Posts on Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Hungary Has a Wall, Israel Has a Wall, Turkey Has a Wall, Nancy Pelosi’s Backyard Has a Wall…Walls work. But Democrats and Paul Ryan don’t want a wall.(Photo) In San Diego the Trump administration replaced an old dilapidated wall recently. It works so well that illegal migrants can’t scale it and are heading back to Mexico. Here’s video of illegals caught by border security after they were unable to scale the new Trump border wall.(Tweet/Video)
We are approaching the never-before-reached strata of “too much winning”.Today President Trump held the third press conference over thirty minutes in the past four days. Sunday a chopper presser on the tarmac in New Jersey (36 minutes). Tuesday a presser in the Oval Office (32 minutes). Today a South Lawn chopper presser (35 minutes). No questions filtered; direct responses from President Trump; all questions answered…. and the media can’t take it. (Tweets)I’m absolutely not snarking at Jenn Jacobs, she’s actually one of the few that keeps her reporting generally between the lines… But the overall tone of press pool response to this
Earlier this week, Facebook took down several Trump campaign ads over alleged violations of their advertising policies. They must have been terrible, horribly offensive ads, right? Heck, even I thought they must have been tasteless ads that were reasonably taken down... and then I saw one of the offensive ads: (Photo) That's right. The above ad violated Facebook's advertising policies.What did this and other offensive Trump ads do that was so terrible? They targeted women. The website Popular Information explains: Facebook's advertising guidelines list thirty varieties of prohibited content. Number twelve on the list prohibits ads
The Cage
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The notion that the world might not be real may seem like madness but it is a serious proposition at least in academic circles. Max Tegemark, an MIT physicist invited to a debate over whether the universe was a simulation, finds it suggestive that everything we see is driven by information. (Snip) That weirdness may have impelled Preston Greene, an assistant professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, to opine in the New York Times that we would be better off not finding out. "I am writing to warn that conducting these experiments could be a catastrophically bad idea —
CNN host Chris Cuomo's Tuesday closing monologue on Cuomo Prime Time criticized President Donald Trump for not aging enough in office and urged Trump to "care more" and sleep less.Cuomo's comments came after Trump stated Tuesday that "nothing keeps me up at night" in response to a question about Chinese military strength. Cuomo compared these words to former president Barack Obama's admission to ABC's Barbara Walters in 2008 that "there are a lot of things that keep me up at night.""A leader feels the pain of those they lead," Cuomo said, noting literary examples of leaders kept up at night by the burden of ruling."‘Uneasy lies the head that wears
Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island has attracted an ethics complaint and vigorous criticism from conservatives after raising the prospect of court-packing in a new legal filing before the Supreme Court.Depending on one’s perspective, Whitehouse’s extraordinary brief is either a cogent indictment of the court’s seemingly partisan valence or particularly blunt strong-arming of the nation’s highest judicial tribunal.“Senator Whitehouse’s bald-faced threat to ‘heal’ or face the consequences is inappropriate and shows just why
Donald Trump says he'll air drop ISIS fighters into Europe, with no restrictions on the radicals' movements, if the countries they were living in before they were caught on the battlefield refuse to take them into custody.
He told journalists before he left the White House on Wednesday afternoon: 'If Europe doesn't take them, then I have no choice but to release them into the countries from which they came, which is Germany, and France, and other places.'(Snip) 'They say to us, why don't you hold them in Guantanamo Bay for 50 years and you just hold them and spend billions and billions
Beto O'Rourke, El Paso native, three-term West Texas congressman and 2020 presidential candidate jumped into action following the Texas shooting by a white nationalist that killed 24 people this month. O'Rourke suspended campaign travel in order to remain in his El Paso community. While other candidates campaigned in Iowa, O'Rourke comforted victims of the Walmart shooting, delivered a number of heavily-publicized speeches railing against President Donald Trump and white nationalism and made a number of media appearances condemning the incident. Still, his actions were not enough to inspire Americans to think of him as a top presidential contender, according to
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race, he announced Wednesday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show.”
"It's become clear that I'm not going to be carrying the ball, I'm not going to be the president so I’m withdrawing tonight from the race," he told Maddow, vowing he'd help keep the other 2020 candidates focused on issue of climate change, the focal point of his campaign.
Even before The New York Times launched its "All Slavery, All the Time" project, no one could accuse that paper of skimping on its race coverage, particularly stories about black males killed by white(ish) police officers. Here's one you haven't heard about. I happened upon it by sheer accident. Antwon Rose II was a 17-year-old boy shot by an East Pittsburgh police officer in June 2018 after he bolted from a jitney car that had been stopped by the officer. The Times published about a half-dozen stories on Antwon Rose -- or as the Times calls him, "Antwon, who was unarmed." After the officer was acquitted on all charges in
Washington Governor Jay Inslee, who made fighting climate change the central theme of his presidential campaign, announced Wednesday night that he is ending his bid for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Inslee announced his decision on MSNBC, saying it's become clear that he won't win. He has kept the option of running for a third term as governor open throughout his presidential campaign, but didn't immediately say what his political plans were. "This is sort of the book ends of my campaign," Inslee said on MSNBC. "We started seeing that climate change had to be the number one job of the
There is a growing threat to the U.S. space program moving along on schedule as a result of lawsuits, growing pressure by an army of lobbyists, and increasing partisan political involvement. On August 12, Blue Origin, the company launched by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, filed an official protest with the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Bezo’s is challenging the U.S. Air Force’s method for selecting rocket launch providers for Phase 2 of their National Security Space Launch Program. This follows another competing company, SpaceX, which in May filed suit against the Air Force for failing to award it a launch contract in the initial phase of the program
Harry Reid tries out a new role:
truth-teller, warning Dems over
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truth-teller, warning Dems over
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Congressional Democrats, even their leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have been bullied into silence by the radicals who have grabbed media attention and who appear to have the ability to mobilize their followers to defeat recalcitrant Dems in primaries, the way that Joe Crowley’s long House career was abruptly terminated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So deep is the fear that virtually the entire presidential field has offered lip service to socialized medicine for all – including anyone who can cross our southern border, while keeping that border wide open.
