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Sen. Bernie Sanders said Friday that he hasn’t spoken to Hillary Clinton for advice on the 2020 race, and frankly, he isn’t interested. “Hillary and I have fundamental differences and that’s just what it is,” Sanders (I-Vt.) said on "The View." **SNIP** In her book, "What Happened," Clinton placed blame on Sanders for contributing to her 2016 loss, arguing he detracted several would-be voters. The beef appears to persist and was apparent in Sanders’ Friday interview. “Hillary has not called me. Look, we have differences,” Sanders said, trailing off before conceding: “Hillary has played a very important role in modern...

It is beginning to look like US President Donald Trump will yield to the Chinese in America’s trade conflict with China. The US threatened to increase tariffs on imports from China from to 25 percent from 10 percent today if no agreement was reached. However, Trump recently said that the date is flexible and might be postponed because of the progress being made in the ongoing bilateral talks. Fair enough, but progress is in the eyes of the beholder. The most important problem that needs to be resolved is not America’s massive bilateral trade deficit with China. It is that...

As media allies idealize House speaker Nancy Pelosi and her congressional Democrats "shaping the future" on the cover of Rolling Stone, the reality in the Democrat-led Congress is quite a bit uglier. Roll Call reports that Democrats are in the midst of internecine warfare, fighting among themselves over the merest of legislative procedural moves called "motion to recommit," which permits dissenting voices to say something or maybe try to persuade for moderating amendments when extremely radical bills are presented in the House and headed to a vote. If nothing else, it's a desire to be heard. House minority Republicans use...

Today’s Cryptogram EKGGEQ IQQIU HP VKYIYQUU EKGGEQ NHFIU HP EHTQ XOVQ HJF QOFGR OY QIQY EKVQ GRQ RQOTQY ODHTQ. AJEKO O. WOFYQM You can find this little fun word game, to combat early dementia and senility in us baby boomers, in several daily publications, unfortunately they are copyrighted so we can't use them here. So, we're just going to make up our own. The way it works is a letter stands for another letter. For example: AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW (does not apply to today's cryptogram). Beware, the game is very addictive. If this is your first time, don't be intimidated....

I just finished watching "A star is born" Streaming on Google $5:99 rental and I'm kinda steamed a bit. No Spoilers I can handle some of the editing decisions that struck me as odd -- probably cost a few people some oscars as well, and I can even handle the ending. But what bothers me is the crappy stunt the pos agent (rez) pulled at his last scene. I gather he was at one time an agent for Jack but then went with Addy because she was the new star, but the audience deserved to see some sort of karmic...

Chief Justice John Roberts' recent votes aligning with the Supreme Court’s liberal wing have raised questions about whether a widely anticipated "conservative revolution" on the nation's highest court will materialize anytime soon. On Wednesday, Roberts sided with a 5-3 majority decision to send a case concerning a death row inmate back to a lower court. In February, Roberts was the key vote in temporarily blocking a Louisiana law that would have placed restrictions on abortion clinics. And in December, Roberts voted to block President Trump from rejecting asylum to any immigrants who had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally.

WANAQUE, N.J. — Some students at a New Jersey high school are upset that they won’t be able to make a grand entrance by taking limousines and luxury cars to their prom. Lakeland Regional High School administrators sent a letter to parents this week stating that prom attendees must take school-provided and chaperoned coach buses to and from the venue in June. Schools Superintendent Hugh Beattie says it’s a matter of safety and equity...

Good Morning, at the top of the Newsdump. The Canadian Justice Ministry made its decision Friday to move forward with extradition proceedings against Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou..... President Trump says he's asked China to remove all tariffs on US agricultural products in light of the progress being made in trade talks.... The Republican Lieutenant Governor in Idaho attacked for her support of Bunkerville Standoff prisoner Todd Engel.... Week 16 of the Yellow Vests protests in France today. The number of protesters was up last weekend. Protests today in Paris and Bordeaux among other places. An international protest of Yellow...

The Prefect of Rennes, in Brittany, issued a decree banning protest ahead of today's 16th week of Yellow Vests protests in France. The protest ban is said to concern the city center business district of Rennes. Protests begin in Paris with demonstrators gathering at the Arc de Triomphe area along the Champs-Elysees at 11 am. They march starting at 1230 pm, that'll be 630 am in the Eastern US. Protests of some sort in Paris scheduled up to 10 pm Paris time tonight. In Bordeaux protesters gathering at the Place de la Boure, then a procession starting at 2 pm...

This will be a weekly post. Count is now 86 judges confirmed. 53 District Court judges 31 Circuit Court judges 2 Supreme Court justices Mitch McConnell got the judicial train moving again this week. And the first nominee of the new Flake-less Congress was to the 9th Circuit, OVER the objections of the two leftist home-state senators. Democrat blue slip obstruction is over. There are several Circuit Court judges due to be confirmed next week. Also this week, Neomi Rao was voted out of committee. If confirmed, she will fill Brett Kavanaugh's seat on the DC Circuit. We're off and...

