Posts on Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Bloomberg campaign paying
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Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is ramping up his spending in California, paying staffers to promote him through social media posts and text messages to friends and family. Bloomberg's campaign is hiring more than 500 “deputy digital organizers” in California for this purpose.The Wall Street Journal first reported that these "deputy digital organizers” will work between 20 and 30 hours a week, making $2,500 a month.
A flock of MAGA hat-wearing pigeons was released in Downtown Las Vegas Tuesday. The trained birds were released by the anonymous radical group PUTIN, which stands for Pigeons United To Interfere Now, on the eve of Wednesday night's Democratic Debate in Sin City. The leader of the flock was adorned with a small, orange toupee, resembling that of President Donald Trump.(Photos/Video) The pigeons' mission was inspired by the 1970's Cold War Operation, 'Tacana', in which the CIA explored the use of pigeons equipped with tiny cameras to spy on Soviet sites of interest, according to the group.
Oberlin College students, staff and
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A large crowd comprised of Oberlin College students, employees and community members gathered Feb. 19 inside the campus’ King Hall to protest the institution's recent announcement that 108 college workers could lose their jobs. The protest, consisting of roughly over 800 people, took place during an Oberlin College faculty meeting. The situation started with a Feb. 18 statement by Oberlin College President Carmen Twillie Ambar where she said “Oberlin (College) has notified the United Auto Workers that we are formally considering contracting with outside vendors for dining and custodial services currently provided by college employees.”
Watch: Trump supporters at rally carry
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WWII veteran to his seat amid
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Video from a Wednesday night President Trump rally in Phoenix showed two men carrying a World War II veteran to his seat as the crowd chanted, “USA! USA! USA!”
“These men carrying a World War II veteran to his seat,” Fox 10 Phoenix reporter Kari Lake said. “Got to admit I got a lump in my throat.” (Tweet/Video) Jesse Kelly, a military veteran and a senior editor at the Federalist, said that the moment is a reason every American should attend a Trump rally at least once in their lives.“Even if you’re not a Trump fan,” Kelly said in response to the viral video. “I went to one and
Tonight President Trump travels to Phoenix, AZ to attend a Keep America Great rally at Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum. President Trump is expected to speak at 9:00pm ET. Livestream links below. RSBN Livestream Link – POTUS Trump Campaign Livestream – Fox News Livestream (Videos)
When Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg touted support from African American comedian and actor Keegan-Michael Key last week, his campaign was forced just hours later to clarify that the actor had not officially endorsed the former South Bend mayor, telling reporters he only sought to "encourage early voting and voter registration." Key appeared with Buttigieg on Saturday to drum up voter support at his Henderson, Nevada field office. (Snip) Nationally, Buttigieg has support from 4% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning African-American voters, according to the latest Quinnipiac University poll released on Feb 10. That's more than Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich praised President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president commuted his prison sentence. Blagojevich gave a high-profile press conference outside his home in Illinois after spending his first night of freedom with his family. He again thanked Trump for commuting his sentence and praised him as a great president.
A politically resilient President Trump has pushed into the lead of the 2020 White House race, riding the public’s good feelings about the economy and the view by voters that all leading Democratic candidates will “probably lose,” according to the latest election survey. By a 52% to 48% margin, Trump is leading the generic “Democrat” in the race, a significant margin for a president who just beat back impeachment to stay in office. The latest Economist/YouGov survey also found that most voters believe that Trump will probably beat all of his Democratic challengers by at least 19 percentage points.
Sen. Bernie Sanders suffered a heart attack last October, but when asked on Monday night whether he'd release any additional medical records, the presidential candidate said he likely wouldn't. When a CNN host pressed Sanders' campaign press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, on the issue during a Tuesday morning interview, Gray called the question "reminiscent" of "smear and skepticism campaigns" like the racist birtherism conspiracy concerning former President Barack Obama's birthplace. Gray added that the media isn't asking the same questions of other candidates, including 78-year-old former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who she claimed has "suffered heart attacks in
CROYDON, N.H. (WHDH) - The chief of a one-man police department in a small New Hampshire town reportedly walked home in his skivvies on Tuesday after the board of selectmen voted to dissolve his position. Croydon Police Chief Richard Lee told the Union Leader that he started walking home during a snowstorm wearing only his underwear, a hat, and boots because the board ordered him to surrender his cruiser and uniform. “I was told that I had to turn over the keys to the cruiser and my uniform immediately. I had no other means of transportation, as the cruiser is a take-home vehicle,”
Washington, DC - Some residents in Oregon are fed up with living under Democratic control of their state government and have launched a ballot initiative campaign to join Republican-led Idaho. The movement, known as "Move Oregon's Border for a Greater Idaho," is hoping to expand the borders of the Gem State through the inclusion of more than a dozen bordering rural counties now in Oregon. Mike McCarter, chief petitioner of the secession effort, has noted though that the movement is in its infancy and would take years to accomplish, even if successful. The process for counties to leave Oregon include passing
US President Donald Trump offered to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he helped cover up Russia's involvement in hacking Democratic National Committee emails, a lawyer for Assange reportedly told a London court on Wednesday. (Snip) White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham reportedly told the Daily Beast that the allegation is "a total lie."
