Posts on Thursday, October 31, 2019
A New York state lawmaker is proposing legislation to make prison inmates eligible to vote in elections while incarcerated. State Sen. Kevin Parker (D-Brooklyn) introduced a bill before Election Day on Tuesday, November 5, that would allow prisoners to register and vote while incarcerated, the New York Post reported. The state and county boards of elections would keep tabs on the program, and convicted felons would also be allowed to take part. “If an incarcerated individual can be counted as a whole person in the census, then why can’t their vote be counted in an election?” explained Parker in the bill memo,
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA) told reporters Thursday that House Democrat leaders are using the partisan impeachment inquiry to help decide who will be the next president of the United States, suggesting the probe will interfere with the 2020 elections.While briefing reporters in the wake of the House Democrat’s approval, along party lines, of the impeachment inquiry resolution, Scalise declared: If you look at where we are at right now, we’re at an important point in history. Clearly, there are people that we serve with that don’t like the results of the 2016 election
President Donald Trump has said that he wants to deliver a 'fireside chat' on national television and read a transcript of his controversial call with the Ukrainian president. 'At some point, I'm going to sit down, perhaps as a fireside chat on live television, and I will read the transcript of the call, because people have to hear it. When you read it, it's a straight call,' Trump told the Washington Examiner in an Oval Office interview on Thursday.'This is over a phone call that is a good call,' Trump said of the impeachment inquiry, just hours after House Democrats voted unanimously to formalize
Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts came to the defense of Democratic California Rep. Katie Hill, who is resigning amid scrutiny on her alleged extramarital affairs with two different staffers. Hill gave a departing address Thursday in which she blamed a “double standard” for her resignation.She previously admitted to having an “inappropriate” affair with a female campaign staffer, but denied having an affair with a male congressional aide. The House Ethics Committee launched an investigation into Hill’s alleged affair with the congressional aide —
President Donald Trump's Wednesday tweet of a photoshopped image depicting him giving a military dog a medal elicited outrage and a slew of credulous reporting about the meme's origins.While the picture appeared obviously tongue-in-cheek, several media outlets penned earnest articles investigating the photo's release and expressing implicit disapproval for swapping an actual Medal of Honor recipient with a dog. Other journalists and analysts made known their disgust with the White House.The image was created by the conservative news site the Daily Wire,
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline,” Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, said President Donald Trump must be removed from office by impeachment or “we don’t live in the American republic that existed from 1787 until 2017.”Schmidt said, “I think that the conduct from what we know about the testimony is pretty clear. He asked the president of Ukraine to launch an investigation on a political opponent, thus interfering in the election. And if you can do that to the former vice president of the United States, you can do it to every American. It’s utterly lawless.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) and his family appeared to dress as 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to celebrate Halloween. Newsom tweeted a video of himself and his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and their four children holding signs and wearing pins to represent their individual candidates. Newsom appeared to dress as former Vice President Biden (D) in a suit and tie. Siebel Newsom, a filmmaker, dressed in a red jacket as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), and the couple’s children dressed as South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) and Sens. Kamala Harris (D-Calif), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
The junior senator from California, Kamala Harris, is laying off dozens of campaign staffers and redirecting most of her dwindling resources to Iowa. In recent polls, Harris has cratered to just three percent, falling behind Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. Harris memorably slighted Gabbard after a July debate. “I’m obviously a top-tier candidate,” she explained. “There are a lot of people that are trying to make the stage for the next debate. . . . Especially when some people are at 0 or 1 percent, whatever she [Gabbard] might be at.” Now it’s obvious that Harris is not a top-tier candidate.
Sounds A Bit Coup Coup: Trump-Ukraine
Whistleblower Hid Contacts With Schiff
From Inspector General replies
Whistleblower Hid Contacts With Schiff
From Inspector General replies
Bronson wrote about the alleged Trump-Ukraine whistleblower. His name has reportedly been revealed: Eric Ciaramella. Yes, it’s everything you’d expect from an anti-Trump deep state operative. He’s an Obama holdover, a registered Democrat, a CIA agent, and worked with a Democratic National Committee operative, Alexandra Chalupa, to get dirt on Trump in 2016. Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations did the deep dive (via RCI):(Audio) Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan,
Georgia State Representative Ginny Ehrhart is taking aim at the medical profession and its role in giving children life-altering, gender-changing treatment by making it a felony to engage in the controversial practice.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) reported on the legislation, which the Cobb County lawmaker said “aims to protect children from having irreversible procedures done when they are young.”
The AJC noted that current state law requires a parent to consent to surgery, or for a minor to be prescribed medication, and said:
While the bill is still being drafted,
Christine Blasey Ford accepted an empowerment award in California on Wednesday, saying she gained her inspiration from Anita Hill when she publicly accused Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault. Ms. Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, was greeted with a standing ovation during a rare public appearance to accept YWCA Silicon Valley’s Empowerment Award at their 2019 Inspire Luncheon at the Santa Clara Convention Center. “I’m deeply humbled to receive this award,” Ms. Ford told the audience, a local CBS affiliate reported. “It’s funny, I was inspired by Anita Hill when I was deciding whether to testify,
On Thursday, the House Democrats made their impeachment inquiry into President Trump official, pushing through their resolution by a largely party line vote of 232 to 194. Though Democrats have been pushing to impeach Trump since even before his inauguration, the trigger that finally resulted in an official inquiry was a complaint by an unidentified whistleblower who heard second-hand about Trump’s much-analyzed July 25 call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asking him to “look into” the allegations of corruption involving former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
Well, Happy Halloween.
The whistleblower is now pretty well outed by investigative journalist Paul Sperry, and it's underwhelming. He's been identified as one Eric Ciaramella, 33, prep school grad, Yalie, Obama backwash, political operative, and fanatic Trump-hater. Hardly the Mister Probity concerned about national security that's been painted.
Sperry did the digging but pointed out that that the man's identity had been an open secret in the Beltway, with mainstream media doing their darnedest to keep his name from being attached to his rather spectacular charges.
President Donald Trump has filed paperwork to change his official residence from New York City to Palm Beach, Florida. Trump quietly filed documents in September with the Palm Beach County Circuit Court changing his primary residence from Trump Tower to Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Palm Beach, the New York Times reported on Thursday. First Lady Melania Trump also changed her residence to Palm Beach with an identical filing. The documents each describe Mar-a-Lago at the Trumps' 'predominant and principal home' and state that they intend to reside there permanently. Attachments to the filings list 'other places of abode'
After being “invited” by congressional Democrats to testify before them about President Donald Trump, former National Security Adviser John Bolton basically told Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, and the rest of the gang to pound sand.
