"As he took his last stand against confirming Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court yesterday, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer defended Democrats’ filibuster on remarkably shaky grounds:"
Monday, April 10, 2017
Gorsuch Filibuster & Chuck Schumer's Flawed Legal Reasoning | National Review
"As he took his last stand against confirming Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court yesterday, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer defended Democrats’ filibuster on remarkably shaky grounds:"
As you watch the MSM today, remember the "good old days"------13 Hard-Hitting Questions Liberal Reporters Asked Obama | The Daily Caller
13 Hard-Hitting Questions Liberal Reporters Asked Obama | The Daily Caller
"Liberal reporters are outraged that conservative media outlets are receiving a significant share of questions at White House press conferences.
"Liberal reporters are outraged that conservative media outlets are receiving a significant share of questions at White House press conferences.
Only liberal reporters, the line of reasoning goes, are capable of asking the tough questions needed to hold those in power accountable. Here are a sample of questions asked of former President Obama by liberal news outlets.
- “Golf, what does it do for you?” – CBSCBS’s Harry Smith opened an interview with Obama during his first year in office by mocking the notion that liberal reporters could be biased and then concluded it by asking the leader of the free world about golf. “Golf, what does it do for you?” the brave reporter asked.
- “I’m wondering if you think that [Republican presidential candidates are] uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?” – CNNCNN reporters have been especially indignant that conservative media outlets are being called on at White House press conferences. But the outlet’s journalists weren’t always so tough on the White House. In November 2011, CNN’s Dan Lothian spoke truth to power by asking then-President Obama if he thought Republican presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain were “uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?“
- “Do you have a vindictive streak?” -NBCNBC “Nightly News” anchor Lester Holt, who moderated one of the 2016 presidential debates, held Obama’s feet to the fire in one of his last interviews as president with questions like: “Do you have a vindictive streak?”
- What has “Enchanted you the most from serving in this office?” – The New York TimesEarly on in Obama’s presidency, New York Times reporter Jeff Zeleny — with a straight face — asked Obama about what most “enchanted” him in his first 100 days in office.
WATCH:
Zeleny is now CNN’s senior White House correspondent. - “In this fatherless world, where did you learn to love?” – CBS
In one of the harder-hitting questions of all time, CBS reporter Harry Smith asked Obama about the way he acquired feelings. “In this fatherless world, where did you learn to love?” Smith asked. - “What hard things do you want to tackle at this point?” – CNNCNN’s Jim Acosta, who has been especially upset about conservative media access to the White House, held Obama’s feet to the fire by noting, “it seems that you’ve built up some political capital for the remaining months of your presidency,” before asking: “What hard things do you want to tackle at this point?”
- “Are you ready to call yourself the ‘comeback kid’?” – ReutersReuters’s Caren Bohan gushed over Obama at a 2010 press conference, saying he “racked up a lot of wins in the last few weeks that a lot of people thought would be difficult to come by” before asking: “Are you ready to call yourself the ‘comeback kid’?
- “You definitely have some impressive accomplishments….And more than a lot of presidents who manage to get reelected. My question is, is it enough?” – CBS CBS’s Steve Kroft was mocked in 2011 when he spent an interview with Obama on “60 Minutes” lobbing softball question after softball question, including this remarkable exchange:KROFT: You definitely have some impressive accomplishments.OBAMA: Thank you, Steve.KROFT: No, you do. And more than a lot of presidents who manage to get reelected. My question is, is it enough? Why do you think you deserve to be reelected?The Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf called the interview “a typical example of a broadcast journalist failing to hold a powerful politician accountable.”
- “Have you given up on the Republicans?” – CBSNot to be content with praising the interviewee’s accomplishments, Kroft went on to ask the president whether he had “given up” on the GOP. “Have you given up on the Republicans?” Kroft asked. “Have you stopped reaching out to them? Are you just out there now trying to get your message across?”
- “Tell me, what do you consider your major accomplishments?” – CBS (Again)
After buttering Obama up with soft questions about his golf game and whether he had given up on Republicans, Kroft finally went in for the kill. “Tell me, what do you consider your major accomplishments?” he asked. The Washington Free Beacon compiled some of Kroft’s most openly affectionate moments towards Obama.
