Posts on Thursday, March 5, 2020
As Joe Biden climbed out of his political grave, CNN anchors were so excited they wriggled like puppies about to wet the carpet and called him "The Comeback Kid." Biden did make a spectacular comeback on Super Tuesday. But what about Bernie Sanders? (Snip) If Sanders truly wants to fight for the Democratic nomination and not roll over for the establishment as he did in 2016, then he, too, should call Biden the Comeback Kid. But Bernie should say it loudly in Ukrainian: Povernennya Dytyny. According to Google Translator, anyway. I hope that's right and it doesn't mean "creepy old guy who sniffs
Dozens of bodies sheathed in black bags line the floor of an Iranian morgue, while workers in protective suits and masks busily walk among them. It's unclear which, if any, of the people whose bodies lie in the morgue were infected with the coronavirus gripping the country, in this footage from inside Qom's Behesht-e Masoumeh morgue. And here lies a huge problem for Iran, which is one of the worst-hit countries outside China, with more than 3,500 people infected and at least 107 dead from the virus, according to officials.
Under Islamic tradition in Iran, corpses are typically washed with
One of the original women who are thought to have inspired Rosie the Riveter has died at the age of 95. At 19, Rosalind P. Walter, from New York, was one of many women to pitch in during World War II, working on an assembly line as a riveter on Corsair fighter planes in Connecticut. She and women like her became the inspiration for the 1942 song 'Rosie the Riveter' and the subsequent 'We Can Do It!' poster produced by J. Howard Miller. (Photos) According to the New York Times, Rosalind — whose friends actually called her Roz — was born on June 24, 1924
The president of pro-life abortion industry watchdog group Operation Rescue has called upon Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to resign in the wake of his threats Wednesday against Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. “As the highest ranked Democrat in the Senate, it is intolerable that Schumer would issue direct threats by name to two Supreme Court Justices if they did not vote his way on this case,” said Troy Newman. “I call on Chuck Schumer to resign. Anyone who can make those kinds of direct and intimidating threats against the nation’s highest court is not fit to serve, and probably belongs behind bars”:
Former 2020 presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren did not face a single question about her alleged Native American ancestry during all 10 Democratic presidential debates. Warren attended 10 Democratic presidential debates between June 27, 2019, and Feb. 25, 2020, without being asked about her claim to Cherokee ancestry. The Daily Caller News Foundation searched the transcripts of all 10 debates and found no mention of Warren’s claims to ancestry or references to her alleged heritage. The Massachusetts senator, who suspended her presidential campaign Thursday, has said throughout her academic career and her campaign
Mitt Romney AKA Pierre Delecto on Thursday pushed back on the burgeoning probe into Burisma, asserting the GOP Senators’ investigation into Biden-Ukraine corruption “appears political.”Senator Ron Johnson told reporters on Wednesday that Senate Republicans are entering a new phase of their investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden and their ties to a corrupt Ukrainian natural gas company, Burisma. Senator Johnson (R-WI) said he will likely release an interim report within the next month or two about his committee’s probe into the Biden crime family, Politico reported.
While Super Tuesday delivered positive news for former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s since reacquired his polling status as the front-runner in the Democrat presidential primaries, it also reportedly delivered some positive news for President Donald Trump. According to the president’s 2020 national press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, he out-performed “all past incumbents” in blue-states such as Vermont. (Tweet/Video) The president’s performance was reportedly especially strong in Texas, where he acquired roughly 1.9 million votes, which is “one million more than every incumbent in the past 40 years
Tech Giants Google and Facebook continue to purge conservative content from platforms — They are hiding conservative pro-Trump news on Google — They are shadow-banning conservative news on all social media platforms.In February 2018 Facebook launched a new algorithm to ensure that conservative news would not spread on the social media platform.The algorithm change caused President Donald Trump’s engagement on Facebook posts to plummet a whopping 45%.In contrast, Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) did not appear to have suffered a comparable decline in Facebook engagement.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he plans to introduce a motion to censure Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., for saying Wednesday that Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch would "pay a price" during a pro-choice rally. Schumer singled out President Trump's two nominees to the high court on Wednesday as the justices heard arguments Thursday related to a Louisiana abortion law case. "I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price!" Schumer warned. "You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
Tulsi Gabbard will not be on stage for the next Democrat debate as the party changed its rules once again. The new rule apparently is you must be at least 75 to be president. Which is just as well because at 38, she is too young to be the one to save the party.
