Survey: 74% Of Economists Oppose Hiking The Minimum Wage To $15 An Hour

According to a new survey of 197 working economists conducted in February, 74% oppose raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour and almost half (43%) think that the federal minimum wage should be eliminated altogether.
The Employment Policies Institute’s survey revealed how hostile the economists were toward raising the federal minimum wage with various findings:

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Trump Hating “Piglet” Ana Navarro Gets Hitched

One of the most loathsome of the parade of Trump hating talking heads who were former Bush and Obama operatives is Nicaraguan-born Ana Navarro who is a fixture on the cable propaganda shows.

The chubby RINO who was a member of Jeb Bush’s gubernatorial team and supported him in 2016 was radicalized against Trump (and America) after the bombastic outsider trounced the bespectacled wimp on debate stages and sent him slinking off with his tail between his legs thereby depriving the nation of a third Bush presidency.

Navarro – who has been tapped “piglet” and “porquita” by the politically persecuted Roger Stone – tied the knot over the weekend in Florida, marrying another bitter Trump hater who is old enough to be her daddy.

Via The Washington Examiner, “Ana Navarro marries fellow Never Trumper 24 years her senior before stars in Miami”:

Two of President Trump’s most virulent critics were married Saturday in a celebrity-studded affair in Miami.

Ana Navarro, 47, a Republican campaign strategist and political commentator on CNN, and Al Cardenas, 71, a leading Republican lobbyist, tied the knot at the Indian Creek Country Club, a lavish setting on a private island off the coast of Miami Beach.

The couple are allies of Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida who lost to Trump in the 2016 presidential primaries, and also have close ties to Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., another Trump rival in 2016.

Navarro previously lived with Gene Prescott, 75, a top Democratic fundraiser and owner of the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Cardenas is divorced with four children.

Guests at the ceremony included Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon, both CNN colleagues of Navarro, singer Gloria Estefan and actress Eva Longoria, and Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah; and Bob Menendez, D-N.J.

It was the most celebrated of weddings since “Morning Joe” narcissistic bobbleheads Joe and Mika tied the knot in the national archives in a secret ceremony presided over by racist Rep. Elijah Cummings.

Stone, whose house was the target of a paramiltary raid dialed up by Bob Mueller and televised live by CNN, once said this about “porquita”:

Via the Daily Caller:

Ana Navarro, porquita, a little piglet. This woman is 50 pounds of [Rep. Adam] Schiff [D-Calif.)] in a 20-pound bag. Talentless. No accomplishment. She’s the ‘political consultant’ who’s never actually elected anybody to anything. She’s really a nasty diva, very abusive of the makeup people, and the hair people, waiters, doormen, cab drivers, and she’s accomplished nothing. She’s an enormous sack of Schiff and an abusive person on top of it. So, I revel in your hatred, Ana, and when I’m acquitted I’m going to go right back to criticizing you for your total lack of talent or intelligence. Puerco is what I would say. Now Don Lemon, those glasses, by the way, have windowpane glass in them. He doesn’t need glasses, he wears those to try to look intelligent, but in all honesty it doesn’t help.”

Let’s now hope that she doesn’t pollute the world with a litter of offspring.

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Greenpeace Co-Founder Blasts Ocasio-Cortez As ‘Pompous Little Twit’

As the old saying goes, the farther that a baboon climbs up a three, the more that you can see its ass…

Not that I am calling her a baboon or anything but the new face of the Democratic party is experiencing growing pains as she becomes more influential and nothing has been more problematic for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than the socialist Trojan horse that is the Green New Deal.

Plucked by obscurity thanks to a freakish primary win against a machine Democrat that nobody saw coming, the telegenic 29-year-old quickly became a media superstar and has been able to amass a mighty Twitter following that has arguably made her into the most powerful member of Congress.

There is the matter of arrogance, the ongoing proclivity for making asinine statements and a very thin-skin which fuels her shoot-from-the-hip 280 character missives on the liberal-dominated microblogging platform.

As for that New Green Deal, it is the gift that keeps on giving for conservatives and we saw how effective a bludgeon that it will be from the weekend’s conservative confab CPAC where numerous speakers including President Trump mocked it for the ideas of doing away with airplanes, rebuilding every structure in the U.S. in ten years, supporting those “unwilling” to work and oh, those cow farts.

