Posts on Monday, August 12, 2019
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned in a Twitter post on Monday night that the duration of UN sanctions on Iran is about to end.
"The clock is ticking. Time remaining before the UN arms embargo on Iran expires and Qasem Soleimani’s travel ban ends," Pompeo tweeted, sharing a clock that counts down the time until the UN sanctions expire.
The clock showed that a little over a year and 3 months remain.
Pompeo also urged the "our allies and partners to increase the pressure on the Iranian regime until it stops its destabilizing behavior." (Tweet)
Alejandro Giammattei, the conservative Guatemalan politician who once vowed to build a "wall" to prevent migration to the United States if elected president, swept to victory in the Central American country's federal election on Sunday, vowing to bring change to the nation—as well as to its relationship with the U.S.
After losing three previous bids for the presidency, Giammattei managed to defeat his centre-left rival, former first lady Sandra Torres, with a landslide win of more than 58 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results.
On the same day Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on arrival at a New Jersey airport on sex trafficking charges, federal agents bashed in the door of his $77 million Manhattan mansion and seized evidence to aid in his prosecution. (Snip) They scooped up evidence just two days after Epstein was found dead in his jail cell of an apparent suicide while in federal custody in Manhattan. The raid underscores that the criminal investigation into Epstein will continue despite his death while awaiting trial in New York City. Ultimately, prosecutors could expose an alleged sex trafficking conspiracy with tentacles across the financier’s vast real estate holdings,
The winner of Guatemala's presidential election, Alejandro Giammattei, said he hoped he could make changes to a controversial migration deal the Central American country signed with the Trump administration last month.
Speaking to Reuters shortly before being declared victor, the conservative Mr Giammattei said he wanted to see what could be done to improve the deal that outgoing president Jimmy Morales agreed to stem US-bound migration from Central America.
Mr Giammattei will not take office until January, by which time Guatemala may be under severe pressure from the deal that effectively turns the country into a buffer zone, by forcing migrants to seek refuge there rather than in the United States.
One hundred and sixty mass public shootings that have taken place in the United States since 1966. Since Parkland in February of 2018, there have been 24 additional mass shooter incidents. That was until the horrific assault rifle shootings – one right after another in Gilroy, El Paso and Dayton. In 2018, following Parkland, President Trump moved to increase the age to purchase assault weapons from 18 to the age of 21. Once again, his instincts were correct. Though the target age was short by about nine years. It should be raised to thirty. Each of these shootings committed by young men.
On Sunday's AM Joy on MSNBC, frequent guest Elie Mystal of AboveTheLaw.com made the kind of statement about a "majority of white people" that would be considered blatantly bigoted or racist if aimed at any other group, as he stated that it is necessary for Democrats to "destroy" whites who support President Donald Trump. Mystal -- who has had a reputation for making incendiary comments in his MSNBC appearances over the past year -- made his comments during a segment in which panel members got to rail against whites who support President Trump.
The family of the young couple who died protecting their baby from the El Paso gunman say they have received death threats after they met with Donald Trump. A picture of the president went viral in the wake of the mass shooting at the Walmart after it showed first lady Melania holding little Paul Anchondo as POTUS smiled and gave a thumbs up. Among the family members in the photo was the baby's uncle, Tito Anchondo, a Trump supporter who said he had received death threats.
A U.S. District Judge has rejected the DOJ and FBI motion to block the release of the Archey Declarations (descriptions of Comey memos). [Background Here]
In a strongly worded ruling (full pdf below) released moments ago, Federal Judge James Boasberg blasted the DOJ and FBI for attempting to change their filings, claim national security “sources and methods”, and block his prior court ruling – which instructed the DOJ to release the “Archey Declarations”. The judge is obviously angry:
It must strike readers as erroneous “with the force of a five-week-old, unrefrigerated dead fish.”…
Leftist documentary filmmaker Michael Moore jumped to Twitter to support the U.S. fencing team member who took a knee during the national anthem at the Pan Am Games last weekend. Moore insisted that “we must all join” fencer Race Imboden who refused to stand for the Stars Spangled Banner after the U.S. men’s team won the gold in team fencing at the games in Lima, Peru, on Friday. “Champion U.S. fencer took a knee on medals podium during national anthem,” Michael Moore tweeted, “as he called for social change in the US. We must all join him and others who risk criticism and punishment and take our own personal stands
The state is doing its part to distribute emergency bottled water to Newark residents with old lead pipes and now it’s time for the federal government to help, a top New Jersey official said Monday. Responding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recommendation that Newark hand out bottled water, the state urged the federal agency to help pay for the program.(Snip) The federal government made the request after new sampling showed filters meant to remove lead weren’t working in two of three tested homes. More than 38,000 filters have been distributed in the city to temporarily abate the lead water crisis that began in 2017.
