[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] Orange County Congressman Dana Rohrabacher ...Representative for Caliphornia's 48th congressional district, and previously the 46th, 45th and 42nd, serving since 1989. He is a member of the Republican Party and a former speech writer for President Reagan... says a 71-year-old staffer at his Huntington Beach office was knocked unconscious during a protest, but the protestors say they were delivering Valentine’s Day cards.
The "assault" on Rohrabacher’s district director, Kathleen Staunton, happened Tuesday afternoon during a protest by a group calling themselves Indivisible OC. Police confirmed they were called to the scene, but made no arrests.
Staunton was trying to exit through the front door of Rohrabacher’s office to visit a restroom when, according to Rohrabacher, a protester yanked the door open, causing her to fall and hit her head. The door also pushed over a 2-year-old child who was apparently brought along with the crowd, but she was not injured, the congressmen said.
Staunton, who has managed Rohrabacher’s office since his first term in 1989, was treated by paramedics and taken to a local hospital, Rohrabacher said in a statement released Wednesday.
"I am outraged beyond words that protesters who mobbed my Huntington Beach office violently knocked down my faithful district director, Kathleen Staunton, causing her to be hospitalized," Rohrabacher said. "And, yes, deliberate or not, the incident came as part of a mob action that not only intimidates but coerces. Though the protesters think of themselves as idealists, they engaged in political thuggery, pure and simple."
The protest was part of a nationwide movement calling itself "Indivisible" and pledged to resist President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s agenda. Rohrabacher said the group came to demand a town hall meeting with him even though he was working in Washington D.C. with the House of Representatives in session.
The group’s Twitter page confirmed they were at Rohrabacher’s Huntington Beach office Tuesday ‐ but according to their page, it was to deliver Valentine’s Day cards.
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[OCREGISTER] An Orange Coast College student who secretly videotaped his instructor making anti-Trump statements was suspended from school and told to write a letter of apology as well as a three-page essay about the incident.
The college suspended Caleb O’Neil for the current semester and the summer term, saying he violated a Coast Community College District policy prohibiting recording someone on district property without that person’s consent.
"It is my hope that this experience will lead you to truly think through your actions and the consequences of those actions when making decisions in the future," Victoria Lugo, interim dean of students, wrote in a Feb. 9 letter to O’Neil, whose video clips of instructor Olga Perez Stable Cox in December went viral.
William Becker, an attorney representing O’Neil, said the sanctions are excessive and the student’s legal rights have been violated. O’Neil, 19, plans to appeal and can continue to attend classes during that process, Becker said.
"This is an attack by leftists in academia to protect the expressive rights of their radical instructors at the expense of the expressive rights of conservative students on campus," said Becker, president of Freedom X, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving religious and conservative freedom of expression.
O’Neil, who campaigned for Trump, couldn’t be reached for comment on Tuesday.
Orange Coast College President Dennis Harkins had previously said his administration would investigate whether Cox’s comments were appropriate and within the context of what she teaches. Whether that has concluded is unclear. College front man Doug Bennett said this week that the school could not comment on personnel manners, and he declined to discuss investigations involving students, citing their privacy.
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I would hope that FIRE or some other entity would come to this student's legal defense?
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I'm thinking there's a suit for 'hostile school environment' here. At the very least, maybe somebody at Dept of Education would like to show the new boss how bad they want to keep their job...
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"It is my hope that this experience will lead you to truly think through your actions and the consequences of those actions when making decisions in the future," Same could be said about the teacher who showed zero common sense in ranting in front of the class, each with a minor movie studio in their pocket.
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"It is my hope that this experience will lead you to truly think through your actions and the consequences of those actions when making decisions in the future," Lefties are not good at anticipating the consequences of their actions.
[ROLLINGSTONE] It's amazing. I'm like, "Why don't we check in with Russia, you guys?" I think it tends to come more from the right wing, although I'm not sure. Now it's so hard to know what's coming from where, because stories get published on Breitbart and two days later they're in Newsweek and you're like, "What the fuck is happening right now?" No one is more studied in the art of the right wing planting a story and liberals eating each other alive over it than I am. I see it every single day, but I'm not gonna stand there screaming about it, 'cause that makes you a bad sport. And also it's boring and I'm not interested in it. But do people want me to go, "I don't think I'm really good for this. I'm gonna bow out"? I wouldn't see any use for celebrity if I wasn't fighting rabidly for what I thought was right.
