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| Happy Friday from Washington, where only three Republicans join Democrats as the House votes to hike the minimum wage to $15. In a hearing, liberals harangue the nation’s homeland security chief over treatment of illegal immigrants. We have stories from Rachel del Guidice and Fred Lucas. On the podcast, EPA chief Andrew Wheeler talks about his first year on the job. Fifty years ago tomorrow night, as Lee Edwards recalls, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human being to walk on the moon. Enjoy the weekend. |
| Commentary The War Over America’s Past Is Really About the Future If progressives and socialists can at last convince the American public that their country was always hopelessly flawed, they can gain power to remake it based on their own interests. More News 4 Big Border Issues in Homeland Security Chief’s House Testimony “We’ve had egregious cases [of fraudulent families], including a 51-year-old man who bought a 6-month-old child for $80 in Guatemala,” says acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan. More News House Votes to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 an Hour “A $15 federal minimum wage would create a survival-of-the-fittest labor market, boosting the incomes of some and devastating the incomes and opportunities of others,” says The Heritage Foundation’s Rachel Greszler. More Analysis EPA Administrator Explains What’s Changed at the Agency Since the Obama Years For Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, it’s important to make sure states—not the federal government—are making the calls on environmental issues when possible. More News Netflix Sees Historic Dip in Subscribers During Same Quarter Executive Denounces Georgia’s Pro-Life Bill “When Georgia passed the heartbeat bill, Netflix threatened to stop doing business in the pro-life state. Thousands of pro-life customers expressed their outrage,” says pro-life activist Lila Rose. More News UK Knife Crime Hits Record High, Despite London Mayor’s ‘Knife Control’ Knife crime in both England and Wales is up 8% from April 2018 to May 2019. More Commentary 50 Years Ago, the Eagle Landed Although Apollo was a project of peace, it had a profound effect on the Cold War. In 1970, a few months after the lunar landing, Soviet dissident and Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov wrote in an open letter to the Kremlin that America’s ability to put a man on the moon proved the superiority of a democracy. More | ||
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“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, and moderation in success.” OTTO VON BISMARCK Good morning! Thousands of people gathered in D.C. on Thursday to call for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong in China. Practitioners of the spiritual discipline–estimated to be as many as 70 million to 100 million—have been severely persecuted at the hands of China’s communist authorities over the past 20 years. “Wrongful imprisonment, re-education—brainwashing, really—torture, and forced organ harvesting are the tools they use to stifle [Falun Gong practitioners],” U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) said at the rally. Read full story here House Democrats Vote to Boost Minimum Wage to $15, but Senate Prospects Are Weak Ongoing Midwest Flooding Gets Scant Coverage in Mainstream Media Pompeo Announces an International Alliance to Defend Religious Freedom The number of people who died from drug overdoses in the United States dropped in 2018, marking the first decline in nearly three decades, according to figures released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more President Trump accused four freshmen congresswomen of fueling the rise of a militant left-wing movement. The president made the accusation while criticizing Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) for refusing to condemn the attack on a migrant detention facility by an armed member of the extremist group Antifa. Read more Jeffrey Epstein’s bail request was denied by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman during a brief hearing in a Manhattan federal court. Epstein will now remain at the Metropolitan Correctional Center while he awaits trial. Read more Fifty-four percent of respondents to a nationwide survey don’t think increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2025 is worth the potential loss of as many as 3.7 million jobs that currently pay less than that. Read more Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the Mexican drug lord who twice escaped maximum-security prisons in that country, will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. penitentiary, a federal judge said after accusing him of “overwhelming evil.” Read more President Trump announced the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone near the Strait of Hormuz, amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington. Read more See More Top Stories Greed, Fear, and Corporate Progressivism By Paul Adams Remember the time when the left, starting with President Barack Obama himself, denounced the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision? It was, they said, a blow to democracy and the public interest. It meant that corporations could act is if they were legal persons for certain purposes (as had been the case for several centuries). They could “buy” politicians and use their money and… Read more The Quiet Dignity of Neil Armstrong By Ronald Rychlak I was 11 years old when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. I remember my parents calling me in from the backyard to watch history being made on our black and white Zenith television set. I joined a global audience of more than 500 million viewers who watched the landing—an event that met the goal set by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to get a man on the moon by the end of the decade. Read more See More Opinions Pro-China Communists Working to Mobilize 40 Million New Voters Against Trump By Trevor Loudon President Donald Trump and the Republican Party had better be ready for a tsunami of new Democratic voters coming their way in 2020. Far from the easy victory many pundits are predicting, there’s a strong chance that the president and his party (strong economy notwithstanding) may be overwhelmed by an unexpected wave of new voters coming mainly from the South and Southwest. Read more Today, we sit down with Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. We discuss her guiding philosophy of “Education Freedom,” what steps she and her department have taken to promote and implement it, and her responses to some of the critiques leveled against her. Notably, she outlines her plan to empower all Americans, not just the wealthy, to be able to choose the right schools for their children. Fixing Broken Education System & Giving Students More Choice Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account. |
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Friday, July 19, 2019 Raising the Minimum Wage “House Democrats approved legislation Thursday to raise the federal minimum wage for the first time in a decade, to $15 an hour.” The bill now heads to the Senate, where it is unlikely to pass. AP News From the Left The left supports raising the minimum wage, arguing that it is unlikely to cause major job losses, though many favor a more limited increase in line with local conditions. “[The CBO report] fails to adequately weight a set of recent studies that suggest its job-loss estimate is too high… ‘CBO’s assessment of the literature has simply not yet caught up’… it’s not necessarily the CBO’s fault. It has a very high bar, as it should, for incorporating ‘new’ information. The latest generation of minimum-wage research is slowly but surely changing the conventional wisdom, but that takes a long time in economics… Policymakers, however, do not have time to wait for such plodding advances. They need to act based on the best, most up-to-date information. When we consider the CBO’s findings in that light, there’s a strong case for phasing in a $15 federal minimum wage by 2025.” Jared Bernstein, Business Insider “It used to be taken for granted that raising the minimum wage would decrease the number of low-wage jobs, and that teenagers would have more difficulty finding part-time work. Economists published research in the 1970s showing that it did happen… But in the past decade, progressive economists have challenged these assumptions with new data that is now available. Dozens of Democratic-held cities and states have increased the minimum wage floor over the years, well above the current federal minimum of $7.25 an hour. Recent research suggests the worst-feared consequences of minimum wage hikes did not come to pass: Employment did not decrease in places where wages went up, and there was actually a residually positive effect on wages for other lower-income workers… “Big business groups have not been happy about the fight for $15. Neither have their Republican allies in Congress, who have long pushed back against any effort to raise the federal minimum wage. But it’s hard to deny how popular the idea is with regular voters. Poll after poll shows widespread support for raising the federal minimum rate, even among Republican voters. And a majority of voters want at least $15 an hour. It’s no wonder why the vast majority of Democrats running for president have promised to double the federal minimum wage.” Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox “A huge body of research shows that minimum wage increases aren’t massive job killers. One study that looked at 138 increases between 1979 and 2016 found that they basically had no net impact on low-wage jobs. Another that examined increases in 1,381 counties over 16 years found no effect on employment. Yet another that looked at a quarter century of state-level hikes found the same, even when unemployment was already high. A more recent paper studying 138 state-level minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 found that the number of low-wage jobs was basically unchanged for five years after an increase, even after large ones… “[Moreover] if a business can’t afford a wage increase that would allow its workers to make ends meet, then maybe that business shouldn’t exist… A recent paper found that the restaurants that are driven out of business after cities raise their minimum wages are the ones with the lowest customer ratings. The hardship of those businesses’ employees as they face joblessness shouldn’t be glossed over. But as higher wages across the economy put more money in consumers’ pockets, prompting them to spend more and generate more economic activity, those unemployed workers may be able to look forward to more lucrative employment at a company that manages to come up with a business model that both makes money and adequately rewards its workforce.” Bryce Covert, New Republic Many, however, note that “what the CBO’s report does, or should, remind lawmakers is that there is a trade-off in raising the minimum wage so substantially — and that, while the upside would accrue to society’s most vulnerable, so would the downside. Those who would lose out, in the form of no job at all, would wind up not with less pay but with no pay… “If research from University of Massachusetts at Amherst economist Arindrajit Dube is correct, and the optimal minimum wage is 50 to 60 percent of a given regional labor market’s median hourly wage, then employment in Louisiana, where the median wage was $16.05 an hour in 2018, could be badly hurt by an increase to $15 between now and 2025. Puerto Rico, where a $15 minimum wage, if applied, would equal 150 percent of the current median wage, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, could be devastated. The federal minimum wage is, indeed, overdue for an update, having lost about 18 percent of its real value since its last increase in 2009. The smart way to do that, however, is by pegging it to local conditions and then having it automatically grow with inflation going forward — no politics needed.” Editorial Board, Washington Post “Although there is substantial evidence that modest increases in the minimum wage don’t upend the job market, there is little agreement on what exactly is a ‘modest increase.’ The challenge for lawmakers is to find the sweet spot, or the highest point to which base pay can be raised before employers reduce hours and trim staff enough to undercut the benefit of the minimum wage increase… We’ve supported raising the minimum wage in Los Angeles and California, which will hit $15 an hour in 2020 and 2022, respectively. The reality is that $15 an hour might be essential to live in L.A. or other high-cost regions, but may be unsustainable in Mississippi.” Editorial Board, Los Angeles Times From the Right The right opposes increasing the minimum wage to $15, arguing that doing so will harm workers. “CBO found that a $15 federal minimum wage would reduce family incomes $8.7 billion by 2025. This reduction would result from higher rates of joblessness, price increases for consumers, and reduced economic output (growth) all offsetting wage gains. While individuals below the poverty line would see their family incomes increase by $7.7 billion, families above the poverty line would see a decline of about $16.3 billion, or $8.7 billion more than the benefit for lower income families.” Andy Puzder, Fox News “Multiple studies have shown that minimum wage hikes hurt the people they intend to help – and those least able to afford it. A team of researchers at the University of Washington examined the effect of Seattle’s wage increase from $9.47 per hour to $13 per hour and, in 2017, concluded that it led to about 5,000 workers losing their jobs and to low-wage workers losing an average of $125 every month… “But beyond the jobs lost are the jobs never created, and the social costs that go with knocking out the initial rungs on the economic ladder. Minimum wage jobs – such as scooping ice cream, tending a cash register, or flipping burgers – give young and less-experienced workers the experience and habits that can lead to better jobs. These positions teach essential skills, such as reporting to a manager, dealing with difficult customers, and punctuality. Today’s young people and those with limited education will never have the opportunity to learn these skills if we raise the minimum wage and price them out of the market.” Erica Jedynak, The Hill “The local neighborhood stores and businesses with razor-thin profits will be forced to raise prices to make up for the addition labor costs. With the increased prices, customers may elect to take their business elsewhere… [Meanwhile] large corporations with big budgets will weigh the increased labor costs and elect to invest in technology to displace workers… “[Minimum wage] jobs are not designed to provide for a family. They’re either for someone looking to get a foot in the door and join the workforce or someone looking for an extra income or a temporary port in the storm, if they’ve lost their job. We are misleading people to think that these lower-rung jobs will afford a sustainable lifestyle… It’s as if we are telling a certain segment of the population that they can’t achieve greater things. By telling a group of people that it’s acceptable to spend your life in a minimum wage job, we’re really saying that we don’t believe that they’re capable of anything more than cleaning toilets, making beds, flipping burgers or mowing lawns.” Jack Kelly, Forbes “While all Americans are sympathetic to living paycheck-to-paycheck on modest wages, a majority understand that the benefits of broad minimum wage hikes do not outweigh the consequences that would leave many workers unemployed. Policies should instead encourage people to pursue $50,000 careers – not to expect $15 per hour mandates… [The] severe shortage of skilled workers has contributed to more than 7 million jobs going unfilled jobs in the U.S. If more young people take advantage of trade and vocational education, they will reduce the number of unfilled jobs in the U.S. And many of the unfilled positions – such as for dental hygienists, mechanics and electricians – often pay nearly double the salary equivalent of a $15 minimum wage.” Elaine Parker, Fox News Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) notes that “even Alan Krueger, the former chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, has warned that ‘a $15-an-hour national minimum wage would put us in uncharted waters, and risk undesirable and unintended consequences’… Since January 2017, 5.6 million jobs have been created with the help of Republican-led tax reform, deregulation, and other pro-growth reforms. The unemployment rate is near a 50-year low with 224,000 jobs added to the economy last month, surpassing economists’ expectations. At the same time, wages have risen over 3% for an astounding 11 consecutive months… The most effective way to continue to unleash our country’s economic potential is by keeping Washington bureaucrats out of Americans’ paychecks.” Kevin McCarthy, Daily Signal “The wage hike is a solution in search of a problem. Thanks to Republican pro-growth policies in recent years, average incomes are growing at their fastest pace in a decade. In fact, last year, incomes for the bottom 10 percent of earners — those making the minimum wage or close to it — rose more than twice as fast as the average. Numerous major employers, including Walmart, Target, and Amazon, have recently voluntarily raised their minimum wages to the $12 to $15 range thanks to the booming economy and market forces, with no counter-productive government mandate necessary… “A better policy to help is an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The EITC supplements incomes through the tax code, rewarding work while not threatening job opportunities. It helps those who are actually in need, not the teenager in a wealthy household working a summer job… According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the EITC pushed 5.7 million people out of poverty in 2017 and made 19.5 million people less poor. Legislation that expands this valuable program to further help the small number of adults left behind by the labor market could easily generate bipartisan support.” Alfredo Oritz, Daily Caller Worth reading “Even having done a lot of research, I was shocked by how much more stressful low-wage work had become in the decade I’ve been working as a journalist… As technology progresses, it tends to make life easier for the top of the labor market — those skilled, educated workers with decent salaries and benefits. Often overlooked is how those same technological advances have made it possible to control and monitor unskilled worker productivity down to the second. These technologies are also getting more powerful, and that makes a lot of people’s lives inescapably, chronically stressful. It can be hard to understand the stress of having someone constantly looking over your shoulder.” Emily Guendelsberger, Vox On the bright side… Bud Light: Free beer for any alien that escapes Area 51. 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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. If Kamala Wants to Beat Trump, She’s Got to Up Her Game Several weeks ago when I wrote a piece ranking the Democrat presidential candidates from a conservative’s perspective I also included the prediction I’ve had for quite some time as to who the nominee will actually be by the time the grueling primaries have ended. I thought then, and I still think now that it will […] The post If Kamala Wants to Beat Trump, She’s Got to Up Her Game appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Good Riddance To Bad Judges We need to take rape victims seriously. This is a good start. Sometimes, a week of internet outrage actually accomplishes something good. Last week, I wrote about the NJ judge who refused to try a teenage rapist as an adult because he “came from a good family.” Yesterday, Judge James Troiano of Monmouth County, N.J. […] The post Good Riddance To Bad Judges appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Medical Professionals Just Don’t Survive At Planned Parenthood Leana Wen’s incubation at Planned Parenthood didn’t even last nine months. Planned Parenthood is good at that. Given that the fiscal year for the nation’s #1 abortion chain ended on June 30th, the termination of former Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen on July 16th came as no surprise to many pro-life watchdog groups. While […] The post Medical Professionals Just Don’t Survive At Planned Parenthood appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Reagan or Wallace: Choose One Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin isn’t exactly a household name. One of the leaders of the ill-fated French Revolution of 1848, he is known to most Americans solely for one quip as the revolution he thought he instigated began to spiral out of his control: “There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their […] The post Reagan or Wallace: Choose One appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Democrats Are Going to Actually Have to Compete Against Trump Now House Democrats killed an impeachment attempt. Bob Mueller reported there was no coordination with the Russians. Mueller went on to decline to prosecute the President. That left one more silver bullet for the Democrats. The Southern District of New York, undoubtedly through that office leaking, had assured reporters that something big was coming. BuzzFeed, you […] The post Democrats Are Going to Actually Have to Compete Against Trump Now appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Shelter From the Storm Can I be honest with you, reader? There is nothing I want to talk about less right now than politics. That’s why I haven’t written here in months. Not because of a dislike of writing – writing is a hugely important part of my life. Nor is it because of writer’s block, necessarily. But it’s hard […] The post Shelter From the Storm appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Unendurable Wokeness Of The Progressive Left For starters, this whole kerfluffle over President Trump’s latest weekened twitterfest has to be the most banal and stupid of discussions. Did anyone learn anything about Trump that we didn’t know before? Is it going to change the fact that the targets of his quip are overwhelmingly unpopular and potentially jeopardizing Democratic hopes of regaining […] The post The Unendurable Wokeness Of The Progressive Left appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Will Anyone Ask Steve Bullock About His Woman Issues? This really is a must read on on Montana Governor Steve Bullock. He will make the Democrat debate stage and his media exposure is going up as a result. It also appears he has some skeletons in his closet and he left that closet door open enough for people to get a peek. Will reporters […] The post Will Anyone Ask Steve Bullock About His Woman Issues? appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Nunes ‘Expects The Worst’ From Mueller Testimony Republicans fear that Mueller will publicly undercut their claims of “no obstruction.” The post Nunes ‘Expects The Worst’ From Mueller Testimony appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Donald Trump on Ilhan Omar: I Hear She Was Married to Her Brother Wow. He went there. Also, it appears she actually was married to her brother. The post Donald Trump on Ilhan Omar: I Hear She Was Married to Her Brother appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. 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POLITICO Playbook: How the Democrats plan to grill Bob Mueller
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HOUSE JUDICIARY and INTELLIGENCE staff briefed reporters — including our own ANDREW DESIDERIO — on Thursday about what to expect at the five hours of hearings on Wednesday with former special counsel ROBERT MUELLER:
— JUDICIARY’S GOAL: The senior aides said they want to bring the Mueller report to life for voters. “Not everybody is reading the book, but people will watch the movie,” said one Judiciary official.