Jennifer is. Or was.
Only 7 years older, Jennifer was born in that sweetspot for girls, back in the when girls had to work twice as hard to get as much as a boy. It was not like today when any Tom, Dick, or Harry can put on a dress and become a girl.
Last week, Vice President Mike Pence was given the most thankless job in the federal government when he appointed the leader of the Coronavirus task force. Everyone who has seen any of these global diseases before knows that they will get worse before they get better, because it takes time to develop vaccines or to properly inform and test the public. While it was to be expected that the left was going to take political advantage of the situation, the addition of Mike Pence on the team exposed the left’s hatred for another group besides Republicans: the religious.
So, did I hear that right? The House of Representatives could have passed the coronavirus funding bill sooner, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi held it up because the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wanted to run anti-GOP ads on Super Tuesday? Elizabeth Vaughn over at RedState wrote about this. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) detailed this in his interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday: [tweet]
Speaking with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham on Monday night, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, “Look how much politics they want to play. The dirty little secret. We have the coronavirus. We need to fund this.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren wasted over $89 million on her failed presidential campaign, federal election records reveal.
The campaign finance report filed on January 31, showed Warren spent $89.69 million on her campaign, according to Open Secrets.
Millions more were likely spent as Warren continued campaigning through March, spending heavily on staff and advertising until realizing there was no path to victory after the Super Tuesday contests on March 3. Warren called campaign staff Thursday to inform them of her decision to exit the race, according to several reports.
Warren never won a single state and exits the race with only 65 delegates. It is unclear whether she will endorse her rivals
Elizabeth Warren, who electrified progressives with her “plan for everything” and strong message of economic populism, dropped out of the Democratic presidential race on Thursday, days after the onetime front-runner failed to win a single Super Tuesday state, not even her own /SNIP/ She never found a reliable base of supporters as Democrats coalesced around Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, her progressive rival, and former Vice President Joe Biden, who established himself as the leading centrist in the race. “I refuse to let disappointment blind me — or you — to what we’ve accomplished,”
I watched with mild fascination yesterday as the whole “Chuck Schumer threatens SCOTUS Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh” story played out, and how the video went viral. Along with that was how Schumer’s office issued a statement in which they chastised Chief Justice Roberts’ response to the threats and laughably claimed all the backlash was over a “misinterpretation” of Schumer’s remarks before launching into whatboutism.
I’m not ashamed to admit that wave of schadenfreude washed over me.
The chickens were coming home to roost for the Senate Minority Leader and his fellow Democrats,
From the Scimitar to the Refugee
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If there is anything today that Brussels bureaucrats fear more than the coronavirus it is a new invasion of refugees. The much-vaunted humanitarian values tremble with the massive arrival of immigrants that put at risk both the economy and social balance. Therefore, instead of building a wall à la Trump, the European Union reached an agreement with Tayyip Erdogan.
In exchange for 6 billion euros and facilitating visas, Turkey would act as a containment dam with the desperate legions who yearn for the European dream. But the dike is cracking and the borders of Greece and Bulgaria are being broken down. Erdogan knows that he has an ace up his sleeve
With his stunning Super Tuesday wins, Joe Biden is now the odds-on favorite to become the Democratic nominee. Bernie Sanders (Snip) now finds himself as he did in 2016: one-on-one against a former member of the last Democratic administration. Several candidates dropped out this week, and one joined the race. His name is Barack Obama.
Now that the campaign has settled into a two-man contest, the central issue, which was not inevitable, has emerged. Do Democrats want a return to the less radical era of private health-care options and free trade? Or do they want a new Democratic Party in Bernie’s image that nationalizes whatever it can get its hands on
Senior Editor Mollie Hemingway joined Fox News’ “Special Report” to discuss New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg’s historic level of campaign spending, and what it reveals about the power of media and establishment consensus.
Hemingway pointed out how Bloomberg’s failed campaign, despite unlimited resources, pokes holes in the popular narrative that Russia helped Donald Trump “steal” the 2016 election.
“We had years where people were saying a couple hundred thousand dollars in barely literate Facebook ads from Russians caused Donald Trump to win. Here you had a guy spend nearly $1 billion and he went nowhere. It’s a humiliating defeat for Michael Bloomberg,” she said.
