Trump Win: House Votes To Start Funding Space Force

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives passed a $738 billion bill that would start funding President Trump’s much-cherished Space force.

The U.S. Space Force would take some existing personnel and shift them to the Space Force, which would become a new branch of the military, as The Daily Mail reported.

The Hill reported, “Space Force would be housed in the Department of the Air Force in a structure similar to the Marine Corps’s relationship to the Department of the Navy. The service would be led by the chief of space operations, who would report directly to the secretary of the Air Force and become a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.”

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Al), thechairman and ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee,told reporters,  “People have been trying to kill this baby in the womb for the last three years, and I believe there is going to be some people who want to see it die in the crib. We’re not going to let that happen.”

Rogers and Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN) “wrote the language to establish a Space Corps under the Department of the Air Force in the 2018 NDAA but their bill was defeated in the House-Senate conference,” as Space News reported. Cooper said, “This is like the birth of a new baby, Its mother is the Air Force for some time. But this child will grow up to be independent. It is just going to take some time.”

Cooper added, “The Air Force was neglecting its space mission and not performing as well as the NRO [National Reconnaissance Office]. We wanted a new independent service under the Air Force. Our vision was not to spend much money, but to put Air Force space money under a new management. We’re going to watch it like a hawk.”

Rogers opined, “It was obvious as we look back over the last decade or two that the Air Force was not making space capabilities a priority.” He said as long as space remained in the Air Force, “it would be one of 11 other missions, never properly resourced and developed. That’s what motivated this. And Congress has come around after we couldn’t get it done two years ago.”

Rogers noted that the House Armed Services Committee had voted 60-1 to establish a Space Corps before President Trump championed it, but credited Trump, who he said, “re-energized it and gave us a second wind.”He also credited Vice-President Mike Pence convincing the Senate Armed Services Committee to support the idea after it had been slow to accept it. He said, “The vice president really helped us on the Senate side.”

Rogers asserted that keeping space in the Air Force would trigger a “battle of resources.” He said the Air Force was “robbing the space programs for air dominance programs,” adding, “Culturally that’s what they’re bred to do. It’s another reason why this had to happen. They allowed space to atrophy. That’s when we started to fall behind China and Russia. We want to get back to the dominant position we used to have.”

 

 

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Biden Boasts About Supporting Equal Pay. His Female Senate Staffers Averaged 67% Of Men’s Pay Over 35 Years.

Former Vice-President and current Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has vociferously championed the cause of equal pay for women, saying it is “common sense” and “overdue,” paid full-time female staffers working for him in his 35 years in the Senate an average of 67 cents for every dollar male staffers got, according to the Washington Free Beacon.

At the July 31 Democratic presidential debate, Biden boasted: “I wrote the Violence against Women Act. Lilly Ledbetter. I was deeply involved in making sure the equal pay amendments. I was deeply involved on all these things. I came up with the It’s on Us proposal to see to it that women were treated more decently on college campuses … I’m passionate about the concern making sure women are treated equally.”

The same day, he bragged on Twitter, “Vice President Biden has fought for women’s rights his whole career: ✓Wrote the Violence Against Women Act ✓Co-sponsored the Equal Rights Amendment 9 times ✓Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: 1st Obama-Biden bill signed into law ✓Co-sponsored the Pregnancy Discrimination Act.”

As recently as June, when members of the U.S. women’s soccer team publicly complained that they were remunerated less than the men in the U.S. men’s soccer team, Biden tweeted, “In 2019, it’s past time we close the pay gap and ensure women get paid as much as men.”

 

In 2015, when he was still vice-president, Biden tweeted, “Equal pay for equal work. It’s common sense. It’s also overdue. Let’s close the gap & let’s do it now.”

In 2012, Biden castigated Paul Ryan, then the GOP candidate for vice-president, saying, “Ryan voted against the Lilly Ledbetter act, which all it said, all Lilly Ledbetter said, was if a woman finds out she’s been treated wrongly, cheated in terms of her salary and benefits at work, then she’s able to sue from the moment she finds out.”

In 2010, urging the Senate to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, Biden said, “What it does is say, ‘Hey, let me know what the field is. What the deal is. Just let us know.’ It’s amazing what a disinfectant sunlight is. This is a chance to get on the right side of history. You have to look into the eyes of your granddaughters and the young women who you hired … and say, ‘You know, when it came time, I didn’t step up.’”

