Posts on Thursday, January 23, 2020
Epic! Trump Breaks the Internet After
He Tweets Picture of Obama Scaling
Trump Tower with Binoculars replies
He Tweets Picture of Obama Scaling
Trump Tower with Binoculars replies
President Trump, please never stop tweeting!The President broke the internet on Thursday night after he tweeted out a picture of Barack Obama scaling Trump Tower while holding binoculars.Trump tweeted the photo without a caption. (Tweet/Photo) President Trump’s tweet is most likely in response to the big breaking news out of the FISC earlier today. The FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] admitted in a secret order that at least two of the spy warrants against Carter Page were not lawfully authorized. Presiding FISA judge James Boasberg wrote in a January 7 order which was not declassified and released until Thursday,
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) desperately begged GOP Senators to vote with Dems to subpoena witnesses as the sham impeachment fizzled out.Republican Senators have now voted NINE TIMES to block the Democrats from bringing in new evidence and witnesses, leaving Schumer floundering.As TGP’s Kristinn Taylor reported, the Democrat House Managers for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump have senators in “agony” and “bored out of their minds”, with many nodding off, walking around and even leaving the chamber for extended periods of time.The Democrats have shown nothing new.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott shared video of a “candid moment” with President Donald Trump. The Republican governor was greeted by the president while the two were in Davos, Switzerland this week and Abbott’s encounter with Trump as he was leaving the World Economic Forum was caught on video. (Tweet/Video) The president stopped to greet Abbott on his way out and repeatedly asked him if he was okay.“Are you okay? You want to come up with us?” Trump asked as he shook Abbott’s hand then leaned in to give him a hug and a pat on the back.“I’ll give you a ride back,” the president added
Donald Trump plans a week of showing his presidential might while his impeachment trial drags on in the Senate.Next week, when the president's lawyers will offer Trump's defense and senators are given a chance to question both sides, the president will be signing his USMCA trade deal and unveiling a Middle East peace plan. He also plans to troll Democrats with a campaign rally in Iowa ahead of its presidential caucuses and travel to New Jersey for another rally to welcome the latest member of the GOP: Congressman Jeff Van Drew, who switched to the Republican Party during the impeachment inquiry in the House.
‘We’re supposed to believe him!?’ Jim Jordan
hits Schiff with 7 declarations he got ‘exactly
wrong’ replies
hits Schiff with 7 declarations he got ‘exactly
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House Oversight Committee ranking member Jim Jordan wants to know why anybody should believe House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff’s claims against President Donald Trump given the numerous lies he’s told in the past and continues to tell today.
Speaking shortly after Schiff bored Democrat and Republican senators alike to death by spending over two hours laying out his flimsy case against the president, Jordan listed just a few of the lies the Intelligence Committee chair turned impeachment manager has told in the past couple of years.
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“We’re supposed to believe Adam Schiff today and everything he’s saying?” he asked with incredulity during a presser held Wednesday afternoon.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) reportedly distributed gadgets like fidget spinners and stress balls to his colleagues ahead of the hours-long Senate impeachment trial on Thursday, Roll Call reported.Burr, who held a “Carolina Cookout” featuring all-American favorites like hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, coleslaw, potato salad, and ice cream as part of Thursday’s weekly lunch, reportedly distributed “an assortment of fidget spinners and other gizmos to his GOP colleagues,” according to Roll Call. The move follows two days of well-documented boredom among senators, some of whom have dozed off,
Just like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff seems to possess an innate talent for inspiring bipartisan unity among Republicans and Democrats.
Case in point: As he rambled on and on about President Donald Trump’s alleged guilt during the second day of the president’s Senate trial Wednesday, both Republicans and Democrats reportedly joined together in dying of utter boredom. [Tweet]
According to The Washington Post, Sen. Rand Paul felt so bored that he desperately scribbled “S.O.S.” (which is a Morse code distress signal) on a piece of paper.
He followed up the “S.O.S.” with “THESE R NOT MY PARENTS!”
A trio of toughs stormed a Brooklyn Chinese take-out restaurant and pelted workers with brooms and soda cans, police said Thursday. The wild caught-on-video fracas began outside Mr. King Asian Fusion on Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens around 8 p.m. Dec. 27 and escalated into a brawl inside the restaurant. The trio—two men and a woman—burst into the store, with one of the men swinging a broom at a worker while he tries to fight back against his assailants, cops said. Then the video shows the woman taking soda cans from a fridge and flinging them at workers
Austin, Texas—A woman who was found "twerking" nude on top of a vehicle at a north Austin grocery store later spit in an arresting officer's face, according to police. It happened just before noon on Tuesday at the H-E-B store at W. Rundberg Lane on N. Lamar. Police responded to a call for two women fighting at the store, and another call later that one of the women was inside the H-E-B. When an officer arrived, he found 31-year-old Kisa Trinee Taylor "standing on top of a parked vehicle and doing a sexually provocative dance," according to the affidavit.
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is one of the hottest cars of the year, but this is ridiculous. Car and Driver and MotorTrend have each published images of a black 2020 Stingray propped up on bricks with its wheels removed on a Detroit street. The car was discovered at the corner of Coe Avenue and Parker Street in the city’s West Village neighborhood, about four miles from General Motors’ downtown headquarters. The car doesn’t have manufacturer’s license plates, which is odd because production of customer models isn’t supposed to begin until February. In fact, the rights to the first one off the line
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Justice Department "now believes it should have discontinued its secret surveillance of one-time Trump campaign adviser Carter Page far earlier than it did, according to a new court filing unsealed Thursday." Lack of probable cause is stated as the reason. Page was subject of surveillance starting in late 2016, but three subsequent renewals of the surveillance warrants were made. Two of those have been deemed illegitimate.
