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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez primary is heating up. For the second time in five days, the star freshman congresswoman is appearing alongside Bernie Sanders at a high-profile event. Rep. Ro Khanna, co-chairman of Sanders' campaign, is talking with Ocasio-Cortez's staff about the primary. And Sanders' team told POLITICO that he and Ocasio-Cortez "have had phone calls.” Ocasio-Cortez's work on Sanders' 2016 campaign — and the fact that several staffers from that bid went on to work for her and the pro-Ocasio-Cortez group Justice Democrats — suggest the Vermont senator has the inside track for her coveted endorsement. But Sen. Elizabeth Warren...

The Narcotics Division is being done away with. Narcotics cases will be handled by the general trial division. (Just like when they were put on bond and their cases continued forever until they pick up a new case and pled out to concurrent time). Many of the ASAs who were in the narcotics unit were transferred into a new unit called Restorative Justice. Restorative Justice: The victim is invited to come to court and met the guy who stole their property or burglarized their house so he can say he’s sorry. If he does this, he gets to avoid prison....

Chronicle of a member of the John Brown Gun Club and his attempt at intimidating those exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

President Trump said Monday he’ll win re-election in 2020 fair and square and pledged not to use dirt dug up from foreigners on his opponents. “Well, I never did use [it],” the president replied, alluding to Russia’s meddling in the 2016 campaign. “As you probably know, that’s what the Mueller report was all about. They said, ‘No collusion.’ ” He was asked about foreign intervention during a public appearance at the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. “And I would certainly agree to that,” he said, of pledging not to rely on foreign help. “I don’t need it....

Bestselling author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson, among a field of more than 20 candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination, told Fox News on Monday that she agrees with President Trump’s latest penalties on Chinese products. “When it comes to China, he's absolutely right,” she said on “The Daily Briefing.” “It was time for someone to stand up to this. He's right that this has been going on a very long time. Now, whether the number of his tariffs is too blunt … is a question. The fact that he's taking a tough stance, he's right.” The U.S. moved...

Brian Sims is a democrat in the House of Representatives, elected in 2012 to represent the 182nd District. He is also weird. How anyone could elect this cretin is beyond me. In a way, he is representative not only of his district, but also of the democrat party in general. Sims recently harassed the hell out of an older white woman peacefully engaged in pro-life protest: The Democrat from Philadelphia, who is the first openly gay lawmaker in the State House, responded to Live Action: Bring it, Bible Bullies! You are bigots, sexists, and misogynists and I see right through...

Today’s Campaign Update, Part II (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Everyone is talking about lunatic congressional freshmen women today, and none of it is good. That’s really nothing all that new, but when Democrats have reached the point where their members of congress are even being slammed on CNN of all places, you know they have a problem. Watch this clip: Embedded video Ryan Saavedra ✔ @RealSaavedra CNN's John King slams Rep. Rashida Tlaib's (D-MI) anti-Semitic remarks on the Holocaust: "Palestinian leaders at the time sided with Hitler" In addition to their exploding antisemitism problem personified by Tlaib and Ilhan...

I've never posted a vanity before so forgive me for any boo-boos. A family member (sister) just let me know about some bad legislation that may be coming her way. Several years ago, her husband went through a mid-life crisis and ended up leaving her temporarily for a younger woman who had a 6 year old girl. Eventually, the woman had sister's husband arrested and convicted for lewd and lascivious behavior in front of the child which is a mandatory 25 year sentence in Florida. My sister is getting ready to retire from K-Mart and planned on supporting herself on...

by Jenn Carter One of Barack Obama's top cabinet secretaries has stunned and infuriated Washington Democrats by derailing their "Trump is Putin's Puppet" narrative in a high-profile interview with CBS News. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates was asked what reporter Margaret Brennan thought was a softball question aimed to garner a Trump-bashing reply from Gates. She got exactly the opposite. “It’s a favorite talking point for the Trump administration to say that they’ve been the toughest on Russia of any administration,” Margaret Brennan pointed out to Gates. Gated replied, “And in some respects, that’s true. … I think in terms...

Former Secretary of State and failed 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry brushed off President Trump's charges that he is illegally undermining the Administration's policy toward Iran. According to various media reports, Kerry has been secretly advising the Iranian dictatorship and its European allies to ignore Trump and stick with the deal he and former President Obama made. Kerry asserts that he is "representing the true consensus of opinion on the proper relationship between the United States and Iran—one based on mutual trust and respect. Trump's attitude of America first and his publicly expressed suspicion of Iran's motives threatens the gains...

