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Democrats are afraid of Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, becoming President Donald Trump's next director of national intelligence because they are concerned about how he'll work on reforms of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Rep. Jim Jordan said Tuesday. “I think they’re scared (Ratcliffe) is going to clean FISA up,” the Ohio Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom," pointing out that Ratcliffe identified issues with the FISA process three years ago. "It also shows that (Rep.) Adam Schiff was wrong," said Jordan. "They don't like the fact that Adam Schiff was wrong and John Ratcliffe was right." Republicans were vindicated by...

Katy Finds Support For Trump In Latino Community In California VIDEO AT LINK............... Katy Tur reports from East Los Angeles and finds support for President Donald Trump in the California Latino community, citing the strong US economy. Robby Starbuck ✔ @robbystarbuck MSNBC went to East Los Angeles to ask Latino people who they’re voting for. The first guy they featured said he’s voting for Bernie but doesn’t know why. The host asks if his daughter is the reason why... He says no his daughter is voting for Trump. 😂😂😂

This is a clip from the 1992 movie "Stalin," with Robert Duvall in the starring role. In this clip, Stalin meets with the peasants and informs them of his "solution" to their problem. Of course, Stalin has a different accent and personal style than Bernie, but his policy sounds very similar. Stalin with the Peasants BTW, Duvall does an excellent job in his portrayal of Stalin. If any of my fellow Freepers are interested in seeing the full movie, it is available for free on YouTube: "Stalin" full movie (2:52:33)

PARK CITY, Utah - - Since losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has released a memoir about that defeat, launched a political action committee and penned another book about “gutsy women” with her daughter, Chelsea. But Clinton’s most prominent return to the public eye has come in the form of a new candid four-hour documentary series. Some, Clinton is aware, thought she would slink away after 2016. “Yes, they did, didn’t they?”says Clinton. “Well, that was never an option.” Nanette Burstein’s “Hillary,” which Hulu will debut Friday, is a more direct and long-form portrait of Clinton than...

Al Hunt, Bloomberg News' former Washington editor and one of the organization's most visible faces in politics until his 2018 exit, was accused over the course of years by multiple women of giving unsolicited massages and verbally berating employees for minor infractions, Business Insider has learned. Despite at least two financial settlements with women who complained about the editor, he continued in his position for years, sources said. That's one of the findings in a weeks-long investigation conducted by Business Insider into the company's culture. The investigation involved interviews with more than 40 current and former Bloomberg LP employees and...

Continuation of the thread. No 8 here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3821104/posts?q=1&;page=1004#1004

How Deadly Is COVID-19? With over 90,000 cases of the novel coronavirus confirmed worldwide and over 3,000 reported deaths—seven of which have been in the U.S.—scientists are zeroing in on how deadly the virus is and who is most at risk. The latest research suggests the fatality rate is anywhere between 1.4 and 2.3 percent, but the true impact of the virus is actually more complicated—and likely less severe—than that. The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak is still in its early stages, having emerged in China at some point in late 2019 and spread to dozens of countries in early 2020. There’s...

Moscow (AFP) Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted to parliament a number of new constitutional changes, including amendments that mention God and stipulate that marriage is a union of a man and woman. Putin in January unleashed a political storm by proposing an overhaul of the constitution, the first changes to the basic law since 1993. Last month the Russian parliament's lower house unanimously approved the constitutional reform bill in a first reading after less than two hours of debate. Ahead of a second and key reading set for next week, Putin submitted 24 pages worth of amendments, said State...

Democratic presidential contender Mike Bloomberg claimed Tuesday he “didn’t realize” Sen. Elizabeth Warren was still in the primary race, going so far as to ask a reporter if she was still running. Speaking to reporters while campaigning in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Fla., the billionaire ex-mayor made the admission after being asked if a third-place finish in Super Tuesday states would be good. “If there’s only three candidates, you can’t do worse than that,” he told the reporter. “Well, there is Elizabeth Warren also,” the reporter replied. “I didn’t realize she’s still in. Is she?” he responded.

Asked by CNN reporter Cristina Alesci in Miami about how he would feel if he came in third place on Super Tuesday, Bloomberg said, “There’s only three candidates, you can’t do worse than that.” Alesci reminded Bloomberg that Warren is also in the race, to which he replied: “I didn’t realize she’s still in. Is she?” Bloomberg was campaigning in Miami ahead of Florida’s March 17 primary. Maybe he’s lost count of the candidates in the race after three dropped out in recent days: investor Tom Steyer, former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar. Warren...

