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Over $600,000 was raised on GoFundMe for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s family and he has since declined the offer — leaving the organizer of the funds to donate the money toward one of Kavanaugh’s charities of choice. John Hawkins opened up the GoFundMe campaign for Kavanaugh and his family during the justice’s challenging confirmation hearings as he was faced with sexual assault accusations. With more than 13,000 people contributing to the donations, the page collected $611,645 in total. Now that Brett Kavanaugh has been confirmed, I'm closing the GoFundMe for his Family https://t.co/FtKvtUcT2P | Final total? $611,645 — John Hawkins (@johnhawkinsrwn) October 6, 2018 Hawkins informed in a GoFundMe post that a former clerk for Kavanaugh revealed that the Justice is not able to accept the donations due to judicial ethics restrictions. Kavanaugh’s statement read: “Justice Kavanaugh did not authorize the use of his name to raise funds in connection with the GoFundM...

Appearing at a rally for Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous on Tuesday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) decided to throw out any high-minded ideas of dialogue and rant that President Trump was the most “racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted president in history.” Sanders stated: I just returned on Saturday from a nine-state tour working with great candidates all across this country. And I can tell you there are candidates and supporters working hour after hour to make sure we end one-party control of the United States government. They are working to make certain that the agenda of the most racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted president in history will go nowhere because Democrats will control the House and the Senate. He continued by resorting to the same litany of victims that the Democratic Party has been citing for decades in their attempts to paint the GOP as a party that has no compassion: While taking back the House and the Senate is obviously of enormous impo...

Mexican law enforcement officials deported two migrants traveling in the caravan that is headed for the U.S. border as they are reportedly fugitives wanted for their roles in a triple murder and drug trafficking. “The arrest took place as part of a joint effort between Mexico’s Federal Police and the National Migration Institute (INM) in conjunction with Interpol, Mexico’s Secretariat of the Interior said,” journalists Brandon Darby and Ildefonso Ortiz reported. “The two men were part of the migrant caravan from Honduras and requested permission to travel through Mexico.” Mexican authorities — in coordination with Interpol and the Honduran National Police — arrested and deported Adin Josué “N,” 21, and Juan Carlos “N,” 47, who are respectively accused of drug trafficking and being involved in murdering three people. The deportations of both men come as Mexican officials have warned about the caravan, saying recently that “migrants attacked its agents with rocks, glass bottles and fi...

Mexican law enforcement officials deported two migrants traveling in the caravan that is headed for the U.S. border as they are reportedly fugitives wanted for their roles in a triple murder and drug trafficking. “The arrest took place as part of a joint effort between Mexico’s Federal Police and the National Migration Institute (INM) in conjunction with Interpol, Mexico’s Secretariat of the Interior said,” journalists Brandon Darby and Ildefonso Ortiz reported. “The two men were part of the migrant caravan from Honduras and requested permission to travel through Mexico.” Mexican authorities — in coordination with Interpol and the Honduran National Police — arrested and deported Adin Josué “N,” 21, and Juan Carlos “N,” 47, who are respectively accused of drug trafficking and being involved in murdering three people. The deportations of both men come as Mexican officials have warned about the caravan, saying recently that “migrants attacked its agents with rocks, glass bottles and fi...

Barbra Streisand is once again threatening to move to Canada, this time over the midterm elections. “I’ve been thinking about, do I want to move to Canada? I don’t know,” Streisand told The New York Times. She said she might pack it up and move if the Democrats don’t take control of the House of Representatives. “I want to sleep nights … if we take the House I’ll be able to sleep a little bit better,” she said. “I’m just so saddened by this thing happening to our country. It’s making me fat. I hear what he said now, and I have to go eat pancakes now, and pancakes are very fattening.” Streisand, 76, is putting out a new album — titled “Walls” — on Friday that features a track titled, “Don’t Lie to Me,” which is about President Trump. The song contains the lyrics: “How do you sleep when the world keeps turning?/All that we built has come undone/How do you sleep when the world is burning?/Everyone answers to someone.” “I would lie awake at night with Trump’s outrages running through m...

On Monday, Rush Limbaugh highlighted a topic that inevitably comes up frequently on his radio show: Democratic hypocrisy — and, more particularly, Democratic hypocrisy on the issue of racially charged comments. Limbaugh took a moment to give twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a chance to demonstrate once again why she lost against a former reality TV star with the media unified against him and the worst likability score of any presidential candidate since pollsters first coined the term “likability.” “Did you hear what happened to Hillary?” he said, calling up the soundbite. “At the 92nd Street Y, Hillary Rodham Clinton was there being interviewed by Kaisha Swisher, who is a ‘tech blog journalist’ starting at the Wall Street Journal and is now part of the Vox or Axios empire. She works at something called Recode Decode, and Kara Swisher asks Mrs. Clinton about Senator Cory Booker.” He then played the clip, which featured this instantly infamous exchange: SWISHER: W...

