Posts on Friday, December 20, 2019
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court’s presiding judge has sent another directive to the Justice Department, ordering officials to identify previous surveillance requests from an FBI lawyer linked to the 2016 warrant from former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
In an order unsealed Friday, Judge Rosemary Collyer asked the Justice Department to identify steps to ensure the accuracy of those filings and whether the unnamed DOJ lawyer was ever disciplined.
The first family departed the White House on Friday evening and boarded Marine One on the first leg of their journey to Mar-a-Lago where they are expected to spend their Christmas holiday. President Trump; First Lady Melania Trump; their 13-year-old son, Barron; and the president’s daughter from his first marriage, Ivanka Trump, were seen heading toward the South Lawn of the White House on Friday evening. They flew to Joint Base Andrews where the president and first lady unveiled the new 'Space Force' as part of the newly signed budget agreement.
Democrat presidential candidates hold 63 million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in contempt, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) observed Friday during an interview with Alex Marlow, host of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily. Scalise said, “They have disdain. It’s not just for President Trump; it’s for the 63 million Americans who voted for President Trump, the forgotten men and women, people in the Rust Belt who have been left behind by the liberal elites in Washington.” LISTEN: (Audio)
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MARYLAND — Flanked by two fighter jets and in front of a giant American flag, President Trump on Friday signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that officially created the Space Force, the sixth and first new military branch since 1947. “For the first time since Truman, we will create a brand new American military service,” Trump said. “You will witness the birth of the Space Force. That’s a big moment and we’re all here for it.” “Space is the world’s newest warfighting domain,” Trump said. “American superiority in space is absolutely vital.” The creation of the Space Force marked the achievement
A federal judge has delayed a ruling on whether former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must submit to cross-examination stemming from a complaint by a conservative group concerning emails she wrote and received while serving in an official capacity. U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lambeth said Thursday a decision would likely come in January concerning a request by conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, but added he was concerned by the continuing emergence of new emails in the case. Last week the Justice Department released 30 emails not included in the 30,000 she gave the State Department in 2014.
Hate-filled Democrats were hoping their political slapdash impeachment this week would ruin President Trump. Instead, their criminal acts enraged Trump voters, Independents and decent Americans.At the beginning of the week President Trump’s approval rating was 47% on the Rasmussen daily poll. On Friday President Trump’s approval rating hit 50%. This is three points higher than Barack Obama at the same point in his presidency. And on Thursday a CNN poll found the Trump economy received its best ranking in nearly 20 years
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“I am concerned that if we do not impeach this president, then he will get reelected,” Democratic Representative Al Green of Texas said this spring, explaining his support for impeaching President Trump, long before the phone call with the Ukrainian President Zelensky that is at the heart of the current saga. Given all the accomplishments of the White House to date, it is easy to see why so many Democrats share that sentiment with Green. Start with the state of the economy. Ronald Reagan, in his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, famously suggested people ask themselves before casting their votes
A transgender former Nike contractor is seeking $1.1 million in damages from the sporting goods giant for allegedly allowing gender identity-based harassment. According to a civil lawsuit filed this week, Nike and Mainz Brady Group, a staffing firm that hired workers for Nike, discriminated against computer engineer Jazz Lyles, who identifies as transmasculine and prefers the pronouns they/them/their. The complaint was filed with Multnomah Circuit Court in Oregon. During Lyles' tenure at Nike — from May 2017 to September 2018 — the engineer was repeatedly "misgendered" by coworkers, the complaint said. While Lyles notified management about the issue multiple times
An Edgewater man has been arrested on accusations he spouted off threats on Twitter against the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including "We need to kill all ICE agents,” authorities said. On Friday morning, Carlos Alejandro Tariche, 22, was arrested and charged with one count of interstate communications containing threats to injure, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said in a statement. Using his Twitter account, Tariche made several glancing and direct threats against ICE agents, referencing Elliot Rodgers, the man who stabbed and shot six people to death in 2014 in California before killing himself. “Why can’t mass shootings occur at @ICEgov buildings
Conservative talk radio host Mark Levin presented a fascinating theory on his show earlier this week about why Democrats pursued a bogus impeachment doomed to failure in the U.S. Senate, and when you hear the details, I'm sure you'll agree.
