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| Good morning from Washington, where the flag ripples over scores of government buildings. Star Parker explains why Nike is wrong to see the Betsy Ross flag as an emblem of racism. Should Christian student groups be able to have Christian leaders? Nicole Russell looks at an important court case. Plus: Kevin Mooney on the impact of a pivotal Supreme Court case, and Rachel Greszler warns against another bailout. Let’s hear it for the Cowboy State: One hundred and twenty-nine years ago today, Wyoming became the 44th state to join the union. |
| News A Year After the Supreme Court Rules Against Unions, What’s Changed The Janus ruling affects about 5 million government employees in 22 states who no longer are required either to join a union or pay union fees as a condition of employment. More Commentary I’m Black and I Think US Flag Stands for Freedom, Not Racism Betsy Ross, the seamstress who made America’s first flag, was born into a family of Quakers and was educated in Quaker schools. The Quakers were the first group in America to formally protest slavery and the slave trade. More News Labor Secretary Feeling Heat as He Defends Plea Deal in 2008 Epstein Prosecution President Trump calls Acosta a “great” labor secretary, but says his administration will “look at [the matter] very carefully.” More Analysis As Iran Inches Closer to Nuclear Weapon, What US Can Do Iran is forging ahead with its nuclear program. So what’s the best way to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons? Luke Coffey of The Heritage Foundation has some ideas. More Commentary Senate Resolution Cautions Against Federal Bailout of Fiscally Irresponsible States If states want to make good on their obligations, many will have to drastically increase taxes, severely cut services, or default on their debts and lose access to credit. So it’s only a matter of time before state policymakers seek a federal bailout. More News Organizations for Journalists Largely Quiet on Andy Ngo Attack Multiple organizations that aim to protect freedom of the press and journalists have not released statements on the Andy Ngo attack in Portland, Oregon, more than a week ago. More Commentary This Christian Student Group Was Discriminated Against. It Could Soon Be Vindicated. A Christian student group at Wayne State University will ask a federal court on Wednesday to require public universities to treat religious student groups equally to other campus groups. More Commentary Our Free Speech Crisis Faculty leaders of the University of California consider certain statements racist microaggressions: “America is a melting pot”; “America is the land of opportunity”; and “Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough.” More | ||
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NEW: W.H. says cartoonist is no longer attending social media summit
By ANNA PALMER, JAKE SHERMAN and DANIEL LIPPMAN
07/10/2019 05:59 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
NEW … THE WHITE HOUSE told us last night that Ben Garrison, the cartoonist who drew this cartoon that has been widely labeled anti-Semitic, will no longer be attending the administration’s social media summit. As of Tuesday morning, Garrison was invited — he posted the invite he got on Twitter — and people in the administration were privately defending the invitation.
OF COURSE, it doesn’t take much to see why the cartoon is considered anti-Semitic. It shows the Rothschilds — a Jewish family — controlling George Soros, another Jew, on puppet strings, who, in return, has David Petraeus and H.R. McMaster wearing military garb, attached to puppet strings. Jews controlling the strings of government is a decades old anti-Semitic meme.
BUT IT DID TAKE ALL DAY to get the White House to engage on this subject. At first, they responded to questions about Garrison by offering a boilerplate statement saying that President DONALD TRUMP “wants to engage directly” with people who have experienced social media bias. But they wouldn’t say if and why he was invited, punting on the guest list.
WE THEN started asking questions directly of people who have hailed Trump as a leader quashing anti-Semitism: Jared Kushner, Jason Greenblatt and members of Congress. Greenblatt, Kushner and his spokesman Avi Berkowitz did not respond. It was then that a senior administration official told us that Garrison would no longer be attending the event. Members of the House Republican leadership — Kevin McCarthy, Steve Scalise and Liz Cheney — denounced anti-Semitic imagery. (Hat tip to Yashar Ali a.k.a. @yashar, who pointed out Garrison’s attendance to his 400,000 Twitter followers.)
— MORE ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA SUMMIT: WAPO’S TONY ROMM, MICHAEL SCHERER and AMY WANG: “Trump looks to rally controversial online allies at White House social media summit”: “President Trump has summoned Republican lawmakers, political strategists and social media stars to the White House on Thursday to discuss the “opportunities and challenges” of the Web — but his upcoming summit, critics say, could end up empowering online provocateurs who have adopted controversial political tactics entering the 2020 election campaign.
“The high-profile gathering follows months of attacks from Trump claiming that Facebook, Google and Twitter — all services the president taps to talk to supporters — secretly censor right-leaning users, websites and other content online, a charge of political bias that the tech giants strongly deny. …
“Among the expected attendees are James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, which has released secretly recorded videos of subjects, including a Google executive, in an attempt to paint them as politically biased.” WaPo
Good Wednesday morning. ONE WEEK until the BOB MUELLER hearings on Capitol Hill. BUT …
… BREAKING LAST NIGHT: WSJ’S BYRON TAU and DUSTIN VOLZ: “House Democrats Seek Closed-Door Testimony of Mueller Deputies”: “Two former prosecutors on the special counsel’s team, James Quarles and Aaron Zebley, have been in negotiations to testify behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee on the same day that Mr. Mueller would appear in an open hearing before that panel and the House Intelligence Committee, according to people familiar with the matter. …
“Among the obstacles, the Justice Department doesn’t want either deputy to testify, one of the people said. The department’s stance could spark yet another fight between Democratic lawmakers and the administration that may result in a possible court fight.” WSJ
— NYT’S NICK FANDOS and KATIE BENNER have this headline: “Justice Dept. Tells Mueller Deputies Not to Testify, Scrambling an Agreement”: “It is unclear what effect the Justice Department’s intervention will have on the men’s eventual appearances, but it raises the prospect that a deal lawmakers thought they had struck last month for testimony from Mr. Mueller, the former special counsel, and the two prosecutors could still unravel.” NYT
FISCAL MESS UPDATE: Speaker NANCY PELOSI spoke to Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN late yesterday afternoon, and the two will speak again today about trying to find a deal to lift budget caps and raise the debt limit.
— ONE THING TO NOTE: There does seem to be recognition in the Capitol that the debt ceiling should be lifted this month before the August recess. That doesn’t mean that it will be, but that’s what the administration seems to be pushing for behind the scenes. THIS WEEK would have to end with some sort of framework to move forward toward a deal for progress to be made in the remaining two weeks before the August break.
GOOD EYE … MSNBC’S JACK BOHRER (@JRboh) pointed out on Twitter that MICK MULVANEY will pass REINCE PRIEBUS in chief of staff tenure this week. Mulvaney has been serving for 190 days, and Priebus served for 192. Mulvaney is still “acting” COS.
MUST READ … NYT’S ANNIE KARNI and MAGGIE HABERMAN on A17: “Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy,’ Donald Trump Once Said. Now He’s ‘Not a Fan’”: “It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. …
“[T]hrough a mutual appreciation of wealth, women and years of occupying adjacent real estate in Palm Beach and on Page Six, the lives of the two men routinely intersected for decades — until the connection turned from a status symbol into a liability, and Mr. Trump made sure to publicize the fact that he had barred his onetime friend from his clubs. …
“But while Mr. Trump has dismissed the relationship, Mr. Epstein, since the election, has played it up, claiming to people that he was the one who introduced Mr. Trump to his third wife, Melania Trump, though neither of the Trumps has ever mentioned Mr. Epstein playing a role in their meeting. Mrs. Trump has said that her future husband simply asked for her phone number at a party at the Kit Kat Club during Fashion Week in 1998.” NYT
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TIM ALBERTA — “AMERICAN CARNAGE” SNEAK PEEK IN POLITICO MAGAZINE: “Speaking in Ohio just after the Access Hollywood bombshell dropped, Pence had initially dismissed the news as just another media hatchet job. Yet soon after, he called Trump from the road, checking in as he did daily, sounding upset. He advised Trump to offer a sincere apology. That was the last anyone had heard from the VP nominee.
“Pence had gone back to Indiana and bunkered down, cutting himself off from the outside world, praying with his wife about what to do next and telling his advisers that he wasn’t sure he could continue with the campaign.
“To the extent Trump felt regret, it was over disappointing the Pences. ‘Oh boy,’ he said Friday afternoon after hanging up with his running mate. ‘Mother is not going to like this.’” POLITICO Magazine … With video
— BOFFO NYT REVIEW of ALBERTA’S book: “‘American Carnage’ Shows How War Between Republicans Led to Their Peace With Trump,” by Jennifer Szalai: “‘[A]merican Carnage’ isn’t just another drop in the deluge of Trump books; in fact, it isn’t really a Trump book at all. Instead it’s a fascinating look at a Republican Party that initially scoffed at the incursion of a philandering reality-TV star with zero political experience and now readily accommodates him.
“Alberta, a political correspondent for the conservative magazine National Review before moving to Politico, brings more than a decade of reporting and a real understanding of the conservative movement to ‘American Carnage.’” NYT … $20.22 on Amazon
WSJ IN TEHRAN: “Crushed by U.S. Sanctions, Iran Pins Economic Hopes on Mall Developer,” by Benoit Faucon and Sune Engel Rasmussen: “Faced with a U.S. campaign to choke Iran of capital and investment, Saeed Mohammed is trying to find ways to keep the lifeblood of his country’s economy flowing.
“As the newly installed chief of Khatam al-Anbiya Construction Base, the engineering arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s ideologically rooted military unit, Mr. Mohammed is seeking to cushion the impact from an unprecedented array of U.S. sanctions.” WSJ
— HAPPENING TODAY: “The IAEA will hold an extraordinary meeting on Wednesday, convened at the behest of the U.S., to discuss Iran’s breaches of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the nuclear agreement is formally known.” Bloomberg’s Ladane Nasseri
— WAPO’S LOVEDAY MORRIS with this dateline: “OFF THE COAST OF BAHRAIN”: “Aboard a U.S. patrol ship in the Persian Gulf, where tensions are spiking”
— REUTERS SCOOP: “Iran’s release of Lebanese prisoner was failed overture to U.S.”
