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“When anger rises, think of the consequences.” CONFUCIUS Good morning, A day after a Hong Kong police officer shot a protester at close range, U.S lawmakers condemned the incident. “The Hong Kong Police are out of control and escalating the level of violence against unarmed people,” said Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Calif.). The 21-year-old protester, surnamed Chow, remains in critical condition. Read the full story here. House Democrats Release Transcript of Top Pentagon Official Amid Impeachment Inquiry University Relocates and Restricts Attendance of Conservative Speaker’s Event Due to ‘Security Concerns’University Relocates and Restricts Attendance of Conservative Speaker’s Event Due to ‘Security Concerns’ Biden Speaks Out Against Abolition of ICE 20-Year-Old Gymnast Dies After Suffering a ‘Freak Accident’ President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attended this year’s Veterans Day Parade in New York on Nov. 11, making Trump the first president to accept an invitation to the largest commemoration of service in the nation. Trump said in his opening remarks that it was “truly an honor” to be there. Read more A former illegal alien is suing a U.S. government contractor, claiming that the immigration detention facilities it operates in Texas and elsewhere constitute illegal enclaves of slavery that violate anti-human-trafficking laws. The case is currently before the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read more President Donald Trump praised the Bolivian people for forcing the resignation of socialist President Evo Morales, ending his 14-year rule after three weeks of intense protests. Trump called the resignation “a significant moment for democracy in the Western Hemisphere” and criticized Morales for an “attempt to override the Bolivian constitution and the will of the people.” Read more An audit by a right-leaning nonprofit flagged nearly 24,000 voter files in Florida’s Palm Beach County because of issues that include registrations in multiple states, double voting, voting on behalf of the dead, and registrations by “apparent” noncitizens. Read more A Romanian-born professor who fled communism in his homeland said he recently abandoned his tenured post at Columbia University because various incidents convinced him the prestigious school is “on its way toward full-blown communism.” Read more See More Top Stories Jeff Brown is a tech investor known for his incredible success rate. In fact, he’s invested in 111 different tech startups… and made money on 95.3% of them. Like Intabio, which developed a groundbreaking system to test biopharmaceuticals. Jeff’s stake is up 900%. Or ShapeShift, which Jeff got into very early… As of today, he estimates his investment is up 25,000%. He made 743% in three days on InfoSpace! And now, he’s just released the details on his number one tech stock for 2020. Click here to watch this valuable presentation. What Do CEO’s Know That Consumers Don’t? By James Gorrie With a record-high stock market and rising incomes, as well as record-low unemployment and mortgage interest rates below four percent, the overall picture of the economy looks rather positive. Not surprisingly, most American consumers think the economy is doing pretty well. American CEOs, on the other hand, are more skeptical. Read more By Covering for Jeffrey Epstein, Can the Media Sink Any Further? By Brian Cates Last week, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released a video from a whistleblower inside ABC News, showing anchor Amy Robach describing in great detail how her story on Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t allowed to air. Epstein had been in the news often for the past several months, and the words “EpsteinCoverup”… Read more See More Opinions Urbanization Data Shows China’s Bad Infrastructure Investment By Valentin Schmid (November 24, 2015) China’s ghost cities are good evidence that China has wasted trillions of dollars in investment spending. But are they really? Apart from a few nice photographs of empty streets and shopping malls, it’s been hard to find actual data for this phenomenon. That is until the World Bank recently came out with a report about urbanization in Asia. The findings: Yes, China has wasted trillions on unused urbanization projects… Read more Investigative reporter John Solomon broke the news on Nov. 7 that there was yet another investigation being run out of the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General’s Office, and the final report could even be publicly released ahead of the long-anticipated FISA abuse report. This new report will detail an investigation into violations of the FBI’s rules and regulations regarding the use of confidential informants. Now, what possible reason would the DOJ’s OIG have to suddenly want to take a good look this? A New Inspector General Report Is Coming 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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Tuesday, November 12, 2019 Bloomberg Considering Presidential Run “Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is strongly considering entering the race for the 2020 U.S. Democratic presidential nomination, a move that could greatly disrupt the field just three months before the first nominating contests.” Reuters From the Left The left is skeptical of Bloomberg’s chances, arguing that he lacks both a clear message and a natural constituency. “Something is getting in the way of the normal thought process that would begin at ‘these presidential candidates are threatening my massive wealth’ and usually end at ‘I should support a candidate who will stop this,’ instead diverting wildly off into ‘and it must be me; I am the Chosen One’… It’s easy to see how our current moment would appeal to a billionaire with too much time on his hands and an inflated sense of his own utility to the world… “We have CNN throwing up a graphic comparing Bloomberg’s net worth ($52 billion) to Trump’s ($3.1 billion) and its reporters speculating that Trump ‘will extremely not like this graphic.’ Undoubtedly true, but rather missing the point that having two plutocrats fight about who is richer would be just about the most debased, grim way for the 2020 presidential contest to play out.” Libby Watson, New Republic “You could take Bloomberg’s unusual combination of issue positions, put some into one box and others into another, and end up with something you’d call ‘moderate’ or ‘centrist.’ The other way to look at it, however, is that whoever you are, you’re going to find something about him to dislike. As David Dayen wrote in 2016 when Bloomberg was considering a run, ‘An anti-teachers’-union, anti-gun, pro-nanny state, pro-Wall Street, pro-stop-and-frisk, pro-inequality, pro-immigration, pro-surveillance, pro-Iraq War neoconservative is almost surgically designed to repel practically every American voter on some level’… “If Bloomberg does decide to run, I’d predict that questions of ideology are going to bedevil him. He has indicated that he’s contemplating a bid because he doesn’t think the field is strong enough to beat Trump, but he’ll have to articulate a rationale for his candidacy that goes deeper than that.” Paul Waldman, Washington Post “What could be better for [Elizabeth Warren], who has built her candidacy on the claim that plutocrats control America’s government, than to run against a billionaire 51 times over who keeps slamming her proposed wealth tax, which more than 80 percent of Democrats support… If Bloomberg stops anyone, it will most likely be the [moderate] candidate who actually is rising: Buttigieg… “Buttigieg is 37, which offers a useful contrast to the four septuagenarians (Warren, Sanders, Biden, Trump) he’s competing against. Bloomberg is 77. Buttigieg served in Afghanistan; Bloomberg didn’t serve in Vietnam. Buttigieg lives in the Midwest; Bloomberg lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan (and, at least as of 2015, in Bermuda, London, Westchester, the Hamptons, Florida, and Vail, Colorado, as well). Buttigieg has never tried to ban Big Gulp sodas. And most important, a substantial number of Democrats are actually enthusiastic about Buttigieg’s candidacy.” Peter Beinart, The Atlantic “It’s clear from the donor class’s enthusiasm for Buttigieg, the endless parade of columns… urging voters to take a closer look at Amy Klobuchar or Steve Bullock, and now Bloomberg’s interest in joining the race that most people who look closely at the Biden campaign have serious doubts about it… “But fundamentally he’s extremely well-known, the Obama administration remains very popular with rank-and-file Democrats, and his support from older working-class Democrats across racial lines is a plausible path to victory. Bloomberg stands no chance of poaching Biden’s black support, but with nearly infinite money to spend he certainly might peel off a fair amount of Biden’s support among white moderates. The question is what would this accomplish other than making a left-wing victory more likely?” Matthew Yglesias, Vox “Real-life, non-million-dollar-donor Democrats are happy with the candidates they already have. In July, Pew Research Center found that 65 percent of Democrats had a ‘good’ or ‘excellent’ impression of the candidates running for the Democratic nomination, 25 percent said their sense was that the field was fair, and only 5 percent had a ‘poor’ impression. By historical standards, those are excellent numbers… “Wealthy Democrats who worry that Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders or Pete Buttigieg might lose aren’t crazy to look elsewhere… But Democrats already have better options than the former mayor: Cory Booker has the charisma. Amy Klobuchar has a proven record of winning in the Midwest. And Kamala D. Harris represents where the Democratic Party is heading. Bloomberg could do more for his party, and for his own legacy, by investing in one of them rather than treating himself to a vanity run for president.” David Byler, Washington Post From the Right The right believes Bloomberg would make a strong presidential candidate, but is skeptical of his chances of winning the Democratic nomination, arguing that his background and policies are unlikely to resonate with the current Democratic party. “The Democrats now leading in the primary polls have major vulnerabilities. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want to blow up American capitalism and replace it with their top-down, socialist designs. Their agenda might scare suburban voters more than four more years of Mr. Trump does. Joe Biden often stumbles with his words on the stump and can’t escape the Ukraine imbroglio if impeachment goes to a Senate trial. He’s also low on money. Pete Buttigieg is a glib and clever 37-year-old, but his only political experience is as the mediocre mayor of a small and struggling city… “No wonder Mr. Bloomberg thinks he might have a chance. As three-term mayor of New York, he has more executive experience than anyone of the field. As a successful entrepreneur, he understands the private economy better than any candidate other than John Delaney, also a former CEO. Those would both be significant campaign assets against Mr. Trump in a general election.” Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal “The former veep is lackluster on his best days, and his money woes are a tell that he has peaked. [Bloomberg] also has to know that fellow New Yorker Trump is not going to let the public forget that Hunter Biden got rich when his father was vice president. Indeed, House Dems’ bid to impeach Trump over Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine could well finish off their own presidential front-runner because GOP members will repeatedly shift the focus to the Biden family’s suspect roles there… “Despite his years as a Republican, Bloomberg should have plenty of Democratic cred: He’s dumped hundreds of millions into the party’s coffers, most recently to help win unified control of swing-state Virginia. And he’s utterly in tune with most Democrats on climate change, abortion, gun control, immigration and other hot-button issues… a run is certainly worth a shot.” Editorial Board, New York Post Bloomberg’s “success as mayor [of New York] is his strongest credential for running, and it is a good one. New York is a large, messy city with an antiquated infrastructure, a large indigent population and, in the wake of the Great Recession, a worrisome dependence on the financial industries. It is no picnic to manage. Most New Yorkers laud the former mayor for continuing Rudy Giuliani’s success in keeping the Big Apple safe, and also for building up and diversifying the city’s economy. He attracted significant investments from other industries including, for instance, Big Tech. Overall, the city thrived under his leadership… Bloomberg’s problem is that by the ‘woke’ standards of today, his pragmatic no-nonsense approach to governing is at odds with the party he has chosen.” Liz Peek, Fox News “I’m simply not seeing where there’s a big appetite among the Democratic base for this guy to ride to the rescue. If the Democrats want a moderate they’ve already got Biden. (And believe it or not, Uncle Joe is actually younger than Bloomberg.) As for the socialist wing of the base that’s currently propping up Warren and Sanders, Bloomberg should be a hard pass. This will very likely turn out to be an expensive flop for the former Mayor of New York. But he’ll still probably do better than the current Mayor did.” Jazz Shaw, Hot Air “Bloomberg is an effective manager. If he were your boss, you’d feel very comfortable about the future of your company and position, but you would also be vexed by the fact that the soda machine in your office only carried V8 and pomegranate juice… let’s be frank. All the gold in Fort Knox could not get Michael Bloomberg elected president. There is a simple reason for this, the man’s entire raison d’etre is an anti-fun agenda that slowly sucks the joy out of life and replaces it with cogs turning wheels in the factory of progress. Nobody wants that. Running the country through the deflavorizing machine, as Woody Allen once put it, is not a winning message.” David Marcus, The Federalist “If you were a serious progressive, wouldn’t you be sort of appalled at how the Democratic Party is allowed to serve as a playground for rich white men who have nothing better to do with their time than light vast eight-figure sums of money on fire out of vanity? If, on the other hand, you were a moderate facing accusations that your policies only benefit the billionaire class, I somehow doubt you would appreciate having an actual billionaire right there defending all of the same policies. If I were Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren, I would be feeling very good about Bloomberg 2020.” Matthew Walther, The Week On the bright side… Golden Retrievers take over train station, baffling and delighting commuters. 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By Mike Allen
🌞 Happy Tuesday, and welcome back.
- Today’s Smart Brevity™ count: 1,176 words … 4½ minutes.
⚡ Breaking: Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) is considering a late run for president. (AP)
1 big thing … Scoop: GOP argues “state of mind” on impeachment
The Ways and Means Committee hearing room, in Longworth House Office Building, where impeachment’s public phase begins tomorrow. Photo: Joshua Roberts/Reuters
Confronted with a mountain of damaging facts heading into tomorrow’s opening of the public phase of impeachment, House Republicans plan to argue that “the President’s state of mind” was exculpatory, according to a strategy memo obtained by Axios’ Jonathan Swan and narrated by Zach Basu.
- “To appropriately understand the events in question — and most importantly, assess the President’s state of mind during his interaction with [Ukrainian] President Zelensky — context is necessary,” says the 18-page staff memo, circulated to committee members last night.
- “The evidence gathered does not establish an impeachable offense,” the memo concludes.
Why it matters: By focusing their defense on intangibles like impeachability and President Trump’s mindset, House Republicans don’t depend on undercutting a narrative that has been bolstered by witness after witness.
- Republican senators, who would vote on whether to remove President Trump if the House impeached him, are also thinking this way.
- Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) told the WashPost 10 days ago: “To me, it all turns on intent, motive. … Did the president have a culpable state of mind?”
The memo points to “four key pieces of evidence” to try to undermine Democrats’ arguments for why the president should be impeached:
- “The July 25 call summary — the best evidence of the conversation — shows no conditionality or evidence of pressure.”
- “President Zelensky and President Trump have both said there was no pressure on the call.”
- “The Ukrainian government was not aware of a hold on U.S. security assistance at the time of the July 25 call.”
- “President Trump met with President Zelensky and U.S. security assistance flowed to Ukraine in September 2019 — both of which occurred without Ukraine investigating President Trump’s political rivals.”
Between the lines: The memo fails to consider counterarguments that Democratic members have been making for weeks.
- It cites witnesses like Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, to argue that Ukraine was not aware of the hold on military aid. It doesn’t, however, address the core claims at the heart of several explosive depositions.
- Chief among them is the fact that top officials involved in Ukraine policy, including Taylor and EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland, were under the impression that there was a quid pro quo involving aid, and that they communicated that understanding to their Ukrainian counterparts.
What’s next: Look for Democrats to begin using the phrase “cheating our democracy.”
Go deeper: Read the memo.
2. Now Big Tech is trying to calm us down
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Several of the biggest social media platforms are beginning to test changes that cut down on scorekeeping, discourage harassment and aim to improve users’ well-being, Axios’ Sara Fischer writes.
- Why it matters: The unwinding of features such as public “like” counts could have a massive impact on the multi-billion dollar businesses of social media, including the millions of brands and creators that rely on the features.
Instagram will begin testing removal of public “like” counts for some U.S. accounts this week.
- Instagram’s parent, Facebook, began rolling out a similar test to hide public “like” counts in Australia in September.
Social media companies for years tried to juice engagement with features like increased notification symbols, public-facing “like” counts, and brighter colors to attract users to more images.
- Some researchers now believe that those tactics have led to an overuse in social media, and may have had a negative overall impact on users’ health.
Twitter is also deploying tests to motivate users to engage more positively and cut down on harassment and bullying.
- Earlier this year, YouTube changed the way it displays subscriber counts.
Between the lines: These efforts aren’t totally altruistic. The platforms’ high-engagement environment is burning out some users.
3. CEOs’ allergy to geopolitics
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
If CEOs are the new politicians, many of them don’t seem to have thought carefully about foreign policy — particularly about working with autocratic regimes, Axios’ Felix Salmon, Dan Primack and Kia Kokalitcheva report.
- Why it matters: Corporate America continues to do business with the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, responsible for murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and to court business in places like China and Turkey.
American CEOs are increasingly stepping up to take positions on domestic issues like gun control, transgender rights and climate change. But when it comes to abuses outside U.S. borders, they tend to fall silent — or say things they regret.
- Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi took a social media beating yesterday, after telling “Axios on HBO” that the Khashoggi murder was “a mistake.” He said after the interview that he regretted the comment.
- What’s next: Khosrowshahi will talk more about his remarks at an all-hands meeting this morning, according to a source familiar with the matter.
4. Pics du jour
Photo: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory via AP
Mercury, the smallest planet, passed between Earth and the Sun yesterday, in a “transit” that won’t be repeated until 2032.
- Below, as seen from Lutherville-Timonium, Md. (black dot in lower center).
5. SCOTUS takes up DACA
More than two years after the Trump administration’s attempt to end the DACA program that protects hundreds of thousands of young, unauthorized immigrants from deportation, the case will finally come before the Supreme Court today, reports Axios’ Stef Kight.
- With a ruling expected in late June, the case will bring the heated immigration debate to the forefront just as the 2020 election ramps up.
6. Impeachment 101: How it could happen
The Constitution gives the House the power to impeach the president, while the Senate then votes on removal from office after a trial.
- The weeks ahead will have twists and turns, but here are the basics:
7. Data du jour
Screenshot from MSNBC’s “Meet the Press Daily”
When President Trump took office in January 2017, there were 241 Republicans in the House. Since then, 101 have either been defeated/retired/otherwise left office or are retiring in 2020.
— A tweet by David Wasserman of Cook Political Report, with a hat hip to Dante Chinni
8. First look: Juul’s recovery plan
Juul Labs’ new CEO, K.C. Crosthwaite, who joined the company in September, is moving quickly to try to reposition the company amid an onslaught of regulatory, research and business setbacks, a Juul official tells me.
