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  • Vanity: How Long Before Hillary Get's The OK?

    02/23/2020 9:37:54 AM PST · by devane617 · 62 replies
    02/23/2020
    Sorry for the vanity, but after reading and watching the news this morning the Dem's and their media are going nuts because the realize Bernie will be the nominee. The ONLY way out of this mess is for them is to give Hillary a call and destroy Bernie's chances. Any thoughts or guesses about when Hillary steps in to the campaign?
  • At US border, locals push back against Donald Trump's wall [AZ libs]

    02/23/2020 9:34:23 AM PST · by Olog-hai · 35 replies
    Deutsche Welle ^ | 02.22.2020 | Cai Nebe
    It’s midday in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. As the sun beats down, saguaro cacti throw little shade over this part of the Sonoran Desert, where summer temperatures regularly top 37°C (99°F). Today though a very narrow segment of the park is getting a little more shade. It’s accompanied by the incessant whine of construction vehicles. President Donald Trump’s major campaign promise is taking shape — a rusty, nine-meter tall mix of concrete and steel. As of January 31, 185 kilometers (115 miles) of new wall had been built, according to the US Customs and Border Protection Agency. Depending on...
  • Democrat Voting Chaos Points to the Need for Major Election Reforms

    02/23/2020 9:30:53 AM PST · by EyesOfTX · 6 replies
    DB Daily Update ^ | Gregg Updike
    Since the Russians are behind every voting booth in the country according to the MSM, the DNC, the Intelligence Community, and Hillary, it is incumbent upon President Trump and his DOJ to ensure an untainted election in 2020. President Obama had such warnings from high sources prior to the 2016 election and he blew them off. As things stand now the only way Trump can prove there is no “Russian” influence is for him to lose. If he (or now Bernie Sanders) wins, the election was cheated, invalid, and illegitimate; if he loses, and an establishment Democrat wins, then the...
  • Harvard Students Sue University Officials Over School's Investment Ties to Prisons

    02/23/2020 9:28:36 AM PST · by CheshireTheCat · 14 replies
    CNN.com ^ | February 21, 2020 | Ganesh Setty
    Five Harvard students are suing university officials over Harvard's investments in what they call the "prison-industrial complex." The students are accusing the university's president, a senior fellow of Harvard Corporation, and Harvard's endowment manager, Harvard Management Company (HMC), of a "violation of fiduciary duty and breach of the Harvard charter." ...Unlike the students in 2014, whose case was initially dismissed because the judge said the plaintiffs lacked standing, the new crop of students say that they now have standing because they are also donors to Harvard.
  • PBS's Mark Shields Compares 2020 Democrats to Founding Fathers, Trump to King George

    02/23/2020 9:27:51 AM PST · by rktman · 51 replies
    newsbusters.org ^ | 2/22/2020 | Tim Graham
    On Friday's PBS NewsHour, liberal commentator Mark Shields made a very odd historical comparison -- the 2020 Democrat presidential contenders were like American revolutionaries of 1776, fighting a president who is somehow like King George III, the tyrannical English monarch. But first, both Shields and David Brooks agreed that Bernie Sanders -- the antithesis of 1776 libertarian ideas -- was the clear front-runner among Democrats, and Michael Bloomberg had a terrible debate. "He couldn't go toe to toe with Elizabeth Warren. I mean, she absolutely dominated him. She dominated the stage," proclaimed Shields. "I'm not sure she won the crowd,...
  • Andrew Yang Reveals Why the Middle Class Isn't Happy With the Dems

    02/23/2020 9:18:38 AM PST · by Kaslin · 32 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | February 23, 2020 | Beth Bauman
    Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) has momentum that is unmatched. He came out neck-and-neck with former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg in Iowa, although Buttigieg ended up with one more delegate. He won by a razor-thin margin in New Hampshire, although he came out with the same number of delegates as Buttigieg. And he absolutely crushed it in Nevada, with practically no competition. But why is Bernie seeing such a surge? A large part of it has to do with the fact that average, working-class Americans are disenfranchised by the Democratic Party. In a lot of ways, Bernie is an...
  • How Mikaila Ulmer Turned a Lemonade Stand Into a Multi-Million Dollar Operation. (Great Story)

