President Trump’s shrewd governance, along with unforced errors by the Democratic Party, has the president positioned to not only win the White House for a second term but also to win back the House and make gains in the Senate.
There are five major factors that will make this a reality: the economy, illegal immigration, socialism, the Mueller report, and the rule of law. Let’s break each of these issues down.
Of course spying occurred in 2016 against the Trump campaign by the Obama administration. What do you think a FISA warrant is for?
“I think spying did occur… but the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated?”
That was Attorney General William Barr testifying before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee
...And of course spying occurred.
The nearly three-year investigation was complete with Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants, approved in federal court, that allowed federal officials to look at Trump campaign emails, listen to phone calls and see other communications.
That’s what a FISA warrant does.
It’s for surveillance, which is right in the name of the statute. That is spying..." Read all!
Mount Holyoke College placed a Trump-supporting campus police chief was on leave after students scrutinized social media posts in which the chief expressed his support for the president.
The college has yet to say exactly why it placed the chief on leave.
"Over the past few weeks, members of our community have expressed concerns about the ability of Chief Daniel Hect to develop the level of trust required to engage in community policing," Sonya Stephens, president of the college, wrote to students and faculty..." Read all.
Germany's agressive and reckless expansion of wind and solar power has come with a hefty pricetag for consumers, and the costs often fall disproportionately on the poor.
Altmaier and others are on a mission to help people save money on their electricity bills, because they're about to receive some bad news.
The government predicts that the renewable energy surcharge added to every consumer's electricity bill will increase from 5.3 cents today to between 6.2 and 6.5 cents per kilowatt hour -- a 20-percent price hike.
German consumers already pay the highest electricity prices in Europe..." Read all and be warned!
James Comey Has ‘Never Thought’ Of Electronic Surveillance ‘As Spying’ | The Daily Caller:
Former FBI Director James Comey contended Thursday that electronic surveillance of individuals really doesn’t amount to “spying,” as Attorney General William Barr suggested during a congressional hearing this week.
Comey told CNN he doesn’t “know what [Barr] is talking about when he talks about spying on the [Trump] campaign.”
The Many Reasons to Run for President When You Probably Don’t Stand a Chance - The New York Times
"...But at the very least, if recent history is a guide, a run is likely to yield better things, perpetuating the victory-in-defeat incentive structure endemic to modern presidential politics.
Today’s primaries tend to produce one nominee but many winners. Beyond the long-shot candidates effectively auditioning for cabinet positions or building a profile (and donor base) for future races, there are prospective books to sell and television contracts to sign, boards to join and paid speeches to paid-speak.
Any setback is temporary, any embarrassment surmountable.
“There’s just absolutely no downside and only upside,” Antonia Ferrier, a longtime Republican strategist and former senior aide to Senator Mitch McConnell, said of quixotic presidential runs. “It is an industry of self-promotion. What better way to self-promote than run for president?”... Read all.
History for April 14 - On-This-Day.com Christian Huygens 1629, Anne Mansfield Sullivan 1866 - "The Miracle Worker", famous for teaching Helen Keller to read, write and speak, Arnold (Joseph) Toynbee 1889 - Historian, author Frank Serpico 1934, Loretta Lynn 1935 - Country singer, first woman to earn the CMA's Entertainer of the Year award, Pete Rose (Peter Edward Rose) 1941 - Baseball player 1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning. 1912 - The Atlantic passenger liner Titanic, on its maiden voyage hit an iceberg and began to sink. 1,517 people lost their lives and more than 700 survived.
Former Obama White House counsel, Greg Craig, was indicted Thursday on two charges of lying to federal investigators about consulting work his former firm did on behalf of Russia-backed ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
Craig was accused of lying to the Department of Justice for allegedly making false statements and concealing “material facts,” which were revealed in a settlement announced Thursday. Craig’s former firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, was hit with a $4.6 billion fine for working with Paul Manafort in 2012 on behalf of Ukraine.
Federal $30,000 scholarships granted to zero self-described conservatives in 2018 | The College Fix "Program is billed as nonpartisan but stats show otherwise None of the nearly 60 recipients of a prestigious $30,000 federal scholarship granted in 2018 reported that they had ever worked for a Republican political candidate or conservative organization, according to an analysis by The College Fix. The lucrative Truman Scholar awards are given to college juniors, who receive $30,000 to attend graduate school and pledge to serve three of their first seven years after graduation in public service.
...The research found that 21 of the scholars – or 36 percent – had worked for Democrat candidates (Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, etc.) or Democrat-aligned organizations (Tom Steyer’s NextGen America, Planned Parenthood, etc.)
