**Written by Doug Powers Here's the ceremonial first pitch for today's “opening day of baseball season” edition of the weekly Sunday open thread: A few things to keep the ball rolling… Dem Rep. Adam Schiff has been tirelessly searching for proof to support the Dem narrative on Trump, Russia and the election. If Roomba made a “conclusion in search of supporting evidence” vacuum it'd have Schiff's picture on it. During the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia, Schiff sounded like he h...

**Written by Doug Powers Early frontrunner for Dems 2020 nomination? Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. But she's working hard to woo the progressives, that's for sure: A Massachusetts lawmaker is defending a Facebook post she made alerting immigrants to rumored ICE raids in Brockton. The post set off a firestorm of responses and on Tuesday night, DuBois said she did nothing wrong. “Passing information along that is already all over the community not only lets the people I represent know w...

**Written by Doug Powers Looks like PETA might have decided to start April Fools Day about 12 hours early: Did you know that milk has long been a symbol used by white supremacists? pic.twitter.com/ojDffu1APq — PETA (@peta) March 31, 2017 What a baseless cheap shot at our former president and his supporters: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

Illegal? There's a new one. Leave it to Vox to explain why late term abortion should be legal but how Pence might be committing a crime by turning down a dinner invitation. And a **Written by Doug Powers Well, you've probably heard by now the reports about Mike Pence's marriage philosophy and practices. Seems the couple has over the years extra careful to never put themselves into potentially compromising positions, and the side of the aisle where Ted Kennedy and Bill Clinton are lionized whil...

**Written by Doug Powers Same shtick, different decade: Al Gore presented a new trailer for “An Inconvenient Sequel” during CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a decade after he promoted the original “An Inconvenient Truth.” The former vice president revealed presented the trailer during the Paramount presentation and was warmly received by the audience. “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” opens July 28. Released in 2006, “An Inconvenient Truth” was a solid performer for Paramount with nearl...

Benjamin Crump: TV's rising fake news star by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 He's the new Al Sharpton on steroids — and he's coming to a TV near you. Benjamin Crump, camera-lovin' lawyer for the families of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, rocketed to fame perpetuating the “Hands up, don't shoot” lie. Never mind that even the left-wing Obama Justice Department concluded that the 22 witnesses who manufactured the Black Lives Matter-promoted narrative were unreliable, inconsist...

**Written by Doug Powers President Donald Trump has signed orders overturning Obama's climate change polices, and you know what that means? We're dooooomed! Moore would give an exact date of the human race's Trump-induced extinction but he doesn't want to appear to be exaggerating. What was keeping humanity from extinction before Obama and his pen & phone took office is anybody's guess. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

**Written by Doug Powers Yesterday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions triggered progressive mayors everywhere with this announcement: After that announcement, the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court said that enforcing federal laws at the local level is a threat to the rule of law, or something: California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye did not mention President Trump by name in her annual State of the Judiciary speech Monday, but she blasted federal actions on immig...

**Written by Doug Powers Make some popcorn before reading this one: Delaware Sen. Chris Coons said he doubts Neil Gorsuch will get the necessary 60 votes in the Senate to be confirmed to the Supreme Court, and that he is bracing for Republicans to go for the so-called nuclear option to push the Trump administration's pick through without any support from Democrats. “I think this is tragic,” Coons said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe” about the nuclear option that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell h...

**Written by Doug Powers First off, the gist of the story: A Washington State woman under a court order to stay away from the area of the White House was arrested for the third time in a week overnight after she scaled a fence at the nearby U.S. Treasury, the Secret Service said Sunday. Uniformed Secret Service officers arrested the woman after an alarm was sounded about 2:15 a.m. Sunday, the agency said. The woman had successfully scaled the fence at the Treasury's southeast corner, at 15th Str...

**Written by Doug Powers Just because Joe Biden is out of office doesn't mean he's retired from the zinger game: “I had planned on running for president and although it would have been a very difficult primary, I think I could have won,” he said. “I don't know, maybe not. But I thought I could have won.” “I had a lot of data and I was fairly confident that if I were the Democratic Party's nominee, I had a better than even chance of being president,” Biden continued. Biden explained that he didn...

Your “Hillary coming out of the woods” **Written by Doug Powers Here's the fuse lighting on another March Madness edition of the Sunday open thread, and what better way to tip it off than with some good, old fashioned rich liberal hypocrisy, California-style! The city of Malibu voted last week to be a “sanctuary city” for illegals: The idea was inspired by one of the town's many famous residents: actor Martin Sheen. In December, he grabbed the lectern during a City Council meeting and — as ...

**Written by Doug Powers Here's a little bit of Friday news that would have been called “breaking” if I'd been able to break on it earlier, but the American Health Care Act will not be happening: House Speaker Paul Ryan sensationally pulled his Obamacare repeal bill from the floor Friday, a day after President Donald Trump had threatened to walk away from health care reform if he didn't get a vote. After a dramatic day on Capitol Hill, Ryan rushed from the White House to Capitol Hill to tell Tru...

**Written by Doug Powers Uh oh, Southside Not With You: Barack Obama's name is revered in his home state. But the Illinois House has rejected making his birthday a state holiday. Legislation to make the 44th president's Aug. 4th birthday a state holiday fell six votes short Tuesday. Chicago Democratic Rep. Sonya Harper says it would honor a man who adopted Chicago as his home and served in the Illinois State Senate. But Rep. Steven Andersson of Geneva suggested it be honorary. The Republican fl...

Blame the threat of global warming, because if somebody doesn't carry on the family business, things are going to get heated at a certain home in Chappaqua. (h/t **Written by Doug Powers Note: The side-effect of global warming described below is Al Gore certified 100 percent “settled science” ***** If you're on the Left and thinking about running for political office, the first thing you need to do — even if you have famous parents — is get in good with the party's religious leaders: Every...

No, seriously, that's an actual report: THIS. Is CNN. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter **Written by Doug Powers Donald Trump slams the mainstream media a lot, but few outlets take more direct “fake news” shots to the chops than CNN. So this is how they prove him wrong? No, seriously, that's an actual report: THIS. Is CNN. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

**Written by Doug Powers Gloriously self-unaware and proud of it, former Obama adviser Susan Rice is really swinging for the shamelessness fences with this one: Funny stuff coming from one of the early pioneers of “fake news.” Projection: It's not just for breakfast anymore! **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe       

Bring Assata back ASAP by Michelle MalkinCreators Syndicate Copyright 2017 If FBI agents have time to track down Tom Brady's stolen Super Bowl jerseys, why can't they bring back AWOL convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur? It is time for the agency's most wanted woman in the world to pay her dues. And President Trump is just the man to force this militant and unrepentant escapee to face justice. Forty years ago this week, a New Jersey jury convicted Joanne D. Chesimard – a.k.a. Assata Shakur – on f...

**Written by Doug Powers At Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Neil Gorsuch, Sen. Al Franken proved that he's good enough, smart enough, and doggone it he's going to serve as the inspiration for a progressive court-of-hypothetical-appeals justice in an SNL skit someday: He relentlessly sparred with Gorsuch about the nominee's dissent in the case of a trucking company employee who was fired after abandoning his cargo when no one came to help him during a breakdown, and...

**Written by Doug Powers How are Senate Judicial Committee Democrat attempts to prove that Neil Gorsuch isn't fit to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court going? Allow Chuck Schumer to provide a big clue: We'll know it's going really bad if Dems pull the fire alarm just before the vote is taken next month. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe