Posts on Friday, July 26, 2019
President Donald Trump ridiculed House Democrats and Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for continuing the investigative path for impeachment.“These people are clowns, the Democrats are clowns,” Trump said. “They’re being laughed at all over the world.”Prior to members of Congress leaving Washington on Friday for a six-week August recess, Pelosi said in a press conference that impeachment proceedings would occur in a “timely fashion.”“I’m not trying to run out the clock,” she said, adding that “We will proceed when we have what we need to proceed — not one day sooner.”Trump expressed surprise that Pelosi was still working
Federal judge tosses March for
Life attendee's $25M defamation
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Life attendee's $25M defamation
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A federal judge dismissed Friday the $25 million defamation lawsuit filed against the Washington Post by Kentucky teen Nicholas Sandmann over the newspaper’s coverage of his viral encounter with an elderly Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial. Senior U.S. District Court Judge William O. Bertelsman found that activist Nathan Phillips may have been wrong when he said he was “blocked” by the teen and not allowed to “retreat,” but that such statements represented opinion protected by the First Amendment. “And The Post is not liable for publishing these opinions, for the reasons discussed in this Opinion,” said the 36-page ruling.
Megyn Kelly is the 'Cable Queen' when it comes to dominating television ratings. And now the job-seeking former Fox anchor is taking the title to new heights, as she was seen in vacation photos ziplining over the Gallitan River in Montana on Friday. Kelly's husband Doug Brunt posted the photo of his wife striking a pose with a wide smile and wrote: 'Poise, grace and no fear - my beautiful wife @megynkelly shows she really is the ''Cable Queen''. We and the kids loved the Gallatin River zipline.'This comes as a media executive source tells DailyMail.com that they hope Kelly won't be jobless for much longer.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio resorted to begging for $1 donations during an interview Friday in a desperate attempt to meet the 130,000 contributor threshold to qualify for the third Democratic presidential debates in September.“I want to make an appeal to your listeners,” de Blasio said on the Laura Coates Show on Sirius XM.“If you believe in things like a bill of rights for workers please help me. Donate at least $1 online at BilldeBlasio.com. Help me stay on that debate stage,” he pleaded.On Tuesday the term-limited pol unveiled his
President Trump announced Friday that Guatemala would agree to restrict asylum applications to the US from Central America.The so-called “safe third country” agreement would require migrants, including Salvadorans and Hondurans, who cross into Guatemala on their way to the US to apply for protections in Guatemala instead of at the southern border.It could potentially ease the crush of illegal immigrants overwhelming the US immigration system and hand Trump a win in his effort to fulfill his campaign promises to restrict illegal entry.“This is a very big day. We have long been working with Guatemala and now we can do it the right way,” Trump said.
A new POLITICO /Morning Consult poll, conducted immediately after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony, shows little impact on support for impeaching President Donald Trump, with a plurality of voters still opposed to beginning proceedings that could result in Trump’s removal from office. Only 37 percent of voters say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against Trump, according to the poll, which was conducted Thursday. More voters, 46 percent, say Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings. Sixteen percent of voters are undecided. “Robert Mueller’s testimony did little to change public opinion around impeachment," said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president
The cunningness of Bill, and Hillary, Clinton is not a well-kept secret. Trivia interesting to note is that the former President has the most “monikers” or nicknames of any US President. These include, but are not limited to, Slick Willy, Big Billy, Bubba and combining the two politicians, Billary. Former President Obama calling Clinton the“Secretary of Explaining Stuff.” Which is interesting as there is a lot to explain. Pilot logs and Jeffrey Epstein’s Little Black book among them.
To quote Ricky Ricardo (I Love Lucy) “Bill, you have some splaining to do.”
