Posts on Thursday, February 6, 2020
Iranians who fled the Islamic Republic after facing persecution and prison sentences for their Christian faith said in remarks to Breitbart News this week that the majority of people in Iran support President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate Iranian terror chief Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani, a major general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was the head of Iran’s Quds Force and responsible for its foreign terrorism strategy. U.S. officials have confirmed that he pioneered the use of roadside bombs in Iraq and Syria to kill and dismember American soldiers. Trump ordered an airstrike on Soleimani in January after a pro-Iran mob attempted to storm the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., proved how divided the state of the union is by the "petty childish behavior" she exhibited after President Trump's address Tuesday night, former House speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday. (Snip) "And, she just proved...how divided the state of the union is...by the kind of petty, childish behavior that she personally exhibited," he stated. "It displayed to the entire country how vicious and petty the Democrats have become."
On Fox News Thursday, erstwhile South Carolina Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy fired upon former Federal Bureau of Investigations Director James Comey and 2016-2018 FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Trey told host Martha MacCallum the deeds of top FBI officials was sufficient evidence to suspect they were “out to get” Donald Trump. In a post-acquittal speech Thursday, the President set his sights on Comey with — in Martha’s words — a “searing rebuke”: “Had I not fired James Comey — who was a disaster, by the way — it’s possible I wouldn’t even be standing here right now. We caught ’em in the act. Dirty cops. Bad people.”
Pompeii's ancient drainage system is in such good condition that it is set to be put back into active service, despite being built almost 2,300 years ago. A 1,500ft stretch of tunnels underneath some of the famed Italian city's most iconic structures was originally built to drain water downhill away from Pompeii's centre. Analysis of the tunnels revealed they had been almost untouched for millennia and the complex system is still in excellent condition. 'The entrances to the drains were blocked but since we have problems today with flooding from rain we will start using them again,' Massimo Osanna, the director of the site, told The Times.
The New York Times’ 1619 Project — a curriculum that makes the fantastical claim that a primary cause of the Revolutionary War was the colonists’ desire to protect slavery — has been adopted in 3,500 classrooms across all 50 states. For this reason, some of the nation’s most renowned historians have called for The Times to correct this and other factual errors.The Pulitzer Center, which is partnering with The Times to promote The 1619 Project, recounted in its 2019 annual report, “Good journalism, innovative educational resources, and deep community engagement are absolutely essential to bridging the divisions that threaten to rip our democracy apart.
In reference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tearing up the president's State of the Union speech on national television, House Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney said Pelosi "had a tantrum" and showed, again, why "she is unfit for office."At a Capitol Hill press conference on Wednesday, the day after the SOTU, Cheney said, “Speaker Pelosi had a tantrum. She disgraced herself. She dishonored the House." (Video) "She showed once again that she is an embarrassment, that she is unfit for office," said Cheney, "and the American people are going to have the opportunity to make that decision
America’s wealthy, spoiled, entitled, arguably rotten liberal celebrities experienced one of the most emotional days of their lives this Wednesday. On one hand, President Donald Trump’s acquittal by the GOP-led Senate and his post-acquittal celebration inspired unadulterated rage and tears: [tweets] But on the other hand, Sen. Mitt Romney’s decision to don the role of Benedict Arnold and vote in favor of the president’s conviction — thus officially making the president’s impeachment “bipartisan” — triggered orgasmic pangs of joy among the celebrity class. This joy was expressed via adoring tweets like the following: [tweets]
The two party system in crisis
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The immediate question facing the Democratic Party is what to do now the Russian collusion investigation and the impeachment of Donald Trump both failed. Should they enter into another high stakes confrontation or should they lower the stakes? Each defeat, however subjectively glorious, exacts a price. A sufficiently long losing streak can bankrupt any party no matter how much political capital they start have.
The Democrat centrist wing is already broke according to a New York Times op-ed by Elizabeth Breunig. "The center cannot hold.
Bernie Sanders’s strong showing in Iowa is a turning point in the battle between the party’s establishment and left wing."
Hillary Clinton renews attack on Sanders during
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Hillary Clinton seemingly doubled down on her previous criticism of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her one-time rival during the 2016 presidential election, during an interview Thursday. In an appearance on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Clinton, the Democratic nominee four years ago, urged voters to "vote for the person that you believe can actually win in November." The notion that Clinton was criticizing Sanders, a self-avowed democratic socialist, was reaffirmed when DeGeneres said: "It seems to me more than ever we need somebody who’s going to go in and be able to kind of steer this ship in the right direction
Corporate media news outlets reacted with predictable venom to President Trump’s triumphant post-acquittal victory lap, Thursday. Trump presided over a jubilant crowd of conservative politicians and supporters in the East Room of the White House, and was in the mood to celebrate. It was a joyful and raucous event that most people in the room appreciated. But not the sourpusses in the mainstream media.(Snip)“It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars,” Trump said, calling the Russia hoax “all bullshit.” He noted that if the same things had happened to former president Obama, the perpetrators would already be serving time in jail.
At this moment there is a bill pending in Congress called the New Way Forward Act. It’s received almost no publicity, which is unfortunate as well as revealing. The legislation is sponsored by 44 House Democrats, including Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York. At roughly 4,400 words, it’s almost exactly as long as the U.S. Constitution. Like the Constitution, this legislation is designed to create a whole new country. The bill would entirely remake our immigration system, with the explicit purpose of ensuring that criminals are able to move here, and settle here permanently, with impunity.
