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| Good morning from Washington, where most liberals say voter fraud is nothing to worry about. Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakovsky begs to differ in a video you’ll want to share. President Trump hopes to save billions in questionable foreign aid, Fred Lucas reports. On the podcast, a conservative activist shares what she learned at her son’s college orientation. Plus: Thomas Jipping on a new smear of a Trump court appointee, and Jeff Smith on dealing with the Taliban. On this date in 1968, the Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia to crush the freedoms of the so-called Prague Spring. |
| Commentary How We Can Safeguard Our Election Process Although hundreds of people have been convicted in recent years, voter fraud often goes undetected. More Analysis Preferred Pronouns and More: What a Mom Saw at Her Son’s College Orientation Concerned Women for America’s Penny Nance says incoming freshmen at Virginia Tech were told things like, “Don’t make judgments about the gender or the sexual identity of the person that you’re talking to. … You need to be open-minded.” More Commentary The Media’s Latest Smear of a Trump Judicial Nominee Left-wing opponents of an impartial and independent judiciary have picked another target: appeals court nominee Steven Menashi. More News Solar Panels in Asia, Border Security for El Salvador: Trump Aims to Rein in Wasted Tax Dollars Abroad The Trump administration is set to present a “rescissions” package for the State Department this week that it says would save $4 billion in foreign assistance. More Commentary How the US Should Approach Talks With the Taliban While the Taliban excels at not losing, it doesn’t have a realistic path to victory—just a bleak future of launching terrorist attacks against its own countrymen in an unwinnable war. More News 5 Years Later, This Group Keeps Growing Conservative Leaders Beyond Its Borders Can conservatives have an impact without compromising their values? Five years ago, two 25-year-olds from Ohio started the Forge Leadership Network in their home state to answer that question. More Commentary Planned Parenthood Sided With Abortion Over Title X Funds. Here’s What It Means. In the face of judicial defeat, Planned Parenthood will forgo approximately $60 million in annual Title X funds. More | ||
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019 Editor’s note: We couldn’t be more proud of one of our teammates, Isaac Rose-Berman, who penned his first op-ed this week in USA Today: “How college students can bridge American divides: ‘Study abroad’ in Alabama or New York.” Please give it a read, and share far and wide! Kashmir On August 5, “India… revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighboring Pakistan, moving to grasp its only Muslim-majority region more tightly.” Reuters From the Left The left is critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s support for Hindu nationalism and worries about the rights of Kashmiris. “Since [Modi’s] 2014 election to the premiership, bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion. Lynchings of Muslims — breathlessly demonized as jihadists devoted to seducing and converting Hindu women — by aggrieved Hindu mobs have become such a common sport that dozens of videos of grisly murders circulate on WhatsApp groups run by Hindu nationalists. Last summer, a minister in Modi’s cabinet garlanded eight men who had been convicted of lynching a Muslim man. In this universe, Kashmir could never remain autonomous, a place impervious to the desires of a majority happy to see its will done by violence… Kashmir is both a warning and a template: Any state that deviates from this vision can be brought under Delhi’s thumb in the name of ‘unity.’” Kapil Komireddi, Washington Post “As if a communications blackout and restrictions on movements were not enough, news reports indicate there have been hundreds of political arrests, and that at least one journalist — Qazi Shibli, editor of news website The Kashmiriyat — has been detained… Who else is imprisoned in Kashmir right now? What other tactics are security forces using to suppress information? How else has this blackout impacted the region’s population? How do Kashmiris feel about recent developments? Or about the future of their region? We really don’t know.” Michael De Dora and Aliya Iftikhar, CNN “This is the kind of crackdown on free speech and assembly one expects from authoritarian China, which has set up concentration camps for ethnic Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang. But India, which just this week celebrated 72 years of independence as a boisterous, multiethnic and multiconfessional democracy? Mr. Modi might have fulfilled a dream of Hindu nationalists going back to the 1950s, but he also stained that democracy and most likely stoked anger in Kashmir that will fester long into the future.” Editorial Board, Washington Post “India is in danger of becoming what I have called an ‘election-only democracy.’ Once a party has won an election, it is unaccountable for its acts. Parliament barely functions. Large sections of the media are scared or co-opted. The judiciary is overburdened and dysfunctional. The civil service and the police are in the pocket of the [ruling party]. President Trump cannot set the tax authorities and intelligence agencies on his critics, but Modi can, and might. Independent news websites and television channels… have [already] faced intimidation through libel cases, tax raids, etc.” Ramachandra Guha, Washington Post Kashmir “had long been exempted from parts of the Indian Constitution and set its own laws, even as it remained under Indian control, an anomalous status that a government under the sway of Hindu nationalism will no longer tolerate. Meanwhile, protesters in the streets of Hong Kong are pushing back against efforts by the Chinese government to chip away at the semi-independent status it has enjoyed—known as ‘one country, two systems’—since the former British colony came under Chinese control in 1997… “These stories are all signs that national governments are waging a war against ambiguity—of citizenship, of territorial status—to enforce a rigid and uniform vision of statehood… Liberal commentators often fret about the threat that Trump and other right-wing populist leaders pose to the postwar ‘rules-based international order.’ But Trump and his cohort are obsessed with rules and order when it comes to national sovereignty, borders, and who gets to live within those borders. Trump has often argued that ‘If you don’t have Borders, you don’t have a Country!’… This philosophy fails to recognize that a certain amount of ambiguity can be stabilizing in the absence of a political consensus.” Joshua Keating, Slate From the Right The right sees the move as a predictable consequence of Pakistan’s support for Islamists. “It’s too early to say whether the prime minister’s audacious gamble, wildly popular among his supporters and welcomed by many other Indians, will pay off. India’s Supreme Court may well declare the decision unconstitutional. But Pakistan, which has long made Kashmir a central plank of its foreign policy, lacks the wherewithal to force India’s hand. By backing jihadist groups in India and Afghanistan and neglecting its economy, Islamabad has ensured that it lacks the stature to make India take its views on board.… When it comes to the seven-decade-old Kashmir conflict, Pakistan has few cards left to play… “Pakistanis who find [the international] response underwhelming ought to blame their army. Its support for jihadist proxies has made Kashmiri separatism synonymous with Islamist extremism. Pakistan could step up that support, but at the risk of both international censure and Indian military retaliation… Meanwhile, India’s $2.7 trillion economy, more than eight times as large as Pakistan’s, gives it international heft. The Pakistan army’s own shabby treatment of journalists, opposition leaders and ethnic movements representing the minority Baluch and Pashtuns, makes it hard for Islamabad to argue that Kashmiris will be better off in Pakistan.” Sadanand Dhume, Wall Street Journal “Historically, Pakistan has used Jammu and Kashmir is a means to end – a strategic pain point where Islamabad can ratchet pressure up or down when it wants to get Delhi’s attention… Modi’s latest move shows that little has changed. And while unexpected, it was not entirely unpredictable. The manifesto of the BJP, Modi’s ruling party, has long called for this. And Pakistan has already done something similar with the portion of Kashmir it administers… So, what role is there for the U.S.? Not much. Indians will consider this an internal matter and resent any outside attempt at intervention or coercion. India has always rejected outside mediation in Kashmir, and the U.S. government considers the Kashmir dispute a bilateral issue to be resolved between India and Pakistan.” James Jay Carafano, Fox News “India is thinking strategically and is preparing for what it believes will be an Afghan Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan, following a peace treaty and substantial U.S. and NATO withdrawal. For decades, the Taliban, the Haqqani network, Pakistani ISI (intelligence service), and the Pakistan Army have collaborated as if joined at the hip, managing Pashtun nationalism as a force against the U.S. and NATO. While the Pakistan Army has waged counterinsurgency against Islamist and insurgent forces, it did just enough to receive continued U.S. military and financial aid, but not enough to prevail against an ethnic group that will be there long after a withdrawal by the West. Of late, the Taliban has expressed concern over the welfare of Kashmiris — operating in the future with the platform of a nation state in concert with the Pakistan Army and ISI, it constitutes an ominous and potentially aggressive threat to India’s national security well beyond the status quo.” Frank Schell, The American Spectator Some note that “Modi’s dislike of Muslim influence in India is well known. His party, the BJP, has its origins in thinkers who thought Muslims ‘were not children of [India’s] soil.’ While governor of Gujarat in 2002, Modi was accused of supporting communal riots in the state that saw almost 1,000 Muslims killed. His landslide re-election as prime minister earlier this year was seen by the country’s Muslims as a signal that Hindu nationalism was here to stay. The demotion of Kashmir, India’s only majority Muslim state, into what will effectively be a colony ruled from Delhi, will only reinforce the growing view that in Modi’s India, Muslims are second class citizens.” Ned Donovan, Spectator USA A libertarian’s take “Why did Modi pick this moment to do something so radical? Violence in Kashmir had been trending downwards for the last year, after all. The main reason, besides President Donald Trump’s alarming offer to mediate a settlement, is that he wanted a distraction from India’s mounting economic woes. India’s GDP growth dropped from over 8 percent to 5.8 percent over the last year, and it is widely expected to dip further. Just as ominous has been the crash in consumer demand. India’s usual problem has been an insufficient supply to meet its voracious appetite for vehicles, cell phones, and other similar goods. But sales figures for all consumer goods have posted a precipitous decline, slamming businesses that are dramatically scaling back investments.” Shikha Dalmia, Reason On the bright side… Tommy the tortoise, world’s oldest living pet, turns 121. New York Post Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. Any support you can provide is greatly appreciated! Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here. |
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“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.” GALILEO GALILEI Good morning! China’s popular social media platform WeChat actively bans any speech that China’s communist authorities disagree with. The Epoch Times found, however, that WeChat’s censorship extends the U.S., where users of the platform are unable to send and receive links to media the regime disagrees with. By contrast, there was no issue with sharing links to pro-Beijing news sites. Analysts say WeChat has essentially become the Chinese regime’s propaganda tool in the West. Read full story here Trump Administration: Sex Discrimination Does Not Include Gender Identity AG Barr Replaces Prisons Director in Wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Twitter, Facebook Expose Chinese Influence Campaign Against Hong Kong Protesters Epstein Signed His Will Two Days Before Committing Suicide: Report President Trump drew attention to research that shows the sway Google holds over election results, after a former engineer for the company came forward with a pile of internal documents that suggest political interference. Read more British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell—who has been referred to as convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s purported madam—made a charitable donation to a hospital that treated an alleged teenage victim of Epstein. Read more Hundreds of Hillary Clinton’s emails that included classified information from her tenure as secretary of state sat in a private Gmail account for more than two years and were still there about two weeks before then-FBI Director James Comey cleared Clinton in a 2016 statement of criminal responsibility for mishandling the country’s secrets. Read more The U.S. federal government continues to quietly put out a call for Ebola screeners at airports including Dulles International Airport in the Washington area, as migrants from an Ebola-afflicted region in Africa settle in the United States. Read more The United States has tested a medium-range ground-launched cruise missile that would have been banned under a treaty with Russia from which the United States formally withdrew on Aug. 2. Read more A federal judge ordered the FBI to search for records related to former British spy Christopher Steele after his termination as the bureau’s confidential human source. Read more See More Top Stories Marxists Work to Reinforce ‘The Squad’ in 2020 By Trevor Loudon Not content with Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley—the far-left congresswomen collectively known as “The Squad”—the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and allied Marxist groups are targeting multiple congressional seats with far-left candidates in 2020. No one is safe. Read more Disputing (Again) That US Air Quality Is Worsening By Richard Trzupek The headline of the Aug. 13 story in U.S. News & World Report certainly catches one’s attention: “Air Pollution Is Like Smoking a Pack of Cigarettes a Day to Those With Lung Disease: Study.” This sort of headline and the story that went with it duly plays into the narrative that air quality in the United States continues to deteriorate and appears to give lie to President Donald Trump’s claim that air in the… Read more See More Opinions How to Crash an Economy By Valentin Schmid (August 3, 2017) The United States froze the personal assets of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on July 31 in response to what the international community considered rigged elections in the troubled South American nation. For the people of Venezuela, however, the sanction is of little consequence as their economy spirals toward hyperinflation. Read more A former partner in the consultancy firm of retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is asking a federal court for a new trial, claiming multiple issues, including weak evidence, prejudice, and a flawed indictment. Retrial Requested in Case of Michael Flynn Business Associate 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. |
POLITICO PLAYBOOK
Paul Ryan is back
By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
08/20/2019 06:09 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
PLAYBOOK SCOOP … PAUL RYAN MOVING TO D.C. … NATASHA KORECKI and JAKE SHERMAN: “Paul Ryan moving his family to Washington from Wisconsin”: “Paul Ryan is moving his family to the city he was always giddy to leave.
“The former speaker of the House and onetime GOP vice presidential nominee is leaving his longtime home of Janesville, Wis., and will rent a house in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. ‘Now in the private sector, Paul and his family are temporarily renting a house in Maryland, and he’ll be spending time there as well as their family home in Janesville,’ a Ryan aide told POLITICO.
“The move will place the Ryan family close to the sisters of Janna Ryan, the former speaker’s wife, who live in the D.C. area. Ryan is not selling his family home in Janesville, and his American Idea Foundation will be based in his hometown.” POLITICO
NEW … HILLARY CLINTON is hosting a big-dollar fundraiser for the DNC at her D.C. mansion (just around the corner from VP Mike Pence’s house). The Oct. 16 event is billed as “Dinner and conversation at the home of Hillary Rodham Clinton.” Tickets are available at $15,000, $35,000 and $50,000 levels. The invite
IVANKA AND JARED HIT WYOMING TO RAISE CASH, via Nancy Cook: The president’s daughter and son-in-law have spent the last few days in Wyoming, vacationing with their kids and, now, schmoozing donors. Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney headlined a fundraising luncheon Monday for the Trump Pence Victory fund, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.
THE THREESOME SPOKE to about 50 high-end donors at a private home and fielded questions on the economy, trade issues with China and campaign spending. When asked about the state of the economy, they stuck to the administration’s upbeat message, according to one attendee.
THEY INSISTED they did not see a recession coming and that all of the data was trending in the right direction. And they played up the huge fundraising prowess of the Trump campaign, noting it had a lot more money to spend this time around in states it won only narrowly in 2016.
AS WE WROTE IN PLAYBOOK a few days ago, Ivanka and Jared also both participated in House Minority Leader KEVIN MCCARTHY’S big-donor event in Jackson Hole.
IMPEACHMENT … REP. BEN RAY LUJÁN (D-N.M.) — the fourth-ranking Democrat in leadership — is now in favor of an impeachment inquiry. This is a big statement. Here’s what you should watch for next:
— LUJÁN WAS THE DCCC chairman who took back the majority, which means he has a strong relationship with lots of freshmen and many of them consider him mentors. Do any newbies follow his lead?
— A LOT OF CAPITOL INSIDERS are watching whether Georgia Rep. JOHN LEWIS comes out for an impeachment inquiry. He’d be another big-time player who could sway people, given his stature in D.C. and in the country writ large.
