Posts on Saturday, July 13, 2019
Chicago — Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago Thursday on a federal grand jury indictment listing 13 counts including sex crimes and obstruction of justice.
U.S. Attorney’s office spokesman Joseph Fitzpatrick said the R&B singer was taken into custody about 7 p.m. local time and was being held by federal authorities.
He was arrested after the federal indictment was handed down earlier Thursday in federal court for the Northern District of Illinois.
“The counts include child porn, enticement of a minor and obstruction of justice,” Fitzpatrick said, adding that further details would be released Friday.
New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is well known for her choreographed border performances and staged pictorial presentations. However, many within her target audience are no longer supportive of the indulgent self-serving narrative; and support is diminishing.
In an effort to restore and reignite diminishing career fuel, Ms. AOC moved her particular form of dramatic political art to the world of cinematography. For her debut theatrical exhibit the young artist submits a well-rehearsed performance during a broadcast congressional mini-series titled: “My life amid the toilet drinkers.”
AUSTIN —Just nine months ago, attorney Katie Baron was so inspired by Beto O’Rourke’s Senate campaign in Texas that she commissioned a sprawling mural on the side of a building in east Austin featuring the candidate in a Superman-like pose. After O’Rourke lost race and began mulling a presidential campaign, the artist added a sweeping “2020” in blue paint — providing what seemed to be yet one more call for O’Rourke to get into the crowded race. Now, four months into O’Rourke’s campaign, Baron wishes he had stayed out. After the first Democratic presidential debate last month, Baron posted an
After briefly increasing to hurricane strength Barry is now back to a strong tropical storm as it moves inland through southern Louisiana. Barry is a very slow moving storm and the effects from rainfall are anticipated to produce extreme flood risks for Louisiana and Mississippi throughout the next three days.
If you are in the impacted region stay alert to warnings and advice from local officials. If you find yourself in need of assistance, you can reach out to CTH via the email address on the sidebar; or use the comment section below which will be monitored. (Hurricane Center bulletin)
The national restaurant industry is bracing for a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that could round up hundreds of migrant families that have received deportation orders. Restaurant owners and worker advocates hope the operation, planned to start on Sunday, will not disrupt an industry already hurting for staff, or broaden into a wider investigation of employees not on the Trump administration's deportation lists.President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the roundups would move forward despite debate within the administration over the potential humanitarian issues (separating children from their parents) and political fallout (alienating Democrats as Congress debates a $4.6 billion supplemental aid package
DENVER—Donald Trump Jr. pumped up the activist conservative base Friday night in Colorado with a pull-no-punches speech touting his father’s accomplishments in office and blasting the Democratic opposition, declaring that “the left hates Trump much more than they love America.”In a 30-minute speech at the Western Conservative Summit, Mr. Trump offered a taste of things to come on the 2020 presidential campaign trail, insisting President Trump isn’t getting the credit in the media he deserves for his job performance and repeatedly calling Democrats and their policies “nuts.”
Each summer, I spend several months at Summit Ministries in Manitou Springs, Colorado. While I am here, I give pro-life lectures as well as lectures on student free speech rights. Many of the students who attend Summit’s two-week worldview conferences ask me questions about how best to deal with difficult teachers and professors. Just this morning, a student asked such a question that was so important it requires a column-length response. First, let me supply a little background information. (Video) The student in question attends a public high school. Last year, he took a world geography class that was taught by a socialist.
Energy Secretary Rick Perry shared a story about Ross Perot’s generosity to wounded veterans after the Texas billionaire passed away.The story, an op-ed titled “Rick Perry: Now that Ross Perot is gone, I can tell this story,” appeared in the Dallas Morning News Friday.“This week, the nation remembers Ross Perot for his success in business, his two independent White House bids and his no-nonsense, straight Texas talk,” Perry wrote. “[T]here is another little-known part of the life of Ross Perot that should be told now that he is gone. He was a tireless, but private, supporter of our wounded veterans.”Perry described what Perot did for the family
The “Hoaxtroversy” is our corrupt establishment media’s latest way to pretend bigotry is still a major problem in America. Which means that the media’s need to manufacture a hoaxtroversy (a controversy that proves to be a hoax) actually serves as yet one more slice of proof of just how little racism, sexism, and homophobia exists in this country.
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If racism in America was anywhere as serious as the fake news media claims, would they have had to fabricate all these massive lies over the past few years? The media told us the Hispanic George Zimmerman was white. They hoaxed
An extensive blackout struck Manhattan on Saturday night as power was lost in Midtown, Hells Kitchen and the Upper West Side. Street lights were reported knocked out on Columbus Ave. on the Upper West Side, and a power outage was also reported in Rockefeller Center around 7 p.m. “We are responding to extensive outages on the west side of Manhattan,” said Con Ed spokesman Michael Clendenin. “It’s equipment issues, and we are working to restore customers,” Clendenin said. More than 42,000 Con Ed customers had lost electricity by around 8 p.m. Clendenin didn’t know how long the power might be out.