"The president barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he's an ex-congressman," Grisham reportedly told the Beast in a statement. "He's never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject. It is a complete fabrication and a total lie." The allegation about the president's offer of a pardon is being put forward as evidence
Supporters Line Up ‘As Far as the Eye
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Supporters lined up as far as the eye could see to attend President Trump’s Arizona rally. President Trump will be in Phoenix, Arizona, Wednesday evening, to hold a “Keep America Great” rally, at the AZ Veterans Memorial Coliseum. As always, Trump supporters camped out the night before to see President Trump!A line of people waiting to get into the fairgrounds could be seen Tuesday night.(Tweet/Video) By Wednesday morning, supporters were lined up as far as the eye could see! WATCH:
President Donald Trump granted clemency to eleven people Tuesday in what mainstream media outlets are calling a “clemency spree,” but many are ignoring the several women — including women of color — who were granted relief from long prison sentences, in pursuit of headlines tying Trump to “corruption” and “white collar crime.” T rump did, of course, grant commutations and pardons to several high-profile individuals, (Snip)the media missed several other pardons and commutations granted to women who took minor roles in criminal enterprises yet received major Federal prison sentences. )Angela Stanton received a pardon, at the behest of Alaveda King (neice of the Rev. Martin Luther
NASCAR driver Ryan Newman was released Wednesday from a Daytona Beach, Fla., hospital following a fiery wreck during the final lap of the Daytona 500 two days earlier. Newman's team at Roush Fenway Racing provided the update on his condition Wednesday afternoon. The team tweeted a photo of Newman holding the hands of his two daughters as he walked out of the front door of Halifax Medical Center. Newman spent fewer than 48 hours in the hospital after being involved in what appeared to be a life-threatening crash Monday at Daytona International Speedway.
Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign said they would not attempt to make the former New York City mayor appear taller during his Democratic primary debate debut. Campaign officials told NBC News on Wednesday that the candidate would "*NOT*" be on a box during the Wednesday debate. The confirmation follows President Trump blasting the mayor as "Mini Mike" and claiming he wanted a box to stand on in the debate. (Tweet) On Tuesday, Trump accused Bloomberg of illegally funding his own campaign before adding the box barb. "Mini Mike, Major Party Nominations are not for sale! Good luck in the debate tomorrow night and remember, no standing on boxes!" the president said.
A female security guard at a Rockland County library was fatally stabbed when she asked the suspect to turn down the music he was playing on his phone, according to a report. Blanchard Glaudin, 25, has been charged with second-degree murder after being tackled by patrons at the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley, The Journal News/lohud.com reported. “He was walking just a few feet away,” village Police Chief Paul Modica said Wednesday about the “random” confrontation a day earlier. “She was at the computer terminals and told him he had to turn it down. That was it,” he said,
It's hard to believe, but May 4, 2020, is the 50th anniversary of the tragic shooting at Kent State University, where Ohio National Guard troops fired on a crowd of students during a massive anti-Vietnam War protest, killing four students and injuring nine.
Witnesses, military and law-enforcement experts, historians, and activists are divided on whether the shooting was justified (that's a discussion for another day), but it appears that Kent State is going all-in on pouring salt in the wounds of America's Vietnam veterans.
In a move that surprised many in the Northeast Ohio area and beyond, Kent State President Todd Diacon announced that actress, activist, and (former?) communist sympathizer Jane Fonda
Two socialites have drowned after their car fell off the front of a ferry which takes residents to and from Miami's exclusive Fisher Island community.
Driver Emma Afra, 63, a resident of the island, and passenger Viviane Brahms, 75, of Harrison, New York, died after their blue 2019 Mercedes-Benz fell from the boat and sank on Tuesday afternoon.
It is not yet known exactly how the car fell into the water but one local told The Miami Herald the boats are open at both the front and back, blocked only by a chain.
Aerial footage from Local 10 shows an empty space and a broken barrier
A pair of married off-duty police officers on a date night foiled an armed robbery at a fried chicken restaurant.
Dramatic CCTV footage shows Detective Chase McKeown and Officer Nicole McKeown draw their weapons and confront the masked gunman in the Raising Cane's branch in Louisville, Kentucky.
