Posts on Wednesday, October 2, 2019
In Alan Moore’s brilliant graphic novel, Batman: The Killing Joke, the Joker justifies his psychopathic behavior by philosophizing that every human being is just "one bad day away" from rejecting the polite veneer of civilization’s morality in the face of an indifferent universe. To him, we are all amoral sleeper agents awaiting the secret code word to awaken us to selfish violence.
Yet, even if the universe is indifferent, most people are not.
House Intelligence Committee Was
Contacted By CIA ‘Whistle-blower’
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Contacted By CIA ‘Whistle-blower’
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More evidence is surfacing showing how the CIA ‘whistle-blower’ complaint was a purposefully constructed political hit-job. Yes, Muh-Ukraine is much like Muh-Russia.
The New York Times reports today the CIA operative approached the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) prior to filling out a ‘whistle-blower’ complaint form. The CIA gossiper contacted staff of HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff.According to the report (written to defend the interests of Schiff et al), the CIA gossiper contacted the HPSCI after the top lawyer for the CIA would not advance his cause. We still suspect the ‘whistle-blower” is Michael Barry. Obviously the Times puts the customary spin on the information:
Through a FOIA request Judicial Watch has received Rod Rosenstein’s email communication around the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller [See Here].(Snip)confirms when Rosenstein took Mueller to the White House on May 16th, 2017, the purpose was for Mueller to preview his target, President Trump.
Many are focused on May 12, 2017, where Rosenstein sent an email to Robert Mueller, Subject: “I assume you realize”… “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions”; however, that date is being misconstrued.
Rosenstein took Mueller to visit Jeff Sessions on May 13th, the specifics of that email likely concern keeping prior private conversations out of the discussion with Sessions
Man charged with kidnapping,
forcing sex on N.J. teen was in
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forcing sex on N.J. teen was in
the country illegally, feds charge replies
A man who was in the United States illegally has been indicted on federal charges accusing him of kidnapping a 15-year-old Paterson girl and forcing her to perform sex acts as they drove to Chicago earlier this year. Juan Carlos Morales-Pedraza, 33, a Mexican national living in Paterson, pleaded not guilty before a federal judge and he was charged with kidnapping, transportation of a minor, and re-entering the country as a deported alien, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. Pedraza abducted the girl, who was his neighbor in Paterson, on April 14 as the pair headed to the Midwest, officials allege.
The impeachment inquiry regarding President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukraine is “a hoax,” the president said Wednesday during a joint press conference with Finland President Sauli Niinistö.When asked whether the president is planning to cooperate with the three House Intelligence Committees looking into the impeachment inquiry that are planning to send a subpoena to the White House for documents and other materials, Trump said, “I always cooperate.” (Video) “This is a hoax, the greatest hoax,” the president said, adding that it’s a continuation of what's been playing out since his election and probably before his election.
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff is in damage control mode after the New York Times reported that he learned about the Deep State CIA spy’s accusations against President Trump several days before the officer filed a whistleblower complaint. The Deep State spook filed a complaint on August 12 based on second-hand knowledge and hearsay of Trump’s July 25 phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, so Schiff had knowledge of the accusations and worked discreetly for up to two weeks.Schiff is now claiming he has never met with or spoken to the whistleblower — in fact, Schiff is claiming he doesn’t even know the identity of the whistleblower!
Seoul - North Korea said on Thursday it had successfully test-fired a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) from the sea off its east coast on Wednesday, aimed at containing external threats and bolstering its self-defense.
The launch came a day after it announced the resumption of talks with the United States on ending its nuclear program. It is seen by analysts as the most provocative test by North Korea since it started the talks with the United States in 2018.
The new type of SLBM called Pukguksong-3 was “fired in vertical mode,” the North’s official KCNA news agency said,
Need a good laugh? On Tuesday, Obama's former attorney general, Eric Holder, who ran the most politicized Department of Justice in history, accused current Attorney General Bill Barr of "cross[ing] the political line." “I think the attorney general needs to be a little bit more sensitive to the appearance that that gives. You have to not only be substantively neutral, you have to appear to be neutral when you’re the attorney general of the United States. I fear he has crossed the political line.”
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. This is the same guy who, as attorney general, obstructed
Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly joked Wednesday about Russia interfering in the 2020 U.S. elections, saying they'll "definitely do it."While attending a panel at Russian Energy Week, Putin teased reporters when prompted with a question about Russia potentially meddling in America's elections next November."I'll tell you a secret: Yes, we'll definitely do it," he said, according to CNN. He added at a whisper, "Just don't tell anyone." Putin then added that Russia plans to prioritize domestic problems currently. "You know, we have enough of our own problems," CNN reported him as saying. "We are engaged in resolving internal problems
Philadelphia - A federal judge ruled Wednesday that supervised injection sites designed to prevent overdoses do not violate federal drug laws, giving advocates in Philadelphia and perhaps elsewhere a boost in their efforts to open them. (Snip) U.S. Attorney William McSwain, an appointee of Republican President Donald Trump, had gone to court in Philadelphia to try to block the plan, calling the goal “laudable” but supporters misguided.
Mayor Jim Kenney, District Attorney Larry Krasner and former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, all Democrats, believe the program would reduce the city’s 1,100 annual overdose deaths and help steer users into treatment.
