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Blake Farenthold Won’t Seek Re-election...Bye, bye, birdie...
Facing renewed allegations of misconduct, Texas Rep. Blake Farenthold will not seek reelection in 2018, according to a source familiar with the situation.
Clinton whistleblower dies of “suicide” with knife in chest
A celebrity bone surgeon became embroiled in the Clinton Foundation’s Haiti controversy when he and another doctor penned a startling 2010 article that exposed the corruption at the heart of the Haitian earthquake relief efforts.
Almost seven years later, Dr. Dean Lorich, 54, was found dead in his luxury apartment Sunday.
Police say the body was found with a knife buried in the chest, but investigators ruled the mysterious death a suicide according to The New York Post. There were no signs of forced entry at his downtown Manhattan apartment.
The violent death came as a shock to those who knew the orthopedic surgeon. Lorich, who was happily married and extremely successful, reportedly left no suicide note for his family, which included three children.
The mainstream media has noted that Lorich was being sued by former NFL player Michael Cox over alleged complications following his ankle surgery.
“But Cox’s lawyer, Steven North, believed the lawsuit would have been covered by the insurance of Lorich’s employer, the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where Lorich served as associate director of the Orthopedic Trauma Service,” The Epoch Times reported.
Lorich made headlines twice in recent years. Once for treating U2 lead man Bono after the rock star’s near-fatal bicycle accident in 2014.
The mainstream media has noted that Lorich was being sued by former NFL player Michael Cox over alleged complications following his ankle surgery.
“But Cox’s lawyer, Steven North, believed the lawsuit would have been covered by the insurance of Lorich’s employer, the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where Lorich served as associate director of the Orthopedic Trauma Service,” The Epoch Times reported.
Lorich made headlines twice in recent years. Once for treating U2 lead man Bono after the rock star’s near-fatal bicycle accident in 2014.
And more recently, when his name was found in twice-failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails, which were released during her private server scandal last summer.
As a whistleblower to the inadequate response to the Haitian earthquake, Lorich was fiercely critical of the Clinton Foundation’s efforts on the ground.
As a whistleblower to the inadequate response to the Haitian earthquake, Lorich was fiercely critical of the Clinton Foundation’s efforts on the ground.
Lorich made original appeals directly to Hillary Clinton herself, WikiLeaks revealed this summer. The emails were forwarded to Hillary by her then-Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, in which Lorich warned that he had no choice but to take his complaints public.
In the now-declassified emails, Lorisch complained to Hillary that her efforts “only portended the difficulties we would have once we arrived” and that the Clinton Foundation had a “complete lack of any organization on the ground. Noone [sic] was in charge, we had the first functional up and running hospital in the P OP [sic] area yet noone and I me NOONE came to the hospital to assess what we were doing, what we were capable of doing and what we would need, to be more efficient.”
“We all felt as though we abandoned these patients and that country and feel terrible,” Lorich’s email wraps up. “Our role now being back in NY is to expose the inadequacies of the system to the media in the hopes of effecting a change in this system immediatly [sic].”
Unsatisfied with the Clinton Foundation’s response, the famed surgeon then wrote his blistering criticism.
Unsatisfied with the Clinton Foundation’s response, the famed surgeon then wrote his blistering criticism.
“The difficulties in getting in — despite the intelligence we had from people on the ground and Dr. Helfet’s connections with Partners in Health and Bill and Hillary Clinton — only hinted at the difficulties we would have once we arrived,” he wrote in his 2010 op-ed slamming the medical situation in the Caribbean country.
Nothing was ultimately done about the Clinton Foundation’s corruption in Haiti.
Sunday, Lorich ended up dead on the floor of his Manhattan apartment with a knife in his chest.
Ann Coulter: Why I Secretly Wanted Roy Moore to Lose — Brooks 2020!
by ANN COULTER
Rep. Mo Brooks was the true Trumpian candidate in Alabama, which is why I endorsed him in the primary (here, here and here). When the accusations against Roy Moore first arose, I proposed that the president make a deal to replace Moore with Brooks.