Princess Cruises ship held up off California
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A Princess Cruises ship that recently carried people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus was being held in waters off California late Wednesday as officials sent kits to test passengers and crew who were showing symptoms of the illness.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said during a news conference that he had asked that the Grand Princess, which left San Francisco on Feb. 21 for a voyage to Hawaii, avoid returning to the state until testing could be completed. On Wednesday night, he said 21 people — 11 passengers and 10 crew members — were symptomatic and would be prioritized for testing,
How a Soros Trojan Horse Took Down
Chris Matthews and Is Poised to
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When one thinks of women’s rights groups, names like the National Organization for Women (NOW), the Susan G. Komen Foundation, or even Planned Parenthood usually come to mind. But an obscure group called Ultraviolet just took down Chris Matthews—the former speechwriter for Tip O’Neill and Jimmy Carter who had successfully transformed himself into a professional talking head. Just like that, his 23 year run as an MSNBC staple on “Hardball” came to an abrupt end this week.
Founded in 2012, Ultraviolet did not achieve this awesome feat on its own. On the contrary, a sophisticated and well-funded progressive machine and media echo-chamber created, amplified, and executed the plan to take out
Bill Clinton claims that his affair with Monica Lewinsky was one of the 'things I did to manage my anxieties'. The former President suggests, in an explosive documentary seen by DailyMailTV, that he had the fling with the ex-White House intern while he was in office because it helped with his own issues.Bill reveals that at the time he met Lewinsky the pressure of the job made him feel like a boxer who had done 30 rounds and he looked at Lewinsky as 'something that will take your mind off it for a while'.He makes the claims in an interview featured in the new documentary series
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday tore into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for threatening Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, calling his remarks “unhinged” and “shameful.”“I fully anticipate our colleague would quickly withdraw his comments and apologize,” McConnell began in a pointed Senate floor speech. “Instead our colleague doubled down. He tried to gaslight the entire country and stated that he was actually threatening fellow Senators as though that would be much better.”“The distinguished men and women of the Supreme Court do not and must not serve at the pleasure of angry partisans,”
First, yes it’s hard to find sanitizer right now. (Snip)The Trump Administration has rolled back an Obama FDA rule that required “state-run laboratories to only run medical tests pre-approved by the F.D.A.”
“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing, and we undid that decision a few days ago so that the testing can take place at a much more accurate and rapid fashion,” Trump stated. “That was a decision we disagreed with. I don’t think we would have made it, but for some reason it was made. But we’ve undone that decision.”
Bloomberg Without Tears
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Mayor Bloomberg's decision to quit the presidential race ignited in us the urge to send him a check for $550 million. We barely know him, but we're partly to blame for the fiasco, in that we issued more editorials than any other paper encouraging him to throw his hat into the ring. Imagine, then, our chagrin when we discovered we couldn't quite cover the 550 million sponduluks. So we'll have to make do with simple sentiments.
President Trump promised to make the media and Democrats rue the fact that Joe Biden’s corruption in Ukraine has been placed off limits. The president phoned in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News program Wednesday night, just 24 hours after Biden’s incredible return from the dead. While much can still happen to once again alter everyone’s expectations, the former vice president is now seen as the clear frontrunner to win the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination. Hannity turned Trump’s attention to the work done by Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and Breitbart News senior contributor, as it relates to Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s 50-year-old son, who received millions of
Elizabeth Warren suspended her campaign on Thursday morning after her horrible Super Tuesday performance. The much expected move clears the way for a two-man race between former vice president Joe Biden, 77, and Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78. On Wednesday, her campaign said she was assessing the future of her candidacy. “Last night, we fell short of viability goals and projections and we are disappointed in the results,” campaign manager Roger Lau said in an email to staff.
New cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by a new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, continue to pop up around the Puget Sound region. In total, 39 people in Washington state have been diagnosed, including 10 people who have died.
