Liberals show you who they really are when they think the environment will permit it. The Michigan Chronicle is a historically black Detroit-based newspaper that has not always been down-the-line pro-Democrat. But I guess there are certain things you have to believe if you’re going to qualify as authentically black these days, and one the most accomplished black men ever to grow up in the city of Detroit appears to no longer qualify:
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Despite it being too late to do anything about it, Kentucky has had it with GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The turtle-faced master of the Senate was reelected in 2014 so no matter how much that Bluegrass State residents may dislike him, they are stuck with him.
But they definitely aren’t liking him now, especially after the failure to repeal Obamacare, a broken promise that at least partially led to his reelection.
His approval rating is plummeting though which should send a message to Senate Republicans that they had better start looking for a new leader if they want to beat back the Democrats who are looking to take back control of the upper chamber next November.
Fortunately for good ole Mitch, he isn’t on the ballot because a new poll shows that his approval rating has cratered at 18 percent.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has an 18 percent job approval rating in Kentucky, according to a new survey.
A Public Policy Polling survey found just 18 percent of respondents approve of the job McConnell is doing, compared with 74 percent who disapprove.
If McConnell were up for reelection today, 37 percent of respondents said they would vote for the Kentucky Republican. Another 44 percent would instead choose a Democratic opponent, according to the survey.
An additional 19 percent said they were unsure.
McConnell’s seat will be on the ballot next in 2020.
Earlier this month, President Trump took aim at McConnell after the Kentucky Republican vented about the president’s “excessive expectations” for his agenda.
Trump questioned why McConnell had not yet been able to pass a new healthcare plan and Trump’s top spokeswoman said there is “some frustration” with the Senate leader.
The double-whammy of his inability to get anything done as well as his burgeoning feud with President Trump are leading McConnell to take even more cheap shots at the POTUS.
Look for the relationship between Trump and McConnell to continue to disintegrate once Congress returns from their latest extended break and the tortoise all but hands the reigns over to John McCain who may be an asshole but he is much more of a leader than McConnell could ever hope to be.
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From the day he was sworn into office, liberals have been attempting to paint President Donald Trump, and anyone who works with him, as a wild racist who wants to bring this country back to the 1800s.
One of the chief criers of racism has been California Congresswoman Maxine Waters. Waters has called for Trump’s impeachment more times than we can count, but now she really has proven that she has lost her grip on reality.
During a recent appearance before the Los Angeles Community Review Board, Waters seemed to imply that Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson was a “white-wing” racist.
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Seriously. Waters claimed that the only black cabinet member is a white racist. She really has lost her marbles.
“While the president was defending the white-wing (sic) nationalists and the KKK and all of those alt-right groups that were basically out there in Virginia literally beating and marching and ranting about Jews and black people, etc., etc.,” Waters stated.
“But this is what this Cabinet looks like, whether we talk about (Secretary of the Treasury Steven) Mnuchin or Ben Carson,” she said as the audience cheered.
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The statement was simply bewildering, as was the audience reaction, but Waters wasn’t finished yet.
“He’s got to come before my committee. If you think ‘reclaiming my time’ that I did with Mnuchin, you wait till Ben Carson comes,” she said, implying that she is getting ready to attack Carson at the earliest chance she gets.
Tragically, Waters‘ comments aren’t too far out of line with how many liberals treat minority Republicans. If you are black, Latino, gay, etc., and identify as a Republican, liberals will mercilessly attack you. It’s truly quite sad.
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Thankfully, not too many people take Waters’ ramblings seriously, but her comments were still entirely inappropriate.
She owes Carson an apology — but we won’t hold our breath for one.
Which side are you on, Mitch? Don’t answer that. We, the people, already know you don’t stand with President Trump.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell took yet another veiled shot at President Trump. This time, McConnell took issue with the term “fake news,” used frequently by the President and his ardently supportive base.
