Posts on Monday, July 22, 2019
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee said Monday she is “very concerned” former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks may have perjured herself during a June House committee hearing.
Unredacted court documents released Thursday showed Ms. Hicks was involved in decisions to give hush money to an adult film actress to protect President Trump from the story of her affair with him being released during the 2016 election.
This new information appears to conflict with an answer she gave Ms. Jackson Lee during a June House Judiciary Hearing, she said during a closed-door House Judiciary Committee hearing that she was “never present” for any discussions of Ms. Daniels,
Sriharikota (India) – India on Monday launched a landmark spacecraft to land on the Moon, in a bid to become only the fourth nation to achieve the feat.Chandrayaan-2 — Moon Chariot 2 — took off as scheduled at 2:43 pm (0913 GMT) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre at Sriharikota, an island off the coast of southern Andhra Pradesh state. The launch came a week after a fuel leak forced the previous attempt to be scrubbed.
Comey's inside man at White House
emerges as DOJ inspector general finalizes
FISA abuse report replies
emerges as DOJ inspector general finalizes
FISA abuse report replies
Former FBI Director James Comey had an inside man at the White House, feeding the bureau information about President Trump and his aides in 2017. Now this individual, who after leaving the government was hired by BuzzFeed to verify parts of British ex-spy Christopher Steele's dossier, may be tied to an investigation into alleged surveillance abuses by the DOJ and the FBI being conducted by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.This previously unreported mole in the White House appears in a new report by RealClearInvestigations that explored possible misconduct by Comey for what two
According to a new explosive report by investigative journalist Paul Sperry, former FBI Director James Comey was investigating Trump on the sly and used a covert agent in the White House to relay information about Trump back to the bureau.DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is expected to release his report in early September showing evidence indicating that James Comey was misleading Trump about being a target of an investigation.The covert agent, Anthony Ferrante, who Comey brought in to spy on Trump and his aides and relay information back to the bureau, was able to retain his clearances after he left his FBI position
Rep. Rashida Tlaib said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $20 an hour. "Big fights like this one, $15. When we started it, it should have been $15," the Michigan Democrat said in a video posted by America Rising on Monday. "Now I think it should be $20 ... It should be $20 an hour. $18-20 an hour." Tlaib said the higher minimum was because the cost of "a lot of things" has gone up. (Snip) "These corporations are making billions off of our blood and sweat," then-candidate Tlaib said. "That's the most American thing you can do
Seoul - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected a large newly built submarine, state news agency KCNA reported on Tuesday, potentially signalling continued development of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) programme. (Snip) KCNA said the submarine’s operational deployment was near.
“The operational capacity of a submarine is an important component in national defence of our country bounded on its east and west by sea,” Kim said.
KCNA did not describe the kind of weapons systems the submarine contained or where and when the inspection took place.
RUSH: What we have coming up this week. Robert Mueller is testifying on Wednesday. And let me give you an idea of what this is about. Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff are on TV this weekend lying. Jerry Nadler went on TV this weekend and said that Mueller found evidence of collusion! And Adam Schiff is out saying that Mueller has named or has essentially identified Trump as an unindicted coconspirator. In what? There aren’t any charges! Nobody has been charged in the Mueller investigation with collusion. (Snip)We’re being set up like you can’t believe. The Democrats have been working over time orchestrating
The ink was still drying on special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment papers when his chief deputy, the famously aggressive and occasionally controversial prosecutor Andrew Weissmann, made a bold but secret overture in early June 2017.
Weissmann quietly reached out to the American lawyers for Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash with a tempting offer: Give us some dirt on Donald Trump in the Russia case, and Team Mueller might make his 2014 U.S. criminal charges go away. [Snip]
Two years later, Weissmann’s overture may have far-reaching consequences for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), here and abroad. His former boss, Mueller, is slated to testify Wednesday before Congress.
A senior Hezbollah official and a supporter of Bashar Assad's regime in Syria, Mashur Zidan, was killed on Sunday in a car explosion on the outskirts of the al-Kaliya bridge in the southwest of the Damascus suburbs, according to Syrian sources.
Zidan was among those close to Samir Kuntar, who was assassinated by Israel and the blame in Syria is placed on the Mossad, who they claim was responsible for the assassination of Zidan. (Snip) Hezbollah began to deploy forces in Lebanon and Syria close to the Israeli border, according to reports on Saturday.
Democrats running for the 2020 presidential nomination are using some creative bookkeeping to appear more lucrative on paper than may really be the case. [Snip] While this kind of strategic budgeting is not new to political campaigns, it may be more popular now in a crowded field of more than 20 candidates who want to take every opportunity to show momentum. [Snip] Still, waiting for Monday serves as a boost for cash-on-hand balances.
It can, however, cause problems for some of the candidates’ biggest supporters — those who work for them.
