Posts on Saturday, February 29, 2020
Tom Steyer, the California activist billionaire who has largely been a nonfactor in the Democratic primary campaign, dropped out of the race on Saturday night.
Steyer's departure came after a disappointing finish in the South Carolina Democratic primary. With 70 percent of the vote in, Steyer had just 11.5 percent of the vote — despite spending millions of dollars on campaigning there.
"There’s no question today that this campaign, we were disappointed with where we came out," Steyer told supporters in Columbia, S.C.
"But I said if I didn’t see a path to winning that I'd suspend my campaign, and honestly I can't see a path where I can win the presidency."
Democratic candidate Joe Biden is failing. The gaffe train is moving a mile a minute and only seems to be picking up steam. During a campaign stop in South Carolina on Friday, the former VP told a crowd of supporters that he was looking forward to appointing the first African American woman to the U.S. Senate.
"Well, I'm looking forward to appointing the first African American woman to the United States Senate," Biden said as the crowd erupted in cheers. Biden supporters must be so used to the candidate's gaffes by now that they are no longer fazed by them.
Billionaire activist Tom Steyer, who poured millions of dollars into his Democratic presidential campaign, ended his bid tonight after a disappointing finish in the South Carolina primary. After spending nearly $24 million on television advertising in the state, Steyer finished behind Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, landing him in third on Saturday night. The 62-year-old said after the dismal results rolled in: 'Honestly, I can't see a path where I can win the presidency.' 'The people who have endorsed me have stood up in a very red state where I have seen things that have broken my heart.
Bernie Sanders is on the go all the time -- which seems to have given him a momentary case of a campaign brain fart as he accidentally boarded the wrong jet.
The Democratic front-runner was spotted Saturday making his way off of a private Gulfstream between campaign stops in South Carolina and Massachusetts -- the latter being where he held a rally at Boston Common ahead of Super Tuesday.
Fact is ... the S.C. primary looks like it's gonna go to Joe Biden, as he's well ahead of everyone else in the latest polls. Looks like Bernie's cutting his losses and moving on.
As for this little mix-up here, it's kinda funny.
President Donald Trump thrilled CPAC audiences imitating “Mini” Mike Bloomberg at the podium Saturday.The crowd roared with delight as Trump squatted at the podium to appear like the shorter former New York City Mayor as he recapped the Democrat debate.“Boy, did Pocahontas destroy him, I’ll tell you,” Trump said.The president mocked Bloomberg for spending historic levels of his own money on ads and then dropping in the polls.“It just shows you can’t buy an election,” he said. “I mean, it just — there’s a point at which people say, you gotta bring the goods a little bit too. You gotta bring the goods.”Trump mocked Bloomberg’s staff,
Morning Consult did an extensive, in-depth poll looking at trust, and it found that trust in President Trump is more than twice that of the news media.The question is, Do you trust X-Brand “a lot to do the right thing.”The media ranked a dismal 16 out of 20, with just eight percent saying they trust media “a lot to do the right thing.”Trump landed right in the middle of the pile in 12th place, as 20 percent said they trust him “a lot to do the right thing,” which more than doubles the media.No brand was able to inch over 50 percent.
Alice Johnson, the woman who had her prison sentence commuted by President Donald Trump in 2018, spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday.“My life has been totally changed by President Trump,” she said, thanking the president for realizing her plight and acting to free her.CPAC attendees were familiar with Johnson after she was featured in a Trump campaign Super Bowl ad in 2020, and his State of the Union speech, but her appearance at the conservative conference allowed her to share the details of her story. (Video)
(Video) A century before cats dominated YouTube, they were the subject of one very adoring photographer. Recently, a family member reached out to YouTuber Mathieu Stern with a fun fact: There was possibly a time capsule hidden in his old family home.