In an email sent late Wednesday to The Hill, the former FNC personality’s attorney Chuck Cooper confirmed that his client won’t appear before Democrats voluntarily — and that he’d have to be subpoenaed, for starter’s.
The Hill noted though that it’s “not clear” whether even a subpoena will be enough to compel the staunch lifelong conservative — and former Reagan, H.W. Bush and W. Bush administration official — to appear before his lifelong political enemies.
‘Sorry. Schiff is NOT independent counsel.’
GOP Rep methodically shreds Dem’s
impeachment ‘sham’ replies
GOP Rep methodically shreds Dem’s
impeachment ‘sham’ replies
Republicans have accused the Democrats’ so-called “impeachment resolution” of being a sham that would do nothing more than formally grant House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff the powers of an independent counsel, when in reality he’s no such thing.
Speaking during a House Rules Committee meeting on Wednesday afternoon, House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Debbie Lesko, a Republican, listed the unprecedented powers that’d be granted to Schiff were the “sham” resolution to pass the House during Thursday’s expected vote.
Republican Sean Parnell announced his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb (D-17) on Fox News Wednesday, criticizing the Democrat’s voting record and pledging to better represent constituents. “I think that Pennsylvanians, and specifically the people of western Pennsylvania, deserve leadership that truly represents them, and right now my opponent does not represent them at all,” Parnell, an Army veteran, Fox News contributor and author said on "Fox and Friends." Lamb, he charged “has voted lock-step with [Speaker of the House] Nancy Pelosi 98 percent of the time, and the policies that he’s advocating for would be absolutely devastating to
Collin Peterson, Jeff Van Drew, the only
two Democrats who voted against
a Trump impeachment inquiry replies
two Democrats who voted against
a Trump impeachment inquiry replies
WASHINGTON – The two Democrats who broke from their party Thursday to vote against an impeachment inquiry are political conservatives representing congressional districts President Donald Trump won in 2016. Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey joined every Republican in opposing a resolution that lays out a road map for an inquiry that will decide whether articles of impeachment should be filed against Trump over his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate 2020 political rival Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. The resolution passed 232-196 along almost entirely partisan lines. It sets rules for how
The impeachment inquiry resolution put forth by House Democrats includes a “loophole” that would give the majority party, or Democrats, on the Judiciary Committee the power to reject witnesses requested by the White House, Roll Call reports.
Democrats released the text of the inquiry resolution on Tuesday, which Republicans say does little to nothing to address their concerns moving forward.
According to Roll Call, a provision in the resolution gives Democrats the ability to block key witnesses requested by the White House as the process moves to the House Judiciary Committee, led by chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY).
Per Roll Call:
Under the House Judiciary procedures,
White House official corroborates
diplomat’s account that Trump
appeared to seek
quid pro quo replies
diplomat’s account that Trump
appeared to seek
quid pro quo replies
Tim Morrison, the top Russia and Europe adviser on President Trump’s National Security Council, on Thursday corroborated the testimony of a senior U.S. diplomat who last week offered House impeachment investigators the most detailed account to date for how Trump tried to use his office to pressure Ukraine to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, according to people familiar with his deposition.
Morrison told impeachment investigators that the account offered by William B. Taylor Jr., the acting ambassador to Ukraine, is accurate. He said that he alerted Taylor to a push by Trump and his deputies to withhold both security
Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder and national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, spearheaded the filing of a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) “unconstitutional, partisan investigation” of President Donald Trump.
The complaint also targeted the impeachment resolution passed by the House on Thursday 232-196 — a tally of those opposed to the resolution that included two Democrats and every Republican member.
The Hill reported on the letter:
“Speaker Pelosi’s conduct is an encroachment across the constitutionally-mandated separation of powers. She has no business examining or investigating the president’s legitimate exercise of his authority to determine the foreign and national security policy of the United States,”
The White House slammed the “illegitimate impeachment” inquiry and the vote taken in the U.S. House of Representatives to formalize the process, which even prompted a rare and poignant remark from Ivanka Trump in defense of her dad. The administration doubled down on the assertion that President Trump has done nothing wrong following the vote which came after heated debate on the House floor. The resolution was passed along party lines with a vote of 232-196, with Reps. Collin Peterson from Minnesota and Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey reportedly voting against their Democratic colleagues.
Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., wore a Halloween costume and kept her mask on during a vote Thursday in the House Financial Services Committee.At one point, Porter reportedly yelled at a reporter about her outfit.“It’s Batgirl!” she told Washington Post reporter Mike DeBonis.She wore her outfit on the same day Democrats voted for a resolution on ground rules for the impeachment inquiry surrounding President Trump. For Republicans, Porter's display was inappropriate."As House Democrats prepare to officially blow up their Majority with impeachment, @RepKatiePorter is prancing around dressed as Batman.
On the House floor Thursday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said the way House Democrats were running the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump was “about to push this country to a civil war.” Gohmert said, “Never in the history of this country have we had such gross unfairness that one party would put armed guards h guns to prevent the duly authorized people from being able to hear the witnesses and see them for themselves. And then, oh, we hear from this resolution today, we’re going to send you the depositions after we get through doctoring and looking at and editing the transcripts,
The White House’s top official for European affairs told Congress on Thursday that he was not concerned that “anything illegal” was discussed during the July 25 phone call between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart that is at the center of Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.“I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed,” the official, Timothy Morrison, said in an opening statement reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Morrison, who served as senior director for European affairs at White House
'Cannot overstate how dramatic': Chris
Wallace said he had 'goosebumps'
during impeachment vote replies
Wallace said he had 'goosebumps'
during impeachment vote replies
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace called the vote on impeachment in the House "dramatic" and said that he "could feel" the historic gravity of the vote."As somebody who lived and covered Washington for 40 years, as they called the vote I have to say that I could feel it, feel sort of goosebumps," Wallace said Thursday as the House voted successfully to move into the next stage of impeachment. "It's a moment in history. We're going to have some more, but you cannot overstate how dramatic this is and what a decision the Democrats have made to pursue this course."The anchor said he is an "optimist"
Republican Congressman Doug Collins is calling on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to testify as a witness after Democrats moved forward with their impeachment resolution Thursday morning.
"Come to the Judiciary Committee and take every question asked of you [Schiff]. Be the first witness and take every question asked of you, starting with your own involvement with the whistleblower. Folks, this ain't over. Get ready. The cloud that is dropping will be dropping on their heads because process matters and substance will always win out in the end and this president has nothing to worry about on substance," Collins said.
A hungry herd of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from the California wildfires.
