Posts on Tuesday, October 27, 2020
ARLINGTON, Texas — All year long, from February, when the coronavirus pandemic was a concept beyond our imaginations and a shutdown was inconceivable, until Tuesday night, the Dodgers believed this was the year. This was the year those hovering ghosts – produced by annual heartbreak the last seven years — would vanish. This was the year they would add another round of World Series highlights to the 1988 reel that grows grainier each passing autumn. This was the year and this was the team to finally end a championship drought going on 32 years.
It happened Tuesday night inside Globe Life Field, a cavernous shiny new building 1,400 miles away
Melania Trump delivered a blistering campaign speech in support of her husband on Tuesday, attacking Democrats for impeaching him, Joe Biden for criticizing him, and the media for focusing on 'idle gossip and palace intrigue.'In her first solo campaign stop of the year, the first lady didn't hold back in a fiery address that made the case for voters to give President Donald Trump a second term, slamming his rival as a 'socialist' who would 'destroy America.'She described her husband as a 'fighter' and tried to turn one of his biggest areas of criticism into a strength: his steady stream of tweets.'Donald is a fighter. He loves this country
A Trump ad posted to President Donald Trump’s YouTube page on Tuesday shows POTUS mockingly tossing the iconic red “Make America Great Again” hats at opponents of the Right, including Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and an apparent Left-wing rioter.The music in the comical ad is to the tune of the Village People’s “YMCA,” except “M-A-G-A” is being sung. A MAGA hat thrown by Trump is edited to mockingly be the cause of Clinton falling down some stairs in one clip, and suffering a medical episode in another — both real incidents.
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” former Hunter Biden business associate Tony Bobulinski stated that 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden’s brother, Jim, responded to Bobulinski’s question on whether the Bidens were taking a political risk with their business dealings by saying, “plausible deniability.”Host Tucker Carlson asked, “So, was it clear to you from the beginning that what Jim Biden was bringing to this deal was his relationship with Joe Biden?”Bobulinski responded, “Yeah. 1000%, crystal clear. After I met with Joe Biden the morning of May 3 at the Milken Conference, and then
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The nation stands on the cusp of the third and perhaps most notable political realignment in the past 160 years, as those on both sides of the political spectrum recognize that the 2020 election has evolved into a watershed moment in American history. (Snip) It is exceedingly rare for a President to be the primary catalyst in a major and long-term political realignment. Donald Trump has positioned himself to join the rarified pantheon of two former Commanders-in-Chief who achieved that status.
For Tony Bobulinski, the meetings with Joe Biden are unforgettable, and not because they had anything to do with politics. It’s because that’s when Bobulinski fully understood that Joe was very much involved in the foreign business schemes that son Hunter Biden and Joe’s brother Jim had cooked up. The final proof came during two conversations over two days in May 2017. He first met the former vice president in the lobby of the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where Joe was to speak the next day at the Milken Conference on the “moonshot project” of finding a cure for cancer.“Hunter and Jim and I are there,
The size of the Supreme Court isn’t dictated by the Constitution. It’s set by statute. That’s why the high court has had as few as five justices and as many as 10. The size of the Court has remained locked at nine justices after a dispute over justices in the 1860s.
Liberal Democrats are making lots of noise now about growing the size of the Supreme Court to tilt the now conservative advantage back in their favor. And Republicans are more than happy to deploy Democratic threats as a wedge issue, one week before the election.
On Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, seemingly confident of victory, boasted on Twitter, “In 8 days we’re going to take our democracy back.” (Tweet) Besides the fact that Biden mistakenly referred to the United States as a democracy instead of a democratic republic, (some Democrats have stated the desire for a pure democracy, in which the majority can trample on the rights of the minority), there was his seeming attempt to assert he was taking control, leading Great Britain’s Nigel Farage, the leader of the Brexit Party, to assume that once Biden had control of America, he might have other plans.Farage fired back, “And then sell it to China?”
As we careen toward Election Day, as much as I want to listen to the data, I can't let myself stop obsessing over all of the unknowns that lurk between now and then.
By most tangible measures, former Vice President Joe Biden is in the final countdown to an electoral win, seeming to condemn President Donald Trump to a single term. National polling has been almost eerily consistent since Biden sewed up the Democratic nomination. As of Monday, the latest NBC News National Polling Average showed that Biden holds a 7.4 percentage-point lead over Trump (Snip)
National polls can be misleading, though — a fact that still lingers like a bruise on
After his father left office as vice president, Hunter Biden lamented to a business partner in spring 2017 that his lucrative and controversial relationship with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holdings was in danger of falling apart.
