Posts on Saturday, February 22, 2020
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is facing scrutiny over a dubious tale from the campaign trail, claiming that he was arrested in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison.Biden, 77, first told the story at a campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina on February 11, as he tried to shake off defeat in New Hampshire, and has repeated it twice more during outreach to black voters.'This day, 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid,' Biden said in Columbia of the former South African president, who was imprisoned for 27 years by the apartheid government.
Hillary Clinton had admitted to using her email server “out of convenience” and had apologized to the FBI according to newly released emails from former FBI official Peter Strzok. But her apology was “not in” the FBI 302 report summarizing her interview, according to one message that was part of the 191 pages of emails between Strzok and his lover, former FBI attorney Lisa Page, obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.(Photo) “So now we know that the FBI report of Clinton’s ‘interview’ is incomplete and that Peter Strzok may have details on the classified briefing of candidate Trump
Bernie Sanders isn’t just raving mad at the latest debate. He apparently went ballistic on NBC News and MSNBC executives prior to taking the stage, launching into a ranting ball of fury over omplaints about how the networks had been covering his campaign.(Tweet) Bernie Sanders went ballistic at NBC and MSNBC execs ahead of the Democratic debate this week — jabbing one top TV exec repeatedly in the face with his finger and accusing the networks of offensive negative coverage.
President Trump's reelection campaign commented on progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) victory in the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, calling the win a domination by "big government socialism."“Media reports of unstaffed caucus sites in Nevada just prove that the national Democrat Party is in chaos and incompetent," Trump's campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement, appearing to refer to a few logistical stumbles at the beginning of the caucuses. "There is no denying that Big Government Socialism dominated again as Bernie Sanders remained the leader of the leftist pack. We are another day closer to Election Day
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville said the Nevada Caucuses are going “very well” for Russian President Vladimir Putin following the news that Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took an early lead in the critical race. “Right now, it’s about 1:15 Moscow time. This thing is going very well for Vladimir Putin. I promise you. He’s probably staying up watching this right now. How you doing, Vlad?” Carville joked in an interview with MSNBC on Saturday. (Tweet/Video)
Apparently Bernie Sanders does not give Chris Matthews a tingling sensation up his leg. FOX News called the Nevada Democrat Caucuses at 5:30 PM ET on Saturday.
Communist Bernie Sanders won big in Nevada with 55% of the vote with 5% reporting. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews melted down and compared Communist Bernie Sanders winning the Nevada caucuses on Saturday to France falling to the Nazis in 1940. “I’m reading last night about the fall of France in the summer of 1940 and the general calls
After racking up a big win in Nevada, Sen. Bernie Sanders is in a commanding position in the 2020 Democratic presidential race. Though he may not yet be inevitable, we’ve reached the point where it will be hard for establishment Democrats to stop him without inflicting a great cost on their eventual nominee.Sanders arguably won Iowa, and now has added a big win in Nevada to his victory in New Hampshire. So there’s a case to be made that he’s already won the first three contests, and he should do no worse than second in South Carolina.He will then head into Super Tuesday on March 3 as
Friday during an interview that aired on MSNBC, former National Security Adviser and U.N. ambassador Susan Rice criticized Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s pick to acting Director of National Intelligence.Rice called him “dishonest,” as well as other criticisms, and complained he was put in the job to use intelligence tools for political purposes.“The problem is that Rick Grenell is one of the most massively dishonest people I’ve ever encountered,” Rice said. “I’m not using this language lightly. He is a hack and a shill, and that’s all he’s ever been.”
The majority of the money spent in the first four months of operations by The Lincoln Project, a Super PAC founded by George Conway and other “Never Trumpers,” has been paid to consultants affiliated with the project.
From its inception in November 2019 until February 21, 2020, The Lincoln Project has reported $180,624 in expenditures, according to its Federal Election Commission filings. At least $135,274 of these expenditures were paid to firms owned or affiliated with individuals listed as advisers to the group, or directly to the advisers themselves.
(Snip)A super PAC led by a group of “Never Trump” conservatives has raised over $400,000
TV networks, led by CNN and MSNBC, have aired a Michael Bloomberg ad more than 70 times in recent days in which the 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful falsely said he led New York City through 9/11. “I led a complex, diverse city through 9/11, and I have common sense plans to move America away from chaos to progress,” Bloomberg said in a 30-second campaign ad called “It Won’t Work.” The problem with the claim is that Bloomberg did not take over as mayor of the Big Apple until Jan. 1, 2002, several months after terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center towers in Manhattan.
San Diego Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended eight migrants including three men from Yemen during a failed human smuggling attempt off the California coast.
During the early morning hours of February 21, the Joint Harbor Operations Center notified Border Patrol agents about a suspicious boat approaching U.S. waters. Border Patrol agents operating surveillance equipment located the boat in the dense fog, according to information obtained from San Diego Sector Border Patrol officials.
Agents arrived in the area and found the small boat beached north of the Coronado State Beach, officials reported. As they approached, the agents observed eight people jumping out of the boat and running to avoid apprehension.
President Trump went ahead and congratulated Bernie Sanders for winning the Nevada caucuses when just a small fraction of the results were in. 'Looks like Crazy Bernie is doing well in the Great State of Nevada. Biden & the rest look weak, & no way Mini Mike can restart his campaign after the worst debate performance in the history of Presidential Debates,' Trump said. 'Congratulations Bernie, & don’t let them take it away from you!' the president wrote. Fox News Channel called the Saturday caucuses for Sanders with just 3 per cent of the results in. Sanders had mounted a formidable lead of 55 per cent.
Law Enforcement Today (LET) has learned that Philip Haney, a one-time DHS whistleblower who was repeatedly dismissed by Democratic lawmakers and officials inside the Obama Administration as well as their affiliate, the mainstream media, is dead. Haney retired from the DHS in 2018 after fifteen years of service. He has appeared on both the Megan Kelly and the Sean Hannity shows.
Haney’s job involved searching for individuals with links to terrorist groups. In a 2016 interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, he explains that on two occasions, his carefully prepared files had been “purged.” He also believes that, if the Obama Administration had maintained this database, several mass shootings,
LAS VEGAS - Bernie Sanders appeared headed to a decisive victory in the Democratic presidential caucuses in Nevada on Saturday, and early returns showed Joe Biden landing a second-place finish that would give his struggling campaign new hope.
Fox News projected Sanders as the winner in Nevada, where scattered early returns showed him opening up a dominating lead with about 5% of votes in. Sanders, a U.S. senator from Vermont, will gain fresh momentum for his front-running candidacy in the Democratic White House race with the win in Nevada, where he was buoyed by what entrance polls showed was strong support
Twitter is suspending dozens of pro-Mike Bloomberg accounts that posted identical content the social media company calls “platform manipulation.”
Friday, a Twitter spokesperson said, “We have taken enforcement action on a group of accounts for violating our rules against platform manipulation and spam,” according to NBC News.
Several accounts posting content in support of Democrat Mike Bloomberg’s presidential campaign were permanently suspended while others are awaiting review to verify ownership, the report said.
“A portion of accounts are operated by Bloomberg campaign workers — called ‘deputy field organizers’ — who pump out pro-Bloomberg content across social media networks, including Twitter, for $2,500 a month,” according to Fox News.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council’s release on Wednesday of its blacklist of companies with financial ties and business relations with Israeli Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria is a reminder of Israel’s vulnerability and the vulnerability of Jews worldwide. The vile, bigoted list, which singles out for boycott firms that do legitimate business with law-abiding Israelis just because they are Jews is yet another example of the U.N.-led international community’s anti-Jewish bloodlust.(Snip)Currently, the Democratic front-runner for the nomination is Senator Bernie Sanders. In a crowded, radical, largely anti-Israel field of candidates, Sanders, the self-avowed socialist, stands out as the most radical and most anti-Israel candidate.
Philip Haney, the author of “See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government’s Submission to Jihad,” has died at the age of 67.(Snip) Haney was a long-time Department of Homeland Security expert with a focus on Islamic extremism.(Snip)One review of Haney’s book described it as an “exposé of a “politically correct” federal government that capitulates to a subversive enemy within and punishes those who reject its narrative.”
During a 2015 appearance on Fox News, Haney said that his work in the Department of Homeland Security had been curtailed and that if it were able to continue, it may have prevented the 2015 San Bernardino shooting.
DHS whistleblower Philip Haney was found dead on Friday.
The whistleblower against the Obama administration was shot dead near his vehicle in California. (Snip)Haney told Sean Hannity in 2016 that he was ordered during the Obama administration to scrub the record of Muslims in the US with terrorist ties.
The story of his death has still not been reported by the mainstream media.
The Gateway Pundit was notified of this last night.
Haney had been missing since Wednesday.
Philip Haney said political correctness during the Obama years killed the investigation that might have stopped the San Bernardino Christmas terrorists.
Bernie Sanders described his plan to reject the "racist, right wing government of Israel and bring Palestinian and Jew, Iranian and Saudi together under the banner of justice," which is a tall order. Even should it fail, his supporters may argue that "we have to try and keep trying. We owe it to the future not to give up," as if trying were an end in itself. Bernie Sanders was asked by NBC about the job loss his proposed fracking ban might cause.
“What do you tell those workers?” NBC moderator Chuck Todd asked.
“This is a moral issue,
Class tells, it's said, and Meghan Markle is now showing Britain's royal family she has absolutely none.
