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THE DAILY SIGNAL
| Jan 20, 2020 Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day from Washington on a holiday dedicated to honoring one of America’s great champions of civil rights by emulating him through community service. For your reflection, we’ve got one commentary from Jarrett Stepman on King’s dedication to the ideals of the nation’s founding, and another from Dion Pierre on his principled opposition to race nationalism. Plus: a report on holding the FBI accountable, Europe’s sellout to oil producers, and your letters. Know someone with the right stuff for The Heritage Foundation’s Young Leaders Program? Check it out. COMMENTARYHow MLK Channeled the Spirit of 1776By Jarrett Stepman Although the study of slavery is essential to understanding America’s past, it is also vital to recognize just how much of a connection Martin Luther King Jr. had to the Founding Fathers and the ideas that animated them.MoreNEWS6 Key Points From Report to Secret Court on FBI SpyingBy Fred Lucas A former Obama administration lawyer who long defended investigating President Trump’s Russian ties and spying on a campaign aide concludes in a new report that the FBI’s proposed reforms are “insufficient” to prevent abuses from occurring again.MoreCOMMENTARYHow Europe Made Itself Dependent on Nefarious Oil PowersBy Victor Davis Hanson Energy neediness explains why the European Union was so eager to maintain the so-called “Iran deal” with the theocracy in Tehran, and also why it was nervous about the anti-Russia hysteria that arose in the United States after the 2016 election.MoreCOMMENTARYWhy MLK Is America’s Last Founding FatherBy Dion Pierre King understood the temptation to fight identity politics with identity politics, but refused. He preached that any form of race nationalism defied the “edicts of the Almighty God himself.”MoreCOMMENTARYWe Hear You: Sex Ed, Student Loans, and Government SpendingBy Ken McIntyre “The educational institutions in our country have created for themselves a very lucrative welfare system,” writes Dan Philabaum.More The Daily Signal is brought to you by more than half a million members of The Heritage Foundation. Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at comments@dailysignal.com.The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843 Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us.You are subscribed to this newsletter as rickbulow1974@gmail.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription. |
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“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.” NAPOLEON BONAPARTETrump Defenders: President Cannot Be Removed in Senate for Abuse of Power US Works to Defeat China’s Spying and Theft Questions About Hunter Biden Testimony Loom Over Senate Impeachment Trial Schiff Says Intelligence Agency Is Withholding Ukraine Information From Congress Chinese authorities on Jan. 19 reported a third death due to a viral pneumonia that first broke out in the central city of Wuhan. Read moreThe top Republican in Virginia’s lower house said that any group planning to incite violence at a Jan. 20 gun-rights rally should stay home, adding that the thousands of law-abiding Virginians who are expected to assemble at the Capitol just want to have their voices heard. Read moreRetired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, presented evidence that shows that prosecutors knowingly pressured him to lie, his lawyer said. Read moreFormer Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein authorized the Justice Department to release text messages between former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, according to a sworn statement by Rosenstein in a Jan. 17 court filing. Read moreThousands gathered in downtown Hong Kong on Jan. 19, calling on international sanctions against Chinese Communist and Hong Kong officials who violate human rights. Read moreEnvironmental, social, and governance investing standards—also called “sustainable investing” and “socially responsible investing”—have taken on greater importance in the investment community in recent years. Read more See More Top StoriesAs Stock Market Rises, Instability Grows By James Gorrie We’re living in amazing times. That’s not just a cliché; it’s absolutely true. It’s no secret that the stock market’s performance continues to amaze. But as the market continues its fantastic, record-breaking rise in value, a couple of simple but unavoidable truths might be worth keeping in mind. Read moreBail Reform: Proceed With Caution By Diane Dimond January 2020 ushered in a unique new law in New York state that abolished cash bail for defendants arrested for nonviolent crimes. Activists in the bail reform movement called it landmark legislation that stops judges from locking up the poor while they await trial simply because they can’t afford bail. Read more See More OpinionsAmazon and Alibaba Cooperation Highlights Difference Between Two Systems By Valentin Schmid (March 13, 2015) Some people view Amazon’s move to open an online shop on Alibaba’s Tmall as a sign of defeat. In fact, while both companies could benefit, the significance of the move is likely to be small. Read moreHow is President Trump’s impeachment defense team shaping up? The President has announced his legal team ahead of the Senate impeachment trial on Friday, among which are former independent counsel Ken Starr and high-profile lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. How Is Trump’s Impeachment Defense Team Shaping Up?Copyright © 2020 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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| Your First Look at Today’s Top Stories – Daybreak InsiderHaving trouble viewing this email? View the web version.SPONSORED BYDaybreakInsider.com @DaybreakInsiderMONDAY, JANUARY 20, 20201.Cruz: Witnesses Might Extend Senate Trial to Eight More Weeks From the story: “If the prosecution gets a witness, the defense gets a witness. If the prosecution gets two, the defense gets two. If the prosecution gets to call [former national security adviser] John Bolton, the prosecution gets to call Hunter Biden,” Cruz said. “The Democrats are terrified about seeing a witness like Hunter Biden testify because they don’t want to hear evidence of actual corruption” (The Hill). Senators will not be allowed to use their cell phones or laptops during the trial. See if they handled it with the dignity of a teenage girl (Washington Examiner). From Peggy Noonan: On the creepiness of the signing ceremony for the impeachment articles: Modern presidents have always held such ceremonies and signed big, happy legislation with many pens. Lyndon B. Johnson liked clutching bunches of them in his thick, meaty fist and handing them out personally. But the impeachment of a president is a grave and unhappy event. It’s not celebratory. Enacting triumphalism was shallow and looked like a tell. Why pens, why not a scalp? Serious people understand the implications of things. Impeachment has now been normalized. It won’t be a once-in-a-generation act but an every-administration act. Democrats will regret it when Republicans are handing out the pens (WSJ). 2.NY Times Endorses Warren AND Klobuchar The Warren endorsement surprised no one (NY Times). Seth Mandel called it “the one we assumed they’d endorse plus the one holding the room at knifepoint” (Twitter). From Jay Cost: Their readers love Warren but they know Klobuchar is the smart choice (Twitter). Meanwhile, from Hillary Clinton: “… for Democratic voters, try to vote for the person you think is most likely to win. Because at the end of the day, that is what will matter — and not just in the popular vote, but the electoral college” (AP). Actor John Cusack, the latest nutty Bernie Sanders surrogate, said “We have a ten to twelve year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all” (Grabien). Some Bernie supporters say they will stay home if Biden gets the nomination (PJ Media). Joe Biden is ready to crack down on free speech (Reason). Advertisement3.14 States Sue Trump for Cutting Back Food Stamps What they are opposed to, as the story puts it: “Able-bodied adults between the ages of 18 and 49 without dependents are restricted under federal law to three months of benefits within a 36-month period unless they work at least 20 hours a week or participate in certain educational or job-training activities.” Christian Post 4.Long Drive Golf Competition Allows Men to Compete as WomenFrom the story: O’Neill will crush the female competitors in long drive golf sports. The reason is simple biology. Although now wrapped in a female persona, O’Neill’s 43-year-old male body still provides a dominating upper body strength and hand grip advantage. Daily Signal 5.Film Revenue Sees 5 Percent Dip in 2019 The second worst year since 1995. 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| Monday, January 20, 2020Good morning and welcome to Fox News First. Here’s what you need to know as you start your Monday …GOP senators considering ‘kill switch’ option should impeachment trial spiral out of control Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell reportedly is close to finalizing a rule that would allow President Trump’s team to move to dismiss the articles of impeachment in the Senate quickly after some evidence has been presented, as a sort of safety valve in case Democrats try to drag out the trial for weeks.The discussions came as Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz told Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” that the trial could extend “to six to eight weeks or even longer” if the Senate decided to hear from additional witnesses — a prospect that could interfere with the imminent presidential primary contests, as Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., likely would get pulled off the campaign trail.McConnell, R-Ky., wouldn’t be obligated to publicize the final version of his resolution setting the parameters of the impeachment trial until Tuesday, but top Republicans have said they supported affording Trump the opportunity to cut the trial short. Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley, for example, told Axios he would be “very, very surprised” if McConnell’s resolution didn’t include that kind of kill switch. Click here for more on our top story.Other developments in Trump’s impeachment: – GOP senator: Dems ‘pretty concerned’ because Americans ‘now solidly behind’ Trump, despite impeachment – Nadler says Dems unwilling to negotiate Hunter Biden testimony in exchange for other witnesses – Reporter’s Notebook: How Trump’s impeachment trial could play out in the SenateNew York Times editorial board does away with ‘convention’ endorses two candidates for president The New York Times announced late Sunday that its editorial board was breaking “from convention” and will endorse two candidates for president in 2020: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.The paper’s endorsement has traditionally been one of the most coveted for a Democratic politician. The editorial board wrote that in choosing these two candidates, it recognizes that both “radical” and “realist” models should be considered. Click here for more. Super Bowl LIV matchup set as the San Francisco 49ers will face the Kansas City Chiefs The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Green Bay Packers, 37-20, on Sunday to win the NFC Championship, setting up a showdown with the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LIV at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla., next month for a chance to claim the title of NFL champions.It was on the back of Raheem Mostert that the 49ers were able to defeat the Packers. Mostert had a breakout performance: 220 rushing yards on 29 carries with four rushing touchdowns.Kansas City won the game behind a brilliant performance from Patrick Mahomes. The star quarterback was 23-for-35 with 293 passing yards, three touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown. Click here for more. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPTODAY’S MUST-READS Prince Harry breaks silence after ‘Megxit’ announcement, relinquishing ‘royal highness’ title. Virginia braces for gun-rights rally as worries over violence, hate groups and militias grow. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: How America is honoring the civil-rights hero. Proud American: What to know about Doris Miller, the African American Pearl Harbor hero honored by US Navy.THE LATEST FROM FOX BUSINESS These markets are open for trading on the MLK Jr. holiday. China counts sharp rise in coronavirus cases during country’s busiest travel time, 2 in Beijing. This city spends over $300K to keep Chick-fil-A out of airport: report. #TheFlashback: CLICK HERE to find out what happened on “This Day in History.” SOME PARTING WORDSSteve Hilton explains on “The Next Revolution” why he’s sick of the “Megxit” soap opera.Not signed up yet for Fox News First? Click here to find out what you’re missing.TUNE IN: Don’t miss the premiere of “Bill Hemmer Reports” today at 3 p.m. ET and a very special edition of “The Fox News Rundown” podcast! Fox News First is compiled by Fox News’ Bryan Robinson. Thank you for making us your first choice in the morning! Enjoy your Monday! We’ll see you in your inbox first thing Tuesday morning. |
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| View as Webpage American Minute with Bill FedererRev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church & Ebenezer Baptist ChurchIn 1983, Republican President Ronald Reagan signed the bill to make the 3rd Monday in January a holiday in honor of Baptist Pastor, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who was born JANUARY 15, 1929. Martin was a Baptist preacher like his brother, Rev. A.D. King, pastor of Mount Vernon First Baptist Church in Newnan, Georgia, and like his father, Rev. “Daddy” King – Martin Luther King, Sr., who was pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.Rev. King attended Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, 1942-44.In 1944, Martin Luther King, Jr., attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, a college founded after the Civil War by Baptist minister Rev. William Jefferson White. Originally named Atlanta Baptist College, it was renamed after Henry Lyman Morehouse , secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. At Morehouse, King was a member of the debate team, student council, glee club, sociology club, and minister’s union.In 1948, King, Jr., became a student at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951.While a theological student, King attended Calvary Baptist Church in Chester, Pennsylvania.In 1954, King became pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.In 1960, he became co-pastor with his father of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. King formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.Rev. King, Jr., stated: “I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world … as a marvelous example of what can be done … how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.” “Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.” “I solemnly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews.”Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1964. In his acceptance speech in Oslo, Norway, King acknowledged: “… profound recognition that nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time — the need for man to overcome oppression and violence WITHOUT resorting to violence and oppression.”On April 16, 1963, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote: “As the Apostle Paul carried the gospel of Jesus Christ … so am I compelled to carry the gospel … One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters they were standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judeo-Christian heritage.”Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. , as well as South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu , were influenced by the German church leader Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who resisted Hitler’s National Socialist Workers’ Party.Bonhoeffer was himself influenced by the Black preacher, Adam Clayton Powell Sr., pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, once the largest Protestant church in America.American Minute-Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They OccurredRev. Martin Luther King, Jr., was also influenced by Henry David Thoreau, who wrote in his book, In Civil Disobedience (1849): “That government is best which governs least”Rev. King was influenced by Booker T. Washington, having attended the high school named for him. Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and wrote Up From Slavery (1901), in which he stated: “I resolved that I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.… With God’s help, I believe that I have completely rid myself of any ill feeling toward the Southern white man for any wrong that he may have inflicted upon my race … I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice.”Booker T. Washington stated: “In the sight of God there is no color line, and we want to cultivate a spirit that will make us forget that there is such a line anyway.” “I have always had the greatest respect for the work of the Salvation Army especially because I have noted that it draws no color line in religion.”Booker T. Washington wrote in Up From Slavery (1901): “There is a class of race problem solvers who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public … Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances because they do not want to lose their jobs … They don’t want the patient to get well … Great men cultivate love … only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.”Booker T. Washington recruited George Washington Carver to be a professor at Tuskegee. Carver wrote to Robert Johnson, March 24, 1925: “Thank God I love humanity; complexion doesn’t interest me one single bit.”George W. Carver wrote to YMCA official Jack Boyd in Denver, March 1, 1927: “Keep your hand in that of the Master, walk daily by His side, so that you may lead others into the realms of true happiness, where a religion of hate, (which poisons both body and soul) will be unknown, having in its place the ‘Golden Rule’ way, which is the ‘Jesus Way’ of life, will reign supreme.”Becoming internationally renown, George Washington Carver received letters from leaders around the world, including Mahatma Gandhi, with whom he corresponded from 1929 to 1935, addressing him “My beloved friend, Mr. Gandhi.”Gandhi’s insistence on non-violent protests helped India gain its independence from Great Britain, August 15, 1947. The United Nations designated Gandhi’s birthday, October 2, as the International Day of Non-Violence.Gandhi wrote in his autobiography of an incident on a ship with 800 passengers traveling from India to the Natal Province of South Africa. When some passengers learned that Gandhi was aboard, they grew furious.As Gandhi was disembarking, they punched him, kicked him, and threw stones at him, but he refused to retaliate and kept walking. He was finally rescued when the wife of the town’s police superintendent opened her parasol and stood between Gandhi and the mob.Gandhi wrote: “I hope God will give me the courage and the sense to forgive them and to refrain from bringing them to law. I have no anger against them. I am only sorry for their ignorance and their narrowness. I know that they sincerely believe that what they are doing today is right and proper. I have no reason therefore to be angry with them.”Gandhi read the Gospels, stating that Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount “went straight to my heart.” While practicing law in South Africa from 1893 to 1914, he went to visit a church, but the usher refused to let him in because of his race. Later, missionary E. Stanley Jones asked him: “Mr. Gandhi, though you quote the words of Christ often, why is that you appear to so adamantly reject becoming his follower?” Gandhi replied, “Oh, I don’t reject Christ. I love Christ. It’s just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ … If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.”Historian Will Durant wrote of Gandhi in The Story of Civilization, Volume I: “He did not mouth the name of Christ, but acted as if he accepted every word on the Sermon on the Mount. Not since St. Francis of Assisi has any life known to history been so marked by gentleness, disinterestedness, simplicity and forgiveness of enemies.”Gandhi was assassinated on January 30, 1948. His non-violent methods influenced Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., who referred to Gandhi as “the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.”Rev. King left on a five week tour of India, February 3, 1959. He met Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and toured the country. Afterwards, King reflected: “Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation” (Papers 5:136). King wrote: “Mahatma Gandhi was the first person in human history to lift the ethic of love of Jesus Christ, above mere interaction between individuals and make it into a powerful and effective social force on a large scale.”On March 6, 1984, President Ronald Reagan mentioned Rev. King in his remarks at the annual convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Columbus, Ohio: “During the civil rights struggles of the fifties and early sixties, millions worked for equality in the name of their Creator. Civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King based all their efforts on the claim that black or white, each of us is a child of God. And they stirred our nation to the very depths of its soul.”In 1957, Rev. Martin Luther King attended the Billy Graham Crusade in New York City.Graham wrote in his autobiography: “One night civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., whom I was pleased to count a friend, gave an eloquent opening prayer at the service; he also came at my invitation to one of our Team retreats during the Crusade to help us understand the racial situation in America more fully.”Becoming friends, Billy Graham shared a conversation with Rev. King: “His father, who was called Big Mike, called him Little Mike. He asked me to call him just plain Mike.”Rev. King credited Billy Graham with reducing racial tension, as Graham even canceled a 1965 tour of Europe to preach crusades in Alabama, allowing the Gospel to bring healing between the races.Billy Graham stated: “Jesus was not a white man; He was not a black man. He came from that part of the world that touches Africa and Asia and Europe. Christianity is not a white man’s religion, and don’t let anybody ever tell you that it’s white or black. Christ belongs to all people; He belongs to the whole world.”Billy Graham wrote: “My study of the Bible, leading me eventually to the conclusion that not only was racial inequality wrong but Christians especially should demonstrate love toward all peoples.”Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote: “Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the Civil Rights Movement would not have been as successful as it has been.”On January 20, 1997, Rev. Billy Graham delivered the invocation just prior to the Second Inauguration of President Bill Clinton, stating: “Oh, Lord, help us to be reconciled first to you and secondly to each other. May Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream finally come true for all of us. Help us to learn our courtesy to our fellow countrymen, that comes from the one who taught us that ‘whatever you want me to do to you, do also to them.”In proclaiming 1990 the International Year of Bible Reading, President George H.W. Bush stated: “The historic speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., provide compelling evidence of the role Scripture played in shaping the struggle against slavery and discrimination.”On February 16, 2002, Dr. James Dobson addressed 3,500 attendees at the National Religious Broadcaster’s convention: “Those of you who do feel that the church has no responsibility in the cultural area … Suppose it were … 1963, and Martin Luther King is sitting in a Birmingham jail and he is released. And he goes to a church, yes, a church. And from that church, he comes out into the streets of Birmingham and marches for civil rights. Do you oppose that? Is that a violation of the separation of church and state?”In his address at Montgomery, Alabama, December 31, 1955, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., declared: “If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, ‘There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.'”Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., said August 28, 1963: “Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children … In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence.”On April 16, 1963, Rev. King wrote: “I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers … I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency … The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence.… It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best-known being Elijah Muhammad’s Muslim movement … This movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible ‘devil.’… I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the ‘do-nothingism’ of the complacent nor the hatred of the black nationalist. For there is the more excellent way of love and non-violent protest. I am grateful to God that, through the influence of the Negro church, the way of non-violence became an integral part of our struggle.”Rev. King proclaimed August 28, 1963: “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal.’ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood …… I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character … I have a dream … where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.”American Minute-Notable Events of American Significance Remembered on the Date They OccurredSchedule Bill Federer for informative interviews & captivating PowerPoint presentations: 314-502-8924 wjfederer@gmail.comAmerican Minute is a registered trademark of William J. 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The Morning Dispatch: The Upcoming SCOTUS Term Is Going to Be NutsPlus, an early look at the new book ‘A Very Stable Genius.’The Dispatch StaffJan 20Happy Monday! We are on strict orders from the boss to not mention last night’s NFC championship game. So, again, we will not be mentioning that the Packers were losing to the 49ers 27-0 at halftime. You’ll have to check a different morning newsletter for updates on the Packers’ 37-20 loss to the 49ers. Sorry for any inconvenience. (Editor’s Note: The 8-8 Chicago Bears watched the NFC Championship from home. Again. Patrick Mahomes, the NFL MVP quarterback the Bears passed over to select Mitch Trubisky, is headed to Miami for the Super Bowl.)Quick Hits: What You Need to KnowWith President Trump’s impeachment trial set to begin tomorrow, the White House’s legal team is set. In addition to White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Jay Sekulow, constitutional law professor Alan Dershowitz (in a limited role) and former independent counsel Ken Starr will be arguing on behalf of President Trump. Robert Ray, Jane Raskin, Pam Bondi, and Eric Herschmann have joined the team as well. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the State Department will look into allegations of an effort to surveil Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was ousted from her post last year. Pompeo said he was unaware of any such surveillance.Chris Collins, former Republican congressman from New York and an early supporter of Donald Trump, was sentenced to 26 months in jail after pleading guilty to insider trading charges.After stoking speculation for weeks, the New York Times editorial board (not the newspaper as a whole) endorsed Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar in the Democratic primary. TheNational Archives admitted it “made a mistake” by altering an image displayed in the lobby, blurring out messages critical of President Trump.The Super Bowl is set. The Kansas City Chiefs will face off against the San Francisco 49ers in Miami on February 2.The Upcoming Jam-Packed Supreme Court TermFriday proved to be another big day at the Supreme Court. After the justices’ private conference, they added two particularly noteworthy consolidated arguments to be heard this term, adding more fireworks to an already blockbuster group of impending decisions. First, the so-called “faithless elector” cases from Washington and Colorado, which challenge state laws that punish or remove members of the Electoral College who refuse to vote the way state law requires. For example, Washington state law requires an elector to vote for the presidential and vice presidential candidates who won the popular vote in the state and punishes violators with a $1,000 fine. Colorado, on the other hand, referred one of its faithless electors for prosecution. So the question before the court is whether the fairly specific provisions of the 12th Amendment or federal law allow states this sort of power over its electors. And why does this matter? The Washington plaintiff argues that there were 10 such electors in 2016, and that of the previous 58 elections, a 10-member swing would “have changed the results in five of fifty-eight prior elections.” So probably best to get the rules sorted out before 2020.Second, the never ending wars over the ACA’s birth control mandate continue, this time with a nationwide injunction twist to keep things interesting. Since this is the third installment to this movie franchise, we’ll run through a quick refresher. In 2014, the Supreme Court in Hobby Lobby said that a closely held, for-profit companies with sincere religious objections couldn’t be forced to comply with the contraception mandate because it violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. In 2016, the court heard objections to the Obama administration’s post-Hobby Lobby regulatory accommodation which created a process by which the exempted employer’s insurance company would be obligated to cover contraception for female employees without the exempted employer directly paying for it, but after the death of Justice Scalia left the court with only eight votes, the case was sent back down to the lower courts without resolution. That brings us to the Trump administration, which in 2018 issued a final rule that extended the exemption to a broader swath of employers with religious or moral objections and allowed them to simply opt-out of contraception coverage rather than participate in the Obama-era accommodation process that was still being litigated. Pennsylvania and New Jersey sued, arguing that this new rule violated the ACA and the rulemaking process, and the lower courts issued a nationwide injunction against its enforcement.The court has agreed to hear not only the challenge to the merits of the Trump rule but also to the appropriateness of the nationwide injunction. In best movie preview voice: Contraception Mandate 3: Expanded and Enjoined, coming to a Supreme Court near you in April. And we’re not done yet. More orders are expected Tuesday and there are still some outstanding petitions worth watching: California’s sanctuary city laws, the Philadelphia foster care system that excluded a Catholic charity that does not certify same sex-married couples, and the Washington florist who refuses to provide custom arrangements for same-sex weddings. Join nowA Tale of Two GeneralsIn their new book A Very Stable Genius (released tomorrow),* Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig take readers from Donald Trump’s stunning victory on Election Day 2016 through June 2019— but Donald Trump is not the most interesting character in the story they tell. Or really even a character at all. Instead, he is more like the brightly colored and off-balance setting for a character play about all of the other people who entered the orbit of the administration for the last three years. In that sense, it’s like reading about a reality show in which four-star generals and top notch lawyers are thrust into a season of Lost. President Trump is the island itself, with his own inexplicable rules that are both precarious and impossible to navigate as the cast tries to stave off disaster in each episode.Nothing demonstrates this better than the account of two former generals who each maneuver through this treacherous landscape as deftly as they can until abruptly ending their service within weeks of each other in December 2018. Chief of Staff John Kelly and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis both viewed their roles working for the mercurial president as one of duty but executed those roles very differently. Leonnig and Rucker portray Jim Mattis as a man who knows he’s entering a storm in January 2017 but viewed his role as one of duty to serve a novice commander in chief. He is introduced early in the book asking candidates for senior staff positions in interviews whether they can “‘ride the brand,'” by which Mattis meant could they “support Trump, warts and all.” Time and again, Mattis is there to counsel the president but ultimately follow orders. Until he can’t. The story of Mattis’s resignation won’t be new to readers who followed the news at the time but in context it is telling. Early in December 2018, Mattis had traveled to Ottawa to meet with allies in the anti-ISIS efforts in Syria. He assured them that “the United States would provide financial and military backing at least into 2020, per a policy vetted by the National Security Council and signed by John Bolton.” But then, in early October 2019, with Mattis long out of the picture, Trump got on the phone with Turkish President Recep Erdogan. According to the book, “one senior administration official summed up the sentiment: ‘Trump was like, ‘You want that pile of dirt, Erdogan? Fine.'” And with that, the U.S. effectively ended its efforts in Syria, abandoning our erstwhile allies, the Kurds, and leaving the country to the malign influence of Iran and Russia. Receiving an order that “effectively forced Mattis to abandon a fellow warrior on the field,” Mattis did not attempt to delay or curtail the president’s actions. He delivered his resignation letter to Trump the day after the public announcement. It “offered no praise of the president” but stated plainly that “‘because you have the right to have a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects, I believe it is right for me to step down from my position.'” Kelly, on the other hand, is portrayed as constantly fighting the president’s baser instincts from behind the scenes. As chief of staff, he believed it was his duty to “steer Trump away from dangerous impulses.” The authors walk through Kelly’s day beginning at 4 a.m. to read all of the major media outlets knowing that “the president’s addiction to press accounts of himself was so strong that Kelly’s daily tasks and discussions inevitably would be determined by the news cycle.” In one small but telling scene, the president calls Kelly onstage at a rally but Kelly ignores him. Trump, we are told in the book, later vented to other aides that his chief of staff did not follow his command. It wouldn’t be the last time. Throughout the book, Kelly is described “managing” the president, blocking calls and restricting access without the president’s knowledge. Trump believed Kelly was “acting morally superior” and started referring to him as “‘the church lady’ behind his back.” In the end, Kelly wouldn’t last either, of course. Trump complained that Kelly “sometimes acted as if he had been elected president” and began to instruct aides to keep Kelly out of decisions. A few weeks before the withdrawal from Syria would force Mattis’s hand, the president stopped on the south lawn to tell reporters “‘John Kelly will be leaving. I don’t know if I can say ‘retiring.’ But he’s a great guy.'”Neither general’s “Trump strategy” proved successful, but perhaps that is the point. As anyone who has worked for a politician can attest, no staffer will agree with his boss’s decisions at every turn but it also cannot be his job to work against an elected boss for the amorphous greater good. The only options: Speak up if you can and resign if you must. But it will now be up to Mattis and Kelly to determine what, if anything, Americans need to know about their service before 2020. Do they owe a duty of silence as political appointees who agreed to serve a flawed commander in chief until he leaves office? Or do they owe a duty to voters who could benefit from their experience? Perhaps A Very Stable Genius, based on what the authors describe as hundreds of hours of interviews with more than 200 sources, is one way of doing both.*Disclosure: This book mentions Sarah Isgur, current staff writer at The Dispatch and former director of public affairs at the Department of Justice (February 2017-November 2018), at multiple points for her role as a senior adviser to both Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during the Mueller investigation.Worth Your TimeOver the last couple years, the Oregonian has done some great investigative work into a thorny diplomatic problem: Saudi Arabia’s apparent bad habit of spiriting Saudi students who are charged with serious crimes while studying in America out of the country to prevent them from facing justice here. On Friday, the Oregonian released a new report: Government documents show that federal law enforcement is aware of the problem and believes it is done to help save the Saudis legal embarrassment. If you haven’t read the original series before, now’s a great time to do so; or you can read the latest news on the issue here. Hey, remember Joe Walsh and Bill Weld? The anti-Trump twosome were momentary media celebrities last year when they each announced they would challenge President Trump in the Republican 2020 primary. But while both are still technically running, the prognosis is grim, as Alex Isenstadt points out in Politico: Neither candidate will even come close to making the ballot in all 50 states, to say nothing of making a fundraising splash or eating into Trump’s sky-high poll numbers among Republicans. Here’s the thing. It isn’t as though we like feeding you, our readers, a constant supply of dystopian privacy/tech news—that’s just a place where a bunch of eye-popping stuff seems to be happening these days! The latest grisly feature comes courtesy of Kashmir Hill at the New York Times. We’d summarize, but honestly, just read the lede: Until recently, Hoan Ton-That’s greatest hits included an obscure iPhone game and an app that let people put Donald Trump’s distinctive yellow hair on their own photos.Then Mr. Ton-That—an Australian techie and onetime model—did something momentous: He invented a tool that could end your ability to walk down the street anonymously, and provided it to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, ranging from local cops in Florida to the F.B.I. and the Department of Homeland Security.Presented Without CommentZak Hudak@cbszak“How could the American people want someone who lies to them?” @ewarren says after I asked if it’s disqualifying for a presidential candidate to lie to the American people about anything January 19th 20201,692 Retweets4,557 LikesAlso Presented Without CommentShane Goldmacher@ShaneGoldmacherJanuary 18th 2020154 Retweets1,387 LikesSomething FunKids are amazing. Six-year-old Owen Colley has raised more than $240,000 selling homemade clay koalas to help combat the bushfires sweeping Australia. “I want them to know more about Australia and I want them to know more about what animals are in Australia,” Owen said.Toeing the Company LineNew York Times columnist David Brooks dropped by Dispatch HQ last week to record an episode of The Remnant. He and Jonah talked about tribalism, nationalism, and the word “conservative.” Be sure to give it a listen here!Jonah also pumped out a G-File on Friday taking Elizabeth Warren to task for her series of untruths. “Warren’s a remarkable liar, but she’s not a very good one.”David is out with another excellent edition of his Sunday French Press, this one delving into the scourge of anti-Semitism. “the unpleasant truth is that when populations of new and different people (especially religious or racial minorities) move to new and different towns, they all too often encounter vicious bigots. They don’t create vicious bigots.”New to the website: Sarah details all the ways Citizens United changed our politics the last 10 years (and, more important, all the ways it didn’t). And Jerry Kratochvil demonstrates how Kansas Republicans face a choice in the Senate primary between Kris Kobach and Rep. Roger Marshall that in many ways mirrors the Democratic primary’s battle between ideological purity and electability.Let Us KnowThis brief clip of presidential candidate Andrew Yang joining a church choir for a few songs began making the rounds yesterday.Rev. Wendy Hamilton🧢@revwendy3The choir invited Andrew to join them for a selection….and it was amazing🏽2xzQQJanuary 19th 2020927 Retweets4,076 LikesOur question to you, dear reader: Who is the most likable politician of your lifetime?Reporting by Declan Garvey (@declanpgarvey), Andrew Egger (@EggerDC), Sarah Isgur (@whignewtons), and Steve Hayes (@stephenfhayes).You’re on the free list for The Morning Dispatch. 