Posts on Saturday, September 9, 2023
Former President Donald Trump made an appearance at an agricultural fraternity house on Saturday before the annual Iowa-Iowa State football game between the Hawkeyes and the Cyclones where he was seen flipping burgers and throwing footballs.
Videos surfaced on X, the platform previously called Twitter, that showed the former president flipping burgers at the Alpha Gamma Rho agricultural fraternity.
Trump also signed footballs before tossing them out into the crowd at the fraternity.
Mixed message? Bush foundation chief who
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organized unity letter previously leaked
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The executive director of the George W. Bush Institute, who organized a letter from presidential libraries calling for national unity, previously leaked the now-debunked Steele dossier to reporters during (the) height of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation.
David Kramer, who worked in the State Department under President George W. Bush and was an associate of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), pushed for the foundations and centers of former presidents to sign a letter about unifying the country.
However, in 2016 Kramer provided the Steele dossier to BuzzFeed, which published it without corroborating its allegations that then-President-elect Donald Trump was a puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The left has to have scapegoats to prop up its sagging Jan. 6 “insurrection” narrative, and so Joe Biggs of the Proud Boys has just been given seventeen years in prison for his actions on that fateful day, which involved nothing more than tearing down a fence. If one guy removing a single barrier can bring the government of a superpower perilously close to being overthrown, we’re in bigger trouble than we thought. Biggs would be the first to tell you that we are, but not in the way that the leftist elites want us to think.
The Post Millennial reported Wednesday that Biggs explained the objective behind his sentence,
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Fifteen seconds. That’s how long it took to turn Texas from an underachiever to a threat, from a program in the wilderness to a program that’s legitimately back.
With 14:05 left in the fourth quarter, Texas was down against Alabama, 16-13, behind for the first time all game. Three plays and 15 seconds later, Texas was up 27-16 and in firm control.
Alabama can attest: Texas is, most definitely, back. A "College GameDay" appearance plus a 6 p.m. local time kickoff meant the entire town had plenty of time to throw Horns Down at anyone daring to wear orange within Tuscaloosa city limits. Downward-facing horns showed up
If you’re a California resident and a parent, you really ought to leave the state now. On Friday, the California Assembly passed AB 957, which means that a parent who doesn’t “affirm” their child’s “gender identity” could lose custody of that child.
AB 957 amends the state Family Code to include “a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression as part of the health, safety, and welfare of the child.”
The bill is now headed for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, where he will most certainly sign it.
A recent comprehensive study found that there is no medical benefit for young people to receive so-called “gender-affirming care.”
A climate protester at the U.S. Open tennis tournament disrupted the women’s semi-final match between American Coco Gauff and Czech player Karolina Muchova for almost an hour. Now he is talking to the press about what he thinks was an attempt to silence him.
Shayok Mukhopadhyay and three other climate activists stood up and began to chant “End fossil fuels now” shortly after the second set began. As event security moved in, it became apparent that Mukhopadhyay had glued his feet to the concrete floor of Arthur Ashe stadium. Mukhopadhyay’s companions were led away,
An Eyewitness on the Border
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I’ve reported on the Arizona-Mexico border for a long time, and recently published a novel about a ranching family battling a drug cartel trying to take over their ranch. But for on-the-ground grit and realism, it’s hard to match the account of a Border Patrol agent who works the line every day.
Early last month, a friend began sending me emails written by an agent who risks losing his job if his identity becomes public. But what this whistleblower sees every day is endangering the country he loves, and he has to speak out.
Here’s part of his email for August 12:
Eric Munchel (32) is a January 6th political prisoner along with his mother, Lisa Eisenhart (59). Eric escorted his mother to Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. They were one of over a million Trump supporters who came to Washington, DC to protest their grievances about the stolen presidential election. This action is guaranteed by the US Constitution.
According to The American Gulag website, a project of The Gateway Pundit, Eric Munchel entered the Capitol with a cell phone attached to his chest. He is pictured next to a mob of people who attacked two police officers and pursued them. Munchel admits to having a taser with him that day
It wasn’t back-to-school as normal this week in the Big Apple. Schools in the city were pushed beyond capacity due to more than 21,000 newly enrolled illegal immigrants entering the education system. On Thursday, the line to get inside Newcomers High School in Long Island City wrapped around the block and forced some students to a facility across the street because the building’s max capacity had been reached.
