Posts on Saturday, October 19, 2019
President Trump late Saturday said the U.S. will no longer plan to host the 2020 Group of Seven meetings at his Florida resort.In a series of Twitter posts, Mr. Trump blamed bad press and his political rivals instead of the predictable blowback to awarding a public contract to his own business.“As usual, the Hostile Media & their Democrat Partners went CRAZY!” he wrote. “We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately. Thank you!”Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, announced Thursday the decision to hold the G-7 at Doral, saying White House planners scouted about a dozen sites
President Trump announced Saturday night that his administration would no longer consider his personal resort in Doral, Florida to host the 2020 G7 summit in Miami, and suggested he might consider Camp David.
"Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020," the president tweeted. "We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately. Thank you!"
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....Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020
While the Fourth of July is long past, the American people are reportedly slated to witness another dose of explosive fireworks come November.Why? Because one of the most famous couples in America is set to appear on the 5,000th episode of ABC’s “The View” next month to promote a new book and go toe-to-toe with the show’s notoriously left-wing hosts, according to journalist Yashar Ali. 1. Scoop: @DonaldJTrumpJr and @kimguilfoyle will be guests on The View in November. It will be the first time the couple will appear together on a network tv show.
President Donald Trump on Saturday night abruptly reversed course and announced next year's G7 economic summit of world powers will not be held at Trump National in Doral, Florida, after facing bipartisan backlash.
The President tweeted: "We will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020. We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately."
In another tweet, Trump said, "I thought I was doing something very good for our Country by using Trump National Doral, in Miami, for hosting the G-7 Leaders."
Within today’s reporting from the New York Times and NBC, a key aspect is how CIA analysts are worried about explaining and/or justifying the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA). As such it is well worth remembering information about John Durham’s originating focus from June, 2019:Against the backdrop of the DOJ admitting FBI investigators never had access to the DNC servers to verify a Russian hack; and with new information about the FBI receiving partial and redacted analysis from Crowdstrike; the review by U.S. Attorney John Durham toward the downstream assessment/claims of the CIA takes on new meaning.(Snip)The ICA was the brain-trust of John Brennan, James Clapper and James Comey.
The background context has already been outlined –SEE HERE– so we won’t repeat. Instead, we look at today’s defensive narrative engineering from the New York Times with a similar perspective, but a different set of reminders.
Content and distribution tells us this information is from the DOJ and FBI faction of the “Small Group“. Not accidentally, and VERY importantly, this is the same faction under the microscope of Inspector General Michael Horowitz and his pending IG report. Additionally, and again very importantly, the principles within the IG report have already had an opportunity to review the part of the upcoming report that highlights their conduct.
Late last month OANN invetigative journalist and author Jack Posobiec posted a series of tweets on Sunday detailing Rep. Adam Schiff’s actions this past month after receiving the CIA ‘whistleblower’ report on President Trump’s phone call with the newly elected Ukrainian President.Schiff sent a staffer to Ukraine to meet with the former President Poroshenko after receiving the ‘whistleblower’ report. This trip was sponsored by a think tank that receives funding from a program of left-wing billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Foundation
A clothing company has put up a billboard in New York City's Times Square that depicts President Donald Trump being hog-tied by a woman clad in its athletic wear.The 30-foot-high billboard featuring a model binding a Trump look-alike with red, white and blue rope while stomping on his face, was put up Tuesday as part of an advertising campaign by Dhvani, a Portland-based clothing company.'We have big news to share with you,' the brand tweeted from @DhvaniWear on Monday, and included an image of a woman wearing a sports bra and exercise pants.
High school senior Ariel Orona made history last week when she became the first woman to throw a touchdown pass at her school - and possibly in the state of California.In a sport that rarely sees women take the field - and even then almost always as a kicker - the 17-year-old plays wide receiver for the Silver Creek High School football team in San Jose.“I was excited,” Orona told KTVU. “I’ve been practicing the last three weeks, practicing that throw over and over again.”In the sixth game of the season on Oct. 11, the Silver Creek Raiders were up 21 to 6 against Westmont High. In a reverse run,
Bernie Sanders's campaign rally in New York City brought in nearly 26,000 attendants, making it the largest audience of the entire Democratic primary thus far.At the "Bernie is Back" event in Queens, the Vermont senator sought to fight back against concerns that his White House run is in jeopardy following his heart attack earlier this month. The rally featured a number of high-profile speakers who offered their endorsements, including liberal filmmaker Michael Moore and Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. According to a security firm that worked at the event, 25,872 supporters showed up for the rally, making it larger than Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren's
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton decried the Democratic National Committee (DNC) as a “bankrupt” organization and warned that Democrats are going to be “outgunned, outspent, and out-lied” in the upcoming election, according to audio posted by the GOP War Room on Friday. Clinton has issued a plethora of excuses for her historic loss in 2016 – from the Russians to misogyny, to “fake news,” a term conservative media managed to hijack – and appeared to offer another excuse for her defeat, decrying the DNC as a “bankrupt organization” compared to the “well-funded, well-prepared” Republican National Committee (RNC)
A 32-room Victorian mansion in Newark suffered extensive fire damage on Thursday night, leaving the homeless who slept in the abandoned building without a place to stay while city officials determine if the building can be saved.