I backed Hillary Clinton when a lot of people in my age group were on the Bernie train, so I was getting shit from the right for being a "libtard" – and getting shit from young people for supporting what they saw as a corporate candidate. It was painful when people were like, "Hillary lost because Lena Dunham is such a bad example of liberalism." But everyone's scared and upset, and they need someone to blame. It's easier to blame me than it is to, like, blame George Clooney for not giving enough speeches or whatever. You could go around pointing fingers in every fucking direction in Hollywood if you wanted to. If I'm gonna be the punching bag for that, I know where my heart is and I know why I felt like I needed to campaign for her. I know what those experiences on the road meant to me with other women, the connections that I made – and I just have to hold on to that.
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I am confident that the Dunham graphic will eventually catch the eye of Sports Illustrated lurkers.
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Just remember, Don't Ever Blame Hillary!
Ever, ever, ever...
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Don't Ever Blame Hillary!
or risk the wrath of a Dunham Sconed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like a point of order - when selling a product, one has to have a message, and it is not just a right, but a requirement, to criticize that message. In fact, it was just celebrated with the oh so vaunted Super Bowl Commercials.
Ms. Doneham continuously sells her TV, and her celebrity rating, show by using her body in various ways - image, orientation, raping her sister, so forth.
I reject that sales pitch, mostly for lack of casing and poor taste.
[TheHill] McCain stressed his opposition wasn't personal but focused on Mulvaney's previous policy positions, accusing the conservative lawmaker of working to "torpedo" Senate efforts to increase defense spending.
"My decision to oppose this nomination is not about one person. It is not about one Cabinet position," said McCain, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. "This is not political. This is about principle." I figured everyone could use the laugh.
U.S. national security officials are reportedly ready to "go nuclear" after President Donald Trump’s latest attack on the intelligence community.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday and Wednesday, Trump insisted that the "real scandal" was not that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn lied about his contact with Russia. Instead, the president blasted what he said were "un-American" leaks that led to Flynn’s ousting.
On Wednesday, former NSA intelligence analyst John Schindler provided some insight into the reaction of national security officials.
"Now we go nuclear," he wrote on Twitter. "[Intelligence community] war going to new levels. Just got an [email from] senior [intelligence community] friend, it began: ’He will die in jail.'"
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I AM building a Sedition folder right now. Starting with Progbama and his herd of mutant lobotomized parrots.
Ready to prosecute them at a moments notice.
Remember John Schindler, the conservative talking head, retired NSA spook, and Naval War College professor who briefly went incognito after screenshots of (what appear to be) his penis leaked onto the Internet? While he has since reappeared on Twitter—where he first drew attention for defending domestic spying and criticizing Edward Snowden—he has refused to comment on the mysterious emails, sent to the Naval War College by an unnamed blogger, that prompted the school to place him on leave.
The emails sent to NWC, which Gawker obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, refer to Schindler’s habit of calling himself a “spy”; detail his correspondence with an unnamed woman (who apparently received his penis photo); and, in a lengthy missive, accuse Schindler of staging “cyber warfare” against his online enemies, using “thuggish tactics” to silence NSA critics, and violating various federal laws., and his penis under official investigation.
Each of the messages is heavily redacted, and the identities of their senders obscured, due to the ongoing investigation into Schindler’s conduct. But the last email is detailed (and nutty) enough to earn a closer reading, so we’ve embedded it below. You can read the rest here. Let us know if anything sticks out.
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“I would put this right at the feet of John Brennan and Jim Clapper and I would go so far as to say the Obama White House was directly involved before they left,” Shaffer said. “Ben Rhodes and those folks… The Democrats are behind this and some of the Republicans are involved with the leaks. So I say ‘Bring it on!’
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Scumbag Communist asshole displaying his nothingburger of a resume except for throwing molotov cocktails.
"Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House."