In May, the library hired the goats to clear flammable scrub surrounding the complex as a preventative measure.
The goats ate the brush, creating a fire break that slowed the flames and gave firefighters extra time to react.
The library near Los Angeles was threatened by the Easy Fire, the latest in a spate of fires causing evacuations and power cuts across the state.
The caprine contractors included Vincent van Goat, Selena Goatmez and Goatzart. They helped save exhibits including an Air Force One jet and a piece of the Berlin Wall.
He’s a One-Man Ukrainian Lobby!
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I have a confession. I behaved badly recently, and I’m just going to admit it.
As a guest at a dinner party in Georgetown, I stormed in and started bossing everyone around. First, I demanded that the foyer be painted a different color and wainscoting be added to the dining room. Then I had my hosts assemble their children so I could give them all different names. Before making my exit, I grabbed two legs of turkey off the entree platter and stuffed them in my purse.
I have a second confession. None of that happened. But if it had, I would be exactly like Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman.
Democratic Rep. Katie Hill said that her explosive sex scandal put her in one of the “darkest places that a mind can go” as she gave her final speech on the House floor—and blamed a “misogynistic culture” for her resignation. The California congresswoman said Thursday that she was stepping down due to a “misogynistic culture that gleefully consumed my naked pictures, capitalized on my sexuality and enabled my abusive ex to continue that abuse.”(Snip) “I wanted to show young people, queer people, working people, imperfect people that they belong here because this is the people’s house,” she said.
As House Democrats seek to progress their efforts Thursday to impeach President Donald Trump, CNN is speculating whether one unintended consequence could see Vice President Mike Pence also sidelined, leaving the way clear for Nancy Pelosi to take the reins of office.
The fantasy outcome is contained in an opinion piece by Paul Callan, a contributor and CNN legal analyst.
He speculates Trump and Pence could possibly both be drawn into the Ukraine inquiry, leaving the way clear under constitutional law for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to ascend the White House steps as Commander-in-Chief.
A top National Security Council (NSC) official who listened to President Donald Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky testified to Congress today that he did not believe Trump had discussed anything illegal during the conversation.
“I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed,” former NSC Senior Director for European Affairs Tim Morrison testified today, according to a record of his remarks obtained by The Federalist.
Morrison testified that Ukrainian officials were not even aware that certain military funding had been delayed by the Trump administration until late August 2019, more than a month after the Trump-Zelensky call, casting doubt on allegations
Catherine Herridge, a beloved investigative correspondent at Fox News, is leaving the network after 23 years to go to work for CBS News. (Snip) The Congressional Medal of Honor Society recently gave Herridge a prestigious award. Media insiders tell me the CBS offer was just too good to pass up. Over the summer, Herridge’s contract lapsed and she was sorting out her future. Everyone I spoke with stressed how well-liked she is within Fox News.
Saint Petersburg – Declassified KGB documents on display in Russia describe future President Vladimir Putin as a “conscientious and disciplined” spy at the start of his career.
“Comrade Putin… is constantly raising his ideological, political and professional level,” said the one-page document released to Russian media, (Snip)
Now 67, Putin worked for the secret service from the mid-1970s and was posted in Dresden, then East Germany, from 1985 to 1990, as Soviet power was crumbling.
In the Kremlin he has surrounded himself with many former employees of the secret service and the FSB, the successor to the KGB, remains a powerful agency.
Catherine Herridge, a Fox News Channel veteran who has been with that network since it was founded in 1996, is moving to rival CBS News.
She will work as a senior investigative correspondent out of Washington, CBS News said, and will start in November.
Herridge is the second long-serving Fox News journalist to leave the Fox Corporation-owned cable-news outlet in recent weeks. Shepard Smith, another long-serving Fox News journalist who was seen as the network’s main breaking-news anchor, surprised viewers earlier this month by announcing his departure on a Friday-afternoon broadcast. Smith had tangled on air with opinion host Tucker Carlson.
Report: Anti-Trump Complainant Eric
Ciaramella Worked With Brennan,
Biden, and DNC Operative Chalupa replies
Ciaramella Worked With Brennan,
Biden, and DNC Operative Chalupa replies
The anti-Trump “whistleblower,” whose complaint against President Trump spurred the Democrats’ impeachment inquisition, is a 33-year-old registered Democrat who worked under Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, RealClearInvestigation’s Paul Sperry reported Wednesday afternoon.
Eric Ciaramella, the anti-Trump operative, also worked with Alexandra Chalupa, a Democratic National Committee opposition researcher who led the effort to link the Trump campaign to Russia during the 2016 election. (Snip)Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American, “met with top officials in the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington in an effort to expose ties between Trump, top campaign aide Paul Manafort and Russia,” (Snip) DNC paid Chalupa $412,000 from 2004 to June 2016.
China's blockchain technology frenzy following President Xi Jinping's endorsement last week has raised concerns over the potential for fraud as well as duplicate or worthless projects.
The technology, which is virtually unknown to the general public and is in early stages of application in China, underlies bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, many of which are still banned in China.
However, Xi said China should treat blockchain as a vital technology that would allow the country to master other areas of the digital economy. The endorsement from China’s leader prompted a surge in the price of bitcoin,
For all of its lustre, and in spite of Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Judge Jeanine Pirro, Shannon Bream, Lou Dobbs and Mark Levin, among praiseworthy others, Fox News is now fully in the tank with the deranged, Impeachment-obsessed Democrats
Multiple knives are sticking out of President Donald Trump’s back as the Democrats start their Impeachment Process—with no valid reason to do so.
Incredibly, some of the sharpest knives came
Adam Schiff is perhaps the worst chairman in the history of Congress. He outrages some conservatives, but his impeachment party is so bad that the rest of us just goof on him and his eyes that make him look like a crazed Muppet.
(Snip) Pelosi-stein is being eaten by the monster she helped create. Enjoy the show.
No, it is Mitt Romney who cheeses everyone off with his holier than thou approach to politics. He let Harry Reid and Barack Obama beat him up with lies about not paying taxes and being a high school bully. (Snip)
But when it comes to President Donald John Trump, Mittens gets nasty.
North Korea on Thursday afternoon fired a pair of unidentified short-range projectiles into the East Sea, the 12th time it has conducted a weapons test this year.
According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the rockets were fired at 4:35 p.m. and 4:38 p.m. in the direction of the East Sea from near Sunchon, an inland location in South Pyongan Province. (Snip)
While the JCS added U.S. and South Korean intelligence were analyzing the test, the fact that the projectiles were launched from a land-based location into the sea may rule out a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM),
According to K1FO News, President Trump’s agenda is driving an economic resurgence. The President’s agenda is creating more and more opportunities for American workers.
