Posts on Saturday, December 14, 2019
New York—Under pressure from a conservative advocacy group, The Hallmark Channel has pulled ads for a wedding-planning website that featured two brides kissing at the altar. The family-friendly network, which is in the midst of its heavily watched holiday programming, removed the ads because the controversy was a distraction, a spokesperson said in an interview Saturday. “The debate surrounding these commercials on all sides was distracting from the purpose of our network, which is to provide entertainment value,” said a statement provided by Molly Biwer, senior vice president for public affairs and communications at Hallmark.
Another controversy is brewing for Starbucks as the coffee giant apologized to two deputies in California after they claimed employees at the retailer refused to serve them on Thursday night. The incident happened at Starbucks in Riverside County near University of California, Riverside when employees allegedly ignored the uniformed deputies for around five minutes and did not offer to serve them. The deputies eventually decided to leave, according to statements from a Starbucks spokesperson and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco on Twitter.
President Trump blasted “Do-Nothing Democrats” as “the Party of Hate” for rabidly pushing a sham impeachment. Trump tweeted yesterday evening (Dec. 13): “It’s not fair that I’m being Impeached when I’ve done absolutely nothing wrong! The Radical Left, Do-Nothing Democrats have become the Party of Hate.” (Tweet) The President was reacting after the Democrat-led House Judiciary Committee voted to approve two articles of impeachment for “abuse of power” and “obstruction of Congress.”Predictably, the articles passed on a party-line vote, with all Democrats voting for it. The Democrat-led House of Representatives is expected to take a full vote next week.
The IG report on FISA abuse finally dropped this week, and the media is still reeling from all of the lies it uncovered. In this special episode of “Unfit to Print,” host Amber Athey is running through the craziest things the media said about Rep. Devin Nunes, the Steele dossier, Carter Page, and more. LISTEN: (Audio) Namely, the IG report found that the Steele dossier was “internet rumor” yet was used by the FBI to launch illegal surveillance against the Trump campaign’s Carter Page, who was falsely accused of being a Russian agent.
More than 5.9 million individuals dropped off food stamps since President Donald Trump assumed office in February 2017, according to the latest data released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).The most up-to-date USDA data shows that 5,975,736 people discontinued using food stamps, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), between February 2017— when Trump completed his first full month in office— and September 2019. Household participation in the food stamp program has gone down as well, with 2,493,912 households discontinuing their participation in SNAP, according to the USDA.
Trump Slams Fox News over Planned
Interviews with ‘Sleazebag’ James Comey,
‘Corrupt’ Adam Schiff replies
Interviews with ‘Sleazebag’ James Comey,
‘Corrupt’ Adam Schiff replies
President Donald Trump ripped into the Fox News Channel on Saturday night over their planned interview with fired FBI Director James Comey and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA). “Hard to believe that @FoxNews will be interviewing sleazebag & totally discredited former FBI Director James Comey, & also corrupt politician Adam “Shifty” Schiff. Fox is trying sooo hard to be politically correct, and yet they were totally shut out from the failed Dem debates!” the president tweeted.
House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively that Republicans think they can retake the House majority in 2020 by turning out millions of voters who backed President Donald Trump in 2016 but stayed home in the 2018 midterm elections.In fact, in his latest exclusive interview on Breitbart News Saturday on SiriusXM 125 the Patriot Channel, McCarthy explained that Republicans would currently be in the House majority had these voters turned out in 2018—and that the GOP would have held at least 28 more seats than the party currently has.“There were 8.5 million Trump voters who voted in 2016 who did not turn out in 2018,”
Saturday’s Army-Navy game kicked off one day after the House Judiciary Committee took a step toward impeaching President Donald Trump, but no one seemed in the mood to let politics intrude on tradition at South Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field.”Everybody gets along. That’s what’s nice,” said David Daniels, of Sea Isle City, who was in the Coast Guard and attends every game between the Black Knights and the Midshipmen.(Photo) Daniels and others welcome Trump’s regular attendance at the game.”The guy might not be perfect, he is our leader and you have to respect that,” said Daniels, who owns a plumbing business that is the busiest it’s been in 10 years.
An updated version of the Justice Department inspector general’s report revealed the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation in October 2016 on an alleged source for the Steele dossier.
The IG faulted the FBI for failing to disclose details about the source, who Christopher Steele said unwittingly provided information that ended up in the dossier.