The U.S. Treasury Department has started turning over confidential banking records related to Hunter Biden in response to requests from Senate investigative committees.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson asked the treasury in November for "suspicious activity reports," banking alerts involving money laundering or fraud, related to Biden and his associates.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, told Yahoo News that the department has already started turning over records. The Wyden spokeswoman criticized the Treasury Department for "rapidly complying" with the requests, calling the Republican-led Senate investigation of Biden a "sideshow.”
President Donald Trump has confirmed that the U.S. killed the leader of the Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula jihadist group who claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at an American naval base. Trump said in a statement on Thursday that the U.S. at his direction conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi. Al-Rimi is a founder of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The group has long been considered the global network's most dangerous branch for its attempts to carry out attacks on the U.S. mainland.(Snip) 'We will continue to protect the American people by tracking down and eliminating
President Trump tweeted out a political ad targeting Senator Mitt Romney (? – Utah) yesterday. The ad depicts Romney as a slippery Republican poser and Never-Trump infiltrator:
The ad comes one day after Romney voted to convict President Trump on the charge of “abuse of power” in the president’s impeachment trial in the Senate. Romney’s vote drew much criticism from conservatives and encomiums from celebrity liberal activists:
A half-dozen women of color have departed Elizabeth Warren’s Nevada campaign in the run-up to the state’s caucuses with complaints of a toxic work environment in which minorities felt tokenized and senior leadership was at loggerheads. The six staffers have left the roughly 70-person Nevada team since November, during a critical stretch of the race. Three of them said they felt marginalized by the campaign, a situation they said didn’t change or worsened after they took their concerns to their superiors or to human resources staff. “During the time I was employed with Nevada for Warren, there was definitely something
Joe Biden's brother is a scofflaw who is defying paying almost $1 million in compensation to the family of a young single father killed in a horrific car crash more than 20 years ago, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Frank Biden has failed to pay a dime to the family of Michael Albano despite having defaulted on a lawsuit filed against him for the death, our investigation uncovered.
And even though Albano's orphaned daughters pleaded more than a decade ago with Joe – then a senator - for help recovering the money from his brother it was to no avail, telling them he had 'deep sympathy' but his brother was penniless.
Since then Frank Biden
The second highest-up person in the Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday that New York has 'reintroduced the problem that caused 9/11' by giving undocumented migrants driver's licenses. The Trump administration this week banned all New York state residents from applying to or renewing their membership to Global Entry and other Trusted Traveler Programs because of a new state law which allows undocumented migrants to obtain driver's licenses. The programs speed up travel times in airports and require an interview, passport check and fingerprint check before approval.
A week of strong job approval polls for President Trump has ended with the one survey that sizes up his chances for reelection, and the odds are nearly 60% that he will win a second term.Betting aggregator Oddschecker.com put Trump’s chances at 59.99%, and the site shows that Trump has been soaring in the past few weeks, paralleling national job approval surveys including Gallup and the highly watched RealClearPolitics “Trump Job Approval” average. (Photo) Trump’s odds of victory are now 5-7, according to Oddschecker. The firm’s spokesman, Pete Watt, told Secrets that “Trump is at an all-time high.”Far behind is Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, who has a 16.7% chance
During her weekly press conference Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried defending her decision to rip up her copy of the SOTU address by kvetching about the president’s guests, accusing the president of being on drugs and claiming everything he said during the address had been a lie …In the clip below, the speaker first defended her “dignified” premeditated tearing up of her copy of the SOTU address by complaining about the president’s guests. Watch (Video)
Vice President Hillary Clinton? Well, never say never. Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres asked the former Secretary of State on Thursday whether she’d agree to be on the ticket of the of the eventual Democratic nominee, if she were asked.“Well, that’s not going to happen,” Clinton laughed. “But no, probably no.” Pushed on the question, Clinton, 72, reluctantly said she’d consider it. “I never say never because I believe in serving my country, but it’s never going to happen,” she said
CNN ran the chyron “Trump Vindictive at Impeachment Acquittal ‘Celebration'” during a White House event to mark his victory this week in the impeachment fight — and years of investigation before that.The event, where Trump spoke extemporaneously for over an hour, featured several jabs at those who attempted to take down his administration — but also many jokes, and warm plaudits for his supporters.CNN also ran a chyron that read “Trump Speaks After Impeachment Acquittal,” but alternated it with the other chyron. MSNBC described the event as”Trump Speaks After Senate Impeachment Acquittal.” Fox News ran the chyron: “President Trump Makes Remarks on Senate Impeachment Acquittal.”
Pose star Billy Porter has responded to critics who are upset that he'll appear on the upcoming 51st season of Sesame Street. Last week, the iconic children's television show shared several photos of the 50-year-old actor on set filming the 51st season, in which he re-wore the velvet tuxedo gown and jacket by designer Christian Siriano that he first donned at the 2019 Oscars. This led to some backlash from critics who called it 'disappointing' and even signed a petition to get the episode pulled—but Billy thinks those who don't like it should butt out.
Model Kelly Kay doesn’t appear to have any “regrets” about charging the field during Super Bowl 2020.
The 27-year-old social media influencer shared a collection of images from her eventful weekend on Instagram Monday, including the moment security dragged her away and her mug shot.
“Do what you want, when you want, life’s too short to have regrets ☄️ Thanks @nfl for having me ‼️” Kay captioned the snaps, also tagging @vitalystreaking.
