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Over the weekend, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) doubled down on her assessment that VA hospitals are not in need of serious reform and, in fact, represent a functional example of a state-run healthcare system, calling the many stories that contradict her assertions, “myths.” Ocasio-Cortez has been on a two-week campaign against a bill that would require major reforms to take place within the Department of Veterans Affairs healthcare system, calling the VA’s care “high quality,” and claiming that even semi-privatization of the system would plunge it into chaos because of the “for-profit healthcare industry,” according to The Washington Examiner. In a series of remarks, Ocasio-Cortez insisted that “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and that complaints about the VA mishandling patients and misappropriating funds, and of long waits for substandard care, are all “myths.” WATCH: “You might have heard Fox News talking about it,” Ocasio-Cortez said, “because there is a myth that al

Ever since Donald Trump began pushing for a wall at the southern U.S. border, Democrat leaders in the House and Senate have declared that there is no crisis there, and therefore no need for such a barrier. Many of the Democratic candidates running for president have said so, too. “This emergency at the border is fake,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) said President Trump “created a fiction about a crisis at the border.” But that’s not what a growing number of Democrats across the country think, at least not anymore. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds nearly a quarter of Democrats (24%) say there is a “crisis” at the U.S.-Mexico border. That number has soared 17 percentage points since the last poll in January. Independents, too, are rethinking the situation. Now, nearly a third (30%) think there’s a crisis, up 9 points since the last poll. Overall, 35% of Americans think there’s a “crisis,” up 11 points since January. “The shifting views have al

Former Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke will take your prediction that humanity has a mere dozen years to address “climate change” or face potentially catastrophic consequences, and up the ante. In an interview Monday night, O’Rourke claimed that civilization has only ten years left before rising seas and choked air threaten the very fabric of human civilization. “We have one last chance to unleash the ingenuity and political will of hundreds of millions of Americans to meet this moment before it’s too late.” O’Rourke told MSNBC host Chris Hayes. “The actions we’re announcing today will help us get there.” The interview was part of a rollout for O’Rourke’s environmental plan, which would see the United States spend around $1.5 trillion over the course of the next 10 — beginning with Beto’s hypothetical inauguration in 2021, hence the “ten years.” He’s not counting the next two years of Trump’s presidency. The plan, which, like the Green New Deal, focuses on energy innovation and

MSNBC reporter Kerry Sanders accidentally made a strong case for the Second Amendment on Tuesday during a segment on the far-left network about the chaos in Venezuela. The segment came after opposition leader Juan Guaido called on Venezuelan citizens and members of the armed forces to join a movement to overthrow brutal socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro. Sanders noted that Maduro still maintained control of the military through the whole ordeal, adding: “You have to understand, in Venezuela gun ownership is not something that’s open to everybody. So if the military have the guns, they have the power and as long as Nicolás Maduro controls the military, he controls the country.” Sanders comments came after an armored Venezuelan military vehicle plowed into a crowd of protesters earlier in the day in a video clip that went viral and was seen around the world. WATCH: MSNBC Report on Venezuela Makes Case for Second Amendment https://t.co/pOdsekefc8 pic.twitter.com/Uqh4Vs5pyE — Free

The FBI investigated “anti-fascist” activists who planned to buy weapons from a Mexican drug cartel in order to “stage an armed rebellion” and sow renewed chaos at the southern United States border amid the ongoing crisis there. Documents obtained by the San Diego Union-Tribune revealed the alleged plot and the government’s subsequent investigation. The FBI document, dated December 2018, detailed an alleged plot where Antifa activists planned to buy weapons from an alleged Mexican cartel gunman, alias “Cobra Commander,” in order to “stage an armed rebellion at the border” hoping to “disrupt U.S. law enforcement and military security operations at the US/Mexican border,” according to the Union-Tribune. The FBI learned of the plot while collecting intelligence on American journalists, lawyers, and activists working with migrants in the Tijuana region, a popular destination for migrants heading north from Central America. The six-page document is an “information report, not finally ev

