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Senator Cory Booker, who is one of the Democrats contending for his party's 2020 nomination for president, is pleading political negligence, claiming that he didn't bother to read a sign that he allowed himself to be photographed holding.  Booker, who has raised considerable money from pro-Israel Jewish groups, apparently got carried away with intersectional enthusiasm at the Netroots Nation confab and was unable to get a clue from the t-shirt on the woman standing next to him that proclaimed Palestine's virtue in the realm of "feminist/queer refugee racial justice" that he might be endorsing a radical point of view. The...

A week after firing FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, President Trump got out of Washington to deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He decided to give the graduating cadets some advice. "Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair," Trump said. "You will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted. But you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight. Never, ever, ever give up. Things will work out just fine." Pretty standard stuff to...

One of President Trump's most vocal critics in the U.S. Senate said Friday that he once cried “tears of rage” over the Trump administration’s rhetoric. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., made the remark at the Netroots Nation Conference in New Orleans, where other liberal speakers were to include U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. The annual convention drew thousands of liberal activists and offered a chance for Democrats considering presidential runs to win over supporters, the Washington Times reported.

Two years into the Trump administration, aggrieved activists are not only accosting Cabinet members or driving them out of restaurants -- they're increasingly taking out their frustration on inanimate objects. A burst of anti-Trump vandalism against possessions and property associated with administration officials is the latest flare-up in a “resistance” that has taken many forms. Last year, protesters marked the anniversary of President Trump's election by screaming at the sky. Lately, the tactics have become more confrontational, touching off a national debate over civility in politics. But smashing and spray-painting are yet another outlet. Here are some of the items...

OPINION — In this time of tumult, political truths are being knocked off their pedestals faster than Confederate statues. But even now, it seems ludicrously self-evident that a president wants to elect a Congress of his own party. Donald Trump, however, is a president who marches to a different brass band. Consider what he has done in just the last week. Tuesday morning, the president unleashed a bitter Twitter attack on the “globalist Koch Brothers,” excoriating as “overrated” the network of conservative donors who have been the bulwark of congressional GOP funding in the super PAC era. Trump’s Treasury Department...

A Massachusetts woman is out on bail, having been charged with intentionally ramming a car because it had a Trump bumper sticker. The fury at the election of President Trump, expressed and exacerbated by the likes of Maxine Waters and Kathy Griffin, is leading to violence in the streets (and on the softball diamond). While reporters worry about their own safety because President Trump criticizes them, actual incidents of violence are overwhelmingly directed at Trump supporters and Republicans in general. Ask Steve Scalise if you doubt me.  Kristen Young of the Cape Cod Times: Chloe Wright, 25, also faces...

This is how crazy the left has become. Chloe Wright, a 25-year-old Massachusetts woman, was driving in Hyannis when she came across a vehicle displaying a pro-President Donald Trump bumper sticker. Wright then became so incensed at the sticker, she plowed her vehicle into it, according to local media and police reports.

The XXII Amendment to the Constitution says, in part, "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once." Notice what this Amendment prohibits: "No person shall be elected to the office of the President". It says it twice.Notice also what the Amendment does not say: "Any person having served blah, blah, blah shall...

China appealed to Washington on Thursday to stay calm and “correct its attitude” following a U.S. threat to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods in a dispute over technology policy. A foreign ministry spokesman, Geng Shuang, said Beijing was open to dialogue but gave no indication about the status of possible negotiations. […] “We urge the United States to correct its attitude and not to try to blackmail China because it will never work,” said Geng at a news conference. “We advise the United States to be level-headed and avoid simply acting on impulse, otherwise it will ultimately...

A Massachusetts woman was reportedly taken into custody on Monday after she allegedly drove into a car sporting a Trump bumper sticker. The arrest of Chloe Wright, 25, followed an alleged hit-and-run in Hyannis on June 30, the Cape Cod Times reported, citing a police report. After the incident, the man she hit reportedly contacted the Barnstable Police Department and recalled hearing a motorist behind him honking their car horn as he waited at a red light. According to the police report, the honking continued and by the time he reached another red light, the motorist started shouting at him,...

