Posts on Sunday, August 18, 2019
Paris - The team behind teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg's yacht voyage to New York on Sunday fended off claims that her trip will create carbon emissions because team members will take transatlantic flights. The 16-year-old Swede, whose school strikes have inspired children across the world to protest against global warming, refuses to fly because of the carbon emissions caused by planes. But she has been offered a lift on the Malizia II racing yacht, and set off on August 15 along with her father Svante and a filmmaker to document the journey, in order to attend the UN talks in
HARTFORD, Conn. — When University of Connecticut professor Thomas Craemer first began researching reparations for slavery, most mainstream white politicians weren’t talking about the issue. Now, more than a dozen years later, the idea that African Americans should receive restitution for the grievous legacy of enslavement and racial discrimination is sparking a political debate that is helping to shape the 2020 presidential race. “I’m surprised by this myself,” said Craemer, an expert on racial bias and a professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut in Hartford. At the most recent Democratic presidential debate in July, several candidates expressed
On Saturday, Mashable released a video on social media about an inflatable, floating camping tent from (Tweet/Video) SmithFly describes the "Shoal Tent," which is currently sold out, but retails for $1,999 when available, as "a first of its kind inflatable floating raft with a tent topper that allows you to sleep out on the water." The camping, hunting, and fishing gear company adds: "Camp on your favorite farm pond, saltwater flat, spring creek or eddy on your favorite river.
Justin Thomas was nervous driving to Medinah on Sunday with a six-shot lead. Nobody wants to shrink like Greg Norman did at the 1996 Masters.Thomas scrolled through some texts wishing him luck. That didn’t help. After arriving at Medinah, he came upon well-wishers who offered him unsolicited advice: Talk to your caddie, stay relaxed, keep talking.Thomas offered thanks but acknowledged later what he was really thinking: “I’ll be OK as long as you stop talking.” Thomas’ lead shrank to two after 10 holes, but the Louisville, Ky., native
This far left fraud has zero shame.
Elizabeth Warren: Never in a million years did I think I’d end up running for office, first for United States senator from Massachusetts, and now for president of the United States. But the reason I did is I have been called to act. Oh please. That wasn’t God, Senator. (Video)
ON A LEVEE IN THE EVERGLADES — Beth Koehler stood on the Jeep’s console, her boots braced against the two front seats, half her body thrust through the sunroof. As the Jeep crept along a narrow gravel road atop a levee 60 miles west of Miami, Koehler’s eyes swept the landscape. Lights atop the car turned the darkness ahead as bright as day.
She had been at this for more than two hours Monday, and now it was nearly midnight. The humid night air was filled with a subdued chorus of hoots and ribbets.
Suddenly Koehler, 60, shouted, “Go forward!” Behind the wheel,
Jack Whitaker, legendary sportscaster and World War II veteran, died Sunday morning in his sleep in Devon, Pennsylvania, of natural causes. He was 95 years old. Whitaker was a CBS Sports announcer for 22 years, starting in the late 1950s. He covered everything from football and horse racing to golf. Whitaker called Super Bowl I for CBS Sports as well as the 1973 Triple Crown Race with Secretariat emerging victorious. After his time at CBS Sports, Whitaker worked at ABC Sports. Whitaker was born and raised in the Philadelphia
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We conservatives tend to argue that “green” energy (wind and solar) is unreliable, inefficient, expensive, and virtually useless, even if we accept the climate change gospel*. But the truth is worse than that. Far from being well-intentioned, as most assume, “green” energy is the great corporate scam of our age. And green energy is not kind to the Earth as school children are taught. Rather, wind and solar are terrible for the environment.
It is time to get tough on “green” energy. I wrote about some of the environmental drawbacks of solar energy here. To perhaps an even greater degree than solar energy, wind turbines also damage the environment.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Justin Williams was baking a tray of gluten-free seeded bread for the next morning’s farmers’ market when his phone buzzed. It was a friend who grows organic sprouts, nervously wondering if he should bring along a shotgun to market. It has been a summer of fear, protest and tension in this crunchy college town ever since the popular Saturday morning farmers’ market was jolted by allegations that a husband and wife who had been longtime sellers of organic tomatoes and kale were also white nationalists. The accusations exploded into public view after activists and online sleuths used
Former President Obama and his BFF, told Joe Biden “You don’t have to do this.” An attempt to keep Biden off the stage and offer some protection his dwindling legacy? Perhaps. A recognition that an unchained Biden, without Valerie Jarrett to reign him in, might just be an embarrassment not only to the DNC but to the former President? Likely. (Obama worries Biden’s 2020 bid could ‘damage his legacy’: report) Recognition that between his age and his gaffes, he might not be the best candidate for the Democrats.
