Sunday, October 14, 2018
Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over Ford letter
Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over Ford letter:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asserted on Sunday that Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) will face an investigation over her handling of a letter from Christine Blasey Ford in which she alleged Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her decades ago.
Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Cotton disputed the legitimacy of Feinstein's claim that she did not disclose Ford's letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) because Ford had asked it remain private.
Appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation," Cotton disputed the legitimacy of Feinstein's claim that she did not disclose Ford's letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) because Ford had asked it remain private.
They won't cover the left-wing mobs, but they'll cover Republicans' reaction
They won't cover the left-wing mobs, but they'll cover Republicans' reaction:
"Whenever there’s a story that could make Democratic lawmakers and their supporters look insane or unworthy of voters’ trust, some major newsroom rushes to make the real story about how conservatives are exploiting the moment.
It’s the “Republicans pounce” or the “ Republicans seize” trope, and it has become more predictable over time.
Republicans, including President Trump himself, have referred to these bands of irate, screaming individuals as a “mob.”
"You don't hand matches to an arsonist, and you don't give power to an angry left-wing mob. Democrats have become too EXTREME and TOO DANGEROUS to govern," the president tweeted Saturday.
"Republicans believe in the rule of law - not the rule of the mob. VOTE REPUBLICAN!"
In a normal world, this wouldn’t be that controversial.
Indeed, as anyone who remembers as far back as 2009 can attest, using the word “mob” to refer to groups of angry political protesters is not exactly breaking new ground.
But we’re not in normal times, and certain newsrooms need to find ways to make the story of Republicans being targeted by angry demonstrators about ... how Republicans are exploiting the story.
Enter NPR, which ran a story this week titled, “ Republicans Seize On 'Angry Mob' Mantra To Keep Their Midterm Base Fired Up.” They even used the very phrase "Republicans Seize"!...
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"Whenever there’s a story that could make Democratic lawmakers and their supporters look insane or unworthy of voters’ trust, some major newsroom rushes to make the real story about how conservatives are exploiting the moment.
It’s the “Republicans pounce” or the “ Republicans seize” trope, and it has become more predictable over time.
- Left-wing agitators have recently chased Republican lawmakers and White House officials from restaurants.
- Left-wing demonstrators also came out in force last week during the fight to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
- They have disrupted hearings and floor proceedings and intimidated lawmakers. Two protesters notably cornered Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., in an elevator, berating him for roughly 10 minutes over his decision to support the judge.
- Other lawmakers, including Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, were also followed and scolded by teams of angry demonstrators.
- On Saturday, as the U.S. Senate prepared to vote to confirm Kavanaugh, police in the nation’s capital arrested more than 100 protesters, many of whom had broken past barricades set up around the Capitol building.
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Republicans, including President Trump himself, have referred to these bands of irate, screaming individuals as a “mob.”
"You don't hand matches to an arsonist, and you don't give power to an angry left-wing mob. Democrats have become too EXTREME and TOO DANGEROUS to govern," the president tweeted Saturday.
"Republicans believe in the rule of law - not the rule of the mob. VOTE REPUBLICAN!"
In a normal world, this wouldn’t be that controversial.
Indeed, as anyone who remembers as far back as 2009 can attest, using the word “mob” to refer to groups of angry political protesters is not exactly breaking new ground.
But we’re not in normal times, and certain newsrooms need to find ways to make the story of Republicans being targeted by angry demonstrators about ... how Republicans are exploiting the story.
Enter NPR, which ran a story this week titled, “ Republicans Seize On 'Angry Mob' Mantra To Keep Their Midterm Base Fired Up.” They even used the very phrase "Republicans Seize"!...
Read all.
German father charged for protecting his daughter against sexual assault by migrant - Geller Report
German father charged for protecting his daughter against sexual assault by migrant - Geller Report: "A man protecting his 21-year-old daughter against a bottom groping African will be charged with causing bodily harm.At the Munich Hackerbrcke train station, a drunk 28-year-old migrant from Eritrea grabbed a German woman under her skirt on Tuesday.
When her father saw the sexual assault, he punched the African man in the face to make him stop.
An employee of the German railway company Deutsche Bahn, witnessed the incident and alerted federal police.
The German police decided to file two charges: One against the migrant for sexual assault and one against the father for causing bodily harm..."
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Wayne County Pensions Underwater; Union Sues To Preserve ‘13th Check’ – Michigan Capitol Confidential
Wayne County Pensions Underwater; Union Sues To Preserve ‘13th Check’ – Michigan Capitol Confidential
"...The union had sued to retain the benefit, which the county halted in 2015.
