Posts on Thursday, October 29, 2020
One of the nation's largest gunmakers has massively ramped up production—and still can't meet unprecedented demand.
Sturm, Ruger & Company said it increased production 50 percent over last year, including a 15 percent surge in the second and third quarter of 2020 alone, according to an earnings report released Wednesday.
Even with increased production, Ruger's gun inventory remains "near historic lows" due to record demand, said CEO Christopher Killoy.
"Consumer demand showed no signs of letting up during the quarter," he said, because of "concerns about personal protection and home defense" caused by "civil unrest," activists' calls to defund the police, and "the continuing COVID-19 pandemic."
One of Donald Trump’s key achievements in his first four years of office was passing a massive tax cut which lowered the rates for 80+% of Americans. Despite that, Democrats have waged a relentless misinformation campaign purporting that the tax cuts only went to the rich and that the middle class were not helped. That’s objectively not true, but that hasn’t stopped the left from showing they apparently have no idea how tax returns work.
Enter this video from NowThis News, which shows a montage of people complaining that they got less money back on their return this year. [Video]
Describing Philadelphia as a city standing on the precipice between “respect for democracy” and “destruction,” U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain on Thursday announced arson charges against four men accused of torching police cars during racial injustice protests this spring and condemned property destruction committed during a second wave of unrest that has gripped the city this week.
But the nature of the charges and timing of the arrests — days after the fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. and within a week of a presidential election in which race and social justice issues have become dominant issues — drew sharp rebukes from the defendants' lawyers and protest leaders
We already know that District Attorney Larry Krasner (D-Philadelphia) hates the police and will not seriously prosecute #BlackLivesMatter protesters who break the law and destroy property, so, to do the right thing, unfortunately, requires that the feds take action. It’s a good thing it was Donald Trump and not Hillary Clinton appointing United States Attorneys! From The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Arson charges against prominent West Philly activist draw swift rebuke from protest movement
by Jeremy Roebuck, Posted: October 29, 2020- 10:43 AM
A federal indictment charging a prominent West Philadelphia activist and two others with setting a police car on fire during racial injustice protests this spring was unsealed Thursday,
The South Carolina Senate race between Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and his opponent and former SC Democratic party chairman Jaime Harrison has turned into the national media’s 2020 version of the 2018 race between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) vs. Democrat Beto O’Rourke.
Not a day goes by where there is not a fawning puff piece or two and/or umpteen tweets from reporters and “political analysts” on how Harrison has managed to make a race most believed at the beginning of the year would not be competitive into one to watch down the homestretch.
When the Harrison campaign reported they’d raised $57 million in the third quarter,
A former maître d’ at New York City institution, The Waverly Inn, was shot dead in a carjacking in Mississippi and three people have been charged with his murder. Kenny Wayne Mason, 52, moved home to Greenville after the coronavirus pandemic struck to care for his mother and work on a new book, his sister Holly Mason said. It's not clear if he was furloughed from the Waverly Inn due to COVID-19 prior to his departure from the Big Apple, though the restaurant was closed for dinner service for about five months until mid-August. On October 21, he was found shot dead
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has issued an Order re-implementing restrictions on bars and restaurants in southwestern Illinois (“Region 4”) due to a rising COVID positivity rate. (Three consecutive days of positive test rates above 8%.) The Order, which went into effect yesterday, limits them to outdoor service only and imposes an 11:00 pm curfew.
Many of these establishments were only recently permitted to reopen and, heading into late fall and cooler temperatures, will likely not be able to ride out another lockdown. Some have stated they don’t intend to obey the Order.
As reported by KMOV4:
The owner of “Boogie’s Restaurant and Sports Bar” says he will most likely maintain indoor dining,
Appearing on MSNBC Thursday afternoon, Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told off anchor Andrea Mitchell as he exposed how the Biden campaign and the leftist media “colluded” to exploit the coronavirus pandemic and turn it into a “political weapon” against the President. To Mitchell’s utter contempt, Murtaugh also called out Biden’s “anti-vaxxer rhetoric” and the press sowing doubt about COVID-19 treatments.“We are inches away from a vaccine in record time. Meanwhile, you have Joe Biden on the other side using this anti-vaxxer rhetoric, scaring people away from taking the vaccine, and then the media happily trumpeting the polls
Joe Biden's Last Minute Schedule Change
Shows He's Much Less Confident than the
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Shows He's Much Less Confident than the
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We are now in the final stretch of the campaign and even Joe Biden is leaving the basement for the last big push. He’s recently spent time in Pennsylvania, a key state that may decide the entire election. But it’s where he’s going next that signals something important about where his campaign actually sees this race.
Biden will be heading to Minnesota tomorrow, a state he’s supposedly got in the bag, and the decision to go there was apparently made at the last minute. [Tweet]
How close Trump is in Minnesota depends on what polls you cite, but the average is right at Biden +5.
Now this is what you call a fast moving legal story.