The rise of the virtual nations
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Intentionally or by accident the West is developing the equivalent of the Chinese reputational rating system. The New York Times describes how in Xinjiang "children are interrogated. Neighbors become informants. Mosques are monitored. Cameras are everywhere." Then the data is fed into a system and scored according to a Communist Party virtue rating system. Fact-checkers monitor social media to see who's expressed offensive opinions or joined any Hate Groups. The virtuous are rewarded but low scorers on Beijing's community guidelines can be stopped from traveling, excluded from admission to schools, banned from social media platforms, charged in court and doxxed.
If non-Chinese find it disturbingly familiar
The Trump reelection campaign has raised more than $200,000 by selling about 140,000 plastic straws in just four days, campaign manager Brad Parscale tweeted Monday. “More than half of all Straw purchasers were BRAND NEW small dollar donors,” Mr. Parscale tweeted. “Amazing!” He began promoting the plastic straws on Thursday. “Now you can finally be free from liberal paper straws,” he said. “I’m so over paper straws, and I’m sure you are too. Much like most liberal ideas, paper straws don’t work and they fall apart instantly. That’s why we just launched our latest product—Official Trump Straws. Now you can finally be free
Three prominent Democratic presidential candidates have their preferred gender pronouns in their Twitter bios as of Monday. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro’s bio declares “He/Him/Él,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s bio says “He/him” and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s bio says “She/her.” (Photos) Castro was the first candidate to add his preferred gender pronouns to his Twitter bio on July 1, his spokesman Sawyer Hackett told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an email Monday.Preferred gender pronouns include, but are not limited to, gender-binary terms like “he” and “she.”
You’re not in Louisiana anymore. A new deputy police commissioner in Baltimore got a firsthand lesson in the city’s crime problems—getting robbed at gunpoint while out with his wife, according to reports. Deputy Commissioner Daniel Murphy had only started with the force in April after being brought in from New Orleans to help lead sweeping reforms, according to the Baltimore Sun. He was robbed at 9 p.m. Friday by four men in a white SUV near Patterson Park, according to the Sun.(Snip) They fled with multiple cellphones, the officer’s wallet and his wife’s purse as well as some cash, the reports state.
Stunning videos posted online Monday show uniformed NYPD cops getting drenched with buckets of water by brazen young men in Harlem and Brooklyn, law enforcement sources told The Post. One clip even shows a soaked cop getting beaned in the back of the head with an empty, red plastic bucket while the cop and his partner were handcuffing a suspect on the hood of a black car.(Snip) Both videos show bucketfuls of water hurled toward cops as onlookers watch–and in some cases laugh or prance in glee. The incident in which the cop was hit with the bucket took place
A group of House conservatives is launching an 11th-hour bid to tank a sweeping budget deal, pressing President Donald Trump to reject it unless he gets new concessions.
Fiscal conservatives, furious that the agreement provides over $300 billion in new federal spending without being fully paid for, are urging Trump to oppose the deal unless he secures additional funding for Immigration Customs and Enforcement, a top priority on the right.The agreement — which Trump announced in a tweet on Monday evening — would also raise the debt ceiling for two years, another difficult pill for conservatives to swallow.“You should veto this bill
The Arctic could be a key avenue for Russian cruise missiles, and the military must engage in the region to protect against it, according to a top U.S. general. Most of the discussion on missile defense is centered on traditional ballistic missiles or the advanced hypersonic missiles currently being developed by major powers, according to Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, commander of U.S. Northern Command."But surprisingly there's not that much conversation about cruise missiles. And when I look at the cruise missile threat, I see that as one of the biggest threats that we face," O'Shaughnessy said during a Monday talk at the Center for Security and International Studies
Proud grandparents Bill and Hillary Clinton beamed with joy as they made their way to visit the newest addition to their family - baby Jasper Clinton Mezivnsky - on Monday evening. The former first daughter Chelsea Clinton announced that she and her husband Marc Mezvinsky welcomed their third child, a son, early Monday morning. The former president and former Secretary of State grinned with excitement as arrived to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City on Monday evening to greet baby Jasper, smiling to photographers and passerby as they made their way.Bill Clinton, 72, cheekily smiled
NEW YORK—He won’t watch. Well, maybe just a little bit. President Donald Trump on Monday feigned indifference to Robert Mueller’s upcoming congressional testimony, an eyebrow-raising claim for a media-obsessed president who has been concerned for months about the potential impact of the former special counsel’s appearance. Much of Washington will stop in its tracks Wednesday as Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill for at least five hours, a nationally televised event that for many Americans will be their first detailed exposure to the former special counsel’s findings on Russia’s 2016 election interference. “No, I’m not going to be watching — probably — maybe I’ll see a little bit of it,”
Georgia Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson accused Republicans at a hearing earlier this month of purposely mispronouncing former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s last name to “besmirch” him.
At a Judiciary Committee hearing on July 12, Hank said that he has heard more and more Republicans calling the former special counsel “[Mew-ler],” instead of “[Muller].”
“I’ve heard more and more Republicans starting to pronounce Director Mueller’s name as ‘[Mew-ler].'” I’ve been hearing that over the past few weeks. Is that some kind of Republican attempt to besmirch Director Mueller?” Johnson asked.