The photography experiment-focused video-maker looked into it, and sure enough discovered a box he estimates dates to roughly 1900, based on its contents — which included 120-year-old glass-plate negatives of cat photos.“I then decided to develop them using one of the oldest ways to make solar prints: cyanotype,” he writes in a blog post.
Suspect arrested in connection to
viral video of assault and robbery
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viral video of assault and robbery
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San Francisco—The San Francisco police confirmed that an arrest has been made in connection to an assault and robbery that went viral after it was caught on camera. The video shows an Asian man, 68, being robbed and assaulted with a stick by a black man while collecting cans in the Bayview neighborhood as onlookers taunted him. A person recording the incident, identified as 20-year-old Dwayne Grayson, ridiculed the victim by telling him to “go get your cans,” as the man was chased again as he tried to retrieve the shopping cart. At one point, you can hear Grayson say “I hate Asians.”
A major Republican donor has purchased a stake in Twitter and is reportedly seeking to oust its chief executive, Jack Dorsey.
Bloomberg News first reported that Elliott Management has taken a “sizable stake” and “and plans to push for changes at the social media company, including replacing Dorsey”.
Paul Singer, the billionaire founder of Elliott Management, is a Republican mega-donor who opposed Donald Trump during the real-estate magnate’s run for the presidential nomination but has since come onside.
"Let's call it Trumpvirus," urged a New York Times opinion writer conspiratorially. Nancy Pelosi groused that President Trump waited too long to attack the coronavirus (COVID-19) and then impetuously declared he couldn't have leftover and unspent Ebola virus money to fight it, while Senator Chuck Schumer looked down his nose and over his glasses to intone that it was the end of the world and the president hadn't spent enough money to stop the scourge. Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg have both been called out for politicizing the virus. By their lights, Trump's doing it all wrong. They won't be able to tell you why,
'They are going to cheat': Trump campaign
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manager says Democrats will try to steal
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President Trump's campaign manager thinks that Democrats will fight dirty in the race to the White House this year.“They are going to cheat,” Brad Parscale told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, on Friday. "Trust me, I saw what they did in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. They are not going to wake up in 2020 and say, 'Let's play fair now.' " (Snip) The campaign expects to have an email list that is 50 million contacts deep by November, and 2 million trained volunteers — a massive jump from the 16,000 trained volunteers it had in 2016.
The fall of the Soviet Union is sometimes remembered as Nov. 9, 1989, the day the Berlin Wall symbolically collapsed.(Snip)The fall of the barrier that scarred Germany was indeed a watershed in the collapse of the Soviet Empire, yet one could argue the true death knell came two months before at a small grocery store in Clear Lake, Texas.(Snip)On Sept. 16, 1989, Boris Yeltsin was a newly elected member of the Soviet Parliament visiting the United States. Following a scheduled visit to Johnson Space Center, Yeltsin and a small entourage made an unscheduled stop at a Randalls grocery store in Clear Lake, a suburb of Houston.
Joseph Coulombe, a visionary who used cultural trends and innate retail instincts to create the popular grocery store chain Trader Joe's, died at the age of 89 in his Pasadena, California, home. Coulombe's son, also named Joe, confirmed that his father died Friday after battling a long illness and receiving hospice care. 'We're going to miss him a lot,' Joe, who lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife, told the Orange County Register. 'I think people are going to remember the wonderful Trader Joe's concept he put in place, and especially his treatment of his employees. He really cared about them.' Joe remembers his father as an impressive businessman
Chicago—Imagine being so close to Martin Luther King Jr. as he gives one of the world’s most famous speeches that you notice the creases in his face and then realize the late civil rights leader is looking you square in the eye. That’s the intense personal moment organizers are striving for with a one-of-a-kind virtual reality exhibit opening Friday at Chicago’s DuSable Museum of African American History. Called “The March,” it captures the 1963 March on Washington during which King delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” address. “The speech is so well known and the ways people are used to seeing
President Trump held a press conference at the White House with Vice President Mike Pence and top medical officials after the US suffered its first death by the coronavirus.