“They should have worked this out two days ago!” a frustrated teacher told the New York Post.
One student, 14-year-old George Kara Lekas, talked to the Post about the chaotic scene as he and his classmates had to wait
Special counsel Jack Smith is widening his witch hunt against former President Trump and evidently, he’s prepping to indict Trump yet again… this time on his fundraising efforts. (Video) A new report from CNN alludes to Smith expanding his efforts to indict Trump over raising millions of dollars following the 2020 election to investigate rampant voter fraud. He is demanding to know how the money was used to inspect voting machines.
This is where former Trump attorney Sidney Powell comes into his deviant plan. A non-profit that Powell oversaw
Joe Biden is back at the G20, this time being hosted in New Delhi, India, and it wasn't long before the embarrassment started.
The president faced criticism prior to the trip after stating that he had "a lot going on" when challenged on why he still hadn't visited East Palestine, OH. What he has going on doesn't seem to be helping the United States, though. Things started off with a repeat of something that seems to happen to Biden every time he meets with world leaders. Namely, he gets confused while appearing for just about any photograph. (X Video)
UPDATE: The Iowa Hawkeyes, who endorsed President Trump in 2016, lead the Iowa State Cyclones 17-3 at halftime.
President Trump will attend the Iowa vs. Iowa State football game today at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis will also be in attendance. (X Photo) As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump is stealing the show in Iowa while Ron DeSantis struggles to draw a crowd. Trump is meeting with the agricultural fraternity, tossing the football and flipping burgers. Watch here:
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on Friday night called for new Senate Republican leadership, citing a story that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) plans to ram Ukraine aid down the “House’s throat.”
Citing a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by Kimberly Strassel that discussed how McConnell will help Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) force the House to agree to $24 billion in aid to Ukraine. “Mitch McConnell has been making daily floor speeches on the need for more Ukraine funding, worried Mr. McCarthy can’t get this crucial aid past House GOP spending hard-liners. So Mr. McConnell is … signing up to help Mr. Schumer
Oil prices are surging again, but this
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Oil prices are surging again, but the Biden administration's biggest weapon for bringing them down has much less ammunition.
Last year, the federal government drained 180 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as oil prices soared in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the turmoil in energy markets that followed. Flooding the market with all that supply helped bring oil prices down — and helped cool inflation, which had shot up as well. Earlier this year, the administration took some steps to start refilling the SPR. But while it has ticked up slightly, the level remains near
The University of Colorado football program over the years often contended for the Big 8 title. It was the home of great athletes like Kordell Stewart, Darian Hagan, Eric Bieniemy, Rashaan Salaam, Dave Logan and Cliff Branch.
But it fell on hard times the last few years. Last year, they finished 1-11, lost their last four games by an average of over 30 points, and fired the coach.
Then they did something bold. They hired a guy whose coaching experience was limited to several high schools, one of which was plagued by scandal, and then a historically Black college that played second division football.
Bikini-clad Lara Trump, 40, placed third for her age-group at the Tampa General Hospital Loggerhead Triathlon, finishing in an impressive 1 hour and 19 minutes.
Dressed in a Betty Design athletic bikini top and pink-and-black triathlon short, the wife of Eric Trump did a three-mile (five kilometers) run, 3/8-mile swim and 13-mile bike ride at Carlin Park in Jupiter, Florida.
The fitness fanatic's Argon 18 bicycle costs between $2,000 and $10,000. She was seen taking photos with friends or fans following the race, but was not present to receive her award despite a cheering crowd.
Lara's appearance in the competition comes days after she defended her father-in-law, former president Donald Trump
An outraged parent and gun rights groups are speaking out against an Alabama elementary school that suspended a first-grader, reportedly for making a finger gun.
Jerrod Belcher, whose six-year-old son J.B. attends Bagley Elementary School in Jefferson County, Alabama, says the school over-reacted to a game of "cops and robbers." (snip) According to the attorney and school staff, on September 1, J.B. and another student were playing "cops and robbers" during recess. During the game, the children made pretend guns with their fingers and said "Bang, bang" at each other.
Radical LGBT activist group Human Rights Campaign endorsed an amendment on the Ohio ballot this fall, even linking it to “LGBTQ+ rights,” after leftists and their allies in the corporate media spent months insisting the amendment had nothing to do with gender experiments. The constitutional amendment in question, which voters will decide on in November, would enshrine abortion up until birth in the Ohio Constitution and also override parental consent laws for gender-dysphoric minors seeking irreversible surgeries and disfiguring hormone injections.