Trump has consistently hammered media organizations for their critical coverage of both his candidacy and his presidency, accusing them of putting out “fake news” — an accusation that has become a rallying cry for his supporters. His latest salvo came Monday morning when he retweeted a message about “fake news” attacks against him, writing, “Thank you, the very dishonest Fake News Media is out of control!”
But when asked on Monday about where he gets his news, McConnell — who has been the target of Trump’s ire in recent weeks — said he has no trouble finding reliable sources.
“What I do every morning — there a couple of services I look at that gives me a synopsis of articles,” McConnell said. “It is my view that most news is not fake. But I do try to look at a variety of sources.”
Recently, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told a group of voters at a Kentucky Rotary Club gathering that President Trump’s “excessive expectations” are harming Congress’ ability to salvage its awful reputation and get things done. McConnell vented about the President’s political inexperience, complaining Trump’s focus on short timelines don’t reflect what Congress can actually accomplish.
Speaking at a Rotary Club gathering in Kentucky on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vented about how President Donald Trump’s lack of political experience has led to him setting “excessive expectations” for legislative priorities.
McConnell, R-Ky., told the group in Florence that he found it “extremely irritating” that Congress has earned the reputation of not accomplishing anything.
“Part of the reason I think that the storyline is that we haven’t done much is because, in part, the president and others have set these early timelines about things need to be done by a certain point,” said McConnell, a Republican and the state’s senior senator.
Trump, a political newcomer, as McConnell noted, has a habit of declaring progress on major priorities that do not necessarily reflect the reality of lawmaking.
For example, as the House was in the midst of negotiations about its Obamacare replacement bill in February, Trump announced that Congress was in the “final stages” of its bill and said it would be ready for “submitting” in March. While the House bill was unveiled in March, that chamber didn’t vote on it until May, and health care votes continued until the end of July.
That sort of disconnect has led to Trump’s expressing disappointment when bills — chief among them health care reform — fail to end up on his desk, even though, as with health care, the political reality indicated all along how difficult it was going to be to pass legislation.
“Our new president, of course, has not been in this line of work before. And I think he had excessive expectations about how quickly things happen in the democratic process,” McConnell told the group. “So part of the reason I think people feel we’re underperforming is because too many artificial deadlines — unrelated to the reality of the complexity of legislating — may not have been fully understood.”
Things are much worse McConnell undercutting the President – he flat out rejects his agneda as the best set of policies to adance the United States, according to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).
Gohmert went on with Varney and Co. to discuss the Trump agenda following Steve Bannon’s absence in the White House.
Gohmert told the FBN audience that Speaker Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are “slow-walking” President Trump’s agenda that they don’t like.
Rep. Gohmert: If you look back before the election Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell were totally opposed to the things that got Donald Trump elected. And I told the president back in June, you are being slow-walked. We are being slow-walked. This is exactly what happened in 2005. Dennis Hastert and Bill Frisk, you know they were kind of OK with reforming Social Security but they really didn’t want the heavy lift. They slow-walked everything… I’m telling you that is exactly the way some of our leadership is thinking again. We’re going to eke by.
The suspected terrorist driver in the Barcelona van attack is thought to have used Europe’s open borders to leave Spain and go on the run.
Spanish police believe Younes Abouyaaqoub, the only fugitive still at large after the attack, has slipped across the border into France unnoticed.
The Moroccan national, 22, is suspected of mowing down pedestrians on Barcelona’s Las Ramblas promenade, killing 13 and injuring 120.
Joaquim Forn, head of home affairs in Catalonia’s regional government, told a radio station “everything indicates” Mr. Abouyaaqoub was behind the wheel during the attack.
Police are also investigating claims he later killed a Spanish male while hijacking his car for use in the getaway, but they have not confirmed a link.
In this watermarked frame grab from CCTV released by the Spanish newspaper El Pais, a suspect. believed to be Younes Abouyaaqoub is is captured by a security camera walking through La Boqueria market seconds after a van crashed into pedestrians in Barcelona / EL Pais, via AP
Pau Perez Villan, 35, was found dead from a stab wound in his white Ford Focus. The car had been driven through a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the city. Police fired ten times at the vehicle but the driver got away on foot.
