Posts on Thursday, October 3, 2019
FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP)--A central Iowa pastor who also served as a chaplain to area first responders was robbed and beaten to death outside of his church, authorities said. Officers sent to St. Paul Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge on Wednesday evening found the Rev. Allen Henderson lying unresponsive outside of the building, police said in a news release. Henderson was pronounced dead at a local hospital of injuries consistent with an assault.(Snip)“Pastor Al was a brother to all of us,” Porter told The Messenger newspaper. “He was a pastor to every law enforcement and fire agency in this area. This is very tough for all of us.”
Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort has the media in its sights. “Richard Jewell” tells the story of one of the earliest notable victims of out-of-control government agencies and fake news. Richard Jewell saved countless lives at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. Working security, the man found a backpack with three pipe bombs in it. He alerted police and helped to evacuate the area. Though his actions were nothing short of heroic, Jewell was then at the center of a media firestorm. With outlets reporting incomplete and false information, Jewell was painted as a prime suspect. It didn’t help either that federal agencies went along with this narrative and
With great emotion, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supporter exhibits an odd mix of climate hysteria and Democrat insanity claiming that we do not have time to stop total annihilation from climate change. Her suggestion – eat babies. Her t-shirt has AOC’s next campaign slogan – Save the Planet – Eat the Children. The poor child promoting infant cannibalism as a solution to Climate Change hysteria is not having an original thought. The idea is being promoted by Stockholm School of Economics professor and researcher Magnus Soderlund. His argument for human cannibalism, or to eat the babies, was part of the panel talk “Can you Imagine Eating Human Flesh?. Simply astounding!
A pair of recent surveys suggest that Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation has not undermined public confidence in the Supreme Court.The studies, from Gallup and the Pew Research Center, show a majority of respondents approve of the Court’s job performance or have a favorable view of the institution. The figures in both polls are consistent with results both organizations recorded shortly before Kavanaugh’s nomination.A Wednesday Gallup report shows the justices command a 54% job approval rating ahead of the start of their new term on Oct. 7, drawing positive responses from a majority of Republicans, independents, and one-third of Democrats. Gallup analysts suggested that the Court’s job approval rating
As Democrats in Congress assess a CIA analyst’s “whistleblower” allegations against President Trump regarding Ukraine, one thing already seems clear: There has been a breakdown within the government of traditional restrictions against sharing intelligence beyond those with a need to know it.Unlike most whistleblowers, the CIA analyst was not a witness to events. Instead, he functioned as a kind of investigative reporter who worked sources to develop the information detailed in the complaint. While some have praised the informer for unearthing questionable behavior by the president, some experts in national security law say that the whistleblower and his sources may have violated regulations aimed at preserving state secrets.
A woman who presumably was one of socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) constituents snapped during an Ocasio-Cortez town hall event on Thursday evening over climate change, declaring that there are only “a few months left!” and that it is time to “start eating babies!”“We are not going to be here for much long because of the climate crisis,” the woman said as she appeared to have an accent. “We only have a few months left!”“I love that you support the Green Deal, but it’s not getting rid of fossil fuel, it’s not going to solve the problem fast enough,” the woman continued.
Judiciary member and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, Jim Jordan, outlined the House Intelligence Committee testimony today from Kurt Volker, the former State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations. “Nothing said today supported Adam Schiff and the democrats’ impeachment narrative. Nothing” (Video) Additionally, John Roberts (Fox News) is confirming the White House will send a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi saying the administration will not comply with any demands from congressional investigators until the full House votes to launch an impeachment inquiry.
“I don’t know what’s in the whistleblower report. But, I intend to find out,” House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told House Minority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on September 23, 2019. But, a New York Times story published this week reports that Schiff had, indeed, been briefed on the general content of the whistleblower’s complaint before that time.Schiff made the claim in a tweet to Rep. McCarthy, including video of an appearance by the minority leader on Fox News: “Actually Kevin, Mueller's report confirmed that in 2016,
Former Ukrainian envoy Kurt Volker testified Thursday morning before the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight committees. Volker resigned from his post last week. Kurt Volker’s name appeared in a partisan CIA “whistleblower’s” complaint against President Donald Trump’s dealings with the Ukraine.Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani told reporters that Volker had encouraged him to speak to Ukrainian officials. Rudy offered saved text messages as proof of his conversations with Volker.On Thursday during a break several Republicans told reporters that Ambassdor Volker has said nothing that coincides
Rod Rosenstein Exposed
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Judicial Watch has pried loose a small quantity of Rod Rosenstein’s emails (suspiciously small) from the Department of Justice. They cover a few critical days in May 2017 when Rosenstein was in the process of appointing Bob Mueller as Special Counsel.(Snip) a few impressions jump out at you.