Yet according to the Free Beacon:

When Biden joined the Senate in 1973, the average pay for a full-time female staffer in his office was $5,029, about 68 percent of the $7,383 average paid to men during that span, according to the secretary of the Senate’s first spending report for the 93rd Congress. A Free Beacon analysis of spending reports covering Biden’s full Senate tenure found that he never achieved gender pay equity. Over the course of Biden’s time in the Senate, women on average earned just 67 cents for each dollar earned by men.

The Free Beacon added, “Women garnered as little as 44 percent of what Biden’s male employees made in 1983 and 1984. The disparity sat at 45 percent in early 1991, just months before Biden made Clarence Thomas’s treatment of female workers the focus of Thomas’s Supreme Court nomination hearings.”

 

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Clint Eastwood Breaks Silence On ‘Richard Jewell’ Accusations

In a letter sent Monday by a high-powered law firm to Warner Bros. and Clint Eastwood, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution accused the studio and filmmakers behind the iconic director’s historically based film “Richard Jewell” of “false and malicious” portrayals of the paper and its reporters, particularly a female journalist whose reporting helped turn a real-life hero into a public villain. In an interview with The Associated Press, Eastwood was asked to address the controversy and responded by pointing to the paper’s apparent motivation for launching the attack on him and the studio.

“Richard Jewell,” which is generating Oscars buzz, tells the historically based story of a security guard who discovered a pipe bomb in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics and worked to get others clear of the area. Though his heroic actions saved lives, he went from hero to villain after the media, including AJC’s late-Kathy Scruggs, reported that he had become the FBI’s top suspect.

The film’s portrayal of Scruggs (played by Olivia Wilde) and the paper in general, AJC alleges, amounts to defamation. The paper points to one scene as particularly egregious: the suggestion that Scruggs offers sex to an FBI agent for information on Jewell. “The AJC’s reporter is reduced to a sex-trading object in the film,” reads the letter, sent by Martin Singer’s LA-based law firm Lavely & Singer. “Such a portrayal makes it appear that the AJC sexually exploited its staff and/or that it facilitated or condoned offering sexual gratification to sources in exchange for stories.”

“We hereby demand that you immediately issue a statement publicly acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and artistic license and dramatization were used in the film’s portrayal of events and characters,” the paper insists. “We further demand that you add a prominent disclaimer to the film to that effect.”

Warner Bros. responded Monday by vowing to “vigorously defend” against the paper’s “baseless” claims and pointing out the “ultimate irony that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast.”

In an interview along with the film’s star, Paul Walter Hauser, published Thursday, The Associated Press asked Eastwood for comments on the paper’s accusations, and the director offered a classically Eastwood nonchalant response.

“The editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has criticized the film,” AP said in a question directed to Eastwood. “He’s questioning the accuracy, saying it’s not true that Kathy Scruggs traded sex with an ex-FBI agent in exchange for a tip. And they’re also challenging the notion that the paper ran a story with questionable sourcing. Do you have a response to the criticism?”

“I think the Atlanta Journal probably would be the one group that would be sort of complexed about that whole situation because they are the ones who printed the first thing of there being a crime caused by Richard Jewell,” said Eastwood. “And so they’re probably looking for ways to rationalize their activity. I don’t know for sure. I haven’t — never discussed it with anyone from there…”

Hauser also responded in defense of the film. “But also the biopics — Hollywood biopics are historically under scrutiny, whether it’s the Dupont family in ‘Foxcatcher,’ whether it’s the Catholic Church in ‘Spotlight,’” said the actor. “This is a very obvious thing that’s happening with the AJC and we understand their plight. But we’re telling our story. And I think we did a really good job.”

“The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material,” Warner Bros. said in the statement reported by Deadline Monday. “There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life were shredded by a miscarriage of justice. It is unfortunate and the ultimate irony that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast. Richard Jewell focuses on the real victim, seeks to tell his story, confirm his innocence and restore his name.”

“The AJC’s claims are baseless, and we will vigorously defend against them,” the studio asserted.

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Jim Jordan STOMPS on Democrats During Sham Impeachment Hearing — Diverts to Crooked Democrat Deep State Crimes! (VIDEO)

House Democrats announced Tuesday they will bring two articles of impeachment against President Trump: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

A copy of the Democrat Party’s Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump was released to the public on Thursday and is 9 pages wrong.

** You can read the articles, as released by Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. here.

Here is a copy of Nadler’s Articles of Impeachment.

Text Articles of Impeachmen… by Jim Hoft on Scribd

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) stomped on the BIG Democrat show… Jordan diverted from the sham proceedings and lectured the committee on the Deep State FISA crimes.
Jordan continues to shine in the proceedings.

