Posts on Sunday, August 25, 2024
The Biden-Harris administration has been conditioning funding at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to advance research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine (STEMM) on "diversity statements" and equity requirements in what academics are calling a "politicized litmus test." From day one, the Biden-Harris administration announced it would overhaul every single agency with the ideals of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). It ensured there were DEI bureaucracies in place to impose its agendas regularly.
Hezbollah Flops; Netanyahu Warns
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Looks like Hezbollah has a security leak. Apparently just minutes before the Iranian proxy terror army in Lebanon would have launched a massive retaliatory attack on Israel, the IDF destroyed thousands of its launchers and missiles in a pre-emptive strike. Hezbollah attacked anyway, but ended up doing very little damage.
And later, Hezbollah suggested that they had finished their revenge for the strike on Fuad Shukr three weeks ago:
Israeli warplanes bombarded dozens of targets in southern Lebanon on Sunday to stop what Israel said were preparations for a major attack by Hezbollah, which later said
Former CNN host Chris Cuomo might be no longer employed by one of the country’s premier liberal propagandists, but he’s proving one thing:
He can’t handle the truth.
And conservative commentator Bill O’Reilly speaking the truth about Vice President Kamala Harris was a case in point.
In a clash after the close of Thursday’s Democratic convention — a clash that turned bitterly personal at points — O’Reilly and Cuomo, now with NewsNation, hammered at each other over the Democratic nominee’s wafer-thin keynote address, which O’Reilly graded a “C.”
PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that when he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, in mid-July he knew instantly it was a bullet that had hit him.
“A lot of times, and I was thinking about this, it would seem like a surreal moment—like you don’t realize almost where you are,” Trump said when asked to describe what went through his mind in that moment. “I never felt that. I knew immediately I got hit by a bullet.”
Trump’s comments came during a lengthy exclusive interview at Mar-a-Lago a couple weeks ago, where he sat for an hour with Breitbart News after a press conference
A convicted pedophile who kidnapped and sexually assaulted his friend’s five-year-old daughter could be released from prison due to a recent California law change, despite being sentenced to 350 years in jail.
Charles William Mix was 47 when he committed the horrible 2003 crime, smuggling the young girl hundreds of miles away from her family’s home in Riverside, California, to Utah in a stolen vehicle before committing gruesome acts.
Mix was living with the girl, her father, and her sister and was extremely close to the family at the time, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He was arrested less than 12 hours later after a passerby reported seeing him,
Democrats and the media don’t like to talk about it, but the botched Biden-Harris withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 has put a brutal regime in the driver’s seat.
AP reports that an emboldened Taliban, who recently embarrassed the US by holding a parade with abandoned military equipment, has issued new ‘Vice and Virtue’ laws that include a ban on women’s voices and bare faces in public.
From AP:
The laws were issued Wednesday after they were approved by supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, a government spokesman said. The Taliban had set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” after seizing power in 2021.
Why Kamala Destroys Democracy
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In less than 24 hours following her acceptance speech for the Democratic National Convention, she had been wiped clean from the front pages of the news cycle.
She spent the weekend barely mentioned on what should have been her highest polling point in the race.
Readers of this column will recall that I indicated her likely high point came the week after Joe Biden unceremoniously “contracted COVID” and abruptly left Las Vegas. He returned to Delaware only hours later to announce via social media that he would be leaving the race.
In the span of hours, elites across the party announced their endorsement of Kamala Harris,
Liberalism Rots The Mind
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If you watched the Democratic National Convention this week, you know what it means to have brain damage. I have nothing against people who have actual brain issues, but aside from eating lead paint chips while inhaling industrial-strength glue or playing professional football in the “slam your body into someone else as hard as possible as a substitute for actual tackling” era, the fastest way to do serious damage to your ability to think logically to immerse yourself in Democratic Party politics. Liberalism either attracts naturally low IQ people or it rots the mind.
If abortion were a living person, it would take out a restraining order
While the majority of young Americans remain leftist, Kamala Harris’s candidacy has caused a hopeful and noteworthy increase of support for Donald Trump among Gen Z men.