The pair gave chase as the robber fled through the town and arrested him nearby with the help of local officers.
The couple, who are officers with the Elizabethtown Police Department about 50 miles south of Louisville, were enjoying their weekly date night on Saturday when the suspect entered the restaurant wearing a surgical face mask.
A 55-year-old man was attacked in a New York street by a stranger who knocked him to the ground before launching an unprovoked assault on him with a hamburger in broad daylight, NYPD officers have said.
Dramatic footage appears to show the stranger rub fast food in the man's face, pummel him and lift his leg to stomp on his head in the Upper West Side.
Police said the unidentified suspect, with no provocation, blew smoke in the victim's face before waving a McDonald's bag at him, the Daily News reported.
The victim from Washington Heights, who has not been named by police,
Poor Paul Krugman. He’s been reduced to using zombie metaphors to illustrate his disdain for certain “centrist” Democratic presidential candidates. Krugman wrote Feb. 17 that “sometimes zombie ideas also manage to eat centrists’ brains,” in an op-ed headlined “Have Zombies Eaten Bloomberg’s and Buttigieg’s Brains?” This appears to be an obvious play on his recently released book “Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future.” To be clear, Krugman assured his readers that the “most important zombie ideas are on the right, kept undead by big money from billionaires who have a financial interest in getting people to believe things that aren’t true.” [Emphasis added.]
The senior Pentagon policy official
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A senior Pentagon policy official is being asked to resign after losing the support of top national security leadership, CNN first reported Wednesday morning. John Rood, under secretary of defense for policy, is stepping down at the end of this month, the Pentagon said in a statement confirming earlier reporting. (Snip) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon Wednesday, DoD spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman declined to say whether or not Rood's resignation came at the direction of the White House, but he did say that the "president can make a decision to go in a different direction."
There is much grumbling about President Trump's pardons of well-known Americans such as former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, former NYPD Chief Bernard Kerik and former 49ers owner Eddie DeBartolo, Jr.
Some have claimed that it's the end of the rule of law and justice that the president would grant clemency to this well-known rogues gallery along with small-time drug dealers.
Blue checkmarks are in high dudgeon: (Snip) Though it wasn't as bad as Bill Clinton pardoning arms dealer Mark Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists, there was plenty of ick factor implicit in some of Trump's choices for pardons and commutations.
‘Bike path terrorist’ Sayfullo Saipov
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Accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov threatened to decapitate a federal corrections officer for repeatedly waking him while he’s locked up at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a new court filing detailing a trove of the government’s evidence against him alleges. Saipov, who’s accused of killing eight people during his 2017 Halloween terror attack on the West Side Highway, allegedly threatened the officer on Dec. 17 last year for repeatedly slamming a door at night, making it hard for the ISIS-follower to sleep at night, the filing states.
OBERLIN — Oberlin College's president said Tuesday the college is taking steps to save up to $2 million annually by outsourcing more than 100 jobs currently held by unionized workers. For a union representative who learned of the college's proposal at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, just two hours before his membership would hear the plan, the news came like a punch in the gut, delivered in "bad faith."(Snip)That's more than 110 employees, Villar said, including some with more than 30 years service to the college and at least one with 43 years service.
President Donald Trump name-checks his allies and antagonists alike at campaign rallies, which prompts a question ahead of his Wednesday event in Phoenix: Who might get a shout-out, wanted or otherwise?As always, there's a lot on his plate as he is set to make his first 2020 campaign stop in Arizona. Here are some of the people or subjects that may get special attention.
Kyrsten Sinema. During his State of the Union speech earlier this month, Trump gave a special pitch for passing a family-leave bill co-authored by Arizona's Democratic senator. The next day, she voted to convict and remove him from office.Twice.
The Democratic Party’s establishment might well succeed in making Michael Bloomberg president of the United States—not on Election Night 2020, however. But it could happen if a third party were to win some electoral votes and, with no candidate receiving a majority of them, the House of Representatives was called upon to choose between the top-two electoral vote-getters.
Today’s civil war within the Democratic Party makes it possible that two candidates will come from it: Bernie Sanders for the Woke Left, and Bloomberg for the establishment. In that case, enough establishment Republicans in the House might join their establishment Democratic colleagues to defeat Trump. This would realign U.S. politics:
Michael Bloomberg Flunks Ag 101
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Michael Bloomberg is no Ag PhD. “You dig a hole, you put seed in it, you put dirt on top, up comes the corn…” Bloomberg couldn’t even describe planting a single corn seed correctly: he left out tossing a codfish into the hole alongside the seed. Bloomberg made $ billions (after departing from Solomon Brothers as a general equity partner and cashing in $10 million of stock grants) in the early days of infotech, developing computerized metrics and data mining for securities trading. Michael Bloomberg is no dope, so we thought.Thirty minutes of research would have informed His Arrogancy that big-time crop farmers -- 2,000 acres or more- --
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex must drop their 'Sussex Royal' label after deciding to step down as working royals.