Chris “Fredo” Cuomo on Saturday sought to promote the hashtag #DirtyDonald in an apparent effort to bolster support for impeaching President Trump.The CNN host used his closing argument on Friday to criticize Republican lawmakers who are standing firm alongside the president amid the Democrat Party’s baseless impeachment push.“The president may have abused his power by leveraging Ukraine the way he did things. That’s what they say,” Cuomo said, defending Democrats who have failed to prove the existence of an impeachable offense against the president.“This idea that impeachment means you have to have
Jill Biden says Donald Trump's now-infamous phone call to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky proves he is 'afraid' of going up against her husband, Joe, in 2020.
The former Second Lady of the United States, 68, made the claim during an interview with MSNBC on Saturday.
Addressing the phone call - which is now at the heart of the impeachment probe - she stated: 'When Joe and I decided to run, we knew it was going to be tough.. but we could never have imagined that it would turn into Donald Trump asking a foreign government to get involved in our elections.
The Trump administration is preparing to move the public lands management bureau out of Washington, DC to Colorado. It makes perfect sense because the vast majority of public lands are out west. It’s a great tactical move as well. One of the best ways to drain the swamp is to decentralize federal agencies by getting them out of the swamp. Some employees are not happy about this and are quitting rather than moving to Colorado. It’s almost like what they really care about is living in DC, and not public lands management.The Associated Press reports:
Maybe they should be shocked. Black voters usually get ignored by Republican presidential candidates and taken for granted by Democratic presidential candidates. This time, Politico reports, Donald Trump’s campaign has a strategy to spend more heavily on media aimed at African-American voters, and think they have a winning message to give them.Well, perhaps not a winning message so much as a not losing 90%+ of the vote message:The president’s reelection campaign has spent $1 million in an effort to make inroads with black voters, and more is coming, according to a person with direct knowledge of the planning. The initiative, dubbed “Black Voices” by the campaign,
The Trump campaign dismissed a number of editorial boards at major news publications that have announced their support for impeaching President Trump.The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on two articles of impeachment: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. It will then go to the Senate for a trial, where it's expected to be dismissed quickly.The Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and USA Today have all called for Trump to be impeached based on the articles.“Pity liberal editorial writers.
President Trump’s third visit to the annual Army-Navy college football game was met with cheers.Trump attended to the storied legacy game Saturday, where he participated in the ceremonial coin toss while wearing a “Keep America Great” hat. Prior to the game, he visited players for both the Army Black Knights and the Navy Midshipmen in their respective locker rooms.
While in the locker rooms, Trump, alongside Defense Secretary Mark Esper, encouraged the players and told them about how their service in the military can now be delayed until after they end their professional sports careers.
The Trump administration plans to announce the removal of around 4,000 troops from Afghanistan amid the president's desire to remove all troops from the country by November 2020, U.S. officials say.The U.S. currently has between 12,000 and 13,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan, and the withdrawal would leave behind between 8,000 to 9,000 troops .Two U.S. officials told NBC News that the reduction in would include a combination of troops re-deploying early and others not being replaced when they rotate out of the position. Officials also described the move as a staggered withdrawal that would occur over a few months.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Up,” former Second Lady Dr. Jill Biden defended her son, Hunter, by stating he “did nothing wrong, and that’s the bottom line.”Biden said, “I know my son. I know my son’s character. Hunter did nothing wrong, and that’s the bottom line.” (End of article.)
LITCHFIELD – Barring new information that could convince him otherwise, Rep. Collin Peterson said he will vote against impeaching President Trump when the issue comes for a vote Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives. Peterson said he expects 4-5 other Democrats will do the same. (Snip) Peterson said Trump “has not committed a crime” and most people in the Seventh District don’t think the US should provide foreign aid, so they are not troubled at all if Trump withheld funds to Ukraine. Peterson also said the case against Trump only includes "second-hand" information about Trump's questionable phone call.
Jeff Van Drew is a democrat congressman from New Jersey CD-02. According to multiple media reports he is likely to switch to the republican party next week due to the fraudulent impeachment effort. Van Drew was one of two democrats who did not support the vote for the impeachment inquiry. According to Politico Democrat leadership are in a panic and urgently trying to get ahold of Van Drew. The optics of a democrat changing parties at the same time they are trying to sell the validity of an impeachment narrative are terrible.
Florida high school students will likely be required to take a civics course in order to graduate. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was behind the push to mandate that Florida students have a basic civics education, and a bill mandating civics education is advancing through the state government.
According to a report by the Tampa Bay Times, Florida high school students will be required to take a civics course in order to qualify for graduation. The course will teach students about the values that have shaped American political history.
