Posts on Sunday, September 22, 2019
The Arab bloc in Israel’s parliament broke with tradition and recommended Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz for prime minister on Sunday, paving the way for the centrist party to get the first chance to assemble a coalition instead of incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative Likud party.
The historic endorsement highlighted the first day of President Reuven Rivlin’s crucial consultations with party leaders in Israel. Israel’s president has been meeting with all the parliamentary factions before choosing his candidate for prime minister, the person he'd think would be most likely to form a coalition successfully, after a deadlocked repeat election made forming any new government a daunting task.
Iran threatens 'full destruction of any
aggressor' after U.S. deploys more
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aggressor' after U.S. deploys more
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Top Iranian officials on Sunday denied involvement in the recent attacks on Saudi Arabian oil infrastructure and issued new threats to the U.S. and its allies, vowing “the full destruction of any aggressor” that tests Tehran.
The warnings came on the heels of Friday’s announced deployment of more U.S. troops to the Middle East. The move, military officials said, is designed as a deterrent against an increasingly hostile Iran.
Trump administration officials on Sunday issued their own warnings to Iran, stressing that the U.S. will not hesitate to defend itself while also saying they want to avoid military conflict and will continue pursuing a diplomatic track this week
US Denies Visas to Iranian Delegation for Trip to
UN General Assembly - Iran's Presidential Office replies
UN General Assembly - Iran's Presidential Office replies
Tehran - The United States refused to issue visas to a number of members of a delegation, accompanying Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the UN General Assembly in New York, Parviz Esmaeili, the Iranian presidential office's deputy chief of staff for communications, said on Sunday.
Earlier on Sunday, Rouhani's administration said that Iranian President would meet with UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Previously, the United States issued visas to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in order to attend a high-level meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York.
While the Democrat National Committee and various Democrat presidential candidates have been struggling to just raise a buck, President Donald Trump has been busy fundraising so successfully that he’s reportedly been breaking records left and right. Case in point: On Sunday the president’s campaign confirmed to TMZ that it’s now sold over a million “Make America Great Again” hats and nearly a $1 million worth of straws. Yes, straws! “Sources with the President’s campaign tell TMZ … sales for the straws — which come in a 10-pack for $15 and are meant to own the libs — have surpassed $850,000. We’re told they’re by far the most popular
Rudy Giuliani sparred with Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts as he questioned the former mayor about his interactions with the Ukrainian government.
Addressing Giuliani's recent fiery interview with CNN anchor Chris Cuomo, Fox News Sunday guest host Roberts played the clip for Giuliani, in which the president's attorney said he did not request Ukrainian officials to investigate Hunter Biden, only to state the opposite moments later."It doesn’t matter, I clarified immediately," Guiliani said after the clip. Giuliani spent much of the interview attacking the coverage of the whistleblower complaint about Trump, and focused on Biden's alleged role in a "cover up."
Failed Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke, who has been criticized in the past for joking about being an absentee dad who "sometimes" helps his wife raise their three children, said Thursday that he only recently learned his 12-year-old son's email address."We emailed each other," O'Rourke told podcast host Bill Simmons during a conversation about the Democrat's eldest son, Ulysses. "It was the first kind of independent contact I'd had with him, where it wasn't his mom saying, ‘Hey, write your dad a letter, he'd love that.' I found his email address—I didn't know that kids emailed—found his email address and just shot him a note
New World Odor
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I once waded through an article on the coming new world order that read like a final exam essay written against the clock for a Hail Mary passing grade[i]. I mention this because of its continuing relevance to shallow thinking regarding matters of great importance – in this case, world order no less! The gist of the article was that with the “old order” collapsed and in disarray, the “new order” faces the danger of fundamentalism – whether Islamic, Christian, or yours, wasn’t clear and didn’t seem to matter. The call, in so many words, was to root out “bad guys” who interfere with “good guys” trying to spread “democracy”
WAPAKONETA, Ohio– President Donald Trump will give remarks at Pratt Industries in Wapakoneta at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday. Trump is traveling to Houston and Ohio as part of a week-long visit with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. UPDATE 3:55 P.M.: Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan is expected to be at Pratt for the president’s visit. Ohio’s 4th District, which Jordan represents, includes Wapakoneta and all of Auglaize County. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine isn’t expected to attend. This is Trump’s fourth visit to Western Ohio since March. Trump gave a speech at the Lima tank factory in March, held a rally at U.S. Bank Arena in Cinncinati on Aug. 1.
Why did the New York Times come out with last week’s 11th-hour bombshell story in an attempted second vicious attack on the integrity of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh?
The intent of the story was to remind all Republican incumbents and candidates running for Democrat-held seats that they run the risk of total political annihilation through completely made-up scurrilous accusations.
