Posts on Friday, October 25, 2019
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee will only be able to read transcripts of depositions in the “impeachment inquiry” with a Democrat staffer watching them.
In addition, there will only be one copy of each transcript available. No further printed or electronic versions will be provided.
Those are the rules under which Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the committee chair, is proceeding, according to Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, who interviewed committee member Rep. Elaine Stefanik (R-NY):
Rep. Elise Stefanik was informed this week by Republican House Intelligence Committee staffers of a new diktat from Chairman Adam Schiff. It made the New York Republican’s jaw drop.
In an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that aired Friday, former Secretary of State John Kerry said the evidence against President Donald Trump in the House impeachment inquiry was “more powerful” than was there was in former President Richard Nixon’s impeachment.
Kerry said, “The evidence is powerful, some of it more powerful already than what we saw in the impeachment of Richard Nixon.”
He continued, “The evidence at this point in time certainly merits the inquiry that is taking place.”
President Donald Trump declared Friday that he did not need a team to help him stop the impeachment inquiry led by Democrats in the House.“Here’s the thing. I don’t have teams. Everyone’s talking about teams. I’m the team. I did nothing wrong,” Trump said to reporters, according to TheHill. “I will say this: If anything ever happened with this phony witch hunt that the Democrats are doing … I really believe you’d have a recession, depression the likes of which this country hasn’t seen.”Trump added, as reported by TheHill, that any attempts to remove him from office would result in an economic downturn for the country.
Fox News’ Benjamin Hall recently spoke to ISIS prisoners in Syria weeks after President Trump made the decision to withdraw U.S. forces, and after Turkey launched a military offensive against the Kurds. He said he was struck by how few guards there were at the prison.
One of the things that really struck me today was how few guards there were," Hall said Friday on “Fox News Reporting.”
"The SDF [Syrian Democratic Forces] has been clear they need more support when it comes to guarding these prisoners," Hall said,
Beto O'Rourke said he would use the criminal code to back up his proposal to confiscate AR-15s and other "weapons of war" from Americans."If we're able to pass mandatory buybacks and I'm able to sign that into law, then I fully expect our fellow Americans to turn in their AR-15s and their AK-47s," the former Texas congressman said in a Thursday CBS News interview when asked if his policy was "too retroactive."O'Rourke continued his answer by saying there would be criminal consequences if people were to "persist" in holding onto their weapons."For anyone who does not and is caught in possession or seen in possession
Three Republican senators have yet to back a resolution to condemn House Democrats’ secret, closed-door impeachment inquiry practices.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham (R-SC) introduced a resolution Thursday night to condemn House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) secretive impeachment inquiry proceedings.
Graham announced Friday that the resolution had gained 50 cosponsors across the Senate Republican conference; three senators have yet to cosponsor the resolution sign on.(Snip)
The three Republican senators that have yet to back the impeachment resolution are Sens. Mitt Romney (R-UT), Lisa Murkowski (R-UT), and Susan Collins (R-ME).
There’s a clear set of battle lines now evident amid the ongoing political and legal dynamic: Nadler, Pelosi, Lawfare and the Deep State media -VS- Durham, Barr, Trump and the MAGA movement.
Playing directly into this dynamic today Obama appointed Judge Beryl Howell has ruled (full pdf below) an impeachment by unilateral decree is constitutionally valid; and as an outcome House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler can have access to some of the Mueller grand jury material that was used as evidence in the “Mueller-Weissmann Report”.
An outbreak of hepatitis A has continued in Minnesota, according to the state's Department of Health.
MDH said new cases continue to emerge, with a total of 41 cases now reported across 16 counties as of last Friday. Of those cases, officials said 29 people have been hospitalized. (snip) those at high risk, including:
People who use injection and non-injection drugs.
People experiencing homelessness or unstable housing.
People who are currently or were recently incarcerated.
Representative John Ratcliffe is one of only four House members who have reviewed every known classified document surrounding the 2016 political surveillance, Spygate and the use of the FISA court; including John Brennan’s two-page ‘electronic communication’ that started the FBI investigation. So when John Ratcliffe is discussing what potential criminal activity John Durham is investigating and he says “FISA act and court“, that specific use of wording is subtle like a brick through a window to those who follow closely.
Everyone is aware that IG Michael Horowitz is looking at the Carter Page FISA application and potential misrepresentations (Snip) However, no-one has even hinted that anyone in government
I do not believe in coincidence. I do not believe that it is a mere coincidence that these three events occurred late last night:
1. The investigation of the roots of the plot to destroy Donald Trump and his Presidency is now a criminal matter.2. A letter from Inspector General Horowitz announcing that his report on the FISA fraud would be out shortly with no major redactions.
3. The Government caved to Honey Badger Sidney Powell and allowed her to fully expose criminal conduct by Michael Flynn’s prosecutors.
What is going on? Two words. Bill Barr. The Attorney General has pulled the trigger and altered the landscape in the Russiagate saga.
