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| Happy Halloween from Washington, where the Trump administration offers a sane alternative to liberals’ scary “Medicare for All.” Sen. Joni Ernst underscores some troubling facts in The Heritage Foundation’s new Index of U.S. Military Strength. Civil War historian Allen Guelzo visits the podcast to challenge The New York Times’ controversial 1619 Project. Plus, observations on an overrated lawyers group, House Democrats’ impeachment railroad, how progressives ruined California, and Kanye West’s newfound faith. On this date in 1864, Congress welcomes Nevada as the 36th state. |
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Commentary In Trump Impeachment Probe, Democrats Refuse to Follow Nixon and Clinton Precedents By Hans von Spakovsky Under Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, House Democrats are breaking decades of norms on impeachment proceedings. More Commentary California’s Disastrous State Illustrates Limits of Progressivism By Victor Davis Hanson Our resolute ancestors took a century to turn a wilderness into California. Our irresolute generation in just a decade or two has been turning California into a wilderness. More Analysis The Truth About America’s Founding and Slavery By Daniel Davis “If I were to take The 1619 Project [from The New York Times] purely at its word … then I would have to assume that the American experiment from the very start was a hideously flawed mistake,” says Allen Guelzo, a scholar at Princeton University. More News White House Touts ‘Health Care for You’ as Better Option Than ‘Medicare for All’ By Fred Lucas The White House is laying out a “Health Care for You” agenda to boost competition and transparency, lower prescription prices, and produce greater affordability in health-related costs. More News US Military Strength Rated ‘Marginal’ as China, Russia on Move By Fred Lucas “While the Russia strategy is to disrupt the United States, it’s China’s intent to absolutely displace us. China seeks to expand everywhere America is perceived to be retreating,” warns Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. More Commentary Problematic Women: Kanye West Speaks Out Against Porn and Abortion By Lauren Evans We’re sharing all the news on hip-hop star Kanye West’s new album, “Jesus Is King.” More Commentary Senators Should Ignore Liberal Lawyers Group When Evaluating Judicial Nominees By Thomas Jipping In a hearing yesterday, a nominee for the 9th Circuit Court weeps when asked to defend himself against a liberal group’s insinuation that he would not be fair to LGBT people. More | ||
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“Let philosophy scrape off your own faults, rather than be a way to rail against the faults of others.” SENECA Good morning! During an exclusive interview with The Epoch Times, Rep. Devin Nunes revealed that the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign began earlier than the official timeline. Another anomaly in the investigation highlighted by Nunes is the fact that the “Gang of Eight”—the bipartisan group of Congressional leaders dealing with intelligence—was not appropriately briefed on the investigation, as is customary. He also revealed that the early leaks of transcripts of President Donald Trump’s conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia had been official intelligence products. Read the full article here Wildfires Outside LA Threaten Homes, Bypass Reagan Library Evangelicals Worry About Growing Intolerance, See Trump as Bulwark of Protection US Releases Declassified Video of Al-Baghdadi Raid Twitter Announces It Is Banning All Political Advertisements New York City’s former chief medical examiner said disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s manner of death was likely to have been a homicide. Read more China’s state policies for aggressively building up its pharmaceutical sector have resulted in the United States becoming heavily dependent on Chinese drug imports. Read more The Oregon Public Employees Retirement System is heavily invested in a health care company accused of overseeing sexual assault and neglect in its treatment facilities, where some Oregon foster children are housed after being sent out of state. Read more Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, expects he will file a motion asking a federal judge to dismiss the case against him, said Flynn’s lawyer, Sidney Powell, in an Oct. 24 court filing. Read more Google announced it has awarded its first round of grants to media outlets throughout North America from a pool of $300 million the internet giant has set aside to bolster largely left-leaning mainstream and legacy media organizations. Read more The U.S. Senate on Wednesday blocked a Democratic-led effort to roll back a Trump administration rule that allows states to ignore portions of Obamacare. Read more See More Top Stories Attention: If you Currently Own or are Considering Buying Physical Precious Metals for your portfolio, please read carefully. On Sept. 26th, 2016, under the Obama Administration, the American Bankers Association and the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures [CUSIP] announced it started tracking a list of Fungible Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium bars and coins. Simply put: when the failing banking system NEEDS to calculate YOUR ASSETS outside of their financial system, THEY CAN EASILY DO SO! Contact GSI Exchange to acquire the secret documented list of fungible precious metals that are now being tracked by the big banks. Call 833-474-4653 now to speak with a GSI Exchange representative about this new tracking trend. Click here to claim your complimentary copy of our exclusive Bank Failure Survival Guide while supplies last Criminal Indictments Could Be Coming in ‘Russiagate’ By Stephen Meister Four recent, blockbuster developments in “Russiagate” could spell big trouble, including, in my opinion, forthcoming criminal indictments for upper-echelon Obama-era officials… Read more In Praise of Masculine Love By Trevor Loudon I heard a love story recently that brought me to tears. It wasn’t a Shakespearean tragedy of star-crossed lovers. It wasn’t romantic at all. It wasn’t a tale of a mother’s self-sacrifice for her children—quite the opposite. It was a simple tale of masculine love—something so rarely praised and so often devalued that Western culture is dying for the very lack of it… Read more See More Opinions Luncheon for Miss World Canada, Anastasia Lin, Examines Censorship, Free Speech By Valentin Schmid (December 18, 2015) She should be in China competing to wear the Miss World crown on Dec. 19. But the Chinese regime denied Anastasia Lin, Miss World Canada, entry into the country and declared her “persona non grata” ( a person who is not welcome) because she speaks out about human rights in China. Read more The now-infamous July phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should be seen for what it was—a perfectly legal and ethical conversation seeking cooperation on an investigation into corruption under a juridical agreement that was forged 21 years prior. The Truth About Impeachment: 9 Key Facts Advertisement: 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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Kim And Kanye Save The World, Taylor Swift Sells Out To China In recent days, the infamous image of Kanye West interrupting Taylor Swift on stage has circulated Twitter with snarky comments about who could have possibly predicted the paths these two individuals would take. NYT Columnist Ross Douthat tweeted, “Our present timeline was created by three world-historical Events: Benedict resigning, Trump descending the elevator, and the 2009 VMAs.” It was confirmed earlier this week that Swift will be performing for one of the largest Chinese companies, Alibaba, on their annual “Single’s Day”—an event that generates more than $30 billion in revenue for the multinational conglomerate (The Hollywood Reporter). Obviously, with Beijing’s recent attempts to export their authoritarian squashing of free speech to the United States, this is not just bad timing, but a really bad look for Taylor to be accepting presumably an ungodly amount of Chinese money to promote a corporate pseudo-holiday celebrating self-love. Meanwhile, in the wake of his explicitly Christian Gospel album, “Jesus Is King,” West has railed against abortion as black population control, discussed the importance of localism, asked collaborators to abstain from pre-marital sex, and said “The richest thing you can have is as many children as possible.” On Tuesday, Kim Kardashian successfully pushed for Congress to pass a bill recognizing the Armenian Genocide. Who among us could have known which person on that VMA stage in 2009 would be single, unmarried, and taking communists’ money, and which one would be married with 4 kids and releasing the most popular Christian music of our lifetime? Kamala Harris Flails In Polls, Cuts Campaign Staff What happened to Kamala Harris? In a new USA Today/Suffolk poll she’s coming in at 3%, trailing behind Andrew Yang (also at 3%) and Tulsi Gabbard (4%). Her campaign is hemorrhaging cash and consequently announced staff layouts and restructuring, sending some of her Baltimore HQ staff to Iowa. Politico reports that the “overhaul will touch nearly every face of Harris’ operation.” Meanwhile, Tulsi Gabbard is just one poll away from qualifying for the November debate, and is halfway through the polling threshold for December (Harris has not yet qualified for December). Looks like the establishment’s slurs that Gabbard is Russian asset haven’t quite worked. Read more on the latest poll at USA Today. Obama Warns Against Woke Cancel Culture Speaking at an Obama Foundation Summit in Chicago on Tuesday, mocked social media users who take pride in their “woke” tweets and hashtags going after imperfect people, saying “That’s not activism. That’s not bringing about change.” More from Tristan Justice at The Federalist: “The former president has echoed similar sentiments before, criticizing liberal college students who protest conservative speakers lecturing on campus…. The president’s comments, however, starkly contrast his record in office serving as the virtue-signaler-in-chief for eight years, for example, defending San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protests.” Thursday Link Round Up Anti-Trump Whistleblower’s identity is revealed: Registered Democrat and Obama Admin employee who worked with DNC operative to dig up dirt on Trump from Ukrainian officials (RealClearPolitics) Twitter says they will no longer allow any political ads (MSNBC) Stop Turning Your Yard Into A Hellscape For Halloween. Seriously, my neighbors have fake bodies hanging from chains on their porch. What gives? (The Federalist) No, Kate Upton, Women Aren’t Treated Like They Live In The 1950s (The Federalist) Hilarious: White House reporters freak out that Trump tweeted an obviously photo-shopped picture of hero dog (Twitter, and here) Also hilarious: Trump sets candy on top of Minion’s head in White House trick-or-treaters line (Barstool) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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POLITICO PLAYBOOK
POLITICO Playbook: Nats win World Series … is anything else happening?
