Posts on Tuesday, August 27, 2019
Members of the Trump campaign, media, and GOP reacted to Beto O’Rourke (D) ejecting a Breitbart News reporter from his speech at Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, Tuesday, calling O’Rourke a “fraud” and adding that his action is an “attack on a free press.” O’Rourke, who has lauded himself as a champion of a free press, had Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak removed from his event at Benedict College Tuesday, with a member of his campaign claiming that Pollak had been “disruptive” at past events – an assertion that is patently false.
How’s $10,000 sound? All you need to do is move to Vermont.The picturesque but sparsely populated state made headlines last year when officials OK’d plans to reimburse new residents up to $5,000 each year for two years for moving costs and those associated with working remotely -- computers, Internet access and membership in a co-working space. The plan to draw younger workers to Vermont has apparently worked. The Remote Worker Grant Program received thousands of inquiries and ran out of its first $125,000 -- which officials anticipated would last through June -- by April, Route Fifty reported.The state still has another $375,000 set aside
The Democratic civil war continues to rage on. This time, the Democratic National Committee is under fire for the criteria it’s using to decide which of the 20 presidential candidates will make the cut for the next primary debate.The DNC said only candidates who are polling at least 2% in four qualifying polls and who have received contributions from at least 130,000 individual donors will make the debate stage.However, contenders like Senator Michael Bennet are accusing the DNC of promoting their favored candidates while silencing those they don’t like.“The DNC’s process is stifling debate at a time
Netflix has released comedian Dave Chappelle's latest stand-up special. Throughout his nearly hour-long set, Chappelle demonstrates that he may be the most fearless celebrity in America. At one point or another, every viewer will be offended. At most points, though, viewers will not only laugh but marvel at the comedian's ability to skewer what he calls the "cancel culture" while making a mockery of political correctness. With his latest special, Chappelle proves that he is the PC culture's worst nightmare.
CNN's blowhard White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, has another reason to begin with Dear Diary. According to Brandon Morse, at Red State, Acosta reportedly caused a commotion first by trying to heckle President Trump during a post-G-7 speech, then after he held a news conference, was last seen shouting a question to Trump as he departed, wanting to know if Trump actually believed in climate change. Trump took one look at who was asking and walked off without answering.
The Lawfare group are the external influence agents for corrupt politically motivated lawyers working in government. The group fingerprints show up everywhere including among “beach friends” and legal schemes hatched from the premise of their assembly. Lawfare = use the law as a tool in warfare. [Adult Alinsky disciples.] The Lawfare group is headed by Comey’s friend Benjamin Wittes; and the group give resistance advice to ideologues inside government as well as outside organizations who are resisting (suing) the Trump administration.
ST. PAUL, Minnesota — A growing number of Democratic primary voters believe Elizabeth Warren can beat President Trump, even as the liberal firebrand's appeal in critical Rust Belt battlegrounds remains questionable. The Massachusetts senator is a culturally liberal Harvard Law professor who could have difficulty undercutting the president’s key advantage among the conservatively inclined white working class and rank-and-file union members. But the college-educated suburban Democrats at the heart of Warren’s burgeoning support, and festive, overflow campaign rallies, aren’t simply making political statements or expressing opposition to front-runner Joe Biden. They are becoming firm believers in her electability. In interviews
WASHINGTON — Racism in America is an institutional "white man's problem visited on people of color," Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday, arguing that the way to attack the issue is to defeat President Donald Trump and hold him responsible for deepening the nation's racial divide. (Snip) "White folks are the reason we have institutional racism," Biden said. "There has always been racism in America. White supremacists have always existed, they still exist." He added later that in his administration, it would "not be tolerated." By highlighting the nation's racial tensions and placing blame on Trump, Biden is showing that he
Alabama Republicans are urging lawmakers to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. from Congress after a series of controversial statements, including remarks about Israel and her support of economic boycotts against that country. The state GOP passed a resolution last weekend at the party's summer meeting in Auburn calling on its congressional delegation to “proceed with the expulsion process” against the first-term congresswoman. “Representative Omar has engaged in rhetoric that explicitly runs counter to American values and patriotism by falsely accusing U.S. armed forces of committing war crimes while on mission to liberate her home country of Somalia,” the resolution said.
A top adviser to Joe Biden, the 2020 Democratic front-runner, has said he is being held to a higher standard than his rivals.MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell played a video of a recent flub in which Biden, 76, said he was happy to be in the state of Vermont when he was actually in neighboring New Hampshire.“So I know it’s just a mistake, but it’s Vermont and New Hampshire, he’s running in the New Hampshire primary. Does he have to be more careful to prove that he hasn’t lost his fastball?" Mitchell asked.Kate Bedingfield, his communications director, replied,
Beto O'Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, Texas, knows for certain that Guatemala's drought is the result of carbon emissions more than one thousand miles away. He knows for certain that neither God nor Mother Nature is responsible for the drought because ... science! "And Guatemala suffering one of the greatest droughts in their recorded history, caused not by God nor by Mother Nature, but by you and me and all of us and our emissions and our excesses and our inaction in the face of the facts and the science and the truth," O'Rourke told the crowd at the College of Charleston
Defense Secretary Mark Esper has approved building 20 more miles of barriers along the southern border, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
Esper approved the Department of Homeland Security request Monday for the additional construction after contracts for the previously approved barriers cost less than expected, according to the documents.
