Posts on Monday, August 19, 2019
President Donald Trump tweeted a picture of his gaudy Las Vegas hotel photoshopped onto a backdrop of Greenland and promised 'not to do this' to the world's largest island amid speculation he wants to buy the territory from Denmark.The tweet, posted Monday evening, comes a day after Trump said buying Greeland on behalf of the U.S. would be like 'a large real estate deal' after confirming interest in the land. Trump said on Sunday that the idea of buying Greenland has been discussed within his administration because of the strategic benefits
Lou Dobbs rages as 'goal posts' move
again for release of DOJ inspector
general FISA abuse report replies
again for release of DOJ inspector
general FISA abuse report replies
Lou Dobbs railed about shifting predictions regarding when the Justice Department will release the inspector general's report on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses.The Fox Business host began his Monday evening segment by criticizing Sen. Lindsey Graham, who said over the weekend the report is “coming out in weeks, not days, not months," and he believes it will be “ugly and damning” for the DOJ because of its handling of the Russia investigation. "The RINO and often confused Sen. Lindsey Graham, well — making some bizarre statements over the weekend, about the imminent release of the Department of Justice inspector general report on FISA abuse," Dobbs said,
According to the White House: President Donald J. Trump spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom earlier today to discuss a wide range of trade and economic issues. Prime Minister Johnson also provided the President with an update on Brexit. The President expressed great enthusiasm for his upcoming meeting with the Prime Minister at the G7 Summit in Biarritz, France. (link)The G7 is being held August 24th – 26th. The word of a tentative post-Brexit U.S-U.K trade agreement was first released last week. The potential construct has the assembly of mutual benefit and follows a plan previously recommended
Several Democratic strategists contributed to journalist Mark Halperin’s new book discussing various ways to defeat President Donald Trump in 2020, Politico reported Sunday. Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod, former acting White House Communications Director Anita Dunn and former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Donna Brazile were among 75 operatives who spoke with Halperin as the former NBC analyst fleshed out the details for his new book, “How To Beat Trump: America’s Top Political Strategists On What It Will Take.”They offered a variety of explanations for their decision. “I’m not the author. Ask Mark why he chose us,”
Hillary Clinton’s arrogance is astounding.Hillary fired back at President Trump Monday afternoon over his allegation that Google manipulated the 2016 election in Crooked’s favor. President Trump on Monday morning said Google should be sued for manipulating millions of votes in Hillary Clinton’s favor during the 2016 election.“Wow, Report Just Out! Google manipulated from 2.6 million to 16 million votes for Hillary Clinton in 2016 Election! This was put out by a Clinton supporter, not a Trump Supporter! Google should be sued. My victory was even bigger than thought!” Trump said
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Jill Biden told voters in New Hampshire on Monday they should get behind her husband for the 2020 presidential race not necessarily because he is the best candidate, but because he's the most electable. "I know that not all of you are committed to my husband, and I respect that, but I want you to think about your candidate, his or her electability, and who’s going to win this race," the former second lady said in unusually blunt remarks at a campaign event with educators at the Bookery in Manchester, New Hampshire. “You know you may like
Harvard Climate Loon: Keto Dieters Are
Killing the Planet Because Bacon and
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Killing the Planet Because Bacon and
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Add the ketogenic diet to the ever-growing list of monsters under the beds of those suffering from climate change hysteria. Apparently all of the bacon and butter we consume is going to KILL EARTH: (Snip) Admittedly, I didn't even know I was a steward of the planet until I saw that. It has been humming along for well over four billion years without any stewardship from me so I am not sure what my function is here in this role. Should I be wearing a uniform? Is there a stewardship manual?
Business Insider:
The world cannot run on bacon and butter.
Washington - The United States will extend a reprieve that permits China’s Huawei Technologies to buy components from US companies to supply existing customers, the Commerce Department said on Monday (Aug 19), but it also moved to add more than 40 of Huawei’s units to its economic blacklist. (Snip) Shares of US chip makers that sell to Huawei rose, including those of Qualcomm, Intel and Micron Technology.
The 90-day extension “is intended to afford consumers across America the necessary time to transition away from Huawei equipment, given the persistent national security and foreign policy threat”, the department said in a statement.
They are the photographs that raise more questions than they answer.
When Jeffrey Epstein's ex-girlfriend and alleged co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell was snapped for the first time in three years last week, it was claimed a fellow diner had 'chanced' upon her at a Los Angeles burger bar.
