Posts on Friday, October 18, 2019
Long-time foes North and South Korea played a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday, their first football match in the North in 30 years, but no fans were allowed in the stands and Pyongyang refused to broadcast the game live. There were also no goals.
The last time the two sides met in a World Cup qualifier was in Seoul 10 years ago, when the North lost 1-0 before accusing South Korea of poisoning their players’ food ahead of the match. (Snip) Two earlier qualifiers that had been scheduled for North Korea had to be switched to Shanghai after Pyongyang refused to raise the South’s flag or play its anthem.
Violent clashes escalated in Barcelona late Friday, as radical Catalan separatists hurled rocks and fireworks at police, who responded with teargas and rubber bullets, turning the city centre into a chaotic battleground.
The deterioration came on the fifth consecutive day of protests in the Catalan capital and elsewhere over a Spanish court's jailing of nine separatist leaders on sedition charges over a failed independence bid two years ago. Around half a million people rallied in Barcelona earlier on Friday, police said, in the biggest gathering since Monday's court ruling as separatists also called a general strike in the major tourist destination.
Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, said in an interview that aired Friday that he met, married and got matching "shalom" tattoos in less than a week after laying eyes on his current wife Melissa Cohen Biden, a filmmaker from South Africa."I instantly fell in love with her. And then I've fallen in love with her more every day," he told ABC News.Their wedding at Melissa's apartment six days later was so hastily thrown together that neither had their families in attendance and their wedding photos were taken by a friend on his cellphone.
Former Vice President Joe Biden has rolled out a list of 51 endorsements from current and former elected officials in rival U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s home state.“We’re proud to have such a long list of dedicated public servants by our side in Massachusetts as we fight to restore the soul of this country,” campaign manager Greg Schultz said, adding, “The Bay Staters who’ve joined with us today are ready for that fight, and know that Joe Biden can unite the country across party lines to defeat Donald Trump.”Biden’s Bay State support comes from a slew of state senators and representatives, city councilors and school committee members
President Trump is nominating Dan Brouillette to be secretary of the Energy Department to replace Rick Perry.Trump announced the move in a tweet Friday, a day after Perry announced his resignation effective by the end of the year. (Tweets) Brouillette is currently the deputy energy secretary, working as Perry's second in command. Trump's selection of Brouillette follows his preference of replacing the original heads of his core environmental and energy agencies,
Swedish green teen Greta Thunberg was in Alberta, Canada on Friday leading a ‘Climate Strike’ and Edmonton oil workers let the town know she was not welcome.16-year-old Greta Thunberg has a myriad of mental health issues including Asperger syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder and Selective Mutism yet the left continues to exploit her.“So, today is Friday and as always we are on climate strike. Young people all around the globe are today sacrificing their education to bring their attention to the climate and ecological emergency,” Thunberg said to a cheering crowd of liberal dolts.“And we are not doing this because we want to. We aren’t doing it because it’s fun —
President Donald Trump showed off his comedic skills Thursday as he poked fun at the stereotype of being “presidential” during a speech at a Dallas, Texas rally.Mocking his critics who accuse him of not being “presidential” enough, Trump said there’s only one president who could be more presidential – but, he’d need a prop to do it “Remember, I used to say I can be more ‘presidential.’ Look (poses). I’ve always said I could be more presidential
On Friday, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), introduced a rule change (H. Res. 639) to allow all members of Congress access to ongoing impeachment proceedings, including depositions and transcribed interviews. "The stakes are too high for Chairman Schiff and Speaker Pelosi's impeachment proceedings to continue in secret,” Rep. Scalise declared, announcing introduction of his “Open and Transparent Impeachment Investigation Resolution.” (Snip) “Real due process, which is part of our Constitutional duty, is being denied, in secret – that’s what’s happening in that room right now,” Scalise said in a House floor speech urging the rule change.
Hillary Clinton, the most corrupt woman to ever run for political office, launched a libelous McCarthyite slur at US Representative Tulsi Gabbard. Speaking on David Plouffe’s podcast she accused Gabbard, a veteran of two tours of Iraq, as a Russian Agent. Somehow the women who couldn’t find Michigan on a map, and apparently has no mirrors to engage in actual self-reflection, feels the need to constantly indulge her increasingly disturbing delusions of self-importance.
Hillary lost the election in 2016 because she was a corrupt, horrible candidate. Her latest salvo of abject McCarthyism against Tulsi Gabbard is reason enough to ask her, at long last, does she have no decency?
Have you ever eaten Froot Loops and thought, "This cereal isn’t gay enough?" Do you seek a safe space to eat your Rice Krispies? Are you concerned that your Corn Flakes aren’t sufficiently woke? Well, now Kellogg’s has the solution! On Thursday, the gay site PinkNews reported, “Kellogg’s is launching an LGBT-themed cereal so you can start your day with maximum gay… If you’re a fan of breakfast and being gay, we have grrrrreat news for you – Kellogg’s is launching an LGBT-themed cereal.”
And to think, we’ve been eating straight, cisgender cereal all this time.
CNN Military Analyst Hits Mattis for
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CNN military analyst and retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling criticized former Secretary of Defense James Mattis for making jokes about President Trump during the Al Smith Memorial Foundation dinner.
Mattis joked about how Trump called him the "world's most overrated general."
"So I'm honored to be considered that by Donald Trump because he also called Meryl Streep an overrated actress. So I guess I'm the Meryl Streep of generals, and frankly that sounds pretty good to me," he said on Thursday.
The NBA’s commissioner, Adam Silver, acknowledged in recent remarks that China had pressed for the firing of Rockets general manager Daryl Morey — for the crime of publicly supporting freedom-fighting protesters in Hong Kong — and that the league, as part of the fallout from its seeming siding with the reds, rather than with the red, white and blues, has been losing money. (Snip) China, which does big business with the NBA, canceled its scheduled G League exhibition games with teams tied to the Rockets and to the Mavericks; suspended all its NBA programming on its state-run CCTV; and dropped its hosting of NBA Cares events
The Justice Department set a record over the last year, prosecuting more criminal cases against illegal immigrants and migrant smugglers than any other year on record, officials announced Friday.
The numbers are still a tiny fraction of the overall illegal activity at the border. With nearly 1 million unauthorized crosses in fiscal year 2019, the government still only charged about 106,000 people with either illegal entry or illegal re-entry after a previous deportation. (Snip) The previous high for smuggling cases came during the George W. Bush administration, while the highest numbers for illegal entry and re-entry came during the Obama administration.
President Trump placed a long-distance congratulatory phone call from the White House to two US astronauts who became the first female spacewalking team – telling the pair that what they do is “incredible.”
“We are thrilled to be speaking live with two American astronauts who are making history, joining us during their spacewalk outside of the International Space Station,” said Trump, with Vice President Mike Pence and daughter Ivanka at his side. “I just want to congratulate you. What you do is incredible. You are very brave people,” Trump told Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.
Give writers their pens, soldiers their swords. Do not, however, salute old warriors who write in defense of war without end.
Do not let retired admirals and generals end the peace with their pieces about the honors of war. Not the horrors of war, of the dead and disfigured, of the living dead who have nothing but their discharge papers and paper prescriptions, of minds deadened by killing and bodies dying from painkillers.
Do not let Admiral William H. McRaven and General James Mattis blind us with their medals and stars. Do not let them bask in the sunlight of courage, in spite of the darkness of their words and the depravity
A State Department report into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for government business, obtained by Fox News on Friday, found dozens of individuals at fault and hundreds of security violations.
The report summarized an administrative review of the handling of classified information relating to Clinton’s private email server used during her tenure as the nation’s highest-ranking diplomat between 2009 and 2013. (Snip) The report reflected only approximately 30,000 emails that the State Department was able to physically review, and found 38 individuals were responsible for 91 violations.
President Donald Trump called former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis “the world’s most overrated general” during a tense White House meeting Wednesday with lawmakers over the growing Syria/Turkey conflict, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
The incident wasn’t the first time Trump has attacked the popular former Marine Corps general, once one of his most highly praised Cabinet officials. But since Mattis announced his resignation from the top Defense Department job last December, the president’s view of Mattis has increasingly soured.
COLUMBUS - Xenophobia. Harassment. Arrests. Lawsuits. The fight over nuclear bailouts has become the strangest and nastiest campaign in recent Ohio history--and it hasn't even made the 2020 ballot yet. Monday is the deadline for Ohioans Against Corporate Bailouts to submit 265,774 valid signatures from at least 44 counties to block a $1 billion bailout of two nuclear plants in northern Ohio.The bailout is part of House Bill 6, which Ohio's GOP-controlled Legislature passed and Gov. Mike DeWine signed in July. The legislation would impose a new fee on Ohioans' electric bills of 85 cents per month for residential customers starting in 2021.
Hawaii congresswoman and Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard dared Hillary Clinton not to "hide behind your proxies" and "join the race directly," after Clinton accused her of being a Russian asset specifically groomed to run as a third-party candidate in 2020.
"Great! Thank you @HillaryClinton. You, the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long, have finally come out from behind the curtain," Gabbard wrote in a scathing three-part tweet on Friday afternoon. "From the day I announced my candidacy, there has been a concerted campaign to destroy my reputation." (Tweet)
An athletic clothing brand has launched a controversial campaign that seems to take aim at President Trump; indeed, a billboard ad in Times Square has him hogtied in front of the White House. On Wednesday, the brand, Dhvani, unveiled the first in a series of images meant to protest the Trump administration's "gag rule" prohibiting doctors at Title X-funded clinics from referring patients for abortions -- a rule that prompted Planned Parenthood to pull out of the federal grant program in August. The billboard ad, called "Lady Liberty," showed model Michal Mesa, whom Dhvani described in a press release as a Marine Corps veteran and a middle school teacher,
Article 35 of the constitution of the People’s Republic of China guarantees “freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, and of demonstration.” (Snip)Freedom House rates China as “not free” with a rating of 11 out of a possible 100. In spite of the beautiful words in its constitution, real power in China does not observe these rights. A constitution is a piece of paper. The powerful must respect and submit to it or it has no power.
