Posts on Friday, February 21, 2020
Socialist Bernie Sanders likes to vacation in a fixer-upper wood cabin in Vermont, calling it his “summer camp.” Billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s summer camp, on the other hand, consists of a $10 million waterfront mansion in Bermuda and a $20 million estate in Southhampton. The presidential wannabes traded blows on Wednesday’s debate stage when Bloomberg suggested Sanders was a hypocrite posing as a humble socialist who in fact owned three homes.
A 63-year-old unemployed Colombian national living in Englewood repeatedly molested a 10-year-old child, authorities charged. Luis G. Ocampo remained held Friday in the Bergen County Jail following his arrest the day before, records show. Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said his Special Victims Unit and Englewood police investigated a report that led to Ocampo’s arrest “regarding the sexual assault of a ten year-old juvenile on multiple occasions.” Ocampo will remain held until a first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court in Hackensack on charges of sexual assault and child endangerment, the prosecutor said.
Ann Arbor, Michigan—University of Michigan officials were warned more than four decades ago that one of its doctors was fondling patients during medical exams, but he continued working there despite a demotion and went on to allegedly abuse again as a physician with the school’s athletic department, records obtained Friday by The Associated Press show. In 1980, the late Dr. Robert E. Anderson was pressed to step down as head of the University Health Service amid such concerns, according to a statement that his former supervisor gave to a campus detective who had started investigating the physician more than a year ago
U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) counterterrorism analyst Henry Kyle Frese pleaded guilty on Thursday to leaking information to the press in 2018 and 2019.
According to a DIA press release, Frese faces up to 10 years in prison for leaking sensitive military information from five separate classified documents. Frese was employed by the DIA as either a contractor or employee from January 2017 to October 2019.
Over the course of two years, Frese illegally obtained and distributed classified military intelligence information to two journalists. But court filings state that the information was published in eight articles written by the same journalist — Amanda Macias, a national security reporter for CNBC, a
Exclusive — Donald Trump Jr., Kevin
McCarthy, Josh Hawley to Join Forces,
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McCarthy, Josh Hawley to Join Forces,
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President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, and Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) will join forces at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) next week to expose big tech companies, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
CPAC, hosted by the American Conservative Union (ACU), will hold a panel titled, “What’s the Right Path Forward on Big Tech?” with Trump, Jr., McCarthy, and Hawley, designed to expose tech oligarchs and the threat they represent to conservatives. The panel, which will be moderated by Spectator USA’s Amber Athey, will take place on Friday morning at 9:20 a.m. ET on the main stage at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference
A segment on MSNBC Friday slammed former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg over a video he shared this week that was clearly mocking his debate opponents. The video has been described as "deceptively edited."
During Wednesday night's Democratic debate, Bloomberg was the target of several attacks, but the moment he touted his own business background had his opponents speechless.
"Maybe you want to talk about businesses. I think I'm the only one here who ever started a business, is that fair?" Bloomberg looked over at his opponents, none of whom responded.
A moment later, Bloomberg quipped, "OK," and carried on with his remarks.
HOBART, Ind. — A northwestern Indiana couple allegedly used a car to force two teenage boys off a road, angered that the twin brothers were riding bicycles adorned with flags supporting President Donald Trump, before ripping one of the sibling's flag from his bike, police said Friday. (Snip) According to a probable cause affidavit, the boys told officers that a vehicle with a man driving and woman passenger followed them before the male driver pulled up nearby and asked one of the boys “if they were Trump supporters” —to which the boy replied that they were. The driver then swerved
The Democratic presidential contenders are racing to refill their campaign coffers — following costly battles in the early nominating states and the looming Super Tuesday threat from New York tycoon Michael Bloomberg, who has plowed nearly half a billion dollars of his fortune into the fight to become the party's standard-bearer. (Snip) Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts spent more than twice what she raised in January and took out a $3 million line of credit to ward off running out of cash, her campaign reported late Thursday to federal regulators. And Pete Buttigieg on Thursday made his own urgent plea to
CLEARWATER — The three men who held up a CVS Pharmacy on New Year’s Day planned their moves meticulously.
The robbers hit at 5 a.m. They wore blue surgical gloves so they wouldn’t leave prints. They waved guns at employees and bound several of them with zip ties. Detectives would later review store surveillance video that showed one of the suspects casing the place the day before.
