Posts on Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Melania Trump looked ready for business in a sleek pantsuit as she made her first solo appearance on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of a federal law that increases access to treatment for people addicted to opioidsThe 49-year-old first lady participated in a roundtable discussion and thanked Congress for passing the bipartisan Support for Patients and Communities Act that President Donald Trump signed into law a year ago. Melania cut a stylish figure in a rosy taupe blazer and matching pleated pants, leaving her jacket unbuttoned to reveal her chocolate brown crewneck top.
Gun Owners: Here's Why You
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It's no secret that technology plays an important role in our lives. Almost every single aspect of our life is ruled by technology, from smart phones to computers and the internet. That's why it's not surprising to know that Google and Facebook are keeping tabs on gun owners' firearms.
According to The Firearms Blog (TFB), the two tech giants are scanning users' pictures to look for serial numbers. They're then creating an index of every person's firearms based on the image scans. If you've posted a picture of your firearm on a social networking site and didn't smear out the serial number, chances are it's indexed on Google images.
The Liner Notes of the Gods: 'Led Zeppelin:
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In 1964, the Beatles conquered America through the mass medium of television, via their breakthrough performance on Ed Sullivan’s CBS variety show (backed up by a whole lot of marketing by Capitol Records).
By the late 1960s, The Who eventually conquered America thanks to Pete Townshend’s endless (in every definition of the term) interviews with journalists, including Jann Wenner, leader of the burgeoning world of rock journalists.
In 1969, Led Zeppelin conquered America through word of mouth, thanks to their blazing live sets, often as the opening act, blowing the headliner off the stage, and through the new medium of freedom FM radio, whose stations accepted longer songs, and sometimes even
Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that two government departments are investigating after a jury returned a verdict against Jeffrey Younger, who was petitioning for full custody of his son, in part to avoid his ex-wife’s plan to infuse him with puberty-blocking hormones.Abbott waded into the controversy surrounding Monday’s verdict, which gave Anne Georgulas sole custody of James and his twin brother, Jude. Georgulas, who has been telling her son he was a girl since he was 3, supports giving hormones that would block his adolescence. She also wants the court to mandate that the boy's father call James “Luna.”
ORLANDO, Fla.— An effort by the U.S. Census Bureau to collect state driver’s license records as part of President Donald Trump’s order to gather citizenship information has been a bust so far.As of Wednesday, the vast majority of state motor vehicle agencies had not agreed to share their records with the bureau, according to an Associated Press survey of the 50 states. The effort over the past couple of months has alarmed civil rights groups, which see it as part of a backdoor move by the Trump administration to reduce the political power of minorities.In August, the bureau began requesting five years’ worth of driver’s license records,
On Tuesday, President Donald Trump urged Republicans to "remember what they are witnessing here — a lynching." Democrats and #NeverTrump Republicans rushed to condemn the president's use of the term.#NeverTrump Republican Joe Walsh said this was evidence that Trump is a "horrible human being." Julián Castro called the lynching comparison "beyond shameful." Kamala Harris accused Trump of invoking "the pain and trauma of lynching" to "whitewash [his] own corruption." Elizabeth Warren called Trump's tweet "beyond disgraceful."Most notoriously, former Vice President Joe Biden called the comparison "abhorrent" and "despicable.""Impeachment is not 'lynching,' it is part of our Constitution,"
Growing up isn't easy. Kelly Ripa revealed that her 22-year-old son Michael isn't exactly having the easiest time living on his own in Brooklyn. The 49-year-old television personality appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday as she revealed that her eldest of three moved out of the family home and is paying rent on his own. She said: 'I think he loves the freedom. He hates paying his own rent and he’s chronically poor. 'I don’t think he ever really experienced extreme poverty like now.' Michael is finishing up his studies as a student at New York University's
Cornel West on Lynching Tweet: ‘We Got
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On Tuesday night’s broadcast of “CNN Tonight,” Harvard professor Cornel West called for protests if President Donald Trump was not held accountable for things like referring to the impeachment inquiry as a “lynching” on social media.(Tweet) Partial transcript as follows: LEMON: Is there a difference Dr. West between Clarence Thomas making that sort of accusation vs. the president? WEST: The difference is that Thomas and people who are beautifully black like him have been the victims disproportionately as opposed to a vanilla brother or a vanilla sister.
Influencers have been swarming the gritty stairway from DC blockbuster “Joker”—but back in the day, even locals did their best to avoid the seedy Bronx steps, according to one of the borough’s most famous natives. “When I was growing up, everyone would tell us to stay away from those steps or go with a friend,” Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told TMZ Tuesday on Capitol Hill.(Snip) “I think the way a lot of us feel is, listen, like, keep your Instagram posts outside of the Boogie Down. Like, this is for us.” The stairs were featured prominently in the hit film.
A Richfield man has been charged in connection to an assault that occurred outside the rally that President Donald Trump held at Target Center in Minneapolis on Oct. 10.
A criminal complaint states Dwight Pierre Lewis, 31, faces one count of third-degree assault.
The complaint says a man went to the Minneapolis Police Department to report that he was punched in the mouth by a man outside of Target Center. The man had to receive multiple stitches for his injuries.
