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Yesterday Georgie Stuffingenvelopes gets a little enlightenment. Rand Paul: Americans Will Be Shocked To Learn What Joe Biden’s Son Was Up To In Ukraine Joe Biden’s son was dishonorably discharged from the military for drugs. Subsequently, Hunter fell ass-backward into a cush 50K per month job. And yes, this is the same company Daddy was putting pressure on in Ukraine. STEPHANOPOULOS: Good morning, lets start where Chairman Schiff just left off right there that perhaps Congress should consider making it illegal to engage foreign governments, foreign assistance in campaigns. You agree? PAUL: Well I think the American people will be...

Democratic California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a leading legal antagonist of President Donald Trump, is not legally eligible to serve as his state’s top law enforcement officer, according to a lawsuit working its way through the state’s courts. After 24 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, Becerra was appointed California attorney general on Jan. 24, 2017, replacing Kamala Harris (D), who was elected to the U.S. Senate. He won election to the position in his own right on Nov. 6, 2018. Eric Early, a Los Angeles lawyer who sought the Republican nomination last year in the AG race, argues...

ISIS extremists still use Instagram “to promote jihad and incite support for terror attacks on the West,” according to an investigation by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph. However, Instagram maintains terrorists aren’t welcomed on the platform as parent company Facebook continues to crack down on dangerous users. The investigation indicates that the Islamic State circumvents the Facebook-owned social media platform to celebrate the killing of nonbelievers with everything from images of the ISIS logo, dead soldiers and beheadings to photos of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi himself. The investigation exposes serious flaws in the ability of the social media giants to police...

A friend sends along today’s big Wall Street Journal story “Frustration, Miscalculation: Inside the U.S.-China Trade Impasse” with this comment: I wonder how much Biden’s comments that China was not a threat, and some polls showing he could win, played a role in persuading China to back off. Biden’s comments were very destructive, regardless. He (through his son) is bought and paid for by China. If he is the nominee, Trump could win on that issue. I am surprised the connection between Biden’s comments, the trade talk derailment, and now awareness of the China bribes hasn’t been included in stories...

The Democratic candidates for president are pushing the party further and further left as they attempt to compete in the broad field of candidates. Cory Booker and Eric Swalwell, attempting to raise their chances as presidential candidates, are trying to outdo each other on gun control. They both support gun confiscation. Booker also went far beyond many of the other candidates’ gun control stances in his plan with a call for federal licenses for gun owners. His campaign called the plan the “most sweeping gun violence prevention plan ever put forth by a presidential candidate.” Swalwell said he supports gun...

Judicial Watch, which eagerly wades into inquiries federal investigators won’t touch, reported last week that the Obama White House might have orchestrated a cover-up of the Hillary Clinton emails. With Nixon, they told us the cover-up was worse than the crime. That might not be the case here. But it’s a close race. The Obama administration was apparently tracking a Freedom of Information Act request pursuing records related to then-Secretary of State Clinton’s use of an unsecured, non-government email system as early as 2012, says Judicial Watch. “These documents suggest the Obama White House knew about the Clinton email lies...

Democrat presidential hopeful Kamala Harris says she will use executive action to criminalize selling more than five guns a year without a background check. This follows a consistent Democrat-led push to criminalize all private gun sales via universal background checks. On February 27, Breitbart News reported that the Democrat-run House passed legislation to require a background check for every gun sale, thus criminalizing someone who sells a gun to a decades-long neighbor without government approval. It also criminalizes a friend who sells a gun to a lifelong friend without asking for government approval. During a May 12 appearance on CNN’s...

"They took every electronic device that I own, every computer, every hard drive, every digital photograph that I have taken in the last 25 years," he said. A San Francisco journalist said Sunday authorities knocked down the gate of his home with a sledgehammer, handcuffed him for hours and seized thousands of dollars in electronics after he refused to identify a confidential source. The journalist, Bryan Carmody, said in an interview that the raid occurred Friday — though officers from the San Francisco Police Department first asked him two weeks ago about who provided a police report that revealed details...

WordPress reportedly banned the popular right-wing manosphere blog Chateau Heartiste on Friday in the latest assault on Free Speech at the hands of Big Tech. When one visits the site now it says it was suspended for unspecified violations of WordPress' "terms of service." An internet archive of the page shows the blog has been around since 2011 without any issues. One of the last posts made on the site was titled, "Corporate Conspiracy to Silence and Impoverish Political Dissidents." Chateau Heartiste’s second to last post before WordPress nuked him from the internet: pic.twitter.com/yy4ckwcA36 — Eli Schiff (@eli_schiff) May 10,...