Attorney General William Barr bashed progressive district attorneys taking office around the country, a group that includes Suffolk DA Rachael Rollins, by calling decisions to decline prosecutions “demoralizing to law enforcement and dangerous to public safety.” Barr, speaking Monday to the Fraternal Order of Police conference in New Orleans, didn’t mention Rollins by name, instead referring broadly to lefty prosecutors elected in big cities where Rollins, along with Philadelphia’s Larry Krassner, have campaigned and taken office with controversial lists of offenses their offices will default to not prosecuting as standalone charges.For Rollins, that includes drug possession, theft, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Excitement is building in Coon Rapids and Andover as the towns cheer on their team in Little League World Series.
Jameson Kuznia hit a three-run home run in the top of the sixth inning as the Coon Rapids/Andover baseball team came back from a 5-1 deficit to beat Iowa, 8-6, in the Little League Baseball Midwest Regional final on Saturday.
When a federal judge in Kentucky threw out a lawsuit against the Washington Post over its coverage of the Covington Catholic controversy, he said while the Post hadn’t defamed them, their language was “loose, figurative,” and “rhetorical hyperbole.”The lawsuit, which centered around reporting done by the Post in the news section of their website, was brought by Nicholas Sandmann, the student that was criticized on social media and television for “smirking” at a Native American activist during a field trip to Washington D.C. It was dismissed in late July.The video of the incident went viral shortly after being posted, and has come under scrutiny
Five Democratic presidential hopefuls will converge on Atlanta later this week for a forum with African American church leaders and thousands of black millennials. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker; South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro are slated to speak at the Young Leaders Conference on Friday afternoon at the Georgia International Convention Center. U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders will be interviewed onstage a day later beginning at 11:30 a.m., according to Black Church PAC, which is co-hosting the event. The conference is expected to draw 5,000 African American millennials and
The Land of Lincoln will require public schools to incorporate LGBTQ figures into history lessons. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed House Bill 246, which mandates the following: “In public schools only, the teaching of history shall include a study of the roles and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the history of this country and this State.” The bill, introduced by Rep. Anna Moeller, will go into effect in July. “THNX Gov. Pritzker, legislative champs @staterepmoeller @SenatorSteans, amazing partners @ILSafeSchools @lgbt_legacy!” Equality Illinois, the state’s largest LGBTQ civil rights group tweeted Friday. State Sen. Heather Steans,
A New Jersey mayor declared this week that a new state law requiring LGBTQ history to be taught in middle and high schools is “an affront to Almighty God.” Barnegat Township Mayor Alfonso Cirulli, a former assistant principal, said during Tuesday morning’s meeting of the Township Committee that the push for LGBTQ-inclusive education in public schools had “crossed over the line into absurdity,” the Asbury Park Press reported.(Snip) “The government has no right to teach our kids morality,” the Republican mayor said Tuesday. “Now is the time for the righteous to stand up for their rights.” “There is no hate or bigotry intended here,”
The White House has announced the Trump administration will enforce long-standing immigration laws that require entrants to be economically self-sufficient and limits public welfare benefits. An entry alien who is -or becomes- dependent on public welfare assistance, is known as a “public charge”. Aliens will be barred from entering the United States if they are deemed likely to become public charges, or welfare dependent.
These immigration rules have been in place for over 100 years, and generally were strictly enforced until the last 25 years. The Trump administration is re-enforcing the rules.The enforcement action will have a direct bearing on the current immigration process
Police have warned social media users they could face arrest if they "troll" a wanted drug dealer by mocking his distinctive hairstyle.
An online appeal to catch the criminal has resulted in tens of thousands of people posting joke comments. Jermaine Taylor, 21, is wanted for breaching his licence conditions after being released from prison in December 2018. Gwent Police launched the social media appeal to find the convicted drug dealer, but it backfired when people began making jokes about his hairstyle, with one saying it had been "pushed back more times than Brexit". The picture shows Taylor with a large
Liz Warren Vows to Tax Gun Owners
Back to the Stone Age with Radical
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Back to the Stone Age with Radical
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"The power to tax is the power to destroy."