Alyssa Milano said a person can’t talk about being pro-life because of their support of President Donald Trump’s administrations’ decision to execute five child murderers.It came following the 46-year-old actress’s post on Twitter when she responded to a person calling her out for supporting Planned Parenthood, over a post about passing “reasonable gun safety laws,” tweeting, “Murdered like ya PLANNED PARENTHOOD? Murdered like THAT? Is that what you mean?” “Your administration just reinstated the death penalty and scheduled 5 executions of ‘actual’ people,”
The United States Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump can use $2.5 billion in military funding to build the border wall along the U.S. southern border.(Video) USA Today reports that the Supreme Court's "order temporarily settles just one of several skirmishes between the Trump administration and House Democrats, 'blue' states led by California, and environmental groups over border wall funds."Trump responded to the news in a tweet, writing: "Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!"
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith Opens Up
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Most of the time, when an ESPN personality speaks about President Trump, it’s not a feel-good story. However, every once in a while, a big name from the “four-letter network” breaks the mold and shares a personal insight that is not only not hostile, but even complimentary of the president.Such a moment recently occurred with Stephen A. Smith. Smith, the most highly-paid and arguably most important personality at ESPN, recently spoke about the important career advice that Trump gave him on an episode of the YES Network program CenterStage. In it, Smith details how Trump encouraged Smith to maximize his value to ESPN by
Team Trump knows a gift when they see one.(Photo) Pro-Trump beauty queen Kathy Zhu was recently stripped of her Miss Michigan title by the Miss World America pageant after being accused of posting racist comments on social media.Her tweets were allegedly “offensive, insensitive, and inappropriate,” according to the pageant, but President Donald Trump faces similar accusations on a daily basis.But Zhu just retained a brand new title, that being a new member of the Women For Trump Coalition Advisory Board.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said on Friday that comprehensive immigration reform and a higher minimum wage would do more to lift Gross Domestic Product than the "tax scam" passed by Republicans.She said those factors would produce "a more compassionate free-market system."Pelosi spoke shortly after the Commerce Department announced that real gross domestic product increase at an annual rate of 2.1 percent in the second quarter, down from 3.1 percent in the first quarter.The Commerce Department noted that consumer spending, the "engine of the U.S. economy," surged at an annual 4.3 percent rate in the second quarter, as spending on goods rose at the fastest rate since
Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony this week was revealing, but not for what it told us about the Trump campaign’s associations with Russia. In the hours and days after Mr. Mueller gave his opening statement before the House Judiciary Committee, it became clear how tenaciously many liberals and progressives are clinging to fantasy — not just that President Trump will eventually find himself impeached and removed, but also that they can advance their values by means of legal machination rather than political vision. And at a moment of intense polarization in American politics, this fantasy is especially shortsighted.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio challenged President Donald Trump to a debate and said Trump would not be allowed back into New York City after his presidency is over. At a BuzzFeed event Thursday with Editor in Chief Ben Smith, de Blasio went after Trump, saying he challenges him to come to New York City and debate him about what is best for the city where Trump has spent a majority of his life, before becoming president.“I challenge you, Donald Trump, to come to New York City, and I will debate you about what’s right for New York City,”
Applicants to a volunteer fellowship on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's (D., Mass) presidential campaign have called the program a "great scam," claiming that operation exploits unpaid members of Warren's team.
In a report from the Daily Beast, two young men who had applied to volunteer for Warren's campaign complained that the Senator's image of a trust-busting champion of worker's rights against exploitative corporations does not match the way her own campaign is run. The applicants told the Daily Beast that they were pushed to take unpaid positions over paid ones, that they were deceived about the possibility of financial assistance and that they were asked to sign irregular nondisclosure agreements.
Go claim your $125 from Equifax. Right now. Even if $125 isn’t a sum of money that matters to you, even if you don’t feel you were really directly affected by the breach. Even if the prospect of filling out a relatively brief online form fills you with more dread than the theft of all your personal data.
Consider it a part of your civic duty: driving up the costs of data breaches for corporations so they have an incentive to invest more heavily in security. The payouts to individuals are part of the $575 to $700 million settlement that Equifax reached with the Federal Trade Commission,
The House Judiciary Committee is preparing to petition a federal judge to release former special counsel Robert Mueller’s most closely guarded evidence: the material he gathered using a secretive grand jury.
