Joy Reid abruptly cut off a guest on her show this morning after remarks he made that she called out as “incredibly offensive.” Former Republican congressman and current Newsmax host J.D. Hayworth was debating immigration with Reid, actress Rosie Perez , and journalist Maria Hinojosa .
Day: February 18, 2017
Texas election officials: hundreds of Texans may have voted improperly
State election officers are now contemplating whether to ask local prosecutors to bring criminal charges for the violations of the election laws. The Texas voter ID law, which required voters to show one of seven forms of identification to cast a ballot, was stepped back in August, allowing individuals to vote by signing an affidavit stating they faced an impediment to obtaining one of the seven forms of authorized identification.
CNN’s Don Lemon Walks Off Show After Guest Accuses Him Of Reporting Fake News
CNN has come under heavy fire from many people for reporting fake news including President Trump who called CNN ‘very fake news’ at his last presser . CNN can dish it out, but they can’t take it! After bullying Trump and colluding with Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election cycle they are finally getting a dose of their own medicine.
Republicans, Where’s the Backbone?
Desperately seeking those GOP politicians who will stand up against a know-nothing bully who holds the highest office in the land. Congressional Republicans, we watched you at the White House Thursday.
US Sen. Markey joins congressional delegation to Mexico
U.S. Sen. Edward Markey has joined a congressional delegation on a trip to Mexico to discuss immigration, economic development, and climate change. The Massachusetts Democrat left Friday evening with Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin and Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, both Democrats.
China Is Finally Putting The Screws To North Korea
It is suspending all coal imports from North Korea, the Ministry of Commerce said Saturday, without going into specifics as to why it was taking action. Coal exports are a primary source of income for the reclusive state.
Dem rep: Steve Bannon ‘is a stone cold racist’
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries on Friday accused President Trump’s senior adviser Steve Bannon of being “a stone cold racist and a white supremacist sympathizer.” Jeffries on Friday told MSNBC that any meeting between Trump and the Congressional Black Caucus must exclude Bannon.
Jonathan Milne: If we as a nation find Senator Scott Brown’s…
Former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown has been in the spotlight ever since he was named America’s Sexiest Man by Cosmopolitan. OPINION: They say that if a diplomat says yes, he means maybe.
Switcheroo: newspaper publisher threatens to sue politician for libel
A Colorado state senator disparaged his hometown paper, the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, as “fake news” . The publisher of the family-owned newspaper then responded with an editorial that struck a threatening tone: “see you in court.”
Pentagon officials: Russian actions a ‘test of the new administration’
Moscow recently deployed a banned land-based cruise missile, dispatched a spy ship up the Atlantic coast and buzzed an American warship in the Black Sea. The developments raise the question of how the new White House occupant will address Russian assertiveness and whether, after complimenting Russian President Vladimir Putin and playing down Russia’s adversarial relationship with the US, Trump will resort to any confrontational responses.
Shaheen part of delegation to Munich Security Conference
Shaheen is part of a 16-member bipartisan Congressional delegation led by Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona. They’ll be attending the annual Munich Security Conference on Saturday and Sunday.
AP Exclusive: Hundreds of Texans may have voted improperly
Texas election officials have acknowledged that hundreds of people were allowed to bypass the state’s toughest-in-the-nation voter ID law and improperly cast ballots in the November presidential election by signing a sworn statement instead of showing a photo ID. The chief election officers in two of the state’s largest counties are now considering whether to refer cases to local prosecutors for potential perjury charges or violations of election law.
Contenders crowd potential 2018 political field in Ohio
For Republicans, that means working to avert a collision in 2018 among three high-profile gubernatorial hopefuls. For out-of-power Democrats, the challenge is to find any available candidate with the political clout and statewide name recognition to win the governor’s race.
The Latest: Pence meets leaders of Iraq, Iraqi Kurds
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WATCH As Milo Spars With ‘Real Time’ Panel, With Larry Wilmore…
Well, if you love the ‘F’ word , you’ll love this story. Milo Yiannopoulos appeared on ‘Real Time’ with Bill Maher yesterday and it was, I suppose, entertainment.
