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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2019 16:46:55 GMT -6
reign of terror and its spread in Africa, and we oftentimes are really dealing with this issue, and it seems that we are attempting to drone it to death. … In Somalia, particularly in dealing with al-Shabaab, since President Trump has gotten elected, the number of drones have increased, but the number of attacks al-Shabaab has been able to carry out has also tripled. We also know the same to be true for Boko Haram…
Trump administration Ms. Lenihan assured the Minnesota Democrat that the administration is also taking other actions and partnering with the government to assist with the terror threat.
Ilhan Omar continued: “It seems like there is a direct correlation between the droning and an increase in their assaults. Their recruitment seems to increase because of the civilian casualties. How do we mitigate that?”
Ilhan then took a swipe at Trump: “As an African on this committee when you have a president who uses language like sh*thole countries it makes it really hard for people in Africa to really think of themselves of being in partnership with the United States.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2019 16:52:14 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/05/17/utility-natural-gas-new-york/stopped processing new customer applications in New York City and Long Island after the Cuomo administration blocked a major pipeline project. The moratorium is the second to hit New Yorkers in 2019 as a result of Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s opposition to natural gas pipelines needed to meet growing demand in the state and New England. “We are not processing new applications for any new customers,” National Grid New York President John Bruckner said Thursday. “We’ll continue to receive requests for service, but we’re not processing them.” New York officials rejected a water permit application for the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline project Thursday, claiming it would “result in water quality violations” as currently planned. (RELATED: Trump Strips High-Speed Rail Funds From California) For many observers, the rejection wasn’t much of a surprise. Cuomo wants the state to adopt his version of the Green New Deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and end fossil fuel use.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 17, 2019 17:01:38 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/17/sat-to-give-adversity-score-reflecting-students-social-and-economic-background-to-college-admissions/Students who take the SAT college entrance exam will now be assigned an “adversity score” to inform schools of their social and economic background, including the crime rate in their neighborhoods and the poverty levels of their high schools, says the College Board. As the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, the College Board, whose CEO is David Coleman, one of the “architects” of the Common Core State Standards, the new “adversity score” is calculated by using 15 factors, including crime rate and poverty level – but not race, though schools can obtain students’ race by other means. According to the report: The new score—which falls on a scale of one through 100—will pop up on something called the Environmental Context Dashboard, which shows several indicators of relative poverty, wealth and opportunity as well as a student’s SAT score compared with those of their classmates. On the dashboard, the score is called “Overall Disadvantage Level.”
An adversity score of 50 is average. Anything above it designates hardship, below it privilege.The College Board, however, is not revealing how it calculates its new “adversity score.” “The data that informs the score comes from public records such as the U.S. Census as well as some sources proprietary to the College Board, Mr. Coleman said,” reported the WSJ. The adversity score is offered in the midst of a college admissions cheating scandal that has seen prominent parents, including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, involved in a scheme to pay thousands of dollars for their children to gain entrance to elite schools. In addition, a judge’s decision on a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants remains pending. The trial revealed the school’s internal policy that blatantly discriminated against Asian-American high school students, holding them to a higher standard during the admissions review process. David Horowitz, conservative author and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center and its Stop K-12 Indoctrination campaign, said the addition of the new adversity score is another way to make SAT evaluations more “complicated” and “easier to rig the system to get the results that will satisfy the ‘pc’ bigots.” “I’m beginning to feel sorry for Felicity Huffman,” Horowitz told Breitbart News. “She paid to rig the college entrance system and get her daughter into Harvard or wherever. Now she’s going to jail for a crime that schools like Harvard commit on a daily basis.” He explained: For example, Harvard just admitted Jazz Jennings, the transgender star of the TV show I Am Jazz. Anybody who’s watched the show knows that Jazz is a poor student, always disappointing her parents because of her poor academic performances. Obviously, Harvard admitted her because she’s transgender and