And they made off with a boatload of drugs in white garbage bags — more than 10,000 pills that contained the opioids hydrocodone and oxycodone, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office. It had an estimated street value of about $320,000.
Police arrested a Paterson man for secretly videotaping two women in the bathroom of a Clifton bookstore, the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement. Juan Mejia, 44, was arrested Thursday at a bookstore in Clifton for videotaping two separate women who were utilizing the bathroom stalls. After investigating, police found that he also had video images of suspected child pornography, said Prosecutor Camelia Valdes. Mejia was charged with two counts of invasion of privacy as well as endangering the welfare of children and the state has already filed a motion for the pretrial detention. He will appear in court on Wednesday
For the past 11 months, Robert Hoogland, a father in Surrey, British Columbia, has been forced to watch as his 14 year-old daughter was “destroyed and sterilized” by court-ordered testosterone injections. After losing his legal appeal to stop the process in January, Rob (previously anonymized as “Clark” or “CD”) is making a desperate attempt to bring his case into the courts of public opinion, even though it breaks a court order demanding his silence about the case.
A Muslim convert and Islamic State supporter today admitted plotting to bomb St Paul's Cathedral and a hotel in a suicide attack. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 36, of Hayes, West London, carried out a reconnaissance trip to scope out the landmark as a potential target while staying in an unnamed hotel. Shaikh—who is thought to be Britain's first solo female Isis bomb plotter—also prepared the words of a pledge of allegiance to the group, also known as Isis or Daesh, between August and October last year. The British defendant was born Michelle Ramsden to a non-Muslim family and converted to Islam in 2007.
A former governor of Massachusetts is offering himself as a Republican alternative to President Donald Trump. No, it’s not Mitt Romney. Bill Weld has no illusions about winning the GOP nomination but says he’s running because it’s time for somebody to stand up and plant a flag. “The flag is decency. The flag is integrity. It’s not an issue. It’s not free trade,” he told the Deseret News and KSL editorial boards Friday during a campaign stop in Utah. Weld was scheduled to tour the Latter-day Saint Humanitarian Center and visit Utah Valley University. Weld sees Utah among the top three states (behind Vermont, ahead of Massachusetts) where he
Appearing Thursday at a CNN town hall event, former Vice President Joe Biden delivered yet another gaffe by saying his deceased son Beau Biden, who served as the Attorney General of Delaware, was the United States Attorney General — a position held by Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch during the Obama Administration. (Tweet/Video) A transcript is as follows: AUDIENCE MEMBER: President Trump’s Department of Justice recently got involved in the trial of Roger Stone — a close confidant of Trump’s. This led to four of the federal prosecutors to either withdraw from the case or resign from the department altogether.
Donald Trump held his third rally in a row Friday afternoon at the Las Vegas Convention Center - with a Trump-loving impersonator to keep the crowd entertained before the president spoke.The president's fans had lined up outside for hours- and in some cases since Thursday - in a relative winter chill to wait for the relatively rare appearance in a red state.They were kept entertained not just by Trump Elvis - real name Jeff Stanulis, holding an Elvis-themed Donald Trump doll - but by a Kim Jong Un impersonator who shouted at waiting fans that the president is a 'great dictator' while brandishing an inflatable little rocket.
Deep Staters in the intel community and (Adam Schiff?) is at it again — leaking and spinning in order to harass President Trump in an attempt to derail his re-election efforts.
A new leak to the New York Times claims intel officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get Trump reelected. The New York Times article offered no proof of its claims and sounded like an old story from 2016 cleverly rewritten (by Adam Schiff?) to sound shiny and new. The Times reported that Trump was outraged that the classified report was shared with Adam Schiff and the House Intelligence Committee
Should Utah Sen. Mitt Romney attempt another shot at the White House — but this time on the independent ticket, with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg as his running mate? The hypothetical Romney-Bloomberg ticket would give millions and millions of independent and moderate Democratic and Republican voters stuck in the middle a solid choice for president, which doesn’t exist now between democratic-socialist Bernie Sanders and current White House occupant and Twitter-flamethrower President Donald Trump. That’s what author, Maryland business executive and former U.S. Senate candidate Neal Simon wrote in his article he shared with Lee Lonsberry on KSL NewsRadio's show Live Mic.