When Yale professor Cydney Dupree and her colleague analyzed more than two decades worth of political speeches and conducted experiments searching for bias when communicating with racial minorities, they were surprised by what they discovered. According to their report, published this year in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, conservatives generally addressed whites and minorities similarly, but liberals were likelier to modify their speech and “patronize minorities stereotyped as lower status and less competent.” Dupree cautioned that although liberals might be “well-intentioned” and “see themselves as allies,” they could be unwittingly contributing to racial division by dumbing down their
Legal marijuana in California as a business was supposed to be a no-brainer. How could it not be profitable in a liberal state pushing 40 million residents where some of the best weed in the world has been grown for decades? But nearly three years after Proposition 64, the law legalizing the adult use of the drug, was passed, California cannabis producers are not seeing the windfalls predicted. They tell Sharyn Alfonsi that regulations and a robust black market are cutting into legal pot profits. "The regulated market has been a fraction of what everybody expected it to be," says
In best selling author Doug Wead's forthcoming book, Inside Trump's White House: The Real Story of His Presidency, it is revealed that President Donald Trump has been a devoted viewer of Christian television, and evangelical preachers, since the 1980s.President Trump's good friend Paula White told Wead, "He had watched hours of Christian television [since the 1980s]. And not just watched it, but really listened to the messages. He had retained what he had heard. He could bring it back and repeat it to me. He would say what it meant to him.” "Trump had watched the Billy Graham telecasts as a boy and had
WASHINGTON — For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the House of Representatives has started a presidential impeachment inquiry. House committees are trying to determine if President Donald Trump violated his oath of office by asking a foreign country to investigate a political opponent. A quick summary of the latest news: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW President Donald Trump is confronting the limits of his main impeachment defense. Trump and his aides have largely ignored the details of the Ukraine allegations against him. Instead, they’re loudly objecting to the House Democrats’ investigation process. The strategy is a less-than-compelling counter Source removed from dateline.
Marching teachers in downtown Chicago were blocked by police as they tried to enter Lake Shore Drive during rush hour Friday afternoon on the seventh day of canceled classes in the city.
The teachers began with a rally near Buckingham Fountain before marching down city streets, prompting closures as they went. The group was stopped on Balbo at Lake Shore Drive as a line of officers kept them from entering the major roadway.
Although no agreement was reached Thursday, officials with Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union say that there was some progress made in negotiations.
"We've had a productive day," Deputy Mayor for Education Sybil Madison
The Media is a Threat to America
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It’s always bad news for the media.Verizon is looking to dump the Huffington Post. It’s the latest bad news for the industry in a year that has already seen over 7,200 job cuts across the media spectrum from digital to old-fashioned print. Why should the rest of the country care about what’s happening to the media industry? Same reason you should care about what happens when a crackhead can’t pay for his crack. Like the proverbial crackhead, the media has two survival strategies: stealing and going crazy. These strategies are happening all around us and they’re wrecking the country worse than a million crackheads could.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government ended fiscal year 2019 with the largest budget deficit in seven years as gains in tax receipts were offset by higher spending and growing debt service payments, the Treasury department said on Friday. It is the first time since the early 1980s that the budget gap has widened over four consecutive years. Source removed from dateline.
COLUMBIA – In a way, what happened outside Benedict College's gates felt quite small. At its peak the crowd covered only a couple of hundred steps of the sidewalk. But the scene itself represented something much bigger: the fractured, divisive, sometimes ugly and often loud American political climate. While President Donald Trump was on campus at the private, historically black college at a forum touting bipartisan accomplishment in criminal justice reform and a strong economy, protesters marched in opposition to the polarizing president while supporters stood there with flags waving and hands clapping.The two groups met at the gates, a couple hundred people in all.
Last weekend, NBC News reported that the Justice Department’s probe into the origins of the Russia collusion investigation is now focusing on the CIA and the intelligence community. NBC News soft-peddled this significant development by giving former CIA Director John Brennan a platform (a pen?) to call the probe “bizarre,” and question “the legal basis for” the investigation. Politico soon joined the spin effort, branding the investigation Attorney General William Barr assigned to Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham “Trump’s vengeance.”
However, if the media reports are true, and Barr and Durham have turned their focus to Brennan and the intelligence community, it is not a matter of vengeance;
Heading into its 28th season on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” master of ceremonies Tom Bergeron tweeted to fans that it was his “hope that DWTS, in its return following an unprecedented year-long hiatus, would be a joyful respite from our exhausting political climate and free of inevitable divisive bookings from ANY party affiliations.” Bergeron then moved from his show’s joy-sapping guest, Sean Spicer, and aimed his ire at the show’s producers,
“We can agree to disagree, as we do now, but ultimately it’s their call.” The “divisive” guest in question is indeed President Donald Trump’s former White House press spokesman.
Clinton family associate Sidney Blumenthal has made legal threats to the publisher of a forthcoming book featuring allegations against Democrats in connection with the Russia investigation in an attempt to stop publication, Fox News has learned.
A source familiar with the matter told Fox News that Blumenthal claimed the book – “The Plot Against the President: The True Story of How Congressman Devin Nunes Uncovered the Biggest Political Scandal in U.S. History,” by Lee Smith – was defamatory. “Blumenthal tried to stop it from being published,” the source told Fox News, saying the Hillary Clinton confidant sent threatening letters to Smith and publisher Center Street, a division of Hachette Book Group.
