Posts on Thursday, August 29, 2019
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled that a group of atheists demanding the right to deliver the invocation at the opening of legislative sessions in the Pennsylvania House are S.O.L. — simply out of luck — and they’ll have to take their secularist so-called prayers elsewhere.
Finally. A court with courage to uphold the common sense aspect of the Constitution.
Law and order can’t last in a land with people who aren’t lawful and orderly in their thinking, you see.
After months of speculation, former Rep. Darrell Issa announced he has formed an exploratory committee, another signal he may run for Congress again.
Issa, who could not be reached for comment Thursday morning, changed his personal website to read “I have formally launched an exploratory committee for the 50th Congressional District in California.”
Issa’s possible entrance into the race could prove a game-changer due to his high name recognition and vast financial resources. His net worth was $283 million in 2016, according to Roll Call, a politics and government news site.
What Is Justice for McCabe?
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Hillary Clinton checked every box for a violation of the Espionage Act. So much so that, in giving her a pass, the FBI figured it better couch her conduct as “extremely careless,” rather than “grossly negligent.” The latter description was stricken from an earlier draft of then-director James Comey’s remarks because it is, verbatim, the mental state the statute requires for a felony conviction. It wouldn’t do to have an “exoneration” statement read like a felony indictment. In point of fact, the careless/negligent semantic game was a sideshow. Mrs. Clinton’s unlawful storage and transmission of classified information had been patently willful. In contemptuous violation of government standards,
Hong Kong - Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested on Friday ahead of another weekend of planned protests in the Chinese-ruled city that is grappling with its biggest political crisis since its handover to Beijing more than two decades ago. Wong, the face of Hong Kong’s push for full democracy during protests in 2014 that paralyzed parts of the city for 79 days, was released from jail in June after serving a five-week term for contempt of court.
“He was suddenly pushed into a private car on the street,” Wong’s political party Demosisto, which advocates for greater democracy in Hong Kong, said on its official Twitter account.
A U.S. government agency that birthed the network which ultimately became the Internet is apparently in need of an underground lair. And fast -- by tomorrow, to be specific.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which has famously been involved in a range of projects, including neural implants for U.S. soldiers, made its need known in a Wednesday tweet that prompted some suspicious replies.
"Attention, city dwellers! We're interested in identifying university-owned or commercially managed underground urban tunnels & facilities able to host research & experimentation," the tweet read, adding, "It's short notice, we're asking for responses by Aug. 30 at 5:00 PM ET."
President Donald Trump's personal assistant resigned on Thursday, after she shared information about his family and the White House's affairs to news reporters, according to multiple news reports.
Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office operations who was also Trump's assistant since the onset of his presidency, shared the information to reporters during an off-the-record dinner in New Jersey while Trump was on his working vacation, according to The New York Times, which first reported on the incident.
It was not immediately clear what the substance of the discussions about Trump's family were.
Former Vice President Joe Biden defended the inaccurate war story he told during a rally last Friday in New Hampshire, saying the "central point" of it was true.Biden said he had traveled to Afghanistan’s Kunar province to award the Silver Star to a Navy captain who had rappelled down a cliff to retrieve the body of a fellow service member. When Biden went to pin the medal onto the captain, he begged him not to because the the person had died.Biden appears to have recalled inaccurately a 2011 awards ceremony in Afghanistan's Wardak province, when he pinned the Bronze Star on Army Staff Sgt. Chad Workman after Workman had attempted
Former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden told a town hall audience Thursday that the United States does not need migrant detention facilities. Biden was taking questions in Rockville, S.C., when an attendee asked him for the justification for holding migrants and expanding detention facilities if those facilities could not ensure their safety. She also asked Biden what he would do to help reunite separated families."Close them down," Biden answered, to cheers from the crowd. "By the way, we don’t need them. We found that when we were in office
A senior Treasury aide was frogmarched out of Downing Street last night after being accused of leaking Brexit secrets to allies of Philip Hammond. Sonia Khan, who was the former chancellor's special adviser, was allegedly confronted by Boris Johnson's chief aide Dominic Cummings.
A man was killed and another wounded in a shooting Wednesday in Englewood on the South Side, according to police.They were standing on the sidewalk about 4:18 p.m. in the 5600 block of South Seeley Avenue when two males approached them from a nearby alley, Chicago police said. One of the males pulled out a gun and fired shots.Garry Miller, 32, was hit twice to the back of his head and pronounced dead on the scene, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.The other man, 26, was struck in the arm and refused medical attention, police said.No one is in custody. Area South detectives are investigating.
Having just completed a first review of the IG Report on James Comey, with numerous highlights for further overlay and research, here’s my thoughts upon initial review. First, there is absolutely no doubt James Comey used his memos akin to FD-302 investigative reports from an FBI agent. Meaning, from beginning-to-end he considered himself an investigative agent against the President-elect and then President Trump.
Rep. Ilhan Omar is living la vida loca these days.For her, when it's not bouncing back and forth between her husband and brother on the matrimony front, it's jumping into the homewrecker racket, with some woman now claiming Omar stole her husband.Not exactly the sort of life the Sharia crowd recommends, at least for women, of course, but Omar comes from the elites and Sharia law in places such as her native Somalia, is only for little people, anyway. Omar's got that one covered. The real problem with her alley-cat morals is that seems to be a vector to corruption. Here's the New York Post:
On May 12, 2017, an FBI Supervisory Special Agent visited former FBI Director James Comey's home to collect any government property still in his possession.
President Trump had unceremoniously fired Comey three days earlier while the longtime government official was on a trip to California. But when an FBI team came to Comey's Virginia home, they did not obtain four memos he had penned about his sometimes bizarre interactions with the president. Comey 'did not tell the FBI that he had copies' of four memos he had written 'in his personal safe,' according to a report by the Justice Department's Inspector General that was released Thursday.
Ohio homeowner shoots dead two
17-year-old boys who were 'trespassing'
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17-year-old boys who were 'trespassing'
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An Ohio homeowner has shot dead two teenage boys who he says were 'trespassing' on his property on Wednesday night. The homeowner has not been named but is being questioned. He told police that on Wednesday at 9.30pm, he shot the two boys in his 'garage'. He called 911 afterwards. The boys have been identified as 17-year-olds Devon Henderson and Javier Harrison. It remains unclear if they were trying to break into the property, or what their motive for being there was.
