[Washington Examiner] The depositions given by former British spy Christopher Steele and a longtime associate of John McCain must be unsealed, a federal judge said Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge Ursula Ungaro overruled the objections of both Steele and David Kramer to make the depositions public. The pair gave testimony in a lawsuit brought against BuzzFeed in December 2018 by a Russian Internet entrepreneur.
The businessman, Aleksej Gubarev, was referenced in the infamous dossier compiled by Steele about President Trump’s alleged connections to Russia. Gubarev objected to BuzzFeed’s publishing of the dossier in January 2017, which accused him of using his companies to hack into computers owned by the Democratic National Committee.
[The Hill] The federal government should expand ObamaCare subsidies for low income people to reduce premiums, a health insurance group said Thursday.
According to the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), expanding the tax credits to give more financial assistance would help reduce premiums and ensure more people get covered.
The proposal would also impose a cap on how much a household can spend on premiums, so coverage would be more affordable.
The group also wants to create a national reinsurance program to reduce premiums by helping insurance companies pay claims for high-cost patients.
The proposal echoes past stalled legislative efforts to stabilize the ObamaCare markets, and comes the day after House Democrats introduced "Medicare for all" legislation.
A bill introduced in 2017 by Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) would have funded a reinsurance program and three years of the subsidies for insurers.
But talks between Democrats and Republicans were derailed over a disagreement about the bill's treatment of abortion coverage.
[Breitbart] Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is being accused of antisemitism again after accusing pro-Israel Americans of "allegiance to a foreign country" at an event on Wednesday evening in Washington, DC.
Laura Kelly, reported at the Jewish Insider that Omar told an audience of supporters at the Busboys and Poets café: "I want to talk about the political influence in this country that says it is okay to push for allegiance to a foreign country," meaning Israel.
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She undoubtedly knows exactly what allegiance to a foreign country/religion means, and cannot help herself in showing it to those who know even slightly about the virulent nature of it. A little Gaza Strip in the House of Represntatives with all the noise and. venom you’d expect...
Goodness. I never thought to hear the formerly important Hillary Clinton quote Sarah Palin.
[NeonNettle] Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she has little faith in President Donald Trump’s ability to negotiate with Kim Jong-un on North Korean denuclearization. Clinton added that any 'claims of victory' would be like putting "lipstick on a pig."The former secretary of State said she doubts Trump's goals will be achieved.Clinton told journalist Tina Brown in a podcast episode on Tuesday ahead of Trump’s summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, "I have serious doubts that whatever [Trump] claims will be actually achieved."
She then branded Trump’s vision of complete denuclearization a "fantasy," alleging Trump was doing it for the media attention. "All the intelligence, which Trump dismisses, suggests that it’s unlikely but not impossible that Kim Jong Un will give up his nuclear weapons capacity," she added."I don't see a deal there that is a verifiable, enforceable deal," Clinton claimed, but "I don’t know what Trump will claim."
"I don’t know whose national security interests Trump is either pursuing or will actually try to defend" ‐ Hillary Clinton.But Trump said he would not rush for denuclearization and that he was satisfied that Kim agreed to halt missile testing.
But some in the White House fear Trump may be outmaneuvered in negotiations.
Clinton attempted to back her argument up by comparing Trump’s diplomatic dealmaking with alleged stories she heard of Trump’s time as a New York real estate mogul."I've had so many guys who did business with him in real estate say, ’You know he'd have a 15 million dollar profit from a real estate deal which he would call $150 million and then he would call everybody and beg them not to contradict the press because he was going to tell them it was $150 million not $15 million," she said."So if he can put lipstick on a pig, and he can say ’OK this is what we're going to do with North Korea’ and he keeps saying it over and over again and Fox News says it over and over again and other outlets say it over and over again, and the so-called mainstream media does their both sidesism ... he wins the news cycle. And that’s really what he lives for," she concluded.In January, Trump has branded the US intelligence agencies as "naive" and "wrong" following their annual ’threat assessment’ and dismissed the agency's assessments of the threat posed by North Korea which contradicted his judgments during congressional testimony.The Senate committee was told by leaders of the US intelligence community that North Korea's nuclear threat remained valid and that Iran was not in the stages of developing a nuclear bomb.
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Why would anyone give a rat's patootie about what this psychopath says. Time and time again we have seen her climb a tree to lie when she could stay on the ground and tell the truth.
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Like her brilliant reset button and Russia? Sold them nuclear material, turned a blind eye to their actions, and colluded with them to try, rigged the DNC election process so no one could run against you and tried overthrow our government election system?? I do believe MRS Clinton you are the pig with lipstick today.
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Trump is doing, imho, an 'average' job of dealing with the Totalitarians her party gave the smart, hard-working third of the world to over the last eighty years.
[Ynet] Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren blasted Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, after Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit recommended charging the prime minister, pending a hearing, in three corruption cases.
"First embracing right-wing extremism. Now manipulating a free press, accepting bribes, and trading government favors. The allegations against Prime Minister Netanyahu are serious and cut to the heart of a functioning democracy.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