The Federalist reports that "The order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), which was created and authorized by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), was initially signed and issued on January 7, 2020,
Two Loudoun restaurants — Leesburg's ChefScape Kitchen and City Tap House in One Loudoun — will host drag shows for the first time next month, and with tickets for both sold-out weeks in advance, it appears county residents may have a recurring new entertainment option. "There are so many younger people, and even older people, who want something other than a guy and a guitar in a winery," drag performer Ryan Kincaid told the Times-Mirror. "They want some other entertainment, and they don't necessarily want to go all the way to D.C. or Baltimore for it." Drag shows aren't totally new to the county. Tarbender's Lounge in
NEW YORK — Billionaire and presidential candidate Tom Steyer reiterated his support Wednesday for reparations for African-Americans suffering from the legacy of slavery. “We would retell the story over the last 401 years so everybody understands not just the legalized, institutionalized injustice in racism — which is definitely a huge part of this story — but also the contribution of the African-American community,” Steyer said in an interview with Yahoo News’ “Hot Mic With Brittany Shepherd.” “I don’t think we can be the country that we want to be until we acknowledge the past and move to accept the mistakes
It’s a Capitol Hill cold war.
A chilly silence has enveloped the Capitol — with senators on either side of the political aisle telling The Post there has been very little communication between Democrats and Republicans behind closed doors during President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat, lamented that the parties appeared entrenched in their two camps and said there had been “strikingly little” late-night texts or phone calls to debate calling additional witnesses or introducing new documents as evidence.
“I understand that on the floor we’ve got, you know, TV cameras and the attention of our wonderful press corps, but my colleagues know how to reach out,”
One of President Donald Trump’s strongest supporters on cable news and Capitol Hill was surprisingly excluded from his impeachment defense team — and he has suspicions as to why.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) was widely believed to have been a front-runner to join a select group of House Republicans to defend the president through media outreach and providing consultation to his legal team, but he was snubbed.
In an interview with Politico, Gaetz said he wasn’t entirely sure why he was kept off the team, but he has been told by someone in the White House that Eric Ueland, the legislative affairs director, was “responsible for the brushback.”
A passenger flying from Mexico into Los Angeles was hospitalized and quarantined Wednesday night after displaying symptoms of the deadly new coronavirus strain, according to reports.
The traveler landed at LA International Airport around 6:46 p.m. Wednesday on American Airlines Flight 2546, where they were met by police and firefighters, Fox 5 reports.
Firefighters conducted a “deep contamination process” after the passenger was taken to a local hospital, the outlet reported.
Symptoms of the virus include a fever, coughing and difficulty breathing, but authorities haven’t said which the traveler was displaying.
Authorities in China, where the outbreak began, say 17 people have died and more than 600 have been infected with the new virus.
The chief of the Hallmark Channel’s parent company is stepping down following a furor over the network’s airing of ads depicting a lesbian wedding. Hallmark Cards announced the departure of Bill Abbott as president and CEO of Crown Media Family Networks, which operates Hallmark’s three family-friendly cable channels, after 11 years in the role. “I want to thank Bill for his many years of success and contributions to Crown Media and wish him continued success,” Hallmark Cards president and CEO Mike Perry said in a Wednesday statement, adding that he would start searching for Abbott’s replacement.
The Federalist has learned that the now-outed CIA and FBI informant Stefan Halper served as a source for Washington Post reporter David Ignatius, providing more evidence that the intelligence community has co-opted the press to push anti-Trump conspiracy theories. In addition, an email recently obtained by The Federalist from the MI5-connected Christopher Andrew bragging that his long-time friend Ignatius has the “‘inside track’ on Flynn” adds further confirmation (Snip)
Svetlana Lokhova, the Russian-born English citizen and Soviet-era scholar, told The Federalist that she only realized the significance of her communications with and about Ignatius following the filing of attorney Sidney Powell’s reply brief in the Michael Flynn case.
Scientists warned in 2017 that a SARS-like virus could escape a lab set up that year in Wuhan, China, to study some of the most dangerous pathogens in the world. Now, a SARS-like coronavirus has infected more than 600 there, spread to at least 10 other countries and killed 18 in Wuhan and nearby provinces. China installed the first of a planned five to seven biolabs designed for maximum safety in Wuhan in 2017, for the purpose of studying the most high-risk pathogens, including the Ebola and the SARS viruses.(Snip) In fact, the SARS virus had 'escaped' multiple times
In an apparent trashy side story, Joe Biden's son Hunter has an Arkansas judge after him for failing to comply, for the third time, to submitting a financial statement so as to determine how much side support he need to pay for the child that came of his congress with an Arkansas stripper.
The judge is angry:
On Tuesday, an Arkansas judge ordered Hunter Biden, the youngest son of former Vice President Joe Biden, to appear in court and explain why he should not be held in contempt for violating numerous court orders to provide financial information in his Arkansas paternity case.
You opened the door.
Trial lawyers live in fear of that phrase.
When a trial starts, both sides know what the allegations are. Both have had enough discovery to know what the adversary will try to prove. Just as significantly, both know what their own vulnerabilities are. (Snip)For an advocate, it is a coup when the judge rules that harmful testimony is excluded. But such rulings always come with a warning label: Don’t open the door. That is, don’t do anything that makes the otherwise irrelevant evidence relevant.
President Trump’s impeachment trial has a Biden door. Adam Schiff has thrown it wide open.
CLAIM: Former National Security Council official Tim Morrison reported the Ukraine phone call right away because it was political.
VERDICT: FALSE. Morrison saw nothing illegal — or political — about the call.
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed during President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial on Thursday that several officials listening to his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported “came forward in real time to report the president’s conduct.”
He specifically noted Morisson, though Morisson testified in the House Intelligence Committee that he saw nothing wrong with the call.
Head House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told the Senate impeachment trial Thursday that President Donald Trump should be removed from office because he did not obey the talking points prepared by bureaucrats who work for him.
According to Schiff, the president — who has primary authority under the U.S. Constitution to determine U.S. foreign policy — did not follow “U.S. policy” in speaking with Ukraine’s president.
Schiff said:
(Snip) he’s not obligated to use his talking points. He’s not obligated to follow the recommendations of his staff no matter how sound they may be. But what this makes clear is it wasn’t U.S. policy that he was conducting.
