Posts on Wednesday, March 11, 2020
A Washington DC staff member for Democrat Senator Maria Cantwell tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. (Photo) Cantwell is a Washington state senator, the state that has been hardest hit by the coronavirus in the US. At least 21 people have died from the virus in Washington state. Cantwell will close her DC offices this week for a deep cleaning.
Conservative talker Rush Limbaugh said during his nationally syndicated radio show on Wednesday that Democratic Party leaders and the media had “gleeful attitudes” about the coronavirus outbreak.Limbaugh said, “I’m telling you, folks, I’m I that there’s so many red flags about things happening out there. This coronavirus, all of this panic is just not warranted. I’m telling you. When I tell you what I’ve told you that this virus is the common cold when I said that it was based on the number of cases. That’s also based on the kind of virus this is. Why do you think this is called COVID-19 is the 19th coronavirus.
The hecatomb of unsuccessful Democratic candidates raises questions about the current viability of the Democrats that they will have to address in the next four years. It appears that the powers that be in that party were so fixated on the easy disposability of President Trump that they gave little thought to making a serious race of it this year. They mixed their own Russian-collusion Kool-Aid, posted it down, and now are discovering that it was hemlock. The party elders apparently thought they had placated the Sanders faction by reserving superdelegates to a second ballot, which neither American political party has needed to hold at its convention for more than 80 years.
Chelsea Manning attempted suicide on Wednesday inside her Virginia jail cell ahead of a scheduled court appearance, her legal team said. “Chelsea Manning attempted to take her own life,” the legal team said in a statement to The Post. “She was taken to a hospital and is currently recovering.” The Army intelligence officer-turned-leaker has been held at the Alexandria Detention Center for nearly a year after refusing to testify before a grand jury that is investigating WikiLeaks. Manning, 32, was and is still scheduled to appear before a judge on Friday regarding a motion to squash the civil contempt sanctions that landed her in jail.
A federal judge in Camden on Tuesday sentenced a North Jersey woman to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for forcing a Sri Lankan woman to work as a nanny and housekeeper in her homes for almost a decade without pay.
Alia Imad Faleh Al Hunaity, a.k.a. Alia Al Qaternah, 44, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Jordan, had brought the victim, a Sri Lankan national, to the United States on a temporary visa in 2009 to perform domestic work. Hunaity caused the victim to overstay her visa and remain in the United States illegally for more than nine years, federal prosecutors have said. Hunaity, a cancer research scientist,
The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Trump administration can continue enforcing a policy at the southern border that returns asylum-seekers to Mexico as they await court dates in the U.S.The order blocks an injunction against the so-called "Remain in Mexico" policy that was set to take effect Thursday, allowing it to continue while a challenge works its way through the courts. It's a significant victory for the White House, which has seen many of its immigration policies held up as disputes are heard in federal courts. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the order.
Darrin Lundeen thought he did everything right when he went shopping for a company to put solar panels on his house. He looked at online reviews and settled on five finalists. He checked the companies out with the Better Business Bureau. He even decided against hiring the firm with the lowest bid. But a year after Altaray Solar installed a $28,000 system on his home in New Hope, it still doesn’t work. Even worse, Lundeen has to deal with about $6,000 worth of damage to his basement, which flooded last year when power was unwittingly cut to his sump pump.(Snip) Unfortunately for Lundeen and hundreds of other Altaray
A woman who was pardoned by President Donald Trump has announced she will be running for Congress against Georgia Democratic Rep. John Lewis. Angela Stanton-King, who was pardoned by Trump last month, announced her congressional bid in a message clarifying that “this isn’t about replacing John Lewis, this is about picking up the torch and continuing the fight for Justice.(Video) A former reality show star and author, Stanton-King is also the goddaughter of Alveda King, the niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.(Tweet)
A federal judge leveled harsh accusations against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and the rest of the conservative majority, claiming that they are “actively participating in undermining American democracy.”