Seagram’s heiress and accused Nxivm benefactor Clare Bronfman tried to buy influence for the alleged sex cult by illegally raising money for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, a former group member testified in court Monday. Bronfman funneled thousands of dollars into Clinton’s campaign coffers — far in excess of legal limits to contributions — to “curry favor” with the powerhouse political family, according to Mark Vicente, a documentary filmmaker and former member of the Nxivm group that is accused of keeping women as sex slaves. “Clare Bronfman approached other people and said she would like to make a campaign contribution...

Bill De Blasio sends a pointed message by inviting press to the public plaza of NYC's 5th Ave. Trump Tower to discuss the city's own Green New Deal. .....

Doris Day - Que Sera Sera

Klatch Coffee Roasters has procured 10 pounds of the exclusive Elida Natural Geisha coffee to split among its Southern California stores. At $1,200 a pound after roasting, each hot cup will cost a cool $75. The unroasted coffee is imported from Panama and set a world record price of $803 per pound at the Best of Panama coffee competition. It’s available only from Klatch Coffee in North America. The coffee company says Geisha is a rare variety of Arabica coffee that came to Panama from a research lab in Costa Rica, with origins in Ethiopia. It’s known for its floral,...

This is a subject that’s been coming up more and more lately, not that you’ll see much of it on cable news. It’s the question of whether or not competitive female sports organizations, both scholastic and otherwise, should allow “transgender women” (who were born male) to compete against natural, biological women. Most recently we looked at a transgender powerlifter who broke four world records at a single competition but later had those titles rejected because he was determined to be a male by the commission overseeing the sport. So are Americans paying attention to this debate? And if so, how...

When about 150 gamblers and blood-sport fans gathered in the brush for an illegal cockfight here recently, not even local folks who live close by had a clue. Within minutes, panicked strangers were running out of the brush, followed shortly after by police with tracking hounds. When all the running, chasing and towing of cars ended long after midnight, police had seized 22 vehicles, five handguns, an assault rifle and $37,002 in cash — not to mention a bunch of roosters, the lucky survivors. Six days after the bust, the sheriff said not a single person had contacted his department...

FULL TITLE: Hollywood mourns one of its greatest stars as wholesome screen icon Doris Day dies of pneumonia aged 97 Hollywood legend Doris Day has died at the age of 97. Her death was announced by her charity, the Doris Day Animal Foundation, on Monday. The foundation said in a statement that she was surrounded by close friends and 'had been in excellent physical health for her age, until recently contracting a serious case of pneumonia.' She died at her estate home in Carmel Valley, California, where she has lived in solitude for the last several decades with her dozens...

Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) referred to the president's issuing of a claim of executive privilege to abrogate the House of Representatives' subpoena of the full, unredacted Mueller Report as a "constitutional crisis."  Nadler stated, "We are in one because the president is disobeying the law, is refusing all information to Congress."  This neat little two-word designation has been picked up by the talking heads of the MSM and is being used to underline and italicize the need for impeachment.  Impeachment of the president is considered important by Nadler and his band of deranged brothers and sisters like Adam Schiff, Steve Cohen, Rashida Tlaib, and...

We could talk all day about illegal aliens coming into the country over the Mexican border (and we frequently do), but as we’ve discussed here before, that’s not the largest source of illegals in the United States. Larger numbers arrive here legally, at least initially, using various types of visas for students, tourists or seasonal workers. But when the Visas expire, they fail to leave and disappear into the interior. Oddly, that’s not the illegal immigrant population that draws the most public attention, but that doesn’t mean that voters don’t want the situation to be dealt with. Our Townhall...

New Zealanders are receiving home visits from police to check on their political views, with one individual claiming that authorities asked him if he supported Donald Trump. The visits are taking place as a response to March’s Christchurch mosque massacre. In one clip, armed police arrive at a man’s home on Sunday morning to question him in relation to his political beliefs. “The reason we’re here, basically it’s down to the recent events in Christchurch, with the shooting there, a number of people have been identified who we’ve been asked to go and speak to, so you’re one of those...

The future for female athletes in competitions is grim if males are allowed to compete with them under the theory that one can choose to be female, take some hormones and/or other treatment, and become a woman.  Men are born with many advantages that make it impossible for women to compete successfully in many, probably most, sports. One sports federation is fighting back and just stripped championship awards from a "transgender woman" who dominated a competition held in April.  Pink News (a "Daily LGBT+ Newsletter") is not pleased: Transgender powerlifter Mary Gregory, who claims to have broken four women's world records in competition...