Monthly Archives: March 2018

OKLAHOMA: State Senate Invocation Pastor Blames Parkland Massacre On Same-Sex Marriage [VIDEO]

This took unusually long. Oklahoma City’s CBS affiliate reports: The pastor who presided over the morning prayer and devotion in the state Senate is generating some anger. He suggested recent natural disasters and man-made tragedies like the Florida school shooting are the result of God’s wrath over, among other things, gay marriage. “Jacob (Nikolas) Cruz, February the 14th, went into …

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Nor’Easter Stalls Over Northeast: 1.6 Million Without Power, Amtrak Suspended, Hurricane-Force Winds

The Associated Press reports: More than 1.6 million homes and businesses are without power amid a winter storm stalled over the eastern U.S. From North Carolina to Maine and westward to Michigan, the storm has felled trees, downed power lines and blown down buildings under construction. The most outages are in Pennsylvania, where 376,000 homes and businesses had no power …

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CNN Recaps White House’s “Hot Mess” Week [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: You aren’t alone if you’re having trouble keeping track of all that happened this week in Washington. At the top of this afternoon’s The Lead, CNN’s Jake Tapper valiantly attempted to recap this week’s big news while issuing a disclaimer that something else may break within the hour to overtake an already overstuffed news cycle. “Chaos has been …

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Orrin Hatch Apologizes For “Off-Color” Comment Calling Obamacare Supporters “Stupid Dumbass People”

The Hill reports: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on Friday apologized for calling supporters of ObamaCare “the stupidest, dumbass people I’ve ever met.” “Yesterday, I made a poorly worded joke about Obamacare supporters — a joke that was not reflective of my actual feelings towards my friends on the other side,” Hatch said in a statement. “Throughout my term of service, …

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UTAH: Republicans Record Rap Clip On Legislative Process And It’s Worse Than You Would Think [VIDEO]

Somehow I missed this yesterday. The Washington Post reports: Utah has never been known as a launchpad for hip-hop music, and if a mock rap video released by a group of state lawmakers is any indication, there’s a good reason for that. The state’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives released a video ostensibly meant to educate citizens about how a bill …

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Roy Moore Issues Money Beg: My Resources Have Been Depleted Fighting The Incontinent Forces Of Sodomy

Posted today to Roy Moore’s Facebook page: The liberal media, in association with some who want to destroy our Country do not want my influence in the 2018 elections and are doing everything they can to stop me. Gays, lesbians, and transgenders have joined forces with those who believe in abortion, sodomy, and destruction of all that we hold dear. …

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Anti-Gay Oregon Bakers Appeal To State Supreme Court

Portland’s ABC affiliate reports: An appeal has been filed with the Oregon Supreme Court in hopes of overturning a $135,000 penalty given to the owners of a Gresham bakery who refused to bake a cake for a gay couple. The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a decision by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries to penalize owners of Sweet …

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Only 13 NRA Members Ever Used Their Delta Discount

USA Today reports: How many airline passengers does it take to kill a $40 million tax break for Delta Air Lines? 13. The Georgia legislature removed a jet-fuel tax break from a larger tax package Thursday. Lawmakers were upset that Delta, which is headquartered in Atlanta, dropped the National Rifle Association from a discount-fare program in an effort to appear …

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Fox News Exec Who Penned Anti-Gay Column Resigns

CNN reports: John Moody, the longtime Fox News executive who wrote a controversial column about the US Olympic committee last month, is no longer with Fox News, three people familiar with the matter told CNN. A Fox News spokesperson confirmed the news, telling CNN, “John Moody has retired from Fox News.” In February, Moody wrote an inflammatory op-ed that skewered …

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Faye Dunaway And Warren Beatty To Reprise Oscars Gig

TMZ reports: After the real-life disaster at last year’s Oscars, the Academy feels the best way to make sure the proper people accept the award for Best Picture — bring back the ones who screwed it up … because TMZ has learned Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway will do the honors again!!! Our Oscar sources tell us Warren and Faye …

