they sending TSA personnel to the border? Because there’s a crisis
We are familiar with the pattern. Leak details about fake documents like the Steele dossier to the media, then use the media reports as a second source “corroborating” the unverified report when using it to justify your illegal actions.
More evidence of the deceitful and arguably illegal actions by former Special Counsel Robert Mueller has popped up, this time regarding Paul Manafort’s “black cash ledger” allegedly documenting criminal financial moves on his part and it parallels the criminality of the use of the Steele Dossier by the FBI to lie to the FISA court to authorize the surveillance of Team Trump and help launch Mueller’s failed Russia collusion probe.
Clint Eastwood Ignores Attempted
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Hollywood icon Clinton Eastwood appears to be shrugging off an attempted ban by some Hollywood elites against the state of Georgia following that state’s “heartbeat law” meant to help save the lives of the unborn. A cadre of D-list celebrities, hoping to garner some attention for themselves, demanded Hollywood stop producing films and television shows in the southern state. Mr. Eastwood clearly has little interest in supporting their cause. Presently, none of those D-list celebrities appear willing to criticize the entertainment legend for his decision to ignore their attempted war on Georgia.
The plan seemed preposterous. John F. Kennedy was just 43 years old, and he’d been president of the United States for just four months—a rough four months. So far, his attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro had ended in quick and utter disaster at the Bay of Pigs, and the Soviet Union had beaten the U.S. to outer space, launching cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit and bringing him home onto the Russian steppe. Now here was Kennedy, on the afternoon of May 25, 1961, in front of a joint session of Congress, offering up what his national security adviser, McGeorge Bundy, had referred to as a “grandstand play.”
This presidential election, if Democrats have their way, will be about the divide between the "rich" and the "poor," the exploiters and the exploited, the powerful and the powerless — the whole familiar and failed idea that Americans are divided by classes and that the champions of the poor are always right.There is a vast chasm in America today — that is true enough — but America is not divided by class, but rather by geography, by physical proximity to power. The real problem in America is not capitalism, but capitolism, the limitless unchecked power in Washington and the rest of the Beltway (that tiny sliver of America
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is leaving for a major international summit in Japan this morning, hoping to make progress, or at least find allies, in a multi-front dispute with China. The G20 leaders’ summit in Osaka comes at a critical moment for Trudeau, months ahead of the October election and as Canada continues to push for the release of two Canadians in China’s custody — Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor. (Snip) In order to get a message across, Trudeau will lean on the power and influence of the mercurial Donald Trump to raise the issue of two detained
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When the US launched cyberstrikes at Iran's missile control systems in response to an Iranian shoot down of a US drone near the Gulf of Oman, it surprised pundits. Donald Trump was widely expected by the press to bomb something in return.
The political left was unprepared for the possibility that Trump would not run true to their stereotype. The Gulf of Oman was already being compared to the Gulf of Tonkin. "From the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 to the U.S.S. Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964, maritime incidents, shrouded in the fog of uncertainty, have lured the United States
Stipulated: It’s off-the-chart madness that a male won a women’s NCAA national championship in track. That another male is seeking to participate in female weight-lifting competitions. Especially that men get the opportunity to pummel women in mixed martial arts.
And then there are the Connecticut girls, excluded from New England track regionals when boys took the top two spots, who have brought a complaint under Title IX, which mandates equal participation for women in educational programs.
Said one girl, Selina Soule: “There have been countless other female athletes (affected) in the state of Connecticut, as well as my entire indoor track team.
E. Jean Carroll, the longtime Elle magazine advice columnist who on Friday accused President Trump of raping her 23 or 24 years ago, has a new book coming out next week. What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal will "shock men and delight women," according to the book's promotional materials. Whatever the book's precise theme — it's still under wraps — it seems likely to represent a significant evolution from Carroll's 2004 Man Catching Made Easy: Mr. Right, Right Now!, a how-to guide that promised to reveal "How to land a guy in 6 days!"
Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s personal connections are raising concerns on Capitol Hill and beyond amid recent reports of various conflicts of interest.
Recent reports found that the Trump cabinet member created a “special path” for projects favored by Senate Majority Leader and husband Mitch McConnell for his home state of Kentucky; she retained shares in a construction-materials company for more than a year after promising to relinquish them; and she has “extraordinary proximity to power in China” given her family’s American shipping company is largely based in China.
