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Obama Portraits Revealed

The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. unveiled the portraits of President Barack Obama and Former First Lady Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley (Barack’s portrait) and Amy Sherald (Michelle’s portrait), whom the Obama’s commissioned before they left the White House. 

The Baltimore-based Amy Sherald and Mrs. Obama presented their portrait first, taking down the fabric to show a stunning portrait of the former first lady in grayscale before a light blue background. In the portrait, Mrs. Obama wore a gown by designer Milly that featured a geometric print. “But Milly’s dress also reminds me of the quilt masterpieces made by the women of Gee’s Band, a small black community in Alabama.”

Kehinde Wiley and President Obama revealed an image of President Obama sitting on a wood chair dressed in a black suit with a white collared shirt under, with a wall of foliage behind him that also served as a narrative of the president. Wiley included chrysanthemums, the official flower of Chicago, African blue lilies from Kenya, the birthplace of his father, as well as jasmine from President Obama’s native Hawaii.

The painters that were picked to portray the Obama’s, Kehinde Wiley for Mr. Obama’s portrait, Amy Sherald for Mrs. Obama, are African-American as well. Both artists have addressed the politics of race consistently in their past work, and both have done so in subtly savvy ways in these new commissions. 

You either like the portraits or you don’t, but so what? It’s not up to you. This is a tradition that we have in this country. However, if you go to the internet, they’re drawing all kinds of implications into it and it’s just ridiculous.

Bill Predicted Personal Attacks Would Mount Against Trump

On December 7, 2017, Bill said, “this allegation stuff now is out of control, is that the word? I don't know, let's just say it's an epidemic. And people are going down every day and the President of the United States has some deficits because of a tape and some of the things that he said in the past. So expect that to become a main issue from the Trump haters.”  

What Bill said in December is being proven true. The more he achieves the more people are going to drag him through the mud and try to make him look bad. The media is creating a coup against President Trump. They’re trying to destroy the Trump Administration. The media will use any story and negatively tie it to Trump and unfortunately this is something that will never stop because right now we have a mob that is controlling public opinion and it’s very dangerous. If you don’t agree with the president, that’s fine, everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion, but when people go so far as to say that they want to see harm come to him that is extreme. 

We live in a country where fairness is supposed to be important. Trump won the presidential election and now the press wants to overturn that vote. That’s not fair and that’s not right. 

The left-wing media, which continues to get worse, want to negate the vote and get Trump out of office. Now, that’s why you watch the No Spin News. You won’t get that analysis anywhere else in this country.

Intelligence Officials to Testify Before Senate Panel

In an open hearing titled “Worldwide Threats” on Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray will appear on Capitol Hill before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a hearing focused on global threats.

The testimony is routine, part of an annual hearing intended to examine current threats to U.S. national security. 

Wray’s appearance, however, could trigger an entirely different set of questions related to a burning controversy on Capitol Hill over allegation that his agency and the Justice Department abused America’s secret surveillance court to spy on former Trump campaign advisers during the 2016 presidential elections. Wray could also face questions about the text messages exchanged between top FBI counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, both of whom worked on the FBI's probe into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. 

Other officials who will be joining Wray at the Senate Intel Hearing on Tuesday are, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Robert Ashley, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency Director Robert Cardillo.

That’s not all that’s happening this week. On Wednesday, the House Oversight Subcommittee on Information Technology is holding the first of three hearings on artificial intelligence, exploring the barriers as well as potential challenges and advantages of use of AI in the government. Later this week, Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon may appear before the House Intelligence Committee. The meeting was postponed last Wednesday over a dispute between Bannon's legal team and the committee about the scope of his pending interview. 

Socialist students protest memorial to fallen police officers

On February 7, The College Republicans hosted a memorial to fallen police officers in honor of Law Enforcement Appreciation Day at California State University, Fullerton. The event was also designed to give students the opportunity to interact with campus police officers in a non-confrontational setting. 

“The purpose of our event is to remember fallen officers who have died protecting the community,” said Event Coordinator Hansol Suh. “We honor and respect those we consider heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice. I’m shocked and disturbed that this event would be politicized as anything other than a memorial for the fallen.”

