Posts on Friday, September 27, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday evening the bans on abortion that have passed in many states “ignore basic morality.” (Video) “Today, as we know, an all-out assault on women’s reproductive freedoms is sweeping the nation, as Republicans seek to impose abortion bans on millions of women in dozens of states,” Pelosi said as she addressed attendees at the 50th anniversary dinner of abortion political action and advocacy organization NARAL. The speaker, a professed Catholic, added: These bans violate the Constitution. They ignore basic morality. They imperil the health and well-being of countless women. And they showcase a radical Republican agenda that will stop at nothing
Knowing It All at 16
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How much credibility should we give to a 16-year-old when considering her qualifications to lecture adults about science and an end-of-the-world scenario? Greta Thunberg has been dubbed by the media as a "climate change activist" and a teen "eco-warrior." She was at the United Nations in New York on Monday to appear before diplomats and others at a "climate action summit." Only the UN has less credibility than a teenager.(Snip)Thunberg was preparing to speak to the assembled adults at the UN when President Trump walked in ahead of her. The man knows showmanship. The expression on Thunberg's face was priceless.
The cover for the upcoming edition of the New Yorker depicts President Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani as mobsters who are murdering Uncle Sam. Trump and Giuliani have been embroiled in a scandal surrounding a July 25 phone call the president had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during which he asked the foreign leader to investigate his potential 2020 opponent Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. The president also suggested that Zelensky work with Giuliani, who has been operating his own investigation into the matter, and Attorney General William Barr.
Alfredo Ortiz of Job Creators Network writes in The Hill that Republicans should capitalize on the economic success the current Hispanic population is experiencing by making a strong pitch for their votes in 2020. A Census Bureau report released this month reiterates what we already know: Hispanics have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the Trump economy. The president and Congressional Republicans should leverage this Hispanic economic success to maximize their chances of reelection next year. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently reported that Hispanic wages grew by a healthy 3.3 percent over the last year, while the Hispanic unemployment rate currently stands at just 4.2 percent,
Folks, this “Ukraine Whistleblower” event was a pre-planned event. As we begin to understand the general outline of how the Schiff Dossier was assembled, we are now starting to get into the specifics. First discovered by researcher Stephen McIntyre, there is now evidence surfacing showing the ICIG recently created an entirely new ‘whistleblower complaint form’ that specifically allowed for the filing of complaints “heard from others“.
Speculation is starting to grow that the repeatedly failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton may try to run for office once again as she has a full slate of media appearances scheduled next week.The former First Lady is making appearances on CBS Sunday Morning, Stephen Colbert, and The View. The media blitz is being billed as a way to promote her and her daughter Chelsea Clinton’s new book, The Book of Gutsy Women
An American diplomat at the center of the U.S.-Ukraine controversy has resigned — a potentially significant blow for President Trump as he faces impeachment proceedings in the Democratic-led House of Representatives. Kurt Volker met with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday and announced he would be resigning from his post as U.S. special envoy for Ukraine, according to Arizona State University's State Press. A former career diplomat and one-time CIA analyst, Volker, 54, rose to prominence during the George W. Bush administration — rising to U.S. ambassador to NATO, and joined the private sector after the election of President Barack Obama.
Today in a court filing, surrounding a FOIA case seeking access to the fully unredacted Carter Page FISA application, the DOJ clarified the position of the DOJ as it pertains to President Trump’s May 2019 declassification authority. (pdf available here)
The DOJ highlights that President Trump did not order AG William Barr to declassify anything. Instead, according to the official position of the DOJ, President Trump “delegated authority” to the Attorney General to determine *if* anything should be declassified:(Image)Whether AG Bill Barr does actually declassify anything is open to debate. The current odds remain slightly less than 50/50; however, those odds could diminish
Having his morning coffee and cigarette outside a Starbucks in one of the most politically contested counties in the United States, Richard Sibilla recoils at the memory of President Donald Trump's election. But impeach him now? Sibilla can see little upside. (Snip) A Reuters/Ipsos poll taken on Monday and Tuesday showed 37% of respondents favored impeaching the president versus 45% who were opposed. That 37% figure was down from 41% three weeks earlier and down from 44% in May, after the release of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election. "I don't think
A federal judge in California ruled Friday against the Trump administration’s plan to detain illegal immigrant families longer than 20 days, undercutting the president’s attempt to close the chief “loophole” that caused this year’s border surge. Judge Dolly M. Gee, an Obama appointee, has long been a stumbling block for Homeland Security and its immigration plans, and the ruling was expected. The administration is likely to quickly appeal. Homeland Security had asked Judge Gee to cancel the Flores agreement, a 1990s-era court settlement that sets out strict rules for how illegal immigrant children who arrive at the border without parents are treated.
