Posts on Friday, September 20, 2019
On Wednesday, Candace Owens appeared at a hearing before House Oversight Joint Subcommittee as they took on the subject of white supremacy, and after white witnesses lambasted her Owens absolutely eviscerated not only them but Democrats for making every presidential election about race. She fired, "I’ve been black in America my whole life, all 30 years, and I can tell you that you guys have done the exact same thing every four years we have an election cycle and it needs to stop."Prior to the fusillade Owens launched, Owens had stated of white supremacy, as CNS News reported:
This is ridiculous but it’s also the logical conclusion to Pelosi’s extreme aversion to impeachment. What could be nicer for a House Speaker who doesn’t want to risk an impeachment backlash at the polls than handing off the responsibility for ousting the president to the Department of Justice? Let federal prosecutors decide what to do! Leave Democrats alone to chatter amiably about climate change and what not.That was the whole charm of the Mueller investigation from a Democratic perspective, no? Granted, the House remained charged with taking any formal action against the president, but that action would have been much safer politically if it had
The US has announced plans to send forces to Saudi Arabia in the wake of attacks against the country's oil infrastructure.
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told reporters the deployment would be "defensive in nature". Total troop numbers have not yet been decided.
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the attacks against two oil facilities last week.
But the US and Saudi Arabia have both blamed Iran itself. Earlier on Friday however, President Trump announced "highest level" sanctions against Iran while signalling he wanted to avoid military conflict.
"I think the strong person approach, and the thing that does show strength, would be showing a little bit of restraint,"
Epstein accuser says Prince Andrew told her 'thank you' after she was forced to have sex with him
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A woman who claims Jeffrey Epstein paid her to have sex with Prince Andrew says in her first TV interview that the Duke of York thanked her after their first sexual encounter. “He was an abuser. He was a participant,” Virginia Roberts Giuffre says of Andrew in an interview with NBC Dateline set to air Friday night. The interview with Giuffre includes five other Epstein accusers, including three who are speaking publicly for the first time.
The annual military veterans motorcycle run from the Pentagon parking lot to the Vietnam Memorial on the National Mall will continue next Memorial Day weekend under the leadership of a different veterans organization.
Military veterans advocacy group American Veterans (AMVETS) has taken the torch of organizing the motorcycle rally after Rolling Thunder, a group that honors prisoners of war and missing in action service members, decided last year that it would no longer sponsor the event after 32 years.
Trump aide Stephen Miller and his newly-revealed girlfriend, Katie Waldman, made their big debut at the White House State Dinner Friday night. Miller and Waldman - Vice President Mike Pence's new press secretary - were spotted together, making their way to the Rose Garden where President Trump and the First Lady were for Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife, Jenny Morrison. The newly-revealed couple were seen wearing matching, black outfits and sporting huge smiles as they walked arm-in-arm through the hallway.
At nearly 80 years old, Nancy Pelosi is a corrupt, career politician and poster-child for term limits.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said in an interview with NPR on Friday that Congress should change the law so a sitting president can be indicted.“I do think that we will have to pass some laws that will have clarity for future presidents. [A] president should be indicted, if he’s committed a wrongdoing — any president. There is nothing anyplace that says the president should not be indicted,” Pelosi told NPR on Friday. “That’s something cooked up by the president’s lawyers. That’s what that is. But so that people will feel ‘OK, well, if
Guests have officially started to arrive for the State Dinner at the White House donning their best outfits for the occasion.Australian golf legend Greg Norman and his wife Kristen Kutner were among the first to walk the red carpet hand-in-hand, wearing matching attire — Norman a sleep black suit and Kutner a dark velvet-coloured full-length gown, with a diamante clutch. (Photo) Lachlan Murdoch, eldest son of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch also arrived, together with his partner Sarah Murdoch.
Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer is using his appearance on "Dancing with the Stars" for a good cause by auctioning off his neon-green salsa shirt from his debut episode to benefit wounded veterans."Spicer is auctioning that shirt to the 'Yellow Ribbon' fund, which supports caregivers for injured service members. The other charity, 'Independence,' provides track wheelchairs to injured service members," reports Fox News.Speaking on "Fox & Friends," Spicer said that he felt the shirt could be sol
In a House of Representatives committee hearing on Thursday, Democrats cited the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in calling on the IRS to remove tax-exempt status from "hate groups." Only one Democrat referenced the SPLC by name, but many cited the SPLC secondhand in warning that more than 60 tax-exempt non-profit groups registered with the IRS are "hate groups." Earlier this year, the SPLC cleaned out its leadership amid scandal and its politically biased "hate group" list was outed as a fundraising tool."The Southern Poverty Law Center has a list of over 60 hate groups that have tax-exempt status," Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) said
Thirty years ago, nobody was more prepared than I to treat graduate school as a boot camp for scholarship. I was a young man ready to be molded. Instead, I encountered professors who were—there is no other way to put it—a gaggle of petty, bitter, and incestuous fools who seemed to either hate their students or view them as tools to further their own small-minded ends. That, or sleep with us. There were a couple of exceptions, but even those guys were weird or broken. It says something that the most normal professor I encountered in graduate school was the extremely odd and reclusive aesthetician and novelist William H. Gass.
At least four people have been killed and another 30 have been injured after a tour bus crashed outside of Bryce Canyon National Park Friday. Around 12-15 of those hurt are also said to have sustained 'very critical injuries' in the crash along Route 12, the Utah Highway Patrol announced. It’s believed the bus, which was thought to be carrying 30 people, struck a guard rail and rolled over around three-and-a-half miles west of the park at 12:00pm local time. Witnesses say the bus started drifting and veered off of the road when the driver over-corrected. No other car was involved.
Send in the Republicans to save the day. Or in this case, the state. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson toured Los Angeles to get a first-hand view of the city’s homeless epidemic. His visit came after the state asked for federal money to help clean its disease-infested streets.Trump has been vocal about California’s disastrous situation, vowing something must be done to stop it. California Gov. Newsom seized the moment and fired off a letter to President Trump demanding more money — so the local government can fix what it created.
“California requests you immediately act to address the need for more housing options for the homeless,” the letter states.
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received the lowest possible grade from fact-checker PolitiFact for repeating a claim that fact-checkers had already heavily criticized.
Clinton first claimed in May 2017, "The best estimate is that 200,000 people in Wisconsin were either denied or chilled in their efforts to vote" in the 2016 presidential election. PolitiFact ruled that claim was mostly false, noting that the estimate came from a Democratic PAC and that most experts say it's impossible to tell how much of Wisconsin's low turnout was attributable to voter ID laws and how much was due to low enthusiasm for Clinton and Donald Trump.
More than four years ago, former California attorney general Kamala Harris launched an investigation into the work of citizen journalists and abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, who discovered Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of aborted baby body parts. This Wednesday concluded the two weeks of preliminary hearings in San Francisco courtrooms, which revealed the extent to which Planned Parenthood has aggressively fought to deny allegations, cover up evidence, and use their financial influence over politicians like Harris to prosecute Daleiden and Merritt for their work.
The purpose of the preliminary hearings was for the district attorney’s office to show the judge there is enough evidence that Daleiden and Merritt
HHS Official: Number of Unaccompanied
Alien Children ‘Has Risen to Levels
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Alien Children ‘Has Risen to Levels
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The director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) testified Thursday that the number of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who entered the United States this year “has risen to levels we have never before seen.”
(Snip)Jonathan Hayes said, as of Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has referred more than 67,000 UACs to his office – the highest number in the history of the program.
Currently, HHS has less than 6,000 children in its care, but that number fluctuates each day, he said. In June, for example, the number of UACs in HHS’s care was at a high of more than 13,700.
“Alexa, I want to make a political contribution.”Starting in October, users of Amazon’s voice-controlled home assistant, Alexa, will be able to verbally make a political contribution between $5 and $200 to a participating 2020 presidential candidate, the company announced Wednesday.In order to use the new Alexa Political Contributions feature, users must have voice purchasing enabled in their Alexa settings, as well as valid default payment method in their Amazon accounts.“Alexa, donate [amount] to [candidate name]” is another phrase users can say to support a preferred political hopeful.
For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 predictions wrong.
In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent … and it never happened.
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the so-called experts are 0-41 with their predictions, but those of us who are skeptical of “expert” prediction number 42, the one that says that if we don’t immediately convert to socialism and allow Alexandria Ocasio-Crazy to control and organize our lives, the planet will become uninhabitable.