Former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, a registered sex offender, has moved back in with his estranged wife, Huma Abedin.Weiner, 54, over the weekend was spotted moving into the Manhattan home of Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton in the Senate, as secretary of state, and through her 2016 presidential race, the Daily Mail reported.The reconciliation comes after Weiner completed his 21-month sentence behind bars for sexting with a 15-year-old girl. He quit Congress abruptly in 2011 after sex-laded texts, with adult women, were exposed.Weiner had been a Democratic rising star and strong contender for New York City mayor. Abedin, 42, filed for divorce from Weiner in May 2017,
President Donald Trump announced Monday evening that Republican and Democrat leaders in Congress had agreed to a budget deal that also raised the debt limit.“I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – on a two-year Budget and Debt Ceiling,” Trump wrote on Twitter.The deal would raise spending by $320 billion, according to reports, and suspend the debt ceiling until July 2021 — well after the 2020 election.The president said that the deal, reached days before members of Congress leave Washington for
John Solomon Outlines More Documented
DOJ Corruption by Special Counsel
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DOJ Corruption by Special Counsel
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John Solomon has an interesting report at The Hill documenting the special counsel attempting to leverage a Russian oligarch to deliver false testimony for their fabricated case against Donald Trump. What Solomon outlines is gross prosecutor misconduct. The basic elements of the construct are described in the first two minutes of this radio interview video. WATCH/LISTEN: (Video) [ARTICLE HERE]
Geraldo Rivera continued his denunciation of President Donald Trump and his remarks about four Democratic congresswomen, announcing that Trump’s critics “were much more right than I.”The Fox News correspondent and self-proclaimed “friend” of Trump spoke out again about the president’s controversial tweets and comments calling out Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib.
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio said today that Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California must be “worried” about the upcoming results of the investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Abuse conducted by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.The GOP’s ranking member on the House Oversight Committee was responding to comments made by the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee at the Aspen Security Forum this weekend, where Schiff suggested that Horowitz’s prior investigation of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was put on a “fast track” by the Justice Department in order to please President Trump and that its results were therefore “tainted” by politics.
A fragile and weary Special Counsel Robert Mueller will finally testify Wednesday about the extended op-ed piece that is the Mueller/Weissmann inquisition report. There are a number of serious questions that we need to ask regarding the foundation and the veracity of the report. Particularly Mueller’s responsibility for taking part in a partisan political assassination and intentional destruction of a sitting President. Taking the rule of law with it.
Democrat Alabama Sen. Doug Jones stated Saturday that he believes it is “dumb” to question him on why he knows “better than Alabamians” when it comes to judicial nominations made by President Donald Trump.
Jones, who was approached by an individual named Derrick as he was leaving an event over the weekend in Aspen, Colorado, was questioned on previous comments he made regarding his opposition to Trump judicial nominees such as Brett Kavanaugh and Alabama’s Judge Andrew Brasher.
“Senator, why do you think you know better than Alabamians about Trump judges?” the individual asked Jones.
Ignoring the question, Jones responded, “Who are you?”
Justice Department officials have communicated to Robert Mueller that the department expects him to limit his congressional testimony this week to the public findings of his 448-page report, according to one current and one former U.S. official familiar with the preparations. (Snip) The Justice Department is “taking the position that anything outside the written pages of the report are things about which presidential privilege hasn’t been waived,” the former U.S. official said.
The White House and the Justice Department, however, have signaled they don’t intend to place lawyers in the room during Mueller’s highly anticipated testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees on Wednesday.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib sent a clear message Monday that she has no plans of backing down in the rhetorical battle with President Trump, who has criticized the Michigan congresswoman and the other minority women in the House who have become known as “The Squad.”
“Yeah, I’m not going nowhere!” Ms. Tlaib said during opening remarks at the National National Association for the Advancement of Colored People convention in Detroit. “Not until I impeach this president!”
Mr. Tlaib told the crowd that The Squad is more than just her,
Georgia lawmaker Erica Thomas and citizen Eric Sparks have gotten into a very public spat. The lawmaker lying about their confrontation in an attempt to ingratiate herself into the AOC and Three, or The Squad. To become a part of thhe “go back to where you came from” news cycle. Which Eric Sparks says he did not say despite Rep. Thomas loudly demanding that he did. You can watch the video and decide one way or the other.
President Donald Trump announced a bipartisan deal to suspend the U.S. government’s borrowing limit and boost spending levels for two years.
“I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy - on a two-year Budget and Debt Ceiling, with no poison pills,” Trump said on Twitter. “This was a real compromise in order to give another big victory to our Great Military and Vets!”
The Trump administration will dramatically expand the ability of immigration authorities to rapidly deport certain immigrants, according to a federal notice posted Monday.
The administration announced on the Federal Register that it plans to expand expedited removal — quick deportations — to those who cannot prove they have been in the country continuously for two years.
The new measure will apply to the entire country. (Snip) The process will allow immigration officers to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants without a hearing in front of an immigration judge.