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Based on House Dem’s Statement, Dems Clearly Readying 2nd Trump Impeachment

Let’s face facts here: At a certain level, the proposed articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump have to do with part of the Democrats’ campaign against his re-election.

Certainly, we’ve been told that they’re taking this as a very solemn duty. Morning, noon and evening, powerful Democrats are paraded out in front of the camera to assure us they’re taking this every bit as solemnly as a solemn wedding solemnization at Our Lady of Perpetual Solemnity.

This is somewhat belied when you consider the number of Democrats — including some of their witnesses, like the constitutional law expert who said Trump could be impeached in 2017, long before there was anything even remotely impeachable.

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This could, of course, backfire. The articles of impeachment are bound to die in the Senate and, given that the rules are significantly different, there’s the chance that the backlash could actually help Trump win a second term. So, what then?

Well, just impeach him again, obviously.

Democratic Rep. Karen Bass of California appeared in a TMZ interview with site founder Harvey Levin on Tuesday. There are so few promising, nuanced political stories that have started with a permutation of that sentence and Bass’ interview didn’t break the streak.

During the interview, Levin presented Bass with a hypothetical situation in which Trump won a second term but the Democrats were able to consolidate gains in Congress.

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“There’s no such thing, really, as double jeopardy in an impeachment trial because it’s political,” Levin said.

“Suppose he gets re-elected, but you’re right and you win back the Senate in a big way. If you did that, would you be inclined to take a second bite at the apple and reintroduce the exact same impeachment articles and then send it through again a second time if you have a Democratic Senate on your side?”

“So, you know, yes, but I don’t think it would be exactly the same and here’s why,” Bass said, “because even though we are impeaching him now, there’s still a number of court cases, there’s a ton of information that could come forward.

“For example, we could get his bank records and find out that he’s owned 100 percent by the Russians.”

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It’s the Russkies! They’re back, y’all! Well, actually, they didn’t necessarily go away after the Mueller report but it was mostly the province of the conspiracy theory-minded left, from the Oliver Stone-ish (Rachel Maddow) to the Alex Jones-esque (Louise Mensch).

I must admit as someone who got MTV at the same time “Real World 3” was a big thing, it’s still odd to think of Rachel Campos-Duffy as a political pundit. However, the Fox News contributor had one of the more clear-eyed explanations of why this was thoroughly insane:

“It just underscores what we have always known, that they are not concerned about facts, that they’re completely obsessed with getting rid of Trump. That all of these investigations from the Russia hoax to Ukraine, all of these things have been about trying to find a crime and fit it somehow into this impeachment narrative,” she said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday.

She then pointed to a poll in Wisconsin — a state the Democrats need to win if they have any chance in 2020 — showing 58 percent of voters disapprove of impeachment.

“They are willing to sacrifice winning in 2020, taking over or keeping their majority in the House and winning over the Senate because this is wildly unpopular where I live here in the middle of America, which is Wisconsin and the Midwest,” she said.

And here’s the thing: What Rep. Bass is saying is completely hypothetical. If they think he’s committed another crime, of course, impeachment would be on the table.

If Elizabeth Warren were elected president and it were proved she knocked over a series of banks with the remnants of the Symbionese Liberation Army in order to advance her anti-corporate agenda, yeah, we would impeach her. This is somewhat less likely than Trump’s tax returns proving he was a fully owned subsidiary of the Kremlin, but not by as much as you might think.

At a certain level, though, Rep. Bass nailed it: This is political. There are accusations of crimes tangentially attached to these articles of impeachment. When those articles fail the Senate — and barring new information, they certainly will — hope for new kinda-sorta-not-really-crimes to attach to new articles of impeachment.

And, in fact, Bass is sure they’re out there. They just need to be “found.”

“You are absolutely right in your scenario, but the only thing I would say slightly different is, it might not be the same articles of impeachment because the odds are we would have a ton more information, and then the odds of that, sadly enough, is that, you know, he probably has other examples of criminal behavior,” Bass said.

In other words, she believes this is a fait accompli. Trump “probably has other examples of criminal behavior” — completely unproven, mind you, but I’m sure they’re out there. Hence, you can pretty much pencil in “Impeachmentgate 2: Electric Boogaloo” sometime around January of 2021 if the election doesn’t go the Democrats’ way.

Just a tip: Don’t sound so hopeful, Rep. Bass. That could backfire in more ways than one. In fact, as Campos-Duffy and others would argue, it already has.