During the questioning a liberal reporter asked President Trump about muzzling Dr. Fauci. This was reported widely by the liberal media. After denying the claims President Trump then allowed Dr. Fauci to speak for himself. Reporter: There were reports that he was being muzzled. Can you tell us this widely respected expert Dr. Fauci will have every opportunity to tell us the truth. President Trump: Well, that’s a very dishonest question because he has had
Health officials in Washington state said on Saturday a coronavirus patient has died.
The death is the first from coronavirus illness COVID-19 in the United States. "It is a sad day in our state as we learn that a Washingtonian has died from COVID-19. Our hearts go out to his family and friends. We will continue to work toward a day where no one dies from this virus,” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement. President Donald Trump said during a press conference Saturday afternoon the person who died was in their late 50s and was "medically high-risk."
New York will ban single-use plastic bags in stores starting March 1.The state’s ban, which was passed last year by the state legislature, will impact both grocery and department stores. New York is the third state to introduce a plastic bag ban, joining California and Oregon, as a way to curb the amount of plastic going to landfills.Instead of receiving a plastic bag at the checkout counter, customers will have to provide their own reusable bags or take a paper bag from the store with a five-cent tax. Customers using food stamps will be exempt from the bag tax.“If you have a small purchase,
Entrepreneurs in Australia have an ambitious new plan they claim could provide enough electricity to replace 20 percent of the existing grid of Singapore. The idea is to pipe renewable solar energy through an undersea cable from Australia’s largely empty Northern Territory.
If this sounds wild, it’s modeled after existing technology that’s already in use in similar contexts. The high voltage direct current (HVDC) cable, in its extra-long format, is in use in China and in Europe as part of those countries’ existing power grids. Europe’s system carries wind power among other sources, and combining as much capacity as possible into as few low-loss cables
The Time-Warp Socialist
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Socialism these days is like the Hydra of lore: for every head chopped off, the monster regrows two. One cannot escape this metaphor when watching Bernie Sanders’s seemingly irresistible progress toward the Democratic presidential nomination. He defines himself as a socialist and clearly meets the criteria, starting with the historical models that he cites. The European social-democratic template of the 1960s, as achieved in the Scandinavian countries (the so-called Swedish model) and in France and Germany, is Sanders’s blueprint for the United States. Nostalgia likely inspires Sanders, at least to some degree—social democracy was at its peak when he was young.
Journalist Laura Bassett penned a sweeping indictment of MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews Friday, claiming that he routinely employed sexist language and even discussed the prospect of falling in love with her.
In a column for GQ, Bassett said Matthew's conduct "undermined my ability to do my job well."
Bassett's claims came after she published an op-ed describing inappropriate comments from an unnamed broadcast journalist. That journalist was Matthews, Bassett said, but she was afraid to publicly accuse him at the time.
"In 2017, I wrote about a cable news host being gross and inappropriate with me. I was afraid to name him at the time," she tweeted on Friday. "I'm not anymore;
Health officials in Washington confirmed Saturday that one person has died from coronavirus, marking the first disease-related death in the U.S. Seattle and King County Public Health officials issued a vague media advisory announcing the first COVID-19 death in the U.S., adding that there was an undisclosed number of new cases as well. News of the death comes on the heels of three new cases in California, Oregon and Washington in which the patients were infected by unknown means. They had not recently traveled overseas or had come into contact with anyone who had.
(Re-)launching Russiagate 2020
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On the heels of their impeachment debacle, somehow it seemed a propitious time for the Left to launch its sequel—Russiagate 2020: This Time We Get Him—No, Really!