— JUDICIARY’S GENERAL FOCUS: The committee will focus on several instances of potential obstruction of justice by the president: directing former White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, ordering McGahn to deny he ordered Mueller’s firing and asking Corey Lewandowski to deliver a message to then-A.G. JEFF SESSIONS about the scope of Mueller’s investigation.
— INTEL’S FOCUS: the Trump campaign’s efforts to “welcome” and “use” Russia’s help in 2016. Aides want to home in on the evidence Mueller gathered. Unlike Judiciary, Intel aides say they will try to force Muellerto go beyond the text of his report. “There is no policy, law or regulation that says he cannot go beyond the four corners of a report that he selectively wrote,” said an Intel aide.
— NO BOMBSHELLS: Democrats are already downplaying expectations, saying they don’t expect dramatic revelations fromMueller, whom they termed a “creature of DOJ” who will stick to the book. But they also understand the stakes, with one aide noting, “I’ve been involved in hundreds of hearings. And we have never prepared for one the way we’ve prepared for this one.”
WSJ ED BOARD: “Donald Trump rarely admits a mistake, much less an overstatement, so we’ll take the regret he expressed Thursday at the chant of ‘send her back’ during his Wednesday rally as the moral equivalent of an apology. Let’s hope his supporters get the message, and that Mr. Trump stops egging them on.” WSJ
— MIGHT BE WISHFUL THINKING … “Trump’s field-tested strategy: Whip up a frenzy, then disavow,” by Burgess Everett and Gabby Orr
OMAR AT HOME … STAR TRIBUNE: “Supporters rally around Ilhan Omar following ‘Send her back!’ attacks: A crowd of cheering supporters at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was a loud counterpoint to a turbulent week with President Donald Trump.”
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GABBY ORR, MARIANNE LEVINE, ANITA KUMAR and IAN KULLGREN: “Trump taps Scalia’s son for Labor secretary”: “President Donald Trump plans to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next Labor secretary.
“The president announced the decision on Twitter after POLITICO first reported his plans earlier Thursday. ‘Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience working with labor and everyone else,’ Trump wrote.
“The younger Scalia, a partner at the international law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, met with Trump Thursday and White House officials had been calling Senate offices to assess whether Scalia is confirmable, according to a person briefed on the talks.” POLITICO
SCOOP … TED HESSON: “Trump officials pressing to slash refugee admissions to zero next year”: “The Trump administration is considering a virtual shutdown of refugee admissions next year — cutting the number to nearly zero — according to three people familiar with the plan.
“During a key meeting of security officials on refugee admissions last week, a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services representative who is closely aligned with White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller suggested setting a cap at zero, the people said. Homeland Security Department officials at the meeting later floated making the level anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000, according to one of the people.
“The proposal for a near-shutdown of the refugee program is alarming officials at the Department of Defense, who don’t want to see a halt in admissions of Iraqis who risked their lives assisting U.S. forces in that country. The possible move comes after the Trump administration cut refugee admissions by a third this year, to 30,000.” POLITICO
HOUSE DEMS’ KUMBAYA — “How House Democratic factions ended their Twitter feud,” by Heather Caygle and Sarah Ferris
— AOC on Thursday night in Silver Spring, via WaPo’s Paul Schwartzman: “‘It has taken us 240 years to have this unique composite in the Congress, in this moment, and we will not go back,’ Ocasio-Cortez told more than 700 cheering Democrats at the Silver Spring Civic Center. ‘We will not go back to the days of injustice. We will not go back; we will go forward. But we sure as hell will not stand still.’” WaPo
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NYT’S DAVID SANGER: “Iran’s Foreign Minister Proposes Modest Deal to End Impasse With U.S.”: “Iran’s foreign minister said on Thursday that he was willing to meet with American senators to discuss possible ways out of the nuclear crisis with the Trump administration and, for the first time, floated an opening bid of modest steps that Tehran would be willing to take in return for simultaneous lifting of sanctions President Trump reimposed last year.
“The American-educated foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, would not say whether he was planning to meet Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who has proposed himself as a quiet emissary to Iran from the Trump administration.
“Mr. Zarif, meeting with a group of about 15 reporters at the Iranian mission to the United Nations, one of only three buildings where he is allowed to be while in the United States, was coy about whether he planned to meet with Mr. Paul but said, ‘I am seeing people from Congress.’” NYT
COMING ATTRACTIONS — NPR is airing its own interview this morning with Zarif, conducted by Steve Inskeep on a day when the U.S. says it knocked an Iranian drone out of the sky. Some advance excerpts of their exchange: ZARIF: “We can do it [a deal] right now in order to make sure that people can be at ease that Iran will never develop nuclear weapons.”
INSKEEP: “Meaning permanent inspections ratified in exchange for a permanent agreement that is ratified by the U.S. Congress.” ZARIF: “In exchange for a permanent lifting of sanctions ratified by U.S. Congress, exactly as envisaged for 2023, we can do it now.” INSKEEP: “Has that been raised with U.S. officials in any way before today?” ZARIF: “Well uh … we’re not talking to U.S. officials.” …
INSKEEP: “Have you lost some authority or credibility at home because you were so central to negotiating this nuclear agreement and it hasn’t worked out — the United States pulled out?
ZARIF: “Engagement has lost credibility at home. People don’t look at engagement with the international community. The United States for one reason, for not keeping its word. The Europeans for another reason, for not being able to stand on their word. So, yeah, engagement is losing credibility and by extension I’m losing credibility.”
SAY WHAT? — “Iran denies U.S. destroyed an Iranian drone near Persian Gulf,” by AP’s Amir Vahdat, Darlene Superville and Robert Burns
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THE INVESTIGATIONS — “House Democrats demand Hope Hicks clarify testimony after Cohen document dump,” by Darren Samuelsohn:“The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday demanded Hope Hicks return for a second round of questioning within the next month to clarify what it described as ‘inconsistent’ testimony she gave about Donald Trump’s hush-money payments to an adult film actress.
“Democratic panel chairman Jerry Nadler in a five-page letter cited newly released court documents that raise questions about whether the former White House communications director and longtime Trump aide misled his panel about her role in the scheme during a closed-door interview last month.
“As I reminded you at the outset of your interview, anything other than complete candor can have very serious consequences,” Nadler said in the letter to Hicks, which set an August 15 deadline for her to voluntarily return for additional questioning otherwise he’d issue a subpoena.” POLITICO… The letter
2020 WATCH …. JULY DEBATES LINEUPS — NIGHT 1: Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, O’Rourke, Klobuchar, Williamson, Delaney, Hickenlooper, Ryan, Bullock; NIGHT 2: Biden, Harris, Castro, Yang, Booker, Inslee, Bennet, Gabbard, Gillibrand, de Blasio. CNN (hat tip: Dan Diamond)
— “It’s Biden v. Harris Part 2 at next Democratic presidential debate,” by WaPo’s Colby Itkowitz
REALITY CHECK — “Democrats’ ban on lobbyists’ cash isn’t as strict as it seems,” by Theo Meyer
NYT’S JONATHAN MARTIN: “Anxious Democratic Governors Urge 2020 Field Not to Veer Too Far Left”: “After claiming governorships from Republicans in seven states last year, including in crucial presidential battlegrounds like Wisconsin and Michigan, Democratic governors should have good reason to celebrate.
“But there was as much anxiety as optimism when the governors gathered for their annual fund-raising retreat on Nantucket last weekend and grappled with why a party that won with a pragmatic message in 2018 is now veering sharply to the left.
“A group of governors are alarmed that their party’s presidential candidates are embracing policies they see as unrealistic and politically risky. And they are especially concerned about proposals that would eliminate private health insurance.
“‘I don’t think that’s good policy or good politics,’ said Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, the chair of the Democratic Governors Association. ‘I think it scares people,’ added Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.” NYT
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There are wrong and right prescriptions for changing Medicare. Seniors need Washington to focus on the right ones.
TRUMP’S FRIDAY — The president and first lady Melania Trump will participate in a photo to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing at 11:45 a.m. in the Oval Office. Trump will leave the White House en route to Bedminister, N.J. He will participate in a roundtable with supporters at 5:30 p.m. followed by a fundraiser at 6 p.m.
PLAYBOOK READS
GOOD CATCH — “Labor fight roils Bernie Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationwide,” by WaPo’s Sean Sullivan
BEYOND THE BELTWAY — “Tensions worsen between LAPD and ICE over Trump immigration raids,” by L.A. Times’ Brittney Mejia
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SELLING PLASTIC STRAWS TO OWN THE LIBS — For $15, the Trump campaign and the RNC will sell you a pack of 10 nine-inch-long “Trump Straws.” The item listing reads: “Liberal paper straws don’t work. STAND WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP and buy your pack of recyclable straws today.” They say the straws are BPA-free, reusable, recyclable, laser-engraved and made in the United States. The Trump Store (h/t @yashar)
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Seniors need Washington to focus on the right prescription for changing Medicare.