"I was fighting for the only income I have left right now from Burisma," Hunter Biden wrote in a series of terse, f-bomb-laden text messages in June 2017 to Tony Bobulinski, the chief executive officer of a China-related venture the Biden family was creating at the time. (Snip)Records obtained by the FBI show that Rosemont Seneca Bohai — a U.S. firm tied to Hunter Biden and his longtime business partner and fellow Burisma
We predict that President Trump is going to win the 2020 presidential election — and win big.
While the majority of the polls suggest that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is leading, or at best that it’s close, those polls suffer from at least three problems.
First, the tone of the questions. There is significant evidence from behavioral psychology that suggests that the way a question is framed predetermines the range of potential answers. In fact, Gallup has found that respondents can answer very differently to questions with the same topic even in the same survey based on the language that’s used. And the use of metaphors can even dwarf the importance
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A West Side security guard was allegedly attacked by two sisters he told to wear masks and use hand sanitizer—one of the women holding him by the hair while the other stabbed him more than two dozen times. “It’s the complete randomness of this. It’s terrifying,” Judge Mary Marubio said Tuesday while ordering the sister held without bail on attempted murder charges. The argument at Snipes shoe store in Lawndale escalated Sunday when 18-year-old Jayla Hill took out her phone and began filming a guard who asked them to leave for refusing to use personal protective equipment, Cook County prosecutors said.
USC Dornlife published a poll Monday that shows President Trump could upset the world again next week.
USC’s normal, tracking poll shows Biden up nationally 53 to 43 percent, a full ten points.
Something USC Dornlife was curious about, though, were those shy Trump voters who either lie to pollsters out of contempt for the establishment media or due to a legitimate fear of expressing a preference for Trump in a country where you can lose your job, have your property vandalized, or find yourself physically assaulted for doing so. (Snip) This is not the first study or survey to show there’s a real possibility pollsters are missing a sizable chunk of
Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a few dozen attendees, including press, for his scheduled remarks in Warm Springs, Georgia, Tuesday afternoon with the presidential election just one week away.Reporters took to social media to share photos from the event, which divided the small number of supporters up using large white circles. (Tweets/Photos) One video showed Biden walking down a flight of stairs toward the stage, where he delivered a somber campaign stump speech. During his remarks, Biden asked, hypothetically, if the heart of the United States “turned to stone,” to which he responded: “I don’t think so. I refuse to believe it.” (Tweet/Video)
When Baltimore’s oldest art museum decided to sell three of its most prominent paintings, including a major work by pop-art icon Andy Warhol, to raise millions of dollars toward its avowed goal of promoting diversity, the reaction was swift and mostly fierce. More than 150 prominent supporters, including former board chairs and members, signed a letter to the Maryland attorney general calling for a halt to the sale.
Nxivm leader Keith Raniere was slammed with 120 years behind bars Tuesday for running a twisted sex-slave cult where women were branded like cattle and forced to sleep with him. The 60-year-old sicko—who billed himself as a Ghandi for lost professionals, only to be unmasked as a sex-abusing torturer to scores of young women—had faced as little as 15 years on seven felony charges ranging from sex-trafficking to racketeering, child pornography and forced labor. Raniere was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court after some of his victims gave statements about their suffering at his hands, including
Cory Booker would love a family reunion with his newly discovered cousin RuPaul. The New Jersey senator chatted with Wendy Williams about his recent family news in a new interview that aired on her talk show Tuesday.
Booker, who found out about his relationship with the Emmy-winning host of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” after participating in the PBS show “Finding Your Roots,” couldn’t hide his excitement when he was asked about it on “The Wendy Williams Show."(Snip) “Yes! Yes!” Booker agreed excitedly, explaining to the daytime diva how he found out about his genetic link to the world’s most famous drag queen.
A Trafalgar Group poll has President Trump taking a slight lead in Pennsylvania, showing the small Georgia research firm is once again going against the corporate polling grain which has Joseph R. Biden with a healthy lead.
Trafalgar Group also has Mr. Trump ahead in Michigan and other swing states.
Chief strategist Robert Cahaly says his small team of analysts know how to find Trump-shy voters, a skill displayed in 2016 when it — and Mr. Trump — shocked the media establishment.