But, like everything connected with this extraordinary case, conspiracy theorists have leapt on apparent discrepancies in the images of the 57-year-old eating at In-N-Out Burger in Hollywood.
Why, for example, does Ms Maxwell remove her reading glasses before posing with an open book?
Gay conservatives are “morally bankrupt racists” and “bigoted trash.”
At least, that’s how one left-wing trans activist, writing for The Advocate, described the LGBT conservative group Log Cabin Republicans after they endorsed President Trump for reelection last week.
It wasn’t just one writer at a left-wing outlet that came unhinged at the idea that some gay people are breaking with the liberal monolith. A liberal writer at the Daily Beast accused Log Cabin Republicans of “reality-defying” and “gaslighting” for their argument that Trump has been good enough on LGBT issues to earn their endorsement. And an unhinged ThinkProgress screed essentially accused Log Cabin Republicans of being anti-LGBT,
NEW YORK— Planned Parenthood said Monday it’s pulling out of the federal family planning program rather than abide by a new Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions.Alexis McGill Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s acting president and CEO, said the organization’s nationwide network of health centers would remain open and strive to make up for the loss of federal money. But she predicted that many low-income women who rely on Planned Parenthood services would “delay or go without” care.“We will not be bullied into withholding abortion information from our patients,” said McGill Johnson. “Our patients deserve to make their own health care decisions,
Actor and director Rob Reiner, who played ‘Meathead’ in the 1970s television program “All in the Family,” sent out a Tweet on Sunday accusing President Donald Trump of being “a lying racist criminal.” “I think this bares [sic] repeating: The President of the United States is a lying racist criminal,” said Reiner in his Tweet. Reiner frequently issues Tweets attacking Trump. “I hear Donald Trump hates being called a racist,” Reiner said in an August 12 Tweet. “But I guess not enough to stop being one.”
An emotional Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Monday held back tears during a news conference as she and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar condemned Israel’s recent decision to impose restrictions on visiting the country, with the Democrats calling for Congress to get involved.
“We in the United States have a constructive role to play,” Omar said at the news conference in St. Paul, Minn. “We give Israel more than $3 million in aid every year. This is predicated on them being an important ally in the region, and the only democracy in the Middle East. But, denying a visit to duly elected members of Congress is not consistent with being an ally.”
Early Monday morning, six activists locked themselves to the gates of a key Enbridge office in Bemidji in protest of a proposed tar sands pipeline project Line 3, according to the environmental activist group, Stop Line 3.
Two activists were reported to have chained their necks to the gate, risking personal safety in protest of the pipeline.
Salt Lake City — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney said Monday that he believes climate change is happening and human activity is a significant contributor. During a speech at the conservative Sutherland Institute in Salt Lake City, the senator acknowledged that the position is rare among his fellow Republicans, but one that younger people seem to respond to more strongly than older conservatives.(Snip) The former GOP presidential nominee has acknowledged climate change before, and said during his 2018 campaign for U.S. Senate in Utah that “climate realities” will make wildfires more common and destructive in the West. His comments Monday took that stance a step further.
Braving extremely inclement weather, with a flood-like situation, Singha Bahini, a grassroots organization in India, held a pro-Israel rally in Kolkata, India on August 16, 2019. Over 10,000 people braved the heavy sudden downpour and flooding, which caused bumper-to-bumper traffic and clogged roads. Many thousands more could not make it through the treacherous conditions to the rally site. While the organization SinghaBahini is just a year old, the organizers have been on ground helping in the existential battle for the Hindus in the villages of Eastern India for over a decade. (Photo)
U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Monday removed Hugh Hurwitz, the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons, a little over one week after alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York City prison.
Hurwitz, who has been in his role since May 2018, has been reassigned in the Bureau of Prisons as the assistant director of department’s Reentry Services Division. Barr named Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, the prison agency’s director from 1992 until 2003, to replace Hurwitz.(Snip Barr said last week that officials had uncovered “serious irregularities” and was angry that staff members at the jail had failed to “adequately secure this prisoner.”
First Lady Melania Trump returned in Washington, D.C. from vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey, with a sun-kissed glow, blonder hair, and a tropical ensemble.