By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
10/31/2019 05:56 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
OH MY GOODNESS. THE WASHINGTON NATIONALS — that team we’ve been bugging you about since April — won the World Series on Wednesday night in Houston. Shocked? Yeah, us too. THE WASHINGTON POST front page: “At last, Nats are champs” … SPORTS SECTION FRONT BANNER HEADLINE: “World class”
JUST BREATHE THIS ONE IN … WAPO’S JESSE DOUGHERTY in Houston: “When these Washington Nationals are remembered — in books, on bar stools, in bedtime stories for decades — it will begin on a chalk-lined diamond in Texas, at the close of the baseball calendar, with flying gloves and full hearts, when eight months ended, at last, in the daze of a long-shot dream.” WaPo
THE NATS’ CHAMPIONSHIP PARADE will be this Saturday at 2 p.m. It will start at 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, and will end at 3rd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, just in front of the Capitol, with a rally.
— WAPO’S TOM BOSWELL: “Pay attention to the Washington Nationals’ victory parade Saturday. Make sure those who ride in those cars and sit on that stage appear young and hearty. Because if instead Anthony Rendon, Howie Kendrick, Juan Soto, Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and 20 others appear to be elderly men, we will know they truly sold their souls to pull off this once-in-a-century triumph.
“Yes, they did it again. The unbelievable, late-game-dancing, break-their-foes’-hearts Nationals did it again. Washington has a World Series champion for the first time in 95 years after a 6-2 Game 7 win over the utterly stunned, disbelieving 107-win Houston Astros here Wednesday night, and the only explanations seem to be baseball miracles or deals with the devil.” WaPo
THE NATS are scheduled to land this evening after 6 p.m.
Good Thursday morning and Happy Halloween.
NEW … FORMER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA will raise money for the DNC on Nov. 21 in Los Altos Hills, Calif. — a moneyed Silicon Valley town. DNC Chairman Tom Perez will be there. It will cost $355,000 to be a “chair” of the fundraiser, $100,000 to “host,” $50,000 raised or given to “co-host,” $35,000 raised to be a “champion” and $10,000 to get in the door. The invite
THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN ran an ad during the World Series on Wednesday night. “He’s no Mr. Nice Guy, but sometimes it takes a Donald Trump to change Washington.” The ad
— @davidplouffe: “@realDonaldTrump ad that just ran during World Series was quite strong. National TV ads in October of off year – unprecedented.”
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FACT: The biopharmaceutical industry supports more than 4 million jobs across the United States. But Speaker Pelosi’s drug pricing plan could lead to the permanent loss of roughly 1 million of these jobs. .
THE HOUSE will vote this morning on the much-ballyhooed impeachment resolution, which gives the outlines of how the process will unfold going forward. This resolution has been the subject of much confusion this week, as some Democrats wonder why they’re taking the vote, and others wonder what vote they’re taking.
STENY! … THE HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER on people who say this vote is unnecessary, speaking to CHUCK TODD on “MEET THE PRESS DAILY”: “They’re correct, we don’t need the vote tomorrow.” Watch the whole clip
— “Near party-line vote expected on impeachment ground rules,” by AP’s Alan Fram and Matthew Daly
… AFTER THE IMPEACHMENT VOTE, REP. KATIE HILL (D-Calif.) will give her final address on the House floor.
HEATHER CAYGLE and SARAH FERRIS: “‘Scrutiny and double standards’: Katie Hill’s downfall splits Democrats”: “In the closed-door leadership meeting Monday night, Speaker Nancy Pelosi reflected on what happened as she told senior Democrats that it was Hill’s decision to resign.
“‘Our darling Katie. It’s so sad,’ Pelosi said, according to two Democratic sources with knowledge of the meeting. ‘It goes to show you, we should say to young candidates, and to kids in kindergarten really, be careful when transmitting photos.’” POLITICO
BURGESS EVERETT and NANCY COOK: “How Trump tries to keep the Senate GOP on his side: Lots of calls, a little strategy”: “Sitting inside the White House, Mitch McConnell gave President Donald Trump some straightforward advice: Stop attacking senators — including Mitt Romney — who will likely soon judge your fate in an impeachment trial.
“The private, one-on-one meeting last week between the Senate majority leader and Trump covered several weighty issues including Syria, according to two people familiar with the conversation. But like everything these days when it comes to Trump, impeachment was high on the president’s mind. And in this case, Trump appears to have listened to the man in the Senate who controls the future of his presidency.” POLITICO
— ALEX ISENSTADT: “Trump lures GOP senators on impeachment with cold cash”: “President Donald Trump is rewarding senators who have his back on impeachment — and sending a message to those who don’t to get on board. Trump is tapping his vast fundraising network for a handful of loyal senators facing tough reelection bids in 2020. Each of them has signed onto a Republican-backed resolution condemning the inquiry as ‘unprecedented and undemocratic.’
“Conspicuously absent from the group is Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a politically vulnerable Republican who’s refused to support the resolution and avoided taking a stance on impeachment. With his new push, Trump is exerting leverage over a group he badly needs in his corner with an impeachment trial likely coming soon to the Senate — but that also needs him.” POLITICO
SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO was on FOX NEWS with MARTHA MACCALLUM: MACCALLUM: “Are you hearing that there’s genocide underway in Syria?” POMPEO: “Our reporting is different from that. We’ll continue to monitor. The Turkish leaders made real commitments to the vice president and me when we were on the ground. And we intend to make sure that they continue to comply with them.”
— ABOUT THE UKRAINE TRANSCRIPT … MCCALLUM: “Did you hear anything on that call that is not in the transcript?” POMPEO: “I heard the president very clearly on that call talking about making sure that corruption — whether that corruption took place in the 2016 election, whether that corruption was continuing to take place, that … the moneys that were being provided were used appropriately. It was very consistent with what I understood President Trump and our administration to be doing all along.”
— ON ANY FRICTION WITH RUDY GIULIANI: POMPEO: “Martha, there’s always friction inside an organization with 70,000 people.”
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IMPEACHMENT CLIP PACKET …
— WAPO: “White House lawyer moved transcript of Trump call to classified server after Ukraine adviser raised alarms,” by Carol Leonnig, Tom Hamburger and Greg Miller: “Moments after President Trump ended his phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of White House lawyer John Eisenberg.
“Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine adviser at the White House, had been listening to the call and was disturbed by the pressure Trump had applied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers this week.Vindman told Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, that what the president did was wrong, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.
“Scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad, Eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with long-standing White House protocol: moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it, according to two people familiar with Vindman’s account.” WaPo
— WE ALL KNEW THIS WAS COMING … “John Bolton Is Summoned to Testify in Trump Impeachment Inquiry,” by NYT’s Nicholas Fandos and Adam Goldman: “House impeachment investigators on Wednesday summoned John R. Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, and two top White House lawyers to testify next week in their inquiry into Mr. Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine, closing in on critical witnesses as they prepare to go public with their investigation.
“Mr. Bolton, a fiery foreign policy veteran, could be a marquee player in the House’s month-old impeachment inquiry. His deputies have testified that Mr. Bolton, who left the White House in September amid disagreements with the president, was angry about the efforts to pressure Ukraine to open investigations into Democrats. Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer who was leading the charge, he warned, was a ‘hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.’
“But his appearance is far from assured. His lawyer said that Mr. Bolton was ‘not willing to appear voluntarily,’ declining to specify what his client would do should he be subpoenaed.” NYT
— NPR’S FRANCO ORDOÑEZ: “Trump’s Russia Director To Leave National Security Council Amid Impeachment Inquiry”: “Tim Morrison, the top Russia official on President Trump’s National Security Council, who is scheduled to testify in the impeachment inquiry on Thursday, is set to leave his White House post imminently, three sources familiar with the plan told NPR.
“Morrison, a conservative hawk who has served as the senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council, will be replaced by Andrew Peek, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, according to the sources.
“A senior administration official confirmed Morrison’s departure late Wednesday evening. ‘After more than a year of service at the National Security Council, Mr. Morrison has decided to pursue other opportunities – and has been considering doing so for some time. We wish him well,’ the official said.” NPR
— WAPO’S JOSH ROGIN: “National Security Council aide Tim Morrison will not be part of the Resistance”
— “Bob Livingston thrust back in impeachment glare after grabbing headlines in Clinton era,” by Theodoric Meyer
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TRADE WARS … NYT: “Mnuchin Says China Deal Is Likely to Be Signed in November,” by Alan Rappeport in Riyadh
TRUMP’S THURSDAY — The president has no public events on his schedule.
PLAYBOOK READS
ELISE LABOTT in POLITICO MAGAZINE: “The Woman Trying to Mend U.S. Relations With Saudi Arabia”
REUTERS: “U.S. releases Baghdadi raid video, warns of likely retribution attack”: “The declassified, grainy, black-and-white aerial videos from Saturday’s raid showed U.S. special operations forces closing in on the compound and U.S. aircraft firing on militants nearby. The most dramatic video showed a massive, black plume of smoke rising from the ground after U.S. military bombs leveled Baghdadi’s compound.” The video
SUBTWEET — “Twitter drops all political ads in shot at Zuckerberg,” by Nancy Scola and Steven Overly: “Twitter will no longer run political ads, CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday in a shot across the bow at Facebook, which faces rising heat over its policy of allowing candidates to lie in their campaign messaging.
“The move drew quick praise from Democrats including Hillary Clinton, who called it ‘the right thing to do for democracy in America and all over the world.’ But it provoked an immediate rebuke from President Donald Trump’s campaign, which denounced it as ‘yet another attempt to silence conservatives.’” POLITICO
— CASEY NEWTON: “It remains to be seen whether Twitter can live up to the promise it made to the public today. But in some important quarters, it seems to have notched a moral victory over its longtime rival. Before yesterday, no matter what you thought about Facebook’s policy on political ads, you at least had to admit that the company’s position was coherent. As of Tuesday evening, that was no longer the case.”
— AND/BUT: “Facebook Earnings Soar as Zuckerberg Warns of ‘Tough Year’ Ahead Politically,” by WSJ’s Jeff Horowitz: “Less than 90 minutes after Twitter Inc. chief executive Jack Dorsey said the company would stop running ads on its platform about politics and controversial social issues, Mr. Zuckerberg said that Facebook had no plans to follow suit.
“‘I’ve considered whether we should not carry these ads in the past, and I’ll continue to do so,’ he said. ‘On balance, so far, I’ve thought that we should continue.’”
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THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — “White House Pressed Car Makers to Join Its Fight Over California Emissions Rules,” by NYT’s Coral Davenport and Hiroko Tabuchi: “Monday’s surprise move by General Motors, Toyota and other auto giants to back President Trump in his fight with California over pollution rules came after days of White House pressure to support one of the administration’s biggest efforts to weaken climate regulations.
“Previously, many automakers had indicated to California that they would not take a stand, according to Mary D. Nichols, chairwoman of California’s clean air regulator, the Air Resources Board. Late last week, their stance quickly changed.
“Andrew Olmem, a top policy aide to Mr. Trump, began calling car companies to push them to sign on to the administration’s effort in the courts to eliminate California’s right to set its own auto emissions rules on planet warming pollution, a power granted under the Clean Air Act of 1970. He was joined on the phone in some cases by Justice Department officials, according to a person familiar with the matter.” NYT
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BEYOND THE BELTWAY … THE LATEST FROM SIMI VALLEY: “A major brush fire swept by gusts of Santa Ana winds up to 65 mph raced through Simi Valley hillsides toward neighborhoods Wednesday, threatening 7,000 homes and forcing thousands of residents to flee.
“The Easy fire … quickly burned toward Tierra Rejada Road, leaped across the street and made a run toward the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, said Ventura County Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen. …
“Thick smoke choked the hillside where the 125,000-square-foot library — a repository of records and artifacts from the Reagan administration — is perched amid dense brush. Flames burned on all sides, but the library has not sustained damage, officials said.” L.A. Times … Inside the battle to save the library
REX TAKES THE STAND … WSJ: “Former Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Rex Tillerson on Wednesday testified that the company didn’t mislead investors about how it accounted for climate-change regulations, taking the witness stand in a rare trial airing how businesses manage the risks of future environmental policy.
“Speaking under oath to a packed state courtroom in Manhattan, Mr. Tillerson rebutted allegations from the New York attorney general’s office, which says Exxon told investors one thing about its climate-change cost calculations while keeping a private set of numbers. The attorney general’s office, which says the alleged scheme reached as high as Mr. Tillerson, is asking for as much as $1.6 billion in damages.
“Mr. Tillerson countered that Exxon had long considered climate change and that company put in place a system to consider its risks to the health of its business under his tenure. The company wouldn’t deceive investors about its accounting for climate-change regulations since that would lead to bad investments, he said.” WSJ
MEDIAWATCH — FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: Catherine Herridge is joining CBS News as a senior investigative correspondent in D.C.. She was previously at Fox News.
— “CNN Staffers Shocked WarnerMedia Hired Morgan Freeman After Sexual Harassment Allegations,” by Variety’s Kate Arthur
— TV TONIGHT: Speaker Nancy Pelosi is due to appear on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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SPOTTED: Rep. David Price (D-N.C.) eating dinner at Hunan Dynasty on Wednesday night.
SPOTTED at the Hudson Institute’s annual Herman Kahn Award Dinner honoring Pompeo on Wednesday night: Rupert Murdoch, Jerry Hall, Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, Chris Wallace, Stuart Varney, Ed Henry, Brian Kilmeade, Lachlan Murdoch, Annie Dickerson, Paul Gigot, Lally Weymouth and Ann Marie Hauser.
