Posts on Friday, June 28, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thought she had a deal this week with her longtime ally, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer: She would ensure passage of a more liberal border funding bill in the House, and he would back her up by persuading Democratic senators to fight for it. (Snip) The breakdown between Pelosi and Schumer revealed the extent of the raw divisions among congressional Democrats and raises the possibility of more skirmishes to come as Congress barrels toward funding and debt ceiling deadlines this fall. Democrats in both chambers agree they have to be in strategic lockstep to have
Surprise meeting between Trump and Kim
Jong Un could make progress on
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Jong Un could make progress on
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President Trump’s meeting Saturday with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and surprise tweet raising the prospect of a meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un offer the perfect opportunity to jumpstart efforts to persuade Kim to abandon his growing arsenal of nuclear weapons.Trump, who is wrapping up meetings at the G20 summit in Japan, tweeted Saturday (Friday night in the U.S.): “After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ
You don't have to exhume Dr. Hunter S. Thompson to explain the sudden turnabout that has led the previously silent Robert Mueller to accept subpoenas to testify in front of two congressional committees. But it doesn't hurt.
Fear, as the good doctor famously said, and loathing.
The fear is obvious. The Democrats and Mueller too, of course, not to mention an indeterminate number of FBI, DOJ, State Department, intel agency, and former administration scalawags are scared defecation-less waiting for shoes to drop from U.S. Attorney John Durham and Inspector General Michael Horowitz working under the steady hand of AG William Barr.
Careers could be ending,
There’s a reason why you should always be skeptical of conventional wisdom when it comes to elections.Conventional wisdom said Trump should have been finished after almost every 2016 primary debate. It didn’t happen. There are many reasons for that, not the least of which is that what gets the juices flowing for beltway insiders may not appeal to normal people.Is there another example of that dynamic beginning to play out?Last night, Kamala Harris savaged Joe Biden on the topic of race in the first Democratic party debate.
As President Trump begins day-two at the G20 he happens to tweet a public message to Chairman Kim Jong-Un about a quick meet-and-greet at the DMZ. You know, if you’ve got a few minutes… LOL. (Tweet) Too darned funny….. Obviously this possibility was the subject of the letter which President Trump recently sent to Chairman Kim which the North Korean leader described as “excellent content“. Trump had this tweet timed for this moment. As we noted at the time, this was predictable.
A black Barbie who wears her natural hair and uses a wheelchair has become an internet sensation. The doll is the first black Barbie to use a wheelchair, and is featured in Mattel's Fashionista line, which is a part of the company's ongoing attempt to create more inclusive toys. The Barbie was announced during the New York Toy Fair in February 2019, and officially launched in June. Mattel's newest doll retails for $19.99 and can be purchased from Target and other major retailers around the world. On Thursday, a Twitter user shared a photo of the Barbie, which comes with
After an anti-Trump woman spit in Eric Trump's face at a bar in Chicago on Tuesday evening, the famous son decided not to press charges against the woman and apparently directed her to "have a nice evening." Former Navy SEAL and pro-Trump pundit Carl Higbie said he spoke privately to Trump about the incident during an appearance on Newsmax TV. “I love how the Left wants to rationalize this as, depending on your level of outrage is your level of justification here. … There’s no reason to ever do this,”
The Speaker of the House of Representatives on Thursday said it shouldn't be a crime to cross into the United States illegally. "It shouldn’t be a crime to have a visa -– to have a status violation. If somebody commits a crime or is guilty of a crime, and they’re in our country, prosecutorial discretion would warrant that they, or justify that they be sent away," Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told a news conference.
MSNBC’s Wallace: ‘Beautiful,’ ‘Brilliant,’ ‘Bad
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Ass’ Kamala Harris Is the Antithesis of Trump replies
Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” host Nicolle Wallace said Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is “beautiful,” “brilliant,” and a “bad-ass,” who she said would not even know who a man like President Donald Trump is. While reporting on the Trump teams reaction, the Democratic debates, Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker said, “The people who really popped for them was Warren and Kamala. So Warren they think she has an appeal that is very different way from Trump. She is authentic. She can give a good speech on the stump. She knows what she thinks. And that economic populism is one they think can hurt him.
Project Veritas sent a letter to several Members of Congress informing them about Project Veritas’ investigation of Google that raises some concerns regarding Google’s possible improper intervention in Federal elections which may violate laws like the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA).
The letter is a follow up to Project Veritas’ latest investigative report which includes undercover video of Google officials, leaked internal Google documents and emails, and statements provided by a Google insider.
We sent versions of the letter to several members of Congress:
Heather Samuelson testified under oath in a Judicial Watch court-ordered deposition that, contrary to what she told the FBI, she was, in fact, aware that Clinton used a private email account as secretary of state.
That’s not all.
The former Secretary of State’s White House Liaison at the State Department, and later Clinton’s personal lawyer, Heather Samuelson, admitted under oath that she was granted immunity by the U.S. Department of Justice in June 2016.
