Posts on Thursday, June 27, 2019
MacLeods Pharmaceuticals Limited, which recalled one lot of heart and blood pressure medication losartan in February, recalled another 32 lots of losartran Tuesday for the same reason: an impurity that might be a carcinogen. In February, the problem was NDEA, but now the problem is NMBA (Nitroso-N-methyl-4-aminobutyric acid). The active ingredient, made by India’s Hetero Labs Limited, is in the recalled lots above the FDA limit of 9.82 parts per million. “Based on the available information, the risk of developing cancer in a few patients following long-term use of the product cannot be ruled out
The most personal attack of Thursday’s Democratic debate was aimed not at President Donald Trump, but at former Vice President Joe Biden. California Sen. Kamala Harris called out Biden on the issue of race, saying the way he recently described his past working relationship with two segregationist lawmakers was “hurtful.” Biden, at a campaign event earlier this month, had cited his ability to get things done even with segregationist senators as examples of the type of “civility” in Congress that has since disappeared. Numerous Democratic presidential candidates took Biden to task for the comments, though some in his party, including
Grim Lizzie
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The grimmest candidate of all may be Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who dominated Wednesday’s debate stage. Ms. Warren is running on her own unique brand of anticorporate populism, one that attacks “a small group that holds far too much power.” Every problem she sees in America—climate change, guns, student-loan debt, health-care prices, legislative gridlock—is a product of “systemic” corruption. Only “a thinner and thinner slice at the top” is succeeding, Ms. Warren insisted. Everyone else is failing.
MIAMI, Florida—Former vice president Joe Biden will not visit the “spin room” after participating in the second night of the first Democratic Party presidential primary debate Thursday evening, according to a report from Buzzfeed News. Buzzfeed’s Henry Gomez, citing “Biden campaign officials,” reported Thursday afternoon that the frontrunner will forego the traditional ritual of fielding questions from the press after the two-hour debate formally ends.(Tweet) It is not clear why Biden is skipping the “spin room.” One reason could simply be strategic: he is still a prohibitive frontrunner
Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted President Trump won the election without an assist from Moscow, calling him “a talented person.” “Mr. Trump is not a career politician,” Putin told the Financial Times. “I do not accept many of his methods when it comes to addressing problems. But do you know what I think? I think that he is a talented person. He knows very well what his voters expect from him.” Putin has dismissed accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, despite the U.S. intelligence community and special counsel Robert Mueller concluding that Russia sought to help Trump win.
Will Joe Biden receive the same kid gloves treatment on the second night of the 2020 Democratic candidate presidential debates hosted by NBC that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) received on the first night of debates? Warren was not challenged on her false claims of Native American ancestry, a key vulnerability for her in any potential general election matchup with President Trump, by the five NBC moderators or the nine also-ran candidates on the stage with her Wednesday when ten of the 25 announced Democratic candidates for president participated in the two-hour-long first installment of the two consecutive nights of debate.
NASA has announced a plan to explore the surface of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.The space agency made the announcement in a media teleconference Thursday afternoon, detailing its vision of a robotic rotorcraft dubbed Dragonfly that will collect samples and measure soil composition in search for signs of habitability.The enormous, icy moon is said to be the most Earth-like world in the solar system, and previous findings by the Cassini mission suggest it holds some of the ingredients necessary for the emergence of life.Dragonfly will launch in 2026 as part
Jackie O's daughter Caroline Kennedy is giving someone the opportunity to experience a slice of the family's unique, glamorous, and very closely-guarded life after putting her mother's sprawling Martha's Vineyard estate on the market for a staggering $65 million — four decades after the former first lady purchased it. The 340-acre property includes more than a mile of private Atlantic beachfront near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, as well as lush surrounding landscapes, all of which have been perfectly preserved by Kennedy and her family for the last 40 years. Onassis was first attracted to the oceanfront property in 1979,
President Trump was speaking at the Faith and Freedom Coalition when he called up bone cancer survivor Natalie Harp. The President asked Harp to talk about the Right to Try act. Right to try gives terminally ill patients a chance to try potentially life saving drugs before FDA approval. Natalie Harp is one of the first to benefit from Right to Try. Remarkably her bone cancer is now in complete remission. Calling her on stage to speak, Natalie delivered what has to be the most heartfelt endorsement of Donald Trump ever seen.
After months of negotiations, former special counsel Robert Mueller has agreed to testify before the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees on July 17, but his willingness still comes with some parameters, according to a congressional aide with knowledge of the arrangement with Mueller’s office.
There will be two open sessions with Mueller and two closed sessions with his staff.
The House Judiciary Committee will have to choose which of its members are able to ask Mueller questions during its open session.(Snip) the Judiciary Committee is quite large, almost double in size, so only 22 of its 41 members will
Details are beginning to emerge about the agreement between Democrats and Robert Muller surrounding his closely constructed upcoming testimony.