It is an idiot fake bolshevik revolution after they held power already. You fucking scum of the earth.
“If President Obama is serious about his often-expressed desire to rein in big money in politics, he should shut down Organizing for Action and disavow any plan to schedule regular meetings with its major donors,”
What is the issue? They (The Intel Community) have acted with immoral reason in the past. Ergo, they cannot be exposed for their actions in the future - which only leads to... You can never keep a secret. Look see here:
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"I would suggest that many members of the establishment have, in addition, something very personal to fear from the Trump administration: For it would appear that some of America’s most powerful people have been involved in activities which if brought into the public forum would utterly destroy them, not only professionally, but also personally."
Worse than that, employing the Moslem Brotherhood as an fulcrum of destructinve powers eating away at Legitimate power sources:
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Let US be clear. If you exert power like the Soviet KGB, then I have no compunction whatsoever in treating ALL OF YOU as enemy spies.
I graduate Sedition to Treason as you are, in defacto, weakening our entire structure of authority. I would post you in Quantico for de-brief and a very long stay in the US Federal PEN.
I would not let this happen to ANY US President, not even Obama who is the most destructive and useles Leader in my lifetime.
If he is not careful, he may join you there. I will be having none of this.
Superb effort in revealing the true 'locus of power' newc. Unable to hyperlink the Wordpress piece. Please send updated link or alternate source. Regards, Mod
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An 'I fok'n told ya so' from late yesterday that simply had to be brought forward:
#30 Now you all know what I was saying here years ago when I told you that the Intel Community, especially the CIA, needed to be disbanded then restructured and reassembled - with personnel cleaned out with a flamethrower in some cases.
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"bunker less than two miles from the White House". newc
Zero is a private citizen now, directly accountable both civil and criminal for his actions from this point own. I suggest hauling his ass in for depositions via civil citations in regards to possible government related illegal activity.
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Until I see otherwise I have to believe these "going nuclear" folks are a handful of political types that got promoted above their intelligence level by Clinton or Obama who now (rightfully) fear for their jobs.
Also, if Schindler got an email I would think someone should subpoena(sp?) it and track down the sender.
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#19 Until I see otherwise I have to believe these "going nuclear" folks are a handful of political types that got promoted above their intelligence level by Clinton or Obama who now (rightfully) fear for their jobs. Posted by: rjschwarz
Concur 100%. "Senior source" is code for appointee flapping their gums. These senior sources imagine themselves as intellectuals...their subordinates know them as idiots that must be suffered... These "senior sources" do not speak for the IC.
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thanks newc am going to read now... ps: do you think that this could be another democrat stooge instigated attempt to set Trump at war with the Intel agencies?
since they lost from the huge wikileaks
and they have lost congress and the senate and the governorships, all they've got left is the media and their previous appointees?
maybe it's only the demo appointees in the intel agencies leaking to press
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You know the only type of people hired for that agency, or any agency for the last 8 years were idiot leftists.
This explains the un-professional nature of events in IC right now, anon1
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The media narrative that recently ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was involved in nefarious -- nay, sinister and possibly treasonous!!! -- dealings in his December call with the Russian ambassador is quickly collapsing, as CNN reports that the FBI will not be pursuing any criminal investigation involving Flynn's phone call.
So too is the hype that the Trump campaign was riddled with contacts with Russian intelligence, as reported yesterday by The New York Times. Which, rather, brings to the fore the question "Why was Trump admin so quick to ask for his resignation?". Something smells.
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Excellent work done here by Mr Poole. As for questions regarding swift action - swift is a judgement call. The fact is as discussed here, Flynn had his weaknesses - being a Russian mole just wasn't one of em. This was a forced error and that's a shame
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Which, rather, brings to the fore the question "Why was Trump admin so quick to ask for his resignation?".
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This is why primetime commentary is so useless. First the Fake News then the circle of pundits being outraged about each other's faux outrage. Useless parasites at best, poisonous vermin normally.
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Interestingly, the infamous telecom occurred before the inauguration, so the emptysuit hisself, Obumble, authorized the wiretap so this is a Democratically orchestrated hit.