There is no such thing as a single “gay gene” researchers have said, but genetics–along with environmental factors–can influence a person’s sexual preferences. The largest ever study of its kind examined data and DNA information of about 500,000 people and found there were thousands of genetic variants linked to same-sex sexual behaviour, most of the them having a minor impact. The researchers said non-genetic factors, including upbringing, personality, and nurture, had far more influence on a person’s choice of sexual partner. The researchers, writing in Science, suggested genetics may account for as much as one-third of the various factors
A neighbor who tried to intervene when he saw a woman physically disciplining her younger sister was run over multiple times by that woman Wednesday in Chollas View, San Diego police said. San Diego Police Department Lt. Ricky Radasa said the neighbor witnessed an older sister allegedly beating her younger sister in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 300 47th St. He called police just after 2 p.m. to report the incident. Witnesses told police the older sister, now identified as Tantrina Spencer-Simmons, 24, was using a belt to hit her younger sister, who is 8 years old.
Missoula, Mont.—If Juniper Eastwood is feeling particularly motivated on a training day, she’s up at 6 a.m. She eats a banana and plugs in a podcast before taking off on an 11- to 12-mile run. She should stretch, but is often short on time. After a shower and getting dressed, she heads to work as a camp counselor for a youth empowerment program.(Snip) The difference between Eastwood and her teammates on the University of Montana’s cross-country team is the testosterone-suppression and estrogen pills she takes as part of her training regimen. Eastwood was assigned male at birth,
Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swede and face of the youth climate change movement, arrived in New York City on Wednesday after setting sail two weeks on a solar-powered racing yacht from England. A substantial crowd greeted her after she was escorted into New York harbor by 17 sailboats — one for each of the U.N.’s “sustainable development” goals.(Tweet) “It is insane that a 16-year-old would have to cross the Atlantic Ocean to make a stand,” Thunberg said at a press conference
Hubris as A Strategy…
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Hubris (/ ˈ h juː b r ɪ s /, from ancient Greek ὕβρις) describes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with (or synonymous with) arrogance.There appears to be a concerted media, and allies (think Lawfare), strategy to focus attention to the DOJ decision *not* to prosecute James Comey. This generates outrage, which has a tendency to create useful backlash. Mr. Comey also appears to be fueling this.
Remember, it has been clear that part of the “small group” defense is to use outrage as part of their strategy. Focus on the actual conduct… that’s where corrupt intent is evident.
No deal is truly on the cards
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How’s all this going to end? Disbelieve anyone who gives a definitive answer. But ever since Boris Johnson came to power, my working assumption has been that a no deal is now overwhelmingly the most likely outcome. Like Mr Johnson’s rhetoric, where the “million to one chance” of no deal was quickly ditched for recognition that securing a deal is going to be “touch and go”, my view has been hardened by events.
More than a dozen children in Spain have been diagnosed with "werewolf syndrome" after an error resulted in medicine used to treat alopecia and hair loss being sold as heartburn medicine for children, according to local media reports from El País and Granada Hoy. The Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices confirmed the outbreak of hypertrichosis, commonly known as "werewolf syndrome," to El País Wednesday after 17 cases were reported by parents in three regions in Spain. The disease causes causes excessive hair growth, which some say can make those affected appear like a werewolf. All the parents of
Sasha Obama, the younger daughter of former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, will be attending the University of Michigan starting this fall.The first daughter was spotted by students of the school while attending freshman orientation, and was seen again on campus this week with men believed to be Secret Service agents, the Detroit News reports.Sasha is the first person in her immediate family to attend a public Big Ten university instead of an Ivy League school. Her classes begin Tuesday.
President Trump will be hosting an event in the Rose Garden at 4 p.m. EST to officially establish the U.S. Space Command. Vice President Mike Pence will also be in attendance.The command will be operating under the Air Force, with plans expected for it to be its own branch in the future. Its mission, under the leadership of Gen. John Raymond, is mainly to focus on space defense to counter threats from China and Russia.An original U.S. Space Command was created in 1982 and then disbanded in 2002, when U.S. Northern Command was established.Raymond will be leading both the Space Command and the Air Force Space Command.
NEW YORK — A judge formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, but not without a final tribute to the women who spoke out against the financier.U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman took the procedural step of adding his initials to an order dismissing the indictment that charged the 66-year-old Epstein with conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking of minors in the early 2000s in Florida and New York. In requesting the action 10 days earlier, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman, who is not related to the judge, noted that the law required the dismissal after Epstein killed himself in jail Aug. 10
News broke a couple of weeks ago that President Donald Trump is apparently interested in acquiring for the United States the barren, remote Arctic island of Greenland. Trump is hardly the first president to express an interest in acquiring the Danish semi-autonomous region for the United States. As Hank Berrien of The Daily Wire noted at the time, the possibility of acquiring Greenland has been publicly floated by previous administrations: "President Harry Truman offered to buy Greenland from Denmark for $100 million in 1946" and "the State Department during the tenure of President Andrew Johnson considered buying Iceland and Greenland in 1867."
Disgraced former FBI Director James Comey’s cocky, arrogant and obnoxious sanctimony in the face of a “damning” report from the Department of Justice has earned him caustic censure from all sides of the political news aisle, from Fox News all the way to even CNN and MSNBC.First up is Fox News’ usually unopinionated chief political news anchor, Bret Baier.“James Comey is essentially crowing about avoiding an indictment from the Department of Justice, which is a little rich, if you think about it,” he said following the release of a report by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz late Thursday morning.