As I noted in this story posted earlier today, the Minnesota Supreme Court received a petition yesterday from the Trump Campaign and other Republican interest groups asking that all ballots received after the 8:00 pm deadline on election day — which appears in the Minnesota election law statute — be segregated from mailed ballots that are received in compliance with that deadline. The Minnesota Supreme Court responded with an Order directing the petitioners to file a brief explaining why it could not have requested that relief earlier, and why the doctrine of “laches”
With tensions high in the days before Election Day, the U.S. military scrambled fighter jets Wednesday when an aircraft flew near a Trump rally in Arizona.President Donald Trump was in Arizona for a pair of rallies, including one in Bullhead City. While he was there, a plane flew too close to the campaign event.What happened next was summarized in a pair of tweets from North American Aerospace Defense Command.“At approx. 1400 MDT, NORAD F-16 aircraft investigated a general aviation aircraft that was not in communication with ATC and entered the Temporary Flight Restriction area surrounding Bullhead City, AZ without proper clearance,” NORAD Command tweeted.
As John pointed out yesterday, the Mayor of Philadelphia imposed a curfew last night in an attempt to quell the ongoing rioting and looting. Shockingly, many of the people who were already in the process of breaking any number of laws didn’t follow his orders and set out to continue the mayhem. [Tweet]
So why would the looters continue emptying the shelves of all the city’s stores after they’d been put on notice by the municipal government? Perhaps it’s because they’d heard that the cops had been ordered not to arrest any looters. Yes… you heard that correctly. The cops were told to simply “disperse” the looters
French officials have identified the terror suspect in Thursday’s horrific fatal knife attack in Nice as Brahim Aouissaoui, a Tunisian migrant who entered France illegally. The 21-year-old had been in the country for less than a month before he allegedly killed two women worshippers and a male sacristan at the city’s Notre Dame Basilica, The Guardian reported. An image of Aouissaoui in custody after being shot by police at the scene was provided to the photo agency Backgrid by a police source. He was shot by police while shouting “Allahu akbar!” moments after the gruesome attack left three dead, and remains in custody.
Progressives are just keeping their tongue-biting promise to help Joe Biden deliver, presenting the former vice president to their supporters, once and for all, as the last chance of demolishing Donald Trump’s stronghold on Washington. (Snip) “The word on the street is it’s definitely going to start immediately,” a former senior adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said in an interview on Tuesday. “Most people are putting on the good face to vote Trump out. But make no mistake, the current power structure on the Democratic side should take no comfort that the main reason why Biden may be elected
The Biden Family wants America to believe that they are the typical hard working American family, but nothing could be further from the truth.
Joe Biden said his son Hunter had done “nothing but good things his whole life” per the Daily Mail in a report on Valentine’s day earlier this year:
Joe Biden on Thursday defended his son, Hunter Biden, saying he was a ‘good’ guy who ‘has done nothing but good things his whole life’ even after he was made to pay child support to a stripper he impregnated out of wedlock.
Last month, Hunter Biden agreed to pay child support to an Arkansas woman,
If you believe the polls, Joe Biden has a commanding lead nationally and is beating Trump in the battleground states. For sure, he’s headed to an easy victory, right? Trump supporters say, “Don’t believe the polls,” and pollsters are convinced that after their embarrassing failure in 2016 they’ve got it right this time.
Okay, well, then why is Joe Biden going to Minnesota on Friday? A Republican hasn’t won the state since 1972, and yet, four days before the election, the Biden campaign, which has enough money on hand to work at expanding the map for Democrats, is coming to what should be safe territory for them.
The FBI opened an investigation into Hunter Biden and associates in 2019 on suspicion of money laundering, a Justice Department official told Sinclair Broadcasting.
The criminal investigation is ongoing, the DOJ official said.
The revelation comes after Tony Bobulinski, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, came forward with a trove of documents regarding the Biden family’s dealings with now-defunct Chinese energy firm CEFC. While Joe Biden has denied that he has ever spoken with Hunter regarding the latter’s overseas business dealings, Bobulinski claims the former vice president is lying.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison student government recently approved a resolution that calls for the removal of a statue of Abraham Lincoln on campus. The resolution claims that the statue is a “racist remnant” of “white supremacy.” (Snip) The resolution, which passed by unanimous consent, was drafted by student Kevin Jacobson. Jacobson argued that the Lincoln statue should be removed because it was donated by newspaper owner Richard Lloyd Jones, who was controversial for his stances on a number of issues.
‘I love this man!’ NYC man wins Twitter
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with epic, and now viral, endorsement
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Video of a black American’s enthusiastic endorsement of President Donald Trump has gone viral and garnered a virtual standing ovation on social media.With few details other than the man being from New York City, a video interview of “Barry,” who appears to be behind the steering wheel in a car, has sparked an outpouring of comments on Twitter where his “Caribbean energy” and love of the president has made instant fans. Barry backed his support with facts about Trump and called him the greatest thing “since sliced bread.”
The View from Colusa County
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I’m sitting at my ranch in western Colusa County, an hour’s drive northwest of Sacramento. When my grandmother grew up here, 140 years ago, there were dozens of vibrant homesteads, successful farms, enough kids to fill the local schoolhouse. There was even a proper cemetery. The Leesville–Ladoga stagecoach came through each day, headed to the mines or to the several hotels beside the mineral springs that dotted the area. On this land now—except for myself and my wife and one other family—only cattle graze. The people and their livelihoods left long ago. It is Trump country. A man I know from town stopped by the other day.