Samuelson also revealed that, contrary to what she told the FBI in 2016, she was, in fact, aware that Sec. Clinton used a private email account while secretary of state.
Democrat Party meltdown
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Remember how Democrats smoked Republicans in 2016?
This time they see the handwriting on the wall.
Things are not going well for the Democrat Party, which means our world is a better, safer and saner place today.
The joyless and futile quest for the presidency has begun for Democrats.
The Democrat presidential candidates spent two nights debating on national TV and there is a sense of desperation.
A glaring failure of the mainstream media is their inattention to one of the most stunning and charming first ladies ever to grace the White House, Melania Trump. You will search in vain for a Vogue cover shoot. You won’t find anywhere an in-depth feature on how the first lady manages policy issues while being a charming, multi-lingual representative of the United States of America.
The Democrat Governor of Montana, Steve Bullock, vetoed a bill that would have expanded free speech rights on campus across the state.According to a report by Campus Reform, Montana Governor shut down a campus free speech bill that would have expanded free expression rights for Minnesota college students. The bill, which was introduced by Republican state representatives, would have outlawed free speech zones that restrict where students are permitted to engage in activist speech. Montana Commissioner of Higher Education Clayton Christian argues that the fight to expand speech protections on campus is not over. “Nothing is more important
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders will exit the White House Friday for the final time as a part of the Trump administration, as reported earlier this month.In a tweet Friday, Sanders reminisced on her time at the White House and gave thanks to President Trump. (Tweet) “Today I’ll walk out the gates of the White House for the last time as Press Secretary with my head held high,” Sanders wrote. “It’s been the honor and privilege of a lifetime to work with President @realDonaldTrump and his amazing team the last three and a half years. You’re the best…Thank you!”
Basketball icon and vaunted social justice warrior Kareem Abdul-Jabbar came away furious from the first round of the Democratic Party's presidential debates this week and proposed some remedies to prevent his ire in the future.(Video) Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, Abdul-Jabbar had nothing positive to say about any of the candidates this week and declared Trump the winner to what he described as a game of "Presidential Musical Chairs."
EXCLUSIVE: Beto’s Debate Journal
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It's not uncommon for presidential candidates to scribble down some notes or talking points on sheets of paper during a debate. It is, however, highly unusual for candidates to leave behind a sprawling journal entry of the kind found on Beto O'Rourke's lectern following Wednesday night's showdown in Miami. What follow is a (lightly edited) transcript of the document, as obtained by the Washington Free Beacon:
"Here I am in the place where I come to get low. Miami, the bass and the sunset low." — Will Smith
South Florida is "hot." Not the modern definition (sexy, cool)
Last night, Kamala Harris repeated her story about how, thanks to busing, she was able to be part of only the second class to integrate in the Berkeley public school system. She used this story to thrash Joe Biden, who offered anti-busing legislation as a U.S. Senator in the 1970s.
Last year, I questioned Harris’ story:
[I]s it. . .true that Harris was in only the second class to integrate at Berkeley public schools? Based on an examination of old yearbooks from Berkeley High, Freida Powers reports that classrooms at Berkeley High were already integrated in 1963, a year before Harris was born.
I wondered whether Harris
Grateful Medal of Honor recipient heaps
praise on Trump for breaking with
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praise on Trump for breaking with
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A grateful Iraq war veteran thought it was “unbelievable” that he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service. But former U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David Bellavia was also personally thankful to President Trump who presented him with the prestigious honor, for breaking with protocol and allowing his entire team to join him in the emotional ceremony.(Video) “You feel awkward and uncomfortable,” he told “Fox & Friends” on Friday. “But my commander-in-chief allowed me to bring my soldiers on that stage and that meant so much to them. “That has never happened before in the Medal of Honor Ceremony,
President Trump, tweeting from the G-20 summit in Japan Thursday night, summed up the Democrat debate this way: All Democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens unlimited healthcare. How about taking care of American Citizens first!? That’s the end of that race! At Thursday night's debate, in a "show of hands" question, NBC's Savannah Guthrie asked the ten Democrats on the stage: "Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants?" All the presidential hopefuls raised their hands.
In case you missed it this week, 20 Democrats hopeful to take back the White House in 2020 participated in their first election debates.
Candidates were split on two stages between two nights, with each hour proving Democrats have officially abandoned any moderate position with a full embrace of the most radical leftist positions. Whether it's destroying the private health insurance system, raising taxes on the middle class, providing "free" healthcare to illegal aliens or supporting abortion up until nine months, candidates made their positions clear.