The sudden appearance of communist apparatchik Angela Davis in the middle of former President Donald Trump’s prosecution saga in Atlanta is a testament not just to her stunning political durability. (snip) Davis, twice vice presidential candidate on the ticket of the Communist Party USA and an unrepentant bootlicker of all communist tyrants, precisely at the point when that blood-soaked boot was pressed on someone’s neck, has now been revealed as the live-in lover of John Floyd III, the father of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
Former Vice President Mike Pence is becoming more unpopular among Republican voters as former President Donald Trump remains the most favorable candidate in the GOP field, this week’s Morning Consult survey found.
Trump has remained consistent, with 76 percent of potential Republican primary voters viewing him favorably. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis comes 12 points behind, with 64 percent of respondents viewing him favorably. Trump and DeSantis are tied in terms of unfavorable ratings at 22 percent each. Anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has seen a tremendous boost since the start of the poll’s tracking, as most had never heard of him.
Grandson arrested with meth and needs rescuing from the county jail? Husband pulled over for driving under the influence and held downtown? Former president accused of subverting American democracy in a sprawling conspiracy with 18 co-defendants who tried to reverse the results of the 2020 election in Georgia?
Better call Shaw. A diverse clientele is all in a day's work for Charles Shaw, a Georgia bondsman of 23 years' standing and the first person in history to put up guarantees for the release of a former president from jail.
He said accepting the job to bail out Donald Trump in Atlanta two weeks ago was easy.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a public health emergency over "gun violence" on Thursday following the death of an 11-year-old boy. On Friday, she took the unprecedented step of "suspending" gun rights in Albuquerque, the state's largest city, with the possibility of other cities following suit. Gov. Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health emergency Thursday, following the murder of an 11-year-old boy on his way home from an Isotopes game Wednesday night. That case, combined with several other violent cases involving children, sparked the decision.
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Biden Administration likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies to censor content on the coronavirus and elections.
The ruling also removed restrictions “on the departments of State, Homeland Security and Health and Human Services and on agencies including the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,” according to the Washington Post. The appeals court found that those agencies and departments had not coerced social media sites to censor content.
Still, this is a huge victory for free speech, and the court was specific and breathtaking in its criticisms.
New York's mayor, Eric Adams, has issued a cri de coeur about the reality of Joe Biden's open borders in an off-the-cuff speech to New Yorkers at a mayoral town hall on the Upper West Side.Unchecked migration will grow ... and grow -- until it will "destroy New York City."
"I don't see an ending to this. This issue ... will destroy New York City."
"We're getting 10,000 migrants a month."
"One time we were just getting Venezuela, now we're getting Ecuador" ... and Russia, western Africa,
In 2009 and 2010, conservatives and small-government Americans from across the country came together in protest of President Barack Obama's big spending projects and plan to upend the U.S. healthcare system through Obamacare. They were opposed to this fundamental transformation of the country and decided to exercise their First Amendment rights by peacefully organizing against it. The Tea Party was born.
President Biden told teacher union honcho Randi Weingarten just eight days into his term that “I am not abandoning you” — opting to keep a major ally and donor onside over honoring his campaign promise to get COVID pandemic-affected kids back in school by his 100th day in office, a bombshell new book has revealed.
The Jan. 28, 2021, call from Biden to the American Federation of Teachers president at her New York home — recounted by Franklin Foer in his new book “The Last Politician”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi told a reporter Friday that she's mainly running for office to raise money for herself and other Democrats. Speaking with outlet Politico, the 83-year-old representative from California said her veteran status in Congress is a major asset for raising funds.
"My focus is the House and presidency; you’re in a stronger position as a candidate," Pelosi told Politico in the interview. "You may not know this, but if you’re not a candidate, you really can’t raise money for yourself. And raising money for myself enables me to spend that on other people."
New Mexico Sheriff Tells Tyrannical Governor
He Will Not Comply with Temporary New
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He Will Not Comply with Temporary New
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On Friday, New Mexico’s tyrannical Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health emergency in response to the shooting deaths of a thirteen-year-old girl on July 28, a five-year-old girl on August 14, and an eleven-year-old boy on September 6.