Comedian Jon Stewart was interviewed by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Tuesday night, and the former “Daily Show” host absolutely nailed today’s political journalists in a way no one else has. Amanpour asked Stewart about the constant focus on President Donald Trump by the media, and the following exchange occurred: AMANPOUR: So, do you think – because, obviously, we are all caught up in this sort of daily Trump fest. I mean, every single newspaper, every radio station, every bit of social media – STEWART: You got to make money, too. AMANPOUR: Well, it’s dissecting – STEWART: You have bills to pay, man. You got electric bills, you got food. You know, this guy is – he’s giving you all cash. The cash flow in the Trump era for these TV stations and for these news – AMANPOUR: Can I say, that might have been an issue and maybe it still is an issue for the people who are the bean counters. STEWART: Yes. AMANPOUR: But we the journalists, we, I think, believe that our job is to navigate the...

With President Donald Trump and some members of the first family making a visit to Pittsburgh to pay their respects to the victims of the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, the group also visited the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. As Trump and the entourage made their way through the hospital, some staff shouted at to Trump to thank him for visiting. When he heard them, Trump and the first family turned around and went to talk to the staff. “Thank you, Mr. President, we love you,” one woman said. “Thanks for coming,” another said. “Can I shake your hand, sir?” a man asked. “You sure can,” Trump responded. The group also shook hands with first lady Melania Trump. “Thank you all very much,” Trump told the crowd. “Good job.” Watch the video below: Trump, along with wife Melania, daughter Ivanka, and son-in-law Jared, visited the Tree of Life synagogue at the invitation of its rabbi. Trump, who, according to press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, described ...

The U.S. Supreme Court could be forced to review Roe v. Wade sooner than people think following an Alabama high court decision to affirm the state’s current fetal homicide law. According to The Washington Times, the Alabama fetal homicide law stemmed from a recent case in which a man was convicted of double-homicide for murdering his wife, Jessie Livell Phillips, when she was eight months pregnant. The jury cited the 2006 law defining a child in utero as a “person.” After being sentenced to death by the court, the convicted murderer appealed the decision to the state Supreme Court, alleging that unborn children do not have the same protections as those who are born. The court rejected his case, with Justice Tom Parker declaring it a “logical fallacy” for the government to declare homicide in the case of a man murdering a pregnant woman but not when a woman gets an abortion — particularly a late-term abortion, which can be done up to the moment a child is born. While pro-lifers are t...

The rabbi for Tree of Life Synagogue — which was the site of worst anti-Semitic attack in United States history last weekend — says he’s received death threats from people angry that he welcomed President Donald Trump to Pittsburgh to attend a memorial service for his slain congregants. Rabbi Jeffrey Myers led services at an interfaith vigil Sunday evening for the 11 members of his own synagogue who perished in the attack, which took place while he was leading his own congregation in prayer. He had “just begun Saturday morning service,” the Daily Beast reported,” when a gunman burst through the doors screaming, ‘all Jews must die,'” and opened fire. But despite the tragedy he’d only just watched unfold, Myers says he became the victim of new attacks, this time, reaming him out for daring to suggest President Donald Trump was welcome at the Tree of Life synagogue and encouraging the President to visit Pittsburgh for the memorial. On Monday, CNN anchor Alisyn Camerota tried to goa...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) says he’ll follow President Donald Trump’s lead calling for an end to “birthright” citizenship, and introduce legislation in the house to clarify both the Fourteenth Amendment and federal regulations which define the concept. The Hill reports that Graham plans to introduce the bill in the Senate as soon as Congress returns from its October recess. “Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship. I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform — and at the same time — the elimination of birthright citizenship,” Graham explained on Twitter. Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthright citizenship. https://t.co/kCa0ko7P76 — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 30, 2018 “I’ve always supported comprehensive immigration reform — and at the same time — the elimination of birthright citizenship,” Graham added. Finally, a president willing to take on this absurd policy of birthrigh...