TRANSITION — Kim Atterbury is now SVP of media relations at RIAA. She previously was managing director of national communications for the Service Employees International Union.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Olivia Alair Dalton, founder of Dalton Strategies. How she’s celebrating: “We’re attending a preschool Halloween party with our son, who has transformed into an orange T-Rex with a very fearsome roar. Then trick-or-treating and pizza. Having a Halloween birthday is so much fun, and it really softens the blow of aging.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Jane Pauley is 69 … Dan Rather is 88 … Lt. Gen. Ricky Waddell, assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman … Frank Bruni is 55 … The Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff Swan … Mike Ambrosini, Michigan GOP executive director (hat tip: wife Vanessa) … Justin Bis … Archana Mehta … POLITICO’s Michael Kruse and Jack Shafer … ProPublica’s Marilyn Thompson … The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean … Brad Spahn … Peter Pasi, VP of political sales at Zeta Global … Clay Heil of Ice Miller Strategies … Lisa Hagen, national political reporter for U.S. News and World Report … Howard Friedman … Alana Goodman … Cathy Cavender … Ryan Morgan, founder of Veracity Media … Cibele Reschke … Laura Oatman … Adam Braun is 36 … Cynthia Meyer …
… Piper Perabo … Luke Mullins,senior writer at Washingtonian… former Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuño, now a partner at Steptoe and Johnson (h/t Kathy King) … Daryn Demeritt, SVP of government relations for BrightSpring Health Services (h/t Esme Grewal) … Kenny Thompson Jr., senior director of government and external affairs at PepsiCo, is 39 … Linh Tat … Sarah Brown … Herman Van Rompuy is 72 … former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) is 47 … Edelman’s Joe Kon … Lauren Vrazilek … George Bogden … Marilyn Rosenthal, national director for progressive engagement at AIPAC … Chris Stelmarski … Jon Seaton is 44 … Rachel Bauer Taylor … Bobby Batts … Kay Ryon Daly … Barbara Laker … John Rowley … John McCaslin … Ellen Warren … Brian Kettenring … D.C. Council Member Jack Evans is 66 … DCCC’s Caroline Pratt is 29
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So if people have a problem with Facebook’s policy, they have a problem with the way political speech is protected in this country.” Katie Harbath and Nell McCarthy, USA Today On Wednesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced that it would “stop all political advertising on Twitter globally.” Twitter From the Left The left disagrees with Facebook’s policy, arguing that it should delete false ads, or better yet, follow Twitter’s decision. “In 2011, political scientist Jennifer Lawless estimated that there are more than 500,000 elected officials in the United States, from Congress to county sheriffs to local water boards. Add in the candidates who run against them in both general elections and primaries, and there could easily be over a million Facebook users now entrusted with a special ability to spread lies.” Pema Levy, Mother Jones “The issue is not whether government should tell Facebook what to do. It is, rather, whether Facebook should act reasonably and responsibly on its own to avoid being in the garbage distribution business. The American people, for their part, will surely not want the dominant social media company serving as a megaphone for peddling lies, wacko conspiracy theories and other forms of misinformation. To be clear, this debate isn’t about whether Facebook needs to check on the accuracy of everything that its millions of users post. Rather, it is whether it should place some minimal standards on the accuracy of paid advertisements… “It’s easy to see why Facebook would rather not try to police political discourse. Doing so can be controversial. It requires human judgment, not just algorithms. It is costly to be responsible. Rather than shelling out the money, Facebook tries to convince us that there is virtue in its irresponsibility.” Editorial Board, USA Today “Some Facebook supporters have argued it is too hard to say what is true and what is false. That Facebook’s advertising rules should allow politicians to promote whatever they want. Setting aside the chilling implications of the death of truth, it must be made clear that Facebook does make such judgments in every other context with every other advertiser. A startup cannot claim the miracle cream it is selling cures Ebola. A nonprofit raising money cannot claim donations will guarantee children will become NBA All-Stars, or that they will be freed of debt for life. MSNBC cannot claim its new host, Sean Hannity, will be appearing nightly in the 10 o’clock hour… “Very little of this is easy. Every policy decision will have consequences and unpredictable behaviors attached to it. If a company restricts one form of advertising, content will find its way through another channel. But that should never be an excuse to throw out the truth. Advertising and consumer protection bureaus have long held norms against publishing unsubstantiated claims.” Jeff Berman and Raina Kumra, Slate “Over the weekend, the company took down an ad that falsely claimed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) supports the Green New Deal. A left-leaning political action committee, the Really Online Lefty League, had posted the ad, and Facebook said it took the action because the ad came from a political action group, not a politician, and therefore different rules applied. So the group found a workaround: One of the PAC members, Adriel Hampton, filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for California governor. Now a politician, as the logic of Facebook’s policies would go, he can run as many political ads as he wants. Except apparently not. Facebook on Tuesday evening said it was nixing Hampton’s workaround… “Hampton’s fight with the platform is highlighting the real issue here: that the company’s decision-making and policy defenses when it comes to free speech on its platform can often seem arbitrary. Its policy says a politician is exempt from third-party fact-checking, and you’re technically a political candidate if you’re registered as one with the FEC. But in this case, Facebook is making an exemption and a judgment about intentions. Facebook’s hard-and-fast rule on political speech doesn’t seem so hard-and-fast, considering it’s already making exceptions to it.” Emily Stewart, Vox Regarding Twitter’s policy change, “In effect, [Jack Dorsey] made a dare to the whole internet power structure, especially to Facebook, which is the platform that matters most when it comes to politics because of the effectiveness of its ad targeting and its size… And now we have the big question: In this game of internet chicken, will Mr. Zuckerberg eventually flinch, as he did with Mr. Jones, whom he allowed on his platform until he didn’t?… “[This] is yet another example — like last year’s widespread deplatforming of the conspiracy troll Alex Jones — of social media not only starting to clean itself up but also beginning to understand the major responsibility it has to the well-being of society at large, well beyond just making money… The social media platforms have become hostage to all forms of abuse and manipulation, not just via political ads, and they’ve dragged us all with them into the cesspool. The growth-at-all-costs mentality of Silicon Valley, as it turns out, has costs.” Kara Swisher, New York Times From the Right The right supports Facebook’s policy, arguing that it is consistent with how political speech has been treated throughout US history. “Facebook is a medium for advertising, not a generator of it. If this was a case of Facebook creating and then running its own misleading advertising or news articles, then the criticisms might have merit, but in this case Facebook is acting pretty much as most media outlets do in handling advertising. They let voters assess credibility rather than attempt to regulate and censor political messaging.” Ed Morrissey, Hot Air “Journalists are offering sophisticated-sounding arguments for why political speech should be controlled by tech companies. One popular argument is that Facebook’s algorithm rewards appeals to emotion so legitimate debate can’t take place. Yet political advocacy in the U.S. has always included emotional appeals… Politicians have been lying about one another for hundreds of years, and dragging Facebook into the election circus will damage the company’s credibility in the eyes of millions and undermine faith in the electoral process… “Others resent the way the platform has upended news delivery in a way that takes power from the press… It’s an unfortunate conceit of some in the media that they ought to have a monopoly on free expression to the exclusion of ordinary people and their elected representatives.” Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal “In the campaign of 1800, John Adams’s supporters attacked Thomas Jefferson as ‘a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father.’ The Jefferson campaign referred to John Adams as ‘a hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.’ This nation has a robust history of nasty political campaigns. A private corporation should not be the hall monitor or the teacher on the playground breaking up the fights. Users on Facebook have appropriate tools to block their precious eyes from seeing content they don’t want to see. Politicians should not demand Facebook protect us all from those very politicians’ campaigns.” Erick Erickson, The Resurgent “Some of the people complaining about Facebook’s treatment of political ads work for networks such as ABC, NBC, and CBS, which often run political ads that can be considered false or misleading. Of course, they don’t really have a choice: The FCC has interpreted the Federal Communications Act to mean that stations cannot generally reject political ads because they believe them to be false… So why the outrage over Facebook’s applying the same standards that those television networks do?… “It is worth noting that those attempting to cajole Facebook to censor political speech do not want these same standards applied to themselves. After all, Ocasio-Cortez is the same congresswoman who, when confronted with several examples of her false statements, famously asserted that being ‘morally right’ was more important than being ‘factually accurate.’ Mainstream-media fact-checkers have noted her falsehoods on numerous occasions. Yet, when it comes to these claims, there’s been silence among the members of the media outraged over Facebook’s current approach… One could be forgiven for thinking that all they really want to do is silence their political opponents.” A.G. Hamilton, National Review “The demand that content-hosting companies be required to remove ‘untruths’ from their platforms is superficially appealing… The problem is that we know what the definition of ‘truth’ is for the Facebook critics. It’s the same increasingly narrow view that prevails on university campuses and in much of the media—and inside many Silicon Valley and other companies. There support for the truth means full-throated subscription to the prevailing liberal orthodoxy on everything from immigration to gender, sexuality, abortion, race and the full canon of modern social, political and cultural verities. The right to be wrong is a crucial element of free speech—even the right to be willfully wrong… History has shown us repeatedly that the best way to counter noxious error is to drown it with truths, not to strangle it with censorship.” Gerard Baker, Wall Street Journal “The risk that power will be misused is also why Warren and Biden are wrong to ask Facebook to adjudicate politicians’ claims. The truth or falsity of those claims is very often disputed. Consider the track record of fact-checkers. The Post’s recently slammed Senator Bernie Sanders for exaggerating the number of bankruptcies that are caused by medical bills. (I also think Sanders is wrong.) Would our political debate really be improved, though, if Facebook refused to broadcast Sanders’ argument or slapped a ‘false’ rating on it? I doubt it: A Facebook that took such action would be likely to squelch too much true and valuable speech.” Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg On the bright side… Budweiser Clydesdales coming to Utah to hold ‘spooky Halloween funeral’ for 3.2% beer. KUTV 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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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. Donald Trump Signals He Has F— U— Money and Will Spend It No candidate has ever run a presidential campaign ad during the World Series the year before the election. This is not, as Democrats might claim, some sort of defensive strategy. No, this is F-U money. We will see if more Democrats vote against impeachment today than Republicans vote for it. Donald Trump is signaling he has money to burn and the Democrats do not. He intends to use what they can’t. The post Donald Trump Signals He Has F— U— Money and Will Spend It appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Has Anyone Who Voted For Trump Now Decided to Oppose Him? I am sure there are anecdotes out there and I am sure there is data. I am one of the people who did not vote for President Trump in 2016 and plan to vote for him in 2020. But I wonder how many there honestly are who are now not voting for him. I say […] The post Has Anyone Who Voted For Trump Now Decided to Oppose Him? appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » “Astroturf Spice” all the rage in Washington D.C. as prescription drug fights loom For those of us in Real America, October is “Pumpkin Spice” time. But in Washington D.C., where TV and political Twitter will tell you it’s all impeachment all the time, “Astroturf Spice” is on the menu as multiple fights related to drug pricing loom. Loading up on the “Astroturf Spice” are a bunch of groups […] The post “Astroturf Spice” all the rage in Washington D.C. as prescription drug fights loom appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Deadspin, a sports site, is upset they’ve been told to stick to sports. Changes in focus has led to a writer’s revolt. In the wake of politics bleeding into every facet of life, and the resulting backfire, many websites dedicated to sports have placed a moratorium on writing about politics. ESPN has returned to more of a sports focus after public outcry regarding comments made by ESPN employees […] The post Deadspin, a sports site, is upset they’ve been told to stick to sports. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Reporters Are Mad at the President Because Ben Shapiro Photoshopped a Dog Reporters are dumber than dogs. That sounds like something the President would say, but they proved it true. Ben Shapiro’s website, The Daily Wire, photoshopped the President giving the classified dog from Syria the Medal of Honor. The President tweeted out the picture, which included a Daily Wire watermark. AMERICAN HERO! pic.twitter.com/XCCa2sGfsZ — Donald J. […] The post Reporters Are Mad at the President Because Ben Shapiro Photoshopped a Dog appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Here Are the Facts on the 313,243 Votes to be Purged From Georgia Voter Rolls The state of Georgia intends to remove 313,243 votes from its voter rolls. The media claims this is a massive purge to suppress voters, but it is nothing like that. In fact, federal law requires Georgia clean up its voters rolls. In 2017, Georgia tossed over 500,000 voters. It had been enjoined from doing so […] The post Here Are the Facts on the 313,243 Votes to be Purged From Georgia Voter Rolls appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Twitter Ads Never Mattered. Facebook Still Stands for Free Speech. The Democrats are beside themselves that Facebook is standing its ground that it should not regulate political speech. It remains incredible to me that Democrats want a private company like Facebook to protect you from those very politicians. Free speech is under attack from the very pages of the Washington Post, and Facebook alone seems […] The post Twitter Ads Never Mattered. Facebook Still Stands for Free Speech. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » “Babies Are Still Murdered Here” Releases Tomorrow The anti-abortion documentary Babies Are Still Murdered Here directed by Marcus Pittman and produced by End Abortion Now, Jon Speed, and Christ is King Baptist Church will be published on Thursday, October 31. It focuses on the structural and ideological shortcomings of the pro-life movement as well as the betrayals of the pro-life leaders regarding […] The post “Babies Are Still Murdered Here” Releases Tomorrow appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » ABA Slanders Fail to Impress Senate Republicans Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee weren’t swayed by an eleventh-hour hit job issued last night by the American Bar Association (ABA). Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) described it as a “shameful exercise in political bias.” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called it “ludicrous and laughable.” They were referring to an ABA “evaluation,” if you could call […] The post ABA Slanders Fail to Impress Senate Republicans appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Don’t Let Them Flip Virginia Blue on November 5th Virginia is at risk of flipping blue next Tuesday, November 5th. Our General Assembly is narrowly led by Republicans in both chambers, the House of Delegates and State Senate. Millions of dollars are pouring from outside the state, unsurprisingly, to prop up extreme Democrat candidates keen on dismantling our state pre-emption laws on firearms ownership, […] The post Don’t Let Them Flip Virginia Blue on November 5th 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. 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Teachers Union delegates have tentative agreement on contract, but
strike continues over impasse with city on makeup daysTHURSDAY, OCT 31Chicago
Teachers Union delegates have voted to accept a tentative agreement on a
contract — but won’t end the strike yet because they’re still battling
with Mayor Lori Lightfoot over making up the days lost to the walkout.