The baseline here is very important. As we have outlined throughout, and especially since the Democrats won the mid-term election, the Mueller “team” is closely coordinating with the Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler and Cummings group about how best to continue the efforts of the Weissmann and Mueller small group within the DOJ and FBI.(Snip)CTH advised everyone to pay close attention to the details in the agreements between Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler and the corrupt team led by Robert Mueller.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has abandoned the House’s migrant crisis funding bill in favor of the Senate’s less radical version, which includes some of the Democrats’ many pro-migration priorities.
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But the concession is not a permanent defeat for House Democrats, who will likely include many of their pro-migration, anti-enforcement priorities in the pending homeland security funding bill.
The Senate migration crisis bill provides more than $1 billion to preserve the orderly inflow of many economic migrants into Americans’ workplaces and schools, and includes no spending to curb migration.
Twitter has announced that it intends to add what would essentially be warning labels and disclaimers to tweets posted by world leaders that allegedly violate the platform’s controversial and highly inconsistent policies concerning abuse, harassment, threats and so-called hate speech.While the social media network has denied that this new rule has anything to do with President Donald Trump, there’s a strong belief that the rule is in fact centered on stymieing him.“[T]here are certain cases where it may be in the public’s interest to have access to certain Tweets, even if they would otherwise be in violation of our rules,” the social media network announced in a blog post Thursday.
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) exploded on Thursday after Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that House Democrats would pass Senate Republican's border bill. (Video) Pelosi's announcement comes after she had indicated on Wednesday that House Democrats would not pass the bill because they intended to add their own list of demands of things they wanted in the bill. The bill, which passed 84-8 on Wednesday, approved $4.6 billion to help address issues that desperately need to be fixed
Sen. Elizabeth Warren promised to cancel everyone’s private health insurance coverage during Wednesday night’s Democrat debate. This early in the campaign season, and I mean way early, months and months and months away from the first votes being taken, the only real benefit of Wednesday night’s debate was how it nailed Warren down as a power-hungry socialist who will take away everyone’s private health insurance.There was no ambiguity here.One of the night’s better questions came from NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who asked straight out, “Many people watching at home
The Supreme Court just handed Republicans a huge political victory on partisan gerrymandering
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On Thursday, the Supreme Court showed how much difference who wins the presidency makes.
Armed with a five to four conservative majority thanks to President Donald Trump's appointment of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh over the past two years, the Supreme Court said it had no role to play in partisan gerrymandering -- a decision that amounts to a massive political victory for Republicans, not just in the moment, but also likely for the next decade-plus.
FORT MEADE -- Sheriff's deputies are investigating after an alligator was discovered with its jaws on a man's body.
The site was near an old phosphate mine off Peeples Road. The Polk Sheriff's Office got the call from a supervisor at phosphate mining company Mosaic around 7:45 Thursday morning. They found the dead man in a canal after someone spotted both the body and the gator.
The sheriff's office says the creature "disengaged" when they arrived. State FWC agents shot and killed the alligator.
Deputies say they don't know what caused the man's death, and won't say until the medical examiner finishes
This is not your average "catch of the day." A sheriff's office in Oregon recently disclosed it hauled dozens of electric scooters and bicycles out of a major river in Portland. The Multnomah County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday on Twitter the department's dive team recovered a total of 57 scooters and bikes over a two-day period in the Willamette River in Portland. "The team had to quit early because they needed a bigger boat!" the sheriff's office said. Officials told FOX12 the dive team found 15 scooters in May during a training exercise before dredging up dozens more this week. The
Attorney General William Barr was at the recent US Attorneys’ National Conference, providing opening remarks. While the attendees were watching the NYPD Pipes and Drums, group, The Emerald Society, AG Barr steps off the dais to join the group in a rendition of of Scotland the Brave. (see 5:52)
As the US Attorneys National Conference got under way the NYPD Pipes and Drums corp began playing, Attorney General Barr briefly went backstage, and then come out with his own Bagpipe to join them in a stirring rendition
A priceless moment for AG Barr, the Attorney Generals and staff and the Emerald Society.
Watch it here:
Today the Supreme Court issued two major opinions with profound implications for American politics. It blocked, for now, adding a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census in Department of Commerce vs. New York. In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Court permanently killed off allowing federal courts to decide that a legislative map gave one side too much of a partisan advantage.It was a bad day for the right, a very bad day for the left, and an extremely bad day for Chief Justice John Roberts. First, the very bad day for the left. For years, the institutional left has been trying to strip state legislatures of power
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. The unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service does not say anything about persevering through a profound agency financial crisis. But according to recent congressional testimony by Postmaster General Megan Brennan, the agency will run out of money within five years. [Snip] Nothing could replace a service that
When it comes to so-called “abortion rights”, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro believes no one should be excluded from the right to choose – including men who identify as women.At last night’s Democratic debate, Castro was asked about his position on abortion rights and if his healthcare plan would cover abortion costs. Here’s what the former housing secretary had to say: “I don’t believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice. And, you know, what that means is just because a woman, or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right
Ford Motor Co. Opens a New Window. is overhauling its European business, the carmaker said on Thursday, pushing out a new vehicle line-up Opens a New Window. , laying off workers and realigning its operations Opens a New Window. in an effort to improve its financial performance in the region.
