Posts on Tuesday, September 24, 2019
GOP rep introduces resolution to remove Nadler
as Judiciary panel chairman over impeachment probe replies
as Judiciary panel chairman over impeachment probe replies
A Republican congressman introduced a resolution on Tuesday calling for the ouster of House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., from his panel post for pursuing impeachment proceedings against President Trump. (Snip) Lance Gooden, R-Texas, said in a release that Nadler has acted against the will of the House of Representatives, which never gave his committee explicit authorization to begin impeachment proceedings. The body voted 332-95 in July to table an impeachment resolution from Rep. Al Green, D-Texas. "This attempted coup against a duly elected, sitting president is unprecedented and must be stopped,"
For months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned itchy Democrats against the perils of impeachment. She should have stuck to her guns.
In surrendering to the radicals and the noisy drumbeat of their media handmaidens, Pelosi established a formal investigative process involving the top legislative committees. (Snip) But her surrender proved again that her party can’t quit 2016. Like generals fighting the last war, she and they are now committed to taking their sore-loser grievances to 2020 voters.
Dems apparently assume the country hates Trump as much as they do. President Hillary Clinton had no comment on the strategy.
According to the latest reports, the mysterious second-hand whistleblower was motivated by documented political bias against President Trump as discovered by the Intelligence Community Inspector General, Michael K Atkinson.
This information will likely be released tomorrow in combination with the transcript of the phone call between President Trump and President Zelensky: (Tweets)Additionally, the New York Times is confirming that White House lawyers are trying to urgently to clear a path to push the Whistleblower into the arms of the politically weaponized House and Senate intelligence committees:
The Trump administration’s environmental battle with California intensified Tuesday, as the Environmental Protection Agency warned the state that it could lose federal highway funds if it doesn’t clean up its air. In a letter sent Tuesday to the California Air Resources Board, the EPA described the state’s air quality as the worst in the country with 34 million people living in areas that do not meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards.(Snip) “California has failed to carry out its most basic responsibilities under the Clean Air Act, and as a result, millions of Californians live in areas that do not meet our
In his recent Wall Street Journal “Editor at Large” column, “St Greta Spreads the Climate Gospel,” Gerard Baker compares the rapturous US reception of global warming climate change children’s’ crusade Pied Piper Greta Thunberg to that accorded youthful Roman Catholic Saints of old. Aside from his accurate religious analogy, Baker tastefully notes, but then moves on from a little-discussed but disquieting aspect of St Greta and her Climate Change children’s crusade. Her “autism.” Or, more correctly, her affliction with Asperger’s syndrome. Her exploiters chose to incorporate her vulnerability as an organic part of their latest PR stunt.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, acquiescing to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief.
The probe centers on whether Trump abused his presidential powers and sought help from a foreign government to undermine Democratic foe Joe Biden and help his own reelection. Pelosi said such actions would mark a “betrayal of his oath of office” and declared: “No one is above the law.”
President Trump immediately responded to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after she endorsed opening an impeachment inquiry. Democrats have called for impeachment of Trump following reports of a whistleblower complaint that alleged Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden's son, Hunter. (Snip) Trump said in a tweet her endorsement ruined and demeaned a successful day at the United Nations "with more breaking news Witch Hunt garbage. So bad for our Country!" In a following tweet, Trump said, Democrats "never even saw the transcript of the call. A total Witch Hunt!" He then tweeted a video claiming
Fish feel pain in a way that is 'strikingly similar' to humans and they hyperventilate and stop eating when they are suffering, according to a new study.
The review of fish behaviour, from the University of Liverpool, presents evidence that goldfish given an electric shock in one part of their tank will stop feeding there for three days, starving themselves.
A type of fish called a perch, when its mouth is damaged by a fishing hook, will not feed as frequently, suggesting it hurts to do so.
Fish have also been seen hyperventilating, waving injured tails and rubbing parts of their bodies when they are injured.
WASHINGTON ) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, acquiescing to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nation into an election year clash between Congress and the commander in chief.
The probe centers on whether Trump abused his presidential powers and sought help from a foreign government to undermine Democratic foe Joe Biden and help his own reelection. Pelosi said such actions would mark a “betrayal of his oath of office” and declared: “No one is above the law.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday urged the House Judiciary Committee to wage immediate action in light of President Donald Trump confirming that he suggested Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky look into the business dealings of former vice president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, in the eastern European country. “Yes, this is an emergency. We don’t have the luxury of time w/ another committee,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on social media. “Judiciary has been investigating& putting the pieces together for months. Impeachment belongs there.” “We must honor jurisdiction, historical precedent,& work done
Surprisingly, a select display of campaign swag is a rather accurate depiction of what Americans stand to get in the 2020 presidential election, should the contest come down to President Donald Trump and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.Of course, the self-avowed Democratic Socialist has a lot of work to do to secure the Democrat Party presidential nomination, given that most polls show he now trails former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. Warren was the recent recipient of the coveted communist endorsement from the Working Families Party over Sanders — the irony being that the progressive group “received hundreds of furious messages, including several
Earlier today President Trump announced he would release the full, unredacted transcript of his phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from July. President Trump“I am currently at the United Nations representing our Country, but have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine. You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo! This is nothing more than a continuation of the Greatest and most Destructive Witch Hunt of all time!” Trump said in a pair of tweets Tuesday afternoon.
