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  • Proposal to rename D.C. street outside Saudi Embassy for Khashoggi gains support

    11/28/2018 2:07:56 PM PST · by Responsibility2nd · 40 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 11/26/2018 | By Paul Schwartzman
    A neighborhood advisory panel in Washington that typically focuses on liquor license applications and other local concerns is inserting itself into the international furor prompted by the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last month at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A, as the Foggy Bottom panel is known, is expected to vote Wednesday to rename the street outside the Saudi Embassy for Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist who resided in Virginia. Under the proposal, the east side of New Hampshire Avenue NW between F Street and Juarez Circle would become “Jamal Khashoggi Way.” The Watergate complex...
  • Yes, there is an ice cream truck in DC working to defend the Mueller investigation

    11/28/2018 7:04:33 AM PST · by bgill · 15 replies
    circa ^ | Nov. 28, 2018 | Natalie Grim
    An ice cream truck called "Guilty Pleas-ures" has been traveling around the city every day handing out Mueller investigation-themed ice cream in defense of special counsel Robert Mueller. Flavors available include MuellerBerry, IndictMint Chip, Rocky Rod Rosenstein and Ivanka's Butter Emails Pecan. Some flavors are even vegan ... or as Guilty Pleas-ures calls it, Fake Moos. The activist organization MoveOn is behind the ice cream truck. MoveOn is just one of the partners involved in the Trump Is Not Above the Law campaign that mobilized a few days after the midterm elections, following the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions....
  • Democrat Mississippi Senate hopeful misled about $750G lobbying contract with African despot

    11/26/2018 6:02:51 PM PST · by george76 · 15 replies
    Fox News ^ | November 15, 2018 | Lukas Mikelionis
    Mike Espy who is seeking to unseat appointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and serve the last two years of the six-year term vacated when Republican Thad Cochran retired for health reasons ... A Democratic Senate hopeful in Mississippi cashed in $750,000 after lobbying on behalf of an African despot currently on trial for crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court. Mike Espy, a former lobbyist and U.S. agriculture secretary under President Bill Clinton, is running against Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who was appointed as a temporary successor to longtime Republican Sen. Thad Cochran after his retirement in April....
  • Retired Justice Stevens: These Are The 3 Biggest 'Errors' SCOTUS Made During My Tenure

    11/26/2018 6:43:42 PM PST · by Kaslin · 104 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 26, 2018 | Beth Bauman
    Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens plans to release his book, "The Making of a Justice: My First 94 Years,” in May, not long after his 99th birthday. The New York Times interviewed him for a piece about his memoir, at which point he laid out the three Supreme Court decisions he still believes, to this day, were the wrong decision.District of Columbia v. HellerThe 2008 landmark decision, often referred to as Heller, was a 5-4 decision that upheld an individual's right to possess a firearm for self-defense. There is no need to be part of a militia in order...
  • D.C wedding: Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski secretly marry in front of Declaration of Independence

    11/26/2018 6:15:45 AM PST · by kevcol · 85 replies
    Washington Times ^ | November 25, 2018 | Jennifer Harper
    “The Morning Joe’ co-hosts made it official during an intimate Saturday ceremony at the National Archives, in front of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, officiated by Rep. Elijah Cummings,” the publication said. It noted that this is the first time anyone got married in the U.S. National Archives, which was closed to the public Saturday night. It looks like a fancy event indeed. The longtime MSNBC colleagues later enjoyed “caesar salads, acorn squash veloute, and red wine poached eggs, followed by joue de boeuf, sautéed trout, roasted chicken breast, and gnocci Parisienne. Their family and friends raised their...
  • How the right wing got it so wrong on the ‘Pakistani mystery man’

    07/27/2018 4:59:51 PM PDT · by Libloather · 38 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 7//18/18 | Steve Israel
    This is the story of a congressional staffer who committed a crime, and a larger crime that was committed against him. It’s a story of a fever on Capitol Hill, spiked by right-wing extremists with help from President Trump. Last year, a congressional information-technology staffer who worked for more than a dozen Democratic members of Congress (a permissible and customary practice on Capitol Hill) was suspected of using multiple usernames and passwords to skirt House rules and purchase office items. This isn’t exactly the stuff of gripping television crime drama. But rules were broken and the staffer, along with four...
  • Forget Khashoggi, Where Were Our Elites When Obama Assassinated American Citizens?