Now that the House has launched an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, the Senate should reform its antiquated rules for the looming trial. Under current procedures, a trial produces the worst of both worlds. If the House has a flimsy case, the Senate must still put the country through the wrenching, divisive political spectacle without any opportunity to dismiss the case. But if the House has a strong case, senators must sit silently by without any chance to participate directly in the trial. Allowing a real trial will improve the decision-making over whether to fire Trump and will make the Congress more responsive and accountable to
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced Wednesday that he has signed a resolution to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) for performing a fabricated conversation between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a recent hearing.“Chairman Adam Schiff has been lying to the American people for years. Now he is so desperate to damage the president that he literally made up a false version of a phone call,” McCarthy wrote on Twitter. “Enough is enough. I have signed a resolution to censure Schiff in the House of Representatives.” (Tweet)
Planned Parenthood will open a huge, secretly built “mega clinic” in Ilinois near the Missouri border as lawmakers push for an abortion ban in the Show Me State, according to reports Wednesday.The women’s health provider built the sprawling center in Fairview Heights using a shell company to avoid attention and protests, according to CBS.The center, which will provide abortion and other reproductive services, is 13 miles from Missouri’s only legal abortion clinic, which may soon be shuttered, according to the station.“While we continue the fight to maintain access in Missouri, we are excited to expand our abortion services in Illinois,”
President Donald Trump defended Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday.
“That guy couldn’t carry his blank strap,” Trump said, referring to Schiff and likely referring to Pompeo’s “jockstrap” in a self-censored comment.
Trump called Schiff a “lowlife” who should resign from office, or face inquiry as to whether or not the House Intelligence Chairman was guilty of treason for reading a fabricated account of his phone call transcript with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We don’t call him ‘Shifty Schiff’ for nothing,” Trump said. “He’s a shifty dishonest guy.”
On Twitter, Trump was similarly combative with Schiff’s attempt to bully Pompeo into allowing State Department aids to testify in his
President Trump’s approval ticked up to 49 percent — its highest mark this year, according to a new Hill-HarrisX survey released on Wednesday.The figure marks a 2-point increase from a Sept. 11-12 poll, but a 2-point decrease from its previous peak of 51 percent last August. Trump's disapproval rating, meanwhile, dropped to 51 percent, which marks his lowest level so far this year.The nationwide survey was conducted on Sept. 28 and 29, less than a week after House Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry into Trump over concerns raised in a whistleblower's complaint
The CIA officer whose whistleblower complaint is at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump consulted the House Intelligence Committee before filing it, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
The whistleblower initially had a colleague convey his concerns that Trump asked Ukraine's leader to intervene in the 2020 presidential election to the CIA's top lawyer before going to Congress, current and former officials told the Times.
After concerns about how the internal CIA process was proceeding, the whistleblower then reportedly spoke to an Intelligence Committee staff member who suggested that the person hire a lawyer and file a complaint.
GOP Reacts to Schiff’s Prior Knowledge
of Whistleblower Complaint: ‘Bricks
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of Whistleblower Complaint: ‘Bricks
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GOP lawmakers, administration officials, and conservative personalities are responding to the New York Times’ bombshell that revealed that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) knew of the “whistleblower’s” complaint days before it was filed.
GOP personalities say the bricks are beginning to “crumble” on Democrats and their partisan-driven impeachment efforts.
The Times revealed on Wednesday that Schiff – who is largely driving the House Democrats’ impeachment efforts – knew of the “whistleblower” complaint before it was formally filed. The revelation casts a new light on the political motivation behind Schiff’s pressure for the complaint’s release and spurs additional questions about Schiff’s possible influence on the complaint itself.
Clapper: Whistleblower Fueling the
'Conspiratorial Fire' of the 'Deep
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'Conspiratorial Fire' of the 'Deep
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WASHINGTON -- Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that there isn't a "deep state" effort to undermine President Donald Trump but the whistleblower complaint about his call with the Ukraine president from someone in the intelligence community "fuels that conspiratorial fire.""Well, I never heard of the term deep state, maybe I was, you know, ignorant or bliss or something, but I never heard of that until the campaign and afterwards. Allegedly this is a conspiracy of career government public servants who somehow organize themselves into a conspiracy to undermine or overthrow the president, which on its face is ridiculous,"
Americans on average spent more on taxes in 2018 than they did on the basic necessities of food, clothing and health care combined, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey. The survey's recently published Table R-1 for 2018 lists the average "detailed expenditures" of what the BLS calls "consumer units." "Consumer units," says BLS, "include families, single persons living alone or sharing a household with others but who are financially independent, or two or more persons living together who share major expenses." In 2018, according to Table R-1, American consumer units spent an average of $9,031.93 on federal income taxes;
President Trump on Wednesday denied a report that he wants to augment the wall on the southern border with a snake- and alligator-infested moat. “I never said it, never thought it,” said Trump during a kitchen-sink press briefing at the White House, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto seated by his side. “It’s a total lie.”(Snip) “My comms people came to me and said, ‘Sir, there’s a book or something being written.’ It’s written by Washington Post people, so you know it’s inaccurate, you know it’s probably a fraud,” said Trump, though the article ran in the New York Times,
Well, this is rather interesting. The Department of Justice Inspector General has released a notification stating that a former U.S. Attorney within the DC Circuit was caught leaking grand jury information to an “unauthorized individual”: (IG Investigative Summary) Unfortunately, “criminal prosecution” for leaking grand jury material “was declined”.
The Asst. U.S. Attorney (AUSA) is not identified by name, but the IG release notes the attorney is no longer working for the DOJ ; likely fired as an outcome of getting caught.
