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Archives for July 2019

2020 Dems Attack Biden for Deportations Under Obama: ‘You Can’t Have it Both Ways’

Sen. Cory Booker speaks as former Vice President Joe Biden listens on the second night of the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Mich., July 31, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Democratic presidential candidates had stern words for frontrunner Joe Biden during Wednesday night’s primary debate, calling on the former vice president to explain the deportations of…

Four Dem Presidential Candidates Introduce Bill to Ban Death Penalty

Senator Cory Booker on Capitol Hill, May 1, 2019 (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) Four Democratic senators seeking the party’s presidential nomination threw their support behind a bill that would abolish the federal death penalty, just days after the Justice Department announced it would restart executions after a nearly two-decade hiatus. Senator Cory Booker, who sits on the Senate…

Hong Kong Understands the Uncommon Value of the Common Law

The colonial flag of Hong Kong flies over a march of anti-extradition bill protesters in Hong Kong, China, July 7, 2019. (Thomas Peter/Reuters) In Asia-Pacific, we need to reassert the fundamental values that make men free.When conservatives in England and America talk about their civilization as an inheritance, they often talk about the genius of…

The Doctor Monopoly is Killing American Patients

In April 2016, Charles Johnson and his wife Kira went to the Cedars Sinai hospital in Los Angeles for the birth to their son Langston. They expected it to be one of the happiest days of their lives, but soon Charles found they had “walked into a nightmare.” Within an hour of delivery, Charles noticed…

And Then They Came For the Left’s Sacred Symbols

All throughout history, winners have destroyed the creations of losers. And yet that same history tells us that the wheel has a way of turning, as losers sometimes become winners. And so perhaps those who would destroy someone else’s stuff should stop and reflect on the possibility that the next stuff to be destroyed could…

Marianne Williamson: Holy Fool

Russian Orthodoxy treasures the yurodivy, or “holy fool,” an ascetic who behaves in ways that seem insane to normal people, but who, in so doing, reveal Christian truth. The New Age guru and Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is not a holy fool according to the usual definition, but I can’t help thinking that to…

Woman who thought itchy eyes were allergy symptom diagnosed with brain tumor

Itchy or irritated eyes are easy to pin on seasonal allergies, which is what one 30-year-old woman in London suspected when she stopped in at an ophthalmologist’s office last month. But Gurcharan Kaur, who at that point was having trouble blinking and noticed swelling in her eye, would soon learn that her symptoms were more…

Protesters repeatedly interrupt Dem primary debate, shout down Biden, de Blasio

Protesters repeatedly interrupted the Democrats’ presidential primary debate Wednesday night in Detroit — and at one point, demonstrators shouted down frontrunner Joe Biden with chants of “three million deportations.”That number referred to the approximate number of illegal immigrant deportations under the Obama administration — which, on matters from health care to immigration policy, came under fire from the 2020…

Castro to Biden: ‘One of us has learned the lessons of the past and one of us hasn’t’ | TheHill

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro jabbed at former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenO’Rourke predicts Democrats ‘can win Texas’ away from Trump in 2020 CNN roasted over debate production, format: ‘A disservice to serious people’ The Hill’s Morning Report – Progressives, centrists clash in lively Democratic debate MORE for his opposition to decriminalizing illegal border crossings…

Ben Carson Tours Baltimore: Cannot Ignore ‘Devastating Effect’ of Vermin, Ticks, Mold, Lead

Former pediatric neurosurgeon andnow Secretary of Urban and Housing Development (HUD) Ben Carson spoke to reporters on Wednesday after touring Baltimore, saying the city where he practiced for years has a “special place in my heart,” but the things harming residents, especially children, cannot be ignored. “As a pediatric neurosurgeon, you know I spent a…

Kris Kobach: Democrats Offer Free Healthcare to Illegals While Americans Forced to Buy Obamacare

Former Kansas Secretary of State and U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach says that when it comes to healthcare, Democrats treat illegal aliens better than middle class American citizens. In an exclusive interview with SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Daily, Kobach said that while 2020 Democrats are now promising free healthcare to illegal aliens, American citizens were…

Elizabeth Warren Provides No Evidence for Claim ‘Cages of Babies’ Being Held at Border

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claimed there are “cages of babies” being held at the United States-Mexico border despite there being no photograph or video evidence of such detention practices by U.S. Border Patrol agents. During Tuesday night’s CNN 2020 Democrat presidential primary debate, Warren claimed she saw “cages of babies” being held in detention when…

U.S. markets gyrate after Fed cuts rates, stocks fall

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street turned negative after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell characterized the U.S. central bank’s first rate cut since 2008 as a “mid-cycle adjustment to policy,” suggesting the move was not the start of a lengthy series of rate cuts. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before a…

John Delaney, We Hardly Knew Ye

Former Rep. John Delaney speaks during the first Democratic presidential debate in Miami, Fla., June 26, 2019. (Mike Segar/Reuters) When he fails to qualify for the next debate, his voice of reason will be missed.Poor John Delaney. If he weren’t a bald, middle-aged, straight-white-male centi-millionaire who used to be a congressman from Maryland, he might…

House Dems Near 50 Percent Support for Impeachment Inquiry

Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Nadler (D-NY) speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., June 19, 2019. (Aaron P. Bernstein/Reuters) A group of five Democratic representatives called on leadership to begin an impeachment inquiry against President Trump Tuesday night, bringing the total number of House Democrats in support of impeachment to…

Beto Slams Warren’s ‘Mistaken’ Call to Decriminalize Border Crossings

Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke speaks during the first night of the second Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Mich., July 30, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) Beto O’Rourke criticized Senator Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday for suggesting that decriminalizing illegal border crossings is the most effective way to end family separations at the border. During the second round of…

British Tabloid Chickens, in Defense of Hometowns, and Misunderstanding Chaucer

Black Mountain, NC. Photo by Mojo Hand, via Wikimedia Commons A new biography of Chaucer grossly misunderstands and misrepresents the medieval life and work of the poet. A. M. Juster reviews: “Nothing in this book actually supports the thesis that the beginning of the breakdown of medieval economies—often due to broader trade—made life any worse…

Tulsi’s Last Stand?

