Thursday, November 30, 2017

Special counsel delays grand jury testimony amid signs of Flynn deal talks

November 30, 2017 Special counsel delays grand jury testimony amid signs of Flynn deal talks , 0 Comments


By CNN, Nov. 29, 2017

(CNN) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team has postponed an anticipated grand jury testimony linked to his investigation into Michael Flynn amid growing indications of possible plea deal discussions.

Additional witnesses were expected to be questioned soon including a public relations consultant hired by Flynn's lobbying firm who was given an early December date deadline to appear before the grand jury, according to a person at the company.

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Anti-Trump Media: White House Christmas Decor 'Spooky,' Like a Scene from 'The Shining'

November 30, 2017 ' Like a Scene from 'The Shining' , Anti-Trump Media: White House Christmas Decor 'Spooky 0 Comments


By PJ Media, Nov. 28, 2017

Did you know that those exquisite White House Christmas decorations First Lady Melania Trump proudly unveiled yesterday are "spooky," "spine-chilling," and "nightmarish" — like scenes from Mordor, Narnia, or The Shining?

It took most of the day yesterday, but by nightfall, the Trump-hating media was able to settle on an unfavorable narrative with which to belittle the newly unveiled decor.

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Dow surges 115 points, breaks above 24,000 ahead of Senate tax-reform vote

November 30, 2017 000 ahead of Senate tax-reform vote , breaks above 24 0 Comments


By CNBC, Nov. 30, 2017

Stocks rallied on Thursday as the possibility of the Senate passing a bill aimed at overhauling the U.S. tax code increased.

The Dow Jones industrial average surged 331.67 points to close above 24,000 for the first time, with United Technologies leading advancers on the 30-stock index.
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Roy Moore Blames His Sexual Misconduct Allegations On Lesbians, Gays, And Socialists

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By Buzzfeed, Nov. 29, 2017

Speaking from the pulpit at Magnolia Springs Baptist Church in Alabama Wednesday night, Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore accused liberals, gays, bisexuals, transgender people, and socialists of fabricating sexual harassment allegations against him in an effort to keep his conservative Christian views out of Washington.

The Alabama Republican has repeatedly and emphatically denied accusations that he initiated a sexual encounter with a woman when she was 14 and he was 32, as well as the accounts of several other women who have said Moore inappropriately pursued them when they were teenagers.

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Team Hillary Clinton cheers Matt Lauer's firing, says he was mean to her

November 30, 2017 says he was mean to her , Team Hillary Clinton cheers Matt Lauer's firing 0 Comments


By Washington Examiner, Nov. 29, 2017

The abrupt firing of NBC "Today" co-host Matt Lauer announced Wednesday prompted cheers among Hillary Clinton’s loyalists who feel that he was extraordinarily mean to her — and soft on President Trump — during the 2016 presidential campaign.

“Another person whose interview with Trump was ridiculously soft and interview with Hillary was incredibly tough: Matt Lauer,” tweeted former Clinton aide Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress.

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Matt Lauer had 'huge bag of sex toys' in his office, Meredith Vieira jokes in resurfaced video

November 30, 2017 Matt Lauer had 'huge bag of sex toys' in his office , Meredith Vieira jokes in resurfaced video 0 Comments


By Fox News, Nov. 30, 2017

Former “Today” show co-host Meredith Vieira laughed with Matt Lauer about the time she went into his office and found a “huge bag of sex toys,” in a resurfaced video from 2016.

Lauer appeared on “The Meredith Vieira Show” with his then-co-host Savannah Guthrie in May 2016, and Vieira recalled the time she went "snooping" in his office and discovered the bag of sex toys.

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Blackburn: We're Going to Release Names of Lawmakers Who Used 'Hush Fund'

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By Town Hall, Nov. 30, 2017

Americans were rightfully outraged when they learned that members of Congress had used taxpayer dollars to pay settlement claims to alleged victims of sexual harassment.

They were even more outraged when they saw the numbers. The secret payouts for harassment claims, of which there have been more than 200, amounted to more than $17 million. There's no telling so far how much of that money went to silence sexual assault accusers.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is seeking to release the names of lawmakers who used this "hush fund." She's a co-sponsor of the Congressional Accountability and Hush Fund Elimination Act, which would require full disclosure of the settlements within 30 days.

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Reality Check: The Facts vs. the Left's Top Two Lies About Tax Reform

November 30, 2017 Reality Check: The Facts vs. the Left's Top Two Lies About Tax Reform , 0 Comments


By Town Hall, Nov. 30, 2017

In the interest of intellectual honesty and transparency, let's begin with a few important concessions to skeptics of the GOP tax reform bill: First, not every single American would be a winner under the plan.  A small percentage of US taxpayers would see a tax increase (disproportionately, these would be higher-income itemizers from high-tax states), and a number of deductions that help certain people with heavy medical expenses and student loan debt would be eliminated...

