Day: May 23, 2018

We Just Lost One Of The Last Legends At 85… RIP

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth, who wrote about Jewish life, male lust and America died from congestive heart failure on Tuesday in a Manhattan hospital, according to reports. He was 85.

Roth was surrounded by close friends and family, his friend Judith Thurman said. The people who visited him in his final days came from all walks of life, from writers and lifelong friends, to people he’s helped and inspired along the way, FOX 61 reports.

“He was an incredibly generous person. Always very exigent, and he held you to a very high standard — and he held himself to an even higher standard,” Thurman said. “He was, in my opinion, a very great writer and a very great man.”

Roth was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 19, 1933. He briefly attended the Newark branch of Rutgers University before he transferred to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, to discover “the rest of America,” according to the Philip Roth Society. He got his master’s degree from the University of Chicago in 1955.
After his graduation, he enlisted in the Army but was discharged after he suffered a back injury. He returned to his Chicago alma mater, where he was an English instructor while he wrote fiction.

A few years later, his first book was published.

Roth, who often employed his Newark upbringing as an anchor in his writing, was most famous for his novels/novellas “Goodbye, Columbus” (1959), “Portnoy’s Complaint” (1969), “The Plot Against America” (2004), and 1997’s “American Pastoral,” for which Roth won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, NJ.Com reports.

A prolific writer, Roth penned more than two dozen novels between 1959 and 2010, in addition to numerous short stories, essays and nonfiction pieces that appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, New York Times Book Review and many more publications.

In 2012, he announced that his most recent book, “Nemesis,” published two years prior, would be the last one. He made the decision after he reread all his books, FOX 61 reported.

“I decided that I was done with fiction,” he said at the time.”I don’t want to read any more of it, write any more of it, and I don’t even want to talk about it anymore. … I no longer feel this dedication to write what I have experienced my whole life.”

Our thoughts and prayers as well as our deepest condolences go out to his family, friends and fans.

President Trump Just CUT Them ALL! ‘Totally Unacceptable, Not Happening Here!’

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Donald Trump made a huge impact from the moment he ran for president and over the last year he made a major change in the White House. One of the biggest changes that Trump has made in the White House is one that his fans will be thrilled to hear about, but it has his critics absolutely irritated for the comparisons that it’s creating with former President Barack Obama. The latter’s fans might be very unhappy about what Trump did, but that’s completely acceptable considering the major change that Trump is doing with during job as the President.

Many of the people who doubted Trump could accomplish anything were most likely shocked when they saw what Trump did to change things around in the transition from Obama’s time in the White House. Needless to say, nevertheless Trump persisted! One of his biggest accomplishments has gone rather unnoticed until now and analysts finally had time to point out one major difference in leadership.

Trump’s biggest change will have supporters extremely happy and also shows why it’s better to have a Republican in office, and that’s one of the reasons that Trump’s critics can’t stand what’s going on in the White House right now. It all goes back to when Obama was in office and had nearly 500 people employed that cost the American taxpayers about $40.8 million in salaries. Trump reduced the number of staff by almost 100 people and saved about $5 million in costs to the taxpayers. This means that Trump is operating the White House and doing his job with fewer people and saving everyone $5 million. This means Trump is getting things done with fewer people and less money. That sounds like fiscal responsibility, something many Democrats have trouble with which could be why so many of the Democrat mayors and governors constantly raise taxes and hurt the middle class.

Trump is proving his dedication to cut wasteful spending and the unacceptable amount of extra staff is outta there and not happening.
Daily Signal reported (via DCNF): “An analysis of White House salary data reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration is spending $5 million less of taxpayer money on his staff than his predecessor.

Trump employs 377 people at the White House, with a total of $35.8 million, while former President Barack Obama paid $40.9 million for 476 employees in 2015, according to data analyzed by Open the Books.

Another key difference between the Obama and Trump White House is the first lady’s staff. Michelle Obama retained 24 staffers in the first year of the Obama White House. Melania Trump currently employs four—a chief of staff who is also listed as adviser to the president, a deputy chief of staff, a communications director, and a scheduler.

“Projected four-year savings on the White House payroll could top $22 million,” Adam Andrzejewski, CEO of Open the Books, writes for Forbes. Those projected savings include Trump’s promise to accept $1 in salary and give the remainder back to the U.S. Treasury.

Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, both advisers to the president, are not accepting any salary. Most top White House staff—including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Omarosa Manigault, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, and 17 others—make $179,000 annually.