Here's the latest from the Daily Mail:
Meghan Markle has told friends there is nothing 'legally stopping' her and Prince Harry from using their Sussex Royal name, despite the Queen banning them from using it, DailyMail.com has learned.
The 38-year-old complained to her inner circle that using the name 'shouldn't even be an issue in the first place and it's not like they want to be in the business of selling T-shirts and pencils,' the insider said.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, libertarian superstar Clint Eastwood said he’s backing Mike Bloomberg over Donald Trump.
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In a word, he’s uncomfortable with Trump’s temperament. (Snip)
As for the domestic political scene, Mr. Eastwood seems disheartened. “The politics has gotten so ornery,” he says, hunching his shoulders in resignation. He approves of “certain things that Trump’s done” but wishes the president would act “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names. I would personally like for him to not bring himself to that level.” As he drives me back to my hotel, (Snip) “The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there.”
Donald Trump brought up his youngest son during his rally in Las Vegas Friday, which he rarely does, and imitated a conversation between himself and Barron.While going off on a tangent about healthcare, and railing against Democrats for proposing single-payer healthcare systems, Trump said his youngest child could have created a better healthcare site than what came of Obamacare's open market, where people were supposed to go to sign up for a plan.'We're now offering plans that are up to 60 per cent less expensive. We're going to make healthcare a big part of this campaign. We're protecting people with preexisting conditions, and we always will,'
A recent Pew Research Center survey finds that only half of American adults think colleges and universities are having a positive effect on our nation. The leftward political bias, held by faculty members affiliated with the Democratic Party, at most institutions of higher education explains a lot of that disappointment. Professors Mitchell Langbert and Sean Stevens document this bias in “Partisan Registration and Contributions of Faculty in Flagship Colleges.”Langbert and Stevens conducted a new study of the political affiliation of 12,372 professors in the two leading private and two leading public colleges in 31 states. For party registration, they found a Democratic to Republican (D:R) ratio of 8.5:1,
President Donald Trump saluted members of the famed “Miracle on Ice” US Olympic hockey team during a Keep America Great rally Friday in a wide-ranging address in which he also attacked Democrats, the media and boasted at length about his former reality TV show.“We are thrilled to have with us today 14 players from that gold-medal team. Give them a big hand,” Trump said in Las Vegas, where team members had gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their historic win over Russia on Saturday.The president at one point called team captain Mike Eruzione to join him on the stage along with players
On Friday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle talked to CNBC contributor Dan Nathan about how the booming economy may factor into the 2020 presidential race. Without any substantiation, Nathan wildly speculated that there could be another “global financial crisis” which would provide something “Dems can run on” in the fall.Nathan, a longtime Democratic Party donor and principal at the investment consulting group RiskReversal Advisors, began by arguing that the nation’s historically low unemployment was actually a bad thing: “...the labor market is really tight, and economically, in an election year, that could pose a really big problem when you think about it here because we’re just not seeing
The Nevada State Democratic Party is asking site leaders for Saturday's caucuses to sign non-disclosure agreements that would prevent them from speaking to the media. The news comes just one day before the Nevada Democratic caucuses. The caucus process here in Nevada has come under intense scrutiny after a similar process melted down in Iowa. Nevada Democrats, lead by operatives with ties to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have worked for weeks to ensure the caucus goes smoothly, worried that a poor showing could imperil the state's first in the west status and further undermine the entire nomination process.
Boeing has another problem now with dozens of its undelivered 737 MAX jets—trash in the fuel tanks. The embattled plane maker found everything from tools to rags inside the fuel tanks of about 35 aircraft, a company spokesman told Reuters. Company inspectors have checked about 50 of the roughly 400 MAX jets built after two crashes in October 2018 and March 2019 that killed 346 people.(Snip) The FAA moved to step up surveillance of the manufacturing after Boeing informed it about the debris in November, according to the Wall Street Journal, and is waiting for additional inspection findings before taking further action.
If a giant object looks like it's going to slam into Earth, humanity has a few options: Hammer it with a spacecraft hard enough to knock it off course, blast it with nuclear weapons, tug on it with a gravity tractor, or even slow it down using concentrated sunlight.
We'll have to decide whether to visit it with a scout mission first, or launch a full-scale attack immediately.
Those are a lot of decisions to make under existential duress, which is why a team of MIT researchers have come up with a guide, published February in the journal Acta Astronautica, to help future asteroid deflectors.
When President Trump ticks off his accomplishments since taking office, he frequently mentions his aggressive makeover of a key sector of the federal judiciary — the circuit courts of appeal, where he has appointed 51 judges to lifetime jobs in three years.
