Posts on Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Appearing Sunday on The Michael Brooks Show, leftist professor Noam Chomsky claimed President Donald Trump is “undeniably” the “worst criminal in human history.” (Video) MICHAEL BROOKS: Could you explain why what Donald Trump is doing institutionally actually is unique and does matter on its own terms? NOAM CHOMSKY: This sounds strong, but it’s true: Trump is the worst criminal in human history, undeniably. There has never been a figure in political history who was so passionately dedicated to destroying the projects for organized human life on earth in the near future.That is not an exaggeration. People are focused now on
This is why Obama told Joe Biden he didn’t have to run for president.The look on Obama’s face said it all.Biden made no sense on Tuesday (as usual) during a virtual fundraiser.“Stop the cold war future that we’re talking about. We’re talking about a peaceful cold war. What are we talking about?” said Biden. HUH? WATCH: (Tweet./Video)
Fox News host Tucker Carlson criticized federal law enforcement for allowing rioters and those who topple monuments to go free while sending 15 agents to investigate the “absurd” story of a noose supposedly found in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage.After days of wall-to-wall media coverage and nationwide sympathy for Wallace over the incident, the FBI concluded Tuesday that the noose had been in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall since October 2019 and that no federal hate crime had been committed.“Every few months, there appears to be new hysteria over nooses discovered somewhere off in a public place and almost inevitably, the hate crime we
Madison Cawthorn, 24, has won the North Carolina 11th District Republican Primary in his bid to succeed former Congressman Mark Meadows, who left office to join the White House as chief of staff, in the upcoming November election. The New York Times, which has called the race for Cawthorn, reports that the young Republican businessman secured 65% of the votes, with 95% of precincts results, in the run-off primary against Trump-endorsed businesswoman Lynda Bennet. Bennet, 62, boasted a bevy of other high-profile endorsements, including Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Meadows himself, but still lost by a large margin.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on track to win her first primary election as an incumbent on Tuesday, holding a massive double-digit lead over her centrist challenger in early results. With all Election Day ballots accounted for, Ocasio-Cortez trounced former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera by a 70%-19% margin, according to official tallies by the State Board of Elections. The results do not account for mail-in ballots since New York allowed all voters the option to apply for them because of concerns about coronavirus. More than 700,000 New York City residents requested mail-in ballots for Tuesday’s primaries, according to the NYC Board
Tucker Carlson opened Tuesday's edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight" blasting liberal leaders for tolerating, if not supporting, the destruction of statues and historical monuments by far-left and anarchist protesters. "Democratic politicians don't fear the mob," Carlson continued. "Why? Because they don't need to. They control the mob. The mob operates with their permission. These are their foot soldiers. This is their militia. In unguarded moments, Democrats make it very clear that they know this." The host then connected protesters, Democrats and federal agencies, saying they were jointly responsible for the division and destruction in America.
Seattle police are investigating a third shooting in the Capitol Hill neighborhood near the city's 'autonomous zone,' a day after the mayor vowed to dismantle the encampment set up by anti-racism protesters. Police tweeted the shooting took place on the edge of the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), or Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where demonstrators set up a police-free zone in the wake of George Floyd's death in Minneapolis police custody. A man was taken to Harborview Medical Center at 5am on Tuesday after being shot near Cal Anderson Park and was in satisfactory condition, hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said.
All three men who were stabbed to death in a park near London last week were members of the LGBTQ community, The Guardian reported. On Saturday afternoon, friends David Wails, James Furlong and Joe Ritchie-Bennett, a Philadelphia native, were relaxing at a park in the south England town of Reading after attending a Black Lives Matter protest nearby. According to a statement released by the Thames Valley Police department, officers were called to Forbury Gardens around 7 p.m. after they were informed that a number of people had been stabbed.(Snip) A suspect, who was later identified as 25-year-old Khairi Saadallah,
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed Tuesday to crack down on illegal fireworks that have been plaguing the city's five boroughs — an ongoing problem for numerous cities across America. The mayor announced formation of a fireworks task force that "will target suppliers, distributors and possessors of large quantities" of fireworks. (Snip) New Yorkers made more than 1,700 calls to a city complaint line to report illegal fireworks in the first half of June. There were just 21 registered complaints during the same time last year. "For any number of reasons, the use of illegal fireworks has skyrocketed this year
It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist (Snip) declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets. That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump--a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him--is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Attorney’s Office reported on Tuesday that no federal hate crimes were committed with the noose found in the garage stall housing the Richard Petty Motorsports No. 43 entry for Bubba Wallace on Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway.
In a statement attributed to U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, the office stated:
"On Monday, fifteen FBI special agents conducted numerous interviews regarding the situation at Talladega Superspeedway. After a thorough review of the facts and evidence surrounding this event, we have concluded that no federal crime was committed."