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham praised Vice President Mike Pence for defending religious freedom at Veterans Affairs hospitals in a recent speech, where Pence said, "Under this administration, VA hospitals will not be religion-free zones." In an Aug. 29 post on Facebook, Rev. Graham wrote, "'VA hospitals will not be religion-free zones.' Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the American Legion’s 101st National Convention yesterday about all that this administration is doing to help our nation’s military veterans.""He also addressed the issue of a current lawsuit in New Hampshire to remove the Bible of a World War II POW
Presidential candidate Tom Steyer released 2,683 pages of tax returns from 2009 through 2017, providing a glimpse into the billionaire's vast personal fortune as well as his charitable and political giving. Taxable income for Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor totaled nearly $1.2 billion over the nine-year period, the returns show, while their taxable income was $959.5 million over that period, according to a campaign memo. The couple paid $405.3 million in federal and California state taxes for those years, according to the memo. Steyer's highest-earning year of the nine was 2010,
Former FBI Director James Comey had a secure room in his basement so he could work on classified matters, but he said he didn’t use the room much because it got too hot, according to a Department of Justice inspector general report released Thursday.
The bureau installed a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), which secures phones, printers and computers.The FBI had outfitted Comey’s home with a SCIF, which is an access-controlled facility used for review of information derived from intelligences sources or methods referred to as Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). Comey’s home SCIF contained Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret/SCI enclaves, with a secure printer and a safe,
Most Americans agree education is good and the more of it you get the better, even if yours is less than more. Income, world view, social standing, job prospects, etc. m But recent years have seen a growing split among many Americans about the overall value of universities to the country. Even in a sellers market, which universities have enjoyed (and abused) for generations, school leaders who care about their long-term future, might want to take serious note of this widening partisan gap. Here are the rather shocking findings of a new
For nearly three years now, those who promise to save us from the wicked clutches of President Donald Trump have bombarded America with lectures about the “rule of law.” Yet, over and over again, these self-styled champions of justice feel free to disregard the law whenever it suits them. The latest example is former FBI Director James Comey.
A new report by the Office of the Inspector General for the Justice Department found that Comey had written FBI memos, illicitly passed them on to a lawyer friend, who in turn leaked them to a friendly New York Times reporter who had been spreading the Russian conspiracy theory.
Why? Because Comey was interested
Two years ago, former FBI Director James Comey came out with a book celebrating himself as a paragon of “ethical leadership,” a subject that he later taught at the College of William and Mary. Comey declared, “Ethical leaders lead by seeing above the short term, above the urgent or the partisan, and with a higher loyalty to lasting values, most importantly the truth.”
If so, the new Justice Department inspector general report released Thursday establishes that Comey is the very antithesis of the ethical leader he described.
A Jewish socialist philosopher who met with the leader of Hamas is running for president.
On Wednesday, Jerome Segal announced that he would run as the nominee of the Bread and Roses Party he founded last year. The party supports wealth redistribution, as well as guaranteed employment and income.
Segal, 75, is cleared to appear on the 2020 ballot in Maryland, where he lives, and is hoping to qualify in other states.
He told the Washington Post that he does not “have any fantasies about actually being president” but wants to add “something to the current political discourse that is lacking.”
Segal is an outspoken critic of Israel’s right-wing government and has met with
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) passed a resolution Saturday praising the values of "religiously unaffiliated" Americans as the "largest religious group within the Democratic Party."The resolution, which was unanimously passed at the DNC's summer meeting on Aug. 24 in San Francisco, Calif., was championed by the Secular Coalition of America, an organization that lobbies on behalf of atheists, agnostics, and humanists on public policy. The group celebrated the DNC's move as the first time a major party "embraced American nonbelievers."
Joe Biden painted a vivid scene for the 400 people packed into a college meeting hall. A four-star general had asked the then-vice president to travel to Kunar province in Afghanistan, a dangerous foray into “godforsaken country” to recognize the remarkable heroism of a Navy captain.
Some told him it was too risky, but Biden said he brushed off their concerns. “We can lose a vice president,” he said. “We can’t lose many more of these kids. Not a joke.”
Former FBI Director James Comey received heavy criticism from the Justice Department’s inspector general in a blistering report released Thursday about his infamous memos documenting his discussions with President Trump.The report found that Comey violated bureau policies by drafting, leaking and retaining the memos. However, it noted that the Justice Department declined to prosecute Comey over the violations.For his part, Comey responded by insisting that he is not a "liar and a leaker,” saying an apology from his critics “would be nice.”
On Wednesday, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for the Department of Health and Human Services issued a Notice of Violation letter to the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC) because it allegedly forced a nurse to assist in an abortion in violation of her conscience. The OCR demanded that the Medical Center comply with the conscience law or face potential loss of its federal funding, the last cycle of which totaled $1.6 million. “Forcing medical staff to assist in the taking of human life inflicts a moral injury on them that is not only unnecessary and wrong, it violates longstanding federal law," said OCR Director Roger Severino.
The hits just keep coming! First it was reported Thursday that the DOJ declined to prosecute James Comey despite the fact that he mishandled classified information and leaked to the media, then it was revealed another member of the Justice Department lied under oath to investigators and escaped prosecution! The Office of Inspector General released findings of misconduct by a Then Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Misuse of DOJ-Issued Computers and for False Statements.
After walloping the Caribbean as a tropical storm, Hurricane Dorian is forecast to hit somewhere along the east coast of Florida this weekend. And forecasters warn that Dorian could be a treacherous storm. Along much of Florida’s east coast, as the storm approached, shoppers rushed to stock up on food and emergency supplies at supermarkets and hardware stores and picked the shelves clean of bottled water. Lines formed at service stations as motorists topped off their tanks and filled gasoline cans. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency for 26 counties in Dorian's possible path and said he
This month’s shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio have spurred politicians to demand (for perhaps the thousandth time) strict new gun control measures. Using shootings as a club to beat “sense” into gun control opponents hasn’t worked well in the past, so politicians have changed tactics. They’re pushing so-called “red flag” laws. Red flag laws, they think, will work where other gun control measures won’t because no one wants lunatics to have a guns. So, who decides who is sane enough to have a gun? Mental health professionals? Perhaps psychiatrists who believe that the desire to own a gun is a sign of a deranged mind?
Ah, those much-anticipated halcyon days of retirement — sleeping in, golf at will, travel too, leisurely day after leisurely day. No more whining colleagues, carping bosses, endless meetings with no result, tedious commutes. Of course, few retirements turn out that way. And now a new Associated Press poll finds that for a variety of reason about a quarter of Americans have no intention of ever retiring at all. That may turn out to be unrealistic too, given the vagaries of
Satellite photos indicate North Korea is building a ballistic missile submarine and may be making preparations to test a submarine-launched missile, according to an analysis of the commercial images by experts at a Washington-based think tank.
