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A Black jogger who was detained in Florida last month for matching the description of a burglary suspect has been offered a job in the county sheriff’s office for the way in which he handled the encounter with the deputies who detained him.
Joseph Griffin, who is a registered nurse and former military veteran, was out jogging in Deltona, Fla. when deputies stopped him for matching the description of the suspect they were looking for: a Black male, with a white tank top, dark shorts, and a beard.
Four black pastors have formed a coalition to vigorously push back against the false and destructive narratives of the “vicious mob of malcontents” known as the Black Lives Matter movement. Their message is resonating nationwide. The 500+ strong Conservative Clergy of Color (CCC) is led by founding members Bishop Aubrey Shines of Tampa; the Rev. Derek McCoy of Beltsville; Maryland, pastor Francisco Vega of Atlanta; and the Rev. M.J. Reid of Detroit. On the CCC website, the leaders accuse the racial justice movement of pretending to be about equality, while in reality being about “domination and divisiveness.”
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Former Clinton campaign adviser Dick Morris predicted during a Sunday interview that the 2020 presidential election is going to drag out because of mail-in voting and end up being decided by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.As Breitbart reported, Morris told “The Cats Roundtable” host John Catsimatidis that while he believes it will appear that Trump wins in a landslide on Election Night, Democratic officials in swing states will manage in subsequent days to discover millions of mail-in ballots in favor of Democratic nominee Joe Biden.Regarding whether the election’s fallout will lead to civil war, Morris said, “Well, there certainly will be major conflict.
Democrats and their media allies do not appear to have a lot of faith in the party’s 2020 nominee, Joe Biden, as they seem to be laying the groundwork for disputing and/or contesting his eventual fall in November.
One such angle has been the ongoing focus on President Trump allegedly working to undermine the U.S. Postal Service ahead of election day, as spotty as the claims may be.
In what looks to be a furtherance of that campaign, the Washington Post rolled out a story Sunday about U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy allegedly being involved in a straw donor scheme.
First lady Chirlane McCray’s pet project to erect more city statues to women is a monumental failure, critics say.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s wife started the effort two years ago — yet has chosen only one artist for a single monument so far.
A rep for McCray insists her boss’s She Built NYC effort had to be temporarily shelved because of the coronavirus, but critics note that construction restraints on the Big Apple amid the pandemic were lifted several months ago — and claim City Hall’s incompetence and scattered priorities are really to blame.
With The Atlantic’s recent electioneering effort to convince the American people that President Donald Trump was nothing but contempt for U.S. veterans, including those who died in service to their country, a video has surfaced that effectively puts the matter to rest.
The unsubstantiated, anonymously-sourced political hit piece from Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg published late last week claimed Trump has no respect for the Armed Services or the heroes killed in action.
According to Goldberg’s reporting, the president said soldiers who died in battle are “losers” and “suckers,” as improbable as that sounds.
But Mark Simone, a talk radio host heard on WOR in New York City,
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson said Sunday that it could take up to a week to count all of Michigan’s absentee ballots for November’s election.
“We should be prepared for this to be closer to an election week, as opposed to an Election Day,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “The bottom line is we are not going to have the full results and a counting of all of our ballots on election night.”
Benson said that Michigan’s election officials were “laser-focused” on ensuring that all ballots are counted accurately, and referenced how her office had purchased more voting tabulators
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A registered nurse appeared to surprise a CNN host during a panel discussion of the administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when she heartily defended President Donald Trump’s actions.
Michele Morrow of North Carolina, who said she has been working in her industry for more than a quarter of a century, was part of a panel of women voters featured during a segment hosted by CNN’s Alisyn Camerota. During the segment, the subject turned to the administration’s coronavirus actions.
“I’m a nurse, and I’ve been a nurse for 27 years. And the response to the pandemic has actually been President Trump’s greatest achievement,” Morrow said.