The Trump administration filed the notice of its decision to approve more construction as part of a lawsuit seeking to block the administration from using Pentagon funds to build President Trump’s long-desired wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
A man and his wife were assaulted outside a bar in Portland, Oregon during the weekend, over the fact that the man was wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat. Luke Lenzner told a Fox affiliate in Portland that as he and his wife were leaving the Growler’s Taproom bar just before 1 A.M., people were “surrounding me, like literally surrounding me, pushing me.” He said that he was “trying to stop the person from hitting me, from taking my hat, and then I get sucker punched.” Images from that night show Lenzner with blood on his face and still wearing the hat.
The company that administers the SAT college admissions test is replacing the so-called adversity score with a tool that will no longer reduce an applicant’s background to a single number, an idea that the College Board’s chief executive now says was a mistake.
Amid growing scrutiny of the role wealth plays in college admissions, the College Board introduced its Environmental Context Dashboard about two years ago to provide context for a student’s performance on the test and help schools identify those who have done more with less. (Snip).But critics called it an overreach for the College Board to score adversity the way it does academics.
A defense lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein on Tuesday expressed deep skepticism that the wealthy financier died by hanging himself in a Manhattan federal jail while awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges, as a medical examiner has ruled.
The injuries suffered by Epstein are “far more consistent with assault” than suicide, the lawyer, Reid Weingarten, told Judge Richard Berman in U.S. District Court in Manhattan during a hearing.
Weingarten cited the defense’s own medical sources. Broken bones were found in Epstein’s neck during an autopsy after he died Aug. 10.
Such fractures are somewhat more common in cases of strangulation than in hanging.
Latina Republican congressional candidate Catalina Lauf, 26, blasted socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) during an interview on Tuesday, saying that unlike Ocasio-Cortez, she loves America.Lauf appeared on Fox Business' "Varney & Co.," where she addressed the "anti-AOC" label people have attributed to her ever since she announced her congressional run last week."I'm not anti-anyone, I'm pro-America," Lauf said. "If there's contrast there it's that I'm fiercely driven by a love for my country and I'm not driven by a hate for everything
MAGAnomics – Consumer Confidence
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The efforts of the Wall Street pundits and financial class to talk the American consumer into creating a recession is failing. The Consumer Confidence Index remains at historic highs as U.S. workers/consumers are confident in their economic position. Yes, Main Street USA is optimistic about current and future expectations. (Graph)The Consumer Assessment Index, a measure of the percentage of consumers claiming business conditions are “good”, increased from 39.9 percent to 42.0; and the Present Situation Index is now at its highest level in nearly 19 years (Nov. 2000, 179.7).
These are all key indicators because the U.S. consumer is the engine of our economy.
On Sept. 15, 2017, Olivia stepped into a full-body scanner at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
When she stepped out, a female Transportation Security Administration officer approached. On the scanner’s screen was an outline of a human body with the groin highlighted. The officer told Olivia that because of something the scanner had detected, a pat-down would be necessary.
As a transgender woman, Olivia, 36, had faced additional TSA scrutiny before.(Snip) TSA rules require that passengers be searched by officers of the same gender as they present. But, according to Olivia, the TSA supervisor told her that she would
The US Navy quietly shuttered a task force created under former President Barack Obama to prepare the military branch for the impact of global warming, reportedly saying the team was “no longer needed”. Its ending, which happened in March and was first reported on Tuesday by the environmental site E&E News, reflects a trend under Donald Trump in which federal agencies have shuttered operations designed to combat climate change nationwide and around the world. Before the president seemingly fired former Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, the career military official wrote in 2017 to the Senate Armed Services Committee: “Climate change is impacting stability
A Washington, DC, mom says her political-consultant husband left her for Rep. Ilhan Omar, according to a bombshell divorce filing obtained by The Post. Dr. Beth Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative — and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday. The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the theme is Man vs. Society. The writer uses the story of Winston Smith vs. the Party (Big Brother) to tell the story of Oceania. In this fictional land, individualism is virtually extinct. The Party controls every aspect of society. Orwell’s themes center on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism and repressive regimentation of all persons and their behaviors within society. For those who have not yet read it, “1984” is terrifying. Examples of life following fiction include the Stasi in former East Berlin, and the weaponization of the U.S. security apparatus to wipe out political enemies, and countless other abuses of power worldwide.
There's a wonderful line from the 2007 documentary, Indoctrinate U, regarding the left's propaganda machine on college campuses. One professor jokingly quips that progressives are "quite ruthless about their desire for a kinder and gentler world." The same can and should be said about Planned Parenthood's dedication to indoctrinating the next generation and public at large via pro-abortion lies perpetuated by some of the music industry's most popular stars. The National Review's Mairead McCardle reports that the taxpayer-funded abortion conglomerate has recruited at least 136 musicians to discuss recent state abortion bans and encourage their fans to vote for anti-life politicians
Bret Baier, the stoic host of Fox News’ “Special Report,” has another side viewers might be surprised to learn about.Turns out, he can bust a pretty good rap… yeah, THAT Bret Baier! The Fox News host was attending a Rascal Flatts concert over the weekend in Bristow, Virginia, when he was called on stage for an impromptu performance. And while Rascal Flatts is a country music group, Baier opted to sing a cover of The Sugarhill Gang’s 1979 big hip-hop hit, “Rapper’s Delight.” And he wasn’t half bad.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign has disbursed tens of thousands of dollars in “travel expenses” to the company owned by the political strategist whose wife accused him Tuesday of having an affair with the Minnesota Democrat.
Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal the Omar campaign began making travel reimbursements to Tim Mynett’s company, E. Street Group, LLC, on April 1, about a week before Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett said her husband admitted to having an affair with the congresswoman, according to a divorce filing first reported on by the New York Post.