All of the major Democratic presidential candidates have committed to attend the annual meeting of a black organization that is presenting its annual award to President Donald Trump for his work on criminal justice reform. The president is receiving the “Bipartisan Justice Award” Friday in Columbia, South Carolina, from “the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center, a group founded by twenty black Republicans and twenty black Democrats in 2015,” the Daily Caller reported. The award is being presented at the 2019 Second Step Presidential Justice Forum, which is being held at Benedict College, one of roughly 100 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the U.S.
Sen. Johnny Isakson’s (R-GA) office told Breitbart News in an exclusive comment Friday that the senator plans to cosponsor Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) resolution to condemn the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry practices.Graham and McConnell introduced a resolution Thursday night to condemn House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) secretive impeachment inquiry proceedings. Graham announced Friday that the resolution had gained 50 cosponsors across the Senate Republican conference; three senators have yet to cosponsor the resolution. (Snip) Only Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mitt Romney (R-UT) have yet to cosponsor the bill.
London—Climate activist Greta Thunberg has a tiny new namesake. London’s Natural History Museum said Friday that a minute species of beetle is being named “Nelloptodes gretae” in honor of the 16-year-old Swede. Michael Darby, a scientific associate at the museum who found the insect in its collection of millions of animal specimens, chose the name to acknowledge her “outstanding contribution” to raising awareness of environmental issues. The beetle is less than 1 millimeter long and has no eyes or wings. It belongs to a 1960s collection from samples of soil and leaf litter in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi,
On Friday during Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) funeral, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used a Biblical analogy to take a veiled shot at President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump.
Clinton was comparing Cummings to his namesake, the Biblical prophet Elijah, who stood up against wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.
Clinton said, “Like the prophet, our Elijah could call down fire from heaven — but he also prayed and worked for healing.”
She added, “Like that Old Testament prophet, he stood against corrupt leadership of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel.”
The crowd roared in acknowledgment.
The Trump boom ain’t dead yet.
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American optimism about the economy surged in October, fueled by the best expectations for income gains in two decades. [Snip] “The focus of consumers has been on income and job growth, while largely ignoring other news,” Richard Curtin, the survey’s chief economist, said in a statement. [Snip] Prior to the midmonth preliminary report from the University of Michigan, which saw the index rising to 96, economists surveyed by Econoday had forecast a decline to 92. “Sentiment rebounded in early October as consumers anticipated larger income gains and lower inflation during the year ahead. As a result, real income expectations rose to their most favorable level in two decades,”
Now that Monday’s federal election has reduced Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau down to minority status, he won’t have time to play “Mr. Dress Up” anymore.
Wth barely time for a last-minute pat down of his hair, Trudeau will now be forced to keep pace with what Canada Free Press (CFP) calls the ‘Buffalo Run’. The Buffalo Republic “ Alberta/Saskatchewan Separation Movement has had it with Trudeau’s “Not As Advertised’ “sunny” ways” , seeing it instead as “Sonny’s Way”.
No excitement without an indictment. That said, the investigation of Obama's spying of then-candidate Donald John Trump has reached the panic stage among Democrats, and the media is spinning it as fast as possible. [Snip] The New York Times said, "For more than two years, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the Russia investigation, portraying it as a hoax and illegal even months after the special counsel closed it. [Snip] We have been through the drill too many times to get our hopes up. Observe. Understand. But there is no excitement without an indictment.
Long before real planning for it began, and long before the first news stories about it, those of us in the top levels of the Pentagon heard President Donald Trump demand the military parade he would eventually get. The bizarre request was one of the first signs I had of the enormous rift between my boss at the time, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and the president.
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"Public sentiment is everything," Abraham Lincoln once said. "With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed." It's endlessly surprising how often this foundational principle of democratic politics eludes activists and elected officials in both parties' ideological extremes. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has bet her surging presidential campaign on Medicare-for-all, fired by the conviction that 150 million Americans should be happy to trade in private health coverage for a government-run system they've never experienced. But an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll recently found just 41 percent supported a single-payer system that eliminates private insurance, with 56 percent opposed — a consistent finding in public surveys.
While never having felt any previous urge to dine in the Berkshire town of Reading, I now find myself trying to secure a table at the Oracle Shopping Centre. Should any Spectator reader wish to join me there over the next week, I can ask Chick-fil-A to make it a table for two.
There we can dine on any number of foodstuffs. We could start with a chicken sandwich and then progress to either eight or 12 chicken nuggets as our main course. Or we could do the same in reverse order, treating the nuggets as an amuse-bouche before the main event. All washed down with one of those sugary,
Mayor Lori Lightfoot was going to get a strike no matter what. That’s the undeniable take-away as 300,000 Chicago school children lose crucial instructional time and athletes miss out on their playoff and college scholarship dreams.
Here’s what should infuriate Chicagoans: This strike is about power and relevancy for leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union. It always has been.
How else do you explain this walkout even as Lightfoot continues to offer a generous pay and benefits package while committing to the union’s demands for additional support staff, smaller class sizes and a social worker and nurse in every school? The parameters of those arrangements are in writing.
