Steve King

Why Are Steve King And The President Of Turkey So Interested In The Dutch Election

... protests in Rotterdam and in several cities in Turkey. (These protests were what prompted the story King was reacting to.) Erdogan denounced Dutch leaders as “Nazi remnants.” He had made similar comments about the Germans after planned pro-referendum rallies were blocked there last week. Wilders, whose party had pressured the government to block the Turkish minister, praised the move and took credit for it. (And King praised it too.) The Dutch government, meanwhile, has warned its citizens to be cautious about travel to Turkey. The whole situation, as Ishaan Tharoor notes , is beneficial to both Erdogan and Wilders, exciting their base ahead of crucial votes. Wilders is a veteran of this fight, campaigning for a shutdown of Muslim immigration to his country and banning the Quran back when Donald ...

Steve King Has Been A Jackass For Years

... constituents that the U. S. should pick only the best immigrants the way one chooses the “pick of the litter.”. King told the crowd in Pocahontas, Iowa, that he’s owned lots of bird dogs over the years and advised, “You want a good bird dog? You want one that’s going to be aggressive? Pick the one that’s the friskiest … not the one that’s over there sleeping in the corner.”. King suggested lazy immigrants should be avoided as well. “You get the pick of the litter and you got yourself a pretty good bird dog. Well, we’ve got the pick of every donor civilization on the planet,” King said. “We’ve got the vigor from the planet to come to America.”. Or that time in 2013 when King said that Dreamers have “calves the size of cantaloupes” because they’re hauling pot across the border. In July [King] made the ridiculous, now  notorious claim  that for every child of illegal immigrants “who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”. House Speaker John Boehner  reprimanded Mr. King , calling his comments “deeply offensive and wrong.” But Mr. ...

Is This What Steve King Meant About ‘somebody Else’s Babies

... has thrown away pretty much all pretense of tolerance for people who are not American-born. On Sunday, the fervently anti-immigration congressman tweeted out the statement, “We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.”. In an appearance on CNN Monday morning, King said he “meant exactly what I said.”. “You cannot rebuild your civilization with somebody else's babies. You've got to keep your birth rate up, and that you need to teach your children your values,” King said. “In doing so, you can grow your population, you can strengthen your culture, and you can strengthen your way of life.”. Further remarks by King ignited yet another storm of protest, though they appear to have been taken out of context. On social media, King was blasted over reports that he longs for a future America that is “that is just so homogenous that we look a lot the same.”. Related: Is Trump’s Travel Ban Already Hurting US ...

Chris Cuomo Grills Rep. Steve King R-ia , Who Refuses To Say If American Muslims Are Equal To Other Americans

... they are all equal, right? They are all the same thing. We don't need babies from one of those groups more than we need them from other groups. Do you agree with that. REP. STEVE KING (R-IA): Well, I would say that it depends on the attitude within those families. CUOMO: Why do you pause on a question like that, Congressman? What do you mean? It doesn't depend on any definition. You're either an American or you're not. KING: Because I want to give you an objective answer, Chris. It's not that simple. It's not that simple because -. CUOMO: Yeah, but you're either a Muslim-American, an Italian-American, an Irish, Scotch, German-American, which is what your roots are. Either those are all equal things or they are not. What is your answer. KING: They contribute differently to our culture and civilization. There are moderate Muslims that are equal to, in all these categories that you've described -. CUOMO: I said a Muslim-American, people who have lived here, who are assimilated. KING: There are others that are - there are others, Chris, that are teaching hatred in their families. If they are assimilated, that's what we want. I think they can assimilate. ...

Fellow Republican Justin Amash Asks Steve King

... you are. I love our Constitution and traditions. Am I "somebody else's" baby because my parents are immigrants? __link__/TAn Bggfnhl — Justin Amash (@justinamash) March 13, 2017. A Republican lawmaker is butting heads with his fellow House GOP colleague, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, over a tweet posted Sunday that said the U. S. cannot restore its civilization with "someone else's babies.". Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan tweeted on Monday afternoon, "I'm an American no less than you are. I love our Constitution and traditions. Am I 'somebody else's' baby because my parents are immigrants?". King, sharing an article from the Voice of Europe, said the author, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, understood "that culture and demographics are our destiny" and getting back to the nation's Caucasian roots can only be done by bearing more children who are white. Amash is a second-generation American whose parents immigrated to the U. S. from Palestine and ...