The bipartisan bill advanced in the Florida house on Thursday. Bill co-sponsor Representative Ben Diamond, a Democrat,
New Jersey Democratic U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who opposes his party’s effort to impeach President Donald Trump, is poised to switch sides and become a Republican, NJ Advance Media has confirmed. Van Drew made the decision following a White House meeting Friday with Trump, according to a Democratic member of the New Jersey congressional delegation. The lawmaker is not authorized to speak for Van Drew and requested anonymity. Van Drew spokeswoman Mackenzie Lucas did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Van Drew, D-2nd Dist., was one of only two House Democrats to vote against beginning an investigation
A Missouri church did its best to honor the historic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris by creating a seven-foot-tall gingerbread replica of the church.
The cathedral suffered substantial fire damage earlier this year, so parishioners at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Weston, Missouri, decided to bring the cathedral back to life — with gingerbread and 450 pounds of ingredients.
The confectionery delight measures seven feet tall at its highest point, eight feet long, and four feet wide.
Lisa Stiffler, one of the creators behind the masterpiece, says the work is a “feel-good project.”
A Florida mother claimed that a neighbor’s Christmas light display inspired her nonverbal daughter with autism to speak her first phrase.
Marisabel Figueroa Lopez believed that the lights and the music on her neighbor’s 200,000 synchronized light display set to music were the catalysts for her 13-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn, to speak out for the first time in her life unprompted, WFLA reported.
Figueroa Lopez’s daughter was diagnosed with autism at the age of three, and doctors have said she could never speak.
“The neurologist who saw Kaitlyn said she was going to be non-verbal for all of her life,” Figueroa Lopez, a single mom from Mulberry, Florida, told Today.
An Oklahoma congresswoman became another on a growing list of Democrat lawmakers facing angry constituents over their efforts to impeach President Donald Trump.
Rep. Kendra Horn got an earful from voters last week who were angry about the relentless focus of Democrats on impeachment while ignoring the real issues Americans care about. [Video]
“We want Congress to get back to work for the American people, please,” Ronda Peterson, a self-described conservative, told Horn whose district was won by Trump in 2016.
“We’re mad, mad as hell,” one man told the lawmaker.
“As an independent voter, I think you’re in a lot of trouble if you vote for this impeachment,”
President Trump received a very warm welcome as he arrived at the Army-Navy game in Philadelphia on Saturday afternoon. The Commander-in-chief took time out from the impending House impeachment vote to enjoy the annual college football game at Lincoln Financial Field. Trump was in very high spirits as he met with players in the locker room ahead of the game, before he took to the field to partake in the coin toss.(Snip)And his vocal support for the armed forces appears to have paid dividends, as he was met with rousing cheers from 70,000 spectators in the stands.
House Judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler was confronted by a small group of angry voters for leading the Democratic Party’s sham impeachment.
One voter warned Nadler that his shameless attempted coup will backfire on Democrats when President Trump wins the 2020 election in a landslide.
Trump supporter Ben Bergquam and several other protesters shouted at Nadler as he wormed his way to the elevator in a bid to make a quick getaway after yesterday’s impeachment debate.
“Shame on you, Chairman Nadler! Shame on you!” Bergquam yelled. “You’ve broken your oath! But keep doing it because the American people see through it. It’s going to work in President Trump’s favor. Keep it up!”
Time magazine's Person of the Year is starting to sound a little bloodthirsty:
Greta Thunberg told cheering protesters today 'we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall' if they fail to take urgent action on climate change.
The Swedish teen activist was addressing the crowd at a Fridays for Future protest in Turin, Italy.
She arrived there from Madrid where she had been attending the UN climate summit but said she feared the event would not lead to change.
Against the wall? It's kind of in line with Bernie Sanders's vow to put bankers in jail, except that it sounds more like something a totalitarian fanatic
With the TV cameras focused on the impeachment of President Trump ahead of its inevitable failure, some of the savvier swamp journalists have cast a sidelong glance at how the Trump campaign is doing. At least two of them could only see a helluva strong campaign.
Here are Jonathan Swan and Margaret Talev at Axios:
President Trump's re-election campaign wields more money, staff, infrastructure and advanced digital operations than the Democratic competitors — and a fan base that hears "impeachment" as a rallying cry.