James O’Keefe’s explosive video exposing Google’s political agenda appears to have ruffled some feathers in the media world.
Jen Gennai, the Google executive seen talking to Project Veritas undercover journalists about Google’s plans to prevent “the next Trump situation,” has already published a response complaining that she was taken out of context.
And the bombshell video didn’t last even a full day on YouTube before it was removed from the platform.
Ask Democrats whether they support “Medicare for All” and the vast majority will say yes. Ask them what’s actually in it, and most don’t have a clue. That, at least, is what a new survey shows.
The Kaiser Family Foundation asked multiple questions about Medicare for All, and broke down the findings by partisan affiliation. You’d expect that Democrats, who have been calling for single-payer for decades, and now have two bills in Congress that would achieve it, would be the most well-informed of anyone.
It turns out, they are the worst informed. Both Republicans and independents have a much better grasp of what Bernie Sanders
Congress is debating emergency humanitarian aid to care for migrants on the U.S.-Mexico border. The need is obvious. With virtually no barrier to stop them, thousands of migrants are crossing illegally into the United States every day. More than a million will come this year. U.S. law prevents border officials from quickly returning them. While they are being processed, some of the migrants, including children, are being kept temporarily in terrible conditions. American officials have an obligation to take care of them before those with no valid claim to be in the United States are returned to their home countries.
Capitol Hill Democrats are reportedly torn about an emergency aid measure.
Parkland shooting survivor-turned-gun control activist David Hogg said Tuesday that he’s been the target of seven assassination attempts since the mass shooting at his high school last year thrust him and his classmates to the forefront of the gun debate.
“In the past year, there have been seven assassination attempts,” Mr. Hogg, 19, told The Washington Post. “Honestly, I realize that it’s horrible that I have to live through this, and it is traumatizing.
“But you eventually become desensitized to it,” he continued. “Like, oh, your house got SWAT-ted. You got a call from the police saying someone said that everyone in your family had been killed
Socialism — pro or con — is the hot issue in Democratic circles as the party’s candidates for president prepare to debate this week.
To the obvious objection that socialism failed catastrophically in Venezuela and the Soviet Union, Democratic democratic socialists have a ready response: Our model is the thriving nations of northern Europe.
“I think that countries like Denmark and Sweden do very well,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told an Iowa audience in April. “My policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in January.
Undoubtedly, the Nordic nations,
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What will happen Thursday night if former Vice President Joe Biden pulls his pants down in public on stage when it is finally his time to speak? I am told that he will have one minute to answer the first question, one minute! Moreover, so will all the other candidates. Apparently there will be a plenitude of one-minute answers whizzing through the Miami auditorium.
What a week this is going to be. For my part I think it will be better for the former Vice President to pull down his pants on stage than to answer whatever his questions might be. His goal will be,
Employees of the online housewares giant Wayfair announced Tuesday that they would stage a walkout at the company’s Back Bay headquarters on Wednesday to protest its decision to sell furniture to the operators of facilities for migrant children detained at the southern US border.
Last Wednesday, they learned that a $200,000 order of bedroom furniture had been placed by BCFS, a government contractor that has been managing camps at the border. More than 500 employees signed a letter of protest sent to company executives. When the company refused to change course, employees organized the walkout.
“Knowing what’s going on at the southern border and knowing that Wayfair
On April 15, the New York Times staff gathered in the newsroom, looking up at Executive Editor Dean Baquet on a crimson staircase where he announced to rapturous applause that reporters David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner had won the Pulitzer Prize for their groundbreaking story on President Trump’s taxes.
The trio “shattered Donald Trump’s myth of self-made billionaire,” Baquet said, exposing how the president and his family had evaded paying taxes for decades and committed “outright fraud.” Their story drew the fury of Trump who labeled it a “hit piece” from the “failing New York Times” and threatened to sue the paper.
The reporters spoke
Once again, Chick-fil-A has been named America’s favorite restaurant based on customer satisfaction.
For the fourth year in a row, the fast-food chain topped the American Customer Satisfaction Index for limited-service restaurant chains. The index is based on results from nearly 23,000 consumers.