But according to a new Rasmussen poll, the majority of voters believe the positions Democrats
For decades now it’s been a sellers’ market for American universities. Conventional wisdom held that the most important way to succeed in life was to get a college diploma, no matter the cost. Perhaps you’ve noticed university tuitions going up and up. And up. Inexorably. [Snip] Now comes a new wrinkle in these schemes and the universities’ hopes of continuing to reap huge tuition increases. A new poll of nearly a quarter-million Americans has found fully two-thirds of them have buyer’s remorse about
2020 contender Kamala Harris came out swinging with a memorable performance in the second night of Democratic debates in Miami. It was Harris' confrontation with former Vice President Joe Biden where she pressured to get him on the record on his past support of segregation-endorsing Democrats and as well as his past stance against busing to desegregate public schools, that left a mark on would-be voters' minds. In an interview with "CBS This Morning" Friday, Harris responded to criticism from Biden's camp that the contentious moment was a "low blow." "It was about just speaking truth and as I've said
For generations, American parents have taught their children the entrepreneurial spirit by helping them open front-yard lemonade stands. Sometimes even stocked with homemade cookies. [Snip] But there’s a problem, a big problem. In 36 of the 50 states, these innocent little kids’ projects are illegal by municipal code. No license to sell. No permit. Whatever. Some grumpy neighbors, who can’t remember being young, have even complained to authorities.
But Texas was only the 14th state to okay kids’ lemonade stands. Cue familiar ‘Ride to the Rescue’ music: This summer, however, America’s really small business people all over the country have a savior
James A. Fields Jr., avowed neo-Nazi in
Charlottesville car attack, sentenced to
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Charlottesville car attack, sentenced to
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CHARLOTTESVILLE— Nearly two years after James A. Fields Jr. rammed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at a white-supremacist rally here, the avowed neo-Nazi and convicted murderer apologized in court Friday as a judge sentenced him to life in prison for 29 federal hate crimes.
“Every day I think about how things could have gone differently, and how I regret my actions,” he said in a packed courtroom. “I am sorry.” Fields, 22, whose vehicular attack killed one woman and injured 35 other people, pleaded guilty to the 29 counts in April in a deal with prosecutors
A top fundraiser for Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign said he is no longer supporting the former vice president's White House bid — and predicted that others may follow suit. Tom McInerney, a San Francisco-based attorney who was a lead bundler for former President Barack Obama, told CNBC he informed Biden's team of his decision on June 20. The news of his break comes one day after Biden delivered an uneven debate performance that provoked new doubts about his candidacy and turned a spotlight back on his controversial statements and past policy positions on civil rights and abortion. “I had
This is California, remember. The Golden state is perched to become the first in the nation to ban discrimination based on unique hairstyles, mainly targeting blacks.
The measure, which has passed both chambers of the state legislature, could be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom as soon as next week. It’s aimed at schools and workplaces where blacks say they have been pressured to abandon hairstyles traditionally a part of their culture and have been denied jobs and advancement when they did not adopt more
Evolving from a crusade for equal legal and property rights for women in the late 18th and early 19th century, the journey toward what we call feminism coalesced around the voting rights “suffragette” movements in America, the UK and elsewhere. But modern feminism, the current century’s radicalized version of women’s drive for equal rights, has become a radical leftist cult.
In the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case, the Court has entered a Judgment (pdf.)(full embed at bottom of post) calculating the damages owed by the defendants after applying the statutory tort reform caps. The total amount (inclusive of compensatory and punitive damages) is: David R. Gibson $14,000,000; Allyn W. Gibson $6,500,000; Gibson Bros. Inc. $4,549,000. The total is $25,049,000. A hearing on awarding plaintiffs attorney’s fees is set for July 10. The jury originally returned a total compensatory verdict of $11 million and punitive verdict of $33 million.
Ayoola Ajayi, who has worked as a model, claims to be an IT specialist, and once wrote a novel about a murder, is now accused in the disappearance and murder of 23-year-old University of Utah student MacKenzie Lueck. The California woman was last seen on June 17 after taking an early morning Lyft ride from the Salt Lake City airport to a park in North Salt Lake, where she met someone in another vehicle, according to police.Chief Mike Brown said police are filing charges of aggravated murder, kidnapping and desecration of a body
Bruce Boise said "every day was different" even "exciting" to him as a pharmaceutical salesman at Cephalon. But that all changed in 2000 when he says he was ordered by his boss to promote drugs "off-label" to doctors -- meaning for purposes that were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration -- in order to boost sales.
"It's not legal for a pharmaceutical company to promote off-label," said Dr. Christopher Gharibo, a NYU pain specialist.
"I didn't do very well at all with selling off-label, because my heart just wasn't in it. I didn't think it was right," said Boise, w
SALT LAKE CITY — Police arrested a Salt Lake man Friday who they say murdered University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, who has been missing since June 17.
"It is with heavy heart that I address you today," said Salt Lake Police Chief Mike Brown.
Ayoola Adisa Ajayi, 31, was arrested at 9:20 a.m. at an apartment complex at 1028 S. West Temple. He is expected to be charged with aggravate murder, aggravated kidnapping and desecration of a body, according to Salt Lake Police Chief Mike Brown.
