[HotAir] The Commons voted 330 to 231 in favour of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill and it will now pass to the House of Lords for further scrutiny next week…
The UK is due to leave the EU on 31 January…
The latest vote gives approval to the 11-month transition period after 31 January, in which the UK will cease to be an EU member but will continue to follow its rules and contribute to its budget.
The purpose of the transition period is to give time for the UK and EU to negotiate their future relationship, including a trade deal.
[Townhall] During a press conference on Wednesday, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is seen giggling and talking to her colleagues while she is standing behind Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), who was discussing U.S. troops killed in war.
"I’m very glad to say that I was part of the 132 and also the vote for Barbara Lee’s amendment, but I think that the point of that is that that is the same war that we’re dealing with today," Lee said. "We never solved any problems with AUMF, we left 4,000-plus, maybe even 4400 dead, and over 60,000 who came back injured in some form and the war never ended."
Rather than stand silently behind her colleague as she spoke, Omar became a distraction when she starting laughing and turning around to talk to her Democratic colleagues. Contrast with what Omar said yesterday during a press conference on the death of Iranian terrorist mastermind Soleimani: "And I think every time I hear about‐I hear of conversations around war, I find myself being stricken with PTSD. And I find peace knowing that I serve with great advocates for peace and people who have shown courage against war," Omar said.
h/t Instapundit
[free beacon] - Democratic presidential contenders Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) are slated to host a conference call with an Iranian-American advocacy group that has been accused of lobbying on Tehran’s behalf.
Along with Reps. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) and Barbara Lee (D., Calif.), Sanders and Warren are scheduled to speak Wednesday evening with members of the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). The group played a central role in what former Obama national security adviser Ben Rhodes called the administration's pro-Iran Deal "echo chamber," spinning journalists, lawmakers, and citizens.
NIAC has deep ties to Iran's regime, including senior officials like Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. Zarif worked closely with NIAC founder Trita Parsi, who, in turn, consulted with the Obama administration.
Parsi lobbied Congress against sanctions on Iran in 2013 and met with Obama administration officials at the White House dozens of times leading up to the nuclear deal's signing in 2015. Multiple U.S. officials and senior congressional sources informed the Washington Free Beacon that Parsi helped the White House craft its messaging as it tried to sell the nuclear deal to the public. The NIAC chief met with Rhodes, among other top officials, during multiple visits throughout the Obama era.
Rhodes delivered a keynote speech at the 2016 NIAC leadership conference.
NIAC was ordered to pay more than $180,000 in 2013 to the legal defense fund of Hassan Daioleslam, an Iranian-American writer, after a failed defamation lawsuit. Daioleslam had accused NIAC of failing to disclose its clandestine lobbying efforts to undo sanctions on Tehran, the Free Beacon previously reported. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said Parsi's work was "not inconsistent with the idea that he was first and foremost an advocate for the regime."
#4
Guess we need to stop importing illegals then or put them up in condemned structures.
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#5
Honestly, I don’t know what that means. No carbon emissions from a house means you heat, cool, cook and flush with no carbon output? Wow that is a new level of science.
#8
I'm not going to vote for Warren. I wasn't anyway; but I like being able to say this. I Just have an animus towards socialist-leaning Dems who want to control everything.
#9
So we will need to live in a hole in the ground or in a cave. Do our Laundry in the closest river or creek (which someone upstream already sh*t in - no indoor plumbing either). Stop eating cooked foods - Just government supplied Soylent [Green].
Of course CongressCritters and the elite woudld be exempt....
h/t Instapundit
[The Lid] - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in an interview with New York Magazine, complained that the Democrat party will "let anybody who the cat dragged in" into the party.
Self-awareness: -500 points.
To be sure, AOC’s whining is focused on allowing somewhat more ’moderate’ members into the party who don’t precisely align with her extremist views.
#12
..yeah but the Socialist International doesn't sell well here. Better to take over an old institution, skin it and wear its carcass. A good number will never notice. Their lower brain stem group operates the voting booth levers.
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I hope she stays another two years in office. Then when she departs Trump can replace another one. She can go on speaking tours after. Note, I don't wish death on her, I just want her off the court.
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#4
The Japanese holdouts smelled better. And were sober.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#5
I'd be content to let Nancy sit on those articles of hers and rotate until next November when she becomes the Minority Leader.
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#6
And when the Japanese went home the Emperor was still there. They looked around and asked "this is losing"? This doesn't look like DetroitBaltimore Kansas, Toto.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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