Headlines

Mark Cuban on Trump’s economy bullishness: ‘I wish he were right, but he’s not.’

Coronavirus live update: May 1 too soon to reopen, says Johns Hopkins director, UK PM discharged

NYT: Behind Trump’s failure on COVID-19 ...

Abbott: I’ll issue executive order on safe business reopening

Gridlocked Israel nears 4th consecutive election

Fauci says earlier social distancing measures ‘obviously’ would have saved more lives

Italy extends lockdown despite business pressure ...

VA governor signs universal background checks, gun rationing bill

Dozens arrested in Brussels riots during lockdown

OPEC and allies will hold an emergency virtual meeting Sunday night to finalize cut agreement

USA gave $3.7M to Wuhan lab at center of scrutiny ...

Kentucky officials will report license plates fo Easter churcfgoers

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Schiff: Trump lawyers ‘definitely afraid’ of impeachment witnesses

How coronavirus is beginning to hit China’s economy

Virus strengthening ... Death toll rise ... 56 million quarantined

Confusion: Joe [Biden] contradicts Dem witnesses on Ukrainian scandal ...

Dershowitz: Democrats ‘completely failed’ to make case for Trump’s impeachment

Sanders leads New Hampshire Democrat primary less than three weeks out

Romney: ‘It’s very likely I’ll be in favor of witnesses’ ...

VA House committee passes gun control measures

Trump moves to gut Obama housing discrimination rules

The market’s valuation, momentum and speculative activity is nowhere near as extreme as in 1999

USA warns: Can’t evacuate all Americans from coronavirus epicenter ...

Macron begs USA to keep troops in Africa

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House Judiciary approves Articles of Impeachment, paving way for floor vote

China, US reach phase one trade deal that includes some tariff relief and agriculture purchases

Is Bernie the new Corbyn?

Democrat watches golf during impeachment ... President’s Cup

Biden warns that Boris Johnson’s victory shows dangers of parties leaning too far left

Trump halts new China tariffs and rolls back some of the prior duties of $120 billion of imports

Republicans agree to massive spending bill, despite record deficits ...

Lee: FISA ‘as it now stands, cannot stand any longer’

Judge hits Trump administration over census docs fight

US weighing 100% tariffs on EU products including whiskey and Cognac, according to documents

Dems agree on one thing, they’re very, very nervous ...

VA Democrat: Let National Guard force counties to honor gun control

Whiteface

Dave Chappelle made up to look like VA Gov. Northam ...

Headlines

China 'lifts mysterious veil' by landing probe on far side of the moon ...

Apple suffers its biggest single-day loss in 6 years after cutting revenue guidance

Google shifting billion$ to tax haven Bermuda ...

12 Americans allegedly killed by illegal aliens in 2018

State Department warns Americans traveling in China to use 'increased caution'

Military vets can use both Medicare and VA health care

NFL ratings rebound: Sunday Night Football eyes No. 1 finish ...

Donal Trump: Mitt Romney fights me more than he did Barack Obama

Trump judicial nominees face setback

China annual auto sales fall for the first time in nearly two decades with more pain on the way

Pelosi in control ... Constitution considers me president's equal ...

Twelve Germans beaten in random attacks by asylum seeking mob

Headlines

Trump's VA pick  bows out after allegations pile up

Bad news for Mueller and yet he swamp: the voters are on to you

FOXNEWS POLL: Special Counsel  likely will find criminal offenses ...

Mattis: U.S. will 'expand' Syria operations

'I have nothing to hide' Pruitt tells angry Congress

Jury finds Bill Cosby guilty on all three counts of sexual assault

Trump allies drowning in legal fees ...

Daily Beast suspends Joy Reid's column

Pompeo confirmed as Secretary of State

Ford basically giving up on US car business, and GM is not far behind

[Iran's] Khamenei urges Muslim nations to unite against America ...

Trump to visit U.K. in July

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Drudge?

Trump careens off script on Russia after Putin meeting

John Podesta met with Fusion GPS after Trump dossier was published

'SNL' paints Dems as out of touch, elderly losers ...

Trump trolls Kim, 'I would never call him short and fat'

London mayor: I'll show Donald Trump my city's 'respect' for diverse faiths

WSJ editorial: Bannon may be rooting for Republicans to lose the Senate

40 [British] MPs signal No Confidence in [Prime Minister] May ...

