Steele dossier roils Capitol Hill anew after revelations about bias - Washington Times

Steele dossier roils Capitol Hill anew after revelations about bias - Washington Times:

Three Senate committee chairmen demanded answers this week about the role played by the Justice and State departments in furthering the goals of Christopher Steele, the former British spy who compiled the discredited anti-Trump dossier that helped launch the special counsel’s investigation.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham fired off inquiries to the Justice Department inspector general and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, while Sens. Charles E. Grassley and Ron Johnson, heads of the Finance and Homeland Security committees, respectively, sent their own letter to Mr. Pompeo and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday.
They were all reacting to news that Mr. Steele had communicated some of his work compiling the anti-Trump document to State Department employees.

Frauds, Crooks and Criminals

Frauds, Crooks and Criminals
"Although the story makes it sound like the refugee industry has brought refugees to put on display in Washington as a response to the Trump Administration refugee slowdown, in reality they do this lobbying PR event every year no matter who is in the White House.

Refugees put on display, meet the press in Washington last week.

The lobbying initiative brings in (probably at your expense since these agencies are largely taxpayer-funded) refugees who exemplify the best of the recent crop of Africans, Asians and Middle Easterners to help persuade Congress to fund even more refugees in the coming fiscal year.

Needless to say there is NEVER any counter effort at this time by immigration restriction groups who might get around the Hill with information about the cost of the program and to put out a few horror stories about refugees who came here fraudulently and became crooks and criminals.

And, NO ONE ever mentions that the religious charities are largely federally funded and dependent on a large and regular supply of ‘new Americans’ to pay their salaries and their office overhead (so they can promote their Open Borders political agenda).

Continue reading “‘Religious Charities’ Put on Usual Refugee Lobbying Day on Capitol Hill”→

#1 Movie this week 1963-----Dr. No Official Trailer #1 - Sean Connery Movie (1962) HD

THIS is CNN.....-----Mother's Day founder regretted inventing the holiday - CNN

Mother's Day founder regretted inventing the holiday - CNN
"She just wanted to honor her mom

Long before her death, Jarvis' mom Ann Reeves Jarvis hoped someone would dedicate a day to honor mothers. When she died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis set out to do just that. She began campaigning not only for her mom but for moms everywhere.

It started off with her hometown of Grafton, West Virginia, which takes credit for hosting the first official Mother's Day celebration three years later at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church. Since then, the church has been dubbed the "International Mother's Day Shrine."

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Jarvis' Mother's Day as a national holiday..."

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#1 This day 1958-----All I Have To Do Is Dream - Everly Brothers

Yes, The Bee... but is it really parody?-----Liberals Clarify: 'Alt Right' Means Everyone To The Right Of Stalin | The Babylon Bee

Liberals Clarify: 'Alt Right' Means Everyone To The Right Of Stalin | The Babylon Bee
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—An extensive study revealed that the majority of liberals define the term "alt-right" as meaning anybody who is politically to the right of Joseph Stalin.
The study involved thousands of hours of focus-testing, surveying, and reaction-based observational studies on liberals from all over urban centers and liberal hotspots across the United States..."
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Lock her up!

Their friends?

To Sen. Cory Booker, Gun Ownership Is a Privilege and Not a Right | The Heritage Foundation

To Sen. Cory Booker, Gun Ownership Is a Privilege and Not a Right | The Heritage Foundation:

The most problematic part of Booker’s plan is that almost all of it would violate the Constitution. The Second Amendment protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms, but Booker treats gun ownership as a mere privilege that may be granted if the government determines via an interview that it’s OK with it for you to possess a firearm.
In fact, the whole purpose of the Second Amendment was to prevent the government from determining which law-abiding citizens could or could not arm themselves, while the 14th Amendment was in large part an effort to ensure that state governments could not do so, either.
Under no circumstances would we argue that the government may require law-abiding citizens to seek its permission and undergo extensive training prior to exercising any other constitutional right.

FLASHBACK: NPR (!) ON “THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS THAT WEREN’T.

Instapundit Blog Archive FLASHBACK: NPR (!)

FLASHBACK: NPR (!) ON “THE SCHOOL SHOOTINGS THAT WEREN’T.”

This spring the U.S. Education Department reported that in the 2015-2016 school year, “nearly 240 schools … reported at least 1 incident involving a school-related shooting.” The number is far higher than most other estimates.

But NPR reached out to every one of those schools repeatedly over the course of three months and found that more than two-thirds of these reported incidents never happened. Child Trends, a nonpartisan nonprofit research organization, assisted NPR in analyzing data from the government’s Civil Rights Data Collection.

We were able to confirm just 11 reported incidents, either directly with schools or through media reports.