A Honduran national traveling with the migrant caravan that is headed toward the U.S. border admitted to a Fox News reporter this week that he fled his country after he “got in trouble” for “attempted murder.” Fox News’ Griff Jenkins, using a translator, interviewed a man named Jose, who admitted that he had a “third-degree felony” for “attempted murder.” “In my country, Honduras, I got in trouble,” Jose said. “Can you ask him exactly what happened?” Jenkins asked the translator. After asking Jose and receiving his response, the translator said: “a third-degree felony … attempted murder.” WATCH: A migrant in the caravan tells a Fox News reporter that he fled Honduras because he "got in trouble." What kind of trouble? A "third-degree felony" for "attempted murder" pic.twitter.com/bhBkJr29eV — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 31, 2018 “It’s criminals in here. It is,” the man said. “But it is not that many. It is good people here trying to ge...

The movie was a smash success, but children of a certain color are being told they can’t dress as a superhero from “Black Panther.” White Social Justice scolds are virtue signaling by “asking” if they should allow their white children – or if any white children should be allowed – to dress as T’Challa or Princess Shuri from the film. The people who helped create the “Black Panther” characters, however, told The Washington Post that any child should be able to dress as the superhero they revere the most. “The idea that only black kids would wear Black Panther costumes is insane to me,” said Reg Hudlin, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who has worked on “Black Panther” projects from movies to TV to comics. “Why would anyone say that?” Hudlin went on to praise children who see T’Challa and idolize him. “I love that all kids want to be Black Panther or Shuri or the Dora Milaje,” Hudlin said. “These are the small steps that make the world a better place.” Hudlin further noted that he alway...

On Friday, numerous Kenwood High School students in Baltimore, Maryland physically attacked a fellow classmate for wearing a shirt with a Confederate flag on it, students say. A video of the apparent brawl, wherein multiple students are seen assaulting a classmate as a teacher unsuccessfully tries to break up the mayhem, has since made the rounds on social media. School officials confirmed to WBFF Fox 45 that “there was a fight of some sort” in the classroom, though they declined to comment further. According to witnesses in the school, the male student was brutally attacked while sitting in a ninth grade classroom solely for wearing the shirt. “The people were just randomly seeing the guy and hearing about him wearing a shirt like that, and when they saw him, they decided to be rash about it,” said Kenwood student Alex Wilkinson. Wilkinson was in an adjacent classroom from where the fight initially broke out; it eventually poured into the hallway. “I definitely saw just a bunch o...

WASHINGTON – The United States said on Monday it will send over 5,200 troops to help secure the border with Mexico, a far larger-than-expected deployment as President Donald Trump hardens his stance on immigration ahead of Nov. 6 mid-term elections. The deployment will create an active-duty force comparable in size to the U.S. military contingent in Iraq, as Trump’s administration draws attention to a caravan of migrants that is trekking through Mexico toward the United States. General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, the head of U.S. Northern Command, said 800 U.S. troops were already en route to the Texas border and more were headed to the borders in California and Arizona. “The president has made it clear that border security is national security,” O’Shaughnessy said, as he detailed a much larger deployment that the 800 to 1,000 troops predicted by U.S. officials last week. O’Shaughnessy said some soldiers would be armed although it was unclear who, beyond U.S. military police, might nee...

President Donald Trump said he will seek to end the right of citizenship to children born in the United States to non-citizens and illegal immigrants in his latest bid to dramatically reshape immigration policies as he seeks to shore up Republicans ahead of next week’s congressional elections. Trump would target the citizenship right through an executive order, he told Axios in an interview published on Tuesday, a move that would prompt a legal fight. The right of U.S. citizenship is granted to U.S.-born children under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which cannot be changed by the president. It was unclear what specific action his order would pursue, and Trump gave no details. Representatives for the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “This is blatantly unconstitutional,” Omar Jadwat, head of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project told Reuters. “The president obviously cannot overturn the Constitution by executive order. The notion that he would e...

A bizarre and convoluted story involving Robert Mueller, two right-wing personalities, and a woman who “doesn’t exist,” has resulted in the special counsel asking the FBI to look into allegations that “women were offered money to make false claims” about him, and “right-wing Twitter troll” Jacob Wohl accusing the media of conducting a “coordinated smear campaign” against Mueller. In an email to The Atlantic Tuesday, Mueller’s spokesman Peter Carr said the special counsel has referred an apparent smear campaign against him to the FBI. “When we learned last week of allegations that women were offered money to make false claims about the Special Counsel, we immediately referred the matter to the FBI for investigation,” said Carr. The whole absurd mess began with Wohl claiming on Twitter Monday that “several media sources” had told him that “a scandalous story about Mueller is breaking tomorrow.” He followed that up on Tuesday by retweeting a story by the Gateway Pundit headlined: “BREAK...