Washington - Millions of people who take aspirin to prevent a heart attack may need to rethink the pill-popping, Harvard researchers reported Monday.
A daily low-dose aspirin is recommended for people who have already had a heart attack or stroke and for those diagnosed with heart disease.
But for the otherwise healthy, that advice has been overturned. Guidelines released this year ruled out routine aspirin use for many older adults who don't already have heart disease — and said it's only for certain younger people under doctor's orders.
DENVER — Four people who are experiencing homelessness have been diagnosed with hepatitis A this year in Denver, including three in the past four weeks, Denver Public Health said Monday. Denver Public Health, the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment and several service providers are ramping up education, outreach and free vaccinations in response to the new cases. Health officials said the risk of illness to the general public is low, but hepatitis A is highly contagious and is a vaccine-preventable disease of the liver.
Media outlets scrambled to prove false the accusation that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) married her brother after President Donald Trump mentioned it, but none have been able to definitively reach an answer, largely due to Omar's unwillingness to provide information.(Snip)National media had largely kept away from judging the merits of the accusation that she was related to her second husband, which have circulated since her entry into politics in 2016, but after Trump's comment many came to quick conclusions. CNN's Jim Acosta jumped in immediately to criticize Trump for diving in on "disgusting lies." The Daily Beast‘s
The only Democrat who can legally demand to see Donald Trump’s tax records has come under fire from colleagues for not using the newest tool in the bag to get them. Ways and Means chair Rep. Richard Neal (D-NY) has already invoked 26 USC 6103 and gone to federal court to exercise his oversight authority over the Treasury to review Trump’s returns. Supposedly, Andrew Cuomo handed Neal the keys by signing a law making presidential tax returns accessible by chairs of three congressional committees.
London - The CEO of German industrial giant Siemens says that President Donald Trump is becoming a symbol of intolerance following his attacks on four female members of Congress. "I find it depressing that the most important political office in the world is turning into the face of racism and exclusion," Joe Kaeser said Saturday on Twitter. Kaeser's remarks are the most prominent criticism from the business world in reaction to Trump's rally last week in North Carolina. The US president attacked Somali-born Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar and the crowd chanted "Send her back! Send her back!"
Former special counsel Robert Mueller is testifying before both the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees for a total of five hours Wednesday on the findings of his nearly two-year probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Democratic lawmakers intend to press the former special counsel to tell a "much clearer narrative" to the American people about the president's conduct.
Mueller's highly-anticipated testimony was delayed a week as lawmakers continued to hash out details of the former FBI director's testimony.
Al Franken said he “absolutely” regrets resigning from the U.S. Senate in 2017 amid the firestorm over accusations of inappropriate behavior by the comedian turned politician. In a new profile by Jane Mayer published Monday in The New Yorker, seven current and former senators said they also regret calling for his resignation in December 2017: Vermont’s Patrick Leahy, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp, Illinois’ Tammy Duckworth, Maine’s Angus King, Oregon’s Jeff Merkley, Florida’s Bill Nelson, and New Mexico’s Tom Udall. Franken told Mayer that he now wishes that he had followed through on his request to appear before a Senate Ethics
The Royal Navy is too small to counter the potential threat from Iran, the defence minister has admitted.
Tobias Ellwood told The Times: “The threats we’re facing are changing in front of us, the world is getting more complex. If we are wanting to continue to play this influential role on the international stage it will require further funding for our armed forces, not least the Royal Navy. Our Royal Navy is too small to manage our interests across the globe.”
The news comes after it emerged that Tehran had ignored warnings from a British warship against seizing a UK-flagged tanker in the Gulf. The Stena Impero and her 23-strong crew
President Donald John Trump has done what no Republican president has been able to do in my lifetime. He actually shrank government red tape. [Snip] "when Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild. [Snip] We’ve hit 13 to 1,' he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion." That's a better ratio than Surf City, where there are two girls for every boy. [Snip] Eliminating unnecessary regulations is an unsung reason the economy rebounded after the slowest growth under any president since Hoover.
The Daily Beast set out this weekend to “expose” former New York Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera as a right-wing bigot and lunatic. As with most who go up against Mariano, the Beast swings and misses.
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the Daily Beast chose to publish a salacious hit piece originally titled, “Inside Baseball Hall of Famer Mariano Rivera’s Secret Far-Right Politics.” The subhead adds, “The Yankees legend — who will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday — has managed to keep his political leanings hidden for decades.”
The article has been stealth-edited
It is one of the most enduring and consequential mysteries of the Trump-Russia investigation: Why did former FBI Director James Comey refuse to say publicly what he was telling President Trump in private -- that Trump was not the target of an ongoing probe?
That refusal ignited a chain of events that has consumed Washington for more than two years – including Comey’s firing by Trump, the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and ongoing claims that Trump obstructed justice. Now an answer is emerging. Sources tell RealClearInvestigations that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will soon file a report with evidence indicating that Comey was misleading the president.
