Posts on Sunday, March 1, 2020
Meghan Markle is said to have been snubbed by Disney for being a "controversial figure," following reports her agent was finding her a Hollywood role with the film company.
The Duchess of Sussex, 38, is believed to be trying to get herself back into acting as she and husband Prince Harry start their new life, after they stepped down from royal duties.
Responding to speculation, an unnamed film executive has revealed there are "limited plans" for Meghan to secure a big role - after she allegedly told her agent to find her a superhero role with Marvel.
Hundreds of on-edge shoppers packed a Brooklyn Costco on Sunday to stock up on water, rice and other supplies amid fears of a coronavirus epidemic.
Panicked purchasers — many of them wearing face masks — jammed into the Sunset Park warehouse, eagerly grabbing cases of bottled water in case they’re forced to quarantine at home as the virus spreads in the US.
“The corona virus has them panicked… they think the world is coming to an end,” the store’s manager, who would only give his name as Jerry, told The Post.
“This is great for business though!” Jerry added, noting he expects the wholesaler could rake in over $1 million on Sunday.
An abortion case has taken center stage in the nation’s highest court. The Supreme Court will soon hear a challenge to a Louisiana abortion law, which could put restrictions on doctors who perform the procedure.The law requires doctors to have admitting privileges at hospitals within 30 miles of where they’re performing the abortion. Critics have argued it would leave the state with only one abortion clinic.They also worried this case could lead the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling.“What is also unique to this moment is state legislators’ willingness to express upfront why they are pushing these extreme measures,” said Fatima Goss Graves.
President Trump on Sunday night tweeted that Pete Buttigieg dropping out of the presidential race signals the “beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play.”“Pete Buttigieg is OUT,” Trump wrote following reports that the former South Bend, Indiana mayor decided to suspend his campaign.“All of his SuperTuesday votes will go to Sleepy Joe Biden.”Trump called Buttigieg’s decision, “Great timing.”“This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play – NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!”The president was alluding to 2016, when Sanders lost out on the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton.
Two Brooklyn College volleyball players who took a knee rather than stand during Yeshiva University’s playing of the the Israeli national anthem are now taking heat for “anti-Semitism.”
The duo kneeled as “Hatikvah” played before the team’s Feb. 23 game at Yeshiva University in Manhattan, stunning some fans.
“I saw these two guys kneeling and I honestly had to [do] a double take … and I was shocked, my heart felt ripped out of my chest,” Tehilla Teigman, a student at the university’s Stern College for Women told the Yeshiva University Observer, the student newspaper.
The student said she played three sports for Stern and had “never seen one person show any disrespect.”
Major Republican donor Paul Singer has just purchased a big stake in Twitter and is reportedly pondering changes, among them getting rid of the present CEO, Jack Dorsey, according to a report in The Guardian.Singer is the founder of Elliott Management and is a Trump supporter now, although he didn’t start out as one, originally he was not in favor of President Donald Trump.The president announced that Singer had become a supporter after a visit to the White House in February 2017. “He’s given us his total support and it’s all about unification.” Singer is reportedly unhappy with Dorsey’s leadership, including his split attention
Dozens of protesters advocating for the release of Myon Burrell took over the stage at a campaign rally for Sen. Amy Klobuchar on Sunday in St. Louis Park, and security officials called off the event after a more than 40 minute delay. (snip) Klobuchar was the Hennepin County Attorney when she prosecuted a 2002 case in which 16-year-old Myon Burrell was convicted of murder for the fatal shooting of 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards and sentenced to life in prison.
Newly uncovered evidence and inconsistencies in the case have spurred activists to call for Burrell's release and for Klobuchar to suspend her campaign.
There are Trillions At Stake….
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President Trump is disrupting decades of multinational financial interests who use the U.S. as a host for their ideological endeavors. President Trump is confronting multinational corporations and the global constructs of economic systems that were put in place to the detriment of the host (USA) ie. YOU. There are trillions at stake; it is all about the economics; all else is chaff and countermeasures. We are already familiar how China, Mexico and ASEAN nations export our raw materials (ore, coking coal, rare earth minerals etc.). The raw materials are used to manufacture goods overseas, the cheap durable goods are then shipped back into the U.S. for purchase.
