Posts on Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) emerged as former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate on Tuesday. But her presidential campaign was a disaster: even in her home state, Harris struggled to build support, finishing at 7% in California last year.Harris started slowly in California, only reaching fourth place in the crowded field in June 2019, at 13%. But she soon surged, particularly after the first presidential primary debate in Miami, Florida, when she attacked Biden over his past support for segregationists, and his opposition to mandatory school integration (“busing”).
The man shot and injured by a Secret Service officer outside the White House on Monday evening was unarmed, according to law enforcement sources.Myron Berryman, 51, remains in a critical but stable condition in a Washington, D.C. hospital after he was shot in the chest when he allegedly charged towards an officer outside the President's residence claiming to have a gun. The Secret Service say Berryman yelled 'I'm going to kill you. I'm going to shoot you' at agents before he was shot. Despite the alleged threats, no weapon was retrieved from the scene, sources told The Washington Post. .
.CTH friend, researcher and producer John Spiropoulos helps connect the dots within the operation to cover-up corrupt activity by James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Baker, Christopher Wray, Dana Boente and the entire special counsel group. In this video John walks us through the internal evidence showing how the FBI intentionally hid the statements by Christopher Steele’s primary sub-source Igor Dyachenko. The result…. a 34 month cover-up operation.(Video)
Face masks have been added to the list of unwanted mystery packages being mailed to U.S. residents from China, leaving residents perplexed as to what's going on. "I looked at the label and it had Shanghai, China from a certain district," said Tampa Bay, Florida, resident Shan Sharp to News Channel 8, when she received a package from abroad recently. "All of this information, including my cell phone number, (was) on there." After opening the envelope, Sharp discovered two packets of face masks with no delivery note. "I was afraid to even open it after I saw it. I didn't
CHICAGO — Shattered glass and other debris from looted stores was still being cleaned up Tuesday after a wave of violence tore through the city's upscale shopping districts. To some experts, the unrest — in which more than 100 people were arrested and 13 police officers were injured — represents long-simmering frustrations finally boiling over. Others say the violence was opportunistic in nature, criminality spilling into the streets. (Snip) “This put everybody on notice that folks have had enough,” he said. “They are saying this is what it means to be poor, hungry and fed up, and if we're really
In April 2019, senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) said she believed the women who said they felt uncomfortable after being touched by former Vice President and presumptive Democrat nominee Joe Biden.Senator Harris said last year at one of her campaign events that she believed accusers of Joe Biden, according to a report by The Hill.“I believe them and I respect them being able to tell their story and having the courage to do it,” said Harris at an April 2019 event in Nevada.
Several women had come forward accusing Biden of touching them inappropriately and making them feel uncomfortable.On Tuesday, Biden, who is now the presumptive 2020 Democrat nominee,
On November 3, 2019, I wrote about a CBS News Sunday Morning feature by Ted Koppel about Gibson’s Bakery, its owners, and the years-long struggle to obtain justice after being targeted by Oberlin College, its administrators, faculty, staff, and students. My post was, Ted Koppel: Despite verdict, Oberlin College President still “makes allusions to a pattern of racist behavior” by Gibson’s Bakery.(Snip)There was no evidence presented in court supporting the claim of a long history of racial profiling. There was an interesting portion when Ambar clearly was uncomfortable, when Koppel pressed her as to what her reputation was worth:(Snip)David Gibson died two weeks after the CBS News story aired.
The Democrat’s presumptive nominee Joe Biden named his former primary opponent Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate Tuesday, despite her notoriously poor performance in the 2020 primaries.The California Democrat launched her presidential campaign in January 2019 with great fanfare. But despite the fawning media coverage hailing her as the “frontrunner” and the “candidate to beat,” Harris’ campaign crashed and burned two months before a single vote was cast.The following 15 Democrat candidates all lasted longer than Harris.