Now that the Democrats have ganged up with the mainstream media, blackmail is the fastest-growing cottage industry
After revealing her appreciation for motherhood last week, "Transformers" actress Megan Fox then defended her decision to let her 6-year-old son Noah wear dresses to school. Speaking with "The Talk" last Thursday, Megan Fox said that her son sometimes wants to wear dresses to his "liberal, hippy" school, and she allows him to pick the outfit he desires despite the ridicule he faces from other boys. "Sometimes, he'll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes," Fox said,
Former Vice President Joe Biden snapped at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy, challenging him Saturday to “ask the right questions.”Biden, who was in Des Moines with a number of other 2020 Democratic hopefuls for the steak fry, told Doocy that he had never spoken to his son Hunter Biden about his work in the Ukraine. But then the exchange got testy. WATCH: (Tweet/Video) “Here is what I know,” a visibly frustrated Biden responded. “I know Trump deserves to be investigated. He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him the question:
Standing Ovation for Trump at Houston Stadium --Indian Americans Cheer Trump at Modi Rally. (Photo) President Trump spoke to a packed house at NRG Stadium in Houston. The CROWD ROARED and JUMPED TO THEIR FEET when President Trump told the stadium crowd, “We stand proudly in the defense of liberty and we are committed to protecting innocent civilians from the threat of radical Islamic terrorism. (Video)
On Friday, a progressive New York Supreme Court judge presiding over a lawsuit ordered President Trump to give a videotaped deposition, saying Trump’s testimony is “indispensable.”
State Supreme Court Judge Doris Gonzalez of the Bronx denied Trump attorneys’ efforts to halt the subpoena requiring him to videotape a deposition for the trial before jury selection begins September 26.
The suit was filed by protesters “involved in an incident” outside Trump Tower in September 2015, claiming they were assaulted by security staff.
While at ESPN’s College Game Day, football fan Carson King held up a sign begging for beer money. At the bottom of the humorous plea was the link to his Venmo account. It was unlikely that he actually expected any donations to come his way, let alone hundreds of thousands of dollars from individual citizens and corporations alike.
“Busch Light Supply Needs Replenished” read his sign, which caught the attention of ESPN cameras, and then the nation. [Tweet]
In a Saturday interview with “Fox & Friends,” King admitted that this mother wasn’t entirely impressed with his little stunt.
Biden's campaign likely coming to an end--thanks
to Clinton-linked Ukraine bombshell, Nunes says replies
to Clinton-linked Ukraine bombshell, Nunes says replies
California Rep. Devin Nunes predicted on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that Joe Biden's campaign is likely coming to an end -- all because of newly resurfaced reports about his possible misconduct in Ukraine that "first originated back when Hillary Clinton was trying to make sure Biden didn’t get in the race." (Snip) A 2017 investigation by Politico found that Ukrainian officials not only publicly sought to undermine Trump by questioning his fitness for office, but also worked behind the scenes to secure a Clinton victory.
Not in front of the servants
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Tina Turner believed that she and Ike were the reincarnation of god-kings from ancient Egypt. That, she reasoned, was why they’d been reincarnated in Memphis, Tenn.; their souls would feel at home in a city that, like Memphis in ancient Egypt, was sited on a big river and noted for its artisanry. In a perversion of Buddhism by celebrity culture, people select past lives that are more interesting than their present ones. Plenty of people believe they used to be Napoleon Bonaparte, but when was the last time you met someone who boasts of having been an illiterate Corsican goat-herder who married his cousin?
Talking of inbred illiterates
While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
(Snip) was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted.The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, where the Obama administration took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation
Who Speaks for Crazy Horse?
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The street corners of downtown Rapid City, South Dakota, the gateway to the Black Hills and the self-proclaimed “most patriotic city in America,” are populated by bronze statues of all the former Presidents of the United States, each just eerily shy of life-size. On the corner of Mount Rushmore Road and Main Street, a diminutive Andrew Jackson scowls and crosses his arms; on Ninth and Main, a shoulder-high Teddy Roosevelt strikes an impressive pose, holding a petite sword.
As one drives farther into the Black Hills—a region considered sacred by its original residents, who were displaced by settlers, loggers, and gold miners—the roadside attractions offer a vision
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe is marking the tenth anniversary this month of his infamous ACORN sting by remembering the role that Andrew Breitbart played in shaping the strategy that made the story a success. ACORN — the acronym for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — was a radical left-wing organization that was, among other activities, involved in voter registration in many major American cities. A young Barack Obama had represented the group, which was later involved in several cases of fraudulent voter registration. O’Keefe and conservative activist Hannah Giles filmed a series of undercover videos
(Video) Aron Eisenberg, an actor whose most widely known role was “Nog” on the 1990s science-fiction adventure series “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” died Saturday at age 50.
Eisenberg’s death was announced in a Facebook post by his wife, Malissa Longo.
“It is with extreme regret and sadness to announce that my love and best friend, Aron Eisenberg, passed away earlier today,” Longo wrote. “He was an intelligent, humble, funny, emphatic soul. He sought to live his life with integrity and truth.” (Tweet) Longo reveals in the posts that the couple had been married since Dec. 28, 2018, the day they eloped.