Throughout Thursday, on this page, we’ll be posting Seattle Times journalists’ updates on the outbreak and its effects on the Seattle area, the Pacific Northwest and the world
Failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton shared “secrets” about 2020 contenders during a “Tonight Show” appearance but dramatically tossed one name aside. The former secretary of state played along with a “Bag of Secrets” on Wednesday’s show, sharing her thoughts as she drew out names of 2020 presidential candidates without identifying them. Though Clinton emphasized to host Jimmy Fallon that she was not endorsing any of her party’s contenders, it was pretty clear where she stood after the game. (Video)
As Taliban resume their offensive, Pentagon
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‘MIXED RESULTS’: Five days into an agreement with the Taliban, and five days before peace talks are supposed to begin between the Taliban and the Afghan government, the United States is trying to keep the warring parties on the path to peace.“This agreement ... lays out a framework by which we could proceed toward an eventual intra-Afghan negotiation,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper told Congress yesterday. “It was supposed to happen at this point five days from now, and the results so far have been mixed.”On Tuesday, the Taliban mounted 43 separate attacks against government checkpoints in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, according to Col. Sonny Leggett, the chief spokesman
Appearing Wednesday on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said he will drop out of the Democratic presidential primary if former Vice President Joe Biden has a plurality of pledged delegates heading into the Democratic National Convention.(Video) A partial transcript is as follows: RACHEL MADDOW: If, at the end of the day, it turns out that Vice President Biden is going to have more delegates than you do heading into the convention, will you drop out?
This past week several people called my attention to a post by Scott Johnson on his influential PowerLine blog that addressed the literary relationship between Barack Obama and his radical friend, Bill Ayers.
In the post Johnson spoke of his high regard for David Garrow’s “staggeringly researched” 2017 Obama biography, Rising Star. “Without resolving all mysteries,” Johnson writes, “[Garrow’s] scholarship belies the notion that [Dreams from My Father] was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers or other such collaborator.”
Johnson emailed Garrow to follow up on the authorship question, and Garrow responded, “I don’t recall exactly where the Bill Ayers [stuff] got started,
Now that the Democratic Party has all-but-consolidated behind decrepit Joe Biden to keep unelectable socialist Bernie Sanders off the top of its ticket, it's worth a snicker to consider President Obama, behind the scenes, suddenly realizing he's going to have to endorse idiot Joe Biden for president, a man he considers unfit for the office.
Obama had witheld his endorsement for his faithful former vice president, which was pretty humilating for Joe, a man Joe had touted as his "best friend" to the NAACP. Biden claimed he asked for no endorsement, (snip) The real reason leaked out, though: That Obama didn't think Biden was up to the job.
Two prominent progressive women were discredited yesterday in an incident that reveals stunning levels of phoniness in the Democrat-media complex.
A woman by the name of Caryn Jackson has become a major force in shaping the political opinions of many American women. You probably know her as Whoopi Goldberg, a stage name she culturally appropriated, presumably for its shock value as a distinctively Jewish moniker attached to an African American woman. (snip) Yesterday, she revealed herself to be an ignorant phony, claiming that the wife of Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden is a “helluva doctor… an amazing doctor”
WASHINGTON – Young voters cheer Bernie Sanders' anti-establishment message. They turn out in throngs at his rallies. And they form the core of his grassroots efforts to win the Democratic presidential nomination. But their fiery passion did not translate into the robust turnout he needed on Super Tuesday to win a number of key states, notably in the South where a strong showing by former vice president Joe Biden has made the nomination contest a two-man race. Exit polls for five southern states that Biden won – Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia – found that young voters did not show
Democratic Fools And Their Money
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After being trounced on Super Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg announced that he was “suspending” his campaign. He joins fellow billionaire Tom Steyer in the quitters’ camp.
It makes you wonder how these two succeeded in business when they are so utterly incompetent at selling themselves or their ideas. It also underscores how shrewd billionaire Donald Trump was in 2016.
Bloomberg built his entire strategy on winning big on Super Tuesday. His pitch to voters – in a series of endlessly repeated ads – was his competency. He was a self-made billionaire, he got things done, he was a proven leader, he was best suited to beat Trump.
There’s too much power vested in nine people in black robes. It only takes five justices, though, to make decisions that impact generations. And they’ve been Supremely wrong, repeatedly. In Dred Scott vs. Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens and, therefore, not afforded constitutional rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1875, both written and passed solely by Republicans, was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. In Plessy v. Ferguson, despite the Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th and 15th), an arrogant Supreme Court affirmed codified racial discrimination in what should be called Separate and Unequal. I
Progressive Big Lies
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The “big lie” was Adolf Hitler’s term in Mein Kampf for the propaganda tactic of telling a lie so “colossal” that nobody would believe anyone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” Far from being specific to Nazism, this technique of political persuasion has been to varying degrees universal. These days, the masters of the “big lie” are the Leftists and those progressives who, addled by Trumpophobia, regularly promulgate whoppers that today’s internet can easily discredit. (Snip) One of the best examples is Bernie Sanders’ stubborn, unapologetic support for vicious totalitarian regimes like the Castro cartel in Cuba, based on a variation of the fascist excuse
It’s the year 2020 and the prodigal Dixie Chicks have finally returned, no thanks to George W. Bush and his ilk. Their new Jack Antonoff–produced single and music video, “Gaslighter,” dropped today, ahead of the May release of Gaslighter, the first new Chicks album in 14 years. Naturally, we have a landslide of feelings about it. Cowboy, take us away! Madison Malone Kircher: The Dixie Chicks are back! I could cry. In fact, I did.