The petition, which will be made to Beryl Howell, the chief judge of Washington, D.C.’s federal district court, asks that the material be provided to Congress, though it does not seek the public release of the grand jury evidence. House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler has sought Mueller’s grand jury evidence for months, arguing that it’s essential for Congress to view it in order to fully investigate potential abuses of power by President Donald Trump and his inner circle.
Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.) said Thursday that even though Robert Mueller said he would stick to his public findings, the former special counsel did speak on matters outside the report at times.
“He indicated that he wouldn’t speak outside the four corners of his report,” Heck, who sits on the House Intelligence Committee, told Hill.TV during an interview on “Rising.”
“But in fact I thought you saw that on a number of occasions, he actually did at least tiptoe outside the four corners of the report,” he added.
Leftist congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband – the father of her three children – have split and are heading for their second divorce, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.The bust-up comes just as critics are demanding answers as to whether she married her own brother in a successful bid to get him into the United States.Omar has now dumped her current husband Ahmed Hirsi - who she first married in a religious ceremony in 2002 and divorced in 2008 - and moved into a penthouse apartment in one of Minneapolis's trendiest neighborhoods, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
Mueller's ignominious finale
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We were promised that Robert Mueller’s testimony would put life into his report, the movie version of the special counsel’s investigation. Instead, we got a cadaverous presentation from a once vigorous Marine and prosecutor.
During nearly seven hours of testimony before two House committees on Wednesday, Mueller asked for a question to be repeated more than 30 times. He replied more than 200 times that he did not know or the matter was “not within my purview.” He could not remember which president appointed him as a U.S. attorney. When he did respond, Mueller’s answers were laced with
AP wants voters to punish Trump
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Shocked to see Mueller reveal himself as a hapless ineffective prosecutor, "reporter" Lisa Mascaro of the Associated Press sat down and wrote an analysis, which is one-sided and aimed at shaping public opinion. [Snip] Headlined, "Mueller has spoken, but 2020 may be the final word," the piece assumes President Donald John Trump is guilty and deserves punishment. [Snip] I appreciated her little dig. You dumb Americans no longer listen to a trusted source of authority! [Snip] Someone will be punished next year.
I don't think it will be President Donald John Trump.
I want to put in a good word for partisanship. This might sound strange to some readers. I’ve written a lot about our problem with tribalism, including hyper-partisanship and political polarization. It was a major theme of my cheerily titled book Suicide of the West. So I’m happy to concede that too much partisanship — or partisanship of the wrong kind — can be very bad. But unity can be bad too. Excessive unity cultivates groupthink and breeds contempt for dissent. It tends to ride roughshod over minorities, and not just in the sense of racial, religious, or sexual groups.
Friday at her weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said the House of Representatives is investigating President Donald Trump’s “finances, personal business” in their next step toward possible impeachment.When asked about running out the clock on impeachment, Pelosi said, “I’m not trying to run out the clock. Let’s get sophisticated about this, OK? We’ll proceed when we have what we need to proceed. Not one day sooner. And everybody has the liberty and luxury to espouse their own position and to criticize me for trying to go down the path in the most determined, positive way.
The crowded field of aging presidential candidates has raised questions about their prospects for good health and longevity. And while there's no crystal ball, one study released Friday provides some insight into how long candidates might live and the risk of impairment as they age.The white paper, from the American Federation for Aging Research, finds that on Inauguration Day 2021, Donald Trump would have a life expectancy of 11.4 years, putting him on track to survive well past a second term. Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders would have a life expectancy of 9.3 and 8.7 years, respectively, barely enough for a two-term presidency.
SAN DIEGO — An investigation into troops smuggling immigrants into the United States illegally led to the arrest Thursday of 16 Marines at California’s Camp Pendleton, a base about an hour’s drive from the U.S.-Mexico border. None of the 16 Marines were involved in helping enforce border security, the Marine Corps said in a news release. They are accused of crimes ranging from human smuggling to drug-related offenses.