In our previous article, we discussed the demise of the Thomas Cook travel conglomerate. Today we’ll start with what’s really roiling markets this week: The Deep State / Democrat-led sequel to the Trump-Russia collusion non-scandal. Namely, the Trump / Ukraine fake whistleblower scandal. The Deep State and House Idiocrats just can’t let go of this nonsense. Hence, before our very eyes, we are witnessing the actual demise of a functioning Congress. Add the latest China scuttlebutt to this already confusing Ukraine mess, and you have… well, an even more confusing mess.
The hits just keep on coming. Justice Department lawyers argued in a federal court on Friday that the DOJ never received an order from President Trump to declassify the Carter Page FISA documents. The Trump White House said in a public statement in May that the president had given US Attorney General Bill Barr the authority to declassify the Carter Page FISA documents, however, DOJ lawyers “subsequently confirmed with the White House that there was and is no order to declassify.”The 10-page court filing also showed DOJ lawyers argued that they shouldn’t have to answer any questions to clear up the discrepency. Discovery would “involve obviously privileged information
A vegan claims she was served a pork sausage roll she thought was meat-free — and says she’ll be “traumatized for life.” Sharleen Ndungu, 20, said she broke down in tears and started having heart palpitations once she realized that the vegan sausage roll she ordered from bakery chain Greggs in Kent, England, actually contained meat. “I haven’t had meat in two years. My belly started hurting and my heart started going crazy,” Ndgungu said, according to Metro UK. “I was panicking because that only happens when I consume meat – this doesn’t happen when I have other food. I’m traumatized for life now –
"Impeach Yourselves!" read the banner headline on Breitbart.com Wednesday morning, summing up what much of the right-wing news world thinks of the congressional impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that had been launched the previous day. "The psychotic anti-Trump hysteria has now completely overtaken the entire Democratic Party," Fox News anchor and Trump booster Sean Hannity told nearly 4 million viewers Tuesday. "They think anytime a Republican is elected president, there must have been something 'illegitimate' going on," Kevin D. Williamson wrote in the National Review Thursday.
Former Ambassador Joe Wilson — who found himself and his then-wife Valerie Plame in the middle of a political firestorm when he contradicted President George W. Bush’s rationale for the 2003 invasion of Iraq — has died at the age of 69.
Plame, a former CIA operative who was outed in apparent revenge after Wilson blew the whistle on Bush, said the cause was organ failure. Wilson and Plame ended their marriage in 2017.
A veteran, 23-year diplomat, Wilson had been assigned by the CIA as a private citizen to go to Niger in 2003 and investigate reports that Iraq had been sold uranium yellowcake by the African country
House Democrats subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday afternoon for documents related Donald Trump's call with Ukraine's president the diplomat has not produced.Rep. Eliot Engel, chairman of the Foreign Affairs committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings, chairman of the Oversight committee, and Rep. Adam Schiff, chairman of the Intelligence committee, gave him until Oct. 4 to comply in new letter. 'Your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena shall constitute evidence of bstruction of the House’s impeachment inquiry,' the chairmen wrote.They are also seeking testimony from the whistle-blower who revealed the content of the call and other current and former State Department officials
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace went against the grain on Friday, blasting Trump and his “defenders” for trying to make “nothing out of something” over the Ukraine bruhaha.Wallace called arguments made by Trump’s supporters “astonishing” and “deeply misleading.”“America’s Newsroom” anchor Sandra Smith pushed back, but Wallace wasn’t having it. “The spinning that has been done by the president’s defenders in the last 24 hours since this very damaging whistleblower complaint came out,” Wallace said, “the spinning is not surprising, but I think it is astonishing and deeply misleading.” Wallace argued that the whistleblower complaint contained damning allegations about Trump’s conduct with Ukraine President Zelensky, and claimed it l
What follows is NOT the column I originally wrote and appeared on PJ Media for a few minutes and simultaneously went out in a group email. I was alerted to a substantial error in my text thanks to the kind offices of Eugene Volokh. In that column, I excoriated Peggy Noonan for misreading the Trump-Zelensky transcript. I was wrong. I had misread it. I had written that Zelensky first brought up Biden in the phone call when it was the reverse. Zelensky brought up Giuliani, which then led Trump to bring up Biden. Originally, the president had been talking about what I am almost certain
Actor Randy Quaid ponders running against
Schiff for Congress, says it’s time to empty
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Schiff for Congress, says it’s time to empty
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Actor Randy Quaid is not happy with Adam Schiff following the California congressman’s bizarre behavior during a House Intelligence Committee hearing this week.
The “Independence Day” star took to his Twitter account on Friday afternoon to threaten a possible political challenge against Schiff.
“I’m thinking about running against Schiff for Burbank Rep. That swamp needs cleaning up big time. I should know. I have serious winning experience emptying the sh***ers for that district,” he tweeted.
In October, President Donald Trump will be visiting the Minneapolis district being represented by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn.
And while beset with marital problems, rumors of affairs and claims she may have married her brother to skirt immigration laws, Omar took time to notice.
