Chuck
Grassley tells Christine Blasey Ford, Democrats to use scheduled hearing
or lose opportunity
Republicans are ready to push ahead with a vote on Supreme Court nominee
Brett M. Kavanaugh after becoming frustrated with his accuser, who has
rebuffed numerous chances they have offered her to tell her story. Judiciary
Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, Iowa Republican, said he is sticking
with his plan to hold a hearing Monday to give Christine Blasey Ford a
chance to detail her accusation that Judge Kavanaugh attempted a sexual
assault against her when they were both teenagers climbing onto her,
attempting to strip off her clothes and stifling her cries for help. It
would be a disservice to Dr. Ford, Judge Kavanaugh, this committee, and
the American people to delay this hearing any further, Mr. Grassley said
in a letter to committee Democrats. Washington Times
VOA VIEW: Ford can't answer questions
of the alleged happening, and only wants to waste time in Kavanaugh's nomination.
Republican
candidates blast Democrats' 'ambush' on Kavanaugh, rally around Trump pick
Republican candidates running for Senate in red
states are rallying around Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh and the party leaders
pushing for his confirmation on Capitol Hill, picking sides in what has
turned into a politically poisonous debate. Many of the Republican candidates
had gone silent in the hours after a woman came forward late last week
to say Judge Kavanaugh, as a drunken high school student, attempted to
sexually assault her at a house party. But as accuser Christine Blasey
Ford has struggled to corroborate her accusations and rebuffed Republican
offers to testify to the SenateJudiciary Committee on many different terms,
those Republicans have regained their voices, saying their party is giving
her a fair chance to come forward and testify. Washington
Times
FBI
sought to elevate anti-Trump dossier to official intelligence file despite
CIA, DNI objections
The FBI pushed in 2016 to include the discredited dossier into the
official intelligence community assessment that Russia interfered in the
election to help Donald Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton, two former senior
officials said. The officials told The Washington Times that as the historic
ICA, as it is known, was being drafted, the FBI wanted to fold in allegations
and observations from dossier writer Christopher Steele. One source said
then-FBI Director James B. Comey directly advocated inclusion. A second
source said FBI officials definitely wanted Mr. Steeles charges on Kremlin
behavior included but could not single out Mr. Comey as the main driver.
Washington
Times
VOA VIEW: Dems and those involved don't
want the truth to come out.
Claire
McCaskill says she's voting 'no' on Brett Kavanaugh
Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday she will vote against federal
appellate judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump's nomination to
the U.S. Supreme Court. Citing "dark money" in politics as the main reason
for her opposition, McCaskill released a lengthy statement through her
office Wednesday evening. The Missouri Democrat, who is in a heated re-election
campaign, stumped in southwest Missouri earlier in the day with stops in
Lebanon and Mt. Vernon. At the Lebanon event, she minimized the importance
of the sexual assault allegations leveled against Kavanaugh by Christine
Blasey Ford, a California professor who has claimed Kavanaugh held her
down and tried to take off her clothes more than 30 years ago when he was
17 and she was 15. USA Today
VOA VIEW: McCaskill should lose her Senate
seat.
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Tom
Brady Was Asked What He Thought Of Players Kneeling. His Response Was Perfect
Tom Brady is one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game.
But hes also notoriously one of the least outspoken players in the media.
You rarely hear Tom Brady speak of issues outside of football but in a
recent interview, he finally broke his silence. After answering some easier
questions regarding things like his relationship with coach Bill Belichick
and his pending retirement, he was asked what he thought of the national
anthem controversies and what should be done; his response did not disappoint
USA
Today
VOA VIEW: The NFL is losing ratings and
money.
Trump
visits Carolinas as Florence death toll rises to 37
President Donald Trump visited the Carolinas
Wednesday to survey Hurricane Florence's damage as the storm's death toll
rose to 37 across three states. Three deaths in the Carolinas were reported
overnight, raising the death toll to 37 -- including fatalities in North
Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Trump arrived in eastern North Carolina
Wednesday morning to survey the damage. While Trump was in Cherry Point,
N.C., Gov. Roy Cooper told him his state "took a gut punch" from Florence.