A quick back-and-forth occurred over the last week between President Trump and the nation's federal judges. After lying to Attorney General Barr about seeking a minimum sentence, the prosecutors in the Roger Stone case (including two from the Mueller Crew) entered a harsh sentencing recommendation that he serve a decade behind bars for lying to Congress. President Trump rightly criticized the prosecutors for their double standard in persecuting one of his political allies while leaving Hillary, Huma, Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, and countless others free to lie, destroy evidence, and obstruct investigations with impunity.
Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized President Donald Trump as “Putin’s puppet” on Friday in response to reports that U.S. intelligence officials told lawmakers that Russia is meddling in the 2020 presidential campaign to help Trump.“Putin’s Puppet is at it again, taking Russian help for himself,” Clinton wrote on Twitter in response to an NBC News report that confirmed a New York Times story about the intelligence briefing. The reports in question were vague, and it is unclear what evidence intelligence officials briefed to Congress.
Leaks about last week’s secretive briefing given to the House Intelligence Committee about Russia’s intentions in 2020 sparked contradictions and denials in the nation's capital.A national security official cited by CNN’s Jake Tapper disputed the framing of stories from the New York Times and other outlets on Thursday that spoke of an intelligence assessment finding Russia is attempting to interfere in 2020's election to benefit President Trump.The source, who Tapper said “I know and trust” and was in agreement with “others with firsthand knowledge," also added context to disputed claims from sources cited by the Washington Post that Trump is removing former Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire
Spring Valley, New York—The family of a security guard who was fatally stabbed on the job at a Spring Valley library is demanding answers. Just months before Blanchard Glaudin, 25, was charged with stabbing Sandra Wilson at the Finklestein Library, a judge had allowed his release without bail after an alleged attempted rape in November.(Snip) "My sister was brutally murdered, brutally murdered, doing her job. How do we move forward from this?" Hayward said. Glaudin is accused of stabbing Wilson, 52, with a kitchen knife on Tuesday after she asked him to turn down his music. Library patrons intervened in the attack
Welcome to Unsolicited Advice, the weekly column in which I dispense advice no one asked for to people who don’t even know who I am. /snip/ This week a theme began to develop as I combed the internet looking for unsuspecting people to thrust my unwelcome wisdom upon. It seems there are a few young parents out there who are righteously indignant that their own parents do not wish to share the burden of childcare for their grandchildren. Here we see a young mother who is so upset that her in-laws refuse to pick up her children from daycare that she is thinking of denying them access to the
A spike in the number of coronavirus cases reported in China on Friday includes hundreds of prisoners who have been infected with the COVID-19 virus. As a result, prison and security officials, as well as others in Hubei, have been fired over failing to disclose information and for allowing the virus to spread.
Justice Ministry official He Ping said more than 500 cases of the novel coronavirus had been confirmed within the country’s prisons. A majority of the 271 cases involving prisoners in the Hubei Province occurred at the Wuhan Women’s Prison, He told reporters, according to Agence France-Presse. Another 200 prisoners tested
The Desk on Hancock Hill
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The desk on the top of Hancock Hill is metal and dark gray, maybe from the sixties. Its drawers are banged up, and its top is graffitied with initials. When you get to the desk, someone might already be there, and that’s okay, because they’ll likely leave pretty soon and you’ll have the desk to yourself, which is nice. You can be alone with the view and the wind and the sky. You can think big thoughts. You can daydream. It’s there for you.
Hancock Hill is long and saddled and ripples down in folds. The hill is the lovely backdrop to Sul Ross State University, in Alpine,
James Comey is a threat to your civil liberty. Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, the former FBI director described the Department of Justice as “separate and apart” from the authority of the president and maligned Attorney General William Barr for allegedly “intervening” in the Roger Stone case.
Comey’s claims are as perverse as they are unmoored from reality. Here’s how.
According to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” This means the president is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States.
Gov. Phil Murphy was briefly jeered at his town hall meeting Thursday night after a small group of attendees disliked his use of the term “right-wing behavior” to describe recent acts of violence. The governor was asked a question at the North Brunswick event about security at houses of worship and other public spaces. Murphy agreed more needs to be done to protect people, saying, “Sadly it’s a sign of the times," calling the “rise of right-wing behavior” and anti-Semitic behavior “jaw-dropping.”(Snip) At least a dozen people jeered the governor while some clapped in support of his comment.