“Ford will be a more targeted business in Europe, consistent with the company’s global redesign,” said European president Stuart Rowley.
Ford expects to release three new models in the market over the next five years, including an all-electric Mustang-inspired vehicle, part of a broader shift for the Dearborn, Michigan-based company towards emissions-free options.
“Our future is rooted in electrification,” Rowley said.
Joe Biden won the first Democratic Party primary debate, y ni siquiera tuvo que aparecer. Now, at his present political trajectory, Biden may end up promising to perform late-term abortions on transgendered Guatemalan migrants with his bare hands by the time the debate rolls around on Thursday. But really, all the former vice president needs to do to maintain his lead position is not turn completely insane. Because while Sen. Cory Booker might believe that most Americans agree with the policy objectives of the Democratic Party, this is not a Democratic Party that anyone would recognize ten, or even
It was a “debate” that many times bordered on outright parody yet sadly it was a stage full of would-be-presidents who weren’t intentionally trying to be funny.
Often, too often, their answers were a word-salad mix of political posturing and even outright anti-Americanisms. Their ideas rarely elevated above a teenager’s self-obsessed view of the world.
A once-great political party has devolved into an increasingly absurd parade of lunacy. “Listening to these Democrats, one might have been under the impression that the nation was in the midst of a dystopian nightmare, ravage by hunger, poverty,
President Trump was furious on Thursday after the Supreme Court ruled to block his administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Chief Justice Roberts sided with liberals on Thursday — shocker! The President is now seeking to delay the 2020 census.“Seems totally ridiculous that our government, and indeed Country, cannot ask a basic question of Citizenship in a very expensive, detailed and important Census
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 administration.
The ACLJ,(Snip)has obtained records that show the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, under Director James Clapper, eagerly pushed to get new procedures as part of an anti-Trump effort. The procedures increased access to raw signals intelligence before the conclusion of the Obama administration, just days before President Trump was inaugurated.
By greatly expanding access to classified information by
In terms of corporate brand disasters, the unfolding series of problems with Boeing’s new 737 Max plane are right up there with Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol poisonings in 1982. [Snip] More than 500 of Boeing’s best-selling 737 Maxes are idled worldwide, so many that Boeing is even storing some in employee parking lots near Seattle awaiting computer fixes. Boeing had hoped to install the fixes in all 737 Maxes, get them re-certified starting last week and safely back in the air by early August.
But now the Wall Street Journal reports the Federal Aviation Administration has set no time-frame for any return to service. Last week an FAA test pilot
The Paris prosecutor’s office said that the results of a preliminary investigation into the fire that gutted parts of the famed Notre Dame cathedral showed no proof of criminal activity.
(Snip)didn’t cite a specific cause, but listed a number of hypotheses, including a malfunctioning electrical system or an errant smoldering cigarette. Although they said there was no indication the blaze was intentional, the possibility of negligence was not ruled out.
“If certain failings, which may explain the scale of the fire, have been brought to light, the investigations carried out to this date have not yet been able to
A Queens man who can’t seem to leave U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alone wound up back in court Thursday. Douala Hashi, 31, was arrested for criminal contempt on Wednesday for violating an order of protection by visiting the progressive rep’s office in Jackson Heights after he was warned not to do it again. Police brought him to the 115th Precinct stationhouse and also charged him with stalking for three other visits to AOC’s office. Cops said on each occasion, he asked to speak with her, and then became “violent" when refused access.(Snip) The Somali-born Hashi, of South Jamaica,
A discarded cigarette, still alive with smoldering tobacco, is one of the most likely causes of the historic fire that saddened millions around the world and destroyed large parts of the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. In a preliminary report, investigators say they found no evidence of arson after weeks of interviewing 100 witnesses and sifting through tons of blackened debris and some 1,200 possible clues. A judicial inquiry will continue the probe. The investigators said the most likely causes of the massive blaze are a lone cigarette or possibly an electrical spark from wires being used in
Police combing a Salt Lake City home for clues on the whereabouts of missing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck named its owner as a "person of interest" Thursday, adding they are searching for a mattress and box spring removed from the home last week.
Lueck, 23, was last seen meeting an unknown individual around 3 a.m. on June 17 near a park in Salt Lake City after being dropped off by a Lyft driver. (Snip). The homeowner, according to a detective that spoke to Fox News, will not be identified until police make an arrest.
The fifth vice president of the United States pronounced his surname with a hard G, but two centuries later not only do people mispronounce Elbridge Gerry's name but they misunderstand the political tactic that bears his name: gerrymandering.
The Constitution provides a decennial census, which allocates congressional representation to the states. The states then divide themselves into districts. They do the same with state legislative seats and lesser jurisdictions.
The party in power draws these districts to its advantage. The losers always whine.
Bank of America will end its association with companies that provide prisoner and immigrant detention services at both the state and federal levels. The move comes amid growing public concern about the nation’s border policies.
A spokesperson said Wednesday that Bank of America has discussed the issue with its clients that provide those services. While the bank appreciates “steps they have taken to properly execute their contractual and humanitarian responsibilities,” it ultimately decided to “exit the relationships.”