The “intelligence community” (i.e., one person in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) leapt to a conclusion; and, through the magic of leaks, the collusion media, anonymous former Obama officials and their ilk, and Russiagate carnival barkers such as Senator Chris Murphy (D-Iran . . . sorry, Connecticut) leapt into the fray and shilled for their spot in the slimelight: (Snip) That Murphy and his neo-McCarthyite cohorts are partisan poltroons is settled political science; nevertheless, let us quickly dispense with his
One person in King County has died due to a novel coronavirus infection, Public Health – Seattle & King County officials announced Saturday morning. It is the first death attributed to the virus in the United States.
“It is a sad day in our state as we learn that a Washingtonian has died from COVID-19,” Gov. Jay Inslee said in a statement. “Our hearts go out to his family and friends. We will continue to work toward a day where no one dies from this virus.”
The announcement followed late-breaking news Friday night of two new cases in King and Snohomish counties.
More Commie Than Bernie
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Mayor Pete Buttigieg is even more thoroughly a Communist than Bernie Sanders. That this strikes the reader as nonsense testifies to the media’s laziness, and, yes, illiteracy.
More likely than not, Pete’s politics follow the script of Antonio Gramsci, the centerpiece of whose teaching is how to exercise Communist hegemony more firmly than Lenin and Stalin. In fact, young Pete assisted his father, Notre Dame English professor Joseph Buttigieg, president of the International Gramsci Society, in editing the English translation of Gramsci’s works—writings about which it is impossible to be neutral.
Far from neutral, the elder Buttigieg was among the world’s biggest fans of that most totalitarian of totalitarian theorists
With Bernie Sanders’s relentless rise, the specter of Jeremy Corbyn now hangs over the Democratic race. At times, it’s uncanny how similar the two left-populist leaders are. An outlier long at odds with his party’s establishment? Check. A legislator with decades of voting who has almost no legislation to call his own? Yep. A 70-something beloved by 20-somethings? Check. An insurgent movement with cultish overtones that took over the party from more moderate figures? Yes. A more left-wing platform than any in his party’s history? Uh-huh. A man with many, many embarrassing connections in the past with hard-left figures across the globe? Oh yeah. Someone who hasn’t changed his mind
Rep. Adam Schiff’s Republican challenger accused the Democrat on Friday of ignoring the homelessness crisis in his California district.
“He’s done nothing, or virtually nothing, for our district,” Eric Early, who announced his candidacy to represent California’s 28th Congressional District in July, told Fox News. “Certainly not a darn thing for homelessness.”
“It’s a mess out here, it’s terrible,” he added.
Early, a Los Angeles attorney, made his comments about Schiff while walking through parts of Echo Park and Hollywood, meeting with homeless people and listening to their stories about their situations.
Schiff’s team responded to the criticism by linking Early to President Trump.
Last month, radical leftists held their annual Women’s March in Washington. They claim the Trump administration doesn’t represent women, but the facts indicate otherwise. In reality, women have benefited from huge gains, financial and otherwise, during the past three years. Take the most important issue for families: The economy. Our nation has created more than 7 million jobs since the 2016 election — and women have filled over half, or more than 4 million, of those vacancies. The unemployment rate for women stands at a minuscule 3.2%, and last September reached its lowest level since 1953. Text added by Staff. *
The persistence of mental health hardships among gay and bisexual men, which endure even as LGBTQ people gain greater acceptance and civil rights, can be explained at least in part by the corrosive effects of status consciousness, competitiveness and racism within the gay community itself. Those are the striking and potentially controversial findings of a study published in January in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that may broaden appreciation of the unique stressors faced by gay and bisexual men. Gay and lesbian people have a more than fourfold higher rate of suicide than the general population. Among transgender people, the gulf is even wider.