A perfect symbol to show how far-left and crazy the Democratic Party has become is that it was an attack line in Thursday night’s debate to say someone was a prosecutor.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, in defending himself from unfair attacks on his record on racial issues by Kamala Harris, the California senator, tried attacking back as follows: “If we want to have this campaign litigated on who supports civil rights, whether I did or not, I’m happy to do that. I was a public defender. I didn’t become a prosecutor. I left a good firm to become a public defender.”
If you ask me to pick a winner at the Democratic debate on night two in Miami, I would have said Pete Buttigieg. He came off as reasonable, clear-thinking, pithy, and pleasant. He respected time limits. I didn't agree with him on anything, but he gave a sense of coming from rational grounding. Maybe his leftie ideas could be tempered with real-world realities. Maybe he could be persuaded...
But then, then, then, then...he couldn't stop himself. The transcript:
We have to talk about one other thing, the Republican Party likes to cloak itself in the language of religion.
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts may go down in judicial history as the worst Republican SCOTUS pick ever. The man who found ObamaCare constitutional by inventing the fiction that it was a tax has joined the court’s four liberals to block a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, not because it is unconstitutional, but rather because he didn’t like the Trump administration’s reasons for asking for it.The man who supervises the FISA Court, which blindly accepted every lie and fake document the Obama FBI and DoJ put before it to justify the deep state coup against the Trump presidency, says the reasons Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross presented
One person has been taken into custody Friday morning in relation to the disappearance of University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck, Salt Lake City police announced.
Further details on the arrest – which came a day after police finished searching a Salt Lake City home whose owner they then identified as a person of interest -- were not immediately available. A SWAT team was seen swarming an apartment complex in the city this morning, but it is not clear if their actions are related to the Lueck case.
Lueck, 23, was last seen meeting an unknown individual around 3 a.m. on June 17 near a park in Salt Lake City
A handyman in Utah told Fox News exclusively on Friday the person of interest who police have identified in the search for a missing University of Utah student asked to build a secret, soundproofed room with hooks on its walls just as Salt Lake City police announced an arrest in the case.
Police said Friday a person was arrested earlier in the day in connection to the disappearance of Mackenzie Lueck, the 23-year-old student who was last seen meeting an unknown individual around 3 a.m. on June 17 near a park in Salt Lake City.
While in deep blue Democratic Chicago last weekend, Eric Trump, son of President Donald J. Trump (R), dined in an upscale, highly acclaimed, trendy Chicago restaurant and bar. In the course of the evening, a waitress, although undoubtedly trained in customer service, could not overcome the liberal mindset and behavior patterns of non-inclusiveness, intolerance, and harsh physical action against the opposition. She spat on Trump. Being the gentleman he is, Trump declined to press charges, although the police encouraged him to do so.
The waitress was suspended, meaning she just might return to her old job once the publicity has disappeared. Therefore, according to liberal thinking,
On Wednesday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) asked Derek Slater, Google global director of information policy, about a Project Veritas video in which Google referred to Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Dennis Prager as "Nazis." That may sound like hate speech that could incite violence, but...
Crenshaw: Google, can you give me a definition of hate speech?
Slater: Yes. So hate speech again, as updated in our guidelines now extends to, uh, uh, superiority over protected groups to justify discrimination, violence, and so on based on, uh, a number of defining characteristics, whether that's a race, sexual orientation, veteran status.
This summer's 50th anniversary of America landing a man on the moon depresses me because we so quickly gave up on space.
We should have been to Mars, Venus and one of Jupiter's moons by now.
Instead, Democrats pulled the plug on manned space exploration. They said the money could be better spent here on Earth fixing our problems.
They were wrong.
Criminal Mexican cartels now make more money trafficking people across the U.S. border than they do selling drugs, according to President Trump’s pick to be the first-ever national “border czar.”
What’s more, said Thomas Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, cartels apparently prefer moving humans because the legal consequences aren’t as bad if they are caught.
Marianne Williamson, a self-help guru and friend of Oprah Winfrey, set herself apart from her Democratic rivals during the second half of the debate on Thursday night, with her remarks going viral on social media. Williamson, a fringe contender for the White House, drew quizzical looks for her policy proposals, particularly her plans for her first act as president.
"My first call is to the prime minister of New Zealand, who said that her goal is to make New Zealand the place where it's the best place in the world for a child to grow up, and I would tell her, 'Girlfriend, you are so wrong,
Just when I was giving credit to Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro for having the guts to admit he's in favor of erasing America's borders, he got cold feet. As of today, he has reverted back to his party's pretext that "no one has called for open borders."
