Posts on Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Tom Klingenstein explains why 2020 may be the most consequential election since 1860--and why President Trump is the man most uniquely suited to the moment.(Snip)The multicultural movement, which has taken over the Democratic party, is a revolutionary movement. I do not mean a metaphorical revolution. It is not like a revolution; it is a revolution, an attempt to overthrow the American Founding as President Trump said in his excellent Mt. Rushmore speech.(Snip)The Black Lives Matter/Democrats understand (which Republicans seem not to), that if they are to achieve this policy agenda they must get Americans to change their values, their principles, and the way they understand themselves.
The unlicensed security guard accused of fatally shooting a Navy veteran at a Denver “Patriot Rally” railed against President Trump and shared left-wing political content on social media. Matthew Dolloff‘s ex-girlfriend, told the Daily Mail, she dated Dolloff from 2010 to 2013, and during that time period, the former couple were both heavily involved in Occupy Denver—the local branch of Occupy Wall Street. Dolloff, 35, a registered Democrat, includes dozens of political posts on his Facebook profile dating back to 2011 in which he railed against Republicans including President Trump in June 2016, when he shared a screenshot of Trump
The federal prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William P. Barr to review whether Obama-era officials improperly requested the identities of individuals whose names were redacted in intelligence documents has completed his work without finding any substantive wrongdoing, according to people familiar with the matter. The revelation that U.S. Attorney John Bash, who left the department last week, had concluded his review without criminal charges or any public report will rankle President Trump at a moment when he is particularly upset at the Justice Department.
Almost 150 people and 40 boats joined a flotilla Saturday to show support for President Donald Trump in San Francisco, California. The group departed from McCovey Cove for the Golden Gate Bridge that morning while participants waved American flags and Trump 2020 flags, according to the Mercury News. (Video) “Those without boats were encouraged to line the San Francisco shoreline and show their support,” the outlet said. The Santa Clara County Republican Party advertised the flotilla on its website and encouraged participants to “Bring your friends and let San Francisco hear our message: FOUR MORE YEARS!”Singers Joy Villa and Diana Nagy performed during the event.
President Donald Trump roared back to the campaign trail for an energetic rally in Florida last night. It was his first rally since his short battle with the coronavirus, and if the attendee data from that rally is any indicator, Trump is set to defeat Joe Biden as swiftly as he did the coronavirus.
Ronna McDaniel posted attendee data to Twitter last night showing that President Trump has continued to bring in a broad coalition of voters – and first time voters. The following data is sourced from those who signed up to attend the rally: [Snip] These sort of statistics have been kept for a number of rallies held earlier
The man who fired the first shots from behind Kyle Rittenhouse during the fatal incident in Kenosha has been charged.
Joshua Ziminski, 35, has been charged with disorderly conduct and use of a dangerous weapon for firing his weapon during the incident on August 25. According to the charging document, obtained by The Gateway Pundit, while investigating the shooting by Rittenhouse, Kenosha detectives obtained videos in which Ziminski “was holding a black handgun, which he was holding in his left hand, pointing downward. Detective Howard reports that in reviewing multiple other videos, he was able to see the defendant and Kelly Ziminski,
Wolf Blitzer dared ask Speaker Pelosi twice why she won’t accept the $1.8 trillion package Republicans have offered “because people need the money now.” The woman worth $120 million dollars, give or take, who owns mansions and a vineyard, and owns a huge freezer filled with really expensive ice cream, won’t agree to a relief bill that only targets people who need relief. Wolf did not let Queen Nancy Antoinette get the last word. She didn’t like him asking, and she really didn’t like the fact that he pressed her for an answer. She told him to “respect the committees.”
While answering a question about how she would rule in potential Supreme Court cases involving LGBTQ+ people's rights during her confirmation hearing Tuesday, Judge Amy Coney Barrett used the term "sexual preference"—a term classified as "offensive" by GLAAD. Barrett used the term while denouncing discrimination against gay and lesbian people. "Senator, I have no agenda, and I do want to be clear: I have never discriminated on the basis of sexual preference and would not ever discriminate on the basis of sexual preference," Barrett said. "Like racism, I think discrimination is abhorrent." Later in the day, Senator Mazie Hirono followed up
Supporters of President Trump trolled Joseph R. Biden’s campaign speech in Toledo, Ohio, on Monday, reportedly chanting “four more years” every time the Democratic presidential nominee mentioned his opponent. In a tweet shared by Mr. Trump, NBC News’ Marianna Sotomayor reported that dozens of the president’s supporters were loudly chanting a mix of “four more years,” “Trump” and “USA” throughout the event, and that they grew “louder anytime Joe Biden mentioned the president.” Ms. Sotomayor’s tweet included a video that showed the protesters shouting and waving Trump flags just off to the side of where Mr. Biden was speaking to a drive-in rally
Disgraced Democratic Congresswoman Katie Hill has quietly settled her divorce from husband Kenny Heslep after blaming him for exposing a ‘throuple’ sexual relationship they were having with a young female campaign staffer, DailyMail.com can reveal. Hill, 33, resigned from Congress last year after the publication of shocking nude photos of the politician cavorting with junior staffer Morgan Desjardins, who was 22 at the time, and an ethics probe was launched into her alleged affair with another aide.