Trump set to hold campaign rally in Florida Saturday
At least 4 people have died after a powerful storm caused flash flooding in southern California.Two people were killed in two separate car accidents in San Di… — Mike Pence affirmed the United States’ support for NATO and urged Russia to deescalate violence in eastern Ukraine while speaking Saturday at the Munich Secu… “We were very pleased to see the Senate finally confirm Scott Pruitt as the new administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency . Our thanks go out to Nebraska Se… Final Day Of State Wrestling Is Underway.
Ap Fact Check: The audacity of hype
In the Washington week that wasn’t, President Donald Trump’s new administration whirred like a “fine-tuned machine,” piling on big-league accomplishments at a pace never before seen. Immigration agents newly empowered by Trump’s call to secure borders sent hordes of bad foreigners back home, validating a president who won the most lopsided Electoral College victory since Ronald Reagan.
Hundreds Form ‘Human Wall’ in Mexico to Protest Trump
The demonstrators held up flowers and colored flags reading the “Peace” and waved to residents of the neighboring town of El Paso, Texas. Hundreds of people in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico formed a “human wall” at the edge of the Rio Grande on Friday to protest President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.
Democrats ask for hearings involving Trumpa s smartphone security
President Trump’s purportedly lax security practices are the subject of a letter sent from more than a dozen congressional Democrats this week to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Rep. Ted Lieu, California Democrat, urged committee leadership this week to investigate “troubling reports” that have emerged recently with respect to Mr. Trump’s operational security, including his apparent use of a consumer-grade Android smartphone to communicate over Twitter, among other items of concerns.
CBS: Petraeus out of running to replace Flynn
Down goes another option to replace Michael Flynn as national security adviser, CBS News reports , and from a rather surprising source. After a speech overseas that apparently angered the White House, David Petraeus is no longer in the running for the spot – and that comes from sources close to Petraeus rather than the White House: Sources close to retired Gen.
Utah immigrants hunker down in wake of Trump’s expanded federal raids
The Salt Lake Tribune) Michael and Claudia Keith live in Orem. Claudia has a green card but for a time was undocumented, and the couple feared she would be deported to her native Brazil.
Trump Blames Media, Judges, Democrats In Chaos Theory Tour-De-Force
Upending decades of U.S. policy on Israel-Palestinian conflict, he told the Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu that he “could live with” either a one state or a two state solution “that both parties want”. “To be honest, I inherited a mess at home and overseas”, he claimed as he spoke of jobs fleeing the country, instability in West Asia and the nuclear threat posed by North Korea.
Saif Ali Khan talks about daughter Sara Ali Khan’s debut in Bollywood
Mumbai: Rangoon actor is left behind as Saif Ali khan’s children are grabbing much more attention on the internet. Yes! Saif does not wish for someone to have that kind of affect on Sara’s career.
Roundup: Trump’s tax returns, immigration, Dakota pipeline
In a blatant display of partisanship that disregards the wishes of a majority of Americans, House Republicans have rejected an attempt to use their legal power to obtain tax returns for President Trump, who has consistently refused to release them on his own. Under a rarely invoked federal law, House and Senate tax committees can order the Treasury Department to release individual tax returns.
Rep. Darin LaHood remembers Bob Michel
When you think of the late Bob Michel, you think of bipartisanship, the kind favored by other Illinoisans, like Everett Dirksen and Ray LaHood. The incumbent Congressman from the 18th District, Darin LaHood, says maintaining the same standards today is easier said than done.
Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Chaos doesn’t poll all that well, as it turns out
Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes. But… Despite promising to release his tax returns in a televised debate with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump continues to show that… **NOTE: THE FORM LETTER IS BLANK.
US reassures Europe on Nato and Russia, again
“Be assured: president Trump and the American people are fully devoted to our transatlantic union,” US vice president Pence said in Munich. US vice-president Mike Pence crowned a week of American diplomacy in Europe on Saturday by promising to stick by Nato and to take a tough line on Russia.
