Posts on Friday, July 19, 2019
Fact-challenged Andrea Mitchell is under fire for missing the obvious about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the other progressive congresswomen of “The Squad.”The MSNBC anchor struggled to accept Republicans, including President Trump during his campaign rally this week, calling the women “socialists,” denying it was so during a panel discussion on “Andrea Mitchell Reports” Thursday.
Mitchell attempted to fact-check Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy after a news conference in which he defended the president’s remarks during the rally, saying he was waging “a battle over a socialist issue and the socialist Democrats, that’s one that he’s taken up even in the State of the
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley is throwing a flag on the stealth push by technology investors to expand the unregulated U.S.-India outsourcing economy. [Snip] Grassley’s office told Breitbart News he opposes the House’s EB-5 language because it does not include any reforms for the controversial EB-5 program: [Snip] Grassley’s opposition is a significant factor in the clubby GOP caucus, not least because he has held up the green card giveaway bill for ten years.
Democrats are calling for authorities to evaluate security for Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and the other three freshmen members of the so-called “Squad,” arguing that President Trump’s verbal attacks on them at a recent rally in North Carolina have threatened their safety, according to Politico.
“It’s crystal clear to me that her life is in imminent danger,” Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) told the outlet. “He has threatened the safety of a member of Congress. That takes this to a whole different level.”
Trump later disavowed the chant, and Omar reportedly told reporters Thursday she was not worried about her personal safety.
President Trump was asked if he was "in favor of banning plastic straws" by a reporter on Friday afternoon, just a short time after an Iranian provocation in the Strait of Hormuz. "Are you in favor of banning plastic straws?" a reporter asked the president outside the White House. "I do think we have bigger problems than plastic straws. You know, it’s interesting about plastic straws. So you have a little straw, but what about the plates, the wrappers, and everything else that are much bigger and they’re made of the same material? So the straws are interesting, everybody focuses on the straws, there’s a lot of other things
Michelle Obama spoke out against President Trump’s attacks on a group of minority congresswomen, saying “there’s a place for us all” in America. The controversy began last weekend when Trump told four Democratic women of color they should "go back"“What truly makes our country great is its diversity. I’ve seen that beauty in so many ways over the years. Whether we are born here or seek refuge here, there’s a place for us all. We must remember it’s not my America or your America. It’s our America,” the former first lady tweeted Friday. (Tweet)
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The New York Times editorial board today explained, "The Real Meaning of ‘Send Her Back!’" Editorials are public notices to the staff. [Snip] The editorial was as awful as any intelligent person imagined. The board harrumphed, "Mr. Trump appears to see the presidency as a giant megaphone for stoking racial and ethnic animus." [Snip] Obama's embrace of the racist Black Lives Matter movement was not mentioned.
But why argue with reactionaries? [Snip] The Resistance Democrats do not want to Make America Great Again.
They want to make America communist.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would talk to the United Kingdom after Iran's Revolutionary Guards said it had seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf.
Trump made the comments to reporters outside the White House. The Revolutionary Guards said Iranian maritime authorities had requested the capture of the tanker for "not following international maritime regulations."
The incident risks further inflaming tensions between Tehran and the West, which have been increasingly strained since the United States withdraw from a nuclear deal with Iran and imposed sanctions.
