Posts on Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Megan Rapinoe thinks her Fox
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Megan Rapinoe isn’t a fan of President Donald Trump. She’s made that more than clear before, during and after the U.S. women’s national team’s World Cup triumph in France earlier this summer. (Snip) “I feel like I grew up with all of these lessons (about equality), but nothing was ever spoken. No language was ever put about it,” Rapinoe told The Guardian. “Both of my parents should be really progressive — especially my mom — and I don’t get that they’re not. “I’m always saying, ‘You guys should really be Democrats!’ But they’re not, so what’s happening?” Rapinoe said her
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is enjoying a late summer vacation with her family in Maine. Normally that wouldn’t be newsworthy, except for the fact the mayor previously ordered police brass to cancel summer travel plans, and blasted the department’s No. 2 in command for failing to do so.
In June, Mayor Lightfoot called it “incredibly disappointing” when she learned Chicago Police First Deputy Supt. Anthony Riccio had failed to follow her directive to command staff to cancel travel plans and remain in Chicago to combat a surge in summer violence.(Snip) Before she left town, Lightfoot spoke about her desire for people to know she’s on the job and concerned about crime.
It’s impossible to understand The New York Times’ 1619 Project as anything but sweeping historical revisionism in the service of contemporary left-wing politics.The gist of the project, named for the year the first Africans were brought to North America to be sold as slaves, is that everything about America, from our capitalist economy to our politics to the food we eat, can be explained by slavery and race. In other words, America was conceived in sin, born of evil intent, and all its lofty ideals about equality and liberty are nothing but a sham—the hypocritical stylings of slavers and white supremacists bent on the subjugation of their fellow man.
Remember the line “if you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there”? It got support Tuesday from the Democratic presidential front-runner, born 1942. According to a video posted by the Republican National Committee “war room,” former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., campaigning in Iowa on Tuesday, placed two of the 1960s most iconic events — the weeks-apart assassinations of Robert Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King — in the wrong decade.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) on Monday called the U.S. Electoral College “a scam” that negatively affects minorities. “We’re coming to you live from the Electoral College,” the New York Democrat said in a video on Instagram, which featured her driving along a sparsely populated highway in what appears to be a desert somewhere in the western part of the country. “Many votes here, as you can see. Very efficient way to choose leadership of the country. I mean I can’t think of any other way, can you?” The freshman congresswoman went on to cite a New York magazine story
Investigative journalist John Solomon joined Sean Hannity to discuss his latest revelations in the ongoing Trump-Russia Spygate scandal.Solomon just posted his latest report at The Hill: 10 declassified Russia collusion revelations that could rock Washington this fall On Tuesday John Solomon listed off several items that will shock the nation.(Photo) John Solomon in his list suggests that the FBI may have been giving Christopher Steele information on
Can Facebook be saved?
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Last year, Facebook hired former senator Jon Kyl and lawyers from Covington and Burling, a prominent D.C. law firm, to look into allegations of bias against conservatives. The Kyl group released its first report today.
My impression of the report is that it does a pretty good job of summarizing conservatives’ concerns about the Facebook platform. For example:
Hate Organization Designations: Facebook prohibits use of the platform by “terrorist groups and hate organizations,” and removes content that praises them, their actions, or their members. We note both the importance of distinguishing between the “hate speech” and “hate organization” designations, and the confusion the similarity of the two labels can cause.
Walmart has sued Tesla, saying solar panels supplied by the electric carmaker were responsible for fires at about seven of its stores. The fires destroyed significant amounts of store merchandise and required substantial repairs, totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket losses, according to a lawsuit filed in a New York court on Tuesday. As of November 2018, no fewer than seven Walmart stores, including those in Denton, Maryland, and Beavercreek, Ohio, had experienced fires due to Tesla’s solar systems, according to the lawsuit.(Snip)
The world’s largest retailer started using solar panels made by SolarCity, owned by Tesla, in 2010
During an oval office press conference today, President Trump took several questions about China and the U.S. trade confrontation. After receiving the third question, on the same subject, President Trump paused and then went deep into the heart of the issue.The question was: ” Mr. President, you keep insisting that your trade war with China — the trade war with China is not affecting the U.S. economy. But a lot of economists disagree with that. And they worry that if China goes into a recession, they’ll pull us down with it.”Here is President Trump’s response:
The coordinated efforts of the Obama Brennan Coup to spy on and destroy Donald Trump involved the highest levels of the State Department and Department of Defense.It is now clear that the inner circle of the Obama White House, including the former President himself, were coordinators of the entire Russia hoax from inception through the Mueller inquisition. From the start all the way up to the coming indictments. T hat all elements of the senior departments of the major agencies of the United States Government were illegally weaponized to destroy a political opponent. A coordinated assault on the constitution and the Republic.
Washington–Call me, maybe? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the only member of the New York City delegation who doesn’t have a staff member picking up the phone regularly. The Post called the offices of all 13 lawmakers representing New York City–even those in high-profile positions like Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler – and a real person answered the call on every occasion, in every office location, except for calls dialed to AOC’s two offices.(Snip) A call to AOC’s Jackson Heights office goes to a series of voicemails with no ability to leave a message as of Monday.
