Posts on Saturday, October 5, 2019
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders maintained his polling lead ahead of all 2020 Democratic presidential candidates among college students, while former Vice President Joe Biden was overwhelmingly ignored, according to a recent survey. Sanders stood atop the latest Chegg/College Pulse weekly poll of Democrat and Democrat-leaning U.S. college students with 30 percent of support. He was followed by Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren with 26 percent, and Andrew Yang, who at 10 percent had the most consistent week-over-week increases in backing. Trailing back in single digits was Biden, who has seen his support among liberal college students fall dramatically from 23
US President Donald Trump told House Republicans during a conference call on Friday that he made his now infamous phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at the urging of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Axios reports. "Not a lot of people know this but, I didn't even want to make the call. The only reason I made the call was because Rick asked me to. Something about an LNG [liquified natural gas] plant," one source said, recalling the president's comments. 2 other sources confirmed the first source's recollection. Perry, who is reportedly resigning by the end of this year, has become increasingly embroiled in congressional Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
A magnitude 3.5 earthquake Saturday morning rattled residents of San Francisco and communities to the south, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 8:41 a.m. quake’s epicenter was just west of Colma, off the San Mateo County coast, south of San Francisco and also west of Daly City, according to the agency’s map. It occurred at a depth of 3.7 miles. As of 9 a.m. there had been no reports of injuries or property damage. The quake also was felt across San Francisco Bay in Oakland, Berkeley, Newark and Fremont, and south In San Jose, according to people posting on Twitter.
CLOVIS, Calif. — Trevor Meyer had been nominated previously for the homecoming court. As a prince. But what Meyer really longed for was to win homecoming queen. Meyer, who identifies as “gender neutral,” had that wish granted when Clovis East High crowned the slender, 5-foot-10 senior as homecoming queen Friday night during halftime of the Timberwolves’ football game against Clovis High. Meyer’s coronation didn’t seem like much of a shocker based on the other finalists’ reaction and the loud round of cheers at Lamonica Stadium. But in a city and in a school district known for having conservative views, a
Ben Okereke, who legally immigrated to America when he was 14-years-old, took part in Turning Point USA’s 2019 Young Black Leadership Summit Friday at the White House, where he thanked President Donald Trump for everything he has “done for the African American community so far.”
“With us this afternoon is Ben Okereke,” Trump said as he introduced the young veteran. “When Ben was 14- years-old, he legally immigrated to the United States after suffering many hardships in Cameroon, which I hear is a beautiful, beautiful place.”
Trump added, “To give back to our country, he joined the United States Army and honorably served for four years
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., suggested this week that a school principal effectively fired her from a teaching job after she became "visibly pregnant," but a resurfaced video indicates that wasn't the actual reason she left the job. "I was married at nineteen and then graduated from college [at the University of Houston] after I’d married," Warren, then a Harvard Law School professor, said in an interview posted to YouTube in 2008. "My first year post-graduation, I worked -- it was in a public school system but I worked with the children with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I actually didn’t have
President Donald Trump has ordered a substantial reduction in the staff of the National Security Council, according to five people familiar with the plans, as the White House confronts an impeachment inquiry touched off by a whistle-blower complaint related to the agency’s work.Some of the people described the staff cuts as part of a White House effort to make its foreign policy arm leaner under new National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien. The request to limit the size of the NSC staff was conveyed to senior agency officials by acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and O’Brien this week.
First David Hogg, now Greta Thunberg.16-year-old Swedish green activist Greta Thunberg lectured Iowans on Friday about the Climate Change hoax and asserted that teenagers and children know better than adults. Thunberg has a myriad of mental health issues. She is autistic, has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and suffers from Asperger syndrome, but she knows what’s best for the world — just ask her.“We teenagers and children shouldn’t have to take the responsibility. But right now, the world leaders keep acting like children, and somebody needs to be the adult in the room,” Thunberg said to a huge crowd in Iowa on Friday.
Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib says House Democrats are “trying to figure out” how to arrest Trump officials who resist subpoenas during the impeachment process, promising to “take care of them.”The politician was speaking at a “Congress, Coffee and Congress” meeting on Tuesday. (Video) “This is the first time we’ve ever had a situation like this. So they’re trying to figure out, no joke, they’re trying to figure out, well, is it the D.C. police that goes and gets them? We don’t know. Where do we hold them?” Tlaib suggested people like Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross could be jailed in Detroit.