1) Rosenstein was a darling of the Democratic Party news media. His email exchanges with reporters from the New York Times and the Washington Post, who fawn over him, are striking. He gets to review news stories in draft form so as to correct any misimpressions the reporter may have formed.Stories are modified per his off-the-record input.
Today both Minority House Leader Kevin McCarthy and Representative Michael McCaul draw attention to Speaker Pelosi’s manipulation of House rules specifically intended to achieve articles of impeachment without Republican representation.
In a blatant display of committee manipulation, today the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Chairman Adam Schiff, worked around committee jurisdiction rules and took a deposition from Kurt Volker, the former State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations.Not only was the jurisdiction of the House Foreign Affairs Committee usurped, but Chairman Schiff also limited republican members to having only one staffer present during the testimony. (Snip) This blatant manipulation of House rules was made without Speaker Pelosi holding a House
Joe Biden’s third quarter fundraising numbers are out. And they are an ominous sign for the former vice president’s 2020 candidacy.
According to Bloomberg, Biden told donors at a fundraiser in Palo Alto, CA that his campaign raised $15 million in the period from July-September. That number is down markedly from the $21.5 million he brought in during the second quarter. Biden’s third quarter haul also, notably, lags behind that of two of his rivals. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) brought in $25 million over the past three months, while South Bend, IN Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised $19.1 million. Sen. Elizabeth
The mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey admitted in federal court on Thursday that he stole $87,000 from a youth basketball team he founded.
The admission puts the mayor on a long line of corrupt leadership in the city, which has been riddled with chronic budget problems.
Frank Gillam Jr. told the judge he stole funds raised from donors in Atlantic City and Philadelphia for the Atlantic City Starz for personal expenses between 2013 and 2018. He was elected mayor in 2017 after serving as a City Councilman.
He was released after posting a $100,000 bond with the court, but New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and other elected officials
If the Trump administration continues to not cooperate with Congressional investigations, the president could be impeached on that alone, top Democrats threatened on Wednesday.
Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff reaffirmed Democrats’ new stance that they’ll consider any resistance from the administration as “further evidence of obstruction.”
“Of course that was an article of impeachment against President Nixon,” the California Democrat said.
For his part, Mr. Trump said Wednesday he was willing to go along with Democrats, but it’s not clear how far that cooperation will extend.
Sen. Robert Menendez, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on Wednesday called for Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to recuse himself from Ukraine-related matters.
“The American people need to have confidence that the nation’s chief diplomat is making decisions based on the national interest — not to advance a partisan political agenda,” the New Jersey Democrat wrote in a letter to Mr. Pompeo. “Recusal is the only option at this point to prevent further erosion of the integrity of the U.S. foreign policy.”
Mr. Menendez also demanded the secretary of state refrain from participating in any decisions regarding Ukraine foreign policy or foreign assistance.
On Thursday morning, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wrote a blistering letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), asking her to suspend her “impeachment inquiry” into President Trump and accusing her of “swiftness and recklessness.”After beginning by noting that “transparent and equitable rules and procedures” have not ben established yet, McCarthy continued by recalling there have only been three cases where the House voted there were sufficient grounds for the impeachment of a sitting president. He wrote, ““Unfortunately, you have given no clear indication as to how your impeachment inquiry will proceed – including whether key historical precedents or basic standards of due process will be observed.
For the last forty years women in the Velayat-e-Faqih, Iran is one of the biggest problems in Iranian affairs. Tehran has spent billions of dollars, deployed thousands of forces, and committed countless crimes to suppress social movements that threaten the regime’s restrictions on women’s rights. Something it continues to do so today. Only women, like Maryam Rajavi, and the women of Velayat-e-Faqih are standing up against the repressive regimes. One of the latest casualties in the conflict between women’s rights advocates and the Iranian regime was Sahar, the “Blue Girl,” who was arrested, tried and sentenced to prison for attempting to enter a football stadium.
Donald Trump claims there is no 'war room' at the White House to combat the Democrats' impeachment inquiry into him.'No, no war room,' the president told The New York Post. 'I've got very good people, good lawyers, good White House counsel.' Trump argued that he didn't have a war room during special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of his campaign's ties with Russia - which he called a 'more complicated' probe - so he didn't need one for impeachment. (Photo/Video) 'Russia was much more complicated and after two and half years and after they spent $42 million, there was no collusion, no obstruction, they got nothing,
For two days the mainstream media were breathlessly reporting on an “urgent request” from the State Department Inspector General for a closed-door meeting.
Media sources whipped their left-wing audiences into an anticipatory frenzy with predictions of devastating information soon to come from an “explosive” and “highly unusual” request. It must must be connected to President Trump and Secretary Mike Pompeo hiding devastating information, they said…Well, the super-anticipated ‘closed door’ briefing was held today, and the IG handed out packets of information related to revelations of Democrats colluding with the Ukraine government. The exact opposite of what the media and the professional left anticipated.
