Trump agrees to meet Kim Jong Un, South Korean official says

Don't get your hopes up, but Trump isn't like all recent past presidents; he gets things done. TD

Trump agrees to meet Kim Jong-un by MAY: North Korean despot invites President to talks and agrees to suspend missile tests 

. . . "A statement from White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the place and time was to be determined.

" 'President Trump greatly appreciates the nice words of the South Korean delegation and President Moon. He will accept the invitation to meet with Kim Jong Un at a place and time to be determined,' Sanders said. 'We look forward to the denuclearization of North Korea. In the meantime, all sanctions and maximum pressure must remain.'

"Kim sent a personal letter to the U.S. president that was delivered Thursday. 

The message was passed to the White House through a South Korean delegation which held their own talks with the dictator this week.

" 'In return, Kim is offering to suspend his nuclear missile testing program, Chung told White House officials before he briefed press from the building's North Lawn.

He had met Kim earlier in the week in Pyongyang, the dictator's capital. " . . .

Politico  "President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation by South Korea to meet directly with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, following talks between South Korea and Pyongyang, South Korea's national security adviser said on Thursday.

"North Korea also signaled that it would not test missiles anymore and would be willing to negotiate ending its nuclear weapons program, according to the national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong.

"Kim Jong Un "stressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible. President Trump appreciated the greeting and said he would meet Kim Jong Un by May to achieve permanent denuclearization," Chung said on Thursday evening outside the West Wing of the White House." . . .

SCMP reports:  Via Gateway Pundit

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un may propose sending his sister, Kim Yo-jong, to the US as part of efforts to launch direct talks between Washington and Pyongyang, according to a South Korean diplomatic source.

That may be one of a number of possible messages South Korean envoy Chung Eui-yong will deliver to US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in Washington this week, the source told the South China Morning Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

“Kim Jong-un has a certain message, which is not publicised to be delivered directly to the Trump administration. It’s something very unconventional and something very unusual. I don’t know if the US will disclose this message to the public.”

Chung will deliver “conditions from the North Korean side to start some bilateral dialogue with the United States,” the source said.

Some deep spititual thoughts

Comedian Argus Hamilton:

The White House website received petitions requesting that Billy Graham’s birthday be named a national holiday. It’s a partisan idea of course. Republicans are terrified that when the Rapture occurs and the righteous are called to Heaven, it will leave the Democrats with a permanent majority.

Pope Francis urged the faithful Sunday to stay strong to their Lenten commitments halfway to Easter. A new race issue recently arose. There’s a new claim that Jesus was dark-skinned, based on the conclusion that if Jesus had been white, the Romans would have let him off with a warning ticket.

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Feinstein: It’s ‘Too Early’ to Tell Whether Kamala Harris Would Make a Good President

Free Beacon  "Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) said in a recent piece profiling her Democratic colleague Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) that it is "too early" to tell whether the potential 2020 candidate would make a good president.

"Feinstein's remarks came in aPolitico piece published Thursday and titled, "Kamala Harris keeps 'em guessing." The piece reflects on Harris' first year in the Senate and how she has become a rising star in the Democratic party, describing the senator as a "serious-minded lawmaker" and as someone who "bones up on policy and can engage on substance."

"While the junior senator from California has been floated as a potential 2020 contender since early 2017, Feinstein said it is "too early" for her to say whether her colleague would be a good president. She called Harris her "good friend" and said she would like to see her stick around the Senate because "there’s a certain degree of staying power" required to succeed there." . . .
. . . 
"While the junior senator from California has been floated as a potential 2020 contender since early 2017, Feinstein said it is "too early" for her to say whether her colleague would be a good president. She called Harris her "good friend" and said she would like to see her stick around the Senate because "there’s a certain degree of staying power" required to succeed there." . . .

Media Fight For Democrats In Washington Leak Wars

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Mollie Hemingway at The Federalist

Reporters are hostile to even the notion of Republican leaks, but remarkably incurious about the actual Democratic deluge of leaks.