ALEX ISENSTADT: “GOP at war over fundraising”: “Tensions over the future of the GOP’s grassroots fundraising are reaching a breaking point, with the national party turning to strong-arm tactics to get Republicans behind its new, Donald Trump-endorsed platform for small donors.
“The [RNC] is threatening to withhold support from party candidates who refuse to use WinRed, the party’s newly established online fundraising tool. And the RNC, along with the party’s Senate and gubernatorial campaign arms, are threatening legal action against a rival donation vehicle. The moves illustrate how Republican leaders are waging a determined campaign to make WinRed the sole provider of its small donor infrastructure — and to torpedo any competitors.” POLITICO
BRUTAL FOR BIDEN … NYT’S FRANK BRUNI: “Joe Biden, Closet Republican: He’s the liberal Bob Dole, the looser Mitt Romney, the supposedly safe bet who’s owed a shot”: “[B]iden is campaigning on his eight years as vice president. He’s also campaigning on the nostalgia of his surname, the familiarity of his presence and the comfort of his aura. And that’s not just a tactic from Bush’s playbook. It’s a quintessentially Republican move.
“The last two Democrats to win the presidency, Clinton and Obama, didn’t take a tack anything like Biden’s. Clinton was the man from Hope, Ark., who was determined to give liberalism a modern makeover and set the Democratic Party on a more profitable course. Obama was hope and change — not to mention the audacity of hope — and those nouns in aggregate augured a fresh start.
“Both men were under 50 when they attained the presidency, and both were in keeping with the Democratic Party’s flattering (and not quite accurate) image of itself, from John F. Kennedy onward, as youthful, innovative, visionary, trailblazing. But Biden, 76, isn’t about exploring uncharted paths. He’s about following bread crumbs back to where we lost our way. Less Lewis and Clark, more Hansel and Gretel.” NYT
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CHARLOTTE OBSERVER: “Greg Murphy defeats candidate backed by GOP women in NC congressional primary runoff,” by Brian Murphy: “State Rep. Greg Murphy won Tuesday’s runoff for the Republican nomination in North Carolina’s 3rd Congressional District in a race that exposed a gender rift among U.S. House Republicans and attracted attention from some of the biggest names in Republican politics.
“Murphy will be the favorite to represent the GOP-leaning district in Eastern North Carolina. He joins Democrat Allen Thomas, Libertarian Tim Harris and Constitution Party candidate Greg Holt on the ballot for the Sept. 10 general election.
“Murphy, a urologic surgeon from Greenville, won the nomination over first-time candidate Joan Perry, a Kinston pediatrician, in a bid to replace Walter B. Jones, Jr., in the House. With all precinct reporting, Murphy had 59.7 percent of the vote and topped Perry by nearly 7,000 total votes.” Charlotte Observer
— STAT DU JOUR: WAPO’S MIKE DEBONIS points out this would be the House GOP’s 182nd male member. There are 198 House Republicans.
THE JUICE …
— SPOTTED at the Multicultural Media Correspondents Dinner at the National Press Club: Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Val Demmings (D-Fla.) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), David Morgan, Eun Yang, Yamiche Alcindor, Tom Joyner and Suhail Khan.
THE PRESIDENT’S WEDNESDAY … TRUMP will leave the White House for the Ronald Reagan building at 11 a.m., and will speak at 11:10 about advancing American kidney health. (Dan Diamond and Rachel Roubein scooped this announcement earlier this week.) The president leaves at 11:50 back for the White House, and that’s it for his public schedule today.
PLAYBOOK READS
JOHN HARRIS: “Ross Perot — the father of Trump”: “A quarter-century before Donald Trump, Perot was a brash, can-do showman who expressed contempt for politics as usual and promised voters who shared his disdain that the path to national greatness was to send an autocratic businessman with a touch of jingo to the White House to kick ass in Washington.”
— Boston Globe’s @JamesPindell: “In March, as Perot battled leukemia, in the last documented political act of his life, he wrote two checks for the legal maximum amount to Trump’s campaign for president, including for the general election next year.”
WE COULDN’T POSSIBLY COMMENT … WAPO’S DAVID FARENTHOLD: “Strip club to host golf tournament at Trump resort in South Florida”: “President Trump’s golf resort in Doral, Fla., is scheduled to host a golf tournament Saturday put on by a Miami-area strip club, which will allow golfers to pay for a dancer to serve as their ‘caddy girl’ while they play at the president’s club.
“The ‘Shadow All Star Tournament’ is organized by the Shadow Cabaret, a strip club in Hialeah, Fla. Emanuele Mancuso, Shadow Cabaret’s marketing director, said in a telephone interview that this was the first time the club had held a tournament at Trump Doral.
“The Trump name and family crest are displayed prominently in the strip club’s advertising materials, which offer golfers the ‘caddy girl of your choice.’” WaPo
#THISTOWN — NAHAL TOOSI and DANIEL LIPPMAN: “British ambassador, now target of Trump’s ire, has D.C. wired”: “When British Ambassador Kim Darroch went to the White House days after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the new U.S. president greeted him warmly, noting that he’d watched Darroch being interviewed on Fox News. ‘You’re going to be a TV star!’ Trump told Darroch.
“It was a jovial moment, according to two people Darroch told about the encounter, and it was one reason that the British envoy — in public and private — has described Trump as ‘charming.’ But new reports that Darroch privately dissed Trump’s team as ‘dysfunctional’ and ‘inept’ in leaked cables back to the British foreign ministry have set off a diplomatic spat and soured Trump on the diplomat.” POLITICO
WILD BREITBART STORY … “Exclusive — Swamp Monsters: Angola Robs American Company at Gunpoint, Hires D.C. Lobbyists to Clean Up Mess,” by Matt Boyle
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IMMIGRATION FILES — “Migrant kids in overcrowded Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from U.S. agents,” by NBC’s Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley
— WAPO: “Federal judge rejects Trump administration’s bid to swap out lawyers for census case on citizenship question,” by Matt Zapotosky, Seung Min Kim and Tara Bahrampour:“A federal judge in New York on Tuesday denied a bid from the Justice Department to replace the team of lawyers on the case about the census citizenship question, writing that its request to do so was “patently deficient.”
“The department had earlier this week announced its intention to swap out the legal team on the case, without saying exactly why.
“A person familiar with the matter said the decision was driven in part by frustration among some of the career lawyers who had been assigned to the case about how it was being handled, though the department wanted to replace those in both career and political positions. But U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman denied the formal, legal bid to do so.” WaPo
— @realDonaldTrump, 9:44 p.m. ET: “So now the Obama appointed judge on the Census case (Are you a Citizen of the United States?) won’t let the Justice Department use the lawyers that it wants to use. Could this be a first?”
— NOTE: Furman clerked for Mike Mukasey, who later served as George W. Bush’s attorney general … and brought on Furman as counselor. Furman also clerked for (retired) Supreme Court Justice David Souter, a George H.W. Bush appointee.
NEW ON THE TWITTERS — Chinese ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai (@AmbCuiTiankai) joined this week. China has long blocked its citizens from accessing Twitter, although many tech-savvy people in China use VPNs to circumvent the ban.
BEYOND THE BELTWAY — “Zombie campaign coming back to life? Mark Foley tells FEC he’s ready for comeback,” by FlaPol’s Noah Pransky: “Responding to a May 29 [FEC] inquiry as to why he was still spending 13-year-old campaign contributions, a representative for Foley indicated the West Palm Beach Republican kept his campaign account active because he is plotting another run for office and he ‘anticipates making a final decision sometime following the reapportionment resulting from the upcoming decennial census.’” Florida Politics
— YES, that Mark Foley.
WORTH THE CLICK … INSIDER.COM: “We hired the author of ‘Black Hawk Down’ and an illustrator from ‘Archer’ to adapt the Mueller report so you’ll actually read it,” by Mark Bowden
MEDIAWATCH — “The Jeffrey Epstein Case Was Cold, Until a Miami Herald Reporter Got Accusers to Talk,” by NYT’s Tiffany Hsu: “Julie K. Brown, an investigative journalist for The Miami Herald, expected to spend the week on the same emotionally brutal endeavor she has pursued for more than two years: interviewing women who say that, as girls, they were part of a sex ring run by the wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. … She worked on the award-winning series with Emily Michot, a visual journalist at The Herald. …
“The two reporters tried to keep costs down by renting less-expensive rooms at Airbnbs, booking low-cost flights and occasionally not filing expenses. And they tried not to fall down any rabbit holes.” NYT
— NYT’S MICHAEL GRYNBAUM: “Houston to Host Third Democratic Debate on ABC”
— Dave Catanese, a POLITICO alum, is joining McClatchy in Washington as a national political reporter. He was formerly at U.S. News and World Report.
— Joanie Greve will be a politics breaking news reporter at The Guardian in D.C., writing its daily politics blog. She is currently a researcher for WaPo’s Daily 202 newsletter.