As serious policy, it is madness, as anyone who can think two chess moves ahead realizes.
Toronto - A French artist who used the sounds of nature in his music has been killed by a bear in Canada. Friends said Julien Gauthier (44) was the victim of an attack after a bear entered a camp near the village of Tulita, in the Northwest Territories last week. The police have not yet publicly identified the victim. Gauthier was travelling with a biologist, Camille Toscani, on an expedition in the sparsely populated area, recording new sounds for his work. The pair had planned to travel from Fort Providence to Inuvik, two towns separated by more than 1,500km of wilderness
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- President Donald Trump focused on his military record and took a new step in wiping out federal student loans for disabled military veterans. He spoke at the 75th AMVETS National Convention in Louisville, Ky. "No President has said we are keeping America First, before, except me," Trump proclaimed to a cheering crowd. He cited his support of the Veterans Affairs Accountability Act, which was signed into law last summer. The law helped pave the way to fire unethical managers and cut red tape to speed up healthcare for VA patients. “We’ve removed more than 7,600 employees who failed to give the vets the care they deserved,"
Charlize Theron And Nicole Kidman Are
Dead Ringers For Megyn Kelly, Gretchen
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Dead Ringers For Megyn Kelly, Gretchen
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Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman look exactly like former Fox News hosts Megyn Kelly and Gretchen Carlson in an upcoming movie about Roger Ailes. In a trailer that dropped Wednesday, Lionsgate revealed the title for its upcoming movie about the women who took on the former head of the Fox News Channel, Ailes, according to Deadline.WATCH: (Video) Directed by Jay Roach, the movie has a star-studded cast with actress Theron taking on the role of former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, Kidman as former Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson
The 10th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Tuesday that the presidential electors can cast their vote for the presidential candidate of their own choice and are not bound by the popular vote in their states. A panel of federal judges ruled 2-1 saying that Colorado was wrong in 2016 to force an elector to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College. Free Beacon reported: State law in Colorado mandates that presidential electors cast their Electoral College vote for the candidate receiving the most votes statewide, which in that instance was Hillary Clinton.
DENVER — A U.S. appeals court in Denver said Electoral College members can vote for the presidential candidate of their choice and aren’t bound by the popular vote in their states.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that the Colorado secretary of state violated the Constitution in 2016 when he removed an elector and nullified his vote when the elector refused to cast his ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton, who won the popular vote.
By any standard of decency, the Antifa movement is a mob of thugs. Unfortunately, standards of decency have fallen upon hard times. So, anytime the Antifa guys (and gals?) attack and maul people or property, the news is failing to show the thuggery. When the far-Right Proud Boys agitate, the police can do nothing about the violence. City and state leaders, the always liberal mayors and governors, bind the hands of the police. So, reels of films show these cowardly lunatics beating, smashing, cursing and otherwise wrecking civilization virtually with impunity.
Former New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson appeared on the Fox News program America's Newsroom on Wednesday morning to defend the Times after angry staffers leaked a transcript to Slate of an internal "town hall" meeting that executive editor Dean Baquet had with employees. Abramson was effusive over how Baquet's position was perfect, that he spoke out for "independent" journalism that holds people accountable. But she wouldn't accept the way Fox hosts framed the transcript: (Video)
President Trump is not a fan of the mainstream media. He doesn’t like CNN, The New York Times, or NBC — especially NBC. So when he was taking questions from the media on Wednesday before a trip to Kentucky to attend an event for America’s veterans, he teed off an obnoxious grandstanding reporter from the network that still employs serial honor thief Brian Williams. “Journalist” Peter Alexander asked the president about his mocking of Joe Biden for getting the sites of two mass shootings wrong when he, too, made a mistake. “You said that the mass shooting happened in Toledo, when it happened in Dayton,”
Some Americans may find modern day concerns about anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment overblown, especially if they haven’t experienced some centuries of religious discrimination. Such concerns typically appear when Israel is in the news, as it is by denying entry to a pair of Muslim congresswomen. Now, comes the European Union with a clever idea to add consumer warning labels to products from Israel as being from that Jewish state. No, seriously
North Korea has miniaturised nuclear warheads and made them small enough to fit on ballistic missiles, Japan believes.
Tokyo defence chiefs warn in a new white paper that North Korea's military activities pose a 'serious and imminent threat'.
In last year's report Japan said it was 'possible' that North Korea had achieved miniaturisation, but Tokyo now appears to have upgraded its assessment, according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.
Japan is seen as a 'primary target' of nearby North Korea's weapons capabilities and fears that Pyongyang's nuclear programme is 'growing unabated', experts say.
