Even CNN is noticing Kamala Harris is an empty pants suit

Thomas Lifson  "I have long had very little regard for the abilities of Kamala Harris. She entered politics on her back, as the mistress of Willie Brown, a man decades older, and ran for office more on the basis of her good looks and enticing and exotic intersectional cred as mixed race child of  black (from a Jamaican, not African-American) father and an Indian (South Asian, not Native American) father. He performance in office, from her work as an assistant DA in Oakland on through California AG and her brief tenure as a US Senator has not been impressive.

"But now that she has been on the presidential campaign trail for a few months, as a top five member of the pack of at least 20 declared and likely candidates, her limitations are becoming obvious even to the partisans of CNNN (who, after all, want a strong candidate who can stand up to and compete with Donald Trump).

"This is a woman who has no depth, and who skates away from difficult questions with a smile, a laugh, a toss of her head, and a canned evasive response (such as “we should have a discussion about that”).

"CNN is not pleased, and put together a compilation from just one town hall (hat tip: The Right Scoop):

Nonprofit Pays Bail For Man Who Attacked His Wife, Hours Later He Murders Her

Blue Lives Matter

Such wonderful, compassionate people.

"St. Louis, MO – Just hours after a nonprofit group posted bail for a man accused of assaulting his wife, the suspect went to the woman’s home and brutally murdered her, according to prosecutors.

"Samuel Lee Scott, 54, was arrested for domestic abuse on April 5, after he allegedly beat 54-year-old Marcia Johnson, injuring her cheekbone and ear, the Associated Press reported.

"Scott also allegedly told Johnson that the “might as well finished what [he] started since [she] was going to contact the police,” the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office wrote in a probable cause statement.

"On April 9, the court granted Johnson’s request for an order of protection, and he was notified that he was prohibited from going to her residence or within 300 feet of her, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

"Later the same day, the St. Louis Bail Project posted Scott’s $5,000 bail.

“ 'The Bail Project is an unprecedented effort to combat mass incarceration at the front end of the system,” according to the group’s website. “We pay bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence.”

"The Bail Project is comprised of “passionate advocates” known as “Bail Disruptors and Client Advocates…many of whom have experienced the bail system firsthand,” according to the website.

“ 'We believe that paying bail for someone in need is an act of resistance against a system that criminalizes race and poverty and an act of solidarity with local communities and movements for decarceration,” the page read. " . . .

And the race of the woman this man killed was? 

Sri Lanka terrorist attacks ignored by CNN town hall with 2020 Dem hopefuls: Media watchdog

Washington Times  "CNN’s string of town halls Monday night lacked questions on the Sri Lanka terror attacks that killed over 300 people, but presidential hopefuls were asked about the voting rights of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Democrat voter

"The media watchdog NewsBusters monitored five back-to-back town halls with 2020 candidates without witnessing a single question on Easter Sunday’s anti-Christian terror attacks.
"The FBI is assisting Sri Lankan authorities with their terror investigation, which has been blamed on an “Islamic fundamentalist group.”
"“You have said that you believe that people with felony records should be allowed to vote while in prison,” Harvard student Anne Carlstein asked Sen. Bernie Sanders. “Does this mean that you would support enfranchising people like the Boston Marathon bomber, a convicted terrorist and murderer?”
"The Vermont independent and self-professed socialist said he feared going down a “slippery slope” by denying anyone their time in the ballot box."
“I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy,” he replied. “Yes, even for terrible people, because once you start chipping away and you say, ‘That guy committed a terrible crime, [we’re] not going to let him vote. Well, that person did that. Not gonna let that person vote,’ you’re running down a slippery slope. … I do believe that even if they are in jail, they’re paying their price to society, but that should not take away their inherent American right to participate in our democracy.”

Bernie's voters.

Rodeo Road to be renamed Obama Boulevard, with festival where he once campaigned

Honoring Obama were also streets named "I", "ME", and "Mine". TD

LA Times

"A Los Angeles road will officially be renamed in honor of former President Obama on May 4, City Councilman Herb Wesson announced Tuesday.