Media fumes after Trump shares video
of a black man beating Macy’s
clerk in ‘unprovoked attack’ replies
of a black man beating Macy’s
clerk in ‘unprovoked attack’ replies
The liberal media took a break from fomenting a racially divisive narrative of police brutality not supported by recent statistics to express horror over President Donald Trump sharing a video of a black man beating a white man. Responding to a tweet from conservative Matt Walsh that featured a large black man pummeling a Macy’s store clerk, the president remarked: “Looks what’s going on here. Where are the protesters? Was this man arrested?” (Tweet/Video) “This guy brutally assaulted a Macy’s employee because of his race and then slandered him by claiming he said the n-word, which was a lie,” Walsh tweeted. “This is a horrific hate crime and if
China is conducting clandestine biological weapons-related research and has failed to disclose past offensive germ weapons work, according to a State Department report made public Tuesday. Beijing also is hiding nuclear-related test data by blocking sensors from an international monitoring system used to detect underground nuclear blasts, the annual arms control compliance report contended. The unclassified report provides new details regarding U.S. concerns “for many years” related to Beijing’s biological weapons research that is not permitted under the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention signed by 183 nations, including China and the United States. The Biological Weapons Convention bans the development, testing and use
Rayshard Brooks girlfriend has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the Wendy's where he was shot dead by cops on June 12. Natalie White, 29, was taken into custody in Atlanta, Georgia, on Tuesday afternoon after handing herself into the authorities. Police issued an arrest warrant for her on June 20 and shared surveillance footage of her inside a store. They claim she is partly to blame for setting fire to the fast food restaurant on June 13 where Brooks was shot dead by Officer Garrett Rolfe after falling asleep at the wheel of his car in the drive-thru lane a day earlier.
Christian figures and symbols have increasingly become the subject of debate as protesters across the country demand a reckoning on racial justice, pulling down statues and criticizing controversial figures along the way.Christianity, like nearly every long-standing institution in the United States, has a complicated history with racism, prompting several leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement to call for its symbols to be adjusted or removed. In some cities, protesters have taken matters into their own hands, pulling down statues or taking over churches.Protesters on Monday occupied the exterior of St. John’s Episcopal Church near the White House, refashioning it as the “Black House Autonomous Zone,”
In late January, John Bolton became the latest – and unlikeliest – official to enjoy a moment of Resistance glory. A New York Times report about Bolton's forthcoming memoir fueled round-the-clock expectations that the former national security adviser would substantiate the core allegation at the heart of President Trump's then-ongoing Senate impeachment trial – that the president tried to coerce Ukraine into opening an investigation of Joe and Hunter Biden in a quid pro quo for military aid. Compelling his testimony was cast as a matter of national urgency. Bolton was never given the chance as Senate Republicans voted to block witnesses and acquit Trump on both impeachment counts.
NASCAR said Tuesday the “noose” found in the Talladega Superspeedway garage stall of Bubba Wallace, was a garage door pull rope and had been there since the fall, according to an FBI report. Wallace was not the target of a hate crime, an FBI report indicated. The rope fashioned like a noose was there before the team’s arrival, the FBI report said. The investigation included photographic evidence from last fall. “We appreciate the FBI’s quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional, racist act against Bubba,” NASCAR said in a statement. “We remain steadfast in our commitment
Lincoln County, Oregon, has exempted non-white people from a new order requiring that face coverings be worn in public—to prevent racial profiling.
Health officials announced last week residents must wear face coverings in public settings where they may come within six feet of another individual who is not from the same household. But people of color do not have to follow the new rule if they have “heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment” over wearing the masks, officials said.(Snip) With mask requirements becoming more common, activists have raised concerns that the directives could put non-white people in danger.
An upcoming movie titled 'Cracka' plans to depict an alternate history in which black people enslaved whites in early America. Director Dale Resteghini released the trailer for the independently funded film on Friday, saying it would be available for purchase on Amazon Prime and elsewhere later this year. The trailer shows a white man with neo-Nazi tattoos being transported back in time to a version of America in which he is enslaved by black people. Title cards read: 'You took our breath away, what if we took yours? You raped our daughters, what if we raped yours? You stole our freedom, now we steal yours.'
Last week, Sen. Chuck Grassley wrote James Baker, the director of the Office of Net Assessments, seeking information concerning ONA’s potential involvement in Spygate. The chair of the Finance Committee had previously asked Baker for all records related to Crossfire Hurricane’s go-to informant, Stephan Halper, but as Grassley’s follow-up letter made clear, Baker’s response was greatly lacking. In addition to pushing for more answers about Halper, Grassley is now demanding answers about Baker’s alleged role in leaking details about Michael Flynn’s conversation with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, to the press.
