Pressley, Booker, and Colleagues: Silent on Dems Paying Reparations for Party’s Support of Slavery

 The American Spectator 

"Will Pressley, Booker, and colleagues demand reparations from their own Democratic Party for its horrendous treatment of black Americans as a matter of official Democrat Party policy?

 "The Fox News headline quoting Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Ayanna Pressley was hilarious. Quite unintentionally.

"The headline: “House Dems reintroduce reparations legislation: ‘We refuse to be silent.’ Progressive Rep. Ayanna Pressley says ‘reparations are a necessary step in achieving justice.’”

"Over at Pressley’s own website was this headline: “Amid Onslaught on DEI, Pressley, Booker, Colleagues Reintroduce Historic Reparations Bill During Black History Month. H.R. 40 Would Form Commission for Develop Reparations Proposals for African Americans.”

"In fact?

"In fact, Pressley, New Jersey’s Democrat Senator Cory Booker, and Democrat colleagues supporting this reparations movement are curiously decidedly silent about the only major political party in American history that fervently supported not only slavery but segregation and, yes indeed, the Ku Klux Klan.

"That would be, of course, Pressley and Booker’s own Democratic Party.

"In the past, I have detailed the close ties of Pressley’s party on this score. Let’s review.

• Pressley, Booker, and colleagues are not demanding reparations from the Democrat Party for the number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 through 1860.

• Pressley, Booker, and colleagues are silent on Democrats paying reparations for the number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject. There were 20, from 1868 through 1948.

• Pressley, Booker, and colleagues are not demanding their party pay reparations for its staunch support of “Jim Crow” — as in the laws. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrat legislators of the day. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, restrooms, and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the “whites only” front section of a bus in Montgomery, Ala., the “whites only” designation the direct result of Democratic local officials.

• Pressley, Booker, and colleagues are silent on Democrat reparations for the support of the Ku Klux Klan, which, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, became “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” They are also silent on reparations from the Democrat Party for, in the words of University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease, using the Klan as the “terrorist arm” of the Democratic Party. Terrorism as in terrorizing black Americans. . . .

White House: Michael Moore Can Visit MS-13 Gang Members in Mexico If He Thinks They’re Curing Cancer

 RedState  

They're not scholars. They're violent criminals. Some are rapists. Some are murderers. None of them were heading down a path to cure cancer.

"White House Deputy Press Secretary Kush Desai took a snarky jab at Michael Moore on Wednesday, after the leftist filmmaker suggested the Trump administration might be deporting illegals who are potentially on the brink of the next great scientific discovery.

"In one of the all-time boneheaded statements in an era of non-stop boneheaded statements, the "Bowling for Columbine" director suggested mass deportations should be halted because the criminals being swept up could one day make outstanding contributions to the nation they are illegally invading.

"Moore said he believes those being repatriated to their home countries might’ve one day “discovered the cure for cancer” or “stopped that asteroid.”

"The asteroid he referenced is a so-called 'city-killer' that NASA had been warning could strike Earth in 2032. (They've since dialed back their doomsday predictions).

"Moore wrote a lengthy blog post on Tuesday that argued some criminal aliens could have parallels to a career in innovation, like late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who was the biological son of a Syrian migrant.

" 'We have to stop this current madness of rounding up people of color for committing the crime of not being born here," Moore wrote, before lamenting the potential examples.

" 'Who's really being removed by ICE tonight?" he asked. "The child who would've discovered the cure for cancer in 2046? The 9th-grade nerd who would’ve stopped that Asteroid that’s gonna hit us in 2032?" . . .

Fox News' Kat Timpf diagnosed with breast cancer just hours before giving birth

 UK Mirror 

 "TV star Kat Timpf announced that she delivered her son last week in a shocking Instagram post before sharing that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer"

"Fox News star Kat Timpf has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer just hours before giving birth to her first child.

"The TV star, 36, continued working on air through much of her third trimester, but recently revealed some of the harshest comments she had received from viewers about her growing baby bump. In a heartbreaking Instagram post this Tuesday, she shared the news of her son’s birth last week.

"Just 15 hours before she gave birth to her first child with her husband, Cameron Friscia, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. "Last week, I became a mother. Just 15 hours before I went into labour, I was told I had breast cancer," she explained. "The doctors have diagnosed it as stage zero and are optimistic that it hasn’t spread."