A panel of "experts" assembled by New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has suggested to the city that the best possible way to desegregate its school system is simply to do away with the gifted programs for some the Big Apple's best and brightest students. The reasoning? These programs are mostly full of white and Asian students, and not many black or Hispanic kids. So, if they get rid of these classes, then the city naturally becomes desegrated. The New York Times has the story:
Mr. de Blasio, who has staked his mayoralty on reducing inequality, has the power to adopt some or all of the proposals without input from the
Rep. Ilhan Omar is caught in a love triangle and accused of being a homewrecker, revealed court filings Tuesday in a divorce case.
Washington-area physician Beth Jordan Mynett claimed her husband confessed to an extramarital affair with Ms. Omar and wanted to run off with her, according to the filing submitted in D.C. Superior Court.
Mrs. Mynett said her cheating husband, Democratic political consultant Tim Mynett, came clean about it in April in a “shocking declaration of love” for the far-left congresswoman from Minnesota.
“The parties physically separated on or about April 7, 2019, when Defendant told Plaintiff that he was romantically involved with and in love with another woman,
DDemocratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren may have apologized for taking a DNA test to prove she has Native American ancestry, but President Donald Trump could use his "Pocahontas" label for Warren to damage her as he did to defeat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, according to at least one Republican consultant.
Warren can say she never used her ethnicity—her DNA test found she is between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American and backfired—to land a job. But Trump could use it against her to question her honesty.
"If you give Trump a tool to equalize the playing field, which is what this does
Ilhan Omar has been accused of having a torrid affair with her married campaign strategist in newly-filed divorce papers—confirming DailyMailTV’s bombshell exclusive. We revealed last month how the Minnesota congresswoman, 37, had been enjoying a secret romance with veteran Democratic fundraiser Timothy Mynett. Both Somali-born US Rep Omar and Mynett, 38, refused to discuss the fling after multiple sources confirmed it to DailyMailTV. But our exclusive was confirmed in divorce papers filed today by Mynett's high-flying doctor wife Beth, 55, who accuses her estranged husband of dumping her for Omar. Beth, who has a 13-year-old-son with Mynett,
A Washington D.C. woman has claimed in a divorce filing that her husband left her for Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. The New York Post has the scoop:
Dr. Beth Jordan Mynett says her cheating spouse, Tim Mynett, told her in April that he was having an affair with the Somali-born US representative and that he even made a “shocking declaration of love” for the Minnesota congresswoman before he ditched his wife, alleges the filing, submitted in DC Superior Court on Tuesday.
The physician, 55, and her 38-year-old husband — who has worked for left-wing Democrats such as Omar and her Minnesota predecessor, Keith Ellison — have a 13-year-old son together.
Apparently, officials at an Iowa community college aren't comfortable with a professor threatening to "clock" President Trump with a baseball bat and "bury" evangelical Christians "deep in the ground."
Jeff Klinzman, who taught English at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, wrote he wants to "stop evangelical Christians" and "[k]ill them all and bury them deep in the ground." "It's not pretty, and I'm not proud," he wrote, "but seeing what evangelical Christians are doing to this country and its people fills me with rage, and a desire to exact revenge."
Joe Walsh, the former congressman who's challenging President Trump in the Republican Party's presidential primary, said in a Monday night CNN interview that he lost his popular radio show and had just received notice before arriving to the studio for the sit-down. Walsh told CNN's John Berman that he expected the move because nearly "80 to 90%" of his audience supports the president. "I am running for president. I oppose this president. Most of my listeners support the president,"
Increasing Australia’s annual humanitarian intake to 44,000 by 2023 would bring an extra $37.7bn to the economy in the next 50 years, a report from Oxfam Australia has said. The increase–building on the current intake of 18,750 a year–would also sustain an average of 35,000 jobs a year, and increase demand for goods and services by $18.2bn. The findings, by Deloitte Access Economics, were commissioned by Oxfam Australia and published in a report which called for the federal government to commit to the increase, and to also create a visa stream for 10,000 humanitarian family reunifications annually. “I think Australians generally would
Costco's first China store was so popular
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Costco has built a cult following in the United States — now it's China's turn. The country's first Costco store is so popular that it had to shut down early on its first day because of too many shoppers.
The retailer opened its first physical outlet in Shanghai on Tuesday morning, and it quickly got too crowded to stay open.
"The store has been clogged up with crowds," Costco said in a text message alert to its members in China. "To provide you with better shopping experience, Costco will suspend business in the afternoon. Please don't come." Police were deployed to restore order and manage traffic jams around the store,
Our Constitution was supposed to make America a nation of laws, not of men. That changed when President Barack Obama put aside the classes of deportable aliens listed in section 237(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and created his own list of deportable alien classes. The Democrats are still restricting deportations, but they are doing it now by preventing Trump from receiving the funds he needs for effective enforcement measures. Moreover, they make enforcement costly for him politically by demonizing him whenever he initiates a significant enforcement measure.
Former New York Fed President Bill Dudley on Tuesday called on the Federal Reserve to manipulate the economy to stymie President Trump’s reelection. Dudley made the plea in an op-ed published by Bloomberg News. Dudley argued that Trump’s effort to reset trade with China is hurting the economy and that the Fed should enact policies that hinder Trump and hurt his reelection chances. (Photo) President Trump has been fighting the Fed over rising interest rates and a too rapid pullback on quantitative easing
Cantankerous Sen. Bernie Sanders turned out at a 111-year-old San Francisco bistro over the weekend while the Democratic National Committee was putting on a three-day event, and the independent senator from Vermont wasn’t wearing his campaign face.That’s according to Politico, which reported that the crank-pot lost a voter that day. John Konstin, owner of “John’s Grill,” told the political news outlet that Sanders was “rude and cranky” and did not treat his staff well. Popular with many politicians, the restaurant features pictures of famous faces who’ve visited the establishment.