Antifa has put out a call for a black bloc protest at the Minneapolis Trump rally on October 10, declaring that “America is cancelled.” Black bloc is a tactic in which the far-left protesters dress in black from head to toe and cover their faces with black masks. The tactic is meant to make it more difficult for police to identify those who break the law during a riot.“Trump is having a campaign rally in downtown Minneapolis. He wants to keep America great, but… AMERICA IS CANCELED,” the call to action posted on a popular Antifa website declared.
American workers, farmers and ranchers need a new trade deal with Mexico and Canada. Thankfully, President Donald Trump and his team have negotiated a much better deal than the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). So why have the members of the U.S. House of Representatives not taken a vote on this new trade agreement called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)? The answer is simple: Politics.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her House Democrats do not want to give a political win to President Trump. I was told that all of the governors attending a meeting of the National Governors Association earlier this year agreed to
CNN is refusing to air a new Trump reelection campaign ad that attacks the network’s prime-time anchors Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo as “lapdogs” for the Democratic Party. The 30-second ad, titled “Biden Corruption,” highlights the controversy surrounding former Vice President Joseph R. Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine.(Tweet) “Joe Biden promised Ukraine $1 billion if they fired the prosecutor investigating his son’s company,” a narrator says in the ad. “But when President Trump asks Ukraine to investigate corruption, the Democrats want to impeach him.“And their media lapdogs fall in line,” the narrator says over footage of
Democrats are panicked because Biden is humming up the works on impeachment.
Biden has admitted that he held up a billion bucks in a loan guarantee unless it fired the prosecutor who was going after his son, a self-admitted coke addict. After his drug use snuffed his Navy career, Hunter Biden landed a $600,000-a-year no-show job by a corrupt Ukraine company with ties to Putin.
Ukraine fired the prosecutor and got its money.
Ukrainians got rid of that government this summer.
President Donald John Trump asked the new president about the prosecution of the company. He said it is on-going.
Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano argued in a column and video published on FoxNews.com Thursday morning that President Donald Trump’s “criminal behavior” with regard to Ukraine is impeachable, and that his threats against the whistleblower are dangerous. The column opens by noting that “the criminal behavior to which Trump has admitted is much more grave than anything alleged or unearthed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and much of what Mueller revealed was impeachable,” before outlining the specifics of the Ukraine scandal currently presenting an existential threat to his administration.
A charity event in honor of a police officer killed while responding to a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, California last year has been canceled after the local police chief and a Democratic politician objected to the participation of prominent Republicans, according to organizers who spoke with a local Fox affiliate.(Snip)
Mike Randall, Vice President of the Fallen Officers Foundation and an organizer of the Blue Bowl, described a phone conversation between himself and Hagel (Snip): “[Hagel] basically said over and over in the conversation this is not Trump country, that slogan ‘Make America Great’ is not favorable, popular, within 1,200 square miles, that we don’t want Republicans here, I
The deranged employee who stabbed four people to death—including three cops—inside a Paris police headquarters had converted to Islam 18 months ago, according to a report. The unidentified, 45-year-old IT worker attacked three members of the police force’s intelligence division Thursday inside two different offices on the first floor, then went into a stairwell and assaulted two women, French TV station BFMTV reported. The man, who fatally injured four people before he was gunned down, had converted to Islam a year and a half ago. Still, police are not treating the attack as a terrorist act,
A charity event planned in honor of an officer killed in a 2018 mass shooting at a country music bar in in Southern California has been postponed indefinitely -- reportedly because a police chief didn't want Republicans invited.
The Blue Bowl, a charity flag football game, was intended to raise money for the family of fallen Ventura County Sgt. Ron Helus as well as other officers killed in the line of duty, FOX 11 of Los Angeles reported. Helus died last Nov. 7, when a 28-year-old suspect allegedly attacked the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks, killing a total of 13 people and wounding about a dozen others.
The great triumph of recent American politics is for the people of your fine country to have elected as president a man who is the precise embodiment of what supercilious Europeans think Americans are really like. Pig-ignorant, arrogant, jingoistic, contemptuous of foreigners, loud-mouthed, badly dressed and irredeemably bumptious. So consuming is the European antipathy toward Donald Trump — he’s never read a book! He eats steak with ketchup! — that it afflicts leading politicians across our continent, people who would be better advised to button it a while and show a little bit of diplomacy to the leader of the free world. But they can’t: the contempt always bleeds through.