Rapid City, S.D.—Students returning to Beadle Elementary School in Rapid City will find a squeaky clean new gymnasium floor, tall sunflowers in the community garden—and the motto “In God We Trust” painted above the scoreboard. They won’t be alone. Students in each of the Mount Rushmore State’s public schools will see the official national motto, which supplanted “E Pluribus Unum” by congressional action in the 1950s, posted on school property, complying with a law signed this spring by Gov. Kristi Noem.(Snip) The new state law requires the school display to be bigger than 1-foot-square and located in a “prominent” location.
Jennifer Kitchen, candidate for Virginia House Of Delegates, has been caught up in quite the covfefe on facebook. She’s openly mocking a Hispanic Trump supporter who was apparently trying to engage her booth at a fair, referring to “skinfolk who would like to speak with” him, while her supporters claim that he was part of the Charlottesville massacre and question if he’s capable of reading and writing and claim that he is a plant for Trump appearances. Kitchen, of course, is a privileged white female.
Claim: The presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claims that she drew 12,000 people to a town hall meeting on the campus of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday evening.
VERDICT: The crowd size was closer to 4,000, and probably 6,000 at most.Crowd size is often seen — rightly or wrongly — as a proxy for political support. It is not always a good measure: for example, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew massive crowds across California in 2016, but lost the state to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a wide margin. Still, as the Democratic Party presidential primary heats up, the rival campaigns are
President Trump's White House employs over 400 employees and all of them earn vastly different salaries. While most of Trump's advisors and secretaries earn $183,000 per year, some employees are earning much less than six figures despite working in the administration, according to the latest report on White House office personnel from June 28, 2019. From policy advisors to calligraphers, keep reading to find out what everyone makes in the White House from the highest-paid employee to the lowest.
Violence in America’s cities might be decreasing, but that does not mean violent political rhetoric is taking time off. Liberals sanctioned violence by groups like ANTIFA is increasing. Over the last weekend, the domestic terrorists attacked protestors on Oregon, causing bodily harm to those they disagree with. (Hypocritical, Contradictory Antifa Becomes More Violent at Latest Event in Portland). Previously ANTIFA attacked and beat conservative journalist Andy Ngo at a similar rally. But before all this, there was the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise, then the Majority Whip, at a Congressional baseball practice in 2017.
A recent New York Times report on the brotherly bond between Barack Obama and Joe Biden contains some interesting details about how Obama ultimately arrived at the decision to select Biden as his running mate in 2008. (Snip) At some point, Mr. Biden also told Obama aides that "Barack would never have to worry" about him positioning himself for another presidential run. He was too old, he told them, and he viewed his new job as a capstone, not a catapult. But while both sides assumed that vow covered the duration of Mr. Obama’s presidency, what might happen after that was never explicitly stated.
Joe Biden’s chances of surviving his first term are below 80 percent, the increasingly frail and gaffe-prone former vice president is obviously nowhere near as sharp as he once was, but the far-left Politico still ran with the headline “Why Fears About Biden’s Age are Overblown” that features a photo of Biden running towards the camera.Democrats sure got it good.Hey, you gunna believe Politico or your lying eyes?Here’s how the fake news outlet opens its propaganda, by dismissing the fact that Biden suffered two separate brain aneurysms in 1988 — you know, just like Politico would if Biden were a Republican:
On Monday, Jon Favreau, former speechwriter for former President Barack Obama and currently a co-host for Pod Save America, decided to attack Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his criticism of The New York Times. He should have known better; Cruz calmly took him apart as easily as a surgeon doing a simple operation.Last Sunday, Cruz (R-TX) fired off a series of tweets lambasting The New York Times after a leaked transcript of a speech from New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet was published by Slate. As The Daily Wire reported, “The transcript showed the editor explaining that since the claim that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to steal
Marianne Williamson isn’t bothering herself with targeting the other 22 candidates running for the Democratic presidential nomination. No, she’s got her eye on one guy — Andrew Jackson.Forget the fact that the seventh president of the United States has been dead 174 years. Williamson thinks Jackson is a key issue in the 2020 race.“We will begin by taking that picture of Andrew Jackson off the wall of the Oval Office,” the candidate told the Native American audience at the Frank LaMere Presidential Candidate Forum on Monday. “I am not a Native American woman,
Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez will reportedly travel to Mexico to hold three party fundraisers with American expatriates next month.
According to Bloomberg, Perez will head up the events in Mexico City on September 28th. The report says high-end access can cost as much as $15,000. The registration form on the DNC website require that attendees be U.S. citizens or permanent residents and enter passport or green card numbers. It is illegal for foreigners to contribute to American political campaigns.
Hillary Clinton woke up Monday and forgot that it’s 2019 and that she’s still on the losing team. The failed Democrat candidate of years-gone-by jumped on Twitter and took a swinging miss at President Trump’s tweet in which he said, “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!” Clinton replied: “The debunked study you’re referring to was based on 21 undecided voters. For context that’s about half the number of people associated with your campaign who have been indicted.”
They Call Him Miftah Beinart
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Paul Mirengoff wrote here about the vile group that organized and underwrote the trip Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib planned to take to “Palestine.” The Miftah factor (i.e., the nature of Miftah) of course remains a deep secret to readers who get their news from the mainstream media. Writing for the opinion page of the New York Times, Bari Weiss is the most prominent exception of which I am aware.