Another CNN personality who was presenting on the CNN Arabic network as recently as last week appears to have expressed a series of antisemitic sentiments on Twitter, even praising Hitler. This follows the recent resignation of a CNN editor, whose past antisemitic statements surfaced Thursday afternoon.
Kareem Farid heads up a digital tech show on CNN Arabic. (Snip)He is also listed as the “Lead of Storytelling and Video Production at APCO Worldwide.”
On Friday, tweets surfaced, showing Farid writing, “I love you Hitler” and commending the Nazi dictator for “his determination to reach his goal.”
The Weissmann Dossier
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Anyone who watched more than a few minutes of Wednesday’s painful hearings with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller discovered a sad truth the Democrats and many in the media continue to hide: Mueller neither wrote his report nor did he master the content of it.
Repeatedly during the day, the former FBI director stumbled over what we had been told were his findings. He slowly leafed through a binder, searching for passages that lawmakers were quoting to him, only to say “okay” or “true” when he finally found them.
In the morning’s hearing at the House Judiciary committee, Rep. Doug Collins asked Mueller if “conspiracy” – the criminal law term used
Republican Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio would like an answer to a simple question: Who is Joseph Mifsud? He’s the man the New York Times describes as “an otherwise obscure Maltese professor with sketchy academic credentials who has stayed out of public view for more than a year and a half.” That may be so, but Professor Mifsud, along with British spy Christopher Steele’ of Trump dossier fame, provided the impetus for the US counterintelligence operation relentlessly waged against Donald Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign.
If you are a 1980s and 1990s Republican Rip Van Winkle, just awakened after 20 years asleep, you must think you’re still asleep and suffering from nightmares. You just wouldn't be able to believe that:
The party of fiscal conservatism is now in favor of spending the country into oblivion. The party’s leader in the House makes pathetic excuses for the big spending, plus the Republican president actually boasts about it.
The party seems completely unconcerned that the Kremlin ran a massive operation to undermine U.S. elections, and is continuing its efforts.
An aide has been fired after President Trump took the stage at a Turning Point USA event earlier this week in front of a doctored presidential seal that featured pro-Russian imagery and said “45 is a puppet.”White House spokesman Judd Deere told the Associated Press officials "never saw the seal" before it was projected on a screen behind Trump as he was introduced Tuesday at Turning Point USA's teen summit. The altered seal appeared on the projector screen for at least 80 seconds behind Trump before it was taken down, the Washington Times reported.
132 House Republicans Vote Against
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The debt-and-spending deal that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) made with President Donald Trump and the congressional Republican leadership was rejected by a large majority of House Republicans—132 voted against it—but it was pushed to passage on Thursday with overwhelming support from House Democrats.The final vote on the deal was 284-149.The 284 who voted for it included 219 Democrats and 65 Republicans. The 149 who voted against it included 132 Republicans, 16 Democrats and 1 Independent.The deal will increase discretionary federal spending in the next two fiscal years by $320 billion above the levels set in a legislative deal to lift the debt limit that was made in 2011 between
ELYRIA - Lorain County Common Pleas Judge John Miraldi has ordered Oberlin College to post a $36 million appeal bond before he stays execution of the multimillion-dollar judgment recently won against the college by Gibson’s Bakery and the Gibson family. (Snip) There are conditions to Miraldi’s order: He ordered Oberlin College to post the bond by Wednesday, July 31, in order to stay judgment until Aug. 19. Failure to post the bond, he wrote in his decision, will result in the stay of judgment being lifted. Miraldi also gave Oberlin College until Aug. 19 to file post-trial motions if they
Raw racism: Bette Midler calls black
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At a time when black employment is at a record high, rappers such as Kanye West are calling President Trump their 'dragon brother,' and large numbers of black people are joining the Republican Party, how's this for a rabid racist response from the unhinged left?
I present for you washed-up actress and vaudeville act, Bette Midler:
This analysis from one Twitterer explains the problem well: and this, too... And those were just a couple of whites who were aghast, the reaction from black people was furious: The Washington Examiner has culled more here.