Rachel Handler: Let me begin by saying, for perhaps the 500th time in my brief life: Fuck you, George W. Bush. I cannot believe our erstwhile president nearly ruined music forever.
“Not me, us.”
The message that Bernie Sanders has campaigned on throughout the 2020 primary became a self-soothing mantra for his supporters last night.
At a bar in Washington, D.C.’s Penn Quarter neighborhood—just blocks from the theater where Abraham Lincoln was shot—a group of more than 100 Sanders followers stood, shoulder to shoulder, facing two massive projector screens, as results from Super Tuesday states trickled in. The event, hosted by a local Democratic Socialists of America group, had all the hallmarks of a gathering of Bernie fans: a patchwork of flannel shirts, scattered baskets of red-rose buttons, and very few people over the age of 35. Yet the mood was uncharacteristically somber.
Tuesday’s primaries have, for all intents and purposes, transformed the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination into a slugfest between the establishment-backed Joe Biden and insurgent populist Bernie Sanders. With the help of the party bosses — or superdelegates, as they have been euphemistically rebranded — Biden will almost certainly prevail. This will, however, be a Pyrrhic victory for the former vice president. It will not merely alienate millions of Sanders’ supporters, many of whom will be disillusioned by a repeat of the Democratic National Committee’s 2016 skulduggery and will sit at home next November. It will also render Biden’s intellectual infirmities and history of influence-peddling impossible to conceal.
So, now the Democrats are choosing between a pair of doddering crustaceans. The Crusty Commie Curmudgeon and the Crusty Comedy Relief both did well enough Tuesday to keep going. Big Chief Warren, whose actual people call corn “corn” and not “maize,” may still go on because she’s an insufferable monster whose transcendent yearning to nag us into schoolmarm’d submission knows no bounds, plus because the establishment wants her in the race siphoning Chablis socialist votes away from her Marx brother. But the Hapless Halfling dropped out, a half-billion bucks lighter, and he’s not just returning to his burrow. He’ll want to remain a Dem player –
Adrift without Bill and Barack
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The Democratic candidate won the popular vote in six of the past seven elections. But those seven elections generated just four Democratic victories by two men, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, who are almost universally recognized as immensely talented politicians and campaigners. This Democratic presidential primary demonstrates what the party is like when it doesn’t have one of those larger-than-life charismatic figures to unite everyone: angry, bitter, and deeply divided on basic concepts of governance and the Constitution.
After Super Tuesday, the party appears to be begrudgingly uniting behind Joe Biden — the consensus choice of last resort. Bernie Sanders made it clear
Democrats and even some Republicans have long pushed the idea that money buys elections, especially since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC decision. The boogeyman of campaign spending has been invoked to justify proposals to limit freedom of speech and restrict the public's ability to participate in its nation's political process.
But, as the failure of Michael Bloomberg demonstrates, as if it had to be demonstrated yet again, money doesn't buy elections.
Bloomberg entered the race late with a novel strategy of skipping the early contests and bombarding Super Tuesday states with a blizzard of advertising. He spent $558 million on ads alone,
Donna Brazile, the disgraced former DNC leader and newly minted Fox News contributor who leaked debate questions to Hillary Clinton, got away with swearing at RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Tuesday morning, instead of being pulled from the air immediately, as Fox would have cheerfully done to any conservative analyst who had similarly ranted before telling, say, the DNC Chair, to similarly "go to Hell."
What Super Tuesday tells us is that a lot of Democrats would rather risk losing to President Trump with Joe Biden than allow a socialist like Bernie Sanders to hijack their party.
That’s good for America, but it’s also a treacherous Hail Mary pass for the party.
The 77-year-old former vice president showed why, moments after taking the stage in Los Angeles on Tuesday night: He mistook his wife for his sister.