Obama had the same number of top advisers at this stage of his presidency in 2009, but he also appointed many “czars” to oversee special initiatives with a particular focus on recovery efforts after the 2008 financial crisis. Trump has not continued that

While $22 million in savings is a tiny amount compared to the nearly $20 trillion national debt or the $3.9 trillion federal budget, “it could be a leading indicator of Trump’s commitment to cut waste, fraud and taxpayer abuse,” Andrzejewski said.”

If there’s anything we’ve learned from this, it’s that maybe people need to start voting for Republicans more often. Fiscal responsibility is more of a right-wing concept. Trump appears to be saving money by trimming the fat left over from the previous president, but it will most likely be met with high levels of criticism from those who still resist and oppose his position as President.

Is Trump doing a great job by saving nearly $5 million on expenses that aren’t needed?

What will Trump do next to show he’s dedicated to being as fiscally responsible as possible?

Talk about your opinions in the comments and then share this story with someone who supports Donald Trump in the White House.

Trump Just Pulled His Presidential Power On FBI Mole Who Has Been Spying On Him For Over A Year

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And today Trump was being the president we all know and love!

This morning, Trump took to task the “Criminal Deep State” by effectively blasting it by saying things have “turned around” in “SPYGATE.” These comments come as revelations of a reported FBI informant snooping on the Trump campaign have come to light during the last few days.
And only minutes later he added to this by saying this whole “Spygate” scheme by the Obama Administration could very well turn out to be one of the biggest political scandals in the history of this nation.

These tweets came after multiple reports that the “FBI Informant” did, in fact, have communications with at least three members of the Trump campaign, foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, Trump aide Carter Page and campaign adviser Sam Clovis.

The president then went on to quote the former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper who had a discussion about the informant on Tuesday’s “The View” on ABC. Where he actually said that Trump should be happy the FBI was spying on his campaign. Huh?
Wait, the President should be happy that the former president spied on his campaign? Really? Would Barack Hussein Obama been happy if George W. Bush would have spied on his campaign when rumors of hundreds of thousands of small donations from Muslim nations started swirling around?

Earlier this week, President Trump met with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray in the Oval Office in order to discuss the expansion of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s investigation to include “irregularities” with the FBI or DOJ’s “tactics concerning the Trump campaign.” And on Thursday he will be meeting with House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, Wray, and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats.

Let’s hope Attorney General Jeff Sessions doesn’t recuse himself this time around!
Here is more on “SpyGate” via The Hill:

“Many in the media are diving deeply into minutiae in order to discredit any notion that President Trump might have been onto something in March when he fired off a series of tweets claiming President Obama had “tapped” “wires” in Trump Tower just before the election.

According to media reports this week, the FBI did indeed “wiretap” the former head of Trump’s campaign, Paul Manafort, both before and after Trump was elected. If Trump officials — or Trump himself — communicated with Manafort during the wiretaps, they would have been recorded, too.

But we’re missing the bigger story.

If these reports are accurate, it means U.S. intelligence agencies secretly surveilled at least a half dozen Trump associates. And those are just the ones we know about.

Besides Manafort, the officials include former Trump advisers Carter Page and Michael Flynn. Last week, we discovered multiple Trump “transition officials” were “incidentally” captured during government surveillance of a foreign official. We know this because former Obama adviser Susan Rice reportedly admitted “unmasking,” or asking to know the identities of, the officials. Spying on U.S. citizens is considered so sensitive, their names are supposed to be hidden or “masked,” even inside the government, to protect their privacy.

In May, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates acknowledged they, too, reviewed communications of political figures, secretly collected under President Obama.

Weaponization of intel agencies?

Nobody wants our intel agencies to be used like the Stasi in East Germany; the secret police spying on its own citizens for political purposes. The prospect of our own NSA, CIA and FBI becoming politically weaponized has been shrouded by untruths, accusations and justifications.

You’ll recall DNI Clapper falsely assured Congress in 2013 that the NSA was not collecting “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.”

Intel agencies secretly monitored conversations of members of Congress while the Obama administration negotiated the Iran nuclear deal.

In 2014, the CIA got caught spying on Senate Intelligence Committee staffers, though CIA Director John Brennan had explicitly denied that.

There were also wiretaps on then-Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) in 2011 under Obama. The same happened under President George W. Bush to former Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-Calif.).

Journalists have been targeted, too. This internal email, exposed by WikiLeaks, should give everyone chills. It did me.