Joel B. Pollak - Page 264

Donald Trump has an opportunity to be the “immigration president.” That may seem ironic, or unlikely, given his staunch opposition to illegal immigration, his proposals to restrict Muslim immigration, and his infamous wall on the Mexican border.

The United Nations could take over control of the Internet on October 1, when the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) passes from U.S. administration to the control of a multilateral body, most likely the United Nations International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

With California poised to legalize recreational marijuana through Proposition 64 in November, California’s existing marijuana cultivators in Mendocino County are looking to protect their highest quality buds by applying for wine-style appellations.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has made up significant ground against Hillary Clinton in the past few days in the Reuters/Ipsos poll, where he trailed by 12 points on Tuesday, 45%-33%, but is now behind only 5 points, 41%-36%.

Columnist Charles Krauthammer told Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier on Thursday that Hillary Clinton’s “alt-right” speech earlier in the day in Reno, in which she attacked Breitbart News and tried to link Donald Trump with the Ku Klux Klan, was a failure.

RENO, Nevada — Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton delivered a speech Thursday attacking Donald Trump for what she claims is an association with the “alt-right.” Those who came to hear her at Truckee Meadows Community College, however, had some trouble defining what that term means.

Donald Trump said: “Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.” He is absolutely right.

Huma Abedin, the closest aide to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, helped edit a Muslim journal that published negative statements about Jews, including accusing Jews of “working the American political system” and exploiting the Holocaust.

Hillary Clinton has a new target in her campaign against Donald Trump: Breitbart News. Her goal is not just to use Breitbart as a political foil, but to shut the site down entirely.

Former Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lisa Jackson will co-host a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Silicon Valley on Tuesday night. Like Clinton, Jackson is at the center of an email scandal.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has claimed that she told the truth to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when she was interviewed last month about her private email server and her mis-handling of classified information.

Al Sharpton has been a minor player in the Black Lives Matter chaos, but returned to his divisive habits last weekend with an op-ed in the New York Daily News on the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots, casting Jews as the aggressors.

Hillary Clinton has not done one good thing for Israel. And while Donald Trump is a newcomer to politics and foreign policy, his positions already make him a far better candidate.

The media have enjoyed every single one of the naked Donald Trump statues that have appeared in public squares in several major cities. Curiously, however, no naked Hillary Clinton statues have appeared. And it is not difficult to imagine the reason.

In an article Friday by Chemi Shalev, the newspaper claims: “Breitbart and other Jews working for his website exemplified the kind of radical right wing Jews who hate their liberal co-religionists most of all: in many ways, they are auto-anti-Semites.”

Hillary Clinton has falsely accused Breitbart News of antisemitism. Let’s look at the most antisemitic things Hillary Clinton and her campaign have said and done.

Not even Clinton’s best defenders can name one thing she has done for Israel. She has embraced the antisemitic Black Lives Matter movement, which accuses Israel of “genocide.” And she not only supported the Iran deal, but also chose a running mate who boycotted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 2015 speech against it.

On Wednesday, the Hillary Clinton campaign published a blog post suggesting that Breitbart News subscribed to the so-called “Birther” theory, which holds that President Barack Obama was born outside the U.S., not in Hawaii.

Brian Stelter of CNN’s Reliable Sources joined New Day on Monday morning to discuss Breitbart News as part of a panel in which all four guests agreed with each other: Breitbart is baaaaad.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto said Tuesday that he is willing to meet with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump — whom he earlier likened to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol revived charges of antisemitism against Breitbart News on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Wednesday, saying the site should rename itself “right-wing intolerant mean-spirited news.”

President Barack Obama is determined to give away control of the Internet within two months — one of the worst blunders in the history of national security, economic policy, and the fight for liberty generally.

In June, Hillary Clinton warned that Donald Trump was a would-be dictator who could not be trusted with the powers of the presidency. “Imagine if he had not just Twitter and cable news to go after his critics and opponents, but also the IRS, or for that matter our entire military,” she said. “Given what we have seen and heard, do any of us think he’d be restrained?”

Cartoonist-turned-pundit Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, told Breitbart News in an interview on Sunday that the mysterious “Godzilla” of persuasion, to whom he ascribes Hillary Clinton’s polling success, is behavioral psychologist Robert Cialdini.

Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father-turned-Democrat operative, has challenged Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to take the naturalization test that all legal immigrants must take to become U.S. citizens.

In a speech on foreign policy and radical Islam delivered Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that new immigrants would be expected to assimilate to American culture — not the other way around.

Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, who has gained new fame for his predictions and analysis of the 2016 presidential race, told Breitbart News on Sunday that growing violence in America benefits Hillary Clinton at Donald Trump’s expense.

Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist-turned-pundit, told Breitbart News in an interview Sunday evening that Donald Trump could still win the 2016 presidential race — but that if Trump’s current approach persists, he will lose.

The press is abuzz with the left-wing conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is secretly a Russian agent, while ignoring Clinton’s Russia ties.

It is difficult, at this point, to say who started the it. What you believe probably depends on whom you support. One thing is quite certain: our leaders made it worse.

The California Highway Patrol is being hailed for its rapid response — in delivering a baby on Saturday in a broken-down truck.

Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father-turned-political operative who berated Donald Trump from the podium at the Democratic National Convention last month, is calling on Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to renounce the Republican presidential nominee.

Alan Dershowitz, the renowned civil libertarian, defense lawyer, and Democrat, has called on political leaders to cut ties with the Black Lives Matter movement until it rescinds its anti-Israel platform, which accuses the Jewish state of “genocide.”

Democrats struggle to name a single thing Hillary Clinton has done for Israel in decades of political life. But it is easy to find several anti-Israel things Clinton has done.

On Thursday, the appropriations committees of the California State Assembly and State Senate quietly passed or rejected nearly 500 pending bills, spending just a few second on each, with little public debate — but after plenty of lobbyist input.

Appeasement fails because once you have traded away the means and the will to resist, the first surrender is never the last.