PLAYBOOKERS
REMEMBERING PHIL FREELON — THE NEWS & OBSERVER’S JOE JOHNSON and MARTHA QUILLIN: “Renowned Durham architect Phil Freelon of Durham has died. … Freelon, 66, was diagnosed with ALS in March 2016, six months ahead of the opening of one of his crowning achievements, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture …
“Freelon founded the architectural firm The Freelon Group in 1990, growing the firm to more than 45 employees and working on notable projects such as the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and Emancipation Park in Houston.” N&O … Facebook post
SPOTTED: Evan Bayh at Cafe Milano on Tuesday night. …Corey Lewandowski at Matchbox on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Pic … Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) speaking at Politics and Prose on Tuesday night about his new book, “The Land of Flickering Lights,” to a packed house that included his mom, Susanne. Pic.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Shawna Thomas, Vice D.C. bureau chief. A fun fact that people in Washington might not know: “I think most people know this by now, but let me confirm for those of you who don’t believe: I attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston with Beyoncé. Yes. That Beyoncé. No. We weren’t besties.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus (h/ts Robert Palladino and Katie Martin) … Sam Stein of The Daily Beast and MSNBC … Kenny Day, principal at Airsnext Media (h/t Tim Burger) … Sarah Boxer … Alex Angelson of the White House … Ben Napier is 29 … Katie Pavlich is 31 … POLITICO’s Chris Cadelago, Matt Daily, Catherine Boudreau, John Appezzato, Melanie Seitz and Ashley Afranie-Sakyi … former NYC Mayor David Dinkins is 92 … Julianna Smoot,co-founder and partner at the Smoot Tewes Group … Rena Shapiro, head of politics and public affairs at a4 Media … Emil Caillaux is 35 … Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos is 69 … Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad is 94 … Sam Harper, VP of comms at SoundExchange … Ron Klein, chair of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, is 62 …
… Karen Hinton … Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) is 43 … Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.) is 63 … Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.) is 39 … Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.) is 64 … former Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) is 77 … former Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-Mo.) is 61 … NYT film critic A.O. Scott is 53 … White & Case’s Keir Whitson is 5-0 (h/t wife Susan) … Kayla Maree Sanders … Eli Yokley … Remley Johnson is 28 (hubby tip: Robert Flock) … WSJ’s Heather Haddon … Rob Bogart … Phillip Hedayatnia … Grant Thomson … Jamie Lockhart … Peter Bondi … Barbara Goldberg Goldman is 7-0 … Christine Turner … Caroline Ciccone … Bill Thompson, CUNY board chairman … Ian Rivera … Amanda Woloshen Glass … Kevin Call … Bill Roberts … Sarah Hodgkins … Caroline Gransee … Clay Haynes … Chris Terris … Finlay Lewis is 81 … Elie Jacobs … Monty Warner … Elizabeth Bartz … Chuck Lewis … Edie Mead Holway … Jeff Mitchell
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019 Equal Pay in Soccer “The United States won its record fourth Women’s World Cup title and second in a row, beating the Netherlands 2-0 Sunday night.” AP News “Three months before beginning their defense of their Women’s World Cup title, American players escalated their legal dispute with the U.S. Soccer Federation over equal treatment and pay. Players filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the federation… alleging ongoing ‘institutionalized gender discrimination’ that includes unequal pay with their counterparts on the men’s national team.” AP News From the Left The left finds the disparities in pay to be deeply problematic. “[The] close match against the otherwise undefeated Netherlands, the reigning European champion, is proof of this truth in women’s soccer: Invest in it and the trophies will come. Just a decade ago, the best women soccer players in the Netherlands didn’t even have teams to play on. There was no professional league in the country for women until 2007 and even in the youth system, many stars were left to play on boys’ teams. Until the 1970s women were banned from playing soccer by the Dutch federation (England and Brazil had similar laws in place for years). But since the Netherlands was forced by UEFA to field and pay a women’s team, the program has flourished… “With multiple soccer powerhouses — especially in Europe — finally putting money into their women’s sides, building up domestic leagues and national teams at once, in another four years, the U.S. is going to have an even harder fight to stay on top… Some 1 billion people tuned in to the Women’s World Cup this year. That’s roughly one in every eight people on the planet… [FIFA] can no longer ignore the profit potential of women’s soccer, as it has for decades, or suggest women can’t compete, aren’t worth watching, or aren’t worth paying. And if the U.S. Soccer Federation wants another win from the women in the future, it will need to pay up, or soon be left behind.” Maggie Mertens, The Atlantic “The rallying cry has been ‘equal pay for equal work’ – but in fact the women have done more work. In a typical calendar year, they play more often than the men, to the point where [outside of the World Cup] the women bring in more money from games, the biggest single source of revenue for each team. That shoots a harpoon into the heart of the argument that the men should be paid more because they generate more money.” Caitlin Murray, The Guardian “Sportswear giant Nike reported the U.S. women’s team home jersey has become the No. 1 soccer jersey — male or female — ever sold on the company’s website in one season. According to the Wall Street Journal, the national women’s team’s games have generated more revenue than the men’s since their World Cup victory in 2015. This year, U.S. viewers watched the women’s team victory in record numbers. Despite this, FIFA will pay female World Cup teams a total of just $30 million, a meager award compared with the $440 million the 2022 men’s teams will take home in prizes… The U.S. women’s soccer team has more than earned equal pay.” Editorial Board, Washington Post Some posit that while “much of the debate about the pay gap has focused on revenue… revenue is the wrong measuring stick. United States Soccer is a nonprofit, exempted from taxation because it serves a social purpose: ‘To make soccer, in all its forms, a pre-eminent sport in the United States.’ It should be obvious to the people who run the federation that the women’s team is fulfilling that mission at least as well as the men’s team… “The women’s soccer team, like other national teams, also represents the United States. The women who wear the nation’s colors are ambassadors on an international stage. Their performances inform perceptions of the United States… The federation is making a statement about America by treating those women as second-class citizens. It has an opportunity to make a very different statement by rectifying the situation. Players should get the same rewards for the same achievements, without regard to gender.” Editorial Board, New York Times From the Right The right argues that any disparities in pay are due to differences in popularity and thus not problematic. “One of the major factors that separate men’s sports and women’s is a not so little thing called revenue… Last year, the men’s World Cup in Russia generated more than $6 billion in revenue; the participating teams shared about $400 million. That is less than 7 percent of overall revenue. Meanwhile, the 2019 Women’s World Cup made somewhere in the region of $131 million, doling out $30 million, well more than 20 percent of collected revenue, to the participating teams.” John Glynn, The Federalist “The winning men’s [World Cup] players received only about four times as much as the winning female players, despite bringing in over 45 times as much revenue… The fact that the women win more [than the US men] is irrelevant, as they play in a different league against a different level of competition. It’s safe to assume the U.S. women would have trouble competing at a similar level as the men. It would be like comparing the earnings of a great Arena League football team to those of a bad NFL team.” A.G. Hamilton, National Review Dated But Relevant: “The U.S. women’s team is one of the best women’s teams in the world… But in 2017, an under-15 professional men’s academy team… beat them 5 to 2. Yes, that’s right: Teenage boys beat the women’s top players in the world, and the result wasn’t even close. That’s not necessarily the women’s team’s fault, and in fact, they didn’t take it as cause for alarm about the team’s abilities. The loss did not mean they the U.S. women weren’t highly skilled. It does illustrate that even the best women’s soccer in the world doesn’t feature the same level of speed, size, strength, and skill as men’s soccer… “Almost half the world watched the men’s 2018 World Cup, with nearly 3.6 billion total viewers tuning in to watch some part of the tournament… during the women’s last World Cup in 2015, 764 million viewers tuned in for some portion of the tournament. This is quite good, but it still pales in comparison to the men’s tournament’s audience. Seeing as professional sports is an entertainment industry, it’s not at all unfair — let alone sexist — to pay teams more if they bring in larger audiences. With an audience five times as large, the men’s World Cup is simply a bigger affair.” Brad Polumbo, Washington Examiner “It has been reported that the U.S. women’s team has been generating more game revenue than the U.S. men the past couple of years. This is telling, although not quite in the way that those who allege pay discrimination think. The women are celebrities and cultural heroes, winners of four Olympic gold medals and four World Cups. The men are nobodies who failed to qualify for last year’s World Cup. Yet from 2016 to 2018, according to the Wall Street Journal, the women barely out-earned the men, $50.8 million to $49.9 million.” Rich Lowry, National Review “Does the U.S. Soccer Federation have an obligation to ‘correct’ the inequities perpetuated by international market forces?… At the end of the day, although female athletes might be frustrated at the slow pace of change, it’s ultimately most beneficial to women that we recognize the important differences between men’s and women’s sports. Men’s natural physical advantages may often help them attract a bigger fan base, but they also make it necessary to maintain sex-separated sports leagues in order for women to have fair opportunities to compete.” Hadley Heath Manning, The Hill A libertarian’s take “The fans who avidly followed the men’s tournament certainly weren’t doing anything wrong. And it’s hard to argue that each of them had a moral obligation to be exactly as interested in women’s soccer. Even if we could stop them from watching the men more than the women, should we?… “It’s tempting to answer that the fan choices aren’t innocent, they’re sexist. But since we can’t peek into their hearts, to say that definitively, we’d have to assume that men’s greater speed, strength and endurance definitely make no difference to the sport’s quality. Fair enough, but then why do fans prefer to watch Megan Rapinoe play instead of the sedentary elderly who could presumably use some exercise? Alternatively, maybe pay should be equalized precisely because biology is unfair. But that seems to be an argument for curbing the pay of all top-level athletes, who have to hit the genetic lottery just to get on the field. 