-John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential contender Liz Warren wants to tax us gun owners back to the Stone Age, as a part of her radical gun control agenda, revealed this weekend.
If elected, Warren promises to raise taxes on firearms and ammo purchases by 30% and 50%, respectively. That's on top of her plan for federal licensing for gun ownership -- presumably with a federal database of who owns what -- expanded background checks, and a renewed ban on "assault-style" weapons.
Unfortunately for Dems in exile, mega deadwood comes with them as they try to regain power. The very words in their tiresome vocabularies are dead. “Racism”, “nationalism”, “white supremacism”, words in full use by them, are dead in meaning. Dead as proverbial door nails. Dig them up, toss them about whenever the occasion arises, but they remain impossible to resuscitate or revive. Far too late even for Twitter to breathe new life into them. Since Saturday the #Clinton BodyCount has already transitioned over to
Sarah Silverman has said she was recently fired from a film after producers unearthed a still of her in 2007 wearing blackface for a comedy sketch. Guesting on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Silverman said that she was let go the day before shooting on her scenes was due to start because of the photo, taken on the set of The Sarah Silverman Show. “I recently was going to do a movie, a sweet part,” she said, “then, at 11pm the night before, they fired me because they saw a picture of me in blackface from that episode.
Tulsi Gabbard, Democrat from Hawaii and presidential candidate, will be taking a two-week absence from her campaign Monday to report for active duty with the Hawaiian Army National Guard in Indonesia, she said in an interview with CBSN's Caitlin Huey-Burns. "I'm stepping off of the campaign trail for a couple of weeks and putting on my army uniform to go on a joint training exercise mission in Indonesia," she said. Gabbard has also taken two weeks off to report for active service in 2017. "I love our country. I love being able to serve our country in so many ways
Trump goes into detail with his contempt
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President Donald Trump slammed “Little Donny Deutsch” and his MSNBC colleagues in scathing tweets following remarks that the president and his supporters “own the blood that happens.” The president mocked the MSNBC host, who recently kicked off his own political show on the network, recalling his days on NBC’s “The Apprentice,” and how Deutsch would “BEG” him to appear on the show. (Photo) “So funny to watch Little Donny Deutsch on TV with his own failing show.
US Attorney General Bill Barr addressed the ongoing investigation into pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s death at a press conference on Monday morning.“We are now learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation,” Barr said.“There will be accountability,” Barr asserted. WATCH: (Tweet/Video)
Months before launching his 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden acknowledged that he is a “gaffe machine,” prone to misstatements and embarrassing mistakes. He lived up to that reputation this past weekend on a campaign swing in Iowa, renewing fears among some Democrats that the 76-year-old former vice president and current frontrunner in the race for the Democratic nomination may not have the stamina for what would likely be a brutal campaign against President Trump. At a gun violence forum on Saturday, Biden recalled meeting with survivors of the high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., as vice president — a meeting
Chick-fil-A's menu just got cheesier. Starting Monday, Mac & Cheese is available at Chick-fil-A restaurants nationwide, the Atlanta-based fast-food chain announced. It's available as a side with lunch and dinner, as a Kid's Meal and in catering orders. "Mac & Cheese is the quintessential comfort food, and something we are so excited to offer our guests at Chick-fil-A,” Amanda Norris, Chick-fil-A executive director of menu and packaging, said in Monday's announcement. It's the chicken chain's first permanent side addition since 2016, the company said in a statement, and is a classic macaroni and cheese recipe with a special blend cheddar
The uncle of an infant who lost both parents in the Saturday mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, that killed more than 20 people defended a photo the president took with the child while giving a thumbs up, The Washington Post reported.
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Tito Anchondo, whose brother and sister-in-law were killed in the attack, chose to take his orphaned nephew to meet the president and first lady. The 2-month-old boy suffered two broken fingers, but he survived the shooting after his parents shielded him.
Anchondo told The Washington Post he wanted to take the boy to meet the president and tell him about his family.