The freshman Democrat from California immediately accused her 'abusive' husband Heslep, 36, of trying to humiliate her and leaking the snaps to ruin her political career.
Joe Biden tailored a speech to Florida's seniors on Tuesday, pointing a finger at President Donald Trump for suggesting they're 'expendable' and blaming the president for why they can't see their grandkids. 'While he throws superspreader parties at the White House and Republicans hug each other without concern of the consequences, how many of you have been unable to hug your grandkids in the last seven months?' Biden asked a socially distanced group at a senior center in Pembroke Pines.
The Senate Judiciary Committee began day two of their confirmation hearing for Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.As expected, Democrat Senators are using this hearing as an opportunity to abuse Amy Coney Barrett, a devout Catholic and mother of seven who is already a vetted judge.There’s stupid, and then there’s Democrat Senator Mazie Hirono (HI).Hirono on Tuesday asked Amy Coney Barrett if she has ever committed rape.“Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?” Hirono said.WATCH:
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively allowed the government to stop the census count immediately, blocking a lower court order that would have required the Trump administration to continue gathering census information in the field until the end of October.
The Census Bureau said it wanted to stop the count so that it could start processing the data in order to meet a Dec. 31 deadline, set in federal law, for reporting the results to the president. But the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the government to keep going with its field work until October 31, concluding that a longer time in the field would increase accuracy.
The Supreme Court has refused to take up an emoluments case filed by Democrats back in 2017. That means the lower court ruling that Democrats do not have standing to bring the case will stand. This little corner of the resistance is dead: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put an end to a lawsuit brought by congressional Democrats that accused President Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution with his business dealings.
The justices refused to hear an appeal by 215 Senate and House of Representatives Democrats of a lower court ruling that found that the lawmakers lacked the necessary legal standing
Judge Amy Coney Barrett repeatedly demonstrated her judicial brilliance during Tuesday’s hearing, but the most iconic moment of them all came during Texas Senator John Cornyn’s questioning. “Most of us have multiple notebooks and notes and books and things like that in front of us,” observed Senator Cornyn. “Can you hold up what you’ve been referring to in answering our questions?”
With a grin, Judge Amy Coney Barrett held up the notebook that had been provided to her.
“Is there anything on it?” asked Senator Cornyn.
“The letterhead that says U.S. Senate,” replied Barrett.
Hundreds of people arrived early Tuesday at The Galleria in Richland Township to be shuttled to the John Murtha-Johnstown Cambria County Airport for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign rally at 7 p.m.About 100 people visiting Pennsylvania from Japan, members said, were among those anticipating Trump's arrival."They are afraid of China," said Pierre Tardy, who said he was a U.S. citizen belonging to a Wayne County church the visitors from Japan had been visiting when they heard of the rally.One man, Edward X. Young, of New Jersey, decided to walk in the rain from The Galleria to the airport around 10:30 a.m. to make sure he was in the front row
Sheldon Whitehouse Presents ‘Dark Money’
Conspiracy Theory, Asks Amy Coney
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Conspiracy Theory, Asks Amy Coney
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) used his entire time on the second day of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday to present a “dark money” conspiracy theory. He asked Judge Barrett no actual questions.Using a series of posters, a magic marker, a highlighter, and an indeterminate number of Post-it notes, Whitehouse sketched a complicated theory — called “The Scheme” — in which he claimed that “dark money” groups influenced the selection of judges.(Photo) Whitehouse brought in various different groups and individuals, including Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, and Carrie Severino
Attorney Ron Meuser told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS the number of Minneapolis police officers who have filed for disability claims since this spring's civil unrest and rioting has now reached 175, with 100 other officers considering similar moves.
"The 100 additional officers are doing their best to hang in there and not leave because they want to serve their community," Meuser said. "But if there is more rioting in the near future, I would not be surprised to see the number of officers filing for disability to reach between 250 and 300 officers."