Nearly 20 percent of New York City's hotels are being used to shelter the homeless in a widely criticized initiative that some say will 'bankrupt' the city and drive its wealthy residents out for good. Since the start of the pandemic, 13,000 homeless people have been moved out of shelters and into hotels around the city. Currently, 139 of the city's 700-odd hotels are being used. De Blasio is paying the hotels $175 per person per night, according to sources who are familiar with the scheme, which puts the cost at more than $2million a night. The city is refusing to release a list of the hotels being used
President Donald Trump on Tuesday reacted to the news that former Vice President Joe Biden had selected Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate in 2020.The president criticized Harris for treating his nominee to the Supreme Court, Brett Kavanaugh, unfairly during the confirmation hearings. “That was a horrible event,” Trump said. “I thought it was terrible for her, I thought it was terrible for our nation. She was the meanest, most horrible, most disrespectful than anybody in the U.S. Senate.”The president spoke about Harris during a press conference at the White House on Tuesday evening, shortly after the Biden campaign announced his decision.
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared to have a script before him during a video call via Zoom with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), who was selected by his campaign to be his running mate on Tuesday. One America News’s Jack Posobiec made the observation on Twitter while sharing a photo released by Adam Schultz, the photographer for Biden’s presidential campaign.Schultz photographed Biden during a video call with Harris, describing the image as capturing the moment Biden advised Harris of her selection. “[Joe Biden] picks [Kamala Harris] for VP at his home in Delaware today over zoom,”
Sarah Palin congratulated Kamala Harris and offered some advice after Joe Biden picked her to be his running mate. “Congrats to the democrat VP pick,” Palin said in an Instagram post after the announcement. “Climb upon Geraldine Ferraro’s and my shoulders, and from the most amazing view in your life consider lessons we learned.” Palin, who was John McCain’s running mate during his unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign, included a list of lessons she learned during her time campaigning. She included a photo of herself and Ferraro, Democrat Walter Mondale’s running mate in the 1984 election, along with her advice.
Nearly six thousand Americans renounced their citizenship in the first six months of 2020, a massive increase over the previous six monthThe numbers were reported by Bambridge Accountants New York, a firm which specializes in taxes for United Kingdom expatriates and U.S. citizens, which reviewed a government list of Americans who have renounced their citizenship. An IRS rule requires the government to publish these names every three months.In the first six months of 2020, a whopping 5,816 Americans renounced their citizenship, more than twice the number who renounced in all of 2019.
Neighbor reportedly rushes 5-year-old boy playing outside,
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puts a gun to his head, and executes him replies
A 5-year-old boy is dead after a man in Wilson, North Carolina, reportedly ran up to the child while he was playing in a neighborhood street and fatally shot the child in the head. Cannon Hinnant was playing outside his father's house on the dusky summer evening when their neighbor — 25-year-old Darius N. Sessoms — charged Cannon, produced a handgun, and shot him in the head.
Flashback to when media did its job,
exposed Biden for blatantly lying about
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exposed Biden for blatantly lying about
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A video montage tweeted by actor James Woods on Monday features then-Sen. Joe Biden bragging that he was tops in his law school class followed by clips of subsequent media reports debunking his claims.In the first clip, Biden is heard variously claiming during what appears to be a press conference that he attended law school “on a full academic scholarship,” that he was the only one in law school to have a full ride, and wound up in the top half of his class.“I was the outstanding student in the political science department at the end of my year,” Biden continued. (Tweet/Video) “I graduated with three degrees
Mass destruction took place in the heart of Chicago in the early hours on Monday morning as looters raided the shopping district and other stores across the city, but MSNBC and CNN offered little to no coverage of the unrest during their network's most-watched shows. Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said as of Monday morning responding units had arrested more than 100 people on charges ranging from disorderly conduct to battery against police. He added that 13 officers were hurt in the unrest, including a sergeant struck in the face with a bottle and an officer who had his nose
Former Vice President Joe Biden seems to have announced Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. There was an inquisitive photographer's shot of his notes suggesting just that. But there's also some question about whether she's really qualified. The media has already seeded the ground with quotes from some of the dumbest lawyers in America to state she is a “natural born citizen” under Article II of the U.S. Constitution, and is therefore, eligible to be vice president or president.
The iconic soda brand confirmed on Aug. 10 that there is indeed a shortage impacting all Dr. Pepper products at grocery stores. While it didn’t cite a specific cause, the company comforted fans with some hopeful words.
“We know it’s harder to find Dr. Pepper these days. We’re doing everything we can to get it back into your hands,” read a statement from Dr. Pepper on Twitter. “That means working with our distribution partners to keep shelves stocked nationwide, while ensuring the safety of our employees.”