President Trump is canceling federal student loan debt held by disabled U.S. veterans.Trump announced the new executive memorandum at a speech in front of the American Veterans organization in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday."I am taking executive action to ensure that our wounded warriors are not saddled with mountains of student debt," Trump told an audience of veterans. He is ordering the Department of Education "to eliminate every penny of federal student loan debt owed by American veterans who are completely and permanently disabled."The order will aid more than 25,000 eligible veterans holding roughly $30,000 worth of student loan debt, Trump said. No federal tax will be levied against
It’s only Wednesday, still some 60 hours til the weekend. So, here’s a sweet little story to help get you through. You know Nathan Patterson? Probably not. A pretty nice kid, fresh-faced, 23 years old, Kansas City native, working in Nashville selling software. Always loved baseball though [Snip] Last summer at a minor league game as a lark with friends he threw some in a speed-pitch game. Hadn’t thrown in years. Radar clocked his pitch at 96 miles an hour. “It just blew my mind, honestly,” Patterson recalls
Joe Biden continued his string of public gaffes while campaigning in Iowa Tuesday, inaccurately claiming that Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. were assassinated in the 1970s.
The former vice president, who has worried even his staunchest allies in recent weeks for often confusing times and places, made the slip-up during a campaign appearance in Urbandale, Iowa.
“Just like in my generation, when I got out of school, when Bobby Kennedy and Dr. King had been assassinated in the ’70s — the late ’70s — I got engaged,” Biden told the audience, before proceeding to ramble about the counter-culture movement of the 1960s.
A very laid-back Bill and Hillary Clinton were spotted taking a casual stroll on the beach in the Hamptons on Tuesday, exclusive DailyMailTV photos show. The two have long vacationed in the swanky destination over the summer, but they looked worlds away from their normally polished look, with Bill wearing athletic gear and Hillary in a baggy short-sleeved sweatshirt. In past years, they have brought along their two dogs for the leisurely walk, but this time the two were alone, apart from security detail following closely behind.The couple seemed to be in good spirits as they talked with locals
‘You Don’t Talk To The United States
That Way, At Least Under Me,’
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That Way, At Least Under Me,’
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President Trump, like former President Harry S Truman before him, expressed interest in buying Greenland from Denmark.But unlike when Truman was in office, some top Danish officials mocked the American president for even suggesting the notion. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called the idea “absurd.”“It’s an absurd discussion, and [Greenland Premier] Kim Kielsen has of course made it clear that Greenland is not for sale. That’s where the conversation ends,” she said.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the Electoral College is a racist “scam” that should be abolished.
The Democratic congresswoman posted an Instagram story Monday that started with her driving along a deserted highway and joking about how many votes there are in rural America.
“We’re coming to you live from the Electoral College,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, National Review reported. “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?”
President Trump on Wednesday renewed his threat to cut off automatic birthright citizenship for babies born in the U.S. to illegal immigrant mothers. “We are looking at birthright citizenship very seriously,” he told reporters at the White House. He didn’t say what steps he is eyeing, and legal scholars say there are major hurdles—including the U.S. Constitution.(Snip) Though the Supreme Court has never ruled specifically on a modern case involving an illegal immigrant, and there is some gray area in the “subject to the jurisdiction” language, most legal scholars who have looked at the issue say they expect the courts
Illegal immigrants will be able to jump into New York City’s highly competitive lotteries for affordable housing as part of a broader rules changes announced by City Hall on Wednesday meant to expand eligibility. The new rules will allow applicants to provide proof they pay their rent on time instead of submitting for a formal credit check, which required prospective tenants to put down their Social Security or taxpayer-identification numbers—documents only provided to citizens and naturalized citizens. “For too long, families without access to credit have faced barriers to the affordable housing they need,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio in a statement.
Connecticut residents have turned a wooded conservation area in Fairfield into their own sexual playground — with cops catching multiple people hooking up in the open space, including a pair of 80-somethings.
The public escapades went down last week in the Grace Richardson Conservation Area, according to the CTPost.
Six people — between the ages 62 and 85 — were arrested and charged with breach of peace and public indecency as part of a surveillance operation conducted by the Fairfield Police Department.
Cops had received reports of “lewd and sexual activity” going down in the conservation area and decided to launch an investigation on Aug. 9, the CTPost reports.
As President Donald Trump’s approval rating remains stable, an increasing amount of voters say he is “somewhat likely” to be re-elected as president, according to a survey.
Scott Rasmussen’s latest 2020 poll revealed 63 percent of American voters believe President Trump will serve a second term in the White House, which is up 17 percentage points from February. “The president’s job approval rating has also remained stable throughout the year,” Rasmussen stated in a daily memo.
President Trump is broadening the effect of the presidency by taking on issues no previous leader was willing to address. First, he alerted us to a media no longer impartial but zealously preoccupied in manufacturing fake news on behalf of a radical-left wing agenda.He then exposed us to the dangerous reality of a vast government bureaucracy, akin to a shadow government, operating on behalf of its own interests and concerns and not those of the American people. The deep state, operating confidently and without checks and balances, ignores representatives elected by the people while pursuing a globalist and self-serving agenda.Now Trump is challenging the unofficial rule that
To live and Xi in DC
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Once upon a time, the denizens of DC cared about the conditions of workers in Red China. We know this because the Washington Post ran stories exposing their plight such as "Chinese Workers Pay for Walmart's Low Prices" on February 8, 2004.
But that was then. Today, the Post sided with Chairman Xi in the trade war.
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But the expose on Red China was 15 years ago when the second Bush was president. The Post wanted to hang anything it could on him. And President George Walker Bush had allowed Red China to enter the World Trade Organization with only a token complaint about the human rights violations
President Trump addressed the trade war with China, saying he was the right person to take on the fight."I am the chosen one," the president told reporters Wednesday after saying, "Somebody had to do it." (Video) Trump made China one of the main pitches during the 2016 election and has since threatened the country with tariffs for what he says are unfair trade practices.The president's trade advisers convinced him to delay some of the planned trade tariffs on China so as not to "ruin Christmas."