Once upon a time — in a galaxy far, far away — The New York Times and The Washington Post were the go-to papers when it came to uncovering political scandals. Both papers made a point of running the Pentagon Papers, an internal and secret U.S. government history of various presidents and their relevant Cabinet secretaries decision-making on American involvement in the Vietnam War. The Post, of course, was also famous for its birddogging young reporters Woodward and Bernstein and their digging out the details of the Watergate scandal. In fact, movies have been made with Hollywood A-listers lionizing both The Post and the journalists involved.
Meerkats of the Kalahari are experts at creating diversions to confuse and side-track predators. A ‘leader’ stands on high ground, watching for trouble. When a predator arrives on the scene, he creates a dust storm and low visibility so that his fellow meerkats can escape. Understandably, a group of meerkats is called a “mob,” “gang,” or “clan.” A meerkat clan often contains about 20 meerkats, but some super-families have 50 or more members. There are 235 Democrats in the 2019 House of Congress. Similarly, politicians are identified by their groups, sticking closely together in times of trouble.
It's always useful to know what a campaign is like, the lay of the land, so to speak, the supporters, the campaign operation, the candidate herself.
Here in San Diego, Elizabeth Warren paid a visit Thursday, so I went, taking my elderly mother, blending into the crowd to learn how things looked from the Democrat side.
The most obvious takeaway is that Warren is rising. Based on her own energetic appearance and stump speech, she's now begun campaigning as if she's got the Democratic nomination in the bag, and she's now attempting to move to the center.
That signals a swift campaign response to the de facto collapses of her
WASHINGTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s presidential campaign was under attack, and he and his advisers were torn over what to do.
For more than a week, President Trump had been hurling unfounded accusations about Mr. Biden, his son Hunter and their dealings in Ukraine. Mr. Biden and his advisers debated whether to mount a fierce counterattack or to stick to a set of policy arguments he had been planning to roll out. Bad news loomed in the background: Mr. Biden’s poll numbers had already grown wobbly, his fund-raising was uneven, and cable news was flashing chyrons by the hour
Yesterday, former U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker testified behind closed doors and in front of the House Intelligence Committee for over nine hours. As reported, his testimony did not turn out to be what Democrats were looking for in terms of pushing their "impeachment inquiry" narrative forward.
According to Republican Congressman Lee Zeldin, Volker's testimony "drove a dagger" in the argument that President Trump engaged in a quid pro quo with Ukraine by threatening to withhold military aid unless former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, were investigated. [Tweet, video]
Zeldin's analysis is borne out by Volker's opening statement,
Revenge of the Swamp Monsters
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We knew when Trump won the election in 2016 that there was going to be the Devil to pay, the swamp was going to rise up. And rise they did, even before he took office. But we are now a bit taken back by the level of intensity, the never ending accusations, by every by every form of political and bureaucratic debris. They have thrown everything at this president they can find for mere numerical value. Trump has indeed disturbed the nest of biting swamp flies, both lords and ladies. And they are determined to protect their rice bowls.
Carl Icahn, one of America’s most well-known investors, has summoned the movers, joining what, in an average year, adds up to almost a half-million New Yorkers looking for a better place to live. As with the largest share of former Empire Staters, Icahn is moving to Florida, a state with no personal income tax.
Icahn isn’t just moving to Florida alone; he’s also offering each of his staff $50,000 in relocation benefits to move with him.
Icahn, 83, has been paying New York’s top 8.82 percent tax on income for his entire storied career. Why move now?
Rush Limbaugh: Mitt Romney Assured Pelosi
There Was Republican Support to Impeach
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There Was Republican Support to Impeach
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Mitt hates Trump more than he loves America. About ten days ago Rush Limbaugh told his massive radio audience that Mitt Romney assured Nancy Pelosi that there was Republican support in the US Senator for President Trump’s impeachment for asking Ukraine and China to look into Joe Biden’s billion dollar pay-for-play scams. (Photo) Mitt hates President Trump — so much so that he is willing to sell out his country to get back at President Trump.
On Friday Mitt Romney downloaded on President Trump again — this time siding with Democrats in their sham impeachment quest.