On Thursday, the Trump 2020 campaign announced a Keep America Great rally at the 20,000 seat Target Center in Minneapolis on October 10.
“Minnesota is booming thanks to President Trump and jobs are coming back to the state,” Michael Glassner, Chief Operating Officer of Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., said in a release.
Escalating its fight with California, the Trump administration accused the state Thursday of failing to stop water pollution from such sources as human waste left on the pavement by the homeless in big cities such as San Francisco and Los Angeles. San Francisco’s mayor disputed any connection between homeless people and water quality and she and others accused President Donald Trump of using the Environmental Protection Agency to punish the heavily Democratic state. EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler outlined a series of alleged deficiencies in California’s compliance with federal clean water laws in a letter to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and demanded a detailed
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a sitting member of the United States Congress collecting a taxpayer-funded salary, spent part of her workday leading a profane chant against President Trump in front of the White House.
The Michigan lawmaker joined several of her Democratic colleagues on Thursday to speak to pro-impeachment demonstrators gathered on the East Lawn of the Capitol, at one point leading a chant with the controversial call to “impeach the motherf****r.” [video]
The shameful display by Tlaib and other Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley, came during the pro-impeachment protest which also saw much praise for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
More drivel about the impeachment of President Trump spews forth this week. This is no surprise. The desire to impeach Trump dates back to November of 2016, the night he won the election. Reasons for his removal change from the Russia Hoax, to porn star payments, to being generally unfit, all suggesting a willingness on the part of his many enemies to “fill in the blank” with any possible crime. The goal of the impeachment investigation is to find a crime. Any crime will do. A few years ago, as Vice-President, Biden openly admitted to threatening to withhold U.S. funds unless a certain Ukrainian prosecutor was fired.
Few sea voyages are as famous as that of the Golden Hind, privateer Francis Drake’s around-the-world voyage that ended with his arrival into England’s Plymouth harbor in 1580. Along with being a remarkable feat of seamanship, the world’s second circumnavigation, among other achievements, was the first to map large portions of North America’s western coast. Filling the Hind’s hold as it berthed in Plymouth were a half-ton of gold, more than two-dozen tons of silver, and thousands of coins and pieces of jewelry looted from Spanish ports and ships along the western shore of South and Central America. Drake’s lucrative journey helped spark England’s ambitions for global empire.
Our friend Big Tex is all hat and no cattle. Literally: This cowboy doesn’t have a herd to go home to. But cut him some slack; there’s a lot going on in that big guy. He speaks! He moves! And he’s worth a pretty penny.
Check out the inner workings of his body, his head and his clothes.
Former Rep. Paul Ryan was the Speaker of the House for the first two years of the Trump administration, but he believes his new job as a board member of Fox Corporation will finally allow him to "do something" about President Donald Trump, according to a new report in Vanity Fair.
Ryan, who joined the Fox Corporation board in March, is now reportedly one of the most important voices pushing Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch to transition Fox New and pivot away from Trump, according to Vanity Fair.
Appearing Friday on CNN’s New Day, former Ohio governor and senior network contributor John Kasich said Ohioans are not talking about President Donald Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president and the House Democrats’ formal impeachment inquiry.
"Does one phone call at this point in time lead to impeachment?" Former Ohio Gov. @JohnKasich says Congress might be moving too fast toward impeachment.
"This is not a light matter. If all of a sudden everybody can be impeached, then it has no power."https://t.co/9s724fd2g4 pic.twitter.com/YU74SSo9m2
— New Day (@NewDay) September 27, 2019
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Palm Beach County teacher ‘reassigned’
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after calling President Trump an ‘idiot’
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Granted, it’s Palm Beach County, Florida, where Democrats struggle to accurately count votes and protect school children, but the Trump Derangement Syndrome on display at a middle school still catches you by surprise. A Watson B. Duncan Middle School teacher was “reassigned” after giving students a quiz that described President Donald Trump as an “idiot,” WPBF reported. The quiz contained a multiple-choice question asking students to pick the person in question based on a series of descriptions. The descriptions were “45th Pres,” “2017,” “Republican,” “Real Estate businessman,” and “Idiot.”
How many times do Democrats get to cry wolf before a rational body politic tells them to go fly a kite? Instead of retreating with tails between their legs over their failed Russia hoax, they're already at it again.
Did any Democrats leading the false charge that President Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election ever apologize for putting the country through this nightmare? Did any of their media water carriers ever backpedal from their anti-Trump sensationalism?
Of course not, because in their minds Trump is so evil and his presidency so bad for the country that even ignoble efforts to remove him
A congressional delegation will travel to Ukraine this week to meet with military leaders amid the controversy over President Trump's July phone call with the Ukrainian president -- though officials say the trip, planned before the details of that call were known, was originally meant to address other issues.
Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif, said on Fox Business Network Thursday that the trip mostly concerns the European Reassurance Initiative, which invests billions supporting European allies -- mostly in Eastern Europe -- in response to the Russian incursion into Ukraine. Garamendi is the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on readiness.