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| From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann. FIRST READ: Here are the rules of the road for the Iowa caucuses that are now two weeks awayThe most important number to remember for the Iowa caucuses that take place two weeks from today is 15 percent. That’s the minimum level of support that the Democratic candidates must get to achieve viability at most caucus sites — so candidates who get LESS than 15 percent must realign to a different viable candidate, or join with other non-viable groups to get to 15 percent or above. Bottom line: If you’re a candidate that can’t sniff 15 percent, you’re really not a player on Feb. 3. REUTERS/Ivan AlvaradoThe second-most important number to remember is three. That’s the number of different results the Iowa Democratic Party will be releasing on Caucus Night — all at the same time. (This is a change from previous caucuses, when there was only one result.) Result 1: First Expression of Preference. This is the tally BEFORE the realignment takes place for candidates who don’t reach the 15 percent threshold. Result 2: Final Expression of Preference. This is the tally AFTER the realignment. Result 3: State Delegate Equivalents. This is the ratio of state-to-county convention delegates determined by the final expression of preference at each of Iowa’s 1,679 precinct (or caucus) sites. Importantly, this is the number used to determine the “winner” in past Iowa caucus results. Because of these three different numbers that will be released – all to make the caucus system more transparent – it’s possible that two or three different candidates might claim victory on Caucus Night. It’s conceivable, say, that Bernie Sanders could come out on top of “first expression of preference,” due to his diehard supporters. But it’s also possible that Joe Biden or Elizabeth Warren or Pete Buttigieg could get the most “final expression” and “State Delegate Equivalents” – due to what happens after the realignment. So who’s the ultimate winner of Iowa? As in past cycles, it’s all about those State Delegate Equivalents. Yet because you’re going to see THREE different sets of results, we’re trying to help explain what all three numbers mean. Trump will be forced to take a back seat during his impeachment trialThe impeachment trial of President Donald John Trump begins tomorrow. And NBC’s Shannon Pettypiece writes that he’s being forced into an unusual position in the trial. Taking a back seat. “[A]s the trial begins in earnest on Tuesday, Trump will be handing over the reins for one of the most crucial moments of his presidency to a team of his staunchest cable TV legal defenders, including former independent counsel Ken Starr, the famed defense lawyer Alan Dershowitz and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi.” DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 16,241.16,241. That’s the number of false or misleading claims that President Trump has made in his three years as president since taking his oath of office, according to the count from the Washington Post’s fact-checkers. “In 2017, Trump made 1,999 false or misleading claims. In 2018, he added 5,689 more, for a total of 7,688. And in 2019, he made 8,155 suspect claims,” the Post writes. “In other words, in a single year, the president doubled the total number of false or misleading claims he had made in the previous two years combined.” 2020 VISION: Biden camp warns about disinformation during impeachment trialNBC’s Heidi Przbyla and Mike Memoli report on a new memo from the Biden campaign, which warns the political news media about the disinformation pushed by President Trump and his supporters in the Ukraine scandal. “Trump has been ‘spreading a malicious and conclusively debunked conspiracy theory’ that ‘Biden engaged in wrongdoing when he executed official United States policy to remove a corrupt prosecutor from office,’ the campaign said in the memo sent by Biden’s deputy campaign manager, Kate Bedingfield, and a senior adviser, Tony Blinken. “Current and former administration officials testified during the House impeachment investigation that while Hunter Biden’s role on the board of Burisma presented the potential for the appearance of a conflict of interest given his father’s position, Shokin’s ouster was a key priority of the Obama administration and the international community.” “In its first forceful pushback since impeachment proceedings began, the Biden campaign is demanding that ‘any media organization referencing, reporting on, or repeating these claims’ from Trump and his allies ‘must state clearly and unambiguously that they have been discredited and debunked by authoritative sources.’”On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer attend an NAACP MLK Day celebration and march in Columbia, S.C… Michael Bloomberg attends an MLK Day parade in Little Rock, Ark… Later in the day, many of the major Dems attend the Iowa Brown & Black presidential forum in Des Moines, Iowa… Buttigieg holds a town hall with Rep. Dave Loebsack in Pella, Iowa… Sanders, also in the Hawkeye State, holds a rally with Pramila Jayapal… And Warren holds a community conversation in Grimes, Iowa. Dispatches from NBC’s campaign embeds: NBC’s Ben Pu reports on the candidate highlights at the We The People 2020 forum in Iowa, where Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Deval Patrick, Andrew Yang and John Delaney spoke. Warren came out swinging immediately against Michael Bloomberg, hitting him hard on his ad spending and accusing him of trying to “drown out every other voice in this Democratic primary.” She also hit him about him getting a delay for his FEC documents on financial disclosures, suggesting that he could have “entanglements with China, serious conflicts, interest in other parts of the world or other corporations.” Buttigieg at one point deadpanned that some Supreme Court justices time their departure from the court based on who is president, and also some “time their departure from the Earth based on who’s president.” Buttigieg also took some flak about his fundraisers, but again pivoted to needing to build a war chest to beat Trump. At one point, Klobuchar advocated for automatic voter registration as soon as children hit 18 years old, joking that “Target can find a pair of shoes in Hawaii with a SKU number, so I don’t understand why in this great country, we can’t simply give kids a registration number when they turn 18?”TWEET OF THE DAY: Split DecisionTHE LID: What the hack?Don’t miss the pod from Friday, when we tried to make sense of Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., telling a reporter that he’s a “liberal hack” for asking a question about the impeachment trial. ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss Richmond residents are bracing for violence at a gun rights demonstration today. The Democratic candidates are getting feisty with two weeks to go until Iowa. Biden suggests Sanders and Warren wouldn’t play well in the South. Confusion over a new law could threaten voter turnout in New Hampshire. Alan Dershowitz is distancing himself from the latest impeachment brief from the White House, saying he didn’t even see it until after it was filed.Thanks for reading. If you’re a fan, please forward this to a friend. They can sign up here. We love hearing from our readers, so shoot us a line here with your comments and suggestions. Thanks, Chuck, Mark and Carrie. |
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| VIEW IN BROWSERJANUARY 20, 2020CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COMDAYWATCH1Democrat Don Harmon has been elected to succeed John Cullerton as Illinois Senate presidentMONDAY, JAN 20 Oak Park Democrat Don Harmon was chosen as Illinois Senate president on Sunday, taking the helm of the General Assembly’s upper chamber at a critical time in Springfield.Harmon, who has had ambitions to lead the chamber since at least 2009 when retiring Senate President John Cullerton took over from Emil Jones Jr., assumes the top leadership post in the Senate at a time when Democrats hold a supermajority in both General Assembly chambers but as the shadow of an ongoing federal corruption investigation has ensnared multiple lawmakers and left the Capitol on edge.2Many fear deepening racial divides as the nation celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. DayMONDAY, JAN 20 As the nation marks the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, the mood surrounding it is overshadowed by deteriorating race relations in an election season that has seen one candidate of color after another quit the 2020 presidential race.People have the right to be — and should be — concerned about the state of race relations and the way people of color, in particular, are being treated, said Jill Savitt, president of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, who said many people “are showing their hatred openly.”Mayor Lori Lightfoot makes call to action at MLK breakfast: ‘We cannot continue to leave people behind in the city and we need your help to step up …’“A change definitely needs to take place,” writes a 9-year-old Chicago girl who won a Martin Luther King Jr. speech contest.Column: ‘Racism isn’t one bad person … it’s unfortunately in the air.’ In honor of MLK Day, group is hosting racial healing circles across Chicago.Commentary: Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for health care equity must continueUncovered photographs of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s time in Chicago 3Robberies are up sharply in Chicago’s swanky Near North Side, raising residents’ concernsMONDAY, JAN 20 Seven robberies between Christmas Eve and Jan. 7 – most of them within a block of one another near Water Tower Place – continued a worrisome trend for those living in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood, one of the city’s most affluent areas.Robberies have more than doubled in the last five years in this swath of Chicago’s central business district and some of the city’s most affluent neighborhoods, including Gold Coast, Streeterville, Magnificent Mile and River North. While the numbers pale in comparison to the violence that plagues some Chicago neighborhoods on the South and West sides, residents as well as tourists expect better for an area boasting the highest real estate values in the city.4Weed shortage in Illinois may continue for a year or moreMONDAY, JAN 20 The long lines, product shortages and store closures seen since the state authorized legal sales starting on New Year’s Day are not unusual for newly legal markets. But the tight market is expected to continue longer than in other states in part because Illinois has only 21 cultivation warehouses, far fewer than in many other states with legal cannabis.The limit on growers is because existing medical marijuana growers insisted they could supply the market without any new cultivation licenses, despite studies showing the opposite. 5A group of students tried to get a vacant Dominick’s store in Palos Heights redeveloped. Instead, they got a lesson in corporate gamesmanship.MONDAY, JAN 20 A group of high school students working on an assignment on how to make the world a better place decided to try to revive the site of a former Dominick’s grocery store, now a depressing vacant storefront. They wanted to bring the site back to life, possibly with an arcade or skating joint.Instead they got a lesson in how well-intentioned ideas can get swept aside by corporate policy.6Metra is reminding customers to make sure they pay their fare, or risk being booted off the trainMONDAY, JAN 20 Metra put leaflets on trains Friday morning to remind customers to pay their fare, or risk being booted off the train. Leaflets placed on seats on the commuter railroad told riders that there would be “stepped-up efforts by Metra staff this year to make sure everyone is paying what they should be paying.” 7You, too, can be an influencer: Companies are tapping employees to boost their brands onlineMONDAY, JAN 20 Most major companies already have a presence on social media. Many partner with professional influencers hired for their audience. But some are now trying to add their own employees to the mix, whether they’re trying to attract customers, recruit new hires or just boost a brand’s image.8The Bears’ decision to move their training camp to Lake Forest is a devastating blow to BourbonnaisMONDAY, JAN 20For nearly two decades, Bears fans flocked to Bourbonnais each summer, giving a financial boost to the once-obscure Kankakee County village’s economy. Now that the team is moving its training camp to expanded facilities in Lake Forest, the village is suddenly facing a loss of revenue, a potential identity crisis and a much quieter summer for bars, restaurants and other businesses.“Everyone is just devastated,” said Tina Vasilakis, manager of the family-owned Brickstone Brewery, a trendy Bourbonnais brewpub that drew Bears players and fans during training camp. “We definitely saw a boost. We’ll miss that.” Raheem Mostert’s 4 rushing TDs lift the 49ers past the Packers 37-20 in the NFC championship gamePatrick Mahomes uses his arm — and feet — to propel the Chiefs to the Super Bowl in a 35-24 win over the Titansadvertisement UNSUBSCRIBE | NEWSLETTERS | PRIVACY POLICY | TERMS OF SERVICECopyright © 2020 | Chicago Tribune | 160 N. Stetson Ave., Third Floor, Chicago, IL 60601ABOUT THIS EMAIL You received this email because you are following the Daywatch newsletter. |
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| Connect: Facebook Twitter YouTubeView this email in your browser“But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream,” (Amos 5:24, ESV).Martin Luther King Jr: The Drum Major InstinctBy Caffeinated Thoughts on Jan 20, 2020 12:35 am In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day we wanted to share with you the text of a sermon he gave on February 4, 1968 entitled “The Drum Major Instinct.” Read in browser » Recent Articles: WHO TV Offers Misleading Coverage About the Prolife Life Amendment Vote Anna Blaedel’s Partisan Prayer Before the Iowa Senate Iowa Senate Panel Approves Amendment Declaring No Right to Abortion Unified Delusion Impeachment as a Power Fantasy Undermines the Real ThingLaunched in 2006, Caffeinated Thoughts reports news and shares commentary about culture, current events, faith and state and national politics from a Christian and conservative point of view. Caffeinated Thoughts P.O. Box 57184 Des Moines, IA 50317 (515) 321-5077 Editor, Shane Vander Hart Connect: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.ShareTweetShareForwardCopyright © 2020 Caffeinated Thoughts, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. |
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| Share with a friend you think would love this!Monday, January 20, 2020 Trump Heading to Davos After skipping last year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, President Trump will be there this week. He’ll be delivering the opening remarks on Tuesday. But don’t worry, the Forum also announced that Time’s Person of the Year, Greta Thunberg, will also be there. From The Hill: “[Forum Executive Chairman Klaus] Schwab told The Associated Press that Trump will be welcome at the meeting because of his global role, while Thunberg will keep the focus on climate change. Both are scheduled to speak on the first day of the meeting. ‘I think both voices are necessary,’ Schwab said. ‘The environment will play a particularly important role during this meeting.’ The meeting has in recent years focused on how changing technology affects the environment and how businesses can promote stopping climate change and working for the social good.” You know, in case you thought it was about economics. Bloomberg reported on the President’s speech: “The White House has signaled Trump’s Davos speech will echo his emerging re-election narrative — celebrating recent trade deals, the strength of the stock market and Trump’s push for increased defense spending by NATO allies. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway also hinted he’ll draw a contrast with the field of Democrats vying to challenge him this year.‘He’s got a lot to talk about it, to really take on the perils of socialism right there in Davos,’ Conway said Thursday. ‘A lot of the world’s economy can exhale now that China and the U.S. have completed phase one of the trade deal.’” The Hole in the Impeachment Trial Andrew C. McCarthy at National Review gives Republicans the only talking point they need: “Why, with Election Day only ten months away, would Speaker Pelosi stoke an impeachment vote that could be perilous for many of her members, on the insistence that Trump was such a clear and present danger she could brook no delay, but then . . . sit on the impeachment articles for a month, accomplishing nothing in the interim except to undermine the presidential bids of several Senate Democrats, who will be trapped in Washington when they should be out campaigning with Iowa’s caucuses just two weeks away?None of this would have happened if there had been a truly impeachable offense.” Read the rest here. If You’re Into Cringe-Watching TV… Then Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Netflix show, Goop Lab, may be for you. It combines pseudoscience and Gwyneth’s ability to make you feel poor for not spending hundreds of dollars to steam your hoo-ha. The show features Goop staffers testing silly pseudoscience gimmicks like snow-ga (yoga in the snow), energy healers who cause an “exorcism,” breathing techniques to counter e.Coli, and magic mushrooms in Jamaica (ok, maybe the last one isn’t so bad). From a review of the series in Bloomberg: “Western medicine, except when it makes the Goopers feel and look their best, is diminished. Paltrow and Loehnen celebrate when pharmaceuticals are fought off. Kate Wolfson, the executive editor of Goop, announces she can ween herself off her anxiety drug after a weekend course with Wim Hof, the E.coli guy. She’s met with congratulations, proof that Goop’s wildest claims outdo medical expertise. (Wolfson did continue consulting a doctor after the experience.) In an effort to legitimize the show, there are a few skeptics, but they magically come around to the Goop way by the end of each episode. In a country where vaccination rates are falling and public health emergencies are increasingly common, praising untested theories to millions of viewers is irresponsible, even if Goop claims it’s just fulfilling a curiosity. ‘Medical ideas should be studied before [they] are offered to people as an option,’ says Dr. Jennifer Gunter, a gynecologist who’s fought a digital campaign against the disinformation she says Goop publishes.” January Favorites Are Here! Not a Goop product among them. This month focuses on 2020 goals, a gloss to level up all the matte lipsticks you bought, and a YouTube channel that will definitely surprise you! Read the list here. A Case of the Mondays Carol Burnett and Bob Newhart Speak Up For Senior Pets: ‘Growing Old Is Not a Death Sentence’ (People) This 104 year-old Marine and World War II vet who received a Purple Heart for surviving the Battle of Iwo Jima wants Valentine’s Day cards and I know our BRIGHT readers can deliver. Read the story. Send cards to: Operation Valentine ATTN: Hold for Maj Bill White, USMC (Ret) The Oaks at Inglewood 6725 Inglewood Ave. Stockton, CA 95207 At the 2020 National College Football Championship game, the First Lady practiced fashion diplomacy by highlighting an Australian designer and the devastating fires in Australia. From John Binder at Fashion Notes: “First Lady Melania Trump made an unexpected homage to Australia on Monday evening at the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship in New Orleans, Louisiana.To attend the game, Melania Trump chose a patent leather blue trench coat by Scanlan Theodore — an Australian-based label founded in Melbourne around the late 1980s. A black version of the trench coat retails for about $2,000.The trench coat’s significance comes as Australia suffers through a horrific bushfire disaster that may take the lives a billion animals and has already destroyed thousands of homes. First Ladies often use their style as diplomacy and this nod to Australia is in keeping with that tradition.Mrs. Trump paired the Scanlan Theodore coat with a pair of Saint Laurent black suede knee-high boots as well as her signature smokey eyes and center-part waves.” The First Lady also debuted a new color combination perfect for winter temps while dreaming of spring — lilac and bordeaux. Mondays with Melania is a weekly feature that highlights what the First Lady is doing and wearing. BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist.Copyright © BRIGHT, All rights reserved. www.GetBRIGHTemail.com Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list Note: By using some of the links above, Bright may be compensated through the Amazon Affiliate program and Magic Links. However, none of this content is sponsored and all opinions are our own. |