“The Kennedy Machine Buried What
Really Happened”: Revisiting Chappaquiddick,
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Really Happened”: Revisiting Chappaquiddick,
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Fifty years ago, as men prepared to land on the moon and millions of those stuck on earth followed each staticky dispatch from space, Senator Ted Kennedy drove his car into a pond.(Snip)
Looking back 50 years on, Chappaquiddick says much about its era, a time when a privileged, powerful man could manipulate a system to avoid prosecution while a young woman who had ascended in male-dominated Washington—when only 11 women were in Congress—had both her life and death engulfed by the senator’s political ambitions and America’s fascination with the Kennedys. (Snip)“The Kennedy machine buried what
So, CNN actually counted the seconds President Trump remained silent when chants of “send her back” erupted during his rally in North Carolina. It was in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Of course, the Left was shocked. Trump has since condemned it, I couldn’t care less. Omar is trash. She peddles anti-Semitic tropes. She supports the viciously anti-Israel BDS movement, whom she recently likened to the Boston Tea Party. And she refuses to condemn terrorism and violence from the far-left Antifa group. Also, liberals were the original ‘deport people we don’t like’ crew when they went after Dr. Sebastian Gorka,
Speaking at a White House event honoring Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the Moon, said he's "disappointed" with the progress America's space program has made over the past 50 years. "[I'm] disappointed in the progress in the past 50 years," Aldrin said at the event held in the Oval Office. "We had a rocket, the Saturn 5. We have the [number one] rocket and spacecraft and they can’t get into lunar orbit. That’s a great disappointment to me." NASA's Administrator Jim Bridenstine, who was also at the event, said the space agency is "working on it." (Photo)
One morning in July, days after his onetime client Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges, the famed attorney Alan Dershowitz was reminiscing as he drove the winding roads of Martha’s Vineyard. “I first came here to defend Ted Kennedy,” he said. “I got a call: ‘The senator has driven off a bridge.’” A woman drowned; the powerful man escaped serious consequences. Dershowitz liked the island and has been coming back for 50 years. He turned his old Volvo station wagon onto an unpaved road leading into the woods, and brought the conversation to his personal crisis. Of all of the many men on the long list of socialites, billionaires,
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has allegedly been uncooperative with her hometown paper’s efforts to get to the bottom of accusations that she committed marriage fraud, the paper’s political editor said. Omar’s brief congressional career has been dogged by accusations — which she has denied — that she married a male relative, possibly her brother. Omar and her current husband, Ahmed Hirsi, filed joint tax returns while Omar was married to another man, Ahmed Elmi, Minnesota campaign finance officials said.
Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton received the SCLC ‘Realizing the Dream’ award on Friday during the 61st annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia.Crooked Hillary trashed President Trump during her speech at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (Tweet) Classless Hillary Clinton just had to talk about President Trump at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Hillary suggested Trump is a racist because he dared to criticize the four Communist freshman Congresswomen known as the “squad.”
The Republican Governors Association has plenty of material to cheer about within the latest nationwide polling from Morning Consult. The survey reveals that among the top ten most popular state-level chief executives in the nation, all ten are members of the GOP. We'll get to the bottom ten in a moment, but take a look at the honor roll results:(Tweet) This list includes northeastern moderates like Baker and Hogan, mainstream conservatives like Sununu and Hutchinson, and hardcore conservatives like Abbott (who also happens to be quite effective and savvy). The number that really jumps out at me is the blowout success of Ron DeSantis.
President Trump’s approval ratings are under water in national polls. His position for re-election, on the other hand, might not be quite so bleak. His advantage in the Electoral College, relative to the national popular vote, may be even larger than it was in 2016, according to an Upshot analysis of election results and polling data. That persistent edge leaves him closer to re-election than one would think based on national polls, and it might blunt any electoral cost of actions like his recent tweets attacking four minority congresswomen. For now, the mostly white working-class Rust Belt states, decisive in
The United States 2016 election, when President Donald Trump was voted into office, may have been tied to a rise in premature births among Latina women across the US, according to a new study. In the nine months beginning with November 2016, about 3.2% to 3.6% more preterm births to Latina women occurred above the levels of preterm births that would have been expected had the election not occurred, suggests the study, published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open on Friday.
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Peggy Noonan may be a fake conservative, but in her weekly column in the Wall Street Journal today, she nailed what racism is in America 55 years after passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964.
She wrote, "In the past, whether you were racist could be judged by your actions. [Snip] Now the idea has taken hold that the charge of racism doesn’t derive from thoughts and actions, from what people say and do, but from who they are. [Snip] So change is not possible; improvement will not happen. There’s no way out."
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Her definition is accurate.