But politicians are one thing and real environmentalists are another and AOC was pulverized on her own Twitter turf by the co-founder of Greenpeace who tore the “pompous little twit” to shreds.

Via The Daily Wire, “‘POMPOUS LITTLE TWIT’: Greenpeace Co-Founder Unloads On Ocasio-Cortez”:

Patrick Moore, the co-founder of Greenpeace, slammed socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Saturday for being a hypocrite over living a lifestyle that does not align with her extremist views on climate change.

Moore, who has a Ph.D. in ecology, called out Ocasio-Cortez after she mocked a New York Post article that highlighted her numerous flights and car travel — which are things she attacked in her Green New Deal.

“I also fly & use A/C Living in the world as it is isn’t an argument against working towards a better future,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “The Green New Deal is about putting a LOT of people to work in developing new technologies, building new infrastructure, and getting us to 100% renewable energy.”

Moore fired back: “The “world as it is” has the option of taking the subway rather than a taxi. option of Amtrak rather than plane, option of opening windows rather than A/C. You’re just a garden-variety hypocrite like the others. And you have ZERO expertise at any of the things you pretend to know.”

AOC is a testament to the failure of the higher education system that now prioritizes radical indoctrination to book learning as well as the corruption of the Democrats, not mention the dumbness of millennials.

She’s the full package as in full of shit.

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Embarrassing interview admission shows that Kamala Harris is not ready for prime time

In a little-noted TV interview last week, Senator Kamala Harris executed a deeply embarrassing face-plant.  Harris is supposed to be a leading contender for the Democrats’ presidential nomination in the view of a lot of pundits. But in my view, this must be based on nothing more than her status as an identity politics twofer (actually, a three-fer: a woman, a black, and an Asian-American). As an actual living, breathing politician, she is an embarrassment, electable in the one-party state of California after sleeping with the state’s political boss to launch her career, but unable to handle sustained scrutiny. And guilty of what must be termed political malpractice directly related to one of the Democrats’ biggest issues.

In an English Language interview on Univision last week (hat tip: Weasel Zippers), she demonstrated utter political incompetence, revealing her reliance on platitudes, and her negligence — a failure to go even an inch deep on a scandal that has rocked her candidacy.

The Washington Post explained the background last December:

A longtime senior aide to Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) resigned Wednesday amid allegations of sexual harassment while working for Harris during her tenure as attorney general of California.

The resignation of Larry Wallace, who served as director of the division of law enforcement in the California Department of Justice, came after the Sacramento Bee inquired about a $400,000 settlement reached in response to a lawsuit filed by Danielle Hartley, who served as Wallace’s assistant, against the state of California.

The December 2016 lawsuit was settled in May 2017 by Harris’s successor as attorney general, Xavier Becerra, according to the Bee.

So, what has Harris, ostensibly a crusader for justice for victims of sexual harassment, done about this situation?  What has the woman who made her career as a prosecutor done to get to the bottom of it. And what abut the victims?

She has plenty of rhetoric, but the UNivision interviewer presses right to the heartof the matter:  She hasn’t even spoken to the victims! Her own employees who were victimized by their boss (who she put in a position of authority over them):

Any competent politician by now would have prepared herself for these questions, and would have done everything possible to reach out to the victims. But Harris has never been tested, so she thinks that rhetoric and benign neglect will get her through the problem.

I don’t see Harris getting the nomination, but if I am wrong, imagine her facing Donald Trump in presidential debates: she’s just not up to the job.

In a little-noted TV interview last week, Senator Kamala Harris executed a deeply embarrassing face-plant.  Harris is supposed to be a leading contender for the Democrats’ presidential nomination in the view of a lot of pundits. But in my view, this must be based on nothing more than her status as an identity politics twofer (actually, a three-fer: a woman, a black, and an Asian-American). As an actual living, breathing politician, she is an embarrassment, electable in the one-party state of California after sleeping with the state’s political boss to launch her career, but unable to handle sustained scrutiny. And guilty of what must be termed political malpractice directly related to one of the Democrats’ biggest issues.

In an English Language interview on Univision last week (hat tip: Weasel Zippers), she demonstrated utter political incompetence, revealing her reliance on platitudes, and her negligence — a failure to go even an inch deep on a scandal that has rocked her candidacy.

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The Washington Post explained the background last December:

A longtime senior aide to Sen. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) resigned Wednesday amid allegations of sexual harassment while working for Harris during her tenure as attorney general of California.