Saying that we are the number one donor to the world and American’s should be proud of that, the President reflects upon American Exceptionalism. Telling the assembly of UN world leaders to reject “globalism”, President Trump encourages them to look out for the interests of their own countries and people first. And then work toward a better world with the leaders present at the UN this week. "Like my beloved country, each country represented in this hall has a cherished history, culture, and heritage that is worth defending and celebration and gives us our singular potential and strength."
President Trump announced Tuesday afternoon he will release a July call transcript with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. It will be an attempt to clear the air after Trump was accused by an anonymous whistleblower, without a first hand account of the conversation, of urging the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. In exchange, Ukraine would receive military aid. (President Trump Tweets) Since the allegation was made, a number of new Democrats have called for Trump's impeachment. Notably, Democrat Senator Dick Durbin, second only to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, also jumped on board.
"Democrats say we have guns in America because of 'corruption,'" former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared on Twitter on Sept. 12. "No, we have guns because it's our God-given right enshrined in the Constitution." (Snip) The second part of that tweet is silly; God didn't give people the right to own AR-15s any more than a divine entity gave Americans the right to own automobiles without seat belts. The first part of Sanders’ tweet, though, is mostly accurate. The National Rifle Association's money doesn't corrupt Republican legislators. Instead, Republicans oppose gun control because conservative political identity is today inseparable from guns. Identity is a deeper motivator
President Trump lashed into Iran, calling the Islamic Republic “a malignant tumor that has to be eradicated,” and ripped China’s trade practices in an address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday in which he also decried illegal immigration and abortion while standing up for the rights of LGBTQ people globally.
“One of the greatest threats facing peace-loving nations today is the repressive regime in Iran,” he said.
“The regime’s record of death and destruction is well-known to us all. Not only is Iran the world’s number one state sponsor of terrorism, but Iran’s leaders are fueling the tragic wars in Syria and Yemen.”
Critics responded strongly to a speech given by far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations on Monday, saying that the apparent level of emotional distress she appears to be dealing with constitutes "child abuse."
Thunberg made waves after she gave a melodramatic speech warning of "mass extinction" while attacking capitalism as "fairytales of eternal economic growth."
Thunberg, who repeatedly declared "how dare you!" in an arrogant manner, also claimed: "You have stolen my dreams and my childhood."
Critics weighed in on her speech, calling it "child abuse," "disturbing," "exceptionally creepy," "scary," "insanity," "fanaticism," and "propaganda."
A 59-year-old man has died from injuries suffered during an attack by two teenage brothers prompted by the man's refusal to give them a dollar.
John Weed was attending the Great Frederick Fair in Maryland on Friday with his family when he was approached by the teens, ages 15 and 16. According to the prosecution, the 15-year-old sucker-punched Weed after he refused to give them a dollar, knocking him unconscious. Video evidence of the attack shows chaos and laughter in moments after Weed hits the pavement; one of the boys even spits on his lifeless body.
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told CNN Monday night that getting a transcript of President Trump's July phone call with the new Ukraine president "may not be such a great thing.""You know, I hate to suggest this, but it's crossed my mind that even if we got a transcript, well, can we be assured that's actually what was said? So getting a transcript may not be such a great thing, either." (Video) President Trump has said he may consider releasing a transcript, although he and others say it might have a chilling effect on future conversations between a president and foreign leaders, if they're afraid to speak candidly.