More than 5.3 million jobs were created between President Trump’s election and his second State of the Union Address alone.
June 2019 marked the 16th consecutive month that America’s unemployment rate remained at 4 percent or below.
In early 2019, wage growth for U.S. workers hit its fastest pace in a decade.
K1FO goes on to say, “This high-energy growth environment presents both a challenge and an opportunity. The challenge is that companies must find more workers with specific skill sets to fill
A thought experiment: Imagine that the president of the United States was a man named Ronald Stump, not Donald Trump. Suppose he was known, before reaching the Oval Office, for delivering thoughtful remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations, rather than for starring in a cartoonish "reality" TV show. Picture him communicating through the White House press office instead of an inflammatory Twitter feed, and cool rather than fiery, and careful as opposed to rash.
Now give this anti-Trump, this Ronald Stump, the same record on which to run for reelection as our real-life President Trump. Give him a persistently strong stock market, record-low unemployment,
'I think it's going to fail': Van Drew
and Peterson break with Democrats
on impeachment measure replies
and Peterson break with Democrats
on impeachment measure replies
Two Democratic members voted against the impeachment measure brought to the floor Thursday by their caucus. New Jersey Democratic Rep. Jeff Van Drew and Minnesota Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson voted against the resolution that passed 232-196 largely along party lines. No Republicans voted for the measure.Peterson, a veteran Democrat elected to Congress in 1991, sits in a district on the edge of western Minnesota that was won by President Trump by 31 points in 2016. He has long resisted calls to impeach the president from the more liberal wing of his party and faces an uphill reelection battle in 2020.
Isis names new leader as
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
after death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi replies
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi
after death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi replies
Isis has named its new leader following the death of former “caliph” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The terrorist group announced that he had been replaced by Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.
It issued a seven minute audio message via official propaganda channels, following days of speculation and denial among supporters. (Snip) All names given by Isis are kunyas, which have been used as noms de guerre by Isis fighters seeking to conceal their real identities and adopt Islamic symbolism. The new leader’s last name, al-Qurashi, signifies that he claims to be a descendant of the tribe the Prophet Mohamed belonged to.
It was a rather innocuous throwaway line, but it was enough to make some ears perk up and further fuel speculation about the prospect of “Hillary 2020.” At an event at Georgetown University Law School on Wednesday, former President Bill Clinton — sitting next to former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and progressive icon Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg — uttered the phrase “she may or may not run …”“She may or may not run for anything, but I’m never running for president again,” said the would-be First Gentleman, as reported by RealClearPolitics.
Ralph Northam office circulated talking
points from Planned Parenthood
after infanticide interview replies
points from Planned Parenthood
after infanticide interview replies
Hours after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s infamous infanticide interview, a senior administration official circulated talking points written by Planned Parenthood designed to deescalate the furor over his late-term abortion comments. A 115-page cache of emails obtained by Judicial Watch through open-records requests showed that Gena Berger, deputy secretary of Health and Human Resources, received “topline messages” via Planned Parenthood Advocates of Virginia executive director Missy Wesolowski.(Snip) The memo, written by Planned Parenthood’s Alexsis Rodgers, a former policy director for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, included bullet points such as “There is no such thing as abortion until birth”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is not because of any personal reasons Democrats may have against him. Pelsoi said the impeachment inquiry is consistent to what the Founding Fathers had envisioned for the country and the separate, coequal branches of the government. "In the here and now, we are keeping the republic from a president who says Article II, says I can do whatever I want. Not so. And if so, if you think that is so and you act upon that belief that is in violation of the Constitution of the United States. And so we will proceed
While trying to receive holy communion at South Carolina’s St. Anthony Catholic Church, former Vice President and 2020 hopeful Joe Biden was denied by the priest, citing Biden’s support for abortion. The liberal media were once floored by Biden’s support for the Hyde Amendment but welcomed his buckle to political pressure and their radical demands. So, it’s no wonder ABC, CBS, and NBC ignored the religious rebuke of Biden on their morning and evening newscasts.During Tuesday evening’s Special Report on Fox News Channel,
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham
rips Trump impeachment vote, calls
Dems ‘unhinged’ replies
rips Trump impeachment vote, calls
Dems ‘unhinged’ replies
The White House issued a statement Thursday condemning Democrats moments after the House voted mostly along party lines 232 to 196 to formalize the rules for their impeachment inquiry into President Trump.“The President has done nothing wrong, and the Democrats know it. Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats’ unhinged obsession with this illegitimate impeachment proceeding does not hurt President Trump; it hurts the American people,” spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham said in the statement.
“Instead of focusing on pressing issues that impact real families,
President Donald Trump announced early Thursday morning that the heroic dog “Conan,” who was involved in the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would be visiting the White House next week.Trump made the announcement while responding to a photo-shopped meme of the dog, created by the Daily Wire, accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom.“Thank you Daily Wire,” Trump said. “Very cute recreation, but the “live” version of Conan will be leaving the Middle East for the White House sometime next week!”
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday that Democrats on the Intelligence Committee running the impeachment inquiry are like a cult, and the media are cult followers.“We are not here to run a show trial in an effort to impeach the president of the United States. It’s clear that since the Democrats took control of the House of Representatives they have always intended to transform the Intelligence Committee into the Impeachment Committee,” Nunes said in a speech on the House floor.
A teenager in Indiana pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing a cheerleader who had been pregnant with his child, reports said. Aaron Trejo, 17, made the plea deal in connection with charges of murder and killing a fetus for the December 2018 slaying of 17-year-old Breana Rouhselang, according to Indiana’s WSBT-TV. The high school football player told police that the two had an argument about Rouhselang’s pregnancy. Trejo believed she waited too long to tell him and it was too late for her to get an abortion. “I took action … I took her life,” Trejo told South Bend Detective
A sharply divided House voted Thursday to approve a resolution setting "ground rules" for the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, putting lawmakers on record over the contentious process while setting the stage for proceedings to move into the public eye after weeks of closed-door depositions.
The measure passed largely along party lines, 232-196. Two Democrats defected on the vote.
The first formal floor vote in relation to the impeachment probe announced a month ago by Speaker Nancy Pelosi followed a fierce debate in the chamber, where Republicans accused Democrats of launching a de facto "coup" against the president in a "pre-ordained" bid to overturn the results of the 2016 election.