In an attempt to force House Democrats to hold public hearings for their impeachment investigation, Republican members staged a sit-in in the hearing room and delayed the process for five hours. But the “journalists” in the liberal media were appalled by the idea of transparency for Democrats. ABC, CBS, and NBC attacked and smeared the GOP lawmakers during their Wednesday evening newscasts.CBS Evening News was the most furious. Critically failing anchor Norah O’Donnell kicked off the opening
Harry Potter actress Emma Watson has been named by researchers as a greenhouse gas 'super-emitter'. Swedish academics analysed the carbon footprints of ten famous people who travel the globe. Miss Watson, the only Briton on the list, had the tenth worst environmental impact out of the group of celebrities selected, based on their social media accounts.(Snip) Her carbon footprint from flying alone was 15.1 tons of CO2–three times that of the global average from all activities. In her work as a United Nations spokesman, Miss Watson has called for everyone to help the world achieve the UN's 17 global goals
LARGO — A jury found Reynaldo Figueroa-Sanabria guilty of two counts of first-degree murder on Wednesday night in the 2013 stabbing of two people killed aboard a houseboat in St. Petersburg.
The case now moves to the sentencing phase. The state is seeking the death penalty for the 47-year-old defendant. Figueroa-Sanabria, in a gray checkered shirt with his hair in his usual bun hanging low behind his head, stood at the verdict was read aloud by the court clerk, his right middle finger resting vertically on the defense table. It will be up to a jury of 12 and two alternates to suss out who is being truthful about that day,
TALLADEGA, Ala. — Donald Trump is beloved in Alabama: It’s the state that hosted his first major political rally as a presidential candidate, then voted for him by a nearly 30-point margin. But the state’s freshman Democratic senator, Doug Jones, couldn’t seem to care less. Easily the most vulnerable Senate incumbent on the ballot next year, Jones is talking and voting as if he’s totally unburdened by the fact he represents one of the most conservative states in the nation. Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court? Jones said Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford was "credible and courageous"
Dick's Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack assembled a focus group this week to explore the possibility of a third-party presidential bid in 2020, Politico reports. Why it matters: Under Stack, Dick's instituted tougher gun sales restrictions and destroyed $5 million worth of assault weapons rather than send them back to manufacturers. The post-Parkland moves were divisive in today's polarized climate and ultimately made a dent in the company's bottom line — which could lead to questions about Stack's motives to implement them as he tests the 2020 bid. A serious third-party contender, especially one with cachet as a Republican donor and
The star witness in the Schiff Pelosi impeachment farce, Ambassador William Taylor, has long-standing ties and a financial relationship to a Burisma funded think tank, according to Breitbart News investigative reporter Aaron Klein. Klein also reports that Taylor has a long-standing relationship with David Kramer, the advisor to Senator John McCain who leaked the Steele Dossier to Buzzfeed. More ominously a Schiff staffer on a Burisma funded trip to Ukraine in August met with Ambassador Taylor to discuss the “whistleblower” complaint. The Atlantic Society, funded by Burisma, also receives funding from the George Soros Open Society Foundations. It is a trifecta of corruption undercutting Taylors testimony.
Prior to his passing, Andrew Breitbart said that the mission of the Breitbart empire was to exemplify the free and fearless press that our Constitution protects–but which, increasingly, the mainstream media denies us.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” – “Who guards the guardians?” Andrew saw himself in that role–as a guardian protecting Americans from the left’s “objective” loyal scribes.
Andrew wanted to do what the mainstream media would not. First and foremost: Andrew pledged to vet President Barack H. Obama.
Andrew did not want to re-litigate the 2008 election. Nor did he want to let Republicans off the hook. Instead, he wanted to show that the media had failed in its most
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s once-solid double-digit lead over the rest of the field of 2020 Democratic Party presidential nominees shrunk, in recent weeks, before slightly expanding again over the past two weeks. Biden currently stands 6.6% above second-place Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in the average of recent national polling. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) round out the top five in most recent national polling. Increasingly, the field appears to be shaping up as a three-horse race among Biden, Warren, and Sanders. But Sanders is poised to be the odd man out of the troika, due to
Earlier today thirty republican members of the House of Representatives stood up and said they’ve had enough of the ridiculous schemes behind the Pelosi, Schiff and Lawfare plan to conduct an impeachment inquiry without transparency and sunlight.
With House democrats shredding the rules, procedures and historic norms in a transparent political scheme, apparently the GOP is finally starting to fight back. Some righteous indignation was expressed during a press conference. WATCH: (Video)
A group of male juveniles pistol-whipped and robbed a woman Monday in St. Paul with her 2-year-old son nearby, according to police. (snip) The woman said the suspect pointed the gun at her face and said something she didn't understand. The suspect pistol-whipped her face, causing a large bruise, police said.
The war world of Washington wrecks the so-called checks and balances not only in the Constitution but in the soul of the old Union. And the “we the people” concept is forgotten. Since 1946 (after WWII) over 100,000 Americans have died in combat without a single declaration of war being passed by Congress. Article I, Section 8 is clear that it is the responsibility of Congress to declare war. It is also clear that the president is not routinely the Commander in Chief; and certainly not the Commander in chief of the Country. Tucker Carlson revealed the common cowards who stood before the cameras to berate President Trump.
President Donald Trump reiterated his administration's commitment to withdrawing from the landmark Paris climate accord in a speech to natural gas executives and employees on Wednesday in Pittsburgh.Mr. Trump's criticism of the agreement came as he touted his administration's "unleashing" of America's natural gas sector at the industry's annual gathering at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center — and more than two years after he said he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris" in first announcing his intention to withdraw from the world's chief effort to slow global warming.
A group of House Republicans stormed a closed-door meeting on Wednesday to demand more transparency in the Democratic-lead impeachment inquiry into President Trump.Led by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the room the Republicans entered was a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) inside the Capitol building, where House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff was about to give his opening statement for Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Laura Cooper's testimony. Rep. Fred Keller (R-PA) said when the members, who do not sit on one of the three committees leading the inquiry, entered, Schiff left the room.