It’s because Trump’s against-all-odds survival in the political hatefest against him shows clearly how pathetically powerless Progressives really are.
Nothing they have thrown at him ever sticks. Using ageing, past due date Hollywood stars and entertainment celebrities to try to frame the president as a “misogynist,”, a “racist”, “homophobe” , “White Supremacist”, a “mentally unfit” “orange” man who lives to keep children in
The Best Honky-Tonks in Texas
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There was a time, not so long ago—after World War II but before Willie moved to Austin—that most Texans would have shared a common, if working, definition of “honky-tonk.” But nowadays, many seem to have the wrong idea about what qualifies (and there are some, typically of the recently arrived variety, for whom the word might as well be Swahili). Part of what makes the term so tricky to nail down is the fact that there are certain ineffable qualities that a true honky-tonk must possess. Some historic venues lose it over time, and some brand-new joints have it from day one.
Run for your lives! Alligators can now climb fences.
An alligator was witnessed scaling a chain-link fence at a naval air station in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend, a report said.
The gator was spotted by resident Christina Stewart, who posted images of the beast climbing the fence on Facebook, according to local television station WTVM.
“When someone says there is an alligator on base, of course, I have to go see,” Stewart wrote.
“Glad I did, got to watch him or her crawl over the gate and disappear. So neat.”
Did Tulsi Gabbard really end up throwing the bucket of water that melted Kamala Harris?
The fakest and most ambitious of the Democratic presidential candidates is positively cratering in the polls. According to the New York Post:
Joe Biden’s lead rose among Democratic presidential contenders while Kamala Harris sank like a stone in a new poll released Tuesday, which also showed the other top four candidates essentially treading water.
The former veep — despite a series of characteristic gaffes in recent weeks — was the choice of 29 percent
A kinka-who?
A man in Florida was reportedly attacked by a kinkajou — a furry mammal that’s native to South and Central America.
The ferocious animal — a relative of the raccoon — attacked Mike Litersky, 37, outside of his girlfriend Gillian Hicks’ second-floor Lake Worth Beach apartment last month, according to The Palm Beach Post.
Litersky and Hicks had noticed the creature the night before the attack and fed it watermelon.
On Losing or Saving our Country
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It might be extremely beneficial to be able to pinpoint the exact moment we began losing our country. In that way, we could examine, pull apart and observe the actions and/or inactions that led to our demise and begin again without making the same mistakes and, thus, create a new mode of operations to both recognize and avoid the pitfalls that led to the current debacle(s) now killing the United States of America. Unfortunately, we began losing her a very long time ago, due to neglect in not following and
Anti-Defamation League head Jonathan Greenblatt appeared on CNN Wednesday morning to respond to the president saying American Jews who vote for Democrats are disloyal to Israel and the president's Wednesday morning retweet of radio host Wayne Allen Root saying Trump is so beloved is Israel he is like "the King of Israel."
"I will say that it is the height of hypocrisy to use Christian theology to bully jews and to push out some messianic complex," Greenblatt said about the retweet. "Literally, it's hard to think of something less kosher than telling the Jewish people you're the king of Israel,
If Iran's oil exports are cut to zero, international waterways will not have the same security as before, its president said on Wednesday, cautioning Washington against upping pressure on Tehran in an angry confrontation between the longtime foes.
The comment by President Hassan Rouhani coincided with a remark by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that Tehran might act "unpredictably" in response to "unpredictable" US policies under President Donald Trump.
"World powers know that in the case that oil is completely sanctioned and Iran's oil exports are brought down to zero, international waterways can't have the same security as before," Rouhani said while meeting Supreme Leader Ayatollah
More Time For Duda…
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President Trump is famously uninterested in diplomatic jibber-jabber that does not generate value or purpose.
Greenland not for sale?
Right. Sorry Copenhagen; no need for Frederiksen then… Moving on. (Tweets)After the G7, President Trump and First Lady Melania are scheduled to travel to Poland as the special guests of Polish President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda.
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg held a self-described grassroots campaign rally in Bronzeville on Tuesday night, but the overwhelmingly white audience he drew to the event in a historic black neighborhood reinforced the difficulty the Democratic presidential hopeful has had in connecting with African American voters. Buttigieg did not acknowledge the makeup of the audience in his remarks or in answering questions from the 1,000 people at the sold-out event, but did touch on it briefly as he closed the hourlong rally with a plea for his supporters.
A Best Buy deliveryman allegedly doused a woman with a liquid chemical and beat her to death after installing her washer and dryer in Florida, cops said. Jorge Luis Depre Lachazo, 21, arrived at the Boca Raton home with his co-worker to install the appliances on Monday and was eventually left alone with Evelyn Udell to explain how to use the devices, according to the Boca Raton Police Department. The co-worker suddenly heard screams and ran inside to discover the 75-year-old Udell lying on the floor covered in blood. Lachazo then hopped into the delivery van and fled, cops said. Udell was rushed to
Five people were fatally shot in a 24-hour period throughout Brooklyn and Queens — and the gunmen in each case are still at large, police said Wednesday. The bloodshed began early Tuesday, when 18-year-old Angel Nixon was fatally shot in the head, torso and legs around 12:30 a.m., when a fight broke out near the corner of 176th Street and 145th Avenue in Springfield Gardens, police said. Later in the evening, Queens cops found Gregory Haskins, 25, lying on the pavement with a gunshot wound to the chest on Sutphin Boulevard in Jamaica, according to police sources. He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, but could not be saved.