(Snip) You likely missed the release of a series of bombshell rulings that partially laid bare illegal spying on Americans by the FBI.
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Real conservatives really want that 2012 vote back. We knew he was a RINO but we did not realize what a war-mongering spiteful little man he was.
The Hill reported, "Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) ripped the administration over the recently announced cease-fire in Syria, calling President Trump's decision to withdraw troops 'a bloodstain in the annals of American history.’ (Snip)Actually, it is a permanent cease-fire provided the Kurdish YPG forces evacuate the area by Tuesday.
And of course, Romney says it is not a victory because people died.
Yup.
Under his standard World War II was not a victory. World War I wasn't. The Civil War wasn't...
While Democrats and their media friends natter on about impeachment and quid pro quos, trying to deflect from the the obvious corruption of Biden & Son and the imminent — at some point anyway — appearance of the IG report on FISA and the Steele Dossier — the real action, as it often is, is elsewhere.
In this case, it is the surprising news that two cellphones belonging to Joseph Mifsud — the mysterious Maltese professor at the heart of the Russia probe (aka Spygate) — have suddenly materialized. The Epoch Times reports:
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) has obtained two phones of Joseph Mifsud,
MIDWAY ATOLL, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands— Deep-sea explorers scouring the world’s oceans for sunken World War II ships are focusing in on debris fields deep in the Pacific, in an area where one of the most decisive battles of the time took place. Hundreds of miles off Midway Atoll, nearly halfway between the United States and Japan, a research vessel is launching underwater robots miles into the abyss to look for warships from the famed Battle of Midway. Weeks of grid searches around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands already have led the crew of the Petrel to one sunken warship, the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga.
Student loan servicer Sallie Mae paid for more than 100 of its employees to go on a Hawaiian retreat in August to celebrate a record $5 billion worth of sales. “We said, ‘Hey, look, Maui is a pretty nice spot,” Ray Quinlan, CEO of Sallie Mae, said to NBC News while on the grounds of the Fairmont Resort on Hawaii’s Wailea beach. The trip celebrated a year of $5 billion in sales to 374,000 borrowers. The sales came as combined U.S. student debt topped $1.6 trillion.(Snip) However, many have accused Sallie Mae—now a private, publicly traded company—of causing the current
A Mafia henchman claims Donald Trump was videoed at a New York City brothel allegedly having a threesome with a teenager and a porn star in 1982 - and the recording was then sent to a Mob boss. The shocking allegation was made to authors Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy in their book 'All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator', due out on October 22. The authors told website The Daily Beast how they interviewed former mobster John Tino, who claimed to witness the incident at a VIP sex club in Times Square he ran.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took a veiled shot at Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) on Friday, alleging the congresswoman was being groomed by Russia to be a third-party candidate in 2020.
The failed 2016 Democrat nominee, who has accused President Donald Trump of being Russia’s “puppet” in the past, made the remarks during an interview on David Plouffe’s Campaign HQ podcast, while discussing Russian interference. Clinton suggested during the exchange that Russian President Vladimir Putin was grooming a stalking horse candidate to ensure Trump would be reelected.
A career State Department official overseeing Ukraine policy told congressional investigators this week that he had raised concerns in early 2015 about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son serving on the board of a Ukrainian energy company but was turned away by a Biden staffer, according to three people familiar with the testimony. (Snip) Kent said he had concerns that Ukrainian officials would view Hunter Biden as a conduit for currying influence with his father, said the people. But when Kent raised the issue with Biden’s office, he was told the then-vice president didn’t have the “bandwidth” to deal with the
Outraged by secretly taped anti-Trump comments attributed to CNN President Jeff Zucker and others at the cable network, President Trump’s campaign is vowing to sue the company for “a substantial payment of damages.”
In a four-page letter to CNN, Zucker, and Executive Vice President David Vigilante, Trump attorney Charles J. Harder cited years of anti-Trump bias at the network and claimed the cable giant has broken its promise of “excellence in journalism.”