Judge Lynn Adelman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin blasted the Roberts-led court in an article titled “The Roberts Court’s Assault on Democracy,” set to be published in the Harvard Law & Policy Review. “[T]he Roberts Court has been anything but passive,” wrote Adelman, who was appointed to the bench by President Bill Clinton. “Rather, the Court’s hard-right majority is actively participating in undermining American democracy. Indeed, the Roberts Court has contributed to
An unhinged hypochondriac punched an Asian woman in Midtown over coronavirus fears—one of two anti-Asian attacks to in the city in less than 12 hours, police said Wednesday. The back-to-back unprovoked attacks are being investigated as possible hate crimes, cops said. A 23-year-old woman was the first to be ambushed on 34th St. near Fifth Ave. when a stranger, described as a black woman in her 20s, began screaming at her at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, authorities said. “Where’s your coronavirus mask, you Asian b---h!” the woman screamed before socking the victim in the face and running off,
Joe Biden is taking his campaign events virtual in response to growing concerns about crowded public events helping to spread coronavirus.Instead of in-person events in Chicago, Illinois, and Miami, Florida, on Friday and Monday, the campaign will hold "virtual" events in those places. Additional details on the virtual format have not been announced."The health and safety of the public is our number one priority. We have been and will continue to consult with relevant officials, including our recently announced Public Health Advisory Committee, regarding steps the campaign should take to minimize health risks for staff and supporters,"
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) expressed deep concerns on Wednesday that federal agencies are cooperating with the GOP investigations into the Burisma Holdings-linked Ukraine dealings of Democrat 2020 presidential front runner Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The Democrat senator suggested that political bias is driving the probes. In a letter sent on Wednesday to the inspectors general for U.S. National Archives as well as the Departments of Treasury, State, and Homeland Security, Murphy called for a probe of the agencies that are doing their jobs and complying with the GOP investigations, demanding a response by March 23.
President Donald Trump said his doctor sees no need for him to get tested for the coronavirus after having had contact with Republican congressmen who decided to self-quarantine after having contact with someone with COVID-19. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Doug Collins (R-Ga.) are among several members of Congress who have self-quarantined for 14 days after learning they had contact with someone diagnosed with the coronavirus who attended the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (D-Minn.) made a declaration that March 10th will be celebrated in the city as “Abortion Provider Appreciation Day,” according to The Hill.In his statement, Frey said that “abortion providers like Whole Women’s Health deliver high quality care in the face of harassment and threats to abortion access at the federal and local levels.” He further added that he was “proud to recognize today as Abortion Provider Appreciation Day to celebrate Whole Women’s Health as an essential part of our community.”This is not the first occurrence of such an “appreciation day,” as Planned Parenthood previously celebrated a similar day in 1996.
President Donald Trump launched a defense of his coronavirus response Wednesday, as financial markets tanked and and global health officials called the outbreak a full-on pandemic.Amid the spiraling outbreak and the technical start of a bear market, Trump announced plans to address the nation from the White House in a prime time address.
Trump issued a call for unity and announced his team was putting in place a policy to deal with the disease and create a vaccine, after meeting with top administration health officials in what a senior Democratic lawmaker said she was told was an 'emergency meeting.'
Trump's radical plan to waive payroll tax
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would punch hole in Social Security,
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Washington - President Donald Trump has picked his favorite weapon to fight the economic fallout from the coronavirus - an elimination of the “payroll tax” on workers’ gross earnings that is used to fund national retirement programs. Trump advisers on the White House economic team and Republican lawmakers are pushing for more targeted stimulus. But Trump has held firm on the idea, White House and Republican sources say.
Trump told Republican senators in a meeting Tuesday he would like to waive the payroll tax entirely through the end of the year, or even permanently suspend it, one attendee told Reuters.
Since it was first held in 1978, when off-roaders trekked from Paris to Senegal using only a map and compass to navigate, the Dakar Rally has seen drivers from around the world battle to earn off-road racing’s biggest crown. But whether it was with a car, truck, motorcycle, side-by-side vehicle or dune buggy, one group of racers has never quite been able to conquer the top of the Dakar podium: Americans.
That changed this year in Saudi Arabia, when not one, but two Americans finished the 4,881-mile course first in their respective vehicle classes.
The cruise ship industry is reeling. The outbreak of the new coronavirus has made the basic fundamentals of the business medically inadvisable to the point that the State Department has issued a warning to U.S. travelers—chief among them the elderly—to stop taking cruise ships until the threat has passed.
And yet, even as thousands of people have found themselves stuck on ocean liners, in close confines with others suffering from a deadly virus, not everyone is ready to bag their cruise ship getaway. Indeed, while some shudder at the prospect of enduring severe flu-like symptoms and a 14-day quarantine,
St. Paul — Police arrested a woman on Monday, March 9, after she allegedly dragged her 11-year-old son from his bunkbed and threw him off the balcony of their fourth-floor St. Paul apartment, leaving him seriously injured. Investigators interviewed the 33-year-old mother on Monday, and “she admitted to doing it, but she did not tell them why,” said Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman. The investigation remains underway. A person in an apartment building in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood called 911 about 8:40 a.m. and reported an attempted suicide.
