Posts on Monday, November 18, 2019
The mayor of the Indiana city of Muncie, Dennis Tyler, was arrested by the FBI at his home Monday amid a years-long corruption probe. An FBI spokeswoman confirmed to the Muncie Star Press that the arrest warrant was executed at the 76-year-old Democratic mayor’s northside home. “I can confirm an arrest warrant was executed at the home of Mayor Dennis Tyler this morning and he is currently in custody,” spokeswoman Christine Bavener said in a statement. It was not immediately clear what charges Tyler, who has held the office of mayor since 2012, was facing.
Accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov told a Manhattan federal court judge Monday he doesn’t respect his authority—while prosecutors said they want to empanel an anonymous jury to oversee the death penalty case. “The orders issued here have nothing to do with me,” Saipov told Judge Vernon Broderick through an Uzbek interpreter. “I am following orders of Allah, who gave me life.” The comments followed a hearing regarding jury selection ahead of the alleged ISIS militant’s trial for driving a truck down a crowded bike path on Halloween 2017, killing eight people. Saipov stood as he spoke, wildly gesticulating
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is set to testify about his investigation into alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses next month. After what appeared to be multiple delays, the announcement of the Dec. 11 hearing is a clear sign the report on FBI intelligence-gathering activities related to the 2016 presidential election is slated to be released to the public in the coming weeks. "I appreciate all the hard work by Mr. Horowitz and his team regarding the Carter Page FISA warrant application and the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign," Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham said on Monday.
While commenting on his collarbone injury, which has kept him off the field since the season began, Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Nick Foles said that he "can have joy in an injury" because he is going to "glorify" God "in every action, good or bad." He added that "people hear that and say, 'That's crazy.' But when you believe in Jesus, and you go out there and you play, that changes your heart. And you only understand it when that purpose is in your life." (Video) At a Nov. 13 press conference, Foles, who led the Philadelphia Eagles to the Super Bowl LII win in 2017,
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Fox News’ Neil Cavuto defended his colleague Chris Wallace from an attack from President Donald Trump, telling Trump that it’s not the job of journalists to praise him. “What makes something fake news?” Cavuto asked his audience on Your World Monday afternoon. “I would assume if the news being reported is fake or wrong and the person reporting that news knows it is fake or wrong, that is bad.” But what if the news being reported is accurate, the facts are good they just sound bad? My colleague Chris Wallace has discovered again the president doesn’t distinguish,” he continued. Over the weekend, Trump lashed out at Wallace for
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham has announced that Inspector General Michael Horowitz will testify About the 500+ page FISA report on Wednesday December 11th, 2019.(Photos) WASHINGTON – Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today announced that Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz will testify before the Committee on Wednesday, December 11, 2019. The Inspector General will discuss the findings of his investigation into DOJ and FBI’s conduct during the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant process as it relates to the 2016 presidential election. (link)
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Rep. Devin Nunes and Mark Levin of Fox News had an astute discussion on Sunday about the deceitful pretzel logic in play by Democrats in the left’s ongoing efforts to unseat President Trump via their completely partisan impeachment inquiry. It was on Sunday’s “Life, Liberty & Levin” that Nunes pointed out the Trump administration was only led into Ukraine to investigate Ukrainian knowledge of the “dirt” being allegedly uncovered in a smear campaign against the president by Democrats. Yet those crafty Dems twisted that warranted investigation of their crimes into a bizarre rationale for impeachment. Democrats paid Fusion GPS, a private investigative operation, to unearth political dirt on Trump using
New York Times Admits No One Believes
the Liberal News Media Anymore–
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The New York Times admitted on Monday that no one is listening to the liberal fake news anymore. After three years of fake news and hysteria Americans are tuning out the fake news outlets. The liberal media did this to themselves. Rep. Andy Biggs weighed in on the news. (Tweet) Here’s an excerpt from the Trump-hating New York Times.But just when information is needed most, to many Americans it feels most elusive. The rise of social media; the proliferation of information online, including news designed to deceive; and a flood of partisan news
State Department official David Holmes’ testimony on a newly revealed phone call between President Trump and Ambassador to the EU Gordon Sondland seems to conflict with that of top diplomat Bill Taylor at last week's lead-off impeachment hearing. Taylor, who testified before the House Intelligence Committee last Wednesday, said he had just learned about the July phone call this month. But Holmes’ timeline of events, according to a written statement from his closed-door interview, seems to depart from Taylor’s -- saying he notified Taylor of the call shortly after it happened.