The Trump administration is calling on the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Duke University to revise their joint Middle Eastern studies program or lose taxpayer funding. According to the Department of Education, the program offers very few, “if any,” programs focused on the historic discrimination against religious minorities in the Middle East, and lacks balance, focusing on the “positive aspects of Islam” while having an “absolute absence” of a similar focus on the positive aspects of Christianity and Judaism.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson made comments about transgender people that outraged some staffers at the HUD office in San Francisco, causing at least one of them to walk out of the room.During a HUD meeting, Carson warned about "big, hairy men" posing as women to get into battered women's shelters, according to several sources who spoke to the Washington Post. The remarks made several of the 50 present HUD staffers visibly upset and led one woman to walk out of the meeting, though an official who spoke to the Post clarified that Carson was not trying to single out transgender women
A pregnant young woman was hacked to death in her bed Tuesday during a family break at a luxury South African vacation resort. Karen Turner, 31, who was three months pregnant, was sleeping with her husband, Matthew, 33, and their toddler son when they were attacked at about 3 a.m. Tuesday. Matthew was stabbed repeatedly as he lay beside his wife at the Hluleka Nature Reserve in the Eastern Cape province of the country. Two men armed with knives sneaked into their self-contained lodge overlooking the beach. Karen, a primary school teacher from Underberg, South Africa, died almost instantly, while Matthew
Watch: Combat Vet Dan Crenshaw Accused
Of Lacking ‘Courage’ By Anti-Trump
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Of Lacking ‘Courage’ By Anti-Trump
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On Thursday, combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was confronted by two veterans from progressive anti-Trump activist group Common Defense. Taping the interaction, the two men, identified by Newsweek as U.S. Army veterans Jason Hurd and Purple Heart recipient Alan Pitts, questioned Crenshaw’s "courage" for supporting President Donald Trump. The men told the Republican that there have been numerous "impeachable" offenses and "crimes" committed by the president that Crenshaw is ignoring. "How can you let a criminal like Donald Trump run roughshod over our democracy and shred everything that you and I fought for?"
President Trump flew to California and raised $15 million in donations in ONE DAY! As a comparison…Kamala Harris raised 12 million dollars in THREE MONTHS nationwide. Somebody needs to tell California that she’s running for office! Via Dan Bongino.(Video)
On Friday, schoolchildren around the world will be prompted to walk out of class as part of the “Global Climate Strike.” These young “climate strikers” will protest alleged inaction on climate change and promote an end to fossil fuel use.
“Our house is on fire – let’s act like it. We demand climate justice for everyone,” the event’s website warns.
It is the latest stunt orchestrated by the international climate cabal and yet another example of how the left shamelessly exploits and manipulates children to propagandize any cause. (Think of the high school students in Parkland, Florida.)
Today the President and First Lady will welcome Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Lady Jenny Morrison for an official state visit to the United States.After a day of formal and semi-formal activity, the Morrisons’ will be guests of honor at a White House state dinner in the Rose Garden. Schedule: (Snip)♦ 8:20pm ET THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY host a state dinner with the Prime Minister of Australia and Mrs. Morrison – Rose Garden
First Lady Melania has chosen to deck the Rose Garden with green and gold, with yellow garden roses, wattle and golden champagne grapes decorating the tables.
Her approach to reporting the story is a textbook case of confirmation bias.
There is no substantiated evidence of any sexual misbehavior by Brett Kavanaugh at any point in his entire life. Several shaky claims have been made along these lines, but all of them are badly undercut by available evidence. None of them is more likely than not to be true.
Wow. Representative Matt Gaetz delivered a thorough evisceration of Al Sharpton today that will long be remembered. Keep in mind that every Democrat candidate for President has kissed the ring of Sharpton in recent months. Oh, the backfire in this hearing was over-the-top. Chairman Nadler was so stressed out he couldn’t function.
The democrats on the House Judiciary Committee went absolutely bonkers and lost their minds as Gaetz continued to expose Sharpton’s history of bigotry and antisemitism. A whole new generation of younger viewers were treated to the history of Sharpton.
First Lady Melania Trump helped reopen the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. on Thursday in a mod white dress and colorful pumps.
Mrs. Trump greeted schoolchildren at a ceremony to reopen the Washington Monument wearing a stark white Prada dress with fastened buttons along the shoulders and waist. (Snip)
Adding some color, Mrs. Trump chose a pair of Manolo Blahnik stilettos that feature a multicolored snakeskin pattern of golds, greens, and blues.