A woman accused of killing her wife in 2017 was digging a grave when police arrived at their home, a prosecutor said Thursday. Laura Bluestein appeared before Judge Terrence Cook and jurors in Mount Holly for opening statements in her trial on counts of murder, tampering with evidence and a weapons charge. Bluestein is accused of killing her wife, Felicia Dormans, at their Mount Holly home Aug. 6, 2017. Prosecutors say it was intentional, while attorney Robin Lord contended it was accidental. Before a courtroom packed with family and staff from the Burlington County Prosecutor’s Office, Assistant Prosecutor Jeremy Lackey described a Mount Holly
WaPo's Jennifer Rubin Says Bloomberg Could Help Dems by Spending $50,000,000 on Impeachment Ads
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The Washington Post’s “conservative blogger” Jennifer Rubin is at it again. This time she’s saying that liberal billionaire Michael Bloomberg could help Democrats by using his vast wealth to support impeaching President Donald Trump.The self-described “conservative blogger” wrote a fairly liberal op-ed Jan. 20 headlined, “Here’s how Bloomberg could help himself, Democrats and America.” The way to “help,” wrote Rubin, was for Bloomberg to: “Spend $50 million or so in the next week on impeachment ads” [emphasis added]. Strange, given that she wrote in January, 2019 (roughly one year ago), that such spending on impeachment ads was “financial wastefulness.”
The University of Michigan has placed its provost on leave after allegations of sexual misconduct were made against him, the school has announced. Martin A. Philbert, who earns $570,340 a year, was placed on administrative leave on Tuesday, according to a letter from the university. Several allegations were made against the 57-year-old last Thursday and Friday, triggering an internal investigation of sexual misconduct by Philbert, says University President Mark S. Schlissel. Washington, DC, law firm WilmerHale, was then hired to lead the probe since Philbert, who is the school's executive vice president of academic affairs, is normally charged with conducting such investigations
Prince Charles avoided shaking hands with Mike Pence, the U.S. vice president. at an Auschwitz memorial event in Jerusalem Thursday - but then smiled as he greeted Vladimir Putin.
A video clip of the Prince of Wales greeting officials in Israel shows him walking along the front row of seats, shaking hands with world and Jewish leaders.
When he came to Pence, the vice president had his hand extended in apparent expectation of a handshake.
But the heir to the British throne merely looked him in the eye before moving on to shake hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country's President Reuven Rivlin.
The Chinese market at the center of the deadly coronavirus outbreak sold live animals—including wolf pups, foxes, rats and peacocks—to eat, according to a new report. The wild animals were among 112 items that were peddled at the Huanan Seafood Market in the central city of Wuhan, Agence France-Press reported. Other wildlife sold at the market, which has since been shuttered, included crocodiles, giant salamanders, snakes, porcupines and camel meat. “Freshly slaughtered, frozen and delivered to your door,” said the price list for the vendor, “Wild Game Animal Husbandry for the Masses.” The disturbing list circulated widely on China’s internet
A Massachusetts woman was busted for allegedly turning a store parking lot into her own personal potty—pooping there a staggering eight times in roughly a month. Dubbed the “Parking Lot Pooper,” Andrea Grocer, 51, of Ashland was allegedly caught dropping trou near the Natick Outdoor Store on Wednesday morning after she was nabbed on camera in the act, according to metrowestdailynews(dot)com. “At first, [workers] thought it was an animal but then they noticed toilet paper and other wipes—items animals would not have access to,” said police spokeswoman Lt. Cara Rossi, who said the first feces was found in early December.
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) kicked off the third day of impeachment hearings on Thursday, trying to create a moment of levity by floating the possibility of lawmakers being put in prison.(Snip)Schiff’s joke drew some mild chuckles from the Senate gallery, but it did not amuse Republican members of Congress.
“Adam Schiff starting off today with a joke about imprisoning Senators came off like a joke written by Jerry Seinfeld but delivered by George Costanza,” Rep. Mark Meadow commented on Twitter.
New York—Federal regulators have slapped former Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf with a $17.5 million fine for his role in the bank's sales practices scandal. Stumpf also accepted a lifetime ban from the banking industry. Along with its fine against Stumpf, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced Thursday it was suing five other former Wells Fargo executives for a combined total of $37.5 million for their roles in the bank's poor practices. Two other executives also settled with regulators, paying million-dollar fines as well. This is the first time regulators have punitively punished individual executives for Wells Fargo's wrongdoing.
Hunter Biden, the youngest son of former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden, is reportedly “prepping” at his Hollywood Hills residence for potential testimony in the Senate’s impeachment trial.“Hunter is taking no chances, he knows that he could get called as a witness any day so he wants to be fully prepared, he’s going over every fine detail,” a source told the Daily Mail on Wednesday.“He’s taking the trial very seriously and wants to make sure he’s ready for whatever the Republicans throw at him,” the source added.Biden, whose business activities in Ukraine are at the center of the impeachment trial, has been floated as a possible witness
For the sake of his own impeachment dreams, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-California, ought to shut up and stop saying the quiet part out loud.The House Judiciary chairman began the second day of the Senate's impeachment trial by admitting the unconscionable. "If not remedied by his conviction in the Senate and removal from office, President Trump’s abuse of his office and obstruction of Congress will permanently alter the balance of power among the branches of government," the lead impeachment manager said. "For precisely this reason, the president’s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won."
U.S forces had a chance to kill Qassem Soleimani back in 2007 when a drone spotted him getting a hero's welcome on the streets of Iraq—but they didn't fire because the top Iranian general was deemed 'untouchable'. American soldiers were using drones armed with missiles to monitor the streets of Sadr City in Baghdad in late 2007 when they noticed large crowds taking to the streets to welcome a VIP.(Snip) 'The Iraqi intel service wanted to kill him and couldn't understand why we wouldn't target him,' former CIA official John Maguire said. 'They thought he was the most dangerous guy in Iraq.'
College professors in America are vastly more likely to donate to Democrats than they are to Republicans, according to a new study. The study, conducted by Heterodox Academy Director of Research Sean Stevens and Brooklyn College Professor Mitchell Langbert, found that by a ratio of 95:1, college professors across the country donated heavily to Democrats over Republicans.Campus Reform reported that the study “looked at the political donations of 12,372 college professors at universities in 31 states and the District of Columbia during the past two election cycles in 2015-16 and 2017-18.”
Planters Peanuts' top hat and monocle-wearing Mr. Peanut has been killed off in a pre-Super Bowl commercial. It was bound to happen. The cane-waving spokesnut was too classy for the brand and had to go in spectacular fashion.
Indeed, he did. The commercial features actors Wesley Snipes and Matt Walsh on a road trip in the Nutmobile when they plunge over a cliff (see it below). Mr. Peanut dies to save the others.(Snip for tweet) A Kraft-Heinz spokeswoman announced: “It’s with heavy hearts that we confirm Mr. Peanut has passed away at 104 years old. He will be remembered as the legume who always brought people
Al Gore compares climate change to
Dunkirk, Agincourt, and 9/11: ‘We
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Dunkirk, Agincourt, and 9/11: ‘We
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Al Gore has urged governments and the global elite to take stronger action in tackling the climate crisis, comparing it to some of the greatest military actions in history–and the 9/11 terror attacks. The former US vice president made the comparisons during a panel session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which was attended by teenage activist Greta Thunberg, Prince Charles, and Donald Trump. He said: “The burden to act on the shoulders of the generation of the people alive today is a challenge to our moral imagination. “This is Thermopylae. This is Agincourt. This is the Battle of the Bulge.
How not to shake someone’s hand
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Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron walked side by side, their hands clasped together. They remained in each other’s vice-like grip, tugging, patting and fawning at each other for 29 seconds as the world’s media looked on.
Occurring during a parade for French National Day – the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, a turning point in the French revolution – it could have been a moment of solidarity between the leaders of two great nations. Instead it turned into one of the most awkward, lingering handshakes in recent memory. Without being able to hear what they discussed as they pressed themselves
How the Dems Lost Day Two
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Adam Schiff, the House manager leading the impeachment case against President Trump, did an excellent job of presenting a fundamentally flawed and fallacious argument in his opening statement yesterday. Schiff is a former federal prosecutor who was articulate and seemingly factual and well-prepared, albeit a little self-righteous. He quoted extensively from White House documents and the testimony of aides and officials who were concerned about the temporary hold on military aid to Ukraine, which gave his presentation an undeserved aura of credibility. But Schiff provided absolutely no factual support for the crucial premise on which his entire case depends. Schiff asserted repeatedly, without providing any evidence,
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told 17-year-old Greta Thunberg to go to college and study economics after the Swedish teen called for immediate fossil fuel divestment.
Mnuchin was asked about Thunberg’s calls for private-sector divestment from fossil fuel companies and if it would threaten economic growth in the US.“Is she the chief economist? Who is she, I’m confused” Mnuchin said before asserting that he was just joking.“After she goes and studies economics in college she can come back and explain that to us,”
I think most conservatives live in the moment way better than liberals. “Liberal” is a sort of umbrella term; it encompasses leftist, progressive, and maniac.
Liberals live in a dimension of only two personal time zones; the present and the near future. Conservatives consider a third element; we call it the past. The liberal acknowledges a past that is only a craven reflection of reality; it is full of caricature and devoid of character.
It is easy to point out the bad side of human nature if that is all you’re looking for.
If you read at all as a child, you opened up your personality for self-consideration.
Australian fire-lighters come in six colors — yellow, black, white, blood red, dark green, and light green. All are relevant to bushfires and forest management.
"Yellow" is the fire-lighter that has been with us forever. It is the yellow flash of lightning, which has always ignited the Australian bush. We're dreaming to think we can lock yellow fire out of parks, forests, and heritage areas. But good forest management can reduce the ferocity and destruction of lightning-strike fires.
"Black" fire-lighters came with the first Australians. Without matches or tinder boxes, they probably captured the fire genie from a lightning fire.
The Rage of the Democrats
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What underlies the rage of the Democrat Party and of the leftist Democrat Establishment vis-à-vis President Donald Trump? Over forty years ago, during my high school years in Iran, my father and I had a conversation. He was an avid Republican, even though he lived on the other side of the world. Right before I prepared to leave Iran for the U.S., he gave me some fatherly advice. He explained why the Democrat Party was bad for America, bad for Iran, and bad for the world. He advised me that if I ever became a US citizen, I should never vote for Democrats. After all these years, I now understand what he meant by those words of wisdom.
The Doomsday Clock has moved 20 seconds closer to midnight, meaning the world is just 100 seconds away from complete destruction. In a live announcement Thursday morning, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the striking announcement that the world is symbolically within two minutes to the end of the world. The 2020 time is the closest the Clock has been to midnight since 1953, when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were testing hydrogen bombs. Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, cited worsening nuclear and climate crises as the causes to inch the time forward.
Utah has become the 19th — and most conservative — state in the U.S. to ban "conversion therapy" for minors. The widely discredited practice, aimed at changing a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity, is now formally barred in the state after the new rule took effect late Tuesday.
A spokesperson for Republican Gov. Gary Herbert, who directed licensing regulators to make the change, confirmed the move to NPR on Wednesday.
"We want to thank Governor Herbert and his administration for not allowing this issue to be politicized," Troy Williams, the executive director of Equality Utah, said at a Wednesday news conference celebrating the news. "He saw how polarizing this was
A large-scale blast rocked an apartment in the no-go Stockholm suburb of Husby early Tuesday morning along with another explosion taking place just 500 metres away.
One person was taken to the hospital after suffering injuries from one of the blasts, but the injuries were only determined to be minor. A total of 50 residents were evacuated from their homes following the blasts as police and bomb technicians examined the area, SVT reports.
Democrats will spend the third day of the Senate impeachment trial Thursday exhibiting reasons they feel Donald Trump abuse the power of his office.Thursday is the second day allocated for the Democratic impeachment managers to make opening arguments for the removal of the president on two offenses levied against him in the House proceedings – abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.The seven managers, led by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, argued Wednesday that the president obstructed the House's ability to conduct a complete investigation and also continued their push to include new witness testimony in the Senate trial.