    02/23/2020 9:09:12 AM PST · by Hojczyk · 15 replies
    FEE ^ | FEBRUARY 17,2020 | Jon Miltimore
    When Mikaila Ulmer was four years old, she received an old cookbook from her grandmother. It was tattered and the covering was falling off, but the recipes were still intact. Thumbing through the pages, she stumbled on a mixture for flaxseed lemonade. “We tried making it, and it tasted really good,” Mikaila recalled in an interview years later. The Austin, Texas, native decided to sell the concoction at a lemonade stand. After a while—and an additional touch of her own, an infusion of honey, inspired by a newfound fascination with bees (more on that later)—Mikaila was encouraged by a local...
  • Beijing Admits Coronavirus Didn’t Start in Wuhan Food Market – Senator Cotton Tweets Vindication…

    02/23/2020 9:07:54 AM PST · by bitt · 39 replies
    CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE ^ | 2/22/2020 | SUNDANCE
    The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) now admits to an internal report showing the Coronavirus did not originate from the Huanan food market as they initially stated. Senator Tom Cotton has previously questioned the origination claim because there is a level-4 biological weapons lab in Wuhan, China, where the Huanan market is located. Tonight Senator Cotton tweets vindication toward his original suspicions: (Via Global Times) A new study by Chinese researchers indicates the novel coronavirus may have begun human-to-human transmission in late November from a place other than the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan. The study published on ChinaXiv, a Chinese...
  • From coffee to crackers, UW-Madison robots deliver to meet higher student demand

    02/23/2020 9:04:35 AM PST · by Ellendra · 6 replies
    NBC15 ^ | 2-22-2020 | Michelle Baik
    This winter semester, more UW-Madison students are bundled up inside, counting on app-based delivery robots to feed their appetites. The maker Starship launched a fleet of thirty self-navigating campus food carriers in November. Since then, Peter Testory, the university’s director of dining, said orders have jumped more than 700 percent. Testory said there’s also a correlation between bad winter weather and service use. When the order comes in with a “ding,” dining staff prepare the food at a campus kitchen. Runners or, oftentimes, kitchen managers take the food to the delivery bots parked outside. Once runners close the lids, the...
  • Buttigieg Takes Aim at Bernie's 'Inflexible, Ideological Revolution' Following Nevada Loss

    02/23/2020 8:59:44 AM PST · by rktman · 19 replies
    townhall.com ^ | 2/22/2020 | Bronson Stocking
    It did not take long for the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, to target the winner of Saturday's Democratic caucuses in Nevada. Socialist Bernie Sanders is projected to win a decisive victory in the Silver State, sending the media into a frenzy over renewed concerns that nominating a socialist would all but guarantee a second term for President Trump. In a speech following his apparent loss in Nevada, Buttigieg told a crowd of supporters that nominating Bernie Sanders would not sit well with the American people.
  • JetBlue signs loan linked to ESG goals

    02/23/2020 8:53:42 AM PST · by ameribbean expat · 8 replies
    JetBlue has signed on to a new credit facility that is priced according to its performance on environmental and social matters, the first of its kind in the airline industry. The carrier’s $550m sustainability-linked loan, which was set up by French bank BNP Paribas, gives it a financial incentive to follow through on its public commitment to reduce its carbon footprint. The margin the airline pays will go up or down in conjunction with its environmental, social and governance (ESG) score as determined by Vigeo Eiris, a Paris-based sustainability research group that was recently acquired by Moody’s.
  • CA Governor: Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing

    02/23/2020 8:53:23 AM PST · by stuck_in_new_orleans · 42 replies
    Twitter ^ | 2-21-2020
    https://mobile.twitter.com/GavinNewsom/status/1230889348167434240 @GavinNewsom Doctors should be able to write prescriptions for housing the same way they do for insulin or antibiotics.
  • Democrat at church enraged when congratulated on Bernie win in Nevada

    02/23/2020 8:50:15 AM PST · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 42 replies
    Church conversation on 2-23-2020 | 23 February 2020 | Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
    Congratulated a long-time Democrat at church (between class & services) on Bernie Sanders' win in Nevada and his face visibly reddened with boiling anger. He asked, "Are you a Bernie supporter?" I said that I was not. He then asked, "Are you congratulating me? Why are you congratulating me???" He was VISIBLY angry. He knows I am a conservative and made a disparaging comment about it many years ago. I said that I thought that was his party and then apologized. He said, "Apology accepted!" and then stomped off.
  • Americans Report Openness To Voting for Trump in Landslide Numbers