Following lengthy and complex talks, the Queen and senior officials are believed to have agreed it is no longer tenable for the couple to keep the word 'royal' in their 'branding'.
Harry and Meghan have spent tens of thousands of pounds on a new Sussex Royal website to complement their hugely popular Instagram feed.
They have also sought to register Sussex Royal as a global trademark for a range of items and activities, including clothing, stationery, books and teaching materials. (Snip)It has now been made clear that they will need to 're-brand'.
Two weeks before California’s primary election, Donald Trump landed in the blue state Tuesday for the fourth time in his presidency to meet with organizers of the 2028 Olympic Games before attending a fundraising dinner in Beverly Hills.He used the occasion to again slam the city’s political leadership for failing to slow the homelessness epidemic.During a briefing on preparations for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, the president said that if L.A. doesn’t “clean it up fast,” he will intervene.
In defense of William Barr
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In the story by Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony,” an officer was standing next to a lethal punishing machine. When asked about his qualifications, he explained simply, “My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.” It seems many in Washington can claim the same Kafkaesque qualification this week when it comes to Attorney General William Barr.
After a Justice Department sentencing recommendation was withdrawn and replaced in the case of Roger Stone, Senator Elizabeth Warren said, “If that guy will not resign, then the House should start impeachment proceedings against him.” Not to be outdone, Representative Maxine Waters declared,
I know many Americans remain concerned about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. We know that the Seth Rich controversy came up in Peter Strzok-Lisa Page emails we just uncovered. In a heavily redacted August 10, 2016, email exchange, Strzok sends Page a forwarded message from unidentified agents from the FBI’s Washington Field Office (WFO) discussing Rich. A public affairs official whose name was redacted opens the WFO email chain, writing: Various news outlets are reporting today that Julian Assange suggested during a recent overseas interview that DNC Staffer, Seth Rich was a Wikileaks source,
Democrats' Bernie Sanders problem:
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What’s worse: choosing a socialist for your party’s presidential nominee, or taking the nomination away from one at a contested convention?
With the presidential primaries underway, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination. In a fragmented field featuring several ambitious, funded and hard-headed candidates, Sanders stands the best chance of leading the delegate chase by the time Democrats hold their convention in Milwaukee in mid-July.
Why? His small-dollar donor army is stable, unmoved by news cycles and the ups and downs that befall other campaigns. The Bernie Bros stick through thick and thin,
LONDON - The British royal family is in discussions with Prince Harry and Meghan over the use of the word "royal" in their branding after the couple abruptly gave up royal duties to start a new life in Canada.
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"As the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are stepping back as senior members of the royal family and will work towards financial independence, use of the word ‘royal’, in this context, needed to be reviewed," a royal source said.
"Discussions are still ongoing," the source said.
Harry and Meghan use the "Sussex Royal" brand extensively.
Their website is named sussexroyal.com and they applied to trademark the phrases Sussex Royal and Sussex Royal Foundation
Sept. 11, 2001, was a dark day in American history, with nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and a sizable chunk of lower Manhattan reduced to smoking rubble.
Within weeks, the United States rallied, drove the Islamic Taliban in Afghanistan from power, and sent Osama bin Laden and his warriors scattering for safety across the globe, there to meet death at the hands of U.S. special forces wherever and whenever they’ve been found. By December, the Afghan War was effectively over. And yet … here we are
Opinion polls confirm that “climate change” is still valiantly holding on in its fight to remain dead as an issue of actionable public concern. Some state attorneys general claim this is because of dark forces, and they will use their law enforcement powers to ensure the public hears only the one, sanctioned Truth. Ominous threats aside, reasons for the rejection are sometimes humorous – polls also show that the public feels it's doing its part by recycling and turning off the lights when leaving a room, so why lard big energy taxes on top?
A female security officer working at a Rockland County library died after getting stabbed multiple times by an attacker, according to law enforcement. The incident occurred at the Finklestein Library in Spring Valley around 2 p.m., officials said. Officers rushed to the third floor, where they found the victim stabbed with a large kitchen knife and the suspect being held down by other patrons. The victim, 52-year-old Sandra Wilson, was rushed to nearby Good Samaritan Hospital, where she died from her injuries. Friends and coworkers told NBC New York Wilson had worked security at the library for more than a decade.
Up until now, Democrats have been focused on finding the right candidate who can Get Trump.