Cooper described Florencas "a storm like no other." "Our people are still
reeling," Cooper said. "We have lost 27 lives officially so far, and more
are under investigation. We mourn their loss," he said, adding that farmers
lost crops, businesses are shuttered, and people lost homes ... We are
beginning the process of getting our feet under us, Mr. President." UPI
North
Korea agrees at summit to shutter test site, major nuclear facility
North Korea will permanently close its
missile test site and dismantle its main nuclear facility if the United
States takes corresponding measures under a deal struck at the inter-Korean
summit Wednesday. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said North Korea agreed
to take specific measures for denuclearization and the nations will work
together to achieve a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula. UPI
VOA VIEW: Double talk or real action -
time will tell.
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Newt
Gingrich: If Republicans want to defeat Democrats in 2018, they must do
this
Those who believe the elite left-wing blue wave theory for the 2018
elections should look at what happened in Texas on Tuesday. In a special
election runoff, Republican Pete Flores successfully flipped Texas State
Senate District 19, which borders Mexico and had been in Democratic control
for 139 years. Flores, a political newcomer competing against a seasoned
former Democratic congressman, won in a district that is 73 percent Hispanic
and African American despite virtually all political analysts expectations.
I am studying this election for a future op-ed, but I have been told by
many Texas Republicans that Flores was able to win because he ran a big
choice campaign. Candidates, consultants, campaign managers Republicans
at every level must break out of the small-ball, district-by-district
campaign model and create a national message that defines a set of big
choices that contrast the Republican positions and those of the left. Fox
VOA VIEW: Republicans must show backbone
and togetherness.
Andrew Gillum announces
plan to improve Floridas education
Republican Ron DeSantis and Democrat Andrew Gillum
have different ideas on what theyd do as governor to improve education
in Florida. One thing they agree on is that teachers should have higher
pay.
The
drive to sink Kavanaugh is liberal totalitarianism
If Senate Democrats and their media allies manage
to destroy Brett Kavanaugh, they will bring America one step closer to
a new, liberal style of totalitarianism. I dont use the T-word lightly.
Ive spent years pushing back against those who fling it about in free
societies like ours. But totalitarianism doesnt require cartoonish, 1984-style
secret police and Big Brother. The classical definition is a society where
everything ethical norms and moral principles and truth itself is subjugated
to political ends. By that measure, the Democratic campaign to block Kavanaughs
nomination to the Supreme Court, based on a hazy, uncorroborated, decades-old
assault allegation, tends toward the totalitarian. Certainly, it has many
of the elements of abusive politics that Americans normally associate with
foreign lands untouched by the light of liberty and reason: New
York Post
VOA VIEW: Liberals have gone mad.
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Gohmert:
Dems 'Calling Wolf One Too Many Times' With Outcry Against Trump's FISA
Reveal
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert said Tuesday on "Lou Dobbs Tonight"
that the Democrats are "crying wolf" when they claim the declassification
of documents pertaining to the Trump-Russia probe or FISA warrant would
damage national security. Lou Dobbs noted that Hillary Clinton ripped President
Trump for ordering the declassification of FISA-related documents, saying
that the president is "waging war on the truth." "Apparently, she doesn't
like transparency and openness in government," Dobbs said. Gohmert (R-Tyler)
said Trump made a "fantastic" decision to let the public see the documents
that led to his campaign being surveilled by the Obama-era FBI. Fox
VOA VIEW: Dems are scared of the truth.
China
has the ultimate weapon in trade war with US
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said something
the other day that was either right on the mark or profoundly stupid. Only
time will tell which it is. Ross said that China was out of bullets in
the trade war that the Trump administration escalated this week by placing
another $200 billion in tariffs basically taxes on Chinese goods entering
the US. What Ross meant was that, since China sends more of its goods to
the US than we send to China, a tit-for-tat trade battle would ultimately
be won by the US. We can tax more of their goods than they can of ours.
Put in Ross words, we can fire more tariff bullets at them than they can
at us. New York Post
VOA VIEW: China will lose a trade war
with the US.