Secret Santa causes "anxiety" for millennials who fear being viewed as "stingy" by their colleagues, a new report has found. Psychology lecturer Dr Ashley Weinberg claims workplace Secret Santa is causing high levels of stress and proposes offices should enforce a strict spending limit. A study commissioned by Jobsite said younger workers usually spend more than they can afford on presents for their colleagues, and many feel judged for their level of expenditure. The report found 26 per cent of young workers dip into their own savings or overdraft to contribute to presents. Just under a quarter of employees aged 23
Pete Buttigieg is taking flak for a resurfaced 2017 photo that depicts him at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. Buttigieg's husband, Chasten Buttigieg, posted the image of the South Bend mayor posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, captioning the photo, "This guy." (Photo) Many on Twitter ripped the Buttigiegs for that picture that some said was disrespectful to Holocaust victims. Others pointed out that taking pictures at the memorial is a common occurrence, but still disrespectful. (Tweet)
Joy Behar, co-host of “The View,” expressed her support of Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Monday, saying that the mayor of South Bend, Ind., is “in a very traditional marriage.” Traditional marriage is defined as the union between one man and one woman.Buttigieg, who is openly gay, married his husband, Chasten in June 2018. During Monday’s show, co-host Whoopi Goldberg talked about Buttigieg’s recent rise compared to his fellow Democratic presidential contenders in the latest Iowa poll. Goldberg asked why Buttigieg is pulling ahead all of a sudden.Co-host Meghan McCain
Regions where voters have more neurotic personality traits were more likely to vote for Donald Trump in the US or Brexit in the UK, researchers found. Using personality data from British and American participants, a team of experts tested regional levels of fear, anxiety and anger, comparing them to the traits historically correlated with political orientation. In the 50 US counties, there was a nine percent increase in Republican votes from 2012 to 2016 and those with the lowest fear and anxiety showed a shift of only 2 percent. Similar findings were uncovered in the 50 UK districts with the highest levels of fear and anxiety
He Finally Did It In the three years since Colin Kaepernick knelt his way off of the San Francisco 49ers and out of the National Football League, the one thing the drama has lacked is ambivalence. People either hated him or viewed him as a social hero who was being mistreated and prevented from playing the game he loves. Now everybody just hates him. Throughout his supposedly unwanted hiatus from football, Kaepernick and those representing him have insisted that he
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily blocked a ruling requiring an accounting firm, Mazars USA, to hand over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to Congress. Chief Justice John Roberts’s order contains no hint about how the Supreme Court ultimately will resolve the dispute. It follows a filing by the House earlier Monday in which the House agreed to a brief halt for the orderly filing of legal briefs, while opposing any lengthy delay. Those written arguments will allow the justices to decide whether they will jump into the tussle between Congress and the president.
The House is now investigating whether President Trump gave false answers in the written responses he provided to former special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the Russia investigation. House general counsel Douglas Letter requested in federal court Monday that secret grand jury evidence from Mueller’s investigation be provided to the House for its impeachment investigation into Trump, citing concerns that the president may have lied in his written responses to Mueller. “Did the President lie? Was the President not truthful in his responses to the Mueller investigation?” Letter asked in a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for
Seoul - North Korea will not offer anything for U.S. President Donald Trump to brag about without receiving anything in return, a statement on its state news agency KCNA said on Monday.
North Korea was not interested in a summit that was “useless to itself”, said the statement, under the name of Foreign Ministry adviser Kim Kye Gwan, referring to Trump’s message on Sunday to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Twitter.
“If the U.S. does not really want to let go of its dialogue with us, it should make a decision to withdraw its hostile policy of viewing us as an enemy,” the KCNA statement said.