President Trump sparked an uproar in Denmark with a Tuesday night tweet saying he is canceled a scheduled visit to the country, given the prime minister’s lack of “interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland.”“Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time ...” the president tweeted.“... The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct.
Inspired by the many victories of President Donald J. Trump (R) and galvanized by the upcoming 2020 elections, the Republican National Committee is successfully raising millions of dollars from past donors and many new ones, including thousands of smaller donors. The Democrats? Not so much. Politico: ...once again, the RNC is running circles around the DNC. (snip) — The RNC raised $20.8 million, spent $14.3 million and had $43.5 million in cash on hand (filing).— The DNC raised $8.5 million, spent $7.5 million and had $9.3 million in cash on hand (filing). The committee also had $5.7 million in debt.Desperate for cash -
On her weekly Sinclair TV show, "Full Measure," on Aug. 18, former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson interviewed pollster Scott Rasmussen about journalists' standing in the public square. They're about as trusted as Wikipedia, the website considered so unreliable that school teachers often tell students they can't cite it as a source for their research papers.
Only 38 percent said national political coverage is accurate and reliable, while 42 percent said it is not. "We asked about national political reporters. Are they credible? Are they reliable?" said Rasmussen. "And you know, a little more than 1 out of 3 people say yes. When we ask about Wikipedia,
What Will They Learn at College?
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For many parents, August is a month of both pride and tears. Pride because their teenager is taking that big educational step and tears because for many it's the beginning of an empty nest. Yet, there's a going-away-to-college question that far too few parents ask or even contemplate: What will my youngster learn in college?
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni provides some answers that turn out to be quite disturbing. ACTA evaluated every four-year public university as well as hundreds of private colleges and universities. That's more than 1,100 institutions that enroll nearly 8 million students, more than two-thirds of all students enrolled in four-year
The ongoing crusade against America’s civic rituals and founding values picked up pace this summer.
The city council of St. Louis Park, Minn., stopped reciting the Pledge of Allegiance before its meetings, lest immigrants feel “uncomfortable.” Nike junked a commemorative Fourth of July shoe with an embroidered Revolutionary War flag on its heel because the flag could “offend and detract” from the national holiday. The Charlottesville, Va., city council scrapped the city holiday celebrating Thomas Jefferson’s birthday. The San Francisco School Board voted to cover up a mural of George Washington. Colorado State University recommended against using “America” or “American” to refer to the
It is an article of faith in some circles that if the U.S. economy stops growing, President Trump will not be reelected in 2020. Thus opines Ross Douthat in The New York Times in a recent column headlined “What Happens in a Recession?”
Answering his own question, Douthat writes: “First, the easy part: Donald Trump loses re-election. It will be ugly and flailing and desperate and – depending on recession-era geopolitics – potentially quite dangerous, but there is no way a president so widely disliked survives the evaporation of his boom.”
Is Douthat sure about that?
A U.S. military MQ-9 drone was shot down in Yemen’s Dhamar governate, southeast of the Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Wednesday, the second such incident in recent months.
A Houthi military spokesman had earlier said that air defences had brought down a U.S. drone.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the drone was shot down late on Tuesday.
This is not the first time a U.S. drone has been shot down in Yemen. In June, the U.S. military said that Houthi rebels had shot down a U.S. government-operated drone with assistance from Iran.
U.S. forces have occasionally launched drone and air strikes against
Things may have just gotten a little clearer on why actress/activist Alyssa Milano is such an avid pro-choice advocate — she’s a repeat customer.In her appropriately named podcast, given her stance here, “Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry,” the actress acknowledged that she has had at least two abortions, according to People Magazine.“I chose. It was my choice,” Milano declared. “And it was absolutely the right choice for me.”The “devastating” decision to kill two unborn children in her womb came when she was in her early 20s
Harry Reid tries out new role:
truth-teller, warning Dems over
open borders and Medicare for all replies
truth-teller, warning Dems over
open borders and Medicare for all replies
Congressional Democrats, even their leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have been bullied into silence by the radicals who have grabbed media attention and who appear to have the ability to mobilize their followers to defeat recalcitrant Dems in primaries, the way that Joe Crowley’s long House career was abruptly terminated by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So deep is the fear that virtually the entire presidential field has offered lip service to socialized medicine for all – including anyone who can cross our southern border, while keeping that border wide open.
As serious policy, it is madness, as anyone who can think two chess moves ahead realizes.
Two new tweets from President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening appear to show that he is serious about wanting to purchase Greenland from Denmark, a move that has a lot of support from Trump's base."Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time," Trump tweeted. "The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct.
I'm guessing you have already noticed that there is a war on common sense going on all around us, but have you heard about this recent assault in that war? It's a doozy. A women's shelter is being sued for turning away a man dressed in a nightgown. Really.
According to the reports, a very large and very inebriated man dressed in a nightgown showed up at a women's shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska seeking entry. He was not admitted to stay the night.
As a result, the shelter is now embroiled in a legal battle.
The latest CNN tracking poll shows the top five haven’t changed. However, Joe Biden increased by 7 percent from the previous poll (was 22%, now 29%); and the biggest loser is Senator Kamala Harris who dropped a whopping 12 percent (was 17%, now 5%).Sleepy Mumbles is leading the pack nationally with 29% support. The communist Sanders is barely holding on to second place with 15%; and is being challenged by socialist Warren with 14%. Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris round out the top five with 5 percent each.