Listing several examples from the just-released Project Veritas videotapes of CNN insiders describing Zucker’s
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) suggested Friday that he is not leading a Never Trump Republican coup against President Donald Trump.Sen. Romney, who has served as a frequent critic of President Trump, denied that he is leading a Never Trump GOP coup against the president.“I don’t believe I’m leading a wing of the party. Because there’s no wing that’s very large that is aligned with me,” Romney said this week in an interview with Politico.“Since I’ve been back, I have not spoken with a single senator about the impeachment process or about the implications of the process that’s going on or how I would vote,”
Supporters of President Donald Trump and his global doctrine got together this past Wednesday in Washington, D.C., for a symposium entitled “Sovereignty or Submission.” It could have been called, “Trump and His International Enemies, as Discussed by His Friends.” The event — sponsored by American Greatness and The New Criterion — brought together writers and scholars to discuss modern challenges to national sovereignty by such institutions as the United Nations and the European Union.The speaker who most intrigued me among those who shared their ideas was James Piereson, a scholar of national rank and a former professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
France has a current unemployment rate of 8.5 percent, which is its lowest in a decade, but pales in comparison to other EU countries. Germany, for instance, has an unemployment rate of 5 percent. It's worse when you compare the French numbers to the U.S. unemployment rate of 3.5 percent (as of October). France's "moderate" gains are not exactly cause for celebration, according to some economic experts “Whilst the moderate fall in the French unemployment rate may be welcome for Macron, it is the very weak GDP growth numbers that will be of great concern,”
In the wake of recent footage released by Project Veritas showing significant anti-Trump/pro-impeachment bias at CNN, President Trump's campaign is vowing to sue the network for "a substantial payment of damages," according to an exclusive report from Paul Bedard at the Washington Examiner. In a four-page letter to CNN, Zucker, and Executive Vice President David Vigilante, Trump attorney Charles J. Harder cited years of anti-Trump bias at the network and claimed the cable giant has broken its promise of “excellence in journalism. Listing several examples from the just-released Project Veritas videotapes of CNN insiders describing Zucker’s demand for “impeachment above all else,”
Hillary Clinton said that Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is being groomed by Moscow to run as a third-party spoiler candidate in 2020 to help President Trump win reelection.
The former secretary of state pushed the theory on the Campaign HQ podcast hosted by David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2008.
An explosion rocked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan as dozens of people gathered to offer Friday players, causing the roof to collapse and killing 62 worshippers, provincial officials said. Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, said the militant attack wounded 36 others. He said it was not immediately clear if the mosque was attacked by a suicide bomber or some other type of bombing. 'Both men and children are among those killed and wounded in the attack,' he said. Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the Afghan president Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the attack on his official twitter account, 'The Afghan government strongly
Talks between senior American officials, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Kurdish Syrian Defense Forces result in a short-term ceasefire, says the Whitehouse. The U.S. delegation including Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien flew to Ankara to meet Erdoğan face-to-face. What President Trump calls “tough love” along with the threat of biting sanctions to Turkish President Erdoğan ended with a ceasefire deal between the two NATO giants. Also, participating in the talks indirectly, was the commander-in-chief of Kurdish Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) General Mazlum Abdi. Here’s how the negotiations affect U.S partners in Syria.
In a week when Republican anger over President Trump’s foreign policy managed to supplant the Democrats’ impeachment push in top news headlines, Trump sought refuge in a state that looks and feels just about as different as can be from Washington, D.C.
Trump made the 12th visit to Texas of his presidency, basking Thursday night in the adulation of sign-waving supporters who formed a sea of red “Make America Great Again” hats sprinkled with white “Trump 2020” ten-gallons. “I’m thrilled to be here deep in the heart of Texas,” the president told the roaring, 20,000-strong crowd at the American Airlines Center in Dallas.
We are living through a phantasmagoric psychodrama generated by the dishonest national political press. This is the press whose Joe Scarborough of MSNBC did not show some of President Trump’s responses to his enemies because of “concern” for the president’s family, as he “seems to have lost his mind.”
This is a new frontier in American journalism, where a television news commentator who hates the president wishes to spare the president’s family a rerun of his entirely rational denunciations of his enemies.
The House of Representatives began considering impeachment because an anonymous Democrat and former political associate of Vice President Biden received a hearsay account of a conversation
Reading like the greatest spy novel ever written, leaving followers salivating over the next chapter, regardless of allegiance to the players involved, the targeting of then-candidate Donald Trump by the U.S. intelligence apparatus under former President Barack Obama just keeps getting better.Following special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings that allegations of collusion between the president’s campaign and Russia were little more than a hoax, Attorney General William Barr tasked John Durham, the U.S. Attorney in Connecticut, with investigating the investigators — in effect, to determine how Trump had become a target.On Thursday, the Washington Times reported Durham has acquired two BlackBerrys
A man was arrested on Thursday near the counter protesters outside of the Trump rally in Dallas, Texas. The man, whose name has not been disclosed was carrying a backpack with a gun, aerosol cans, a helmet and a breathing mask. The man was taken to a local hospital for evaluation. (Tweet/Video)
‘Absurd, Immoral and Offensive’: UN
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Despite the public appeals of human rights advocates and behind-the-scenes lobbying, U.N. member-states on Thursday elected Venezuela onto the world’s body’s Human Rights Council, handing the socialist Maduro regime more votes than Costa Rica, a stable liberal democracy. Until the small Central American country declared its candidacy just weeks ago, Venezuela had been virtually assured a seat on the Geneva-based HRC, since it was one of two candidates running for two seats earmarked for the Latin America and the Caribbean group. But Costa Rica’s candidacy, while turning the “closed slate” election into a competitive race – with three countries running for two vacant
Donald Trump was chosen for such a time as this, when unusual courage and energy are critically necessary to persevere with the priorities to save the nation from self-destruction With the constant drumbeat from the mainstream media, Democrats now hope that the whirlwind in Washington of the so-called impeachment investigation will spread so much smoke that people won’t be able to see what’s going on, except to subliminally conclude that with all that smoke around Donald Trump, there must be a fire, and
Why not let the American people decide in November 2020 if President Trump should stay in office, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked at her Thursday news conference.Election issues are for voters, and impeachment is for lawmakers, Pelosi responded. (Video) "The voters are not going to decide whether we honor our oath of office," Pelosi said: I keep saying to people, impeachment is about the truth and the Constitution of the United States. Any other issues that you have -- disapproving of the way the president has dealt with Syria; whatever the subject is -- reluctance, the cowardice to do something about gun violence;
When it comes to winning games and solving puzzles, sometimes monkeys play smarter than humans.
