Новости за 14.02.2020

Maybe Democrats had such problems with their caucuses in Iowa because they were counting the wrong thing: votes. Maybe they should have been counting money. After all, that's the suggestion from Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., who's famous for her rallying cry at nearly every event during the Trump presidency at which she appears of "Impeach…

(OCALA STAR-BANNER) A 49-year-old Dunnellon man accused of threatening multiple people favorable to President Donald Trump, was arrested and charged with 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of disorderly conduct by police. On Thursday, Officer Megan Feliciani of the Dunnellon Police Department was called to the 11300 block of…

(FOX BUSINESS) Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., joined "Mornings with Maria" to explain why he wrote a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom highlighting his concerns about the state public pension fund's chief investment officer having ties to China. The fund has invested $3.1 billion in Chinese companies, some of which have been blacklisted by the…

(PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER) The local man known as Philly Jesus is suing the city and police over a December incident at Christmas Village in Center City where he claims his First Amendment and other rights were violated. The Philadelphia figure, whose real name is Michael Grant, 33, initially entered his complaint with Philadelphia’s federal court last…

[Editor's note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Investigations.] By Eric Felten Real Clear Investigations A month before the 2016 presidential election, the FBI met Christopher Steele in Rome and apparently unlawfully shared with the foreign opposition researcher some of the bureau’s most closely held secrets, according to unpublicized disclosures in the recent…

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell promised now that the impeachment trial is over, the Senate will be moving forward to approve more of President Donald Trump's judicial nominees. "With the impeachment trial behind us, we can now get back to the business of the American people," McConnell said from the Senate floor on Tuesday. "We’re…

(GATEWAY PUNDIT) Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Democratic socialist who owns three houses, loves his private airplanes. And he may hate the 1 percent, but he loves flying first class, too. A photo of Sanders in first class popped up again this week, posted by Hank Thomas, CEO of Strategic Cyber Ventures. The post has been…

(CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER) The Ohio Republican Party on Thursday filed a complaint with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost that alleges the Democratic Party’s congressional candidate in Ohio’s 14th congressional district - Painesville attorney Hillary “Toro” O’Connor Mueri - illegally voted in both Ohio and California during the 2008 presidential primary. The complaint states that Mueri,…

(BREITBART) The coronavirus outbreak has exposed the United States’ dangerous dependence on China for pharmaceutical and medical supplies, including an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients needed to produce drugs in the United States. The economic repercussions of the coronavirus reveal the dangers of allowing one country…

(ZERO HEDGE) The WHO has just wrapped up its now-daily presser for Friday, and it appeared to focus on imminent plans to send a group of a dozen scientists and researchers to Beijing to figure out exactly what the hell is going on. Much fuss has been made over the past week over China's continued…

The depraved totalitarians, nefarious barbarians, two-bit gangsters, odious scoundrels and bigoted scum who run the United Nations recently set up a new "database" to help anti-Semites around the world target Jewish businesses in the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria – businesses that not only offer economic opportunities for Palestinians but opportunities that pay higher…

A 5-year-old Louisiana boy with cerebral palsy is walking unassisted for the first time in his life thanks to a life-changing surgery on his legs. Merick Williams Jr., who goes by MJ, has been working hard since his surgery to learn how to walk all on his own. The boy's mother, Kayla Nichols, told WAFB-TV…

A web voting app that already has been tested in several states can be hacked, according to a new warning from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. AP reports that the analysis focused on the Voatz app, which already has been used in pilots in Denver, Oregon, Utah and Virginia. It's been used mostly,…

A photographer from the U.K. snapped a photo of a rare weather phenomenon that has an other-worldly composition resembling an angel in the clouds. Lee Howdle was hiking on Mam Tor, a hill in the Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, central England, when he saw his larger-than-life shadow set against a low-hanging cloud. Armed…

The choice of Democratic voters – but not of party officials fearful of losing their cushy power and fat incomes – is becoming clear. The increasingly leftist base of the Democratic Party prefers its presidential candidate to be Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., 78, a self-described socialist who once honeymooned in the Communist Soviet Union. Or…

Following the show of incompetence at the Democratic Iowa caucus, columns on competence proliferated. One stood out for its ineptness: "Make America Competent Again" by David French at the Dispatch. Mr. French is an attorney and decorated Iraq War veteran who was prominent among National Review's "Against Trump" writers. Back in June of 2016, when…

Like nearly everyone, my husband and I were stunned by Nancy Pelosi's antics at the State of the Union. "That was so unladylike!" I quipped. My husband deadpanned, "That's no lady, that's the speaker of the House." My good hubby is a perfect gentleman, and in 35 years of marriage, I can count the negative…

The political theater of Iran-U.S. relations is back in the news. Once again, Iran is cast as the "villain." But what we don't hear about are the "hidden heroes" inside Iran – the 800,000 "secret" believers in Iran's explosive underground church movement. Forty-one years ago, the Iranian-Islamic Revolution shrouded the nation in an oppressive, dark…

China's online censors began scrubbing social media and shutting down messaging groups after an uncharacteristic period of online freedom in January. Online discussions about the coronavirus and criticisms of local authorities' handling of the crisis seemed to be unimpeded from Jan. 19 - Feb. 1, Reuters reported. This past week, however, the Cyberspace Administration of…

Sen. Bernie Sanders is winning. If the election of Donald Trump wasn't enough of a wake-up call that Americans want radical change, the Bernie surge should finally get America's leaders to start thinking more clearly about what's happening in our country. For a lot of people, it's been easier to stick their heads in the…