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Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) said at a recent campaign stop that English should not be the official language of the United States, even though she voted for a pro-English language bill during her time in the Senate. Klobuchar said at the campaign event in Las Vegas on Friday that she has “taken a strong position against” the English-language amendment, which she voted in support of in 2007, the Associated Press reported. “I think that when you look at a state like this state, and a country like ours that is so diverse, you don’t want to have...

Republican strategist Kimberly Klacik said after winning the primary election to run for the late congressman Elijah Cummings’s old seat in Baltimore that she won because of her “grassroots efforts," and she added that some of President Trump’s policies will help her historically blue district. “What I try to remind people is if you take a look at President Trump — take a look at prison reform, First Step Act, he’s actually just rewinding and fixing what was broken with that crime bill that led to so much mass incarceration that you really see in the greater Baltimore area,” Klacik...

ANALYSIS/OPINION: Remember that giant gavel that Nancy Pelosi carried in triumph across Capitol Hill after the House voted for Obamacare in 2010? You know, the one that looked like a croquet mallet? During the State of the Union address on Feb. 4, she looked bereft without it as she chewed her lip, gauging the distance between her and Mr. Trump. It would have been so quick and easy. And who could have blamed her? Certainly none in the media. They would instantly discover all sorts of mitigating circumstances. But, not having her mallet handy, she settled for ripping up her...

They’re the Real Housewives of Fighting Crime. A band of Manhattan moms are trading luncheons and playdates for political lobbying and police meetings — all in the name of protecting their kids from rising crime, bail-reform loopholes, aggressive panhandlers, and what they see as a general return of lawlessness. The 2,600-mother movement formed on the Upper West Side in the fall, when a string of high-profile muggings and a playground shooting put the family-oriented neighborhood on edge — and one woman decided to do something about it. “My background is in finance and non-profit. I’m not like an activist or...

Like Canada and many Commonwealth nations, Australia is a constitutional monarchy where Queen Elisabeth of the English House Of Windsor is the head of state. Many Australians want Australia to become a republic, but not yet enough to make the change. Jim Cousens discusses the debate and how political correctness influences what he is able to say. NB This is satire.

There are currently 69,036 confirmed cases worldwide, including 1,666 fatalities.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent his first week post-impeachment asserting his dominance over the Department of Justice in a bid to exact revenge on his enemies and deliver rewards to his allies — the sudden, dramatic escalation of a long-running campaign to solidify his control over legal matters, and remove or sideline the remaining independent voices within his administration. With the impeachment behind him, Trump's advisers say there is little incentive for him to hold his fire. With few, if any, dissenting voices left in his orbit, aides and advisers have been cheering on his moves, saying he is...

This chart, from Gallup as reported by Bloomberg, shows as clearly as anything what a mountain the Democrats have to climb to win the presidency in November. The Democrats are selling pessimism, but the American people aren’t buying it. And young people, minorities and the less well-educated especially aren’t buying it:

Oh, Joe? Joe? You have just been dissed and betrayed and left to twist in the breeze by your old pal and boss, you know who I mean. You're not going to be nominated. Barr is closing in on your misdeeds in Ukraine and elsewhere, and your entire life is about to unravel. If I were you, I'd show up at Barr's office with whatever documentation I can find, and sing like a canary. Then you, Jill, Hunter, and your entire family can go into witness protection. Sure, Trump would win, but he'd win anyway. Bloomberg? Seriesly? You, however, have...

China could effectively shut down America’s healthcare system within months given the one-party state’s “global chokehold” on the manufacturing of medicines and medical supplies, explained Rosemary Gibson, author of China Rx: Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine. Mansour noted how the coronavirus outbreak in China has exposed America’s dangerous dependence on Chinese production of pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed for domestic drug production. Gibson said, “If China shuts the door on exports of medicines and the ingredients to make them,...