….with the name not being released, that leads to speculation. Also with the recipient not being named, that too leads to speculation. Was the leak to the media, or
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) leads the Democratic primary field by 4 points in the latest Economist/YouGov weekly tracking survey, leapfrogging former Vice President Joe Biden as she continues to enjoy a boost in the polls. Twenty-six percent of respondents who say they will vote in their Democratic presidential primary or caucus said Warren is their first choice, a 1-point bump from last week’s survey, while 22 percent said the same for Biden, down from 25 percent last week. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was the only other candidate to register double digit support, at 14 percent, while South Bend, Ind., Mayor
Democrat’s obsession to impeach and destroy President Trump is corrupt. Corruption is a disease. Politics is corrupt. Ergo, politics is a disease. There is no known vaccine for politics apart from volunteer service without pay. That cure leads to aristocracy and as per Aristotle, to oligarchy. Democrats are anti-people. Those people who are sick of the oligarchy of political trash entrenched in their Washington money bin. A bin filled from the wallets of the people who elected Donald Trump. However, the liberal Democrat shriekers don’t hate Trump as much as they hate those who put him in office.
Botham Shem Jean’s murder by off-duty police officer Amber Guyger captivated Texas, and the nation. So has Guyger’s trial, which kicked off in Dallas on September 23 and ended today with the jury finding Guyger guilty of murder, to the surprise of many. The jury is now considering a sentence of up to 99 years. Since 2005, just three other officers in the entire country have been convicted of murder and had their convictions stand.
Jean, born on the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, was a highly motivated and conscientious young man, a leader of his church choir who regularly returned home to volunteer with at-risk youth and a local orphanage.
SANTA FE – New Mexico is making it easier for residents to obtain a basic driver’s license that is recognized by state agencies and private businesses but will not be valid for commercial airline travel starting in October 2020, taxation and motor vehicle officials announced Tuesday.“New Mexicans do not have to provide a Social Security number or any other federal identification number, and they do not have to provide proof of lawful immigration status for a standard license,” the Taxation and Revenue Department said in a statement.
Well, this whole impeachment circus just got shadier. Piggybacking off what Katie wrote five days ago, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), knew about the complaint a month ago and didn’t say anything. Now, The New York Times is reporting that Schiff knew there was going to be such a report from a whistleblowe rbefore this person had formally filed the complaint. The person is reportedly a CIA agent.
House Democrats decided to execute their impeachment plan, which has been in the works since 2016, over Trump’s alleged shakedown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the liberal media, Trump threatened to withhold aid unless the Ukrainians
In the decades before the city of Pompeii was buried in ash by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, everyday life was filled with parties and struggles.
That's according to a recently deciphered inscription found on the wall of a Pompeii tomb that was discovered there in 2017.
The inscription describes a massive coming-of-age party for a wealthy young man. who reaches the age of an adult citizen. According to the inscription, he threw a massive party that included a banquet serving 6,840 people and a show in which 416 gladiators fought over several days.
The inscription also tells of harder times, including a famine
On Monday, the intelligence community inspector general (ICIG) admitted that it did alter its forms and policies governing whistleblower complaints, and that it did so in response to the anti-Trump complaint filed on Aug. 12, 2019. The Federalist first reported the sudden changes last Friday. While many in the media falsely claimed the ICIG’s stunning admission debunked The Federalist’s report, the admission from the ICIG completely affirmed the reporting on the secretive change to whistleblower rules following the filing of an anti-Trump complaint in August.
The ICIG also disclosed for the first time that the anti-Trump complainant filed his complaint using the previously authorized form,
Remember when Sen. Chuck Schumer, in response to criticism President Trump leveled at the Intelligence Community, retorted with this?
"Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you," Schumer told MSNBC's host Rachel Maddow.
Turns out that's an understatement, as the Federalist's Sean Davis has now uncovered in a truly outrageous report.
We already know that the Intelligence Community's inspector general (IGIC) office mysteriously changed its rules for anyone filing a whistleblower complaint to not needing to have one's information firsthand just before the famed whistleblower filed his report sometime around August.
Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign could be "blown up" by suspicions over Joe's and his son Hunter's dealings with Ukraine, according to one of his top allies. "This whole thing could go two ways for him," said Ed Rendell, 75, a former Pennsylvania governor. "If Trump’s ads are significantly good, even if they’re all lies. It could hurt Joe. Voters get tired. Joe's popular point was that he could get back to normalcy, and that gets blown up if voters think he'll be bogged down with Republican investigations when he's in office." Rendell, who was recently used by Biden, 76
Florida’s two senators demanded answers Tuesday after revealing the National Endowment for the Arts paid $45,000 for a traveling art exhibition featuring a portrait of socialist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, saying U.S. taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize the idolization of a man involved in “mass murder.” Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott said it was an insult to exiles who lived through the Cuban revolution to see their tax money go to aggrandize Guevara. “Guevara was a sadistic butcher who murdered and tortured innocent people,” they wrote in a letter to NEA Chairwoman Mary Anne Carter. “We do not believe that taxpayer dollars
Democrats have opened Pandora's Box by taking up the subject of election influence coming from Ukraine. They seized upon the conversation between President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky, leaked by a Deep State operative embedded in the White House to someone claiming the status of whistleblower as the basis for their public impeachment hoax. It is a hoax for three reasons:
Because no actual impeachment committee has been established, as that would require their vulnerable members from districts Trump carried in 2016 to take an actual position on a dodgy impeachment enterprise.
Because Trump said nothing wrong in his conversation.
Who Cares About You?
