Posts on Saturday, February 13, 2021
Covid-19 vaccines are set to be tested on children and potentially even newborns. AstraZeneca, which produces the Oxford vaccine, says it is expanding trials to children as young as six, and The Mail on Sunday can reveal that fellow vaccine maker Janssen, part of Johnson and Johnson, is now looking into testing on newborn babies and even pregnant women.
Janssen last month revealed trials in adults showed its single-dose Covid vaccine is 66 per cent effective in preventing coronavirus.(Snip) The trials are likely to take place in the US and Canada. AstraZeneca said a trial will begin this month on 300 volunteers aged six
Vice President Kamala Harris’ social-media-influencer niece has long used her aunt’s fame to boost her own personal brand—but now that Harris has entered the White House, aides have become increasingly concerned about the ethical implications of the promotional pattern, according to a report.
“Some things can’t be undone,” a White House official, speaking about niece Meena Harris, 36, on the condition of anonymity, told The Los Angeles Times.
“That being said: Behavior needs to change,” the official said of the niece Harris, whose ventures have reportedly become a sensitive issue in the newly formed Biden-Harris White House.
Nancy Pelosi crashed the House impeachment manager's post-trial press conference Saturday to rage against Mitch McConnell and call out Republicans' 'cowardly' vote to stop Donald Trump from being convicted for 'incitement of insurrection'.'It had not been my intention to come to this press availability,' Pelosi said as she spoke to reporters on the fifth and final day of the Senate proceedings. 'But what we saw today was a cowardly group of Republicans who apparently have no options because they were afraid to defend their job – respect the institution in which they serve.''But why I came over was because I listened to Mitch McConnell,'
Trump defense attorney Michael van der Veen spoke with Lana Zak fom CBS News following the Senate’s acquittal vote of President Donald Trump. Attorney Van der Veen told CBS, “What happened at the Capitol on January 6th is absolutely horrific. But what happened at the Capitol during this trial was not too far away from that.” No doubt, Democrats will not like Mr. Van der Veen’s comparison so much.(Tweet/Video)
Former President Donald Trump's sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric took to Twitter to gloat after their father was aquitted in his second impeachment trial Saturday afternoon. Eric Trump simply tweeted '2-0.'
Trump Jr. sent out a series of tweets, calling the Senate proceedings a 'show trial' and blasting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who voted to acquit Trump, yet promptly took to the Senate floor to explain that he did hold the ex-president responsible for the violent January 6 insurrection.
Trump has been found not guilty after another useless impeachment sham, and Democrats are p**ed.The most upset, however, is far-left House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.After Trump was acquitted by a vote of 57-43 on Saturday, Pelosi had a total meltdown in front of reporters during her press briefing. Then when everyone thought she was “finished”, she got triggered and came back to the podium for another Oscar-worthy freakout.“What we saw in that Senate today was a cowardly group of Republicans who apparently have no options
‘Where’s the short, fat guy?’: Sen. Cruz
tweets out hilarious list of rejected
impeachment questions replies
tweets out hilarious list of rejected
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Senator Ted Cruz of Texas tweeted out a hysterical thread that revealed a number of actual questions that were submitted to be asked at former President Trump’s impeachment trial. They were, of course, rejected by the Democrats. On Saturday, Trump’s impeachment trial was thrown into chaos when it looked like witnesses would indeed be called to testify from both sides of the political aisle, extending the trial by weeks. The Senate originally voted 55-45 to allow witnesses to testify. The leaders managed to come to an agreement that there will be no witnesses but they will receive testimony from GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler concerning a phone call
The Girl and the Fig in Sonoma has closed its doors after a server posted about her experience wearing a BLM mask last year. Back in September, server Kimi Stout was informed of new rules at her place of employment, The Girl and the Fig Restaurant in northern California. (Snip) When Stout wore her BLM mask anyway, believing that it was OK, she was told that she was not in compliance with the new policy and would be sent home if she didn’t wear the appropriate mask. She told her manager that in that case, she’d just quit. But in
After the Senate voted to acquit former President Trump, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Saturday ruled out censuring the former president - an idea that several Republicans had floated in recent days. "Censure is a slap in the face of the Constitution. It lets everybody off the hook, it lets everybody off the hook," Pelosi told reporters following the Senate impeachment trial at the Capitol.
"Oh, these cowardly senators who couldn't face up to what the president did and what was at stake for our country are now going to have a chance to give a little slap on the wrist?" Pelosi said while slapping her own wrist.
