Posts on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
A businesswoman and immigrant from Jamaica hoping to unseat freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. told Fox News' Sean Hannity Wednesday that she wants her New York City neighbors to have a representative in Congress who speaks to the issues of her district."I'd like to represent the constituents in Queens and the Bronx," Scherie Murray said."We see AOC, from the time she's been elected, she's put out policies like the job-killing Green New Deal," she added. "She then went on to kill the Amazon deal in New York, which would've put some 25,000 jobs in Queens."
Los Angeles, California cities 'overrun by
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An ever-growing number of rodents in California -- particularly in Los Angeles -- is being fueled by a spiking homeless population and restrictions on rodenticides that are risking a public health crisis, according to a study released Tuesday.The report by political action committee Reform California cites recent rodent-related events over the past six months, including an employee at the Los Angeles Police Department contracting Typhus and a rat falling from the ceiling of a Buffalo Wild Wings onto the menu of a patron, as proof of an "undeniable problem" in the Golden State."California is being overrun by rodents," said Carl DeMaio, chairman of Reform California.
The Democrat who dramatically left his seat during a chaotic speech on Capitol Hill on Tuesday has explained why he made the unprecedented move.Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., chastized both Republicans and Democrats for their partisan squabbling and abandoned his seat during a speech on Capitol Hill Tuesday because he was fed up with the escalating partisan attacks on both sides."I was frustrated. If you look at the footage, I had admonished both sides during this process. My goal was to get through this ... without adding any more hostilities," he said Wednesday on "Your World with Neil Cavuto." "We were about five minutes through the whole process of the resolution
Washington/New York - U.S. lawmakers bashed Facebook on Wednesday over its planned cryptocurrency, saying the company had not shown it could be trusted to safeguard the world financial system and consumers' data.
The social media company is fighting to get Washington on its side after it shocked regulators and lawmakers with its announcement on June 18 that it was hoping to launch a new digital coin called Libra in 2020. (Snip) "I have serious concerns with Facebook's plans to create a digital currency and digital wallet," Maxine Waters, chairwoman of the Democrat-controlled House Financial Services Committee,
The reconnaissance and strike drone is expected to increase Iran’s ground force surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, as well as provide the ability to conduct precision bomb strikes.
On Wednesday, the Iran Army Ground Forces received its first batch of domestically-produced Mohajer-6 drones, which were previously used only by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Mehr news agency reported. (Tweet) Speaking at the ceremony, Brigade General Shahram Hassannejad, head of Ground Forces drone unit, said the delivery will begin a new era of extensive drone use in the operations of the Iran Army Ground Forces.
Washington - The Trump administration is reinforcing its controversial military relationship with Saudi Arabia by preparing to send hundreds of troops to the country amid increasing tensions with Iran.
Five-hundred troops are expected to go to the Prince Sultan Air Base, located in a desert area east of the Saudi capital of Riyadh, according to US two defense officials. A small number of troops and support personnel are already on site with initial preparations being made for a Patriot missile defense battery as well as runway and airfield improvements, the officials said.
Joe Lockhart, press secretary to President Bill Clinton during his second term impeachment, went on an epic 21 tweet meltdown over President Donald Trump Wednesday afternoon. Lockhart calls his anti-Trump Twitter tantrums “shadow briefings” in lieu of the Trump administration cancelling daily briefings by the press secretary. Wednesday’s shadow briefing was insane.Lockahart not only attacked Trump and his administration, he also viciously attacked Trump supporters attending Wednesday night’s reelection campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, calling them an “angry crowd of resentful, uneducated people screaming
President Donald Trump specifically called out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday, branding her simply “Cortez.” Trump said her full name before admitting that he would just call her “Cortez” in the future. “No, no, I don’t have time to go with three different names, we’ll call her Cortez, it takes too much time,” he noted during his campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina on Wednesday night. Trump noted that Ocasio-Cortez compared border officials to Nazis running concentration camps and attacked them for detaining migrants and illegal immigrants.
Dubai - A small oil tanker from the United Arab Emirates traveling through the Strait of Hormuz entered Iranian waters and turned off its tracker three days ago, leading the US to suspect Iran seized the vessel amid heightened tensions in the region. (Snip) The Panamanian-flagged Riah turned off its transponder late Saturday night but an Emirati official said it sent no distress call. The concern over its status comes as Iran continues its own high-pressure campaign over its nuclear program after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from the accord over a year ago.
Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide have stopped using federal Title X family planning funds, according to the organization. The decision comes after the Trump administration announced this week that it has started enforcing regulations that prohibit Title X grant recipients from counseling patients about abortion. The Trump administration's rules – unveiled last year and finalized this year – forbid groups that provide or refer patients for abortion from receiving funds through Title X, which pays for reproductive health care for about 4 million low-income people.
The US says it is removing Turkey from its F-35 fighter jets programme, after Ankara received the first parts of a Russian missile defence system.
The US says the "F-35 cannot coexist with a Russian intelligence collection platform that will be used to learn about its advanced capabilities".
Russia began delivering its advanced S-400 system to Turkey last week.
Turkey and the US are key Nato allies - but Ankara has also been establishing closer links with Russia.
Turkey has so far not publicly reacted to the latest US move, which was widely expected.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif complained on Wednesday about the tight U.S. travel restrictions imposed on members of the Iranian UN mission and their families, which, he charged, put them “under basically inhuman conditions.” The restrictions, which also apply to Zarif himself during his visit this week to UN headquarters in New York, basically limit the Iranian diplomats and their families to traveling between the United Nations, the Iranian UN mission, the Iranian UN ambassador’s residence, and JFK Airport. “It is certainly not a friendly action,” Zarif added. He’s right. Nothing that the Iranian regime has done deserves any “friendly” action by the United States.