President Trump held two massive rallies in Arizona on Wednesday with just 6 days until Election Day.The President invited a few young YouTube stars on stage to dance to YMCA after his Phoenix rally.The young men known as the “Nelk Boys” (originally from Canada) were dressed in suits and red MAGA hats. The Nelk Boys are known for prank videos and they have nearly 6 million YouTube subscribers — the video of these guys dancing with President Trump is going viral.
We’re either right or wrong. There is no in-between here concerning the polls. These liberal outlets are oversampling Democrats, ignoring Trump Democrats, not accounting for fewer young voters turning out, and including way too many college-educated voters to craft a narrative that this country holds a D+15 electorate. It's just not true. Trump Democrats are being ignored. Rural Republicans are being bypassed. The suburban cohort of the GOP—sure. They’re the squishiest and most vocally anti-Trump of the group. At Trump’s rallies, around 25 percent of the attendees didn’t vote in 2016. Some firms haven’t even moved off from registered voter samples. It’s a trainwreck.
The far-left wing of the Democratic Party hopes to slash the U.S. defense budget in the event of a Democratic sweep on Election Day, Politico reported Wednesday.The party's progressives reportedly want to cut the defense budget to compensate for an increase in domestic spending on issues like the environment and health care. Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chairman Mark Pocan (D., Wis.) said Democrats should take a "critical look" at the defense budget. "It's a real unique opportunity to be able to both support funding for things that we think more directly support people in the country," said Pocan.
Welp, not exactly a ringing endorsement but at least they were honest. Then again, what they said about the other guy was even worse, so there’s that.In an endorsement published on Sunday, the Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Washington, endorsed President Trump’s re-election in an editorial titled With misgivings, vote Trump for president and Inslee for governor. The paper said it agrees with critics that Trump has faults, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t deserve a second term.This is as good a time as any to hammer home that point — particularly given that Trump detractors have slammed him over his faults ad nauseam from the nanosecond he announced his candidacy
First lady Melania Trump gave a full-throated endorsement of her husband at a rally in Tampa as the couple campaigned together in Florida on Thursday in a dueling event with Democratic nominee Joe Biden.Clad in a leopard-print dress, the ex-model told the crowd to re-elect President Trump, touting his foreign policy record and domestic achievements in her first appearance at a rally since Trump’s re-election kickoff in Florida in June 2019.“President Trump chooses to move this country forward. This country deserves a president with proven results, not empty words and promises,”
Masks have become a political tool and a talisman. When COVID-19 hit, governments panicked and created enormous fear. The Centers for Disease Control currently estimates a COVID-19 survival rate of 99.99 percent for people younger than 50, but the damage created by the panic was too great to undo. It is likely that some politicians eventually realized their mistake and needed a way to back-pedal without admitting their lockdowns were a policy disaster. Their solution was for people to put any old piece of cloth across their face and magically believe that it’s okay to go out shopping again.
The attorney for a former White House official falsely accused of being the anti-President Trump persona “Anonymous” lashed out on Thursday at the New York Times for perpetrating a “hoax.”
Cleta Mitchell represents Victoria Coates, former National Security Council deputy director who moved to the Department of Energy as a special adviser to the secretary. Based on anonymous sources, a Real Clear Investigations story in April accused her of being the nameless provocateur.
The New York Times ballyhooed Anonymous in a 2018 op-ed, identifying the person as a “senior official in the Trump administration.”
Voters in Iowa are facing shuttered polling locations less than a week away from Election Day, largely due to the various outbreaks of COVID-19 that have gripped the state.(Snip) Reporting by NPR, the Iowa Public Radio News and the Center for Public Integrity finds that hundreds of polling centers have closed due to COVID-19, leaving voters with fewer local options.(Snip) These closures also come during a contentious presidential election and many local elections, leading officials to fear that a lack of polling centers may skew the election outcome.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald announced his resignation from The Intercept on Thursday, alleging that the outlet he co-founded was attempting to censor a column in which he criticizes Joe Biden.
Greenwald said he would continue publishing a freelance column, joining a number of journalists such as Matt Taibbi and Andrew Sullivan who have moved their work to the independent publishing platform Substack. Sullivan announced in July that he would leave New York Magazine, writing at the time that editors and writers at the publication were forced to commit to “critical theory in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
During my annual viewing of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation — which is, as always, coming up faster than expected — I feel it’s worth reminding myself that Chevy Chase isn’t a great guy and Randy Quaid, despite his convincing portrayal of an illegal-sewage-dumping moocher, is actually a commendable actor who has garnered Oscar and Golden Globe nominations and starred in weighty plays by the great Sam Shepard.
Except now that I know about Lone Star Love, I may go back to equating Quaid with cousin Eddie.