Entities in Japan have surpassed entities in Mainland China as the top foreign holders of U.S. Treasury securities, according to the latest estimate published this month by the Treasury.In May of this year, the Chinese owned $1,110,200,000,000 in U.S Treasury securities and the Japanese owned $1,101,000,000,000. In June, however, Chinese ownership of U.S. Treasury securities rose only to $1,112,500,000,000 and Japanese ownership climbed to $1,122,900,000,000.That marked the first time since May 2017 that entities in Japan have owned more U.S. Treasury securities, as estimated by the U.S. Treasury, than entities in China.
Campbell Spencer, a lesbian and political consultant, moved to Washington in the 1990s to work in LGBTQ advocacy. She wooed gay and lesbian voters for Al Gore, worked a stint in the Obama White House and now serves on the board of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which this year issued its first-ever endorsement of a presidential candidate: Pete Buttigieg. But Spencer herself will not be voting for Buttigieg. (Snip) “It feels like a slap in the face to just go directly to the white gay guy, when for decades you’ve been trying to elect a woman and it didn’t happen
An executive at Hollywood’s top lobbying firm has been busted for allegedly raping and blackmailing a woman he met on a sugar daddy dating site, according to reports. Steven Fabrizio was fired on Monday as general counsel of the Motion Picture Association of America, a trade group that represents five major film studios and Netflix, Variety reported. The attorney, who was arrested Friday in Washington, DC, is accused of threatening the woman after paying her $400 for consensual sex on Aug. 19. She told him she didn’t want to see him again—and that’s when he allegedly began blackmailing her via text message.
The income tax is the Swiss Army Knife of the U.S. tax system, an all-purpose policy tool for raising revenue, rewarding and punishing activities and redistributing money between rich and poor. (Snip) Democrats are eager to tap that mountain of wealth to finance priorities such as expanding health-insurance coverage, combating climate change and aiding low-income households. Their ideas range from new rules on inherited assets, to a plan by Sen. Ron Wyden for annual taxes on unrealized gains, to a proposal from Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s to tax wealth itself. These come atop more conventional proposals to raise income taxes and
Back in 1991, media critic David Shaw was getting the cold shoulder from his “friends” in the L.A. Times’ newsroom. You see, he had just won the Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series regarding the McMartin preschool molestation case. He wrote a devastating critique of the mainstream media’s sensational and inaccurate reporting concerning the veracity behind the charges leveled against the preschool’s owners and staff. Media critics like the late David Shaw, also called ombudsmen, are a dying breed among the arrogant dissemblers populating today’s fake-news factories.
One of the beautiful people out there riding jets for book tours and maybe global warming conferences is very, very, upset with the rest of us for our "inconspicuous" consumption.
Pay no attention any more to the superrich for that conspicuous consumption on carbon-spewing yachts and jets flying to global warming conferences, the big problem now is shaming those who can only afford hamburgers. Biteback, see?
Twenty-nine year old Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg's new book, "Inconspicuous Consumption" comes out today, and she's already kicked off a cross-country book tour for it starting in Martha's Vineyard, wending around to the Hamptons, Manhattan, Cambridge, Portland, Maine,
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Presidential contender Beto O’Rourke said he believes the decision to have a third-trimester abortion should be up to women, and not men or the government.
The 46-year-old Texas Democrat was speaking at the College of Charleston as part of the school’s “Bully Pulpit” series, and was asked a question by a man in the audience about third-trimester abortions.
“My question is this: I was born Sept. 8th, 1989, and I want to know if you think on Sept. 7th, 1989, my life had no value,” the man inquired, referencing a previous response the former congressman had given in Ohio on the matter.
“Of course I don’t think
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders didn’t win over any votes during a recent dinner outing in San Francisco where he was “rude and cranky” to staff, the restaurant owner said. The Vermont senator showed up at the iconic John’s Grill with about 15 of his staff on Thursday, where he ordered the lobster bisque, the heirloom tomato salad and a Diet Coke, but “he didn’t want to shake hands, he didn’t want a picture,” owner John Konstin told Politico. “He wasn’t nice to any of the staff,” Mr. Konstin said, adding that the senator was “rude and cranky.” “He lost my vote,” he said.
The U.S. government is ramping up its efforts to protect voter registration databases from ransomware attacks in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election. The plan was first reported by Reuters, which notes that the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency (CISA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, is contacting state election officials to bolster protections against ransomware. “Recent history has shown that state and county governments and those who support them are targets for ransomware attacks,” said CISA Director Chris Krebs, in a statement provided to Fox News. “Voter registration databases could be an attractive target for these attacks.”
A doctor whose job offer was withdrawn after the hospital discovered her history of anti-Semitic tweets is seeking a hearing with the State Medical Board of Ohio, the Cleveland Jewish News reported Monday.
An attorney for Dr. Lana Kollab confirmed that she had requested a board hearing but declined to reveal what course of action she was seeking.
Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California withdrew its job offer to Kollab in April after it determined that she had “submitted information that was false, misleading, and incomplete” during the matching process.
Kollab was forced to resign from her residency program at the Cleveland Clinic last year after the website
The ongoing affair between the nation’s top law enforcement agency and the news media resulted in another hookup last week when CNN announced the hiring of Andrew McCabe, the former deputy director of the FBI.