America’s fake news media had a very bad, horribly terrible, not very good Friday, and it was glorious…
Things began early…
His Fraudulency Joe Biden Risks Spreading Coronavirus
Apparently, no one told Hunter’s decrepit dad that Valentine’s Day is on Sunday, so, like a couple of escaped Alzheimer’s patients wearing masks for no reason, Slow Joe and his wife, the Reverend-Doctor Mrs. Fraudulency, were caught on camera wandering around outside the White House celebrating a holiday on the wrong day: [Video]
Don’t miss the 3:15 mark, when President Dotage violates every coronavirus mandate known to man by handing a member of the fake media his dirty coffee cup.
Deputy White House press secretary TJ Ducklo on Saturday said he was resigning amid allegations that he made "derogatory and misogynistic" remarks to Politico reporter Tara Palmeri nearly a month ago.
Despite President Joe Biden’s warning last month that he would fire staffers "on the spot" if they were disrespectful to others, Ducklo was merely suspended without pay for a week and told to apologize. Ducklo issued a statement on Saturday expressing his "regret," "embarrassment," and "disgust" for his behavior.
"I used language that no woman should ever hear from anyone, especially in a situation where she was just trying to do her job,"
Hollywood Celebrities Melt Down After Trump
Acquitted, Declare 43 Republicans ‘Traitors,’
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Acquitted, Declare 43 Republicans ‘Traitors,’
‘Fascists’ replies
Hollywood celebrities flew into a paroxysm of rage on Saturday after the Senate acquitted former president Donald Trump of inciting the Capitol Hill riots of January 6. Left-wing stars lashed out at the 43 Republicans who voted to acquit, calling them “traitors” and “fascists.”
Anti-Trump celebrities including Alyssa Milano, Rob Reiner, Bette Midler, and Rosie O’Donnell led the collective meltdown. “It is a sad day in America when only 7 republicans have the patriotism and integrity to convict a tyrant,” Milano tweeted.
The stars aimed much of their venom at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), saying that the former majority leader “has no soul.”
Trump impeachment attorney Michael van der Veen joined FOX News following the successful acquittal of his client President Donald Trump in the sham Senate Impeachment Trial. During the discussion FOX News host Griff Jenkins asked him about the reports that his home was attacked. Attorney Van Der Veen responded: “Um… my, uh… my home was attacked. I’d rather not go into that. To answer your question, my entire family, my business, my law firm are under siege right now.
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During these dark endless moments of lockdown, let’s take a trip down memory lane of real high life, of parties galore, of carefree times with girls in their summer dresses, and of drunken dawns playing polo in dinner jackets. Creatures began to move properly about 500 million years ago, but I will only take you back some fifty or so years, when chic creatures moved to the beat of the samba, the tango, the waltz, and the cha-cha-cha. The roaring twenties roared because of the Great War’s predations, and the fabulous ’50s became fabled recovering from WWII. People ached to have a good time, to splurge, to let go, hunger
Bill Gates’ daughter told her social media followers that the first dose of the COVID-19 “did NOT implant my genius father into my brain.”
Jennifer Gates, 24, made the joke to dispel wild conspiracy theories that the billionaire Microsoft founder was somehow using the vaccine to get inside people’s minds and track their movements, according to a report.
Jennifer Gates is a second-year medical student at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
A knife-wielding homeless killer savagely executed two helpless victims and wounded two more as he carved a gory path in a 14-hour subway stabbing spree on the A train line from Manhattan to Queens, police said Saturday. Police pressed a desperate search for the suspect Saturday night in the gruesome and unprovoked attacks on a quartet of homeless victims. The hunt included the deployment of 500 additional cops to patrol in and above the subways, said NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea. “There is small army of detectives and investigators working all this night throughout New York City,” Shea said after the latest in a series
The Senate moved forward with day three of its second pointless impeachment trial Thursday, pursuing the conviction of a president already out of office over alleged “incitement of insurrection” regarding the attacks on the U.S. Capitol building in early January.
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Meanwhile, President Joe “Unity” Biden has a history of his own encouraging political violence against opponents, (Snip)1. ‘High Threshold of Pain’
In 2018, Biden fantasized about hurting North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer, who was then challenging a Democratic incumbent.
“I’d like to give him a high threshold of pain,” Biden said. “I’m serious. I’m really serious.”