President Donald Trump brought up the allegations that far-left Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) married her brother to a group of reporters on Wednesday before boarding Marine One for his rally tonight. (Video) A reporter asked Trump a question about Omar and Trump replied: "There's a lot of talk about the fact that she was married to her brother. I know nothing about it. … I’m sure that somebody would be looking at that." Questions about Omar's marital history have repeatedly been in the news as multiple news organizations have asked Omar to provide documents and answer specific questions that could clear up any controversy.
Berkeley became the first city nationwide to ban the use of natural gas in new low-rise residential buildings in a unanimous vote Tuesday by the City Council. The ordinance, introduced by Councilwoman Kate Harrison, goes into effect Jan. 1, 2020, and phases out the use of natural gas by requiring all new single-family homes, town homes and small apartment buildings to have electric infrastructure. After its passage, Harrison thanked the community and her colleagues “for making Berkeley the first city in California and the United States to prohibit natural gas infrastructure in new buildings.” The city will include commercial buildings
Federal prosecutors have ended their investigation into payments from then-candidate Donald Trump to porn star Stormy Daniels, which Trump’s critics had hoped would lead to his arrest or impeachment. Last August, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to a variety of offenses, including campaign contribution violations. He told a federal court in New York that he had arranged payments to Daniels (whose real name is Stephanie Clifford) and former Playboy model Karen McDougal at Trump’s direction. In November, he also pleaded guilty to lying to Congress. In their sentencing memorandum, prosecutors drew attention to the payments,
Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) wants the word “alien” and the term “illegal alien” taken out of the government’s legal code. The congressman is arguing that the words work to “demonetize and dehumanize the migrant community.” “Words matter. It’s vital that we respect the dignity of immigrants fleeing violence and prosecution in our language. The words ‘alien’ and ‘illegal alien’ work to demonize and dehumanize the migrant community. They should have no place in our government’s description of human beings,” Castro said in a public statement this week.
House Democrats are rallying around the four far-left congresswomen who have collectively become known as the “squad.” The House Democrat majority has put aside legislative business to debate a resolution condemning President Trump for his allegedly “racist” tweets denouncing Reps. Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Rashida Tlaib (Mich.), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), nicknamed AOC, and Ilhan Omar (Minn.). Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who just last week was on the receiving end of the race card played so often by the squad, is now referring to these hate-mongers as “our sisters.” As President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning, “now they are forever wedded to the Democrat Party.”
As I have argued in the past, left-wing gender theory can be entirely dismantled and debunked with one simple question: What is a man? All of the talking points, all of the sermonizing, all of the stuff about "transgenderism" and "gender fluidity" and "gender spectrums" — all of it is blown to pieces by a question that my six-year-old could answer. No leftist who espouses gender theory can provide a coherent answer to this question. Few will even attempt it. It is a classic double-edged sword. If "man" has no objective definition, then it is meaningless for a woman to identify as one. A statement like "transmen are men"
Self-knowledge is not typically characteristic of Democratic politicians. Hawaiian Senator Mazie Hirono, a dim bulb by any normal standard, explains that the Democrats’ problem is that they are too smart. They know too much. They are too “left brain.” Republicans appeal to voters’ hearts, while Democrats are stuck with their heads: [Video] Of course, some Democrats do get emotionally involved. Like Willem Van Spronsen, the aging hippie and Antifa member who tried to fire-bomb an ICE facility in Tacoma:
"Armed with a rifle and flares, Spronsen attempted to light the buildings on fire, but only managed to ignite a nearby vehicle
“Ungrateful people always become unhappy and angry people,” nationally-syndicated radio host and Prager University founder Dennis Prager told a House hearing on Tuesday.Before testifying about Google’s censorship of conservative opinions, Prager voiced his distress at how Americans are taught to be ashamed of their country – and warned that a nation a self-loathing nation cannot survive: (Video) “I thank God for living in America. It breaks my heart that a vast number of young Americans have not only not been taught how lucky they are to be Americans, but have been taught either how unlucky they are or how ashamed they should be.
On June 13, during a nasty storm, a group of Chinese New Yorkers gathered in front of the gates of Gracie Mansion, the New York mayor’s residence on the Upper East Side, to protest. (Snip) Zang, the father of two teenage boys, first came out on the streets to protest on June 5, 2018, two days after the mayor announced his plan to eliminate the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) to diversify the intake of the city’s top high schools, where a majority of students are Asian and very few are Black or Hispanic.
The House voted Wednesday against a resolution to bring articles of impeachment against President Trump, demonstrating that Democrats are not willing to take the ultimate step to try to oust the president.While dozens of House Democrats want to begin an impeachment inquiry against Trump, the vote showed their numbers remain too few to win a floor vote to start one. The vote was 332-95 to kill the measure. Ninety-five Democrats voted against tabling it, demonstrating that about 40% of the House Democratic caucus backs impeachment.The resolution was introduced Tuesday by Democratic Texas Rep. Al Green
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland -- Tiger Woods doesn't sound confident. Brooks Koepka is always confident. Rory McIlroy is at home, which should make him confident.
On a venue few have seen before -- Royal Portrush last hosted The Open 68 years ago -- there are plenty of intriguing subplots as the year's last major gets set to tee off.