MEDIAWATCH — “Gannett Closes In on Deal to Combine With GateHouse Media,” by WSJ’s Cara Lombardo and Dana Cimilluca
— The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is cutting its print edition to just three days per week as of Sept. 30, per local union rep Jonathan Silver.
Guild president @michaelafuoco takes a shot at the owners: “The Blocks care nothing for journalism, our subscribers, their employees, our community. They care solely for money. Members of the @PGNewsGuild are crestfallen as millionaires ruin the 232-year legacy of the @PittsburghPG for greed.” Backstory
SUNDAY SO FAR …
- FOX “Fox News Sunday”: House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.). Panel: Jason Riley, Lisa Boothe, Mo Elleithee and Jonathan Swan. Power player: Tara Westover (re-run).
- CBS “Face The Nation”: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) … House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) … House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.). Panel: Rachael Bade, Lanhee Chen, Jamelle Bouie and Paula Reid. Anthony Salvanto and Ed O’Keefe will discuss the latest CBS poll.
- CNN “State Of The Union”: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Panel: S.E. Cupp, Karen Finney, Rick Santorum and Wajahat Ali.
- CNN “Inside Politics”: Eliana Johnson, Manu Raju, Molly Ball and Asma Khalid.
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SPOTTED: Susan Rice at RPM Italian on Thursday … Rep. Max Rose (D-N.Y.) at DFW.
SPOTTED at Rep. Jamie Raskin’s (D-Md.) Democracy Summer Program with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) in Silver Spring, Md.: Danny Glover and Bob Moses. Pic of Glover… Pic of Moses
TRANSITION — Michael Short has been appointed director of the Office of External Affairs and chief communications officer at the CFTC. He was previously head of media relations for the National Association of Manufacturers, after a stint in the Trump White House. The announcement
HOT JOB — A listing for director of the Office of Information Policy at DOJ was posted this week. Melanie Pustay has held the position since 2007. The listing
WHITE HOUSE DEPARTURE LOUNGE — Joseph Sullivan’s last day as special adviser to Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett is today. Sullivan is expected to continue working with Hassett in the private sector.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Rebecca Ballhaus, White House reporter at the WSJ and recent Pulitzer winner. How she got her start in journalism: “During an internship at the Huffington Post one summer in college, I was assigned to the Style section, where one of my first assignments was to get my hair braided by a stylist for, inexplicably, a DIY guide that now appears only on a Chinese-language website. After that, I was hooked.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Ben Jenkins, partner at Locust Street Group, is 4-0 (h/t Kelly Klass) … Lyndon Boozer, partner at Capitol Counsel … Kelly Magsamen, VP for national security and international policy at CAP (h/ts Ben Chang) … Larry McCarthy, political/corporate admaker … Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kan.) is 63 … Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.) is 46 … Rick Dearborn, a partner at the Cypress Group and former WH deputy COS … Marlon Marshall, 270 Strategies founding partner … Eric Lichtblau … DHS’ Andrea (Palermo) Porwoll, who recently married Heritage’s Mitchell Porwoll — pic … POLITICO’s Lauren Gardner and Mary Newman … WaPo’s Rachael Bade … Patrick Brennan, director of speechwriting at HHS … Dylan Riddle … Donna Shor … Carmel Ferrer … Maria Giannopoulos … Sarah Haley … ProPublica’s Isaac Arnsdorf … ALEC’s Joe Goetz …
… Trevor Tejeda-Gervais … Howard Schultz,former executive chairman and CEO of Starbucks, is 66 … Daniel Kile, executive editor of Vanity Fair, is 41 … Matt Speno … NBC News’ Alex Johnson and Lauren Selsky … Keegan Bales … Vivi Zigler … Lindsee Gentry, deputy director of external affairs at FERC … Ian Schrager is 73 … Charles Watkins … Dan Wilner … Jennifer Skalka Tulumello … Stephen Ching … Nick Smith … Wade Lairsen … Ron Faucheux … Kenn Campbell … former Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.) is 64 … LaVenia J. LaVelle … Stephanie Valencia … The Nation’s Atossa Araxia Abrahamian … Bill Hyers … Jessica Tully … Miranda Tully … George Rakis
A message from PhRMA:
The United States has the only health system in the world that relies on market competition, saving the government and seniors a total of $132 billion from 2005 to 2017 in Part B medicine spending. That’s because Part B’s market-based reimbursement system, which was implemented in 2005, incorporates discounts, rebates and price concessions negotiated across the U.S. market, providing millions of seniors with access to medicines that are used to treat some of the most complex diseases like cancer and autoimmune conditions. Some in Washington want to end this and instead set payment based on the prices mandated by foreign governments that seriously restrict patient access to medicines. Why would we take that risk here in the United States? Any changes to Medicare should help patients, not hurt them. Limiting seniors’ access to lifesaving treatments based on the choices of foreign countries is the wrong prescription for Medicare.
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- Jake Sherman @JakeSherman
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Less than 24 hours after President Trump expressed happiness
about his scripted take-down of four Democratic freshman lawmakers
during a reelection rally in North Carolina, he attempted to distance
himself from the crowd’s “send her back” chant aimed at Somali-born Rep.
Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), whom Trump on Sunday urged to “go back” to her country.
“I felt a little bit badly about it,” the president told reporters Thursday in the Oval Office. “I would say that I was not happy with it. I disagreed with it. But, again, I didn’t say that. They did.”
The president’s sudden disavowal of his Greenville, N.C.,
supporters and their public echo of his Sunday tweet evolved after
Republican lawmakers met privately with Vice President Pence
to air misgivings that “send her back” was a divisive and politically
damaging GOP rallying cry if it caught on elsewhere heading into the
2020 campaign cycle.
“We cannot be defined by this,” North Carolina conservative Rep. Mark Walker told reporters. “That does not need to be our campaign call.”
The Associated Press: Trump falsely claims he tried to stop “send her back” chant.
The New York Times editorial board: The real meaning of “send her back!” It’s become the message of Donald Trump’s presidency.
Walker was not the only Republican who recoiled without criticizing the president. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said at a news conference that the chants “have no place in our party and no place in this country.” Rep. Tom Emmer (Minn.), head of the House Republicans’ campaign committee, told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast that “there’s no place for that kind of talk.”
As Niall Stanage reports,
the president’s excoriating and personal slams against the liberal
lawmakers, joined by the Greenville crowd’s reaction, elevated fears
about Trump’s brand of race-tinged nationalism and the coarseness of the
nation’s political jousts. Lawmakers and commentators on Thursday
agonized publicly about the potential that political speech could spark
violence.
The Hill: Rank-and-file Democratic lawmakers called for increased security following the Trump rally’s “send her back” chants.
The Hill:
The House is ending a rollicking, exhausting, unprecedented week, one
that included a party-line vote to condemn the president’s “racist
comments” and another to table articles of impeachment filed by a Texas
Democrat.
In comments on social media, the president’s supporters
piled on, agreeing with Trump’s assertions that the four freshman
Democrats, self-nicknamed “the squad,” are dangerous “extremists.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) advised
“everybody should ramp it down,” but he also suggested that overheated
rhetoric from the House Democrats invited Trump’s response, calling it a
“two-way street” (The Hill). Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
said during a Thursday morning interview with Fox Business that Trump
was “on to something” when he castigated Omar and Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).
McConnell said they want to recast America “into a socialist
country” with liberal policies that would cost jobs and end private
health insurance, and which he said are supported by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). “We’re going to have a big choice next year.”
In Minnesota on Thursday afternoon, Omar’s supporters
offered their own take. “Welcome home Omar!” they chanted and cheered as
the congresswoman arrived at the Twin Cities airport, television news
cameras circling behind glass doors, awaiting her appearance.
Hours later, she tweeted: “Home sweet home!”
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LEADING THE DAY
CONGRESS: The House voted Thursday to raise
the minimum wage to $15 by 2025, with lawmakers largely voting along
party lines as progressives and centrist Democrats came away with wins
in the legislation.
Progressives won the battle for the bill to have the $15
wage enacted nationwide, while centrists were able to extend the
phase-in for the wage from five years to six years. Centrists also came
on board to back the bill due to an amendment requiring a study of the
economic impact in the early stages of the wage hike’s implementation.
The legislation, which was the first vote to raise the
federal minimum wage since 2007, won the support of three Republicans —
Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Francis Rooney (Fla.) and Chris Smith (N.J.), while six Democrats — Reps. Anthony Brindisi (N.Y.), Joe Cunningham (S.C.), Kendra Horn (Okla.), Ben McAdams (Utah), Kurt Schrader (Ore.) and Xochitl Torres Small (N.M.) — voted “no.”