a TV star. Harvard’s rigging of its entrance system goes far beyond the latest pc fad or celebrity applicant, however. Asian and white students at Harvard – and not only at Harvard – are given a 1-200- point SAT handicap to allow a quota of African-Americans and Native Americans to receive admissions which they could not earn on their academic merits. “It is no accident for example that the percentage of Jews at Ivy League schools has plummeted since the advent of so-called affirmative action programs which, as practiced, are nothing more than old fashioned racism,” Horowitz said. “Felicity Huffman is being hung for a crime that every Harvard admissions officer commits year in and year out, and that the College Board is intent on continuing and expanding.” influence on SAT results. “There are a number of amazing students who may have scored less [on the SAT] but have accomplished more,” he said. “We can’t sit on our hands and ignore the disparities of wealth reflected in the SAT.” According to the report, Yale University has used the new adversity score on a trial basis. About 20 percent of the school’s newly admitted students are now low-income or from families in which they are the first to attend college. “This [adversity score] is literally affecting every application we look at,” said Jeremiah Quinlan, dean of undergraduate admissions. “It has been a part of the success story to help diversify our freshman class.” But Peter Kirsanow, a Republican member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told Breitbart News that, despite its “ostensibly race-neutral criteria,” the fact that “the College Board declines to disclose how it calculates the adversity score raises concerns that this ultimately will be indistinguishable from today’s regime of racial preferences – that it’s just the latest cosmetic effort to soften the appearance of what remains racial discrimination.” “The lack of transparency justifies the cynical belief that the adversity metrics will magically, invariably produce the same admissions demographics as today’s racial preferences, which are under legal assault,” Kirsanow continued, also pointing to the accusations of discrimination against Asian students at Harvard: Consider: evidence adduced in the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case shows that the average SAT scores for Asian students admitted to Harvard were a stunning 218 points higher than those of black admittees; the scores of white students were 193 points higher. Given those huge disparities, the “adversity scores” of black applicants, however calculated, will have to be stratospheric to close the gaps. James Conroy, director of college counseling at New Trier High School, whose students come from affluent and mostly white communities north of Chicago, told the WSJ the focus on diversity by elite colleges is already high without the addition of the new adversity score. “My emails are inundated with admissions officers who want to talk to our diversity kids,” Conroy said. “Do I feel minority students have been discriminated against? Yes, I do. But I see the reversal of it happening right now.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 18, 2019 7:50:33 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/05/17/house-equality-act-transgender-womens-sports/The bill amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make “sexual orientation and gender identity” protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among other things, that would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls.
Republican Florida Rep. Greg Steube introduced a last-minute amendment to the bill that would have preserved Title IX’s protections of female athletic teams, but Democrats rejected it.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 18, 2019 14:17:04 GMT -6
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7044105/Fran-Lebowitz-sparks-outrage-claiming-Trump-deserves-handed-Saudis.htmlFran Lebowitz has sparked outrage after saying that President Trump ‘deserves to be handed over to the Saudis’ to face the same treatment as the late journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was brutally killed and dismembered. The liberal author and Vanity Fair contributing editor, 68, made the comments on Friday’s edition of Real Time with Bill Maher as she discussed the Mueller Report and potential impeachment proceedings against the Commander-in-chief. When asked whether she believes Trump should face impeachment, Lebowitz responded: ‘Impeachment would be just the beginning of what he deserves, not even scratching the surface of what he deserves. She continued: ‘Whenever I think about this and what he really deserves, I think ‘We should turn him over to the Saudis!’ His buddies! The same Saudis who got rid of that reporter [Khashoggi]. Maybe they could do the same for him!’
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Post by soonernvolved on May 18, 2019 14:23:16 GMT -6
And then this,(after the backlash):
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Post by soonernvolved on May 19, 2019 4:06:28 GMT -6
Vice correspondents Lani Levine and Elle Reeve have been accused of breaking into a bedroom in the Philippines home of 8Chan owner Jim Watkins with a camera crew.
The accusation was made by the verified 8Chan Twitter account, which said that the reporters and their crew entered Watkin’s bedroom before being ordered out of the property.