Janeal Ferguson, who often slept in the mansion at 176 Clinton Ave., told NJ Advance Media someone set the structure ablaze, but declined to say why. She said a tight-knit group of squatters who often slept there to find a reprieve from the streets would use the fireplaces inside.(Snip) The structure was one of the few remaining “beer baron” mansions in Newark.
Today the NYT ran an Op-ed by a retired admiral: Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President If President Trump doesn’t demonstrate the leadership that America needs, then it is time for a new person in the Oval Office. (Snip) Of what do Trump's attacks consist? Well, it's pretty clear that Trump's great sin is a rejection of Globalism. According to the admiral, the purpose of our republic is to go around the world being "good guys" by attacking "oppression and injustice." Trump rejects that notion. And for that sin he must be removed, to make American safe for ... the Deep State elites to continue as before, unchecked by elections.
Not to be outdone by Cory Booker's "women are people" moment in the last debate, Beto O'Rourke decided to virtue signal his pro-woman accolades on Saturday by tweeting that "women across America don’t have access to the period products they need," and since it is #NationalPeriodDay (who knew that was a thing?), that "men need to join women in demanding real change." Beto wants "real change" and identifies as a man for the moment (at least until he needs a Hail Mary for his campaign) and he's announced his support for the Menstrual Equity Act. (Snip) And yes, it appears that the Menstrual Equity Act is a real thing.
When we raise our children, we teach them to be careful about pointing out other people’s flaws, real or imagined. A lesson Hillary Clinton never learned. Any six-year-old can tell you the real Russian colluder is not Tulsi Gabbard. Gabbard is a Hawaii Army National Guard major who serves as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. Elected in 2013, Gabbard became the first Samoan American member of Congress, and the first female combat veteran to run for president. The real Russian colluder is Hillary Clinton. From the Steele Dossier to the Clinton Foundation. No alleging. No hedging.
The flagging presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders got an adrenaline boost Saturday when lefty darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared her formal endorsement of the 78-year-old Democratic Socialist.“It wasn’t until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being,” AOC said in an emotional speech at a rally in Long Island City’s Queensbridge Park, before about 2,500 avid supporters – along with a smattering of undecided voters. “Bernie Sanders fought for us.”
Performer Barbra Streisand shared a cartoon of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi killing President Trump with her high heels.Streisand, 77, shared the image late Friday night with no caption. The cartoon shows Pelosi’s feet in stilettos with an oversized Trump being impaled by her right heel. (Tweet/Photo) The image appears to be a zoomed in portion of a cartoon done by Andy Marlette for the Pensacola News Journal earlier this year. His cartoon included the caption, “These is bloody shoes,” which comes from Bodak Yellow, a song by rapper Cardi B.
So what will the fake news mainstream media do when it is revealed that EVERYTHING they’ve been reporting for three years is complete horsesh*t?Inspector General Horowitz is set to release his report on FISA Court abuses this coming week. And Attorney General Bill Barr and US Prosecutor John Durham are expanding their investigation on the origin of the Russia-collusion hoax.Better yet — Obama lackeys former DNI James Clapper and former CIA Chief John Brennan are getting ready to testify before John Durham.
Perhaps the only institution more corrupt than the Obama intelligence apparatus, writ large, was/is the Clinton constructed U.S. State Department. Foggy Bottom is appropriately named as the septic tank for the Administrative State.
