Carson: Critics of Trump's call to Army widow are 'just looking for something to complain about' (Updated)

"When we're always looking to be critical of everything, how could we ever be in a condition to protect ourselves in an increasingly dangerous world," the former pediatric neurosurgeon said, citing North Korea's potential acquisition of nuclear weapons."

The Hill via MSN  "Housing Secretary Ben Carson on Wednesday defended President Trump's controversial call to the widow of fallen U.S. soldier, saying the president's critics are "just looking for something to complain about." 

"Carson said Trump meant to comfort Myeshia Johnson, widow of slain Army Sgt. La David Johnson, and that Trump would have been criticized no matter what he said during the call.

" 'No matter what he says or does, they criticize him," Carson said, when asked at an interview with The Hill about how fairly Trump had been treated by the media.

" 'You wouldn't call someone to insult them. You call someone to try to comfort them."Carson suggested that Trump would have been called a "racist" if he called Johnson's death in Niger a "dark day" because the slain soldier is black." . . .

Update: Newt Gingrich has this to say about Frederica Wilson  

“The level of hatred on the left has left them somewhat deranged and unable to show any decency in situations like this… Look the American political system allows a wide range of people to win elections. That doesn’t mean they’re wise. It doesn’t mean they’re knowledgeable. It doesn’t mean they have any sense of decency. It means they won an election. I think what you saw in a very simple contrast a man who has served his country for over 40 years, risked his life, lost his son, dedicated himself to honoring America and frankly a politician who doesn’t know anything, has no shame, has no sense of understanding and can’t figure out the time has come to keep her mouth shut.”

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'Protester' Who Threw Russian Flags at Trump Is Longtime Dem Political Operative Ryan Clayton

PJ Media

Ryan Clayton from Americans Take Action, is detained by security officers after throwing Russian flags with the word "Trump" printed on them toward Trump as arrived at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, for a lunch with Republican senators.

. . . Clayton, who was arrested at the scene, is a member of the Robert Creamer group"Americans Take Action," according to Project Veritas' James O'Keefe.

"Tuesday's incident wasn't the first time Clayton had used tiny Russian flags as a political prop. Last February, the operative handed out the flags to conservatives attending CPAC in an effort to manufacture an unflattering photo op."

. . . 

"After the election, O'Keefe's citizen journalism group Project Veritas conducted an investigation into some of the groups planning on disrupting the Trump inauguration.  One of the stings went awry when members of the progressive group "Undercurrent" grew suspicious and turned on the young, female Project Veritas journalist midway through the investigation.

"Clayton and another operative, Lauren Windsor, harassed and intimidated the young woman as she desperately hailed a taxi, tormenting her with obscene taunts for what probably felt like an eternity. As she entered the taxi, both Windsor and Clayton sent Project Veritas Bob Creamer's regards. "You've been creamed!" they shrieked."

Project Veritas Journalist Terrorized by Left-Wing Operatives   . . . "After following the young woman into a taxi and tormenting her with obscene taunts for what probably felt like an eternity, both Windsor and Clayton sent Project Veritas Bob Creamer's regards. "You've been creamed!" they shrieked.

"Robert Creamer is the longtime Alinskyite community organizer, convicted felon, and frequent Obama White House visitor, whose nefarious campaign schemesProject Veritas exposed before the 2016 election."

. . . " 'Clayton was ejected from the restaurant, and the police were called," O'Keefe said. "I confronted him outside as he was surrounded by NYPD about the ridiculous and libelous allegations," he continued, referring to Clayton's crazed taunts accusing him of being a molester.

" 'Violence, agitation, aggression -- these people are unhinged and dangerous," O'Keefe said.

"The next day Clayton posted pictures online of himself in a neck brace -- as if he had been assaulted by someone from Project Veritas." . . .

It’s time for a special counsel on Hillary Clinton’s Russia scandal. (Uranium One or the Trump dossier?)

The Hill  "When the story broke in April 2015 that the Obama administration, with the help of Hillary Clinton’s State Department, paved the way for Russia to gain control of 20 percent of America’s uranium, it sent shock waves through the halls of power in Washington. It caused red flags to go up and raised scores of questions with enormous implications.

"Many people wondered why the United States would give Russia and Vladimir Putin a sweetheart deal like this. In the context of the 2016 presidential campaign, the central questions were about the money flowing to the Clinton Foundation, accusations of pay for play with financial benefits for the Clintons winning out over national security concerns, and why the Obama Justice Department seemed to do nothing about it.

"There was more than enough smoke for the FBI to investigate official government favors in exchange for big donations to the Clinton Foundation, but agents ran into a hyper-politicized Attorney General in Loretta Lynch, whose public integrity section said it “did not have enough evidence to move forward,” according to to Washington Post in October 2016.