In few places has the effect been felt more powerfully than in the sprawling 9th Circuit, which covers California and eight other states. Because of Trump’s success in filling vacancies, the San Francisco-based circuit, long dominated by Democratic appointees, has suddenly shifted to the right, with an even more pronounced tilt expected in the years ahead.
Under New Law, Cambridge, MA
Police Can’t Arrest Illegal Immigrants
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Police Can’t Arrest Illegal Immigrants
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The city of Cambridge, Massachusetts just brought the concept of sanctuary city to a whole new level. In an effort to protect illegal immigrants from ICE, the city has passed a new law which directs police not to arrest illegals caught driving without a driver’s license. They don’t call it the ‘People’s Republic of Cambridge’ for nothing, folks. As a Massachusetts native, let me assure you that pretty much every joke you’ve heard about Cambridge is true.
Drew Karedes reports at FOX 25 News in Boston: Under new Cambridge law, undocumented immigrants won’t be arrested for driving without a license It’s the law
A moderate's 2020 lament
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Can this really be all there is?
No, I'm not lamenting the pointlessness of existence. I'm expressing despair over the state of the race to decide on a Democrat to face President Trump in November.
Over the past year, more than two dozen people have taken a shot at becoming the Democratic nominee. Today, with Super Tuesday just over a week away, six serious candidates remain. That's still a lot of options.
So why do all of them seem so unappealing? So incapable of defeating our corrupt, incompetent, and immoral president? So unworthy of being given a chance to try?
Honey, We Molested the Kids!
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I wonder if any liberals are re-thinking their insistence that the Boy Scouts allow gay men to take 13-year-old boys on overnight camping trips.
HEADLINE: Boy Scouts Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the Face of Thousands of Child Abuse Allegations
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) have long been on the left’s hate list. Any organization that has the temerity to train young men in the virtues of integrity, patriotism and self-reliance is putting itself on the fighting side of liberals!
At the 2000 Democratic National Convention, a little group of Boy Scouts took the stage as part of the opening ceremony — and were promptly booed by the delegates.
Mike Bloomberg's campaign staff say Bernie Sanders' 'anti-capitalist' rhetoric may have inspired an attack on their Knoxville field office, as the feud between the two Democratic contenders continues to escalate. Bloomberg's Tennessee headquarters was hit with graffiti on Thursday night, with vandals spray painting 'F**k Bloomberg', 'oligarch', and 'classist authoritarian' across the building.(Snip) 'We don't know who is responsible for this vandalism, but we do know it echoes language from the Sanders campaign and its supporters,' Sheekey stated. He added: ' We call on Bernie Sanders to immediately condemn these attacks and for his campaign to end the Trump-like rhetoric
George Clooney‘s home is in deep water—literally. The Oscar winner and wife Amal Clooney‘s mansion in Berkshire, England, suffered major flood damage after Storm Dennis struck the region. Photos show that nearly all of the land surrounding the $13 million estate, including the basketball court, was almost completely submerged in water. But a rep for the “Ocean’s Eleven” star exclusively tells Page Six that “all is fine” after the flooding. According to Architectural Digest, the Clooneys purchased the 17th-century mansion shortly after their Venetian wedding in 2014. The home sits on a four-acre island in the middle of the River Thames.
Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood appeared to throw his support behind former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg for president.
“The best thing we could do is just get Mike Bloomberg in there,” the 89-year-old said in a profile published last week.
Eastwood expressed support for “certain things” President Trump has done but isn’t a fan of how divided politics has become.
“The politics has gotten so ornery,” he said as he hunched his shoulders during an interview with the Wall Street Journal's Tunku Varadarajan.
Eastwood said he wished Trump would conduct himself “in a more genteel way, without tweeting and calling people names.
They say the music is the message, and it probably doesn’t take much reading between the lines to get the meaning behind the music Donald Trump walked on stage to at his Colorado Springs rally on Thursday night. As the president stepped out in front of the crowd, The Rolling Stones’ 1965 song Play With Fire blasted out across the venue. The lyric: “But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire,” might indicate a new, ominous, post-impeachment cockiness.(Snip) He has already removed Alexander Vindman from his position as an expert with the National Security Council following his testimony during the
NBC’s Chuck Todd, who moderated Wednesday night’s Las Vegas debate, was Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s landlord in Arlington, Virginia, according to six sources who spoke to Page Six.
Klobuchar, with her husband attorney John Bessler, rented a three-bedroom house owned by Todd. Page Six reports Klobuchar and her husband began renting the Virginia real estate in 2008 but are no longer living there as a second residence.