Debbie George, 61, a yoga instructor in Charlotte, North Carolina, said she "desperately" wants Joe Biden to carry her battleground state and defeat President Donald Trump in the general election. But from what George, a lifelong Democrat, said she has seen so far, Biden just isn't doing enough to galvanize support among Democrats and independents to win the state. "He needs to come. He needs to address North Carolinians. Some kind of socially distanced event, a small conference or roundtable," she said. "These rehearsed speeches in front of no one are not cutting it." George's concerns underscore the uphill battle
The Natural History museum is conducting a review into potentially 'offensive' collections including its Charles Darwin exhibitions. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, museum bosses have ordered an audit into certain collections that some staff believe are 'legacies of colonies, slavery and empire'. Rooms, statues and collected items in the museum that could be 'problematic' may be renamed, relabelled, or removed. The review into the museum’s links to slavery and colonialism could result in a potential overhaul of the museum's collections and public spaces. In documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph, museum staff were told that as a result of the Black Lives Matter
Production on the HBO Max Gossip Girl reboot will now begin in October. Filming was meant to start in the spring but was delayed, like the majority of studio productions, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Warner Bros. confirmed to Variety this week that the 10-episode series will start production towards the end of the month in Vancouver, New York and Los Angeles. Showrunner Joshua Safran teased fans with more details about the reimagined show as he took to Twitter on Sunday night to answer questions about the upcoming show. He revealed the show is going to be 'very, very queer'
With unemployment soaring, state lawmakers are considering ways to soften the blow from a major impending increase in the taxes employers pay toward the state’s unemployment system, a jump in costs that one business group described as a “pretty staggering.” With the unemployment insurance trust fund suddenly facing a multibillion-dollar deficit over the next four years, the contributions required from Massachusetts businesses are set to increase nearly 60 percent when the calendar turns to 2021 and then continue growing at a smaller rate through 2024. Those higher taxes -- estimated at an average of $319 more per qualifying employee
Actions speak louder than dubious, anonymously sourced claims.
Amid all the controversy over unsubstantiated claims that President Donald Trump has trash-talked military veterans, indisputable video footage has reemerged showing Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden disrespecting military veterans.
Recorded at a campaign event in Oakland, California, one video from this past March showed a veteran later identified as U.S. Air Force veteran Michael Thurman trying to ask Biden a question about his prior support for the deadly Iraq War.
“I’m an Air Force veteran. I’m here with an Army veteran. We are just wondering why we should vote for someone who voted for a war
President Trump is regaining his footing in Texas as Joe Biden (D) slips in the polls nationwide, a recently released Dallas Morning News/UT-Tyler poll showed. According to the survey, taken August 28 to September 2, Trump is strengthening in the Lone Star State, leading his Democrat opponent by two percentage points, 48 percent to 46 percent. According to the Dallas Morning News, that represents a significant shift in the president’s direction, given that he trailed the former vice president by five points in July. “Trump is ahead,” Mark Owens, the poll’s director, said. “Trump is helped by Cornyn.”Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) currently leads his Democrat opponent MJ Hegar
U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco Jamie McCourt told Breitbart News exclusively on Monday that the Atlantic story about President Donald Trump allegedly bashing troops is untrue.
Ambassador McCourt was there the day President Trump’s team called off the trip to the cemetery at Belleau Wood because of inclement weather.(Snip)
“Needless to say, I never spoke to the Atlantic, and I can’t imagine who would,” (Snip) “In my presence, POTUS has NEVER denigrated any member of the U.S. military or anyone in service to our country. And he certainly did not that day, either. Let me add, he was devastated to not be able to go to the cemetery at Belleau Wood.
An Alabama woman has donated a life-saving kidney to the cop that locked her up twice for narcotics-related offenses.
Recovered drug addict Jocelynn James was scrolling through Facebook late last year and saw a post from the daughter of retired police officer Terrell Potter that her dad needed a kidney. One of his kidneys was failing and was only five percent functional.
“I just threw my phone down and the holy spirit told me right then that I had that man’s kidney,” James said. James and Potter lived just two miles from each other at the time.
It miraculously turned out that she was a 100 match after the appropriate testing.
After years of advocacy work, cultural burning practitioners had a win in Australia when the government of New South Wales, the state hit hardest by last year's catastrophic bushfires, formally accepted a recommendation for an increase in cultural burning as part of their fire management strategy.
An official report issued by the New South Wales government explains how Indigenous land practices can improve fire management in the wake of the deadly bushfires.
As some of the most damaging wildfires in recent memory have raged through California, in the United States, this cultural burning knowledge is becoming more relevant than ever, said Don Hankins,
The state’s oldest licensed radio station, which turns one hundred next year, is about as close as a municipal entity can get to being a tall tale.