"Last week, blockbuster allegations surfaced in The Hill shedding light on what was happening inside the Obama administration and FBI while Russia was seeking control of massive amounts of our uranium supply. It turns out that the Obama administration inexplicably approved the uranium deal with Russia even though the FBI was investigating a massive corruption scheme that included bribery, extortion and other felonies involving Russia’s nuclear energy industry in the United States." . . .

Debunked? Hillary Clinton tries to laugh off questions about Uranium One  "Putting on her "congenital liar" hat, to use the late William Safire's memorable phrase, Hillary Clinton sought to dismiss the new revelations from The Hill last Tuesday which showed evidence of bribery, collusion and profiteering in her approval of a deal that enabled Russia to claim 20% of America's uranium supply. RealClearPolitics cut through the babbly interview with C-SPAN to provide the money quote as well as the video:" . . .

DNC head runs for the hills on Trump Russia dossier  . . . "Both the Clinton and Obama wings of the Democrat establishment are implicated, and so are the henchmen who got the Special Counsel investigation of Trump going." . . .

With DNC's Trump dossier payoffs, what foul people the Dems have crawled into bed with . . . "It's almost a political repeat of the Harvey Weinstein scandal in that it leaves the Democrats so discredited. They crawled in bed with the gamiest political actors on earth and effectively contracted wth the Russians. Now they want to tell us how to run our lives."

Red Handed – A.F. Branco Cartoon:

Tony Branco

Conservative Professor Banned By University From Speaking. Here's His Terrific Rebuttal.

Daily Wire

"If you were smart, you would lift the ban on me speaking at UM. Then, you could hire me as your new Dean of Journalism."

 

. . . "The decision was made by the Dean of Journalism Larry Abramson, who took the position after a career with NPR. Abramson sent a letter to the funder of the event explaining why Adams was barred:

If you jump in at 3:30 on the link at the bottom, you can hear (Dr. Adams) talking about his opposition to tolerance of transgender accommodations. He appears to be siding with Christians in the “culture war.” In this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oX9ya3EW04 he talks about his efforts to make sure that abortion providers give time to Christian speakers, in the interest of freedom of speech.

. . .
"In response, Adams provides a list of eight problems with the dean's claims, including what constitutes "extreme" views on transgenderism, the "unbridled religious bigotry" of Abramson's perspective on Christianity, academia's attempts to use public funds for abortions, the relevance of cultural Marxism, and the absurd fear of offending students. Here's all eight:" . . . [excerpts listed only]
. . . 

Right wing sites. The Dean claims that I “speak” exclusively on right wing sites. That is false. I have been on MSNBC, Air America, and numerous other left wing stations and sites. I have also appeared on NPR where Abramson worked for nearly thirty years. Most importantly, I have spoken at 93 different universities, the overwhelming majority of which have been dominated by left-wing academics such as Dean Abramson. In short, I have stepped out of my comfort zone and demonstrated the kind of intellectual courage the Dean lacks.

. . .

Not offending students. Finally, the Dean of Journalism states that he cannot allow for the mere risk that his students will be offended. Thus, the Dean is engaging in prior restraint of all speech that could potentially offend someone. Let that sink in as you continue to ponder this man’s competence to serve as Dean of Anything much less the Dean of Journalism.

. . . 
"Citing a quote from Abramson about supposedly defending "tolerance" in his school, Adams smacks him for the inherent illogic of his argument. "Try to make sense of the logic of this Dean telling me I am not going to be tolerated or welcomed at the J-school because I am not as tolerant and welcoming as they are at the J-school," he writes." 

Hillary paid for notorious 'golden showers' dossier on Trump: Her campaign lawyer funded dirty tricks firm's research into his Russian links which came up with discredited claims

Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National
Committee helped pay for research that led to the 'golden
showers'  dossier on Donald Trump

UK Daily Mail  "Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee reportedly helped pay for research that led to the 'golden showers' dossier on Donald Trump.

"Clinton's campaign lawyer Marc Elias hired research firm Fusion GPS back in April 2016 to look into allegations of Trump's ties to Russia, according to the Washington Post.

"The Washington-based research firm then hired former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele to dig up the unconfirmed dirt on Trump.

"The research resulted in the now infamous dirty dossier that came up with the discredited claims about Trump." . . .

 Townhall has commentary on the activities of Hillary as well   . . . "House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Fox News Tuesday that after sending out a subpoena, he is expecting to receive Fusion GPS's financial records within the coming week to get to the bottom of who bankrolled this dossier.

" Not knowing that key information 10 months into the investigation into Russia's role in the election is a "problem," the chairman said. " .  . . .

Clinton campaign, DNC paid for research that led to Russia dossier

WaPo  "The Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee helped fund research that resulted in a now-famous dossier containing allegations about Donald Trump’s connections to Russia and possible coordination between his campaign and the Kremlin, people familiar with the matter said.

