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U.S.-Iran MOU Language Released and Signed

DOJ Launches Investigation Of CUNY Race-Based Recruiting After Complaint By Equal Protection Project

VIDEO: "Fighting Antizionism is the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time"

https://twitter.com/MEMRIReports/status/1059356867913310209

Louis Farrakhan Visits Iran, calls for ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 05, 2018 19 Comments

Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan visited Iran over the weekend where he did what he does best: spit on America and somehow connect Jews to everything. During his speech at Tehran University, Farrakhan led chants of "Death to America" with the Iranians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=b6BuOt8X1MY

Midterm Open Thread: Forecasters tempering their confidence about Blue Wave

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 05, 2018 50 Comments

Tomorrow is Election Day and for the longest time, we've heard that a massive blue wave will crash into the House and Senate. But now it looks like the confidence has gone down and forecasters have started to admit that the blue wave has a possibility to dissipate.

Branco Cartoon – Fakers

Posted by A.F. Branco on November 05, 2018 8 Comments

A Donkey doesn't change its ways...

Andrew Gillum’s ties to anti-Israel, terrorist-glorifying Dream Defenders should be a disqualifier

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 04, 2018 15 Comments

Democrat Mayor of Tallahassee Andrew Gillum has about an even shot of becoming Governor of Florida, if the polls are accurate. He might even be a slight favorite to defeat Republican Ron DeSantis. There's a lot politically not to like about Gillum -- he's on the far left of the Democratic Party, and that's saying a lot. His proposals could do serious damage to Florida. Yet in this age of Democrat anti-Trump rage, and a soft-spot for socialism in the party, Gillum just might pull it off.

SNL sinks to new low, mocks veteran and GOP candidate who lost his eye in Afghanistan

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 04, 2018 36 Comments

Saturday Night Live used to be funny. Remember Roseanne Roseannadanna or Chevy Chase being politically incorrect on Weekend Update and the catchphrases that permeated our culture: "Jane, you ignorant slut," "You look mahvelous," and "could it be . . . Satan?"? SNL is no longer funny. Case in point, this week they mocked Navy SEAL veteran Dan Crenshaw, a Republican congressional candidate who lost an eye in an IED explosion in Afghanistan.

Regents of CU-Boulder Condemn Students for Justice in Palestine Post That Glorified Boulder Attack

U. North Carolina-Wilmington Eliminating Gender Studies Director Position

Huge Number of Students at UC-Berkeley Law Claim They Suffer From Mental Disabilities

Student Charged With Burning Cross in Chicago Freed While Awaiting Trial

U. Nebraska-Lincoln Racial Justice Minor Features 'How to Be Antiracist' Class

Democrat Socialists of America Platform Includes Abolishing SCOTUS, the Presidency

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzppOBJzvuo

Maxine Waters promises payback if Dems win House: “I’m going to do to you what you did to us”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 04, 2018 34 Comments

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been an outspoken critic of President Trump. She's called for his impeachment and then promised to follow that up by "going after" Vice President Mike Pence; she's called for #TheResistance to find and confront Trump officials wherever they are. She's infamously let slip that she would like to nationalize the oil industry and has been embroiled in a long list of questionable ethics- and nepotism-related scandals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ots4E_ZnVos

North Korea warns it will resurrect nuclear program if U.S. doesn’t lift sanctions

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 04, 2018 3 Comments

What is the status of the Singapore Summit agreement five months after the historic deal was signed by President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un? The American press is highlighting a set-back on the path to peace. North Korean officials are warning that the nation will begin strengthening its nuclear arsenal if the United States does not lift economic sanctions against the country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45qSj4_DVxs

Typhus spreads through Los Angeles; over 100 cases reported

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 04, 2018 23 Comments

When we reported on Los Angeles in early October, the city was experiencing an outbreak of the bacterial disease typhus. At that point, 20 cases had been reported. One month later, the number of recorded cases has risen to over 100.

The number of flea-born Typhus cases in Los Angeles has hit 107.

Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager on Dealing With the Left: Don’t Apologize

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 04, 2018 26 Comments

Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager have been making rounds in media, promoting their film project "No Safe Spaces" which focuses on free speech and social justice warrior culture on college campuses.

Senate Judiciary Final Report: “no evidence to substantiate any of the claims of sexual assault made against Justice Kavanaugh”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 04, 2018 42 Comments

The Senate Judiciary Committee has released its Final Report (pdf.)(full embed at bottom of post) detailing the extensive investigation conducted into allegations of sexual misconduct lodged against Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation proceedings. The report completely clears Kavanaugh. Here is a portion of the Summary (emphasis added):

Midterm Madness Week at Legal Insurrection

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 04, 2018 4 Comments

All the news you may have missed....

#NY23: Tom Reed hits Mitrano campaign for staffer anti-cop, anti-capitalist social media post

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 03, 2018 16 Comments

It's hard to know if the contest between incumbent Republican Tom Reed and Democrat challenger Tracy Mitrano in NY-23 is competitive. Cook and a couple of other analysts have moved the race from Safe/Solid Republican to Likely Republican. No one has moved it to toss up or even Lean Republican.

Countdown to Midterm-ageddon

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 03, 2018 27 Comments

With the midterm election only days away, it's worth taking a look at what is going on around the web. Democrats have gone from prematurely wallowing in their early-projected blue wave victories to setting up talking points that explain away a less than "wave" showing in Tuesday's midterm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9nRap0DB_M

CNN reports . . . and what Trump actually said about the migrant caravan

Posted by New Neo on November 03, 2018 26 Comments

Late Thursday afternoon Trump gave a speech and then answered questions from the press about policy regarding the caravan of illegal immigrants headed towards the U.S. I listened to it at the time, and here's the text of his remarks. After hearing the speech, I wasn't surprised by the spin given by this CNN headline about it: "Trump says he will restrict asylum, claims troops will shoot at rock throwers." Oh did he, now?

Spartacus 2020: NJ Will Allow Cory Booker to Run for President and Senate

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 03, 2018 31 Comments

Just come out and say you're running in 2020, Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). It's obvious now that New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill that will allow Spartacus to run for president and senator at the same time.

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1048204924612476928

Senate Judiciary refers yet another Kavanaugh accuser for criminal investigation

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 03, 2018 45 Comments

Late last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee referred Brett Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick and her lawyer, Democrat presidential hopeful Michael Avenatti, for criminal investigation. On Friday, the Committee referred another Kavanaugh accuser, Judy Munro-Leighton, to the FBI for criminal investigation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXdBFDRA_WM

Sarah Lawrence Prof pens Op-Ed about lack of intellectual diversity, social justice warriors want him driven off campus

Posted by Mike LaChance on November 03, 2018 31 Comments

Professor Samuel Abrams is a conservative-leaning tenured professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College. He is active in Heterodox Academy, a group of almost 2000 academics devoted to intellectual diversity on campus. Prof. Abrams recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times about the lack of ideological diversity among administrators at his school and elsewhere. The column, titled Think Professors Are Liberal? Try School Administrators, brought together research Prof. Abrams had done on left-leaning bias among college professors and administrators, and how it stifles open debate.