Obviously, the GOP would be in a much better position right now if only Republicans had learned to hang on my every word.
Instead, everyone did exactly the wrong thing, and they got the worst of all possible worlds.
Bannon is the least culpable! Order of blame: 1) McConnell; 2) Kushner; 3) Trump [August 15: Primary - Mo Brooks killed by those 3 ganging up on him]; August 18: Bannon leaves the White House, backs best of bad options. https://twitter.com/GiannoCaldwell/status/941012493354246144 …
Trump should have endorsed Brooks in the primary, but he endorsed Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s pro-amnesty candidate, Luther Strange, on the advice of his son-in-law. Because who knows Alabama politics better than Jared Kushner? (I guess we can scratch the expression, “As goes Kushner, so goes Alabama!”)
Now Trump has lost twice in a state that voted for him by a nearly 3-to-1 margin over Hillary just last year. Apparently, Trump’s voters won’t blindly follow him, whatever he does. I wonder if this is relevant information for the midterms …
McConnell spent millions upon millions of dollars in nasty ads to defeat Mo Brooks in the primary, because Brooks takes sensible positions on immigration.
Can’t have that! McConnell pulled out all the stops to block Brooks, so he could keep big donors rolling in cheap foreign workers. Soon they’ll have all the labor they need — and a federal government run by Hugo Chavez. The Chamber of Commerce is “diversifying” Republicans out of their jobs.
Thanks to McConnell’s brilliant strategy of opposing Brooks, now he’s stuck with another Democrat — and a razor-thin Senate majority. McConnell fully deserves to lose his majority, but the rest of us don’t deserve the horror of a Democratic Senate. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out a way to do one and avoid the other.
The most status-conscious Republicans were hysterical about Roy Moore’s holy roller Christianity. I hope their tax cut bill dies. Should’ve backed Mo Brooks!
The good news is, even with the media carrying on 24-7 about Moore being a “CHILD MOLESTER!” and “PEDOPHILE,” the election was still a nail-biter. I salute the good people of Alabama and admire their contempt for the media.
But, otherwise, Moore’s loss is good news for patriotic Americans. First of all, the media would have set up tents outside Moore’s Senate office around the clock, capturing his every utterance, so they could broadcast anything stupid he said and demand that all Republicans defend it or disavow it.
Most important, now Mo Brooks can run in 2020 and return the seat to a respectable Alabamian who is rock-solid on the most important issue.
Everyone who screwed the pooch on this one better realize fast: All that matters is immigration. It’s all that matters to the country, and it’s all that matters for winning elections.
“Anti-establishment” is not a winning issue. Without immigration as the GOP’s lodestar, every election will be a rerun of the Tea Party from 2010 to 2012, when Republicans lost Senate seat after Senate seat, entirely in unforced errors.
We’ll have to watch helplessly as “establishment Republicans” fight “anti-establishment Republicans” over the right to milk a he-goat. Both sides will lose, and Democrats will sweep Congress and destroy our country.
Immigration was never a top issue for Moore, though, when pressed, he gave the right answers. That’s not a good way to prioritize.
Republicans who treat immigration as a backburner issue should be required to run on the issues they consider more important — in California. See how your arguments fare in a state that’s already been transformed by immigration. That’s your new country.
Conservatives who ignore immigration while carrying on about taxes, defense spending, ISIS, abortion or the Ten Commandments are too stupid to be of any real help.
That’s why McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan keep producing loss after loss for Trump. They’ve turned the Trump presidency into the Bush presidency — but, this time, with Jared Kushner! (Obviously, any Republican president would desperately seek Kushner’s counsel — but could Jeb! have gotten Ivanka, too?)
GOP candidates are not going to win on hating the Republican establishment any more than Republicans are going to win on Donald Trump’s personality. The Alabama election proved both sides of that equation.