Exclusive: The impeachment inquiry against President Trump has triggered a wave of charges, countercharges, court battles, subpoenas and legal threats.Now it has produced its first libel suit. A White House official on Monday sued Politico and one of its reporters over stories and tweets that he says falsely accuse him of “lying, deceit and unethical conduct.” Kash Patel, the National Security Council’s senior counterterrorism director, is seeking more than $25 million in damages in the suit filed in Virginia. We have reached out to Politico for comment.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said Iran-aligned Houthi rebels hijacked a vessel south of the Red Sea.
Saudi Arabia's state-run news agency, Saudi Press Agency, quoted coalition spokesman Colonel Turki al-Malki as saying on Monday that Houthis seized the ship while it was towing a South Korean oil drilling rig on Sunday. Al-Malki said the "attack" threatens vital shipping routes in the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, used for oil shipments from the Gulf to Europe, as well as goods from Asia to Europe.
He did not say how many crew members were on board the seized ship.
President Donald Trump has reversed plans to ban flavoured e-cigarettes amid a national youth vaping crisis, US media report.
He announced plans for a ban in September, but reportedly decided not to enact it this month because of possible job losses and voter pushback.
(Snip) Mr Trump decided not to sign off on a "decision memo", fearing potential job losses and voter anger, the newspaper reported. The New York Times also reported that "allies working for the vaping industry" had warned him that such a move could cost him support.
First Lady Melania Trump and the president's eldest daughter, Ivanka, had advocated the ban.
Soviet-style Impeachment farce is speeding headlong to a laughable and undignified close—complete with a sign that reads: “Cancelled Due To Lack of Public Interest’ Don’t do it, Mr. President. Don’t dignify the Adam Schiff Soviet-style LIVE Impeachment ‘Inquiry’ with the dignity of a presidential presence. Let the Democrats and media remain in the no-substance nether regions where they’ve been since
The precise point at issue is President Obama’s announcement on June 15, 2012 of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Obama took executive action following Congress’s failure, once again, to pass the so-called DREAM Act, which would have given illegal aliens who arrived in the United States as children certain privileges, including a path to citizenship. The president took action even after conceding he had no legitimate constitutional power to do so.
Anyone who knows anything about the separation of powers in our Constitution understands that it is supposed to be the job of the legislature to legislate
One of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers claims he installed tiny pinhole cameras throughout his Manhattan townhouse as part of an advanced surveillance system to monitor his victims’ “private moments.” Maria Farmer, who alleges she was recruited in 1996 into Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, said the pedophile financier himself showed her the extensive hidden camera system inside his Upper East Side mansion. “The main thing he did when I walked in, and I thought was interesting, he showed me where the cameras, the men monitoring everything, were,” Farmer said during her first TV interview Monday on “CBS This Morning.”
Duncan Police Department have confirmed the suspect in this morning's Walmart shooting is dead. It is confirmed three are dead, including the suspect.
District Attorney Jason Hicks is on the scene. He has confirmed the scene is contained and this is not an active shooter situation anymore.
The Duncan Banner is meeting with DPD in 15 to 20 minutes for a media conference.
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At approximately 9:54 a.m. calls on the police scanner indicated a shooting at Walmart with three down and suspect still at large. The suspect, according to DPD, is now dead.
Red River Tech is on lock down. Duncan Public Schools is on lock down as well.
Three people were shot at an Oklahoma Walmart on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Duncan Police Department said.
She said she had no immediate information on the victims' condition.
In August, a man killed 22 people at an El Paso, Texas, Walmart and injured 26 others. He is accused of deliberately targeting Mexicans and has pleaded not guilty. (More to follow.)
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Dana Martin was found in a roadside ditch. Chynal Lindsey was discovered in a reservoir. Bee Love Slater was found burned in a vehicle, and Bailey Reeves was shot after she left a party. They were all transgender. They were all women. They were all black. (Snip) Another issue that contributes to underreporting is that some trans people are misgendered at the time of their death.
Law enforcement, witnesses, family members and even friends might misidentify a trans victim with the gender they were assigned at birth, rather than the gender identity the person lived by.
Throughout this impeachment charade we’ve been told by the media and House Democrats that a cadre of unelected career bureaucrats in the State Department and the National Security Council who are cooperating with the impeachment inquiry are heroes, patriots, and paragons of virtue and self-sacrifice for defying President Trump and proclaiming the truth about Trump corruption and self-dealing in Ukraine.