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Post by kcrufnek on May 19, 2019 7:25:32 GMT -6
lol #ProofOfRuth
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Post by soonernvolved on May 19, 2019 7:57:56 GMT -6
The last one with President Trump & Hillary made me laugh.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 19, 2019 12:28:33 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 20, 2019 12:09:49 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 20, 2019 12:19:25 GMT -6
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-16/california-regulator-threatens-trump-with-gasoline-engine-banA top California environmental regulator is threatening to enact tough, new pollution rules -- including an unprecedented ban on cars burning petroleum-based fuels -- in response to a Trump administration plan to relax vehicle emission standards. California Air Resources Board Chairman Mary Nichols said the state would be forced to pursue “extreme” requirements to offset the uptick in pollution that would be unleashed if federal vehicle emission and fuel economy standards are weakened. “If we lose the state vehicle standards, we have to fill up the gap with other measures,” Nichols said at a forum on the issue Thursday. “We will be faced with dramatic alternatives in terms of tighter, stricter controls on everything else, including movement of vehicles and potentially looking at things like fees and taxes and bans on certain types of vehicles and products.” Nichols did not explicitly outline possible changes at Thursday’s event, which was held to discuss the consequences of the Trump proposals and potential California countermeasures. But in remarks prepared for the meeting, she raised the specter of outlawing conventional vehicles with combustion engines, as well as tougher anti-pollution requirements on everything from fuel to the refineries producing it. CARB will be exploring ways to ensure communities get the reductions of air pollution they so desperately need to keep the air clean and breathable -- and continue to fight climate change,” Nichols said in the drafted remarks, which she did not deliver exactly as prepared. “That might mean, for example, tougher requirements for low-carbon fuels, looking at tighter health-protective regulations on California refineries, doubling down on our enforcement efforts on mobile and stationary sources -- and might lead to an outright ban on internal combustion engines.” The move marks an escalation in the car standards clash between Washington and Sacramento that would increase uncertainty for automakers in their biggest U.S. market. California has already gone to court to challenge the Trump administration’s determination that the vehicle standards are too stringent. In Thursday’s meeting with air quality and transportation agencies, California officials stressed they won’t stop there. My response:
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Post by soonernvolved on May 20, 2019 14:54:26 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/47421/philadelphia-implements-soda-tax-it-doesnt-go-amanda-prestigiacomoThe citizens of Philadelphia have been rocked by a tax on sugary drinks like soda, although the hike was intended to improve their health. As outlined by Hotair on Saturday, the “soda tax” has actually led to Philadelphia residents traveling outside the city to buy their soda (and likely other goods), decreased the city’s revenue, and led to layoffs in the local beverage industry and cut hours for employees at small markets. It did not, however, lead to an increase in healthier beverage purchases in the city. When the soda tax was first announced, workers at Pepsi took a hit. “With sales slumping because of the new Philadelphia sweetened beverage tax, Pepsi said Wednesday that it will lay off 80 to 100 workers at three distribution plants that serve the city,” philly.com reported in March of 2017. And last month, the local outlet reported that the owner of Acme Markets, who has 16 stores in Philadelphia, had to cut employees’ hours because of the tax: “The beverage tax fell on about 4,000 items. In Acme city stores, soda sales dropped as much as 80 percent. Sales of other items covered by the tax, such as juices, creamers and energy drinks, were down 30 percent, and the number of customers declined by 5 percent. Philly stores cut an average of 150 to 200 employee hours per week, resulting in lighter paychecks for employees." But the hit the employees took did not equate to a win for the “health” of its citizens. As noted by Hotair, Philadelphia residents were traveling outside the city to avoid the tax hike on their drinks. hotair.com/archives/2019/05/18/philadelphias-soda-tax-bombed-predicted/www.philly.com/philly/news/politics/Pepsi-announces-80-100-layoffs-blames-soda-tax.htmlwww.philly.com/opinion/acme-soda-tax-hurting-businesses-20190418.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIjZ6_kuaq4gIVjZyzCh23owhTEAAYAiAAEgJkwPD_BwEA CNN report on a study from medical journal JAMA focused in on the 51% drop in city soda purchases, but admitted: “While researchers found that sales of sugary beverages fell in Philadelphia after the tax, beverage sales in nearby towns and counties without the tax went up. That suggests people may have been traveling to get their soda at a reduced price.” “People stopped buying their soda in the city (and almost undoubtedly a lot of other shopping list items) and decided to shop where prices were lower,” Hotair noted. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2733208?guestAccessKey=86610f39-a0eb-46d4-a30a-3ddef0036408&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=051419www.cnn.com/2019/05/15/health/philadelphia-soda-tax-sales-decrease/index.html?utm_content=2019-05-18T09:00:14&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNNSo was there at least an uptick in healthier beverage purchases because of the tax? Nope. “Philadelphia did not see an increase in sales of untaxed beverages such as bottled water,” CNN reported. CNN did not discuss the revenue hit Philadelphia took, but Hotair did: “The tax on soda increased by 17%, but the sales fell by 51%. So, let’s look at this assuming one million ounces of soda was sold annually before the tax went into effect. If sales had remained the same, the city would have realized $62,400.00 in revenue instead of $54,300.00. But with the volume cut in half, they managed to slash their revenue to $31,200.00.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 20, 2019 16:41:07 GMT -6