Even the New York Times, propaganda pimp that it is, published an August 24 article titled “Many Gen Z Men Feel Left Behind. Some See Trump as an Answer.” It turns out the strategy of telling men over multiple generations that masculinity is evil, and that they are inherently sexist and tyrannical, is not as appealing as Dems wish. Go figure.
Harris is a nasty, incompetent, irritating woman who seems to think her biological sex entitles her to the presidency.
It's always a good day when a Republican applies the number-one rule when speaking to any journalist: Never accept their false premises.
Tom Cotton showed exactly how that's done on Sunday when he appeared with ABC News' resident hack, Jonathan Karl. During an exchange in which Cotton mentioned several of Kamala Harris' radical policy positions, Karl insisted that she no longer supports ending private health insurance. The Arkansas senator was ready and waiting for that line. [Video]
COTTON: And President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration, or giving taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens,
We've been seeing the media try to hype up Kamala Harris since she was handed the nomination on a silver platter, putting out a drumbeat that she was in the lead in the race. With some of those polls, you had to look to the cross tabs and see that they had questionable methodology including oversampling Democrats or having too small a sample to be reliable. So, it's hard to make a judgment about the polls when you're getting questionable data.
Now in the middle of all that, there was an admission by officials with a top, pro-Harris super PAC that their polling for Kamala Harris ‘is much less rosy’
Vice President Kamala Harris has frequently cited her upbringing and family as she crisscrosses the nation in an effort to rally support for her newly-formed presidential campaign, including touting her father in a rare mention at the DNC.
"My early memories of our parents together are very joyful ones. A home filled with laughter and music: Aretha, Coltrane and Miles. At the park, my mother would say, ‘Stay close.’ But my father would say, as he smiled, ‘Run, Kamala, run. Don’t be afraid. Don’t let anything stop you.’ From my earliest years, he taught me to be fearless," Harris said during her acceptance speech
Federal judge permanently blocks EPA ‘disparate
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A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering disparate environmental harms in Louisiana in its enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, making permanent a temporary hold he issued in January.
In the ruling, Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana, a former President Trump appointee, sided with the state of Louisiana in prohibiting the EPA’s Office of External Civil Rights Compliance and the Justice Department from enforcing the provision “against any entity in the State of Louisiana, or requiring compliance with those requirements as a condition of past, existing, or future
In the five weeks since Kamala Harris took over President Joe Biden’s struggling presidential campaign, she’s notably avoided any substantive interactions with the press — no sit down interviews, no long press conferences. Two weeks ago, she suggested her media blackout might end before Labor Day.
“I want us to get an interview scheduled before the end of the month,” Harris promised reporters at an extremely brief (70 seconds) Q & A with reporters in Michigan back on August 8.
Yet looking at the record of the past 20 years, Harris has absolutely no reason to avoid a press corps overwhelmingly dominated by liberals. Democratic presidential nominees have never had a problem
It's something of an understatement to say that the Middle East is a real mess these days. Granted, this has always been a contentious part of the world, and after having spent some time in the area while on the General Schwarzkopf Traveling Road Show's "Highway of Death" tour, I can see why these people are fighting all the time; it's because they have to live there. Big parts of the Middle East are surely no less barren than the surface of the moon.
But the Middle East also has a wealth of one major strategic resource - oil. So when things in the Middle East start going sideways,
Vice President Kamala Harris was put in charge of addressing the 'root causes' of migration that lead to people from Central America to flee to the U.S.
But after three-and-a-half years as President Joe Biden's 'border czar,' Republicans say that Harris has not done her job to quell the surging migration crisis at the southern border – and that policies have heightened the issue.
Sen. J.D. Vance says that the 'root cause' of the current crisis is Harris' failure to do her job.
Since Biden took office in 2021, Customs and Border Protection has encountered more than 8 million migrants along the southern border.