Her pessimism is not.
What happens when a school district needs to collect $20,000 in unpaid lunch fees from parents? In Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, they, um … repossess your kids. A letter from the director of federal programs at the Wyoming Valley West School District warns delinquent parents that the district will force their kids into foster care if they don’t pay up.
One of the worst parts of Congress is the public hearings. They almost never accomplish anything, nor reveal new information, and simply serve as a visual medium for egotistical, press hungry members to grandstand.
Naturally, that means Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez absolutely loves them.
Because big government is always inherently good, despite millennium of evidence to the contrary, she decided to to go after cryptocurrency.(Snip)Now, it may be true that big corporations are motivated to build the Libra as a currency to buy their products. The question should be, so what?
Look, the guy cracks me up and I won’t apologize for it. Case in point, the Trump campaign is selling a 10-pack of recyclable plastic straws, laser-engraved with the word “TRUMP” because, as the campaign tells it, “liberal paper straws don’t work.” [ tweet ]
I don’t have to agree with every policy position to find that hilarious. Especially since it’s caused publications like VICE to get in their feelings about it and write pieces about the inferior quality, the only “theoretical” recyclability, and the (guffaw) market attractiveness of said straws.
The mainstream media are hellbent on playing by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s rules of engagement on all matters, and there is no better example of that than their refusal to press her into abiding by her own standards.
Such is the case with her repulsive accusations that the Republicans who haven’t explicitly denounced or otherwise condemned President Trump’s controversial tweets about The Squad from Sunday
President Trump says he intends to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, as his next Secretary of Labor. The presidential announcement by tweet came on the eve of the departure of the current Labor secretary, Alexander Acosta. [Snip] Scalia worked in the Labor Dept. during the first two years of the George W. Bush administration. The 55-year-old Scalia, Trump said, “has led a life of great success in the legal and laborr field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience.” Also truth be told this being the East, Scalia graduated from the
Israel is unlikely to bar entry to US Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashid Tlaib from visiting next month. Though the anti-BDS law gives the government the authority to do so. BDS is the acronym for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement introduced by Omar. U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar resolution supports the right for individuals or groups to boycott Israel. The resolution pushing back against U.S. laws banning the boycott of Israel. Omar demands the right of Americans to organize boycotts of foreign countries if they so wish. Even if they are US Allies.
Vietnam has called on China to remove an oil exploration ship from disputed waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.
Reports in recent days have suggested a large-scale standoff between several coastguard ships from each country as a Chinese oil exploration ship entered contested waters near the Spratly Islands.
"Over the last several days, the Chinese survey ship, Haiyang Dizhi 8, and its escorts conducted activities in the southern area of the East Sea that violated Vietnam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf," Vietnamese foreign affairs ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said in a statement on Friday, using the Vietnamese term for the South China Sea.
PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland – Tiger Woods’ major championship season ended with a whimper on Friday at Royal Portrush, with a missed cut at The Open to bookend an otherwise successful campaign following his victory at the Masters. His decade of Grand Slam turbulence, however, came to a much more complicated conclusion.(Snip)
Woods’ victory in April at Augusta National, be it a swansong or otherwise, will always rank among his greatest accomplishments.(Snip)
But while that high-water mark can temper the disappointment that has followed in the majors, including a short stay at Royal Portrush, it doesn’t erase what
Israeli security company reportedly has
tool that spies on Apple, Google and
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An Israeli cybersecurity company has developed spyware that can scrape data from the servers of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft products, according to The Financial Times.
The report says NSO Group’s proprietary smartphone malware, Pegasus, harvests not only data stored on a device, but also any information stored in the cloud, including a user’s location data, archived messages and photos.
NSO Group, who previously installed malware in Facebook’s WhatsApp, denied that it markets software capable of capturing data in the cloud. It’s unclear if it has developed the tools internally.
The man accused of setting fire to a Japanese animation studio on Thursday, killing 33 people and injuring dozens, reportedly had a grudge against the company who he believed had "stolen novels" from him.
