WATCH: Ocasio-Cortez Slams Americans, Calls Them Garbage

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By The Blaze. Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that “where we are” as Americans amounts to “garbage” during an appearance at the South By Southwest Conference & Festivals (SXSW). . .

“What’s really hard for people to sometimes see is that we are on this path of a slow erosion, and a slow slow slow just like — move away from what we’ve always been,” Ocasio-Cortez began by explaining how she feels that America has moved away from what it should be. “You won’t even realize that you’ve drifted a hundred miles.”

She then appeared to suggest that her Democratic Socialist policies represent core American values, arguing that we had just strayed so far from them that we couldn’t recognize them anymore. “So when someone’s talking about ‘our core,’ they’re like, ‘oh, this is radical,’ but it isn’t radical. This is what we’ve always been,” she said.

“I think all of these things sound radical compared to where we are,” she concluded, “but where we are is not a good thing. And this idea of like, ten percent better than garbage, it shouldn’t be what we settle for.” (Read more from “Ocasio-Cortez Slams Americans, Calls Them Garbage” HERE)

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Ocasio-Cortez: In U.S., ‘If You Don’t Have a Job, You Are Left to Die’

By The Daily Caller. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Saturday that in the United States, “if you don’t have a job, you are left to die.”

Ocasio-Cortez, who made the remark at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, added that “we should not be haunted by” the possibility of automated workers replacing jobs, according to The Verge.

“We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem,” added the congressman, whose Green New Deal proposal includes a federal jobs guarantee. (Read more from “Ocasio-Cortez: In U.S., ‘If You Don’t Have a Job, You Are Left to Die'” HERE)

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Diver Survives After Being Scooped up in Whale’s Mouth

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A diver in South Africa survived an experience out of a biblical passage last month when he ended up almost being swallowed by a whale.

Rainer Schimpf, 51, was snorkeling off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, when he ended up in the path of a Bryde’s whale, which opened his jaws and engulfed him headfirst.

“We were very astonished that out of nowhere this whale came up,” he told Sky News. “I was busy concentrating on the sharks because you want to know if the shark is in front of you or behind you, left or right, so we were very focused on the sharks and their behavior — then suddenly it got dark.”

Schimpf, who has worked as a dive operator for over 15 years, said he was in the water with two others for just a matter of minutes before the whale appeared. He had happened to be with a group recording a sardine run, which is where marine animals such as dolphins, whales, and sharks gather fish into bait balls.

“So my next thought was that the whale may take me down into the ocean and release me further down, so I instantly held my breath,” he told Sky News. “Obviously he realized I was not what he wanted to eat so he spat me out again.” (Read more from “Diver Survives After Being Scooped up in Whale’s Mouth” HERE)

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Judge Jeanine Has a Concerning Theory About Where Omar’s Allegiance Lies

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By Townhall. During her Fox News show on Saturday, Judge Jeanine Pirro posed an interesting question about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN): does she hold her allegiance to Sharia Law? . . .

“Omar wears a hijab, which, according to the Quran 33:59, tells women to cover so they won’t get molested,” Pirro told her audience. “Is her adherence to this Islamic doctrine indicative of her adherence to Sharia law, which in itself is antithetical to the United States Constitution?” . . .

Omar has garnered attention for her anti-Semitic comments, specifically about Americans’ loyalty to Israel. In her eyes, anyone who advocates for Israel is more loyal to Israelis than Americans.

Last week, the House passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, which was a direct result of Omar’s numerous anti-Semitic comments. Even after the resolution passed, Omar stood her ground, saying her comments started a “difficult conversation” that can lead to “great progress.”

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GOP Leader Accuses Dems of ‘Enabling Anti-Semitism’ by Defending Ilhan Omar

By New York Post. A top GOP House leader accused Democrats of trying to “protect” Rep. Ilhan Omar and “enabling anti-Semitism” by failing to single out her anti-Israel comments on the House floor.

“I think it was really clearly an effort to actually protect Ilhan Omar,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “To cover up her bigotry and anti-Semitism by refusing to name her. The Democrats have yet to take any action to remove her from her committee. And they’ve got a real problem.”

Cheney voted against a bipartisan House resolution Thursday that condemned anti-Semitism and many other forms of hatred and bigotry.

The broad resolution failed to single-out Omar specifically for comments she made that suggested that supporters of Israel have an allegiance to a foreign country. (Read more from “GOP Leader Accuses Dems of ‘Enabling Anti-Semitism’ by Defending Ilhan Omar” HERE)

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New Report Exposes Insane Liberal Classes Taught at U.S. Universities

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A new report exposes the radical leftist courses offered at universities across the U.S., which range from “Sex and Socialism” to “Cowboys, Gangsters, and Drag Kings: Introduction to Critical Masculinity Studies” to the “Gendered Politics of Food.”

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) has produced this report, Comedy & Tragedy, every year since 1995 to “document the intellectual abuse and flat-out indoctrination happening by way of the appalling curriculum at our country’s most (so-called) prestigious institutions of higher education.” . . .