Here's Maggie Haberman & Co. at the New York Times:
And while Mr. Trump himself has rued the fact that impeachment might tarnish his legacy,
With research files on the ’15, ’16 and ’17 political surveillance program; including information from the Mueller report and information from the IG Horowitz report; in combination with the Obama-era DOJ “secret research project” (their words, not mine); we are able to overlay the Obama-era domestic IC operations and gain a full understanding of how political surveillance was conducted over a period of approximately four to six years.
The much anticipated return of Kaepernick will not happen, as Commissioner Roger Goodell put it:
During a news conference in Irving, Texas, Goodell responded to a reporter's question about the November workout with Kaepernick and how it ultimately fell apart.
"This was about creating an opportunity," Goodell said. "We created that opportunity. It was a unique opportunity, an incredible opportunity and he chose not to take it. I understand that. And we've moved on here."
Thank you, Commissioner. I can hear lots of cheering people from coast to coast.
The left will probably explain this as another example of white supremacy.
President Trump slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — needling him as “Cryin’ Chuck” — over criticism of his new trade deal with China.
“Chuck Schumer sat for years during the Obama Administration and watched as China ripped off the United States,” Trump tweeted Saturday. “Now, without even seeing it, he snipes at our GREAT new deal with China. Too bad Cryin’ Chuck!”
The partial trade agreement, announced Friday, canceled a new set of tariffs set to take effect this weekend, and scaled back tariffs that remain in place. In exchange, China agreed to buy more US farm products and remove some of its retaliatory tariffs on American goods.
Mexico City - Just days after a landmark agreement on a trade pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, Mexico objected Saturday to legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress as part of an eventual ratification of the deal.
Jesús Seade, the Mexican Foreign Relations Department’s undersecretary and chief trade negotiator for North America, said most of the bill is in line with the typical process of ratification, but it also “adds the designation of up to five U.S. labor attaches in Mexico (Snip) Seade said that was not part of the agreement signed Dec. 10 in Mexico City by Mexico, the United States and Canada to replace
Virginia Dem mulls National Guard to
enforce upcoming gun laws, an idea
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enforce upcoming gun laws, an idea
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In case you missed it: Virginia has gone completely Democrat. The last election ushered in a partisan shift of the state government that has left the House of Delegates, the Senate and the governor’s office in Democrats’ power — a leftist hold on the commonwealth that hasn’t been seen for decades.
Make way for the gun controls.
Make way for the crackdowns.
Make way for the violence? (Snip) Democrats in Virginia have already pre-filed bills to mandate universal background checks; to limit handgun purchases; to raise age limits on would-be firers; to redefine the term assault weapon and impose bans on buys of certain guns and magazines. And more.
Can 20 U.S. senators withstand the potentially irresistible temptation to reverse the results of the 2016 election and remove a president a number of them openly or privately dislike?
Since Donald Trump announced his intention to run for the White House on June 16, 2015, many of the entrenched elites across the various power centers of Washington and beyond have spent many of their waking hours trying to stop or unseat him.
The Mossad was behind successful efforts by Denmark to nab a cell of 20 terrorists planning a wide wave of attacks, Channel 12 reported Saturday night.
According to the report, Danish security officials arrested the terrorists and also seized a variety of weapons.
In July, Mossad Director Yossi Cohen noted that his agency has thwarted a large number of terror attacks, especially on airliners, across the world.
In June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a conference in Tel Aviv that Israel had used its cyber intelligence capabilities to thwart around 50 ISIS terrorist attacks in dozens of countries worldwide. While Israel previously disclosed that it had provided the intelligence to thwart an ISIS
Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on Thursday appeared on “Fox & Friends” and reacted to the Department of Justice’s inspector general report by Michael Horowitz.Hawley argued the findings show the FBI interfered in the 2016 presidential election, adding Horowitz’s report is “really damning” for the FBI. “What’s worse: is it worse to have a foreign government trying to interfere in our election or is it worse to have our own government? Because that’s what the FBI did,” Hawley advised. “Essentially, the Democrat Party bought themselves an FBI investigation. The Democrats went out and paid for this fake dossier,
Hundreds of Cali voters being registered
under the wrong party, ‘could
disproportionately hurt’ GOP replies
under the wrong party, ‘could
disproportionately hurt’ GOP replies
Thanks to Democrats, besides funneling taxpayer money to illegal aliens and enacting draconian gun legislation, California’s local government may be behind, intentional or not, voters’ registration information being changed without consent. According to reports, these registration errors are most likely to hurt Republicans.“At least 600 Californians, including lifelong Republicans and Democrats, have had their voter registration unexpectedly changed, and several county elections officials are pinning much of the blame on the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles,” The Sacramento Bee confirmed this week.