- Today, the company will unveil its plan to cut nearly $1 billion next year, including cuts to marketing and government affairs.
- The plan’s key elements: “Earning trust by reducing and preventing underage use, investing in scientific research … and expanding our commitment to develop new technology to reduce youth usage.”
What the company did earlier: “Limited product we sell in the U.S. to just Tobacco and Menthol … Suspended all broadcast, print, and digital product advertising in the U.S. … Ceased active support of Proposition C in San Francisco.”
- Crosthwaite said: “As the vapor category undergoes a necessary reset, this reorganization will help JUUL Labs focus on reducing underage use, investing in scientific research, and creating new technologies while earning a license to operate in the U.S. and around the world.”
9. Cover reveal: Jon Meacham’s incredible range
Cover: Convergent Books
Jon Meacham — co-author of an impeachment history last year, and lead author of “Songs of America,” published last June — will be out Feb. 18 (Lent 2020!) with “The Hope of Glory: Reflections on the Last Words of Jesus from the Cross.”
- It’s drawn from a series of homilies he delivered at Saint Thomas Episcopal, on Fifth Avenue.
10. 1 time thing: World’s most expensive watch
The Grandmaster Chime’s reversible face. Photo: Christie’s
A steel Patek Philippe watch called the Grandmaster Chime was sold by Christie’s in Geneva for $31 million, a wristwatch record, Bloomberg reports.
- Why it matters: “Record auction prices for watches have been accelerating in recent years: in 2010 the highest was $5.7 million.”
The Grandmaster Chime “beat the previous record, set by a Daytona Rolex that once belonged to Paul Newman. That piece fetched $17.8 million in 2017.”
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POLITICO Playbook: Dreamers get their day at the Supreme Court
By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
11/12/2019 05:50 AM EST
DRIVING THE DAY
DACA IS UP AT THE SUPREME COURT TODAY … SCOTUS is hearing arguments in a group of cases this morning that could decide the fate of the Obama-era program, which was put in place in 2012 over the objection of Republicans, who have called it an illegal use of executive power. Supporters of the policy — formally known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — say it merely codified the president’s existing power to set enforcement priorities. Either way, the fate of some 700,000 young people hangs in the balance, depending on how the court rules. We’ll get some clues today.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP has said that he would take action of some sort if the Supreme Court confirms that DACA is an improper use of power.
HOUSTON CHRONICLE: “Trump’s decision to end DACA faces Supreme Court scrutiny,” by Lomi Kriel: “Diana Platas feels like everything in her life is at stake, riding on a politically charged debate about to play out more than 1,200 miles away.
“The 22-year-old is studying to get into law school and dreams of becoming an immigration attorney. But she doesn’t know whether a year from now she’ll be able to work or face deportation to Mexico, a country she hasn’t lived in since her parents brought her here illegally when she was 2. …
“The case, one of the most important of the justices’ term, will help define the scope of presidential powers over immigration. It also is seen as a test of Chief Justice John Roberts, who has lamented the politicization of the court and appeared reluctant to take on the DACA case, waiting until the last moment to do so.
“A majority of justices have consistently agreed that Trump has expansive latitude on immigration, green-lighting his travel ban preventing citizens of several Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States and declining to halt a policy ending asylum at the southern border.
“But in a 5-4 majority opinion, Roberts recently blocked the administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census — seen by some as an attempt to suppress the participation of immigrant-heavy communities — by arguing that it had done so improperly, which is also at issue in the government’s termination of DACA.
“Whatever the justices decide will have tremendous impact on the lives of more than 700,000 young people known as ‘Dreamers’ who are enrolled in the program, including about 109,000 in Texas. To qualify, they had to fulfill several requirements, such as proving they came here before they turned 16, graduated from high school or had served in the military, and had committed no serious crimes. The renewable two-year status does not provide a path to citizenship.” Houston Chronicle
— SWAMP WATCH: It’s worth noting the case has produced some interesting bedfellows. Veteran GOP lawyer TED OLSEN is arguing this case on behalf of the DACA plaintiffs. And big business groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and others have signed an amicus brief supporting DACA. NPR explainer
IMMIGRATION POLICY TODAY … AP/COMAYAGUA, HONDURAS: “U.S. held record number of migrant kids in custody in 2019”: “The 3-year-old girl traveled for weeks cradled in her father’s arms, as he set out to seek asylum in the United States. Now she won’t even look at him. After being forcibly separated at the border by government officials, sexually abused in U.S. foster care and deported, the once bright and beaming girl arrived back in Honduras withdrawn, anxious and angry, convinced her father abandoned her. …
“This month new government data shows the little girl is one of an unprecedented 69,550 migrant children held in U.S. government custody over the past year, enough infants, toddlers, kids and teens to overflow the typical NFL stadium. That’s more kids detained away from their parents than any other country, according to United Nations researchers. And it’s happening even though the U.S. government has acknowledged that being held in detention can be traumatic for children, putting them at risk of long-term physical and emotional damage.
“Some of these migrant children who were in government custody this year have already been deported. Some have reunited with family in the U.S., where they’re trying to go to school and piece back together their lives. About 4,000 are still in government custody, some in large, impersonal shelters. And more arrive every week.” AP
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
Tax will take a toll on hardworking Americans by increasing health care costs by $500 a year per family, with more than half the total cost falling on those making less than $50,000. Congress needs to act now to Stop The Health Insurance Tax.
THE PRESIDENT is giving a speech at the Economic Club of New York today, and here’s what to expect, from Morning Money’s Ben White: “[T]he most interesting section will be on China. Investors around the world will be looking for signals about whether a ‘Phase One’ deal where tariffs on both sides are reduced and the further levies on consumer goods imported from China expected to go into effect in December disappear, at least for now. MM is told by a source familiar with Trump’s remarks that there will [be] a ‘constructive statement on China.’”
THE MORNING BEFORE … THE FIRST PUBLIC IMPEACHMENT HEARING is 10 a.m. Wednesday in 1100 Longworth, the high-ceilinged, historic Ways and Means Committee hearing room. GEORGE KENT, the deputy secretary of State for European and Eurasian affairs, and BILL TAYLOR, the charge d’affaires in Kyiv, are scheduled to testify.
— ANDREW DESIDERO and KYLE CHENEY: “The insider’s guide to the impeachment hearings”
— NEW … 18-PAGE MEMO FROM HOUSE REPUBLICAN AIDES involved in impeachment to lawmakers on how they see the impeachment evidence. The memo
— MULVANEY BACKS OFF … “Mick Mulvaney withdraws attempt to join suit over impeachment testimony,” by Josh Gerstein, Darren Samuelsohn and Kyle Cheney: “Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, on Monday backed away from an attempt to join a pending lawsuit concerning testimony in the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
“Mulvaney’s attorneys withdrew from the suit, involving a former senior national security official, that seeks to clarify whether the House can force testimony from presidential advisers. The move came after an objection from the official, Charles Kupperman, who stepped down last month as Trump’s deputy national security adviser, in which he said through his lawyers that it was inappropriate for Mulvaney to join the pending case.” POLITICO
QUITE THE STORY … DAN DIAMOND and ADAM CANCRYN: “Federal health contract funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump allies”: “At least eight former White House, presidential transition and campaign officials for President Donald Trump were hired as outside contractors to the federal health department at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, according to documents newly obtained by POLITICO.
“They were among at least 40 consultants who worked on a one-year, $2.25 million contract directed by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma. The contractors were hired to burnish Verma’s personal brand and provide ‘strategic communications’ support. They charged up to $380 per hour for work traditionally handled by dozens of career civil servants in CMS’s communications department.
“The arrangement allowed the Trump allies to cycle through the federal government’s opaque contracting system, charging hefty fees with little public oversight or accountability.
“Over a four-and-a-half month stretch from September 2018 to January, the contractors collectively billed at least $744,000. The Department of Health and Human Services halted the contract in April in the face of widespread criticism after POLITICO reported on Verma’s extensive use of communications consultants.” POLITICO
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QUOTE OF THE DAY, via Liz Crampton’s story on House Ag Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.): “This year, Peterson sold his D.C. condo for $460,000, which the NRCC said is a sign he will retire at the end of his current term.
“Peterson dismissed the sale as any sign, saying he parted with his condo to have additional equity to expand his farm in Minnesota. He also said he grew tired of the growth explosion in ‘The Wharf’ in Southwest Washington. ‘It’s too many people,’ he said. ‘That’s the main reason I got out of there. You can’t drive, you can’t park, you can’t go to the grocery store. There’s lines. It’s all these millennials.’ He now rents a furnished apartment in a quiet location a few blocks from the Capitol.” POLITICO
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NEW … GETTING THE TEAM BACK TOGETHER … MEREDITH KELLY, who ran comms at the DCCC last cycle, is joining Sena Kozar Strategies as a partner. Sena Kozar is run by Dan Sena, the former ED at the DCCC with whom Kelly worked closely. Most recently, Kelly was comms director for Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand’s (D-N.Y.) presidential campaign, and she’s also a Chuck Schumer alum. The full release
PAGING ANY NUMBER OF CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES … “Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” by WSJ’s Rob Copeland: “Google is engaged with one of the U.S.’s largest health-care systems on a project to collect and crunch the detailed personal-health information of millions of people across 21 states.
“The initiative, code-named ‘Project Nightingale,’ appears to be the biggest effort yet by a Silicon Valley giant to gain a toehold in the health-care industry through the handling of patients’ medical data. Amazon.com, Apple and Microsoft are also aggressively pushing into health care, though they haven’t yet struck deals of this scope.
“Google began Project Nightingale in secret last year with St. Louis-based Ascension, a Catholic chain of 2,600 hospitals, doctors’ offices and other facilities, with the data sharing accelerating since summer, according to internal documents.
“The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.” WSJ
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION — “Trump weighs conditioning foreign aid on religious freedom,” by Nahal Toosi and Gabby Orr: “Aides to President Donald Trump are drafting plans to condition U.S. aid to other countries on how well they treat their religious minorities, two White House officials said.
“The proposal is expected to cover U.S. humanitarian assistance, and could also be broadened to include American military aid to other countries. If the proposal becomes reality, it could have a major effect on U.S. assistance in a range of places, from Iraq to Vietnam. Its mere consideration shows how much the White House prioritizes religious freedom, an emphasis critics say is really about galvanizing Trump’s evangelical Christian base.
“But experts on U.S. aid also warn that picking and choosing which countries to punish could be a very difficult task, not least because several countries that are partners or allies of the United States have terrible religious freedom records.” POLITICO
— BEN WHITE and DOUG PALMER: “Trump expected to delay auto tariff decision for 6 more months”: “President Donald Trump is expected to announce this week that he is putting off a decision on whether to impose tariffs on European Union autos for another six months, a person familiar with the decision said.
“That would avoid a new bruising dispute with one of the United States’ biggest trading partners, just as Trump is trying to put out another trade fire by striking an initial deal with China. But it would also set the stage for Trump to revisit the controversial trade issue in the throes of next year’s presidential campaign.” POLITICO
2020 WATCH … NYT’S JONATHAN MARTIN: “Deval Patrick, Ex-Governor of Massachusetts, Is Considering 2020 Presidential Race”: “Former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has told Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democratic officials that he is considering making a last-minute entry into the 2020 presidential race, according to three Democrats familiar with the conversations, the latest evidence of how unsettled the party’s primary is less than three months before the Iowa caucuses.
“Mr. Patrick, a respected two-term governor and one of the highest-profile black leaders in the party, has told some of the Democratic officials that he doesn’t think any of the candidates have established political momentum and that he thinks there is an opening for somebody who can unite both liberal and moderate voters, according to Democrats who have spoken to him.
“He and some of his top advisers had a meeting Sunday in Boston to discuss what a campaign would look like, according to two Democrats. And on Monday, Mr. Patrick personally began reaching out to potential staffers, telling them he was strongly considering a bid and asking if they’d consider working for his campaign.” NYT
WAPO: “Maya Rockeymoore Cummings to seek her husband’s seat in Congress,” by Ovetta Wiggins and Erin Cox: “Maya Rockeymoore Cummings resigned as chair of the Maryland Democratic Party on Monday night and announced she would seek the congressional seat vacated by the death of her husband, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.).
“The longtime policy consultant has scheduled a formal announcement at her Baltimore home Tuesday morning. ‘I believe very strongly that I have the background, the focus, the commitment and the ability to take the reins and make a good run for this seat,’ she told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. She said her husband ‘wanted me to continue this fight.’” WaPo
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
Americans want Congress to improve health care affordability –raising taxes on their health care isn’t what they have in mind.
THE PRESIDENT’S TUESDAY … THE PRESIDENT will leave Trump Tower at 11:40 a.m. for the New York Hilton Midtown. At noon, the president will speak at the Economic Club of New York. At 1:15 p.m., he’ll leave for the InterContinental New York Barclay for a roundtable and fundraiser.
AT 3:20 P.M., he’ll leave for Washington. He’ll land at the White House at 5:25 p.m.
PLAYBOOK READS
ACROSS THE POND — “U.K. government delay of Russia report is shaming, says Clinton,” by The Guardian’s Charlotte Higgins: “Hillary Clinton has called Downing Street’s suppression of a report into potential Russian infiltration of British politics ‘damaging, inexplicable and shaming.’
“The 2016 US presidential candidate told the Guardian it was ‘incredibly surprising and unacceptable that in your country there is a government report sitting there about Russian influence and your current government isn’t releasing it.’
“The potentially incendiary report by the intelligence and security committee has already been approved by the intelligence agencies. Downing Street was sent a final draft on 17 October and had been expected to sign off the report by the end of last month.
“However, No 10 indicated that the parliamentary report would not be made public before the election, citing a sign-off process that it said could take six weeks.” Guardian
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FOR THOSE WHO CARE: Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer was booted from “Dancing with the Stars” on Monday night.
— CNN’s @brianstelter: “After Spicer was voted off ‘Dancing,’ @realDonaldTrump deleted his 8:33pm tweet urging people to ‘vote for Sean.’ Trump had written, ‘He is a great and very loyal guy who is working very hard.’ Now he’s posted a new message: ‘A great try by @seanspicer. We are all proud of you!’”
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
It’s time for Congress to Stop The Health Insurance Tax.
MEDIAWATCH — “I Was Fired From Deadspin for Refusing to ‘Stick to Sports,’” by Barry Petchesky, former deputy editor of Deadspin, in the NYT: “Two weeks ago, I was fired as acting editor in chief of Deadspin, where I’d worked since 2009. The entire staff resigned, following me out the door after we had refused a new company mandate to ‘stick to sports.’ Jim Spanfeller, installed as chief executive of G/O Media by the private equity firm that bought the company seven months ago, called me into his office, pointed to some offending stories on our home page and had me escorted from the building.
“This is the first time that I’m speaking up about my firing, and my stance remains the same as in the countless meetings with management where I explained and insisted that sports don’t end when the players head back to the locker room.” NYT
— ANOTHER PODCAST??? — “Giuliani considers launching an impeachment podcast amid public hearings,” by CNN’s Michael Warren and Pamela Brown: “Rudy Giuliani is considering re-entering the impeachment fray by launching a podcast to provide impeachment analysis of the public hearings in the House of Representatives scheduled for later this week.
“Giuliani was overheard discussing the plans with an unidentified woman while at a crowded New York City restaurant, Sant Ambroeus, over lunch on Saturday. The conversation, which lasted more than an hour, touched on details including dates for recording and releasing the podcast, settling on a logo, and the process of uploading the podcast to iTunes and other podcast distributors.
“Two people who overheard Giuliani’s discussion reached out to CNN and provided a recording they decided to make of the conversation.” CNN
— FT ANNOUNCEMENT: “The Financial Times today announces the appointment of Roula Khalaf as editor. She succeeds Lionel Barber, who has held the position since 2005 and will step down at the beginning of 2020.” FT
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NEW: American University’s Sine Institute for Policy & Politics is announcing its next class of fellows. They include: Alfonso Jackson, former HUD secretary under President George W. Bush; Cody Kennan, former chief speechwriter for President Barack Obama; Susan Molinari, strategist and former VP at Google; John Tass Parker, head of public policy and government at Instagram; Katherine Miller, VP of impact at the James Beard Foundation; and Janet Rodriguez, White House Correspondent for Univision.
— DINA POWELL, a member of Goldman Sachs’ management committee,and Australian Ambassador JOSEPH HOCKEY are also joining as distinguished lecturers at the institute.
FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — Heather Nauert is joining the Hudson Institute as a senior fellow focusing on U.S. foreign policy. She previously was State Department spokeswoman and is a member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships.
— WHITE HOUSE DEPARTURE LOUNGE: Drew Teitelbaum has left the White House, where he most recently was policy manager in the border and transportation security directorate at the NSC, to work on domestic finance issues at Treasury. He is also a Trump campaign alum.
— Ria Tabacco Mar will be director of the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project. She previously was a senior staff attorney for the ACLU’s LGBT & HIV Project.