Most conservatives who lived through the Clinton years would not want to stomach all 253 minutes of the new "Hillary" documentary streaming on Hulu, a platform now owned and controlled by Disney. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was asked if he would do an interview for it, and apparently, he told the filmmakers he would "rather stick needles in (his) eye than do the interview."
I sat through all of it. There's only one Republican in this thing -- former Sen. Bill Frist -- and he was quoted as saying that it "was easy to demonize her."
Trump: the First Black President
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I never thought, in all my years of serving the most underserved black people on the planet, that I would be called an “Uncle Tom.”
However, that is exactly what happened to me and other community leaders and patriots last week after we attended a Black History Month event hosted by President Trump at the White House.
We were gathered to celebrate the historic achievements that President Trump has secured for black Americans. From resurrecting American inner cities with Opportunity Zones to record-low unemployment, rising wages, criminal justice reform, record-high funding for HBCUs, and fighting for school choice, President Trump has accomplished what Democrat politicians have long promised —
Prince Harry was duped into offering to help a fictional island called “Chunga-Changa” by Russian prankers posing as Greta Thunberg. More details of the calls between Harry and two notorious hoaxers emerged today after the pair fooled him into believing he was talking to the teenage climate activist. New details show the 35-year-old was the unwitting subject of a string of jokes during his conversations with Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov.(Snip) During one phone call, he was pranked into believing mining companies close to President Trump were exploiting a fictional island. The island, called Chunga-Changa, is the name of a Russian children’s song
While visiting an auto manufacturing plant in Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday, presidential hopeful Joe Biden got into a heated argument with a worker who had voiced his concerns about the former vice president’s stance on guns.
“You are actively trying to diminish our Second Amendment rights and take away our guns,” a worker in a hardhat told Biden as he walked through a crowd of workers and reporters.
Biden shot back: “You’re full of sh*t!”
The Democrat went on to hush an aide who had tried to interject. “Shush, shush” he said, turning toward the woman.
“I support the Second Amendment,” he insisted.
Normally, when an incumbent who is popular with his party is running unopposed in a primary — or when the opponents are fairly marginal figures most voters have forgotten actually exist — there's very low turnout for the incumbent. That was not the case with Donald Trump last week, on Super Tuesday. He had a blowout primary, with people turning out in unexpected droves to vote for him.
Trump voters knew that their vote wouldn't matter in terms of Trump gaining the delegates for their state. They turned out to make a point: Trump's voters are wildly enthusiastic. They don't just talk the talk on social media;
HOUSTON — The 2020 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns. Grounds will close at 4 p.m. Wednesday for the remainder of the season. A ticket refund process is in the works, RodeoHouston officials tweeted. That information will be made public once it's finalized. (Tweets) Mayor Turner said the decision to cancel the rodeo was made when a man out of Montgomery County, who was not toed to international travel, tested presumptive positive for COVID-19.
" [Tuesday] changed things," Mayor Turner said. "Because [Tuesday] with the case in Montgomery County that was evidence of some community spread,
AOC’s SNL-worthy rant: People are not
‘patroning’ Chinese restaurants because
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‘patroning’ Chinese restaurants because
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Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (aka – “Bronx Bolshevik”) says it’s, like, totally racist for you to “stop patroning Chinese restaurants” amid the coronavirus outbreak.
AOC made the laughable claims in another incoherent social-media video.
Ocasio-Cortez cluelessly cooed: “There is a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism. Um, where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants. Um, they’re not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight-up racism around the coronavirus.”
The former barmaid did not even realize that she misspoke when she used the incorrect word for “patronizing,” which means to frequent as a customer.
Dr Drew calls for media to ‘SHUT UP!’
Fear-reporting on coronavirus is ‘absolutely
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President Trump took to social media on Monday to hit the media and their “partner, the Democratic Party,” for doing all they can “to inflame the coronavirus situation.”
And he has good company in that assessment, as Dr. Drew Pinsky shares a similar view.
“The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American,” the president tweeted. [Tweet]
The hope on the left is that the coronavirus becomes Trump’s “Katrina,”
If the turnout at his rallies wasn’t enough of an indication of the enthusiasm that President Trump enjoys from supporters, the votes being cast for the president in various primary states would suggest as much.