Marc E. Elias of Perkins Coie poses for a portrait in front of a 

projected map of the United States at the firm on April 11, 

2016 in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)

"Marc E. Elias, a lawyer representing the Clinton campaign

and the DNC, retained Fusion GPS, a Washington firm, to conduct the research.

"After that, Fusion GPS hired dossier author Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer with ties to the FBI and the U.S. intelligence community, according to the people.

"Elias and his law firm, Perkins Coie, retained the firm in April 2016 on behalf of the Clinton campaign and the DNC. Prior to that agreement, Fusion GPS’s research into Trump was funded by a still unknown Republican client during the GOP primary.

"The Clinton campaign and the DNC through the law firm continued to fund Fusion GPS’s research through the end of October 2016, days before Election Day." . . .

Speaking of Clinton and the Russians:

Republicans see tables turned as Dems face fresh Russia controversies  Video  . . . "After months of batting back accusations of collusion with Moscow in last year’s presidential campaign, Republicans say Democrats are the ones who now have “some explaining to do” as fresh developments raise questions about their own Russia connections.

"First came reports that the FBI knew about a Russian bribery plot tied to nuclear energy interests in the U.S. well before the Obama administration OK’d a mining company sale to a Russian firm, giving it partial control over American uranium reserves." . . .

. . . "The Hill reported, however, that the FBI had evidence as early as 2009 that Russian operatives used bribes, kickbacks and other dirty tactics to expand Moscow’s atomic energy footprint in the U.S., related to a subsidiary of the same Russia firm." . . .

CNN: After 7 Days, Only 4 Minutes On Clinton Uranium Scandal

Much is being said about the Hillary book mentioned here: "Creepy Kids’ Book Claims Women Did Nothing In The World Until Hillary Clinton Was Born…"

Hagiography:  . . . "a book about someone's life that makes it seem better than it really is or was : a biography that praises someone too much" . . .

New Hillary Clinton bio for kids: Putting the 'hag' in hagiography

. . . "It's nothing but a leftist bid to indoctrinate the young on Hillary Clinton as some sort of role model to salvage her legacy in the wake of her 2016 presidential election loss.

"The publisher Harper Collins, calls it "an inspiring portrait" as Clinton "paved the way for women everywhere". . . 

"The Daily Wire, which first spotted the book, noted that:

The author might want to note successful women were around before Hillary — a few examples:Nobel Prize in Physics, 1903: Marie CurieNobel prize in Literature, 1909: Selma Ottilia Lovisa LagerlöfNobel Prize in Chemistry, 1911: Marie CurieAmerican women’s suffrage: 1920Nobel Peace Prize, 1931: Jane AddamsGolda Meir, prime minister of Israel: 1969Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of England: 1979

From the Daily Wire:  This Page From A New Children’s Book About Hillary Clinton Is Hilariously Crazy
"A new children’s book about Hillary Clinton by author Michelle Markel titled Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born To Lead, has a hilarious graphic showing groups of famous men from the 1950s, including Albert Einstein, Edward R. Murrow, Elvis Presley, Jackie Robinson, and President Eisenhower, among others, with captions reading:

In the 1950’s it was a man’s world. Only boys could grow up to have powerful jobs. Only boys had no ceilings on their dreams.Girls weren’t supposed to act smart, tough, or ambitious. Even though, deep inside, they have felt that way.

 

Anguished Liberals Plan to 'Scream Helplessly at the Sky' on Anniversary of Trump Election

PJ Media  "Progressives have taken their Trump derangement syndrome to a whole new level...

"Thousands of anguished libs in Boston and Philadelphia will be taking part in scream fests on Nov. 8 to commemorate the anniversary of Donald Trump's election. Liberals in other cities around the country are likely to step up to the crazy plate as well as the big day draws near.

"Over 4,000 Facebook users in the Boston area have RSVP'd to attend the event they're calling "Scream helplessly at the sky on the anniversary of the election." Another 33,000 have expressed interest in attending the event at the 383-year-old Boston Common."

Film at eleven.....

Related:   Florida woman is ordered to remove a 'toot for Trump' and 'we stand for the national anthem' sign from her property after being told it violates county codes  Makes you want to scream, doesn't it?

Speaker from Cuba Warns Students Democrats Taken Over by Communists

Legal Insurrection  

“the Democrat party no longer exists”

"Rafael Dagnesses recently spoke to College Republicans in California and warned students that the Democratic Party has been taken over.

"The College Fix reports:

Having fled Cuba, campus speaker warns Democrat Party hijacked by ‘socialist, communist movement’

Rafael Dagnesses was born in Cuba in 1965, and fled the communist country as a young boy with his family after Fidel Castro executed many of his adopted grandfather’s military comrades.