You may not have heard, but on August 23, a guy named Harvey Risch made some shocking accusations against Anthony Fauci.
Of course, that by itself doesn’t say much since a lot of people have accused Anthony Fauci of a lot of things since he stepped into the spotlight as the de facto leader of America’s response to COVID-19.
But Harvey Risch isn’t just anybody. Risch is a professor of epidemiology at Yale University. He has an M.D. from UC San Diego, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and he’s published over 300 papers in a career that spans four decades.Harvey Risch can’t be dismissed as a “crackpot conspiracy theorist.”
Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday slammed FBI Director Christopher Wray for a “simply unacceptable” delay in providing access to text messages sent by former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wrote to Wray that they have received just 24 pages of texts, despite the FBI making available to the Justice Department more than 300 pages. “It is simply unacceptable that we have waited so long to receive so little,” Johnson (R-Wis.) and Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote. The letter says Johnson’s committee “subpoenaed the FBI for all records related to” a probe
The Fragments of a Civilization
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Government crimes and coverups, a corrupt media, a candidate hiding and lying to the public, and plans to undo the foundations of the republic. Piece by piece, our civilization is beginning to disassemble. And the agents of fragmentation are as obvious as the efforts to conceal them are frantic. St. Hillary the Colluder. In nonchalant fashion, we learned last week from newly released government documents that Hillary Clinton’s campaign team cooked up the Trump-Russia collusion hoax as a way of diverting attention from her own ongoing embarrassing email scandals.
'Not up to the job': Former White House
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When the late Sen. John McCain ran for president in 2008, questions about his health — physical and mental — swirled. Americans were well aware that should McCain die in office, his vice president, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, would've become president. [Snip] So Americans may have that same concern with Democratic nominee, Joe Biden, who would be 78 if he wins the election. Cue former White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson, who held the prestigious post from 2013 to 2018, serving both Trump and President Obama. Jackson on Tuesday said Biden "does not have the mental capacity"
It has been fascinating to watch as President Trump’s SCOTUS pick Judge Amy Coney Barrett sits calmly and listens patiently as condescending Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee “question” her on a variety of issues in hopes of tripping her up and getting her to reveal the way she would rule on future cases that will inevitably come before the court. Without missing a beat, she answers the senators in a manner befitting a nominee for the highest court in the nation, making sure to observe the so-called “Ginsburg rule” at every opportunity.
But perhaps to break up the monotony of the confirmation hearings
When announcing her 25th Amendment ploy questioning the president’s fitness to serve, Nancy Pelosi last week bizarrely criticized President Trump’s “erotic” behavior. She was responding on ABC’s “The View” to a Trump tweet about the “stimulus” bill that flashed up on screen.
“What do you think is causing this erratic behavior?” the House speaker was asked.
“Well I think it’s true to form,” she said. “The president has always had erotic behavior.”
Name for me one member of the left-wing, Democratic, political elite who reminds you of John Wayne. Or George Patton. Or Charles Bronson. Don’t rush, I’ll wait. Well, have you got one? Just one’ll do. Strange isn’t it? You can rack your brains with this simple exercise for hours—probably days—and fail to identify one political figure from the Left who has even a gentle musky whiff of masculinity. Even their generals don’t pass muster, not even the most famous ones. David Petraeus, the vaunted commander in Iraq and later CIA Director to President Obama, or the image-conscious “Mad Dog” Jim Mattis both fail the test.
Brits are turning up their beaks at American chicken.
Microbiologist Lance Price, a professor at George Washington University in Washington, DC, has embarked on a five-year examination of bacterial contamination in American livestock. Recently, he shared his findings for UK’s Channel 4 program “Dispatches,” which aired Sunday. (Snip) So-called “chlorinated chicken” has become a revolting mascot for American poultry among UK consumers, who have long shunned our chops over the practice of bleach-washing raw chicken in order to eliminate the harmful pathogens discussed in Price’s study. In 1997, the European Union put a ban on the practice, meaning a majority of poultry raised in the US were not eligible for export
Americans cannot agree on much these days, but one source of unanimity is that aging is better than the alternative. However, one of the most striking yet less-noticed facts of contemporary politics is that Americans have also shown a striking affinity for selecting — and keeping — old people in political office. Really old people.
