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Good morning!

Blessings on you and your family, and from all the Huckabee staff!   

Today's newsletter includes:

  • Bible Verse of the Day - Proverbs 3:5
  • Garland's Justice Department
  • Vaccine Talk
  • News Correction
  • Insightful Letter From Reader
  • America The Beautiful
  • Must-Read
  • The Big Wheel Of Racism

Sincerely,

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

Proverbs 3:5


Garland's Justice Department

By Mike Huckabee

The only good thing I can say about Attorney General Merrick Garland and his stewardship of the Biden “Justice” Department is that at least he’s not a Supreme Court Justice. During his brief time in office, he’s obliterated any sense of the DOJ as a fair and impartial arbiter of laws and the Constitution and is rapidly turning it into the kind of politicized enforcement arm of the President that we normally see in banana republics.

Here are just a few recent stories out of the DOJ:

They’re threatening states that conduct ballot audits…

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/28/doj-warning-election-ballot-reviews-501295

They’re threatening states that pass laws to safeguard election integrity…

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-doj-sets-stage-permanently-destroy-election-integrity-ensure-gop-never-wins/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=huckabee

They’re suing Texas because Gov. Greg Abbott is trying to stop the feds from transporting COVID-positive illegal immigrants around the state. Imagine if this Administration went to this much effort to keep COVID-positive illegal immigrants out in the first place...

https://www.theblaze.com/news/doj-sues-texas-gov-abbott-over-the-governor-s-executive-order-on-migrant-transportation

They dropped charges against five suspected Chinese spies while hounding Trump supporters like Inspector Javert…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2021/07/26/doj-drops-charges-against-5-possible-chinese-spies-as-fbi-focuses-on-january-6-n1464726

They declared vaccine mandates legal, even while admitting that some legal scholars say they’re not…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-vaccine-mandates-legal

And now (surprise!), the Biden DOJ has ordered the IRS to turn over former President Trump’s personal income tax records to his rabid haters in Congress for them to fish through.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-doj-orders-irs-release-trumps-tax-returns/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=huckabee

The DOJ memo said, “Executive Branch officials must apply a presumption that Legislative Branch officials act in good faith and in furtherance of legitimate objectives.”

So I’ll give Biden’s and Garland’s “Justice” Department this: they may no longer be providing justice, but at least they’re trying to give us some much-needed laughter.


Vaccine Talk

By Mike Huckabee

The Biden White House is furious at the New York Times and the Washington Post for tweeting what they claim is false information about the risk of COVID infection among the vaccinated and their likelihood of spreading it. Details here:

https://www.foxnews.com/media/white-house-washington-post-new-york-times-covid-spread-vaccinated

Can I just point out that it’s no wonder the public is skeptical of government claims about COVID and vaccines? What does it say when the Administration’s messages are so mixed and confused that not even their court stenographers can get the official version straight?

Speaking of which…

https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/30/white-house-walks-back-biden-statement-that-national-vaccine-mandate-is-under-consideration/

And Matt Taibbi shows how vaccine skepticism is not a new phenomenon but the latest manifestation of the long term out-of-touch arrogance and doubletalk of the elites.

https://nypost.com/2021/07/28/smug-dems-have-only-selves-to-blame-for-vaccine-hesitancy/


News Correction

By Mike Huckabee

CORRECTION: We recently commented on a report that the CDC was revoking emergency use authorization for a particular test for COVID because it couldn’t differentiate between the COVID virus and influenza. It turns out that’s inaccurate (that test can differentiate but was withdrawn for different reasons.) Although it is true, as I said, that the initial story had a lot of people questioning whether the original COVID case numbers were accurate, but the CDC says they are. You can read full details at this fact-check article by Kaiser Health News.

https://khn.org/news/article/fact-check-cdc-pcr-covid-test-distinguishes-from-flu-eua-request-withdrawal/

On a side note, I don’t know why the writers saw fit to single me out, as if we were a source of this story, which had been widely distributed long before we touched on it. In fact, that’s the only reason we posted a brief mention of it: it was already all over the place.

As we have repeatedly made clear, in most cases, we aren’t an original news source site, we’re an aggregator/commentary site. We try hard to find multiple reliable sources for stories, but those are increasingly hard to come by in the age of social media and blatantly politicized news. Our original story even linked directly to the CDC website, so if it was incorrect, all they had to do was add a correction to that page. We may be the first people accused of spreading misinformation by linking to the CDC’s own website.

We have no interest in spreading misinformation, and if something we comment on later turns out to be inaccurate, we always run a correction, as you see here. How many original source news outlets – or for that matter, fact-checker sites – do that?


Insightful Letter From Reader

By Mike Huckabee

Thanks to all who wrote concerning the story of the father whose son has been "detained" for months after the Capitol breach and our follow-up concerning a letter critical of the dad. Here's one we found particularly insightful and would like to highlight, from Terry...

Dear Gov. Huckabee:

First of all, I am extremely grateful for your daily newsletters, which are a primary source of news for me, as well as for your TV show that provides a variety unmatched in that medium.

I'm moved to write concerning what is being said about the events of January 6 by people on both ends of the spectrum who seemingly value inflammatory hyperbole over rational discussion of what actually happened. Your own remarks have consistently been even-handed and well thought out, it seems to me.

Conservatives are wearily accustomed to the distortions and outright falsehoods voiced by people like the chair of the Joint Chiefs and the Capitol Police officer who testified this week before the House committee. As onerous as those remarks are to us, some statements I've seen in your reader comments bother me almost as much. They amount to heaping fuel on the fire that the left wants to keep burning. The criticism leveled at the letter from the detainee's father was to me excessive and uncalled for.