Baby Killers
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”...I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live:” Deuteronomy 30:19
Remember good ole boy Johnny Edwards—actually North Carolina Democrat Senator John Edwards (1998-2012), VP candidate in 2004, and presidential candidate in 2008? Edwards is hard to forget because he burst upon the national stage as the golden-tongued lawyer who was famous for defending the rights of the unborn.
According to writer Douglas Johnson in National Review, “in 1985, John Edwards stood before a jury and channeled the words of an unborn baby girl. In his closing argument to the jury, Edwards conveyed what the unborn child, Jennifer Campbell,
No one set out to turn the airwaves into a political weapon—much less deputize talk-radio hosts as the ideological enforcers of a major American political party. Instead the story of how the GOP establishment lost its power over the Republican message—and eventually the party itself—begins with frantic AM radio executives and a former Top 40 disc jockey, Rush Limbaugh.
In the late 1980s, AM radio was desperate for new content. Listeners had migrated to FM because music sounded better on there, and advertising dollars had followed. Talk-radio formats offered a lifeline—unique programming that FM didn’t have. And on August 1, 1988, Limbaugh debuted nationally. At the outset, Limbaugh wasn’t
The Republican money train continues to haul in record cash.
Party Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said the party received $20.8 million in July, the largest ever for a non-election year July.
So far, the party has brought in $117.9 million for the 2019-2020 cycle.
“Last month’s fundraising haul again smashed records, and we continue to directly invest this money into growing our top-notch data-driven infrastructure, recruiting and training thousands of new volunteers, and registering voters across the country,” said McDaniel.
“Our fundraising success is further evidence that the American people like the pro-growth agenda and economic record that the Trump administration and Republicans continue to deliver, and this puts
The City Council of Needles unanimously voted for the California city to be a sanctuary for the Second Amendment. Needles, a small city of 4,844, has yet to write the actual legislation and subsequently survive the inevitable onslaught of legal action opposing the vote.
Needles Mayor Jeff Williams told Tucker Carlson last night his town is ready to move on the legislation and fight the court challenges.Williams told Carlson that his town’s two major goals are to “get California to recognize other states’ concealed weapons permit holders,” since Needles is on the border of Nevada and Arizona, and also to amend Proposition 63, which makes ammunition buyers “register and stay
The recent shooting deaths of 31 fellow Americans (in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio) have prompted the familiar “blame game.” Democrats are blaming President Trump; Republicans are blaming the Democrats.
Of course, dreadful events have taken place under administrations of all stripes— Clinton, Bush, Obama and Trump. Trying to place blame on any single party or president is silly. Yet, the game goes on. As usual, whenever we experience this kind of national trauma, our political leaders come up with “plans” by which the problem will be solved and such terrible things will never happen again.
Seven years after running for president as the GOP standard bearer, U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney on Monday described himself as a “renegade Republican” and said that he is “not part of the Republican establishment these days.”
In a wide-ranging speech at the Sutherland Institute, a conservative think tank in Salt Lake City, Utah’s junior senator argued against “socialist” proposals being discussed on the Democratic presidential debate stage such as “Medicare for All” and free college tuition. He also lamented that “neither party is interested in talking about the debt and the deficit.”
“I guess I should consider myself a renegade Republican
Echoing the “You didn’t build that” claim made famous by former President Barack Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made a pitch for a new tax while addressing the Black Church PAC's Youth Leadership Conference in Atlanta on Saturday.
But, Obama’s controversial 2012 comment actually appears to have been a paraphrase of remarks Warren made a year earlier when she was running her successful campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown.
On Saturday, promoting her proposal for a new “wealth tax,” Democrat presidential hopeful Warren told her audience that, if any of them have built a fortune, they didn’t do it on their own, because “all of us helped” them:
On Tuesday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell and other conservative leaders released a letter calling on Google to explain reports and allegations that the search engine is attempting to block conservative sites and exclude voices that don’t fit the liberal narrative. (A similar letter has also been sent to members of Congress, asking them to investigate.)
The letter to Google can be found, in its entirety, below:
August 20, 2019
Mr. Sundar Pichai
Chief Executive Officer
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043
Dear Mr. Pichai,
We are writing today to ask that you provide a detail
Israel has struck Iranian targets in Iraq at least three times over the past few weeks after Russia and the United States gave the green light, the London-based Asharq al-Awsat reported on Wednesday.
According to Western sources, Moscow and Washington have agreed that Israel’s strikes in Iraq and Syria are “vital to ensure Israeli security” and that Israel should be allowed to continue to track Iranian activity in Syria and Iraq and strikes Iranian targets that could pose a threat to Israel such as long-range and precision missiles.
Israel has warned repeatedly that it will not allow Iranian presence in Syria, and has admitted to perpetrating hundreds of airstrikes, preventing the
Progressive groups were hoping to make this month “Impeachment August,” but with only 12 days to go, they are falling short of their self-stated goals. Twelve progressive groups joined together to launch a campaign on August 1 with a goal to pressure House Democrats to come out in support of President Trump’s impeachment. While the American public remains deeply divided on impeachment, Democrats overwhelmingly support it. The groups had planned to pressure their representatives at town halls and other public appearances after they returned to their districts for the August recess, in hopes of getting
Benjamin Franklin once said, “Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes.”
Our Founding Fathers built the greatest country in the world through harnessing the entrepreneurial spirit. They had a wholly original concept from which was borne the United States of America. Centuries later, our country, from Pennsylvania in the east to Washington in the west, continues to reap the benefits of American entrepreneurship and zeal that empowers people to take an idea and make it a reality.