A Russian conscript serving in the country's far east has shot dead eight other soldiers and badly injured two more, the Interfax news agency reports.
The conscript had suffered a nervous breakdown and has been detained, the news agency said, citing the Defence Ministry. The two injured troops were being treated in a military hospital for wounds that were not life-threatening.
The incident occurred at a military facility in the Zabaikalsk region.
The Defence Ministry statement reported by Interfax did not say why the conscript had suffered a nervous breakdown, but said the shooting had occurred at a time when the guard was being changed at the base.
Hunter Biden was quite the devoted little sproutling, following his dad around wherever he went.
According to this NBC News report:
In the final year of the Obama administration, an American lawyer traveled to Romania to meet with a businessman accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal.
The businessman was Gabriel “Puiu” Popoviciu, a wealthy Romanian real estate tycoon. The lawyer brought in to advise him was Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to two people familiar with the matter.
After a wobbly open, Friday stocks market action picked up the pace mid-morning. The weak open was likely due to fallout caused by the Thursday after-hours trading slaughter of Amazon (trading symbol: AMZN) shares. On the other hand averages moved deep into the green zone a bit later. We could attribute that roughly 11 a.m. pickup to a CNBC headline. The cable and online financial network posted a breaking headline claiming a US trade rep indicated a partial US-China trade deal may be near.By “breaking headline,” I mean that CNBC just posted a headline on the alleged partial US-China trade deal.
A pallbearer at Rep. Elijah Cummings’ memorial service at the Capitol Thursday refused to shake hands with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, leaving the GOP lawmaker visibly stunned. In video captured by C-Span, Bobby Rankin—who was listed as a pallbearer for Cummings’ Friday funeral—walks down a line of VIP attendees. He hugs Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), then shakes hands with Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Rankin then walks past McConnell, who is sandwiched between Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, without breaking his stride
Former Trump national security aide Fred Fleitz questioned the protections afforded to the CIA whistleblower whose name he claimed is known by Washington elites, including the president. Fleitz, who served as a Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump in 2018, argued with CNN’s Chris Cuomo about the whistleblower whose complaint about the president’s call with the leader of Ukraine sparked the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.((Video: CNN)“The CIA whistleblower. Can we talk about that?” Fleitz asked the CNN host near the end of a segment on “Cuomo Prime Time” Thursday.
Attorney General William Barr has suggested that top officials in the Obama Administration behaved like a “Praetorian Guard” in their unprecedented and possibly criminal investigation into Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.“Republics have fallen because of a Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own political preferences and they feel that anyone who has a different opinion, you know, is somehow an enemy of the state,” Barr told CBS News reporter Jan Crawford in May. The Praetorian Guard originated in the Roman Empire to protect the emperor and his commanders.
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CNN interviewed Andrew McCabe on Friday about developments in a Justice Department criminal investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, but the network failed to disclose that the former FBI deputy director is suing the Justice Department and is under criminal investigation himself.
Interviewed by CNN’s Jim Sciutto, McCabe, a CNN analyst, was largely critical of the investigation, which is being led by John Durham, a U.S. attorney in Connecticut, and overseen by Attorney General William Barr.
Durham’s investigation has recently shifted from an administrative review
A federal judge has overturned a conviction against former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s former business partner Bijan Rafiekian, who was previously convicted of illegally lobbying in the U.S. on behalf of the Turkish government, according to a report.Judge Anthony Trenga on Tuesday ordered a new trial for Rafiekian, who co-founded the Flynn Intel Group, after he determined that prosecutors did not present sufficient evidence that Rafiekian knowingly operated as a Turkish government agent and intentionally failed to notify U.S. officials about his work, according to Politico.
Earlier this week, Michael Flynn’s star attorney, Sidney Powell, filed under seal a brief in reply to federal prosecutors’ claims that they have already given Flynn’s defense team all the evidence they are required by law to provide. A minimally redacted copy of the reply brief has just been made public, and with it shocking details of the deep state’s plot to destroy Flynn.
While the briefing at issue concerns Powell’s motion to compel the government to hand over evidence required by Brady and presiding Judge Emmett Sullivan’s standing order, Powell’s 37-page brief pivots between showcasing the prosecution’s penchant for withholding evidence and exposing significant
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff says his impeachment inquiry hearing is not classified, so why won’t he allow the media to see what’s going on in it, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) asked reporters after he attempted to enter Schiff’s secretive, closed-door proceeding on Wednesday.
Both they and members of Congress should be allowed into the hearing, Scalise told reporters:
“As soon as we went into the room, Adam Schiff hadn’t even started the hearing – which, by the way, Schiff pointed out himself was not a classified hearing
In response to censorship by YouTube and Google, the conservative social media giant PragerU sent an “LED-covered truck” to Silicon Valley, playing some of PragerU’s banned videos on a giant screen and loudspeakers, Fox News reports.
PragerU, founded by and named after author and radio host Dennis Prager, specializes in publishing five-minute videos featuring experts, media personalities, and political figures breaking down the major issues of the day, with illustrations and research included.