The New York City Department of Education has launched an investigation into a troubling Facebook post penned by an employee of a Staten Island high school. Deborah Morse-Cunningham, who serves as the assistant principal of New Dorp High School, is still at work despite sharing a lengthy status update in which she pondered the nature of privilege by referring to a number of racial stereotypes. 'What is privilege?' Morse-Cunningham asked in the post, which has now been deleted.(Snip) 'Privilege is living in public subsidized housing where you don't have a water bill, where rising property taxes and rents and energy costs have
The FBI disclosed in a little-noticed court filing last week that the bureau found only one “material” error in a review of 14 applications to conduct surveillance against American citizens, an error count that is far lower than the 17 “significant” issues flagged in surveillance orders granted against Carter Page, the former Trump campaign aide. FBI’s general counsel, Dana Boente, and Melissa MacTough, a Justice Department national security official, said in a filing June 15 to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court that the single material error found in the 14 applications was not a serious enough infraction to invalidate the underlying surveillance warrant.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn's legal team has received notes taken by former FBI special agent Peter Strzok. A court filing Tuesday said U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen of Missouri, who was picked by Attorney General William Barr to review the government's case against Flynn, "obtained and analyzed" the document. "While the page itself is undated; we believe that the notes were taken in early January 2017, possibly between January 3 and January 5," acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin for the District of Columbia wrote to Flynn's team. "These materials are covered by the Protective Order entered by the Court on February 21, 2018; additional documents may be forthcoming."
Philadelphia - In a stunning decision that could test the legal framework of #MeToo cases, Pennsylvania’s highest court will review the trial decision to let five other accusers testify at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial in 2018, which ended with his conviction.
Cosby, 82, has been imprisoned in suburban Philadelphia for nearly two years (snip) Spokesman Andrew Wyatt on Tuesday said
“As we have all stated, the false conviction of Bill Cosby is so much bigger than him — it’s about the destruction of ALL Black people and people of color in America,” Wyatt said in a statement.
While I respect Carol Brown and value her insight, and even share her sense of frustration that the left seems to have taken the initiative when it comes to action, I disagree with her blog post today, "President Trump, it's time for a little less talk and a lot more action."
There are four principal reasons.
For law and order to be an effective response, convictions in a court of law must be the outcome. The old saying that the wheels of justice grind slowly is founded on experience. Evidence must be accumulated and properly inventoried (chain of custody issues result in many acquittals and reversals of convictions), and the
DENVER — Following a scheduled 30-minute public comment and right before Denver City Council commenced its regular Monday evening meeting, council chambers were overtaken by protesters demanding racial justice and calling for the defunding of the police.
Council President Jolon Clark of District 7 at first tried to compromise, but his efforts weren't kindly received. He proposed to one of the leaders of the group, who wore a red "Party for Socialism and Liberation" T-shirt, that the council carry out its legally required business and then resume public comment afterward, as has been done in the past three council meetings following
BRUSSELS — European Union countries rushing to revive their economies and reopen their borders after months of coronavirus restrictions are prepared to block Americans from entering because the United States has failed to control the scourge, according to draft lists of acceptable travelers seen by The New York Times.
That prospect, which would lump American visitors in with Russians and Brazilians as unwelcome, is a stinging blow to American prestige in the world and a repudiation of President Trump’s handling of the virus in the United States, which has more than 2.3 million cases and upward of 120,000 deaths, more than any other country.
Five people were shot and wounded at a candlelight vigil in Brooklyn, police said Tuesday. The three women and two men were blasted on Sterling St. near Brooklyn Ave. in East Flatbush about 10:50 p.m. Monday. A 39-year-old woman and 30-year-old man were shot in the torso. Two other 29-year-old victims, a man and a woman, were each grazed in the head and a 24-year-old woman was shot in the arm, cops said. All five were taken to Kings County Hospital in stable condition. The gunman is being sought. The shooting comes as the NYPD is grappling
Anti-White Activist Follows Terrified White
Woman Home, Films Her — Leftists
Celebrate Harassment replies
Woman Home, Films Her — Leftists
Celebrate Harassment replies
A Seattle-based Black Lives Matter activist with the Twitter handle “wypipo-h8,” slang for “white people hate,” followed a terrified white woman home, harassed her, filmed her address and license plate, and is attempting to ruin her life for some social media clout.Karlos Dillard describes himself as an “author, entrainer, and public speaker.” He is also a racist woman abuser.In a video that he tweeted,
Texas grocery chain H-E-B announced on their website they’ll be giving the largest pay increase in the history of H-E-B.In their statement, they go on to say, “We believe this crisis will be around for an indeterminate amount of time and our goal is to reward our partners for their hard work and dedication with more than temporary bonuses.”They announced the temporary Texas Proud Pay that had been given to partners who have been working during the COVID-19 pandemic would transition to a permanent merit increase that will be worth double what Texas Proud Pay was over the next year.