The photos of Sinpo South Shipyard taken Monday appear to confirm reports by North Korean state media of a “newly built submarine” inspected by the country’s leader, Kim Jong Un, in July, according to Joseph Bermudez and Victor Cha of Beyond Parallel, a research project funded by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
"There's great disrespect for the media today," conservative talk show host Mark Levin told Fox News's Sean Hannity Wednesday night. "They have a credibility problem, thanks to them. They've turned off half of America. They treat half of America with utter contempt." Levin pointed to news networks where liberalism thrives: You know, the days of Huntley-Brinkley and Howard K. Smith are long over. Can you imagine? What have we heard over the last two years? Video) They bring on a porn actress hundreds of times; her now soon-to-be felonious lawyer hundreds of times. They bring on a neo-Nazi, Jake Tapper did, to try to attack the president.
President Donald Trump ridiculed MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell after the prime time anchor publicly retracted and apologized for an erroneous report on Wednesday. Crazy Lawrence O’Donnell, who has been calling me wrong from even before I announced my run for the Presidency, even being previously forced by NBC to apologize, which he did while crying, for things he said about me & The Apprentice, was again forced to apologize, this time for the most ridiculous claim of all, that Russia, Russia, Russia, or Russian oligarchs, co-signed loan documents for me, a guarantee.O’Donnell publicly retracted the report on Wednesday
Fired FBI Director James Comey taunted critics and took a swipe at President Trump immediately following the release of the Inspector General’s report regarding Comey’s handling of the Russia probe and leak of memos. The Justice Department declined to prosecute Comey, however the IG found multiple ethics and department guideline violations by Comey. (Photo) “DOJ IG “found no evidence that Comey or his attorneys released any of the classified information contained in any of the memos to members of the media.” I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message
A man has been arrested in connection to a fatal stabbing across from a D.C. hospital Tuesday night. D.C. police found Margery Magill, 27, of Northwest D.C., with multiple stab wounds in the 400 block of Irving Street around 8:45 p.m. After going through video surveillance and canvassing the area, police arrested 24-year-old Eliyas Aregahegne, of Northwest D.C., inside a residence in the 500 block of Columbia Road. Police said that Magill, who was working as a dog walker, was walking dogs across MedStar Washington Hospital Center when the suspect approached her and stabbed her multiple times.
After being threatened with legal action from the Trump Organization, MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell apologized and retracted his reporting on Wednesday night’s show for peddling unverified information about President Trump’s tax returns and connections to Russia.
“Tonight, we are retracting the story,” he said in his opening monologue. “I should not have said it on air or posted it on Twitter. I was wrong to do so.”
An MSNBC spokesperson declined to specify what action, if any, the network or NBC News might take as a result of O’Donnell’s false reporting.
On Thursday, Federalist Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway joined Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” to
U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) has enjoyed a relatively glowing reception from right-wing media since his election to Congress. But that honeymoon period may come to a very swift end(Snip)
The freshman congressman and former Navy SEAL is no stranger to endorsing positions that invite criticism from his right, including his support for keeping U.S. troops in Syria indefinitely and his winks and nods to believers in the Russian collusion hoax.
But following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, earlier this month, Crenshaw offered support for what may be his most controversial position yet, “red flag” legislation.
ST. PETERSBURG — Commuters on the southbound Howard Frankland Bridge were witnesses to a shocking sight at sunrise Wednesday: A collision on the hump sent an SUV rolling over the bridge barrier and into the waters of Tampa Bay.
Emergency units rushed to the scene by land and water to launch a search that would snarl traffic for hours.
But the scene grew more grim with each passing hour: There was no sign of the SUV’s driver or any passengers who may have been inside.
“No occupants were seen coming out of the vehicle or out of the water,” St. Petersburg Fire Rescue Lt. Steve Lawrence said shortly after the crash.
President Trump said Thursday he’s preparing to announce a “giant package” to boost demand for ethanol, responding to rising concerns in rural America about the administration’s exemptions for refineries from blending biofuels.
“The Farmers are going to be so happy when they see what we are doing for Ethanol, not even including the E-15, year around, which is already done,” the president tweeted. “It will be a giant package, get ready! At the same time I was able to save the small refineries from certain closing. Great for all!”(Snip) Mr. Perdue said one proposal would strengthen infrastructure to allow greater use of E15,
Journalists and their liberal friends have spent a few days expressing how deeply alarmed they are by new reports of a guerrilla-style ideological campaign by Trump-aligned conservatives, the goal of which is to embarrass and discredit members of the news media by mining and publicizing their 'problematic' social media posts. In which the purveyors of weaponized outrage will be made to experience the unpleasantness of weaponized outrage: (tweet) 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.
The Orange Man Bad crowd has convinced itself that prosecutors will indict Andy McCabe for lying and leaking while he was the No. 2 man at the FBI. The outrage from the left and the establishment over an imaginary indictment amuses me, particularly the anger from Patrick Frey, a deputy district attorney in LA who blogs as Patterico.
Frey wrote, "Donald Trump is in charge of federal law enforcement, and he has been harshly criticizing McCabe for years. Here are just a few representative tweets."
The tweets cited were "DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED!
The Department of Justice will not prosecute former FBI director James Comey after an internal probe of Comey’s handling of memos he kept of his interactions with President Donald Trump.
In a report released Thursday, the Office of the Inspector General said its probe found that Comey violated department policy.
"Upon completing its investigation, the OIG provided its factual findings to the Justice Department for a prosecutorial decision regarding Comey’s conduct, as required by the Inspector General Act. After reviewing the matter, the DOJ declined prosecution," the office said in a statement.
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released an 83-page long report Thursday morning. It details misconduct by fired FBI Director James Comey and his handling of memos he wrote to memorialize conversations with President Trump. This report is separate from the highly anticipated IG report about the origins of the Russia investigation and FISA abuse.