Related: America doesn’t actually lead the world in mass shootings...---Posted by Glenn Reynolds"

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AM Fruitcake

History for May 13

History for May 13 - On-This-Day.com
Joe Louis (Barrow) 1914 - Boxer, "The Brown Bomber", Beatrice Arthur 1926 - Actress ("The Golden Girls", "Maude"), Harvey Keitel 1939 - Actor ("Pulp Fiction", "Thelma and Louise", "Taxi Driver")


Richie Valens (Richard Steven Valenzuela) 1941 - Singer, Stevie Wonder (Steveland Morris) 1950 - Musician, Dennis Rodman 1961 - Basketball player, nickname: "The Worm", actor


1888 - Slavery was abolished in Brazil.
1888?!!!

1940 - Winston Churchill made his first speech as the prime minister of Britain.

Texas State Student Senate Votes on Resolution Banning Police from Campus | Breitbart

Texas State Student Senate Votes on Resolution Banning Police from Campus | Breitbart:

Texas State University’s student senate recently held an “emergency meeting” to vote on a resolution calling on the school to ban its police department. The resolution was authored by one student senator who was arrested last week during an incident on campus involving the assault of a student wearing a MAGA hat, but appears to have not passed a student senate vote.

The way we were----Ronald Reagan's one-liners

Boob-tube-----Newhart - "World's Smallest Horse"

Theodore White - Deep Global Cooling: 2020s, 2030s & 2040s The...

Theodore White - Deep Global Cooling: 2020s, 2030s & 2040s 

"The weather of global cooling continues to makes it deadly mark on regions around the world.
Observe that there has been increased cloudiness with more precipitation over recent years.
As we are in the first phase of a three decade-long climate of global cooling under the Sun's Grand Minimum, I urge people to stay alert and seek safer regions to reside because worse is to come.

• By May 5, 2019, the record-breaking floods in the American Midwest has killed four more people.
• In the state of Iowa, the Mississippi River swelled 23 feet in the city of Davenport. It broke a record set during the Great Flood of 1993.
• Floodwaters also swamped communities farther south in Burlington.
• To the north, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, flash floods submerged cars and families were forced to evacuate their homes.

...'HEAVY RAINS & FLOODS'
The greatest threat from global cooling, as I've always forecasted - is from torrential rain and floods - both urban and rural.
Understand that ice ages like the Maunder and Dalton Minimums saw populations experience extreme changes in the climate and weather.
Extreme weather happens because of the Sun's weakened solar winds and reduced magnetic field that affects the Earth's jet streams..."

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End Hospitals’ Right to a Blank Check for Emergency Care | Economics21

End Hospitals’ Right to a Blank Check for Emergency Care | Economics21
"Emergency medical care is an exception to the general principle of market exchange, whereby services are voluntarily bought and sold, with sellers competing on price.
Under federal law, hospitals are required to treat patients that arrive needing emergency medical treatment, regardless of their ability to pay—but allowed to subsequently charge whatever they wish.
In recent years, medical providers have increasingly exploited this arrangement by threatening exorbitant charges for out-of-network emergency care in order to force insurers to agree to generous reimbursement terms across the board.
Patients have frequently been caught in the crossfire, and forced to pay large “surprise bills” for emergency care by hospitals or doctors who remain out of network..."
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Rudy Giuliani Is Pushing Ukraine To Investigate Joe Biden’s Connections | The Daily Caller

Rudy Giuliani Is Pushing Ukraine To Investigate Joe Biden’s Connections | The Daily Caller:

President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani is pushing Ukrainian officials to delve deeper into ongoing investigations connected to Paul Manafort and Joe Biden, The New York Times reported.

The Unintended Consequences of "Free" College - Foundation for Economic Education

The Unintended Consequences of "Free" College - Foundation for Economic Education:
"...Unintended Consequences
Following President Obama’s lead, there has been a growing movement among progressives to make community college “free.” 
This has percolated all the way up to most of the candidates running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020.
...In the end, regardless of jurisdiction, it’s the smallest minority that gets stuck with the bill: the individual taxpayer.
...Beyond the budgetary considerations, there’s also the moral hazard of which to be mindful.
When a good or service is free, a consumer tends to take less ownership of it.
...Some students would feel no pressure to simply walk away if it was “too hard,” nevermind the modest 2.0 GPA requirement.
...Affordability is not the culprit here.
Anyone above the “lower rungs of the economic ladder” who wants to go to a community college will sacrifice purchases that bring them short-term pleasure in order to improve their future.
This is not a scenario lacking in real-life examples.
In The Law, 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat said of such activism that
"the law has only two alternatives: permit … teaching-and-learning to operate freely … or … [take] from some … to instruct others, without charge. But in the second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property..."'
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Sultan Knish: The Green New Deal Comes to New York

Sultan Knish: The Green New Deal Comes to New York

• A ban on skyscrapers. 
• Wind turbines in the middle of one of the most overcrowded and noisiest cities on earth. 
• Billions in building renovation costs. 
• Stopping natural gas. 
• Shutting down all the power plants.