Now comes Newsbusuters’ Curtis Houck to recount what happened when Rich Lowry introduced the Miftah factor into his close encounter with Peter Beinart in a panel discussion yesterday on CNN. Beinart blew a gasket: “
A major loss has occurred in the Trump administration, one that undermines the hard work to conceive and implement a literal “Trump Doctrine” in foreign policy, and it appears that President Trump is unaware of what fully happened or what’s at stake. He didn’t initiate the change. This action was taken by a group under Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a coup by insiders. It’s an abrupt step that has shocked foreign-policy voices as diverse as Condoleezza Rice and George Shultz and Henry Kissinger and Newt Gingrich.
“Hillary Clinton blasted President Trump for tweeting about what she described as a “debunked study” that suggests “millions” of voters in 2016 were manipulated in her favor by Google. That’s the Fox story on the latest Clinton-Google story. For those who still believe in whatever they read on Fox News, that is. But in rude point of fact, Hillary Clinton didn’t “blast” President Trump because he “blasted” her by showing that she is still out there dog paddling to keep from drowning in Google Gravy.
Hunter Biden has hit back at a sensational lawsuit claiming he fathered the child of an Arkansas woman while he was living with his late brother Beau's widow. Former college basketball player Lunden Roberts filed a petition for paternity and support in May alleging Biden was the biological father of her one-year-old baby. Roberts, 28, asked the court to 'establish paternity' while seeking child support, health insurance, and legal fees from the former vice president's son.(Snip) Roberts, who lived in Washington, D.C. for two years where she studied at George Washington University, has refused to comment on her relationship with Biden
Inasmuch as we live in an era that supports the bad guys over the good guys, it was inevitable that New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo would end up being fired for doing his job during an arrest situation in which a black man died. It all began on July 17, 2014 during a routine police assignment. About 3:30 P.M., Eric Garner, a 43-year-old black man, was approached by NYC cops as he was standing in front of a beauty supply store on Staten Island. Acting on a complaint, the cops confronted Garner and accused him of selling untaxed cigarettes, a violation of New York State Law.
The business world woke up Saturday morning August 10, 2019, to the news that Jeffrey Epstein was dead. Epstein, facing charges of sex-trafficking, mysterious money manipulating and pedophilia was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging in a federal prison cell. Epstein was facing an investigation into his role in child sex trafficking in his home in Manhatten, on his plane, the Lolita Express and on his island, Little Jeffs. An FBI investigation in 2008 returned a 53-page indictment against Epstein for abusing underage girls.
Members of the Danish royal family have not instantly dismissed President Donald Trump's idea of buying Greenland, adding that locals could even decide if they want the deal to go ahead. Trump recently confirmed reports first published by The Wall Street Journal that he is considering looking into buying the autonomous Danish territory, describing the idea as essentially a "large real estate deal." In comments sent to Newsweek, along with other publications including The Sun, Dr Princess Antonia of Schaumburg-Lippe, wife of Queen Margrethe II's cousin Prince Waldemar, suggested the interest should be taken as a compliment. "A purchase offer
Some House Democrats will return early from the summer recess to advance gun control legislation, including a bill banning large ammunition clips.The House Judiciary Committee announced a Sept. 4 vote on a group of measures aimed at reducing gun violence.“For far too long, politicians in Washington have only offered thoughts and prayers in the wake of gun violence tragedies,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said. “Thoughts and prayers have never been enough. To keep our communities safe, we must act.”The Democrat-led House passed a universal background check bill in February but the GOP-led Senate has ignored it so far
I’ve always loved the news. When I was a kid growing up in Detroit, I found the AM dial on the radio and was hooked. In the dentist office, I’d always grab Newsweek over Highlights for Kids. Maybe that had something to do with the fact that I’d already done the hidden images in the drawing on the last page, but I really liked the political cartoons and quote page. That’s part of why what news magazines have become is so disappointing to me.I get that they have to make money. But when Newsweek sold for a dollar a few years ago,
Speaking of being held down. Speaking of 'cancel culture.' Has there ever been as blatant a civil rights violation as this, found by a marketing company's survey?
Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner found this:
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
President Donald Trump released a brutal video on his Twitter account late on Monday night mocking former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci, who has publicly feuded with Trump in recent days. Scaramucci, who was fired after only 11 days in the White House, turned on the president because "his feelings just seem to be hurt," according to White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham.Trump released a video of Scaramucci showing all the numerous times Scaramucci has publicly defended the president
California Governor Signs Use-of-Deadly
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced on Monday that California is now a "model for the rest of the nation" when it comes to the use of deadly force by police officers. Newsom on Monday signed Assembly Bill No. 392, which says police officers may "use deadly force only when necessary in defense of human life."
According to the text of the bill, the "authority to use physical force...is a serious responsibility that shall be exercised judiciously and with respect for human rights and dignity and for the sanctity of every human life."
He showed up at Bible study every Thursday and volunteered at peacemaking soccer matches for members of MS-13, his tattoos betraying his own history with the notorious gang.
As a “peace ambassador” for a Los Angeles nonprofit funded with public money, it was Wilfredo Vides’ job to steer young people clear of gangs. For those who’d joined one, his role was to convince them to leave, as he had.
