[NYPost] What’s the difference between the infamous Russian dossier on Donald Trump and that random fake-news story you saw on Facebook last year? The latter was never used by America’s intelligence community to bolster its case for spying on American citizens nor was it the foundation for a year’s worth of media coverage.
Then again, you get what you pay for. We now know Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee paid as much as $9 million for the discredited dossier on Trump.
According to The Washington Post, a lawyer named Marc Elias, who represented both the 2016 Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, had hired Fusion GPS, a DC firm working on behalf of the Russian government to soften sanctions at the time, to provide opposition research for them. The firm then hired a former British spy named Christopher Steele who reportedly purchased salacious rumors about Trump from the Russians.
[American Spectator] It is incomprehensible," Bill O’Reilly says of Megyn Kelly’s attack on him this week. No, it is entirely comprehensible, given that her show, aimed largely at liberal women, is tanking. By playing the feminist card again and pandering to her audience, she hopes to revive her flagging show. But it won’t work. Her tremulously delivered, overly dramatic monologue about O’Reilly ‐ "his suggestion that no one complained about his behavior is false; I know, because I complained" ‐ was typically manipulative, misleading, and narcissistic.
The "behavior" to which she so darkly referred didn’t include sexual harassment at all. It referred to his appearance on a television show during which he declined to answer any questions about her memoirs. He begged off, saying that he had no "interest" in badmouthing his employer. That didn’t sit well with Kelly, who felt that he should have praised her book and its trashing of Roger Ailes. Seeing a chance to throw her weight around during contract renegotiations, she then fired off a letter of complaint to Fox News executives.
[TheFederalist] Claiming that President Trump’s intemperate tone voids an entire legal proceeding is ludicrous, and in doing so Bowe Bergdahl’s legal team is questioning Anglo-American legal fundamendals.
[FOX] Former vice president Joe Biden wrote in his new book that Hillary Clinton was a "prisoner of history" when it came to her unsuccessful 2016 campaign for president and she lacked "joy."
In excerpts of his new book Promise Me, Dad printed in Vanity Fair, Biden reflected on his decision to not run for the Democratic nomination against Clinton as well as the death of his son, Beau, in 2015.
Biden addressed Clinton's position as being the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination early in the race and the fact that she was a woman in that position. Biden said he decided not to run because of the death of Beau and has since said he regrets the decision.
"Everyone thinks it was just raw ambition on her part," Biden wrote. "I think she was sort of a prisoner of history; first woman who had a better-than-even chance of getting the nomination. First woman, relative to the Republican field, who had a better-than-even chance of being president."
Biden also said that he believed that Clinton's campaign was joyless, as noted by Newsweek, while he enjoyed campaigns during his long political career.
Half a decade or so back, I wrote: "It's a good basic axiom that if you take a quart of ice-cream and a quart of dog feces and mix 'em together the result will taste more like the latter than the former. That's the problem with the U.N."
Absolutely right, if I do say so myself. When you make the free nations and the thug states members of the same club, the danger isn't that they'll meet each other half-way but that the free world winds up going three-quarters, seven-eighths of the way.
That's how it went last Friday when the World Health Organization, ostensibly one of the least nutty operating units of the UN (compared with, say, the Human Rights Council), announced that Robert Mugabe was being appointed a WHO "Goodwill Ambassador". Mr Mugabe's idea of "goodwill" is to send his goons round to your farmhouse to announce he's stealing your land - and, if you're minded to object, kill your farm workers or wife or kid. When Zimbabwe's nonagenarian monster goes Goodwill hunting, best not to stand in his path.
Yesterday the WHO was forced to back down. But how did it ever get as far as an official announcement? Mugabe's greatest contribution to "world health" has been to raise the comparative life expectancy of every other country by dramatically reducing his own over his first quarter-century:
Life expectancy in Zimbabwe, 1980: 59.39 years
Life expectancy in Zimbabwe, 2005: 41.76 years
In fairness, this wasn't accomplished merely through killing people. He also starves his hospitals of basic drugs and materials, while jetting off to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur for the world-class medical treatment that keeps him remarkably spry at the age of 93.
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The problem with Trump's foreign policy is that he isn't even knowledgeable enough to be a dilettante. And the professionals are people who represent the interests of the countries they specialize in, rather than those of these United States.
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At least Trump's primary consideration will be our national interest, which is a quantum leap forward from Obama's, where it was the last consideration.
[DailyMail] In two weeks it is the first anniversary of Donald Trump’s astonishing US election victory.
To ’celebrate’, thousands of Trump-hating liberals in cities like Boston, New York and Philadelphia are planning a day of protest in which they will go outside, stare upwards and shout their little heads off in rage.
I’m not joking.
The planned event is actually titled on Facebook: ’Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election’.
Organizer Johanna Schulman told Newsweek: ’This administration has attacked everything about what it means to be an American. Who wouldn’t feel helpless every day?’
Hmmm.
Well, let me try to explain, Johanna, if you haven’t already started preemptively screaming.
There are tens of millions of Americans right now who don’t feel helpless at all. In fact, they’ve never felt happier that they’ve finally got a guy in the White House who THEY believe stands up for THEM.
They don’t share YOUR view of what it means to be an American.
They share Trump’s view, because it’s THEIR view.
That’s why he was elected President, and that’s why I am beginning to think he will be comfortably re-elected in 2020.
For those who think I’ve gone completely mad, here is what I told British GQ magazine in September, 2015, when they asked me: Who will win the US election?
’I think Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination,’ I answered. ’The Democrats will only stand a chance of beating him if they ditch Hillary Clinton, who is now a busted flush, and go with Joe Biden, possibly with Elizabeth Warren as his running mate.’ My kingdom for the Bluesmobile and a laugh track.
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Scream, bitches, scream! And cry. Screams and tears are what I want from you.
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Yup. When they cry, then keep doing whatever it is that you were doing.
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...tohear the lamentations of their women. hmmm how do we tell the women from the "men"
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I sure hope they do it in Richmond. I need a good laugh. Pointing would help, too. :-D
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...tohear the lamentations of their women. hmmm how do we tell the women from the "men"
Easy. the 'men' are wearing manskirts with matching murses.
In case of a tie, the wimmenz will have braided armpit hair.
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’The Democrats will only stand a chance of beating him if they ditch Hillary Clinton, who is now a busted flush, and go with Joe Biden, possibly with Elizabeth Warren as his running mate.’
Slow Joe and Fauxahontas as the Donk running ticket for 2020? Yeah, that'll do the trick...
Good grief. In his own way, the author is as crazy as the damned screamers.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[FOX] Former vice president Joe Biden wrote in his new book that Hillary Clinton was a "prisoner of history" when it came to her unsuccessful 2016 campaign for president and she lacked "joy."
The planned event is actually titled on Facebook: ’Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election’.