... Mr. Carranza’s focus on racial inequality in city schools has drawn ire from prominent conservatives across the country, many of whom are white. But the Mexican-American chancellor has faced his strongest critics closer to home, from some of those in the city’s Asian community. That rift, which is at the center of an emotional debate among families of color about merit and fairness in city schools, threatens to undermine the chancellor’s remaining two years as one of the most influential education officials in the country. “You have this chancellor and this mayor who have all these great ideas, but...

Donna Brazile tells Ronna McDaniel: ‘Go to hell’ Donna Brazile is very offended anyone would suggest DNC would rig the primary against Bernie. Ronna must be right over the target!”

It was the night before Super Tuesday, and Elizabeth Warren was hanging in there. Bernie Sanders had just held a massive Los Angeles rally with Public Enemy, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar had just dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden, but Warren was doing what she always does: playing the same Motown-inspired soundtrack, handing out the same “Persist” signs, giving another speech that sounded like a history lecture. Six months ago, when this was all working, Warren was the candidate of the head as well as the heart. Back then, she was widely considered a Democratic frontrunner, and it all...

Appearing on MSNBC Tuesday morning to voice her 2020 support for Michael Bloomberg, daytime host Judge Judy Sheindlin blasted the socialist revolution being preached by Bernie Sanders as “a joke” and accused the far-left presidential candidate of trying to “fool the American public.” Anchor Stephanie Ruhle feebly attempted to defend Sanders and his supporters. Early in the interview, Ruhle asked: “You say that Senator Sanders’ revolution is a joke. Why?” Sheindlin replied with a patriotic defense of America as she slammed Sanders: “This is the greatest country in the world. Nobody wants to leave this country....Senator Sanders’ revolution is not...

The Minnesota Secretary of State's office has apologized after its Pollfinder tool started redirecting users to progressive websites when it couldn't handle the traffic from Minnesotans trying to find out where to vote on Super Tuesday. There were several examples cited of the Pollfinder on the Secretary of State's site becoming overloaded, and advising users that because of "heavy demand, you may be directed to a trusted external site to find your polling place information." Some users were then directed to Pollfinder tools hosted on sites including BoldProgressives.org, a PAC that has endorsed Elizabeth Warren and solicits donations, as well...

Former commissioner of the New York Police Department Bernard (Bernie) Kerik spoke with Just the News today about what he thinks is the single most radical threat to American safety. For 20 years Kerik has been consistent on his answer - Islamic terrorism. But for the first time, he’s changing his answer. “In the aftermath of September 11th, I’ve consistently said that my greatest (concern) is the influence of radical Islam,” Kerik said on the John Solomon Reports podcast. “My bigger concern right now is that Bernie Sanders and the socialist/communist movement is a greater threat to our democracy than...

Lindell briefly spoke about his memoir, What Are the Odds? From Crack Addict to CEO, which details his rise from addiction to entrepreneurial success. He hopes it will inspire others and help “destroy addiction in this country” — an effort he noted is also “dear” to the president’s heart. “I didn’t think politics had anything to do with our daily lives,” he said. “I had never voted. Well boy I know now.” Lindell now serves as chairman of the Minnesota Trump campaign — a state Trump narrowly lost in 2016. “I’m telling you in Minnesota, it’s ground zero for this...

Director and actor Rob Reiner warned Monday on MSNBC’s “All In” that if the Democratic presidential nominee does not beat President Donald Trump in 2020, America will lose our Democracy to Trump’s authoritarianism. Reiner also said the earth would become uninhabitable due to inaction on global warming. On his support for former Vice President Joe Biden, Reiner said, “I was a Joe Biden supporter for a year. And my position always was if Joe Biden I knew there was going to be a lot of candidates. I knew who all, you know, Elizabeth Warren, I knew Bernie was coming back,...

It takes a serious low-life to play politics with something like the coronavirus, especially when people are scared to leave their homes and the market takes a beating because of it. Sadly, Nancy Pelosi is just that sort of low-life. And they pretend like Trump is the bad guy here. Watch.

If fully implemented, Senator Bernie Sanders’s agenda for the economy would represent a dramatic break with American precedent and impose major costs on our economic well-being. Working from data provided in the Council of Economic Advisers’s 2018–2020 Economic Reports of the President, I have calculated what the impact of Sanders’ policies could be—within, say, five to ten years of implementation. In my projections, the Sanders agenda would reduce real GDP and consumption by 24 percent, assuming that its taxation was efficient and prudent (focusing on labor and consumption taxes, rather than taxes on wealth, for example). Real wages would fall...