But YouTube, which is owned by Google and has a well-documented bias against conservatives on the platform, has restricted over 200 of PragerU’s videos, according to a statement by PragerU.
The stunt involving the truck, which included stopping outside
"Trickle-down economics" describes tax cuts for corporations, wealthy investors, and entrepreneurs intended to assist lower-income citizens by stimulating investment and economic growth. Also called "supply-side economics," the doctrine was championed by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman but denigrated by many — including economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who characterized it as "feeding the sparrows by giving oats to the horses."
Consider that in Vermont, the government has grown to be a mammoth corporation (the state's largest employer by far) and sucks up working Vermonters' wealth in a trickle-up bureaucratic behemoth. So much money is spent on reports, studies, and employment for state workers that
Highly educated “experts” rule today’s advanced societies, but their advice on how the rest of us should live – often enforced by government coercion –is increasingly exposed as premature at best and mistaken, incomplete, ignorant, or fraudulent at worst.
Yet another bit of diet advice from “experts” is turning out to be an exploding cigar. High cholesterol particularly LDL cholesterol has been demonized for allegedly bringing on heart attack deaths. But an intriguing analysis of data published in Medium.com seems to show that total mortality is enhanced by high cholesterol levels, even LDL cholesterol. As author P.D. Mangan writes:
… from a public health standpoint, it seems a mistake
President Trump has confirmed that the U.S. is definitely going to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. Good!
It won’t be the only fine achievement of his inevitable two-term presidency but it may yet prove the most significant of them all.
To understand why, just look at how much the world has changed since he first made his promise to quit Paris in the White House Rose Garden in 2017.
Back then, nobody had ever heard of Greta Thunberg; Extinction Rebellion was but an evil, deranged glint in the mad staring eyes of its founder Roger ‘Climate Charles Manson’ Hallam; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had yet to release the cute dancing video which
Lawyers for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn reportedly filed a motion on Thursday in which they allege that the Department of Justice manipulated a document to frame their client and is withholding exculpatory evidence.
The apparent “sealed” filing, dated October 24, 2019, was posted to social media on Thursday evening. (insert long document) The filing by Flynn’s new legal team, which took over the case several weeks ago, argues that the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an “ambush-interview” of Flynn in the White House not to discover any evidence of criminal activity, but to coax him into making false statements.
Why It’s Probably Not A Coincidence
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The story of seven-year-old James, whom his mother has pressured to become “Luna,” has been all over my newsfeed. The messy custody battle deserves every second of our click-bait-prone attention: Jeffrey Younger, James’s father, wants to keep his son’s body intact, while Anne Georgulas, James’s mother, wants to allow for “treatment” that would physically and chemically castrate him. The havoc that divorce wreaks in a child’s life is mainstage in this tragic case. Most of us children of divorce quickly learn to act one way with mom and another way with dad.
In a lengthy court filing surrounding the issues of Brady discovery material, Mike Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, drops some serious evidentiary bombshells on the court. Ms. Powell brings Lady Justice to the courtroom, and her revelations are stunning.(Snip)
We’re going to go through the primary filing and four exhibits to the evidence Attorney Sidney Powell is delivering to Judge Emmet Sullivan which contain some explosive discoveries. Toplines including:
(1) Lisa Page edited the Flynn 302’s, then forgot when questioned by DOJ officials, then re-remembered when shown her texts. (2) The 302’s themselves were written with lies that do not match notes taken during the interview. (3) The felony leaker of
Washington — The Justice Department's internal watchdog said a highly anticipated report on the department's use of secret surveillance warrants during the Russia investigation is "nearing completion" and will likely be released publicly, according to a letter obtained by CBS News.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote to congressional leaders on Thursday with an update on his investigation into alleged abuses of warrants obtained under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Horowitz said he expects the report "will be released publicly with few redactions," but declined to provide a timeline.
MSNBC national security analyst Malcolm Nance on Friday floated the possibility, without evidence, that the Department of Justice’s newly-launched criminal investigation into the origins of the agency’s Trump-Russia probe could be “the ultimate distraction to help steal an election.”
“WARNING: I heard a DC rumor fm a close Trump source in May 2017 he wanted to charge Obama, Biden, Brennen & Clinton w/treason over Russia. Now with Barr as AG this may be crazy but viable. It could incite civil unrest…the ultimate distraction to help steal an election,” Nance wrote on Twitter. (tweet) The Justice Department had previously considered it to be an administrative review, and
In a shocking twist of fate, an experienced Arkansas hunter was attacked by a deer he had just shot in the woods on Tuesday evening. The hunter later died after suffering puncture wounds from the deer's antlers.
Officials said 66-year-old Thomas Alexander was hunting in Yellville, Arkansas on Tuesday when he shot a buck using a muzzleloader. As he approached the animal, believing it was dead, it attacked him. "He apparently went over to the buck and it got up and attacked him," said Keith Stephens, the chief of communications for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
Alexander was able to call his wife and emergency responders planned to
WASHINGTON — For more than two years, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the Russia investigation, portraying it as a hoax and illegal even months after the special counsel closed it. Now, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all began.
Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move gives the prosecutor running it, John H. Durham, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges.