President Trump is traveling to Philadelphia Saturday to attend the annual Army-Navy game, capping off what the president called a "wild week" that saw developments in the impeachment inquiry and the president finalize the first phase of a trade deal with China.Mr. Trump is expected to administer the coin toss at the game, which starts at 3 p.m. ET, and leave during the third quarter. He also attended the game last year.His trip comes a day after the House Judiciary Committee voted to advance articles of impeachment
CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy questioned an organization dedicated to protecting the freedom of the press because their latest initiative included a partnership with Fox News.The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and the Committee to Protect Journalists announced a new campaign called "Protect Press Freedom" on Friday. The two groups announced partnerships with ABC, Bloomberg, the Boston Globe, Fox News, the New Republic, NowThis, and Time.“The threats facing our free press today impact us all, no matter where we get our news, and the breadth of organizations that have joined us in this effort underscores the reach of those challenges,”
My stalker just won’t go away. Ten years ago, he murdered my husband, Ben, right in front of me in the middle of a busy restaurant. But my nightmare didn’t end with my stalker’s incarceration, as I recently found out that he is writing me letters from prison. The letters show absolutely no remorse and profess his twisted love for me.
This man already terrified me, and what he has written has made me even more fearful. I have nightmares about the threat that he poses to me and my loved ones after his release from prison.
Ben and I used to run a karaoke business in the evenings,
“I’m saddened and shocked that FBI personnel would mislead a court to obtain a warrant to conduct the most intrusive surveillance of an American citizen. We depend on public and judicial confidence to bring criminals to justice. We must never be seen to tolerate any dishonesty within the FBI-particularly to a court. I will see to it that any responsible FBI personnel are promptly brought to account.”
That’s what FBI Director Christopher Wray should have said after the release Monday of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on the bureau’s appalling conduct in its spying operation against Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
But Wray didn’t say that.
The decisive defeat of the British Labour party strongly suggests that a fundamental shift in the politics of the world has taken place — that the non-ideological wave of unrest sweeping the world really has deeper roots than Donald Trump or Fox News. Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch, the founders of Fusion GPS, tried to blame the fall of Labour on Putin.
"Britain needs its own Mueller report: a full, independent and public accounting of Russian efforts to interfere in its politics. Few people will look forward to this process in a country already exhausted from fighting over Brexit. But it’s essential to halt Russia’s attack
A UN climate summit in Madrid risked collapsing Saturday after all-night negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming and pay for its ravages. Diplomats from rich nations, emerging giants and the world's poorest countries—each for their own reasons—found fault in a draft agreement put forward by host Chile in a botched attempt to strike common ground. Faced with five-alarm warnings from science, deadly extreme weather made worse by climate change, and weekly strikes by millions of young people, negotiations in Madrid were under pressure to send a clear signal
Joe Biden performed his own version of a Texas two-step at a campaign stop in San Antonio on Friday night, letting a crowd of supporters drown out a protester who confronted him on Ukraine -- before the ex-vice president could answer -- and then continuing his rhetorical attack on President Trump.It happened while Biden was assailing Trump’s record on immigration and veteran care.“America can overcome four years of Donald Trump’s chaos and corruption, but if re-elected it will forever fundamentally change the character of who we are as a nation," Biden told the crowd. "We can’t let this happen. This election is about the soul of our nation
On November 1oth we reported that since 2017 Matt Drudge and The Drudge Report has gone from staunch Trump supporter to Never-Trump. It’s obvious to everyone. Matt Drudge is pushing for President Trump to be removed from office in a Democrat coup. This makes no sense.Drudge was once well respected and it was an honor to have a link to the Drudge Report. Now the links only go to far-left anti-Trump corrupt publications. Jesse Watters aired a segment on The Drudge Report’s turn from pro-Trump to Trump-hater. His guest Howard Kurtz did not add anything to the conversation.