Melania Trump strutted past White House photographers following an August summer vacation wearing a simple white tee with a tropical green skirt by Fendi — the famed Italian luxury brand headed by Karl Lagerfeld, until his passing. The skirt is currently sold out at Bergdorf Goodman.The floral Christian Louboutin stilettos Mrs. Trump paired with the skirt are some of her favorite pumps. Loyal Fashion Notes readers will recall that she last wore these stilettos in May with
Twenty-eight individuals were shot, five fatally, over the weekend in Democrat-controlled Chicago.NBC Chicago reports the first of the weekend’s fatalities was a double murder that occurred in a shooting around 4 pm Friday. The fatality occurred Sunday evening, when a 41-year-old man was shot twice and killed on South Crilly.Earlier Sunday a 46-year-old woman was shot and killed while “driving southbound in the 5100 block of South Prairie.” The other shooting fatality occurred around 4 am Saturday, when a 45-year-old man driving a car was shot by a man who was standing on the sidewalk.
American workers who like President Trump face sweeping bias against them, with some managers refusing to hire his supporters and those already employed facing discrimination and mockery, according to a new study.In a survey of hiring managers and workers shared with Secrets, the marketing firm Airtasker found that left-leaning firms are especially anti-Trump, with 20% vowing to reject a job candidate who backs the president.And those who support Trump and who are already in the workplace face substantial mockery, including name-calling.
The corporate media’s collective freakout regarding Israel’s decision to deny entry to far-left Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) while silent on the United Kingdom’s ban on talk radio legend and New York Times bestselling author Michael Savage is yet another example of how the press has “no standards,” the broadcaster told Breitbart News. (Snip) “Maybe if I said I wanted to visit my grandmother the U.K. would let me in?” quipped Savage, who was barred from Britain in 2009 along with radical Islamic terrorists and neo-Nazis for reasons never justified.
Joe Biden won’t win
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Joe Biden has led Democratic polls since day one, holding the kind of consistent lead within his party that Donald Trump held heading into the 2016 primaries. The numbers say he will be the nominee. They also say he will beat Trump. They’re wrong: you should still bet against Biden getting the nomination or getting into the White House.
Biden himself knows that his age and state of mind are a problem, and Glenn Thrush’s recent New York Times story showed that Barack Obama knows it, too. ‘At some point’ in 2008, Thrush reports, while Biden was on his way to becoming the Democrats’ VP pick, he ‘told Obama
In the summer of 1996, as he prepared to turn 50—and win a second term in the White House—Bill Clinton took to musing aloud that he now had “more yesterdays than tomorrows.” If that sentiment seemed maudlin for a man still in the prime of life, it was rooted in fact: The men in Clinton’s family died young—his birth father at 28, his stepfather at 59.
Today, Clinton turns 73, having exceeded Psalm 90’s allotted three-score years and 10, and having survived impeachment, open-heart surgery, and more than enough personal and political scrapes to exhaust nine lives, much less one. Unless he lives to 150, the 42nd president
Congress may be almost evenly divided these days, but not on the liberal cable news networks. A new study by the Media Research Center finds that CNN and MSNBC host Democratic Representatives and Senators seven times more frequently than their Republican counterparts, and most often use Democratic talking points to question members of both parties. MRC analysts examined every broadcast from 6am ET to midnight ET on CNN and MSNBC during three randomly-selected weeks when Congress was in session
She’s fast becoming notorious for ignoring or firing her Royal advisers, and now my sources tell me that there’s one person that Meghan – along with husband Harry – always turns to when they need vital advice: her mother Doria.
In fact, palace insiders suspect that Doria’s fingerprints are all over several major decisions the Duke and Duchess have made in recent months – and that she is well on the way to becoming Meghan’s only trusted adviser.
Based in Los Angeles, but a regular visitor to Windsor, Doria is on the phone at all hours of the day advising Meghan on everything from living arrangements to post-natal recovery
The Restoration Alliance…
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When we see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion (Mike Flynn); when we see that in order to invoke our sixth amendment right to due process, we need to obtain permission from men who rebuke the constitution (FISA Court); when we see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics (James Comey); when we see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme (Robert Mueller), and our representatives don’t protect us against them, but protect them against us (SSCI); when we see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified
Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren apologized for her claim of Native American ancestry during a Monday appearance at a candidate forum in Sioux City, Iowa. (Snip) The scandal reached a fever pitch last year after President Donald Trump dubbed the senator “Pocahontas,” leading her to release a DNA test in the hopes of bolstering her claims.
However, the test only showed that Warren is somewhere between 1/64 and 1/1,024th Native American, and led to ire among Native Americans who pointed out that Warren can make no claim to tribal citizenship based on a DNA test.