"We conclude that the Memos were official FBI records, rather than Comey's personal documents. Accordingly, after his removal as FBI Director, Comey violated applicable policies and his Employment Agreement by failing to either surrender his copies of Memos 2, 4, 6, and 7 to the FBI or seek
President Trump on Thursday said he's not inclined to do an interview with CNN because he thinks it would be "disloyal" to his supporters. "They are begging me to do an interview, and I just think it would be disloyal to my followers," Trump said after he called into Brian Kilmeade's Fox News Radio show.
"I think it would be very disloyal to people that are Trump fans and people that voted for me and people that are going to vote again," he added.
Trump has not sat for an interview with CNN since he took office, though he spoke with the network multiple times during the 2016 presidential campaign.
With remarkably little fanfare, an enduring progressive political fairytale has been debunked by an insider. The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 under progressive President Woodrow Wilson, as one of those supposedly politically neutral federal bureaucracies run by technocrats in the interest of the greater good. It was to take monetary policy decisions out of politics and in the hands of experts. one of the top officials of the Fed in recent years has fought back and urged the Fed to operate so as to exert political influence against Trump.
A 2,800-year-old inscribed stone altar, found within a Moabite sanctuary in the ancient city of Ataroth in Jordan, may shed light on an ancient biblical war.
The altar bears two inscriptions. The words are in the Moabite language and script, while the numerals in the inscriptions are in Hieratic (an Egyptian writing system). The altar appears to date to a time after Mesha, king of Moab, successfully rebelled against the Kingdom of Israel and conquered Ataroth (sometimes spelled Atarot), a city that the Kingdom of Israel had controlled. By this time, Israel had broke in two with a northern kingdom that retained the name Israel and a southern kingdom called Judah.
In just about any industry, having a market share of 92 percent would plainly constitute a monopoly. (In fact, according to some economists, any time a company commands more than 25 percent of a given market, it can begin to exert anti-competitive pressure.) And that’s the position that the search giant Google finds itself in.
Statcounter, the analytics company, has the data. As of July 2019, Alphabet’s Google search engine commanded 92.19 percent of online queries. Coming in second place was Microsoft’s Bing search engine, with a whopping share of 2.61 percent. Yahoo, the one time champion, didn’t even crack 2 percent of the market.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham says he is open to putting Barack Obama under oath as he probes potential White House involvement in opening a investigation into unproven ties between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.
Graham says one of the biggest remaining mysteries in the Trump-Russia saga that needs to be unraveled is who told President Obama about the counterintelligence investigation into then-candidate Trump. The South Carolina Republican wants answers from the former president.
As part of his probe, Graham is prepared to call former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former FBI Director James Comey, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to testify.
Talking to various figures in the British government today, it is clear that Boris Johnson’s team want the choice for Members of Parliament to be between their Brexit strategy and making Jeremy Corbyn prime minister. They believe that ultimately there aren’t enough MPs prepared to make Corbyn prime minister; meaning that they’ll get to carry out their Brexit strategy.
The decision to prorogue Parliament is designed, in large part, to limit the amount of time available to the opposition to find a legislative way to force the government to seek an extension.
The crisis of regional and multilateral institutions goes hand in hand with the international rise of right-wing populism. In the US, the UK, Russia, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Turkey, the Philippines and Brazil, we are experiencing the rise of right-wing populist politicians who throw headline-grabbing barbs at global compromises and the negotiating processes of supranational institutions such as the UN.
The more countries succumb to right-wing populism, the lower the chances of curbing climate change and social inequality and triggering the transition to a sustainable economic model.
While criticism of economic globalisation came predominantly from the left in the past, it’s currently becoming the core narrative of the Right.
In a startling Axios summary list called "Bernie Sanders' 2020 plan to restructure your life," Axios publisher Jim Vanderhei (and Juliet Bartz), are sounding the alarm about the nightmare scenario of a potential Bernie Sanders presidency.
The piece was featured in Mike Allen's widely read Top 10 -- at the top. It's a piece that looks like it belongs more at Issues & Insights than center-left Axios. Axios warns that Sanders is surging in the polls and influencing other Democratic candidates with his ideas and they don't sound happy.
Former Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said Wednesday he believes Andrew McCabe will soon be indicted on federal charges, based on reporting that the former FBI deputy director’s attorneys recently met with Justice Department officials.
Whitaker said in a Fox News interview that McCabe’s lawyers’ meeting with Deputy Attorney General [DAG] Jeffrey Rosen, which The New York Times reported Monday took place last week, appears to have been what’s known as a “DAG appeal.” Whitaker said “sophisticated defense lawyers” ask for the meetings “to lay out your case as to why your client shouldn’t be charged.”
“I have not seen a DAG appeal be successful.
Tom Steyer has blanketed the airwaves for years, fronting ads for his political groups NextGen Climate and Need to Impeach. When he launched his presidential campaign in July, pundits were skeptical that the investor-turned-progressive-activist could attract enough support to break through in a field of more than 20 Democratic candidates. His most immediate task: Qualify for the upcoming debates by registering support from at least 2 percent of respondents in four separate polls and by accumulating 130,000 individual donors. So the California billionaire—who has appeared in Super Bowl ads—began shelling out millions of dollars to drum up attention and financial support.
It hasn’t quite worked out—at least not yet.
Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism
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Last week, students at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt, performed Sobibor, a play about the Holocaust and the eponymous Nazi extermination camp in Poland. The genocidal slaughter depicted on stage enraged the Egyptian audience, which instigated verbal altercations with the performers, but not because members were so horrified watching how the Nazis tormented, murdered, and burned Jews. Instead, the audience and critics were outraged because the play was too sympathetic to Jews and, somehow, biased toward Israel. Prominent art critics accused the performers of "defending Zionism," falsifying history, and begging for sympathy for the Jewish people. Critics also argued that Jews are hypocritical because they denounce
The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a new rule that would ease the regulation of methane emissions at a time when greenhouse gas emissions are at their highest -- the latest rollback of an environmental protection introduced under former President Barack Obama.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the EPA's proposed rule, expected this week, would no longer require the oil and gas industry to install technologies that monitor and limit leaks from new wells, tanks and pipelines. Methane is a major contributor to climate change.