Director Spike Lee said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell should pressure Redskins owner Dan Snyder to change the team’s nickname and logo. Lee’s comments echo a renewed call for Washington to change the name in light of the nationwide protests of racial injustice. Lee made his remarks on the same day as city officials removed the statue of Redskins founding owner and segregationist George Preston Marshall on Friday. In an interview with SiriusXM, Lee referenced the removal of Confederate leader statues as a reason the Redskins should act on changing their name. “(Goodell) should approach (Snyder) and say if the Confederate stars and bars
South Korea is denouncing former US National Security Adviser John Bolton over what they call his distorted recollection of events in his new tell-all memoir. In a statement released Monday, South Korea’s National Security Adviser Chung Eui-yong disputed Bolton’s account of how talks broke down between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “It does not reflect accurate facts and substantially distorts facts,” Chung said regarding Bolton’s characterization of senior-level discussions.(Snip) “Unilaterally publishing consultations made based on mutual trust violates the basic principles of diplomacy and could severely damage future negotiations,” Bolton’s former South Korean counterpart said.
The left-wing mob is recharged and totally insane. They’re back on this cancel culture nonsense. They’re tearing down statues of historical figures they view as problematic. There is no reasoning with them. They’re the intellectual al-Qaeda of our time. You don’t negotiate with terrorists. As Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and Roosevelt are being targeted, two things are clear. This has never been about Confederate statues, folks. This has been centered on the Left’s hatred of America and its history and the bizarre fetish to rewrite it through a woke paradigm where no nuance is afforded to anyone. The far-left loony code of ethics,
I am a retired physician. Over my career, I've had some contact with epidemiology. I'll be blunt here: I came away unimpressed with that field. Here's why: 1. When a pandemic strikes, I've never once witnessed an epidemiologist get his hands dirty in providing actual patient care. So where the rubber meets the road during a pandemic, they're useless. 2. Their models, and therefore their advice and counsel, are based upon best guesses Correction*
Facts Are Stubborn Things
replies
It is hard to have a rational discussion when a person rejects the notion of looking at facts. Those who rely solely on feelings insist on denying facts, data, and science. They trust intuition and feelings, not reality. That’s why the saying, “My facts don’t care about your feeling,” has gained traction.
Attorney General William Barr committed the ultimate heresy in the eyes of Leftists when he cited data. He recently noted that there has been a consistent reduction in the number of deaths of Blacks by police. Five years ago, the total number was 38, last year, 10.
Socialism destroyed NASCAR, now the corporation is marketing racism for a new audience. Here is how and why from a simple observer perspective.
Auto racing is exciting. Auto racing racing is also dangerous; and became very expensive. Years of NASCAR success put them into the spotlight of big business; then another thing happened… A decision was made to make the racing “more competitive” through a series of rules and regulations that essentially made every car different but equal. NASCAR followed the socialist corporate model.NASCAR intentionally tried -and succeeded- to slow the cars down.
‘It’s too dangerous‘ the corporation said. So restrictor plates, and rules, and regulations, and more rules,
Canceling Yale
replies
I see that #CancelYale is trending on Twitter and elsewhere in social media. It’s a development I’d like to encourage—not, to be frank, because I think that canceling things is a good idea. Quite the opposite. But if the Left is going to pursue its dream of destroying every reminder of our past it doesn’t like, and if woke institutions like Yale, bloated with too much money and far too much self-regard, are going to betray their raison d’être and join in the effort to control the present by destroying the past, then I think an example should be made of corrupt institutions like Yale and craven leaders
The left's war on America's past crossed several new frontiers last week.
Portland's statue of George Washington, the Father of his Country and the first president of the United States, the greatest man of his age, was toppled and desecrated.
While the statue stood, an American flag was draped over its head and set ablaze. After it was pulled down, a new fire was set on another American flag spread across the statue, and also burned. The vacated pedestal was painted with the words, "You're on Native Land."
There is no way Mount Rushmore can survive the insurgency of left-wing domestic terrorism currently unfolding in our country.We have crossed the Rubicon and there is no going back, no putting the toothpaste back in the tube.With the ongoing 1619 Riots, that were sparked with the death of George Floyd, the establishment media and elected Democrats finally did it — finally decided to show their true colors and desperation by openly embracing, championing, and encouraging violence.
Before the 1619 Riots, as a country, on the right and left, we all agreed there was one line that could never be crossed; that we could never, ever, ever condone or encourage
Throughout the late evening and overnight hours we have been able to assemble definitive proof the NASCAR story of a noose hanging in the garage of drive Bubba Wallace is a hoax. [Background Here]
When the race team of Bubba Wallace arrived at Talladega Speedway in Alabama, he was assigned to garage stall #4. After reviewing prior video of that specific garage bay, at that specific speedway; and after reviewing a picture released yesterday showing the FBI investigators on the scene; it is clear the “rope noose” in question was nothing more than a manual garage door pull-down with a hand loop tied into it.