. . . "It is a weird thing to watch the media uncritically receive and regurgitate dozens of leaks — all of them out of context, some of them downright false — from Rep. Adam Schiff and his team and then write up that the other side is leaking. This is particularly bizarre given the general lack of leaks coming from House Permanent Select Committee Republicans. At the very least it’s worth noting that there were no leaks from Intelligence Committee Republicans about their 4-page memo alleging FISA abuses, even as the agencies and Democrats on the committee put out anticipatory leaks to cushion the blow from that memo. In fact, they leaked to … Nicholas Fandos.

"Here are four other examples of serious, if deceptive, leaks from Schiff and the Democrats he oversees.

1) Selective Leak Of Stone-Wikileaks Texts

I’m not sure how much of this is sloppy and credulous reporting vs. sloppy leaking by Team Schiff, but last week Natasha Bertrand of The Atlantic wrote about a leak from Democrats on the Intelligence Committee of direct Twitter messages between Wikileaks and former Trump advisor Roger Stone. The actual texts depicted Wikileaks telling Stone to stop falsely claiming that they’d been communicating. Bertrand framed it exactly the opposite — that the texts actually provided smoking gun proof that Wikileaks and Roger Stone were plotting to steal an election.  . . . 

Hat tip to Larwyn's Linx

Chicago needs more gun control (Updated)

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The press needs some Chicago kids like these with whom the press can have fun but who can turn on the victimhood look instantly at the call for "Action!" 

Update: George Clooney’s Publicist Set Up Media Interviews With Parkland Shooting Kids

Parkland students appeared on all the major political Sunday morning shows, including CBS's Face the Nation and NBC's Meet the Press, calling for more restrictions on guns. The "attention is on us now," they said.

Take...your...order...please...please...please

"McDonald’s recently came out with their answer to those that want $15/hr pay.  Robots."

Aftermath

Most of fhose getting laid off will continue to vote for Democrats because, well, "Democrats care for people like me". How's that working out for you?

McDonald’s Announces Its Answer to $15 an Hour Minimum Wage – Touch-Screen Cashiers

. . . "This is exactly what the left pushed for… Fast food chains were never meant to be a place for someone to raise a family of 6, they were to be part time positions with some full-time advancements. Mostly the fast food restaurants were for school aged kids to learn how to interact with people, with a job, to offer spending money, and to begin responsibility learning for their future."The part time position was not intended to pay for a house, it is a stepping stone to move on.
"$15.00/hr x 8 hrs= $120/day x 5 days= $600/week x 52 weeks = $31,200/year!!"Of course when this happens, like it did today in Los Angeles, the poor and unskilled workers will go on Welfare, and cost American workers more to support them."McDonald’s recently came out with their answer to those that want $15/hr pay.Robots."This month in Europe McDonald’s hired 7,000 touch-screen cashiers."

Burger robot takes flight in $15 minimum wage state  "One of California's most beloved fast-food joints has enlisted the services of a burger-flipping robot as the state moves toward a $15 minimum wage.
"CaliBurger customers will now enjoy the hamburgers prepared by robots named
"Flippy" at its Pasadena location, and it plans to roll out the machine across the franchise. The Miso Robotics creation is capable of churning out 150 burgers an hour using "3D, thermal, and regular vision" to monitor the cooking of CaliBurger's "signature always fresh, never frozen, mouth-watering Cali-style burger." The burger chain calls the robot "the future of food." " . . .

Democrats like to blame anything but their high taxes and regulations for slow economic growth. Today, the culprit is robots.

"These inaccurate, made up predictions remind me of all the made up, inaccurate predictions on global warming or climate change.  When there is an agenda, facts take a back seat. "

Thanks a lot, Bernie

Rick Moran: Innovation in fast food industry making 'Fight for Fifteen' irrelevant  . . . "It's what happens when you completely divorce the cost of labor from the value an employee contributes to a company's operation.  Burger flippers and drive-through window attendants are just not worth $15 an hour to a company's bottom line.  That simple, basic Economics 101 concept is lost on the naïve fast food workers who are oblivious to the fact that a machine can outperform them and has the advantage of never talking back to the boss, is never sick or late, and will work just as hard at the beginning of a shift as at the end.