President Donald Trump has signed a presidential memorandum to make changes to the current system processing asylum applications. This includes requiring asylum-seekers to pay a fee before their application can be considered. According to a news release issued by the White House on Monday, the new rules would “[r]equire fees for asylum applications and work permit applications.” In addition to a fee, the new guidelines would disqualify any asylum-seekers who enter the United States illegally and prevent them from getting work permits. Currently, asylum-seekers are allowed to work while their claims are being processed. It would also orders U.S. officials to process any application for asylum within 180 days. These court proceedings would be streamlined. U.S. officials will have 90 days to figure out how to implement the new rules. The president also promised to fix asylum laws. The news release called out asylum-seekers who make “meritless claims” in order to enter the United State

According to reports, President Donald Trump met with staunchly anti-Islamist Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi earlier this month and is now working to formally deem the Muslim Brotherhood — the international Islamist group that serves as the mother’s milk for much of the Sunni extremism that plagues the Arab world — a terrorist organization. The move would bring the United States in line with many anti-Islamist Arab allies, such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain — each of which also formally designates the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Per The New York Times: The White House directed national security and diplomatic officials to find a way to place sanctions on the group after a White House visit on April 9 by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, for whom the Brotherhood represents a source of political opposition. In a private meeting without reporters and photographers, Mr. el-Sisi urged Mr. Trump to take that step and join Egypt i

Security forces with Venezuela’s socialist government clashed with supporters of opposition leader Juan Guaido on Tuesday as stunning footage showed a military vehicle plowing into a crowd of people. “In a video broadcast live on telecasts across the world, the armored vehicle can be seen driving over the center of a road, hitting a crowd of demonstrators purportedly throwing rocks at security forces,” Fox News reported. “The dramatic events come after Guaido, alongside detained activist Leopoldo Lopez, called for a military uprising Tuesday morning in his boldest action to oust socialist leader Nicolas Maduro.” WATCH: #LoÚltimo Tanquetas militares arrollan a grupo de manifestantes en Caracas, Venezuela https://t.co/yqNEZK7rZ3 #TensiónEnVenezuela pic.twitter.com/ZksuvrZHhZ — Noticias Caracol (@NoticiasCaracol) April 30, 2019 President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both weighed in on the escalating situati

Iran sentenced an award-winning female human rights lawyer on Monday to 148 lashes and 38 years behind bars for defending Muslim women’s prerogative to remove the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab in public. Her sentence came after she had already served three years of a six-and-a-half year term imposed in 2010 for allegedly disseminating propaganda and conspiring against the state. Nasrin Sotoudeh dismissed the charges as bogus. On Monday, the human rights group Amnesty International blasted Iran for imposing what it described as a harsh sentence, noting: Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes because of her work defending women’s rights & protesting against Iran’s forced hijab laws. …Nasrin has dedicated her life to peaceful human rights work, including defending women who peacefully protest against Iran’s degrading forced hijab (veiling) laws. Women and girls in Iran are not allowed to leave their ho

On Sunday, Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton reported on Peter Schweizer’s investigation of former vice president Joe Biden’s family’s business dealings with China’s government, concluding that Biden was “compromised by a foreign power and unfit to be president.” Hunter Biden — Biden’s second son — secured $1 billion in financing from the Bank of China — an arm of the Chinese government — for a private equity firm founded by himself and Christopher Heinz, the stepson of former Secretary of State John Kerry. That private equity firm was named Bohai-Harvest RST (BHR). Joe Biden “is the very definition of a corrupt insider,” said Hilton, rejecting left-wing and partisan Democrat marketing of Joe Biden as “a man of the working people.” He profiled Biden in a segment entitled, “Swamp Watch.” Hilton added, “With Joe Biden … there is a much more worrying relationship with a foreign power, one that presents a vastly bigger threat to America than Russia — China.” Hilton recalled Joe Biden’s D