Anne Idsal, the acting assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Air and Radiation, told the newspaper that the purpose
Although MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell claims to have retracted his absurd and reckless story about President Trump receiving loans co-signed by Russian oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin, even his claim of a retraction was fake news.
As of this writing, some 12 hours after he claimed “we are retracting the story,” the phony story lives on through social media.
“A source close to Deutsche Bank says Trump’s tax returns show he pays very little income tax and, more importantly, that his loans have Russian co-signers,” his live tweet reads and it is still being shared and discussed.
In the second high-profile instance in less than a month, The New York Times has once again made changes to an article after backlash from leftist critics who did not feel the paper painted the right with a critical enough brush.In early August, the Times was met with strong criticism from the Left over its straightforward headline on President Trump's speech on the El Paso and Dayton shootings, in which he urged the country to condemn "in one voice" all forms of "racism, bigotry and white supremacy." The Times initially titled its coverage of the speech "Trump Urges Unity vs. Racism."
President Donald Trump trolled Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand after she abandoned her flailing presidential campaign, joking that “she was the one I was really afraid of.”Gillibrand dropped out of the race yesterday (Aug. 28) after not qualifying for the third primary debate.In response, Trump snarked on Twitter: “A sad day for the Democrats, Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the Presidential Primary. I’m glad they never found out that she was the one I was really afraid of!” A sad day for the Democrats, Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the Presidential Primary.
Matthew McConaughey is officially a professor at the University of Texas. The legendary actor had already been doing some guest lecturing for the Longhorns, but now he’s got a major upgrade in the job title department. (Video) UTNews.edu announced the following about McConaughey’s new job on Wednesday: In recognition of his outstanding work as a teacher and mentor to University of Texas students, and with respect to his career as an award-winning actor and producer, Matthew McConaughey has been appointed as a professor of practice at the Moody College of Communication starting in the fall 2019 term.
Almost imperceptibly, as political discourse continues to be a discordant contest between haters and admirers of President Trump with no journalistic distinction between comment and reporting, there has been substantial progress toward an improved strategic environment for the United States and the West generally.
Journalists in general and the American press in particular have never been especially adept at separating good causes from grand strategy. Even venerated commentators such as Walter Lippmann and Edward R. Murrow, let alone Walter Cronkite, tended not to see geopolitical questions outside their apparent moral effects.
U.S. Versus China
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The competition between the United States and China for the leadership of the 21st century is basically a contest between social and economic systems. While there is often talk of war between the two countries such an event would be so damaging that WW2 in the Pacific would pale by comparison. In 1941 the U.S. had 12x the war-making industrial power of Japan. By contrast, the U.S. economy in 2019 is only 1.5 x bigger than China's, which with more than 4x the population, could conceivably exceed it. Armed conflict would be so prolonged and catastrophic that neither side would war on the other except by accident.
A Day in the Life of a Tree
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One morning earlier this summer, the sun rose over Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Lake. It was 5:28 A.M., and a black-crowned night heron hunched into its pale-gray wings. Three minutes later, the trunk of a nearby London plane tree expanded, growing in circumference by five-eighths of a millimetre. Not long afterward, a fish splashed in the lake, and the tree shrunk by a quarter of a millimetre. Two bullfrogs erupted in baritone harmony; the tree expanded. The Earth turned imperceptibly, the sky took on a violet hue, and a soft rain fell. Then the rain stopped, and the sun emerged to touch the uppermost canopy of the tree.
The march to war!
The beat of keyboards resounded across the land as thousands of our brave xirs in black answered their nation’s call to arms last weekend. They were men, women, and miscellaneous, briefly leaving behind all the comforts of a boozy brunch or Saturday morning Etsy shopping spree in order to defend democracy against fascism at whatever the cost. Flabby in body but firm in spirit, prepared to conquer any obstacle in their path, this civilian army, joined by the fearless allies in Hollywood led by General Chrissy Teigen arrived at the Twitter front to defend our way of life from Hospitaliano! axis forces.
Elite members
A viral video published on Facebook showed a voter baffled as a touchscreen voting machine repeatedly switched his vote in Tuesday’s Mississippi gubernatorial runoff race. “It is not letting me vote for who I want to vote for,” the voter in the video is heard saying as he repeatedly tried to vote for former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr. but continued to see Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves’ name marked on the machine. “How can that happen?” a woman in the background is heard asking. https://www.facebook.com/sally.k.walker/videos/10104625407917316/ The malfunction happened at a voting precinct in Oxford, The Clarion Ledger reported. Anna Moak, spokesperson for the secretary of state's office
Democrats are feeling bullish about their chances to win a Senate seat in Georgia in the wake of GOP Sen. Johnny Isakson’s decision to retire.
The announcement, Democrats argue, gives them a golden opportunity to expand the Senate battleground map heading into 2020 and chip away at the GOP’s Senate firewall.
Nikema Williams, the chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia, immediately pledged that the state would be a must-watch “battleground” in 2020, saying in the wake of Isakson’s announcement that it “has never been clearer that the path for Democratic victory runs through Georgia.” Georgia has typically been a safe Republican state, but Democrats made
Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s 2020 campaign, under heavy fire for ejecting Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak from an event on Tuesday, has confirmed it will not remove Breitbart News reporters from the candidate’s future events, according to a report.
Earlier Wednesday, the O’Rourke campaign claimed a staff member booted Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak from a speech at Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina, in an attempt to protect black students.
The flailing 2020 presidential campaign of former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX) claimed Wednesday that a staffer ejected Breitbart News senior editor-at-large Joel Pollak from a speech at Benedict College, a historically black college, to protect black students.
In a statement Wednesday, O’Rourke’s press secretary, Aleigha Cavalier, attempted to defend against the growing controversy stemming from Pollak’s removal, claiming that while the candidate “believes in the right to a free press,” Breitbart News “walks the line between being news and a perpetrator of hate speech.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden seemed to suggest Japanese women are only employed because of “xenophobia” while campaigning on Wednesday.
Biden made the bizarre remark to a room full of voters in Spartanburg, South Carolina when discussing the “economic laws of physics.”
“You cannot succeed as a country if you leave more than half of your brainpower on the sidelines,” he said. “Not a joke, not a joke.”