Dagnesses, who has some experience recognizing communism when he sees it, told a room full of College Republicans recently that when he looks at the Democrat Party, he sees socialism and communism.

“I don’t want the Democrat Party to disappear,” said Dagnesses, a Republican who has twice run unsuccessfully for Congress in recent years.

“Balance is good,” he said, “but the Democrat party no longer exists. Rational, middle of the road Democrats have been hijacked by the leftist, socialist, communist movement.”

Dagnesses made the comments as the keynote speaker at a Bruin Republicans meeting at UCLA on Wednesday.

“I don’t quote books,” Dagnesses, a Marine veteran and former police officer, told the students. “I quote reality.”

The title of the talk was “The Failures of Socialism and Why America is Great.”

Leading, naturally to this sort of thing:

Democratic Socialist Students at Iowa State Call for Shooting of Trump
"If we had an honest media, Bernie Sanders would be asked to comment on this."

Stop Faking Service Dogs ( Loving your pet too much is putting people with real disabilities at risk)

Mariah Media Network

"Here in famously pet-friendly Los Angeles, I encounter dogs that are blatantly not service animals on a daily basis. Recently, during a morning visit to my local café, I laughed when a woman whose tiny dog was thrashing around at the limits of its leash and barking fiercely at other customers loudly proclaimed that it was a service animal. “It’s my service dog,” she said to me, scowling. “You’re not allowed to ask me why I need it!”

"Data backs my anecdote up. A study conducted at the University of California at Davis found that the number of “therapy dogs” or “emotional support animals” registered by animal control facilities in the state increased 1,000 percent between 2002 and 2012. In 2014, a supposed service dog caused a U.S. Airways flight to make an emergency landing after repeatedly defecating in the aisle. A Google News search for “fake service dog” returns more than 2.2 million results. 

"This has recently led state governments to try and curb the problem through law. In Massachusetts, a House bill seeks to apply a $500 fine to pet owners who even falsely imply that their animal may be a service dog. In California, the penalty is $1,000 and up to six months in jail. Twelve states now have laws criminalizing the misrepresentation of a pet as a service animal. That's good, but with all the confusion surrounding what a service dog actually is, there's less and less protection for their unique status." . . .

Hat tip to Betty Folmsbee, West Linn, OR.

Liberal Professor Camille Paglia says Dumbing Down of America Began in Public Education

The Constitution  "Liberal, feminist (in the classic sense), college professor Camille Paglia is at it again, triggering America’s leftwing crybabies with her blunt honesty and her perceptive commentary about the ills in modern America.

"In a recent conversation with conservative philosopher (and educator) Christina Hoff Sommers, Paglia reveals that many of our current problems on the college campus really began in public elementary and secondary schools.

“ 'It’s really started at the level of public school education. I’ve been teaching now for 46 years as a classroom teacher, and I have felt the slow devolution of the quality of public school education in the classroom.”

"Paglia argues that the vase majority of today’s college students have no sense of history, no sense of geography, and no understanding of how things work or why they are the way they are.

“ 'What has happened is these young people now getting to college have no sense of history – of any kind! No sense of history. No world geography. No sense of the violence and the barbarities of history. So, they think that the whole world has always been like this, a kind of nice, comfortable world where you can go to the store and get orange juice and milk, and you can turn on the water and the hot water comes out. They have no sense whatever of the destruction, of the great civilizations that rose and fell, and so on – and how arrogant people get when they’re in a comfortable civilization. They now have been taught to look around them to see defects in America – which is the freest country in the history of the world – and to feel that somehow America is the source of all evil in the universe, and it’s because they’ve never been exposed to the actual evil of the history of humanity. They know nothing!” . . .

All emphases in the original.TD

Creepy Kids’ Book Claims Women Did Nothing In The World Until Hillary Clinton Was Born…

Weasel Zippers   

From the book “Hillary Rodham Clinton: Some Girls Are Born To Lead”

From the UK Daily Mail;  . . . "Published by Balzer and Bray for readers between the ages of four and eight, the book presents Clinton as the ultimate girl-power role model.

"From 'acing tests' and 'upstaging boys in class' Clinton is also shown at her wedding, presenting key speeches and working on the campaign trail.

"It doesn't shy away from the details, stating people 'criticized her - in ways they'd never criticize a man' - as she stood by her husband's 1992 presidential campaign." . . .

 . . . "Although the book doesn't directly state Clinton's ongoing presidential run, it ends: 'No matter what Hillary does next, if she wants to change the world, she'll find a way.' "

The book can make one remember the many hagiographies of Kim Jung Un and his ancestors. Including their athletic prowess.

But back to Hillary-worship:

This grifter cannot be considered alongside these women.