Chick-fil-A scored an 86 on the ASCI’s 100-point scale, which is down one point from last year, Forbes reports. For comparison, McDonald’s scored a 69, Burger King a 76 and KFC a 78. Taco Bell scored a 75.
At first glance, South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg seems like the perfect presidential candidate: articulate, intelligent, and charismatic. Too bad he’s also awful at his job.
Buttigieg is polling at 7% according to RealClearPolitics polling average, fourth place in the Democratic primary race. Yet it’s a shame that so many Democrats are falling for his ruse. Not all residents of South Bend are as fond of their mayor as the liberal media is. Hosting a town hall in his community over the weekend, Mayor Pete tried to calm his constituents down in the aftermath of a local shooting of an African American man by a police officer.
A Virginia doctor on vacation with his wife and three children was reportedly murdered on Sunday while fly fishing in Belize.
Dr. Gary Swank, a cardiologist from Roanoke, Va., and his tour guide were shot and killed while fly-fishing in a lagoon west of San Pedro Town, according to local media reports. Both men were reportedly shot multiple times in the body and head.
San Pedro police believe the tour guide, Mario Graniel, 53, was the intended target of the gunmen, according to The Reporter. Graniel had previously called the authorities to his home on Saturday after an unknown gunman fired shots outside his apartment complex.
Alan Dershowitz: Dems will
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Democrats will regret issuing a subpoena to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who agreed to testify later this summer, according to Alan Dershowitz.
Mueller cannot refuse to answer questions from Republicans not covered by "privilege," Dershowitz claimed on Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle."
"I'm trying to stop them from shooting themselves in the foot," he said.
The law professor reacted to a statement by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. -- who, along with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., issued the subpoenas for Mueller to appear before both panels.
In a new book, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll claims Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room stall nearly 25 years ago. As soon as she made her claim, the Democrat media complex jumped all over the story and gave it credibility.
President Trump immediately outright denied the accusation.
"Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda—like Julie Swetnick who falsely accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh. It’s just as bad for people to believe it,
A lot has happened. We’re still dealing with the border crisis, the Democratic debates are about to begin, and Iran is rattling the war sabers. The city of Los Angeles should be thankful there are so many distractions. The Democrat-run urban center has become a total disgrace. And that’s very common among the Left coast.
Tucker Carlson had historian Victor Davis Hanson on last week, where the latter said that California is on the verge of becoming the nation’s first Third World state.
U.S. Secret Service took an employee of a Chicago restaurant into custody Tuesday evening after she spit on President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump, the president’s son told Breitbart News.“It was purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems,” Eric Trump told Breitbart News when reached by phone late Tuesday evening. “For a party that preaches tolerance, this once again demonstrates they have very little civility. When somebody is sick enough to resort to spitting on someone, it just emphasizes a sickness and desperation and the fact that we’re winning.”
Eric Trump spoke to Breitbart News late Tuesday evening after local news reporters
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Tuesday grilled Google UX Director Maggie Stanphill about Project Veritas' recent investigation into the tech company's desire to stifle conservatives. A whistleblower stepped forward to make people aware of Google's plans to affect the outcome of the 2020 elections and “prevent” the next “Trump situation.”The video features Google's Head of Responsible Innovation, Jen Gennai, talking about those very moves. According to Project Veritas, Gennai's department "monitors and evaluates the responsible implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies."“
Despite the boycott of filming in Georgia launched by Hollywood liberals angry over the state's new pro-life "Heartbeat" law, legendary actor/director Clint Eastwood will be making his latest movie, "The Battle of Richard Jewell," in Atlanta this summer, reported NBC Charlotte and other media.
"Clint Eastwood will perform new film in Georgia despite abortion bill boycott," tweeted NBC Charlotte on June 25. The movie is about Richard Jewell, a police officer and security guard who discovered a bomb at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ga., and saved countless lives. Jewell was initially hailed as a hero and then was viewed as a suspect.
Ken Cuccinelli, the new leader of the agency that processes asylum cases, is moving to curtail work permits for people whose asylum claims are pending.Cuccinelli, installed just two weeks ago as acting director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to the applause of immigration hawks, is also stepping up the process of weeding out "fraudulent" asylum applicants.The vow to quickly adopt new regulations indicates an intent to break from former agency Director L. Francis Cissna, whom White House hardliners accused of doing little as Central American asylum cases surged this year.