Former President Barack Obama carved out a segment of the financial indulgence, and thereafter purchased the acquiescence of Team Clinton, when he handed Dame Hillary the keys to the State Dept as an outcome of the 2008 election. Barry from Chicago and his fellow travelers would weaponize the domestic apparatus, and Hillary could graft the international effort; thus, the compact was sealed…
Proving a Negative
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Proving a negative -- proving that the absence of something is definitively due to very specific reasons or circumstances -- is an inexact science at best. There is a hugely significant “negative” that has occurred recently, one that is quite plausibly due to some very distinct actions and clear-cut decisions made by the American oil industry and the Trump administration: the non-event that has happened is world crude oil prices not rising in spite of the cruise missile and drone attack on the Saudi oil fields on September 14th, 2019
Welcome back, fans of Truth, Justice and the American way. Round 2 of my comprehensive list of conservative (and in a few cases, mostly conservative) news and information sources you can substitute for the bankrupt newspapers and network and cable news conglomerates that now bring you nonstop fiction instead of actual news, facts and figures. Today, I’m focusing on the best breaking conservative news sites available online. I’d like to give a grateful shout-out to Don Surber and Ed Driscoll of Instapundit for alerting their readers to my first Media Stars column.Today, I focus on sites that offer in-depth coverage of breaking conservative news, plus some degree of analysis.
DENVER — Democrats who control Colorado's Statehouse are asking voters in November to dismantle part of a state tax regime that for decades has served as a model for fiscal conservatives nationwide. Coloradans will decide if the state can permanently keep tax revenue that otherwise would be refunded under limits set by a 1992 constitutional amendment called the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, or TABOR. (Snip) Opponents say it's just a first step to weaken or eliminate a safeguard that's allowed the private sector to fuel Colorado's robust economy and has kept state government growth in check. They're hoping that voters' insistent
He helped kill the pope — so his pals could stay out of hell.
That’s the shocking claim from longtime Colombo gangster Anthony Raimondi, who says that, in 1978, he went to Italy with a team of hit men who whacked John Paul I. They allegedly poisoned him with cyanide just 33 days into the pontiff’s reign, according to Raimondi’s new book, “When the Bullet Hits the Bone,” out now from Page Publishing.
Raimondi, the nephew of legendary godfather Lucky Luciano, claims he was recruited for the murder at the age of 28 by his cardinal cousin, Paul Marcinkus, who ran the Vatican bank.
Imagine a country where the president was promoted by the media as a far-right extremist, yet his signature policies align with the core issues preached by far-left liberals.
If we could remove the double standard, President Donald Trump would likely be more popular with liberals than favorites like Bill Clinton or John F. Kennedy.
In under 3 years, Trump has accomplished many of the things that Democrats, for years, have promised they would do. Since Election Day 2016, the media has freaked out about things that Trump has never done while refusing to acknowledge the numerous accomplishments of his administration
When a big event happens anywhere in the country, sometimes anywhere in the world, a San Antonio connection somehow emerges. Sometimes it’s found deep in the details. Sometimes it has been there all along, hiding in plain sight. All too often, it comes with bad news. So it was with the death this week of Congressman Elijah Cummings, whose storied political career began when he fought to desegregate a Baltimore swimming pool. He was 11. In his last hours, as the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, one of three panels leading impeachment investigations of President Donald Trump, Cummings signed two subpoenas.
State Department Concludes Clinton Email
Review, Says It Found Nearly 600 Security
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Review, Says It Found Nearly 600 Security
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State Department investigators probing Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state discovered nearly 600 security incidents that violated agency policy, according to a report the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.
The investigation, conducted by the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, found 38 individuals were culpable for 91 security violations. Another 497 violations were found, but no individuals were found culpable in those incidents.
The investigation concluded Sept. 6, and the report was issued Sept. 13.
The investigation sought to determine if the exchange of emails on Clinton’s server “represented failure to properly safeguard classified information” and whether any individuals at State were culpable for any of the
After the United States Congress voted to end President Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border, the President vetoed that resolution; yesterday, the Senate failed to override his veto, according to Politico.
The motion to overturn the president’s declaration, S.J. Res 54 (116), was passed in the Senate in late September with 54 votes in favor and 41 votes against; 11 Republicans sided with the Democrats in favor of the resolution. It was then passed by the House of Representatives with 236 votes in favor: Once again, 11 Republicans sided with the Democrats (224), along with Justin Amash (I-Mich.).
However, following the president’s veto, the Senate’s effort to override his veto
Impeachment Witness and Schiff Staffer
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Meeting in Ukraine Organized by
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A staffer for House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) attended a meeting in Ukraine last August with the acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine that was organized by a Burisma-funded think tank linked to the Steele dossier, investigative journalist Aaron Klein reported at Breitbart on Thursday.
The Atlantic Council is a Washington D.C.-based think tank that works in partnership with, and is partially financed by Burisma Holdings, the notoriously corrupt global energy firm connected to Joe Biden and his son,
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The Ukraine-centric think tank is also funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Google, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., and the U.S. State Department
New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu is the only GOP governor to fight Democrats’ efforts to impeach President Donald Trump in a state that Trump lost during the 2016 election.When Democrats moved to impeach President Trump over his conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, many Republicans moved to defend the president.However, many Republican governors in states that Trump lost during the 2016 presidential election have not backed the president.