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During my student days at a UCLA economics department faculty/graduate student coffee hour in the 1960s, I was chatting with Professor Armen Alchian, probably the greatest microeconomic theory economist of the 20th century. I was trying to impress Alchian with my knowledge of statistical type I and type II errors. I explained that unlike my wife, who assumed that everyone was her friend until they prove differently, my assumption was everyone was an enemy until they proved otherwise. The result: My wife's vision maximized the number of her friends but maximized her chances of betrayal. My vision minimized my chances of betrayal at a cost of
Those who’ve taken the oath remember it as a rite of passage.
Inside a military induction center, in the company of strangers in civilian clothes, with a few military personnel in uniform, a commanding voice orders the civilians to line up single file outside the door, to an empty room, displaying the national flag.
The door opens, the civilians file in, and, in equal increments, peel off to form a block of rows where they are called to attention for the first of many times to come When directed, they raise their right hands and repeat, I, (state name of enlistee), do solemnly swear
During a press briefing held on Capitol Hill Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called President Donald Trump’s actions “an assault on the Constitution.”
Pelosi said, “We take this to be a sad time for the American people, for our country, impeaching a president or having the investigation is not anything to be joyful about. I do not know if anybody is joyful. It is a sad time. As you have heard me say, the dark days of the revolution, Thomas Payne said, ‘the times have found us.’ We think they have found us now. Not that we place ourselves in the category of greatness of our founders,
When President Donald Trump told Americans that the left-wing media are “the enemy of the people,” he was only partially right. His presidential candidacy and later election as the nation’s 45th president triggered an unprecedented opposition campaign. A campaign by Deep State infested US intelligence community (IC) services at home and abroad. That campaign against a duly elected government official has been consistently advanced by the so-called independent press. It amounts to an ongoing intelligence community coup against the president. All part of the carefully developed Deep State insurance policies designed to overturn the results of Election 2016.
Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton appeared on The View Wednesday morning as part of her media blitz this week. Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump an “illegitimate president” despite the fact that Trump won the 2016 election according to the US Constitution in an electoral landslide. Donald Trump “knows that he’s an illegitimate president” Hillary said to applause from the liberals in the audience.
WATCH: (Tweet/Video) Trump crushed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and he even won historically blue states such as Wisconsin and Michigan because he worked hard and campaigned to win the Electoral College vote.
President Donald Trump continued to attack Rep. Adam Schiff on Wednesday after the House Intelligence Chairman read a fabricated account of his call with the president of Ukraine.“Congressman Adam Schiff should resign for the Crime of, after reading a transcript of my conversation with the President of Ukraine (it was perfect), fraudulently fabricating a statement of the President of the United States and reading it to Congress, as though mine!” Trump wrote on Twitter. “He is sick!” Trump sent his latest attack on Schiff shortly prior to his scheduled press conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to discuss the impeachment hearings of the president.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has undergone surgery for an artery blockage and is now recovering, his campaign said Wednesday. Sanders, 78, “experienced some chest discomfort” at a campaign event Tuesday evening, campaign senior advisor Jeff Weaver said. “Following medical evaluation and testing he was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stents were successfully inserted,” Weaver said. “Sen. Sanders is conversing and in good spirits. He will be resting up over the next few days.” Sanders’ campaign is canceling his events and appearances until further notice. Sanders was scheduled to attend a presidential gun safety forum in Las Vegas on Wednesday,
Range Rovers have been shipped from the UK to southern Africa for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's ten-day tour, it was revealed today. The 4x4s were drafted in because organisers at the Palace were unable to locally obtain secure enough vehicles suitable for Harry, Meghan and baby Archie. The cars for the trip were understood to have been offered by Jaguar Land Rover, and were transported at no cost to the taxpayer, the Press Association reports. But the shipping of the cars over a 10,000-mile distance will raise further eyebrows over the couple's green credentials despite them promoting environmental issues.
I now make my living by releasing short videos on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
I assumed you who subscribed to my feed or became Facebook "friends" would receive that video every Tuesday.
Wrong! Turns out social media companies send our posts to only some of our friends. (That's why I ask for your email address. Then they can't cut us off.)
Why might they cut us off?
One reason is that we'd drown in a fire hose of information if they showed us everything. The companies' algorithms cleverly just send us what the computer determines we'll like.
Tennessee Volunteers' Jeremy Banks'
arrest video released:
'Where I'm from, we shoot at cops' replies
arrest video released:
'Where I'm from, we shoot at cops' replies
The University of Tennessee Police Department released footage Tuesday of Tennessee Volunteers linebacker Jeremy Banks’ comments to officers after he was arrested on an outstanding warrant, including one remark in which he tells a civilian riding with officers: "Where I'm from, we shoot at cops."
Banks, 20, was arrested after he initially was pulled over for an illegal U-turn on Sept. 15. The video shows Banks’ interaction with the officers. Banks had a warrant for his arrest issued on Aug. 21 for failing to appear in court in July for a misdemeanor driving with a suspended license charge, according to the Knoxville Sentinel.
