Posts on Friday, January 3, 2020
Bill Gates has become the latest billionaire to call for higher taxes on America's über-rich. The 64-year-old Microsoft founder—who is the second wealthiest person in the world with an estimated fortune of $114 billion—penned a New Year's Eve blog post detailing various ways that the government could extract more revenue from the wealthiest Americans.(Snip) Despite conceding that his proposals might not be popular with many moneyed Americans, Gates suggested that lawmakers could target the affluent by raising capital gains tax rates, increasing taxes on inheritances, and taxing fortunes that are sitting untouched in banks.
In Wisconsin this February, one lawmaker wants to mark Black History Month by celebrating 10 Americans–including a Civil War colonel, a newspaper editor and a church deacon. All are heralded for their bravery, but most on the list are white. The resolution, circulated this month, identifies a group of people integral to the state's Underground Railroad system, both slaves who travelled it and abolitionists who sheltered them. The author, Republican state representative Scott Allen, says it's a sincere effort to salute important historical figures, but several black legislators have called the effort disingenuous and said it undermines the purpose of Black History Month
Demonstrating that it learned nothing from the backlash after it called ISIS top dog Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi an “austere religious scholar,” the Washington Post called Qasem Soleimani, who was killed today in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad, Iran’s “most revered military leader.” If Soleimani, who as head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force was responsible for aiding numerous jihad terror activities worldwide, was revered at all, it was more by the Obama foreign policy team that saw him and his government as a valid partner for negotiations than by anyone in Iran. And tonight, the Obama team and the entire U.S. foreign policy
Retired Army Major General James Marks shut down arguments being made against the Iran airstrike by Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy.The CNN military analyst and former Commanding General, U.S. Army Intelligence Center spoke on “New Day” Friday about President Trump’s ordered airstrike in Iraq that killed an Iranian military leader. (Video) Marks, who was the senior intelligence officer in the invasion of Iraq in 2003, was asked about his take on the airstrike that killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad just days after New Year’s attacks on the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad.
A young woman in Texas who said she was sent home from work because of her hijab has gone viral after she posted what she says is a video of her experience online. Stefanae Coleman posted a video on Twitter Monday of what she says was her discussion with a manager at a Chicken Express restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, who allegedly told her to leave for wearing a hijab at work.
In the video, which has garnered over 635K views, Coleman starts explaining to her manager why she wears a hijab. The unidentified man wearing a red Chicken Express
In May 2011, discussions began secretly in Mexico between a known Los Zetas associate and Quds Force operative Manssor Arbabsiar. The discussion would lead to planning a C-4 detonation at a Washington, D.C. restaurant frequented by Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir. The Quds Force operative did not know that he was being recorded in a DEA operation. Over the course of a few months, several clandestine meetings in Mexico planned strikes against the Israeli Embassy in Washington, plus and the Saudi and Israeli Embassies in Argentina. New opium trafficking lanes between the Middle East and Mexico
Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is incensed the United States has killed the world's leading Islamic terrorist, Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. On her Twitter feed, Omar condemns President Trump for approving the drone strike but doesn't condemn Soleimani or any of his actions. Soleimani is responsible for the murder and maiming of thousands of Americans.
Omar has a history of sympathizing with terrorists. She's refused to condemn Hamas, a terrorist organization funded by Iran, Hezbollah, a proxy of Iran and asked a judge to give leniency for a Somali man who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.
CNN’s chief international anchor described the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in 2011 as a “nothing burger” compared to Thursday’s killing of Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.The leader of Iran’s elite Quds Force was killed during an airstrike Thursday ordered by President Donald Trump near the Baghdad, Iraq, airport, the Pentagon said in a statement.
“Qasem Soleimani was at the height of his power when he was taken out. Unlike Osama bin Laden, who was a forgotten, you know, nothing burger,
Here are the third annual Breitbart News Awards for fake news and overall bias and bad behavior.
The low-lights are endless, but if they’re still not enough for you, here are the awards from 2017 and 2018.
AND THE WINNERS ARE…
2019’s ‘Fox Staffer Caught Kissing Future Employer Jeff Zucker’s Ass the Most’ Award
Andrew Napolitano
2019’s ‘Fox Staffer Caught Kissing Future Employer Jeff Zucker’s Ass the Second Most’ Award
Chris Wallace
2019’s ‘Best Impression of Death Wish Meets Pajama Boy’ Award
Joe Scarborough
2019’s ‘Best Impression of Joe McCarthy Meets Pajama Boy’ Award
Chuck Todd
2019’s ‘Best Impression of Your First Wife’ Award
Tie: Jennifer Rubin and Ana Navarro
The Republican National Committee (RNC) and President Donald Trump finished up an impressive 2019 by pulling in a combined $154 million in the fourth quarter.Overall, the joint fundraising committee between the RNC and Trump raked in a combined $463.6 million in 2019, and reported $194.8 million cash on hand at the end of the year. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel claimed that impeachment has been a driving force behind Trump’s historic fundraising numbers.(Photo) “President Trump’s unwavering commitment to keeping his promises
The Muslim population of England has passed the three million mark for the first time, according to estimates prepared by Whitehall. They said that Muslims are the fastest-growing faith group in the country–while allegiance to Christianity continues to decline. The figures were produced by the Office for National Statistics as part of a research project to try for the first time to make regular assessments of the size of different ethnic and religious groups. Until now religious and ethnic minority populations could be gauged only once a decade using the results of the full-scale ten-yearly national census.
San Diego officials have unveiled a new plan to spend $90 to $100 million over the next decade to complete a backlog of more than 81,000 city sidewalk repairs to stem a recent tide of large injury payouts. (snip) ...a jury awarded Cynthia Hedgecock, the wife of former Mayor Roger Hedgecock, just under $85,000 in December 2017 for ruptured breast implants she suffered during a 2015 sidewalk fall.
Police allege the owner of a psychic and palm reading business stole over $70,000 from a client after telling the woman her 10-year-old daughter was possessed by a demon and that she needed to purchase the child’s “soul back.”
Tracy Milanovich, 37, who court records show lives at the same address as her Somerset business, 814 County St., was arraigned in Fall River District Court on six counts of obtaining property “by trick” and one count each of criminal harassment, larceny, witness intimidation and attempting to commit a crime, according to court documents.
The alleged con unraveled after the victim told her husband about payments she made to Milanovich.
China is calling for peaceful dialogue to resume between the U.S. and North Korea. On Thursday, Beijing’s foreign minister called for both Pyongyang and Washington to soften rhetoric against each other amid the heightening tensions. Earlier this week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country is planning to unveil a “new strategic weapon” to deter perceived threats from the U.S. Kim also said North Korea no longer needs to adhere to its suspension of nuclear weapons testing. Officials said North Korea’s threats will only hurt the prospect of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.“In the current situation, increasing the tension is not conducive to dialogue
A body has been found in a shallow grave at an empty Alabama home during the search for a missing woman who vanished two weeks ago after leaving a bar with two men and texting a friend to say: 'I feel in trouble'. Authorities say a woman's body was found wrapped in fabric and buried on a property in Hueytown, about 15 miles outside of Birmingham, on Friday.(Snip) She was believed to have been at the bar with co-workers and friends have said she didn't know the two men she left with. Houston sent a text message to a friend
Breaking News: New US airstrike
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A new U.S. air strike has targeted a convoy of pro-Iran militiamen late on Friday on Taji road north of Baghdad, Iraqi state TV said. The air strikes targeted Iran-backed Shiite militia leaders near camp Taji north of Baghdad, killing six people and critically wounding three, an Iraqi army source said late on Friday. Initial reports from militant social media sources indicated that a high-ranking figure may have been among those killed in the strike. The Pentagon did not immediately respond to an inquiry from DailyMail(dot)com. It follows a U.S. airstrike at the Baghdad airport early on Friday
A desperate search has been launched to try and find a driver who was seen plunging off the edge of a cliff on Monday.
Footage of the driver careering into water that is 40 feet deep was released by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office yesterday.
A dark SUV is seen speeding along the shoulder of Highway 1 near Gray Whale Cove State Beach in San Mateo County.
In his first televised remarks since ordering the airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad, President Trump said he took the drastic action to stop a war, not start one. “We took action last night to stop a war,” Trump said during brief remarks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. “We did not take action to start a war.”Trump said Soleimani was planning “imminent and sinister attacks.” Here are Trump’s full comments, via a poll report from a White House reporter in Florida. Thank you very much and good afternoon. As president my highest and most solemn duty is the defense of our nation and its citizens.
In August, CNN — an anti-Trump outlet that traffics in conspiracy theories, fake news, and promoting violence against Trump supporters — hired the disgraced former deputy director as a contributor and analyst.At the time, McCabe was already out at the FBI after then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired him for “an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lack[ing] candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”This week, new documents emerged that not only prove McCabe is a liar, but that he remained silent as the FBI launched an investigation to track down a leaker when the leaker was … McCabe.
A hateful straphanger made anti-Semitic comments to a woman in Brooklyn, threatening to throw her onto the subway tracks, police said. The 41-year-old victim was waiting for a Manhattan-bound 4 train at Utica Avenue in Crown Heights on December 2nd at around 6:30 a.m. when the stranger began screaming at her, cops said late Thursday. “You f—ing Jew with the wig… I’m going to throw you on the tracks” she threatened, police sources said. The woman then followed the passenger onto the train where the rant continued, authorities said.(Snip) The victim endured the screed for five stops
Leaders of the United Methodist Church–America’s second-largest Protestant denomination–have announced plans to split the church in two after years of division over same sex marriage. The plan, if approved at the church’s worldwide conference in Minneapolis in May, would divide the denomination into two branches: a traditionalist branch that opposes gay marriage and the ordination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clergy, and a more tolerant branch that will allow same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy. The split would affect the denomination globally, church leaders said. The United Methodist Church lists more than 13 million members in the United States
Was the machete attack at Rabbi Chaim Rottenburg’s home in Monsey, NY last Saturday night wake-up call enough? Are liberal American Jews ready to accept the truth about anti-Semitism in America? (Snip) Joan Terrell-Paige, an elected member of the Jersey City school board responded angrily. She began her response to Gadsen’s post by vilifying the city’s Jews as "brutes" who oppressed blacks by buying apartments from them. Then she accused "6 rabbis," of "selling body parts." Then she accused Jews of planting "drugs and guns" in the black community. In closing, Terrell-Paige paid homage to the shooters. "Mr. Anderson and
The McClatchy Co., the newspaper publisher that’s teetering near bankruptcy, skipped a payment to some of its pensioners. The company will not be releasing funds to a “small number” of participants in its Supplemental Executive Retirement Benefits plan as it addresses its long-term liquidity pressures, McClatchy said in a statement Thursday. The company faces a mandatory $124 million contribution to its pension plan in 2020. “This decision is not taken lightly, but at a time when the company is actively negotiating the future of the qualified pension plan, it would be inconsistent with our culture to continue payments on the
A California man died of his injuries when he tried to stop a thief who snatched his laptop from a local Starbucks, according to local reports.
The unidentified victim was working on his computer at an east Oakland branch of the coffee chain Tuesday morning — when someone grabbed the device and ran to a nearby SUV, authorities told KTVU.
It was unclear if a driver was waiting in the car.
The victim briefly struggled with the thief inside the car, a witness named Julie told ABC 7.
Trump Administration to Go After
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States Allowing Illegal Immigrants
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Chad Wolf, the acting Secretary of Homeland Security "is taking aim at new laws in New York and New Jersey that allow immigrants to get driver's licenses without proof they are in the U.S. legally, and restrict data sharing with federal authorities," according to a report from the Associated Press.
Wolf sent a memo within the department requesting "a department-wide study on how the laws affect its enforcement efforts."
New York is the 13th state that has authorized illegal immigrants to obtain driver's licenses. In addition to giving illegals a state-issued license, the New York state law actually prohibits the New York Department of Motor Vehicles
A commemorative calendar has been published by the European Space Agency showcasing 12 lesser-known images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, marking 30 years since its launch.
The spectacular selection of images show galactic mergers, dying stars and diamond like clusters - all taken by the telescope over 30 years. They've been dubbed 'hidden gems' by ESA.
The telescope, named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, was launched in April 1990 as a joint NASA and ESA mission.
In its three decades of operation it has helped pin down the age of the universe, understand seasons on other planets and improve out understanding of planets outside of the Solar System.
Impeachment impasse deepens as
McConnell rejects Pelosi's bid
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McConnell rejects Pelosi's bid
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking from the chamber’s floor Friday, rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to shape a pending impeachment trial as “fantasy”—leaving the process at a standstill as lawmakers return from the holiday recess. “Their turn is over. They’ve done enough damage. It’s the Senate’s turn now to render sober judgment,” McConnell, R-Ky., said on the Senate floor.(Snip)McConnell called Pelosi’s effort to “hand-design” the proceedings in the Senate a “non-starter” and a “fantasy.”
The U.S. is on heightened alert after Iran vowed 'harsh retaliation' for an American airstrike in Iraq and that killed a top Iranian general—as it is feared that sleeper cells may be ready to attack in major cities. The killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran's elite Quds Force, on Friday marks a major escalation in the standoff between the U.S. and Iran. Major cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have already said they are stepping up security in the aftermath of the airstrikes to prevent any revenge attacks. It comes amid fears that the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant
Harrowing video shows a pizza shop worker being brutally assaulted during a robbery near Seattle. The footage, released Monday by the King County Sheriff’s Office, shows Southside Pizza employee Brittany Brophy fending off an attacker who busted into the White Center business via a back door late Monday. The assailant, clad in all black, can be seen approaching Brophy inside an office, where she was counting money just before ending her shift, Q13 FOX reports. Brophy immediately retreats onto a desk while kicking wildly at the man, who then tries to subdue her. The man grabs a bundle of cash while still struggling
This will not be a Benghazi,” vowed President Donald Trump to reporters on New Year’s Eve. “This will never, ever be a Benghazi.” A spot-on analogy. So far, so good. It looks like a seizure of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad by Iranian militants has been averted. In so doing, President Trump — with full credit to our troops — has averted not only a Benghazi but a Jimmy Carter. The parallels between what happened in the Middle East the final week of December 2019 and what happened in the Middle East the final weeks of 1979 are chilling. Iranian agitators marched on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad almost 40
Qassem Soleimani’s demise came as his life project — spreading the Islamic Republic’s zeal in the Mideast and beyond — was crumbling. That doesn’t mean the Iranian general couldn’t, or wouldn’t, have wreaked the kind of harm that the Trump administration felt it needed to preempt. It may even explain why Soleimani has been on such a manic campaign. In any event, shortly after the drone kill at Baghdad airport was confirmed, Secretary of State Pompeo re-tweeted a video of gleeful Iraqis who had awakened at at 4:30 a.m. in Baghdad
This is the moment two Islamic Revolutionary Guard generals were killed in the US airstrike on Baghdad airport which also killed Quds commander Qassem Soleimani. CCTV footage filmed close to the airport and shared by Iraqi TV station AhadTV shows a large explosion as one of the two cars was destroyed by precision missiles early on Friday morning. Brigadier General Hussein Jafari Nia and Major-General Hadi Taremi were named among the dead by the semi-official Fars agency, along with Colonel of the Guards Shahroud Mozaffari Nia and Captain Waheed Zamanian. Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy-commander of the Iraqi-based pro-Iran People's Mobilization Forces,
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper compared Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps killed in an American airstrike on Thursday, to French president Charles de Gaulle, a leader of the French resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II."Soleimani is—it's difficult to convey how revered he is in Iran. Imagine the French Foreign Legion, at the height of the French empire. This guy is regarded in Iran as a completely heroic figure, personally very brave," CNN host Fareed Zakaria said."I was trying to think of somebody, and I was thinking of de Gaulle, although he became the leader of the country," Cooper said.
Pelosi Condemns Trump’s ‘Provocative and
Disproportionate’ Airstrike Killing Top Iranian
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Disproportionate’ Airstrike Killing Top Iranian
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House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned Thursday’s U.S. airstrike killing top Iranian military leaders, calling it a dangerous, disproportionate response by President Donald Trump to this week’s attacks on a U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.The targeted airstrike killed powerful Iranian military commanders the Pentagon says were responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American and coalition service members - and were plotting more attacks, CNSNews.com reports: “Major-General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force and considered
French police have shot and killed a man in a car park near Paris following a knife attack. The incident took place near to the Hautes-Bruyères State Park in Villejuif, according to the Prefecture de Police. At least three people were stabbed in the Paris suburb before police were able to stop the attacker. A local mayor said one person was killed and several injured in the afternoon attack, but police couldn't immediately confirm the death or the number of injured people.(Snip) The footage appears to show the attacker wearing what resembles an explosive vest.
Fox News anchor Leland Vittert on Thursday seemed to repeatedly suggest to Defense Secretary Mark Esper that the U.S. should consider military action against Iran, comparing the Middle East regime to schoolyard bullies who only understand a “punch in the nose.”(Snip)During an appearance on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Esper reiterated President Donald Trump’s message that the United States will issue a “severe response” if Iran continues with its “bad behavior” in the region, adding that it was “time that Iran started acting like a normal country.”
“It’s a long list of bad behavior, and I’m glad you brought that up,” Vittert, (Snip) replied. “It’s like a sandbox in grade school.
On New Year's Day, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei taunted Donald Trump on his favorite platform, Twitter, after the President vowed Iran would be held "fully responsible" for any lives lost at U.S. facilities abroad."You can't do anything," Khamenei boldly declared.
Less than 48 hours later, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force, was killed in an airstrike in Iraq ordered by "that guy" President Trump, with the ayatollah now claiming "harsh retaliation is waiting for the criminals whose filthy hands spilled his blood."His words were echoed by Iran's president Hassan Rouhani, who promised to "take revenge for this heinous crime."
When President Donald Trump gave the order to kill Iran's Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani, he not only made an arguably proportionate response to the invasion of the U.S. Embassy this week but he also reversed a policy of the Obama administration. According to a report from 2018, Israel was "on the verge" of assassinating Soleimani in 2015, but Obama's officials foiled the plan. In fact, they reached out to Iran with news of Israel's plans.
The Trump administration, on the other hand, gave Israel a green light to assassinate Soleimani, according to a January 1, 2018 report from the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida.
The news coming out of California gets crazier every week.
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a law which just went into effect that limits personal water usage. People can even be hit with massive fines if they exceed their limit by doing laundry and taking a shower on the same day.
This was recently discussed on KTLA News and the reporters seemed shocked to learn the details.
When President Donald Trump gave the order to kill Iran's Quds Force leader Qasem Soleimani, he not only made an arguably proportionate response to the invasion of the U.S. Embassy this week but he also reversed a policy of the Obama administration. According to a report from 2018, Israel was "on the verge" of assassinating Soleimani in 2015, but Obama's officials foiled the plan. In fact, they reached out to Iran with news of Israel's plans.
The Trump administration, on the other hand, gave Israel a green light to assassinate Soleimani, according to a January 1, 2018 report from the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida. The paper quoted a source in Jerusalem
Pelosi says Trump carried out strike
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is calling on the Trump administration to immediately brief lawmakers on the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian commander in Iraq and what the White House plans to do next.
The strike in Iraq was directed by President Donald Trump and killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran's secretive Quds Force, the Department of Defense announced Thursday night.
The move, which is likely to provoke retaliation from Iran, comes amid heightened tensions between the Trump administration and Tehran over rocket attacks aimed at coalition forces in Iraq. U.S. officials have said those attacks were likely carried out by Iranian-backed militias with links to the Quds Force.
Anti-Semitic attacks are increasing at an alarming rate in the New York area, and NBC New York seems to think Hasidic and Orthodox Jews have somehow created this problem by … living there. In a now-deleted tweet, the media outlet shared a story and claimed “the expansion of Orthodox communities outside NYC” has resulted in “civic sparring,” and “some fear the recent violence may be an outgrowth of that conflict.” NBC New York deleted the tweet shortly after, but the story, originally reported and written by the Associated Press, itself isn’t much better. In fact, it might be worse. The
It must be Providence giving President Donald Trump his wings—wings he is able to keep from being totally scorched by the incessant sabotage of the Nancy Pelosi-led Congressional Democrats—who will stop at nothing to get rid of him. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s wings come from what pundit James Fockler calls a “Big Fat, 200-seat, USAF C-32, Boeing 757 jet that could get her, her relatives, staff and friends back to California without stopping for refueling!”
“Queen Pelosi wasn’t happy with the small USAFC-20B jet, Gulf Stream 111 that comes with the
A man who was missing in the Grand Canyon for 11 days was found alive Thursday, park officials said.
Martin E. O'Connor, 58, disappeared on Dec. 22 and was last seen at the Yavapai Lodge on the South Rim of Grand Canyon, a press release from the Grand Canyon National Park Service said.
O'Connor is from La Porte, Texas, which is part of the Houston metro area.
At the time, he was believed to have been traveling alone and stayed at the lodge from Dec. 17 to Dec. 22, the press release said.
CBS offered a double take moment on Thursday as contributor Michael Morell concluded that the “the Iranians want a Democrat in the White House in 2021.” This Morning hosts Tony Dokoupil and Jericka Duncan wondered about the “cycle of violence” and whether “President Trump is vulnerable when you look at him facing impeachment and an election?”
So much for the taunt from Iran’s “supreme leader,” Ayatollah Khamanei, that America “cannot do a damn thing” about Iran’s attack on our embassy in Baghdad. It took President Trump but a day after that jibe to wheel on the Iranians. He launched a drone attack that found and killed the commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Qassim Soleimani. It is likely to mark a turning point in the not-so-quasi war that Iran has been levying against us — and, among others, Israel.
This is not a situation in which responsibility is being debated on murky evidence.
The 2020 Democratic presidential field is in near unanimous agreement that fracking has to be banned or at least regulated to death over time. It plays well to the party’s base, especially its green fringe. It’s also an endorsement of recession.
Joe Biden, currently atop the Democratic primary polls, recently said he would “love to” ban fracking “right now,” and would also “love to make sure we can’t use any oil or gas, period,” reports Common Dreams, a website that caters to leftist and socialist devotees.
But the decelerated Delawarean’s plan is to “transition away from” fracking rather than killing it all at once. So put him in the “slow death”
Democrats are a lot of annoying and awful things, and God forbid they should roll back into power in the next election. But they're also ridiculous, obnoxious, sanctimonious, constantly getting caught unawares of how preposterous their positions have placed them. It takes a whole lot of piety, hypocrisy, and phoniness to achieve some of the heights they've reached in the past year. Here's my bottom-up selection of the top 25 beclownings for 2019:
25. Edelweiss: The New York Times's Maggie Haberman, ever quick to find a reason to call President Trump a 'Nazi'
Chuck Todd’s “Meet the Press Daily” could be sidelined at MSNBC as part of a dramatic anchor reshuffling at the cable network to promote rising star Nicolle Wallace.While the “MTP” flagship, also under NBC political director Todd, remains the No. 1 rated Sunday political show, with over 3 million viewers, his weekday 5 p.m. spinoff show has seen a dip in the all-important 25-to-54 age demographic. It airs between more popular, opinionated shows: Wallace’s “Deadline: White House,” which peaked with 2 million viewers in 2019, and “The Beat With Ari Melber.”TV insiders say NBC News boss Andy Lack
Joe Biden’s Obamacare Retread
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Watching the Democratic Presidential candidates debate the best way to fix health care, it’s difficult to escape the impression that they suffer from collective amnesia. Their party had its shot at reforming the system a decade ago and blew it by passing a slapdash “reform” program that clashed so violently with the laws of economics that it became a symbol of big government overreach, bureaucratic ineptitude, and broken campaign promises. Ten years on, two of the top contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination have tacitly admitted this by pledging to replace it with some version of single-payer. The leading candidate in that contest, however, wants to retread Obamacare.
The left has always been a movement in danger of going straight over the edge. You can see it in the rhetoric, the agenda, the public behavior, and the quality of people it attracts. Many of us have been waiting for years for it to blow up like a Soviet-era nuclear reactor. But although individual leftists have redlined (Hillary, Anthony Weiner, your name here), the movement as a whole has repeatedly pulled out before going into the abyss. There always seems to be a rescuing hand extended from somewhere or other. (More on that later.) That’s why 2019 was such a satisfactory year – much more satisfactory than most.
The State Department issued a security alert early Friday morning urging Americans in Iraq to leave the country immediately.
The warning comes hours after Iran promised “harsh retaliation” against the United States for an airstrike that killed top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani at the Baghdad International Airport. “Due to heightened tensions in Iraq and the region, we urge U.S. citizens to depart Iraq immediately,” the State Department said in the alert. (Tweet) The alert also said all consular operations are suspended at the U.S. embassy in Baghdad “Due to Iranian-backed militia attacks at the U.S. Embassy compound.”
The U.S. killing of Qassim Soleimani In Baghdad on Thursday ends an enduring threat. At least in the short term, however, it will unleash Iranian retaliation. The leader of the external action arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Soleimani long led that regime's efforts to destroy its enemies and expand its revolution.
From an explosive campaign that killed hundreds of U.S. soldiers in Iraq, to supporting Bashar Assad's regime with legions of Shiite fighters and IRGC operatives, to conducting a campaign of bombings and assassinations and intimidation across the world, Soleimani was a master of his very dark arts. He was a serious
The successful operation against Qassem Soleimani, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, is a stunning blow to international terrorism and a reassertion of American might. It will also test President Trump's Iran strategy. It is now Trump, not Ayatollah Khamenei, who has ascended a rung on the ladder of escalation by killing the military architect of Iran's Shiite empire. For years, Iran has set the rules. It was Iran that picked the time and place of confrontation. No more.
Reciprocity has been the key to understanding Donald Trump. Whether you are a media figure or a mullah, a prime minister or a pope,
When Justice Antonin Scalia died in early 2016, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell vowed to keep the resulting Supreme Court vacancy open through the elections that November. If a vacancy on the Court arises in 2020, McConnell promises that the Senate will move promptly to confirm President Trump’s nominee.
Many folks on the left and in the media are accusing McConnell of the dreaded sin of hypocrisy. But his positions are in fact entirely consistent.
A defining feature of the 2016 battle over the Scalia vacancy was that President Obama and the Senate majority were from opposing political parties.
Joe: Let Them Eat Code
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Joe Biden’s “ancestors who worked in the coal mines in Northeast Pennsylvania and would come up after 12 hours and play football for four hours” frown upon his plan for miners to transition to code from coal. So do Neil Kinnock’s, who expressed disapproval first.
“Anybody who can go down 300 to 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well,” Biden told an audience in Derry, New Hampshire, earlier this week. “Give me a break!” he responded to skepticism of his job retraining suggestion for miners. “Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”
Australia’s hapless prime minister was forced to retreat from a fire-ravaged rural village when residents — one of them holding a goat on a leash — jeered him out of town over his response to the natural disaster.
Footage of Scott Morrison’s abysmal reception in the New South Wales village of Cobargo went viral Thursday after residents refused to shake his hand — telling their leader to “piss off” and slamming him as a “scumbag” and “idiot.”
A collision is coming, one that Democrats are giving themselves very little time or maneuvering room to avert.
On Friday, the Republican-led Senate returns to Washington and resumes its standoff with the House over the terms and timing of President Trump’s impeachment trial. On the very same day, the one-month countdown to the first presidential contest in Iowa begins.
After Iowa, the primary season will accelerate quickly. On March 3, Super Tuesday, states representing more than one-third of the U.S. population are set to vote. By the end of March, chances are that one of the 14 Democratic candidates now in the race will be close to nailing down the nomination,
Iranians Celebrate! Thank President Trump
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Iranians online are cheering the assassination of Iran Quds Force leader Major General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad early Friday local time, with many thanking President Trump with a hashtag that reads: #TnxPOTUS4Soleimani. Many observers regarded Soleimani as the second most powerful person in Iran behind the Supreme Leader. It was just Wednesday that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei trash talked President Trump, saying, “That guy has tweeted that we see Iran responsible for the events in Baghdad & we will respond to Iran. 1st: You can’t do anything. 2nd: If you were logical —which you’re not— you’d see that your
So, just who is this top Iranian general the U.S. just eliminated?
For many of us who watch and analyze news out of the Middle East daily, he was the world’s number one bad guy.
Qassim Soleimani has been in control of Iran’s Quds Force for more than 20 years. His current greatest hits include helping Bashar al Assad slaughter hundreds of thousands of his own people in the Syrian civil war, stoking the Houthis in Yemen’s civil war, and overseeing the killing of hundreds of Iraqi protesters recently demonstrating against Iranian influence in their country.
Hustler Magazine is under fire of a graphic Christmas card that was sent to several lawmakers featuring a depiction of President Trump’s assassination.
The cover of the card shows an illustration of a gunman saying, “I just shot Donald Trump on Fifth Avenue. And no one arrested me.”
The inside, however, shows a figure resembling President Trump laying in a pool of blood in the middle of a busy street with smiling civilians along with the gunman saying, “Merry Christmas.”
Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed by U.S. forces at the direction of President Donald Trump on Thursday evening, was sanctioned by the Obama administration in 2011 for his role in a foiled terror attack on Washington, D.C.Soleimani, leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds force, helped plot the attack on a popular restaurant in the nation’s capital, where the target was to be the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.As the U.S. Treasury explained in announcing the sanctions against Soleimani and four others in 2011: The U.S. Department of the Treasury today announced the designation of five individuals, including four senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) officers
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said late Thursday he’d spoken with top NYPD officials about immediate steps the department could take to protect key areas in the city from a potential retaliatory attack by Iranian after a U.S.-led airstrike that killed a top Iranian general. “We will have to be vigilant against this threat for a long time to come,” De Blasio tweeted.
The Pentagon confirmed that President Trump ordered an airstrike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassim Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force as well as six others at the Baghdad international airport early Friday.
The Quds Force, a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), has been doing the dirty work behind the scenes for Iran for decades, playing divide and conquer.
The elite paramilitary arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) built up an extensive network in the war-torn country, recruiting Iraqis and supporting not only Shiite militias but also Shiites allied with Washington, D.C.
The Quds Force and other elements operate covertly or sometimes openly overseas, working with Hezbollah of Lebanon, Shiite militias in Iraq and Shiites in Afghanistan.
Baghdad (Iraq): Here are key dates in the relations between the United States and Iraq after Washington carried out a deadly strike against top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani on Iraqi soil. - Invasion -
On March 20, 2003, a US-led invasion of Saddam Hussein's Iraq is launched after claims his regime is harbouring weapons of mass destruction. US forces take control of Baghdad the following month.
US President George W. Bush announces the end of major combat operations on May 1, but says the "war on terrorism" continues.
On October 2, a US report says no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq.
The killing of the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a US attack at Baghdad International Airport is a game-changer in relations between the US and Iran, with far-reaching implications for the region. (Snip) Trump used the opportunity to blame Iran for coordinating unrest and anti-US rioting in Baghdad and threatened to punish the Iranian leadership. The US appears to have followed through with that threat by killing Soleimani along with Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a senior leader of the Shiite militia, as well as an unnamed senior leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah. All three organisations have been listed as terrorist by the US.
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff responded late Friday to the U.S. airstrike ordered by President Trump that killed Qassim Soleimani, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, and six others at Baghdad’s international airport.(Snip)“Tonight’s airstrike risks provoking further dangerous escalation of violence," Pelosi said in a statement. "America--and the world--cannot afford to have tensions escalate to the point of no return." She added that the strike was undertaken without consultation with Congress. "Congress must be immediately briefed on this serious situation and on the next steps under consideration by the Administration," she said.