Hurricane season may be more turbulent than usual with as many as nine severe storms expected to hit the US this year, according to experts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warned Thursday that “above-normal hurricane activity” has been predicted for hurricane season, which will run until Nov. 30. In the forecast, five to nine hurricanes are expected to hit stateside, with at least two of those classified as “major hurricanes.” There are also 10 to 17 named storms—which have winds of 39 miles per hour or greater—anticipated for the region. On average during the season, there are 12 named storms,
Ghislaine Maxwell was last night reported to be ready to co-operate with the American authorities in their ongoing investigation into Prince Andrew’s late friend Jeffrey Epstein. The socialite daughter of the disgraced late media tycoon Robert Maxwell has been accused of recruiting underage girls for the financier Epstein, her benefactor and sometime boyfriend. She has even been described as the ‘madam of the house’ by a former housekeeper at Epstein’s mansion in Palm Beach, Florida. Hitherto, she has always emphatically denied misconduct. Thomas Volscho, an associate professor of sociology at the City University of New York who is writing a book about the Epstein case, said that Miss Maxwell
Attorney General William Barr said Monday that he was “appalled” by Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide over the weekend, but urged that the millionaire pedophile’s co-conspirators “should not rest easy.”
“This sex trafficking case was very important to the Department of Justice and to me personally,” Barr said during a speech before the National Fraternal Order of Police in New Orleans.
“Let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with Epstein. Any co-conspirators should not rest easy.”
Marine Killed In Iraq Identified
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The U.S. Marine killed in Iraq over the weekend has been identified by the Pentagon as Gunnery Sgt. Scott A. Koppenhafer. Koppenhafer was killed Saturday during combat operations by enemy small arms fire, according to the Department of Defense news release Sunday. Koppenhafer, 35, was from Colorado. He has a wife and two children. He was named Marine Special Operator of the Year in 2018 by the Marine Corps Associations and was working on Operation Inherent Resolve, an operation fighting ISIS. He was assigned to the Marine Forces Special Operation Command in North Carolina, according to NBC News.
In an interview with the New York Times, 2020 candidate Beto O'Rourke said he's even more determined to win the Democratic nomination after the mass shooting in his hometown of El Paso, dismissing calls to use his recalibrated time in the spotlight to make a high-profile run for Senate. "I'm running for president. ... At a time that the president is attacking this community, this part of the world, the U.S.-Mexico border, cities of immigrants, that’s where I am. That’s where I live. That’s where we’re raising our family. I can meet him on this issue in very personal terms
If Democrats and their media allies can be described as a single animal, take a look at this picture of CNN anchor Jake Tapper and flailing presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke as O'Rourke tries to claim that anyone voting for President Trump is a racist. Tapper looks like the front end of the beast in the throes of some kind of extended digestive trouble and O'Rourke looks like the back end, producing the noisy 'output.' (Photos) The video is here.
Elizabeth Warren’s Ferguson Lie
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Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren yesterday tweeted: Elizabeth Warren
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5 years ago Michael Brown was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. (Snip) This is an outright lie, one day after Warren complained of the dangers of rhetoric.
Michael Brown was not murdered. Michael Brown was shot by officer Darren Wilson in an act of self-defense. This is why the grand jury declined to indict Wilson for murder or manslaughter, and it was also the conclusion of the Obama administration’s Department of Justice. “Every police officer in America should be offended by Sen. Warren’s ill-informed, inflammatory tweet today,” Jeff Roorda of the St. Louis Police
President Trump is set to save American taxpayers billions of dollars as his administration announces a new rule on Monday that will essentially ban welfare-dependent legal immigrants from permanently resettling in the United States.
A new regulation set to be published by the Trump administration will ensure that legal immigrants would be less likely to secure a permanent residency in the U.S. if they have used any forms of welfare in the past, including using subsidized healthcare services, food stamps, and public housing.
The regulation will be a boon for American taxpayers in the form of an annual $57.4 billion tax cut — the amount taxpayers spend every year
Sex offender and accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was not on suicide watch at the time of his death, according to several reports.
Prison officials found the disgraced billionaire dead in his jail cell early Saturday morning. Multiple reports are calling his death an apparent suicide via hanging, although it has come with suspicion, as Epstein was believed to be on suicide watch. However, officials told the New York Post that Epstein was not on suicide watch at the time of his death.
According to the New York Post:
Department of Justice spokesman Lee Plourde told The Post that Epstein, 66, was not “currently” on watch in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Facility
Bode Miller and his wife Morgan Beck have announced that they are expecting twins, 14 months after their daughter Emeline Grier died after drowning in a tragic pool accident.
The couple shared their happy news on Monday morning, revealing to the world both on Instagram and during an appearance on the Today show that their two babies are due on November 11, while speaking out about how their beloved daughter had 'hand her hand' in their 'miracle' pregnancy. 'From the day I met my husband, he has always said he wanted identical twin boys born on his birthday,'
Even though the release of a film about men hunting supporters of President Donald Trump has been cancelled, the very fact that Hollywood greenlighted the project for development and production is a sign of the sickness that has infected the industry, Reverend Franklin Graham said Sunday.