Monkeys may show off their physical flexibility as they clamber over tangled tree branches, but the animals also display impressive "cognitive flexibility," or the ability to quickly change how they think about, and work to solve, a problem. Whereas monkeys can think on their feet, humans often become set in their ways and cling to inefficient strategies for problem solving, according to new research.
"We are a unique species and have various ways in which we are exceptionally different from every other creature on the planet. But we're also sometimes really dumb," study co-author Julia Watzek,
Yesterday, he got caught trying to shove words into a witness's mouth, to make him say things he didn't want to say. I wrote about that here.Today, he's doing something just as bad, getting together with other witnesses and working out a pre-coordinated story for the coming show trial.According to Breitbart News. Itinerary for a trip to Ukraine in August organized by the Atlantic Council think tank reveals that a staffer on Rep. Adam Schiff’s House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held a meeting during the trip with acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, now a key witness for Democrats pursuing impeachment.
Fans of the annual Neiman Marcus Christmas Book featuring outrageous luxury items that most of us can only dream about will be thrilled with this year’s offerings.
Despite the fact that for the first time all of the items listed this year are below $1 million, this year’s 93rd edition includes a diverse selection of fantasy items that will impress even Santa Claus. The 2019 Christmas Book contains over 800 holiday gifts for all budgets, including spectacular fantasy items from a limited-edition 007 Aston Martin to a Michelin-starred Taste of Italy. A portion of all purchases will be donated to The Heart of Neiman Marcus Foundation, bringing art
Is America becoming Sinicized?
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A little over 40 years ago, Chinese Communist strongman and reformer Deng Xiaoping began 15 years of sweeping economic reforms. They were designed to end the disastrous, even murderous planned economy of Mao Zedong, who died in 1976.
The results of Deng's revolution astonished the world. In four decades, China went from a backward basket case to the second-largest economy on the planet. It lifted hundreds of millions of Chinese into the global middle class.
TAMPA — The boy was 11 when the sexual abuse started. The abuser was his family’s 22-year-old live-in nanny.
She sexually assaulted him at least 15 times over several months, according to prosecutors. In the fall of 2014, she gave birth to his child. Three years passed before the boy had the courage to tell his mother what happened.
On Wednesday, the now 17-year-old father sat in a courtroom to watch Marissa Mowry sentenced to 20 years in prison for what she did to him. She must also complete 10 years of sex offender probation upon her release from prison.
Events on the Turkish-Syrian border revealed how fragile the security arrangements of the last century have become. The Kurdish crisis rapidly became a Turkish/NATO one as Ankara's offensive penetrated deeper than expected, precipitating a potential rupture with the U.S. and some European countries.
The administration responded to the invasion by threatening targeted sanctions against Turkey in coordination with Congress. The NATO dimension was underscored by a New York Times report that "over the weekend, State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored, under American control, at Incirlik Air Base."
Secrecy has always been a pretty effective incubator for corruption, and House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff's sneaky, secretive "hearings" on impeaching the president, literally held in a dank Capitol basement outside public scrutiny, are producing it in abundance.
Schiff's secrecy act thus far not only shuts out the public, but excludes relevant opposition members of Congress from so much as listening to this Schiff show. Congressmen from the "wrong" party, such as Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, an interested party with a right to be there as a member of the House Judiciary Committee if anyone does, have just about literally been kicked out.
The Deep State and its press allies are going bonkers over that news of President Trump's letter to Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the president of Turkey. And yes, he really sent it.