Thanks to the Department of Justice Inspector General's report, we now know for certain what has been, for those paying attention, fairly obvious. The Steele dossier played a central role in the genesis of the Russia hoax and was used to justify extensive spying on former naval officer and Annapolis graduate Carter Page.The top two leaders of the FBI were closely involved in this fiasco. Other powerful people knew what was happening and lied to cover it up. That all was confirmed by the IG report. The report was a disaster for the credibility of top leaders in Barack Obama's FBI, and it's also a big problem for
Time’s “Scold of the Year,” Greta Thunberg, told a crowd in Italy that “we will make sure we put world leaders against the wall” if they do not do what she tells them to do.On her way home, the 16-year-old Swedish eco-activist and chronic truant stopped to address a Fridays for Future gathering in Turin, Italy, at which she went the full-Fidel Castro.“Unfortunately, we probably already know the outcome. World leaders are still trying to run away from their responsibilities but we have to make sure they cannot do that. We will make sure that we put them against the wall and they will have to
In each of two video appearances, on NBC News and at Wall Street Journal’s “CEO Council,” Attorney General William Barr provided the same basic information and views about the U.S. intelligence community’s actions against the Trump campaign in 2016 and 2017. A criminal investigation is underway and being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham.
Barr was motivated to make the public statements, he said, by the misreporting and confusion surrounding Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report issued on Dec. 9. It found serious government surveillance abuses but no evidence of political bias on the part of the offending FBI(Snip)
Below are 24 points Barr felt the need to make
Can Democrats find a labor-dispute-free zone in California to hold their presidential debate?
It’s an open question less than a week before the party’s sixth presidential primary debate, which was set to take place this coming Thursday at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles -- until food service workers announced plans to protest, and all seven candidates who qualified to appear on the stage vowed not to cross the picket line.It’s the second clash between university workers and their employers to throw plans for the December debate up in the air. In early November, the Democratic National Committee was forced to dump UCLA as its debate site
Days after leaving office, the former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin is facing widespread backlash and calls for an investigation following a number of controversial pardons of violent offenders on his way out the door. Pardons are traditional at the end of a governor’s term–and most of the Republican’s more than 400 pardons were for drug offenses. But a number of the pardons were for particularly violent crimes, like a woman who gave birth in a flea market porta-potty and dumped her newborn into the toilet’s septic tank; a man who hired a hitman to murder his business partner
A Marine suspected of killing his adoptive father hid inside his RV while police searched it then escaped once it was towed to a lot in Virginia, his lawyer said.
Corporal Michael Brown, 22, was arrested on November 27, following a six-week manhunt. He is accused of murdering his mother's boyfriend and adoptive father, Rodney Brown, 54, who was found shot dead on November 9.
Michael was said to have evaded police in an RV and in a black town car, before being arrested at the house of his mother, Vanessa Hanson.(Snip) She said that Michael was hidden 'behind a cabinet
Gov. Tim Walz notified the Trump administration Friday that the state will continue to welcome refugees, pointedly saying that the “inn is not full in Minnesota.” In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Walz wrote that he rejects the intent of President Donald Trump’s recent executive order requiring state and local governments to independently approve the resettlement of refugees in their communities.(Snip) “Minnesota has a strong moral tradition of welcoming those who seek refuge,” Walz wrote. “Refugees strengthen our communities. Bringing new cultures and fresh perspectives, they contribute to the social fabric of our state.
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. – An Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's voter rolls because they may have moved.
The case is being closely watched because of the state's critical role in next year's presidential race. Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy also denied the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin's petition to intervene.
Lawyers for the League and for the Wisconsin Elections Commission indicated they will appeal and asked Malloy to stay his ruling pending those appeals, but he declined.
Richard Jewell, the film, is a perfect analogy for what the FBI and DOJ have done to President Trump, Michael Flynn, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and the American people.
Clint Eastwood's new film is the true story of how the FBI destroyed the lives of Richard Jewell and his mother after the 1996 bombing at Centennial Park in Atlanta during the summer Olympics. (snip) Eastwood's film is a masterpiece. He has exposed the perfidy of the FBI and the media in 1996 and at the same time shown us that the culture of the higher-ups at the FBI had not changed one bit
Investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson has an excellent rundown at the Epoch Times of all the statements Attorney General William Barr has been making from various media appearances, noticing the patterns in what he's putting out there.
She calls him suddenly "chatty" which of course the guy is not, making the point that he's releasing a lot of information with a hard purpose. What did she find? That there are quite a few unpleasant coming attractions for the deep state as the Russiagate scandal unfolds and more reports are set to come out
Now that the inspector general report on FISA abuse has vindicated the work of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and thoroughly debunked the fraudulent conspiracy theories and smears of the current chairman Adam Schiff, many conservatives are crying out for retribution. (Snip)
In February of 2018, both Republicans and Democrats released memos about the Department of Justice’s efforts to secure a warrant to wiretap Carter Page. As even the Washington Post has been forced to admit, the IG report’s conclusions corroborated the claims made in the Nunes memo, while exposing the Schiff memo as a massive fraud “riddled with lies and false statements,”
It’s little wonder sane people have taken the Left’s messaging strategy regarding impeachment and the Justice Department inspector general’s new report as mere political inanity and mendacity. Government officials, past and present, who fear potential indictment for abuse of power for personal and partisan gain, their legal “experts” at Lawfare, their collusion media cohorts, and social media’s rabid pack of regressive mouth-breathers who do little more than parrot them are not advancing a typical political argument. They are proffering a preemptive legal defense.