“They switched on me,” he tried to explain.
He went on to give a good speech about healing the nation, and dutifully kept to the script on his teleprompter.
New Hampshire’s first confirmed coronavirus patient was discovered recently and as has been happening in many places around the country, the hospital worker was told to stay home and remain isolated for 14 days. Seems like a solid plan, right? Perhaps not so much. We’ve now learned that there was some sort of “invitation only” event on Friday that the patient really wanted to attend. So they did. Without telling anyone.
Now the original patient is supposedly back home and in self-quarantine, but so are all of the event attendees who came in “close contact” with them. How many people each of them came in close contact with
Hunter Biden touted his political connections in 2019 while unsuccessfully pitching the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law on letting him teach a course on drug policy, emails obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation show.
In his pitch, Biden listed off a number of possible guest speakers, most of whom had ties to his father, Democratic frontrunner and former Vice President Joe Biden.
“In 2019, Hunter Biden inquired about the possibility of teaching a course at UCLA School of Law, and he and school leaders held preliminary conversations about the possibility,” t
Earlier this week, Chris Matthews announced on his MSNBC show “Hardball” that he was quitting. He then walked off the set. Later, we learned that the network forced him to resign.
Why? One explanation is that Matthews made female guests on his show and some female employees “uncomfortable” with sex-charged banter. But reportedly, Matthews has been doing this forever.
It’s true that an obscure journalist recently called Matthews out for his comments in an article for GQ. “Why haven’t I fallen in love with you yet?” is an example. But these types of remark, though boorish, aren’t the stuff of firings. Surely, there is more to Matthews’s discharge than this.
Democrats: Crazy Vs Senile
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And then there were two…and a couple of stragglers.
As of this writing, the remaining Democrats running for president are Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, and Tulsi Gabbard. That’s it, that’s the best one of the two major political parties in the United States in 2020 could come up with.
Of course, the only criteria Democrats have for their candidate is “someone who can beat Donald Trump.” That’s an interesting bar for people who claim to care about the country. They don’t give a damn who their candidate is, what they want to do, or even if they have the mental capacity to string together a coherent sentence,
“In just three months we’ve gone from 1 percent in the polls to being a contender for the Democratic nomination for president,” Mike Bloomberg said in Florida just as the Super Tuesday tsunami washed over his head.
This was utterly delusional, even if they did love him in American Samoa.
So then former Mayor Mike flew home, where aides said he would ponder an existential question: If a man can’t purchase the presidency for cash, what’s the point of being a billionaire 65 times over?
Chuck Schumer, Wise Guy
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“I want to tell you. Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
— Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) addressing an abortion rights rally on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday
Many years ago, when I was a Special Attorney assigned to one of the U.S. Justice Department’s Organized Crime Strike Forces, my colleagues and I received a series of complaints from the FBI agents who were conducting “rolling surveillances” of the members of the local Mafia family.
How Bernie blew it
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Former Vice President Joe Biden won what looks to be at least a narrow delegate victory in yesterday's Super Tuesday contests, which will award a third of all delegates to the Democratic National Convention in July. While the campaign is far from over, Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) march to the nomination that looked so likely just a week ago is a long-gone dream for the progressive left. As he and his campaign look upon the wreckage of what could have been a casual romp en route to Milwaukee, they absolutely must correct course and start the difficult process of appealing to mainstream Democrats
Hollywood is one leg of the Axis of Indoctrination, with media and academia completing the trifecta.
There are some outspoken nonliberals in Hollywood. Self-described "libertarian" Clint Eastwood comes to mind. But the list is short. A month before the 2016 election, I met a young actress at a party. She just arrived in Los Angeles from Michigan and excitedly told me about a meeting scheduled the following morning with one of the major agencies in Hollywood, an agency she hoped would represent her. For an actor, getting an agent -- especially with one of the major firms -- is a huge accomplishment. Later at the party,
FISA court blocks FBI agents
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FBI officials involved in the wiretapping of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page have been blocked, at least temporarily, from appearing before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) in regard to other cases, in rebuke that exceeded the remedial recommendations made by the independent monitor recently appointed by the court.
The decision by James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the secretive court created under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), comes as Congress faces a March 15 deadline on whether to renew three FBI national-security surveillance and investigative tools that were enacted after 9/11.