An Ohio dad didn’t need more than one reminder about his daughter’s student loans — but he got about 55,000. Dan Cain, of Twinsburg, recently received a delivery of 79 plastic bins of mail — each packed with about 700 identical statements from the College Avenue Student Loan Company for the loan he and his wife, Dee, had taken out for their daughter’s college tuition, WOIO reported. He told the outlet he knew something was wrong when the clerk at the local post office told him his mail wouldn’t fit through their front door.
A decorated U.S. Air Force colonel slated to take command of the base that hosts Air Force One has been sentenced to five years in prison for receiving child pornography.
Mark Visconi, 48, of Fairfax, Virginia, was jailed on Friday after he plead guilty to receipt of child pornography in October. He was also sentenced to 15 years of supervised release in a federal court in Alexandria.
Visconi used the anonymous Tor network to download child pornography, according to a news release from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A forensic review of his laptop showed he had downloaded and viewed "numerous" pictures and videos of child pornography.
America’s Quiet Policing Crisis
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Across the United States, from cities to rural counties, police departments are confronting a recruitment crisis. “Going back to 2010, we had about 4,700 online applications. That dropped down to about 1,900 last year,” said Steve Anderson, chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, in a Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) report last year. Seattle’s police department reported a 40 percent to 50 percent drop in applications, while Jefferson County, Colorado’s applications plummeted 70 percent. In total, 86 percent of police chiefs nationwide reported a shortage of sworn officers, with nearly half stating that the shortage had worsened over the past five years.
The frustrated head of the Democratic National Committee demanded Thursday that Iowa party officials conduct a complete recount of the botched caucus vote — as Sen. Bernie Sanders was declaring victory despite the three-days-late incomplete tally.
“Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass,” DNC chairman Tom Perez said in a tweet.
Mitt “Pierre Delecto” Romney is enjoying an outpouring of “strange new respect” from the media today after voting with the Democrats to impeach President Trump.
Thanks to Mitt, the Democrats get to claim that their impeachment show trial was “bipartisan.” Anyone who has followed Mitt’s career could have seen this betrayal coming. This isn’t the first time he’s behaved like a bitter sanctimonious weasel when it comes to Donald Trump.
Four years ago, Romney used his clout as the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee to gather the media to Salt Lake City with great fanfare to hear his thoughts on the 2016 race just days before the crucial Michigan primary.
Hypocrite Utah Senator Mitt Romney dragged The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) into his long-running personal feud against President Donald Trump, and the leaders of the 15-million-member strong LDS should call him out on it. Romney, on the record for hating Trump—all for being the president he wants to be—used his “Faith” as a cover to give raging Democrats the ability to call their Impeachment drive non-partisan.
Arizona State University 'looking
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into' viral video of man screaming,
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Authorities at Arizona State University are investigating a video apparently recorded on campus that shows a man screaming, “Slash Republican throats!”
“We are aware of a video circulating on social media where an individual appears to be making threats,” the ASU police department tweeted Wednesday night. “We are working with the University to address the matter.”(Snip) Students for Trump national chairman Charlie Kirk claimed that the man was screaming at the school’s Students for Trump leader, who was tabling on campus that day. “This is the type of violence our students face every single day,” Mr. Kirk tweeted. ASU spokesman Jerry Gonzalez
President Donald Trump delivered a speech to the nation Thursday celebrating his impeachment trial acquittal the day before, blasting the process as “crooked” and thanking the “incredible warriors” who sided with him during the ordeal. Trump described the event as a celebration of another victory over the “evil” forces allied against him. The president’s address was populated with Cabinet members and staffers, as well as activists and allies. Spotted at the event were former Sen. Rick Santorum, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Matt Gaetz (R-CA), Mark Meadows (R-NC), House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Braun (R-IN), Mike Lee (R-UT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA),
Members of the Shabazz High School junior varsity boys basketball team repeatedly punched and kicked their coach in a violent attack in Newark following a game Tuesday night, officials confirmed to NJ Advance Media. A video of the incident, obtained by NJ Advance Media, shows at least four players knocking the coach to the ground while punching and kicking him repeatedly outside the school. The attack lasts about 25 seconds. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka told NJ Advance Media he visited Shabazz Thursday morning to address the situation with district Superintendent Roger León and administrators, coaches and players from the school.
Pelosi hurt American women
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Liberals are praising Nancy Pelosi for tearing up the president's speech as Congress rose to applaud him after he delivered his rousing and patriotic State of the Union. The mean girls moment was petty and childish, a reminder that when she is under pressure she reverts to being the mayor's spoiled daughter.
That was ripping up Janiyah’s dream of going to school.
That was ripping up the Hake family, who lost their dad because of terrorist Soleimani.
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The rest of America is watching as the first woman to be heartbeats from the presidency comes undone. She trashed the peace and prosperity the rest of us have enjoyed the last 3 years.
Plug-in hybrid cars can emit up to three times more carbon dioxide than advertised as real-world tests show some are more polluting than lighter petrol vehicles. Hybrid cars make use of a battery-powered electric motor to support their internal combustion engine and are often touted as a green choice. However, aseries of studies have revealed that the fuel consumption rates of the hybrid vehicles are far greater in the real world than in testing conditions. The reason for this is that hybrids—which contain an extra electric motor and battery—tend to be heavier than their petrol counterparts.
Postal worker finds 2-year-old boy safe along
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Interstate 95 after missing overnight from
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Authorities say a U.S. Postal worker found a 2-year-old boy safe along a busy interstate Thursday morning after the child had gone missing overnight from his home in Howard County.
Police say Ethan Adeyemi had last been seen around 10:20 p.m. Wednesday running from family members outside his house in the 7800 block of Blue Stream Drive in the Elkridge area. According to officers, the boy left the house after following an adult outside.