EL PASO, Texas — Beto O'Rourke has gone from phenom to front-runner to flailing in five months, and so he came home to this dusty border town last week to regroup, prepare for the next debate and try to recast himself as the underdog in a Democratic presidential race in which many have already counted him out.
O'Rourke says that he doesn't plan to change his freewheeling style much, but that a top priority now is to raise the money needed to keep building his campaign organization so it will be ready to rebound.
"If you remember in Texas, it didn't happen overnight," O'Rourke
When is a hairy ballsack not a hairy ballsack?
How dare you not know the answer to this, you disgusting transphobe!
The answer, obviously, is when those dangly bollocks belong to a self-declared woman like Jessica Yaniv — formerly Jonathan Yaniv — who is currently suing a number of intimate grooming salons in the Canadian courts because, disgracefully, they refused to wax his lady spheres.
Some commentators, including comedian Ricky Gervais, have suggested that there is something untoward about Yaniv’s behaviour.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will host Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison for an official visit and state dinner on Sept. 20, the White House announced in a statement Monday. "The visit will celebrate our two countries' close friendship and shared history, and reaffirm our common vision for global peace, security, and prosperity," the statement read. The September event will mark the second time since taking office that Trump has hosted a state dinner. The first was with French President Emmanuel Macron in April 2018. (Tweet)
The Democrats intend to steal the presidency in 2020. It is the only way they can “win.” They’ve learned this. They’ve lived it. And without a decisive turnout in 2020 they believe they have mastered the process. If you thought that Bush vs. Gore, or the Georgia and Florida 2018 recounts were ugly, keep your powder dry. 2020 will be the worst yet. All the signs point to this, assuming they can actually find a candidate. Once they do however, the largest scale assault on our free elections ever attempted will be unleashed.
Leftists' Effective Dirty Trick
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I heard another black pastor’s sermon attacking Christian radio with earbuds on my phone during my daily walk.. He said that President Trump’s MAGA slogan does not include all Americans. He bitterly asked his congregation, “When was America ever great?” As a proud grateful black American, I thought, “One of numerous occasions in which America was great was when 600,000 Americans sacrificed their lives in the civil war to liberate blacks from slavery.”
There are currently no nationwide demographic trends that “favor Republicans” in future elections, Axios reports.The nation’s shifting demography — spurred primarily from mass legal immigration where more than 1.2 million foreign nationals are added to the U.S. population every year — is set to make it increasingly difficult for Republican candidates to win statewide and national elections, Axios’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen note: The single biggest threat to Republicans’ long-term viability is demographics. [Emphasis added] The numbers simply do not lie. America, as a whole, and swing states, in particular, are growing more diverse, more quickly.
On Sunday's "Face the Nation" on CBS, House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) confronted anchor Margaret Brennan for completely missing the point in President Trump's feud with "the Squad." Yes, Trump is getting bipartisan criticism for telling the four members of the Squad, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and Ayanna Pressley (MA), to "go back" where they came from. But his supporters like Rep. Cheney say the media are doing us all a disservice by not examining the awful things that's come out of the Squad's mouths.Brennan seemed preoccupied with Trump's recent accusation
“Trope is a figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express meanings of words differently than their literal meanings. In other words, it is a metaphorical or figurative use of words in which writers shift from the literal meanings of words to their non-literal meanings. The trope, in fact, could be a phrase, a word, or an image used to create artistic effect. We may find its use almost anywhere, such as in literature, political rhetoric, and everyday speech.” Source
The photo above shows a gathering of Antifa members in 1932 Germany.
It was an odd, geeky campaign promise for a populist presidential candidate to make. But when Donald Trump in 2016 pledged to kill two Obama-era regulations for every new one, crowds went wild.Those cheers stuck with him when he moved into the White House, and he put his promise into an executive order. And now as he opens his reelection campaign, Russ Vought, acting budget office director, has delivered the results sure to win even more rally cheers.
“We’ve hit 13 to 1,” he told a Heritage Foundation conference on federalism. And cutting so many regulations, he added, has saved taxpayers $33 billion.Departments and agencies including the departments
Last month, both Maine and Nevada did what was in the best interests of their states: They rejected bills that would have enrolled their states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an unwise effort to override the Electoral College.
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The National Popular Vote compact, which is an agreement between states, requires a participating state to award all of its electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes across the nation, not to the candidate who actually won the vote in that state.
Oregon students will be allowed to take “mental health days” off from school, just as they would sick days, under a new bill signed by the governor. The bill would allow excused school absences for mental or behavioral health and is a victory for youth activists — who also unsuccessfully fought for gun control and lowering the voting age. The students behind the measure say it’s meant to change the stigma around mental health in a state that has some of the United States’ highest suicide rates. Mental health experts say it is one of the first state laws to explicitly instruct schools to treat mental health
A Brazilian immigrant living in Canada was forced to close up her small business after refusing to wax the male genitals of transgender LGBT activist Jessica Yaniv, formerly known as Jonathan Yaniv.