"Kat described the whirlwind of events on the day of her diagnosis, noting how she used humor to help cope with the overwhelming news. "I was already more than a week past my due date and completely focused on trying everything to get the baby out," she said. "By the afternoon, I found myself juggling appointments, cracking jokes about how to get rid of the cancer, all while waddling around."

. . . "The Fox News star said she was more than a week past due when she gave birth and recalled the chaotic day as "not chill." She included jokes about her hectic day in the news of her health scare. "I asked all the questions I could, including if I could get a copy of my tumor ultrasound to put on the fridge next to the ultrasound of my baby," she said.

"Kat then revealed she went into labor in the middle of the night before rushing to the hospital to meet her baby boy. She also told her followers that doctors recommended she get a double mastectomy as soon as possible. "These next three months of maternity leave are going to look a lot different than I'd anticipated, and I'm still getting used to my new reality," she said." . . .

Kat Timpf reveals breast cancer diagnosis while announcing the birth of son | Fox News 

. . ."Timpf took to social media on Tuesday with what she called an "unconventional birth announcement."

"Last week, I welcomed my first child into the world. About fifteen hours before I went into labor, I was diagnosed with breast cancer," Timpf wrote on X. "Now, before you worry, my doctor says it’s Stage 0 and is confident that it almost certainly hasn’t spread. Or, as I’ve explained to the few people I’ve managed to tell about it so far: Don’t freak out. It’s just, like, a LITTLE bit of cancer." 

HuffPost Latest News:   . . .“ 'Still, as I navigate new motherhood (and new cancer) I’m learning to celebrate everything I can,” she added. “I’m lucky that we found the cancer so early; I’m lucky to be my son’s mom. I mean, I know I’m biased, but the little dude absolutely rules ― and not just because he might have saved my life.”

Time to Bring Down the Curtain on Iran's Terror Axis

 2025 Gatestone Institute

  "While the US might be reluctant to seek regime change in Iran, if the Trump administration allows the mullahs to stay in power, there will be no peace for the foreseeable future in the US, Europe or the Middle East."  . . .

"Iran's terror axis, thanks to Israel's military operations, is finally beginning to collapse. Iranian terrorist proxies have been seeming to disintegrate across the region.

"In Gaza, Israel has degraded Iran's Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist infrastructure. In Lebanon, Israel has severely decimated Hezbollah's capabilities and killed its leaders and commanders. In Syria, Hezbollah, along with Iranian forces, have been shown the door. Even though roughly 2,000 Hamas and 7,000 PIJ terrorists are still operating in Syria, while Iran retains proxies in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen, the Shia terrorist "octopus," overall, has had several of its tentacles detached. Now, what about the rest of the octopus?

"The Iranian regime will most likely do anything to ensure its own survival – presumably why it used proxies in the first place. Better to have someone else, other than Iran, take the blowback. The regime could start redirecting its terrorist efforts towards soft targets in the West, where it is easier to operate. For years, already, Iran has already been operating an assassination program abroad, in Europe, where it has been recruiting local gang members and drug dealers to murder Iranian dissidents, Israelis and Jews. A report published in September 2024 found that the criminal groups hired by Iran increasingly target Israelis and Jews in Europe, including Israeli embassies and private Jewish individuals.

"According to Britain's MI5, the situation is about to get rapidly worse: the UK is expected to see a "staggering rise" in assassination attempts by Iranian-hired criminals. An Israeli official recently warned that Hamas, as their abilities continue to be cut down in Gaza, will increasingly target Israelis and Jews worldwide.

"Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson recently warned of Iran's active role in carrying out attacks in Sweden." . . .

Biden’s Lies About The Border Are Now Plain For All To See

 Issues & Insights

"Biden is thankfully gone. But he still needs to answer for his crimes."

"We know what you’re thinking. Why waste any time on Joe Biden? Who cares about him anymore? Well, you should, since the nation will be cleaning up Biden’s messes for years to come.

And one of the biggest was his campaign to usher as many illegal immigrants as possible into the country while lying to the American people about what was going on.

At his first press conference in March 2021 – after claiming that nothing had changed at the border (despite repealing every Trump executive order securing the border on day one) – he said the surge of illegals then underway “happens every single solitary year. There is a significant increase in the number of people coming to the border in the winter months of January, February, March. It happens every year … happens all the time.”. . .