"Since corrupt people unite among themselves to constitute a force, then honest people must do the same." —Tolstoy..The Democratic Party's obsession with booting President Trump from office has gone from the ridiculous to the absurd.Robert Mueller's $40M "investigation" into Trump's supposed Russian collusion was in the end a cover-up operation that came up with nothing with which to charge Trump, let alone impeach him. Rep. Jerry Nadler's committee opened an inquiry to see if the president had committed any impeachable crimes, which was ultimately a fishing expedition.Then the oleaginous Rep. Adam Schiff came up with a new plan of attack
The House Congressional Democrats wrote the State Department last week to request testimony from career officials on Ukraine and to demand the Trump State Department turn over requested documents on Ukraine. Yesterday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced he would refuse to allow State Department officials to testify before the Congressional committees on impeachment. This was after Democrats in the House violated fundamental principles, contacted State Department officials directly and told them NOT to contact legal counsel.Democrat lawmakers also requested documents from the Pompeo State Department on Ukraine.
Precedent for filing a whistleblower complaint requires that the complainant is a first-hand witness to the alleged offense or suspected wrongdoing. Criteria that were changed in an amended policy procedure, giving the whistleblower the option of being either a firsthand or secondhand (or more) witness. In normal legalize, testimony from someone who was not a firsthand witness is known as hearsay. The so-called whistleblower complaint filed against the Trump administration gives the appearance of impropriety on many fronts.
Schiff's Deep State Collusion
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Leftist conspiracy-monger Adam Schiff was aware of select details of the Ukraine-Biden allegations against President Donald Trump before a lying CIA snitch reportedly involved in the case filed a complaint under a whistleblower law, according to the intermittently reliable New York Times.
It has been widely reported that the CIA official’s complaint was based on a July 25 telephone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the said stoolie somehow learned about.
Rep. Schiff is the California Democrat, now the laughably unqualified chairman of the House
I spent an evening this week driving through a series of small towns in Michigan and Ohio while visiting my daughter at Hillsdale College in rural Michigan.While having dinner, what appeared to be a drug-addled gentleman walked by our table, and my daughter whispered to me that these towns are struggling badly with opioid addiction. This is not surprising. While the towns have plenty of charm, all of them are struggling economically due to the absence of industry. Driving through gutted out main streets, it is easy to imagine how these towns bustled in years past. It is hard not to be left with a sense of
Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced on Wednesday to serve 10 years in prison for the fatal 2018 killing of an innocent man she shot when she mistakenly entered his apartment believing it was her own. But in a remarkable act of kindness, the brother of the victim took the witness stand and spoke directly to Guyger, saying, "I love you like anyone else," and later hugged her in the courtroom before she was led off to prison. The Dallas County jury reached a unanimous decision on the sentence just before 4 p.m. Central Standard Time, after deliberating for a little over an hour.
Schiff Now Says He Should Have Been
Much More Clear About Whistleblower
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"Have you heard from the whistleblower?" MSNBC contributor Sam Stein asked House intelligence committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on September 17, nine days before the complaint was released to the public. "We have not spoken directly with the whistleblower," Schiff responded at the time, never mentioning that one of his committee staffers had directly spoken to the whistleblower -- and that the staffer "shared some of what the [whistleblower] conveyed" with Schiff, according to the New York Times. The New York Times says the staffer referred the whistleblower to a (Democrat-connected) attorney to help him file a formal complaint with the intelligence community inspector general.
Chelsea Clinton’s current strategy for selling her latest book is to attack President Donald Trump. After already targeting the president on Twitter, she had more to say while appearing on “The View.” “He’s the greatest scam in American political history,” she said, adding that “his whole life has been a scam.” Chelsea was appearing on the program with her mother Hillary, who co-wrote the new book with her daughter. Chelsea previously got attention for replying to a tweet the president sent out calling the impeachment inquiry into his phone call with the Ukrainian president “the greatest scam in the history of American politics.”
Antifa took a public-relations hit this week in Canada after activists blocked the path of an elderly woman using a walker as she tried to enter an Ontario college for a talk featuring a conservative politician. The “anti-fascist” protest group was widely denounced over a viral video showing three masked protesters standing in the woman’s way Sunday as she slowly tried to cross the street, accompanied by her elderly husband, while the activists shouted, “Nazi scum! Off our streets!” The event held at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, featured People’s Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier, a Member of Parliament,
A group of kids shattered a Brooklyn synagogue’s window during Rosh Hashanah prayers by chucking a milk crate and a metal object at it, police said. The four suspects went up to the house of worship on Throop Avenue near Bartlett Street in Williamsburg at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday and one of them hurled the milk crate at the window, video of the incident shows. The group returned shortly after and one of them then threw a piece of metal that was on the sidewalk at the window, causing it to break, authorities said. They kids then ran off
Robert De Niro routinely subjected his longtime employee to creepy and abusive behavior, including leaving her voicemails threatening “you’re f—ing history,” an explosive new lawsuit charges. Graham Chase Robinson says for years she was the victim of “gratuitous unwanted physical contact” from the Oscar winner, who also hurled “sexually-charged comments to her” when she worked at his production company, Canal Productions Inc.(Snip) “Among other things, De Niro would direct Ms. Robinson to scratch his back, button his ties and prod him awake when he was in bed,” the complaint adds. “De Niro also stood idly by while his friend slapped
Facebook can be ordered to police and remove illegal content worldwide, Europe’s top court said on Thursday, in a landmark ruling that rights advocates say could allow authoritarian regimes to silence critics. The ruling came just a week after the same court told Google that it does not have to apply Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law globally, garnering praise from freedom of speech advocates as courts try and figure out just how much responsibility for content platforms should have. The judgment by the Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union ) said Facebook may have to comply with requests to take down content globally under certain conditions.