The 12-member terror cell thought responsible for Thursday’s attack has now been broken up. A number were shot dead by police as they launched a second attack in the town of Cambrils, and two are thought to have died during an explosion at a suspected bomb factory in the town.
Las fotos revelan que el terrorista de la furgoneta de La Rambla huyó por la Boquería https://t.co/AbGmMXMwqK Imágenes exclusivas de EL PAÍS
“With open borders in the EU the terrorist could by now be almost anywhere. Remember the Berlin killer was found in Italy”, commented former UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
Mr. Farage was referring to Anis Amri, a Tunisian failed asylum seeker who was inspired by Islamic State to attack a Christmas market in the German capital in December 2016. He fled to Italy, where he was shot dead by police.
Mr. Abouyaaqoub’s credit card was used to rent the vans that the Barcelona terrorists were planning to pack with explosives and use in the attacks.
Spanish newspaper El Pais has now published CCTV footage of the suspected terrorists withdrawing money in the days before the terror attacks.
Two other vans were discovered in Vic, about 44 miles north of Barcelona and in Ripoll, where most of the terrorist cell lived. Police also discovered a motorbike belonging to Abouyaaqoub in the town.
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The imam who was believed to be responsible for radicalizing jihadists in Barcelona got a career-ending surprise from the jihadists that he trained, and we can’t say that we’re disappointed.
Deutsche Welle reported that Abdelbaki Es Satty was missing and presumed dead after an explosion Wednesday night. Two people died in the blast that occurred in Alcanar, about two hours south of Barcelona, as the terror cell attempted to make a bomb in an apartment they used as a base, according to Deutsche Welle. Police suspect the cleric might have been one of the fatalities.
“They were preparing one or several attacks in Barcelona, and an explosion in Alcanar stopped this as they no longer had the material they needed to commit attacks of an even bigger scope,” police spokesman Josep Lluis Trapero said Friday, The Local reported.
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Satty’s roommate told Agence France-Presse that the last time he saw the cleric was Tuesday, when he said he was that he was going to see his wife in Morocco, reported Deutsche Welle.
The Local reported that the cleric had a bigger plan in mind for the Barcelona attack. He wanted to “inflict as much carnage as possible by driving vans packed with explosives into three of the city’s busiest tourist areas,” according to The Local.
The newspaper said police believed one of the targets was Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia (Church of the Holy Family), which is reportedly one of the most visited sites in Spain. Another target was Las Ramblas, a street mall popular with tourists.
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At Conservative Tribune, we’re not ones to celebrate death, but it seems rather fitting to see that this imam found himself on a career-ending fast track to Allah. Now he cannot radicalize more jihadists, which is good for the rest of us.
In the 1960’s when the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing, Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) repeatedly referred blacks in America with the ‘N’ word.
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LBJ was a racist and tapes of his discussions while President prove it.
The White House didn’t house an individual as racist as LBJ in nearly 50 years until President Barack Obama was elected into the Office in 2008. Obama and Democrats lost white working class voters across the US throughout his Presidency. His anti-white
Barack Obama’s attacks against white America and white privilege and his railing against white working class Americans cost Democrats the election.
It is difficult for some to contemplate that a black man could be racist, let alone the first black President, but indeed he was.
Obama defended the violent and murderous Black Lives Matters racist group and invited their leaders into the White House. This racist group was the cause of several police deaths, lootings and businesses being burned to the ground.
Before Obama ever took a step into the White House it was clear that he was racist, by the church he attended and his own book that he published.
From his audio-book dreams of my father, Barack Obama was moved to tears when he heard his racist anti-American pastor blame whitey for all of the world’s pain and ills. In fact, he was so moved by this filth that he included the story in his book Dreams of My Father.
Here Barack Obama lashes out at the white man’s greed:
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“It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks’ greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere…That’s the world! On which hope sits!”