www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-20/nyc-schools-chief-accused-creating-environment-hostile-white-peopleThe chancellor of the Big Apple’s schools stands accused of creating an atmosphere “which is hostile toward whites,” according to city Department of Education insiders. A quartet of veteran DOE white female executives is set to sue the city due to Chancellor Richard Carranza’s “sweeping reorganization” which “pushed aside” Caucasians. According to the New York Post, Carranza’s reforms allegedly favored less qualified minorities over experienced whites. A source told the Post that “There’s a toxic whiteness concept going on […] decisions are being made because DOE leadership believes that skin color plays a role in how to get equity — that white people can’t convey the message.” Sources claim that under Carranza, whites have been told “they must give up power or lose responsibilities no matter how well they have performed.” From the story: nypost.com/2019/05/18/nyc-schools-chancellor-richard-carranza-has-made-whiteness-toxic-doe-insiders-claim/More than a dozen high-ranking superintendents and deputies who had served under ex-Chancellor Carmen Fariña have been demoted — some with large pay cuts — or pushed into retirement, sources said. Others have lesser duties and new bosses. “Since Carranza took office, he’s brought in a lot of new people. As a result, it’s been bureaucratic chaos and backbiting, with deputies and their subordinates seeking better perches in the pecking order,” said David Bloomfield, a Brooklyn College and CUNY Grad Center education professor. “Racial tensions appear to be one manifestation of these internal battles.” Meanwhile, the DOE has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on consultants to coach supervisors on how to “disrupt the power structure and dismantle institutional racism,” a supervisor said. “There’s been a lot of discussion of white supremacy and how it manifests in the workplace, conversations about race, and looking at how the white culture behaves,” said a white executive who received the training. “White supremacy is characterized by perfectionism, a belief in meritocracy, and the Protestant work ethic,” the exec said, adding that whites who object when accused of deep-rooted bias are called “fragile” and “defensive.” This should come as little surprise as one of the consultants hired by the city is Glenn Singleton, creator of the so-called “Courageous Conversations.” Among other things, Singleton posits that “’white talk is ‘verbal, intellectual and task-oriented,’ while ‘color commentary is ’emotional and personal.’” Singleton’s company has thus far received over half a million dollars, and is contracted for a total of $775,000, according to the Post. At the cost of an additional $175,000, the city also has hired “DEEP” — the Disruptive Equity Education Project. Company founder Darnisa Amante says her program works “to change mindsets around equity and [the] dismantling [of] systemic oppression and racism.” One DOE insider says trainings like Singleton’s and Amante’s are anything but courageous, to use part of the title of the former’s program. “The intent is to create a shared understanding,” the insider said. “They believe this is positive and helpful. But it’s resulted in a hostile environment where whites are subject to being criticized, belittled and harassed.” Indeed, how “courageous” is it when right off the bat you state that your conversations will deliberately exclude factors such as family structure and socioeconomic status when it comes to a children’s educations? Earlier this year in response to complaints of student misbehavior in city schools, Carranza praised the drop in student suspension rates: “What we don’t want is to put students on a school to prison pipeline.” City DOE spokesman Will Mantell denies any wrongdoing by the department:
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Post by kcrufnek on May 20, 2019 17:31:06 GMT -6
Talks and pallets of cash? I do wish that DJT would tone it down just a bit.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 20, 2019 18:54:39 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/05/20/jeff-daniels-atticus-finch-donald-trump-msnbcActor Jeff Daniels claimed during his Monday appearance on MSNBC that if President Donald Trump gets re-elected in 2020, it would signal the end of democracy. Daniels was on the show to discuss the upcoming election and how his role in the Broadway production of the 1960 book “To Kill A Mockingbird,” in which he plays the lead character Atticus Finch, is relevant to the current political climate. “After the election, I was surprised some of the people, you know, I said, ‘Can you believe this election?’ And they go, ‘Yeah, isn’t it great?’ You’re going ‘Whoa.’ My wife’s on Facebook, we got another Trumper. You didn’t see it coming,” Daniels stated. “Atticus [Finch] goes through this. I know these people. They’re good people. There are reasons why. He’s an apologist, he’s an enabler.” He continued: I think there are people in the midwest, between the coasts, who don’t care about this, don’t have time for this, who have to make a decision now. You have to decide whether, like Atticus, you believe there is still compassion, decency, civility, respect for others, do unto others, remember that? Do unto others. All that stuff you guys believe in and you still voted not for Hillary, for Trump, where are you now? Your kids are looking up at you going, but he lies. I think there are a lot of people in the midwest who are going — it might be enough for them. We’ll find out if the big gamble is to go all the way to November 2020, which I agree, and lose, it’s the end of democracy. Not a single person on the panel pushed back at the claim that Trump’s re-election would end democracy.