Biden is the least inspiring candidate in at last a century, while President Trump has an extraordinarily enthusiastic base that is, if possible, much larger than it was in 2016. Still, the polls have been practically unanimous: Biden will win in a landslide. The polls predicted the same for Hillary in 2016, so we’re suspicious, but the confluence of awful things that’s been 2020 still makes Trump supporters just a little nervous. However, two election analysts are predicting that Trump will beat the pants and double masks off Joe Biden.
Matthew Tyrmand is a numbers guy.
Greensboro—Vice President Mike Pence drew a crowd of about 200 people at Piedmont Triad International Airport on Tuesday afternoon. The “Make America Great Again” rally came just days after several of Pence’s closest aids tested positive for COVID-19. Pence tested negative and has decided to forego quarantine, continuing to travel and campaign. Folks at the rally sported shirts and hats and held signs with the “MAGA” message. While over half were unmasked, several of those that did wear masks wore ones with phrases supporting President Donald Trump, such as “Women for Trump” and “Trump 2020.”
For four years, we have listened to liberals attack Donald Trump for every word uttered, tweet sent, and policy implemented, no matter the substance. With complete indifference if not outright disdain for every accomplishment from Middle East peace to a record-breaking economy, Trump can do no right in the eyes of liberals. And in addition to his physical appearance and strong personality, many of them complain about his lack of morals. With a straight face, liberals tell you they are voting for Biden to bring morality back to the White House.
This is truly one of the fascinating aspects of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Hunter Biden's former business partner Tony Bobulinski will appear on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show on Tuesday night with 'new allegations', which sources claim will 'bury' the Biden family.
Bobulinski has since early October been pushing the story of his time in business with Hunter Biden, 50, and his claims that Joe Biden was involved in the attempts to make deals.
Sean Davis, co-founder of The Federalist, tweeted: 'According to a source familiar with the planning, Bobulinski will play recordings of Biden family operatives begging him to stay quiet and claiming Bobulinski's revelations will "bury" the reputations of everyone involved in Hunter's overseas deals.'
TV show Dallas was the main reason behind the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, it has been claimed. Eurythmics co-founder Dave Stewart said that former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev told him that the 1980s soap opera 'had more effect' in ending the Cold War than anything else. Mr Stewart, 68, said the Gorbachev admitted an illicit broadcast of the US show in Russia had opened his people's eyes to Western life, and the Texas-based show 'brought down' the communist superpower.
The program had portrayed the millionaire lifestyles of the oil tycoon Ewing family.
A former US Postal Service worker tossed dozens of other absentee ballots and other mail into a dumpster in Kentucky, federal prosecutors said. DeShawn Bojgere, 30, who no longer works for USPS, was charged with delay or destruction of mail-in connection to the ballot dump earlier this month in Louisville, the US Attorney Russell Coleman’s office said. More than 100 general election absentee ballots being sent out to voters were discarded in a construction dumpster, prosecutors said. They were tossed along with 69 mixed class pieces of mail, 320 second-class pieces of mail and two national election campaign flyers from a political party in Florida.
It’s Now The Barrett Court
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It’s common to identify eras of Supreme Court history by reference to the name of the presiding chief justice, but the Court’s dynamics can change with the appointment of each new member. With the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett, we may now be entering the era of the Barrett Court. Her arrival is likely to have the most profound effect on the nation’s highest court since simultaneous appointments of William Rehnquist and Lewis Powell in the 1970s and the replacement of Thurgood Marshall by Clarence Thomas in the early 1990s.
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"When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse." Osama Bin Laden.
There is a certain truth here. Trump described it in the last debate, about the many Democrats who were coming to him pre-covid, wanting to join him and make deals rather than "resist". Winning has its consequences.
More important than being the strong horse, the winning horse, more people need to understand the depth of goodness Trump has brought, the accomplishments, and the great principles he has unleashed. There are lots of lists much longer than mine here. They are easy to find,
Amy Coney Barrett was officially sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice John Roberts Tuesday - returning the court to nine members but with conservative 6-3 majority.The 48-year-old took her oath in front of a fireplace with her husband Jesse holding the Bible as Roberts administered the pledge, just after 10am.
Her arrival on the bench ends a tumultuous month since the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and sees her face a barrage of politically fraught cases in her first days on the job, as the court weighs election disputes
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace said Monday that The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan’s recent piece criticizing Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris came off as “bitchy” and that conservative white women should keep their mouths shut on certain topics.