The shortage affects all flavors of the soda, including the newest addition, Dr. Pepper & Cream Soda.
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s re-election campaign on Tuesday lashed Joe Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris as a “phony” who buried her prosecutorial record in order to “appease the anti-police extremists controlling the Democrat Party,” and the Democratic candidate’s “political living will.”Trump also tweeted a brutal campaign video dubbing the duo “Slow Joe” and “Phony Kamala” in a preview of the battle to unfold over the next 86 days before the November election.The opening salvo came just minutes after the Democratic nominee announced the senator from California as his vice president.
Applause broke out from at least one person on MSNBC as Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris to be his vice presidential nominee. The network turned to MSNBC analyst Claire McCaskill, a former Democratic senator. Brian Williams breathlessly reported the breaking news: “I am just being told we have a pick and it’s Kamala Harris of California.” Clapping could be heard off-camera. Since this is MSNBC and that could be any person at the network, Williams clarified, “For the record, those applause were from Claire McCaskill.” Of course McCaskiill was thrilled:
The far left media are angry that President Trump is crushing Sleepy Joe Biden in online engagement and they are blaming The Gateway Pundit for this.
We happily accept their recognition. However, their accusations are incomplete.Far-left AXIOS reported today that President Trump is crushing Sleepy Joe Biden in online engagement. This is no surprise due to President Trump being so successful in his first term and Sleepy Joe being unable to get out of his basement.Axios reports: Traffic to President Trump’s presidential campaign website is more than 4x greater than traffic to Joe Biden’s
The Walt Disney Company has purged the remaining Fox branding from assets it acquired in a 2017 deal, renaming 20th Century Fox Television as simply 20th Television. It comes as part of a larger rebrand for all of Disney's TV studios, with Fox 21 Television Studios renamed Touchstone Television and ABC Studios and subsidiary ABC Signature merging under the ABC Signature banner. The new 20th Television logo will debut in new seasons of The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad and Bob's Burgers, among others. The move appears to be aimed at limiting confusion of Disney's assets with Fox Corporation, which exists separately
For nearly four hours Tuesday morning, the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals drilled attorneys for Michael Flynn, the Department of Justice, and Judge Emmet Sullivan on a wide range of issues, from the scope of Federal Rules of Criminal Procedures 48(a), which provides that “the government may, with leave of court, dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint,” to the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers, the propriety of mandamus, and the need for Sullivan to recuse from the Flynn case.(Snip)While Sullivan’s attorney suggested he had no intention of crossing any lines,
oe Biden has chosen Kamala Harris, the prominent senator from California whose political career has included many barrier-breaking moments, as his running mate, his campaign announced on Tuesday.
The decision comes more than a year after Harris, who was also a 2020 Democratic candidate, clashed with Biden over racial issues during the first primary debate. If elected, she would be the nation’s first female, first Black and first Asian American vice president.
San Francisco Federal Reserve President Mary Daly said she is worried the pandemic will widen gender and racial inequalities and said policymakers need to make sure the recovery is inclusive. Daly said the crisis "magnified" gaps that existed across race, gender and other communities and that people who cannot work from home are especially challenged.
"We need to make sure that we reach back and ensure that everyone makes it through the pandemic, not just those who are fortunate enough to have a workaround," Daly said during an online conference organized by the Professional BusinessWomen of California.
Michelle Obama, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and former Gov. John Kasich (R) are among a handful of influential speakers slated to headline the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) virtual convention.
The Democratic National Convention, scheduled to run August 17-20, will feature several high profile speakers on Monday, including Joe Biden’s former primary challengers Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), as well as Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL), Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI), former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), Reps. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Gwen Moore (D-WI), and former First Lady Michelle Obama.
COLUMBUS — The dreams for a perfect season for one of the most talented Ohio State rosters ever assembled have been dashed.
The nightmare scenario has arrived for college football, with the Big Ten officially electing to delay all games on Tuesday while holding out some hope it could potentially play in the spring — a decision that multiple sources at Ohio State believe is untenable.
For years, Bryant Park Grill & Cafe in Midtown Manhattan has been one of the country’s top-grossing restaurants, the star property in Ark Restaurants’ portfolio of 20 restaurants across the United States.
But what propelled it to the top has vanished.