President Donald Trump on Saturday lambasted former House Speaker Paul Ryan once again, calling him “Weak, ineffective & stupid” and said the now-retired lawmaker “almost killed” the Republican Party when he was in Congress.
“House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is a far superior leader than was Lame Duck Speaker Paul Ryan,” President Trump began on Twitter. “Tougher, smarter and a far better fundraiser, Kevin is already closing in on 44 Million Dollars. Paul’s final year numbers were, according to Breitbart, “abysmal.””
Social media was abuzz Saturday evening about what looked to be a massive power outage across New York City.Reports began to come in later in the evening that the "Manhattan power outage is believed have been caused by a transformer fire at 54th St. and West End Ave.," NBC News reported being told by a senior city official.The New York City subway was reportedly frozen as power and lights cut off around dusk in the Big Apple.The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said it is working with New York City energy company ConEdison to restore service to several crippled subway lines.
U.S. Virgin Islands Sen. Oakland Benta, a St. Croix Democrat who previously served as the island’s chief of police, is speaking out in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News about billionaire Democrat donor Jeffrey Epstein and demanding wide-ranging investigations in the territory into Epstein’s and others’ alleged “widespread corruption.”
“There is widespread corruption within the territory that needs to be addressed and looked at with fresh eyes,” Benta said (Snip)Benta is concerned there may have been both federal and local crimes committed with regard to trafficking minors for the purposes of illicit sex acts.
Chick-fil-A manager changes tire in
parking lot for ‘shaking, almost
in tears’ 96-yr-old WWII vet replies
parking lot for ‘shaking, almost
in tears’ 96-yr-old WWII vet replies
Though hateful critics constantly falsely accuse Chick-fil-A of being an intolerant, bigoted restaurant chain, time and time again the uber popular eatery has defied its left-wing haters by demonstrating what real tolerance, kindness and empathy look like. Such was the case this week at a Chick-fil-A in Maryland, where on Thursday a distraught senior citizen waltzed into the restaurant “shaking, almost in tears” over his flat tire.But that upset man, known as Mr. Lee, wasn’t just any senior citizen — just as that restaurant’s manager, Daryl Howard, wasn’t just any manager. Mr. Lee was in fact a 96-year-old World War II veteran,
As residents of the Gulf Coast braced for the onslaught of Tropical Storm Barry on Friday, July 12, the US Air Force’s Hurricane Hunters shared this video, showing a rainbow peeking through Barry’s clouds as they few through the storm. The National Hurricane Center said the storm would bring “life-threatening storm surge inundation” along the Gulf Coast, long-duration heavy rainfall, flash flooding and river flooding. Mayor of New Orleans LaToya Cantrell called for the voluntary evacuation of residents in areas outside of levee protection, and for others to shelter in place by 8 pm Friday. Credit: Hurricane Hunters via Storyful.
Serena Williams went into the Wimbledon finals on Saturday hoping to secure her 24th Grand Slam singles title — an accomplishment that would have equaled the record set by Margaret Court in the 1970s.
But after losses in two sets — 6-2, 6-2 — she fell to 27 year old Simona Halep, who with the victory became the first Romanian player to win a singles title at Wimbledon.(Snip)From the beginning, Halep dominated the match against Williams, controlling the court with her speed, coverage and aggressive ground strokes. When Williams failed to return the final rally that clinched the match, Halep sank to her knees and raised her racket high
From the harbor on St. Thomas, the boat skims eastward across the crystalline Caribbean, takes a turn and there it is: the palm-fringed paradise that was the private redoubt of Jeffrey Epstein.
An American flag on a towering pole flutters in the breeze. A blue-and-white building that resembles a temple sits atop one of the hills. The pool and cabanas are visible in the distance. There's no traffic on the winding dirt roads, no people on the dock or the beach.
(Snip) Locals have other names for it: Pedophile Island and Orgy Island.
New Yorkers crowded the city's already busy streets on Friday evening to catch of glimpse of the year's second - and final - Manhattanhenge.The term, coined by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in 2002, describes a phenomenon that occurs when 'when the setting sun aligns precisely with the Manhattan street grid, creating a radiant glow of light across Manhattan's brick and steel canyons, simultaneously illuminating both the north and south sides of every cross street of the borough's grid.'Looking down the street on Friday, people were able to view a full sun hovering just above the horizon. On Saturday, there will be an almost repeat showing with a half-sun setting
Julianne Malveaux is one of the most connected African-American academics around. She is a ubiquitous presence on TV and in print, has been a faculty member at numerous universities, served as a college president, and is currently the head of the educational branch of Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition.Yet despite a resume that includes a Ph.D. in economics from MIT, Malveaux traffics in hateful rhetoric.The Media Reseach Center [NewsBusters's parent], in its list of The 20 Most Memorable Leftist Excesses of Public Broadcasting, noted Malveaux wishing for the death of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter
Social media personality Ray Diaz has been arrested for alleged sexual assault, the Los Angeles Police Department said Friday night.