— WHAT IS PELOSI’S NUMBER? Speaker NANCY PELOSI has resisted calls for impeachment so far. Now that well more than half of House Democrats — 127 total — are publicly in favor of impeachment proceedings, the dynamics have changed. Have they changed enough, and if not, when will they? Ever?
Good Tuesday morning. THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS kicked off a seven-game road trip in Pittsburgh on Monday night with a 13-0 win over the Pirates.
SPOTTED: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) at Rose’s Luxury for an early dinner Monday.
NYT’S ANNIE KARNI and MAGGIE HABERMAN on Trump’s background check retreat: “[A]fter discussions with gun rights advocates during his two-week working vacation in Bedminster, N.J. — including talks with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive of the National Rifle Association — Mr. Trump’s resolve appears to have substantially softened, and he has reverted to reiterating the conservative positions on the gun issue he has espoused since the 2016 campaign. …
“White House officials insisted that Mr. Trump would shift back again toward supporting more aggressive legislation in the fall, when lawmakers return from their August recess. But they also said Mr. Trump had sounded less aggressive in private over the past week in discussions about possible gun legislation, a change that coincided with the N.R.A. mounting a full-court press.” NYT
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ECONOMY SLOWING? …
… MAYBE SO: WSJ: “An Economic Warning Sign: RV Shipments Are Slipping,” by Shayndi Raice: “Shipments of recreational vehicles to dealers have fallen about 20% so far this year, after a 4.1% drop last year, according to data from the RV Industry Association. Multiyear drops in shipments have preceded the last three recessions.” WSJ
… MAYBE NOT: FT: “Resilient US earnings buck recession fears: Corporate American still going strong as Goldman estimates surprise growth in Q2 EPS,” by Matthew Rocco: “Earnings season in the US has gone better than analysts anticipated. Despite early forecasts for dismal second-quarter results, earnings for S&P 500 constituents are down just 0.4 per cent as of Monday, by which time nearly 93 per cent of the index had reported financials, according to FactSet. Analysts were looking for a 2.8 per cent decrease in earnings as recently as July.
“Income for the most recent three-month period is on track to post a 0.6 per cent fall, based on a combination of official results and current estimates for pending reports. If the projected decline in earnings holds true, it would mark the first ‘earnings recession,’ or consecutive quarters of year-over-year declines, since 2016. However, a majority of S&P 500 companies have beaten estimates thus far. As of August 9, three-quarters of the companies to report earnings had booked a better profit against average forecasts.” FT
BOSTON GLOBE: “Trump trade war is ‘nerve-racking’ for Massachusetts manufacturers,” by Shirley Leung: “To understand how a trade war is playing out beyond stock market gyrations and European economies, take the MassPike west to a part of the state where manufacturing remains a way of life for many people.
“‘I don’t know a single manufacturer this has not affected,’ said Kristin Carlson, CEO of Peerless Precision, which makes parts for the aerospace and defense industries. ‘The buzz word is China, but the tariffs go beyond China … It’s a whole fist fight right now.’ …
“For manufacturers like Carlson, it has been a high-wire act, as they weigh whether to pass costs onto customers or eat the added expenses. A work-around has been hard to find — the US imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum from most of the world, not just China. The uncertainty of the situation is the worst part, business owners say, with some holding off on hiring and expansion because they’re not sure how the dispute will play out. No wonder there are fears that the trade war may trigger a recession.” Boston Globe
— REUTERS: “U.S. Steel plans to lay off hundreds of workers in Michigan”: “In a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filed on Aug. 5, the Pittsburgh-based company said it expects to let go fewer than 200 workers following its decision to halt production at the Michigan facility.
“In mid-June, the company said it would idle two blast furnaces at its Great Lakes and Gary Works plants, citing lower steel prices and softening demand.
“U.S. Steel said the lay-offs at the Michigan plant could last beyond six months. They will impact nearly every area of the facility, from blast furnace to finishing operations, a company spokeswoman told Reuters.” Reuters
2020 WATCH …
— MARC CAPUTO: “Why fears about Biden’s age are overblown”: “Joe Biden was lying on the operating table and about to get surgery for his second brain aneurysm when the doctor told him he might not recover.
“‘What’s the most likely thing that will happen if I live?’ Biden asked him. ‘Well, ’the doctor replied, ‘the side of the brain that the first aneurysm is on controls your ability to speak.’ That’s when the gaffe-prone Biden thought to himself: ‘Why in the hell didn’t they tell me this before the ’88 campaign?’ It could’ve saved us all a lot of trouble, you know what I mean?’ …
“But concerns about Biden’s age and mental fitness are likely overblown, according to experts on aging and the brain, as well as actuarial tables used by the insurance industry to estimate the health and longevity of customers. …
“Biden’s former brain surgeon, Kassell, went a step further: ‘I am going to vote for the candidate who I am absolutely certain has a brain that is functioning. And that narrows it down exactly to one.’” POLITICO
— NEW BIDEN TV AD … “Bones” … Includes this line: “Battered by an erratic, vicious, bullying president” … Watch the 60-second spot
— DES MOINES REGISTER: “From the Field of Dreams, Bernie Sanders dares crowd to think big,” by Nick Coltrain
AP: “Democrats spending millions to take back statehouses,” by Brian Slodysko and Paul Weber in Austin: “Democrats still shaken by the 2010 tea party wave that netted Republicans six governors’ offices, flipped 21 statehouse chambers and drove nearly 700 Democratic state legislators from office are mounting a comeback, pouring millions of dollars into state-level races. … In Virginia, where the GOP holds a slim majority, Democrats have outraised Republicans for the first time in years. Democrats are even putting some money in deeply Republican Louisiana. …
“Democratic donors who gave little-to-nothing to down-ballot races in the past are cutting large checks to groups focused on state races, the AP’s analysis shows. Among them are billionaire George Soros (at least $5.4 million), hedge-fund billionaire Donald Sussman (at least $4.8 million) and billionaire investor and entrepreneur Fred Eychaner (at least $4.2 million).” AP
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THE JUICE …
— TRANSITIONS: NEW CHIEF OF STAFF AT OMB, via Nancy Cook:Russ Vought of the Office of Management and Budget has hired a new permanent chief of staff, Michelle Williams. Most recently, Williams worked in state government as the chief of staff to the Mississippi state treasurer. Prior to that, she worked on Capitol Hill for roughly 20 years for six different lawmakers, including former Rep. Scott Garrett. She is taking over for the acting chief of staff, Wesley Denton — a former top aide to former Sen. Jim DeMint who is returning to his prior role at OMB as a senior adviser.
THE PRESIDENT’S TUESDAY … THE PRESIDENT will have lunch with the VP at 12:45 p.m. At 2 p.m., Romanian President Klaus Iohannis will arrive at the White House. At 2:10, Trump will have a meeting with Iohannis.
PLAYBOOK READS
TED JOHNSON in POLITICO MAGAZINE: “The Obamas’ First Big Anti-Trump Statement of 2020”
WHAT THE E-RING IS READING — “ISIS Is Regaining Strength in Iraq and Syria,” by NYT’s Eric Schmitt in Washington and Alissa Rubin and Thomas Gibbons-Neff in Baghdad: “Five months after American-backed forces ousted the Islamic State from its last shard of territory in Syria, the terrorist group is gathering new strength, conducting guerrilla attacks across Iraq and Syria, retooling its financial networks and targeting new recruits at an allied-run tent camp, American and Iraqi military and intelligence officers said.