WRR-FM is publicly owned, but it’s not publicly funded, nor is it public radio. Its studio sits on the grounds of the State Fair of Texas, in the shadow of the Ferris wheel.(Snip)WRR’s story began when a fire consumed the telephone lines that Dallas dispatchers used to call police and fire precincts. The man tasked with finding a solution was an electrical engineer, organist, and technology geek named Henry “Dad” Garrett, who’d been Texas’s first car dealer (for National Electric in 1901),
The family behind the gender reveal party that sparked a California wildfire could be hit with charges — and a massive bill to cover the costs of putting out the blazes, authorities said.
Cal Fire spokesman Bennet Milloy said the group could be on the hook for millions to cover the hundreds of firefighters, helicopters and planes employed to tackle the El Dorado Fire, the Daily Mail reported.
They also could face a “variety of charges,” including arson, which carries a sentence of up to nine years, Milloy said.
Though Joe Biden has now accepted that violence is occurring in many major American cities and has started blaming Donald Trump for it, many of his supporters haven’t gotten the memo. A new trend among some high-profile left-wingers is to gaslight Americans by posting daytime photos of well-to-do areas of cities undamaged by the riots as proof that the riots aren’t real. Meanwhile, tear gas and fires engulf entire blocks at nighttime.
Josh Campbell, a former FBI agent and CNN contributor, kicked off the trend by tweeting September 1: ‘Good morning from wonderful Portland, where the city is not under siege and buildings are not burning to the ground.
Yesterday afternoon, as the temperature in many parts of the Los Angeles area topped 110 degrees, the mayor of Los Angeles issued this tweet:(Snip for tweet graphic)It was known for nearly a week that we were in for record-breaking heat this weekend, and remember that as it is a holiday weekend, most industry (that is still left in the state) is shut down, which ought to have made it easier to secure enough power for citizens. My power went out for more than five hours last night, though because of an old-fashioned blown transformer. I live in an area exempt from the planned rolling blackouts
Basement-dwelling Biden did a total 180 during an interview with Arizona’s Family Political Editor Dennis Welch on Sunday and said that a national mask mandate is probably unconstitutional.A few weeks ago Biden called for a national mask mandate. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris delivered remarks after their Covid-19 roundtable in mid-August and called for a “nationwide mask mandate starting immediately.”“Let’s institute a mask mandate nationwide, starting immediately and we will
Easily triggered left-wingers seem to be becoming unglued, as it were, on social media and calling for a boycott in response to a trending tweet featuring a Hobby Lobby store display that reads “USA Vote Trump.” So far, it has yet to be determined if an employee or just a random customer at the unidentified shop is responsible for the pro-Trump aisle art. Whether you’re a fan/customer or not of Hobby Lobby or its sometimes controversial business practices, it’s worth noting that the woke crowd seldom has an issue with importing into and insisting upon far-left policies at the workplace.The image below was reportedly first posted on
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) tweeted an article from Politico in which Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that America needed to plan for President Donald Trump’s refusal to leave office, under the assumption he loses the election.Schumer added approvingly: “This is important: I’m standing side-by-side with @SenSanders to make sure we have a plan if President Trump refuses to leave office.” (Tweet) President Trump has already said that he would leave office and go on to do “other things” if he lost the election. Yet his opponents have spun a conspiracy theory in which he would refuse to accept the election results. As Politico reported:
Former Deputy White House Chief of Staff Zach Fuentes denied to Breitbart News The Atlantic’s account of President Donald Trump’s comments about troops in Europe.