[Snip] The median age of all Americans is 38.2 years, less than half Joe Biden’s. The coincidental advanced ages of the nation’s current political leaders have raised all kinds of serious new questions, including ideological rigidity, stale policies and mental and physical
ST. PAUL, Minn. The earliest final numbers from the 2020 election will not be available until a full week after Election Day, Minnesota election officials explained Tuesday. On a call Tuesday morning, Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon and his office outlined how Election Day 2020 will look and how ballots will be processed statewide this year. Early voting in Minnesota is already underway. New this year, the state of Minnesota will start counting absentee ballots 14 days before Election Day and will continue counting ballots until the close of business Nov. 10, a week after the Nov. 3 Election
California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff revealed over the weekend that he would “favor doing away with the Electoral College system.”During an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Schiff made a slew of controversial comments about the election and Electoral College. “I think we’re better off focusing on discrete amendments to the Constitution to overturn Citizens United and make sure that we can have elections untampered or uninfluenced by excessive expenditures and dark money,” Schiff said. He added, “And I would favor doing away with the Electoral College system.”
President Trump is back on the campaign trail and he’s having more fun than ever! Trump held a massive rally in Sanford, Florida Monday evening. The President recovered from Covid-19 and he’s full of energy. Trump had fun dancing to the Village People’s “YMCA” after his rally and his supporters went wild! Watch: (Tweet/Video) We love you, President Trump! WATCH:(Tweet/Video) Trump’s campaign also played the Village People’s “Macho Man” after the rally and CNN was triggered. WATCH:
During Tuesday's confirmation hearings, Senator Dianne Feinstein tried to rattle Amy Coney Barrett , and it failed miserably. Feinstein tried to get the SCOTUS nominee to spout off political opinions about different issues, but it was met with a brick wall of common sense and rationality. "If I give off-the-cuff answers then I would be basically a legal pundit and I do not think we want judges to be legal pundit. I think we want judges to approach cases thoughtfully and with an open mind," Barrett responded. Watch below:
Amy Coney Barrett Has Perfect Response
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The Senate Judiciary Committee began day two of their confirmation hearing for Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.Amy Coney Barrett gave the perfect response when asked if she was reading from notes.“You know, most of us have multiple notebooks and notes and books and things like that in front of us. Can you hold up what you’ve been referring to and answering our questions?” Republican Senator Cornyn (TX) asked.“The letterhead that says United States Senate,” she replied holding up a blank notepad.
North Carolina’s Registration and Polling
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Over the past week, I have been analyzing registration numbers for several of the battleground states. (Snip) North Carolina’s story is extremely interesting in that current polling shows a lead for Biden, despite other data suggesting that a small lead is likely a tie to a 2-3 point lead for Trump. Thus far, of the polls that I have seen, sampling has been wrong, either in the age groups which they poll (one poll had like 32% of the electorate being 18-24) and/or the ideological spread for voters, with the party distribution being quasi-accurate and then realizing they polled very few solid conservatives and a lot of moderates.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing backlash from some Democrats after she sharply rejected Trump's $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief offer.President Donald Trump on Friday offered a $1.8 trillion coronavirus relief package in talks with Pelosi after urging his team on Twitter to 'go big' - moving closer to Pelosi's $2.2 trillion proposal. The proposal was dismissed by Pelosi as inadequate. In a weekly letter to Democratic colleagues, she explained that the proposal lacked a 'strategic plan to crush the virus' and gave President Trump too much power in deciding how the funds would be spent.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett addressed the widespread misinformation that judges can brazenly make rulings based on the whims of the day, explaining the process and stressing judges cannot just “walk in like a royal queen” and “impose” their will on the world.
(Snip) Barrett briefly explained there has to be a law, lawsuit, appeal, and the court granting cert before it makes a ruling.
When asked if the process remains the same no matter the issue — including guns, health care, abortion, campaign finance — Barrett emphasized judges cannot just impose an agenda at random.
“Judges can’t just wake up one day and say, ‘I have an agenda. I like guns. I hate
The MTA faces years of “suffocating” debt if the federal government doesn’t come through with badly needed aid, state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said Tuesday. “Failure to fund the MTA now could disrupt maintenance and repairs and increase the MTA’s debt to suffocating levels that could take multiple generations to recover from,” said DiNapoli, whose office released its annual audit of the $18 billion transit agency’s finances. “Washington needs to step up to help the MTA if our regional economy is going to fully recover.” MTA officials are seeking $12 billion from President Trump and Congress amid what they’ve called a “fiscal tsunami” of depleted fare,
The European Union has won the right to impose tariffs on $4 billion in U.S. goods in retaliation for subsidies granted to planemaker Boeing under a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling on Tuesday.The award, which partially mirrors U.S. tariffs on Airbus jets and confirms a decision first reported by Reuters on Sept 30, threatens to stoke transatlantic trade tensions just three weeks before U.S. presidential elections on Nov. 3.