UPS said it found a cache of documents that the Fox News host Tucker Carlson said went missing under mysterious circumstances.(snip)
Carlson went on the air Wednesday night to announce the loss of the documents, which he said would be "damning" to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's campaign.(snip) He told viewers his team received the documents from a source recently and that they were related to the Biden family. He did not give other details.
It took under one minute for a swarm of looters to ransack a black-owned boutique in Philadelphia amid demonstrations over the death of Walter Wallace Jr. The City of Brotherly Love this week transformed into the site of both peaceful demonstrations and civil unrest as Wallace Jr., 27, became one of 804 black men killed by police this year. At least 200 small businesses were targeted by looters, including La'Vanter Boutique, where owner Jameelah Scurry arrived on Tuesday to find it a shell of its former self.(Snip) It came exactly two months after La'Vanter Boutique was targeted on August 27, around the time demonstrations
Two years after the New York Times published an op-ed from what they described as an anonymous, principled conservative “senior administration official,” it turned out to have been written by a low-level bureaucrat who later worked for tech giant Google and gave money to far-left Democrats.
Miles Taylor revealed he was the author of the highly hyped op-ed headlined “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” He claimed to secretly work to thwart Trump’s policy goals as the elected president of the United States.(Snip)People took seriously the New York Times’ claim that the anonymous writer was in the upper echelon of an administration.
What I’m really voting for
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I RECENTLY READ a post by a friend written after the first presidential debate. While she opposed aspects of the Biden/Harris platform, she felt alienated by the arrogance and unkindness she felt was displayed by Donald Trump and she couldn’t vote for a candidate who didn’t represent her. (Snip) Despite the dire predictions before taking office, our president’s administration has taken action to protect our country and the liberties we enjoy. That includes not only the appointment of three U.S. Supreme Court justices, but 53 federal appellate judges and 146 district court judges, all committed to adhering to our Constitution and laws as written
French police foiled another attack Thursday by stopping a man near a church in a suburb of Paris after he told his father he wanted to “do as in Nice,” referring to the killing of three people earlier in the day, according to a report. The suspect was arrested near the Saint-Martin’s Church in Sartrouville, were he was believed to be in possession of a knife, Le Parisien reported. Alerted by the man’s father about the alleged plot, police rushed to the scene and arrested the man in his vehicle, according to the news outlet. The suspect allegedly intended to carry out
Jewish men who said they were trying to show “solidarity” with Black Lives Matter protesters were violently chased away by the mob and ridiculed as being part of the “synagogue of Satan,” according to disturbing video posted online. The minute-long clip circulating on social media shows three men standing in the street during the protests sparked by the deadly police shooting of troubled local black man Walter Wallace. “Amalek, what y’all doing down here? You don’t live here,” someone asks the men, referencing the Amalek tribe, which the Jewish Virtual Library says was the first enemy of the ancient Israelites. “Y’all know we the real Jews,
The New York Times constantly claimed the anonymous source for their op-ed against the Trump administration was a “high level administration official.” However, today the actual person behind the “anonymous” claim is now revealed.
Miles Taylor was a low level policy advisor within the Department of Homeland Security when he wrote the op-ed for The NY Times; he later became spokesman for DHS under Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. A DHS “policy advisor” is a long way from a “Senior Administration Official…. and even the far-left loons are now left rolling their eyes at the revelation.
Twitter deleted a tweet and shut down the account of the country’s border chief late Wednesday after he posted a message celebrating construction of nearly 400 miles of wall. “This should outrage every American citizen,” said acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan, who was with other Homeland Security officials at the border Thursday to celebrate wall construction. The tweet, which was still blocked as of Thursday morning, said walls “stop gang members, murderers, sexual predators and drugs,” and said “It’s a fact, walls work.”(Snip) Twitter sent a message to Mr. Morgan saying that violated the company’s policy against threatening or harassing
By this point, I’m sure you’ve all heard the various horror stories about mail-in ballots going missing, being sent to the wrong homes, getting set on fire, tossed into dumpsters and all the rest. Why? Because there are so many of them as compared to a “normal” election year. But are there really? This rather odd story from the Associated Press quotes some figures that don’t seem to line up with the hype. The focus of the article is the large number of ballots that were sent out but have yet to be returned. Underlying those bits of data, however, are the total numbers that have
Chris Cuomo confronts CNN colleague
Miles Taylor over 'Anonymous' revelation:
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo confronted Miles Taylor, a former U.S. government official recently hired by the network, over revelations Wednesday about him anonymously writing an anti-Trump op-ed and book.
The “Cuomo Prime Time” host questioned his colleague’s credibility during an interview done shortly after Mr. Taylor revealed he wrote the 2018 op-ed and subsequent book slamming President Trump.
Mr. Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official who resigned from the agency in 2019, previously denied being the anonymous author, Mr. Cuomo reminded him during the discussion.
The chairman of the Wisconsin Republican Party said Thursday that hackers have stolen $2.3 million from the party’s account. Chairman Andrew Hitt said the Wisconsin Republicans noticed suspicious activity on Thursday of last week and the next day alerted the FBI, which Hitt said is investigating the matter. Less than a week before the presidential election, Democratic nominee Joe Biden and President Trump are still in a tight race to win Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes. In 2016, Trump won the state by fewer than 23,000 votes.