Students for Quality Education (SQE), a socialist group that is funded by the California Faculty Association, held a protest of the memorial ceremony.  According to the press release, “the members of SQE, stood fifty feet from the memorial and handed out flyers that read “Why Blue Lives Matter is Problematic” and “Black and Brown Civilians do not want police lives on a sacrificial pyre in exchange for their own.” 

SQE was formed in 2007 by students at California State University (CSU). The group was created to build the student movement for educational rights in public higher education.

Northeastern Professor caught on video saying, “wouldn’t mind seeing Trump dead”

At a public event at Northeastern University on “The Rule of Law in a Time of Polarization,” a professor told the audience that he “wouldn’t mind” seeing President Trump “dead.” The event was part of Northeastern’s 2018 Myra Kraft Open Classroom series. 

Barry Bluestone, a professor of political economy at Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs was the professor who made these comments. After the event, Northeastern’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs posted a video of the two-hour event to its YouTube page, near the end of the video Bluestone shared his fantasy of seeing Donald Trump leave the presidency, either through impeachment or death. 

“This president that we have is really out of control…sometimes I want to just see him impeached,” Bluestone remarked. “Other times, quite honestly—I hope there are no FBI agents here—I wouldn’t mind seeing him dead. But, actually I don’t wa…” journalist Robert Kuttner, seated next to Bluestone, quickly interjected, supplying the qualifier, “...of natural causes.” 

“Of natural causes,” Bluestone affirmed with a nod to his colleague. “Thank you. Thank you.” At another point during the event, Bluestone referred to Trump as a “plutocratic fascist” 

While many people fled to social media to express their anger of this statement made by a professor, Bluestone did not receive any disciplinary action from his employed Northeastern University. Others have written to Northeastern asking them to fire the professor, there has been no such action at this time.

Olympics: Tally of Medals

The total number of Olympic medals given so far is 38. Norway leads with 9 medals overall, 2 Gold, 4 Silver and 3 Bronze. Germany leads with the amount of Gold medals received which is four. The United States has a total of 4 medals: 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze. 

There have been a few key highlights during this year’s winter Olympics. Red Gerard, the young snowboarder from the U.S. took home a Gold medal after almost finishing at the bottom of the group. Figure skater Mirai Nagasu landed the rare and incredibly difficult triple axel which makes her the first U.S. female figure skater to land the jump during an Olympic competition. Other than that, there have not been many highlights and the ratings are reflecting that. 

The Opening Ceremony had 27.8M viewers. This is a 12 percent drop from the official start of the last Winter Olympics in Sochi. On Saturday, the Olympics coverage drew 19.78 million viewers. That’s down 27% in the demo from the fast affiliates for Sochi’s first day, which preliminarily had 25.03 million viewers.  

Saturday’s viewership on NBC/NBCSN peaked at 25.7 million viewers from 9:45-10 p.m. ET, during Red Gerard’s gold medal performance for Team USA in slopestyle.

Mail Time!

• If someone in my family got hurt by someone that a sanctuary city was protecting, I'd sue the heck out of them. If I can't sue the city, I'd start filing against individuals. A big part of my claim would be about how they didn't fulfill their obligations and sworn duty to protect me or mine as American citizens. I'd take it all the way to the supreme court it needed.
• Why is Jeff Sessions MIA? In the best interest of the country shouldn't he resign and be replaced by a proactive Attorney General?
• Bill, I watched you for many years on Fox but your coverage on the podcast is far superior and uninterrupted. So glad I became a premium member few months ago. Quick question: The FISA Judge who approved the surveillance must surely now have seen all the debate about the Dossier etc.. Doesn't he/she have a responsibility to speak up if there was malfeasance?
• Hello Bill! My name is Tyler, a freshman at Case Western Reserve University and a long-time fan of yours. I'm technically not supposed to say "freshman" because it's "offensive and gendered" -- no surprise that my school was mentioned in Old School: Life in the Sane Lane. I experience the lunacy of college campus culture on a daily basis and was wondering what tips you have for dealing with it. 

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