WATCH: - “[W]hat do you think Republicans will be sipping and saying next year?” – CNNIn the same press conference where Obama was asked if he was the “comeback kid,” CNN’s Dan Lothian asked the president what he thought “Republicans will be sipping and saying next year?”
- “How do you avoid the dangers of being too cocky?” – CNBC
CNBC’s John Harwood, whose closeness with the Clinton campaign was exposed by WikiLeaks last year, found it necessary to ask the president in 2009 how he avoids “being too cocky.” “How confident are you that your plan is going to work, and how do you avoid the dangers of being too cocky?” Harwood asked. - “How does your golf game hold up next to Tiger’s?” – ABC
In 2013, Obama was finally pressed on the issue that matters most: his golf game. “How does your golf game hold up next to Tiger’s?” asked Dan Ashley, a reporter at ABC News’s San Francisco affiliate.
Obamacare Watch: Judicial Watch Sues IRS and HHS for Records of Sharing of Taxpayers’ Private Information - Judicial Watch
Obamacare Watch: Judicial Watch Sues IRS and HHS for Records of Sharing of Taxpayers’ Private Information - Judicial Watch:
"Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records about the sharing of private taxpayer information under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia"
"Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for records about the sharing of private taxpayer information under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). The lawsuit was filed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia"Obama/Chicago democrats. Sordid-----WATCHDOGS: Chicago Obama donors tried to strike it rich in Africa | Chicago Sun-Times
WATCHDOGS: Chicago Obama donors tried to strike it rich in Africa | Chicago Sun-Times: "...Higginbottom, a major political contributor to Obama and other Democrats, and Reynolds founded a company in Chicago called Sub-Sahara Inc. as the former congressman was meeting with government and business leaders in Zimbabwe, prospecting for deals.“I would be the leg man, and he would be the money man,” Reynolds says of the hoped-for deals.
“He would get 60 percent, and I would get 40 percent.”
Sub-Sahara’s African arm worked with Wilson, who later ran for mayor of Chicago and for president of the United States, as he teamed up with Medline Industries, Inc., a Chicago-area medical supply company, hoping to set up a manufacturing or distribution plant in Zimbabwe.
Medline’s owners have been major political contributors to Obama, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and other Democrats...
...Their dealings in Zimbabwe are now central to the U.S. government’s case against Reynolds, which is likely to give a behind-the-scenes look at the connections between some high-profile Chicagoans and Mugabe, one of Africa’s longest-serving rulers who Obama once described as a dictator..."
History for April 10
History for April 10 - On-This-Day.com:
William Hazlitt 1778 - English writer, essayist, philosopher and critic, Commodore Matthew Perry 1794, Lew Wallace 1827 - U.S. novelist ("Ben Hur")
Joseph Pulitzer 1847 - Publisher, his will left $2 million for a fund which established annual prizes for literature, drama, music and journalism, Harry Morgan 1915 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), David Halverstam 1934 - Author
1849 - Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100.
1912 - The Titanic set sail from Southampton, England.
1932 - Paul von Hindenburg was elected president of Germany with 19 million votes. Adolf Hitler came in second with 13 million votes.
1963 - 129 people died when the nuclear-powered submarine USS Thresher failed to surface off Cape Cod, MA.
1971 - The American table tennis team arrived in China. They were the first group of Americans officially allowed into China since the founding of the People Republic in 1949. The team had recieved the surprise invitation while in Japan for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship.
1992 - Outside Needles, CA, comedian Sam Kinison was killed when a pickup truck slammed into his car on a desert road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
1996 - U.S. President Clinton vetoed a bill that would have outlawed a technique used to end pregnancies in their late stages.
2002 - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke before the U.S. Senate as a representative of the Israeli government. He warned that suicide bombers would spread to the U.S. if Israel was not allowed to finish its military offensive in the West Bank. Netanyaho also cited the goals of dismantling the terror regime and expelling Arafat from the region, ridding the Palestinian territories of terrorist weapons and establishing "physical barriers" to protect Israelis from future Palestinian attacks.
