Maxine Waters inconsolable.

Via Politico:

Donald Trump’s description of himself as a “very stable genius” sparked new debate this weekend about the 25th Amendment, but invoking the provision to remove a president from office is so difficult that it’s highly unlikely to come into play over concerns about Trump’s mental health, a half-dozen lawyers with expertise on the measure said.

The amendment’s language on what could lead a president to be involuntarily removed from office is spare, saying simply that the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet could take such a step when “the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”

“I think it’s both its strength and its weakness,” said Jay Berman, a former chief of staff to Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), who helped craft the amendment in the 1960s. “The answer is not provided in the 25th Amendment…It just does not provide that certainty or specificity. That might be easier in the context of physical incapacity, but it would be a lot harder in the case of mental incapacity.”

The galvanizing event behind the 25th Amendment has always been clear: President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the ensuing realization that the nation had no obvious recourse if Kennedy had survived but been unable to fully function. The amendment has drawn attention only occasionally in the intervening years, and no one has ever made a serious attempt to use it to remove a president.

Part of a secret Zionist plot.

Via Guardian:

Iran has banned the teaching of English in primary schools, a senior education official has said, after Islamic leaders warned that early learning of the language opened the way to a western “cultural invasion”.

“Teaching English in government and non-government primary schools in the official curriculum is against laws and regulations,” Mehdi Navid-Adham, head of the state-run high education council, told state television.

“The assumption is that in primary education the groundwork for the Iranian culture of the students is laid,” he said.

The teaching of English usually starts in middle school in Iran, at the ages of 12 to 14, but some primary schools below that age also have English classes.

Some children also attend private language institutes after their school day, while children from more privileged families attending non-government schools receive English tuition.

One-trick pony.

Heh.

Unhinged.

Move over, Nancy, we’ve found the new face of the Democratic party.

Via Washington Examiner:

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., on Wednesday tweeted a poem about special counsel Robert Mueller jailing members of the Trump campaign.

“A message to Mueller: Stay strong and stand tall. Continue to investigate them all. You are indeed answering the people’s call. The Kremlin Klan is going to fall. Around you the Democrats are building a wall. We look forward to the day, to prison they will all be hauled,” the California Democrat said on Twitter Wednesday afternoon.

Mueller was appointed in May to lead the Department of Justice’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.

Though Trump has called the investigation a “witch hunt” and GOP lawmakers have accused the probe as being politically biased, the White House has made it clear on numerous occasions that Mueller will not be removed from the position.

A role model ignored by the black community.

Via Daily Caller:

Justice Clarence Thomas is in his 27th term in the U.S. Supreme Court, and he agreed to become the 341st leader interviewed for my Daily Caller News Foundation series.

Now at age 69, he is looking back on his life with gratitude and discernment with valuable lessons for others.

People often want to define you by the bad things that happen in your life, he says, but there has been so much good amidst the challenges he told me, his wife, in this exclusive interview for TheDCNF.

From a life that launched from economic deprivation, illiteracy, family dysfunction and even time as a radical leftist, his accomplishments now reach to the U.S. Supreme Court — where he faces constant vilification and defamation. He says he learned the value of humility, patience, and persistence, but the bedrock of his rules for living came from simple aphorisms from his illiterate grandfather.

At a young age, he learned how to build bridges and find something in common with other people, be it sports, a hobby, religion or experiences, rather than focusing on differences and divisions. “Everyone has inherent value and is worth listening to,” he believes.

Looking back, he credits divine providence for the path of his life. From the burning of a house, to being raised by his grandparents, to the nuns who taught in Savannah’s inner city, to attending the seminary and to getting his first job with Missouri Attorney General Jack Danforth who was interviewing at Yale. Nothing could have foreseen his sitting on the Supreme Court today.

Faith, he says, gives him “the strength to do what I have to do every day, to assert the independence, to be willing to take the beatings, the criticism, the unfairness.” When he attends daily mass, he says, it helps him do his “job, a secular job, in the right way and for the right reasons.” It reminds him that his work has nothing to do with what is said about him, but is rather about doing what he took an oath to do.

Justice Thomas frequently turns to the “Litany of Humility,” which helps focus and insulate him from the distractions, criticisms, or praise that can come from this world. In his view, what really matters is whether you do what you are called to do.