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Rock legend Bruce Springsteen took aim at President Trump in a new interview Friday, saying the president doesn't "grasp" the meaning of being an American.
In an interview on "CBS This Morning," host Gayle King asked Springsteen about a recent Trump rally in which the president bragged that his election victory in 2016 was accomplished without the support of celebrities like Springsteen, Beyoncé and Jay-Z. "You surprised that he's trash-talking you after all this time?" King asked.
"Not really. Anything's possible," the New Jersey musician responded.
King noted that "a lot of people are very concerned about the direction of the country," with Springsteen agreeing that it's a "very frightening time" in America.
Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon has returned from exile to defend President Trump, believing the presidency is imperiled and that Trump is in urgent need of a more robust defense against the House impeachment inquiry.
Bannon spent the past two years on a journey to spark populist movements at hotspots around the world after he was banished from Trump’s inner circle and cut off from Breitbart News, where he was executive chairman, for trash-talking members of the president’s family to author Michael Wolff in the book “Fire and Fury.”
Memo to the roughly two dozen frustrated House Republicans, who, on Wednesday, stormed the “secret room” where Democrat House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has been running the closed-door impeachment inquiry, and including Representatives Jim Jordan, Devin Nunes and Michael McCall, who sent a naive letter to Schiff “DEMANDING” the alleged CIA anti-Trump whistleblower testify in public: He can’t because there is no such thing as the “CIA Trump whistleblower.” He/she/it is none other than devious Adam Schiff.
“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
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Republicans must get tougher in their push for fairness in Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-Calif.) impeachment inquiry, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said Wednesday.
Democrats are “an angry pack of rabid hyenas” who’ve abandoned all rules of fairness in their ruthless attempt to impeach President Donald Trump – and Republicans must respond in kind if they’re going to expose Schiff’s “Kangaroo Court,” Rep. Gaetz told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson: “There are no rules, Tucker. If we had rules, Nancy Pelosi would have put this issue to a vote and established rules, like happened for President Clinton, like happened for President Nixon. But, the Democrats want to preserve the most operational flexibility.
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If Republicans ever treated a Democrat president the way that Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) is treating President Donald Trump, the media “would be beating the sh*t” of them, Sen. Lindsey Graham said Thursday.
Speaking to reporters, Graham defended his Senate resolution calling for House Intelligence Committee Chair Schiff to conduct his committee’s impeachment inquiry with the same fairness and transparency that Republicans afforded President Bill Clinton in the 1990’s.
Graham said that Republicans aren’t calling for Democrats to end their impeachment inquiry – they just want for President Trump to be granted his right to basic due process
In a scorching court filing Wednesday, Gen. Michael Flynn’s legal team accused Department of Justice prosecutors of stonewalling and suppressing exonerating evidence the defense itself uncovered.
Lead counsel Sidney Powell also accused “certain elements in the government” of targeting Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, for destruction because he had “publicly expressed intent to audit the intelligence agencies where billions of dollars are unaccounted for.”
Flynn is awaiting sentencing for lying to federal agents about his discussions with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak, although internal FBI documents revealed that the agents involved did not believe Flynn had intentionally lied.
Powell requested that Flynn’s Reply brief be filed on the public docket.
Durham’s Walls Are Closing In
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U.S. Attorney John Durham’s amp goes up to 11 now.
Sources say that Durham’s probe into DoJ scheme to defeat Trump and then sabotage Trump after he won election “has transitioned into a full-fledged criminal investigation.” One of the sources said that the Horowtiz FISA report will make it clear why Durham has moved the dial to that vaunted 11 position. I hope we get the Horowitz report soon.
Now “Durham can subpoena witnesses, file charges, and impanel fact-finding grand juries.”
The Democrats are not happy. Schiff and Nadler responded:
“These reports, if true, raise profound new concerns that the Department of Justice under Attorney General William Barr
Bad things tend to happen to people who find themselves on Hillary Clinton’s enemies list. Just days after being attacked by Hillary Clinton for being a favorite of the Russians and for allegedly being “groomed” (by Republicans, her spokesman later claimed she meant) to run as a third-party candidate, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard announced late last night that she will not seek re-election to the House of Representatives (snip)
It is an odd coincidence that becoming an official enemy of Hillary Clinton preceded this surprise announcement that offered no new reason for the decision announced on Twitter beyond her desire to serve as president.
Music superstar Kanye West talked about his support for President Trump in a recent interview and said he wanted to bring the manufacturing for his Yeezy shoes to the United States.
"Give me some other examples where someone is saying what isn’t culturally what you're supposed to say," he said in an interview Thursday regarding why he supports Trump and wears a MAGA hat. "Give me an example where someone is saying what you're not supposed to say. You don’t want to say it, do you, liberal?"
Forthcoming border fence construction on federally protected wilderness land is being touted by the Interior Department as a way to prevent fires and eliminate trash left behind by migrants, but it will also help keep President Trump from failing to fulfill a campaign promise: building the wall.
By declaring an "environmental crisis," the Trump administration has been able to use a legal loophole to transfer 560 acres of some of the country's most protected public lands to the Pentagon to build nearly 70 miles worth of fence it says will stop "degradation and destruction" on those lands by migrants traversing the border.