Sanders Becoming President Would Damage
American Judaism More Than Anything
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American Judaism More Than Anything
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There is a tradition within Judaism that all actions in the world can be viewed through the lens of the Torah reading of the week. Based upon that premise, these columns can help us understand the politics of the world through a biblical lens.Bernie Sanders is causing a stir in the Jewish world. As the first Jew who has a real shot at getting a major party's presidential nomination, many of us are watching him closely. And it is beyond disturbing that this man, through his words and actions, seems not only to be betraying traditional Jewish values, but is de facto embracing anti-Semitism.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The owners of a Mexican restaurant in the Tucson area are fending off social media attacks after appearing in the VIP area at President Donald Trump's Phoenix campaign rally last week. The Arizona Daily Star reports that a Facebook group posted a screenshot image from the Feb. 19 rally that showed Sammy's Mexican Grill co-owner Betty Rivas standing behind Trump, donning a red cowboy hat emblazoned with "Latinos Love Trump." The newspaper says the post attracted more than 230 comments about the restaurant north of Tucson, almost all of them negative. Sammy’s co-owner Jorge Rivas said some
Buttigieg Drops Out…
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Pete Buttigieg, aka Alfred E. Newman, has suspended his bid for the Presidency. (Snip)The move to drop out makes sense within the most likely Club pattern to support Joe Biden. Buttigieg drops out now ahead of Super-Tuesday allowing less fragmentation of the vote. It will be interesting to see if he follows a Club plan to endorse Joe Biden because Buttigieg previously wrote high praise for Bernie Sanders.
Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar will stay-in to block Bernie’s delegate count in Massachusetts and Minnesota respectively (both states vote on Super Tuesday). Klobuchar will likely drop-out after Tuesday. Warren might follow.
KASTANIES, Greece - Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stone-throwing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday, as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Union's doorstep. Greece, which has tense relations with Turkey, accused Ankara of sending the migrants to the border post in an organized "onslaught" and said it would keep them out.
Turkey said on Thursday it would stop keeping hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers in its territory after an air strike on Idlib in neighboring Syria killed 33 Turkish soldiers. Convoys of people appeared heading toward the land and
SELMA, Alabama — Elizabeth Warren dismissed mounting pressure to drop out of the presidential race after she failed to place first or second in any of the four contests ahead of Super Tuesday. Warren, appearing at a presidential forum in Alabama on Sunday, was asked if she was listening to any of the pundits calling for her to end her White House bid. “I persist,” she said, laughing. The Massachusetts senator acknowledged Saturday night, after she won only 7.1% of support in South Carolina's primary, that the race hasn’t gone as well as she had hoped. But she also took a sharper tone against her 2020 Democratic rivals.
2020 watch: Biden’s Hollow Victory. “Bernie Sanders just lost his first primary of 2020” in South Carolina, Daniel McCarthy writes at Spectator USA. Yet Joe Biden’s victory in the Palmetto State won’t make him the clear front-runner, but only the “ ‘Stop Bernie!’ candidate.” The ex-veep, it seems, can only do well in states with large African-American populations — and thanks not to his “own skill and appeal as a politician,” but to his service with then-President Barack Obama. If Biden clinches the nomination on that basis — an unlikely prospect — it would be “tantamount to writing off the Democratic Party’s own youth activist wing”
Former Saturday Night Live writer and host John Mulaney made a joke Saturday on NBC, that compared President Donald Trump to Julius Caesar “a powerful maniac” who was assassinated by a group of senators.Mulaney said, “It is a Leap Year, as I said. Leap Year began in 45 B.C. under Julius Caesar. This is true, he started the Leap Year in order to correct the calendar, and we still do it to this day.Another thing that happened under Julius Caesar, he was such a powerful maniac that all the senators grabbed knives, and they stabbed him to death. That would be an interesting thing if we brought that back now.
Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the race according to a report by California-based Politico reporter Carla Marinucci. (Photo) The 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was mocked by President Trump for reminding him of the Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Neuman, eked out a victory in the Iowa caucus but has failed to win a primary race since, however he is in third place in the delegate race with 26 compared to 50 for former Vice President Joe Biden and the 58 for Sen. Bernie Sanders (VT) going in to Super Tuesday this week.
HAVANA, CUBA — A sense of relief washed over me as my documentary team huddled in the corner of the American Embassy in Havana.