Another 17 scholars – or 29 percent – listed their primary interest as solidly progressive (intersectionality, climate change, expanded government-provided health insurance, LGBT issues, food insecurity, minimizing “rape culture.”)
Another eight scholars – or 14 percent – said they were primarily interested in issues moderately associated with the left, such as environmental “sustainability” and rights for immigrants and refugees.
Stealing your money and giving it to their supporters!
DA knew Jeffrey Epstein was a dangerous pedophile when arguing for leniency
"The Manhattan DA’s office had graphic and detailed evidence of pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s depravity when a prosecutor inexplicably argued for leniency during his 2011 sex offender registry hearing, The Post has learned.
In advance of the hearing, then-deputy chief of Sex Crimes, Jennifer Gaffney, had been given a confidential state assessment that deemed Epstein to be highly dangerous and likely to keep preying on young girls, the DA’s office admitted in its own appellate brief eight months after the hearing.
...It describes a state assessment’s findings that Epstein should be monitored in New York as a level three offender — reserved for the most dangerous.
...Nevertheless, Gaffney argued that he should be labeled a level one offender, the least restrictive, which would keep him off the online database..." Read on. SICK!!
AG Barr’s Testimony Reignites ‘Spygate’ Debate | The Daily Caller:
Attorney General William Barr’s Senate testimony Wednesday has revived a partisan debate over “Spygate,” the term President Donald Trump coined to describe revelations that the FBI used informants in an investigation during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Barr said during an appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee that he believed “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign.
Boston Globe’s phony sanctimony sounds a bit fishy – Howie Carr Show "Think back on all the journalistic grifters whose bylines and totally made-up crap have disgraced the dismal pages of the Boston Globe – Mike Barnicle, Kevin Cullen, Patricia Smith and Jayson Blair, among others. But even those recidivist frauds must be shaking their pampered, protected-class heads over this latest embarrassment to befall the failing broadsheet – a column by a “journalist from Massachusetts” named Luke O’Neil. So far, at least three versions of his piece have appeared on the Globe website. Let’s go over the first sentences – the lede, as they say – in order of their appearance. “One of the biggest regrets of my life is not pissing in Bill Kristol’s salmon.”... Much muck here, read all.
World Faces "Uphill Battle" With Average IQ Of Just 82! | Zero Hedge "David Becker has released a new version of the World’s IQ. Each country has a score showing the cognitive abilities of their citizens, this being a blend of genetics and the environment of each country, particularly as regards education and health. The world’s global score is 82. This is 12th percentile rank on the Greenwich Mean Intelligence benchmark of IQ 100. As school teachers used to say in end of year reports: “Could do better”.
What does IQ 82 mean in practical terms?..."
A country's aggregate IQ matters!
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"The results for individual countries vary somewhat according to the method used, but these are probably the very best estimates..."
Amazon employees are listening and recording conversations spoken after waking Alexa in the homes of thousands of people worldwide, reports say.
Amazon’s Alexa needs more human assistance than the public may be aware of. Full-time Amazon workers spend their days “parsing as many as 1,000 audio clips per shift,” reports from Bloomburg reveal. These clips may merely be innocent phrases intended to help Alexa cope with slang and understand human speech patterns, but they also catch snippets of personal life through Alexa, such as clips workers discussed wherein they heard a woman singing off-key in the shower and a child crying for help.
Of course spying occurred in 2016 against the Trump campaign by the Obama administration. What do you think a FISA warrant is for?
Trump-supporting campus police chief on leave after student backlash
High Costs and Errors of German Transition to Renewable Energy - SPIEGEL ONLINE:
Beyond the long-shot candidates effectively auditioning for cabinet positions or building a profile (and donor base) for future races, there are prospective books to sell and television contracts to sign, boards to join and paid speeches to paid-speak.
Former Obama White House counsel, Greg Craig, was indicted Thursday on two charges of lying to federal investigators about consulting work his former firm did on behalf of Russia-backed ex-Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych.
None of the nearly 60 recipients of a prestigious $30,000 federal scholarship granted in 2018 reported that they had ever worked for a Republican political candidate or conservative organization, according to an analysis by The College Fix.
"Think back on all the journalistic grifters whose bylines and totally made-up crap have disgraced the dismal pages of the Boston Globe – Mike Barnicle, Kevin Cullen, Patricia Smith and Jayson Blair, among others.
Amazon employees are listening and recording conversations spoken after waking Alexa in the homes of thousands of people worldwide, reports say.