Kyoto police identified the man as Shinji Aoba, a 41-year-old man who was not employed at Kyoto Animation and was hospitalized after allegedly dousing the entrance of the building with a liquid and igniting it.
Aoba told police that he set the fire because he thought "(Kyoto Animation) stole novels," according to Japanese media. It was unclear if he had contacted the studio earlier.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered tall buildings to lay off the air conditioning in the face of an oncoming heatwave, in an attempt to preserve electricity in the city. In an emergency order issued on Thursday, de Blasio directed the owners of office buildings 100 feet or taller to keep the AC to 78F from Friday morning to Sunday evening. More than 200 million people in the eastern and central US are bracing for a dangerously warm weekend, with temperatures soaring as high as 110F.
New York - A lawyer says authorities have wasted no time in sending the convicted Mexican drug lord known as El Chapo to an ultra-high-security prison where he will serve a life sentence.
Defense Attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said Thursday that Joaquin Guzman was whisked away by helicopter only a few hours after his sentencing in New York City on Wednesday.
He says authorities would tell him only that his client was en route to the supermax facility in Florence, Colorado. Prison officials and prosecutors wouldn't talk about Guzman's whereabouts on Thursday.
Federal prosecutors in New York City will not bring additional charges as part of their investigation into payments orchestrated by former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen to pornographic actress Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 presidential election, according to the Associated Press. (Snip)The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan revealed Thursday that its investigation into Cohen’s campaign finance violations included an inquiry into whether other people gave false statements or obstructed justice — a broader scope than the office had previously acknowledged.
“We are pleased that the investigation surrounding these ridiculous campaign finance allegations is now closed,” Trump lawyer
President Donald Trump ridiculed the crowd of supporters welcoming Rep. Ilhan Omar back to Minnesota as “staged”, vowing to win the state in 2020.
Trump decried the establishment media on Twitter for covering the event, accusing them of a “sick partnership” with the radical left.
“They even covered a tiny staged crowd as they greeted Foul Mouthed Omar in Minnesota, a state which I will win in 2020 because they can’t stand her and her hatred of our Country,” he wrote.
“It’s good to be home,” Omar wrote on Twitter on Thursday night, sharing a video of the
Richard McGregor's new book, "Xi Jinping: The Backlash," was published by Penguin Australia on Tuesday. He wrote a 966-word essay for CNN, "The backlash is growing against Xi Jinping in China and around the world."
Curiously, that world does not include President Donald John Trump whose tariffs on Red China's exports to the USA are causing pain for the communist regime.
McGregor did not mention the American president or his tariffs, which have applied pressure on Red China's fragile economy.
(Snip) Then again, big trouble in big China is a good thing, so why credit the man most responsible?
In the course of every debate about Medicare in the United States, someone on the left will eventually bring up Canada. Glorious Canada, where medicine flows freely down panacea rivers and Canadians don’t have to pay a dime for it.
Only none of that is true. It’s a horrendous healthcare system with horrible wait times, excessive costs via taxes, and you’re forced to pay for everybody’s bad decisions in regard to how they lived their life. Regardless of this being the reality, leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders will tell you how much better Canada’s healthcare system is as opposed to
Fifty years ago today, Democrat Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy got drunk (allegedly) and drove over a bridge (really). Kennedy left his female passenger Mary Jo Kopechne to die. He never answered for leaving Kopechne to die. Fifty years ago today began the tradition of the liberal media covering up everything bad that liberal Democrats did. Thus allowing liberals to become more emboldened. Benghazi and “Fast and Furious” just two of many examples of getting innocent people killed, then covering it up.
The news cycle has been insane the past few days so this hasn’t gotten much press, but it’s a pretty big deal.
After the Mueller report failed to deliver the silver bullet against Trump, those obsessed with taking him out (Snip)needed a new hope. It couldn’t just be over and rationality that perhaps Trump simply didn’t break any laws wasn’t entertained. Instead, the dream shifted to the SDNY.(Snip) Well, so much for that. It was just announced yesterday that the SDNY’s investigation into the Trump organization and the Michael Cohen related “hush money” payments is over.
Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) began fundraising for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Thursday in response to a Trump rally that broke out with the crowd chanting “send her back” directed at the Somali-born congresswoman.(Video) "Can you split a $2.70 contribution between Ilhan Omar’s re-election campaign and our campaign for president?" Sanders’ 2020 campaign wrote in an email. "Send a message that we will fight back against Trump’s racism."President Donald Trump prolonged an ongoing feud with himself and four progressive congresswomen, collectively known as the "Squad,"
There are more important things worth writing about today, but..No, there aren’t. One of the most iconically cheesy movies of the 1980s has finally gotten its sequel, with the most famous movie star in the world reprising his lead role. There’s nothing more important. It’s the biggest news out there.Trump should have premiered this in the Oval Office, for fark’s sake.In case you’re not keeping track, Hollywood is in the process of reviving every hit action film of the decade when Trump first made his mark on America’s consciousness. The new “Top Gun” is here. We’re getting a new “Rambo” soon. The next “Terminator” arrives this fall.
The late champion boxer Muhammad Ali sent a condolence letter to Mary Jo Kopechne’s father after her death 50 years ago, telling him to sue Ted Kennedy “for everything he’s got,” her family said.
The Kopechne family, whose 28-year-old daughter Mary Jo drowned July 18, 1969, after the car driven by Kennedy careened off a bridge into the water, had never shared the letter publicly before,
The short, handwritten letter is dated July 31, 1969, to Joseph Kopechne, who died in 2003. He signed it “Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay.” The letter was released by cousins of
ELYRIA - The law firms that represented Gibson’s Bakery and its owners in a lawsuit against Oberlin College have been awarded approximately $6.5 million in attorney fees by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi. (Snip) Lee Plakas, one of the lead attorneys for the Gibsons, said Thursday that Miraldi’s decision “keeps the courthouse doors open” for small businesses and individuals who otherwise “would not be able to withstand the power and resources” of an institution like Oberlin College. “The jury’s verdict opened the eyes of a nation to recognize the college’s need to have an adult in the room,”
Shame on Robert Mueller—Again
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Nowhere is the collapse of the Democratic Party as a coherent political organization more evident than in the astounding metamorphosis of Robert Mueller. He returned to public notice as special counsel and was instantly heralded by the Democratic media as a virtual Douglas MacArthur of selfless national duty, precisely the sort of rigorous, incorruptible, no-nonsense public servant who would tear the Trump fraud of corruption and artificiality, dirty tricks, shady accounting, and outrageous misbehavior apart and expose the whole rotten mess that had, by nightmarish mischance, moved into the White House (where the Clinton pay-to-play casino should already have been installed).
In its quest to make America Venezuela, the left is coming for your toilet paper.
Kimberley Strassel spotted this beaut on Twitter:
Apparently toilet paper is the new plastic straw of the green lobby, and they're out to put a stop to it. Kid you not, here is what the National Resources Defense Council is shilling as its new narrative:
You may not realize it, but the toilet paper in your bathroom likely comes from some of the most important—and threatened—forests in the world. In fact, Procter & Gamble is driving the devastation
President Trump is continuing to plan to replace his senior intelligence adviser, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, and has considered at least one candidate, according to people close to the White House.
Fred Fleitz, an intelligence veteran who until recently was chief of staff to National Security Adviser John R. Bolton, is being considered for the DNI post by Mr. Trump.
Twitchy has uncovered massive fraud being perpetrated on America right now. Apparently, no one thought #DeportMelania was racist or deplorable when it was being used by verified Democrats and journalists (is there a difference?) on Twitter just a short time ago.
(Tweet) It will be “Biden and Harris Round 2” at the second Democratic debates. The lineups for the Democratic presidential primary debates on July 30 and 31 were drawn at random and announced on Thursday night by CNN, the network hosting the contest. On the first night of the debates the candidates featured will be: Marianne Williamson, John Delaney, John Hickenlooper, Tim Ryan, Steve Bullock, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, the network said.