The American flag flying above the building meant we had our rights again. Inside the heavily garrisoned fortress of an embassy, we were able to use the internet without massive government restrictions to book our emergency flights home. We drank our first sips of clean water. Both of these privileges we had forgotten about after three days in the socialist country.
Our morning had begun with armed government agents storming our rental house in Havana and demanding access to our rooms and camera gear. We bolted from the
Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the 2020 presidential primary race, a senior campaign aide told CNBC.
The Indiana Democrat waged an unlikely campaign that saw a little-known mayor overpower governors and U.S. senators in the race for the party nomination. (snip) But the one-time candidate for chair of the Democratic National Committee ultimately failed to sustain his campaign’s momentum, and ran into difficulty attracting the support of black and other minority voters.
Bernie Sanders has a shot to deliver an embarrassing blow to Amy Klobuchar in the moderate senator's home state on Super Tuesday, thanks to a large and motivated progressive base in a state where she was once considered a shoo-in to win. (snip) But Sanders has the backing of two progressive stars with national followings — U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and Attorney General Keith Ellison
Bill Gates weighed in on the novel coronavirus Friday morning with a blog post in which he called on world leaders to not only address the current problem but improve “the way we respond to outbreaks in general.”
“Global health experts have been saying for years that another pandemic rivaling the speed and severity of the 1918 influenza epidemic wasn’t a matter of if but when.
Lawyers for Covington Catholic High School senior Nick Sandmann reportedly will file lawsuits against five additional media companies this week for smearing Sandmann last year.Sandmann’s lawyers submitted a status report with the U.S. District Court in Covington last week that showed that “they intend to file complaints against Gannett, ABC, CBS, The New York Times and Rolling Stone before March 9,” Fox 19 reported. “All of the future defendants listed above have published or republished statements made by Nathan Phillips and others that Nicholas blocked or otherwise restricted Phillips’ free movement and would not allow Phillips
This was awkward. Joe Biden on Sunday called Fox News host Chris Wallace “Chuck” and had to be corrected. Chris Wallace interviewed Biden on Sunday morning after he picked up a win in South Carolina. Wallace invited Biden to come back on his show and said, “please come back in less than 13 years.” Biden got confused and thought he was talking to MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “Alright Chuck, thank you very much.”
Chris Wallace corrected Biden, “It’s Chris…” Biden brushed it off and blamed his confusion on being up early this morning to appear on
An icy blast and blizzard in the East Coast has frozen over a Lake Erie neighborhood in New York, transforming homes into igloos and the water into an ice sheet. Homes in Hamburg, New York were completely covered in ice over the weekend, with icicles hanging down from doors and windows, leaving some homes completely in the dark due to frosted windows. Shocking photographs show homes and trees on Hoover Beach, just in front of the lake, covered in thick muddied snow and ice. The damage was so extreme that some
Caravans of Cuban-Americans rallied in support of President Donald Trump on Saturday after Sen. Bernie Sanders defended Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s policies.Photos and videos emerged on social media in Miami featuring long lines of cars and trucks flying Cuban and American flags and honking their horns. Others wore MAGA hats and waved Trump 2020 flags to show their support of the president.(Tweet/Video) In an interview with CBS last week, Sanders defended Fidel Castro’s “literacy programs” in Cuba despite his brutal socialist regime. The vehicles featured signs and painted slogans such as “Viva Trump,” “Free Cuba, “Cambio es ya” (Change is Now),
A very disturbing video was posted on Twitter this weekend. A homeowner in Los Angeles claims the local government is preventing him from removing a homeless encampment from his property. According to local Democrats there is no such thing as private property. Via Michael Coudrey. (Tweet/Video) The validity of this video was not confirmed. However, this is not an isolated incident. In December Ohio’s First District Court of Appeals says governments cannot ban homeless encampments from private property
Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg was snubbed Sunday by numerous congregants at a historically black church in Selma, Alabama. According to a report in the New York Daily News, several members of Brown Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church stood up and turned their back on Mr. Bloomberg as he was was speaking. The Daily News said numerous images of the protests were posted to social media. The Democratic presidential hopeful was speaking on the 55th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when police attacked civil-rights marchers trying to cross a bridge. Mr. Bloomberg has attracted intense criticism, especially from black voters and activists, for the
Here’s where you can stuff your plastic-bag ban. New Yorkers were forced to begin grappling with a new shopping reality Sunday as the state’s ban on plastic shopping bags kicked in—and not many people were happy about it. “I think it’s ridiculous,” letter-carrier Scott Kimmel, 56, said while shopping at the Whitestone Target in College Point, Queens.(Snip) About half the shoppers seen by The Post on the first day of the bag ban, including Kimmel, were compensating by bringing their own bags from home, while another quarter opted to just go bagless rather than pay the 5-cent paper-bag fee
If you have just cancelled your trip to Venice and ordered your £19.99 surgical face mask from Amazon, how about this for a terrifying vision: by the time we get to April, 50,000 Britons will have succumbed to a combination of infectious disease and adverse weather. Frightened? If you are, don’t worry: you survived. It was two years ago. (Snip)
How many of us wear face masks because of winter flu? How many planes and trains are cancelled? Does the stock market slump? There is some justification for being more wary of Covid-19 than the flu. The former is an unknown quantity and we don’t yet have a vaccine.