    11/25/2018 11:10:28 AM PST · by jazusamo · 35 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 25, 2018 | Chris Reeves
    In the wake of Trump’s announcement this week that his administration would continue to “stand with Saudi Arabia” despite the recent murder of Washington Postcolumnist Jamal Khashoggi, America’s mainstream media elites erupted in their usual paroxysms of despair and condemnation of the president. Although this time the typical “orange man bad” stories tended to omit calls for Trump to be immediately overthrown by the military or his own cabinet, almost every other major trope was preponderant. This was especially true of Khashoggi’s former place of employment at the Post, where journalists almost universally portrayed Trump as having blood on...
  • Marc Thiessen: Chief Justice Roberts is wrong. We do have Obama judges and Trump judges.

    11/25/2018 6:24:57 AM PST · by george76 · 36 replies
    Fox News ^ | 11/24/ 2018 | Marc Thiessen
    For someone trying to demonstrate that the judiciary is not political, getting into a political fight with the president sure is a funny way to do it. ... Even Roberts's fellow justices know there is a difference. If there were no Obama judges or Trump judges, then why did Anthony Kennedy wait for Trump's election to announce his retirement? And why doesn't Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just retire now and let Trump nominate her replacement? Because they both want a president who would appoint a successor who shares their judicial philosophy. (And, lo and behold, Trump appointed a former Kennedy...
  • Ocasio-Cortez Inspires Student's Arrest After Telling Activists to Put Their 'Bodies on the Line'

    11/24/2018 3:06:57 PM PST · by jazusamo · 45 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 14, 2018 | Timmothy Meads
    Last week, we touched upon Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's support for the asinine government overhaul of the American economy known as the" Green New Deal. " In what appeared to be spontaneous show of support, Ocasio-Cortez met with a group of environmentalists inside Nancy Pelosi's office and told the mostly young group of people just how proud of she was of them "for putting yourselves, and your bodies, and everything on the line to make sure that we save our planet, our generation, and our future." However, Ocasio-Cortez had actually delivered that same message a day before at a training...
  • Deal with Mexico paves way for asylum overhaul at U.S. border

    11/24/2018 9:32:39 AM PST · by NRx · 72 replies
    WaPo ^ | 11-24-2018 | Joshua Partlow and Nick Miroff
    <p>MEXICO CITY — The Trump administration has won the support of Mexico’s incoming government for a plan to remake U.S. border policy by requiring asylum seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims move through U.S. courts, according to Mexican officials and senior members of president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s transition team.</p>
  • Denmark joins Germany in halting arms sales to Saudi Arabia

    11/22/2018 8:44:39 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    The Washington Compost ^ | November 22 at 8:52 AM | Rick Noack
    BERLIN — Denmark became the second European country to halt future arms exports to Saudi Arabia on Thursday, following a similar decision by neighboring Germany earlier this month. The Danish announcement comes the same week President Trump backed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, despite the CIA assessing that he ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Denmark’s ban includes goods that can be used both for military and civilian purposes but is still less expansive than the German measures, which also included sales that had already been approved. While the Nordic country is a tiny arms equipment exporter in...
  • Stone associate Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel

    11/23/2018 12:04:12 PM PST · by Seizethecarp · 97 replies
    WaPo ^ | November 23, 2018 | Rosalind S. Helderman , Josh Dawsey and Manuel Roig-Franzia
    Conservative writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, according to Corsi and another person with knowledge of the talks. The talks with Corsi — an associate of both President Trump and GOP operative Roger Stone — could bring Mueller’s team closer to determining whether Trump or his advisers were linked to WikiLeaks’ release of hacked Democratic emails in 2016, a key part of his long-running inquiry. Corsi provided research on Democratic figures during the campaign to Stone, a longtime Trump adviser. For months, the special counsel has been scrutinizing Stone’s...
  • Romney blasts Trump, Pompeo response to Saudis: 'Inconsistent' with 'American greatness'

    11/21/2018 12:56:19 PM PST · by detective · 101 replies
    The Hill ^ | 11/21/18 | John Bowden
    Sen.-elect Mitt Romney(R-Utah) (R-Utah) on Wednesday condemned President Trump's and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's latest comments about journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing, calling them "inconsistent" with the U.S. national interest. "The President's and Secretary of State's Khashoggi statements to date are inconsistent with an enduring foreign policy, with our national interest, with basic human rights, and with American greatness," Romney said in a statement. "Sanctions do not necessarily require ending the alliance; they do demand real and painful consequence," he added.
  • Inside China’s ‘tantrum diplomacy’ at APEC