“You don’t have to do this, Joe, you really don’t,” the former president told Biden.
Newt Gingrich said the New York Times project that claims to contextualize the history of slavery in America is "propaganda.""The NY Times 1619 Project should make its slogan 'All the Propaganda we want to brainwash you with'.it is a repudiation of the original NY Times motto," the former House speaker said Sunday on Twitter. (Tweet) The Times started the 1619 Project last week, which seeks to "reframe" American history 400 years after the first slave ship came to North America.The paper says the project "aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding,
President Trump has expressed interest in the United States purchasing Greenland from Denmark, and whether or not that holds any merit, it’s worth discussing what such a move could mean for American golfers.Despite being mostly under an ice sheet, there are still golf courses in Greenland that you could play tomorrow if you so wished. To be fair, it is difficult to travel to Greenland, but once that’s squared away, a round at Nuuk Golf Club is awaiting you.Located in Nuuk, on one of the many southwestern peninsulas, NGC is right next to Nuuk Airport. Golfers with private planes can rejoice.
Students enrolled in all 77 of Atlanta’s public schools would receive a free lunch regardless of their family’s income. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reported that the students will start receiving their free meals at the beginning of the 2019-2020 school year, thanks to a congressional program dating back to 2010 called the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) subsidizes the meals through this congressional program, and “allows the nation’s highest poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications,”
Texas Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw said American “antifascists” demand violence while Hong Kong protesters are “actually fighting fascists” in a Saturday tweet. “In Hong Kong, antifascists wave American flags, demand freedom and actually fight fascists,” he wrote. “In Portland, ‘antifascists’ burn American flags, demand violence in the name of socialism. Portland is a sad showing of where we are today. All around.”
Crenshaw’s tweet came the same day violent protests erupted in Portland, Oregon, between about 1,200 people representing the right-wing Proud Boys group and Antifa,
National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow appears on NBC with Chuck Todd to debate the issues surrounding current trade and economic policy. (Snip) Kudlow makes two important points:
1. The Q3 CapEx (capital expenditure) spending reflects a domestic energy sector investment pause related to the dropped cost of oil. A fluctuation related to extraction costs and projected finished product price. [Energy companies pause on low price ] 2. The Sept. “Next Step” tariff delay relates to pre-contracted prices of holiday goods with the import price attached to lower dollar value at the time of contract. The delay allows the arrival of product without price impact.
White House Trade and Manufacturing Policy Advisor Peter Navarro appears on CNN to debate economic policy with Jake Tapper. As customary Tapper attempts to use the Multinational Big AG talking points to identify farmers as victims.
♦The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note dropped to 1.623% Wednesday for less than one hour; momentarily below the 2-year bond rate of 1.634%. The cause was a rapid influx of foreign capital, mostly from the EU (due to negative interest rates), into the U.S. to secure a return.(Snip)
♦The biggest fallacy pushed in this interview, YET AGAIN, surrounds price impacts on Chinese imports.
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If you grew up in the 1970s, it was hard to escape Charles Manson. His gang’s grisly 1969 deeds were already legendary, and they left a lingering dread over middle-class America, to say nothing of Hollywood and other more privileged enclaves. The early and mid-seventies retained some trappings of sixties culture, and the climate that had fostered the Manson Family, or that Manson had used to foster it, seemed still operative. Older Americans, trying to exhale after the sixties’ Olympian paces, found themselves bewildered in a new, hungover decade that made not even a pretense of restoring the old verities.
White House senior adviser Stephen Miller said said he experienced a "jolt of electricity" to his soul when President Trump announced his 2016 White House bid. Miller told the Washington Post in a Friday interview that he felt "as though everything that I felt at the deepest levels of my heart were for now being expressed by a candidate for our nation’s highest office before a watching world." Washington Post's profile of Miller documents the 33-year-old adviser's rise to prominence within the Trump administration and specifically his ability to dictate Trump's immigration policy.