". . ."What do you notice? They were low under Donald Trump, exploded under Biden, and now are miraculously back down to the levels of the first Trump term.

"Throughout Biden’s administration, he claimed border security was a top priority. He named his vice president as border “czar.”

"Against all evidence, his Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas repeatedly lied – often under oath – saying that the border was secure.

"Biden later claimed his hands were tied by Republicans who refused to pass a phony border security bill.

"We here at I&I knew it was all lies and said so repeatedly over the past four years.

"But Biden was under no pressure to admit to his lies – not from elites enjoying low-cost labor, not from Democrats hoping to import new voters, not from the mainstream media, which actively helped Biden cover the lies up." . . .

Issues & Insights is run by seasoned journalists who were behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning IBD Editorials 

page (before it was summarily shut down). Our goal then and now is to bring our decades of combined journalism experience to help readers understand the top issues of the day. I&I is a completely independent operation, beholden to none, but committed to providing cogent, rational, data-driven, fact-based commentary that the nation so desperately needs. 

New sheriff at the FBI

 Matt Vespa, Townhall 

Mr. Patel, you have your first order of business: finding out if these allegations are true and firing those who participated if confirmed. 

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a new sheriff in town with Kash Patel and Dan Bongino serving as its director and deputy director respectively under the second Trump presidency, but that doesn’t mean the riffraff that’s infected this agency are gone. Progress has been made to dismiss, reassign, or outright fire the problematic staffers that had turned the FBI into the Democratic Party’s police force. The latest allegation must be investigated.

"Independent reporter Michael Shellenberger said that sources told him that agents were destroying servers that contained sensitive documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 

. . ."Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) is chairing the effort to release information about these state secrets, some of which include UFOs. Trump had planned on releasing documents about the JFK assassination during his first presidency but backed down" . . .

Michael Moore says deported migrants could have cured cancer, stopped ‘asteroid that’s gonna hit us in 2032’

NY Post   Or made a really expensive, liberal ice cream. TD  

"By contrast, Moore has in the past condemned native-born Americans and their culture, arguing, “We are not a good people,” and that Americans have a “laundry list of evil deeds” that led to the election of President Donald Trump."

"Progressive filmmaker and activist Michael Moore on Tuesday wrote a lengthy blog post warning that by deporting illegal immigrants, America may be missing out on the next equivalent of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs or one that will save the world from a killer asteroid.

"Moore’s piece, “Our Muslim Boy Wonder,” used Jobs’ origins as the son of a Syrian migrant to critique the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.

“ 'Who’s really being removed by ICE tonight?” Moore asked. “The child who would’ve discovered the cure for cancer in 2046? The 9th grade nerd who would’ve stopped that asteroid (sic) that’s gonna hit us in 2032? Do we care?”

“ 'I am grateful for that Muslim migrant baby being born here 70 years ago today. Because if he hadn’t, it’s possible we would have none of his inventions. We would also have no TED LASSO,” he said.

"The filmmaker declared, “For every time I have heard a negative word or blatant hatred spewed toward those who came from afar, I have felt that I should pause, get down on one knee, and thank all of those who gave up their lives elsewhere to come here and be with us.”

After Joy Reid Firing, Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann Agree That MSNBC is a Hotbed of Racism

 Legal Insurrection  “They’ve only had four women of color host their own shows. They’ve now fired them ALL.” 

"Now that Joy Reid has been finally let go by MSNBC, some of her network colleagues and fellow travelers on the far left are reacting the only way that they seem to know how: by crying racism.

"Even Rachel Maddow, who still works for MSNBC, and Keith Olbermann, who used to work for MSNBC, are making this claim. It simply can’t be because of Reid’s horrible ratings. It has to be because of some greater failure of social justice on the part of the network that pays Maddow millions of dollars a year.

"Maddow commented on Reid’s firing during her show.

"From FOX News:

“I am 51 years old. I have been gainfully employed since I was 12. And I have had so many different kinds of jobs, you wouldn’t believe me if I told you. But in all of the jobs I have had, in all of the years I have been alive, there is no colleague for whom I have had more affection and more respect than Joy Reid,” Maddow said.

“I love everything about her. I have learned so much from her. I have so much more to learn from her,” she continued. “I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC, and personally, I think it is a bad mistake to let her walk out the door. It is not my call, and I understand that, but that’s what I think.”