Officials say officers searched throughout the night for the boy who investigators say is non-verbal but claps in response to his name.
Shortly after 8 a.m. the postal worker, who had seen news reports about Ethan’s disappearance,
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) blasted President Trump’s comments at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday morning in which he took a swipe at the Speaker's previous comments that she prayed for the president. “I don’t know if the president understands about prayer or people who pray,” Pelosi said Thursday at her weekly press conference. “I pray for the United States of America, I pray for him, I pray for President Bush still, President Obama… because it’s a heavy responsibility …I pray hard for him because he’s so off the track
Results from the Iowa Democratic caucuses were delayed by “quality control checks” on Monday night. Days later, quality control issues have not been resolved. The results released by the Iowa Democratic Party on Wednesday were riddled with inconsistencies and other flaws. According to a New York Times analysis, more than 100 precincts reported results that were internally inconsistent, that were missing data or that were not possible under the complex rules of the Iowa caucuses. In some cases, vote tallies do not add up. In others, precincts are shown allotting the wrong number of delegates to certain candidates. And in
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is ready to move forward, following the end of the impeachment trial. Just minutes after the final impeachment vote Wednesday, Sen. McConnell (R-Ky.) filed motions to hold votes on five of the president’s judicial nominees.The move included Andrew Brasher to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. This shows McConnell and the president remain committed to judicial confirmations, which is something the president reaffirmed during his State of the Union address on Tuesday.“Working with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, thank you Mitch, and his colleagues in the Senate we have confirmed a record number of 187 new federal judges to uphold
On Wednesday Sen. Mitt Romney was the one Republican out of 250 Republican representatives and senators to vote for the impeachment of Donald Trump.Mitt Romney was 1 of 250. Slick, Slippery Mitt. Mitt Romney voted with Democrats on the first article of impeachment. The vote was 48 guilty and 52 not guilty. Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney became the first senator ever to vote against his own party’s president in an impeachment trial. Tonight Rep. Louie Gohmert wore a “Quit Mitt” lapel pin during his appearance on Hannity.Where to we get ours, Louie?
Barnes & Noble has suspended its plan to release “diverse editions” of classic novels for Black History Month after getting slammed on Twitter for “literary blackface.” The partnership between the company’s massive Fifth Avenue store and publisher Penguin Random House featured new jackets for a dozen classic novels — showing characters from books including “Romeo and Juliet,” “Moby Dick” and “Peter Pan” as people of color. But the bookseller canned the scheme after Twitter users railed against the plan.
President Trump has now been acquitted, but Democrats hope his impeachment will disgrace him “for life” and tilt the 2020 election. Don’t bet on it. Sen. Lindsey Graham has a better idea. Graham is proposing post-impeachment investigations by the Senate to “get to the bottom” of the Democrats’ impeachment hoax. That will pin the disgrace where it belongs — on the party that dragged the nation through an unwarranted ordeal. Many Republican senators and Vice President Mike Pence are brushing aside the idea of investigations, saying they want to “move on.” Not so fast.
After weeks of speculation about which senators might vote against the party line, the U.S. Senate voted on the Democrats’ two articles of impeachment against President Trump on Wednesday, and only of the 100 senators defected on one of the articles —frequent Trump critic Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) voted “guilty” on “Abuse of Power,” which ultimately failed 48-52. Ahead of the vote, the Utah senator delivered a hand-signed note to each of his Republican colleagues.The note, obtained and published by Axios, was delivered to Republican senators’ individual boxes in the Senate cloakroom ahead of the vote Wednesday. In it, Romney defends
Support for former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg among Democratic and Independent voters in New Hampshire is gaining as the 2020 field gears up for the state's primary next week, the latest polling data shows. (Snip) On Wednesday, 38-year-old Buttegieg closed the gap by four points from Tuesday, a overall nine-point boost for the candidate since Monday. Sanders' support dropped one point from Tuesday to Wednesday. Wednesday's figures put Sanders at 31 percent, Buttigieg at 21 percent, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren tied at 12 percent, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar at 11 percent. The poll
Nancy's Fake Fire Alarm
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A common experience in public schools is when some smart aleck decides to waste everyone’s time by pulling the fire alarm. The people in charge have to take it seriously. There’d be hell to pay if there was a fire and it was ignored. (snip) Since October, that’s what’s been going on in Washington. Nancy Pelosi decided it would be fun to pull the impeachment fire alarm. We’ve all been standing outside in the cold since, with the Democrats giggling at all the trouble they caused and how cool they are.
BI Director Christopher Wray Thursday warned U.S. executives that partnering with Chinese businesses makes their company a target for intellectual property theft. “A decision to enter a joint venture or contract with a particular vendor might look good in the near term, might make a lot of money, might sound great on the next earnings call, but it might not look so hot down the road when [U.S. companies] find themselves bleeding intellectual property or hemorrhaging their most sensitive data,” Mr. Wray said in a speech at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. The FBI currently has nearly 1,000 open investigations into economic espionage
The Republican chairmen of two Senate committees wasted no time after President Donald Trump’s impeachment acquittal Wednesday before opening up a new area of inquiry related to Hunter Biden’s foreign business activities.
Minutes after the Senate voted to acquit Trump, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin released a letter they sent to the director of the Secret Service requesting Biden’s travel records during the time when his father was vice president.“We write to request information about whether Hunter Biden used government-sponsored travel to help conduct private business,” the senators wrote to Secret Service Director James M. Murray.