It’s the Wild West in Penn Station. The vagrant whose alleged threats got a homeless outreach nonprofit to flee the transit hub in fear last weekend was holding court—and spewing hate at cops—there Thursday. Eugene Watts was spotted sipping a brown-bag beer in the station one day after The Post reported that embattled nonprofit Bowery Residents Committee up and abandoned its satellite office there because he allegedly threatened to shoot workers. Watts, who claims to be a former boxer, remained defiant Thursday. “Mr. Eugene Watts, you have five minutes to leave,” one of two passing Amtrak cops on patrol at the busy transit hub
At a CNN townhall on Thursday, former Vice President Joe Biden promised an all-out assault on our Second Amendment rights. He told voters that on day one, he will “seek to end gun manufacturers’ exemption from civil liability for gun violence.”
Surrounded by people who have lost family members to gun violence, Biden said, “It is so long past time that we correct one of the most egregious special interest giveaways the United States Congress has ever engaged in – the civil liability protections granted to gun manufacturers against being sued by the victims of gun violence.” He believes this is “just flat out immoral.”
Joe Biden said that he would not seek a second term as president if his health deteriorates while in office.
A voter at a CNN town hall in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Thursday night asked the former vice president, 77, if he would commit to serving only one term.
"No, I wouldn't do that, but, I tell you what, you're going to be able to make a judgment," Biden said. "And, by the way, the two youngest people on the stage now are me and Buttigieg," he joked, referring to 38-year-old former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, the youngest candidate in the race.
Parents are suing a Wisconsin school district for adopting a policy that allows students of any age to transition to a different gender and use a different name while at school without parental notice or consent. The policy, according to the religious-liberty law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, prevents school officials from communicating about the child’s choice to transition with parents if the student does not consent.
The parents charge that the school’s policy violates their parental rights, usurping the upbringing of their children under Wisconsin law. “Many mental health and psychiatric professionals believe that children with gender dysphoria should not immediately transition
Pro-Trump NSC staffer Kash Patel has been chosen to serve as senior advisor to Amb. Richard Grenell, Acting DNI chief.
Mr. Patel previously worked for hero Congressman Devin Nunes and he wrote the 2-page FISA memo released by Nunes in February of 2018 alleging the FBI/DOJ improperly obtained four FISA warrants on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
Patel was the lead investigator who annihilated Schiff and the Democrats in the Russia collusion hoax.
This move is going to shake up the rogue intelligence agencies who are notoriously anti-Trump.
It gets better…
The Department of Justice has joined the campaign against Section 230, the federal law that enables the internet as we know it. Its effort is probably part of Washington's ongoing battle against encrypted communications. And legacy news media companies are apparently all to happy to help them in this fight.(Snip) Section 230 has never prevented the Justice Department from enforcing federal criminal statutes against online violators, as many have misleadingly argued. (For a quick debunking of more Section 230 myths, see this video.) It acts as a shield against civil lawsuits and against state and local criminal charges.
A California prison inmate confessed in a letter that he beat two child molesters to death with a cane while behind bars just hours after his urgent warning to a counselor that he might become violent was ignored, a newspaper chain reported Thursday.
Jonathan Watson, 41, confessed in the letter to the Bay Area News Group in Northern California that he clubbed both men in the head on Jan. 16 at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran.
Prisoner David Bobb, 48, died that day. Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, died three days later at a hospital.
President Donald John Trump knows farming isn't easy. He fought hard for farmers in his trade negotiations with Red China, winning concessions in Phase One that will have the communists buying billions more of capitalist American agricultural products.
To get Chairman Xi's attention, President Donald John Trump slapped a tariff on garlic from Red China.
Agence-France Presse reported on June 4, 2019, "As most US farmers feel the brunt of the trade war with China, some, like garlic and honey producers who have struggled for years, are applauding new, higher tariffs on Chinese goods.
"'It's been a pretty exciting time for us in Gilroy, California,' Ken Christopher, whose family runs Christopher Ranch,
The divided Democrats running for their party's presidential nomination were united on one thing Wednesday night -- one of them must beat Donald Trump in November.