Hundreds of Pinellas County residents will file into the courthouse starting Monday so that six may be chosen to answer a burning question.
Was the shooting death of Markeis McGlockton justified?
The start of jury selection is the first key moment in the manslaughter trial of Michael Drejka, 49, who faces up to 30 years in prison if he’s convicted.
The six people chosen will listen as lawyers and witnesses recount the confrontation, the shove and the shot that claimed the life of a father of four in July 2018 and fueled a national debate over Florida’s stand-your-ground law.
As part of their work, they will watch
SSenate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said he expects the inspector general’s report into FBI surveillance of the Trump campaign will be “ugly and damning” for the agency and the Department of Justice.
“I want it all out. I want people to see how off the rails this investigation got, and I want people to be held accountable,” Graham said in an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.”
Since March 2018, Justice Department inspector general Michael Horowitz has investigated whether the FBI and DOJ misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in applications for wiretap warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
President Trump called Juan Williams "so pathetic" and "always nasty" on Twitter Sunday afternoon.
"Juan Williams at @FoxNews is so pathetic, and yet when he met me in the Fox Building lobby, he couldn’t have been nicer as he asked me to take a picture of him and me for his family," the president tweeted. "Yet he is always nasty and wrong!"
Juan Williams at @FoxNews is so pathetic, and yet when he met me in the Fox Building lobby, he couldn’t have been nicer as he asked me to take a picture of him and me for his family. Yet he is always nasty and wrong!
Gianni Russo, who starred in The Godfather, said Chris Cuomo made a fool out out of himself during his viral rant, in which the CNN anchor likened the name "Fredo" to the N-word.
Russo, who played a treacherous son-in-law in the 1972 classic, told TMZ that Cuomo's father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, would "smack him" over the tirade. Cuomo's brother, Andrew Cuomo, is the current governor of New York.
The actor said calling the name "Fredo" an ethnic slur was "nonsense" and that it is simply a reference to a weak character. He also asserted that Cuomo likely hurt his career with the outburst, and criticized news anchors
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The far-right Proud Boys claimed success and vowed to conduct monthly protests in Portland after a weekend "End Domestic Terrorism" rally in Oregon's largest city drew hundreds to condemn anti-fascist "antifa" activists.
Rose City Antifa, Portland’s anti-fascist activist organization, countered with its own demonstration against the Proud Boys, an all-male extremist group condemned by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its ties to white nationalism.
Portland Police Lieutenant Tina Jones said 1,200 people representing both sides took to downtown streets and that least 13 arrests were made. Authorities were mostly able to keep the conflicting groups apart through a series of protests and counterprotests lasting about nine hours.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and trade adviser Peter Navarro dismissed concerns about a recession Sunday after markets plummeted on Wednesday but bounced back by the week's end.
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Kudlow said "there's no recession on the horizon" citing strong retail sales and low unemployment as evidence the U.S. economy is still strong despite a rollercoaster week on Wall Street.
"Consumers, first of all, they're working; the employment numbers are terrific," he said. "Second of all, they're working at much higher wages. Third of all they're spending. And fourth of all, interestingly, they are even saving while they're spending. That's about as good as it gets."
Once upon a time in a universe far far away, the New York Times was known as "the newspaper of record." They purported to report "All the News That's Fit to Print." That was never true — like all such outlets it was written by humans, ergo biased — but it was a tiny bit more accurate than today, even with notorious contributors like Stalin-apologist Walter Duranty and Castro-apologist Herbert Matthews. The late Abe Rosenthal at least made an effort.
Now the paper is little more than a left-wing propaganda sheet — and not a very good one, notwithstanding its seemingly unbreakable and unremitting influence on the mainstream media
Taiwan-mainland China relations (also known as Cross-Strait relations) have been always complex and controversial. As Hong Kong unrest and China trade ties dominate the news, how the U.S. is dealing with Taiwan is worth a close look, too, given President Trump's muscular stance with China. And the news is good.