“Though President Trump hailed a total defeat of the Islamic State this year, defense officials in the region see things differently, acknowledging that what remains of the terrorist group is here to stay. …
“This resurgence poses threats to American interests and allies, as the Trump administration draws down American troops in Syria and shifts its focus in the Middle East to a looming confrontation with Iran.” NYT
— HMM … “More Russian Nuclear Monitoring Stations Went Silent Days After Blast, Test-Ban Official Says,” by WSJ’s MIchael Gordon
EPSTEIN’S MILLIONS — “Jeffrey Epstein signed will just two days before suicide,” by N.Y. Post’s Priscilla DeGregory and Kate Sheehy: “Jeffrey Epstein signed his will just two days before he hanged himself in his Manhattan jail cell — leaving behind a nearly $600 million fortune, according to court papers exclusively obtained by The Post on Monday.
“The court document, filed in the US Virgin Islands, where the convicted sex molester owned two isles — including one that locals dubbed ‘Pedophile Island’ — was filed Aug. 8.
“The 66-year-old former hedge-fund manager was worth $577,672,654, or about $18 million more than he previously stated in court papers while futilely trying to land bail on federal sex-trafficking charges, the new documents show.
“He put all of his holdings in a trust, called The 1953 Trust, after the year he was born.” N.Y. Post
— “Director of M.I.T. Media Lab Apologizes for Ties to Jeffrey Epstein,” by NYT’s Marc Tracy and Tiffany Hsu: “Joichi Ito, the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of The New York Times Company’s board, apologized Thursday for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier whom federal prosecutors in New York charged with sex trafficking before his apparent suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan last week.
“Mr. Ito, who is also a professor at M.I.T., said in a statement posted on the M.I.T. Media Lab website that he had met Mr. Epstein in 2013 through a ‘trusted business friend’ and had allowed him to donate to the lab through foundations he controlled and invest in several of Mr. Ito’s outside funds that back start-ups.” NYT … The statement
— NYT: “Prince Andrew, ‘Appalled’ by Epstein Scandal, Denies Any Role”
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BEYOND THE BELTWAY … NPR: “Amid Homelessness Crisis, Los Angeles Restricts Living In Vehicles”
DATA DU JOUR: 59% of Republicans now say colleges and universities are having a negative effect, up from 37% in 2015. Pew Research
CLICKER — “What Do Rally Playlists Say About the Candidates?” NYT
MEDIAWATCH — CJR ANALYSIS: “The most significant change in the conservative media landscape has been the astonishing traffic growth of Foxnews.com, the digital arm of the most-watched cable news network. Its traffic has doubled since 2015 and is now at more than 100 million unique visitors per month, which represents nearly a third of the U.S. population.” CJR
— Megan Greenwell will be editor of Wired.com. She previously was editor-in-chief of Deadspin (backstory).
PLAYBOOKERS
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WHITE HOUSE DEPARTURE LOUNGE — Mario Loyola is joining the Competitive Enterprise Institute as a senior fellow. He previously was associate director for regulatory reform at the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Tammy Bruce, host of Fox Nation’s “Get Tammy Bruce.” A fun fact about her: “I am the product of an affair my mother had with a man she explained was an enforcer for mob figure Bugsy Siegel and then later Sam Giancana. When she got pregnant, he left, so never having known my father I have developed a genealogy hobby as I search for details about that other half of myself.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Larry Kudlow is 72 … Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) is 57 … Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) is 58 … Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) is 53 … CBS’ Fin Gomez … Lea Berman … Eleni Roumel … former USTR Michael Froman, now vice chairman and president of strategic growth at Mastercard, is 57 … Rachel Thomas, deputy comms director for Beto O’Rourke’s campaign … Brad Fingeroot … POLITICO’s Doug Palmer and Julia Kurzius … Scott Rothrock … Ben LaBolt … Al Roker is 65 … former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is 86 … former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is 84 … former Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-Texas) is 79 … Targeted Victory CEO Zac Moffatt is 4-0 … Connie Chung … Michael Donaher of Squire Patton Boggs (h/t Kelsi Oliver) … Google’s Lauren Epshteyn (h/t husband Boris) … Susan Aspey … Gina Keeney … Brianna McCullough … Tarrah Cooper, partner at Rise Strategy Group … Matt Shapanka is 32 … Morgan Murtaugh … Jessica Todtman …
… Oliver Darcy, CNN senior media reporter … Pat Collier IV, deputy COS for federal affairs for Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker … Jenny Backus … Bob Hudek … Lona Valmoro (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Jim Hock,SVP of external affairs at PSP Partners … Jeffrey Norfolk … Jody Serrano … Madison Gouveia … Targeted Victory’s Ryan Meerstein … Michael Montelongo … Meghan Grant … Elyse Medvigy … Madeline Shepherd … Gordon Neal … Hayley Peterson, senior correspondent at Business Insider … Patrick Drahi is 56 … Matthew Gould is 48 … David Ryan Adelman is 38 … Jeff Morehouse is 39 … Angelica Alatorre … Nicholas Himebaugh … Jordan Kittleson … Shannon Travis … Linnea Dyer Hegarty … Katie Peters, communications director at Giffords … Casey Badmington … Steve Pfrang … Ari Goldberg, director of media relations at the Bipartisan Policy Center, is 46 … Faryar Shirzad … Jarrett Ray
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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. Another Egregious Factual Error in the New York Times’ 1619 Project As I mentioned yesterday, the New York Times has decided to declare the whole America experiment illegitimate with its “1619 Project” that it admits is an attempt to “reframe” American history. The purpose is to claim the whole of the nation is premised on slavery. Its first essay, from Nikole Hannah-Jones, is here and contains […] The post Another Egregious Factual Error in the New York Times’ 1619 Project appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » President Trump Scores Massive Pro-Life Victory: Planned Parenthood Defunded While it can be undone by a future President, President Trump has scored a massive, massive victory for the pro-life cause by adopting a rule that forbids entities getting federal Title X funding from referring women for abortions. The far-left Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals even, surprisingly, upheld the rule. As a result of the […] The post President Trump Scores Massive Pro-Life Victory: Planned Parenthood Defunded appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Omar and Tlaib’s Virulent Anti-Semitism is Actual Racism: Democrats Accept Racists In Their Tribe Many on the left accuse anyone who fails to condemn President Trump on any issue of supporting a racist. These same people, who themselves refuse to condemn actual racists Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, are supporting anti-semitism and Jew-hatred. They are also complicit. The post Omar and Tlaib’s Virulent Anti-Semitism is Actual Racism: Democrats Accept Racists In Their Tribe appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Will the Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? Mitch Mc Connell made news when his campaign website sold flip-flops to mock his opponent’s reversal on her stance regarding Justice Kavanaugh. More than one commentator has noted Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has held just about every position on every issue in her career. Why doesn’t Senator Kamala Harris get the same treatment? At fundraisers in […] The post Will the Real Kamala Harris Please Stand Up? appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Is Venezuela Closer to Dethroning Maduro? A secret meeting between US officials and a top Venezuelan power broker yields as many questions as answers. The post Is Venezuela Closer to Dethroning Maduro? appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Living in a Material World CNN echoes the Democrats in thinking you should be happy with less. The post Living in a Material World appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » White House Works To Allay Recession Fears “China would like to make a deal, I’m not ready,” Trump claimed. The post White House Works To Allay Recession Fears appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The New York Times Embraces a Neo-Confederate World View For Its 1619 Project There is real racism in the United States. It is objectively true that white supremacists have been emboldened these last few years and it is objectively true that President Trump’s rhetoric has played a part even if he has not intended it to. In my opinion, his rhetoric often plays a part because of how […] The post The New York Times Embraces a Neo-Confederate World View For Its 1619 Project appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » NYT: The People Are Our Enemy A revealing look inside the newsroom at The New York Times leaves little to the imagination. Executive editor Dean Baquet is convinced that America is divided into woke goodness and white supremacists, and the white supremacists are led by President Trump (who up to a few weeks ago, was a Russian stooge). Slate obtained a […] The post NYT: The People Are Our Enemy appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » USA Today Hearts Sotomayor; Alito? Not So Much It’s simply shocking how anyone could conclude that there is an inherent liberal media bias amongst mainstream publications. There’s just no consistent, persistent evidence of such one-sidedness amongst journalism’s supposed elite. Take for instance, USA Today’s recent front-page headline describing a puff piece on Obama Supreme Court appointee Sonia Sotomayor: “The People’s Justice: Supreme Court’s […] The post USA Today Hearts Sotomayor; Alito? Not So Much 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. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. 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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| President Trump may argue the U.S. economy is roaring, but he clearly worries that a recession is not out of the realm of possibility next year and could jeopardize his bid for reelection. “I don’t see a recession,” the president said on Sunday before he flew from New Jersey to Washington at the end of his summer break. Back in the White House, Trump renewed criticism of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, bellowing Twitter instructions to the independent central bank on Monday to prime the pump with lower interest rates. The president resists the view shared by many that his tariff policies added a drag on U.S. growth. He argues that American consumers, the engine of growth, will keep spending. White House national economic adviser Larry Kudlow and Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway both worked Monday to tamp down market and analyst predictions that a recession looms next year, or by 2021 (The Hill). Kudlow has scheduled briefing calls this week with state and local business leaders in an effort to talk up economic confidence, The Washington Post reports. A White House spokesman said the calls are about Trump’s economic agenda and “have been long-planned.” The Associated Press: Seventy-four percent of U.S. business economists said on Monday in a new report they expect a recession in the U.S. by the end of 2021. Later Monday, the White House knocked down a report that Trump’s economic team is in the early stages of discussing the virtues of a temporary payroll tax cut as a way to stimulate spending to potentially stave off a recession. The White House, which in general favors lower taxes, is open to weighing executive and legislative actions that could buoy a slowing economy into next year. But any GOP-favored legislative tax changes this year, in the absence of an economic crisis, would run into a brick wall in the Democratic-controlled House heading towards a presidential election. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren, who was one of two officials on the Federal Open Market Committee who dissented when the panel voted to cut interest rates in July, continued to push back on Monday against further interest rate cuts by the central bank. He says he’s not convinced that slowing trade and global growth will significantly hobble the U.S. economy (Bloomberg). “We’re likely to have a second half of the year that’s much closer to 2 percent growth,” he said during a Bloomberg Television interview. “I’m not saying there are not circumstances in which I’d be willing to ease. I just want to see evidence we are going into something that is more a slowdown.’’ Markets and the White House will listen intently to Powell on Friday, looking for reassuring clues about Fed policy for the remainder of this year. Powell is giving a high-profile speech at the central bank’s annual economic forum in Jackson Hole, Wyo. (CNBC). Investors were cheered on Monday by stimulus measures adopted over the weekend in China and Germany, two major economies experiencing sluggish growth. China’s central bank unveiled a key interest rate reform to nudge borrowing costs lower for companies, while Germany signaled readiness to make available up to $55 billion worth of extra spending (Reuters). The Wall Street Journal: Consumer luxury items, such as RVs, have seen a real decline in sales, considered a recession warning alert. “The RV industry is better at calling recessions than economists are,” said Michael Hicks, a Ball State University economist in Muncie, Ind. The Associated Press: So, is a recession near? The Hill: Five administration officials who shape Trump’s trade agenda. Gerald F. Seib: If economy sours, Democrats will face a tough choice. |
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| CONGRESS: The pro-impeachment crowd gained a key new ally on Monday when Rep. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), the No. 4 House Democrat who is running for the Senate and competing in a contested primary, came out in favor of the push, making him the highest ranking member of the caucus to do so. Luján, the assistant Speaker and former chairman of the House Democratic campaign arm, said in a statement that he moved into the pro-impeachment column due to warnings that Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections have continued into the 2020 cycle (The Hill). “The Trump presidency is creating grave national security concerns,” Luján said in a statement. “Not only has he ignored the warnings that our Democracy is being targeted, but he has also actively encouraged Russian interference.” “President Trump’s lack of action is jeopardizing our elections, national security, and Democracy,” Luján said. “What is evident is that President Trump is abdicating his responsibility to defend our nation from Russian attacks and is putting his own personal and political interests ahead of the American people.” Luján’s announcement adds to a majority of the House Democratic Caucus who now support opening an impeachment inquiry against the president. The total number is 123 lawmakers. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) was the highest ranking member to back an inquiry before Luján’s announcement. |
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> Israel: Days after Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) were barred from entering Israel for an official visit, the pair of progressive lawmakers urged their fellow members of Congress to visit and kept up their criticism of the president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“I would encourage my colleagues to visit, meet with the people we were going to meet with, see the things we were going to see, hear the stories we were going to hear,” Omar said at a news conference in St. Paul, Minn. “We cannot let Trump and Netanyahu succeed in hiding the cruel reality of the occupation from us.”
The Muslim lawmakers were blocked by Israel from making the trip last week over their support for the boycott, divesture and anctions movement, a decision that was cheered by Trump. Omar and Tlaib had planned to visit the Israeli-occupied West Bank on a tour organized by a Palestinian group and make a stop in Jerusalem. The two are frequent critics of the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians.
Despite being uninvited initially, Tlaib was granted a permit to visit on humanitarian grounds so she could see her grandmother in the West Bank. However, she declined, citing Israel’s “oppressive conditions meant to humiliate” her (The Associated Press).
> Mueller fades away: Former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation has largely faded from the airwaves less than a month after his high-profile testimony on Capitol Hill, serving as a possible sign for Democrats that public interest in the probe is waning.
During a rally in New Hampshire last week, Trump did not launch into his usual diatribes criticizing the Mueller probe as a partisan “witch hunt” that aims to damage his presidency. Instead, the president opted for fresher targets by going after Omar and Tlaib over what he claims are “anti-Israel” views.
The president is not the only one shifting focus away from the probe, which until recently dominated the cable news airwaves. In late July, the topic of Mueller’s investigation and impeachment were largely absent as the crowded bunch of Democratic contestants sought to debate each other over policy issues such as health care and who is the best bet to fight against Trump in the general election.
A fading public interest in the Mueller probe would be an unwelcome change for House Democrats, particularly as Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee — many of whom viewed Mueller’s testimony as a hallmark moment for the pro-impeachment push — presses forward with its investigation into possible obstruction and potential abuses of power by the president (The Hill).
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POLITICS & CAMPAIGNS: Nearly two months after she made waves in the first round of Democratic presidential debates, Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-Calif.) campaign is facing a crucial moment.
As Amie Parnes reports, Harris has lost steam in polling consistently over the past month and has been unable to keep pace with former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who pace the 2020 field, leaving some Democratic strategists to question how she’s positioned herself in the race.
One Democratic strategist noted that she has pitched herself as both a progressive and a moderate, causing her to be viewed as “inauthentic.”
“I still don’t think anyone really understands why she’s running,” the strategist said, adding that she’s come off as “inauthentic” due to her attempt to pitch herself as a progressive and a moderate. “And if you’re running for president and you don’t know why you’re running, no one else will either.”
Facing the key moment in her campaign, Harris held three fundraisers over the weekend, including one on Martha’s Vineyard where she impressed Democratic donors, according to one fundraiser who was in attendance.