The tourists are gone, the office towers surrounding it are largely empty and the restaurant’s 1,000-seat dining room is closed. Instead, dinner is cooked and served on its patio, and the scaled-down restaurant brings in about $12,000 a day — an 85 percent plunge in revenue, its chief executive said.
Kasich: Supporting Trump Is Not
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Consistent with Biblical Teachings
— Biden ‘Is a Man of Deep Faith’ replies
Monday on CNN’s “OutFront,” former Gov. John Kasich (R-OH), who is set to speak in support of Joe Biden for president at the Democratic National Convention, said Evangelicals’ support for Trump was not “consistent with the things that they believe in as promoted in the Old and New Testament.” Kasich pointed to Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden’s faith as a determining factor in his support. Kasich said, “I would encourage other Republicans to know that it is okay to take off a partisan hat, take off your partisan hat and vote on the basis of what your conscience tells you about the future
North Carolina police have charged a neighbor with the murder of a five-year-old boy who was riding a bike in his own yard when he was shot at point blank range on Sunday evening. Darius Sessoms, 25, was taken into custody by Wilson police around 24 hours after he allegedly approached Cannon Hinnant in front of the young boy's father's house at 5:30pm and shot him in the head. Hinnant's seven-year-old and eight-year-old sisters witnessed the killing, their mother told WRAL. Sessoms lived next door to the family, and the killing is not believed to be random.
Attorney General William Barr may have had secret information that led the Justice Department to seek to drop its criminal case against Michael Flynn, a government lawyer said Tuesday.
Jeffrey Wall, the acting U.S. solicitor general, revealed the possible existence of that nonpublic information during a full appeals court hearing over whether Flynn’s case in federal court should be dismissed, as the Department of Justice has requested.
Still unpunished for the first go-around, Russian collusion perpetrators are taking aim at a new target this time: Senator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. The news media and Democratic lawmakers are accusing the two-term senator of acting as an agent of Russia for continuing to pursue his investigation into the Biden family’s shady ties to Burisma, the troubled Ukranian energy company that paid Hunter Biden millions of dollars while his father was vice president and Obama’s designated “point person” in Ukraine. The onslaught began last month when Politico reported Johnson planned to subpoena Biden associates after they refused to voluntarily testify.
The Obamas and Clintons will have prominent speaking roles when former Vice President Joe Biden officially accepts the party’s presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention next week. The mostly virtual convention will take place over four nights beginning on Monday and ending with Biden’s acceptance speech on Thursday. Biden will accept the nomination over video from his home in Delaware, rather than travel to the convention site in Milwaukee, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Democrats have planned a four-night event
Black Lives Matter activists in Chicago held a rally Monday evening to stand in solidarity with the dozens of individuals who were arrested after a night of mass looting and criminal activity, with one organizer brazenly defending looting as a form of reparations.Activists gathered at the South Loop police station on Monday to stand in solidarity with over 100 people who were arrested after a night of violence, destruction, and mass looting erupted within the city. As Breitbart News reported, the looting began after midnight and lasted hours.Ariel Atkins, a Black Lives Matter organizer who spoke at the rally, said looting is not an issue and defended the criminal practice.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. has told allies that he has interviewed every finalist in his vice-presidential search, and his advisers are planning an announcement for the middle of the week, people briefed on the selection process said on Monday.
In a sign that the choice is now in Mr. Biden’s hands alone, the four-member committee that screened his potential running mates is said to have effectively disbanded — its work is complete, Biden allies said, and there is little left to do except for Mr. Biden to make up his mind.
Mr. Biden’s political team has prepared rollout plans for several of the finalists, and he is expected to announce his decision
If anyone wonders why Iran and North Korea are not falling for Western demands to surrender their nuclear weapons programs, recent events in Libya — and a historic double-cross — offer powerful evidence and object lessons for nations monitoring the twists of United States foreign policy. [Snip] Here’s where the U.S. diplomatic duplicity comes in: Gaddafi seized
If anyone wonders why Iran and North Korea are not falling for Western demands to surrender their nuclear weapons programs, recent events in Libya — and a historic double-cross — offer powerful evidence and object lessons for nations monitoring the twists of United States foreign policy. [Snip] Here’s where the U.S. diplomatic duplicity comes in: Gaddafi seized
Q: The State Fair of Texas recently announced that it’s looking for a new voice for Big Tex, the friendly cowboy giant who has been greeting visitors to the State Fair for, I would imagine, about a century by now. A call has gone out for all Big Tex want-to-bes to provide basic personal information along with a “Howdy, folks” voice sample. I have a running buddy who is expressing interest in throwing his hat into the ring. My problem is this: my friend is from Alabama. With most matters, I would be happy to allow for any participants with the necessary talent (which my friend probably has)
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has learned how to govern like a third-world dictator. His threat to shut down the water and power to large house parties that violate the city's coronavirus guidelines is right out of the totalitarian government handbook.
In the mid-1980s, I spent my junior year abroad in Sierra Leone, West Africa with the open mindedness and youthful optimism that define many American college students. I learned many things, including the fact that America was unique — we could never tolerate the corrupt and tyrannical behavior that defines most third-world governments. So I thought.
Former CNN exec says ‘for better or
worse’ future relevance of network is
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worse’ future relevance of network is
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A former executive for cable news pioneer CNN says the network’s future “relevance” is directly linked to President Donald Trump, suggesting that if presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden wins in November ratings will crash.In a story regarding the “Trump Bump” — a reference to the boosted coverage of the president has provided networks and news organizations — the outlet Digiday noted how media adjusted its business and revenue models to account for the increased attention. Included in the story are interviews with former CNN correspondents and executives who discussed the network’s decision to take a confrontational approach to covering President Trump
Chicago had the worst night of unrest Sunday since May, the Chicago Tribune reported.“We just wanted to give y’all a heads-up that we got a call from an anonymous individual that there’s gonna be looting going on at 87th and the Dan Ryan,” a police dispatcher told officers at 11:07 PM Sunday night, according to the Tribune. That signaled the beginning of the most chaotic night of looting and vandalism since the demonstrations began. More than 100 people were arrested and 13 officers where injured throughout the night, Police Superintendent David Brown said according to the report. Rather than some sort of organized protest, Brown called the violence “pure criminality.”
Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best announced Monday evening she is retiring, the same day the city council voted to slash police department funding.
“This was a difficult decision for me, but when it’s time, it’s time,” Best said in an email to the police department. The first black woman to serve as police chief in Seattle, Best will step down on Sept. 2. (tweet)Best told local reporter Brandi Kruse that “she felt targeted by a ‘punitive’ proposal to cut her pay by 40%.”
“I do feel like it’s … animus toward me specifically,” she added. (tweets)The city council approved a plan Monday that included decreasing the size of the Seattle
Phis has been a year of such astonishing and unforeseeable events that it seems to be taking some time for the full impact of what has tumbled onto the daily and political life of the United States to be assimilated. (Snip)The Democratic Party is now committed to a far more radical socialist platform than has ever been remotely hinted at by a serious American national party. This includes open borders, and effectively the full right of undocumented residents to the benefits of the American welfare and education systems as well as the right to vote. They are also intent on the seizure of firearms in private hands.
A crook on a Citi Bike robbed the 13-year-old son of the NYPD’s anti-terror czar in a daring daylight heist on the edge of Central Park, officials said Tuesday. Cops released a surveillance image of a suspect in the Monday afternoon robbery on Central Park West near W. 91st St. in the hopes that someone recognizes him. The victim is the son of NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence & Counterterrorism John Miller. The mugger rolled up on the Citi Bike and snatched the teen’s iPhone XS Max and wallet, which contained $100, before pedaling off down the street about 1:45 p.m.,
As regular readers of my column know, I’m no fan of Donald Trump. And that’s putting it mildly.
I don’t like his chronic dishonesty. I don’t like narcissism. I don’t like his nastiness and his silly name-calling. I detest his need to constantly cause chaos, as he did with a recent tweet suggesting we should postpone the 2020 presidential election. There’s nothing about this man’s character that I like.
And I hope he wins re-election in a landslide.
Actually what I mean is that I hope the Republican candidate beats the Democratic candidate. And I wish the Republican candidate were almost anybody else.
Tucker Carlson, Greg Gutfeld Dismantle
CNN After Claim That No News Orgs
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CNN After Claim That No News Orgs
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Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Greg Gutfeld slammed CNN on Monday after CNN media reporter Brian Stelter aired a segment over the weekend claiming that no news organizations existed to tear down President Donald Trump.The segment came as Stelter aggressively defended presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden over the week, claiming without evidence that “entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden.”“When you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down Trump?” Stelter asked a guest on his show.
