More Evidence Emerges Elizabeth Warren Lied About Being Fired for Pregnancy

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New evidence emerged Monday that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has been untruthful in telling voters she was fired from a teaching job because she was “visibly pregnant.” . . .

The Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson reported:

RIVERDALE, N.J.—The Riverdale Board of Education approved a second-year teaching contract for a young Elizabeth Warren, documents show, contradicting the Democratic presidential candidate’s repeated claims that she was asked not to return to teaching after a single year because she was “visibly pregnant.”

Minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a “2nd year” contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was “accepted with regret.”

The minutes also confirm a key detail from the 2007 interview: namely, that Warren was hired on an “emergency” basis because she lacked the necessary education qualifications, despite graduating from George Washington University with a degree in speech pathology, and supposedly pursuing a lifelong dream of being a public school teacher. (Read more from “More Evidence Emerges Elizabeth Warren Lied About Being Fired for Pregnancy” HERE)

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Ecuador Declares State of Emergency as Violent Protests Sweep Major Cities (VIDEO)

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President of Ecuador Lenin Moreno declared a 60-day state of emergency on Thursday after transportation workers and leftist groups began rioting against the repeal of a decades-old government gasoline subsidy.

Moreno ended the subsidy, in vigor for 40 years, as part of an economic plan to reduce government spending in exchange for a large loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Among other reforms, Moreno also announced this week that he would withdraw from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) so that Ecuador would no longer be beholden to that cartel’s production limits, increasing oil supply and thus driving down the price of gasoline without government spending.

Transportation professionals – drivers of buses, taxis, and trucks – led citywide strikes in the capital Quito, and Guayaquil, the nation’s economic hub, to protest the gasoline price increase, which would adversely impact their businesses. The strikes rapidly turned into chaos as protesters threw Molotov cocktails, burned tires, and blocked major roads. Businesses also reported looting and vandalism.

Moreno published a state of emergency decree on Thursday evening.

“Rights are demanded without hurting that which is fundamental for the progress of the nation: work, education, and freedom of mobility,” he wrote on Twitter. “We guarantee citizens’ security, free movement, and protection of their property”:

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Supreme Court Rejects NYC’s Attempt to Get Second Amendment Case Thrown out

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New York City’s latest effort not to have to go to court over one of its gun laws failed at the Supreme Court on Monday. Justices told the city’s lawyers to wait until December to try again.

The case in question is New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. [NYSRPA] v. City of New York, New York, which asks whether New York City’s laws about transporting a licensed, unloaded, and locked firearm to a residence or shooting range outside the five boroughs is consistent with the Second Amendment.

The city has tried to make the case that, because it eased its transport restrictions, that the case is now moot. The Supreme Court, however, didn’t see it that way Monday when it issued an order denying New York’s “suggestion of mootness” and adding, “The
question of mootness will be subject to further consideration at oral argument, and the parties should be prepared to discuss it.” Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for early December.

Back in July, the city filed a document making the case for mootness after it put out a new set of regulations that it said “give petitioners everything they have sought in this lawsuit.”

Lawyers for the petitioners in the case — the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association — responded to that by saying the case should nonetheless go before the court.

New York state law requires licenses for handgun ownership that are issued by local authorities; these are either a “possess on premises” or concealed carry permit. The case began over six years ago in March 2013 and deals with the former. Under New York City’s previous set of regulations, a Federalist Society blog post explains, “a New Yorker whom the City itself has licensed to possess a handgun cannot transport her handgun to a weekend second home (even to exercise the core constitutional purpose of self-defense), to an upstate county to participate in a shooting competition, or even across the bridge to a neighboring city for target practice.” (For more from the author of “Supreme Court Rejects NYC’s Attempt to Get Second Amendment Case Thrown out” please click HERE)

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House Dems Subpoena Pentagon and White House Budget Office

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The chairmen of three Democrat-led House committees have sent out a new batch of subpoenas to Trump administration officials as part of the ongoing impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump.

Monday’s subpoenas went out to the Department of Defense’s recently confirmed Secretary Mark Esper as well as White House Office of Management and Budget acting Director Russell Vought and are for documents related to Ukraine military aid. The legal demands were sent by the Democratic chairmen of the House Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs Committees — Reps. Adam Schiff, Calif., Elijah Cummings, Md., and Elliot Engel, N.Y., respectively.

“Pursuant to the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, we are hereby transmitting a subpoena that compels you to produce the documents set forth in the accompanying schedule by October 15, 2019,” the chairmen wrote in letters to Esper and Vought.