Last week, the media portrayed former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch as a courageous martyr recalled from her post by Trump for no reason and then viciously attacked by him on Twitter (Snip)We heard the same sort of praise for William Taylor and George Kent,
Three weeks ago, I was struck with an intensely painful, and briefly highly dangerous, MSSA staph infection, with a full recovery underway.
The experience, plus time on my hands recuperating, has given me a personal appreciation of the coming nightmare of universal healthcare. The month-long recuperating period has afforded me the opportunity to think holistically about my medical experience, especially as it relates to health care policy. My conclusions are based solely on direct experience, in particular what I learned watching the system operate up close and personal.
On Friday, a jury awarded Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and multiple Planned Parenthood affiliates, damages set to exceed $2.3 million in their civil case against undercover journalists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt and several of their associates. The country’s largest cohort of abortion providers sued Daleiden and his colleagues after the 2015 release of a series of investigative videos that exposed Planned Parenthood’s trafficking in fetal parts.(SnipDaleiden’s lead attorney, Peter Breen, of the public policy legal firm Thomas More Society, promised an appeal. (Snip)Breen has several solid grounds for appeal, and initially will likely challenge presiding judge William Orrick III’s refusal to recuse from the case.
Airbus SE secured deals valued at $30 billion from two Middle Eastern carriers on the second day of the Dubai Air Show, pulling ahead of Boeing Co., whose grounded 737 Max has stymied the U.S. company’s sales campaigns at the biennial event.
Emirates finalized the purchase of 50 A350 wide-bodies valued at $16 billion, changing a previous tentative commitment that had also included 40 A330neo long-range jets. Two hours later, Air Arabia PJSC followed up with a deal for 120 A320neo-family models worth $14 billion at list price. The carrier already operates about 50 A320 aircraft together with a handful of leased A321neos.
Richard Nixon’s son-in-law Ed Cox joined FOX and Friends on Monday morning to discuss the latest coup attempt to take out the duly elected US president.Cox compared the current coup attempt to the “partisan” investigation that took down Richard Nixon.Unfortunately for Nixon there was no internet publishers to defend him. The US at that time only had the far left alphabet channels. Cox called the latest show trials as a “disaster” for Democrats. He encouraged President Trump to fight his way through the highly partisan impeachment proceedings.
Republicans feelin' Trumpy
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Ba da-da da-da da-da, feelin' Trumpy.
The impeachment inquisition is the political equivalent of a participation trophy for Democrats. Every day, they trot out witnesses who offer no proof whatsoever of any crime by President Donald John Trump. Every day, the media rewards the Democrats with headlines that say the testimony was devastating.
And every day, the president's re-election committee collects another million dollars in donations from Americans fed up with these shenanigans.
But the big news is Republicans are showing spine. They are feisty. They are fighting back. They are winning.
In short, they are feelin' Trumpy.
Representative Jim Jordan appears on CBS Face The Nation to discuss the ongoing impeachment fiasco. Ms. Brennan struggles to define a new journalistic concept for “first-hand” information as she claims David Holmes, who claims to have overheard half of a phone conversation that two other people were having, is a “first-hand” witness.
Jordan points out that Ms. Brennan is quoting from a seal transcript given to her by Adam Schiff that has not been released. [Video and Transcript Below]
Iran runs a shadow government in Iraq, which is “no secret” to the public, officials in Baghdad told The National, as leaked intelligence reports detailing how Tehran holds sway over its neighbour were published on Monday. (Snip) It includes paying Iraqi agents working for the United States to switch sides.
“Of course, it is no secret that Iran controls different sectors of the government and parliament,” a senior Iraqi official, who chose to remain anonymous, told The National.
“Everyone knows that there is a shadow government run by Qassem Soleimani that has infiltrated the political, economic and security sectors of the Iraqi state,” he said.
White House trade and manufacturing policy advisor Peter Navarro appears on Fox News to discuss two key economic and trade issues: (1) the current status of U.S-China trade discussions “round one”; and (2) the status of USMCA ratification (Pelosi’s delay).
Nothing in the China trade discussion is solid, until everything in the China trade discussion is settled; this is one of the key aspects to President Trump’s directive to USTR Robert Lighthizer. No deal is a more favorable outcome than the construct of a trade deal that cannot be enforced.