Democrats, well, ever since slavery, have always views black people as their 'property.' Anyone dissenting from their orthodoxy
Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer's phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed past Earth, and he couldn't figure out "why everyone was so alarmed."
"I thought everyone was getting worried about something we knew was coming," Duffy, who is also lead scientist at the Royal Institution of Australia, told The Washington Post. Forecasts had already predicted that a couple asteroids would be passing relatively close to Earth this week.
There are just some people that deserve to die. That need to stop sucking the oxygen out of the room. Consider Timothy McVeigh, (born April 23, 1968, Pendleton, New York, U.S.—died June 11, 2001, Terre Haute, Indiana) McVeigh is an American militant who carried out the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. The explosion, fueled by fertilizer and fuel oil, killed 168 people – including dozens of children in a daycare center. It was the deadliest terrorist incident on U.S. soil, until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
I'm mortified. I just took the 15-question multiple-choice quiz on religious knowledge that Pew included in its new survey of Americans' religious knowledge...and I got one of them wrong.
Which one, you're asking?
It was: "Which of the following is one of Buddhism's four 'noble truths'?" I chose "the truth that every living being has an immortal soul" instead of "the truth of suffering."
OK, so I got 14 of them right, and when I look at the full 32-question survey, I figure I'd score a 31. But I teach religion, for crying out loud, and I fit into all the right categories besides.
Such a bargain! Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is going to save the world, and it's only going to cost $10 trillion dollars. That's a one followed by 13 zeros, if you're keeping score at home.
POLITICO reports that Gillibrand's plan "relies on on several policy levers: government procurement, stronger regulations, pollution fees and research and development spending." I'm sure this is just a coincidence, but that much additional government intrusion into the energy industry damn near everything also creates new avenues for corruption and graft. And as we've seen in similar efforts in Europe, not always the promised reductions in carbon emissions.
Like many others, I have for some time been trying to understand Trump Derangement Syndrome, the phenomenon of otherwise reasonable people reacting irrationally to some peculiar quality of the president, a quality especially in evidence when he is in the presence of his supporters. Some of it is easy enough to comprehend. Unlike any president since at least Jackson, Mr. Trump was elected by attacking the entire political class from right to left and practically all leaders of both parties and the parties themselves.
Millions use his product every day. Mike Lindell, the creator of My Pillow, is one of Donald Trump’s biggest supporters. He also could be leaving his pillow empire behind, as rumors are circling that he’s considering running for political office. He posted a cryptic tweet that around 7:30 A.M. he will be making an announcement concerning whether he will be entering the political arena in Minnesota. If he does toss his hat in the ring, many are speculating that he could be itching to take on Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), one of the members of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Leninist Girl Scout Troop
There’s so much egg on the faces of the anti-Trump far-left in American today following the Robert Mueller testimony debacle that Denny’s is considering using it for the world’s largest breakfast scramble.
The greatest U.S. economy in a generation, record-low unemployment, particularly among women and minorities, no major military conflicts, a pending and historic trade deal with China, higher wages, lower taxes, all of the many Trump successes and Democrats give the country . . . Robert Mueller, tens of millions in wasted taxpayer dollars to prop up what was clearly an anti-Trump hoax from beginning to end,
Twump hurts CNN's feewings
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A half-hour before the release of the GDP numbers that showed our economy is well ahead of Obama's miserable 1.5% economic growth, CNN posted a column, "Trump makes people feel lousy. That could spell his political doom."
Frida Ghitis wrote, "Democrats are wrong to fear that a strong economy could doom their prospects. That's because it turns out that voters actually care about other things besides money.