It's an entertaining, blunt-bastard sort of letter, so get a load here: [letter]
Erdoğan didn't say much of anything, but here's the crazed headline response from Washington:
"Is This Real?": Trump Sends Third-grade Reading-level Letter To Erdoğan —Vanity Fair
This letter Trump sent to Erdogan is 'so weird we had to check with the White House to make sure it's real' —MSNBC
Jake Tapper: I thought this Trump letter was a joke ... it's real —CNN
Democratic city councilman Fernando Cabrera sounds like a New Yorker. He’s speaking fast when I reach him by phone Monday, rattling off the myriad differences between himself and the woman he’s challenging for the Democratic primary nomination for New York’s 14th district: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
As a well-known New York Democrat who is unconcerned about jeopardizing a future career in national politics, Cabrera is the most serious primary challenger to enter the race, and the media have taken notice. His announcement was covered in the New York Post last week, and he was headed to an interview with Fox News as we discussed his plans to upset a political phenom.
The city of San Francisco has added 22 states with laws limiting abortion access to a blacklist that prevents city employees from traveling to those states on the city’s dime or dealing with businesses based in them.
The ban will take effect on January 1, 2020.
“We are standing up against states that put women’s health at risk and that are actively working to limit reproductive freedoms,” said Mayor London Breed in a press release announcing the ban. “By limiting travel and contracting with certain states, we are sending a clear message to states that disregard the right to abortion.”
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On Thursday alone, Project Veritas has revealed that a slew of managers and supervisors at CNN believe that has CNN has stopped covering the news, sold itself to the Devil, and has become "The Trump Network" because it refuses to do anything else than trash the president. One employee said he hopes that Trump dies soon so the network stops covering the president. All of this is thanks to a CNN staffer-turned-whistleblower Cary Poarch who went to Project Veritas after he became disgusted with what occurs at the behest of network President Jeff Zucker.
As part of its pro-LGBT agenda, Disney executives confirmed that two characters in the popular animated kids' show Star Wars Resistance are a "gay couple." The Disney official added, "we're proud of that."
As Star Wars Resistance enters its second season, "Disney Executive Producers Brandon Auman, Athena Portillo, and Justin Ridge said on the Coffee with Kenobi podcast that they are 'proud' the two characters, Orka and Flix, are a 'gay couple,'" reported LifeSiteNews and other media.
The Christian-owned chain restaurant Chick-fil-A continues to experience tremendous sales and growth despite opposition and boycotts from LGBT activists. In 2018, Chick-fil-A's sales totaled $10.46 billion, up from $9 billion in 2017, making it the No. 3 restaurant in terms of sales in the United States, according to Nation's Restaurant News, as reported in ChristianHeadlines.com.
In 2012, when the LGBT boycotts began, Chick-fil-A's annual sales were $4.6 billion. Now they are more than double that amount. Also, since 2012 the chain has opened nearly 700 more restaurants, according to the Journal & Courier.
The story behind Kim Karsahsian West’s Met Gala dress last spring turns out to be even more grueling than it looked. The dress itself was insane, all glimmer and glam, sparkling and skin tight as though she’d just stepped out of the sea, an ocean creature illuminated with bioluminescent crystals. It was a super-sexy wet look.
While Kardashian is known for donning titillating outfits, we now know her husband, Kanye West, took issue with it, thanks to a new episode of “Keeping Up with the Kardashians.”
West didn’t used to care, back when he encouraged her to pose nude.
A dorm located on Michigan State University’s campus hosted two drag queens to read and dance with children. The event was hosted in celebration of “National Coming Out Day.”
The Morning Watch reported the attendees were mostly parents with their children. The reporter notes there were few MSU students in attendance.
Drag queens Asio Aviance and Caj Monet read children’s books focused on LGBTQ pride and “the hardships people in this culture face.”
Monet read one story that was particularly disturbing about a boy named “Gilbert.” In this fictional story,
Guerrilla Politics
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At the national level, bipartisan civility has given way to guerrilla politics. The protracted divide among elected officials has caused the memory of cooperation for the common good of America to slip quietly into the shadows. Taking its place is an electorate directed by an extreme polarization in party leadership. The goal of the left is the retention and achievement of more political power while the right strives to keep the campaign promises made by Donald Trump. The political process has stalled, maybe fully fractured, and the message being received by voters is “the citizenry be damned.”
Attorney General William Barr is much in the news lately for his alleged role in the political contretemps over impeachment and Ukraine. But thanks to an address the Attorney General gave at the University of Notre Dame Law School last weekend, stories on that subject have been displaced by a round of bitter denunciations of Barr for going to South Bend and delivering a “histrionic” speech that shows him as being “neck-deep in extremist Catholic institutions. What could the serene, almost sedate General Barr have said that drove certain left-of-center pundits into the rhetorical ditch? The primary themes of Barr’s speech were social decline
On June 16, 1858, the Illinois Republican Party selected Abraham Lincoln to challenge Stephen A. Douglas for his seat in the United States Senate. At 8:00 that evening, candidate Lincoln delivered his famous "House Divided" speech, during which he warned the nation about slavery's destructive effect on the Union.