“While our marriage, on paper, was a short one,” she writes,
Last week U.S. economic data included the Labor Department’s report on initial filings for unemployment benefits, at historically low levels. Also last week, the Commerce Department reported the U.S. housing market (new homes and permits) was the strongest since 2007. Then came the Philadelphia Fed’s index of manufacturing business activity in September, more than doubling estimates as factories continue to expand. And if that wasn’t too much winning, the Commerce Department then announced August retail sales growth was double expectations. Main Street USA is very strong.
Cleveland - An attorney for a protester arrested during the 2016 Republican National Convention says Cleveland will pay his client $50,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit.
Attorney Subodh Chandra says Richard Newburger in July 2016 joined fellow protesters preparing to burn an American flag when Newburger and others were assaulted by police and sprayed with fire retardant.
The flag burning was led by Gregory Lee Johnson, whose arrest at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating state flag-burning laws.
Misdemeanor charges filed against Newburger, of Chicago, and Johnson, of San Francisco, were eventually dismissed.
The Vatican published the list of participants in its upcoming pan-Amazon Synod Saturday, which includes as “special invitee” Jeffrey D. Sachs, who is among the world’s foremost proponents of population control.
In his 2008 book Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, Sachs argued for legalizing abortion as a cost-effective way to eliminate “unwanted children” when contraception fails.
Abortion, he wrote, is a “lower-risk and lower-cost option” than having unwanted children born into the world.
The “legalization of abortion reduces a country’s total fertility rate significantly, by as much as half a child on average,” he wrote approvingly, while criticizing America’s
From his farm in northwestern Wisconsin, Andy Bensend watched as first one jury, then another and another, delivered staggering multimillion-dollar verdicts to people who argued that their use of a weedkiller sold at nearly every hardware and home-improvement store had caused their cancer. The faith that American farmers like Mr. Bensend have in Roundup is what prompted the German company Bayer to spend $63 billion in 2018 to buy Monsanto, the herbicide’s creator. And it is now what undergirds Bayer’s confidence that Roundup will remain a moneymaker, even if the company ends up paying billions of dollars to settle the legal morass it inherited with the sale.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday he hasn’t seen the Ukraine whistleblower complaint, but if former Vice President Joe Biden behaved inappropriately then “we need to know.”
Following reports that President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian officials to investigate Biden's son, Hunter Biden — which led to a whistleblower complaint and stalled congressional review — Pompeo joined many Trump allies in pivoting the conversation to discrediting the Democratic 2020 front-runner.
At the center of the controversy is Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which has spiked demands from Democratic lawmakers for investigations
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave the green light to Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government into investigating former vice president and possible Trump 2020 rival, Joe Biden.
On Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan asked Pompeo if it is “appropriate” for Giuliani to publicly call for the Ukrainian government to investigate Biden.
Pompeo’s answer:
“If there was election interference that took place by the vice president, I think the American people deserve to know. We know there was interference in the 2016 election, and if its the case there was something going on with the president or his family that caused a conflict of interest and Vice President Biden behaved
CNN anchors Brian Stelter and S.E. Cupp discussed the New York Times' litany of recent "mistakes" and how the flubs "damage" the reputation of the media.
"To put it kindly, The New York Times is having a rough year," Cupp began, before recounting the list of "controversial, regrettable" flubs on her show Saturday night, but added, "None of these things represent the Times entirely," but "they’re also not helping."
The Times has faced backlash in recent months for publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump, Brett Stephens' overreaction
Their first migration was great not for its goodness but for its enormity. It was of course the capture, enslavement and diaspora of black Africans. They were stacked like cargo aboard slave ships bound for America and elsewhere and then auctioned and owned like cattle.
Slavery was common throughout the world and had been for thousands of years, but American slavery was notable for its sheer scale. By the mid-1800s, between 30% and nearly 60% of the population of southern states were slaves.
In abolishing slavery, colonials should have led the world, not lagged it. They were destined to found a nation, said Abraham Lincoln years later...
'More to be told': New York Times
reporter says Ukraine story a 'significant
liability' for Joe Biden replies
reporter says Ukraine story a 'significant
liability' for Joe Biden replies
A New York Times reporter says Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden faces a "significant liability" in a developing story about allegations that the former vice president may have pressured the Ukrainian government on behalf of his lobbyist son Hunter. Potentially damaging details have yet to be reported, journalist Ken Vogel said during a cable news appearance Friday in which he additionally warned that President Trump and his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, who want Biden to be investigated for potential conflicts of interest, have gotten some of the facts wrong.Vogel's reporting, which includes a May 1 story that
Charismatic, controversial Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is expected to draw a crowd of 50,000 adoring supporters to “Howdy, Modi!,” an event at Houston’s NRG Stadium this morning — as well as U.S. president Donald Trump and thousands of protesters outside.Supporters praise Modi, who was first elected prime minister in 2014, for modernizing India’s economy, addressing climate change and ecological issues, and dramatically improving sanitation for some of the world’s poorest people. But critics say that under Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, human rights, including religious freedom, are endangered. They point to this summer’s crackdown on largely Muslim Kashmir, an autonomous territory between India and Pakistan.