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Post by kcrufnek on May 20, 2019 20:37:43 GMT -6
He's been in a few movies I've liked but I've never gone to him for any political advice. Shut up and act.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2019 4:18:54 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/05/20/twitter-al-jazeera-holocaustThe Arabic network Al Jazeera posted a video that questioned the Holocaust, saying “People are divided between those who deny the annihilation, others who think that the outcome was exaggerated, and others yet who accuse the Zionist movement of blowing it out of proportion.” Al Jazeera apologized for the video. But Twitter blocked people from sharing a version of the video with English subtitles, invoking Al Jazeera’s copyright. Other translated videos did not receive that treatment. The Qatar-funded Al Jazeera news network published a video questioning the Holocaust and implying that Jews have benefited from it. Then, when Western media caught them and published translations, Twitter agreed to censor the westerners’ translated versions, invoking Al Jazeera’s copyright. On May 18, AJ+ Arabic posted a seven-minute video to social media with the caption “The gas chambers killed millions of Jews … So the story says. How true is the #Holocaust and how did the Zionists benefit from it?” The Jews “exploited the Holocaust for their agenda and made the whole world focus on their murders and forget the other victims.” The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a nonpartisan nonprofit that says it “bridges the language gap which exists between the West and the Middle East, providing timely translations,” added captions and tweeted a translated version of the clip. On May 19, Al Jazeera issued a statement saying that “Dr. Yaser Bishr, Executive Director of Digital Division, stated that Al Jazeera completely disowns the offensive content in question and reiterated that Al Jazeera would not tolerate such material on any of the Network’s platforms. In an email to staff he also called for the mandatory bias training and awareness program.” It said two journalists would be disciplined. Despite the apology, Al Jazeera was apparently trying to keep westerners from finding out the contents of the video it published — with an assist by Twitter. The social media platform subsequently blocked MEMRI’s videos, without which there would have been no apology, displaying only a grey box that says that “the media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2019 12:58:00 GMT -6
www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judge-orders-antifa-activist-yvette-felarca-to-pay-judicial-watch-legal-fees-for-her-entirely-frivolous-lawsuit/Judicial Watch announced that a U.S. District Judge in California awarded Judicial Watch $22,000 in legal fees in a case filed by an Antifa organizer in an effort to block Judicial Watch from obtaining information about her activities. Yvette Felarca, a middle school teacher in the Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD), and two co-plaintiffs were ordered to pay Judicial Watch $22,000 in attorney’s fees and $4,000 in litigation costs. Felarca had sued the BUSD in federal court to keep the school district from fulfilling its legal obligation to provide Judicial Watch with records of their communications mentioning: Felarca, Antifa, and/or BAMN. Judicial Watch also asked for Felarca’s personnel file. Felarca is a prominent figure in By Any Means Necessary (BAMN), a group founded by the Marxist Revolutionary Workers League that protests conservative speaking engagements. In 2016, Felarca and two of her allies were arrested and charged with several crimes, including felony assault, for inciting a riot in Sacramento. Earlier this year, Felarca was ordered to stand trial for assault. U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, Northern District of California, who had previously ruled that Felarca’s lawsuit was “entirely frivolous,” wrote in his ruling awarding legal fees to Judicial Watch that Felarca and her co-plaintiffs’ First Amendment claims were “premised on the obviously baseless assumption” that the First Amendment condemns the speech of some while condoning the ideological missions of others. Judge Chhabria added that “The plaintiffs also mischaracterized the documents under review” and that the plaintiffs “failed to grapple with the role Ms. Felarca played in making herself a topic of public discourse through her physical conduct at public rallies and her voluntary appearance on Fox News.”