New York’s ultra-rich are quietly preparing for civil unrest on Election Day — by hiring armed guards to stand watch over their luxury Manhattan buildings.
At the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle, where the penthouse is going for $62.5 million, managers are deploying off-duty cops with “submachine guns” to stand watch, while other wealthy city enclaves are also beefing up protection for residents.
“Everybody is worried about security,” an insider told the Post. “Every top building is adding security. It’s out of control. We hope it won’t be needed, but we will be ready.”
The building is working with the NYPD and Homeland Security, the insider said.
Police in Coronado were called out after some residents woke up to find out that signs reading "Racism Lives Here" were installed in their yards. The red, white and blue signs are well-made and are close in appearance to some Trump/Pence signs, with the phrase "Racism Lives Here" replacing the candidates' names and the updated 2020 campaign slogan "Keep America Great" switched to 2016's more-familiar "Make America Great Again."(Snip) Coronado police made visits to at least three homes about the signs on Wednesday morning. No crimes were committed by installing them, police spokeswoman Lea Corbin told NBC 7
Republican anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project has launched a blistering attack on senator Lindsey Graham, describing him as a "political parasite" just days before South Carolina's remaining voters head to the polls.
"Lindsey Graham: a political parasite with a record of lies and personal betrayals," the narrator says in a new ad, which aired earlier this week. "He was barely holding on before becoming Donald Trump's sycophant. "Now? He's despised. And desperate," the narrator continues.(Snip) He is up against a well-funded opponent in Democrat Jaime Harrison, with the latest polls showing the race on a knife edge just a week out
The “60 Minutes” interviews of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates last Sunday were more revealing for questions not asked and for sidestepping than for what inquiring minds really want to know prior to Election Day.
First, there was the presumption that government has all the answers to contemporary problems. There was nothing said about liberty, personal responsibility, or accountability for one’s actions. The presumption among Democrats is that no one can do anything without government and if they succeed independent of Washington they will be penalized with higher taxes and more regulations to discourage initiative and risk-taking.
Systemic racism? Mr. Biden’s response was to promise more spending to,
As Americans head to the polls more divided than ever on social and economic issues, there’s one thing they’re actually coming together on: cannabis. Much has been made of whether a victory for Democratic nominee Joe Biden, or a potential liberal sweep in the Senate, could bolster marijuana companies. But initiatives on the ballot in a handful of conservative states show Republicans are increasingly on board with legalization as well — perhaps paving the way for an end to federal prohibition, no matter who controls Washington.
Dem senator: 'Hundreds' of
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Sen. Chris Coons is calling for sweeping federal court reform following Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying there are “hundreds” of President Trump-appointed judges in the lower courts who are too right-leaning to be “allowed to sit peaceably.”
Mr. Coons, Delaware Democrat and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made the comments during an appearance Monday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” saying Democrats need to have “a wide-open conversation about how we rebalance our courts.”
“Yes, the two Supreme Court seats that have been stolen
On Wednesday, after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress while Democrats remained crushingly silent about Big Tech’s alleged attempts to suppress conservative points of view, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) ripped Dorsey, calling him a “partisan and a hypocrite,” and slammed Democrats: “There are no liberals left in the Democrat Party. Not a single Democrat Senator defended free speech or freedom of the press today.” He concluded, “This should terrify Americans.” (Tweet)
The U.S. economy grew at a record-shattering pace in the third quarter as businesses reopened from the coronavirus shutdown, but the nation remains in a deep hole from the COVID-induced recession.Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the economy, surged by 33.1% on an annualized basis in the three-month period from July through September, the Commerce Department said in its first reading of the data Thursday. The previous post-World War II record was a 16.7% increase in 1950. Refinitiv economists expected the report to show the economy had expanded by 31%. But the headline figure obscures the full picture:
The U.S. economy experienced record growth in July, August and September of 33.1 per cent, the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced Thursday. That was the fastest pace since the government started keeping records in 1947 and followed a historic shrinkage rate of 31.4% in the second quarter. The Bureau's estimate Thursday of third-quarter growth regained only about two-thirds of the output that was lost early this year when the economy essentially froze as safety orders forced restaurants, bars and many retailers to shut down.
But the markers initially largely ignored the apparent good news with Dow futures up 10 points half an hour before
France has been struck by two terror attacks within hours of each other as three people were killed—two of them beheaded—in an attack inside a cathedral in Nice before a gunman was shot dead by police in Avignon. The first attack began around 9am at the Notre Dame cathedral in Nice where a knifeman beheaded an elderly female parishioner and a male church warden, fatally stabbed a second woman, wounded several others, and was then shot and arrested by police. Two hours later, a gunman threatened people on the streets of Avignon—120 miles from Nice—while shouting 'Allahu Akbar' before he was fatally shot by police.
Soft Intellectuals
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In her essay “Stop Being Shocked” published October 14 on Tablet, Bari Weiss listed troubling anti-Semitic trends taking place in the Progressive wing of the Democratic Party. She brings up multiple true-life examples reinforcing her assertion. She then goes on to say that she, like the majority of American Jews, is “disgusted by Trump and Trumpism”; a movement which in her words “normalized bigotry and cruelty in ways that have crippled American society.”
