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Hillary Clinton hit up ‘The Tonight Show’ for the first time since losing the 2016 presidential election and she had choice words for Donald Trump. She called out his ‘incompetent’ leadership skills & we’ve got more of her disses. Well this was bittersweet. Hillary Clinton, 69, returned to The Tonight Show for the first time in over a year on Oct. 4. She got a hero’s welcome from the audience, who have her a long standing ovation. The pantsuit loving former Democratic presidential nominee was there to chat up her book What Happened and sadly we all know Donald Trump,...

A New Jersey man who spent decades preparing his home for doomsday is donating all of his stored food to families affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Joseph Badame says he was prepared to lose his supplies anyway after the bank foreclosed on his Medford home. The 74-year-old says he found a new use for the food after meeting a couple at an estate sale last month raising money to send to their family in Puerto Rico.

President Donald Trump punched back hard against the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who accused him of insufficient concern about her island. In doing so, Trump shows that he learned from President George W. Bush’s mistakes. Bush 43 seemed to expect a certain level of fairness and civility from the media. When, for example, Sen. Ted Kennedy, about the prewar Iraq intelligence, said, “Before the war, week after week after week after week, we were told lie after lie after lie after lie,” the Bush White House did not aggressively push back against that venomous assertion. When critics made...

Federal officials and major drugmakers are scrambling to prevent national shortages of critical drugs for treating cancer, diabetes and heart disease, as well as medical devices and supplies, that are manufactured at 80 plants in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Pharmaceuticals and medical devices are the island’s leading exports, and Puerto Rico has become one of the world’s biggest centers for pharmaceutical manufacturing. Its factories make 13 of the world’s top-selling brand-name drugs, from Humira, the rheumatoid arthritis treatment, to Xarelto, a blood thinner used to prevent stroke, according to a report released last year. With business of nearly $15 billion a...

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz has been feuding with President Trump, who she says hasn't done enough to aid the people of her island who are suffering after two devastating hurricanes. The Trump administration says they've been doing everything possible, noting that tons (literally) of federal aid has actually been sent their way. Trump rebutted her by musing that the people of Puerto Rico want everything done for them as opposed to picking themselves up by their bootstraps. Like many of Trump's comments, this set off even more of a firestorm. But, it turns out, Yulín Cruz was fairly...

Although Donald J. Trump lacked political experience when he became president, the gods of politics have not given him a soft transition into the job. The most active American hurricane season in 12 years, rocket-launching North Korea, horrific acts of terror from London to Las Vegas – the latter being the worst mass shooting in American history -- have tested the mettle of our nation’s first neophyte commander-in-chief. Recently Puerto Rico was ravaged by two consecutive hurricanes, Irma and Maria. The very practice of naming hurricanes seems strange to me and, in this case, they have ironically wonderful sounding Latina...

From my Dad in Puerto Rico, 10/5/17: "Half of Old San Juan has Power!! Not my section but good news anyway!!! No lines at gas stations! Banks are beginning to open! Yesterday Airport operated normally!!! 24/7 from now on!! 16,000 passengers left yesterday for USA! The Dam at Guajataca found to be in good shape! Will not break and kill 10,000 people as hysterical experts reported after the storm!!"

I was in Ponce, on the south coast of Puerto Rico, when Hurricane Maria struck. We had thought of everything – strong house, food, stored water, generator. But we hadn't considered overall infrastructure, especially communications. Besides there being no electricity, the municipal water system was out in our neighborhood; gas stations were closed or wrecked; and among perhaps the most critical things, radio stations were off the air, there was no internet, and there was no cell phone service. Outside knowing we had been in a terrible storm, post-Maria life in Ponce might as well have been the aftermath of...

The corrections paragraph to a Politico story that is so long that it calls the entire article into question. One wonders why Politico even allowed the October 1 story by Puerto Rican freelance journalist Alejandra Rosa to remain since such a large corrections section casts huge aspersions upon the veracity of the rest of her story still remaining. Will there be yet more corrections that will cause the already large corrections section to grow further and eat up the rest of the story? Before we look at Rosa's heavily corrected story about financial pressures on Puerto Rico even before Hurricane...