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Haley: NKorea 'Brings Us Closer to War' the US Doesn't Seek

November 30, 2017 Haley: NKorea 'Brings Us Closer to War' the US Doesn't Seek , 0 Comments


By Newsmax, Nov. 30, 2017

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday that North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile — which some observers believe could reach the Eastern U.S. — "brings us closer" to a war the U.S. isn't seeking.

Nikki Haley, speaking at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, said that if war comes as a result of further acts of "aggression" like the latest launch, "make no mistake the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed."

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Facebook's ad-targeting problems prove how easy it is to discriminate online

November 30, 2017 Facebook's ad-targeting problems prove how easy it is to discriminate online , 0 Comments


By NBC News, Nov. 30, 2017

Facebook has admitted a serious problem with the platform’s advertising function that is allowing racial discrimination on its site. But there is a way to fix it — if the company is willing.

In the spring of 2016, Facebook rolled out its “ethnic affinity” feature, which allowed advertisers to target Facebook users labeled as African American, Latino, or Asian American based upon their behavior on Facebook. Advertisers could opt to include or to exclude users in these categories. Facebook said that these labels were not equivalent to race because they were based not on users’ actual racial identities, but on whether they engaged with Facebook pages associated with those racial communities. Nonetheless, it identified the categories as “demographics” in its options for advertisers.

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Dump Roy Moore

November 30, 2017 Dump Roy Moore , 1 Comments


By Larry Elder, Nov. 27, 2017

It is a political, tactical and moral mistake for Republicans to continue backing Judge Roy Moore for Alabama's Senate seat.

In brief, he has been accused by multiple women of, decades ago, making unwanted and inappropriate sexual advances toward them when they were teenage girls -- one as young as 14 -- and he was in his 30s. At least four women say he initiated sexual contact with them.

When asked if he thought the Moore allegations were true, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, "I believe the women, yes. ... I think he should step aside" -- a sentiment shared, publicly and privately, by nearly all Republican senators.

President Donald Trump at first struck the right chord. After his handpicked Republican candidate lost the primary election, Trump called Moore to congratulate him. Everything was fine, until the allegations. Then Trump said, "If the allegations are true, he should drop out." When the Republican National Committee withdrew its funding for Moore, Trump went along with it.

Then Trump began to twist, and he now says that Moore is innocent until proven guilty, that these are all old claims and that we can't have a lefty in the Senate:

"(Moore) denies it," the President said last week. "Look, he denies it. I mean, if you look at what is really going on, and you look at all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didn't happen. And, you know, you have to listen to him also. You're talking about, he said 40 years ago this did not happen."

Trump then blasted Moore's Democratic opponent, Doug Jones, via Twitter: "The last thing we need in Alabama and the U.S. Senate is a Schumer/Pelosi puppet who is WEAK on Crime, WEAK on the Border, Bad for our Military and our great Vets, Bad for our 2nd Amendment, AND WANTS TO RAISES TAXES TO THE SKY. Jones would be a disaster!"

These are not good enough reasons.

Again, Moore was not Trump's guy. Luther Strange -- the incumbent appointed to complete the term of former Sen. Jeff Sessions, who became Attorney General -- was Trump's choice. But Steve Bannon, Trump's former aide, wanted Moore, presumably because the former judge supported Bannon's desire to ditch Senate leader Mitch McConnell. Yet during the Luther Strange and Roy Moore debates, the candidates fell all over themselves to argue who would be more closely linked to the Trump agenda. So, no matter who won, he figured to be an ally to the President.

Defenders of Moore ask, why now? After decades in public service, why are these allegations only now coming out? A better question, why the allegations in the first place? Are they credible? But to answer the timing question, the more likely "culprit" is not Democratic opposition, but Harvey Weinstein, whose sexual abuse and misconduct opened the door for other accusers in other fields to come forward. That these allegations are only now being taken seriously is too little too late, but the timing could not have been worse for Moore.

Of course he is "innocent until proven guilty." This is not a court of law. This is politics. Are the defenders of Moore willing to discount all of his accusers but believe the accusers against Bill Clinton?

The voluminous allegations against Harvey Weinstein, a friend and patron of the political left, have forced the Democrats to reconsider their adoration for the likes of Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy, whose resumes include credible allegations of sexual assault, allegations long ignored.

For now, Republicans occupy the high moral ground, as Democrats, already dealing with allegations of sexual misconduct by Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., and Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., squirm to explain how and why they ignored, downplayed or accepted the sexual behavior of party icons Clinton and Ted Kennedy.

With Moore defenders, in part, circling the wagons on Moore, many Trump voters apparently cannot answer this question: Why did you "overlook" the allegations made by some dozen women against now-President Donald Trump?

That's easy.