The Whistleblower hoax engulfing Washington is yet another Deep State episode of the rolling coup d’etat Democrats are mounting against Donald Trump. Since the day of his election. If not before. And like the Russia Hoax and Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, the ongoing smear campaign of lies and character assassination is yet another attempt to destroy Trump’s presidency by partisan operatives in the intelligence community.Whoever is the person that gave information to the “whistleblower” needs to have their security clearances revoked and be prosecuted.
Paul Ryan never liked Donald Trump.
Paul Ryan repeatedly lied to President Trump and the American public.Paul Ryan wanted to be the Republican leader and he lost it thanks to Donald Trump. Paul Ryan still hates Donald Trump. After leaving office earlier this year #NeverTrumper Paul Ryan joined the board of FOX News.Now Paul Ryan is pushing FOX News to dump Trump.Raw Story reported: A new report from Vanity Fair describing the chaos inside Fox News — where Ryan serves as a board member — reminded readers that he’s still something of a player in conservative politics. And according to the report, written by journalist Gabriel Sherman, Ryan is now
Examples: Ex-president private citizen Barack Obama who has taken on the role as “Resistance” leader, working from a multi-million dollar mansion within walking distance of the White House. Former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who currently sits on the board of Fox News Corp., and who, according to Vanity Far, is reportedly urging Fox News to “decisively break” with President Donald Trump—news in the magazine’s report documenting the network’s “management bedlam”. (Breitbart, Sept. 26, 2019)
“Ryan, the longtime Trump antagonist, has reportedly been suggesting to Murdoch that “Fox should decisively break with the president” as Murdoch holds “strategy
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton has slammed Donald Trump and accused him of being the 'greatest scam in the history of American politics'. Ms Clinton replied to a tweet the President wrote about the impeachment inquiry and the whistleblower complaint about his call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump initially tweeted: 'The greatest scam in the history of American politics.' In a cutting response, Ms Clinton replied: 'Yes, you are.' (Photos/Tweet) She is currently promoting her new book which she co-authored with her mother, former secretary of state Hilary Clinton.
Who wants to leave California? Young
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Just over half of California’s registered voters have considered leaving the state, with soaring housing costs cited as the most common reason for wanting to move, according to a new poll.Young voters were especially likely to cite unaffordable housing as a reason for leaving, according to the latest latest UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll conducted for the Los Angeles Times. But a different group, conservatives, also frequently suggested they wanted to leave — and for a very different reason: They feel alienated from the state’s political culture.Republicans and conservative voters were nearly three times as likely to have seriously considered moving as their Democratic or liberal counterparts —
Senator Bernie Sanders’ Vermont office was evacuated Thursday afternoon after a suspicious package was mailed to the building, authorities said.
Police were alerted to the package at the Democratic presidential hopeful’s Burlington office soon before noon on Thursday and decided to clear the building about four hours later, a local CBS affiliate reported.
Burlington Police announced the evacuation on Twitter Thursday.
“Along with @VTStatePolice, @OneNorthAvenue has responded to a suspicious package at the office of Senator Sanders.
Trump’s Ranking: ‘I'm the Most Presidential
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When giving a closed-door talk to the staff of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations on Thursday, President Donald Trump cited an unnamed source that ranked him on his “presidential” qualities compared to other presidents, according to an audio recording of the talk that the Washington Post published.“And then they talk about me, and I didn't do anything,” Trump said. “I don't know if I'm the most innocent person in the world.“But, you know,” he said, “you look at that--most presidential. They said I'm the most presidential except for possibly Abe Lincoln when he wore the hat--that was tough to beat. Honest Abe, when he wore that hat, t
A new study from the University of Salzburg has shown 70 per cent of Austrians feel Islam is simply not compatible with the Western world.
The study, which involved 1,200 participants, found that Austrians were very concerned about the effect of Islam in their country, with 72 per cent going as far as to say Muslims were not a cultural asset for Austria, Kronen Zeitung reports.
Half of those who took part in the study said that they would be fine with restricting Muslims’ ability to practise their faith and nearly as many said that mosques should not be tolerated in Austria at all. A third say they oppose Muslims outright.
Angel Moms, whose children have been killed by illegal aliens, spoke directly to Congress on Capitol Hill this week, declaring pro-illegal immigration politicians the “co-conspirators” in their loved ones’ deaths.
During a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Angel Moms Angie Morfin, Maureen Maloney, and Vicki Lyons demanded action from Congress to stop illegal immigration into the United States and thus save the lives of Americans and legal immigrants who may become the victims of illegal alien crime.
Lyon, who lost her daughter Nikki in 2001 when an illegal alien hit and killed her, said
House Democrats will hold a “discussion” Friday on “adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and the Trump Administration’s policies and proposals.”
As part two of a Health & Homeland Series entitled “A Conversation on the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and Toxic Stress”, the discussion will include the topics of “indefinite detention of children, family separation, and the public charge rule.”