TRANSITIONS — Rotimi Adeoye is now press secretary for Rep. Dan Kildee (D-Mich.). He previously was a staff assistant for Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.). … CR Wooters and Adam Weiss are launching FIO365, a public affairs firm. … Hun Quach is now senior director of government relations at Under Armour. He previously was VP of international trade at the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
ENGAGED — Alex Angelson, who is now a principal at Michael Best Strategies after nearly three years in the Trump White House legislative affairs office, and Rebecca Card, deputy COS for Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio), got engaged at Card’s family home on Tripp Lake in Maine this weekend. They met while working at the Energy and Commerce Committee and have been dating for over three years. Pic
WEEKEND WEDDING — Madison Smith, who works on federal affairs at Amazon Web Services, and Ryann DuRant, press secretary at USDA, got married in Charleston, S.C. … SPOTTED: Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), Stoney Burke, Matt Haskins, Lauren Valainis, Jared Sawyer, Leigh Claffey, Lucas West, Kirsten Hartman, Mary Dee Beal, Casey Fitzpatrick, and Madison and John Porter.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Steve Guest, RNC rapid response director. How he got his start in politics: “I got my start on the press side of politics. While I was in college, I worked for Hugh Hewitt on his radio show. After college, I moved to D.C. and worked as a reporter for The Daily Caller. During the 2016 cycle, a position opened up at the RNC, so I jumped at the opportunity to work to help elect Donald Trump and Republicans up and down the ballot.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Dr. Elena Allbritton … Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) is 7-0 … Jeff Zients is 53 … former Transportation Secretary Norm Mineta is 88 … PBS NewsHour’s Stephanie Kotuby and Rhana Natour … Facebook’s Katie Harbath … Rex Elsass … Katie Stuntz … Ryan Coyne, founder and CEO of Olympic Media … POLITICO’s Bennett Richardson and Debra Kahn … Jenn Ridder, Steve Bullock’s campaign manager (h/t James Owens) … The Appeal’s Kira Lerner … Dave Weinberg … Kevin Gundersen is 38 … Michelle Perry … Amber Cottle … Harlan Hill … Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is 71 … Jeremy Skule, EVP and chief marketing officer at Nasdaq … Ian Bremmer, president and founder of the Eurasia Group, is 5-0 … Skift’s Nancy Trejos … Mark SooHoo of Ventec Life Systems … Maria Cardona, principal at Dewey Square Group …
… British Robinson, president and CEO of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy (h/t Elly Spinweber Burke) … Ross Baird,president of Village Capital and co-founder of Blueprint Local … Libby Schaaf is 54 … Alex Brown … Leo DiBenigno … Luca Spinelli … Jessica Kahanek … Scott Beauchamp … Josh Britton is 35 … Patrick Hillmann … Morley Winograd … The Washington Free Beacon’s Alex Griswold is 3-0 … Olivia Lange is 3-0 … Pete DeAnna … Eddie Mair is 54 … Erica Sackin, senior director of communications at Planned Parenthood … Carol Gluck … Naomi Wolf is 57 … Jake Orta … Crozer Connor … Frank Mazza … former Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.) is 86 … Sheila O’Connell … Mica Strother (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Laura Mandy Mszar … David Lawrence … Tyler Boozer (h/t godfather Yebbie Watkins)
A message from the Stop The HIT Coalition:
The Health Insurance Tax (HIT) hurts tens of millions of Americans, including seniors, working families and 28.8 million small businesses and their 56.8 million employees. Unless Congress suspends the Health Insurance Tax, families will face the return of a $500 tax on their coverage, driving up health care costs even further. Americans want Congress to lower health care costs – raising taxes on their health care isn’t what they have in mind. It’s time for Congress to Stop The Health Insurance Tax.
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| Sign up for this newsletter Read online The morning’s most important stories, curated by Post editors. (Jabin Botsford/The Post) White House infighting flares amid Democrats’ probe Two of President Trump’s top advisers are battling over strategy, contributing to the administration’s increasingly tenuous response to the inquiry. IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY ● By Erica Werner, Josh Dawsey, Carol Leonnig and Rachael Bade ● Read more » Trump cites Ukraine’s corruption, European stinginess to justify his actions. Neither rationale withstands scrutiny. The Defense and State departments have certified that Kyiv has taken “substantial actions” to tackle corruption. And European nations spend more on Ukraine than the United States does. By Karen DeYoung and Ellen Nakashima ● Read more » Testimony from Pentagon, State Dept. officials undercuts key piece of Trump’s defense Laura Cooper and Catherine Croft told lawmakers they are confident the Ukrainians knew U.S. aid had been frozen well before that information was disclosed publicly. By Karoun Demirjian, Elise Viebeck and Rosalind Helderman ● Read more » Jimmy Carter hospitalized to relieve pressure on his brain due to recent falls Last month, the former president was hospitalized for a minor pelvic fracture after falling at home. By Michael Brice-Saddler ● Read more » A general was the leading suspect in the biggest anti-corruption case in Mexico. Then he disappeared. The prosecution of the former chief of security for Mexican state-run oil company Pemex is seen as a test of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s anti-corruption drive. It isn’t going well. By Kevin Sieff ● Read more » ADVERTISEMENT Gavin Newsom accused PG&E of mismanaging funds and ‘corporate greed.’ The utility helped fund the careers of the governor and his wife. Over the past two decades, the California governor and his wife have accepted more than $700,000 from Pacific Gas & Electric, its foundation and its employees as the utility has supported his campaigns, ballot initiatives, inauguration festivities and his wife’s film projects, records show. By Douglas MacMillan and Neena Satija ● Read more » Opinions Congress, stop ducking. Free the ‘dreamers.’ By Editorial Board ● Read more » Why is Bolton aiding Trump’s ‘drug deal’ coverup? Impeachment Diary ● By Dana Milbank ● Read more » Rank partisan solidarity is all Trump’s defenders have left By Eugene Robinson ● Read more » ADVERTISEMENT We thought Trump was the biggest con man. We were all wrong. By Catherine Rampell ● Read more » It’s tough being small in a big-suit world. We still spacewalked. By Christina Koch and Jessica Meir ● Read more » Eastern Europe is headed toward a demographic crisis By Charles Lane ● Read more » More News Ex-Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick laying groundwork for Democratic presidential bid In December, Patrick, 63, said he would not be a candidate for president. The former two-term governor of Massachusetts, elected in 2006 and re-elected in 2010, at that time cited “the cruelty of our elections process.” Campaign 2020 ● By Matt Viser and Michael Scherer ● Read more » Israel kills a senior leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza operation The army said it carried out the operation in response to attacks directed by Baha Abu Al Ata, the commander of the militant faction. By Steve Hendrix and Ruth Eglash ● Read more » Afghans to free Taliban commanders in exchange for kidnapped U.S., Australian professors The goal of the prisoner exchange will be to jump-start stalled peace talks, said President Ashraf Ghani. By Sharif Hassan ● Read more » Southwest is flying 49 planes that may not have been properly inspected, top FAA official says The aircraft in question were among 88 used planes purchased from foreign carriers. The Federal Aviation Administration official said they should be grounded. By Lori Aratani ● Read more » Sean Spicer voted off ‘Dancing With the Stars’ after weeks of controversy with low scores, judges’ frustration The former White House press secretary had made it into the Top 6 of ABC’s competition series, thanks to determined viewers. By Emily Yahr ● Read more » We think you’ll like this newsletter Check out By The Way for tips and guides that will help you travel better and make you feel like a local wherever you go. Delivered every Thursday. Sign up » |
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- Ben Shapiro reveals the idiocy of journalists defending Elizabeth Warren from billionaires
- President Trump to release transcript of first call with Ukrainian President Zelensky
- Illegal aliens allegedly sexually assaulted 77 children in NC in October… and it’s only the fourth highest month this year
- October job report shows record low unemployment for black Americans
- Israel’s assassination of Bahaa Abu Al-Ata was justified
- Devin Nunes blasts Democrats for rejecting GOP impeachment hearing witnesses
- Eric Ciaramella should be fired since he currently has no whistleblower protections
- The Bible Project: How to read the Gospel
- When Eric met Adam: How Adam Schiff played Eric Ciaramella to appease his ego
- Liberal Alan Dershowitz: Leftist actions on impeachment are very frightening to any civil libertarian
| Ben Shapiro reveals the idiocy of journalists defending Elizabeth Warren from billionaires Posted: 12 Nov 2019 04:40 AM PST Senator Elizabeth Warren hates billionaires. At least that’s what she and her campaign portray as their perspectives. It’s a populist progressive winner for Warren; many leftists love to blame all of their problems on rich people who allegedly horde all of the money and make the rest of us suffer. They like to see Warren […] The post Ben Shapiro reveals the idiocy of journalists defending Elizabeth Warren from billionaires appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| President Trump to release transcript of first call with Ukrainian President Zelensky Posted: 12 Nov 2019 04:22 AM PST It may come as a surprise to some that the infamous Trump-Zelensky phone call wasn’t the first between the two leaders. President Trump spoke with President Zelensky before and says he will release that transcript, which he claims is more important, by the end of the week. I will be releasing the transcript of the […] The post President Trump to release transcript of first call with Ukrainian President Zelensky appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Illegal aliens allegedly sexually assaulted 77 children in NC in October… and it’s only the fourth highest month this year Posted: 12 Nov 2019 04:08 AM PST If there’s one crime that rarely gets reported by progressive mainstream media, it’s sexual assaults against children allegedly committed by illegal aliens. One must dive deep into independent media reports to learn of this growing problem in the United States because to media institutions that defend Democratic policies, reporting on such heinous acts by illegal […] The post Illegal aliens allegedly sexually assaulted 77 children in NC in October… and it’s only the fourth highest month this year appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| October job report shows record low unemployment for black Americans Posted: 12 Nov 2019 03:22 AM PST It’s unfortunate the Democratic Party has such a stranglehold over the African-American vote. Empirical evidence shows African-Americans tend to do much better and prosper more with Republican policies in place, but propaganda has turned a majority of black voters against the party that ended slavery, drove the civil rights movement, and helped Martin Luther King Jr. […] The post October job report shows record low unemployment for black Americans appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Israel’s assassination of Bahaa Abu Al-Ata was justified Posted: 12 Nov 2019 02:22 AM PST Much of the international community condemned Israel today for a strike against Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Leader Bahaa Abu Al-Ata that killed him and his wife. But their condemnations are irrelevant in light of their ongoing support for terrorist groups in the region, including PIJ and Hamas. Hypocrisy rules the international community and the United Nations […] The post Israel’s assassination of Bahaa Abu Al-Ata was justified appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Devin Nunes blasts Democrats for rejecting GOP impeachment hearing witnesses Posted: 12 Nov 2019 01:39 AM PST Representative Devin Nunes is annoyed. One might say he’s been in a constant state of annoyance ever since the Democrats took over control of the House of Representatives earlier this year, but he’s been especially annoyed by the whole impeachment debacle brought forth by House Democrats. He was annoyed when they ran a covert investigation […] The post Devin Nunes blasts Democrats for rejecting GOP impeachment hearing witnesses appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Eric Ciaramella should be fired since he currently has no whistleblower protections Posted: 12 Nov 2019 01:18 AM PST The anonymous whistleblower who broke the alleged wrongdoings of President Trump is protected by whistleblower laws from receiving retribution for blowing the whistle. That’s exactly as it should be, otherwise few would blow the whistle. The whistleblower should not be allowed to be fired from their job because that’s the ultimate form of retribution. But […] The post Eric Ciaramella should be fired since he currently has no whistleblower protections appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The Bible Project: How to read the Gospel Posted: 12 Nov 2019 12:38 AM PST When we delve into Biblical teachings, we often go after “advanced” topics. We are not a church and the majority of what we publish is political or cultural rather than spiritual, so when we tackle Biblical topics we often do so assuming the reader is already immersed in Biblical understanding and simply needs clarity on […] The post The Bible Project: How to read the Gospel appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| When Eric met Adam: How Adam Schiff played Eric Ciaramella to appease his ego Posted: 11 Nov 2019 08:51 PM PST The more we learn about the impeachment inquiry and the alleged whistleblower, Eric Ciaramella, who got the ball rolling, the more it appears that he was actually prompted to become a whistleblower. This delves into the realm of speculation, but it’s based on clear evidence that continues to emerge. Chances seem strong that he went […] The post When Eric met Adam: How Adam Schiff played Eric Ciaramella to appease his ego appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Liberal Alan Dershowitz: Leftist actions on impeachment are very frightening to any civil libertarian Posted: 11 Nov 2019 02:43 PM PST The impeachment morass once again helps differentiate true liberals from the authoritarian socialist left. Liberal Alan Dershowitz was a recent guest on a recent ‘Cats roundtable’ outlining what has taken place in Washington with the ‘impeachment’ morass. The Daily Wire reported on the interview in which he pointed out that things are becoming scary for […] The post Liberal Alan Dershowitz: Leftist actions on impeachment are very frightening to any civil libertarian appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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Deval Patrick, ex-Governor of Massachusetts, is Toying with a Possible 2020 Run In case the 2020 Democratic field didn’t seem packed and/or discombobulated enough, former governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick is considering a last-minute entry into the fray. Patrick’s (potential) news comes on the heels of news that former NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg is similarly considering a run. From the New York Times: Mr. Patrick has told party leaders that he doesn’t think any of the candidates running have established political momentum and that he thinks there is an opening for somebody who can unite both liberals and moderate Democrats, according to Democrats who have spoken to him. At the same time, Massachusetts Democrats close to Mr. Patrick have started to reach out to prominent party leaders in early nominating states to alert them that he may run, according to one Democrat who has received an inquiry. DACA Set To Appear Before Supreme Court Today A case concerning the constitutionality of DACA, the Obama-era policy for addressing the residency of younger undocumented immigrants, is set to appear before the Supreme Court today in what promises to be a contentious battle. From Fox News: For the administration and Dreamers alike, it all comes down to the Supreme Court, where Trump picks Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch now sit. Federal appeals courts across the country have rejected efforts to phase out the Obama-era program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, but the administration has looked to the high court for support. “The administration has basically chalked up the fact that they are going to lose a lot of these cases in the lower courts,” said Thomas Dupree, a former top Bush Justice Department official and now an appellate attorney. “But they’re playing the long game. I think that there are those in the White House and the Justice Department who have made a calculation saying, ‘Look we can absorb all these losses in the lower courts because we are going to win the endgame when this case gets into the Supreme Court.’” Alleged Whistleblower Had Extensive Access to WH Eric Ciaramella, whom Real Clear Investigations and The Washington Examiner have identified as the alleged anti-Trump complainant, had extensive access to the White House and had been suspected of “attempting to damage President Trump’s foreign policy from the inside,” according to reports from various National Security Council officials. From The Washington Examiner: “The person that I always felt extremely uncomfortable around was Eric Ciaramella. He was one of the few guys around who seemed to know where the filing cabinets were, so to speak,” one former official told the Washington Examiner, adding that Ciaramella was antagonistic at an early Trump administration gathering when it was said that the goal was to turn Trump’s campaign promises and platform into policy. When the issue of Ukraine was brought up at a policy meeting, Ciaramella mentioned aid to Ukraine. He became visibly upset, the official recounted, when he was told that Trump would review Ukraine policy and that it would likely not be the same as President Barack Obama’s. “He kind of rolled his eyes and went, ‘Hmph!’ He didn’t leave the room, but it was pretty clear that he thought that we were wrong and he was right. … I never trusted him with anything after that.” What I’m Reading Today Nikki Haley Has a Point (National Review) Happiness Through Chutzpah: the Norman Podhoretz Story (New York Post) Will the Trump Admin’s Ban on E-Cigs Help Teens, Harm Smokers, or Both? (The Federalist) The Whistleblower and the President’s Right to Present a Defense (National Review) Freakout over Nationalism Book Illustrates the End of Traditional Right-Left Politics (The Federalist) Makeup Recommendations of the Week L’Oreal, Infallible Galaxy Lumiere Holographic Lip Gloss, $9.99 You can find this lip gloss at ULTA or CVS, and I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a little goopier than I would have wanted, but it surprisingly stays on. It is a great topper for those times when you wear a matte lipstick and would prefer it to have the look of a gloss. I wore this lip gloss for a TV hit last night, and it worked beautifully over my matte lipstick from MAKE UP FOR EVER. Despite the purpleish-silver hue of the “sapphire star” shade, it goes on clearish when dabbed over a lipstick color. Overall, can’t beat the price, and it really did last through a whole can of seltzer afterwards. Korres, Hydra Biome Probiotic Superdose Face Mask With Real Greek Yoghurt, $49 I’m not usually a mask person because I’m pretty hesitant to buy into the hype. However, I really enjoyed this mask, and it didn’t cause any redness on my skin, though it did tingle iitially. It felt a little heavy going on at first (you leave it on for 15 minutes), but afterwards, my skin did feel significantly softer. I’ve only used it once, so I can’t say for certain the repeated results, but definitely was pleased with my first foray into masks. For what it’s worth, this mask also smells nice and does not have a gross yogurt smell (thought it would probably have to perform quite excellently to smell gross and still retail for $49). I will try it again and place it in the fridge next time for added cooling purposes. BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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11/12/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Peril for Bloomberg; Due Process; Back in the Game Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Eighty-eight years ago today, in the then-sleepy California agricultural town of San Jose, Kunisaku Mineta and his wife, Kane Watanabe, welcomed a baby boy into the world. They named him Norman Yoshio Mineta in homage to the culture they came from and the one they had embraced. Although his Japanese-born parents were prevented from obtaining official U.S. citizenship by the Asian Exclusion Act of 1924, Norm himself was born here — as American as could be. I mean that literally. My mother was born up the road in San Francisco three-and-a-half years after Norm Mineta. Her parents were immigrants, too. What I’m saying is that Norman Y. Mineta was exactly as American as my mother. Yet, when military forces of the Empire of Japan crossed the Pacific Ocean to bomb Pearl Harbor, Virginia Oprian and her Romanian-born parents were not carted off to “relocation” camps. But that was the fate of the Minetas and tens of thousands of other families. Ten-year-old Norm found himself