Or as he said he had.
Vides was one of 22 individuals arrested last month in a federal takedown of MS-13’s Fulton clique,(Snip) accused of murdering and dismembering its enemies in the mountains above Los Angeles.
Has Fox News changed? That is the question, though unfortunately, there’s no clear-cut answer. Nevertheless, on Monday FNC chief political anchor Bret Baier tried to provide one by arguing that, no, the 22-year-old network hasn’t changed and is the same now as it’s always been. He made the remarks in response to recent criticism from President Donald Trump, who’s taken issue with FNC’s hiring decisions, its polling data and its seemingly left-wing “journalists.” Listen:
Critics called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s move to bar two freshman Democratic congresswomen from entering Israel “unprecedented” — but just seven years ago, former President Barack Obama barred a member of the Israeli Knesset from entering the U.S. When news broke that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not allow freshman Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, pundits and political figures alike were quick to voice their criticisms.
When the largest single ICE raid in modern history was carried out in Morton, Mississippi earlier this month, nearly 700 jobs were left vacant after the workforce of mostly illegal aliens were apprehended at the Koch Foods chicken processing plant.
Now, several weeks later, those jobs openings are being pursued by American citizens. According to the Clarion Ledger, over 200 have already applied for openings at the plant through job fairs in neighboring Forest.
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“the company is also trying to hire workers with online ads,” while “local officials made sure the hiring process complied with federal hiring regulations.”
Rolling Stone magazine recently published an article titled "Trump 2020: Be Very Afraid," which carries the following subtitle: "America is the first country to ever elect a Mad King, and the way things are going, we may be dumb enough to do it twice."
The author, Matt Taibbi, sat down with CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday morning. Among other things, Taibbi said the enthusiasm at Trump's campaign events this year is even greater than it was in 2016, and reporters who cover Trump are not explaining that.
"What is the magic that he doles out?" CNN's Alisyn Camerota, not a Trump fan, asked Taibbi:
Miley Cyrus was reportedly spotted "basically having sex" inside a California club on Friday with Kaitlynn Carter — not long after photos of the two getting cozy during an Italian getaway surfaced.
Cyrus, 26, and Carter, 30, were getting hot and heavy at Soho House in West Hollywood, Page Six reported, citing a source who claimed the two "couldn't keep their hands off each other." "They were obsessed with each other," the witness said. "They were kissing and making out everywhere. In the bathroom, at the bar, in the middle of the floor. They were basically having sex. There’s no question they’re together.”
Democrats were overwhelmingly more likely to appear on certain cable news networks than Republicans, a new study found.
CNN and MSNBC are seven times more likely to host Democratic members of Congress than Republican members, according to a study published Monday by the Media Research Center. Analysts from MRC spent 540 hours watching programming from the two networks while Congress was in session, and found that the networks hosted a combined 284 Democratic members of congress compared to just 40 Republican members of Congress.
In the freest nation in the world, our system of government and our very liberty depend on free and fair elections. Whether they’re selecting a mayor or the president of the United States, every American must be able to trust the process, or the democratic system itself breaks down.
When someone commits voter fraud, the process is no longer fair, everyone’s vote gets diluted, and in some cases, election results are changed.
Contrary to the claims of many on the left, voter fraud is a very real problem. As the Supreme Court noted when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law, flagrant examples of voter fraud have been documented throughout this nation’s history.
A hair salon owner in California says she will be forced to move her business due to the problems of homeless people sleeping outside her shop. Elizabeth Novak, who owns a hair salon in downtown Sacramento, posted a video on Twitter on Friday describing how she often finds people camping in tents across her front door. She told how the vagrancy crisis gripping the state is affecting long-standing business owners and that her shop has been broken into and she has even been attacked.(Snip) 'I have to fight off people who push their way into my shop who are homeless
Reps. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) were supposed to on a trip to Israel today until their support for the viciously anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement caused them to be barred from entering. This is established policy. This shouldn’t be shocking to anyone. BDS advocates for Israel’s destruction. Barring Omar and Tlaib was the right call. The two held a press conference in Minnesota, where the gruesome twosome railed against the Israeli policy of so-called occupation. Omar alleged that she had planned to meet with members of the Israeli Knesset and said it was wrong for the Netanyahu government to bar duly-elected
Kinda makes you long for the days when people only dared to lick tubs of ice cream or spit into soda bottles.
Police in Pennsylvania are asking for the public’s help in apprehending a man who urinated all over a Starbucks inside the Target department store in Manheim Township before fleeing the scene. Officials say that during the incident, which took place at 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, the man walked “behind the counter of the employee section, and urinated into a sink and onto several pieces of merchandise.” The public information officer at the Manheim Township Police Department confirmed to Fox News that the merchandise included
An Odious Lie about the Founding
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I wrote today about the newly fashionable insistence on the Left that America was founded on racism and slavery:
Rather than enhancing the moral standing of slavery, the Founding tended to undermine it. “The Revolution suddenly and effectively ended the cultural climate that had allowed black slavery, as well as other forms of bondage and unfreedom, to exist throughout the colonial period without serious challenge,” the historian Gordon Wood writes. In his view, it set in motion the “ideological and social forces” that eventually led to the Civil War.