McCabe, a vocal Trump foe who opened a criminal investigation into the sitting president of the United States in May 2017 during his short stint as acting director, was fired by the FBI last year for lying to federal investigators.
He played a key role in concocting the Trump-Russia collusion hoax; wrote a book filled with animus toward the president; and remains under a grand jury investigation. Last week, McCabe’s lawyers met with federal prosecutors
Well, this is nothing if not rich.
The New York Times headlined the story this way:
Trump Allies Target Journalists Over Coverage Deemed Hostile to White House
The opening two paragraphs say this:
WASHINGTON — A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists.
It is the latest step in a long-running effort by Mr. Trump and his allies to undercut the influence of legitimate news reporting. Four people familiar with the operation described how it works,
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Last week, The Washington Post and the AP uncovered a racist scandal of international proportions involving that most sinister of beverages, the preferred drink of Archie Bunkers and Al Bundys worldwide: beer.
See, there’s a microbrewery in Texas (I feel the racism already) that has “literally” (as in, literally, as in, no, not at all literally) inflicted suffering on an entire region of gentle, oppressed nonwhites. The Manhattan Project Beer Co. is run by a husband-and-wife team of amateur brewmeisters. Operating out of leased space at another brewery, Manhattan Project Beer is hardly a household name. Its beers sport atomic-themed monikers like Plutonium-239, Half-Life, Particles Collide, Hoppenheimer,
When the protagonist in Ira Levin’s novel, The Stepford Wives, begins to suspect that other women in her Connecticut town are robots, she surmises:
"That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real."
Which brings to mind the viral video of Mitt Romney reacting to his Twinkie birthday cake. Lack of ample bosom aside, Mitt is a great example of someone playing a housewife unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real. He is a Stepford-Wife Republican.
Hundreds of African migrants are finding themselves trapped in Mexico’s southern border region after new immigration rules no longer allow them safe passage to the U.S. The rule changes now say they must naturalize in Mexico or exit through its southern border.
New York -In what one lawyer called ”a historic day for crime victims in America,” more than a dozen women — and perhaps as many as three dozen — who were sexually abused by sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein are expected to testify in a New York courtroom, giving them a voice that they were deprived of by federal prosecutors more than a decade ago when they were abused by him as teenagers. The hearing, before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman, will mark the first time many of the victims will be able to speak about the betrayal they’ve felt at the hands of federal prosecutors,
As the Caribbean prepared for Tropical Storm Dorian and its potential to reach hurricane-strength, a news report by Axios based on anonymous sources claimed that President Donald Trump has repeatedly asked federal officials to explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes.
For his part Trump disputed the story, calling it “ridiculous.” For our part, we can’t fact-check whether or not Trump considered such a strategy since the claim is based on anonymous sources. But we can explain the science behind why nuclear bombs can’t slow down storms.
For his latest man-on-the-street video, conservative filmmaker Austen Fletcher, or Fleccas, headed to Newark, New Jersey, where Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) was once mayor, to document a clean-up effort by some of the residents who said they were inspired by a similar project in crime-ridden and "rat and rodent-infested" Baltimore. What Fletcher found were some folks who were not big fans of Booker or the politicians tasked with helping maintain the violence-plagued and trash-strewn area.In the video, posted on Monday, Fletcher talks with some residents,
International man of mystery and all-around dirtbag, Jeffrey Epstein, died just over two weeks ago at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a high-security federal detention center that rivals Guantanamo Bay in its unpleasantness. The institution that safely housed infamous criminals like El Chapo and various members of al-Qaeda barely held on to Jeffrey Epstein for a month.
Epstein’s July 6 arrest and subsequent death made a lot of headlines. Now, two weeks after his death, the story has nearly disappeared.
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Epstein died on August 10 and had a broken hyoid bone. This is, in the words of pathologists, more often indicative of death in a struggle, such as strangulation.
According to President Trump, he never considered using nuclear weapons against hurricanes. It is, he writes on Twitter, yet another fake news story pushed by the fake mainstream media.
Leftwing website Axios reported Sunday that President Donald Trump "floated multiple times the idea of thwarting hurricanes headed for the US by bombing them, including by dropping nuclear bombs on hurricanes to disrupt their course." Other leftwing news outlets -- from New York Magazine to the Guardian -- gleefully ran with it.
There is one minor problem with the story, though: Trump denies it.
Conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens announced Tuesday that he deactivated his Twitter account after being called a "bedbug" by a George Washington University professor. “Time to do what I long ago promised to do. Twitter is a sewer. It brings out the worst in humanity,” Stephens wrote. “I sincerely apologize for any part I’ve played in making it worse, and to anyone I’ve ever hurt. Thanks to all of my followers, but I’m deactivating this account.”
Former CIA Director John Brennan took his usual bashing of President Donald Trump to another level as he suggested world leaders find him “incompetent” and even “somewhat delusional.”Speaking with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Monday following Trump’s attendance at the G7 summit in France, Brennan struck his usual condescending tone in attacking the president, declaring that world leaders “have written off ” his rhetoric and public statements.
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Sailing in Homer’s wine-dark Aegean Sea is the best antidote I know to the brouhaha over the “Squad.” And traipsing all over the Acropolis and the marvels of antiquity makes these four publicity-seeking, opportunistic mental dwarfs seem even pettier than they are.Mind you, these petulant females wouldn’t know the difference between Corinthian and Doric any more than they’d know Athenian democracy as opposed to Spartan oligarchy. (Snip) I thought of the achievements of the ancient Greeks, and how now the most powerful country in the world is being held hostage by the machinations of the tiniest of minorities in cahoots with the leftist mainstream media.