The news release from the three top Democrats explains that the documents are necessary to evaluate “the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security” by withholding foreign aid and asking Ukrainian officials to look into the matter of a since-scuttled investigation of a company that employed former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

The release cites one story from the Washington Post and another from the New York Times that the funds were halted ahead of President Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to the Times story, Trump “personally ordered his staff to freeze more than $391 million in aid to Ukraine” ahead of the phone call” and “issued his directive to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, who conveyed it through the budget office to the Pentagon and the State Department, which were told only that the administration was looking at whether the spending was necessary,” according to two administration officials.

“The enclosed subpoena demands documents that are necessary for the Committees to examine this sequence of these events,” the chairmen wrote, “and the reasons behind the White House’s decision to withhold critical military assistance to Ukraine that was appropriated by Congress to counter Russian aggression.”

The subpoena schedule for Vought and Esper includes documents, meetings, and communications going back to Jan. 1, 2019.

In prepared congressional testimony given last week, former U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker told Hill investigators that he became aware of a hold on financial assistance to the country about a week before the phone call “and immediately tried to weigh in to reverse that position.”

However, he also testified, “As I was confident the position would not stand, I did not discuss the hold with my Ukrainian counterparts until the matter became public in late August.”

“The issue of a hold placed on security assistance to Ukraine also came up during this same time I was connecting [a Zelensky aide] and [Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy] Giuliani,” the former envoy said elsewhere in the statement. “I did not perceive these issues to be linked in any way.” (For more from the author of “House Dems Subpoena Pentagon and White House Budget Office” please click HERE)

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China Bans ‘South Park’ – Show’s Creators Hilariously Troll Them

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The Communist Party of China banned the wildly popular TV show “South Park” after the show blasted the communist nation for shaping American culture by forcing American companies to not do anything it deems offensive if they want to be able to sell their products and services in China.

“Now, those very same government censors, in the real world, have lashed back at ‘South Park’ by deleting virtually every clip, episode and online discussion of the show from Chinese streaming services, social media and even fan pages,” The Hollywood Reporter reported. “The draconian response is par for the course for China’s authoritarian government, which has even been known to aggressively censor ‘Winnie the Pooh,’ because some local Internet users had affectionately taken to comparing Chinese president Xi Jinping to the character.”

On Monday, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a statement trolling the Chinese government:

Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. We too love money more than freedom and democracy. Xi doesn’t look like Winnie the Poo at all. Tune into our 300th episode the Wednesday at 10 p.m. Long live the great Communist Party of China. May the autumn’s sorghum harvest be bountiful. We good now China?

. . .The statement from Stone and Parker comes one day after the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Houston Rockets received intense backlash from across the American political spectrum for apologizing for offending China after Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted out support for Hong Kong. Morey’s tweeting had sparked an immediate backlash from the Chinese government.

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Teacher Allegedly Displays Graphic Saying Confederate Flag Means ‘You Intend to Marry Your Sister’ (VIDEO)

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A Georgia teacher allegedly showed a Powerpoint image of a Confederate flag to the teacher’s classroom accompanied by a caption reading, “A sticker you put on the back of your pickup truck to announce that you intend to marry your sister. Think of it like a white trash ‘Save the Date’ card.” . . .

The incident allegedly occurred at Hephzibah High School, where the daughter of Melissa Fuller was in the teacher’s class. Melissa Fuller told WRDW, “She found it offensive, so she sent it to me and asked me what I thought.” Fuller posted the story on Facebook. Fuller stated, “A lot of [it] is that it’s not morally correct. It’s unethical. It’s just something you don’t want to discuss today in today’s world and especially inside of a classroom.” She added, “Why was that used? With it being such a rough area, why would you put that out there to start a class discussion that could have turned very ugly?”

Fuller said her daughter had once worn a Confederate flag belt buckle to school, then removed it after she was told it was inappropriate, but still received an in-house suspension. She asked, “If she can’t wear that belt buckle, then why is it appropriate to make an assignment out of it?” . . .

WRDW reported that the district released the following statement: “The Richmond County School System is committed to creating a diverse, equitable learning environment for all students. The language used in the example was unacceptable and has no place in our classrooms.”

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President Trump Is Going to Pull U.S. Troops out of Syria – Here’s What Republicans Are Saying

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President Trump weighed in on his administration’s decision to begin pulling U.S. troops out of northern Syria ahead of a Turkish military operation in the region, saying it was time for Americans to “get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars.”