Ukrainian investigators have begun an inquiry into then-Vice President Joe Biden over allegations that he pressured officials into firing a top prosecutor in 2016.A case revolving around Biden, now a Democratic candidate for president, was opened by the State Bureau of Investigations on a court order following a January appeal for action by Viktor Shokin, the dismissed prosecutor general's lawyer, Oleksandr Teleshetsky, told the Washington Post.“They need to investigate this. They have no other alternative. They are required to do this by the decision of the court. If they don't, then they violate a whole string of procedural norms,”
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Georgette Mayo, who is African American, doesn't like Pete Buttigieg. "I don't trust him," said Mayo, an archivist at the College of Charleston, who has narrowed her choices in Saturday's Democratic primary to Tom Steyer and Elizabeth Warren. "In regards to him as mayor in South Bend, and the friction that there was with the police chief — he just hasn't made up for that," she said. "To me, he's just not even a consideration." Mayo is among the many black voters in South Carolina who — citing Buttigieg's mixed record on race when he was a mayor in Indiana
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) received a standing ovation in Denver on Friday night over his vote to convict President Trump for abuse of power.Romney earlier this month became the first senator in history to vote to convict a president in their same party. The senator traveled to Colorado on Friday for a discussion on the state of the world's democracies at the University of Denver, according to The Denver Post. The discussion held at the university's School of International Studies was hosted by the Alliance of Democracies Foundation, a non-profit established by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former prime minister of Denmark.
President Trump’s pace car lap around the Daytona 500 track might as well have been a victory lap. (Snip)Embedded establishment Republicans who may have not immediately warmed to candidate Trump now have adopted him as though they supported him all along. Good politicians know how to stick their fingers in the air and judge the prevailing winds, and teaming with Trump and this economy is a winning strategy for them.
These “swamp” Republicans have even figured out a way to hide their terrible voting records and associations with questionable lobbyists in plain sight. (Snip)
Case in point: my Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas).
CBS is going to pay Tony Romo a stunning amount of money to commentate NFL games.Romo, who might be the most popular commentator on TV, has agreed to a $17 million annual salary with CBS, according to Andrew Marchand. His total deal could be worth up to $100 million. He is now the highest paid commentator in the history of football. (Photo) It’s pretty wild how successful Romo has been off of the field. He was a damn good quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, but he’s become a superstar as commentator.
Myrtle Beach (United States) - For centuries, South Carolina's Charleston was the largest port of entry for the transatlantic slave trade. Now, a billionaire activist named Tom Steyer is shaking up the state's Democratic primary by advocating slavery reparations for African Americans. A California financier turned philanthropist and environmental campaigner, Steyer has poured tens of millions of dollars into the state ahead of Saturday's vote -- with a single-minded focus on the black voters who make up 60 percent of its Democratic electorate. How South Carolina's African Americans vote in the White House primaries is traditionally a key indicator of which contender
Democrat Tom Steyer proved Friday night that he would dance - jiggle, grind and gyrate for votes. The billionaire candidate had invited rapper Juvenile to appear at his rally on South Carolina primary eve at a college campus in Columbia. And he joined the rapper for a spirited rendition of 'Back That Azz Up' onstage. Steyer grabbed the mic, bent his knees and stuck out his behind to the rhythm of the 1999 hit, that taught a generation of how to 'drop it like it's hot.'(Snip) The rally was held at Allen University, a private, historically black university in South Carolina's state capital.
U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., is scheduled to speak Saturday in Missouri at the annual gala of the state’s chapter of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), according to the group’s website. The event will be held at the Crowne Plaza St. Louis Airport Hotel in Bridgeton, northwest of St. Louis. AMP is considered an anti-Israel group that has expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Jewish State, the Jewish News Syndicate reported. Tlaib, 43, a native of Detroit, is a daughter of Palestinian immigrants who became the first Palestinian-American woman elected to Congress in November
Years and millions of dollars in the making, a draft federal report on hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia Basin will not settle the decadeslong fight over saving imperiled salmon in the Columbia and Snake rivers.
Federal agencies found that taking out the dams would “provide a long-term benefit to species that spawn or rear in the mainstem Snake River habitats,” but also would have adverse impacts, including increased power costs, a rise in greenhouse gases and reduced reliability of the electric grid.