Attorney General William Barr announced the appointment of a new director for the Bureau of Prisons on Monday, a week after accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his federal prison cell.Epstein, who’d been arrested and charged in July and was being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting a trial scheduled to begin sometime next summer, hanged himself in what New York City medical examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson said was a suicide.Numerous glaring problems at the prison were revealed in the wake of Epstein’s death.Barr announced today Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, who previously served as director of the Bureau of Prisons from 1992 through 2003,
MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace rolls out new
narrative that Trump may be in
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narrative that Trump may be in
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Watching the anti-Trump networks CNN and MSNBC brings to mind the old adage about throwing things up against a wall to see what sticks. In a Friday segment talking about President Donald Trump’s rally the night before in New Hampshire, where the president tore into an overweight protester who turned out to be a Trump supporter, MSNBC anchor Nicolle Wallace threw out the possibility that the president is suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Wallace cited New York Times op-ed columnist David Brook in an effort to giver her aspersions credibility.
Three Chicago teachers and a union organizer used a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a trip to Venezuela. The teachers, all members of the Chicago Teachers Union, wrote public blogs and social media posts casting the socialist government of the country in a favorable light. The Chicago Tribune reported Monday that the educators have been criticized for their trip and praise of Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro. The Chicago Teachers Union also distanced itself from those who went on the trip, putting out a statement that it was not an official union trip and was not funded by the union.“Members go all kinds of places in the summer.
(Video) - Daniel Pantaleo, the New York City police officer accused in the 2014 death of Eric Garner that sparked nationwide outrage, has been fired, Commissioner James O'Neill announced Monday afternoon -- spurring a furious response from the department's police union, which blasted the decision as caving to "anti-police extremists." (Snip) The decision by NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Trials Rosemarie Maldonado came amid a ruling by the U.S. Department of Justice last month to not bring civil rights charges against Pantaleo, whose case has become a national story and even seeped into the Democratic presidential debates.
The NYPD union blasted O'Neill's decision, saying "he has chosen politics and his own self-interest
Democrat Stacey Abrams on Monday allowed that she is not the governor of Georgia, but said formally conceding the 2018 election to Gov. Brian Kemp would be an implicit acknowledgment that the system was “fair.” “Because concession means to say that the process was fair,” Ms. Abrams said on “CBS This Morning” when asked why she didn’t formally concede defeat in the race.(Snip) Many Democrats have raised questions about the outcome, amid a significant number of voters who ended up purged from the state’s voter rolls in the run-up to the 2018 election. “I did not deny the legal sufficiency of the election
Could it be that for the second time in my life a communist empire will collapse under the weight of its sheer evil? [Snip] I am optimistic because today is the 30th anniversary of the friendship picnic between Hungarians and Austrians near Sopron, Hungary. [Snip] Within a month, Hungary formally opened its borders and enabled East Germans to flee. Two months later, the Berlin Wall fell. Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed. [Snip] What is happening in Hong Kong is no picnic.
The hard left never accepted their 2016 defeat. Having also failed thus far to dislodge President Trump in a phony palace coup, seditious leftists continue to wage a hate and terror campaign to ensure that 2016 never happens again. They don’t seem to realize that Election 2020 may very well hit TV screens as Episode 2 of The Deplorables Strike Back. We further explore the hard left’s vicious, ongoing attack on all who disagree with their utopian dream of creating, at last, a Venezuela-style socialist America. This tactic often focuses on insulting not only the GOP’s likely Election 2020 nominee, President Donald J. Trump.
Cosmic Injustice
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One of the weirdest characteristics of our global politicians and moral censors is their preference to voice cosmic justice rather than to address less abstract sin within their own purview or authority. These progressive virtue mongers see themselves as citizens of the world rather than of the United States and thus can impotently theorize about problems elsewhere when they cannot solve those in their own midst. Big-city mayors are especially culpable when it comes to ignoring felonies in their midst, preferring to hector the misdemeanors of the universe. Notice how New York Mayor Bill De Blasio lords over the insidious deterioration of his city while he lectures on cosmic white supremacy.
Among all media personalities Maria Bartiromo easily has the most comprehensive grasp of the 2016 operation against President Trump. During two interviews today Bartiromo outlines the evidence that leads directly to the person at the origination point, former CIA Director John Brennan.