Just last year, there were over 30 million small businesses and startups. As representatives of our communities, we are committed to fostering American ingenuity by encouraging people to pursue their passions and ignite
Standing in the breeze on a warm spring day at the end of another school year, I listen as a pre-Kindergarten child receives a prize at the elementary school’s yearly awards ceremony. Inwardly, I cringe as I hear “ . . . and she wants to be a YouTuber when she grows up.” My attention suddenly is diverted as my 2-year-old darts off into the crowd, tearfully screaming for daddy.
I see far too many social media posts from well-meaning parents who worry that their toddler isn’t speaking yet, or fret about their 4-year-old’s short-attention-span.
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign will dispatch more than a dozen female surrogates on Thursday to some of the most important 2020 battleground states in its first major push to mobilize suburban women — a critical voting bloc that revolted against Republican candidates as recently as the midterm elections last fall.
Campaign officials have billed the cross-country events as both a celebration of women’s suffrage — Sunday marks the 99th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote — and a coordinated effort to train pro-Trump women to become effective volunteers in their communities. As of Tuesday, a campaign
President Trump suggested Democrats have given up any defense of the Second Amendment and pledged that he will not allow Americans’ gun rights to be swept away on the “slippery slope” of gun control.
Trump made the comments while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday.
He said, “We have very, very strong background checks right now. But we have, sort of, missing areas and areas that don’t complete the whole circle. And we’re looking at different things.”
He added, “And I have to tell you that it is a mental problem. And I’ve said it a hundred times: It’s not the gun that pulls the trigger
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) went toe to toe with the Detroit Police Department on Twitter Tuesday over the use of facial recognition technology, calling it “bulls**t.”
“@detroitpolice You should probably rethink this whole facial recognition bulls**t,” Tlaib tweeted Tuesday, linking to a Vice article detailing Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) exhaustive criminal justice reform plan, with an emphasis on his call to “ban the use of end facial recognition software for policing”: (Tweet) The Detroit Police Department responded to Tlaib’s call with an invitation.
“Before you criticize the software, come to our Real Time Crime Center to see how we @detroitpolice responsibly use it in efforts to identify criminals involved in violent crimes,”
Former Vice President Joe Biden remains the clear front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in a new national poll that also indicates a big drop in support for Sen. Kamala Harris of California.
According to a CNN survey conducted by SSRS, Harris stands at 5 percent support, down 12 percentage points from CNN’s last poll, which was released in June. Harris saw her poll numbers surge after what was regarded as a strong performance in the first round of Democratic presidential primary debates in late June, when she knocked Biden on his heels over his opposition to federally mandated school busing integration.
Journalists and other Democrats frequently use talking points about the importance of separation of powers, the Constitution, abuse of power, the rule of law and equal treatment under the law, but by their actions we know that they don’t really care. What would the reporting be if five Republican Senators threatened the Supreme Court with packing? Conservatives frequently don’t vote in lockstep, but the liberals almost always do. The Democrats threatened the court that they better rule the right way. Is that a joke? Dems to Supreme Court: Crank Out Liberal Rulings or We’ll Pack the Court In one of the most blatant and bizarre signs that
As the crisis in Hong Kong deepens, many Americans are asking: Should the United States intervene and stand by Hong Kong protesters? How can the United States effectively intervene without committing its military and resources to another long, expensive, and futile nation-building effort?
Before answering these questions, we should establish several key understandings about Hong Kong. Since the 1997 handover, Beijing exercises sovereignty over Hong Kong. But Hong Kong is different from every other Chinese city.
It came to be known as Mitt Romney's greatest error. During his 2012 run for president, the man now serving as Utah's junior senator remarked at a closed-door fundraiser that 47% of Americans pay no income taxes and thus had no reason to vote in favor of tax cuts.
The statement was made out to be a lot worse than it was, but it proved fatal for Romney's hopes. The idea that he would disparage or write off 47% of Americans fit perfectly into the reputation that the media had tried to create for him: as a heartless venture capitalist eager to outsource American jobs and capable
To keep your home cool with central air conditioning while also optimizing energy efficiency (and therefore cost), keep the temperature at 78 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
The suggestion comes from Energy Star, a federal program managed jointly by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency that provides information to consumers about energy efficiency practices that not only save consumers money, but also improve air quality and protect the environment. With record-breaking heat waves becoming the norm, finding ways to beat the heat without busting your budget might seem mystifying, which is why Energy Star provided consumers with a set of energy-saving recommendations on how to best
Over the last weekend, Portland once again became a battleground for two extremist organizations: Antifa and the Proud Boys. There is still more video coming out, but so far, Antifa is proving to be just as vicious and demented as ever. The last time Antifa organized in Portland, journalist Andy Ngo was the only person who was attacked, but the more recent rally proved to be far more violent. Enough is enough: it’s time to designate Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.
Make no mistake, the Proud Boys are a hateful, neo-fascist group. But our First Amendment protects the free speech rights of all Americans and our nation
It must be a slow news week. The usual suspects are yelling at Chick-fil-A again.The latest round of angry shouting directed at the Georgia-based restaurant comes days after the fast-food chain Popeyes announced it had added a new fried chicken sandwich to its menu. The introduction of a supposedly non-problematic chicken sandwich has served as a springboard for certain journalists and commentators to launch into the regular tirades about how Chick-fil-A’s continued existence is a blight on human existence, what with its Christian themes and right-leaning corporate culture and all.