The union says it will be at City Hall at 10 a.m. Thursday to “demand the mayor return our days.”Lightfoot
responded late Wednesday by saying she was “gravely disappointed” and
that the union “moved the goalposts” again, resulting in another day of
canceled classes despite a tentative agreement in place. Thursday will
the 11th day of the strike.Read the tentative contract approved by Chicago Teachers Union delegatesHave CPS parents changed their minds about the teachers strike? We asked.2Chicago Police Department told it must overhaul the way it investigates homicides — but when and at what cost?THURSDAY, OCT 31A
yearlong review has found that the Chicago Police Department must
overhaul the way it investigates homicides, from finding better
detectives to keeping better track of their work, if it hopes to improve
its dismal clearance rate and reduce violent crime.For
a department already facing court-ordered reforms and continuing
fallout from highly publicized prosecutions of officers, the 116-page
report lays out a daunting task: Reverse a clearance rate that has been declining over a decade by tackling deep-rooted problems with how detectives are trained, promoted and deployed. 3The Illinois school report cards are out: Here’s what you need to know.THURSDAY, OCT 31Now
released are Illinois’ annual school report cards, the comprehensive
analysis breaking down the academic and test performance, demographics
and financial picture of every school and district in the state. One
piece of information is new this year: How much each school spends on
each student — a key factor for assessing student success.Lake County school districts reacted to the annual Illinois Report Card’s release, some with more excitement than others.4Former
Exelon CEO Anne Pramaggiore, who abruptly retired amid federal probe,
also has resigned as Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago chairTHURSDAY, OCT 31The Exelon Utilities CEO who retired abruptly two weeks ago amid a wide-ranging federal investigation of lobbyist activities now has stepped down as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Anne Pramaggiore’s latest move follows
Exelon and ComEd receiving two federal grand jury subpoenas in the
probe. A source with knowledge of the case has told the Tribune that
Pramaggiore is one focus of the ongoing federal investigation.A flurry of ethics reform proposals floated in Springfield as lawmakers confront cloud of corruption 5Brewer Molson Coors to cut 500 jobs, move North American HQ from Denver to ChicagoTHURSDAY, OCT 31Beer
giant Molson Coors announced that it will cut up to 500 jobs and move
its North American headquarters from Denver to Chicago as part of a plan to rescue the business from falling sales. Molson Coors, whose U.S. business MillerCoors is already based in Chicago, said the consolidation will save $150 million annually and free up resources to invest in its brands and new products.In other business news:Outcome Health to pay $70 million to resolve fraud investigation; feds say probe into individuals continuingIllinois House approves phaseout of cancer-causing ethylene oxide, but Medline Industries and business groups are working to quash bill in Senate6Uber sues Skokie over ride-share fees — a case that could affect Chicago’s tax tooTHURSDAY, OCT 31The
ride-share company Uber said it filed suit against Skokie over new
taxes, alleging that they violate the state’s constitution. Some cities
are looking to either impose ride-share fees or increase existing rates
to deal with heightened congestion and lower public transit use, which
have been blamed on the growth of ride-hailing.Uber
has objected strongly to the proposed Chicago fee increase, saying it
would hurt riders and drivers, and a favorable ruling on Skokie’s tax could potentially affect Chicago. 7After Rep. Katie Hill vows to fight revenge porn, advocates hope Illinois law serves as modelTHURSDAY, OCT 31California Rep. Katie Hill resigned this week and said she would pursue legal options after
intimate photos of her were released. What’s known as revenge porn
arrived in the spotlight years ago when states began to pass laws
against it, including Illinois. In 2014, Illinois made revenge porn a felony, and legislation passed this year allows victims to sue for civil damages of up to $10,000 or more.8Meet the Illinois folks who collect and drive hearses: ‘I am into the morbid side of life’THURSDAY, OCT 31Ask
the owner of a hearse why they own a hearse, and responses are often
prosaic and practical, followed by a memory of their inexplicable
desire, despite the stony faces of friends and family who just don’t
understand the forbidden love.They
say that their club — which boasts 85 members throughout the region,
collectively owns 150 hearses and bills itself as “the most loved AND
the most hated hearse club in Illinois” — was formed as a reaction to
all those uptight, boring hearse clubs out there.And indeed, they’re far from alone.advertisement Unsubscribe | Newsletters | Privacy Policy | Terms of ServiceCopyright © 2019 | Chicago Tribune | 160 N. Stetson Ave., Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60601ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this email because you are following the Daywatch newsletter. |
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Pentagon: Here are the Details on the Baghdadi Raid
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The mission to capture or kill ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi was exquisitely planned and executed, the commander of U.S.
Central Command said. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie briefed
Pentagon reporters today on the Oct. 26 raid in northwestern Syria that
resulted in Baghdadi’s death. Pentagon officials …
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Read on » President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Thursday, October 31, 2019 By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump has no public events on his schedule for Halloween. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. President Trump’s Itinerary for 10/31/19 – note: this page will be updated during the day if events warrant All Times EDT No public events White House Briefing Schedule None … President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Thursday, October 31, 2019 is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Here’s How Goats Prevent California’s Wildfires From Consuming Ronald Reagan’s Library By Chris White – Officials who run former President Ronald Reagan’s library in California use goats to eat dried brush and grass around the building that often act as an accelerate for the state’s ferocious wildfires. Nearly 300 goats maul their way through the dry grasses around the Simi Valley library The Los Angeles … Here’s How Goats Prevent California’s Wildfires From Consuming Ronald Reagan’s Library is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Voice Of America Reporter ‘Fact Checks’ Trump’s Meme Showing Him Awarding Medal Of Honor To Hero Dog By Shelby Talcott – Voice of America’s (VOA) White House bureau chief fact-checked a meme that President Donald Trump tweeted showing him awarding a Medal of Honor to the dog who partook in the al-Baghdadi raid. Steve Herman tweeted a photo from Trump Wednesday, where the dog who was injured during Saturday evening’s raid on … Voice Of America Reporter ‘Fact Checks’ Trump’s Meme Showing Him Awarding Medal Of Honor To Hero Dog is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Are Democrats Faithful to Mob Bosses? By Amanda Alverez – Since the 2016 elections, more people are watching Democrats and their media sycophants self-destruct. Their new mantra is, “What is black is white… but white is black!” Confused? Please don’t be. It is a sure sign of humans transitioning from sane to insane. Then when others question their insanity, they … Are Democrats Faithful to Mob Bosses? is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » One Of Erdogan’s Biggest Allies Contributed To Ilhan Omar’s Campaign By Chuck Ross – An official with a Turkish-American advocacy group contributed $1,500 to Rep. Ilhan Omar last month, campaign records show. He also met with the Minnesota Democrat. Omar was scrutinized over votes she cast Tuesday that are seen as favorable to the Turkish government. Omar was the only House Democrat to vote … One Of Erdogan’s Biggest Allies Contributed To Ilhan Omar’s Campaign is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Harris Is Laying Off Staff, Restructuring Campaign: Report By Mary Margaret Olohan – 2020 presidential candidate California Sen. Kamala Harris will dramatically restructure her campaign and slash her staffers as she hemorrhages cash, sources and a memo obtained by Politico find. The changes come as Harris prepares to take on Iowa amidst fears that she cannot compete with her better-funded opponents in the … Harris Is Laying Off Staff, Restructuring Campaign: Report is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Proper Credit – Al Goodwyn Cartoon By Al Goodwyn – Proper Credit – Al Goodwyn Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » ISIS Defector Inside Compound Helped Al-Baghdadi Raid, Officials Say By Shelby Talcott – A mole inside Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Syrian compound was essential to taking down the terrorist, officials said. A well-placed informant who helped with al-Baghdadi’s movements around Syria and oversaw construction in the Syrian safe house where the ISIS leader was found gave U.S. and Middle East-based officials … ISIS Defector Inside Compound Helped Al-Baghdadi Raid, Officials Say is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Former Journalist Advocates Changes to the First Amendment By Shelby Talcott – The former editor of “Time” wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post Tuesday making an argument for why the First Amendment needs to be changed to include a hate speech law. Richard Stengel, also a former Obama State Department staffer and current MSNBC commentator, was the managing editor for Time … Former Journalist Advocates Changes to the First Amendment is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Under New Management – A.F. Branco Cartoon By A.F. Branco – The U.S Has killed ISIS leader Baghdadi and soon after killed the #2 leader, #3 must be pretty nervous. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2019. See more Branco toons HERE Under New Management – A.F. Branco Cartoon is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Watch Live: President Trump Presents the Medal of Honor to Master Sergeant Matthew Williams By R. Mitchell – Then-Sgt. Matthew Williams with Staff Sgt. Ronald Shurer II assigned to 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), sit outside a small village in Eastern Afghanistan in May 2008. (Photo Credit: Photo Courtesy of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Matthew Williams) President Donald J. Trump will award the Medal of Honor to Master Sergeant … Watch Live: President Trump Presents the Medal of Honor to Master Sergeant Matthew Williams is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Racism in America Isn’t What the Democrats Tell You It Is By Nicholas Wishek – Black leaders and Democrats have said for decades that African-Americans and other minorities are victims of white racism. Lately, their accusations have become more and more strident. They tell us that we are and have always been a racist country first and foremost. I do agree with the Democrats on … Racism in America Isn’t What the Democrats Tell You It Is is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Leading 2020 Democrats Have A Plan To Wreck The Housing Market Again By James Bovard – Democratic presidential candidates are hustling massive new programs to close the “racial homeownership gap.” Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris is pushing a hundred billion dollar program to assist up to four million minority families to purchase homes. Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren proposed a bill that would spend $450 billion, … Leading 2020 Democrats Have A Plan To Wreck The Housing Market Again is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Are Democrats Exposing their Real Leader is ISIS? By Amanda Alverez – After America and the world received President Trump’s welcomed announcement the most sinful despicable person ever was killed, Democrats immediately went into mourning. This sort of acknowledgment is beyond the pale! Should any decent person mourn the loss of a known murderer, rapist, child sex trafficker, and leader of the … Are Democrats Exposing their Real Leader is ISIS? is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Elizabeth Warren Pledges To Crack Down On School Choice, Despite Sending Her Own Son To Elite Private School By Peter Hasson – Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pledging to crack down on school choice if elected, despite the fact that she sent her own son to an elite private school, publicly available records show. The 2020 presidential candidate’s public education plan would ban for-profit charter schools — a proposal first backed … Elizabeth Warren Pledges To Crack Down On School Choice, Despite Sending Her Own Son To Elite Private School is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Yes, Some People Did Do Something Alright By Jim Clayton – Yes, some people did something alright and for the good of the world. Our brave military hunted down the notorious terrorist and mastermind of ISIS, Abu Al-Baghdadi, and chased him into a cave where the coward blew himself up and killed three of his children with his suicide. Trump also … Yes, Some People Did Do Something Alright is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Impeachment Could Shut Down The Government By Shelby Talcott – The ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump could shut down the government because the Senate has yet to pass 12 spending bills, The New York Times reported. None of the bills have reached the Senate floor yet, and a possible impeachment trial “gives added urgency” for the lawmakers to … Impeachment Could Shut Down The Government is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » DOD Finalizes Next F-35 Purchases By C. Todd Lopez – The Defense Department finalized an agreement to purchase 478 additional F-35 Lightning II airplanes in a deal totaling $34 billion, officials said. Ellen M. Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, announced yesterday’s agreement between DOD and aircraft manufacturer Lockheed-Martin during a briefing today at the Pentagon. The F-35s will … DOD Finalizes Next F-35 Purchases is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Trump Administration On Track To Accept Zero Refugees In October By Jason Hopkins – The State Department is on track to accept zero refugees for the month of October, a result of the president’s pause in admissions and his overall goal of dramatically reducing the number of refugees that enter the country every year. The Trump administration is extending its pause on the U.S. … Trump Administration On Track To Accept Zero Refugees In October is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. 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© Getty Images Welcome to The Hill’s Morning Report. Happy Halloween! Our newsletter gets you up to speed on the most important developments in politics and policy, plus trends to watch. Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver are the up-early co-creators. Find us @asimendinger and @alweaver22 on Twitter and CLICK HERE to subscribe! **** After 95 years, Washington celebrates! The road warrior Washington Nationals captured the team’s first title, defeating the Astros, 6-2, in Houston on Wednesday night to take Game 7 and the series. It’s the first time all seven games were won by the road team. A parade will rock the nation’s capital on Saturday. **** The House is expected to hold its first vote on impeachment today as lawmakers move into the next phase of an ongoing inquiry into President Trump’s decisions regarding Ukraine. Democrats want to take charge of the impeachment push and shoot down GOP complaints that the process they’re pursuing is unfair. While the resolution today will undoubtedly pass, the focus is on whether any Republicans break with Trump to support it and how many House Democrats vote to oppose it. The Hill: Democrats raise stakes with impeachment vote. While Democrats put the first impeachment vote on the floor, they’re speeding ahead to continue gathering evidence and testimony in the impeachment inquiry that could stretch into 2020. They are seeking next week to bring John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser until his unceremonious exit last month, before House investigators to discuss his knowledge of actions taken by Trump and his associates tied to Ukraine. Democrats view Bolton as a star witness, especially as multiple witnesses have name-checked him and placed him in important scenes in recent weeks. Investigators are hoping he appears on Nov. 7, although his lawyer told The New York Times that Bolton will not cooperate voluntarily and seeks a subpoena (The Hill). With Bolton’s appearance up in the air, investigators are scheduled to speak today with Tim Morrison, the senior director for Russian affairs at the National Security Council, who was billed as the first current White House official to testify. On Wednesday, news broke that he is resigning. According to a senior administration official, Morrison is leaving to “pursue other opportunities” (The Hill). “After more than a year of service at the National Security Council, Mr. Morrison has decided to pursue other opportunities — and has been considering doing so for some time. We wish him well,” the official said. Morrison is considered a key witness because he was among the officials listening to the July 25 phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Morrison was mentioned several times by William Taylor, the top diplomat in Ukraine, during his testimony last week. He also succeeded Fiona Hill as the president’s top adviser on Russia policy (Politico). Niall Stanage: After Tuesday’s witness testimony from Alexander Vindman, GOP anxiety deepens. The Hill: Trump’s Russia ambassador pick says he knew of Rudy Giuliani “campaign” against ex-Ukraine envoy. The Washington Post: What will the House impeachment inquiry resolution actually do? Across the Capitol, Senate Republicans are taking the House impeachment proceedings against the president more seriously as damaging revelations against the president mount, all but ending the chances of a quick dismissal of the charges many of them once pledged, as Alexander Bolton reports. As the Democrats compile more evidence that Trump withheld military assistance from Ukraine to push Zelensky to investigate a political rival, they are adopting a more sober tone. While no Senate Republican has said the charges against Trump rise to the level of being an impeachable offense, many have expressed concern over the drip-drip of damaging revelations. Politico: After advice from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Trump lays off GOP senators on impeachment. As the inquiry expands in scope, Democrats are banking on public opinion to help them through this politically fraught period. However, as Jonathan Easley reports, new surveys show more people oppose than support removing the president from office through impeachment in some of the battleground states that will determine the outcome of the 2020 election — a potential danger sign for Democrats. Support for impeachment is underwater in Wisconsin and Florida, two states that figure to be determined by razor-thin margins in the upcoming election. Trump won both of those states in 2016. Most voters also oppose impeachment in New Hampshire, which Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won in 2016, and in Arizona. A New York Times-Siena College survey released Wednesday underscored the tricky politics Democrats face in swing states as slim majorities in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin support a Congressional investigation, but oppose impeaching and removing the president by between 4 points and 13 points in each state. © Getty Images LEADING THE DAY POLITICS: Twitter made waves on Wednesday as it announced that the social media giant will not run any political advertisements during the 2020 cycle to promote candidates or major issues, according to CEO Jack Dorsey. “We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally,” Dorsey said in a series of tweets. “A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.” Dorsey added that Twitter’s stance will be that “political message reach should be earned, not bought” (The Hill). Twitter’s move comes as Facebook continues to face intense scrutiny over its decision to allow political ads that include misinformation, which Democrats have hammered in recent weeks. Shortly after Twitter’s announcement, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended the company’s stance on political advertising. “Although I’ve considered whether we should not carry [political] ads in the past, and I’ll continue to do so, on balance so far I’ve thought we should continue,” Zuckerberg told investors on a quarterly earnings call. “Ads can be an important part of voice — especially