The Klingons et al were after Flynn since before the election because he deigned to talk to Trump about anything.
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Hispanic voters support President Trump's new focus on deporting illegal immigrants with criminal records and punishing some 300 cities that grant "sanctuary" to undocumented criminals, according to a new poll.
The survey for Secure America Now found that 56 percent of Hispanic voters approve of deporting criminal illegals. Some 31 percent don't.
What's more, they back the president's executive order to end the Obama administration's "catch and release" policy at the border.
Over all in the McLaughlin and Associates survey, 69 percent of all voters back the president's plans.
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Silly writer. Haven't you heard? Giant anti-anti-immigrant protests/marches today. Huge Trump puppets sure to be there. Media drooling in anticipation.
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Oh. In the photo at the link are protesters who are no longer "immigrants". They now self-identify as "refugees".
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Illegal Hispanics are likely to prey upon the Hispanic communities they hide within. Nos a surprise they don't like the criminals coming back again and again.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., about a month before political hacks in the intelligence began leaking information obtained illegally, coincidentally predicted it would happen in a veiled threat.
Either Schumer is a closet Nostradamus, has incredible foresight or something more sinister is potentially going on. He isn’t exactly known for the former two.
Meanwhile, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Tuesday that those who leaked the contents of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s phone calls "belong in jail."
"That’s nine leakers that all belong in jail," Rep. Nunes said.
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If I were Trump, I would have this punk investigated by a special prosecutor, just for fun...
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The cavalier manner and forum in which Senate Minority Leader Schumer made his comments regarding IC retribution was somewhat stunning at the time. First, he wasn't waxing philisophically. It was matter of fact and very public. That's East Germany shit. And as a member of the so-called "Gang of Eight" he is briefed on Nat-Sec investigations and would be privvy to the Flynn matter. Perhaps most curious is the timing of his comments. According to reports this would have been the time when they were notified. As I said at the time, Schumer didn't merely give the green light but he offerd cover as well.
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Either Schumer is a closet Nostradamus, has incredible foresight or something more sinister is potentially going on. I'd vote for the latter. This schmuck is hell bent on undermining Trump's administration. Must mean Trump is having an effect in shaking up the Establishment Party.
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Humana is dropping ObamaCare in 2018. More insurance companies have indicated they will drop Obamacare. Trump's executive order emasculates the mandate. Line 61 on IRS tax forms previously required a person to state whether or not they had health care insurance. Indicating you had no insurance got you a penalty. Now completing line 61 is optional by EO. The IRS has no mechanism for collecting the penalty for not having health care insurance.
[REUTERS] Staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been told that President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... is preparing a handful of executive orders to reshape the agency, to be signed once a new administrator is confirmed, two sources who attended the meeting told Rooters on Wednesday.
A senior EPA official who had been briefed by members of the Trump administration mentioned the executive orders at a meeting of staffers in the EPA's Office of General Counsel on Tuesday, but did not provide details about what the orders would say, said the sources, who asked not to be named.
"It was just a heads-up to expect some executive orders, that's it," one of the sources said.
The second source said attendees at the meeting were told Trump would sign between two and five executive orders.
Trump administration officials did not respond to requests for comment.
Trump has promised to cut U.S. environmental rules - including those ushered in by former President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... targeting carbon dioxide emissions - as a way to bolster the drilling and coal mining industries, but has vowed to do so without compromising air and water quality.
Trump has also expressed doubts about the science behind climate change and promised during his campaign to pull the United States out of a global pact to combat it. Since his election in November, he has softened that stance, saying he would keep an "open mind" to the climate accord.
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it's not to late to quit. There's endless job opportunities out there for arrogant paperhangers!
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"Remove all sharp objects from your front pockets and grab your ankles."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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[LOSANGELES.CBSLOCAL] Orange County Congressman 
[TheHill] McCain stressed his opposition wasn't personal but focused on Mulvaney's previous policy positions, accusing the conservative lawmaker of working to "torpedo" Senate efforts to increase defense spending.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., about a month before political hacks in the intelligence began leaking information obtained illegally, coincidentally predicted it would happen in a veiled threat.
[REUTERS] Staff at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been told that President 