    11/22/2018 6:32:24 PM PST · by Zhang Fei · 16 replies
    Washington Post ^ | November 20, 2018 | Josh Rogin
    PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA — For the first time in its 20-year history, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ended in disarray Sunday when the 21 member countries could not reach consensus on a joint statement because of objections by one member — China. When the summit failed, to the disgust of the other diplomats, Chinese officials broke out in applause. But that was only the final incident in a week during which China’s official delegation staged a series of aggressive, bullying, paranoid and weird stunts to try to exert dominance and pressure the host nation and everyone else into...
  • Pence leaves open the possibility of nuclear weapons in space: ‘Peace comes through strength’

    10/24/2018 1:11:48 PM PDT · by CondoleezzaProtege · 13 replies
    Washington Post ^ | Oct 23, 2018 | Robert Costa
    Vice President Pence on Tuesday declined to rule out the idea of deploying nuclear weapons in space, saying that the current ban on their use is “in the interest of every nation” but that the issue should be decided on “the principle that peace comes through strength.” The new positioning comes as the Trump administration moves to potentially exit a major nuclear weapons pact with Russia and possibly bolster U.S. military operations in the heavens by forming a “Space Force.” Pence argued that the Space Force is critical for U.S. national security as China and Russia expand their presence in...
  • NY Times: Trump Is Crude. But He’s Right About Saudi Arabia.

    11/22/2018 9:12:40 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 42 replies
    NYTimes ^ | Michael Doran and Tony Badran
    Mr. Trump’s sidestepping of reports that the C.I.A. believes that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing as “Maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” was jarring. But every president since Harry Truman has aligned with unsavory Middle Eastern rulers in the service of national interests. The difference here is that Mr. Trump seemed unapologetic about this state of affairs with only a passing nod to the affront to our values that Mr. Khashoggi’s murder represents. That’s nothing to cheer. But it is vitally important to evaluate the policy on its merits more than its mode of expression. And...
  • Trump names hand-picked panel to supervise, investigate intelligence community

    11/21/2018 1:49:43 PM PST · by Red Badger · 23 replies
    www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | November 21, 2018 03:58 PM | by Steven Nelson
    With Republicans poised to lose control of investigatory panels in the House of Representatives, President Trump is resurrecting a potentially powerful board capable of intimately reviewing intelligence agency conduct on his direct orders. The White House announced five appointments to the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board on Tuesday evening, after selecting a chairman and vice chairwoman earlier this year. The dormant board created by former President Dwight Eisenhower has no formal powers, but derives significant authority directly from the president, operating as his surrogate to smooth over agency rivalries, investigate misconduct, and evaluate intelligence collection policies. xperts say Trump could roil...
  • Trump slanders (Muslim Brotherhood member and terror apologist) Khashoggi and betrays American...

    11/20/2018 8:20:50 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 54 replies
    The Washington Compost ^ | November 20 at 5:03 PM | Editorial Board
    FULL TITLE: Trump slanders (Muslim Brotherhood member and terror apologist) Khashoggi and betrays American values PRESIDENT TRUMP on Tuesday confirmed what his administration has been signaling all along: It will stand behind Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman even if he ordered the brutal murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In a crude statement punctuated with exclamation points, Mr. Trump sidestepped a CIA finding that the crown prince was behind the killing; casually slandered Mr. Khashoggi, who was one of the Arab world’s most distinguished journalists; and repeated gross falsehoods and exaggerations about the benefits of the U.S. alliance...
  • WaPo Attempts to Draw Parallels Between Ivanka And Hillary's Emails – But It's Straight TRASH

    11/19/2018 5:29:43 PM PST · by jazusamo · 26 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | November 19, 2018 | Beth Baumann
    The mainstream media has done nothing but try to derail Donald Trump's presidency before he even stepped into the White House. It happened before the 2016 election took place and it still occurs to this day. Remember how mainstream media outlets made Hillary Clinton's email scandal seem like no big deal? It was "no biggie" that she was sharing classified information. On a private server. In New York. With a public email address. Remember? Now the geniuses at The Washington Post have a bogus story about Ivanka Trump using a private email address to coordinate her family's schedule with...
  • DC’s Ban on Plastic Straws Extends Beyond Restaurants and Bars to Churches and Day Care Centers

    11/19/2018 4:13:50 PM PST · by lowbridge · 47 replies
    Daily Signal ^ | November 19, 2018 | Tristan Justice
    The District of Columbia is set to implement a new ban on single-use plastic straws and coffee stirrers. Poised to take effect Jan. 1, the prohibition is not limited only to restaurants and bars, but also churches, day care centers, and other entities in the city. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is recommending the use instead of alternative items made from hay, bamboo, glass, paper or stainless steel. “@MayorBowser’s list of recyclables and compostables now requires the use of compostable and/or reusable straws and stirrers when selling food or beverages in the District. Enforcement begins January 1, 2019!” the D.C. Department...