Can cops get a fair trial in America? by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert: Al Sharpton's cop-bashing circus is back in full swing. Harlem's godfather of racial hoax crimes is in Oklahoma this week to stir up trouble as jury selection begins in the manslaughter trial of Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby. Shelby is white. Terence Crutcher, the man she shot and killed during a tense traffic standoff last fall, was bla...

**Written by Doug Powers If you're keeping score at home, the current liberal mood in regards to James Comey is “Wonderful public servant” “Hero” “WTF!?” “Fire him” “Traitor!” “Hey, Trump can't do that!” “Today, President Donald J. Trump informed FBI Director James Comey that he has been terminated and removed from office,” the White House statement reads. “President Trump acted based on the clear recommendations of both Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions,”...

**Written by Doug Powers Barack Obama has been out of office for a few months now, but that doesn't mean Americans have stopped disappointing him, and he made that known overseas yet again: At the Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan, Italy, Obama spoke about the global food system, its relationship with climate change, and how innovations in technology and entrepreneurship will affect the agriculture industry in the future. It was a far-ranging conversation that mixed policy prescriptions wit...

**Written by Doug Powers The gist of this story via Pro Publica is “sources tell us that Hillary and her staff didn't break the law as many times as James Comey indicated at a recent hearing,” but the mainstream media and Hillary's flacks (pardon the redundancy) are sure to treat the story as if it's some sort of total vindication: FBI officials have internally acknowledged that Director James Comey inaccurately stated the number of Hillary Clinton's emails her longtime aide Huma Abedin forward...

**Written by Doug Powers Jonathan Gruber, of “stupidity of the American voter” infamy, actually wrote this: And he doubled down on Sunday: With Ringling Bros. circus shutting down at least one clown has been forced to go free range. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

**Written by Doug Powers This post Kentucky Derby open thread can be considered off and running… On CNN a couple days ago, Wolf Blitzer asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who had just attended a briefing on the matter, if there yet was any evidence that anybody from the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in any way with the 2016 election. With four words, Feinstein killed a lot of buzzes: When a sizable portion of your party's election loss narrative is waving bye-bye: However, sinc...

**Written by Doug Powers Rep. Maxine Waters of California dreams daily of Donald Trump's impeachment, but she's also got a helluva sense of humor: Speaking to a gathering organized by EMILY's List, a pro-choice group run by women, on Wednesday, Waters, D-Calif., said she was “thrilled” by the energy and support she has received from millennials. She said because of her “resistance” to Trump, she has been “adopted” by thousands of millennials, and they call her “Auntie Maxine.” She also celebrat...

**Written by Doug Powers This week, Hillary Clinton declared her allegiance to “The Resistance”: You'll be really surprised to know that the Clintons have figured out there's a “public service opportunity” in the anti-Trump movement: The PAC's called “Onward Together,” which I'm guessing will end up sending the Clinton bank balance upward: Hillary Clinton, reentering the political fray months after her 2016 campaign loss, will soon launch a political organization aimed at funding “resistanc...

**Written by Doug Powers Now that we're past President Trump's first 100 days, only one question remains: How much more can America's celebrities possibly afford to endure? Yes, the struggle is real, and Teigen wants Trump to pay: Chrissy Teigen has suggested the election of Donald Trump has had a detrimental effect on her mental health and her anxiety has been exacerbated by the actions of the Trump administration. The model, who is arguably one of President Trump's most outspoken and cutting...

**Written by Doug Powers Here's even more proof that “science” is whatever our progressive betters decide it is on any given day: When uploaded to Netflix, an episode of the educational children's show “Bill Nye the Science Guy” cut out a segment saying that chromosomes determine one's gender. In the original episode, titled “Probability,” a young woman told viewers, “I'm a girl. Could have just as easily been a boy, though, because the probability of becoming a girl is always 1 in 2.” “See, ins...

**Written by Doug Powers During the FBI director's questioning Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, James Comey acknowledged that a lot of classified emails had been sent from Huma Abedin's computer to the laptop of her husband, notorious cyber & cell phone pervert Anthony Weiner. Comey decided not to recommend prosecution for any of the involved parties, so he had to use words like “somehow” to act baffled by what happened: FBI Director James Comey revealed Wednesday that Hilla...

**Written by Doug Powers It's hard to tell if this event marked the official end of her 2016 campaign, or the official start of her 2020 campaign. You make the call: Hillary Clinton delivered her most forceful critique of President Donald Trump's 2016 victory on Tuesday, taking personal responsibility for her failed campaign but also pointed to the timing of a letter from FBI Director James Comey and Russian interference as factors. “If the election had been on October 27, I would be your presid...

A thinking mom's message for Jimmy Kimmel by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 I feel your pain. But please use your brain. On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect that required emergency open-heart surgery. Millions of American parents, myself included, have walked in Kimmel's shoes. We've experienced the terrifying roller coaster of emotions — panic, helplessness, ange...

**Written by Doug Powers The mayor of the city of Baltimore has asked the Trump administration for help with crime rates that are somehow worse than ever: Through the first four months of 2017, Baltimore has experienced its highest murder rate in recorded history — and now federal officials are sending in some help. Mayor Catherine Pugh last week asked for more federal resources to combat the city's surge in shootings, robberies and carjackings. On Tuesday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firear...

**Written by Doug Powers My working theory is that this is part of a larger initiative to lower the skyrocketing cost of school janitor hernia surgeries caused by the strain of lifting of trash bins overloaded with discarded uneaten quasi lunches: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is easing school lunch regulations spearheaded by the Obama administration. Newly minted Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue unveiled a new interim rule on Monday to suspend sodium reduction requirements and whole-grai...

**Written by Doug Powers One of these three topics got the New York Times a boatload of subscription cancellation notices. Which one? Option 1) Option 2) Option 3) And the answer is… you guessed it: The New York Times' decision to publish a debut op-ed column by the newly-hired Bret Stephens, a notable denier of anthropogenic climate change, has sparked an uproar from the paper's subscribers, who are furious that the Times decided to publish a column that is contrary to much of the modern...

**Written by Doug Powers Where I am there's no shortage of lightning in the area at the moment to help zap this Sunday open thread into existence: Just a couple things to kick it off… At last night's Trump-free White House Correspondents Dinner, Carl Bernstein inadvertently helped describe why so much of the MSM has managed to make itself a lightning rod for disdain: The “especially now” addendum that came into existence on January 20th is a nice touch, as is the qualifier for “versions” of...

**Written by Doug Powers A couple of years ago there was this “science” lecture from the DNC: Ex-Texas state senator and gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis flashed that “science” flair this week with the usual projection: But anyway, back to the Dems' lecture to Republicans about science being “whatever you want it to be.” **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

**Written by Doug Powers There's a three-ring circus of hypocrisy here that makes me want to do nothing but sit back, grab some popcorn, and laugh hysterically: Sen. Bernie Sanders believes former President Barack Obama's plan to receive $400,000 for speaking at a September Wall Street health conference is “distasteful,” The Vermont Independent reported Friday. Speaking with CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, Sanders labeled the transaction “not a good idea” and said he was “sorry President Obama made tha...

**Written by Doug Powers There are few outlets that do more to push the man-made climate change apocalypse panic button than the Weather Channel, and their latest offering is a stew of the words that are often present in these kinds of stories: Might, could, would, may, if, perhaps, possible, suggests, speculates, eventually, and of course “if this trend continues.” There's also a little swipe at the U.S. thrown in for good measure: The beginning of a collapse this century of sections of the An...