Next week, Mrs. Trump is expected to visit her home of New York City, New York to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Unless the mother of all earthquakes strikes and the largest of the West Coast states tumbles into the sea (Steely Dan said it would happen, but it hasn’t), California is not an island.
More to the point, it’s not England in the summer and fall of 1940—an actual island fortress that was standing alone against Nazi tyranny (although historians love to debate just how alone Great Britain was in its darkest and finest hours).One way to look at California: it’s not so much a detached land as it is the uppermost reaches of a liberal peninsula
In response to hyper-speculation about the nature of a recently disclosed whistleblower complaint, President Trump had the following response on Friday morning:"The Radical Left Democrats and their Fake News Media partners, headed up again by Little Adam Schiff, and batting Zero for 21 against me, are at it again! They think I may have had a 'dicey' conversation with a certain foreign leader based on a 'highly partisan' whistleblowers statement." Trump tweeted."Strange that with so many other people hearing or knowing of the perfectly fine and respectful conversation, that they would not have also come forward. Do you know the reason why they did not?
The swamp is bottomless. Truly undrainable.
Unlike blood-sucking vampires that can be tamed with garlic necklaces, holy water and a stake driven through the heart, this THING cannot be stopped.
The Leviathan has become a glioblastomic tumor with roots so deep beneath the Potomac that they can never be wrenched out. Its gnarly fingers of government intrusion slither into every thin cranny of American life. (Unless, of course, you are an illegal alien living in the United States illegally, in which case you may carry on unmolested by the Federal Swamp Leviathan. It may be an evil tyrant, but it is a highly woke evil tyrant.)
Video: CNN’s Savidge Goes to Democratic
Stronghold in Minnesota Finds Everyone
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Stronghold in Minnesota Finds Everyone
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CNN’s Martin Savidge traveled to the iron range area of Minnesota this week. The Iron Range near Lake Superior is traditionally a Democratic stronghold. Not anymore. Miners and working families are voting for Trump. Democrats and their Socialist promises scare the hell out of middle America. Via Jack Posobiec. (Tweet/Video) Democratic voter on President Trump: “He’s our guy” Democrats put the miners out of work.
Trump brought the jobs back.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday he is backing a measure to improve election security after Senate Democrats slammed him for blocking bipartisan election security legislation.
The amendment to an appropriations package would provide an additional $250 million to the Trump administration to assist states with improving their voting systems and preventing foreign interference.
“I am proud to have helped develop this amendment and to co-sponsor it in committee,” McConnell said on the floor. McConnell has previously supported addressing election security through appropriations.
McConnell added that the amendment brings the total funding for election security to $600 million since fiscal year 2018.
Across the Western world tens of thousands of brainwashed kids are bunking off school in what has misleadingly been described as a ‘Climate Strike.’
No. A strike involves the withholding of productive labour. These kids are simply playing truant using the best ‘dog ate my homework’ excuse evah: ‘If I don’t do this, the planet will die!!’
To give us an idea of just how ignorant these kids are on the so-called ‘climate emergency’, Guardian Australia has helpfully released a video. (tweet) Daisy, 9, thinks:
“It is making fires in the Arctic where there is supposed to be no fires at all, only snow.”
James, 10, explains:
“Carbon goes into the world’s atmosphere
“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing”? -Macbeth There are numerous people in Congress who should not be there for a variety of reasons: Ignorance, incompetence, uncompromising partisanship, lack of patriotism, a dark heart full of hate, and sheer moonbattery. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for example, is shockingly ignorant of American history, basic economics, and essential science. Rep. Hank Johnson worried some years ago that the island of Guam might "tip over" because most of the population was on one side of it. Rep. Shirley Jackson-Lee, while watching the Mars Rover on Mars
The incendiary trend of teen violence going viral on social media has raised the question: Why isn’t anyone helping? Monday on Long Island, a group of his peers taped 16-year-old Khaseen Morris being beaten in a strip mall parking lot. Khaseen later died at the hospital. The young bystanders “videoed his death instead of helping him,” Detective Lt. Stephen Fitzpatrick said in a press conference Tuesday. Experts say the problem is a relatively new one, which could have consequences on the teens’ mental health for the rest of their lives. “It’s a new frontier,” Dr. Victor Fornari, chief of child and adolescent psychology at Northwell Health, tells The Post.