“A neighbor of mine came up to me this evening about an hour before the show, and said something that was quite profound," Levin explained. "He said to me, ‘I’m convinced one of the reasons they’re impeaching the president is the Supreme Court.’ I said, really? What do you mean by that? 'Well, the president has less than 11 months to go, Ruth Bader Ginsburg appears to be very ill.'
Merry Christmas. The intercept is reporting that former NSA Director, Admiral Mike Rogers, has been working with U.S. Attorney John Durham for several months during his investigation into the origin of the 2016 intelligence operation against candidate Trump.
This is particularly important because NSA Director Mike Rogers’ knowledge is at the epicenter of the origination of almost everything related to the FBI data-surveillance that was happening in 2015 and 2016.(Via Intercept) Retired Adm. Michael Rogers, former director of the National Security Agency, has been cooperating with the Justice Department’s probe into the origins of the counterintelligence investigation of the Trump presidential campaign’s alleged ties to Russia, according to four people
Nearly 100 members of the MS-13 gang have been arrested and charged with various crimes by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office in Long Island, New York — a historic crackdown on the violent El Salvadoran gang. Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy Sini announced on Friday that a 23-month investigation into the MS-13 gang’s ten cliques on Long Island had resulted in the arrests of 96 MS-13 gang members, including illegal aliens and those who were able to legally enter the United States. Those 96 MS-13 gang members, whose ages range from 16 to 59-years-old, come from nine of the region’s ten cliques, and the investigation has led Source corrected
Washington—Hand gestures flashed by West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen during the televised Army-Navy football game were not racist signals, military investigations have concluded. A Navy probe of the event found that the students were participating in a “sophomoric game” on Saturday and had no racist intent. An Army statement Friday also rejected any racist overtones, saying the hand gestures were “not associated with ideologies or movements that are contrary to the Army values.” The Navy said officials are, however, disappointed in the immature behavior of the students and “their actions will be appropriately addressed.” There were no details
Trade talks between Captain America and Black Panther didn’t quite pan out, it seems. Wakanda, the fictional home of the Marvel superhero, is no longer listed as a free trade partner of the US. Until Wednesday, the made-up east African country was listed on the drop-down menu for the agriculture department’s foreign agricultural service’s tariff tracker along with Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru. The department (USDA) said the comic book country was added to its systems while it conducted testing. “Over the past few weeks, the foreign agricultural service staff who maintain the tariff
Hollywood legend and staunch 'Never Trumper' Robert De Niro has called for the president to be hit in the face with a bag of feculence.
De Niro's remarks, made in a interview with Michael Moore on the liberal film director's podcast, are just the latest explosive insult the actor has hurled at President Donald Trump.
'I'd like to see a bag of (deleted) right in his face. Hit him right in the face like that and let the picture go all over the world, De Niro said.
'And, that would be the most humiliating thing because he needs to be humiliated,' he added. De Niro said that whichever Democrat gets the presidential
Mainstream and social media would leave the masses believing that “Swamp Queen” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her Impeachment-giddy gang just celebrated the funeral of President Donald Trump—when in fact they were “sombrely” and “prayerfully” celebrating the funerals of some 63 million Americans who voted for Trump.
Dead and buried are the voters, whose votes were cancelled in the purely partisan Trump Impeachment, according to funeral celebrating Democrats.
This is how the Democrats paid their last respects to the not-so-dearly departed:
This is interesting. Last year Speaker Pelosi used the SOU invite to play out political games against President Trump. This year, considering the political impeachment effort, I thought she would be likely to replay that scheme; but she didn’t. This implies the private polling and public sentiment (ie. bbacklash) against her constituent democrats must be much more severe than is currently visible: (Letter)Per Hogan Gidley: President Donald J. Trump has accepted the Speaker’s invitation to deliver the State of the Union Address on February 4, 2020.