Former U.S. general Jones: not considered as Trump’s security adviser
James Jones, a former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, Saturday said on Saturday he is not under consideration to be U.S. President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser. “My policy is that I never turn down a job that hasn’t been offered,” Jones, who was attending the Munich Security Conference, told Reuters.
Our Views: Declaring a La. disaster once again
Harold Baldwin, a disabled veteran, holds his grandson Blake Baldwin, 5 months, while waiting to apply for FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, disaster recovery assistance at the East New Orleans Public Library, 5641 Read Blvd. in New Orleans, La. Monday, Feb. 13, 2017 near the path of Tuesday’s tornado.
Former N.J. man who made Obama death threats sought mental help before
MEDFORD LAKES — The ex- South Jersey resident accused of posting an online death threat against former President Barack Obama is not competent to stand trial — a fact his family has argued all along given the man’s decade-long mental health struggle. According to a Feb. 6 order in U.S. District Court, in Pennsylvania, 33-year-old William Peterman’s evaluation required by Magistrate Judge Carol Sandra Moore Wells found that he “at the current time he is not competent to stand trial.”
An adult voice amid pandemic childness
In his 72 years, Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, who was raised in segregated Richmond, Virginia, acknowledges that he has seen much change, often for the better, including advances in the 1960s. But in his elegant new memoir, “All Falling Faiths: Reflections on the Promise and Failure of the 1960s,” he explains why today’s distemper was incubated in that “burnt and ravaged forest of a decade.”
Trump’s ‘fine-tuned’ machine is going haywire
President Trump is flailing like a man who fears he’s about to go under, and he hasn’t even been in office a full month. His instinct is to flee to the warmth and comfort of his political base — but he will learn that while presidents can run, they can’t hide.
Charles Krauthammer: The case of the cover-up in search of a crime
It’s a Watergate-era cliche that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. In the Mike Flynn affair, we have the first recorded instance of a cover-up in the absence of a crime.
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John McCain is increasingly mad as hell about President Trump. And on Friday, he went after Trump – hard.
The Day Obama Told Illegal Immigrants is Was Okay to Vote…
Remember when Donald Trump said if it hadn’t been for illegal immigrants voting in California he would have won the popular vote? In the coming weeks we’ll be discussing a few cases in which illegal immigrants have been caught voting, chagred, and sent to jail for it.
Sedgwick County Jail, ICE resolve dispute on detentions
It’s good that the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appear to have resolved their dispute about detaining people suspected of being illegal immigrants. When ICE wants a jail inmate held for an additional 48 hours, it will now provide the sheriff’s office with a federal warrant.
Eight Years Ago, on Instapundit: Politico: a Revolving Door?…
POLITICO: A REVOLVING DOOR? “In three months since Election Day, at least a half-dozen prominent journalists have taken jobs working for the federal government. Journalists, including some of those who’ve jumped ship, say it’s better to have a solid job in government than a shaky job – or none at all – in an industry that’s fading fast.
The Week in Pictures: Media Meltdown Edition
The mainstream news media simply does not know what to do with a president who openly expresses what all presidents privately think, which is that the media is a contemptible bunch. But even worse: Trump won’t play by the media’s rules.
Trump’s Sons Eric And Donald Jr. in Dubai to Open Golf Club
Two of U.S. President Donald Trump’s sons are in the United Arab Emirates for an invitation-only ceremony to open the Trump International Golf Club in Dubai. Eric and Donald Jr. attended a private luncheon Saturday afternoon with business partners of Hussain Sajwani, the billionaire who runs DAMAC Properties, the developer that partnered with Trump on the golf course.
Electronic media searches at border crossings raise worry
Watchdog groups that keep tabs on digital privacy rights are concerned that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents are searching the phones and other digital devices of international travelers at border checkpoints in U.S. airports. The issue gained attention recently after at least three travelers, including a Canadian journalist, spoke out publicly about their experiences.