“Lacking further legal and policy clarity, and in recognition of the concerns of our employees and stakeholders in the communities we serve, it is our intention to exit these relationships,” the spokesperson said.
Cops Investigating Missing Utah Student
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Salt Lake City police descended on a home on the northwest side of the city on Wednesday night, hoping to find clues into the disappearance of University of Utah student McKenzie Lueck.
According to the Deseret News, Salt Lake Assistant Police Chief Tim Doubt told reporters at the scene that the house and its occupants have “a nexus to the case.”
On the night of June 17, the 23-year-old Lueck took a Lyft from the airport to a park and met someone else in a vehicle there, police say.
Lueck hasn’t been seen since. She hasn’t used her phone or contacted anyone, nor has she posted on social media.
A lot of Latino voters were kind of creeped out by three of the Democratic candidates' calculated use of Spanish in their debate statements. Not only were Cory Booker, Julian Castro, and Beto O'Rourke observably poor Spanish speakers, their use of the Spanish language to appeal to the Latino voters was just a little too cute on the pandering front. And that doesn't even get into the matter of their Hugo Chavez-style socialist promises for them. For many Latino voters, been there, done that.
I would have loved to have seen the fluently Spanish-speaking moderator test Castro, who reputedly speaks very
On Monday, Project Veritas unveiled a new investigative video of a Google employee describing how the company wants to stop a “Trump situation” in 2020. YouTube removed the video, but Vimeo went one step further. The company chose to ban Project Veritas from its platform for uploading a video with “hateful, defamatory, or discriminatory” content.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) decided to move further left on gun control than his debate stage colleagues. Most of his colleagues focused on the typical gun control pushes: an assault weapons ban and a call for universal background checks.
"This is something that I'm tired of and I'm tired of hearing people all they have to offer is 'thoughts and prayers.' In my faith, people say, 'faith without works' is dead," Booker said. "So we will find a way. The reason we have a problem is we've let the corporate gun lobby frame this debate. It is time that we have bold actions and a bold agenda.
A decades-old mural in a San Francisco school will be removed from public view because of its depiction of Native Americans, the city’s Board of Education decided unanimously Tuesday night. The unanimous vote directs staff at George Washington High School to develop a project that would remove the 1936 mural by Victor Arnautoff from public view by either painting over it or using solid panels to cover it. Because the mural is painted directly onto the building’s walls, the mural must be covered and cannot be removed.
To paint over the mural, an environmental impact report would be required, and that process could take a year and
Barack Obama's ICE Chief: Don't Blame
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The man who was the Obama administration’s chief of removing illegal immigrants said on Wednesday that it was his boss, President Barack Obama, who had the idea of putting illegal immigrant children in the “cages” that Democrats have used as a bludgeon against President Trump. Thomas Homan, Obama’s executive associate director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement between May 2013 and January 2017, was responsible for “promoting public safety and national security by maintaining direct oversight
The Beto Bust
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I'm not sure the first night of the Democratic debate had a winner, but it sure had a loser: Robert Francis ‘Beto' O'Rourke. The former congressman found himself the target of Bill de Blasio, Cory Booker, Julián Castro, and John Delaney. And O'Rourke didn't fare well. He came across as stilted and rehearsed during his answers and off-balance in his responses to the other candidates. O'Rourke enjoyed a lot of publicity last year, and much attention when he launched his campaign, but he has since lost ground to South Bend mayor Pete Buttigieg. O'Rourke is at 3 percent nationally in the RCP average.
Alan Dershowitz appears with two panel members of the ‘Tick-Tock-Boom club’ to discuss the potential of Robert Mueller’s testimony. On the issue of the May 16th, 2017, Mueller trip to the White House raised by ‘tick-tock’ chairman Greg Jarrett, his emphasis is on the wrong syllable.
(Snip) the substance of Mueller’s White House visit should be ignored, and his status within the visit should be the focus. Not to beat a dead horse, but the purpose of Rosenstein taking Mueller to the White House had nothing to do with Mueller as a candidate for FBI Director.
The National Rifle Association lost its longtime political strategist and shut down its live television programming wing this week, adding new scars to the gun rights group as it prepares for the presidential election season. Chris W. Cox, who had been head of the NRA’s political and lobbying arm since 2002 and was one of its most visible executives, resigned after being accused of participating in an attempted coup to oust Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.(Snip) The NRA was already reeling from the coup attempt and subsequent ouster of President Oliver North, a worrisome financial picture and a nasty legal battle
Veteran conservative activist Ralph Reed said Wednesday that the faith-based group he leads plans to spend at least $50 million on get-out-the-vote efforts in 2020.
It's part of a large-scale marshaling of evangelical resources that's poised to benefit President Donald Trump's reelection campaign.
After Trump spoke to an annual conference hosted by Reed's group, the Faith & Freedom Coalition, the longtime GOP strategist previewed a voter outreach plan for 2020 that he said would include significant investment in Latino voters of faith.