“White folk’s greed runs a world in need”… This is hope?
Throughout his Presidency Obama launched disturbing racist attacks against White Americans. Only a racist would identify people by color in the manner that Obama did throughout his Presidency. America thought that it was beyond racism and the color of an individual’s skin when it voted in its first black president. Ironically, Obama and the Democrat Party tore into America and never let up with his gibberish about the victimhood of race. This man with a Harvard education was lecturing middle America about privilege.
The Ellis Island Medals of Honor embody the spirit of America in their salute to tolerance, brotherhood, diversity and patriotism. Honorees may be native-born or naturalized, but most importantly, they are individuals who have made it their mission to share their wealth of knowledge, indomitable courage, boundless compassion, unique talents and selfless generosity with those less fortunate. In addition to hosting their annual gala, NECO remains dedicated to, and has raised significant funds for, the maintenance and restoration of Ellis Island.
The Main Stream Media would have you believe that one of our President’s is racist. With one President helping the unfortunate while the other was bashing whitey, it’s easy to see which one is the racist.
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Remember Jonathan Gruber? The loathsome, contemptuous architect of Obamacare has been caught out by Vermont’s attorney general for corruption in a fraudulent billing scheme. According to the Daily Caller, Gruber sent out double-invoices and invoices for work that was never done in a disgusting scheme to foist single-payer insurance onto Vermont a couple years earlier. The program was so bad that its left-wing governor scrapped it as something that would never work. The Daily Caller writes:
Donovan, the attorney general and still another Democrat, said his office determined that Gruber did, in fact, violate the Vermont Civil False Claims Act, according to the Herald.
Specifically, investigators concluded that Gruber sent two invoices – and possibly more – falsely charging the state and its taxpayers for work which was never actually completed by Gruber or any of his underlings.
It sounds a lot like the man who succeeded in foisting Obamacare on all of us, given the sneaky, slipshod tactics he bragged about to get it done:
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” he said during one health care conference.
In at least the Vermont case, we learn that foisting bad insurance onto the public is also a scheme to get rich and profiteer in corruption. In the Obamacare case, we learn that foisting bad insurance is a bid to shovel something rotten down the public’s throat to ensure the left’s political power. In neither case is the Gruber offering anything the public would want. That’s the world of Jonathan Gruber: slipshod products and something sweet on the side for himself.
The big question here is why he got such a slap on the wrist:
Donovan, the attorney general and still another Democrat, said his office determined that Gruber did, in fact, violate the Vermont Civil False Claims Act, according to the Herald.
Why the kid gloves treatment for a person with this record?
Democrats will protect Democrats, it seems – and this is why a money-grubbing little fraud like Gruber can carry on for as long as he has.
Remember Jonathan Gruber? The loathsome, contemptuous architect of Obamacare has been caught out by Vermont’s attorney general for corruption in a fraudulent billing scheme. According to the Daily Caller, Gruber sent out double-invoices and invoices for work that was never done in a disgusting scheme to foist single-payer insurance onto Vermont a couple years earlier. The program was so bad that its left-wing governor scrapped it as something that would never work. The Daily Caller writes:
Donovan, the attorney general and still another Democrat, said his office determined that Gruber did, in fact, violate the Vermont Civil False Claims Act, according to the Herald.
Specifically, investigators concluded that Gruber sent two invoices – and possibly more – falsely charging the state and its taxpayers for work which was never actually completed by Gruber or any of his underlings.
It sounds a lot like the man who succeeded in foisting Obamacare on all of us, given the sneaky, slipshod tactics he bragged about to get it done:
“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass,” he said during one health care conference.
In at least the Vermont case, we learn that foisting bad insurance onto the public is also a scheme to get rich and profiteer in corruption. In the Obamacare case, we learn that foisting bad insurance is a bid to shovel something rotten down the public’s throat to ensure the left’s political power. In neither case is the Gruber offering anything the public would want. That’s the world of Jonathan Gruber: slipshod products and something sweet on the side for himself.