Ms. Noonan, a former speechwriter and special assistant to the late President Ronald Reagan, was slammed by liberals over the weekend for a column criticizing Mrs. Harris, California senator, as unserious.
“She’s dancing with drum lines and beginning rallies with ‘Wassup, Florida!’” Ms. Noonan wrote. “She’s throwing her head back and laughing a loud laugh
SHOCKING! Joe Biden Campaigns to 38 Circles
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But Joe Biden is ahead by 12 points! 38 circles were drawn on the ground today in Warm Springs for Joe Biden’s “rally” today. It appears the media was sitting in a few of the circles. AJC reporter Greg Bluestein posted this image. Correction*
JERUSALEM— A convoy of cars decorated with American flags and Trump 2020 banners on Tuesday drove from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, holding a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in support of the American president ahead of next week’s election.Some two dozen vehicles joined the procession, which was organized by Republicans Overseas Israel.While Jews in the United States are expected to vote overwhelmingly for Democrat Joe Biden, Donald Trump is a popular figure in Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described him as the “greatest friend” Israel has ever had in the White House. Most of the people in Tuesday’s convoy appeared to be American immigrants, though there were
Boston Herald Endorses Trump: Biden’s
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The Boston Herald formally endorsed President Trump for reelection one week from Election Day, describing Joe Biden’s (D) platform as “a risky love letter to social justice warriors and those who believe capitalism is the root of all evil.”In a Tuesday endorsement penned by the editorial staff, the Herald recognized that the left’s devotion has been, solely, to remove Trump from office — an objective it has held since 2016. While Biden “allegedly offers a return to ‘normalcy,’” the Herald asked, “But, what’s normal in 2020?”“Biden’s platform is a risky love letter to social justice warriors and those who believe capitalism is the root of all evil,” the Herald wrote,
The following is an excerpt from 50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump, the new book by Breitbart News Entertainment Editor Jerome Hudson.50 Things They Don’t Want You to Know About Trump is available for purchase here. The excerpt is from pages 151-155.The Trump administration has championed the responsible cultivation of America’s plentiful energy resources, including oil and natural gas. The president’s policy positions, as such, have been geared toward expanding oil drilling and natural gas exploitation as a means to boost the country’s economy, save Americans money through lower energy prices, and increase America’s national security through reduced dependence on foreign oil.
Kimber Manufacturing is moving its corporate headquarters to Troy and will “aggressively hire” in all departments. The firearms manufacturer last week announced it is moving to a new facility it built last year on 80 acres with more than 225,000 square feet of space, with design engineering, product management and manufacturing space. The company, formerly based in Yonkers, N.Y., pledged two years ago to open a $38 million production facility in Troy, creating 366 jobs over the next five years, which Gov. Kay Ivey announced in her 2018 State of the State address. In an announcement, the company said Troy was chosen
Polling indicates Joe Biden and the Democrats will win big. However, Democrats are falling short of the edge they need in early voting to offset the Republicans’ anticipated big edge in election day voting in three of four battleground states where data is available.If pollsters adjusted to fix 2016 mistakes, the RealClearPolitics average in each state shows Biden winning 341-197 and Democrats taking control of the Senate. This grid shows a middle scenario, that state polling averages are just as far off as in 2016, that would add Wisconsin, Iowa and North Carolina to the Trump column, still leaving Trump
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina must count mail ballots even if voters’ signatures don’t match those on file, as long as officials are otherwise satisfied with the ballot. Judge Richard Gergel, an Obama appointee, said some counties in the state are engaged in “unauthorized” signature-matching, and he ordered them to stop. He called them a “hodgepodge” of rules, with some not even giving voters a chance to fix any errors before their ballots were tossed. “The late discovery of these wildly inconsistent procedures, where a minority of counties are conducting some version of signature matching without the knowledge or approval
New York City’s struggling restaurants have given up hope that they will be allowed to double their indoor seating on Nov. 1 amid rising infection rates and radio silence from Albany, The Post has learned. Restaurant owners and lobbyists say they’ve heard zilch from Gov. Cuomo on his promise to consider increasing indoor dining capacity by the end of this month. That silence has left them unable to plan—and bracing for another wave of closures.(Snip) Indoor dining in NYC launched for the first time in six months on Sept. 30 at 25 percent capacity, which restaurant owners say isn’t enough to keep
Amy Coney Barrett’s ascension to the Supreme Court marks the first time in 81 years that the Republicans will have a majority on the Supreme Court. The Democrats, rather than accepting gracefully that the regularly-applied constitutional rules finally stopped favoring them, have responded with a complete meltdown. They’ve resorted to apocalyptic predictions, hysterical rants, and threats, lots and lots of threats. The last time the Democrats behaved this disgracefully was in 1860, a temper tantrum that ended in a Civil War that left over 650,000 Americans dead.