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In the broadest gauge, it’s a mistake to treat the United States as an outlier in terms of its racial attitudes,
Big Govt Publishes New Cooling Standards:
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Thermostat Should Be Set to 82 Degrees
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Fresh from the same Dept. of Energy and EPA that gave us: toilets that don’t flush; light bulbs that don’t light; dishwashers that don’t wash; plant-based fuel that burns like carrots; and paper straws that dissolve in liquid…. Now we get this: (Snip)
When you’re at work or away, the program recommends setting it at 85 degrees. When you’re sleeping, Energy Star said to set the thermostat at 82 degrees. (link)
Setting the thermostat at 82° at night is well recognized grounds for divorce. I swear these administrative state progressives are going to have us force-fed sustainable algae cakes if this keeps up.
Parents are suing a Connecticut public school district and the state Department of Children and Families (DCF), arguing officials from both undermined their parental rights, interfered in their relationship with their daughter, who claims to be lesbian, and harassed them because of their Catholic faith.
In two separate lawsuits, the parents, known as Jane and John Doe, are suing E.O. Smith High School officials in Mansfield and DCF, seeking $1 million in damages.
According to the Journal Inquirer, the parents allege school officials claimed the girl was mistreated by her parents because of their Catholic faith.
Court officials have issued a summons to April Ryan’s bodyguard after an incident earlier this month involving the guard allegedly roughing up a local news reporter covering an event that featured the CNN political analyst as the keynote speaker.
The New Brunswick Municipal Court issued the summons Monday:
Just in: Court officials in New Jersey issue summons against security guard for @AprilDRyan who was involved in an incident involving journalist @CharlieKratovil on Aug. 3. More… pic.twitter.com/0N0f8vHexR
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) August 19, 2019
The summons stems from an August 3 incident involving local news editor Charlie Kratovil of New Brunswick
If Russian collusion has been the opiate of the Trump-hating masses for more than two years, the New York Times was one of its biggest suppliers. Since late 2016, desperate to drown their sorrows over Donald Trump’s shocking win, political junkies on the Left and NeverTrump Right eased their inner pain with a daily collusion fix injected courtesy of the Gray Lady. With one click on the front page or opinion section, Times’ readers could satisfy their anti-Trump addiction while making them feel, if only for a few fleeting moments, powerful and in control. Pain would give way to rage, then a false sense of hope.
A historic transition of the American political landscape is underway, as the older of our two parties is embracing antisemitism and moving away from support of Israel, driven by the personal ambition of a craven politician clinging to power. Nancy Pelosi’s desire to remain Speaker of the House is why she is surrendering the Democrats’ party to the Jew-haters, with the highly visible, openly antisemitic Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib becoming the real face of her party.
No fewer than seven of Pelosi’s key political allies are facing primary challenges, just as did her close, long-serving ally Joe Crowley in 2018
Yadel Alvarez-Chio is an illegal immigrant, but she was one of the lucky ones—a “Dreamer” who was able to take advantage of the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty, which gave her a reprieve to stay in the U.S., a work permit to hold a job and access to a full legal driver’s license. She used the opportunity to become an immigrant smuggler, authorities say. Ms. Alvarez was nabbed by Border Patrol agents this month in Woodsboro, Texas, where she was found driving two illegal immigrant Mexicans in a black Cadillac. She admitted she was earning $4,000 to smuggle the men and said $3,500 of that
Milan—The Spanish humanitarian rescue ship Open Arms says another man had to be rescued after jumping into the sea as the standoff with Italy, which won’t permit it access to a port, entered its 19th day. Open Arms described the situation on board Tuesday as “desperate,” saying that a man threw himself into the water, trying to reach land that is in plain view, while at the same moment a woman suffered a panic attack. The Open Arms’ captain previously informed Italian authorities that the crew of 17 could no longer control the situation on board, as frustrated migrants resort to fighting.
Joe Biden’s long goodbye
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Joe Biden's presidential campaign is dead, but he doesn’t realize it yet. His growing list of incidents of mental lapses demonstrate that he is well past his sell-by date. Yesterday, his wife Jill delivered what ought to be the death blow. (snip) The argument that you may have to “swallow a bit” to support him must be the weakest spousal endorsement in presidential campaign history. What’s next? “He’s not THAT addled”?
Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein signed a will just two days before he died by suicide in a New York jail, new court records show, leaving behind an estate valued at more than $577 million, including more than $56 million in cash.
The 66-year-old's death was ruled a suicide by hanging last week by New York's chief medical examiner.
The will was filed last week with court officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands and listed no details of beneficiaries, according to the New York Post.
Court papers filed in St. Thomas reveal that the former hedge-fund manager was worth about $18 million more than what he stated in court papers
THE RACE IS ON: Just two weeks after withdrawing from the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the United States made good on its promise to develop a new class of ground-based cruise missile to match the threat from Russia and China.
The United States has plenty of cruise missiles that can be launched from the air or sea, but since the 1987 INF treaty was signed with the Soviet Union, ground-launched systems with a range between 310 and 3,400 miles have been banned.