However, negotiators on both sides say it could also lead at last to discussions to resolve a 16-year legal battle.
WASHINGTON — A group of prominent Christians from both sides of the aisle, including a past faith advisor to President Obama, is forming a political action committee designed to chip away at Christian support for President Trump in the final weeks of the 2020 campaign. The new super PAC, dubbed Not Our Faith, plans to roll out TV and digital ads focused on Christian voters — particularly the evangelical and Roman Catholic voters who helped Trump secure victory in 2016. Its first digital ad, set to run in the battleground states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, takes sharp aim at Trump’s claim to a foothold with Christians. Correction*
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Monday said that Judge Amy Coney Barrett's faith "should not be considered" during her Senate confirmation hearings.
"I don't think there should be any questions about her faith," Biden told reporters as hearings began in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Biden instead said that Democrats need to "stay behind the ball" and focus on Barrett's alleged opposition to the Affordable Care Act, former President Barack Obama's signature achievement, which the Supreme Court will revisit after the November elections.
"Everyone knows that in 28 days, 20 million Americans may lose their healthcare," Biden said. "This nominee said she wants to get rid of the Affordable Care Act.
In an era in which every dubious decision is “due to COVID-19,” we hear policymakers repeating the same mantra: “If just one life is saved,” it’s worth relinquishing our freedoms, our sanity, and possibly our future. More often than not, this ethical dilemma is presented without mentioning the obvious trade-offs or long-term consequences.(Snip)In this idyllic setting of cultural neurosis and mutual disdain, the now-infamous Great Barrington Declaration was drafted by three leading experts in the fields of biostatistics, immunology, and public health policy. These doctors advocate for a return to traditional wisdom: Quarantine the sick, isolate the vulnerable, and allow the young and healthy to proceed with caution.
A new report from The New York Times indicates that experts have “genuine confidence” that the coronavirus pandemic will end “far sooner” than originally expected and that President Donald Trump’s Operation Warp Speed — the administration’s efforts to facilitate and accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics — has been “working with remarkable efficiency.”
The report, published on Monday, comes with just over three weeks left in the presidential race between Trump and Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden.
This past weekend saw another round of massive Trump caravans and convoys throughout the nation, underscoring yet again the enormous enthusiasm gap between President Trump and his Democrat opponent Joe Biden.
American Greatness attended a Trump Car Parade in Overland Park, Kansas, on Saturday that had thousands of participants.(Tweets/Video)Following the Trump car Parade, there was a big Back the Blue rally featuring Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis Couple who were indicted for brandishing weapons after a Black Lives Matter mob invaded their property. Nearly 2,000 people attended the rally.(Snip)A “Ridin’ With Biden” parade in Kansas City brought out approximately two dozen supporters, according to KSHB.
Trump Is the Integrity Candidate
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The election campaign, now finally approaching its climax, will long be studied because of the paradoxical reactions of American public opinion to an astonishing series of events and revelations. It is now clear from intelligence declassifications—now temporarily taking the place of indictments by the special counsel on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation—that the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, knew that she was transmitting reports compiled by Russian intelligence agents and transmitted via former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. These were presented to the U.S. intelligence and justice communities and ultimately to the public through the media as hard intelligence evidence of treasonable conduct by her opponent Donald Trump.
Senator Kamala Harris chose to remain in her office just down the hall from the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing today. Oddly during her segment to deliver prepared remarks she relied on a teleprompter for the broadcast. Senator Harris does not use a teleprompter well, and the effort was transparent. WATCH: (Video)This is an example of how/why the DNC club control agents are pressuring for virtual debates. Everything about the Harris-Biden ticket is a Potemkin village; both candidates are avatars, puppets, for the big club control agents behind the curtain.
CBS Obtains 94-Page Outline Showing
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CBS News Catherine Herridge has obtained a 94-page spread sheet (pdf here) showing dates of media reports, dates of Steele reports on the same material, and the FBI effort to verify or validate the circular process. In essence this is evidence of the process we initially shared almost three years ago; only now we know the names.Former SSCI staffer Dan Jones, former Wall Street Journal reporter Glenn Simpson, and Simpson’s crew at Fusion-GPS, pitched and planted phony Trump-Russia evidence with the media and simultaneously gave those fake points to Chris Steele to supplement the dossier. Using the same method of Ezra Klein’s “JournOList” replication, Dan Jones
The race for U.S. Congressional District 21 has been one to watch since the primaries when election officials announced Wendy Davis won the Democratic nomination and would challenge Republican incumbent Chip Roy on Election Day.