President Joe Biden’s top COVID-19 adviser wrongly predicted that Florida would experience a large, “house on fire” virus outbreak unrivaled by states with lockdown restrictions due to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s reopening orders.
“Florida is ripe for another large outbreak,” Dr. Michael Osterholm told CNN’s Jake Tapper in October. “What they’ve done is opened up everything as if nothing had ever happened there. (Snip) in eight to 10 weeks(Snip) I will likely bet that Florida will be a house on fire.”
Osterholm also ragged on North Dakota and South Dakota for maintaining anti-lockdown and mask policies that he labeled as political decisions motivated by “pseudoscience.”
Mitch McConnell tore into Donald Trump Saturday after voting with 42 other Republicans to acquit him of 'incitement of insurrection'–but then immediately argued the former president is solely to blame for Capitol storming. 'President Trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office,' McConnell said in Senate floor remarks.(Snip) 'He didn't get away with anything, yet,' McConnell said. 'We have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one.'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was livid as she crashed the House impeachment managers' press conference
Former President Trump is facing scrutiny from prosecutors in Manhattan over millions of dollars in loans he took out for several properties in New York, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Journal reported that the office of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance is “investigating financial dealings” involving the Trump properties. Specifically, the people said prosecutors are looking at loans that were made to Mr. Trump by subsidiaries of the same real-estate investment trust, Ladder Capital Corp., the Journal reported. (Snip) “The refinancings led to significantly lower interest rates” for at least two of the properties,
With monumental problems facing America — from the Chinese coronavirus pandemic to joblessness and an economic crisis — left-wing celebrities are busying themselves swooning over the Bidens for setting up a Valentine’s Day display outside of the White House.First Lady Jill Biden placed large, festive hearts on the White House lawn featuring different words including “healing,” “kindness,” “compassion,” “unity,” “courage,” and “love.” Both the first lady and President Biden spoke to the press Friday morning outside near the signs as they walked their dogs, as the president gave his cup of joe to a maskless reporter, promising that he “didn’t have a taste.”
Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution says: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”And Article I, Section 3 says: The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present. Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal
I wrote earlier about how all the Senate Democrats voted to have witnesses at the impeachment trial, joined by five Republicans.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) then both said they would call House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) to grill her about what she knew and when she knew it. That of course didn’t thrill Democrats. But then after realizing that they were digging themselves a hole from which they might not be able to get out, they flipped back again, making a deal to just accept a statement but not having any witnesses.
According to CNN, Senate Democrats pressured the House Managers to back off.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) revealed Saturday several questions his colleagues submitted that House impeachment managers did not entertain. (Tweet) “Can we build the Keystone Pipeline if we add Hunter Biden to the board?” read one, according to Cruz.That was referring to President Joe Biden’s cancellation of the pipeline that would deliver energy from Canada to American refineries. Biden’s move ended 11,000 union jobs.The wrinkle of Hunter Biden refers to the president’s son landing a lucrative position on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, despite no experience in energy production or knowledge of the language.
Cruz revealed another question involving the uncomfortable past of Rep. Eric Swalwell
Former President Donald Trump has released a statement following his acquittal on an article of impeachment for “incitement of insurrection.”Trump was found not guilty on Saturday.“I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth,” the statement began. “My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principals at the heart of our country.”
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday thanked his lawyers and senators who voted against his impeachment conviction and foreshadowed his political future in a statement following the 57-43 Senate vote to acquit him of inciting an insurrection.
"I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth," Trump said. "My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country."
He added: "This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt
Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate on Saturday in an impeachment trial for his role on the 6 January attack on the US Capitol – a verdict that underscores the sway America’s 45th president still holds over the Republican party even after leaving office. Trump was the first US president to be impeached twice and is now the first president to be twice acquitted. If convicted, he would have been barred from holding office in the future, but this decision now paves the way – should Trump want to run again – for another tilt at the White House in 2024.
The Biden administration on Saturday expressed "deep concerns" about the World Health Organization’s (WHO) probe into the Chinese handling of the coronavirus.
"We have deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the COVID-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them," National Security Adviser Jake Sherman said in a lengthy statement. "It is imperative that this report be independent, with expert findings free from intervention or alteration by the Chinese government."
The Senate has reached a deal to allow a statement by Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler (R., Wash.) into the record of former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, skipping witness testimony.