Last week, Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan expressed support for an impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
In this conversation with George Papadopoulos--which I've transcribed in its entirety (below), with just a few extraneous trims from Laura's questions--Laura Ingraham starts with the news that John Durham returned from his trip to Rome with Bill Barr in possession of Joseph Mifsud's two FBI (or possibly CIA) issued Blackberry phones. Papadopoulos immediately turns to the big picture,(Snip)Obviously, he's telling us that the coordinated targeting of all Republican campaigns by the supposedly non-political branches of the Obama administration (State, DoJ, the FBI and CIA) was well underway--no later than December, 2015, but certainly even earlier.
Papadopoulos says game-changing Mifsud
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President Donald Trump’s former 2016 campaign adviser George Papadopoulos is confident that the latest findings regarding the FBI operation that triggered the whole Russia collusion delusion narrative are surefire proof of “treason.”Unearthed earlier this week, the findings are specifically that Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud wasn’t a Russian agent — he was allegedly a “western intelligence” asset who was purposefully used by the Obama administration in 2016 to target both Papadopoulos and then-fellow Trump campaign adviser retired Gen. Michael Flynn. Asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham late Friday to summarize
Could 'Tulsi' maybe be Sanskrit for 'Dorothy'?
Hawaiian presidential candidate, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, is racking up quite a reputation for melting down the political scene's evil old hags.
Following a creepy frontal attack from embittered former presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, claiming that Republicans were 'grooming' Gabbard to be a third-party candidate and Gabbard was a Russian agent all along, Tulsi fired back: [tweets]
Whoa. Truth hurts. And it's not her first time uttering it. Gabbard's blast at Hillary recalls the one she delivered to Sen. Kamala Harris at the second Democratic debate: [video]
With the Idiot Left marching toward impeachment over nothing, the idea apparently is to make it okay to kick out a president just because you don't like him. A president then becomes nothing special, no big deal, no longer a force in the power politics of Washington. He can handle the glossy, just-for-show stuff like state dinners and handing out Medals of Freedom, but real power will reside down in the bowels of the permanent administrative bodies of the Deep State.
Actually, as has been explained in a number of places, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats don't want a real "impeachment process
Congressional Candidate Laura Loomer
Wows Political Observers, Raises
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Wows Political Observers, Raises
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The investigative journalist turned activist candidate for Congress in Florida’s 21st district has wowed political observers in Florida and beyond with her impressive haul in the 3rd quarter of 2019. Loomer entered the race in August earning headlines from coast-to-coast, but was widely ridiculed by mainstream media hacks for not being a serious candidate capable of raising enough money to mount a credible challenge against Democrat incumbent Lois Frankel. They were wrong.
If former national security adviser Susan Rice was wondering whether President Trump was watching her Friday night appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher," she soon got her answer.In a late-night tweet, Trump called Rice "a disaster" after she criticized Trump's Syria strategy on the HBO show.But things didn't stop there. Rice responded on Twitter just minutes later, accusing Trump of giving her a "totally gross" hug when they met at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in 2015."Susan Rice, who was a disaster to President Obama as National Security Advisor, is now telling us her opinion on what to do in Syria," Trump tweeted Friday night.
It’s early. Way too early to discuss polling in any serious measure, especially in the absence of a Democratic nominee, but the liberal media loves to trot out their trash polls about the president’s approval ratings and support for impeachment in what could be argued as a prolonged campaign to demoralize the GOP base. It won’t. If anything, how the liberal media has behaved over the past three years has only become one massive in-kind contribution to Trump’s re-elect as everyone sees through their bias, lies, and gross incompetence. How many times were we told about Russian collusion?
Maya Rockeymoore, widow of Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and chairwoman of the Maryland Democratic Party, is expected to run for her late husband’s House seat, according to a report.Rockeymoore has not yet said whether she plans to run, The Washington Examiner reported.The Maryland Democratic Party released a statement that Rockeymoore would not be making announcements while she grieves."We ask the public and the press to allow Maryland Democratic Party Chair Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings — and the rest of the Cummings family — time and space to grieve their loss,” the party said.