For awhile, many were gravitating toward Joe Biden for this very reason, citing his Scranton roots and supposed common man demeanor. It wasn't based on any authentic affection for Biden. It was who could Beat Trump. As Biden fell apart over impeachment, with revelations about how he amassed wealth for himself and his relatives in public office, some moved over to Pete Buttigieg or Amy Klobuchar.
Then Michael Bloomberg came on the scene, scarfing up a large part of the collapsing Biden vote by pouring money into the presidential race.
Attorney and former media darling Michael Avenatti was convicted on two charges of extortion against Nike last Friday.
His fate caused a deathly silence among some of the anti-Trump, cable news anchors who not so long ago were venerating him as a president-in-waiting.
Former GOP ad men who were once flirting with running Avenatti for president were no longer returning phone calls. Avenatti was left abandoned in handcuffs, his invite to this year’s Sag Harbor Soirée lost in the mail. Alas, he’s no longer the holy spirit or the savior of the republic.
Only a fraction of the Democratic primary electorate has voted so far, but the nomination season is off to a rocky start. Independent Bernie Sanders seems to be leading in popular votes, while upstart Pete Buttigieg is ahead in the delegate count. And there’s also the question of whether either one — or any of the other candidates — can bring the party together moving forward.
The current process is clearly flawed, but what would be better? Finding an answer means thinking about the purpose of presidential nominations, and about how the existing system falls short. It will require swimming against the tide
Trouble in the Workers’ Paradise
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is precisely the sort of campaign surrogate you want, especially if you are Bernie Sanders: She is young, energetic, charismatic, popular (with the people she needs to be popular with, anyway), and, happily, currently ineligible to run for the presidency herself.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is precisely the sort of campaign surrogate you don’t want, especially if you are Bernie Sanders: She is callow, flippant, vain, shallow, and prone to making policy pronouncements that are even battier than your own, and she forgets to mention you at all in the course of making appearances that are in theory on your behalf.
Liberal billionaire 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg is willing to spend $2 billion to defeat President Donald Trump, and he continues to put his money where his mouth is. Advertising Analytics, which provides information on advertising spending, said in a tweet that “@MikeBloomberg is the highest spending presidential candidate of all time.” Bloomberg has apparently spent a jaw-dropping “$338.7M on traditional media, surpassing @BarackObama's 2012 record of $338.3M,” Advertising Analytics said Feb. 18.
“Sources” tell ABC News that “Attorney General Bill Barr told people close to Trump Tuesday that he is considering resigning over the tweets.” Right. Do any of these corporate media outlets have any credibility? No, but it keeps the news cycle saturated with hysteria and occasions them a freak out on their political snuff shows and Twitter. “News” of the Barr resignation was first reported by one the largest purveyors of fake news and gossip: The Washington Post.Shortly after the resignation rumor was reported the DoJ shot it down. “Addressing Beltway rumors: The Attorney General has no plans to resign,” DOJ spokeswoman Kerri Kupec tweeted.
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a signature campaign promise in an election year but sparking criticism about potential for fraud, waste and abuse.
The Department of Homeland Security said waiving procurement regulations will allow 177 miles (283 kilometers) of wall to be built more quickly in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. The 10 waived laws include a requirement for open competition and giving losing bidders a chance to protest decisions.
The acting Homeland Security secretary, Chad Wolf, is exercising authority under a 2005 law
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have one more judicial vacancy to fill, if they can act in time. A federal judge in Kansas who was appointed by Bill Clinton has tendered his resignation, effective April 1, for sexual misconduct in office, and for habitual lateness – both of them characteristics of the man who appointed him. (snip) Murguia, who grew up in the Argentine district of Kansas City, Kansas, comes from a prominent family. His younger sister Mary Murguia is a federal appeals court judge in Arizona and another sister, Janet Murguia, is the president and CEO of UnidosUS, formerly the National Council of La Raza.
President Trump’s resiliency in the face of being impeached and amid the constant barrage of attacks against him since day one has been a source of immense frustration for Democrats in 2020, especially in the aftermath of his unapologetic State of the Union address and his acquittal after the Senate’s impeachment trial.
Adding an extra layer of frustration for Democrats are several recent polls on the economy, in which Trump has received record-high numbers and where a clear majority of the American people have expressed that they are better of now than they were in 2016.
Given America’s deplorable history of slavery and segregation, all Americans should be proud that their country had the courage to elect its first black president. (snip) Following are parts of his past pointing to the suspicion that despite promising to be the most transparent president ever, he carefully concealed that core ideology.