The big question here is why he got such a slap on the wrist:
Donovan, the attorney general and still another Democrat, said his office determined that Gruber did, in fact, violate the Vermont Civil False Claims Act, according to the Herald.
Why the kid gloves treatment for a person with this record?
Democrats will protect Democrats, it seems – and this is why a money-grubbing little fraud like Gruber can carry on for as long as he has.
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New York City’s Mass Transit Authority says it will “modify” tiles in a Manhattan subway station after complaints that the tiles resemble Confederate flags, WNYW-TV reported.
The tiles aren’t a new addition to the Times Square subway — they’ve been in place for almost 100 years, the station said.
Image source: WNYW-TV video screenshot
The scuttlebutt apparently is that the architects installed the tiles — with a blue “X” and red background — to pay homage to New York Times publisher Adolph S. Ochs’ southern heritage, the station said.
But the MTA maintained that the tiles actually reflect Times Square’s nickname, WNYW said.
“These are not Confederate flags,” the MTA told the station in a statement, “it is a design based on geometric forms that represent the ‘Crossroads of the World’ and to avoid absolutely any confusion we will modify them to make that absolutely crystal clear.”
The subway station sits below the former New York Times building, WNYW said, and Times Square didn’t exist during the Civil War.
In related news, residents of an East Village neighborhood in New York City are outraged that a fifth-floor apartment is displaying Confederate flags in a window — which actually elicited a protest in front of the building.
The station said the flags weren’t really noticed until days after the deadly Charlottesville demonstrations two weekends ago.
Image source: WNYW-TV video screenshot
“I’m pissed,” one woman told WNYW. “I’m born and raised here. I’ve lived here for 21 years. We don’t see these things out here.”
Another woman added to the station: “It’s weird because it’s happening here. In a neighborhood with Latinos, blacks, Asians, Haitians.”
In adjacent windows are Israeli flags and what appears to be an older version of the U.S. flag. It isn’t clear if the windows all belong to the same apartment.
Image source: WNYW-TV video screenshot
But police — who had squad cars parked in the street below the apartment in case things got messy — told WNYW they can’t do anything because hanging a Confederate flag is simply exercising free speech.
In addition, Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants Confederate names removed from two streets at an Army base in Brooklyn. The streets in question at Fort Hamilton are named after Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, both of whom served there decades before the Civil War.
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And what do these separate issues have in common?
It appears they were so important to so many folks in New York City (and beyond) for so long that they’ve finally been brought into the light within the last week or so.
One wonders that if leftists are suddenly seeing Confederate flags on subway wall tiles and in fifth-floor apartment windows, where will they see them next? And who will suffer the consequences of what could turn into “Confederate flags under every rock and behind every door” hysteria?
And more than that, when will those in charge put a foot down in the face of minutia outrage and declare that enough is enough?
Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia also said the IRS must provide information about which groups were targeted and why, along with a strategy to make sure such targeting doesn’t happen again.
The IRS is involved in multiple lawsuits with conservative groups related to the Tea Party targeting scandal; this particular case involves True the Vote.
“We’re thrilled the judge has taken this step and it feels good to have it recognized that they need to be held to account,” True the Vote President Catherine Engelbrecht told Fox News on Monday. “What happened to me was very personal—my name was thrown around the IRS, and the names of the people involved need to be known. What they did was criminal.”
Lois Lerner headed the IRS at the time and actually admitted to targeting conservative groups seeking nonprofit status, “That was wrong. That was absolutely incorrect, it was insensitive and it was inappropriate. … The IRS would like to apologize for that.”
Director of Investigations and Research at conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, Chris Farrell told Fox News, “This was creepy, chilling stuff. Judge Walton has accomplished more with one ruling than all of the rest of the federal government–all three branches, over the last six years.”
Chris Farrell added: “The IRS is one of the most feared government agencies, and they’ve gotten a pass, in part. Walton is looking for real accountability and that’s so important.”