At the first primary debate of the campaign on Wednesday, Castro pressed every one of his rivals to pledge that as president, they would nullify the law that makes it illegal to cross in to the U.S. without authorization. But less than 24 hours later, he lost his nerve. In an interview Thursday on CNN, he walked it back
Report: Biden’s Team ‘Freaking Out’ Over
Dismal Debate Performance; Biden’s
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Dismal Debate Performance; Biden’s
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At the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate Thursday, frontrunner Joe Biden ended up on the wrong end of a headline-grabbing exchange with California Sen. Kamala Harris over race. The rather tense back and forth became, as Politico dubbed it, the "most viral moment" of the debate and, along with Biden's announcement that the first thing he'd do as president would be to "defeat Donald Trump," helped ensure that he would not walk away the winner (Snip)
It didn't take long for reports to circulate that Team Biden was "freaking out" about how poorly he performed.
St. Louis Park City Council has decided to drop recital of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag at its meetings. Above: Council members listened to testimony in 2017. The St. Louis Park City Council has decided to drop recital of the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag at its meetings, citing a desire to accommodate the city’s newest and more diverse residents. “I hope it’s not too controversial,” Council Member Tim Brausen said. “Our community tends to be a very welcoming and increasingly diverse community, and we believe our citizens will understand. I don’t think we’re going to be any less
Jimmy Carter said he doesn’t believe President Trump won the 2016 election legitimately.
Speaking at a Carter Center conference on human rights on Friday, the former president said a full investigation into Russian interference “would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016.”
“He lost the election and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” Carter said.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to take up a dispute over President Trump’s efforts to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The court will decide next term whether the Trump administration's decision to end the Obama-era program was unlawful, with a decision to be handed down by the end of June 2020, amid the heat of the presidential campaign.
Smackdown: Marco Rubio calls bee ess
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on de Blasio's claim to have no idea he
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Sometimes, a leftist just has to be called on his lies.
Exhibit A: New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, who was in Miami for the Democratic debates and decided to stay around for a day, heading over to an airport workers' strike and yelling (in that perfectly fluent Spanish of his):
"Hasta la victoria, siempre!" de Blasio shouted. The phrase translates to, "Until victory, always!," and is attributed to Guevara, a key figure in the Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro.
"We will be with you every step of the way," de Blasio added as he spoke to the crowd.
After that, de Blasio remembered where he was, probably hearing from the locals.
California Sen. Kamala Harris said Friday that she misinterpreted a question about abolishing private health insurance at Thursday night's 2020 Democratic debate, despite the fact that she raised her hand when asked if she would eliminate it.
NBC's Lester Holt asked for the 10 candidates on stage to raise their hands if their health care plans would "abolish their private health insurance in favor of a government-run plan?"
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and Harris were the only two candidates who put their hands up, but Harris said Friday she does not support getting rid of all private insurance.
Joe Scarborough smacks Democrats for
'disastrous' second debate: I hope 'people
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'disastrous' second debate: I hope 'people
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MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough ripped Democrats for their performances in Thursday night's second debate, indicating they had formed a circular firing squad instead of focusing their aim on President Trump.
"Last night was a disaster for the Democratic Party," Scarborough said Friday. "My only hope is people were not watching, and I will tell you why. First of all, on policy — well, let’s talk about the goal which every Democrat believes, which is, ‘We have to beat Donald Trump.’ Right?
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Dr. Heather Judkins just made history. Squid history.
Aboard a NOAA research vessel, The USF St. Petersburg professor and a team of explorers sent a deepwater submersible camera named Medusa deep into the Gulf of Mexico.
The cephalopod expert was asleep when the camera captured video of a marine creature that had never been seen alive in U.S. waters.
Only a handful of scientists have seen the animal alive anywhere in the world.
"I was woken up from a nap," Judkins said. "There's a knock on the door. 'Heather! Heather!' I was thinking, 'if they're waking me up for a pod of dolphins, I might not be happy
There are approximately 1 million people illegally in the United States who have been ordered to leave by a judge. These illegal aliens have had due process, their day in court, and many have even lost on appeal. They have received more protections of their “rights” by having access to America’s judicial system than an illegal alien would receive in most other countries.
The Left constantly argues that illegal aliens are Americans who simply haven’t received the proper paperwork. But we expect Americans to obey the law, and particularly to conform to judicial orders. In fact, we impose fines, sanctions, and even jail time when people fail to follow court-issued orders.
Could the 46th governor of Florida go on to become the 46th president of the United States?
It goes without saying that the excruciatingly narrow Ron DeSantis victory in the 2018 Florida gubernatorial race was one of the highlights of last year’s election cycle. But the victory did not end on election night; indeed, it had only just begun. DeSantis, more than any other Republican governor in the country, is showing the nation just how a Trumpian governor can operate in a massive swing state, with an astonishingly high level of success.In a Perfect World . . .