The report rejects the idea of removing the dams to save endangered or threatened salmon.
Bernie Sanders got himself into hot water with Florida's voters by praising Cuba's 'literacy programs,' which were ugly coercive propaganda efforts for those who experienced them.
It's far from the only thing he's praised about the Castroite communist hellhole, too. According to the New York Times:
MIAMI — In the spring of 1989, as the outgoing mayor of Burlington, Vt., Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane, traveled to Cuba on an eight-day trip, with the hopes of meeting the Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro.
Americans do not consider the leading contenders for the Democrat presidential nomination to be very religious, reveals a new survey from the Pew Research Center.
Asked how they view the religiosity of four of the top contenders — Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren — fewer than ten percent said they see any of these as “very religious,” Pew found.
Just three percent said that Elizabeth Warren is very religious, while four percent said the same of Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg (despite the latter’s frequent Bible quoting). The largest portion (nine percent) of Americans view Joe Biden as very religious.
President Donald Trump is locked in a tough reelection battle, yet the Republicans looking to succeed him are already circling.
They’re visiting early primary states, reaching out to major donors, and — in one instance — even running commercials in Iowa. But perhaps the most overt display of ambition is on display this week here at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a rite of passage for White House aspirants eager to audition before thousands of activists whose support can be critical down the line.
Hollywood celebrities say some dumb things, but we’d like to nominate this for dumbest all-time. Patricia Arquette, who describes herself on her Twitter page as “actress — activist — troublemaker,” is calling for Americans to conduct a one-day economic shutdown in order to damage the U.S. economy and hurt President Trump.The C-list actress posted a message to Instagram on Thursday to promote an event March 2. She told her 146,000 followers not to make any purchases for a 24-hour period.
‘New hoax,’ Trump says; Dems were too
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busy with impeachment as he was
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President Donald Trump and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney both believe that the outrage over coronavirus being directed at the administration by both congressional Democrats and their glaringly partisan media allies is part of yet another “hoax” designed solely to hurt the president.
“Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” Trump bluntly said during a re-election campaign rally Friday in Charleston, South Carolina, describing how Democrats are using every opportunity to attack him and his administration over their coronavirus efforts.
The irony is rich, he added, given that they themselves “cannot even count the votes in Iowa.”
A survivor of the 2018 massacre on Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, and now enrolled at Harvard, student gun control activist David Hogg has become a sought-after speaker at colleges and universities, and the odds are off the chart that he’ll be given a prime-time slot at the Democratic National Convention in August. While I fully support his right to protest things he thinks are wrong, I respectfully disagree with his belief that school carnage will end if semi-automatic rifles are banned. When I was in high school in the early 1960s, there were no mass school shootings.
A 14-year-old boy who stepped in to halt an alleged domestic violence incident in Sydney yesterday has said he "did what any person should do". Police have commended the boy, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, for intervening after he saw a woman allegedly being punched in the face by a man near Riverstone railway station in Sydney's north-west about 3:20pm yesterday. The boy was travelling on a school bus and got off the bus and approached the man, who was at least 100 kilograms and 60 centimetres bigger than the boy. "I thought, 'That's not right, no-one should think that's right',
President Donald Trump held a White House roundtable on Thursday celebrating Black History Month, and there was a touching moment when the participants all gathered around the president and prayed.“With and for him,” CBS News White House Correspondent Mark Knoller said in a tweet: (Tweet) In what proved to be a telling rebuke of former President Barack Obama, one of the guests at the table, Jack Brewer, a former NFL player, joked with Trump that he was “the first black president.”“Mr. President, I don’t mean to interrupt, but I’ve got to say this because it’s Black History Month: man, you the first black president,” Brewer said.