On the USMCA ratification, again it all falls upon the politics of Pelosi. The agreement would pass tomorrow if it
Washington - An association of Democratic state attorneys general will become the first national party committee to impose an explicit abortion litmus test on its candidates, announcing on Monday that it will refuse to endorse anyone who does not support reproductive rights and expanding access to abortion services.
To win financial and strategic backing from the group, candidates will be required to make a public statement declaring their support of abortion rights. (Snip) The decision comes as a series of state legislatures have approved restrictive laws designed to provoke a renewed legal battle over abortion rights,
Joe Biden, whose own kid somehow managed to avoid arrest and imprisonment for his cocaine habit in the Navy, is out condemning President Trump for pardoning a few military small fry whose draconian sentences didn't match the 'crimes' they were convicted of.
Here's Biden on Twitter: The obnoxious tweet was in response to Trump's pardon of these troops in the past week, described well by PJMedia's Matt Margolis:
Last week, President Trump granted full pardons for Army First Lt. Clint Lorance and Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who’d been accused of war crimes. Lorance had served six years of a 19-year sentence, and Golsteyn was facing trial for killing
With Santa Clarita not even a distant memory, anti-gun voices are already using it to demand more gun control. Even before the facts were known, Sen. Dick Blumenthal demanded the Senate capitulate to his whims and pass a universal background check bill that wouldn’t have done anything to prevent the shooting as far as anyone can tell.
This is normal for anti-gunners. They routinely prattle about how we need more gun control after a mass shooting.
However, Santa Clarita is in California, the most gun controlled state in the nation.
Bloomberg editors have noticed that the world is on fire. There are demonstrations and unrest in Lebanon, Chile, Spain, Iraq, Sudan, Russia, Uganda, Peru, Hong Kong, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and others. That "other" is Iran, where the Internet has been shut down and rampaging protesters are burning down the Central Bank.
Hong Kong at least deserves a separate mention. It is really the bellwether for the fate of China. The Chinese government may be edging toward their Tienanmen moment in the former British colony. Bloomberg's survey of the global world disorder omitted the two biggest trouble spots: Britain's Brexit crisis -- of which no more need be said for now
If Prince Andrew thought being grilled by Emily Maitlis was a good idea, God only knows what he thinks might be a bad one. Sadly I think I know. Still, as we now all realise, there are lots of things that the prince simply does not notice. Hordes of available teenage girls. Are they staff? Is it a railway station? Who are these people? The interview had been widely trailed, but the nation was not prepared for this level of monstrous self-pity and frankly astonishing stupidity.
Lying is the new normal for leaders: Donald Trump, another former friend of Jeffrey Epstein, lies non-stop;
Fed Ex vs the New York Times
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The New York Times today took after FedEx for the sin of having a low corporate tax bill. Sample:
FedEx reaped big savings [from the Trump tax cut], bringing its effective tax rate from 34 percentin fiscal year 2017 to less than zero in fiscal year 2018, meaning that, overall, the government technically owed it money. But it did not increase investment in new equipment and other assets in the fiscal year that followed, as Mr. Smith said businesses like his would. . .
Fred Smith, the founder and CEO of FedEx, decided to punch back twice as hard:
"You’re really not that bright, are you, Emina?” said Mira M., my elementary school math teacher. She looked at me with contempt, the kind even a 7-year-old could understand. I understood, but had not yet experienced, adult rejection on that scale.
In the days of Yugoslavian Communism, we used to address individual teachers as “comrade teacher,” corresponding to the male or female gender. Technically, a comrade is supposed to be someone to whom you feel close or upon whom you can rely, and because of this habit of speech, it is supposed to be the case that there develops a sense not only of solidarity but of complete equality.
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof attacked the one network not pushing all-out for a Trump impeachment in the Sunday Review: “Is Fox ‘News’ Or Trump’s Bodyguard?” For the veteran liberal commentator, things were better during the Nixon impeachment period, when the three networks spouted the same brand of anti-Nixon corporate liberalism to an audience with few other news choices. When President Richard Nixon’s Watergate misconduct was being dissected before congressional committees in 1973 and 1974, Republican support for him collapsed because most Americans shared news sources and inhabited a similar political reality. In short, facts mattered.