Though more localized, another indication would be a “Trump Flotilla 2020” seen in South Florida.
Boaters participated in a parade in support of the president over the weekend in the Hillsboro Beach intracoastal waterway, located about 30 miles south of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, as seen in a video shared on Facebook.
An undercover reporter has been arraigned in California and charged with ten felonies for secretly recording conversations, and it’s time to revisit how the judiciary and the law can stifle the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press.
The accused, David Daleiden, used standard media undercover techniques to investigate and expose Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted fetus body parts. While the use of undercover techniques like Daleiden’s is a controversial practice even within journalism circles, Daleiden’s upcoming jury trial has far wider implications for journalists.
Namely, can and should government criminalize undercover reporting, which historically has revealed otherwise hidden wrongdoing of all kinds?
An undercover reporter has been arraigned in California and charged with ten felonies for secretly recording conversations, and it’s time to revisit how the judiciary and the law can stifle the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of the press.
The accused, David Daleiden, used standard media undercover techniques to investigate and expose Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted fetus body parts. While the use of undercover techniques like Daleiden’s is a controversial practice even within journalism circles, Daleiden’s upcoming jury trial has far wider implications for journalists.
Namely, can and should government criminalize undercover reporting, which historically has revealed otherwise hidden wrongdoing of all kinds?
Since the coronavirus came on the horizon, media figures have been stoking panic, leading to mass shortages of basic health supplies, business travel cancellations, and market drops, all while the confirmed disease number hiked yesterday to around 0.000002 percent of the U.S. population.
So far, U.S. cases of the basic seasonal flu outnumber coronavirus cases by a factor of 45,000 (using federal stats for this year’s flu and real-time tracking of coronavirus confirmations). The flu season has even been especially bad this year, with between 20,000 and 52,000 deaths, compared to 29 so far from coronavirus.
Good grief the Biden family is slimy and corrupt. In the latest development of Hunter Biden’s efforts to avoid responsibility in a paternity and financial support lawsuit the son of the presidential candidate is now claiming the risk of contracting the coronavirus should excuse him from a court-ordered deposition.(Via Fox News) Hunter Biden’s attorneys have abruptly asked the Arkansas judge in his ongoing paternity case to postpone his scheduled March 11 deposition until after Election Day, saying the coronavirus outbreak, his wife’s “imminent due date” and “intense media scrutiny” all pose a risk of “personal endangerment” for the former vice president’s son.
If only Jon McTague of The Atlantic had done a little reading up on President Donald John Trump, he would not look as big a fool. The Art of the Deal, the Art of the Comeback, and the Art of War are all available on Kindle.
But he dismissed President Donald John Trump's success as Trumportunities, "the idea that, whether by accident or design, Trump creates chances to solve long-running international problems that a conventional leader would not."
Solving problems experts cannot, McTague said, is blind luck.
Sun Tzu rolls in laughter.
In his first public comments to the press after crushing blows in primary contests, Bernie Sanders announced that is staying in the race and previewed debate attacks on Joe Biden."Last night, obviously, was not a good night for our campaign from a delegate point of view," Sanders said from his Burlington headquarters on Wednesday.The former vice president decisively won Michigan's Democratic primary on Tuesday, a state that the socialist Vermont senator won in 2016 in an upset over Clinton. That expanded Biden's lead to 166 pledged delegates ahead of Sanders, though about 119 delegates from states that have voted
Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday that health experts “do not expect most people to develop serious illness.” In her opening remarks, Messonnier explained that there are two different risk pools for contracting coronavirus. “Risk can be looked at in two ways,” Messonnier said.“There is risk of being exposed and getting sick
During an August 2019 CNN interview, Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden confirmed he is coming for your gun if it is an “assault weapon.”
Real Clear Politics posted a video of CNN’s Anderson Cooper asking, “So, to gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they’re going to come for guns?”
Biden responded, “Bingo. You’re right, if you have an ‘assault weapon.’ The fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period.”
He added:
Look, the Second Amendment doesn’t say you can’t restrict the kinds of weapons people can own. You can’t buy a bazooka. You can’t have a flame thrower.
ICE’s chief said Wednesday that at current deportation rates it would take 140 years to remove all the illegal immigrants who came in during the border surge of the past two years. Matt Albence, acting director at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the border surge over the past two years added 900,000 more cases to ICE’s non-detained docket, which now totals more than 3.3 million. That far outstrips ICE’s ability to track down and deport people, he told the House Appropriations Committee. “We arrested about 2,500 non-criminal fugitives last year.(Snip) He was defending ICE’s significant budget increase request
The Hollywood box office is already down 2.8 percent compared to last year and an incredible 23.5 percent compared to 2018, according to Box Office Mojo.