In 1949, as a result of a civil war, China was split into two entities: mainland China (People’s Republic of China/PRC) and Taiwan (Republic of China/ROC). The civil war merely stopped without the formal signing of any peace treaty and the two sides are technically still in a state of war.
Trollery. Let’s explore this 21st century, primarily left-wing phenomenon in American politics. Some months ago, I responded rationally (I hope) to a particularly snotty, generalized put-down of Trump supporters, the kind of thing you see posted all too often on otherwise informative discussion forums like Quora. Every day, it seems, both here and elsewhere, one or more individuals (always under assumed names) will post “honest questions” for comment. Like “Does anyone know why only cretins support Donald Trump?” The aim is to take out, via these denunciation invitations, any and all opponents a modern low-information Stalinist doesn’t like.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a detailed plan Friday focused on “honoring and empowering tribal nations and Indigenous peoples” that includes numerous proposals ranging from tribal criminal jurisdiction expansion to implementing Medicare for All.The comprehensive plan, detailed in a lengthy Medium post, aims to protect indigenous people and their land on all fronts– from digital infrastructure to housing to health care. On housing:
The protests in Hong Kong continue in spite of the heavy rain and police orders not to march. Hundreds of thousands marched in the streets on Sunday! Thousands and thousands of Hong Kong residents came out to protest the recent extradition order in spite of rain and police orders. For the most part these are the most peaceful and considerate of any protesters on earth –(Photo) In spite of this one girl is now infamous for losing her eye
Trying to figure out the state of the Democratic presidential race? Get in line. Public opinion surveys have varied by the day, particularly in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, where some candidates can point to individual polls to argue they are building momentum. Former Vice President Joe Biden has held a relatively steady lead in national polls, though an Economist-YouGov poll this week found him holding just a 1 point lead over Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). A poll from The Hill-HarrisX found Biden with a healthier 15 point lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who stood
WASHINGTON – Yes, President Donald Trump is really considering purchasing Greenland. "We're looking at it," top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on "Fox News Sunday." That's despite the fact that Greenland's government told President Donald Trump on Friday that the island was "not for sale." (Snip) Kudlow said Sunday the issue is "developing." "I don’t want to predict an outcome," Kudlow said. "I’m just saying: the president, who knows a thing or two about buying real estate, wants to take a look at a Greenland purchase."
ECO-WARRIOR royals Harry and Meghan left a huge carbon footprint when they took a private jet to the South of France two days after their flight to Ibiza. The trip to Nice created seven times more carbon emissions per person than a commercial flight.
Bill Clinton was pictured smiling as he joined celebrities for a game of softball on the Hamptons on Saturday. The 42nd president joined in the 71st East Hampton Artists and Writers Charity Softball Game, a tradition he has taken part in since he was the governor of Arkansas 31 one years ago. But the crowd at Herrick Park was surprised to see Clinton at the event where he took to the field before first pitch and spoke fondly about his memories of the gathering, then even served as umpire for some of the 3pm game.
The turmoil in Hong Kong is a huuuuuuge embarrassment for Democrats. Hong Kongers are waving the stars and stripes, singing the national anthem, and issuing a global cry for freedom. For a Democratic party that loudly supports bend-a-knee leftists who hate the U.S. flag, such as Colin Kaepernick, that's a problem. And for a party that is trying to sell socialism to the U.S. public, well, thug-state China's got socialism in spades.
President Trump has taken flak for his response to the crisis, arguably so, but the real clown show is in what's coming from the Democrats.
Here's what Axios found when it tried to get answers
When word got out during the last presidential election that Seattle developer Martin Selig would be supporting Donald Trump, the blowback from our liberal town, he said, was “stunning.”
“Do you know what it’s like being a Jewish Republican in Seattle?” Selig told The Seattle Times. “The repercussions of what you hear from people is stunning.”
In reaction, Selig, a billionaire, retreated from any affiliation with Trump in 2016 and said he wouldn’t even vote for him. It had become problematic just getting along in the city while wearing a MAGA hat.
But that was then. This spring, Selig went all-in for Trump,
A proposed California schools curriculum includes anti-Israel programming and also aims to teach students a one-sided view of police officers and police brutality. The Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, proposed by the California Department of Education, includes anti-Israel bias and aims to teach students about the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, a Palestinian-led anti-Israel initiative. The curriculum also has students study issues of police brutality and asks teachers to find incidents of bias by police in their own communities.