MS-13 has been declared 'inoperable' in New York after police arrested 96 members in a sting that is believed to be the largest ever take down of the violent street gang in the state. (Snip) MS-13 now has 8,000-10,000 members in the U.S. alone - most of Salvadoran, Guatemalan and Honduran descent.
While MS-13 has been around for decades, law enforcement officials on Long Island say the region has seen a unique surge in activity since 2015 - the same time the area received a major influx of unaccompanied minors from Latin America. MS-13 leaders in the U.S. often communicate and take orders from gang leaders in El Salvador.
I have made peace with the fact that social media censors like Twitter and Facebook have shadow-banned me. Google has not allowed any advertising on my website.
What I found disturbing is that on the infamous phony impeachment day, Wednesday, December 18, 2019, my Facebook page censors removed content to an article that was inconvenient to the liberal false narrative that “socialism is great once we get to do it,” more specifically, the video (I’ve seen the breadlines of communism) in
Beijing - Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a call with President Donald Trump on Friday, accused the United States of interfering in its internal affairs but expressed hope that the two leaders could keep lines of communication open, China’s Xinhua news agency said.
Xi told Trump that Beijing was deeply concerned about the United States’ words and actions on Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang And Tibet, according to the state-run news agency. (End article.)
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., released a $10.7 trillion plan Friday that would rebuild the economy using “100% clean energy” and create 10.6 million union jobs. “To support the millions of skilled and experienced contractors we will need to plan and execute large construction and engineering projects in the new clean economy,” her plan says. The plan would “support the first responders, healthcare workers, social workers, and other public and private employees who respond to climate-induced disasters,” by committing to “investments in retraining, joint labor management apprenticeships, and creating strong career pipelines to ensure a continuous supply of skilled, available workers.”
Former FBI Director James Comey and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper have lots of things in common.
One, they ran the nation’s key intelligence and investigatory agencies under former President Barack Obama. They were deeply involved in the “Russian collusion” hoax. And they participated in the surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition.
Comey and McCabe both signed applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants requesting surveillance on Trump campaign aide Carter Page. A report by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz criticized Comey and McCabe’s FBI for falsehoods and misrepresentations during its investigation of the Donald Trump campaign.
During Friday’s “New Day” on CNN, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) discussed a new CNN poll that shows the United States economy’s highest rating in almost 20 years. Booker said the economy is “overall good” but Americans are “not measuring their well-being” based on the GDP or stock market.“Right now, all Americans know that we’re doing nothing on health care costs, prescription drug costs,” Booker told host John Berman. “We know that we have a tax system that’s way, weighted in the hands of the wealthiest
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) was unable to provide a sound argument in favor of the impeachment of President Trump during the Democrat debate on Thursday, reverting to vague talking points and calling the president a “pathological liar.” Moderators kicked off the event by asking candidates how they can persuade more Americans to support the impeachment of the president.
“To the candidates — last night, at this hour, the House of Representatives voted for only the third time in American history to impeach a president,” PBS NewsHour’s Judy Woodruff said.
Paris - France Telecom’s former CEO and two fellow top managers have been sentenced to four months in prison for workplace harassment blamed for a wave of dozens of suicides.
Didier Lombard was found guilty along with his former deputy Louis-Pierre Wenes and human resources director Olivier Barberot of the former state-owned telecom giant. (Snip) The trial focused on the cases of 39 employees, 19 of whom killed themselves, 12 who tried to, and eight who suffered from acute depression or were signed off sick as a result of it.