Chris Cuomo, the CNN host nicknamed Fredo, really lit into Fred Fleitz on his show Tuesday night for his contention that Adam Schiff knew about the Whistleblower complaint before it was filed. Fleitz is a 25 year veteran of the intelligence community, and was Chief of Staff and Executive Secretary of the National Security Council for President Trump until January of this year. (snip) “But you don’t know any of that,” Cuomo pushed back. “You’re raising it as questions. You know that is meaningless unless you can put some meat on the bones. Of course the Republicans are agreeing with you.
Rudy Giuliani Rips Chairman Schiff and
Committee Staff for Manufacturing
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President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani appears for a discussion with Lou Dobbs to outline how Adam Schiff was working in concert with left-wing political allies to create the CIA whistle-blower complaint as evidence for their impeachment agenda: (Video)Some of the information provided by the State Department IG to congress included the investigative notes of Rudy Giuliani in conversations with Ukraine officials. Additionally, Giuliani appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity to expand the discussion. (Video)
Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders (only temporarily off the campaign trail), Kamala Harris, and most of the other Democrat presidential hopefuls are not just running for election, they are running to get even—WITH YOU, you meaning anyone who voted against Hillary Clinton for Donald Trump in 2016.
With the mainstream and social media squarely behind them, with celebrities pitching in on a blown—all-out-of-proportion-witch hunt, it is plain for all to see what they are doing day-by-day to a duly elected Donald Trump. The conspiracy is real and all theirs, not the deplorables. Their entire goal is “getting even” and to nullify the results of election 2016.
Jumpin’ ju-ju bones – The Trump administration via U.S. Trade Rep Robert Lighthizer and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross won a massive $7.5 billion award as an outcome of the World Trade Organization agreeing with the U.S. against the EU and Airbus subsidies. The WTO arbitrators decision is final and cannot be appealed.
This win sets the stage for President Trump to deploy $7.5 billion in countervailing duties against products from the EU. Keep in mind, a final WTO ruling means the EU cannot retaliate against any WTO-authorized countermeasures. The downstream ramifications are very significant. Think about it: at 25% the U.S. could tariff $30 billion in EU goods.
Remember when intelligence leaker Ed Snowden's gentlest critics said that he should have taken his complaints of intelligence abuses through established internal channels instead of steal thousands of documents of top secret intelligence files and then leak them to the press? That 'mistake' - and I don't think it was one -- is what drove him to seek refuge in the old Soviet Union just a few years ago?
Remember when the same was said of then-Private Bradley Manning, who leaked troves of military secrets to Wikileaks before being packed off to Leavenworth? He should have gone through channels...
The idea, of course, is that these people shouldn't have been addressing
RUSH: Here is the audio sound bite. This is Donna Brazile. This is what I saw. Now, I know you’re gonna say, “Rush, if you don’t want to watch it on Fox, why are you playing it for us?” That’s a good question. I will acknowledge it. The only answer to the question is because I want it straight from her mouth. I don’t want to have to be getting it wrong with a paraphrase. The question that she basically got here is, “What’s your reaction to Pelosi saying impeachment is not unifying for the country? What do you
President Trump and his allies are embracing a war with the media as part of the growing impeachment fight.
The president, several congressional Republicans and high-profile pundits are turning their fury toward reporters, accusing them of trying to undercut the president and key officials like Attorney General Bill Barr.
The backlash comes amid a steady stream of reports that are broadening the scope of who within the administration has knowledge of President Trump's actions toward Ukraine that are at the center of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
The Democrats are experiencing the giddy delight of having finally summoned up the stones to push the big red “IMPEACHMENT!” button. Their tawdry joy will pass. It’s a dumb idea, and they will soon regret it. This sorry scenario brings to mind Napoleon’s apocryphal advice to never interrupt your enemy when he, she or xe is making a mistake, and if the cheesy performance art piece that is this bogus scandal wasn’t so poisonous to our body politic, it would be hilarious.
Right now, the Dems are thrilled because they’re finally free of the tyranny of fairness and honesty and coherence, and they can indulge their deepest fantasies
The Party of 'Impeach!'
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The Democrats' purported outrage about President Donald Trump's phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky might be taken seriously by the Republicans were it not for the Democrats' drive to oust Trump from the moment he won the presidency.