For the Left, preparing briefs for a prospective court of law rather than making good faith arguments in the court of public opinion is a necessary gambit, due
GREENWOOD, S.C. — The past three years have not been easy for the political fortunes or the emotional health of America’s Democrats. To the extent they feel optimistic about anything, they have been waiting for the 2020 election in the way inhabitants of a storm-ravaged city might look toward the end of hurricane season — as an opportunity to restore order not just to their fractured physical world, but to their battered psyches. Why, then, even with the potential catharsis of impeachment proceedings against President Trump underway, do so many feel so awful? “My big fear is that we are
As we expected the Supreme Court has granted the petition for a writ of certiorari and will hear cases related to attempts to gain President Trump financial records and tax filings.
The Supreme Court has issued a stay upon all lower court action and consolidated the cases into one writ. The court will hear arguments in March and release a ruling later in the summer of 2020. (Snip)President Trump went to the Supreme Court after the House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One seeking President Trump’s tax records.(Snip) a good encapsulation of the problems for the House that explains why President
Following a major election victory for conservatives in the U.K. the Antifa-left start rioting in the streets again. Proving once more that socialists do not accept election outcomes.
The vitriolic response from the British socialists resembles an almost identical response following the 2016 election victory of President Trump. Same groups, same political ideology, same behavior, same violence, rage and expressed anger. The inability of the progressive left to accept the outcome of an election is identical in both the U.K and the U.S. Calling Boris Johnson a racist and attempting to delegitimize the election outcome has a ring of familiarity for Americans.
Joe Biden’s Brexit
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Talk about chutzpah. The vote to empower Prime Minister Boris Johnson to get Brexit done is being seized upon by Vice President Biden as a sign that the ex-veep should be the Democratic nominee for president. That’s because, Business Insider reports, Mr. Biden figures Britain’s election shows that only a centrist can beat President Trump.
“Boris Johnson is winning in a walk,” Business Insider quotes Mr. Biden as telling newsmen at a Coast fundraiser as results started coming in from yesterday’s vote. Mr. Biden predicted that pundits would say: “Look what happens when the Labor Party moves so, so far to the left. It comes up with ideas
Trump's trade trifecta
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They say that good things come in threes, and last week President Trump hit the trifecta on trade.
First, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took a brief break from the partisan process aimed at removing Trump from office and agreed to pass the USMCA, the newly negotiated replacement for NAFTA. This deal will guarantee the continued relatively free flow of goods across the Mexican and Canadian borders.
Second, the United States and China reached a trade deal that will at least modestly deescalate the trade war raging between the world’s two largest economies. For now, tariffs will remain in place, but the U.S.
When the Dear Leader of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep, Jerry Nadler, said that this was too important a matter to trust to the voters in the next election, he and his ilk gave us a frightening preview of the Gulag into which they would put We the People, should they gain full control of the government. They wrap themselves up in the Constitution but conveniently forget the first three words. They forget that the Constitution establishes three branches of government, not two. But they have no time for the courts to rule on disputed documents and privileged conversations. They call the President a dictator, yet can’t wait for the next election.
When it comes to the unlawful surveillance on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the most important question is, what did President Obama know and when did he know it? If we are to believe the testimony in the Justice Department inspector general’s report on FISA abuse, Obama didn’t know anything about the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Neither did his attorney general, her deputy, or anyone in the White House. At least not that they can recall – an expression used over 200 times in the report.
Yet against this we have the Sept. 2, 2016, text message from Lisa Page to her paramour Peter Strzok saying “POTUS wants to know everything we are doing.”
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. — A Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered that the registration of up to 234,000 voters be tossed out because they may have moved, a victory for conservatives that could make it more difficult for people to vote next year in the key swing state.
The judge sided with three voters represented by a conservative law firm who argued the state elections commission should have immediately deactivated any of the roughly 234,000 voters who didn’t respond to an October mailing within 30 days. The voters were flagged as having potentially moved.
