Headlines

Bloomberg campaign manager: ‘Mike needs to get his legs under him’

Coronavirus update: US hospitals brace for possible pandemic, Air France tallies ‘brutal’ cost

Bolton see his testimony wouldn’t have affected Trump acquittal ...

Sanders wins backing of top Muslim political group

Bloomberg nails Socialist Sanders as millionaire with 3 houses

Gold surges to 7-year high as investors seek safety trade

Spielberg daughter comes out as porn star ...

Rod Blagojevich: ‘I’m a Trumpocrat’

Trump, RNC announce $10 million plan to battle Dems on voting lawsuits

Bloomberg’s debate debacle might be the ‘beginning of the end’ of his 2020 run, pollster says

‘Nazi terrorist’ massacres 9 at hookah bars near Frankfurt ...

George Soros calls for removal of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

So What ...

Michael Cohen will do his level best to eviscerate President Trump in public House Oversight Committee hearings today. He will use every card in the Democrat deck ... Trump is a liar, a racist, a cheat, a con man, a misogynist and a traitor ... in other words, there is a rail, a vat of hot tar and a pillow-full of of feathers that needs to be used on this man as soon as he returns from Hanoi ... where he is doing his level best to eliminate North Korea’s threat to unleash a nuclear winter.

Obviously it is not coincidental that the House Democrats are trying to rain on Trump’s Vietnam parade. Politics is politics after all. And it is also fairly obvious that a man facing three years in prison for, among other things, lying to Congress ... might abandon his vow to take a bullet for Trump. Instead, he is doing his damnedest to shoot Trump clear through the heart. Somehow this dramatic U-turn on Cohen’s part does not put a shine on his character.

But, you know what? I don’t think that Cohen’s open-hearing mud balls will have the expected effect on Trump. I could be wrong, but I think most Trump supporters (not loyalists) understand our president’s foibles ... and, although not happy about them, still appreciate that there are far bigger things at stake here. If Trump can keep us from being vaporized by nukes from any adversary, we can overlook a payoff to a porn star. To me, so what ... it is the Democrats and Cohen who are appearing the most sullied in this whole sordid sideshow.

Force Majeure

From Mostly Kajun blog

Why there will be a blue wave this coming November ...

Headlines

Trump rebuffs Dreamers deal reached by senators

Trump accuses prominent Democrat [Schiff] of leaking details of Russian probe

Tensions mount as [Chinese] authorities blow up megachurch ...

Puntin: Kim Jong-un 'a shrewd and mature politician'

Pelosi: 'Five white guys' leading DACA negotiations should open a 'hamburger stand'

Sen. Durbin says the term 'chain migration' is actually racist

WSJ: Trump lawyer arranged $130,000 payment for adult-film star silence ...

Trump keeps Iran nuclear deal ... Issues more Iran sanctions ...

Heartland Democrats to Washington: You're killing us

Mnuchin wants to make sure 'bad people can't use [cryptocurrencies] to do bad things'

Worst flu in 13 years,  hospitals ban visitors

... Ryan will not attach DACA to stop-gap spending bill ...

Checking the Checker

Snopes is one of the more famous Internet fact-checker sites which has been chosen by Facebook to aid in its designations of "fake news" stories. However, it's objectivity has come under question recently as it always seems to pooh-pooh stories critical of liberals. However, recent revelations cast a long shadow on the moral turpitude of the operators and checkers on this "arbiter of truth" ... see: Daily Caller Revelations. Knowing that many of you readers don't follow hyperlinks, I have reproduced some of the juicier passages below:

The founder of mythbusting website Snopes, which was recently tapped by Facebook as one of four “fact-check” organizations patrolling the site for “fake news,” embezzled $98,000 in company funds before spending it on “himself and the prostitutes he hired,” according to legal documents filed by his ex-wife reviewed by the Daily Mail. 

After divorcing from his first wife, Barbara Mikkelson, David Mikkelson married Elyssa Young, a former porn star and current escort who now works for Snopes as an administrator, according to the Daily Mail. 

The Daily Mail also revealed that top Snopes “fact-checker” Kim LaCapria claimed on her personal blog that she has “posted to Snopes” after smoking marijuana. As TheDC previously revealed, LaCapria describes herself as “openly left-leaning” and once claimed that Republicans fear “female agency.” 

As originally reported by TheDC, Snopes almost exclusively employs leftists as fact-checkers, many of whom have exhibited a clear distaste for Republican voters. TheDC could not identify a single Snopes fact-checker who comes from a conservative background.

Also, I thought it might be fair and interesting to see what Snopes has to say about these disclosures. Unfortunately, as of this publication time, I can find no comment. But you can check for yourself ... see: Snopes.