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01/20/2020Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning NoteWarren-Sanders Rift; Whistleblower’s Tale; Inaugural Words Good morning. It’s Monday, Jan. 20, 2020, a federal holiday in honor of a great American. In professional football, the two Super Bowl teams are now set. For those of you who prefer another sport — one experiencing a troubling off-season — it’s only 22 days until pitchers and catchers report to their spring training camps.In official Washington, today isn’t really much of a holiday, as our two dominant political parties gear up for Tuesday’s action in the U.S. Senate, where the impeachment trial of President Trump gets real.A year from today, however, Donald Trump will be taking the oath of office for the second time. Or, instead, his replacement will be inaugurated for the first time — unless, I suppose, Mike Pence has ascended to the office in the meantime. Who knows what the fates have in store for us? In this space I usually deal with the past, not the future. And it is on this date in U.S. history when presidents have generally relied on their oratorical skills (and their speechwriters’ eloquence) to try and unite Americans, at least for a while.They have sometimes succeeded in this quest, as we’ll see in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion pieces spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters, columnists, and contributors, including the following:* * *Why Progressive Unity Bid Didn’t End Sanders-Warren Rift. Bill Scher writes that unity requires compromise, and the left faction of the Democratic Party has been campaigning against compromise.A Tale of Two Whistleblowers: One Protected, One Not. Susan Crabtree reports on the case of a USAID official who says he was ousted after exposing government waste, fraud and abuse at the agency.Abortion Is Antithetical to Women’s Empowerment. Maureen Ferguson responds to the passage by Virginia of the ERA and other new developments as the anniversary of Roe v. Wade approaches.Impeachment Crusade Blinds Media to Trump’s Accomplishments. Cora Mandy weighs in as the Senate trial kicks into gear this week.Why Unlocking More Oil and Gas Is Good for Every American. In RealClearEnergy, Ryan Sitton argues that tapping these resources has an environmental benefit because no other country produces energy more cleanly than the U.S. does.* * *The first president to give a Jan. 20 inaugural address was Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was also the last president to take the oath of office on March 4. The tradition was changed during his first term, partly because of how poorly Roosevelt handled his first transition, and so on Jan. 20, 1937, FDR spoke to an American public still in the throes of the Great Depression.“Let us ask again,” he said that day. “Have we reached the goal of our vision of that fourth day of March 1933? Have we found our happy valley?”Most Americans had not reached a happy place in 1937, but four years later, President Roosevelt’s third inauguration took place amid an even more frightening crucible: world war.“Democracy is not dying,” FDR assured his fellow Americans on this date in 1941. “We know it because democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will.”John F. Kennedy’s 1961 inaugural address was so remarkable that the temptation is to reprint the entire thing. Long-playing records were made of this speech and sold commercially. Millions of schoolchildren memorized parts of it. Here are three of the most evocative passages:“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans — born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage.”“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”“My fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”To be sure, there have been some Jan. 20 duds. “I have no new dream to set forth today,” Jimmy Carter proclaimed glumly at his sober inauguration. This was unfortunate, but candid. In 1989, George H.W. Bush spoke of a “new breeze” blowing in the world, an allusion that proved simultaneously forgettable and only marginally accurate.In fairness, Bush 41 was following a tough act: eight years of Ronald Reagan. At the Gipper’s 1981 inauguration, the Great Communicator lived up to his billing.“The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades,” Reagan said in heralding a conservative American renaissance. “They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we as Americans have the capacity now, as we’ve had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”Nineteen years ago today, Reagan’s disciple (George Herbert Walker Bush’s son) had his chance at the inaugural lectern. He did not blow it. The speech was judged by prominent liberal journalist Hendrik Hertzberg to be “shockingly good.” It was, Hertzberg added, “by far the best Inaugural Address in 40 years; indeed, it was better than all but a tiny handful of all the inaugurals of all the presidents since the Republic was founded.”This was more than generous praise from across the aisle: Hertzberg helped draft Jimmy Carter’s 1977 address. Bush’s speech started off with a tip of the hat to his predecessor, and to Al Gore, the man he had only kinda sorta defeated in the 2000 election, “for a contest conducted with spirit and ended with grace.”“We have a place, all of us, in a long story — a story we continue, but whose end we will not see,” Bush continued. “It is the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer.“It is the American story — a story of flawed and fallible people, united across the generations by grand and enduring ideals. The grandest of these ideals is an unfolding American promise that everyone belongs, that everyone deserves a chance, that no insignificant person was ever born.”Three years ago today, Donald John Trump delivered a different kind of inaugural address. It was highly unorthodox in the sense that it was really a continuation of his campaign stump speech. Many of the most prominent members in the audience, including George W. Bush himself, found it discordant.“Well,” Bush told Hillary Clinton when it was over, “that was some weird shit.”Now, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: We are met on the great battlefield of American politics, the U.S. Senate, testing whether a speech so conceived, so dedicated, can long endure — and whether it might be reprised a year from today.Carl M. Cannon Washington Bureau chief, RealClearPolitics @CarlCannon (Twitter) ccannon@realclearpolitics.com Having trouble viewing this email? | [Unsubscribe] | Update Subscription Preferences Copyright © 2020 RealClearHoldings, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email becuase you opted in at our website. Our mailing address is: RealClearHoldings666 Dundee RoadBldg. 600Northbrook, IL 60062 Add us to your address book |
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| The Internet’s Most Hated: Who Are The Most Annoying People Online?Posted: 19 Jan 2020 09:33 PM PSTTony Allenby Toni Allen: In the digital age, the internet and real-life can overlap to the point where they’re nearly indistinguishable. According to the Digital 2019 report, Americans spend approximately 6 hours and 31 minutes of their day online, which is equivalent to 96 days a year. This means the average internet user spends nearly 26% of their year fraternizing with fellow netizens. But the internet, like real life, is home to millions of people from all walks of life, including people with less-than-good intentions. According to the First Amendment, racists, white nationalists, and “internet trolls” do have the same right to express themselves as anyone else, and, of course, this can often cause friction. We asked 1,006 people, all habitual internet users, what types of people and behaviors they hated the absolute most online. Continue reading to see if you agree or if you just might be one of the internet’s most-hated users. Internet Irks The ubiquity of the internet gave birth to a special breed of websurfers: the internet troll. An internet troll is a person who “deliberately sows discord among netizens” by posting controversial materials or provocative posts in an online forum. It comes as no surprise that over half of habitual internet users cited internet trolls as the most infuriating types of characters on the web. In fact, 37% of social media users have either unfollowed or unfriended someone because of the aggravating nature of their posts. Treading on the heels of the notorious internet trolls as the most annoying people on the internet were racists. Online anonymity has enabled cyber racism to thrive on the internet as users express their radical viewpoints with no risk of personal backlash. Despite partisan allegiance, members of both the liberal and conservative parties shared a similar sentiment toward these bigots: 60% and 39%, respectively, recognized them as the most annoying people online. A relatively new wave of irritating internet users, known as “anti-vaxxers,” has been bothering millennials in particular. Forty-two percent of respondents in this generation found themselves annoyed by the movement. This belief system tests the limits of the “to each their own” mentality, as the US is currently seeing a higher number of measles cases than it has in the past 25 years. This resurgence has unfortunately been linked to the parents who have chosen to forgo vaccinating their child(ren) against the disease, earning them the title of “anti-vaxxers.” Platform Personalities Some social networks have amassed user bases so large, they make some countries appear small. These days, though, what was once a lighthearted place to share personal stories, connect with loved ones, or repost a silly meme is now a cesspool for libelous and malicious comments. The majority of respondents – 71% – agreed that Facebook was the most toxic social media platform, yet only 28% stopped logging in because of its supposed toxicity. Following closely behind Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild was the infamous little blue bird – Twitter. Exactly 60% of internet users said Twitter nurtured a toxic audience. Instagram (27%), Reddit (23%), and YouTube (22%) ranked dramatically lower in perceived toxicity compared to the tweet-centric platform. Interestingly enough, only 11% of social media users said Snapchat was toxic in nature, yet an impressive 42% of users said they dropped the app because of its destructive user base. When users decided to hang on despite the toxicity, how do they respond to less-than-kind posts? Sixty-nine percent followed through on ignoring, while another 45% chose to unfriend or unfollow the offender. Argumentative Audiences Online arguments have become so common that they almost feel like a rite of passage into netizen-hood. According to our survey, 20% of people below the age of 38 said they were likely to get into an argument online. Older generations appeared more docile, as only 13% of baby boomers and 14% of Gen Xers said it was likely they would participate in online arguments. The likelihood of having a digital quarrel also changed depending on gender. Men demonstrated more argumentative tendencies, with 21% of male social media users likely to fight online. Only 14% of women said the same. The only demographic boundary that didn’t influence the likelihood of digital arguments was political leaning. Conservatives and liberals both expressed an identical 17% likelihood to engage in an online dispute. Futile Fights Though online fights abound, is there ever really a “winner”? Or just two or more losers? It may depend on the topic of debate. Discussions about climate change were considered the number one argument worth having. Things got dicier when it came to politics, though: It came in second as both the most futile and most worthwhile argument, according to our respondents. Worthwhile or not, politics constituted the number one most frequently argued topic: 27% of participants had fought about politics online before. Gun control was a distant second, accounting for just under half as many online debates. Watch Your Language Credibility was immediately lost if a person made a threat in an argument. Ninety-six percent of respondents said a person would lose some or all credibility in that type of hostile situation. Even cursing led to a loss of credibility for 69% of respondents. Consider walking away from an argument if you plan to make threats or curse – it’s hardly worth expending the negative energy! When respondents had had enough of a particular poster, they clicked “unfollow.” Irritating posts even had the power to affect relationships: Nearly 1 in 3 respondents had blocked a friend because of their controversial posts, and approximately 1 in 5 had blocked a co-worker. There’s even a chance that controversial posts could end your romantic relationship: Nearly 10% of respondents had broken up with their significant other because of something they had posted online. Reactive Reasoning The internet, though omnipresent, isn’t always welcomed with open arms. Respondents were highly vocal about their reasons for disliking the internet world: 63% hated the toxic comments, exactly half hated the cyberbullying, and another 47% just hated the drama that came along with life online. When it came to politics, only 33% of liberals said they disliked the internet because of too much politics, compared to 42% of conservatives. Though it is Republican President Donald Trump who is notorious for his frequent use of social media, liberals were much less likely to cite political posts as a reason for disliking the internet. On an ever more serious note, mental health and the internet aren’t always friends. In fact, over 25% of millennials said the internet had caused mental health problems for them. It isn’t just millennials that felt this way, though: Many experts agree that mental health issues like anxiety and depression can correlate with a constant comparison of your life to what you see on the internet. Social Speech The downside of freedom of speech is that a person with prejudiced views has just as much of a right to their opinion and the voicing of that opinion as anybody else. The dissemination of hate speech is nearly impossible to regulate, and it’s certainly rampant online. It’s so rampant, in fact, that a shocking 3 in 4 social media users agreed that online hate speech has become the norm. Repeated hate speech has frightening consequences beyond the immediate frustration, anger, and sadness it may cause. Ninety-five percent of social media users also agreed that hate speech at least somewhat made them more likely to act hatefully in real life. Scary stories continue to surface, like the Japanese blogger who was thought to be murdered by one of his frequent online tormentors. Remember that you reserve the right to remove hateful comments on your own posts or block users entirely, which may often be the right move in the name of internet (and real-life) safety. Positive Posting The internet’s ability to instantaneously connect us all has given way to some pretty powerful social movements, including everything from Black Lives Matter to ocean cleanups. Baby boomers were the most likely generation to post positive content. Seventy-seven percent said they used their social platforms for positivity as opposed to anger and rants or personal information. A quarter of millennials, however, had used their online voices to share complaints or rants, which we categorized as negative regardless of the specific content. Positive online behaviors most often manifested as making digital connections with family and friends, followed by sharing funny posts and photos. Often known as memes, these funny photos have created entire careers for influencers – and often lucrative ones at that. The Fat Jewish, for example, has an estimated net worth of $20 million, all stemming from his Instagram page and witty comments. Signing Off Even if your digital disposition leans sunny, positive, and upbeat, the presence of negativity and other internet pet peeves are hard to completely avoid. Ultimately, life offline is vastly more important than life online, so make sure to maintain healthy boundaries between the two. And might we suggest intermittent digital detoxes, which can help reverse some of the negative side effects associated with overuse of the internet. When you’re ready to either consume or create upbeat, interesting content, head over to WhoIsHostingThis. We help people make decisions about their own web hosting. Since 2007, we’ve been doing our part to raise the standards of the internet, helping thousands of domains consistently improve the quality of the content they publish. . . . ———————— Toni Allen has been a webmaster since the 1990s and is a contributor to WhoIsHostingThis who shared this article with the ARRA News Service. Tags: Toni Allen, The Internet, Most Hated, Who Are The Most Annoying People Online, Who Is Hosting This? To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. 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| How fragile is Iran’s regime?Posted: 19 Jan 2020 08:00 PM PST. . . US sanctions are creating extreme economic conditions; birthrate dropping precipitously. by David P. Goldman: Smartphone videos of anti-regime protests in Tehran circulated in global news media this weekend, after the Iranian government admitted it shot down a Ukrainian civilian airliner. The latest demonstrations followed a national wave of protests last November in which up to 1,500 demonstrators were killed. Hard information about the origins and extent of the anti-regime protests is difficult to find. But there is a good deal of evidence of extreme dissatisfaction with the regime due to economic stress. Iran’s average monthly after-tax wage was US$318.53, according to the website Numbeo, which tallies thousands of user inputs to arrive at wage and price data. Using Numbeo’s prices I constructed a monthly survival budget in US dollar equivalents: One average salary pays for a small apartment outside the center, utilities, enough calories to keep body and soul together, and bus fare, which is subsidized. Throw in cell phone service, clothing, fruits and vegetables, and one or two meat meals a month, and an Iranian couple will require two average salaries. According to official data, food price inflation was 28% year-on-year as of December. Medicine is another matter. Some imported items, for example, insulin pens, can’t be found at pharmacies in some provinces, according to a Persian-language report by IRNA. The Chancellor of the University of Isfahan told the national news agency that imported medicine such as chemotherapy drugs was in short supply, but that most other medication was available. Import controls to spare foreign exchange have put autos outside the range of most Iranians. A VW Golf costs the local-currency equivalent of $48,000, according to Numbeo, or about 14 years’ average pay. Reduced consumption has taken a toll on Iranian family life. According to the Tehran Times, citing Mohammed Javad Mahmoudi, head of the committee on population studies of the Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution. According to Mahmoudi, the number of babies born in Iran fell by nearly 25% between 2015 and 2019. That short-term decline in absolute numbers of births is unprecedented outside of wartime. The number of Iranian women of child-bearing age increased slightly over the same period, so the collapsing birth rate clearly reflects decisions not to bear children. As I have reported in the past, Iran faces a demographic crisis over the next two decades as its population ages rapidly. There are five prime-age Iranians supporting every Iranian over the age of 65, but by mid-century, the ratio will collapse to just 1.6 to one. Strangely, the Iranian authorities have reported an increase in the “total fertility rate,” namely the estimated number of children that the average woman will bear during her lifetime. The increase evidently is due to optimistic assumptions about the future rather than observed behavior in the present. Iranians face desperate conditions, if not actual hunger, due to the effect of economic sanctions. Add to this the long-term effects of mismanagement of the country’s scarce water resources. Afshin Shahi wrote recently in the Journal of Asian Affairs: “Approximately 97% of the country is experiencing drought conditions. Due to gross water mismanagement and its damaging impact on the country, Iran faces the worst situation in the water resources of any industrialized nation. Tens of thousands of villages have been deserted and most of the major urban centers have passed their limits to absorb new rural migrants. Some officials predict that in less than 25 years, 50 million Iranians would be displaced from their current homes because of the pressing ecological conditions.” Few countries have endured this level of deprivation outside of full war mobilization, and few have seen such a drastic decline in the number of births. The only modern comparison is Venezuela. Governments with a monopoly of economic resources and the willingness to kill significant numbers of their own citizens can stay in power for quite some time, but there seems no question that Iran’s regime is fragile and prone to destabilization. —————————— David P. Goldman writes for the Asia Times. Tags: David P. Goldman, Asia Times, Iran, 