Breitbart News’s AWR Hawkins won the 2019 Journalist of the Year award at the 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference.The conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona, is sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb commented on Hawkins’ winning the award by saying, “AWR Hawkins winning this award was truly validated by applause from the more than 1,100 gun rights activists and supporters in the room.” Hawkins said, “I am humbled by the award. I don’t sit around and type news articles on the Second Amendment and think that awards might be given for it. This is an exceptional honor.”
Is Joe Biden losing it?
Falling in the polls in Iowa, looking at that indirect political backlight on his son Hunter's sleazy Ukrainian business dealings as Democrats desperatedly scramble to make a new scandal about Trump, he's now reduced to yelling at reporters. (tweet) Jabbing and pointing at a dweeby harmless-looking reporter, and slurring his speech, Joe aggressively hollered:
'...You should be asking [Trump] the question: Why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader? (pauses for wild finger waving) ...if that's what happened, that's (inaudible) what happened. You should be looking at Trump! Trump's doing this because I beat him like a drum!
Optimism in the U.S. construction industry has reached a record high, with builders forced to push off work because finding help is difficult due to the historic unemployment low.
The new Commercial Construction Index, compiled by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and USG Corp., climbed to a record high in the third quarter, with 77% of commercial contractors optimistic about their future.The index,(Snip) also found that “half of all contractors” expect higher revenue and the expectations for bigger profits next year also surged.
“Contractors are thinking about the future and are optimistic about what’s ahead,” said Christopher Griffin, CEO of USG Corporation.
By most accounts, first lady Melania Trump crushed the Australian state dinner Friday, exuding grace and elegance.But haters gonna hate. Critics — notably the disgraced New York Times — blasted her for the dress she dared to wear. The seafoam green gown by J. Mendel that first lady Melania Trump wore during the evening’s historic state dinner was reportedly already sold out by the end of the night. And this despite the critics. “By the time Mrs. Trump debuted it, the dress was marked down to a mere $1,497 and came with free shipping. And before the evening ended, it was sold out,” The Washington Post confirmed.
Rudy Giuliani went on the offensive on Sunday, over what he and Donald Trump claim is corruption involving Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine. The claim about the Democratic presidential frontrunner, and reported pressuring of the Ukrainian president to investigate it, lies at the heart of the current scandal swirling around the Trump White House.
“Swamp media says Biden corruption disproven,” Giuliani, the former New York mayor who is now Trump’s personal attorney, wrote on Twitter on Sunday morning.
“Typical lie. Three Ukrainian prosecutors on tape saying case fixed and dismissed because of Biden pressure. Tapes available to the Swamp media. But there is much more proof. Witnesses,
President Trump on Sunday said he has no plans to meet with Iranian officials at this week's United Nations General Assembly.
"Nothing is ever off the table completely, but I have no intention of meeting with Iran," Trump said as he departed the White House for events in Texas and Ohio before heading to New York City for the U.N. meetings.
Trump said he has about 15 meetings set up, but that Iran "is not one of them."
The comments all but shut the door on a surprise meeting amid simmering tensions between the two countries. Trump has consistently indicated in recent weeks that he
Blexit founder Candace Owens testified before the House Oversight Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Confronting White Supremacy on Friday, where she stated that while white supremacy and racism exist, there are bigger threats to black Americans today, which Democrats have not only ignored but have also created.
Owens said:
White supremacy is indeed real, but despite the media’s obsessive coverage of it, it represents an isolated, uncoordinated, and fringe occurrence within America. It’s a fringe occurrence that is being used, in my opinion, by Democrats to scare Americans into giving up their vote to a party that can no longer win based on simple ideas,
Watch: Jerome Hudson Calls Out the
Left’s Climate Hypocrisy,
Gun Control Hysteria on ‘Waters World’ replies
Left’s Climate Hypocrisy,
Gun Control Hysteria on ‘Waters World’ replies
Breitbart News Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson joins Fox News host Jesse Waters and reveals the most explosive facts found in his new book from Harper Collins, 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know.
“From 1950 to 2018, we’re talking about almost 70 years, we now know that 97 percent of mass shootings have occurred in ‘gun-free-zones,'” Jerome Hudson said.
“This is an indictment on the media, Jesse,” Hudson said about the establishment media blackout on drug overdose deaths compared to their coverage of mass shootings. On the danger that women and girls face during their trek from Central America to the United States, Hudson revealed that it’s been
Deplorables got it right
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It is an article of faith among the Washington Establishment that supporters of President Donald John Trump are dumber than rocks. And yet we deplorables were right while the experts were wrong.
Hmm.
We were told repeatedly that we were voting against our own economic interests in voting for President Trump.
(Snip)Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman wrote, "Now comes the mother of all adverse effects — and what it brings with it is a regime that will be ignorant of economic policy and hostile to any effort to make it work."So we are very probably looking at a global recession, with no end in sight.
A Florida grandmother claims her 6-year-old granddaughter was arrested by a resource officer after throwing a temper tantrum at school — which she says happened because the child suffers from sleep apnea.
Meralyn Kirkland says the child, Kaia Rolle, was acting out at Lucious and Emma Nixon Academy, a charter school in Orlando, as a result of lack of sleep. The 6-year-old was then brought to the principal's office. Kirkland told WKMG-TV that while there, a school staff employee grabbed Kaia's wrists, sparking her to lash out and kick her legs. The school resource officer — Officer Dennis Turner, of the Orlando Police Department —
Iran’s president has warned American and other foreign forces to “stay away” from the region, as Tehran paraded long-range missile capable of reaching American bases. Hassan Rouhani said the presence of such troops in the Gulf has always brought “pain and misery”, in a speech made at an annual military parade to commemorate the war with Iraq. Mr Rouhani spoke in response to an announcement made by the US on Friday that it was sending more troops to Saudi Arabia after an attack on Saudi oil facilities both nations blame on Iran. Source corrected.
Well, it’s official. According to the Des Moines Register/CNN Poll just released, Liawatha has taken the top spot on the totem leaping Joe by stealing Bernie’s thunder.Amid the ‘dances-with-fools‘ primary, Warren tops the totem with 22% (+7); followed by Biden with 20% (-4); and a collapsing Bernie who drops to 11% (-5), barely atop Buttigieg with 9% (-6); while Kamala smokes out 6% to round out the top five.
(Via NBC) […] While there have been several other recent polls of the crucial first-in-the-nation caucus state, the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll(Snip) is widely considered to be the most accurate, so its Saturday releases
We may be witnessing the sunset, the sad sunset, of a long political career in slow motion in this 2020 Democratic primary race, one bad sound bite at a time. Of course I’m talking about Joe Biden, and his sometimes nonsensical, sometimes fanciful, and sometimes some would argue racist comments that have plagued him on this recent campaign. How is he still in the race? Will someone tell him to stop making ad hoc comments and stick to his script? Should we call the people on Joe and get him some help? And why is the media is still calling this man and his awful comments the frontrunner,
Planned Parenthood, state governments and other health groups will be back in court Monday challenging the Trump administration’s changes to a federal family planning program.
They’re asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to block a rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which bans federally funded family planning providers from referring women for abortions.
The rule, which took effect this summer, has led Planned Parenthood, several states and other health care organizations to leave the Title X family planning grant program, which funds birth control, STD testing and treatment and other reproductive health services for low-income women and men.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) called out Democrats late Saturday for what she called their "refusal” to impeach President Trump.
“At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior - it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it,” she tweeted. (tweet) The freshman Democrat’s comments came after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), a Democratic presidential candidate, made similar comments Friday evening, tweeting that “Congress had a duty to begin impeachment” against Trump after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report and that Congress “is complicit” by having not already done so.
Iran’s president called Sunday on Western powers to leave the security of the Persian Gulf to regional nations led by Tehran, criticizing a new U.S.-led coalition patrolling the region’s waterways as nationwide parades showcased the Islamic Republic’s military arsenal.
President Hassan Rouhani separately promised to unveil a regional peace plan at this week’s upcoming high-level meetings at the United Nations, which comes amid heightened Mideast tensions following a series of attacks, including a missile-and-drone assault on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry.
The U.S. alleges Iran carried out the Sept. 14 attack on the world’s largest oil processor in the kingdom and an oil field,
Some key administration officials are urging President Trump to release the transcript of a conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that is at the center of a growing whistleblower controversy.
Those officials believe public disclosure of what was said on the call would quell accusations that Trump broke the law or acted improperly by pressing Zelensky to investigate Trump rival Joe Biden's son. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump urged Zelensky "about eight times" to help Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani probe the business dealings of Hunter Biden.
Spin the magic wheel: click, click, click, click, click—click—click: Ukraine! We’re all going to Ukraine!
Another week, another pseudo-scandal fomented by anonymous anti-Trump actors in the “intelligence community” and fanned into attention-grabbing headlines by an impatient, irresponsible press. Can anyone keep them all straight? They rise like noxious bubbles from the cauldron of deep-state anti-Trump sentiment, only to pass away almost immediately, carried off by their own insubstantiality and the contrasting bright-light series of real achievements on the part of the Trump Administration.
Just this last week, we saw the New York chapter of the left-over Left make a last-ditch effort to smear Justice Brett Kavanaugh by fabricating yet another spurious complaint
When a few branches are dragged strategically from a swollen beaver dam, the sudden release of rushing water quickly widens the breach, and all the beavers' tireless efforts are swept away in mere minutes. In Vermont, the waters of resentment have risen steadily behind the faulty dam constructed tirelessly by "Republican" Governor Phil Scott. The vulnerability of this muddy mess stems from a putatively GOP beaver who has watered down the mud that once held Vermont's GOP together, by incorporating the building blocks of liberal policies, topped with a heated pugnacity toward POTUS Trump.