Fired NY prosecutor was given Biden-
Ukraine allegations in 2018 but didn’t
follow up, emails show replies
Ukraine allegations in 2018 but didn’t
follow up, emails show replies
Could the impeachment scandal have been prevented if the now-fired U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman had followed up on Ukrainian allegations about Joe Biden and his family in 2018?
That’s the tantalizing question raised by emails from fall 2018 between an American lawyer and the chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan(Snip)
The memos show that well before Ukrainian prosecutors reached out to Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, in 2019 to talk about the Bidens and alleged 2016 election interference they first approached Berman’s office in New York in October 2018 via another American lawyer.
The memos show Little Rock, Ark., lawyer Bud Cummins, a former U.S. attorney himself, reached out at least five times
The shock of a mass shooting in Uptown that left one man dead and 11 other people wounded had barely subsided Monday when multiple shootings elsewhere in the city swelled the number of casualties. On Monday, the day three separate afternoon shootings on the North Side left nine people injured, Mayor Jacob Frey announced details behind a multiagency effort to quell the bloodshed that has persisted over the past several weeks. Joining the Minneapolis Police Department will be virtually every law enforcement agency within reach: the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, Metro Transit police, and federal authorities from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
What’s in a name? For the state of Rhode Island, years of acrimony over an official designation with connotations of slavery. But change is brewing in the union’s smallest state, as Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed an executive order Monday taking the “first steps” to change the state’s full name: “The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.” The “plantations” portion has come under increased scrutiny following widespread protests after the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. The order, Executive Order 20-48, will change the name to just “Rhode Island” in official communications from the governor’s office—including future executive orders,
So much for the "block party atmosphere." So much for the 'summer of love.'
Summer hadn't even started on the calendar when Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan was forced to shut down the whole dumpster fire of lawlessness in the heart of her city down.
She praised it and praised it - and somehow never guessed that a police-free zone might just be an attractive place for criminals.
After turning six blocks of prime downtown land to armed warlords who chased out an entire police station and then set up their own 'autonomous zone,' they did the predictable, turning the area into a hellhole
So bunches of young folks are bragging that they used TikTok to scoop up blocks of tickets to Donald Trump’s big rally and depress attendance.
Including the daughter of onetime John McCain campaign strategist, if one can grant such a loser that much credit, Steve Schmidt.
Well, isn’t that hilarious? Here’s something more engrossing yet: There’s one word for what these perps claim to have pulled off – fraud.
Under case law in Oklahoma, “the elements of a common-law action for fraud are: 1) a material misrepresentation, 2) knowingly or recklessly made, 3) with intent that it be relied upon, and
The second presidential debate between President Trump and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will take place in Miami after the University of Michigan backed out of its commitment to host the debate.The university, which was slated to host the second of three debates on Oct. 15 in Ann Arbor, was reportedly concerned about the debates attracting media, campaign workers, and other presidential candidate supporters or protesters to the campus in a way that could spread COVID-19.The school announced on Monday that it plans to have students return to campus for courses in the fall
WASHINGTON, DC—For millennia, King Mob has targeted societies’ icons with varied goals and to varied ends, and few things are more foreboding than his desecration of civic art. Just as the targets have ranged from rulers to clergy, from tyrants to helpless, and from the guilty to the innocent, the outcomes have ranged from victory to defeat depending on the society’s strength and will. The promise of bloodshed coming alongside or following shortly after, however, is an historic certainty. The symbols of a people never satisfy: People themselves must always come next.In 1790, mobs looted and pillaged Paris’s treasured Notre Dame. To the revolutionaries, the cathedral symbolized everything
The Trump administration has had a few things to say during these unsettling times. Trump doesn’t approve of statues being torn down. Barr threatens Bolton with proceeds from his book being forked over if Bolton doesn’t complete the approval process prior to publication. (By the way: financial profits, not potential jail time!) Trump tweets about “law and order.” Barr and Trump warn that mail-in ballots are a recipe for massive voter fraud, including outside interference from China. Pompeo is aghast at how poorly the media covered a recent major announcement by the State Department. (snip) Meanwhile, the left has plenty of words, but they’re also taking action as they steamroll across America Correction*
Facebook content moderators discussed using their positions to censor Republicans and conservatives in an undercover video released by activist group Project Veritas on Tuesday.The video shows individual Facebook content moderators working for a third party contractor, Cognizant, expressing their eagerness to censor supporters of President Donald Trump. The footage also shows that CNN host Don Lemon was granted an “exception” by a Facebook for speech that would have otherwise violated Facebook’s rules against hate speech.The footage includes a shot of an internal order to the Cognizant team instructing moderators not to censor a video of Lemon
The word ‘genius’ is not often appended to Donald Trump, except perhaps by himself, but he has demonstrated since early 2016 that he does indeed have a rare political genius. A man not given to modesty, President Trump can rightfully claim he embodies the American ideal of an assured sense of purpose that comes from totally believing in one’s own greatness. (snip) So preoccupied with destroying Trump has the Democratic Party been since 2016 that their only success is their own survival. But the party is even more disunited than in 2016
The "Invoke Prejudice" card first appeared in the popular "Magic: The Gathering" game in 1994. The card features figures in pointed hoods, which the card game company recently declared as "racist" and said the card would be not only be removed but "should never have been published nor placed in the Gatherer." That card, and six others that have been deemed "racist or culturally offensive," have been banned from the game, the company said earlier this month. "The card is racist and made even worse by the multiverse ID it was unfortunately codified with years ago. There's no place for
A dozen states have seen record highs in new coronavirus cases, blares the news media, accompanied by dire warnings of a “second wave” of the disease because those awful Republican states reopened too soon. Once again, however, the mainstream press is needlessly scaring the public by hiding the relevant context.