First, here’s a mash-up of the two interviews (Senator Graham and John Solomon) (Snip)Former CIA Director John Brennan lies at the heart of the intelligence community decision to weaponize against Donald Trump. In this outline I will provide supporting evidence for Bartiromo’s assertion, which I suspect has already led to a criminal referral to U.S. Attorney John Durham by HPSCI Ranking Member Devin Nunes.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Eirran Betka-Pope was on her lunch break when she spotted hundreds of Donald Trump supporters protesting outside the office of Rep. Justin Amash, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the president. The protesters, who stood on the sidewalk with "Squash Amash" signs, saw his comments as the ultimate betrayal of a president they adore. But for Betka-Pope, a Trump critic, Amash's actions were commendable — and worthy of a counterprotest. The 32-year-old from Grand Rapids, who works in theater and sketch comedy, put on a Trump mask she happened to
In a series of tweets over the weekend, President Trump highlighted a leaked transcript from a New York Times staff town hall meeting in which the paper's executive editor openly stated that over the last two years the paper had "built [its] newsroom to cover one story" — the Robert Mueller-debunked Trump-Russia "collusion" narrative — and was now shifting to Trump's "racism" and "division."After suffering backlash from several Democratic presidential candidates and other left-wing critics over a straightforward front-page headline accurately describing Trump's speech on the El Paso and Dayton shootings as "TRUMP URGES UNITY VS. RACISM,"
Fox News On A Tear Against Trump
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Fox News seems to have taken a page from the progressive left in countering the president’s slam: Attack the president and when he strikes back, blame it on him for starting the brouhaha in the first place.
In other words, no room for self defense when your enemy is the bullying progressive left.
‘Trump Trashes Fox News: They Give Me ‘The Worst Polls’ is yesterday’s MediaiteHeadline. (Mediaite, Aug. 18, 2019) No explanation about how Fox trashed Trump with a poll claiming that he trails the top four Democrats running in the DNC primaries—a mainstream media-propagated poll concluding inevitable failure for Trump—even before a single vote can be
When I went to grammar school there were kids in my classes who, when election time rolled around, would be for different candidates than I was, or rather their parents were, as we were all way too young to grasp the implications or ramifications of whichever candidates were on the ballot. In my family, my parents and grandparents – having lived through the Great Depression – it was whichever candidates who ran on the Democrat side of the ballot who were favored, namely because Roosevelt was hailed as the president who ended the “hard times,” as they were commonly known, and Herbert Hoover’s name was
Kids are great tools for big money and major powers lurking in the shadows, attempting to enact a political agenda. The latest instance, and it's a doozy, is young Greta Thunberg, the Swedish child climate activist who's coming to the states (with a big carbon footprint, according to today's piece by Thomas Lifson) to persuade us all to jump in on the global warming cavalcade of green laws to restrict our own freedoms -- which as it happens, will just coincidentally make the green elites even richer.
No wonder they're the shadowy forces bankrolling her peregrinations. According to a report that ran in The Times (subscription only),
According to an interview granted by the lawyer for intelligence asset Joseph Mifsud to journalist John Solomon, professor Mifsud admitted to being a western intelligence asset who was part of a CIA intelligence “operation” against candidate Donald Trump in March 2016.
Yes, stop and read that introductory paragraph again….
Solomon notes that an audio-taped deposition exists from Joseph Mifsud prior to going into hiding after the 2016 Presidential election. From the description it sounds like Mifsud anticipated his assisted suicide and recorded a deposition as leverage against his unwanted demise. WATCH:What Solomon describes would align with the CIA purposefully leaking the details about Mifsud to
President Trump is accused on a minute-by-minute basis of being a tyrant, but his accusers remain free. Nothing has been taken from them, not their property nor their personal liberty. (snip) Eventually, there will be conflict, which brings us to the Second Amendment. The fate of everything the Left intends depends in the end on whether normal, non-communist Americans have the power to make the price of dictatorship so high that the Left will be unwilling to force it to completion.
Obvious and repulsive hypocrisy on the part of wealthy and connected people telling us that we must sacrifice our standard of living – indeed, our very way of life – finally is being called out. They want us to bear the entire burden, while their jet-setting lifestyles remain untouched.
The alarmists are getting more and more shrill about their predictions of doom (snip) Climate hypocrisy is the only conclusion that can be drawn as just this last weekend, two instances of ultra-prominent doom-sayers generating massive CO2 emissions while warning the rest of us to embrace impoverishment in the name of saving the planet.
The Climate Mobilization, a group pushing for a World War II-scale national mobilization to fight global warming, condemned the media for pursuing "objectivity" by giving air time to "climate deniers." Aligned with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the organization wants the media to silence all voices opposing their climate alarmism.