It is preposterous to me that many of my peers are so afraid of climate change that they say they can hardly think about it. I think what they should really be afraid of is government overreach caused by such exaggeration over the effects of climate change. (Snip) But the price of electricity would increase by almost 10 times its current amount. The price of gasoline would increase astronomically, so that drivers would have no choice but to drive Priuses and Teslas. Further, it is estimated that in the state of Texas alone, such regulations would cause the loss of
The Trump administration’s plan to allow logging in more than 40,000 acres of an Alaskan national forest was put on hold by a federal judge Monday.The U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska issued a preliminary injunction blocking the development of 42,500 acres of the Tongass National Forest for logging. The court said: “Plaintiffs have demonstrated that they are very likely to suffer irreparable harm in the absence of preliminary injunctive relief.”The rulings come the day before the Trump administration would have begun reviewing logging bids and offering contracts to clear out parts of the nation’s largest temperate
Joe Biden’s campaign released videos last weekend to supporters and memos to reporters attempting to debunk the unsubstantiated claims President Trump is promoting about Biden, his son Hunter and Ukraine’s freshly minted celebrity president. They sent out a fundraising appeal offering up bumper stickers emblazoned with Biden’s new mantra that he will “beat Trump like a drum.” But in a worrisome sign for Democrats anxious about reliving the party’s woes in 2016, the campaign’s counterattack is being drowned out by a pro-Trump network on social media and cable news that kicked into gear over the weekend, leveling accusations against Biden
President Trump’s approval rating jumped to 53% Tuesday as Democrats push their impeachment proceedings. This is despite of the continued barrage of fake news and vicious media attacks since he won the 2016 election. President Trump continues to break records with the US economy and he boasts the best foreign policy in decades. Trump is the first president in decades who has not brought the US into a new war.President Obama’s approval rating at the same time in his presidency was 44% – Nine points behind President Trump’s number.
Sanders targets highest-income Americans with
'extreme wealth tax' and 'national wealth registry' replies
'extreme wealth tax' and 'national wealth registry' replies
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday proposed an “extreme wealth tax” on the highest-income Americans, along with a “national wealth registry” that he said would help prevent them from avoiding the tax. The tax rate would start at 1 percent on net worth of more than $32 million and rise with income above that, topping out at 8 percent on wealth over $10 billion. Sanders’ Democratic presidential campaign said the tax would raise $4.35 trillion over a decade and would be used to fund "Medicare for All", along with his plans for affordable housing and universal childcare. Several of the other
Sen. Bernie Sanders, according to financial disclosures posted at the Center for Responsive Politics’ OpenSecrets.org website, has the teachers in his pocket — or, more to the truth, in his wallet.
And that’s worrisome.
That means not only are today’s teachers largely ignorant of constitutional truths, but that also means tomorrow’s leaders are well on their way to becoming just as ignorant. (Snip) Simply put, the Constitution and socialism cannot coexist.
That’s basic Civics 101.
Warren rides chants of '2 cents' at rallies
as polls show majority of voters now back
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as polls show majority of voters now back
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to pay for a series of far-reaching government programs with a 2% wealth tax has liberal audiences chanting “2 cents” in much the same way that President Trump’s vow to build a wall along the southern border led to a “Build that wall” battle cry.
The tax increase on the ultra-wealthy, however, is getting the cold shoulder from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
It’s the harsh dose of reality that awaits every president in the halls of Congress, where ideas that energize the masses on the campaign trail often get flattened.
U.S.-Pakistan Alliance After 9/11 Was
'One of the Biggest Blunders' for the
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'One of the Biggest Blunders' for the
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said his country's alliance with the U.S. in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 was one of its biggest "blunders," citing the huge death toll and economic cost inflicted on the nation as part of the ongoing War on Terror.
Speaking at a Council on Foreign Relations event in New York on Monday, Khan also admitted his country's role in funding and training Al-Qaeda militants to fight in Afghanistan, the Hindustan Times reported.
"Pakistan, by joining the U.S. after 9/11, committed one of the biggest blunders," Khan told the event. "Seventy thousand Pakistanis died in this.
Catch and release ends next week
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The practice of catching and releasing illegal aliens will end next week, the Department of Homeland Security announced.
Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin K. McAleenan said, "With some humanitarian and medical exceptions, DHS will no longer be releasing family units from Border Patrol Stations into the interior.
"This means that for family units, the largest demographic by volume arriving at the border this year, the court-mandated practice of catch and release, due to the inability of DHS to complete immigration proceedings with families detained together in custody, will have been mitigated. This is a vital step in restoring the rule of law and integrity to our immigration system."
"It is important for us to consider how our policies can help reduce hate and violence through any vehicle," Rep. Danny K. Davis insisted. "Any mechanism, any apparatus, any way that we possibly can."
The mechanism and apparatus being considered was unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
The Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee was holding a hearing on How the Tax Code Subsidizes Hate. Its theme was removing tax-exempt status from groups it didn’t like.