To back up the point, Biden invoked Japan’s decision to abandon cultural norms surrounding women remaining employed after childbirth to counter its declining population.
Anyone who thinks that big business hates regulation should look at what’s happening in the auto industry today. While the Trump administration is pushing much-needed regulatory relief, four major carmakers are embracing California’s plans to kill the internal combustion engine.
The issue involves federal fuel economy mandates, a vestige of the 1970s “energy crisis” that forced carmakers to meet increasingly strict fuel economy standards for their new cars. These “corporate average fuel economy” standards resulted in a radical downsizing of the American car fleet back then, and were instrumental in destroying the U.S. auto industry’s lead in the car business.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” host Lawrence O’Donnell retracted and apologized for a report that President Trump had received loans that were co-signed by Russian oligarchs.
O’Donnell said, “Last night, on this show, I discussed information that wasn’t ready for reporting. I repeated statements a single source told me about the president’s finances and loan documents with Deutsche Bank. Saying ‘if true’ as I discussed the information was simply not good enough. I did not go through the rigorous verification and standards process here at MSNBC before repeating what I heard from my source. Had it gone through that process,
CNN editor-at-large Chris Cillizza might be the last person in America to see it. He's shocked that the failed senatorial candidate with nothing but a dopey grin and a DWI has tanked in the polls.
Yes, really.
Andrew Yang has triple the support of Beto O'Rourke in this poll.
Who could have imagined THAT at the start of this year???? https://t.co/t6TT2MFMDg
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 28, 2019
Interesting. You mean to say that the self-made millionaire entrepreneur running on a concise, relevant economic platform is beating the trust fund son-in-law who sounds uncannily like Butthead
Michael Mann's Tree-Ring Circus
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This has been a tough week for climate hustler Michael Mann, who lost his defamation and libel lawsuit against respected climatologist and warming skeptic Dr. Tim Ball at the same time it was announced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that there has been no U.S. warming since 2005.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., claimed in her latest blabbering Instagram Live video that millennials are more “informed” than past generations and also the first generation “willing to go to the streets” to protest the government.“I think young people are more informed and dynamic than their predecessors,” the controversial congresswoman said. She added, “They actually take time to read and understand our [world] history.” AOC on Instagram live: “Young people are more informed and dynamic than their predecessors… they actually take time to read and understand our [world] history.”
Socialist windbag Bernie Sanders hit himself in the face while punching a boxing speed bag this week.Socialist windbag: 0 -Speed bag: 1 -Bernie Sanders, who is almost 78 years old took a swing at a boxing speed bag at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky and ended up getting hit in the face after the bag swung back. Conservatives savaged Sanders online and one of the best video captions was, “Taking just one more swing at Socialism.”Watch:
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a new bill into law requiring the state’s schools to teach “LGBTQ history” to students by the eighth grade.The law will require schools to add the history of prominent lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, according to the New York Post. The law states that textbooks “must include the roles and contributions of all people protected under the Illinois Human Rights Act and must be non-discriminatory as to any of the characteristics under the Act.” “One of the best ways to overcome intolerance is through education
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is dropping out of the 2020 presidential race.The 52-year-old Democrat announced her decision in a tweet Wednesday as her campaign, which once looked to ride strong #MeToo credentials, was plagued by low polling and fundraising struggles.“I am so proud of this team and all we’ve accomplished. But I think it’s important to know how you can best serve,” she tweeted. “To our supporters: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Now, let’s go beat Donald Trump and win back the Senate.”
Comical headlines from the leftstream media that treat Joe Walsh and the other would-be primary challengers as serious candidates are an attempt to concern-troll Republicans into supporting them. That's not going to happen. President Trump enjoys a Reaganesque 90-plus-percent approval rating among Republicans, and any support given to a challenger only serves the purpose of helping elect a socialist. The brutally terrible Walsh is the Republican equivalent of Bill de Blasio, a candidate so bad that no sane person takes him seriously, but CNN trumpets that he could "make some real trouble for Donald Trump" as MSNBC compliments him on the "soul-searching" he has done.
The Justice Department inspector general has determined all four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants against onetime Trump campaign aide Carter Page were illegally obtained, attorney Joe diGenova said this week.
In an investigation that began last year, Inspector General Michael Horowitz examined the Justice Department's and FBI's compliance with legal requirements as well as policies and procedures in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court related to Page as part of a larger counterintelligence inquiry into President Trump's campaign.
Back in May, diGenova, a former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said the three FISA warrant extensions against Page were illegally obtained,
What factors usually reelect or throw out incumbent presidents?
The economy counts most.
Recessions, or at least chronic economic pessimism, sink incumbents. Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush were tagged with sluggish growth, high unemployment and a sense of perceived stagnation — and were easily defeated.
The 2008 financial crisis likely ended any chance for John McCain to continue eight years of Republican rule. Barack Obama campaigned on the message that incumbent George W. Bush was to blame for the meltdown and that McCain, his potential Republican successor, would be even worse.
A once-unpopular incumbent Ronald Reagan fought recession for three years. Yet he soared to a landslide victory
‘Sources Say’
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MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell lives a secret double life performing as a drag queen in New Jersey gay bars, a source tells me. While there have long been rumors that O’Donnell enjoys dressing up in women’s clothing, evidence of his transvestite fetish has been difficult to obtain. Yet my source assures me that such evidence exists, and as for gossip about O’Donnell’s addiction to the rare narcotic Ibogaine … Well, has O’Donnell ever denied it?
You could justify reporting almost anything by the nonexistent “journalism ethics” of Lawrence O’Donnell. On live TV Tuesday night, the MSNBC host told his audience that Donald Trump had obtained loans from Deutsche Bank co-signed
No U.S. Warming Since 2005
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One of the problems in assessing global climate is that the surface temperature record is terrible. There are very few weather stations world-wide, and fewer all the time. Seventy per cent of the world is ocean, and therefore hard or impossible to measure accurately. Most temperatures that go into calculations of a global average are not even measured: they are interpolated, assumed temperatures based on records at other stations.