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White House Clarifies: Donald Trump Moving 50 Troops Within Syria, Not out of the Country

By Breitbart. A Senior White House official clarified Monday that President Donald Trump was not immediately withdrawing troops from Syria, after Trump’s phone call with the Turkish president.

“This does not constitute a withdrawal from Syria. We’re talking about a small number of troops that will move to other bases within Syria,” the official noted, citing 50-100 troops in the region.

The White House arranged for an official to brief reporters in a call after Republicans in the foreign policy establishment universally condemned Trump’s decision, announced on Sunday night and promoted on Twitter on Monday morning. (Read more from “White House Clarifies: Donald Trump Moving 50 Troops Within Syria, Not out of the Country” HERE)

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Here’s What Republicans Are Saying About Trump’s Decision to Pull Troops from Syria

By The Daily Caller. Republicans took to Twitter on Monday in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syria.

The decision will allow Turkey to invade the country and potentially attack Kurdish fighters, who allied with the U.S. to defeat ISIS, according to a New York Times report.

Some Republicans who often side with Trump opposed the decision. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham — who has been a staunch supporter of the president in recent years — for example, went on a Twitter rampage Monday expressing his disapproval of the move, which he called “sad” and “dangerous.”

“I don’t believe it is a good idea to outsource the fight against ISIS to Russia, Iran, and Turkey. They don’t have America’s best interests at heart. The most probable outcome of this impulsive decision is to ensure Iran’s domination of Syria. The U.S. now has no leverage and Syria will eventually become a nightmare for Israel,” Graham began.

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WATCH: Climate Change Protester Chains Himself to a Car and Cries

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A climate change protester who chained himself to a car was caught on camera crying because his two kids are worried about their future.

Protests took place in the United Kingdom and all around the world on Monday. The protest was organized by Extinction Rebellion, who want the United Kingdom’s Parliament to take action on climate change.

One man, along with a few other protesters, was chained to a car and said he was taking action because his kids, four years and ten months, are “very frightened of their future.” After he took out a picture of them, the man started to cry.

The BBC reports over 270 activists have been arrested so far. Many of them barricaded themselves in cars in the middle of roads and blocked bridges. One group of protesters glued themselves to scaffolding in the middle of a square.

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Former Transgender: Hundreds Who Had Gender Reassignment Surgery Wish They Hadn’t, Want to Transition Back (VIDEO)

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‘Hundreds’ of transgender people who have transitioned want to un-do their surgery, a campaigner who decided to stop identifying as male has revealed.

Charlie Evans, 28, from Newcastle, was born female but identified as male for almost ten years before deciding to stop taking testosterone and become a woman again.

‘Hundreds’ of people have contacted her, including 30 in Newcastle alone, asking for guidance around detransitioning – the process of becoming the gender they were born – after she went public with her decision last year, she told Sky News.

‘I’m in communication with 19 and 20-year-olds who have had full gender reassignment surgery who wish they hadn’t, and their dysphoria hasn’t been relieved, they don’t feel better for it,’ Ms Evans said.

The people who get in contact with her are usually in their 20s, ‘mostly same-sex attracted’ and often autistic, she added. (Read more from “Former Transgender: Hundreds Who Had Gender Reassignment Surgery Wish They Hadn’t, Want to Transition Back (VIDEO)” HERE)

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AOC: Trump’s Attacks on Schiff Are Anti-Semitism

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) probably says and tweets more remarkably ignorant things than anyone in Congress — perhaps more than anyone in the United States. Her latest attack on President Trump regarding his attacks on California Democrat Adam Schiff may be her dumbest hot-take yet.

Yes, the Democrats work from an identity politics-based playbook all of the time, but this is a stretch even when applying their ever-changing rules.

The post she’s tweeting here as a source for her charge is from The Intercept, and was written by Mehdi Hasan, a noted Iran and Ilhan Omar apologist.

Speaking of Omar, the most outrageously laughable aspect of this concern-trolling by AOC is the fact that half of her “Squad” are openly raging anti-Semites. Omar is so awful that she inspired a condemnation resolution by her own party after she had been in office only a month.

This is Barack Obama’s legacy. White males who are Catholic, Protestant, or atheist are the only people subject to public criticism. Democrats hide their lunacy behind identity shields. (Read more from “AOC: Trump’s Attacks on Schiff Are Anti-Semitism” HERE)

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