Comedian Terrence K. Williams issued a plea for help after Twitter’s legal team sent him a “hateful conduct” warning prior to his White House visit. The well-known supporter of President Trump told over 630,000 followers that he is “pissed” that his account was flagged right as he prepared to meet President Trump at the White House’s “Young Black Leadership Summit.” “TWITTERS LEGAL TEAM CONTACTED ME ON THE DAY I GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE!” he tweeted Friday. “People want to take my account down because I said Schiff Should Resign, called out AOC & I support Pres @realDonaldTrump. I NEED YOUR HELP.
President Trump on Friday signed a presidential proclamation that will prevent U.S. taxpayers from being forced to subsidize health care costs of legal immigrants, who will need to have their own insurance. In the new rule, which goes into effect Nov. 3, most foreigners who apply for visas will have to have their own employer-based health insurance or a non-subsidized private health insurance plan before they arrive. The rule does not apply to refugees or those seeking political asylum or nonimmigrant visas. The proclamation reads in part:
Joe Biden has lashed out at a reporter in response to a question about his family's potential conflicts of interest in the Ukraine, insisting that press should focus on allegations against President Donald Trump. At a Service Employees International Union forum in Los Angeles on Friday, Biden was asked about his work overseeing foreign policy for Ukraine as vice president while his son Hunter served on the board of a major Ukrainian company. 'It's not a conflict of interest. There's been no indication of any conflict of interest, in Ukraine or anywhere else. Period,' Biden snapped.
WIMAUMA, FL — A 27-year-old Wimauma woman was arrested by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office after the bomb squad reportedly discovered 24 pipe bombs in her home along with bomb-making materials, instructions on making bombs and anarchist manifestos. The sheriff's office said the bombs had the potential to cause catastrophic damage and loss of life.
Michelle Louise Kolts was arrested just after midnight Friday at the home she shares with her parents in the 5000 block of Jagged Cloud Drive in the Sereno subdivision. The sheriff's office launched its investigation into Kolts Thursday after her parents alerted the sheriff's office to her activities.
Former federal prosecutor Rudy Giuliani says his mission as President Trump’s attorney is not only to defend his client against sham left-wing attacks but to “disrupt the world” by exposing the Democrats’ decades-long “massive corruption” with both Ukraine and China. (Photo) When asked by Fox News host Martha MacCallum: “Why are you the President’s personal attorney? What’s your mission?” Giuliani replied: “To disrupt the world. My mission is to defend my client in the best traditions of the legal profession…The Democrats are covering up corruption. Massive corruption.”
On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Shepard Smith Reporting,” network anchor Chris Wallace said former U.S. Special Envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker’s opening statement to Congress “is quite devastating to the president and Rudy Giuliani’s case.”Wallace said, “The breaking news to me, today, is— Fox has gotten ahold of the 11-page statement, opening statement by Kurt Volker yesterday in a closed session. He, of course, was the special envoy from the administration to Ukraine. He was very involved in all of this. This 11-page opening statement is quite devastating to the president and Rudy Giuliani’s case.”
More good news on jobs
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After months of unemployment holding at 3.7%, the rate dropped to 3.5% in September — its lowest since 1969. And that was far from the only great news in Friday’s jobs report.
Consider the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers for minorities: Hispanic unemployment dropped to 3.9%, setting a new record, while African American joblessness remained at a record low 5.5%.
And the rate for adults without a high-school diploma dipped to 4.8% — the first time it’s gone below 5% since BLS started collecting the data in 1992.
Plus: “Wages are up by almost 3%” for the year, noted President Trump, “a fantastic increase for everybody out there working.”
Dirty Nancy Pelosi Visits South Carolina
for Event—Massive Trump Crowd Greets
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for Event—Massive Trump Crowd Greets
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This was great! (Photo) Dirty Nancy Pelosi traveled to South Carolina for a Democrat Party fundraiser in Greenville on Friday. But before she made it to her event A MASSIVE TRUMP CROWD lined the streets to greet her. (Tweet/Video) emocrats want to impeach President Trump based on a total scam! They’re trusting the liberal mainstream media to cover for them. This is the definition of a coup. Democrats are trying to remove a president while lying to the American people the entire time.
Another day, another scandal that’s sure to trigger the Trump administration’s downfall—if only the American people would be less picky about what the definition of the word “evidence” is.The Ukraine Call Transcript. The Whistleblower Complaint. The Impeachment Inquiry. The pieces of this latest impeachment jigsaw have reached mythic status, bolstered by frenzied reporting, and insistence on the part of Democrats and advocates that this time, they’ve got the president right where they want him.