As we talked about the biggest blessings of his life, he named being born in America, his faith, his son, and our marriage. He also spoke of his love of University of Nebraska athletics, motor homing over the last 18 years through “fly over country,” and the gift of being able to read. When you grow up surrounded by illiteracy with adults asking, “What this paper say?” reading becomes a true blessing. “It is like Christmas every day” when he reads.

On inter-racial marriage he says, “if I were more progressive or liberal it [our marriage] would be considered progressive to be in an inter-racial marriage, but if you are not, then you are selling out.” He adds, “I don’t think of it as some statement. You’re my wife.”

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Shocker.

Via The Hill:

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, a fierce critic of President Trump, tweeted his support on Monday for Oprah Winfrey for president in 2020.

Kristol, a “Never Trump” Republican, tweeted that he believed Winfrey’s well-received speech on Sunday night at the Golden Globes was an indication she’s preparing to run for the White House.

Kristol then took-up the hashtag “ImWithHer” — once used by supporters of Hillary Clinton — to highlight his support for Winfrey’s worldview.

In an email, Kristol said the tweets were “tongue in cheek.”

“Though if she runs, couldn’t she win the Democratic nomination and the general election?” he added. “And wouldn’t she be a better president than Trump?”

Kristol recruited challengers to Trump in 2016 and if a Republican primary challenger to Trump does not materialize in 2020, it is not a stretch to think that he might support the Democrat in the race. Kristol often criticizes the president and believes he’s a threat to the nation.
In his series of tweets, Kristol mentioned a number of possible other Democratic hopefuls.

Now says he has an A+ agenda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-9V22Yzs8Aew

Via Daily Wire:

According to a report from NBC News, initial talks are underway between the President’s attorneys and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, to have the President testify in Mueller’s ongoing probe into whether Russian officials meddled in the 2016 Presidential election.

The report indicates that Trump’s team feels talks with Mueller and his team of FBI investigators are inevitable, so they’re trying to make the interview as comfortable as possible for the President and define the interview’s parameters at the outset. The Presidents attorneys are also hoping that Trump can respond to a set of written interrogatories, rather than undergo a sit-down interview.

Attorneys for Trump, however, haven’t given in to the idea that the President must sit down with Mueller and his team. They are said to be seeking “potential compromises” that would help the President “avoid an interview altogether” according to sources close to the process, including having the President sign a simple affidavit affirming that he was not involved in any talks between campaign workers and Russian officials.

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Even if he did it, Democrats still wouldn’t believe it and would twist it.

Via Daily Caller:

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough thinks the GOP should push President Donald Trump to get a psychological “exam” and have psychiatrists deem him fit for office, according to a Monday “Morning Joe” segment.

“I’m wondering if there are any patriots in the Republican Party willing to step forward, worried about the next two or three vital years, and at least force this president to get an exam. Not just physical,” Scarborough said.

His co-host and fiancé, Mika Brzezinski, finished the sentence with “neuro-pysch.”

Scarborough agreed and said Trump should seek an “independent evaluation” to prove his critics wrong.

“Yeah, to see if all of the experts and all of the psychiatrists who fear that he is exhibiting signs of a failing mental state — and I’m just wondering whether the Republicans in Congress and whether people around him can say Mr. President, why don’t you just prove your critics wrong? Why don’t get an independent evaluation?” Scarborough said.

Via Free Beacon:

TV talk-show host Oprah Winfrey is mulling a presidential run after delivering a well-received speech at the 2018 Golden Globes on Sunday, according to a new report.

After receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement, Winfrey spoke about the importance of the #MeToo movement, the need for gender equality, and heralded the need to resist tyranny and support an independent press.

“I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights,” she said.

The speech sparked open discussion among many liberals that Winfrey might be a strong 2020 presidential candidate.

“Call me @oprah. I’ve got some Iowa county chairs who would love to hear from you,” tweeted Brad Anderson, who served as Barack Obama’s Iowa spokesman in 2008 before running the former president’s entire Iowa operation in 2012.

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And Ally Sheedy took the opportunity to call out James Franco on Twitter.

Via NY Post:

And the award for ultimate hypocrisy goes to . . . the Hollywood class of 2018.

This year’s Golden Globes were meant to be a defiant, vibrant celebration of a post-Weinstein industry, an awards ceremony about so much more than meaningless awards. We were promised a reckoning, the leveling of a male-dominated industry that institutionalized the rape, abuse and harassment of women for decades.