Adam Schiff has made a complete hash of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. The decision by the California Democrat and House Intelligence Committee chairman to conduct the first series of interviews behind closed doors allowed Republicans to appropriately brand the enterprise as unfair and clandestine. His next step, orchestrating a steady stream of leaks and disclosures timed and edited for maximum impact, all but guaranteed that last week’s subsequent live hearings would be anti-climactic.Schiff stole his own thunder.
President Donald Trump torched Fox News opinion host Chris Wallace as “nasty and obnoxious” for browbeating and arguing with his guest, Republican Congressman Steve Scalise. Trump tweeted: “Steve Scalise blew the nasty & obnoxious Chris Wallace (will never be his father, Mike!) away on Chris’s lowest-rated (unless I’m on) morning show. This kind of dumb and unfair interview would never have happened in the Fox News past.” (Tweet) President Trump was referring to the interview Wallace did with Scalise yesterday (Nov. 17), where he repeated Democratic talking points by claiming that the third-hand hearsay testimony
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — In a rare public appearance to pick up an award, the woman who accused U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault says she had a responsibility to come forward, NBC News reports. Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California, spoke Sunday after she accepted the Rodger Baldwin Courage Award from the ACLU of Southern California in Beverly Hills. She said: “When I came forward last September, I did not feel courageous. I was simply doing my duty as a citizen.
Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released the long-awaited transcript from senior National Security Council official Tim Morrison on Saturday, and immediately distorted it for the benefit of the anti-Trump media. It was a typical example of how Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and his staff have tried to skew the fact-finding process in an effort to inflate public support for impeachment, believing few will read the lengthy transcripts for themselves. First, the committee withheld the transcript since October 31, only releasing it after the first public hearings began last week.
Perhaps you saw this before the tweeter took it down: a badly photoshopped image purporting to be U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) with a nasty look on her face, flipping the bird while former Ambassador Marie Yovanovich testified in the House impeachment proceedings on Friday. (Tweet) O’Malley apologized later, after video showed that the GOP representative from upstate New York did no such thing, and after others noted that the pixelation was fuzzy, the lighting was wrong for an actual image capture, and Stefanik wasn’t, in fact, wearing nail polish that day. Nonetheless, O’Malley had spent some time insisting that he
The Wages of Trump Fixation
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Max Boot recently wrote that my arguments against the impeachment inquiry are prima facie proof of why the Democrats should, in fact, impeach Trump: “If even the great historian Victor Davis Hanson can’t make a single convincing argument against impeachment, I am forced to conclude that no such argument exists.”
In fact, I made 10 such arguments, all of which Boot attempted, but has failed, to refute. In this context, Boot’s intellectual erosion as a historian and analyst is a valuable warning of stage-four Trump Derangement Syndrome. I offer that diagnosis with regret given I once knew and liked Boot. But his
On Friday, Barack Obama emerged from his $10 Million Martha’s Vineyard enclave to caution Democrat Presidential candidates against veering too far left, a move he said “…would alienate many who would otherwise be open to voting for the party’s nominee next year”
“The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it. And I think it’s important for us not to lose sight of that. There are a lot of persuadable voters and there are a lot of Democrats out there who just want to see things make sense. They just don’t want to see crazy stuff.
Enough Calm, Where’s the Storm?
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For the past several years, most of us who have been following the seditious Deep State activities against President Trump and many of his close associates have been eagerly awaiting a reckoning. A presidential campaign, then administration, was spied upon by the previous administration, using fabricated domestic and foreign intelligence, with the willing assistance of the mainstream media.
President Trump has been accused of being a Russian agent, a Putin stooge, and a traitor by high level executives of ex-President Obama’s justice and intelligence agencies. A two-year $30 million special counsel investigation, that we were told would unearth “mountains of evidence” of Trump-Russia
This current impeachment theater is the equivalent of Caddyshack II, a sequel so dreadful that nobody is bothering to tune in.
Even my liberal colleagues who despise President Donald Trump can’t be bothered watch. It’s as if everyone not named Chris Wallace knows this is a complete sham. The stock market yawned as it rocketed upwards.
What we have is a parade of bureaucratic power players preening before friendly Democrats to complain that nobody listens to their sage counsel and that the president has the audacity to think he decides foreign policy.