Alex Trebek shared a candid one-year health update with his fans on the milestone he has reached in his battle with cancer.The “Jeopardy!” host posted a video message on Wednesday, just one year after revealing his stage 4 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, recalling the good and “not-so-good days” along the way. (Video) “If you’ve got a minute, I’d like to bring you up to date on my health situation,” Trebek said in a video clip which has been viewed over one million times on the official “Jeopardy” Twitter account.“The one-year survival rate for stage 4 pancreatic cancer is 18 percent.
The American Bar Association said on Wednesday that it is "deeply troubled" by a comment made by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., outside the Supreme Court that many said was a direct threat to two sitting justices.
Schumer was at a rally over a high-profile abortion case while the case played out inside. Schumer named Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and, in an impassioned speech, said, "You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
A West Virginia man who was convicted of filming the sexual abuse of an infant was handed a hefty 775-year-sentence on Wednesday.
Richard Smith II, 41, was convicted in February on 11 counts of first-degree sexual abuse, four counts of sexual assault, and five counts of sexual abuse by someone responsible for a child, Fox 13 reported.
Kanawha Circuit Judge Tera Salango did not hold back when she passed sentence. Salango handed Smith between 205 and 775 years behind bars.
“I think that you are one of the most evil persons who I’ve ever encountered,” the judge said in court.
The charges added up quickly.
Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday on MSNBC that President Donald Trump “risked his presidency” because he did not want to face him in the general election.Biden was referencing the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives’ articles of impeachment against Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, which were voted down by the Republican-controlled Senate.The Democrats accused Trump of withholding military aid to pressure Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden and his son Hunter’s dealings in Ukraine.During a preview clip of his interview with the “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie asked,
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) took a dig at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) after a Fox News segment made it sound as if the Massachusetts senator stood as the last female in the Democrat primary race, referring to her as a “fake indigenous woman of color.”
Karl Rove, former Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush, discussed Warren’s bid during a Fox News segment with Dana Perino, but the conversation drew ire from Gabbard, who was insulted that Rove described Warren as the “only woman left” in the race.
“Is she [Warren] going to benefit by being the only woman left now that Amy Klobuchar is out?” Rove asked.
If you thought yesterday morning’s interview with Hillary Clinton on Good Morning America was bad, the network continued its nauseatingly affectionate treatment of Clinton in an extended interview shown on ABC’s streaming channel, ABC Live, Tuesday evening. Correspondent Linsey Davis offered unfettered praise for Clinton in this version, even shamelessly affirming the failed 2016 candidate’s delusions that she actually won the election. During the network’s primetime Super Tuesday coverage on ABC Live, they took a brief break to continue their exclusive interview with Clinton.
Stocks surged sharply on Wednesday as investors gained confidence in official responses to the coronavirus and viewed the results of Super Tuesday’s primary elections as making it less likely the Democratic nomination will go to Bernie Sanders.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped more than 1,145 points, or about 4.4 percent, more than making up for the prior day’s decline. The S&P 500 rose 4.2 percent. The Nasdaq Composite climbed 3.8 percent.
Healthcare stocks were among the best performers, likely boosted by both reports that the White House and lawmakers had reached a deal on spending to fight the coronavirus outbreak
Hollywood director Spike Lee took to Instagram to attack a group of black Donald Trump supporters, essentially comparing them to house slaves.
On Monday, the BlackkKlansman director remarked on a photo of several black civic and religious leaders praying with President Trump inside the White House. Lee used the photo as an opportunity to attack both the president and his guests.
“Massa, We Love You, Massa. We Gonna Pray Fo’ You Massa”. Singing- “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” Lee wrote smearing the Trump supporters with racial language; “massa” being how some slaves referred to slave masters.
California congressional candidate Eric Early is currently in position to challenge Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for his seat in the House. Results from Super Tuesday showed the Republican attorney ahead of six other challengers and just behind Schiff. Early has said he is fighting to address housing, immigration and, most of all, homelessness in the region. He claimed Schiff has neglected his district by spending too much time “seeking the limelight” in D.C.“Mr. Schiff has completely abandoned our district in the 20 plus years he has been in office.