For years, Sen. Jeff Sessions, whose seat was being replaced in Alabama, was the one stalwart on immigration in the Senate — and a thorn in Mitch McConnell’s side. Sessions won his last re-election with 97 percent of the vote. (And then he voted for all those tax cut and partial-birth abortion bills you idiot Republicans are so obsessed with — and which would never get a hearing in California.)
What was Trump’s winning issue, again? Three syllables … sounds like “BUILD THE WALL”? During the campaign, every time Trump came out with a new proposal on immigration, other Republicans would hysterically denounce him -– and then he’d soar in the polls.
Now that he’s tried everything else, can’t Trump try the issue that won him the election? We want to get tired of winning.
COPYRIGHT 2017 ANN COULTER
Miracle: Iconic Ventura Cross Still Standing After California Fire --- I’m Believer
by ADELLE NAZARIAN
An iconic cross in Ventura County, California survived the Thomas fire that ravaged the area over the past week and was left standing in what many people are calling a miracle.
Everything surrounding the cross, which was located on top of a hill overlooking the Mission San Buenaventura church, was destroyed.
Below is what the cross looked like beforehand:
Ventura’s Serra Cross in 2009 (Konrad Summers / Flickr / CC) before the fire
The Thomas fire has straddled Santa Barbara and Ventura counties and has burned through 236,000 acres. It is only 25 percent contained as of Wednesday, according to NPR.
Local ABC affiliate ABC 7 reports: “The original cross was placed on the hill in 1782. Over the years, the original cross and replacements were lost to the elements. The current cross has stood atop the hill since 1941.”
The “Serra Cross has been a point of contention in the past with a potential constitutional lawsuit in 2003 threatening to remove the cross after the city of Ventura was accused of violating the principle of separation of church and state by owning and maintaining the cross,” according to KYET.
Rumors had reportedly circulated over social media that the cross, which has been used as the backdrop for many weddings, had been destroyed.
SOMEONE JUST SAID THE SERRA CROSS IN VENTURA JUST BURNT DOWN... PLEASE PLEASE DONT LET THIS BE TRUE 
2:51 AM - Dec 5, 2017
However, the cross was still standing, though charred from the flames.
Serra Cross still standing at Grant Park overlooking downtown Ventura. So, scratch that rumor. #ThomasFire
Adelle Nazarian is a politics and national security reporter for Breitbart News.
Report: Details revealed of liberal Larry King’s sexual attacks
The long list of celebrities, politicians, and other elites accused of sexual misconduct continues to grow. Dubbed PervertGate by some, allegations of everything from harassment to groping to rape are being leveled at the rich and powerful.
Now longtime talk show host Larry King has been added to the list of the accused. Terry Richard, ex-wife of iconic singer Eddie Fisher, says King groped her on several occasions during photos, on one occasion leaving a bruise.
Backless Dresses and Bruises
In 2005, Richard was attending a baseball award ceremony in Los Angeles. Wearing a backless dress, she posed for a photo with King. She says the media mogul slid his fingers down her back, inside her dress.
Larry put his hand behind me on my back and as the photographer was taking our picture Larry slid his hand down from the middle of my back to putting his hand inside of my dress and it ended up with about three or four of his fingers [on my rear end]….
Richard says King’s fingers remained there for “about eight to ten seconds,” and she did not react because “he was the guest speaker” for the event.
A year later at another baseball event, Richard said she went out of her way to avoid King but when her photographer asked her to take another photo with the talk show host, she thought it would be okay. She was not wearing a backless dress this time and thought King would not be able to repeat his action from the year before.
Richard says, however, that King grabbed her buttocks extremely hard, squeezing it so tightly that she says she got a bruise that lasted a week. The actress claims that she “let out an audible sound” when King grabbed her, and the host “scurried off” with his wife.
King Denies All
While Richards says she wants an apology from the famous TV host, she might be waiting a long time. Larry King has categorically denied the allegations.
In a statement made to People and Fox News, King’s Lawyer said: “Larry King flatly and unequivocally denies these claims and intends to file suit and prove that they’re utterly false.”