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Post by soonernvolved on May 21, 2019 13:10:58 GMT -6
Theresa May trying to get another referendum on Brexit: www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/21/brexit-betrayal-may-opens-door-to-second-referendum/amp/Apparently having failed to learn the lesson of her party being trounced in the polls by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, British Prime Minister Theresa May has further distanced herself from the British public by setting the process in motion for a second referendum. Making her pitch to Parliament Tuesday afternoon to pass her thrice-rejected Withdrawal Agreement when it is put before the house for a fourth time next month, embattled British Prime Minister offered a second referendum as a bribe to buy votes from her political colleagues. Among ardent remainers who do not intend to see the results of the first Brexit referendum honoured, a second vote is the preferred method of choice to overturn the original decision and see Brexit cancelled for good. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has been calling for a second referendum to cancel the first since 2016. Speaking in Westminster, the Prime Minister said: I have also listened carefully for those who have argued for a second referendum. I have made my own view on this clear many times. I do not believe this is a route we should take because I think we should be implementing the result of the first referendum, not asking the British people to vote in a second one. But I recognise the genuine and sincere strength of feeling across the House on this important issue. The government will, therefore, include in the withdrawal agreement bill at introduction a requirement to vote on whether to hold a second referendum, and this must take place before the withdrawal agreement can be ratified. And if the House of Commons were to vote for a referendum, it would be requiring the government to make provisions for such a referendum including legislation if it wanted to ratify a withdrawal agreement. So to those MPs who want a second referendum to confirm the deal, you need a deal and therefore a withdrawal agreement bill to make it happen. So let it have its second reading, and then make your case to Parliament. While May’s comments merely open the way for Parliament to vote on whether to have a second referendum, the political arithmetic in an overwhelmingly pro-EU House of Commons is such that if given the opportunity, Parliament will almost certainly impose a second referendum on the country. The offer breaks PM May’s previous comments that a second referendum would “break faith with the British people”, and would “irreparable damage” to faith in democracy. British voters were told their decision in the 2016 referendum, whichever way they voted, would be final and enacted by the government.
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Post by kcrufnek on May 21, 2019 17:59:37 GMT -6
I thought May was done.
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Post by kcrufnek on May 21, 2019 23:55:13 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 22, 2019 4:01:31 GMT -6
Joy Behar: Nixon would say, I’m in the wrong period of history. He would have gotten away with everything just like this corrupt president is getting away with. This is an unbelievable corrupt president, corrupt administration and the Republican Party is right behind him and they all should be thrown into jail as far as I’m concerned
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Post by soonernvolved on May 22, 2019 4:15:12 GMT -6
NBC’s Chuck Todd: “Only candidates deemed worthy by media should receive coverage”. www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/21/nbcs-chuck-todd-decrees-only-candidates-media-deem-worthy-should-receive-coverage/amp/NBC political director and Meet the Press host Chuck Todd said he believes political candidates must “prove that they’re worthy of coverage” from cable news outlets. www.politico.com/story/2019/05/21/media-2020-democrats-1329071“I feel compelled to give everybody a chance to prove that they’re worthy of coverage,” Todd stated. While he did not clarify what “worthy” means to him, Todd did offer a brief explanation of his remarks and said that if someone suddenly receives a “following,” cable news will be there. “I don’t even want to sit here and say, ‘Yeah, we’ll never have an embed on Marianne Williamson,’” Todd said. “How do I know that? She may get on that debate stage and suddenly have a following, and there we will be.” Todd’s comments drew criticism from social media users, including former White House official Steven Cheung, who asked, “Who gets to decide whether a candidate is worthy enough?” Todd’s statement stems from a conversation regarding Marianne Williamson, a spiritual author who has entered a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls. Williamson was previously unsuccessful in her run for California’s 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2014 as an Independent. Earlier this month, Williamson claimed that she has reached the 65,000-donor threshold to qualify for the upcoming primary debates.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 22, 2019 4:19:32 GMT -6