"The Green New Deal is coming to New York City.
“We are going to ban the glass and steel skyscrapers which are inefficient,” Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on MSNBC.
That was the first warning most New Yorkers got of what their radical city government had wrought.
...Bill de Blasio claimed that the city would switch completely to ‘renewables’ in only 5 years. 
That would be a spectacular achievement since neither solar nor wind energy work all that well in New York..."
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Lunch video-----UNDERSTANDING SOCIALISM

Noon-toon

Pentagon says it'll send ship, missile battery to Middle East to deter Iran | Fox News

Pentagon says it'll send ship, missile battery to Middle East to deter Iran | Fox News:

The Pentagon announced plans Friday to send a U.S. ship and a Patriot missile battery to the Middle East in an effort to deter actions from Iran.
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick M. Shanahan gave the green light to move the USS Arlington and the Patriot battery, according to a statement. The latter is "a long-range, all-weather air defense system to counter tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and advanced aircraft," the Pentagon said.

Maybe It's Time To Cut The Federal Government In Half

Maybe It's Time To Cut The Federal Government In Half:
"I think the time is coming for an idea that is so old that it is new again: cutting the Federal government in half.
The idea is: cancel all Federal welfare-type programs, including all means-tested welfare programs (apparently there are over 150 of them), all healthcare-related programs including Medicare and Medicaid, all education-related, arts-related and housing-related programs, and anything else of this sort -- in short, most everything except for the military, national parks, and maybe some public works.
Social Security could eventually be reformed to a system of private retirement accounts, known as a "provident fund" system and in use today in over thirty countries..."
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Teacher's 1-on-1 Transgender 'Lessons' Leave 9-Year-Old Boy Suffering from Anxiety

Teacher's 1-on-1 Transgender 'Lessons' Leave 9-Year-Old Boy Suffering from Anxiety
"Most people understand that kids just want to be kids.
While adults run around squabbling over politics and careers, the childhood years are a time to develop and grow free of the complexities of adulthood.
But at an elementary school in Oregon, a teacher is being accused of trying to push her sexual views and politics onto a student, all hidden from parents.
To make matters worse, the student was only eight years old at the time.
“Parents in Woodburn said their 8-year-old son was held back from recess multiple times for one-on-one conversations about his gender identity,” reported KPTV News in Oregon..."
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#1 This day 1984-----Lionel Richie - Hello

Michael Pillsbury Outlines China’s Biggest Miscalculation… | The Last Refuge

Michael Pillsbury Outlines China’s Biggest Miscalculation… | The Last Refuge
"Great interview segment between Lou Dobbs and Michael Pillsbury discussing the status of the U.S-China trade conflict.  
Pillsbury notes how the Chinese analysts likely fell into the trap of believing what most western financial media were saying about domestic opposition to President Trump’s policies.

One of the aspects to President Trump that bears a continual reminder is the importance of actual economic victory over optical political victory.   

President Trump is primarily focused on the former, and only concerned about the latter as it relates to his goal:

….to fundamentally restructure the way the American economy interacts with the global community. Economic security is national security.

That’s what President Trump cares about..."
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Let me guess.

Liz Cheney Fires Back After Ilhan Omar Accuses Her Of Lying: ‘An Anti-Semitic Socialist’ | The Daily Caller

Liz Cheney Fires Back After Ilhan Omar Accuses Her Of Lying: ‘An Anti-Semitic Socialist’ | The Daily Caller:

GOP Conference chair Liz Cheney had some strong words for Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar on Friday after the freshman congresswoman accused Cheney, without evidence, of lying.
“Liz Cheney is accusing a committee investigating Russian election interference of…helping Vladimir Putin,” Omar tweeted. “This is an impressive lie even for the Cheney family.”

Don't rule out Michelle Obama as Democrats' Hail Mary Pass to prevent a Bernie electoral apocalypse

Don't rule out Michelle Obama as Democrats' Hail Mary Pass to prevent a Bernie electoral apocalypse:

• The Democrat convention is where it could happen. To save the Party. To save America. And most of all, to save the Obama Legacy from Orange Man Bad.

Michelle Obama has repeatedly said she doesn’t want to run for president, and she will not runfor president.

I believe her. 

But her husband once made a declaration that he would not run for president, until he did.

We have been on Michelle-for-President-watch longer than just about anyone else:

• Get Ready for Michelle Obama 2020 (September 10, 2017)
• Michelle Obama 2020. Yes She Can. But will she run? (January 29, 2018)
• Michelle Obama 2020 coming into focus with Memoirs release just after 2018 midterms (February 25, 2018)
• Michelle Obama may be best Dem hope for 2020, but says she doesn’t want the job (April 7, 2018)
• Rasmussen Poll: Michelle Obama would beat Trump (November 19, 2018)
• Michelle Obama’s Grammys Buzz – A reminder of the mediocrity of Democrat presidential candidates (February 11, 2019)
• With Bread Line Bernie rising, expect Michelle-mentum (February 21, 2019)

The logic of Michelle as Hail Mary Pass is as clear as it ever was. 
At least to me."