The long Civil War
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If anyone thought the status quo would fold up after the hammer blows of the 2016 populist revolt they were wrong. Ben Rhodes noted the effects of unremitting resistance with approval. "Bibi backsliding. Boris flailing. ... Fight back. It will work." Victor Davis Hanson conceded the crushing weight of the establishment riposte. "After nearly four years of ceaseless attacks by Democrats and the press, the strange thing is not that Trump can be occasionally wearisome, but that he is even still breathing."
The tone of the fight was set by Greta Thunberg's declaration to a crowd of environmental supporters, "we can't save the world
A proposed tax on Uber and Lyft rides in Seattle could help fund affordable housing units and transportation projects in the city, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced this week. Durkan proposed the 51-cent tax on rideshares, on top of an existing city fee on Uber and Lyft of 24 cents per ride. The proposal would also require Seattle drivers be paid a minimum wage and get compensation for benefits and expenses effective July 2020. But it is facing pushback from rideshare companies, which say the tax would raise prices for riders and hurt those in under-served communities. Under the proposal, the
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has ended his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. De Blasio struggled to gain traction in a sprawling field of Democrats seeking the presidency. He announced his decision in an MSNBC interview on Friday. De Blasio launched his bid in May, but his campaign largely failed to take off. De Blasio says he feels he’s contributed all he can “to this primary election.” He tells MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” show “it’s clearly not my time.”
In the third lawsuit filed against the Church of Scientology and its leader, David Miscavige, in three months, a 25-year-old woman alleges she was repeatedly sexually assaulted as a child in Scientology’s care, including at the church’s Clearwater Academy.
On top of the abuse, the lawsuit explains how church officials allegedly knew it was occurring and did nothing to stop it or alert law enforcement, actions rooted in policy written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
When the woman spoke of her alleged abuse after leaving Scientology in 2018, the church deployed a campaign of harassment against her, a tactic also based on Hubbard’s Fair Game policy
California’s Request for Federal Funding
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to Combat Homelessness Rejected
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As the homelessness crisis in California escalates, state officials requested increased federal funding to combat the issue, only to be rejected by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, as reported by ABC.
The request letter was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) and “mayors of the state’s 13 largest cities.” The letter points out California’s recent increase in spending on welfare programs, and claims that the “[Trump] Administration has proposed significant cuts to public housing and programs like the Community Development Block Grant.”
The hallmark of propaganda is that outright lies are more useful than the truth. The New York Times’ vile lies about Justice Brett Kavanaugh were so flimsy, they couldn’t last the day.
Yet even after the Times’ correction (which amounted to a retraction), Democrats kept shooting the fake ammunition. That’s because their target isn’t actual investigations or impeachment proceedings. The lie itself is the goal. Once out, even if retracted, it serves their purpose: to smear and intimidate. Truth need not apply. The more outrageous, ugly, and frightening the propaganda, the more powerful it is. That’s all that is necessary for success. The lie doesn’t even have to be plausible.
The U.S. intelligence community’s leaders, the Democratic Party, and the media (excuse the redundancy) are trying to convince Americans that President Trump’s conversation with, and perhaps promises to, an unnamed foreign leader amounts to some sort of constitutional crisis. Never mind that the Constitution vests “the executive Power” in the “President of the United States,” a power that includes “by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties . . . appoint ambassadors and other public ministers . . . ” The Constitution also says the president “shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States.”
But, oh, the scandal!
Just when it seems that the quality of the Democratic candidates and the ethical standards of the Democratic media might start to rebound to normal civilized levels (not a high bar since the days of JFK, LBJ, and Hubert Humphrey), they excavate new depths of inanity and unprofessionalism.
I believe that the latest outburst against Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh will be seen as a significant milestone in the slide to perdition of the Democratic presidential nominating process and of that party’s lock-step media accomplices. The New York Times produced an allegation that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted a woman 30 years ago, and Senators Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.),
Affirmative Action and NASA
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In the 47 years since the last man set foot on the moon, the space program has changed a great deal. One of those changes has been incorporating mandated affirmative action policies. These policies have had an incredibly negative effect on both the progress in the space program and the engineers whose careers have been destroyed by them.