All 20-plus spittle-flecked contenders in the DNC primaries are riding on a bus touting a ‘Utopia or Bust!’ banner. They’re travelling at break-neck down the road leading to Socialism, confident that they’ve conned the masses into thinking they are ‘progressives’ at heart.
Get off the Democrats’ Socialist bus before they throw you under it. They’re planning to toss all plebes under the bus as soon as they’re elected. Down to the last one, all 20-plus Democratic presidential wannabes promise voters Free Stuff that they’ll NEVER get. ’I couldn’t get enough votes to pass the bill’ will be their collective post-election alibi.
Saturday at the Young Leader’s Conference in Atlanta, 2020 presidential hopeful, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) pledged to go to war against white nationalism and racism if he wins the presidency. Sanders said, “I’m Jewish. My family came from Poland. My father’s whole family was wiped out by Hitler and his white nationalism. Too many people have fought over the years. Too many people have died against racism to let it resurface and flourish in America.” He continued, “We will go to war with nationalism and racism in every aspect of our lives.”
Charlotte, N.C.—The release of a rape suspect has reignited an immigration enforcement debate. Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, 33, a Honduran national, according to a news release. He was arrested on June 14 charged with first degree rape and indecent liberties with a child. Two days later, on June 16, Pacheco-Leonardo was released from the Mecklenburg County Jail on a $100,000 bond.(Snip) The Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office does not honor ICE detainers, which are voluntary requests to hold an inmate for up to 48 hours after their release date so federal officials can decide whether
Two top Republican appropriators urged President Trump Friday to abandon a package of foreign-aid cuts of as much as $4.3 billion, saying the proposed action could undermine national security and damage trust with Congress. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, and Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, top Republican on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs, said the spending includes “efforts to counter Kremlin and Chinese malign influence.”(Snip) The Washington Times reported Thursday that the cuts under consideration include aid for a so-called “Green New Deal
Democratic Rep. Debra Haaland (N.M.) called Antifa a group of "peaceful protesters" that is "working to safeguard their city from domestic terrorism" during an appearance on CNN Saturday. Police arrested at least 13 individuals during the protests and counter-protests between far-right activists and "anti-fascist" demonstrators in Portland, Ore. according to reports.
CNN host Ana Cabrera read a tweet from President Donald Trump posted Saturday in which he called for Antifa to be labeled a terrorist group.
"Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an "ORGANIZATION OF TERROR." Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!" Trump tweeted.
"I do want to note,
What has changed in the last 10 years — and especially in the last two years — that people cannot be civil and respectful to one another? Can we no longer have civil debates and in the end agree to disagree and shake hands? Are the internet and social media to blame? Haters gonna hate?
I was an early adopter of social media and I have never understood why so many people feel emboldened to be extremely rude, insulting and threatening toward others. Many people hide behind fake names and pictures online but even those who identify themselves
Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib suggested people should boycott Bill Maher's HBO show, a day after the comedian criticized Democrats who are in favor of boycotting Israel.
The liberal HBO host argued that the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement, which seeks to penalize Israel for their treatment of Palestinians, “is a bullshit purity test by people who want to appear woke but actually slept through history class.”
Tlaib, who is of Palestinian descent and a supporter of the movement, responded to Maher by tweeting, "Maybe folks should boycott his show. I am tired of folks discrediting a form of speech that is centered on equality and freedom.
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One of the great difficulties in perfecting technologies like radar and sonar revolves around the problem of distinguishing accurately between noise and the real McCoy. Is that an enemy bomber or missile out there, or is it just a flock of birds?
Donald Trump presents his opponents, and even some of his friends, with a similar problem. He speaks differently from most other statesmen on the world stage. He is not beholden to many of the principles of diplomacy (what some cynics like me might be tempted to describe as “nostrums”) that inform the usual script of diplomatic relations. What part of his behavior is noise?
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” 2020 presidential hopeful former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said President Donald Trump was engaged in a “concerted, organized attack against immigrants, against people of color.”
