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  • Women's March leader Sarsour launches racial attack against 'white woman' Susan Collins

    10/06/2018 3:00:29 AM PDT · by kevcol · 55 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | October 5, 2018 | Valerie Richardson
    Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour on Friday launched a racial attack against Sen. Susan Collins, saying the Maine Republican was guilty of espousing “white supremacy” with her decision to support the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Ms. Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian-American activist, blasted Ms. Collins on Twitter as a “white woman” and the “mother & grandmother of white women in America who gave us a Donald Trump presidency.”
  • Media Now Trying To Tie Kavanaugh To Russia (I love the smell of desperation in the morning)

    10/06/2018 9:26:18 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 28 replies
    Freedom Outpost ^ | OCTOBER 6, 2018 | Daniel Greenfield
    The media's last resort is as inevitable as it is hilarious. "The Kremlin’s For Kavanaugh: Russian State Media Back Trump's Supreme Court Nominee" - The Daily Beast Why settle for McCarthyism as a metaphor? Does Moscow have any of the tapes of Kavanaugh's mass rapes? Mueller must investigate, after indicting Mark Judge on a dozen unrelated charges until he turns state's evidence and is willing to parrot back anything Mueller's minions tell him to say. Trump’s disregard for human rights and values is balm to the Kremlin’s sanction-wounded heart, which is why the Russians were quick to jump on the...
  • Minnesota woman pleads guilty in rare North Dakota double voting case

    10/06/2018 7:55:10 AM PDT · by Vigilanteman · 68 replies
    Fargo Forum ^ | 25 September 2018 | John Hageman
    BISMARCK — A Minnesota woman pleaded guilty to voting twice during the 2016 election in a Cass County (N.D.) court Tuesday, Sept. 25, marking a rare prosecution of such an offense in North Dakota. Hannan Yassin Aboubaker of Shakopee, Minn., entered an Alford plea on a Class A misdemeanor "election offense," meaning she didn't admit wrongdoing but acknowledged she may have been found guilty based on the evidence. Her sentence was deferred and she was placed on unsupervised probation for six months, two months after which the case would be dismissed and the file would be sealed.
  • Not All Women: GOP Women Are Furious Over Democrats' Anti-Kavanaugh Smear Campaign; UPDATE: Dem...

    10/06/2018 9:09:27 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 20 replies
    Townhall ^ | Posted: Oct 05, 2018 1:14 PM | Matt Vespa
    FULL TITLE: Not All Women: GOP Women Are Furious Over Democrats' Anti-Kavanaugh Smear Campaign; UPDATE: Dem Strategists Worry The Democratic Party is the one that supports women, is for women, and is fighting for their rights. And yet, some of their biggest supporters in business and media are absolute pigs. Look at disgraced former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, former CBS News Executive Les Moonves, and of course, former Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein. There was JFK, Ted Kennedy, and Bill Clinton. All parties above treated women like garbage. They’re sleaze. Yet, it surely helps to keep news of...
  • When the Brett Kavanaugh circus ends, we won't forget your sins, Matt Damon

    10/06/2018 9:08:23 AM PDT · by simpson96 · 41 replies
    Chicago Tribune ^ | 10/5/2018 | John Kass
    Future historians probably won’t devote entire volumes to Hollywood actor Matt Damon for his part in the grotesque savaging of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Sadly, Damon will most likely be just a footnote, some jester in motley, participating in the American political circus. It is that circus in which Kavanaugh, a man of exemplary public reputation, has had his honor stripped by the political left, accused without evidence or corroboration, as a high school sexual predator, a gang rapist, a drunken bully and boor. If Damon is remembered at all in this, it will be for a bit part, his mimicry...
  • Ben Affleck: Bush 'Can Be Hung' for 'Probably' Leaking Plame's Name

    04/10/2006 6:14:17 AM PDT · by Fighting Irish · 22 replies · 591+ views
    News Busters ^ | April 8, 2006 | Brent Baker
    Reminiscent of Al Franken on the Late Show last October, on Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, actor Ben Affleck charged that President Bush “probably also leaked” Valerie Plame's name and so “if he did, you can be hung for that! That's treason!” In full rant, an apoplectic Affleck asserted: “You could be killed. That's not a joking around Tom DeLay 'I'll do a year, I bribed the state officials with corporate money.' That's like they shoot you in the battlefield for doing that.”
  • Klein: Five Reasons Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand Is Dangerous for Israel