“We are at war with these people.” That is how Elan Carr, the U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, described President Donald Trump’s approach to antisemitic hate groups as he addressed mourners at the Poway, California, synagogue on Monday afternoon during funeral services for Lori Gilbert Kaye. Kaye, 60, died last Saturday after diving between the gunman and Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein, who was wounded and lost an index finger in the confrontation. Two others — ironically, visiting from an Israeli community targeted by rockets from Palestinian terrorists — were wounded before congregants were able to drive the shooter away. One of those, Iraq War combat veteran Oscar Stewart, frightened the gunman by shouting at him. The other, off-duty Border Patrol officer Jonathan Morales, was given a handgun by a congregant and chased the gunman, returning fire and noting the details of the suspect’s vehicle, which helped law enforcement arrest him quickly. Carr, a former gang

Four northern Virginia school systems, reportedly insisting that there are “thousands of students in Virginia public schools who … identify as transgender,” are supporting a transgender teen’s lawsuit filed because she was prevented from using the boys’ restroom. Gavin Grimm sued the school board in Gloucester County, Virginia in 2015, claiming that its policy violated Title IX and the equal protection clause of the Constitution. The Obama administration had ruled that Title IX, which in 1972 banned discrimination in public schools “on the basis of sex,” also banned discrimination based on gender identity. In May 2016, the Obama administration issued a directive that threatened schools that did not comply, writing: A school may provide separate facilities on the basis of sex, but must allow transgender students access to such facilities consistent with their gender identity. A school may not require transgender students to use facilities inconsistent with their gender identity or to

Democrats fear that President Donald Trump’s winning economy may spell electoral doom for them in 2020, Politico reports, citing at least one top Democrat pollster. “Republicans have long believed that if only the economy held up, President Donald Trump could win a second term,” Politico’s David Siders wrote this weekend in a piece filed from Las Vegas, Nevada: Following another spate of positive economic news — and without a cohesive economic message of their own — many Democrats are starting to fear he might. Anxiety on the left reached new heights last week, with the government reporting that the nation’s economy had grown at an unexpectedly fast pace in the first quarter of the year. While Trump took credit for the surging economy, Democratic presidential contenders were immersing themselves in the Mueller report and debating whether incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote. The piece quotes Democrat pollster and strategist Celinda Lake admitting that the Democrats do not h

A professor at the University of California San Diego’s School of Medicine drew outrage on social media after reportedly comparing unborn human babies to parasites, cancers, and more. According to Campus Reform, a photo of one of the professor’s slides made its way onto Twitter, where it sparked anger in many social media users. The slide, photographed by user Dylan Griswold, explained “parallels between fetuses and cancers.” The slide stated that fetuses are similar to cancers in that the fetus — a “legitimate parasite” — “rapidly grows, invades, manipulates [the] immunity of [the] mother” and “reshapes blood vessels.” Cancer, the slide said, “crashes the party” and is also responsible for the aforementioned effects. Griswold, a Stanford medical student, captioned the tweet, “No joke, a friend just sent me this slide from her upper-level biology course. I’m speechless. Create your own caption.” Campus Reform was able to obtain the full presentation, which was reportedly titled,

Federal law enforcement officials announced on Monday that a U.S. Army vet who recently converted to Islam was arrested late last week in California for allegedly planning terror attacks in Los Angeles. The suspect was arrested on Friday “after he received what he thought was a bomb, but was actually an inert device supplied to him by an undercover law enforcement officer, federal officials said,” CBS Los Angeles reported. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that, according to a federal affidavit, the suspect considered “various attacks — including targeting Jews, churches, and police officers” and ultimately “decided to detonate an IED at a rally scheduled to take place in Long Beach this past weekend. As part of the plot, [the suspect] asked his confederate — who actually was cooperating with the FBI as part of the investigation — to find a bomb-maker, and [the suspect] last week purchased several hundred nails to be used as shrapnel inside the IED.” The Washington Times noted th

President Trump sent certain segments of population into outraged spasms on Friday when he described Robert E. Lee as a “great general.” Trying to lend context to his infamous “very fine people” remark about the 2017 Charlottesville protests, Trump said this: I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general. Whether you like it or not, he was one of the great generals. I have spoken to many generals here, right at the White House, and many people thought — of the generals, they think that he was maybe their favorite general. Trump is, of course, completely correct. Robert E. Lee has always been regarded as a military genius, and for good reason. This is not controversial to anyone with a sixth grade education in American history. But surveys show that many Americans don’t even know when the Civil War took place, and a sizable number think Lincoln led the Allied Forces rather than the Union Army, so it’s no surpr