OK, folks, Let’s get a grip. Contrary to hysterical impressions in current media, most of us are not threatened by death from coronavirus. Perhaps as soon as Thursday. Buy masks or perish. You can’t hide. Say goodbye to loved ones while you still can.The Internet can be a wondrous tool for communicating information. Also for spreading fear, even panic. Not always for positive motives. President Trump has called the virus a “hoax,” which
Once in a while, I visit with Bob Jagers, author and D-Day veteran. I enjoy the war stories and the memories of a 99-year-old man who was present on that fateful day from World War II.
Not long ago, we spoke about Glenn Miller. He said that his three favorite things back then were getting a letter from his girl and eventual wife, baseball news about his favorite Detroit Tigers, and catching Glenn Miller's music on the radio.
(Snip) Miller was born in Iowa on this day in 1904. He tragically disappeared over the English Channel December 1944. His plane was lost en route to Paris, where
A 'vulture' circles over Twitter
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A conservative hedge fund manager, known as a 'vulture' and 'financial terrorist', based on his history of tormenting socialists, has suddenly got his sights on Twitter.
Couldn't happen to a nice bunch of woke, hostile, leftists.(Snip) Here's the (Snip) Daily Caller take:
A Republican donor reportedly purchased a major stake in Twitter with the intention of pushing out CEO Jack Dorsey, who the billionaire says is too distracted with other ventures.
Activist investor Elliott Management wants to make changes at the social media company, the Bloomberg News report noted Friday, (Snip). Paul Singer, the billionaire behind Elliott, once opposed President Donald Trump’s campaign but has since grown more supportive.
Taken to extremes, liberalism eats its own.
Exhibit A is the decline of one of the most prestigious and proudly liberal private schools in the city.Ethical Culture Fieldston in Riverdale, founded in 1878 by the son of a rabbi as a model for social justice, racial equality and intellectual freedom, now is convulsed by allegations of Antisemitism, racial discrimination lawsuits, quarrels over identity politics, a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Department run amok and a unionized faculty impervious to criticism. Disgruntled parents are considering ways of extracting their children, angry donors are closing their wallets and distraught teachers are resigning or taking leaves of absence.
A Return to Beauty
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The guilty flee when no man pursueth, says Proverbs, but it does not follow from this that the guilty do not flee when they are indeed pursued. The guilty also have a tendency to argue when they know that they are in the wrong, as for example architects who continue to deny that, for the past seventy years at least, they have been disenchanting the world by espousing a dysfunctional functionalism and constructing buildings so hideous that they make Frankenstein’s monster look like Clark Gable.(Snip)I take as an example the response of a university professor of architecture to President Trump’s executive order making the classical style of architecture compulsory for
Staten Island, N.Y.—The head organizer of Staten Island’s annual St. Patrick’s Parade has banned all pageant winners from marching, the Advance has learned. As a result, the decision has thwarted Miss Staten Island’s controversial plans to march in support of the LGBTQ community, after the Pride Center of Staten Island had again been excluded from participating. Madison L’Insalata, Miss Staten Island 2020, announced publicly Saturday she’s bisexual, and would be wearing a rainbow colored scarf while waving from the back of a convertible along the parade route in West Brighton.