1. Will Tiger be a factor this week? Bob Harig: It is difficult to envision that at the moment. The lack of competitive golf is simply too much to overcome. (Snip)Michael Collins: Nope. For the same reason he wasn't a factor at the PGA
Brooks Koepka snubbed Tiger Woods
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Tiger Woods told reporters Tuesday he had reached out to Brooks Koepka to congratulate him on his second-place finish at the U.S. Open and to see if he wanted to have a practice round before the Open Championship.
Woods' message was left unread.
“I texted him congratulations on another great finish, and I said 'hey dude, you mind if I tag along and play a practice round'? I've heard nothing,” Woods said.
Koepka gave a simple reason for snubbing woods: He doesn’t practice.(Snip) According to Bet-NJ.com, Koepka is a 10-1 shot to win the major and Woods is at 16-1 odds.
A slight majority of Mexican citizens supports the deportation of Central American migrants who travel through Mexico to reach the U.S. border, according to a survey released Wednesday.
The survey, which was conducted by the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the Washington Post, found that six in ten Mexicans believe the migrants have burdened the native population by claiming jobs and benefits that would otherwise accrue to Mexican citizens. A 55 percent majority supports deporting the migrants before they reach the U.S.
The 1,200 person survey was conducted July 9–14, roughly two weeks after Mexican officials agreed,
Lara Trump took the stage in a convention room at the Valley Forge Casino Resort and gave the crowd a puzzled look. “I’m a little confused,” President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law said. “I didn’t think women liked Donald Trump!” A crowd of about 1,000, mostly women, waving flags and wearing “Make America Great Again” hats, cheered and laughed back. The rally launched the president’s national “Women for Trump” campaign, aimed at bettering Trump’s support among women. The group hopes to encourage women to fund-raise, train volunteers, register voters, and speak proudly about their support, which several in the crowd said can be difficult.
The House is about to back repealing
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Obamacare’s unpopular ‘Cadillac tax’
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The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would scrap Obamacare’s so-called Cadillac tax, an inactive provision of the health law meant to help control health-care spending.
The tax, set to go into effect in 2022, is unpopular with both Republicans and Democrats, who say it punishes the middle class.
The “Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019” currently has more than 350 co-sponsors and is expected to pass the Democratic-controlled House on Wednesday afternoon.
We all know the scene. James Bond is losing a hopeless fight against a man-mountain in the baggage compartment of a train. Things look grim for Her Majesty's Secret Agent until he coils a rope linked to a heavy object around his opponent's neck and kicks it off the train. The villain is yanked into the night and James Bond wins again.
Trump's strategy is to fight the Washington establishment with this outlandish plot device. By engaging in a bare-knuckle public row with four Democratic left-wing congresswomen, he's creating a rope he plans to loop round the more careful centrists who, with any luck, will be dragged into the darkness
Ilhan Omar does not like white people. Her dislike, like any other brand of racism, is visceral. She seems not to understand that white is a color, too. Based on the photos I have seen of her, she cares as little for generic white women as she does for white people in general. Do a Google Image search. In hundreds of photos, she appears with few white women. Nancy Pelosi. A few trans women/people in drag. But not many pictures with women like me. Middle class, Midwestern-born women.
Democrats are divided over how to deal with articles of impeachment against President Trump, as the House headed toward a vote Wednesday that will gauge support for ousting the Republican over recent racist comments.
Rep. Al Green (D-Tex.) forced Democratic leaders to confront the issue immediately, filing articles of impeachment Tuesday night accusing Trump of committing high crimes and misdemeanors with racist comments singling out four minority congresswomen. His resolution on impeachment is privileged, requiring that the House act within two days.(Snip)But the effort is likely to fail as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who has
Any man who makes it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is a smart guy, by definition. Climbing a greasy pole is impossible, as anyone who has tried it will tell you, and the presidency is the greasiest pole anywhere.
So how could a man smart enough to do the impossible forget the first rule of politics, that when your opponent is in the act of destroying himself, the smart thing to do is get out of his way. The Donald, on the other hand, doesn't pay attention to first rules. He makes up his own, and never lets a thought, however
And now it is Tom Friedman’s turn to panic about the Democrats’ sharp turn to the left. Savor some yummy samples from his column yesterday:
I’m struck at how many people have come up to me recently and said, “Trump’s going to get re-elected, isn’t he?” And in each case, when I drilled down to ask why, I bumped into the Democratic presidential debates in June. I think a lot of Americans were shocked by some of the things they heard there. I was.
I was shocked that so many candidates in the party whose nominee
The last few days of the American "news cycle" have been consumed by the heated back and forth between President Donald Trump and the Marxist-leaning "Gang of Four" Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar. I use quotes because we really don't have news cycles in America anymore. We have rounds of orchestrated Trump-bashing by media and activists.
This latest "cycle" involves the president confronting the four freshman congresswomen, none of whom appear to embrace any love of the American Constitution, free markets or individual liberty. He then completely redirected the entirety of the mainstream news media by way of the following three-part tweet:
Of all the great debates—Coke versus Pepsi, boxers versus briefs, shaken versus stirred—few have been more polarizing than chocolate versus vanilla. Those of us aligned with chocolate—the product of ground, roasted cacao beans—find it warm, comforting, ambrosial, and generally dismiss all things unchocolate as “vanilla,” meaning bland and boring. Those who prefer vanilla, a climbing orchid that bears long podlike fruit, praise its aromatic sweetness and note that it enhances the flavor of chocolate, which unembellished would be dull and kind of flat—in short, vanilla.