"Some media outlets are sacrificing the future of our planet for the sake of appearing objective," Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of The Climate Mobilization, said in a news release Saturday.
"This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet
Although largely forgotten today, during the 1930s and 1940s my grandmother, Eunice Carter, was one of the most prominent black women in the United States.
At a time when so much was closed to those of her race and gender, she accomplished extraordinary things. She was a prosecutor in New York City, where she helped convict Lucky Luciano, the nation's most powerful mobster. She has been much on my mind the past few years, because I've spent the past several years writing a book about her. She is, in a sense, in my head.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a law allowing Illinois to take its own action to slow climate change.
The Democrat approved legislation this week that repeals the Kyoto Protocol Act of 1998. It limited state action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The U.S. withdrew from Kyoto in 2001. But Illinois had put it into state law so it was bound by rules the federal government no longer intended to follow. Naperville Democratic Sen. Laura Ellman says it sends a message that "Illinois is ready to get serious about climate change." The law she and Evanston Democratic Rep. Robyn Gabel sponsored takes effect Jan. 1.
Pritzker recalled that in
There could have been three more mass shootings
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Authorities this weekend announced they had foiled three potential mass shootings after arresting three men in different states who expressed interest in or threatened to carry them out.
All three cases were brought to authorities' attention thanks to tips from the public.
Here's what we know about them. In Connecticut, 22-year-old Brandon Wagshol was arrested after authorities said he had expressed interest in committing a mass shooting on Facebook, according to a statement from the FBI and the Norwalk Police Department.
Citing a new study arguing that the media give too much prominence to climate skeptics in their coverage of climate issues, a group advocating for governments to declare a climate “emergency” says those responsible for such editorial decisions are “sacrificing the future of our planet for the sake of appearing objective.”
“This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet, our existence as an ongoing debate,” said Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of the New York-based The Climate Mobilization (TCM).
“I don’t think sacrificing the future of our planet in exchange for a look of ‘objectivity’
Anyone interested in justice was entitled to feel a Chris Matthews thrill up their leg when Tulsi Gabbard went after Kamala Harris for her record as state attorney general at the Detroit debate.
Gabbard pointed out that as California’s AG, Harris refused to allow DNA testing that would’ve exonerated a death-row inmate and prosecuted over a thousand marijuana cases—though as a candidate she later laughed with a radio host about her own pot smoking past.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Harris’s tenure.
There’s the case of Daniel Larsen. After 11 years of incarceration, a federal judge ruled that he was innocent.
In front of a crowd of black Christian millennials on Saturday, a pair of leading 2020 Democratic candidates asked the faithful to put their trust in the government.
Left-wing darlings Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) appeared back-to-back at a presidential forum put on by Black Church PAC, a day after three other Democratic hopefuls attended the same Young Leaders Conference in Atlanta.
Addressing an audience sporting t-shirts with phrases like "Saved But Not Soft" and "God Made Me, Jesus Saved Me," they discussed their plans to cancel student debt, enact gun control, battle white nationalism, and expand health care coverage—
New York City Mayor de Blasio’s wife has rejected the results of a public vote calling for a statue of Mother Cabrini (pictured), a Catholic saint, and instead opted to honor other “women,” including two drag queens.
Chirlane McCray, the mayor’s wife, launched a “She Built NYC” program and invited the public to vote on the names of women they want the city to recognize with a statue. Mother Cabrini got more votes than any other woman (219), yet McCray’s panel rejected the public’s choice.
Without explanation, McCray decided on a group of people that were nowhere near the top choices picked by New Yorkers, including the two drag queens who founded
North Carolina’s largest sanctuary county released a previously deported illegal alien accused of rape and child sex crimes, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency reveals.
Oscar Pacheco-Leonardo, a 33-year-old illegal alien from Honduras, was arrested almost two months ago by the Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Office for first-degree rape and child sex crimes. After his arrest, ICE officials said they placed a detainer on Pacheco-Leonardo, requesting that he be turned over to the agency before being released from local custody.
Mecklenburg’s sanctuary county policy, however, ensured that the sheriff’s office release the illegal alien from their custody, allowing him to run free for nearly
Illegal workers fled a number of Georgia food processing plants this past week after highly-publicized raids by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency at five Mississippi plants.
This month, ICE agents conducted the largest workplace raid in more than a decade across five food processing plants in Mississippi, netting the arrests of 680 illegal aliens. That same day, though, ICE officials said they released about 300 of the illegal workers back into the U.S. on “humanitarian grounds.” More than 200 of the illegal workers had prior criminal records and a federal criminal investigation is expected to result in convictions of the employers at the plants.