VIDEO Although Kamala Harris was obviously the favored presidential candidate of the mainstream media last year she turned out to be such a disaster that they are now forced to hype Joe Biden out of their desperation to prevent the nomination of Bernie Sanders.

One of the Democrats running for president is a youthful former Rhodes Scholar who speaks more than one language and cut his teeth as a two-term mayor. The other is Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg’s sparkling resume has been the subject of countless profiles, powering the South Bend mayor to the top tier of the 2020 field. Sen. Cory Booker, however, hasn’t received nearly as much attention and remains mired in the middle of the pack in recent polls.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. – General George S. Patton What is this week’s sound bite reverberating through the  great Democratic/Media echo machine? The patented Dem/MSM echo machine, cutting through the silence with the mellifluous sound of a chain saw “Constitutional Crisis.” I would agree with if they allowed as how this “constitutional crisis” was due to their antics, not those of PDJT. One could certainly make the case that Democrats refusing to enforce any of the nation’s immigration laws, unlawfully spying on a political foe (raise your hand if you’re old enough to remember...

There still exists a physical media in the sense of airing current events. But it is not journalism as we once understood the disinterested reporting of the news. Journalism is now dead. The media lives on. Reporters today believe that their coverage serves higher agendas of social justice, identity politics, “equality” and diversity. To the degree a news account is expanded or ignored, praised or blasted, depends on its supposed utility to the effort to fundamentally transform the country into something unlike its founding.

Which is better for Self-Defense, Hunting or Plinking? The 9mm and the 22LR are two popular ammunition out in the market. They are different in respect to cartridge sizes. Comparing the two in a head to head is easy when you’re only viewing the size of the caliber. The 9mm is bigger than the 22 round. The .22 rounds have much less energy than 9mm rounds, the powder load is smaller. When fired has less acceleration and kinetic energy. Which means the penetration and knock down power is not in the same class as the 9mm caliber. However, that doesn’t...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Today’s Public Service Announcement! – The “World’s Fastest Train” has been unveiled in Japan, y’all! Guess what? It is designed to sail along at speeds up to … wait for it… 224 miles per hour! Which is, lessee here…. almost half as fast as the average airliner. Almost. Oh, and it won’t be operational until the year 2030, which is coincidentally the year before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells us we’re all going to burn up and die if we don’t get rid of air travel and replace it millions of miles of rail...

An attack on a church in the African nation of Burkina Faso Sunday. Six dead including the priest with the church burned down.... "It was the army that came to the rescue" the words of France's leading opposition politician Marine Le Pen in relation to the rescue of four hostages from Islamic terrorists in Burkina Faso Thursday night..... A Christian town in northern Syria rocketed by jihadists Sunday. Six were killed..... Almost a year after he was arrested live streaming outside a child sex abuse trial involving Muslim defendants summarily tried and sent off to prison British activist Tommy Robinson...

Presidential candidate Cory Booker characterized his colleague and 2020 opponent Elizabeth Warren’s proposals to break up tech giants as “a Donald Trump thing to say" and called for a “president that's going to enforce antitrust laws.” “I don’t think that a president should be running around pointing at companies and saying ‘breaking them up’ without any kind of process,” Booker, D-N.J., said in an interview Saturday on ABC News’ “This Week.” Booker said that he believes instead of calling for companies like Facebook, Amazon and Google to be broken up, there should be a process to address corporate consolidation, declaring...

Subtitle: She Walked Like a Woman but Talked Like a Man Girls will be boys and boys will be girls It’s a mixed up muddled up shook up worldLola - The Kinks 1970 A once respected Supreme Court will decide next month if the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) can force businesses to allow trannies to cross-dress in their places of employment.1 On the surface, the issue is straightforward. Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 empower the EEOC to force a funeral home to allow its employees to dress according to their perceived gender? In 2018,...

Victor Davis Hanson’s new book, “The Case for Trump,” chronicles the successes of America’s 45th president as only the prolific Hoover Institution scholar could. A columnist for The Daily Signal, Hanson recently spoke to me about the book, his concerns about California’s future, and the demise of the Never Trump movement. Our full interview is available on The Daily Signal Podcast or on video. A lightly edited transcript is below. Rob Bluey: Let’s start with your book. It’s a fascinating read. I want you to tell us why you chose to write it. Victor Davis Hanson: I’ve asked myself that....