"For those who make the rules, there are no rules," declares Tommy Shelby, the infamous head of a crime family and also a newly elected member of the British Parliament in the latest season of the hit TV series Peaky Blinders. The series is a multi-season award-winning British crime drama appearing on Netflix in the U.S. It is set in Birmingham, England in the time period 1919 to 1929 and features a powerful and violent crime family called Peaky Blinders, led by the Shelby family, with Tommy Shelby as the lead mobster.Shelby, played by the actor Cillian Murphy, advances his gang's criminal activities over the years from
How To Start A Civil War
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Antifa will use the election as a call to arms...literally. They have spent several years probing on what they can get away with, and it has been considerableThe Democrat Party has made a fateful decision. They’ve decided to safeguard all that is left of their power and the progressive movement they have worshiped at the cost of the existence of the nation they have sworn an oath to
Freshman Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), Vice Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, shared with Elle in a June 2019 interview a quote from the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, Chairman of the Committee “that has stuck with her.”
In one of those first meetings, Hill says, Cummings said something that has stuck with her. “It [was] that our role on Oversight is to get to the truth and to follow the truth wherever it leads us and to expose that for the American people,” Hill tells me over the phone. “To make sure that they have the information that they should have to, frankly, evaluate their government.”
We have a serious governance problem.
Our system is based on separation of powers, because liberty depends on preventing any component of the state from accumulating too much authority — that’s how tyrants are born. For the system to work, the components have to be able to check each other: The federal and state governments must respect their separate spheres, and the branches of the federal government must be able to rein in a branch that oversteps its authority.
The steady federal encroachment on state authority has created an imbalance that probably cannot be rolled back. I want to focus on the collapse of inter-branch checks in the federal government.
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‘No more paughtraits,” John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) wrote to a friend in 1907. Sargent was wry and honest. He was famous by then for his oil portraits of rich people. He’d done a thousand of them, starting with the Paris nouveau riche social climbers and then British aristocrats and American plutocrats.
He was a savant, famous at 25 for Madame X, and a wonderful, intelligent artist. At 50, though, he was sick of rich people. He’d grown wealthy himself — painting those portraits — but finally declared independence. He wouldn’t, he proclaimed, do any more portraits.
Well, yes and no. Yes, for the rest of his
A letter signed by several high-ranking women in media, including former on-air personalities Megyn Kelly, Greta Van Susteren, and Gretchen Carlson, implored NBC parent company Comcast to launch an investigation into NBC News and their handling of sexual assault accusations.
NBC announced on Thursday that they did not intend to further investigate claims of sexual abuse against high-profile members of their staff, including former NBC host Matt Lauer, citing that investigative work already conducted was substantial.
Trump's Dollar Diplomacy
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The United States has Turkey floored, economically. It doesn't take much pressure to get the Turks' attention. That's why Turkey is making nice. They have no choice.
Eisenhower used the same tactic in 1956 with Britain and France. They were warring on Egypt over the Suez Canal. The economic sanctions he threatened were enough for them to call the whole thing off.
FDR used a similar tactic with the Japanese, cutting off their oil imports from the U.S., and forcing them to either back off in China or go to war. They unwisely chose war. Bad decision.
Supreme Court to weigh constitutionality
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The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a dispute over the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a case that could dramatically scale back the agency's authority to police financial markets or eliminate it altogether.
The court said Friday it will hear a challenge from a California-based law firm that argues the CFPB, the brainchild of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, is unconstitutionally structured.
Opponents of the CFPB, created in 2010, argue that its structure violates the separation of powers, as Congress gave it broad authority to regulate mortgages, credit cards, and other consumer products,
After the so-called “blue wave” of Democratic victories in the 2018 midterm election, the grassroots of both parties looked to the 2019 off-year as a testing ground for the 2020 presidential cycles. With only four states in play and sporadic special elections, 2019’s small skirmishes were hailed as indicators for how the Republican Party would fare in 2020.
The result? Well, predictions of another blue wave in 2020 have been tempered by a steady GOP wave in 2019 that signals bad news for Democrats as congressional redistricting kicks off.
A professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is branding her surprise on-stage guest-performance with Lizzo last week an “act of political defiance” serving as the “epitome of pleasure activism,” a new liberal academic concept.
Professor Sami Schalk, who teaches women and gender studies at the university told Vox that her twerking with the popular singer is the embodiment of what it means to derive pleasure from defying societal standards of beauty, otherwise known as “pleasure activism” according to Schalk.