Citing discrimination based on gender identity, Yaniv filed a complaint with the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal seeking financial restitution. The activist has filed complaints against 15 other estheticians with the tribunal, claiming “gender identity” discrimination, as well, (Snip) It was not until Wednesday, however, that Yaniv’s identity was allowed to be disclosed.
(Snip) Marcia Da Silva claims that she refused to service the complainant “due to safety
Illegal immigration numbers remain at levels triple that of previous years, and Congress continues to bicker, foot stomp, other otherwise ignore the problem. In the face of this, the Trump Administration released its latest attempt to bring the border crisis under control.
Under new rules issued last week, migrants will now be required to seek asylum in at least one country they pass through on their way north. In other words, to qualify for asylum in the United States, Hondurans and Salvadorans would first have to apply for—and be denied—asylum in Guatemala or Mexico.
The response from critics was predictable.
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
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Get along? Apparently no—at least until after 2020. Two examples summarize why.
“We don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice,” said U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), one-quarter of “the squad” sowing havoc among Democrats in the House. “ We don’t need black faces that don’t want to be a black voice. We don’t need Muslims that don’t want to be a Muslim voice. We don’t need qu**rs that don’t want to be a qu**r voice.”Of the Republican Party, MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes said the other day: “It must
The Democrat Party version 2019 has a big problem—it’s tearing itself apart from the inside out as the radical voices of anti-American socialists have come to completely dominate the party’s message.
And while it’s a message that appeals to a like-minded few, it’s not nearly so well received by the vast majority of U.S. citizens who actually love the country that has given them so much. They are tired of the far left’s 24/7 fake outrage, the constant false cries of “racism” “sexism” etc., and the ongoing demeaning of American values, history, and exceptionalism.
For months, Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) presidential campaign made regular payments to its staff and vendors, with varying daily expenditures that never exceeded $335,000. But on April 1, 2019, the campaign’s spending exploded. Whereas Klobuchar’s campaign spent an average of about $55,000 per day through the end of June, according to FEC filings, it dropped a whopping $624,000 on the first day of April, including a $300,000 payment to the campaign’s digital vendor. That massive uptick in expenses was likely due to the fact that April 1 marked the beginning of the new fundraising quarter. By putting off the payments
The Billings Gazette is the largest newspaper in Montana. It also puts out a Wyoming edition. President Donald John Trump carried Montana by 20 points, and Wyoming by 45. Montana also elected Republican Steve Daines to the Senate by 17 points in 2014.
The editorial board of the Gazette is so out of step with its readers that it attacked Senator Daines for being too supportive of President Donald John Trump.
In school, I learned an editorial does one of three things: inform, entertain or persuade. In writing editorials for 26 years, I learned you cannot easily persuade people that their last vote was a mistake.
Democrats woke -- and broke
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The Democrats have no money but they do have 20-plus candidates for president.
Adam Parkhomenko, a former DNC national field director, told Vice, "When Hillary became the nominee in 2016 she was handed nothing. The DNC was nothing and there was nothing to build on. You’d think we would have spent the last few years making sure this would never happen again, and it has."
How you run your party is how you would run the country.Fox News reported, "The Republican National Committee raised more than twice as much as the Democratic National Committee in June – $20.7 million compared to the DNC’s $8.5 million,
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler and his staff (two hired from Lawfare) have been coordinating with the aligned DOJ/FBI special counsel group for several months for the upcoming appearance of Robert Mueller on Wednesday of this upcoming week.
The objective of the group’s coordinated plan has been to present a hearing that supports the original goal of the ‘small group’ effort, impeachment.(Snip)
However, it also appears that Nadler is generally blind to the amount of information in the public sphere which highlights the known illicit motives and foundation of the Weissmann and Mueller team.
Pay Attention Millennials – Bernie Sanders
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Hopefully the Che’ T-shirt crowd will see the logical outcome to the proposed wage/benefit schemes of the socialist ideologues by watching how Bernie Sanders plans to increase campaign workers pay to $15/hr, by cutting their hours – not actually increasing wages.
After coming under fire for not delivering on his promise to pay campaign workers $15/hr, communist Bernie has a solution: Cut their hours. Then workers will be forced to get another job.Perhaps, just perhaps, democrat voters will notice this was/is the outcome of the Obama economic wage/labor scheme that led to people
So guess what just went out the window when Venezuelan jet interfered in an unsafe manner with U.S. fighters over the Caribbean Friday?
Try the canard that Russia really wants President Trump to win the election. That's been the narrative since the end of 2016 - and has continued well into this year.
Here is what is being tweeted now from the U.S. Southern Command: O.K., the first thought that came to mind is perhaps some surprise that Venezuela even has gas for jets at all, or working jets, given the country's lack of spare parts.
But oh, those Russian advisors have been busy, arriving like the cavalry when
Well, there it is…. Right there in a poll [full pdf below] of eleven southern states conducted by NBC over two weeks we see the reason why the DNC, political leadership and media are whipping up false accusations of racial anxiety against President Trump.(Graphic)The majority of those polled see improvements in race relationships,… and their approval of President Trump is higher…. and their view of the economy is more optimistic…. and the number one issue is immigration.