The biggest villain in this ill-begotten administrative coup sequel is Joe Biden,
Why has the impeachment theater that has been entertaining the media swells these past six weeks begun to feel like a bad movie-of-the-week? Tyrant-in-chief Adam Schiff has been thrilling the Left with his anti-constitutional, Kafkaesque show trial, leaking and tweaking snippets of his irrelevant not-witnesses' testimony in order to bend public opinion to his malevolent anti-Trump obsession.
We can all suss out the Schiff/Pelosi agenda: They hope to prevent Trump's re-election by convincing the American people that he is somehow tainted by a fog of nefarious activities both before and after the 2016 election. Trump is
Former U.S. Attorney General and former Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who is again running for his old seat in the U.S. Senate in Alabama, told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview last week that Republicans can dominate electorally for generations if they stick to what President Donald Trump campaigned on in 2016 when it comes to immigration and trade.
“I’m going to push the Republican Senate conference hard,” Sessions said when it comes to immigration, should he win back his old seat in Alabama. “And I’m going to push the House Conference. The American people want a lawful system of immigration.
Americans who go to church think the clergy can be very helpful in providing guidance on growing closer to God, but distrust their advice on issues such as climate change, the Pew Research Center reveals in a new study.
A full 68 percent of U.S. adults who attend religious services at least a few times a year say they have “a lot” of confidence in the advice of their clergy on growing closer to God, yet just a small fraction of this number (13 percent) say they have this confidence when the topic is climate change, Pew found.
When expanded to include those who have “a lot or some
A plurality of independents are tuning out the impeachment hearings, according to a recent poll.
According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, 36 percent of independents said they did not watch, read, or hear anything about the hearings.
Of the 64 percent of independents who have paid some attention to the hearings, only 19 percent actually watched them. Seventeen percent said they watched or listened to news summaries, and 30 percent said they read or listened to news summaries.
While the poll shows that most independents are paying attention, it also shows that they are not as engaged as other demographics.
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How many serial killers are there?
Since 1900, there have been 3,000 identified American serial killers who've collectively killed nearly 10,000 people, says Dr. Michael Aamodt, who oversees the Radford University/Florida Gulf Coast University Serial Killer Database. The FBI defines a serial killer as someone who kills two or more people in separate events. About 32 percent of these killers, Aamodt says, did so for enjoyment (thrills, lust, and power); 30 percent for financial reward; 18 percent in anger; 6.3 percent to advance a criminal enterprise; and fewer than 1 percent because a cult put them up to it. Their favorite murder weapon was a gun (42 percent), although 6 percent
So, while that human troll doll of an ambassador was back east dancing for Adam Schiff’s pleasure and I was out in a glitzy blue Los Angeles-area city at a nice restaurant to score some munchables and people were talking and chatting and interacting and how many were talking about impeachment?
Here’s a hint: It’s the same number as the average dates per decade for a Weekly Standard writer.
Just kidding – there is no such thing as a writer for the Weekly Standard because it destroyed itself by sucking.
The number is “Zero.”
‘It Was Clearly Criminal’: How A
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A Massachusetts judge, indicted for allegedly helping sneak an illegal alien out of a courtroom in order to avoid an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, is opting to fight the charges instead of accepting a plea deal.
Federal prosecutors charged Shelley Joseph, a Newton District Court judge, with obstruction of justice in April for allegedly helping an illegal alien sneak through the backdoor of a courthouse, allowing him to evade an ICE officer who was waiting to apprehend him. Instead of taking a plea deal that would allow her to avoid prosecution, Joseph is preparing to go to trial.
Impeachment by Focus Group
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Anyone following the increasingly desperate Democratic impeachment effort will by now be aware that they have exchanged the term “quid pro quo” for “bribery” and “extortion.” They rebranded President Trump’s alleged offenses, according to a Washington Post report, after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee conducted a number of focus groups to test their messaging. The use of a marketing tool for something so serious confirms that, for the Democrats, impeachment is just another election strategy they hope will get traction if they dumb down the narrative. This betrays breathtaking contempt for the nation’s institutions as well as the voters.
We now know Michael Bloomberg is going to run for president. He’s turning himself into a pander bear.