Before describing the Democrats’ psychological collapse, it’s essential to understand the Barrett confirmation was constitutionally correct and had historical precedent.
Perhaps we can add evangelist or miracle worker to Donald Trump’s lengthy resume. The president has gone and done the unthinkable, inspiring some good ol’ religious fervor in one particularly hateful Hollywood lib. As evidenced on her Twitter, Trump has inspired Bette Midler to get on her knees and pray to God. Well of course, it’s not out of joy nor the actress’s sudden repentance for encouraging far left policies like rending unborn babies limb from limb. Quite the opposite. It’s fear. The thought of a Trump re-election and the continuation of his “fascist” regime reduced her to begging God for assistance. These people are deranged.
2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden referred to his running mate California Sen. Kamala Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff, as “Kamala’s wife.”
“My wife, Jill, as you know and Doug Emhoff, Kamala’s wife were there,” Biden said speaking of Texas on Monday. (Video)The latest gaffe comes just a day after Biden appeared to confuse President Donald Trump with President George W. Bush. (Video)Two weeks ago, Biden claimed he was running for the Senate.(Video) (Snip)Biden’s repeated gaffes also help explain the Democratic nominee’s light campaign schedule just days before the November contest. Last week, Biden implemented a 72-hour lid ahead of the second and final presidential debate.
Senator Mazie Hirono on Monday told the Senate 'hell no' and gave a thumbs down as she cast her vote in Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation to the Supreme Court. The Democrat from Hawaii then walked off the floor as the roll call of the vote continued to be read out.(Snip) Hirono had earlier tweeted: 'LGBTQ rights. Voting rights. Women’s equality. Health Care. These rights didn’t materialize out of thin air—they came after hard-fought battles. 'Judge Barrett’s radical views and her disregard for real-world impacts show #WhatsAtStake if she is confirmed to the Supreme Court.'
As the presidential campaign enters its final phase, one of the messages of the Biden campaign is that putting him, a 47-year veteran of national politics, into the White House will return us to something approaching normal. With Biden in charge, all the Trump craziness will expire, and things will be safe, sane and familiar.
In fact, there’s no chance of this happening. If Biden wins, things won’t go back to “normal.” You probably won’t even hear less from Donald Trump. And in a lot of areas, like foreign policy, it turns out the establishment’s version of normal wasn’t all that normal anyway.
Vogue’s editor Anna WIntour apologizes as black staffers call for her to resign and accuses her of using a racist word, favoring a “certain type” of employee — namely, those who were thin, white, and from an elite background – and cultivated a racist work environment, Breitbart reports.(Snip)An investigation by the Times, published Saturday, describes how Wintour, who has been Vogue’ editor in chief since 1988 and Condé Nast’s artistic director since 2013, details the complaints of 18 individuals who have reportedly worked with Wintour.(Snip)One former black staff member admitted that “fashion is bitchy” but suggested that, under Wintour’s leadership, the magazine adhered to another discriminatory standard.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett officially became Justice Barrett following a private ceremony in the Supreme Court's East Conference Room Tuesday morning. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the Judicial Oath to Barrett, officially making her the court's 103rd associate justice. "Upon administration of that oath, she will be able to begin to participate in the work of the Court," the Supreme Court said in a press release, adding that a "formal investiture ceremony will take place at a special sitting of the Court in the Courtroom at a later date."
As the national political media have conducted practically the entire Democratic presidential election campaign, the credibility of the media is entirely implicated in the election result. In the latest revelations about the financial activities of the Biden family while presidential candidate Joe Biden was the vice president, the national political media and the principal social media companies have sandbagged another large media company, News Corporation’s New York Post, and have tried to impose online silence on the White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
The media either had to suppress the story to maintain support for their candidate and continue to make his campaign for him, or give normal attention to
Britain is now recording more Covid-19 deaths each day for the size of its population than the US for the first time since June, data has revealed. Both countries are currently recording around two Covid-19 deaths for every million people—but Britain's rate stands slightly higher at 2.63, compared to 2.4 in the US. The UK suffered far higher daily death counts in the spring, relative to its population. But over the summer, while Britain's outbreak fizzled out, America's failed to improve. Now, coronavirus cases have picked up once again in Britain as it battles a 'second wave' and deaths are climbing
Peshawar, Pakistan—A powerful bomb blast ripped through an Islamic seminary on the outskirts of the northwest Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight students and wounding 136 others, police and a hospital spokesman said. The bombing happened as a prominent religious scholar during a special class was delivering a lecture about the teachings of Islam at the main hall of the Jamia Zubairia madrassa, said police officer Waqar Azim. He said initial investigations suggest the bomb went off minutes after someone left a bag at the madrassa.(Snip) Police said at least 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of explosives were used in the attack.