KABUL/DOHA - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Qatar’s capital city, Doha on Saturday to witness the signing of a historic deal with Taliban insurgents in an effort to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan. (Photo) Pompeo arrived on a flight from Washington and was due to hold a meeting with the Qatari Emir before attending the signing ceremony.The deal paves the way for the United States to gradually withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. But there are doubts over whether it will lead to a lasting peace as it merely paves the way for talks between the Afghan sides that many expect could be much more complicated.
Everything you’ve heard about a Trump rally is true: It is a coming together of a broad swath of people who still believe in the Constitution and the promise of America. They see Trump as someone who shares their views and, having made America great, can keep it great.
If you’ve watched rally videos, you already know what makes them so special: It’s Trump himself. He is exactly as you see him on the screen -- a larger-than-life, uniquely American character, a showman who is nevertheless a person of tremendous substance and accomplishment. He's also a comedian with the perfect timing
Amid the partisanship, fear-mongering, and political jousting, what do Americans really need to know about Coronavirus -- which appears to be spreading significantly beyond its initial containment inside the United States? There are relatively few active steps people can take in preparation, though basic steps like frequent hand-washing are sensible. Here's your first piece of good news on this front, via the Wall Street Journal:
Public health experts advise staying calm and following the same precautions recommended for preventing flu or any other respiratory virus. Stick with the basics: Wash your hands, cover your coughs and sneezes, and stay at home from work
Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz sparred with New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over several unanswered science questions.
The spat began Thursday when Ocasio-Cortez criticized President Donald Trump for putting Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the task force responding to Coronavirus.(Snip for graphic) Cruz responded by asking Ocasio-Cortez, “As you are speaking as the oracle of science, tell us, what exactly is a Y chromosome?” (Snip for graphic) Ocasio-Cortez fired back, insulting Cruz and touting her own scientific prowess and resume.
It’s been several years since Puerto Rico was wrecked by successive hurricanes. Yet, as we recently found out, insufficient progress has been made toward normalcy because the territorial government is in worse shape than the infrastructure.
It’s a shame it took a natural disaster to expose endemic corruption going back years. Sweetheart deals between the politicians and the unions that put them in office have left America’s Caribbean jewel on the brink of bankruptcy. Congress stepped in near the end of the Obama administration with legislation leading to the appointment of an independent financial oversight board authorized to restructure the debt owed to the island’s creditors.
Before Sonia Sotomayor, the “wise Latina” as she once referred to herself, was nominated by President Barack Hussein Obama in May 2009 and confirmed as Supreme Court justice that August, her legal expertise and judgment were being questioned by those noting her high reversal rate by the court she was being elevated to:
Three of the five majority opinions written by Judge Sotomayor for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals and reviewed by the Supreme Court were reversed, providing a potent line of attack raised by opponents
CHARLESTON, S.C. — South Carolina doesn’t get the attention its northern neighbors do. Fourth in the primary states, it lacks the excitement of the opening guns of Iowa and New Hampshire (although Fort Sumter is just across the bay). But pay attention, because the results of its Saturday election will play a deciding role in the future of the Democratic Party.
Former Vice President Joe Biden is strongest down here. We knew that even before his national position became precarious. Name-recognition, moderate Democrats, and popularity with black voters combine to place him an average of 12 points ahead of the next guy as of Friday morning.
Corona beer isn't making any changes to its advertising despite the name's unfortunate similarity to the deadly coronavirus.
Constellation Brands, which brews several variations of the popular lager, said in a statement that its customers "understand there is no link between the virus and our business."
"Sales of Corona remain very strong and we appreciate the continued support from our fans," Constellation Brands spokesperson Stephanie McGuane told CNN Business. "Our advertising with Corona is consistent with the campaign we have been running for the last 30 years and is based off strong consumer sentiment."
Bernie’s own private Denmark
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Whenever Bernie Sanders’s socialism comes up in the Democratic debates, he deflects criticism by saying he favors something along the lines of Denmark’s model. Sanders’s debate rivals almost invariably let this answer pass. (I think Pete Buttigieg tried to take it on in the last debate but couldn’t get the floor.)
