But if you just listened to media, you would think it was, when Bush, Obama and Clinton did actual connected pardons and commutations.
Via Fox News:
Washington Examiner contributor Byron York said on Monday that the commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence was not unprecedented, despite what many critics have claimed.
“In the past, presidents have commuted sentences or pardoned people in their administration they felt have been targeted by unfair investigations,” York told “America’s Newsroom.”
York said that former President George H.W. Bush pardoned five people who had been convicted or pleaded guilty in the Iran-Contra affair.
“With Bill Clinton, he pardoned people who were involved in Whitewater, especially Susan McDougal, his old business partner who had been convicted of corruption and after that conviction, the independent counsel Ken Starr suggested that she could get a lighter sentence if she testified against Bill Clinton,” York said.
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Nickarama | July 13, 2020 12:32 pm | Comments
There are no words. At least none I can use here that Zip will let me….
Rob | July 13, 2020 11:33 am | Comments
Person of color tasers a person of color. What’s he going to say now?
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Horrific.
Rob | July 12, 2020 10:13 pm | Comments
Ireland doesn’t play. Police had to rescue them.
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Via Fox News:
Many took to social media to express their displeasure with Goya Foods CEO Robert Unanue after he praised President Trump at a White House event on Thursday, but others are flipping the narrative and calling for a Goya Foods “buy-cott.”
“My brother came up with a terrific idea and I am encouraging all to join me in purchasing $10 worth of Goya Foods products and donating them to your local food bank,” self-described “conservatarian” radio host Mike Opelka wrote on Twitter. “Let’s push a BUY-cott, not a boycott. Let’s show the #Goyaway people what compassion can do.
Opelka’s post received 27,000 likes.
“Go out today and buy your Goya foods,” Fox News host Mark Levin wrote on Twitter.
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Nickarama | July 12, 2020 6:03 pm | Comments
Seriously? And this is a country that’s supposed to care about liberty?
Via Daily Wire:
Back in early June, reports swirled that New Zealand had beaten back the COVID-19 pandemic.
“New Zealand Hits Zero Active Coronavirus Cases,” U.S. News & World Report wrote June 8.
“Today, for the first time since February 28, New Zealand has no active cases of COVID-19. According to our modeling, it is now very likely (well above a 95% chance) New Zealand has completely eliminated the virus,” wrote Michael Baker and Nick Wilson, described as “two of the key epidemiologists who worked on New Zealand’s elimination strategy.”
On Sunday, the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering said the island nation had had just 1,544 confirmed cases and 22 deaths.
But it turns out there’s something else going on in New Zealand.
“A leading epidemiologist says ‘thousands of people’ will be quarantined in isolation facilities for months — and possibly years — into the future,” reported NewsHub, a New Zealand news site.
“We’re going to have thousands of people sitting in these facilities, quarantined in isolation facilities for months, maybe years ahead. Sensible risk management says when a mistake happens you figure out what went wrong, and you improve the system,” he told the site.
Baker’s remarks come amid reports that New Zealanders are breaking out of their facilities.
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Nickarama | July 12, 2020 4:33 pm | Comments
I’m sure that’s why there’s been an incredible rise in shootings in NYC.
Via Washington Examiner:
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed during a virtual town hall that the increase in crime in New York City could be because residents don’t have enough money to pay rent and are forced to shoplift.
Ocasio-Cortez held a virtual town hall meeting Thursday that was broadcast from her official Facebook account and took questions from her constituents, which included inquiries about the recent spikes in crimes.
“Do we think this has to do with the fact that there’s record unemployment in the United States right now? The fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession?” the New York Democrat said.
“Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren’t paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent and so they go out, and they need to feed their child and they don’t have money so … they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry.”
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This guy was probably looking for bread, and the victim and his little daughter just got in the way in AOC’s district.
Warning graphic.
Nickarama | July 12, 2020 4:05 pm | Comments
Via NY Post:
A film school in California is canceling its John Wayne exhibit due to what administrators are calling the late actor’s history of bigoted and homophobic statements.
The School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California announced last week that it was removing the indoor exhibit, which featured archival photos and movie costumes, props and memorabilia.
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Rob | July 12, 2020 3:33 pm | Comments
Via CBS:
Fire crews are responding to a fire and explosion onboard a Navy ship at Naval Base San Diego which injured several sailors Sunday morning, according to authorities. A three-alarm fire on the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) was reported at 8:51 a.m. at the base located on 32nd Street, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. San Diego is the ship’s homeport.
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Rob | July 12, 2020 2:59 pm | Comments
Via CNA:
A Florida man lit a Catholic Church aflame on Saturday, while people inside prepared for morning Mass.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office reported July 11 that deputies were called at about 7:30 am to Queen of Peace Catholic Church in Ocala, while parishioners inside prepared for morning Mass.
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Rob | July 12, 2020 2:49 pm | Comments
Oh well.
Via Daily Wire:
Democratic Governor Tim Walz responded to President Donald Trump’s decision to reject his $500 million bailout request for the damage caused by the weeks-long violent rioting in Minneapolis in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
Gov. Waltz was widely criticized for his slow reaction to the violence, particularly by President Trump.
“Walz, a Democrat, requested that Trump declare Minnesota a ‘major disaster’ zone in a request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency on July 2 after more than 1,500 buildings were damaged by looting and rioting in the wake of Floyd’s death, totaling over $500 million in damages,” The Washington Examiner reported.
The Democrat says he is “disappointed” in Trump’s rejection of the financial aid.
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Nickarama | July 12, 2020 1:39 pm | Comments
It’s part of the presidential seal, created long before the Nazis.
It’s part of Nancy Pelosi’s seal. But they’d never do an article about her like that.
Not to mention a boatload of other things.
The problem is not just that they want to attack Trump, the problem is also that they’re so ignorant of American history and easily manipulated.
“Worth noting,” unreal.
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Those that went through it before can see it happening again.
Via Townhall:
Cuban immigrant Maximo Alvarez issued a stark warning to Americans last week during a roundtable meeting last week with President Donald Trump. According to Alvarez, the President of Sunshine Gasoline, the American Dream is at risk of being destroyed by the Left. The tactics that are being used are the same ones he saw in Communist Cuba when he was 11-years-old.
“We come over here, in my case because my parents chose that I would not be indoctrinated by the communist country, by the totalitarian country, by the totalitarian regime. They don’t educate children. Absolutely not. And this is something that we need to understand. What is happening in our backyard today, I experienced as an 11-year-old. I remember vividly all the promises that a guy named Castro gave, and how 99 percent of the people swallowed the pill,” he warned. “It took many years later, after I read somebody named Saul Alinsky, that I realized that all those people were nothing but useful idiots. I remember Castro while in the mountains being interviewed and asked if he was a communist. He went crazy. … He was going to save Cuba. I remember how he promised to the farmers, to the wahitos that you’re going to own the land. I remember all the promises that we hear today about free education and free health care and free land.”
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Nickarama | July 12, 2020 11:42 am | Comments