The federal government mandates that a given percentage of work on a government contract go to minority-owned businesses. When building a large and complicated system like a space vehicle, it is almost impossible for a company like Boeing or Lockheed to meet this requirement by hiring out specific
My interaction with President Trump at his Monday night rally in New Mexico generated national headlines as mainstream media tried, once again, to smear the president as racist. Before Trump’s speech, I addressed that same Rio Rancho audience and told of my first visit to the Oval Office shortly after Trump was sworn in as commander-in-chief. As I walked into that hallowed room, I thought of my deceased immigrant father and hoped he could see that his son had become a confidant of the president of his adopted homeland, the United States. The first thing the newly inaugurated president mentioned to me: “Steve, what can I do for Hispanic Americans?”
Firearms manufacturer Colt says it is suspending production of its popular AR-15 semi-automatic assault-style rifle for the civilian market, saying it will concentrate instead on fulfilling contracts from the military and law enforcement.
"The fact of the matter is that over the last few years, the market for modern sporting rifles has experienced significant excess manufacturing capacity," Colt Defense LLC president and CEO Dennis Veilleux said in a statement on Thursday. "Given this level of manufacturing capacity, we believe there is adequate supply for modern sporting rifles for the foreseeable future."
The AR-15, a semi-automatic version of the U.S. military's M16 — which was standard
Parents in Oakdale, Louisiana expressed outrage after their middle-school children were asked sexually explicit questions on a survey at the school-based health center.
One parent, Christin Willis, provided KPLC TV with a list of several questions from the survey:
Have you ever had any type of sex — vaginal, anal or oral sex?
Have you ever been attracted to the same sex?
Girl to girl or guy to guy?
Or do you feel that you are gay, lesbian or bisexual?”
“Children are naïve,” Willis said.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani stated that he asked Ukraine to investigate 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, before claiming “I didn’t ask them to look into Joe Biden. I asked them to look into the allegations that related to my client,” which “tangentially” involved Biden
Host Chris Cuomo asked, “Did you ask the Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden?”
Giuliani responded, “No, actually, I didn’t. I asked the Ukraine to investigate the allegations that there was interference in the election of 2016 by the Ukrainians for the benefit of Hillary Clinton.”
Cuomo followed up, “You never asked anything about Hunter Biden
During an MSNBC climate change forum on Thursday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that he believes he “would be positively disposed to” expanding asylum categories to include people who are pushed out of their homes due to climate change.
Moderator Chris Hayes asked, “Would you favor expanding the asylum categories, which are enumerated, right, to include a category for people that are specifically climate — pushed out by climate?”
Sanders responded, “I think that is absolutely something that we have to look at, and I think I would be positively disposed to that.
Democrat Beto O’Rourke doubled down on his pitch to institute a mandatory gun buyback program for assault-style weapons during the third debate of the presidential primary in Houston.
"Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” O’Rourke said at the debate. “ We're not going to allow it to be used against our fellow Americans anymore."
His comments were met with boisterous applause from the audience at Texas Southern University and he was on the receiving end of a threatening remark from a state lawmaker.
After leaving office in 2017, Vice President Joe Biden Bragged about strong-arming the government of Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor. Joe Biden made the remarks during a meeting of foreign policy specialists. Biden said he, “Threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.” Biden suggested during his talk that Barack Obama was in on the threat.
Can you imagine the headlines we’d be reading if Ed Buck was a Republican? You might even be wondering, who is Ed Buck? Reporting on his crimes has been less than enthusiastic up to this point, but given the pattern of behavior and the increase in frequency of the “incidents,” the story cannot be ignored for much longer.According to the police in West Hollywood, Ed Buck, a violent, dangerous sexual predator, lured homeless victims with money, drugs, and the promise of shelter to his home, where he apparently attempted to murder them with lethal injections of amphetamines. I generously used the word “apparently,” .
When Donald Trump was elected President of the United States on Nov. 7, 2016, it came as a shock to the country. The tough campaign worked for the billionaire businessman, who had never held public office before. He tore down the once reliable blue wall of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, beating the Clinton dynasty once and for all.
This is when the delusion and denial began.
Democrats and their allies in the media, led by twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, were stunned and in disbelief. Instead of accepting the results put forward by the voting American public, Democrats tried to discredit Trump’s victory through allegations of cheating and Russian collusion.