One news outlet put it this way: “The U.S. reported more than 33,000 new coronavirus cases on Saturday – the highest total since May 1 – while the surge of infections in several states is outpacing growth in coronavirus testing.”
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow tried to tamp down the panic
Much as Democrats would like to deny it, the reality is that Americans were unanimous in condemning how George Floyd died at police hands in a Democrat-run city. Even after learning that Floyd was a career criminal hopped up on drugs when he met his death, Americans were willing to accept the Democrats’ (and their fellow leftists’) demands for police reform. Had Democrats stopped there, they could have achieved yet another incremental leftward push for their political agenda (snip) The problem is that Democrats have trained their army of college grads, minorities, and other victim groups
Systemic Ignorance
replies
"Systemic racism"? I wouldn't call that America's present problem. "Systemic ignorance" comes a lot closer to it -- a wonderful and telling phrase coined by an attorney friend of mine.
If you don't know much of anything, what right have you to instruct those who do know? Every right, it would presently seem. In acknowledgement of which right -- oh, boy! -- you commission instructive pieces of testimony like the San Francisco overthrow of a statue representing -- are you ready? -- former President and Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant. U.S. Grant! Grant, who accepted, at Appomattox courthouse in 1865,
President Donald Trump should get some kind of appreciation award from U.S. publishers and bookstores. He inspires — and even helps promote through controversy — negative books about him that the Washington media describes as “bombshells” and “shockers.” Numerous books get written about every president, eventually. But the 45th president is at least seven months from leaving office. And the shelves are already filling up with revelatory tomes about the 74-year-old man who’s shattering presidential norms by the day. Trump is, as you may have
Jimmy Kimmel has tried to do anything he could to attack President Donald Trump.
In 2018 one of the things he did was encourage Tom Arnold to find and release a tape that allegedly showed Trump using the N-word. Of course, no one was even able to produce such a tape. It was just one of the many hoaxes, put out there to demonize Trump.
But turns out there was in fact an N-word video, only it was Kimmel himself who was using the word repeatedly.
He was doing a Snoop Dogg imitation and using a “black voice” on former “Man Show” co-host Adam Carolla’s podcast.
Warning for offensive language.
Yamiche Alcindor is at it again. The PBS “journalist” who prides herself in letting her activism take center stage in her reporting decided to try out a new gotcha question today. She asked Kayleigh McEnany about confederate statues and a Trump comment noting “our heritage,” as if nothing else is going on in the country right now except Robert E. Lee memorials being destroyed.
McEnany was having none of it. [Tweet/ video]
Nowhere does Trump ever stipulate that the “heritage” he’s talking about is just confederate statues. Rather, he was talking about the myriad of far reaching examples, from Ghandi to George Washington.
No wonder Joe Biden is hiding in his basement.
He is going to need more than just a face mask to survive this campaign. Somebody needs to get the guy a body cast after President Trump’s rally in Tulsa on Saturday night.
It is not even elder abuse. I mean, yeah, the guy is near 80 years old and he seems all talked out. Vacant. Lost. And lonely.
But the problem isn’t how long Mr. Biden has been alive. The problem is how long he has been in Washington. Or, as Mr. Trump described it, “four decades of betrayal, calamity and failure.”
The guy has had a storied career.
In 2013, Lori Rodriguez called San Jose police to her home because her husband was having a mental health crisis and making violent threats. Seven years later, she is petitioning the Supreme Court to force the city to return her guns.
"It's not right. I shouldn't have to do this to get back what's mine," Rodriguez told the Washington Free Beacon. "They violated several of my constitutional rights."