"Sure, money matters a lot. But a growing body of research suggests that other things may count more. In particular, it appears that we care greatly about our well-being, which
Job Creators Network member Kelly Brozyna, who’s spent 25 years advocating on behalf of small business owners and their employees, testified at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee Thursday and warned that the Democrats’ Social Security 2100 Act would dramatically increase the payroll tax and devastate job creation. (Snip) The Heritage Foundation notes that the Democrats’ Social Security 2100 Act would “raise payroll taxes for all workers. An average worker with an annual salary of $50,000 would pay an extra $1,200 per year.”
The answer is almost certainly … Robert Mueller. But that doesn’t make for a good conspiracy theory, which Ted Lieu clearly wants to foment. Instead of acknowledging that Mueller returned to the explanation in his report about the potential for charging Donald Trump with obstruction, Lieu thinks someone “got to him” to steal the win that Lieu got during his examination of the special counsel: (Tweet) This is tinfoil-hat territory, not entirely an unfamiliar landscape for Lieu, for at least two reasons. First, Lieu himself misstated Mueller’s position when he asked for Mueller’s response. Despite the report being very clear
Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris will unveil a plan on Friday to invest $60 billion in historically black colleges and universities if elected, the latest effort by the U.S. senator from California to reach out to black voters. She will also release a plan to spend $12 billion on entrepreneurship programs aimed at the black community, her campaign said. Harris is one of two dozen Democrats in a field led by former Vice President Joe Biden seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Republican President Donald Trump in the November 2020 election. She has consistently polled behind Biden among black voters
Special Counsel Robert Mueller III has finally moved off the public stage leaving the four members of the so-called “Squad’ team on it. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley entered Stage Left as self-declared ‘victims’, and victims they will remain as long as their newly-found political careers last. Count on hearing all about squad members, non-stop victimhood all the way up to Election 2020 over television networks—including Fox News, where Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is
In the days, weeks, and months following Donald Trump's election and inauguration, liberal America took its collective mind, threw it in a Vitamix, and poured it down the toilet. It has been lost and floating around in a sewer of rage ever since.
One of the more notable Trump Derangement Syndrome meltdowns back then was publicly offered by comedian Kathy Griffin, who infamously posted a picture of her with a mock, blood covered, severed head of President Trump.
The stunt was so beyond the pale that even the notorious Trump-hating execs at CNN severed the network's professional relationship with her. She also lost an endorsement gig
The Hollywood left called on Democrats in Congress to impeach President Donald Trump after former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress on Wednesday.
It is imperative: Congress must start an Impeachment Inquiry. This President colluded with a foreign enemy power to undermine our Democracy,” said director Rob Reiner, who regularly demands Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings against Trump. “Then Obstructed Justice to cover that up. Period. Speaker Pelosi, with all due respect, NO MORE F+CKING AROUND!”
The Jesuit flagship publication in the United States, America magazine, has published an article defending Marxism and comparing the murderous, atheist ideology to Christianity.
In “The Catholic Case for Communism,” America writer Dean Dettloff says that the militant atheism of Marxist politics is “understandable” because “Christianity has so often been a force allied to the ruling powers that exploit the poor.”
As a number of prospective presidential candidates from the Democrat party are openly donning the mantle of socialism, America took the issue one step further, suggesting that the negative reaction to “Bernie Sanders’s inspiring 2016 primary bid and the electoral success of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) presidential campaign has been accused of retaliating against staffers for unionizing, as new details of the federal labor complaint made on July 19 continue to surface.
An unnamed individual filed the complaint to the National Labor Relations Board on July 19 and alleged five potential violations, including retaliation, discipline, discharge, interrogation, and repudiation. Details of the complaint against the Bernie Sanders campaign have been scarce, but Bloomberg Law obtained a copy of the charge, which details the allegations further.
While anyone can file a charge, the individual claims to be a staffer, who accused the Sanders campaign of retaliating after he or she “organized the bargaining unit.”
An editor at CNN has resigned after a series of antisemitic comments he made resurfaced on Thursday. (tweets) CNN’s statement accepting the resignation of the editor makes clear the editor had worked at CNN for some time, and had made the antisemitic statements back in 2011.