President Trump delivered a tour de force affirmation of American exceptionalism in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. He deservedly trumpeted the policies of the last three years that commenced a material American renaissance, particularly in the realm of our economy. And in both his topics and his invited guests for the speech, the president reached out directly to blacks and Hispanics. In doing so, he recognized that American exceptionalism cannot be truly realized until minority citizens share fully in the economic promise of America.
Any future history of the decline and fall of the American Republic ought to include a page or two on the Iowa caucuses of February 3, 2020. It’s a meltdown story for the ages. The Democratic party, desperate to undo the victory of Donald Trump in 2016, somehow managed utterly to c--k up its first meaningful vote in 2020. The calamity is so great that it may turn the whole Democratic primary — and therefore this presidential election year — into a farce. That suits President Trump. ‘Big WIN for us in Iowa tonight,’ he tweeted, on Tuesday night, as news of the Democratic imbroglio spread. ‘Thank you!’
Forget the liberal media’s scrambling to throw cold water on President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address. CNBC host of Mad Money Jim Cramer gave high praise for Trump’s economy, a major focus of the president’s speech Tuesday. Cramer also conceded a key point: “Like him or hate him though, the president’s great for the stock market. But previous presidents have not cared about the stock market because they don’t think it’s that big.” [Emphasis added.] He continued: “But I’m listening to him [Trump], and I’m thinking, you know what? I understand why people are buying stocks.” [Emphasis added.]
President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress Tuesday evening was the most pro-life, pro-family State of the Union speech delivered by a modern president. Between the ordinary, yet excellent Americans as his guests of honor, and his imploring of Congress to pass pro-family legislation, Trump accomplished his goal of displaying an agenda that is “relentlessly pro-worker, pro- family, pro-growth, and most importantly, pro-American.” One of Trump’s special guests for the evening was Ellie Schneider from Kansas City, Missouri, who was born at 21 weeks and six days, and one of the youngest premature babies ever to survive in the United States. Thanks to an incredible medical team, Ellie is now
It’s been a great week!
In Iowa, the party that claims to be devoted to “science” and “technology” demonstrated that it couldn’t count to 10.
Trump delivered a triumphant State of the Union address, highlighting all he’s done to make America great again — and attacking previous administrations for failing to do so. It was such a bravura performance that when he was finished, Speaker Nancy Pelosi childishly tore up his speech from the podium in a shocking breach of decorum.
Hours after the president’s address, he was scheduled to be “acquitted” in the Senate impeachment trial — if that’s the right word for a dismissal of the most absurd charges ever brought
Romney's political suicide
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Drama queen Mitt Romney decided to vote to remove Donald John Trump as president and whined to Chris Wallace at Fox, "I understand there's going to be enormous consequence."
If you believe in your heart that a president violated the Constitution, then why would you want to work with him? Why would you seek him out for a favor? Why would you not shred his speech, stick your tongue out, and blow raspberries at him?
Romney has been nasty to Donald John Trump all along. The only reason Romney ran for the Senate was to vote to convict him in an impeachment.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump unleashed his fury against those who tried to impeach him at a prayer breakfast Thursday, a day after his acquittal by the Senate.“As everybody knows, my family, our great country and your president have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people," Trump said at the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. He spoke from a stage where he was joined by congressional leaders, including Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who led the impeachment charge against him.“They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing very badly hurt our nation,”
Orange County Has Released Thousands
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Of Criminal Illegal Aliens Because Of
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The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has been forced to release thousands of criminal illegal aliens in the past two years, with both the sheriff’s department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement blaming California’s statewide sanctuary law. California’s SB 54, legislation that largely restricts cooperation between ICE and law enforcement, went into effect in January 2018. Since that time, Orange County has released over 2,100 illegal aliens back into the community despite ICE detainers placed on every single one of them, the agency announced in a Wednesday press release. The sheriff’s department released 1,106 inmates without notifying ICE in 2018
Wray: FBI Agents Involved In FISA
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FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that the FBI agents involved in the surveillance of Carter Page who are still at the bureau have been referred to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility for possible disciplinary action. During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Wray noted that most of the FBI officials who oversaw Crossfire Hurricane, which involved surveillance of Page, have left the bureau and are no longer subject to disciplinary review. He said the FBI personnel who worked on that probe and who still have jobs at the FBI are mostly line-level agents.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the suspension of renewals and enrollments for Global Entry and other Trusted Travel Programs for New York residents. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that the move was a response to the state’s “Green Light Law” supporting undocumented immigrants.
Scottish Government's finance secretary Derek Mackay has resigned after allegations surfaced that he had sent inappropriate messages to a 16-year-old schoolboy. The allegations, revealed by The Scottish Sun, came just hours before 42-year-old Mr Mackay was due to announce the government's budget in the Scottish Parliament. Mr Mackay is alleged to have sent a stream of texts, Instagram and Facebook messages between August last year and January 2020. (Snip) Mr Mackay, a dad of two, has been openly gay since he came out in 2013 and left his wife. The Scotsman understands he is in a long term relationship.
Red-faced Iowa Democrats have zeroed in on a new culprit for the botched caucuses that may cost the Hawkeye State its time-honored role as the kickoff to presidential races. After first blaming an app for the inability to declare Monday night, a problem that still lingers even as frustrated candidates have packed up and moved on to New Hampshire for the nation's first primary, the state party is blaming the president's supporters.
Mitt Romney didn't just shoot inside the Grand Old Party's tent by voting for one article of impeachment against President Trump. The Utah senator became a heretic to the very people who once supported him, financially and electorally. (snip) It's about the unconscionable act of voters: electing Donald Trump. Mitt Romney regards the presidency as a rarefied space, where only the best, brightest, and most articulate men may enter. Trump got there while boasting about his libidinousness.He insulted the political class by calling them stupid, incompetent, venal, and wholly self-interested.
After losing her House's bid to impeach President Trump in the Senate, and facing next the miserable fallout for her party, Nancy Pelosi wanted to do something mean for the cameras, to Get Trump.
In response to the president State of the Union speech that was reaching its final applause, it wasn't enough to leave the premises. With the cameras still on, she ceremonially ripped the papers of the speech behind him, in order to draw applause lines from leftists.
According to Pelosi's media allies at NBC, she wanted you to believe that it all came in an impulsive moment of pique
Maine Republicans are launching an effort to get a people's veto to repeal ranked-choice voting in the November presidential election."One person, one vote is a bedrock American principle," said Demi Kouzounas, chair of the Maine Republican Party's ballot question committee. "Ranked Choice Voting (RCV) is a direct violation of that principle and threatens the rights of all Mainers
The Iowa Democratic caucuses are coming down to a photo finish as only one-tenth of a percentage point separates Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders with 97% of precincts reported.
The former South Bend, Indiana mayor holds 26.2% of state delegate equivalents as of 12:50 a.m. EST on Thursday, the traditional unit to measure a winner that translates to Democratic National Convention nominating delegates, while the Vermont senator has 26.1%.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden remain in third and fourth place with 18.2% and 15.8% of state delegate equivalents, respectively.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ripped Senate Republicans after they voted to acquit President Trump on two impeachment charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.
"As the president's impeachment trial began, Republican senators pledged an oath to defend the Constitution," Clinton tweeted. "Today, 52 of them voted to betray that oath—and all of us. We’re entering dangerous territory for our democracy. It’ll take all of us working together to restore it."
Clinton, 72, lost to Trump, 73, in the 2016 presidential election and has spent much of the time since repeatedly claiming she actually won because of the popular vote.
Nancy Pelosi’s Midnight Ride
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The big lie behind the impeachment of President Trump is the notion that the Democrats are better custodians of our national security than the Republicans. It has animated the long campaign to suborn Mr. Trump’s presidency — right up to the the eve of the verdict in the Senate, when Speaker Pelosi, at a press conference, likened herself to Paul Revere, but crying, “the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.”
“The day we were bringing the articles to the floor,” Mrs. Pelosi reminded the press, “I quoted the ‘Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.’” That’s the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow classic in which the Boston
One of President Ronald Reagan's four children said President Trump's State of the Union speech would have made his late father proud.
"My father would’ve stood and applauded Donald Trump‘s State of the Union address. Bravo," Michael Reagan tweeted Wednesday. [Tweet]
During his remarks Tuesday, the president touted a strong U.S. economy and record low unemployment and vowed to protect private health insurance.
"Our roaring economy has, for the first time ever, given many former prisoners the ability to get a great job and a fresh start," Trump said. "This second chance at life is made possible because we passed landmark criminal justice reform into law.
The House of Representatives approved a bill allowing the Department of Veterans Affairs to launch a pilot program to treat veterans with PTSD by pairing them with therapy dogs.
The bill passed Wednesday by voice vote, the Puppies Assisting Wounded Servicemembers for Veterans Therapy Act, would have the VA award grants to nonprofit organizations that would not only provide veterans with puppies to become therapeutic service dogs but would also cover the cost of training the puppies.
“A soldier under my command during Operation Iraqi Freedom recently told me what his service dog means to him:
Inside The ‘Black Site’ Federal
Prison Where An Insurance Scammer
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Prison Where An Insurance Scammer
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Robert David Neal, an insurance scammer, was killed and nearly beheaded in November 2018 by Rodney Hamrick, a jihadi and former resident of Supermax in Colorado, according to a court filing.
Both Neal and Hamrick were being housed in the Communications Management Unit (CMU) in Terre Haute, Indiana.
The CMU is one of several prisons created by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in response to 9/11, which generally house terrorists and significantly restrict the communications of inmates.
The Killing Of Robert David Neal
Robert David Neal, 68, died at the Communications Management Unit (CMU) in Terre Haute, Indiana, Nov. 10, 2018, according to a local outlet.
Democrats’ impeachment effort was never about removing President Donald Trump from office. If it had been, it would not have been rushed through the House of Representatives without a proper predicate or investigation.
No reasonable person expected the Republican-controlled Senate to remove a sitting president for anything Rep. Adam Schiff repeatedly alleged, no matter how unfairly he characterized Trump’s thoughts, words, or actions.
Impeachment was about satisfying the corporate media and Democratic base that had demanded it for years. And since removal was never a realistic outcome, it was about harming Trump in an election year.
By that standard, it could not have gone worse.
Who won the Iowa caucuses? A simple question with no definitive answer, as of this writing. In a plot twist straight from an underperforming MFA student’s knockoff Thomas Pynchon Novel, an app developed by a company called Shadow, owned by a nebulous Silicon Valley organization that styles itself ACRONYM, swallowed some data on its way to the Iowa Democratic Party, producing two days (and counting) of confusion and anger and conspiracy theories on social media.
Based on incomplete counts, Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders appear to have “won,” by an arcane metric called “state delegate equivalents” and raw vote totals respectively.
Former CIA Director John Brennan lashed out at Senator Rand Paul for blowing up the impeachment trial by dropping Eric Ciaramella’s name on the Senate floor.