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the hike would
cost the U.S. 1.3 million jobs by 2024, but that it would lift 1.3
million individuals out of poverty.
Despite the legislation’s passage, the bill is likely dead-on-arrival in the Republican-led Senate (The Hill).
The Washington Post: House Democrats move to tamp down internal feud, delete tweets that sparked infighting.
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> Budget/debt ceiling: As Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin close in on a deal to raise the spending caps and debt ceiling, one major potential roadblock lies ahead: the president.
With an agreement nearing the finish line, Senate
Republicans are worried that Trump could scuttle any deal. They want a
firm commitment that he will support the bill after past dealings ahead
of key spending deadlines, including the December deal the Senate
thought they had secured. Trump refused to sign a short-term resolution
at the time despite assurances from Pence to the Senate GOP that he
would, leading to a 35-day partial government shutdown.
“Oh absolutely,” said Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) when asked if he needs a public assurance from Trump. “I think the leader would want that, too.”
“We’ve got to get the president on board,” Shelby added.
With an agreement close that could potentially add $2 trillion to the deficit over a decade, Niv Elis writes that members of both parties are short on solutions for addressing the debt.
The potential deal would increase spending for 2020 and 2021
by an estimated $250 billion to $300 billion over those two years, and
it would entrench a higher spending path because there are no legal
spending limits in place after those years. While budget watchers have
raised alarms that the deficit is on an unsustainable path, members of
Congress have only stopped pointing fingers long enough to throw up
their hands. Democrats blame Republicans for passing $1.9 trillion in
deficit-financed tax cuts and demanding huge increases to defense
spending. Republicans blame Democrats for demanding dollar-for-dollar
increases to domestic spending to match defense increases.
The New York Times: As Washington seeks budget deal, negotiators try to sideline Mick Mulvaney.
> Mueller testimony: House lawmakers are gearing up for their highly anticipated public hearing with former special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday.
Democratic members and staff on the House Judiciary and
Intelligence committees in recent days have held closed-door meetings as
they lay out their game plans in advance of Mueller’s testimony, which
was delayed by a week after the initial hearing was set for July 17.
Lawmakers say they’re painstakingly planning their questions with
guidance from the committees in order to maximize their time with
Mueller, keeping their specific lines of questioning close to the vest.
On the Republican side, they are holding mock hearings to
prepare. Many GOP lawmakers on the committees are Trump loyalists and
are expected to try to poke holes in the investigation’s credibility, as
they’ve tried to do for months (The Hill).
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ADMINISTRATION: In another escalation of U.S.-Iran tensions,
Trump said Thursday that a U.S. Navy ship “destroyed” an Iranian drone
in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the ship (The Hill).
“This is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions
by Iran against vessels operating in international waters. The United
States reserves the right to defend our personnel, facilities and
interests,” the president said.
The drone incident would appear to fit a pattern of
harassing behavior by Iranian forces in the Gulf region that predates
the Trump administration. U.S. military officials have tried not to
further inflame the situation. It was not clear late Thursday whether
the unmanned aircraft was armed, or how the Navy brought it down.
Iran on Friday denied Trump’s assertion that the United
States destroyed one of its drones, saying all of its unmanned planes
were safe. There was no sign of a major Gulf clash, despite fears both
sides could blunder into war (Reuters).
Trump’s unusual disclosure of the drone incident follows
accusations that some White House officials have sought to antagonize
Iranian officials. In May, national security adviser John Bolton, rather
than the Defense Department, released a statement that the United
States was sending a bomber task force and a naval strike group led by
an aircraft carrier to the region (The Washington Post).
Meanwhile, state media reported Thursday that Iran seized a
foreign oil tanker on Sunday that it claimed was carrying “smuggled
fuel.” The semi-official Fars News Agency released video that purported
to show the tanker, saying it was ambushed by Islamic Revolutionary
Guard forces with 12 people aboard. The U.S. State Department demanded
the release of the tanker and its crew (AlJazeera).
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> Labor Department: Trump tweeted on Thursday that he will nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to be secretary of Labor, to succeed Alexander Acosta,
who resigned last week. Scalia, 55, is a partner at the law firm
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and is a member and former co-chairman of
its Labor and Employment Practice Group. He also co-chairs the firm’s
Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Group.
The younger Scalia served as the Labor Department solicitor from 2002 to 2003 after his appointment by former President George W. Bush (The Hill). > Defense Department: Trump on Thursday said he “will be asking” the Pentagon to examine a federal contract with Amazon for cloud computing services “to see what’s going on.” Trump, who frequently assails Amazon founder Jeff Bezos because of his ownership of The Washington Post, told reporters Thursday that he’s “getting tremendous complaints about the contract” from competitors Microsoft and Oracle. “Great companies are complaining about it,” the president asserted. The contract, which the Pentagon is poised to award in August, is valued at $10 billion (Bloomberg). > Department of Homeland Security: The administration gutted a federal program aimed at detecting weapons of mass destruction, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times. > Environmental Protection Agency: The administration halted regulatory inspections of power and chemical plants that are conducted on a surprise basis (The Hill). > Justice Department: Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and acting Director of the Bureau of Prisons Hugh Hurwitz, accompanied by other administration officials, at 11 a.m. will unveil results of the bipartisan criminal justice reform law known as the “First Step Act,” signed by Trump in December. According to the group Americans for Prosperity, more than 2,000 inmates will reenter society today, their sentences completed, helped by the new law. “Today, thousands of people who served their time and earned a second chance are returning to their communities and families,” said Americans For Prosperity board member Mark Holden in a statement. “Now, it’s on all of us to unite around tearing down employment barriers and other obstacles to help these folks, and those who follow, successfully rejoin society.” Holden appealed to Congress and the administration to “equip the more than 10,000 people who are released from prison every week with the tools and training needed to improve their lives.” IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES 2020 POLITICS: Former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) are poised to do battle on the debate stage once again as they were paired together for the second night of the second debate in less than two weeks. CNN made the announcement during a live draw to determine who would take part in which debate on July 30 and July 31 in Detroit. Biden and Harris will headlining the second night after their heated clash in Miami over the former vice president’s record on civil rights and busing. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will take center stage on the first night. Among those joining the two senators on night one are South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas). Alongside them will be Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D), the only candidate who did not appear at the first debate in Miami. Alongside Biden and Harris on the second night will be Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) (The Hill). According to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll, Biden continues to lead the field, taking 25 percent. He is followed by Warren and Sanders with 16 percent, and Harris’s 14 percent backing. Buttigieg sits fifth with 8 percent, while no other candidate polls higher than 3 percent. In the same poll, Trump’s approval rating reaches 48 percent, with 51 percent disapproving. > Medicare for All vs. ObamaCare: The fight over health care has taken center stage in the Democratic primary, and Democrats are struggling over just how far to the left the party needs to shift to defeat the president. Sanders and Biden are escalating their fights, slamming each other as being either too radical or too timid on “Medicare for All” and the Affordable Care Act, respectively. But even the moderate candidates have embraced policies that were previously deemed far too liberal, and some lawmakers are cautioning against going further to risk alienating the mainstream Democratic voters that are key to winning the White House and taking back the Senate. “I understand the appeal of Medicare for All, but folks supporting it should be clear that it means getting rid of ObamaCare, and I’m not for that,” Biden said announcing his plan. “I knew the Republicans would do everything in their power to repeal ObamaCare. They still are. But I’m surprised that so many Democrats are running on getting rid of it. Health care was the issue that helped propel Democrats to win the House in 2018, and some Democrats are worried that the back-biting and intraparty criticisms will harm their efforts to win the White House. They hope the attacks will calm down (The Hill). “My hope is that we don’t lose focus of the here and now,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.). “Frankly, my constituents are focused on making sure that they don’t lose their health care in the next year. They’re not as concerned with the debate within the Democratic presidential field about, you know, what the 10 to 20 year future of American health care looks like.” Sean Sullivan, The Washington Post: Labor fight roils Sanders campaign, as workers demand the $15 hourly pay the candidate has proposed for employees nationally. The New York Times: Anxious Democratic governors urge 2020 field not to veer too far left. Axios: Where Trump’s Facebook ad spending goes. > Wall Street: Warren rolled out her plan to take on Wall Street on Thursday, and despite her tough words for the financial sector, the industry isn’t sweating her rise in the polls. As Ben White at Politico writes: “Most of them don’t love Warren’s economic and regulatory policies. But they generally understand them and appreciate that the Democratic presidential candidate declared herself a “capitalist to my bones” and believer in free markets, albeit with strong cops on the beat.” “Many bankers view Warren — a former Republican who’s made her policies clear for years — as the safer presidential choice if the progressive wing wins out in the Democrats’ internal war. If it comes down to Warren or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), an avowed democratic socialist who continues to make personal feuds with bankers a centerpiece of his campaign, many of them would swallow hard and take Warren.” The Hill: Gallup: Trump averages highest approval rating of his presidency in second quarter. © Getty Images OPINION Trump knows what he’s doing with those tweets — setting his 2020 strategy, by Margaret Carlson, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/32x2DyJ No presidential candidate can unite the country, by B.J. Rudell, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2XZljnh WHERE AND WHEN Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, talking about the Apollo 11 50th anniversary; Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), with his takeaways from this week’s House antitrust hearing with major tech firms, including Amazon; and Doug Duncan, Fannie Mae senior vice president and chief economist, with a take on the state of the economy. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House meets in a pro forma session at 9:30 a.m. and lawmakers return to work next week hoping to wrap up business before beginning a lengthy August recess. The Senate convenes Monday at 3 p.m. to consider the nomination of Mark Esper to be secretary of Defense. The Senate’s vote on the nominee is schedule with notable speed; Esper’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee took place this week. The president and first lady Melania Trump will pose for photos commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing before departing for their property in Bedminster, N.J. The president will headline a reelection fundraiser there at 5 p.m. (InsiderNJ). Pence on Saturday will head to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., to salute the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is speaking at the Western Hemisphere Counterterrorism Ministerial in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’ll continue traveling through Sunday to Guayaquil, Ecuador; Mexico City, San Salvador, El Salvador; and Orlando, Fla. The Aspen Security Forum continues through Saturday in Aspen, Colo. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker speaks at 11:30 ET. Information HERE. The Hill invites you to two live events: July 24 features the third annual Latina Leaders Summit at the Conrad Washington, D.C., with leaders from across the country, including Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán (D-Calif.), Del. Jenniffer González-Colón (R-Puerto Rico) and Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-Calif.). They’ll discuss paths to elective office and the next generation of Latina leaders. Information is HERE. … On July 25, The Hill presents “Policy Prescriptions: Lowering Drug Prices” at 1777 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., with Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who will discuss how to lower patient drug prices. Sign up HERE. Economic indicators: The Bureau of Economic Analysis at 8:30 a.m. reports on gross domestic product by industry for the first quarter of 2019. OZY Fest, this weekend’s music-ideas-comedy-food festival in New York City’s Central Park, will include appearances by some politicians and presidential candidates. Featured on the festival agenda: former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), former Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R), and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D). Information HERE. ELSEWHERE ➔ Locked up: Financier Jeffrey Epstein, arrested this month on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy with underage girls, was denied bail on Thursday when a judge agreed with federal prosecutors in New York that Epstein is a danger to the community and a flight risk and should remain in detention until trial (The Associated Press). ➔ State Watch: The Florida prison system is under investigation after prison employees beat an inmate on Saturday at Lake Correctional Institution in Clermont, Fla. The beating was surreptitiously recorded by other inmates and uploaded to YouTube. The official explanation about what took place was contradicted by the video, sparking allegations of abuse and a cover-up. On Monday, screenshots of a private group chat among several Florida prison officers revealed their boasts about the violence. “That [inmate] looks like beetle juice,” one officer said (Florida Times-Union). … The Florida prison system is the subject of a recent six-month investigation, “Wasted Minds,” by GateHouse Media. Reporters found that education — which is viewed by experts as a potent antidote to recidivism — has been overtaken by vocational programs in the Florida prison system. The state’s incarceration model is described as “punish and contain.” ➔ Supreme Court: On Monday, the body of former Justice John Paul Stevens, who died this week at age 99, will lie in repose at the court. The public can file past to honor Stevens, who served on the bench for 35 years, from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. On Tuesday, the former judge is to become the 13th justice to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia (The Associated Press). © Getty Images THE CLOSER And finally … Bravo to winners of this week’s Morning Report Quiz! The news coverage marking this week’s 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar mission helped NASA-savvy puzzle masters. Kudos to Jonathan S. Berck, Patrick Kavanagh, Tom Chabot, Charlie Seymour Jr., Donna Nackers, Marilyn Dattilo, Linda Hall Daschle (former deputy administrator at the Federal Aviation Administration), David E. Letostak, Candi Cee, Lorraine Lindberg, Robert Fowler, William Mattingly, Carol Katz, R. 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During the Apollo 11 mission, “Eagle” was the module that transported two astronauts to the moon’s surface: “The Eagle has landed.” The primary catalyst behind President Kennedy’s announcement that astronauts would head to the moon was his eagerness to beat the Soviet Union after it embarrassed the United States with its Sputnik prowess and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s orbit of the Earth (NASA History Office and CNET). |
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The Reality of the Crisis at The Border Senator Marsh Blackburn for Fox News: “I joined Vice President Mike Pence and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee Friday in a visit to a migrant detention center in Texas to witness firsthand how much work we have left to do to secure our southern border. The situation is dire. Smuggling cartels tell lies about instant asylum and open borders and have drawn migrants by the hundreds of thousands to border stations near McAllen and El Paso in Texas, along with other crossings along the Rio Grande. It isn’t until they arrive that migrants discover the truth: applying for legal entry into the United States is a long, confusing process. There are rules – and the line started forming years ago. Migrants from all over the world have experienced a similar shock. Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan and Acting Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Mark Morgan joined us for a briefing hosted by the McAllen sector team. What we heard shocks the conscience. They told us to think of the cartels like we would a big business: they deal in drugs, and human beings, and gauge success and failure in terms of their bottom line. Trafficked humans who “earn their passage” via forced servitude in criminal organizations, labor gangs, and sex trafficking rings bring in much more money than migrants who can pay their own way to the border. The cartels are exploiting desperate situations in the developing world, and they’re doing it using web and Facebook ads, like the world’s most perverse travel agency. Some even offer pricing schedules. If you want to travel “first class,” expect to pay first-class prices.” Democrats Insist ‘No One is Above the Law’ – except illegal immigrants From The New York Post: “We have heard a lot about the importance of the rule of law from Democrats lately. “No one is above the law, especially the president of the United States,” declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi amid the special-counsel probe. “No one is above the law. Not even the president,” echoed Sen. Elizabeth Warren. “Everyone should be held accountable. And the president is not above the law,” said Sen. Kamala Harris. Republicans “are basically saying that in America one man is above the law, and that’s not a fact,” said Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin. “No one is above the law, [and] everybody ought to be held accountable,” said South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg. No one, that is, except illegal immigrants. Fast-forward to this past weekend, when the Trump administration announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would soon begin enforcement actions to remove illegal immigrants who have been issued final deportation orders by a federal judge. Those same Democrats and the rest of their party delivered a clear and unified message. “It’s so appalling, it’s outside the circle of civilized human behavior,” said Pelosi. “The Trump administration’s cruelty runs bone-deep. A Warren administration will not rip families apart to try and score political points,” said Warren. “The aim is to scare immigrant communities. . . . And so, he’s going to . . . do these raids which is a crime against humanity,” said Harris. “We are on your side, we stand with you together,” Durbin told activists protesting ICE enforcement. “It’s really designed to strike fear into people at a moment when fear is something we’ve got way too much of in this country,” said Buttigieg. So, Democrats were for rule of law when it comes to the Mueller probe, which did not find that the president broke the law. But they are against the rule of law when it comes to illegal immigrants who have been found by a federal judge to be in violation of US immigration law.” Weekend Reading Netanyahu could deny Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib entry into Israel. (The Washington Examiner) Blocking 9/11 funds is why nobody likes Rand Paul. (The Federalist) Divers find U.S. patrol boat off the coast of Maine sunk by German sub in WW2. (The Washington Examiner) Friday Entertainment Center “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” is less “Inglorious Basterds” and more “Jackie Brown.” (Book and Film Globe) Netflix uses $1 billion in value in one day. (The Hollywood Reporter) Tom Cruise drops first “Top Gun: Maverick” trailer at ComicCon. (Variety) New cast members for “Fargo” season 4 announced, including Jason Schwartzman, Ben Wishaw, and Jessie Buckley. (IndiWire) Netflix original film “Secret Obsession” is the return to crazy made-for-TV movies that we need. (Pittsburgh Magazine) Ted Danson to lead new L.A. Mayor comedy series helmed by Tina Fey. (Deadline) Guide to all trailers released at ComicCon 2019. (Rotten Tomatoes) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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The Abortion
of Leana Wen
She didn’t last the full nine months, and the end was quite painful.
Your tax dollars paid for some of the process.