A coalition of Republican and Democrat Senators sent President Trump a letter last month, begging his administration to bring “as many refugees as possible” to the United States next year. In a letter dated August 5 — before Trump announced he would lower the refugee resettlement cap to a maximum of 18,000 admissions for Fiscal Year 2020 — Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Chris Coons (D-DE) led a group of lawmakers to ask that the president increase the number of refugees resettled in the U.S. every year beyond the current year’s 30,000 admissions ceiling.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has touted his heavily subsidized ferry service as a tool in his war on economic and social inequality — but long-awaited ridership data released Tuesday tells an entirely different story. Ferry users are overwhelmingly white, wealthy and come from waterfront neighborhoods, according to surveys of over 5,000 riders conducted in June by the city’s Economic Development Corporation, which manages the service. Just 36% of riders are people of color, while 65% make over $75,000 per year, the survey found. Despite that, the de Blasio administration has couched its $9.34-per-rider ferry investment in terms of “equity” and “access,” arguing that its $9-per-rider subsidy
World War II-era aircraft crashes at
Bradley International Airport in
Connecticut, injuries reported replies
Bradley International Airport in
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WINDSOR LOCKS — Emergency crews are responding to Bradley International Airport for a plane crash.
State police confirmed that there is a plane crash at the airport. Smoke and flames are visible from the ground. The airport is closed.
Bradley Airport tweeted: “We can confirm that there was an accident involving a Collings Foundation World War II aircraft this morning at Bradley Airport. We have an active fire and rescue operation underway. The airport is closed. We will issue further updates as information becomes available.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) underwent heart surgery after he experienced chest discomfort during a campaign event on Tuesday, his campaign said.
Jeff Weaver, a senior adviser to Sanders's campaign, said a medical evaluation of the Vermont senator discovered blockage in one of his arteries, and two stents were successfully inserted.
"Sen. Sanders is conversing and in good spirits," Weaver said. "He will be resting up over the next few days. We are canceling his events and appearances until further
A Scottish judge could force Prime Minister Boris Johnson to request a Brexit extension or face a fine or imprisonment.
The legal bid has been launched by anti-Brexit campaigner Jolyon Maugham QC and member of the leftist Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) Joanna Cherry. Both were involved in the successful Supreme Court challenge against the government over the suspension of parliament last week. The case is being funded by millionaire green energy industrialist Dale Vince.
Lord Pentland, an Outer House judge, will hear the case at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Friday. He will rule whether it should be moved to the senior part of the court, the Inner House,
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is holding meetings in Italy, held a press conference on Wednesday afternoon in Rome.Secretary of State Pompeo told reporters he was on the July 25th Ukrainian call which would be expected. He also said the policy with Ukraine is consistent. Of course, this is what the liberal media latched onto. But then Pompeo dropped these bombs on the street thugs and goons running the US House committees.
Pompeo told reporters how Democrats in the House violated fundamental principles, contacted State Department officials directly and told them NOT to contact legal counsel.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo: Back to first principles.
Rep. Adam Schiff, who as the head of the House Intelligence Committee has become the public face of the Democrats impeachment inquiry, will attend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s weekly press conference later Wednesday morning.Pelosi’s office announced that the Democrat from California will take part in the presser late Tuesday. Schiff’s panel last week released the whistleblower complaint that prompted Pelosi to launch the impeachment inquiry. The complaint, sent to the Inspector General of the intelligence community in August, raised concerns about a call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25.
Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib told Detroit’s chief of police that he should hire only black people as analysts to run their facial recognition software because, she claimed, non-black people think they all look alike.
The suggestion came Monday as Chief James Craig gave Tlaib a tour of the Real Time Crime Center, where the department uses facial recognition technology to find suspects. Craig was showing Tlaib how the software works, and how analysts use it to identify and locate individuals. But the tour quickly turned contentious as the freshman Michigan congresswoman made repeated requests that were shot down by the chief.
Failed Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton thinks she’s got jokes. But unbeknownst to the former secretary of state, the joke may, in fact, be on her.In a snide, sarcastic, mocking tweet to President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani posted Tuesday, Clinton essentially said that she knows what it feels like to really be scrutinized by the media. She posted the tweet in response to Giuliani complaining about the media’s relentless, never-ending attacks on him, on the president and on the Trump administration. “WP, NBC, and CNN are going after me because I’m the messenger, and covering up the message, Dem corruption,” he wrote
Senate Democrats in red states are worried the impeachment process may spin out of control and destroy their chances of winning control of the Senate in 2020, according to a report.Those Senate Democrats hope the House keeps its impeachment focus on the Ukraine controversy and act srelatively quickly before President Trump turns the tables on them, according to a report by The Hill. Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), who barely kept his seat in 2018, told the outlet, “It’s really incumbent on the House to really be laser-focused. The president is a master of pivoting and deflecting and
Michael Moore: Democrats Finally Have
Trump "On The Run" With Impeachment
Inquiry; "Chase Him Down" replies
Trump "On The Run" With Impeachment
Inquiry; "Chase Him Down" replies
Tuesday on MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber," film-maker Michael Moore celebrated that Democrats finally have President Trump "on the run" with the House's impeachment inquiry, but warned that "they need to chase him down. They should not pull back now."
MICHAEL MOORE: We need all the candidates right now need to be unified and coming at this full force. No backing down and no trying to placate the other and none of this we have to wait and see. Wait and see what. I just saw you shoot somebody. I saw somebody steal the steady cam over there. I don’t need to wait.
This article contains gruesome details about abortion procedures.
The abortion industry and its defenders are in total freak-out mode, losing whatever wits they appeared to have in the process. That’s not a judgment. It’s a demonstrable fact. It’s almost as if every move they make in the public square these days is a tragic bumble, merely revealing how flat-out extreme they truly are.
The evidence is in ample supply. There’s this new video of an abortion supporter telling a pro-lifer she hopes “someone holds you down and rapes you.”
For two years, our political and media elites assured us that a wide-ranging independent counsel investigation of Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election would reveal that the Trump campaign, and indeed Trump himself, colluded with Moscow to steal the election. The Robert Mueller probe, we were told, would prove it.