The man suspected of murdering his 18-year-old girlfriend after they robbed an Alabama hotel at gunpoint killed himself in a police standoff in Wisconsin. Gary Eubanks Jr, 25, died of a self-inflicted gunshot to the head after four hours of negotiations with officers who cornered him at a residence in Milwaukee at around 4pm Wednesday, authorities announced Thursday. Police confirmed that Eubanks Jr was responsible for the murder of Mississippi teen Baylee Wall, whose body was found in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 23. Eubanks Jr had been on the run for 10 days after he allegedly forced Wall to
NBC legend Tom Brokaw told an obviously disappointed Andrea Mitchell that Democrats do not have “the goods” to impeach President Trump.Brokaw is on the road touting his new book, The Fall of Richard Nixon, which I can’t wait to read, and knows of what he speaks. At age 33, NBC handed him the White House correspondent’s job in the summer of 1973, one year after the Watergate break-in, eight months after Nixon’s resounding re-election victory, and a year before the president would be forced to resign in disgrace.
Speaking to Mitchell on the far-left MSNBC Tuesday, Brokaw said, “The big difference” between Trump and Nixon is that today,
Fiat Chrysler and Peugeot owner PSA plan to join forces through a 50-50 share swap to create the world’s fourth-largest automaker, they said on Thursday, triggering a new wave of consolidation in the car industry. Fiat Chrysler and PSA said they aimed to reach a binding deal to create a $50 billion company domiciled in the Netherlands, with listings in Paris, Milan and New York and with PSA’s Carlos Tavares as CEO and FCA’s John Elkann as chairman. The move comes less than five months after FCA abandoned merger talks with PSA’s French rival Renault and would give both companies the scale to help
Repost by Request – with intro: After the 2018 mid-terms, and in preparation for the “impeachment” strategy, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler hired Lawfare group members to become House committee staff.
Chairman Schiff hired former SDNY U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman (link), and Chairman Nadler hired Obama Administration lawyer Norm Eisen and criminal defense attorney Barry Berke (link). House Speaker Nancy Pelosi then hired Douglas Letter as House General Counsel – all are within the Lawfare network.After Goldman, Eisen, Berke and Letter were hired in late 2018, Pelosi then went about changing the Rules of the House in January ’19.
Austin, TX - A new sex education curriculum is coming to schools in the Austin Independent School District despite a lot of opposition.
The AISD board unanimously approved the new sex-ed curriculum early Tuesday morning just after midnight.
The new curriculum will affect students in grades third through eighth. Each grade level has a different education plan and will include lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity. (Snip) The current sex-ed material for elementary and middle school students was put together nearly a decade ago.
Paul Sperry from RealClearInvestigations has outlined the CIA “whistle-blower” who originated the hearsay complaint against President Trump as Eric Ciaramella.
According to the researched outline, Ciaramella worked closely with Democrat operative, Alexandra Chalupa in 2016 to advance the anti-Trump effort; and this year Ciaramella worked closely with HPSCI Chairman Adam Schiff’s staff to continue his efforts.(RCPI) […] Federal documents reveal that the 33-year-old Ciaramella, a registered Democrat held over from the Obama White House, previously worked with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan, a vocal critic of Trump who helped initiate the Russia “collusion” investigation of the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
DURHAM — A survey released by the University of New Hampshire claims to show that an overwhelming majority of residents support sharing driver’s license photos with the Federal Bureau of Investigation for inclusion in a national facial recognition database. New Hampshire officials do not share Department of Motor Vehicle photos with the FBI, but 21 states do support of the agency’s efforts to build a massive database of over 400 million photos.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday defended political advertisements being hosted on his social networking site the same day Twitter announced it would be banning the same ads from its platform.
Mdr. Zuckerberg shared his comments during an earnings call on Facebook, asking: “Right now, the content debate is about political ads. Should we block political ads with false statements? Should we block all political ads?”
“I don’t think it’s right for private companies to censor politicians or the news. And although I’ve considered whether we should not carry these ads in the past, and I’ll continue to do so, on balance so far I’ve thought we should continue,” he said.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed two of his own children when he detonated his suicide vest and U.S. forces killed six Islamic State fighters in the raid on his Syrian compound, the Pentagon has revealed. General Kenneth 'Frank' McKenzie, who was operational commander of the Delta Force raid, provided the first detailed account of the operation at a Pentagon press conference on Wednesday. He confirmed that two of Baghdadi's children, believed to be under the age of 12, died when the ISIS leader detonated his bomb vest after being cornered by U.S. forces.
On Friday, anyone with a pulse would have seen the news of the release of Kanye West’s newest album, Jesus Is King. It comes after months of news stories about West’s very public conversion to Christianity, a Christianity that bears no resemblance to the vague spiritualism of Moral Therapeutic Deism that is often associated with celebrity conversions.The lyrics to each song in Jesus Is King are shockingly Christian. It is not an album of feel-good Christian spirituality aimed primarily as a message of uplift. West co-wrote and sang the hit “Jesus Walks” on his debut album The College Dropout (2004), but Jesus Is King is different.
For a town that leaks like a sieve, Washington has done an astonishingly effective job keeping from the American public the name of the anonymous “whistleblower" who triggered impeachment proceedings against President Trump — even though his identity is an open secret inside the Beltway.More than two months after the official filed his complaint, pretty much all that’s known publicly about him is that he is a CIA analyst who at one point was detailed to the White House and is now back working at the CIA.
But the name of a government official fitting that description — Eric Ciaramella — has been raised privately in impeachment depositions,
Citizens of Nowhere
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This piece in Commentary by Bruce Bawer (“The ‘Global Citizen’ Fraud”) deserves wide attention. Citizenship is out; patriotism is in disgrace; borders are passe. One Worldism and Global Citizenship are the order of the day. There are few greater threats to our freedom. Bawer writes:
On September 24, Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly that “the future does not belong to the globalists. The future belongs to the patriots.” Four days later, as if in a rebuke to his assertion, the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park was the site of the “Global Citizen Festival.”
Horse trading is the oxygen of politics; it is how politicians are persuaded to care about things that otherwise would not make their radar. Not only does it happen all the time, but it is a core feature of our political system; representative government relies on this kind of political trading to ensure a plurality of interests and needs are satisfied. Bargaining isn’t corruption—it’s policymaking. (snip) It is not corruption. It’s the warp and woof of a democratic political system.
WEST POINT, Iowa — Joseph R. Biden Jr. was making an impassioned case for protecting undocumented immigrants one recent Sunday when he abruptly stopped himself. “There’s many more things, but —” he said before trailing off. Minutes later, Mr. Biden interrupted himself again. (Snip) Six months into his presidential campaign, Mr. Biden is still delivering uneven performances on the debate stage and on the campaign trail in ways that can undermine his message. He takes circuitous routes to the ends of sentences, if he finishes them at all. He sometimes says the opposite of what he means (“I would eliminate
A former Clinton adviser says that should Joe Biden drop out of the race, Hillary Clinton will run for president again because “she feels that God put her on the Earth to do it.” Do we really deserve that much punishment from the Almighty?