Citing years of Russian violation of the treaty with deployment of its SSC-8 missile system, the Trump administration
A group of high-school athletes in Southern California reportedly gave a Nazi salute and sang a Nazi song during an awards ceremony last year. Their school won’t say how they were disciplined https://t.co/v0umhs50jw pic.twitter.com/2p9eyVRBLQ The incident, which took place last year, involved 10 members of the boys water polo team at Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California, the Daily Beast reported. The video was posted to Instagram by one of the athletes, according to the Daily Beast, and widely circulated among students at the high school.
As presidential tweets go, this one was amusing:
"I promise not to do this to Greenland," President Trump wrote on Monday night, showing a doctored photo of a gleaming Trump Tower in the middle of a coastal fishing village. Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, is not for sale, Danish officials have insisted:
“Greenland is not for sale. Greenland is not Danish. Greenland belongs to Greenland. I strongly hope that this is not meant seriously,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen was quoted as saying during a visit to Greenland.
Eric and Lara Trump welcome second
baby, President Trump's 10th grandchild:
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baby, President Trump's 10th grandchild:
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Eric and Lara Trump have welcomed their second child, President Donald Trump's 10th grandchild, Eric announced late Monday night.
"@LaraLeaTrump and I are excited to welcome Carolina Dorothy Trump into the world. We love you already!," he tweeted just before midnight EDT.
Eric's older sister, Ivanka, sent the growing family her best wishes early Tuesday morning on Twitter: "We love you Lara, Eric, (big brother) Luke and sweet Carolina! ❤"
Baby Carolina makes 10 grandchildren for President Trump, including her 1-year-old brother Luke. There's also Don Jr.'s five kids with ex-wife Vanessa: Kai, 12, Donald III, 10, Tristan, 7, Spencer, 6, and Chloe, 5. Ivanka has three children with husband
America's top business titans apparently discovered a conscience over the weekend! The Business Roundtable — a big association of CEOs including Jeff Bezos, Tim Cook, Brian Monyihan, Jamie Dimon, and many others — announced on Monday that they were rolling back the shareholder value revolution. No longer will a company's share price be the number one business priority, they said. Instead workers, suppliers, customers, and the environment are going to share pride of place at the top. Capitalism haters like the notorious socialist Larry Summers were skeptical. "I worry the Roundtable's rhetorical embrace of stakeholders is in part a strategy for holding off necessary tax and regulatory
According to a report at the Daily Beast, Democratic strategists appear to have found a way to take one of Donald Trump’s greatest strengths — his rampant tweeting to his fans to keep them fired up — and turn it into a campaign issue that strips away some of those same followers.
Taking aim at Trump’s tweets that often dictate the news cycles while also floating policy trial balloons, Democrats hope to match Trump’s words with his accomplishments to show that he is all talk — and no action.
“Two months ago, the Center for American Progress commissioned the firm Civis to test messaging that framed Trump not as corrupt or
A video of California high school students giving Nazi salutes while singing a Nazi song emerged on Monday, marking the second time that Orange County teenagers making anti-Semitic actions have come to light in 2019.
The video, first reported on by The Daily Beast, shows student-athletes from Pacifica High School extending their arms in Nazi salutes while singing along to a Nazi war chant.
According to a statement issued Monday by the Garden Grove Unified School District, which oversees the school, the racist incident occurred in November, before "an after school hours, off-campus student athletics banquet in an empty and unsupervised room at the facility."
Paul Ryan is moving his family to the city he was always giddy to leave.
The former speaker of the House and onetime GOP vice presidential nominee is leaving his longtime home of Janesville, Wis., and will rent a house in the Maryland suburbs of Washington.
"Now in the private sector, Paul and his family are temporarily renting a house in Maryland, and he’ll be spending time there as well as their family home in Janesville," a Ryan aide told POLITICO
State attorneys general could launch an antitrust investigation into America’s largest technology companies as soon as next month, according to a report released Monday.
The Wall Street Journal reported that several attorneys general continue to move forward with an antitrust investigation of Silicon Valley, focusing on whether these companies stifle competition by using their marketplace powers. The attorneys general would likely issue civil investigative demands, which act similarly to subpoenas, to tech giants and other companies.
The report arises as President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its antitrust review, which will focus mainly on Google and Facebook.
President Trump leads top Democrat candidates in a hypothetical general election matchup, according to a Zogby Analytics/24/7 Wall St. poll released Monday.
The poll, which surveyed 897 likely U.S. voters August 9– 12, shows Trump narrowly topping all of his leading Democrat challengers.
Respondents were asked, “If the 2020 presidential election were held today and the candidates were Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, whom would you vote for?”
Of the 897 respondents, 46 percent chose Trump, 45 percent chose Biden, and nine percent said they were unsure. While Biden fares better with millennial voters– 50 percent to Trump’s 38 percent – Trump does better with voters 65 and older,
Eric and Lara Trump welcomed a baby girl into their family late Monday evening. The president's son took to Twitter to make the joyful announcement revealing the baby's name is Carolina Dorothy Trump along with the doting message, 'We love you already!' '@LaraLeaTrump and I are excited to welcome Carolina Dorothy Trump into the world. We love you already!' he tweeted at 11.57pm ET. This is the second child for Eric, 35, and Lara, 36, who share a one-year-old son
Something funny begins to happen when our government finally enforces some of our laws and sovereignty. According to weekly data from Texas’ Department of Public Safety used internally by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and obtained by CR, 9,407 illegal aliens were apprehended during the first week of August in Texas, a 54 percent decline since the highest weekly rate of May and June. Even more enforcement would likely result in an even sharper decline.