Credit: MSNBC/YouTube Screenshot It was already one of the most memorable moments of the Democratic presidential debates in this young election cycle. “Leaders as disparate as President Obama and President Trump have both said they want to end U.S. involvement in Afghanistan but it isn’t over for America,” observed moderator Rachel Maddow. “Why isn’t it…

DCCC’s Diversity Hara-Kiri

Big shake up the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: A mass exodus of senior leadership at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Monday over a lack of institutional diversity left the party’s campaign arm in disarray and called into question the leadership of chairperson Illinois Rep. Cheri Bustos. Black and Hispanic leaders in House had expressed anger…

Newt Gingrich says President Trump could not have hoped for a better Dem debate

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday that President Trump was the big winner at Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate.”It was a really good night for Donald Trump. He could hardly have hoped for a better debate. You had a handful of rational moderates, [like] Congressman Delaney. Their soundbites are perfect and…

Katy Perry, more stars attend Google summit on climate change in private jets, mega yachts

Google Camp is hosting the likes of former President Barack Obama, Prince Harry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Katy Perry in Sicily, Italy, to discuss climate change, but it may come at a steep cost to Mother Earth.“Everything is about global warming, that is the major topic this year,” a source told the New York Post.Sources told the outlet that the three-day event will…

Senate braces for brawl over Trump’s spy chief | TheHill

President TrumpDonald John TrumpProfessor installs seesaws across US-Mexico border to form connection ‘on both sides’ What the world can expect from the Boris Johnson government Marianne Williamson: I am not a ‘wacky new-age nutcase’ MORE’s pick to be his next spy chief is facing a fierce political battle, injecting uncertainty into his confirmation chances.  Democrats…

Marianne Williamson to Breitbart News: Fight Trump’s ‘Dark Psychic Force’ with ‘Love’

DETROIT, Michigan — Spiritual guru and Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson spoke to Breitbart News in the spin room and revealed her plan to counteract what she referred to in the Democratic debate as President Donald Trump’s “dark psychic force.” Breitbart News interviewed Williamson in the midst of the media scrum: Matt Perdie: How are…

Fact Check: Bernie Sanders Says Migrants Walk 2,000 Miles to the U.S. Border

Migrants walk 2,000 miles from Central America to the U.S. border, Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed during the July 30 Democrat debate. “If a mother and a child walk thousands of miles on a dangerous path, in my view, they are not criminals …  We’ve got to ask ourselves, “Why are people walking 2,000 miles to a…

Marianne Williamson: America Made ‘Huge Multi-National Corporations into a False God’

Self-help guru and author Marianne Williamson said at the Democrat debate on Tuesday in Detroit that corporations have become “a false god.” Williamson cited America’s founders, “who brought forth on this planet an extraordinary new possibility” that all people could “have the possibility of thriving.” Williamson said that the country has not actually lived up…

PM Johnson heads to Northern Ireland, Brexit’s toughest riddle

BELFAST (Reuters) – Britain’s new Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be confronted by the most intractable riddle of Brexit on Wednesday when he visits Northern Ireland on a nationwide tour to sell his plan to pull Britain out of the European Union with or without a deal. A week after he took power, Johnson’s office…

Bernie Sanders Promises ‘Strong Border Protections’ Will Prevent Migrant Exploitation of Government Benefits

Sen. Bernie Sanders speak during the first night of the second 2020 Democratic presidential debate in Detroit, Mich., July 30, 2019. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) During the second round of Democratic primary debates Tuesday night, Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) argued that “strong border protections” will prevent impoverished migrants from coming to the U.S. illegally in search…

2020 Democrats Want You to Pay for Abortions

Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at the annual convention of the NAACP in Detroit, Mich., July 24, 2019. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters) The presidential front-runners would cover unlimited elective abortion in their health-care plans.As Democratic presidential hopefuls face off in the second round of primary debates, several candidates are sparring over their expansive health-care plans. On Monday, California…

North Korea Fires Multiple Unidentified Projectiles, South Korean Media Reports

A view of North Korea’s missile launch on July 25, in an undated picture released July 26, 2019. (North Korea Central News Agency/via Reuters) North Korea fired multiple unidentified projectiles early Wednesday morning local time, according to South Korean media reports. The objects were shot from the Hodo Peninsula in South Hamgyong province, which is…

The Bad Biographer’s Tale

The first sentence of the epilogue to Marion Turner’s biography of Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1342-1400) aptly summarizes the poet’s legacy: “Chaucer became a monumental poet, enclosed in a monumental tomb, with monumental volumes of his Complete Works functioning as the bedrock of the English national canon.” Among his achievements, he invented iambic pentameter, a meter…

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