NEW YORK — Riverdale Nursing Home in the Bronx appears, on paper, to have escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic, with an official state count of just four deaths in its 146-bed facility.
The truth, according to the home, is far worse: 21 dead, most transported to hospitals before they succumbed.
“It was a cascading effect,” administrator Emil Fuzayov recalled. “One after the other.”
New York’s coronavirus death toll in nursing homes, already among the highest in the nation, could actually be a significant undercount.
A series of errors by contractors and consultants on the California bullet train venture caused support cables to fail on a massive bridge, triggering an order to stop work that further delayed a project already years behind schedule, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
The bridge is longer than two football fields and is needed to shuttle vehicles over the future bullet train right of way and existing BNSF freight tracks in Madera County.
Authorities have yet to finalize a plan to repair the bridge. Late last year, crews installed temporary steel supports to prevent it from collapsing.
What Is A Derecho?
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As I write this piece, a significant derecho event is making its way across the midwestern part of the United States. It is creating a path of destruction. However, there were several posts on my social media feeds today asking “What is a derecho?” or “How could this much destruction be caused by a derecho? Here is a quick “101” on derechos. Before I get into what they are, let’s discuss the current meteorological circumstances involving this derecho. The Monday weather discussion of the National Weather Service-Chicago said, “All eyes are on the incoming impressive convective complex surging eastward towards the river early this afternoon....
There are three groups of people that will vote for Trump: Those who supported Trump in 2016; those who have come to support Trump; and those who are so frightened of Biden and the Democrats that they’ll do anything to see Trump win. (snip) In an op-ed for CNN that must have terrified Democrats, Rich Thau, who runs the Swing Voter Project, wrote about the normal, fairly apolitical, people who benefitted from the Trump boom. The majority of these swing voters, he said, want Trump (snip) Swing voters, says Thau, have watched the Democrats’ over-the-top response to the virus
Andrew Cuomo's got a load of nerve.
Imagine being one of the relatives of the thousands of elderly nursing home residents who died as a result of their residences becoming sealed incumbators for COVID, which Andrew Cuomo literally ordered. (snip) Yet here we have it, Cuomo saying he won't allow an independent investigation as to why he ordered this on March 25:
“I think you’d have to be blind to think it’s not political,” he said. “Just look at where it comes from and look at the sources and look at their political affiliation.”
Which is absolute rubbish -- the New York Post reports that legislators from all parties are demanding it.
Seattle's police chief stepping down after City
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Council votes to trim department, sources say replies
Seattle's Police Chief Carmen Best is stepping down, multiple sources tell the CBS affiliate there, KIRO-TV. One source calls the development "devastating." The move came to light made the same day the City Council approved reducing the department's ranks by as many as 100 officers through layoffs and attrition, note's KIRO's Gary Horcher: (Tweet) Cuts to the department have been supported by demonstrators who have marched in the city following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis but strongly opposed by Mayor Jenny Durkan and Best. Best, the city's first Black police chief, said in a Monday evening email
The postmaster general is rarely a household name. Expect that to change should the Democrats lose in November. If that happens, they will try to turn Louis DeJoy into the Vladimir Putin of the 2020 elections.
DeJoy took the helm of the postal office in June, and since then the former head of New Breed Logistics has been trying to bring some semblance of fiscal order to an operation that has been losing billions of dollars for years.
“Without dramatic change, there is no end in sight, and we face an impending liquidity crisis,” DeJoy told the U.S. Postal Service’s
The Singularity Is Near
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It’s obvious to all, at this point, that factional division is reaching a breaking point in America. Like a pair of locked-together tectonic plates pulling slowly in opposite directions, the strain has been increasing for a long time now—and when seismic ruptures finally occur, they happen suddenly, and release enormously destructive energies.
Some years back, John Derbyshire referred to this pent-up tension as a “cold civil war,” and here in 2020 more and more of us are getting the feeling that the term is apt. Is it? (Snip) Throughout history, civil war has been regarded as uniquely evil. It pits neighbor against neighbor and brother against brother.