The one aspect of the chocolate-and-vanilla divide that has seldom been disputed is the question of provenance. But over the last year two new studies
Washington Times editor, columnist Wesley
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Wesley Pruden would have undoubtedly wanted to spend his final hours at his keyboard, deftly deflating the pompous, entitled and arrogant of the political establishment, and he came awfully close.
The venerable Washington Times editor, columnist and journalism institution was found dead Wednesday morning at his home, his passing coming hours after putting in a full day at the newsroom on New York Avenue in Northeast, where he had worked since 1982, four months after the newspaper’s founding. He was 83. His remarkable career began 67 years ago as a teenage copy boy in Arkansas, making him among the few old-school reporters whose sharp political acumen, elegant writing style,
A Democratic candidate who was seeking election to the Mississippi House of Representatives, and who had just been served divorce papers, walked into the medical clinic where his estranged wife worked as a receptionist Tuesday and shot her to death before turning the gun on himself, officials said.
Marshall County Sheriff Kenny Dickerson said the shootings happened Tuesday at Williams Medical Clinic in Potts Camp after Carl Robinson received divorce papers.
A delegation of nearly 50 members of Congress petitioned the Trump administration on Wednesday to cancel a series of sanctions waivers that have permitted Iran to continue its most contested nuclear research, including at a military site known to have housed the Islamic Republic's bomb program, according to a copy of the letter exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. The letter, spearheaded by Rep. Liz Cheney (R., Wyo.), represents the strongest protest to date by lawmakers who view the waivers as an attempt by some deeply entrenched U.S. officials to keep the landmark nuclear deal on life support against the White House's wishes.
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Michael Goodwin of the New York Post is tired of winning. He wants President Donald John Trump to apologize for pointing out that the four congresswomen of color are unpatriotic ingrates. [Snip] The president's revival of love-it-or-leave-it is spot on.
His words offended them. Real Americans cheered.
But Goodwin wrote that the president should apologize to people who want to confiscate our guns, ban our cars, change our doctors, and raise our children transgendered.
Why?
Like thousands of Central American parents seeking asylum in the United States, Patricia panicked when, after she and her son crossed the Rio Grande into Texas last year, U.S. border agents took the boy away. For weeks, she was crushed by fears that then-6-year-old Alessandro was lost forever.
Though they were eventually reunited, Patricia isn’t ready to put the past behind her. She wants the U.S. government to pay for her family’s ordeal, and she has become part of a novel legal strategy to achieve that goal.
Professor Robert Epstein told Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) that Google is manipulating voters “on a massive scale,” using tools that it has at its disposal exclusively, and that “no one can counteract them.” Epstein warned the Senator of big tech election meddling that he called “invisible,” “subliminal,” and more powerful than anything he’s seen in 40 years of behavioral sciences.
Ex-President Barack Obama and Seema Nanda, Chief Executive Officer of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) are members of ‘The Squad’. You read that right: ‘Resistance’ Leader in Hiding Obama and the CEO of the DNC are in like flint with radical Justice Democrats Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, bound together by their visceral hatred of America.
The eerie FaceApp photo filter, which uses AI to digitally age your face, has gone viral, with millions on social media sharing their sagging simulacrum, including celebs such as Drake, the Jonas Brothers and Kevin Hart.However, experts warn that the free “old age filter,” created in 2017 by developers at Wireless Lab in St. Petersburg, Russia, poses security concerns that may give them access to your personal information and identity.The Russian app is one of the most downloaded across the globe, with fans on social media using the hashtag #faceappchallenge to share their results.
Each was accused of a transgression against the notorious MS-13 street gang. Each would meet their end in a manner federal investigators described as “medieval.” In one case, court records show, a 16-year-old boy was lured to a canyon and beaten to death in 2017. His body went undiscovered for so long that his remains wound up charred in a wildfire, (Snip)another man suspected of defacing an MS-13 graffiti tag was abducted and dragged into Angeles National Forest. Six gang members cut him apart with machetes, according to prosecutors, who alleged that one cut
They Got Him This Time! Fake News
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They got him this time! The fake news media obtained a video of Donald Trump talking to Jeffrey Epstein in 1992 at a party and they’re acting like this will finally be the thing that takes down the president. The video shows Jeffrey Epstein at Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago estate more than a decade before he pleaded guilty to felony prostitution charges! So scandalous.Time to impeach! WATCH:(Video) The media is wringing their hands over a video of Donald Trump talking to Jeffrey Epstein in 1992, yet they ignore the fact that Bill Clinton took numerous trips on Epstein’s ‘Lolita Express’ to Epstein’s
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson, spoke to thousands of Christian Conservatives and patriotic Americans in Denver, Colorado last weekend at the annual Western Conservative Summit. Dr. Carson provided a clear, common sense prescription he is using for the transformation of the government agency. He sees the mission to actually have the government work for the genuine good of the people rather than just appear to work for the welfare of the public. He explained that there were three serious components of his prescription:
President Trump posted a new patriotic video Wednesday with a blunt message at the end tied to his battle with anti-American Democrat freshmen known as “the squad.” The video comes a day after Democrats rallied around the “squad” in a House vote attacking Trump over his criticism of them.Following a minute-plus compilation video of President Trump in pro-America, flag-waving settings with Americans of all backgrounds–with an emphasis on the military and border patrol–the video concludes with a direct message: America One “Squad” Under God.