Homeland Security spent millions of dollars on drug detection devices for use at the border even though the detectors can’t reliably spot the type of deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl that is pouring across the border, the department’s inspector general said in a report this week. Not only do the devices fail to spot fentanyl at less than 10% purity—which is the level most commonly smuggled across the border—but Customs and Border Protections’ Office of Field Operations (OFO) didn’t even have guidelines on how to use or update the detectors, the inspector general said. Since fentanyl is a synthetic drug and
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday arrived in Greenville, South Carolina for a speech at a fundraiser hosted by the South Carolina Democratic Party. What Pelosi probably wasn't expecting though was the number of President Donald Trump's supporters who would be there to welcome her to the Palmetto State. (tweets) Even though South Carolinians are upset with the House's decision to move forward with a formal impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Pelosi reiterated her position during her fundraiser speech.
“What we’re talking about here is not about personality, it’s not about policy differences — that’s to be taken up in the election,” Pelosi said.
President Donald Trump went after Republican Utah Sen. Mitt Romney on Twitter Saturday morning after Romney condemned the president’s call with Ukraine’s president.
An August whistleblower complaint accused Trump of asking Ukrainian officials to look into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden during a July 25 phone call. The House of Representatives began a formal impeachment inquiry into the president in September following news of the phone call.
Romney went after Trump on Twitter Friday, saying that asking foreign countries to look into Joe Biden is “wrong and appalling.” Trump tweeted Saturday morning and called Romney “a pompous ‘ass.'”
“Hundreds” of people who believed they were transgender want to return to their birth sex, according to the founder of Britain’s new Detransition Advocacy Network. 28-year-old Charlie Evans, who lived as a male for almost ten years after transitioning in her teens, told Sky News that she had been contacted by “hundreds” of trans people who, like her, came to regret their decision. “I’m in communication with 19 and 20-year-olds who have had full gender reassignment surgery who wish they hadn’t, and their dysphoria hasn’t been relieved, they don’t feel better for it,” she told the broadcaster. “They don’t know what their options are now.” Source corrected
Four homeless men were found beaten to death in Chinatown early Saturday and a fifth was critically injured in a terrifying Lower Manhattan rampage, police said.Sources identified the alleged killer to The Post as Rodriguez “Randy” Santos, who has 14 past arrests—including an assault charge from May. The homicidal spree came to light as cops responded to a 911 call of an assault in progress on Bowery Street near Doyers Street in Chinatown at about 1:50 a.m. and found two homeless men with head trauma, cops said. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, the other victim, 49,
A British employment tribunal has ruled that a Christian doctor’s biblical understanding of sexuality and lack of belief in transgenderism is “incompatible with human dignity.” After being fired from his job in 2018 for refusing to use pronouns that do not correspond to a person’s biological sex, disability assessor Dr David Mackereth filed a complaint against the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) for harassment and discrimination under the Equality Act. In its decision this week, the panel declared that Dr Mackereth’s biblical belief that “God made humans male or female” was “incompatible with human dignity”. The tribunal ruled explicitly on three positions taken by Dr Mackereth Source corrected*
California Democrats Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu are among President Trump’s most vocal, mean-spirited antagonists in Congress — and resistance to their destructive politics is slowly but surely building both on the Hill and in their home state.
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One might expect Republicans to shy away from a general election fight with such popular Democrat incumbents, especially since incumbents of any stripe are hard to dislodge, but left-wingers Schiff and Lieu are so obnoxious that two GOP members are rising to the challenge.
Eric Early, an outspoken attorney known for his conservative activism, wants the Republican nomination to challenge Schiff. (Snip) And health-care executive James P. Bradley wants the GOP nod
A slew of left-wing Hollywood actors — including Alyssa Milano and Debra Messing — have joined forces with the Democratic Coalition’s “Impeachment Task Force,” which is designed to further the Democrat-led Trump impeachment effort with aggressive messaging on social media.
Democrats across the board — in both Hollywood and Washington DC — have been attempting to sway the general public to respond more positively to the partisan impeachment inquiry, spurred by a complaint from a “whistleblower” who was later revealed to be a registered Democrat. Desperate to get skeptical voters on board and protect vulnerable Democrats in swing districts,
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said at Northwestern University on Thursday that the House Democrats “might be forced to move forward on impeaching President Donald Trump before being able to ‘flesh out the facts,’” which he blamed on the White House’s “obstructionist acts and delay tactics.”