President Donald J. Trump warned on Wednesday afternoon that the Never Trump Republicans, or those who identify as Republican but refuse to support President Trump, could possibly be worse than the Democratic Party. Since before he was elected, there was a small but vocal number of conservative pundits and politicians who condemned Trump and his "Make America Great Again" policies. "The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!" the president tweeted.
For nearly a year now I have been consulting with filmmaker Joel Gilbert on his book and film project, each called The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America. From the beginning, I have been impressed by Gilbert’s diligence in exposing the fraud at the heart of America’s most publicized and racially charged trial since O.J.’s. I refer here to the 2013 murder trial of George Zimmerman for the 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Not having any financial stake in the success of either the book or the film, I thought I might serve as a useful go-between in reaching out to the media.
General Mazloum Abdi, the pre-eminent military leader of the Syrian Kurds, thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his efforts in stopping a Turkish offensive and negotiating a cease-fire. General Mazloum, who leads the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), issued his statement shortly after the president announced the U.S. was lifting economic sanctions on Turkey in return for its commitment to a “permanent” cease-fire. That commitment had been announced the day before, when Russia and Turkey agreed to joint patrols within 10 km of the Syria-Turkey border, and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) agreed to withdraw 30 km south of the border.
$27M for slavery reparations
‘not enough,’ Princeton seminary
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‘not enough,’ Princeton seminary
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Princeton Theological Seminary pledged last week to use $27.6 million of its endowment to pay reparations for the school’s historic ties to slavery, believed to be the largest amount ever paid by a school to atone for benefiting from the slave trade. The school’s black student association says it’s “a great start, but not enough.” The Association of Black Seminarians at Princeton Theological Seminary—a student group that helped raise the slavery reparations issue at the school—plans to call for at least $120 million more in slavery reparations along with money for current African-American students and other changes, the association’s president said.
A Florida chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is hoping to trademark the term “fake news.”As ridiculous as that may sound, Teen Vogue reporter Emily Bloch explained that her chapter of the organization believes “a joke sometimes hits harder than the truth.” “So yes, this is satire. It’s a joke,” Bloch wrote. “But it’s a joke with a point, and as any student of public discourse will tell you, a joke sometimes hits harder than the truth. And if anyone accuses us of trolling the president, well, nothing else seems to work with him, so what do we have to lose?” Covering education and government for The Florida Times-Union
Is it any wonder why there’s such a disconnect between Americans and the media giants that claim to represent them? For the second time in less than a month, a magazine has declared that only liberal women make a difference. Glamour announced the 2019 Women of the Year and — surprise — no conservatives are included. Some of the winners include far-left environmental activist Greta Thunberg, anti-Trump soccer star Megan Rapinoe and apocalyptic Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood. How about female leaders
Mark Zuckerberg was in the congressional hot seat on Wednesday as he faced questions from lawmakers about his company's practices, how he attempts to combat false and inflammatory information on Facebook's platform, and what the social media giant will do to fight election interference in the 2020 contest.
Democratic Chairwoman Maxine Waters, who has been critical of Facebook's diversity practices and its plan for a digital currency, set the tone for the multi-hour event, lighting into Zuckerberg.
She accused the billionaire CEO of thinking he was above the law and issued a threat to break up his company.
Some 30 House Republicans on Wednesday stormed their way into a closed-door hearing in a secure House Intelligence Committee meeting room to rip the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry against President Trump. The pro-Trump lawmakers, led by Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida, barged into the sensitive compartmented information facility (SCIF) where Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary Laura Cooper was giving a deposition. ”Let us in!”
About two dozen frustrated House Republicans on Wednesday stormed the secret room where House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been running the closed-door impeachment inquiry.
Led by House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), the Republican lawmakers attempted to enter the room where Schiff has been bringing in current and former State Department officials to testify on whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in exchange for alleged help with the 2020 election.
A senior Pentagon official working on Ukraine, Laura Cooper, was scheduled to testify, but due restrictions set by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Schiff, members of the Armed Services Committee
Couple orders oysters on the half
shell at New Jersey restaurant, finds
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shell at New Jersey restaurant, finds
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A couple dining at a New Jersey restaurant recently made an extremely rare find while partaking in a plate of oysters. Anton and Sheryl Schermer, of Tenafly, N.J., were in the middle of dinner on Saturday evening when Anton detected something hard “rolling around in his mouth,” according to the Stern & Bow restaurant in the town of Closter, where they were eating. He then spit out the object, only to find it was a tiny pearl.(Photo)
The first pictures have emerged of the lorry driver being held by police after 39 bodies were found in a lorry today.
Named locally as Mo Robinson, the 25-year-old from Portadown, Northern Ireland is being held on suspicion of murder after the horrendous find in Essex.
His Facebook page identifies him as a lorry driver and contains pictures of him posing with HGVs.
There is also a vehicle which appears to be the same lorry which has been pictured at the scene in Essex today. It bears multiple matching details.
Meanwhile, his family say they are in the dark about what is happening.
House Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., on Wednesday essentially stormed a closed-door session connected to the impeachment investigation of President Trump, prompting House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to suspend the proceedings in a remarkable scene. The standoff happened Wednesday morning after lawmakers held a press conference in which they accused House Democrats of lack of transparency.“We’re going to try and go in there, and we’re going to try to figure out what’s going on, on behalf of the millions of Americans that we represent
Utah Republican Senators Mitt Romney and Mike Lee are both underwater with negative approval ratings with state voters, according to a recently-released Y2 Analytics poll for UtahPolicy.com. Fifty-one percent of Utahns strongly or somewhat disapprove of Romney, one of Congress’s staunchest critics of President Donald Trump, while 46% said they approve. Four percent of respondents said they are unsure of the freshman senator’s job performance. Lee, who in recent months has championed bill S.286 — which would eliminate “country caps” which effectively limit the number of Indian workers imported into the U.S. for skilled white-collar labor
Thousands of teachers flooded the streets of downtown Chicago to deliver a message to City Hall: They won't stop striking until they get what they want. About 25,000 members of the Chicago Teachers Union rallied Wednesday as Mayor Lori Lightfoot delivered her address on the city's budget. The city insists "there is no more money" to offer the union, but teachers say they won't back down until they get more support staff, higher raises and class-size limits in the country's third biggest school district. "We're willing to strike until we get the job done," CTU President Jesse Sharkey said. "We
The 50 Best New Board Games
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Sure, the classic board games like Monopoly, Risk, and Battleship are still great fun. But the number of new games has exploded in the last several years as designers dream up space adventures, deck-building sagas, and zombie survival games. So order a pizza, invite over one to three friends, and try out the best board games in recent years.
General Mazloum Abdi, the pre-eminent military leader of the Syrian Kurds, thanked President Donald Trump on Wednesday for his efforts in stopping a Turkish offensive and negotiating a cease-fire.General Mazloum, who leads the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), issued his statement shortly after the president announced the U.S. was lifting economic sanctions on Turkey in return for its commitment to a “permanent” cease-fire.
That commitment had been announced the day before, when Russia and Turkey agreed to joint patrols within 10 km of the Syria-Turkey border, and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) agreed to withdraw 30 km south of the border.
The Big Fake News today is that Ukraine’s top diplomat, William Taylor, delivered a smoking gun to Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) secret impeachment hearings.
That is not hyperbole, those are the headlines — “smoking gun.”
So here we are again with Russian Collusion 2 in full swing, with the WALLS CLOSING IN ON TRUMP, and all of it backed by a coordinated news cycle about how President Trump is toast, done, over and out, corrupt and kaput fer realzies this time. Except…
Once again, it’s all fake news (but you knew that).
Even though Schiff’s secret impeachment inquiry is supposed to be secret,
The decision to move the Bureau of Land Management headquarters to Colorado’s Western Slope should be viewed not as a one-off, but a good start, as far as some Senate Republicans are concerned.
GOP Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee introduced Wednesday legislation to move 90% of positions in 10 executive departments — including Agriculture, Education and Energy — to 10 states outside Washington, D.C., and “into the heart of economically distressed regions across the country.”
Mr. Hawley pointed to the Agriculture Department’s decision in June to move two of its agencies to the Kansas City area
An attorney for President Trump agreed Wednesday that the commander-in-chief couldn’t be criminally prosecuted — even if he hypothetically shot someone on Fifth Avenue.
The rationale that Trump has blanket immunity came during arguments before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, (Snip) During the 45-minute hearing, Vance’s lawyer Carey Dunne cited Trump’s statement from his 2016 campaign that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
Its laughable that Hillary Clinton would attack Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein as being a Russian asset. For eight years the Obama Administration laid waste to American foreign policy and American preeminence. At the end of the Obama Administration America was badly weakened around the globe. Its military depleted. $20 Trillion dollars in debt. While Russia, China and Iran were not just ascendent, but increasingly dominant. For four years while Clinton was Secretary of State, she embarked on the greatest pay for play scam in the history of our country. Literally raking in hundreds of millions of dollars for the Clinton Foundation slush fund.
President Trump's 2020 campaign would love a rematch against Hillary Clinton next November and wants her to jump into the race, said campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany Wednesday on "Fox & Friends."
Co-host Brian Kilmeade asked if the possible candidacy of Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton or Michael Bloomberg worried the Trump campaign, and McEnany said none of them pose a threat. She also said the former secretary of state and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee should certainly get in the race and try again.
"We encourage Hillary to get back in the race," she said. "We would love it, so please do."
Four years ago, Donald Trump’s candidacy was the craziest thing any of us had ever seen. But since then, his opponents have gone so far off the deep end that they have made him seem the sensible alternative. For whatever reason – jealousy? bad advisers? – Mitt Romney hasn’t come to the realization the rest of us have: that President Trump is now the thin orange line between order and chaos.
Happy enough to accept the president’s endorsement last year, Romney quickly turned on him to become a virtue-signaling headline-chaser. He began his Senate tenure with an attack piece in the once admirable Washington Post, refusing to support border security,
Naomi Wolf’s publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt officially pulled the plug on releasing her new book in the United States, likely due to substantial errors discovered in the midst of an unfortunate press tour interview.
Trouble came for Wolf in May, during an interview with BBC radio host Matthew Sweet. Wolf told Sweet that her new book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love, delves into evidence she found of “several dozen executions” of men convicted of sodomy in Britain, which she inaccurately claimed “corrects a misapprehension … that the last man was executed for sodomy in Britain in 1835.”
Elizabeth Warren’s Selfie Shtick
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There’s nothing the political press likes more than a bandwagon. When a candidate is on the rise, reporters and pundits climb over one another trying to get on board. The effect is even more pronounced if the candidate is a progressive. Then the moral and cultural attitudes of journalists align with their professional interest in drama and hype. The result is the transformation of the most banal campaign activities into symbols of the candidate’s superiority, heroism, and indestructibility. Consider Elizabeth Warren’s photography habit.