The Democrats running it didn’t issue a full list of allegedly discriminatory groups they wanted the government to discriminate against,
Researchers have discovered a long-hidden continent—a gigantic mass the size of Greenland that has remained mostly buried under Southern Europe for almost 140 million years. The hidden continent—dubbed “Greater Adria” by its finders at Utrecht University in the Netherlands—apparently separated from North Africa and ended up largely underwater.(Snip) “Forget Atlantis,” Douwe van Hinsbergen, study author and professor of global tectonics and paleogeography at Utrecht University, told the news outlet. “Without realizing it, vast numbers of tourists spend their holiday each year on the lost continent of Greater Adria.” While most of Greater Adria is underwater,
Like any committed "democratic" socialist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez seems to understand that taxes are for the little people. Daily Caller's Andrew Kerr revealed late yesterday that a tax warrant against the New York Congresscritter's failed business venture remains unpaid, six months after her office said they would make good on her debt to the state.
The bankrupt Brook Avenue Press owes more than $1,600 in corporate taxes.
Kerr reports that the Bronx County Clerk -- where Brook Avenue Press was founded and floundered -- noted that the "tax warrant remains open and that a satisfaction of judgement has yet to be filed in the matter."
Kids Set Up A Lemonade Stand And Had
Warren As A Customer. Here's What They
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Warren As A Customer. Here's What They
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Last month, while traveling through Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) stopped at a lemonade stand ran by two 11-year-olds, Sienna Michels and Audrey Billings. She bought seven cups of lemonade, which were $1 each, and let the girls keep the remaining $3 from the $10 she gave them. Warren tweeted about the stop: (Tweet)As did a reporter from the Des Moines Register: (Tweet) Fast forward six weeks later and the girls are now donating a portion of their money to a March for Life Education and Defense Fund, a pro-life organization. The reason?
The Maryknoll missionaries have thrown their support behind 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, comparing her to the Virgin Mary. “Christians getting their knickers all in a twist over the passionate, articulate & knowledgeable witness of Greta Thunberg because of her age seem to overlook the age of the Virgin Mary at the time of the Annunciation,” the group wrote on Twitter. “Young women can & have changed the world,” they concluded. Christians getting their knickers all in a twist over the passionate, articulate & knowledgeable witness of Greta Thunberg because of her age seem to overlook the age of the
Matt Dornic, the CNN vice president for communications and digital partnerships, ripped into Fox News after host Laura Ingraham compared climate activist Greta Thunberg to the kids in the horror film, Children of the Corn.Ingraham showed parts of the speech Thunberg gave at the United Nations on Monday, where she said the adults had robbed her of her childhood and her future over lack of action on climate change, and then cut to a scene from the movie adaption of Stephen King's book."I can’t wait for Stephen King’s sequel, 'Children of the Climate,'" Ingraham said after the clip. "Now, the Left, if they ever get in power,
President Donald Trump hilariously trolled far-left climate extremist Greta Thunberg on Monday night after Thunberg gave a widely criticized speech at the United Nations.
Thunberg delivered a melodramatic speech in which she repeatedly condemned adults, saying, "how dare you!" while claiming "we are in the beginning of a mass extinction."Trump responded to the speech by tweeting: "She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see!" (Tweet)
Couple who met in line for opening
of new Krispy Kreme branch return to
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of new Krispy Kreme branch return to
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On 14 July 2014, Blake Pulic queued up overnight to try Original Glaze doughnuts at a new Krispy Kreme store. But he got more than just a tasty doughnut when he ended up meeting his wife Brooke in the queue at the Krispy Kreme West Croydon, South Australia. Now the couple has returned to the store on their wedding day – and of course the doughnuts featured heavily. Blake said: ‘I went down to Krispy Kreme that night not looking for anything except some delicious doughnuts, until I saw Brooke just ahead of me in the line. She had bright red hair, and I thought she was gorgeous
President Trump spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
It was another historic speech.(Photo) President Trump called out China, Iran, North Korea and the Taliban. President then called out the open borders social justice activists. President Trump: Illegal immigration is one of our most critical challenges which undermines prosperity, rips apart societies and empowers US criminal cartels. Mass illegal migration is unfair, unsafe and unsustainable for everyone involved… The receiving countries are overburdened with more migrants than they can responsibly accept.
Before yesterday when President Donald Trump invoked it, when was the last time you ever heard the name of the Creator at the United Nations?
God having been driven from the UN, the children’s classroom and the Public Square, the president’s address yesterday was like a breath of fresh air wafting through the bureaucracy’s staid and stale Manhattan headquarters.
God’s name is anathema at the UN as it is in much of the secular world the UN now controls.
False gods and their destructive Marxist messages live rent-free
Fox News host Laura Ingraham compared teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg to the characters in Stephen King's Children of the Corn on her show Monday night. Thunberg, 16, spoke in front of the United Nations about the dangers of climate change earlier that day. Ingraham played a clip of her speech and commented, "Anyone else find that chilling?" The Ingraham Angle then cut to a clip of 1984 movie, Children of the Corn. The movie follows a fighting couple that gets stuck in a small town in Nebraska while they are trying to reach California. The children of the town are a part of
Madrid - Spain’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Francisco Franco's remains can be removed from the Valley of the Fallen, endorsing the Socialist government's plans against his descendants' will. (Snip) Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced his plans to exhume Franco’s remains shortly after taking office in June last year, but they had been bogged down in the courts, marred by controversy with the Catholic Church and used as ammunition by political rivals.
