In a social media post responding to a fundraising campaign by US Senate Minority Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), fellow New York Democrat Dov Hikind didn’t hold back. . .
Hikind has been a New York State Assemblyman since 1983, so he’s no stranger to the political game. But since announcing that he will soon be retiring from public office, the public servant evidently felt he had nothing to lose by telling his own party how he really feels.
Hikind then spells out a litany of glaring omissions in the mailer, such as how well the economy has been performing, and how much the US relationship with Israel has improved. He also criticized Schumer for his efforts to “fully villainize the current administration.”
Some real zingers fired by Hikind are in the closing of the lengthy post, where he fires at Schumer: “You ask for a contribution, but the Democratic Party — which I am a lifelong member of — is currently betraying the ideals that our party once stood for: American values.
“You yourself proposed that Representative Ellison head the party, but you must surely know that Ellison has stood with our nation’s leading hate monger Louis Farrakhan. (Read more from “Longtime NY Dem Slams Schumer, Defends Trump” HERE)
By The Blaze. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt tendered his resignation on Thursday.
President Donald Trump announced in a tweet that he had accepted Pruitt’s resignation and that he thought Pruitt had done an “outstanding job.”
Pruitt has been part of the Trump administration since the beginning. He had recently faced questions about his spending habits at the EPA, which included purchasing a $43,000 secure phone booth without congressional approval, and allegedly using agency resources to find a $200,000 job for his wife.
The EPA is currently facing 13 separate federal inquiries into allegations of mismanagement and irresponsible spending practices.
On May 1, two of Pruitt’s employees at the EPA resigned during this ongoing ethics investigation. The staffers did not give reasons for their resignations. (Read more from “EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt Resigns Amidst Ethics Questions” HERE)
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EPA Leader Scott Pruitt Resigns After Scandals Engulf His Agency
By CNBC. . . President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he has accepted Pruitt’s resignation. Trump said that the agency’s deputy administrator and former coal industry lobbyist, Andrew Wheeler, will become the acting head of EPA.
…on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!
The departure follows months of scrutiny that gathered momentum following reports that Pruitt had rented a Capitol Hill condominium linked to an energy lobbyist on favorable terms. The revelation exacerbated concerns about the high cost of Pruitt’s travel and security detail and triggered a flood of allegations that Pruitt fostered a culture of workplace retaliation, wasteful spending and self-dealing at EPA.
The steady flow of negative news stories prompted multiple government investigators to open several inquiries into Pruitt. His EPA now faces about a dozen probes into its spending, ethics and policy decisions.
“It is extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because I count it as a blessing to be serving you in any capacity, but also because of the transformative work that is occurring,” Pruitt said in his resignation letter. (Read more from “EPA Leader Scott Pruitt Resigns After Scandals Engulf His Agency” HERE)
The Daily Wire. Illegal alien Buena Ventura Martin Godinez issued a warning on Sunday to other migrants looking to illegally enter the United States, telling them to find another country because the Trump administration’s policies were tough.
CBS News reports that Martin Godinez had been separated from her 7-year-old daughter for approximately two months after being caught illegally entering the U.S.
“I would advise people to find another country to seek refuge because here the law is very tough,” Martin Godinez said. “People don’t have a heart.”
"I would advise people to find another country to seek refuge. Because here the law is very tough, people don't have a heart," an immigrant mother says after being separated from her 7-year-old daughter for two months. Watch their touching reunion: https://t.co/BRuHSTMCJ4pic.twitter.com/QNmnJ4ANx6
After Being Separated From Daughter at Border, Mom Warns Illegal Aliens to “Find Another Country”
By CBS News. It had been nearly two months since Buena Ventura Martin Godinez has seen her 7-year-old daughter after the frightened young mother was separated from her family trying to cross from Mexico into the U.S. They’ve spoken tearfully by phone, but seeing her at a Miami airport Sunday for the first time, she grabbed the child in a tight embrace, tears running down her cheeks during a reunion she feared may never happen.
“I feel very happy, now and to complete my joy I would like to have my husband released,” Martin said in Spanish as her daughter Janne clutched a stuffed dog and blue balloons and played with her younger brother at baggage claim. . .