James Comey’s wife attempted to convince him not to announce that the FBI was reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails until after the 2016 election, according to a new book.Comey’s decision to reveal the bureau’s probe into the former Secretary of State’s private email server on October 28, 2016 – just 11 days before Election Day – has since been cemented as the turning point of her doomed campaign.It didn’t matter on November 6 that Comey absolved Clinton of any misconduct. Following the shock outcome of the election on November 8, Comey was accused by Democrats of handing the White House to Trump on a silver platter.
Almost 4 years of stewing in bitter anger has not softened the edges on Hillary Clinton. Retreating to long walks in the woods and the comforts of Chardonnay has done nothing to mellow her out. On the contrary, with her plastic surgery falling apart, her cackle as robust as ever (a model for Kamala Harris), and her voice still able to strip paint, newly available video of her interview yesterday on Sirius/AM is the perfect warmup for Halloween this weekend (snip) Amusingly, she manages to forget that Joe Biden is the Dems’ candidate
In 2018, the New York Times proudly published an anonymously written piece from a purported “senior official in the Trump administration,” knowing that this statement was a lie. (snip) Eventually, suspicion landed on Victoria Coates, who had worked on Ted Cruz’s campaign before joining the White House. When the White House transferred her from her job as a national security aide to the Department of Energy, the New York Times said the transfer was because the White House suspected she was “Anonymous,” (snip) “Anonymous” finally came forward, and it wasn’t Victoria Coates. Instead, it was some Ken Doll nonentity named Miles Taylor, who wasn’t even on DHS’s leadership page
Bill Maher says Ruth Bader Ginsburg 'should've
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"Real Time" host Bill Maher had some harsh words for the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose death paved the way for the confirmation of Justice Amy Coney Barrett. During a Monday night appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Maher was asked about the moment when news of Ginsburg's death broke while he was taping his show and Jimmy Kimmel expressed his amazement at how his panel was "exactly right" at predicting how events that were going to play out. "Well, it's not like her death was a shock," Maher said. "Well, it was -- it was, though," Kimmel responded. "Really? She
The coronavirus struck the United States earlier this year with devastating force. In April, it killed more than 10,000 people in New York City. By early May, nearly 50,000 nursing home residents and their caregivers across the country had died. But as the virus continued its rampage over the summer and fall, infecting nearly 8.5 million Americans, survival rates, even of seriously ill patients, appeared to be improving. At one New York hospital system where 30 percent of coronavirus patients died in March, the death rate had dropped to 3 percent by the end of June. Doctors in England observed
Maurice Davis, a lifelong Democrat who serves as vice president of the Flint, Michigan, city council, endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election on Wednesday ahead of a speech by Vice President Mike Pence in a visit to the city. (Tweet/Video) “God uses whoever he wants to to bring His people out of whatever the problem has to be,” he said.“President Trump is full of hate? Let me tell you something, the Democrats is full of hate.”He added:“I’m tired — I’ve been a Democrat, I’ve am a Democrat all my life, 64 years.
For all their talk of “neutral platforms,” the Big Shots at Big Tech — Twitter, Facebook and Google — are running a protection racket. They figure they can dictate what Americans get to see and read, and what other media companies must do to reach the public via those platforms.It’s a clear threat to a healthy democracy — and Congress has noticed. On Wednesday, the Senate launched a hearing to investigate “Big Tech’s bad behavior.”Center-stage: Twitter’s strong-arm tactics to censor The Post ever since we began reporting on Hunter Biden’s e-mails.
Actor turned politician Laurence Fox has spoken of his fervent desire that Donald Trump should win the presidential election – and of his fear that it might be sabotaged by Big Tech.
Speaking exclusively to Breitbart News about the launch of his new political party — Reclaim — and about his hopes and fears for the U.S. elections, he said:
‘The way [Big Tech] tried to bury the Hunter Biden story is terrifying.’
When coronavirus cases started spiking in June, Democrats and the press treated it as a fresh sign that President Donald Trump had failed to contain the disease.
“There are now about 30,000 new cases per day in the United States, about 10 times higher than the roughly 3,000 new cases per day in the European Union,” noted one outlet.
“Experts from Europe have criticized a series of failings in the U.S., which they said had left Americans exposed to infection while in Europe, as lockdown eases, infection remains low,” reported another.
Joe Biden emerged from his bunker in the summer
Everyone knows the old joke that “even paranoid people have enemies.” Perhaps that needs to be expanded to say, “even conspiracy theorists sometimes stumble across real conspiracies.” During his Wednesday night show, Tucker Carlson said a source had sent documents about more Biden shenanigans to Fox News’s New York office. Carlson’s producer forwarded the documents to Los Angeles, where Carlson was interviewing Tony Bobulinsky – but the documents vanished along the way.
Carlson explained that, on Monday, his producer deposited the envelope with a major American shipping company. However, by Tuesday morning, the shipping company notified Carlson’s team that the envelope was now open and empty.