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy [the Kansas-Nebraska Act] was initiated, with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to the slavery agitation.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW) has issued a special legal notice to the more than 20,000 teachers affected by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike order.
The notice informs Chicago teachers they have a right to refuse to leave their students and to continue to provide for their families during the planned strike. Additionally, the notice offers teachers links to resources to help them exercise their rights without fear of retaliation from union leaders.
"Employees have the legal right to rebuff union officials' strike demands, but it is important for them to be fully informed before they do so."
Find out more: https://t.co/U79zpHKt9R#CTUstrike #CPSStrike
The House passed a bill spearheaded by Rep. Jody Hice (R-GA) and Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) that limits a president’s post-office taxpayer-funded perks.
The House passed by voice vote Rep. Jody Hice’s (R-GA) legislation, H.R. 1496, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2019, Wednesday, sending the bill to the Senate.
The legislation would put limits on taxpayer-funded benefits for former U.S. presidents, which include their travel, personal staff, office space, and communications after they leave office. The bill would put a president’s pension at $200,000 per year.
Rep. Hice said he was “thrilled the House took an important step to reform this outdated pension and ensure responsible use of taxpayer money.”
President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally on Thursday in Dallas, Texas, that Democrats and the left want to change the makeup of the United States Supreme Court to destroy the Constitution.
“They want to install far left judges to shred the Constitution,” Trump said at the rally that attracted 20,000 people inside the America Airlines Center and thousands more outside the venue.
Trump also mentioned the left’s failed attack on now Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh, calling it “the disgusting smearing of a fine man — Justice Kavanaugh,” Trump said.
Trump’s remarks about the left trying to pack the court with activist judges who
Elizabeth Warren has been taking heat lately for her refusal to state the obvious — that paying for her $34 trillion (and rising) Medicare for All plan would require a huge tax hike on the middle class. Americans for Tax Reform has helpfully gathered up 17 video clips of the Massachusetts senator dodging the question.
It’s obvious why Warren doesn’t want to utter the words “middle-class tax hike.” She's smart enough to know Republicans would play that quote on an endless loop in every battleground state up until Election Day. But by focusing on Medicare for All, Warren’s critics are letting her off too easy.
Who could have guessed that the words of Soviet secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria to Joseph Stalin, "Show me the man, and I will show you the crime," would be strangely embodied in American politics and jurisprudence in the 21st century? Moreover, according to Dr. Strangesсhiff — congressman, chairman, and commissar — these wonderful words have recently found their way into the U.S. Constitution.
Secret impeachment would seem to be a new idea, but the curious Dr. Strangesсhiff borrowed it from the closed Soviet trials of dissidents, "enemies of the people," and other "undesirable elements."
Bravo, comrade Strangesсhiff! Please, continue the Orange Man trial behind closed doors.
Don’t worry, Liz Warren, I won’t forget. Ever.
I don’t know what computer glitch or nefarious hacker (some Trump-loving Russian, no doubt!) caused your Twitter feed to “disappear” your declaration of Native American heritage yesterday, but I for one will always remember.
It was a year ago Tuesday that you burst forth with your big news that a DNA test confirmed that your repeated claims to be an American Indian were 100 percent true!
OK, it was actually more like 0.098 percent, but still …
I’ll never forget how excited you were. You posted a video, you released press statements, you did everything but dig out your childhood moccasins and hold a photo op
My neighborhood in Shreveport, Louisiana, is a perfect example of the income inequality, poverty, and legacy of racism that fuel so much political discussion today. Historically, Allendale was known as the “Bottoms,” the black side of town in the Jim Crow South, crowded with shotgun shacks and separate and unequal schools. Fannin Street, once a commercial strip with bars and brothels, was the name of a pounding Leadbelly song; it’s just a few blocks from where my husband Emmitt and I live today, where we mentor neighborhood kids. Allendale was poor and black a century ago, and remains so. Census numbers tell the story: 31 percent
Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives would not move forward with a vote on impeachment any time soon. The statement comes as a month of pressure has built up behind efforts to unseat the president over a phone call with the Ukrainian president. While Democrats insist, contrary to precedent, that they do not need to hold a vote, their unwillingness to hold one may show the impeachment train is skidding off the tracks.
In the giddy early days of the “impeachment investigation” over Ukraine, Democrats saw the polls move in their direction. But those polls have now stabilized and in some cases crept back against impeachment.
Teachers in Chicago, where the median pay for educators, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures, comes in around $75,000, have called for a strike for more money, lower health care costs, smaller class sizes and to bring about the hiring of thousands of support staffers and the construction of 55 new schools — and are calling it a strike for “justice,” to boot. All while leaving 300,000 district school children in limbo.
This is not about “justice.” This is not about the students. This is about teachers, guided by the promptings of union heads, getting more for themselves.
