Donald Trump, who thinks he can bloviate his way to a presidential nomination, stepped in it again this morning during an interview on Fox & Friends, but don’t expect anyone to catch his screw-up, or cause a dip in his polls.
When asked for his reaction to the Boston Globe report that veterans of Mitt Romney’s campaign are united in the common goal of defeating him, Trump took off on Romney as a failure saying, “this is pure Romney wanting to get back in.”… read more
Baltimore to pay Freddie Gray’s family $6.4 million to settle civil claims – Baltimore Sun
Unbelievable! In the wrongful death civil suit in Maryland, Baltimore has settled with the Freddie Gray family for $6.4 million. Some have called extortion to prevent further rioting.
Put aside the fact that civil suits are generally handled after the criminal suit and that those six Baltimore police officers yet to go on trial are now practically found guilty by the payoff.
Freddie Gray’s mother, Gloria Darden, a heroin addict who cannot read, will receive $5.36 in a settlement over the loss of her son. (nbcnews.com)
Put aside the fact that when it comes to wrongful death decisions in Maryland, the payout to the Gray family is simply ridiculous. Since 2011, the city has settled more than 120 cases of alleged police brutality with just six exceeding $200,000, and none close to the Gray settlement. Even settlements in Maryland traffic deaths average just $500,000. Continue reading
Well, well, well … today we learned that it was Hillary Clinton who opened the door to accepting a change in U.S. policy that would allow Iran to continue to produce nuclear fuel.
Hillary Clinton and her foreign policy aide Jake Sullivan photographed during a White House visit. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
After an unproductive secret meeting between Clinton’s foreign policy aide Jake Sullivan and Iranian diplomats in Oman in July 2012, and in a series of meetings in Washington over the following six months, Clinton and Obama concluded that we would have to let Iran continue to enrich uranium at small levels if an agreement was to succeed.
Very interesting, since it was Clinton who, during the 2008 campaign, called Obama naïve for believing he could directly negotiate with Iran’s regime. Continue reading
“I always thought this would be a competitive race.” – Hillary Clinton
Hillary never believed the “anointed” and “entitled” clichés about her run for the presidency. (natinalreview.com)
Yeah, Hillary … while the rest of us were hearing words like “entitled”… “anointed”… “it’s her time” and “her turn,” you want us to believe you were thinking otherwise. You knew all along that Bernie Sanders would be as popular as he has demonstrated.
It took a bit of digging, but I found a piece by Myra Adams I had remembered seeing in The Daily Beast some time ago. “Not having a real primary will be a tremendous advantage for Hillary, thus freeing her up to concentrate on the general-election battle…,” wrote Adams, “claiming any opposition would be “symbolic.” Continue reading
“Take that, Bibi.” – Gwen Ifill
Since I am not a fan of what the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (PBS) reports as “news,” I learned of the most recent Obama administration pandering of Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour, in a newspaper account.
Ifill during an interview with Obama. (pamellageller.com)
When it became known that the president had secured the required Democrat support in the Senate to ensure the Iran deal could not be blocked by opponents, Ifill, in what was described as a digital spiking of the football, tweeted “Take that, Bibi.” The reference, of course, to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who addressed Congress in opposition to the deal. Continue reading
“If only the president had consulted the history of Glacier Bay … he would have found a different story. It is a historical fact that the glacier in Glacier Bay began its retreat around 1750 … (and) by the time Capt. George Vancouver arrived there in 1794 the glacier still filled the bay. When John Muir visited in 1879 he found that the glacier had retreated more than 30 miles … and by 1900 Glacier Bay was ice-free.” – Patrick Moore*
President Obama continued to spew his alarmist views on climate change during his visit to Alaska’s Glacier Bay, where climate change has been naturally taking place for thousands of years. (todayszaman.com)
So wrote Moore in a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal, “Obama’s Half-Baked Alaska.” He followed with, “All of this happened long before human emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, could have had any impact.”
It supports the statement I made in my Sept. 1, post, “The CO2 myth,” that “Temperatures and CO2 levels of today have been recorded in years before the invention of the combustion engine,” and that “even if we were to stop all transportation and shut down our industry, it would not have any impact on global warming.” Continue reading
I made fun of Hillary Clinton’s amateurish campaign logo in my June 20, 2015 post, “Hillary Clinton honest and trustworthy?” and predicted it would be used by creative cartoonists.
The accompanying cartoon with Hillary wearing a T-shirt was the creative work of one of my favorite editorial cartoonists, Michael Ramirez, whose work appears regularly in Investor’s Business Daily.… read more
The Environmental Protection Agency and its environmental advocacy groups continue to perpetuate the myth that C02 needs to be controlled because it is the primary cause of trapping the sun’s heat and causing the planet to warm.
And, they claim that the United States produces 25 percent of the carbon dioxide pollution from fossil-fuel burning, the largest share of any country.
President Obama’s EPA has embarked on a $655 billion Clean Air Plan to cut C02 emissions by 32 percent in the next 15 years, and he is currently on an 11-day climate change tour to shame us for ignoring our carbon footprint.
While I agree that there has been a negligible warming, and human behavior may contribute to it, but we have been told by the government that the Clean Air Plan will most likely not have a measurable effect on the warming. Continue reading
President Obama, the Grand Poobah of Climate Change, checks the air for warming. (Eathan Miller/Getty Images)
As President Obama embarks on his 11-day climate change tour, the Wall Street Journal claims “global warming is expected to emerge as a key issue.”
WSJ bases its prediction on a Pew Research Center report finding that 74 percent of American adults say there is “solid evidence” of global warming, and that 46 percent believe the warming trend is “mostly due to human activity.”
You can expect to hear that its “proven science” backed by hundreds of leading scientists, supported by the majority of Americans. And count on him to scoff at deniers. Continue reading
“I’m retiring because my time is up.” – Dave Hickey
It’s time for Jim Gilmore, George Pataki, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, Rick Santorum, Mike Huckabee and Rick Perry to gracefully bow out of the 2016 Republican presidential race. They’re barely registering in the polls, and probably wouldn’t even if Donald Trump’s candidacy wasn’t skewing things.… read more
