Author Archive: Mark Tapscott

FIRST AMENDMENT NOT WELCOME AT TWITTER? Not if you are tweeting in defense of unborn babies, it appears. Live Action founder and president Lila Rose says Twitter has blocked her and her advocacy group “from all advertising and promotion.” Should this be called “censostrangulation” or maybe “stranglsorship”?

FBI’S AUSSIE TIPPER LINKED TO CHINESE FIRM LONG DISTRUSTED BY U.S. INTEL: So the FBI’s two chief sources for probing allegations of Trump-Russia collusion against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign includes Christopher Steele, a former British spy obsessed with beating Trump, and Alexander Downer, the Australian politico closely tied to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications firm all six U.S. intelligence chiefs just warned Congress about last month.

WILL SWEDEN BE NEXT TO INVESTIGATE CLINTON FOUNDATION? President Donald Trump meets today at the White House with Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Both men’s countries would be better off, according to Charles Ortel, without the long string of globalist abuses by the Clinton Foundation.

IS AN ANTI-DEPRESSANT THE COMMON FACTOR IN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS? This doctor tells LifeZette Paroxetine is the villain and he cites a bunch of studies, medical and otherwise, to make his case.

HOLLYWOOD’S ELITE SHOULD BE ASHAMED: That’s the consensus of opinion among 20 everyday Americans when asked about tonight’s Oscars awards, according to LifeZette.

 

HERE’S WHY YOU’RE LIKELY READING TRUMP’S SESSIONS TWEET THE WRONG WAY: David Blackmon, a very sharp energy guy from Texas, explains the right way in LifeZette. The right way comes to a completely, totally, absolutely opposite conclusion than the MSM’s talking head legion about the meaning of it all.

WAS OBAMA A PARTNER IN CRIME OR UNWITTING VICTIM OF CLINTON CORRUPTION? Here’s the threshold observation in answering that question, according to Charles Ortel, writing today in LifeZette:

“The deep and intertwined extent to which loyalists of Bill and Hillary Clinton were immediately inserted into the Obama administration after the 2008 presidential election has never been fully exposed or adequately explained …

“But we have yet to learn the real story — one that explains why, for example, so many Obama appointees would allow Hillary Clinton to mishandle classified information, while also letting the Clinton Foundation run riot soliciting billions of dollars (including affiliates) in contributions for patently unauthorized causes, and flouting so many strict laws in the process.”

LESSON FOR NRA BOYCOTTERS: Cave to the politically correct pressures, then watch customers disappear into the mist.

ARMED TEACHERS WILL STOP ‘DERANGED MADMAN KILLING DEFENSELESS KIDS:’ That’s the view of Colorado’s Laura Caro, chief of a citizen’s group known as FASTER. The group is behind the campaign that has put armed and highly trained teachers in dozens of Colorado schools.

“What happens in these mass killing events, is on average one person is shot every 17 seconds,” Carno said Wednesday, according to LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst. And “if that’s your kid in the hallway, in the cafeteria, in the classroom, how many 17-second intervals are you OK with if you have a school resource officer running toward the scene or a police officer being called to the scene?” Every parent knows the answer to that question.

WHERE ELSE BUT LA-LA-LAND? San Diego State University (SDSU) are now offered a course entitled “Trump: Impeachment, Removal or Conviction?” This must be an offering from the moderate wing of the SDSU faculty. The radicals would call it “Trump: Racked, Drawn and Quartered or Burned at the Stake.” LifeZette’s Michelle Blood has more of the gory details of PC run amuck on yet another college campus.

 

SOCIALIST SANDERS’ SON SEEKS SOLON’S SEAT: Yes, it’s true, the crusty Vermont Independent Socialist has a crusty son and he’s a socialist, too. He’s seeking a seat in the House of Representatives. If he wins, Bernie and Levi will be the first-ever Socialist father-son team ever in Congress. And to LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst we now go for the rest of the story.

FORMER AG MICHAEL MUKASEY SAYS FBI ‘VERY IRRESPONSIBLE’ ON FISA APPLICATION: The bureau was “very irresponsible” in not disclosing to the FISA court all of the details about the funding and sourcing of the Steele Dossier, Mukasey told Laura Ingraham on her Talk Radio program.

WHAT’S THIS? CALIFORNIA DEMOCRATS REJECT FEINSTEIN’S RE-ELECTION BID: Yes, Dianne Feinstein, the former San Francisco mayor, has been a U.S. Senator from California since Bill Clinton was in the White House, but she’s not sufficiently “progressive” for the Democrats in 2018? Kathryn Blackhurst of LifeZette counts the unexpected numbers.