"It's ironic that in pressing for unrealistic wages, fast food workers have spurred companies to innovate.  In effect, they've worked to end their own jobs."

A Missouri police officer who was shot and killed while responding to a 911 call had been sent to the wrong house

UK Daily Mail  . . . "Officer Christopher Ryan Morton, 30, died. Officer Nathan Bettencourt was in stable condition Wednesday. The third officer, Nicholas Kasper, was treated for gunshot wounds and released Wednesday.

"After the officers were shot, a SWAT team entered the house and found Waters dead. Investigators have not determined if he shot himself or was killed by the officers, Lowe said.

"Scanner audio captured the shootout. According to The Kansas City Star, Morton can be heard saying: 'I'm hit multiple times. One left arm. Both legs. The chest, the vest.'

"Another officer can hear saying: 'Morton, stay with us. Stay with us Morton.' " . . .

. . . 'It is a coincidence they were called to that specific address,' Lowe said. 'It is tragic that happened. But the fact is they were in the act of committing crimes within that house. When (the officers) entered that house they were doing what they needed to ensure no one was hurt and there wasn't any other problems.' "

Just one more "pig in a blanket".

Ann Coulter: Racial Quotas Kill Kids

Admittedly, most of the harm done by the policy that enabled Cruz is not usually a mass shooting. The main damage done by the “school-to-prison pipeline” idiocy is: broken bones, smashed teeth, traumatized students, making it impossible for other students to learn, having a bad influence on marginal students and teachers sinking into depression.

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Ann Coulter  "President Obama did a lot of bad things, but pound for pound, one of the worst was the January 2014 “Dear Colleague” letter sent jointly by his Education and Justice Departments to all public schools threatening lawsuits over racial discrimination in student discipline. The letter came after years of his administration browbeating schools for their failure to discipline every race of student at the same rate.

"As the Huffington Post put it: “American Schools Are STILL Racist, Government Report Finds.” The evidence? “Five percent of white students were suspended annually, compared with 16 percent of black students, according to the report.” Q.E.D.

"According to theory, there’s NO WAY blacks and Hispanics are doing things that require more school discipline than whites or Asians. So if more black students are expelled than Asians, well, gentlemen, we have our proof of racism. To comply, schools would have to stop suspending black kids for breaking a teacher’s jaw, but suspend Asians for dropping an eraser.

"Using the same logic, I could close the achievement gap between blacks and Asians in a single day by going to every principal’s office in the country and burning the transcripts. (Liberals are saying, “You know, that’s not a bad idea.”)

"The “school-to-prison pipeline” argument for racial quotas in discipline was hatched in education schools and black studies departments. What I want to know is: How did they test the idea?" . . .

This is CNN: The Children’s News Network

. . . [Anderson] "Cooper then seriously engaged a 14-year-old girlabout whether we need age limits for weapons purchases, and if the president would fulfill his promise or not. (She of course said no.) David Hogg then went on an unchallenged stream-of-teen-consciousness, citing the House of Cards show, smearing Rubio and Florida Governor Rick Scott, and repeating how everything and everyone was, like, totally “disgusting.” Hard hitting stuff, there, Anderson."

American Greatness

. . . "So, it must really hurt the tender feelings of the puerile talent pool at CNN that the Investigation, Discovery, and Hallmark channels have more viewers than they do. They must really want to pout and kick their little sister over the fact that Fox News had more than double the number of viewers than they did in 2017, and their right-wing rival has been the most watched cable news network for 194 months in a row. To make matters worse, the biggest bully in school, Donald Trump, keeps giving them social-media wedgies on Twitter every week. Even when they try to fight back by explaining how an apple is really a banana or something, everyone makes fun of them.

"Being unpopular really stinks.