It’s the second time in seven years Chicago Public Schools
For a sense of how divorced the Democrats are from mainstream America, the collapse of Tulsi Gabbard’s presidential campaign is instructive. Gabbard is a liberal who supports banning so-called assault weapons, raising the minimum wage to $15, free college tuition, etc. But her positions on abortion and health care are relatively moderate. Moreover, she is circumspect about impeachment, the only responsible position for a sitting congresswoman, and supports withdrawing American troops from Syria. Thus, her poll numbers are tanking. This is good news for Republicans. If a liberal like Tulsi Gabbard is too moderate for today’s Democrats, they have no chance of beating Trump in 2020.
The general manager of the NBA's Houston Rockets posted a "controversial" tweet that simply read: "Fight for Freedom. Stand with Hong Kong." Two days later, the NBA issued the following statement: "We recognize that the views expressed by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable. ... We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together." The Rockets' manager not only deleted the tweet but apologized to China:
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STOCKHOLM – Twenty prisoners live in one small room. They are handcuffed, their heads shaved, every move is monitored by ceiling cameras. A bucket in the corner of the room is their toilet. The daily routine begins at 6 A.M. They are learning Chinese, memorizing propaganda songs and confessing to invented sins. They range in age from teenagers to elderly. Their meals are meager: cloudy soup and a slice of bread.
Torture – metal nails, fingernails pulled out, electric shocks – takes place in the “black room.” Punishment is a constant. The prisoners are forced to take pills and get injections.
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President Trump is 100% right to note that Hunter Biden profited massively off his father’s high government position: Even if none of it was ever illegal, it’s still wrong.
So why can’t the president see the problem with having next June’s G-7 summit at the Trump National in Doral, Florida?
It doesn’t matter if the resort only charges cost, as acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney vowed Thursday — or if it’s “by far and away the best physical location.” It’s still wrong.
Even if the place is absolutely perfect — so good that it will have other world leaders backing Washington’s position on everything — it’s still the president’s resort.
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In an interview with “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on MSNBC on Wednesday, presidential candidate Peter Francis O’Rourke admitted that, yes, he was willing to pry your AR-15 from your cold dead hands. As Townhall.com reports:
Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke said "there have to be consequences" for gun owners who do not surrender their AR-15s, which would include police going to their homes and confiscating them…
A major southern California fault capable of producing a magnitude 8 temblor started to move for the first time in 500 years following a series of earthquakes in the Mojave Desert over the summer, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science. The study by geophysicists from the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory found that the Garlock Fault—which runs east to west for 185 miles from the San Andreas Fault to Death Valley—has slipped .8 inches since July. This is the first movement documented on the fault in the modern historical record.
In the latest episode of “Dana Perino’s Book Club” available exclusively on Fox Nation, Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy discussed her new children’s book, “Paloma Wants to be Lady Freedom” — and urged parents to educate their children on the greatness of the country in light of today’s divisive political climate.“There’s not a lot of patriotic books,” said Campos-Duffy.“This book is about our home, about America and why we should all be so grateful.”Campos-Duffy’s new book “Paloma” is named after her daughter, who fell in love with the Statue of Freedom on top of the U.S. Capitol dome during a visit when she was four years old.
Just hours after President Trump announced a cease-fire between Turkish and Kurdish-led forces in Syria, journalists have reported continued fighting in the Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on Friday morning, while other areas have reported relative calm since the agreement.
Journalists from the Associated Press reported witnessing shelling and said they could see smoke billowing around the town, which sits along the border with Turkey. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, reported intermittent clashes in Ras al-Ayn, but calm elsewhere. Reuters also reported machine-gun fire and shelling that could be heard from a border town in Turkey near Ra al-Ayn.
Senate Republicans do not appear to be concerned about House Democrats’ ongoing efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, with many saying even if the House were to move forward with impeachment, that there is no way the Senate would vote to impeach the president.The Daily Caller spoke with over ten GOP senators throughout the week, who all shared their views about House Democrats’ efforts to impeach the President. Not one senator was concerned about the impeachment process, saying they are most concerned about the Democrats’ ongoing attempts to impeach Trump based on no hard evidence.“I have to tell you, I think the House is not going to send anything
Two Texas high school football teams made sure the national anthem was sung at a game on Friday when none of the marching bands could be there to play it. The initial game was rained out on Thursday, so the Granbury Pirates and Crowley Eagles rescheduled to play the next night.However, when the announcer said there would be no national anthem because neither of the school’s bands could make it to the game, the Granbury Pirates decided to sing it themselves. Tracy Deason, who sent the video into NBC 5 DFW, said it did not take long before the other team and all of the fans joined them in singing.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said nothing wrong or incriminating during a widely criticized news conference, according to radio host Mark Levin. (Snip) "There's an investigation going on, going back to 2016 and even before," Levin said, "by a U.S. attorney and by the attorney general, looking into the early aspects of the phony Russia collusion issue and Ukraine--and that's what [Mulvaney was] talking about--not Biden."