The resignation of Larry Wallace, who served as director of the division of law enforcement in the California Department of Justice, came after the Sacramento Bee inquired about a $400,000 settlement reached in response to a lawsuit filed by Danielle Hartley, who served as Wallace’s assistant, against the state of California.

The December 2016 lawsuit was settled in May 2017 by Harris’s successor as attorney general, Xavier Becerra, according to the Bee.

So, what has Harris, ostensibly a crusader for justice for victims of sexual harassment, done about this situation?  What has the woman who made her career as a prosecutor done to get to the bottom of it. And what abut the victims?

She has plenty of rhetoric, but the UNivision interviewer presses right to the heartof the matter:  She hasn’t even spoken to the victims! Her own employees who were victimized by their boss (who she put in a position of authority over them):

Any competent politician by now would have prepared herself for these questions, and would have done everything possible to reach out to the victims. But Harris has never been tested, so she thinks that rhetoric and benign neglect will get her through the problem.

I don’t see Harris getting the nomination, but if I am wrong, imagine her facing Donald Trump in presidential debates: she’s just not up to the job.

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KLAVAN: What Do Never Trumpers Want?

Politics makes us stupid. It forces us to render black-and-white decisions in a gray world. It demands that we seek temporal solutions to eternal problems. It compels us to boil complex questions down to a vote, yea or nay. Blind partisanship and rage only serve to magnify the stupidity. The best defenses against it are humor, patience and an attempt at a fuller understanding of the issues.

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MEDIA SILENCE CONTINUES: Clinton Foundation Connected AGT Forwarded Top Secret US Intel to RUSSIA – Made Bribes to Seal Deals – FBI/DOJ Covered It Up – Part VI

Guest post by Joe Hoft

A 2016 DOJ criminal investigation was suppressed and buried by the DOJ/FBI that involved a major NY Democratic power broker and the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation.

The investigation revolved around the illegal sale of controlled US Homeland Security technology to Russia and China in the years before the 2016 election by a company named AGT.

The DOJ terminated its internal investigation in 2016 despite clear and irrefutable evidence of criminal activity and hid it from the public!

In Part I of our series we discussed the Clinton Foundation and the donations to the Foundation from the COB (Martin L. Edelman) and CEO (Mati Kochavi) of AGT International as well as from Sheikhs in the UAE. These donations in the millions of dollars were for favors from the Clintons. In return the Clintons helped promote AGT –

In Part II of our series we discussed the illegal actions that AGT International took to generate revenues around the globe. Highly sensitive US defense technology and ITAR classified products were provided to China, Russia and other countries in the name of sales growth. These actions were beyond criminal, they were treasonous.

(Below is an AGT article about its premier defense software from its company 4D Security Solutions.)

In Part III of our series we discussed the investigation that the FBI/DOJ started into AGT and the Clinton Foundation but then terminated and covered up before the 2016 Presidential election despite irrefutable crimes!

 

In Part IV of our series we discussed the activities by individuals associated with AGT in obtaining entrance to a highly sensitive US Intel facility circumventing the controls in place that prevent illegal entries to the facility.

In Part V of our series we discussed the efforts by AGT to obtain top secret US Intel for the sole purpose of selling to the Russians.  AGT personnel used the information as a means to entice sales from US adversaries.  AGT offered Russians the ability to conduct counter-Intel operations (e.g. cell phone intercepts, object and vehicle tracking, etc.).  All of this information provided to the Russians was highly classified and never should have been placed in their hands. This information was provided by AGT senior managers like Gadi Lenz, a US national who also held a key executive position at the US based defense contractor 4D Security Solutions.

Below image shows the LinkedIn profile of Gadi Lenz that identifies him as a CTO at 4D Security Solutions and a chief scientist at AGT.

Below is an image showing a Cyber Security solution AGT offered to the Russian government –

Image below shows an AGT C4I system deployed in Liaoyuan China. The system among other things was designed to automatically track and create a detailed pattern of motion of vehicles belonging to western embassies.

Today we’ll continue with our series and show the shady efforts AGT took to obtain contracts in the US.  AGT utilized its COB and the Clintons to gain access to highly placed Law Enforcement Agents (LEA’s) and former Federal and political figures in order to open doors and gain access to  federal, state, and political leads that helped the company penetrate the US market.