In his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, Obama described the only six months he would ever work for a profit-making company as “working for the enemy,” adding that he felt like “a spy behind enemy lines.” Obama also acknowledged in Dreams an affinity he had for Marxist professors
Obama’s corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder encouraged DOJ and FBI officials NOT to resign following Bill Barr’s decision to intervene in Roger Stone’s sentencing.
Four of Mueller’s thug prosecutors resigned last week after Bill Barr refiled their abusive sentencing memo recommending 67-year-old Roger Stone spend 7 to 9 years in prison.
The Department of Justice last week said it was “shocked” at the excessive prison term being sought by Mueller’s prosecutors because it wasn’t what the DOJ was initially briefed on.
“The Department was shocked to see the sentencing recommendation in the filing in the Stone case last night,” the official told Fox News.
Question: What is the difference between God and a federal judge?
Answer: God knows that He isn’t a federal judge.
On Feb. 6, U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs of North Carolina issued an injunction barring the Trump administration from implementing a new policy that changes how the government calculates the duration of an illegal immigrant’s unlawful presence in the country.
Although an injunction is the correct legal tool to stop someone from doing something, Biggs had a choice in how broad that injunction should be. (Snip)
Biggs chose to issue a nationwide injunction. Actually, that’s a misnomer. These are better called “universal” or even “absent-party” injunctions,
This wasn’t how the 2020 race was supposed to be. The establishment had a plan to take back control of Washington, D.C. Donald Trump had seized control and they needed to get it back.
After surveying the options, the plan was to give Joe Biden, President Obama’s vice president, the nomination. The media did their part, suppressing negative messaging about the 77-year-old who has never won a presidential primary or caucus. They pushed an impeachment designed to suppress President Trump’s numbers heading into the election year. Instead, it helped Trump and hurt Democrats.
When Bernie Sanders seemed poised to win Iowa, they drastically limited news coverage about the caucuses.
Upper West Side mob rule scuttled a 52-story condo tower — not one in the planning or wish-list stages, but one nearly finished. State Supreme Court Judge W. Franc Perry caved last week to obstructionists who didn’t like the project at 200 Amsterdam Ave. on typical NIMBY grounds. They feared the shadows and Times Square-like crowds that its 112 apartments would have brought to the sidewalks.
Plus, it’s “grossly out of scale with the neighborhood,” said Olive Freud, president of the Committee for Environmentally Sound Development. Ahem — the Empire State Building was grossly out of scale with its neighborhood in 1930 and remains so today.
No question, President Donald Trump is an unconventional statesman. On the global stage he looks like a fullback at a field hockey match.
Different doesn’t always mean wrong—except to the critics who have gone to absurd lengths to weaponize policy differences to undermine the legitimacy of the president’s decisions.
One of the most extreme and wrongheaded complaints is that this administration has violated how policy must be made. Critics complain the president seems to have a mind of his own and the audacity to not reflexively implement the recommendations the bureaucracy cranks out.
Nonsense. Not only is it wrong to suggest the White House must follow
The Nebraska Pardons Board denied a request Tuesday for a full pardon for the accomplice in one of the most notorious mass-murder sprees in the nation's history.
Caril Ann Fugate, now known as Caril Ann Clair lost her bid on a unanimous vote.
The board reject the pardon request without comment. The Pardons Board consists of Governor Pete Ricketts, Attorney General Doug Peterson and Secretary of State Bob Evnen.
Clair had made the appeal, saying she sought relief from the 'terrible burden' of being labeled a murderer. She has long professed she was kidnapped by Starkweather and had no role in the murders of ten people in 1958.
On February 12, three female high school students in Connecticut filed a federal lawsuit against the participation of transgender athletes (with male anatomy) in female track and field events.
The three students, represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom, have a fairly simple and straightforward argument: They claim allowing biologically male students to compete against biologically female students is unfair and runs afoul (no pun intended) of their basic civil rights. They also argue, quite convincingly,
Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Tuesday on MSNBC that not enough Americans are resisting and speaking out against President Donald Trump.
Waters said, “The American people should be focused on Barr. We should be joining with all of those federal prosecuting attorneys that have decided he should step down, that he should resign. We should be supporting them and backing them up. I’m anxious to see what the federal judges who have decided they can’t wait until the yearly association meeting, that they should pay attention to what is going on now and review what has happened. I’m anxious to see what they’re going to come out with.”
As New York City mayor, Michael Bloomberg demanded that mothers breastfeed their babies and insisted hospitals keep baby formula under lock and key.
In 2012, the current Democrat presidential candidate created the “Latch On” initiative, which exerted control over a mother’s decision on how to feed her baby.
The Daily Mail reported at the time:
Mayor Bloomberg has demanded that hospitals stop handing out baby formula to persuade more new mothers to breastfeed their babies.
The New York City health department will monitor the number of formula bottles being given out and demand a medical reason for each one.