Grisham temporarily suspended open and concealed carry laws in Bernalillo County effective immediately.
This action directly infringes upon law-abiding citizens’ Constitutional right to bear arms.
Democrats are fretting about President Biden’s low approval ratings, exacerbated by widespread concerns about his age. Those factors seem to be getting worse rather than better. A CNN/SSRS poll released this week showed just 39 percent of adults approving of Biden’s job performance, his lowest number in more than a year. Almost three-quarters of the population, according to the poll, believes Biden lacks the stamina and sharpness to serve effectively as president. (Snip) Even so, plenty of Democrats are at least daydreaming of alternatives, just in case Biden would decide to step aside or circumstances would change unexpectedly. Here are
Former President Donald Trump called upon Republicans in Congress to use the brewing government funding battle to end the Biden administration’s release and resettlement of illegal aliens in the U.S., arguing that the country cannot wait until he takes the presidency in 2025.
In a marquee Friday night speech in Rapid City, South Dakota, Trump laid out his case for Congressional action to force President Joe Biden’s hand at the border. Trump’s remarks come as reports indicate Biden is considering a plan to require many aliens requesting asylum to remain in Texas.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday announced a new public health order that, she said, will prohibit people from carrying firearms, either open or concealed, in Albuquerque and throughout Bernalillo County for the next 30 days, regardless of whether they have a permit.
The order takes effect immediately. It states “no person, other than a law enforcement officer or licensed security officer, shall possess a firearm … either openly or concealed, within cities or counties averaging 1,000 or more violent crimes per 100,000 residents per year since 2021.”
During Donald Trump’s norm-shattering 2016 campaign, he famously promised to “drain the swamp,” referring to the concentration of power and the penchant for corruption among Washington’s political elite and bureaucratic class.
The highlight of this effort was probably when Trump sacked FBI Director James Comey a few months after he became president, ostensibly for botching the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private server and leaked emails, though it was really an attempt by Trump—as he admitted—to quash the agency’s investigation into frivolous claims of Russian election interference.
That decision was the tipping point in the events that led to the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel
The Real New Normal
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I mentioned on Monday that on his long-running Radio Derb John Derbyshire drew his listeners' attention to an observation of yours truly: (Snip)
"There's no point pretending this is a normal situation, right?" And yet at least three-quarters of the candidates in that Republican debate insisted on doing just that: This is just a normal quadrennial election in the greatest country in the history of countries where we're renowned around the planet for our uniquely peaceful "peaceful transfer of power", etc, etc.
Sorry, I don't buy that - and evidently nor does the GOP base. Which is why Trump has a forty-point lead over his nearest rival,
A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 800 people and injured hundreds more, destroying buildings and sending residents of major cities rushing from their homes in the country’s deadliest tremor in more than six decades.
The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday night.
The Interior Ministry said 820 people had been killed and another 672 injured, in an updated casualty toll.
A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach.
In Marrakesh, the nearest big city to the epicenter, residents spent the night in the open, afraid to go home.
Vivek Is Not the Guy
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Upstart candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is currently enjoying a surge in popularity, and for good reason: he's intelligent, he's articulate, and he has staked out courageous positions on issues that actually matter to Americans. From intelligence agency abuses to the truth behind the January 6 protests, Vivek hasn't been shy about calling out the runaway corruption of our political system. On top of that, he's offering a positive, coherent vision, centered on reviving the founding principles of 1776.
The real end goal of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Vivek Ramaswamy campaigns is a leadership position in the Trump administration. How much criticism of Trump have we heard from these two Trump political opponents? The key for Trump and for our country to win could be a powerful coalition with RFK Jr. and his millions of Democrat and Independent supporters. With that coalition, freedom will win and evil will lose!
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was born January 17, 1954. Soon after his father was assassinated in 1968, at age 14, RFK Jr. started using marijuana and psychedelic drugs.
Eric goes full ‘racista’
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Once upon a time, it was very fashionable to refer to critics of "sanctuary cities" as racists or "racista." We had a big debate back in 2017 when Governor Greg Abbott signed legislation that would also allow police to inquire about the immigration status of people they lawfully detain. It was a wild debate, as I recall, and calling someone a racist was very much in fashion. What the heck, I was called a "racista" on a Spanish-speaking TV interview. What did I do to earn that? I said that local communities should respect federal laws.