on a San Jose freight train platform dressed in his Cub Scout uniform clutching his most prized possessions: a baseball glove, ball, and bat. To a kid it seemed an adventure — right up until a military policeman confiscated the bat on the grounds it might be used as a weapon. “It’s okay,” said his father, a successful San Jose insurance man. “We’ll get another one.” Norman Mineta did eventually get another baseball bat, but it took more than 50 years, a story I’ll relate in a moment. First, I’d point 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: * * * Bloomberg Will Hit an Iceberg. Charles Lipson sees more pitfalls than possibility in the former NYC mayor’s flirtation with a White House run. Impeachment Halts America’s Agenda, Holds Due Process Hostage. Bryant “Corky” Messner argues that Democrats’ impeachment process has run right past the cornerstone of fairness in our system of government. The Great Conservative Crack-Up Over China. RealClearMarkets editor John Tamny asserts that Gordon Chang, the much hailed author of “The Coming Collapse of China,” has got it all wrong. Let Export-Import Bank Die. Also in RCM, Michael Lambert calls the Ex-Im the poster child for crony corporate welfare. No, U.S. Doesn’t Have the World’s Highest Child Poverty Rate. In RealClearPolicy, Angela Rachidi counters assertions made by Bernie Sanders and Cory Booker on the campaign trail. What We’ve Learned From Ancient Egypt’s Oldest Brewery. Ross Pomeroy has the details in RealClearScience. * * * The Minetas, like many issei (first generation) and nisei (second generation) families living on the West Coast, had just returned from church on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, when they heard that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. “It was the first time I ever saw my father cry,” Norm Mineta later recalled. “He said, ‘I can’t understand why the land of my birth attacked the land of my heart.’” In the spring of 1942, that heart would be stretched to the breaking point at Santa Anita’s racetrack where the Japanese-American families were sorted and temporarily housed, and later at their Wyoming internment camp at a place with an ironic name: Heart Mountain. You may know the outlines of the rest of the story: If not, I’ll briefly summarize Norm Mineta’s illustrious career in public service: After the war, the Minetas returned to their home. Norm was elected student body president of San Jose High School, majored in business at the University of California, served in Korea as part of an intelligence unit in the U.S. Army, joined the family insurance business, was appointed the first non-white member of the San Jose City Council, became the first Asian-American mayor of a major U.S. city on the mainland, and was elected in 1974 to Congress where he earned a reputation as a hard worker and effective Democratic lawmaker who helped shape and shepherd important legislation into law. It is a measure of his effectiveness that the two most important statutes he was instrumental in writing and getting passed were signed by Republican presidents. One was the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 — the most sweeping update to transportation policy since the Eisenhower administration. The other was HR 442 — the Civil Liberties Act of 1988, in which the U.S. government finally apologized for internment and recompensed the Japanese Americans ripped from their homes amid the xenophobic wartime hysteria of 1942. What is ripping this country apart today is a political hyper-partisanship that is leading to national incivility and intolerance. Here, too, Norm Mineta shows us the right path. After leaving Congress, he served as secretary of the Department of Commerce under President Clinton. He was in George W. Bush’s Cabinet, too, and was the cool-headed secretary of transportation on 9/11. Ah, but you’re asking: “What about the baseball bat?” Years ago, while I was covering the California congressional delegation for the San Jose Mercury News, Norm told me (and others) how it had been confiscated. This sad story was on my mind one day while I browsed in an out-of-print bookstore. There, among the stacks, was a book of Ansel Adams photographs from the Japanese internment camp at Manzanar. I didn’t know its true value, but as a first edition it was worth a hell of a lot more than the $25 the shop was charging for it. I tried to tell the clerk what she had, but she shrugged. “Do you want to buy it or not?” So I bought it and assuaged my guilt by giving it to Norm, figuring he had more of a right to it than I did. Unless you count the bottle of whiskey I gave to Mike McCurry when he became White House press secretary (under the proviso that he and I drink it together), it may be the only gift I ever bought for someone I covered in politics. But I digress. My point here is that in the early 1990s, a man with an impressive baseball memorabilia collection read about Norm Mineta’s life and career — and sent him a baseball bat to replace the one the government had confiscated. And this one was signed by Hank Aaron and Japanese home run king Sadaharu Oh. Mineta was delighted, but when my old newspaper wrote an item about it, the reporter noted that the bat was probably worth $1,500. Reading this, our hero — straight arrow that he is — knew that he’d have to return the bat because it exceeded the $250 value limit on gifts to members of Congress. To the Mercury News reporter who’d penned the item, Mineta sent a wry note. “The government’s taken my damn bat again.” But leaving Congress has its perks and somewhere between receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush, serving in Democratic and Republican Cabinets, and settling into retirement on Maryland’s Eastern Shore with his wife, Deni, Mineta was in for a surprise: The man with the memorabilia collection sent the bat back to him. It now hangs on a wall in Mineta’s home, a testament to perseverance and tolerance — and to the idea that we can all hit home runs in life if we keep our eye on the ball and swing for the fences. Carl M. 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| From David French: Who Cares if the Whistleblower Is a Denizen of the Deep State?Plus, the Supreme Court needs to kill DACA, and the NCAA needs to be wary of hungry Tigers.Nov 12Public postThe news cycle never sleeps. Public impeachment hearings are about to begin, today the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a key constitutional case, a new study shows that millions of Americans just might value their job more than they value their spouse, and a Tennessee state court could help bring down the NCAA cartel. Today’s lineup:Does it really matter if the whistleblower is a member of the deep-state #Resistance?For the constitutional order to thrive, DACA must die.“Workism” has a role in the decline of American institutions.We’re all (LSU)(Auburn)(Memphis) Tigers today.The whistleblower doesn’t matter any more. Last week, just as House Democrats began releasing hundreds of pages of transcripts detailing the course of American diplomacy with Ukraine, I saw the president’s defenders ramp up their demands that the media publicly identify the whistleblower who helped launch the underlying investigation. Prominent Trump-supporting accounts began tweeting repetitively about the whistleblower, they identified him on Twitter, and Mollie Hemingway said his name on Fox News.This is a distraction. It’s a misdirection designed to take the focus off the evidence and onto the “bias” that launched the investigation. I have no objection to the House calling the whistleblower if he has material, first-hand information regarding the underlying allegations, but at this point there’s so much first-hand evidence of a quid pro quo tying American aid to demands for Ukrainian investigations of the Bidens and Trump’s pet conspiracy theories that you could (and probably should) bring an entire impeachment case without once mentioning his name. The facts are the facts. To put this in perspective, there are a truly enormous number of criminal prosecutions launched by informants or tipsters. And many, many of these informants or tipsters are motivated by pure animus against the target of their tip. Police should of course consider that animus when determining if the informant is sufficiently reliable to initiate a search, but if the informant has the goods, his animus doesn’t magically change the material facts. If a neighbor tells the police that a man is cooking meth down the street, and the police find a meth lab in the man’s house, then it doesn’t matter one bit that the neighbor hates the meth cook with every fiber of his being. It doesn’t matter if the meth cook stole his wife and shot his dog. He’s still a meth cook, and there’s still meth in the house. So we can just assume that the whistleblower is a Brennan CIA deep-state plant who keeps a life-size cardboard cutout of Rachel Maddow in his house, exclusively wears Women’s March hats in winter, and has four poodles he’s named Alexandria, Ayanna, Ilhan, and Rashida. That doesn’t change one single thing about the House deposition transcripts, Rudy Giuliani’s hare-brained diplomacy, or Trump’s allegedly “perfect” call. One of my favorite classes in law school was a course on the ethics of criminal defense. Alan Dershowitz taught the class, and thanks to his celebrity we were able to hear from an all-star lineup of criminal defense attorneys, including attorneys for the mafia. There was one moment I never forgot. A mafia lawyer related how he used Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letters from a Birmingham Jail” during closing argument to get jurors to literally weep at the sheer betrayal by the FBI’s mob informant. The attorney had to emphasize the duplicity of the informant and the alleged unfairness and illegality of the process. Why? Because his client brutally murdered and dismembered his victims, and he certainly wasn’t going to defend that. The jury wept, but it convicted his client anyway. Process does matter, and if it seemed for a moment that the House was going to impeach on the basis of untested testimony by an anonymous informant, I’d be crying foul at the top of my lungs. But that’s not happening. If the House impeaches (and it likely will), it will do so on the basis of testimony of live witnesses who’ve been subject to thorough cross-examination. That’s entirely fair. The fact that these thorough examinations began in part through an anonymous allegation is entirely fair also. It’s fair enough to routinely initiate criminal prosecutions that deprive men of their liberty (and sometimes, through capital punishment, their lives). It’s certainly fair enough to initiate a constitutional process that can result in nothing more than removal from office. DACA has to die for the Constitution to live.By the time you read this newsletter, it’s likely that oral arguments will have just concluded in a Supreme Court case called Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California. Better known as the “DACA case,” DHS v. Regents represents an opportunity to right a constitutional wrong, limit the power of the presidency, and throw policy-making right back in Congress’s lap—where it belongs. The facts of the case are relatively simple. As most Dispatch subscribers know, on June 15, 2012, the Obama administration issued a memorandum establishing a program now known as DACA, short for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. The administration purported to exercise its “prosecutorial discretion” to defer immigration enforcement against otherwise-unlawful immigrants who arrived in the United States as children, had stayed out of trouble, and were either in school, had graduated from school, or were honorably discharged veterans. As the Trump administration explained in its initial brief before the court, “Deferred action is a practice in which the Secretary exercises discretion to notify an alien of her decision to forbear from seeking his removal for a designated period.” According to relevant regulations, “[A]liens granted deferred action may apply for and receive work authorization for the duration of the deferred-action grant if they establish economic necessity.” Since the Obama administration implemented the program, roughly 800,000 Dreamers have enjoyed the benefits of deferred action, including the ability to work. Putting aside for a moment the merits of the DACA policy, the Obama administration’s action suffered from a glaring flaw—it was a lawless abuse of executive authority. Congress is the lawmaker, not the president, and when Congress delegates rule-making to the executive branch, the executive branch has to go through the specific process outlined in the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires a public notice and comment period for proposed rules and imposes limits on rule-making authority. The Obama administration ignored that process. It simply wrote a memo. When the Obama administration tried to expand DACA beyond childhood arrivals—through its so-called DAPA program—the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the administration violated the APA when it attempted to create yet another new immigration rule via mere memorandum. An equally divided Supreme Court affirmed the Fifth Circuit, and DAPA died. DACA, however, clung to life. It was a popular program, and there were divisions in the Trump administration over its repeal. In September 2017, after Texas gave the Trump administration a deadline to rescind DACA or face litigation, the administration repealed the program. The Obama administration created the program by memorandum. The Trump administration ended it by memorandum.Multiple plaintiffs sued in multiple jurisdictions, and courts in California, New York, and D.C. quickly enjoined the Trump administration’s actions. The Ninth Circuit affirmed the California injunction, and that case is now before the court. Why would I possibly say that the Founders would cheer if DACA dies? It has nothing to do with the merits of the policy and everything to do with the structure of American government. The CATO Institute filed an outstanding amicus brief (shout-out to authors Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro), and I endorse very syllable of this paragraph:The interest of amici here lies in preserving the separation of powers that maintains the rule of law at the heart of the Constitution’s protections for individual liberty. Amici generally support DACA-type policies that would normalize the immigration status of individuals who were brought to this country as children and have no criminal records. But the president cannot unilaterally make fundamental changes to immigration law—in conflict with the laws passed by Congress and in ways that go beyond constitutionally- authorized executive power. Nor does the president acquire more powers when Congress refuses to act, no matter how unjustified the congressional inaction is. The separation of powers prevents the president from expanding his own authority. Those same dynamics ensure that a subsequent president can reverse his predecessor’s unlawful executive actions.DACA is good policy. It also happens to be bad law. Moreover, the lower courts have compounded the problem. To protect the Obama administration’s program, courts have taken the curious position that a policy enacted in defiance of the APA can be repealed only through compliance with the APA. Or, put another way, judges are functionally ruling that Obama had the prosecutorial discretion to begin the DACA program, but Trump does not have the prosecutorial discretion to end it.The Obama administration stepped outside of constitutional restraints, and many, many people cheered because they liked the underlying policy. Yet the growth of presidential power is an important contributor to political and cultural dysfunction. It neuters Congress, and it elevates the judicial branch as activists race to favorable courts to see nationwide injunctions against despised programs. This entire trend increases national polarization. Why compromise when your partisan president can simply make the law? Progressive immigration advocates get DACA. Conservative immigration restrictionists get (part of) their wall. And then when courts step in, in those same partisans get furious. How dare you defy our president’s agenda. Thinking they can have it all, the activist often gets nothing, and bitterness continues to build. The Trump administration is guilty of its own unconstitutional power-grabs. Its emergency declaration and wall-funding plan unlawfully circumvents congressional will. But here it is exactly right. Its decision to rescind DACA corrects an Obama-era abuse, and the Supreme Court should (and likely will) help stuff the presidency back into its proper constitutional box. Can “workism” help explain the decline of American institutions?Thanks to a Bradford Wilcox tweet, I stumbled across this rather interesting chart, from the Pew Research Center:Conrad Hackett@conradhackettDoes anything surprise you in this chart? pewsocialtrends.org/2019/11/06/mar… |
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comes from a Pew survey indicating that “the share of adults who have
lived with a romantic partner is now higher than the share who have ever
been married.” Wilcox called these numbers evidence of “workism,” which
he defined as “making work the source and summit of your life.”I
was surprised by these numbers. Though I’m grateful for my career, it
simply wouldn’t occur to me that it was more essential to live a
fulfilling life than my marriage or my children. The chart brought to
mind David Brooks’s memorable and important contrast between what he called “résumé virtues” and “eulogy virtues.” The
résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy
virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you
were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love?We
all know that the eulogy virtues are more important than the résumé
ones. But our culture and our educational systems spend more time
teaching the skills and strategies you need for career success than the
qualities you need to radiate that sort of inner light. Many of us are
clearer on how to build an external career than on how to build inner
character. When
a culture is dominated by résumé virtues, it’s easy to see how
institutions decline and people compromise their moral values. The
creation and maintenance of a career becomes all-encompassing, and the
very idea that one would risk their career for higher values or higher
virtues is an anathema. Not long ago, I wrote a piece for National Review called “Courage Is the Cure for Political Correctness.”
I argued that there was a time, not long ago, when campus censorship
was much worse than it is now. Universities enacted and enforced speech
codes, and effective conservative legal organizations did not yet exist.
I wrote:These were the days of the Shadow University,
the days before Twitter and today’s vibrant conservative media, when
campus free-speech outrages occurred time and again without attracting
the slightest bit of public attention. Even as a civil-libertarian
resistance formed and began litigating on campus, many of the fact
patterns were almost comically insane. University officials would
destroy newspapers, force students to change their religious beliefs as a
condition of graduation, and even—in one particularly memorable
case—try a student group for the crime of desecrating the name of Allah
after its members stomped on the flag of Hamas.But
those days are largely gone. The speech code regime has been defeated
in court, and the minority of campuses that still maintain speech codes
rarely enforce them, and if they do, they face an immediate and decisive
legal response from one of several extremely well-funded and
highly-capable conservative civil libertarian public interest law firms.
And
yet, that freedom is largely squandered. Despite the prevalence of loud
online voices and a few small (and sometimes-trollish) conservative
campus organizations, vast numbers of conservative students—especially
Christian conservatives—remain silent. They live in fear of their peers
and their professors, and that fear continues to guide their actions and
inhibit their speech when they graduate. I’ve
heard the same complaint time and time again: “I can’t risk my grades”
or “I can’t risk my grad school recommendations” or “you couldn’t
possibly ask me to risk my job.” I
raise the challenge of campus political correctness because that’s the
phase of life when young adults start to form their professional habits
and order their professional priorities. And outside of a small minority
of voices that dominate the conversation, those habits and priorities
are clear. Go along and get along. It’s worth it if you can strive and
advance.For
quite a few people, when you ask them to take a stand for a particular
set of values, like religious liberty or even the ultimate truths of
their faith, it turns out that you’re asking them to risk the thing they
value the most—the career they see as the summit of their life—for the
thing they value less, the core virtues and values that build cultures
and character. Why
won’t a politician speak the truth? Why won’t a pastor take
responsibility for abuse in his church? Why do corporate executives turn
a blind eye to rampant misconduct? Well, it turns out that when we ask
for accountability and responsibility, we should understand that we’re
asking leaders to potentially sacrifice the very thing that gives them
more meaning and purpose than their relationship with their spouse or
their own children. Workism has won. Geaux Tigers, go Tigers, and—yes—go TigersI’ve
got a few closing sports notes. First, if you’re an SEC football fan
outside of Alabama, you’ve grown rightly weary of the long reign of Nick
Saban and his Alabama Crimson Tide. So last weekend’s defeat at the
hands of the LSU Tigers and Coach Ed Orgeron felt like sweet relief.