In reality, the policies Sanders advocates bear little resemblance to those of Denmark and other Scandinavian countries today. They do resemble many of the policies these countries tried 50 years ago. However, these policies failed and were discarded.
The Vermont socialist is getting away with false advertising, including bait and switch.
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo spoke to the attendees of CPAC Friday afternoon. He reported that he had just come from the Oval Office with President Trump.
“Can anyone in this room remember a better time to be an American conservative?” he asked the crowd. “We’re safer than ever, our economy is more prosperous than ever, and President Trump will not stop winning.” The secretary of State then detailed recent victories in the war on terror, including the killings of several high-profile terrorists. “Can we all agree the world is a better place” because these people are gone? he asked,
A group of predominantly black scholars, journalists, entrepreneurs, clergy, and community leaders, led by Robert Woodson Sr., a respected anti-poverty activist, have launched “1776 Unites” to counter the false and harmful narrative promoted by the New York Times’ “1619 Project.”
The Times rolled out its woke narrative of America the racist nation as a Sunday magazine in August. Then it swiftly disseminated the collection of essays, along with teacher guides, lesson plans, and other educational aids, to thousands of classrooms nationwide, according to the Pulitzer Center, which crafted the curricular materials.
Woodson and his colleagues are very concerned about the “lethal” impact of this race grievance ideology on children
Oregon coronavirus patient is
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grade-school employee; school closed
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An elementary school in Oregon will remain closed through Wednesday after an employee became the first presumptive case of coronavirus in the state, the Lake Oswego School District confirmed on its website.
The district said its 430-student Forest Hills Elementary School in Lake Oswego, just south of Portland, will be closed so it can be deep-cleaned and so students and staff, who the Oregon Health Authority said may have been exposed to the virus, can be contacted by school officials, FOX 12 of Oregon reported.
"I was honestly both alarmed and surprised. I mean, you hear things like that on the news, but you don’t expect
Fox News medical correspondent Dr. Marc Seigel criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a bunch of alarmists” Friday for raising their assessment of the global coronavirus risk from “high” to “very high.”
A “very high” global risk assessment is the most serious assessment in the WHO's new four-stage alert system. The head of the organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, cited the "continued increase in the number of cases and the number of affected countries" in raising the risk level.
“They always overstate the problem and they always make it seem like the world is going to end,” Seigel told “The Five," noting that the WHO is part of the United Nations.
On Monday, Alberta's top court declared the federal carbon tax unconstitutional. On Wednesday, the province's justice minister demanded that the federal government remove the levy and reimburse what Albertans have already paid. On Friday, the federal government responded: See you in court. "The Supreme Court will determine if a federal price on carbon pollution is constitutional, a decision that will answer this important question for our country as a whole," Federal Justice Minister David Lametti wrote to Alberta Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer, in a letter obtained by CBC News. "Our government is confident that the price on carbon pollution is within federal jurisdiction," Lametti added.
An editorial published Friday in the New England Journal of Medicine speculated that the coronavirus currently causing panic in world markets could turn out no worse than “a severe seasonal influenza” in terms of mortality.Citing an analysis of the available data from the outbreak in China, the authors note that there have been zero cases among children younger than 15; and that the fatality rate is 2% at most, and could be “considerably less than 1%.”Those who have died have been elderly or were already suffering from another illness — as with ordinary flu. The underlying data suggest that the symptoms varies, and fewer than
White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said Friday that socialism worried him more than the coronavirus when it came to the economy.“The virus is not going to sink the American economy,” he said. “What is, or could, sink the American economy is the socialism coming from our friends on the other side of the aisle.”Kudlow spoke about the economy with Ivanka Trump at CPAC as the stock market continued to lose value — down ten percent from its previous high. “Right now everyone is focused on the coronavirus and I was on the air this morning suggesting that the world was not coming to an end,” he said.