Hours after her announcement made headlines, parade head Larry Cummings placed a call to pageant director Jim Smith
Tulane University's "Victory Bell" has been removed from its pedestal on the school's Uptown campus after officials learned it was originally used as a plantation bell. In a letter emailed to the Tulane community, President Mike Fitts and Board Chairman Doug Hertz said they were informed last week that the bell was originally used to direct the movements of enslaved people on a plantation. "It is terribly disheartening to learn that it is, in fact, a vestige of a horrific part of our nation's past," the letter said. "Now that we understand its history as an instrument of slavery, continuing to use this bell
On Saturday morning, Henry Allen sat at a cafeteria table at Selma High School with a breakfast of eggs, sausage and biscuit. The room was filled with friends telling stories and people singing protest songs. When he attended the school, he wouldn’t have been allowed in. In the 1960s, when Selma was becoming a symbol of the fight over voting rights, its school system was segregated. “We were under Jim Crow law but we didn’t know it at the time,” said Allen, who marched in protest half a century ago. The school system is integrated now but the high school is completely black.
In the South Carolina primary on Saturday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign died. It wasn’t from smallpox-tainted blankets, but from lack of votes. Her lackluster campaign flamed out in the Palmetto State like a wet matchstick.
Did she ever have a chance? No. Warren was always the other Bernie Sanders without the appeal or popularity. Ultimately, the problem is that nobody likes her.
For the intelligentsia like those at the esteemed New York Times, she was the perfect candidate, an antidote to Donald Trump’s toxic masculinity. But on Saturday night, the clock ran out.
Socialism’s Inequalities
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Few statements are more revealing of ignorance than the standard conservative indictment of socialism for “equally spreading poverty.” According to this critique, poverty happens when socialism’s insistence on equality of conditions deprives people of the incentive to work. Such statements so offend reality as to lead one to ask whether those who make them have ever opened their eyes in a socialist country.
No. Socialism makes for the most radical of inequalities among human beings, and enforces them through the state’s absolute power.
Left purging Comrade Matthews
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The Left is purging Comrade Chris Matthews at MSNBC for being a counter-revolutionary and having impure thoughts.
His crime was saying Democrats could not stop Breadline Bernie after the Nevada caucuses.(Snip) The network -- which has promoted a French Resistance against American President Donald John Trump for more than 3 years -- made Matthews beg forgiveness on television for a very remote reference to the Wehrmacht.(Snip)
Kevin D. Williamson at National Review explicitly did that to American President Donald John Trump and his supporters in March 2016 in a piece called The Father Fuhrer.
But Matthews? He was calling Democrats the French army, a far cry from anything Dipstick Williamson
On January 31st President Trump initiated an entry ban against non-U.S. persons traveling from China. Today President Trump is expanding the restrictions to include Iran. WHITE HOUSE – On January 31, 2020, I issued Proclamation 9984 (Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus and Other Appropriate Measures To Address This Risk). I found that the potential for widespread transmission of a novel (new) coronavirus (which has since been renamed “SARS-CoV-2” and causes the disease COVID-19) (“SARS-CoV-2” or “the virus”) by infected individuals seeking to enter the United States threatens the security of our transportation system and infrastructure
Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign isn’t going as planned. He was a piñata in his first two debates and his decision to skip the four early states looks dicey as polls show him trailing in crucial Super Tuesday contests. Some of these headwinds were predictable, which is why Bloomberg hesitated to join the race. Until the moment he started running, he was telling friends there was no place for him in the Democratic Party. He may have been right, but Bloomberg was dead wrong in the way he tried to improve his odds.
Well, it's over.
A couple of years and $250 million later, Tom Steyer's presidential run has left him exactly where he started in the presidential race, at zero.
The poor wretched monomaniac of greenie virtue now goes the way of Jay Inslee, the qualified, but leftist, governor of Washington state who, like Steyer, was also global warming bore and washed out because of it. You'd think maybe Steyer would have noticed how unimportant this 'sky is falling' greenie cause was with voters by that point, but nope, Steyer continued to sell that snake oil to voters, thinking a barrage of television ads would make them catch on. He never had a clue.
The odds of a brokered Democrat convention have increased significantly after a big win by Joe Biden in South Carolina; not as much because of the vote result, but more as an outcome of watching how the Club coalesced the background narrative.