Fuentes unequivocally denied The Atlantic’s report last week, a huge blow to the establishment media narrative. Fuentes personally briefed President Trump on the weather situation that led to the trip being canceled. He is also a close personal confidante of former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.“You can put me on record denying that I spoke with The Atlantic,” Fuentes told Breitbart News on Monday. “I don’t know who the sources are. I did not hear POTUS call anyone losers when I told him
As many white-collar employers extend into next year the work-from-home policies they instituted in response to the coronavirus pandemic, a vast amount of vertical space in downtown Seattle is leased but empty. The vacant space amounts to more than 700 football fields, by one estimate — acres of desks, with knickknacks and mementos that few but cleaning staff, maintenance crews and interior landscapers have seen for nigh on six months. It’s not clear when workers might begin trickling back into that space or what could become of it in the meantime. “If anyone tells you they know what’s going to
EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The sheriff of southern Indiana’s largest county has switched to the Republican Party, accusing Democrats of endorsing flag burning, failing to acknowledge God and not supporting police. Vanderburgh County Sheriff Dave Wedding made his announcement this past week outside the Evansville business of major Republican donor Steve Chancellor with Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch in attendance. Wedding, twice elected sheriff as a Democrat, noted a large U.S. flag nearby and said Democrats “want to burn that thing every day. ”I’m tired of seeing fires set in our streets,” Wedding said. “I’m tired of people defying God, our church
Online beauty influencer “Ethan Is Supreme” has died of a suspected drug overdose, according to his family and closest friends. The YouTube star, real name Ethan Peters, was just 17. The Texan, famed for his flamboyant makeover videos, was found dead in bed by his father, Gerald Peters, at 11 a.m. Sunday, the dad confirmed to Fox News. While there has not been an official cause of death, his father told Fox he is certain it was an overdose—blaming the “cancel culture” that he said “weighed heavy on his heart.” “He wanted nothing but to inspire, make people laugh and push the boundaries
“Of course we’ll have fascism,” legendary Huey Long was reported to have said. “We’ll have it under the guise of anti-fascism.” Today, of course, we see the confirmation of Long’s prediction on America’s streets in the self-parodying Antifa movement.
At the executive level, for all the mindless chatter about President Trump as Hitler or worse, it is not he who deserves the label “fascist.” By American standards, that honor goes to President Obama and his fierce little toady, Joe Biden. To gauge the fascistic impulses of Trump and Obama respectively, Merriam-Webster offers a useful measuring stick, a definition of “fascism” untainted by the politics of the moment:
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One of the massive California wildfires that erupted this weekend was sparked by a smoke-making device at a gender-reveal party, according to authorities.
The fire started Saturday morning in San Bernardino County’s El Dorado Ranch Park, east of Los Angeles.
A "smoke generating pyrotechnic device" used at the party caused the fire, Cal Fire said in a news release that also warned residents that a fire can quickly start amid the state’s especially hot and dry conditions this time of year.
A friend emailed me about the Trump flotillas, saying, "These Trump flotillas are starting to look like Dunkirk." She's right. Dunkirk is about ordinary people taking matters into their own hands and saving the world from the forces of darkness. In America, in the face of Democrat darkness and Biden riots, normal people have an answer to the lockdown on rallies.
In May 1940, Dunkirk was a military rout. The Allies had lost the Battle of France, and Nazi troops had pushed the British Expeditionary Force, along with some Belgian and French forces, into Dunkirk. The troops had their backs to the channel,
Jessica A. Krug calls herself “an unrepentant and unreformed child of the hood” and a self-taught “historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora.” She is an associate professor at George Washington University, where she is described as “a historian of politics, ideas, and cultural practices in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular interest in West Central Africa and maroon societies in the early modern period and Black transnational cultural studies.”
She dedicates her 2018 book Fugitive Modernities: Politics and Identity Outside the State in Kisama, Angola, and the Americas, c. 1594-Present to her oppressed negroidal ancestors:
Seattle plans to shut down a park to prevent a Christian rally from being held there on Labor Day even as left-wing protesters descended on the city for a holiday weekend of mass anti-Trump and anti-police demonstrations.
Sean Feucht Ministries had scheduled a worship rally Monday at Gas Works Park, but Seattle Parks and Recreation said in a Friday statement that the park would be closed that day “due to anticipated crowding that could impact the public health of residents,” citing the risk of novel coronavirus transmission.(Snip) Mr. Feucht, who has held “Let Us Worship” events in 19 cities
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To be a freedom-loving individual in the year 2020, and to have a proper understanding of modern history and current events, is to be terrifyingly aware of just how much the liberty, prosperity, and stability of America and the free world depend on one thing and one thing alone—namely, the continued physical and intellectual health of a certain preternaturally brave, brilliant, and energetic 74-year-old named Donald Trump.(Snip) the greatest threat to Trump is not the fights and fires in the streets but the quiet, steady, behind-the-scenes institutionalization of critical race theory across America. (Snip)Take the New York Times’ duplicitous “1619 Project,” which, drawing on critical race theory,
Two months before the November election, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler faces calls to resign from sources as wide-ranging as liberal constituents who once supported him to the nation’s Republican president, who cite what they say is his lack of clear leadership as the city hit 100 days of protests.Many critics say they’re frustrated that Wheeler, the city’s police commissioner, expresses support for police reforms yet hasn’t come out strongly when officers appear to use excessive force on people during protests. Many others are frustrated he hasn’t done more to end the nightly demonstrations and the property damage, small fires and provocations of police that usually accompany them.