Diaz , 33, is a self-described entrepreneur and content creator with more than 300,000 subscribers on YouTube.
The Los Angeles Police Department tweeted Thursday that it was investigating allegations of physical abuse and sexual relations with a minor against a social media personality. They did not name him until a day later.
Former Vice President Joe Biden smirked when asked to apologize for the three million deportations that occurred during the administration of President Barack Obama.At a campaign rally in Dover, New Hampshire, Biden was confronted by activists for his longstanding views on immigration Friday.“When Obama was president my brother was detained and deported,” an activist speaking Spanish told Biden through a translator. “I have a three-month-old daughter and two months ago in May I was detained and put into deportation proceedings.”“I want you to apologize to the three million immigrants that were deported and separated from their families under the Obama years,” the man asked.
Mike Pence made quite a splash shortly after assuming office when it was revealed, via a Washington Post profile of Karen Pence, that he had a policy of not being alone or socializing outside of work with female staff.(Snip)Now this fake controversy is back in the headlines. Robert Foster, who wants to be the GOP candidate for governor of Mississippi, ran into the feminist, SJW buzz-saw this week (Snip) denying a female journalist’s request to ride along with him as he campaigned to become Mississippi’s next governor — unless she agreed to bring a male colleague along .
Much of the lackluster American intelligensia, or what passes for it, seems to have an inability to distinguish glib from intelligent (that’s how late night comedians became the thought leaders of the Democrat party). This is certainly the case with freshman communist Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. If any other human had uttered the patent nonsense that has emanated from this person’s mouth, they would have been given the Dan Quayle treatment long ago. But because of the effortless and pseudo-lucid way in which she spouts stunningly stupid statements, people claim she’s smart. (To be frank, much of this is pushed by sexually frustrated hipsters who
Will wonders never cease.
One of the most dysfunctional elements in our notoriously dysfunctional immigration system is the ability of municipalities to declare themselves “sanctuary cities.” In essence, this means that cities refuse to cooperate with efforts by ICE to apprehend and deport illegal aliens, (Snip) Where my line is drawn is when these goons demand that the federal government take my money to support their effort. That was the issue in a case called City of Los Angeles vs. William Barr that was decided yesterday in the Ninth Circuit.
The Justice Department awards several billion dollars in grants
Vice President Mike Pence visited migrant shelters in the McAllen, Texas, area Friday and blasted CNN on Twitter following the stops, particularly for its “dishonest” coverage of his trip.
“CNN is so dishonest,” the vice president tweeted late Friday. “Today we took reporters to a detention facility on the border for families and children and all told us they were being treated well.” [ tweet] His tweet came in reaction to CNN, which reportedly showed video of a large group of crowded migrants, all of which were men who shouted “no shower!” to cameras.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg appeared to draw larger crowds in New Hampshire on Friday than Democrat frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden.
Both men hosted rallies in Dover, New Hampshire to discuss their presidential ambitions and court supporters ahead of the state’s first in the nation primary. Although Biden supposedly leads the mayor among New Hampshire voters in the polls, Buttigieg was the one who pulled exponentially more attendees to his event in the state.
Mike Memoli, an NBC News correspondent, was the first to note the disparity in crowd size on social media.
Under pressure from President Trump's tariffs threat, Mexico reached a deal with the United States on June 7 to step up immigration enforcement and let more asylum-seekers wait in Mexico while their cases are pending in the U.S.
The agreement reads: "Given the dramatic increase in migrants moving from Central America through Mexico to the United States, both countries recognize the vital importance of rapidly resolving the humanitarian emergency and security situation. The Governments of the United States and Mexico will work together to immediately implement a durable solution."
London - Serena Williams delivered a stinging rebuke to fellow tennis legend Billie Jean King who said she should focus on tennis and stop behaving like a celebrity and fighting for equality. King -- who was no stranger to fighting for equality for women players when she was starting out -- may feel justified after Williams was played off the court in the Wimbledon final on Saturday. (Snip) The 75-year-old told the BBC earlier in the tournament that Williams should give up being a celebrity for a year: "Just stop all this insanity." Williams, though, hit back on Saturday. "The day I
Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents arrested a Mexican national with active warrants on charges of raping a child and aggravated sexual abuse of a child. The illegal alien from Mexico is one of several alleged or convicted child sex offenders arrested by Border Patrol agents this week.
Nogales Station agents arrested a Mexican national after he illegally crossed the border on Wednesday afternoon. The agents conducted a biometric background investigation and learned the 30-year-old man has active warrants from the Spanish Fork, Utah, Sheriff’s Office, according to information provided by Tucson Sector Border Patrol officials.
The Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) called on Nike Thursday to end its relationship with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who has a prominent endorsement deal with the athletic company.
Rev. William Owens, president of CAAP, said his organization is responding to Nike’s decision to pull an athletic shoe celebrating the Betsy Ross flag after Kaepernick expressed objections to it. [Tweet]
“It has been clear for a long time that Colin Kaepernick’s views represent hard Left anti-American politics,” said Owens, a civil rights movement activist who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“They don’t represent most Americans, and they don’t reflect the outlook of most African Americans,”
Legacy media and big tech are in agreement: there is no left-wing liberal bias operating in the corporate offices of the information gatekeepers at the New York Times and among Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, they are as biased as Google’s search results. Project Veritas reveals that liberal bias. Playboy correspondent Brian Karem exhibits how much old media and big tech are nothing more than punks. Bullies. Distorters of facts to justify their brutish behavior.
Harris: The difference between Trump and
Obama's immigration policy is 'tone' and
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Obama's immigration policy is 'tone' and
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2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris explained that the difference between the immigration policies of the Obama and Trump administrations is President Barack Obama had "tone" and "perspective."
Charlamagne Tha God, one of the hosts of The Breakfast Club asked Harris during her appearance Friday morning to explain the difference between the immigration policies of the last two administrations, specifically citing "pictures of the conditions of the border when [Obama] was in the White House."
As the host referenced, earlier this week, House Democrats used, and then deleted, a photo of migrant children in cages that was taken during the Obama administration.
Five African migrants have been arrested in Rome this week after turning a local church into a headquarters for trafficking and stockpiling large amounts of heroin.
The five young migrant men, four of whom were from Gambia and the other from Mali, used the church in Rome’s Torre Angela area on the Via delle Amazzoni as a place to store and sell drugs after seeing a large number of mostly Nigerian worshippers visited the church on weekends, Il Giornale reports.
Italian police officers raided the church this week and as they did so, the members of the drug gang attempted to hide around two pounds of heroin while other members kicked and
ST. PETERSBURG – Jim Bouton, pitcher, author, all-time baseball rebel, died Wednesday. He was 80.
My bookshelves contain his masterpiece, between the Baseball Encyclopedia and The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn’s moving elegy to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Ball Four. Bouton’s tell-all baseball memoir, published in 1970, remains the most important sports book ever written. It was one reason why I wanted to become a writer. It was so alive, full of insight and insanity — and fun. God, it was fun. I remember speaking to Bouton in 1998, when he had been invited back to Old Timers Day at Yankee Stadium. “The Bulldog,” who won 21 games for the Yankees
Ghost orchid photos are first to
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show pollination — and a surprise
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In Florida, the land of flowers, no bloom is more famous than the rare and bewitching ghost orchid, featured in both the bestselling book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean and the movie Adaptation, starring Meryl Streep and Chris Cooper.
Most of the year the ghost orchid looks like a green lump on the side of a tree. But when it blooms, the flower "resembles the ghoulish ghost of a frog leaping in mid-air," one orchid expert wrote. "Should one be lucky enough to see a flower, all else will seem eclipsed."
No more than about 2,000 of them remain in Florida, mostly in Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park, Audubon's
MSNBC pundit Jason Johnson said this week that former Vice President Joe Biden cannot win the nomination by just putting on “this Obama mask” and think that will be enough to win party’s critical black voters.
The Root’s political editor noticed that Biden did not attend last weekend’s Essence Fest—“one of the largest collections of African-American women of all classes, levels, and education sizes”—and argued that he cannot take the black vote for granted.
“He can’t put on this Obama mask and think that that’s going to allow him to skirt through,”(Snip) pointing out that African-American
Tropical Storm Barry is intensifying in the northern Gulf, and the threat of widespread flooding in Louisiana and Mississippi looms over the next 48 to 72 hours. Ryan Truchelut, WeatherTiger
Barry strengthened to a hurricane Saturday as it pushed toward the south-central Louisiana coast west of New Orleans, bringing torrential downpours along the Gulf Coast that could soak some areas with up to two feet of rain and add to widespread flooding.
As of 10 a.m. CDT Saturday, the center of Hurricane Barry — the nation's first this season — was 40 miles southwest of Morgan City, moving
Hundreds of migrants and others associated with the so-called “Black Vests” group stormed the Pantheon in Paris demanding the French state grant them residency papers and free housing. (Snip) as 200 to 300 protesters took part, claiming that most were illegal migrants from West Africa and that protestors managed to break into the Left Bank Mausoleum where various noted historical French men and women are buried.(Snip) “In France, the only future for an illegal immigrant should be deportation, because it is the LAW,” she added.