While some in the media spent much of Super Tuesday reveling in Joe Biden’s awakening from political death, they entirely missed the untold story of Super Tuesday: President Donald Trump’s record-breaking vote counts and turnout. Despite being an uncontested incumbent, President Trump managed to break several turnout and vote-count records in blue states and key swing states. In Vermont and Minnesota, Trump’s vote totals beat every past incumbent’s total in the last four decades. In Maine, the president’s vote total bested every primary candidate’s total since before President Ronald Reagan.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced Wednesday night he plans to file a censure motion against Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for threats he made against Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh at a pro-choice rally in front of the Court as inside the justices heard arguments on a Louisiana abortion law case, June Medical Services LLC v. Russo. (Photos) Schumer said, “I want to tell you Gorsuch! And I want to tell you Kavanaugh! You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you! If you go forward with these awful decisions…”Hawley posted about his intentions in response
It takes a lot for the Chief Justice of the United States to issue a public rebuke to an elected official.On Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is digging in against the rebuke, provided that lot.“This morning,” Justice John Roberts said in a statement made available to media, “Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside.” Roberts’ statement then refers to a threat Schumer issued that day against conservative Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both of whom have signaled a willingness to uphold a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to acquire hospital admitting privileges.
Co-host Whoopi Goldberg pitched former President Barack Obama for the vice president slot on the Democratic Party’s ticket with 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden.The panel was discussing former Vice President Joe Biden’s ten-state Super Tuesday victory, including beating Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in an upset win in Texas on Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View.”Goldberg said, “So I had another — I’ve been sitting here — I’ve been crazy all morning.”Co-host Meghan McCain said, “It’s a crazy time.”Goldberg said, “I’m sorry. I’m just going to do my crazy right now.”
President Donald Trump said that Sen. Chuck Schumer should “pay a severe price” for threatening two Supreme Court justices on Wednesday who are hearing a Louisiana abortion case.“There can be few things worse in a civilized, law abiding nation, than a United States Senator openly, and for all to see and hear, threatening the Supreme Court or its Justices,” Trump wrote on Twitter Wednesday night.“This is what Chuck Schumer just did. He must pay a severe price for this!”Earlier Wednesday, at a rally on the steps outside the high court,
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Allow me to be Captain Obvious for a moment.
The progressive corporate media has been engaged in a years-long smear campaign against President Donald Trump since he took office. Their attacks could be described as various forms of “Orange Man Bad.” They have run the gamut, from pretending he is a secret Russian agent, to blaming him for a hurricane and even trying to remove him from office through impeachment.
But lately, the Coronavirus has served as their political weapon against that mean guy in the Oval Office. When the news broke about the outbreak of the illness,
Joe Biden did very well on Super Tuesday after Pete Buttigeig and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) were persuaded to drop out and endorse him and the establishment coalesced behind Biden in order to head off Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
We still have to see how the delegate count shakes out, but Biden did better than was expected and it looks like he’ll be leading although it will be tight.
Right now the Democrats voting for Biden aren’t really reconciling themselves with reality yet. While those Democrats may not want Sanders, they aren’t yet looking with clear eyes at Biden and all his baggage, as my colleague Bonchie has noted.
St. Louis resident Alicia Clarke says she feels as if she has been “failed by the system” and is now “not feeling safe,” and she has good reason to feel this way. After she was savagely beaten and stabbed by her neighbor, her attacker walked free. The court considered it decisive that he has an IQ of 49. He is also a Muslim migrant, which may explain both the reluctance to prosecute him and the scant and incomplete coverage this incident has received.
St. Louis’ KSDK reported Monday that Clarke went out for a run near her home; when she returned, her cell phone was missing.
Imagine being held as a political prisoner in Fidel Castro’s workers’ paradise for a few years, a Yanquí accused of espionage for bringing wider Internet access to a small enclave of Jews in Cuba. Your guards allow you to dress in normal clothes to greet a congressional delegation of three senators from your home country. The first two bring you sympathy, conversation, pledges of assistance, and candy. The third sits quietly throughout most of the meeting, and then at the end wonders why everyone talks badly of your jailers.
You can afford to imagine it. Alan Gross had to live it with Bernie Sanders,
Wait — isn’t Bernie Sanders’ socialist-crank campaign a zombie apocalypse in itself? YMMV, but after last night’s shutout on Super Tuesday, one can hardly blame Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for not connecting those particular dots. At the moment, Alex Thompson writes at Politico, they need a reason to keep their campaign together, even though her dismal night will likely intensify calls for Warren to drop out.
If that means offering a science-fiction scenario, so be it: [video]
Other staffers, who are usually unflappably positive on social media, vented their frustration with sexism, Sanders supporters, and the state of the race.
The night even had two staffers openly exchanging barbs on Twitter