After Joe Biden vowed to “transition” from oil, corporate America was put on high alert. This is the same Joe Biden who previously voiced support for having fossil fuels “eliminated.”
But the Biden agenda is not just a threat to the energy industry, or even Big Business in general. Bidenomics means higher taxes and more regulations for businesses large and small. In fact, small business would bear a disproportionately heavy burden under a Biden administration.
One example is a $15 federal minimum wage, which Biden supported again in the debate. Grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, small business owners are under immense pressure to not only retain jobs without cutting hours,
We’ve finally reached the home stretch for the 2020 election, in what seems like the longest year of our lifetimes.
As candidates tend to do, President Trump is now saying the 2020 election is the most important of his lifetime. Where this election falls in terms of historical importance is up for debate. There is no uncertainty around the importance of a presidential election in any year, but that’s particularly the case when one side openly advertises their desire to rip America up by its roots and plant an entirely new system in its place.
What has become clear throughout this campaign is the two entirely contrasting views
Police in Florida arrested a 20-year-old man accused of changing Gov. Ron DeSantis's address in the state's voter database, temporarily preventing the governor from casting his vote.
Authorities arrested Anthony Guevara on Tuesday and charged him with property crime and felony voter fraud.
When DeSantis went to vote on Monday, he found that someone changed his address from Tallahassee to West Palm Beach. Secretary of State Laurel Lee said that DeSantis was able to vote as soon as the address was fixed, CNN reported.
The defense budget is an unusual investment — spending resources on something the country doesn’t want to use. Further, the more it invests in modernizing its military, the less likely it is to be used.
The goal of defense dollars is to build a force capable of deterring our adversaries — through both conventional and strategic means — by changing their cost-benefit analysis of taking any military action against our nation’s interests.
When deterrence succeeds, as it largely has for the last 75 years,
I recently argued that the toss-up states may be different from what media and pollsters present and what you think.
Based my view from the 2016 results, I have the race at 231 electoral votes for President Trump, 183 electoral votes for Mr. Biden, and 124 electoral votes as toss-ups. This implies that there are several paths to 270 electoral votes for a Trump victory.
The Blue Wall Falls Again
If, as in the last time, President Trump sweeps Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, he will have 277 electoral votes. This is without Trump carrying Florida or blue wall holdout Minnesota.
It’s impossible for the human mind to adequately grasp how much a trillion dollars really is. So here’s Jerry Pachelo from New Mexico public media to help us out.
A billion dollar bills laid end to end would stretch 96,900 miles, winding around the Earth nearly four times. A trillion dollars laid in the same manner would stretch for 96,906,656 miles, a distance farther than the sun. If you laid one billion dollars side by side like tile, they would cover about four square miles. A trillion dollars laid out the same way would cover approximately 3,992 miles, or 1,000 square miles
Two Texas men who took down attackers in separate high-profile church shootings criticized Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's support for strict new gun-control measures in an ad the National Rifle Association released Tuesday.
Stephen Willeford, who used his AR-15 to end the Sutherland Springs church attack in which 26 people were murdered, and Jack Wilson, who shot and killed an attacker who had murdered two at the West Freeway Church of Christ, slammed Biden's gun plan.
Most Americans of all stripes flatter themselves that somehow we Americans are better than others. The sense that we are smarter, more civilized, built a greater country, just have something in us that makes us better because we live here. Even most leftists feel that way, quietly complimenting themselves that somehow they are better for being here in the America they hate.
We soon shall see.
Is there something uniquely corrupt and toxic in the German soul that explains Hitler’s rise? Maybe. But then you have to explain all the non-Jewish Germans like Oskar Schindler who risked and gave their lives to save Jews while some others of non-German heritage
Big Tech On Trial
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CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google testified today before the Senate Commerce Committee on Big Tech censorship, and its naked support of the Democratic Party. The hearing lasted for nearly four hours. This exchange between Ted Cruz and the apparently homeless Jack Dorsey has been the most discussed moment in the hearing: We may add further clips as they come to our attention.
The Kavanaugh Court
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If Justice Barrett votes as her mentor Justice Scalia did, she will be part of an ascendant conservative majority on the Supreme Court. What kinds of decisions can we expect from this majority? Short answer: Ask Brett Kavanaugh.
Contrary to how journalists frame each seat change on the Court, comparing the new justice to the departed one is not the best way to assess the impact. Instead, we should determine who becomes the median (or swing) justice, meaning the justice who provides the crucial fifth vote when a case splits the Court ideologically. Two years ago, Kavanaugh’s appointment shifted the median from the retiring Justice Kennedy to Chief Justice Roberts.
Journalists had a rare chance to ask Joe Biden a few questions Wednesday and — of course — failed to ask him anything about his knowledge of his son’s business dealings.
Even though former ally Tony Bobulinski gave sitdown interviews with Fox News and The Post’s Michael Goodwin outlining in detail his evidence disproving Joe’s repeated claims of lifelong ignorance of son Hunter’s profitable affairs.
And even though Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was testifying to the Senate about the company’s censoring of stories about the Bidens. Two big developments that the press felt wasn’t worthy of mention.