Last week Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts played politics and REFUSED TO READ SENATOR RAND PAUL’S QUESTION on the Anti-Trump whistleblower during the Senate impeachment trial!
On Tuesday during his closing comments Senator Rand Paul read aloud his question on the floor of the US Senate.
Rand Paul named the anti-Trump CIA operative Eric Ciaramella and his NatSec-crony-turned Schiff-aide Sean Misko on the senate floor.
Brennan planted Eric Ciaramella in the White House in order to spy on President Trump, according to investigative reporter Paul Sperry,
Pelosi Was Mandated to Preserve Trump’s
Signed Copy of His SOTU Speech — She Tore
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Signed Copy of His SOTU Speech — She Tore
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President Trump delivered a historic State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.
Upon entering the House chamber President Trump handed Speaker Pelosi a signed copy of his State of the Union speech as is required.
According to Carl Hibgie — US law requires that Pelosi preserve any official government document: [tweet]
Nancy Pelosi chose to very publicly destroy the document instead. [Video]
According to 18 U.S. Code § 2071.
(a)Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing,
America After Trump
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Is it too early to contemplate a search for a clone of Donald Trump for the 2024 election? Maybe not! But is Trump replaceable? The man who restored America’s pride, dignity, optimism and hope after a devastating eight dismal years of Barack Hussein Obama! Trump officially entered the Republican Presidential race on June 16, 2015 with a simple yet powerful message: ‘Make America Great Again.’ Trump stirred up the hornet's nest that is Washington D.C. when no other President has dared to even go there. This resulted in a strong reaction from the media, the Democrat Party, Hollywood, the elitists and globalists, even worldwide socialists. Trump was not a politician,
So, February 3, 4, and 5, 2020 were pretty much the most miserable three days in the history of the Democratic Party. I’m not laughing, really I’m not! You know how sometimes you have a bad day when nothing goes right? Well, these super-achievers managed to triple that streak. They are achievers in the same sense Hoover Snort Biden is an achiever.
Let’s start with Monday, February 3rd and the Iowa Caucuses. In their defense, it wasn’t like they had four years to get prepared to handle…counting. Oh wait, they did have four years to handle…counting. Okay, well, then in their defense they went to unionized
Pete Rose asked commissioner Rob Manfred on Wednesday morning to remove his name from Major League Baseball's ineligible list, which would allow the all-time hits leader to be considered for induction into the Hall of Fame.
In a petition sent to the MLB commissioner's office and obtained by ESPN, Rose and his lawyers argue that Manfred has recently opted not to punish players guilty of major game-changing rules infractions and, as a result, should end Rose's 30½-year ban for gambling on baseball while he was manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
The lawyers say that Rose's lifetime ban is "vastly disproportionate"
SANTA ANA, California — Emanuel was in disbelief when he saw federal immigration officers show up to his workplace. He never thought they would come for him.
“I told this guy — 'What’s going on?' He told me nothing. He arrests me,” he says.
Emanuel Mendoza-Morales, 42, was born and raised in Mexico, but for the past 17 years he has lived in the United States after illegally entering the country by way of the southern border in 2003. An hour before, officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations office had shown up to the mechanic shop where Mendoza-Morales was working and took him into custody.
Mendoza-Morales is now
Americans cheered President Trump’s historic State of the Union Address tonight. Undoubtedly, this was the best address in modern history! No President in decades has had the success like this great president. And, although the leftie Democrat media panned the speech, ordinary Americans cheered this President’s success. FOX News host Pete Hegseth was in Carthage, North Carolina, on Wednesday morning talking to voters. Pete was asking for their reaction to President Trump’s SOTU Address. One woman said it best “We need to put a cape on his back, an “S” on his chest, and call him Superman. No mortal man could
“Acquitted For Life” GOP Leader Kevin
McCarthy Trolls Pelosi, Rips Up
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McCarthy Trolls Pelosi, Rips Up
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) trolled Speaker Pelosi after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump. The Senate on Wednesday voted to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment. Article 1 “Abuse of Power” — Not Guilty! 52-48 -Article 2 “Obstruction of Congress” — Not Guilty! 53-47 -McCarthy ripped up the bogus articles of impeachment and posted the video to his official Twitter account. “Acquitted for life,” McCarthy said as he tore the articles of impeachment in half.WATCH:
DES MOINES — Maybe it was the threat of bad weather. Maybe it was a seating assignment debacle. Maybe it was a struggling campaign organization that still hadn’t found its footing.
But as Joseph R. Biden Jr. spoke at a major Iowa Democratic Party dinner in November, one thing was clear: His support appeared tepid compared with the vocal cheering sections of top rivals. The reception angered Mr. Biden and his top aides — and it left little doubt about his standing, three months before the nominating process in the Democratic presidential race would begin: The former vice president was in deep trouble in Iowa.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is commonly referred to in Washington as a master tactician. But like the partisan impeachment fiasco and the humiliating Iowa caucus disaster, her selection of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to deliver this year’s response to President Trump’s State of the Union address was a major strategic misstep. The selection of Whitmer was a politically calculated decision to introduce a relatively new name on the national scene from a state that will play a critical role in November. The irony of Whitmer’s selection, however, is that she represents exactly what is wrong with today’s Democratic Party — unrealistic promises, massive tax hikes,
For me, at least, the most grating aspect of contemporary “fact-checking” isn’t the dubious journalistic nature of the project, or the endlessly nitpicking of every Republican utterance, whether it’s particularly misleading or not. It’s the increasingly popular effort to try to credit Barack Obama for everything good that’s happened during Donald Trump’s presidency.