The agreement comes after the Senate voted 55–45 to allow witnesses to be called in Trump’s trial in which he is accused of “incitement of an insurrection” for his alleged role in encouraging his supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
The trial is now expected to end in a vote on Saturday.
Democrats flipped the scr**t this morning after their case collapsed on Friday against President Trump. Democrats now want to change the rules and call in witnesses. This comes after Senator McConnell announced he will vote to acquit. This comes after Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington leaked news on a January 6, 2021 phone call between House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and former President Donald Trump.Kevin McCarthy denies the leaked report by Herrera Beutler.
I have been called by many reporters about the controversial departure of reporter Donald McNeil from The New York Times.“Do I think the Times treated McNeil unfairly?” “Is there a management meltdown at the Times?” “Why are ‘woke’ reporters up in arms inside the Times?”Because I’m a journalist, I always try to respond truthfully and on-the-record, which I have done. But some of the reporters who call me are mainly looking for little “scooplets” to feed controversy, to stoke conflict, to keep the story going for another news cycle.
It looks like they did it again.
Like so many fabricated storylines intended to damage Donald Trump and his supporters, the New York Times cited anonymous sources to support a shocking claim in an article alleging Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was murdered by a Trump “insurrectionist” on January 6.
“[P]ro-Trump rioters attacked that citadel of democracy, overpowered Mr. Sicknick, 42, and struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher, (Snip) But the narrative about what happened to Sicknick is quickly unraveling, as I wrote earlier this week. Not only is CNN, the network that helped perpetuate the initial storyline for more than a month, questioning the circumstances about
Some numbers are constants, a fixed numeric value established by physics, mathematics, geometry, law, literature, or logic. They never change. For example, π (pi, 3.1416), the Ten Commandments, the Three Musketeers, 12 inches in a foot, and 11 million illegal aliens.
That’s right, eleven million illegal aliens in the United States. In recent years we have seen once-immutable values changed before our eyes – nine planets, two sexes, and more. But since 2003, the number of unauthorized aliens present, illegally (need to emphasize that), in our supposedly sovereign nation has been wired in at 11 million.
It didn’t take much hounding to find a new home for this loyal dog. The hero pup known as Baby Dog made headlines last week when it was revealed he refused to leave his longtime owner David Deshon’s side after the 69-year-old went missing in Placer County, Calif., late last month. Deshon was tragically found dead in the snow days later on Jan. 30 with Baby Dog fiercely guarding his body, relatives told KOVR-TV in Sacramento. “Baby Dog stayed with him on his chest to keep him warm,” Deshon’s daughter Shona told the station, saying she believes her father’s vehicle got stuck
The A train turned into a death ride for two people found fatally stabbed at opposite ends of the subway’s route, police said. Cops are probing whether the slayings—a man found dead in his subway seat at 11:20 p.m. Friday at the A train’s Mott Avenue and Beach 22nd Street Station in Queens, and a woman discovered two hours later underneath a seat, with mortal stab wounds, at the line’s northernmost stop in Manhattan—are connected.(Snip) And in between the revelations of the deaths, a man was being knifed while waiting at a different A train platform, authorities said.
The Senate on Saturday voted 55-45 to allow witnesses to be called in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Mitt Romney of Utah, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina joined Democrats in voting to call witnesses, extending the trial which had been expected to end on Saturday.
Representative Jamie Raskin (D., Md.), the lead House impeachment manager, said he wants to subpoena Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler (R., Wash.) after she said in a statement Friday night that House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) told her that Trump had sided with the mob
Minneapolis will hire dozens more police officers after the City Council on Friday agreed to release $6.4 million to bring on additional recruits.
The unanimous vote came eight days after Minneapolis police requested the funding, saying they had 200 fewer police officers available to work than in most recent years. The additional funding comes at a time when some City Council members and activist groups are pushing to replace the Police Department in the wake of George Floyd's death.(Snip) In the months since then, some residents have begged city leaders to hire additional officers, saying they're waiting longer for responses to emergency calls amid
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A liberal relative of mine said of Biden’s victory that she was overwhelmed with relief. But she is not likely to experience the life of calm and safety she anticipates with the Democrat party having won the Presidency, the Senate, and the House, not to mention control at all levels of the state she lives in -- California.