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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| 5 reasons Hollywood stars are the absolute worst people to give political advicePosted: 20 Jan 2020 06:25 AM PSTFollowing last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards, the usual suspects are being buzzed by Hollywood rags and social media fans for their wokeness. Admittedly, I didn’t watch the show nor have I seen a single clip. My only exposure has come in the form of headlines or Tweets crossing my stream, but one does not need to have watched it to know exactly what was said.Correct me if I’m wrong, but I assume it was a combination of “orange man bad” and undying support for a variety of far-left ideologies. See? I’m clearly a master analyst to have known so much about something I didn’t even watch.In reality, Hollywood has become the most predictable cog in the most predictable industry on the planet. It isn’t just the repetitive cycle of movies that are reboots, reimaginations, or retreads. It’s the recycled rhetoric spewed forth like acidic vitriol from the mouth of the Hollywood hydra. I’m not clever enough to predict what anyone will say or do except for those in Hollywood who reliable say and do the same thing over and over again.As a people, we must stop giving credence to anything these entertainers say that doesn’t pertain directly to their craft. No other industry is an insulated. No type of person as less credible opinions about politics, culture, or religion than Hollywood-types.Here are five reasons to not only ignore people in Hollywood when they try to step out of their lane, but also to rebuke anyone who finds these entertainers to be somehow informed.Detached from the real worldWhen Ricky Gervais gave his speech at the Golden Globes (a clip I actually did watch), at one point he noted that most actors have spent less time in school than Greta Thunberg. He said they are the last people on earth who need to chime in about the world because they know nothing about it. It was a joke. It was also eerily spot-on.Whether an actor was injected into Hollywood (or had Hollywood injected into them) at an early age or if they came into the business later in life, exposure to their world has a way of detaching people from everyone else. Perhaps there’s an inherent ability to detach that’s a prerequisite for success in Hollywood; one can argue that Hollywood doesn’t make them detached, but they detach themselves for the sake of being successful there.Either way, Hollywood stars are the only people who have less understanding of the plight of the average American than lifetime DC politicians. The difference is politicians usually work in groups that allow proper life experiences to guide at least some of them. In Hollywood, they actually come up with these ideas on their own. Well. sort of. We’ll cover that shortly.Paid to lieDo you believe a Hollywood star when they deliver an impassioned speech about how this policy makes them weep or that policy is necessary for America? Do you buy into their tears over climate change, immigration, or socialism? Are you convinced when they tell you they’d be willing to take down the walls surrounding their mansions and disarm their body guards if only America had open borders and total gun confiscation?If so, why? How can anyone believe people whose job is to convince us they’re someone else? There’s a poignant scene near the end of the movie Mrs. Doubtfire in which Robin Williams’ character explains to the judge how desperately he needs to be able to see his children. The judge is moved, but then reminds him that as a man who had convinced his own family that he was a British housekeeper, there’s no way he can be believed no matter how compelling his pleas were.This is a subtle but important fictional tale that depicts exactly why we must take every passionate utterance from Hollywood-types with a grain of salt. Are they truly moved by the woke cause du jour or are the simply applying their skills of deceit to fool us? After all, Hollywood stars are…Inherently self-servingThe fact that someone is a Hollywood star is an indicator that they are self-serving and at some point in their careers made the decision to do whatever it takes to be successful. Hollywood is, in many ways, a city that rewards a combination of optics and effort. The rise and fall and rise again of so many in Hollywood is indicative of an industry in which those who look out for number one are the only ones who make it big.Some attribute it to narcissism, and that’s only partially true as self-love plays an important role in compelling people to go to Hollywood in the first place. But narcissism alone is not enough to become successful in Tinseltown. One must be willing to do the things that others might consider to be too self-aggrandizing. Putting our ideological trust in people who won’t do anything that doesn’t benefit them in some way is silly.Faith in manThere was a time when it was common for actors to at least pretend to acknowledge God in their success. The awards rooms get cold and silent today when actors thank their Creator. Why? Because the heathens have come out in full force in Hollywood and anyone not on board with anti-Christian groupthink are quickly, quietly decreed as anathema.Some actors go to faith-based studios because they earnestly want to use their talents to spread a Biblical message. Others go there because after their faith was made known, the other doors were shut to them. It’s one of the worst-kept secrets in Hollywood that there’s a clear separation between those who can work with regular studios and those who are only accepted by faith-based studios.It’s much more common to hear actors accepting awards heap praise on their supporting cast, the director who gave them creative license, actors who inspired them in the past, their parents, their spouse, or any other human. They rarely acknowledge the spiritual, at least not from a Biblical perspective. They trust in man and want the rest of us to believe we can achieve their success if we only denounce our Lord and Savior’s very existence.An environment of progressivismOne does not need to be exposed to the environment of debauchery driven by the oligarchical nature of Hollywood for long to realize the industry leans as far to the left as any other in America. Prolonged exposure to the environment leads to ideological changes; even once-conservative actors, rare as they may be, find their stances shifting due to the onslaught of progressive ideas discussed in the entertainment industry’s echo chamber daily.We’ve seen some fight back, though usually only after they’ve established their careers firmly and may no longer need to find much work in order to sustain their lifestyles. James Woods, Kristy Swanson, Jon Voight, Scott Baio, and Clint Eastwood come to mind. But they are rare. Does that mean there are no conservatives in Hollywood? To some extent, yes. But there’s also an understanding that even if a rising star is a conservative, their only hopes to keep rising is to either hide their feelings in a neutral fashion or pretend to be as woke as everyone else.It’s funny that in the old days in Hollywood, homosexuals had to pretend to be straight in order to get work. Today, homosexuals are more likely to get work in Hollywood based mostly on their sexual preference. Meanwhile, conservatives have to pretend to be woke if they want their phones to keep ringing. As Pat Boone noted in 2018, they have to keep their ideology hidden.Those who go to Hollywood and are outward in their conservatism likely won’t make it. Those who hide their conservatism until later in their career will likely be pushed out. Eastwood and Voight may be the only true conservative superstar left, and only because they are Hollywood royalty and therefore forgiven for their deviations from the groupthink.Taking political advice from a Hollywood star is no more fruitful than an actor taking acting advice from Mark Levin. They have their lane, but many refuse to stay in it. Ignore them when they’re playing themselves, a role that doesn’t mean much.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. 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| Democrat enthusiasm is critically lowPosted: 20 Jan 2020 12:32 AM PSTI live in what’s left of Maryland, a Democrat stronghold, and despite the migrant caravan of Democrat candidates, visible support is scant. A survey of bumper stickers would have Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders as the top candidates because people refused to remove these losing candidates from their cars to avoid looking dumb. Otherwise support for any candidate is scant. I once saw a Cory Booker bumper sticker several months ago before a debate. I’ve seen a single Elizabeth Warren, and maybe two Joe Biden stickers. Biden is most likely to win Maryland this far out.However the lack of enthusiasm among Democrats is not limited to anecdotal evidence. Polling data suggests that the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire Primary are wide open with majority of voters undecided or fluid in their choice. Compare this to four years ago when Ted Cruz was building momentum against frontrunner Trump. It was known the Iowa Caucus would come down to Trump, Cruz, or maybe Rubio. And on the Democrat side, the enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton was raging. According to recent data, 40% of Iowa Caucus goers are firm in their choice. With 60% undecided or persuadable, the Iowa Caucus is undoubtedly to be won by whoever can have the most widespread organization and enthusiasm. But who can that be?The same poll shows that Elizabeth Warren has the highest favorability at 70% followed by Pete Buttigieg at 68% and Bernie Sanders at 66%. So on one hand Democrats in Iowa like their options, on the other, they balance their priorities. Is the priority beating Trump or is the priority ideological. Majority in the poll said beating Trump. This bodes well for fluidity, as Trump has changed the conventions we knew about elections substantially, so Democrats are even less clear on a formula to beat Trump.This struggle resembles the 2012 Republican Primary. The Republican voters prioritized beating Obama but struggled to find a candidate that could knowing that Mitt Romney could not. This led to Rick Santorum being the last desperate attempt to nominate a person to communicate a winning message. 2012 had the opposite problem where Republicans didn’t like their nominees all that much, but the anybody but Obama message was communicated, so Republicans nominated the closest thing they could to Obama.Likewise, Democrats could similarly blunder by nominating Elizabeth Warren. It’s difficult to articulate that Trump’s a racist when Elizabeth Warren lied about her race to her own benefit, also difficult to call Trump a liar, nominating Warren. It’s difficult to argue that Trump abused power with Ukraine when your son was benefiting from your office, in regards to Joe Biden. The charge of racism is one Pete Buttigieg cannot make either. Bernie Sanders may come away cleanest when it comes to being free from the hypocrisy that stains the current Democrat field. But there are obvious reasons why America might are reluctant to undergo a Bolshevik Revolution. The other candidates don’t have a base. Who can win? A question no serious candidate has yet to answer, and this results in crippling the enthusiasm for most of the base.Alternatively there is a sizable minority that wants a candidate that aligns with their belief with or without a strong case of beating Trump. Bernie Sanders likely wins this crowd given his past Presidential run and loyal base of support. Whereas, Pete Buttigieg, Champion of the Intersectionality Base, has some of this going for him as well because white guilt works on suburbanites. Joe Biden purely relies on the beating Trump narrative, and Elizabeth Warren is inbetween.In 2016, where there was no incumbent President, we saw Republicans overwhelmingly reject the Establishment with Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. Democrats similarly battled with their own establishment. In 2008, Democrats were intense this time of year. The presence of an incumbent introduces standards for a Primary that curb certain political zeal. Instead of enthusiasm for political candidates and policy proposals, we have extra Trump Derangement Syndrome.But politics without zeal is not a winning strategy against an incumbent. Ronald Reagan brought a sense of enthusiasm to one-term Jimmy Carter. Bill Clinton had Ross Perot. Otherwise, incumbents have dominated the general election in the primary era. Polling shows that Trump is ahead of any of the candidates heading into the key swing states. And that doesn’t include the states Trump may put into play in 2020 like Minnesota, since incumbents have a tendency to win larger margins the second time around.In 2020, elections are less about convincing “moderates” and more about rallying the bases to show up in droves. This would make base enthusiasm even more necessary in the general. The Democrats are mostly in favor of a negative message, as opposed to a positive one that wins general elections for first term presidents. So we must ask ourselves: does the quest to beat the incumbent curb vital enthusiasm necessary to win?If so, then the Democrats are in trouble in November.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. 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| Buzz Patterson, impeachment, and the ‘national security’ scamPosted: 19 Jan 2020 11:25 PM PSTPop quiz: How many Americans have been injured or killed fighting in Ukraine against the Russians? If you answered “zero,” then you clearly haven’t bought into the Democrats’ impeachment narrative or mainstream media’s propaganda supporting that narrative. They want us to believe that the Ukraine-Biden incident is a matter of “national security” so grim that they had to rush through impeachment in the House only to hold the Articles for a month.If none of that makes sense to you, it will be pleasing to hear that you’re not alone. Unfortunately, an oddly high number of Americans HAVE bought into the narrative that if President Trump is not removed from office by the Senate, then the nation’s security is at risk and Americans will die. In Ukraine. Or something.Congressional candidate Lt. Col. (ret) Buzz Patterson had a reaction to that narrative that simplifies the issue. In short, he’s as confused by the narrative as the rest of us.I’m scratching my head and I still can’t figure out how withholding military aid from Ukraine for a few weeks has ANYTHING to do with OUR national security.— Buzz Patterson for Congress (@BuzzPatterson) January 19, 2020As a candidate in California’s 7th District in eastern Sacramento, one might wonder how a Republican can win. But the district isn’t like others in California metro areas where the Democrats have a stranglehold. CA-07 is a purple district in which the right Republican can unseat a Democrat. We’re very hopeful that Patterson is up to the task.Unlike most congressional candidates, Patterson has actually lived in the White House before. He carried the “nuclear football” for President Clinton, accompanying him everywhere with the instant and final response to aggression against America. As an Air Force fighter pilot, he knows how to handle pressure. And as a stalwart conservative, he knows what America needs in order to continue improving in this new decade.What CA-07 and Washington DC need is someone like Buzz Patterson who knows which direction we need to go and who understands how to handle the pressures of the job. He clearly understands the idiocy of this impeachment debacle as well.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.First Name Last Name Email Address Comments SubmitMixi.Media NewsThe post Buzz Patterson, impeachment, and the ‘national security’ scam appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| NY Times endorses TWO Democrats for president in ill-conceived effort to remain relevantPosted: 19 Jan 2020 10:38 PM PSTDid the NY Times endorse someone from the far-left lane or the moderate lane in this election cycle? Yes. And they did so in a way that was so blatantly pandering to the entirety of the Democratic Party that it should be seen as an insult by both progressives and centrists in the party.In a first for the publication, they chose to endorse two candidates: Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar. Their accompanying article does its best to pretend like their decision was not self-serving and strategic, but one does not have to be a pundit to realize their motivation was simply to not anger either side of their regular readership. It’s a move that is defined as both a hedging of their bets and a safety net to fall on in case either of their endorsements actually win the nomination. In other words, they didn’t want to make either side of the Democratic Party too angry now and they definitely do not want to get blamed for propelling one side or the other to a nomination that precedes a general election loss.What this really tells us is they’re scared. They couldn’t commit to a lane any faster than Senator Kamala Harris, playing the same political chameleon games the failed candidate tried to play. Was she a progressive or a centrist? It all depending on the audience at the moment. The NY Times Editorial board took the same approach out of fear of making one side or the other upset that someone from their lane wasn’t picked.It’s a microcosm of the division within the Democratic Party today. There are as many Democrats who are adamant about a radical getting the nomination as there are Democrats who fear a radical will propel President Trump to a second term. Conversely, there are as many people clinging to the Democratic Party of old as there are people who want nothing less than fundamental change in the party and the nation.And through it all, President Trump enjoys historic unity within the Republican Party and a mandate that changed from Make America Great Again to Keep America Great. It’s a testament to the success of his first term, a success that the NY Times Editorial Board translated into total failure. The way the story is written, one would think the economy is in shambles, America is stuck in a half-dozen wars, and Antifa is the new Peace Corps. This is their saving grace among Democrats who will be displeased by their throwaway endorsements; at least they still hate President Trump, so their regular readers can agree on that, though few they may be.They endorsed Warren for being the lesser-of-two radicals and they endorsed Klobuchar for being the only moderate without a fatal flaw. Doing so means they really aren’t sure who’s going to win so they might as well go with the safest bet in each lane. I cannot stress how weak and underwhelming this move is from a news outlet that once yielded so much power. Today, they’re a shell of The Gray Lady that cannot seem to reconcile their place in this new world. Their motto, “All the News That’s Fit to Print,” is indicative of their inability to stay true to the times. When was the last time you picked up a physical newspaper in which the news is printed?Here’s a breakdown of their critiques of the candidates they didn’t endorse:Bernie Sanders: Too rigid in his MarxismJoe Biden: Regressive policies that won’t make him more electablePete Buttigieg: Too young, maybe next timeAndrew Yang: Not enough experience, start smallerMichael Bloomberg: He didn’t take our interviewTom Steyer: Not mentioned at all for some reasonCory Booker, Kamala Harris, Steve Bullock, Michael Bennet, Deval Patrick, Jay Inslee: Mentioned for some reasonTulsi Gabbard: Not mentioned for obvious reasonsThis was the most cowardly endorsement the NY Times has ever made. They’ve never taken both sides. Are they feeling the financial squeeze from President Trump’s attacks? Is the Democratic Party really that broken? Will their endorsement(s) mean anything?American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.First Name Last Name Email Address Comments SubmitMixi.Media NewsThe post NY Times endorses TWO Democrats for president in ill-conceived effort to remain relevant appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| We are in a struggle for liberty. Why are we allowing the left to make it just about guns?Posted: 19 Jan 2020 07:43 PM PSTThe latest lie from the liberty grabber left is an attempt to smear innocent freedom advocates on the right as equivalent to KKK members, Nazis and White supremacists. The next few days will see them work overtime to equate ‘gun-rights advocates’ with every ‘hate group’ imaginable, simply because they want to keep their unalienable human rights.This smear from the authoritarian left and their comrades in the media is more than infuriating given “The Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” The National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nazis was a far-left organisation