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Epstein’s suicide-watch ‘companion’ spills the beans

The now-deceased pedophile rapist Jeffrey Epstein ( he who is similar to drywall and Christmas lights) may have long since reached room temperature, but the bizarre story of his final days inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City continues to grow. This week, a fellow prisoner who was]]>

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Roll Call: The 34 House Republicans Who Voted for Farm Worker Amnesty

Thirty-four Republicans voted December 11 to give amnesty at least one million illegal immigrants and to subsidize farm companies with a wave of cheap visa-workers who will lower wages throughout the farm workforce, which includes at least one million American workers.

The Republicans are mostly from rural districts where the local media is skewed in favor of local farm employers and often ignores the economic interest of local American farmworkers.

Some of the pro-amnesty GOP legislators will avoid the pushback from GOP activists and voters by retiring before November.

The recorded vote revealed the amnesty-and-outsourcing Republicans:

Rep. Mark Amodei, Nevada,

Rep. James Baird, Indiana,

Rep. Michael Bost, Illinois,

Rep. Susan Brooks, Indiana,

Rep. Paul Cook, California,

Rep. Thomas Cole, Oklahoma,

Rep. Rodney Davis, Illinois,

Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida,

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, Pennsylvania,

Rep. Russ Fulcher, Idaho,

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, Washington,

Rep. Will Hurd, Texas,

Rep. David Joyce, Ohio,

Rep. John Katko, New York,

Rep. Peter King, New York,

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois,

Rep. Douglas LaMalfa, California,

Rep  David McKinley, West Virginia,

Rep. Paul Mitchell, Michigan,

Rep. Dan Newhouse, Washington,

Rep Devin Nunes, California,

Rep. Thomas Reed, New York,

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Washington,

Rep. John Shimkus, Illinois,

Rep. Michael Simpson, Idaho,

Rep. Lloyd Smucker, Pennsylvania,

Rep. Elise Stefanik, New York,

Rep. Steve Stivers, Ohio,

Rep. Glen Thompson, Pennsylvania,

Rep. Scott Tipton, Colorado,

Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan,

Rep. Greg Walden, Ohio,

Rep. Don Young, Alaska.

The agriculture-district Republicans include LaMalfa, Upton, Stefanik, and Newhouse, who owns orchards in Washington state.

The retiring legislators include Walden, Hurd, King, Brooks, and Shimkus.

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MATT GAETZ FOR THE WIN! GOP Rep. Tag-Teams with Jordan to DESTROY Democrat Party’s Sham Impeachment Proceedings (VIDEO)

This isn’t even fair.
It’s hard to win an argument when you depend on lies and and smears to prove your points.

Democrats are getting a much deserved Thursday morning smackdown today in the House Judiciary Committee.
The Democrats keep lying about Trump crimes and the Republicans keep putting them in their place.

Jim Jordan called for the first article of impeachment to be tossed out.
Matt Gaetz followed up and ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED the illogical and fabricated arguments by the Democrats.

When all your politics depend on identity politics you’re stuck with a bunch of second-rate hacks in your party.

Democrats made the mistake of airing this live to the American public.

Once again, Matt Gaetz was exceptional.

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2,500 murder arrests? New ICE report reveals massive illegal alien crime wave

ICE issued detainers on criminal aliens just this past year who were collectively charged with 2,500 murders! To put that in perspective, according to the FBI, law enforcement agencies only arrested 9,049 individuals in total for homicide in 2018. So 2,500 is roughly 28 percent of the known homicide offenders! It is the equivalent to the body count from 43 Las Vegas shootings, all committed by foreign nationals. Isn’t it time we provide more funding for ICE so we don’t continue to harbor other countries’ murderers?

The biggest headline from ICE’s comprehensive enforcement and removal operations report released yesterday was that the border surge diverted ICE operations to the point that interior arrests were down 10 percent. But there is a bigger headline embedded in the report that should disturb us all. It reveals a catastrophically huge problem of foreign criminals remaining indefinitely in the country to commit more crimes, many of whom are unknown or unsupervised. Where are Republicans fighting the issue of harboring other countries’ criminals? Where is the budget fight?



ICE’s annual enforcement report reveals that at the end of fiscal year 2019, there were 3,274,244 foreign nationals in the national docket of immigration proceedings who are officially under the supervision of ICE, but are not detained. That is an increase of 800,000 illegal aliens in just two years, and most of them committed other crimes while here.