Environment Canada, led by Justin Trudeau-appointed Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, is all-in on the hypothesis that manmade global warming is an existential threat to humanity. It is so important to hand control of energy use to the government that mere actual, historical data that might raise doubt about the extent of purported warming over time must be thrown out and replaced by “models” of what the “scientists” think the historical temperature record must have been.
In other words, the computer models Canada uses to measure and project “global warming” are themselves based on other computer models.
Did Joe Biden discuss his son’s Ukraine business deal with him? Joe said “No” Friday when Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy caught up with him at an appearance in Iowa.
“Mr. Vice President, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?” Doocy asked.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden said, and as Doocy tried to follow up, the former VP cut him off.
“And here’s what I know, I know Trump deserves to be investigated,” Biden said. “He is violating every basic norm of a president.
One of the more interesting news items this week was the revelation that Arizona Democrats were considering a censure vote against Senator Kyrsten Sinema for being too pro-Trump.
Apparently, voting against the president 81% of the time constitutes being a raging right-wing reprobate in today's liberal hive mind.
It is worth noting that the most anti-Obama senator in his last year in office was Richard Shelby, who voted against President Barack Obama 63.9% of the time. That made the most anti-Obama senator far friendlier to the Democrat president than a Democrat who is being threatened with censure for her apostasy.
In her latest book, Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge, Judge Jeanine Pirro delves into how the Left has dropped all pretense of civility, fairness, or decency. The book explores the three Rs: Russia, Racism, and Recession, used to destroy President Trump, who stood in the way of their radical plan to remake America.
Jeanine Pirro's résumé is extensive. She was a highly respected judge, former district attorney, and elected politician, and she currently has a show on Fox News. Pirro was elected as the first woman to sit on the Westchester County court bench.
Schiff Shafts Biden
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Congressman Adam Schiff (to experience the deep void, look into his eyes) has fallen into a trap in which he aims at the president and wounds his party’s front-runner, Joe Biden, instead.
It’s not my imagination. MSN’s Chris Hayes tweets: “ I am watching this something turn into a story about Biden and am going to pass out.”
Let’s go to the old journalism rule, that a story should tell readers who, what, where, and sometimes why to see what’s news and what’s nonsense.
The Washington Post printed on its front page a story that the president made a call and a promise in it to an unspecified foreign leader,
Ruben Diaz Sr.’s enemies call him a homophobic egomaniac — more of a mini-Trump than a Democrat.
But they also insist the longtime New York legislator is the man to beat in the South Bronx as Rep. José Serrano prepares to retire next year after nearly three decades in office, leaving a wide-open race in one of the poorest, most Democratic districts in America.
Welcome to one of the more unusual 2020 Democratic primaries, a brewing Bronx showdown where the staunchly conservative Pentecostal reverend with a history of controversial anti-gay comments is facing off against a host of progressive candidates —
The conventional wisdom that the court is split along partisan lines based on the political views of the president that appointed each justice is false, a U.S. Supreme Court justice said.
Justice Neil Gorsuch spoke about civility to an audience of about 1,000 at Brigham Young University on Friday, refuting the notion that judges are just "like politicians with robes."
Gorsuch is considered one of the Supreme Court's most conservative members, though he recently agreed with more liberal colleagues in a decision reaffirming a criminal defendant's right to a jury trial.
President Donald Trump is expected to headline his largest rally yet on Sunday when he appears in Houston in an effort to appeal to a growing political force in the United States: Indian Americans.
Trump will speak to an expected crowd of 50,000, mostly Indian Americans, who are flocking to the most diverse city in the nation to catch a glimpse of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at what is being touted as the largest event in the U.S. for a leader of foreign country.
He hopes to peel off some Indian American voters who could be attracted to his business friendly agenda
Rand Paul began his offensive against Liz Cheney as soon as a Senate seat opened up in May, reigniting a years-long feud between their families and warring wings of the Republican Party.
The Kentucky GOP senator quickly made contact with Cynthia Lummis, a former conservative House member, to encourage her to run for the Senate seat opening up in Wyoming now that Mike Enzi was retiring.
Lummis soon jumped into the race, leaving Cheney, her successor in Congress, with a tough choice: Embark on a brutal primary against Lummis or take the safer route and seek her fortune in House leadership.
While France, Germany, Russia and China seek detente, Canada is increasingly part of the US-Saudi Arabia-Israeli axis stoking conflict with Iran.