It covered the period between 2007 to 2008 in which the former state-owned telecom giant was in the midst
Georgia Rep. Doug Collins received a standing ovation for delivering an epic speech during the impeachment debate on the House floor. Collins called out the Democrat majority leader for disregarding the House rules. WATCH the speech here: (Video)
A 'close friend' of Texas mother Heidi Broussard who was with her when she gave birth last month and pretended to be pregnant herself has been arrested in connection with her death. Megan Rose Fieramusca, aka Maygen Humphrey, is being held in county jail on kidnapping and corpse tampering charges. She was arrested on Friday after Heidi's body was found in the trunk of a car that is registered to Fieramusca at a property in Houston, Texas, where Heidi's baby Margot was found safe and alive inside. The pair vanished from their home in Austin, 200 miles away, last week and Heidi's fiance had made
She’s a real-life Cindy Lou Who.
Poppy Leigh, 13, showed up to school on Thursday with a mile-high hairdo full of Christmas cheer — only to be told she needed to take it down or go home.
The Wythenshawe, England, eighth-grader wrapped her ginger hair around an empty water bottle and then strung in Christmas lights, but her principal was not amused. The school, Manchester Health Academy, rang Poppy’s mother to tell her they didn’t find her daughter’s hairstyle appropriate. (Snip) “It’s just a bit of fun and Christmas cheer” before Poppy goes on Christmas break Friday, says the mom of three, adding, “I am quite upset really —
Washington - The United States said new evidence and analysis of weapons debris recovered from an attack on Saudi oil facilities on Sept. 14 indicates the strike likely came from the north, reinforcing its earlier assessment that Iran was behind the offensive. (Snip) It added the United States had identified several similarities between the drones used in the raid and an Iranian designed and produced unmanned aircraft known as the IRN-05 UAV.
However, the report noted that the analysis of the weapons debris did not definitely reveal the origin of the strike that initially knocked out half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production. “At this time, the U.S. Intelligence Community has not
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is blasting a prominent Christian magazine that published an editorial arguing that he should be removed from office. (Snip) Rev. Franklin Graham, who now leads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and prayed at Trump’s inauguration, tweeted Friday morning that his late father would be “disappointed” in the magazine. Graham added that he “felt it necessary” following the editorial to share that his father, who died last year after counseling several past presidents, had voted for Trump. Christianity Today “represents what I would call the leftist elite within the evangelical community. They certainly don’t represent the Bible-believing segment of the evangelical community,”
The President made the remarks in Tokyo while on an official visit at the invitation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
"The US' unlawful exit from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) indicated that the move has negative impact on an international agreement, peace as well as security," he added.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has always contributed to the regional peace along with security, President Rouhani said, adding that the country has sent letters to the regional states to this end. (Snip) The security in the Persian Gulf region has been undermined by some foreign states, the Iranian president pointed out.
Camille Schrier of Virginia was crowned Miss America 2020 Thursday night. Schrier was awarded a $50,000 scholarship and “the job of Miss America,” succeeding 2019 Miss America Nia Franklin, a classically trained opera singer from New York. Schrier, a student in the doctor of pharmacy program at Virginia Commonwealth University, touted her science background from the start, telling judges Kelly Rowland, "Queer Eye" star Karamo Brown and "Superstore" actress Lauren Ash that she's "had people who think that what I do is not necessarily a talent."