As a result of his overwhelming win in the palmetto state Joe Biden now has more primary votes cast for him than Sanders. (Snip) With Bloomberg’s fatally flawed debate performances helping to move the non-Bernie voters toward Joe Biden; and with the fingerprints of the party apparatus visible in the way South Carolina rolled out; it is clear Biden is now the DNC Club’s preferred candidate to stop
Two days after the South Carolina primary in 2008, Ted and Caroline Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama after he beat Hillary Clinton there by 30 points. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Saturday that those Kennedy endorsements were extraordinarily important to the Obama campaign. Think how much more crucial it would be right now if Obama finally followed suit and endorsed Joe Biden after his vice president’s smashing victory in the Palmetto State. There was a 10-day gap between Obama’s win in 2008 and the multistate primary on Super Tuesday. This year, Super Tuesday is … this Tuesday. Biden could really use a massive news event to make the point to voters
Joe Biden bundlers see surge of pledges
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Joe Biden won South Carolina’s primary, and he is about to score some new donors as a result. Bundlers backing the former vice president’s campaign told CNBC that they are seeing a surge in big money commitments in the wake of Saturday’s apparent blowout victory in the Palmetto State. Fundraisers looking to help Biden secure resources for Tuesday, when 14 states hold primaries, got what they were looking for in the buildup to South Carolina and throughout Saturday. According to people with direct knowledge of the matter, Biden’s bundlers lured donors who had been backing Sen. Amy Klobuchar and former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
This year’s Conservative Political Action Conference featured a star guest: President Donald Trump’s metal “doppler.”A creation of award-winning metal sculpturist Bill Secunda, the “doppler” was in fact a 385-pound metal statue/sculpture of the president that Secunda built by hand over the course of three months using hardened nails. “I’ve been doing metal sculptures for 25 years, I’m a ‘yuge’ Trump fan and I kind of wanted to show my support,” he revealed in an exclusive interview with BizPac Review Managing Editor Michele Kirk. In explaining why he built the statue, why he used metal nails for it, and why he depicted the president as a superhero, he said that,
After Joe Biden finished an astonishing fourth in Iowa and then in fifth place in New Hampshire, I wrote a postmortem for his campaign. It now looks like one of the most wrong things I have ever written. It was pointed out to me after I published that I described Biden’s campaign in the past tense, something I did not plan or realize beforehand. It simply seemed obvious nobody could come back from such a catastrophe — least of all Joe Biden. After Biden's South Carolina victory, the first primary he has ever won in his three presidential campaigns, things look quite different. The status of Biden’s campaign has not only been upgraded to “alive” — at this point he is the primary, and probably the sole, alternative to Bernie Sanders.
When it comes to Fidel Castro, Bernie just can’t quit him. The problem for Bernie is that Florida, with its 248 delegates for the Democrat primary and its 29 Electoral College votes, may be finding it increasingly easy to quit Bernie.
Bernie has a man-crush on Fidel Castro. Given the opportunity, he keeps lavishing love on a dictator who drove thousands of his country people to exile, slaughtered thousands more, imprisoned tens of thousands of his people, and drove his country into decades of poverty.
I’m phlegmatic by nature. It gives me an edge up when mass hysteria seems to take up so much space in the news and the pronouncements of Democratic leaders. Looking at the best information available to me, I find it beyond question that the President has taken the right steps to deal with this variant flu; that few people in this country will perish from it; that while there may be some economic consequences of the supply disruption from China, the fact that we’ve been decoupling ourselves from China under this administration means they are likely to be smaller and more short-lived than the market manipulators would have us believe.
Kastanies, Greece - Syria’s official news agency said two of its warplane were shot down by Turkish forces inside northwest Syria, amid a military escalation there that's led to growing direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian forces. SANA says the jets were targeted over the Idlib region, and that the pilots ejected with parachutes and landed safely. These confrontations have added to soaring tensions between Turkey and Russia, which support opposing sides of the Syrian civil war. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday announced his country had opened its western borders to migrants and refugees hoping to head into the European Union. The United Nations said Sunday that at least
This is clearly a highly influential publication. Only a couple of weeks after I pleaded in these pages for the repatriation to America of Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, it was accomplished. In a magnificently self-regarding and self-pitying statement to the world, Prince Harry and his recalcitrant wife announced that they would be ‘stepping back’ from royal duties and spending much more time in ‘Canada’, or, as it is more familiarly known, Los Angeles.