Where the numbers stand today
According to the data, which was given to CR by a Border Patrol agent who must remain anonymous because he is not authorized to speak
Jill Biden to voters: You may have
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Speaking at a bookstore in Manchester, N.H., Dr. Jill Biden urged voters on Monday to consider the "electability" of her husband, former Vice President Joe Biden, ahead of the 2020 Democratic primaries, and how they may have to "swallow a little bit" with the Democratic front-runner in order to defeat President Trump. "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," Dr. Biden said. "And so if you're looking at that you've got to look at the polls," Biden said.
If you were born on that terrifying morning of 9/11, you could today be in military training to join that very same faraway war that started immediately after in Afghanistan. That’s how long the United States’ longest war has been. As he has for years, President Donald Trump says he wants to withdraw most American troops. [Snip] The cover story for the withdrawal of 13,000 U.S. troops is a Taliban commitment to
After years of legal wrangling, a federal judge has given the FBI 60 days to cough up records of their communications with former British spy Christopher Steele after he was terminated as a confidential human source. The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch first sought FBI documents on Steele in May of 2017 through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The court initially sided with the FBI but reopened the case in 2018 when evidence emerged that Steele was an FBI informant. Judicial Watch again asked
Chris Cuomo's ridiculous profanity-laced tirade has become a viral video but his bosses at CNN still defended him.
Too bad Rep. Michael Grimm didn't get the same support from his party when he lost his temper at an intrusive reporter in 2014.
Both men had had their temper flare ups exposed on video but only one incident made any kind of sense. Let's review the circumstances:
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo was approached by a man asking for a photograph when Cuomo was at an event with his wife and 9-year old daughter.
The demise of public education
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One may believe that those in charge of public education are qualified to administer the task of educating America's youth. One may believe they have the best interests of society at heart. And one may believe they are doing the best they could do, given the conditions under which they have to work. Abundant evidence, however, points to the conclusion that none of those beliefs is valid. Public education has become an institutionalized form of child abuse. Rather than being a tool used to prepare children to become productive adults, public education is being used to indoctrinate them to believe what powerful interest groups wish them
The climate change crisis racket
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Do Democrats really believe in the climate crisis they have dubbed an "emergency," or is it really just a way to make a quick buck?
Beto O'Rourke has suggested spending $5 trillion over the next ten years investing in climate change initiatives primarily for "vulnerable communities." Not to be outdone, Kamala Harris was one of the co-sponsors for the "Green New Deal," which proposes $700 billion a year in spending on a utopian garden future. Bernie Sanders, also a loud supporter of the GND, proposes going even farther and banning any new developments that would require fossil fuels.
Last week the Israeli government officially announced Democrat Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib would not be allowed to enter the country due to their pro-BDS activism. Israel has a law that bars those engaged in the movement, which is aimed at eliminating the country, from admission. However, Tlaib was granted a humanitarian visa to visit her grandmother in the West Bank, which she turned down. (snip for tweet)Also keep in mind the organization sponsoring Omar and Tlaib's trip celebrates suicide bombers and the murder of Israeli children.
The group celebrates terrorists, including an evil woman who helped murder 13 Israeli children. In an article
If The Onion didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent it. The self-described ‘omnipotent’ purveyor of current-events satire may not be (as another motto claims) ‘America’s finest news source.’ But it does have a good claim to the nation’s nicest anatomist of political folly (using, I hasten to add, that capacious word ‘nice’ not in the sense of ‘kind, pleasant’ but ‘precise, exact, fine’).
Consider this headline: ‘Anthony Scaramucci talks to Bill Kristol about trying to force Trump off the GOP ticket in 2020.’ Can you guess the source? If you said ‘The Onion,’ you would have made a perfectly rational judgment.
Joe Biden claimed twice recently that he met with Parkland, Florida, shooting survivors when he was vice president, despite the fact that he was already out of office when the attack took place. His campaign said Biden misspoke and was referring to a different meeting he had after the Sandy Hook shooting. But the flub was reminiscent of Biden’s past misstatements and his tendency to embellish biographical details.
In 1988, Biden was forced to drop out of the presidential race after he was found to have exaggerated his academic record, plagiarized a law school essay, and used quotes from other politicians in his speeches without attribution. But these are not
Colin Kaepernick. Remember him? Below-average quarterback. Above-average poseur. Not “activist,” not really. Activists actually say stuff. Kaepernick almost never says anything. He’s like the Queen or most popes — you have to read the deep-background musings of supposed members of his inner circle to get a clue as to what he might be thinking.
Kaepernick hasn’t played in the NFL since 2016, when anyway he was merely the disappointing starter on its worst team, and given that dozens of quarterbacks have entered the league since then and that he’s been gathering rust like the Tin Woodman for three years, he obviously is never going to play in the show again.
Warren's pathetic apology
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Elizabeth Warren apologized today for her persistent and false claim that she’s part Indian. An apology was due, in fact it was overdue.