In a series of tweets replying to a story in “The Hill” reporting that the movie’s release has been cancelled in the wake of recent mass shootings, Rev. Graham denounced Universal’s “The Hunt,” a movie in which Trump supporters (dubbed, “deplorables” by Democrat Hillary Clinton) are hunted for sport.
The approval, financing and production a film that suggests politically-motivated violence is acceptable
The reaction from the online fever swamps was predictable enough. Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected financier accused of underage sex trafficking, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell early this morning, just one day after unsealed court documents surfaced new allegations against him and his high-powered inner circle. The reported cause of death was suicide but the conspiracy-mongers were already springing into action.
The famously winsome and charming Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), in a 2018 interview that recently resurfaced, fed the fires of the “white supremacist terror” hysteria when she asserted that “our country [no, not Somalia] should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.” She also offered a ready solution: “Profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.” Amid a general clamor on the Left over “white supremacist terrorism,” this is even crazier than most claims, as commonplace as it is. But the reality is that the idea that there is a massive
The Trump administration on Monday issued a long-awaited rule strengthening the ability of federal officials to deny green cards to immigrants deemed likely to rely on government aid.Officials described the so-called "public charge" rule as a way to ensure those granted permanent residency are self-sufficient -- and protect taxpayers in the process.“The principle driving it is an old American value, and that’s self-sufficiency,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Acting Director Ken Cuccinelli told Fox News in an interview. “It’s a core principle -- the American Dream itself -- and it’s one of the things that distinguishes us, and it's central to the legal history
On Saturday, a would-be gun man was thwarted from attacking a mosque near Oslo, Norway. According to progressive media blog The Guardian, the thwarted shooter “was inspired by recent white extremist attacks in New Zealand and the US.” The failed attacker “claimed he was ‘chosen’ by ‘Saint REDACTED’, the gunman who killed 51 people at mosques in New Zealand in March.”
“My time is up, I was chosen by Saint REDACTED after all … We can’t let this continue, you gotta bump the race war threat in real life … it’s been fun,” one post reads.
REDACTED is described as having “addressed the Muslim problem” while
Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards: 1 not a
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In the hours before accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide early Saturday morning, the two corrections officers assigned to watch over the disgraced financier in a special unit of New York City's federal lockup were reportedly in the midst of working overtime shifts -- and one of the individuals wasn't a regular guard, according to a union head.
Epstein, 66, was found unconscious in his cell Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center and later pronounced dead — immediately prompting questions about how such a high-profile inmate could have killed himself inside an ultra-secure facility just over two weeks after officials believed Epstein may have previously attempted suicide.
Serene Gregg,
Some of the Democrat presidential candidates wasted no time in blaming the mass shooting at the Walmart in El Paso on President Trump.
That is both dumb and stupid and tantamount to blaming all the police shootings on Barack Obama for his careless remarks about the police acting “stupidly,” or blaming Bernie Sanders for the attempted murder of then Majority Whip Steve Scalise and other Republican lawmakers at a softball game practice because the perpetrator was one of his supporters, or blaming the Dayton shooter because he was a supporter of Elizabeth Warren.
No, this is simply political desperation by also-rans trying to get a little
"We have a huge problem with guns," former Vice President Joe Biden wrote in a New York Times op-ed published on Sunday."Assault weapons — military-style firearms designed to fire rapidly — are a threat to our national security, and we should treat them as such. Anyone who pretends there’s nothing we can do is lying," he said, "and holding that view should be disqualifying for anyone seeking to lead our country."Biden took partial credit for enacting the 1994 law that banned a variety of semiautomatic weapons and high-capacity magazines for 10 years.
Any conservative who takes seriously the charge that conservatism has a serious white-supremacy problem is a chump. The people making such charges—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in her maniacal tweets, the Baltimore Sun editorial page—invoke a dark history of white supremacy in their condemnations of President Trump, Tucker Carlson, and those who admire them, but they don’t know anything about that record. They think they have the moral authority of African-American suffering behind them, but their eagerness to attach racial significance to the word “infested” only proves their phony credentials.
Here is a bit of real white supremacy for you:
NEW YORK —The details of how Jeffrey Epstein died in his Manhattan jail cell over the weekend have yet to be released, but medical officials have performed an autopsy on the high-profile inmate accused of sexually abusing underage girls and paying them hundreds of dollars in cash for massages.Epstein’s abrupt death Saturday cut short a criminal prosecution that could have pulled back the curtain on the inner workings of a high-flying financier with connections to celebrities and presidents, though prosecutors have vowed to continue investigating.Epstein, 66, had been denied bail and faced up to 45 years behind bars on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges unsealed last month.