Tokyo - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Tokyo on Friday for a meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, becoming the first Iranian leader to visit Japan in nearly two decades amid a persisting standoff with the United States. Rouhani's visit until Saturday is seen as part of Tehran's efforts to maintain friendly ties with Japan, a longtime security ally of the United States, and break the impasse over a 2015 nuclear accord as U.S. President Donald Trump steps up his maximum pressure campaign. Abe, for his part, is expected to use the meeting with Rouhani to try to diffuse tensions in the Middle East, a key region
The tragic last words of one of the pilots killed in a Houston crash of a cargo plane contracted by Amazon earlier this year were, “Lord, you have my soul,” according to a chilling transcript of the cockpit voice recorder. Capt. Ricky Blakely, First Officer Conrad Jules Aska and Mesa Airlines Capt. Sean Archuleta, who was riding in the jump seat, were killed Feb. 23, when the Boeing 767 operated by Atlas Air plunged into Trinity Bay.(Snip) Aska, who had a record of repeatedly flunking flight tests, may have mistakenly thought the jet was stalling when its nose was pointed too high, so he jerked it down
Smart cars may make our lives easier on the road, but they are also easily hacked by cyber criminals. Scientists have found 'holes' in these systems that lets digital deviants access your data or worse, take over the vehicle. The first hole is when users plug their smartphone into their smart car, which is an open door for hackers to breach vehicle systems. However, another vulnerability lets users access features in order to take over the system and could ultimately crash the car. Experts are now calling on carmakers to release constant updates for the software in order to put an end to data breaches and save lives. Researchers from Michigan State University (MSU),
Boeing's new Starliner capsule won't dock with the International Space Station on Saturday after launching into the wrong orbit just minutes after blasting off on its first test flight. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine said it burned more fuel than anticipated to maintain control which 'precluded a space station rendezvous'. With less fuel on board, it puts the rest of the flight in jeopardy. The Starliner was supposed to reach the space station on Saturday and stay for a week. The Starliner capsule went off course into the wrong orbit just minutes after blasting off on its first test flight-a crucial dress rehearsal
Members of Parliament have just voted overwhelmingly to approve Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit plan by a vote of 358 to 234.
Brexit's approval was widely expected following the conservative victory in the UK election last week.
Brexit has been in gridlock for over three years. Former Prime Minister Theresa May has made several failed attempts to get Brexit through Parliament since the country voted in favor of Brexit in 2016. May ultimately failed to get a deal through, and she resigned in May over her inability to broker a deal that could win a majority of Parliament.
When it comes to impeachment, the House Democrats’ job is essentially over. The two articles before the chamber have passed, and Donald Trump is now impeached. The only obligations left to them are to notify the Senate of their conclusions, name managers of the process, and allow the Republican-led chamber to reach a verdict, which some of its members (including leadership) say they’ve already reached. It should hardly come as a shock that a legislative chamber full of lawmakers who have been outwardly skeptical of the drive to impeach Trump will take a dim view of the articles against him, but the inevitability
The socialist left has done nothing for the past three years, other than tearing down the President who threatens to wreck their machine. I am joining a whole chorus of people in declaring that obvious fact. So, with that said, we need to take a look at the spirit behind the ugliness coming after our president and our nation. As I have said so many times, this is not a battle between left and right, Democrat and Republican, stupidity and common sense. No. It is a battle between wrong and right, darkness and light. It is the very real
Autumn leaves rustle as Lionel Godmet walks past rows of graves at the Jewish cemetery in Jungholtz in eastern France, their bases fringed with moss but the Hebrew inscriptions clearly visible. Pinned to his lapel is a badge reading 'veilleur de la memoire', or guardian of memory.(Snip) But Godmet himself is not Jewish. He is one of a growing number of individuals in France's Alsace region who have taken it upon themselves to patrol Jewish cemeteries after a spate of attacks on such sites that have horrified the country. Godmet describes his volunteer work as a 'civic commitment' and likens it
It must be difficult for CNN to have to admit President Donald Trump’s economy is remarkable after their obsession over his impeachment. Their latest poll shows a stunning result even the liberal outlet felt compelled to concede. CNN reported on Dec. 20 that as the year 2019 closes, “the US economy earn[ed] its highest ratings in almost two decades” [emphasis added]. This, according to CNN, potentially boosts “President Donald Trump in matchups against the Democrats vying to face him in next year's election, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.”
Franklin Graham slams Christianity Today
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The son of the late pastor Billy Graham said his father would have been "disappointed" by Christianity Today's editorial calling for the removal of President Trump, which was widely celebrated by the left and crashed its website. Evangelist Franklin Graham accused the Christian magazine of invoking his father's name to represent "the elitist liberal wing of evangelicalism." The president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse responded in a lengthy Facebook post late Thursday to the editorial titled "Trump Should Be Removed From Office," just a day after the House of Representatives passed two articles of impeachment against him.
