Former Trump Campaign Officials indicted in Mueller Russia Probe

A former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser has pleaded guilty to making a false statement to the FBI after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government -- the campaign's clearest connection so far to Russia's efforts to meddle in the 2016 election. 

In court records unsealed on Monday, the FBI said George Papadopoulos "falsely described his interactions with a certain foreign contact who discussed 'dirt' related to emails" concerning Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Records also describe an email between Trump campaign officials suggesting they were considering acting on Russian invitations to go to Russia. 

In addition, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates surrendered Monday to Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller. 

Former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and his longtime business associate Rick Gates were indicted by a federal grand jury on 12 charges, including conspiracy against the U.S., special counsel Robert Mueller's office announced Monday. 

Other charges against Manafort and Gates include money laundering, being an unregistered foreign agent and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.

The indictment was unsealed Monday after Manafort and Gates were told to surrender to law enforcement.

Hot story of the day, Fusion GPS!

Fusion GPS is going to release its financial records to the Congressional investigators. There are charges that the Clinton Campaign paid millions to this operation to get dirt on Donald Trump! The dossier turned out to be dirt, but the Clinton Campaign paid millions to get that dirt. Of course, Hillary Clinton once again denies knowing anything about it, however, a conservative group, The Washington Free Beacon also paid Fusion GPS, to not only look into Trump, but into a bunch of people. So overall, Fusion GPS was in the dirt business and all of this garbage found its way into the FBI and into the Obama Administration. Here is the big story, if the Clinton Campaign paid Fusion GPS millions of dollars to dig up a dossier that is false, it's against the law! So, keep your eye on this!

Interview with Former Governor Mike Huckabee

I interviewed Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee to discuss the craziness of the Fusion GPS story. Gov. Huckabee says that the Democrats need to be more worried than Donald Trump and the White House does. Here's the problem, the DNC and Hillary's campaign spent MILLIONS of dollars to finance Fusion GPS research, over $12 Million dollars from Hillary alone and $5.6 Million from the DNC, which seems like they're doing a little more than just looking over your financial records and checking your FEC reports. The Clinton's are notorious, as I personally know, for doing extraordinarily detailed opposition research and to do anything possible to get disinformation on candidates that oppose them. The heart of this is that the Clintons are trying to get Donald Trump tied to something all the way back to 5 years ago, before he even announced that he was a candidate. You can't just go after someone because you're curious. It's possible that the Trump Administration is afraid of what Paul Manafort might give up.

Shocking new polls!

There were a couple of interesting polls that caught my eye today. The first poll shows that America is as divided as it was in Vietnam. Nearly three-quarters of Americans said the United States is as divided as it was during the Vietnam War according to a new poll.

Results from the survey released by The Washington Post and the University of Maryland indicate:

• 70 percent said divisions within the U.S. are at least as big as they were during the Vietnam War.
• 77 percent of U.S. adults aged 65 and older said the current divisions stateside are at least as big as they were during Vietnam, with 65 percent of adults aged 18-29 saying the same.
• 36 percent said they are not proud with how democracy works in the U.S., a sharp increase from 1996 (16 percent), 2002 (9 percent), 2004 (10 percent), and 2014 (18 percent) in similar polls.
• 64 percent said the political system in the U.S. is dysfunctional.
• 71 percent said problems with American politics have reached a dangerous low point. 

The other poll is a FOX News Poll that I found interesting. It was a recent NFL poll. The National Football League is taking some hits these days. 

• A new Fox News Poll finds that since 2013, the league’s favorable rating has dropped 18 points.
• Today, 46 percent of voters have a positive view of the N.F.L., while 41 percent view it negatively. 
• Four years ago (the last time the question was asked), 64 percent had a positive view of the league and 19 percent were critical.

Church plans to remove Washington and Lee plaques

The following story just makes me angry! The Christ Church in Alexandria, Virginia, is taking down a memorial to George Washington, which is inside the church because George Washington attended services there. In the same church, there is also a memorial to Robert E. Lee, and that memorial is there because his widow gave the church a lot of money. Both memorials are being taken down because they are making some people feel "unsafe". Unsafe in the worship space! This is PC madness at its worst. We have a new motto, 'take your country back,' and I came up with that motto after reading this story. This is the LAST straw for me! George Washington was a hero and that's why I wrote "Killing England." 

NO MORE SHAKESPEARE: Yale ‘Decolonizes’ English Department After Being Accused of Too Much ‘Whiteness’

Yale has successfully “decolonized” its English department, and some 'lucky' students are now enrolled in a new course created by the department to ward off claims of departmental racism. Better yet, new standards have been implemented to guarantee a more “diversified” slate of courses. 

All of this nonsense was precipitated by a petition from some undergraduates in May 2016 that slammed Yale’s English department for its "whiteness" because the university required English majors to take two courses in “Major English Poets,” including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton and Eliot. 

The document read:

A year spent around a seminar table where the literary contributions of women, people of color, and queer folk are absent actively harms all students, regardless of their identity. The Major English Poets sequences creates a culture that is especially hostile to students of color. When students are made to feel so alienated that they get up and leave the room, or get up and leave the major, something is wrong. … It’s time for the English major to decolonize — not diversify — its course offerings. A 21st century education is a diverse education: we write to you today inspired by student activism across the university, and to make sure that you know that the English department is not immune from the collective call to action. 

Last spring, Yale’s English faculty voted to “diversify” the curriculum. 

The petition asked the English Department faculty to reevaluate the undergraduate curriculum and the current core requirements and introductory courses, in particular the ‘Major English Poets’ as a prerequisite for the major. The petition called for the abolishing of the course and for the pre-1800/1900 requirements to refocus and include literature relating to gender, race and sexuality. 

“It’s time for the English major to decolonize ‒ not diversify ‒ its course offerings,” the petition added. “A 21st century education is a diverse education: we write to you today inspired by student activism across the university, and to make sure that you know that the English department is not immune from the collective call to action.” 

Jessica Brantley, the director of the department’s undergraduate studies, lectured The Yale Daily News: “We’ve constructed a curriculum that has inclusion as its goal, embedded in the structures of its requirements, and I’m very excited to implement and develop that curriculum further.”

Students at Yale University can now enroll in two revised English literature courses after a petition was circulated for 18 months calling to “decolonize the English department.” Students had complained the focus on white male poets was “actively harmful.” 

To meet their three prerequisites in English, students at Yale can now choose from four different courses: Readings in English Poetry 1, Readings in English Poetry 2, Readings in American Literature, and the newly created Readings in Comparative World English Literature.

Chaucer and Shakespeare are studied in English Poetry 1, which means a student could graduate from Yale’s English program without having read either of those authors.