Friday on The View, Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) was on the show to discuss her 2020 presidential run. Meghan McCain was the only host to ask Harris about her stance on decriminalizing illegal immigration, while the other hosts focused heavily on race-related questions. It began when co-host Whoopi Goldberg wondered how Harris was going to help black people get “back in balance” after President Trump had supposedly dismantled everything presidents before him had done for minorities: I'm just going to say it because, you know, we have discussions about what happened in the past, what was, you know.
The House voted Friday to prevent President Trump from going to war with Iran without congressional approval, after more than two dozen Republicans joined Democrats to include the provision in the House’s annual defense authorization bill.
The move sets up a showdown with the Senate over whether the Iran restriction, which includes an exception for cases of self-defense, will be included in the final bill negotiated between the two chambers.
The Trump administration scored its first judicial win in its long-running battle to punish so-called sanctuary cities for defying federal immigration laws.A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a nationwide injunction barring Department of Justice from rewarding cities and counties that cooperate with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement in deportations.Los Angeles officials had sued to stop the DOJ’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program, saying that it amounted to federal coercion.But in a 2-1 decision, the court found that the Trump administration has a right to reward behavior that it favors.
President Donald Trump’s deputies may soon finalize a “safe third country” deal with Guatemala that would allow U.S. border officials to legally block most migrants from even applying for asylum, according to the New Yorker magazine.
The Guatemala deal would create a legal wall on the U.S. border that would prevent migrants from asking for asylum or getting released into the United States, (Snip)
asylum seekers from any country who either show up at U.S. ports of entry or are apprehended while crossing between ports of entry could be sent to seek asylum in Guatemala instead …
President Donald Trump should "admit that climate change is real" and start figuring out ways to confront it.
That wasn't advice from prominent congressional Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez but rather from one of the president's staunchest allies in Congress: Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
"I'm tired of playing defense on the environment," Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill Wednesday as he and other GOP lawmakers announced the formation of the Roosevelt Conservation Caucus, which will "embrace and promote constructive efforts to resolve conservation and environmental problems."
In response to a question about the president's environmental record, Graham said Trump should agree
Deporting the roughly 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living across the United States saves American taxpayers hundreds of billions in public costs, analysis finds.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expected to conduct a mass deportation effort next week, where at least 2,000 illegal aliens who have final orders for removal will be arrested, detained, and deported from the U.S.
American taxpayers stand ready to benefit significantly from the deportation of thousands of illegal aliens, all of whom have been ordered deported and have refused to leave.
The latest analysis from the Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarotta compared and contrasted the cost
Rosie O’Donnell attended one of the many far-left vigils across the country Friday night, protesting migrant shelters and amping up fellow activists to “take the fascist out of the White House.”
O’Donnell spoke at the vigil in New York City Friday night, asking the crowd to “look around” and see what “America stands for.”
“The signs are beautiful. The sentiment here is beautiful. Don’t forget people. Look around. This is who we are,” she said. “This is what America stands for. All colors all shapes all sizes, all nationalities, sexualities, genders, transgender.”
“Freedom is what we were founded on. Freedom and decency are what we must demand from this government
Check out the weird sundial with the playground-like multi-colored benches and child’s face, the massive crop-circle indentation in the earth that resembles a mass grave, the underground entrance near the beach, a second odd burial-like indention near the “temple” structure with what appears to be a large bed in it. (that had its massive golden dome and golden owl statues recently removed)
People need to remember that Bill and Hillary Clinton visited this island compound often (and usually one without the other) as did many other powerful/influential figures.
E Jean Carroll, the esteemed New York journalist who has alleged Donald Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the 1990s, now sleeps with a loaded gun by her bed having received online death threats. In the course of a two-hour interview with the Guardian in her upstate New York cabin, the advice columnist described the fallout of her decision to go public last month with the most serious allegations of sexual assault yet leveled at the US president.(Snip) “I’m not stupid,” Carroll said in reference to the threats and the loaded gun.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, was created post-9/11 at the recommendation of the 9/11 commission. The purpose is to serve as the central hub of intelligence information, gathered by multiple intelligence agencies, to insure equal distribution to all elements of the intelligence apparatus.(Snip)
President Obama saw the ODNI structure as a problem. The ODNI would know what each agency is doing. (Snip) corrupt CIA, State, DoD and/or DOJ and FBI cabinet officials couldn’t keep secret intelligence operations hidden from review by alternate officials. The structure of the ODNI was a risk.
Former Acting ICE Director Tom Homan appeared on capitol hill today to deliver testimony to congress. As Democrat lawmakers attempted to place blame for the border crisis on Mr. Homan he was firing back.(Video) In an embarrassing exhibition of smug disconnect, freshman congresswoman Alexander Ocasio-Cortez attempted to frame a narrative about border separations and asylum seekers. Again, Homan delivered the atomic sledgehammer of truth.