(Snip) Star Tribune reported in 2008 that Klobuchar and Bessler moved into the three-bedroom home from a smaller rental property to make space for family visits to the nation’s capital. The Tribune wrote that the two paid $3,200 per month in addition
Future Greyhound passengers beware, because going forward, rules and laws will apparently have no place on the transportation service’s infamous buses.In an emailed statement to the Associated Press, the 106-year-old company announced that it would no longer allow Department of Homeland Security officials to board its buses to conduct what have always been routine immigration checks. “[T]he company said it would notify the Department of Homeland Security that it does not consent to unwarranted searches on its buses or in areas of terminals that are not open to the public — such as company offices or any areas a person needs a ticket to access,”
Key Intelligence Aide Joins Acting DNI
Richard Grenell – Mandate: “Clean House,
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Richard Grenell – Mandate: “Clean House,
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Kash Patel previously worked as Devin Nunes’ senior staffer on the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI). It was Patel who was the lead author of the Nunes memo exposing corrupt conduct of the FBI and DOJ officials during Crossfire Hurricane.
Patel joined the National Security Council’s International Organizations and Alliances directorate last February and was promoted to the senior counterterrorism role at the NSC mid-summer 2019. According to recent reporting Patel is now joining Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell as a Senior Advisor and Catherine Herridge is reporting the objective is to ‘clean house‘.
The ratification of the Constitution in 1788 ushered in a new era in the United States. The times were not without discord—domestic, foreign, and within the government itself—as the nation implemented a new structure that inevitably brought forth many opinions on how best to govern the nation.Among the most dramatic changes in the new Constitution was the presidency, first held by George Washington. Noted for many accomplishments, Washington is the only president to have swept the Electoral College as he was elevated to the office. Despite his stature and popularity, he was beset by conflict within his Cabinet and in the nation.In letters to members of his Cabinet
Life Under ISIS
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James Verini’s They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate has gifted us with gruelingly realistic war vignettes of the Islamic State from Iraq’s second most populous city. Mosul is also one of the oldest human settlements: the Western Fortress of the Akkadians of 4,300 years ago. On a short assignment from National Geographic, Verini, an American, remained behind in the city for a year after it was overrun. His journalism is omnivorous, and superbly faithful to real-time developments, though written within a peculiar framework dictated by his liberal ideology.At his best, Verini is superbly authentic.
Delays in 737 MAX certification flight may
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The critical flights on the updated Boeing 737 MAX that must be flown by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pilots before the plane can be certified again are now unlikely to happen before late April, according to two people familiar with the details.
The delay of more than a month from recent plans means that Boeing’s publicly announced goal of winning FAA approval to fly the plane again by “midsummer,” previously considered a very conservative schedule, now looks tight and could slip further.
SAN FRANCISCO — The mayor of Berkeley, California, proposed a new housing policy Thursday aimed at giving renters first dibs when a property goes up for sale, as the state battles a severe housing shortage and homelessness that Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared his top priority. (Snip) A homeowners group said while the plan is meant to target greedy corporate landlords, it would end up penalizing individual homeowners by placing a variety of constraints on selling property. “What if I want to sell my home to an uncle, cousin or friend, and not my tenant? I should be allowed to
Former GOP Speaker Paul Ryan (Wis.) said Friday he disagrees with Sen. Mitt Romney's (R-Utah) decision to vote for President Trump's removal from office in this month's impeachment trial.
It was “purely a conscience vote” for Romney, Ryan said at an event at the University of Virginia, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Ryan was Romney's running mate when he ran for president as the Republican nominee in 2012.
The visceral hatred of President Donald Trump by the Democrats and their running dog media was never enough to get him impeached, but will, in the end, see America turned over to Communist rule.
“The Communists see in Bernie their one opportunity to seize control of America. Bernie is on fire and the DNC has lost control of their machine because the socialist leaning millennials are all in for Bernie.” (America Out Loud, Feb. 20, 2020) This is where the DNC will take all residents of the USA should they endorse Sanders as their presidential candidate come July.
In other words the Democrats hate President Trump so much they would turn
It’s taken just 45 days for a royal pipe dream to well and truly bite the dust. Last month, Harry and Meghan tried to bounce the ancient institution into giving them a ‘progressive new role’ as part-time royals, part-time money makers.
Harry’s 93-year-old grandmother doesn’t take kindly to being bounced or indeed being blindsided. With British regulations and royal rules on her side, the Queen has imposed her final restriction on the couple embarking on a self-imposed exile. Sussex Royal can be no more. A freshly branded website will have to be re-branded.
Their supporters will argue it’s no great loss.
WASHINGTON — Richard Grenell’s tenure as the nation’s top intelligence official may be short-lived, but he wasted no time this week starting to shape his team of advisers, ousting his office’s No. 2 official — a longtime intelligence officer — and bringing in an expert on Trump conspiracy theories to help lead the agency, according to officials.