CNN's Van Jones, with zero proof, attributed Trump's victory to "whitelash." Trump received 57% of the white vote, actually a lower percentage of the white vote than the 59% received by Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate in 2012. In 2008, Democrat Barack Obama received a greater percentage of the white vote than John Kerry did four years earlier. Obama also received 95% of the black vote. None dared call it "blacklash."
Rasmussen: 69% of Independent Voters
Are ‘Angry’ at Media; 61% of All U.S.
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Are ‘Angry’ at Media; 61% of All U.S.
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More U.S. voters (including 69% of independents) are angry at the media than are angry at either President Donald Trump or his political opponents, survey results released by Rasmussen Reports on Wednesday show.
“How angry are you at the media?”:
Angry: 61% (of which, 40% are Very Angry)
Not Angry: 38% (of which, 19% are Not at All Angry)
The 61% expressing anger at the media is up from 53% in June of last year, but off from its high of 66% in June of 2010.
Voters’ anger at the media is also greater than their anger at either President Donald Trump (53%) or his political opponents (49%) and far more Republicans (83%)
When wrongdoing by Democrats is discussed, the media like to call charges against them “conspiracy theories,” implying that crazed partisans are imagining phony connections where none in fact exist. But when people with no visible connection with each other work together in secret to accomplish some goal and then lie about their collaboration, the dreaded word “conspiracy” becomes completely appropriate.
And that’s what the charges that Nancy Pelosi tasked Adam Schiff’s House Intelligence Committee (and 5 other House committees) with investigating, with an eye toward impeaching President Trump, now look like.
The On-The-Job Coverage Rip-Off
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Employer-provided health plans now cost a gigantic $20,576 a year for family coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Technically, the employer pays most of it, but labor costs are labor costs. The more that's spent on benefits the less can go to wages.
In reality, it's $20,000 out of every worker's pocket -- money that could have bought a subcompact car or upgraded a kitchen. (Snip)
The No. 1 reason health costs are soaring: obesity and obesity-linked diseases. An obese adult uses 42% more health care than a healthy-weight adult. A morbidly obese adult uses 81% more.
Top Democratic 2020 White House hopefuls gathered in Las Vegas Wednesday for a forum on gun control held on the 2nd anniversary of the deadliest mass shooting in American history.
At the forum, sponsored by MSNBC with the gun control groups March for Our Lives and Giffords, Democrats pushed for far stricter federal gun laws than Democrats have ever supported in the past, including several candidates openly endorsing a gun confiscation program.
While Democrats running for president push to roll back gun rights, however, the far-left field of candidates is pushing everything else on their wish list as a “right”
How China ‘Woke’ America
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In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke” on China.
For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities and political dissidents.
Almost every assumption Washington made, by both Democratic and Republican administrations, was logically flawed at best. At worst, these calculations were a weird mix of conservative commercial greed, liberal political correctness, and shared screwball naïveté.
American trade and political appeasement were never interpreted by
During the debate over Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, a 1998 law-review article she co-authored came under scrutiny. The Alliance for Justice, a left-wing group, used the article to suggest Barrett’s religious views made her a threat to the rule of law. Senator Dianne Feinstein infamously encapsulated the point by saying, “Dogma lives loudly within you.” Barrett was nevertheless confirmed in 2017. Ever since then, she has been discussed as a potential Supreme Court nominee.
And so the criticism has been revived — but this time it is taking a more extreme form, and is coming from the right.
President Trump became angry at a reporter and went on to blast him and the media at large during a lively press conference with the president of Finland.
After Trump responded to a question from Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason, Mason asked him to clarify his response.
“But the question, sir, was what did you want President Zelensky to do about Vice President Biden and his son Hunter?” Mason said, prodding the president about his phone call to Zelensky central to the recent whistleblower complaint.
“Are you talking to me?” Trump retorted.
An anti-Trump whistleblower at the center of ongoing Democratic efforts to impeach President Donald Trump coordinated with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and his Democratic staff prior to filing his whistleblower complaint, The New York Times reported on Wednesday afternoon. The bombshell report that the whistleblower and his Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) colleagues actively worked exclusively with congressional Democrats before filing the complaint raises serious questions about whether the complainant followed federal laws providing whistleblower protections for employees within the U.S. intelligence community.
Buried somewhere in recent impeachment reporting was the real news that federal prosecutors are conducting an international dragnet to find the perpetrators of the Russia hoax. Last week, the Justice Department issued a statement:
A team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
It was later learned that Attorney General Barr was absent from Washington and could not answer questions because he was in Italy, where Josef Mifsud—the Western asset who plays a Russian collaborator in the Mueller Report—lives. Officials
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
– John Rogers, “Ephemera 2009,” Kung Fu Monkey
Libertarians are handing America over to socialists. That’s not what they want, but that’s what’s happening. How can this be? After all, if you want limited government, you’re a libertarian. So where’s the problem? The problem, as John Rogers suggests
One dares call it treason
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Because the American people elected Donald Trump as their president, they are the enemy of the Deep State. If you are an enemy of the American people, you are an enemy of the United States. The Constitution, in Section 3 of Article III, says those who give aid and comfort to the enemies of this country are traitors to it.