Election denier Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s failed 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate, continued to falsely claim that she won the race last year in an interview with The New York Times Magazine published on Sunday. Abrams, who lost by nearly 55,000 votes to Republican Brian Kemp, continued to claim without evidence that the election was somehow not fair to her as she also bragged about having “a dramatic increase in turnout.” Abrams claimed that her refusal to accept the fact that she lost her election was different than President Donald Trump raising concern over voter fraud, despite the fact that there is proof to back up some of what Trump says about voter fraud including a report published today about 10 people charged in Oregon for alleged voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election. “Trump offers no empirical evidence to meet his claims,” Abrams continued. “I make my claims based on empirical evidence, on a demonstrated pattern of behavior that began with the fact that th

“Avengers: Endgame” may be about to set a world record for earnings on its opening weekend, but there are some Marvel fans who were left very unsatisifed by the epic conclusion to the multi-year Avengers saga. “Avengers: Endgame” may be about to set a world record for earnings on its opening weekend, but there are some Marvel fans who were left very unsatisifed by the epic conclusion to the multi-year Avengers saga. Predictably, many of those fans are self-identified social justice warriors who are concerned that “Avengers: Endgame” has too few LGBT characters and that audience members may have found some fat jokes, made at the expense of core Avenger Thor, emotionally scarring. Warning: Story may contain mild spoilers “Avengers: Endgame” does not feature any overtly LGBT superheros, but it does have an LGBT character: a man, “Joe,” who attends a support group hosted by Captain America Steve Rogers for survivors of supervillain Thanos’ “snap,” which rid the universe of half of all

President Trump committed obstruction. From the moment he defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have tried to overturn the 2016 election, and President Trump has obstructed their efforts every step of the way. First, partisans within the Department of Justice spied on his campaign. They used a mainstream news article to obtain a warrant to surveil Trump’s campaign staff, all while misleading the FISA court judge as to the source of the article: an unverified oppo file underwritten by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC. Recently-uncovered text messages between disgraced FBI agents Peter Strzok and Lisa Page suggest this surveillance continued after the election, shifting focus from the campaign to the transition team. Then, according to disgraced FBI agent Andrew McCabe, several DOJ and FBI officials discussed staging a coup d’etat by invoking the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein allegedly suggested wearing a wire to secr

“Avengers: Endgame” star Zoe Saldana has three sons whom she is now raising in a “gender-neutral environment,” according to a glowing profile of the actress in Us Weekly. Saldana operates a highly non-traditional household. Not only did her husband, Marco Perego, take on her last name when they got married in 2013, she also has her sons play with both “female toys and male toys.” Recently, while celebrating the Planet Oat Oatmilk National Launch, with which she partnered, Saldana confessed to the magazine how she handles their boys when they utter biologically justified observations like “boys are stronger than girls.” “I’m always gonna be honest and that is always the best way to welcome healthy and truthful discourse, especially around parenthood,” she told Us Weekly. “[The twins] made a comment two weeks ago like, ‘Boys are stronger than girls,’ because they’re in that stage of comparisons. And you have to take a moment and kind of put together an answer that they will understand.

Actress and #MeToo activist Alyssa Milano took to MSNBC airwaves Monday to defend former vice president and declared Democrat presidential contender Joe Biden over claims of sexual misconduct. Rationalizing Biden’s bizarre behavior — which includes stroking children’s faces and shoulders and sniffing the hair of women — Milano explained that Biden simply has “cultural differences.” The actress told MSNBC anchors that she spoke privately to Mr. Biden about his suspect behavior with women and noted that she was impressed by the Democrat. Biden told her privately what she wishes “more men in positions of power would say out loud.” “He said to me, ‘I’m willing to learn, I’m willing to listen. I didn’t realize that I’m too affectionate,'” said Milano. The “Charmed” star then echoed a line the political Right had been emphasizing ad nauseam: there is a spectrum when it come to sexual misconduct. “And I think that this brings up a really important question that we really haven’t touch