repeatedly proven here, here, here, here and here, along with their white supremacist brethren.The authoritarian far-left always has a tendency to follow the dictates of it’s historical icons Hitler and Lenin in repeating a lie until it’s forcibly the truth. In this case they are cuing up the lie that ‘gun-rights advocates’ are the same as KKK members, Nazis and White supremacists. This is the reason we need to change the debate by changing its terms to one of freedom and liberty instead of inanimate objects of aluminium and steel.Questioning the liberty grabber left’s obsession with inanimate objects.Why does the left always use the word gun in their assault against liberty?Why do they call it gun violence or gun violence prevention?Why is it gun safety or gun reform?Why do they try to avoid the word control in these discussions?Does it make any sense to allow the left to exploit the word gun when this is a fight over freedom?There are several reasons why the liberty grabber left incessantly exploits the term “gun” in their fake news efforts. These also make the case for using the more appropriate terms freedom and liberty, but we will get to that in a moment.1. People have rights, guns do notThis is reason enough to avoid using the deceptive language of the national socialist left. Subtly couching the debate in these terms yields them a tremendous advantage – one that we of the pro-liberty right convey to them when we also use this term to our detriment.The left wants to scrupulously avoid the issue of their destruction of liberty, since it clearly puts them in an extremely bad light. That is why they exploit these terms so they keep the debate away from the issue of our unalienable human rights.2. Guns are scary to someWe do ourselves a great disservice when we allow the left to dictate the terms of the debate in terms of scary looking objects that make loud noises and can be dangerous in the wrong hands. Framing the debate in terms of these objects alienates those who support liberty in other ways, but cannot get past the fear factor of firearms.Compare the fear of guns with a fear of liberty or freedom, aside from leftists, who want this only for themselves, no one has an issue with these concepts. Couching the debate in terms of liberty opens up the possibility for a number of new supporters for the cause. That alone should be reason enough to frame the argument in terms of liberty or freedom.3. The authoritarian left is all about controlThe same logic that proves that we need to set the debate in terms of liberty also provides the rationale to use of the word control in this debate. Parenthetically speaking, the fact that the authoritarian left wants to avoid this term is reason enough to use it.Why do they avoid the obvious connection between the control of liberty and socialism?Why does the liberty grabber left smear opponents of their control schemes as racists?Lastly, why do they studiously avoid the terms liberty and freedom in these discussions of our unalienable human rights?There is always a hidden but direct connection between socialism and the control of liberty. Socialism is essentially the concentration of power into the hands of a leftist authoritarian elite. It attains this concentration of power, with never to be fulfilled promises of security and the radical redistribution of wealth for the purpose of centralized control of society – ultimately by force. It can only attain its control with a monopoly on the use of force. Or as Mao Zedong termed it:“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”Arms in the hands of the people ensures the conservation of individual liberty. The national socialist left cannot abide the people having this power. The collectivist ideologies of socialism and fascism demand a monopoly on the use of force. This is why the left obsesses over gun confiscation while lying that they obsess over gun confiscation.The Bottom-Line: This is a fight over liberty, not inanimate objectsA superb article in ‘The Arbalest Quarrel’ made the point that the radical left seeks to get rid of the Constitution, beginning with the second amendment. Kevin D. Williamson in National Review made this case over a year ago in an article entitled: Democrats vs. the Constitution.Make no mistake, the authoritarian left wants this debate to be in terms of inanimate objects without any rights. Keeping it in these terms lets them side-step any issues on liberty and the unalienable rights of human beings. This is why it is imperative that we stop using the language of the left and frame this debate in its proper context.This is a fight over liberty. The 2nd Amendment is just the first target of the authoritarians. Allowing the left to frame the discussion in terms of inanimate objects is a major mistake. Just as it is also a mistake to not correct the record that the Klan, Nazis and others are part of the nation’s socialist left.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. 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| Don Jr. lambastes CNN for concern over Jeffrey Epstein’s environmental recordPosted: 19 Jan 2020 05:44 PM PSTIf you search CNN.com for “Jeffrey Epstein,” you may not find what you seek. If you’re concerned about the dead pedophile’s numerous victims or even the odd circumstances surrounding his alleged suicide, you won’t find any stories on the first page with 10 results. In fact, page two with the next 10 listings only have three that match Epstein’s most notorious exploits.What you WILL find are several stories about President Trump’s impeachment, which is tangentially connected to Epstein through his former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz. You’ll also find stories about Evelyn Yang, Ukraine, Harry and Meghan, and the environment. Wait, the environment? Yes. After combing through the Virgin Islands’ lawsuit against the Epstein estate, CNN found something that really triggered them. Underage sexual assault? No. Evading law enforcement? No. Bribing officials? No. CNN honed in on his environmental crimes, and Donald Trump Jr. called them out for it.OMG this is real! It’s not that he molested children that got CNN to pay attention it’s that he didn’t have high regard for the environment! WTF CNN?!?Jeffrey Epstein’s disregard for environmental protections showed his disrespect for the law – CNN https://t.co/6EPTUZlrW3— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 19, 2020Now radical progressives have a reason to be upset with Jeffrey Epstein. Climate change, after all, is the source of all of our problems in their eyes. And CNN played right into it, triggering themselves all the way to even lower ratings than usual.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.First Name Last Name Email Address Comments SubmitMixi.Media NewsThe post Don Jr. lambastes CNN for concern over Jeffrey Epstein’s environmental record appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| Elizabeth Warren: ‘How could the American people want someone who lies to them?’Posted: 19 Jan 2020 01:06 PM PSTEvery election cycle, at least one candidate emerges who demonstrates an uncanny willingness to outright lie. One can argue that all successful politicians are inherently liars, but people like Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren take their dishonesty to the next level and beyond.Warren took a question from the press that, intentionally or not, highlighted the growing reputation the Senator has of lying. Whether it’s her heritage, her children’s schooling, why she left a job, or how she’s going to pay for Medicare-for-All, Warren has been caught in multiple lies since launching her candidacy.The hypocrisy here is off the freaking charts. https://t.co/dabLTpsClV— The FOO (@PolitiBunny) January 19, 2020“Is it disqualifying for a presidential candidate to lie to the American public on anything?” a reporter asked.As everyone turned back to Warren, it was clear she wanted to answer the question as carefully as possible. Thus, she used her standard generalization technique instead of giving a plain yes or no answer.“Uh… I would think that it… you know… how could the American people wants someone who lies to them?” she replied.Can we call Warren’s words a de facto admission that voters shouldn’t be considering her for office, whether as a Senator or in the highest office in the land? Either she’s just a hypocrite or she lacks self-awareness completely.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.First Name Last Name Email Address Comments SubmitMixi.Media NewsThe post Elizabeth Warren: ‘How could the American people want someone who lies to them?’ appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| 4 things that must not happen at Virginia’s Lobby Day gun owners’ rights rallyPosted: 19 Jan 2020 11:52 AM PSTThe eyes of the nation will be turned to Richmond, Virginia, on Monday as the annual Lobby Day gathering organized by Virginia Citizens Defense League is set to be exponentially bigger than normal. Draconian gun control laws proposed by the new Democratic legislative majority and pushed by Governor Ralph Northam have prompted multiple gun owners’ rights advocacy groups in and out of the state to converge on Richmond in full force.“Starting early at 8 am, many will be going in to main halls of the Capitol buildings to lobby Virginia legislators,” said Jill S. McDaniel, founder of Mom-at-Arms and Virginia chapter lead for 1 Million Moms Against Gun Control. “From what I understand there are others who will be going in earlier than that. Around 11 am a protest rally will start.”Last week, Governor Northam announced a state of emergency that included a weapons ban for Capitol Square during the event. 2nd Amendment activist groups and VCDL challenged the ban, but the state supreme court ruled the Governor’s actions were constitutional on Friday. The Capitol Building itself has a permanent gun ban in place.Northam indicated last week he’d received credible reports that militant groups, including white supremacist organizations, planned to attend the rally and spark violence that may include an armed assault of the Capitol Building. Three white supremacist members of a group called “The Base” were arrested last week after Northam expressed his concerns.With tens of thousands of people expected to attend, exposure for the event offers an opportunity to send a very clear message to not only the Virginia legislature but also gun control advocates around the country. But there are risks. Media will be covering the event heavily, and much of the coverage will be dedicated to spinning the event into as negative of a light as possible. It’s imperative that certain things not happen to prevent a positive show of activism that turns into a negative subject as fodder for Democrats’ talking points and mainstream media propaganda. Here are four things that must not happen:ViolenceRadical progressives are certain that any time a group of “gun nuts” get together in large enough force, there is certain to be violence. They will point at the Charlottesville incident at the Unite The Right rally in 2017, during which there were many physical altercations. White supremacist James Alex Fields Jr drove through a crowd of counter-protesters, killing Heather D. Heyer and injuring 19 others.Nothing like that can happen at this rally. The potential to defuse the left’s narrative disappears the moment things turn violent. It needs to be a peaceful, legal gathering of patriotic defenders of the Constitution who are invoking our 1st Amendment right to defend the 2nd Amendment.There may be a time in the future when we need to defend the 2nd Amendment by invoking the 2nd Amendment, but that time has not come yet. If we are stalwart in our use of the 1st Amendment, we may never need to face an oppressive government bent on subverting the 2nd.Nationalizing a state issueOf the four things that must not happen, this is the one that may seem counter-intuitive. After all, we noted last month how Virginia is a bellwether for the nation. That hasn’t changed and we definitely need to keep associating the national message of fighting Democrats with what’s happening in Virginia. But Lobby Day is not the right venue. This must be a glorious expression of limited-government federalism as citizens of a state that is currently in crisis sort out this mess by expressing the will of the people. Gun owners’ rights are a local, state, and national issue, but Lobby Day should be squarely focused on the state of Virginia.“When we moved to Virginia in 2016, I never thought I’d end up in the middle of a Constitutional fight like this, but here I am, almost like I was meant to be here,” said Sam Janney, Editor at Twitchy. “And I can’t think of a more important place to be than shoulder-to-shoulder standing with other Virginians defending our inherent right to bear arms.”In the aftermath of the event, attention can be turned again to the national debate and taken up by the rest of the nation, but this is Virginia’s day. The focus must remain on defending their rights. Don’t worry. The Trump campaign will make sure to invoke Virginia as a microcosm of America and a warning against the obtuse policies Democrats want to impose on us all.Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away. Republicans will win Virginia in 2020. Thank you Dems!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2020Non-Constitutional messagingJust as there are times when a state message must supersede the national message, so too are there times when the argument must focus on the Constitution instead of intellectual perspectives. This is such a time. Gun owners’ rights advocates often use facts to fight gun control because conservatives have the truth on our side. But for Lobby Day, the attention and messaging must cut to the heart of the matter. We have a right to keep and bear arms. Virginia’s Democrats want to systematically take that right away. For this event, we need only one reason to object to what Democrats there are trying to do: Because the Constitution says we must.“The major difference in those who push gun control and those of us who value liberty is that gun control activists give fear power over them and because they are oppressed by it, they push it onto everyone else,” said McDaniel. “Misery loves company. Those of us who love our liberties and freedoms as Americans choose to be empowered and not let fear overcome us.”Bad optics from white supremacistsIt’s fortunate that this event falls on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Just as he fought for rights, so too are Virginia patriots fighting for their rights. Besides, many people are off that day, allowing for the event to swell even more than it would have if not for the holiday.But there’s also a risk. White supremacist groups are allegedly converging on the event. While many of them are also gun owners’ rights advocates, the core of their messaging is often associated with bigotry, and this messaging must not be attached to the point of the event. There is no way to stop them from co-opting the event to spread their hateful message if they choose to do so; we cannot pick and choose which opinions are put on display. Nevertheless, the first racist sign mainstream media finds will become the centerpiece of their reporting on the event. If this can be avoided without infringing on anyone’s 1st Amendment right, that would be ideal.There is also the risk of radical progressive plants pretending to be conservative activists. Again, there’s not much that can be done to stop them other than making our righteous messaging in defense of the Constitution louder and much more visible.Sadly, I am posting this, knowing that the Governor of Virginia has declared a State of Emergency in our state. I want…Posted by Senator Amanda Chase on Friday, January 17, 2020Patriots must stay the course and put forth proper messaging that remains on point. We must turn attention away from the bad optics that some groups may intend to inject into the event.The Virginia rally can be the launching point for gun owners’ rights advocacy across the nation as the citizens of the state rightly defend the Constitution. Challenges must be faced. Risks must be mitigated. The 2nd Amendment must be protected.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.First Name Last Name Email Address Comments SubmitMixi.Media NewsThe post 4 things that must not happen at Virginia’s Lobby Day gun owners’ rights rally appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| Mitt Romney’s popularity among Republicans, Independents in Utah plummetsPosted: 19 Jan 2020 08:55 AM PSTSenator Mitt Romney feels safe. He’s considered a hero in many circles in Utah where his Mormon beliefs and center-right political ideology shine. But he’s making enemies quickly as he continues to subvert President Trump’s agenda and in some cases, even his presidency itself. The latest episode of Romney playing his NeverTrump role surrounds impeachment in which he seems poised to side with Democrats on key votes.Many of his former fans are taking note.Romney loses GOP support in Utah after challenging Trump on impeachmentThe Morning Consult survey found support for Romney, 72, going down after he called for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify at Trump’s impeachment trial, which began on Thursday.The poll shows the senator’s approval rating falling among Utah Republicans from September through December 2019, and independents also shifted to disapproving of Romney over the quarter.In the prior quarter, 65% of Utah Republicans supported Romney, and while a majority still do presently, that number sank to 57%.On the bright side, he’s making news friends to partially replace the Republicans and Independents who are scorning him. He’s up 4% among Utah Democrats.The impeachment vote in the House went mostly along party lines with a few Democrats voting against it, joining every Republican in Congress. But in the Senate, there are still people like Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins who may go against the party, the President, and the nation by supporting the Democrats in their ongoing attempt to redo the 2016 election. But this is more than just replaying a past election. Impeachment is about setting the state for the 2020 election as well.If Mitt Romney sides with Democrats on this unambiguously political impeachment debacle, it’s time for Republicans to renounce him en masse. He should just register as a Democrat and stop this charade that he’s a conscientious conservative.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.First Name Last Name Email Address Comments SubmitMixi.Media NewsThe post Mitt Romney’s popularity among Republicans, Independents in Utah plummets appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
| Graham Allen has a reminder for VirginiaPosted: 19 Jan 2020 07:20 AM PSTGun control has been a way of life for many of us in progressive states. I live in California for the weather and I exercise my 2nd Amendment rights “quietly” as a result. That’s my choice. But those who live in states where freedom is still a thing have found it challenging to abide by the leftist push to disarm the masses. Virginia, the birthplace of American liberty, is one such state as Democrats push to subvert the 2nd Amendment.Last year’s election caught many in Virginia by surprise. There’s no excuse for the GOP’s inability to stave off the onslaught of anti-gun money being pumped in ahead of the election by the likes of Michael Bloomberg and George Soros, but now that the state has all branches controlled by Democrats, it’s time for conservatives to act. Monday’s planned rally at the capital is a start. One of the messages they need to deliver was expressed by Dear America Podcast host Graham Allen.BREAKING:Virginia wants to take away our guns….So did the British, and we haven’t cared what they thought since 1776RT! #VirginiaRally #Virginia2A— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) January 19, 2020Virginia is a bellwether for the nation. It’s imperative that patriots remind Ralph Northam and his cronies that they cannot operate against the Constitution without repercussions. This subtle message from Graham Allen will hopefully remind them.American Conservative MovementJoin fellow patriots as we form a grassroots movement to advance the cause of conservatism. We have two priorities until election day: Stopping Democrats and supporting strong conservative candidates. We currently have 7500+ patriots with us in a very short time. If you are interested, please join us to receive updates.First Name Last Name Email Address Comments SubmitMixi.Media NewsThe post Graham Allen has a reminder for Virginia appeared first on NOQ Report – Conservative Christian News, Opinions, and Quotes. |
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Good Monday morning. Faith, politics and history will combine today as America celebrates the birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who changed the world.