The following night will feature front-runner Joe Biden and the remaining field of candidates, including:
Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester said Thursday the best way for Democrats to beat President Trump in 2020 is to “go back and punch him in the face” in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”“I don’t think, even in states where Donald Trump won big, that it did you any good running away from Donald Trump,” he said. “I think you need to go back and punch him in the face. The truth is this guy is bad for this country.”WATCH: (Video) Joe Scarborough prompted the statement by asking Tester to give Democrats advice on how to defeat Trump, as someone who
Recently, I wrote an article expounding on the theory that Barack Obama didn’t hate America, he hated Americans. Current events involving prominent (heck, all) Democrats, however, have given me a reason to doubt my hypothesis. I now believe he hates both America and Americans; and at this point, looking at the slate of Democrats who seek the presidency, as well as the constant and visceral provocations of the four female morons of the idiocracy, he is not alone.In fact, the Democratic Party (let’s just call them the “New Woke Party”) have metamorphosed from an entity concerned with politics into a religion steeped in
Three years ago, most American newsrooms picked Ilhan Omar -- despite her crawling Jew-hatred and evidence of an extensive criminal past -- to be the transcendent face America needed to fight bigotry and federal corruption. Reporters apparently chose to lie about Omar to help birth a more trusting country.
Perfectly irrational idiocy. Legacy newsmedia, decayed, perhaps brought itself final ruin by getting exactly what it wanted.
The first Somali-born woman and the first female Muslim to be elected to a U.S. statehouse, Ilhan Omar defeated 44-year incumbent Phyllis Kahn in the Democrat-Farmer-Labor primary for Minnesota House District 60B in 2016. A former child refugee
Trump-haters are rejoicing in what they see as a major fissure separating President Trump from his base over the Greenville, North Carolina rally’s crowd chants of “send her back!” (snip) President Trump already has taken public notice of the controversy over some of Rep. Omar’s potential frauds. I have to assume that the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into these matters. If it hasn’t there is something wrong. So, it would be imperative for President Trump to avoid any appearance of being responsible for persecuting her.
Republican strategist Karl Rove is lamenting the political polarization in Washington, saying he worries that both parties are "broken."
“I think a lot of Republicans sink themselves for liking what he’s doing, but not how he is doing it," Rove said of the party's relationship with President Trump. "The parties are so broken. If the leader of the party is attacked, everyone rallies around."
I joined Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday in a visit to a migrant detention center in Texas to witness firsthand how much work we have left to do to secure our southern border.
The situation is dire. Smuggling cartels tell lies about instant asylum and open borders and have drawn migrants by the hundreds of thousands to border stations near McAllen and El Paso in Texas, along with other crossings along the Rio Grande.
It isn’t until they arrive that migrants discover the truth: applying for legal entry into the United States is a long, confusing process. There are rules –
Can a candidate who is leading the field by 12 points be weak? That's the question of Joe Biden's run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The fact is, Biden's campaign is showing signs of weakness. So is the candidate himself. And doing pushups, as Biden suggested he might do to show up President Trump, won't make him any stronger.
In mid-May, Biden led the sprawling Democratic field by 26 points in the RealClearPolitics average of national polls. By late May, the lead was 17 points. By late June, it was 15 points. Today, it is 12.
So Biden's lead is still big,
The election of Donald Trump has pulled American debate away from objectivity and turned publications into actors in a political battle. After Donald Trump’s election, the New Yorker magazine lost no time nailing its colors to the anti-Trump mast.
David Remnick, its editor, lamented that Obama – a ‘man of integrity, dignity, and generous spirit’ – was being supplanted by ‘vulgarity unbounded, a knowledge-free national leader’ who would ‘set markets tumbling’, ‘strike fear into the hearts of the vulnerable, the weak’ etc. This set the tone for the magazine’s subsequent reporting.