Genuine asylum seekers go through ports of entry… (Video)
It's been going on for years - patients waiting for years for a life-saving kidney donation, and sometimes dying as they waited in those long, long, lines. Kidney patients are most prominent among those waiting in line, but that's only because those waiting for other kinds of organs die so quickly they can't wait in any line at all.
Johns Hopkins University economist Steve Hanke at Forbes points out a very little-reported story involving President Trump, who just days ago quietly signed an executive order that could save as many as 43,000 lives of the waiting kidney patients. His order involved several compassionate measures to tmake their lives easier
'Like a horror movie': Dozens of corellas
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dead after falling from sky in suspected
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Nearly 60 native birds have died after they fell out of the sky in front of horrified onlookers and a nearby primary school in a suspected case of mass poisoning in South Australia.
Bird rescuers said it was like “something out of a horror movie” as dozens of birds fell, bleeding from their eyes and beaks at One Tree Hill near Adelaide.
(Snip)One particular species of corella is considered a pest in South Australia. The little corella is listed as unprotected by the state government and in March a local council proposed that they be culled by gassing.
EPIC! Former Border Patrol Chief Tom Homan
Takes 29-Year-Old Bartender AOC to School
at Hearing (VIDEO replies
Takes 29-Year-Old Bartender AOC to School
at Hearing (VIDEO replies
The Democrats held a hearing on Friday to blame US Border Patrol and President Trump for the absolute chaos on the southern border.
Democrat lawmakers want illegal aliens released from custody so they can run wild in the streets and live off the largess of the American taxpayer.
Freshman communist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) showed up Friday ill-prepared and former Border Patrol Chief Tom Homan took her to school.
AOC thinks she can just read from a script and get by.
Tom Homan taught her a lesson.
Catfight intensifies: Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez ignites explosion of fury
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Ocasio-Cortez ignites explosion of fury
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So House Speaker Nancy Pelosi isn't the only one Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is catfighting with.
She's actually screeching and caterwauling with the entire Democratic Party. Look at the details of this ugly public backbiting between her right hand man, Saikat Chakrabarti, and the House Democratic Caucus, according to this report in The Hill:
The House Democratic Caucus issued a rebuke of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) chief of staff Friday evening amid a public spat between House leadership and
For a guy who is purportedly stupid and lacking in nuance, President Trump yesterday masterfully trolled Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party while superficially supporting her. In just a few sentences, speaking to reporters prior to boarding Marine One, he took the high road, affirming Nancy Pelosi is not a racist, gaining points as a healer. But at the same time, he aggravated existing tensions in the opposition party and pushed the ranks of Democrats into a circular firing squad formation where their anger can be directed against each other. All in less than a minute-and-a-half
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is all about appearances, not reality. But yesterday, a stunt she pulled off managed to alienate a powerful Democrat. (snip) Yesterday, Ocasio-Cortez’s demand for a phony photo op was so egregious that even her committee chairman, Elijah Cummings, pointed out that it was not necessary. At a hearing on migrant children and border security, @AOC is sworn in for dramatic effect.
"We usually don't require a swearing in, but you want to be sworn in?" --@RepCummings
"Yes." @AOC
Infighting in the Democratic caucus of the House of Representatives continued Friday with a late-night tweet from the official House Democrats Twitter account. "Who is this guy and why is he explicitly singling out a Native American woman of color?" the tweet asked. "Her name is Congresswoman Davids, not Sharice. She is a phenomenal new member who flipped a red seat blue." "Keep Her Name Out Of Your Mouth," the tweet continued. The aforementioned "guy" is Saikat Chakrabarti, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff. Attached to the tweet was a screenshot of a two-week old tweet from Chakrabarti responding to
WASHINGTON–The wait for former special counsel Robert Mueller's long-anticipated public testimony got a little longer Friday.
Mueller's planned July 17 appearances before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees has been postponed for one week to allow more time for both committees to question the former special counsel, officials said. "We are pleased to announce that special counsel Mueller will provide additional public testimony when he appears before our committees," the committee chairmen said in a joint statement. "At his request, we have agreed to postpone the hearing for one week, until July 24." Since Democratic committee leaders announced that they
Protesters took down the U.S. flag, the Colorado and GEO flags and and replaced them with a Mexican flag, a defaced upside down U.S. flag and a third flag of unknown description at a GEO contractor-run ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado Friday. (Photo) Numerous photos were posted online of the flags.(Tweet/Photo) Someone sent the Mexican flag flying over the Aurora ICE facility here in Colorado… #priceless
Even before he was inaugurated, President Trump has been under a constant barrage of personal attacks and negative media. He has withstood millions of dollars spent on investigations (Russia interference) and unprecedented financial inquires into the Trump business empire.There are few individuals, if any, who could withstand this intense personal focus. Washington, DC, politicos constantly remind themselves that our 45th Chief Executive Officer was not legitimately elected and therefore cannot be a legitimate President.But recent polls tell us that President Trump is doing much better than many expected. A Washington Post/ABC poll
In response to my clarion call for citizens to push back against anti-Americanism and cultural assassins, several of you have asked how. Some believe the battle is already lost. Some think violent resistance is the only solution. I disagree with both mindsets.