Mr. Grenell has also requested the intelligence behind the classified briefing last week before the House Intelligence Committee where officials told lawmakers that Russia was interfering in November’s presidential election
A newly discovered species of snail has been named after teen climate change activist Greta Thunberg, scientists announced in a new study published Thursday. The critter, which was discovered in Brunei on the island of Borneo, now has the scientific name Craspedotropis gretathunbergae. "The newly described snail belongs to the so-called caenogastropods, a group of land snails known to be sensitive to drought, temperature extremes and forest degradation," snail expert and study lead author Menno Schilthuizen said in a statement. The tiny mollusk, which is about 2 millimeters in size, was discovered by citizen-scientists from the tour group Taxon Expeditions
The oil pipeline that sparked months of protests and mass arrests in 2016 has been approved for an extension by regulators in North Dakota. The three-member North Dakota Public Service Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved pipeline builder Energy Transfer Partners’ planned expansion to nearly double the number of barrels of crude oil pumped through the Dakota Access Pipeline per day. The extension would include adding a new $40 million pump station in the city of Linton to increase output from “its current maximum capacity of 600,000 barrels per day to up to 1.1 million barrels of crude oil per day,” a press release from the commission reads.
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) announced Friday night that he is suing the Washington Post, accusing the paper of publishing “demonstrably false” “garbage” about him.“I don’t know what planet the Washington Post is on but they’ll have an opportunity in federal court in the next couple weeks to explain who their sources are because I’m going to have to take them to court,” Nunes told Fox News host Harris Faulkner.Nunes was appearing on Fox’s “The Story” (with Faulkner filling in for Martha MacCallum) to talk about a recent classified briefing to House intelligence members. As has become expected, information (and disinformation) from that briefing was promptly leaked to the media.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan said Friday he views President Donald Trump as the clear favorite to win reelection against any Democratic challenger in 2020 because of a “dream” economic environment for an incumbent.
But Ryan singled out Bernie Sanders as the Democrat against whom Republicans would thrive politically. “As a Republican … I love the idea of a Sanders candidacy..."
Los Angeles Times film critic Justin Chang said Friday on CNN that President Donald Trump mentioning the movie “Gone With the Wind” at his rally was a “racist dog whistle.”
Chang said, “It’s kind of unfortunate, I think, that we have a president whose entire presidency is founded on xenophobia and of course his comments are not surprising coming from someone who likes to dehumanize people of other cultures and people of color. So none of that’s surprising.”He continued, “Well, that whole thing, “Gone with the Wind” and “Sunset Boulevard,” that all smacks of a dog whistle hearkening back to an earlier era
There was a time, not long ago, when it would have been unusual for Drake, the father of a 2-year-old, to post a photo of himself wearing a sweatshirt with the logo of Sierra Canyon, a private high school in the unfashionable outer reaches of the San Fernando Valley. There was also a time when one of the world’s most famous people announcing that he was tying his brand to a prep school would have been a defining moment in the lives of every teenager there. Not so at Sierra Canyon, which has recently become the most Instagrammed high school in America.
“Honestly, I forgot that even happened,” said B. J. Boston,
President Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy at the United States-Mexico border is ensuring pregnant migrants are not using their court dates in the U.S. to then deliver their children on American soil, thus securing them birthright citizenship.
Currently, Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy has made sure that southern border crossers claiming asylum are returned to Mexico or their native Central American country while they await their asylum hearings in the U.S. The policy has prevented mass fraud where illegal aliens are released into the interior of the U.S. only to never show up for their asylum hearings and never leave the country.
Local San Diego reporter Max Rivlin-Nadler now writes
In the eyes of Washington politicians and lobbyists, President Donald Trump is the most dangerous person in the world. First, he’s a rich, white male who has run a generally conservative administration. Second, he’s impulsive and quick to take offense. And lastly, he’s genuinely making progress at taking down the Swamp.
However, Trump’s progress shows just how deep the Swamp is -- because no matter how much he does, there’s always another monster crawling out.
Some of the monsters are familiar. Republican Oklahoma senator James Lankford has followed in his predecessor’s footsteps by releasing an annual report on examples of inefficient and wasteful spending in the federal government.
While off duty in Okinawa, Marine Major William Easter dove into a sea with 10-foot swells to rescue a pregnant woman who had been swept away by unexpected bad weather combined with a riptide. Easter described his decision to rescue her as a “moral obligation” that he was unable to resist. By doing so, he revealed one of the mysteries of the human condition, which is one person’s decision to risk, or even sacrifice his life, for a stranger.
There is no Darwinian reason for a person to risk his or her life to save a stranger.
The mainstream media has been doing its level best to claim that new intelligence reports about Russian meddling in the U.S. election, helping Bernie Sanders, is really all about Russia sowing chaos, or else getting Bernie up there on the Democrat slot to re-elect Trump. It's always Trump who's the real heart of these Russian affections, see, and Bernie is just a means.