Shortly before President Trump flew back home from Davos on Wednesday, he opened the attack on Democrats Jerrod Nadler and Adam Schiff during an impromptu press conference. Trump blasted the two Democrat leaders (and impeachment managers), while saying he'd love to visit the Senate trial.
Like Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Trump is reluctant to call on new witnesses to testify. However, he said, he is more than willing to make sure one new person visits the proceedings: him. "I'd love to go, wouldn't that be great?" he said. "Sit right in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces, and I'd love to do it."
As for "Jerrold Nadler,"
A Hispanic police captain in Miami has been suspended for claiming he was a “black male” during a city commission meeting, department officials said.
Javier Ortiz was “relieved of duty with pay” on Wednesday pending an investigation, a police department spokesman confirmed to The Post. Ortiz, who previously oversaw the department’s SWAT operations, is expected to be off the force indefinitely, Deputy Police Chief Ronald Papier told the Miami Herald. Papier refused to indicate why Ortiz is being investigated, but the development follows Ortiz’s comments on Friday at a city commission meeting during which he claimed he was black instead of Hispanic while addressing allegations
These packages seemed a little fishy. Dozens of shipments containing 3,700 live mitten crabs have been uncovered by US Customs and Border Protection officials in Cincinnati over the last four months—in boxes labeled as tools and clothing, according to the agency. The 51 packages, weighing about 3,400 pounds, came from China and Hong Kong and were bound for homes and businesses in multiple states—including New York, the CBP said in a news release. Mitten crabs are a seasonal delicacy in Asia and go for about $50 a pop in the US, but it is illegal to import them into the country because they can harm native wildlife.
The way things look, President Trump will almost certainly not be removed from office. The precedents set by the articles of impeachment, however, will endure far longer. And regrettably, the House of Representatives has transformed presidential impeachment from a constitutional parachute — an emergency measure to save the Republic in free-fall — into a parliamentary vote of “no confidence.”
The House seeks to expel Mr. Trump because he acted “for his personal political benefit rather than for a legitimate policy purpose.” Mr. Trump’s lawyers responded, “elected officials almost always consider the effect that their conduct might have on the next election.” The president’s lawyers are right.
Some animal lovers and nervous fliers may squawk but the US government wants a definitive “neigh” to the question of passengers bringing rabbits, turtles, birds, miniature horses and other unusual emotional support animals on planes in future, especially free of charge. Even cats could be running out of lives to while away under passengers’ seats at 30,000 feet. The US Department of Transportation on Wednesday proposed that only specially trained dogs qualify as service animals, which must be allowed in a passenger plane cabin at no charge. Airlines may be able to let passengers bring other animals on board, but hefty fees would apply.
More than 30% of inmates in Canadian prisons are Indigenous—even though aboriginal people make up just 5% of the country’s population, according to new figures released by a federal watchdog. In a scathing report published on Tuesday, the correctional investigator of Canada, Dr Ivan Zinger, described Indigenous overrepresentation in the country’s jails and prisons as “nothing short of a national travesty”. The figure is highest in the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, where Indigenous people make up 54% of the prison population.(Snip) Indigenous inmates also serve more of their sentence before being granted parole–and reoffend at much higher levels than non-indigenous inmates.
I’m no prognosticator, but in any conflict between Something and Nothing, my money is on Something, every time.
I have recently read of one of the wiser uses of money squeezed from American taxpayers. A feminist professor was sent to Afghanistan to reveal to the natives the glories of battling the patriarchy, or something. I can imagine her bringing along boxes of bumper stickers, “Question Authority,” to be pasted on the posteriors of mules as they pick their way along the mountain precipices.
Last week, CNN’s Manu Raju asked Sen. Martha McSally whether she would acquiesce to Democratic demands for more witnesses and evidence in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. (Snip)et reporters rarely if ever talk about Democrats’ mirror image problems here. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is, like Romney, out of step with his party on Trump. Yet both are likely to vote against impeachment. (Snip)
Gary Peters of Michigan is in a state that Trump won and is competitive heading into this election. The media focus on Collins and Gardner — and not Peters — because they want Collins and Gardner to lose.
Adam Schiff is a man of very peculiar reasoning. Like a dolt shouting louder at a foreign-language speaker to make him 'understand,' Schiff's decided that if he just keeps talking enough with his long, long, long speeches, we will all suddenly turn into anti-Trumpsters and throw Trump from office.
No kidding, he spoke for two and a half hours in his House manager introduction to the Senate impeachment court, the length of which alone was deadly to his case in the age of Twitter. Seriously, two and a half hours. Imagine listening to a dog barking for two and a half hours....
This sentiment pretty well describes how well that went over:
While attending a “community conversation” in Grimes, Iowa, this past Monday, a man approached Elizabeth Warren to ask her a question about her student loan plan (snip) students blithely take on debt despite getting majors in areas that will never result in jobs that enable them to pay off that debt. That is, she intends to reward them – or their families – for being completely irresponsible.
And it is that reward for irresponsibility that saw an irritated man approach Elizabeth Warren to complain about her proposal – and to get from her, in return, her dismissal of his concerns, a laugh, and a smirk.
Yes, impeachment is a constitutional process, but because nobody expects President Turmp to be convicted, this impeachment is mostly a television show – in the genre of reality TV -- intended by its creators to influence the November elections for president and Senate. But Democrats forget at their own peril that President Trump is the most successful reality television producer in the history of the medium. He not only understands how drama is played out in a way that satisfies mass audiences, he is a practitioner of the dramatic form of reality TV in which real people react to structured situations
In a case with potentially profound implications, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready to invalidate a provision of the Montana state constitution that bars aid to religious schools. A decision like that would work a sea change in constitutional law, significantly removing the longstanding high wall of separation between church and state.
The focal point of Wednesday's argument was a ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that struck down a tax subsidy for both religious and non-religious private schools.
Straight from Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts’ “pettifogging” reference at the Senate Impeachment Trial to the horse’s mouth, the horse’s mouth being Democrat Rep. Al Green: President Donald Trump is not being impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors—but for daring to run as a 2016 presidential candidate.
Proof is in the video below:
During a pause between meetings President Trump sat down for an interview with CNBC in Davos, Switzerland. Joe Keren notes the talk of Davos is the strength of the U.S. economy and how the results of the America-First national economic policies of President Trump are stronger than all Davos attendees anticipated.