Compared to this same time in 2017, this year’s movie receipts are down 15.9 percent. Compared to 2016 and 2015, the box office has slumped 17.8 percent and 12 percent, respectively.
And we’re not even in Avengers: Endgame territory yet.
What I mean by that is that Avengers: Endgame was released in late April of last year and broke pretty much every box office records there is. So imagine what the 2020 numbers are going to look like
Bernie Sanders came into mini-Tuesday hoping for Michigan and Washington State to help him stay within closing distance of DNC favorite Joe Biden. However, Bernie was crushed in Mississippi, Missouri and Michigan by the machine – not by Joe Biden.
Bernie was left with a possible 50/50 split in Washington State where over 125,000 voters mailed-in ballots for Elizabeth Warren (mailed prior to withdrawal), not accidental, all by Club design. The Club is in control now, full control; and Biden is the malleable vessel the administrative state hopes to utilize to take control of all government function.
The president and founder of the Coalition of African American Pastors (CAAP) has launched a petition calling on the Senate to censure Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for his threatening remarks against two Supreme Court justices.
Rev. William Owens said in a statement that Schumer’s remarks against Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh promote “violence and hate”:
This is the kind of language that promotes violence and hate. We’ve had enough of politicians who bemoan partisanship on the campaign trail while still catering to the most extremist elements of the hard Left. To make an open threat against two sitting judges –
Dick’s Sporting Goods is pulling its hunting departments from 440 more of stores the country, a year after the chain announced it would stop selling guns in 125 of its 700 locations. The company announced the move in a press release Tuesday, along with its fourth-quarter earnings. The hunting gear and guns will be pulled sometime in the fiscal year 2020, but no specific date or information on which stores will be affected were provided. Dick’s chairman and CEO Edward W. Stack said that stores in more rural areas rely on hunting gear and will continue to stock shelves in those areas. “There are stores in more
The hashtag “#WriteInBernie” was the number one trending topic in the United States on Wednesday morning, as supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) struggled to cope with a stunning string of primary losses after Tuesday.
Before the Feb. 29 primary in South Carolina, just ten days before, Sanders had a sizable lead in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. But a big win for former Vice President Joe Biden in the Palmetto State was followed quickly by a dominating performance on Super Tuesday last week, and important victories in “mini Tuesday” this week. Crucially, Biden won Tuesday in the key state of Michigan, which Sanders won in 2016.
A man accused of killing four men in California in suspected race hate crimes, told detectives in a recorded interview that he purposely hunted down white people as his victims. A horrifying recording of Kori Ali Muhammad's confession was played in Fresno, California Monday as a court tried to determine whether the April 2017 murders warrant the death sentence. He explained on the recording how the killing of motel security guard Carl Williams III, 25, led to the slaying of Zachary Randalls, Mark Gassett, and David Jackson. Muhammad, who was 39 at the time, told cops he was fed up with racism against black people
In America, a black intellectual only joins the human race by joining the right wing. I had almost said when he votes Republican. Nearly all the other black "thinkers," their writers and other disseminators of ideas, excluding maybe Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama, are too caught up in the black question to join the rest of us. Thus the majority of their works, if not all of them, are focused on black people and the police, or black people in history, or black people in business, or black people in politics. There's no Thomas Sowell, who's known primarily for his works on economics,
Disgraced movie mogul and Democrat party mega-donor turned convicted Hollywood sex offender Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday following his conviction on two sex charges.
The judge’s decision likely represents a life sentence for Weinstein, who is 67 and has stated that he is in poor health.
Weinstein was found guilty last month of raping a hairstylist and forcibly performing oral sex on a former Project Runway production assistant. But he was acquitted of more serious charges of predatory sexual assault and first-degree rape.
The Spygate scandal is shaping up to be the most significant political abuse of government power in history. And it may be even larger than people expect.
The investigation by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the origins of the FBI’s Russian collusion investigation – or as President Trump prefers to call it, the witch hunt – continues to expand. Durham reportedly opened criminal investigations last fall. And unlike the narrow Justice Department Inspector General’s review of the abuse of the FISA process, Durham is looking into the questionable activities of other government agencies, in particular the CIA and its former director John Brennan.