Warren has been sticking around after the conclusion of events to take pictures with fans. It’s standard practice for candidates to pose for photographs
The Pentagon is sending more than 50 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Europe over the next few years to deter Russia and help NATO prepare for an entirely new kind of warfare.
“By the time our planes get there, there will be 100-plus F-35s there with our European partners,” Air Force Gen. James Holmes told reporters at a recent Air Force Association Conference at Maryland’s National Harbor. “We will be falling in on our European partners who already have their F-35s.”
Although the full number of just over 50 combat aircraft won’t arrive until the early 2020s, preparations are already underway. The Air Force didn’t specify
The 120-hour cease-fire agreement between Turkey and Syria ended Tuesday, and U.S. officials including Vice President Mike Pence were optimistic that a permanent peace deal could emerge after days of turmoil.
The commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said its members have withdrawn from the 20-mile-wide safe zone under Turkish military control, Pence said while speaking at the Heritage Foundation Honors Gala on Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.
Busted on Sunday for his Twitter nom de twit, Sen. Willard M. Romney whined, “Being called a lurker is a new low.” No, Willard, being a lurker is the new low. Obviously, Romney’s official Massachusetts gubernatorial portrait, unveiled at the State House more than a decade ago, is going to need an update. At the very least, the identifying plate at the bottom of the frame will have to be replaced with a new one: “Gov. Pierre Delecto 2003-07.” Actually, don’t we need a whole new painting? Lose the old one of Willard in his usual gray business suit, hands folded, a small framed photo of his bride
The White House said it wouldn’t renew subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post on Tuesday after President Trump hinted at the move earlier in the week on Fox News’ “Hannity.” Trump suggested that he would "probably terminate" both papers during a Monday interview with Sean Hannity, in which he called them "fake." Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham told Politico on Tuesday that Trump was referring to subscriptions “which we won’t be renewing,” as opposed to terminating reporters from the papers’ access to the White House.
The New York Times reported recently that Democrats have “resigned themselves to the likelihood that the impeachment proceedings against President Trump will extend into the Christmas season…”The reason for the extended timetable, we read, is that Democrats want to make the “simplest and most devastating case” possible against the president.What rot. Despite the numerous witnesses that have been questioned, the numerous closed-door interviews and purposeful leaks, it is quite clear that Democrats have discovered little beyond the original phone call between President Trump and President Zelensky of Ukraine with which to make their case.
The entire Democrat Election 2020 Agenda has come hurtling up out of the mud—making itself crystal clear.
In case you missed it: on November 8 2016, Clinton was elected president and has been president ever since.This is the gist: Hillary Clinton will win the 2016 Election in Retrospect by winning the 2020 one. No surprise really because Hillary in 2016 and Hillary in 2020 has been the Democrat/Media intent all along.
When talking to herself, she’s saying ‘Now can you see why IMPEACHING TRUMP is so CRUCIAL?!’
The Bus Load of Crazies vying for DNC endorsement? Fugget-about-it because
The secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says political correctness will destroy the country. Ben Carson made those remarks during a congressional hearing Tuesday when he was asked about comments he reportedly made during a meeting last month.According to reports, he made comments about transgender people entering women’s bathrooms. When asked to apologize for his remarks, however, he explained it was a misunderstanding and then went on to blast the idea of political correctness(Tweet/Video) This comes as the Housing Department is considering a rule, which would allow shelters to consider people’s sex and gender when deciding whether to accommodate them.
Criticism came fast from Democrats, President Donald Trump critics and some Republicans on Tuesday after Trump compared the impeachment inquiry into him to a "lynching." But by the afternoon, Trump allies were pointing out that variations of that word had been invoked several times by House Democrats to describe the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton in 1998. (snip) At least 11 House Democrats called the Clinton impeachment proceedings a "coup," including two of the chairmen now leading the impeachment inquiry of Trump: Nadler and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel of New York.
Last month, a research paper briefly posted on a Nasa website – and since removed – suggested that Google had achieved quantum supremacy. This means that its quantum computer could, in theory, take on calculations that are impossible even for the world's highest-performing supercomputers. The paper claimed that Google's 53-qubit quantum system had taken three minutes and 20 seconds to carry out a calculation that would have taken the world's most advanced classical computers 10,000 years to complete.
But now, IBM's research shows that a classical system can actually perform the same task in two and a half days, "and with far greater fidelity".
The price at the pump was more than $4 a gallon in Vista, Calif., when Scott Hissem recently embarked on a trip to Texas celebrate his 40th birthday. When the delivery associate for Amazon.com Inc. arrived in the Lone Star state, he got an unexpected present: Gasoline cost just $2 and change. The gap has Mr. Hissem considering a move to escape California’s high cost of living. “It makes life hard,” Mr. Hissem said of California, which is the most populous U.S. state and the one with the highest gasoline prices. “You can’t go out and do the things you
With Juneau located some 2,000 miles from California’s San Ysidro border crossing, one would be mistaken for believing that Alaskans are immune to our nation’s illegal immigration crisis.
The Obama administration’s lax enforcement policies precipitated dramatic increases in heroin deaths as well as a weighty financial burden on Alaska’s taxpayers. Now, as the current administration and congressional Republicans work to undo these misguided decisions, a new crop of Democratic presidential candidates have irresponsibly promised to open our borders should they reclaim the White House.
Russian forces in Syria headed for the border with Turkey Wednesday to ensure Kurdish fighters pull back after a deal between Moscow and Ankara wrested control of the Kurds' entire heartland.