Even when measured, temperature records are not very reliable. The U.S. is generally considered to have the best records, but surveys show that over half of our weather stations do not comply with written standards. Some are located in places
A hair-raising sentence that caused a minor freakout on political Twitter this afternoon from the new citizenship guidelines issued by the feds today: “USCIS is updating its policy regarding children of U.S. government employees and U.S. armed forces members employed or stationed outside the United States to explain that they are not considered to be ‘residing in the United States’ for purposes of acquiring citizenship under INA 320.” So … children of U.S. military servicemen and women born abroad are no longer citizens? For a guy who likes to remind people how much he loves the military, Trump doesn’t seem to love the military so much here!
Dear Fellow Members of the Media:
We need to talk about the way you’re covering the Democratic race for president. Consider this an intervention.
You all went crazy on Monday when a single poll showed a national tie between Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
It was like a ticker-tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes; articles suggesting a historic shakeup in the Democratic race rained down upon America like ticker tape. Huzzah! We have a whole new race!
No matter that it was literally the only poll in which Biden has not led by at least 2 points out of 68 national surveys
Let’s face it: Donald Trump is the red pill and truth serum all wrapped up into one convenient dose. For those who remain unaware of the red pill versus blue pill scene in the 1999 sci-fi classic, “The Matrix,” (re-released in theaters this month for its 20th anniversary) it really is about accepting reality over illusion.
Those who don’t want to confront reality take the blue pill. They want to accept the illusion that all is normal, even as the machines have taken control and are using humans as batteries to power the world. Those who take the red pill want to confront the brutal reality
Yesterday the New York Post reported that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is having an affair with Democratic strategist Tim Mynett. The allegation was made in divorce papers filed by his wife. In July, Omar filed for divorce from her current husband. A refresher:
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.
It turns out Mynett's firm
CNN host Chris Cuomo on Monday night wished to press his guest, conservative pundit Matt Schlapp, on a sketchy story from the White House. Toward the end of the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz, France, Trump missed a meeting with his counterparts on climate change, on the rationale that he had “meetings and bilaterals” with Germany and India instead, according to a White House aide.
That statement didn’t withstand scrutiny.
“They lied to us about why he didn’t go to the meeting. Why?” Cuomo asked Schlapp, who is chairman of the American Conservative Union. After considerable back-and-forth, Schalpp declared, “I’m not going to condemn them for lying,” and wondered
My sources tell me President Trump is putting the finishing touches on a White House initiative to declassify documents that have remained hidden from the public for far too long.
This welcome effort to provide more public transparency and accountability almost certainly will focus early on the failings of the now-debunked Russia collusion probe. And I’m sure it will spread quickly toward other high-profile issues, such as the government’s UFO files that have been a focus of clamoring for decades.
But my reporting indicates three sets of documents from the Obama years should be declassified immediately, too, because they will fundamentally change the public’s understanding of history
MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell kicked off his show Wednesday night by apologizing for running an unverified report that directly tied President Trump's finances to Russia, which he retracted.
"Last night on this show, I discussed information that wasn't ready for reporting," O'Donnell said. "I repeated statements a single source told me about the president's finances and loan documents with Deutsche Bank saying 'if true'-- as I discussed the information-- was simply not good enough. I did not go through the rigorous verification and standards process here at MSNBC before repeating what I heard from my source. Had it gone through that process, I would not have been permitted
A new U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) policy alert issued Wednesday states that the children of some government employees and U.S. service members overseas will no longer be automatically U.S. citizens.
Task and Purpose reported: Previously, children born to U.S. citizen parents were considered to be “residing in the United States,” and therefore would be automatically granted citizenship under Immigration and Nationality Act 320. Now, children born to U.S. service members and government employees, such as those born in U.S. military hospitals or diplomatic facilities, will not be considered as residing in the U.S., changing the way that they potentially receive citizenship.
A Google-backed plan to connect Los Angeles and Hong Kong by an 8,000 mile undersea cable spanning the Pacific Ocean may now be facing a major roadblock.
According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, US officials are seeking to block the project due to national security concerns.
Plans for the cable were first announced in 2016 and progress is now well underway; the team had planned to lay the final segments this summer and begin operations by the end of the year. The cable, called the Pacific Light Cable Network, is backed by Google, Facebook, and a Chinese partner.
Worrying new pictures show Chinese tanks and troops rolling through Hong Kong — where pro-democracy protesters refuse to back down.
Chinese state media shared pictures of the heavily armoured vehicles and personnel carriers moving in a long convoy at the city's border overnight. It is not clear whether they were coming or going, news.com.au reports.
(Tweet) The government says it's part of a routine patrol by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). However Dennis Kwok, member of Hong Kong pro-democracy movement the Civic Party said the latest public display is "anything but routine".
President Donald Trump's longtime bank has revealed it has tax records Congress is seeking in its investigation of the president's finances.
Deutsche Bank said in court papers it has tax returns responsive to a subpoena sent this year, in which Congress asked the bank for a host of documents related to Trump and his family.
Trump has long declined to release his tax returns and wants to block two House committees from getting the records, calling their document requests unlawful.
A federal appeals court ordered Deutsche Bank to say whether or not Trump's tax returns were in its possession
A couple who met as two women have shared their dilemma after one transitioned to become male, leaving the other struggling to cope after years of being in a same-sex relationship.
Andy Arnold and Kate Murray have been together for several years. In 2017, Andy revealed that he identified as a man and would be transitioning.
While Kate was supportive of his decision, it has since left her struggling to cope since she is inherently homosexual and attracted to women.
The pair, who are still together and are now engaged, say they are working to 'navigate' the issue as a team,
Struggling Democratic presidential candidates are facing the bad news that they are not among the 10 who have qualified for the next debate, a predicament that is likely to spell doom for their campaigns. (Snip) The 10 candidates who qualified for September’s debate are Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Andrew Yang.
Feds Issue Violation Notice To UVMMC
After Nurse Reports Performing
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After Nurse Reports Performing
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alleges University of Vermont Medical Center illegally coerced a nurse into assisting with what the department described as an elective abortion. This is the first enforcement action of this kind from the department's new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division. The hospital disputes many of the allegations. (Snip) "We do not want a society where, on the issue of life and death, people are forced to violate their deepest held beliefs about it," said OCR director Roger Severino during a press call Wednesday morning.