> Biden up with Iowa TV ad: As the former vice president begins a week of campaigning in New Hampshire this week, his team is spending money in Iowa, launching his campaign’s first television ad there to target voters in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Quad Cities and Sioux City markets, campaign manager Greg Schultz announced. The 60-second advertisement before Labor Day argues the country has been “battered by an erratic, vicious, bullying president” while Biden has the experience to bring “strong, steady, stable” leadership to the Oval Office. Images of former President Obama with Biden are prominent in the six-figure ad campaign, accompanied by another six-figure digital investment stretching into “coming weeks,” according to the campaign.
The Washington Post: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) continues her summer sprint to make the debate stage in Houston.
The Associated Press: Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) banking on moderation in age of Trump.
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© Getty Images > Warren apologizes (again): Warren waded back into the ancestry waters on Monday when she apologized to an audience of Native Americans for “harm I have caused” over her past claims of Native American ancestry, saying that it was a mistake on her end. Warren’s remarks came from the outset of her address at a forum on Native American issues, where she pitched her newly-released policy plan aimed at those topics. “Now, before I go any further in this I want to say this: Like anyone who’s been honest with themselves, I know that I have made mistakes,” Warren told the crowd. “I am sorry for harm I have caused. I have listened and I have learned a lot. And I am grateful for the many conversations that we’ve had together.” “It is a great honor to be able to partner with Indian Country, and that’s what I’ve tried to do as a senator, and that’s what I promise I will do as president of the United States of America,” she said. The comments came after her decision late last year to release DNA results showing some Native American ancestry dating back six to 10 generations as she tried to put to bed accusations that she falsely claimed minority status for past employment. However, she has been questioned by some voters on the campaign trail about her decision and forced to apologize multiple times. None of this has stemmed attacks from Trump, who continues to derisively refer to her as “Pocahontas” (The Hill). The Hill: Soft levels of support mark this year’s Democratic primary. The Hill: In a key Senate race, Sen. Martha McSally’s (R-Ariz.) lead early this year against her Democratic opponent, retired astronaut Mark Kelly (D), has evaporated, according to a survey released today by OH Predictive Insights, a Phoenix-based pollster. HuffPost: Julián Castro to announce ambitious animal welfare plan. The Associated Press: Democrats are spending millions of dollars to try to win statehouses. |
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| WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: The administration, which has been torn about how best to punish Chinese tech giant Huawei as a risk to the United States, announced on Monday it will again extend the deadline before U.S. businesses are required to cut ties with the company. “It is another 90 days for the U.S. telecom companies,” Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said on Fox Business Network. “Some of the rural companies are dependent on Huawei. So, we’re giving them a little more time to wean themselves off. But there are no specific licenses being granted for anything.” Nov. 19 is the new deadline for the penalty. Trump reaffirmed on Sunday his commitment to a complete ban on U.S. business with Huawei and said he believes the company poses a national security risk (The Hill). On Tuesday, Huawei said it does not expect to see any relief from U.S. sanctions but remains confident about company growth based on development of its own technology (The Associated Press). > Justice Department: Attorney General William Barr removed the acting head of the Bureau of Prisons, replacing the agency’s top official in the wake of the pre-dawn suicide of inmate Jeffrey Epstein in his New York City cell. In a statement, Barr, who had said he was “appalled” at events at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, said Hugh Hurwitz, who had served in the acting position since last year, would return to the assistant director position he formerly occupied. Dr. Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, who led the bureau from 1992 to 2003, is the new director (CNN). > FEC: The chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, Democrat Ellen Weintraub, sent Trump a letter on Saturday telling him there is no evidence of rampant voter fraud in 2016 or in any other U.S. election, suggesting he produce evidence of his claims of voter fraud or cease his repeated assertions of illegal voting. The president began making those accusations after he failed to win the popular vote in 2016. Trump subsequently put Vice President Pence in charge of a special commission to investigate allegations of election fraud, but the panel was quietly disbanded by the White House a year later without uncovering any evidence to back up Trump’s statement that 3 to 5 million ballots were illegally cast for Clinton (The Associated Press). During a CNN interview, Weintraub said, “It is damaging to our democracy to spread information that … is baseless. … These are serious allegations … but if there is no proof, then these things really shouldn’t be said” (The Hill). > North Korea: The administration is extending a ban for another year on the use of U.S. passports for travel to North Korea. A State Department notice released Monday said the ban will remain in place until Aug. 31, 2020, unless revoked by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The ban was imposed in 2017 by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and renewed in 2018 (The Associated Press). > Venezuela: The United States, frustrated after unsuccessful international efforts to oust Nicolás Maduro from power, has made secret contact with Diosdado Cabello, who is considered the most powerful man in Venezuela after Maduro (The Associated Press). …Axios reported over the weekend that Trump spoke with military advisers about a potential naval blockade of Venezuela’s coastline to enforce an international embargo. The president’s idea was described as impractical because of the size of the area and too costly for the U.S. military at a time of competing priorities. > Iran: An Iranian tanker seized by Great Britain on July 4 was released on Monday and headed to Greece. Tehran warned against additional attempts to seize its tankers and accused the United States and its allies of trying to provoke a confrontation (Reuters). Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said it was “unfortunate” that the British Royal Marines released the tanker. “These are oil profits, when this is ultimately sold somewhere into the market, that will run back to Qasem Soleimani and the Iranian Quds force, their elite forces that have sown terror and destruction and killed Americans all around the world,” Pompeo said during a Fox News interview. “If they’re successful, they’ll have more money, more wealth, more resources to continue their terror campaign, to continue their assassination campaign in Europe.” |
| OPINION |
| Why President Trump must keep speaking out on Hong Kong, by Larry Diamond, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2Zh2IYA Congress must exercise its power to ensure America has no war with Iran, by Kelly Magsamen, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2KHTvAn |
| WHERE AND WHEN |
| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features The Hill’s senior correspondent Mike Lillis, talking about Congress’s agenda next month, including gun measures; freelance journalist Zaid Jilani, discussing Biden’s China policy; and Nate Snyder, a former senior counterterrorism official with the Department of Homeland Security, unpacking the administration’s policy toward Huawei.Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House is in pro forma sessions until returning to Washington on Sept. 4 to begin consideration of legislation to respond to mass shootings. The Senate continues to meet pro forma but is not scheduled to return for votes until Sept. 9. The president will have lunch with the vice president at 12:30 p.m. at the White House. Trump will host Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office for bilateral meetings this afternoon. The vice president heads for Chantilly, Va., to chair the sixth meeting of the National Space Council. Pence will speak at 9:30 a.m. about “the administration’s commitment to expand space exploration” and leadership in commercial space. Location: Udvar-Hazy Center National Air and Space Museum. Pompeo heads to New York City and meets with the Committee to Unleash Prosperity at 11:30 a.m. He will host a working lunch with Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at 12:30 p.m. The secretary participates in a United Nations session on Middle East peace and security at 3 p.m. Pompeo joins a press conference with Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz at 6:10 p.m. and then meets with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and 6:50 p.m. |