But they differed on the best way to do that. Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg drew on his experience in running the nation's largest city. And then former Vice President Joe Biden weighed in, pointing to an NBC poll:(Video) "In terms of who can beat Donald Trump, NBC did a poll yesterday," Biden said. It says Joe Biden is best equipped to beat Donald Trump.
Though predictable, one of the most frustrating things about how Democrats have behaved since 2016 is their penchant for undermining election results simply because they don’t like the outcome. They of course cranked up the “illegitimate” rhetoric within moments of Donald Trump’s November 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton. They’ve kept it up ever since by way of perpetuating the myth of Trump/Russia collusion even after it was determined that there wasn’t any.
Here we go again with Russian meddling. The day after a widely panned debate by the Democrat presidential hopefuls, the headline in The New York Times reads: "Lawmakers Are Warned That Russia Is Meddling to Re-elect Trump."According to the newspaper: Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected, five people familiar with the matter said, a disclosure to Congress that angered Mr. Trump, who complained that Democrats would use it against him.
President Donald Trump suggested that President Barack Obama should have been impeached for lying to the American people about Obamacare. “Remember President Obama, 28 times, he said, ‘Keep your doctor, keep your plan. Keep your doctor, keep your plan.’ Right?” Trump asked.The president spoke at a rally in Colorado Springs on Thursday, reminding them that Obama repeatedly lied about allowing Americans to keep their doctors and keep their health care plans under Obamacare. “It was a lie. We should impeach him. We should impeach him,” Trump said as the crowd cheered.
Here we go. The Democrat debate last night was a trainwreck And they know it. The party is in chaos. They’re going to end up with a communist or an elitist billionaire as their candidate. Their media had only one thing to do — launch a new Russia conspiracy. CNN today reported that Russia is looking to help Trump win in 2020.
KPLR reported: The intelligence community’s top election security official delivered a briefing to lawmakers last week warning them that the intelligence community believes Russia is already taking steps to interfere in the 2020 election with the goal of helping President Donald Trump win, three sources
Well, well, well, what have we here? Whoopi Goldberg has taken Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the woodshed a second time, over her failure to pay respects, signalling that the feud is not over.
According to Fox News:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attempted to quell "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg's concerns about her after Goldberg suggested that the congresswoman disrespected the influence of older Democratic women.
"I was very happy when you were elected because I thought it was a great step ... and then you lost me," Goldberg told Ocasio-Cortez, "because it felt like you were saying to people like me that I was too old and didn't do enough."
Why don’t we teach American history anymore?
George Washington’s birthday is Feb. 22. Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is Feb. 12. And Ronald Reagan’s birthday is Feb. 6. Instead of honoring Washington and Lincoln on the anniversary of their actual day of births, we combine them all into one holiday called President’s Day.
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America is an exceptional country. We have become an exceptional country because of great leaders like Washington, Lincoln and Reagan. There are others too — like Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy.
The pieces are falling in place for a complete debacle for the Democrats, up to and including a convention walkout and riots if Michael Bloomberg’s plans to gain the nomination succeed. Under that scenario, an embittered radical wing of the party convinced that they have been betrayed in favor of a greedy plutocrat would not provide the necessary votes to defeat President trump’s ambitions for a second term. More likely, they would back a third-party radical candidate, or stay home.
But not before rioting in protest on a scale that would make the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention
President Donald Trump’s pick of U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell for acting director of national intelligence (DNI) is an inspired one of great symbolic and substantive significance.
In staffing another crucial position in the executive branch with someone who genuinely shares his worldview, instincts, and tenacity, President Trump is signaling to the Trump-haters of the administrative state, and its Deep State apotheosis, that those who reject or actively seek to undermine his America First agenda will no longer be welcome in meaningful positions.