Report: Russian Pranksters Reportedly
Hoaxed Prince Harry — He Says Trump
Has ‘Blood On His Hands’ replies
Hoaxed Prince Harry — He Says Trump
Has ‘Blood On His Hands’ replies
Two Russian pranksters posing as Greta Thunberg and her father reportedly fooled Britain’s Prince Harry into having a candid conversation that included scathing criticism of President Donald Trump.Harry also went into detail about being on the outs with the Royal Family since he and wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, have decided to go their own way, according to The Sun, which identified the hoaxers as Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov — known as Vovan and Lexus.
A lot of the conversation pertains to the alleged climate change crisis and Harry singles out Trump for pushing coal “so big in America” and as a result, “he has blood on his hands.”
The Detroit auto worker whom Joe Biden called "full of s**t" responded to the former vice president's attack, saying their conversation was "disturbing." "I thought I was pretty articulate and respectful," Jerry Wayne said Wednesday on Fox & Friends about his interaction with Biden. "I didn’t try to raise any — any feathers. And he kind of just went off the deep end. I saw that he was digging a hole. And I just kind of let him talk for a while to dig the hole." Biden launched his profane criticism of Wayne on Tuesday after the auto worker argued that the 2020 Democrat wants to take away his guns.
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have issues with his teeth again Tuesday night as he delivered a victory speech.Democrat frontrunner Joe Biden was addressing the media in Philadelphia after winning the Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi primaries on Tuesday, and as he read a prepared text, he seemed to suffer a problem with his mouth. Watch: (Tweet/Video) It’s not the first time Biden has had a problem with his teeth on live television. As moderator David Muir asked a question of Biden during a September Democrat debate, the candidate could be seen moving his mouth around as though he was chewing gum. At the conclusion of Muir’s question,
What do we expect in a US president? Here’s a shortlist of characteristics: a complex problem-solver, a good communicator, a good negotiator and deal-maker, someone who easily connects with people, consistency, in control, confident leadership, visionary, etc. Let’s look at Joe Biden’s antics on the campaign trail over just the past few weeks and see what characteristics he evinces (never mind his past plagiarism, girl-sniffing, and family corruption/nepotism for the purpose of this analysis).
Gov. Inslee to restrict gatherings of more
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than 250 people, a move aimed at sports and
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In the most drastic move yet to try to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, Gov. Jay Inslee is expected Wednesday to restrict gatherings of more than 250 people in King, Snohomish and Pierce counties, a move aimed at sports, concerts and other cultural events.
(snip) The measure would not affect retail stores, according to the source.
The restriction applies to large public gatherings such as baseball games, concerts and cultural event (snip) Chris Reykdal, Washington’s superintendent of public instruction, said Tuesday evening he doesn’t expect Inslee’s announcement to shut down public schools.
Washington — The next Democratic debate set to take place in Phoenix, Arizona will be held without a live audience due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, the Democratic National Committee and CNN announced Tuesday. (Snip) In addition to nixing the live audience, CNN, which is hosting the debate with Univision, said it decided to eliminate the press filing center and spin room, where candidates and campaign surrogates speak with reporters following the debate. "CNN's top priority is the safety of our employees and community members. This extends to guests planning to attend or cover our debate on March
Bernie Sanders, all washed up
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Have the Miami Cubans saved America from socialism?
Sure looks like it. Sanders was on the top of the heap in the Democratic presidential race ... right until he made remarks praising Fidel Castro on 60 Minutes, At that point, Democrats started consolidating like little tin soldiers behind Biden, the South Carolina primary gave Biden a solid win, and the Sanders bubble seems to have popped. But the slide downward seems to have been initiated when Florida's Latinos, many of them refugees from socialist hellholes such as Cuba, as well as Cuba's satellites such as Nicaragua and Venezuela, spoke out against Sanders' praise for the dictator's "literacy programs'
Today's Great Black Dilemma
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I was proud recently when Marc Little, chairman of my organization, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, stood behind President Donald Trump at a White House event for Black History Month and prayed for him.
Then a parade of black liberals did their thing in the media to try to deflate and devalue this important event. Their actions help us understand why so little progress has been made after more than half a century of civil rights activism.
CNNs Keith Boykin called the black Christians grouped around the president "Uncle Toms." Chris Redd of "Saturday Night Live" called them "White House negroes.
Ten years ago this month, when President Obama Barack was signing Obamacare into law, Vice President Joe Biden said to him in a stage whisper “This is a big f***ing deal.” A decade later, Obamacare has turned out to be a big f***ing failure. And Biden is now promising to expand it.