Not only did that turn out to be false, but as the investigation dragged on it became clear that the origins of the probe were highly suspicious, implicating senior intelligence officials in the Obama administration and raising questions about whether the whole thing was a political hit job from the start.
It was a speech that could best be described as “vintage Jeff Sessions.”
Six miles and 1,312 days removed from where the former U.S. Senator gave GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump his first major endorsement of the 2016 presidential campaign, Sessions spoke to attendees at the Madison County, AL Republican Party’s Freedom Celebration gala. There he pledged his unwavering support for the current commander-in-chief and the policy positions that got Trump elected.
After acknowledging things could have gone better during his tenure as U.S. Attorney General and offering attendees a brief history of the rise of the GOP in Alabama, Sessions turned his focus on three critical areas of policy –
RNC Spox: 50,000 New Donors Since
Democrat Impeachment Announcement,
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Democrat Impeachment Announcement,
$5 Million in First 24 Hours replies
Since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced her caucus would proceed with the impeachment of President Donald Trump, it has done anything except demoralize Republicans based on the immediately fundraising efforts of the Republican National Committee.
During an appearance on Huntsville, AL radio’s WVNN on Tuesday, RNC national spokeswoman Elizabeth Harrington pointed out that much like the drama of last year’s Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, Republicans have responded to Democrat efforts to “undo” the 2016 presidential election. In this case, they have done so with their pocketbooks.
White House Senior Policy Adviser, Stephan Miller, appears on Fox Business (Snip) to explain the apoplexy coming from DC’s administrative state. Miller outlines the deep fear held by many in the professional political class in/around DC toward ongoing investigations by U.S. AG Bill Barr and U.S. Attorney John Durham.
In framing the opposition to the Trump administration, Mr. Miller identifies the Marxist roots that bind governmental ideologues in united resistance. Impeachment is their best hope of defense. (Video)
There is an inherent trait carried by almost everyone that can generate a disposition of fear, concern and worry. Only a few, a very few, have trained themselves to ignore the doubt.
RUSH: Let me get started on the phones. We have Joy here in Erie, Colorado. Welcome. Great to have you. You are up first today. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Love your program. I just wanted to bring up why are Senate Republicans not doing anything to investigate Adam Schiff, who suspiciously tweeted out just a few weeks ago something very sneakily close to what this whole situation is, and then he says he found out about it last week? Why don’t Senate Republicans start giving some of the same treatment to these guys that they’re giving to us? They hauled Corey Lewandowski up there simply to embarrass him last week. Unfortunately,
Teacher Fired for Refusing to Use
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Transgender Student’s Preferred
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A Virginia teacher who refused to use a transgender student’s preferred pronouns and was fired as a result filed a lawsuit Monday against the school district.
Peter Vlaming, a French teacher who was unanimously fired by the West Point School Board in December 2018, said in his lawsuit he was fired because he exercised his First Amendment right to free speech.
“This isn’t just about a pronoun, it’s about what that pronoun means,” explained Tyson Langhofer, of Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which represents Vlaming.
Langhofer, senior counsel director of the ADF Center for Academic Freedom, added, “This was never about anything Peter said or did; only about what the
For decades now it has been widely assumed by many liberal observers that Clarence Thomas was a man of mediocre intellect, a lapdog to the late Antonin Scalia with no original judicial philosophy who would, despite his historically long tenure on the Supreme Court, leave no lasting legacy. It is rumored that Thomas himself enjoys reading their speculations.
12-Year-old black girl apologizes for concocting race hoax —
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Earlier last week, a 12-year-old student in Virginia accused three unnamed boys of knocking her down at the school playground slide, covering her mouth, and cutting off her dreadlocks while saying things like "you're ugly, you shouldn't have been born, you have ugly nappy hair." (snip)The young girl has since admitted she lied and apologized. The enemedia have updated their stories to reflect the not so shocking turn of events, but so far, there are no mea culpas for the most disgusting part of this story.
Pope Francis on Sunday scolded countries that produce weapons for wars fought elsewhere and then refuse to take in refugees fleeing the very same conflicts.
The 82-year-old Argentine pope, whose parents were of Italian immigrant stock, has made the defense of migrants and refugees a plank of his pontificate and he has often clashed over immigration policy with US President Donald Trump and populist anti-immigrant politicians in Europe.
More than half of California voters have thought about moving out of state, according to a new poll from the Institute of Governmental Studies at U.C. Berkeley. A full 74 percent of the state’s very conservative voters say they’re looking into moving, and 84 percent of those cite California’s political culture as their rationale for leaving.
Unsurprisingly, the high cost of housing is mentioned by 71 percent of California voters who have considered moving out-of-state. More than half of voters ages 18 to 39 have thought about moving out of state, with more than 80 percent of that group citing high housing costs as the reason.
Joe Biden has had a hard few weeks. He may appear to be losing it, but looks can be deceiving. Lunch Pail Joe may be the one Democratic candidate who understands what Americans care most about
Speaking recently at an LGBT event, the former vice president told the audience, “In prison the determination should be that your sexual identity is defined by what you say it is, not what in fact the prison says it is.” Put another way, Biden came out in favor of housing male convicts with women. Watching Biden grovel before the woke mob is rather sad, but it’s also telling about the evolving priorities of his party
Derangement is in the air as progressives, driven to distraction by not just Trump’s election and successes but their own failures, act out their rage with no consideration of the downsides. An excellent example of Non-Trump Progressive Derangement Syndrome (NTPDS) is offered by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, embarrassed by their city’s descent into filth and squalor, lashed out of the National Rifle Association instead of doing anything about the homeless population that is making sidewalks dangerous to traverse and spreading disease and crime. On September 3, the Supes:
...approved a resolution this week declaring the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization.