Kurdish forces, who previously controlled nearly a third of Syria, have lost almost everything after Turkey secured the right to remain fully deployed in an Arab-majority area that was the main target of a two-week-old offensive. (Snip) The deal -- hailed as "historic" by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan -- quashes the Kurdish minority's dreams of a semi-autonomous region and makes way for the absorption of their de facto army into the regime's military.
London - British police have launched a murder investigation after the bodies of 39 people were found in a truck container outside of London.
The truck was discovered at an industrial park in the early hours of Wednesday morning local time, and all 39 people inside were found dead at the scene, police said. The driver, a 25-year old-man from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Police believe the vehicle came from Bulgaria and entered the U.K. on Saturday. One of the victims was a teenager and all the rest were adults, they said.
Baghdad - US troops withdrawing from northeastern Syria to Iraq are “transiting” and will leave the country within four weeks, Iraq’s defense minister said Wednesday. (Snip) Iraq’s military said Tuesday that American troops leaving northeastern Syria don’t have permission to stay in Iraq in a statement that appeared to contradict Esper, who has said all US troops leaving Syria would continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group from Iraq to prevent its resurgence in the region. He later added that the troops would be there temporarily until they are able to go home, but no time period has been set.
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson said a prayer at the opening of a cabinet meeting at the White House on Monday, pointing out that “separation of church and state means that the church does not dominate the state, and it means the state does not dominate the church.”
Trump asked Carson to say "grace" at the beginning of the cabinet meeting.(Video) Our kind Father in Heaven, we're so thankful for the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us in this country, and we're thankful for the people of courage who have been here before us, who have fought hard for the rights of our country.
I suspect that President Trump deliberately used the word “lynching” in a tweet to describe the efforts to impeach him knowing that it would evoke hysteria from Democrats accusing him of racism. Lest I be accused of attributing to him mastery of 3-dimensional chess, it doesn’t take a mastermind to understand that the media and other Democrats will take any bait at hand to accuse Trump of nefariousness. The word “lynch” has roots far predating the Reconstruction period during which the KKK, the paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party, summarily executed by hanging many freed slaves, as well as many white Republicans who supported Reconstruction measures,
Orange man bad?
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Every headline basically reads the same: "Orange man bad!"
Coming from the supermarket tabloids, right next to the alien abduction and the miracle weight loss stories, that would be kind of amusing. But coming from the "important" people -- the NY Times, the WaPo, the major networks -- that is not funny at all.
But if the fact of it is nothing to smile about -- and the dissolution of once respected institution isn't, or at least shouldn't be -- we should be able to find at least some peace and quiet in understanding the 'whys' of it.
And indeed that we can.
TAMPA — Amber Perera asked for a second chance. Her victims’ family wanted her to spend the rest of her life in prison.
A judge decided on half a century.
Circuit Judge Christopher Sabella on Tuesday sentenced Perera, 31, to 50 years in state prison for driving drunk and causing a crash on the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway that killed Luiz and Rita Felipak of Tampa and their 8-year-old daughter, Giorgia.
Just before handing down the sentence, Sabella made reference to a jail call, recorded after Perera’s arrest and played in court by prosecutors, in which she told a family member, "My life is ruined.”
It really doesn’t matter what any of these witnesses tell the Impeachment Folly ringleaders, the story is already written. The ringleaders will tell this story to the public via their media conduits even if their “witnesses” do not cooperate and affirm their fairy tale. Because this process is taking place in secret, we can only assume the Democrats have something to hide. There would be no reason to conceal the process if things are as they are portrayed in their media leaks. So along those lines…
Democrat leakers tell resistance tabloid The Hill that they obtained EXPLOSIVE testimony from the punk a&& bureaucrat they shuffled into their impeachment star chamber yesterday.
Upon hearing the news that President Trump bowed to pressure from congressional Republicans and reversed his decision to hold next year’s G-7 summit at the Trump National Doral Miami, my immediate response was, “Ah, what might have been.”
No, I’m not wistful about the missed opportunity for taxpayers to throw a lifeline to Trump’s struggling resort. Rather, I’m a bit misty-eyed about what the last three years might have looked like if Republicans had shown this kind of spine all along.
There is an interesting consensus among the fiercely pro-Trump and anti-Trump forces on the right. For simplicity let’s call them Never Trumpers and Always Trumpers. Among the Never Trumper Republicans
Put yourself, for a moment, in the shoes of average independent American voters in fly-over country where next year’s election is likely to be decided. Many, if not most, are probably feeling trapped by what amounts to a constant barrage of white noise coming out of Washington these days.
Ukraine. Doral. Impeachment. Syria. Schiff and Pelosi. Hunter and Joe. Trump and Trump. Impeachment. Secret hearings and secret Russian “assets.” Impeachment.
The media can’t get enough of it. Most people have had enough already.
We’re only a few months away from Iowans heading to the caucuses.
President Trump is weighing whether to replace acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney with White House counselor Kellyanne Conway.
Trump has asked advisers for their thoughts on Conway as his top White House aide.
Conway would likely face pushback from Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who also works in the White House. Conway and Kushner are not friendly, two people familiar with the matter said.
Conway has been in the middle of Trump’s barbs with her husband, George, a conservative lawyer who frequently makes headlines for his criticism of the president. George Conway said earlier this month that White House aides should resign unless they can “have some moderating or blunting effect”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is accusing everyone of being a Russian asset, but her recent accusation against Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) probably helped the congresswoman like it ended up helping the Trump administration, President Donald Trump said Monday during a cabinet meeting.
Trump began the meeting by urging Democrats to vote on the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), adding that his administration has done other trade deals, including one with South Korea.
The Democrats and media have repeatedly used the phrase "constitutional crisis" to attack President Trump for refusing to "cooperate" with the "impeachment inquiry" by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, led by Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff.