LOS ANGELES – Nearly two-dozen Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members who operate in the San Fernando Valley have been charged with a series of ruthless murders, some of which involved hacking people to death with machetes in the Angeles National Forest.The 22 suspects were indicted by a grand jury last week on charges of committing and/or coordinating the murders of seven people over the past two years, according to a federal RICO indictment unsealed Monday.(Snip)“The rival gang member was abducted, choked, and driven to a remote location in the Angeles National Forest, where six
When I saw President Trump’s odd tweets over the weekend — the ones that told four American lawmakers to “go home” — my first thought was about Napoleon Bonaparte, who famously said, “Never interfere with an enemy while he’s in the process of destroying himself.” (Video) That’s just what the Democrats had been doing for weeks. In their first presidential debate last month, all but a few of the 20 candidates running for the White House pledged to give illegal aliens free health care and said crossing the border illegally should be just like getting a parking ticket.
Scientific research has shown that a great and fascinating -- perhaps even mysterious -- bond exists between dogs and human beings. They even understand human language.
The love story between dogs and humans goes back tens of thousands of years, the results of which can still be seen everywhere, every single day. Families going out with their dogs, which are carefully groomed, looking extremely healthy and happy. The pet is a real member of the family. His needs are as important to his owners as their own. Because of this close relationship, dogs have developed the ability to perfectly understand us.
“[Mitt Romney] should know better than anyone else what the media and what the Democrats do to a very decent man,” said RNC National Spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.
On Monday, Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) framed President Donald Trump’s indirect criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) politics as somehow grounded in racial and national considerations,
(Snip) “It’s not about gender. It’s not about race. It’s not about religion. It’s not about creed. It’s about their ideology, they’re spewing a very dangerous ideology
Most racist, woman-hating, immigrant-fearing party ever, amirite?
The not-so-inside talk has been whether Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's four-woman war against Nancy Pelosi would earn her a Democratic primary challenger next year, but her high-profile antics have drawn another Republican into the race to represent heavily Democratic NY14.
Fox News reports that Scherie Murray, a 38-year-old New York businesswoman and Jamaica native (she emigrated as a child), has launched a campaign to unseat AOC next year. She told Fox, "There is a crisis in Queens, and it’s called AOC." Murray went on to say, "Instead of focusing on us, she’s focusing on being famous. Mainly rolling back progress and authoring the job-killing Green New Deal
John Kasich Condemns Trump's Tweets:
'I Aim to Be a Voice of Reason... We Should
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John Kasich strikes again! In a message to his supporters, the failed presidential candidate condemns President's Trump controversial tweets about the notorious "Squad."
"We should all be upset," he writes, adding that "being upset isn't enough," however.
"It seems like every time I speak out against hate and division, people think it's part of some political agenda or that it means I'm running for office," Kasich writes, after which he admits that this, indeed, may be so. "I may run again but that's not why I speak out."
"I'll be honest with you," he continues, "I dislike getting asked every day to comment on the latest Trump-crisis.
On Tuesday night’s episode of The Five, Fox News pundit Greg Gutfeld mocking the collective mass hysteria of CNN and MSNBC over President Trump’s latest tweets against radical first-term Congresswomen. Gutfeld summarized the hysterics to a T with a simple word count: “We are reaching peak racism right now. CNN and MSNBC, according to The Hill this morning, had said the word racist 1,100 times. That was this morning since Sunday. Ok, so today's Tuesday… I think when it's 1,100 times by Tuesday afternoon, I'd call that maybe an overreaction. It's hysterical and it's hysteria.” Tom Elliott of Grabien did a count and posted it on Twitter
Supporters of President Donald Trump began lining up early for his 2020 re-election campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, set for Wednesday evening, according to local reports. WNCT 9 reports Trump supporters started gathering in the parking lot of Greenville’s Minges Coliseum on East Carolina University’s campus — the site where the rally will be held — at 4:00 a.m. EST. Minges has a capacity of 8,000 seats and those working the rally told WINT that they not only anticipate a sold-out crowd, but some eager to hear the president’s speech will be turned away. WITN reports roughly 100 people were lined up at 5:30 a.m. EST.
If Democrats become the victims of a massive electoral defeat next year, it's doubtful that they will understand why. Not one of them seems to have any awareness of how ridiculous they can be.
Case in point, former Vice President Joe Biden, in earnest, just said he would challenge President Trump to a push-up contest as a way to measure his own manliness.
The outburst came with great assist from MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski after she asked Biden in an interview how he would “fight” Trump, given that he “lies,” “bullies,” and “doesn’t play fair.”
Who said women don't support Trump? There were over 1,000 women at the Women for Trump kickoff rally in Valley Forge on July 16, 2019, who disagree. women who make up 56% of the 6,000,000 new jobs created since President Trump took office; women who are 50% of the Trump campaign team; women who are part of the 600,000 women who were lifted out of poverty by Trump policies; women who are part of the 12.3 million women-owned businesses under Trump and who bring in $1.8 trillion in revenue; women who are part of the 1,800 new businesses started every day
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Historians of the future should note that before Democrats gave up and attempted a coup to reinstall Barack Obama as president in 2020, they fielded about twenty profoundly eccentric candidates.
Following the first debate, the candidate whose name was searched online the most, according to Google, was 66-year-old author and New Age guru Marianne Williamson.(Snip)As much of an aberration as some tried to make her out to be, Williamson’s blending of utopian socialism and pagan mysticism has deep roots in the left, going back to 19th-century thinkers such as Edward Carpenter.
In the new nation that Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota seeks to create, the "capitalist system" will be left behind in pursuit of a "fair and just economy" where the federal government guarantees everybody jobs, housing, health care and free abortions. How can we know this? She has declared it in writing. Omar's campaign website includes a section called "Ilhan's Vision." The agenda it presents contradicts foundational American principles — particularly the rights to life and property — that were spelt out in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.The declaration says that "all men are created equal" and "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights."
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi will sit down with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amid a public feud between the party leader and the progressive star.The speaker’s office received a request from Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday afternoon to meet one-on-one, according to Pelosi’s spokesman, and their offices are working to schedule the meeting.“Our teams are in communication. Our chiefs are meeting,” Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview on CBS News Tuesday night. Pelosi’s chief of staff has already met with the four chiefs of the staff to the first-term lawmakers known as the “squad,” the speaker’s office said.
Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo, was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison, ending one of modern history’s most brutal and notorious criminal careers. The life sentence, mandated by law as a result of the severity of Mr. Guzmán’s crimes, was handed down in the Federal District Court in Brooklyn.
EXCLUSIVE -- Scherie Murray, a New York businesswoman who immigrated from Jamaica as a child and is active in state Republican politics, is launching a campaign Wednesday for the congressional seat held by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Fox News has learned.
In a phone interview, Murray, 38, confirmed her intention to run for the New York congressional seat as a Republican.
“There is a crisis in Queens, and it’s called AOC,” Murray told Fox News. “And instead of focusing on us, she’s focusing on being famous. Mainly rolling back progress and authoring the job-killing Green New Deal and killing the Amazon New York deal.”
Scherie Murray, a Jamaican immigrant, is planning on challenging Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., for her House seat in 2020. “There is a crisis in Queens, and it’s called AOC,” Murray, who is a Republican and New York businesswoman, told Fox News ahead of her Wednesday announcement. “And instead of focusing on us, she’s focusing on being famous. Mainly rolling back progress and authoring the job-killing Green New Deal and killing the Amazon New York deal.” Murray, 38, was born in Jamaica and immigrated to America when she was 9. Her video announcement titled "Bridges" focuses on criticism of Ocasio-Cortez, calling
Ted Kennedy might have become president — Richard Nixon certainly thought the runt of the litter was going to be the Democrat nominee against him in 1972. But the Kennedys’ dreams of a restoration of “Camelot” were shattered 50 years ago this week, as Teddy’s mother’s 1967 Delmont 88 Oldsmobile plunged off a small bridge on Chappaquiddick Island into a tidal pond, drowning Mary Jo Kopechne. Teddy killed the 28-year-old “girl,” as he called her, and he was allowed to plead guilty to … leaving the scene of an accident. Not vehicular homicide, or drunk driving, or reckless driving, or
Trump took out the Odd Squad
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Paul Mirengoff of Powerline took enough time off bashing President Donald John Trump to bash the Washington Post for its adulation of the Odd Squad, Democrat Congresswomen of Color Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib.
Their sex and skin tone are all they have going for them because otherwise they are just run-of-the-mill communists like Beto and the rest of the fifth tier in the Democrat presidential marathon. You need a gimmick -- a shield -- from criticism. Ask the gay mayor how that works.
President Donald John Trump saw through the cheesecloth shield the
In the "squad" response to President Trump over his tweets to them about their anti-Americanism, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a doozy of a response. She declared that the U.S. "belongs" to "everyone," including illegal immigrants. She couched it all in the smarmy language of addressing all the children of America. Here's a short clip: CBS News has a longer clip, which leads in with Ocasio-Cortez lamenting border detentions of illegally crossing kids, leaving zero doubt that it's illegals she is addressing in her syrupy statement.
The fundamental issue of the 2020 presidential campaign is rapidly becoming whether or not America’s whites, as exemplified in the person of Donald Trump, have the right to block the world’s blacks and Muslims, as exemplified in the person of Somalia-born Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), from immigrating en masse to the United States.
Or is the entire notion of white citizens democratically voting to keep out nonwhites too racistly triggering for more enlightened entities, such as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, to allow?
The United Nations’ publication last month of its World Population Prospects 2019 adds important
President Trump was raked over the coals by both the left and right for his tweet storm on Sunday (snip) But here’s something you may not have considered, given that everyone (and I mean everyone, as I’ve yet to see a pundit suggest anything to the contrary) seems to be assuming that the tweets are meant to call out Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley – or “the Squad,” as this quartet of freshman Congresswomen has been so stupidly dubbed by Maureen Dowd.
But why? If you still doubt me, try reading that sequence of tweets
We have a president who dons fatigues and steel-toed boots whenever he enters a room full of politicians and media types, promptly takes an axe to the refreshment table, and then invites all in the assemblage to put up their dukes.
All oblige — like now, when the big national story, which doesn’t bear repeating after the last couple of days, is the president’s venture into racial commentary via tweets about the Democrats’ four furthest-left congresswomen, who, along with their party and the media, are duly outraged. They ought to be. He’s campaigning
Let’s call this a nice win for the common-sense American.
Following a bizarre ban of the Pledge of Allegiance by the far-left/socialist St. Louis Park City Council, hundreds packed the council chambers and demanded the Pledge be reinstated. Council members attempted to table the issue, likely hoping people would forget and move on.
THEY DIDN’T, and soon after, the council voted to reinstate the Pledge.
On a related side note, this took place in Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s district – the same Ilhan Omar who has long been attacking President Trump for his many America-first positions.
How odd to see Democrats do a complete 180 regarding the crisis at the southern border.
