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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump When I terminated John Kelly, which I couldn’t do fast enough, he knew full well that he was way over his head. Being Chief of Staff just wasn’t for him. He came in with a bang, went out with a whimper, but like so many X’s, he misses the action & just can’t keep his mouth shut,. ...which he actually has a military and legal obligation to do. His incredible wife, Karen, who I have a lot of respect for, once pulled me aside & said strongly that “John respects you greatly. When we are no...

All great human rights efforts of every era have been anchored in the stories and faces of their victims and survivors, giving them meaning outside of an abstract concept, and awakening the human mind to truth through the voices of survival. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. literally “gave face” to the Civil Rights movement; Elie Wiesel humanized the inhumanity of Auschwitz in a way that could no longer be ignored. The list of “faces” is exhaustive. When a victim – a survivor – stares you in the eye and tells you their story, a paradigm shift takes...

BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Feb 13 (Reuters) - China's Communist Party has replaced the party heads in the coronavirus stricken province of Hubei and its capital Wuhan, state media said on Thursday, reporting the most high profile officials to be dismissed in the wake of the epidemic. The removal of Jiang Chaoliang, the leading Communist Party official of Hubei province, and Ma Guoqiang, his counterpart in Wuhan, follows the dismissal of two provincial health officials on Tuesday, and is part of a wider effort by Beijing to remove bureaucrats it accuses of shirking their duties. The central government has set up a special...

p>Right now scientists are trying to accomplish something that was inconceivable a decade ago: create a vaccine against a previously unknown virus rapidly enough to help end an outbreak of that virus. In this case, they're trying to stop the spread of the new coronavirus that has already infected tens of thousands of people, mainly in China, and given rise to a respiratory condition now known as COVID-19. Typically, making a new vaccine takes a decade or longer. But new genetic technologies and new strategies make researchers optimistic that they can shorten that timetable to months, and possibly weeks —...

Posts Posted on February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 How Does Pride Grow in Our Life? Pondering a Teaching by St. Bernard of Clairvaux So you think the idea of the “Twelve Steps” is new? Well, if you think you’ve got a new idea, go back and see how the Greeks put it, or in this case how the Medieval Latins put it. St. Bernard of Clairvaux identified twelve steps up the mountain of pride in his work Steps of Humility and Pride.In today’s post, we focus on the Twelve Steps of Pride. Tomorrow, we’ll tackle the Twelve Steps of...

The large response to my recent article The Case for a Federal Government Takeover of America's Homeless Crisis merits further discussion about how such an approach might unfold. Most importantly, a federal intervention must be kept limited in scope and with a specific outcome in mind.  As such, I'm proposing a bold new strategy called "Federal Leadership, Local Control."  The reality is that homelessness has always existed, and always will.  But the current homeless crisis on our streets – a humanitarian, public health and environmental disaster – has not always existed.  And it is resolvable with the right leadership and...

BREAKING: Former Trump Communications Director Hope Hicks Is Returning to White House as Senior Counselor Hope Hicks, the former White House communications director and top press aide to President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, is returning to the White House, a senior White House official told NBC News on Thursday. "Hope won’t be part of the communications department," the senior official said. "She will be working closely with Jared Kushner and Brian Jack in a number of strategic areas." Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, is a senior adviser to the president with a wide policy portfolio, and Jack is the White House...

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has bought a Beverly Hills mansion from media mogul David Geffen in a record-breaking transaction for Los Angeles, according to the Wall Street Journal. The world's richest man is said to have paid $165m (£126m) for the property - known as the Warner Estate - which would make it the most expensive home in the Los Angeles area. It beats the previous record set last year when Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch bought the Chartwell estate in the city's Bel Air neighbourhood for $150m (£115m). The 9.4-acre Warner Estate was built in 1937 by its...

The patient arrived at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas on February 7, the CDC said, and was placed under a 14-day federal quarantine order. The latest case comes after the CDC announced Wednesday the 14th confirmed case in the U.S.

In a Washington Post column from which Mika Brzezinski quoted extensively on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough has penned what amounts to a political eulogy for Joe Biden.Scarborough declined to officially declare Biden's candidacy dead. But he questioned "whether his campaign can survive the body blows of Iowa and New Hampshire." And Joe put himself "at the top of the list" of people proud of Biden "no matter how this political race ends."Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

WASHINGTON -- In a bid to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, the House has approved a measure removing a 1982 deadline for state ratification and reopening the process to amend the Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sex. “There is no expiration date on equality,″ said Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier of California, the resolution’s sponsor. Nearly 50 years after it was first approved by Congress and sent to the states, the Equal Rights Amendment “is just as salient as ever,″ Speier said. ”For survivors of sexual violence, pregnancy discrimination, unequal pay and more, the fight for equal justice under the...