NEW THINKING NEW THINKING   Want to help Puerto Rico recover? Amateur analysts of satellite imagery around the world are pointing relief workers to where they are needed most. Anyone can do it! PARIS—As President Trump paid his visit to hurricane-wracked Puerto Rico on Tuesday a small army of individuals, sitting at their desks far from the spotlight and scattered around the globe, were doing their anonymous bit to put the ravaged island back together again. They are a new breed of “digital humanitarians.” Crowdsourcing the raw data of hurricane Maria’s trail of destruction, they are helping artificial intelligence experts...

The mayor of Puerto Rico's capital, San Juan, has described Donald Trump's visit to the hurricane-hit island as "insulting" and called him a "miscommunicator-in-chief". Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz described his televised meeting with officials as a "PR, 17-minute meeting". The sight of him throwing paper towels to people in the crowd was "terrible and abominable", she added. Mr Trump tweeted it had been a "great day" in Puerto Rico. But he also took another swipe at the reporting of his trip. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/915523382686478337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-us-canada-41504165 Tuesday's five-hour presidential trip to San Juan came two weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated the island, and followed...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Wednesday asked U.S. lawmakers to approve $29 billion in disaster relief funds to assist victims of recent hurricanes that hit Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico. The aid request includes $12.8 billion in new funds to help storm victims and $16 billion to defray debt in the federal government’s flood insurance program.....

RUSH: I want to switch gears here. Puerto Rico has been on the back burner even though the president has been there. The Drive-By Media who have been reporting on this are nevertheless reporting that Trump’s botched it, that Donald Trump doesn’t care, because most of the people down there are not white. There are actually people in the Drive-By Media saying this, many of them at CNN. “Yeah, Trump doesn’t care. They’re not white. They probably wouldn’t vote for him. He doesn’t care.” Despite the fact he’s been down there. Despite the fact he’s been helping to pass out...

San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who had previously said her criticisms of the federal government's handling of Hurricane Maria relief were about saving lives and "not about politics," took a shot at President Donald Trump by wearing a shirt that read "NASTY" on it during a Univision interview. When asked by host Jorge Ramos what the significance of her "nasty" shirt was, the mayor said it was a reference to Trump referring to her as a "nasty mayor." The interview was posted Wednesday to Univision's AlPunto Twitter account. She went on to claim that Trump was the one who...

In the rural village of Salinas in southern Puerto Rico, frayed electric lines hanging from a utility pole blew in the breeze last week near the town square. But the damage didn’t come from Hurricane Maria. “Those wires were actually there before,” said Fermin Seda, 68, a Salinas resident who said he has grown accustomed to downed lines and power outages. Two weeks after the storm plunged the island into a blackout, less than 10 percent of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million people have seen power restored - and many will wait months. Restoring the grid after the worst storm to...

Michael Fumento image By Michael Fumento —— Bio and Archives October 4, 2017 0 Comments | Print Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us In June 1948, Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. Within two days the US and UK air forces had begun a supply chain from bases in in western Germany, maintaining it until May the following year. In all, the Berlin Airlift delivered 2.4 million tons of food and supplies under hostile conditions to about 2.5 million people, including all their food, gasoline, and coal for heating and electricity generating. Yet...

The hurricane devastation is severe. What should the federal government do? Give us lots of money, say many. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, demanded $150 billion -- just for Texas. So far, Congress has agreed to $15 billion in hurricane relief. But more will come. Few Americans will object. The House vote for the first $7.9 billion was 419-3. But let's take a breath. Why is rebuilding the federal government's responsibility? Clearly, only the feds can send in the military and some other first responders. After Hurricane Irma, 13,000 National Guard soldiers from 22 states helped rescue and evacuate people....

President Donald Trump & First Lady Melania Trump meet with Puerto Ricans affected by the devastation of Hurricane Maria

In an interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump said that Puerto Rico's debt will have to wiped out. "They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we're going to have to wipe that out. You're going to say goodbye to that, I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs but whoever it is you can wave goodbye to that," Trump said on Tuesday in an interview with Fox News, according to a Reuters report. Trump visited the island on Tuesday, two weeks after Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's entire infrastructure system, leaving nearly 3.5 million residents...

The media, having found a successful play to cripple a Republican president, is trying to run the same play against President Trump. They forget that their entire playbook has been thrown at Trump since he announced his candidacy in 2015, without any success. Hurricane Katrina was thought to be a turning point in the George W Bush presidency. The less than stellar response from the federal government was hung around his neck. Successfully. Despite ineptitude at the state and local levels. The New Orleans mayor at the time, Ray Nagin, is now in federal prison for bribery and fraud. They...