More than half of the city’s hospitals agreed to institute the Latch On program.
Sanders-Abrams, why not?
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Looking ahead to the Democrat Convention in July, I believe that a Bernie Sanders-StaceyAbrams ticket may come out of Milwaukee.
Yesterday, Abrams said this on "The View":
"It would be doing a disservice to every woman of color, every woman of ambition...for me to say no," she adds. "Of course I want it—of course I want to serve America."
My guess is that a lot of Democrats would love to have her serve, too.
Let me give you the following scenario:
First, Sanders is nominated with huge opposition from the party establishment. Nevertheless, he wins.
Second, Democrats like Kamala Harris, the other black lady,
Bernie Sanders’ surge in the polls, and his increasing odds of getting the nomination, are supposedly alarming the party’s leaders. What are they worried about? That the public at large will finally learn how radical Democrats have become?
According to Real Clear Politics, polls show Sanders leading Joe Biden by an eight-point margin nationally – a complete reversal from a month ago. Assuming that Elizabeth Warren’s supporters will go to Sanders, he’s polling at close to 40%, compared with Biden’s 17%. The RCP’s average of betting odds has Sanders favored over Biden by a 31-point margin.
Barack Obama chief strategist David
The largest cohort of people treated in any medical system is the elderly. In England, beginning in April, those elderly had better watch their mouths or they’re going to find themselves denied the healthcare that they paid for with their taxes.
The problem with socialized medicine is that, when it runs out of money (as it invariably does), the system has no alternative but to start rationing. Britain, which is saddled with the National Health Service, long ago began contemplating death panels. For example, Baroness Warnock, a well-known British medical ethicist (hah!), suggested denying all care to elderly people with dementia.
In Liverpool, the NHS began stealth death panels
On Tuesday, the White House named the individuals whom President Trump pardoned or to whom he had granted clemency. People on both sides of the aisle were confused by the list but they shouldn’t have been. Trump was making a point about government overreach in prosecutions, as well as reminding people about his First Step Act, which brings reformed (mostly minority) prisoners home.
Here’s a short rundown of the pardons and clemency grants.
Pardons
Eddie DeBartolo, Jr., former owner of the San Francisco 49ers, who was “convicted for failing to report a felony regarding payment demanded for a riverboat casino license,” resulting in 2 years’ probation.
A new Michael Bloomberg campaign ad touts his ties with former President Barack Obama — but several former Obama aides have downplayed how closely they worked together.Bloomberg’s multi-million dollar, 30-second spot highlights his past work with Obama on issues like gun safety, education and youth jobs, according to The Wall Street Journal.The ad also includes an audio clip from Obama referring to Bloomberg as someone who can “bring people together to seek pragmatic solutions.”But the two, “certainly weren’t best buds,” David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to Obama, told the paper.
We have nothing against South Bend, Indiana. In fact, two members of our opinion staff were born and raised in that city. And we all know that it's no proving ground for the presidency. More generally speaking, service as a small-town mayor is not in itself sufficient training for the Oval Office.
Pete Buttigieg, who served two terms as the mayor of Indiana's fourth-largest city, begs to differ. "Pragmatic and value-driven leadership — it's what mayors practice every day," he said in September. "We need a lot more of that in Washington right now.” The following month, Buttigieg said, "There’s no job
George Zimmerman wants a day in court against two of the leading Democratic presidential contenders, accusing them of defamation.
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Florida, the man who killed Trayvon Martin in self-defense in 2012 accused Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of “maliciously defam[ing]” Mr. Zimmerman, using the killing “as a pretext to demagogue and falsely brand Zimmerman as a white supremacist and racist to their millions of Twitter followers.”
Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges on traditional self-defense grounds, because Martin attacked him and beat his head against the ground, supposedly for profiling the black teen while on a neighborhood-watch shift.
The Message in the Trump Pardons
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Whatever other virtues might attach to the pardons issued today by President Trump, there is also this: They will remind our overwrought Democrats of one of the most far-sighted features of our Constitution. It is that when it comes to the fate of those who are, or could be, adjudged guilty of offenses against the United States, the final dispensation belongs to the President. He doesn’t even have to explain himself.
That’s something to bear in mind as leftist Democrats corral former federal prosecutors to raise an alarum against Mr. Trump’s criticisms of the prosecution of Roger Stone. Or as a bevy of federal judges calls an “emergency”
A federal judge on Tuesday refused to delay Roger Stone's sentencing amid the fallout over the Trump administration's decision to intervene in the case against the president's longtime ally.
The sentencing will move forward on Thursday at its originally scheduled time, the judge said, despite a new effort from Stone's defense team to get a new trial.