All empirical points that help President Trump and simultaneously destroy the Democrat narrative.
LOS ANGELES — Paul Krassner, the publisher, author and radical political activist on the front lines of 1960s counterculture who helped tie together his loose-knit prankster group by naming them the Yippies, died Sunday in Southern California, his daughter said.
Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, Holly Krassner Dawson told The Associated Press. He was 87 and had recently transitioned to hospice care after an illness, Dawson said. She didn’t say what the illness was.
The Yippies, who included Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman and were otherwise known as the Youth International Party, briefly became notorious for such stunts
Star gamer Richard Tyler “Ninja” Blevins recently expressed to his millions of followers on YouTube and Twitch his gratitude to his mother for choosing life after doctors pressured her to have an abortion when she was pregnant with him.
While streaming survival game “Fortnite” in video platform Twitch, Ninja made a surprising revelation to his fans as he celebrated his 28thbirthday in June.
Live Action reported on the video from pro-life activist Jason Jones that featured Ninja’s announcement:
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, for decades an agitator for a government-forced minimum/living wage, announced over the weekend that his campaign’s wage floor will be increased to $15 an hour. To make it work, workers’ hours will be cut. Did he just take the minimum wage issue off the table for Democrats?
In 1986, known then as the “socialist mayor of Burlington,” Vermont, Sanders campaigned on raising the state’s minimum wage while running for governor.
During one of his runs for the U.S. Senate, where he is serving his third term,
At least 19 people in Costa Rica have died after drinking alcohol tainted with toxic levels of methanol, local officials said Sunday.
The Costa Rica Ministry of Health said fourteen men and five women ranging in age from 32 to 72 died in June from what appeared to be methanol poisoning, local outlet the Tico Times reported. They were not immediately identified.
The Ministry of Health warned against consuming booze from a number of brands because samples had tested positive for methanol adulteration.
Robert Mueller testified more than 60 times on Capitol Hill during his dozen years as FBI director, but none of those hearings packed anywhere near the amount of anticipation, partisan rancor, or political stakes as his appearance promises to on Wednesday.
And the former special counsel has relied heavily on one man to help him navigate this Washington landmine — Jonathan Yarowsky.
Over four decades as a Beltway attorney, Yarowsky offered impeachment advice to Bill Clinton, and worked for a lawmaker who Richard Nixon once called the “executioner.” He oversaw an unsuccessful push to get a 1990s-era Attorney General Bill Barr to appoint an independent counsel to probe
How did wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein come to be palling around with Bill Clinton and Donald Trump?
People who know those involved said Epstein’s connections to two U.S. presidents ran through one bubbly British heiress: Ghislaine Maxwell.
Maxwell, who has denied accusations made in civil suits of aiding and participating in Epstein’s sexual abuse of minors, has been among the financier’s closest associates. Unlike Epstein, she comes from a rarefied background that gave her entrée to the rich and powerful.
On Wednesday, House Democrats will have a chance to breathe life into the Mueller report. Relatively few Americans have read the 448-page document in which special counsel Robert Mueller concluded the evidence did not establish that the Trump campaign and Russia engaged in a conspiracy or coordination to fix the 2016 election, and also declined to conclude whether or not President Trump obstructed justice. Democrats know the report has failed to capture the public imagination, and they hope bringing Mueller to Capitol Hill for questioning will catch the nation's attention.
"Not everybody is reading the book, but people will watch the movie," a House Judiciary Committee official told Politico's Playbook.
The Democrats’ 2020 theme is that you are terrible and the party’s slogan will be “Americans suck, vote for us.” The precise candidate who will employ it is not important because they all embrace the notion that punishing the essential moral failure of you and me and every other Normal American is the key goal of the Donkey Party. That goes equally for the Handsey Old Prospector, the Socialist Squaw, Crusty the Commie, Spartacus Sharpton, Starchild, the Furry, Not Ms. Willie Brown, the Unfabulous Gay Guy, and the many Unfabulous Ungay Guys.
They all agree that you are terrible because you don’t know your place, which is behind a rock
It’s the cartels, stupid!
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The recent tragic drowning in the Rio Grande of a young father from El Salvador, Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, and his two-year old daughter Angie, sparked recriminations across the political spectrum. Democrats pounced on the Trump administration’s immigration policies, while President Trump blamed House Democrats’ failure to pass legislation to fix the nation’s immigration laws. Apart from the Washington rhetoric, El Salvador’s president blamed something else: his own country’s economic and crime challenges.
While it is unlikely that the conditions El Salvador’s president describes would justify a migrant’s approval for asylum in the U.S., migrants keep coming. To obtain asylum, a migrant must establish a credible fear of persecution
Certain must-pass ideological litmus tests have arisen for the 25 declared candidates (so far) seeking the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Perhaps chief among them is subscription to the belief that the American criminal-justice system is racist and overly punitive. This Democratic unanimity makes sense in light of the criticism that many of the leading candidates have faced from activists, left-wing media, and other, more “woke,” presidential hopefuls for their earlier acceptance, or even endorsement, of proactive policing, quality-of-life enforcement, and incarceration as reasonable methods of combating crime.