Trump was not running against Mother Teresa. Trump ran against Hillary Clinton, a woman against whom a credible allegation was made that she verbally intimidated Juanita Broaddrick just two weeks after Bill Clinton allegedly raped her. Conservative Barbara Olson's book "Hell to Pay" and liberal Christopher Hitchens' book "No One Left to Lie To" depict Hillary as the Toscanini of the "nuts or sluts" strategy effectively employed to malign and marginalize her husband's accusers.

This is the person against whom Donald Trump ran. So, no, Republicans need not apologize for supporting Trump against a person whose actions enabled, covered up for and therefore perpetuated her husband's misconduct.

By supporting Roy Moore, Republicans, on the issue of sexual misconduct, risk turning into the my-guy-wrong-or-wrong hypocrites from across the aisle.

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Pelosi Calls on Conyers to Resign After an Accuser Details Her Charges

November 30, 2017 Pelosi Calls on Conyers to Resign After an Accuser Details Her Charges , 1 Comments


By NY Times, Nov. 30, 2017

WASHINGTON — Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader, said Thursday that Representative John Conyers Jr. should resign, after a woman who settled a sexual harassment claim against him took to television to say the longest-serving member of Congress had “violated” her body, repeatedly propositioned her for sex and asked her to touch his genitals.

“The allegations against Mr. Conyers, as we have learned more since Sunday, are serious, disappointing and very credible,” Ms. Pelosi told reporters. “It is very sad. The brave women who came forward are owed justice. I pray for Congressman Conyers and his family and wish them well.
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Washington Post publishes one hell of a Garrison Keillor update

November 30, 2017 Washington Post publishes one hell of a Garrison Keillor update , 0 Comments


By Washington Examiner, Nov. 29, 2017 

Minnesota Public Radio fired longtime public radio personality Garrison Keillor on Wednesday following allegations of inappropriate behavior with a female colleague.

And it was just Tuesday evening that the Washington Post published an op-ed by Keillor titled, "Al Franken should resign? That’s absurd."


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Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Office opens case file into accusation that Conway broke the law

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By The Hill, Nov. 29, 2017

The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is opening a case file to address allegations that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway violated federal law when she made comments about GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore's Democratic challenger.

Walter Shaub, the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, filed a complaint with the Office of Special Counsel last week alleging that Conway violated the Hatch Act, a decades-old law prohibiting federal employees from using their offices to campaign for or against political candidates.

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N.Korea says "breakthrough" puts U.S. mainland within range of nuclear weapons

November 29, 2017 N.Korea says "breakthrough" puts U.S. mainland within range of nuclear weapons , 0 Comments


By Reuters, Nov. 28, 2017

SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea said it successfully tested its most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile yet on Wednesday, putting the U.S. mainland within range and increasing pressure on U.S. President Donald Trump to deal with the nuclear-armed nation.

Trump, who has vowed to halt North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday and urged Beijing to rein in its ally North Korea.

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Fallon's ratings dip as Colbert closes gap in key demographic

November 29, 2017 Fallon's ratings dip as Colbert closes gap in key demographic , 0 Comments


By The Hill, Nov. 29, 2017

Ratings for NBC's "The Tonight Show" are lagging behind the network's competition on CBS as rival host Stephen Colbert has made crucial gains among key demographics, according to a New York Times report.

The Times reports that NBC host Jimmy Fallon was overtaken by Colbert in the ratings earlier this year and is now in danger of losing the crucial 18–49 demographic that advertisers covet the most.

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Trump retweets videos of alleged attacks by Muslims

November 29, 2017 Trump retweets videos of alleged attacks by Muslims , 0 Comments


By Fox News, Nov. 29, 2017

British Prime Minister Theresa May’s office chastised President Trump for sharing videos first posted by a right-wing British politician that show alleged attacks by Muslims.

Trump, without comment, retweeted the videos early Wednesday from the Twitter feed of Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of Britain First, a far-right British political party.

“Britain First seeks to divide communities by their use of hateful narratives that peddle lies and stoke tensions. They cause anxiety to law-abiding people,” a spokesman for May said in a statement Wednesday. “British people overwhelmingly reject the prejudiced rhetoric of the far right which is the antithesis of the values this country represents, decency, tolerance and respect."

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U.S. Third-Quarter Growth Revised to Three-Year High of 3.3%

November 29, 2017 U.S. Third-Quarter Growth Revised to Three-Year High of 3.3% , 0 Comments


By Bloomberg, Nov. 29, 2017

The U.S. economy’s growth rate last quarter was revised upward to the fastest in three years on stronger investment from businesses and government agencies than previously estimated, Commerce Department data showed Wednesday.

The latest results for GDP, the value of all goods and services produced, show the economy withstood major hurricanes to reach a more solid footing as it entered the final stretch of the year, thanks to stronger business spending that’s helping cushion a softer pace of consumption.

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