The New York Post is rightly upset that New York City will honor as the most important women in its 400-year history a couple of drag queens over the patron saint of immigrants.
The mayor's wife controls the panel that made the decision. Taxpayers will spend $5 million on this project.
Pardon my mirth but once again Democrats show that they think men are better at being women than women are.
Instead of honoring Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini -- the patron saint of immigrants to America -- the Democrats at City Hall are honoring two men and five women as the top seven women in the history of New York City.
A Righteous Saturday Night Rant
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James Kunstler is, or was, a liberal. But he isn’t crazy, and today the issue isn’t conservative vs. liberal, it is sane vs. insane. Kunstler is on the side of sanity, and his writing is entertaining and insightful.
If the Left were a person, it would be in a locked ward by now on twenty milligrams of haloperidol QID. But we gave up on mental hospitals decades ago. So, the Left is on the loose out there in streets, threatening to “stab motherf'kers in the heart” one moment and ululating against gun violence in the next. …
Southwest Airlines flew the remains of
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a Vietnam airman home to Dallas. The
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Bryan Knight was 5 years old when he waved goodbye to his father from Dallas Love Field airport. He never saw him again.
The year was 1967 and Roy Knight Jr. was heading to war. The pilot reported to Udorn Royal Thai Air Force Base in January. By May - after flying near daily combat missions - Knight was missing, his plane shot down over enemy territory in Laos. It was another seven years before his family found out he'd been killed. And on Thursday, 45 years after that, they finally received closure.
By now, the routine of athletes calling attention to themselves by dissing the U.S. flag at some athletic event has become so de rigueur you could write the script before it happens.
Lose the big prize. Take a knee to the flag. Make a raving or two to the press about the awfulness of the U.S. And reap lots of media attention your athletic performance wouldn't otherwise merit. Instant fame. Endorsement deals. Money. Profit big from insulting the very flag of the country that made your performance possible.
A couple days ago we got this attention-seeker whose bronze medal in fencing at a championship event in Lima, Peru, apparently
In the aftermath of the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, then a candidate for president, went forward with a planned rally at 17th and Broadway in the heart of Indianapolis' African American community. The country had witnessed more than 100 race riots that left at least 83 dead and 1,800 injured the previous summer, and Kennedy knew that news of King's assassination could result in similar violence. Instead, he called for "an effort to understand with compassion and love."
Kennedy's speech is rightfully hailed as one of the great moments of American political rhetoric. His plea was tragically not successful:
August eight just came and went. Supposedly, now the date has significance to neo-Nazis. H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, and "Heil Hitler" is HH, or "88." The number has long been used as a neo-Nazi symbol.
The link to August 8 is tenuous. Nevertheless, there is a leftist meme started on MSNBC that President Trump ordered the U.S. flag to be raised on August 8, following is lowering in response to last week's shootings, as a message to his neo-Nazi supporters. Despite Trump's support of Israel and Jews, or rather in part because of it, "progressives" regularly call Trump a Nazi-supporter.
ny majority population must be careful not to revert to pre-civilized tribalism and oppressing minority groups. The United States, like every other country that enjoys diverse populations has struggled from its beginning to ensure equality, sometimes unsuccessfully, and only at the cost of thousands of lives.
While the United States was founded originally mostly by those of European ancestry and was plagued by the endemic racism of the age, especially in regard to African slaves and Native Americans, nonetheless its unique Constitution, embedded within a larger framework of the Western Enlightenment, institutionalized self-reflection and the chance for amendment. America’s founding documents were unique in their singular
What's the point at which rhetoric forces action? When do words become incitement? At what point do political attacks get so reckless and unhinged that you can no longer heal the divide they create with politics? It's hard to know exactly, but the left is getting very close. Take, for example, this exchange on MSNBC, in which frequent guest Malcolm Nance accuses the president of the United States of sending secret messages to neo-Nazis: "These people feel that they are the foot soldiers and executors of the disenfranchisement that the white race is feeling, and Donald Trump is giving them subliminal orders in their head," Nance said.
Simone Biles made history more than once this weekend during the US Gymnastics Championships in Kansas City, Missouri.
The five-time Olympic medalist and 14-time world champion became the first woman to ever land a triple-double in competition during her floor routine Sunday night.