…and CTH has a pretty good idea exactly what “communications” Durham is looking for. It sounds like U.S. Attorney Durham is looking for what Comey outlined in the “crown material” discussion. First, the article from the New York Times (emphasis mine): (Article)U.S. Attorney John Durham appears to be looking for a very specific email written by John Brennan to James Comey. Because Comey wrote another email saying: ..”Brennan is insisting the Crown Material be included in the intel assessment.”
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The Christopher Steele dossier was called “Crown Material” by FBI agents within the small group during their 2016 political surveillance operation. The “Crown” description reflects the unofficial British intelligence aspect
J.K. Rowling, the wildly successful author of Harry Potter books is under fire on social media for posting a tweet in support of science. A tax expert at a think tank in London was fired for tweeting that transgender women can’t change their biological sex. Rowling tweeted in support of her. The horror. The immediate reaction of the cancel culture mob on Twitter was intense. (Snip) The outrage mob on Twitter is calling Rowling a “TERF,” a slur short for “trans-exclusionary radical feminist” that is used to describe self-identifying feminists who don’t believe trans women are women. That is a
Attorney General Bill Barr had an extensive sit down interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Wednesday, December 18th. The interview was broadcast this evening. (Full Video) On August 30th, 2019, Devin Nunes submitted eight criminal referrals to the DOJ. Five of those referrals were for specific people who participated in the political scheme against candidate, president-elect and President Trump. The remaining three referrals were not person specific, but rather outlines of “conspiracy”: (Snip)On the conspiracy to manipulate the intelligence apparatus. That angle will be interesting to watch because it goes to the origin of activity in early 2016. The issues around how Crossfire Hurricane
When the Department of Justice inspector general released his report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse, coverage focused on the top-line findings contained in the executive summary. Then the news cycle whizzed by, leaving many details discussed throughout the 480-page tome unexplored.
One significant gap in media coverage concerns the potential complicity of former FBI Director James Comey in the FISA abuse—a possibility the IG report hints at in several spots. The first suggestion that something was amiss with Comey’s conduct came early in Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report, when the IG’s office spoke of the methodology underlying the FISA investigation.
On December 20, 1941, the American Volunteer Group (AVG), better known by its nickname, the Flying Tigers, engaged in its first round of air-to-air combat when its fighters encountered Japanese “Sally” bombers. Just in case you do not know, the AVG was a group of American flyers under the command of Claire Chennault that flew for China against the Japanese. As you can tell by the date above, by the time the AVG got into combat, the U.S. was already at war with Japan, which kind of defeated the purpose of using “volunteers” from supposedly uninvolved countries. A similar situation occurred when Chinese “volunteers”
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So much for the old lefty propaganda slogan: 'Putting People First.'
Joe Biden is coming for your job. Your livelihood. Give it up, or he'll give it up for you, because he's got bigger priorities than your mere putting food on your table. He said as much at last night's Democratic debate.
Debate moderator Tim Alberta of Politico asked the Democratic frontrunner this:
“Three consecutive American presidents have enjoyed stints of economic growth, due to a boom in oil and natural gas production, as President would you be willing to sacrifice some of that growth, even knowing potentially that it could displace thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of blue collar workers
The Washington Post’s owner reportedly urged fellow billionaire Michael Bloomberg to run for president. Just don’t expect to see that admitted often by The Post. A Lexis-Nexis search revealed that The Post ran at least 122 stories (a mix of news and opinion) that mentioned Bloomberg’s potential candidacy or actual bid for the White House between Nov. 9, 2019, and Dec. 9, 2019. MRC Business found that 121 of those stories failed to mention that Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos reportedly asked Bloomberg if he would consider entering the 2020 race earlier in the year, according to Vox Recode Nov. 9, 2019.
