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At today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) questioned Andre B. Mathis, nominee to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit. [6 min Video]

The resignation letter of Secretary of Defense James Mattis that was published last Thursday revealed much of the Deep State mindset that has produced the foreign policy catastrophes of the past seventeen years. Mattis, an active duty general in the Marine Corps who reportedly occasionally reads books, received a lot of good press during his time at Defense, sometimes being referred to as “the only adult in the room” when President Donald Trump’s national security and foreign policy team was meeting. Conveniently forgotten are Mattis comments relating to how to “Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill...

Friday in response to Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis announcing his resignation, MSNBC analyst John Heilemann suggested on “Morning Joe” that a lot of people “think it would be best for the country” if President Donald Trump were not to finish out his term. “[Y]ou have this resignation, historic in the way that Joe suggested, that I think for a lot of Republicans in the Senate who looked at Mattis as the guardrail, as the — I hate the phrase adult in the room, I’m not going the use it because I think it kind of diminishes others who...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that any military solution to the North Korea crisis would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale” and Washington was working internationally to find a diplomatic solution. North Korea has defied all calls to rein in its nuclear and missile programs, even from China, its lone major ally, calling them legitimate self-defense. It has been working to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the U.S. mainland, and experts say its test on Sunday of a new missile was another important step toward that aim. “We are going to continue...

A fire has engulfed the Hollywood Hills home of Johnny Mathis - causing extensive damage and leaving the singer with only a few mementos. The 80-year-old had just flown back to Los Angeles from Cleveland, where he had been performing, to learn that his home of 56 years had caught fire on Monday afternoon. Pictures from above the house reveal parts of the roof had caved in, and Mathis told reporters at the scene that the blaze had caused extensive damage, and that only a few things had been saved. Shock: Johnny Mathis had only just flown back into Los...

The conservative anti-tax group Club For Growth has launched an ad attacking Will Brooke, a Republican candidate for Alabama's 6th Congressional District, as being a "liberal" due to donations he made in the past to Democrats. In response, the Brooke campaign has strongly disputed the "liberal" characterization in the Club's ad, calling it "deceitful," and highlighted Brooke's history of donations to Republican candidates. The ad, "Follow the Money," is a 30-second video spot paid for by Club for Growth's Super PAC arm, Club for Growth Action. The ad says Brooke, a Harbert Management executive, gave thousands of dollars to "liberal...

As if Detroit doesn't have enough problems these days, the president of the city's school board offered the shocking admission that he can't pen a coherent sentence. Otis Mathis, who oversees the academic future of 90,000 public school students, told the Detroit News that he's a "horrible writer" after reports surfaced that he sent a Feb. 29 e-mail to the financial manager of Detroit Public Schools that was rife with spelling, punctuation and usage errors. "If you saw Sunday's Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have...

DETROIT -- School board members refused Friday to reinstate the group's former president, who resigned a day earlier following allegations he fondled himself repeatedly in front of the district's general superintendent. The board members gave Otis Mathis a letter stating his request for reinstatement has been denied. Vice President Anthony Adams said Friday that Mathis submitted a letter of resignation to the board Thursday afternoon -- the same day district Superintendent Teresa Gueyser filed a complaint of improper behavior. Gueyser alleges that during a meeting in her office, Mathis had his hands down his pants and was fondling himself for...

This has got to be child abuse. A special education student running the schools? Detriot school board president Otis Mathis can’t write in English. The man charged with educating the last 90,000 school kids left in the disappearing city can’t express himself in a simple Email. Need proof? Grab a red pencil and read this recent Email written by Mr. Mathis. “If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he...

It took only six decades of “progressive” policies to bring a great city to its knees. By the time Detroit declared bankruptcy, Americans were so inured to the throbbing dirge of Motown’s Greatest Hits — 40 percent of its streetlamps don’t work; 210 of its 317 public parks have been permanently closed; it takes an hour for police to respond to a 9-1-1 call; only a third of its ambulances are driveable; one-third of the city has been abandoned; the local realtor offers houses on sale for a buck and still finds no takers; etc., etc. — Americans were so...