The tweets from Mohammed Elshamy, a photo editor for CNN, first surfaced earlier on Thursday. They were until then still public on Elshamy’s Twitter account:
Eight families filed a civil lawsuit on Monday against an Arizona research facility to which they had donated the bodies of their deceased loved ones amid allegations that it dismembered and sold body parts.An FBI raid of the facility in 2014 revealed many desecrated human bodies, seemingly dismembered with a chainsaw. Body parts were seen gruesomely displayed as a "morbid joke," including a bucket of human heads, legs, and arms, a cooler "filled" with male genitalia, "an infected head," and even a small, female head sewn on to a large, male body "like Frankenstein."
Former FBI Director James Comey has a list of questions he would like Democrat lawmakers to ask former Special Counsel Robert Mueller.It’s a rather hysterical attempt at coming across as a neutral arbiter of fact. In reality, Comey hasn’t got a shred of credibility left beyond his cabal of Trump saboteurs with names such as John Brennan, James Clapper and Andrew McCabe.It would be far more important for Comey’s to be asked the questions at this point about his role in the witch hunt against President Trump. Are your queries for Robert Mueller designed to craft a narrative that fuels impeachment efforts, like the memos you leaked
I earn my living investing other people’s money in the stock market. I am terrified contemplating how I am going to save my clients’ money, as well as my own, if a Democrat is elected president. The policies that the Democrats are advocating will destroy the American economy, not just the stock market, but the whole US economy. My first instinct will be to raise cash ahead of the stock market crash, but even that is only a temporary safe harbor.The Green New Deal, renewed regulations, Medicare for All, free college, as well as the 70-90% tax rates proposed by Democrats, will tank the stock market and
Here’s the investigation we need now: a blue-ribbon panel revealing who in the world thought Robert Mueller’s testimony would be a good idea.Was it Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff, the chairs of the two committees that dragged this poor man through this needless hell? Was it Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in a last-ditch effort to gin up a narrative for impeachment? It surely was championed by the media culture as a day of history, a high-stakes moment in time that would surely resonate.Well, it resonated, all right, echoing across a landscape filled with expectations based on political interests.
Earlier this week Sen. Elizabeth Warren said that an economic crash is right around the corner. She’s right. But it’s her own plan that would bring about the collapse she’s predicting.
Warren says that she sees all the signs of a “coming economic crash” that she — and she alone, apparently — saw before the 2008 financial crisis.
Let’s leave aside the dubiousness of Warren’s self-proclaimed economic forecasting abilities, and the fact that Democrats have been predicting an economic calamity since November 2016.
Here’s her central point:
“The country’s economic foundation is fragile. A single shock could bring it all down,” she proclaimed.
How serious are House Democratic leaders about impeaching President Trump? Consider this: After finishing up last-minute business, members are leaving Washington for a 46-day recess. They will not return until September 9.
That's not very serious.
On Wednesday night, after Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller's appearance before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, Democrats met to discuss the testimony and prospects for impeachment. There were those, like Judiciary chairman Jerrold Nadler, who argued for going ahead with impeachment. But it was "floated as an idea and a possibility -- not as something that will imminently happen," in the words of CNN reporter Manu Raju.
An "idea" and a "possibility"?
Boris Johnson’s first 100 days will make or break him — which is what makes his premiership unlike any other. In his favor is his ability to rally support in the country; against him the realities of a hung parliament.
How will he begin? It’s already clear that Boris Johnson intends to be an unconventional prime minister. His personality is such that he’s likely to eclipse all else in government. This is going to be the Boris Johnson show. Supporters and critics alike will be determined to keep him in the spotlight. He won’t change his style now that he has got the top job
Parents brawl at a 7-year-olds’ baseball game in Colorado. A mother kicks a soccer ball at a referee out of anger. A wrestling coach picks up one of his youth wrestlers by the neck and tosses him to the ground.
Researchers say the bad sportsmanship, rude behavior and outright violence adults display at youth sporting events has become a national epidemic that sends the wrong message to child athletes and drives referees from playing fields in droves.