Robert Francis O’Rourke is white. If it’s any consolation, he’s very sorry about that.
“Beto” has been running from his Irish ancestry for some time now. Long before the Left fell headlong into the logical termini of its triune fascination with race, power, and privilege, O’Rourke sensed that there was a currency to be had in becoming “Beto” rather than “Robert Francis.” For one, the latter was imbued with a stench of Gaelic papism that made him sound more like a rosary-wielding Catholic school boy than a dyed-in-the-wool radical. More damning for a would-be Democratic upstart, though, were the privileges that attended to his birth name:
The mood of left-wing Democrats might be neatly summarized by the media coverage of last weekend’s Netroots Nation conference. The progressive left seems poised to consign former President Barack Obama to the dustbin of history. Moreover, supposedly woke agitators do not seem to care how their exercise might affect black voters who comprise a crucial part of their 2020 electoral strategy.
According to Vox, “Progressive activists know their enemy in the 2020 Democratic primary: Joe Biden.” As Vox notes, “Some activists at Netroots conceded they would support Biden in a general election if they had no other choice.”
Dean Obeidallah of CNN and The Daily Beast finds this concession
A few years ago, I lived in a walkup apartment in the East Village of New York. Every so often descending the stairway, I would catch a glimpse of a particular family with young children in its Sisyphean attempts to reach the fourth floor. The mom would fold the stroller to the size of a boogie board, then drag it behind her with her right hand, while cradling the younger and typically crying child in the crook of her left arm. Meanwhile, she would shout hygiene instructions in the direction of the older child, who would slap both hands against every other grimy step to use her little arms
Man ascended to the glorious heavens and sank to the murky depths 50 years ago this weekend. The juxtaposition serves as a metaphor for modern times, when our technology races to infinity and beyond as our behavior periodically knuckle-drags toward barbarism.
On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and a few hours later, on July 21, Neil Armstrong, and then Buzz Aldrin, bounced on the regolith-over-rock surface of our only natural satellite. They spent more than 21 hours walking on the moon. The hard part followed the pedestrian part. The Eagle took off, linked up with the Apollo 11 command module in lunar orbit,
STEBBINS — When Nimeron Mike applied to be a city police officer here last New Year’s Eve, he didn’t really expect to get the job.
Mike was a registered sex offender and had served six years behind bars in Alaska jails and prisons. He’d been convicted of assault, domestic violence, vehicle theft, groping a woman, hindering prosecution, reckless driving, drunken driving and choking a woman unconscious in an attempted sexual assault. Among other crimes.
“My record, I thought I had no chance of being a cop,” Mike, 43, said on a recent weekday evening, standing at his doorway in this Bering Strait village of 646 people.
He was wrong.
Trump trade deal with Canada and
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Here we go again. This week, President Trump appeared to renew his threat to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if Democrats do not pass his new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). His threats may worry pro-trade Republicans, but they are music to the ears of anti-NAFTA Democrats, who would love nothing better than to get rid of NAFTA without giving Trump a trade victory.
Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has a better idea: Trump should tell Democrats that they will own NAFTA if they oppose his deal to replace it. The message should be "if you're a Democrat, you essentially are voting
Presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders has pledged to American workers that he would institute a $15-per-hour minimum wage if he wins the White House in 2020.
But unionized workers on Sanders’ own campaign say they wish he would start now -- by paying a higher wage to them.
According to a report, members of Sanders’ staff have been using the senator's own campaign rhetoric against him as they try to wrestle more pay from the self-described democratic socialist.
The 2019 U.S. media are akin to the Monty Python “killer rabbit” skit, as every broadcast and print publication runs away from anything that might be adverse to their political interests. Oh noes, run away… run away… Yes, at this point it really is comical.
An armed Antifa terrorist can attempt to use home-made bombs to attack an ICE detention center, get killed in the process, and leave behind a manifesto that actually quotes Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as his motive to stop the “concentration camps”, and the media flee from coverage…. “run away“.