In May 2019, the speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said we have a constitutional crisis because President Trump refused to comply with a subpoena issued by Democrat House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler to release the full un-redacted report of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
In 2018, Democrat New York senator Chuck Schumer said we have a constitutional crisis when there were rumors that Trump would fire Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein.
The usual suspects are indignant, indignant I tell you, about the fact that President Trump used the term “lynching” in one of his tweets:
Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump
So some day, if a Democrat becomes President and the Republicans win the House, even by a tiny margin, they can impeach the President, without due process or fairness or any legal rights. All Republicans must remember what they are witnessing here - a lynching. But we will WIN!
7:52 AM - Oct 22, 2019
The accustomed media and left-of-center figures immediately began howling and caterwauling. This is unsurprising. If Trump stated,
Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels purportedly said, "Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty," a principle the Democrat Left puts into practice with unfounded accusations that Donald Trump supports racism, white nationalism, and anti-Semitism. The anti-Israel organization If Americans Knew praised Democrat front-runner Elizabeth Warren by stating, "She said 'yes' to pressuring Israel to end the occupation. Keep saying yes, and add some teeth to it." The same web page adds, "Israel has been a 'foreign policy problem' for years, but also -- especially recently -- it has become a diplomatic albatross around America’s neck."
No user, regardless of their job, wealth or stature should be exempt from abiding by Twitter’s user agreement, not even the President of the United States.”
That’s Senator Kamala Harris’s argument for banning President Donald Trump from Twitter. The junior U.S. senator from California made this strange demand a core part of her foundering presidential campaign this month. She sent a letter to Twitter and demanded other Democrats support her request at the last presidential primary debate.
The desperate presidential hopeful isn’t the first to call for a Trump-free Twitter, but she is the most powerful person so far to demand it.
Police are investigating a complaint of an alleged ‘hate incident’ in which a transgender model was denied a job as a female porn star after the photographer discovered the model still had a penis.
Ria Cooper, who became the UK’s youngest transgender person aged 15 before later transitioning back to male age 18, and then to female again later, has accused the photographer of ‘transphobic behaviour’. Cooper said the incident could prevent a future career in the modelling industry.
According to claims reported by the Hull Daily Mail, after posting pictures on social media of a new glamour portfolio, a man reached out to Cooper. He claimed that he could
Massachusetts Rep. Democrat Daniel J. Hunt is driving a bill that would essentially make it illegal to call someone a “bitch” as part of his act “regarding the use of offensive words.”
Hunt — a Democrat — introduced a bill in May that would criminalize calling someone a “bitch” in an insulting manner.
The act states:
A person who uses the word “bitch” directed at another person to accost, annoy, degrade or demean the other person shall be considered to be a disorderly person in violation of this section, and shall be subject to the penalties provided in subsections (a) and (b). A violation of this subsection may be reported by the person
Companies are boosting Americans’ productivity with better software, faster robots, and more machines, according to a Reuters survey of company reports.
Investment in productivity is being forced by the labor shortage in President Donald Trump’s “Hire American” economy, says the article, which is headlined “U.S. companies facing worker shortage race to automate.”
The companies use the investments to make the employees more efficient, which frees up the savings, which then fund continued wage raises for workers and higher stock-values for investors, according to the article:
By now everyone knows that Mitt Romney used a Twitter account named "Pierre Delecto" to attack President Trump, Newt Gingrich, and others. Further, Pierre defended and praised Mitt.
Too bad Pierre was not around to defend Mitt when the Democrats, led by Harry Reid, attacked Mitt for supposedly not paying income taxes, shipping jobs overseas, causing cancer to his employees, being mean to his dog, and so forth. (snip) The good news for non-quisling Republicans is that this should end the career of Pierre/Mitt to be the next John McCain as the go-to-guy whenever the Democrats and the media need a "Republican" to attack President Trump and conservatives.
Beto's 15 minutes of fame are up
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In the program for an exhibition of his works at a museum in Stockholm in 1968, pop artist Andy Warhol famously predicted “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” The phrase “15 minutes of fame” has since come to describe anyone or anything that’s a short-lived blip on the pop culture or media radar.
Fast-forward 50 years, and that “future” is now. The latest manifestation of Warhol’s prediction is one Robert F. “Beto” O’Rourke. The former Texas Democratic congressman’s 15 minutes of fame were up last November after he lost a U.S. Senate race to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, but apparently, no one thought to tell him.
One of the most common pro-abortion arguments is that legalization keeps abortion safe. The rationale goes something like this: whether people like it or not, some women will always seek out abortions. No matter what other services or programs are offered to help with crisis pregnancies, abortion is so needed, so necessary, that keeping it legal is the only way to keep women fully safe.
When legislation is brought up to limit abortion to certain gestational periods (such as before 20 weeks) or to limit abortions to only ambulatory surgical centers, abortion advocates oppose these measures, claiming it places undue burdens on women, seeks to control them,
Italy calls it la dolce visa.
If you are interested in moving to Italy and you would be bringing a ton of money with you, then the Italian government has an offer that might be appealing to some very high-income expatriates: a maximum flat tax of 100,000 euros per year, irrespective of income, so long as that income is not earned by working a job in Italy. Earn 1 million euros? Pay 100,000. Earn 100 million euros? Pay 100,000. Italy here is making a bid for the sort of affluent taxpayer who might be interested in Switzerland’s “forfait” system, in which noncitizens residing in Switzerland have the option
The first insider’s narrative on the travails of retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has been filed in federal court amid a battle over access to multiple pieces of evidence.