There are not enough Merchant Marines for the U.S. Navy to fully man 17 vessels, reportedly causing officials to plan to take them out of regular operation.
The Merchant Marines organization, made up of civilian mariners managed by a combination of federal government and the private sector, has lost too much manpower to “properly crew and operate ships across the fleet,” Fox News reported. “The problem, of course, is the ships are at sea, away from home port 12 months of the year,” Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation for the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, said.
Former 2024 Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Sunday that he will “actively” campaign with 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
Kennedy suspended his campaign and endorsed Trump Friday afternoon, later joining forces with the former president that evening at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona. Kennedy told “Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream that Trump will join forces with other Democrats as the election cycle progresses.
“I’ll be campaigning actively,” Kennedy told Bream. “President Trump is going to make a series of announcements of other Democrats who are joining his campaign. And, you know, I wanna make America healthy again, and so does President Trump.”
In a moment that will be etched into the annals of American history, President Donald Trump took the stage in Glendale, Arizona, and introduced none other than Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to a roaring crowd of thousands.
The atmosphere was electric as Trump and Kennedy, two titans of American politics from vastly different backgrounds, stood shoulder to shoulder in what can only be described as a hair-raising, monumental alliance.
Kennedy then endorsed President Trump and his promise to tackle the most important issues facing the country today: the assault by the left on free speech, the chronic health crisis today in America, and ending the war in Ukraine.
CIA officials helped Lee Harvey Oswald assassinate John F. Kennedy, an expert said when asked to predict the secrets of still-classified documents.
Trump vowed to share the secret files at an Arizona rally on Friday where JFK's nephew Robert F. Kennedy Jr. solidified his defection from the Democratic party and endorsed the former president.
For years many have questioned the official narrative of what happened on November 22, 1963 in Dallas - specifically the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
During presidential campaigns, candidates are typically briefed by the nation's security agencies on critical matters they could face if they win the election. However, this week former President Donald Trump announced that he would refuse to take part in these standard intelligence briefings for candidates.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is less gung-ho about strengthening the U.S. military than Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris was in her DNC speech Thursday.
On ABC’s This Week, Sanders reacted to a clip from Harris’s acceptance speech, where she emphatically endorsed Israel’s right to protect itself, and said she will “ensure America always has the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.”
“All due respect, the United States is now spending more than the next 10 nations combined on defense,” Sanders said. “I agree with the vice president. We want the strongest defense in the world. But I do think enough is enough.
Europe is experiencing a crisis evidenced by a “wave of populism” that threatens European universality, Pope Francis warned Saturday.
In a message to participants in the European Alpbach Forum, an Austrian nonprofit foundation advocating a strong and democratic Europe, the pontiff said that Europe is “experiencing a time of crisis,” a time “in which various populist movements are enjoying great popularity.”
In Europe, “as a result of this ‘wave’ of populism, some ideals have vanished and some principles, with regard to behavior towards the weaker members of society, have been sidelined,” he added.
Eight Massachusetts communities are now considered high risk for West Nile virus, officials announced Friday.
This elevated risk level applies to Boston in Suffolk County and Abington, Brockton, East Bridgewater, Marion, Mattapoisett, Rochester, and Whitman in Plymouth County, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The risk of human infection with the virus is now moderate throughout Bristol, Norfolk, and the rest of Plymouth County and in parts of Barnstable, Berkshire, Essex, Hampden, Middlesex, Plymouth, and Worcester counties.
Last week, the parents of 150 students from Stoughton Public Schools, a school district outside of Boston, were informed that a lack of funding and a shortage of buses and drivers have left them without school bus service.
According to the Boston Herald, the news comes at the same time that the state has started paying for the buses of students of more than 200 migrant families.
A letter sent to parents from Superintendent of Schools Joseph Baeta read, “Finalizing the bus routes and the list of students riding the bus is one of the signs the start of the school year is near.”