While addressing members of the National Border Patrol Council on Friday, President Trump invited on stage the granddaughter of an elderly New York woman who was raped and slain last month by, allegedly, a known criminal alien recently released into the community under New York's dangerous sanctuary city policies. In January, New York City police arrested a 21-year-old illegal immigrant from Guyana, Reeaz Khan, for the murder and sexual assault of Maria Fuertes, a 92-year-old grandmother living in Queens. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have blamed NYC's sanctuary city laws for releasing the known criminal alien back into the community...

Just saw WRAL run an ad with former president Obama endorsing Bloomberg. The kiss of death.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday Russia would not legalize gay marriage as long as he was in the Kremlin. He made clear he would not allow the traditional notion of mother and father to be subverted by what he called “parent number 1” and “parent number 2”. “As far as ‘parent number 1’ and ‘parent number 2’ goes, I’ve already spoken publicly about this and I’ll repeat it again: as long as I’m president this will not happen. There will be dad and mum,” Putin said. During his two decades in power, Putin has closely aligned himself with the...

Democratic presidential contender Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign manager Faiz Shakir is reportedly peeved over Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s neglect to sufficiently mention Sanders’ name as she was campaigning on his behalf while he was tied up at Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. Ocasio-Cortez brushed aside Shakir’s complaints, saying “revolution is not about egotistic self-aggrandizement. It’s about being right on the issues. Socialism is for the masses. Individuals don’t matter. The collective does.” “In terms of ideology, she is, of course, correct,” Shakir said. “However, we need to have voters select the name of the person they want to be their...

It, now being abundantly clear, from day one Mueller had no case against POTUS Trump, why couldn't a everyday citizen file a qui tam lawsuit against Mueller et al?

Michael Aventatti, who rose to national prominence for representing porn-star actress Stormy Daniels against President Donald Trump was found guilty Friday of trying to extort more than $20 million from Nike, inc. with threats to expose defamatory information of the company.The case launched last year by the U.S. attorneyÂ’s office in Manhattan followed an investigation into a series of meetings with Los Angeles lawyer Mark Geragos and representatives for Nike in March of 2019. Avenatti was convicted by jury of all three counts charged by U.S. attorneys including extortion, transmission of interstate communications and intent to extort, and wire fraud.Prosecutors...

...After narrowly losing in 1989 to Democrat David Dinkins, the city’s first black mayor, Giuliani beat Dinkins four years later on the strength of a strong vote from conservative whites and Jews from the city’s outer boroughs, but with a paltry 5 percent of the black vote. He maintained his support within his base constituencies Tuesday, but exit polling revealed he quadrupled his support among blacks, to 19 percent. Among blacks who said they voted for Dinkins in 1993, one in seven supported Giuliani on Tuesday. He also appeared to have picked up slightly among Hispanics, among whom he won...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Police say Orlando Abeyta pointed what looked like a gun at passengers on an Albuquerque Rapid Transit bus just a couple of hours before two members of the police department’s gang unit saw him threatening people sitting at another bus stop on Central near San Pedro last month. The officers fired 10 times and struck 28-year-old Abeyta four times. He died at the scene. Next to him they found what turned out to be a BB gun. In a news conference Friday morning, Lt. Scott Norris of the Albuquerque Police Department’s Violent Crimes Section, laid out the...

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) used campaign funds to procure media-buying services from a consulting company founded and operated by his wife and her children......an LLC called Sanders and Driscoll, a for-profit company run by Jane, daughter Carina, and son David out of the Sanders family home. As Mayor, Sanders appointed his wife to an unpaid position. Against the city council’s objections, he later put Jane on the payroll at taxpayers’ expense. Jane's role as head of Burlington College, a private school with fewer than 200 students.....her hiring was a function of her marriage to Bernie Sanders — then a member of...

According to the Ministry of Public Security, local public security authorities recently listed 20 novel coronavirus pneumonia patients nationwide who intentionally concealed their ailment, contact and travel history and could be charged with endangering public security as their irresponsibility led to many more people being isolated or even infected. Following the outbreak of a contagious disease, it is obligatory for citizens to report their history of contact with infected people or travel history in epidemic areas, especially if they feel unwell themselves. It is not only about their personal health, but also about society's security. Since the recent outbreak of...