Sunday, April 09, 2017
U.S. Aircraft Carrier-Led Strike Group Reverses Course, Heads Back Towards North Korea & Korean Peninsula - American Military News
U.S. Aircraft Carrier-Led Strike Group Reverses Course, Heads Back Towards North Korea & Korean Peninsula - American Military News:
"U.S. Navy strike group Carl Vinson, led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is headed towards the Western Pacific Ocean to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force in response to the recent blatant provocations by North Korea."
Obama Administration Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, Despite Saying Otherwise | The Weekly Standard
Obama Administration Knew Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons, Despite Saying Otherwise | The Weekly Standard:
"Despite such evidence of dishonesty, the media have been awfully credulous about the Obama administration's self-serving claim of having rid Syria of chemical weapons. Now we know better. In fact, Keeley goes on to note that general revulsion at participating in the Obama administration's dangerous charade has led many former Obama administration officials to support President Trump's actions in Syria."
What could possibly go wrong?-----New York poised to pass free public college tuition statewide - UPI.com
New York poised to pass free public college tuition statewide - UPI.com:
"April 8 (UPI) -- New York is poised to become the first state in the nation to provide free tuition to public colleges and universities, after a deal struck as part of larger budget negotiations announced Friday night.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the proposal in January alongside former Democratic presidential candidate Sen Bernie Sanders, hailed the deal as an historic opportunity for hundreds of thousands of families in the Empire State.
Under terms of the deal, the program would be phased in over three years.
This year, students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year would be eligible for free college tuition.
That cap would be raised to $125,000 once the program is fully implemented.
...Though the legislation eliminates tuition costs for many lower- and middle-income families, for students who exceed the income cap, tuition will increase $200 per year for the next five years at all state schools..."
Read on!
"April 8 (UPI) -- New York is poised to become the first state in the nation to provide free tuition to public colleges and universities, after a deal struck as part of larger budget negotiations announced Friday night.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the proposal in January alongside former Democratic presidential candidate Sen Bernie Sanders, hailed the deal as an historic opportunity for hundreds of thousands of families in the Empire State.Under terms of the deal, the program would be phased in over three years.
This year, students whose families earn less than $100,000 per year would be eligible for free college tuition.
That cap would be raised to $125,000 once the program is fully implemented.
...Though the legislation eliminates tuition costs for many lower- and middle-income families, for students who exceed the income cap, tuition will increase $200 per year for the next five years at all state schools..."
Read on!
Could be BIG?-----MYSTERY: Private messages evidence DNC leaker was murdered IT staffer? - The American Mirror
MYSTERY: Private messages evidence DNC leaker was murdered IT staffer? - The American MirrorThe American Mirror:
"The late-night murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich is still not solved, but Wikileaks may have established the motive: a new release by the group indicates he was the leaker of internal emails.
"The late-night murder of Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich is still not solved, but Wikileaks may have established the motive: a new release by the group indicates he was the leaker of internal emails.
On Saturday, the group pointed readers to a series of screen shots of a Twitter conversation between “Guccifer 2.0” and actress Robbin Young...
Posted on Young’s website, the messages are mostly personal in nature, but at one point last summer, Guccifer 2.0 indicates “Seth” was his “whistleblower.”
“…it was horrifying to hear about his death,” Young responded.
“I have no facts, but it’s my opinion Hillary had him murdered.”
Guccifer 2.0 didn’t dispute the assertion.
Fox 5’s Paul Wagner reported last July 27-year-old Seth Rich “was found shot multiple times near Flagler and W NW just after 4 am Sunday.”
According to ABC 7:
D.C. Police say they heard gunshots while patrolling in the area Monday around 4:19 a.m. Police say they found Seth Rich, 27, of Northwest D.C. in the 2100 block of Flagler Place NW suffering from multiple gunshot wounds but conscious and breathing.
Rich was taken to a local hospital where he later died..."
When Dems Loved the Nuclear Option
When Dems Loved the Nuclear Option:
"The only host who showed any hesitance was MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, who admitted that he had been "intimidated" by Mitch McConnell's threat (that they would regret it) because like "the traditionalists in the Senate, I was like afraid what happens when the other side has the power.""
"The only host who showed any hesitance was MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, who admitted that he had been "intimidated" by Mitch McConnell's threat (that they would regret it) because like "the traditionalists in the Senate, I was like afraid what happens when the other side has the power.""