When I was a child, I was fascinated with makeup. My grandmother would often let me sit on a small pink crushed velvet stool in her bathroom while she “put on her face,” as she liked to say. After putting every platinum blonde curl in place, she would carefully pout her lips and apply a thin layer of ruby red lipstick.
I watched, captivated by her transformation and the satisfaction on her face when every line, every shade was perfectly applied. My mother remembers catching me modeling my sister’s clothes, unaware of her presence and therefore entirely un-selfconscious of my movements. Everything about the female world inspired my imagination,
On Wednesday, President Trump took to Twitter and… well, this is a set-up that means something amusing or concerning happened, and not much in-between. Anyway, the president of the United States called his NeverTrump opposition “human scum.” Suffice to say, I do not endorse this characterization. But I’m utterly mystified by those who insist on another national struggle session over the president’s rhetoric because of their misplaced belief that D.C. was all curtsies and decorum before Trump showed up.
Let me explain: A friend of mine, who had a reasonably important White House job in a different administration, is fond of
Capitalism Will Save the World
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Last month, Greta Thunberg, the Messiah of the environmental movement, told delegates at the United Nations Climate Summit that addressing climate change was at odds with “fairy tales of eternal economic growth.” This view is not confined to teenage protesters. The same case was made in a 2017 New York Times opinion piece titled “The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism, Stupid.” Prominent thinkers such as Naomi Klein and George Monbiot have spent years arguing that free enterprise and environmental protection are fundamentally incompatible. Indeed, recent policy proposals such as the Green New Deal concede as much. Rather than curbing pollution, climate
K-12: Phonics Is Winning
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Phonics is winning, finally, at long last, after 85 stupid years, after 50 million functional illiterates, after one of the most stubborn subversive schemes against common sense ever to brutalize a country. Finally, the one correct way to teach reading is again embraced as the one correct way to teach reading.
Go ahead, shout "OMG." The fix has been in for so many dumbed down decades that many people may have given up hope. You may think this is now crazy optimism on my part. But I will show you some signs that things have suddenly and surely changed.
An Overlooked Crisis
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For years, America’s declining volunteerism, especially among the young, has affected a broad range of community groups, which struggle to make due with less help. The shortage has particularly serious consequences for first responders. Currently, two-thirds of America’s 30,000 fire departments are volunteer-run, but since 2015, their numbers have fallen, from 814,850 to 682,600. Shortages of emergency-medical technicians and paramedics are also affecting communities. In Florida’s Hillsborough County, for example, agencies often rely on paramedics to work 48-hour shifts.
Blame a fading commitment to volunteerism. “We have seen a decline over the last four or five years—a tremendous decline—in interest in becoming a volunteer firefighter,” noted one fire chief in Alabama.
Revealed: Joe Biden twice used
his position as Senator to intervene
to boost son Hunter's lobbying replies
his position as Senator to intervene
to boost son Hunter's lobbying replies
Joe Biden privately contacted the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice when he was a senior and influential U.S. Senator to discuss issues that his son Hunter’s firm was being paid to lobby on, according to government records.
On at least two occasions, Biden contacted federal departments to discuss issues related to Hunter’s firm’s lobbying clients, according to records reviewed by the Washington Examiner.
Biden’s behind-the-scenes outreach illustrates how his Senate work overlapped with his son’s business interests. Biden has faced scrutiny for taking actions that were perceived to benefit his son’s work, including calling for the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor and backing policies that helped the Delaware-based
We’re Number One!
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When it comes to energy and the environment, the United States ranks a clear number one among the world’s nations. Not only have we increased our energy production, courtesy of fracking, to the point that we are the world’s pre-eminent energy power, we have, at the same time, reduced our pollution and our CO2 emissions (if you think that matters) more than any other country. So when it comes to energy, the U.S. is the undisputed champion. This video by my friend Mark Mathis of the Clear Energy Alliance tells the story beautifully:
LeBron’s Good Life
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Hopefully I’m not dating myself too much by recalling an episode of the old Twilight Zone in the 1960s, which made a return trip as a scene in the 1980s movie remake. The episode was entitled “It’s a Good Life,” and it first aired on November 3, 1961.
In it, a six-year-old boy named Anthony Fremont lives in a Midwestern town as a particularly distinguished citizen. It turns out that little Anthony has the ability to read the minds of those around him and make people do whatever he wants them to — or else.
As you might imagine, that kind of power being visited on a small child
Another freshman Democrat in the House is under investigation for allegedly sleeping with a staffer, among other possible violations of House ethics rules.
The House Ethics Committee is investigating Michael San Nicolas, Guam’s non-voting delegate to Congress, who allegedly “engaged in a sexual relationship with an individual on his congressional staff, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted improper or excessive campaign contributions,” the committee announced Thursday.
San Nicolas’s former chief of staff filed a complaint with the Guam Election Commission in September, accusing his former boss of improperly using campaign funds to facilitate an extramarital affair, the Pacific Daily News reported in September.