N orth Korean state media brushed over the failure to reach a deal in its coverage of the Vietnam summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, indicating that hope remains for progress in future negotiations. The headline on the front page of Rodong Sinmun, the country's official newspaper, made no mention of the collapse in talks and the lack of agreement, instead proclaiming how well the summit had gone. The newspaper referred to the "constructive and candid exchange" that the US and North Korean leaders had during their two days of meetings in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital. The positive write-up...

An ancient trilingual inscription has surfaced on a hillside near the tomb of Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) in Naqsh-e Rustam, the necropolis (“city of the dead”) 4 miles northwest of Persepolis, Iran. Written in Old Persian, Elamite, and Babylonian, the inscription records the title of an official who was close to the royal court. Unfortunately, his name has not been preserved. Not only does this inscription shed light on the elite families who associated with the Persian kings, some of them even serving as advisors, but it also adds a new verb to all three languages—the act...

Bloomberg News reports that the House Judiciary Committee, which is currently led by Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), will seek to investigate Trump calling the media “fake news” and “enemies of the people.” “The committee will study whether such actions either reflect or blur the Constitution’s separation The president’s repeated declarations that the “fake news” media is the “enemy of the people” has indeed upset many Democrats and media figures. Possible 2020 hopeful and media darling Beto O’Rourke used the line to attack Trump and Republicans in 2018, accusing him of inciting violence against the media. “This idea fronted by the president...

Chelsea Manning has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of Julian Assange, officials said, one of several indicators that prosecutors remain interested in WikiLeaks’ publication of diplomatic cables and military war logs in 2010. …(snip) …Manning’s attorneys have filed a motion to quash the subpoena. “I object strenuously to this subpoena, and to the grand jury process in general,” Manning said in a statement. “We’ve seen this power abused countless times to target political speech. I have nothing to contribute to this case and I resent being forced to endanger myself by participating in this...

I listened to this entire speech. (VP Mike Pence at CPAC 2019) Some of it was stilted as VP Pence's speaking style happens to be....but he was quite articulate in listing all of President Trump's accomplishments and quite enthusiastic. The speech was punctuated by many raucous standing ovations.

Researchers from the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Helsinki have analyzed the first ancient DNA from mainland Finland. As described in Nature Communications, ancient DNA was extracted from bones and teeth from a 3,500 year-old burial on the Kola Peninsula, Russia, and a 1,500 year-old water burial in Finland. The results reveal the possible path along which ancient people from Siberia spread to Finland and Northwestern Russia. Researchers found the earliest evidence of Siberian ancestry in Fennoscandia in a population inhabiting the Kola Peninsula, in Northwestern Russia, dating to around 4,000 years ago. This...

A fault in the Apennine Mountains wreaked damage on structures including the Colosseum. The geological fault responsible for a series of Italian earthquakes in 2016 might also have caused a quake mentioned in ancient accounts of fifth-century Rome. Until 2016, scientists had considered the 30-kilometre-long Mount Vettore fault in the central Apennine Mountains to be dormant. But between August and October that year, it generated three big earthquakes; the first killed nearly 300 people. To explore the fault’s history, a team led by Paolo Galli at the Department of Civil Protection in Rome dug trenches across it to look for...

A team working at the Shimao archaeological site in Shaanxi province made the discovery during a recent excavation of the city’s Neolithic ruins, which are thought to date back to about 2,000BC, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Monday. “The beast-face patterns found in Shimao might have had a significant influence on the motifs of China’s Bronze Age,” Sun Zhouyong, president of the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, said in the report. Researchers unearthed about 30 carvings at the site with designs similar to those found on the elaborately decorated bronze vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties (1600-256BC). While most...

The friendship between Russia and Israel serves both countries' interests right now, but eventually the spoils will draw the two powers into conflict. Jared Kushner's peace plan is nothing to fear, and Amir tells us why. Why Netanyahu and Trump are both having so much trouble lately. (Hint: Its initials are NWO.)Trump about to announce his acknowledgment that the Golan Heights is Israel's territory.Parts of ISIS still active. Much more in this news- and fact-filled up-to-the-minute summary.

The most stunning artifact recovered beneath Gosposvetska Street was a transparent blue glass bowl found next to the woman’s body... This exquisite drinking bowl could have been used in both regular daily life as well as for burial ceremonies, and an analysis of its chemical composition points to its manufacture somewhere in the eastern Mediterranean region. The grapevine decorations have their role in the Christian Eucharist and Communion, but have their origins in motifs associated with Dionysus, the pagan god of wine and ecstasy. Archaeologists are also interested in how the woman’s tomb developed over time. It seems that possibly...