Remember “you can keep your plan”? Or “family premiums will go down by $2,500”? How about the claim that Obamacare would cut the number of uninsured in half? That it would dramatically reduce the federal deficit? And that it would make the health care industry more efficient?
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A Yale psychiatrist named Bandy Lee has repeatedly claimed that Trump is mentally unfit for office. Democrats in Congress have even had official meetings with her. This woman has never even met Trump, but she feels perfectly fine offering her diagnosis, in a clear ethical violation of her profession. Now that Joe Biden has become an increasing cause for concern, due to his aging mind, Bandy Lee refuses to offer a diagnosis of Biden.Washington Monthly reports. Brandy X. Lee, one of the mental health professionals who has been very vocal about Trump’s unfitness for office,
‘With urgency, she accepted him, fascinated by the power, and for a moment, she wavered, wondering if she was prepared. In the next second, she knew she could never be,’ Stacey Abrams wrote under the pen name ‘Selena Montgomery’ in 2006.
Abrams intended that passage to describe a romantic encounter in her saucy book Secrets and Lies, but it could perhaps just as easily apply to her White House ambitions. As Democrats constantly float her name as a potential vice presidential pick for Joe Biden, Cockburn can’t help but think that, while Abrams may be ‘fascinated by the power’,
Bye-bye, Bernie
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Four years ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders pulled off an upset in Michigan that gave life to his insurgent challenge to front-runner Hillary Clinton. On Tuesday, Sanders suffered a crushing defeat in the state, and whether he’s ready or not to acknowledge it, he is now without a realistic path to the Democratic nomination.
It’s incredible to think that just over two weeks ago, Sanders was the heavy favorite to be the Democratic nominee. With a massive win in Nevada coming off of a victory in New Hampshire and arguable win in Iowa, he was heading into Super Tuesday with a full head of steam. Money, organization,
Donald Trump campaign alumni wonder today what happened inside the FBI over 218 days from mid-August 2016 to March 20, 2017, that changed their lives forever.
August was the month a special FBI unit code-named Crossfire Hurricane picked four Trump associates for Russia-related counterintelligence cases. Former FBI Director James B. Comey testified later that it was not the campaign but “four Americans” under the microscope.
On March 20, 2017, Mr. Comey told the world that the entire Trump team faced investigation for “any links” to Russian government.
Before our time in the Marine Corps, some of the equipment issued to Marines, specifically helmet covers, shelter halfs (1/2 of what some call a pup tent) and ponchos had green camouflage on one side and brown on the other. Rolling the shelter half to fit onto the haversack pack, folding the poncho, and fitting the helmet cover took some time. For the sake of uniformity, every Marine would have his equipment arranged in the same manner, with the two-colored camouflage items folded so only one color showed. This was especially important when it came to Marines in formation.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton have become something like a disease on the body politic. Perhaps we can call it Clintonitis. It comes in two forms: Clintonitis-B and Clintonitis-H.
The Wall Street Journal has published the following exchange between Fareed Zakaria and Hillary Clinton from an interview on CNN this past Sunday. The Journal places it under the bland heading of Notable and Quotable. In case you missed it, you may observe even without the benefit of the video clip (at the first link above) that the woman is in the grip of stark raving Clintonitis-H:
Fareed Zakaria: There was an article in Vox
Comedian-actor Patton Oswalt posted a tweet on Tuesday in which he imagined supporters of President Donald Trump dying from coronavirus.The Ratatouille star joked that “MAGA” supporters infected with COVID-19 would be obsessed with the media’s treatment of President Trump as they coughed themselves to death. (Tweet) Oswalt was responding to an unsubstantiated claim that President Trump has asked Attorney General William Barr to launch a Justice Department investigation into the media’s coverage of the coronavirus.
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Joe Biden’s status as the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential race highlights the party’s hypocrisy when it comes to striking down Donald Trump, SKY News Australia "Outsiders" host Rita Panahi says.
Ms Panahi said it’s surprising the candidate, who is “so confused that he has trouble remembering where he is and why he’s there,” has not been discounted.
“Biden's cognitive issues have been evident for some time but just watch the same media who for four years have been declaring Donald Trump mentally and physically unfit for office have a collective meltdown when Biden's mental faculties are questioned,” she said.