President Trump is an existential threat to the entrenched ruling class. The Deep State is a part of that class, and it attacks the president on their behalf. Any and all means are justified in attacking him and in defending their power.
At the hospital for my annual physical exam, Adam Schiff was on TV in the waiting room. Schiff presented himself as alerting the American people to the “mafia boss” outrageous impeachable demands Trump made during his phone call with the president of Ukraine. Oozing with obnoxious superiority and arrogance, Schiff insidiously deceived viewers to assume he was reciting Trump's actual words from the phone call. Schiff was lying. Not a single word of what Schiff told the American people that Trump said was in the transcript.
Proving his innocence, Trump released the transcript of the phone call. And yet, fake news media is elated that Democrats are outrageously moving forward
The Dems are doomed
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After nearly three years since Trump's inauguration, Democrats have finally mustered up the courage to go full throttle into impeachment mode, proceeding from the president's whistleblower-stricken phone call with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky stated at a press conference with Trump that when in talks with the president over Hunter and Joe Biden's Ukrainian scandal, he felt no pressure as it relates to United States aid to Ukraine.
Despite this overwhelmingly important factor, Democrats are proceeding full force with impeachment — and it couldn't be better for the president. If the economy didn't seal it for the "on the fence" soccer moms, the humiliation of
I'm ecstatic about President Trump's imminent impeachment.
As Napoleon Bonaparte once said, never interfere with your enemy when he is making a mistake.
To paraphrase the scene in The Godfather, when Clemenza demonstrates to Michael how to shoot a gun, impeachment will reveal the bad blood that's been brewing in the Democratic Party since Trump's inauguration, between the Pelosis and the "new" Democrats, and it will further expose the Tessio Republicans and unify our nationalist base. Inspired by Sal Tessio, from The Godfather, who betrays the Corleone family, a Tessio Republican
Wednesday on his nationally syndicated radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh took a jab at Fox News for the airtime the cable news network was allotting for critics of President Donald Trump.
Based on that, Limbaugh suggested Fox News Channel change its name to “the Fox Never Trumper Network.”
Partial transcript as follows (courtesy RushLimbaugh.com):
There’s something interesting about this impeachment inquiry, ladies and gentlemen, because they are doing it in the Intelligence Committee. One of the things Trump said, by the way, is that Adam Schiff should have should be charged with treason. Now, you think, “Well, wuh, wuh?”
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) did not notify Republicans on the committee of an intelligence official who came to one of his aides with concerns about President Trump before filing an official whistleblower complaint, according to the top Republican on the committee.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) said in a statement:
We learn from the press today that Chm Schiff had prior knowledge and involvement in the [whistleblower] complaint. He withheld this info from the American people
Within hours of suffering chest pains Tuesday night, Bernie Sanders had stents inserted to relieve the blockage in an artery. He’s lucky. Because if Sanders lived under “Medicare for All,” things likely would not have gone as well.
Sanders, along with every other Democrat pushing “Medicare for All” and its variants, constantly bleat about how the U.S. spends far more on health care but gets worse results than countries such as Canada or the U.K. But the quality measures – infant mortality and longevity – are notoriously unreliable for international comparisons.
Infant mortality rates depend on how countries measure them, and longevity has more to do with things like
Former Vice President Joe Biden has a plan for gun control.
It certainly isn't the most radical plan out there. He wants to expand the list of crimes for which convicts can be deprived of their gun rights to include misdemeanor hate crimes. He also wants to create a new voluntary gun purchase program. (Such programs are often mistakenly referred to as "buy-backs," but that syntax falsely implies that the government ever owned any of the guns in the first place.) These programs are usually a harmless waste of money so long as they remain voluntary. But they are a waste.
Most importantly, Biden wants to create a national gun registry.
Former CIA Director under Barack Obama, Trump-hater and the suspected architect of the Spygate scandal, will be questioned by US Attorney John Durham in the coming days. Brennan told Nicole Wallace on MSNBC that he is “supposedly” going to be interviewed by US Attorney John Durham but that he just doesn’t understand why there is an active investigation on the Obama administration’s spying on the opposition candidate in the 2016 election.(Photo) John Brennan told Nicole Wallace: “I’m supposedly going to be interviewed by Mr. Durham as part of this non-investigation… I don’t understand the predication of this worldwide effort to try to uncover dirt…
Stung by a public outcry, Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin C. Roessler Jr. announced Wednesday that he had canceled the suspension and restored to duty an officer who had turned an illegal immigrant over to ICE.
Chief Roessler said an investigation is still ongoing but he ended the officer’s suspension after a “procedural policy recommendation” as of Friday.