Of the $50 million the group has set aside to spend on communicating with voters, Reed said $4 million would go toward contacting socially conservative and religious Latino voters in swing
The Supreme Court ordered further proceedings in the dispute over a citizenship question on the 2020 census form Thursday, saying the Trump administration apparently concealed its true reason for adding the query. Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the Court’s opinion, portions of which were unanimous. “It is rare to review a record as extensive as the one before us when evaluating informal agency action — and it should be,” Roberts wrote. “But having done so for the sufficient reasons we have explained, we cannot ignore the disconnect between the decision made and the explanation given. Our review is deferential, but we are “not required to exhibit a naiveté
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cannot include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census form that goes to every U.S. household, giving a win to mostly Democratic populous states that said the question would discourage legal and illegal immigrants from responding and make the population count less accurate.
The court was deeply fractured on the issue, but on the section that essentially eliminated the citizenship question, the vote was 5-4, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the four-member liberal wing of the court.
The court's majority said the government has the right to ask a citizenship question, but that it needs to properly justify changing
Former Vice President Joe Biden tweeted an image of a migrant father and daughter who had died on the U.S.-Mexico border and he attempted to link the deaths to cruelty from President Donald Trump. However, Breitbart News consistently reported on the deaths of hundreds of migrants along the border during the Obama-Biden administration — horrors that then-Vice President Biden never spoke about during his time in the White House.During the Obama-Biden administration, 535 migrants died in one Texas county alone — Brooks County. The county is located about 80 miles north of the Texas-Mexico border and is home to the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint on U.S. Highway 281.
American librarians have voted to remove the name of Melvil Dewey, widely seen as the father of modern librarianship, from one of their top awards, citing his history of antisemitism, racism and sexual harassment. The council of the American Library Association (ALA) passed a resolution this week to rename its top professional award, the Melvil Dewey Medal. The resolution explains that Dewey did not permit Jewish people, African Americans or other minorities admittance to the resort he owned, the Lake Placid Club. He also “made numerous inappropriate physical advances toward women he worked with and wielded professional power over” and was ostracised
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the latest House border funding bill because it claws back funding for efforts to deter illegal immigration.“It’s not going to happen,” the Kentucky Republican announced on the Senate floor Thursday.An hour earlier, the House Rules Committee approved legislation that combined a modified a bipartisan Senate bill with several progressive provisions.The new House bill would eliminate funding in the Senate bill allocated for the use of the military to help secure the border and it strips out additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, otherwise known as ICE, which is an interior immigration
A deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts may not intervene to block even the most partisan election maps drawn by state lawmakers, a decision that allows such gerrymandering to continue unabated.
The 5-4 opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts and joined by the court's other conservatives said partisan election maps drawn by North Carolina Republicans and Maryland Democrats are constitutional despite their one-sided nature.
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Thursday, ruled that federal courts cannot block partisan gerrymandering.
“We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority opinion for the court.
The justices were weighing two cases from Maryland and North Carolina, where there were allegations that district maps were drawn to benefit one political party.
“Federal judges have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties, with no plausible grant of authority in the Constitution, and no legal standards to limit
Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Joni Ernst (R-IA) split from members of their party Tuesday and requested more information on E. Jean Carroll’s claim that Donald Trump raped her 23 years ago.
While many of his Republican colleagues have remained silent on the issue, or come out in support of the president, Romney claimed the accusation placed by Jean Carroll, who previously said “most people think of rape as being sexy,” is a “serious” allegation, according to CNN.
“It’s a very serious allegation,” Romney said. “I hope that it is fully evaluated. The President said it didn’t happen and I certainly hope that’s the case.”
A federal public health advisory panel said Wednesday that people through age 45 could benefit from getting an HPV vaccine and should discuss the possibility with their doctors. The recommendation, which came during a two-day meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, could expand the pool of people whose insurance providers may cover the HPV vaccine. It was developed to prevent cancer caused by the human papillomavirus, which is typically transmitted through oral, anal or vaginal sex. The vaccine is currently recommended for preteen girls and boys to protect them before exposure to
A growing list of 2020 Democrat candidates are visiting a youth migrant shelter in Florida, with some–such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)—visiting the facility hours before the first Democrat presidential debate in Miami. The Homestead youth migrant shelter is less than an hour away from the Adrienne Arsht Center, where the debates will be held Wednesday and Thursday nights. Warren was one of the first candidates on the scene, surprising many after telling a town hall audience Tuesday that she planned to visit the Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children ahead of the debate Wednesday. “We have to shut down
The NSA's much maligned phone data collection program was dealt another blow Wednesday, after it emerged it had collected call and text records it wasn't authorized to obtain—the second time such an incident has occurred. The error, which took place last October, happened several months after the agency said it had purged hundreds of millions of metadata records it had over-collected since 2015, following a similar incident. Metadata include the numbers and time stamps of calls or texts but does not contain the contents of the conversation. When the initial error was disclosed, the NSA said it had addressed the 'root cause'
Last night saw the expression “clown car” gain considerable justification as a description of the Democrats’ presidential field. It was “9 candidates with no shot at anything and the tenth, the first fake Native American candidate,” in Daniel Greenfield’s apt description of the farce. But there were moments of hilarity that punctuated the tedium, so it was not a total loss for those who subjected themselves to the entire broadcast, a marathon competition in pandering to the hard-left activists that shout the loudest on Twitter.