Last week, the Wall Street Journal had a scoop of sorts; the headline read, “President Trump Eyes a New Real-Estate Purchase: Greenland: In conversations with aides, the president has — with varying degrees of seriousness — floated the idea of the U.S. buying the autonomous Danish territory.”
Greenland, of course, is a huge island in the Atlantic, most of it north of the Arctic Circle. As such, even though it boasts 836,000 square miles of territory — more than a quarter the size of the continental U.S. — it counts a population of just 55,000.
In other words, the great landmass is ripe for development, so it’s
Senior Democratic members of Congress are said to have launched discussions to formally censure the U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Jerusalem’s envoy in Washington over Israel’s decision to bar entry to congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar.
Around a dozen lawmakers, several of whom are Jewish, have begun talks to communicate a “deep lack of confidence and trust” in Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer and U.S. envoy to Israel David Friedman, the McClatchy news service reported, citing congressional sources.
According to the report, the Democrats are considering releasing a statement of no confidence in Dermer and opening an inspector-general investigation into Friedman.
Among the twelve are House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman
When Bill Clinton successfully unseated sitting President George H.W. Bush in 1992, Clinton’s campaign manager James Carville coined the phrase, “It's the economy, stupid” as a campaign theme. (snip) Rather than listen to the nay-sayers on cable news, use your own eyes. Look at crowd sizes and enthusiasm as a better metric than opinion polls which oversample Democrats, the same polls that predicted a Clinton landslide victory.
Despite CNN’s constant contention that “President Trump is on the ropes,” remember that “it’s the crowd, stupid.”
A mounting number of voter polls show that, despite shrill denunciations of the President by the Democrats for his alleged racism, Trump is enjoying a dramatic increase in his approval ratings among minorities. This isn’t, as some liberal news outlets and pundits have suggested, wishful thinking based on outlier polls. The trend began showing up in surveys early this year and appears to be gaining momentum. Some polls now show his approval numbers at 25 percent among African-American voters and 50 percent among Hispanic voters. If those figures hold for the next 15 months, they will render Trump unbeatable in November of 2020.
It’s that time again.
The summer before the Iowa caucuses is when politicians abandon whatever it is they believe in and instead pay homage to King Corn.
When Republicans are running, any belief in free enterprise is scuttled in favor the big government ethanol mandate.
Among Democrats, concern about smog and pollution evaporates in the heat of an Iowa summer.
The politicians who pledge to take on the special interests instead bow obediently before the ethanol lobby.
Al Gore, who admits federal support for ethanol was a mistake, explains his own advocacy of such policies thus: “I had a certain fondness for the farmers in the state of Iowa
I’ll never forget the moment I learned we were on lockdown. It was Aug.15, 2012. My frustration mingled with fear. Trapped on the sixth floor, we knew someone had been shot. We knew we couldn’t leave yet. We knew little else.
While I was missing lunch, a crime scene played out in the office lobby below me. My coworker and friend Leo wasn’t armed, but he had played the quick-thinking and inadvertent hero, disarming a young man on a mission to kill me and as many of my colleagues as possible. The gunman had packed his backpack with ammo and 15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches —
Former FBI Director James Comey and his wife have contributed nearly $20,000 to Democrats so far this year, Federal Election Commission filings show.
Comey, who was fired by Donald Trump within four months of him taking over the Oval Office, has been an outspoken critic of the president and has called on Americans to deliver a landslide victory for the Democratic nominee in 2020.
"All of us should use every breath we have to make sure the lies stop on January 20, 2021," Comey told a New York City audience last December. The former FBI director added during an MSNBC appearance that Democrats "have to win."
Earlier this year, Comey
A slew of Democrats are lining up to challenge Sen. John Cornyn (R) in Texas in 2020, showcasing the party’s optimism of flipping a Senate seat in the historically red state despite the likely uphill climb.
Seven Democrats have entered the primary, and one more could join in a state that has not elected a Democratic senator in more than three decades. Among the candidates are MJ Hegar, a military veteran who narrowly lost a House race last year and Houston City Councilwoman Amanda Edwards.
The optimism is being driven by trends that appear to favor Democrats, including a growing diversity and a surge in transplants
Declaring the criminal justice system ruined by pervasive racism and “corporate profiteering,” Sen. Bernard Sanders proposed a massive overhaul Sunday that would free many drug convicts, abolish the death penalty and solitary confinement, and promote an unarmed “civilian corps” to replace the police for lower-level calls.