This wide-ranging interview may even be better than the Fox Business interview as it presents more depth of insight into the next steps for President Trump’s global trade reset. Obviously Europe is not looking forward to negotiating new reciprocal trade agreements with the Trump administration. WATCH:
As 21 different state attorneys general noted earlier today, there are several reasons why the impeachment effort is unconstitutional. These are not process arguments; they are factual arguments central to the constitutional framework of our government.
The failure of a full House vote to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to pursue evidence -via enforceable subpoenas- was a defect by design of Nancy Pelosi’s decision to initiate an impeachment inquiry by her decree, not an authorizing vote. White House lawyer Patrick Philbin explains the legal issue; this could be the lead argument in the defense case when it starts. [Video prompted to 03:20]
Many people are becoming aware the Senate impeachment trial is an exercise in politics, nothing more. The votes are already decided; the trial is simply a pantomime.
To highlight the point, Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, simply walked out during the trial when Adam Schiff was testifying; said “goodnight” and just went home.
Washington Post congressional reporter Paul Kane noted :(WaPo) Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) walked out of the Senate chamber, said “good night” to two reporters standing nearby, and left the Capitol. Senators are expected to stay in the chamber for the entirety of the arguments. (link)
Just two weeks into Donald J. Trump’s presidency, Eric Ciaramella—the CIA operative widely believed to be the anti-Trump “whistleblower”— was overheard discussing with another White House staffer the need to remove the president from office, Paul Sperry of RealClearInvestigations reported on Wednesday. Ciaramella was at the time on loan to the White House as a top Ukrainian analyst in the National Security Council (NSC). He had previously served as an adviser on Ukraine to then-Vice President Biden. “Just days after he was sworn in they were already talking about trying to get rid of him,” a White House colleague who overheard their conversation told RCI. “
Lead House impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) used an opinion article by the editorial board of the Washington Post in an attempt to prove the facts of his case against President Donald Trump in opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial Wednesday evening. Schiff cited the editorial board, which has taken a staunch anti-Trump line since the 2015-6 election, as if its opinion ought to be considered compelling evidence by the Senate.He said:On September 25th [sic], the Washington Post editorial board reported concerns that President Trump was withholding military assistance for Ukraine,
The government’s bill implementing the withdrawal deal has passed through both Houses of Parliament, meaning the UK will finally be leaving the EU on January 31st, 2020. On Wednesday evening, MPs in the House of Commons rejected the amendments to the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill proposed by the House of Lords. The upper house could have continued to push for their amendments to be passed, but agreed to end the “ping-pong” phase of passing the legislation, given the Conservatives’ 87-seat working majority would result in the amendments being defeated at every vote.In a brief comment after the bill passed, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said:
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Nancy Pelosi is a smart woman, or so we’ve been told. Shrewd, calculating, and ruthless are words also used to describe the current Speaker of the House. But for those of us paying attention, it’s become apparent she’s asleep at wheel. Consumed by the impeachment scam, hoping to damage the Trump brand beyond all repair; since beating him at the ballot box in November will be a near to impossible task, Pelosi is either ignoring the chaos brewing in her own party or she simply doesn’t care. There’s a perfect storm bearing down
Former Mississippi State football star De’Runnya Wilson was found dead in an apparent homicide at an Alabama home Tuesday, police said.
Wilson, 25, was found inside a Birmingham home unresponsive by a relative, police said. Wilson’s death was being investigated as a homicide, police Sgt. Johnny Williams said.
A cause of death wasn’t immediately released.
Wilson was a high school basketball standout in Alabama. He was named a first-team Parade All-American and the state’s Mr. Basketball in 2013, according to AL.com. He played football his senior season in high school and went on to play for Mississippi State in college.
On Wednesday afternoon, a CNN analyst cooked up a "conversation" between two Republican senators in order to smear President Donald Trump, his party, and Fox News. He later admitted to having completely fabricated the quotes, but only after The Washington Post's self-described conservative Jennifer Rubin retweeted his "report."
"Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News. 'is this stuff real? I haven't heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we're up s**t's creek. Hope the White House has exculpatory evidence,'" Joe L
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This all wouldn't be so awkward if Jennifer Rubin weren't still billing herself as the "conservative blogger" for The Washington Post.
But here we are: [tweet]
The object of Rubin's awe here is chinless wonder Adam Schiff, who is getting some extra airtime this week because he's brought his Alternative Facts Three-Ring Circus to the Senate floor.
Rubin's journey as a #NeverTrump zealot has been one of the weirder ones to observe these past few years. Even before being exposed to toxic peer-pressure levels of Coastal Media Trump Derangement Syndrome, Rubin wasn't really what anyone outside of the northeastern United States could call a "conservative."
CNN political analyst and former Comms for the Clinton White House, Joe Lockhart tweeted out an “overheard convo” between Republican Senators who were supposedly panicking because of what Schiff said during his impeachment tirade.
“Overheard convo between two Republican Senators who only watch Fox News. “is this stuff real? I haven’t heard any of this before. I thought it was all about a server. If half the stuff Schiff is saying is true, we’re up shit’s creek. Hope the White House has exculpatory evidence” Joe Lockhart tweeted. [Tweet]
After his tweet went viral with thousands of retweets and 10’s of thousands of ‘likes’
House impeachment manager Adam Schiff is a lunatic who has been spewing insane Trump-Russia conspiracy theories from the Senate floor all week.
On Wednesday, Adam Schiff went on a long-winded impeachment tirade that lasted for two hours.
Schiff is completely deranged and went from lie to conspiracy throughout his nearly 2-hour opening argument.
Fox News host Jesse Watters said Schiff looked like a “rotten dandelion” and “listening to him is like being in the room when someone’s vacuuming. You just can’t wait for it to stop.”
Well, even Schiff acknowledged everyone wanted him to stop talking.
At the end of his marathon impeachment speech, Schiff assured everyone that the “end is in sight”
Every one of the 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump should be incandescent with rage about the impeachment trial under way in the Senate.