“Adverse childhood experiences related to natural disasters and migration will also be discussed.”
According to the event’s website page, Surgeon General of California, Dr. Nadine Burke Harris and Obama Administration Surgeon General Dr. Regina Benjamin will participate with opening remarks from John Hopkins Professor Dr. Maria Trent.
Details are beginning to emerge about the deep state political operative within the intelligence apparatus who wrote a ‘whistleblower’ complaint based on second-hand information he heard on the intelligence grapevine about President Trump. According to the New York Times the complaint derives from a male who was a former CIA operative on assignment within National Security Council (NSC), who left the White House and returned to the CIA:
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His complaint (Snip) suggested he was an analyst by training and made clear he was steeped in details of American foreign policy toward Europe, demonstrating a sophisticated understanding of Ukrainian politics and at least some knowledge of the law.
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‘L’etat, c’est moi,” the Sun King is supposed to have said, “I am the state.” Louis XIV was one of the architects of modern dictatorship, and President Donald Trump likes more about his style than merely his taste in armchairs. President Trump, in a fashion unbecoming the chief administrative officer of a republic — which is all he is — habitually confuses himself and the state.
One example among many: President Trump, asked whether his trade war might hurt his standing among U.S. farmers, who are paying the price for it, answered: “They can’t be too upset, because I gave them $12 billion, and I gave them $16 billion this year.”
On his radio show Thursday, Rush Limbaugh addressed the revelations from The New York Times about the identity of the “whistleblower” who sparked the controversy of President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine’s president that has given the Democrats a rationale to move forward on their impeachment campaign.According to the Times, the whistleblower is “a CIA officer detailed to the White House,” and, according to Paul Sperry, former D.C. bureau chief for Investor’s Business Daily, rumors are “swirling” that the whistleblower was one of former CIA Director and current NBC analyst John Brennan’s “old CIA
John Solomon is reporting on a myriad of documents that highlight how Vice-President Joe Biden engaged in a pressure and influence campaign upon the government of Ukraine to financially benefit his son Hunter Biden. [SEE HERE] One of those documents is a sworn affidavit by former Ukrainian Prosecutor Viktor Shokin (pdf here and below):
Dems’ impeachment frenzy
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is the prelude to the
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Lost in all the frenzy over impeachment (snip) is the trio of ticking time bombs that Democrats know are about to detonate in their faces.
The three timebombs have names: Horowitz, Huber, and Durham. When the Department of Justice Inspector General issues his report then John Huber and John Durham, the US Attorneys tasked with investigating crimes suspected in the Clinton Foundation, Uranium One, and the FISA warrants used to spy on the Trump campaign, transition, and presidency, will be free to start seeking indictments, or to unseal indictments that may have already been issued by their grand juries.
The clock is ticking, not just for Britain, but for Brussels.... When it comes to EU negotiations, it is becoming ever clearer that the political consequences of the Supreme Court's ruling on Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament are not particularly significant. Yes, it means that MPs have only lost two weeks, instead of five, to try to influence Brexit. But, more importantly, Parliament can’t really agree on much. There is no support, at least not yet, for any of the alternatives: a Brexit deal, allowing “no deal”, revoking article 50, an early election or a second referendum.
Two airport experiences over 24 hours tell us all we need to know about America’s misplaced security priorities. On Sunday, a multiple-sclerosis-afflicted friend in her 60s who walks with a cane was subjected by a surly Transportation Security Administration officer in Kennebunkport, Maine, to a hostile carry-on bag search in full view of dozens of other travelers. He took so long to confiscate a jar of lemon curd that was one ounce “over the limit” that she nearly missed her flight. The next day, my wife and I flew home from Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport. I braced for intense security that often includes tough questioning of fliers —
It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate. The restrictions — violations of which are punishable by fines of up to $250,000 per offense — are outlined in a 29-page directive released by City Hall’s Commission on Human Rights. “‘Alien’ — used in many laws to refer to a ‘noncitizen’ person — is a term that may carry negative connotations and dehumanize immigrants, marking them as ‘other,'” reads one passage of the memo. “The use of certain language, including ‘illegal alien’ and ‘illegals,’
A 12-year-old girl says three of her male classmates at a Virginia private school pinned her down and cut her dreadlocks, calling her hair “ugly” and “nappy.” The group of white sixth-grade boys ambushed Amari Allen during recess Monday, as she was about to use the slide on the playground at the Immanuel Christian School in Fairfax, Virginia, local outlets reported. “They said my hair was nappy and I was ugly,” Allen, who is African American, told News4. One of the boys covered Allen’s mouth and another held her hands behind her back, while the third cut her dreadlocks with a pair of scissors, she said.