O’Rourke said, “From the outset of this campaign, even before this campaign, I talked about how dangerous President Trump’s open racism is, the Mexicans as rapists and criminals, the Muslims who should be banned from this country, how it doesn’t just offend us but it changes us. The rise in hate crime every single one of the last three years, the mosque in Victoria, Texas, burned to the ground the day after
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Americans who voted for President Donald Trump were “looking the other way on racism.”
Tapper asked, “You told me on this show two weeks ago that you believe President Trump is a white nationalist. Given that, do you think that it’s a racist act to cast a vote for President Trump in 2020?”
Buttigieg said, “Well, at best, it means looking the other way on racism. I think a lot of people are wondering what kind of deal even that is supposed to be.
Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) both reportedly shared an antisemitic cartoon by an artist who participated in Iran’s Holocaust denial contest on their respective Instagram accounts on Friday, according to Forward editor Batya Ungar-Sargon.
Ungar-Sargon noticed that Omar and Tlaib had each shared the image on their Instagram “stories.” Both were barred from entering Israel Thursday because of their support for the “boycott, divestment, sanctions” (BDS) movement. Tlaib then applied for a humanitarian visa so she could visit her grandmother in a Palestinian village, promising not to promote boycotts of Israel while traveling there. Her request was granted, but she then turned down the offer Friday, claiming
Roving, cop-hating mobs erupted in violence, taunts and gunfire in Brooklyn overnight into Sunday, leaving three officers with minor injuries. At least some of the injuries were caused by “air mail,” objects thrown down at cops from rooftops, police at the scene in Bedford-Stuyvesant told The Post. By early Sunday, eight people had been arrested on charges of disorderly conduct.(Snip) At least six or seven gunshots rang out from a rooftop of the housing project shortly afterward, causing no injuries but sending scores of cops running toward the gunfire. By 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, small roving bands of angry residents
The death of Jeffrey Epstein in the MCC federal jail has touched off no end of speculation. While the medical examiner’s conclusion indicating it was suicide has been made public, the report itself has not been released. Many don’t believe it. In many ways Epstein’s death reminds me of Sherlock Holmes’s mystery “Adventure in a Sealed Room” where a trained monkey was the culprit after lots of clues were sifted through. An online friend “Rocco,” a prison guard, agrees with me. He’s seen too much of this himself and knows how quickly and easily prisoners have killed themselves in locked rooms even when
WASHINGTON — Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy III of Massachusetts is considering a primary challenge next year against Sen. Edward J. Markey, according to a senior Democratic official. Such a race could substantially alter the state’s political landscape and has the potential to elevate a fourth member of a Democratic dynasty to the Senate. Kennedy, the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, had publicly indicated that he intended to run for reelection next year. But in a conversation this week with the Democratic official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private deliberations, Kennedy, 38, said that he was
CNN’s Chris Cillizza tried valiantly to hew to the Party Line when writing about the story that President Trump is exploring the concept of acquiring Greenland from Denmark. We know that everything the 45th President does is bad, so the only question for CNN people is how to pick and present the data that tries to prove the point.
Alas for Cillizza (a graduate of Georgetown University), he chose (or more likely was assigned) the task of using the precedent of acquiring Alaska from Russia to comment on the possibility of a second Arctic acquisition, and he came up with this howler (snip) "It didn't work out so well..."
Roger Ogden at Patriot Fire videos went out this week to film the new border wall in Tecate, California.This clip below shows status of border barrier in Tecate, California.
Via Roger: On August 13th, 2019, I went to Tecate to see, if they had started building the planned new fence there. Tecate is about 20 miles east of San Diego/Tijuana. There is a contract with SLSCO Ltd. to build four miles of 30-foot-high bollard fence to replace the old, dilapidated landing-plate fence. I found that they had already started building the fence two months earlier. About a mile and a half of the fence had already been constructed.
Forty-nine Years After Coming to
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I grew up in the countryside about 2 hours from Quito where I lived with my grandmother. I moved to the city where I met my husband and we had two kids. He was a mechanic and I worked odd jobs to help with the bills. My jobs always involved something to do with tourists from other countries. I would hear about a place called America and wanted to someday go see it for myself. I never wanted my kids to struggle or experience what I did growing up and knew that education was the way out. We placed my son in a private school
The Washington Monument will reopen to the public next month for the first time in more than three years, the U.S. National Park Service announced Friday.