"Along with the unveiling of the road’s new name, the councilman will host a street festival with music performances, vendors and food trucks at the intersection of the new Obama Boulevard (currently Rodeo Road) and West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

"The name change was first suggested by Wesson in 2017. In his proposal, Wesson noted thatObama held a campaign rally at Rancho Cienega Sports Complex on Rodeo in 2007 when running for president.

"Rodeo Road — not to be confused with Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills — is a 3.5-mile residential street in the predominantly African American Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw neighborhood. The street intersects with King Boulevard, “creating one of the most significant African American points of interest in the country,” according to the street festival event site.

"Obama Boulevard will further establish a “presidential row” that includes Washington, Adams and Jefferson boulevards." . . .

Hollywood worships the ground Obama walks on and so does he.

Correspondents Dinner: Thanks, but no thanks.

Tony Branco

Washington Examiner  "There may be empty seats at this weekend's White House Correspondents' dinner following a late-in-the-game boycott ordered Tuesday by the White House.

"The boycott comes weeks after news organizations invited White House staff and other administration officials to join their tables at the ritzy annual gathering at the Washington Hilton, where tickets cost $300 per seat.

" 'The President and members of his administration will not attend the White House Correspondents Dinner this year," a White House official told the Washington Examiner in an email. "Instead, Saturday evening President Trump will travel to Green Bay, Wisconsin where he will hold a campaign rally.' ". . . 

Look at the kind of comedy you'd be missing:

"What you missed from Michelle Wolf's correspondents' dinner speech"

Only in Today's America

Hat tip to Smokey at Weasel Zippers

Why The So-Called Equality Act Is A Bait-and-Switch Power Grab

The ‘Equality’ Act doesn’t really protect anybody. It undermines human freedom and dignity by legally stripping Americans across the board of inalienable rights.

 The Federalist  "Let’s place ourselves, for a moment, into the mindset of a statist. If you and your cronies wanted to control everybody’s lives, how exactly would you go about getting such raw power? Obviously, you wouldn’t come right out and say you have a special project designed specifically to cement a permanent one-party state.
"You wouldn’t explain, full disclosure, that the ever-growing bureaucracy you have in mind would promote a surveillance state and coercion that produces toxic levels of social distrust. You wouldn’t clarify that the point is to keep tabs on everyone in every aspect of their lives, including their education, their businesses, their medicine, their housing, their families, and their churches.
"No, of course not. You would mask your self-supremacist intentions with a benign and trendy word like “equality.” You’d pretend that your project was about helping a vulnerable minority. To prevent scrutiny, you’d quickly shame anybody who had a question about it and defame them as haters. At the same time, you’d give special favors to those who can be persuaded to support your con job.
"That’s usually how such things are done, as the history of authoritarian systems proves.

Sowing a Colossal Inequality of Power 
"So we have the “Equality” Act, recently introduced by Democrats in Congress. It’s currently being considered in various committee hearings and is on track for a floor vote in the House of Representatives later this spring or early this summer.
"On the surface, the “Equality” Act is supposed to protect LGBT folks from discrimination by adding the categories of sexual orientation and gender identity to all federal civil rights laws, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It would make claims of discrimination related to these characteristics legally actionable in the way racism is, and aapplying to virtually every area of life: the workplace, education, banking, jury service, federal funding, housing, medicine and psychiatry, and all public facilities.
"It is a power grab in the guise of anti-discrimination. A bait-and-switch.  . . ."

Trump Official Trolls Omar On Threat Complaints: Just Some People Saying Something

Live Wire  "Brava to Housing and Urban Development (HUD) official Lynne Patton for a brilliant response…to be filed under “Why didn’t *I* think of that?”  
"Patton is no stranger to personal attacks, having been called a racist “prop” by Rep. Rashida Tlaib at the Cohen hearing.
"And she reports that she receives threats sent directly to her home, after being doxxed by the MSM.
"Via BizPac Review.

Added by TD

Lynne Patton, the regional administrator at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Trump administration, doesn’t have a whole lot of sympathy for Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who says she is facing a growing number of death threats as a result of President Trump drawing attention to her disrespectful 9/11 remarks.