| ELSEWHERE |
| ➔ United Kingdom: Britain says it will end European Union freedom of movement rules immediately on Oct. 31 if the exit from the bloc occurs without a transition deal. Prime Minister Boris Johnson maintains his new government would not be hostile to immigration. “After Brexit, the government will introduce a new, fairer immigration system that prioritises skills and what people can contribute to the UK, rather than where they come from,” a spokesman for Britain’s interior ministry said in a statement (Reuters). On Monday, Trump and Johnson spoke by phone about trade, the global economy and Brexit, the White House said. ➔ New York: Following five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired Daniel Pantaleo, an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the unarmed black man whose dying gasps of “I can’t breathe” gave voice to a national debate about race and police use of force. Pantaleo, who is white, was terminated based on the recommendation of a department disciplinary judge, said Police Commissioner James O’Neill (The Associated Press). ➔ NBA star Stephen Curry announced Monday that he is making a donation to Howard University in a bid to help restart the school’s long-dormant golf program. The two-time MVP will fund the program for the next six years as the school pushes to to have men’s and women’s teams ready for competition by the 2020-21 school year. “This is one of the most generous gifts in the history of Howard University,” said Kery Davis, the athletic director at the historically black university in Washington. Curry, an avid golfer himself, became interested in helping to revive the team after meeting Otis Ferguson IV, a Howard senior and golfer, during a campus visit in January (ESPN). |
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| And finally … All the world’s a stage! Service dogs-in-training — poodles and golden retrievers who help humans with autism and post-traumatic stress disorder — last week attended a live theater performance in Canada of the hit musical “Billy Elliot” as part of the canine curriculum, and the photo of attentive pooches calmly watching the theatrics from their seats went viral. The point of the training is to help the dogs prepare to assist their humans wherever they may roam (Fox News). “All of the dogs were fantastic and remained relaxed throughout the performance. Some even watched through the cracks of the seats,” said Laura Mackenzie, owner of K-9 Country Inn Working Service Dogs in Ontario. “The dogs loved the show almost as much as their handlers.” |
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The term “blood libel” has been applied in other contexts in recent years, but Miftah claimed Jews have murdered Christian children to use their blood for baking matzos at Passover… Miftah also re-published (and later deleted) a column titled “Who Rules America: The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken.” Vox’s Jane Coaston (one of a few exceptions among the media last week) noted the original source was National Vanguard, a neo-Nazi group founded by members of the National Alliance—once the best financed and organized white nationalist groups in America… Given its antisemitism, it is not surprising Miftah also has supported Palestinian terrorism against Israel… Miftah also described one of the first female Palestinian suicide bombers as “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” 2020 Update: Marianne Williamson Announces Plan to Create Department of Peace Speaking to a crowd in Sioux City, Iowa at the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum, 2020 Dem hopeful Marianne Williamson announced that she would establish a “peace-building agency” should she win in 2020. 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Kemberlee Kaye: “Sen. Whitehouse gained national notoriety during
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discriminatory BDS resolution not be lopsided, and that there be ample
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FIRST READ: Here’s how Trump is underperforming from 2016
Our NBC/WSJ poll released Sunday showed just 40 percent of registered voters saying they would definitely or probably back Trump in 2020, versus 52 percent definitely/probably supporting the Democratic candidate.
So not surprisingly, Trump is underperforming in our poll among almost all subgroups from the exit poll in 2016, when he took 46 percent of the popular vote.
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Here’s the breakdown:
Men: Trump +8 points in the NBC/WSJ poll (was +11 in the 2016 exit poll)
Women: -32 points (was -13)
Whites: +5 (was +20)
African Americans: -84 (was -81)
Latinos: -36 (was -38)
Independents: -19 (was +4)
Whites with college degrees: -19 (was +3)
Whites without college degrees: +18 (was +37)
Of course, Trump won’t be facing a generic Democrat next year.
Plus, this is among all registered voters, not likely voters. And time COULD be on his side.
Still, this breakdown shows how vulnerable Trump is right now.
Trump administration looking to stimulate the economy?
Speaking of Trump’s vulnerability, the New York Times reports that the administration is looking for ways to stimulate the economy.
“Officials inside the administration have drafted a white paper exploring a payroll tax reduction, which would seek to boost the economy by immediately injecting more money into workers’ paychecks,” the Times writes.
More: “A White House official said more tax cuts were on the table, ‘but cutting payroll taxes is not something that is under consideration at this time.’ Another senior administration official cautioned that a payroll tax cut was not under serious consideration. And a third official said that discussions of what tools could be deployed to offset a recession, based on examining what had been done in previous slowdowns, were hypothetical and not being explored with urgency.”
“Still, the fact that the White House is even discussing ways to stimulate [the] economy … underscores a growing concern in the administration about slowing economic growth.”
And it comes after Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on “Meet the Press” this past weekend: “Well, I’ll tell you what. I sure don’t see a recession. We had some blockbuster retail sales, consumer numbers towards the back end of last week. Really blockbuster numbers.”
CNN poll: Biden’s up, Harris is down, and Castro qualifies for debate
Here’s a new set of national Dem horserace numbers, per a CNN poll released this morning:
Biden: 29 percent (up 7 points from late June after the first Dem debates)
Sanders: 15 percent (up 1)
Warren: 14 percent (down 1)
Buttigieg: 5 percent (up 1)
Harris: 5 percent (down 12 points!!!)
O’Rourke: 3 percent (unchanged)
Booker: 2 percent (down 1)
Castro: 2 percent (up 1)
Gabbard: 2 percent (up 1)
No other candidate gets more than 1 percent in the poll.
By the way, this is Castro’s fourth qualifying poll of at least 2 percent, which makes him the 10th Democratic candidate to qualify for September’s debate(s).
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2020 VISION: Biden goes up with his first TV ad
This morning, the Biden campaign released its first TV ad – a 60-second spot airing in Iowa that plays up Biden’s electability argument and ties him to former President Barack Obama.
“We have to beat Donald Trump. And all the polls agree Joe Biden is the strongest Democrat to do the job. No one is more qualified,” the ad’s narrator says, per NBC’s Marianna Sotomayor.
“For eight years, President Obama and Vice President Biden were an administration America could be proud of, our allies could trust and our kids could look up to… Now, Joe Biden is running for president with a plan for America’s future. To build on Obamacare, not scrap it. To make a record investment in America’s schools, to lead the world on climate, to rebuild our alliances.”
It concludes, “Most of all, he’ll restore the soul of the nation battered by an erratic, vicious, bullying president.”
The ad comes one day after Biden’s wife, Jill, told voters in New Hampshire that her husband is the most electable Democrat, even if they like other candidates: “You know you may like another candidate better but you have to look at who’s going to win.”
On the campaign trail today: Several more Dem candidates (Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Julian Castro and Bill de Blasio) will address the Native American presidential forum in Sioux City, Iowa… Joe Biden also stumps in the Hawkeye State, hitting Prole and Urbandale… And Pete Buttigieg raises money in Chicago.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: Bernie Sanders teamed up with Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon at backyard ice cream social on Monday in Iowa, where the Hollywood actress (and longtime) Sanders supporter took a not-so subtle dig at Elizabeth Warren, per NBC’s Gary Grumbach. “He is not someone who used to be a Republican, he’s not someone who used take money or still takes money from Wall Street — he is the real deal. And that’s why this is it. We don’t have time for incremental change, we don’t have time for middle ground,” Sarandon said.
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 12,000.
Twelve thousand.
That’s the estimated number of people who showed up at Elizabeth Warren’s campaign event Monday in Minnesota – her largest crowd to date, per NBC’s Benjamin Pu and Deepa Shivaram.