There are classes on “queering God or queering the Bible,” Brown explained. “Those courses go into how, throughout history, God has been seen as definitively masculine or male, but they ask, ‘or is He?’” . . .

A number of Catholic universities made the list. DePaul University offers a class called “Sexual Justice: Lesbians, Gays and the Law,” which “examines the historical and contemporary relationships between lesbians, gays, and the law in the U.S., focusing on the intersections of power, sexuality, and identity with issues of sexuality-based discrimination.”

Georgetown has a class called “The Breast: Image, Myth, Legend,” for which no description was offered; Seton Hall University students have the option of enrolling in “The Politics of Marriage,” a topic which “requires careful attention as many important voices here (women and queer individuals in particular) are historically marginalized.” (Read more from “New Report Exposes Insane Liberal Classes Taught at U.S. Universities” HERE)

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The Navy Fighter Pilot Judge Who Shot Down Mueller

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By The Washington Examiner. A federal judge known for his impatience in court sentenced former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Thursday to less than four years behind bars, defying a requested prison term of 19 to 24 years by special counsel Robert Mueller.

T.S. Ellis III, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan and serves on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, called Mueller’s recommended sentence “excessive.” Instead, the former U.S. Navy aviator, who piloted an F-4 Phantom before heading to Harvard Law School and then Oxford University, handed down a 47-month sentence. . .

The 78-year-old judge, who presided over the trial in which Manafort was convicted of eight financial crimes, including bank fraud, tax fraud, and failure to disclose a foreign bank account, seemed swayed by his attorneys’ argument for a sentence “substantially below” the federal guidelines. . .

But Manafort’s attorneys had hit back at the special counsel in their own sentencing memo, claiming prosecutors were trying to “vilify Mr. Manafort as a lifelong and irredeemable felon” and “spreading misinformation about Mr. Manafort to impugn his character in a manner that this country has not experienced in decades.”

Ellis was often curt during the case. At a pre-trial hearing, he questioned why the special counsel’s office had charged Manafort with crimes unrelated to their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Ellis argued that prosecutors ultimately wanted to pressure Manafort to give them information “that would reflect on Mr. Trump or lead to his prosecution or impeachment or whatever.” (Read more from “The Navy Fighter Pilot Judge Who Shot Down Mueller” HERE)

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Trump says he feels ‘very badly’ for Paul Manafort, but ‘honored’ by sentencing judge

By The Washington Examiner. President Trump said Friday he felt “very badly” for Paul Manafort, but “very honored” by the federal judge who sentenced his former campaign manager to a shorter-than-expected prison sentence.

Trump told reporters at the White House that U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis’s sentencing of Manafort to 47 months in prison — far below federal sentencing guidelines — clears him of collusion allegations between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russian elements.

“I feel very badly for Paul Manafort. I think it has been a very, very tough time for him. But if you notice, both his lawyer, a highly respected man, and a very highly respected judge, the judge said there was no collusion with Russia,” Trump said.

“This had nothing to do with collusion. There was no collusion. It’s a collusion hoax, it’s a collusion witch hoax. I don’t collude with Russia,” Trump said. “[Manafort’s] lawyer went out of his way to make a statement last night, no collusion with Russia. There was absolutely none. The judge, I mean for whatever reason, I was very honored by it, also made the statement that this had nothing to do with collusion with Russia. So you know, keep it going. Keep the hoax going. It’s just a hoax.” (Read more from “Trump says he feels ‘very badly’ for Paul Manafort, but ‘honored’ by sentencing judge” HERE)

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WATCH: The Insane Attack on Man and His Girlfriend That Got 6 Taco Bell Employees Fired

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Six Philadelphia-area Taco Bell employees have been terminated after they allegedly attacked a customer and his girlfriend outside the fast-food restaurant for allegedly complaining about their long taco wait time.

“The altercation, which was captured on camera and posted on Twitter, took place Sunday night, Feb. 24, and was apparently sparked after customers were complaining about the long wait times for their meal orders,” reported Fox News.

Bryan Reese, the man who was attacked, posted a video of the brutal incident to Twitter, as well as photos of bloodied clothing, a police report, and his girlfriend’s scratched and cut-up neck. . .

“I was assaulted by a number of [Taco Bell] employees, when I reached out to [Taco Bell] for justice they offered a $20 gift card, they must have thought I said Birthday not Assault,” he captioned the video, which was shot by his friend.

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“I backed out of the store. They continued to follow me. They put me on the ground, and I don’t really remember too much else. Except for when I got up my girlfriend was on the ground being beat, too. She wasn’t even in the store at the time,” Reese told ABC6.

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SHOCKER! Convicted Liar Michael Cohen Wasn’t Truthful in His Congressional Testimony About Trump; Attempts to Hit Trump In A BIG Way

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By Townhall. President Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen testified before Congress last week. It was a clown show. The man is a convicted liar. He’s slated to start his four-year jail sentence shortly. It was a back-and-forth between Democrats who somehow think this guy is now Mr. Reformed and a credible witness in their ongoing crusade to impeach the president. Republicans kept brining up his convictions, which include lying to Congress (via NYT):

Michael D. Cohen, a former lawyer for President Trump, was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday after denouncing Mr. Trump and explaining that “I felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds.”