It's one of the defining photos in the history of the White House.
A tense Barack Obama leans forward and stares at the screen showing every heart-stopping moment of the Navy SEAL raid on 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.
Moments later, the room erupts as military commanders confirm the Al Qaeda leader has been shot and killed - and May 1, 2011, becomes a day America will never forget.Now, that conference room has been removed as part of a $ 50 million makeover to the secretive Situation Room in the West Wing basement.
Construction workers dug five feet below the secure 5,500-square-foot complex to install cutting-edge wiring and upgrade
Megyn Kelly described Karine Jean-Pierre as the 'worst White House press secretary ever', ridiculing her 'banal answers' and mocking a fawning profile of Jean-Pierre in Vogue.
Jean-Pierre, 49, is the first black person to serve as White House press secretary, and also the first openly gay.
Jill Biden praised her to Vogue as 'a pioneering White House press secretary', adding that she 'brings grace, integrity, and insight to the podium', and calling her 'calm, quiet confidence' inspiring.
Former President Donald Trump predicted a “monumental victory” during a South Dakota speech on Friday, slamming COVID-19 lockdowns, the nation’s migrant crisis and the apparent politicization of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
Ahead of the former president’s speech, Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem endorsed Trump in the 2024 presidential election which sparked repeated chants of “USA.” Trump called Noem “one of the most successful governors” in the country, claiming she did not lock down her state during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We’re racing toward a monumental victory,” Trump said Friday.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a public health emergency over "gun violence" on Thursday following the death of an 11-year-old boy. On Friday, she took the unprecedented step of "suspending" gun rights in Albuquerque, the state's largest city, with the possibility of other cities following suit.
Gov. Lujan Grisham declared gun violence a public health emergency Thursday, following the murder of an 11-year-old boy on his way home from an Isotopes game Wednesday night. That case, combined with several other violent cases involving children, sparked the decision.
The new public health order is effective Friday, Sept. 8. After 30 days, they will evaluate
The Ladies of the View suggested on Friday that migrants should be 'resettled elsewhere' because America is a 'massive country' while discussing their disappointment with Mayor Eric Adams's handling of the crisis faced by New York City.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams warned earlier this week that the 10,000 illegal asylum seekers arriving every month will 'destroy' the city.
It is a stark shift for the mayor, who promised while campaigning that NYC would remain a sanctuary city under an Adams administration, saying in 2021, 'We should protect our immigrants. Period.'
Donald Trump is holding a rally tonight in Rapid City, South Dakota.
He was introduced at the event by Governor Kristi Noem who used the moment to endorse him for president.
Noem previously indicated that she would consider being Trump’s running mate if he asked her.
Politico reports: Noem endorses Trump at South Dakota rally ..South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem gave Donald Trump her “full and complete endorsement” after delivering a glowing introduction at the former president’s campaign rally in Rapid City, S.D., on Friday night.
“He is the leader, the fighter that our country needs. He has my full and complete endorsement for President of the United States of America,” Noem said
Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter has sued the state of California over a law requiring social media companies to publish their policies for removing offending material such as hate speech, misinformation and harassment.
The first-of-its-kind legislation was signed into law a year ago by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a lawsuit filed Friday against state Attorney General Robert Bonta, X Corp. challenges the “constitutionality and legal validity” of the law, saying it violates the First Amendment.
The California law requires social media platforms to post their content moderation policies — which they already do — and twice a year submit a report
WASHINGTON — A Ukrainian official slammed Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk for ordering engineers to shut off Starlink's satellite network over Crimea last year in order to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russian warships.
According to a new biography of Musk, the South African-born billionaire asked, "How am I in this war?" during an interview with author Walter Isaacson. In the early days of Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, as Western governments worked to supply Kyiv with artillery and air defense systems, the first of Musk's Starlink terminals arrived in the country. The billionaire eventually soured on the arrangement.
"Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars.
Former President Donald Trump called out President Joe Biden’s “Bidenomics” for leading the country into another “Great Depression,” according to prepared remarks obtained by Breitbart News ahead of Trump’s speech in Rapid City, South Dakota, on Friday.
“If you took the five worst presidents in the history of the United States and added them up, they would not have done near the destruction to our country as Joe Biden and the Biden administration have done in a few short years,” Trump said. “And no damage has been worse than the disaster known as Bidenomics.”