What would another Clinton scandal be without the likes of former Clinton Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson?  For example, in a meeting designed help an AGT company (3i-MIND) sell to the US law enforcement market, Thomas Betro, the head of 3i-MIND’s Global Law Enforcement practice and the former National Counterintelligence Executive arranged for some “Consulting” Services with the following participants:

  1. John Magaw– President Clinton’s Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) from 1993 to 1999. Prior to that he was Director of the United States Secret Service from 1992 to 1993. Magaw took over the ATF after the Waco siege that ended when the FBI attempted to overrun the Branch Davidian compound resulting in a fire that killed more than 70 people.
  2. Bradley Buckles– President Clinton’s former Director of the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives beginning in 1999.  Buckles followed Magaw in this role.
  3. Governor Bill Richardson– President Clinton’s Former U.S. Ambassador to United Nations and former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Richardson was later elected Governor of New Mexico.

While Secretary of Energy, Richardson’s Energy Department was marred by an incident where a Chinese man by the name of  Wen Ho Lee was charged with spying at the Los Alamos National Laboratories.  Later a couple of computer drives were found missing at the same location.  After delays in providing information on the lost drives, in June 2000 the FBI baled Richardson out –

Two highly sensitive computer hard drives that were missing from the Los Alamos National Laboratories earlier this year never left the premises, and the FBI has uncovered no hints of espionage in the case, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson told a Senate committee Wednesday.

Richardson was later considered for a position on the Obama Administration but Richardson withdrew his nomination because of an investigation into whether he exchanged New Mexico state government contracts for campaign financing.  Obama’s Department of  Justice eventually killed the investigation into these pay-for-play allegations.

It seems expected that Clinton Foundation donors Edelman and Kochavi would involve the likes of Richardson and the Clintons in their efforts to promote their company – AGT.  On August 3rd and August 9th, 2011, AGT held meetings with the three experts above.

As a result of these meetings, AGT lined up contracts in the following police departments around the country –

  • Tucson
  • Newark
  • Boston
  • Colorado Springs
  • San Diego
  • Riverside
  • Memphis
  • Jacksonville

AGT regularly utilized and paid off highly placed former military, LEA and former Federal and political figures to open doors to obtain classified information.  For example, below is an image showing a cash envelope used to pay off officials in one Asia Pacific country –

The AGT family of companies participated in numerous suspect, if not criminal activities. The leaders of the company were Clinton friends and major donors to the Clinton Foundation. The Clintons in turn helped promote AGT.

AGT then participated in numerous shady and criminal activities, the worst of which were selling US ITAR regulated products and information to the Russians and Chinese.

The DOJ/FBI started an investigation of AGT but then covered it up. The investigation into the Clinton Foundation and AGT was material to the 2016 US election and yet the FBI and DOJ concealed it from the American public.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.  The Clinton Foundation and the DOJ and FBI must be investigated and the crimes committed by these entities must be brought to justice!

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Trump puts socialism on trial for 2020 elections

Trump puts socialism on trial for 2020 electionsPresident Trump has given notice that the lurch to socialism by the Democrats will be a key issue on which the Republicans will contest the 2020 elections.

Trump flagged his intentions during his State of the Union address on February 5 – when addressing the deteriorating situation in Venezuela:

“We stand with the Venezuelan people in their noble quest for freedom—and we condemn the brutality of the Maduro regime, whose socialist policies have turned that nation from being the wealthiest in South America into a state of abject poverty and despair.

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Former Greenpeace Canada President: AOC is a ‘pompous little twit’

Patrick Moore is a former Greenpeace Canada president who left the movement years ago when it was “hijacked by eco-fascists and opportunists.”  He’s no longer considered “green” by the hysterics, but like many “reformed” environmentalists, he talks sense.

Moore took off after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter and excoriated her for her arrogance and for being a “garden variety hypocrite.”

Patrick Moore is a former Greenpeace Canada president who left the movement years ago when it was “hijacked by eco-fascists and opportunists.”  He’s no longer considered “green” by the hysterics, but like many “reformed” environmentalists, he talks sense.

Moore took off after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter and excoriated her for her arrogance and for being a “garden variety hypocrite.”

He had a lot more to say.

Marketwatch:

He launched his latest criticism at Ocasio-Cortez — there have been others — following a piece in the New York Post, which called her out for claiming the environmental high ground while riding around in planes and gas guzzlers.

