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New York City's increased minimum wage drove AOC's former employer out of business Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, N.Y.) is set to bartend again for a day to advocate for policies that led to one of her former employers shutting down its business. The freshman congresswoman will return to her district in New York City this Friday to "pour a few pints" and push for the federal Raise the Wage Act while showing support for "abolishing below-minimum wage" for tipped workers in the state, the New York Daily News reports. The exact location of the event, which was organized by the...

The disastrous and embarrassing Green New Deal resolution, which Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced in part, turned out to be a massive failure. By failure, I mean that not only did it fail to pass in the U.S. Senate, but many Americans — even on the left — didn’t want it to happen. Why? Because it would crush an untold number of jobs in the energy sector, leaving middle-class, hard-working American families in a bad situation. But that doesn’t mean the GND warriors on the left have given up. In fact, they’ve changed their strategy from pushing it to a state...

Shortened title. Full title: Office of Inspector General Finds Top FBI Official Illegally Leaked to Media – Including Sensitive Info Sealed by Fed Courts – DOJ DECLINES PROSECUTION The Office of Inspector General announced Wednesday findings of misconduct by an FBI Deputy Assistant Director for “unauthorized contacts with the media, disclosing law enforcement and other sensitive information to the media, and accepting a gift from the media.” Despite the fact that this senior FBI official, who was not named in the summary, clearly broke multiple laws, the Department of Justice declined to prosecute the individual. The OIG investigation concluded that...

The tensions between Iran and the US have become more prominent in recent months, but relations with the notoriously authoritarian Iranian regime didn't stop Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) from meeting with Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister for the terrorist mullocracy. According to Politico's "Playbook":"SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CALIF.) had dinner with IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER JAVAD ZARIF when he was in the United States a few weeks ago, several sources told us."

A proposed law in Canada will result in Christians muzzled. Meanwhile Islamists (including those tied to terrorists) get government funding. These days we wake up every day to disturbing news in both the U.S. and Canada. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) https://clarionproject.org/council-islamic-relations-cair/ recently released a report titled: Hijacked by Hate: American Philanthropy and the Islamophobia Network https://clarionproject.org/glossary/islamophobia/ in which it claims "hate groups" have used American charities to propagate a message of anti-Muslim bigotry. According to this report, any critique of Islamism https://clarionproject.org/glossary/islamism/ and Islamist activities is deemed racism and bigotry (i.e., "Islamophobic"). This includes any and all legitimate...

Shortened title. Full title: BI Brass Ran Up $65K World Series Tab of Freebies in Luxury Box of LA Dodgers Owners While Team Was Target of FBI Grand Jury Probe Numerous FBI executives lived it up in the executive suite and lounge of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ owners during the 2018 World Series, attending the sky-high-priced event for free — at the same time the Dodgers were a target of a federal grand jury investigation. Federal sources said a team of high ranking FBI brass from the Los Angeles field office attended a World Series game between the Dodgers and...

Watchdogs are slamming the University of Massachusetts system’s thousands of six-figure salaries as excessive — as UMass seeks more money from the state under threat of layoffs and a tuition hike. “You have a university that is laden by overpaid bureaucrats,” said David Tuerck of the Beacon Hill Institute. The UMass system had one employee — Chancellor and Senior Vice President for the Health Sciences Michael Collins — make over a million dollars in 2018, at $1,069,752 total pay with $742,777 as base salary. Another administrator made over $900,000, and three more pulled in total pay over $600,000, including UMass...

“‘“. . . as we also have forgiven our debtors”’” (Matthew 6:12). Even as we have been forgiven, we need to forgive. This is the character of righteousness. But because of our sinful flesh, we are often inconsistent with that duty and need constant exhortation (cf. Rom. 7:14–25). The Lord Jesus’ own example is a powerful motivation for us to forgive others. Paul reminds us, “Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you” (Eph. 4:32; 1 John 2:6). In view of such divine graciousness, our forgiveness of another’s sin expresses...

It’s a sad day for fans of true crime television in general and groundbreaking show Homicide Hunter in particular. Lieutenant Joe Kenda, whose matter-of-fact delivery and dry humor helped turn the show into an international hit, has announced that Homicide Hunter Season 9 will be the show’s last. According to Kenda, the decision to end Homicide Hunter was surprisingly easy — if not easy to actually make — and stems from simple math. We once speculated that Homicide Hunter could easily continue into its 20th season, given the number of cases Kenda worked while a member of the Colorado Springs...

In case you missed it Wednesday morning, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller made a statement from the Justice Department about the two-year long investigation into the 2016 presidential election. "I'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete," Mueller said. "We are formally closing the Special Counsel's office and I am resigning from the Department of Justice to return private life." "I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak to you in this manner. I am making that decision myself," he continued. "I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further...

