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House Democrats consider action against Israeli and US ambassadors over banning of Tlaib and Omar July 29, 2019 9:00 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMSS Senior Democratic members of Congress are “are considering releasing a statement of no confidence” in Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer and “opening an inspector-general investigation” into U.S. envoy to Israel David Friedman over Israel’s decision to ban Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering Israel. The Democratic lawmakers are advancing the idea that Omar and Tlaib were banned from Israel because they are Muslim; nothing could be further from the truth. The Dems: raised...

Illinois State Senator Martin Sandoval hosted a golf outing on Friday where at least some of his guests participated in an obscene mock assassination of the President of the United States. . The participants were so proud of their work, they took photos.

Those pining for the comforts of "Prairie Home Companion" are getting the ultimate Christmas gift. Garrison Keillor will reunite with key members of the old gang for a series of holiday shows, starting with a performance Nov. 30 at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis. Stops in San Francisco, New York and Atlanta have also been announced. The shows will include actors Sue Scott and Tim Russell, as well as sound effects wizard Fred Newman and musicians from Guy's All-Star Shoe Band. Most of the alum members remained on the radio program after Chris Thile took over in 2016, but were...

This weekend we learned that former MSNBC regular and accused serial sexual harasser Mark Halperin has landed himself a new book deal. Regan Arts will be releasing a new book by Halperin in November, providing advice on “How to Beat Trump” next year. The author remains something of a sore spot in the #MeToo movement and this news left some of his former friends and allies shaking their heads. But that was nothing compared to the reactions of some of his accusers, who feel that he’s being given a pass without doing the required walk of shame first. (Daily Beast)...

All of the serious 2020 Democratic primary candidates have some form of justice reform or prison reform on their agenda and now Bernie Sanders has joined their ranks. The Vermont Senator’s plan, while sparse on details, looks like an ambitious one. He plans on emptying half of the nation’s prison population and putting them back on the streets. He will also legalize pot and do away with all privately operated prisons. Assuming, of course, that he could get Congress to go along with any of this if he manages to get elected. (Associated Press) Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders...

The turmoil in Hong Kong is a huuuuuuge embarrassment for Democrats. Hong Kongers are waving the stars and stripes, singing the national anthem, and issuing a global cry for freedom. For a Democratic Party that loudly supports bend-a-knee leftists who hate the U.S. flag, such as Colin Kaepernick, that's a problem. And for a party that is trying to sell socialism to the U.S. public, well, oppressive China's got socialism in spades. President Trump has taken flak for his response to the crisis, arguably so, but the real clown show is in what's coming from the Democrats. Axios did some homework and here's what...

Britain’s Prince Andrew rejected any suggestion that he participated in the alleged sex crimes which U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein was accused of, Buckingham Palace said in a statement. Epstein committed suicide in a Manhattan jail cell earlier this month while being held on sex-trafficking charges. “The Duke of York has been appalled by the recent reports of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged crimes,” Buckingham Palace said in a statement.

An alligator has been caught on camera while climbing over a tall fence in Florida. Footage posted on Facebook shows the huge reptile moving from one side of the street to the other in front of stunned onlookers. The incident happened at the Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jax) last Saturday.

When the Wall Street Journal broke the story late last week that President Trump was interested in the concept of the US purchasing Greenland, the immediate negative response from Danish officials and media was utterly predictable, since the story came as a bolt out of the blue. Nobody like to learn of “secret” plans over their own national fate being mulled by the most powerful country in the world. Denmark, after all, was invaded and occupied by the Nazis, and has had its full of being abused by more powerful nations. But I suspect the story was leaked precisely to...

Last month it was reported that a crew of international con artists allegedly convinced a U.S. defense contractor to ship out millions of dollars worth of sensitive military hardware. In 2017, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) made up a fictitious law enforcement agency website and address and was able to convince the Department of Defense to supply more than a million dollars in military equipment. These two stories highlight how military equipment is all too often shipped out without any way of it actually being tracked once it leaves the warehouse. In the case of the scammers, who used fake...

A county in central Kansas experienced a pretty shocking uptick in seismic activity last week — 11 earthquakes in five days. It started with a magnitude-2.4 earthquake Wednesday morning just 2 1/2 miles southwest of Hutchinson, Kansas, in Reno County, according to the United States Geological Survey. There would be 10 more before the week was out.