When asked by the Daily Mail if the accusations were true, King’s attorney responded: “Mr. King did no such thing then or ever.”
When asked by the Daily Mail if the accusations were true, King’s attorney responded: “Mr. King did no such thing then or ever.”
The actress isn’t buying it. “Shame on Larry,” Richard told the Daily Mail.
“He has been a bad little boy and he needs to be disciplined. How would he feel if someone did that to his wife or daughter?”
Richards says she was emboldened to come forward after pop singer Taylor Swift sued a radio DJ for doing essentially the same thing – taking advantage of a photo op to grope the singer.
Richards says she was emboldened to come forward after pop singer Taylor Swift sued a radio DJ for doing essentially the same thing – taking advantage of a photo op to grope the singer.
Mueller’s team is watching what Paul Manafort types on his computer
Is the investigation handled by special counsel Robert Mueller heating up or dying down? It depends on your point of view these days, especially after the latest reports revealing a major anti-Trump bias inside Mueller’s team.
No detail is too small for Mueller and his team though, and they’re keeping the pressure up on Paul Manafort. They went so far as to track line-by-line edits allegedly made by Manafort in editorials defending his work in the Ukraine, in an attempt to pin more illegal activity on President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager.
Mueller says Manafort violated a gag order by ghost-editing an article in the Kiev Post.
Robert Mueller Keeps a Close Eye on Manafort
Is Paul Manafort allowed to ghost-edit newspaper articles? Not so, according to Mueller.
In court documents filed on late Friday, Mueller is trying to convince a judge that Manafort violated a gag order by ghost-editing and publishing an article in an attempt to strengthen his public reputation.
Mueller’s team came across the draft op-ed under the byline of Oleg Voloshyn. They then ordered Manafort’s attorneys to stop the publication of the editorial piece, which highlights his work in Ukraine, but it was posted a day later.
The court filing showed images that included every individual edit to an original draft document on Microsoft Word. The edits were made by a user named “paul manafort.”
Special counsel prosecutors wrote in a court brief:
Manafort’s conduct undermines trust in his adherence to bail conditions. Bail is fundamentally about trust — whether a defendant can be trusted to appear and to abide by the conditions put in place to assure his appearance
Even taken in the light most favorable to Manafort, this conduct shows little respect for this Court and a penchant for skirting (if not breaking) rules.
What these filings reveal is that the scope of Mueller’s investigation is immense.
Manafort Attorneys Push Back
Attorneys representing Manafort disagree with the special counsel’s allegations, arguing that he did not violate a federal judge’s gag order. Defense attorney Kevin Downing states that the gag order went too far and that it could “unconstitutionally vitiate Mr. Manafort’s rights to defend himself and his reputation, and to correct the public record.”
The Special Counsel’s standard would lead to the constitutionally untenable conclusion that a defendant is not even allowed to maintain his or her innocence when such an order is entered because, by doing so, that statement might influence the public’s opinion.
Downing added that Mueller’s position is that Manafort is prohibited from setting “the factual record straight,” while remaining silent as his reputation takes a hit. This, Downing says, could compromise the integrity of jurors.
Meanwhile, Voloshyn told Reuters that he wrote the article to correct misrepresentations in the media. He said:
I didn’t want to write any stupid things in it that would worsen his (Manafort‘s) already difficult position. I sent the text to Kilimnik and it was Kilimnik’s idea to send it to Paul (Manafort) for a look.
He (Kilimnik) sent it back to me with some comments and suggestions. Whether these were his comments and suggestions or Paul’s suggestions is not a question I can answer.
In October, a federal grand jury indicted Manafort as well as Rick Gates, his business associate. Some of the charges included conspiracy to launder money, making false statements, and acting as an unregistered foreign agent.
Both President Trump’s campaign and Russia have dismissed all of the allegations made against them. And many conservatives and Republicans are calling the probe’s integrity into question because of the documented anti-Trump bias in many of its prosecutors and aides.