Democrats aren't the party of science: Jonah Goldberg
Democrats aren't the party of science: Jonah Goldberg:
"Clinton is peddling stale, corporate feminism as settled science.
As fate would have it, Hillary Clinton spoke at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security, where she emphasized the importance of peace, of women and of women in peace.
...But she also got in what was seen as a partisan shot at the Trump administration.
At one point she began a sentence by saying, “Studies show…” and then interrupted herself: “here I go again talking about research, evidence and facts."
The crowd laughed, cheered and loudly applauded for a while, proving that there’s nothing like working out your best material with a friendly audience.
Clinton laughed at her supposedly very funny joke, too.
She also said, "Before anybody jumps to any conclusions, I will state clearly: Women are not inherently more peaceful than men.
That is a stereotype. That belongs in the alternative reality."
But here’s what I think is funny.
Clinton’s wrong.
She’s the one peddling an alternative reality.
Yeah, there’s a stereotype that women are inherently more peaceful than men — but, as a generalization (which is what stereotypes are) it’s true.
This is an evidence-based conclusion backed by a great many studies.
In 2015, according to the FBI, 7,549 men were arrested for murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Only 984 women were.
Men were four times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes and ten times more likely to be arrested for illegal possession of a weapon.
It’s not just in America. Disproportionate male aggression is a human universal, appearing all over the world and across thousands of years.
Interestingly, one of the things that is most likely to make men less violent is getting married, proving that Clinton is right when she says that women have a pacifying effect...
What’s annoying about Clinton’s cheap partisan preening isn’t simply that she’s wrong (and I suspect she knows it).
It’s that she is perpetuating an infuriating tendency of liberals today to claim science is always on their side.
There’s a decidedly undemocratic flavor to this kind of argument.
Patrick Moynihan famously said that everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts.
Liberals want to turn that on its head and claim that their opinions are facts and anyone who disagrees isn’t merely voicing a bad opinion but it somehow living in alternative reality or “denying” science. It’s the secular version of claiming that God is on your side.
Clinton is peddling stale, corporate feminism as settled science in part because she’s pandering to a friendly audience, but also because she’s too lazy to shed her own alternate reality."
"Clinton is peddling stale, corporate feminism as settled science.
As fate would have it, Hillary Clinton spoke at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security, where she emphasized the importance of peace, of women and of women in peace.
...But she also got in what was seen as a partisan shot at the Trump administration.
At one point she began a sentence by saying, “Studies show…” and then interrupted herself: “here I go again talking about research, evidence and facts."
The crowd laughed, cheered and loudly applauded for a while, proving that there’s nothing like working out your best material with a friendly audience.
Clinton laughed at her supposedly very funny joke, too.
She also said, "Before anybody jumps to any conclusions, I will state clearly: Women are not inherently more peaceful than men.
That is a stereotype. That belongs in the alternative reality."But here’s what I think is funny.
Clinton’s wrong.
She’s the one peddling an alternative reality.
Yeah, there’s a stereotype that women are inherently more peaceful than men — but, as a generalization (which is what stereotypes are) it’s true.
This is an evidence-based conclusion backed by a great many studies.
In 2015, according to the FBI, 7,549 men were arrested for murder and non-negligent manslaughter. Only 984 women were.
Men were four times more likely to be arrested for violent crimes and ten times more likely to be arrested for illegal possession of a weapon.
It’s not just in America. Disproportionate male aggression is a human universal, appearing all over the world and across thousands of years.
Interestingly, one of the things that is most likely to make men less violent is getting married, proving that Clinton is right when she says that women have a pacifying effect...
What’s annoying about Clinton’s cheap partisan preening isn’t simply that she’s wrong (and I suspect she knows it).
It’s that she is perpetuating an infuriating tendency of liberals today to claim science is always on their side.
There’s a decidedly undemocratic flavor to this kind of argument.
Patrick Moynihan famously said that everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not to their own facts.
Liberals want to turn that on its head and claim that their opinions are facts and anyone who disagrees isn’t merely voicing a bad opinion but it somehow living in alternative reality or “denying” science. It’s the secular version of claiming that God is on your side.
Clinton is peddling stale, corporate feminism as settled science in part because she’s pandering to a friendly audience, but also because she’s too lazy to shed her own alternate reality."
Muslim Leads PRAYER Against Infidels In Senate, Then A Veteran Steps In! | John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Muslim Leads PRAYER Against Infidels In Senate, Then A Veteran Steps In! | John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
"Two Muslims men took to the Delaware Senate floor to pray to Allah in Islamic Prayer. The part hat really was shameful was that the Senators of the state, many of them, even went as far as to bow their heads in reverence, and join them in a prayer, to a religion that didn’t even consider them worth living…"
The Most Stunningly Detailed 2016 Election Map Was Just Released—Democrats Should Be Scared, Very Scared
The Most Stunningly Detailed 2016 Election Map Was Just Released—Democrats Should Be Scared, Very Scared:
"The Trump administration is off to a rocky start, as every week seems to bring new turmoil and drama.
However, it is important to remember how shockingly unlikely this presidency was in the first place.
However, it is important to remember how shockingly unlikely this presidency was in the first place.
Exhibit A:
Twitter/@HuffingtonPost
Since Trump went from nearly zero chance of becoming Leader of the Free World to launching missiles at our enemies, one is left to ask: what trends led to this fate for Democrats?
Ryne Rohla at Decision Desk HQ set out to model American voting patterns, not just on a national or state level, but by burrowing down to the most localized, nuanced metric available: local precincts.
Because of the incredible locality and difficulty of attaining such data, few have ever attempted to map the voting populace in this way.
Rohla persisted. He explains in his piece entitled, “Creating a National Precinct Map”...
(Many maps here, click!)
Because of the incredible locality and difficulty of attaining such data, few have ever attempted to map the voting populace in this way.
Rohla persisted. He explains in his piece entitled, “Creating a National Precinct Map”...
(Many maps here, click!)
Want to see what that looks like year over year?
Ryne Rohla/Decision Desk HQ
Where did it go?-----$500 Billion Later, HUD Books Are A Disaster | The Daily Caller
$500 Billion Later, HUD Books Are A Disaster | The Daily Caller:
"HUD Can Fix $520 Billion In Accounting Errors, But Still Can’t Document Its Spending
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) financial books are in such bad shape that HUD’s Inspector General (IG) can’t complete an audit even after HUD officials corrected $520 billion in bookkeeping errors, according to a new IG report.
Officials at HUD fixed $3.4 billion in errors from its 2015 books and $516.4 billion in errors from its 2016 books after the IG in December was unable to issue an opinion on either year’s financial statements and highlighted 11 material weaknesses, seven significant deficiencies and five instances of failure to comply with laws and regulations.
These same problems have been reported for three straight years by the IG..."
"HUD Can Fix $520 Billion In Accounting Errors, But Still Can’t Document Its Spending
Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD’s) financial books are in such bad shape that HUD’s Inspector General (IG) can’t complete an audit even after HUD officials corrected $520 billion in bookkeeping errors, according to a new IG report.Officials at HUD fixed $3.4 billion in errors from its 2015 books and $516.4 billion in errors from its 2016 books after the IG in December was unable to issue an opinion on either year’s financial statements and highlighted 11 material weaknesses, seven significant deficiencies and five instances of failure to comply with laws and regulations.
These same problems have been reported for three straight years by the IG..."
Google to display fact-checking labels to show if news is true or false - Geller Report
Google to display fact-checking labels to show if news is true or false - Geller Report:
"Who will determine whether a news item is true or false?
By what criteria?
This is just another tool to shut down those who tell truths about Islam and jihad and Muslim immigration that the elites don’t want you to know.
I guarantee you that actual fake news outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, and BuzzFeed will never get flagged as false.
Only truth-tellers will.
"Who will determine whether a news item is true or false?
By what criteria?
This is just another tool to shut down those who tell truths about Islam and jihad and Muslim immigration that the elites don’t want you to know.
I guarantee you that actual fake news outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, and BuzzFeed will never get flagged as false. Only truth-tellers will.
“Google to display fact-checking labels to show if news is true or false,” by Samuel Gibbs, Guardian, April 7, 2017:
Google is to start displaying fact-checking labels in its search results to highlight news and information that has been vetted and show whether it is considered to be true or false, as part of its efforts to help combat the spread of misinformation and fake news..."
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