Plus, it exposed more Americans to the greatest accent in college
football. Was there ever a better match between coach and state?SEC Network@SECNetworkFind someone who loves you as much as Coach O loves Louisiana. November 10th 20191,464 Retweets7,840 LikesBut
danger still lurks. If Alabama wins the rest of the way, it’s likely
back in the College Football Playoff for what will feel like the 200th
straight year. After all, it’s lost before, made the playoff, and won
the national championship.So
we have to put our trust in another set of Tigers, the Auburn Tigers.
LSU wounded the Alabama beast. It’s time for Auburn to put Alabama out
of its misery. It’s done it before. It can do it again. Finally,
since we’re discussing Tigers as the instruments of American truth and
justice, I’d be remiss not to pay tribute to the fighting spirit of the
Memphis Tigers, warriors against the NCAA. Last week two of the most
elite athletes in college sports—Ohio State defensive end Chase Young
and University of Memphis big man James Wiseman—were subjected to
questions about their NCAA eligibility.Their
“crimes” were petty. Young reportedly accepted a loan from a family
friend so that his girlfriend could attend the 2019 Rose Bowl. He repaid
the loan. Ohio State held him out of its game while waiting for the
verdict from the NCAA. The situation involving Wiseman is slightly more
complex. The Ringer’s Rodger Sherman explains:Wiseman,
a 7-foot-1 freshman who was considered the top recruit in the high
school class of 2019, got dinged over payments his family received from
Memphis head coach Penny Hardaway in 2017 when Wiseman’s family moved
from Nashville to Memphis. The story is complicated. Hardaway, a Memphis
alum and former NBA star, has turned the Tigers’ program into a
national contender in his second season as head coach with a star-filled
recruiting class highlighted by Wiseman. Wiseman’s attorney said Friday
that Hardaway paid Wiseman’s family $11,500 in moving expenses and aid.
But Hardaway was not Memphis’s head coach at the time of the payment—he
was merely an assistant coach at a Memphis high school where Wiseman
transferred and the namesake of the Team Penny program for whom Wiseman
played his AAU ball.The
NCAA deemed Hardaway a “booster” even though—at the time—the only
program Hardaway was “boosting” was his high school and AAU team, not
the Memphis Tigers. Ohio
State is on the verge of a playoff bid, and it doesn’t want to do
anything to jeopardize its potential title. As for Memphis? It’s taking
the Leeroy Jenkins approach and is charging straight at the NCAA. It’s filed a lawsuit against the NCAA
and is keeping Wiseman on the court. A Shelby County (Tennessee)
Chancery Court judge issued a temporary restraining order against the
NCAA, and it looks like Memphis has no intention of backing down.Good.
I’ve written about the NCAA many times before. It’s an organization
that rakes in billions of dollars in rewards for the work of
student-athletes and then actively suppresses the free market for their
labor on and off campus. Thanks to state law, public pressure, and litigation, the NCAA is reconsidering its stance that prohibits athletes even from profiting from their own name, image, and likeness. That change can’t happen soon enough.In the meantime, whether the battle is on the gridiron or in a Memphis courthouse, one thing is clear—we’re all Tigers today. You’re on the free list for The Dispatch. For the full experience, become a paying subscriber.Subscribe© 2019 The Dispatch Unsubscribe PO Box 720263, San Francisco, CA 94172 |
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The Democrats’ Civil War Is Over Before It Began
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 08:15 PM PST
. . . But political journalists are refusing to jump on the peace train. Jack Schaferby Jack Shafer: Some reporters—especially those who have never seen a mortar round fired in anger—love to describe politics as “war” and portray any contentious intraparty dispute as a “civil war” or a “battle for the soul of the party.” Even before the November elections, which sent a majority of Democrats to the House, our political war correspondents were filing dispatches from the purported conflict being waged inside the Democratic Party between the upstart progressives led by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the party’s establishment. Presenting the clash in combat terms, a bevy of recent pieces carries headlines like “There Is Going to Be a War Within the Party. We Are Going to Lean Into It,” “The Fight for the Soul of the Democratic Party Has Begun,” “House Democrats Get Ready to Fight Trump. And Each Other,” “How Democrats Can Avoid Turning Their Presidential Primaries into a Circular Firing Squad,” and “Will 2020 Democrats Help Trump by Destroying Each Other?” The image of a fracturing, fratricidal party likewise stands at the core of my colleague Tim Alberta’s recent piece, “The Democrats’ Dilemma.” Are the Democrats really waging war on each other? Is Bernie Sanders about to loot and pillage Joe Biden’s nascent campaign? And is Elizabeth Warren getting set to sack Amy Klobuchar’s Iowa headquarters? Or is all this noise just politics by the usual means? The voters don’t seem to be preparing for war. A recent nationwide poll by Morning Consult of Democratic primary voters put centrist Biden in the lead with 31 percent, which is to be expected, given his name recognition, and self-described democratic socialist Sanders second, with 27 percent, also a gimme considering voter familiarity with him. But the answers to a second question asked in the poll suggest a degree of unity among primary voters not very well captured in the war dispatches from the Democratic front. Among Biden voters, the No. 2 choice for president is Sanders. Among Sanders voters, the top No. 2 pick is Biden. Kamala Harris supporters pick Biden second. Warren supporters pick Sanders second, and Beto O’Rourke supporters pick Sanders, too. The Democratic Party is obviously split along progressive and establishment lines, but the polling data render the brother-against-sister hysterics of a civil war as overblown. Warren, one of the most progressive candidates, labels herself a capitalist! Democratic voters appear to be much more open to candidates from other wings of the party and political compromise than you’d expect given the raucous combat reports. If the presidential race isn’t riven with internecine bloodshed, Congress’ hallways must be red and moist, right? Wrong. Ocasio-Cortez and several other newly elected lefty members have captured the media with their “Green New Deal” proposal. Their resolution has attracted 100 congressional co-sponsors, but party stalwarts who control the flow of legislation have stalled the policy smorgasbord without igniting much unrest in the party. I’ve witnessed food fights that were more vicious. It’s true that progressive candidates are clotting the presidential contest, that Ocasio-Cortez and her compatriots are hogging headlines and that the Democrats now control the House. But if we’re really going to posit a war within the Democratic Party, we should be careful about overestimating progressive power, especially in Congress. A Pew Research Center study from December found that 23 of the 30 defeated House Republican incumbents in 2018 were more moderate on average than reelected House Republicans. These electoral results signal a shift by voters in most of the formerly Republican districts, not necessarily a leap. Nor are most of these seats now solidly Democratic. “Most of the freshmen come from swing districts,” said Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski, who beat four-term incumbent Republican Rep. Leonard Lance by 5 percentage points in November. (Lance, like at least seven other Republicans who lost their seats, belonged to the centrist Republican Tuesday Group.) These swing seats could easily rebound in a Republican direction in 2020, returning Democrats to minority status in Congress and perhaps putting a brake on fervid Democrat-against-Democrat politicking. Democrats have always fought one another. The Southern Democrats fought the Northern Democrats. The rural Democrats mixed it up with the urban ones. But with genuine enemies in the Republican Party to contend with, today’s Democrats aren’t likely to start fragging one another, no matter their considerable policy differences. When you support more of your adversary’s positions than you oppose, peace has a way of breaking out. ——————– Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) is Politico’s senior media writer. Tags: Jack Shafer, Politico, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Democrats, Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders, Democratic Party, Fourth Estate To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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‘It’s Love. That Is the Real Bond of Warriors’
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 07:42 PM PST
by Tony Perkins:
It was Mother’s Day — not that Sarah Cowart had time to celebrate it.
Her husband, Daniel, was thousands of miles away in Iraq, a gunner from
the 1st Platoon, Delta Company. She was watching her twin girls eat
pancakes and thinking about talking to him later that day when the phone
rang. The number wasn’t one she recognized, but something inside her
told her to answer it. That’s when everything changed. For Daniel Cowart, it was what the Army called a maintenance day. He and the rest of his company were on base getting things ready for the week ahead when they got a call that one of the platoons needed a piece of equipment. On the way back to base, Cowart’s convoy noticed a big backup of cars at one of the checkpoints and got out to see if they could help. After he and some other soldiers had cleared a few vehicles, Cowart pointed out something unusual—a nice white British car that seemed out of the ordinary for Samarra, Iraq. “Let’s check that one,” he motioned to a couple of his guys. But before they could get there, two men inside got out—one holding a rifle. When he opened fire on the soldiers, spraying bullets across the checkpoint, Daniel had a split second to make a decision. He looked at the other man, who didn’t have a gun and lunged for him. “I didn’t see the suicide vest,” he remembers. “I wasn’t just going to shoot an unarmed guy,” Daniel told people later. “But I knew he was a threat and [I] had to do something.” That something saved countless soldiers’ lives. At some point in the struggle, a ferocious battle of hand-to-hand combat, Daniel tackled the young man, pulling him away from the car and the rest of his unit. That’s when things went black. The suicide vest detonated, killing Daniel’s platoon leader, Lt. Andrew Bacevich. It would have killed more, if Daniel hadn’t covered the man’s body with his own and kept most of the blast on the ground. He doesn’t remember much after that, except waking up in a hospital without his left leg. When Sarah answered the phone, she wasn’t thinking about anything but cleaning up her girls from breakfast. The voice of her husband’s commander was a surprise. “He was calling to let me know that Daniel had been wounded, but he was still alive. They couldn’t tell me more than that.” She hung up the phone in a daze, telling people later, “My first thought was,” Sarah says, “I have to call his mom on Mother’s Day and tell her that her child’s been wounded.” Nothing’s been easy since that horrible morning in May of 2007. In the 18 months after the attack, Daniel had an agonizing 20 surgeries. He retired from the Army after earning a Silver Star for his bravery, and they moved to Santa Fe, Texas. Things were finally starting to click when he got an infection in his leg and the doctors had to amputate another four inches. “That one was hard,” Sarah told Capt. Scott Kuhn. “It felt like we were starting all over again.” The loss of that part of his femur meant that he would spend most of his time in a wheelchair. Asked if he would do it again, Daniel replies without a moment of hesitation, “Absolutely.” It’s that same selflessness that earned the Cowarts a second phone call, this time a few days before Christmas of last year. The Pentagon had been reviewing all of the awards handed out for the war on terror and had recommended that Daniel’s be upgraded to a Distinguished Service Cross, one step below the Medal of Honor. Of the thousands of citations, his was one of just 57 that were changed. He started to cry. “My first feeling was: ‘Why me?’ I don’t deserve that.” Struggling with the memory he thinks about every day, he says emotionally, “My lieutenant didn’t make it. If my lieutenant would have lived then, maybe. But I’ll always feel like it is a little unfair.” On March 20th, with his teenage daughters looking on, the same dad who has vowed to walk his girls down the aisle, stood and looked out at the hundreds of active-duty servicemembers at his ceremony — so many, reporters said, that the bleachers couldn’t hold them.“Our nation’s history is full of selfless heroes,” Lt. General Paul Funk said during the tribute. “When you hear about the acts of our warriors, you have to ask yourself, ‘Where do we get these men and women?’ This bond comes from our shared values; loyalty, honor, duty. But when you strip it all away, it is love… this is the real core of the bond between warriors. It is that love that brings this group here today…”And it is love that drives tens of thousands of brave men and women just like him to sacrifice in ways most of us will ever know. Everyone who pulls on the uniform of the United States military shares that devotion. I know, because I did as a member of the United States Marine Corps. It was my deepest honor and privilege to be part of the proud tradition of patriotism that makes America unique. Join me in thanking — and praying — for the millions of warriors who’ve answered the call to defend this country — and our freedom. To them, we owe all. —————– Tony Perkins (@tperkins) is President of the Family Research Council . This article was on Tony Perkin’s Washington Update and written with the aid of FRC senior writers. Tags: Tony Perkins, Family Research Center, FRC, Family Research Council, It’s Love, Real Bond of Warriors To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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The Looming ‘1984’ Election
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 07:25 PM PST
. . . Like it or not, 2020 is going to be a plebiscite on an American version of Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four. Victor Davis Hansonby Dr. Victor Davis Hanson: For a variety of reasons, the 2020 election is going to be a referendum beyond Donald Trump’s record and his Democratic opposition. The furor that Trump has incurred, and the radical antithesis to his agenda and first term, have redefined the looming election. It is becoming a stark choice between a revolutionary future versus American traditionalism. The choice in reductionist terms will be one between a growing, statist Panopticon, fueled by social media, a media-progressive nexus, and an electronic posse. Online trolls and government bureaucrats seek to know everything about us, in Big Brother fashion to monitor our very thoughts to ferret out incorrect ideas, and then to regiment and indoctrinate us to ensure elite visions of mandated equality and correct behavior—or else! In other words, the personality quirks of a Trump or an Elizabeth Warren or a Bernie Sanders will become mostly irrelevant given the existential choice between two quite antithetical ideas of future America. In 2020 we will witness the penultimate manifestation of what radical progressivism has in store for us all—and the furious, often desperate, and unfettered pushback against it. Targeting Traditional America We are also well beyond even the stark choices of 1972 and 1984 that remained within the parameters of the two parties. In contrast, the Democratic Party as we have known it, is extinct for now. It has been replaced since 2016 by a radical progressive revolutionary movement that serves as a touchstone for a variety of auxiliary extremist causes, agendas, and cliques—almost all of them radically left-wing and nihilistic, and largely without majority popular support. When Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and a number of Democratic presidential candidates sympathize with the New York subway jumpers who openly threaten the police, then what or who exactly is the alternative to such chaos? When the media proves 90 percent partisan according to its own liberal watchdog institutions, or reports things as true that cannot be true but “should” be true, what are the forces behind that? When the violence of Antifa is quietly—or sometimes loudly—condoned, who are those who empower it and excuse it? If a late-term abortion results in a live baby exiting the birth canal only to be liquidated, who exactly would say that is amoral? If the leading Democratic presidential candidates openly embrace the Green New Deal, reparations, abolishing the Electoral College, welfare for illegal aliens, open borders, amnesties, wealth taxes, a 70-90 percent income tax code, Medicare for all, and legal infanticide—what is the alternative vision and who stands between all that and a targeted traditional America? Californication Ahead! In California, the nation’s largest utility preemptively shuts off power to multibillion-dollar industries and two-million customers, given its ossified grid and over-regulated operations, and the deliberate policy of the state not to clean up drought-stricken dead forests and underbrush that are ignited by wind and antiquated transmission cables. So, who or what then in 2020 would oppose all that? In a state where half the nation’s homeless use the streets as open sewers and receptacles for refuse, incubating medieval diseases and public hazards, who exactly says that is unacceptable? The California attorney general openly boasts that he believes the state is the home for 10 million immigrants of undetermined legal status; is there any pushback to that agenda? If not, would 20 or 30 million immigrants be acceptable for Californians? Why not 50 to 60 million additional residing foreign nationals legal or otherwise? Can even a leftwing Facebook, Google, or Apple operate within a landscape that cannot ensure reliable power to run its businesses? Do the progressive masters of the Silicon Valley want to hand over millions per year in wealth taxes on money that has already been taxed—but which is considered by the Warrenites and Sandersites as veritable public property given their own past use of state roads and infrastructure to build their businesses? Do these billionaires really think conservative state policies encouraged tens of thousands of homeless people to sleep in cars and streets near their businesses? On the social front, we are bombarded with celebrities dreaming of various methods of assassinating the current president. Who speaks out against such incendiary smears? Did Hollywood stars do the same to then-President Barack Obama? In professional sports, Colin Kaepernick’s circus of not standing up during the national anthem has transmogrified into something far more serious—the National Basketball Association’s wholesale appeasement of the dictatorial communist Chinese government, and the leveraging of U.S. free speech in return for access to the lucrative Chinese market. Who is more likely to speak out against that? Will Campus Culture Replace Our National Character? Our universities effectively have eroded the First Amendment and the due process protections of the Fifth in matters of sexual assault allegations. Higher education is now controlled by a revolutionary clique. It institutionalizes racially segregated dorms and safe spaces, matter of factly promotes censorship, and either cannot or will not prevent students from disrupting lecturers with whom they disagree. What or who exactly say not to all that? Who would dare say that America in its third century is not going to change its use of English pronouns or decide that there are not three and more biological genders? When a progressive mom takes her kids to walk and play in a California municipal park and, instead of relaxing comfortably with her fellow mom friends, finds blood-tainted needles sticking up out of the grass, what sort of policies does she imagine allowed that? When a small business owner in San Francisco finds vagrants defecating near his breezeway or mobs of shoplifters swarming his store, what sort of politics and ideologies will he consider led to that? Who Is Sovereign Here? On the national level, what or who created a landscape in which the highest echelons of the FBI, CIA, and Justice Department sought to surveil American citizens, undermine a presidential campaign, and abort a presidential transition and then a presidency? If Hillary Clinton had won in 2016, would anyone have objected? Do any object today that she hired a foreign national to work with foreign sources to discredit and smear her political opponent? Who or what is behind the constant remonstrations that the American people are racist, sexist, homophobic, nativist, xenophobic, and oppressing the transgendered? Who lodges such charges? Who believes them to be true? Why is gasoline reaching $5 a gallon in coastal cities, when states like California have huge untapped sources of oil and natural gas? Why is lumber sky-high in stores while the state mandates that millions of harvestable drought-stricken dead trees instead slowly rot to serve as kindle for deadly wildfires? What is wrong with 3.5 percent unemployment? Is there a Democratic plan to lower it to 2.5 percent? Who exactly wishes to pack the court, to repeal the Electoral College, to nix the difference between residency and citizenship, to promote identity-politics tribalism over collective affinities, to nullify federal immigration law, to hunt down and disrupt political opponents as they eat and sleep—and who not? Whose ideologies logically lead to promoting iconoclasm and statue-toppling, the Orwellian renaming of streets and buildings, the defacing of public murals? The Orwellian Jacobins or America First The new progressive party is Jacobin. It sees politics in all-inclusive French revolutionary terms—encompassing every aspect of American life from entertainment, sports, academia, religion, and family matters to politics, foreign policy, and individual rights. In his own way, Trump also fights back in 360-degree fashion, from the existential to the trivial, railing against Colin Kaepernick, tit for tatting Hollywood stars, weighing in on radical abortion, open borders, power outages, the homeless and subway jumping. The result is not just that there looms a choice between two different agendas, but two quite different American lifestyles and experiences—and histories. Like it or not, 2020 is going to be a plebiscite on an American version of Orwell’s Nineteen-Eighty-Four. One side advocates a complete transformation not just of the American present but of the past as well. The Left is quite eager to change our very vocabulary and monitor our private behavior to ensure we are not just guilty of incorrect behavior but thought as well. The other side believes America is far better than the alternative, that it never had to be perfect to be good, and that, all and all, its flawed past is a story of a moral nation’s constant struggle for moral improvement. One side will say, “Just give us more power and we will create heaven on earth.” The other says “Why would anyone wish to take their road to an Orwellian nightmare?” The 2020 election is that simple. ——————— Victor Davis Hanson (@VDHanson) is a senior fellow, classicist and historian at the and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution where many of his articles are found; his focus is classics and military history. He has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College since 2004. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush. H/T American Greatness. Tags: Victor Davis Hanson, The Looming ‘1984’ Election, American Greatness To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. 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Bernie Sanders Promotes Abortion on Veterans Day, Wants to Turn VA Hospitals Into Abortion Clinics