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“Gaslighting” is a term well-known in the psychological counseling community, especially among those dealing with narcissistic personality disorders. It refers to the technique used by a narcissist to convince his victim that what he sees with his own eyes is not true, and hence, he must be going crazy. If the victim catches the narcissist in the act of some foul deed or betrayal, the narcissist will deny his guilt with such passion and apparent sincerity that the victim is tempted to believe him, despite the evidence of his own eyes. The technique is especially effective as a long-term strategy -- the victim or enabler is
Statistics drawn from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program show that the violent crime rate in 2018 hit its lowest level since 1971.
FBI crime stats show the “estimated rate of violent crime was 368.9 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants.” That is a 3.9 percent reduction in the rate when compared with 2017 stats, but the real lesson emerges when we look long term.
For example, Bearing Arms reports that the 2018 rate of violent crime was barely above the 1971 rate of 396 offenses per 100,000 inhabitants.
Ironically, one of the greatest differences between 1971 and 2018 is that there are exponentially more privately-owned firearms
President Trump on Tuesday evening went all in and accused the Deep State and Democrat politicians of a coup intended to take away the power of the people.
President Trump is correct. This is not impeachment, it is a COUP.
“As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!” Trump said in a pair of tweets Tuesday evening.
Republicans thinking about supporting the impeachment of President Donald Trump should consider this: If Trump is removed from office before the November 2020 elections, it would virtually guarantee that the next president will be Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with enough power in Congress to carry out much of her radical agenda.
In the week since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the start of an impeachment inquiry, the biggest loser in the polls has been Joe Biden. Support for Biden among Democrats dropped from 30.3% in the Real Clear Politics average to 27.2%. Warren’s numbers have climbed from 19.2% to 23%.
Tiffiney Zinger said it was painful telling her daughter she couldn't use a family vacation photo for her second grade class project – the image was marred by what appeared to be a symbol of hate.
The photo shows the 6-year-old girl, who is biracial and has autism, posing with an actor dressed as the movie character Gru from "Despicable Me" during a Universal Orlando breakfast event attended by the Zinger family in March. The character formed an upside-down "OK" symbol with his fingers, recognized by some as a hate symbol, on the girl's shoulder, according to a photo and video reviewed by USA TODAY.
A Universal Orlando Resort spokesman said Tuesday
Trump Attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told Laura Ingraham on Tuesday night that the Trump administration is considering a lawsuit against Congressional Democrats.(Photo) Rudy says the Trump administration has several charges they are considering filing against House Democratic Leaders.Brilliant! Rudy Giuliani: I had a couple talks with civil rights lawyers and a constitutional lawyer today and here is what they are recommending. That we should bring a lawsuit on behalf of the president and several people in the administration, maybe even myself as a lawyer, against the members of Congress individually for violating constitutional rights.
Since at least 1922, the Washington Post and others have been trying to scare everyone into thinking that the coastal cities would soon disappear along with the Arctic icecaps and yet the people living by the coast seem to be relaxed and happy. Here's a new study from the U.K.:Seaside Serenity: Study Finds Living Near A Coast Linked To Improved Mental Health. Spending time along a shoreline helps people relax in a variety of ways. Some prefer a quiet day at the beach enjoying tranquil ocean views, while others may make a brisk swim part of their morning routine.
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They’ve gone too far. “Donald Trump’s supporters are racist“, or “uneducated”, or “unenlightened”, or (fill_In_The_Blank). This hate-filled sentiment is clear within the latest corrupt and targeted impeachment attack against the office of the President.
Now the media narrative controllers are fully engaged, gleeful with impeachment blood-lust amid their broadcast brethren. The raw political corruption is now extreme.
Do not look away.
As we bear witness, anyone trying to convince us this entire assembly of our union is headed in the right direction, well, they might want to revisit their proximity to the 2020 election ballpark. Because they’re not just out of the city
If House Democrats really want to impeach President Trump, they should do it right. They should own it, as previous Congresses have done when impeaching previous presidents.
They should vote on the House floor to open a formal impeachment inquiry.
As long as they avoid this step, they evince a lack of faith that Trump deserves to be impeached. Without a vote, they are just going through the motions of impeachment but without taking responsibility for their actions.
When Congress began the impeachment process for Richard Nixon, it did so with a vote. When Congress began the impeachment process of Bill Clinton, it also did so with a vote.
The Tragedy of Communist China
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Communist China’s 70th anniversary, with its spectacle of violence against demonstrators for democracy in Hong Kong, is a moment to mark a profound truth: There is no difference between political liberty and economic liberty. They cannot be separated, nor can one be put before the other. It turns out that economic liberty and political liberty are the same thing — warp and woof of the fabric of freedom.
This became evident in Asia in the 1970s, when our defeat in Vietnam ushered in an era in which the so-called non-aligned nations began to assert themselves.
The Trump administration's ambassador to Germany has saved the U.S. taxpayer some $20 million during the last two fiscal years, according to an announcement from the American mission in Berlin.
Under the leadership of U.S. ambassador Richard Grenell, the foreign mission managed to come in $6 million under budget in fiscal year 2018 and $14 million under budget in fiscal year 2019.
