Posts on Monday, December 30, 2019
A Kansas police chief who called out a local McDonald's -- after one of his officers claimed he was served a cup of coffee with a vulgar and insulting message attached -- said Monday the officer has resigned after fabricating the incident.
Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday confirmed the unnamed officer made up the story about being given a coffee cup with "F-----g pig" written on it. The incident caused a stir on social media over the weekend and resulted in criticism of the fast-food giant.
"This was completely and solely fabricated by a Herington police officer who is no longer with our agency," Hornaday said during a Monday news conference.
2020 Democratic front-runner Joe Biden said miners need to find "jobs of the future" when talking about transitioning the economy away from fossil fuels.
"Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well," Biden said Monday during a campaign event in New Hampshire, according to the Washington Post's Dave Weigel. "Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for god's sake!" [Tweet]
On Sunday, Biden also said he wanted to throw fossil fuel executives in prison for damaging the environment.
"Put them in jail," he said. "I'm not joking about this." [Tweet]
Musician Linda Ronstadt drew parallels between the election of President Trump and the rise of the Nazis in Germany during an interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN.
"You have read a lot about the Weimar Republic in Germany, and you sort of see great parallels between then and now," Cooper said in a preview clip released Monday.
"Well, great parallels," said Ronstadt. "There were a lot of chances. Hitler rose to power; there were a lot of chances to stop him, and they didn't speak out. And the industrial complex thought they could control him once they got him in office. And of course, he was not controllable."
Bum appétit! A drooling and pungent homeless man made double-dipping look like child’s play at a Midtown Whole Foods, grabbing from the hot food bar with his bare hands to stuff his bearded face—as employees just chuckled and said they were powerless to stop him. A Post photo editor had just plunked down $17 for a jerk chicken dinner at the store across from Bryant Park Sunday night when he spotted the grungy gourmand ignoring numerous “no sampling” signs to treat the bar like his personal feed-bag. The unidentified chowhound pounded mac-and-cheese and mixed veggies, at times using serving spoons
A top deputy to city schools Chancellor Richard Carranza was busted in Wisconsin for allegedly trying to arrange sex with an underage boy online, police and sources told The Post. Department of Education Deputy Chief of Staff David Hay was arrested getting off at General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee Sunday on a charge of using a computer “to facilitate a child sex crime,” according to Neenah, Wisconsin, cops.(Snip) The senior DOE administrator, who earns $168,000 annually, works with Carranza’s office on the DOE’s Equity and Excellence initiative, according to his LinkedIn page. The Wisconsin native served as a principal in the Milwaukee area
President Trump and Barack Obama are locked in a dead heat as 2019’s most admired man, according to a new study that underscores the political divide in America.
It was Trump’s first time earning the distinction and his predecessor’s 12th.The Gallup poll, conducted each year since 1948, asked Americans to name which man and woman living anywhere in the world they admire most.Of the people surveyed between Dec. 2 and 15, 18 percent of respondents named both Obama and Trump. But the results were predictably split along party lines — with 41 percent of Democrats naming Obama and 45 percent of Republicans choosing Trump.
Florida deputies say they apprehended a fugitive carjacking suspect as he was livestreaming on Instagram.
Kevin Gaines, 20, was captured at his home Thursday night after six weeks on the lam, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies released body cam video showing them watching Gaines’ live on Instagram, Fox 35 Orlando reported Saturday.
“In watching the video, Deputy Billy Leven could tell Gaines was inside the house,” the sheriff’s office said on Facebook. “When he pointed his spotlight into the window, Deputy Leven could see the light show up in the live Instagram video shortly before it abruptly ended.”
Disgraced Fired FBI Director James Comey
Attacks President Trump and Trump
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Attacks President Trump and Trump
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Disgraced fired FBI Director James Comey penned an op-ed published Monday by the Washington Post that bemoans being criticized by President Trump but then goes on to attack Trump as a dangerous, but weakened president. Comey calls Trump a “shrunken, withered figure”. Comey also gets in a cheap shot at Trump supporters, calling them “sad people in red hats.” (Photo) Some things a vainglorious man just doesn’t get over. Comey’s op-ed comes after Trump tweeted about him over the weekend, prompting a reply by Comey.
New York is in a State of Decline.
Despite the nation’s longest economic expansion, the Empire State is actually losing population, an analysis of newly released US Census data released Monday reveals.
The total state population as of mid-2019 was 19,453,561 — a drop of 76,790, or 0.4 percent, from the previous year, according to the study by the Empire Center for Public Policy.
New York was one of only 10 states to suffer a total population decline in 2018-19 — its fourth consecutive annual decrease after five years of growth, and the largest population drop of any state.
Only West Virginia, Alaska and Illinois saw their populations fall at a faster percentage clip.
The Pentagon has released video of one of its airstrikes on Iranian-backed insurgent group Hezbollah. The unclassified footage, released Monday, shows the moments U.S. military launched what they have described as “defensive strikes” against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The video depicts precise targeting and firing of an airstrike proceeded by an explosion and fire. The strike took place in Iraq and was one of five carried out in Iraq and Syria on Sunday. The deadly attacks were in response to the killing of an American contractor reportedly by the Jihadist Hezbollah group in Iraq on Friday. (Tweet) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed the attack
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was met at a campaign stop in New Hampshire by several hecklers who shouted “quid pro quo” and called the former vice president a “pervert.”
Biden was speaking at a rally in Milford on Sunday evening when a man entered the hall and began shouting at him.
“You touch kids on video, and women. We don’t need another old white man running for president,” the man yelled to Biden.
“Don’t touch kids ever again. Don’t touch kids, you pervert,” the man continued before walking out.
Biden, who appeared startled by the accusation, responded: “This is not a Trump rally. This is a democracy.”
Michael Bloomberg said he would forgo using the Oval Office as a traditional office space if he's elected president in 2020, but the suggestion was met with mockery on social media. "As president, I'll turn the East Room into an open office plan, where I’ll sit with our team," the former New York City mayor said in a Monday tweet. "I’ll use the Oval Office for some official functions — never for tweeting — but the rest of the time, I’ll be where a leader should be: with the team." (Tweet) The 2020 presidential candidate was ridiculed online for his tweet by people
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed during a Sunday campaign event that “we’re all dead” if fossil fuels continue to be used as one of the world’s primary energy sources. Biden made the apocalyptic pronouncement while discussing climate change before a crowd of supporters in Peterborough, New Hampshire. “If we don’t stop using fossil fuels–” an attendee began a question to the candidate. “We’re all dead,” Biden interrupted. Earlier in the event, Biden vowed as president to hold energy giants liable for global warming and made a pledge to even jail executives.
President Donald Trump will be holding a massive campaign rally on January 14 in Wisconsin — the same day as the Democrat primary debate in Iowa.Ratings for the Democrat debates have already plummeted, with the December event drawing the smallest audience to date.Trump’s campaign announced the rally on Monday, noting the surge in Wisconsin jobs since Trump took office. “President Trump has delivered for Wisconsin creating 37,400 new jobs, including 4,900 new manufacturing jobs and 13,800 new construction jobs,” Michael Glassner, the campaign’s chief operating officer, said in a statement.
Trump’s Biggest Wins Of 2019
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President Donald Trump’s third year in office is coming to a close after a very eventful 2019.
While impeachment dominated the news headlines over the past several months, the administration also managed many accomplishment throughout the year. To wrap up the year, we’ve created a list of Trump’s biggest wins of 2019.
JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS
President Trump has managed to reshape the judiciary branch in his image by nominating an unprecedented number of federal judges to the bench. The Senate has confirmed 187 Trump-nominated judges in just under three years. This means 20% of the federal judiciary is now made up of Trump appointments.(Snip)THE MUELLER REPORT
Special counsel Robert Mueller released a report
Barack Obama chose Fleabag as one of his must-watch shows of the year - sending fans into a frenzy over the thought of him watching a particular X-rated scene.
The first episode of the first season of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's comedy shows the title character pleasuring herself while watching one of President Obama's speeches on her laptop.
The thought that the President sat through the raunchy moment was too much for some fans to bare.
One fan tweeted: 'Obama likes Fleabag. If you watched Season 1, you know Fleabag . . . um . . . "likes" Obama.' Another put it more crudely: 'I am crying that Obama watches Fleabag
A disgraced bishop spent $4.6million renovating the mansion where he allegedly made advances at young priests before the church quietly sold the property for just $1.2million. Bishop Michael J Bransfield resigned as head of the Catholic Church in West Virginia in September 2018 amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct.(Snip) A secret report later revealed how Bransfield spent more than $2.4million in church funds on personal travel, luxury items, liquor and prescription drugs—along with $4.6million on renovations to his diocese-owned home in Wheeling, where he allegedly groomed and inappropriately touched young men during his 13-year tenure as Wheeling-Charleston Diocese bishop.
Acting Deputy Homeland Secretary Ken Cuccinelli tweeted Monday that the Hanukkah party stabber was the son of an illegal immigrant and suggested he didn't assimilate properly in a tweet which was later deleted. 'The attacker is the US Citizen son of an illegal alien who got amnesty under the 1986 amnesty law for illegal immigrants,' Cuccinelli wrote on his official account.(Snip) Grafton Thomas, 37, the accused stabber, is the son of immigrants from Guyana, his attorney Michael Sussman told DailyMail(dot)com. His mother became a naturalized citizen in 1986, while his father now lives in Utah and the pair are not close.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden on Monday said that he would consider choosing a Republican for a running mate if he’s the 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, though he said someone who would fit the proper bill didn’t immediately come to mind. “The answer is I would, but I can’t think of one now,” Mr. Biden said in response to a questioner at a campaign stop in New Hampshire. “No, I’m serious. … There’s some really decent Republicans that are out there still, but here’s the problem right now with the well-known ones: they’ve got to step up. You know what I mean?”
Recent elections in Virginia have placed the Virginia government within arm's length of widespread gun confiscation. Around eighty-four counties and cities throughout the Commonwealth have pledged to ignore and resist these measures. Some Virginia elected officials have called for the National Guard to carry out such confiscation, which would imply the arrest and disarmament of local officials who get in the way. Governor Northam has stopped short of adopting such an idea, but he will not rule it out. Additional stories indicate that the government will disable internet and telephone access to affected areas during the crackdown.
You know it’s a cold day in hell when a liberal outlet like Bloomberg News is critiquing the left’s climate armageddon. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Noah Smith explained how the “Worst Case for Climate Change Doesn’t Look Realistic.” His Dec. 23, op-ed summarized findings from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and critiqued one of several climate scenarios.
In a departure from the Democratic Party candidate preoccupation of offering up ever bigger banquets of free stuff to voters, Joe Biden has said something that sticks out.
He'd offer a Supreme Court spot to former President Barack Obama, "if he'd take it."
Here's a report from the Epoch Times:
Former Vice President Joe Biden said that he would nominate former President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court if he won the presidency, according to several reports.
Speaking to reporters in Iowa, Biden was asked about whether Obama could get the nod to the nation’s highest court.
“Biden asked here in Washington, Iowa,
A Canadian man who had his arm amputated following complications from an injury suffered decades ago still keeps the skeletal remains of his limb after having it preserved by a taxidermist. Mark Holmgren, 37, suffered a brachial plexus injury when he crashed his brother’s motorbike in 1999, tearing several nerves in his shoulder and rendering his right arm completely useless.Though he had absolutely no movement in the arm, Holmgren refused to have it amputated for two decades hoping advancements in medical science would one day see the unresponsive limb revived.This year, however, he finally relented and contacted doctors
When President Barack Obama shipped $1.7 billion in cash to Iran as part of his nuclear deal, he was funding terrorists. It was entirely predictable, for his partners in the deal are committed to the destruction of Israel first, and then of the United States, once they have the nuclear means to do so.
The Armageddon that would break out after the US defends itself is a feature, not a bug in this plan, for the return of the Twelfth Mahdi will accompany the climactic global conflagration, and bring about the end of history, with Islam triumphant.
The gunman in Sunday's church shooting in Texas has been identified as 43-year-old Keith Thomas Kinnunen. It remains unclear what his motive was, but he opened fire at the West Freeway Church in Fort Worth on Sunday. He was first named by NBC Dallas Fort Worth. Kinnunen had a criminal past which involved arrests for theft and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. He killed two people - a security guard and a grandfather who had just handed out communion - before being brought down by former FBI agent Jack Wilson, 70.
About that rigged Senate
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Complaints emanate from Democrats about rigged, unfair Senate impeachment procedures. That doesn’t make much sense because the House Democrats rigged the whole thing on their side and it takes more chutzpah than most folks can muster to whinge about somebody else doing what they just did.
The Pubs don't have to rig anything. Simply operating by normal rules, they can find Trump not guilty and throw the whole thing out. But the Democrats did rig their half of this by not even letting Pubs ask questions, running it in the basement, leaking to the press and stretching “high crimes and misdemeanors” to mean anything they want it to mean.
Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addressed rumors of a Senate run in his home state of Kansas with Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) announcing he will not seek reelection.
While he would not reveal his plans to run or not, Pompeo told “Fox & Friends” that it is “not something” he wants to do even though he loves it back home.
“It’s my intention to stay here and continue to serve as President Trump’s secretary of State,” Pompeo stated.
“I’ve watched my life take turns that one would never have expected, but it’s not something I want to do,” he added. “I want to stay here and continue to perform the mission that
The man who fatally shot two people at a White Settlement Church on Sunday before being killed by church security has been identified as a 43-year-old Keith Thomas Kinnunen, a River Oaks man with a criminal record, according to two law enforcement sources. Kinnunen is believed to have been wearing a disguise, including a fake beard, when he stood up, pulled a shotgun from his clothing and opened fire inside the church, killing 64-year-old Anton Wallace, a church deacon from Fort Worth, and 67-year-old Richard White, of River Oaks.
Six seconds—six split seconds— and Texas state law permitting concealed firearms inside places of worship saved lives at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, just outside Fort Worth on Sunday.
A still unidentified gunman shot down two parishioners when he opened fire on innocents praying inside the church. The two parishioners died at a nearby hospital. The gunman was fatally shot six seconds after opening fire by two volunteer armed security guards.
Proof from the tragedy shows that at least four other congregants
After the most recent attack on Jews, this time while they were celebrating Hanukkah, I realized that as a radio host and vocal proponent of Jews being armed that I had made a terrible mistake. (snip)My mistake was that while I have argued the need for being armed, I have never given any advice on what to be armed with. So I reached out to some experts on firearms for advice.
Writing as an evangelical Christian who has taught ethics as a professor at the college and graduate school level for 42 years, and as the author of a major textbook on Christian ethics and another widely-used book on the relationship between politics and the Bible, I wish to respectfully differ with Mark Galli’s editorial, “Trump Should Be Removed from Office” (Christianity Today, December 19, 2019). This is in keeping with Galli’s statement that the approach of CT is to “allow Christians with different political convictions to make their arguments in the public square.”
As 2019 ends, the positive economic news regularly astounds financial experts. The stock market continues to reach new highs, while unemployment is at an historic low level. Consumer confidence is soaring, and Americans spent record amounts for the Christmas season. Under President Donald Trump, onerous regulations and taxes have been cut, and Americans have used the extra money to energize the economy. This has happened while inflation and interest rates are at low levels and wages are increasing.
The ex-FBI agent who jumped into action when a gunman opened fire on worshipers during a church service in Texas said Monday he was placed in a position he didn't want to be in, but had to react because "evil exists."
Two men were killed when the gunman opened fire at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement on Sunday morning as more than 240 parishioners were inside. Within seconds, he was shot to death by two congregants who fired back.
Jack Wilson, a Hood County resident running for commissioner for Precinct 3 who is the head of the church's security team, shared some details on his
A woman who sat near the man who killed two men at the West Freeway Church of Christ said he immediately made her feel uneasy. Isabel Arreola, 38, said she did not know what to think when the man sat down two feet behind her and her 7-year-old daughter. She wanted to think that he was there to worship, just like everyone else, but she had never seen him in church, and said he appeared to be in disguise. His beard and the hair on his head looked fake, and he made her uncomfortable, Arreola said. She noticed him from the moment that he sat down, Arreola said
Bill de Blasio blames anti-Semitic
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio blamed the city’s latest string of anti-Semitic attacks on an “atmosphere of hate” that has been “emanating from Washington” in the past few years. The former Democratic presidential candidate on Sunday warned about rising anti-Semitism in the country and abroad after five people were stabbed at a rabbi’s house in Monsey during a Hanukkah celebration, marking at least the eighth attack on Jewish people in New York in recent weeks.(Snip) “What we’re seeing is a growth of anti-Semitism in this country that is profoundly dangerous. It is happening in Europe as well.
Joe Biden said he would nominate Barack Obama to the Supreme Court if the former commander-in-chief was willing to do the job. The former vice president, who served two terms under Obama, was answering questions during a campaign event Saturday in Washington, Iowa when he was asked if he’d ever nominate the 44th president to the nation’s highest court. “If he’d take it, yes.” Biden said in response. The move, if Biden were elected as president in 2020, would make Obama the second president in American history to also serve as a Supreme Court justice.
A Brooklyn miscreant accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women last week struck again on Sunday and was busted for assaulting another woman, police said. A day after she was released without bail on charges stemming from the Friday attack, Tiffany Harris was charged with assault for slugging a 35-year-old in the face on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights at about 9:15 a.m., according to police. It’s unclear if Sunday’s victim is Jewish—and police weren’t treating the incident as a hate crime. The victim suffered swelling and bruising to her right eye from the pummeling, police said.
Democratic presidential contenders are facing increasing pressure to detail their plans for filling federal court vacancies amid angst over President Trump's success in packing the benches with conservative judges.Trump has been able to get his appointees confirmed at a pace that surpasses that of any recent administration. The Senate left town the week before Christmas after confirming 12 more of Trump’s judicial appointees, bringing the total number of lifetime judges appointed in this administration to 187.For many on the left, the issue of recapturing
Iran has warned the US of "consequences" after Washington carried out airstrikes against an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq.
The US has "openly shown its support to terrorism and shown its negligence to the independence and national sovereignty of countries," said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mosavi , according to the state-run IRNA news agency."It must accept responsibility of the consequences of the illegal attacks," added Mosavi.At least 25 people were killed and 51 wounded in the airstrikes that targeted five facilities controlled by Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq and Syria on Sunday.Kataib Hezbollah is a militia group
‘Make sure your vote is on target’:
Man who stopped Texas church
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Man who stopped Texas church
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The man who fired back and saved the lives of his fellow churchgoers in Texas is running for office with the campaign slogan: “Make sure your vote is on target.”Jack Wilson, 71, shot and killed a gunman who opened fire in West Freeway Church of Christ in Tarrant County, near Fort Worth, Texas. Wilson was on duty as the volunteer security officer at the time of the shooting. He drew his weapon and killed the assailant within seconds.Wilson’s aim wasn’t surprising, given his background. He was president of On Target Firearms Training Academy until 2016, worked as a deputy sheriff,
Greta Thunberg's father today revealed he feared depression would kill her before she launched her 'climate crisis' campaign as the teenager used control of a BBC show to blast Donald Trump and insist meeting him would be a 'waste of time'. Svante Thunberg told his 16-year-old daughter it was 'a bad idea' to lead the campaign to halt global warming – but now believes it 'saved her' after she stopped eating and talking for months during a long bout of depression. Speaking on a special edition of the BBC Radio 4 Today programme guest-edited by Greta, Mr Thunberg said in a rare interview:
This was the Decade of the Twilight of the Elites. From Brexit to the U.S. presidential election, from Bolsonaro in Brazil to the people’s revolutions that swept Europe, the arrogant, corrupt and complacent political establishments of the old order fought desperately to uphold their rotten hegemony only to be crushed, schooled and humiliated to the point of near-irrelevance by a mighty wave of populism. Here were some of the key moments…
Donald Trump’s Presidential Victory
No other event in the 2010s is going to eclipse the significance of Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
Spectacular Biden buffoonery revealed in the wake of
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The Democrats’ frontrunner for the presidential race is an embarrassment to the world’s oldest political party. I can only explain his polling lead by pointing to the pathetic group of competitors he faces. (snip) Biden has said and done many foolish things in the course of his long political career, but in the wake of heroic armed Texans taking down a shooter attempting mass murder, the following gem highlighted by OANN’s Jack Posobiec takes the cake. Just a few months ago, Biden actually attacked Texas Governor Greg Abbott as “irrational” for permitting church-goers to carry firearms.
Bloomberg News drew fire earlier this year for making it company policy to not investigate its owner (liberal billionaire 2020 presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg) or his Democratic rivals going into the election. The company said they would continue to investigate President Donald Trump, however. A recent Bloomberg investigation showed the outlet violated that policy, and the liberal HuffPost is having none of it.
In the fantasy world inhabited by progressives, passing laws to restrict gun ownership and the carrying of firearms prevents violence. (snip) Worshippers in a suburb of Fort Worth, Texas heroically demonstrated the wisdom of our Founders and the superiority of Texas-style governance yesterday when an attempt was made to slaughter a large number of people at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement (can you imagine a pair of names more likely to elicit scorn from elitists?). Armed parishioners fought back and shot the gunman dead before he was able to slaughter more than two of them.
"The Ten Ships," which was written ten years ago, argued that Afghanistan had no intrinsic geographical value in the War on Terror. (Snip) Time has been kind to that assessment. Attempts to remake Afghanistan into something moderately Western through nation-building has wound up feeding the Taliban. "Families of almost 150 U.S. service members and civilians who were killed or wounded in terror attacks in Afghanistan sued a group of Western contractors involved in the nation's reconstruction for allegedly bribing the Taliban for protection for years."
Global warming protests, past the point of absurdity long ago, have become even more extreme thanks to a relatively new group from England. The founder’s background shows exactly why the organization has chosen to engage in the mindless behavior it’s become known for.
Though she has a doctorate in molecular biophysics, Extinction Rebellion architect Gail Bradbrook, called a “neo-pagan” by Britain’s Daily Mail, intentionally went down a path filled with folklore, superstition, tribal rites, and primitive hallucinogenics.
She’s a “lifelong activist,” reports CNN, who has “spent decades working on an array of social justice campaigns,” though few ever lead to real change. So, “in order to bring about real, radical change
You’ve heard about a “battle of the bands,” a contest among rock bands, country music bands, even high school marching bands. Long ago, a noisy competition between rival brass bands was held on a dreary December night, the prelude to an actual military battle the next day.
This is the story of the original Battle of the Bands.
There’s something particularly sad about being far from home during the holiday season, especially for soldiers in wartime. It made things worse for thousands of troops massed on the rolling hillsides of middle Tennessee at the end of 1862.
This week on the Sunday news shows: The New York Times executive editor said journalists need to do a better job of understanding religious people, presidential candidate Andrew Yang said he is open to the possibility of prosecuting President Donald Trump once he's out of office, and Washington Free Beacon founding editor Matthew Continetti discussed the growing distrust between voters and the media. New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet said it's "odd" to be called a member of the elite, but he acknowledged journalists must do more to understand religion.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is thanking President Donald Trump for a phone call in which the US president shared intelligence that has prevented terrorist attacks planned for New Years Eve in Russia. In a phone call initiated by Russia, the Kremlin said that a “range of issues of mutual interest” were discussed, including information that lead to the arrests of two Russian citizens who were plotting the terror attacks.On Sunday, Putin’s office released a statement thanking President Trump “for the transfer, through special services, of information allowing the prevention of terrorist acts in Russia.”
If you thought you can’t top the stupidity we experienced in 2019, brace yourself for 2020 because it’s going to be a pronoun-fueled weather cult pinko freakshow. But it won’t be all amusing antics – the left hates us and its ugly mask is coming off, revealing the even uglier fascist visage lurking beneath. If you listen to them, and if you aren’t an insufferable goo goo wimp who refuses to hear them, you will know that they intend to silence you, even imprison you, and deprive you of the ability to participate in your own governance. So, if you want to live as a free man or woman –
On Sunday, NBC News political director Chuck Todd dedicated the final Meet the Press of 2019 to insisting President Trump had brought about a “post-truth society.” The same network that pushed the totally-bunk Steele dossier for years and tried to sink Justice Brett Kavanagh’s nomination with the ridiculous allegations from Julie Swetnick, wanted to lecture the public about falling for and spreading lies and misinformation. In the process, Todd lashed out at Christians for believing in “fairy tales.”“This Sunday, alternative facts. The assault on truth (…) This morning, Meet the Press takes an in-depth look at our post-truth society
Democrats, fast on the heels of new impeachment articles against President Donald Trump, have seemed to have settled on their election and reelection strategy for 2020 — impeach ‘til the cows come home.
It’s one click past witch hunt and one small, very small step before “get the somofableep!”
Republicans, ever the party of the genteel, have a different phrase for it; they call it “overplaying one’s hand.” And certainly, Democrats, digging as they are for more articles of impeachment, even as they hold tight to the existing articles of impeachment, even as they send dictates over to the Senate to command-control
A Texas police officer's home has been targeted with Molotov cocktails twice in one week and investigators believe the attacks could be linked to suspects in his cases.The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office Sergeant's residence was first hit with a gasoline bomb on Monday around 9.30pm and the officer woke to find a fire where the front window was damaged. Then on Sunday around 3am the property in the Katy area was under attack again. The vehicle parked in front the home of the officer who works robbery and homicide investigations was set ablaze in the driveway.
The IRS placed a tax lien on Hunter Biden seeking $112,805 in unpaid taxes from 2015, according to records the Daily Caller News Foundation obtained.
The federal agency issued the previously unreported lien in November 2018 and it seeks unpaid taxes for a year in which Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden, served on the boards of the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings and the Chinese private equity firm BHR Partners.
“We have made a demand for payment of this liability, but it remains unpaid,” the IRS stated in the lien notice, which it filed with the Washington, D.C., Recorder of Deeds.
We are now looking at 2019 in our rear view mirrors, since it is time for those irritating “The Best/Worst of the year” lists. This past year was full of irritations, on many levels, from the shallow and superficial, to the rarest of rare political actions taken by the most irritating Congress in history. Let’s start with some of the candidates:Speaking of shallow and superficial, there is that previously little-known actor Jussie Smollett. His claim to fame was as a character in the FOX TV show “Empire.” Smollett, a gay black man, became a hero portraying, you guessed it: a gay black man.
Anti-Semitic attacks continue to shake our city and state. Last week, eight attacks — including four in just in 48 hours — sent a familiar shockwave rippling through the Jewish community. Then Saturday came the horrific stabbing in Monsey, New York. The poison of Jew-hatred is spreading.
Like many of you, I’m thinking, “Not this subject again.” How many columns can be devoted to it? I’ve read them. I’ve written them. It’s exhausting, and it’s dreary. Jews are being beaten up, anti-Semitism flows some years and ebbs in others. So what?
But it matters — gravely.
During a recent CNN interview, New Yorker editor David Remnick expressed consternation with the public’s refusal to accept at face value what the news media report about President Trump. Our intransigence, it seems, is a source of considerable frustration for the Fourth Estate: “We don’t understand why the evidence of things, why facts don’t penetrate so many of our brothers and sisters in the United States of America.” Remnick and the press corps for whom he presumes to speak evidently fail to comprehend that this patronizing attitude toward their “brothers and sisters” is precisely what created and still drives public mistrust of the media.
On Friday the Wall Street Journal ran an extra-long and remarkable editorial about the agenda of Elizabeth Warren (“Elizabeth Warren Has a Plan, Oh My“), which is so far beyond extravagant that “socialism” seems an inadequate adjective. She makes Bernie Sanders look cautious by comparison. As the Journal put it in the lede:
“[A]s we discovered after a tour of her 60-some policy papers, Ms. Warren is proposing a transformation of American government, business and life that exceeds what the socialist dreamers of a century ago imagined.”
Warren is not simply offering lots and lots of free stuff (Medicare for All, free college, higher Social Security benefits,
Well, they managed to do it and it didn’t take long at all. Just yesterday we were discussing how the city of Baltimore, Maryland had tied the 21st-century record number of murders at 342 on Thursday. And there were still several days to go until the end of the year. On Friday night another man was shot multiple times and at some point early Saturday morning he succumbed to his injuries and passed away. That was number 343, a higher death toll than any seen in the city since the early 1990s. (Baltimore Sun) Baltimore police recorded the 343rd homicide of the year Saturday with the fatal shooting
A Thai Navy Seal who was part of the dramatic three-day rescue of a youth soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 has died of a blood infection he contracted during the daring operation, officials said.
The Royal Thai Navy said Friday on Facebook that Petty Officer 1st Class Bayroot Pakbara was receiving treatment but his condition worsened after the infection spread into his blood. Officials did not disclose what specific infection Pakbara suffered from, or how he contracted it.
Pakbara, who was referred to as a "hero" by the Navy, will posthumously be promoted to the rank of lieutenant.
Don't Mess With Texas
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This short video is suddenly everywhere. It comes from a livestream of the service at the church near Fort Worth where someone opened fire on parishioners with what looks like a shotgun. He was immediately shot by two legally armed persons, one of whom reportedly was a security guard. It appears that altogether, there were six people who immediately pulled guns in response to the shooter. [Video]
In recent months, there have been a number of anti-Semitic attacks, including attacks on synagogues. There have been a number of attacks on churches as well. Anti-gun pieties do nothing to protect innocent people when lunatics or ideologically-motivated murderers strike.
The Cartoonish Climate Crusade
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For several years now the climatistas have liked to point out that the Pentagon—the military industrial complex!—is down with climate alarmism, issuing a series of reports saying that climate change might be a serious security risk in the future. I always enjoy this celebration, because it is the first time I can remember that the left has embraced with complete credulity something coming out of the Pentagon, which they otherwise wish to gut if not abolish. (By how much do Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders want to cut the defense budget?) Equally amusing is the lack of any perception that Pentagon bureaucrats, like all bureaucrats,