JOE BIDEN’S ROLE IN ’90S CRIME LAW COULD HAUNT ANY PRESIDENTIAL BID, ran a prescient 2015 New York Times headline.
With a heat wave currently turning half the country into a steam bath and the next round of Democratic Party presidential debates coming up in just over a week, it's likely climate change (né global warming) will be at or near the top of the agenda.
For the Democrats, climate armageddon is right around the corner, the only question really open for debate being whether that corner is twelve years away or twenty. Global warming is a religion to them and, as with so many religions, you obey its strictures or else. Just ask Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
That this isn't the most scientific approach to climate
The Democrats have spent well over two years asking themselves what they did wrong in the last presidential election and how to avoid those mistakes in 2020. But they seem to suffer from a collective learning disability that prevents them from absorbing the obvious: Their party will lose again if they continue to insult the voters by insisting that the president they elected isn’t worthy of the office and that their country was founded on oppression and remains rife with racism, cruelty, and injustice. Yet this false and dispiriting vision seems once again to have become the Democratic Party line.
The lesson the Democrats seem to have learned from 2016
Ever since billionaire Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on July 6 on charges of sex trafficking, the media have been scrambling to make sense of what happened on Little St. James, his 70-acre private island in the Caribbean. But on nearby St. Thomas, locals say Epstein continued to bring underage girls to the island as recently as this year—a decade after he was forced to register as a convicted sex offender—and that authorities did nothing to stop him.
Two employees who worked at the local airstrip on St. Thomas tell Vanity Fair that they witnessed Epstein boarding his private plane on multiple occasions in the company of girls who appeared
Conservatives are told that President Donald Trump is a racist on a daily basis by the MSM. So, leftists can pardon our confusion when we read on the State Department's page that Trump's administration honored a Muslim Imam from Nigeria. It seems completely contradictory for an Islamophobic racist to honor a Muslim from an African nation. In fact, the list of this year's honorees for the International Religious Freedom is quite diverse: Muslims, people of color, and women. I encourage you to click on the link above and read about all the deserving honorees, but I want to focus on Imam Abubakar Abdullahi of Nigeria who
The Washington Post made an editorial decision to label “racist” President Trump’s tweet suggesting that four radical, America-bashing congresswomen leave the country. The tweet isn’t racist, and the explanation for the editorial decision is so weak that it must be a pretext for printing “Trump” and “racist” together repeatedly in headlines and news stories.
The Post’s ploy is annoying and amusing, at the same time.
But there’s nothing funny about the Post’s editorial decision to call Antifa “antifascists.” Antifa calls itself antifascist but, as I argued here, a serious newspaper wouldn’t take their word for it.
As Douglas Murray observes, the exact meaning of “fascist” is hazy because the word has been overused.
Bernie Sanders campaign responds to
staffers’ demand for $15 minimum
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staffers’ demand for $15 minimum
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Congrats on finally becoming a capitalist, Bernie. If you missed Ed’s post on Friday about Team Bernie’s crash course in real-world economics, read it now for background. The campaign’s field organizers realized they’ve been working an average of 60 hours a week at a rate of $36,000 per year, which shakes out to a bit less than $15 per hour — the magic number Bernie himself has demanded be set as the new federal minimum wage. He can’t pay us less than what he wants every American to be paid, his staffers rightly reasoned. So they’ve complained to management and the complaints leaked
We have been hearing now for four years, ever since that escalator ride at Trump Tower, how then-candidate, now-President Trump is such an idiot. The media, Democrats, and NeverTrumpers, virtually in lockstep assured us that Trump would never be the Republican nominee. When he was, they doubled down promising that he would never be president. Every so-called opinion poll confirmed their predictions.So who turned out to be smart, winning the White House, and who turned out to be a bunch of buffoons? Yet they still couldn’t admit that they were wrong, predicting that Trump would be impeached or that he would resign from office under intense pressure
As the heat wave gripped much of the country on Sunday, power outages reported in multiple states left hundreds of thousands of customers in the dark.
Crews were working to restore power after heavy storms over two days knocked out power for more than 800,000 Michigan homes and businesses.
Two utilities said it could take until Wednesday to restore power for everyone.
Detroit-based DTE Energy said Sunday afternoon that roughly 600,000 customers were affected because of storms in southeast Michigan Friday and Saturday.
Officials said it's the largest storm to hit the region in years.
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) traveled to New Hampshire on Saturday and claimed “our democracy is at stake” because “we all stand on the shoulders of immigrants.”
Klobuchar was quick to call out President Donald Trump for his previous remarks on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and said the “send her back” chant that occurred at his North Carolina rally made it more “clear” than ever that our democracy is at stake.“And I think you know your obligation is great this year,” Klobuchar told the small crowd of supporters in Concord, New Hampshire.She added, “If you didn’t think that before — after this week and the things