By streamlining operations and cutting down on burdensome bureaucracy, Grenell has been able to carry out the Trump administration's agenda abroad with limited wasteful expenditures.
"I believe strongly that American taxpayers expect efficiency and frugality from overseas missions. I am happy to report that after coming $6 million under budget
The Reliant, an action film coming to select theaters on October 24, is not a typical faith-based film and the secular community is taking notice. It was made apparent when the Motion Picture Association of America gave it an R rating. Although it had no foul language or sex scenes, and less violence than Disney movies given a PG-13 rating, the screenwriter and producer of the film, Dr. J. P. Johnston, had to appeal to the MPAA to get it changed. The hate mail the producers have received and the trash articles written by those opposed to the film’s nod to the right-to-keep-and-bear-arms
Fox News had the top three highest rated cable news shows for 2019’s third quarter, while MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow had her worst quarter in years.
Sean Hannity had the highest rated news show for the third quarter, averaging 3,276,000 viewers, followed by Tucker Carlson with 3,082,000 viewers, Laura Ingraham with 2,629,000 viewers, and finally Rachel Maddow who averaged 2,518,000 viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. It was Maddow’s lowest-rated quarter since the second quarter of 2016.
First, it is likely that President Donald Trump violated some cockamamie administrative rule when he recently spoke with the new Ukrainian president about the potential corrupt dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, in Ukraine. Fine. Can’t Trump just pay a fine or something? Yes, he should’ve been more careful (and he needs to tell Rudy Giuliani to calm down, as the former mayor risks perjuring himself before not one, but three Congressional committees). What Trump did was the equivalent of going 15 mph over the speed limit in rural Georgia: it happens. Rarely does anyone notice. Ignorance is still not a viable legal defense.
Remember last month when San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a domestic terrorist organization and ordered city employees to “take every reasonable step to limit” business interactions with the NRA and its supporters? The one that our David French labeled “a retaliatory public attack on constitutionally protected speech”?
The NRA sued, and lo and behold, San Francisco is backing down, before the suit even went to court.
In a formal memo to city officials, San Francisco mayor London Breed declared that “no [municipal] department will take steps to restrict any contractor from doing business with the NRA or to restrict City contracting opportunities
BRUSSELS — This summer, just after he visited the White House for the second time, President Andrzej Duda of Poland held forth about how much he admired President Trump’s transactional style.
“I must tell you that in this respect I find it very easy and good to cooperate with President Donald Trump,” Mr. Duda said in an interview in Warsaw. “Because he’s very down to earth, very concrete. He tells me what he wants, he asks me what he can get from us.”
Given that well-established style of wheeling and dealing, the revelations about Mr. Trump’s phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine —
It has been said that there are only two cures for those bitten by the presidential bug: election or death. Poor Hillary Clinton.
The most famous loser of a presidential campaign is peddling another book, so each day interviewers ask her vapid questions about how she feels. Naturally, she responds with vapid variations on a theme: Donald Trump is no good, he stole the election, the world is ending, I’m fine, thank you.
Only she’s not fine, or she wouldn’t continue to embarrass herself by trying to rewrite history. She lost the election fair and square and even the “resistance” movement no longer pretends otherwise.
MEXICO CITY – In the calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, drilling platforms hum away under the sunshine. But, in the dark of the night, they are becoming more and more subject to vicious attacks launched by modern-day pirates.
“Although oil and diesel stealing has been going on for decades, there has been an increase in criminal activity reported in the last four years,” Johan Obdola, founder of the Global Organization for Security and Intelligence, told Fox News. “It is estimated that the stealing in Mexico is up to 1.18 million barrels a day, bringing millions to criminal organizations, and making it very difficult to control.”
And, controlling the matter
Virginia police officer suspended
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A Virginia police officer was suspended after allegedly turning over a suspected undocumented immigrant to federal authorities following a traffic accident last month.
The Fairfax County Police Department didn't identify the officer in a statement released Tuesday but said the incident occurred on Sept. 21 when an officer was dispatched to a car accident.
The officer discovered one of the drivers didn't have a Virginia driver's license and ran a check with the state Department of Motor Vehicles, police said. The check revealed the driver had a violation for failing to appear for a deportation hearing.
TALLAHASSEE — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and South Florida Democrats plan to meet with Venezuelan exiles this week amid an ongoing stalemate in Congress over whether or not to offer protections to those who fled the South American country.
Democrats have scheduled a forum on Thursday in Weston, a town that has seen an influx of Venezuelans fleeing their country during an economic collapse that began under former President Hugo Chávez and has continued under President Nicolás Maduro.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A group of San Francisco neighbors said they had to do something to make their street safe. Their answer? Some giant rocks.
Fed up with what they see as the city’s failure to combat homelessness and rampant drug use, the neighbors had boulders delivered to their sidewalk to block people from pitching tents on their street.
That started a fight that shows the frustration with an unprecedented homelessness crisis in California. Cities are struggling to address the lack of affordable housing and a growing number of homeless encampments that are popping up on city streets, sometimes in neighborhoods.
Jimmy Carter is celebrating his 95th birthday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he continues his humanitarian work and occasionally wades back into politics and policy debates almost four decades after leaving office.Carter, who served from 1977-1981 and still lives in tiny Plains, Ga., planned no public celebrations on Tuesday.The 39th president, born in 1924 and raised during the Great Depression, has slowed physically in recent years, acknowledging recently that he has trouble walking after hip replacement surgery in May. But he remains active with programs at the post-presidency center he and Rosalynn Carter opened in Atlanta in 1982. He still teaches Sunday school