⚡ Breaking: China’s coronavirus spread to South Korea after a resident of Wuhan flew to Seoul, where she was isolated with symptoms including high fever, per Reuters:
- “More than 200 people have been confirmed as suffering from the new virus that broke out in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, including two in Thailand and one in Japan.”
1 big thing: Global trust crisis
Businesses are leading the way on crises like climate change and health care, because institutions like media and government are no longer seen as ethical and competent, Sara Fischer writes from the 20th annual Edelman Trust Barometer.
- “Business has leapt into the void left by populist and partisan government,” Edelman CEO Richard Edelman said.
- 🥊 But that’s only by default: 56% of the online survey’s respondents (34,000 people in 28 countries) said capitalism as it exists today does more harm than good in the world.
The survey, out today, shows a stark class divide — a growing gap in institutional trust between wealthier, more educated people vs. the rest of the population.
- For the first time, a record number of developed countries — including Australia, France, Germany and the UK — are experiencing double-digit divides in trust between the informed class and the mass population.
2. As Richmond braces for hate, race relations worsen
Reproduced from Pew Research Center (6,637 respondents, ±1.7 percentage points margin of error). Chart: Axios Visuals
Richmond is bracing today for potential violence — “another Charlottesville,” in the worst-case scenario — as thousands are expected at the Virginia capitol to protest gun legislation, Axios Executive Editor Sara Kehaulani Goo writes.
- Why it matters: On a day that is meant to celebrate what would have been the 91st birthday of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., the nation is grappling with emboldened white nationalist groups and racial tension.
Virginia officials are on edge after learning that militia groups, including some extremists with white supremacist views, were planning a violent attack today, an annual lobbying day for the public to express views at the state capitol.
- Gov. Ralph Northam (D) called a state of emergency last week out of concern for public safety, citing intelligence of threats of violence and “extremist rhetoric” similar to Charlottesville.
The FAA has instituted a ban on airspace over the capitol out of concern for aerial threats, including weaponized drones, the WashPost reports.
- Organizers of the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville say they plan to attend,. per The Post.
Fencing and magnetometers are set up around Capitol Square in Richmond. Photo: Steve Helber/AP
3. ⚖️ Witness fight on eve of trial
President Trump waves a trophy clip while speaking to the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Austin yesterday. Photo: Susan Walsh/AP
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced yesterday that Democrats “will force votes on witnesses and documents” as President Trump’s impeachment trial begins tomorrow.
- “Trials have witnesses and documents. Cover-ups don’t,” tweeted Schumer, who made similar remarks on camera in New York.
Vulnerable Senate Republicans are concerned about the votes to subpoena current and former White House officials, Alayna Treene and Jonathan Swan reported in Axios Sneak Peek.
- “The Democratic amendments that will be offered in the beginning will be designed to screw us,” a Republican Senate aide said. “Like, ‘How can we cut these to look like an ad?'”
🧠 And this from Sneak is some of the weekend’s most interesting reporting:
- People close to Trump say their most compelling argument to persuade nervous Republican senators to vote against calling witnesses is the claim that the current and former officials are protecting national security.
4. Peloton: fad or tech company?
Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images
Peloton is going to court to try to protect its head start in “connected fitness” as challengers move in, The Wall Street Journal’s John Stoll reports (subscription):
- “Peloton’s internet-driven exercise scheme underpins the company’s fundamental pitch: That at its core, it’s a tech company, not just another get-fit program.”
- Why it matters: “It’s a premise that has powered many upstarts in recent years: Uber is a tech company, not a taxi company; WeWork’s a tech company, not a real-estate company; Tesla’s a tech company, not a car company.”
“Intellectual-property disputes are tough to resolve in the fitness world, because most workout techniques are based on decades-old concepts that are hard to patent,” The Journal adds.
- But Peloton wants to enforce patents on its leaderboard (which compares your performance with other riders in a virtual class), metrics (output and cadence) and bike design.
5. “May the best woman win”
Illustrations: Jules Julien for The New York Times
The N.Y. Times breaks tradition to co-endorse two Democrats for president — Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts:
Some in the party [like Klobuchar] view President Trump as an aberration and believe that a return to a more sensible America is possible. Then there are those [like Warren] who believe that President Trump was the product of political and economic systems so rotten that they must be replaced. …
Both the radical and the realist models warrant serious consideration. If there were ever a time to be open to new ideas, it is now. If there were ever a time to seek stability, now is it.
🚨 Times strafes Sanders: “Sanders would be 79 when he assumed office, and after an October heart attack, his health is a serious concern. Then, there’s how Mr. Sanders approaches politics. He boasts that compromise is anathema to him.”
6. Scoop: Deval Patrick to unveil reparations agenda
Deval Patrick speaks to Polk County Democrats in Des Moines in November. Photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty Images
Deval Patrick, presidential candidate and former Massachusetts governor, today will unveil a plan for the federal government to provide reparations to living descendants of slaves, Alexi McCammond reports.
- Patrick is rolling out his “Equity Agenda for Black Americans,” including education investments, on MLK Day.
As a first step toward reparations, Patrick supports HR 40, the House bill to form a commission to study the issue.
- But an aide said Patrick is prepared to go beyond supporting a commission and offer explicit support for federal reparations.
- A majority of the current and former 2020 Democratic field have expressed support for studying the issue. Only Marianne Williamson proposed starting reparations now and set a dollar figure to her plan.
7. Where America begins
Map: AP
The first Americans to be counted in the 2020 census, which begins tomorrow, live in Toksook Bay, Alaska — a community of 661 on the edge of the American expanse, AP’s Mark Thiessen reports.
- The decennial U.S. census has started in rural Alaska, out of tradition and necessity, ever since the U.S. purchased the territory from Russia in 1867.
- Once the spring thaw hits, towns empty as residents scatter for traditional hunting and fishing grounds. The frozen ground that in January makes it easier to get around by March turns to marsh that’s difficult to traverse.
- Mail service is spotty and internet connectivity unreliable, which makes door-to-door surveying important.
The rest of the country, plus urban areas of Alaska such as Anchorage, will begin the census in mid-March.
8. 1 🏈 thing: Tossup Super Bowl?
The Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes celebrates a touchdown pass during yesterday’s 35-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans in the AFC Championship. Photo: Charlie Neibergall/AP
Early Super Bowl LIV odds have the Kansas City Chiefs as 1.5-point favorites over the San Francisco 49ers.
- The matchup — QBs Patrick Mahomes (KC) vs. Jimmy Garoppolo (SF) — opened last night as a pick ’em at many Las Vegas sports books, AP reports.
The 54th Super Bowl — Feb. 2 in Miami — will almost surely set new legal betting records.
- Why it matters: The combination of an attractive matchup, close odds and the spread of legalized sports betting means hundreds of millions of dollars will exchange hands over the next two weeks.
The 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo after last night’s 37-20 beatdown of the Packers for the NFC Championship. Photo: Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images
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| View in your browser Roberts under pressure from both sides in witness fightBy Alexander Bolton Senate Democrats are pressing Chief Justice John Roberts to rule in favor of calling witnesses at President Trump’s impeachment trial, while Republicans argue it could force his recusal from potential Supreme Court cases.Read the full story here Democrats worry a speedy impeachment trial will shut out publicBy Mike Lillis House Democrats gearing up to take impeachment to the Senate are already bashing Republicans over process, accusing GOP leaders in the upper chamber of threatening to shut the public out of the trial by chopping the number of days — and thereby forcing proceedings late into the night.Read the full story here Schiff huddles in Capitol with impeachment managersBy Mike Lillis and Olivia Beavers The House Democrats soon to prosecute the impeachment case against President Trump huddled in the Capitol on Sunday for eleventh-hour preparations ahead of the Senate trial, which opens Tuesday.Read the full story here Trump rails against impeachment in speech to Texas farmersBy John Bowden President Trump lashed out at congressional Democrats over his impeachment on Sunday during an address to the American Farm Bureau in Austin, Texas.Read the full story here Counting the votes to remove TrumpBy Juan Williams OPINION | Here’s the bottom line: What will it take to get to 20? That’s the number of Republican senators who would need to join with 47 Democrats to reach the 67 votes to convict and remove President Trump.Read the full story here NYT editorial board endorses Warren, Klobuchar for Democratic nomination for presidentBy John Bowden The New York Times editorial board on Sunday night endorsed both Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) for the Democratic nomination for president.Read the full story here Biden breaks away from 2020 pack in South CarolinaBy Max Greenwood Joe Biden has broken away from the pack in South Carolina, maintaining a crucial early lead that could function as a failsafe for the former vice president’s primary campaign.Read the full story here Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Jayapal endorses SandersBy Rebecca Klar Congressional Progressive Caucus co-chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the presidential race.Read the full story here Bloomberg: ‘My story might have turned out very differently if I had been black’By Rebecca Klar Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg will acknowledge that being white has likely helped his success in a speech Sunday in Oklahoma outlining a plan to address racial inequality.Read the full story here Lawmakers push back at Pentagon’s possible Africa drawdownBy Ellen Mitchell Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s plan to draw down U.S. forces in Africa is facing increased pushback on Capitol Hill.Read the full story here Sanders v. Warren is just for insidersBy Jessica Tarlov OPINION | It’s important to get this out of the way up front: Democratic primary voters don’t care about the dustup between Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) over what he may have said to her in 2018 about a woman’s chances of winning the presidency.Read the full story here Let Americans hear from the witnesses in the Senate trialBy Douglas Schoen OPINION | The third impeachment trial in American history has commenced amid a wave of new evidence against President Trump. He faces two articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The House led by Democrats concluded that Trump abused his power by pressing Ukraine to announce an investigation of his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, while aid to that country was being withheld, and that Trump obstructed Congress in the investigation into his conduct.Read the full story here The Associated Press: Crimes? Impeachment prosecutors, defense lay out argumentsBy Laurie Kellman President Donald Trump’s defense team and the prosecutors of his impeachment are laying out their arguments over whether his conduct toward Ukraine warrants his removal from office.Read the full story here The New York Times: Lawmakers clash over shape of impeachment trial as rules vote loomsBy Michael D. Shear Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, accused the majority leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, of keeping the chamber in the dark about his proposed rules and planning to conduct a rushed trial.Read the full story here Reuters: Trump to offer first detailed impeachment defense as pivotal week beginsBy Steve Holland After refusing to cooperate with the Democratic Party-led impeachment probe in the House of Representatives, President Donald Trump will on Monday offer his first comprehensive defense, before his trial begins in earnest in the Senate.Read the full story here The Wall Street Journal: Lev Parnas paid his way into Donald Trump’s orbitBy Rebecca Ballhaus, Aruna Viswanatha and Alex Leary Ukrainian-American with reputation for quick access to financing made inroads at White House, won GOP allies while his business ventures soured.Read the full story here The Washington Post: With Iowa caucuses looming, Democratic candidates ramp up their attacksBy Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan and Cleve R. 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‘EXTREMELY TORN’ … That’s what NYT editorial board member MARA GAY said about their endorsement process, which ended with the nation’s leading paper endorsing both SENS. AMY KLOBUCHAR (D-Minn.) and ELIZABETH WARREN (D-Mass.). GAY on “Morning Joe” talked about the decision to endorse two candidates: “I think first of all, again, this is an acknowledgement that there’s more than one pathway forward but I also want to say that this is about respecting the voters. No one has actually cast a ballot in this election yet. And so let’s let this play out. However, we did have to narrow the field. And we really do believe that these two senators — in this case happens to be the two women in the field who are left — are the best to do that, and an endorsement isn’t about supporting a candidate necessarily. It’s more about educating voters and helping them make the best decision based on their own beliefs. That respect for voters did inform this process.
“And obviously we are also extremely torn. The editorial board of The New York Times is really traditionalist, it’s an institutionalist newspaper, progressive to be sure, but this is an acknowledgement especially our endorsement of Sen. Warren that the institutions in this country need strengthening in a way that may require something far beyond what it did in the past.” The endorsement
MORE LEONNIG-RUCKER … VANITY FAIR: “‘IT’S LIKE A FOREIGN LANGUAGE’: DONALD TRUMP’S ENCOUNTER WITH THE CONSTITUTION DID NOT GO WELL”: “With LED lights on stilts in front of him, Trump took his seat. ‘You’re lucky you got the easy part,’ Pelosi told him cheerfully. ‘It gets complicated after this.’ But the president stumbled, trying to get out the words in the arcane, stilted form the founding fathers had written. Trump grew irritated. ‘It’s very hard to do because of the language here,’ Trump told the crew. ‘It’s very hard to get through that whole thing without a stumble.’ He added, ‘It’s like a different language, right?’ The cameraman tried to calm Trump, telling him it was no big deal, to take a moment and start over. Trump tried again, but again remarked, ‘It’s like a foreign language.’” “A Very Stable Genius” is $21.26 on Amazon
THE LATEST ON IMPEACHMENT: Senate Minority Leader CHUCK SCHUMER (D-N.Y.) vowed at a press conference last night in New York to press for votes on witnesses and documents at the beginning of the Senate impeachment trial. The move comes as Democrats try to increase pressure on Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL (R-Ky.) ahead of Tuesday, when McConnell is expected to introduce his resolution.