A recent landmark poll of 20,000 citizens undertaken by the Knight Foundation and Gallup found that Americans’ hope for and trust in an objective media is all but lost. They see not only an ever-growing partisanship in news reporting but a determination by the mainstream media to push a political agenda instead of honestly disseminating the news. While generic faith in the media has been gradually declining over recent decades, the precipitous drop in trust and questions about what motivates the mainstream media can be traced to June 2015 and Donald Trump’s entry into the presidential sweepstakes.
Washington — The House's No. 2 Democrat announced Monday the lower chamber will not return for votes in Washington until mid-September after negotiations between Democratic leaders and the White House on the next coronavirus relief measure collapsed last week, leaving millions of jobless Americans without immediate relief. According to the schedule released by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer on Monday, the House will not convene for votes until September 14. Members will be working in their home districts and conducting committee work for the first two weeks of September. Lawmakers were initially scheduled to return September 8.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, between magazine photo shoots and throwing the first pitch at baseball games, seems to have forgotten the cardinal rule of medicine – first, do no harm. By downplaying the effectiveness and highlighting the alleged dangers of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), it can be argued he has cost American lives, and will cost more, coming as he has between real doctors and real patients and real world experience with a drug that has been safely used to treat conditions like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis for six decades without any serious side effects.
Susan Rice and her multimillionaire husband have poured thousands of dollars into Joe Biden's presidential campaign, substantially increasing their contributions as the former national security adviser was floated as a potential running mate.
Rice and her husband, the former ABC News producer Ian Cameron, increased their contributions to Biden as Rice's name moved to the top of his list of vice presidential options, campaign finance records show, funneling $24,000 to Biden in the month of June alone. The sum marks a vast increase over their previous giving: Prior to that time, the couple had contributed a total of $5,800 to the campaign over the course of the cycle.
Left-wing prosecutors have implemented soft-on-crime approaches to criminal justice across America, in some instances making it a matter of policy in major cities not to prosecute specific crimes, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.
A common, though not universal, feature of prominent left-wing district attorneys is the backing of political organizations funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros. The New York Times has credited Soros with pioneering the “push to overhaul prosecutors’ offices” across the country.
Cook County, Illinois, State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx, whose jurisdiction includes Chicago, took office in 2017 after winning her election with the help of a Soros-funded super PAC.
Bill Gates is the smartest guy in the room, nay, on the planet, and he wants everybody, from the White House to the medical community to John Q. Citizen in Anytown, U.S.A., to know it.
How else to explain his feigned incredulity on CNN of America’s coronavirus test process to that of other nations? Let’s remember: Gates is a computer guy. He’s not actually a medical expert.
This is what he said when asked by CNN host Fareed Zakaria to explain America’s handling of the pandemic, as Mediaite noted: “I wouldn’t have predicted that we would do so poorly.”
Debates Will Be Biden’s Undoing
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It should by now be clear to the meanest intelligence that key advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, are terrified of allowing him to stand next to President Trump on a debate stage. Consequently, they have deployed various Biden-friendly pundits to denounce presidential debates in general as meaningless exercises in empty showmanship. Elizabeth Drew, for example, advises the readers of the New York Times that these quadrennial contests more closely resemble wrestling matches than genuine debates about important issues. They reward “snappy comebacks and one-liners” rather than substantive discussions of serious issues. In the end she inadvertently refutes her own claim.
Candace Owens blasts ‘white supremacists
running Dem Party’ for what they
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running Dem Party’ for what they
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Conservative commentator Candace Owens called out “the true white supremacists” running the Democratic Party for destroying black America.Owens addressed the latest efforts by Democrats to negatively impact the black community, noting in a tweet accompanying a recent interview that they are well aware that “ignorance guarantees them votes.” (Tweet/Video) “Black children are now learning that the nuclear family, traditional values, and academic success are tacit forms of ‘white supremacy,'” Owens wrote in the caption of the tweet she posted Monday. The conservative activist spoke about this narrative with the Daily Caller’s editorial director Vince Coglianese,
There is no ‘do no harm’ VP pick
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If you’ve kept half an eye on the ‘who will it be?’ story that is the Democratic party’s vice-presidential nomination, you’ll have heard commentators suggesting that Biden will pick a ‘do no harm’ candidate.