This is no minor statement because the establishmentarian Resistance, knowing that personnel is policy, has sought to stymie the president’s agenda by seeking to undermine if not destroy
From the moment Ilhan Omar emerged on the national political scene, rumors followed that she had married her own brother as part of a fraudulent immigration and education scheme. Eventually, intrepid bloggers tracked down enough documentary evidence to justify an FBI investigation. And now, at long last, a witness has emerged from the shadows to flesh out the story. (Snip)
Over the years, members of the Somali community began to trust Johnson with the inside story of Omar’s escapades. On Thursday, Abdihaikim Osman Nur (aka Abdihakim Osman) one of those sources finally went public with the story of how Omar first married Ahmed Hirsi in a Muslim ceremony,
Rep. Matt Gaetz ignited the fireworks right out of the gate when he joined the ladies of “The View”and brought up the “death of the political left.”
The Florida Republican sparked a spirited discussion with the liberal hosts on Thursday’s show, covering topics from President Donald Trump to the 2020 Democratic candidates, and even managed to take a jab at the “thin-skinned” critics. [Video]
After telling co-host Joy Behar that he watches the show, as “you guys make news every week,” Gaetz jumped right in to stir the nest.
“I was just wondering if you were wearing black as a consequence of, like, the death of the political left
Appearing Tuesday on the Fox Business Network, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) dismissed record-low black unemployment under President Donald Trump, stating black Americans “were fully employed during slavery.”
A transcript is as follows:
NEIL CAVUTO: As you’ve been seeing with Michael Bloomberg, he’s been jumping in the polls on the heels of his very expensive, pricey ad buys if you include $125 million slated for Super Tuesday. Could you, would you back him?
REP. JAMES CLYBURN: I’m going to back whoever our nominee is — Absolutely.
CAVUTO: Even with the things he’s said about African-Americans? Does that bother you?
REP. CLYBURN: Not as much as what Trump has said about African-Americans.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” former Secretary of State John Kerry reacted to President Donald Trump accusing him and Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) of violating the Logan Act after Murphy said he had recently met with Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
In a tweet earlier in the day, Trump said the two “grossly violated the Logan Act,” noting there would be “very serious ramifications” if it had been done by Republicans. [Tweet]
Kerry called it “another presidential lie”
“That is once again another presidential lie, a complete effort by the president to distort reality,” Kerry told host Ed Henry.
Small business owners are increasingly applauding the work of President Donald Trump.
Sixty-four percent of small business owners approve of Trump’s job performance as president, according to a survey released Thursday by CNBC and Survey Monkey. That was a four-point gain from the prior survey taken at the end of 2019.
That is the highest approval rating since the quarterly survey was launched in 2017.
The survey was taken between February 2 and February 10, a period in which the Senate was holding its impeachment trial and eventually voted to acquit the president.
Despite being a self-described socialist and a scourge of the elite classes, Bernie Sanders is in fact a millionaire with a property portfolio that includes three homes, which are pictured in exclusive DailyMail.com photos.The 78-year-old Vermont senator's property portfolio was mocked by presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg during Wednesday night's debate, as he remarked: 'The best known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses. What did I miss?' ‘You missed that I work in Washington, house one,’ responded Sanders. ‘I live in Burlington, house two. And like thousands of other Vermonters, I do have a summer camp. Forgive me for that.
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton slammed the Democrats’ impeachment process of President Trump as “grossly partisan” and claimed his own potential testimony “would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome.”Despite the left’s hailing him as a hero for claiming he had information about Trump’s conduct regarding Ukraine, Bolton has increasingly come under fire for teasing information but never really saying anything. Many who formerly praised his courage blasted him for just trying to sell his forthcoming book. (Photo) During a lecture on “defining U.S. global leadership” held at Vanderbilt University on Wednesday, Bolton tangled with one of his predecessors, Susan Rice, who was
So much for that well-worn chestnut that Hunter Biden "did nothing wrong," heard so very frequently during President Trump's impeachment hearings.
For an $83,000 a month retainer from Burisma, the corrupt Ukrainian gas company, (Betsy McCaughey says he ended up with a $1 million payday) young Hunter proved to be very able and willing to make himself useful.
Look at this sequence of events that came about as a result of Hunter sitting on the Burisma board:
According to National Review:
A consultant for Burisma with links to Hunter Biden approached a top State Department official in June 2016 to discuss “troubling events” in Ukraine, according to newly released State Department emails.
President Donald Trump spent the first three years of his presidency taking a flamethrower to elite conventional wisdom.
Before the president, an "elite" consensus had formed that lost manufacturing and industrial jobs were gone for good, "free" trade was good for America, and American leadership was about managing America's decline in the face of a rising power in China.