    10/04/2018 9:32:12 PM PDT · by EinNYC · 5 replies
    Breitbart.com ^ | 4 Oct 2018 | Aaron Klein
    Kirsten Gillibrand, the New York Senator running for reelection, has advanced troubling views, legislative decisions and associations that evidence an alarming ideology when it comes to support for America’s only democratic ally in the Middle East, the State of Israel.
  • Nolte: After Enabling Franken, Covering Up Weinstein Bombshells, NBC Mocks Kavanaugh via SNL

    10/03/2018 12:06:44 PM PDT · by LoicW · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01/02/18 | John Nolte
    Over the weekend, Saturday Night Live gleefully piled on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and did so less than a year after this very same SNL came out in full-throated support for credibly accused serial groper Al Franken. Let’s back up a bit… The reason Democrats and their establishment media allies are now launching conspiracy theories about Kavanaugh “lying” about his teenage drinking is that the sexual misconduct allegations against him have collapsed. Simply put, by any objective measure, Kavanaugh has been wrongly accused, smeared, a victim of sexual McCarthysim. In my four decades of watching politics, never before have...
  • The volcano rumbles but the left can’t hear it

    10/02/2018 8:48:03 AM PDT · by NRx · 62 replies
    WaPo ^ | 10-01-2018 | Hugh Hewitt
    ...But some seem to welcome a slide in that direction. “Tell me again why we shouldn’t confront Republicans where they eat, where they sleep, and where they work until they stop being complicit in the destruction of our democracy,” tweeted Ian Millhiser, justice editor at ThinkProgress. “Because it is both wrong & supremely dangerous,” replied Georgetown Law professor Randy Barnett. “When one side denies the legitimacy of good faith disagreement over policy — as well as over constitutional principle — the other side will eventually reciprocate. Neither a constitutional republic nor a democracy can survive that.” Princeton’s much-admired political theorist...
  • ARE THE DEMOCRATS THROWING ELLISON UNDER THE BUS?

    09/25/2018 12:44:18 PM PDT · by Hojczyk · 28 replies
    Powerline ^ | September 25, 2018 6:00 AM | JOHN HINDERAKER
    The Democrats sacrificed Al Franken in order to shore up their effort to win a Senate seat in Alabama. They knew that Minnesota’s governor would appoint another Democrat to replace Franken, so they could net a Senate seat with an upset pickup in Alabama, which is exactly what happened. Many Minnesota Democrats are still unhappy that Franken was forced out of the Senate, not by Republicans but by his own Democratic colleagues. Now it is starting to look as though the Democrats may be throwing Deputy DNC Chairman Keith Ellison overboard in a similar manner. We noted last week that...
  • Did Anyone Notice Mazie Hirono?

    09/20/2018 6:13:39 PM PDT · by originalbuckeye · 31 replies
    Vanity | 9/20/18 | Originalbuckeye
    Did anyone notice Hirono ‘prompt’ Gillibrand this evening, when Gillibrand was braying about Kavanaugh?
  • EXCLUSIVE: Trump says exposing ‘corrupt’ FBI probe could be ‘crowning achievement’ of presidency

    09/18/2018 6:20:50 PM PDT · by bitt · 59 replies
    The Hill ^ | 9/18/2018 | JOHN SOLOMON AND BUCK SEXTON
    President Trump in an exclusive interview with Hill.TV said Tuesday he ordered the release of classified documents in the Russia collusion case to show the public the FBI probe started as a “hoax,” and that exposing it could become one of the “crowning achievements” of his presidency. “What we’ve done is a great service to the country, really,” Trump said in a 45-minute, wide-ranging interview in the Oval Office. “I hope to be able to call this, along with tax cuts and regulation and all the things I’ve done… in its own way this might be the most important thing...
  • Kavanaugh Accuser’s Lawyer: It’s Not Her Job To Corroborate Her Story

    09/17/2018 12:35:28 PM PDT · by detective · 152 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 09/17/2018 | Amber Athey
    Debra Katz, the attorney for the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, said that it is not her client’s job to corroborate her claims. Katz said on CNN on Monday that investigators should be responsible for proving Christine Blasey Ford’s claim that Kavanaugh held her down and drunkenly groped her while at a party in high school. During the interview, Katz revealed that there was another girl present at the party, which allegedly took place in 1982 while Kavanaugh was attending Georgetown Prep. Ford previously told the Washington Post that there were four boys at the party but never...
  • Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser downplayed sexual misconduct allegations against Clinton, Franken