Public tours of 555-foot-tall landmark will resume Sept. 19, the NPS said in a statement.
The world’s tallest building at the time of its completion in 1889, the Washington Monument was indefinitely shuttered in August 2016 due to issues with its elevator system.
Millions of dollars have since been invested in modernizing the monument’s elevator system and constructing a new security screening facility for visitors.
The monument had been previously slated to reopen this spring, but the NPS said in April that construction
The Trump administration announced long-awaited “public charge” immigration regulations this week, and the furor immediately kicked up to derangement level. Reason’s Shikha Dalmia called the policy a “complete abuse of the original understanding” of the law.
In the Washington Post, opinion writer Paul Waldman said the policy sends a message: “We hate you and we don’t want you here, and if you come we will treat you with all the cruelty we can muster.” CNN’s legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin went so far as to call the proposed regulation “un-American.”
There is very little nuance left in political discourse. Every administration policy is said to be the key
A movement by an enclave in the communist bloc to grant its people the greater freedoms enjoyed in the West — that’s the drama playing out in Hong Kong today. Yet as youthful protestors wave American flags and sing our national anthem, American support for their cause is being tepidly expressed, at best.
As Communist China’s strongman, Xi Jinping, deploys his troops at the border of the former British Crown Colony, clearly threatening armed intervention, the best President Trump has offered is to urge him to “quickly and humanely solve the Hong Kong problem.” To what “problem” is the president referring? What prior example of the regime’s humanity is he summoning?
Perhaps when you think of the founding of the United States, you think of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers. Now, the New York Times wants to "reframe" your understanding of the nation's founding.
In the Times' view (which it hopes to make the view of millions of Americans), the country was actually founded in 1619, when the first Africans were brought to North America, to Virginia, to be sold as slaves.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of that event, and the Times has created something called the 1619 Project. This is what the paper hopes the project will accomplish:
As sailors and Marines are sailing in more contested waters, the blue-green team is getting creative about how to defend amphibious assault ships from enemy small boats and drones.
Members of the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit were photographed sailing through the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf this week with a Light Armored Vehicle on the flight deck.
The armored vehicle can be seen in the background of photos released by the Marine Corps on Wednesday, showing AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters flying off the amphibious assault ship Boxer. The LAV was first spotted by Phil Ewing, national security editor at NPR.
Jeffrey Epstein, inmate 76318-054, hated his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. It was cramped, dank and infested with vermin, so Mr. Epstein, long accustomed to using his wealth to play by his own rules, devised a way out.
He paid numerous lawyers to visit the jail for as many as 12 hours a day, giving him the right to see them in a private meeting room. Mr. Epstein was there for so long that he often appeared bored, sitting in silence with his lawyers, according to people who saw the meetings. While they were there, he and his entourage regularly emptied the two vending machines of drinks and snacks.
The Church of Scientology reached out to The Post Friday with an explosive response to word that Leah Remini’s A&E docuseries is going out with a bang.
News broke Thursday that the final episode of “Scientology and the Aftermath” will air Aug. 26, at Remini’s behest — it was not canceled. The former Scientologist-turned-anti-Scientology activist’s two-hour finale, taped in front of a studio audience of former E-Meter flock, will examine sexual assault allegations against Scientologist and “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson, who has not been charged with a crime and dubs the claims “beyond ridiculous.”
Remini, 49, will conduct interviews with two of Masterson’s accusers,
Back in June, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made an incredible claim about homeless people in his state. Asked why the homeless population hadn’t declined when he was Mayor of San Francisco, Newsom said, “The vast majority (of San Francisco’s homeless people) also come in from — and we know this — from Texas. Just (an) interesting fact.”Newsom’s claim was discounted by the LA Times last month but Politifact decided to investigate independently. This week the least reliable fact-checker in the business agreed that Newsom’s statement was absurd, giving it a “Pants on Fire” rating.
Texts and emails allegedly detail
Nike’s willingness to pay high schoolers,
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Nike’s willingness to pay high schoolers,
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Text messages and emails from Nike executives entered in federal court on Friday paint a vivid portrait of the inner workings of grassroots basketball.