While this story hasn’t garnered as much national attention as George Floyd or Jason Blake, it’s quickly picking up steam. Back in March of this year, Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man from Rochester, New York, died after being taken into police custody. The fact that he was naked in the middle of a street (obviously unarmed) and that the police had put a bag over his head until he was apparently asphyxiated made for an ugly set of visuals. He was pronounced brain dead at a local hospital and died roughly one week later. Recently, video of Prude’s arrest showed up in the media
Hoards of flag-waving President Trump supporters sailed into the waters again on Sunday for a series of boat parades after several vessels sunk and were capsized in Texas. Labor Day Weekend in the United States this year comes just three months before the highly polarized presidential election in November, and a number of conservatives have lifted their anchors to show their support for President Trump. At least nine cities across the country, from California to Georgia and back again, hosted Great American Boat Parade events to herald the current Commander-in-Chief for a second term. Just one day before, officials said that five boats sank during a Trump boat parade
It was 25 years ago when the average people of a small city in Montana “joined together to stand up to hate when their neighbors were under attack,” as the Not in Our Town website reminds us.
The town was Billings. The neighbors were Jewish, Black and Native American. The attackers were white supremacists. The average people standing up to hate were, for the most part, white people who, like most people of all colors, were offended by racism and anti-Semitism.
That was then. This is now. The city is Kenosha … or Portland … or Seattle.
Black Lives Matter protesters screamed in the face of white elderly outdoor diners during protests in Pittsburgh on Saturday, disturbing new video shows. Cellphone footage shows the crowd taking over the outdoor dining space with one person even approaching the older couple's table before drinking their beer in front of them; another smashed a glass from a table.
One protester tells the diners: 'F**k the white people that built the system.' He adds: 'F*** 12'; a reference to police. Others eating at the restaurant pick up their belonging and leave after demonstrators call them an 'embarrassment'. The demonstrations are in response to
A group of “bipartisan” neoconservative Republicans and establishment Democrats have been “simulating” multiple catastrophic scenarios for the 2020 election, including a simulation where a clear victory by the incumbent provokes “unprecedented” measures, which the Biden campaign could take to foil a new Trump inauguration.A group of Democratic Party insiders and former Obama and Clinton era officials as well as a cadre of “Never Trump” neoconservative Republicans have spent the past few months conducting simulations and “war games” regarding different 2020 election “doomsday” scenarios. (Snip)they predicted that the Biden campaign would make bold moves aimed at securing the presidency, regardless of the election result.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said in a video statement delivered from Wilmington, Del., on Friday that “all pain and suffering stems from President Trump’s failure to lead.”“All pain and suffering stems from President Trump’s failure to lead,” Biden said. “His sheer inability and unwillingness to bring people together. He likes to sign executive orders, actions for photo ops. But they’re ill-conceived and can do more harm than good.” (Video) “He should be doing his job of calling congressional leaders together immediately to get a deal and deliver real results for the American people,” said Biden.
Jesse Watters Explains the Democrats Today –
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Jesse Watters on his Saturday night show on FOX News “Watters World” gave an excellent overview of what we are facing in America today as the 2020 election approaches. The Democrats are behind the riots but somehow they are attempting to tie President Trump to the riots. They at first hoped that the riots would be used against the President or ignored but it’s too late. The riots are absolutely tied to Democrats in Democrat cities in Democrat states. It is so bad CNN had to warn Biden to get out there and do something.They want Americans to ignore what they see and how they feel:
Five people were shot—including a 6-year-old boy—in Brooklyn early Monday during an outdoor J’Ouvert celebration, police and witnesses said. The gunfire rang out just before 3 a.m. at the corner of Nostrand Avenue and Crown Street in Crown Heights, where about 300 people had gathered for a pre-dawn West Indian Day celebration. “It was really crazy—everyone was in shock,” said Joshua Kristal, who was marching with the procession. (Snip) The official J’Ouvert and the West Indian Day events have been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but revelers decided to gather in the early hours anyway.