ABC's “The View” co-host Joy Behar says President Donald Trump and members of his administration should be charged with “crimes against humanity” because of its immigration policy and vowed to not “be a part of a country” that separates children from their parents.During an off-the-wall segment on the show, the panel discussed last week's final presidential debate between Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, where they sparred over immigration policy.Trump attacked Biden for the Obama-Biden administration's "catch-and-release" policy, in which illegal immigrants were allowed to walk free ahead of their court dates after being arrested for being in the country illegally.
There was a lot of money lost for Major League Baseball in 2020.
MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told Sportico in an exclusive interview that the 30 MLB teams are $8.3 billion in debt from their different lenders, and they are expected to post between $2.8-$3 billion in operational losses this year.
“We are going to be at historic high levels of debt,” Manfred told the website. “And it’s going to be difficult for the industry to weather another year where we don’t have fans in the ballpark...
Paris—A French doctor warned Monday that his country has "lost control of the epidemic," a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new coronavirus cases as nations across Europe enact more sweeping restrictions to try to slow surging infection rates. Spain—the first European country to surpass 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases—declared a state of emergency Sunday that included a nationwide overnight curfew, a cap of six people on social gatherings and possible travel bans in and out of the hardest-hit regions. The effect was clear on Barcelona's famed Las Ramblas promenade, which was deserted Sunday night
East Village, Manhattan—Will it be the final cut for Astor Place Hairstylists? From always in style to going out of business, clients and the crew at the well-known shop heard the news this weekend. The shop has been a family business since 1947 along Astor Place and Broadway in Manhattan’s East Village. Owners John and Paul Vezza said they will likely have to close in November. “Barring a miracle,” they both add. About 40 people are on staff and fill the lower level shop with the sounds of clippers and conversation.(Snip) Business has been down 90% since the pandemic.
he gloves came off between Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh and CNN anchor Chris Cuomo in a brawl about the coronavirus pandemic.
Cuomo kicked off the interview by bringing up the new COVID-19 case increase in the U.S. Murtaugh said President Trump has been tackling the coronavirus "head-on," citing the China travel ban and advancements in treatments and vaccines.
Cuomo responded by touting what he presented as Joe Biden's plans to tackle the virus and attacked Trump for his inaction early on.
More than 30 people have been detained and at least 30 police officers have been injured as tensions erupted in West Philadelphia after police shot and killed a man armed with a knife. Police said in total 30 officers have been injured in events related to the unrest in the city following the shooting of Walter Wallace. Authorities said officers confronted Wallace, who was reportedly armed with a knife Monday afternoon. Police said Wallace was shot multiple times by two officers after he didn't adhere to calls to drop the weapon. He was later pronounced dead. Officials said most of the injuries to officers that occurred overnight are reported
A former Goldman Sachs president made a huge, last-minute donation to Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign against President Trump.Harvey Schwartz, former president of Goldman Sachs, donated about $100,000 to the Biden Action Fund in October, according to Federal Election Commission data.CNBC reports: The filing lists Schwartz and a New York address and describes his work profession as “self employed.” The contribution was processed on Oct. 5, records show. Schwartz retired from the bank in 2018 after being its president for just over a year. Prior to that role he was Goldman’s chief financial officer.
he Wall Street Journal recently ran two pieces, one atop the other, covering how neighbors and loved ones span the gulf of divergent political beliefs. Needless to say, it’s a topic of particular relevance during this, or any, election season. I teased a buddy of mine by sending it to him since I knew his wife was a supporter of Bernie Sanders, while he is generally more conservative. “Let me read this jewel, haha,” he replied. I have always struggled with this dichotomy in theory. It certainly makes for fascinating theater whenever Mary Matalin and James Carville are invited to participate in panel
Four years ago, the Big Three broadcast evening newscasts tried to destroy Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with historically negative press coverage. This year, those newscasts are doubling down, with coverage that is even more hostile to the Republican. Meanwhile, his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, is enjoying mostly positive coverage and a friendly media that’s virtually ignoring all topics — such as the scandal swirling around his son, Hunter — that might harm his prospects.For this study, the MRC analyzed all coverage of President Trump and former Vice President Biden on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from July 29 through October 20 (including weekends).