The Sanders campaign said the goal is to keep people out of prisons in the first place, with a goal of cutting the incarcerated population in half. For those who still land behind bars, he called for better conditions with a focus on helping them stay connected to society and to reintegrate faster when they are released.
Mr. Sanders announced the plan
HBO’s latest fiasco in entertainment, The Righteous Gemstones, premiered on Sunday night. Nudity? Check. Unnecessary profanity? Check. Extremely mind numbing content? Check. So what sets this show apart from the rest of the junk HBO puts out? Not much. The storyline, which is centered around a rich celebrity pastor, Eli Gemstone (John Goodman), and his family—a greedy and very corrupt bunch of people—comes across as a mockery of Christians, despite the showrunner's attempts to claim it's not.
A four-star general, who has been accused without evidence of sexual assault, repeatedly implored the accuser to get mental health help months before she began her campaign against him and other top brass in the office. That’s according to a March 2018 personal counseling statement by Air Force Gen. John Hyten that was included in a Department of Defense Inspector General investigation.
Col. Kathryn Spletstoser has attempted to derail the nomination of the general to the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by privately and publicly claiming without evidence that he sexually assaulted her. She had previously made dozens of unsubstantiated claims against Hyten
The Unmasking of BDS
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After fourteen years of being lulled by propagandists into believing that their boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign (BDS) is a human rights movement, we’re finally waking up to the deception.
The U.S. House last month overwhelmingly passed a bill opposing BDS efforts to target and delegitimize the State of Israel. Last February, the Senate passed a bill, never taken up by the House, legalizing the right of state governments and employee benefit plans to refuse to do business with companies boycotting Israel, thereby protecting the 27 states with anti-BDS legislation. Concerned about BDS similarity to Nazi boycotts and incitement of anti-Semitism becoming “the breeding ground for escalations to violence,
New British Prime Minister Boris Johnson now has the Brexit headache squarely in front of him. Parliament is currently in recess until early September, with the October 31 deadline for an EU-UK deal appearing to be more elusive than ever.
Johnson will meet with European leaders next week, trying to convince them to negotiate a new exit for Great Britain. But the two leaders who count the most -- Angela Merkel of Germany and Emmanuel Macron of France -- don't feel any pressure to bail Johnson out. This means that a "no-deal Brexit" scenario is likely to occur.
Johnson ordered a study of the possible effects of a no-deal Brexit,
Joe Biden, 76, has been getting heaps of attention for his verbal gaffes. Alas, voters should worry about a far bigger problem: It’s impossible to know what he stands for.
Yes, some of his slip-ups can be head-scratching. Democrats choose “truth over facts,” he said. Huh? The kids from the Parkland high-school shooting — which happened after he left office — “came to see me when I was vice president.”
He lamented “the tragic events in Houston” and “Michigan” rather than El Paso and Dayton. He warned against giving President Trump “eight more years” and told backers to “go to Joe 30330,” instead of texting him. And that’s just recently.
Often the vulnerability of a politician is reflected by the desperate caliber of their spin. When a campaign can’t even put together a convincing case with cherry-picked evidence, it’s easy to conclude that their argument doesn’t pass the smell test.
Elizabeth Warren, trying to deflect widespread worries that she’d be the Democratic Party’s riskiest best to take on President Trump, is the latest example of a candidate without a plan to address her biggest problem.
In a New York Times story on the subject, Warren’s campaign offered two arguments as to why she’d be a formidable challenger against Trump. Her team has pointed to her hotly contested victory
The time has come to have a national dialogue regarding the police of our nation and why a growing number of our fellow citizens seem to view them as the enemy.
Dangerous lines are being crossed, lives are being lost, and needed authority and protections are being weakened.
During last week's shootout and standoff in Philadelphia in which six police officers were wounded, some of the bystanders were observed openly insulting the police who were putting their lives on the line to subdue the suspect.
Listen up, Trumpophobes. It’s not so hard to understand the president’s appeal. Try going to one of his rallies and, instead of turning up your nose at the Walmart people, listen and learn.The abuse of President Trump and his supporters that passes for analysis from his opponents is a strategic error.The more abuse, the more Trump’s base is energized to turn out on Election Day.At his Thursday-night rally to launch his 2020 New Hampshire campaign, he broke Elton John’s all-time attendance record