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Read on » Judge Rejects Trump Bid To Switch Legal Team In Census Citizenship Question Case By Kevin Daley – A federal judge in Manhattan denied the Trump administration’s request to change its legal team in the census citizenship question case Tuesday, adding further complications to the tumultuous litigation. Court rules require government lawyers to give persuasive reasons for the substitutions in sworn affidavits and show the transition will not … Judge Rejects Trump Bid To Switch Legal Team In Census Citizenship Question Case is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump’s More Popular Today Than Election Day By Jim Clayton – A just-released ABC News/Washington Post poll shows President Donald Trump is more popular now among registered voters than he was on Election Day in 2016. This means that despite constant media attacks, endless frivolous investigations, and a myriad of seemingly impeachment-worthy hoaxes by the Democrats, Trump is sitting just as pretty as … Trump’s More Popular Today Than Election Day is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » House Democrats Use Photo From Obama Administration To Promote Investigation Into ‘Inhumane Treatment’ At The Border By Shelby Talcott – House Democrats tweeted a photo from President Barack Obama’s administration to promote their investigation into “inhumane treatment” at the border before deleting the tweet Tuesday. The Committee on Oversight and Reform announced a hearing advisory set for Wednesday titled “Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border” on their Twitter. … House Democrats Use Photo From Obama Administration To Promote Investigation Into ‘Inhumane Treatment’ At The Border is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » CBP Seizes 123 Pounds of Meth & Heroin at Border Crossing By R. Mitchell – TUCSON, Ariz. –U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Arizona’s Port of Nogales arrested a United States citizen Monday for attempting to smuggle methamphetamine and heroin through the Port of Nogales. CBP officers at the DeConcini Crossing referred a 35-year-old Peoria, Ariz. resident for further inspection of her Honda sedan … CBP Seizes 123 Pounds of Meth & Heroin at Border Crossing is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Department of Transportation Announces $477 Million in Infrastructure Grants to 264 Airports in 45 States By R. Mitchell – WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Department will award $477 million in airport infrastructure grants to 264 airports in 45 states, the Pacific Islands, and the District of Columbia. This is the third allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) … Department of Transportation Announces $477 Million in Infrastructure Grants to 264 Airports in 45 States is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump Plans To Repeat Fourth Of July Celebration Every Year By Whitney Tipton – President Donald Trump announced Monday he plans to repeat the Fourth of July celebrations held on the National Mall “for the foreseeable future.” Trump will, in 2020, again hold the “Salute to America” Fourth of July event, which included several military plane flyovers and a presidential Independence Day address, the … Trump Plans To Repeat Fourth Of July Celebration Every Year is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Epstein – Trump/Russia Collusion Part II By Amanda Alverez – Is Jeffrey Edward Epstein the Democrat’s saving grace? Any attempt to discover a lot of information about this ‘supposed’ child sex trafficker is challenging. What is notable about this person is he is a very wealthy, popular, and respected prominent Democrat. If we believe the press, it appears there are … Epstein – Trump/Russia Collusion Part II is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Gun Control Fail: Only 1,000 Of 1.5 Million Guns Have Been Turned Over In New Zealand By Whitney Tipton – New Zealand is running into resistance to its new gun buyback program and has seen only a fraction of weapons surrendered. Just 1,000 of the 1.5 million guns estimated to qualify as prohibited have been turned over to New Zealand authorities as part of the country’s gun buyback program as … Gun Control Fail: Only 1,000 Of 1.5 Million Guns Have Been Turned Over In New Zealand is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Acosta Defends His 2008 Deal With Epstein By Shelby Talcott – Labor Security Alex Acosta took to Twitter Tuesday to defend a deal he cut with billionaire Jeffrey Epstein that prevented Epstein from significant jail time. Acosta has been under fire since Epstein was arrested Saturday and charged with sex trafficking minors. Epstein was previously arrested for two felony prostitution charges, … Acosta Defends His 2008 Deal With Epstein is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » NY Clerk Files Lawsuit Against Issuing Driver’s Licenses To Illegals By Jake Dima – A New York county clerk who refused to issue licenses to illegals in June is taking the law–that he vowed never to follow–to court. Michael “Mickey” Kearns made headlines in June when he openly defied Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Green Light Bill that mandated clerks throughout the state to issue driver’s … NY Clerk Files Lawsuit Against Issuing Driver’s Licenses To Illegals is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Julian Castro Takes His Border Decriminalization Proposal A Step Further By Jason Hopkins – Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro is doubling down on his position of border decriminalization by calling for the repeal of the law that makes it a felony to illegally enter the U.S. more than once. Castro, like other Democratic presidential contenders, has long wanted unauthorized entry into the country to be decriminalized. … Julian Castro Takes His Border Decriminalization Proposal A Step Further is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » It’s Unconstitutional For President Trump To Block Twitter Critics, Appeals Court Says By Kevin Daley – President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter critics from his @realDonaldTrump account, a federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday. The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the president’s Twitter account creates a public forum, and blocking users based on viewpoint violates the First Amendment. The decision tees up a … It’s Unconstitutional For President Trump To Block Twitter Critics, Appeals Court Says is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Who Are We? – A.F. Branco Cartoon By A.F. Branco – When it comes to Trump celebrating Independence day, freedom, capitalism, our constitution and everything that makes America great, Democrats say “That’s not Who We Are!”. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019 See more Branco toons HERE Who Are We? – A.F. Branco Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Report: Ilhan Omar Embellished Story About Elderly Black Woman Arrested For Shoplifting By Chuck Ross – Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar admitted to embellishing a story she recently told a group of high school students about an elderly black woman she said was arrested for shoplifting a loaf of bread because her granddaughter was starving. A Washington Post profile of Omar details the progressive Democrat’s story to … Report: Ilhan Omar Embellished Story About Elderly Black Woman Arrested For Shoplifting is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » ‘The One Thing You Cannot Say About Joe’: Jill Biden Fires Back At Kamala Harris By Peter Hasson – Jill Biden defended her husband against Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris’s attacks in a CNN interview that aired Monday. Harris attacked former Vice President Joe Biden in the first Democratic presidential debate for opposing federally mandated desegregation busing and for his comments about working with segregationist senators in the 1970s. … ‘The One Thing You Cannot Say About Joe’: Jill Biden Fires Back At Kamala Harris is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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The Media thinks it has a new, non-Russia silver bullet to take out Donald Trump. It’s the Jeffrey Epstein bullet. On Sunday night, NBC News ran a hit job on Mitch McConnell. They wondered how he could oppose slave reparations when he benefited from ancestors who owned slaves. At sun up, MSNBC was giving Amy McGrath wall to wall positive coverage. She is running against McConnell. Looking back over the past twenty-four hours and how NBC News played this, it is pretty clear the news network coordinated with Democrats to roll out McGrath’s launch against McConnell, starting with that hit job on him. The timing between the hit on a Sunday night to get Monday’s new cycle going and then rolling out McGrath to much fanfare is just too much to be a coincidence. As an aside, by the afternoon, McGrath ran into the Jake Tapper wall of questions, bounced off that wall, and fell flat on her face. That she was unprepared to justify comparing the election of Trump to 9/11, which she had done, is striking and highlights what a terrible candidate she is. But enough about McGrath. “Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy,’ Donald Trump Once Said. Now He’s ‘Not a Fan.’,” reported the New York Times headline. “‘He said not to tell anyone’: How Trump Kept Tabs on Jeffrey Epstein,” blared the headline at Vanity Fair. “Trump addresses Jeffrey Epstein connection, claims the two haven’t spoken in 15 years after a ‘falling out’,” Business Insider chronicled. “Epstein is in jail. But Trump continues to make a mockery of justice,” opined Max Boot with prime Wasington Post real estate. The list goes on. Let’s note up front that ties between any President of the United States and a man on trial for an underage sex trafficking ring and pedophilia are notable and newsworthy. There are just a few problems. Speaking of Cocaine Mitch This Is Why You Don’t Run Against Mitch McConnell Cocaine Mitch: I Share the Same Position as Obama on Reparations This is a really disturbing piece on kangaroo courts happening now. Last week, the most read article on the NYTimes.com website was this piece titled “Elite Kid Justice.” It highlights the case of a 16 year old boy who raped a teenage classmate, filmed it on his cell phone, and then shared the video with his friends under the heading “When your first time having sex was rape.” But the judge refused to try him as an adult because “he comes from a good family.” “He is clearly a candidate for not just college but probably for a good college,” Judge James Troiano of Superior Court, sitting in Monmouth County, said last year. I have no words. But “gobsmacked” comes to mind. NBC News is running climate propaganda. Not contend to slander Mitch McConnell, they’ve got to run silly climate propaganda. This time they’re claiming an earthquake is related to climate change. A bomb just went off in the Democratic Primary. Tom Steyer has made it official. The dude could spend a million a week just to boost his favorable name identification and that’d still be chump change for him. This is a huge signal that he, a major Democrat party donor, thinks the field sucks. It would be as if Sheldon Adelson got into the Republican Primary. It is a very big deal. We have a winner. A winner of the Democrat debate, that is. His name is Donald J. Trump. Turns out more polling is showing President Trump benefited more from the Democrats’ debate than any of the Democratic candidates. EXIT PIECE: Who is this Jesus guy leftwing folks keeps saying they believe in? Paul’s statement about calling on Christ as Lord, to quote St. Augustine, “is shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim.” Who is the Jesus you accept as Lord? Albert Schweitzer, one of the most famous men of the 20th century, wrote a book called “The Quest of the Historical Jesus.” He noted that those who go in search of the historical Jesus come away finding someone who looks exactly like themselves. Schweitzer did the exact same thing. The Jesus of the New Testament is the man who told Christians not to judge just two sentences before he told them to discern who is not of the faith. The Jesus who said to love all is the Jesus who spoke more about hell than all others in the Bible combined. If you hang your hat on Romans 10, I have some Romans 1 for you to read. Then there is the Jesus who is the Word, the voice of God, who spoke to Moses in Leviticus. That is the Jesus you believe in, right? Jesus did not just speak in red letters. Remember, as always, to go check out The Resurgent and be sure to like us on Facebook. Have a good day today. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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| The phrases “sex offender,” “underage girls” and “lenient prosecution” in news coverage involving President Trump’s former friend Jeffrey Epstein and his labor secretary, former Miami prosecutor Alexander Acosta, sparked the kind of Washington damage control on Tuesday that often leads to a resignation heading into an election year. Senate Democrats stampeded to microphones to urge the president to fire Acosta or ask him to step down after a Miami Herald investigation and evidence gathered by federal prosecutors in New York resulted in Epstein’s arrest this week. Events stirred a national uproar about how a multimillionaire cut a lenient plea deal with Acosta a decade ago in a case involving the molestation of dozens of teenage girls, some as young as 14. Epstein pleaded not guilty this week to any new criminal activity and remains in custody. Acosta defended his 2008 decisions as U.S. attorney in Miami and tweeted that Epstein’s crimes “are horrific.” And Trump hastened to say he has had no contact with Epstein in more than a decade. Acosta, he said, is “a very good secretary of labor,” but he added that the White House is “looking at it [his role in the Epstein case] very closely.” Trump told reporters he knew Epstein, a well-connected hedge fund manager, “like everybody in Palm Beach knew him. He was a fixture in Palm Beach. I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don’t think I’ve spoken to him for 15 years. I wasn’t a fan,” he said. Trump offered a different assessment in 2002, telling New York magazine, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it – Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” From 2001 to 2005, Epstein allegedly molested young girls he paid and procured through others — sometimes three in a day — according to evidence gathered by police, who at the time sought help from the FBI. Under the Florida deal Epstein and his lawyers negotiated with Acosta to avoid federal prosecution, the financier pleaded guilty to state prostitution-related charges and was allowed to go to his office during the day while he served 13 months of an 18-month jail sentence. He also registered as a sex offender and agreed to pay millions of dollars in restitution to dozens of his victims. Democratic lawmakers, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday urged Trump and GOP lawmakers to seek Acosta’s resignation. Republicans, eager to avoid a public rift with the president, tiptoed carefully around the labor secretary, who appears to be on shaky ground. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said he would “defer to the president” on Acosta’s continued service, calling Epstein’s crimes “horrendous” (The Hill). Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he is “open” to holding a hearing to examine the details of the financier’s non-prosecution agreement (The Hill). “If this plea deal doesn’t withstand scrutiny, then it would be the job of the Judiciary Committee to find out how it got off the rails. What kind of checks and balances do we have to make sure that complaints involving minor children are adequately investigated?” Graham said. Prosecutors in Manhattan who brought new charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy against Epstein are arguing that the 2008 deal reached in Florida does not apply to this week’s federal indictment. “The Daily” podcast, The New York Times: United States v. Jeffrey Epstein. The Associated Press: Trump defends Acosta but will look into Epstein plea deal. Tim Alberta, Politico Magazine book excerpt: How Trump survived the Access Hollywood tape. |