The Chicago Tribune led its reporting on Schiff’s speech at the college – known for its journalism programs – with Schiff’s claim, despite the fact that the when Democrats raised concerns about the president’s phone conversation with the Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Trump released the transcript from the call.
The Democrat’s impeachment “inquiry” is not about anything Trump did or didn’t do. Like the anti-climactic Russian soap opera that came before it, it’s about discrediting President Trump before the 2020 election. Their last attempt failed; unashamed and undeterred, they’re giving it another shot. (Snip)Robert Mueller’s sphinxlike pronouncements muddled what was an impossibly byzantine tale from the beginning, and by the end of the saga the Democrats were demoralized and resigned to beating Trump at the ballot box.
But then, as if by divine intervention, a “mysterious” bureaucrat with a “complaint” emerged to save the day. Lightning flashed, the earth shook. The verdict was rendered: guilty! An anonymous, highly respected man
WASHINGTON — It’s the subject of frequent barroom arguments, online debates, and even internal strategy sessions of congressional campaigns. Everyone in politics — Republicans and Democrats alike — is asking the same pressing question: Just how electable is Elizabeth Warren against President Donald Trump? As Warren rises to the top of the Democratic presidential primary, it’s a question operatives from both parties are increasingly asking with more urgency. And the answers often surprise. “The idea Elizabeth Warren is unelectable has followed her her whole career,” said Colin Reed, a veteran GOP strategist who worked against Warren when she was a
Three-quarters of U.S. adults who are, or lean, Republican say social media sites, like Facebook, have too much control over the news that users see, a new national Pew Research survey finds.
The survey of 5,107 U.S. adults who are members of Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel, conducted July 8-21, 2019, finds that 75% of Republicans say social media sites have “too much control” over news posts viewed – and 66% say that results in a “worse mix” of the news they see. Social media site censorship of news content is considered a “very big problem” by 43% of Republicans and Republican-leaners - and, nearly two-thirds (64%) say the posts
A second intelligence official is reportedly weighing blowing the whistle on President Trump's communications with Ukraine.
The New York Times reported Friday that two people briefed on the matter indicated the official is considering whether to file his own whistleblower complaint and testify before Congress. The official is said to have more direct information on the president's July phone call with the leader of Ukraine than the first whistleblower, whose complaint alleged that Trump used his power as president to urge Ukraine to probe former Vice President Joe Biden, his political rival.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
just declared war on religious
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just declared war on religious
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When the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that Minnesota could not force wedding videographers Carl and Angel Larsen to create videos that violate their religious beliefs, the Larsens thought their three-year court battle was over. But it appears it’s just beginning.
Minnesota’s attorney general, Keith Ellison, vowed to fight the court’s decision and squash discriminatory speech in all its forms. In an op-ed for the Minnesota Star Tribune this week, Ellison accused the Larsens of hiding behind their religious beliefs in an attempt to get away with LGBT discrimination.
The most surprising thing about the latest unemployment report isn’t that the rate dropped to the lowest level since December 1969. It’s that unemployment wasn’t supposed to get anywhere near that low under President Trump. At least, not if you believed mainstream Keynesian economists.
The economy created 136,000 jobs in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey of businesses. The separate household survey, which is used to track unemployment, showed that the number of unemployed dropped by 275,000.
Not only did the job market pull 275,000 off the unemployment line last month, it pulled more than 100,000 who had dropped out of the labor force
If we expect to create a prosperous future fueled by low-cost, clean energy, it’s time to recalibrate the way we think about renewables. That requires us to move beyond the once cutting-edge view that solar power is a key ingredient in lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Ironically, a frequent target of environmentalists, Duke Energy, is showing us that’s not the case. In fact, Duke documents show the negative impact of deploying solar power on the electric grid.
Reporting by North State
Testimony From Ukraine Envoy Kurt
Volker Directly Contradicts Democrats’
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Volker Directly Contradicts Democrats’
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Congressional testimony from the former top American envoy to Ukraine directly contradicts the impeachment narrative offered by congressional Democrats and their media allies. Ambassador Kurt Volker, who served for two years as the top U.S. diplomatic envoy to Ukraine, testified on Thursday that he was never aware of and never took part in any effort to push the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden or his son Hunter. He also stressed that the interactions between Giuliani and Ukrainian officials were facilitated not to find dirt on Biden, but to assuage concerns that the incoming Ukrainian government would not be able
A Throne of Grace
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In a windowless room whose layout is as familiar to lawyers and judges as it is foreign to American ideals of justice, where judges act like clerks and justice feels as cold as it looks, where the powers of the state belong to a mallet too small to be a murder weapon but strong enough to sentence people to death, where a judge’s gavel is the final sound a person hears before he returns to jail or leaves for prison—on the seventh floor of the Frank Crowley Courts Building in Dallas, Texas, where a courtroom is a judge’s kingdom, the love of a King fills the air
The Left’s same lame game is afoot—anile, redundant, and destined for failure.