She also snagged her sixth national all-around title with a score of 118.500 , nearly five points ahead of second place finisher Sunisa Lee.
Biles' stunning floor routine Sunday included several astounding flips and jumps but it was her insane triple-double -- two backflips and three twists while in the air -- that wowed judges and fans alike.
Democratic billionaire Tom Steyer of California has big plans for his first day as president “I will declare a state of emergency on day one,” he said, referring to the need to take on the effects of climate change. “We are faced with something that will affect the health and safety of every single American, and every single American in the future.” Steyer spoke Sunday at the Des Moines Register’s Political Soapbox at the Iowa State Fair. He said one obstacle is the fossil fuel industry and its influence on lawmakers. Steyer said corporate money in politics has also helped
In April 2016, my then 14-year-old daughter became convinced that she was my son. In my attempt to help her, her public school undermined me every step of the way. Throughout my daughter’s childhood, there were no signs that she wanted to be a boy. She loved stuffed animals, Pocahontas and wearing colorful bathing suits. I can’t recall a single interest that seemed unusually masculine, or any evidence that she was uncomfortable as a girl. The only difficulty she had was forming and maintaining friendships. We later learned why: She was on the autism spectrum. She was very functional and
New York City’s Civic Center is a maze of courts, prisons, and offices that begins where Chinatown ends; past relics like a 17th century Jewish cemetery and an 1819 seaman’s church. Park Row is barricaded and blocked off by the brutalist infrastructure of One Police Plaza (which contains the remnants of a British prison used to house American prisoners during the Revolutionary War). Surrounding it are massive federal courthouses in front of whose facades the various important malefactors you see on the evening news are photographed, followed by the neoclassical façade of the New York County Supreme Court.
A majority of likely Iowa Democrat caucus voters prefer a public option, compared to only one-fifth of Democrats who prefer Medicare for All, according to a poll released this week.
A Monmouth University poll found that 56 percent of likely Iowa Democrat caucus voters say that they would prefer to opt into Medicare alongside other health insurance options on the Obamacare exchanges, otherwise known as a public option, compared to only 21 percent that prefer Medicare for All, 13 percent that would prefer tighter cost regulations on the current Obamacare system, and only four percent that want to leave the current system intact.
On Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” on New York AM 970 radio, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) weighed in on President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign.
McAuliffe said Trump’s “acts of division and racism” appear to show his political strategy is to attract “neo-Nazis and white supremacists.”
“I think it’s highly highly unlikely that Trump wins,” McAuliffe told host John Catsimatidis. “He can’t get above 40, 42%. These actions of division and racism that he talks about – I guess his political strategy, John, is that there are a lot of neo-Nazis and white supremacists that didn’t come out in [2016] and he’s going to get
Illegal alien Cristhian Bahena Rivera claims in new court filings that his constitutional rights were violated by Iowa law enforcement officials after being interrogated for allegedly murdering 20-year-old college student Mollie Tibbetts in Brooklyn, Iowa, last year.
In August 2018, Bahena Rivera, a 25-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was charged with Tibbetts’ murder after police said he admitted to confronting and chasing down the young woman.
After a nationwide search, Tibbetts’ body was found in a cornfield in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The illegal alien lived in a region of Iowa that was surrounded by sanctuary cities, as Breitbart News noted, and worked on a dairy farm using a stolen
Al Sharpton has been in Baltimore defending the record of Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings, but not all of the local residents are happy about it. In fact, Sharpton was heckled by some angry locals this week.The We Love Trump blog reports: MUST WATCH: Al Sharpton Confronted & Heckled By Baltimore Residents. A must-watch video of Baltimore residents speaking out about their living conditions and how unsafe the city they’re living in is was posted onto Youtube a few days ago.
Despite the threats from firm-bodied and closeminded elitist liberals who threatened to boycott Soul Cycle and Equinox health clubs upon learning that a major investor, Steven Ross, planned to host a fundraiser for President Donald J. Trump (R) at his estate last Friday night, the event went off as planned. Along with another funder that night, Trump reportedly hauled in over $12 million for his 2020 presidential campaign and for the Republican party. However, many of the folks that these bleeding heart, tight-butt Trump boycott liberals claim to speak for -- workers and small business owners -- are forced to remain silent if they support Trump.
The reaction from the online fever swamps was predictable enough. Jeffrey Epstein, the well-connected financier accused of underage sex trafficking, was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell early this morning, just one day after unsealed court documents surfaced new allegations against him and his high-powered inner circle.