Wayne County Pensions Underwater; Union Sues To Preserve ‘13th Check’
‘A ridiculous practice’; pension fund is 43 percent short of amount needed to pay regular benefits
"...The union had sued to retain the benefit, which the county halted in 2015.
The county began paying the “13th check,” a pension boost to retirees, back in the in the 1980s, in the name of compensating them for inflation. Pensioners ordinarily get one check a month, or 12 checks a year.
The 13th check is a bonus.
...Michigan’s 83 counties had promised to pay out $2.55 billion more in pension benefits than they had set aside for retirees as Aug. 2016.
Only two counties didn’t have pension debt in 2016: Bay and Kalamazoo. Further, as of 2016, the average city in Michigan only had the assets necessary to cover 67 percent of promised pension benefits — with an underfunding total of more than $5.4 billion."
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The 13th check is a bonus.
...Michigan’s 83 counties had promised to pay out $2.55 billion more in pension benefits than they had set aside for retirees as Aug. 2016.
Only two counties didn’t have pension debt in 2016: Bay and Kalamazoo. Further, as of 2016, the average city in Michigan only had the assets necessary to cover 67 percent of promised pension benefits — with an underfunding total of more than $5.4 billion."
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European Court to Decide if Islamic Sharia Law Can Override a Nation's Civil Law | CBN News
European Court to Decide if Islamic Sharia Law Can Override a Nation's Civil Law | CBN News:
Can Islamic religious sharia law override a country's domestic law in Europe? That's a question the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights is weighing.
The Court heard a case this week that involves applying sharia law to a disagreement between citizens of Greece who are Muslims.
Can Islamic religious sharia law override a country's domestic law in Europe? That's a question the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights is weighing.
The Court heard a case this week that involves applying sharia law to a disagreement between citizens of Greece who are Muslims.
Brett Kavanaugh Fight: Black Men Supported Justice Because They Understood Stakes | National Review
Brett Kavanaugh Fight: Black Men Supported Justice Because They Understood Stakes | National Review
"...Last September Emily Yoffe wrote a troubling essay (also in The Atlantic) detailing how preliminary evidence indicates that campus courts are disproportionately punishing black men.
These tribunals, animated by the very “believe survivors” ideology of Kavanaugh’s opponents, are imposing terrible consequences on young African-Americans, often stemming from morning-after regret amplified by racial differences.
"...Last September Emily Yoffe wrote a troubling essay (also in The Atlantic) detailing how preliminary evidence indicates that campus courts are disproportionately punishing black men.
These tribunals, animated by the very “believe survivors” ideology of Kavanaugh’s opponents, are imposing terrible consequences on young African-Americans, often stemming from morning-after regret amplified by racial differences.
Yoffe quotes Harvard Law professor Janet Halley:
“American racial history is laced with vendetta-like scandals in which black men are accused of sexually assaulting white women,” followed eventually by the revelation “that the accused men were not wrongdoers at all.”
“American racial history is laced with vendetta-like scandals in which black men are accused of sexually assaulting white women,” followed eventually by the revelation “that the accused men were not wrongdoers at all.”
She writes that “morning-after remorse can make sex that seemed like a good idea at the time look really alarming in retrospect; and the general social disadvantage that black men continue to carry in our culture can make it easier for everyone in the adjudicative process to put the blame on them.”...
...The bottom line is that opponents of Kavanaugh didn’t just want to stop Kavanaugh, they wanted to create a cultural moment that many black men are very wise to be wary of.
...The bottom line is that opponents of Kavanaugh didn’t just want to stop Kavanaugh, they wanted to create a cultural moment that many black men are very wise to be wary of.
“Believe survivors” is a slogan that resonates far beyond one single judicial confirmation.
It’s the slogan of campus “justice” that all too often echoes the injustice of America’s racist past..."
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History for October 14
History for October 14 - On-This-Day.com
Dwight David Eisenhower 1890 - 34th president of the United States, E.E. Cummings 1894, John Wooden 1910
C. Everett Koop 1916, Roger Moore 1927 - Actor ("Live and Let Die," "For Your Eyes Only"), Usher 1978 - Singer
1947 - Over Rogers Dry Lake in Southern California, pilot Chuck Yeager flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane and became the first person to break the sound barrier.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missile sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordered the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.
