Roy Moore Loses in Alabama
Democrat Doug Jones has won the special election to fill a Senate seat in Alabama. This is a shocking upset in a solidly Republican state. The Associated Press called the race on Monday at 10:23p.m. Eastern time.
There were about 1.2 million votes cast and Moore lost by 20,000. He lost because many Republicans did not come out to vote.
This win makes Jones the first Democrat to be elected to the United States Senate in Alabama in 25 years. Moore refused to concede defeat in Tuesday's special election, telling supporters "it is not over" and called for a recount.
"We realize that when the vote is this close that it's not over," Moore told supporters at his campaign headquarters in Montgomery.
FBI Agents on Russia Probe Called Trump an 'Idiot'
Hundreds of text messages were released overnight between two FBI officials who worked on Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. The messages show two agents exchanging a steady stream of anti-Trump feelings and even discussing how to “protect the country from that menace.”
The texts were released to the House Judiciary Committee ahead of a hearing Wednesday with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
Peter Strzok, who was an FBI counterintelligence agent, was reassigned to the FBI’s human resources division after the discovery of the exchanges with Lisa Page, with whom he was having an affair.
The Justice Department has been reviewing thousands of their messages in recent days, turning over roughly 375 to the committee. The messages that have been released so far, are from August 2015 to December 2016.
In a message that Strzok sent to Page he said, “God Hillary should win 100,000,000 – 0.”
How can the FBI agent, second in command in the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation say that? This investigation has got to be shut it down!
The Mainstream Media Still Hates President Trump
The media have approached the Trump presidency with unrelenting hostility. The Media Research Center’s latest numbers show that coverage of Trump on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from June 1st to November 30th, were 91 percent negative.
In September, the 3 evening newscasts showed there were 31 positive stories about the Trump Administration and 359 negative stories about the Trump Administration. In October, those same evening newscasts showed 41 positive stories about the Trump Administration and 435 negative stories about the Trump Administration. And, in November, the 3 evening newscasts showed 33 positive stories about the Trump Administration and 320 negative stories about the Trump Administration.
This shows that TV news is unchanged in its hostility toward the President.
Now, when you take into consideration that the economy has been very good in the last six months, that 91 percent is just stunning. It goes to show you that there will never be a balance, no one will be going to search for the truth. Their attitude is "get him (President Trump) out of there."
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
House and Senate Republicans have come to a preliminary final agreement on their compromise tax bill. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, is in a conference committee to iron out discrepancies between the House and Senate versions of the legislation.
The compromise bill would cut the corporate tax rate to 21 percent instead of 20 percent in the original bills, but still much lower than the current 35 percent rate.
The bill would also lower the top individual tax rate to 37 percent from the current 39.6 percent a more generous cut than the Senate bill proposed originally.
It will pass the House easily and most likely the Senate.
Fordham University Coffee Shop Boots MAGA Hat-Wearing College Republicans
Fordham University in New York City is investigating Rodrigue’s Coffee House, a campus coffee shop, after a student volunteer working at the shop was caught on video telling a group of College Republicans to remove their pro-Trump “Make America Great Again” hats or leave.
The video which was obtained by Campus Reform showed a woman claiming to be the president of Rodrigue’s Coffee House telling a group of College Republicans that their MAGA hats violated the club’s “safe space” policy and they had five minutes to leave. “I am protecting my customers,” the woman yelled in the video.
Fordham junior Aaron Spring, 20, says he just wanted a cup of coffee. “I didn’t make any noise,” he said, according to “Fox & Friends.” “I wasn’t rude. I didn’t curse at anybody. I was just sitting enjoying a cup of coffee with friends.”
The students reminded the woman that they, too, were paying customers, to which she responded, “I don’t want people like you supporting this club. No one here wants people like you supporting our club.”
The woman went on to tell the students that their hats represented “fascism” and “Nazis,” which violated the coffee shop’s safe space policy. She was also seen trying to yank a hat out of one of the students’ hands.
The whole campus was in an uproar and the president of the college had to step in. The president of Fordham is a priest named Father Joseph McShane. He's a Jesuit. He published the following statement on this madness.
"Rather than try to shield students from the world's sharp edges, I hope and believe that a Fordham education can and should make them more resilient and better prepared intellectually, morally, and spiritually, to engage the world on their own terms. I want to say this as well: I have heard and seen hateful rhetoric aimed at both sides in this dispute, including rhetoric from members of the Fordham community. This is wrong. If your aim is to have your ideas prevail, name calling and cheap provocations will not enable you to achieve that goal. If you write or speak to wound, you are not in touch with the better angels of your nature. Moreover, you should know that such a way of proceeding not only hurts your intended target but also damages your own credibility. To speak hatefully, to provoke, to cause pain, is not what we teach, espouse, or value at Fordham. It is not a sign of leadership. It is not, to put it mildly, in line with the gospel. That kind of speech has no place at a university and especially not at a Jesuit university nor in a democracy."
That's a brilliant lesson for everybody, not just Fordham students. The hateful garbage that we are seeing here in America on a daily basis has a lot of people worried.
Mail Time!
- “O'Reilly, you were spot on with the media resistance movement going straight to the women topic since the Russia story seems to be not resonating and tax reforms are in progress. It's a shame that more people cannot see what's happening in this country.”
- “What's the real reason the left and the mainstream media are so vehemently against Trump?”
- “Bill, I appreciate your advice to Sarah Sanders and hope she'll try waiting to the end of a question to rip the press a new one. She's great in her role, born for it, I'd say. But she does tend to jump out and cut off difficult questions.”
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