“Today we are living a great victory for the Spanish democracy,” Sánchez said on Twitter shortly after the court’s decision was made public.
Over the weekend, climate change activists associated with teen Greta Thunberg's Climate Strike movement took to the streets, demanding "action" on climate. On Monday, climate activists tried to "Shut Down DC," resulting in more carbon emissions as cars stall in worse traffic. Even climate activists have denounced the Climate Strike manifesto as extreme and useless, but Thunberg herself may be very useful to a certain type of climate financier.
Standpoint magazine's Dominic Green revealed the corporate financiers and the Climate-Industrial Complex that stands to gain from Thunberg's activism.
"The Greta phenomenon has also involved green lobbyists, PR hustlers, eco-
A highly qualified and experienced climate modeler with impeccable credentials has rejected the unscientific bases of the doom-mongering over a purported climate crisis. His work has not yet been picked up in this country, but that is about to change, Writing in the Australian site Quadrant, Tony Thomas introduces the English-Speaking world to the truth-telling of Dr. Mototaka Nakamura (snip) In June he put out a small book in Japanese on “the sorry state of climate science”. It’s titled Confessions of a climate scientist: the global warming hypothesis is an unproven hypothesis, and he is very much qualified to take a stand.
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs slammed the media for fomenting yet another “contrived, left-wing-inspired political firestorm” concerning whether President Donald Trump had pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate former vice president Joe Biden. As BizPac Review reported, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko flatly denied unsourced reports by the Washington Post and the New York Times making this claim. Moreover, even anti-Trump network CNN admitted that the anonymous whistle-blower did not have firsthand knowledge of the phone call.
Me Too started with a hashtag, then morphed into a trend of public humiliation, trial by media, and personal boycotts that altered the standards by which a person is judged. Initially the movement was used to take down chronic abusers of women who had been using their power and influence to silence complaints.
As the movement picked up steam, private sexual encounters became fair game. Many of the Me Too infractions that came to light aren’t criminal offenses, and much of the shaming has been against non-public figures. Those accused who are known in their field but not tabloid superstars experience being
In Ukraine matter, Dems apply
Russiagate lesson: Strike fast;
don't wait to find out what happened replies
Russiagate lesson: Strike fast;
don't wait to find out what happened replies
The life of the Trump-Ukraine affair can be measured in days, and the most basic facts of the matter are still unknown. Yet many Democrats and their allies in the media are already renewing their calls for the impeachment of President Trump. By doing so, they are observing one of the lessons of the Trump-Russia investigation: Act before finding out what happened. Don't wait for the end of an investigation, with its facts, details, and messy inconclusiveness, to call for the president's removal. Strike first, before things get complicated.
We don't know precisely what was said in the July 25 telephone conversation in which Trump reportedly pressed Ukrainian President
"Seen this movie before":
GOP operatives say Democrats
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GOP operatives say Democrats
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Senior Republican operatives are confident President Trump will not absorb lasting damage from fresh allegations that he pressured Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden, predicting he might even win over swing voters in 2020 if Democrats initiate impeachment.
Republican strategists are not dismissing the gravity of accusations. They are simply skeptical that the unfolding scandal will hurt Trump with GOP voters any more than did a two-year federal probe into charges that he colluded with Russia to defeat Hillary Clinton. Some Republicans even see an upside. Impeachment lacks critical support from voters, yet House Democrats are more likely to pursue removing the president through extra-electoral means, risking a backlash.
A Judicial Watch FOIA Lawsuit has resulted in the release of a May 16, 2017, memo written by then Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. [Link Here] The media is currently focusing on the aspect where Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein is outlined as willing to wear a wire into the Oval Office to record the President; however, the memo content actually reveals much more.(Photo) There are three aspects to this McCabe memo that warrant attention: (1) Rosenstein’s willingness to wear a wire. (2) Evidence that Rosenstein took Mueller into the White House on May 16, 2017, as a set-up to
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
Some of President Trump’s closest advisers are reportedly debating whether to release the transcript of a call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Members of the White House counsel’s office have been mulling a number of options to stop any potential legal battle. One of those options includes releasing the full transcript or one with redactions, according to ABC News.