For all the talk about ICE locking up people and record numbers in detention, only 50,000 are being detained. That means that 98.4 percent of illegal aliens who have been caught by ICE in recent years and have not yet been removed – again, mainly criminal aliens – and remain at large in the country. The same 5,000 ICE deportation officers – one-fourth the size of the NYPD – who are responsible for roughly 150,000 new arrests and 85,000 new removals a year must monitor these people as well, which include roughly 2.5 million with final or pending final removal orders.

To put that in plain English, it means that because our system has moved away from expedited removal to lawfare in the immigration courts, 3.2 million illegal aliens, over 80 percent of whom have likely committed additional crimes, remain at large in this country indefinitely with almost no supervision. That is a public security crisis of epic proportions that cuts to the core of why we have a federal government, yet Congress refuses to allocate the resources even for ICE to properly monitor, apprehend, and remove just the illegal aliens with criminal records. Over 80 percent of those arrested by ICE in recent years have criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, which means that the overwhelming majority of the 3.2 million (not to mention all the criminal aliens ICE never caught) remain a danger to the public.

In 2017, the DHS inspector general found that in some field offices there is only one agent per 10,000 released aliens. Worse, the report found that that “a heavy workload limited oversight of non-detained aliens in that geographic area that ICE had flagged as risks to national security.” Now, there are one million more on the docket.

Now take a look at the list of hundreds of thousands of charges and convictions against the illegal aliens ICE arrested this year.

A few observations are in order:

  • This is just a tiny snapshot of the universe of criminality among illegal aliens and only includes the criminal offenses with more than 1,000 offenders. The fact that most of the crime numbers on the list are actually down roughly 10 percent from last year’s report, commensurate with the drop in total ICE apprehensions, demonstrates that ICE, even in a better year, is likely leaving a lot on the table. They caught fewer criminals this year because fewer agents were engaged in interior enforcement relative to FY 2018. Imagine how many they’d catch if they had 10,000 deportation officers rather than 5,000.
  • Then there are sanctuary cities and states. Most illegal aliens live in sanctuary jurisdiction where law enforcement doesn’t cooperate with ICE. Thus, there are many more crimes committed by illegal aliens that go unresolved by ICE. Just take a look at the California numbers. While California has, by far, the most illegal aliens in the country, ICE only apprehended a fraction of the number they caught in a state like Texas. For example, the Los Angeles field office only averaged about 30-40 arrests per month of those aliens with criminal charges, as compared to 300 per month for Dallas. According to Pew, L.A. metro has 2.5 times as many illegal aliens as the Dallas metro, which tells you there are likely thousands of illegal alien criminals being missed in L.A. Even the New Orleans field office averaged more total arrests than L.A., and the Salt Lake City office had more total arrests than the San Francisco office. Thus, the true number of crimes committed by illegal aliens in a given year is exponentially greater than what’s on this table.
  • With regard to the more serious criminals, especially murderers and repeat violent offenders, they are often serving life sentences or very long sentences and die before ICE ever apprehends them. None of those illegal aliens who fit into that category, which by definition are the worst offenders, are even accounted for in this table of cumulative crimes committed by those arrested by ICE in FY 2019.
  • ICE has removed roughly three million illegal aliens over the past decade. By and large, the worse of a criminal one is, the more likely he is to get deported. Inevitably, an unknown number of those removed come back into to the country. But many have also been kept out. Thus, a large percentage of the worst repeat offender aliens have been deported, yet we still see this much crime from illegal aliens. Imagine if ICE hadn’t existed at all the past decade. On the flip side, imagine how much less crime we’d have if ICE immediately removed every criminal alien after the first crime committed.

Overall, the 1,923 murder figure is what stands out. But it’s worse than that. That was the total homicide tally among those arrested by ICE this past year, which usually means people who committed murder years ago and have just finished serving their sentence in prison. ICE reported that just this year it issued detainers on individuals charged with a total of 2,500 murders. While some of them might have been legal immigrants who have been convicted of a murder a while ago and served time, the bulk of them will be front-end detainers on illegal aliens who have just recently been charged with murder. That such a large percentage of murder in this country is 100 percent avoidable is truly a national emergency.

Aside from homicides, among those who were subject to detainers in FY 2019, the illegal aliens together had a cumulative history of 56,000 assaults, 14,500 sex crimes, 5,000 robberies, and 2,500 kidnappings. Again, that’s just one year’s worth of detainers.

Unless ICE’s funding is increased and expedited removals become the norm, even if we completely shut off new illegal immigration, it would take years to dig out from the mess of bringing in millions of criminals who belong to other countries. We have truly become the global dumping ground.



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