Believing in an unrealistic and idealized view of Jan 6 is certainly their prerogative, but conservatives who do so need to realize the grave harm still being done to the movement they purport to represent.

This response is somewhat lengthy I know so I will end here. Once again, thanks for providing a forum for rational discussion.

Terry Allen

Pekin, IL

Dear Terry:

Thank you so much for writing. This is a point we've been trying to make ever since the event took place. It's easy to understand why Trump supporters were fed up --- especially after even the Supreme Court refused to look at evidence --- and why some of them were ready to blow and desperately wanted to make a statement, but to understand this is not the same as approving of it or defending it.

The way they chose to make their statement caused tremendous long-term harm to conservatives, by playing right into the left's hands. We should know by now how the left will twist whatever they can to further their own narrative, which in this case was that Trump supporters are crazy right-wing "insurrectionists" who want to "subvert democracy." Conservatives attended that rally because they want to PROTECT democracy. Think that case ended up being made? No, it did not.

Letters such as yours might help more conservatives see that we have to not just fight, but FIGHT SMART. Thanks again.


America The Beautiful

God's creation is all around us. To learn more about Channel Islands National Park, visit its website here.


Must-Read

By Mike Huckabee

Here’s the actual data from a COVID outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, that has our leaders wanting to force us all back into masks and possibly close down schools again. Read it for yourself and see if you think this really justifies all the panic.

https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/07/30/here-it-is-the-actual-data-on-which-the-cdcs-new-mask-guidance-is-based-n405731

And to put all the scare talk about the rising case rate into perspective, check out the cover of Friday’s New York Post that illustrates the actual risk in a single picture.

https://nypost.com/cover/july-30-2021/

The Big Wheel Of Racism

By Mike Huckabee

It’s the weekend so why not give two spins to the Big Wheel of Random Racism? Today, it stops…on…The Second Amendment! Yes, the Second Amendment is now racist!

https://www.foxnews.com/media/colion-noir-aclu-second-amendment-racist

And spinning again, it stops…on…pit bull terriers! If you’re afraid of pit bulls, you might be racist.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/fear-of-pit-bulls-racism

Question: If your pit bull hates cats, does that make it racist or speciesist?


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Comments 11-20 of 20

  • WILLIAM BEVINGTON

    08/01/2021 02:14 PM

    Vaccine talk. And the beat go on and on and on and........ One lies about it and the other swears to it. All credibility is gone!

  • Jerry

    08/01/2021 02:03 PM

    I am stunned as to why the entire biden administration are not behind bars in a secure federal prison. The President is the head of Human smuggling ring on Southern Border and the country is sitting on its hands. The Peoples children are being poisoned with china trade drugs biden's take is unknown biden allows all drugs, weapons, ammunition, yes human beings are being sold for sex and workers like the Dems did during the 1700 1800 nothing has changed except for today modern time slavery. Biden needs a jail cell not a moments apartment. The rest of his detail needs a prison cell that when locked inside does not open for 25 Years with the exception of a proper burial.

  • Beth Crane

    08/01/2021 01:49 PM

    If Congress gets to pilfer through Trumps tax returns, it is only fair we get to pilfer through their tax records.

  • Pamela Junk

    08/01/2021 01:23 PM

    You said "So I’ll give Biden’s and Garland’s “Justice” Department this: they may no longer be providing justice, but at least they’re trying to give us some much-needed laughter."
    I disagree......there is nothing funny about any of what the 'Justice Department' is doing. It's downright scary, unAmerican and most probably illegal.

  • Floyd A Unger

    08/01/2021 12:24 PM

    Thank you

  • Stephen Russell

    08/01/2021 12:02 PM

    Lockdowns coming:
    2nd week August
    FYI verify

  • Stephen Russell

    08/01/2021 11:57 AM

    Virus & Vaccine:
    Note Ive seen once any charts or graphs to show virus & vaccine data at WH since 3-20
    Only local papers show some graph for visus, vaccine.
    Why
    Make Visual vs talk

  • James Robertson

    08/01/2021 11:54 AM

    I am a U.S. citizen and a veteran. I served in the U. S. Navy for 16 years during the Viet Nam war. I took an oath to protect the United States from enemies foreign and domestic. To protect and defend the constitution of this great country and the Red White and Blue against the enemies of such, foreign and domestic. It saddens me to see the elected officials trying to circumvent the constitution and destroy this great country I fought for. We as citizens and veterans of the United States to intervein and stop these traitors we have elected to the congress. If we just sit back and let them continue as is, the United States will cease to exist. I don’t care if you are republican or democrat, you must contact your representatives and voice you disgust and have them wake up and do the right thing. To ensure that the constitution is protected as our founding fathers wanted. We want a government of the people, by the people and for the people, but it is our duty to mean one kind of government, uncorrupted, free, and united. Remember the motto of this great country, E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one.

  • Lawrence Foster

    08/01/2021 11:21 AM

    Now that Merritt Garland has shown us what a miserable political hack he is, we can all thank Mitch McConnell from keeping him off the supreme court. His appointment to the Biden Department of obstruction of Justice gives him a lot of power, but it is not lifetime, and may well not stretch to the end of Biden/Harriss first term. Thanks Mitch.

  • Stephen Russell

    08/01/2021 10:10 AM

    Vaccine, virus misinformation
    Sources:

    Media
    Big Tech
    CDC NIH NAID WHO
    Fauci & allies
    China

    Then who else?

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