To illustrate the point about safety, take New York City. A New York Post editorial quotes New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea: “We have made staggering numbers of gun arrests, taking guns off the streets from felons,
Col John R Bourgeous USMC (ret) has just had his autobiography published; Play On! A Marine’s Musical Journey from the Bayou to the White House. Colonel Bourgeois was the twenty-fifth Director of the Marine band, known as the President’s Own. Since its founding with the birth of our country, there have only been twenty eight Directors including the legendary John Phillip Sousa. As he points out in his autobiography the Marine Band is the oldest musical organization of any type in the United States and:
“The Director of the Marine Band is the music advisor to the White House…. He is the authority regarding proper ceremonial music
During the defense segment of the impeachment testimony today President Trump’s attorney David Schoen exposed the House Managers creating false evidence and manufacturing false witness. Obviously they were able to do this because there was no due process in the House impeachment assembly. It was/is pure Alinsky politics.(Video)(Screenshot)
House Republicans are already feeling confident of taking back the majority in 2022, and some key Democrats are focused on the warning signs.
Both centrist and liberal Democrats are concerned that if Speaker Nancy Pelosi drags the party too far left, it will be doomed to defeat.
“You know, 2022 is already looking like a pretty formidable challenge for reelection,” said California Rep. Scott Peters, the vice chairman for policy for the New Democrat Coalition.
In a discussion about party politics with Simon Rosenberg of the liberal think tank NDN, Peters echoed other top Democrats who said that the GOP had their number in the 2020 election when they should have
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At the heart of the case against President Trump levied this week by House prosecutors lies the violence itself — what it looked like up close, inside the Capitol. Video conveyed the intensity, danger, coarseness of language, and scent of blood that seethed through the vast premises. The House used shocking footage never before seen by the public, making clear that things were far worse than Americans had so far appreciated. Powerful.
Then again, too, if this footage was able to shock the nation four weeks after January 6, why must one assume that President Trump himself grasped what was happening at the time of the events?
Shouldn't the Democrats be in the catbird seat? After all, they've "won" the election, including the House, the Senate and the White House. Apparently, the country was just itching to become another California. And the courts, the big state, Hollywood, and the press are all on their side.
But somehow, even with President Trump silenced, impeached, and out of power, things aren't going so good for Democrats.
Impeachment is failing. The verdict will likely come today. Their aim was "political vengeance" as Trump's attorney said Friday, and the bid fell flat. Their spin, and lies, and low-grade informercial for themselves in this Senate impeachment trial persuaded no one. And their bigger aim
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street,” Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R) stated that she will pursue legal action to re-open the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline if President Joe Biden doesn’t reverse his decision to cancel the pipeline.
Host Maria Bartiromo asked, “Leslie, are you and the other 13 states going to take legal action in order to re-open construction of this pipeline?”Rutledge responded, “Well, potentially, if need be. We’re hoping that President Biden will reconsider and cancel his cancellation of the Keystone Pipeline. Because these are real Americans,
We know a lot more on February 12 than on January 6.
First, it is clear that the assault on the Capitol has become the most damaging event of Donald Trump’s political career. Combined with forfeiting the Senate in the January run-off elections, the lethal storming of the federal legislature by Trump’s most unscrupulous and foolhardy supporters the next day has now overshadowed a surprisingly strong performance for then-President Trump and the GOP last fall, in a year where everything went wrong.
WASHINGTON— Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will vote to acquit Donald Trump in the former president’s impeachment trial.That’s according to a source familiar with McConnell’s thinking who was not authorized to publicly discuss the decision and spoke on condition of anonymity.Word of McConnell’s decision came Saturday before what is expected to be a final day in the historic trial on the charge that Trump incited an insurrection in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.WASHINGTON (AP)—Seldom has Mitch McConnell signaled so little about such a consequential vote.
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Steve Schmidt, a GOP political operative and co-founder of The Lincoln Project, released a statement Friday claiming he was molested as a teenage Boy Scout. This came after news broke about his resignation from the anti-Trump organization.Schmidt’s resignation is the latest consequence of the numerous allegations against Schmidt’s fellow co-founder John Weaver, who allegedly exhibited sexually predatory behavior toward young men in exchange for career advancement, according to Axios.One of the boys to whom Weaver reportedly spoke was only 14 years old at the time,
The US Senate will reconvene at 10 AM ET on Saturday morning. This is after devastating testimony on Friday, including 13 minutes of video clips showing Democrats doing the exact same thing they accuse President Trump of doing. Friday was a devastating day for Democrats. Whenever the American public gets to see them for who they are it is never a good day for them. Democrats depend on the liberal media to be their shield.Saturday’s session could feature the vote on whether to convict or acquit Trump. Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy is presiding over the sham impeachment and will also vote to convict.