In an age when one-sport specialization and thousand-dollar travel tournaments are the norm for many families, success in the game has become such a priority that some parents turn “rabid,” said Barry Mano,
Robert Mueller Not ‘Being There’
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Not since Chauncey Gardiner has Washington, D.C., so overestimated a figure. Robert Swan (Song) Mueller exhibited a Being There quality on Wednesday.
Gardiner and Mueller, two creatures of the capital, long served as blank screens upon which everybody projected sundry delusions. But the same swamp things that wanted to put Gardiner in the presidency now seek to put Mueller out to pasture.
A Geraldo-opening-Al-Capone’s-vault vibe reverberated through the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday. Cable news played up Mueller as a white knight saving America from Donald Trump. As it turned out, the special counsel, so eager to interrogate others, performed poorly when transitioning from interrogator to interrogated.
My initial reaction to Robert Mueller’s congressional appearance was one of pity. He was a pathetic character on the stage, seemingly bewildered at times, mentally frail, and vulnerable as a witness.
What a way to end a career and to be remembered by friend and foe alike.
But emotion is not the way to assess what we saw. It’s not an overstatement to say that the Hillary-DNC-Fusion GPS-Steele operation, as embraced by influential members of the FBI and possibly intelligence services, compounded by leaks to and collusion of a willing media, came close to undermining a presidential election before and after Election Day.
In many ways the Mueller testimony confirmed our worst fears
It's no secret that Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot loathes the police. She's been at war with cops ever since she served on the Chicago Police Board and the Police Accountability Task Force in 2015, using the post as a springboard to win the mayoral election last spring.
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The fever to impeach President Trump has stalled in the fractured House Democratic conference following special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony.
Without any major bombshells from Mueller, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took Democrats into a six-week summer recess without initiating any proceedings.
Pelosi is opposed to impeachment, in large part because a move to oust the president would be dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate and could be a politically toxic issue for Democrats in swing districts.
Over the past few weeks, I wrote a few pieces pointing out the absurdity of the media’s coverage of the Jeffrey Epstein travesty.
For the opening act, the major networks and papers were really interested. Why? Because there was a member of Trump’s administration that worked on Epstein’s sweetheart plea deal. That was all the hook the media needed to make the story about Donald Trump.
But then something happened. Alex Acosta resigned and the hook was gone. Suddenly, the media didn’t care anymore. The story died overnight because there was no longer a vehicle to attack Trump, so who cares, right?
A little less than a week later,
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Maybe we now know the real reason that Bob Mueller was so reluctant to testify.
With even liberal commentators conceding that Mueller was a shaky witness during two House hearings, questions are swirling about his mental acuity and his ability to handle the job of special counsel.
Let me say at the outset that I have great respect for Mueller as a decorated Vietnam War veteran and an FBI director so widely admired that Barack Obama asked the George W. Bush appointee to serve a second term.
Let me also say that the hearings shouldn’t be graded only on optics, although they were, like most hearings, designed as political theater.
Donald Trump Jr.: Mueller was a 'figurehead'
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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller was a figurehead and not the true leader of the Russia investigation, according to Donald Trump Jr.Mueller's stellar public service reputation preceded him, although his performance in Wednesday's hearings revealed to the public the truth about the probe, Trump claimed Thursday on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
"I think the American people finally saw it, that this man -- who was the lead of the largest investigation in American history, really the largest hoax at this point -- he didn't have a fundamental understanding of not only where it began, but what was even involved," he said.
"Ultimately, I think the American public
The day after the disasters that were the Democratic-led hearings with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) seemed crestfallen that their high hopes for President Trump’s impeachment were puttering out.Their Thursday flagship evening newscasts reflected that mood as they talked about the hearings not having the “punch” needed to push certain Democrats to back impeachment, leaving a “divide” in the party.“Democrats are still very divided about how to move forward. And Capitol Hill sources tell NBC News there's broad agreement the Mueller hearings did not deliver the kind of punch they were hoping for to start impeachment proceedings, and that it actually