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Georgia
state House primary voided over error; redo ordered
A Georgia judge has ordered a redo in a state House primary election
where dozens cast their ballots in the wrong race. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
reports Chris Erwin had appeared to have won the House District 28 Republican
primary in May by 67 votes over Rep. Dan Gasaway. But Gasaway discovered
that mapping mistakes led hundreds of voters to receive letters assigning
them to the wrong House district. On Wednesday, Senior Superior Court Judge
David Sweat ruled that a new Republican primary election will take place
Dec. 4. The district includes about half of Habersham County, as well as
Banks and Stephens counties in Georgia's northeast corner. Because there
is no Democrat in the race, the winner will become the district's state
representative. Erwin says he is ready to "run and win again."
Las Vegas Sun
Polls
suggest a tough race for Donna Shalala for Miami congressional seat
Democrats exulted when U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen announced last
year she was retiring. Because the Republican congresswomans district
leans Democratic, one prominent Washington election watcher immediately
labeled the race lean Democratic. No longer. On the heels of two internal
polls Wednesday that showed Democratic nominee Donna Shalala either losing
or nearly tied with GOP opponent Maria Elvira Salazar, the Washington non-partisan
election handicapper, the Cook Political Report, moved the needle back
to the middle to toss-up. David Wasserman, who tracks House races for
Cook and last week suggested that some Democrats were worried that Shalala
had not pulled away, called it a stunning turn for a race that should
be a slam dunk for Democrats. Miami Herald
VOA VIEW: Shalala is an idiot.
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GOP
goes back to the immigration well in Arizona
For a decade, the fight against illegal immigration has helped Republicans
win every statewide election in Arizona. Now in what's shaping up to be
a difficult November for the GOP, Republicans are counting on it helping
extend their winning streak in Arizona and maintain their hold on the U.S.
Senate. Republican Rep. Martha McSally faces Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema
in a race that could determine which party controls the Senate. The two
are competing for a seat vacated by Republican Jeff Flake. Flake retired
after his criticisms of President Donald Trump's hawkish immigration stance
made his re-election impossible. Immigration routinely polls as a top issue
for Arizona Republicans. Las Vegas Sun
VOA VIEW: Republicans must push what Americans
want.
Man
at center of 3D-printed gun dispute charged with child sex assault
A warrant for the Texas man at the center of a heated national case
about the distribution of 3D-printing gun blueprints was issued Wednesday,
accusing him of sexually assaulting a juvenile girl, according to an affidavit.
Police say they received a call Aug. 22 from an adult described as a counselor,
who said her client, a juvenile, had told her she had sex with a 30-year-old
man. The girl, who police say is 16, later identified that man as Cody
Wilson, according to the Austin Police affidavit. The girl allegedly said
Wilson paid her $500 for sex after they met on the website sugardaddymeet.com.
Police said Wednesday that Wilson is not in custody and that his last known
location is Taipei, Taiwan. He frequently travels for business but has
missed a scheduled flight back to the U.S., according to Troy Officer of
the Austin Police Department's organized crime division. CBS
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Indigenous
peoples lag behind on all social and economic indicators
Kate Gilmores comments were followed by the UN Special Rapporteur
on the rights of indigenous peoples, Ms. Victoria Tauli Corpuz, who expressed
concern at a drastic increase in attacks against indigenous peoples,
and efforts to criminalize them. In her address to the Human Rights Council,
Deputy High Commissioner Ms. Gilmore urged Member States to push for the
full inclusion of all 370 million indigenous peoples in the 2030 Agenda
for Sustainable Development, which calls on all nations to eradicate poverty
and inequality. Near to a third of the worlds extremely poor rural people,
the most left behind, are indigenous Deputy human rights chief, Kate
Gilmore ? Few communities were so vulnerable, she insisted, judging by
their depressed social and economic situation in around 70 countries today.UN
Bring the
United Nations closer to the people, urges Assembly President in her inaugural
speech
In her first keynote address to what is the 73rd session of the 193-member
General Assembly, President María Fernanda Espinosa, said that the
need for stronger global leadership in the service of multilateralism,
to ensure more peaceful, equitable and sustainable societies, would underpin
her work. Let us proceed together, building a world more equal and free,
more sustainable and respectful of nature, and more inclusive and supportive,
she said. Ms. Espinosa, who was elected the President of the General Assembly
in June, succeeds Miroslav Laj?ák, the President of the 72nd
session. She is only the fourth woman to hold that position in the history
of the world body, and the first woman ever from Latin America and the
Caribbean region. UN
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