Popeyes is giving “its first serious challenge to the chicken-on-a-bun hegemony of Chick-fil-A,”
President Trump will move Wednesday to cancel the family “loophole” that’s allowed illegal-immigrant parents and children to pour into the U.S., proposing new rules that would replace the 2015 Flores Settlement court order that created a de facto catch-and-release policy for the families.
According to details provided by an administration official, migrant families could be held in detention together while their cases are heard by immigration judges. That would supersede the 20-day limit imposed by the federal judge in Flores.
If the families can be held in detention, they can be deported, security experts say, and once people in Central America see an increase in deportations, they’ll stop coming.
Former Vice President Joe Biden told a Fox News reporter he could handle what he viewed as purposely negative coverage Tuesday, saying he was a "big boy."In Iowa, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Biden if he was bothered to see a progressive challenger like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) draw a 12,000-person crowd in Minneapolis. Biden retorted he was focusing on different kinds of events but still drawing large crowds. "It depends on what the nature of the event is," Biden said. "What I'm trying to do is go around from town to town,
Beto O’Rourke has taken the measure of America and found it wanting.
“This country, though we would like to think otherwise,” he intoned over the weekend, “was founded on racism, has persisted through racism, and is racist today.”
This is now a mainstream sentiment in the Democratic party. Bernie Sanders said earlier this year that the United States was “created” in large part “on racist principles.” The New York Times has begun the so-called 1619 Project, marking the 400th anniversary of the importation of slaves from Africa.
The series seeks nothing less than “to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the consequences of slavery
This is a HUGE win for the pro-life movement. The Trump Administration has implemented a new rule that bans all federal Title X funding for immoral companies like Planned Parenthood that perform abortion services. WATCH the video below for full details: (Video)
Take heart, anti-Semites. Or be depressed. Because the myth on which so much anti-Semitism is built finally now is exposed as one more fantasy, one more falsehood, one more libel. This is the myth that Jews have influence in the Democrat Party. Turns out ’taint so. Duh!
Don’t get me wrong. Like most American Jews, I love many of the main anti-Semitic myths and defamations. Lying Jew-haters say that Jews control the banks. They say that Jews control the wealth. They say that Jews hypnotize the world. They say that Jews control everything.
As a Jew, what’s not to love when you read that stuff?
He’s definitely not Jeffery Epstein’s type.The model who posed for the infamous painting “Parsing Bill” says he can’t believe the artwork wound up on Epstein’s walls — making him one more person forced to hang around the wealthy pedophile’s home without their consent.“I was absolutely stunned to find out that Epstein bought the painting during a major event at the school,” Christophe Nayel told artnet news.Nayel donned the blue dress and red heels in 2012 as he posed for Australian artist Petrina Ryan-Kleid, who created the work at the New York Academy of Art.
While the moniker “fake news” is typically reserved for cable news and some of the more prominent newspapers in America, the term could also be applied to presidential polls. How many pollsters predicted Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 election by a landslide up to and including the day of the actual election?The “paper of record,” the New York Times, told readers on election day, Nov. 8, 2016, that Hillary Clinton had an 85 percent chance of winning the election. Their prediction was updated on 10:20 PM ET, oblivious to the evening smiles on cable news shows that were curdling into frowns and outright hysteria.
The moderator at a Native American forum was shocked on Monday after Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) received very little enthusiasm about her potential election.
Warren participated in the presidential forum on Native American issues in Sioux, City, IA, where she apologized for the "harm" she caused for her past claims of Native American ancestry.
The moderator at the Native American Forum in Iowa today had to ask the crowd to applaud after he suggested the Elizabeth Warren could be the next President. pic.twitter.com/UKZlJBgBjR
— Francis Brennan (@FrancisBrennan) August 19, 2019
"It's a wonderful day and Native Americans across this country should celebrate.
Imagine a group of people who work to destroy Italy because, they claim, Italy’s origins are illegitimate. Imagine further that these people maintain that of all the countries in the world, only Italy is illegitimate. And then imagine that these people vigorously deny they are in any way anti-Italian. Would you believe them?
Substitute “Israel” for “Italy,” and you’ll understand the dishonesty and absurdity of the argument that one can be anti-Zionist but not anti-Semitic. But that is precisely what anti-Zionists say. They argue that the existence of a Jewish state in the geographic area known as Palestine —
Two U.S. athletes were given a year of probation by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) for staging protests while on the podium at the Pan American Games earlier this month, letters sent Tuesday revealed.
Hammer thrower Gwen Berry raised her fist and fencer Race Imboden took a knee while on the medal stand last week in Lima, Peru. All athletes at the Pan American Games and the Olympics agree to rules forbidding political protest.
The committee also warned other athletes that future protests could face more serious consequences.
President Trump on Tuesday abruptly canceled a planned meeting with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, saying there was no point to the trip after Frederiksen called the idea that the U.S. might buy Greenland from Denmark "absurd" -- and insisted there would be no Copen-haggling about it.
Trump had been expected to visit Denmark on Sept. 2-3 as part of his trip to Europe, but until his tweets Tuesday, there were no solid indications the visit to Denmark was centered on buying Greenland.
"Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing
A famous porn star who is ranked among the best adult entertainment actresses in the world has been discovered homeless and living underground in Las Vegas.
Jenni Lee, whose real name is Stephanie Sadorra, was unexpectedly found living in the tunnels beneath the Las Vegas Strip last month.
The 37-year-old, who is ranked 119th on Pornhub's list of best porn actresses, was interviewed by a Dutch news program for a documentary about the network of tunnels occupied by hundreds of homeless people.
Sadorra, who was barely recognizable from her days in the adult entertainment industry, revealed in the interview that she used to be a famous porn star.