State Budget Woes, Steve King Controversy, March Madness

... Geert Wilders, King again appeared to cross the line. “Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny,” King wrote. “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies.” Read more: __link__/2 mi KY 7 x. GRAD STUDENTS HELPING CITY — A group of University of Iowa graduate students are getting a taste of what it’s like to work for a city government. About 25 Master of Accountancy students, who are in this spring’s advanced auditing class, have been assigned to work with Iowa City’s finance department — specifically, developing internal auditing processes for various city departments’ financial polices and procedures. Read more: __link__/2 m Cy JX 4. IOWA STATE BACK TO NCAA — When the only thing you know is ending your season in the NCAA tournament, it’s a little easier to take it for granted. The Cyclones (23-10) were picked as a No. 5 seed and will take on No. 12 seed Nevada in the first round Thursday in Milwaukee. The winner advances to face No. 4 Purdue or No. 13 Vermont in the Midwest region. Read more: __link__/2 nw 1 RNb. IOWA READY FOR ‘VALUABLE’ NIT — ...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals' Pphm Ceo Steve King On Q3 2017 Results

... is open. Kumar Raja. So, on the exosome-based cancer detection platform, you presented some positive data on the ovarian cancer. What other cancers, there is expression of possible serum and what kind of trials are you guys conducting there? And what is the next step for collaboration for this platform, like what needs to be done in terms of - trials that need to be done and the state of offset? And also, in terms of the SUNRISE trials, what are you seeing in patients who are continuing on bavituximab? What kind of benefits are you seeing there? And you’ve talked about Compassionate Use Program, what needs to be done for that in different countries? And then, in terms of cost of contract manufacturing, it looks like that there has been an increase during the recent quarter compared to the similar time frame last year. What is the reason for that? And what should we expect in terms of cost of manufacturing going forward. Steve King. I’ll take a stab at the first piece of this. ...

Why Is The American Far-right So Obsessed With Europe

... on the ground in the United States are not useful for arguing that case without explicit appeals to racism. So they obsess over Europe, where immigration has created more problems and birthrates are dire. Pro-immigration politicians in the United States would do well to think about what it is about immigration to the United States that makes it work better than in Europe — and how we can adjust our immigration policies to improve those advantages. In the case of our Muslim communities, it is important to note that Muslim immigrants to the United States tend to be disproportionately educated. Instead of a disaffected Muslim underclass suffering from high unemployment, we have prosperous and well-integrated Muslim communities. This success is in significant part a matter of how immigrants have been selected to come to the United States. But ...

Rep. Steve King Blasted For 'our Civilization' Tweet

... 232 COMMENTEMAILMORE. U. S. Rep. Steve King, an Iowa Republican who last July said white Christians have contributed more to Western civilization than any other “subgroup,” on Sunday found himself again the subject of criticism, this time for saying that Muslim children are preventing “our civilization” from being restored. King, who was retweeting a message endorsing Geert Wilders, a far-right candidate for Dutch prime minister, said Wilders “understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies.”. Turkey's president: 'Nazism is alive in the West'. The  original tweet , from the anti-European Union Voice of Europe media organization, displays a cartoon with an image of Wilders plugging a hole in a wall labeled “Western Civilization.” Nearby, bearded protesters hold signs that say, “Infidels, Know Your Limits” and “Freedom of Speech Go To ...

Us Is ‘too Easy’ On Leakers

... the House Judiciary Committee. “We know that Julian Assange has delivered a lot of information out there that has turned out to be accurate,” he added of the Wiki Leaks founder. "It looks to me that we’ve got to go back and retool our cyber approach to this because of the leaks that are coming out.”. Wiki Leaks on Tuesday published  a massive trove  of documents purportedly revealing specifics of the CIA’s hacking programs. The documents contain descriptions of hacking tools, engineering notes, internal communications and the redacted names of agents, among other items. The CIA and FBI are reportedly  collaborating  on a joint probe of the incident, focusing on how Wiki Leaks obtained the documents and whether they were leaked by an employer or contractor. The CIA  insisted  Wednesday that it had never acted illegally, unconstitutionally or unethically with its hacking initiatives while declining to comment on the authenticity of the Wiki Leaks cache. “The American public should be deeply troubled by any Wiki Leaks disclosure designed to damage the Intelligence Community’s ability ...

Steve King Alleges Paid Protesters Are Disrupting Town Halls

... meetings hosted by GOP members of Congress. "People come in and, you know, they are angry and shouting and on the borderline violent," King said in a Journal interview this week. "That just discourages the kind of dialogue that can make our country better. The people on the left, that may be the only card they think they've got to play. But they are actually hurting the system and to a degree they are undermining the election process.". The town hall meetings have gotten raucous in Iowa and nationally. People dismayed with the opening weeks of complete federal government control by Republicans and President Donald Trump have vented about health care and other issues. King said some people at the events are paid by liberal groups backed by Democratic billionaire George Soros. The fact-checking organization Politi Fact notes that other Republican officials who have made similar ...