This shameful pantomime is the culmination of a three-year temper tantrum by the Democrats for their 2016 loss. It is therapy for Trump Derangement Syndrome, at your expense.
Meanwhile, the president is out there working 16-hour days and scoring goals, with the economy booming, blue-collar wages up and workers prospering.
Whatever you think of his bombast, Trump has been meticulous in keeping his promises to the American people, and his almost Tourette-like candor frustrates the Democrats’ demonization project.
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden plans on changing the culture over at U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) by firing ICE agents who arrest illegal aliens for anything other than a felony, adding, "and I don’t consider drunk driving as a felony." Biden made the controversial remarks during a 2020 Vice News Election Forum on Monday.
A moderator asked the Democratic candidate how he would change the "culture" over at ICE.
"You change the culture by saying, 'You’re gonna get fired,'" a finger-pointing Biden responded. "'You’re fired.'
The Democrats and their lapdog media, led by Adam Schiff, AKA Shifty Schiff, lectured us for the past three years that President Trump must be impeached and removed because they had clear, compelling evidence that President Trump committed impeachable crimes.
Now that the impeachment trial has started, Shifty Schiff is arguing that the Senate must subpoena documents and witnesses to prove the Democrats' impeachment articles. What happened to their "evidence"?
The premise of the Shifty argument is that President Trump must be guilty of something, so there must evidence somewhere to prove it. Democrats want the Senate to issue subpoenas so they can rummage through documents and question witnesses
On Tuesday afternoon, CBS pulled the plug on covering the impeachment hearing taking place in the Senate. It was getting more revenue running the daytime soaps. This reflects a general feeling that most Americans don't want to sit there and be insulted. And by "insulted," we mean things like Adam Schiff saying something that translates to "You, the People, are too dumb to be trusted with the vote, lest you vote again for Trump": [tweet]
Americans understand what’s going on: Democrats said the evidence they’d gathered in a handful of secret basement hearings established that it was urgent to impeach Trump.
In an interview this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained that the Democratic Party wasn’t sufficiently leftist because it hasn’t embraced her style of socialism. “There are a lot of true believers that we can ‘capitalism’ our way out of poverty,” she complained.
We doubt there are very many such believers remaining in the Democratic Party, given that 70% of those who identify as Democrats now have a positive view of socialism.
To the extent that there are any free market capitalists left in the Democratic Party, it’s possible that they are true believers because they’ve seen the data,
Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer’s latest investigative work, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, contains a trove of egregious findings detailing the backgrounds and connections of a number of progressive leaders, including presidential hopefuls Joe Biden (D) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), both of whom have yet to address the reports.
Congratulations, Virginia – you overcame the terrible peril that was patriots rallying in Richmond to peacefully express your disgust with Governor Jolson Klanrobe and his legislative back-up dancers’ attempt to strip you of your rights. You came, you saw, you protested, and then you swept up.
But the fight’s not over. It’s just starting. But know this – you will win.
Let’s begin with a basic principle: You have no moral obligation to respect or obey unconstitutional actions by a government. None. And when a government acts outside its constitutional limits, you do not merely have the right but the sacred duty to reject and replace it.
‘Nobody likes him,’ rages Hillary Clinton in a new documentary film. ‘Nobody wants to work with him. He gets nothing done.’
She expanded on her vicious personal attack in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter: ‘It’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters….and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.’
She concluded: ‘I think people need to pay attention because we want, hopefully, to elect a president who’s going to try to bring us together and not either turn a blind eye, or actually reward the kind of insulting, attacking, degrading behavior that we’ve seen… it’s all just baloney
For all their triumphalist talk of ascendant demography and permanent majorities, Democrats have never really come to terms with the slow death of the labor movement.
Unions have never been less relevant than they are today in the modern economy. Where they have not been obviated by workplace health and safety rules, they are being left behind in the race away from traditional employment to the so-called “gig economy.”
Hence the recent attempts by various liberal state legislatures to block economic progress by making contract work, including that of freelance journalists, impossible. Hence also the many attempts by the Obama administration to slow the bleeding
Imagine you heard that someone got a “direct diploma” from Harvard but didn’t actually have to do four years of papers and tests.
The term “veteran” wields a strange talismanic power in American politics today; the military is almost the only institution in American life that has maintained very high favorability ratings over the past 30 years. Invocation of the sacred words “military service” invariably grants a presumed license to make ad hominem arguments: “Oh yeah? What do you know about it? Did you serve?” A military past, regardless of how extensive it was, tends to be seen as a shining jewel on the résumé of a politician.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is coming out Thursday with new visa restrictions aimed at restricting “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the U.S. to give birth so their children can have a coveted U.S. passport.
Visa applicants deemed by consular officers to be coming to the U.S. primarily to give birth will now be treated like other foreigners coming to the U.S. for medical treatment, according to State Department guidance sent Wednesday and viewed by The Associated Press. The applicants will have to prove they are coming for medical treatment and they have the money to pay for it.
The State Department planned to publicize the rules Thursday,
Looking to capitalize on the Democrats’ “somber” impeachment of President Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s campaign released a video Tuesday as the Senate trial got underway.The ad featured Biden 2020 Rapid Response Director Andrew Bates slamming beers in a bar while spewing profanities about “what really happened in Ukraine.”The first sign Bates may have had one too many is he claimed Trump is “terrified” to face Biden in November.Bates lays out a timeline of events, justifying why his boss caused Viktor Shokin to be fired from his job as Prosecutor General of Ukraine. He celebrates Biden as a hero for removing the man who was investigating
Have you paid attention to Project Veritas’ latest series of exposé videos? If not, you can’t really consider yourself properly informed as to what one of the Democrats’ current frontrunners really represents.
The series consists of a number of examples of high-impact, and potentially high-risk, investigative reports on campaign staffers working for Bernie Sanders, and shockingly, but not surprisingly, they turn out to be violent, radical, Marxist revolutionaries with a great fondness for the use of totalitarian tactics and kinetic politics.
The first of the Bernie Bros Project Veritas made famous was a loathsome individual named Kyle Jurek, who is a field staffer for the Sanders campaign in Iowa.