I’ve long admired Rep Dan Crenshaw (R. Tex.) for the knack he has to clearly state conservative principles – and his willingness to speak out constantly about those principles. One of Trump’s problems was his inability to articulate principles. His practical instincts were good but he – along with way too many Republican politicians – allowed Democrats to win the war of words. On Friday, Crenshaw again used gift in this area with a Twitter thread that lists 22 core conservative principles that we need to fight for in this lunatic Democrat era.
Poet W.B. Yeats came to recognize something precious and profound at center of his this-worldly identity during family vacations in County Sligo: his Irishness. (snip) Springsteen and Jeep may deserve every scintilla of conservative cynicism evoked by their Super Bowl call to national re-unity. But the symbols pressed into their hands, whether voluntarily or not, by the citizens of Lebanon, Kansas pack powers far beyond what the likes of a mere car company in cahoots with a crooning, guitar-strumming Jersey boy can hope to fully contain or channel or control.
Trump hired his legal team for the impeachment just a few days before the proceedings started, which may have accounted for their singularly lackluster opening argument. However, by Friday, they’d gotten their ducks in a row and David Schoen, especially, had a great closing argument.
He opened by pointing out that Democrats improperly sat on footage of events in the Capitol to blindside Trump’s defense team and deny him due process. From there, he moved to the fact that the Democrat House impeachment managers outright lied about their alleged evidence, whether it was faked tweets or manipulated video. (snip)Schoen played for them Trump’s entire statement about events in Charlottesville
The continuing prominence of Chris Wallace on Fox News both annoys and perplexes many of the channel’s remaining conservative viewers. And now we finally have a metric demonstrating the aversion toward Wallace by Fox viewers. (snip) During yesterday’s coverage, a charity auction sponsored by Fox News host Bret Baier was underway, benefitting the Children’s Hospital Foundation, a worthy cause if ever there were one. Check out what a personalized book from Tucker Carlson is currently (6:32AM EST) bid at (snip) In comparison, a personalized book signed by Chris Wallace is a real bargain
After four years of stable gas prices under President Donald J. Trump, Americans may have to get used to some pain at the pump.Former Vice President Joe Biden hasn’t even been in the White House for a month and gas prices are already up a whopping 18 percent with at least one analyst predicting that they could hit $4 per gallon in the near future.Biden’s ideologically-driven decision to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline and the expectation that his Green New Deal policies will place onerous regulatory burdens on domestic energy producers in the fossil fuel industry is already hitting Americans in their pocketbooks.
Fourteen New York Democrats are seeking to strip Gov. Andrew Cuomo of emergency powers granted to him throughout the COVID-19 pandemic after a top aide revealed his administration withheld data about nursing home deaths in New York from Justice Department investigators.
Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial was poised to conclude Saturday following his defense team’s presentation meant to highlight the hypocrisy and holes in the case against him.Trump’s lawyers arrived Friday for the fourth day of the trial with their own loop of footage to counter days of dramatic and carefully edited video from Democratic impeachment managers that attempted to show the former president incited the violent Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol that followed his speech to supporters at a nearby rally protesting the certification of the presidential election results.“This impeachment is completely divorced from the facts, the evidence,
National Public Radio has a serious, red-hot loathing of Fox News. The latest demonstration was the February 5 episode of the very tilted weekly show On The Media, produced by WNYC-FM in New York and airing on more than 400 public radio stations across America. The episode was boldly titled “Slaying the Fox Monster.”We like the hashtag #DefundNPR, but that means removing its taxpayer subsidies, which they always implausibly claim is some miniscule fraction like two percent. These NPR people want Fox "radically ostracized."The host in charge of this discussion of how to slay Fox was Bob Garfield, who memorably described Donald Trump in 2016, as possessing “a nuclear recklessness,
If there was going to be a case study on the corrupt bias of the media establishment, it would have to center on the coverage of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.You may recall that back in the early days of the Democratic primary, when Biden was coming in fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire, before his revival in South Carolina, there appeared to be an effort afoot in the media to sell Cuomo as a possible alternative.But the favorable media coverage continued, even taking on a renewed energy as reports of nursing home deaths dogged the Democratic governor following his order requiring