If court-packing sounds too extreme, then maybe court rotation will do the trick. Now that Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has said he will consider rotating justices if he gets elected next week.Speaking at a campaign stop in Chester, Pennsylvania, Biden said he will consider shifting the Supreme Court justices to lower courts during his tenure.“There is some literature among constitutional scholars about the possibility of going from one court to another court, not just always staying the whole time in the Supreme Court,
While national attention is riveted by the presidential horse race, a more important contest — or series of contests — is unfolding for control of the Senate. No matter who occupies the Oval Office, the political majority that runs the Senate will play the decisive political role for at least the next two years, perhaps longer. In what is shaping up as a difficult year for Republicans
You hear it every day. Someone says, “I just want the election to be over,” hoping out loud that things will somehow “return to normal” once the 2020 vote ends. But it won’t. The left already has plans to ensure that.
By “return to normal,” of course, we refer to an America not so riven by politics that families and neighbors no longer talk to each other because of the deep political divide. An America where people again become friendly and human, politics recede in importance, the economy and schools reopen, and suspicion of others’ political motives fade into the
The CBS 60 Minutes fiasco was all of Lesley Stahl’s doing; she embarrassed herself. She thought that she had the President in her sights and she intended to belittle him. Why not? She and her network have a long history of deceitful editing with the goal of destroying people they loathe. Remember Dan Rather’s “fake but accurate” defense of his phony documents meant to derail George Bush’s re-election.
Stahl’s interview was not an interview, it was an ambush. She did not count on him pushing back; that is how dense she is.
Rioting, vandalism and looting erupted in Philadelphia on Monday night hours after police fatally shot a 27-year-old black man armed with a knife during a domestic disturbance call. Late into the night, growing anger boiled over into a violent riot near the Philadelphia Police 18th District building. Several officers were injured by bricks and other projectiles thrown at them by a crowd of demonstrators. At least 12 officers have been hospitalized, including one female cop, 56, who suffered a broken leg after being hit by a speeding pick-up truck that was videoed driving towards a line of officers close to the city center shortly before 1am, according to Philadelphia Police.
The joy of a Trump rally
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MARTINSBURG, Pa. -- When I saw the U.S. Marine Corps Osprey aircraft fly in, one after another, followed by two Marine choppers including Marine One, I honestly took some offense. This is all spectacle, and frankly inappropriate.
Sure, the President needs protection, but here he was obviously deploying federal resources — worse, military resources — to provide a partisan show for his supporters in a purely political event.
And at that moment, when "Fortunate Son" started blaring, I couldn't help but dwell on all the arch tweets by my journalist colleagues about President Trump’s fondness for this song.(Snip for tweet)But then I looked around, and supercilious-reporter-Tim-Carney
Hegel said a lot of baffling things, many of which underscore Walter Bagehot’s observation that “in the faculty of writing nonsense, stupidity is no match for genius.”
But every now and then, Hegel nailed it. A case in point, I believe, is his declaration, in “The Philosophy of Right,” that “the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the coming of the dusk.”
Gnomic? Yes. But we know what he means. Wisdom, insight (a.k.a. “the owl of Minerva”) arrives at the end, not the beginning, of our explorations.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday night amid whoops and cheers from the audience on the White House lawn. After President Trump opened the proceedings with a speech, Justice Thomas swore Barrett in, and Barrett followed with a speech in which she vowed, “I will do my job without any fear or favor,” adding, “I love the Constitution and the democratic republic that it establishes, and I will devote myself to preserving it.”President Trump began, “This is a momentous day for America, the United States Constitution, and for the fair and impartial rule of law.
President Trump has signed an executive order that removes civil-service protections from certain positions within federal government agencies. There has been much whining and gnashing of teeth, but voters should be thrilled. Making policymakers in the Deep State “at-will” employees, who are easier to dismiss if they attempt to obstruct the duly elected president’s agenda, is a good thing. Not being bound to hire according to a career-progression ladder will also allow agencies to bring in new people with new ideas. This will be true whether or not Donald Trump is president.