Like so much Hollywood product, advance buzz was greatly exaggerated. Not one actor or actress, on the red carpet or on stage, made direct reference to their industry’s greatest monster — the one they boast of slaying yet still want to appease.

Host Seth Meyers, in his opening monologue, was the only person in the room to mention him by name.

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The regret the next morning after the Golden Globes, with the drinking and the after parties, someone discovers “oops!”

Hey, NBC, when there doing tweets for your account, they work for you, you can’t put distance between them and you.

DEVELOPING: Fire at New York City's Trump Tower; aerial views show firefighters on the roof pic.twitter.com/LBqYMCa1kG

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 8, 2018

The fire appears to have been related to the cooling unit.

These disgusting people forget that there are other people in the building. But hey, why let that interfere with their Trump Derangement syndrome.

But everything turned out okay.

And just as counterpoint, while conservatives joked about the Clintons burning evidence when there was a fire at their home, there was none of this.

HT: Twitchy

Another show where the Hollywood moonbats give each other participation trophies.

Via Breitbart:

Street artist Sabo has apparently trolled Hollywood celebrities arriving for Sunday night’s Golden Globes in Los Angeles with artwork implying that many of them knew about widespread allegations of sexual misconduct in the entertainment industry, and did nothing to act.

Photos posted on social media show the art, which consists of several pieces including a mock poster featuring this year’s Globes host, late-night host Seth Meyers, as well as a fake “Stop” sign that urges a stop to “Pedophiles,” “Perverts,” and “Rapists.”

The art also includes a bench that had been modified to include a photo of disgraced film producer Harvey Weinstein dressed as a god-like figure, an apparent reference to actress Meryl Streep calling the producer “God” during an acceptance speech at the 2012 Golden Globes. Weinstein has since been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women, including several A-list actresses.

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HT: AlyOop

Note to libs: I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Oprah is not your savior.

Beyond badass.

Via Mirror:

An elite SAS soldier cut off an ISIS fighter’s head with a spade after he ran out of ammunition during a bloody six-hour battle, it was claimed.

After killing the jihadist, the British sergeant used the enemy’s gun to kill more militants.

The brutal battle is said to have occurred six weeks ago in war-torn Afghanistan.

The British special forces unit was ambushed by ISIS gunmen and took refuge in a farm where the soldiers fended off the insurgents with their rifles and anything at hand, it was reported.

Keeping the narrative alive.

Via Newsweek:

So much extra water is being added into the world’s oceans from melting glaciers that the ocean floor is sinking underneath its increasing weight. This ocean floor deformation also means we have miscalculated just how much ocean levels are rising and the problem could be far worse than previously believed.

Over the past 20 years, ocean basins have sunk an average of 0.004 inches per year. This means that the ocean is 0.08 inches deeper than it was two decades ago. While this small fragment of an inch may not seem much, oceans cover 70 percent of our planet, making the problem bigger than it seems at an initial glance.

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HT: JWF

Ruling with feelings from the bench.

Via Law Newz:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday launched a review of a little-known but widely used practice of immigration judges closing cases without decisions, potentially reshaping immigration courts and putting hundreds of thousands of people in greater legal limbo.

Sessions posed detailed questions challenging the use of “administrative closures,” an increasingly common outcome that allows people to stay in the country without legal status. The attorney general invited feedback from advocates and others, after which time he may issue new instructions for immigration judges nationwide.

Administrative closures have been a lifeline to immigrants who apply for citizenship, permanent residency or other visas, shielding them from deportation while their petitions are vetted. But critics say judges too often let people stay in the country longer than they should in a sort of legal purgatory.

About 350,000 cases are administratively closed, and the Justice Department said 180,000 cases were closed in four years of the Obama administration, more than in the previous 22 years. In 2012, the department’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that neither Homeland Security Department attorneys seeking to deport someone nor the immigrant trying to stay could stop a judge from closing a case, paving the way for the increase.

Immigration judges are employees of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for Immigration Review, giving the attorney general broad oversight powers even as they assert independence. Sessions, a former U.S. senator from Alabama and immigration hardliner, signaled last month that he planned to be heavily involved in setting policies aimed at reducing a court backlog of 650,000 cases and deciding cases more quickly, and Friday’s announcement was a step in that direction.

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