Report: Alabama voters hold Washington Post, not Roy Moore 'in contempt'

As lenders targeted veterans with risky mortgages, VA failed to act

Bill Maher: 'It doesn't matter if Democrat primaries were rigged'

NASA to test 'space lasers' with latest launch ...

Sisi: Islamic State collapse in Syria, Iraq could cause flow of jihadis into Egypt

Headlines

All came from Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politco?

Huge crowd rallies in Istanbul against Turkey's post coup crackdown ...

Trump reverses course on working with Russia on cybersecurity

Report: Russian lawyer secured Trump Tower meeting by promising dirt on Hillary Clinton

Hawaii files [yer] another legal challenge to Trump travel ban

California Democrats plunge into 'civil war'

Your Fired! Trump's VA terminates 500, suspends 200 over misconduct

NYT says blaming Palin for [Gabby Giffords] shooting was 'honest mistake' ...

Howard Dean: Trump Admin a 'criminal enterprise'

Putin: TV Trump very different from the real person

Comey's Trump memos reportedly contain classified information

Boats full of protesters circle MN governor on lake ...

Brooks: Trump 'understands sense of belonging' better than many critics, appeals to Western traditions are good

Gravy

Yes, I voted for Donald Trump. I salivated at the prospect of the many things he had promised ... a "beautiful wall", extreme vetting of immigrants, tax reform, regulation reforms, the destruction of radical Islam, fixing the VA ... the list goes on and on. Now, once elected, Trump is vacillating on almost all his campaign promises ... even on the global warming hoax for heaven's sake! I guess these bet hedges are to be expected from such a consummate negotiator as Trump. But I am getting a sinking feeling about his sincerity on many of his pronounced goals as president ... see: Politico Story for more instances. Am I in the early stages of some form of buyer's remorse?

To be honest, in some ways, I expected that I would be hoodwinked  by this man ... as often occurs in reality shows ... but not so quickly. But, you know what? Defanging of that harpy Hellary and putting a few Constitutional conservatives on the Supreme Court will be sufficient rewards for giving my nod to Trump.

Anything else will be gravy ...

Afterward: See SNL video ... particularly Pence exchange ...

The Heavy Hand of Government

If you can't trust the government, then whom can you trust? Well, apparently NOAA's reputation as an impartial observer of global warming has once again taking a hit as it has been revealed that, over the last two years, it has been revising down older recorded temperature data from Maine in order to make it look like things have been warming up there ... and in the rest of the country ... when in fact they haven't. John Hinderaker of Powerline has just pointed this out in his recent blog posting ... see: Powerline Blog Entry for all the sordid details.

This fast and loose revisionism is about as smarmy as a supposed "scientific" government agency can possibly become. I realize that such malfeasance might get them in good with the current Democrat administration ... but, longer term, this can't be good. I suggest that this agency now is vying with the IRS, the State Department, HHS, the Secret Service, the EPA, the White House, the VA, the CDC, NSA, and the TSA for this year's Heavy Hand of Government medal ... an award which I just coined.

Perhaps we could have an annual ceremony for the winner ... with all the hoopla of Oscar Night? With Al Gore or Michael Moore as its Master of Ceremonies?

Faux Anger

I don’t think I need to reiterate all of President Obama’s management miscues surrounding the Veterans Administration (VA) fiasco. Even some die-hard Democrats are beginning to realize how inept our fearless leader has been in his handling of the corruption, incompetence and cover-ups that seems to have permeate this agency ... six years after he swore to fix things … let alone his numerous other scandals that have arisen due to his terms of lassitude and inattention. Sooo, Obama again reluctantly came out today to put his “I’m mad as hell” lid on his latest administration scandal ... see: Breitbart Story.

The funny part about this faux anger is that Obama can’t seem to get beyond his practiced, glib delivery style. His outrage seems as convincing as his Obamacare promises. He once told Harry Reid that his ability to read from a teleprompter was “a gift.” And for many years it was … it actually got him elected. But his inability to differentiate with his emotions between 40 veterans dying due to VA uselessness … and his pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey … has turned this “gift” into an oozing leper’s sore. I can only imagine that these hollow words he spoke today in this news conference were but his down payment on another golf game … see: ABC Story

Instead of steam coming out of Obama’s ears, his sad performance today appeared more like a Three Stooges pantomime. Our maimed and infirmed veterans really do deserve better that this cynical charade we were offered..