A federal judge temporarily blocked California’s law requiring presidential candidates to disclose their tax returns in order to gain a spot on the primary ballot Thursday.The California law would require any candidate running for president or governor to give the IRS tax forms for the past five years, after which portions of them would be edited for public viewing, the Los Angeles Times reported. This could be an issue for President Donald Trump as he runs for president again in 2020 because he has refused to disclose his tax returns, despite efforts by Democrats to force his hand.A final ruling on the law,
Sen. Kamala D. Harris hit the panic button Thursday on her free-falling campaign, announcing an Iowa-or-bust strategy that she hopes will put her on an Obama-like glide to the nomination.
She also raised the stakes by vowing to quit the race if she can’t muster a win, place or show in the Hawkeye State’s leadoff caucuses Feb. 3.
“We want to make sure that we have a strong top-three finish,” said Harris campaign manager Juan Rodriguez. “I think that will kind of continue to give us a slingshot to go into that early primary state calendar and then make sure that we’re also competitive heading into Super Tuesday.”
New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly have had a deservedly rough week. (snip) In the Times article, the reporters note that "we found Dr. Ford's allegations credible during a 10-month investigation." The reporters have blamed their editors for the article's shortcomings. For the book, however, they have no one to blame but themselves.
Throughout the book, in fact, the reporters would assign the word "credibility" to Ford as though her story was unimpeachable. It wasn't. Pogrebin and Kelly simply chose not to look at the evidence. It stared them in the face.
Despite 2020 Democrat presidential primary candidates’ plans to open the border and increase overall immigration to the United States, Hispanic Americans are increasingly siding with President Trump’s “America First” agenda. In interviews with the Albuquerque Journal, a handful of Hispanic voters said they backed Trump’s immigration agenda of ending illegal immigration, building a wall, and reducing legal immigration to raise U.S. wages.“I believe in the wall,” Marcella Trujillo Melendez, a Trump supporter, told the Albuquerque Journal. “I believe in security. This is my country, and I want it to be safe.”
“The most important thing to me is that I believe he truly loves America,”
How to Bend the News
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This, from ABC, is a nice example of a news organization deliberately bending the truth in order to advance a narrative that it wishes were true but is not:
Venerable gun manufacturer Colt says it will stop producing the AR-15, among other rifles, for the consumer market in the wake of many recent mass shootings in which suspects used the weapon.
Wow. Sounds dramatic. ABC continues:
“At the end of the day, we believe it is good sense to follow consumer demand and to adjust as market dynamics change,” Dennis Veilleux,
WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump, accompanied by a group of fourth-graders from a DC school, participated Thursday in the reopening of the Washington Monument after three years of repairs.The first lady appeared alongside Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and a group of students from Amidon-Bowen Elementary School. The students squealed at her arrival, and she exchanged high-fives with several of them. Trump also gave them passes to participate in the “Every Kid Outdoors Program,” which allows the students and their families and friends to visit more than 2,000 federal recreation areas.
It’s still early in the 2020 campaign cycle, so political predictions are risky. Nonetheless, it appears that the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has already become a two-person contest. Elizabeth Warren has replaced Bernie Sanders as the most formidable challenger to front-runner Joe Biden according to the most recent YouGov, SurveyUSA, and NBC/WSJ polls. All show Warren gaining on Biden and Sanders falling back to third place. Assuming these polls are accurate, the rest of the Democratic candidates are stuck in single digits. This is very good news for President Trump, who will have little difficulty beating Biden or Warren.
Before discussing the fatal weaknesses of these candidates,
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh supposedly asked New York Times reporters to lie to their readers. At least, that is the story certain journalists have repeated, following Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly’s appearance Wednesday evening at the National Press Club.
As with all things Kavanaugh-related, you would be wise to take this new allegation with a very, very large grain of salt.
The National Press Club event, which was hosted for the benefit of promoting Pogrebin and Kelly’s new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, included a moment where the moderator asked specifically of the Times reporters' efforts to collect information on the conservative justice:
President Donald Trump's job approval rating this week averaged across major polls surpassed that of his predecessor President Barack Obama at the same time eight years ago, giving some actual good news to Trump who is known to cite only conservative-leaning polls to bolster his image.