Governor DeSantis’s tenure thus
Here's a fact that will annoy pretty much everyone involved in the debate over illegal immigration and the border: President Obama oversaw more deportations than President Donald Trump has overseen. It's true. In 2012, the Obama administration kicked 419,384 people out of the United States, a single-year record that still stands, despite two years (and counting) of Trump framing himself as America's border-guard-in-chief. Earlier this week, Trump tweeted that he would remove "millions" of illegal immigrants if given a second term in the White House—but last year Trump managed to deport merely 256,000 people.
The Supreme Court said Friday it will review next term President Donald Trump's decision to terminate an Obama-era program that protects hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who came to the US as children, setting up a potential decision in the heart of the 2020 presidential election.
A decision siding with the administration could strip protections for nearly 700,000 so-called Dreamers.
Immigration was a signature issue during Trump's first presidential campaign and will be again in the upcoming election. Democratic presidential hopefuls showed this week that they also intend on seizing on the issue, as they pledged
We will have to wait and see how and if the debates move the needle within the Democrat primary. But what these last two nights have done is clarify a Democrat Party that is bound and determined to confiscate our guns, our money and our health insurance. (Snip)
President Trump was the winner of the Democrat debates, because he is the only person standing between us and this:
Tax increases.
Gun confiscations.
Slave reparations
Decriminalize illegal immigration.
No more deporting of illegal immigrants.
Abolish the private health insurance currently held by over 150 million Americans.
Give free health insurance to
Joe Biden got demolished
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When one candidate enjoys an enormous lead in the polls in a field of two dozen, he's bound to be a target on the debate stage — the one person everyone has an incentive to take down a peg. And so it was that in Miami on Thursday night, in the second half of the first Democratic debate, former vice president Joe Biden became a punching bag.
It started with Rep. Eric Swalwell taking a dig at the 76-year-old Biden's age by calling on him to "pass the torch" to a younger generation.
G20 Bilats – Day One…
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There will be more detailed summaries coming later; however, here’s some of the more interesting aspects so far. The G20 Osaka, Japan Group Picture: (Photo) As expected the schedule of President Trump’s first set of bilateral discussions seems structured around the Indo-Pacific strategy to counter China’s expansion. In this strategy within Southeast Asia geopolitics Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is the fulcrum for a shifting economic dynamic.President Trump hosts a bilateral with Prime Minister Abe, and then again hosts a rather unusual trilateral meeting between himself, Abe and India’s Prime Minister Modi.
Liberal Media Meltdown After Trump Jokes
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with Putin: “Don’t Meddle in the
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Here We Go…For over two-and-a-half years the Democrat Party and their liberal media have pushed the line that Russia attacked the United States and helped Trump defeat Crooked Hillary. Of course, there is no proof of this. Russia ran a few Facebook ads before the election that had nothing to do with Trump’s historic victory. And the Mueller witch hunt could not even prove Russia was working with Trump to steal the election.
It was all crap made up by Democrats.The Democrats don’t care.On Friday President Trump met with Russian President Putin
President Trump is getting his military parade after all.For nearly five hours at the Independence Day celebration and “Salute to America” being hosted by Trump on the National Mall, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard will be featured in the nation’s capital like never before.While planning is still underway for the July 4th events, officials said that the president wants to dedicate most of his hour in the spotlight to the military branches, including their tools of combat.Even as his enemies have criticized Trump for becoming part of the show next Thursday evening and potentially turning it into a political rally,
‘It was not a good night’: Reviews
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MIAMI —From one of the earliest moments of the debate, former congressman Beto O’Rourke demonstrated the promise and the peril of his presidential candidacy. He spoke of bringing the country together, and surprised some of his competitors by breaking into Spanish and displaying a fluency with connecting with Latino voters. But underneath it all he failed to answer a basic question on what has emerged as a big issue in the primary campaign — whether he would support a 70 percent tax rate on the wealthy. He then dodged a follow-up question, and then another. Time and again, O’Rourke’s answers seemed
A high-profile conservative leader called Thursday for the impeachment of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. after he provided the crucial fifth vote in the Supreme Court decision heading off President Trump’s goal of including a question on citizenship on the 2020 census. Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and husband of top Trump White House aide Mercedes Schlapp, said the ruling showed the chief justice was not the conservative-minded jurist he’d been touted to be, noting his previous decision essentially preserving Obamacare. “I’m for impeaching the chief justice for lying to all of us about his support
New Jersey environmental officials say people shouldn’t swim in New Jersey’s largest lake or even touch the water because aerial surveillance confirms the presence of an extensive harmful algal bloom.
The warning issued Thursday also urged people to not eat fish caught in northern New Jersey's Lake Hopatcong or windsurf, kayak, paddleboard or ride Jet Skis there. Pet owners should also keep their animals clear of the lake.
A new bill would calculate potential costs of reparations — and by Yahoo Finance estimates, these could reach as high as $17.1 trillion. Last week, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held the first hearing in a decade on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The bill was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers (D-MI). Conyers reintroduced the bill each year until his retirement in 2017 — and each year, the bill languished in Congress. The bill’s focus was not to pass reparations, but
It was only a few months ago that Democrats were dismissing the crisis at the border as manufactured by Trump, and now they’re comparing migrant detention centers to concentration camps and blaming Trump for “putting kids in cages.”