Our Corporate Dilemma
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I am fortunate to be on the Board of Directors of a very successful corporation. We hired a new CEO a few years ago to turn our company around from the results of poor management by the previous CEO. He has done so. He had been a successful manager most of his life, although in a separate industry, so we gave took a chance and hired him. He took stock of what was wrong and what was right with our company, which he had admired for many years, and went on from there. As a result, we have been able to recall workers, give raises to our workers,
Last week I wrote about a suburban Chicago school district’s Oct. 7-11 week of LGBT curriculum as an example of what the state legislature has required all Illinois public schools to teach starting next July. Although the Evanston/Skokie school district is in a very liberal area, not all parents were comfortable with their preschoolers being taught, among other things, that polyamorous families are equivalent to families of sexually faithful married biological parents, and that being gay simply means “loving” someone of your own sex.
According to a local newspaper called the Evanston RoundTable, the district’s administrators and school board heard from several dozen upset parents after their children started
All nine GOP members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) wrote a scathing letter to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Friday accusing him of concealing documents related to Democrats’ “highly irregular” impeachment inquisition and demanding that they rectify their behavior.
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— Byron York (@ByronYork) October 18, 2019
“We are concerned that the Majority is knowingly withholding Committee documents related to your so-called ‘impeachment inquiry’ from the Minority,” the letter reads. “…it has come to our attention that the Majority is not uploading (or providing physical copies of) certain Committee documents related to your ‘impeachment inquiry’ to its document repository
House Republicans on Monday will attempt to force a vote to censure Representative Adam Schiff (D.-Calif.), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. The resolution, authored by Rep. Andy Biggs (R.-Ariz.), has 170 Republican co-sponsors. (It’s unclear why the remaining 27 GOP congressmen have not signed on.)
The motion condemns Schiff for actions that “misled the American people, bring disrepute upon the House of Representatives, and make a mockery of the impeachment process, one of this chamber’s most solemn constitutional duties.” It lists several specific offenses, including Schiff’s repeated claims that he possessed solid evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians,
Back in 1988, one of the greatest movie villains of all time, Hans Gruber, burst onto the screen with a group of murderous thieves, seizing complete control of the Nakatomi Plaza building in Die Hard.
That movie serves as a decent metaphor for what's currently playing out in America. Think of the building itself as America and its hapless occupants as Americans. Gruber and his murderous thugs embody the media-Democrat complex. The group of foolish police and FBI leadership are best understood as NeverTrump and feckless Republicans, with John McClane aligning with President Donald Trump.
The scene that is most interesting relative to today's unfolding
Is 'Hate Speech' Dangerous?
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As a concept, freedom of speech arguably dates back to Socrates. He said to his prosecutors, "If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, 'Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than you.'" While Plato was busy writing dialogues and showing us that Socrates was advocating for free speech more than 2000 years ago, freedom of speech as a legal right did not actually exist until the 17th century.
The people of both the United States and Britain were ensured certain rights. Both countries grant freedom of speech, although in modern
The headline below tells us a lot more than the Democrat partisans at the Washington Post intended.
After two weeks of closed-door testimony, a clearer portrait of Trump’s role emerges
How does closed-door testimony tells the Washington Post and its readers anything? By leaks, of course. So, a “clearer portrait” is being painted by leakers with the agenda of damaging President Trump. There is no pretense of presnting a full picture that would include information that would not support the Democrats' agenda.
As Ed Lasky commented, “Pelosi, Schiff & company are controlling the narrative via leaks. This is repulsive.” Lauri Regan said, "I guess the irony got past the editors."
Every day we hear that President Trump is dangerous and isolationist and that is making the world less safe. They also say that Trump is causing more violence in the United States. Neither is true.
There aren’t many stories reported about terrorism… and I can see why. It just doesn’t fit the agenda that Trump is making the world more dangerous.
Could it be that when President Obama and European leaders caved to Iran, the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world, and gave the mullahs huge amounts of money, that they were able to cause more deaths,
Carl and Angel Larsen live in St. Cloud, Minnesota. They are an openly Christian couple who operate Telescope Media Group, a video production company. Their website proclaims: “Telescope Media Group exists to glorify God through top-quality media production. As much as it depends on us, we aim to make God look more like He really is through our lives, business, and actions. We want to magnify Christ like a telescope.” They want to expand into making wedding videos and movies. In keeping with their mission statement, they want to glorify God by focusing only on God pleasing marriages.
Calling All Rosa Parks Americans
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The insanity going on before our very eyes regarding the Democrats' and fake news medias' latest campaign to impeach Trump over nonsense is infuriating millions of Americans. It is the equivalent of Adam Schiff flooding the airwaves with the lie that Trump stole his car and must be impeached for it. Meanwhile, Schiff's car is parked untouched in his driveway for all the world to see. Ignoring the truth that Schiff's car was not stolen, the Democrats and fake news media cart out a dozen witnesses (whistleblowers) who claim they saw Trump commit the crime.