Podcaster and comedian Theo Von is earning widespread praise for a recent interview he conducted with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. While the two touched on a range of issues from healthcare policy and the border to the opioid epidemic and the effects of lobbying, it was the podcaster’s humble nature and genuine interest in Trump’s life that made the interview stand out among listeners. (X's)
Here are some highlights from the interview.
Kamala Harris wants government to help first-time homebuyers by making the age-old mistake of using government subsidies. What she should have learned from her economics and history classes, however, is that government subsidies uniformly fail – a fact proven by America’s dangerous education debt crisis. On the one hand, we have to give Kamala Harris some credit for being honest. She has refused to answer any questions about her policies in the face of criticism about her past liberal views. Despite that, her first policy proposals turned out to be every bit as liberal as people warned she was – if not more.
Here's the Most Brutally Honest Response
to RFK Jr's Siblings After They Betrayed
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to RFK Jr's Siblings After They Betrayed
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While Robert F. Kennedy Jr's family has been attacking him over his political beliefs for at least the last year, their behavior since he announced his support of the Trump/Vance presidential ticket has been shameful, to say the least. RFK Jr's wife, actress Cheryl Hines, is standing by her husband even though she doesn't agree with him politically and even though she undoubtedly will pay a heavy professional price for her loyalty and love. It's no secret that her "Curb Your Enthusiasm" co-star Larry David has one of the more severe cases of Trump Derangement Syndrome in Hollywood, and her other colleagues are right there with him.
Kamala’s brother-in-law fleeced taxpayers
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for billions to give to left-wing groups
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Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, may be the current world-class champ of presidential-family shady dealings, but not for long.
If Kamala Harris wins the White House, her brother-in-law, Tony West, who is married to her sister Maya, is poised to claim the crooked crown.
Like Hunter, West learned his craft in the Obama years.
Then head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, he invented a new form of what 19th-early 20th centuries Tammany boss George Washington Plunkett famously called “Honest Graft.”
It was simple.
Until 1977, Congress had to approve any settlement of a civil suit against the Federal government over $100,000.
Fight! Fight! Fight!
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Moments after a bullet shot through his ear, Mr. Trump raised his fist, his face streaked with blood, and charged the stunned crowd, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Before anyone had triaged how serious his wounds were or concluded the attack was over, Trump wanted to leave his followers with that.
There’s a crisis of leadership in churches because of the expectation forced on pastors that they not fight, that they be doormats; some expect them to be effeminate. After all, two requirements for an elder—including pastors—in 1 Timothy 3:3 are that they not be “strikers” or “contentious.” The first word literally means a “brawler,” prone to fist-fights, the hot-head with
After engineer and data scientist Kim Brooks worked on cleaning the voter rolls in Georgia for a year, she realized she was on a stationary bicycle. She’d clear a name for various reasons, dead, felon, stolen ID, living at a seasonal campground for twenty years, duplicate, moved out of state, 200 years old, etc., and back it would come within a month. At that juncture she realized that a program within the Georgia voter registration database was methodically adding back fake names.
It’s déjà blue: The media is promoting
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Kamala Harris without substance – just
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A year into Barack Obama’s presidency, Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor and John McCain’s 2008 running mate, mockingly asked a Tea Party gathering a question: “How’s that hopey, changey stuff working out?”
The roomful of conservatives howled with laughter because by then, Obama’s dreamy campaign motto of “Hope and Change” had been replaced by hard policy lurches to the far left.
The Palin question is a piece of history 2024 voters should keep in mind as they assess Kamala Harris.
The parallels between then and now are striking.
Like Obama, the Democrats’ current nominee has been maddeningly elusive about what she would do as president.
Iranian hackers targeted WhatsApp accounts
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of staffers in Biden, Trump administrations,
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The same Iranian hacking group believed to have targeted both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns tried to go after the WhatsApp accounts of staffers in the administrations of President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, Meta Platforms said Friday.
Meta said it discovered the network of hackers, who posed as tech support agents for companies including AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, after individuals who received the suspicious WhatsApp messages reported them. Meta’s investigators linked the activity to the same network blamed for the hacking incident reported by Trump’s campaign.