The call has been the center of a whistleblower complaint with the intelligence community inspector general. It is alleged that Trump urged Zelensky
President Donald Trump referred to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo as “Fredo” during a Monday press conference at the United Nations Summit. WATCH: (Video) Responding to a reporter’s question about Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani’s performance on the Ukraine issue, the president referred to Rudy’s wild “Cuomo Prime Time” interview last Thursday before slamming CNN as “fake news.” He then turned his attention to the CNN anchor who conducted the interview. “I don’t watch CNN because it is fake news,” said Trump. “But I watched Rudy take apart Fredo. Fredo’s performance was incompetent. Rudy took him apart. The press doesn’t give him credit, because they take little tiny snippets
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will convene the Democratic caucus at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday to discuss whether to impeach President Donald Trump.The new development, reported by Washington Post congressional correspondent Rachel Bade on Monday evening, comes in the wake of reports late last week that President Trump encouraged Ukrainian officials to re-open inquiries into the business dealings of former president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.As Breitbart News reported earlier this year, Biden forced out former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin as he was investigating an energy company
Steve Milloy, founder of Junk Science website, spoke to Breitbart News Sunday, countering climate alarmists’ proposals that would force Americans to stop eating meat and ban plastic straws.
Host Matthew Boyle spoke with Milloy regarding the climate change activists’ “strike” to force America to adopt more radical climate change programs.
Milloy contended that the left’s climate politics serve as a cynical ploy for more control over Americans’ lives.
“It’s not about the climate because if anyone that uses energy and CO2 emissions knows that it’s not about the climate, it’s about politics. It’s about power. Climate is a shield behind which the left
There are more than 3,000 counties in the United States, and the nation’s capital is surrounded by five of the 10 wealthiest. Financial advisers call it “the proximately principal,” meaning people located near enormous amounts of money tend to benefit.
As proof, the non-stop flow of federal funds in the form of salaries, pensions, bonuses, grants, subsidies, overruns, waste and fraud has created a Washington-area economy second to none. Other parts of the country have economic ups and downs. The DMV (for the District, Maryland, and Virginia) has only ups.
It looks as though Joe Biden is about to bumble and babble and bluster his way to a third failed run for president. Even before President Trump took aim at Hunter Biden for his shady financial ties to the Ukraine while his father was vice president, Biden was struggling with basic facts and weird stories about confronting a disobedient black teen with a chain in the 1960s.
Now it looks like Biden might be forced to answer serious questions about how his children capitalized on the former vice president’s international political connections and how Biden himself ran interference when his family’s grift was jeopardized. According to news reports based on a
Presidential Polling Propaganda
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According to the latest presidential opinion polls, the 2020 presidential election is over. Newsweek is giddy, reporting several days ago, “The latest Fox News poll about the 2020 election shows President Donald Trump losing to every Democratic frontrunner including Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.”
Propaganda, used extensively in the past by communists and Nazis, is information put out by governments, or their media allies, to push an agenda and influence people rather than to inform them. Much of mainstream journalism today falls into the category of propaganda with the media presenting only part of a story, or fabricating news entirely, in order to further their political agendas.
In some ways, President Trump has been going quiet in recent weeks. I wonder if that is because his people are ranging the heavy artillery wheel-to-wheel a couple of miles behind the front lines before the Big Push starts for next year’s presidential election. Think about what we know.
We know that the nation’s intelligence services were used by the Obama administration to spy on the opposition’s presidential campaign in 2016. And used again to cover up their crimes and take out a duly elected president after the election.
Stop and think about that for a minute. In all the media screaming and yelling and the deep-state leaking and the partisan
It's just getting harder and harder to keep it up. First it was Hillary's crowd and then Jimbo Acosta and then Big Jim Comey and the cast of thousands out of the FBI and then Adam Schiff and then Ocasio-Cortez and The Squad. Normally, one would also credit Maxine and Nancy of the Gossip Girls, but their contributions have become so iffy, their voices so muted, their thinking so clouded, their influence so doubtful.
We've gone from collusion with Russia to shady deals with Ukraine. Next will probably come something about Belorussia, and after that Bulgaria
Like It Never Even Happened
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There is a water/fire restoration company named ServPro and their marketing pitch is, “We’ll make fire and water damage seem like it never even happened.”
This is exactly how the Democratic Party operates these days. Whenever one of their current talking points or policy planks is shown to be dishonest or wildly inaccurate or completely deceptive, the Dems don’t apologize or modify their position or readjust their thinking in the slightest. Instead, they do exactly the opposite: they dig their heels in deeper, reconfirm their existing stance and plow forward as if the contradictory new evidence never came to light.
There are so many examples
The most unpopular position in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary is a policy forcing American taxpayers to provide free healthcare for 11 to 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States, a new survey reveals.