It's rubbish.
The Russians have always had Sanders at a first-draft choice for president, not just in this election but in the 2016 election, too. It was obvious enough from three things:
One, the content of the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee's emails. What did those expose?
On Super Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg will probably come in third in the Texas primary. He will lose to Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden.
Bloomberg is doing something else in Texas or spending money on gun control:
Everytown for Gun Safety, a Michael Bloomberg-backed group that pushes for expanded background checks, red flag laws and other measures, is plotting what its political director calls an “unprecedented financial and grassroots effort” to flip the Texas House, defend vulnerable freshmen Democrats in Congress and help Democrats take congressional seats in the suburbs. A memo detailing the plan, the group’s biggest state investment to date,
On Tuesday, news broke that the Queen had banned Prince Harry and Meghan Markle from marketing the “Sussex Royal” brand. Friday morning, another story broke, saying that Meghan was whining about this because she and Harry had already invested money in selling themselves. Also on Friday, the Queen won and Meghan backed down.
Queen Elizabeth comes from a generation that holds that you can’t eat your cake and have it. In other words, when you make choices, you have to take both the benefit and the burden of that choice. Meghan Markle, on the other hand, is a child of the Veruca Salt generation.
Former National Security Advisor John Bolton admitted Wednesday that his testimony in President Donald Trump’s recent impeachment proceedings involving Ukraine would have had no impact on the trial’s outcome even after sections of his upcoming book leaked attempting to convict the president in its final days.
“People can argue about what I should have said and what I should have done,” Bolton said at Vanderbilt University Wednesday night during a forum with his predecessor Susan Rice, according to ABC News. “I will bet you a dollar right here and now my testimony would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome.”
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said during a CNN town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday evening that under his presidential administration nobody would be deported during his first 100 days in office. The former vice president also ruled out deporting illegal aliens for crimes committed in other countries, which would make the United States a sanctuary for criminals all over the world.
"Nobody, and some of you are going to get mad at me with this, but nobody is going to be deported in my first 100 days until we get through the part where we find out the only rationale for deportation
An Indiana couple has been arrested for driving two teenage boys on bikes off the road while shouting threats at them in July. Kyren Gregory Perry-Jones, 23, and Cailyn Marie Smith, 18, were arrested after evidence of the attack on the boys, who are twins, was posted to Snapchat. “Y’all scared, just like your president … America is not great, (expletive),” Smith could allegedly be heard saying on a Snapchat video obtained by police, according to a report from NWI. Perry-Jones was also heard asking one of the boys if he was a Trump fan in the video, which the boy responded that he was.
President Donald Trump has named Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, as the new acting director of national intelligence, and now the anti-Trumping faction is going nuts, claiming Grenell does not possess the necessary requirements to successfully serve in the position.
Hmm. But Leon Panetta, ex-CIA chief, did?
In 2009, Barack Obama picked Panetta, the politician-with-no-intel experience, to head the Central Intelligence Agency. There was some outcry from even Democrats.
This nation desperately needs a change in course. For all the metrics that suggest the United States is on the right track — economy booming, crime falling — all is not well. Our international stature is declining, our gap between rich and poor is widening, our respect for the rule of law and individual rights is under siege, our sacred obligations to give future generations a chance at the American dream and to defend the planet against the ravages of climate change are all but evaporating.
Pervading all of these dispiriting realities are the words and actions of a 45th president who has exploited and inflamed our divisions
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that medical doctors should be able to prescribe housing in the same way they prescribe medication to sick people Wednesday during his 2020 State of the State Address.
“Health care and housing can no longer be divorced. After all, what’s more fundamental to a person’s well-being than a roof over their head?” Newsom asked during the address. “Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin and antibiotics.” The crowd erupted in applause.
Fake News from Neil Cavuto
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Anti-Trump Fox News analyst Neil Cavuto, who often demonstrates the difference between being glib and being articulate, says he doesn’t work for Donald Trump. Cavuto took umbrage at Trump’s reaction to an A.B. Stoddard interview with Cavuto in which she falsely stated, in defending Michael Bloomberg’s Hindenburgesque Nevada debate performance, that Trump consistently lost his 2016 debates with “cringewortthy” and “disastrous” performances. None of what she said was accurate, Cavuto didn’t call her on it, later agreeing with her, and when Trump called both on it during his Colorado rally, Cavuto got righteously indignant in a statement what could have been an MSNBC audition tape...
Whither Roger Stone?
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When O. J. Simpson was arrested following his notorious slow-speed Bronco chase, a local television news reporter interviewed the late and legendary A. Charles “Chuck” Peruto Sr., the dean of Philadelphia’s criminal defense bar. After summarizing the overwhelming mountain of incriminating evidence against Simpson, the reporter asked counsel how he would go about defending the case.