This is exactly what is going on with Schiff's outrageous claim that Trump committed
United States Attorneys’ Offices around the country prosecuted about 110,500 illegal aliens and illegal alien smugglers in Fiscal Year 2019 — the highest annual rate of prosecution for immigration-related crimes ever in American history.
Newly released data by the Justice Department reveals how President Trump’s administration has hugely increased the number of illegal aliens and illegal alien smugglers being prosecuted after years of decline by the Bush and Obama administrations.
The spike represents the highest number of immigration-related prosecutions in a single year since the federal government started tracking the figure more than 25 years ago.
The U.S. State Department concluded its investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email usage and determined nearly 40 people committed violations, the Associated Press reported Friday.
The department determined that those 38 people were “culpable” in 91 cases of sending classified information in messages that ended up in Clinton’s personal email. The 38 are current and former State Department officials but were not identified in the report that was sent to Congress this week.
Forget heart disease and cancer and all the other tragic or banal ways most of us will exit this world of the living. Instead, seek distraction via our completely unscientific and by no means definitive list of the most dangerous creatures in Texas that could, by some fluke, kill you first. Brain-eating Amoebas For sweet relief from the interminable hellscape that is the Texas summer, plunk your hot bod into the nearest swimming hole. Just beware of the Naegleria fowleri, a nasty little single-celled organism lurking in warm water and nicknamed for its favorite pastime—literally eating human brains. Naegleria enters your body through the nose and shimmies into your skull,
The father of Atatiana Jefferson — the black woman killed by a white Fort Worth officer last week — has gotten a temporary restraining order to put a stop to her funeral and burial. Dallas County probate court Judge Brenda Hull Thompson signed the order Friday afternoon. It grants Marquis Jefferson “full authority to make arrangements for the funeral and burial.”
The order also sets a hearing Monday morning to determine whether the restraining order should be continued.
Atatiana Jefferson’s funeral, which is open to the public, was scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday at The Potter’s House, 6777 W. Kiest Blvd. in Dallas. A private wake
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Beto O'Rourke, who is still running for president, has been in 'say anything' mode for months. Desperate to gain traction in a race in which he's been an overhyped bit player, the former Texas Congressman continues to pander to the hard Left on various social issues, telling them what they want to hear, and framing his radicalism as 'bravery' that rival candidates don't possess. The more potent effect he's having, it seems, is on the Right. He's steadily confirming the worst fears of conservatives by publicly and enthusiastically sliding to the bottom of several slippery slopes -- and he's attracting loud applause from progressive audiences, further entrenching
Two decades ago, many scholars began predicting that as China’s creation of wealth continued to speed ahead, the country would cross a threshold. Once a substantial new middle class had been created, they reasoned, politics would tip decisively in a more participatory, possibly even democratic, direction.
But while robust economic growth continued, the first decade of this century came and went with no severe challenge to China’s authoritarian model. And under China’s present leader, Xi Jinping, who took office in 2013, it has only become more entrenched: last year he changed the longstanding rules of succession to allow himself to remain in charge for life.
For a long time now, those of us who have the misfortune to have working eyes and ears have become deeply familiar with the activities of one family. This family is (still) taken very seriously by some very serious people, in spite of the fact that vast numbers of us would rather eat chlorine-flavored ice cream than ever hear from them again.
Like some sort of deathless voodoo incantation, the name of this family echoes around the world. It echoes in high-altitude frosted glass conference rooms filled with international bores. It echoes in the frazzled minds of readers of the legacy press. It echoes in the dreams of lanyard wearers
If you think most people are willing to make drastic changes to their lives because of climate change, let alone restructure the entire economy and do away with fossil fuels and capitalism, think again.
A viral video of London commuters dragging a pair of climate change protesters off the top of a train Thursday morning perfectly captures this disconnect between environmentalist doomsayers and ordinary working people. The activists, part of a climate change group called Extinction Rebellion that’s been staging protests throughout the city since last Monday, shut down the tube when they climbed atop a train in London’s Canning Town station
Former governor John Kasich (R., Ohio), a legendary as*hole even by modern political standards, said Friday that he has been pushed "across the Rubicon," and now thinks President Donald Trump should be impeached.
"The issue of impeachment is really big to me," Kasich said. "I say it with great sadness. This is not something that I really wanted to do."
However, Kasich said, the president's behavior with respect to Ukraine "cannot be tolerated."