In this statement, released without the Queen’s knowledge, Harry and Meghan expressed a vague wish that they might at some point in time become ‘financially independent’ from the British taxpayer, seemingly possessed of the interesting belief
Heading into South Carolina, it appeared that Democrats were taking the express train to socialism. Sen. Bernie Sanders arguably won the chaotic Iowa caucuses, then went on to a solid victory in New Hampshire, and a crushing triumph in Nevada. As the race went toward the Palmetto State, there was talk that Sanders might be able to deliver a “kill shot.” Instead, Joe Biden revived his candidacy with a dominant win, fueled by black voters who tend to be more pragmatic than the pro-revolution wing of the party.
A day after winning Nevada, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Sanders in which he dug in on his decades of defenses
Conservatives have been trying for decades to create an immigration system that rewards immigrants who won’t be a burden on society and discourages those who will.
The Trump administration this week began enforcing the “public charge” rule, giving U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services the authority to refuse green cards — the key step on the path to citizenship — to people who have used a wide range of nonemergency welfare programs.
“The main reason this got done is because we have a president who is determined enough to make self-sufficiency matter again in a meaningful way,” said Ken Cuccinelli, who pushed through the rule as acting chief of USCIS
Who wins the Golden Moutza of February?
The list is endless.
Rod Blagojevich, because he’s such a weasel and won’t shut up. I criticized President Donald Trump for commuting his sentence, and now Blago keeps climbing down off his cross in interviews, insisting he’s innocent, while charging more than 100 bucks for video greetings.
And what of the half-wits of the Chicago Board of Education who killed Columbus Day? And that sheep farmer who punches sheep? The Louisiana woman who hid her meth in a very private place, and when it was found by police in a body cavity search said it wasn’t hers?
Goodbye, Liz
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In a recent interview with 60 Minutes, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg tried to describe the political scene:
A few years ago, there was a revolution against the intelligentsia. People said, “You know, those people, particularly on the coasts, are trying to tell us what to do.” They wanted a change. That explains Donald Trump. Now, people seem to have changed. This cycle, people want stability.
Have they changed so much? Bloomberg thinks the tides are turning in his direction. I’m not so sure on either count. If people wanted the intelligentsia, if they wanted someone on the coasts telling them what to do, Elizabeth Warren
SUMTER, S.C. — In October, Pete Buttigieg said he would do better with South Carolina’s black voters once they got to know him better.
When he came back in December, he was still working on introducing himself to the black electorate.
And in late January he admitted he was scared that at his rallies in South Carolina, where 60 percent of the Democratic electorate is black, most attendees were white.
Those fears were borne out on Saturday, when Mr. Buttigieg was trounced in South Carolina’s primary and earned just two percent of the vote from African-Americans, according to early exit polling.
Biden Lives to Gaffe Another Day
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The South Carolina primary has been called for Joe Biden. This isn’t a surprise. South Carolina, with its large number of black voters, has always been seen as Biden’s firewall, but early returns suggest that his margin may be impressive. Bernie Sanders apparently is finishing second. Possibly the most important fact about today’s vote is that none of the Sanders/Biden alternatives showed any perceptible strength. Michael Bloomberg didn’t participate.
There has never been a moment during the campaign when I have taken Biden seriously as a candidate for the Democratic nomination, let alone the presidency. Despite today’s win, his decrepitude seems to be accelerating. No doubt you have seen reports
On January 20, 2020, the nation turned towards Virginia as a massive Second Amendment rally took place in Richmond. Why did this “Right to Bear Arms” rally occur? Because Virginians were afraid of an aggressive legislative agenda aimed at gun ownership in a historically pro–Second Amendment state.
The gun grab legislation that fueled the pushback was proposed on January 10, when House Bill 961 passed with a 51-48 vote. This dubious legislation, in short, would have prohibited the sale, transportation, and transferring of newly defined “assault firearms.” The ill-fated bill also would have banned magazines with a capacity of 12 or more rounds, suppressors, and other elements —
Coronavirus is clearing the air in China.
Stunning aerial images of Earth show a drastic decrease in pollution levels over northern China in the past month, as entire towns the size of New York City have been shut down amid the deadly outbreak.