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| 2020 CAMPAIGN & POLITICS: McConnell is also under a different kind of pressure from Democrats, this time from politicos who are hoping to take out the longtime Senate GOP leader in 2020. Amy McGrath, a retired Marine and Democratic congressional candidate, announced Tuesday, to much fanfare from Democrats, that she is running against McConnell, who is seeking a seventh term in office. A top recruit of Schumer, McGrath lost her bid to unseat Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.) last cycle despite being viewed as one of the top Democratic candidates on the 2018 scene. While McGrath is sure to attract high dollars from Democrats and attention to the race, it will be a steep climb for her to take down McConnell, who has many political advantages in 2020, including Trump on top of the ticket in a deep red state. “Reality check: Amy McGrath ran for House in 2018 (a terrific Dem year) and lost by 3% in #KY06, which went for Trump by 15% in 2016. Now she’s running w/ basically the same message in a state that went for Trump by *30%.* Folks…” said Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report. “Nationally, Dem voters/donors love McGrath’s profile (and those of many other ‘18 women whose personal stories dwarf those of the ‘20 prez candidates). Kentucky voters as a whole…not so much.” Trump came out shortly after McGrathy’s announcement to endorse the Kentucky Republican, warning voters that “Democrats are coming after” McConnell. While McConnell has become a political villain to Democrats, he continues to embrace the persona, dubbing himself the “Grim Reaper” and the steward of the “legislative graveyard.” His political team has also continued to use the moniker “Cocaine Mitch” in the campaign after receiving the nickname from Don Blankenship during the West Virginia Senate race in 2018. Robert Costa, The Washington Post: Democrats cast McConnell as villain in bid to win Senate and energize liberals. |
| © Getty Images > Steyer announces: The 2020 Democratic field grew once more on Tuesday, as Tom Steyer, a billionaire environmentalist and philanthropist, announced his presidential bid, making him the 25th candidate in the race. Steyer’s announcement came just months after he did something rare: He traveled to Iowa to say he wasn’t running for president, insisting he would continue to focus his efforts on impeaching the president. However, in the months since, he has reportedly grown tired of the pace toward impeachment and is running for the White House instead (The Associated Press). Despite his pro-impeachment stance, Steyer made no mention of the issue in his announcement, focusing instead on reducing the influence of corporations in politics and climate change, another pet issue of his. Steyer’s entrance was not greeted warmly by some in the 2020 field. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) tweeted that the race “should not be decided by billionaires, whether they’re funding Super PACs or funding themselves,” a veiled shot at Steyer’s announcement (The Hill). > Biden ramps up travel: Former Vice President Joe Biden will take on a more aggressive schedule in the coming weeks, adding more town halls to his schedule on the heels of criticism that he wasn’t campaigning as much as his competitors, say aides and allies close to the campaign. Biden is also expected to make a string of policy rollouts in the coming days, aiming to shift the conversation after a bumpy few weeks for his campaign. On Tuesday, Biden’s team announced that he will deliver a speech Thursday in New York on foreign policy “that includes restoring dignified leadership at home and respected leadership on the world stage.” The former vice president has taken slings and arrows from all directions in recent weeks, including over comments about his work with segregationist senators in the 1970s and over busing at the first Democratic debate with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.). This weekend, Biden apologized for the segregationist comments and sought to clarify his record, which has been picked over by his Democratic opponents and operatives. But those close to Biden say he will seek to keep talking about the current day issues on the minds of voters (The Hill). On Tuesday, Biden also released three years of tax returns and his financial disclosure form, showing that he has made $15 million since leaving the White House. The former vice president made most of his income from a lucrative book deal and speaking engagements. The Hill: Progressives face steep odds in ousting incumbent Democrats. W. James Antle III: Joe Biden is having an identity crisis. Time: For Trump, courts are another 2020 battleground. The Hill: Greg Murphy wins GOP primary runoff for North Carolina House seat. David Ignatius: Democratic candidates must get tough on Iran. They could seize the high ground. Elsewhere in the political world … McConnell is openly courting Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for the Senate in 2020 after Kris Kobach launched his bid for the seat. Pompeo has said in recent months that he will not launch a bid to replace retiring Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) (The Wall Street Journal) … Houston is expected to play host to the third set of Democratic primary debates in September, which will be sponsored by ABC News and Univision. The first debate held two weeks ago was in Miami, while the second one in late July will be held in Detroit (The New York Times). More … H. Ross Perot, a self-made billionaire who twice ran for president as an independent, died at age 89 of leukemia on Tuesday. The Texas businessman won 19 percent support in the 1992 presidential election, the most won by any independent who has run for the White House (The Associated Press). |
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| CONGRESS: Lingering animosity from progressive lawmakers in the House over the recent border supplemental bill is threatening to trip up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a defense policy bill that typically passes with large bipartisan majorities. The House is taking up the NDAA this week, a $733 billion bill that touches on everything from the type of hardware the Pentagon can buy to a pay raise for troops to a new military service for space. Trump has issued a veto threat for the measure. Republicans are signaling they will vote against the bill over several provisions they oppose, including a $733 billion top line they consider too low. That means Democrats will likely have to pass the bill on their own. However, progressives believe the $733 billion is too high, and they aren’t in the mood to make a deal after a bitter fight over the $4.6 billion border bill roiled them two weeks ago. Democratic leaders are concerned they are short of the votes needed, and Wednesday’s caucus meeting will be contentious (The Hill). > Immigration: While Democratic leaders are seeking piecemeal fixes for the border crisis, they are also weighing a thornier political issue ahead of the 2020 elections: Comprehensive immigration reform. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have said that an expansive immigration package is the only long-term solution for managing the waves of migrants arriving at the southern border, where reports of subpar health and hygiene conditions have drawn howls from liberals accusing the Trump administration of creating a humanitarian crisis. However, any package would likely be dead on arrival in the GOP-controlled Senate, leaving Pelosi and Democrats wondering whether any comprehensive effort would be worth it, particularly for moderate Democrats who helped the party retake the House in 2018 and could be in tough races in 2020. Despite possible consternation for moderates, progressives are relishing the idea of a comprehensive package and are pressing leadership to take it up “The idea that if we do something, why should we take the risk when the Senate’s not going to do anything?” said Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.). “Any sense to slow it down is because of that. But I think it’s still an important piece to have out there,” he continued. “It’s an important placeholder we need to put down for 2020 so that people running for president and Congress know that this bill’s out there” (The Hill). NBC News: Migrant kids in overcrowded Arizona border station allege sex assault, retaliation from U.S. agents. The Associated Press: Pelosi’s feud with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) tests party heading to 2020. > Debt ceiling: Lawmakers are raising red flags about the timeline for increasing the debt ceiling as negotiations toward a spending caps deal have stalled with the White House. Congress could need to increase the debt limit by early September, a timeframe that would give lawmakers a matter of weeks before they leave for the August recess. Though they could return in September with days to act, senators are warning against pushing the debt fight, which has the ability to spook financial markets, down to the wire. The full Congress has only 11 legislative days left before the House leaves on July 26 for a six-week August recess. The Senate is scheduled to leave town for recess on August 2 (The Hill). The Hill: Pennsylvania Republican expected to replace Rep. Justin Amash (Mich.) on Oversight and Reform Committee. The New York Times: House Judiciary Committee to issue blitz of subpoenas, raising heat on Trump. |
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| Census paves moment of truth for the Supreme Court and rule of law, by Paul Smith, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/30pTPc2 Don’t dismiss Tom Steyer: He’s the most media-savvy candidate going, by Joe Ferullo, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2XDm3mL |
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| Hill.TV’s “Rising” program features Rep. Larry Bucshon (R-Ind.), to talk about surprise medical billing, and Carl M. Cannon, the Washington bureau chief at RealClearPolitics, to describe RealClear Opinion Research’s polling results on the attitude of Americans toward trade, tariffs and big tech at 9 a.m. ET at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. at Rising on YouTube. The House meets at 10 a.m. The Senate convenes at 9:30 a.m. to resume consideration of the nomination of T. Kent Wetherell to be a district judge for the Northern District of Florida. The president will present ideas about overhauling the nation’s system of organ transplants, dialysis and home care for chronic kidney disease at 11:15 a.m., promoting the goal of government savings and improved life expectancy (The Washington Post). Vice President Pence will visit Lemoore, Calif., to attend a Trump Victory luncheon, followed by remarks about the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement at a family farm nearby. The vice president will then visit the Vandenberg Air Force Base, where he will stop by the Combined Space Operations Center for a briefing about launch operations. He will speak to base personnel there. From Lompoc, Calif., that evening, Pence will travel to San Diego. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin meets at 10:30 a.m. with Latvian Prime Minister Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš at the Treasury Department. He then meets with German Federal Minister of Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier at 11:15 a.m. And at 4:30 p.m., the secretary sits down with Sir Mark Sedwill, the U.K. Cabinet secretary and head of the Civil Service. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies at 10 a.m. before the House Financial Services Committee and delivers the Fed’s semiannual monetary policy report to Congress. Powell will appear before the Senate on Thursday. |
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➔ State Watch: In Virginia on Tuesday,
lawmakers abruptly adjourned less than two hours after beginning a
special session called in response to a mass shooting in the state six
weeks ago. State lawmakers opted to postpone any action on proposed gun control measures until after the state’s elections in November. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam
called on the Republican-led legislature to address gun violence
following a mass shooting in Virginia Beach, but Republicans dismissed
Northam’s efforts as a political stunt (The Associated Press). Virginia is now an election battleground in the fight over gun laws (The Associated Press).