Such was the story of Dr. Leana Wen, the Asian American former emergency
room doctor who was chosen last year to succeed the thoroughly corrupt
Cecile Richards as the head of Planned Parenthood, the overtly racist
and mind-blowingly criminal organization responsible
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By: Scott McKay ______________________ Wearing a MAGA Hat in Montreal Earlier in the week I had to perform a banking errand that required my physical presence in Montreal. I drove up from New York City. After arriving, I opened up my bag and saw that I still had my Make America Great Again hat in it. I had worn it in Montreal in early 2016 before Trump’s election, and most Canadians didn’t even notice it. How, I wondered, would they react this time if I wore it? By: George Neumayr ______________________ From Chappaquiddick to Tranquility Base in One Weekend Man ascended to the glorious heavens and sank to the murky depths 50 years ago this weekend. The juxtaposition serves as a metaphor for modern times, when our technology races to infinity and beyond as our behavior periodically knuckle-drags toward barbarism. By: Daniel J. Flynn ______________________ The Willful Blindness of Montel Williams On a July 18 op-ed for USA Today, Marine Corps veteran and former talk show host Montel Williams did his best to raise the temperature — but not the intelligence quotient — of public discourse by declaring racism the Republican platform for 2020. He had that peculiar epiphany while watching what he calls his former party disgrace itself by defending presidential tweets already discussed in these pages. By: Patrick O’Hannigan ______________________ Mainstream Media Abandons Journalism for Activism on Climate Change For more than 20 years I’ve watched media outlets fail to accurately portray the debate surrounding climate change. Unfortunately, things are getting worse. By: H. Sterling Burnett ______________________ The Senate’s Health-Care Price Controls Only Empower Insurers Imagine you experience a substantial medical crisis and fall unconscious. You have insurance, but the EMTs who rush to your aid don’t know which hospitals your plan covers and which are outside its scope. Unbeknownst to you, the EMTs transport you to a hospital that isn’t part of your insurance policy’s network of providers. You only find out a few weeks or even months later, when you open the bill for your minor surgery and discover you owe an astronomical amount of money you never expected to have to pay. By: Ashley Herzog ______________________ The American Spectator is now on Flipboard, a user-friendly and customizable news aggregation website, please give us a follow today! You Might Like Read More |
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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
FIRST READ: Five things we’re watching for in the next debates
With less than two weeks to go before the second set of Democratic primary debates, hosted by CNN in Detroit on July 30 and July 31, we now know who will be on stage each night.
Here’s the lineup, per CNN’s live draw last night.
Tuesday, JULY 30: Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Steve Bullock, Tim Ryan, John Hickenlooper, John Delaney and Marianne Williamson.
Wednesday, JULY 31: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Julián Castro, Andrew Yang, Bill de Blasio, Michael Bennet, Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand and Jay Inslee.
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Knowing those lineups, here are the five storylines we’ll be watching for:
1. THE BATTLE ON THE LEFT
In June, Sanders and Warren appeared on different nights, giving each the opportunity to stake out ground on the left. Competitors seemed particularly reluctant to criticize Warren, which allowed her to occupy that space virtually unscathed on the first night of the first debate.
But with Sanders losing ground in recent polls — and Warren rising in both polls and fundraising — both may be eager to create some differentiation between
their brands when they share a stage.
2. BIDEN V. HARRIS, ROUND TWO
By far, the most memorable exchange of the first debates was Harris’ damaging attack on Biden over bussing and his past comments about segregationists.
Biden didn’t seem well-prepared at all for that onslaught in June, but he’ll have to show he’s ready to revisit racial issues when he shares the
stage with her again.
3. O’ROURKE AND BUTTIGIEG FACE OFF
Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s monster second quarter fundraising haul proved what we’d already had plenty of anecdotal evidence to show — that the South Bend mayor had replaced O’Rourke as the fresh young (white, male) face in the race with a strong donor base and compelling personal story.
The
two appeared on different nights in June, but Detroit could be
O’Rourke’s last best chance to reclaim some of that status (if he still
can.)
4. ONE NEW FACE ON THE SCENE
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock will make his debate debut, replacing recent drop-out Eric Swalwell.
But
his pitch as a middle-of-the-country moderate who can work with
Republicans will have competition from plenty of others on the stage who
are eager to make
a similar argument, including Buttigieg, Klobuchar and Hickenlooper.
5. NIGHT TWO CANDIDATES PROBABLY HAVE THE ADVANTAGE — AGAIN
One thing we learned from the first set of debates was that even a candidate who performs well on Night One (i.e. Warren or Castro) gets a maximum of 24 hours of positive coverage before being overshadowed by Night Two’s news.
The burden will be on Night One’s contenders in Detroit to break through in a way that keeps them in the spotlight for as long as possible — especially with looming anticipation for Wednesday’s Biden/Harris rematch.
Fact-checking Trump’s apparent walk-back from “Send her back”
Our Hill and White House teams confirm reports that some GOP lawmakers made clear to Vice President Mike Pence yesterday that they were concerned about the “Send her back” chants targeted at Rep. Ilhan Omar during Trump’s North Carolina rally on Wednesday night.
And that message got through at least enough to prompt the president to tell reporters yesterday “I was not happy with it – I disagree with it.”
And he argued that he “started speaking very quickly” over the chanting.
But NBC’s Monica Alba notes that Trump stopped speaking for about 13 seconds as the “Send her back” chant began, even stepping slightly back from the podium.
And, about 10 minutes later in the same speech, he hardly shied away from the talking point that started the chants in the first place.
“Tonight, I have a suggestion for the hate-filled extremists who are constantly trying to tear our country down,” he said to a cheering crowd. “They never have anything good to say. That’s why I say: hey, if they don’t like it, let them leave, let them leave. Let them leave! They’re always telling us how to run it, how to do this, how to what. You know what. If they don’t love it, tell them to leave it!”
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2020 VISION: Favorite flicks
Our friends at E! surveyed the 2020 presidential candidates on some of their pop-culture favorites. Here are their favorite movies:
Kamala Harris: “My Cousin Vinny”
Pete Buttigieg: “The Godfather,” “Gangs of New York”
Julian Castro: “The Breakfast Club”
Cory Booker: “Star Wars,” “Rocky,” and “In the Heat of the Night”
Michael Bennet: “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”
Jay Inslee: “The Wizard of Oz”
Bill de Blasio: “Seven Days in May”
Steve Bullock: “Fletch”
Marianne Williamson: “The Mission”
On the campaign trail today: Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke participate in the AARP forum in Iowa… Steve Bullock also remains in the Hawkeye State, stumping in Ottumwa (his mother’s hometown), Oskaloosa and Winterset… And Julian Castro is in New Hampshire.
On the campaign trail Saturday: Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, O’Rourke and Bullock are in Iowa… Amy Klobuchar and Michael Bennet stump in New Hampshire… And Joe Biden is in Nevada.
On the campaign trail Sunday: Sanders remains in Iowa… Buttigieg attends the NAACP convention in Detroit.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds
Several NBC campaign embeds spoke with voters on the trail about Trump’s comments about “the squad” and the “send her back” chants this week.
- A Trump voter in South Carolina told Jordan Jackson: “Those comments are very insensitive and inappropriate, and I feel like the leader of our country in supposed to be unifying people as opposed to tearing them apart.”
- Julia Jester reports a millennial woman’s reaction in New Hampshire: “We have a lot of work to do not in the Oval Office but in the hearts and minds and opinions of everyone in this country.”
- Priscilla Thompson spoke with a teacher in Indiana: “When things are wrong, you need to correct them, regardless of what party or where you’re from, or how much money you make.”
- Maura Barrett spoke with an immigrant in North Carolina: “Ilhan Omar is as much a citizen as everyone in that crowd chanting. There is no plausibility legally to do that, it is quite frustrating to see people who once legalized immigration talk about something that is not legally possible.”
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 54 percent.
54 percent.
That’s President Donald Trump’s approval rating in the American South, according to a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey regional poll.
The poll — which included 4,203 respondents who are registered voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia — found that 38 percent strongly approve of the job the president is doing, with another 16 percent saying they somewhat approve.
That’s virtually unchanged from a similar poll last September, which found 36 percent of Southern respondents strongly approving of the president and 16 percent saying they approve “somewhat.”
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NBC’s Alex Moe previews next week’s much-anticipated testimony from former special counsel Robert Mueller on the Hill.
New court documents show that Trump spoke repeatedly with Michael Cohen as the lawyer worked to keep the Stormy Daniels allegations quiet.