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 06:54 PM PST
by Steven Ertelt: Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders rarely misses an opportunity to push abortion. Today is no different. While Americans are celebrating the service of millions of veterans and their brave dedication to keeping our country free, Sanders is promoting his agenda for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He wants to turn VA hospitals into abortion clinics by making sure women veterans can keep abortions to end their babies’ lives at VA hospitals. “The proposal would expand incentives for companies to hire veterans, bolster access to mental health and suicide prevention services and ensure women veterans receive women’s health services, including fertility treatments and abortion care, through the VA,” one report explained. This just another way Sanders would force Americans to fund abortions. As LifeNews has reported, Sanders’ government-controlled health care plan treats abortion and maternity care equally. Though one option provides health care to a mother and her unborn baby and the other destroys an unborn baby’s life for any reason up to birth, both would be treated equally and covered under the taxpayer-funded plan, according to details reported at the pro-abortion site Mother Jones. “Sanders’ Medicare for All bill promises free ‘comprehensive reproductive, maternity, and newborn care.’ Although the bill does not explicitly state this, Sanders’ team confirmed that this provision would cover abortions,” the news outlet reported. Sanders touted his Medicare for All plan during the Democratic presidential debate. When asked what he would do to protect abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned, the Vermont politician answered by explaining how his plan includes abortions. “Well, my plan, as somebody who believes for a start that a woman’s right to control her own body is a constitutional right, that government and politicians should not infringe on that right, we will do everything we can to defend Roe versus Wade,” Sanders said, later adding, “… Medicare for All guarantees every woman in this country the right to have an abortion if she wants it.” His plan also would end the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits taxpayer funding for abortions in Medicaid, according to the report. The amendment historically has had strong bipartisan support and continues to have strong public support, but Democratic leaders are calling for its end. Medicare for All could lead to a huge expansion of abortions and the slaughter of millions more unborn babies in America. As Mother Jones pointed out, “Universal coverage for abortion would go a long way toward expanding access to abortion for lower-income Americans.” Sanders would end private health insurance and force everyone onto the government-run plan. It would force taxpayers to pay for abortions without restriction, potentially even for illegal immigrants. It also would prohibit states from defunding Planned Parenthood, which does about 330,000 abortions each year, Townhall reported earlier this year. Pro-life leaders warned about the dangers of the Medicare for All plan last month in a letter to Congress. “We are strongly opposed to any legislation that covers elective abortion in healthcare and urge you to oppose such bills unless amended so that such funds cannot be used for plans that include abortion,” the Susan B. Anthony List, Live Action, the Family Research Council, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and about 50 pro-life groups wrote. Polls are not in Democrats’ favor. A 2019 national poll by Marist University found that a majority of Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortions, while 39 percent support them. Similarly, a 2016 Politico/Harvard University poll found that just 36 percent of likely voters supported taxpayer funding for abortions, while 58 percent opposed it. Similarly, a poll earlier this spring found a sharp, double-digit uptick in the number of Americans who identify as pro-life after pro-abortion Democrats began pushing abortions up to birth and infanticide this year. Among Democrats, the gap between pro-life and pro-choice identifiers was cut in half from 55 percent to 27 percent. ————————– Steven Ertelt ( @StevenErtelt ) is founder and editor of LifeNews.com. Tags: Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com, Bernie Sanders, Promotes Abortion, on Veterans Day, Wants to Turn VA Hospitals, Into Abortion Clinics To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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A Rousing Reception, Haley’s Bombshell, Impeachment Part II, Honoring Our Heroes
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 06:25 PM PST
Gary Bauerby Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: A Rousing Reception President Trump received a rousing reception at Bryant-Denny Stadium at the University of Alabama this weekend. The president was there to attend the Alabama-LSU college football game. The stadium, which seats nearly 102,000, is one of the world’s largest. You can watch the brief video here. Incredibly, some reports suggested the president got a mixed reaction from the crowd. Fox News described as “mostly warm.” If by mixed or “mostly warm” they mean 100,000 people were cheering while a few hundred weren’t, I suppose that’s “mixed.” Trump certainly got a mixed reaction in the D.C. Swamp when he attended the fifth game of the World Series. But the heartland reception in Tuscaloosa was huge, and the exact opposite of what any Democrat would have gotten. In fact, any Democrat candidate would have been cheered in D.C. and most likely booed at Bryant-Denny Stadium. Haley’s Bombshell Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley dropped a bombshell during an interview yesterday with CBS’s Norah O’Donnell. The interview served as a kickoff for her new book, which I haven’t read yet. But in the interview, Haley made the extraordinary and very disturbing disclosure that former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly “resisted” President Trump’s agenda and attempted to recruit her support for their resistance. My first thought was, “Did Haley tell the president?” I hope he’s not hearing this for the first time. But it also goes a long way toward explaining why both men are no longer serving in the Trump/Pence Administration. Assuming Haley’s account is accurate, Kelly and Tillerson’s plot to block Trump’s agenda would be a real constitutional crisis. Even worse, if some top officials have accepted posts in the administration so they could thwart his agenda, that is a quasi-coup. As Haley explained to O’Donnell: “Instead of saying that to me, [Kelly and Tillerson] should’ve been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan. It should’ve been, ‘Go tell the president what your differences are, and quit if you don’t like what he’s doing.’ “But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want. And it was offensive.” She’s absolutely right. We know that the entire left-wing progressive movement is trying to cancel the election. But the fact that two leaders inside the Cabinet, generally thought of as Republicans, were also part of the “resistance” is evidence of just how far down the road we are toward losing our constitutional republic. The president is the elected leader of the country, not the secretary of state, not the chief of staff! What do you think the media reaction would have been if it were discovered that former Secretary of State John Kerry and former White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough had tried to blow up the Iranian nuclear deal that President Obama negotiated with the mullahs of Iran? While the deal was not legally treasonous, its effects certainly were treasonous. It removed sanctions against a regime that has killed hundreds of American soldiers. It transferred more than one billion dollars in cash to a government that plotted to blow up a prominent Washington, D.C., restaurant. It allowed a path to nuclear weapons for a country that has repeatedly vowed to wipe Israel off the map. Would Kelly and Tillerson have attempted to blow up that deal if they had served in the Obama Administration? Yet they were willing to sabotage this president because he is intent on ending our “no-win” wars and on getting our allies to pay for their fair share of their own defense. I’m left with the sad conclusion that no high official in the military, at the State Department or the Pentagon resigned in protest when Obama was directly aiding an enemy of the United States. But they are incapable of aiding a president who wants to put America first. Impeachment Part II The impeachment process begins a new phase this week with the beginning of public hearings. Not surprisingly, the process will continue to be a biased partisan affair as House Democrats have rejected the Republican witness list. (Here and here.) Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz warns that this process has taken on all the hallmarks of a Soviet-era show trial with Democrats attempting to invent a crime in much the same way as Stalin’s KGB frequently framed political opponents. During her CBS interview, Haley also denounced the impeachment charade, saying it was the equivalent of the “death penalty” for a politician, yet the president had done nothing wrong. Asked by O’Donnell whether she thought Trump would be impeached and removed from office, Haley said: “I don’t know what you would impeach him on. And look, Norah, impeachment is like the death penalty for a public official. When you look at the transcript, there’s nothing in that transcript that warrants the death penalty for the president.” Honoring Our Heroes Today is Veterans Day. The day originally began as Armistice Day to mark the 11:00 AM ceasefire on November 11, 1918, that ended World War I. In 1954 Congress renamed Armistice Day as Veterans Day to honor the veterans of all our wars. This morning, President Trump participated in a wreath laying ceremony in New York City and became the first president to participate in New York City’s Veterans Day parade. You can watch the president’s remarks here. Please find an opportunity today talk to your children and grandchildren about what happened at Concord Bridge and Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy and, more recently, in the deserts of Iraq and in the mountains of Afghanistan. As Ronald Reagan once said: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” To the millions who have always been there to stop the tyrant, protect the weak and preserve the peace — we have not forgotten you. A grateful nation thanks God for giving us heroes like you. ——————- Gary Bauer (@GaryLBauer) is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families Tags: Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, A Rousing Reception, Haley’s Bombshell, Impeachment Part II, Honoring Our Heroes To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Trump Jr. Vs. The View
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 06:08 PM PST
. . . The president’s son takes no prisoners. by Matthew Vadum: The left-wing ladies of the demented sewing circle that is “The View” ganged up on Donald Trump Jr. Nov. 7, relentlessly attacking him because he dared days before to repeat the name of the so-called whistleblower whose complaint about President Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president catalyzed the impeachment inquiry now in progress. “The View” is on ABC, the same scuzzy TV network that suppressed the Jeffrey Epstein human-trafficking story for years to protect the powerful, as Project Veritas recently showed. Anchor Amy Robach was captured on video saying, “I’ve had the story for three years. I’ve had this interview with [Epstein accuser] Virginia Roberts. We would not put it on the air. … It was unbelievable … we had – Clinton, we had everything …” Although the younger Trump was scheduled to discuss his new book, Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, the co-hosts wouldn’t let him say much about it. Instead, Abby Huntsman laid into Trump at the outset, claiming she and many other Americans were “triggered” when Trump identified the alleged whistleblower –who was already widely reported as CIA operative Eric Ciaramella—on Twitter. Huntsman and others labor under the false assumption that whistleblowers identities’ are protected by law, when in fact, the law only shields them from legal consequences for the disclosures they make. “The whole point of releasing a name is to intimidate someone, to threaten someone, and to scare other people from coming out,” Huntsman said. “That’s something that dictators do. I’ve lived in China. I’ve seen that first hand. That’s not what America does.” Trump shot back: “I think the reality of the answer is the whistleblower’s name was on a little website called the Drudge Report a couple of days ago. I literally quote tweeted an article that had the guy’s name in the title of the article.” “What’s the difference? I’m a private citizen putting this out there,” he added. At one point Trump worked in a defense of his father, calling him “a counterpuncher” who has “got a pair.” “No sitting president has taken the heat that President Trump has,” he said. “He was under constant attack by the same people. When he’s under attack by the establishment, but the reality is, he’s a counter-puncher, and as a conservative, I would hope you would appreciate that conservatives haven’t been known for fighting back for a very long time,” Trump Jr. told co-host Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who was a frequent antagonist of the president. “We have ceded ground to the liberals and the liberal elite for decades by not actually fighting back. I understand we can keep going back to character. I think he has great character.” “The View” counter-attacked, saying that didn’t make Trump Junior’s naming of the supposed whistleblower right especially because Trump is a high-profile person, which presumably implies people would pay attention to him, and because he is the son of the president. Trump said nobody in the media cared when an envelope containing white powder was sent to his home and opened by his then-spouse, Vanessa Trump, in February 2018. “I wish the outrage would be equal. I mean, there was no outrage when my family got an exploding letter of, with white powder substance in it,” he said. Co-host Sunny Hostin attacked Trump claiming it was against the law for Trump to name the purported whistleblower and she knows this because she holds a law degree. “You’re a lawyer, we know each other, you worked for a prosecutor,” Hostin said to Trump’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was also a guest on the program. “I mean, did you advise your boyfriend that it is a federal crime to out a whistleblower?” “Well it’s not a federal crime. It’s only a federal crime for the IG to do it, that’s in the statute,” Trump said. Trump is correct. As Chrissy Clark writes at the Federalist,The federal whistleblower statute requires only the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) to keep a whistleblower’s identity confidential, unless the ICIG determines it necessary to disclose. No other government official is required to protect the anonymity of a whistleblower.Then the never-ending parade of double-standards deployed by the left came into play. Trump fired back at his firing squad, saying, “We’ve all done things that we regret, if we are talking about bringing the discourse down. Joy, you’ve worn blackface. And Whoopi you said that Roman Polanski, ‘it wasn’t rape-rape’ when he raped a little girl!” Joy Behar vigorously denied she had worn blackface, but it was a lie. A few keystrokes typed into a search engine yield results showing her wearing a “beautiful African woman costume.” Behar admitted she darkened her skin for the occasion. The costume even aired on “The View.” Whoopi Goldberg tried to shut Trump down but it was no use. Years ago in a discussion of Polanski, she said, “I know it wasn’t rape-rape. It was something else but I don’t believe it was rape-rape. He went to jail and when they let him out he was like, ‘You know what, this guy’s going to give me a hundred years in jail. I’m not staying.’ So that’s why he left.” Although Hollywood celebrities like Goldberg defend or at least attempt to minimize what Polanski did, normal people think what he did was rape. In 1977 Polanski, then 43, was indicted for raping then-13-year-old Samantha Geimer. The grand jury charged the movie director with rape by use of drugs, perversion, sodomy, lewd and lascivious act upon a child under fourteen, and furnishing a controlled substance to a minor. He pled guilty on a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. He fled the United States in 1978 before sentencing and has been a fugitive ever since. Facts don’t shut up leftists. Behar and Goldberg just kept blathering on with their mindless Trump-hatred. So, all in all, just another day for the Democrat-media-entertainment complex. ————————– Matthew Vadum, senior vice president at the investigative think tank Capital Research Center, is an author at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s FrontPage Mag, and award-winning investigative reporter. Tags: Matthew Vadum, Front Page Mag, Trump Jr., The View To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Convicted Murderers? Sanders Would Stop All Deportations
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 05:52 PM PST
Socialist Democrat Bernie Sandersby Free Press International News Service:
If he were to win the presidency, socialist Democrat Bernie Sanders
said he would put a stop to all deportations of illegal immigrants who
are being detained by the U.S. government. Sanders’ order to halt deportations would include for illegals convicted of murder, sex offenses, and drunk drivers. “In any given year, more than 6,600 convicted murderers and sex offenders are arrested by ICE and placed into deportation proceedings. Under Sanders’ plan, those criminal illegal aliens would have their deportations halted, allowing them to remain in the United States for an extended period of time,” John Binder noted in a Nov. 8 report for Breitbart News. Sanders’ plan would ensure that the most violent criminals, those with “Level 1” convictions, would not be deported. In December 2018, there were more than 6,100 “Level 1” convicted criminals in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “At the same time that ICE would be banned from deporting even the most violent convicted criminal illegal aliens under Sanders’ plan, new arrests by ICE agents would pile up and potentially cause a shortage of detention space for the agency,” Binder wrote. Binder cited the case of 59-year-old Amir Abdelghani — a convicted terrorist — who was deported this year by ICE. Sanders’ plan would have stopped his deportation. Another 2020 Democratic Party frontrunner, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said she would decriminalize illegal immigration and hinted she may halt all deportations of illegals until Congress passes an amnesty for the 11 million to 22 million illegals living in the U.S. ——————– Free Press International News Service aka: Free Pressers (@FreePressers). Tags: Free Press, International News Service, Convicted Murderers? Bernie Sanders, Would Stop All Deportations To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Gulp . . .