Two Kettle Moraine High School students could each face a disorderly conduct charge for sending a racially insensitive social media post to another student, the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department said Saturday.
The sheriff’s department said it was notified on Friday evening that two juvenile students sent another Kettle Moraine student "a racially insensitive" image on Snapchat.
Democrats have made implicit promises to the radicals whose active support they need that they will back aggressive compulsory brainwashing sessions demonizing Caucasians and the American founding as fundamentally and inherently racist. A memorandum from OMB director Russell Vought 3 days ago began the pushback and laid a trap for them (snip) Yesterday, President Trump upped the ante by taking on California’s adoption of the inaccurate 1619 Project curriculum designed to instill hatred and resentment of the country
People with ties to San Francisco have long known that Kamala Harris is ambitious, but not too bright. Her success over the years came about because she latched onto then-Mayor Willie Brown, even though Kamala was 30 years younger than the still-married Brown. Love him or hate him, Brown is one of the smartest people in politics and, even after the two ended their relationship, he regularly advised Kamala as she climbed up the California political ladder.
It’s tough to believe, though, that Kamala spoke to Brown before she jumped with both feet into the Jacob Blake matter.
You are not supposed to pay attention to anything published on the website QAnon. Avert your eyes! Democrat politicians and their media allies are sharpening their attacks against Q, to make sure as few people as possible read what is published there. Joe Biden, a man fond of touching little girls, recently opined that Q followers should seek counseling for their mental health. The House introduced a resolution condemning Q as a fringe political conspiracy theory, while the Daily News and USA Today splashed big articles on their front pages decrying Q as an insidious dark force, radicalizing Americans.
Rather than improve race relations, the Black Lives Matter movement has set them back a half-century. Nothing good will come of the bullying, violence and baseless accusations that are filling the news cycle.
Just before President Donald Trump was to start his fourth year in the White House, the state of race relations, according to Gallup, had increased 14 percentage points since he took office. It was an achievement “any president after three years would want to claim, particularly President Obama,” said a CBS reporter.
One would have thought that race relations would have been at their peak during the
Desperately Derailing Donald
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One always expects the media surprise leak of a purported hidden scandal as a presidential campaign winds down. Remember the last-minute “discovery” of George W. Bush’s undisclosed 24-year-old DUI arrest in 2000? Or the October 7, 2016 effort of the Washington Post to publish the hoarded 11-year-old “Access Hollywood” tape, just two days before Donald Trump’s second debate with Hillary Clinton?We should expect lots of these “bombshells” and “walls are closing in” pseudo derailments. Except Trump has been the most widely investigated, probed, attacked, and smeared president in history. And so the scandal-field has pretty well been picked over,
Election 2020 is shaping up to be déjà vu all over again for the news media. In an effort to help push Joe Biden over the finish line, the Washington establishment is going all-in on the easily refuted idea that there has been no change in the presidential race over the last three weeks.
“With Two Months To Go, a Steady Presidential Race,” writes Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report.
“The Latest Polls, the Great Non-Tightening: This Week in the 2020 Race,” write Astead W. Herndon and Annie Karni of The New York Times.
Michelle Obama explained that at times she wanted to “push Barack out of the window” during the most recent episode of The Michelle Obama Podcast. The former first lady, who will celebrate her 28th wedding anniversary with husband Barack Obama next month, spoke candidly about the up and downs of her marriage with guest Conan O’Brien. “There were times that I wanted to push Barack out of the window. And I say that because it’s like, you’ve got to know the feelings will be intense. But that doesn’t mean you quit,”
The Grandpa Badfinger Turgid Poll Lead Fact Check Test is this: Do you know anyone who has gone from supporting Donald Trump in 2016 to supporting that basement-dwelling commie puppet weirdo in 2020?
I know zero people.
I don’t mean “practically zero” or “a few.” I mean zero. Nil. None. That blank is emptier than the space between Gropey J’s ears.