Canada recently seized and sold $30 million worth of Iranian properties in Ottawa and Toronto to compensate individuals in the US who had family members killed in a 2002 Hamas bombing in Israel and others who were held hostage by Hezbollah in 1986 and 1991. The Supreme Court of Canada and federal government sanctioned the seizure under the 2012 Justice for Victims of Terrorism Act, which lifts immunity for countries labeled “state sponsors of terrorism” to allow individuals to claim their non-diplomatic assets.
More Fracking, or More War?
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Here is a news lead that begins with a bang and ends with a whimper: “The strike on the heartland of Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including damage to the world’s biggest petroleum-processing facility, has driven oil prices to their highest level in” — here, Reuters should have used some ellipses of irony — “nearly four months.”
Four months!
If the United States declines to go to war against Iran on behalf of Saudi Arabia, our increasingly troublesome client state, one of the reasons for that happy development will be: because we do not need to. It is no longer the case that the world sneezes when the Saudis catch a
Youth sports officials and referees are quitting their jobs at record rates because of parents’ poor behavior during games, reports said.
The National Federation of State High School Associations said 80 percent of officials quit before they reached the third-year mark on the job.
A Fox News report stated, “One driving force behind the trend is increasingly abusive and belligerent behavior by parents, including verbal abuse, threats and even fights.”
In June, Breitbart News reported that a brawl broke out between parents at a youth baseball game in Lakewood, Colorado, after a teenage umpire made some “questionable calls”:
The anonymous whistleblower who claimed that President Donald Trump pressured the Ukraine’s head of state to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden didn’t have direct knowledge of what was said, according to a new report.
CNN‘s Stephen Collinson reported Friday that the whistleblower “didn’t have direct knowledge of the communications,” citing an official briefed on the matter:
Instead, the whistleblower’s concerns came in part from learning information that was not obtained during the course of their work, and those details have played a role in the administration’s determination that the complaint didn’t fit the reporting requirements under the intelligence whistleblower law, the official said.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman and Democrat New York Rep. Jerry Nadler claimed Friday that the threat of climate change is greater than that of a world war.
Nadler’s remarks were made as he spoke in Washington, D.C., at one of several global climate strike protests.
“We have to make sure people feel the depth and the immediacy of this crisis, which is approaching us much more rapidly and much worse than the scientists proposed twenty years ago and ten years ago,” Nadler said.
“Half measures will not do,” Nadler continued. “We are facing a crisis. If we had a world war, God forbid, the country would mobilize.”
10,500 Steaks at 2020 Democrat Steak
Fry Despite Their Meat Consumption
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Fry Despite Their Meat Consumption
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Democrat presidential candidates took part in the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry in Iowa Saturday, which featured thousands of sizzling steaks.
Their participation follows weeks of climate change alarmism from the presidential candidates, many of whom have signaled support for limiting beef consumption in order to combat what they say is a looming climate catastrophe.
According to reports, organizers were prepared to grill roughly 10,500 steaks plus 1,000 vegan burgers. Seventeen candidates attended the event, including:
Joe Biden (D)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Kamala Harris (D-CA)
Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Beto O’Rourke (D)
Andrew Yang (D)
Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D)
Julián Castro (D)
Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Tim Ryan (D-OH
It remains to be seen if the latest incarnation of Rambo will attract audiences. Most of those who go to movie theaters these days are likely unfamiliar with all the earlier incarnations of Stallone's Rambo films. (snip) This film does actually provide an education of a sort. The drug lords of Mexico do kidnap, drug, rape, and traffic young girls. They do it by the many thousands of victimized young girls, snatched from their home villages, never to be returned. Until Trump became president, no one cared about the fate of these girls.
Blexit founder Candace Owens testified before the House Oversight Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Confronting White Supremacy on Friday, where she stated that while white supremacy and racism exist, there are bigger threats to black Americans today, which Democrats have not only ignored but have also created. Owens said:
White supremacy is indeed real, but despite the media’s obsessive coverage of it, it represents an isolated, uncoordinated, and fringe occurrence within America. It’s a fringe occurrence that is being used, in my opinion, by Democrats to scare Americans into giving up their vote to a party that can no longer win based on simple ideas
The New York Times has been trying to dismiss the arrest of Ed Buck, a Democratic fatcat who had a thing for injecting young black men with drugs before paying them for sex, as a "small-time Democratic donor," but the facts on the ground suggest he was a rather big one. And maybe that's a function of the paper's desire to protect its masters, the Democrats. They aren't known as Democratic operatives with bylines for nothing.