Saturday, October 13, 2018
Pastor Brunson Prays for President Trump in the Oval Office� | CBN News
Pastor Brunson Prays for President Trump in the Oval Office� | CBN News:
Brunson prayed for the commander-in-chief in the Oval Office saying, “I ask that you give him strength. I ask you to protect him.. make him a great blessing to this country and fill him with your wisdom and strength.”
“We pray for you often as a family, my wife and I pray for you,” the pastor told the president.
On Friday, a Turk
Brunson prayed for the commander-in-chief in the Oval Office saying, “I ask that you give him strength. I ask you to protect him.. make him a great blessing to this country and fill him with your wisdom and strength.”
“We pray for you often as a family, my wife and I pray for you,” the pastor told the president.
On Friday, a Turk
The Russia Hoax As Contingency Plan
The Russia Hoax As Contingency Plan:
Fast forward a couple of years and here we are in October, 2018, just about two years after Trump's electoral triumph, and for reasons best known to themselves Ben Rhodes and Jen Psaki have decided to reveal to New York Magazine that the Russia Hoax was a key part of the Obama Administration's -- and presumably the Clinton campaign's -- contingency plan to, well, steal an election: Obama Had a Secret Plan in Case Trump Rejected 2016 Election Results.
Pizzas must shrink or lose their toppings under Government anti-obesity plan�
Pizzas must shrink or lose their toppings under Government anti-obesity plan"Pizzas must shrink or lose their toppings under Government plans to cap the calories in thousands of meals sold in restaurants and supermarkets.
Pies, ready meals and sandwiches will also be subject to the new proposed calorie limits, in a desperate bid to tackle Britain’s obesity crisis.
...Public Health England (PHE) said “drastic” measures were needed to combat Britain’s obesity crisis.
...Earlier this week officials met with retailers, manufacturers, including Dominos’s pizza, Deliveroo, Just Eat, Macdonalds and KFC to discuss proposed “calorie caps” on thousands of popular foods..."
...Earlier this week officials met with retailers, manufacturers, including Dominos’s pizza, Deliveroo, Just Eat, Macdonalds and KFC to discuss proposed “calorie caps” on thousands of popular foods..."
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Democrats’ Mob Tactics: Violence May Result | National Review
Democrats’ Mob Tactics: Violence May Result | National Review
"James Hodgkinson seems to have slipped down the memory hole.
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"James Hodgkinson seems to have slipped down the memory hole.- Hodgkinson was the left-wing activist who accused Donald Trump and Mike Pence of treason and — “fueled by rage against Republican legislators,” as the Virginia attorney general put it — attempted to massacre a group of Republican congressmen practicing for a baseball game.
- He shot Representative Steve Scalise, along with a Capitol Police officer and two others, and very likely would have murdered a goodly chunk of the GOP caucus if not for the police assigned to protect Scalise, the majority whip.
- Senator Rand Paul was there, too, and escaped injury — that time: A few months later, he was attacked while mowing his lawn, suffering six broken ribs. The man who attacked him, Rene Boucher, is a left-wing Chomskyite social-media rage-artist who wrote about his desire to see someone “fry Trump’s gonads.”
- In 2013, a gunman attacked the conservative Family Research Council.
- In 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson massacred police officers in Dallas.
- Before that, five men associated with the Occupy movement made plans to blow up a bridge in Ohio.
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Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping
Trump’s list: 289 accomplishments in just 20 months, ‘relentless’ promise-keeping"The Trump administration’s often overlooked list of achievements has surpassed those of former President Ronald Reagan at this time and more than doubled since the last tally of accomplishments after his first year in office, giving President Trump a solid platform to run for re-election on.
As Trump nears the two-year mark of his historic election and conducts political rallies around the country, during which he talks up his wins in hopes it will energize Republican voters, the administration has counted up 289 accomplishments in 18 categories, capped by the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court..."
THE LIST
Economic Growth
- 4.2 percent growth in the second quarter of 2018.
- For the first time in more than a decade, growth is projected to exceed 3 percent over the calendar year.
Jobs
- 4 million new jobs have been created since the election, and more than 3.5 million since Trump took office.
Long, wonderful list. Read all!
Vandals hit NYC GOP headquarters: ‘Attack is merely a beginning’ | The Daily Caller
The Metropolitan Republican Club on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was vandalized Thursday night with broken windows, spray-painted anarchy signs, and a threatening message that the “attack is merely a beginning.”
The building is the headquarters of the Manhattan Republican Party and the New York City regional office for the New York Republican Party.
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