Hold on RBG, donated internal organs on the way... Online zombie enthusiasts think Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg could be propped up with other people’s donated vital internal organs just to keep her alive—and all to keep her remaining on the court until a Democratic president is able to replace her. The Daily Wire has hit the zenith of surrealistic with today’s headline: ‘People are offering to donate their organs to Ruth Bader Ginsberg to keep her alive’. (Daily Wire, July 30, 2018)

The biggest misconception surrounding the special counsel probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election is that it will likely end in some sort of legal proceeding involving President Donald Trump. It won't -- for a bunch of reasons, the most important of which is that Robert Mueller, who is running the investigation, doesn't seem to believe a sitting President can be indicted. The much more likely outcome is that Mueller releases the findings from his investigation sometime this fall — and lets the chips, as they relate to Trump, fall where they may. Which means — and this is...

"Remember how...remember how Megyn Kelly was going to host that first Republican presidential debate on Fox News and take out Donald Trump? Then she failed spectacularly and like Donald Trump spent the next few weeks just like totally destroying her with tweets and stuff until like, the blood was coming out of her nose or whatever? Then she disappeared for a while and did some sort of housewife show for a while and then disappeared like forever? "That was awesome!"

In 2003, the late and celebrated writer Charles Krauthammer coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome,” which he described as: “The acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency – nay – the very existence of George W. Bush.” Prior to becoming one of the most respected political analysts of his time, Charles Krauthammer was Dr. Krauthammer, a psychiatrist, who treated people for various forms of mental illness. In this regard, he was a uniquely qualified observer of American politics. Krauthammer was not a Trump supporter, but the behavior of the left after the...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is something of a hero of the left. And unlike her colleague Anthony Kennedy, who recently announced his retirement and gave Donald Trump the chance to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice, Ginsburg says she's going nowhere fast. [snip] Many are breathing a sigh of relief at Ginsburg's assurance that she wants to stay on the Supreme Court. Liberals are afraid that Trump's pick to replace Justice Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh, will tilt the highest court in the land heavily conservative. If Ginsburg were to give up her seat, the court would only have Barack Obama-appointed Justices...

If Ronald Reagan was the “Teflon president,” Donald Trump must be the Incredible Hulk president. The more the left and the media attack him, the stronger he gets. This past week was a great example. It began with CNN worrying that fears of Russian collusion had seeped into the “bloodstream” of American politics after President Trump’s Helsinki press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin. CNN’s Reliable Sources newsletter described the situation ominously: “When historians look back on the Trump presidency, they'll say that last week was the moment something changed – when uncomfortable Q's about Russia moved into the mainstream...

Ninety-nine days until the all-important midterm elections, Republican lawmakers and outside groups are beginning to distance themselves from President Trump — in ways both small and big. The latest to break away: the Koch Brothers. “Top leaders of the conservative Koch political network, frustrated with the direction of the Republican Party, are attempting to rebrand the organization by vowing to be less partisan and work with elected officials across the political spectrum to advance their policy priorities,”

We need to talk about a forbidden subject: the legitimacy of the current president. There’s been a code of silence around President Donald Trump’s shady victory in 2016. It’s one of those tiptoe-around-it things that the American family just doesn’t talk about. And with good reason. Whatever your politics, it’s perilous to question the soundness of an American election. Raising the question of Trump’s legitimacy risks detonating a full-blown crisis of faith — kindling distrust not just in Trump, but also in the system that installed him. But fear of facing the legitimacy question has not stopped Americans from harboring...

The trial of President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman will open this week with tales of lavish spending, secret shell companies and millions of dollars of Ukrainian money flowing through offshore bank accounts and into the political consultant’s pocket. What’s likely to be missing: answers about whether the Trump campaign coordinated with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential election, or really any mention of Russia at all. Paul Manafort’s financial crimes trial, the first arising from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, will center on his Ukrainian consulting work and only briefly touch on his involvement with the president’s campaign. But...

Here is noted liberal Law Professor Alan Dershowitz slamming an MSNBC Panel for out-and-out “McCarthyite” behavior against anyone who stands up for the rule of Law and believes President Trump should be treated fairly under the Law. Dershowitz said the entire panel was advocating “stretching the Law” to go after Trump, which he said is wrong no matter who it is being done to. As Dershowitz spoke, you can see the faces of host Kasie Hunt and the other guest on camera. It was like vampires being shown a Crucifix! They could not stand to hear Dershowitz pierce their anti-Trump...