➔ End-of-life care: Some 20 percent of U.S. hospice programs
have been found to have flaws serious enough to harm patients,
according to the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of
Health and Human Services. From 2012 through 2016, health inspectors
cited 87 percent of hospices for deficiencies. However, patients and their loved ones have little chance of learning about those program problems in advance as they select care, according to federal information released on Tuesday (NPR). ➔ Courts: Trump and many like-minded Republicans suffered a setback this week when a federal judge blocked a key administration rule designed to lower drug prices. The executive rulemaking was one of Trump’s prominent initiatives in response to consumers who complain about high prescription drug costs (The Hill). ➔ Census: A federal judge in New York, leaning on a procedural rule that requires the government to provide a reason, on Tuesday blocked the Department of Justice from changing its legal team handling the administration’s efforts to add a question about citizenship to the census (The Hill). … Taking a look at history, it turns out the politicization of the census is not new. After the 1920 population survey, Congress refused to reapportion House seats for an entire decade, and many of the themes that played out then are familiar today: fear of immigrants, an urban-rural divide and the legacy of America’s bitter race relations (The Hill). |
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| THE CLOSER |
| And finally … Since 1938, the Volkswagen Beetle has been iconic, ubiquitous, globally adventurous and fun. It shook off the Nazis, seized the post-war boom years, transported free love and free spirits through the 1960s, and somehow survived Disney’s “The Love Bug” and flying Herbie movies. It was affectionately tweaked, glamorized and reimagined for eight decades. Today, Volkswagen is ending Beetle production. however, as the last of 5,961 collector versions of “the people’s car” heads for a museum following ceremonies in Mexico, where VW began manufacturing the Beetle in 1967. The end comes at a turning point for Volkswagen as it rebounds from a scandal over cars it secretly doctored to clear diesel emissions tests. The company wants to move into mass production of a battery-driven compact car it hopes will have an impact like that of the Beetle and the Golf by bringing electric vehicles to a mass market. Viel glück (The Associated Press). |
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Instagram Wants to Watch You While You Type In an effort to combating online bullying and hate speech, Instagram announced two new features aimed at targeting the bullies and empowering victims to stand up for themselves. Here’s how the first feature will work, according to a press release: “In the last few days, we started rolling out a new feature powered by AI that notifies people when their comment may be considered offensive before it’s posted. This intervention gives people a chance to reflect and undo their comment and prevents the recipient from receiving the harmful comment notification. From early tests of this feature, we have found that it encourages some people to undo their comment and share something less hurtful once they have had a chance to reflect.” More on the second: “We wanted to create a feature that allows people to control their Instagram experience, without notifying someone who may be targeting them. Soon, we will begin testing a new way to protect your account from unwanted interactions called Restrict. Once you Restrict someone, comments on your posts from that person will only be visible to that person. You can choose to make a restricted person’s comments visible to others by approving their comments. Restricted people won’t be able to see when you’re active on Instagram or when you’ve read their direct messages.” The first feature could go one of two ways: As intended, a forced pause could cause some users to think twice about posting mean comments on the social media platform. This would be great! But on the flip side, “flagging” could also encourage more, or even worse bullying. Don’t some people get a rise out of breaking rules? Also—this feature sounds a slippery slope aimed straight at more political censorship. One can only imagine disagreements about transgender ideology or the so-called “Equality Act,” for example, being flagged as “bullying” or “hate speech.” As for the second feature, I’m all for anonymously restricting those you don’t want to hear from. Touché. Cocaine Mitch Is At It Again The media attempted a desperate hit piece against Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, conveniently timed with the announcement that Amy McGrath, a Kentucky Democrat and former fighter pilot who lost a House race last year, is running for his Senate seat in 2020. From Ashe Schow at The Daily Wire: “Late Monday night, NBC News published an ‘exclusive’ revealing that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves. The article ties the so-called revelation to McConnell’s opposition to reparations for the descendants of slaves. NBC spent a great amount of time digging through century-old census records to trace McConnell’s history and find the slave owners. ‘The two great-great-grandfathers, James McConnell and Richard Daley, owned a total of at least 14 slaves in Limestone County, Alabama — all but two of them female, according to the county ‘Slave Schedules’ in the 1850 and 1860 censuses,’ NBC reported. At Tuesday afternoon’s Senate leadership press conference, McConnell was predictably asked about the report. ‘You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama,’ McConnell said. ‘We both oppose reparations and we both are the descendants of slave owners.’” When asked again about it later, McConnell reportedly walked away and said to a staffer, “I am so sick of this sh*t.” Same Mitch, same. From the 2020 Campaign Trail Bernie Sanders cancel student debt proposal sounds more like a parody than a plan. Billionaire Tom Steyer officially enters the race. Since the Obamas aren’t defending Biden from charges of racism, his wife did. The 2020 Census Fight Isn’t Over Democrats have been telling us for months that it’s racist to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. Most recently, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused the president of wanting to “make American white again.” But according to a new Harvard/Harris poll, two-thirds of voters and majority of Latino voters (55 percent!) favor adding a the question to the 2020 census. “Also in agreement,” according to The Washington Times, “74 percent of rural voters, 59 percent of black voters, 58 percent of urban voters and 47 percent of voters who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016. At 44 percent, liberal voters were the least likely to favor the citizenship question.” Meanwhile, Attorney General William Barr says despite the Supreme Court’s ruling last month, there’s still a legal path to get the citizenship question included. 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| Open borders in America requires two steps. AOC just called for the first. Posted: 09 Jul 2019 11:49 PM PDT Democrats have a tendency to say things that insinuate what they mean instead of coming right out and saying it. Okay, so politicians on both sides of the aisle do this regularly, but Democrats are worse. And who’s the worst of the Democrats? The New Democrats, also known as “The Crew,” also known as the Radical Progressives, […] The post Open borders in America requires two steps. AOC just called for the first. appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| My Dog My Choice Posted: 09 Jul 2019 10:18 PM PDT Perhaps you have purchased or adopted a dog, rescued a dog even. That dog is yours. If someone harms your dog, they have wronged you and can be taken to court to pay, perhaps even face criminal charges. The dog is your property, and an injustice took place. Under the ideas of John Locke, the […] The post My Dog My Choice appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Firearm Technology 101, Part II: Differentiating guns by how cartridges are chambered Posted: 09 Jul 2019 08:48 PM PDT A tutorial on basic firearm terms and technology for patriots In honor of #GunPrideMonth Part I of our series was a basic explanation of the common parts of every gun. This part picks up with the early 19th century innovation that provided for the mechanization of almost every gun. As is the case with most automated systems, […] The post Firearm Technology 101, Part II: Differentiating guns by how cartridges are chambered appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Beto O’Rourke hates America Posted: 09 Jul 2019 08:05 PM PDT Failing presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke hates this nation. It isn’t just the past that he hates. It isn’t even the treatment of illegal aliens or the fact that there are rich people in our society. He hates America. All of it. I listen to Democrats often, probably more than I should, but it’s my job […] The post Beto O’Rourke hates America appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Help identify these 60 teens who stormed a Philadelphia Walgreens Posted: 09 Jul 2019 07:44 PM PDT Kids have no respect for authority today. Some seem to have no sense of right and wrong. Take, for example, these 60 teenagers in Philadelphia who decided to storm a local Walgreens, many of them stealing merchandise while there and throwing things at employees, injuring them. This is a future of a city that has […] The post Help identify these 60 teens who stormed a Philadelphia Walgreens appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Mulvaney is right. It’s time to dump Acosta. Posted: 09 Jul 2019 06:37 PM PDT President Trump would be wise to listen to Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta should be immediately removed from his office and replaced permanently. Acosta is a stain on the administration and represents the very swamp this administration should oppose. The biggest reason is obvious. Acosta directly aided billionaire sex creep Jeffrey […] The post Mulvaney is right. It’s time to dump Acosta. appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| President approves emergency declaration for California Posted: 09 Jul 2019 06:13 PM PDT WASHINGTON – FEMA announced that federal aid has been made available to the state of California to supplement state and local response efforts in the areas affected by earthquakes beginning on July 4, 2019 and continuing. The President’s action authorizes FEMA to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship […] The post President approves emergency declaration for California appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Just a reminder: AOC’s Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti idolizes radical Nazi pawn Posted: 09 Jul 2019 03:16 PM PDT Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has surrounded herself with radicals hand picked by the Justice Democrats to “guide” her