    02/23/2020 8:48:24 AM PST · by rktman · 35 replies
    westernjournal.com ^ | 2/22/2020 | C. Douglas Golden
    A new poll finds that a wide majority of Americans are open to voting President Donald Trump in for a second term this November, with a significant increase from last year. The poll, conducted by The Hill and HarrisX and released Thursday, found 62 percent of registered voters expressed openness to casting their ballot for Trump, compared with only 38 percent who said they wouldn’t vote for him. The survey, which polled 1,001 registered voters between Feb. 14 and Feb. 15, with a margin of error of plus- or minus-3.1 percentage points, differed dramatically from a March 2019 poll on...
  • Nolte: Bernie Gets a Briefing About Russia Meddling, Trump Gets Spied On and Wiretapped

    02/23/2020 8:45:58 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 9 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 23 Feb 2020 | John Nolte
    The same corrupt Deep State that spied on Trump has briefed Bernie Sanders about Russian attempts to meddle on his behalf. Hey, am I the only one more than a little sick and tired of being treated like a second-class citizen in my own goddamned country? James Clapper commits perjury… Skates. Peter Strzok and Lisa Page commit adultery and plot a coup… Skate. Andrew McCabe lies to the FBI… Skates John Brennan leaks classified information… Skates. James Comey leaks classified information… Skates. Adam Schiff caught on audio soliciting foreign election meddling… Skates. Hillary Clinton destroys some 30,000 emails under congressional...
  • Public schools are teaching our children to hate America

    02/23/2020 8:45:02 AM PST · by US Navy Vet · 3 replies
    New York Post ^ | February 22, 2020 | By Mary Kay Linge
    “A government is like everything else: to preserve it, we must love it.” When he was young, Thomas Jefferson carefully copied those words — a quote from the great political philosopher Montesquieu — into his “commonplace book,” the private journal he kept as a student for future inspiration. “Everything, therefore, depends on establishing this love in a republic,” the passage continued. “And to inspire it ought to be the principal business of education.”
  • Richard Grenell: Homosexual Trojan Horse

    02/23/2020 8:42:06 AM PST · by fwdude · 129 replies
    World Net Daily ^ | February 21, 2020 | Scott Lively
    There comes a time in the evolution of the progressive agenda when true conservatives should stop using the "slippery slope" argument because the place we've degenerated to should be condemned as is. That's our situation today where the hero we're rallying behind to fight the progressive agenda has embraced one of its most insidious and destructive tenets. I'm talking about President Trump's appointment of open and unrepentant homosexual Richard Grenell to the position of acting director of national intelligence. The insidious and destructive tenet of progressivism I'm referencing is "Sexual Orientation Theory" – a fake science invented by progressive political...
  • China Put Export Restrictions on N95 Face Masks – Then Nationalized a US Factory that Produces Them There

    02/23/2020 8:40:34 AM PST · by Hojczyk · 116 replies
    GP ^ | February 23, | Jim Hoft
    Trump Trade Adviser Navarro: China Put Export Restrictions on N95 Face Masks – Then Nationalized a US Factory that Produces Them There On Sunday Peter Navarro dropped this bomb. Peter Navarro: Maria my job at the White House during this crisis is to review the supply chains we need to treat corona. There’s over 30 different elements just for that alone. And what I’ve learned so far and not surprisingly is that we’ve offshored far too much of our supply chain not just for corona but also for the essential medicines we need… In terms of the immediate issue face...
  • China Syndrome: our surprising dependence on China for our prescription drugs

    02/23/2020 8:35:15 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 17 replies
    SharylArttkisson.com ^ | FEBRUARY 22, 2020 | SHARYL ATTKISSON
    In the 1990’s, the US, Europe, and Japan manufactured 90 percent of the key ingredients from medicine and vitamins. But now China is the largest global supplier. It seems like a reasonable time to take another look at my Full Measure report from August of 2018 about the fact that we have become increasingly dependent on China for our prescription drugs. Watch the video of the story at the link and read the transcript below. http://fullmeasure.news/news/politics/china-syndrome-08-13-2018 There’s been a quiet but dramatic shift in where we get our prescription drugs. We are increasingly dependent on China. And that could be...
  • Ronald Reagan warned us about Bernie Sanders – over 40 years ago

    02/23/2020 8:31:24 AM PST · by Hojczyk · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | February 23, 2020 | Paul J. Batura
    commentaries broadcast by about 350 radio stations and heard by tens of millions of Americans. When I listened to a collection of these broadcasts recently, it sounded like Reagan was warning us about the socialism preached by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Throughout his nearly five-year radio run, Reagan preached that the promises of socialism were lies. He noted that we often grow so accustomed to them, however, that we lose the fear of the ideology itself. In one of his commentaries, Reagan quotes a line he once spoke in a play highlighting the far-left ideology’s danger: “I never knew what...