"The CNN roster of reporters and anchors is loaded with some of the most immature whiners in television news. The network’s White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, is Arnold Horshack to Sarah Sanders’ Mr. Kotter, the annoying (but not nearly as loveable) class dunce trying to get attention from his eye-rolling teacher. On Monday, Acosta tussled with Sanders about whether Trump would have run into Stoneman Douglas High School to “save the day” during the February 14 shooting and worried that schools will become like “the Wild West.” Alisyn Camerota pouted that NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch was using explosive rhetoric against the media: “How dare you?” she wailed." . . . 
Full article.

THIS! is CNN!

Rob Miller: "What we have here is nothing less than a detailed, well written chronicle of exactly how the American press abandoned all semblance of scruples and journalistic ethics once Donald J. Trump became president. Like Surber's other books, this one will have you laughing out loud and you will find it difficult to put down." Via Don Surber

CNN Isn’t Giving Up On Collusion  "We wrote here about Anastasia Vashukevich, an Instagram model/sex coach who ran afoul of the authorities in Bangkok. Vashukevich was arrested for “giving sex lessons to Russian tourists” without a permit and was interviewed by the Associated Press while on board a police van taking her to a jail. Seriously. 

"Like the rest of us, Vashukevich . . . was enterprising enough to claim that she has top-secret information about President Trump and the Russians that she is willing to reveal if someone will spring her. The Associated Press reported on the story in a manner that was unintentionally comic, and CNN, undeterred, sent its own reporter to Thailand to interview Ms. Vashukevich." . . . Video

A CNN host assumed an Indian American spelling bee champion could read Sanskrit  

Susan BeneschCNN guesses the U.S. national spelling bee winner is 'used to using' Sanskrit. If she were Jewish would u say 'your real language Hebrew' ?

 ‘Facts First’ CNN Spreads Fake News About AR-15s
. . . "Tuchman didn’t bother to try to support his claim here with any evidence, so he’s probably repeating widespread Democratic talking points about the AR-15 being a uniquely powerful weapon. This propaganda is extremely ridiculous, to say the least." . . . 

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Chelsea Clinton hints her friendship with Ivanka Trump is over and says it's fair to criticize president's daughter over policy issues

Who invited Chelsea to say these things? Stephen Colbert, of course.

UK Daily Mail   . . . " ‘I think anyone who works for the president should expect to be scrutinized for whatever decisions not only he or she is making, but whatever decisions the White House is making on any given day,’ Clinton said.

" 'It's clear that she has supported policies and decisions that I don't agree with. I've been very vocal about my opposition to President Trump.'

. . . " 'Could you call [Ivanka Trump] up and say, "Hey, maybe no war with North Korea?"' Colbert asked.

" 'I certainly am just really sad that we're at a point in time that that even has to be said...I mean, that we're at a point in time where we have a president who has such a callous disregard for a thoughtful, coherent, kind of expert-advised foreign policy is something I would hope, regardless of where we sit on the political spectrum, we could agree on,' Clinton said." . . .

Sweden finds Trump was right on immigration, gang violence

Washington Times

"Sweden’s prime minister, who criticized President Trump last year for blaming Swedish violence on Muslim refugees, said Tuesday that he’s cracking down on immigration and gang violence to make Sweden great again.

"At a White House news conference with Mr. Trump at his side, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven spoke of his own Trump-like agenda of implementing tougher laws on immigration and crime, and of spending more money on law enforcement.

“ 'We have our share of domestic challenges, no doubt about that,” Mr. Lofven said. “We are dealing with it every day, allocating more resources to the police, more resources to the security police, tougher laws on crime, tougher laws on terrorism.”

"Not only that, he said Sweden’s crackdown on immigration and gangs is working.

“ 'We can see some results now in our three major cities, decrease in shootings because we’re attacking the organized crime very tough,” the prime minister said. “And we’ll keep on doing that. There is no space in Sweden for organized crime. They decrease freedom for ordinary people.' ” . . .