Rodriguez claims police ordered her to open the couple's gun safe so they could seize all of the weapons in the home after her husband was detained for making threats that the city says included "shooting up schools."
President Trump often says things that other president's have been careful not to say. These are then used as justifications by others for unprecedented actions that make it harder for this president to govern and will make it harder for future occupants of the Oval Office, too.
Just months into his presidency, transcripts of Trump’s calls to the leaders of Australia and Mexico were leaked to the press and published in full, an outrage that damaged foreign leaders' confidence when talking to Washington. Leaked conversations inhibit the administrations in the conduct of diplomacy.
PHOENIX — Coronavirus pandemic or not, an investment advisory company is leaving the cultural unrest in Seattle and moving its headquarters to Phoenix’s Camelback Corridor.
” … The unrest that has taken place in the city of Seattle … there is really is not a downtown business community today,” Smead Capital Management, President and CEO Cole Smead told KTAR News 92.3 FM.
Smead said that although taxes in Seattle are lower, candidate recruitment is harder and the cost of living within the city is more expensive than Phoenix.
Now the cancel police have come for Teddy Roosevelt.
A statue of TR on horseback that has stood at the front of the American Museum of Natural History since 1940 is going to be removed by the museum with the assent of New York City.
The statue portrays two figures beside Roosevelt on foot, a Native American and an African, which is taken to be a statement of racial hierarchy, although the depiction is open to interpretation. Roosevelt is also, of course, getting specifically targeted for his racial views.
There is no doubt that he partook of the prejudices of his time and reflected some of its worst intellectual influences, particularly Social Darwinism.
Joe Biden’s campaign is refusing President Donald Trump’s request to take part in more than three debates ahead of the general election in November.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, the former vice president’s campaign manager, made the announcement on Monday in a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, as first reported by the Washington Post. In the letter, O’Malley Dillon informed the commission that Biden would only take part, as is custom, in three presidential debates.
“Joe Biden looks forward to facing Donald Trump in a multi-debate series that the American people have come to expect from their leaders;
Thinking about holding your Fourth of July blowout in New Jersey? Better think again.
The Garden State is the least patriotic state in the US, according to a new ranking released Monday by financial advice Web site WalletHub.com.
Measuring 13 metrics on military and civic engagement — including veteran residents per capita, percentage of adults who voted in the 2016 presidential election and rates of volunteerism — the study ranked Jersey dead last among the 50 states.
Bill Barr Scorcher: Effort to Push
Trump From Office Closest Thing to
Coup Since Lincoln Assassination replies
Trump From Office Closest Thing to
Coup Since Lincoln Assassination replies
Attorney General William Barr took his verbal scalpel and shredded the complete “bovine silence” of the media following the “complete collapse” of the attempted coup of President Trump – an attempt that he agreed hasn’t been seen since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Other than that, the interview on “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo” was a complete snore-fest.
Real Clear Politics provides a transcription of the interplay between the attorney general and host Maria Bartiromo, who told Barr:
Welcome to the blood-slicked sidewalks of summer. It’s going to be a long one. And hot.
Shootings in Gotham were running at the rate of one an hour for much of the weekend, with final numbers up in the air. Upstate, 18 people were shot in Albany, two fatally, over three days; 12 hit in Syracuse, including nine at a single party; 10 in Buffalo.
Appalling? Sure. But think of it as the first fruits of criminal-justice “reform.”
To be sure, the Empire State wasn’t unique. In Chicago, police reported 102 shootings over the Father’s Day holiday — 14 fatal, including a 3-year-old boy. But you need a mechanical clicker
One of the most pernicious phenomena of modern times is the collusive lawsuit. This is how it works: a left-wing organization sues a government agency that is also controlled by the left. The lawsuit alleges that the agency is obliged to do something that the agency would like to do, but the Democrats can’t get it passed. Then the parties–supposedly adverse, but actually in collusion–“settle” the case by having the agency agree to do what it wanted to do all along. If all goes well, a court enters an order enforcing the settlement. So the net effect is that a policy that the Democrats couldn’t get passed
Geoffrey Berman, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, refused to sign a letter criticizing New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) for okaying protests but not religious gatherings a day before Attorney General William Barr announced he would be replaced, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Justice Department supervisors asked both Berman and Eric Dreiband, the head of the agency's civil rights division, to sign the letter, but after a brief back-and-forth, Berman objected to its characterization of de Blasio’s handling of the protests as a double standard and said signing the letter would hurt relations between the city and his office,
There are many qualified candidates for the title of second most consequential event of 2020, right after coronavirus and its associated worldwide economic implosion. The global reach of the George Floyd protests comes to mind, as does the still-unfolding China–India clash in the Himalayas. Perhaps North Korea or Iran will deliver another crisis unto the world. Possibly more deserving than any of these, however, is China’s planned rollout of its digital yuan, through which the Communist Party intends to upend the U.S.-led financial world order. China has been conducting intensive research on a potential centralized digital currency since at least 2014. The Digital Currency Electronic Payment (DCEP) plan,
FiveThirtyEight pollster Nate Silver insisted on Sunday that President Trump can "absolutely win" the 2020 presidential election despite his significant dip in the polls against former Vice President Joe Biden.