www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/05/21/hollywood-demands-mcdonalds-end-agony-for-billions-of-animals/Some 25 actors, models, and professional athletes joined forces for a PSA from Mercy For Animals, urging viewers to demand McDonald’s “eliminate the worst cruelty for their chickens.” Among an assortment of animal rights activists demanding that you “take action,” the video features the likes of actor James Cromwell, electronic music DJ Moby, former NBA star John Salley, and actors Ignacio Serricchio, Mark Hapka, James Kyson, Alexandra Paul, Kimberly Elise, Daisy Fuentes, Daniella Monet, Emily Deschanel, among many others. In the one-minute ad, titled, “Dear McDonald’s,” the group of activist actors and entertainers scolded the fast food chain for forcing the chickens they use for their products to “sit in waste,” to “live in constant pain,” and a series of other charges. “Chickens used by McDonald’s are among the most abused animals on the planet,” the group exclaims on its website. “Bred to grow so large so fast, they often can’t walk without pain. Hundreds of brands — including Burger King, Starbucks, Subway, Jack in the Box, and Denny’s — have committed to banning the cruelest practices inflicted on chickens. McDonald’s has not. Let McDonald’s know that animal abuse is bad business.” This star-studded video comes as scores of Hollywood directors, producers, and actors are boycotting states like Georgia and Alabama over their new laws restricting most abortions. This same organization has attacked McDonald’s chain in the past, as well. Just last year, the group was also seen going after the fast food chain over its treatment of chickens with another video ad that featured images of dying birds.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 22, 2019 9:15:42 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/05/22/trump-nationwide-injunctions-barrAttorney General William Barr condemned the rise of nationwide injunctions Tuesday, saying such sweeping orders undermine the rule of law. Nationwide injunctions prohibit the federal government from enforcing a particular law or policy across the entire country. Progressive cause lawyering groups have used such injunctions to stymie a wide array of Trump policy priorities. “Since President Trump took office, federal district courts have issued 37 nationwide injunctions against the executive branch — that’s more than one a month,” Barr said during a Tuesday evening speech to the American Law Institute.
“According to the [Justice] Department’s best estimates, courts issued only 27 nationwide injunctions in all of the 20th century,” he added, before bristling at the notion that the disparity is a function of the president’s “lawlessness.” Barr cited the Trump administration’s attempt to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as the starkest example of a nationwide injunction’s harmful effects. After the government took steps to end terminate DACA in 2017, three federal trial judges entered injunctions requiring that Trump maintain the program. Appeals of those injunctions have since reached the Supreme Court, though the justices have declined to broach the issue for months. As a result, Barr says the nationwide injunctions have paralyzed political debates around immigration, culminating in the 35-day government shutdown that extended from December 2018 to January 2019. (RELATED: Forget Alabama. These Abortion Cases Are In Front Of The Supreme Court Right Now) What have these nationwide injunctions wrought? Dreamers remain in limbo, the political process has been pre-empted, and we have had over a year of bitter political division that included a government shutdown of unprecedented length,” Barr said. “Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis at our southern border persists, while legislative efforts remain frozen as both sides await the courts’ word on DACA and other immigration issues.” Aside from the DACA cases, nationwide injunctions are also in effect against the administration’s bid to strip so-called sanctuary cities of federal funds, among other items. Barr leveled other arguments against nationwide injunctions. He said such orders inflate the power of a single federal trial judge, turn ordinary cases into emergency situations requiring prompt resolution, and undermine public confidence in the judiciary, to the extent that lawyers bring cases in ideologically-friendly jurisdictions. Such “forum shopping,” he said, creates the impression of partisanship in judging. “Nationwide injunctions undermine the democratic process, depart from history and tradition, violate constitutional principles, and impede sound judicial administration, all at the cost of public confidence in our institutions and particularly in our courts as apolitical decision-makers dispassionately applying objective law,” the attorney general said. Conservative litigators used nationwide injunctions to good effect against former President Barack Obama. For example, a federal trial judge in Texas enjoined enforcement of an administration policy requiring that public schools allow students to use bathrooms corresponding with their stated gender identity, rather than their biological sex. Vice President Mike Pence revealed that the administration is looking for an appropriate case in which to ask the Supreme Court to end nationwide injunctions during a May 8 address to the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers group.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 22, 2019 14:22:08 GMT -6
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Post by redrex on May 22, 2019 15:28:17 GMT -6