What questions should media be asking Joe Biden, nonstop?
The Polls Shift Toward Trump
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You can call me Pollyannish, but I am beginning to believe I may have underestimated the silent Trump vote in my previous posts. This is why.
I mentioned the 2020 Cato Institute poll before, which discusses the high percentage of conservatives who are afraid to express their political views. Something I failed to consider was:
Nearly two‐thirds of Latino Americans (65%) and White Americans (64%) and nearly half of African Americans (49%) have political views they are afraid to share.
Why would 65% of Latin voters and 49% of Black voters be afraid to express their political views, especially if 70-90% of them, respectively, are voting for Biden?
“Why not just shoot ’em in the leg?”
In debates over police use of force, it’s only a matter of time until someone — invariably with little firearms experience and certainly with none in a “real-world” context — interjects with this prescription. At a recent ABC News town hall, former Vice President Joe Biden deployed the familiar “shoot ’em in the leg” refrain as a proposed alternative to a “shoot to kill” approach against charging assailants. Months earlier, Vice President Biden had offered similar advice to police faced with knife-wielding subjects, recommending they “shoot ’em in the leg instead of the heart.”
It’s neither a secret nor a surprise
California fraud suspects used unemployment
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A crackdown on an alleged fraud operation in California involving unemployment benefits has resulted in the arrests of 27 suspects, authorities said Wednesday.
Under the investigation in Torrance – about 21 miles south of downtown Los Angeles – authorities confiscated 130 debit cards issued by the state Employment Development Department (EDD) as well as $150,000 in cash and four handguns, KCBS-TV of Los Angeles reported. “Most debit cards were issued in third parties’ names, including identity theft victims, with a value of up to $20,000,”
In an endorsement published this week, a Washington state newspaper said it agrees with President Trump’s critics that the commander-in-chief has numerous faults – but that doesn’t mean Trump doesn’t deserve a second term.
“We recommend voting for him anyway,” the Spokesman-Review of Spokane wrote Sunday about the president, “because the policies that Joe Biden and his progressive supporters would impose on the nation would be worse.”
The editorial described the 2020 presidential election as a choice between “a wretched human being [Trump] whose policies and instincts for helping America thrive are generally correct,”
Ron Johnson: ‘Not a Big Fan’ of
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Special Counsels, But ‘Don’t See
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Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) on Wednesday said if 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden wins next week’s election, there might need to be a special counsel to investigate. GOP lawmakers have been urging Attorney General William Barr to appoint a special counsel to investigate before Election Day. In an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Johnson admitted he is “not a big fan” of special counsels, but argued one is necessary to get to the bottom of Hunter Biden’s business dealings overseas. “Do you want to see a special counsel?” host Maria Bartiromo asked. “You know, I am not a big fan of special counsels
Donald Trump, Genie
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The comedian Gilbert Gottfried used to tell a joke about a guy who finds a bottle and rubs it, causing a genie to come out and grant him a wish. The guy takes out a map and tells the genie, “See this map? This is the Middle East. For thousands of years, there’s been nothing but war and conflict in this region. Can you bring peace to it?” The genie replies, “I’m sorry, this is beyond even my powers. Do you have another request?” [Snip] It’s the kind of achievement that could only be pulled off by someone who thinks outside the box.
The US Supreme Court said on Wednesday that it will not fast track Republicans’ challenge to Pennsylvania’s extended deadline for absentee ballots. The justices did leave open the possibility that they would ultimately rule in favor of Pennsylvania Republicans. Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who was just sworn in, did not participate in Wednesday’s decision “because she has not had time to fully review the parties’ filings.” Last week Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts joined with the three liberal justices on the court to allow Pennsylvania to count non-postmarked ballots three days after Election Day.
President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign blasted CNN as “Democrat state media” in a tweet posted late Wednesday after a cursory search of the far-left “news” publisher’s website unearthed zero reports about Tony Bobulinski. It was clear from the search that CNN had no interest in reporting anything about Bobulinski, the former Hunter Biden associate who’s accused Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden and his youngest son of illicit activities. (Video) Conversely, searches of The New York Times, The Washington Post and even HuffPost conducted Wednesday morning produced a few stories about Bobulinski.
Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia have reportedly launched an investigation into a vehicle that was discovered containing explosives and suspicious items, which comes as the city is rocked by left-wing anti-police riots and widespread looting.“Action News has learned that police recovered propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks from the van,” ABC 6 reported. “The bomb squad is on the scene at this hour.” (Tweet) This is a breaking news story, refresh the page for updates.
Arguably Top Golfer In History Announces
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Jack Nicklaus, arguably the top golfer in history, released a statement late on Wednesday night announcing that he is endorsing President Donald Trump for re-election.“Through the years, I have been blessed to personally know several Presidents on both sides of the aisle,” Nicklaus began. “All were good people. All loved their country. And all believed in the American Dream.”“I have had the privilege over the last 3½ years to get to know our current President a little more as his term has progressed,” he continued. “I have been very disappointed at what he’s had to put up with from many directions, but with that, I have seen a resolve