We are a Christian nation founded upon the rock of biblical principles. This is why, unlike any other form of government, our constitution has survived over 243 years. It is up to each of us to pray, asking God to reveal our personal role in restoring America back to His original intention for our exceptional great nation.
Why did Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta resign?
His supposed “offense” was declining to prosecute Jeffrey Epstein in return for the billionaire sex predator’s guilty plea in state court (and concomitant jail sentence) when he was U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. That is hardly an offense or even scandalous. It’s a professional decision that prosecutors across the country make every day. You can agree or disagree with it, but it is hardly grounds to lose your next job over.
So what is going on here?
The least likely possibility is that there really was something scandalous about Acosta’s decision.
The Green New Deal was never
about climate change; it's just AOC's
excuse to destroy America's economy replies
about climate change; it's just AOC's
excuse to destroy America's economy replies
In Europe, you will often hear politically savvy people refer to Green Party politicians as "watermelons." The reason is that although they might be environmentalist "green" on the outside, these leftists are secretly communist red if you look beneath the surface.
They typically resort to such subterfuge because environmentalism is more popular than Marxism. A former East German communist is bound to be unpopular, but perhaps not so much if he rehabilitates himself as a renewable energy enthusiast.
The case of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, is different in that she openly advertised herself as a socialist in a country with a well-grounded historical aversion to such alien ideologies.
Trump issues Jeffrey Epstein
challenge to press: 'Find out
the people that went to the island' replies
challenge to press: 'Find out
the people that went to the island' replies
President Trump has a challenge for investigative journalists everywhere: Find out who visited convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s island.
The billionaire whose plane was called “Lolita Express” by pundits often brought the rich and powerful to his private island. The president on Friday noted that reporters now focused on outgoing Labor Secretary Alex Acosta’s prosecution of Mr. Epstein should dig into who visited what became known among locals as “Orgy Island.”
“Other people, they went all over with him,” Mr. Trump said from the White House lawn. “They went to his island and all over the place. He was very well known in palm his island —
Conservatives talk a lot about how we don’t like identity politics. But it’s not always clear what people mean by it. Academics and intellectuals tend to mean one thing, while politicians and activists often have something slightly different in mind.
Democratic politicians who engage in identity politics often mean something like “ethnic politics,” by which members of a community organize in their collective interest. Conservatives sometimes use “identity politics” to describe simple ethnic politics, but only when it’s ethnic politics they don’t like. What they leave out is that this form of political engagement is as old as the country itself, because it’s as old as politics itself.
‘We’re holding a gun to our own heads,’ said Sen. John Cornyn in June. He was talking about President Trump’s threat to impose tariffs in order to force Mexico to crack down on illegal immigration into the Unites States. Many congressmen agreed, fearing, as establishment figures are prone to do, that Trump was risking the whole economy for some nebulous border demand.
A month later, it seems Trump’s tariff gambit has worked. After Mexican officials agreed to crack down on illegal immigration to avoid US-imposed tariffs, the Department of Homeland Security reports that border apprehensions dropped from 144,278 in May to 104,344 in June — a 28 percent decrease.
Despite a lackluster debate performance, former Vice President Joe Biden is still holding on to his lead in the race for the Democratic nomination in large part because Democratic voters see him as the most electable candidate. A Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a 45% plurality of voters believe Biden has the best chance of beating President Trump. No other candidate comes even close.
But what if those voters are wrong?
To win back the presidency, Democrats must retake states such as Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio, where once-reliable working-class Democrats opted for Trump in 2016.
At the moment, Robert Mueller is still scheduled to make his post-special counsel appearance next Wednesday at the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. That date may slip, or perhaps not happen at all, thanks to a revolt among Judiciary’s rank and file. With a two-hour limit and 41 committee members, junior Democrats fear not getting an opportunity for some serious media coverage: Junior lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee could get shut out of next week’s highly anticipated hearing with special counsel Robert Mueller — and they’re not happy about it.
It is useful to start with a not-so-hypothetical possibility. Suppose that next April 1, the official counting day for the 2020 census, a caravan of 10,000 citizens of Honduras storms across the U.S. border into Texas. Their leaders proceed to proclaim intent to remain as permanent residents.
According to the Census Bureau’s Residence Rule, they can immediately fill out census forms and be included in the population of Texas for purposes of determining the state’s number of House seats and Electoral College votes. Similarly, the 1 million people subject to final deportation orders who remain in this country must be counted. The bureau’s current test is whether someone resides here, regardless
Bill and Hillary Clinton got a taste of New York's state of mind on Thursday night.