Special prosecutor Mueller’s statement upon the shuttering of his two-year investigation into the Trump campaign was weird even by the standards of the weirdness of the past couple of years. “Charging the president with a crime was not something we could consider,” he reported. Indeed, even pursuing that question, he added, would have been unconstitutional under long-standing Justice Department guidelines. But then he said that if his office could have exonerated the president, it would have: “If we had confidence the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.” Granted, he said pretty much the same...

At my age, I don't really give a rat's ass anymore. •If walking is good for your health, the postman would be immortal. •A whale swims all day, only eats fish, and drinks water, but is still fat. •A rabbit runs, and hops, and only lives 15 years, while a tortoise doesn't run, and does mostly nothing, yet it lives for 150 years. And they tell us to exercise? I don't think so. Now that I'm older, here's what I've discovered: 1. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it. 2. My wild oats are mostly...

RUSH: You can also look for the media to create a new chorus today, and that is that the attorney general lied and misrepresented what the special counsel told him. During his press conference announcing his analysis of the Mueller report, the Attorney General Barr said that he specifically asked Mueller if the Office of Legal Counsel guidelines (i.e., you can’t indict a sitting president) played any role in your decision not to charge the president with any obstruction? Barr said that Mueller told him “no,” the guidelines had nothing to do with it. So Mueller goes out there today...

On his award-winning and widely-heard daily radio program Wednesday, talk giant Rush Limbaugh tore apart special counsel Robert Mueller’s statement earlier in the day in which he proclaimed that his Democrat-and-Hillary Clinton-donating investigators could not say with certainty that POTUS Donald Trump did neither “colluded” with Russia or ‘obstructed’ justice. Noting that Mueller is reversing what he apparently told Attorney General William Barr three times — that his team did not consider longstanding Justice Department policy that a sitting president cannot be indicted when they refused to do so after completing their probe in March — Limbaugh said the special...

Robert Mueller's eight- to nine-minute statement Wednesday morning at the DOJ was designed for one thing only: to avoid having to answer one key question in his testimony. When did you know there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia? If the answer, as many, including Andrew C. McCarthy, are indicating, is somewhere in Fall 2017, what in the Sam Hill was Mueller doing putting the country through two years of prolonged agony? It's not likely he did all this to prop up CNN's faltering ratings. Was it, just by chance, to induce obstruction from one Donald J....

May 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Speaking with one of the best-known conservative Jews, Dennis Prager, at the PragerU summit last week, world-famous psychologist Jordan Peterson spoke of God and his views of faith. After speaking about his dislike for the question ‘Do you believe in God?’ Peterson said, “I think that Catholicism — that's as sane as people can get.” Peterson has often been asked about his faith, if he believes in God, and he said the question has always troubled him. He promised a podcast on the matter since he has given his dislike for the question much...

And that won’t go unnoticed. Joe Biden’s handsy approach to people — especially women and girls — made a brief comeback at a campaign rally, Ryan Saavedra noted yesterday. In another era, and without the context of Biden’s chronically strange behavior, this would look fairly innocent. As it is, though … Joe Biden, who has publicly stated that he would stop touching women without their permission and would respect their space, touches a young girl at a campaign rally Biden tells her, “I bet you’re as bright as you are good looking” pic.twitter.com/CtAVELvYrX— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) May 28, 2019...

RUSH: Okay. So, now we know the evidence is clear, the evidence is in. What we have suspected all along is the case. The special counsel, Robert Mueller, wanted to nail President Trump and still wants to nail President Trump. There is no difference between Robert Mueller and any Democrat or member of the media in that town. The only problem that Robert Mueller had was there isn’t any evidence to nail the president, and so he is attempting to imply that the president committed all kinds of crimes, but, in the end, Robert Mueller says Department of Justice guidelines...

A blind autistic singer has won applause the world over after an astonishing performance on America's Got Talent that left audience members and judges alike open-mouthed in shock. Kodi Lee, 22, from California, appeared on the show on Tuesday night, accompanied by his mother, Tina, who explained that her son developed a love of music, and an incredible singing talent, 'very early on' in his life, sharing that she knew he was 'an entertainer' from a young age. 'We found out that he loved music really early on,' she said. 'He listened and his eyes just went huge. And he...

Full title: Judicial Watch: Former Asst. Sec. of State for Diplomatic Security Testifies Under Oath that He Warned Hillary Clinton Twice About Unsecure BlackBerrys and Personal Emails ‘They had come from the campaign trail and they were … wedded to their BlackBerrys … They wanted to be able to have them at their desks where they were working, and they weren’t allowed to have that’ – Eric Boswell (Washington, DC)– Judicial Watch today released the deposition transcript of Eric Boswell, the former Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State, in which he...