Adam Schiff, ‘artist of evil’
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After watching Adam Schiff's reprehensible performance in his committee hearing Thursday morning, it is clear we are benighted by yet another sinister, scheming member of the House who, like Shakespeare's Iago[i], is adept at (and enjoys) ruining lives. He set out to ruin President Trump's and has been working at it diligently for three years. Since the moment President Trump was elected, it has been Schiff, more than any other member of Congress, who has been the public face of the attempted coup designed to get Trump out of the White House.
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on Friday demanded House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) “immediately” resign from Congress for reading what the congressman described as a parody of the president’s phone call with Ukraine’s leader that is at the center of a whistleblower complaint.
In a series of tweets early Friday, Trump accused Schiff of lying to Congress and “fraudulently” reciting a version of the call that made it “sound horrible” and made the president appear “guilty.”
Most of us, at some point, struggle to fit into our own skin. We work (sometimes fight) to understand, improve, and accept who we are. And for many American youth, high school athletics serve as an early way to strengthen identity — to discern and develop the skills and abilities that grow us into adults.
Since the advent of Title IX — a federal law that expanded athletic and educational opportunities for women — millions of girls and women have benefited from their own teams and chances for growth. But these opportunities risk being redefined and obliterated, because of a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
To Hell with the Elites
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Asking for the assistance of our global friends and allies to help reveal the wrongdoing of the American ruling class is now an impeachable offense. Investigating their wrongdoing is wrongdoing. Exposing their corruption is corruption. In the Clown World we currently inhabit, the president of the United States must be removed from office for daring to ask they be investigated abroad.
The events of this week reveal the new standard. Like sharks to a whale carcass, our elites routinely feast upon precarious situations in other nations: The Podesta Group, Hunter Biden, and others were content to make a buck off the tensions in Ukraine along with Paul Manafort,
The impeachment events in Washington now gathering momentum are cause for great concern among American patriots, conservatives and Republicans who want their party to survive.
When an important one of their own is attacked, Republican senators, many of them swamp things themselves, and mostly men of much wealth and little political judgment or knowledge of history, simply don’t have the circle-the-wagons, defend-the-power and-the-agenda-above-all, attitude of the Democrats. They can be stampeded and rolled.
Already once in living memory Republican senators participated in the lynching of one of their own, Richard Nixon, whose trivial infractions would not have cost him his presidency had he been a Democrat.
Veteran actor Jon Voight has called the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump a “war against truths,” and has called upon the country to “stand with our President Trump in a time of such evil words.”
In a short video posted late Thursday to his Twitter account, Voight described the current political climate and the Democrats’ push to impeach Trump a “war.”
“War. This is war against truths. This is a war against the highest noble man who has defended our country and made us safe and great again,” the Jon Voight said. “Let me stand with our president. Let us all stand with our President
Pope Francis has publicly endorsed an essay that appeared in 2017 criticizing relations between Evangelicals and Catholics in the United States as an “ecumenism of hate.”
On Thursday, La Civiltà Cattolica journal released the transcript of a meeting between Pope Francis and a group of 24 Jesuits on September 5, 2019, during his recent trip to Mozambique in which the pope suggested that certain Evangelical Protestants in the United States “cannot really be defined as Christian.”
“Two important articles in Civiltà Cattolica have been published in this regard. I recommend them to you. They were written by Father Spadaro and the Argentinean Presbyterian pastor, Marcelo Figueroa.
President Trump's campaign announced it will hold a rally in Minneapolis next month in an attempt to flip the historically blue state in his favor ahead of the 2020 elections, a move that would take his "Keep America Great" message to the district of one of his most vocal critics in Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar. The announcement of the rally, set for Oct. 10 at the Target Center in Minneapolis, signaled Trump's determination to flip the state's 10 electoral votes which no Republican has won since then-President Richard Nixon took the state in 1972. Trump came closest in 2016, falling
My goodness. It was passed when Joe Biden was a member of the U.S. Senate and then signed by then-President Bill Clinton.
A comprehensive treaty agreement that allows cooperation between both the United States and Ukraine in the investigation and prosecution of crimes.
It appears President Trump was following the law to the letter when it comes to unearthing the long-standing corruption that has swirled in Ukraine and allegedly involves powerful Democrats like Joe Biden and others.
Hillary Clinton remains shackled to her lust for power and revenge, and now is signaling that she may enter the Democrats’ presidential contest when ex-Vice President Joe Biden withdraws and serves as the fall-guy for Ukraine's collusion with her 2016 presidential campaign. She realizes that her party’s frenzy to unseat President Trump will consume the ambition of the hapless halfwit to gain the Oval Office that rightfully belongs to her, as his familial dirty laundry is aired in an effort to find Trump impeachment fodder in Ukraine.
Hillary is not committing to the race, but keeping that option very open.
The nine-page complaint regarding President Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from a, so far, anonymous CIA “whistleblower” is like something from Hollywood’s favorite conspiracy-peddling director.
Investigative journalist Gerald Posner, author of the book on the John F. Kennedy assassination, 1993’s 600-plus page Case Closed, has called sensationalist left-wing moviemaker Oliver Stone a “master filmmaker … but just a terrible historian,” declaring that “the only thing he gets right in ‘JFK’ is the date on which Kennedy is killed.”