After singer Billy Joel dedicated a song to the former first couple and flashed them up on the screen at Madison Square Garden, initial cheers turned to boos from the audience.
The former first lady has been under scrutiny for years as she criticized President Trump and attempted to lay out the reasons she thought were behind her loss to him in the 2016 election. Former President Bill Clinton, on the other hand, faced fresh criticism surrounding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who on Monday was indicted on sex trafficking charges.
Anti-ICE protesters pull down
American flag, raise Mexico flag,
vandalize 'Blue Lives Matter' flag replies
American flag, raise Mexico flag,
vandalize 'Blue Lives Matter' flag replies
Authorities in Colorado restored an American flag to its place Friday evening after protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled down the star-spangled banner and flew the flag of Mexico in its place.
The protesters also removed a “Blue Lives Matter” flag, honoring law enforcement, spray-painted it with the words “Abolish ICE,” then raised the flag upside-down, on a pole next to the Mexican flag, according to local media. Hundreds of protesters had gathered in Aurora, Colo., outside the federal facility that holds illegal immigrants, to protest ICE raids scheduled to begin Sunday in Denver and other major U.S. cities, FOX 31 Denver reported.
You know those earnest but tedious Sunday morning talk shows that you don’t watch anymore? Well, more people are also not watching. New data from the Pew Research Center and even later numbers from Nielsen show total viewership for the four major network shows — NBC’s Meet the Press, Fox News Sunday, CBS’ Face the Nation and ABC’s This Week — continued their viewership decline last year, only by a slightly larger number. [Snip] However, the Fox program was the only one of the four to
The Democrats held a hearing on Friday to blame US Border Patrol and President Trump for the absolute chaos on the southern border.Democrats opened the hearing with a panel of far left representatives who demanded that illegal aliens be released inside the country after they cross the border and claim asylum.Then the House Democrats took turns attacking Border Patrol agents.
For months Democrats claimed the record border crossings was a manufactured crisis.
Now they are attacking US Border Patrol for not having enough resources. Congress is responsible to provide resources but they refuse to do their job.
Walter Cronkite unnerved a nation 56 years ago, by taking off his glasses.The video has been seen by countless millions over the decades: Cronkite announcing on live television in 1963 the death of President Kennedy. He stops for a moment, removes his glasses, composes himself and moves on. That gesture rattled Americans because they expected journalists to convey a calm sense of authority, a reassuring stoicism in the face of Cold War standoffs, civil unrest and even the assassination of a president.Things have changed. Emotion now blankets the media landscape like an infant’s crib at bedtime. Google “Shepard Smith emotional,” and up come nearly 3 million results,
The DOW hit another new closing all time high on Friday surpassing 27,300 for the first time ever. The stock markets are a major indicator of an economy’s strength. They include valuations based on past and current financial data and company and market data. The markets also include expectations for the future. This is why it makes sense to measure a President’s impact on the markets from the day of the Presidential election rather than from the day of the inauguration.Trump Economy. The US Markets have been on fire since the 2016 election because President Trump won. On November 8th, 2016, the markets closed
With ambassador pick, Boris Johnson may banish
the 40-year shadow of an infamous DC sex scandal replies
the 40-year shadow of an infamous DC sex scandal replies
Boris Johnson, the United Kingdom's probable next prime minister, will likely end four decades of sending career diplomats to be the ambassador to Washington. Doing so will break the long shadow of a scandal that inspired a Hollywood tale of romance and betrayal. The Trumpian populist could bolster an already warm relationship with President Trump by picking an envoy unlike the ousted ambassador Kim Darroch, who is packing his bags after leaks showed he privately disparaged Trump. But the move would be a historical break. The last noncareer ambassador arrived in Washington in 1977 and left two years later after fathering a love child.
Scalise: ‘No Moderates Left; It’s Literally
Liberals Versus Socialists and the
Socialists Are Winning’ replies
Liberals Versus Socialists and the
Socialists Are Winning’ replies
"It’s ugly and getting uglier," House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) said Thursday, commenting on the row between Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).There are no moderates left in the Democrat Party, and liberal Pelosi is losing the battle with socialists like Ocasio-Cortez, Scalise told Fox News: "It's ugly and getting uglier. You are seeing this fight between the far-left socialists and liberals. It used to be, in the Democrat Party, a fight between liberals and moderates. There are no moderates left. "It's, literally, liberals versus socialists and the socialists are winning. "But, for Nancy Pelosi to think that
The University of Delaware is keeping a trove of documents and information about former Vice President Joe Biden's Senate career under wraps under a policy that will shield it throughout his presidential campaign and potentially beyond.Biden donated a trove of his Senate records to the University of Delaware eight years ago.Had he retired and ended his career, scholars might now be sifting through them. But the school appears to have modified the terms of release this year, as Biden jumped into the presidential race.Under an initial agreement, the records were to remain sealed 'for two years after Biden retires from public office.'