NBC’s Chuck Todd: “Only candidates deemed worthy by media should receive coverage”. www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/05/21/nbcs-chuck-todd-decrees-only-candidates-media-deem-worthy-should-receive-coverage/amp/NBC political director and Meet the Press host Chuck Todd said he believes political candidates must “prove that they’re worthy of coverage” from cable news outlets. www.politico.com/story/2019/05/21/media-2020-democrats-1329071“I feel compelled to give everybody a chance to prove that they’re worthy of coverage,” Todd stated. While he did not clarify what “worthy” means to him, Todd did offer a brief explanation of his remarks and said that if someone suddenly receives a “following,” cable news will be there. “I don’t even want to sit here and say, ‘Yeah, we’ll never have an embed on Marianne Williamson,’” Todd said. “How do I know that? She may get on that debate stage and suddenly have a following, and there we will be.” Todd’s comments drew criticism from social media users, including former White House official Steven Cheung, who asked, “Who gets to decide whether a candidate is worthy enough?” Todd’s statement stems from a conversation regarding Marianne Williamson, a spiritual author who has entered a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls. Williamson was previously unsuccessful in her run for California’s 33rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives in 2014 as an Independent. Earlier this month, Williamson claimed that she has reached the 65,000-donor threshold to qualify for the upcoming primary debates. Did I miss the election where we voted on our media representative ?------I don't recall that vote
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Post by soonernvolved on May 22, 2019 15:53:16 GMT -6
amp.dailycaller.com/2019/05/22/kamala-harris-daniel-bressDemocratic Sen. Kamala Harris refused to question a nominee for one of California’s seats on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday, citing the nominee’s out-of-state residency as the grounds for her opposition. The nominee, Daniel Bress, has lived in the Washington, D.C., area for over a decade. Harris has been accommodating of nominees tapped for California courts after an extended absence from the state in the past, however. “Because the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding this hearing over the objections of both California senators, and because Mr. Bress has lived and practiced law in the D.C. area for roughly the last decade, I do not want to legitimize the process by asking questions of the nominee, talented though he may be,” Harris said during a Wednesday sitting of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But Harris struck a different note in December 2014, when she participated in a confirmation hearing for California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger. Like Bress, Kruger is a California native who practiced law in Washington, D.C. for over a decade before her appointment to the state Supreme Court. Kruger’s extended absence from the state was a primary feature of the opposition to her nomination. In California, judges are nominated by the governor and confirmed by a three-member panel called the Commission on Judicial Appointments. Harris sat on that panel in her capacity as state attorney general. During Kruger’s confirmation hearing, Harris did not raise the residency issue, other than to ask Kruger what most excited her about returning to California, according to The Sacramento Bee. Harris aides did not answer multiple press inquiries. (RELATED: Democratic Efforts To Pack The Supreme Court Just Ran Into A Big Wall: Public Opinion) Bress has practiced in the Washington offices of Kirkland & Ellis LLP since 2008. A graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, Bress clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia before entering private practice. He has been a member of the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers group with close ties to the Trump administration, since 2003, according to a questionnaire he submitted to the Judiciary Committee. If confirmed, Bress will succeed Judge Alex Kozinski, who left the federal bench in December 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct. Speaking at the beginning of Wednesday’s hearing, Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham claimed the panel delayed consideration of the Bress nomination in an attempt to reach a compromise with California’s senators. Those discussions proved fruitless, Graham said. “Senator Harris is never going to vote for anybody nominated by Trump — period,” Graham said. He added that the California Democrats were productive partners where trial court nominees are concerned. “The politics of the moment are such that at the circuit court level, we’re at impasse,” Graham said.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 23, 2019 18:15:14 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/47614/chicago-judge-orders-jussie-smollett-case-file-emily-zanottiOn Thursday, a Chicago judge ruled in favor of a collection of media outlets who requested court documents and investigation records related to "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's alleged fake hate crime, unsealing Smollett's case file and granting reporters access to the full trove. The Chicago Sun-Times — one of the papers requesting access to the Smollett file — reported that the Cook County judge, Steven Watkins, ordered the documents unsealed because Smollett and his attorneys had “not shown good cause to rebut the public presumption of access." Smollett's case files were sealed in the same hearing where the Cook County States Attorney announced that they would drop 17 felony counts against the "Empire" actor in return for approximately 16 hours of community service and a $10,000 check — the "down payment" Smollett left with the court when he was let out on bond.
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