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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Mitch McConnell: 'Safe To Say' No Action on Garland Nomination

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland met with a key moderate Republican senator Tuesday, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell swiftly issued a reminder that he doesn't plan hearings or a vote on the nomination.

In comments after a private meeting of the Republican conference, McConnell said he is not budging despite an all-out effort from Democrats and progressive activists over the congressional recess to pressure GOP senators -- especially those up for re-election -- to reconsider their opposition to Garland.

"The situation when we broke for the recess two weeks ago was that there were 52 Republican senators who didn't think we needed either hearings or a vote in committee. Today, two weeks later, we have 52 Republicans who think we don't need either hearings or a vote in committee," McConnell told reporters.

"I think it is safe to say there will not be hearings or votes," he added.

His comments came after Republican Sen. Susan Collins was effusive in her praise of Garland after a private meeting with the judge Tuesday and predicted many of her GOP colleagues would feel the same way if they reversed course and decided to meet with him.

Mark Levin Rips #NeverTrump ‘Buffoons’: You Would ‘Passively’ Help Hillary Clinton Win?

Mediaite.com:

You might be a little confused by that headline if you’ve seen some of what Mark Levin has said about Donald Trump recently. He got pretty angry over Trump’s attacks on Ted Cruz and he’s made it clear he has serious problems with the GOP frontrunner.

But he is not on board the #NeverTrump train, like other conservatives are. Despite objections from many that they could not bring themselves morally to vote for Trump, Levin said the stakes are too high.

He declared, “These people are not conservatives, they’re not constitutionalists. They’re frauds, they’re fakes. They’re not brave, they’re asinine! They’re buffoons!”

Levin argued that stopping Trump at the convention is one thing, but refusing to help him, even if it means President Hillary Clinton, is a serious error:

Good to see one conservative Trump-hater making some sense when it comes to Billary.

RELATED: Why Donald Trump's Wisconsin loss only spells greater chaos for the GOP

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Sarah Palin Says She'll Sue Vile Rapper Azealia Banks

Megyn Kelly Discusses Possibility of Leaving Fox News

Mediaite.com:

Fox host Megyn Kelly said she was leaving open the possibility of leaving her network once her contract expires next year.

In an interview with Variety published Tuesday, Kelly discussed Fox’s clashes with Donald Trump over what the candidate has sought to characterize as her poor treatment of him. Kelly maintained that the network was behind her. “Fox News has been in a tough position,” she said. “They care about me and they are not afraid of a fight, but we’re in unchartered territory.”

The (one-sided) feud with Trump began after the very first Republican debate, which aired on Fox in August, when moderator Kelly pressed Trump on his history of crude remarks about women. He has repeatedly blasted her credibility and value as a journalist on Twitter — and even on Kelly’s own network, speaking to Bill O’Reilly. Trump has labeled her “crazy,” “sick,” and “overrated” among other epithets.

Asked if she was planning to stay at Fox following the expiration of her contract, Kelly said she wasn’t sure yet.

I don’t know what’s going to happen. I’ve had a great 12 years here, and I really like working for Roger Ailes. I really like my show, and I love my team. But you know, there’s a lot of brain damage that comes from the job. There was probably less brain damage when I worked in the afternoon. I was less well known. I had far less conflict in my life. I also have three kids who are soon going to be school from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. I come to work at 3:30. I like to see my children. Having said that, my boss has been good about working with me to make me happy–he knows I’m a hard worker. I’ve had few problems here where I couldn’t talk to him and say, “Can we work something out?,” and come away happy.

Kelly also discussed the difficulty she’s had securing an interview with Hillary Clinton (“How can she say she deserves George Washington’s job and not sit with me?”), and how exciting it would be be to cover a brokered GOP convention, saying “It would be a great news story.” For her part, Clinton praised Kelly on The View Tuesday, calling the anchor a “superb journalist.”

I wonder what Bill O'Reilly thinks about Megyn possibly leaving FOX.

RELATED: Hillary Clinton Calls Fox News’ Megyn Kelly ‘Superb Journalist’

Piers Morgan on Michelle Fields Incident: It Was ‘Utterly Tame and Utterly Pointless'

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Rapper Azealia Banks Says Sarah Palin Should Be Gang-Raped By Black Men

Policy.Mic:

Rapper Azealia Banks continues to showcase her talent for putting her foot in her mouth on Twitter, this time calling for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be gang-raped by black men, and for the assault to be filmed and posted on the internet.

"Sarah Palin needs to have her hair shaved off to a buzz cut, get headfucked by a big, veiny, ashy, black dick then be locked in a cupboard," the Broke With Expensive Taste artist, 24, wrote on Twitter. "Hideous. At least suck a nigga dick or something before you start talking shit about 'black people willingly accepting slavery.' Least she can do."

The tweets are now deleted, but Banks appears to have based her vulgar rant on a satirical article from the website Newslo. The satire site states that the former governor said, "I'm telling you, I've been saying it for years, but nobody's listening – slavery wasn't forced onto African-Americans, they accepted it willingly."

The rapper has not yet released an apology.

Hillary Clinton: Unborn Children Don't 'Have Constitutional Rights

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Mississippi Senate: Conservatives of the Week

Why They're the Conservatives of the Week: for passing a common-sense law that protects citizens of the state from the Godless tyranny that is the Gay Mafia. Billed as 'controversial' by the liberal press that advocates for the anti-God Left, on Wednesday, the Mississippi Senate voted to pass the "Protecting Freedom of Conscience From Government Discrimination Act."

The bill says that businesses, social workers and public employees cannot be punished for denying services based on the belief that marriage is between a man and a woman or that "sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage." It also protects individuals who believe gender is determined at birth.

Sounds reasonable to me. By not allowing Christians to be forced into choosing between their conscious and anti-God, man-made laws that are causing some to go bankrupt, be jailed and/or lose their businesses, conservative politicians are standing up against a lying Gay Mafia that only seeks to reign terror on innocent Christians who could care less about who someone chooses to sleep with, but just wish to live their lives with respect to their faiths.

Of course, with Ellen Degeneres-run Gay Mafia being as powerful as it is, who knows if Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant will succumb to pressure from the anti-God Left and veto the bill (as fellow Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal just did) once it reaches his desk, but either way give the Mississippi Senate kudos for attempting to protect the rights of social conservatives and Christians.

Kirby Minnick: Sunday Morning Testimony on It Gets Better with God on Your Side

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Democrat-Run City of Chicago is on Track to Having 500 Homicides for 2016

ChicagoTribune.com:

As the first quarter of 2016 nears an end, violence in Chicago has reached levels unseen in years, putting the city on course to top 500 homicides for only the second time since 2008.

As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, homicides totaled 135, a 71 percent jump over the 79 killings in the same year-earlier period, official Police Department statistics show. That represented the worst first quarter of a year since 136 homicides in 1999, according to the data.

Shootings have jumped by comparable numbers as well. As of Wednesday, at least 727 people had been shot in Chicago so far this year, a 73 percent rise from 422 a year earlier, according to a Tribune analysis of department data.

Worse yet, that jump follows two consecutive years in which shootings rose by double digits, the analysis found. Homicides also rose by about 12.5 percent last year over 2014.

Crime experts caution about making year-to-year comparisons, but Arthur Lurigio, a professor of criminal justice and psychology at Loyola University Chicago, called the escalating violence at the start of the year "alarming."

"We have to go back decades to find jumps of this magnitude in year-to-year comparisons," he said. "We're on our way to 500 homicides again. We're going backward."

Want to get the murder rate in Chicago? Here's an easy solution to its citizens: try something different for once and elect a Republican mayor. It's really not complicated.