It was just a line on the NFL’s transaction report just after 3 p.m. under the category of “terminations of vested veterans” was the name Watt, J.J., DE. But for a region, the league’s jargon marked the end of a 10-year career in Houston as notable for its acts on the field as off.The transaction ends his legendary tenure with the AFC South franchise and leaves behind a rich legacy. Watt, who will be 32 when the next football season kicks off, wanted a chance to compete for the Super Bowl ring that had eluded him in Houston. The Texans, a team in transition (or turmoil) with a new
Trump’s lawyers had up to sixteen hours to present to the Senate on Friday, but after less than three hours, they officially “rested their case.” Their final arguments included video footage and claims that Trump “did not receive due process because he did not see the House impeachment managers’ video montage, although the Democrats said [sic] had provided it,” according to CBS News. They used the allotted time to defend the former president’s rhetoric on January 6 and reportedly “distance him from the violence.” Specifically, they called the senators’ attention to Trump’s phrasing at the rally prior to the attack on the Capitol building —
Megan McCain, co-host of The View and daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said her father “despised” Lincoln Project cofounders Steve Schmidt and John Weaver. McCain shared her remarks via Twitter, hours after Schmidt resigned from his seat on the Lincoln Project’s board of directors. “I’ve been very hesitant to comment but since my deceased father keeps getting invoked I will say this: John Weaver and Steve Schmidt were so despised by my Dad he made it a point to ban them from his funeral,” McCain tweeted. “Since 2008, no McCain would have spit on them if they were on fire.”McCain also wrote:
Former Gov. George Pataki unloaded on Gov. Andrew Cuomo, calling the COVID-19 nursing home death reporting “cover-up” scandal “one of the worst things I have seen in state government.” During an interview on AM 570 WMCA radio, Pataki called Cuomo’s nursing home policies and actions “inhumane,” “reprehensible,” “outrageous,” “despicable” and “beyond the pale.” He called for a criminal probe by the Biden Justice Department, state Attorney General Letitia James and independent investigation conducted by the state Legislature.
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to propose changes to the U.S. Postal Service that could make mail delivery slower and more costly for both consumers and commercial mailers, according to a new report. DeJoy has discussed eliminating first-class mail designated for delivery in two days, and instead make all first-class mail targeted for a three- to five-day delivery window, people briefed on his strategic plan told the Washington Post.(Snip) One reason for the red ink is that Congress in 2006 passed legislation requiring USPS to pre-fund more than $120 billion in retiree health care and pension liabilities.
A Black Lives Matter march through Midtown Manhattan turned violent Friday night, with 11 protesters arrested. The NYPD reported that two officers suffered minor injuries during the protest, which was attended by about 100 marchers; officials could not immediately say how the cops were hurt. At least some of those arrested were accused of attacking Daily News photographer Sam Costanza at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and 54th Street in the mistaken belief that he was a cop, sources said.(Snip) About a dozen people surrounded the photog, shoving him and beating him with their fists and other objects, sources said.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki gave a vague, rambling answer Friday when asked at a briefing to reporters whether the Biden administration considers Saudi Arabia and Israel to be “important allies.” “Can you please just give us a broad sense of what the administration is trying to achieve in the Middle East?” a reporter asked—in follow-up to an earlier question asking why President Biden has yet to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “For example,” the reporter asked, “does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?
Rather than saying simply, “Yes,” Psaki gave this answer,
As we reported earlier, the Trump defense team did a fabulous job today just decimating the case presented by the Democratic House Managers.
Among the things they did was show Democrats if they’re trying to criminalize or impeach based on speech, that Democrats had far more questionable comments ‘inciting’ in the past than President Donald Trump did in his Jan. 6 speech, who said to supporters to act “peacefully and patriotically.” The defense showed the utter hypocrisy of the Democrats using their own words in a terrific video compilation. If one should impeach for such words, then all of them should be impeached.
Kyrsten Sinema doesn’t often make big policy pronouncements. But when she does, Democrats had better listen.
Take the $15 hourly minimum wage that Democratic leaders want to add to a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package. Sinema, who became the first Democrat to win a Senate race in once deep-red Arizona in 30 years, is crystal clear: She’s against including it.
“What’s important is whether or not it’s directly related to short-term Covid relief. And if it’s not, then I am not going to support it in this legislation,” Sinema said in a telephone interview this week. “The minimum wage provision is not appropriate for the reconciliation process.