Oddly enough, Stone, who seldom meets a far-fetched plot he doesn’t fall in love with,
A Des Moines Register reporter who wrote about racist tweets posted years ago by an Iowa security guard is no longer employed by the Iowa newspaper because he also made offensive comments on social media.
Editor Carol Hunter wrote in a column posted online Thursday night that reporter Aaron Calvin “is no longer with the Register.” The Register began investigating comments made by Calvin on Twitter after his story about Iowa security guard Carson King sparked outrage. The story profiled King, who gained national fame after he held a sign seeking beer money during an ESPN show and then promised to donate the more than $1 million
Crazy is generally defined as mentally deranged or not mentally sound. When being mentally deranged, which includes being crazed, insane, demented, unbalanced, and unhinged, is focused on behavior toward President Trump, we see what is commonly called Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS. (snip) Hate is corrosive. It seems to have already consumed any constructive thought capability in the Democratic Party. We are left with the manifest derangement. There is a very good possibility that complete meltdown and destruction will come if and when the party is crazy enough to actually try to impeach the President.
Two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton described President Donald Trump as a "corrupt human tornado" and an "illegitimate president" in an interview with CBS News.
Clinton called President Trump a "direct threat" to the rule of law and complained about losing to him in 2016. "It was like applying for a job and getting 66 million letters of recommendation and losing to a corrupt human tornado," Clinton told CBS Sunday Morning‘s Jane Pauley.
The former secretary of state endorsed an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry after a whistleblower filed a complaint about a conversation Trump had with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
Elizabeth Warren, unabashed liar
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who’s seen a bit of a boom in polls for president lately, came forward with a statement about President Donald Trump’s whistleblower affair that if nothing else, serves as a classic textbook example of How Liars Lie.
The unabashed ones, anyway.
“Donald Trump believes he is above the law — and he will continue to commit crimes from the White House until we hold him accountable,” she tweeted.
Except, of course, that Donald Trump hasn’t been found guilty of committing any crimes.
Yes. There is that.
But impeach away, she wrote.
The Beginning of Bernie’s End
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Elizabeth Warren is rising in the polls. In a recent Quinnipiac survey, she even topped Joe Biden. In the past month, she has held steady at 23 percent in an average of the polls that qualify a candidate for the debate stage, reflecting a five-point climb after the last debate, and putting her just a few ticks behind Biden.
Parallel with Warren’s rise is another phenomenon: Bernie Sanders is sinking, slowly.
For much of the race so far, there has been a debate about whether Warren or Sanders would begin consolidating support among voters in the social-democratic “lane” that stood the best chance of producing a viable rival to Biden.
It’s now against the law in New York City to threaten someone with a call to immigration authorities or refer to them as an “illegal alien” when motivated by hate. The restrictions — violations of which are punishable by fines of up to $250,000 per offense — are outlined in a 29-page directive released by City Hall’s Commission on Human Rights.“‘Alien’ — used in many laws to refer to a ‘noncitizen’ person — is a term that may carry negative connotations and dehumanize immigrants, marking them as ‘other,'” reads one passage of the memo. “The use of certain language,
The Congressman Who Cried Wolf
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When Geraldo Rivera found neither a treasure chest nor skeletal remains in Al Capone’s vault, he did not dare tease an encore special promising to surface the Titanic or interview D. B. Cooper. Adam Schiff possesses none of Rivera’s humility. After failing to substantiate loud claims of “direct,” “significant,” “clear,” and “ample” evidence of Donald Trump colluding with Russians to steal the presidency, Schiff follows up by accusing the president of forcing a foreign government to “manufacture dirt” on a political opponent.
“We’ve been very good to your country, very good,” Schiff paraphrases the president’s conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky. “No other country has done as much as we have.
The whistleblower’s complaint that launched the current impeachment controversy has now been released. It offers little new information not already in the public domain. Furthermore, if it continues to be relied upon as evidence justifying impeachment, Democrats will have to make some hard choices about how to proceed.
The complaint is broken into four parts. The first describes the July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The second alleges that White House officials improperly placed records of the call in an “electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature.”
Lynn Townsend White Jr., an American historian from Princeton, wrote an influential essay in 1967, at the height of the cultural revolution in Western campuses, arguing that Christianity and Judeo-Christian values are responsible for ecological disaster and climate change. The essay, naturally, was adapted by generations after, ironically almost like a document of faith.
The central argument went like this. White argued, “The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. … By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.”
Who is responsible for the current overhyped impeachment frenzy? The culprits are many. There's the radical left that, although small in number, is extremely vocal and influential in the media, the entertainment world, and beyond. Then there are the Democrats. As a group, they driven by an unbridled lust for political power, and there's no length they won't go to in trying to destroy the president. The media certainly plays a major role. It takes Democrat talking points, dresses them up as objective reporting, and presents them to the public, (Snip) But none of this would matter if it weren't for one man -- Republican Paul Ryan.