The need to reduce protections within the civil service became apparent when training based on critical race
Democrat vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) called the Senate’s confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court on Monday “illegitimate” and vowed that the Americans “will not forget” the Republicans’ constitutional responsibility to fill the seat of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.Harris tweeted after a 52 to 48 Senate vote along party lines to put Barrett on the High Court: Today Republicans denied the will of the American people by confirming a Supreme Court justice through an illegitimate process—all in their effort to gut the Affordable Care Act and strip health care from millions with pre-existing conditions.
JERUSALEM — Israelis have a lot on their plate these days: instability on its borders with Lebanon and Syria, the threat from Iran, the prospect of more normalization deals with once-hostile Arab states, domestic political scandals and a nasty surge in COVID-19 cases.
But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his fellow Israelis may be excused for obsessively refreshing their American political news feeds.
In a country where President Trump is broadly popular, Mr. Netanyahu may be among the foreign leaders with the most at stake — and the most to lose — in U.S. elections next week.
With an election impending, the public schools are teaching our children about the issues and the candidates. One of their primary tools is Scholastic Magazine, which I think is read by millions of school children and is the basis for instruction in countless classrooms. A friend alerted me to the fact that the current issue includes profiles of President Trump and Joe Biden and describes their positions on several issues.
This is what our children are being told about President’s Trump’s position on “Racial Justice”:
The long history of unjust treatment of Black people in America is a major focus of this election.
Back in March, the COVID mantra was, “15 days to slow the spread”, meaning flattening the curve. The purpose was to avoid overwhelming the medical system as no one really knew what we were up against with the Wuhan virus.
This allowed time for the system to adapt and recalibrate to this new illness. As the virus peaked in mid-April, the subsequent months should have been the normal course of a viral pandemic, some getting sick to varying degrees, others unfortunately dying, but eventually reaching herd immunity, itself a longstanding concept -- suddenly controversial.
The most important passage in George Orwell’s iconic and prescient novel 1984 is O’Brien’s chilling explanation to protagonist Winston Smith concerning the Party’s motives: “We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power.” It is no exaggeration to say this has become the raison d’être of the Democratic Party. Consequently, it’s imperative to remember that the electorate itself is the true target of Democratic attacks on President Trump. This is why its current presidential nominee calls his supporters “Chumps.” It is why the failed 2016 Democratic nominee recently described them as “cowards and spineless enablers.” Trump is the voice of a nationwide voter rebellion
The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, on Monday. Democrats have argued that the process was illegitimate, either because it took place during a global pandemic or because it took place as Election Day drew near or because the Senate refused to consider President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, in 2016.On Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) effectively rebutted these arguments, and he had previously rebutted one more.
Here are 5 reasons Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation was entirely legitimate.
Joe Biden’s insane war on oil
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Joe Biden wants to take one of the great American success stories of the last several decades — and drive it into the ground.
He would turn his back on the stupendous wealth represented by proven reserves of oil and gas in this country.
Rather than focusing on producing cheap, abundant energy — a key ingredient to human progress through all of human history — he would embark on the fool’s errand of trying to adjust the world’s thermostat 80 years from now.
When two loud bangs rang out on the streets of Lafayette, Louisiana, no one knew where the gunshots came from as protesters gathered to demand justice for another Black man killed by police.
Among the crowd was a group of armed Black men and women who call themselves the "Not F**king Around Coalition" or NFAC. The group did not run toward the gunshots or break formation. Instead, they kneeled on the ground amid the confusion, and then walked away after their leader shouted, "fall back! fall back!"
The all-Black, Atlanta-based group has grown in size out of frustration during a summer of protests against questionable policing
Reporters were given a rare opportunity to ask Joe Biden questions during his campaign stop on Monday afternoon in Chester, Pa.
Here's what reporters asked:
"You've kept a relatively light public schedule in the past few days, can you give us a sense of how much you'll be traveling in the next few days?"
"Are you confident enough with your standing in states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan? Are you expanding the map by traveling to Iowa?"
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, fresh off her confirmation to serve as an associate justice on the nation's highest court, took her constitutional oath on Monday at the White House.
The Supreme Court said in a press release that Barrett will be able to start her new role after Chief Justice John Roberts administers her judicial oath on Tuesday. Justice Clarence Thomas administered the constitutional oath at Monday's ceremony.
Thomas has long been considered one of the more conservative justices on the court, along with Barrett's mentor, the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Echoing her mentor, Barrett underscored the need for a separation of powers between the judicial and legislative branches.