In his incisive legal analysis, Andrew McCarthy notes how the absence of a formal vote to commence the impeachment inquiry and the failure (at present) to issue subpoenas would invoke due process safeguards for the president, his administration, and other potential witnesses and/or custodians of sought after materials. He is correct, but if one doubts him, there is a more elementary political rule of thumb to follow: if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) thought taking a vote to commence a formal impeachment inquiry was good for her Democratic caucus, there would have been a vote.
Dysfunctional Education
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The 2020 elections will afford us the chance to pass judgment on the immediate threat to our democracy posed by the intelligence agencies, the Democratic party, and the media in their grab for power through a bastardized impeachment process. But no such opportunity exists for us to deal with the most serious, most fundamental threat to our way of life, namely our thoroughly rotten educational establishment.
The problem has been festering for decades, and keeps getting worse. During Word War II, only 4 percent of some 18 million draftees were illiterate. Despite (or because?) of massive expenditures on education over the subsequent two decades, 27 percent
The Muslim Educational Cultural Center of America (MECCA) claims that its goals are "to guide young Muslims" and "build bridges of understanding with other cultures and faiths." Yet the Chicago-area mosque's willingness to promote hate preachers and anti-Semitic demagogues reflects the continued influence of its Islamists founders and leaders.
The Center's soft talk has duped some politicians into attending the mosque's events. Some of them are Burr Ridge mayor Gary Grasso and Dupage County board member Julie Renehan, who attended the Center's open house last month. Also, this month, on October 2, U.S. congressman Sean Casten spoke on immigration at MECCA.
At a recent town hall meeting with constituents in Michigan, Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib ran with a suggestion from an attendee that Democrats "hunt down" and forcibly remove Trump administration officials from office if they don't comply with their wishes. Tlaib quickly stated that her fellow Democrats have already been involved in discussions pertaining to who could arrest administration officials, Trump presumably included, if they refuse to leave power in a timely manner.
The "Squad" member, who called for Trump's impeachment ("we're gonna go in there and we're gonna impeach the m‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑‑") immediately after she was elected in 2018, told her audience: "This is the last caucus conversation we've had.
James Clapper, the man who lied to Congress about spying on the American people was shocked back in April to hear William Barr testify before Congress that, yes, he thought that the Trump campaign had been spied upon by his political opponents. As Breitbart reported:
Well, I thought it was most stunning and scary. I was amazed at that and rather disappointed that the attorney general would say such a thing. The term “spying” has all kinds of negative connotations, and I have to believe he chose that term deliberately. And I think it’s incredible that if he has concerns
President Trump signed a presidential proclamation on Friday to protect American taxpayers from being forced to subsidize the healthcare costs of legal immigrants wanting to permanently resettle in the United States.
In a new rule, beginning November 3, foreign nationals applying for visas — not including refugees, asylees, or those on nonimmigrant visas — will have to prove that they will have either employer-based health insurance before arriving in the U.S. or a non-subsidized private health insurance plan.
The proclamation reads:
While our healthcare system grapples with the challenges
Sad to say, most villains in films have counterparts in real life, which always leads us to the question: does art imitate life, or does life give voice to film fiction? Both are likely true; outside nature, what we read and see almost all derives from the human imagination. Our Founders knew this, and our Constitution is an ingenious document meant to prevent the kind of undermining of the presidency that has occurred these past three years.The Left today loathes the Constitution. Barack Obama is on record expressing his frustration with its limits on government. He opened the door to the wholesale abrogation of it
Nancy in the swamp of despond
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It’s becoming clearer that Nancy Pelosi’s half-clever ploy of unilaterally declaring that an impeachment “inquiry” was in progress is backfiring in a big way.
At first, it seemed that this was a smart move – by simply stating an inquiry was in motion without going through the necessary formalities such as a full House vote, Pelosi was calming the crazies of her caucus (such as the Squad), while leaving herself plenty of maneuvering room to divert or back out should things start to deteriorate.