The former Republican presidential candidate, who was one of the many political opponents humiliated by Trump during the 2016 GOP primary, announced his impeachment swing during an interview with Ana Cabrera on CNN,
I’m not a huge fan of the film The African Queen. I’ve actually only seen it twice. But I know it well enough to know that, much as I’d like to tell you I identify with Charlie Allnut, Humphrey Bogart’s character in the film, I’m actually closer to Rose Sayer, as portrayed by Katharine Hepburn. I’m aging and unmarried, straitlaced, religious, and set in my ways.
In the last few years I’ve discovered another personal resemblance to Rose. I feel as if I’m riding a boat down a river, in hostile territory, tied up with, and dependent on, someone I’m dubious about.
President Donald Trump is Charlie Allnut to me.
With three polls showing her in the lead, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) may soon eclipse former Vice President Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. That’s great news for Republicans, because Warren has a problem: The central message of her campaign is that the economy is working for the very wealthy but it is not working for ordinary Americans. Unfortunately for her, ordinary Americans disagree.
A Marist poll asked voters whether “the economy is working well for you personally.” Nearly two-thirds of Americans said yes. This includes large majorities in almost every demographic group.
Hillary Clinton has backed out of a Friday appearance at an event also scheduled to include Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, among other guests, according to a report.
Word of Clinton's removal from the bill of Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit came Thursday, the same day the former secretary of state sparked a clash by accusing Gabbard of being groomed by Russia to run as a third-party candidate for president in 2020.
The Hawaii congresswoman and combat veteran fired back in a scathing series of tweets later Thursday,
The State Department identified nearly 600 security violations in its now-completed review of email records of dozens of former agency officials and aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The investigation, which covered the 33,000 emails Clinton provided for review, found 91 "valid violations" attributable to 38 individuals, some of whom may face disciplinary action. Another 497 violations could not be tied to any specific person.
A nine-page unclassified report was sent to Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who is leading the congressional oversight of the security review, in a letter from Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs Mary Elizabeth Taylor dated Oct. 16.
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Tulsi Gabbard bashed Hillary Clinton, saying that the former Secretary of State is waging a smear campaign against her because 'she knows she can't control me'.The Democratic presidential candidate and Congresswoman from Hawaii made the claims during an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Friday night. It comes just hours after Gabbard, 38, called Clinton 'the queen of warmongers [and the] embodiment of corruption' after Clinton suggested Gabbard was being groomed by Russians to be a third-party spoiler in the 2020 election. 'The reason why she's doing this is because ultimately she knows she can't control me,' Gabbard, who was on the campaign trail in Iowa, told Carlson.
Senator Rand Paul and his deputy chief of staff Sergio Gor were having lunch in California on Friday when they were verbally assaulted by a deranged democrat.The woman went ballistic as the two men dined, flipped them off and having a general temper tantrum over their differing political beliefs.“While having lunch with @RandPaul in California, we got verbally assaulted by these aggressive libs complaining about incivility. Check out the vid! #unhinged,” Gor tweeted with a video of the woman. (Tweet/Video)
Brooklyn—Two offers were attacked from behind while attempting to detain an allegedly unruly man in Brooklyn, and the entire melee was caught on surveillance cameras, PIX11 learned Friday. The violent brawl happened near Vernon and Lewis avenues around 5:27 p.m. on Tuesday, according to NYPD officials. Two officers were conducting patrol when police said they spotted Bryan Williams, 29, drinking alcohol from an open container. As officers approached, Williams fled, according to police. Officers were able to apprehend Williams and put him in handcuffs when he began to resist, according to police. At that point, another man—37-year-old Darnell Brown
Washington - A federal appeals court in New Orleans is preparing a ruling on the Affordable Care Act that could put the law’s future front and center in the presidential race, overwhelming the current Democratic debate over Medicare for all and reigniting the health care-driven worries that helped Democrats win back the House last year.
Three judges on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals are weighing whether to uphold a Texas judge’s ruling that the law’s requirement for most Americans to have health insurance is unconstitutional, and that the rest of the sprawling law cannot function without it.
The first UK branch of a popular American chicken restaurant is set to close following a backlash over its owner's stance on LGBT rights. Chick-fil-A opened its first branch of the fast-food chain in Reading just days ago on October 10, but it was revealed that the outlet is set to close in just six months. The opening in the Oracle shopping centre prompted harsh criticism from LGBT groups as the founder's son opposed gay marriage seven years ago in 2012.(Snip) A statement from the Oracle said: 'We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however,
The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency President Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren set up to police Wall Street in the wake of the Great Recession.
The case is a major test of Congress’ powers and the expanding regulatory state.
At issue is whether the CFPB, an “independent” agency that vests its powers in a single chief who gets funding outside the usual appropriations process and is shielded from being fired by the president, is too powerful to survive scrutiny.