A limited-edition McLaren road car with a gold-plated engine bay has become the British manufacturer's most expensive vehicle to ever sell at auction. The 1994 McLaren F1 LM - standing for Le Mans - went under the hammer on Friday during RM Sotheby's Monterey auction in California - which is widely regarded as the calendar's biggest and most expensive sale of collectible vehicles. Before the auction, the unique car had been given an estimated sale price of $21million to $23million - the higher of which would have made it the most expensive British-built car to sell at auction in history....

For those who do not understand the meaning of “Rights”, we need to make it clear once and for all: The 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, does not apply to semi-automatic rifles, nor does it apply to bolt action rifles or pistols. The 2nd Amendment RESTRICTS GOVERNMENT. The technology of the firearm is irrelevant. The restriction on Government remains the same, regardless of the firearm. The 2nd Amendment was not written to grant permission for citizens to own and bear firearms. It forbids Government interference in the right to keep and bear arms, period. The right of the...

Indiana state Rep. Dan Forestal (D) was charged with drunken driving and impersonating a police officer after he reportedly tried to buy cocaine at a local bar, according to court documents reviewed by CNN. The Marion County Sheriff's Department told CNN on Thursday that Forestal, 36, was charged with one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, resisting law enforcement and impersonating a public servant. Police said his encounter with the police officer occurred Saturday night after authorities received reports of someone impersonating a police officer in Indianapolis. Forestal, who was elected in 2012, reportedly told a local resident he...

In this just released footage from 2010, Jeff Epstein is seen leaving his NYC home with a young girl, and then Prince Andrew is seen letting another girl out of Epstein’s front door. Hat tip to Michael Sheridan… The second girl was the fixer. Sarah Kellen who used to date NASCAR race Brian Vickers. pic.twitter.com/nTJJwJJZ2B — Michael Sheridan (@MSH3RIDAN) August 18, 2019 The second girl is Sarah Kellen… Michael Sheridan’s twitter feed… Tweets by MSH3RIDAN: https://twitter.com/MSH3RIDAN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

A dear and now departed friend of mine used to have a flat in the handsome red-brick building that sits on the southern end of Abbey Road in St John's Wood in north London - at the corner of Grove End Road. And, whenever I went round for dinner, it was always a kick to walk over the street via the internationally famous zebra crossing - not because I was a tourist or a Fab Four fanatic but just because that was where the taxi from the West End would always drop me off. At one level, naming an album...

CNN reports that President Trump’s aides persuaded him to delay the imposition of the latest round of protective tariffs, previously scheduled for September, until December 15, 2019. How? They claimed new tariffs would “ruin Christmas.” Peter Navarro, Trump’s director of trade and manufacturing policy, defended the move saying that this was Trump’s, “Christmas present to the nation.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Not only would tariffs not perceptibly increase the price of toys, this schizophrenic shift in policy empowers the president’s political adversaries and enriches greedy multinational corporations and China. It is fairly obvious to anyone who has...

Pray For the Peace of Jerusalem (Old Testament) 2 Kings 18 Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem 17 The king of Assyria sent his supreme commander, his chief officer and his field commander with a large army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They came up to Jerusalem and stopped at the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Washerman’s Field. 18 They called for the king; and Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder went out to them. 19 The field commander said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: “‘This is what...

The U.S. functionaries known as “immigration judges” are, in fact, employees of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), which is part of the Department of Justice (DOJ). The problem today is that they insist on being something well beyond that -- judges with zero accountability. This has put them squarely in conflict with the Trump administration. Immigration judges are not independent, like real judges, but neutral, in that they do not represent the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which brings cases to the EOIR. Aliens may not bring cases independently to the EOIR, but only in response to an...

Obvious and repulsive hypocrisy on the part of wealthy and connected people telling us that we must sacrifice our standard of living – indeed, our very way of life – finally is being called out. They want us to bear the entire burden, while their jet-setting lifestyles remain untouched. The alarmists are getting more and more shrill about their predictions of doom due to the increase in an atmospheric trace gas, CO2, purportedly able to act as the control mechanism for world climate. (Meanwhile, their climate models, the sole basis for their doomsterism, don’t know how to reckon with the...