But for those still trying to blame President Trump, Barack Obama’s former ICE chief, Thomas Homan, has a reality check for them. Speaking at a conference hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, Homan explained that the “cages” Democrats are blaming on Trump were the product of the Obama administration:
“I’ve been to that facility, where they talk about cages. That facility was built under President Obama under
Project Veritas's latest work of investigative journalism has captured video of Google executive Jen Gennai expressing the company's effort to "prevent the next Trump situation." She goes on to talk about her job, in drafting fairness algorithms to serve a community of people, "not those who voted for our current president."Jen Gennai then decries Elizabeth Warren as being "misguided" in suggesting that the industry might be better served by breaking up large "monopolistic" companies like Google: Elizabeth Warren is saying we should break up Google. And like, I love her, but she's very misguided. Like, that will not make it better; it will make it worse,
Every single Democratic presidential candidate on stage Thursday night during the second round of debates said that illegal immigrants should get government health insurance. The collective group of ten candidates was asked if “undocumented immigrants” deserve health coverage paid for by the American taxpayer. WATCH: (Video) “A lot of you have been talking about government health care plans you proposed in one form or another. This is a show of hands question and hold them up so people can see. Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants,” moderator Savannah Guthrie asked. All ten candidates raised their hands
Older folks remember Darryl Dawkins (aka Chocolate Thunder): a massive, free-spirited NBA megastar known for backboard-shattering dunks – and for claiming to be an alien from the planet Lovetron, where he practiced “Interplanetary Funkmanship.”
No one quite knew what “Interplanetary Funkmanship” was. But it possibly related to stuffing candy bars on the bench, having little-to-no work ethic, and therefore taking large portions of games off in-between booming slams with nicknames such as “Yo Mama,” “In Your Face Disgrace,” and of course, “Sexophonic Turbo Delight.”
In retrospect, the late Thunder would have made a perfect Democratic voter.
The Democrat debate farce
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The first two Democrat debates were the height of farce. They featured hilarious, inconsequential, and pure bilge being passed off as serious political worldviews.
What characterizes a farce? A farce is a literary piece that contains highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, violent horseplay, extravagant exaggeration.” (snip) The answers were vapid and repetitive, yet there was an aggressiveness permeating the event that the interviewers could barely control. And sometimes in answer to the question, “Why are you the best?” they would answer, “Because Pres. Donald J. Trump is the worst.”
The Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 ruling on Department of Commerce v. New York is being characterized as nothing more serious than a temporary setback regarding President Trump’s wish to reinstate a citizenship question in the 2020 U.S. Census; the administration is expected to whip up a new rationale that the high court won’t consider “contrived” and get the question in.
Unfortunately it is far worse than that, and Chief Justice John Roberts is giving further sign that he is yet another unpleasant surprise in GOP appointments to the highest level of the Judicial Branch, following in the footsteps of David Souter (Bush 41),
Bernie Sanders is offering a lot of government services, including "Medicare for all," which promises to pay for everyone's healthcare. So when he becomes president, will he raise taxes on the middle class? Sanders was offered up this question as a lead-off in the June 27 Democratic presidential debate. He blathered for a full minute without answering, then he had to be asked a second time before he finally produced an answer: "Yes, they will pay more in taxes," he said, "but less in healthcare."
OK, maybe. But this answer actually raises far more questions than it answers.
The first and most uncomfortable question was raised moments later in the same debate
Cain and Abel and Oil
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Bryan Knight was already sweating through his rumpled dress shirt when the cops pulled him over.
It was June 4, 2014, and Bryan, then 54 years old, was incredibly stressed out. He had just left a mediation meeting in Lafayette, Louisiana, with his elder brother, Mark; his younger sister, Kelley Sobiesk; and their team of respective lawyers. Mark and Bryan had for a decade been locked in a battle over control of their family company, Knight Oil Tools, the largest privately owned oil-and-gas-equipment-rental company in the world. That might not sound like much to boast about, but the company was worth an estimated $800 million
On the second night of the Democratic presidential debate in Miami, NBC moderators asked candidates whether they would support decriminalizing the act of illegally crossing the border into the United States — that is, reducing the seriousness and consequences of illegal entry to the level of a parking ticket.
"Raise your hand if you think it should be a civil offense, rather than a crime, to cross the border without documentation," said NBC's José Díaz-Balart.
All 10 candidates — Biden, Sanders, Buttigieg, Harris, Gillibrand, Bennet, Swalwell, Hickenlooper, Yang, Williamson — raised their hands in approval. That moment was perhaps the Democratic Party's most significant step
John Roberts took a starring role in two major decisions today: He wrote a correct opinion on partisan gerrymandering, and a troubling one on President Trump’s effort to ask a question about citizenship on the 2020 census.