What the Democrats who gathered in Los Angeles Thursday night for the PBS/Politico debate are offering the country as an alternative to President Donald Trump was encapsulated by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in her closing statement.
“This is a dark moment in America,” the radical from Massachusetts said, before launching into an anecdote of a woman at a town hall who told her of having to choose between getting a prescription filled and buying toilet paper.
On what planet, exactly, are Warren and the others living? Whether it’s orbiting Alpha Centauri, or perhaps in the Epsilon Indi star system a few more light years out, it ain’t a world with
Calling out the Democratic Party for its far-left extremism, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz denounced House Speaker Pelosi’s plan to withhold sending the impeachment vote to the Senate for a trial as “unconstitutional.” As noted by Fox News, the Harvard Law professor’s recent op-ed for Newsmax came in response to his colleague Laurence Tribe, who backed Pelosi in not allowing a Senate trial on impeachment. “[Tribe] would withhold the trial until the Senate agreed to change its rules,
Democrat Rep. Jeff Van Drew of New Jersey officially announced his decision to switch political parties and pledged his support for President Donald Trump on Thursday.“I believe that this is just a better fit for me,” Van Drew told reporters on Thursday at the White House. “This is who I am. It’s who I always was, but there was more tolerance of moderate Democrats, of Blue Dog Democrats, of Conservative Democrats, and I think that’s going away.”Van Drew met with Trump in the Oval Office together with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Vice President Mike Pence
To the delight of conservatives and dismay of liberals, President Trump is doing more to reshape the American judiciary than any president in recent memory. It’s viewed as a “lasting legacy” that will ensure more “conservative” rulings — constitutionalist ones, actually — for perhaps decades to come. Unfortunately, a full understanding of the Constitution and leftists’ nature informs that this is an unfounded assumption. Illustrating the current transformation of the courts, The Daily Signal wrote last month that “‘[o]ne out of every 4 active judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals have been appointed by President Trump,’ says Adam Kennedy, deputy assistant to the president and deputy director of communications
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was right to so eloquently smack down cryin’ Chuck Schumer’s request for a “Schumer do-over” of the House impeachment process with unheard-from witnesses. If, as House Democrats insist, the “evidence” is “uncontested,” why does Schumer seek new evidence and want to hear new witnesses, providing a list of White House advisers but not a list that includes the alleged Ukraine whistleblower?
Amid all the impeachment hysteria and sleight of hand, here is your guide to what actually happened in Congress this week.
First and foremost, President Trump did not get impeached Wednesday night.
And he still hasn’t at the moment of this writing, more than 12 hours after House Democrats approved two articles of impeachment in the most nakedly partisan impeachment vote in over a century and a half. The giant, block-lettered, wartime headlines in the New York Times giddily declaring “TRUMP IMPEACHED” is completely false. Fake News, you might say.
Elizabeth Warren had a list for Hillary.
In December 2014, Clinton’s team began worrying that Warren was reconsidering a presidential run and arranged a meeting between the two principals at Clinton’s home in Washington. Warren came in “aggressive” and “firing on all cylinders” catching Clinton off guard, said a Clinton official familiar with the meeting. She pressed Clinton to commit to not appointing Wall Street-friendly people to her administration, as Warren felt Bill Clinton and Barack Obama had done.
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After the meeting, Warren sent Clinton a list of people she wanted the campaign team to consult on economic policy in order to broaden their horizons
Yesterday on MSNBC, Chris Hayes, repeating a talking point I’ve heard dozens of times during impeachment theater, argued that the “striking” difference between the Clinton and Trump impeachments was not only the willingness of Clinton to “show contrition,” but the willingness of his supporters to acknowledge that the president had done something wrong.
Boy, it must be nice to live in an alternative reality where your allies are always selfless and chaste and your opponents are perpetually plagued by narrow-mindedness and reactionary partisanship.
In the real world, of course, Bill Clinton, with help from the entire Democratic party, kept earnestly lying to anyone who would listen —
WASHINGTON — The federal prosecutor scrutinizing the Russia investigation has begun examining the role of the former C.I.A. director John O. Brennan in how the intelligence community assessed Russia’s 2016 election interference, according to three people briefed on the inquiry.
John H. Durham, the United States attorney leading the investigation, has requested Mr. Brennan’s emails, call logs and other documents from the C.I.A., according to a person briefed on his inquiry. He wants to learn what Mr. Brennan told other officials, including the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, about his and the C.I.A.’s views of a notorious dossier of assertions about Russia and Trump associates.
Perhaps anti-Christian liberal hacks were right all along: Americans are religious zealots. A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans prefer "Merry Christmas" over "Happy Holidays." What's more, they also think that Christmas is a perfect time to talk about Jesus Christ rather than about that guy with the red suit and long beard.
Such disgusting Christian extremists. It's sickening.
OK, that's where the sarcasm ends. Here are the facts: According to Rasmussen, 68 percent of American adults say "Christmas should be more about Jesus Chris than about Santa Claus." Only 16 percent say they emphasize Santa, another 15 percent are undecided
New York Post debate analyst Eric Koch was the communications director for former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, the first Latina ever to hold the powerful position. He has also worked for several state and federal campaigns. Currently a top political operative at Precision Strategies, Koch rated the seven Democratic candidates on their performance in the sixth debate.
Debates like tonight’s are going to make our nominee — whoever it is — much stronger for the general election when they have to face Donald Trump,” Koch said.
Those pathological haters and congenital liars impeached not only President Trump on Wednesday night. They impeached us. This time it is personal. That is my vote they are trying to take away. As an Orthodox Jew, I know plenty about governments taking away my vote. Rome did it to me in Talmudic times. Western Europe did it to me in the Medieval ages. The Ottoman Sultan did it to me. Sheiks did it to me. The Tsar did it to me. Hitler did it to me. Stalin did it to me. Damned if I am going to let a mob of socialist
Lawyers close to President Donald Trump are exploring whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to temporarily withhold articles of impeachment from the Senate could mean that the president hasn’t actually been impeached. The case is a rhetorical one following Wednesday night’s vote to impeach the president on two articles. The U.S. Constitution grants the House of Representatives full authority over impeachment. But the argument is part of an effort by the White House and Senate Republicans to maximize their leverage as lawmakers debate when and how to conduct a trial on charges that the president abused his power to solicit an investigation into political rival Joe Biden,
Twenty-four hours after President Trump was impeached, the Democratic candidates held a debate that almost didn’t happen and that even some insiders were hoping would not happen.
To say that the debate, having overcome a labor dispute at Loyola Marymount University, was overshadowed by the impeachment furor would be the understatement of the year.
For the last several debates, the pundits have forecast that the candidates would beat up on the perceived front-runner. But once again, few punches were thrown, perhaps because the four leading candidates all believe they could win Iowa or New Hampshire and don’t want to take any risks.
The mother of Hunter Biden’s child says the son of former vice president and Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden is refusing to answer any questions pertaining to his “basic” lifestyle and finances as the hearing in their tumultuous paternity case approaches, court papers show.
Lunden Roberts and the younger Biden are embroiled in a bitter court battle in Arkansas surrounding their 16-month-old baby, whom Roberts has argued he should support, according to court records and multiple reports.
The Daily Mail was first to report the latest legal filings, which were submitted to the court Wednesday.
The federal prosecutor probing the origins of the government's Trump-Russia investigation is examining the role of former CIA director John O. Brennan and has requested his communication records. U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, is investigating the origins of the FBI's investigation into Russia led by Attorney General William P. Barr in May. (Snip) Now Durham is honing in on the communications of ex-CIA Director Brennan by requesting his emails, call longs and other documents from the CIA, a source briefed on the inquiry said to the New York Times.