Day: February 4, 2017

Iran Carries Out New Missile Tests After Trump Imposes Sanctions

Iran carried out further missile tests during an annual military exercise, a day after President Donald Trump imposed fresh sanctions on a raft of individuals and companies in response to the country test-firing a ballistic rocket last week. The country successfully tested a range of land-to-land missiles and radar systems during the drills in a 35,000 square-kilometer stretch of desert in the northern Iranian province of Semnan, the semi-official Tasnim agency reported Saturday, citing Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ aerospace division.

President Trump’s Second Week of Action

On Tuesday, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to become Associate Justice on the Supreme Court, filling the seat left behind by the late Justice Antonin Scalia. The next day, President Trump met with various stakeholders to thank them for their input in making such an important decision.

Trump’s wall – ” the US’ growing protectionist stance

United States President Donald Trump announced last week that he was going ahead with his campaign promise to build a wall along the country’s southern border with Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants. He blames immigrants from all over South and Central America for getting jobs which, he said, should go to Americans.

Abortion numbers dropped in Arizona in 2015, continuing four-year decline

Abortion numbers dropped in Arizona in 2015, continuing four-year decline State health officials say Arizona’s abortions rates are falling, following a declining trend that started in 2011. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2kzR5ro WASHINGTON – The number of abortions in Arizona fell in 2015, continuing a four-year downward trend that began in 2011, according to Arizona Department of Health Services.

Shoot the Democrats

In their frenzy to turn around their political fortunes, the Democrats show that they can get quite as irrational and strike out in anger just as much as Trump and his anti-democratic collaborators. I keep running across internet posts that make Hillary Clinton responsible for taking the first bite of the Eden serpent’s apple and, therefore, causing the demise of the Democratic Party.

Schumer: Trump attacks on judges raises bar ‘even higher’ for Gorsuch

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer fired a warning shot at President Trump and his Supreme Court nominee after Trump sent out Saturday morning tweets criticizing a federal judge in Seattle for implementing a nationwide restraining order on his executive order barring citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. Early Saturday morning, Trump expressed his dissatisfaction with the “opinion of this so-called judge,” on the morning after Judge James Robart slapped a temporary restraining order on the president’s one-week old executive action that temporarily bans non-U.S. citizens from Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Yemen for 90 days.

On foreign policy, Trump still speaking campaign language

In this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with House and Senate legislators in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. For all of the White House’s early bravado,Trump has taken office with few concrete plans for how to make good on his pledge to unravel President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and tackle some of the biggest national security challenges facing his administration.

Author Sam Harris to Bill Maher: ‘The left has allied itself with Islamists’

Host Bill Maher and author Sam Harris agreed on HBO’s “Real Time” that the liberal establishment needs to stand up to Islamic extremism more, with Harris declaring “the left has allied itself with Islamists.” “You don’t have to be a fascist or a racist or even a Trumpian to not want to import people into your society who think cartoonists should be killed for drawing the prophet,” Harris told Maher on Friday.

Schumer slams Trump for attacking federal judge

Charles Schumer Schumer slams Trump for attacking federal judge These times call for big people The Trump opposition: Hell hath no fury like Democrats’ scorn MORE on Saturday slammed President Trump for his tweet against the “so-called judge” who imposed a halt on his travel ban. “The President’s attack on Judge James Robart, a Bush appointee who passed with 99 votes, shows a disdain for an independent judiciary that doesn’t always bend to his wishes and a continued lack of respect for the Constitution, making it more important that the Supreme Court serve as an independent check on the administration,” Schumer said in a statement .

Trump blocks Booker-backed rule to curb retirement financial adviser abuse

WASHINGTON — Rules designed to curb abuses by financial advisers handling retirement funds were put on hold by President Donald Trump even as he spent the campaign railing against Wall Street . Trump blocked new U.S. Labor Department requirements that such advisers recommend retirement investments that would be best for their clients, even if they carried smaller fees and generated less profits than other funds.

Federal Judge Halts Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban

Late yesterday, a Federal Judge in Seattle issued an order that at least temporarily halts the most important provisions of President Obama’s Executive Order regarding travel to or from seven majority Muslim countries: A federal judge in Seattle on Friday temporarily blocked President Trump’s week-old immigration order from being enforced nationwide, reopening America’s door to visa holders from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dealing the administration a humbling defeat. The White House vowed late Friday to fight what it called an “outrageous” ruling, saying it would seek an emergency halt to the judge’s order as soon as possible and restore the president’s “lawful and appropriate order.”