Dick Morris, who advised Bill Clinton in his 1978 campaign for Arkansas governor, and again in his 1996 White House re-election effort, says it is his “feeling” that Hillary wants to run.
“She feels entitled to do it,” he said on John Catsimatidis’ Sunday morning radio show from New York. “She feels compelled to do it. She feels that God put her on the Earth to do it
A New York Times Upshot/Siena College Poll released on Wednesday shows residents of six battleground states oppose impeaching and removing President Trump from office by a 52 percent to 44 percent margin, but support the House impeachment inquiry by a 51 percent to 44 percent margin.
Broken down even further, the poll’s results show that 42 percent of respondents oppose both the House impeachment inquiry and impeaching and removing the president, while 41 percent support both the House impeachment inquiry and impeaching and removing the president. Eight percent of respondents support the House impeachment inquiry but oppose impeaching and removing the president, while nine percent were categorized having “other” views.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced plans to host a political rally for Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.
“We will be having a big rally for Governor Matt Bevin on Monday night in Kentucky,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Get your tickets today!”
Bevin faces a tough challenge against his Democrat challenger Andy Beshear in the upcoming election.
Beshear lead Bevin by eight points in December 2018, but Bevin has pulled even in the race in recent weeks.
The latest poll released by Mason-Dixon polling shows that Bevin is tied with Beshear at 46 percent, while seven percent remain undecided.
Bevin made headlines earlier in October for fiercely defending the president against impeachment,
The gap between President Donald Trump and the Federal Reserve chairman he appointed has narrowed considerably.
A year ago, Powell and his fellow officials at the Federal Reserve were in the midst of a monetary poilicy they described as “normalization” and which required gradual rate hikes. The Fed hiked rates four times in 2018, provoking Trump to describe Powell as “crazy” and “out of control.”
This was described, falsely, as an unprecedented breach of decorum by Trump. (Ronald Reagan had been sharply critical of the Fed and its then-chairman Paul Volcker the early 1980s.) Perhaps more importantly, Trump view that monetary policy was too tight was derided as wrong.
RealClear Investigations Suggests
‘Whistleblower’ Likely 33-Year-Old
CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella replies
‘Whistleblower’ Likely 33-Year-Old
CIA Analyst Eric Ciaramella replies
RealClearInvestigations on Wednesday published the name of the person they believe is most likely the “whistleblower” against President Trump: Eric Ciaramella, an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency.
The outlet reported that Ciaramella’s name has been raised privately in impeachment depositions, as well as at least one open hearing held by a House committee not involved in the impeachment inquiry.
RealClearInvestigations also reported that House Democrats this week blocked Republicans from asking questions about Ciaramella and “intend to redact his name from all deposition transcripts.”
The outlet said:
The 'Lynching' Hypocrisy
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President Donald Trump ignited yet another controversy when, on Twitter, he compared the Democrats' pursuit of his impeachment to a "lynching."
His tweet that launched a thousand denunciations read: "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!"
Immediately, Trump derangement syndrome kicked in. The critics cried: How dare Trump --a white man -- trivialize America's history of blacks lynched by white racists?
More than 2 million Californians were recently left without power after the state's largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric -- which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year -- preemptively shut down transmission lines in fear that they might spark fires during periods of high autumn winds.
Consumers blame the state for not cleaning up dead trees and brush, along with the utility companies for not updating their ossified equipment. The power companies in turn fault the state for so over-regulating utilities that they had no resources to modernize their grids.
On Tuesday, House Democrats published the resolution that, once passed, will approve and govern the impeachment inquiry on the question whether President Trump should be impeached. The vote is likely to take place on Thursday.
Some observations about the eight-page resolution.
The resolution is flawed, for reasons we’ll get to (the flaws could be major or minor, depending on how the resolution is implemented). By any measure, though, it is a significant improvement over the status quo ante. Once it’s passed, the House as an institution will have endorsed the impeachment inquiry. As we have pointed out, the Constitution commits the impeachment power to the House
Haley Recalls Serving With Some
Who Tried to Undermine Trump;
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Who Tried to Undermine Trump;
‘What’s At Stake is the Constitution' replies
Officials serving in the administration are not free to push their “personal agenda” if they do not like President Trump, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said this week, arguing that “we have one president at a time, and that president attained his office by the choice of the American people.”
Speaking at an American Enterprise Institute event in Washington, where she received the conservative think tank’s Irving Kristol Award, Haley recalled serving in the Trump administration “alongside colleagues who believed that the best thing to do for America was to undermine and obstruct the president.”
Attorneys for the whistleblower who submitted a complaint about President Trump's July 25 call with Ukraine's president, prompting the impeachment process to begin, declined to confirm or deny that their client was Eric Ciaramella, a career CIA officer.
RealClearInvestigations reported Wednesday that Ciaramella was the whistleblower. The Washington Examiner has established, however, that there was at least one significant factual inaccuracy in the report, which was written by Paul Sperry, a partisan pro-Trump figure who had released Ciaramella's name via Twitter earlier this month and whom critics accuse of trading in disinformation and conspiracy theories.
The Senate voted Wednesday against a resolution that Democrats framed as a measure to reverse Trump administration efforts to undo Obamacare insurance protections for people with pre-existing health conditions.
The vote fell along party lines, 43 in favor versus 52 against, with only one Republican, Susan Collins of Maine, voting "aye."
Democrats forced the roll call vote, putting all senators on the record, through a special procedural tool that allows Congress to disapprove of new regulations with a simple majority.
Everything about the national media’s framing of the impeachment effort is aimed at convincing the public of the laughable notion that this is about doing what’s morally right and wrong.
It’s not. It’s about a naked power grab by an established order in Washington that feels threatened by another four years of a president who doesn’t do things their way.
If Trump were accused of picking any Democrat at random and asking that a foreign government make up a lie implicating them in some crime or corruption, then impeachment might be a moral imperative. But that’s not what he did, and that’s why this cooked up controversy
News of Hunter Biden profiting from his father’s political activity is becoming an endless saga that has yet to genuinely interest our media who claim “democracy dies in darkness.” The latest set of coincidences, uncovered by Alana Goodman of The Washington Examiner, reveal more unseemly connections between Hunter’s business adventures and his father’s political maneuvers. Whether it be China, Ukraine, or China again, we have heard this pattern before.