Just over three years ago, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, speaking at a fundraiser in New York City, characterized half of Donald Trump’s supporters as a “basket of deplorables.” And for more than three years, Trump, along with everyone who supports him, has been subjected to passionate hatred from nearly everyone who would rather have seen Clinton elected. It might be tempting to return the favor and hate back. That not only would be a tactical mistake—since you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar—but also inaccurate targeting. There are a surprising number of liberals, progressives, and even socialists, who are not only anti-Clinton, but are begrudgingly, and increasingly,
In a now notorious July 25 conversation, President Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to “look into” Ukraine’s role in efforts to interfere in the 2016 election as well as the dealings of Joe Biden and his son Hunter with the notoriously corrupt country.
Whether or not Trump’s ham-fisted conversation with Zelensky rises to an impeachable offense, the American people have legitimate reasons to be curious about both issues — and especially the Biden family’s blatant conflicts of interest abroad as Joe Biden seeks the presidency.
Biden has been leading the Democratic field. The central case for his candidacy rests on the supposedly exemplary work
Jon Voight is a rare man in Hollywood.He is a conservative and he openly supports President Trump.He just released a new video on his Twitter feed, during which he defends Trump and goes after the far left for trying to destroy him.Breitbart has a partial transcript: “War. This is war against truths. This is a war against the highest noble man who has defended our country and made us safe and great again,” the Jon Voight said. “Let me stand with our president. Let us all stand with our President Trump in a time of such evil words trying for impeachment.”
Dear Democrats, I’m mad at you. I was raised a die-hard, bleeding-heart liberal. My grandmother was an Irish Catholic New Englander who worshipped JFK almost as much as Jesus. My dad and his nine siblings sang for the Kennedys at Hammersmith Farm.
For decades, I was a loyal regular at your bar until suddenly you started ignoring me. You took my support for granted and dismissed my concerns, focusing instead on courting the young city hipsters with their scooters and their designer weed and their craft beers. You began overlooking pragmatic moderates and catering to loud extremists who favor rewriting the Constitution and accelerating our lurch towards socialism.
Weeks of dry, hot weather have plunged the Deep South further into a drought that's affecting more than 11 million people and threatening crops across the region, a new assessment showed Thursday. The latest report from U.S. Drought Monitor showed arid conditions worsening across a five-state area from Louisiana to South Carolina .
Conditions are particularly bad in Alabama and Georgia, where nearly the entire state is too dry. Areas around the suburbs of Birmingham and Atlanta are particularly hard hit. The National Weather Service on Thursday reported record temperatures for several Alabama cities: Montgomery at 100 F (38 C); Troy at 98 (37 C), Tuscaloosa at 97 (36 C)
Top Republicans on Thursday pushed to identify the White House officials who told a whistleblower of alleged misconduct by the Trump administration, as Democrats ramped up their impeachment inquiry -- and several apparent inconsistencies emerged in the whistleblower's complaint.
Republicans specifically questioned why the whistleblower's sources in the White House didn't file a complaint themselves -- especially given that relevant whistleblower procedures do not protect second-hand complaints. (The New York Times reported that the whistleblower is a CIA officer detailed to the White House. Fox News has not confirmed The Times' report.)
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., a member of the House Judicia
Presidential candidate Andrew Yang says the Democratic Party will be doing President Trump a favor if its 2020 message boils down to “Donald Trump bad. Impeach Donald Trump.”
The entrepreneur sat down with the ladies of ABC’s “The View” to discuss his campaign and the current political climate when he was asked about the possible impeachment of Mr. Trump.
Mr. Yang offered support for starting the impeachment process, given what he’s heard about the president’s private conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but he also warned the party of wearing de facto impeachment blinders.
Rep. Adam Schiff acknowledged on Thursday that he made up parts of the Ukraine phone call transcript when he delivered his opening statement at a much-watched TV hearing with the U.S. top intelligence officer.
Mr. Schiff, California Democrat and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said his reading was “part in parody”––but made the admission only after Rep. Mike Turner, Ohio Republican, called him out.
In his opening statement, Mr. Schiff said Mr. Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for fabricated dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and said Mr. Trump threatened to make the same request Mr. Zelensky eight times––
Rudolph W. Giuliani has become a prime culprit for Democrats seeking President Trump’s impeachment, but Mr. Giuliani said Thursday he is the hero of the Ukraine story.
“It is impossible that the whistleblower is a hero and I’m not,” Mr. Giuliani told The Atlantic. “And I will be the hero! These morons — when this is over, I will be the hero.”
Mr. Trump’s use of Mr. Giuliani, his personal attorney, for investigations in Ukraine has infuriated Democrats pushing for impeachment. A House hearing Thursday highlighted how much Mr. Trump relies on the former federal prosecutor to find answers in murky places.