Pericles, the charismatic leader most commonly
Elizabeth Warren came to last week’s Native American presidential forum in Sioux City, Iowa, with, as you might expect, a plan. And she executed it perfectly.
First, the Massachusetts senator expressed sorrow for the “harm I caused,” referencing her attempt to prove he had Native American ancestry through a DNA test. Then she pivoted to her literal plan, her sweeping and detailed set of ideas to expand tribal nation sovereignty and invest in social programs benefiting Native American communities.
Former President Barack Obama on Monday unveiled a new initiative to influence redistricting efforts across the United States. The initiative, Redistricting U, will send activists to provide free training and tools to volunteers involved in redistricting efforts and guide groups on how to “be leaders in the movement for fair maps.”“Training is at the heart of organizing. It’s why I’ve always made it a priority – from my 2008 campaign until now,” Obama wrote in a tweet announcing Redistricting U, which is part of the All On The Line campaign. In February, Obama’s Organizing For Action and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Redistricting Action Fund joined forces
Despite President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to push climate change to the front of the discussion during the recently concluded G-7 meeting in France, the confab ended without a concrete agreement to take action on the issue.
Some of the blame was laid at the feet of President Donald Trump, who was “a no-show at a crucial session on climate change” today. While blaming Trump for the lack of progress on climate change might make for a good headline, the broader story is more complex. Indeed, a look at the numbers shows that the U.S. has slashed its coal use and cut its total greenhouse emissions more
President Trump said Monday it would be “better to have Russia inside the tent than outside the tent” of the world’s leading industrialized countries, arguing that if President Vladimir Putin had been in the room during the just-ended G7 summit, the leaders could have solved several issues that are instead now “in limbo.”Speaking to reporters at the end of the summit in Biarritz, France, Trump recalled that at one point during Sunday’s meetings, the leaders had been “discussing four or five matters, and Russia was literally involved in all of those four or five matters.”“And a few of the people looked up and said, you know, ‘Why aren’t
Two months ago the American media (and opportunists elsewhere in the world) tried to convince us President Donald John Trump was starting World War 3 in Iran, just as they tried to convince us earlier that he was starting World War 3 in North Korea.
President Trump has tightened the screws of economic sanctions on Iran. The ayatollahs don't like it. Their regime teeters on the brink of an uprising.
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"President Donald Trump said Monday "there's a really good chance" he would meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in the coming weeks to try to negotiate a new deal to curb Tehran's nuclear weapons program to replace the 2015 international
This is the modern day left in action. Pure insanity. Seattle has a human feces problem on their streets and sidewalks. But the city council cannot agree on how to remove the crap. (Photo) Councilmember Larry Gossett says power-washing the sidewalks bring up images of using hoses against civil rights activists.The Seattle News reported: Some committee members expressed concern about addressing the symptoms of the area’s problems without getting to the cause. Councilmember Larry Gossett said he didn’t like the idea of power-washing the sidewalks because it brought back images of the use of hoses
Several thousands of Coloradans, especially Conservatives, as well as many Republicans, have become a formidable force as they have focused a very serious effort on the recall of Gov. Jared Polis this summer. The effort has been resisted by the state’s mainstream media outlets even before the official procedures were initiated. And the Denver Post, back on July 22nd published an editorial by their
Last weekend, the former chairman of psychiatry at Duke University, Dr. Allen Frances, claimed that Donald Trump “may be responsible for many more million deaths” than Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined. Frances, author of the fittingly titled “Twilight of American Sanity,” would later clarify by tweeting that he was talking about the “[t]errible damage Trump is doing to world climate at this global warming tipping point may be irreversable/could kill hundreds of millions of people in the coming decades.”
That’s quite the bold statement, considering the hefty death toll the Big Three extracted. But, really, it isn’t that shocking to hear. Frances’ pseudohistoric
A new Monmouth poll out yesterday showed Joe Biden in third place at 19 percent, a point behind Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, both at 20 percent. It is the first poll that has shown him as anything but a strong frontrunner.
Now, the poll had a small sample size and large margin of error. It may well be an outlier. A CNN poll just last week had Biden doubling the numbers of both far-left senators. But it is nonetheless telling.
Biden lost support among moderate and conservative Democrats, who switched their allegiance to the more overtly socialist septuagenarians. A likely explanation for this shift is that those moderates don’t see
The British comedian Eddie Izzard has a silent stage bit where, nodding, he announces to his audiences some outrageous plan. Pause. Then, he shakes his head. Audience giggles. Pause. He nods again. Audience laughs. Shakes his head. Louder laughter. He nods once more. Guffaws. President Trump wasn’t going for laughs in recent days. So, his remarks and behavior, jumping from one announced policy decision to another, from one seemingly outrageous plan to abandoning it, generated laughter but also serious concerns among many. It’s a measure of the confusing and tiring turmoil ascendant in U.S. politics now that such actions simultaneously ignite
Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed Bill Maher Monday after the late night host said he was "glad" billionaire businessman David Koch had died.
"You're a (expletive). You're a mean-spirited (expletive)," Hannity said in a clip from his show, directly addressing Maher. "I have other words I really want to use, but unlike you, I work at a network that has some standards and if I said it, I'd have to spend all day tomorrow and the next day dealing with that crap."
He added: "The guy you're talking about and his wife donated $1.3 billion to charity. Until you do that, just keep your big mouth shut."
On Saturday evening, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., tweeted her sadness about the terrorist bombing that took the life of 17-year-old Israeli Rina Shnerb. Shnerb was hiking with her brother and father at the Ein Bubin Spring in the West Bank on August 23 when a bomb was “triggered remotely when [Rina’s] family approached it.” Rina’s brother and father were injured in the attack.