While serving as senator of Delaware, Joe Biden reached out discreetly to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to discuss matters his son Hunter Biden’s firm was then lobbying for, according to government records Goodman gathered.
A new report from RealClearInvestigations reveals that the anti-Trump “whistleblower” who prompted the current impeachment proceedings against President Trump is a registered Democrat who worked with a Democratic National Committee opposition researcher who dug up dirt on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election.
Federal documents reveal that the whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, previously worked in the Obama administration with former Vice President Joe Biden and former CIA Director John Brennan. RealClear reports that Ciaramella remained there into the Trump administration, and headed the Ukraine desk at the National Security Council, eventually transitioning into the West Wing, until June 2017.
In Gordon Wood’s elegant little summary of the lives of the Framers, Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (2006), the greatest of living American historians laments that those who created the United States put in place a structure that made it impossible for people like them ever to exist again.
Most of the Founders—in particular, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Adams—had an elevated sense of politics and believed that it was necessary for this nation to be governed by those dedicated to the good of the commonwealth. In short, they were men who thought character counted, that disinterested virtue was necessary in
President Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Northern Syria is a brilliant strategic move that simultaneously achieves all of our major objectives in the region.
Perhaps because it has been so long since America had a coherent foreign policy strategy, the political establishment is aghast at the president’s action, predicting all manner of calamitous consequences. The same “experts,” however, have been responsible for the myriad foreign policy disasters that have befallen this country over the past two decades, so their discomfiture should be taken with a rather small grain of salt.
In one deft move that doesn’t put a single American life at risk, President
I was flabbergasted to hear Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk telling students at a university campus lecture last week that “We should staple a green card behind your diploma.” He repeated this nonsense at Ohio State University during a “Culture War” tour stop this week, asserting that any foreign national who graduates from any “four-year college” should get a green card if any “American employer” needs to fill a job.
“I don’t think it makes sense to export that person to go back to Korea or, you know, Sudan or whatever,” Kirk argues, because it “doesn’t make logical sense” to “export intellectual investment that we made within our own university.”
The United States was founded in a violent revolution and then, "fourscore and seven years" later, found itself in the midst of a brutal civil war that cost the lives of three quarters of a million Americans, more American deaths than in any other war.
Could another violent internal war in America erupt yet again? While it is not probable, the possibilities are sobering.
In 1776, the impetus for war had been brewing for many years. Indeed, as the Declaration of Independence made clear, "mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."
In the olden days, students would learn that avoiding shifts in person is critical in producing clear and cogent writing.
Not anymore.
Instead, October 16, 2019 marked International Pronouns Day, because "asking someone their [sic] lived pronouns and using them affirms that person's gender identity and is a major way of respect. Being referred to by the wrong pronouns especially affects transgender and gender nonconformng individuals."
O Brave New World.
In order to promote the cause of pronoun use, one needs to accept the premise that it is patently incorrect to think of biological sexual identity as comprising a boy or a girl.
Hillary's Health Coming Up Again
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In August of 2016 I was persuaded, somewhat against my will, to publish an assessment of Hillary Clinton's obvious health problems. I had been content to complain about politics over the lunch table with friends, but once I was convinced that Hillary is probably afflicted with Parkinson's disease (P.D.), I had little choice. I also had little to lose, because I had been retired too long for the Feds to claw back anything I had earned from them. If a Parkinson's sufferer were to occupy the White House, America would be in great danger, because Parkinson's dementia causes severe problems with reasoning. The stakes were too
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) proposal to vote on formalizing procedures for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has splintered members of her own caucus.
Earlier this week, Pelosi and the rest of the House leadership announced they would hold a vote on Thursday—Halloween—to establish procedures governing the ongoing impeachment probe. The Speaker, who for weeks had argued the House had no constitutional requirement to vote on authorizing an impeachment inquiry, relented after coming under fire for keeping the process in the shadows.
The decision, though, has engendered criticism from the 31 freshman and moderate Democrats representing districts that Trump won in 2016.
The Adam Schiff Empowerment Act
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House Democrats plan to pass their Trump impeachment inquiry resolution Thursday. Its full description is "Directing certain committees to continue their ongoing investigations as part of the existing House of Representatives inquiry into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach Donald John Trump, President of the United States of America, and for other purposes."
A better, and much shorter, title would be The Adam Schiff Empowerment Act.
The resolution gives Rep. Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, far-reaching power over the Trump impeachment. Speaker Nancy Pelosi remains the ultimate authority, of course,
If you mixed together Cannae, Agincourt, Normandy (yeah, I went there), and Armageddon, then multiplied that battle by 100, you get some idea of the scale of the upcoming death match to be held just a few miles up the road from me in California’s 25th Congressional District. Katie Hill, she of the bizarrely convoluted relationships and questionable hairbrush perch hygiene, got the ole heave-ho by Nancy Pelosi after Redstate reporter Jennifer Van Laar’s exposé of the up ‘n coming Democrat’s multi-faceted relationship choices, choices so icky that they even freaked out the Cali crowd.
House Democrats are bracing for a stark party-line vote Thursday on the impeachment inquiry against President Trump that will highlight the partisan nature of the probe and give him fresh ammunition to argue that he is being railroaded.
House Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries said he didn’t know if his side can garner any Republican support in the vote to formally set the process for an inquiry that has been racing forward for more than a month.
“Every member of the House of Representatives tomorrow will have to decide, ‘Are we going to put principle over party, the Constitution over corruption and democracy over dereliction of duty?’”
If I ever get jammed up with the law, I ask for no special treatment.
Just treat me like an illegal immigrant.
Forget the 14th Amendment. I don’t want no stinkin’ “equal protection under the law.” What I fervently desire is some illegal-immigrant protection under the law — which basically means no laws.
Seriously, that’s what the woke community is now espousing for the fentanyl-dealing, drunken-driving, gangbanging, identity-stealing MS-13 community livin’ high on the dole here, compliments of Tio Sap.
If you doubt me, peruse the friend-of-the-court briefs filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of indicted Newton District Court Judge Shelley Joseph.
Joseph is a former member
You may read it here first: This sordid, contemptible impeachment ruse is finally disintegrating. It was another fraud, and I predict that this time the polls will move clearly in the president’s favor. There are limits to how often his enemies can get the public and the world to the edges of their chairs with their fantastic accusations. The Economist, a long-respected magazine in earlier times, told us a year ago that the Trump presidency was hanging on the thread of Michael Cohen’s testimony. Most of the U.S. media gave the public to understand for two years that there was a high chance
The marriage between feminism and the sexual revolution has been akin to a prude marrying a playboy. Its offspring were bound to be screwed up. One of its dysfunctional children is the MeToo movement, which continues to devour its friends, from Sen. Al Franken to Rep. Katie Hill.