Joe Biden Explodes Over Question About
Son’s Ties to Ukraine: ‘I’m Not
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Son’s Ties to Ukraine: ‘I’m Not
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Former Vice President Joe Biden exploded at the media on Friday when asked about his youngest son’s shadowy business dealings in Ukraine. The tense altercation occurred during a campaign stop in Los Angeles, California, where the former vice president was asked if Hunter Biden’s service on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian oil and gas giant, had posed a conflict of interest during his time in the White House. Biden, who in the past had refused to discuss his son’s business dealings with foreign governments, appeared perturbed by the question.“It’s not a conflict of interest,” the former vice president said.
New York Times columnist David Brooks
mocked for creating imaginary 'Flyover Man'
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mocked for creating imaginary 'Flyover Man'
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The blue checks of Twitter attacked New York Times columnist David Brooks for his latest column attempting to explain how a Trump voter in middle America views the president’s potential impeachment.Brooks created a fictional character called "Flyover Man" to represent the average Trump voter in a column called "Why Trump Voters Stick With Him." Flyover Man argues with a character called "Urban Guy" that no matter what deals Trump may or may not have struck with the government of Ukraine, the president does not deserve to be impeached.Brooks was mocked for his characterization from people all across the political spectrum.The Nation national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer said,
Two stories today undermine the rush to impeach President Trump on the Ukraine matter.
The first concerns a difficult-to-understand detail in one of the early stories on the matter by Kenneth Vogel of the New York Times. Vogel reported that the Ukrainians were unaware of the suspension of U.S. military aid when Presidents Trump and Zelensky had their phone call on July 25. That detail has now been confirmed by Christopher Miller, an expert reporter in Kyiv, in a Buzzfeed dispatch: “The Ukrainian government didn’t know it was being held up in Washington by Trump, according to the two Ukrainian officials. Nearly a month after the call—
It was a time of great political passion, a time so nasty that few could have imagined it would ever be seen as the good old days.
OK, maybe that’s overstating it; the loathing of George W. Bush by Democrats and their standard bearer, Al Gore, back in the election of 2000, was every bit as visceral, personal and lowbrow as what we’re seeing now in the Dems’ relentless denigration of Donald Trump.
But it eventually faded into history because its shelf life came to an end, unlike the ugly refusal of Trump’s detractors to cease, desist and move on, even as he nears the end of his third
Watch: Trump Releases Video Mocking ‘Pinocchio’
Adam Schiff For Allegedly Lying
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Adam Schiff For Allegedly Lying
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On Friday, President Donald Trump blasted Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for his allegedly false statements about the contact that his staff has reportedly had with the CIA whistleblower by tweeting out a video that used video clips from the Disney movie “Pinocchio” to imply that Schiff had lied about the events. The video mocking Schiff comes after The Washington Post gave Schiff Four Pinocchios for his claims that his committee had not spoken to the whistleblower. “LYIN’ SHIFTY SCHIFF!” Trump tweeted with the video. WATCH: (Tweet/Video)
On Friday President Trump invited national black leaders to the White House today.
The event was also sponsored by Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk. During the ceremony President Trump called actor-comedian and Twitter sensation Terrence Williams to the stage. President Trump then showered Terrence with praise. (Photo) hen Terrence took the microphone and delivered a wonderful tribute to President Trump. (Video) Terrence Williams thanked President Trump later tonight. What a great guy!
I really don’t give a rat’s patoot. I cannot say it enough or intensely enough. It is the season between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, so things that really matter preoccupy my mind. And nothing on G-d Almig-ty’s Earth matters less to me than does the Ukraine Garbage.
Y’know what matters to me? Widows or divorcees in their 40s, 50s, and up who are trying to find a good guy to remarry. It is easier for guys to introduce themselves to women than it is for a woman to hit on a guy, especially a woman who wants companionship in the most honorable way. But I also care about men
The top order of business when the House of Representatives returns from recess on Oct. 15 is certain to be the impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Donald Trump. Here’s something the lawmakers should take care of first: changing the presidential line of succession to remove the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate.
The U.S. Constitution specifies that the vice president takes over if a president leaves office. After that, presidential succession is up to Congress, which has changed the procedure several times throughout U.S. history. There are two strong reasons to change the law again now: It’s the best way for the Democrats
The latest book on Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a critical biography from two New York Times reporters that made new sexual assault charges that were immediately undermined, has suffered an epic sales crash, according to publishing insiders.