But then, Patton knows a thing or two about death threats, being a black woman who willingly serves under the president.

Playing on Omar’s own words about the Sept. 11, 20011, attack, which the Muslim lawmaker belittled by describing it as “some people did something,” Patton took to social media to post a spot-on meme that read: “Ilmar Omar is crying she’s receiving death threats. They’re no death threats. There just some people saying something.”

Patton included the caption: “#WelcomeToTheClub  We’ve been getting death threats for 3 years now. And for the record, I now get death threats & hate mail SENT TO MY APARTMENT because the mainstream media reported where I live. Never mind just on social media. #SoSorryNotSorry.”….

"Omar raises $830k for reelection amid Trump backlash"

The anti-Trump left and the incredible uniformity of groupthink

Babbin quotes Churchill:  A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.  

Cartoon added by TD

Patricia McCarthy  "Medical conditions, such as psychological disorders, all have a predictably reliable set of symptoms and traits.  For example, persons who suffer from narcissistic personality disorder all have exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, a lack of empathy, and several other shared behaviors.  (Think Barack Obama, Michael Avenatti, Chris Cuomo, and their ilk.  Though Trump is often called a narcissist by the Left, he is not; he is extremely empathetic and extraordinarily magnanimous.)

"Similarly, those who hold certain political views predictably share numerous characteristics.  Jed Babbin has a column at The American Spectator, "The Democrats' Fanaticism," in which he lays out the impenetrable Trump-hatred of the Left.  Leftists are unable to give up on the Trump-colluded-with-Russia meme they have relied upon to destroy the presidency of Donald Trump.  They are obsessed, unable to address any other issue that requires their attention.  They cannot accept the Mueller Report's conclusion that there was in fact no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.  Babbin quotes Churchill:  A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.  That perfectly describes the Democratic Party of today.  What is interesting is the how much in lockstep are the political views these people have in common. 

. . . The same people who hate Trump believe in the hoax of global warming and are letting small children "choose" their sex.  A trans child is the latest celebrity accessory.  To those on the other side of such nonsense, this is child abuse, especially when children as young as eight are given over to doctors who begin hormone treatments that will likely ruin their lives.

 . . . "These are the same folks who think people should be able to use the restroom of the sex with which they "identify."  Thus, a teenage boy who feels like a girl must be allowed to shower with the girls after gym class.  If that makes those girls uncomfortable, too bad.  Their discomfort is politically incorrect.  Only the feelings of the trans person matter.

. . .  While they weighed in heavily on the murder of fifty Muslims at a mosque in New Zealand, Hillary Clinton and Obama could not bring themselves to call the victims of Islamic terrorists in Sri Lanka what they were: Christians.  They were "Easter worshippers."  Christianity is under siege all over the world by the fiercely secular left.  Christians were virtually wiped out in the Middle East under Obama's watch, and he had little to say about it.  He offered them no escape.  He brought thousands of Muslims here and left the Christians to fend for themselves." . . .  

Victor Davis Hanson: “It was a coup attempt to destroy the presidency…”

Hanson on Trump, Mueller, Democrats, the media, and the deep state

Illustration added by TD; http://www.terrellaftermath.com/

Legal Insurrection  "Last week as the Mueller Report was about to drop, Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution and the National Review Institute was interviewed by The Epoch Times as part of their American Thought Leaders series. He offered his thoughts on the Mueller investigation, the Trump presidency, and much more.

"Hanson takes us back to the earliest whispers of Russia and walks us through the maddening series of attempts to prevent Trump from becoming president, even after he won the election. You may have forgotten some of the crazier details, such as the effort to get copies of the Steele dossier to members of the Electoral College.

"Hanson has forgotten nothing, and his analysis cuts like a knife despite his cool demeanor.

Hanson begins by summarizing how things got started.

"The Epoch Times provides a transcript:

I think we’re gonna get the Mueller report today or tomorrow. But if you were to summarize the Mueller investigation, there’s a lot of ways to look at it, but I think the best is that there were people within the United States government–the director of the FBI, James Comey; the director of the CIA, John Brennan; the director of National Intelligence, James Clapper; the deputy director; and an array of others; and then NSC and the DOJ who felt A: that Hillary Clinton was going to win. They had followed the analytics and the polls–90 percent surety.