through her term as their hyper-leftist ringleader in Congress. One of the people they planted was Saikat Chakrabarti, her Chief of Staff and co-founder of the Justice Democrats. This is public knowledge. What may not be as well known […] The post Just a reminder: AOC’s Chief of Staff Saikat Chakrabarti idolizes radical Nazi pawn appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The huge implications of 1st Amendment ruling against Trump blocking on Twitter Posted: 09 Jul 2019 02:22 PM PDT It’s barely a blip on most pundits’ radar. But there are tremendously important implications of a ruling today that the President cannot block users on Twitter. And the White House argument that it’s his “personal” Twitter account combined with the court ruling means a lot to many more politicians. But before we get into why, […] The post The huge implications of 1st Amendment ruling against Trump blocking on Twitter appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Colorful self-made billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89 Posted: 09 Jul 2019 12:45 PM PDT DALLAS (AP) — H. Ross Perot, the colorful, self-made Texas billionaire who rose from a childhood of Depression-era poverty and twice mounted outsider campaigns for president, has died. He was 89. The cause of death was leukemia, a family spokesman said Tuesday. Perot, whose 19% of the vote in 1992 stands among the best showings […] The post Colorful self-made billionaire H. Ross Perot dies at 89 appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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07/10/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Presented by Fisher Investments: RCP Poll; Perot-Bush; Telstar By Carl M. Cannon on Jul 10, 2019 09:08 am Good morning, it’s Wednesday, July 10, 2019. Fifty-seven years ago today, a new era in human communications was launched, literally, from Cape Canaveral. A rocket sent heavenward on this date carried no astronauts, not even a chimpanzee. It’s payload? Telstar 1, the first commercial satellite. Telstar was not the original such device to be built. That distinction belonged to Echo 1, a metal balloon launched by NASA in 1960. But Telstar was next-level stuff, and nothing in human communications was the same after it went into orbit. (It even inspired a space-age song.) I’ll have more on this in a moment. First, I’d steer you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * RCP Poll: Divided Country Wary of Tariffs, Trade, Tech. I break down the findings of the latest RealClear Opinion Research survey on issues playing out in Americans’ lives, and in the presidential campaigns. We Don’t Know Whether Perot Cost Bush in ’92. With the passing of the two-time presidential aspirant, Sean Trende reexamines the numbers underpinning the election outcome. Calif. Dem Who Flipped GOP Seat in ’18 Trails in New Poll. Susan Crabtree spotlights a new survey on the key congressional race. As Goes Pennsylvania, So Goes the 2020 Election. G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young assess the president’s chances of holding the state that helped him claim victory in 2016. Why Have Anti-Christian Attacks Quadrupled in France? In RealClearInvestigations, Richard Bernstein reports on the desecration trend. Care About the Planet? Don’t Ban Fracking. In RealClearEnergy, Drew Johnson argues that shale gas is a climate requirement. Multi-Employer Pension Bailout Needs Good Bank/Bad Bank Strategy. In RealClearMarkets, Alex Pollock has advice for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Repurposing Warships. In RealClearDefense, Robert Purssell offers alternatives to scrapping. * * * Telstar 1 was developed for AT&T at a cost of $33 million, which would be close to $280 million today. The price tag included building ground stations in Maine, England, and France, as well as reimbursing NASA for the Thor-Delta rocket needed to launch the device. Built at the Bell Telephone labs in Hillside, N.J., the satellite was slightly larger than a beach ball and weighed 170 pounds. This technological marvel was shown off with pride to National Geographic writer Rowe Findley by Bell Labs engineer Robert H. Shennum. “Take a good look now,” Shennum told the writer. “Where it’s going you won’t get another chance.” Telstar 1 was propelled into space at 2:35 a.m. on July 10, 1962. Two days later, relying on a relay from the Andover Earth Station (in Maine) to Pleumeur-Bodou Telecom Center in Brittany, it transmitted the first-ever television signal across the Atlantic Ocean. The initial images were of the American flag waving outside the Maine facility. The maiden phone call facilitated by the thing was between AT&T board chairman Fred Kappel and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. “How do you hear me?” Kappel asked LBJ. “You are coming through nicely, Mr. Kappel,” replied the vice president. On July 23, President John F. Kennedy kicked off a press conference by noting that the session was being relayed by Telstar to viewers in Europe, “another indication,” JFK said, “of the extraordinary world in which we live.” Although he slightly garbled the pronunciation of Telstar, Kennedy was concentrating on the big picture. “This satellite must be high enough to carry messages from both sides of the world, which is, of course, a very essential requirement for peace,” he added. “I think this understanding, which will inevitably come from the speedier communications, is bound to increase the well-being and security of all people here and those across the oceans.” Then, as now, however, advanced technology could be used for evil as well as good. Many human beings believed Telstar heralded the advent of a smaller, interconnected world in which mankind’s historic divides could be bridged. Others looked upon such inventions and imagined how they could provide an advantage in war. Still others didn’t give it much thought either way. All those disparate reactions were on display on July 23, 1962. The reporters attending the presidential news conference ignored Kennedy’s preamble about Telstar and went instead to the news of the day: reports of a Soviet pact with East Germany that would codify the division of Berlin and ongoing Russian intransigence on limiting nuclear testing. None of the journalists present knew it, but they were asking questions that related directly to Telstar. The day before the little satellite’s launch, the U.S. had detonated a high-altitude nuclear bomb. In October, the Soviet Union would follow suit. The increase in stratospheric radiation caused by these blasts overwhelmed Telstar’s fragile transistors. A brief workaround kept her running temporarily, but the satellite was compromised and went out of service on Feb. 21, 1963. By then, however, the world had already been changed. As for the little satellite, she is still up there, blissfully unaware of her uselessness, orbiting the Earth once every 2 hours and 37 minutes, as she’s been doing for 57 years — and is expected to do for another two centuries. Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Like a summer blockbuster sequel, debt ceiling chatter is back, thanks partly to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s recent Congressional testimony. But, the debt ceiling has always been mostly symbolic: Keep it or lose it, reach it or exceed it, it doesn’t change much for the US economy. Click here to read more. |
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Your daily update of new content from The Federalist Be lovers of freedom and anxious for the fray July 10, 2019 Are Prosecutors Finally Taking Down Accused Child Trafficker Jeffrey Epstein In An Effort To Get Trump? By Adam Mill If Donald Trump is featured in any of the Jeffrey Epstein recordings, even if it’s an innocuous social interaction with this now-toxic figure, we can anticipate a public airing at the moment of greatest effect. Full article 21,460 Attend Library Conference Featuring Workshops On Drag Queens And Queering Elementary Schools By Joy Pullmann At the American Library Association’s annual conference, the nation’s librarians learned how to circumvent community objections to events like Drag Queen Story Hour and other outrageous, taxpayer-purchased materials. Full article How Not Asking About Citizenship On The Census Gives Democrats More Votes In Congress By James Lucas Our country should be governed with political power evenly allocated on a ‘one voter, one vote’ basis. However, to do that, we will need the data from the citizenship question on the census. Full article Farrakhan Locked Out Of Twitter Over Violation Of New Rule; Returns Hours Later By The Federalist Staff After only a few hours, notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan’s account was restored. The notorious ‘termite’ post was no longer in his timeline, although all other tweets remained. Full article Megan Rapinoe And Colin Kaepernick Need To Watch Robin Williams Celebrate America’s Flag By Cheryl Magness A 30-by-60-foot American flag? Celebrated by the Hollywood elite, no less? How times have changed. Now it’s apparently racist to put a postage-sized flag on an athletic shoe. Full article How ‘Stranger Things’ Swapped Friendship For Cheap Feminism By Titus Techera In the third season of Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things,’ the story is centered on eroticism instead of friendship. Full article The Left Has Managed To Mainstream Anti-Americanism By John Daniel Davidson From the repudiation of the Fourth of July to calls for reparations, anti-Americanism that once was belonged to the far-left is now mainstream. Full article It Doesn’t Matter A Hill Of Beans If Disney Casts A Black Actress As ‘The Little Mermaid’ By Faith Moore Disney cast a young black woman as the new Ariel. But why has the immediate focus been on what she looks like––not whether she can act or sing? Full article If Women’s Soccer Players Want Higher Pay, They’d Better Ditch The Politics By Scott Schroeder If higher pay was of such importance to the team, why alienate half of the country by protesting the flag and picking Twitter fights with the president? Full article Courts Advance Ridiculous Legal Theory To Force Trump To Listen To Twitter Hecklers By Kyle Sammin In the name of sticking it to the president, courts may have paved the way for congressional regulation of the social media giants. Full article If Your ‘Dream College’ Will Leave You In Major Debt, Go Somewhere Else By Christopher Jacobs Two decades ago, I turned down the opportunity for an Ivy League education—not because I couldn’t get accepted, but because I couldn’t afford the acceptance. It worked out well. Full article Kavanaugh Confirmation Expose ‘Justice On Trial’ Hits No. 1 On Amazon By Susanna Hoffman Even before its release on June 9, a new book divulging exclusive behind-the-scenes details of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation last year became Amazon’s No. 1 non-fiction bestseller. Full article Why Netflix’s Loss Of ‘The Office’ And ‘Friends’ Is A Very Big Deal By Emily Jashinsky The hypothetical Netflix user who’s spent years toggling between ‘The Office,’ ‘Friends,’ and the company’s original content will need at least three subscriptions by 2021 to keep their status quo. Full article Barr Is Right: The Trump-Russia Conspiracy Is ‘Bogus,’ And Mueller Proved It By David Harsanyi Attorney General William Barr reiterated his intention to find out why the Obama administration launched an investigation into Trump’s presidential campaign. Full article New Poll: Joe Biden Quickly Losing Black Voters’ Support By Chrissy Clark A new Morning Consult poll found that Biden’s overall support dropped by seven points after the first debate. Support among black voters dropped even more. 