Expected to sell at least 10,000-12,000 in the first two weeks and propel The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation onto the newspaper’s bestseller hardcover list, it has sold about a third of that in the first two weeks.
A publishing source provided the latest BookScan numbers, which can account for about 80% of sales. That number is 3,120. “If you add in ebooks — they may have sold a total of 4,000.
President Trump’s critics are now complaining that he asked the Australian prime minister to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation into the origins of the Mueller probe and that Attorney General William Barr has traveled overseas to ask foreign intelligence officials to cooperate with that investigation. The New York Times called it another example of “the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.”
No, it’s not. The president’s critics are conflating two different things: the investigation by Trump’s private lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, and the inquiry by US Attorney John Durham into the counterintelligence investigation
James Clapper, the man who lied to Congress about spying on the American people was shocked back in April to hear William Barr testify before Congress that, yes, he thought that the Trump campaign had been spied upon by his political opponents. As Breitbart reported:
Well, I thought it was most stunning and scary. I was amazed at that and rather disappointed that the attorney general would say such a thing. The term “spying” has all kinds of negative connotations, and I have to believe he chose that term deliberately.
Television networks are usually on the hunt for advertising dollars. But, now we are in the midst of a presidential campaign election cycle and the last thing CNN wants to do is run a campaign ad that knocks its own reporters and on-air talent. CNN has refused to run two campaign ads submitted by the Trump re-election campaign but will air an ad that was submitted Thursday. The first one denied was “Biden Corruption” and it was released last week. The 30-second ad accuses Democrats of trying to steal the upcoming presidential election with the help of their “lapdogs” at CNN –
A 27-year-old Florida woman was arrested after her parents found two dozen pipe bombs in her bedroom and called the local sheriff's office, authorities said Friday.
Michelle Louise Kolts was arrested early Friday and booked on 24 counts of making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing or discharging a destructive device.
"I can only imagine how hard it is to call in about any family member," Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said, according to Bloomingdale Patch.
A woman’s lover was ordered to pay $750,000 in damages to her ex-husband after a judge in North Carolina found under the state’s antiquated “homewrecker” law that he’s legally responsible for breaking up a more than decade-long marriage, according to reports. Speaking Wednesday, Kevin Howard told Greenville’s WNCN-TV he filed a lawsuit against the man who had an affair with his wife over "alienation of affections," a common law tort that dates to the 18th century, when women were considered their husbands' property.
North Carolina is one of six states that still honor what’s been dubbed “homewrecker” or “heart balm” lawsuits under the tort
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Is this the next front in the Left’s impeachment push against Trump? Right now, the president is under siege by Democrats because he had a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July. The juicy story is that Trump, like a mob boss, threatened to withhold military aid unless Zelensky opened a probe into possible corruption committed by Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of an energy company. Hunter has zero experience in the energy sector. The allegation, and it’s not far-fetched, is that he was there selling access—all of this occurred under the Obama presidency.
The American people are living through unprecedented times. We are witnessing, as if spectators, an attempted coup unfold in real time on the daily and nightly news. But make no mistake, the coup isn’t actually about Democrats hating President Trump. Do they despise him, his demeanor, his success—of course; however, the coup that’s unfolding around us is driven by Democrats’ deep seeded hatred for you and me—the everyday, hardworking American.
You see, to Democrats, President Trump is the embodiment of middle America.
Three Democratic Committee Chairman – Elijah Cummings of the House Oversight Committee; Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee; and Eliot Engel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee – came together on Friday to issue a subpoena against the White House as part of the House's impeachment inquiry. The Committees sent a letter to Acting Chief of Staff John Mulvaney, demanding documents be provided by October 18th.
"The Committees are investigating the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security by pressing Ukraine to interfere with our 2020 election and by withholding security assistance provided by Congress to help Ukraine counter Russian aggression,
She could be growing tomatoes.
She could be digging in the dirt, sporting her wide-brimmed straw hat.
She could be enjoying retirement, having lived in the White House and served in government.
Or she could be running for office again.
Or running a frozen banana stand.
Or anything else in the present, headed for the future.
But for some unknown and paralyzing reason, Hillary Clinton cannot let it go.
She can’t catch up to November 9th, 2016 — the day she awoke to a failed campaign.
She’s still somewhere — or, somewhen — on November 8th or before.
It’s been nearly three years.