Take the bulk of this Washington Post fact check of Trump’s State of the Union speech. Sure, it’s a litany of partisan arguments masquerading as factual correctives. But it’s more.
The Post takes issue, for example, with Trump’s boast that, thanks to a “bold regulatory-reduction campaign, the United States has become the number-one
Vermont’s Socialist and presidential wannabe, Sen. Bernie Sanders, in a bill introduced last week that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) helped craft would ban fracking nationwide by 2025, a death sentence if passed for the American economy. Like fellow political lemmings Elizabeth Warren and Michael Bloomberg, Sanders has swallowed the lies the greenies have fed him about fracking, as shown in a statement he released supporting his legislation shortly before the disastrous Iowa caucuses:
To no one’s surprise, the Democrats’ impeachment drive fell flat in the Senate today. Both articles were decided on a purely party line vote, but for Mitt Romney, who switched sides on the first article (“abuse of power”). The only mild surprise is that no Democrats voted against removal. Doug Jones of Alabama, for one, can forget about any possibility of re-election. But with Jeff Sessions waiting in the wings, he probably figured he had no chance anyway.
Where do the Democrats go from here? They always knew they had zero chance of conviction, so their only motives were 1) the hope that impeachment would tar
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Regarding the failed impeachment of our president, I have a few observations.
The Democrats, led by the Hon. Adam B. Schiff, charged President Donald Trump with “abuse of power” and the risible charge of “obstruction of Congress.” The historically minded reader will remember these charges as being what Republicans in the 1930s and in the 1960s quite properly called the New Deal and the Great Society, respectively. They disapproved of what Franklin Roosevelt and old Beagle Ears were trying to do, but it is a fact that no one — not even Barry Goldwater — tried to impeach either president.
There are numerous members of the House of Representatives and the Senate
Has anyone checked to see if Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez is still breathing?
Let’s face it: Post-Iowa, his party is in free fall. It’s not clear any of their presidential candidates have mapped out a realistic way to the nomination, let alone to beating President Trump in the general election.
On top of that, a 5’7” multibillionaire businessman named Michael Bloomberg is sucking up a shocking level of support despite having entered the race in the 11th hour.
As if that dumpster fire needed kerosene, the Iowa caucuses were a tragic embarrassment of a mess, leaving each of the campaigns and the nation at large confounded
Nancy Pelosi should resign
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The House has its share of infamies, great and small, real and symbolic, and has been the scene of personal infamies from brawls to canings. But the conduct of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at the State of the Union address this week will go down as a day of infamy for the chamber as an institution. It has long been a tradition for House Speakers to remain stoic and neutral in listening to the address. However, Pelosi seemed to be intent on mocking President Trump from behind his back with sophomoric facial grimaces and head shaking, culminating in her ripping up a copy of his address.
Her drop the mic moment
What do disgraced Ponzi scheme king Bernie Madoff, serving 150 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of billions and the Lockerbie Bomber, who killed 189 American souls by downing PanAm Flight 103 in 1988, have in common?
The same reason for wanting to get out of jail early: a terminal illness.
In a court filing Wednesday, obtained by FOX Business, Madoff's attorney Brandon Sample filed a 'Motion for Compassionate Release" stating:
"Madoff presents "extraordinary and compelling reasons" for compassionate release and the BOP (Bureau of Prisons) recognizes that Madoff meets the criteria for a reduction in sentence based on his end-stage renal disease."
Democrat Pete Buttigieg held a slight lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses as more results trickled in on Wednesday.
The caucuses were held Monday but technical problems caused an unprecedented delay in reporting the results. No candidate has been declared the winner yet, and results are still coming in.
As of Wednesday night, Buttigieg, the former South Bend, Ind., mayor, led the race with 26.2 percent of delegates over the 26.1 percent in favor of Sanders, according to numbers released by the Iowa Democratic Party.
Mitt Romney, Bedwetter
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Diogenes is said to have asked what is the difference between a man and a plucked chicken since both are featherless bipeds. Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) calls this into question again today.
Romney’s vote to convict President Trump of “abuse of power” for inquiring into the flow of money from Ukraine into the pockets of the Bidens after the appearance that Vice President Joe Biden had directly intervened in Ukrainian internal affairs either to repay the favor or shield the corruption from sunlight, is among the most degraded public acts of a generation.
Romney very clearly wants revenge. He lost the presidency in 2012, denounced Donald Trump’s candidacy in 2016
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) announced Wednesday night that he is filing charges in the House Ethics Committee against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) after she ripped up a copy of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address Tuesday night. During an interview with Fox news host Laura Ingraham, Gaetz argued that Pelosi has “impulse control problems” and should be held accountable.
“She disgraced the House of Representatives, she embarrassed our country, and she destroyed official records,” Gaetz told Ingraham. “The law does not allow the speaker of the House to destroy the records of the House, and the rules of the House do not permit some little temper tantrum
Donald Trump couldn’t have scripted it better himself: The Democratic Party’s karma knocked them right on the head this week as their countrymen watched in disgust—some, admittedly, in delight.
After three years of deception, gaslighting, and public temper tantrums, these power-hungry partisans finally got their comeuppance. An assembly of agents provocateurs, motivated by an insatiable amount of contempt not just for the president but for Americans in general, who gambled on a farcical impeachment crusade rather than build a persuasive policy case to win over voters this year, are ranting and pouting and tearing up stuff because . . . well, because they are losing.