These positions were so assumed to be true that politicians would spout them off in the same way they might observe that the sky is blue or that knowing the Clintons is hazardous to a person's health.
The "you didn't build that" president commented before the 2016 election,
Last year, Xusana Davis was appointed by Vermont governor Phil Scott as the state’s “first Racial Equity Executive Director.” Davis, formerly of New York City’s Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, applied for the job “on a whim,” and was installed to “identify and address systemic racism in Vermont.”
But the law labeling Vermont as systemically racist was also a whim, backed by no evidence aside from bald assertions that racial disparities in prison, land ownership, or school disciplinary actions reflect a disparity in treatment of people of color. The dangers of this false assumption are demonstrated in Xusana’s latest gambit: to “codify community engagement”
Battle of the Boroughs
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There are 329 million people in the United States of America. They are spread across 3.8 million square miles. The presidential race will be determined by the actions of three of them: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Michael Bloomberg. Each is a New Yorker. Each hails from a different borough. Trump was born in Queens, Sanders in Brooklyn, and Bloomberg, a native of Massachusetts, has worked and lived in Manhattan since 1973.
For a long time New York City politics stopped at the Hudson River. Now the nation faces the prospect of eight months of septuagenarian New Yorkers yelling at each other. The geographic, regional,
It is extremely difficult if not impossible to defeat an incumbent president when the economy is doing well. Just ask 1984 Democratic nominee Fritz Mondale, or 1996 Republican nominee Bob Dole.
In the case of Donald Trump, the economy isn’t just healthy; it’s reached unprecedented milestones. America is enjoying the longest expansion in history. Unemployment reached and remains near a 50-year low. Nearly 7 million full-time jobs have been generated under Trump, including nearly a half million manufacturing jobs, after two decades of serious manufacturing decline widely viewed as irreversible.
There are two tacks from which to choose in confronting
A quick back-and-forth occurred over the last week between President Trump and the nation's federal judges. (snip) The judges have postponed their planned "emergency meeting" indefinitely. Like most things the president says that cause alarm for the D.C. establishment, it is not the recklessness of his words, but their truthfulness that rattles them, and the more truth he slings their way, the more rattled they become. The judges realized they were about to make a consequential mistake by taking on directly the one person in the country not afraid to put the Judicial Branch in its place.
When Barack Obama secured the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, he famously declared, “We will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide ... good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.”
Looking back with 2020 hindsight (pun intended), Obama and everyone else in 2008 would be surprised to learn that significant improvements in the economy, inequality, and emissions would occur but that the public would credit them not to Obama’s eight-year tenure but to Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 8, 2016.
NEW ORLEANS—Standing in line at the hardware store on the edge of the French Quarter one December Monday, I overheard the cashier talking to a regular customer about manhole covers that had exploded just before dawn that morning a couple of blocks away. The metal discs had burst into buildings and crashed into the underside of a car, which in turn caught fire. Power outages and evacuations had ensued. This was just the latest addition to a cluster of troubling events. In the previous few days, a turbine powering the low-lying city’s storm-drainage system had also exploded, unrelated water-main ruptures had flooded neighborhoods on opposite sides of town,
A former adviser on criminal justice issues to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) was plotting a violent prison escape, stashing guns and ammunition inside a soon-to-be-opened prison, authorities said this week.
Nashville police said Wednesday that Alex Friedmann, a prison reform advocate who helped shape the Vermont senator's criminal justice agenda, spent months plotting an escape for inmates of the city's detention center. Sanders worked with Friedmann to develop positions on criminal justice in the lead up to his 2016 presidential campaign—positions Sanders still touts.
Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren each started the month scraping perilously close to the bottom of their campaign bank accounts, posing an existential threat to their candidacies as the Democratic primary goes national.
They’re up against well-funded machines threatening to dominate the Democratic race: Bernie Sanders, whose recent rise in the polls has come during a major spending streak fueled by his online donors, and billionaire Mike Bloomberg, whose personal fortune has vaulted him into the middle of the campaign to take on President Donald Trump.
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After a group of homeless moms simply moved into a vacant three-bedroom house in Oakland owned by a company that invests in local real estate, local progressives turned them into folk heroes. These women weren’t squatters who took something that wasn’t theirs, but valiant protesters who were standing up for their communities against — all together now — corporate speculators.