Democrats crying “impeachment” are the boy who cried “wolf.” Like the boy in the fable, they will find they have worn out the cry. And like the boy, they will be the ones to suffer for having done so.
In the story, a shepherd boy repeatedly excites the townsfolk by falsely claiming he has seen a wolf. Eventually, the exasperated townspeople come to ignore his cries.
Like the boy, Democrats have been crying for impeachment for every perceived Trump offense — many of which exist only in their own imagination. Originally centering on Russia, failure there drove them to Ukraine.
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Detroit’s success was a very complicated story. Its failure is a simpler one.
How did Detroit become the “Motor City” at the center of the U.S. automotive business? It wasn’t obvious that it would be: At the end of the 19th century, more than 100 automobile companies were organized in the United States, most of them in New England and Ohio. But Michigan won out because it had a hugely important advantage in one natural resource: smart people.
Ask a half-dozen car guys why Detroit beat out the rest, and you’ll get a half-dozen answers: Maybe because Henry Ford and Ransom Olds lived in Michigan,
An Oregon panhandler was sentenced to 20 days in jail on Wednesday after wreaking havoc on five businesses in Portland because she said no one was giving her money.
Marlena Rochelle Neely, 30, told authorities she was homeless and had been asking people for $5. Neely said she would shatter a window every time they failed to give her money because she was tired of people not helping her out, the probable cause affidavit stated, according to The Oregonian.
Neely pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree criminal mischief and was ordered to pay about $10,500 in restitution, in addition to the jail time.
Some recent news stories verge on the bizarre: the House Democrats’ futile fuss over impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s acceptance of President Trump’s US-Canada-Mexico trade treaty. But they’re not as bizarre, or possibly as consequential, as unanticipated developments in the Democrats’ presidential nomination contest.
Consider the role of money, which Democrats are always saying plays too big a role in politics. This year, it plainly isn’t. Their two billionaire late entrants, Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, aren’t running away with the contest.
Steyer is at 1.7% in the RealClearPolitics average, and Bloomberg’s 5.5% surely owes as much to his formidable three terms as New York mayor
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) coordinating with the White House about the upcoming Senate impeachment trial was “improper.” Blumenthal said, “It is improper. He said not only is he coordinating but taking his cues from the White House. He seems to be abandoning all pretense or semblance of objectivity and independence. It’s also unprecedented. In every one of the past proceedings, Republicans and Democrats have worked together. Especially in the Clinton impeachment proceeding, there was cooperation between Daschle and Lott, the majority and minority leaders,
A biological male transgender English professor derides “conservatives” for missing that the 1964 Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is all about “queer” people.
Jennifer Finney Boylan, a New York Times opinion writer who teaches at Barnard College, wrote Wednesday:
I’m sure that conservatives who love this old holiday chestnut will be infuriated by this suggestion. But if you watch the show without understanding that its central conflict is the way people who are different are constantly shunned and humiliated — well, I don’t know what show you’re watching. It’s not Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, I can tell you that, a show in which, at the climax,
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to recuse himself from the Senate’s impeachment trial.
Bass said, “The leader of the Senate has basically said he is in lockstep, and he is going to coordinate with the defendant. And so, if you can imagine going into a courtroom in a trial and the foreman of the jury says, well, I’m working with the person that’s being accused of the crime. And so, it’s completely inappropriate. McConnell should recuse himself. … How can a juror coordinate with the defendant? That is corrupt.”
More than 2,500 dead Americans remain on the voter rolls in Detroit, Michigan, according to a federal lawsuit filed this week.The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a lawsuit in federal court this week against the city of Detroit for allegedly failing to maintain their voter rolls, including keeping more than 2,500 dead Americans aged 85 and older on the rolls. After obtaining voter data from the state of Michigan earlier this year, PILF researchers said they discovered that a number of registered voters had either “impossibly old” or “disqualifying young” date of births. In one case, for example, PILF researchers said they found that a registered voter stated they
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sign petition in protest at Netflix
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A Netflix Christmas special that depicts Jesus as a gay man has has offended more than one million Christians. The 46-minute film, The First Temptation of Christ, was released by Netflix in Brazil on December 3, but no sooner had the picture started streaming, controversy had been sparked. The flick is by a Brazil-based YouTube comedy group and shows Jesus as a closeted homosexual on Christmas. So far, more than 1.4 million people have signed an online petition calling on Netflix to remove the piece and take action against the producers for their 'alleged insensitivity toward Christians.'