President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal year 2021 budget has been released. Generally, budget documents are more of a statement about priorities and aspirations than of anything else. This proposal is typical: It's full of unrealistic assumptions, as well as "savings" that will never happen. It is, in short, a testament to fiscal irresponsibility. Unfortunately, when you use more realistic assumptions and take politics into consideration, you are left with a lot of spending. What this budget tells us is that this Republican president is a big spender. Under it, the federal government would spend $4.8 trillion in fiscal year 2021....

WASHINGTON -- In the week since his acquittal on impeachment charges, a fully emboldened President Donald Trump is demonstrating his determination to assert an iron grip on government, pushing his Justice Department to ease up on a longtime friend while using the levers of presidential powers to exact payback on real and perceived foes. Trump has told confidants in recent days that he felt both vindicated and strengthened by his acquittal in the Senate, believing Republicans have rallied around him in unprecedented fashion while voters were turned off by the political process, according to four White House officials and Republicans...

In the future, can we agree that to decide which team an individual can play for, all we need is a cheek swab, not a gender dictionary? In October, 2019, the US Supreme Court heard arguments about “whether the definition of sex in U.S. law includes sexual orientation and gender identity.” (Elizabeth Slattery in The Daily Signal, October 8, 2019) Here’s a hint: no, it doesn’t. In the interest of clarity, here are some definitions and observations.

Michael Bloomberg, who’s willing to spend $2 billion to beat President Donald Trump and spent more than $350 million plastering airwaves with his ads, is now paying people to plaster your Instagram accounts with terrible memes. The New York Times reported Feb. 13 that the liberal billionaire presidential candidate “has contracted some of the biggest meme-makers on the internet to post sponsored content on Instagram promoting his presidential campaign.” [Emphasis added]. The campaign is collaborating with Meme 2020, “a new company formed by some of the people behind extremely influential [Instagram] accounts.”

The United States led the world in tackling CO2 emissions last year while combining that singular success with solid economic growth, a new report reveals. It has also been confirmed while the U.S. was hitting its climate goals, at the same time “80 percent of the increase in CO2 emissions came from Asia and that China and India both contributed significantly” to global increases. “The United States saw the largest decline in energy-related CO2 emissions in 2019 on a country basis – a fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9%, to 4.8 Gt,” the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported Tuesday. “US...

I take heart in knowing that Donald J. Trump will be re-elected in November. He will win by a larger margin than in 2016 When I broke away from dealing with a lot of personal issues over the past several weeks, I did glance at the TV to see how the trial of the President was proceeding. I about puked when I heard Adam Schiff invoke the Constitution on repeated occasions. I would be willing to bet my income (which is not much right now) that none—none—of the Democrat managers had ever read the Constitution until they had to come...

Two states, Iowa and New Hampshire, have taken part in the 2020 Democratic nomination process. The Iowa Democratic caucuses were a debacle. The technology didn't work; the results had to be re-tallied; and with the delay, the final results didn't mean as much as they could have to any specific candidate. The process also left the Democratic Party's reputation damaged. New Hampshire ended with Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont (26%) edging out former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (24%). Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota outperformed expectations (20%), while Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts came in unexpectedly low (9.3%). Former...

In short, Democrats don't want to legislate or work, they want to IMPEACH! Stuck on stupid, the Democrats will never drop their ‘Impeach the President!’ craze. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims “Impeachment is FOREVER!” To Pelosi and her demented sidekicks Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff, Impeachment is really forever—forever and a day—whatever day opens the way for another Impeachment investigation, when off they go.

Legendary Democratic strategist James Carville was interviewed by Vox's Sean Illing last week after Carville's doom-and-gloom jeremiad on MSNBC got a lot of people's attention. In his inimitable fashion, Carville warned that Democrats' love affair with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is sending the party hurtling toward resounding defeat in November. "Bernie Sanders isn't a Democrat," Carville insisted. "He's never been a Democrat. He's an ideologue." Carville clearly thinks that Sanders has moved the party too far to the left, and he sharply criticized all the candidates' fixation with ideas that resonate only with the party's far-left wing, like "free college...