It's bad enough that Detroit Public Schools (DPS) graduates a pathetic 1 in 4 students, the worst in the nation. That obscene graduation rate is only that high because DPS commits 'social promotion' - the practice of passing students onto the next grade who are not ready, a practice that DPS emergency financial manager Robert Bobb has just ended (Detroit Public Schools Finally Ends "Social Promotion" - Passing Students That Can't Read Their Diplomas). That same Robert Bobb has been fighting with the teachers union and with the Detroit school board for academic control of the district. The school board...

School board members refused Friday to reinstate the group's former president, who resigned a day earlier following allegations he fondled himself repeatedly in front of the district's superintendent. "I have made inappropriate actions toward a professional employee of the board," Mathis wrote in a letter to new board President Anthony Adams announcing his resignation. "I deeply regret my actions." In a 2-page letter to the board, Gueyser detailed Mathis' action during a private meeting Wednesday about contracts and other matters in school board offices. She said she tried to ignore him and on several occasions "asked him not to touch...

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Colleen Mathis impeached by Jan Brewer, Arizona SenateBy ALEX ISENSTADT Updated: 11/2/11 1:34 PM EDT Arizona’s redistricting process dissolved into chaos Tuesday night after state lawmakers voted to impeach the top official on the independent commission tasked with crafting the state’s congressional districts, throwing the once-in-a-decade line-drawing into legal limbo. The 21-6 vote in the state Senate to remove Colleen Mathis, the chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, marked a display of legislative power on the part of Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, who made a forceful push encouraging GOP lawmakers, who control the Senate, to impeach. **SNIP** Brewer argued...

It was 494 years today that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg. He wanted to debate the sale of indulgences with his fellow university professors. He wrote in Latin, but a nameless visionary translated the theses into German, carried them to the printing press, and enabled their dispersion far and wide. Luther ended up with more than he bargained for, but he proved to be no coward in defending the discoveries he was making in Scripture. When the Roman church wouldn’t serve him the treat of sufficiently addressing his concerns, he was consigned to...

The first screen adaptation of a James Bond book was telecast on October 21, 1954 on the anthology series, Climax!. Barry Nelson played CIA agent Jimmy Bond. Wikipedia article IMDb article Casino Royale (1954) The Curious Legacy of Casino Royale In spite of the YouTube titles, this was shown in 1954, not 1953. You may have to crank up the volume a bit: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

The U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team will face England for the first time since 1994 in a Memorial Weekend match-up at Chicago’s Soldier Field on May 28 at 2 p.m. CT, in a match being broadcast live on ESPN2. The meeting between the two quarterfinalists at the 2002 FIFA World Cup comes amidst the qualifying schedules for both nations as they aim for a spot in the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

Clint Mathis is heading back to Major League Soccer one year after signing with German team Hannover 96.

The publisher of a coming book by the filmmaker Michael Moore said yesterday that The New York Times had denied permission for Mr. Moore to include in his book a May article in which The Times reviewed shortcomings in its own reporting about the events leading up to the war in Iraq. Publishing industry executives say that such denials are rare, and executives at Simon & Schuster, the publisher, said The Times was the only one of several publications it had approached to deny permission to reprint articles, photographs, cartoons or editorials in the book. In a statement, Catherine Mathis,...

Is America's left-wing media elite about to suffer the fate of the Communist Party of the old Soviet Union? I ask this question because my weekend reading (Dimitri Volkogonov's history of the Soviet leadership, "Anatomy of An Empire," and Mark Mathis' tome on the U.S. media, "Feeding the Media Beast") raised some interesting parallels between the Soviet leadership and the current structure of the U.S. news media. The similarities between Volkogonov's description of the behavior of the Soviet party leaders and recent revelations by Mathis and others about the thought processes, biases, behaviors and prejudices of American reporters are...