The Candidates
Roy is a former federal prosecutor, advisor to elected officials, and was first assistant attorney general to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Roy recently called Paxton to resign amid accusations against Paxton of bribery and abuse of office.
Davis is a former state senator for State District 10 who led a 13-hour filibuster to block a bill restricting abortion rights in Texas. She was also the Democratic challenger in the 2014
In Iran, this summer was a season of combustions. As fires and explosions followed hard upon one another, the New York Times reported that “for many Iranians, anticipating what will blow up next has become a kind of parlor game.”
Some of these conflagrations must have been natural occurrences: A string of forest fires owed much to a period of intense heat. Some fires or blasts at industrial facilities were likely the consequence of derelict maintenance due to foreign sanctions or managerial incompetence. Others, however, were attributed to arson or the detonation of bombs.
Less than a month before the presidential election, one billed as “the most important of our lifetime,” Donald Trump’s chances in the forecasts have shrunk to impossibly small. More conventional Republican talking heads decry his tone and demeanor on cable news, confident that he will be rejected by the voters in November. Democrats appear to be poised to claim not just the presidency, but Congress as well in a decisive victory that will usher in a new, progressive era of politics.
Sound familiar? Of course, these words perfectly describe not only 2020, but also 2016, and the ending of that story is all too well-known.
James Lawrence, also known by his moniker “The Iron Cowboy”, is a record-setting triathlete who currently resides in Utah. He holds the world record for most Ironman-distance triathlons completed in a single calendar year, achieved when he did 50 in 2015. Last September, his Team Iron Cowboy competed in Eco-Challenge Fiji, considered to be the world’s toughest race, which was filmed for a series now available on Amazon Prime, World’s Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji. Here, he describes the travails of biking up Mt. Kilimanjaro, as told to Charles Thorp. Back at the end of 2015, I had just completed the world record for most consecutive Ironman competitions,
In Billy Joel's rock classic, "You May Be Right," he has the memorable lines:
You may be right
I may be crazy
But it just may be a lunatic you're looking for.
It's too late to fight
It's too late to change me
You may be wrong, but for all I know,
You may be right.
Billy Joel's classic came back to me as everybody seems eager to bash the "Q-Anon" phenomenon these days.
There's a bad joke about a music scholar who visits Beethoven's grave in Vienna. As he nears, he hears the Ninth Symphony being played backward. He turns to the cemetery caretaker and asks, "What's that strange music?" The caretaker answers, "Oh, that's just Beethoven de-composing." That joke pops into my mind every time I see photos of Joe Biden or hear him speak. On the one hand, Biden is holding up better than I would have expected a few months ago. On the other hand, no one can deny that the man is aging with incredible speed Today, several people emailed me the same meme. Correction*
Lockdowns to slow or even halt the coronavirus pandemic have been the focus of an intense debate since early this year. But in recent weeks and months, both the scientific and economic discussions have come down hard on one side: The lockdowns have been an immense failure, costing the economy trillions of dollars and, more importantly, thousands of lives. Time to put an end to this craziness.
For those who don’t recall, the initial lockdowns were sold to the public as an emergency move to “flatten the curve” for 15 days during March to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed with
Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the US government has been hiding key details about UFO encounters from the public for years.Reid made the claim in the newly released documentary, The Phenomenon, directed by James Fox, which examines the history of UFO sightings in the US from the 1940s all the way up to this spring's revelation regarding a Department of Defence probe into unexplained military sightings.‘Why the federal government all these years has covered up, put brake pads on everything, stopped it, I think it’s very, very bad for our country,’ Reid tells Fox in the film.
Democrat mayors and city councils have surrendered America’s largest cities to “domestic terrorists,” said Howard Safir, former New York City police commissioner and fire commissioner, offering his remarks on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.Safir said, “It’s the Democratic cities who have basically ceded their cities to what got called ‘peaceful protesters’ but are really people who are vandals and looters, and in some cases, not only assault people but are murderers.”Safir added, “You look at Seattle, you look at Minneapolis, you look at Chicago, and places like that where basically they have given their cities to these — what I call — domestic terrorists.”
President Trump said he was “immune” from the coronavirus at a campaign rally in Florida on Monday night — and offered to kiss everyone in the audience to prove his resilience. Trump was about 20 minutes into his speech in front of thousands of supporters at an airport hanger in Sanford when he made the offer to kiss the audience members. “I feel so powerful… I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women,” he said. “I’ll just give you a big fat kiss.” Trump then continued riffing on his bounce back from his bout with COVID-19, saying
On the opening day of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Democrats seemed to want to avoid talking about nominee Amy Coney Barrett.
