Headlines

Judge may hold Mueller-ensnared Russian firm in contempt

Experts toil in dangerous conditions to restore fire-ravaged Notre Dame

First case of unknown origin confirmed in northern California ...

Poll: Biden takes lead in Florida

Poll: Biden crushing Sanders in South Carolina

Coronavirus live update: Facebook cancels conference, Iran outbreak could get worse

Federal appeals court rules tech platforms can censor content ...

Trump admin insiders: Pentagon house cleaning of never Trumpers

‘I didn’t write them, but Bernie did’: Warren slams Sanders over delegate rules

Coronavirus is threatening to end the world air traffic boom

Infects Iranian vice president, kills ambassador to Vatican ..

Appeals court: Trump can withhold funding from sanctuary cities

Headlines

Steyer will return to the debate stage in South Carolina

Coronavirus live updates: Turkey closes its border with Iran, South Korea on high alert

Carville: Those who think Sanders can beat Trump are stupid ...

Joe Biden’s South Carolina firewall is on fire

National security adviser dismisses claims of Russian 2020 interference

‘Tesla killers’ aren’t killing Tesla at all

Harry and Meghan: Queen doesn’t own the word ‘royal’ ...

JP Morgan: We’re all going to die of  climate change!

Coronavirus cases spike in Italy

Sanders’ ‘very, very different’ economic plan no match for Trump’s, Mnuchin claims

DHS whistleblower during Obama administration found dead ...

Swedish population growth overwhelming driven by mass migration

Headlines

Shutdown will be the longest in history as Congress skips town

If the shutdown lasts two mote weeks, the cost to the economy will exceed Trump's wall

Trump eyes disaster money to fund border wall ..

Report: WaPo owner Jeff Bezos allegedly sent penis selfies to mistress

Exasperated Democrats try to rein in Ocasio-Cortez

CDC says it's another bad flu season with 7.3 million people sick so far

San Diego TV station: CNN declined 'local view' on wall effectiveness ...

China: U.S. company 'pathetic' for refusing to  buy goods made by Muslim slaves

[Kamala] Harris schedules first South Carolina visit

This chart shows the market is due for another 5% slide

Ocasio-Cortez mocks aging Democrats ...

Report: Desantis to replace Scott Israel with Broward's first black sheriff

Headlines

Washington mourns John MvCain -- and its own demise under Trump

Trump order seeks to  ease retirement account rules for require withdrawals

Trump bash at McCain's funeral ... Aretha's too

[Trump:] U.S. shouldn't have to 'buy allies with bad' deals

Whoever wins South Carolina will get the Democrat nomination

Trump warns Congress on new NAFTA, tells Canada it may be 'oit' in mew trade deal

Erdogam calls USA 'wild wolves', vows to abandon dollar in trades ...

Edi. Sec. Devos will not stand in the way of funding armed teachers

U.S., Russia back talk on whether to ban 'killer robots'

Its an insult to the public that Google isn't sending its CEO to the Senate

Americans disgusted with hyper-politicized [McCain] funeral ...

Poll: 68% voters think illegal immigration 'major problem'

Headlines

A Twisted Bit of Irony

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

White House aide Sebastain Gorka ousted from post

California could start jailing people who don't use transgender pronouns

Erdogan opposition rises in Turkey ...

Report: Trump backing off support for Luther Strange in AL Sen race

Trump administration introduces green card hurdle

Reminder: KKK wanted to remove Columbus statue too

Congress quietly passes bill allowing warrantless searches of homes ...

South Carolina governor halts all funding for abortion clinics

Ukraine's TB problem is a ticking time bomb for Europe

Sword attacker arrested in London, shouted 'Allahu Akbar'

Theater cancels 'insensitive' 'Gone with the Wind' showings ...

Abbas on Trump's Mideast peace push: 'Nothing is impossible'

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Maddow: Trump 'wants to kill us'

Axelrod: We should 'move on', 'it takes a lot of work to lose to Trump'

Congress protesting wasteful spending wants $77 million more for itself ...

Trump punches back at Clinton: Comey was 'the best thing that happened to her'

EU raises 'Brexit bill' estimate to 100 billion euros

Palestinians for Trump: 'He might be the one'

Venezuela: Maduro seeks to rewrite constitution

Joy Behar: GOP 'enabling' Trump's 'mental illness'

DOJ Report: Nearly 46% of prisoners are foreign-born in Fed prisons

Al Franken wonders aloud if Steve Bannon inspires hate speech

Democrats have head start on South Carolina special election

Bardot urges her countrymen not to vote for Macron ...