In other words, Biden should play it safe: given his lead in the polls, he can only slip up, so boring is better than original; boring is better than exciting; uninspiring beats edgy. Do no harm — it’s become journalistic shorthand for boring.
The trouble is, there is no such thing as a harmless Veep pick
The man shot near the White House on Monday — briefly halting the president’s press briefing — “ran aggressively” towards a Secret Service agent and claimed to have a weapon, authorities said. The shooting of the 51-year-old suspect by a federal officer happened at 5:50 p.m. right outside the White House at the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, the Secret Service said in a statement. “The suspect approached the officer and told the officer he had a weapon. The suspect then turned around, ran aggressively towards the officer,
Last October, Ibrahim Bouaichi sexually assaulted Karla Dominguez with whom he reportedly had been in a relationship. He was charged with six felony counts and held without bond in an Alexandria, Virginia jail.
In April, a judge, Nolan Dawkins, ordered the release of Bouaichi due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Bouaichi was 33 years old. The virus probably posed about the same threat to his health as the flu. Moreover, there had been no cases of the virus at the Alexandria jail.
Bouaichi’s lawyers argued that visits to the jail had been curtailed and that they needed to meet with their client. But all trials had been postponed.
The Democrat-controlled Seattle City Council voted late on Monday to advance a highly controversial plan to defund the Seattle Police Department as violent crime and far-left riots have rocked the city in recent months.The Seattle City Council voted to remove approximately $3 million from the Seattle Police Department’s budget, which included: Cut 32 officers from patrol – $533,000 - Reduced specialized units including officers assigned to mounted unit, school resource officers, homeland security, harbor patrol, SWAT team – $250,000 -Removed officers from Navigation Team, ensuring homeless neighbors are not retraumatized by armed patrol officers – $216,000
Protests over the past few months in cities like Portland, Seattle and even New York have led to violence all too often. Louisville, Ky., has had enough.
On Sunday, its police department banned street marches and caravans that block city streets, restricting protesters to sidewalks.
It’s more than reasonable; it’s wise. Clashes with police have led to injuries and arrests, and though the right to assemble is guaranteed by the First Amendment, public safety matters, too.
In the early hours of the morning yesterday, there was a massive party taking place on the 3300 block of Dubois Place in Southeast Washington, D.C. The good times came screeching to a halt when sustained gunfire broke out. When the smoke cleared, one 17-year-old male was dead and another twenty people had been shot. Among them was an off-duty police officer who had responded to the violence and was left “fighting for her life.” No suspects have been identified.
What a smackdown!
Furious that Democrat leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer were blocking a bill to help Americans through the COVID-19 crisis, President Trump stepped up and got the job done, all by himself.
Over the weekend, he issued four executive orders that would extend modified unemployment relief to millions who are out of work, protect many from eviction from their homes, provide continued relief from student loan debt and suspend payroll taxes for employers and those earning less than $100,000. It may not be enough, but it was more than Democrats were offering.
Black Lives Matter members in Chicago held a rally on Monday to support the more than 100 arrested last night following widespread looting and rioting that caused at least $60 million in property damage and saw 13 police officers injured, according to a report.
The rally was organized by Black Lives Matter Chicago and was held at a police station in the South Loop where organizers say individuals are currently being held in custody. At least one organizer called the looting tantamount to "reparations."
“I don’t care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy’s or a Nike store, because that makes sure that person eats,”
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Secret Service on Monday afternoon interrupted President Trump’s presser and pulled him away from the podium in the briefing room and moved him into the West Wing. President Trump returned moments later and confirmed that an individual was shot by the Secret Service outside of the White House and was taken to the hospital.
The shooting took place at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.(Tweet) Footage of male shooting suspect down: (Tweet/Video) A Secret Service officer was also injured and taken to a local hospital.The male suspect and Secret Service officer were transported to a local hospital.“At no time during this incident was the White House complex breached or were
No, I’m not kidding. I believe the black vote will be the key to President Trump’s coming electoral landslide. No, it’s not a “Black Silent Majority.” Trump and Republicans aren’t winning a majority of black votes in 2020. But we don’t need a majority. We just need a “Black Silent Minority” to clinch a Trump victory.
I may understand black voters better than any white Republican in America. I’m a S.O.B. (son of a butcher) who grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up on the Bronx borderline in Mt. Vernon, NY, a majority black town. I attended an almost all black middle school.