I confess that my secret hope of Robert F. O’Rourke jumping on top of his podium like some Iowa coffee shop counter was dashed,
The Democratic debate was pretty well summed up by President Trump with one word: "BORING." (snip) But there was one exception, one voice of the real world, one voice of common sense that weirdly stood out like a Martian among the mud gnomes. In a must-read analysis by Jeff Greenfield, it came from an obscure candidate named Rep. John Delaney of Maryland, who brought up what amounts to a booby trap, "a landmine" for frothy leftist Democrats promising everyone the moon.
In an effort to save Oregon agriculture, transportation and natural resource industries from bearing the burden of a boundless cap and trade bill (Oregon HB 2020), 11 republican senators ditched the state capital to prevent a quorum in the chamber. It was a stand made to force the far-reaching plan into a referendum vote rather than allow a super-majority legislature, packed with politicians lacking business experience, to set policy.
President Donald Trump mocked the first Democratic presidential debate of 2019 Wednesday night, as he traveled to Japan for the G-20 summit. During a refueling stop in Alaska, Trump spoke with some troops at the military base, noting that the debate had already started. “I had my choice between you and them, and I chose you,” he told them. Trump also panned their performance while speaking to reporters, after the first section of the debate. “I think they all are going to do very poorly,” he said. After boarding the plane again, Trump shared his view with the public on Twitter.
The Left's attempt to rewrite history and further delegitimize Donald Trump's presidency kicked into another gear on Monday night with the live reading of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts." The play, written by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert Schenkkan and performed at the historic Riverside Church in Manhattan, was a dramatization of the Mueller Report that extracted parts of the actual text for dialogue. Actors doing the reading included John Lithgow, Jason Alexander, Annette Bening, Kyra Sedgwick, and Alyssa Milano. According to CNN political analyst Julian Zelizer: Given the partisan political climate, the play seemed to be undertaking the role of Congress —
MSNBC was ruthlessly mocked by Twitter users of all political persuasions after the network experienced technical difficulties that caused microphone issues and forced an unplanned commercial break.“Everybody’s mics are on,” said MSNBC host Chuck Todd as Sen. Elizabeth Warren was about to answer a question. “I think we have a — heard that, too. That’s okay. I think we had a little mic issue in the back. … Yeah, we have the audience’s audio. So the question is simply this—”Someone could be heard saying “sorry” before things cleared up. But it was too late,
Ohio Democrat Rep. Tim Ryan admitted that Democrats have lost touch with “working class people” while being questioned during the first presidential debate held in Miami, Florida.
After he answered a question regarding solutions to climate change, Ryan jumped to respond to a previous question on “real politics.”
“We could talk about climate, we could talk about guns, we could talk about all of these issues that we all care about,” Ryan told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “We have a perception problem with the Democratic Party.”
“We are not connecting to the working class people in the very states that I represent in Ohio, in the industrial midwest,”
Sen. Cory Booker argued during the Democrat presidential debate on Wednesday that Americans need to talk more about transgender people.
“We do not talk enough about trans-Americans, especially African American trans-Americans, and even incredibly high rates of murder right now,” he said.
He compared the transgender rights struggles to the civil rights of black Americans, recalling a time when they were lynched in America.
Booker also said that up to 30 percent of LGBT schoolchildren were afraid to go to school.
He then argued that Democrats needed to do more than just support the Equality Act proposed in Congress.
“We need to have a president that will fight to protect LGBTQ
Wednesday on CBS’s “The Late Show,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said “some folks” during the MSNBC Democratic candidates’ debate were like high school students who “didn’t seem like they read the book.”
Partial transcript as follows:
OCASIO-CORTEZ: I think sometimes with the debate stage this big, it can kind of seem like a high school classroom, and so there are some folks that, like, didn’t seem like they read the book, and then they got called on. And then —
COLBERT: Anybody in particular?
OCASIO-CORTEZ: “You know, you kind of like— it depends on the question. So— so they’ll answer the question or they’ll get called on, and
Democrats’ Cirque De Absurdite
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When it was time to call the candidates on stage for Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, did one of the moderators yell “send in the clowns?” If not, someone should have. What a bunch of buffoons.
We don’t use that word lightly. One definition of buffoon is “a person who amuses others by ridiculous behavior.” That’s a description that fits every candidate on the stage. Each was hilariously solicitous and comically transparent.
Almost before the game show applause had settled, Beto O’Rourke launched into a juvenile Spanish-language hustle that left Sen. Cory Booker wide-eyed and most everyone else rolling their eyes.
Much has been written about the perpetual imbecility of Adam Schiff, gadfly of the Left, one of many, sad to say. Jerrold Nadler is equally thick. But Schiff may be the most annoying, the least self-aware. (snip) Schiff is puffing up his feathers now because Mueller has agreed to honor his "friendly subpoena" to testify before two committees, Judiciary and Intelligence — misnamed panels, to be sure. Better they should be called what they are: injudicious and unintelligent, except for the few stalwart Republicans who will be present who are actually smart; Jordan, Ratcliffe, and Gaetz specifically.