However, this was a simpering, cloying performance, both in manner and in substance.
Warren apologized for her “mistake” and for the “harm she has caused.”
What harm is that? Who was injured because Warren lied about being part Indian? No one, except perhaps a few law professors who may have lost out on jobs because certain law schools wanted to say they had an Indian prof on board.
Warren said her claim of Indian status caused “confusion” about what it means to be a tribal citizen. “Tribes and only tribes”
War on cops in Philadelphia
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Many people across the nation watched the hours-long standoff and shooting of Philadelphia Police Officers on TV. Nine officers were injured and six were wounded by gunfire. Thankfully, no officers were killed, and the gunman finally surrendered.
The following day I spoke to a Philly cop who had been on the scene. He scoffed at the idea of Philadelphia Mayor James Kenny and Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner arriving at the hospital to visit the injured cops. He called the two “anti-cop liberals.”
“Don’t they know cops hate them?” the officer said. “All Kenny cares about is illegal immigrants and all Krasner cares about is criminals.
Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro on Monday released a comprehensive animal welfare plan that includes a series of ambitious policy proposals, including making animal abuse a federal crime and cracking down on trophy hunting.
“Our plan to advance animal welfare is not only the right thing to do, but will improve people’s lives through responsible pet ownership and a more sustainable agricultural system,” the former Housing secretary said in a statement unveiling unveiled what he called “The PAW Plan."
Other top proposals in the plan include working to end euthanizing of cats and dogs and expanding protected U.S. lands to 30 percent by 2030, with a goal of 50 percent by 2050.
America's Largest Asteroid Impact
Left a Trail of Destruction
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Left a Trail of Destruction
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About 35 million years ago, an asteroid traveling nearly 144,000 mph (231,000 km/h) smashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the modern-day town of Cape Charles, Virginia. The space rock vaporized instantly, but its impact triggered a gargantuan tsunami, cast up a monsoon of shattered rocks and molten glass that spanned hundreds of miles and carved out the single largest crater in the United States — the so-called Chesapeake Bay impact structure.
Today, that 25-mile-wide (40 kilometers) crater is buried half a mile below the rocky basement of Chesapeake Bay — the 200-mile-long (320 km) estuary linking Virginia and Maryland on the East Coast. That hasn't stopped scientists
On Sunday, Sister Toldjah over at RedState noted the hypocrisy of Joe Biden’s denunciation of Israel’s decision to deny entry to pro-BDS congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar because in 2012, while he was vice president, the Obama administration barred a member of the Israeli Knesset from entering the United States. Biden's hypocrisy goes even further than that example. In fact, Israel's move pales in comparison to the punitive actions made against their country while Joe Biden was vice president. In July 2014, the Obama-Biden administration temporarily banned all U.S.-based flights into Israel over alleged security concerns from the conflict between Israel and Hamas terrorists
A boy from Ohio donated all his livestock premiums from a county fair, which totaled $15,000, to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, according to a local school district.
Diesel Pippert, a seventh-grade student at Western Reserve Local Schools, in Berlin Center, Ohio, was called a "hero" by the school district after he donated all his profits from the Huron County Fair’s animal sale . In a post on Facebook this past Saturday, Western Reserve Schools praised Pippert for his generous donation, writing, “A young man lives amongst us who should be an example to us all.”
The Justice Department submitted a legal brief to the Supreme Court Monday that stated President Trump acted lawfully when he decided to end the Obama-era immigration program known as DACA in September of 2017, according to a new report.
The Department of Homeland Security, “correctly, and at a minimum reasonably, concluded that DACA is unlawful,” Justice Department lawyers wrote in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court late Monday. The Supreme Court will begin to hear arguments in November. A ruling is expected in the presidential election year, putting the high court at the center of one of the most politically charged issues of debates.
Los Angeles- "They refer to us as the foreigners," says a downbeat employee at the Ohio car glass factory where hundreds of Chinese laborers have come to work, far from their wives, children and homeland.But the worker in question is American, not Chinese, and is finding life very different under new management after billionaire "Chairman Cao" swept into town to reopen the shuttered, iconic former General Motors factory in 2014.This is "reverse globalization," say Oscar-nominated directors Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, who filmed the GM plant's closure in 2008 and returned to chronicle its reopening by Fuyao corporation for the documentary "American Factory."
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.), who often touts her former representation of a majority Republican district, expressed scorn Monday for family members who supported Donald Trump.Gillibrand told the Washington Post‘s Robert Costa she was different from other 2020 Democratic candidates because she had a "sensibility and an understanding" about how rural, Republican voters see the world."I hate to admit this fact, but I have uncles who voted for Trump," she said in the next breath, theatrically sighing before continuing to discuss her push for universal health insurance.
Illinois—A series of pictures posted online after a Friday night political fundraising event for state Senator Martin Sandoval (D-Chicago) show an event attendee pointing what appears to be a fake assault weapon at another person wearing a Mexican costume and a mask of President Donald Trump. Donors paid a minimum of $250 to attend Sandoval’s golf outing at the Klein Creek Golf Club in west suburban Winfield. A woman who attended the event posted the photos to her Facebook page on Saturday and tagged Sandoval in them. Sandoval is pictured separately posing with the man who held the fake weapon,