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 05:32 PM PST
. . . Freedom of Drink. Editorial Cartoon by AF “Tony” BrancoTags: AF Branco, editorial cartoon, Gulp, Freedom of Drink To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Bestselling Vet Authors Reflect on Veterans’ Day
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 05:21 PM PST
by Elise Cooper:
Veterans’ Day was created after the armistice between the Allied
nations and Germany on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
eleventh month in 1918. It was proclaimed as the day to “end all wars,”
and by 1938, it was recognized as a legal holiday dedicated to honor the
veterans of WWI. In 1954, November 11 became a day to honor American
veterans of all wars. Today, people should recognize it as a day to
honor veterans for their patriotism, love of country, and willingness to
serve for the common good. This country owes a lot to its veterans, and
many veterans have made an impact on today’s society, including
bestselling authors who recently spoke with American Thinker to discuss how their military service influenced them. Nelson DeMille is a prolific author. His books seem to always be on the top five of the bestsellers, which includes his latest book with his son, The Deserter. It is based on Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier stationed in Afghanistan who walked away from his post. But then the plot takes a twist and turn. Delta Force Army officer Kyle Mercer, the “Bergdahl” character, escapes the Taliban by beheading his captors and fleeing to Venezuela. After he is spotted by an old army buddy, the top military brass decides to send two members of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) to that socialist, evil country to find Mercer and bring him back for trial of desertion. As a Vietnam veteran, DeMille includes his military knowledge in the plots. “If I had not been in the Army and had not been to Vietnam, I would not have rushed into writing. I kept working on this Vietnam novel, and fifteen years after I left that place, I wrote Word of Honor. Years later I also wrote Up Country, another Vietnam novel. Both are based on my experiences over there. One of my latest books, The Cuban Affair, also had a Vietnam character that mentored this Afghanistan vet. I wanted to show how there is a lot of similarity between these combat vets even though they fought in different wars and in different times. In both cases, they saw someone not in uniform and had to question if someone was carrying. I hope through my stories that Americans see that those fighting only have a split-second to react. No one should be giving a moral opinion or decision unless they have been there.” Don Bentley contrasts with Nelson DeMille. DeMille has written over twenty bestsellers, while Bentley has just written his debut novel, Without Sanction. It is about a Defense Intelligence Agency operative, Matt Drake, who is paralyzed by survivor’s guilt and haunted by the memories of the fallen. Matt may have left Syria, but Syria hasn’t left him. Yet he decides to help a Pakistani scientist, who has created a WMD, defect to the U.S. Using his own personal experience, Bentley noted, “I spent a decade as an Army Apache helicopter pilot, and while deployed in Afghanistan was awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Air Medal with “V” device for valor. On June 28, 2005, I was the air mission commander of a Quick Reactionary Force (QRF) attempting to rescue four Navy SEALs surrounded by the Taliban. Over the course of the operation, one of the helicopters I was charged with protecting was shot down, and I couldn’t stop it. This experience profoundly impacted my life and led to the questions my protagonist, Matt Drake, wrestles with. I had to find a way to live with one of the helicopters being shot down. What I really wanted was a chance to do things differently, to go back and atone for everything that went terribly wrong. In this novel, my character, Matt Drake, gets that chance.” David Bruns uses his vast experience as a retired submarine officer to write thrilling novels. His latest, Rules of Engagement, co-authored with J.R. Olson, delves into how cyber-warfare can play out on the world stage. As in real life, Russia is in the midst of the trouble. A criminal enterprise known as Bratva is losing money on its arms-dealing business, so its leadership hires Rafiq Roshed, one of the world’s most wanted cyber-terrorists. Now residing in North Korea, he is enlisted to pit China, Japan, and America on a collision course for World War III by inserting a computer virus into each country’s command system. Bruns’s vast military experience has helped him write national security thrillers that have a lot of action scenes and military and intelligence characters. “My military experience lends an authenticity to the narrative that gives the fictional story a ‘been there, done that’ feeling. We know how military professionals talk and act in high-stakes settings, and we try to communicate those emotions to our readers. Co-authoring with J.R. Olson has allowed us to do our very best to bring realism to our fiction. While the technical details of military aspects like weapons systems and combat maneuvers are important, that’s not the heart of a story. In our view, the authenticity comes from the characters, not the hardware. We want to make sure Americans understand that there is a lack of clarity around the rules for cyber-warfare and how that is evolving as cyber comes into its own as a warfare domain.” Jack Carr, a former Navy SEAL, also has his main character, James Reece, as a Navy Seal in True Believer. Reece reflects on how he is now America’s most wanted domestic terrorist because he sought revenge on those in the U.S. government who cost him everything he loved and cared about: his wife, their daughter, his teammates, and his career. But patriotism comes first as he decides to travel the globe, targeting terrorist leaders and unraveling a geopolitical conspiracy that exposes a traitorous CIA officer and a sinister assassination plot with worldwide repercussions. Reece discovers that behind all the plots is an ambitious Russian oligarch with ties to organized crime. Carr commented, “The study of warfare, terrorism, and insurgencies coupled with my personal experience in combat provide a solid foundation for my fictional narratives. My background certainly informs my writing. Being able to revisit emotions from real-world experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then apply those to a fictional narrative, helps those feelings ring true with readers. I hear from veterans about how the books stand out to them for the realism in guns; gear; tactics; and, more importantly, the feelings associated with time in combat. These are some of the most gratifying emails, reviews, and posts to read.” James R. Hannibal delves into the life of a rookie CIA operative, Talia Inger, in The Gryphon Heist. Her first posting is to a forgotten backwater in Eastern Europe, part of the disputed territory in Moldova. With her shady civilian partner, Adam Tyler, Talia takes a deep dive into a world where only criminal minds and unlikely strategies will keep the Gryphon, a high-altitude data vault, hovering in the mesosphere. She and those working with her must discover who is after the Gryphon and what will be necessary to stop them. Hannibal is no stranger to secrets. He flew the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the B-2 Spirit (stealth bomber), and the MQ-1 Predator UAV. During that time, he worked numerous classified assignments and spent time as a mission planning cell chief, intelligence liaison, stealth materials liaison, and weapons and tactics officer. He noted, “I think there are certain aspects of military, tech, and espionage storytelling that are captured best by those who’ve been there. I can neither confirm nor deny how my personal experiences seep into my stories. Jokes aside, I’m not sure any author can claim they don’t include personal experiences or even acquaintances in their stories to some degree. My stories take realism as a backdrop and weave in the escapism of high-tech gadgets and high-adrenaline action, usually for characters that would not expect to experience such things. Everyone knows the Navy SEAL or the paramilitary officer will mix it up with the enemy. But what about the young test pilot or the brand-new case officer?” Natalie Walters is known for her small-town mysteries and deep, intense storylines. Her latest, Deadly Deceit, fits the bill. Reporter Vivian DeMarco just wants to do her job and get out of Walton, Georgia. But when her boss dies all of a sudden, Vivian’s only hope for finding out what really happened is in the hands of Deputy Ryan Frost. Unfortunately, the deeper they dig, the more twisted the truth becomes. False leads, incriminating emails, and a blackmailer called the Watcher force Vivian to decide: is it worth it to get the story? Walters adds a different perspective since she is a military wife. “I’m currently an Army wife going on 24 years. As a military spouse, I’ve participated in Family Readiness/Support Groups, which support our soldiers and families with events and programs both when they are home and deployed. With more than two decades as an Army wife, more than a dozen moves, and multiple deployments, there’s not a lot that I have not witnessed or experienced, and I try to incorporate those moments in a variety of ways into my stories. I hope it gives readers an authentic and genuine experience. The military is a huge part of my life and will always be, and I want to make sure I honor our military family.” American Thinker asked all these veteran authors how they want Americans to reflect on Veterans’ Day. Nelson DeMille wants people not to confuse this holiday with Memorial Day. “It is a holiday to honor all those who have served, not those who have died. I wanted to make it clear that even though my bad guy in this latest book is in the military, he is rogue and is not what the military is about. I did contrast him with the CID officers Scott Brodie and Maggie Taylor to make it clear this was not an anti-military/anti-war book. It is about people who volunteered to serve, some doing it right and some doing it wrong. I am personally pro-military and hope it comes out in the story. I give thanks to all the veterans who served and fought in all the wars.” Bentley wants people to understand that “during my time in uniform, I never experienced anything but profound gratitude from the American public. That gratitude ran the gambit from heartfelt thanks to free meals purchased by strangers. Now that I’ve been out of the Army for twelve years, I’m the old guy thanking young, uniformed kids for their service. Veterans’ Day is a day to celebrate those who have served. If you have a veteran in your life, tell them thank you. If you don’t, look for one of those kids in a uniform next time you’re at the airport and take a moment to shake their hand.” Bruns wants a “recognition of someone’s military service. The public response is often to lionize the military, something most military veterans find uncomfortable. The phrase ‘thank you for your service’ has lost meaning for most people. It’s almost like saying ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes. Military people joined up to do a job serving their country. While ‘thank you for your service’ is a nice gesture, what most vets really need is something more concrete, such as access to veterans’ health care and access to a good job when they leave the service.” Carr desires that Americans recognize that while they are in the comfort of their homes, “as the sun sets here on our Veterans’ Day, it’s rising on the other side of the world, where men and women are just returning to base after a mission. They are sweaty, dirty and perhaps bloody.” Walters hopes Americans can relate to military families. “I come from a long line of family members who have served in the military. Unless you’ve lived this life, it’s hard to truly understand the sacrifice made by those willing to serve their country. I’m so grateful for those who have gone before us, for those who continue to serve honorably today, and for the future generations of those willing to boldly answer the call to serve.” As Americans, all of us should understand that those serving are the ones who put their lives on the line to protect this country and defend its values. As legendary author Tom Clancy once said, “the U.S. military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they’re protecting us.” —————– Elise Cooper writes for American Thinker. She has done book reviews and author interviews and has written a number of national security, political, and foreign policy articles. Tags: Elise Cooper, American Thinker, Best selling Vet Authors, Reflect on Veterans’ Day To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. 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FLASHBACK: When It Comes to Impeachment, the Liberal Media Declare War
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 03:34 PM PST
by Scott Whitlock:
Next week, televised impeachment hearings begin. Expect much liberal
grandstanding and a continued effort by those in the media to remove
Donald Trump. The hearings come after this week’s revelation that ABC secretly conspired to suppress a story potentially harmful to harmful to Hillary Clinton in 2016. A seemingly endless impeachment effort. An ongoing, organized effort by a powerful media outlet to preserve the Democratic establishment. Sound familiar? Except that we’re not talking about an effort like journalists trying to take down Trump, but The Washington Post’s all-out war on Richard Nixon. There were real crimes related to Watergate and real stories to investigate. But as Geoff Shepard revealed in his book The Real Watergate Scandal: Collusion, Conspiracy, and the Plot That Brought Nixon Down, liberal media outlets were determined to destroy Nixon, no matter the sketchy (and potentially) illegal means needed to do it. The full details can be found in Shepard’s 2015 book. It’s well worth reading, but one particularly egregious example showcases that corruption between the establishment and the liberal media is NOT new:Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, journalists who would become famous as a result of Watergate, attempted to contact grand jurors in the Watergate case. This is both highly improper and illegal. The Post could easily have been charged over this. The reasons why they weren’t show the murky connection between liberals at the Post, liberals in judicial and political establishment who were all engaged in the same effort to remove the President of the United States. On page 107 of The Real Watergate Scandal, Shepard writes about the aftermath of trials related to the break in at the Democratic National Committee:There was a lull in Watergate reporting following the burglary indictments on September 15, [1972]. While the government’s criminal investigations continued and the Watergate grand jury was still active, the Post’s stories were losing their immediacy and sense of urgency. Woodward and Bernstein then hit upon the idea of interviewing several of the Watergate grand jurors, but when they tried, one of them complained to the prosecutors. This part of the story has been recounted in other books on Watergate. Judge Sirica, presided over several Watergate-related trials. According to lore, Sirica chided the two journalists.Shepard continued:But there is more here than is immediately apparent. Woodward and Bernstein undertook these interviews with the full concurrence of the Post’s management and, it appears, with the advance knowledge of the newspaper’s outside counsel — Edward Bennett Williams and the equally well-connected partner Joseph Califano. After the actions of Woodward and Bernstein, targeting grand jurors in a criminal trial, Sirica became aware of the whole situation. Williams of The Washington Post met with the judge, an old friend and smoothed things over, calling for just a verbal warning.Shepard explained the murky media connection between the media’s chief antagonist to the President and a powerful judge:Perhaps that is how things really are handled in Washington. Prominent counsel, perhaps the Nixon administration’s most ardent opponent, meets privately with his old friend, the very judge who is about to rip that administration limb from limb, to smooth over this unfortunate incident. It is incidental that this same lawyer is lead counsel in a pending civil suit against the president’s re-election committee and seeking damages for its responsibility for the very break-in that is the subject the criminal trial then before this judge. Regardless, everything is finessed and there’s no harm done — at least to the other side.Despite recollections by Sirica, Woodward and Bernstein of a “stiff lecture in open court” about the attempt to contact grand jurors, the reality is that only a mild, vague admonishment occurred. Citing the book Yours in Truth about the life of Ben Bradlee, Shepard explained that the Post editor… undermined the idea that the paper’s star writers didn’t seriously interact with grand jurors. Woodward admitted: “Carl Bernstein and I went to talk to grand jurors. We had legal advice saying we could. It was very risky.”The Bradlee book, written by Jeff Himmelman, recounted that Bernstein “had, in fact, succeeded in interviewing at least one of the Watergate jurors.” Indeed:Bradlee’s files contained seven pages of typed notes from Bernstein’s interview with that grand juror on December 4, 1972. Shepard concluded that much of the Watergate official history is a lie, what might be called historical fake news: “There is considerable basis, therefore, for believing that the Post’s entire newsroom had been lying about the grand juror incident for forty years.”History, as it’s often said, can repeat itself. What’s happening today is not an anomaly when it comes to the liberal media’s disregard of ethics in an attempt to get rid of a president they hate. ——————- Scott Whitlock (@ScottJW) is the associate editor for the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.org. Tags: Scott Whitlock, NewsBusters, FLASHBACK, Impeachment, Liberal Media, Declare War To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Socialism
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 03:09 PM PST
by Kerby Anderson, Contributing Author: David Limbaugh was on my radio program last week to talk about his new book, Guilty by Reason of Insanity.