“We have one of the best police forces in the U.S. and I have confidence that our officer will represent us well throughout his career,” the chief said in a statement.
A day before he had announced the suspension and publicly shamed the officer, accusing him of breaking department policy by checking for warrants
Trump supporters swarmed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at a Reno airport and demanded her to “stop the impeachment” of President Trump, according to a video posted by the Nevada GOP on Wednesday. The Nevada GOP posted a video of Trump supporters flocking the presidential candidate, holding signs and shouting, “Stop the impeachment” and “don’t impeach,” as she scurried along, dragging her luggage across the airport. One individual can be heard referring to her as “Pocahontas.”“Nevadans greeted @ewarren in Reno and let them know exactly how they feel about the Democrats’ despicable attempt to impeach @realDonaldTrump
Whither Impeachment?
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More information is coming out about the “whistleblower”–read, Democratic Party activist–who triggered impeachment mania, and it does not put the Democrats in a positive light. The New York Times reports that the “whistleblower” has long been working with Congressional Democrats:
The Democratic head of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, learned about the outlines of a C.I.A. officer’s concerns that President Trump had abused his power days before the officer filed a whistle-blower complaint, according to a spokesman and current and former American officials.
A “spokesman”? I assume that means a Schiff spokesman, although that isn’t clear.
The C.I.A. officer approached
Former top National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard is using high-powered law firms that practice in Britain, Ireland, Australia, and the United States in an attempt to quash Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow’s much-anticipated exposé Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators.
According to two knowledgeable sources, Howard—in an extraordinary step for a journalist who otherwise claims to favor the free flow of information—has retained the services of New York’s Kravet and Vogel, Sydney-based McLachlan Thorpe Partners, and the London-based Tweed law firm in an apparent campaign to suppress Farrow’s book, scheduled for publication on Oct. 15.
It should by now be obvious to the meanest intelligence that the Democrats are determined to impeach President Trump with or without credible evidence that he has committed any act resembling “high crimes and misdemeanors.” The “whistleblower complaint” that Nancy Pelosi used as the pretext for launching her ersatz impeachment inquiry contains little but hearsay and fabrication, while her claim that it proves Trump has “violated the Constitution” fails the laugh test. In the end, however, impeachment is less about offenses committed by the president than the desire of the Washington establishment to put down what they see as a peasants’ revolt.
Impeachment is, in other words, an attempt to restore
Twelve minutes before Jamal Khashoggi arrived at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a year ago today, two men in a fifteen-member government hit squad discussed the mechanics of dismembering a body.
“Is it possible to put the body in a bag?” Maher Mutreb, an intelligence aide to a senior adviser of the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, asked the others.
“No. Too heavy, very tall, too,” Salah al-Tubaigy, a forensic chief at the Saudi Interior Ministry, replied. “Actually, I’ve always worked on cadavers. I know how to cut very well. I have never worked on a warm body though,
News that Washington didn’t tell Ukraine it was delaying aid until a month after President Trump’s phone call to its leader punches a gaping hole in Democrats’ impeachment case.
On Wednesday, BuzzFeed reported that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky believed $391 million in military funding was already headed to Kiev when he chatted with Trump in August.
Dems charge the prez held up the money to pressure Zelensky to probe Joe Biden and his son. Hard to see how that works when Zelensky didn’t know about the aid holdup.
This follows the awkward fact that several of the whistleblower’s other claims about that call aren’t borne out by the transcript.
New Team Trump campaign ad: Coup
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Never let it be said that Donald Trump takes too nuanced an approach to campaign politics — or that his campaign team doesn’t follow his lead. Just hours after Trump tweeted out that Democrats are staging a “coup” rather than an impeachment, Team Trump released a new TV spot doubling down on the accusation. It’s “nothing short of a coup,” the 30-second ad released this afternoon declares, “and it must be stopped!”
The judge in the murder trial of Amber Guyger, the former Dallas police officer sentenced to 10 years for fatally shooting her neighbor, caused a stir Wednesday when she hugged the convicted killer after the sentencing.
While some praised the move as a demonstration of religious faith, others -- including former ESPN anchor Jemele Hill -- criticized the judge's action as "unacceptable."
Guyger, a four-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, had been fired and charged with manslaughter after she entered Botham Jean's apartment on Sept. 6, 2018, thinking it was her own and shot him twice, killing him. She was indicted on a murder charge two months later.
Fox News is parting ways with radio host Todd Starnes, who made headlines following a controversial segment on his show earlier this week.
Starnes, who had been with Fox News Radio since 2005, will not have his contract renewed, The Wrap reported Wednesday. A Fox News spokesperson confirmed the report to The Hill.
The 51-year-old commentator had also hosted the program "Starnes Country" on the network's streaming service, Fox Nation, over the past year, though he has appeared on Fox News Channel itself sparingly in 2019.