They include detailed plans to pay then-high school stars such as Zion Williamson and Romeo Langford, line-item accounting of alleged payments to the people around eventual No. 1 pick Deandre Ayton, and an acknowledgement by a top Nike executive that “the perception and resulting reality is that we dictate where players go to school.”
Controversial lawyer Michael Avenatti produced the exhibits on Friday that supported his allegations filed earlier this week that Nike has engaged in widespread corruption and under-the-table payments to high school players
As many as 50 vehicles were involved, but early reports indicated only one serious injury resulted after chain-reaction crashes in heavy rain in North Carolina on Saturday night.
The crashes happened around 6 p.m. along the Interstate 40/85 exchange in Mebane, northwest of the Raleigh-Durham area, according to local media reports.
Traffic was backed up for miles in both directions as the State Highway Patrol and towing crews responded, Raleigh’s WRAL-TV reported.
On Friday, Fox News’ “The Five” discussed the 2020 Democrats and how their campaigns are attempting to differentiate themselves from President Trump by endeavoring to be “boring.” Leftists (like Fox’s own Juan Williams) are under the impression that having Trump in the news every day is causing great anxiety among the American population. Their solution? Promises of being the “boring” president that you don’t have to think about every day.Given that most people only know the names of about 5 of the Dems running, that isn’t too much of a stretch.Williams – representing the left of center viewpoint –
In a Twitter message Saturday, U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw declared Saturday’s protests in Portland, Ore., “a sad showing,” and said the city’s Antifa activists paled in comparison to the demonstrators fighting for democracy in Hong Kong. “In Hong Kong,” the Republican congressman from Texas wrote, “antifascists wave American flags, demand freedom and actually fight fascists. “In Portland,” he continued, “ ‘antifascists’ burn American flags, demand violence in the name of socialism.”
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is set to appear alongside his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney at a fundraiser for the Republican National Committee and President Trump's 2020 reelection campaign on Monday.The Jackson, Wyoming, fundraiser will also feature "special guests" and White House staffers Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Mick Mulvaney. According to the Washington Post, the invitation for the event does not list the trio with their official titles. Rather, it clarifies that "their participation in the event is not a solicitation of funds" as federal law prohibits administration officials from campaigning.
MCALLEN, Texas—A Texas dirt road located a few hundred feet from the Rio Grande international boundary that for months has been one of the busiest illegal crossing spots on the entire 1,954-mile southwest border was silent this hot, lazy August afternoon.“I see one footprint,” says Chris Cabrera, an 18-year veteran Border Patrol agent who speaks on behalf of rank-and-file personnel as vice president of the National Border Patrol Council.In the spring and early summer, dozens of new footprints were molded into the uneven, beige dirt every hour. Cabrera had hoped to see some apprehensions here today since this part of Rincon Village (a heavily overgrown area
Donald Trump is coming back to Britain in December for his third visit as President of the United States, Harry Cole writes. Washington sources said that Mr Trump will attend the Nato summit in London in December and also wants to spend time with Prime Minister Boris Johnson. It will be an unprecedented second visit in a single year by a US President following his State visit in June. Mr Trump and his wife Melania were joined by Mr Trump’s children Ivanka, Don Jr and Eric during that visit.
Millions of Americans brought Alexa into their homes only to learn, belatedly, that not only software, but human beings, were listening in on them. Amazon employees and contractors from Costa Rica to India were caught reviewing thousands of recordings, of casual requests, private conversations and intimate moments, and sharing clips that they thought were funny in chat sessions with each other.
The Amazon product is always listening and maintains recordings of your conversations indefinitely.
Brennan Lashes Out at Trump Following
Massively Successful Trump Reelection
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Massively Successful Trump Reelection
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Former CIA Chief John Brennan lashed out at President Trump Saturday morning following Trump’s wildly successful reelection rally in New Hampshire.Brennan is desperate to replace Trump in 2020 with a Democrat because Attorney General Bill Barr and US Attorney John Durham are investigating Brennan’s role in Spygate.
Trump’s rally this week was a real barn burner — Trump smashed Elton John’s attendance record the Manchester arena. Thousands of people packed the SNHU arena and thousands more were outside who were not allowed in per code.The Daily Mail reported earlier Friday the Manchester deputy fire marshal said Trump’s crowd was 11,500 with maybe a few more, while an arena official