Greasing the Skids

The Republican Party in Colorado has pulled a fast one ... disenfranchising the GOP voters there from having a say in selecting their delegates to the GOP presidential convention in Cleveland, Ohio in July. In a series of sly establishment moves, they have awarded all 36 Colorado delegates to this convention to Ted Cruz ... and Donald Trump is furious as a consequence ... see: Denver Post Story.

These types of delegate stealing tactics are being attempted across the country ... South Carolina, Tennessee and Missouri ... to make Cruz delegate richer at the expense of Trump. This is the Republican establishment fighting back under the assumption that a Trump candidacy would cost it the White House and at least one house of Congress. Whether this is the case or not is disputable but is what rationale is being forwarded for these hard-ball actions on the part of the Republican National Committee.

And, while Cruz is basking in this current RNC attention ... thinking that it is greasing the skids for him, he might be surprised, come convention time, when he is jettisoned in favor of a more establishment candidate like Kasich or even a parachuted-in Paul Ryan.

Performing this way on the part of the GOP runs the risk of causing many of its voters to stay home in November ... which creates a possible lose-lose situation if Donal Trump is denied the nomination. But would I vote for Cruz? Yes, if for no other reason than whom he would appoint to the Supreme Court. Would I vote for Kasich? Yes, he might even return us to fiscal sanity. Yes, Trump for his immigration stands. I would even hold my nose and vote for Ryan if it comes down to that. Anyone but Hellery.

Afterthought: The Republicans are Boy Scouts in the nomination process for their candidate when compared to the Democrats.

Reparations

Hillary Clinton, if she loses the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary to Bernie Sanders ... which now seems likely, she will need to stop the bleeding in the South Carolina primary. This means that the black vote there is very critical ... sooo, what better way to energize this voting block than to promise them something. What might this bribe be? How about money channeled through the age-old political promise of slavery reparations ... see: Breitbart Article?

Now I don;t know how the polling goes for reparations, but, if Hillary embraces this cause like she has gun control and Obummer's record, she will be lucky to carry two states if she is the Democrat nominee.

As far as reparations are concerned, Abraham Lincoln,when confronted with the huge causalities occurring in the Civil War, believed that this bloodshed would continue until there was an equivalence to the prior suffering of the slaves in his country. If this was enough reparations for Lincoln, it is so for me too.

Erasing the Past

Utah is now being asked to rename Dixie State University ... see: Fox News Story ... and Memphis, Tennessee is about to dig up Confederate General Nathan Forrest's grave and remove his statue to be sold to the highest bidder ... see: Breitbart Article. This frenzy to erase all vestiges of the Confederate States' legacy is picking up steam after South Carolina removed the Stars and Bars flag from the state capital grounds. To me this iconoclastic fury reminds me of the recent tragic historic site destructions by ISIS taking place in Syria and Iraq ... or of a jilted lover feverishly vandalizing his/her former mate's possessions.

What is next on our rabid Northerners' chopping block ... in order to attain national thought purity ... Dixie Cups?

Myth Busted

Mark Sanford -- South Carolina

"There are no second acts in American lives." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mark Sanford crushed Elizabeth Colbert-Busch in a special House of Representative election in South Carolina yesterday ... see: AP Story  This despite lots of outside money and a Comedy Channel endorsement for Colbert-Busch.  Perhaps it was her married name?

Naive Nuts

A couple in South Carolina has discovered an image of Jesus Christ on a receipt from Walmart's don't yah know.  (See: above image and Walmart Miracle)  Now, as much as I admire this couple faith, I still classify them as naive nuts.  I believe that, if Jesus wanted to send a message to his flock, I suspect it wouldn't be on a Walmart receipt ... perhaps in 5,000-point bold Times New Roman type in the clouds on top of a giant rainbow? 

Now, there are a number of other naive nuts that often surround such an event, viz:
- the crowd of acolytes who will pilgrimage to South Carolina to catch a glimpse of this receipt (probably for a hefty fee)
- the cable-news reporters who will, in hushed terms, probe and promote this "miracle"
- the guy who will spend $10,000 to buy this image on EBay
- the evangelist preachers who will point to this "sign" as a warning about our decaying society