Flynn, convicted of lying to the FBI, had to sell his home to pay legal bills, says the narrative. Prosecutors threatened to go after his son and business partner, Michael Flynn Jr., unless he cooperated.
Sidney Powell wrote this story in a letter to Attorney General William Barr in June as she was taking over as defense counsel for the former White House national security adviser.
She immediately accused the government of withholding exculpatory evidence that would show prosecutors violated
Hillary recently injected herself, with her characteristic venom, into the 2020 presidential race — this time, at the expense of a Democrat. She called Tulsi Gabbard, Hawaii’s four-term member of the House of Representatives, and a veteran who served in Iraq, “a Russian asset.” Gabbard, for her part, blasted Hillary (4:12) for doing so.
Much was made after Trump won of Russian hacks into the Democratic Party’s political databases, and it was argued that therefore it is clear that the Kremlin feared a President Hillary but not a President Trump. As shown below, this is very counterintuitive, making all the more puzzling
There's been a lot of confusion about what, exactly, President Trump's concerns were before withholding and later approving U.S. military aid to Ukraine. Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, made a hash of things during his much-discussed press conference on Thursday. Media coverage of Mulvaney's appearance just made things worse. So now, some clarification.
In various statements, the president or top aides have listed five reasons for his concern about U.S. aid to Ukraine:
1.) Trump's general dislike of foreign aid. "President Trump is not a big fan of foreign aid," Mulvaney said Thursday. "Never has been; still isn't. Doesn't like spending money overseas, especially when it's poorly spent."
While it’s hard to keep up with all the freak-outs constantly percolating within our media establishment, one of the latest involves Donald Trump using the term “lynch” to describe the secret impeachment investigation they are carrying out. This came as part of his frustration with the Democrats refusing to take a vote and shutting off all minority rights for Republicans, something that’s unprecedented.(Snip)Of course, a little digging has turned up the reality that Democrats have used the term “lynch” in its various forms (lynch mob, lynching, etc.) many times. It’s pretty laughable just how prevalent their use of the word has been throughout the years.
Impeachment Will Fail
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Two elements of the turbulent current American political scene became clearer over the past week. One is the determination, attested to by almost all Washington insiders whatever side they are on, of the Democratic leadership to force an impeachment trial of the president. Also developing, as a further bleat from the vanishing NeverTrumpers, is the theory that large chunks of Republican loyalty in Congress are starting to peel off and desert the president.
Since all polls show Republican opinion in the country is rock solid behind the president and by any normal criteria—the economy, declining illegal immigration, and his delivery on election promises—he will be reelected easily.
Democratic Party leaders have reportedly been struck by anxiety as the 2020 election approaches — and some fear they have no viable candidate to back.
Leaders and activists in the party are wary that all their top contenders have major weaknesses and are urging other possible candidates to get in the race, The Washington Post and The New York Times reported Tuesday.
“You can imagine much stronger candidates,” Democratic National Committee member Elaine Kamarck told The Washington Post. Kamarck would back Sen. Sherrod Brown or retired Navy Adm. William H. McRaven if either could be convinced to throw their hat in the ring, according to the report.
The Chinese government is reportedly drawing up a plan to replace Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, whose leadership sparked the protests ravaging the global financial hub.
Sources “briefed on the deliberations” said Lam’s successor would be installed by March and serve the rest of her term until 2022, if Chinese President Xi Jinping decided to move forward with the plan. Lam was appointed for office in 2014 despite the fact her rival for the job, John Tsang, was far more popular with the general public, according to the Financial Times.
The Financial Times reports that China wants the situation to stabilize before making a decision
A local CBS reporter in California was apparently fired after he — during a live news segment — climbed atop classic, privately-owned cars, even seemingly damaging one of them in the process.
Angel Cardenas, a correspondent with KMAX-TV's "Good Morning Sacramento," was on air Sunday at the Sacramento International Auto Show, a weekend-long event at Cal Expo that was about to begin its final day. Someone who caught the segment on air, Adam Copeland, posted a clip of it to Facebook, as he has "never seen such a disregard to someone else's vehicle."
Cardenas playfully tells viewers "the only person out here is a media coordinator,
Joe Biden has apologized for using the word 'lynching' when describing the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998. His apology comes after the former Vice President lambasted President Donald Trump for also using the exact same word as he described his current impeachment process 'This wasn't the right word to use and I'm sorry about that,' Biden wrote in a tweet late on Tuesday night. Biden used the word during a 1998 CNN interview as he defended then President Clinton on-air. But the former VP went on to imply that unlike him,
We should all realize that the Democrats are floundering badly, like fish out of water, because their activists, their defenders in league with the corrupt media, are the grossly dishonest and deluded Hillary Clinton; Adam Schiff; and now the poor, pathetic Mitt Romney. Pelosi is right there with Schiff; she's the wind beneath his little flapping wings. Hillary has, for all to see, gone completely bonkers. Since she lost the election, she has blamed too many people and groups and mindsets to list. This past week, she escalated her paranoia by claiming that Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein are both "Russian assets."
If journalism isn't dead, it must certainly be on life support when it can be knocked so easily on its collective butt by an 84-year-old Stolen Valor fraud, who flimflammed even Fox News with her tales of wartime heroics, faux medals, and a handful of push-ups. Margaret DeSanti, a self-proclaimed retired lieutenant colonel (sometimes captain) Army nurse, is a known phony Vietnam vet who was first exposed as such five years ago by TAH (This Ain't Hell), one of the military blogs that long ago took on the mission of guarding the veterans' community from those who falsely claim honorable service.