CNN host Don Lemon made sure to impose his overtly partisan view of the horrific mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue and the series of package bombs sent by a lunatic in Florida during a panel discussion on CNN Monday night. From Lemon’s perspective, the group to blame for the violence is, of course, Republicans and the right-wing media because, he suggested, Democrats don’t commit such violence. Actually, he didn’t just suggest it, he outright said it before being called out on his own show. In response to conservative commentator Mike Shields pointing out that Republican Rep. Steve Scalise was grievously wounded by a left-wing mass shooter who repeatedly screamed “This is for health care!” as he opened fire on a Republican congressional baseball practice, Lemon blasted Shields for what he said was an unfair comparison. “People don’t want to let you speak — it’s not because they don’t want to hear what you have to say, it’s because you’re not being honest with it,” said Lemo...

Two new polls show Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn cementing her lead in her race for the Senate seat against Democrat former governor Phil Bredesen. A new NBC/Marist poll, conducted between October 23 and October 27, shows Blackburn garnering 51% of likely voters, compared with 46% for Bredesen. Another poll, from Vox Populi Polling, conducted between October 27 and October 29, shows Blackburn grabbing 53% of the vote to Bredesen’s 47%. As The Tennessean points out, “Blackburn’s lead coincides with soaring popularity for President Donald Trump, who now has support of 56 percent of likely voters in the NBC/Marist poll, compared with 39 percent who don’t support his job performance. That’s compared with 47 percent who approved of the president and 43 percent who disagreed with him two months ago.” Blackburn has reversed the candidates’ status; an August NBC/Marist poll found Bredesen with a two-point lead; a Vox Populi poll conducted in September also showed Bredesen leading...

Monday on CNN, network host Don Lemon, referring to the shooting of two black people in Kentucky last week, the pipe bombs sent to various famous Democrats, and the shooter in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, said that white men are “the biggest terror threat in this country.” Lemon joined Chris Cuomo, who prompted Lemon’s statement with this preamble: “It’s not just Pittsburgh. It’s not just the bomber. There was another hate-filled criminal just last week in Kentucky. Another white man, history of violence, in custody for shooting and killing and killing two African-Americans in a grocery store, Krogers, but what he tried to do was barge into a predominantly black church and fail. And then he picked a secondary target. He’s being investigated for hate crimes. Don Lemon is here right now. We barely had time to cover it because we were distracted by another extremist that was doing bad things in the name of hate.” Lemon responded: And now another one. And then you have all of them...

On Tuesday, it was reported that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh declined over $600,000 that had been raised for him and his family after the brutal treatment of Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. Kavanaugh cited judicial ethics concerns as he turned the generous offer down, stating that he appreciated the sentiment but ethics rules precluded him accepting the funds. Travis Lenkner, a former clerk of Kavanaugh’s, sent the statement from Kavanaugh ten days ago, but John Hawkins, the well-known conservative who organized the GoFundMe campaign, said he didn’t publish the letter immediately because he needed time to arrange an alternative destination for the funds. Kavanaugh’s statement read: Justice Kavanaugh did not authorize the use of his name to raise funds in connection with the GoFundMe campaign. He was not able to do so for judicial ethics reasons. Judicial ethics rules caution judges against permitting the use of the prestige of judicial office for fund-raising p...

There may be nothing more entertaining than watching the left spin themselves up into a lather because they can’t decide which of their pet platform issues to throw under the bus in order to smear the president. President Donald Trump, the man who can do no good in the eyes of the left, just issued an executive order to designate a national monument, his first of this kind, and liberals are twisted in knots trying to find something wrong with it. This particular national monument is Camp Nelson in Nicholasville, Kentucky. The reason this monument is so special is because it recognizes the role this location played during the Civil War as “one of the largest recruitment and training depots for United States Colored Troops,” reported Stars and Stripes. While Kentucky was the last state in the Union to let African-American men enlist in the army, Camp Nelson sent 23,000 African-American Union soldiers to fight in the Civil War. The camp housed nearly 180,000 at that time. Interior Se...

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise reacted with shock to CNN host Don Lemon’s claim on his program Monday, “I don’t see Democrats killing people” over politics. Lemon argued during a panel discussion that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric had contributed to the political climate in which Saturday’s synagogue attack in Pittsburgh and the pipe bombs being sent to CNN and prominent Democrats last week had taken place. Conservative commentator Mike Shields countered that people on both sides of the political spectrum created the current climate and are in fact guilty of engaging in violence. He offered the example of James Hodgkinson, who shot and nearly killed Scalise, as well as a former Republican staff member, with the apparent intention to do far more harm. Hodgkinson fired at least 70 rounds and managed to wound six during the June 2017 melee at a baseball practice. The 66-year-old reportedly confirmed prior to opening fire in Alexandria, Virginia, that those on the field were Re...