Refugee resettlement agencies brace for funding loss

Refugee resettlement organizations are bracing for significant funding cuts and possible layoffs over the coming months during President Donald Trump’s temporary refugee ban. The agencies receive a certain amount of federal dollars per refugee they help resettle, which means they would lose a key source of funding unless the Trump administration provides funds in the interim during the 120-day temporary halt to refugees entering the U.S. Catholic Charities USA says the executive order will cost the organization millions of dollars and put at risk about 700 jobs out of the 54,000 jobs at its agencies around the country, according to spokeswoman Patricia Cole.

Photo credit: Mehdi Taamalah/ABACAUSA/Newscom

Donald Trump and his wife Melania arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party hosted by Graydon Carter held at Sunset Tower in West Hollywood on February 27, 2011. Photo credit: Mehdi Taamalah/ABACAUSA/Newscom I don’t know whether it’s “fake news,” but it’s almost certainly fake concern: all the solicitude in the mainstream media over First Lady Melania Trump’s supposed sham marriage with her extremely famous husband.

Senate “sanctuary cities” bill hearing

After a 16-hour hearing that included tears, heckling, bursts of anger and warnings from lawmakers to witnesses to respect the rules of the Capitol’s upper chamber, the Texas Senate’s State Affairs Committee voted 7-2 along party lines early Friday morning to advance a controversial state-based immigration bill to the full Senate. Senate Bill 4, commonly known as the anti-sanctuary cities bill, would punish local government entities and college campuses that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials or enforce immigration laws.

The Threat from Within

It has been two weeks since he took over, imposing his dark vision upon this country. It has been two weeks since he declared war on religious minorities, our environment, our democracy.

Mnuchin’s denials don’t match record

Sen. Orrin Hatch says no, that the man nominated by President Donald Trump to be treasury secretary told the truth when he asserted that his former company, OneWest, had not engaged in the practice of “robo-signing” mortgage documents. That’s despite dozens of court cases uncovered by The Dispatch that showed OneWest officials’ robo-signatures, along with sworn testimony from one of his vice presidents describing how she did it.

Jim Jordan rejects calls to repair Obamacare

WASHINGTON In a growing rift among Republicans, Rep. Jim Jordan rejected calls by some GOP lawmakers to “repair” the 2010 health law, saying the law known as Obamacare was a “complete disaster” and needs to be swiftly and completely scrapped. During an interview Friday on Fox News, Jordan, R-Urbana said for Republicans “to say we’re going to repair something implies you can actually fix something.

Estate of Virgil Victor Becker Jr v. Avco Corporation Precision…

ESTATE OF VIRGIL VICTOR BECKER, JR., by its Personal Representative, Jennifer L. White, Petitioner, v. AVCO CORPORATION; PRECISION AIRMOTIVE LLC; VOLARE CARBURETORS LLC; MARVEL-SCHEBLER CARBURETORS LLC; TEMPEST PLUS MARKETING GROUP LLC; AERO ACCESSORIES, INC.; SYNERGY SYSTEMS, INC.; CASHMERE MOLDING, INC.; CREST AIRPARK, INC.; PREMIER AIRCRAFT ENGINES, INC; AUBURN FLIGHT SERVICE, INC; and ESTATE OF BRENDA L. HOUSTON, by its Personal Representative PAUL THOMAS CREWS, Defendants, FORWARD TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIES, INC., Respondent.

Trump attacks restrictions on big banks, retirement advisers

President Donald Trump has launched his long-promised attack on banking rules that were rushed into law after the nation’s economic crisis, signing new orders after meeting with business and investment chiefs and pledging further action to free big banks from restrictions. Wall Street cheered him on, but Trump risks disillusioning his working-class voters.

ICYMI: Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s three terms in office

With Mayor Frank Jackson’s announcement Tuesday that he will be seeking an unprecedented fourth four-year term, cleveland.com takes a look back at his record and policy decisions – his strengths and vulnerabilities — that likely will take center stage as more challengers enter the race. From police violence to economic development, the airport to the city’s schools, these are some of the issues upon which the next mayor of Cleveland will be chosen.

Peru to give visas to thousands of crisis-weary Venezuelans

Peru has created a temporary visa that will allow thousands of Venezuelans to work and study in the country, part of a migratory policy that aims to “build bridges” and “not walls,” the Andean nation’s interior ministry said. President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s government issued 20 temporary visas to Venezuelan migrants in Peru this week.