On ABC News' Sunday program "This Week," Silver debuted his national polling average, showing Biden having a 9-point advantage over Trump, but noted that national polling "doesn't really matter" since Hillary Clinton isn't president today, alluding to the fact that the candidate must win the electoral college in order to become president like Trump did back in 2016.
Silver noted that Clinton had a 7-point lead over Trump and that President Obama
With one exception, the Supreme Court causes supreme problems when it oversteps its bounds, as it has done regularly since Trump's election. It did this most recently when it held that, although President Obama illegally instituted his DACA program, President Trump must jump through a series of arbitrary administrative hoops to walk it back. Daniel Horowitz says that there is a way to end the Court's unconstitutional power grab.
Going back as far as 1857, with one exception, the Court's major public policy decisions have been constitutionally invalid and had disastrous outcomes. Dred Scott denied African-Americans citizenship, Plessy v. Ferguson enshrined segregation,
Seattle will move to end the police-free zone known as the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest," or "CHOP," after two recent shootings, one of which was deadly, Mayor Jenny Durkan announced Monday -- signaling that a stunning chapter in the city's history could be drawing to a close.
The mayor said the violence was distracting from changes sought by thousands of peaceful protesters seeking to address racial inequity and police brutality. Activists set up "CHOP" in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood about two weeks ago, barricading off the area after police evacuated a ransacked precinct building there.
Protesters began arriving at Lafayette Park in front of the White House with black-painted wooden shields, according to videos on social media, as they confronted police.
“This is what we call community people,” one protester yelled to the police, according to one video by a Daily Caller reporter.rotesters were heard chanting, “F*ck these pigs.” (Tweets/Videos) Protesters with shields also chanted, “Quit your job.” (Tweets/Videos) Some of the protesters carrying shields could also be seen wearing black helmets.
Protesters and rioters clashed with police earlier in the day, as they tried to topple a statue of President Andrew Jackson in the park, and defaced the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church again
The Biden campaign has agreed to participate in three planned general election presidential debates in the fall, while slamming the Trump campaign’s push for more debates as an “effort to change the subject” and “create a distracting ‘debate about debates.’” Joe Biden’s campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon penned a letter, obtained by Fox News, to the Commission on Presidential Debates outlining the campaign’s expectations for the debate schedule this fall. “While I know no formal debate invitation will be issued to Joe Biden or Donald Trump until after the Party Conventions and the CPD’s invitation process, I wanted to set forth our views on how the Commission should proceed
President Donald Trump and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt both responded to the latest spate of violent riots that have resulted in the destruction of historical statues across the U.S. by saying that it would not be tolerated. The statements from Trump and Bernhardt come after rioters have destroyed presidential statues in recent days across the country, including statues of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ulysses S. Grant. Violent rioters in Washington, D.C., tried to destroy a statue of former President Andrew Jackson on Monday, which police were able to stop.
A Rock ’Em, Sock ’Em Campaign
replies
When President Trump got a good look at the coronavirus in late January, and listened to the opening choruses of the Democratic attack on him as “anti-science,” he evidently concluded there was nothing for it but a two to three month shut-down followed by a declaration of partial victory in the public health crisis along with an exhortation to a massive and almost instantaneous economic renaissance coming to a head in late October. It is the boldest tactical political gamble that any American leader has taken since Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for a third term in 1940 on the policy of maintaining peace by arming the democracies fighting Hitler
New Yorkers are fed up with Mayor Bill de Blasio allowing the lawlessness continue on their streets, which includes shooting off fireworks at all hours of the night.To enact their revenge, protesters lined up their cars and held down their horns for a noise demonstration near the Gracie Mansion late Monday night. “If Brooklyn can’t sleep, @NYCMayor can’t sleep,” one person familiar with the protest tweeted. (Tweet/Video)
Bullets are whizzing around New York this month at a rate not seen in nearly a quarter century, according to the NYPD — and police sources warned that the recent run of gunplay may be the new normal. Through the first three weeks of June, which came to a close Sunday, city streets echoed with 125 shooting incidents, Chief of Crime Control Strategies Michael LiPetri told The Post on Monday.“We have to go back to June of 1996 to get a worse start for June,” said LiPetri. “That is a telling stat.”Twenty-four years ago, Rudy Giuliani was mayor and,