[FOXNEWS] An Alabama state senator has invited the California-based In-N-Out hamburger chain to his state after some California Democrats called for a boycott of the chain over donations made to the state's GOP.
State Sen. Phil Williams, a Republican from Rainbow City, Ala., tweeted his invitation Thursday night.
"Hey #InNOutBurger c'mon to Alabama! We love burgers, and we love #Republicans! #alpolitics," Williams tweeted.
Hey #InNOutBurger c'mon to Alabama! We love burgers, and we love #Republicans! #alpoliticshttps://t.co/DAruwg2uCh
— Sen. Phil Williams (@SenPhilWilliams) August 31, 2018
In-N-Out reportedly donated $25,000 to the California Republican Party earlier this week, and the revelation has caused many who identify as Democrats — or just not Republican — to demand a boycott of the chain.
"Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party ... it's time to #BoycottInNOut - let Trump and his cronies support these creeps... perhaps animal style!" Eric Bauman, chairman of the California Democratic Party, tweeted Thursday.
Et tu In-N-Out? Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party... it’s time to #BoycottInNOut - let Trump and his cronies support these creeps... perhaps animal style!https://t.co/9zkdFaG5CJ
— EricBauman (@EricBauman) August 30, 2018
This is not the first time In-N-Out has donated to the GOP. In 2016 and 2017, the company donated $30,000 to the Republican Party for general expenses, Los Angeles magazine reported.
But the fast-food restaurant has also given thousands of dollars to support the Democratic PAC "Californians for Jobs and a Strong Economy," a pro-business group created by Democrat David Townsend in 2009.
In-N-Out was founded in Baldwin Park, Calif., in 1948. Its headquarters is currently in Irvine, Calif. It operates restaurants in six states: California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Texas and Utah.
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I had a double-double animal style this week. It was extra delicious
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Tens of thousands of dollars donated to the California Republican Party... it’s time to #BoycottInNOut
Did SPLC proclaim the Republican Party a hate group, and we didn't notice?
h/t Instapundit - I must have my daily Alexandria fix
New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday asked a group of children for help to win her election and "kick out Trump."
"I’m the Democratic nominee out here for Congress so I’m going to go to D.C., and we’re going to be fighting Trump," Ocasio-Cortez told the children in Corona, Queens.
She was met with raucous applause from the young audience, and a man can be heard saying, "That’s crazy that the kids get so excited about that."
"This is what we need to do: when you go back home, you talk to your mom, your dad, your aunt, grandma, sisters, anybody over the age of 18 that can vote ‐ first you need to ask your parents to vote because if they don’t vote, then we can’t kick out Trump," Ocasio-Cortez said.
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The young St. Alexandria discerns her vocation:
"Should kids await parents' allowances
When one of our natural talents is
To court, with a quiver,
The soft-hearted giver
Who cannot be bothered with balances?"
h/t Instapundit
[FreeBeacon] The brother and mother of a New York City democratic socialist candidate went on the record to dispute many of the biographical claims she has made throughout the campaign.
A Tablet profile last week first revealed that state Senate candidate Julia Salazar, a progressive darling depicting herself as a Jewish immigrant, was actually born in the United States and ran several Christian organizations in college. One of the sources negating Salazar's claims was her own brother Alex Salazar, who told Tablet that they were both born in Miami and their father was not Jewish.
In a piece published Thursday, New York magazine City & State sat down with Alex and their mother Christine Salazar and discovered even more discrepancies in her life story.
Contrary to Salazar's claim that "my mom ended up raising my brother and me as a single mom, without a college degree and from a working-class background," her brother says they lived comfortably and their father made six-figures as a pilot and continued to pay child support following their divorce.
"We were very much middle class. We had a house in Jupiter along the river, it was in a beautiful neighborhood," he said.
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I always remember that among the photos in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas was one of an unctuous looking Hubert Humphrey with the caption "I was once a Jew myself..."
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[YAHOO] Andrew Gillum, who engineered a surprising upset victory in Florida's Democratic primary this week, is picking up endorsements, money and plenty of national attention in the aftermath of his win.
But as the Tallahassee mayor mounts his bid to become Florida's first black governor, he is already coming under swift attack from Republican opponents who are trying to use a slow-moving corruption investigation into Tallahassee city government to portray Gillum as untrustworthy.
The investigation broke into the open last summer shortly after Gillum joined the race, but it was not extensively debated or discussed by his Democratic opponents before he won Tuesday's primary. But by Thursday, the Republican Governor's Association launched a digital ad that blasted Gillum. It focused on both the City Hall probe and an earlier incident in which Gillum paid back the city after he used city money to buy software that was used to send out campaign emails. Likewise, the campaign of U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, who won the GOP primary, is also trying to draw attention to the investigation.
The 39-year-old Gillum ‐ who will appear on NBC's "Meet the Press" and CNN"s "State of the Union" this Sunday ‐contends he is ready for the onslaught of attacks that have just begun to ramp up.
"A lot of people counted us out, they thought we would completely surrender under all the innuendo and the pressure of the moment," said Gillum this week. "I spoke directly to voters. I answered their questions. ... It wasn't as if those voters weren't aware of all the issues that were swirling."
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"We ain't corrupt! We're Democrat Socialists. It's what we do!"
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So, they're Muellering him? Wonder where they learned that?
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"A lot of people counted us out, they thought we would completely surrender under all the innuendo and the pressure of the moment,"
Only Republicans fold under pressure.
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Only Republicans fold under pressure.
And that's why Trump has the deep state so flummoxed right now. He didn't get the memo.
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But as the Tallahassee mayor mounts his bid to become Florida's first black governor, he is already coming under swift attack from Republican opponents who are trying to use a slow-moving corruption investigation into Tallahassee city government to portray Gillum as untrustworthy.
[NYPOST] judicial process that doesn’t allow the accused to cross-examine his accuser or reliably see the evidence against him is a civil libertarian’s nightmare. It traduces every principle of fairness and is blatantly un-American.
Yet Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is about to get savaged for replacing just such a process with something more in keeping with our longstanding legal norms.
The Education Department is preparing new rules that would roll back the monstrously unfair Obama-era requirements for how colleges handle sexual-assault and harassment allegations. It will be a significant advance for due process, which is almost as out of style on campus as free speech.
In one of its least defensible actions, the B.O. regime used its Office for Civil Rights to impose its preferred procedures for handling sexual-assault cases on all the universities in the country that receive federal funds. It did it via a 19-page "Dear Colleague" letter, in the name of Title IX, the provision in federal law prohibiting sexual discrimination in education.
The process was terrible. It blew right by the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires public notice and comment before such rules go into effect. And the substance was worse. If the letter reads as if it was written by inflamed activists who had no interest in balanced proceedings, that’s because it was.
It required colleges to adopt a "preponderance of evidence" standard rather than a "clear and convincing" standard.
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Hurray for Betsy Devos. This should have happened long ago. There should not be two systems of justice in this country. These kangaroo courts are like embracing Sharia Law in the U.S.
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Columbia Art made a mess.
A madwoman's ass in distress:
Dulle Griet on a sheet...
Still, it seems incomplete.
But wait! "Ceci n'est pas une maitresse."
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^ Outta the pile, of course, from the "Dinosaur limericists pigtail-pulling and slut-shaming green-haired Polack-Chinawoman Ivy Leaguers" file. More popular than one might think, in certain markets.
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That’s an awfully specific file, Zenobia F. I’m afraid to ask how many such specific files you have, and what it means about both our imaginations.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