Now is this scientific? Am I denying science again? You know, the science that has Trump ahead in the polls that tended to be more on-target in 2016 and a dozen points back in the mainstream media outlets’ polls that invariably support the mainstream media outlet’s political agendas? That science?
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) on Sunday night raised concerns that CNN anchor Jake Tapper may be “meddling” in House races beyond the 17th congressional district in Pennsylvania. Responding to a report from Breitbart News on how Jake Tapper attempted to convince rising GOP star candidate Sean Parnell to run in a district other than the 17th, the NRCC raised questions about Tapper’s actions in this case and wondered if he has engaged in activity like this in other districts with other candidates as well. (Tweet) The NRCC’s tweet, which includes a link to the Breitbart News story on the matter, accuses CNN and Tapper of “meddling in House
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has given an October 15 deadline for a post-Brexit trade agreement with the European Union, brushing off fears about "no-deal" chaos if talks fail.
The eighth round of negotiations resume in London this week, with both sides talking increasingly tough, amid accusations of intransigence and political brinkmanship.
The UK's chief negotiator, David Frost, did little to raise expectations about a breakthrough, promising no compromise on London's red lines, in a rare newspaper interview published on Sunday.
It’s Labor Day weekend. You’ve got some time. But as the legendary Chicago bartender Mr. Dooley used to say, this game ain’t bean bag.
If you’re outside checking on those baby back ribs on your smoker, you might have a minute to play “what if?” like when you were a kid:
What if these were Republican mayors, in red states, overwhelmed by violent protests from the right wing, confronted by people in MAGA hats or those middle-aged anti-tax tea party activists who always seemed to clean up after themselves when they protested? What if they were the ones rioting, burning and looting during their “mostly peaceful” protests,
Frack-Checking Joe Biden
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Joe Biden has made it clear that he was for fracking before he was against it. Forget the cognitive testing — the cognitive dissonance of the incoherent policies his puppet masters are feeding him though his earpiece is enough to disqualify him for the presidency and may doom him politically in key states like Pennsylvania just as Hillary Clinton's pledge to bankrupt a lot of coal companies doomed her.
Banning fossil fuels and killing the energy independence Trump achieved before the Wuhan virus pandemic would kill the American economy and future hopes for recovery. It is said a little child shall lead us, and a little child named AOC...
The Stephen King Election
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The Stephen King Election begins against a backdrop of violent civil unrest, Democrat-generated pandemic terror, and death.
In one of the whitest big cities in America, a Trump supporter is executed by an antifa agitator, in the name of Black Lives Matter. Days later the agitator dies in a hail of federal bullets, far from the scene of his crime.
As frightening as the Stephen King election is, fortunately, former Vice President Joe Biden does not win. But the path to his not winning rends a nation.
Should we believe the story, reported by the Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, that President Trump made disparaging comments about American soldiers who died in Normandy? I don’t. Trump has a very nasty side, but I doubt he made the nasty comments Goldberg’s attributes to him.
For one thing, it’s not Trump’s practice to disparage people who haven’t disparaged him. Sure, he expressed a lack of respect for John McCain’s war heroism. But that was because McCain was a political enemy. Trump has no beef with soldiers who died in Normandy many decades ago.
Moreover, John Bolton, who was present when Trump supposedly made his disparaging comments, says it didn’t happen.
President Donald Trump was quick to deny a recent report from The Atlantic, which alleged that he had said a number of disrespectful things about fallen American service members — and in the days that followed, a number of others have gone on record to support him.
Trump claimed that the story had been invented to help The Atlantic “gain some relevance.” (Snip for tweet)First Lady Melania Trump made a rare public statement as well, saying that the story was “not true” and adding, “It has become a very dangerous time when anonymous sources are believed above all else, & no one knows their motivation.
Benjamin Franklin is usually credited for observing that nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes. As it happens, he didn’t originate the aphorism, and there is at least one certainty missing from the list — that the Democrats will never allow an election to pass without trying to scare elderly voters by fabricating some fell GOP conspiracy to kill Social Security. Consequently, it was inevitable that Joe Biden would accuse President Trump of a dark plot to destroy the program. Never mind that neither Trump nor his advisors have proposed any such plan, the Biden presidential campaign released an ad last Thursday that includes the following falsehood:
Imagine you were at a restaurant and BLM-Antifa protesters descended on you, threw your food on the ground, broke plates, overturned chairs, tossed a potted plant into your oyster platter and forced you to leave.