Evidently, polling showed Democrats that their scorched-earth tactics against Brett Kavanaugh backfired in the 2018 Senate races. And they got the memo that the attacks on Barrett’s religious beliefs that they deployed during her appellate court confirmation hearings were likely to go over about as well as a Yankees parade in South Boston. Furthermore, they cannot question the credentials of Barrett, who is widely respected by lawyers regardless of their ideology and earned the American Bar Association’s highest “well qualified” rating.
ALBANY, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo had barely finished a fairly routine coronavirus briefing earlier this month when he got word that the New York City mayor, Bill de Blasio, had just blindsided him.
The mayor unexpectedly announced that he intended to close down schools and nonessential businesses in parts of Brooklyn and Queens, where the coronavirus was surging in communities with large Orthodox Jewish populations. Mr. de Blasio asserted that he had been in contact with the state, whose approval was needed.
It took less than 24 hours for Mr. Cuomo to fire back.
He halted the mayor’s plan to shutter businesses, calling it imprecise
Add up everything we know about the ongoing violence in America’s cities, and you get a troubling picture.
It has nothing to do with law-abiding, peaceful demonstrations in favor of civil rights and police reform. No, the violence that exploits these well-intentioned activities — which often occurs after night falls and demonstrations have ended — is part of an organized effort to implement a radical political agenda.
For starters, the violence is organized criminal activity. The same destructive activists have been identified at different times in different cities around the country. For example, in August eight members of the Seattle-based group Riot Kitchen were arrested after wreaking havoc in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
It would be great if the President was an icon of virtue and goodness, but he isn’t. As much as my Democratic friends want to parse otherwise, neither was Bill Clinton, but we overlooked Clinton’s repugnancy because we loved his booming economy. When you strip away the media noise, the fundamental question is: do you want a Trump or Biden economy in 2021 and beyond? Thankfully, both men have records in leading the country so the question isn’t a speculative one.
Additionally, given that the states are experiencing dramatically different post-pandemic economic recoveries, we can see what a Trump economy is doing under conservative leadership
The mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, on Monday admitted to an “inappropriate messaging relationship” with a local TV news anchor who lodged bizarre and unsubstantiated allegations against him.
“I apologize to the people of Anchorage for a major lapse in judgement I made several years ago when I had a consensual, inappropriate messaging relationship with reporter Maria Athens,” Mayor Ethan Berkowitz said in a statement.
Athens, an anchor for the local Fox and ABC affiliated news stations, posted a video to her professional Facebook page last Friday alleging Berkowitz posted an illicit photo of himself to “an underage girls website.”
A federal judge is allowing a whistleblower complaint to proceed against the Clinton Foundation, ruling the IRS "abused its discretion" in trying to dismiss allegations of nonprofit wrongdoing by one of America's most famous political families.
U.S. Tax Court Judge David Gustafson denied the Internal Revenue Service's request for a summary motion, ruling the whistleblower complaint by John Moynihan, a former Drug Enforcement Agency official, and Larry Doyle, a corporate tax compliance expert, "provided 'specific credible documentation' supporting their allegations" of possible tax-exempt legal violations by the Clinton charity based in Arkansas.
Several months ago, an ambitious and radical Portland city commissioner tilted at the federal windmill by levying fines for the fence erected around the courthouse downtown that rioters have repeatedly attempted to burn down. The fence blocks bike lanes, which has drawn the ire of radical Commissioner Chloe Eudaly, head of the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) didn’t bother to respond—until now.Feds (Shockingly!) Unresponsive to Portland’s $2000/Hour Fine for Fence Erected to Protect CourthouseLast week, Portland City Council imposed fines on the federal government for the fence surrounding the federal courthouse, which has come under siege by protesters.
Chicago’s murder rate is currently about 50% above what it was at this time last year according to data released by the Chicago Police Department. Chicago has seen a rise in murder cases, not just compared to the previous year but compared to the previous four years, according to figures released by the Chicago Police Department.
The CPD regularly posts statistics about crime in the city, both week to week and year to year. A look at recent stats shows that murder has risen in the city, doubling in the first week of October from the previous week with 15 murders, and the city is on track
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As if woke capital hasn’t made life in America dangerous enough for those slightly to the left of center, popular internet review website Yelp has taken it upon itself to allow users to report “racist behavior” on the part of a business. Called the Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert, Yelp’s own blog states that the process begins with a milder Public Attention Alert “to inform consumers if someone associated with the business was accused of, or the target of, racist behavior.” It only gets escalated to a BARBA (my term) when there is “resounding evidence” of “egregious, racist actions from a business owner of employee.”