Twenty-eight days after former Special Counsel Robert Mueller declared that he had nothing more to say about the results of his 2-year investigation into President Trump, he unreservedly agreed to testify before Congress. It almost seems as though his playing coy was just part of some broader impeachment strategy.
In his statement at the conclusion of his investigation on May 29, Mueller said: “I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further about the investigation or to comment on the actions of the Justice Department or Congress. And it’s for that reason I will not be taking questions today, as well.”
I'D OCCASIONALLY seen him in the gym — we both work out at the same Brookline Village health club — but we had never previously had occasion to speak. The other day, as I was using a weight machine near the front desk, I noticed him approach and speak to the staff member on duty. He motioned with apparent consternation toward the TV screens mounted on the opposite wall, and I heard him say the word "Fox." One of the eight screens was tuned to the Fox News Channel, and it became clear he wanted it changed.
"I'm sorry," the staffer replied. "Another member
What do we mean by reparations? Writing recently in the Washington Post, Sheryll Cashin, a law professor at Georgetown University, argues that “reparations should repair what white supremacy still breaks. Atoning for the legacy of chattel slavery is simply not enough.”
That is, reparations must be broad enough to encompass the many crimes and injustices perpetrated against black Americans throughout our history, from slavery to Jim Crow to mass incarceration. The effects of these injustices, says Cashin, are “direct and measurable” among slavery’s descendants: wage gaps, educational disparities, homeownership and property values, incarceration rates, health outcomes.
She is of course right. There is no question that black Americans
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.
The only alternative is to start repealing all the laws that are apparently optional for some people,
Everyone has met Robert Mueller. He’s the guest who won’t leave the party. You first notice him as an awkward presence gradually eroding the pleasant ambience by hovering silently at the edge of the festivities. Then, after he has had a couple of drinks, he begins to insert himself into random conversations with solipsistic non-sequiturs. At length, after everyone else has contrived to leave early, you discover that he’s too drunk to drive even if he could find his keys. You call a cab, but he misses it and you find him asleep in your front yard the next day. This is what it’s like to get rid
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power may share an unflattering stage with a text-loving FBI agent and his Donald Trump-hating paramour from the bureau.
Fired agent Peter Strzok and ex-FBI lawyer Lisa Page are infamous today for texting on FBI phones their anti-Trump sentiments while allegedly having an affair. They played key roles in the now-debunked Russia collusion investigation.
It turns out that Power — the diplomat whose authority inexplicably was used to unmask hundreds of Americans’ names in secret intelligence reports during the 2016 election —
GOP's Mitt Romney
and Joni Ernst call for investigation into
E. Jean Carroll rape allegation replies
and Joni Ernst call for investigation into
E. Jean Carroll rape allegation replies
In a a vocal split with their Republican colleagues, Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Joni Ernst of Iowa have openly called for an investigation into the recent allegation of rape against President Donald Trump raised by advice columnist and author E. Jean Carroll.
Romney told CNN an "evaluation" needs to occur, although he is not sure who should perform it. The senator said he did not know if the proper setting for such an evaluation would be in the Congress or "whether it's another setting, I'm not sure."
A genuine liberal education is as much an education of the emotions as it is an education of the intellect. The truly educated person experiences the right emotions at the appropriate times in the appropriate intensity for the appropriate reasons.
Aristotle explains all this in the Nicomachean Ethics. Knowing this, I felt badly watching the ‘debate’ among the first tranche of 10 Democratic aspirants to be their party’s nominee for president in 2020. I felt, I must admit, an immoderate access of schadenfreude — tinged with revulsion, it is true, but the element of pleasing disdain predominated. I am not proud of it. I merely record the fact.
But consider my provocation.
Section 1325! Section 1325! For a few crucial minutes in the middle of the first Democratic presidential debate, Julián Castro (polling average: 0.8 percent) took over the proceedings by challenging his fellow candidates to endorse the repeal of Section 1325 of the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
What’s it about? Don’t ask.
He yelled at Beto O’Rourke about it and expressed his deep disappointment that O’Rourke wasn’t joining him in supporting the repeal of Section 1325.
O’Rourke is at 3.3 percent in the Real Clear Politics polling average, so you can see why Castro thought it was so important to nail him
What a Border Crisis Looks Like
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News flash: There’s a crisis at the border.
This was discovered again over the past few days when immigration attorneys talked to reporters about appalling conditions at a Border Patrol facility detaining migrant minors in Clint, Texas.
According to the lawyers, many of the kids had to sleep on the concrete floor, failed to get proper adult supervision, and didn’t routinely take showers or brush their teeth. The details were hard to read.
Assuming the account was accurate, one wonders how we could treat anyone this way, let alone children? But a lawyer who talked to the New Yorker mentioned a telling fact: The facility previously had a capacity
Wayfair executives should resist the urge to rush for a solution to an escalating dispute with company employees who staged a walkout Wednesday to protest business dealings with U.S. government contractors operating immigration facilities, according to a crisis communications expert.