This leads to a key question: should the Mueller probe just come to a conclusion already? Or: should Mueller and his team be replaced with more neutral actors?
With so much anti-Trump prejudice already revealed in the probe, this may simply be, as the president says, a witch hunt.
Republican Defeats: Republican Rethinking
Republicans lost yesterday in an Alabama U.S. Senate race for the first time in 25 years.
Republicans lost the Virginia governorship last month, despite Ed Gillespie getting more votes than any Republican gubernatorial candidate in the state’s history. They also lost 14 House of Delegates seats, and four races are still being recounted – enough for Republicans to potentially lose control after 17 years in the majority.
In New Jersey, an unpopular Republican governor doomed the GOP candidate to a decisive defeat with 42 percent of the vote. Despite this outcome, the legislative elections were essentially a draw.
The FiveThirtyEight.com estimates the current generic ballot is now 47.2 percent Democrat and 37.5 percent Republican. If this stabilizes at that level, 2018 will be a disaster for Republicans.
Those Republicans who take comfort from the special elections in the House of Representatives should look carefully at the details. Every special election the GOP has won since the 2016 elections has involved districts which are either strongly Republican or voted for President Trump. Despite massive spending by various GOP groups, these victories have all been smaller than the 2016 margins in the same districts.
In both Alabama and Virginia, the Democrats were energized and turned out.
Meanwhile, Republicans are divided: Alabama was a GOP civil war; many Republicans are unhappy with their leaders in Washington; and independents are being alienated by both the President and Congressional Republicans.
As a first step back from the edge of disaster, Republicans must pass tax cuts by the end of this year and continue economic growth.
However, it is increasingly clear that vastly more must be done.
Republicans need to spend January developing a new strategy capable of changing current patterns and maximizing their chance to keep the House. They also must increase their Senate majority by five or six, so it will be strong enough to keep the majority in 2020 when the playing field will favor Democrats.
Every Republican, beginning with the President and Vice President, needs to understand what a disaster Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would be.
By June, it may be too late to course-correct. Avoiding a Democratic wave election requires action now.
Your Friend,
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
P.S. As we saw last night in Alabama, the Left is energized and mobilizing. As a first step to defeating them at the ballot box, we need to beat them in the war of ideas.
Acclaimed film of boy-man love raises hackles in Hollywood
Timothee Chalamet plays a 17-year-old boy who becomes romantically involved with a 24-year-old man in the film “Call Me By Your Name.” The film has been called an “erotic triumph” and “strikingly mistimed.” (Associated Press)Hollywood has been rocked for months by reports of sexual misconduct, but evidently there is no bad time to release a major motion picture about a gauzy romance between an adult man and a teenage boy.
The Sony Pictures Classics film “Call Me By Your Name” has been generating Oscar buzz since Monday after picking up three Golden Globe nominations, including one for best motion picture-drama, amid rave reviews.
The accolades come even though the film’s premise — a relationship between a 17-year-old boy and a 24-year-old man — strikes its detractors as “somewhat creepy” at best and a “pedophile fantasy” at worst.
Defenders of “Call Me By Your Name” are quick to point out that the love affair is consensual and wouldn’t be illegal, given that the drama takes place in Italy, where the age of consent is 16.
Does that make it OK? Not to Gabe Hoffman, co-producer of “An Open Secret,” a 2014 documentary about child sexual abuse in Hollywood.
Caddell: Establishment Elites ‘Want to Manage the Decline of America,’ But American People ‘Rage Against the Dying of the Light’
by ROBERT KRAYCHIK
Americans are rejecting an offer of managed American decline from the political class, said veteran pollster Pat Caddell on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight on SiriusXM.
Drawing on Dylan Thomas’s 1947 poem, Caddell waxed poetic during a discussion with SiriusXM host and Breitbart News’ Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon.
“They will not go gently into that good night of decline,” said Caddell. “The American people will rage against the dying of the light, and that is the moment that we are continuing toward.”