Watch here as former President Obama outlines the EXACT SAME ARGUMENT President Trump is now saying regarding the terribly dangerous situation of children being sent to the border.
Where was the outrage from the left then and why are they pretending to be so outraged now?
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“Our message is absolutely don’t send your children unaccompanied…that is our direct message to the families in Central America. Do not send your children to the borders. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back…” -Barack
WASHINGTON – Calling racism the "poison of America," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer gave his support Tuesday to a bill to set up a commission to study reparations. "The disparities in race affect everything, not just the obvious things, but the non-obvious things” like pollution and climate change, Schumer explained. The bill, proposed by Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey and Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee would form a commission to study ways to make an apology for slavery and make payments to the descendants of slaves. Booker and Jackson Lee introduced the measure in April 2019. “The legacy of
A watchdog group is asking the Maryland attorney general to investigate whether Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife used a charity for improper self-enrichment, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, which leans conservative, filed the complaint on Monday against the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a nonprofit organization founded by Cummings’ wife, Maya Rockeymoore.
The complaint asked Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh to investigate the financial relationship between the Center for Global Policy Solutions and Rockeymoore’s for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions LLC.
I am an immigrant.
I want Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) to go back to the shithole country she came from.
And I want her to stay there.
I spent some time on the Internet looking for even one positive thing that Omar has said about America—but my search was in vain. Omar hates and despises her adoptive country unequivocally and unconditionally. She hates everything about America today, and she hates everything about the America of yesterday.Omar hates white people. Omar hates Jews—and she is not shy about letting everyone know it (“It’s all about the Benjamins baby”).
Australia will not soften its stand against illegal immigrants or refugees seeking asylum and government benefits, a report released on Wednesday shows.
Refugees who have been stopped at Australia’s borders are held in offshore detention centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island.
But rights groups and the left-wing Labor opposition have called on the government to open the doors and let them in,
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Canberra has rejected all of the recommendations, (Snip)Australia is currently the only country in the world that mandates the strict detention of illegal aliens who are caught after they evade border forces.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was booed after attempting to shame lawmakers into supporting the House Democrats’ resolution to condemn what they consider “racist” tweets from President Trump, arguing that anything less would be “a shameful abdication” of their oath of office to “protect the American people.”
The speaker railed against Trump during Tuesday’s debate on the House floor, promising that her caucus would continue to respond to the “disrespect” aimed at the fundamental diversity of America. She accused the president of legitimizing and increasing “fear” and “hatred” against people of color and attempted to shame lawmakers who
President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that “I don’t have a Racist bone in my body!” and challenged his critics to “Get a list of the HORRIBLE things” that the four Democratic congresswomen of the so-called “Squad” have said.
It is worth noting that all four — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) are members of a group called the “Justice Democrats.” The group is specifically devoted to backing primary candidates against Democratic incumbents seen as being too moderate and too white.
This is one of my favorite changes in executive governance since a ‘People’s President’ won the 2016 election. President Trump is the FIRST U.S. President to allow the American people to see the workings of an administrative cabinet. President Trump has done this so frequently people have stopped recognizing the incredible level of transparency.
President Trump uses these cabinet meetings to inform the electorate what is happening and also work around the manipulative presentations by DC media:
…”And if the press wants to stay, you can. If you’d like to leave — it’s like I said the other day:
NEW YORK - Support for U.S. President Donald Trump increased slightly among Republicans after he lashed out on Twitter over the weekend in a racially charged attack on four minority Democratic congresswomen, a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll shows. The national survey, conducted on Monday and Tuesday after Trump told the lawmakers they should “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,” showed his net approval among members of his Republican Party rose by 5 percentage points to 72%, compared with a similar poll that ran last week.
Americans’ steadfast adherence to the rule of law separates the United States from almost every other country, even other free societies. There is nothing more contrary to the rule of law, however, than the current lack of control over our southern border, across which thousands now pass illegally every day.
Alexis de Tocqueville, the young French diplomat who toured America extensively in 1831 then wrote De la démocratie en Amerique, the most celebrated portrait of the young nation’s society, marveled at the operation of the rule of law here.
He wrote that “in America one man never obeys another man, only justice or the law.”
Simulated Apollo 11 launch on Washington
Memorial commemorates 50th anniversary of
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Memorial commemorates 50th anniversary of
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The Air and Space Museum launched its four-day celebration of the moon landing's 50th anniversary by projecting an image onto the Washington Memorial of the Apollo 11 takeoff.The full-scale image of Saturn V, which will adorn the iconic obelisk for three days, covers the entire length of the 363-foot monument. (Tweet/Video) "The Washington Monument is a symbol of our collective national achievements and what we can and will achieve in the future. It took 400,000 people from across the 50 states to make Apollo a reality. This program celebrates them, and we hope it inspires generations too young to have experienced Apollo firsthand to define their own moonshot,"
The Trump Steamroller
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As we settle into high summer and the period of maximum difficulty in finding anything to fill in hours of television news, especially 24/7 news television, two well-established political trends are emerging in this pre-electoral period: The president’s opponents continue to dig themselves into foxholes that they will not be able to escape, and the president’s tactical victories continue to be compromised by his verbal sloppiness. In completely nonpartisan terms, both phenomena are disappointing. The process of the president’s leaving verbal lapses for his enemies to exploit, and of the Democrats and national media doing so excessively, is more complicated than it seems. The initial shock at the success
A historic photography series from Missouri showcases the fun children had in open-air spaces before the days of video games, smart phones and computers.A safe distance away from cars and other traffic, the kids relished their summer activities from baseball and volleyball to nearly 30 kids of all ages lining-up to pose on a slide. There were 63 of the open-air spaces when the photo-series began where events, sports and activities were put on for the children. It quickly became a hit with the children, who relished spending time in the outdoors.