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Margaret Court is the greatest Australian female tennis player ever. In fact, she’s one of the very best female tennis players ever from any country, having won more Grand Slam singles titles than any other woman.
Fifty years ago, Court accomplished one the most remarkable feats ever in women’s tennis — a calendar year “grand slam.” In other words, she won the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open in the same year.
At this year’s Australian Open, Australian tennis officials intend to honor Court’s achievement. However, the decision to do so has generated controversy.
Why? Because of Court’s views on LGBT issues.
Every hostile nickname that Mitch McConnell gets further confirms the Senate majority leader’s effectiveness.
The latest is “Midnight Mitch,” a reaction to his resolution setting out the road map for the Senate impeachment trial. The measure stipulated that House impeachment managers could make their case over two days of 12-hour sessions, possibly pushing the presentations into the wee hours.
Hence, the latest alliterative moniker for McConnell, also known to his enemies as “Moscow Mitch.” McConnell relented slightly on the resolution, giving the managers — and the president’s team — three days, instead of two, for opening arguments. But he still got his way
The Democrat House Managers for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump have senators in “agony” and “bored out of their minds”, with many nodding off, walking around and even leaving the chamber for extended periods of time according to reports. The boredom was exacerbated by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) forcing debates and votes on eleven doomed motions that dragged out Tuesday’s opening session until almost 2 a.m. EST. (Photo/Tweet) The boredom set in on the first day, Tuesday, and carried on in to Wednesday as Lead House Manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) droned on for hours.
We are facing an impeachment shutdown — the road-blocking of all our government’s institutions for an impeachment that is going nowhere. It will inflame passions, divide our country further and accomplish nothing of any significance.
The cast is now complete with shady characters, wronged bureaucrats and impeachment prosecutors preening for their close-ups on national TV.
As in 1998 and 1999, there is going to be a reckoning when this is all over. I helped to defend President Clinton when the country wasted time then on another impeachment that went nowhere. The president certainly was not innocent of all of the accusations, and he lost his law license and paid significant fines
President Trump’s personal attorney, Jay Sekulow, said Democrats are failing to present a coherent impeachment case. While speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Sekulow said Democrats have tried to deny the president his constitutional rights by dismissing executive privilege.The attorney stressed executive privilege is protected by Supreme Court decisions and added any attack against it amounts to an attack on the U.S. Constitution. (Tweet/Video) He went on to say Democrats are contradicting themselves and making irrelevant points while trying to present their case for impeachment.“Adam Schiff today talked about quid pro quo. Notice what’s not in the articles of impeachment: allegations or accusations of quid pro quos.
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House Democrats launched into lengthy arguments that broke little ground, if any, in President Trump's impeachment trial Wednesday -- as the head impeachment manager, California Rep. Adam Schiff, suggested that Russians could attack the U.S. and insisted that removing Trump from office was necessary because the integrity of the 2020 election could not be "assured."
Trump's lawyers sat by, waiting their turn, as the president blasted the proceedings from afar, threatening jokingly to face off with the Democrats by coming to "sit right in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces."
The challenge before the House managers has been clear. Democrats were given 24 hours
Three American firefighters died in a water tanker plane crash Thursday while battling wildfires in Australia, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian confirmed.
Rural Fire Service officials said they had located the plane, a C-130 Hercules, that crashed in the Snowy Monaro region of New South Wales state.
Coulson Aviation in Oregon said in a statement that one of its C-130 Lockheed large air tankers was lost after it left Richmond in New South Wales with retardant for a firebombing mission. It said the accident was “extensive" but had few other details.
"We are deeply saddened to confirm there were 3 fatalities," Coulson's statement said.
After a lifetime of being insulated from criticism, the Lemony Snicket character Carmelita Spats acts with unshakable confidence in her talent as a performing artist. Vicious and cruel, she subjects her victims to a twirling dance that ends with her signature sign off, “And my name is Carmelita!” Fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events—or anyone who recognizes the archetype of the “stage” child—might feel a twinge of déjà vu as Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) demands the rigging of the Senate trial with rules that allowed his hippity-hoppity kangaroo proceeding in the House to reach its predetermined result—the impeachment of President Trump.
Ugh! “Do we have to watch this?”
As he stood on the Senate floor at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Rep. Jerry Nadler declared that he and his colleagues “will now attempt to tell you the story” behind their impeachment charges. Immediately, hearts sank and televisions went dark across America.
It was only Day Two of the Senate trial and already Democrats were repeating themselves. In fact, they were repeating their repetitions. What’s left to say?
Not much, but that won’t stop them from saying it. Again and again and again.
Nadler’s turn to put his audience to sleep followed three painful hours of listening to Rep. Adam Schiff plowing the same ground repeatedly,
With impeachment drawing headlines, and Bernie Sanders sucking all the air out of the room with socialist schemes, Joe Biden is back to making gaffes, except that in this age of fantastical impeachment charges and unreal socialist schemes, gaffes are just business as usual.
Here are three idiocies from Biden this week, and this was just Tuesday:
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed on Tuesday that illegal immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program are "more American than most Americans" because they had "done well in school."
Monty Python stars have led the tributes to their co-star Terry Jones, who has died at the age of 77.
The Welsh actor and writer played a variety of characters in the iconic comedy group's Flying Circus TV series, and directed several of their films.
He died on Tuesday, four years after contracting a rare form of dementia known as FTD.
David Walliams and Simon Pegg were among other comedians who remembered him.
Fellow Python star Sir Michael Palin described Jones as "one of the funniest writer-performers of his generation".
In a tweet, John Cleese said he was "a man of so many talents and such endless enthusiasm".
He wasn’t giving up his dough without a fight.
A pizza delivery worker in North Carolina shot three goons who he says tried to rob him while he was on the job, according to a report.
The chaotic incident unfolded late Monday outside an apartment complex in the city of Charlotte, WSOC-TV reported.
Police say the delivery guy was dropping off pizza to the building when he was ambushed by four people — who allegedly aimed what he believed to be a rifle at his head, according to the outlet.
But the pie courier pulled out his own pistol and opened fire, striking three of them.