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The forces of militant ignorance are in motion again. They are marching with Crazy Bernie Sanders and his spendthrift wife. They are marching with Congressgirl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former bartendress. They are rousing the drowsy forces of the Occupy Wall Street movement and the drowsy forces of the Occupy Washington movement, who have been recumbent for the past decade. You remember them. They were the utopian socialists and parasites who provided so much hope to the left-wing Democrats back in 2011 and 2012. They slept in parks. They hassled pedestrians. They, occasionally, relieved themselves on parked automobiles.
I called them then, and I call them now, the moron vote.
Last week wiped away Democrats’ worst fears. Joe Biden’s comeback likely ended the possibility that Bernie Sanders and his leftist fanatics will hijack their party and crash it in November. But they shouldn’t bust out the party horns quite yet.
Democrats think the general election can now be a referendum on President Trump, rather than one about the merits of socialism. But their embrace of Biden means they’re asking the country for something that might be equally unpalatable: a third term for President Barack Obama, except attached to Biden.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is fuming after a surprise vote in the Senate killed momentum for a long-awaited energy bill.
Murkowski lashed out at GOP colleagues following an Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing Tuesday morning, a day after many of her fellow Republicans crossed the aisle to hit the brakes on the bipartisan legislation.
“You have a few individuals who feel that their priority needs to trump everything else that we're doing around here,” she told reporters.
Last week Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx appeared on a Chicago Sun-Times podcast where she let people know how she really feels about the Jussie Smollett case. “This issue with Smollett, cause I’ll just take it head on, we’ve got 12 days left, is—excuse my language—is bulls**t.” One of Kim Foxx’s rivals in the Cook County State’s Attorney primary, Bill Conway, has just introduced a new campaign ad quoting that portion of her comments. “The reputation of the city of Chicago wasn’t marred by Jussie Smollett,” Foxx says in the ad, as her image is plastered to the screen. Then the commercial features a mashup of news reports
The mainstream media has downplayed another scandal involving former Vice President Joe Biden's family.
A new report revealed legal problems and allegations of possible fraud involving former Biden's brother, James, on Monday – but anyone who relies on the mainstream media would have no idea.
In the latest instance of the Democratic primary front-runner’s family members’ dealings drawing scrutiny amid his presidential bid, James Biden’s business with medical companies – including Americore Health – led to allegations that he potentially engaged in fraud and traded on his brother’s name, Politico reported early Monday.
The Trump administration is likely to extend the April 15 tax deadline as part of an effort to mitigate the effects of the novel coronavirus on U.S. households and businesses, according to an administration official and another person familiar with the matter.
Neither the decision to extend the deadline nor the mechanics of how such an extension might work are yet final. Normally, individuals must pay their prior year’s taxes by April 15 or face penalties and interest charges. People can already get extensions through mid-October to file their returns as long as they have paid on time by mid-April. This decision would go further than that.
Bernie Sanders chose not to give a speech Tuesday night after getting an electoral drubbing from Joe Biden in Michigan, Missouri and other states.
It was a defeat that one of his most prominent supporters, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, did not deny.
'Let's talk about it. Someone says tell us it'll be ok. There's no sugar coating it, tonight's a tough night, for the movement overall,' the first-term lawmaker and left wing firebrand said in a video live-feed posted to her Instagram account. 'Tonight's a tough night electorally,' she added.
The assessment underlined Sanders' own acknowledgement through his absence.
In a snub to his former attorney general, President Trump endorsed former Auburn University football coach Tommy Tuberville -- Jeff Sessions’ primary opponent -- in the GOP Alabama Senate race.
“Tommy Tuberville is running for the U.S. Senate from the Great State of Alabama,” Trump tweeted Tuesday night. “He is a REAL LEADER who will never let MAGA/KAG, or our country down!” [tweet]
Trump fired Sessions as attorney general in November 2018 after he recused himself from the Justice Department’s Russia investigation.
Both Tuberville and Sessions will be on the GOP ticket on March 31 after no candidate received 50 percent of the vote in last week’s GOP primary.
As sporting events are being cancelled around the world amid fears of the coronavirus outbreak, the NCAA is defending its decision to go ahead with March Madness – the three-week men's basketball tournament that generates nearly $1 billion in revenue and accounts for roughly 75 percent the organization's annual profits.
After the Ivy League cancelled its men's and women's basketball tournaments on Tuesday, the NCAA released a statement, explaining that its decision to go forward with March Madness is being guided by public health officials and its own COVID-19 advisory panel.
'NCAA member schools and conferences make their own decisions regarding regular season and conference tournament play,'