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If you haven’t yet, you can order your copy here. http://vlt.tc/3otr The feature story below has a fairly comprehensive look on everything we know as of the moment, but one of the persistent mysteries about the well-connected Jeffrey Epstein, lending itself to dark conspiracies, is how he made his money. http://vlt.tc/3oup “On Monday, as federal prosecutors unsealed new charges claiming Epstein ran a sex-trafficking ring that lured dozens of young women to the house, its heavy wood doors bore crowbar marks — evidence of how authorities forced their way in over the sultry Fourth of July weekend. Prosecutors say they discovered hundreds, possibly thousands of suggestive photographs, including those of what appeared to be underage girls.” Read more of The Transom by signing up for a free trial today. follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend Copyright © 2019 The Federalist, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences |
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Good morning,Ten percent (10%) of voters nationwide believe the Betsy Ross flag is a symbol of racism. A ScottRasmussen.com national survey found that 68% disagree while 22% are not sure.Among
African-American voters, 25% believe that flag is a symbol of racism,
38% disagree and 36% are not sure. Just 11% of Hispanic voters and 6% of
White voters see the Betsy Ross flag as a symbol of racism.Thirty-three
percent (33%) of voters at least somewhat agree with Nike’s decision to
stop distributing a sneaker
featuring the flag. Sixty-eight percent (68%) disagree. Those figures
include 10% who Strongly Agree with Nike and 36% who Strongly Disagree.Fifty-nine percent (59%) have a favorable opinion of Nike.On immigration, 21% believe the United States has no right to decide who is eligible to enter the country. They believe anyone who wants to live in the United States should be allowed entry.However, 79% believe the nation can set rules for entry into our country. These results are consistent with
a vast collection of survey data showing
that eight-out-of-ten voters believe illegal immigration is bad for the
United States (eight-out-of-ten also believe that legal immigration is
good for the country).Additionally, 95% believe it is important that potential immigrants be required to go through customs and fill out appropriate entry papers. That total includes 73% who consider the process Very Important.Thirty-seven percent (37%) favor a proposal made to decriminalize
crossing the border without permission. Sixty-three percent (63%) are
opposed.Over the past
couple of months, the Supreme Court handed down rulings on a number of
controversial issues, but public confidence in the Court remains
strong: 60% of voters approve of the way the Supreme Court is doing its job.Additionally,
40% of voters believe the ideological balance of the Court is about
right. Thirty-six percent (36%) see it as too conservative and 24% say
it’s too liberal.To increase
integration of public schools, 48% of voters favor busing some students to schools outside of their local community.
Fifty-two percent (52%) are opposed. There is a huge generational
divide on this question. Busing is favored by 61% of voters under 50 and
opposed by 65% of older voters.Currently,
59% of Democrats favor busing to increase integration while 41% are
opposed. The concept is supported by 46% of Independents and 37% of
Republicans. Sixty-seven percent (67%) of black voters favor busing.Other data shows that voters see a greater education gap along income lines rather than racial lines.Finally, 74% of voters nationwide are proud of American history.Voters
recognize that many influences have played a role in how the United
States developed as a nation. Eighty-seven percent (87%) believe that
the founding ideals of freedom, equality, and self-governance still have
a significant impact on the nation today.Seventy-five
percent (75%) believe the tradition of pragmatic
problem solving still has considerable impact and 68% say the same about
the Protestant work ethic and faith. As for the legacy of slavery, 60%
believe it still has a strong impact. Fifty-four (54%) believe our
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FIRST READ: Tom Steyer has his work cut out for him with late entry into race
The presidential candidates who announce first usually don’t win. (Think John Edwards and Tom Vilsack in the 2008 cycle. Or Ted Cruz in 2016.)
But those who go last – or close to it – have had even rougher times. (Remember Wes Clark in 2004? Or Fred Thompson in 2008?)
And that’s the challenge for Tom Steyer, who yesterday became the latest Dem to throw his hat into the 2020 ring.
The late bird doesn’t get the worm – unless you’re the BIGGEST bird in the neighborhood, like Joe Biden this cycle or Mitt Romney in 2012.
Consider all of the Dems who have gotten into the 2020 race since Biden’s announcement three months ago:
- Michael Bennet (May 2) barely made the first Dem debate, and he struggled to break through.
- Steve Bullock (May 14) who didn’t make the debate stage.
- Bill de Blasio (May 16) who had a few moments at that first debate, but who still hasn’t caught fire.
- And Joe Sestak (June 23).
And remember the criteria
to make the third debate stage in September: at least 2 percent in four qualifying polls AND 130,000 donors.
That’s a steep challenge, even for Steyer and the millions of dollars he plans to spend. (How do you convince Democratic donors to give money to a billionaire?)
Of course, the $100 million that Steyer plans to drop on the 2020 race can make up for a lot of things – like a late start or a lack of charisma.
But is that enough?
Especially for a Democratic electorate that’s grown frustrated by the large (and expanding) field.
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Migrant kids allege sexual assault, retaliation from U.S. agents
“A 16-year-old Guatemalan boy held in Yuma, Arizona, said he and others in his cell complained about the taste of the water and food they were given. The Customs and Border Protection agents took the mats out of their cell in retaliation, forcing them to sleep on hard concrete,” per NBC’s Jacob Soboroff and Julia Ainsley.
“A 15-year-old girl from Honduras described a large, bearded officer putting his hands inside her bra, pulling down her underwear and groping her as part of what was meant to be a routine pat down in front of other immigrants and officers.”
“A 17-year-old boy from Honduras said officers would scold detained children when they would get close to a window, and would sometimes call them “puto,” an offensive term in Spanish, while they were giving orders.”
McGrath raised more than $2.5 million in first 24 hours
Kentucky Democratic Senate candidate Amy McGrath raised more than $2.5 million in the first 24 hours of her campaign against Mitch McConnell — over $1 million of it in just the first five and a half hours after she announced, NBC’s Kasie Hunt reports.
McGrath’s campaign manager says it’s the most ever raised in the first 24 hours of a Senate campaign. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee says the next closest was Mark Kelly, Senate candidate in Arizona, who raised $1 million in his first day of campaigning.
By the way, that’s more than what Kamala Harris raised in her first 24 hours as a PRESIDENTIAL candidate.
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2020 VISION: The outsider
“Nobody owns me,” Tom Steyer said in an interview with NBC’s Alex Seitz-Wald.
“I’m not afraid to speak my mind. I’m not beholden to them. I’m not beholden to the establishment.”
More Steyer: “It’s really a question of, if we’re going to reform this system, who are you going to believe? Someone from the outside who’s been doing direct democracy grassroots organizing for 10 years, or people from inside the Beltway?” he said. “If you look at the top four people running for president as Democrats, they share 73 years either in the Congress or the Senate. It’s a question of insiders versus an outsider.”
On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden, in DC, meets with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus’ campaign arm, Bold PAC… Steve Bullock remains in Iowa… And John Delaney is in Wisconsin.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds:
Steve Bullock discussed the Electoral College at a campaign stop in Iowa. While some Democratic candidates have called for presidential elections to be determined by the popular vote, NBC’s Maura Barrett reports Bullock’s take:
“I think we should be asking, why are losing those places? Not trying to reform a system that’s 200 years old. And Democrats need to be able to compete in those areas, so no I wouldn’t want to reform the Electoral College system.”
And one Biden note.
The NBC team (Priscilla Thompson, Marianna Sotomayor and Maura Barrett) confirmed that former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack will be hosting a meet and greet for Biden on Monday, July 15.
According to Vilsack, this isn’t an endorsement, but the NBC team flagged, “the event is simply a recognition of the fact that they’ve known the Biden’s for 33 years. According to Vilsack, he and his wife worked on Biden’s campaign in 1986.”
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… $15.6 million
$15.6 million.
That’s how much money Joe Biden made over the two years since he left the White House.
The Bidens made $11 million in 2017 and $4.6 million in 2018, a massive increase from the about $300,000 to $400,000 they made during Joe Biden’s two terms in office.
The Bidens made more money and gave more money to charity last year than any of the 11 Democratic candidates who have released their 2018 returns. And only Kamala Harris paid a higher effective tax rate.
But it’s clear that Joe Biden’s wallet is far better off for his time in the White House.
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A federal judge blocked the Justice Department from swapping lawyers on the Census citizenship case.
The Justice Department doesn’t want some of Robert Mueller’s deputies to testify in front of Congress.
The British ambassador who criticized President Trump in leaked cables has resigned.
The Justice Department’s inspector general is nearing the completion of his report on the FBI’s conduct during the Russia investigation.
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