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HOUSE DEM IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS are meeting today and are expected to do a walkthrough of the Senate floor. (h/t Alex Moe)
MANAGING UP … “When McConnell speaks, Trump listens. Impeachment trial will test the unlikely bond,” by Rachael Bade and Seung Min Kim: “President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell huddled privately in the Oval Office this month to discuss a judicial nominee. But the president, seething over the stain of impeachment, had something else on his mind: He wanted to know how the GOP could short-circuit his trial.
“During the Jan. 8 session, Trump rejected the House charges against him, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, calling it a shoddy case that would never hold up in court. He urged McConnell (R-Ky.) to use his power to end the trial before it began. McConnell cautioned Trump, as he had many times before: Such a vote to dismiss the charges would fail in the Senate and generate embarrassing headlines, he flatly told the president.
“In addition, it would split Senate Republicans at the outset of Trump’s impeachment trial — which will probably be among the most challenging times of his presidency. ‘Better to be unified than divided,’ McConnell said, according to two people with knowledge of the exchange who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be frank.
“The warning underscores the advisory role McConnell has been playing to Trump as he seeks to protect his fragile Senate majority and his own reelection this year while ensuring a smooth acquittal of the president. Although the men are polar opposites — and initially had a rocky and somewhat awkward relationship — the president has come to view McConnell as an asset and reliable counselor, deferring to him on impeachment strategy, even at times against his own no-holds-barred instincts.” WaPo
— MEANWHILE … BIDEN GOES ON THE OFFENSIVE: “Biden campaign warns against media use of Trump disinformation during impeachment trial,” by NBC’s Heidi Przybyla and Mike Memoli: “A day before the opening of President Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is issuing a pre-emptive strike, sending an unusual open memo to the media warning against disinformation pushed by the president and his defenders.
“The memo, first obtained by NBC News, is also a shot across the bow of Republican senators as they consider whether to entertain Trump’s demands to call Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s son, as a witness in the trial.” NBC
NYT’S ELAINA PLOTT in Denver: “Where Is Cory Gardner?”: “[M]r. Gardner’s invisibility — he hasn’t held a town hall-style meeting in two years — is also pragmatic, a means of avoiding questions about his ties to the divisive president, especially as the Senate impeachment trial nears. If Mr. Gardner ends up vocally supporting the president, or votes to acquit him in the trial, it will complicate and perhaps even endanger his race to hold onto his seat.” NYT
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HAPPENING TODAY — “Virginia’s capital braces for gun-rights rally,” by AP’s Alan Suderman and Sarah Rankin in Richmond, Va.: “Gun-rights activists and other groups began to descend on Virginia’s capital city Monday to protest Democrats’ plans to pass gun-control legislation.
“Gov. Ralph Northam declared a temporary state of emergency days ahead of the rally, banning all weapons including guns from the event on Capitol Square. The expected arrival of thousands of gun-rights activists — along with members of militia groups and white supremacists — raised fears the state could again see the type of violence that exploded in Charlottesville in 2017.
“Virginia’s solicitor general told a judge Thursday that law enforcement had identified “credible evidence” armed out-of-state groups planned to come to the state with the possible intention of participating in a ‘violent insurrection.’ … The Virginia State Police, the Virginia Capitol Police and the Richmond Police are all coordinating the event and have plans for a huge police presence at Monday’s rally with both uniformed and plainclothes officers. Police plan to limit access to Capitol Square to only one entrance and have warned rallygoers they may have to wait hours to get past security screening.” AP
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NEW IOWA POLL via NATASHA KORECKI — A rare Iowa poll just 2 weeks before the caucuses has 2020 campaigns on alert. The Focus on Rural America poll (which surveys statewide) is to go live today at 10 a.m. EST. and we have some early takeaways, via the group’s co-founder, JEFF LINK:
— There are a whole lot of uncommitted Iowans. Note, that’s not just undecided – but Democrats actually saying they’re expecting to initially caucus “uncommitted,” intending to make a decision in the second round after those with lower support are cut out. It’s a risky approach: If 15% of those in your precinct are uncommitted, that’s where you’ll be stuck.
— The poll will calculate a telling metric Link says wasn’t in the Des Moines Register/CNN poll: the second choice of those Democrats who support candidates who didn’t garner 15% in the poll. As this mimics caucus rules, it’s intended to show which candidate most likely benefits in the final count of the caucuses if candidates like Andrew Yang or Tom Steyer don’t reach 15% viability in the first round.
— The poll was in the field Wednesday through Saturday, just after the Elizabeth Warren-Bernie Sanders feud swallowed news coverage after last week’s debate in Des Moines. There are some hints that news of the spat, even if they’re on the mend now, held some sway over the survey. Link tells us 70% of those polled watched news coverage of last week’s debate and 50% actually watched it.
IOWA PREVIEW … NEW YORK MAG’S GABE DEBENEDETTI: “In the final days before the Iowa caucuses every four years, it’s typical for campaign aides and reporters, and baristas and taxi drivers, and any Iowan who’s ever turned on a television or heard a radio ad, to try predicting which presidential candidates will win and which ones will fall flat. But this year is different. Just two weeks out, as the outcome of the race should be taking shape, almost no one in the state — much less the campaign operatives paid to project confidence to anyone who’ll listen — is comfortable even hazarding a shadow of a guess about the Democratic caucuses.” NY Mag
WARREN/SANDERS KUMBAYA MOMENT? — “Warren joins Bernie in jabbing Biden on Social Security,” by Alex Thompson in Des Moines: “Elizabeth Warren hit Joe Biden for his past stances on changing Social Security and expressed solidarity with Bernie Sanders on the issue as the two liberal senators seek to move past their recent feud.
“‘Bernie Sanders and I established the ‘Expand Social Security Caucus’ in the Senate,’ Warren said in a quick interview as she hopped into her car outside a candidate forum in Iowa. ‘As a senator, Joe Biden had a very different position on Social Security, and I think everyone’s records on Social Security are important in this election.’
“Warren’s comments come as Sanders has been relentlessly bashing Biden for his past openness to freezing cost-of-living spikes or raising the retirement age as part of larger bipartisan deals — proposals that Sanders opposed during his time in Congress. Warren linking arms with Sanders on the issue also comes after long-simmering tensions between the two exploded into the open this week.
“The campaigns have been trying to move on from the conflict — which climaxed Tuesday night when each accused the other of calling them a ‘liar’ on the stage immediately following the debate —and are largely not responding to media questions about the rift. The Social Security issue provides a potential opportunity for a liberal tag-team against Biden as both senators have long fought to expand the program and have rolled out plans on the campaign trail.” POLITICO
BUT NOT UNIVERSAL … LOT OF DEM-ON-DEM FIGHTING: “With two weeks until Iowa, the Democratic presidential candidates are getting aggressive — with each other,” by WaPo’s Matt Viser, Sean Sullivan and Cleve R. Wootson, Jr. in Indianola, Iowa
DEPT. OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: “Bloomberg’s massive ad campaign hikes TV prices for other candidates,” by Maya King: “Michael Bloomberg’s big-spending, shock-and-awe TV ad campaign has made politicking more expensive for everyone from his 2020 rivals to Senate, House and state legislative candidates around the country.
“Eight weeks into his presidential campaign, Bloomberg has already spent more money on advertising — $248 million — than most candidates could spend in years. That amount has squeezed TV ad inventory in nearly every state, lowering supply and causing stations to raise ad prices at a time of high demand, as candidates around the country gear up for their primaries.
“On average in markets around the country, prices for political TV ads have risen by 20 percent since Bloomberg began his campaign. Meanwhile, some local politicians have already found difficulty trying to reach their own constituencies.” POLITICO
TRUMP’S MONDAY — The president will leave the White House at 6:15 p.m. en route to Andrews. He will depart at 6:35 p.m. for Zurich, Switzerland, en route to Davos for the World Economic Forum.
The theme of this year’s gathering, which will include some 119 billionaires, is “Stakeholders for a Cohesive and Sustainable World.”
POTUS is expected to give opening remarks and hold bilateral meetings, but the White House has released scant details. More over at POLITICO’s Davos Playbook
PLAYBOOK READS
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION … NANCY COOK: “Trump’s staffing struggle: After 3 years, unfilled jobs across the administration”: “Pushing nominees through the Senate confirmation process takes twice as long under President Donald Trump as it did during President Ronald Reagan’s time in office — a record that appears to have limited Trump’s influence during his three years as president.
“On average, it takes 115 days to confirm a presidential appointee for Trump, compared with 56.4 days under Reagan, according to new data from the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service. In 2019, the process took even longer: an average of 136 days for the Senate to confirm appointees, particularly for sub-Cabinet positions.
“The delays come from several factors including the extensive paperwork applicants must complete, as well as the increasingly common practice of the opposing party delaying nominations by placing holds on them, or filibustering them, according to the partnership’s research.
“The latest data illuminates the extent to which the Trump administration has struggled to fill jobs as it heads into its fourth year on Monday. Of the 714 key positions requiring Senate confirmation, 515 of them have a confirmed nominee in place — with 170 positions having no nominee, according to the latest tracking from the partnership. White Houses typically do not get many nominees confirmed in the fourth year of any presidency apart from Cabinet positions, if needed, and judicial nominations. The Trump administration is likely to be no different and is aware of this fact, one White House official said.” POLITICO
BACKSTORY … WSJ: “Lev Parnas Paid His Way Into Donald Trump’s Orbit,” by Rebecca Ballhaus, Aruna Viswanatha and Alex Leary: “At a meeting with prosecutors from the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office late last year, people familiar with the matter say, Mr. Parnas’s attorney disputed that he pushed for the removal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine at the behest of a Ukrainian official—one of the charges in the campaign finance indictment.
“As Mr. Parnas sat without speaking, the attorney told prosecutors that his client didn’t act at the official’s direction, though the two had been in contact about removing the ambassador, the people said. Manhattan prosecutors rejected that explanation, the people said. Prosecutors haven’t detailed publicly any evidence that would support their allegation.”
SUE GORDON SPEAKS — “Former Deputy Intelligence Director Sue Gordon on the Power in Making Up Your Mind,” by InStyle’s Sarah Cristobal:“Last August, after 30-plus years of carrying out covert operations on behalf of the CIA, Sue Gordon was foisted into the spotlight. Despite her cordial relationship with President Trump, her bipartisan support, and the fact that it was a federal statute to promote her, the president made it clear that he was going to bypass her for the top position of director of National Intelligence, vacated by Dan Coats. So, Gordon reluctantly tendered her resignation, which became headline news.
“‘On the one hand, it was awful because it was my life’s work and I’m good at it, and there’s no reason in the world that the president shouldn’t trust me,’ Gordon says now of the dismissal. “I don’t know who was served by this. And I don’t understand the real basis. It hurt.’InStyle
POSTCARD FROM SEOUL — “U.S. envoy say it’s his mustache; South Koreans say otherwise,” by AP’s Hyung-Jin Kim: “The U.S. ambassador to South Korea has some unusual explanations for the harsh criticism he’s faced in his host country. His mustache, maybe? Or a Japanese ancestry that raises unpleasant reminders of Japan’s former colonial domination of Korea?
“Many South Koreans, however, have a more straight-forward explanation for Harry Harris’ struggle to win hearts and minds in Seoul, and it’s got more to do with an outspoken manner that they see as undiplomatic and rude.
“Since arriving in Seoul in July 2018, Harris, a retired navy general born to a Japanese mother and an American navy officer, has been the focus of keen attention because of his military and ethnic background. The 63-year-old former U.S. Pacific Command chief has sometimes drawn criticism from those who take issue with his manner when dealing with South Koreans.
“His mustache has become the subject of ribbing online, with jokes made about how it resembles those of Japanese colonial masters, who brutally occupied the Korean Peninsula from 1910-45. But there is more serious concern that the discord could widen a growing rift in Seoul’s relations with Washington at a time when diplomacy with rival North Korea seem in danger of imploding.” AP
IMMIGRATION FILES — “The Fight to Save an Innocent Refugee from Almost Certain Death,” by the New Yorker’s Ben Taub: “Omar Ameen came to the U.S. to escape the violence in Iraq. Now he’s accused of being a member of an ISIS hit squad.”
PLAYBOOKERS
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SPOTTED: Former President Bill Clinton on an American Airlines flight from Westchester County Airport to DCA on Sunday evening. Pic
SPOTTED at a female-focused series Femme Force One brunch guest-hosted by Karen Travers at Dacha Navy Yard on Sunday: Meridith McGraw, Alisa Wiersema, Amna Nawaz, Abby Livingston, Francesca Chambers, Kimberly Halkett, Katie Watson, Jordyn Phelps, Dmitri Chekaldin, Alexandra Triana, Timur Tugberk and Courtney Flantzer. Pic
TRANSITION — Steve Cortes will be a senior adviser and spokesman for America First Action PAC. He previously was head strategist for BGC Partners.
ENGAGED — Rachel Bovard, senior director of policy at the Conservative Partnership Institute and senior adviser to the Internet Accountability Project, and Lawrence Stanley, entrepreneur, philanthropist and managing director of The Cap-X Group, got engaged Friday at the Library of Congress. Pic
WEEKEND WEDDING — Jonathan McKernan, senior adviser at the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and Sapna Sharma, staffer for the House Armed Services Committee, got married Saturday at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Pic… Another pic… SPOTTED doing a pre-wedding dance: Mandi Critchfield, Jon Blum, Shil Patel, Tyler Williams, Saat Alety, Andrew Rothe, Kyle Hauptman, Sarah Brown, Gerald Huang and Conor Carney. Pic
BIRTHDAYS: Kellyanne Conway is 53 … Nikki Haley is 48 … Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) is 51 … Chip Englander … Paola Ramos … Paul Mandelson, special assistant to the assistant secretary of Defense for legislative affairs … Jessica Katz … Robin Roberts of National Media … Eric Simmons is 47 … Bill Maher is 64 … Kirsten White … Elena Hernandez … Dan Schneider, associate director for comms at the WH Council on Environmental Quality … West Honeycutt is 3-0 … Ian Sams … Anna Stolitzka … POLITICO’s Brianna Gurciullo, Gavin Bade and Megan Erickson … Bob Michaels … Richard Kirsch … Al Kamen (h/t Jon Haber) … former Rep. Bill Owens (D-N.Y.) is 71 … former Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.) is 69 … Soroush Shehabi … Mike McMearty … Georgina Bloomberg is 37 … Diane Ruggiero, CNN supervising producer (h/t Kevin Bohn)… CBN anchor and correspondent Jenna Browder … Pablo E. Carillo …
… WSJ’s James V. Grimaldi … Natan Sharansky is 72 … CBS’ Maria Gavrilovic … Adrien Borisavljevic … Tanya Meck, Global Strategy Group’s head of communications and public affairs (h/t Erin Billings) … Morton Abramowitz is 87 … Susan Finkelstein … Jeb Golinkin is 32 … Sam Dealey, managing principal at Monument Communications (h/t Tim Burger) … Matthew Sanderson … Arica VanBoxtel … Stacie Rumenap … Chris Schmitter … Jessica Hanna … Purple Strategies’ Alec Jacobs is 3-0 … Michelle Rodriguez … Joan Tilouine … Ben Edwards … Tracy Russo … Merrill Hartson is 77 … Elena Robertson … Brent Desiderio is 5-0 … Andy Taylor … James Ryan … Nicole deSibour Rodgers … Michelle Runk … GE’s Alan Gilbert … Sophie Trainor … Jed Webb … Zack Walz … Chuck Gray … Pat Souders … Lane Kasselman (h/t Teresa Vilmain)
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