Moore was clearly triggered. He went on to call out Ocasio-Cortez as “pompous little twit” and “an immature bully” whose “arrogance plus ignorance… is a recipe for disaster.” She’s “unjustifiably condescending” and “a neophyte pretending to be wise,” Moore said during his Twitter tirade.

All of that is true. The former bartender turned congresswoman knows no more about the climate than your average 12 year old – maybe less. She is parroting talking points she gets from people who are pushing a political agenda, not science. Like many ignorant people, she has adopted the extreme rhetoric of global warming hysterics because she believes it makes her sound important and smart. She is neither.

Because of her position in the Democratic party (she gets more press than any other Democrat) she is extraordinarily dangerous. She is pushing her party off a cliff and, like lemmings, many are following her. They believe they can ride global warming hysteria to power and riches – a misplaced hope based on their belief they can scare voters into electing them.

Thankfully, most voters are far more skeptical than your average Democrat. But surveying the political landscape today, you have to wonder what tomorrow will bring.

 

 

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Mike Huckabee Uses Brilliant Meme To Ruthlessly Call Out Dems’ ‘Obsession With Baby-Killing’

It’s early, but it could be that 2019 gets remembered as the year when the Democrats finally got rid of the myth that they want abortion to be “safe, legal and rare.”

The year began with New York’s Orwellian-named Reproductive Health Act. The Democratic-dominated Vermont House followed suit with a similar bill that’s now in the state Senate.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam seemed to take things a bit further with comments that could be interpreted as infanticidal in regards to “nonviable” babies delivered alive. And then there were the Senate Democrats, who blocked a bill that would have necessitated medical care for infants born alive during botched abortions.

This risks a backlash, of course, but for the moment, the Democrats seem determined to push the pro-abortion agenda as far as it can possibly go. After all, the motto that’ll end up replacing “safe, legal and rare” will likely be some permutation of “expedient and at whatever point during a pregnancy we please.”

Mike Huckabee, at least, has had enough of it — and with a poignant meme, he skewered the current atmosphere on the left over abortion.

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“Let’s hope more Dems will have the courage to openly break with their party’s obsession with baby-killing and their cult-like support of the murder machine Planned Parenthood founded by unapologetic racist Margaret Sanger,” Huckabee tweeted, along with a picture of a baby in a “Make America Great Again” hat, with hands raised in victory.

“I made it!” the picture is captioned. “Democrats didn’t get me!”

Will Democrats lose politically by supporting abortion?

It’s harsh, but it almost feels like that’s what the left is encouraging nowadays.

Huckabee, a two-time presidential contender, former governor of Arkansas and an ordained Southern Baptist minister, has been vocal about his pro-life views throughout his career.

“(Abortion) is a stain on a country that ought to be protecting innocent life, not taking it,” Huckabee said at a “National Sanctity of Human Life Day” event Jan. 21 in Oregon, according to the Salem Statesman Journal.

“What kind of civilization do we want to have?”

During the event, Huckabee also said that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, was unconstitutional and an example of judicial activism.

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“One branch is not over the other two. If that were so, you don’t have equal branches of government,” Huckabee said.

“Since the 1940s, we’ve allowed something to happen in this country called judicial supremacy, which essentially says that we believe that if the Supreme Court says it … then we just let them make a law.”

“What is happening to the unborn children is unconstitutional,” he added. “There is no due process, there is no equal protection under the law.”

“In every abortion, there are two victims: the obvious victim is the unborn child and the birth mother,” Huckabee said. “No one should be condemned … grace is necessary.”

Compare this to the words of Andrew Cuomo or Ralph Northam on abortion or the rhetoric of Planned Parenthood and ask yourself what vision of our country you would rather have when it comes to the unborn. Huckabee is right: Abortion is a stain on our country, no matter how politicians want to spin it.

Thankfully, there is hope.

Mississippi just passed a bill banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, abortions have hit an all-time low in the post-Roe era for the last year for which statistics are available, and there are plenty of abortion cases that could go before the Supreme Court that could reshape abortion rights in a dramatic way.

The Democrats may be shedding of that whole “safe, legal and rare” myth and scoring some legislative victories on abortion, but they could very well end up winning a few battles and start losing the war.

Maybe then we’ll see some Democrats muster “the courage to openly break with their party’s obsession with baby-killing.” One can only hope.

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