for candidates and advocacy groups the media might not otherwise cover so they can get their message into debates” (The Hill). The Hill: Trump campaign blasts “very dumb” Twitter decision. Kara Swisher, opinion contributor, The New York Times: Your move, Facebook. The Hill: Trump campaign blasts Democrats in World Series finale ad. The Associated Press: Paid political advertising amounts to a sliver of Twitter’s revenues. > Harris struggles: Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-Calif.) once-promising campaign appears to be in dire straits as the candidate plans to redeploy staffers to Iowa and lay off some staff members at her Baltimore headquarters as she falters in her bid for the Democratic nomination. Harris’s latest moves comes as she struggles to keep pace with the Democratic field and is having trouble competing financially with her 2020 rivals just over three months out from the Iowa caucuses (The New York Times). According to Politico, the layoffs and redeployment of staffers will affect her campaign from top to bottom, including her efforts in Iowa, New Hampshire and California, her home state that is a key primary contest on Super Tuesday. Additionally, top staffers and consultants are seeing salaries cut as she pushes to maintain viability ahead of Iowa. After a mid-summer bump following a strong debate performance in Miami, Harris has steadily seen her poll numbers slip. According to polling averages nationally, as well as in Iowa and New Hampshire, Harris does not break 5 percent support. © Getty Images Bloomberg: The big divide among 2020 Democrats: Debating why Trump won. The Hill: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) stokes fears among Democrats. IN FOCUS/SHARP TAKES WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: More than a month after Trump, joined by first lady Melania Trump, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, and acting Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Norman Sharpless, announced the government would ban flavored e-cigarette products, the administration has yet to publish any guidelines. Democrats and public health groups fear the delay means the president has wavered under political pressure from within his party and the industry to reverse course or water down government regulation that was intended to be an Oval Office response to at least 29 deaths and 1,300 confirmed cases of illness tied to vaping (The Hill). © Getty Images In a related development, a former Juul Labs finance executive, Siddharth Breja, who was fired this year, alleged this week in a lawsuit that Juul knowingly shipped 1 million tainted nicotine pods to customers (The Hill). The lawsuit does not specify the contamination or how it allegedly occurred, and Breja’s lawyers would not answer those questions on Wednesday (The Associated Press). > ObamaCare: The Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment period, which begins again on Friday, is expected to include insurance coverage with lower premiums and more plan options for consumers who shop on HealthCare.gov. Still, the overall number of enrollees is expected to decline for a fourth consecutive year, in large part because of actions taken by the Trump administration, according to ObamaCare advocates and experts. Open enrollment extends through Dec. 15 in the 28 states that use the enrollment platform managed by the federal government (The Hill). > Department of Homeland Security: Outgoing acting Secretary Kevin McAleenan, who recently resigned, told Congress on Wednesday that he will stay on the job until Trump announces his replacement (The Hill). The president has weighed whether he can appoint immigration hard-liner Ken Cuccinelli, director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, but Cuccinelli is statutorily ineligible to become acting secretary of the department (The Texan). The White House sought legal guidance from the Department of Justice in search of an end run, but there’s another impediment: GOP senators are warning Trump against such an attempt, which would invite controversy and an immediate court challenge, Politico reported. > Pentagon: The Defense Department on Wednesday released the first grainy black and white video evidence from Saturday’s special operations raid in Syria that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and two children, not three, as initially described. Officials warned of retribution strikes by ISIS (Reuters). OPINION For Pelosi, the risk of not impeaching Trump has exceeded the risk of impeachment, by Stuart Shapiro of Rutgers University, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/335oXiU Trump’s defenders are running out of options, by Glenn C. Altschuler of Cornell University, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2Pxpczj SPONSORED CONTENT — BETTER MEDICARE ALLIANCE The Health Insurance Tax would impact seniors on Medicare Advantage (MA). MA keeps costs low, provides additional benefits & protects seniors. Co-sponsor H.R. 1398 & S. 172. Talk to leadership. Learn more. WHERE AND WHEN 📺 Hill.TV’s “Rising” program features Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), on today’s House impeachment process vote; Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs, who discusses the progressive competition between Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.); and Michael Brooks, host of “The Michael Brooks Show,” who gives his analysis of political crises developing in Lebanon and Chile. Watch at 9 a.m. ET at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. at Rising on YouTube. The House meets at 9 a.m. and takes up a resolution reaffirming the impeachment inquiry with procedural steps for the investigation including open hearings and the transfer of evidence to the House Judiciary Committee. Pelosi will hold a news conference at 10:15 a.m. The Senate will convene at 10 a.m. The president has no public schedule. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is traveling through Nov. 5 with stops in the United Arab Emirates, India and Qatar. ELSEWHERE ➔ Wildfires: Santa Ana winds in California will continue today to stoke more than a dozen wildfires, including one inferno that burned to within 30 yards of the walls of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. Thousands of residents, horses and pets evacuated nearby over the last 24 hours and the danger continues today, according to weather forecasts (The Associated Press). Astronauts on the International Space Station tweeted images of fires seen from orbit. As one example of the hazards and stress created by blackouts in the state, at least 20 seniors in one low-income apartment complex north of San Francisco were trapped for two days without power, struggling to navigate through dark hallways and stairwells with wheelchairs and walkers. They said they were without guidance from the property management or Pacific Gas & Electric. By PG&E’s estimate, more than 900,000 people were left without power on Wednesday, some of them without electricity since Saturday (The Associated Press). ➔ Economy: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced its third interest rate reduction in three consecutive meetings but signaled it will now pause. Financial markets soared on the news (CNBC). Chairman Jerome Powell expressed some optimism about improved prospects for favorable resolutions tied to trade disputes and the struggle by the United Kingdom to manage an exit from the European Union (MarketWatch). ➔ Hemispheric trade & global summit: Talks in Congress about advancing a new North American trade deal, known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, have remained insulated from the rancor of impeachment, with lawmakers from both parties signaling continued progress and shared motivation to finalize an agreement (The Hill). … Chile, citing continued protests in Santiago, on Wednesday canceled plans to host the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in mid-November, at which Trump and President Xi Jinping had planned to meet to discuss trade (The Associated Press). Mnuchin was upbeat on Wednesday before Chile’s announcement that a “phase one” trade deal between the United States and China was on track for agreement by next month (The New York Times). ➔ Supreme Court: The high court enjoys favorable approval ratings from voters nationwide, according to recent polls. The prospect of one or more controversial decisions from the justices this term could make the Supreme Court a more significant issue for voters next year (The Hill). ➔ Halloween: “Feetloaf” this week has been a social media sensation. Richard Wilson, a Tulsa rapper who goes by Lil Rich Aka Crash shared a shivery photograph of severed feet made from … wait for it … ground beef, which he called a “funny” dinner for his five children (The Washington Post). (We’re skipping that revolting photo, preferring jack-o’-lanterns today, but click if you’ve already eaten breakfast.) © Getty Images THE CLOSER And finally … It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for this week’s Morning Report Quiz! In October 1920, Agatha Christie published her first novel on a bet with her sister. That bit of history is inspiration enough to make us eager for some smart guesses about the Queen of Crime, who went on to write 65 more detective novels. Email your responses to asimendinger@thehill.com and/or aweaver@thehill.com, and please add “Quiz” to subject lines. Winners who submit correct answers will enjoy some richly deserved newsletter fame on Friday. In the second chapter of her first published mystery, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” Christie introduced an enduring character with an egg-shaped head. Who was it? Captain Arthur HastingsJane MarpleThomas BeresfordHercule Poirot Which sleepy English village serves up clues in Christie’s novels about human psychology and murderous impulses? DedhamLower SlaughterSt. Mary MeadNether Wallop Christie wrote a tale using a Halloween party as a backdrop for murder. Who was the victim at the party? VicarActressCookTeenage girl The most frequent instrument of murder in Christie’s mysteries is —? StrangulationPoisonStabbingVehicular homicide Which Guinness World Record does Christie hold?Novelist most frequently adapted for televisionOldest novelist to have a book publishedNovelist translated into the most languagesWorld’s bestselling novelist © Getty Images The Morning Report is created by journalists Alexis Simendinger and Al Weaver. We want to hear from you! Email: asimendinger@thehill.com and aweaver@thehill.com. We invite you to share The Hill’s reporting and newsletters, and encourage others to SUBSCRIBE! 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