Fox Business has a rundown:
While Buck once identified himself as a conservative Republican, according to the Los Angeles Times, he became a national figure when he spearheaded the effort to impeach Arizona’s
During an event in Colorado Thursday night, 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Beto O'Rourke was asked if he is open to a ban on all semi-automatic firearms. When reporters followed up, this what he said:
Tonight, a man shot at Columbine HS asked @BetoORourke why he isn't calling for a ban on ALL semiautomatic weapons. Beto offered this to reporters: "If there's a way to improve what we've proposed, I want to make sure we're reflecting that." pic.twitter.com/VIR8eWMz5h
— Ryan Haarer (@RyanHaarer) September 20, 2019
The question was originally asked by Evan Todd, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. Todd
Exposing Junk Climate Science
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This twelve-minute video by Tony Heller of Real Climate Science, released just yesterday, does a great job of exposing the deceptive use of data on which climate alarmism depends. Heller begins with the National Climate Assessment that recently went out to journalists and policymakers. It included a set of charts and graphs that superficially seemed to support the claim that we are experiencing alarming changes in the Earth’s climate, as summed up in this graphic. (Snip for graphic)One funny thing, though: One of these graphs begins in 1960, another in 1979, another in 1983, and so on. If you are trying to show the effects of “climate change”
A Speech I’ve Needed to Give
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One of America’s great men, FDR, although not without faults, began the practice of speaking to the nation via radio shortly after he was inaugurated in the winter of 1933. He was talking about the banking crisis that then enveloped the nation and his aim to was to alert the people about the problem and then sell them on his drastic proposals to shut all the banks, audit any and all of them, and then reopen the ones that were basically sound and put in place restrictions and guarantees that still underlay the banking system in this country. And by the way, federal deposit insurance
We are in the middle of a media feeding frenzy over a supposed intelligence community whistleblower complaint on Trump’s conversation last summer with the Ukrainian president.
We know almost nothing about the complaint or the conversation, but that has not stopped a full-blown “we’ve got him now!” type joyfulness throughout the mainstream media and Never-Trump-land.
Lack of actual facts has not stopped Democrat candidates and various pundits from declaring that this is further ground for impeachment.
The initial claim was that Trump threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine if it didn’t investigate the business dealings of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, while Joe was Vice President. Then the story changed,
Last week, in a Democratic presidential debate, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro read a list of black Americans killed by police violence. Alongside Laquan McDonald, Walter Scott, and Eric Garner, Castro named Michael Brown, who was shot dead five years ago in Ferguson, Missouri. Several of the current Democratic candidates have accused the officer who shot Brown of murder. Brown’s death was a tragedy, but it wasn’t a murder. When Democrats claim it was, and when they refuse to correct that mistake, they cast doubt on their commitment to truth. And they undermine the cause of criminal justice reform.
Brown became an icon of the Black Lives Matter
Like any religion, wokeness understands the need to convert children. The old Jesuit motto (sometimes attributed to Voltaire) was, after all, “Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man.” And so I was moved but not particularly surprised by George Packer’s tale of a progressive school banishing separate restrooms for boys and girls because this reinforces the gender binary. The school did not inform parents of this, of course:
Parents only heard about it when children started arriving home desperate to get to the bathroom after holding it in all day. Girls told their parents mortifying stories
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed he never discussed Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine. However, a July article from The New Yorker belies that contention.
“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden told Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Saturday in Iowa before calling on President Donald Trump to be investigated over a phone call he made to Ukraine’s president.
The New Yorker article, titled “Will Hunter Biden Jeopardize His Father’s Campaign?”
Among the casualties of our domestic political war is the abandonment of professional standards. For proof, consider how two of America’s premier institutions are being dragged through the mud because their leaders decided that standards are for other people.
I speak of the FBI and The New York Times, and the men who damaged them, James Comey and Dean Baquet. It is no coincidence that Baquet’s newspaper became an errand boy for Comey’s corrupt team of G-men. Birds of a feather, you know.
They were united against Donald Trump. Both tried to block him from becoming president, and both tried to get him removed. And are still trying.
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey suggested Saturday that his struggling campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination could soon end over lack of support.
Mr. Booker said that his presidential campaign needs to raise nearly $2 million within nine days to remain viable.
“This isn’t an end-of-quarter stunt,” Mr. Booker said on Twitter. “We need to raise $1.7 million by September 30 to be in a position to build the organization we need to compete for the nomination—and we can do it—but if we don’t, we don’t see a legitimate long-term path forward.”
“We can’t continue this without more support,” Mr. Booker told CNN later Saturday. “I won’t continue this
The latest media mass hysteria over a whistleblower’s complaint that, according to FoxNews.com “reportedly involved allegations President Trump made a troubling and unspecified ‘promise’ to a foreign leader,” is based on precious little information. That has not stopped journalists from convicting Trump in the court of public opinion and predicting his imminent demise.
Who exactly is this unidentified “whistleblower”? What is the specific nature of his or her “urgent concern” complaint against the president? Does this complaint really qualify under the Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protection Act (ICWPA)? These are just a few of the most fundamental questions that remain largely unknown.
A man wanted in the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) plane in which a U.S. Navy diver was killed has been arrested by Greek police.
Police said Saturday the suspect, a 65-year-old Lebanese man, was arrested on the island of Mykonos two days ago. His name came up as the subject of a German arrest warrant when he disembarked from a cruise ship, police said, according to Reuters.
Police did not release the suspect's name, but several Greek media outlets named him as Mohammed Ali Hammadi.