The gerrymandering issue, as far as the courts should be concerned, is simple. Under the Constitution, the legislature of each state gets to decide how congressional elections are handled, subject to any laws the federal Congress chooses to enact. It was clear to the Founders that politicians, being politicians, might draw district boundaries in ways that served their political interests. They made this the rule anyway.
Megs, put a sock in it
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Megan Rapinoe, star forward for the women’s U.S. national soccer team, seems to hate the world. She goes around with a scowl permanently etched into her weathered face. Though an outstanding soccer player, Megs has it in her head that she’s getting cheated, and that the cheater is Donald Trump. So she refused to go to the White House if the team wins the women’s World Cup.
Trump then extended an invitation to the team whether they win or lose and of course Megan took it with ill grace. The girl has no graces, only grimaces.
Dem (Debacle) Debate Part Dos
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Hola amigos! It’s night two of the first Democrat debate and it was feistier. Short summation: No Spanglish, no sleepy socialists. Nay, during this debate the redistributionists were out, proud, and loud. Let’s list the goodies everyone is giving away:
Medicare for all (and in Buttagoogoo’s case, Medicare for all who want it – hey, it’s a clever nuance!)
Get rid of private insurance
Healthcare for illegal immigrants
Open borders
Empty the detention centers and let the children go free (where and with whom wasn’t specified)
Take the guns
Ex-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told lawmakers that President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, often communicated with world leaders without keeping the State Department in the loop — leaving America’s top diplomat in the dark on key issues.
The disclosure came Thursday when redacted transcripts of Tillerson’s testimony to the House Foreign Affairs Committee were released, the Washington Post reported.
Tillerson said he once learned that Kushner was meeting with Mexico’s foreign secretary when he happened to be dining in the same DC restaurant while the pair came up with a “fairly comprehensive plan of action” that Tillerson knew nothing about.
Finally, a scientific explanation for how some of us of a certain age have gotten so much smarter than others over the years.
Naps. Some wise cultures around the world with high noontime temperatures have midday breaks for a whole hour or two called siestas, which is Spanish for “four commutes a day.” When many Americans were younger, naps were punishment or an enforced rest to allow a presiding adult to grab some ZZZ’s too. Decades later, naps have become like delightful little vacations. Now, it turns out, naps are not only restorative, especially
At the second Democratic debate, Kamala Harris made her move and called Joe Biden a racist while saying Joe Biden is not a racist. He disagreed with her forcefully — but fearful that he would seem like the logorrheic lunatic known to everyone in Washington, he noted that his time was up and stopped talking.
Stopped talking! Joe Biden! He must be old! He must be out of step! He must be defensive!
And that was it. Within 30 seconds, left-liberal Twitter declared Biden a political corpse and began drawing up blueprints for Harris’ presidential library.
Without question, Harris is the star of the week.
Remember, Pelosi’s first, second, and third priorities as Speaker of the House when government is divided is to maximize her party’s chances of winning next year. It doesn’t matter how much the left wants to impeach Trump. If impeaching him would damage Democratic chances in 2020, which seems likely, then Nancy ain’t doing it. It doesn’t matter either how much the left wants to punish Biden for his comments about “civility” with segregationists. If covering for Mr Electable on that point will help Democrats win next fall, then that’s what Nancy’s gonna do. The fact that she preferred to humiliate herself this afternoon by agreeing to pass McConnell’s bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. adults estimate that nearly one in four Americans (23.6%) are gay or lesbian. Gallup has previously found that Americans have greatly overestimated the U.S. gay population, recording similar average estimates of 24.6% in 2011 and 23.2% in 2015. In each of the three polls in which Gallup has asked this question, a majority of Americans estimated this population to be 20% or greater.[Graph] Americans' estimate of the proportion of gay people in the U.S. is more than five times Gallup's more encompassing 2017 estimate that 4.5% of Americans are LGBT, based on respondents' self-identification as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
With more at stake for the front runners, the second Democratic debate Thursday night in Miami had far more fireworks than the rather tepid debate the night before.
By and large, the moderators went down a list of Democratic issues as defined by the left of the party, and the candidates largely pandered in their answers.
Interestingly when asked what issue they would bring before Congress this group of mostly seasoned politicians ducked the issue for fear of alienating one constituency over another.
You know what they say: 'I scream, you scream, we all scream for men to feel confident with their penises just as they are.'
Or at least, that's what one condom brand is saying. This week, Trojan is unleashing the 'Trojan ConeC**Ktions Ice Cream Truck' on New York City, a penis-themed ice cream truck packed with frozen treats mimicking different penis shapes and sizes.
While the novel idea is certainly meant to grab attention—and inspire some laughs—it also has the noble purpose of encouraging men to embrace their own 'cones' just as they are.(Snip) It will also play a special jingle