The narrative of American decline — commensurate with relative ascendancies from global competitors among the world’s emerging economies – is often frame by progressive elites as both an inevitable and desirable trajectory.
The election of Donald Trump to the presidency, said Bannon, was a function of popular rejection of American decline:
“It’s one of the things I told then-candidate Trump … ‘[Caddell’s] underlying research shows that the country’s heading your way, that it’s two-thirds [of Americans view the country on the] wrong track. More importantly, that America, 70 or 75 percent of the people believe America is in decline.’”
“And in fact,” continued Bannon, “What the establishment wants, and what the opposition to President Trump wanted, was really managed decline; and what President Trump represented with the ‘Make America Great Again’ – and the ‘again’ is the key word, there – was the deplorables, that working class and middle class people of this country were not prepared to accept the central thesis that America was in decline.”
Caddell’s research into American perceptions of national decline, said Bannon, formed the “intellectual basis” for the “Trump movement.”
Electoral support for Trump, said Caddell, was rooted in three popular beliefs: 1. “The system is corrupt;” 2. “The country is decline;” and 3. “Things are rigged against them in the political class.”
“The political class and the mainstream media, who are so dedicated to a narrative of their own excellence, failed because… the stupidity of politics, historically in the world, is because leaders and others are willing to jeopardize their countries if necessary rather than risk their power. They are unable to say, ‘We we wrong.’”
The “political class,” said Caddell, “want to manage the decline of America” to bring about a “soft landing.” Americans are now seeking to reclaim their sovereignty, he added.
“It is time for the people to once again be the sovereigns of their own country, and that is the fundamental basis of America,” said Caddell. “It is what the political establishment and the elites cannot comprehend, that these deplorables are actually their bosses, their superiors … Democracy in the hands of the elites — in false hands, if you will — is paralyzed. Democracy in the hands of the people possesses an irrepressible magic, and that’s the moment that we’re continuing to move on here, as much as they’re trying to kill it, and ignore it, and deny it, and fit it into their parameters, the elites and the media and political class cannot.”
Government parasitism is fueling a populist insurgency against the “political class,” said Caddell. “The enrichment of the political class, by the deals and the things they do is so deeply corrupt… this is the real issue. It’s not just the swamp, it’s worse than that. It is a corruption that is corrupting the very soul of America where everything’s a deal, and everything is hidden, and everything is to benefit the political class.”
The American people’s reclamation of sovereignty is the greatest threat to entrenched establishment elites, said Caddell: “It is the peasants out here who are causing trouble that they most want to suppress, they and their allies in the media.”
Caddell waxed patriotic in expressing his affection for America’s political judgments and the public’s virtue: “In the aggregate, the American people want to do the right thing and they’re very smart. Even when they break my heart, I understand what they’ve done, politically.”
Caddell and Bannon took calls from Breitbart News’ SiriusXM audience, whom Bannon described as “the greatest audience in all media.” Caddell shared his admiration.
“I’m making notes,” said Caddell said of the callers. “These people who call in — this is what I call the intelligence of the American people, the native intelligence. I’m not really a conservative, but I’m a populist, I’m an American exceptionalist… The greatest problem for the establishment is the American people now know they can take power in their hands.”
Bannon and Caddell discussed similar themes in November at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, Florida; watch the discussion here.
Widespread fears of American decline have been on Caddell’s political radar for decades. As he observed in a 1992 Los Angeles Times interview:
For the last 25 years, the politicians in this country have presided over a decline, and it is impossible for them to acknowledge it. Because to change, to turn the country toward what has to be done, they would first have to tell the truth. And to do that would be to risk their own power, because, in a democracy, that means standing up and saying, “We have failed.” And the track record of people who do that is not very good. So the Democratic Party lives a lie, the Washington Establishment lives a lie: “Nothing’s really wrong, don’t worry about the $400-million deficit, just elect us.”
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Helen and Moe Lauzier
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