The images, produced by NASA and the European Space Agency, compare air quality between Jan. 1 and Jan. 20 with pollution levels between Feb. 10 and 25 — and the difference in nitrogen dioxide concentration is stunning.
In a typical February, NO2 levels surge after Chinese New Year celebrations, as factories reopen and more vehicles take to the roads following the annual holiday.
This year was an exception,
After Richard Nixon's landslide 1972 victory over Democratic opponent George McGovern, New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael gave a speech in which she said: "I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them."
2020 Democrats, at least the sensible ones, find themselves in a full-blown panic over the prospect of a nominee who is outside their ken. How scared are they? About the prospect of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., leading the Democratic ticket, top Democratic strategist James Carville said:
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was noticebaly absent from the network’s South Carolina primary coverage Saturday evening, one day after being accused of “sexist” behavior by a former network contributor -- and then later misidentifying a politician while on the air.
Earlier in the week, Matthews had issued an on-air apology after drawing backlash for comparing the Nevada caucus victory of Sen. Bernie Sanders to the 1940 invasion of France by the Nazis.
In an op-ed for GQ on Friday, journalist Laura Bassett claimed Matthews had used sexist language when she would visit the MSNBC studio to appear on his show as a guest.
Legendary physicist and big thinker Freeman Dyson died today at age 96 in New Jersey after a fall earlier this week, according to reports from Maine Public Radio and The New York Times.
Dyson, born in England in 1923, moved to the United States in 1947 and spent most of his life as a professor or professor emeritus at the Princeton University Institute for Advanced Study. Dyson first became widely known for important work in the late 1940s on the interactions between light and matter, then went on to have a remarkably wide-ranging career.
Following Joe Biden's South Carolina primary victory, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., held a campaign rally in Virginia and congratulated the former vice president, before setting his sights on Super Tuesday."We have won the popular vote in Iowa. We have won the New Hampshire primary, we have won the Nevada caucus, but you cannot win them all," he said. "I want to congratulate Joe Biden on his victory tonight, and now we enter Super Tuesday and Virginia. And I believe very strongly that the people of this country on Super Tuesday and after, are going to support our campaign because we are more than a campaign, we are a movement.
Boris Johnson and his girlfriend Carrie Symonds are engaged and expecting a baby in early summer, they announced last night.On her Instagram Saturday evening, Ms Symonds shared an intimate photo of her and the PM and wrote: 'I wouldn't normally post this kind of thing on here but I wanted my friends to find out from me. 'Many of you already know but for my friends that still don't, we got engaged at the end of last year... and we've got a baby hatching early summer.' The date of their wedding has not been announced, but it will mark the first time in at least 250 years
A SpaceX rocket exploded this week as it failed a pressure test, in a blow to Elon Musk's plans to create a future where humans can set up home on Mars. The prototype of SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket failed to take off during its latest phase of testing on Friday night at the company's launch site in Boca Chica, Texas.Footage captured by a Boca Chica resident shows the spaceship, known as SN1, exploding, sending the stainless steel cylinder flying off its stand and crashing.The disappointing result took place during the latest testing round on the rocket at around 10pm Friday, according to Florida Today.
Multiple news outlets have projected former Vice President Joe Biden will be the winner of the South Carolina Democratic primary. President Trump responded to Biden’s presumptive victory on Twitter shortly after voting in South Carolina closed at 7pm, and said the results reveal that it’s time for billionaire Michael Bloomberg, the former three-term mayor of New York City, to drop out of the Democratic primary. “Sleep Joe Biden’s victory in South Carolina Democrat Primary should be the end of Mini Mike Bloomberg’s Joke of a campaign,” said Trump. “After the worst debate performance in the history of presidential debates, Mini Mike
DHS whistleblower Philip Haney was found dead last Friday in California. The whistleblower against the Obama administration died of a gunshot wound near his vehicle in California. The Amador County Sheriff Martin Ryan released a video this week on Haney’s death. While the death scene made it appear a suicide, Ryan wants it known that a determination has not been made as to the cause of death. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) spoke out on the House floor this week to remember his friend Philip Haney. Rep. Gohmert did not come right out and say Phillip Haney was murdered. But he did do an excellent job of explaining