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee devoted their opening statements on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to repeating a shameless lie. Why can’t they share their real reasons for opposing her?
The Democrats, one after another, claimed that confirming Barrett would result in ObamaCare being overturned when the court takes it up Nov. 10, with Americans dying as a result.
It’s plainly false: Several conservative justices clearly don’t buy the arguments made for striking down the law in this case. And Barrett, based on her overall philosophy, is likely to agree with them.
A cafe owned by a military veteran was shot at during a chaotic demonstration in Portland over the weekend after being deemed by rioters as unfriendly to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Heroes American Cafe was targeted for being an "unfriendly business" by so-called Antifa-linked Twitter accounts, owner John Jackson told Fox News.
Two windows in the cafe's downtown location were shot at and another was struck with a blunt object -- possibly a baseball bat -- said Jackson, a Black man who served in the Army and Marine Corps.
Joe Biden was quick to dismiss voters who say they are better off now than they were in 2016.
A recent Gallup poll taken Sept. 14-28 made headlines after it revealed that 56 percent of voters said they were better off now than they were four years ago. Just 32 percent of them said they were worse off.
During an interview with Cincinnati's WKRC Local 12 on Monday, reporter Kyle Inskeep cited the Gallup poll and asked the Democratic nominee, "Why should people who feel that they're better off today under a Trump administration vote for you?"
"Well if they think that, they probably shouldn't," Biden responded.
CNN White Correspondent Jim Acosta snapped back at a crowd of Trump supporters Monday for chanting “CNN Sucks” during his live shot at President Donald Trump’s Florida rally. “But Iowa and North Carolina are really states that should be in the bag for President Trump right now, that’s an indication as to how much trouble he is now,” Acosta said before being interrupted by growing chants of “CNN sucks!” at Trump’s Sanford, Florida rally. “And as this crowd is chanting that there are members of the press here who suck, I should also point out what also sucks — getting the coronavirus,” Acosta told Wolf Blitzer.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed without evidence on Monday that “many” Republican members of Congress would attack Jesus if he came to Congress despite the fact that over 99 percent of Republican members of Congress identify as Christian. “Sick and tired of Republicans who co-opt faith as an excuse to advance bigotry and barbarism,” the far-left congresswoman claimed on Twitter. “Fact is, if today Christ himself came to the floor of Congress and repeated his teachings, many would malign him as a radical and eject him from the chamber.”
President Trump on Monday evening appeared at his first campaign rally outside the White House since he tested positive for the coronavirus earlier this month.Trump tossed MAGA facemasks to the crowd of thousands, who chanted praise for the president, soon before he took the podium. He then spoke about his bout with COVID-19, promising to distribute his treatment to hospitals across the country. “We’re going to take whatever the hell they gave me and distribute it around to hospitals, everyone is going to have the same damn thing,” he said.
Mark Cuban has condemned human rights violations, but defended doing business with China, saying 'we have to pick our battles'. The billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner appeared on former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's new podcast The Megyn Kelly Show for an hour-long episode that aired on Monday to discuss the NBA Finals, foreign business deals and the Black Lives Matter movement, among several other topics. At one point during the heated conversation, Kelly referenced the NBA's dealings with China, a market that is reportedly worth $4 billion to the league, and pointed out the country's controversial history of human rights violations.
Viewership for NBA Finals Finale
Crashes Nearly 70%, Beaten by Random
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Crashes Nearly 70%, Beaten by Random
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On a night when the NBA broadcast its most important game, you would think that the league would own the night. That, once again, turned out to not be the case. The viewership numbers for the sixth and final game of the NBA Finals are in, and they are atrocious. Game 6 drew, at its peak, 6.028 million viewers. To put that in perspective, Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals, which included a team from Canada and did not include LeBron James, drew 18.34 million viewers. Those figures represent a 66 percent drop.(Snip) The heavy viewership losses are consistent with disastrous viewership numbers
Rep. Doug Collins on Monday introduced a resolution to push for the removal of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, claiming she “does not have the mental fitness” to lead the House of Representatives. “Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s unwillingness to abide by the Constitution, combined with her recent actions, call into question her own mental fitness, which is why it’s critical that the House of Representatives demand her removal from the line of succession,” Collins said in a statement to Fox News.(Snip)The resolution states that Pelosi “has spent the majority of the House of Representative’s time pursuing baseless and fruitless investigations” against President Trump and his administration