Mr. Cohen gave an emotional apology to the court for his involvement in a hush-money scandal that could threaten the Trump presidency — a scheme to buy the silence of two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump to protect his chances before the 2016 election. Mr. Cohen said his blind loyalty to Mr. Trump led him to ignore “my own inner voice and my moral compass.”

The sentencing in federal court in Manhattan capped a startling fall for Mr. Cohen, 52, who had once hoped to work by Mr. Trump’s side in the White House but ended up a central figure in the inquiry into payments to an adult-film star and a former Playboy model before the 2016 election.

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Michael Cohen Sues the Trump Organization

By CNN. President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, sued the Trump Organization on Thursday, saying that after Cohen began cooperating with federal investigators, the company failed to fulfill its contractual obligations to indemnify him or pay his legal bills relating to his work for the firm.

Cohen — an executive at the Trump Organization until early 2017, when he left that post to work as Trump’s personal attorney — alleged in the lawsuit the company is obligated to pay both his legal bills, which now total at least $1.9 million, and another $1.9 million he owes as part of a criminal sentence he received late last year. (Read more from “Michael Cohen Sues the Trump Organization” HERE)

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According to This Fox Host, Trump Has Lost His Way: ‘Never Forget Who Your Friends Are’

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One of Donald Trump’s most vociferous champions has turned on the president, accusing him of cosying up to corporate CEOs who are trying to “destroy him and his policies.”

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs was critical of the meeting Trump held on Wednesday with the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board, comprising of business big hitters like Apple chief Tim Cook and the head of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Tom Donohue.

The board is chaired by Trump’s daughter Ivanka and commerce secretary Wilbur Ross and is focused on issues like lowering unemployment and preparing for the shift toward automation and artificial intelligence in the workplace. . .

“In what should have been a reminder to the president’s counselors that in politics as in life it is important to never forget who your friends are,” Dobbs said.

“If this White House thinks that listening to the beguiling prattle of Tim Cook, Tom Donohue,.. is helpful to this president, then the battle of the forgotten man and woman in this country will be decided by the very establishment that the president ran against.” (Read more from “According to This Fox Host, Trump Has Lost His Way: ‘Never Forget Who Your Friends Are'” HERE)

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Transgender — Who Was Impregnated by Gay Partner — Gives Birth

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Wyley — who was born female — had been on testosterone treatments and sports a beard, deeper voice, and has had breast-removal surgery. But Wyley still possessed a vagina.

Stephan learned about Wyley’s female genitalia after the couple met on the gay dating app Grindr, and their relationship proceeded anyway — but the lingering question was, “Can Wyley become pregnant?” . . .

But then Wyley started experiencing “morning sickness” and then learned of the pregnancy at 11 weeks — a circumstance that “definitely was not planned,” Wyley said, adding that “I am a man, and I am actually pregnant.” . . .

Now Wyley Simpson and Stephan Gaeth — who revealed their last names for a KENS-TV report — have a baby they’ve named Rowan Fox. . .

“I was really unsure. And then … it felt right, and it felt better as we talked about it,” Gaeth added to the station. “We did a lot of talking, a lot of preparing. We went to prenatal yoga together, we watched a lot of videos online, and figured out our birth plan together.” (Read more from “Transgender — Who Was Impregnated by Gay Partner — Gives Birth” HERE)

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Trump Chimes in, Slams DNC After They Say Fox News Can’t Host a Primary Debate

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By Townhall. The Democratic National Committee has made one thing very clear: they don’t want Fox News involved in the primary debates. According to DNC Chairman Tom Perez, Fox News is unable to host a “fair and neutral debate” for the Democratic candidates.

Perez released the following statement about the subject:

I believe that a key pathway to victory is to continue to expand our electorate and reach all voters. That is why I have made it a priority to talk to a broad array of potential media partners, including Fox News. Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates. Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates.

What Perez didn’t anticipate, however, was how President Donald Trump would react to the news. Trump took to Twitter to remind Perez of one thing: in order for a general election debate to take place, the president has to be on stage. And he’s refusing to cooperate as long as Fox News is left out of the picture:

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DNC bars Fox News from hosting presidential primary debates; network urges party to reconsider

By Fox News. The Democratic National Committee has barred Fox News from hosting its presidential primary debates, prompting the network to urge the party to reconsider.

“We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate. They’re the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters,” Fox News Senior Vice President Bill Sammon said in a statement. . .

While some Fox News Channel opinion hosts have come under fire for ties to the Trump administration, Wallace, Baier and MacCallum are anchors from the news division who have been praised for their handling of past debates. In 2016, Wallace moderated a presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (Read more from “DNC bars Fox News from hosting presidential primary debates; network urges party to reconsider” HERE)

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