The reported cause of death was suicide—but the conspiracy-mongers were already springing into action.
Within hours, #EpsteinMurder was trending on Twitter, as was #TrumpBodyCount (where liberals speculated that the president had offed his former friend),
Tomorrow, the Golden State’s Democrat-run, veto-proof legislature returns from its summer break and is expected to quickly take up S.B. 1, the “California Environmental, Public Health, and Workers Defense Act of 2019.” It has been proposed for one reason: Donald Trump is president. Under his administration, long-standing EPA regulations and analyses, and bureaucratic (state and federal) actions, related to water have been rethought, reviewed, and relaxed. Which comes to the progressive Left as a threat: All that water-denying is now at risk.
Hence the bill.
Its consequence will be to preempt any possible forthcoming federal regulations that would result in people and farms (instead of, seriously, the Pacific Ocean)
Both Ohrs in Troubled Water
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If there was ever any doubt about the depth and extent of the deep-state coup against both candidate and President Donald J. Trump and the number of deep-state actors attempting to thwart the will of the American people, it vanished with the release of partially redacted copies of former Deputy Atty. Gen. Bruce Ohr’s FBI 302 reports (interview summaries) on Thursday evening obtained by Judicial Watch.
They confirm that Bruce Ohr and his wife Nellie were not merely passive conduits for the fraudulent Steele Dossier but were active participants in the plot to deny Trump the presidency.
We have long ago become inured to Democratic politicization of mass shootings and the accompanying tirades against President Trump suggesting he is somehow responsible for these atrocities. Consequently, the left’s exploitation of the recent massacres in the cause of gun control was all-too-predictable. This time, however, they added a new ruse to their rhetorical repertoire. After El Paso and Dayton Democrats failed to dissuade Trump from visiting the victims, an omission they would have inevitably denounced as callous, the left went berserk when he and the First Lady posed for a photo with an infant survivor of the El Paso shooting and two relatives.
The phony outrage erupted
This is what in modern parlance is known as a "self-own." Lance Armstrong -- the most disgraced man in the history of a sport that's had an overwhelming share of disgrace -- took to Twitter to brag about his first accomplishment on a bike since being stripped of pretty much every trophy he ever won:(Snip for tweet)The reaction wasn't all favorable. Sure, the rabid Trump haters thought it precious and awesome, but the reality-dwellers saw it differently.
Before we get any further, I just want to mention that I passed not one, but two men who were older than I am and riding recumbent bikes during my 20-mile ride
Here are a few things I know firsthand about being in jail. First and foremost, you have virtually no control over your life and surroundings. You can’t get so much as an aspirin without authorization. In most jails, you can’t wear a belt, or shoelaces, or keep a razor in your cell. You have no privacy, no sense of dignity, and no rights. And in a well-run jail, high-profile prisoners have virtually no chance of killing themselves.
So the alleged suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, the 66-year-old financier with powerful American and foreign friends who was about to stand trial for allegedly sexually abusing dozens of girls, many of them underage,
I don’t understand this as a matter of basic political strategy, but then I haven’t understood Beto’s strategy from day one. When he entered the race (before he entered, in fact) he was savaged by the left as a fake progressive. They feared that Betomania would spread from Texas to the national Democratic electorate and usurp their dreams of a Bernie Sanders presidency, so they unloaded on him. That should have been a clue to him that he would never succeed in winning them over, in which case he’d be better off positioning himself as a center-left candidate aiming for moderates. If you’re a liberal who’s freaked out by Sanders/Warren
American-based Chase Bank is giving its customers above the border one last gift before it bows out of the Canadian credit card market. Chase Bank, which is part of JPMorgan Chase & Co., closed all their credit card accounts in March 2018 and customers were expected to continue to pay their debt.
That changed on Friday when the company decided to forgive all outstanding balances on either of its two VISA cards as part of their exit following 13 years in the Canadian credit card market, according to the CBC.
Former Vice President Al Gore said his predictions from 2006 about climate change over the next ten years have come true and claimed part of the damage has been irreversible.
"You said back in 2006 that the world would reach the point of no return if drastic measures weren't taken to reduce greenhouse gases by 2016. Is it already too late?" ABC News' Jonathan Karl asked during "This Week with George Stephanopolous" on Sunday.
"Well, some changes, unfortunately, have already been locked in place," Gore replied. "Sea level increases are going to continue no matter what we do now. But, we can prevent much larger