The walkout began at 1:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, days after employees learned that Wayfair planned to sell $200,000 worth of furniture to BCFS, a nonprofit contractor that operates immigration detention facilities at the southern U.S. border. Wayfair executives praised the more than 500 employees who called for the company to sever business ties with immigration contractors,
NBC and MSNBC embraced Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in the first debate of Democratic presidential candidates Wednesday night, treating her like the star of the show. The debate led off with Warren, who had a huge popularity advantage from the start.
Warren – who Trump dubbed “Pocahontas” because of her phony claim of Native American heritage – was the only Democrat on stage who had mustered double digits in recent polling. Moderators let her dominate the early part of the debate, when most people were likely watching.
NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie started it off sounding more like Warren’s press secretary. “You have many plans – free college, free child care,
Debate Of The Losers
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On a sweltering night in Miami’s Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, a 90-year-old building slightly older than Joe Biden, 9 candidates with no shot at anything and the tenth, the first fake Native American candidate, gathered to humiliate and be humiliated on national television.
On a set designed to look like a cardboard cutout White House, 10 cardboard cutouts of candidates, hoping to sit in the real White House, frantically searched for their 15 seconds of fame, while ignoring moderator questions and going over time.
All the millionaire candidates agreed that the economy wasn't working for ordinary Americans like the ones they see on TV.
MIAMI — Rep. Tulsi Gabbard was circumspect on the sidelines of the first Democratic National Committee debate after confronting House colleague Tim Ryan over U.S. military presence abroad.The Hawaii Democrat's fiery exchange with the congressman from Ohio sent Twitter aflutter Wednesday night, prompting speculation it could have been her much-needed breakout moment as a crowded primary field jostles for the party's 2020 presidential nomination.
"I'm not a political pundit. I'm not going to try to pretend to be one," Gabbard told the Washington Examiner in Miami. "It's a very important issue that is deeply personal for me. Just a few weeks ago,
The House Oversight Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Kellyanne Conway after she failed to show up to the panel hearing on her alleged Hatch Act violations.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone explained the decision in a letter:
As you know, the precedent for members of the White House staff to decline invitations to testify before congressional committees has been consistently adhered to by administrations of both political parties, and is based on clearly established constitutional doctrines. [Snip] Cummings cited “two million” federal employees who adhere to the Hatch Act every day, adding, “Nobody is above the law.”
Presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said during Wednesday’s debate that gun violence is a “national health emergency in this country.”
She suggested that solutions might include “universal background checks” and banning “weapons of war,” a reference to “assault weapons.”
Warren did not mention that California adopted universal background checks in the early 1990s, yet the state has witnessed mass shooting upon mass shooting in the decades since.
She also omitted the fact that California has an “assault weapons” ban, yet the shootings continue.
She said, “We can also double down on the research and find out what really works.”
Immigration politics exploded to the front-burner of the Democratic primary process on Wednesday as presidential hopefuls took turns blasting President Trump in the wake of the deaths of a Salvadoran man and his two-year-old daughter, drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande.'It's heartbreaking. It should also p**s us all off,' said former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro during the first primary debate of the 2020 election season.Castro called for a change in federal law that would no longer 'criminalize desperation' by reclassifying border-jumping as a civil infraction instead of a crime.
Viewers of the first Democrat debate expressed confusion over who some of the Democrat candidates even were, with more than 20 candidates vying to become the Democrat nominee.Featured in Wednesday debates were many of the lesser known candidates, including former Maryland Rep. John Delaney, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan. Most of the confusion centered on those three.Some viewers mocked confusion over Delaney, although he was the first Democrat to join the race:
Ford Motor Co. has asked a Ford dealership in Alabama to stop giving out certificates for free 12-gauge shotguns to anyone who buys a new or used vehicle. The automaker told the dealership late Wednesday that the promotion was inappropriate after three people died Tuesday evening during a mass shooting at a California Ford dealership. There, a man who had been fired from his job at the dealership in the San Francisco Bay Area fatally shot two employees, then himself, according to local media reports.(Snip) Chatom Ford's advertising offered a shotgun, a Bible and an American flag with a car purchase
By the half-way point of the first Democratic presidential debate, three candidates and one moderator had spoken in Spanish, some attempts more fluent than others.The bilingual gambits began with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who for his first question began by speaking his second language..O'Rourke, 46, was responding to a question about whether he would support a marginal individual 70% tax rate on highest earners. He responded in Spanish translated to: “We need to include everyone in the success of this economy. But, if we want to do this, we have to include everyone in our democracy. Every voter needs representation, and every voice must be listened to.”
Missing University of Utah nursing student Mackenzie Lueck is a 'sugar baby' who sought out men over the age of 35 online, DailyMail.com can reveal. Lueck, 23, disappeared on June 17 after landing in Salt Lake City, Utah, and taking a Lyft ride to meet a mysterious man in a park around 2am. The college senior's social media accounts reveal that she considered herself a sugar baby, and boasted about having at least two unidentified sugar daddies which she found through online sites Seeking Arrangement and Tinder. DailyMail.com obtained screenshots of Lueck's posts made nearly three months ago in a private Facebook group