"I think that delaying this sentence would not be a prudent thing to do under all of the circumstances," U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, said during a telephone conference with the two sides.
The Democrats’ Doom Loop
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It’s still early, but the Democratic Party nomination process reminds me of Yogi Berra’s line about center field at Yankee stadium: “It gets late early out there.” It’s already late for the Democrats, and it is becoming clear that the Democrats are doomed this year.
At the debate tomorrow night, Bloomberg is going to be the big target because he’s got the means to challenge everybody. The big beneficiary will be Bernie Sanders. Even though he is pulling away in the polls, I doubt the other candidates have the wit or ability to shoot at two targets at once. Expect Bernie’s surge to continue.
Bernie is a sure loser in November.
Mike Bloomberg, Meet Paul Harvey
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Video of Mike Bloomberg belittling farmers surfaced this week. His campaign team, which is spending money furiously trying to purchase a foothold in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, has treated it mostly as a distraction. It may do much more damage than they expect because of what it says about their candidate.
The clip (start here at about the 42:00 mark) was from 2016, when Bloomberg was still a registered independent, but only technically. The former Republican mayor of New York City endorsed Hillary Clinton that year and delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Maybe they can trademark “certified former royal?”
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will be moving forward in their new life without a valuable part of their brand, with the Queen and other senior Palace officials reportedly agreeing the couple will no longer be able to keep the word “royal” as a part of their brand.
According to the Daily Mail, the two had hoped to leverage “Sussex Royal” into not just a new website but a “global trademark for a range of items and activities, including clothing, stationery, books and teaching materials” and a new charitable organization with the name.
Faiz Shakir had seen enough. As summer turned to fall, and the 2020 Democratic presidential race entered the stretch run before the first caucuses and primaries, Shakir, who manages Bernie Sanders’s campaign, approached MSNBC president Phil Griffin to discuss his concerns with the network’s treatment of the Vermont senator’s second White House bid. “We watched a ton of terrible coverage occurring and we thought we’d at least try to address it,” he recalled.
For months, the campaign bristled at slights from MSNBC’s stable of hosts and commentators. Jason Johnson, an MSNBC contributor, predicted in January 2019 that Sanders would drop out by August, and network analyst Mimi Rocah
A new report alleges that former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg touted "partnerships" with black-owned businesses in South Carolina that the business owners denied making.
Last week, Buttigieg penned an op-ed in a South Carolina newspaper "The State" promoting his "Frederick Douglass Plan," which he describes is "a comprehensive investment in the empowerment of Black America" that was developed with the help of black activists and business leaders.
"That begins with entrepreneurship, and our campaign has proudly partnered with local businesses like Diane’s Kitchen in Chester, Atlantis Restaurant in Moncks Corner and the Fair Deal Grocery on Charleston’s Eastside," Buttigieg wrote.
Former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik revealed to The Post on Tuesday how he first learned that President Trump was issuing him a pardon for his felony conviction.
Kerik, 64, said he had no idea he was going to be pardoned until he got a call from the president on his cellphone at 11:57 a.m.
“Right now, as we’re speaking, I’m signing your presidential pardon,” Kerik said Trump told him.
“Your record will be expunged. Go on with your life.”
Kerik recalled, “It was pretty emotional. I just thanked him several times.
The Trump administration said on Tuesday said it will begin treating five major Chinese state-run media entities with U.S. operations the same as foreign embassies, requiring them to register their employees and U.S. properties with the State Department.
Two senior state department officials said the decision was made because China has been tightening state control over its media, and Chinese President Xi Jinping has made more aggressive use of them to spread pro-Beijing propaganda.
"The control over both the content and editorial control have only strengthened over the course of Xi Jinping's term in power," said one official. "These guys are in fact arms of the CCP's (Chinese Community Party's) propaganda apparatus."
PERRIS, Calif. (AP) — Three men were found dead Monday on the grounds of a cemetery in Southern California, authorities said.
It was not immediately known how the three died but homicide detectives are at the cemetery in Perris investigating, said Riverside County Sheriff spokeswoman Deputy Robyn Flores.
Flores said the Perris Valley Cemetery remained closed to the public and that there was no other information immediately available.
Former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich declared himself a “Trumpocrat” Tuesday night hours after the president commuted his federal prison sentence. “He’s got obviously a big fan in me,” Blagojevich told reporters at Denver International Airport. “And if you’re asking me what my party affiliation is, I’m a Trumpocrat,” according to NBC News.(Snip) Walking through the airport as a free man Tuesday night, Blagojevich said, “President Trump is the one who did this, and I’m … profoundly grateful,” NBC News reported. “He didn’t have to do this. He’s a Republican president; I was a Democratic governor,” Blagojevich said.