Ignored among current reparations discussions is the fact the South has already paid them — if not for slavery, then for losing the Civil War. For at least 25 years after the war, over half of the federal budget was devoted to three items: interest on federal debt; budget surpluses applied to debt retirements; and Union veterans’ pensions. None benefitted former Confederates even though they had to pay their share of taxes to fund them. If the Confederacy had been an independent defeated foe, such payments would have constituted reparations.
The budget surpluses were used to pay down the federal war debts, which had increased 40-fold
With Quid Pro Joe Biden's confession to using U.S. resources to pressure a foreign government to benefit his son, maybe in the next Democrat debate, one of the questions will be why, if fossil fuels are evil, the Democrats are committed to ending their use, and we have a decade or so to live before we freeze our hoohahs to death, it was okay for Hunter Biden to sit on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian natural gas holding company. Seems Hunter had his very own greenback new deal.
In the age of leftism
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Christopher Columbus is a warmonger.
NBA players are profiteers of a communist regime.
Democratic 2020 candidates propose elimination of mandatory HIV disclosures.
Canada elects a substitute drama teacher for prime minister.
Third-trimester abortions of fully formed babies are legal.
Calling someone an "illegal alien" (a legal term), carries a fine of up to $250,000.
There are 72 genders.
Climate change will kill us in 12 years unless we kill our transportation and cows and turn to cannibalism.
A violent, anarchist group that beats up people is called "anti-fascist" or Antifa."
His family may still call him Richard, but to the rest of the world he’ll always be Ringo. And with “What’s My Name,” his 20th solo studio album arriving Friday, 79-year-old Ringo Starr continues to build his two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer résumé.
The LP comes on the heels of the Beatles legend’s new photo book, “Another Day in the Life,” and an impending announcement of a series of New York shows. The Fab Four drummer (and onetime machinist), born Richard Starkey, called from Los Angeles — where he’s based with his wife of 38 years, actress Barbara Bach — to dish with The Post on his relationship
A judge ruled on Thursday that a 7-year-old child in Texas would remain under a joint managing conservatorship of both parents – the father has been in a desperate battle to keep the boy from undergoing a gender transition championed by the biological male’s mother.
The Texan reported that Judge Kim Cooks gave the two parents, Jeff Younger, the father, and the mother, Dr. Anne Georgulas, joint decision-making over all medical, dental and psychiatric care for their kids. A ruling in favor of the mother could have allowed her to move forward with plans to potentially give the boy puberty blockers after she received a letter of recommendation
U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing probe into potential FBI and Justice Department misconduct in the run-up to the 2016 election through the spring of 2017 has transitioned into a full-fledged criminal investigation, two sources familiar with the investigation told Fox News on Thursday night.
One source added that DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's upcoming report on alleged FBI surveillance abuses against the Trump campaign will shed light on why Durham's probe has become a criminal inquiry. Horowitz announced on Thursday his report would be available to the public soon, with "few" redactions.
The investigation's new status means Durham can subpoena witnesses, file charges, and impanel fact-finding grand juries.
Winter may be coming but it's already Springtime for Lawyers in Washington, D.C. The list of people lawyering up these days would probably fill this page and lap over onto the next. It's just been announced that the John Durham investigation into the provenance of the Russia probe has turned into a criminal investigation.
Subpoenas and grand juries are coming, real ones, not the Star Chamber counterfeits being orchestrated by the panicked Democrats and their junior league Southern California Torquemada.
Trump primary challenger Bill Weld said Thursday that he would vote for former Vice President Joe Biden over President Donald Trump “in a heartbeat.”The former Massachusetts Republican governor shared a stage at the CITIZEN by CNN conference with two fellow primary candidates — former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh — and told the crowd that he could easily pull the lever for Biden.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, one of President Donald Trump’s longshot Republican primary challengers, said that he could support a Democrat in the general election — even Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) “Could I vote for a Democrat? Hell yes,” Weld said during an interview at CNN’s CITIZEN conference. “If it’s Trump against Joe Biden, I’m with Biden in a heartbeat.” Weld, flanked by fellow Republican primary challengers Joe Walsh and Mark Sandford, proclaimed he would never support President Trump “under any circumstances,” but could “very well” support a third-party presidential candidate.
House Democrats believe there is sufficient evidence to advance their closed-door impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump without seeking testimony from the so-called “whistleblower,” whose complaint initially prompted the probe, according to a Thursday evening report.The Washington Post, citing several House Democrats, reports that the so-called “whistleblower’s” testimony is no longer a priority in the wake of testimonies delivered by Ukraine’s top diplomat, William Taylor, and former National Security Council senior director Fiona Hill, before congressional investigators.Taylor told lawmakers that Gordon Sondland, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, notified Andriy Yermak
In an interview on his Fox News show Wednesday night, host Tucker Carlson spoke with Women’s Liberation Front board member Kara Dansky — a self-described “lifelong” Democrat — about the controversy swirling around the latest championship won by a biological male in a women’s sports competition.In response to Carlson’s questions about transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon — a biological male who just set a world record in a women’s track cycling championship — Dansky said that many on the Left strongly oppose the transgender agenda but are “subjected to a media blackout.”“I just want to say there are many Democrats and people who identify as being on the Left