Her husband, Pedro Godinez Aguilar, was convicted of the misdemeanor offense of illegal entry into the U.S. and awaits almost certain deportation at a jail in Atlanta. (Read more from “After Being Separated From Daughter at Border, Mom Warns Illegal Aliens to “Find Another Country” HERE)
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July started with a lull. On the Monday before Independence Day, the news network morning shows led with the oppressively hot weather. The normal feverish panic about living in Donald Trump’s America was missing for a few hours.
You can count on CNN “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter to stay true to the trash-Trump parade. At the liberal Aspen Ideas Festival, he interviewed Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron. Stelter claimed to speak for the crowd when he began asking: “Are we living through a national emergency? And if so, how in the heck should journalists be covering it that way?”
Baron replied that it isn’t his place to answer that. His newspaper’s role “is to cover very aggressively this administration as we would cover any other administration.” He claimed, “We’re not in the business of sort of characterizing the era.”
This is preposterous. The Post greeted the Trump presidency by posting a new motto on the front page each day: “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” It sells T-shirts with the motto to other liberals. By contrast, during Barack Obama’s presidential transition in 2009, the Post promoted to national editor a journalist who wrote gushy captions for a coffee-table book titled “Obama: The Historic Campaign in Photographs.”
Most Americans would suggest that the Dow Jones Industrial Average being up 5,000 points since President Trump’s inauguration and the unemployment rate being 3.8 percent is not a national emergency. But then again, most Americans aren’t journalists.
The silliness continued. Stelter told Baron, “The media critique from the left is that this is a crisis and thus journalists have to cover it differently than Bush or Obama or other past presidents.”
Baron acknowledged the Post is “more blunt about calling out falsehoods” than it was previously “because there are so many of them and they’re so blatant.” Then he added: “Steve Bannon tried to call us the opposition party. We don’t see ourselves as the opposition party and we’re not inclined to embrace the notions of some people who would like us to be the opposition party. We’re an independent news organization. We’re independent of all parties and all ideologies.”
Baloney. Baron simply cannot believe that, unless the Kool-Aid is stronger than we thought. Wouldn’t it be fun to find out just how many Washington Post reporters and editors voted for Hillary Clinton over Trump? If a single Trump voter could be found in the newsroom, that would be a surprise. How “independent of all parties” would the Post look then? We found in 2016 that among the Post employees who donated to candidates for federal office in recent years, 15 donated only to Democrats and one advertising sales manager gave to $200 to former Gov. Mitt Romney.
Stelter kept pestering Baron from the left in Aspen: “Your famous line is that ‘We’re not at war; we’re at work.’ … But if one side is at war and the other side is a pacifist, doesn’t the pacifist lose?”
This may be the one occasion where liberals discuss the benefits of war and the pitfalls of pacifism!
“It’s not the way that I would frame it,” Baron explained. “[W]e have the greatest credibility when we do our jobs honestly, honorably, accurately, fairly, diligently, energetically, unflinchingly.”
Our media have shunned any notion of objectivity under Trump. Activists like Brian Stelter keep urging top editors to oppose, rebel and resist, and they wonder why their own approval ratings continue to sink lower, and lower, and lower. (For more from the author of “CNN Host Proclaims National Emergency” please click HERE)
Iranian Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, head of Iran’s Civil Defense Organization, claims Israel is stealing Iran’s clouds, the Times of Israel reported Monday.
“Israel and another country in the region have joint teams which work to ensure clouds entering Iranian skies are unable to release rain,” Iranian Students’ News Agency reported Jalali said.
Jalali did not explain the scientific methods that enabled Israel to control these clouds, but held that Iranian scientific studies “confirm” the claim.
The head of Iran’s meteorological service, Ahad Vazife, said that the general “probably has documents of which I am not aware, but on the basis of meteorological knowledge, it is not possible for a country to steal snow or clouds.”
Because, of course, if Iran is having a drought problem, the only logical response is to blame it on Israel. (For more from the author of “Iranian General Claims Israel Is Stealing Iran’s … Clouds” please click HERE)
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After a controversial turn as host of the annual White House Correspondents Dinner earlier this year, comedian Michelle Wolf has gone on to push more boundaries as the host of her own Netflix talk show.
As The Hill reported, she received backlash after the most recent episode, which included rants about first daughter and White House adviser Ivanka Trump, among others in the administration of President Donald Trump.
One segment offered satirical advice for insulting White House officials, explaining that she supports Rep. Maxine Water’s call for harassing them but does not think “casual” protests will work.