Maddow went on to call it “unnerving” for the network to cancel the shows of “two non-White hosts” 

in its weekday programming as well as “The Katie Phang Show” on the weekends, noting that “The Alex Wagner Show” will no longer fill in Maddow’s 9 p.m. ET timeslot for the remainder of the week, which is instead going to “Inside with Jen Psaki.” . . .

Don Surber: MSNBC suddenly is racist   . . ."Now liberals reap what they sowed. MSNBC dared to fire her and now the network is stuck with the R-word. No, not that one; the other one. No, not that one either or that other one. The word is RACIST.

"Reid’s staff of about 30 flunkies also were canned. And Media-ite reported, “Most of Maddow’s Staff To Be Let Go Amid MSNBC Cuts: Report.”

"Not that I really care, Mister Wilson."

 

Can Greg Gutfeld Save New York City?

 Alicia Colon   

Maybe in 2025, enough New Yorkers have swallowed the red pill and if Greg Gutfeld can give a possible savior the airtime and promotion that the GOP elite refuses to extend, New York City just might make the same great comeback that native New Yorker Donald Trump enjoyed last November.

 Greg Gutfeld: This could be a 'tough break' for NBC

"Is there anyone out there who doesn’t know who Greg Gutfeld is?

"He is the host of the highest rated late night talk show on Fox News at 10:00 p.m. 

"His format usually includes two guests and two regulars discussing recent current events with humor, very politically incorrect comments, and frequently blipped-out blue language.

"He is way funnier than Bill Maher was when his Politically Incorrect show aired from New York but the most important thing about Gutfeld is the size of his audience and who is watching.

"According to year-end Nielsen ratings data released by Fox News, the late-night style show hosted by Greg Gutfeld grew its nightly average to 2,500,000 total viewers, a 35% increase over last year. Among viewers aged 25-54, it was a similar story, with a nightly average of 355,000 viewers, up 33% year-over-year.

"When Donald Trump appeared on Gutfeld last summer, the show, taped on Wednesday and aired in primetime, drew 4.9 million viewers, including 744,000 viewers among adults ages 25 to 54 years old (A25-54), the key demographic most-attractive to cable news advertisers.

"Trump’s interview on Gutfeld! came days after the second attempt on his life in two months. Yet he was relaxed, very personable and quite funny.  Some viewers even  admitted that they were charmed by his appearance, and this possibly had a little to do with his landslide victory. 

"So why am I hoping Gutfeld can help save my hometown from years of Democrat abuse?

"Gutfeld airs from midtown New York City and the increasing crime statistics were discussed among the guests on the show especially during the pandemic. The DOJ attacks on Trump through the TDS machinations of New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James and the frequent release of criminals on the city’s no-bail policy were mocked hilariously." . . .    

Your ‘inseminated person’ should know

Silvio Canto, Jr.  

"How is the governor of Wisconsin going to explain it to his mom?  I’d love to hear how that one goes."

. . ."They are crazy up in Wisconsin, especially at the Governor’s office.  What are they smoking or putting in their coffee?  Your guess is as good as mine, but the governor is proposing a change to how we refer to “mom,” having decided that “inseminated person” is a better descriptor.  I couldn’t believe this story and had to read it twice to make sure it was true.

"On the other side, here comes Doug Schoen, a sane Democrat who probably sends his mother a card purchased in the Mother’s Day section at your favorite store, has a message for the Democrats.  This is the story:

If Democrats hope to right the ship and regain at least one chamber of Congress next year — or the White House in three — they must begin with a messaging strategy that speaks to the issues voters care about: the economy, public safety and border security.

They should start with the primary reason Trump won last November, the economy.

Trump made Americans’ economic pessimism and anger over inflation a centerpiece of his campaign, convincingly portraying Democrats as the party of elites who were out of touch with everyday Americans.

"Yes, out of touch big time because most Americans, especially the ones I know, don’t refer to their mothers as an “inseminated person.”  In fact, most of the men that I grew up with would punch you in the face if you referred to their mom in that way.

"So what’s going on?  It’s easy to say that they have not learned a thing about the election or the rejection of “woke.”  More likely they are so invested in “woke” that it will take another defeat to drive home the point that calling a woman something like that is “super loco,” as my late Cuban mother used to say.