Trump's approval rating on Wednesday was 44.3 percent, according to a Real Clear Politics average of more than a half-dozen major polls. That is higher than Obama's average approval rating of 43.9 percent on September 18, 2011, by the same measure.
The 45th president's average approval rating surpassed that of his predecessor on Monday and stayed on top for the next two days.
Justin Trudeau turns out to be even more of a vapid idiot than we’d thought. But what price will he pay for his idiocy?
Canada’s ultraprogressive prime minister stands exposed as having donned black- or brownface at least three times in his younger years — the most recent occasion apparently being in 2001, at age 29.
The first image to surface came from a private school’s “Arabian Nights” gala where Trudeau was also kitted out in turban and robe.
He apologized for that one Wednesday, then owned up to singing “Day O” in blackface at a high school talent show. (Apparently, no one was checking his old yearbooks until now.)
Via RCP, let me stress up front that this guy, Daniel McCarthy, isn’t some sort of Bill-Weld-style centrist running to the incumbent’s left in the primary. He’s full MAGA. (Snip)…but once we get done with the wall, he adds at 41:00 or so of the clip below, maybe we should think about inviting Mexicans to seek annexation by the United States. Yeah.
“There is a process to become states for the United States,” McCarthy said Tuesday morning on an Arizona radio station. “Clearly 30 million Mexican illegal immigrants want to be United States citizens, probably half the country wants to be United States citizens.”
A Seattle police officer filed a $10 million claim against the city Wednesday, alleging that he was exposed to an “extremely dangerous man-made toxin” when he was assigned to clean up a homeless camp in the industrial SoDo neighborhood in January.
Timothy Gifford claims he was exposed to high concentrations of the toxic chemical compounds polychlorinated biphenyls, (PCBs) that were once widely used in electrical equipment such as capacitors and transformers, according to The Seattle Times. Gifford says the exposure worsened a lifelong liver condition, causing him to be diagnosed with early-onset Type 2 diabetes.
California judge blocks law
requiring Trump to submit
tax returns to compete in
state's 2020 primary replies
requiring Trump to submit
tax returns to compete in
state's 2020 primary replies
A federal judge in California Thursday granted the Trump campaign’s request to block a new law that requires presidential and gubernatorial candidates to release five years of tax returns to run in the state’s primary elections.
The law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, in July would have left the sitting president off of the ballot in California’s March 2020 primary unless he submitted five years’ worth of his tax returns by a Nov. 26 deadline, the Los Angeles Times reported. Under SB 27, Trump would be included on the general election ballot in November 2020. Opponents of the law argue depressed GOP voter
Whistleblower Complaint Now Looks Like
Democrat Effort to Protect Joe Biden from
Investigation… replies
Democrat Effort to Protect Joe Biden from
Investigation… replies
The mysterious “whistleblower” case now looks like a coordinated Democrat effort to block any investigation of presidential candidate Joe Biden for corrupt pressure on Ukraine to drop the investigation of Burisma, an energy company operating in the country, on which his son Hunter Biden was a board member.
In March 2016, then Vice-President Joe Biden warned Ukraine that $1 billion in loan guarantees would be withheld by the U.S. unless they replaced Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor general who was investigating Hunter Biden. Ukraine did remove Shokin, and the prosecution was dropped. It looks like a clear case of a quid-pro-quo.
A New Jersey man has spent the past 22 years training with and scouting terror-attack locations for Hezbollah—and provided the group with intelligence on the Port Authority, Grand Central Terminal, the New York Stock Exchange and the city’s two airports, according to a new federal indictment against him. Alexei Saab, 42, of Morristown—also known as Ali Hassan Saab, Alex Saab, or “Rachid”—was charged Thursday in a nine-count indictment for allegedly providing material support to the deadly organization.(Snip) As far back as in 2003, he gave Hezbollah photos and other detailed intel on New York City landmarks
Durham, N.C.—Duke University’s student government has rejected a national Christian organization as an official student group because its policy excludes LGBTQ individuals from leadership positions. The Duke Chronicle reported that student senators unanimously voted against Young Life last week, citing a rule that every student group must include a nondiscrimination statement in its constitution to receive recognition and funding. Senators cited Young Life’s sexual misconduct policy, which says it doesn’t exclude people “who practice a homosexual lifestyle from being recipients of ministry of God’s grace,” however, they’re “not to serve as staff or volunteers.” Jeff Bennett, a member of the Duke