Palestinian-American Tlaib’s tweet took a rapid shift from emotional outpouring to launching guilt at Israel: “More than ever,” she wrote, “we need to support nonviolent approaches to ending the Israeli occupation and guaranteeing equal rights for all
My Childhood Schooling In The Soviet
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Now that back-to-school season is in full swing, let me tell you about the single most pressing unmet need of my ethnic minority community: education. Like other Russian-speaking Jews, I am forever thankful to this country for taking me in and for giving me liberty. Yet when I talk to people in our community about their wishes and anxieties, they always express discontentment with U.S. schools.
“How is it,” some ask, “that we are all engineers, but our children can’t do basic math?”
“What do the students read, exactly?” Others wonder.
“The only reason my child is doing well academically,” stated one mom of a second grader, “is because he attends a
Viola Davis will play former US First Lady Michelle Obama in a new TV drama, according to US media.
The Oscar-winning actress will portray Obama in First Ladies - a Showtime series looking at several US presidents' wives throughout history.
Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt and Betty Ford will be the focus of the first series, written by novelist Aaron Cooley.
First Ladies will aim to provide insight into both the personal and political lives of presidents' spouses.
It will also show how many major political decisions were made in the White House's east wing, where the First Lady and her staff are based. The Obamas spent
For the better part of five years, Breitbart News has meticulously documented the climate of violence CNN chief Jeff Zucker has aggressively fostered at his fake news network. But over the past six weeks, the basement rated outlet’s violent streak has become even more aggressive as CNN journalists have been credibly accused and even caught on video engaging in violent and threatening behavior.
Here’s the latest rundown:
1. CNN Contributor Tries to Start Physical Fight In the White House. On July 11, CNN contributor Brian Karem covered President Trump’s Social Media Summit, a gathering of conservative media personalities who were seated in the Rose Garden for an announcement.
The New York Times’ head office in Midtown Manhattan was treated for a bedbug infestation over the weekend.
The newspaper’s Building Operations team sent a company-wide email on Monday disclosing that a sweep of the newspaper’s newsroom uncovered “evidence of bedbugs” in a “wellness room” on the second floor, as well as on the third and fourth floor.
“Evidence of possible bedbug activity was found in a few personal lockers on the third floor. Individuals associated with those lockers have been contacted and treatment is underway,” reads the email, obtained by Slate.
A spokesperson for the Times confirmed the bedbug issue, telling CNN: “Earlier today we sent a
How do you cover a poll that shows satisfaction with the economy, despite all the harrumphing about an impending recession, is much higher than it ever was under President Barack Obama? Or reveals that views on race relations are actually better today than three years ago? Or shows that most think the political system is being shaken up in a good way?
Answer: You don’t. That is, if you’re a mainstream media outlet and the poll is your own.
Here’s the scary headline NBC News ran on the poll it conducted with the Wall Street Journal and published over the weekend: “’A deep and boiling anger’:
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Hillary Clinton, the Ma Barker of American politics, is still out hustling, still staying one step ahead of the law as she tries to weasel her way into the presidential sweepstakes. She says she isn’t running in 2020, but, as we know too well, truth is a fungible commodity to a Clinton.
The signs don’t look good. She just announced a fundraiser for the DNC at her Washington D.C. mansion with tickets as high as $50,000 (scraps for the homeless in the dumpster out back).
A couple of weekends ago she was at de Rothschild’s estate on Martha’s Vineyard -- go socialism! -- to celebrate Bill’s birthday
In 2016, Anthony Kurta, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for military personnel policy, announced, “There will be mixed genitalia in military bathrooms, showers, and billeting." On a conference call with Army Colonel Ron Crews and others, Kurta explained that the new policy allowing transgender soldiers to serve according to their “gender identities” rather than their biological sex meant that a person whose gender identity and biological sex did not match would be allowed to use the barracks of the opposite sex. It also meant that transgender soldiers would be evaluated not according to the physical standards appropriate for their own sex
Former President Barack Obama’s possible new mansion on Martha’s Vineyard could be totally underwater by the year 2100, according to a climate change model relying on government data.
The Obamas are reportedly in the process of buying the island property, which was originally listed at listed at $14,850,000, from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck. Though the deal has yet to be finalized, both TMZ and the Boston Herald have reported that the Obamas are in escrow.
Climate Central, a research group funded by the government during the Obama administration, projects the Obamas’ possible new mansion to be well underwater in its “Extreme Scenario 2100” model.
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If you want to know why Donald Trump is president, you might begin by examining the career of Marcie Bianco. An alumna of Harvard University (Class of 2002) with a Ph.D. from Rutgers, Dr. Bianco is an atheist, a feminist, a lesbian, and, of course, a Democrat. As president of the Harvard student Democrat organization in 2000, she worked for Al Gore’s doomed presidential campaign and, in 2016, she tweeted up a storm for Hillary Clinton, promoting the “Lesbians for Hillary” campaign for the activist group LPAC. Formerly an instructor at New York’s Hunter College and now affiliated with elite Stanford University, Dr. Bianco is a one-woman
A new study debunks liberal claims about grinding poverty in the U.S. compared to other developed countries. Accounting for how much America's poorest 20 percent consumes — rather than measures like income that can be misleading for reasons explained below — the study finds that the poorest fifth of Americans consume more resources than the average person in 64 percent of other countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
On average, a person among the poorest 20 percent of Americans consumes more goods and services than the average person in Canada, Greece, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Iceland,
Legal scholars and trade policy experts say that President Trump is right to claim broad powers to prohibit companies from trading with foreign countries thanks to a 1977 law that has previously not garnered much attention outside the context of national security. The law, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act signed by Democratic President Jimmy Carter, gives the president sweeping powers to restrict trade once a "national emergency" is declared. "The president can impose a virtual embargo on a nation under IEEPA," said John Yoo, director of the public law and policy program at the University of California at Berkeley
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The increase in fires burning in Brazil set off a storm of international outrage last week. Celebrities, environmentalists, and political leaders blame Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, for destroying the world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon, which they say is the “lungs of the world.”