That’s what happened in upstate Rochester Friday night at the Ox and Stone, and across the road at Swan Dive, when hundreds of protesters chanting “Black Lives Matter” chased off frightened diners.
“We’re shutting your party down,” a woman shouts in footage aired by FreedomNews TV.
The oyster-platter incident reportedly occurred at Korean steakhouse Cote in the Flatiron district.
Unions representing millions of workers, from teachers to truck drivers, pledged to ramp up protests in the leadup to the presidential election, with walkouts aimed at forcing local and federal lawmakers to pass police reform and address what they described as systemic racism.
In a statement first shared with The Associated Press on Saturday, labor leaders from America's biggest public and private sector unions said they would organize walkouts for teachers, autoworkers, truck drivers and clerical staff, among others. “The status quo — of police killing Black people, of armed white nationalists killing demonstrators, of millions sick and increasingly desperate — is clearly unjust, and it cannot continue,”
Where are the rioters coming from?
Data shows mix of locals and
out-of-staters converging on cities replies
Data shows mix of locals and
out-of-staters converging on cities replies
West Hollywood; Seattle; Portland; Pasco, Wash.; and Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.
These are just a handful of the cities where recently arrested Kenosha, Wis., rioters are listed as coming from. And as riots continue to pop up across the United States, such data has fueled speculation about the origins of the agitators and how they might be organized. The records released so far reveal a mix – of out-of-towners, of people whose home city police do not know and also locals. Records reflect plenty of Kenosha residents have been swept up in the arrests there, just as Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis residents have taken part in the unrest in those cities.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and his handlers have known that he should have been out and about, weighing in daily on the issues of the campaign.
In impromptu interviews, Biden should be offering alternative plans for dealing with the virus, the lockdown, the economic recovery, the violence and the looting and racial tensions.
Yet until Biden’s recent press outing and visit to Kenosha, Wis., his handlers seem to have assumed that if he were to leave his basement and fully enter the fray, he could be capable of losing the election in moments of gaffes, lapses or prolonged silences.
Were lockdowns a mistake? To that nagging question, the answer increasingly seems to be yes.
Certainly, they were a novelty. As novelist Lionel Shriver writes, “We’ve never before responded to a contagion by closing down whole countries.” As I’ve noted, the 1957-58 Asian flu killed between 70,000 and 116,000 Americans, between 0.04 percent and 0.07 percent of the nation’s population. The 1968-70 Hong Kong flu about 100,000, 0.05 percent of the population.
The US coronavirus death toll of 186,000 is 0.055 percent of the current population. It will go higher, but it’s about the same magnitude as those two flus,
A legal foundation has filed two court briefs that assert that double voting by the thousands happened in 2016-2018 in Georgia and North Carolina, as the nation prepares for its first large-scale, mail-in balloting to elect a president. Anti-universal mail ballot activists say the two states are a tip-off for what will happen in the Nov. 3 election.(Snip) PILF picked North Carolina and Georgia, where lawsuits are pending, to request a huge amount of voter data and then file two court briefs. In North Carolina, auditors found nearly 20,000 voters who appeared to have voted twice
Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more than 2,000 illegal immigrants who have criminal histories involving victims between July 13 and Aug. 20, ICE announced Monday. The immigrants who are illegally living in the U.S. are subject to removal because of their previous arrests or charges connected to victims, according to ICE. Of those arrested for immigration-related charges, around 85% had pending criminal charges or previous criminal convictions.
“The aliens targeted during this operation preyed on men, women and children in our communities, committing serious crimes and, at times, repeatedly hurting their victims,” said Tony Pham, the senior official performing the duties of ICE director.
Hillary Clinton was always her own worst enemy on her quest for the White House.(Snip)She’s still at it, saying that Joe Biden should not concede under any circumstances, apparently knowing he’s about to go under. Ranting in that same horrible, nails on a chalkboard voice, warning about the “Russians,” still pumping the very same disinformation that she paid for — and failed with — in 2016. But what’s really funny about the video is Bill’s face —