As one of these Oakland moms said, “Housing is a human right. I pay bills there. I pay water, PG&E, internet. We live there. We want to purchase the home; it needs to belong back in the hands of the community. It was stolen through the foreclosure crisis.”
…is today’s Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers, which was issued along with the Economic Report of the President. The vicissitudes of the various campaigns come and go, but the administration’s excellent record on the economy remains the most important factor in the election. To Democrats, the message is: read it and weep.
The CEA report is long, 435 pages with appendices. But the most important points can be summarized in a few graphs. The unemployment rate is a flawed but important metric. This shows how unemployment has declined, contrary to what was predicted by the Congressional Budget Office prior to the 2016 election:
At a CNN town hall event in Las Vegas, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was asked: “How do U.S.-Israel relations look under your administration?”
He replied:
“To be for the Israeli people and to be for peace in the Middle East does not mean that we have to support right-wing, racist governments that currently exist in Israel….”
In April 2019, at another CNN town hall event, [Sanders] described Netanyahu’s approach toward the Palestinians as “oppressive” and said Israel is “now run by a right-wing—dare I say—racist government.”
Statistics estimate 36,000 people are homeless in Los Angeles, but the city isn’t providing bathrooms to most of them. As the NBCLA I-Team has found, the tons of human waste landing on city streets are creating an urgent public health threat.
In one act caught on camera, a homeless man is seen waking up on South Hope Street. He unbuckles his belt, walks over to the front door of a business, pulls down his pants, and defecates right on the door mat in broad daylight.
Ever since President Trump commuted the sentence of disgraced former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich, I’ve been asking myself why he would do such a thing. I have a theory about what might have contributed to the decision, and if I’m right, Barack Obama should be concerned.
When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, it was then-Governor Blagojevich’s responsibility to appoint someone to fill the seat. But, Blagojevich didn’t just want to give it away, he wanted something for it. “A Senate seat is a f----ng valuable thing. You don’t just give it away for nothing,” Blagojevich said at the time.
When then-Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar was running for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota in 2006, members of the local public employees' union that represented the lawyers on her staff wrote to their state union headquarters asking it to withhold its endorsement from the Democrat.
On behalf of AFSCME Local 2938, chapter President James Appleby penned a letter to the AFSCME state headquarters in South St. Paul, Minn. making the case that Klobuchar was "wholly undeserving of AFSCME's endorsement." The document, obtained by Fox News but previously reported by HuffPost, takes on new relevance as Klobuchar seeks the Democratic nomination for president and the primary campaign moves to union-heavy Nevada.
Mike Bloomberg is privately lobbying Democratic Party officials and donors allied with his moderate opponents to flip their allegiance to him — and block Bernie Sanders — in the event of a brokered national convention. The effort, largely executed by Bloomberg’s senior state-level advisers in recent weeks, attempts to prime Bloomberg for a second-ballot contest at the Democratic National Convention in July by poaching supporters of Joe Biden and other moderate Democrats, according to two Democratic strategists familiar with the talks and unaffiliated with Bloomberg.
Researchers at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the University of Texas at Austin claimed to have made a breakthrough in their coronavirus research on Wednesday and said their data could help develop a vaccine.
Scientists were able to create a 3D atomic-scale map of the part of the virus that attaches itself to human cells and causes infection, according to UT News. Mapping what researchers call the "spike protein" is a vital step toward developing vaccines and antiviral drugs.
Jason McLellan, an associate professor at UT Austin, spoke with Fox News on Thursday about the virus and said researchers hope to study the 3D map,
NotThese days we're often regaled with news stories highlighting firsts – 'she's the first LGBTIQ++ Latinx to graduate from the Che Guevarra School of Global Warming who has devoted her life to petting same-sex kittens, tilling community gardens while simultaneously running Riverkeeper kayak trips for one-legged dogs found on the streets of Portland.'You get it.So it was rather surprising to discover that mainstream news stories of the first openly gay White House Cabinet member – ever, ever – were left on the newsroom floor.Rick Grenell, the U.S. Ambassador to Germany, was just named to head the Department of National Intelligence by President Trump.