Singers and actors including Madonna and Jaden Smith shared photos on social media that were seen by tens of millions of people. “The lungs of the Earth are in flames,” said actor Leonardo DiCaprio. “The Amazon Rainforest produces more than 20% of the world’s oxygen,” tweeted soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo. “The Amazon rain forest — the lungs which produce 20% of our planet’s oxygen — is on fire,”
Hillary is Lurking
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Hillary Clinton, the Ma Barker of American politics, is still out hustling, still staying one step ahead of the law as she tries to weasel her way into the presidential sweepstakes. She says she isn’t running in 2020, but, as we know too well, truth is a fungible commodity to a Clinton.The signs don’t look good. She just announced a fundraiser for the DNC at her Washington D.C. mansion with tickets as high as $50,000 (scraps for the homeless in the dumpster out back). A couple of weekends ago she was at de Rothschild’s estate on Martha’s Vineyard -- go socialism! -- to celebrate Bill’s birthday,
They are bad actors. They are driven to suppress legitimate inquiry. They are by no means journalists.
And they read Twitter very carefully!
Those are the contours of an alarm rung on Sunday by the New York Times. “A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists,” wrote Kenneth P. Vogel and Jeremy W. Peters.
And just what would this “damaging information” be? Illicitly obtained DMs? Gossip about their sexual habits? HIPAA-protected information?
Federal Election Commission Vice Chairman Matthew Petersen announced his resignation today.
This means the agency that enforces and regulates the nation’s campaign finance laws will effectively shut down — something that hasn’t happened since 2008 — because it won’t have the legal minimum of four commissioners to make high-level decisions.Petersen’s resignation, first reported by the Washington Examiner, will throw the FEC into turmoil for weeks — and perhaps months — as the nation enters the teeth of 2020 presidential and congressional elections.
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President Trump took French President Emmanuel Macron’s Iran gambit in stride as the G-7 Summit wound to a close — probably because Trump saw that Macron’s real game was pure politics.
The Frenchman’s policies have sent his own approval ratings into the tank. Nearly retired German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition is on life support; Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau is reeling from a corruption scandal. Italy’s Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation days before the summit opened; Britain’s Boris Johnson just took over as prime minister and holds a paper-thin majority.
Japan’s Shinzo Abe is the only G-7 leader whose grip on power back home might be stronger than Trump’s —
Seventy-six days. Five hours. Twenty-two minutes. That's how long it took for Spanish endurance athlete Antonio de la Rosa to voyage across the winds and currents of the Pacific Ocean, with only the help of his 24-foot long trusty stand-up paddle board, The Ocean Defender.
His journey of self-described "absolute loneliness and self-sufficiency" began in San Francisco on June 4. De la Rosa embarked from the docks of Sea Trek, a Sausalito-based kayaking business that hosted him before he left on the expedition.
He paddled just over 2,900 miles to his Honolulu destination with the aim of raising awareness about protecting the ocean from man-made pollution.
With the deadline to qualify for next month’s third round of Democratic presidential debates closing in, the Democratic National Committee is facing an angry chorus of criticism from the candidates not likely to make the cut.
At issue is the DNC’s criteria for the contenders to take part in the prime-time showdown, including contributions from 130,000 individual donors and reaching at least 2 percent in four qualifying polls. “The DNC’s process is stifling debate at a time when we need it most,” charged Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado – a lower-tier White House contender who is all but certain not to qualify for the third round.
People who are willing to put their money at risk now think Elizabeth Warren is the favorite to win the Democrats' nomination, according to TMZ, which has cited the data on US-Bookies.com. Biden's polling lead apparently impresses them about as much as it impresses me. As one pundit noted, it's difficult-to-impossible to find voters who are enthusiastic about Biden. Most just settle for him because the rest of the field is so pathetic.
I welcome this news because Warren is a phony who cheated her way into prized Ivy league faculty slots on the basis of affirmative action preferences for "women of color," as the Paleface Pocahontas
Has the reach of #MeToo finally come for Renoir?
Sure seems like it in this disdainful, hoity-toity art review coming out of the New Yorker, painting one of the most famous Impressionists, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, as this godawful dreadful sexist, and who, by the way, did bad art. The piece, titled "Renoir's Problem Nudes" has doozies like these:
Who doesn’t have a problem with Pierre-Auguste Renoir? A tremendously engaging show that centers on the painter’s prodigious output of female nudes, “Renoir: The Body, the Senses,” at the Clark Art Institute, in Williamstown,
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Brazil on Monday rejected aid from G7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, with a top official telling French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of "his home and his colonies."
"We appreciate (the offer), but maybe those resources are more relevant to reforest Europe," Onyx Lorenzoni, chief of staff to President Jair Bolsonaro, told the G1 news website.
Lorenzoni was referring to a $20 million pledge made at the G7 summit in France to fight the rainforest blaze. "Macron cannot even avoid a foreseeable fire in a church that is a world heritage site. What does he intend to teach our country?" He continued, referring to the fire in April