According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, when all American voters are asked to rank 12 policies from best to worst, a plan to provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to all illegal aliens — endorsed by Democrat front-runners like Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) — ranks as the least popular among the bunch.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta recently decried the United States under President Donald Trump as “vicious” and “nasty” and even claimed the country’s condition has caused him to angrily throw empty beer cans at his television.
“We have to ask ourselves, you know, it is relieving, it is cathartic to lash out at that guy on the TV screen,” Acosta told audience members at the Hill Center in Washington, D.C. at an event to promote his book — The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America — according to footage of the event obtained by the Daily Caller on Friday.
Acosta said:
President Donald Trump mocked teenage Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on Monday evening, after she sent leftists swooning with her tearful, accusatory speech at the United Nations earlier in the day in New York.
Thunberg, who came to the U.S. on a “zero-emissions” sailboat owned by the royal family of Monaco, said, in part (via NPR):
My message is that we’ll be watching you.
This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you!
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.
Political analysts and followers are understandably consumed these days with the grinding mechanics of the 2020 presidential campaign — the debates, the secretly developing ground games, declared policies, the fundraising, the strategizing around key states and polls, the only interim indicators we have of the race still four months from any vote. [Snip] But the key question 58 weeks out from The Day is most likely to focus less on policies and promises and much more on the incumbent president’s personality and day-to-day behavior. Fact is, most presidents seeking reelection get it — only four elected presidents seeking second terms have lost since
In 1960, Nikita Khrushchev banged his shoe on the desk in anger at a summit in the United Nations, but what most remember about this Communist Russian leader were his words to Western leaders. ”We will bury you.” Level-headed USSR delegates did not approve of his aggressive statements and by 1964, he lost his position.
Russia may be an adversary, but it is not our number one enemy. Neither is China, which may have over a billion people but we’re its best customer and they’ve invested too much in this nation to risk our destruction.
Iranian leaders, on the other hand, have made no secret
Earlier this month, during a bipartisan meeting in Kiev, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) delivered a pointed message to Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
While choosing his words carefully, Murphy made clear — by his own account — that Ukraine currently enjoyed bipartisan support for its U.S. aid but that could be jeopardized if the new president acquiesced to requests by President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate past corruption allegations involving Americans, including former Vice President Joe Biden’s family.
Joe Biden’s Folly
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Joe Biden’s now famous run-in with notorious gangster “Corn Pop” was a scene right out of West Side Story, The Outsiders, or some other overrated movie that hasn’t aged well. Speaking of things not aging well, Biden’s brain is not having a good decade. From his claims of intimate involvement with the civil rights movement to his opposition to the Iraq War from its start, Joe is very creative with his own history. In that vein, I thought I’d help him by clarifying a few parts of his biography before he makes the mistake of thinking these things happened to him.
Biden did not team up with his dance partners
Hillary Rodham Clinton made listening tours famous, using them to build buzz for her New York Senate and presidential campaigns.
Now, she’s on another.
In an email to supporters, the 2008 and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said, “I’d like to hear what you’re thinking.”
While she isn’t talking about running for president for a third time, Clinton said that she has been talking to people about key issues, including immigration reform and electing Democrats “at all levels” in 2020.“I’ve been traveling and talking with folks around the world about their plans for the rest of the year. Some members of this team are doubling down on issues
The attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities just over a week ago promises to dominate high-level diplomacy at this year’s United Nations General Assembly. Not that it’s the only thing to talk about. The Security Council’s agenda was already packed with crises involving North Korea, Libya, Yemen, Venezuela, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to name a few. That’s not to mention the existential global threat posed by climate change, which the UN will take up at this week’s Climate Action Summit.
All these emergencies call for international cooperation and joint action. The U.S. took the lead in creating the UN for that very purpose —
A Platform of Urban Decline
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Democratic accusations that America is endemically racist are becoming ever more frequent and strident. At the last presidential debate, Pete Buttigieg announced that “systemic racism” will “be with us” regardless of who wins the presidency; Beto O’Rourke claimed that racism in America is “foundational” and that people of color were under “mortal threat” from the “white supremacist in the White House”; Julián Castro denounced the growing threat of “white supremacy”; and Cory Booker called for “attacking systemic racism,” especially in the “racially biased” criminal-justice system.
At the same time, the allowable explanations for racial disparities have shrunk to one: that self-same racism. During this month’s debate, Joe Biden tried to suggest
The attorney for retired Army Gen. Michael Flynn is refusing to let the former national security adviser testify before Rep. Adam Schiff, saying the California Democrat disregards “ethics in your theatrical demand.”
Attorney Sidney Powell said Monday in a letter that Flynn is invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment to avoid being “paraded, harassed or disparaged” by Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Mr. Schiff, who took committee control in January, has launched an investigation into nearly every aspect of President Trump’s life.