“You can’t just casually harass these people,” she said. “You have to insult them specifically.”
Referencing a crass depiction of Ivanka Trump last month by Samantha Bee, Wolf cautioned that the profane language used by the “Full Frontal” host was not effective.
“‘You’re a c***’ doesn’t hurt them,” she said. “It’s on their vision board.”
Wolf went on to offer some alternatives she said would impact Trump administration officials more acutely.
In order to affect members of the administration, she said, critics would need to choose words that are “life-alteringly hurtful” to their targets and “hit their deepest insecurities with the hot venom of a teenager from a broken home.”
Though she provided insults to several elected officials and other prominent government figures, she spent a majority of the segment focused on Ivanka Trump.
“First, call her Tiffany,” Wolf advised users who spot Trump in public. “This will devastate her.”
The host then launched into several pointed jabs generally related to Ivanka Trump’s perceived ineffectiveness in blunting her father’s harsh policies.
“Ivanka, you’re like vaginal mesh,” Wolf said in her first suggested insult. “You were supposed to support women but now you have blood all over and you’re the center of a thousand lawsuits.”
Another joke compared her to Yaz, a birth control pill some studies linked to adverse side effects.
“At first it seemed like it would be really cool and helpful, but you need to be immediately recalled,” Wolf said.
Interjected into her jokes at the expense of other Trump officials, Wolf provided several other insults related to Ivanka Trump.
“Hey girl, do your legs hurt? Because you’ve been running afoul of government ethics all year,” she suggested as the next alternative.
Acknowledging that the insult will “satisfy you more than it will hurt her,” Wolf added yet another vulgar comparison she said would be sure to hit its mark.
“Is your nickname herpes? Because you’re not necessarily the most dangerous person in the administration, but you’re very unpleasant, totally incurable and you always show up when we’re about to get f****d,” she said.
Wolf closed the segment by referring to Ivanka Trump as the “prettiest tumor in a swiftly moving cancer.” (Read more from “Michelle Wolf Launches Vile Attack Against Ivanka, Makes Repulsive Comparison” HERE)
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By Conservative Tribune. Virginia Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte issued the subpoena to force Strzok to appear before both the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees.
The hearing will focus on Strzok’s work on both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Strzok’s attorney, Aitan Goelman, said on Monday that his client had retracted a previous offer to testify publicly.
Goelman cited a closed-door interview on June 27 with the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees as evidence that Republicans were setting “a trap” for the embattled FBI agent.
“Having sharpened their knives behind closed doors, the committee would now like to drag back Special Agent Strzok and have him testify in public — a request that we originally made and the committee denied,” Goelman said in a letter first reported by CNN. (Read more from “Strzok Gets the News He’s Been Dreading” HERE)
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FBI’s Peter Strzok May Ignore House Subpoena, Says His Lawyer
By Washington Examiner. Peter Strzok, the former FBI agent who vowed to “stop” President Trump from winning the 2016 election despite being part of a federal investigation into his campaign, may not show up to testify next week despite being subpoenaed.
“My client will testify soon, somewhere, sometime. We just got this subpoena today, so I don’t know whether or not we are going to be testifying next Tuesday in front of these two particular House subcommittees,” Aitan Goelman, Strzok’s attorney, told CNN’s Chris Cuomo.
Goelman said he could not automatically respond “yes” because the two “have come to the conclusion, forced to come to the conclusion, that this is not a search for truth, it is a chance for Republican members of the House to preen and posture before their most radical, conspiracy-minded constituents.” (Read more from “FBI’s Peter Strzok May Ignore House Subpoena, Says His Lawyer” HERE)
The Blaze. Amy Coney Barrett’s religious faith was the topic of much “concern” during her confirmation hearing for the federal bench. Case in point, you may recall last year when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) said to the then-judicial nominee:
Why is it that so many of us on this side have this very uncomfortable feeling that — you know, dogma and law are two different things. And I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma. The law is totally different. And I think in your case, professor, when you read your speeches, the conclusion one draws is that the dogma lives loudly within you, and that’s of concern when you come to big issues that large numbers of people have fought for years in this country.
Now that Barrett is being considered by President Donald Trump to replace Anthony Kennedy on the United States Supreme Court, progressives are once again using a “religious litmus test” to discredit the conservative candidate. But they’re real concern lies in Barrett’s pro-life stance at a time when the landmark 1973 abortion ruling Roe v. Wade is in danger of being overturned.
Meanwhile, progressive politicians such as Nancy Pelosi are more than happy to profess their own devout religious beliefs when pandering to religious groups. On today’s show, Pat Gray and Stu Burguiere filled in for Glenn Beck, to discuss how the Left will conveniently use religious faith against conservatives, then turn around and play the part when it serves them, as Nancy Pelosi did in this bizarre exchange:
They ask me all the time what is your favorite this, what is your favorite that, what is your favorite that. And at one time, what is your favorite word. And I said, my favorite word, that is really easy. My favorite word is the word is ‘the word.’ And that is everything. It says it all for us. And you know the biblical reference. You know the gospel reference, ‘the word.’ We have to give voice, to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the word.
(Read more from “Dems Slam SCOTUS Pick Amy Coney Barrett for Her Faith, but Here’s What They’re Really Worried About” HERE)
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Millions in Ads Pour in Ahead of SCOTUS Nomination Fight
By ABC News. President Trump will announce his nominee for the next U.S. Supreme Court Justice this Monday and already outside groups from both sides of the political aisle are committing millions of dollars in advertisements surrounding what is expected to be a lengthy and rancorous confirmation battle.
I will be making my choice for Justice of the United States Supreme Court on the first Monday after the July 4th Holiday, July 9th!
Two groups, the conservative Judicial Crisis Network and the liberal Demand Justice, have both pledged over $1 million in their respective fights to either encourage support or encourage opposition to whoever emerges as Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement from the bench last week after over 30 years of service. (Read more from “Millions in Ads Pour in Ahead of SCOTUS Nomination Fight” HERE)
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Two Boston police officers made headlines this Fourth of July holiday, by singing a beautiful rendition of the coveted song “God Bless America” from their squad car. The video went viral for all the right reasons.
[Kim] Tavares said of her and “Stevie’s” tribute, “Music is universal. It brings the world together with so much bad news, I believe you need to see the real human side — that we’re human, people.”
She told The Patch, “I have driven with plenty of officers over my 17 years and the majority of them want them to stop singing.” Tavares says of her and McNulty’s video entitled “Carpool Karaoke,” that we might just see more of this.
On the Boston Police Department’s website, a statement was issued that read: “Happy to see two of our officers, Kim Tavares and Stephen McNulty, getting into the mood for all the upcoming 4th of July festivities planned for the Boston area and surrounding communities. (Read more from “Watch: Police Officers Sing Beautiful Rendition of ‘God Bless America’ on Song’s 100th Anniversary” HERE)
By The Blaze. A 15-year-old Florida girl found herself hanging on to a tree for her life Friday afternoon as a large and aggressive alligator waited, hissing just feet below her, according to the Washington Post.
The girl, Jordan Broderick, clung to a tree branch nearly to the point of exhaustion until a sheriff’s deputy showed up and made quick work of the gator, saving the girl’s life.
Before the officer arrived, however, there was a half an hour of panic as Broderick’s family feared for her life and frantically communicated with 911 dispatch. . .
Finally, Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy Mitch Blackmon was the first to arrive on the scene. When he got there, he knew exactly what to do.
“I fired one single .223 round from my Bushmaster AR-15, killing the alligator,” Blackmon wrote on the incident report. (Read more from “Sheriff’s Deputy With an Ar-15 Rescues Girl Trapped in Tree by 9-Foot Alligator” HERE)
An Alligator Trapped a Teenage Girl in a Tree. Then a Deputy Arrived With an Ar-15.
By Washington Post. . . One gator in particular — a nine-foot specimen — cut a path toward the girl floating on a raft in the Ocala National Forest in central Florida on Friday afternoon.
She thought fast, scurrying up a tree branch hanging over the water. The alligator hissed and waited at the base of the tree. . .
Jordan, her mother and the dispatcher may not have known what the alligators are coded with instinct to know. July marks the end of mating season, when the reptiles are particularly aggressive and territorial, Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens spokesman Ron Magill told The Post. . .
By the time Lake County Sheriff’s Deputy Mitch Blackmon arrived, ahead of the marine unit, Jordan had been in the tree for about 30 minutes. She was screaming and exhausted from hanging on, according to the incident report. (Read more from “An Alligator Trapped a Teenage Girl in a Tree. Then a Deputy Arrived With an Ar-15.” HERE)
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