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Brutal Nor’Easter Forces 2100+ Flight Cancellations

The Associated Press reports: A major nor’easter pounded the East Coast on Friday, packing heavy rain, intermittent snow and strong winds as residents from the mid-Atlantic to Maine braced for coastal flooding. More than 2,100 flights were canceled by airlines, most spread across airports in the Northeast. The Eastern Seaboard was expected to be buffeted by wind gusts exceeding 50 …

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Trump Regularly Calls GOP Reps After Their State TV Appearances To Offer Compliments And Advice

Business Insider reports: After one of Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz’s first appearances on cable news, he got a call from someone offering some advice. “Don’t let people talk over you,” President Donald Trump told Gaetz, the Florida congressman recalled in a recent interview. From one of his biggest fans, Gaetz has received compliments on a new haircut, backup on an …

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Scamvangelist Lori Bakker: Liberals Really Want To Lock Up All Christians In “Mental Illness Centers” [VIDEO]

After comedian Joy Behar mocked Mike Pence for claiming that God directly speaks to him, Jim Bakker’s wife Lori has decided that liberals want to throw all Christians in the loony bin. Kyle Mantyla has the quote at Right Wing Watch: “If the world is thinking that we’re all mentally ill, do you know what’s going to happen next? They …

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Trump Insider Dumped $31M In Steel Stock Last Week

ThinkProgress reports: Billionaire investor and longtime Trump confidant Carl Icahn dumped $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, just days before Trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on steel imports. In a little-noticed SEC filing submitted on February 22, 2018, Icahn disclosed that he systematically sold off nearly 1 million shares of Manitowoc …

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Nunes Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Leaked Texts

ABC News reports: A government watchdog group filed a new ethics complaint against House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes and majority committee staff on Thursday following a report that Senate investigators have determined House Republicans leaked private text messages related to the ongoing probe of Russian election interference. According to the New York Times, the leaders of the Senate Intelligence …

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BREAKING: Active Shooter At Michigan University, Multiple Injuries, Two Dead, Campus On Lockdown

Story developing. The Detroit Free Press reports: Police are responding to reports of shots fired at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant this morning. According to 9&10 News, a text was sent to students alerting them of reports of shots fired near the 4th floor of Campbell Hall, a co-ed dorm. The college’s school of humanities and behaviorial sciences also …

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Trump: Trade Wars Are Good And Easy To Win

CNBC reports: Even if new tariffs on steel and aluminum spark an international trade war, President Donald Trump is confident the United States would come out on top. Trump announced Thursday that he will impose 25 percent tariff on steel and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum as early as next week in an effort to force partners into “fairer” …

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NRA Flack: We Just Met With Trump And He Supports Strong Due Process, Doesn’t Want Gun Control

The New York Post reports: President Trump and an NRA executive had a “good (great)” meeting at the White House on Thursday — one day after Trump told lawmakers to take people’s guns away and “go through due process second.” Trump met with the head of the National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm, who stated after the Oval Office sit-down that …

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Laura Ingraham Blames Parkland On Obama [VIDEO]

From Laura Ingraham’s website LifeZette: “The Obama bureaucrats incentivized Broward [County] … awarding the district nearly $54 million in grants,” host Laura Ingraham explained. “School administrators were basically paid to deal with student crime in-house and keep the cops off the premises.” “By turning Broward schools and those across the nation into these social justice petri dishes, they may have …

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Tucker Carlson Rips Trump: If Obama Said To Ignore Due Process, We’d Have Called Him A Dictator [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: After criticizing the president for expressing support for a raise in the age limit to buy guns — calling that proposal “sneaky propaganda” that won’t save lives — he then took issue with Trump suggesting some lawmakers are puppets of the NRA. That is when he brought up POTUS’s “due process” line. “Now, I mean, how honest do …

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