Mr. Schiff was a big proponent of the Democratic Party-financed dossier sourced to the Kremlin. The dossier’s charges of Trump election conspiracy proved unfounded.
While in Iowa last week, former Vice President Joe Biden refused to explain in a video interview why Iowans should bother voting for him if they are experiencing a booming economy.
During an interview Friday with Denise Hnytka, a news anchor for local news station WQAD, Biden said “I’m not going to,” when asked to make his case on why Iowa voters should vote for him over President Donald Trump given the president’s record on the economy.
“In Iowa, the unemployment rate is 2.5% — people say they are employed in Iowa and their small businesses are growing,” a reporter said to Biden.
President Trump on Monday tweeted out a video mocking Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) over his failed 2012 presidential bid, comparing it with Trump's own success four years later.
The video includes clips of election night in 2012, when Romney lost to former President Obama, and in 2016, when Trump defeated Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
A foreign natural gas company brings a top US politician’s son onto its board, even though he has no relevant expertise, for $50,000 a month. The politician travels to that country and demands the removal of a prosecutor who’s investigating the company. That prosecutor then gets axed, and the investigation shut down.
Imagine the son was Eric Trump, and the politician Donald Trump. Would the media be dismissing it as nothing worth looking at, a “debunked” issue?
Yes, Ukraine’s chief prosecutor declared in May that he’d seen no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe or Hunter Biden. (Of course not: Again, the investigation got closed years ago.)
Why Trump Will Survive Even This
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Nobody is going to hold Donald Trump accountable for his alleged Ukrainian shenanigans because—as we’ve seen in his career and the first 32 months of his presidency—he’s too good at deflecting investigators, irate Democrats and pesky reporters.
To begin with, Trump suffers no shame when confronted with the outrages of his personal, professional and political lives. A normal fellow would blush crimson if caught paying a porn actress hush money after purportedly having sex with her. He’d cringe if confronted with the lascivious things he’d repeatedly said about his eldest daughter. He’d wear a mask to avoid being recognized if 17 women had accused him of sexual misbehavior.
Emmys, it’s time to check yourself before you wreck yourself.
The early numbers are telling us the 2019 Emmy Award telecast was a flop, down 22 percent from last year’s discouraging 10.2 million, which is less than what a weekly episode of “NCIS” garnered in its 16th season.
Various production choices — no host (unless you count Homer Simpson), crummy disco music, a puerile announcer — are partly to blame. But the main problem is the award itself. The Emmys don’t mean much to the American public because last night’s big winners — “Game of Thrones,” “Fleabag” and “Chernobyl” — are done, off the air, out of production, kaput.
Year-old texts contained in a Senate Judiciary Committee report show that New York Times reporter Robin Pogrebin engaged in questionable journalistic tactics to shape a false narrative against Kavanaugh by telling a source what to say and by asking sources to confirm information she herself had given them. And despite including a highly opinionated discussion of the text exchange in their book, the authors never admitted that Pogrebin was a key player in the exchanges.
Pogrebin made a bizarre and unsupported claim this week that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had told her to lie. It turned out Pogrebin had mischaracterized discussions with the Supreme Court’s public information officer, not Kavanaugh,
A dramatic video recorded at a Bronx subway station Monday morning showed a man rescuing a 5-year-old girl from beneath a train.
The girl can be seen crawling out from under a southbound No. 4 train at the Kingsbridge Road station before the man grabs her and hoists her onto the side platform. A woman off-camera can be heard shouting, “Little by little, my love, little by little!” in between sobs.
A crowd can be seen trying to console the girl after she’s on the platform.
Authorities say the girl’s 45-year-old father jumped in front of an oncoming train moments earlier with the girl in his arms.
Leftist Hollywood figures showered praise on Swedish teen climate change celebrity Greta Thunberg on Monday as she addressed the United Nations General Assembly chided world and warning that the planet is in the “beginning of a mass extinction.”This fear and pain is real. And it’s gut-wrenching. No generation should have to deal with inaction from leadership,” actress-activist Alyssa Milano said in a tweet that included a video of Thunberg’s rant. “We are blessed to have this warrior of the human spirit.(Listen to her. Don’t just hear. Really listen.)”
Should our 232-year-old United States Constitution still be binding? For the last few years, progressives increasingly have begun to answer with an emphatic “No!” The most visible such criticism of our fundamental law is the attack on the Electoral College, which provides for indirect election of the president by electors who, if the truth be told, represent the states far better than the popular vote of the people.Progressives believe that democracy demands a majority of the popular vote select the president, rather than a majority of the Electoral College, which latter body, after all, reflects political subdivisions and geographical areas as much as it does the will of the majority.