He devotes a significant portion of the book and a recent column to
socialism. He is as concerned as I have been about the trend in young
people to prefer socialism over capitalism. A 2015 YouGov poll found that 43 percent of Americans between 18 and 29 years of age had a favorable opinion of socialism and preferred it to capitalism. A Pew poll that same year discovered that 69 percent of American youth under the age of 30 would be willing to vote for a socialist president. Meanwhile, a declining percentage of young people appreciate the benefits of the free market. A Gallup poll revealed that only 45 percent of Americans age 18 to 29 have a positive view of capitalism compared with 51 percent that have a positive view of socialism. Essentially these young people are reflecting what they are taught in school. Some of the textbooks in high school offer nothing but a critical view of this country and of the free market system. The professors in college teach an even more critical view. David Limbaugh reminds us that one study found that 40 percent of colleges have no professors who are registered Republican. In the remaining 60 percent, the ratio is still “absurdly skewed against Republican affiliation and in favor of Democratic affiliation.” If the facts could be fairly presented, these percentages would likely change. Socialism is responsible for so much death and economic destruction. By contrast, the free market has been able to lift more than a billion people around the world from extreme poverty and has enhanced the lives of so many others in countries that allow economic freedom. One of the reasons I have written books and booklets on this subject is to provide an alternative to what is taught in our classrooms and promoted in the media. We need to get accurate information to this generation. —————- Kerby Anderson (@kerbyanderson) is a radio talk show host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network (@PointofViewRTS) and is endorsed by Dr. Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service. Tags: Kerby Anderson, Viewpoints, Point of View, Socialism To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Billions Of, By And For Bloomberg
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 02:57 PM PST
by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: Might Gotham’s gun-and-Big-Gulp-grabber-in-chief catapult to Commander in Chief? Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, “is actively preparing to enter the Democratic presidential primary,” writes Alexander Burns in The New York Times. Bloomberg’s estimated $53 billion could financially pummel even Democratic candidate Tom Steyer, working with a mere $1.6 billion. “More billionaires seeking more political power surely isn’t the change America needs,” chimed in Faiz Shakir, presidential campaign manager for Vermont socialist and Senator Bernard Sanders. Billionaires are the really evil ones. Millionaires? Not so bad anymore. In 2016, Bernie badmouthed both “millionaires and billionaires” . . . until found to be a millionaire himself — worth $2.5 million to be specific. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Mr. Sanders’ rail-against-the-rich presidential rival, offered Mayor Bloomberg her “Calculator for Billionaires” — showing how much those sorts of people would have to pay per her Wealth Tax. No mention of what her own family, worth $12 million would pay. Bloomberg’s entrance into the race is expected to hurt former Vice-President and multimillionaire Joe Biden the most, both appealing to the more “moderate” wing of the Democratic Party. Still, Bloomberg is no Democrat messiah, however. He’s not particularly popular. In fact, Bloomberg’s last political campaign for a third term as New York mayor ten years ago was “the most expensive campaign in municipal history.” After double-crossing voters on term limits by supporting a council change allowing him (and them) a third term, Bloomberg had to spend a whopping $183 per vote to win an “unexpectedly close race.” To garner as many votes for president as Hillary Clinton’s 2016 effort, at that same cost, adds up to $12 billion! Bloomberg’s good news? He has it. Bloomberg’s bad news? Hillary lost. This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. —————— Paul Jacob (@Common_Sense_PJ ) is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service. Tags: Paul Jacob, Common Sense, Billions, Of By and For, Bloomberg To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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With The Out Of Control National Debt Now $23 Trillion, Congress Must Freeze Spending
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 02:43 PM PST
by Rick Manning:
While Democrats like to blame the Trump tax cuts for recent deficits,
the fact is that federal tax revenues increased in both FY 2018 and FY
2019. Deficits grew because spending outpaced revenue growth. Rather
than worsening deficits, the Trump tax cuts might actually have helped
prevent larger deficits by averting a recession. After all, the world economy is slowing; and had the U.S. economy gone into recession, then tax revenues would have almost certainly declined — and the deficits probably would have been larger. Nonetheless, the rising debt, now $23 trillion, is a threat to our national security and our economy, and it must be addressed. That is why Congress should, at a minimum, freeze spending for the next three years to allow time for revenues to catch up with expenditures. Nearly two years have passed since the Republican Congress passed Trump’s tax cuts; here are some key numbers from the two fiscal years that have ended since that time. In FY 2018, federal revenues increased by about $14 billion while spending increased by over $120 billion. In FY 2019, revenues increased by over $130 billion while spending rose by nearly $340 billion. So the growing deficits are not the result of federal revenues dropping, but rather Congress’s unwillingness to align spending with income. With the national debt rising, interest on the debt is rising too. In FY 2019, interest on the debt cost taxpayers over $574 billion. Just how much is $574 billion? It is more than nine different Cabinet agencies are estimated to have spent in the last fiscal year. Those nine agencies are the Education Department, the Energy Department, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior Department, the Justice Department, the Labor Department, the State Department, and Veterans Affairs. Of course, it is important to remember that interest rates are very low right now, but that could change causing interest costs to spike. The nation’s debt is an existential threat to the nation. Nearly a decade ago, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Michael Mullen, declared, “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” Obviously, the national debt has only gotten worse in the intervening years. As interest on the debt continues to consume a larger and larger portion of the budget, it will crowd out necessary spending for national priorities, including defense. High levels of debt also slow economic growth. Part of the reason for this is that when investors put their money into government bonds, there is less money available to invest in new and growing businesses. This phenomenon may help explain why the U.S. economy has not grown faster in recent years in spite of generous tax cuts and regulatory reform. While the national debt and interest on it is growing, we are also facing a looming gap between the funds available and the funds needed to pay Social Security and Medicare benefits. In fact, according to the latest report from the Trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds, the Social Security trust funds will be depleted by 2035, and the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted by 2026. The Trustees also project that next year, for the first time in nearly forty years, Social Security will pay out more than it will take in. With the national debt over $23 trillion, Baby Boomers retiring, and Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds running out of money, we simply cannot afford to keep adding hundreds of billions of dollars a year to the debt. To begin to address this problem, Congress should, at least, freeze spending through 2022. ————— Rick Manning (@rmanning957) is President of Americans for Limited Government (@LimitGovt). Tags: Rick Manning, Americans for Limited Government, Out Of Control National Debt, Now $23 Trillion, Congress, Must Freeze Spending To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Little Sisters’ Battle
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 02:12 PM PST
Little Sisters of the Poor,by Penna Dexter, Contributing Author:
The Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious order that serves the
elderly and impoverished, were again in court recently asking for
protection from the ObamaCare mandate that tells them they must include
contraceptive coverage in their employee health plan. In 2017, the Department of Health and Human Services, plus the Labor and Treasury Departments, adopted rules which allowed exceptions to ObamaCare’s mandate that employers provide birth control to their employees as part of their health coverage. Many Christian organizations need this religious exemption including the Little Sisters because they are — well — nuns. A panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2 to 1 against this exemption, with Judge J. Clifford Wallace writing for the majority that it “contradicts congressional intent.” Congressional intent — that nuns get free contraception? Senior Circuit Judge Andrew Kleinfeld pointed out in his dissent that “no affidavits have been submitted from any woman establishing any question in this case about whether they will be deprived of reproductive services or harmed in any way by the modification of the regulation.” The Little Sisters have been to the Supreme Court about this before. In 2016 the High Court granted the Little Sisters a religious exemption from ObamaCare’s contraceptive mandate. One year later President Trump issued his executive order requiring that HHS exempt the Little Sisters and other religious ministries. Several states challenged this. The California attorney general argued that the exemption allows employers to use religious beliefs to discriminate against employees. The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan wrote of the good that religious charities like the Little Sisters do for the poor in society. She expressed her hope that this time the Supreme Court “will, please God, affirm, with clarity and force, the constitutional rights without which they cannot exist.” “Oh Progressives,” she wrote, “if you only had the wisdom to back off, to see your demands as…the opposite of live and let live.” ——————— Penna Dexter is a radio talk show host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network (@PointofViewRTS) and is endorsed by Dr. Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service. Tags: Penna Dexter, Viewpoints, Point of View, Little Sisters’ Battle To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Experts Back Don Jr, – Not A Crime To ‘Out” Whistleblower
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 01:53 PM PST
by Free Press International News Service:
In a heated exchange with Donald Trump Jr., who had named the
Trump-Ukraine whistleblower in a tweet, The View co-host Sunny Hosting
on Thursday claimed that “it is a federal crime to out a whistleblower.
… My law degree says it is.” Hostin said to former Fox News contributor Kimberly Guilfoyle, who also appeared on the Thursday broadcast, “You’re a lawyer, we know each other, you worked for a prosecutor. I mean, did you advise your boyfriend that it is a federal crime to out a whistleblower?” “Well it’s not a federal crime. It’s only a federal crime for the IG to do it, that’s in the statute,” Trump Jr. said. Hostin and her law degree are wrong. Trump Jr. is right. If a member of Congress, a news outlet, or member of the public named the whistleblower, no criminal law would be violated. “There is no overarching protection for the identity of the whistleblower under federal law,” Dan Meyer, a lawyer and the former executive director of the intelligence community whistleblower program told NPR. “Congress has never provided that protection.” The federal whistleblower statute requires only the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) keep a whistleblower’s identity confidential, unless the ICIG determines it necessary to disclose. No one else is required to protect the anonymity of a whistleblower. No such statute exists. According to Sean Davis of The Federalist, “Such a requirement would be a blatant violation of the First Amendment as it would be an unconstitutional prior restraint on the freedom of speech and the press.” That didn’t stop Hostin or other so-called “legal analysts” in the corporate media from claiming that naming the whistleblower is a crime. CNN “legal analyst” Jeffrey Toobin proclaimed: “Yes, unmasking a whistleblower is illegal, it’s harassment.” RedState columnist Bonchie noted in a Nov. 7 op-ed that: “Apparently, CNN and others are just fine with lying to their audiences about this, but no worries. No one is going to jail for saying Eric Ciaramella’s name out loud.” Leftist Rep. Eric Swalwell, California Democrat, says he wants to pass legislation to make what Trump Jr. and all others who named the whistleblower did illegal. “In the future, you will go to jail if you out a whistleblower. Legislation coming,” Swalwell tweeted. During his appearance on The View, Trump Jr., author of the new book Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us, noted that news organizations were pursuing a whistleblower who said that ABC had spiked an exclusive story on the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. “ABC is right now chasing down a whistleblower about all of the Epstein stuff because those stories were killed,” said Trump Jr. “What’s the difference? I’m a private citizen putting this out there.” In another tense exchange, co-host Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, questioned Trump Jr. about his father’s lack of civility. “A lot of Americans in politics miss character, and a lot of people miss the soul of this country. You and your family have hurt a lot of people and put a lot of people through a lot of pain, including the Khan family who was a Gold Star family who I think should be respected because of the loss of their son. Does all this make you feel good?” McCain asked, referring to Trump’s criticism of Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Muslim-Americans whose son was killed in Iraq, after they appeared at the Democratic National Convention. Trump Jr. replied by defending the president and pointing to his record in office. “We have all done things that we regret. I don’t think any of that makes me feel good, but I think we got into this because we wanted to do what’s right for America. My father has been working tirelessly to bring back the American dream. He has brought jobs back,” he said, adding “Part of being president is having a pair that can take whatever he comes towards you. My father’s got a pair. No sitting president has taken the heat that President Trump has.” Trump Jr. also said to Meghan McCain that President Donald Trump “was under constant attack by the same people. When he’s under attack by the establishment, but the reality is, he’s a counter puncher, and as a conservative, I would hope you would appreciate that conservatives haven’t been known for fighting back for a very long time. We have ceded ground to the liberals and the liberal elite for decades by not actually fighting back. I understand we can keep going back to character. I think he has great character.” Trump Jr. also caused a stir when he said: “We’ve all done things that we regret. I mean, if we’re talking about bringing the discourse down, Joy, you’ve worn blackface. Whoopi, you said that Roman Polanksi, it wasn’t ‘rape rape’ when he raped a child. So, let’s talk about serious things.” After the show aired, Trump Jr. tweeted: “I don’t think I’ve enjoyed an interview this much in my life. Guess you could say that I just #Triggered The View!!!” ——————- Free Press International News Service, aka: Free Pressers (@FreePressers). 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Recession Fears Are Fading—and So Are Democrats’ 2020 Prospects
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 01:54 PM PST
President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Dallas, TX by Rick Moran:
You don’t have to have a Ph.D. in political science to know that Donald
Trump’s re-election prospects hinge on a growing economy. And while
it’s a myth that Americans only vote their pocketbooks, it certainly
doesn’t hurt the incumbent president if unemployment is low and economic
growth is steady. In addition to hysterical denunciations of Trump, Democrats have concocted an impeachment narrative that doesn’t have a chance in hell of succeeding but will send their base of loony lefties into paroxysms of ecstasy. They’re going to need every single one of those votes. While the left wallows in impeachment, the rest of America is wondering what all the hub-bub is about. Unemployment is at lows not seen in the lifetimes of many economists reporting on it. Economic growth projections show a steady upswing, consumer and business confidence is high, and the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates low. This is a recipe for a Trump re-election and Democrats know it. HousingWire:“Fears about an imminent recession have faded considerably,” the Wells Fargo economists wrote in a report on Wednesday. “The Fed has shown that it will do what it takes to offset the headwinds from slower global economic growth and continued uncertainty around U.S. trade policy.” The Fed was faced with a delicate task: Cut rates enough to stimulate a slowing economy, while preserving its firepower in case it was needed to render assistance in a more severe downturn. Economists define a recession as two consecutive quarters of GDP contraction. Even with last year’s series of hikes in the Fed rate that put it at 2.5% in December, that’s a fraction of what prior Fed policymakers had at their disposal to stimulate the economy during previous slowdowns. In other words: The Fed didn’t have a lot of wiggle room.You may recall last summer it was the end of the world when the Feds’ yield curve “inverted” — short-term bonds were paying more than long-term bonds. “Recession!” shrieked liberal economists. “It’s coming!” In the immortal words of Defense Secretary Nimziki from Independence Day, “That’s not entirely accurate.”“Worries about an impending recession have diminished considerably since this summer when the yield curve briefly inverted sending financial markets into a frenzy and sparking fears that this record-long business expansion was near its end,” the Wells Fargo report said. “While data from the manufacturing sector remain weak, the overall macro data have continued to come in slightly better than expected, with job growth remaining strong and real GDP expanding at a 1.9% pace during the third quarter,” it said.For Trump to lose. history would have to be turned on its head. Washington Post: Engulfed in an impeachment inquiry and facing eroding support, Trump has turned to the strength of the U.S. economy as a sign that he is likely to be reelected. Since World War II, no U.S. president has lost reelection when the unemployment rate was below 7.4 percent. No president has even run for reelection when the jobless rate was as low as it is now – 3.6 percent. Trump will soon test this precedent. His poll numbers remain very weak, and his support in suburbs has eroded steadily. A number of political experts say traditional measures of economic success may not prove decisive enough for voters to give Trump a second term.No, Trump will not be a shoo-in for re-election. But if the Democrats are eager enough to nominate a candidate who wants to spend $52 trillion over the next 10 years and blow up the American health insurance industry, they’re more than welcome to try. ——————– Rick Moran is PJ Media’s Chicago editor and contributor. He is blog editor at The American Thinker. His blog is Right Wing Nut House. Tags: Rick Moran, Recession Fears, Are Fading, So Are Democrats’ 2020 Prospects To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Veterans Day: The Forgotten History of America’s Veterans Day and What It Commemorates
Posted: 11 Nov 2019 01:15 PM PST
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Veterans Day, celebrated each year on November 11th, was first
celebrated on this same date in 1919, under the name of Armistice Day.
The holiday was named in remembrance of the temporary ceasefire that
brought about the unofficial end to World War I when, the year before,
the Allied forces entered into an armistice with the Germans, stopping
live battle on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. A year later, and nearly five months after the official end of the First World War (which occurred on June 28, 1918, with the Treaty of Versailles), President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11th the first commemoration with the following: “To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with the gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”He called for parades and public gatherings and a brief moment of silence at 11a.m. Two years later, on November 11, 1921, an unidentified American soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in what became known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Celebrating America’s Heroes: Armistice Day It wasn’t just the United States that remembered the end of the great war; countries around the world celebrated Armistice Day in 1919, and many still do today. In Canada, they call it Remembrance Day, and Great Britain celebrates Remembrance Sunday on the second Sunday of each November. In 1926, a Congressional resolution was passed, making Armistice Day a recurring federal holiday, stating that it should be “commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.” As a side note, the federal government can’t force the states into celebrating a holiday, as it’s not within its jurisdiction, but most states adopt the federal holiday calendar. Celebrating America’s Veterans: Veterans Day Although the ceasefire – believed to have occurred on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 – was the end of the war to end all wars, history has shown the naivete of the era. Perhaps the Allied forces showed too much sympathy with the Treaty of Versailles. By the time the war-ending document was signed, seven months after the armistice in November, much of the Allied troops had returned home. And no one, not the United States nor Britain nor France, wanted to remain in Germany or Austria to make sure the terms of the treaty were enforced. What’s more, the Treaty did not require an unconditional surrender; the German troops, although defeated, were not disbanded. As the embittered Marshal Ferdinand Foch of France, supreme commander of the Allied forces, presciently concluded of the Versailles settlement: “This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years.” Foch was right. Twenty years after the 1919 settlement, the German army under Hitler – himself a decorated veteran of World War I who helped to spin the yarn that the German army hadn’t been defeated in the field, but instead betrayed by the Jews at home – invaded Poland to start World War II, which would cost the world roughly four times as many lives as World War I. This time, over 16 million American soldiers, a whopping 42 percent of war-aged men, headed out to battle. And while we lost over 400,000 to the war, many of those men and women returned home. Shortly thereafter, tension began to rise in Korea, and by 1950, the Korean War began. Another 1.8 million troops were again sent across the sea. By the end of the summer of 1953, after the Korean War ended, about one in every two service-age men were veterans and it was decided that Armistice Day would be officially be changed to Veterans Day – honoring all veterans from all wars. Changing Throughout the Years: Veterans Day Today Throughout the years, Veterans Day has changed, sometimes to its benefit and sometimes not. For instance, in 1968, the federal holiday – along with Memorial Day, George Washington’s birthday, and Columbus Day – was switched to a Monday celebration to help encourage travel and tourism in the country. A few years later, in the brief period from 1971 to 1975, the date was changed again. Instead of the Monday closest to the original Armistice Day, the government opted to set Veterans Day as the fourth Monday in October. This change wasn’t joyfully accepted by the American public, as many held emotional ties to the origins of Veterans Day. After a few years, the date was reverted back to November 11th. Now, a century from the original remembrance of Armistice Day, the holiday is still celebrated on November 11th. If the 11th day of the 11th month falls on a Saturday, the day is observed on the previous Friday. If it falls on a Sunday, the holiday is observed on the following Monday. Different areas celebrate Veterans Day in different ways. Most public schools close (normally on the Monday closest to the holiday), as do all federal buildings, most banks, and many businesses. There are parades and celebrations to honor veterans. Perhaps the most iconic is the annual wreath laying ceremony that happens at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Many areas still observe a moment of silence at 11 a.m. to remember all veterans, those that are still here, those that have gone on, and those that never made it home. It’s also not uncommon to see the American flag flown at half mast. Regardless of political leanings, Veterans Day is about recognizing the dedication and sacrifice of America’s veterans. If you want to show support, attend a parade. Volunteer at your local VFW. Visit a VA hospital and spend some time talking to the men and women who are unable to attend such events. 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Google Is Working On Secret Project To Collect Personal Health Data On Millions Of Americans: Report
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Google is reportedly partnering with Ascension, the second-largest
health care system in the U.S., to collect health data on millions of
Americans, according to people familiar with the matter. The partnership
with Ascension to collect health data is part of a secret project by
the tech giant called “Project Nightingale,” …
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Read on » STARLINK MISSION | SpaceX By Duncan Idaho – On Monday, November 11 at 9:56 a.m. EST, 14:56 UTC, SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Falcon 9’s first stage supported the Iridium-7, SAOCOM-1A, and Nusantara Satu missions, and the fairing was previously flown on Falcon Heavy’s Arabsat-6A … STARLINK MISSION | SpaceX 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 » President Donald Trump’s Schedule for Tuesday, November 12, 2019 By R. Mitchell – President Donald Trump will participate in a series of fundraising activities in New York City then return to the White House. Keep up with Trump on Our President’s Schedule Page. 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| Deval Patrick considering last-minute White House bid Former Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is reconsidering a run for his party’s 2020 presidential nomination. |
| Mulvaney may have to testify in House impeachment proceeding: Bolton attorney An attorney for former National Security Advisor John Bolton and his deputy Charlie Kupperman says White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney may be forced to testify in impeachment hearings due to a press conference stumble in which he appeared to admit President Trump tied Ukraine aide to investigation of Democrats. |
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