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07/19/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Presented by Charter Communications: Immigration Facts; Recessions; Quote of the Week By Carl M. Cannon on Jul 19, 2019 09:00 am Hello, it’s Friday, July 19, 2019, the day of the week when I pass along a quotation intended to be uplifting or thought-provoking. Today’s is inspired by the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta that coronated Michael Dukakis as the party’s presidential standard-bearer. That event is remembered in political circles for two speeches, neither of which was delivered by the nominee. The first came on the convention’s opening night, July 18, 1988. The second one came on the last night of the three-day convention. The latter speech was an 18-page, 4,000-word snoozer delivered by Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. I mention the length because it’s the only noteworthy feature. Clinton droned on so long and tediously that he received a sarcastic burst of applause from the floor when, near the end, he finally said, “In closing…” Although the Los Angeles Times dubbed it “The Speech That Ate Atlanta,” it hardly consumed Bill Clinton’s political career. He was exonerated four years later when many of those same delegates cheered for him wildly in New York. There was a Democrat who took the ’88 convention by storm, however, and it was keynote speaker Ann Richards, the charismatic treasurer of Texas (who would become governor in 1991). Richards was acquainted with the Bush family and put her knowledge to good use with a zinger simultaneously needling Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush for his family wealth and his propensity for the verbal miscues. “Poor George,” she deadpanned. “He can’t help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.” That line is not this week’s featured quote, however. I’ll provide that in a moment — after pointing 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: * * * Five Facts: Chilling Trends in Illegal Immigration. In RealClearPolicy, No Labels lays out the stats. We Need to Fight Governments That “Fight” Recessions. In RealClearMarkets, Christopher Baecker takes a dim view of efforts to stave off natural economic cycles. Two Moon Landing Speeches, Given and Ungiven, a Decade Apart. In RealClearHistory, Howard Tanzman revisits the words written for John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. The Whiskey Rebellion Tour. In RealClearLife, Kirk Miller highlights a mid-Atlantic distillery circuit that mixes libations with lessons about little-known players who shaped early American history. * * * In between Bill Clinton’s dreary effort at the Democrats’ Atlanta convention and Ann Richards’ well-received keynote address three nights earlier came a highly partisan stemwinder by another Texan, progressive firebrand Jim Hightower. Hightower’s speech, delivered 31 years ago tonight, ran the emotional gamut from nasty to semi-nasty. Yet, it included one fairly brilliant insult. Riffing off Gov. Richards’ barb about George H.W. Bush’s inherited fortune, Hightower quipped: “He is a man who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.” If we’re keeping score, Vice President Bush didn’t have to wait nearly as long as Bill Clinton for revenge. Four months later, he beat the Democratic ticket handily and became the 41st U.S. president. But Jim Hightower’s famous insult has endured. It also has an interesting provenance. For starters, this witticism wasn’t original to Hightower — or even to Texas. Oklahoma Sooners football coach Barry Switzer was quoting using this line in the 1980s, although not about George Bush. And a variation of this sentiment dates at least to the Great Depression when a similar aphorism began showing up in American newspapers. One version appeared in the Sept. 17, 1935 edition of the Ironwood Daily Globe, a newspaper in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (a paper that still exists). Taking aim at Franklin Roosevelt’s economic advisers known as the Brain Trust, the paper said that “the professors and others so influential in framing national legislation are mostly men who were born on third base, and the burdens they are putting upon the people are borne by those of us who were born at bat with two strikes on us.” The year before, the Hammond Times, a small Indiana paper, published a similar-sounding adage: “A genius is one who seems a wonder because he was born on third base.” Was that line, which appeared one day after May Day 1934 in another Great Lakes town, the Depression-era rebuke of the rich from a working stiff with possible socialist sympathies? Or was it, like the barb in the Michigan newspaper, a dig at the Ivy League elites micro-managing the economy from Washington, D.C., without making things appreciably better? That’s the beauty of it: The maxim works either way — and it’s your quote of the week. Carl M. 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| Beauty queen Kathy Zhu was robbed because she’s a conservative Posted: 19 Jul 2019 05:38 AM PDT It’s okay to be “woke” if you’re participating in Miss World America. Several contestants have expressed radical political, cultural, and religious views that would be considered offensive to many conservatives, including support for dismemberment of preborn children, anti-law-enforcement sentiments, and one instance of clear racism against Caucasians. But it was the outspoken conservative beauty queen, Kathy […] The post Beauty queen Kathy Zhu was robbed because she’s a conservative appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Liz Wheeler on Ilhan Omar: Chant ‘vote her out’ and then do it Posted: 19 Jul 2019 04:20 AM PDT One America News host Liz Wheeler was in rare form yesterday as she hammered Representative Ilhan Omar over a plethora of bigoted statements, horrible policy proposals, and anti-American perspectives. Her worldview is not one that should be in Congress, but Wheeler also made an important point about how that worldview needs to be removed. Instead […] The post Liz Wheeler on Ilhan Omar: Chant ‘vote her out’ and then do it appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The real reason Kamala Harris and others keep dodging on Medicare-for-All funding Posted: 19 Jul 2019 02:39 AM PDT Arguably the first major “dumb” moment for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was when she replied to a question about paying the $32 trillion price tag associated with Medicare-for-All. She said, “You just pay for it.” Conservatives were laughing at the response while many Independents and even some Democrats were scratching their collective heads. But she meant exactly […] The post The real reason Kamala Harris and others keep dodging on Medicare-for-All funding appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Were Obama and Biden at the center of the FISA Russiagate scandal? Posted: 19 Jul 2019 02:20 AM PDT Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton has been seeking the truth about Russiagate since the release of the Steele Dossier following Donald Trump’s presidential victory. There have been many personalities involved Jim Comey and James Clapper to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC. But two people who haven’t been asked much about it are President Obama […] The post Were Obama and Biden at the center of the FISA Russiagate scandal? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The ‘CBP detains children at O’Hare’ story pushed by mainstream media is completely false Posted: 19 Jul 2019 12:03 AM PDT Outrage. Outrage! OUTRAGE! That’s the response from most Democrats and their mainstream media puppets following reports that three American citizens who are the children of illegal immigrants were detained by Customs and Border Protection at Chicago O’Hare Airport. But the story as reported by the press was misleading to the point that we can call […] The post The ‘CBP detains children at O’Hare’ story pushed by mainstream media is completely false appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| It’s time to make it official: The dominant social media organs are publishers Posted: 18 Jul 2019 08:00 PM PDT Even Google considers itself to be a publisher, censoring the news and oppressing the Pro-liberty Right. During the Senate hearings last Tuesday on the critical problem of censorship by the dominant social media organs, Ted Cruz presented internal documents that show that even Google thinks of themselves as a publisher as well as oppressing Conservative […] The post It’s time to make it official: The dominant social media organs are publishers appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Socialist revolt: Sanders campaign staff union ‘fighting for $15’… for themselves Posted: 18 Jul 2019 07:38 PM PDT Senator Bernie Sanders has marched with McDonald’s employees. He’s called on Walmart and other large corporations to pay their employees a “living wage.” He’s pushed legislation to make the national minimum wage $15 per hour. But as it turns out, he’s not only underpaying his own staff, but his leadership team is using the same […] The post Socialist revolt: Sanders campaign staff union ‘fighting for $15’… for themselves appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The Suicide Squad wins the Twitter war but loses anywhere else Posted: 18 Jul 2019 03:53 PM PDT We can argue about whether Trump’s tweets were strategic or narcissistic. The result is the same: Trump provoked four Congresswomen into revealing their hatred for America. In doing so they took to Twitter to declare that President Trump is a racist. The Suicide Squad and their legions trended anti-Trump hashtags on Twitter for days. On […] The post The Suicide Squad wins the Twitter war but loses anywhere else appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Proving Liberty control doesn’t work as advertised – with humour Posted: 18 Jul 2019 03:43 PM PDT Two classic videos that hammer the point home that ‘gun-free’ zones and gun confiscation fails to protect the innocent. Humour is the best way of proving a point, even on a deadly serious subject, such as a key part of the Left’s socialist national agenda: Gun Confiscation. Make your own Gun Free Zone. The first […] The post Proving Liberty control doesn’t work as advertised – with humour appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Is war with Iran inevitable? Posted: 18 Jul 2019 02:58 PM PDT Aggressive actions have become commonplace between Iran and the United States over the last two months. The U.S. sent the powerful Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber squadron to the region following the defection and intelligence cache delivery by former Iranian Brigadier General Ali Nasiri. Since then, Iran has been bombing tankers, shooting down American […] The post Is war with Iran inevitable? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| HIS DECISION: Netanyahu to Decide if Reps. Omar, Tlaib Can Enter Israel for West Bank Tour Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will decide whether Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will be allowed to enter the Jewish State for an upcoming tour of the West Bank; potentially blocking the lawmakers for their calls to boycott the country.“Democratic U.S. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are planning a visit to… |
| IGNORE THE RATS: Los Angeles Approves Nation’s First ‘Open-Air Marijuana Restaurant’ Los Angeles issued the nation’s first license for an “open-air” Marijuana restaurant this week; allowing diners to smoke cannabis while eating outdoors.“The nation’s first cannabis restaurant was approved by West Hollywood’s Business License Commission in a landmark decision. Lowell Farms: A Cannabis Cafe will be an open-air restaurant at 1201 N. La Brea… |
| LIBERAL LOGIC: Bernie Sanders Insists His $32 TRILLION Healthcare Plan Will SAVE Money Senator Bernie Sanders continued to tout his Medicare for All insurance scheme this week; insisting the healthcare proposal estimated to cost upwards of $40 trillion will actually save taxpayers money.“What the most serious economists tell us, that if we do nothing to fundamentally change the health care system, which is what Joe… |
| DOUBLING DOWN: Omar, Tlaib Introduce Bill Defending Boycott of Israel, Compare Jewish State to Nazi Germany Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib introduced new legislation this week defending a boycott of Israel; directly comparing the world’s only Jewish State to Nazi Germany during World War 2.“U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar proposed a resolution this week supporting the right to boycott Israel, likening the boycott of the Jewish state to boycotts of Nazi… |
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