During his three terms as New York City’s mayor, Bloomberg was famous for dismissing politically correct criticism and refusing to apologize for it.
But there he was on Sunday at an African-American megachurch in Brooklyn saying he was sorry for the stop-and-frisk policy he used so successfully to break the back of crime and reduce the murder rate in New York City by 50 percent.
Under stop-and-frisk, police officers were authorized to search people if they were suspected of illegal activity while carrying a weapon. Critics said the practice
A conservative group cut ties with right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin on Sunday over her support for an anti-Semitic internet personality, ramping up a growing conservative civil war centered on college campuses.
Malkin’s firing from Young America’s Foundation, whose speakers bureau had booked Malkin for speeches across the country for the past 17 years, marks the latest battle between supporters of Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and more establishment conservative figures.
“Michelle Malkin in no longer part of YAF’s campus lecture program,” a YAF spokesman said in an email to The Daily Beast.
Malkin didn’t respond to a request for comment.
California Democrats have been cutting six-figure checks to promote the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPV) in Colorado ahead of a referendum vote in the state next November.
The NPV would change how the Electoral College operates without amending the Constitution. It pledges a state's Electoral College votes to the candidate receiving the most votes nationwide in a presidential election.
The Colorado political committee Yes on National Popular Vote has collected just under $750,000 since its creation in late July. Over 98 percent of that money is from California donors, most of which is courtesy of a $500,000 donation from Stephen Silberstein, a board member of the National Popular Vote
Regardless of what President Trump does, the media are quick to find “experts” to condemn his action. They’re doing that right now to the president’s decision to grant clemency to three military men — two Army officers, one of whom was a special forces major, and one Navy chief petty officer who was a SEAL operator.
The “experts” are whining that Trump’s intervention in these cases interferes with the military justice system under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) as well as military order and discipline. In at least two of the three cases — those against former Army Lt. Clint Lorance
Democrats to Israel: Go to Hell
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Last week, Israel once again faced a barrage of rockets from Gaza while most of the mainstream Democratic candidates whistled and looked away.
Candidates don’t have to comment on every event happening around the world, but the silence of much of the Democratic field feels like more than passing disinterest. And when Vice President Joe Biden offered even a bland message of support for Israel that would have been unremarkable a few years ago, he got massive pushback from the left on Twitter.
And it’s those activists on Twitter, and in the campus fever swamps, who shape the progressive conversation on Israel.
It’s terrifying.
Students at an Arkansas college suspect a campus chemistry lab was turned into a meth lab after the arrest of two professors, according to a report.
Henderson State University chemistry professors Terry Bateman, 45, and Bradley Rowland, 40, were charged Friday with the manufacture of methamphetamine and the use of drug paraphernalia, Fox 16 Little Rock reported.
Students suspected meth may have been involved when a chemical spill closed the college’s science building in October for three weeks, the station reported.
Plane with Hillary Clinton aboard
grounded after shaking, smoking
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grounded after shaking, smoking
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A plane with Hillary Clinton aboard was grounded at LaGuardia Airport Sunday afternoon after suffering an unknown mechanical issue on the tarmac, a report said.
American Airlines flight 2144 to Washington DC’s Reagan Airport was forced to return to the gate about 3:15 p.m. following a mechanical issue reported by ground personnel, a law enforcement source told CNN. Another source confirmed with the network that the former secretary of state was on board.
The flight’s pilots reported to authorities feeling the plane shake then saw smoke, the report said.
Obama Granted Clemency to Terrorists and
Traitors, But We’re Supposed to be Angry at
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Traitors, But We’re Supposed to be Angry at
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Last week, President Trump granted full pardons for Army First Lt. Clint Lorance and Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, who’d been accused of war crimes. Lorance had served six years of a 19-year sentence, and Golsteyn was facing trial for killing an alleged Taliban bombmaker. Navy SEAL Edward R. Gallagher, who was found not guilty of war crimes, but still had his rank reduced, was granted clemency and restoration of rank.
Lawmakers had been pushing for pardons for Lorance and Golsteyn because they’d taken actions to defend themselves on the battlefield and were charged with war crimes for it. Yet, when President Trump pardoned them, it immediately sparked controversy and outrage.