TWEET OF THE DAY: Losing the Log Cabins
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Although the star-crossed lovers in “West Side Story” inhabit an iconic American morality play, if you know your history, you may recall that the story has antecedents that far predate the creation of this country. It is a classic human story, as I’ll explain 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: * * * Trump Unmasks the Media’s Liberal Advocacy. Steve Cortes writes that the forces of anti-conservative bias have met their match in President Trump. “Ball of Collusion”: All Obama’s Anti-Trump Loyalists. RealClearInvestigations spotlights Andrew McCarthy’s new book with an excerpt detailing the Obama administration’s response to Trump’s surprising election. Is It Possible the Yield Curve’s “Inversion” Isn’t Man-Made? Amid recession worries, RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny argues that little of what’s expressed as predictive about an inverted yield curve stands up to scrutiny. Headwinds for Big Wind. In RealClearEnergy, Robert Bryce points out that many renewable power projects face increasing opposition — ironically, from environmentalists with wildlife concerns — that could cause green-energy goals to be missed. MLB Legends Say Baseball Is Currently “Unwatchable.” In RealClearSports, Bonnie Stiernberg reports on three greats’ reaction to the changes sabermetrics have wrought on the national pastime. * * * It is well-known that the inspiration for “West Side Story” was “Romeo and Juliet,” but where did Shakespeare get his idea? And what, exactly, was the nature of the dispute between the houses of Montague and Capulet? The answer to the first question, we know: Shakespeare borrowed his idea, characters, plot line — even the title — from a narrative poem published in 1562 by a British playwright named Arthur Brooke, who wrote of the tragedy of “Romeus and Juliet.” And though the Bard never really provides his audience an underlying rationale for the Montague-Capulet feud, Brooke does. His story, with its anti-Catholic undertones, is a cautionary tale about how lust leads young people to ignore their elders and pursue love outside their religious caste. Four centuries later, the great theater producer and dance choreographer Jerome Robbins (nee Rabinowitz) endeavored to explore that theme in a musical and dance production. Robbins tentatively called his idea “East Side Story,” and planned to stage the action in the spring when Passover and Easter expose the underlying tensions between the families of a Jewish girl (Juliet) and her Catholic boyfriend (Romeo). Robbins approached a talented writer, Arthur Laurents, to write the play, and asked world-famous composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein to conjure up the music. This was in 1949, and those who knew of the project were skeptical that three giant talents, with egos to match, could collaborate — or even whether Robbins’ vision would work on stage. “‘Abie’s Irish Rose’ to music — the dance of the garbage cans,” scoffed ballerina Nora Kaye. “Your three temperaments in one room, and the walls will come down.” As Laurents himself later conceded, Kaye’s prediction wasn’t far off. Their temperaments did clash, and the New York apartment building where they first met to discuss the writing was literally torn down before they got anything on paper. “But Robbins is a man of distinct determination,” Laurents wrote later. “In 1955, the three of us met again (in another building which has since been torn down: wreckage proceeds faster these days). Human wreckage, too, and we found ourselves discussing a headline aspect: juvenile delinquency.” A couple of months after that, while in Hollywood doing a film project to pay the bills (pay their tax bills, actually, but that’s another discussion), Bernstein and Laurents continued their brainstorming around the pool at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The Los Angeles newspapers were full of stories about ethnic-based gangs, which, as they say in the movie business, provided the characters with their motivation. Laurents and Bernstein shifted the action in their play from New York’s Lower East Side to the Upper West Side. Robbins’ (and Brooke’s) religious tensions gave way to the more primal turf fight between a Puerto Rican street gang and a self-described “American” gang. The two men then did something counter-intuitive: They added a fourth virtuoso to their creative group, a young writer named Stephen Sondheim. The musical was a tremendous hit, from New York to San Francisco. The movie version was an even bigger hit. Released on Oct. 18, 1961, it was both a commercial and critical success: the top grossing movie of the year, and winner of 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Is it time for a remake? It seems that any contemporary version could draw on the original story, perhaps with feuding Muslim and Christian (or Jewish) families. No, that’s too tame. If we really want to ask the audience to suspend disbelief for a couple of hours, what if one of the doomed lovers was a Republican and the other a Democrat? How would independents, the nation’s fastest growing political cohort, respond? They might identify with the Mercutio-based character, who could still say, as he does in the Shakespeare original, “A plague o’ both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me!” Carl M. 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| Which Democratic candidates denounced Antifa? Some didn’t know who they were. Posted: 19 Aug 2019 06:13 PM PDT Antifa is a domestic terrorist organization that spreads violence and vitriol to otherwise peaceful events. When they have their own events, they get even more violent and spew even more vitriol. President Trump has denounced them unambiguously to the point of threatening to declare them an official terrorist organization. What do Democratic candidates for President […] The post Which Democratic candidates denounced Antifa? Some didn’t know who they were. appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Is telemedicine the future or another ridiculous tech stunt? Posted: 19 Aug 2019 05:34 PM PDT Technology brings many amazing things to society. Medical technology in particular can save lives. But some aspects of advancing medical technology are ill-conceived. I can rant all day about the focus on highly profitable treatments superseding (and often subverting) the low-profit venture of finding cures. There’s another technology that is burgeoning to the point that […] The post Is telemedicine the future or another ridiculous tech stunt? appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Let’s subsidize the 2nd Amendment Posted: 19 Aug 2019 04:50 PM PDT If there’s one thing that chaps my fiscal conservative khakis, it’s subsidies. Too much in taxpayer dollars is given to people and private businesses through programs designed to “help” them despite the demonstrable reality that most subsidies merely enable continued failure. For example, ethanol subsidies combined with fuel mix mandates artificially inflate demand and price […] The post Let’s subsidize the 2nd Amendment appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| PragerU: Social media can no longer act both as a publisher and as a public forum Posted: 19 Aug 2019 04:31 PM PDT Liberty will be in jeopardy if the dominant social media organs can have it both ways, censoring speech while pretending to be public forums. A new 5-min video from PragerU perfectly encapsulates the issue of censorship of the dominant social media organs. Presenter Eric George goes through the background of the PragerU v. YouTube lawsuit […] The post PragerU: Social media can no longer act both as a publisher and as a public forum appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib: The anti-Semitic intellectual terrorists in Congress Posted: 19 Aug 2019 02:31 PM PDT The constitutional republic that our founding fathers envisioned was as close to being perfect as any man-made system in history. But its effectiveness was predicated on the idea that Americans would be active participants in governing. It takes sober, cognizant American voters to hold our representatives accountable. We must be aware of who we put […] The post Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib: The anti-Semitic intellectual terrorists in Congress appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Steve Hilton: While Trump haters pray for a recession, the real economy is booming Posted: 19 Aug 2019 01:38 PM PDT Americans believe in the Trump economy. It’s been helping them get jobs if they’re unemployed and better jobs if they were underemployed. It has raised wages, reduced taxes, and increased consumer spending to all-time highs. Even if you’re like many Americans who do not care about the stock market, Wall Street’s effects on Main Street […] The post Steve Hilton: While Trump haters pray for a recession, the real economy is booming appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Keep attacking gun control. The President is listening. Posted: 19 Aug 2019 01:05 PM PDT We may never know what the President heard. Perhaps it was internal polling that showed his base has no appetite for gun control. Maybe he read an article (we’ve posted about two dozen on gun control in the last month) or watched a video detailing how the bipartisan measures being proposed are both unconstitutional and […] The post Keep attacking gun control. The President is listening. appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| What mainstream media knows: Fear of recession causes recessions Posted: 19 Aug 2019 07:11 AM PDT President Trump’s concerns over mainstream media outlets painting the economy as being on the verge of recession are legitimate. He’s well aware that perceptions drive large portions of the economy. Fears that the market might tumble cause people to sell, which then makes the market tumble. Businesses concerned about the economy slowing may stop hiring, […] The post What mainstream media knows: Fear of recession causes recessions appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Trump hits ‘nut job’ Anthony Scaramucci Posted: 19 Aug 2019 06:34 AM PDT Anthony “Mooch” Scaramucci has been on a tear in recent days, coming out as a firm anti-Trump commentator on progressive news channels and spreading whatever vitriol he can must against his former boss. In case you don’t remember him, he was White House Director of Communications for 11 days before being fired. His vocal tirades have […] The post Trump hits ‘nut job’ Anthony Scaramucci appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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