Posted on 12/28/2019 4:06:50 PM PST by MassMinuteman
Tim Scott: Pelosi not taking Trump impeachment battle 'seriously': 'The wacky House process is just a joke'
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., ripped House Democrats for their impeachment process and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for holding on to the articles of impeachment rather than sending them to the Republican-controlled Senate for trial, saying the speaker isn't taking the …
Biden says 'I wouldn't testify in Senate impeachment trial if subpoenaed' but forced to clarify position
During an interview with the Des Moines Register on Friday, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden stated that if he was subpoenaed to testify at the Senate’s impeachment trial, he would not comply, and that if he …
Pearson CEO John Fallon to retire in 2020, subsidiary behind Obama book deal to be sold off
There’s a job opening for a CEO at a global education company with a $6.6 billion market value. Pearson CEO John Fallon today announced plans to retire in 2020 after a successor has been appointed. Sidney Taurel, chairman of the …
WIKILEAKS: OPCW ordered deletion of 'all traces' of findings that syrian 'chemical attack' may have been staged
Wikileaks has published shocking leaked documents from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in which they covered up a dissenting report that concluded chemical weapons were not used in the Syrian city of Duoma last year. The …
Virginia gun ‘sanctuary' leaders urge resistance to gun laws, compare to American Revolution
The clash in Virginia over gun control has reached a new level, with proponents of a gun “sanctuary” movement urging active resistance to Democratic proposals in Richmond, citing the arguments that led to the American Revolution. …
Washington’s naive sanctuary law puts community at risk, cooperation with Feds at all time low
After witnessing unprecedented improvements in cooperation between law enforcement agencies after the unfathomable terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, I am troubled that Washington state’s cooperation with federal law enforcement officials is at an all-time low. …
California public schools can’t suspend students for disobeying teachers, new law says
New laws taking effect in 2020 will impact schools across California. Starting next school year, it will be illegal for public schools in the state to suspend students in first through fifth grade for willfully defying teachers or administrators. …
Tour helicopter crash kills at least six on Kauai, seventh person presumed dead
Emergency crews found six sets of remains on Kauai Friday after a tour helicopter, carrying seven, went missing Thursday afternoon. The U.S. Coast Guard and state and county agencies were searching for survivors — the pilot and six passengers — …
Five fatalities after plane crashes in wooded area behind Pinhook Walmart in Lafayette, Louisiana
Details are few at this time, but KPEL has been notified of a plane crash that happened this morning. Five people have died according to a KPEL news source, and the crash is said to have happened in a wooded …
Intel probe puts CIA’s Haspel in a bind, on collision course with DOJ
The prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Bill Barr to examine the origins of the Russia investigation is focusing much of his attention on the CIA, placing the agency’s director, Gina Haspel, at the center of a politically toxic tug-of-war between …
Hispanics along the southern border are campaigning for Trump. This is why they support him.
The Democratic Party is great at capturing the minority vote. In fact, the Democrats have been great at telling Hispanics, African Americans and women that they should automatically vote for the Democratic Party. People are finally waking up and realizing …
Judge rules against Stacey Abrams' group, allows Georgia to clean voter rolls
Earlier this month a federal judge allowed Georgia to purge 309,000 names from its voter rolls but he also scheduled a second hearing to hear additional arguments. Fair Fight Action, a voting rights group started by sore loser and 2018 …
Audit: Oversight of Michigan statewide voter registry lax
LANSING – A former elections worker logged on to the state qualified voter registry three times after leaving state employment, actions auditors cited as an example of imperfect oversight of the state election system. …
BUZZ: 'I don't like what you're doing to California' - Nancy Pelosi confronted at football game
Speaker Nancy Pelosi was all giggles at the football game on Saturday. Until a fan told her off on Tik Tok. Mike told Pelosi: “I don’t like what you’re doing to California.” Mike Roman posted this after he confronted the …
Leubsdorf: President Buttigieg and other not-entirely-serious predictions for 2020
Though last year’s annual not-totally-serious forecast missed by predicting Ivanka Trump would become White House chief of staff and Vladimir Putin would formally endorse President Donald Trump for re-election, it did foresee the Washington Nationals winning the World Series and …
China to scrap benchmark lending rate in shift to new system
China’s central bank ordered lenders to adopt a new loan-pricing regime for all credit from next year, marking an end to the previous benchmark and another step toward liberalizing the financial system. Financial institutions should stop using the old lending …
At least 70 killed by truck bomb in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu
A massive truck bomb detonated during morning rush hour in Mogadishu has killed more than 70 people in one of the deadliest single attacks to take place in Somalia’s decades of civil war and Islamist insurgency. …
China’s test of sub-launched missile a threat to peace, retired captain warns
China’s military this week conducted a flight test of a new submarine-launched missile capable of hitting the entire United States with a nuclear warhead, according to Pentagon officials. The Chinese test comes amid heightened concerns North Korea is preparing its …
Mexican security chief arrested in connection to Mormon family massacre
Fidel Alejandro Villegas Villegas, the director of public safety in Janos, was nabbed Tuesday by the Attorney General’s Office for his alleged ties to La Linea, part of the Juárez drug cartel that’s believed to have ambushed the nine relatives …
Record haul of cocaine worth $1bn found in Uruguay
A record haul of more than four tonnes of cocaine worth a billion dollars has been seized in Uruguay. The country's navy has called the bust the "biggest blow to drug trafficking in the country's history." …
Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines, tracking the locations of hundreds of thousands
The systems highlight how widespread surveillance has increasingly become a fact of life: Students “should have all the rights, responsibilities and privileges that an adult has. So why do we treat them so differently?” …
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