Lies abound: Men can be women, men can menstruate and nurse babies, America is racist, the incompetent should be elevated while the competent get shoved off a cliff.
Universities are educating, Trump threatens democracy, Democrats can fix what’s wrong. Kamala is fit to be POTUS, Tim Walz is normal, and DEI isn’t reparations and the theft of merit.
The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism." — Zoheir Mohsen, Trouw, March 31, 1977.
"The founding of the PLO, now known as Fatah had nothing to do with the desire for statehood,
Pavel Durov and his brother Nikolai are genuinely brilliant tech programmers, mathematicians and entrepreneurs. The Durov brothers founded the Telegram communication app in 2013. Telegram now has 950 million active users who can send messages, photos and videos, take part in chats for groups of up to 200,000 people and broadcast to unlimited audiences. Telegram is the preferred messaging and communication app for those concerned with privacy. In my own travels, plans and purposeful interactions, I use Telegram frequently. It is the best communication tool available, and the tech interface is brilliant. However, various government agencies hate Telegram because of the privacy it provides.
On Friday, we faced yet another black swan event. We’ve had an attempted Trump assassination, the surprise coup against President Biden, and now Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s, defection and joining up with Donald Trump. Before getting into this and a discussion of the DNC convention in Chicago, I want to expose the partisan perfidy of NPR’s Judy Woodruff and the ease with which she and the press are manipulated by the deep state. During the convention, Judy Woodruff reported (using the most authoritative voice and concerned visage she could muster) that Donald Trump had a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
A left-wing publication published a hit piece on Vice President Kamala Harris after she officially secured the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee without a single primary vote. Author Nancy Rommelmann criticized Democrats for their “COVID amnesia,” President Joe Biden claimed Harris accomplished an excellent task of reopening the nation. However, the left-leaning outlet is refusing to let the Democratic Party off the hook for this one. Rommelmann pointed out that schools were forced to remain closed in Democrat-run cities while Republican governors began opening back up their states. She cited the destruction that these cities are still facing the repercussions thanks to the Biden Administration’s policies.
Former President Donald Trump made the economy and immigration a focal point during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July, yet Vice President Kamala Harris barely brushed on the topics when she accepted her party’s nomination on Thursday, according to a New York Times analysis.
Trump referenced the “economy,” “businesses,” “jobs,” “taxes” and “inflation” over 70 times when he accepted the Republican nomination, while Harris mentioned those same terms just 15 times during her speech, according to the New York Times analysis. Trump also cited the terms “border,” “immigration,” “invasion” and “illegal aliens” 43 times, while the “Border Czar” spoke about those same issues just nine times
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones against Israel on Sunday in retaliation for the assassination of a senior commander in Beirut last month.
The Lebanon based militant group launched over 320 Katyusha rockets towards Israel and hit 11 military targets, according to the group.
Israeli intelligence had been aware of the impending attack, causing Israeli jets to start an airstrike campaign across southern Lebanon as an act of self-defense before Hezbollah could strike first.
Democrat presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris avoided giving an unscripted press conference about policy solutions for the thirty-fourth day on Saturday.
The media have not interviewed Harris on television since June 24, 2024, and the last time the press reportedly questioned her at a solo news conference was eight months ago — December 2, 2023. “She has committed to one interview by Aug. 31,” Axios reported Tuesday, but that interview has not yet occurred or been scheduled. Harris might be avoiding the media for two reasons. First, the Harris campaign might be worried about its candidate’s likability and ability to speak off the cuff about policies without
Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke with PBS this past week at the Democratic National Convention about her goal to flip the House back to Democrat control in this year’s elections to stop Donald Trump and help Kamala Harris become president next year.The 84-year-old Pelosi’s choice of words to describe herself in the interview is going viral: “We’re very discreet reptilian, cold blooded.”
In the interview, Pelosi echoed comments by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) earlier this year about the importance of controlling the House on January 6, 2025 to stop Donald Trump from becoming president again when the Electoral College votes are counted by Congress