A series of remarkable things happened over the weekend—all of them overshadowed by unfortunate tweets from President Trump and the hysterical overreactions they provoked. But these overshadowed events tell us much more about the state of the country than the controversy over Trump’s tweets, and what they reveal isn’t good.
On Friday night, a mob of protestors tore down an American flag outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Aurora, Colo., and replaced it with a Mexican flag. Local police stood by and did nothing.
The next day, a gunman reportedly associated with Antifa attacked an ICE detention center in Tacoma, Wash., throwing Molotov cocktails
“Birtherism” lives. Not because Kenyan birth conspiracists refuse to let it go, but because the Democrat media complex won’t let the term die. The label and its interchangeable charge of “racism” are too useful to them as a shorthand silencing tactic. And if Republicans allow the tactic to flourish, any hope of effectively reforming our nation’s immigration policies will fade in proportion.
Just this morning CBS News ran the headline: “From birtherism to racist tweets: Trump’s history of inflaming racial tensions.” A couple of weeks ago, Dean Obeidallah tweeted: “Birtherism has become shorthand for smearing people of color in politics with lies. And Trump is the father
To say that the Democrats are obsessed with race these days is the equivalent of saying the sky is blue.
I'm a racist. You're a racist. Donald Trump's a racist. Nancy Pelosi was a racist until she attacked Trump for racism. Your neighbor's a racist. Your insurance broker's a racist. Your dentist's a racist as well as your periodontist. All white males are racist. Some white females are racists, especially those married to white males. Everywhere a racist.
Never mind that many of those people have no history of racism. It doesn't matter. Never mind that their families came here in 1923 to flee the Armenian Holocaust
The Exceptional Trump
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Donald Trump, unlike Barack Obama &Company, loves talking about America’s “exceptional” qualities, but we tend to overlook the importance of the exceptional qualities of Trump himself.No, this will not be a suck-up exercise about the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. A serious discussion of President Trump and his record should not neglect Trump’s faults and mistakes, but it must honestly assess how Trump’s own background has shaped events in America and the world.In many respects, Trump is a fulfilment of the vision of America by the French historian Alexis De Tocqueville, who studied and described American exceptionalism almost 200 years ago, and his words are still accurate.
It’s déjà vu all over again. President Trump has given the hanging party a first-rate piece of rope to use against him.
His tweet will not live in infamy, but his cringe-worthy “go back” language rhymes with many of his earlier self-inflicted mistakes. The pattern was established during the 2016 campaign and he has been faithful to it many times since taking office.
It always seems to happen when things are going pretty well. So it was Sunday, with Democrats engulfed in a vicious civil war and Trump’s poll numbers rising against the 2020 candidates as the public begins to realize how far left they are goin
An open letter to Barack Obama:
Mr. President, it is time. You must speak. Your country needs you.
Eleven summers ago, as you accepted the Democratic nomination for president, you announced: “Tonight, I say to the people of America, to Democrats and Republicans and independents across this great land: Enough. This moment — this election — is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive.”
Of course, we knew then that our nation had deep political differences, and would continue to. Only the most naive among us would have expected the election of the first African American president to come about with no backlash.
But would anyone have anticipated
London- Ikea is shutting down its only furniture factory in the United States.
The Swedish company will end production this December at its plant in Danville, Virginia. Operations will move to Europe, where the company says it can cut costs.
"We made every effort to improve and maintain the competitiveness of this plant, but unfortunately the right cost conditions are not in place to continue production in Danville," site manager Bert Eades said in a statement. The Danville facility, which opened in 2008, employs 300 workers. Wooden products including shelves and storage units are made at the plant.
Some in the news media have tried in recent days to rekindle their long-lost love affair with former MI6 agent Christopher Steele and his now infamous dossier.
The main trigger was a lengthy interview in June with the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general, which some news outlets suggested meant U.S. officials have found Steele, the former Hillary Clinton-backed political muckraker, to be believable.
“Investigators ultimately found Steele’s testimony credible and even surprising,” Politico crowed.
Almost a year after President Donald Trump urged voters to reject Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman is considering a Republican presidential run of his own against Trump in 2020.
Sanford, in an interview Tuesday with The Post and Courier, confirmed he will take the next month to formulate a potential run against Trump as a way of pushing a national debate about America’s mounting debt, deficit and government spending.
He would run as a Republican.
RUSH: I have people all over the place, “Rush, what is this all about? What is really going on here?” Sometimes the question disappoints me because I would hope that it would be obvious. I think it’s obvious to more and more people what’s going on here, but I will take the opportunity here to explain it in abbreviated form yet again.
I’ve had so many people say to me, “You know, Rush, this nothing new. People have been saying ‘love it or leave it’ for I don’t know how long, my whole life.” Remember there used to be all those bumper stickers: “America: love it or leave it.”
The Director of Community Engagements for Massachusetts Citizens for Life claims that Facebook has labeled a quote by St. Augustine as hate speech. In a blog post, Domenico Bettinelli wrote, "Facebook has repeatedly banned a quote from St. Augustine every time I’ve posted it. And it’s not some fire and brimstone 'Sinners are going to hell!' quote, but in fact, quite the opposite."
Pulled from one of St. Augustine's homilies included in the Roman Catholic Church's official liturgical books, the offending quote is this: