Posts on Thursday, January 9, 2020
Flush with campaign cash and facing down a possible Senate impeachment trial, President Trump headlined his first major rally of the election year Thursday in Ohio -- and almost immediately, the president capitalized on his order to take out Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani after the military leader was said to have orchestrated an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.In unequivocal terms, Trump slammed House Democrats' nonbinding War Powers Resolution, which passed earlier in the day in a rebuke to the Soleimani strike. Trump went on to suggest that Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and "little pencil-neck" House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., would have
Donald Trump used his first 2020 campaign rally to celebrate killing Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who he said Thursday was planning to attack multiple targets.
'Soleimani was actively planning new attacks and he was looking very seriously at our embassies, and not just the embassy in Baghdad,' Trump told the crowd in Toledo, Ohio Thursday night.'But we stopped him, and we stopped him quickly and we stopped him cold,' Trump said. The first rally of the year comes less than a week after Soleimani was killed, which led Iran to launch almost two dozen ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq
Proverbs 25:21-22 reads: "If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. You will heap burning coals of shame on their heads, and the Lord will reward you."If all that's true, a radio host in Baltimore was recently crushed by a massive pile of burning coals.Jerry Coleman hosts a sports talk show at 105.7 The Fan. Coleman is not a fan of the city of Buffalo, New York. After a Twitter dispute over whether Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott deserved consideration for the NFL's coach of the year award for the team's 10-6 season and playoff appearance,
President Donald Trump defended his decision to eliminate known terrorist and Iran’s Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani without first getting permission from Congress.
“We had to make a decision, we didn’t have time to call up Nancy — who is not operating with a full deck,” Trump said as the crowd cheered.
The president accused the Democrats of standing up to defend Iran instead of supporting Trump’s decision to take out Soleimani.
“We’re having people like Nancy Pelosi, that’s a real genius, can you believe that one?” he asked. “Nervous Nancy.”
He called House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff “little pencil neck.”
Imagine the following scenario: You are asleep late at night in your bedroom when you are awakened by the sound of breaking glass. Soon you hear footsteps down the hall and come to the chilling realization that intruders have entered your home. You hide in a closet and dial 911 on your phone, then in a whisper plead for the police to come to your aid before the burglars happen upon you. Officers are on the way, you are assured, and moments later you listen as the intruders, alarmed by the approaching siren, flee to a waiting car. You go outside to see them bearing
A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything. John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by President Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during Clinton’s time as secretary of state,
MPs have finally given their formal backing to Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal after more than three years of bitter parliamentary wrangling over the UK’s departure from the European Union. The historic EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill cleared the Commons this afternoon - despite Labour opposition - as MPs gave the draft legislation its third reading by 330 votes to 231, a majority of 99. It is the final major Commons hurdle which the so-called WAB had to navigate and it will now head to the House of Lords next week for further scrutiny before the UK leaves the EU on January 31.
A forthcoming bombshell book from publishing giant HarperCollins will reveal how five members of Joe Biden’s family—the “Biden Five”—siphoned tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer cash and guaranteed loans. And the recent scandals involving Joe and Hunter Biden, Ukraine, and Burisma are just “the tip of the iceberg,” say sources close to the publisher.The upcoming book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, is the latest investigative work from Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer. Publisher HarperCollins has the book under a strict embargo until its January 21 release. Sources with knowledge of its contents say the book
Speaking at an anti-war rally in Detroit on Sunday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D.-Mich.) said that when she is in Congress she feels “insane.” “I just want you to know it is an honor representing you, but I feel insane when I’m there. I do,” Tlaib told the people attending the rally. “But you all make me feel sane, because this is wrong,” she said.(Video) Before that, apparently directing her words directly at President Trump, Tlaib said: “You chose death over peace. You chose death over human life. The hypocrisy of our foreign policy is unbelievable. Now that I’m a member I can see it.
Bystanders applauded a group of U.S. firefighters when they arrived at the airport in Sydney, Australia, this week to help fight bushfires in Victoria.Thursday, New South Wales Rural Fire Service (NSWRFS) Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons tweeted video of the group as they walked through the crowd: (Tweet/Video) Those nearby cheered loudly to show their appreciation for the firefighters’ willingness to sacrifice time away from their homes and families.“I’ve a grandson and a niece who are firefighters, so I know who these people are,” one Twitter user commented.“They are all generous and sacrificing and noble;
Former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg implicitly blamed President Donald Trump Thursday after reports indicated that Iran shot down a Ukrainian plane shortly after their military strike against the United States.Buttigieg wrote on Twitter: Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military t*t for tat. My thoughts are with the families and loved ones of all 176 souls lost aboard this flight. (Tweet)
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California certainly marches to the beat of a different drummer. They treat the federal government as a rival fiefdom, setting their own environmental laws, their own immigration laws, their own fuel standards -- as if the seat of power in the United States was in Sacramento.
On Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom will present the state's budget for the next fiscal year. In it, he will propose that the state of California sell its own brand of prescription drugs in order to "increase competition in the generic drug marketplace and lower the cost of medications by having Sacramento contract drugmakers to manufacture certain prescriptions under a state label."
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.—A Florida security guard threatened to kill President Donald Trump as retaliation for the U.S. military killing an Iranian general, posting a live video on Facebook where he stated “he killed my leader and I have to kill him” while periodically displaying a semi-automatic rifle, authorities said in court documents. Chauncy Lump, 26, of the Fort Lauderdale area, faces federal charges of threatening to kill the president and remained jailed Thursday with bond set at $100,000, according to court documents filed Wednesday by the Secret Service. He told agents the threats weren’t serious. Agent Lucas White wrote that shortly after
Tonight President Trump heads to Toledo, OH for a massive Keep America Great rally at the Huntington Center. President Trump is expected to speak at 7:00pm EST...RSBN Livestream – Fox News Livestream – GST Livestream – Global News Livestream ... Video Links
Yo, Hawaii Senator Mazie Hirono: Kooks have always “believed in climate change as though it’s a religion.” They blindly followed the mad ravings of global warming gurus like Al Gore, Mikhail Gorbachev and UN Poster Boy, the late Maurice Strong, long before they prayed to Greta Thunberg—Newly-minted ‘Patron Saint of Climate Change’.
In other words when Hirono was trying to convert Americans to “believe in climate change as a religion”, she was already preaching to the converted.
“At today’s DACA breakfast, Mazie Hirono says we need
A senior Iraqi cleric has urged supporters not to attack the United States, shortly after Donald Trump said Iran appeared to be backing down from its bellicose threats. "I call on the Iraqi factions to be deliberate, patient, and not to start military actions, and to shut down the extremist voices of some rogue elements until all political, parliamentary and international methods have been exhausted," said influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. It came after Donald Trump urged Britain and others to "recognise reality" and withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal in response to an Iranian missile strike on US .
A second person was attacked by a coyote in Chicago just hours after a young boy was hospitalized after being bitten on the city's North Side, officials say. The second incident took place in the evening hours on Wednesday in the 700 block of North Fairbanks Court in the city's Streeterville neighborhood, according to Chicago police. Authorities said a 32-year-old man walked into Northwestern Memorial Hospital and said he had been walking on the sidewalk in the area when a coyote came from behind and bit him in the buttocks. He was in good condition and was expected to be
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday defended her opposition to the elimination of Iran’s top general and terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani by likening the action to a hypothetical assassination of the vice president of the United States.The speaker expressed outrage upon the death of Soleimani, describing the Trump administration’s actions as “provocative and disproportionate.”“This action endangered our service members, diplomats and others by risking a serious escalation of tensions with Iran,” she asserted.She doubled down on those sentiments during a press conference on Thursday,
The investigative author behind the game-changing New York Times bestsellers Clinton Cash and Secret Empires is set to drop another bombshell book that sources close to the publisher say will “upend official Washington.”As Axios reported on Thursday, Government Accountability Institute President and Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweizer’s forthcoming book, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite (HarperCollins), is set to launch Tuesday, January 21. The book’s cover features images of Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Kamala Harris, and Cory Booker.
WASHINGTON, DC — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), during her weekly press conference Thursday, said she is not holding back the two articles of impeachment approved against Donald Trump last month “indefinitely.” A reporter asked the Speaker,” Are you holding the articles indefinitely?” “No. I’m not holding them indefinitely. I’ll send them over when I’m ready. That will probably be soon,” she replied.
In the past five years, almond milk consumption in the United States has exploded over 250 percent. The lower-calorie, vegan milk alternative is a staple in grocery stores and coffee shops across the country now, but its booming popularity comes at a heavy environmental cost. According to a new report from the Guardian this week, the titanic and growing demands of the California almond industry are placing a huge strain on the hives of bees used to pollinate their orchards, wiping out billions of honeybees in a matter of months.
“My yard is currently filled with stacks of empty bee boxes that used to contain healthy hives,”
Shocking video apparently shows the moment that a Ukrainian airliner was struck by an Iranian missile moments after lifting off from an airport in Tehran. The 19-second clip, obtained by the New York Times, shows a night sky suddenly illuminated by a flash of light, followed by a deafening boom. By the clip’s close, the sounds of sirens can be heard in the background. US officials said Thursday that it was “highly likely” the plane, which had 176 people aboard, was struck by an Iranian anti-aircraft missile early Wednesday. There were no survivors. The crash came shortly after Iran unleashed
Australia is has seem some of the worst bushfires in its history. Greens blame climate change, but it's a cover-up. In reality, they have themselves to blame. From here in Australia, it can only be called green folly.
Green folly locked up 11% of Australia in a tinderbox of bushfire fuel, much of which is now burnt or burning.
Green folly closed forest tracks and gates; expelled foresters and timber-workers; and prevented property-owners from removing flammable fuel from their own land and adjacent roads, parks, and forests. Those responsible for these follies should face Class Action.
Ben Rhodes ran the PR for Obama giving Iran $150 billion. Rhodes's brother runs the news at CBS. That network argued that gee, Obama did not give the money to Iran because it was theirs all along as frozen assets -- plus interest. Nobody is talking about Obama's bigger gift to Iran: dropping the investigation of its drugs and for terrorism program.(Snip) Politico reported, "The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug
In the new complaint, Attkisson v. Rosenstein et.al., investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson names former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosentein and four other Justice Department officials as the government agents who of illegally survielled her electronic devices.
According to the complaint—filed in United States District Court in Baltimore, Maryland—Rosenstein led “a multi-agency task force in Baltimore that conducted surveillance of the Attkissons’ computer systems” and “used USPS IP addresses on other occasions to conduct operations.” (complaint in pdf)
From counter-top robotic arms that help chop veggies to intelligent oven cameras, internet-connected meat thermometers and refrigerators that devise weekly meal plans, smart kitchen tech is getting smarter at CES 2020 this week. The consumer electronics show has a range of appliance-makers competing with one another to show off futuristic kitchen innovations that they hope might resonate with tech-savvy consumers.Samsung, LG Electronics, GE Appliances, Whirlpool and Bosch are all trying to reinvent the kitchen around internet connectivity, with innovations that range from unusual robots to technology built into existing kitchen appliances. Here are the devices that could
Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) will introduce a resolution on Thursday to censure House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for obstructing the impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Byrne, who is vying for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate this year from his native Alabama, believes the speaker has broken congressional precedence by refusing to send the articles of impeachment to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “Speaker Pelosi’s decision to hold the articles of impeachment against President Trump in a pathetic and unconstitutional attempt to extract concessions
U.S. Rep. Adam Smith caused a brief ruckus Thursday morning when he publicly broke with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over her delay in sending articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate. But within hours, Smith, D-Bellevue, fell back in line, saying he “misspoke.” Smith’s bad morning began with a CNN interview in which he said “it is time” to send the articles “and let Mitch McConnell be responsible for the fairness of the trial.” While he said it had been “perfectly advisable” for Pelosi to try to leverage a fair Senate trial that “would show evidence and bring out witnesses,” he concluded “at this point, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.”
Surveillance footage capturing the outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during his first suicide attempt in July is gone forever, prosecutors confirmed Thursday in a bombshell court filing. The revelation comes after Assistant US Attorney Jason Swergold told White Plains federal Judge Kenneth Karas in December that the footage was missing—and then backtracked the next day, claiming it had been preserved. In a Thursday filing, Swergold admitted that the Metropolitan Correctional Center had preserved footage amid the investigation—only it was the wrong cell in the Lower Manhattan jail. “The Government has learned that the MCC inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are stepping down as “senior royals,” planning to cut financial ties to the queen (while still vowing to support Her Majesty and their patronages) and to split their time between the U.K. and North America. Kindly pass the fainting couch.(Snip)At the same time, the Sussexes have long been on a path to transition from rank-and-file royals to global superstars, in the vein of their friends George and Amal Clooney, Barack and Michelle Obama, or Beyoncé and Jay-Z (with whom they mingled at last summer’s Lion King premiere).These larger-than-life couples belong not to one institution or industry, but have elevated
Human bodies have naturally got cooler over the last century, a study reveals. The accepted wisdom is that the human body sits, under normal conditions, at a nice balmy 37°C (98.6°F), but this is no longer true for modern-day humans. Researchers at Stanford University in the US measured people's temperatures from the 2000s and compared them to records of soldiers that fought in the US Civil War.(Snip) Scientists say the cause of the chilling is 'inherently unprovable', but they believe it may be down to improvements in diet and lifestyle. Dr Julie Parsonnet, professor of medicine and of health research and policy
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday said Hillary Clinton is a “warmonger” and that many people voted for President Trump over Mrs. Clinton in 2016 because of his message about ending “stupid wars.” “I think everybody knows and understands that she is a warmonger,” Ms. Gabbard, Hawaii Democrat and a 2020 presidential candidate, said on Fox News. “Look to her influence on going to launch regime change … in Syria, Libya,” she said. “Obviously, her support for the war in Iraq, throughout her history. Her track record is well-known. ”Right before Ms. Gabbard’s appearance, host Tucker Carlson had played past clips of Mrs. Clinton,
CNN Says Nat’l Park Signs Warning Glaciers
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It must be really hard to have to report a story that flies in the face of CNN’s hype over climate change. CNN published a Jan. 7, story headlined “Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020,” and admitted that “[i]n 2017, the park was told by the agency [U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)] that the complete melting off of the glaciers was no longer expected to take place so quickly due to changes in the forecast model.” The signs were put up over a decade ago, according to CNN.
‘Trauma’ Drama Controversial Rep. Ilhan
Omar claims she has PTSD from Iran
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Omar claims she has PTSD from Iran
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U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., claims she’s been overcome with post-traumatic stress disorder due to recent tension between the U.S. and Iran — but Republicans aren't buying it.
Omar, 38, said at a news conference yesterday she’s “felt ill” because of “everything that is taking place” in the Middle East. (Snip) But others called Omar out for her remark, including Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., who said it was shameful.
“This is a disgrace and offensive to our nation’s veterans who really do have PTSD after putting their life on the line to keep America safe,” Banks tweeted.
President Donald Trump announced Thursday his plans to dramatically change an environmental law activist groups and their attorneys often use to wrap oil projects in years of bureaucratic red tape. Trump plans to exempt privately funded projects from undergoing environmental reviews, a significant change that would make building mines and pipelines much easier, The Washington Post reported. Energy producers are cheering the move.The changes will narrow the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a 50-year-old law requiring agencies to assess the impact a big project could cause to the environment.
As Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee spoke during a presser with her colleagues Wednesday about the causalities of the Iraq War and how they allegedly relate to President Donald Trump’s recent actions against Iran, one of her colleagues chose to act like a dunce. Instead of listening keenly to Lee’s words, that colleague, antisemitic Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar, used her time to hobnob with her congressional pals, including fellow antisemitic Muslim Rep. Rashida Tlaib, and laugh repeatedly over some joke. Watch:(Video)
Rep. Jody Hice said the most crucial principle to remember about America is that here, in this country, individual rights come from God, not the government, and that deviating from this path leads to cultural degradation, Big Government, socialism and, ultimately, utter governmental and societal collapse.
He’s right, you know.
The Republican from Georgia nailed it. “The more we kick God out,” Hice said, in an interview with The Washington Times for the podcast “Bold and Blunt,” the more frequently, the more habitually — the more frustratingly — “we see more and more intrusive government at the same time.” Hello socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
President Trump called on fellow Republicans to oppose a resolution meant to place restrictions on his ability to take military action without congressional approval, as the House prepares to vote on the measure late Thursday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the planned vote in a one-page statement that said last week's U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani was "provocative and disproportionate," despite Trump administration claims to the contrary. Many Democrats were also incensed that the administration did not notify Congress in advance.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) accused two Republican senators of “empowering the enemy” for supporting a Democratic war powers resolution that would limit President Trump’s capacity to use military force amid escalating attacks and tensions with Iran. Responding to comments from Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in which they slammed a meeting with Trump administration officials on Iranian aggression, Graham offered some choice words for his colleagues. “They’re libertarians. I think they’re overreacting, quite frankly. Go debate all you want to. I’m going to debate you.
Doctors and other healthcare practitioners who write prescriptions bear ultimate responsibility for improper distribution of opioids to patients, not pharmacists who are obliged to fill those prescriptions, a series of pharmacy chains argued in federal court.
The filings, which were submitted Monday to the federal judge in Cleveland who has been overseeing the national opioid lawsuits, asked the judge to rule in the pharmacies' favor and reject claims brought by some Ohio counties.
The counties, including Summit and Cuyahoga, have sued CVS, Rite Aide and Walgreens, claiming they are party to blame for the addictions and overdoses among their citizens because they filled 'excessive' prescriptions.
Microsoft has developed an automated system to identify when sexual predators are trying to groom children within the chat features of video games and messaging apps, the company announced Wednesday.
The tool, codenamed Project Artemis, is designed to look for patterns of communication used by predators to target children. If these patterns are detected, the system flags the conversation to a content reviewer who can determine whether to contact law enforcement. (Snip) Microsoft has been testing Artemis on Xbox Live and the chat feature of Skype. Starting Jan. 10, it will be licensed for free to other companies through the nonprofit Thorn,
The House of Representatives on Thursday is expected to take up a concurrent resolution directing the president to "terminate the use of United States Armed Forces to engage in hostilities in or against Iran." The concurrent resolution, introduced by Michigan Democrat Elissa Slotkin, "is such a joke," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox News's Laura Ingraham Wednesday night.(Video) McCarthy noted that Slotkin has introduced a concurrent resolution, which does not require the signature of the president and does not have the force of law. By contrast, a joint resolution, such as the War Powers Act, does require the president’s signature and does have the force of law.
Boeing’s new spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, experienced a partial failure during its first test flight to the International Space Station (ISS) on December 20, 2019.
Originally, the Starliner was supposed to launch from Earth and dock with the ISS to prove that the capsule could safely carry humans to the station. However, an error in the mission timer aboard the capsule meant that the spacecraft fell short in its orbit and could not rendezvous with the station as intended.
Boeing said that had there been a crew on board, they would not have been in danger. More so, a crew on
The Ukrainian flight that crashed just outside the Iranian capital of Tehran was struck by an anti-aircraft missile system, a Pentagon official, a senior U.S. intelligence official and an Iraqi intelligence official told Newsweek.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737–800 en route from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airpot to Kyiv's Boryspil International Airport, stopped transmitting data Tuesday just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at military bases housing U.S. and allied forces in neighboring Iraq. The aircraft is believed to have been struck by a Russia-built Tor-M1 surface-to-air missile system, known to NATO as Gauntlet, the three officials told Newsweek.
President Trump is holding a rally Thursday night in Toledo, Ohio.Internet sensation Jack Posobiec is attending the rally today and posted some from outside the Huntington Center in Toledo. (Photo) The crowds started lining up to see President Trump 11 hours early! Look at This Line! (Tweet/Video)
And supporters were camped out 20 hours in the cold before the Trump rally tonight!
Washington - The White House on Thursday introduced major changes to the nation’s benchmark environmental protection law, moving to ease approval of major energy and infrastructure projects without detailed environmental review or consideration of climate change. Many of the changes to the law — the 50-year-old National Environmental Policy Act, a landmark measure that touches nearly every significant construction project in the country — had been long sought by the oil and gas industry as well as trade unions, which have argued that the review process is lengthy, cumbersome and used by environmental activists to drag out legal disputes and kill infrastructure projects.
A man was stabbed with what appears to have been a machete Thursday morning in Manhattan, according to police. The victim was stabbed on 30th Street and Fifth Avenue in Midtown just before 9 a.m. by a suspect who then hopped into the passenger seat of a gray Honda and took off, cops said. Police are now hunting for the suspect, who was described as a male in his 30s, possibly with a face tattoo. The victim was taken to an area hospital in stable condition.
These are the two dozen new photos revealing Bill Clinton’s 2002 trip to Africa aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s “Lolita Express” — with other celebrities and an Epstein accuser in tow. The slew of images, obtained Thursday by The Post, show a smiling Clinton posing alongside Epstein’s alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell and Chauntae Davies, the masseuse who has accused the dead financier of rape. The humanitarian trip, which Davies says was hosted by Clinton’s foundation, also included actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, who appear in shots with Davies and Maxwell.
Three people were rescued over the weekend after they were found trapped in "a precarious situation" on a new section of border wall near San Diego, according to officials.
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection news release said that around midnight Sunday, agents on patrol saw three people perched on top of the wall near Otay Mesa. The three, a man and two women, attempted to enter the U.S. illegally in dense fog by climbing the San Diego Sector’s new 30-foot, steel bollard wall before getting stuck, according to officials.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell delivered some bad news to Speaker Pelosi from the floor of the upper-chamber:
…”There will be no haggling with the House over Senate procedure. We will not cede our authority to try this impeachment. The House Democrats’ turn is over. The Senate has made its decision.”…
(Snip) (Video) [Transcript] – MITCH MCCONNELL – ‘Late last year, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats sped through a slapdash impeachment of President Trump in 12 weeks. Because, they insisted, the need to undo the 2016 election was urgent. Urgent, they said.
‘Since then, the same people have spent three weeks dragging their heels and refusing to proceed to a Senate trial.
A day after Iranian ballistic missiles hit Iraqi bases used by U.S. forces, the Trump administration’s first briefings on Iran for legislators went so poorly that even its allies walked out saying that the White House was losing congressional support. (Snip) One Senate Democratic source read in on the meeting said Pompeo acted like “Benghazi Mike” in the briefing—a reference to Pompeo’s incendiary performance as a congressman during the 2015 Benghazi hearings—and was often defensive when faced with tough questions about the intelligence that led to the killing of Soleimani.
TEHRAN—In a bid to cut costs and save time, Iran has announced that its 24/7 state propaganda station will be replaced with an MSNBC broadcast.
The decision to broadcast MSNBC instead of official state propaganda came after an MSNBC reporter parroted the false claims of the Iranian government after yesterday's rocket attacks.
"Why spend so much time creating propaganda to brainwash our people when MSNBC could do it for us?" a representative for Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting said to reporters. "It takes a lot of work to put together news broadcasts that obscure the truth and...
U.K. citizens are up in arms about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's shocking announcement that they will take a backseat from their "senior member" status of the royal family to work independently. But instead of wanting the couple to keep the current structure the same, many are calling on the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to relinquish their titles entirely. Norman Baker, a former Liberal Democrat member of parliament and home office minister in the coalition government, sounded off on the couple's 2020 plans to partially support the queen while simultaneously having financial independence.
Earlier today Senator Mike “H1B” Lee called the national security briefing “lame” and “inadequate”, saying the military and intelligence leaders ran from hard questions at the briefing. Well, Senator James Lankford calls those accusations by Senator Lee demonstrably false and untrue.
Senator Lankford noted the briefing included examples of 90 incidents of Iranian proxy attacks against the U.S. and coalition forces in the last month-and-a-half; ultimately leading to the killing of an American. It was after the final attack when POTUS Trump ordered the elimination of Qassim Soleimani.
A federal appeals court released $3.6 billion in border wall funding Wednesday that had been blocked by a lawsuit.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans lifted the curbs while the Department of Justice prepares to appeal a lower judge’s decision to block the spending because of the lawsuit.
Reuters reported:
In a 2-1 ruling, the panel noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had stayed an injunction in a similar border wall case from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The court also said there was a “substantial likelihood” that the parties challenging the funding transfer – the county of El Paso, Texas,
SCOTLAND Yard is to review the £600,000 24/7 security given to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after their dramatic decision to step back from the Royal Family.
Despite the huge news of the split, which was announced last night, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said this morning their security was an "operational decision taken by the Met police".
Currently the Duke and Duchess are protected by six full-time bodyguards, thought to be at a yearly cost of £600,000.
It is unclear what their security will be if they choose to split their time between the UK and North America, as they are planning.
But a senior source told the Evening Standard:
Earlier this week, a clip of Medal of Honor recipient retired Staff Sgt. David G. Bellavia speaking in June about our nation’s enemies and American strength went viral in light of the current heightened tensions with Iran.
As he was inducted into the Pentagon’s Hall of Heroes in June, Bellavia warned that “threats against the U.S. such as North Korea, Iran, and al Qaeda aren’t going anywhere, and cautioned against starting a war again the U.S. if they don’t want someone else to raise their children,” Military Times reported at the time.
“The threats to our nation, they don’t sleep,” said Bellavia. “They’re watching our every move:
The “death to” slogan began in Iran in the days of the Shah. It wasn’t enough to depose the Shah. They wanted “death to” him.
After the Shah died, gleeful Iranians evidently concluded that it was their sloganeering that killed him. They weaponized this discovery with other slogans similar in hateful meaning but not in lethal effect. Think “death to America” and then “death to Israel.”
Other countries such as Yemen joined in the chorus and expanded it. Soon it was “death to America, death to Israel and damnation to the Jews.” That was off-putting to Israelis,
The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Wednesday that it has filed a lawsuit against Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the House Intelligence Committee for information relating to the acquirement and release of the phone records from Rudy Giuliani, Devin Nunes, and others.
“We are seeking records about [Schiff’s] controversial subpoenas that led to his publishing the private phone records of President Trump’s lawyers and other innocent Americans including: President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Congressman Devin Nunes, and journalist John Solomon,” the group said in a video announcing the lawsuit. “The lawsuit seeks all subpoenas by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to telephone providers,
Pelosi Spurns McConnell: No Articles Until
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Monday night, after two “moderate” Republican members of the Senate, Rep. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Rep. Susan Collins (R-ME) declared that they were fine abiding by the Senate impeachment rules set in 1998 — at the dawn of then-President Bill Clinton’s Senate trial — reports indicated that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had enough votes to go forward with the second half of President Donald Trump’s impeachment proceedings without having to negotiate with Democrats on the subject.
As soon as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) submits the articles of impeachment to the Senate, a trial can go forward —
‘I Voted For Clinton’ Hashtag Trends After Iran
Strike. Then Hillary Clinton’s Iran Strategy
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Strike. Then Hillary Clinton’s Iran Strategy
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The hashtag, #IVotedForClinton, trended Tuesday night and Wednesday morning as those who proudly voted against President Donald Trump expressed their moral superiority in the wake of Iran’s missile attack on several Iraqi bases hosting American troops.
There was just one big problem: Hillary Clinton also had an aggressive Iran strategy that included the possibility of a major — “obliterating” — attack.
The hashtag began trending Tuesday night, as word broke that Iran had retaliated against the United States for killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a surgical strike inside Iraq last week by targeting U.S. military stationed at Iraqi military bases.
A dive into Hillary Clinton’s and Joe Biden’s past statements about Iran reveals that America is very lucky that neither occupies the White House. Looking at their past statements shows that each was an unguided, unprincipled missile who would have made a dangerous Commander-in-Chief.
The DailyWire reports that, since Iran took over the news, the hashtag “#IVotedForClinton” started trending on Twitter:
The hashtag began trending Tuesday night, as word broke that Iran had retaliated against the United States for killing Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a surgical strike inside Iraq last week by targeting U.S. military stationed at Iraqi military bases.
How did Syrians react to news of the death of Qassem Soleimani? The first reaction, especially in the city of Aleppo, was to celebrate as if it were a national festival. In Aleppo, and in many cities beyond, they gathered to celebrate, sing, dance and offer cookies and baklava to everyone. Cheering people in the streets, speaking in front of the cameras, said they hoped that the next target would be Syria's detested dictator, Bashar Assad.
Soleimani, who was the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, was a dedicated ally to Assad who murdered tens of thousands of civilians in Syria. Iran's mullahs and their favorite general, Soleimani,
After losing its top strategist, military commander and arch-terrorist, Qassem Suleimani, the Iranian theocracy is weighing responses.
One, Iran can quiet down and cease military provocations.
After attacking tankers off its coast, destroying an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia, shooting down a U.S. drone and being responsible for the killing and wounding of Americans in Iraq, Iran could now keep quiet.
It might accept that its strategy of escalation has failed to lead to any quantifiable advantage. Trump did not prove a passive "Twitter tiger," as his critics mocked. Instead, he upped the stakes to Iran's disadvantage and existential danger.
Reza Aslan to Face the Music
For Calling Nick Sandmann's
Face 'Punchable' In Now-Deleted Tweet replies
For Calling Nick Sandmann's
Face 'Punchable' In Now-Deleted Tweet replies
One day after news broke that CNN settled a defamation lawsuit on behalf of Covington Catholic teen Nick Sandmann, Robert Barnes announced he had sued author, producer, and show host Reza Aslan for Aslan's tweet describing Sandmann's face as "punchable." The lawsuit, which Barnes provided to PJ Media, would slap Aslan with a minimum of $135,000 in damages.
When video of Sandmann supposedly smirking at a Native American man outside the March for Life went viral last year, Aslan infamously tweeted, "Honest question. Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid's?" [Tweet] Nearly exactly one year after posting the tweet, Aslan had finally deleted it on Wednesday.
Scary people are roaming the streets of many big cities, thanks to Democrats, who believe that innocent black people are arrested convicted by our purportedly racist justice system. Under the rubric of “bail reform,” even chronic offenders can be back on the streets the same day they are arrested.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was recently so embarrassed by the catch and release of Tiffany Harris after back-to-back arrests for violent attacks on orthodox Jews accompanied by hateful rhetoric that he personally intervened with the court to get her locked up on psychiatric grounds. But the policies that led to her release remain in place in New York.
Just today, I was speaking with a friend about QAnon. Let me say immediately that I don’t have an opinion about QAnon, so it’s no use using the comments to argue one way or another on the issue. This post is not substantively about QAnon's existence, purpose, or meaning. Nevertheless, the QAnon discussion is still relevant to this post.
For those unfamiliar with QAnon, Q is a person (or maybe a group of people) who puts up cryptic messages on online bulletin boards. (I use the plural “boards,” because a board will frequently be attacked and Q will relocate to another.) Some people
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is feeling the heat.
Just as she thought she had President Trump backed into a corner with impeachment, she smashed herself against a brick wall in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who refused to go by her rules, laying waste to all her precious plans.
In the Senate, Cocaine Mitch makes his own rules. But actually, it's not that, Mitch is just using Clinton-era impeachment rules.
Those rules were to invite the Democrats to present their case and answer questions, and then have the Senate decide whether to call witnesses. Pelosi had already gone all out and claimed she wanted the Senate to call witnesses.
My 5-year-old daughter has cystic fibrosis and may eventually need a lung transplant. Just before Christmas, the Trump administration gave an early gift to the roughly 113,000 Americans currently awaiting transplanted organs. It proposed two new rules that will make transplants easier.
The first proposal, from the Health Resources and Services Administration, would reduce costs for living kidney donors. The National Organ Transplant Act bans commerce in organs, and regulations even restrict the payment of expenses.
Has any political ploy failed as spectacularly as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to delay sending the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump over to the Senate. Even Democrats are now telling her the jig is up.
Pelosi had hoped to use the delay as leverage to get the Senate to agree to the Democrats’ demand for witnesses at the trial. It was a foolhardy plan that, had the leadership not been in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome, it never would have attempted.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell always had the upper hand. His position was that the
Trump Unbound
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One major point is being overlooked concerning the “impeachment”: now that the impeachment weapon has been unsheathed, and swung, and shattered into myriad pieces without so much as scratching its target, the Dems have absolutely nothing to use against Trump. (snip) they hit him with an attempt to subvert electors, with the Mueller investigation, with the emoluments clause, with the 25th Amendment, and then with impeachment. And all of it simply bounced off. As it stands, Donald Trump is now beyond any legal, procedural method of harassment. He has been investigated to a fare-thee-well, and less has been found than would on you, me, or the Dalai Lama
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly portrayed President Trump as an existential threat to the republic. As she put it when announcing the House impeachment inquiry, “The actions taken to date by the president have seriously violated the Constitution.” She later justified her mad rush to hold an impeachment vote in December by claiming it was necessary “to defend democracy.” In reality, by presiding over the hyper-partisan passage of two inscrutable articles of impeachment and holding them hostage until the Senate allows her to dictate how it will conduct the president’s trial, Pelosi has revealed that she is the genuine menace to our unique system of government.
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The Democrat field is starting to narrow as some of the biggest losers drop out in humiliating failure. The flatulent, pro-nuke Eric Swalwell is gone. Whichever Castro bro was in just quit. And that hapless furry Beto is off selling autographs on the weirdo convention circuit dressed as a cartoon fox named “Yiffy.”
The ones still in the race are even more pathetic.
Here are my thoughts on where the race is now. In the general, it’s Trump’s to lose. Between a sprinting economy and a staggering Democrat field, he’s the odds-on favorite in the general. But the real election issue is not going to be his past achievements.
There is a simple reason President Donald Trump should not have been impeached by the House, and the Senate should acquit him: Epstein didn’t kill himself.
In writing this, I don’t mean I am convinced that the billionaire child sex-abuser was murdered by one of his many wealthy and powerful acquaintances to keep him quiet — although I wouldn’t rule that out. Rather, I mean it in the sense in which “Epstein didn’t kill himself” has become a pervasive cultural meme, as a general assertion of cynicism regarding the incompetence and moral degeneracy of our elites, which has produced a crisis of credibility for our leaders and institutions.
Elizabeth Warren’s once-surging Democratic presidential nomination bid is losing steam.
After largely shunning national television interviews, the Massachusetts senator, 70, appeared on Sunday morning news programs and MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show. She also unveiled a scarce endorsement from a former rival for the 2020 Democractic presidential nomination, hosting a rally this week with Julian Castro, 45, in New York. And she bounded into the New Year with campaign trips to Iowa and New Hampshire.
But, while she’s built a strong organizing network of paid field staff and volunteers in the states hosting the first two nominating contests, she’s making her final push ahead of the start of the primary season
News organizations intent on framing news events to meet their ideological predispositions should carefully consider the legal fallout from last year’s coverage of the Covington Catholic high school students. It is risky to force news reporting into partisan sociopolitical templates.
CNN has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed earlier this year by Nicholas Sandmann, the high school student who became the focal point of news coverage when a Native American demonstrator encountered Sandmann and his classmates in Washington, D.C. That coverage, by CNN and other major news outlets, was extensive and sensational, sending the nation into an unnecessary uproar.
Sandmann was originally characterized by journalists as the aggressor
In his address to the nation this morning, Donald Trump asserted that the ballistic missiles that targeted the al-Assad and Erbil bases in Iraq yesterday were paid for using “funds made available by the last administration.” Few things irritate media fact checkers more than Trump’s accusation that Obama helped fund the Iranian regime and its terror apparatus. Probably because it’s completely true.
Now, we don’t really know that Obama’s ransom payments to Iran in 2016 subsidized those specific ballistic missiles, but we do know that money is fungible — especially when you have access to small denominations of European cash — and that the military,
What we’re going to do here is take a little bit of a leap in our analysis, but the look of the tea leaves coming out of Tuesday night’s events, your author believes, justifies it.
Let’s start not with Iran‘s rather empty missile attack on a pair of military installations in Iraq at which American personnel are stationed, in which 15 missiles were fired and no human casualties were inflicted. Instead, let’s start with that plane.
You know about the plane, right? That would be Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, which took off from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran at 6:12 a.m. local time, accelerated quickly to 275 knots,
How’s this for quitting your job: Abandon every aspect you hate, while continuing to reap all the benefits you love.
This, in effect, is what Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have done. In a statement loaded with confusing double-speak, the couple wrote, in part, “We intend to step back as ‘senior’ members of the royal family and work to become financially independent, while continuing to fully support Her Majesty The Queen.”
None other than Queen Elizabeth is confused. According to BBC royal correspondent Jonny Dymond, the statement blindsided the entire royal family, and they don’t know what this means either.
Cracks began to appear Wednesday in congressional Democrats' support for Nancy Pelosi’s prolonged delay in sending articles of impeachment to the Senate, with several lawmakers saying it's time for the House speaker to get on with it.
Rep. Jahana Hayes, D-Conn., said she voted last month to impeach President Trump over urgent concerns about his conduct and argued that handing the case over to the Senate is the right thing to do.
“I trust the speaker's judgment, but I voted on these articles when they were presented because I felt that we were at a point where it needed to happen,” said Hayes
A Cook County judge has ordered Google to turn over Jussie Smollett’s emails, photos, location data and private messages for an entire year as part of the special prosecutor’s investigation into the purported attack on the actor.
Two sweeping search warrants, obtained by the Chicago Tribune, provide the first public glimpse at the direction of the probe by special prosecutor Dan Webb more than four months into the investigation.
The warrants, filed last month in Circuit Court, sought a trove of documentation from Smollett and his manager’s Google accounts — not just emails but also drafted and deleted messages; any files in their Google Drive cloud storage services;
AUSTIN, Texas—Editor's note: The attached video is about H-E-B's plans to expand in South Austin..Customer data science company dunnhumby has released its third annual Retailer Preference Index, a study that examines the $700 billion grocery industry.The study named H-E-B as the top U.S. grocery retailer, dethroning Trader Joe's and beating out Amazon and Costco, the previous top three retailers.For the study, dunnhumby looked at 60 grocery retailers across the U.S., including Food Lion, Albertsons, Aldi, Safeway, Target and Walmart. It also surveyed 7,500 consumers to understand how they think about the industry.
New photos of former President Bill Clinton with Epstein’s ‘pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell and a sex slave on board the private jet “Lolita Express” has surfaced.The Sun exclusively obtained the photos of Bill Clinton who was also pictured with his arm around Epstein’s masseuse and sex slave Chauntae Davies.
Chauntae Davies told The Sun that she was required to wear a pilot’s uniform in order to appear ‘professional.’The photos of Bill Clinton were taken on a long distance flight to Africa where he participated in a 5-day ‘humanitarian’ trip with celebrities such as Kevin Spacey.
Celebrity doctor Drew Pinsky told the Hill Wednesday that he may eventually run for “Shifty” Adam Schiff’s Democrat House seat because the California congressman has become too obsessed with impeachment to do anything about the people dying in his district.“I wake up every day and drive through this town and I am morally moved where I feel like I have to do something,” said the famed internist, whose full name is David Drew Pinsky.“I was watching all the impeachment proceedings and I was going, ‘Oh my God, our Congress is tied up and we’re dying out here in California. What are these people doing?’” he complained
If you want to know why Democrats are so hell-bent on condemning President Trump's wipe-out of Iran's Number Two, Qassem Soleimani, maybe a look at their record with this guy can tell some of the story.
This demon (as Mancow so flawlessly characterized him) was a powerful guy in hellhole Iran, and he extended his brutality well beyond Iran's borders. He was responsible for the killings of hundreds of Americans in Iraq and beyond. He amassed his power because under the Obama administration, favors were done in a way that enabled him to rise as