ABOUT THOSE ‘REPUBLICANS NEED NOT APPLY’ SIGNS ALL OVER SILICON VALLEY: No, they aren’t literally posted anywhere, but an examination of campaign contributions by workers who listed as their employer one of these 15 famous Silicon Valley firms makes clear that somehow, some way Republicans almost never get hired.

If it were just white people or only men getting the job offers, how long do you think it would be before subpoenas were flying from the Department of Justice, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Civil Rights Commission?

UPDATE (FROM GLENN): In California, it’s illegal to retaliate against an employee for “their off-duty participation in politics or political campaigns.” Seems like an opportunity for enterprising lawyers interested in deep-pocketed defendants.

THIS SUPREME COURT CASE COULD BE BAD NEWS FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS: Or not. LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby looks at an AFSCME case that could give Justice Neil Gorsuch an opportunity to strike a major blow for freedom of speech.

CENSORSHIP IS ALIVE AND WELL AT CNN: That rude and raucous “Town Hall” aired Wednesday night by the cable news network formerly owned by Ted Turner is being exposed by survivors of the Florida school shooting as little more than agit-prop for gun control.

THREE LITTLE WORDS THAT DROVE MSM MAD: It doesn’t take much coming from the lips of President Donald Trump to drive the people playing television journalism up the wall.

IT’S THREE-QUESTION THURSDAY!!! Click the links on this trio of inquiries and you will know three times as much as your buddies. Or at least you will have the answers to three more questions that will enable you to dazzle and befuddle them. Okay, would you believe knowledge is its own reward? So start clickin,’ folks:

1.) True or False? Rev. Billy Graham helped integrate the American South in the 1950s and 1960s?

2.) Is France one of the multiple governments investigating Clinton Foundation corruption?

3.) Who said Jeff Sessions is “a small man in a big moment in history”?

A. Mary Blackshear Sessions

B. GOP Attorney John Jordan

C. Critical Theory Professor Elmer Fudd

 

CAN SOMEONE TELL SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND $133M IS MORE THAN $54.4M? The numbers are significant because the New York Democrat — who is expected to mount a bid for her party’s 2020 presidential nomination — thinks the NRA has a “chokehold” on Congress that blocks gun control.

In fact, as LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst explains, the NRA spent “only” $54.4 million in contributions to, mostly, Republican congressional incumbents and challengers, while Priorities USA, the liberal PAC created and run by two former Obama campaign veterans, spent $133 million on Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton.

Add the spending totals by three other liberal PACs and NRA was outspent in 2016 $393 million to $54.4 million. So tell us Mrs. Gillibrand, how does $54.4 million buy more of a chokehold in the nation’s capitol than $393 million???

THEY JUST CAN’T LEAVE MELANIA ALONE: Michelle Obama could do no wrong. Melania Trump, it seems, can do nothing right.

THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMACARE: Republicans in Congress failed to repeal and replace Obamacare but President Donald Trump is still searching around the dark corners of the federal bureaucracy to root out as much of President Barack Obama’s “signature achievement” as possible.

One significant area is in allowing people to buy short-term health insurance coverage policies when that’s what they need, rather than being forced by Washington bureaucrats to pay unbelievably high premiums for benefits they don’t need. Obama closed off this option in the waning days of his administration. Now Trump is re-opening it. And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is again predicting apocalypse.

REMEMBER WHEN “FALLING ON YOUR SWORD” MEANT SOMETHING? Former U.S. Attorney Joseph diGenova is calling for FBI Director Christopher Wray to resign in the wake of multiple revelations that his bureau was warned about Nikolas Cruz but still dropped the ball.

“These 17 young people would be alive today if a bunch of adults had done their jobs. And the fact is, they didn’t,” diGenova said, according to LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby. “You will wait until hell freezes over before he does it. Christopher Wray should be fired. This is an embarrassment. It happened on his watch.”

IF NRA’S BUCKS ARE KEY TO ITS POLITICAL POWER, WHAT ABOUT THESE FOUR LIB GROUPS? Each of them spent more for Democrats in the 2016 campaign than the NRA did for Republicans, so why do we always hear kids are slaughtered in schools because you-know-who controls Congress with its money and blocks passage of new gun control laws that would save lives? Collectively, the four spent more than seven times as much as the NRA!

BAD NEWS FOR COMEY, MCCABE, STRZOK, ET. AL.: Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo that the Department of Justice is investigating the FBI’s failure to notify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court that its warrant application to surveil Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page was based on material paid for by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee. As of noon Monday, this fact appears not to have been reported by either the New York Times or the Washington Post.

THIS VETERAN FBI INVESTIGATOR MAY KNOW KEY DETAILS ON THE CLINTON EMAILS: But he suddenly and unexpectedly retired a few months into it. Some might wonder why. Long-time Clinton Foundation exposer Charles Ortel lays it out in LifeZette.