But they felt as an insurance policy that Donald Trump for a variety of reasons–culturally, politically, socially–was unacceptable as president. And the very thought that he could be president was so foreign and disruptive that they felt they had a higher duty, a higher loyalty to stop that. So what did they do? They started to surveil his campaign, and they put informants we know into his campaign.

"Hanson suggests that when Trump won, actors in this conspiracy decided their only way out was to go deeper:

Then when Trump did the unthinkable, he won both in anger at that fact but also as a preemptive defense of their behavior. You see, because you’ve got to

remember the dialectic would have been “President Clinton, look at all I did for you. I should be rewarded. I went beyond the call of duty.” And now the mentality went “My gosh, I’ve got legal exposure. So we’ve got to press further.”

So then it was a methodology of getting more FISA requests and disrupting the transition. And then finally the act that resulted in the Mueller commission, and then to dethrone. And then finally the larger context of this was when he was elected there was an effort to sue three states for the voting machines and nullify the election. There was a sustained effort to give the Steele dossier to the electors and to persuade the electors not to vote according to their constitutional mandates.

"He eventually calls this what it was. An attempted coup:" . . .

Actress Patricia Heaton Rips MSNBC for ‘Loathsome’ Easter Sunday Ambush on Robert Mueller

Breitbart  "Actress Patricia Heaton ripped MSNBC for their “loathsome” harassment of FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller as he left Church on Easter Sunday, pointing out that their ambush occurred in the backdrop of Christians in Sri Lanka being brutally murdered as they worshiped.

"On Sunday, MSNBC filmed their reporter Mike Viqueira ambushing Mueller outside a Church in Washington D.C., asking questions about President Donald Trump and the implications of his special counsel report into supposed Russian collusion during the

election. As Mueller tried to enter his vehicle, he simply replied, “No comment.”

"The exchange drew anger from many on social media, including Patricia Heaton, who referenced Sunday’s bombings against Christian worshipers in Colombia, Sri Lanka, at the hands of Islamist terrorists.

“ 'Hello @MSNBC. Today is Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian calendar. Some of the faithful were murdered today while they worshiped,” the Everybody Loves Raymond star said. “But you ambush Robert Mueller outside of his church and chuckle about it afterward. This is loathesome. Shame on you.' ” . . .

Ms. Heaton could wind up on a blacklist with Laura Ingraham  "Actor Jon Voight released a video message Monday offering support to Laura Ingraham, as the Fox News host once again is facing a left-wing blacklist campaign.

“ 'You know the truth is very important–right now most especially,” Jon Voight said.

“ 'And those who believe in the truth are to be cherished. People like Laura Ingraham. They’re wonderful people who we need very much at this time, when our president is being attacked with lies and slanders from the media,” the Holes actor said." . . .

Don't mess with Big Jon! 

CNN had its lowest primetime weekly ratings overall and in the key age demographic last week, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Daily Caller  . . . From April 8-12, the network only averaged an audience of 690,000 people and 180,000 in the key 25-54 age demographic. Their coverage last week included three presidential town halls with New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee and Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro. (Every CNN Presidential Town Hall Finished Behind MSNBC And Fox News In Ratings)

"Gillibrand’s town hall only had 507,000 viewers, compared to Inslee’s 549,000 and Castro’s 654,000.

"Comparatively, last week, MSNBC’s prime time lineup averaged 1,600,000 viewers with 249,000 in the key demo. Fox News managed to beat CNN and MSNBC combined, with a total viewership of 2,438,000 and 394,000 in the age range.

"The top networks for primetime viewership last week were led by Fox News, followed by MSNBC, the Home and Garden TV, USA Network and TBS Network to round out the top five.

"CNN finished 15th, behind networks like Discovery Channel, Food Network, TLC and A&E Network. Their ratings have continued to drop following the conclusion of the Mueller report. It appears like they might have a difficult time bouncing back after investing two years of heavy coverage on the investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with the Kremlin."