The MeToo movement handed the hapless Franken the unpaid bill of Bill Clinton for little more than stolen kisses, and Franken, so turned around by the new rules of feminism, paid it in the form of political oblivion. Franken was also undone by his own pandering to women: he couldn’t square his therapeutic, I-stand-ready-to-listen-to-women babbling with continued senatorial service. He now looks back
The network coverage of the testimony of National Security Council staffer Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman as a “bombshell” and “damning” was laughable and dishonest, implying that his service to his country wearing its uniform made him a credible and unbiased witness without a political agenda. Particularly egregious were the comments of NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who equated wartime courage with peacetime candor.
The ‘Global Citizen’ Fraud
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On September 24, Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly that “the future does not belong to the globalists. The future belongs to the patriots.” Four days later, as if in a rebuke to his assertion, the Great Lawn in New York’s Central Park was the site of the “Global Citizen Festival.” This event brought together “top artists, world leaders, and everyday activists to take action” (in the words of its website) and offered free tickets to “Global Citizens who take a series of actions to create lasting change around the world.” Those “actions” included writing tweets and signing petitions affirming their dedication to “changing the world.”
Featuring such entertainers
Joe Biden’s lead over President Trump in a hypothetical head-to-head presidential race has plummeted — though he remains ahead of the commander in chief, according to a a new poll revealed Wednesday.
The former veep leads Trump by 5 percentage points, 41% to 36%, among 1,997 registered voters in the new Morning Consult/Politico survey testing the hypothetical Election Day matchup — roughly half the 11-point lead he had in a June survey conducted before the Democratic Party’s first debates.
Some of the president’s biggest gains came among women and the youngest voters, two groups that are typically seen as some of his weakest voting blocs.
Two sets of headlines over the weekend described the suicide of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From the Washington Post Sunday morning:
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at helm of Islamic State, dies at 48
The Post has since rewritten that, though the description of an “austere religious scholar with wire-rimmed glasses” remains in the lead paragraph. Meanwhile, the headline on Foxnews.com:
Al-Baghdadi kill: how the daring military operation went down
The Post headline would fit a quiet academic who died in his sleep, not a genocidal jihadist leader. The Fox headline is less nuts, but still not quite right: al-Baghdadi wasn’t killed but reportedly committed suicide, while pursued by American “military dogs.”
More than 2 million Californians were recently left without power after the state’s largest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric — which filed for bankruptcy earlier this year — preemptively shut down transmission lines in fear that they might spark fires during periods of high autumn winds.
Consumers blame the state for not cleaning up dead trees and brush, along with the utility companies for not updating their ossified equipment. The power companies in turn fault the state for so over-regulating utilities that they had no resources to modernize their grids.
Californians know that having tens of thousands of homeless in their major cities is untenable. In some places, municipal sidewalks have become
Ex-CIA boss Brennan appears
to partly back Hillary Clinton's
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to partly back Hillary Clinton's
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When it comes to Hillary Clinton’s controversial suggestions about 2020 Democratic hopeful Tulsi Gabbard, it seems that maybe, John Brennan is with her.
Speaking at the "2020 Vision: Intelligence and the U.S. Presidential Election" event at the National Press Club, the former CIA director was asked about Clinton recently raising the suggestion that Gabbard, a Democratic candidate for president, is a Russian asset.
“Clinton got a lot of attention for saying that Tulsi was a Russian asset. Her staff doubled down. Do you see what she was talking about,” CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan asked the stage -- which included Brennan, John McLaughlin, Michael Morell and Andrew McCabe.
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) is the second-ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee, which is setting the rules for the “impeachment inquiry” into President Donald Trump. Hastings himself was impeached and removed from office in 1989 — one of only eight federal officials, all of whom have been judges, so be so relieved of their duties. [Tweet]
Hastings was removed for bribery, one of the causes enumerated in the Constitution’s Impeachment Clause (Article II, Section 4): “The President, Vice President and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) announced Wednesday during an appearance on The View that his girlfriend, Rosario Dawson, will join him on the campaign trail in Iowa.
“We haven’t had an unmarried president in over a hundred years, believe it or not. So if you want to improve your odds, you’ve gotta get married,” View co-host Sunny Hostin told Booker, who just celebrated a one-year anniversary with Dawson.
“She’s having fun,” Sen. Cory Booker said. “She knows fundraising is an important thing so you can literally go online and win a dinner with the two of us.”
The House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry resolution would officially authorize probes into U.S. President Donald Trump that are unrelated to the Ukraine-linked allegations that triggered the investigation to impeach him, including efforts to obtain the commander in chief’s tax returns.
Unveiled on Tuesday, the text of the resolution states that the measure orders “certain committees” to continue investigating whether there is sufficient evidence to impeach Trump and “for other purposes,” without explaining what those purposes are.
In other words, the resolution, expected to be voted on this week, would authorize any ongoing Trump investigations under the sun. The measure is expansive, breathing new life into a wide range of non-Ukraine probes,
A coalition of conservative groups have filed an ethics complaint against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D.-Calif., alleging that she has “hypocritically usurped” the authority of the president and “weaponized” impeachment proceedings. “In launching her 'official' impeachment inquiry without benefit of a vote of the full House of Representatives and without indicating anything remotely qualifying as 'treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors' that is the subject of the inquiry, Speaker Pelosi has weaponized impeachment,” reads the complaint, led by Tea Party Patriots Action's Jenny Beth Martin and signed by 40 different groups.
A heroin addict with nearly 20 arrests to his name allegedly dragged a cop along a busy Bronx street while fleeing a traffic stop, forcing another lawman to shoot him—and a jury just handed him an $11 million payday, The Post has learned. Raoul Lopez took the city to court over the harrowing 2006 run-in that left him partially paralyzed on his right side, and was awarded the eight-figure sum by a Bronx jury on Tuesday. Lopez, 27 when the encounter happened, was in the midst of “a two-week long bender” and had just scored his latest fix
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo suggested there was a reason why the Obama administration “didn’t give defensive weapons systems to Ukraine.”
One possibility he raised was tied to Hunter Biden, son of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden.
(Snip)
He continued, “This is the administration that provided defensive weapon systems to Ukraine. I couldn’t tell you why. I couldn’t answer if it’s because of Hunter Biden that Barack Obama and Vice President Biden didn’t give defensive weapons systems to Ukraine. They’ll have to answer for that. Maybe I just don’t have the full story.”