Chuck, a charming rogue and experienced courtroom lawyer, breezily brushed aside the damning evidence and confidently predicted that Simpson would be acquitted of all charges. When the astonished reporter asked him to explain, Chuck laughed and said, “Just look at the videotape of the Bronco chase and all those people hanging off the freeway
It’s been said that once a man makes bishop in the church or general in the army he never again eats a bad meal — nor will he ever be contradicted to his face.
This probably goes for billionaires, too — because if there was one crystal-clear takeaway from Wednesday’s debate, it’s that nobody’s been giving Mike Bloomberg any guff for a very long time.
He got a face-full in Vegas; he was startled by it, he was irritated by it, he didn’t handle it well — and now the questions are: Can he recover a credible debate form? Did he ever have one?
“I love guy,” said a supporter of President Donald Trump to Breitbart News after being called onstage during the president’s “Keep America Great” campaign rally in Las Vegas, NV, on Friday. “We just shook the hand of the most popular man in the world,” said Megan Heaps, wearing a hat with the message, “TRUMP 2020,” and a red, white, and blue “Make America Great Again” hoodie. “How else would you feel?” asked Heaps. “He’s a superhero.” A nearby rally-goer interjected, “Greatest president of all time!”
Trump Rallygoers in Phoenix: 18 Percent
Were Democrats and About a Quarter
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Were Democrats and About a Quarter
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The Trump 2020 campaign is beginning to look a lot like the 2016 campaign, where crossover Democratic votes gave Trump several key states, including Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. At the president's rally in Phoenix Wednesday night, they were getting in line for tickets 48 hours before the event at Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Campaign manager Brad Pascale gives a breakdown of the crowd. (Tweet) Washington Examiner: The latest rally numbers are indicative of an overall trend at Trump events, where a sizable chunk of the audience consists of registered Democrats, independents, or 2016 nonvoters.
President Trump held another ‘Keep America Great’ rally in Las Vegas on Friday. The event came just a day before Democrats are expected to hold their caucus in Nevada.The president stated he will defeat his Democrat opponents in a “big beautiful landslide” and touted his successes, including a rebuilt military, a booming economy and a plummeting poverty rate. “They have a big election tomorrow, we’ve already won the state,” he said. “This November, we’re going to defeat the radical socialist Democrats, and we are going to win Nevada in a big beautiful landslide.” (Tweet)
‘Everyone on both sides of the media class — stop using my deceased father for political points and cheap shots,’ Meghan McCain declared on Twitter this week. ‘It is painful. It is traumatizing. And it is perverted. Let us all grieve and try and move on in peace!’
Well, as much as everyone would love to move on — it’s been nearly two years, after all — Meghan won’t let us.
A daughter’s love is a beautiful thing, and losing a father is always a terrible, traumatic event, even in your thirties. It’s decidedly more difficult when your father was a public figure, as people who never knew him
A former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent known for his lavish lifestyle was arrested Friday on charges of conspiring to launder money for the same Colombian drug cartel he was supposed to be investigating.
Authorities arrested Jose Irizarry and his wife at their home near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Federal prosecutors say in a 19-count indictment that the 49-year-old used "his position and his special access to information” to launder millions in drug profits.
They both posted $10,000 bail and were released.
“It’s a black eye for the DEA to have one of its own engaged in such a high level of corruption," said Mike Vigil,
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist Democrat from New York, promised on Thursday that a “big announcement” was coming on Friday, and the announcement appears to be the launching of a new PAC to build a progressive majority in Congress.The term “progressive” having become code for socialism from hard-left zealots like AOC. Ocasio-Cortez announced an initial list of endorsements for The Courage to Change PAC on Twitter, and according to the list, it appears that white males need not apply. (Tweet) In a subsequent tweet, she would add: “It’s time to elect a progressive majority
Lawyers for late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s $600 million U.S. Virgin Islands estate said liens imposed by the local attorney general have left them unable to pay the estate's bills, employees at his various properties or for legal defense from his accusers, according to a filing made public Friday.
Co-executors Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn's lawyers wrote several payments, including for electricity and pest control, that have been returned for “insufficient funds” and asked the Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, which imposed the criminal-activity liens, to strike them down or at least allow the executors to pay for the estate's administration, The Miami Herald reported.
A recurring Biden campaign story about being
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has a pretty good tale to share — but it may be a little tall. Biden, who is running for president, has been spicing up his recent campaign stump speeches with a story of how he was arrested while in South Africa trying to see Nelson Mandela, The New York Times reports. But that recollection of events has only recently come to light, and it was reportedly omitted from Biden's 2007 memoir that detailed his escapades in the country around that time. During recent campaign speeches, Biden says he "had the great honor" of meeting Mandela