    09/17/2018 11:39:25 AM PDT · by Para-Ord.45 · 17 replies
    http://www.foxnews.com ^ | September 17 2018 | Alex Pappas
    Attorney Debra Katz made the rounds Monday on morning television to argue her client’s sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should be taken seriously, an appeal accepted even by the White House. But while her client's claims have raised bipartisan concerns about Kavanaugh, Katz, a longtime Democratic donor known for representing sexual harassment accusers, also has a history of downplaying or dismissing accusations made by women against Democratic politicians -- including former President Bill Clinton and former Minnesota Sen. Al Franken.
  • Vanity - Weinstein, Freeman, Obama, Clinton....Criminal Birds of a feather flock together

    05/26/2018 6:34:19 AM PDT · by JLAGRAYFOX · 13 replies
    Yes it's true....Harvey Weinstein, Morgan Freeman, Barack Hussein Obama and, yes, add Hillary Clinton are for certain, birds of a feather that flock and belong together in prison. Can you imagine that "Sex Predaters", Weinstein & Morgan were abusing and using women without their consent for their weird sex escapades while they were financing and shouting out to Americans to support and elect both Obama and Clinton as POTUS. Clinton and soon, Obama will have been found to have committed worse crimes against the people and nation of the United States of America. If you don't think so...just just tuned...
  • Donald Trump broke the presidency. It's time to get rid of the job altogether.

    08/12/2018 2:18:39 PM PDT · by Trump20162020 · 89 replies
    USA Today | August 10, 2018 | Tina Dupuy
    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/10/donald-trump-russia-election-inept-monarch-abolish-presidency-column/923543002/
  • Clinton: I Don't Know What Gillibrand 'Was Trying to Say'

    11/18/2017 8:12:57 AM PST · by Oshkalaboomboom · 59 replies
    newsmax ^ | Saturday, 18 Nov 2017 | Wanda Carruthers
    Former first lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she didn't know what Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand "was trying to say" when she suggested this week former President Bill Clinton should have stepped down over his affair with Monica Lewinsky that tarnished his presidency. "I don't exactly know what she (Gillibrand) was trying to say," Clinton told host Rita Cosby on WABC Radio in an exclusive interview Friday while promoting her new book "What Happened." When asked if she could have been more supportive of women who claimed to have been sexually harassed by her husband, Clinton said each...
  • Al Franken wants back into the Senate, and maybe he's not just groping at straws

    07/31/2018 2:11:20 PM PDT · by ColdOne · 19 replies
    washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 7/31/18 | Becket Adams
    Al Franken sounds restless. The disgraced former senator misses being in public office, and it sounds like he’s toying with the idea of staging a comeback, telling a CBS News affiliate in Minnesota this week that he hasn’t ruled out the idea of getting back in the game. The moment occurred during an interview at Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig High School on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, where the former senator helped secure $12 million in renovations funding. "That means a lot to me. It was very moving for me. It was very gratifying. I put my heart in the job," Franken said....
  • Franken on Running for Office Again: ‘I Haven’t Ruled It Out’

    07/31/2018 1:21:02 AM PDT · by Rummyfan · 25 replies
    WFB ^ | 30 July 2018 | David Rutz
    Former Sen. Al Franken (D., Minn.) said he hadn't ruled out the possibility of running for public office again during an interview with a CBS Minnesota television station on Monday. Franken attended the dedication of Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig High School on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation. He sat on the Indian Affairs Committee in the U.S. Senate and helped secure $12 million in funding for new facilities to replace the old one, which was in dismal condition. "That means a lot to me. It was very moving for me. It was very gratifying. I put my heart in the job," Franken said....
  • Franken offers Dems a line of questioning for Kavanaugh's 'weirdly specific bit of bulls---'

    07/13/2018 8:39:05 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 48 replies
    The Hill ^ | 07/13/18 | Jacqueline Thomsen
    Former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on Friday offered up a line of questioning for Democrats to use on President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Franken, who resigned in December after multiple allegations of groping women, said that if he were still in the Senate he would want to drill down details on a statement that Kavanaugh made this week when he was nominated. After being introduced by Trump during an event at the White House on Monday night, Kavanaugh thanked the president, saying, "Throughout this process, I’ve witnessed firsthand your appreciation for the vital role of the American judiciary."...